The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-31
Soldiers and Sailors are
Urged to Reinstate
Lapsed Insurance
rorr,or Enlisted .;1en are Told
Of Government Insurance
Plan and Facts
are Cited

Discharged sailors and soldiers who
have dropped their war FISK insur-
ance are urged by Ensign E. P.
Thornton. Pay Corps, USNRF, Dis
trict Insurance Officed, New Orleans
La. to take steps to remstate their
insurance. His statement is as fol-
lows: J. -
"C'ncie Sam went into the insurance
business for the benefit Of the lads
who stood like stone wall between
civilization and "Kultur." His reas-
on for this was to give his boys gilt
edge insurance at the smallest pos.
siblt cost. With the government
backing the company and bearing all
operating expenses it can issue pol
icy the value of which has never be-
fore been equalled.
after war ceased many of the SOL
diers and sailors came back to civil
life and, unfortunately, many left the
service in the rush Of discharges
without being made to appreciate and
understand the value Of their insur-
ance and the method of keeping it
up. Hence, many have, because of
lack of information, allowed their
term insurance to lapse, ard many
more are on the verge of doing so.
so the Bureau of War Risk inS
ance created a Conservation Sc N.
A mighty campaign is benz duct
ed with the purpse o; q :, every
man with insurance, eve-y.ian
who has unwsely Dire ed his irsur-
ance, and every BE- eficiary who IS
so vitality convened, the cut and
dried facts They are:
why should the men keep up the
term insurance?
Because it is protection against
both death and disability, can be car
ried for a premium within the reach
of the --LATEST purse-(65 cents per
thousand per month at age twenty
one, for example)-and because those
who carry it are going to have the
privilegt of converting it at any time
! within five years after the declara-
ton of peace into the soundest, most
/ liberal and cheapest Insurance that
was ever offered.
1T is privilege confined absolute
" to Uncle Sans uniformed hackers,
either in service or now discharged
1t is a reward for their many sacri-
fices of time and vocation and, sad to
say, sometimes life.
Gas, exposure and combat have
taken their toll Of health and many Of
the boys will never get outside in
surance, due to their service, but
when the time comes TOR conversion
of Uncle Sans present term insur-
ance into permanent forms, if man
| still holdsh is term insurance, that's
all Uncle Sam wants to know about
! his health. If he was physically
sound enough to get into uniform he
is sound enough to get in on a gov
eminent policy.
| "Uucle Sans policies will insure
against disability during the entire
lifetime of the insured, feature the
cost of which. on the outside, would
G almost prohibitive II man be-
| comes disabled to the extent that he
cannot engage in substantially gain
full occupation, S5,75 per month per
one thousand dollars of Insurance is
his for the remainder of his life, no
matter if he is disabled at age twen-
ty-five and lives to be one hundred.
The government gives this feature
free, thep remium charge being used
only upon the cost of death and not
disability.
stands one chance in two of becom-
ing disabled through disease, accident
old age during the remaining years
of his expectancy Of life, statistics
show, and if he reaches the age of
seventy his chances of living the
! remainder of his life without becom-
ing disabled are only one in four.
Some of the other privileges of
the policies are liberal cash and
loan values. paid up and extended in
surance, incontestibility from date OF
issue, freedom from all restrictions
as to residence. travel or occupation,
dividends from any gains and SAVINGS.
and proceeds of all policies to be ex-
empt from all taxation.
Uncle Sam is going to issue six
standard forms of policies a POI cy
to meet the need of every average
man. They are: Ordinary Life e.
Payment Life, W-Payment Life. 20