Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-11
GOVERNMENT TO PAY BEkE'
FlciARIEs OF WAR VICTIMS
@FuLL AMOUNTS.
PROOFS or DEATH
ARE NOT NECESSARY
Secretary Of Treasury Glass Clears UP
Misrepresentation Regarding 'nsur'
arce Of So,disrs-lnsuranee Payable
Regardless Of Any Dependency
Compensation For Dependents.

tBy h. G. Doughertyl
Washington. Jan. ll.--Every Iowa
soldier who was killed in the war or
who died of wounds received in action
or while in active service, and who
carried insurance with the government
will have his policy paid full value b!
the government. To correct the CON
fusion that now exists among relatives
and beneiiciaries of men in the service
Secretary of the Treasury Glass to-
day gave out the following statement;
considerable confusion and mis-
understanding seems to prevail among
the relatives and benefiCiaries of men
in the military and naval service as 10
their rights under the war RISK IN
surancc act. Many taothers and fathers
named as henetcihr.e,' of the govern
ment insurance applied for by their
sons have gained the impression that
they must prove dependency in order
to receive kayments of insurance.
This is an entirely erroneous inn
preston. probably due to the con-
fusion of the insurance and compensa-
ton provisions OF the act OF congress
of oct. ). 1917. and to the mistaken
q IS umption that terms insurance ana
compensation are used interchan2"-
9 bly,. whereas they represent tw" en-
t.rely separate and distinct benefits.
"lnsUrance is payable regardless Of
any dependency aud a bcneti ,tary
dcsie mated in an application for GOV
ernm rnt insurance if within the per-
.I,. ,tr 4
child. parent. Lrother or sister, is en-
titled to receive the insurance in
monthly Instruments without proving
any dependency upon the insured.
Compensation, however which Is
separate and apart from insurance and
takes the place OF the pensions pro-
vided under he old pension systeI". is
payable only to Il Wife. child. depend
ont mother or dependent father of a
Ipan who is dsa hled or dies as II re-
suit Of injury suffered or disease con-
traCted in the line of duty while en-
ployed in the active service.
Compensation is Different.
Compensation may be payable in
addition to insurance. but a mother or
| father must prove actual dependency
in order to receive monthly payments
of compensation altho they will re-
ceive the.inSu;ance in monthly install
ments if named as the beneficiary
thereof. whether they are dependent
or not. -~
No dependency need be. shown by
any beneficiary in order to receive the
government insurance. but a mother Or
, father must prove actual dependency
| upon their deceased son for the neces-
stiles OF life in order to receive the ad-
ditional payment of compensation y
1t was explained at Secretary Glass
office that when requests have been
received at the treasury department
from parents 6f deceased soldiers for
their insurance. two blanks were sent
to be filed out-One covering ''insur-
ance' alone. and the other covering
Compensation. The Information
sought on the latter blank covering
compensation was for the records Of
the treasury department in the event
that the parent should eventually be-
come dependent on the son for the
necessities of life in which case, the
department would be in position to
give the beneficiary dependent the
we'll as the monthly insurance due.
Iowan Once Corrected Roosevelt.
Among the numerous anecdotes that
| came to the surface upon the death of
former President Roosevelt is one in
which an Iowa man took prominent
part. 1t was during the days that
Roosevelt. while president. held, daily
conferences with the newspaper men
most of the time when the former
president was being shaved by the
colored barber at the White House. On
one occasion Roosevelt was talking
about railroads and their operation.
One Of the newspaper men, at the close
of the colonels statement about a
particular phase of the problem.
startled his colleagues by calmly in
forming the president that he was
altogether misnformed. Furthermore
he told the president why. Colonel
Roosevelt listened intently, and then
requested the newspaperman to see
him later in the day. The result of the
second conferenc was that the news
paperman-Judson C. Welliver, for
merly OF Des Moines and Sioux City
newspapers-was sent to England as
\ special representative Of the colonel
to report on certain phases Of the
English system of railroad legislation.