The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-20

TOTAL OF 1T CLAIMS
FOR BENEFICIARIES
Dead Is SO, 8,74o-Average Age of Men
Killed In France Is 23-Many Moth
eIs Were Made Beneficiaries.

RUTLAND, Sept. 20.-Vermont fam
lies are being paid $685. $50 in war
risk insurance claims by Uncle Sam. He
is making restitution to those whose
sons and husbands died in the service
of their country during the greatest war
of all times.
There are III insurance claims be.
ing paid in Vermont through the bu-
reau of war risk insurance to behe-
ficiaries named at the time application
for insurance was made by soldiers,
sailors and marines, now dead. The
average policy carried by those TIT
men was $S,740.
Disabled soldiers, as well as widows
and children and dependent parents of
those who have died, are being made
comfortable by the government which
is paying 265 compensation claims to
residents of Vermont.
In addition to the insurance and COM
pensation claims now being paid in
Vermont, there are 200 of both these
classes of claims under investigation.
These eases, however are rapidly be
| ing adjusted following an investiga-
tion by bureau representatives
The bureau of war risk insurance
which administers these affairs, has
been established by the government as
a permanent institution in recognition
lof the services veterans of the world
fwar rendered their country.
The insurance which veterans arc
able to carry as the result of this act
iof an appreciative government win be
a constant reminder to them of the
lpart they took in the war; whether il
has hcen a matter of accomplishing {
deed of valor as performed by Sergt
Alvin Cullum York of Pail Mall. Tenn.
or that of the newest recruit who only
underwent the discomforts of barracI
life, and was deprived of oversee.
service by the armistiee.
Records in the bureau show that thil
has been a young mans war and ;
mother s war. More than ~ per cen
. of the men who carried government in
surance made mothers their bene
ficiaries. Fathers were named by ap
proximately Is per cent of the men
), The average age of the men kille,
, in France was % years.
An examination of the records In tn
, bureau of war risk insurance show
that large percentage of married mel
+ in arranging for the future protection
of their families planned for in
!, suranee to be paid to their mothers
, while their thought, il arranging thei
! compensation benefits, was for thei
wives.
About 32 per cent of the men VIII
carried war risk insurance named thei
!, wives in making arrangements 70
! compensation. Mothers were name
! by % per cent, while the .wife an
|. child were named by Il per cen
9 This is the natural consequence of priv
: Iileges granted by the war risk in
} lsurance act. They felt it their frs
y y duty to provide for the immediat
u needs of their family, making, at tn
same time, through application for il
i, surance, provision for their parents i
/ their advancing years.
= Insurance claims which the burea
will be called upon to pay amount I
more than S1,0l2. 100000. The amour
:. of premiums received from all servit
= men and which was deducted fro
their pay during the active period {
the war approximates only $200,000,00
or less than ne-ffth of the amount
l. insurance claims. The excess abo,
Il premiums will be paid by the goverl
N ment.