The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-27

Service, K. of c., Y. NJ. H. A., and
other associations. In addition, the
voluntary service of more than 50,-
900 life insurance agents have been
enlisted. The volunteer roll further
includes thousands of bankers, doc
tors, lawyers, manufacturers, other
business men and representatives of
all associations which come in con-
tact with discharged service men and
their dependents.
Until recently the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance was housed in sixteen
buildings in Washington, ranging
from garages to the New National
Museum. At present there are about
$4,000 people who are engaged in
administering this insurance of the
World War Veterans. If the women
workers of the Bureau stood finger
tip ii finger tip, they would extend
more than Is miles.
There are more than 100000
individual records in the Bureau, this
large number being necessary in or
der to keep the data on every mans
insurance up to date. More than five
miles are required to hold these rec
ords.
Some idea of the magnitude of
$40, 00,000,000 may be gained by
the figures compiled by the Actural
Section of the Bureau showing that
if this amount were in dollar bills,
end to end, the lines thus formed
would extend to the moon more than
ID times.
To July LIST there had been 17,828,-
445 checks mailed. If these were in
a line, end for end, they would ex-
tend 1891 miles. During the first
six months of 1919, there were more
than 100000 letters received by
the Bureau. An army of cores
pondents is needed to take care of
the great daily inflow of letters from
former service men seeking informa-
ton on all phases of War Risk Insu-
rance.
There are six permanent forms of
government insurance, as follows:
a. 20-Year Endowment.
(2.) 30-Year Endowment.
49, 20-Payment Life.
a. 30-Payment Life.
60 Endowment at Age 62.
CO. Ordinary Life.
Applications are being received by
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
for changing the present term insu-
rance, which was issued at the time
of entering the service, into the per-
manent forms. The government, in
an effort to aid every man in keep
ing up his war risk insurance, has
made unusually liberal provisions
covering reinstatement of insurance,
where the former service man has
allowed it temporarily to lapse In
this way every bit of insurance which
has been allowed to lapse may be re-
instated under the following provis-
ions:
A. The applicant must be in
as good health as at the date of
discharge, or at the date the in
surance lapsed, if lapse occurr-
ed after discharge, and must SO
state in the signed application
for reinstatement,
B. The application must be
accompanied by a remittance to
pay the premium for the month
of grace during which protection
was provided after discharge,
and for the first month on the
reinstated insurance.
Ten features which prominently
stand out in the government policy
are as follows:
/. The total permanent disa-
bility clause is granted without
. eest to the insured and it is free
from all restrictions.
2. Government insurance does
not charge its policy holders any
overhead expense.
3. 1t contains on extremely
liberal definition of disability.
A. 1t gives very substantial
payments.
5. 1t contains no age restric-
tions.