Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-10-03
IDAHO FAMILIES
GET $5,261,48O
FIGURES ON WAR RISK
SENT OUT COZ CLAIMS
IN THIS STATE.

Idaho families are being paid
! $5,261 ,480 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 6O2 insurance
claims being paid in Idaho thro-
ugh the bureau of war risk in
surance to beneficiaries named
at the time application for in
surance was made by soldiers,
sailors and marines, now dead.
The average policy carried by
these 602 men was $8740.
Disabled soldiers, as we'll as
widows and children and depend
ent parents of those who have
died, are being made comfort
able by the government, which
is paying 306 compensations
claims to residents of Idaho.
Will Adjust Many Claims
IN addition to the insurance
and compensations claims now
being paid in Idaho. there are
1919 of both these classes of
claims under investigation.
These cases, however, are rapid
ly being adjusted, following an
investigation by bureau repre-
sentatives.
The bureau of war risk in
surance, which administers
these affairs, has been estab-
lished by the government as a
permanent institution, in recog-
milton of the services veterans of
the world war rendered their
country.
The insurance which veterans
are able to carry as the result of
this act of an appreciative gov
ernment will be a constant re-
minder to them of the part they
took in the war; whether it has
been a matter of accomplishing
a deed of valor as performed by
Sergt. Alvin Cullum York of Pail
Mall, Tenn, or that of the new
est recruit who only underwent
the discomforts of barracks
life, and was deprived of over
seas service by the armistice.
War of Young Men and Mothers
Records in the bureau show
that this has been a young mans
war and mothers war. More
than At per cent of the men who
carried government insuranc,
made mothers their beneficl
aries. Fathers were named by
approximately 16 per cent of the
men.
The average age of the mer
killed in France was % years.
An examination of the records
in the bureau of war risk insur-
ance shows that large percent.
age of married men, in arrang.
ing for the future protection OF
their families, planned for insur
ance to be paid to their mothers
while their thought in arranging
their compensation benefits wa'
for their wives.
About so per cent of the mer
who carried war risk insurance
named their wives in making
r arrangements for compensation
Mothers were named by % PEE
2 cent, while the "wife and child,
were named by IA per cent. Thi'
is the natural consequence O
privileges granted by the wa
risk insurance act. They felt i
their first duty to provide fo
the immediate needs of thei
, family, making at the same tim
through application for insul
ance, provisions for their par
ents in their advancing years.
Will Receive Billion.
e Insurance claims which tn,
|, bureau will be called upon to pa
o amount to more than 81, ,012,00(
e 900. The amount of premium
: received from all service mel
!. and which was deducted fro1
e their pay during the active pei
o iod of the war, approximate
n only S200,000,000, or less tina
one-fifth of the amount of insul
e ance claims. The excess aboy
d premiums viii be paid by I'll
government.