Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-14
SOLDIERS INSURANCE
Hardly Fifty Per Gent Are Contlnu.
inq the Protection
THERE ARE SIX PERMANENT FORMS

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Effort Being Made to Have Men Ap-
ply for atemsnt-Majority OF
York County Soldiers Have Dropped
Their Policies. - .rs ,&lfsa...'.
That hardly one-half the York
county men who served in the recent
world war and who took government
insurance Ghave retained the same is
the opinion of well informed insur-
ance men of York county and other
observers interviewed by The En-
quirer. Insurance agents, the nlost
of them at any rate in York county
have advised the men to retain the
insurance when their advice has been
asked; but most OF the returned lads
are showing no interest in the matter
and have allowed their, policies to
lapse.
A certain percentage OF the
veterans Of the world war are keep
ing up their government insurance.
In order to reach those who tenpor-
arily have allowed their insurance to
lapse. the bureau Of war risk insur-
ance has organized a voluntary field
force which will endeayor to con-
serve as much as possible of the
nearly s4o.Ooo.ooO.ooo Of insurance
carried by men in the service.
This nation wide field force con-
sists OF organizations interested in
the welfare of soldiers. sailors and
marines, among them. the Red Cross,
Y. M. C. A., War Camp Community
Service. X. of c.. and other associa-
tions. IN addition, the voluntary SER
vices of more than $4,000 life insurance
agents have been enlisted. The volnn-
teer roll further includes thousands Of
bankers. doctors, lawyers, manufac-
turers, other business men and repre-
sentatiyes of all associations which
come in contact with discharged SER
vice men and their dependents.
Until recently the Bureau OF
War Risk Insurance was housed in 16
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
world war veterans. II the women
workers oflthe bureau stood finger tip
to finger tip. they would extend more
.han 13 miles.
There are more than 30,000,000 in
dividual records In the bureau. this
large number being necessary in order
to keep the data on every mans in
surance up to date. More than five
miles of files are required to hold these
records.
Some idea Of the magnitude Of
$40, ,e0O. 100000 may be gained by figures
complied BY the actuarial section Of
the bureau Moving that if this amount
were in Fdofiar bills, end to end, the
line thus formed would extend to the
moon more than IA times.
TO July91st there had been 17,s2S.-
l45 checks mailed. If these were In
a line, end for end, they Would ,ex-
tend 1891 miles. During the first six
months of1s19, there were more than
4,000,0 900 letters received by the bureau.
An army of correspondents Is needed
to take care of the great daily inflow
of letters from former service men
seeking information on all phases OF
war risk insurance.
There are six permanent forms OF
government insurance, as follows:
10 Year Endowment.
80 Year Endowment.
$50 Payment Life.
$50 Payment Life.
5-Endowment at Age 62.
6.-Ordinary Life.
Applications are being received by
the Bureau of War Risk insurance
for changing the present term insur-
ance, 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 keeping UP
,is war risk insurance, has made un-
usually liberal provisions covering re-
lnstatemcnt of insurance, where the
former service man has allowed 1t
temporarily to lapse. In this way
every bit Of insurance which has been
allowed to lapse may be reinstated
under the following provisions:
A. The applicant must be in as good
health as at the date Of discharge, or
at the date the insurance lapsed, If
lapse occurred after discharge, and
must so state in the signed application
for reinstatement.
B. The application must be accom-
panied by remittance to pay the pre-
MUM 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:
1. The total permanent disability
clause is granted without costs to the
insured and it is free from all re-
'trictions.
2. Government insurance does not
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