The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-22
FAMILIES Of VIRGINIA.
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navy and marine corps during the re-
cent world war. carried approximately
SIC. &sA 100000 Of war risk insurance
Records ahow thai large percentage
which administers these AFFAIRS, has
been established by the government
/ as permanent institution in recog-
milton of the services veterans Of the
world war rendered their country.
! VIII be- Csenfie Renssnder.
The insurance which veterans are
abfe to carry as the result of this act
OF an appreciatiye government will be
n constant reminder to them OF the
| part they took in the war; whether II
has been matter of accomplishing a
deed of valor as performed by Sergeant
Alvin Culium York of Pail Mail. Tenn,
| or that of the newest recruit who only
underwent the discomforts Of barracks
| life. and was deprived of overseas SER
! vice by the arrnlstice.
Records in the bureau show that this
has been young mans war and
| mothers war. More than AZ per cent
| of the men who carried government in
| surance made mothers their benefix
| Charles. Fathers were named by APP
proximatsly 1e per cent of the men,
The average age of the men killed
In France was twehty-three years.
| An examination of the records in
| the bureau of war risk insurance shows
! that a large percentages of married men
| in arranging for the future protection
/ OF their families planned for insurance
I to be paid to their mothers, while their
| thought. in arranging their compensa-
| ton benefits, was for their wives.
| About 30 per cent of the men who
| carried war risk insurance named
their wives in making arrangements
| for compensation. Mothers were named
| by % per cent, while the wife and
| chi "~were named by IA per cent.
| This is the natural consequence of
/ of this sum was made payable to their
/ mothers, fathers and others who re-
/ side on farms,
| According to an estimate made by
the department of agriculture, the loss
| in man power to farms as tho result
! OF former service men giving up farm
/ life for the city upon their return from
! the war, eventually. after the general
restlessness brought about by the war
| has subsidized will be about 100000.
/ Records in the bureau of war risk
/ Insurance, compiled during the rapid
! decentralization. covering The period
J from January /, 1919. to June 1, last,
/ show that more than half the men
change their residence after being
! mustered out of the service.
| A certain percentage of the veterans
OF the world war are keeping up their
| government insurance In order to
! reach those who temporarily have al
lowed their insurance to lapse the hu-
| reau of war risk insurance has or
ganized q voluntary field force which
will endeavor to conserve as much as
ri ~
Of insurance carried by men in the ser
vice.
Nationwide Field Force.
This nationwide field force consists
of organizations interested in the well
fare of soldiers. sailors and marines;
among them, the Red Cross, Y. NJ. C. A.
War Camp Community Service. X of
@, Y. M. H. A.. and other associations
In addition. the voluntary services OF
more than $4,000 life insurance agents
have been enlisted. The volunteer roll
further includes thousands of bankers,
doctors, lawyers. manufacturers. other
business men and representatives of
all associations which come in con-
, tact with discharged service men and
J their dependents.
Until recently the bureau OF war risk
] ! insurance was housed in sixteen build
ings In Washington, ranging from
garages to the new National museum
} Al present there are about l5,000 peo-
pie who areA engaged I'm administering
= this insurance of world war veterans,
| If the women workers of the bureau
| stood finger top to finger tip, they
! would extend more than thirteen miles.
| There are more than 10000, 900 ind
vidual 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 70 hold
these records.
Some idea Of the ma gnitude of $40
geo 00o.000 may be gained by figures
compiled by the actuarial section of
the bureau showing that II this
amount were in dollar bills, end to
end. the line thus formed would ex-
tend to the moon more than fourteen
times.
TO July there hao been 17S2s 445
3 checks mailed, If these were in a
line. end to end. they would extend
II 2,S91 mles' During the first six
months of 1919. there were more than
H. 4 ,GQA 900 letters received by the hu :
y reaa An army OF CORE spondents 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 perrhapent forms OF
! government insurance. as follows..
l. Twenty-year endowment
2. Thirty-year endowment
8. Twenty ayment life.
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