The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-27
Interesting Data
From Bureau War
Risk Insurance

Tennessee antilles are being pait
$28, 343,S20 in War Risk Insurance
claims by Uncle Sam. He is making
restitution to those whose sons anC
husbands died in the service of theil
country during the greatest war Of
all times.
There are 3243 insurance claims
being paid in Tennessee through the
Bureau CT War Risk Insurance tC
benefciaries named at the time appli
cation for Insurance was made by
soldiers, sailors and marines, now
dead. The average policy carried by
these 3243 men was $8,740.
Disabled soldiers, as we'll as wild.
ows and children and dependent par
ents of those who had died, are be.
ing made comfortable by the gov
eminent which is paying 1910 COM
pensation claims to residents of Ten
nessee.
In addition to the insurance and
compensation claims now being paid
in Tennessee, there are 1905 of both
thes, classes Of claims under inves-
tigation. These cases, however, are
rapidly being adjusted following an
investigation by Bureau representa-
tives.
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance
which administers these affairs, has
been established 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 result of this act
of an appreciative government will
be constant reminder to them of the
part they took in the war; whether it
has been matter of accomplishing
deed of valor as performed by Ser
geant Alvin Cullum York of Pail Mall,
Tenn, or that of the newest. recruit
who only underwent the discomforts
Of barrack life, and was deprived of
overseas service by the armistice.
Records of the Bureau show that
this has been young mans war and
a mothers war. More than AZ per
cent of the men who carried govern
ment insurance made mothers their
beneficiaries. Fathers were named
by approximately l6 per cent of the
men.
The average age of the men killed
in France was % years.
An examination of the records in
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
shows that large percentage of mar
ried men in arranging for the future
protection of their families planned
for insurance to be paid to their
mothers, while their thought, in ar.
ranging their compensation benefits,
was for their wives.
About 80 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 child" were named by IA per
= cent. This is the natural consequence
of privileges granted by the War
Risk Insurance Act. They felt it
their first duty to provide for the inn
emulate needs Of their family, max
ing, at the same time, through appli-
cation for insurance, provision for
their parents in their advancing
Insurance claims which the Bureau
will be called on to pay amount to
more than - 1,012,O00,000. The
amount of premiums received from
all service men and which was deduct
ed from their pay during the active,
period of the war approximates only
200,000,000 or less than one-ffth
the amount of insurance claims. The
excess above premiums will be paid
by the government.
More than 10000 men who were
born and raised on farms in the
United States and who served in the
army, navy and marine corps during
the recent World War carried approx
imately $1O,4S8, 100000 of war risk
insurance. Records show that a large
percentage of this sum was made pay
able to their mothers, fathers and
others who reside on the farms.
According to an estimate made by
the Department of Agriculture, the
loss in man power to farms as the re-
suit of former service men giving up
farm life for the city upon their re-
turn 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 rap
id rehabilitation, covering the per-
iod from January 1, 1919, to June l,
last, show that more than half the
men change their residence after be-
r