Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19
Are You Overlooking
An Opportunity!
h, GEORGE /. BERRY. President,

mt At.AttNNAi Hulk i itcNtittA anu
Assistants Union of North America.
approximately fourteen million per-
sons throughout the country face a
loss Of over $4,000. 900 600 during the
course of the next fifty years. This
loss is in prospective income in the
value Of Government Insurance which
has been dropped by ev-service men
since the war. incidentally, the eN-
service men and their dependents are
among that class Il citizens who can
least afford to lose this money.
TIE government, through Congress,
has provided that the eN-Service men
who lapsed their government insur-
anee may renew anu convert il pro
yidlng they act before July 2, 1926.
The only thing the eN-serviee man has
TO do is 70 pass a physical examination
either by Bureau physician or a.
private physician and pay one months
back premium at his wartime rate
and one months premium on the kind
and amount OF insurance selected ut
his present age.
EN-scervice men who are engaged
In active occupations are especially
favored in connection with govern
ment insurance, In that they do not
have to pay any extra premium be-
cause they are engaged in a hazard
our occupation. The contracts issued
to these men are written on the same
basis as those sold TO the lawyer or
doctor.
All converted government insurance
has a cash surrender and loan value
after the policy is one year of age.
Among its five hundred and seventy
odd thousand converted insurance
policy holders, the government has
distributed in loans an amount eX-
ceeding $4,000 100000. These loans
are made at the rate of about one
million and half dollars each month.
Such loans are re-payable at the Dor
rower's will and only nominal rate
per cent interests charged.
Every man who is eligible for this
insurance should Immediately investi-
gate beneficial features of the govern
ment's program. This advice is given
with the understanding that all such
men are interested in providing for
their own future and that of their
dependents. The MEN are not required
TO renew the full $4,000 they carried
| during the war. II is possible for
| them to renew and convert this in
surance in amounts from 81 900 to
| $4,000, in multiples of 5000.
While Congress was very thought
| ful in making every possible provision
for the eX-service man in an insurance
way, even to the point of selling ii to
/ -. Ra,sfa ~ fa
Was neglected. Congress did not pro
| vide a fund with which to advertise
| the privileges extended to the men in
| this connection. Hence, the lack of
| information with regard to govern
ment insurance is appalling. Many
eX-service men are of the opinion
| that they have to repay all back pre-
miums in order to renew this insur-
ance, while others are Of the opinion
that the converted insurance is
handled by commercial companies;
while still a larger group do not know
anything at all about government In
surance. This article, therefore, is
I written in AN effort to bring to the
! attention of eX-serViee men, a few
/ facts about their privileges, and who
would undoubtedly benefit by the in
! formation contained in this article.
/ Government insurance is used to
serve many different purposes. The
/ provident ex-serviee man can take
! out an insurance policy with the gov
/ eminent at this time in order to IN
sure a favored child or children a
college education; while the IMPROVE
/ dent ex-service man can deny has
dependents a great many comforts by
neglecting to take this insurance up
again. The farsighted farmer who Is
eligible for TINS insurance may take
/ it Tor the purpose of paying off a
mortgage on the old home. If he is
! taken away from this world before he
! has lived his allotted three score and
ten years, MS dear ones, instead of
having to struggle under the respon-
/ sibIity of paying off a mortgage and
earning their livelihood, will have this
/ taken care Of by the payment of the
/ government insurance policy.
Settlements are made in cash or al
lotments, according to the policy hold
er's desires. The six different forms
/ of government insurance policies
! available are-0rdinary Life; 20 and
i 30-Payment Life; 20 and 30 Year En-
+ doWment,; Endowment at Age 62.
Men retaining their War Risk
-. Term Insurance must convert same
before July 2, 1926. After that date
no Term Insurance CO. be secured
through the government Bureau.
It is not necessary for me to dwell
upon the hazards that many of our
readers are continually facing and the
tact that they would have TO pay eN-
ira premiums for insurance obtained
through commercial companies, be-
cause these men, more than anyone
else. realize all Of this.
The writer has the assurance Of
the United States Veterans Bureau
.sHat any one desiring additional in
formation with regard 10 government
. insurance can obtain same by COM
nunicatIug win TIE Insurance DiYis-
On. L. $. Veterans Bureau, Washing
ton. D. c. Those VINO desire 10 talk
10 someone about Government In
.gfaHce will be gladly received by any
Iocal office of the United States Vet
Grams Bureau or official Of the Ameri-
can Legion in their respective local.
tie.
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j s.t.a.e Of Maryland and Gov. Smith
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