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Show SOLDIERS AT LOGAN TAKE PLENTY OF INSURANCE The men of th students' army ! training corps at the ttah Agricultural college have taken out government In-suratice In-suratice to the amount of S.&3S,ii0. and this sum probably will be raised to S6.0o0.000 before the men are demobilised, de-mobilised, accoroing to l.teut. Oo-ge It. Hendricks, personnel officer of the regiment. One and on-half million nf this, amount was wilttrn in one whirlwind whirl-wind hour. Five hundred and ninety-four men have taken out Insurance, most of them for the full amount allowed $10,000. Kvery man in the regiment has been given an opportunity to secure se-cure insurance, and it Is expected that practically every member of the unit will be insured by tonight. After today to-day no new insurance can be offered. OFFICERS GRATIFIED. I.letitenanta Hendricks and Harris.! the latter an assistant personnel officer, of-ficer, are Highly gratified at the excellent ex-cellent showing made. "Most of the men a predate fully th wonderful opportunity allowed them to secure Inaurance at such extremely low rates." auid lieutenant Hendricks "There la a tendency on the part of some of the men, however, now that, the war la over, to discount the value of the Insurance and there is some danger of a few men letting their insurance in-surance lapse. KEEP IN8URANCE. "This should not be. The fact that our country has been losing many clttsen every week, due to the present pres-ent epidemic of Influenza a it lost in France, due to an entire year's fighting, fight-ing, should prove conclusively the value of keeping this government in-, sura nee in effect. -We are In receipt nf many wirea from the war department depart-ment urging upon the men that they keep tip their payment. Kvery father and mother, every wife, should insist that their aona and husbands retain their insurance. "The Insurance remains -in force for five yeur. At the end of that period, each man mnat convert his Insurance into some standard form. such a twenty payment life, ordinary life, or endowment. Thia privilege lo convert may lie exercised at any time within the five years. Thia does not mean that the insurance will be transferred to a private company. The government govern-ment will atill be the Insuring agent, and the rate will he amazingly tow" |