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Show ' HOLD ON TO YOUR INSURANCE. . ' I 'HE RECORD was greatly surprised and shocked j JL the other day when informed, by an official of the local post or the American Legion that not more than twenty-five per cent of the local members were keeping up their government insurance, taken out during their war service. It takes no argument to prove that life insurance is a good investment, and a necessary provision for the protection of those who are or may hereafter be dependent upon you for support. Ordinary life insurance is no longer regarded regard-ed as a gamble by men of affairs and keen financiers, but a plain business and humane obligation. But as compared to government life insurance the regular line policies are an expensive luxury. Insurance men themselves admit that there is no comparison, for the reason that the administrative expense is borne by the taxpayers on government insurance, while it must come from the policy holder in ordinary life insurance. insur-ance. j Government insurance is something too valuable to pass up lightly. It is inaccesesible to the majority of us, and if it is neglected and thought lightly of by ex-service men now, later when they awake to its value and importance it will also be beyond their recall. re-call. It is worthy of almost any sacrifice on the part of ex-service men inorder to hold onto it, and it is a sin and a shame that three-fourths of you are allowing al-lowing this priceless boon to slip away from you,be-fore you,be-fore you have been out of the service more than a few months or a year. Government insurance is one of the biggest things your country has bestowed upon you, and you should not fail to appreciate it now. rte |
