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Show HELP THE SOLDIER BOYS IN the midst of all the grumbling and it must be admitted there is a great deal of dissatisfaction among those who served us in the war and who feel they have not received what they believe to be a square deal the government has for every soldier ..ill r It .1 .1 in the land a message or importance dealing witn tne question of insurance. If you care to inquire, any insurance man will tell you the government insurance plan offers unusual advantages to the former soldier, and at rates far below those obtainable from any private company. We would like to tell the former soldiers this story of the government's insurance plans, but it is impossible in these columns. We must publish our local news, and we haven't space to devote to this government problem. The officials of the War Risk Insurance Bureau in Washington realize this, and they want to reach the soldiers with their story by advertising adver-tising in the newspapers because they have found this is the only way they can reach these men. They admit they have failed to reach them by mail. The men are scattered. The official records of names and addresses are almost useless. The man who enlisted in Texas and whose home town was in Alaska has re-' turned from the war, been discharged in New York and gone into business in Thomas, Oklahoma. The army has lost track of him, and his name is legion. He runs into the hundreds of thousands. 'If these j thousands of men knew what the government wanted to say about insurance they would gladly listen. But they don't. And they will never know unless the j government advertises in the newspapers.' Hundreds of thousands of dollars arc being spent in a clerical attempt to solve this problem, but it is as far away from solution as ever. The head of the War Risk Insurance Bureau has nearly a hundred private pri-vate secretaries at work, and a regular army of clerks. The tremendous cost could be cut materially if our Congressmen and Senators would grant an appropriation appropria-tion for government advertising, but they are not used to this sort of thing and they do not act. i It would be a good thing if all the mothers of the former soldiers and all the wives set to work to make ' them act, if they wrote to their senators and cong- ressmen demanding the appropriation asked for by I the War Risk Insurance Bureau. I This is just another phase of government advertising. adver-tising. Every man, woman and child in the nation will benefit when the government begins to advertise, adver-tise, but the legislators will not make appropriations until there is a distinct public demand for government j advertising. If you want anything in these days it is necessary to go after it. Perhaps our readers will join with other citizens in helping to bring about a little action. , j |