Show Once Upon a Time One night in ancient three horsemen were riding across a As they crossed the dry bed of a out of the darkness a voice They The voice then told them to pick up a handful of put the pebbles in their pockets and The voice then have done as I Tomorrow at sun-up you will be both glad and the horsemen rode When the sun they reached into their pockets and found that a miracle had The pebbles had been transformed into rubies and and Sorry other precious They remembered the They were both glad and sorry giad they had taken and sorry they had not taken more The Veterans Administration is now telling this legend to veterans all over the country- they the story of life Of the members of the armed forces who carried National Service Life Insurance during the the vast majority have let their policies And despite an intensive campaign by to let veterans know what a golden opportunity they are passing up by not taking advantage of the liberalized most leary of have failed to see the If you aren't convinced of the soundness of the take a look at After World War I. ex-soldiers were offered a somewhat similar type of although not nearly so As the years went a large portion of those who had insurance dropped and all that they had paid in to the fund was clear profit for the and was put into a reserve Pretty soon the reserve fund got so big the government decided to get rid of part of so they began paying What had been planned Dividends as a good investment turned out to be an even better and those who kept their insurance were thankful they The same thing is happening this Every one of those millions of vets who dropped their insurance had an investment in an investment which has become am out-and-out turn now that they quit And the benefits of that donation will go entirely to those who were smart enough to hang on to their or to have it Remember that money can be used for no other It doesn't even have to take care of operating all of which are paid by not from And that all wartime death claims were paid out of a special and not from the reserve built up from premium That reserve must be used entirely for the benefit of and will be distributed to them either as dividends or by futher liberalization of the Most veterans who dropped their insurance after the war did so because it did not allow lump sum as do many commercial That if such it has been and now the payments to the beneficiary can be paid any way the insured other provisions have been providing unrestricted choice of one or more three additional endowment and a clause whereby you can borrow up to per cent of the cash value of your policy at only four per cent And if you don't want to pay back the you don't have to it will be deducted from the payment to the beneficiary after your No commercial firm could possibly offer you as good a They must pay their own operating they must pay a salesman's they must Best Deal Possible pay And all of that must come out of what they take in as Any insurance company will admit readily that it cannot match the bargain offered by A few unscrupulous insurance salesmen have claimed they but since the FBI prosecuted a few of them that practice has become quite So if you're a think twice before you pass up the chance to put your insurance back in You have until the end of 1947 to reinstate without a physical examination by paying only two back By keeping up your policy you aren't getting something for but you're coming as close to it as vou ever will in this cold cruel E. B. |