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Show If ENCOURAGE MEN fa 1 KEEP UP MIR r INSURANCE; 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. As sol- i niors arc demobilized, effort will be ' made to Impress on them the desir- " ability 0 their continuing payments ' on their government voluntary life in- li i surance, which can be maintained for 5 five years after peace, even though ' the soldier has returned to civil life, ' This will be done by insurance agen- cles in the army, working together w'th authorities of the Treasury's War ii Risk bureau. i Secretary McAdoo in a statement i T has urged soldiers to retain-their Jn- $ surance to protect their families and i to retain the right to convert this into : other forms to be provided by the $ Tovernment. An additional reason, It I 7 ?s said, is the treasury's desire to mako ) of the soldiers' and sailors' insurance i - a demonstration that government life insurance is successful, and can be ' c .tended. j ; "I desire to remind all America's. I i ' soldiers and sailors," said Mr. Mc- I :m. AuOO 5 siiiiuiut-'iii., uiui ii la inuir uj;-i uj;-i -a p rtunity and their privilege to keep J M u.) their insurance with the United m States government after the war has ' officially terminated and even after 5 they navc returned to civil life, t fa "In its present form, this insurance 3 is annual, renewable term insurance S ; at net peace rntes, issued against jl I death and total permanent disability. ' Under the provisions of the War Risk 3 insurance act, every person holding ; : the insurance may keep it up in this ' form oven after he leaves the service, i for a period of five years. All that, is ? I ' necessarj is the regular payment of : , premiums. - "Moreover, the law provides that not later than five years after the term-? term-? ination of the war as declared by pres-I pres-I : k idential proclamation, the term in-s in-s - ; surance shall be converted, without t radical examination, into such form ! : or forms of insurance as may bo prc-1 prc-1 ; scribed by regulations and as the in- ' sured may request. This insurance ? : , will continue-to be government insur-i insur-i j ance. ' . "The advantage of keeping this in-i in-i surance in force cannot be empha- i. sized too strongly. The right to continue con-tinue it is a valuable right given by ! ! the government to our fighting men ' . as compensation for their services. If this right is lost by allowing Insurance Insur-ance to lapse It can never be regained. When government insurance is allowed al-lowed to lapse the holder cannot again obtain insurance except from private companies at a considerable increase in cost. Moreover many of the men , have become uninsurable as a result , i of the war through physical impair- ment, and if these allow their insurance insur-ance to lapse they will lose the last opportunity for their families to have : : the protection of life insurance." |