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GOVERNMENT PLANS FORM OF INSURANCE By \V. G. McADOO, Secretary of the Treasury. The number of claims for exemption from military duty under the draft law kas caused a painful impression in many quarters, but after ail, does not the fact that no provision has yet been made by the government for the sup port of the wives and children, moth ers or fathers, of the men who have been drafted explain many of_ these claims for exemption? Under the draft law the government has the jwwer to require every able bodied man between 21 and 31 years of age to perform military duty. Thous ands of the drafted men are wage earners who married years age and are the sole support of dependent fam ilies So long as the government has made no provision for the care of these dependents, it is natural that such drafted men should seek to pro tect their loved ones by staying at home. 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H ]/ foundatioi'Tof I aevery~good I [U j^Z r ZLA WE have a lot of faith in the good judgment of of our townsmen. That is why we offer them nothing but the highest quality of goods in every line we handle. We’re finding that it pays and we have a lot of faith in the future of this town and this establishment. Onlj 150 Children’s and Misses’ Dresses M left, 75e values for 45C $1.25 - Val ues for - 85 c STEINBERG’S 12'4 Wall Street 1 hone 322 Cartersville, (is. zVncl What Steinberg Says is So* I should promptly enact the pending war insurance bill, which makes definite al lowances for the supiort of the de pendent wives and children, fathers or mothers, of our soldiers and sailors, claims for exemption on that score will cease. This is an imperative duty of the government. We cannot deprive helpless women and children of the supjtort of the wage-earner by forc ing him into the military service of the country unless the government substitutes itself as their support. Imagine the emotions of the man who is called into the military service of his country with full knowledge that his loved ones are left without means of support and may be reduced to want unless the charity of the com munity in which they live comes to their relief. It would be uothing less tl an a crime for a rich and just gov ernment to treat its fighting men so heartlessly and to subject their de pendent wives and children, who are unable to fight, to greater suffering than if they could fight. The morale of an army is as essen tial to its effective fighting power as guns, ammunition and other instru mentalities of war. Of equal import TME BARTOW TRIBUNE-THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS, AUGUST 23, 1917. ance is the morale of the civil popula tion which support the armies in the field. We cannot have this essential morale unless the nation comforts the men in the ranks with the knowledge that everything possible will be dote for them and their families, -ami ren ders to the civij imputation at home 'he assistance which will make it most effective in upholding the government and the fighting forces. The purpose of the war insurance hill now pending in the congress is to -ecure the future of America’s soldiers an.l sailors by insuring their lives and providing adequate compensations and indemnities for loss of life and total or partial permanent disability; also t protect their families against pov erty and want by providing them with sufficient means of support during the absence of the men at the front. The nation, having been forced to tesort to the draft in order to create quickly an army to save the country, i under a higher obligation to do these things for its fighting forces than if a volunteer army only was created, this great and rich republic cannot afford to do less, and it must and what is propped in a spirit of grat i' tide and not as charity. Sverv soldier anff -sailor who serves his country in this war will earn everything the pro posed war insurance hill provides; to be a beneficiary of the proposed law will he a badge of honor. When we draft the wage-earner, we call not only hint but the entire family to the flag; the sacrifice entailed is not divisible. The wife and children, the mother, the father, are all involv ed in the sacrifice —they directly share the burden of defense. They suffer just as much as the soldier, but In a dif ferent way, and the nation must gen erously discharge as a proud privilege the duty of maintaining them until the soldiers and sailors return from the war and resume the responsibility. We have drawn the sword to vindi cate America’s violated rights, to ie strre peace and justice, and to secure the progress of civilization. We cannot permit our soldiers, while they hold the front, to be stabbed in the back by uncertainty as to what is being done for their loved ones at home. Our tomorrows are in their hands—theirs ; n onrs. The national conscience will not permit America’s soldiers and their dependents to go unprovided with everything that a just, generous and noble people can do to compen sate them for the sufferings and sac rifices they make to serve their coun try. Aside from the care and protection of their dependents while the soldier is alive, the proposed war insurance act provides for definite compensation for his dependents in case of death, for definite and adequate indemnities in case of total or partial disability, and for re-education of the maimed and disabled man. so that he may take up anew occupation and make him self a useful member of society. We must restore their efficiency and ad just their still available faculties and functions to suitable trades and voca tions, which the injuries of the bat tlefield have not wholly destroyed. The heavy depletions in man-power result ins; from this conflict, which is with out precedent in history or imagina tion, will place new and greater values upon all forms and degrees of human i nergy, and demand as a first duty of intelligent government that every remaining useful sense" and limb of the blind and crippled shaft" be te elaimed under the benevolent process es of education and reapplied to econ omic uses for the benefit of society. The millions we shall be called upon to spend to support the dependents of he soldiers while they are in the fight ing-line, for indemnities and for re education of the crippled, are in the last analysis investments of the best sort: they are sums of capital advanc ed by the nation to promote utility, self-respect and economic develop ment. More than all, they are essen tially humanitarian and in the highest sense a. discharge by the government of an essential duty to society. Military service Is now obligatory; those who imperil themselves have no election. The insurance companies do not and cannot permit this act to af fect their calculations. They must pro tect themselves by charging premiums ?r high tlvat they are secured against less no matter how severe the rate of mortality may be. Consequently, the wry men who are called into the ser vice because their physical condition is of the best and who as civilians would for that reason be able to se cure the most favorable insurance rate in peace time, are denied as soldiers the necessary life insurance to enable them to protect their families and de nendents. The tremendous rates charged by private Insurance compan ies to protect them against the extra hazardous risks of war put insurance entirely beyond the reach of the con scripted soldier. Military necessity has, therefore, subjected the most fit subjects for Insurance tfi an insurmountable dis crimination unless the government it telf rupees Insurance at cost and up- on a peace basis. It would, in fact, be dastardly and undemocratic if the government should penalize the 1- dier who is forced to render the high est duty of the citizen by its failure to provide war Insurance upon peace terms and at net cost, first, because the pav of the enlisted men in the i.rniy and navy is less than the wege and salaries generally earned in pri vate life, which reduces their invest ing capacity; and, second, because government insurance is an essential war and emergency measure, inaugu rated for the specific benefit of our military forces,'and cannot and should not be conducted for profit. Such overhead charges as agents’ commissions, advertising, promotion, local rentals, etc., are eliminated. The government must assume the cost of administering this benevolent agency, just as it bears the cost of administer ing all other government agencies es tablished for the benefit of the people. This legislation will be a great step forward in the recognition of the re public’s duty to its heroes. 1 consider it the most significant and progressive measure presented to congress since the declaration of war. It immediately affects the well-being of a greater num ber of persons than any act with which I am familiar. It deserves the earnest and vigorous support of the Ihe PRUDENTIAL I: / • - ! insurance Company of America Home Office,[NEWARK, N. J. Your responsibility to your children does not end with your death. The Prudential Monthly Income Policy enables you to provide steady, unfailing support"for wife and family after you are gone Ask me about it. It is my busi ness to help you—let me do it J. B. HOWARD, Agent, Cartersville, Ga. 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But justice must begin at home; justice must be done to the men who die and suffer for us or, the battlefields and for theii wives and children and dependents who sacrifice for us at home To do justice to them requires only a tithe of the money we are expending for the general objects of the war. Let it not be said that noble, America was ignoble in the treatment of her sol diers and sailors and callous to the fate of thejr dependents in this great est war of all time. The pending war insurance bill gives comi>ensation, not pensions: it fixes amounts definitely in advance in stead of holding out the mere chance cf gratuities after the conclusion of ! ! 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