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Nov. 14, 1917.
IAINBOW DIVISION
GARRESINSURANCE
More Th*n $130,000,000
Taken Out. Some Details.
Washington.—War insurance appli
cations numbering 15,178, representing
a total of $121,242,000, have been re
ceived by the treasury depart: 'nt
from sailors and soldiers. This \ m
represents only a small fraction of e
total expected within the next te.v
days.
Virtually all applications announced
today came from soldiers of the “Rain
bow Division,” at C.amp Mills, New
York. They were the first to receive
application blanks.
“The figures indicate,” it Was an
nounced, ‘That the majority of the men
will take out insurance for SIO,OOO
apiece, the maximum amount. Applica
tions fro mthe other divisions of the
army are expected to arrive here very
shortly.”
A division of military and naval in
surance of the Bureau of Wark Risk
Insurance has been organized as a part
of the treasury department and is in
active operation. The benefits of the
law are available to all the members
of the United States army, navy and
nurses’ corps.
Summary of Features.
A short summary of some of the main
features of the law follows:
Premiums for a SIO,OOO policy be
gin with $6.30 per month at ages 15
16 and 17; increase to $6.40 per
month for the ages 18, 19 and 20;
to $6.50 per month for the ages 21,
22 and 23; to $6.40 per month for
the ages of 24 and 25; to $6.70 per
month for the ages of 26 and 27;
to $6.80 per mon h for the age of
28; to $6.90 per month for the ages
of 29 and 30; to $7 per month for
the age of 31, with progresive in
creases for ages above those given.
The minimum amount of insur
ance that may be taken out is
SI,OOO.
The compulsory allotment to a wife
or children, -which is separate from the
insurance, shall not be less than sls a
month, and shall not exceed one-half
of- a man’s pay. A voluntary allot
ment subject to regulations, bay be as
large as the insured desires, within the
limits of his pay-
In addition, the government will pay
monthly allowances as follows;
Class A. In the case of a man to
his wife (including a former wife
divorced and to his child or chil
dren :
(a) If these be a wife but no
child, sls.
(b) If there be a wife and one
child, $25.
(c) If there be a wife and two
children, $32.50, witl. $5 per month
additional for each additional
child.
(d) If there be no wife but one
child, $5.
(e) If there be no wife bu two
children, $12.50.
(f) If there be no wife but three
children, S2O.
(g) If there be no wife but four
children, S3O, with $5 per month ad
ditional for each additional child.
Class B. In the case of a man or
woman, to a grandchild, a parent,
brother, or sister:
(a) If there be one parent, $lO.
(b) If there be two parents, S2O.
(c) For each grandchild, brother,
sister or additional parent, $5.
In the case of a woman, to a child
or children:
(d) If there be one child, $5.
(e) If there be two childr i, $12.50.
(f) If there be three children, S2O.
(g) If these be four children, S3O,
with $5 per month additional for
each additional child.
Allotments to Other Dependents.
If the man makes an allotment to
certain other dependent relatives the
government also will pay them an al
lowance which may equal the allotment
Trench and Camp
Outfitters
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Steel Cots,
Wood Cots,
All Cotton Cot Pads,
All Silk Floss Pads.
All Feather Pillows,
All Cotton Pillows,
All Silk Floss Pillows,
Camp Chairs,
Folding Chairs,
Folding Stools,
Folding Steamer Chairs,
Folding Tables,
U. S. A. Army Trunks,
Suit Cases.
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708?710-712 Broadway
Phone 1632.
TRENCH AND CAMP
but this shall not be more than the
difference between SSO and the allow
ance paid to the wife and children.
The increased compensation in case
of death runs from a minimum of S2O
monthly to a motherless child, or $25
monthly to a childless widow, to a
maximum of $75 monthly to a widow
and several children. The widowed
mother may participate in the com
pensation.
In case of total disability the month
ly compensation runs from a minimum
of S3O, if the injured man has neither
wife nor child living, to a maximum of
$75, if he has a wife and three or more
children living, with $lO a month extra
if he has a widowed mother dependent
upon him.
The maximum is enlarged still fur
ther, for when the disabled man con
stanly requires a nursTe or attendant
S2O monthly may be added. If the dis
ability is due to the loss of both feet,
both hands, or total blindness of both
eyes, or if he is helpless or permonent
ly bedridden, SIOO monthly is granted.
The law contemplates futurp legisla
tion for re-education and vocational
training for the disabled. It gives them
I full pay and their families the same
I allowance as for the last month of
actual service during the term of re
education.
General Pershing Has SIO,OOO.
Washington.—General Pershing has
bought his war insurance, his applica
tion for a maximum SIO,OOO policy
bringing the total for members of the
expeditionary force in France up to
$2,200,000.
With the application of General
Pershing sent this message to Secre
tary McAdoo:
“The army in Frai.ce is pleased at
the announcement that the soldiers and
sailors* insurance bill is now a law. By
this act our government has given its
soldiers a privilege which no other
country has ever granted. The very
low rate and other advantages of this
insurance are so manifest that it is
hoped that every man in the army who
needs insurance will avail himself of
this generous offer.”
Y. M. C?A? SECRETARIES
KILLED AND INJURED
Workers go Into Trenches.
Dr. John R. Mott, general secretary
of the War Work Council, of the Y. M.
C. A., told a large crowd that the work
of the secretaries is not without haz
ards. “Just what is expected of the
average Y. M. C. A. secretary?” Doctor
Mott was asked. He replied: “He must
be of cheerful disposition, possess un
bounded optimism, be able to conduct
religious services in the absence of the
chaplain, conduct impromptu concerts,
lead a community sing, stay awake for
more than forty-eight hours at a
stretch, take care of his hut, give les
sons in French or English or physical
culture if possible, run errands, sweep
up,, hand out books, see that the boys
write home, and finally go right to the
last trench with th eboys, right into the
dugouts. Now. do you wonder why we
must use the greatest caution in select
ing men for this work?”
"More than twelve secretaries have
lost their lives,” he said, “and scores of
them have been injured. We have
dugouts as close at forty-four yards to
the German lines and in one place the
dugout was bombed six times, which
show's the tenacity of the men who go
over to help the boys. No, indeed, it’s
not a bullet-proof job.”
Among those attached to the Phila
delphia contingent who will attend to
night’s banquet are E. Waletr Clark,
T. DeWitt Cuyler, Bayard Henry, Al
bert A. Jackson, John H. Mason, Ar
thur E. Newold and W. Hinckle Smith.
250,000 TONS FOOD LOST.
German submarines have sunk a
third of all the food sent to starving
Belgium during the last eight months,
Herbert Hoover declares.
“Only 400,000 tons of foodstuffs were
actually delivered at Rotterdam for the
Belgians, while 650,000 tons were ship
ped,” declared Hoover.
Needful Articles
—FOR—
Sammie Boys
Bedding Rolls,
Clothing Rolls,
Laundry Bags,
Gun Covers,
Pistol Covers,
Post Cards,
Tent Rugs,
Tents Made to Order.
First Floor
T. G. BAILIE
&CO.
708-710-712 Broadway
Phone 1632.
MINISTER WRITES
OF WORKIN FRANCE
V. M. C. A. Secretary Just As
Necessary As Man Who Car
ries Gun.
Extracts from the letters of a Y. M. C.
A. secretary, who is serving the first ex
peditionary American overseas forces,
have just been received by the state Y. M.
C. A. headquarters. They throw some
interesting light upon the conditions the
American fighting men are already facing
in France. This secretary was a Presby
terian minister in Pasadena, Cal., before
he entered Y. M. C. A. war work. He is
Robert Freeman, now located “Somewhere
in France.”
In a letter written “Somewhere in
France, Septembers,” he says:
“For the present I am not in those de
vastated sections of France where the
people are in great need and I have no
contact save with the American soldiers
who are all too well off. One of our great
problems is to encourage the men to take
advantage of some of the sveeral ways
the government has provided for the lay
ing by of money, for the soldiers. The
boys feel so rich after pay day that they
simply throw their money around, and
there are always plenty of folk who are
willing to help them rid themselves of
that kind of a burden.”
The next letter was dated “On the
Train, September 13,” the secretary hav
ing been summoned to Paris for a week
by the “Y” officers there. He says: “We
have so many more men than accommo
dations that I have been sleeping in the
big tent that we used until we got up our
DRINK
At Counters
Camp Hancock Boys’
We have Souvenirs and Novelties to suit your taste.
Our line consists of:
Felt and Silk Pennants, Pillow Tops, Post Cards,
Pictures, Swagger Sticks, Tie and Handkerchief
Holders.
Our stock also includes some camp necessities, such as:
Comfort Kits, Hat Cords, Khaki and Silk Handker
chiefs, Collar Ornaments, Money Belts, and many other
useful articles.
Camp Hancock Souvenir Store
630 BROAD STREET.
Our Motto: Popular Prices, Courteous Service.
/’end your
P^ O s TA VER Y young man who’s join-
/k Home /to r> ed Uncle Sam’s army or I
yf j&j navy -will make the old folks
_ B back home mighty happy by
B surprising them with his photo-
B graph.
■ • Photographs make the best
B Christmas gifts for those we
B love and who love us.
J we develop films.
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842 BROAD STREET. PHONE 462.
hut. We are using regular canvas cots,
only it is very damp anti cold, so I have
two blankets doubled on the bed for a
mattress, part of the time with a little
excelsior under that, no pillow and five
blankets over me—two of them doubled.
Besides this I wear my woolen socks and
woolen helmet. If by chance I forget to
put on top of alt my poncho, my blankets
are likely to be dripping wet when I wake
up. Here in this tent, surrounded only
by my movie outfits and a few pianos
that are waiting to be sent up the line,
I hear the distant boom of big guns at
the front or maybe the hum of a Bosche
plane out for a night’s mischief passing
over our heads. I, a city-bred one, with
no military experience at all, have a bit
of a feeling we are at war.”
A third letter says: “As you may imag
ine—no you can hardly do that, for France
is very different from America and the
war has slowed up everything—goods do
not get distributed very rapidly. We
need trucks. We need men. Paris needs
men. We do not begin to keep up with
our job and the government is looking to
us to take full charge of the canteen,
the recreation, the educational activities,
the spiritual welfare of the soldier. We
need men to buy, men to sell, men to
transport, men to organize, men to con
ceive big things, and I am increasingly
conscious that I am a soldier just as much
as thousands of other men, just as neces
sary as the fellow who cooks the meal,
just as much as the man who builds roads
and never sees a gun, just as much as the
staff officers who are kept by their duties
at a safe distance from the attacks of
the enemy, just as much as the men in
the front trenches, who without the rest
of us would be helpless. There is no
other part of the service I would rather
be in, now that I have had a good view
of it all.”
It is to do work of the kind this man is
doing for our American boys overseas
as well as for those at home and our al
lies and prisoners of war that the Y. M.
C. A. is conducting a nation-wide cam
paign November 11 to 19 for $35,000,000.
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