HOLD INSURANCE
CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO
PROTECT SOLDIERS.
“Hold on to Uncle Sam’s Insur
ance” is the slogan that Secretary Mc-
Adoo has ordered to be posted In
every army camp and upon board
every ship of the navy.
He writes in despair to his friends over there
That he’d give ten years of his life
If he could get into it for only a minute ,
To try out his luck in the strife
Now last year they told him that they’d have to hold him
On this side with other good men
To train new recruits in making salutes
Yet again and again and again
Now the end of the fight has heaved into sight
He’s as far from the front as at first
Is it any great wonder that he thinks it’s a blunder
And his soreness cannot be dispersed
For now it would seem that his fondest dream
To fight for the U. S. A. ;
Will never arrive, although he may strive,
And hope against hope for the day.
A nation wide campaign, to keep
American soldiers and sailors insured
with the United States government
after their return to civil life, is being
inaugurated bj' the secretary and will
grow in proportions with the enlarg
ing of peace plans.
To impress upon all fighting men
the fact that they can keep up their
Government insurance even after they
have left the military service, a
spiritual educational campaign has
been started in the Army and Navy.
The unlucky ones in this great world war
Are not the men who are killed
Nor the wounded ones, be they Allies or Huns
No matter what blood they have spilled
The most'unfortunate man today
Is the man who jumped at the cfhance
To fight like Hell from the tap of the Bell
But who’ll never see Service in France.
—From “ARMY & NAVY JOURNAL.’
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM.
Relatives of soldiers and sailors will
be reached by an educational program
conducted with the assistance of
numerous patriotic organizations.
No soldier or sailor will be . dis
charged from the service until' his
rights and privileges under the war
risk insurance act have been fully ex
plained to him. The fact that he may
continue his present Government in
surance at substantially the same low
rate for a period of five years, and
during that time may convert it into
standard after-the-war forms of Gov
ernment insurance, will he particular
ly impressed upon him.
“John,” exclaimed the nervous wo
man, “I believe there is a burglar in
the house.”
“I haven’t time to fool with smaV
fry,” was the sleepy response. “I’ve
spent the entire day fighting regular
profiteers.”—Washington Star.
DOWN IN CAMP.
Our old friend Amos Greene has
shifted jobs again and is now kept
well occupied down in the center of
Camp Greene superintending from a
sanitary viewpoint the labors of a
detail of the men there.
4,000,000 INSURED.
Approximately 4,000,000 officers and
men in the Army and Navy are now
insured with the United States Gov
ernment for a grand total of almost
$40,000,000,000.
The average amount of insurance
held per man is approximately $9,000,
or within $1,000 of the maximum per
mitted by law.
“Y. & B.”
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