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f - moss for collecting government insurance are the rulea for collecting - government insurance taken oat by ]%> American soldiers: |V7 - The official addreaa of the Bnreau ||>> of War Rl?k Insurance Is care of I ?| Treasury Department. Washington, ! d. C. The papers to be Hied by'the claimant are as follows: 1. Affidavit of beneficiary, Form IajaTg?" 61-4, requiring data as to the relationship of the beneficiary as well as the names and ages of all other !': relatives within the permitted class. . This affidavit must be sworn to by - the claimant, and aligned by two witHg neases who know the person making claim for insurance. 2. The claim for compensation for S&f;'. death is made on Form 27 and rej#~' quires information concerning th< 7 deceased, including the following, whleh the beneficiary might have dif. Acuity in procuring: height, complex w * Ion, color of eyes, color of n?r, loen1 a ' tifying scars or marks, place of birth, I , fall name of deceased's mother, and 9 her financial condition. !{| 3. A certified copy of the church II record is required to sEow Uie mar.,V-> riage of the deceased. 19 . 4. The ages of children must be shown by certified copies of pnb B.V'-. llshed records of birth or verified copies of church records of baptisms 19 5. Affidavits of two persons must it be filed showing that the children ol j\ the widow described in the claim are wlin'1 liyingi and that the widow has not remarried. . i|| "Y.M.C.A. Typifies 1\ Of All American \ - At the dedication of a Y. M. C. A. ?& ' boildlng at Camp Dodge. Iowa, re >'*' cently, Brig. Gen. Stephen M. Foote JFf * N. A., spoke on "The Place of thf %. Mr C. A. In the New Army.' .'i\~ . " Among other things, he said: pgWjttj- "Now, where does-the Y. M. C. A. Mafc | tak? Its place? The effort of the milU itary authorltlea Is to raise yoor physIf -' \ to*^h^ghea^lt^hTbutUt^rTaienl , |r amber pthour* each day in wMct : you are not undergoing military to U atmction of any sort It is thesf |f"y> Honrs which the Y. M. C. A. is en bMB? ; deoToring to take care of with the game end in view that the milltarj authorities have, namely your moral 1^1: mental and physical well-being; placing moral first in this case in? ' atMit of Dhvsical. To farther these audi, the Y. M. C. A. has constructed 'I - a nnmber ?f buildings in eacJh one of the National Army encampments [!*& V'i te -which entertainments, religioui services, physical games, reading, 'l&V leritlng. music and moving pictures TOg*--.- may be enjoyed. We have met tc - dedicate this building to your use. "I suppose you know that the GovI ontment does not provide these buildI ' Ings, does not provide for their equip' Intent, and provides for paying onlj ' part of the operating expenses. Now, where does the money come from - t. ! to build, equip and operate theml I From voluntary contributions bj 1 men, womon and children all over thii ? if land. The camps themselves are con 5 ^istrncted through funds obtained bj ar^dompulsory process in the way oi 'i *?& taxation, but ip the case of the Y, i C. A. the money given is volunJ yfcgtMrj. People give this money, ] think you will find, largely through s ; X'i -spirit of patriotism and fraternity t fiFRfcttev feel that you are risking life ' and limb in their behalf. People look upon your service as of a higher grads : ' than working in factories, upon farms I ^ or In business, and paying money tc i - /iittpport the war activities of the GovV ^/. 'ernment; they therefore feel undei f certain obligations to help you iz ;? some way to carry out this very ape \r dal task that has been allotted tc ! v you. It speaks well for the solld&r8 Or, one may say, a Bort of moral &RQUEEN CALLS FOR YANKEE CAPf I At a gala matince at the opera in {S^gLpndon for the benefit of Kin? ^George'8 Fund for Sailors recently [%-/*?OTerftl United States naval officers, II . guests of Lady Cunard, occupied a I 1 box adjoining that of Queen Mar; JiY ^and other members of the royal fam. I- v-fly. During an intermission, thl Queen requested the officers to lend I their cape to be passed around for a 1- collection. The fact that the capa F.jiJMonged to Yankee officers and thai r;It-,4,they had been borrowed by the Queen Jyifytare a double impetus to the spirit . iof contribution. The result was a !^^?ood of money for the Fund. BijBfer 8. O. 8. Igj-.: U-BoaU aBd^wMatefahiess are botl "The Natioi Not only In the words, "Force, Force to the utmost, Force wiuiout stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Hight the law of the world, and cast every selfish dominion down in the dost," did President Wilson strike the war keynote in his Baltimore addrese. That line, '.'The nation ls.8wake," told a truth that has become more strikingly apparent the more deeply America has been plunged in the war. The nation IS awake. But more important than that is that it is a nation awake as a nation. America is thinking nationally, not section. ally. It is bound by a common thought. Any one who has toured this country recently could not have helped i bnt Do inryseu oy ibb r? p (JSC. Perhaps the- beginning ot the Spring drive on the western front did a lot to bring about this cohesion. Men all over the land began to see , that days of trial were ahead and they steeled themselves for those i days. Then General Pershing made hii now famons visit to General Foch, i Some few at first did not glimpse the significance of that visit. Bui [ they see, now. It was a situation thai . had a parallel in a small scale in manj i smaller commands in this country One regiment from New Tor- state s was skeletonized. In the changes : even the commanding officer was -I eliminated. A Texas Colonel was as 4oral Co-Partnership \ * People In This War^ . co-partnership, of all the people ol the .country in this business of car, rying on the war. ! "Other people are thinking of you ' working for you; but however muck others may do, you are still respon sible for your own conduct. The Army is no place for mollycoddles - Think for yourself and think of oth > era. Be unselfish. Do what yon cai i for your comrades and for the folkj r at hoifie. Let devotion to youf peo pie, your God and your country gt > hand In hand. "I have sometimes thought that 11 > would be well, as is done in most for ' eign services, to require attendance , upon certain stated religious or moral ; exercises, but we have never done I this In our Army; we leave it to you to take advantage of these opportu nitie8 or not, just as you see - fit Many kind, thoughtful hearts and , loving hands have provided the? i things for you, and all that you art , expected to do is simply to take adi vantage of what has been so freel) i given. . "> "No one knows how long this wai will last, and no one knows whici ones of us will be left after the wai - is over; but we may be quite certair that the war is not going to last for , ever, and that the most of you, prob i ably nearly all of yon, will be re turned to your civil vocations at iU close. Ftfr scores of years, you. youi i family, your neighbors, will looV back to what you did in this mo' mentous crisis in the world's bis ' lory- .. . "The Y. M. C. A. wishes to helj - yon, morally, mentally and phys[ IcaUy, to lire a good, clean, worthi while sort 6f a life, in war and in . peace. And so I want to earnestlj i recommend that you take advantage : in every way possible of this institui tion of the Young Ken's Christian i Association, so conveniently placed at your hands, and on your behalf as well as my own, I wish to express our heartfelt gratitude for it and i our full appreciation of the gener osity, good wishes and brotherly i spirit that have prompted this gif( - on. the part of the men, women and 1 children of our country." \ HOHBNZOLLKRNB STANDING J DRAIN >1 rmm A molordam the folio wine wa? recently cabled: "The heary drain of war on German nobility is shown by the latest issues of Gotha's genealogical manr uals. ' "Summarized by the Kolnischc \ Volkszeitung, the mann&ls shoe ; "these losses: 270 members of fam1 iliee of counts, 633 members ol baronial families, 843 members of the 1 old nobility and 836 of the patent nobility." > THE KAISER HAS SIX SONS? AND THEY ARE ALL ALIVE. M5^ i Is Awake" ?President Wilson signed to the command. When he addressed his new troops for the first time he said he expected some resentment over his coming. An officer, one of the survivors of the old order, spoke: "There waa no resentment over the coming of a Texas Colonel to this New York Regiment. Rather there was Tejoleing. To win this war we -hare sacrificed fifty years of traditions. But now,'Instead of being a New York Regiment, we have officers from seventeen states and men from all over the Union. Instead of being a New York Regiment we are . an American regiment" 80 with General Pershing's offer to dispose his troops as General Foch : should dictate, which meant that companies wouia do piaceu m ouuw and French Battalions, and even bri! gades in-British and French divisions. In that moment America surrendered any isolation, parted with opportut nittes for individual distinction and : merged all that she had and was in , the great common purpose. When the significance of this burst [ upon the country at large a cheer, as i of great relief, went up from all over the land. "At last we are really in," i was the one thought. Listen once again to the words of i the President: "I accept the chal! lenge. I know that you accept it. t All the world shall know that you r accept it. It shall appear in the utter . sacrifice and self-forgetfulness with i which we shall give all that we love , and all that we have to redeem the i world and make it fit for fred' men -1 like ourselves to live in." "BORN. NOT MADE" 1 Rookie?Is that slumgullion we ' have 90 often difficult to make? 1 Mess Sergeant?It ain't made; il accumulates. J ^ ~ "Give it to me. please. CrarxJdaddy." "Why Bobby. It yoo wait a bit tor i it yoafl have it to eoioy longer!" "Poo-poo! That'sno arsomem witb WRIGLEY5 'cause thg flavor lasts, atwwy!" ?After eve WAR TOR HUMANITY |p|?|? I War, in a good cause, is not the greatest evil which a nation can suf- tf/ZfjUgg. j fer. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and K ' degraded state of moral and patriotic dmpPw. feeling which thinks nothing worth a war is worse. "* When a people are used as mere hh * human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other l\uman ?2 beings against tyrannical injustice, a war to give victory to their own ldeaa of right aa^good, and which is I , "r? their own war carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, is _ J often the means of their regenera- pT'^ft A man who has nothing which be is willing to fight for, nothing which lAjtfagXrahe cares about more than he does HflHjjJflM about his personal safety, is a miser- rntf/fylfiZT' able creature, who haa no chance of ' being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than As long as Justice and injustice n have no} terminated their ever-re affairs of mankind, human beings mnst be willing, when need is, to do yjjQ&Bgfr battle for the one against the other. ?28 Tmt ?John Stuart Mill. # 8 (7"Aif tro* written a half century and more ago, but it might have been writ ten yesterday, it applies so well to to- 'fa fa/9 day's conditions. The truth is the same A: yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow.)? ' , Official Bulletin. DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT Green Recruit?Do you think we'll ever get by the submarines? - !/jr Scared One?I don't know about jfc ) you, but if the first shot or torpedo j' j doesn't hit me ' ****** ry
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