Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1917 — Insurance For Sammies Given By Their Uncle [ARTICLE]

Insurance For Sammies Given By Their Uncle

Of all the monster war mushrooms that have grown on Uncle Sam’s doctfetep here since war was declared, the great insurance mushroom is pehaps the most unique. “Up to the, close business today,” said a statement from the bureau,” sent out yesterday, “the military and naval division of war risk insurance had received 194,222 applications from American fighting -men. / “These applications represent insurance of $1,665,184,000. The averabe amount of insurance applied for per man is $8,574, the maximum permitted by the law being SIO,OOO and the minimum SI,OOO. “Applications continue to comd in as a fast rate, averaging about $55,000,000 a day.” It is believed that this government insurance baby is the biggest insurance company in the history of the world. The whole thing is chuck full of human interest of the deepest dye. Just as this statement was being prepared for the press there came the story of a soldier at the front who was killed fifteen minutes after he had signed application for a $lO,000 policy for his mother, dependent on him for support back in America.