The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1918, Page 9

Celilo r- . a € ot | SATURDAY, Uncle Sam's $36,000,000,000! (Mma b 1 Wigs A Dozen Roads In War Risk Insurance Sets a World Record for Big Business Enterprises. 2,652,556 Certificates, Per Cent. of the Men By Marti RIGINATED in ao emall way in O war, the War Risk Insurance istration units in largest. enterprises in the 1918, nearly thirty. ance in force.” The writer rec Secretary of the T: our soliders, The MeAdoo announced that the Governm: we find fears expressed in the Asso- ciation of Life Insurance Presidents pin sersion at the Hote! .\stor that the Government may decide to go into the life insurance business after the wa: ‘The life insurance interests agree that | wueh an activity on the part of the Government would be disastrous At the came time, the education service of the United States Depart- | ment of Labor is sending out a bulle- tin to all soldiers and sailors, advis- ing them to retain their Government fe insurance. This indicates ‘hat | the Government means to continue in | the business at icast in so far ax out: | standing contracts are concerned. — | “The returned man, it is pointed out, | can bave no greater asset and no In One Year the War Risk Insurance Bureau Has Received 4,090,031 Applications, Has Issued Has Insured Over Ninety in the Army and Navy, and Has Already Paid $20,784,137 in Losses, With $15,610,711 in Outstanding Claims. in Green. October, 1914, @ bureau for Insur- ing the hulls and ca*toes of American vessels against the risks of Bureau of the United States Govern. ment has grown to be, in the language of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, ne of the largest single admin. the Government servicg, if not the It is certainly one of the greatest business world, and, indubitably, the largest life insurance concern on the globe, having, on Oct. 31, -#ix billions of dollars of life insur- alls that at a conference in the New Willard Hotel in Washington in the summer of 1917 the ‘reagury submitted to representatives of the life insurance companies of the United States a Proposition to take over the insurance of the lives of proposition was rejected, and Mr. ent would take up the work. Now 30,000,000 individual records of one kind or another, these records filling card or file cabinets 4% feet high which, if placed end to end would stretch a distance of three miles The War Risk Life Insurance Act was passed by the Congress and be- came a law on Oct. 6, 1917, when we bad about a million and a haif men in the army. No forms had been Printed, but the insurance, in so far as the emergency feature which covers every r in the wervice under cer tain conditions is concerned, was in force. Within a few hours after the law went into eifect the office of the Secretary of the 7) under telegraphic surance. The minimum policy $1,000, sury was buried yplications fur in- sued is for the maximum far $10,000, Over | ZING X¥mae Gifts You Can Make at Home The Clever Home Needleworker Can Easily and Inexpensively Make Any of the Useful Articles Nlustra- | { ted in the Picture and Described Below— They Are Designed by The Evening Wor'd’s Fashion Expert. 7 For the Girt | To Success Who Works By Charlotte Wharton Ayers Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Sréning World.) . ‘Oo own living is to become a other days off for shorter holidays. “Just imagine what a girl working in an office or a department store would think of the advantages of her position if she had any such easy hours as that. Then there are the two months vacation with pay, whon the schoo! Is closed, in which a teacher can recuperate if necessary, and the pension system, which gives one a solid sort of feeling that one's old age will be provided for even If one docs give one’s strongth and youth to the work. Besides which, think of the satisfaction of never having to worry about whether you will be kept on another acason or not if you do |Your work as well aa You can. “You know it has been said that the adult population may be divided into three classes, men and women and school teachers, but let me tell you | that with all the advantages I have enumerated school teaching—in the slang of the day—can put It all over any other vochtion for adequate re- money amd time in- turns on the vested “Take the matter of advancement, for instance,” bo continued. “If a girl has thg right mental equipment for an administrative position, such a5 Principat or District Superintendent, said Superintendent of Schools Eddinger when asked No. 2—TEACHERS NE of the most satisfactory ways in which a girl may earn her * teacher in one of our public schools,” | i that branch of activity as promising returns for the effort it required to accomplish. “It is satisfactory in several different oe compared with other lines of work,” he j thoughtfully. “In the first place the hours ate t paratively easy. It has been said that they should be’ easier because of the nervous strain of teaching te | ‘young idea how to shoot,’ but I’m quite the strain is no greater than in other branches of i 2 merce which require every ounce of strength j nerve force for a much longer period of time. The, school closes at three every afternoon, with « full day Saturday and @ woek’s vacation at Easter and Christmas, besides all the 4 certain charm of manner, is apt to show better resulte th her grade than the one equally proficient but who lacks just that personal chart.” =, I asked him for other attribute that would make for the becacanph «1 com of a teacher. He promptly is “The ability to transmit the kadwi- edge she has gained to her puptis.” And then he continued: “There's a marked difference in people in that respect. I have known persone of; wonderful equipment—trained and assorted, as it wero—who seemed terly incapable of reaching the minds of their pupils. They could direct the routine work of the day very satisfactorily, but when it came to’ giving students some special bit of information which would have made his work easier, or perhaps eug- gested a new Iihe of thought witth would have led to the goal he was, after, they wer simply mot there! “1 don’t know whether it was éer- tain lack of constructive force or the ability to concentrate properly, er what newspaper peo would cajl ‘punch,’ or not, but whatever it was it has often spoiled an otherwihe go teacher and kept hér from eeu the better position she was qualified hd Vigneard Greater incentive to thrift than the) 90 p, keeping up of his insurance. It pro vides protection fot him in case of divability and assurance of a livell- cent. of the men in the and navy ure insured by the ment. New insurance is being written at the rate of $1,000,000,000 of risk every ten days, but my in many ways to fill, aS “You ete one’s advancomént tn sdhed! work does not altogether wel the fact that one may have a or even my position of SuperiMendent of Schools, there is nothing to hinder her from climbing the ladder to the ot course, this 4 very top if she 80 desires and is wills hood for his family in cane of his| already dropping and will soon fall oft | tsa io werk FH intellect—or an assortment of accor- death. In case of death a $10,000) 'o nothing unless the ijnsuranee busi- plishments—or even a high pendent: as er c “And rf o js that the Board n Policy entitles tis beneficiary to $57.00] Ness 1s extended to civilians, | ‘he | And the Lay pty ns pps pri ago from the board of éxaminers. @ month for twenty years. If he ts/taken by the Government for auch | of Examinera do @ / ‘wat ha per. | Those things are essential, of eburse, permanently disabled, he will receive | policyholder is $8,700 of the work, which eliminates $h¢ Per) but the very successful teacher 0 $57.60 a month during his life, and if} The premiums are based on the " ~ " ~ SEC) sonal bias in selection, and digrshed '€®) have this real teacher's ability. ‘ he dies before twenty years have THe te apo doy ewe iiacsee i ae ! matter of absolute merit hegre aynt ffoulty of being ablé to make her elapyed the moncy will be paid his| at 3% per cont. and no extra charse Ia By Mildred Lodewick ordinary glass affair whose cover is |maid are attractive in their unusual }counts for + g004 deal in the success | pupils SLE with her mind and GET beneficiary in equal monthly instal-| made tor war hazards or nding ae . ~ fs World, draped with colored silk or chiffon ign. in the end of the long la of a teacher, I'll admit, the pain “8 '|') what she is telling them so that it Bante. Tho beneficiary way be a wito,| O06 Haminisiredve expenses, Conse-| Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Presa Publishing Ga. (The New York Mtenine Word) 11101 6 1s under ie leoe (rift etd [O06 ts a sail pocket in whlch th 1dbes (0 every other Une pt Work BUclias aerate ann help build up the 3 rp. auently the rates are much lower than | HE rejoicing of a gay city in a|kled witit a few sparkling beads. ersonality or good looks divorced] —. he: child, grandchild, parent, grandpar- | tnoue charged by tho insurance com- | The | With tiny rosebuds. A padded hand-|tuck one's kerchlef, a pretty and [Personality ‘ percentage of her grade, ng . | é i w 1 at peace will make this | Bead fringe finishes the edge. The }. from technical skill wouldn’t amount] ~ «14 conclubl I should ent: brother or sister panies. ‘ | kerehief case of Dresden ribbon with |novel conceit, ‘The one at the right | f* n conclusion, I should way ais “These benefits are provided men| The branch of the bureau dealing Christmas time the gladdest | plain lacquer standard is given a dec mg th , ft double-facea | to much Added--it makes for the] trained intelligence, backed " who have taken out insurance at aj With insurance of ships, cargoes and] of many a year. Kvery one will have | orative toveh by a silk cord entwined |% !ace medalilon in one corner and |shows threo loops balk most satisfactory combination we can] teacher's qual ity ana @ pleasin ; bs merchant seamen, having been in ex lace edging ft all around would make [lavender and pink satin ribbon spray- teacher who is popular with | sonality, would take @n al Ns most reasonable rate, The only requi- istence since September, 1914. nda Natural desire to express her joy-/about it and tying to drop its long | ike oe - c ste ave, A teacher ' hard-working girl as far on Tuad wite iy that the very moderate pre- | lasted through the submarine menace,| ous feelings and generous heart in| silk-tasselled ends. a useful gift. Another one is a pair}ing from one corner over a@ 84 er pupils, who makes them love her/ to the highér, ‘tter paid posi 3 a line on Pee) Pela regulalys . By aliens th Ge nat imlgnt be done} vitts for those she thinks of, the only| ‘The maid who ts about to say |! travelling slippers that fold up and |lingerle top because of her pleasant disposition or! school work as she would care to ris ations ‘e.| With Government insurance—always s for th I Li : ' Jc 13 hy tee aba Whe ac eo ~ —— . ing to this eusy requizem nt he 6" |making allowances for the contention! restraining Influence being a Mmited | “good morning” through the phone | Le nae of a pretty ~~ he soft 7 turned man assures comfort to him- | rotons tf : ps I, ; : soles of such a pair of slippers ma welf and hin family.” sich insurance is againoe public pols yDUrHe. Therefore, to help & ema /is wearing a dainty boudoir cap of /sclee of such & Pair of slippers may If Shaw Is Elected to Parliament Tho life insurance in force undor |i¢¥ and unduly expensive, The rates' sum of money distribute itself over | ace, ribbon and net, completed at the |2¢ of chamois skin, W I8 ec on this class of insurance issued by the Government |top with a perky ribbon bow. ‘The |#&thered for the tops. suggestio! phone cannot be seen, because a copy, using remnants and bits of ma-| pretty screen which any woman can terials they may ¢hance to have: |make graciously conceals it. Bro: contracts written the War Rusk) Bureau of the Government with sol- diers and sailors equals, approximete- ly, all the life and industrial life in- by s gifts, | am showing these s which nimble fingers can numero! are considerably lower than the rates charged by pri- vate insurance companies The total losses paid from Sept. 2 | 1914, to June 40, 1918, in this branch A pretty “throw” for the bed would be acceptable to any dainty woman, | and could be made as shawn here of Will He Press His Radical Views ? | surance obligations standing on the|/ amounted to $20,784,137. There are} ‘Tho pretty standard lamp shade {cade satin bound with gold galloon |rose or dull blue flannelette unlined, s | now the only permanently practicable books of all the American stock and/outstanding claims’ amounting to| ©%* ? a GREG | ore elaborately of heavy al-| By Marguerite Mooers Marshall form of empire. {raternal life insurance companies of $15.610,711.20, most of which will prob. | may employ two different colors of |ic @ conservative suggestion for such jor m | Copyright, 1914, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Krenirg World “A GE the country. The tota: ordinary: tite |APly bo allowed. It may be said that] siik for ite four sides, belng dec-|a screen, but it may be made as elab- |batross bratJ with crepe de chine, cut SORGE Cente Cee en RE es Prin a MARRIAGE. Insurance in force in all American) mne wenthe will” ree gers AO4| rated on one side with a flower bas-|orate as one's other boudoir acces: |in wide scallops bound with satin and Ci trenchant genius expressing himself in English to-day, 1s about to] “There Is no question of abolishing a 4 86.500, * i | " a 5 r The : : 4 companies, here and abroad, on Jan,|The total premiums received in that|het design made with narrow ribbon | sorles may permit. The jar beside it | dropping a frill of plaited lace, Th \ wield in Parliament the shillalah of bis wisdom and wit. For it is arriage; but there is @ very press. 1, 1918, wae, in round numbers, $21,-| Period amount to $43,185,770.57, or! 244 yaricolored satin. roses, sprin lox the table 1s for bon-bons, being an ‘fascinating pillows that bolster the inconceivable that the world-famous dramatist and|!"& Question of improving its condi- 9 000; ‘ al cs nearly $7,000,000 more than the losses | @9 ae abl tMalsiae oe aes Bobet ReieaeReS ote aS | tions, I have never met anybody asta he (otn oman Of in’) sustained, * Lorre i the period | —————— — fl Pi 2 critic, whose mind vinnie! i galetrtiat 4 ae rie really in favor of maintaining 4 Ife insuranc oree here) mentioned paid $778,811.85 in 4 platitudinous, or shallow, or morbid, should fail to 2 3 2 | } zi - | * . riage as it exists in England to-day. snd arond tn American companin fet aoa aan "awthing™\ne, What Color Will You Have Your Face: Win eset wehbe tanks co Laver gnadiets tr| ite,t, it sci 6 SAMO. Ea of the same date amounted, approxi | smcunt to only $197,008, which’ fe A Hast Middlesborough contract thet ehédld not Ne 1eMmMana: mately to $5,000,000,000, American fri jures give some idea of the possible; | , G. B.S, M.P.? The] « ternal and assessment life insurance! profits in marine insurance, What will be the platform of G. E it If we adopt the common romaatic Paris Starts Newest Feminine Fad aooietios had in force on the same], Jn addition to the insurance pro | cables have not yet informed us. But from those tilis| assumption that tio object of mar- date about $9,500,000,000 in Insurance| tection. which must be bought and | against tradition, sham and hypocrisy, the prefaces to|riage is bliss, then the very strong- Pg “el paid for, the Government gives its ! 5 pls » e 0 7 it rea r dissolvin, arriage & total of about $3¢,000,000,000. Phlisted ‘man, oflcars and. ‘privates Of course the more trying shades of his plays, it 1s easy to collect his personal convictions | est reason fo Ss & we p By M: Roh |is that it shall be dis able to one When one comes to consider that| Without charge, what is known as | Ny argaret Mohe neasick green and @ little dash of| on euch interesting matters as the Irish question anu | gre the fighting forces of the United |gompensation benefits, These bar. | (Keueias Klatt Cacrenabiaat if the Telled Fre) mauve are for evening wear and| marriage—questions of perennial interest, if a bit|°F other or both of ee i borat fits are automatic, do not have to be | m1? ee es SPP . we accept the view that the object States havo takeh out as much life in-| applied for and are independent of Third of a Series of Articles. pareitolel. tebt | Hyena sc. F aupposs | obeouced of lats by the arent (ames. of Che: War, 2 SUA Bb yee oe er surance as all the civilians holding|the insurance. All the Government | Leontine’s cheeks are lavender, Georgettes an orange hue it's quite all right as long as you! undertake to reprint Mr. Shaw's opinions on that topic, as they have duction and rearing of ehildrém, the fe insurance poiicies in American | Aske is that claims for beneAts must | Marie's fave looks a pale Nile green; no wonder I fee} blue don’t mind looking like something) yeen brought before the public so recently in various forms, and tolchiidiessnees should be @ oopetaitwe companies here and abroad, the agi-| “rhe act provides a sliding scale of | PARIS, N 18 - . shat the puss brought home, Just! attempt to summarize his views on reconstruction would be stealing his! reason for dissolution. As neither of tation of the life insurance Presidvats | benefits, depending upon the injury | OU'VE ull heard of turning green | the perfume shops were carrying them) between you and me, I'm really dying | campaign thunder. But here are some of the reasons why he is a Home |these causes entities married pereons Mealatents about soversinestal in- | and the nature of the man s dopen. ¥ ih ara Wath as an incentive to trade. But no, a/to try the effect of a little Nile #08! Ruler and @ marriage reformer to divorce, it Is at ence oleae Maak pears to be justified | ents, and is therefore different from | . envy Hi a Seis Cavell is n myself, and of course I “ i " aurance appears to be justified. The | Sens nts, Kor inatance, if the| or purple with | Closer inspection and a few well put x FENOeY 8F wit HOME RULE t uces the ideal Englishman of |Our marriage law is not founded on ernment has built up @ great in-| man ally ed and has Paris, however, th |} Guestions in my almost French 2on- | dyeing I ME JE. history either assumption, surance machine which has accur | Relther wite pore id living. he dtl i , vinced me they w tually powders| Hennaed tr are rbiquit I am a genuine, typical frishma "No fact more deeply | “What it is really founded om te , c ‘ecelve a onth; e 4) turning all sor td > jin Paris hese da tha he - Javed ib & few months, without ee Tee tenia livine 45; it's { shad oa h more simply without | te es of femininity, Putting “ Ph i we dave thor | of the Daniah, Norman, Cromwellian | stamped int n that we can do |the morality of the Tenth Command- solicitation of paid agents, « businens | has a wile and one child living, $ Ae due tax on th@ em ns. ‘To be ‘0 together, 1 lized by vl dey ngEnee ve wen NP Ys land, of course atch inva nothing with an English Government |™ent, which English women will ose equalling that of companies which | and so on. Como Bras eG ll Le Ale | anes tax of a sort involved, | Wa8 the answer to the many camou-|!n& to keep up with them long ago lam ‘violently and arrogar & luniess we frighten When power |#Y succeed in obliterating trom the ‘ have been striving for policy holde-s|to the totally and permanently dis- sure, there is a tax f ig alti a et in the bonie-| A® for lips, they are being worn! ia), smile temaliines. ous “a ch Tere a vee weal jabled soldier, no matter what hin{ put it’s only @ 10 per cent, luxury on| faged faces J had met in the bouler| © hey nt eee ee they [lant by f dition, ut ne land riches are thrown haphazard | alls of our churches by refusing te for many years. Whether this ine-|Gotning etiitiy io atin the ne, ae ino one is going to| Yards, and I regretted greatly my|9°t o red this n but they | English Government therefore count | intg children's cradies as they are in (enter any bullding where they are chine shall continue to function | man who loses both feet, both handy, | 8! agit aoe ee ace that etenn inche| waste of aympathy over the seeming |#meck more nearly of magenta and|on my allegiance. 1 am English land you get a governing class |PUblicly classed with a man's howke, whether its activities shall be exte r both eyes, or becomes totally | let a little thing like that stand in ihe % ; ed ta. | Cerise. It's always awfully nice to|anough to be an inveter Repub! . ies his ox, his ass, as “d blind or helpiems and permanently | way of a perfectly sweet mauve com-|%#4 Predominance of jaundiced fe-] 07 ; uly Bice ‘e | enough bubll- I without industry, character, courage | # 0%, his ass, as his purchased ohat- ed—le @ question for economists and] Plind oF helpl Be Erna way of males in the French capital iss and make up, and nowadays, If! can and Home Ruler r real experience, and under such |tel%. The theory that the wife ts the statesmen to consider. The purpose of| rostrictions, an annual income ot | De® For yellow, golden as the orb of U Kine you certainly bave | | “When 1 look round me on the! circumstances reforms are produced |PPoperty of the husband or the Bus- this asticle is to sketch briefy how | $1,200. In addition to all these benefits,| When I first passed the windows of | 4.0" Ye ON) Bball as tot Orb ® | voy want your ins to regain their |hybrid cosmopolitans, slum poisoned lonly by ustrophe followed by {band of the wife is not @ whit less this great business was organized and | disabled man gets free medical,| tne divers perfume and powder shops, |” ‘ ,| Prestine glow AY BEG ObOR . | u ef Sol helo abhorrent and mischie: H ie ¢ ¥ ‘\ time stree c pplexior hade u ‘© pampered, who call them si hich et sone an be vous than the aureical, and hospital service, inclod: thee ag | time street wear complexion s rH tae ow the mere /OF *auare pamg panics in which ‘something must be | 2>ho : extended ing artificial limbs, &c, Partial dis-| And nowhere in the: world are they #0/ ju now, with the heavily encaroa-| Still I'm wondering how the mere |e) eee ten nee cana? |theory that the child is the property Between Oct. 6, 1917, and Oct. a, | ability is provided for by paying per. | fascinating as they ave in Paris, I wa8| Gineg jips of the mode, the toute en, | Males are KoiNK to take to these new than BURGAS the Inn Brotetaal |” A vanities |of the parent. 1018, the War Risk Bureau received centages of the compensation for total| gtruck by the display of powder-like semble has the somewhat piquant|°2ameleon complexions on the face] / ano Bengaiee now leis him-| or it healthy nat n is as uncons fous] “The reform of marriage will be a Waar ial’ anciications totale ie. disability, and the amount pald takes | “cvaenccs in shallow dishes to shades| ible hes. she sauna ‘ 5 of the fair, It would aeem io be the jeeerien n ‘ bith h wal ne ° ° him- Jof its nationality as a b althy man) very splendid and very hazardous ad- surance, these from fighting men of | account Ai tes, Srereee ceguenion, tn) Rises” ote yellow: crear nosh color « of the Spanish AAs, | acid test of devotion to have to kina (self be bu fed by an oglishman: Jor his bones, tur it you break alventure for the Prime Minister whe ir sa j a close second an ; to |etanding clearheade ne, hardily| nothing elae but getting it set again, of the a service under the Army and Navy | sulla if the soldier succeeds in over-| ang pale Nile green. 1 thought, of \eucn en duane ttle Par Pocg-|the morning and the.same face all] oF W gahtiicentalliiac [eee . nty. | British Cabinet shiver with apprehene coming the handicap of a permanent vob @ dashing little Parisian Poca-| gone over by a pale mauve “Hello” |c#lious to the boyish sentimentalities, | That is why everything is in ubéy-| x3 " y and injury, but the bure eserves the | course, it must be a side line of those |} at ’ . i frp er ion and af Departments, aud seamen employed injury, but the bureau reserves the | b le line of those |hontas that it sounds quite apropos # pee mauve “Hello” | susceptibilities and credulities that |ance in Ireland pending th nieve. | 208 and hastily pass on to busi. Wy the merchant marine, The ingur-| right to suspend paymant of benefita| tasty, hasty, powdered gelatin des-|to hear some Bammie gourmur ape (At Bist I'ci quite sure though the eer oclishman. th Aiba Gf Rha Geto Raine - me Hale ta (ane Prrirory of ae se at 4 " asty, ha : © hear eome Sammie murmur ap- | ®t DK aa obiaat - tac, !make the Englishman the dupe o nt of Home Rule ome Rule !s|/marriage canni ut o ever. ame certidentes taaed total 2,653,556, faae ott the rere ate ake edvan: serts for the tired business man that! preciatively, “Gee, { bet she's some|* He Ph wane onl ae She every charlatan and the idolater of |a necessity not only for Ireland, but /if marriage cannot be made to pew: a hy ling boeh powder oy oth= if (ovelving im the office of the War Mish | (S2¢ the Goverament wil mrevin tt | he won't touch after you make ‘em.|iittle Indian,” ae she ewishes anor ine ponies line wilt every numbskull, I perceive that Ire- | for all constituents of those federa- “Uce something better than we Bureau ip Washington the Aling of| bette: ft him for civillan Ite 1 Owured that \ : marriage will have.to frou know the king. ekirtedly by. bother ‘em, land is the only spot on earth which F* oF cles: Hons of commonwealths which are nation will have to go. ni aia esi cna IN WR EF