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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Session of the State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina: Raleigh; November 8-9, 1915
This is a time of preparation for war. Men and munitions are being made ready, and a thousand auxiliary enterprises are under way to con tribute to the success of the common cause. Among the war measures of the day, none have a greater appeal to our hearts than those which foresee the human wreckage that must inevitably result, and prepare relief and compensation. As our vigorous, upstanding young men put on their uniforms and go to the training camps, our thoughts go ahead of them across the seas to the trenches and the firing line. [there some of them must suffer wounds and disease and death that victory may be won and that the honor and safety of our country may be maintained. So we have raised millions of money for the Red Cross and have enlisted the services of devoted men and women in preparing hospitals, and ambu lances, and medical and surgical supplies against the death and suffering sure to come. A measure of protection and relief that anticipates even more fully and humanely the needs of the future is the War Insurance Act signed by President Wilson a few weeks ago. This law provides separation allowances for the families or dependent relatives of our soldiers, it establishes liberal rates of compensation to soldiers who are wounded or contract disease in the military service, and it offers the men in our army and navy the Opportunity to secure life or total disability insurance up to at the lowest rates that could be obtained in time of peace by able-bodied men such as those who compose our military forces. AS Secretary of the Treasury mcadoo has said, this epoch-making law affords our soldiers and sailors the greatest measure of protection ever offered to its fighting forces by any nation in the history of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
