Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-10

But II pension examiner succeeds in getting
sufficient evidence to pass . case through the
medical board and board Of review and has .
pension awarded and certificate sent to the
claimant he settles something, and settles it
once for all Therefore he II entitled to . great
big mark to his credit. 1t is that mark which
the pension examiner 10 after. and he is after it
very hard, too. Now, II you will just follow
the instructions which he has laid down in this
letter and future letters which you will receive
from him, and ali Of them will have his initials,
j. W. A, In the corner, you will speedily arrive
at . conclusion in your pension case and il will
either be awarded to you or it will be rejected.
l can assure you, however, that you have q
friend In that pension Office examiner, because
he is friend to himself and wants to report
your case favorabiy and carry it through II he
can, solely because he wants to get that great
big mark to his credit. Now, you answer this
letter and address it to Commissioner Green B.
Raum. It will go directly to that clerk, and
your answer must be in accordance with the
desires expressed in his letter to you. If you
receive another letter from him in a week or
two, or II you receive dozen letters from him,
you must answer them promptly and do exactly
as he requests you to do.
WHAT THE CLERK Is DOING
HE is trying to tell you, in the best English
at his command, what you should do to hasten
the award Of the pension certificate to yourself.
H 9 doing this with great deal of earnestness
and intensity, and he is mad every day when he
receives letters back from old soldiers telling
him that they do not understand What he wants.
III you are like ninety-nine of the old veterans
OF this country with whom have come in con-
TACT in all OF the states you will get mad at this
faithful fellow and swear that he il demanding
unreasonable things Of you and trying TO keep
you out OF your pension. You will swear that
II you could only get where he is you would
choke the life out Of him, and all that sort Of
blame fba mi
sioner Of pensions hereafter. He has nothing
to do with the case. J. W. A. is your man. and
he is the only one of about fifteen hundred
hard-working fellows who are all anxious to
make good marks for themselves. II he finally
passes your case and II goes through tho medi-
cal board and to the board Of review, and If
the board OF review happens to reject your case
and it comes back to his desk rejected after he
hes recommended its passage, you will find him
great deal ADLER champion than yourself. He
will get mad and rip and snort and swear, and
if he possibly find technicality in
your case on which to make ar appeal to the
commissioner, he will make that appeal in
your interest, and you need not worry about it
at all. He Is after that great big credit mark
which have spoken to YOU about, and have
repeated 1t in order that You may get it
thoroughly in your head II he can make a
case for appeal he will take the case before the
commissioner Of pensions and get certificate
awarded for you any way If it is possible TO do
SO. 1t is only such cases as these which come
directly before the commissioner and upon them,
of course, he is obliged to rule. But don't
You make any mistake about the examiner in
the pension Office. He is doing the best be can
and is writing letters, not only to you, but he
probably has 5000 cases upon his desk, and he
Is interested in each one and knows every one
OF them by heart. He ia great deal more
anxious to do the right thing by you than you
nre to do the right thing by him. All the old
soldiers throughout the country who do not get
their pensions promptly are swearing at and
missioner has nothing to do with it, but it is
the pension examiner, who is working hard and
doing his best to help the old soldier out upon
every occasion ~