Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-02

The onosrs and enlisted men Of the
Army ana Navy are to have another
line Of protection thrown about their
business affairs while they are en-
gagged In the service Of the country.
Tho war risk insurance bureau Is TO
create . division for the express puf-
pose of looking after the contracts OK
insurance, other than the war RISK
insurance, which they may have out
standing, and this will apply to all
sorts of insurance-life, casualty and
IRE.
To accomplish this end the bureau
has given a liberal construction to the
language of section "a of the act, whicn
says that the bureau shall FURNISH
information and act for persons In tne
service with respect to TO-. any ysc cTh. TO
create the division to act as trustee ios
the men of the service; to receive anu
hold in trust for them such amounts
as they desire to allot from tnelr pay
ums that may fall due on their pol
some of the officers in the Spanish
American war found 1t q practical I'm,
possibility to forward the funds from
Cuba to pay their premiums, ana met
with a considerable loss as a result.
their life policies being forfeited. ana
their property being LETT w,th0T. t fh
present war the liability to loss from
such circumstances Is far greater Men
who may be wounded or captured
would be unable to give any a..sn. ~
families of those who fan might lose
the benefit of the insurance that they
had been carrying for years. an pc.
cause they had overlooked 20 pr1 min
for the payments which were falling
due.
casualty insurance must be MADE,
sometimes Endorsements must pc mao mao
be erected by careful agents, and II
is the plan of the bureau to care Tor
all these and other similar matters
for the benefit Of the soldier ana saii4I:
AS soon as the regulations can be
completed for the administrator OF
this division they will be published
and the men of the service instructed
in the course they must take TO gam
the benefit of this provision
Sanitary Trains in Action.
The positions and duties of the Army
sanitary organizations in time of &C
ton is not very generally understood
and although the first duty OF that
bra nch of the service Is to maintain
.the Army in a state Of health that
makes 1t a fighting machine, II IS the
part of efficiency as wen as OF humanity
to make every provision that can pc
made for the care and comfort Of the
wounded and the sick. In the stern
business of war some must ran. ana
the Medical Corps of the Army mas
formed an organization to care Tor
them under fire, give first aid. stimu-
lating food and take them as promptly
as 1t can be done to station where
their wounds can be properly dressed
In each division the sanitary train is
under direction and order of the divi-
sion surgeon. and 1t consists OF four
field hospitals and four ambulance
companies, in addition to the regiment
al hospital detachments. The regt-
mental detachment accompanies the
regiment when 1t goes into action ana
establishes first aid station in the
safest place to be found-a dugout or
some place protected by the terrain.
There they give first aid to the wound
ed as they come or are brought In
Members of the detachment, bandsmen
who may be SO assigned and others
who may be especially detailed Tor that
wounded into this station and the sur
geons and their assistants give them
the best aid they can to get them
ready for removal to the next station.
Progress in Ordnance Bureau.
Senator Hitchcock, ranking member
Of the Senate committee on military
affairs, after an investigation of the
report that has been in circulation that
the men of our overseas expeoition
were short Of military rifles. has MADE
an Official statement that there are
at least five for every man sent abroad,
and that number Is held by all omcers
familiar with the needs OF TINS the
most destructive of wars to be SUM
ei1 anot tb false report published to
some extent is that the CHIEF OF the
bureau was to be superseded IN MS
ONCE by q civilian Of extensive ex-
perience in the manufacture and pro
duction Of ordnance, and that Cen
Crozier himself was to be sent to
France to establish and conduct a
great factory to be erected there To
supply the Army with all its guns.
The fact is that the War Depart,
ment is providing for repairs OF an
kinds that must be made oenlno tHe
front lines; it is sending taliors TO
repair clothing. tentmakers to main
tain the canvas, skilled mechanics to
keen the motor vehicles In order, ana.
among other branches. will be epe,
cialists to repair and restore damaged
and worn ordnance equipment-sao
dIers for the leather work, and plant
for refining guns, rerfning worn nuses
barrels. repairing broken locks, ana
the thousand and one other parts tnae
have yielded to the destructive proc
n ia violating no confidence to say
that officers of high rank nave oeeh
sent abroad from the bureau OF ORD
nance to make the plans for this WORK:
some Of them having fam1liarize1
themselves with the situation as II VIII
confront the bureau and having gain
cred all the information they can, nave
returned to this country and the pu-
reau thus provided with all the aata
IL needs for the preparatory Work 10
be done on this side the water. mas
1t well under way: while other oncers
are remaining abroad TO oesin the
work to be done there in preparation
for the plant which the bureau VIII
send from this country.
The growth of this bureau may De
visualized by the sight OF $4,000 rect
OF emergency war office building set
aside to house the administrative side
of the division Or again. to take an
instance from the social side of things,
where there were formerly but ten off,
GERS here, last Thursday nearly 500
ofacers of ordnance attended the re-
ception to them by Mrs Crozier. the
wife OF the chief of the bureau. and
ali Of them were stationed in Washing
ton: how many are in other stations
not appearing.
Doctors and Dentists for Navy.
The ruling has been made that stu
dents In duly accredited schools OF
medicine and dentistry may apply to
the office of the surgeon general Of the
Army and upon passing satisfactory
examination be accepted for duty in the
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