The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-01-21
Numerous Reasons for Fail
ure Number Dependents
to Receive Check
LESS THAN HALF
MEN ORDERED 1T
War Risk Bureau Declines
to Accept Responsibility
for Failure to do so
Washington Bureau.
The Pensacola Journal
Ry Geo ri Nanuinu


Washington, D. c., Jan. 20.-There
of large number of the wives and
other dependents of soldiers, sailors
and marines to receive their allot-
ments of half the mems salaries.
The principal reasons appear to be
delay in transmission through the
mails of the applications from the
men, the failure of over half of them
to make application for pay allot-
nents to their relatives, and errors
in making out the salary allotment
applications.
More or less complaint has been
heard in some quarters that wives
have not received allotments from
the salary of their husbands at the
front, and that others have not re-
celved any money from the War De
partment as part of the pay of men
In the army upon whom they are in
measure dependent. Numerous in
stances have been recalled where
wives and children and old women
and men are suffering for lack of
funds which they expected TO receive
from the War DEPARTMENT as part of
e!enao.a the pay I, Of f. the {, the arm nm
dtiieTdIiy the DldftiE1 or Jf1iS mas been
placed upon the gokSrnment.
But the fact that, less than half of
the men in the <s-spy and navy have
made application 70 have part of
their pay allotte ,ke dependents. and
that consequently more than half
have been receivrs. all of their pay
themselves seenS t. make it appear
that all the faut does not lie with
the government.
Officials of the W.r Risk Insur-
ance Bureau which IL handling the
pay allotments, declined oday to ac-
cept the responsibility fas faiadre of
dependents to receive money they
expected and asserted that pay
checks have been sent out to the
relatives of every soldier who has
filed proper APPLICATION with the
bureau. There has been ns~lelay at
the bureau in for varding s1he pay
checks to the "folfs at hoire,p it was |
said. I
Less than half IF the ms, in the !
army, navy, maT ne corps coast
guard and other b snches of Tire war
5brces have filed sheir applications |
allotting part of heir pay to de- |
pendents
Less than $50 applications for pay
allotment have besn received from
the men in France although 1t is
estimated that over 100000 soldiers
compose the American expeditionary
forces. This makes it appear that
the men in France either have been
unable to obtain allotnleD blanks or
tnat their applications feF allotment
are tied up in the mails somewhere.
The fact that the signers of this
small proportion of applications from
France have been cooks, supply men
and others on duty in Paris would
make it appear that the application
blanks have not been distributed ;
among the men in the field
There have been 950,000 applica- |
tions received to date by the War |
Risk Insurance Bureau asking that |
salary allotments be made to de |
pendents Of this number awards /
have been made to 335,000 depend |
ents and salary checks sent to them. |
The other 600,0 900 applications do |
not contairS the proper ages y of !.
brother or sisters or name conditions |
IN REGARD to dependents that entitle |
them to allotments of pay, it is said |
The allotment division has been
workin~ dav and nirht irving to
keep pace with the applications as
received and send out checks TO de- !
pendents, it is said, and has succeed
ed in doing so.