The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-01

3l, 1917, the bureau had received about 600,00O of the information blanks which must be filled out by every en- listed man in the army and navy. In 3OO,OOO of these cases awards were made, the other enlisted men not hay ing any dependents entitled to allow ances under the act. At least $750O,- poo in monthly allowance and allOt- ment payments has already been re- ceived by the families of enlisted men. The distribution of these checks be- gan on December 22, the first batch reaching their destination on or be- fore Christmas.
 Daily Mail Capacity.
 As many as 25,OOO allotment and al- lowance awards are often made in one day. The disbursing office can sign 10000 checks in one day and put more than 3O,0OO checks into the mails. The average allotment and allowance check amounts to $25 or $50.
 In addition to insurance and the system of alIotments and allowances, the act provides two other measures of protection. They are the stated compensation for death and partial and total disability incurred in the line of duty, and the program of re- education and rehabilitation for men disabled in the war The compensa- tion, paid without regard to rank and without any cost to the insured, ranges from $20 to $1OO a month.
 More Than 1900 Employees.
 To handle this huge task the Blu reau of War Risks Insurance has had to expand enormously. More than L. 500 persons, 75 per cent of them girls and women, are now on it's pay roll About half of these girls came to Washington to answer the call for war workers. Every state in the Union is represented in the organization.
 The bureau is housed in the erst- while dance hall above the Center market, in the marble structure known the world over as the New National museum, in the former Washington home of the Order of the Elks, and in the capitals old emergency hospital The staff works night and day with the spirited but well-ordered enthus- iasm of regiment in the thick of bat tie.
 Patriotism Eliminates Workers.
 In it's four scattered homes the bu- reau already occupies approximately 10000 square feet of floor space. It is animated only by a desire to keep pace with it's swiftly expanding work, and to speed up that work in every way possible. Each claim that is ad- justed each award that is made, each check that is written, represents a vital human problem for some fam fly. To expedite each award and to rush each check, that is the paramount task to which all else must of neces- sity be subordinated
 The stone-age relics and the serene statuary housed in the main halls of the National museum were politely elected to make room for clattering batteries of stenographers and typ ists; the division of mammals was forthwith communicated by a crew of compensation experts; and the solemn collections of geological exhibits capit- ulated to the Onrushing allotment and allowance claims; to the Bureau of War-Rish Insurance the staid audi torium of the museum, accustomed to the tread of scholars feet, meant only 1000 more square feet; and soon the bureau battalions swarmed in with their heavy artillery of typewriters multlgraphs, and adding machines.
 Surrounded by Prized Relies.
 Art, science, commerce, and inven- tion mingle with the multiplex activ- ities Of the bureau Beneath the price less model of Langley's first flying machine scores Of girls are busily in- dexing and cross-indexing all the en- listed men in the army and navy; be- heath a brilliant painting of "Joffre, the Glory of France" staff of legal experts is turning out rules and regu- lations; and from the former dance hall above the Center Market the dis. bursting department, 500 strong, is sending out hundreds of thousands of checks, each one of which is sinew Of war and tangible proof of Amer. lcas fairness, far-sightedness, and generosity in protecting it's defenders.