Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-10
UNCLE SAM SENDS ALLOWANCES ID
 SOLDIERS' FOLK Last of 5OC,00 Pay Checks for February Put In
 Mails Yesterday.
AVERAGE AMOUNT
 OF CHECK IS $25
Bureau of War Risk Insurance Plans tO Send Out March Checks on April 1, Replacing Men and Women
 With Machines for Speed.

Washington March, 9.-The last of the February pay checks, carrying money allotment by &Cdiels and sail Ors and government allowances to their dependents at nome, want into the malls today. More than 900, ,O0O checks have been written, and an eX- traordinary effort hac been to have the dependents get their allowances early in the month.
 The average amount of each is about $25, and tie total monthly dis bursemCnt runs above Sl2,000,000 Usually the allotment from tae sol dier's pay is 2hout $15, and the gov ernmemt family allowance about $10, the exact amount being fixed by the number of dependents.
 Three shifts of clerks have been at work. Acres Of typis'ts-2300 of them "A hours of every day have chatter cd away on batteries of typeWriters in several of the largest floor spaces in Westinghouse Commandeered dance hall above the municipal mar ket, an abandoned hospital, and factory building recently remodelcd.
 Regardless of the wholesale quan- tity of documents, each letter and each check IS regarded as distinct human document, on Instructions of the director of the bureau, William c. Delaney. Every woman typist ana man sorting clerk nas been impress- ed with the idea that the welfare of soldiers family may depend on the speed, accuracy and personal interest shown by ahe bureau's workers.
 So this is the task aud tlle splrir of one of the governments greatest bureaus, the treasury departments bureau of war risks insurance. Con. gressional criticism of delays in the distribution of allotment and allow anee have been met with assurance that superlatLve promrtness, imros- sible i'll the past because of the dis order following the sudden creation Of a new system to Supplant the old pension plan. will be displayed in the future.
 The bureau expects to have checks for March remittances ready for mail ing on the morning of April 1 and by that time much of the vast human ma chine which hac been built for pre- pdIiHS the pay cHecKS VIII. bC Scfdpp- cd. Machines will do the work bet ter. it is expected than men and women.
 Glimpse Into Wnrkroom.
 In the meanwhile. this is Ihe wa:' the human machine works
 Experts in office management have devised q special scheme of office routine. More than two thousamc young men and girls cen not be man aged efficiently by haphazard. Regu- lar recreation periods in the middle of the morning and afternoon are provided There is a piano and a graphophonc, and the girls may dance during the short recess. The managers say that they do 30 per cent better work az a result. There is a lunch room, Cperated at cost. The bureau has a supervising mat ron. who advises the girl employees. most of whom have come 10 Wash ington recently for war time employ ment on patriotic grounds. She helps them obtain lodging rooms and in othey ways
 Speedy typists are carefully chos- on from the thrOng. aTd arranged at the long work desks in tAe center of group of slower workers. This ar engagement promotes group speed. and better office morale. tho efficiency men in charge declare Blonde girls