The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-09-17
SOLDIERS MUST ALLoT PAY TO FAMILIES.

The following announcement of changes in pay checks 10 soldiers and sailors families from the government has been received in SeWard:-
 Under the new ruling there will be no change in inc checks of enlisted whose pay S $50 month and who have been oting his wife and children only the amount required by law, Sl5 They must continue to aIIot this amount and the Government will continue $l5 additions. to the wife and the same previously for each child.
 There las been a reduction in tine compulsory alot- ment for men getting over $3O Under the law the cOmpu soly allotment is $5 for all enlisted men those getting over $30
 If he wishes to continue contribute to his wife and children the same amount as before he may make ne| allotment for the difference through the War Department or Navy Department Thus for example If he had former y allotted SIS his wife and children and wishes to con- tnue to do So hemuSt make allotment of $ thrOugi the War O. Navy Departments, as the Bureau of Wa Risk Insurance will in the future handle only the $l5 con pulSOry allotment
 Relatives or friends of enlisted not included il Class A. wife child former wife divorced who has no remarked and to whom almOny has been decreed) or Class (parent brother sister grand chlld) to WhO alloentS have been made will continue to receive the through the War Department or Navy Depal tment previously AotmentS such persons handI ed by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and change contemplated in this regard
 The war and Navy offices, all in Washington D. C which handle the alomentS are in the Navy through th Navy Allotment Officer Navy Department" in the A. my through the "OfficelS of the QuartemaSter Corp through "Paymaster L. S. Marine Corps Headquarters and in the Coast Guard, through the "Capain Commas dant L. s. Coast Guard"
 Under the plan the allotment and allowances l. Simphfied The Bureau of War Risk Insurance will now handle alOtmentS of only two amOuntS-$15 and $2O. Formerly the allotment a sliding scale and had tc he changed every time mans pay increased by pre- motion otherwise This required from 10000 to 2OO 900 changes per month.
 By transferring to the War and Navy Departments all slOtmentS not carrying allowances the Bureau of War Risk Insurance concentrate all its attention upon pay mentS to persons entitled to the Government allowance and it believed that this SmpficatOn of the work will tend to speed up the delivery of checks to these persons
 Prompt notice of these facts has been sent to men n all branches of the military and naval service, but it will of course require time for the forms to be ccuted and return to Washington Many may decide that they do not wish continue to aOt as much be- fore In such the Government compel them O keep up the former alOtmentS, and the family may ceve only the minimum compulsory allotment of $5 ana the same Government allowance as before
 Hereafter man who has no wife or children need make allotment of only $15 to obtain the Government
 allowance for his dependent parents brothers sisters
 If he has either wife or child children both, to whom the law requires he is alOtng S15 he need only aOt $5 addition in order to obtain the full allowance for his dependent parents, brothers or sisters
 Formerly in many cases he had to allot more. In each of these his parents brothers sisters will