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Made Head Of Committee to
Look Into Bureau of War Il
Risk Insurance
WILL RECOMMEND
FUTURE CONDUCT
Millions of Dependents Awaiting In
surance Payments Bureau Unable to
Locate the Demobilized Soldiers and
Their Beneficiaries.

Their Benefciaries. ]
WASHINGTON, July l4-Former SUI
preme Court Justice Charles f. Hughes
has been selected as chairman of a com !
mittee which will look into the affairs of
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and
make recommendations for its future con-
duct. The committee will act in an advis-
DRY capacity to Col r. c. Cholmeey
Jones, director of the bureau. 1t will
hold its first session in Washington next
Tuesday. The session will last for three
days.
On Tuesday the committee will hold
! hearings, interviewing the head of each
| department OF the bureau The depart
| ment heads will describe the workings of
the different departments and present the
| problems which confront them. On
| "Wednesday the committee will be divided
into subcommittee, which viii visit the
departments of the bureau On Thursday
the subcommittee will report and the
committees will make its recommends,
tons
The members Of the committee to serve
with Nh Hughes are Secretary of War
Baker, Secretary Of the Navy Daniels,
Grosvenor B. ClaIkson, director of the
Council Of National Defense; Matthew
VOL, vice president Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor: Homer l. Ferguson
president of the chamber OF commerce OF
the United States; H. p. Davidson OF
j. F. Morgan & Co, John c. Agar, direct
or of the National Catholic War council;
DR. Livingstone Farrand, chairman of tn,
executive committee of the American Rec
Cross; Colin II. Livingstone, president o
the Boy Scouts of America; Mrs. Angus
Belmont and Mrs Mary Roberts Rinehart
Col ChoImeley Jones will act as an ex
othcio member and F. II. Greenwood
special assistant to the director, will b.
! secretary of the committee.
In statement commenting ON the nee
! cSsity for the organization of the advisor
! committee Col Cholmeley Jones says:
! The problems confronting the burea
/ today are much greater than those whic
/ il faced prior to the signing of the arms
| ticc by reason Of the fact that ,sevely
| million men are already demohilized an
| It is necessary for the bureau to rende
| complete accounting to each individual
1T is a regrettable fact that a larg
percentage of the addresses OF discharge
soldiers, sailors aud marines, according t
the latest available information. are IL
correct, and it is only by a careful am
painstaking process of re-addrcssing an
OF constant inquiry that it is possib
| for these letters eventually to reach the
proper destination
AS consequence. there are LITERAL
| hundreds of thousands of men discharge
| | from the service with their millions of d
| | pcndcntS who are anxiolisly awaitir
| some word from the bureau
| when the almisticc was signed Il
| men in active service were protected |
| Approximately $l0.0a0,000 600 insutanc
| and they are justified in demanding TIN
/ every facility be offered in order tn
: they, together with their dependent +,
- atives may continue to have this prote
. ton"
'lnasmuch as there are already ov
1000 disabled soldiers, sailors and m
us rincs in training, and nasmueh as a
ri other 1000 would be put into traini1
he now that the amendment II section h
Ks: become law, it is clear that even at t
,ps rate of only $50 month a sum appro,
he mating SSo00,000 will he required for t
ng mere support of these men. and that Il
his der the present appropriation nothing W
be available for their tuition and traN
all or for placing them where they can ca
err a living, and it will be impossible to me
ter the needs of the new thousands who a
sty every weel, seeking the benefits of t
Ike rehabilitation act"