Jackson County journal., 1919-09-19
PROBLEMS in NOMENCL AZURE WHICH
WAR RISK BUREAU HAS TO TACKLE

III the MES ana was turned over TO one
of the cleverest searchers. Since the
mans address was given as North Da-
kota, she assumed, in view of the fact
that there were many Indians listed
from that state. that his must be an
Indian name. She Immediately added
Thunder to his name and found the
record card as Andrew Good Thun-
der, in less than three minutes after
she had been asked to lend her aid.
Carelessness or unavoidable haste in |
writing up insurance applications on |
the Form lib, by which a man enter
Ing the service requests or disclaims
government allowance to dependents,
and failure to include complete identi-
flying information in a letter of in
quiry, constitute the largest single
cause in the bureaus delay in answer
ing mail.
Any letter addressed to the bureau
on any matter pertaining to a service
man should contain his name in full
first, last, and middle; it should state
his rank and organization at the time
Form LIB" was filed, or at the time
present home address and former ad-
dress if the address has been changed;
the first, middle and last name of his
beneficiary, and present and former
address, if the address has been
changed
The names of the nearly five mil
lion men who were inducted under the
y hoy
joined up since the armistice, are on
cards in filing cabinets, which, placed
. one after the other, would make line
more than five miles long.
- Just what complications may arise
; when there is failure to include this
q identifying data, may be imagined
- from the fact that comparison shows
that the repetition Of names in the
# files of the bureau is far greater thar
;, the repetition of names carried IL
n card indexes Of commercial companies
10 Many Bear Same Name.
r. Fifty-three thousand two hundre'
(. JohnsOns were called into active mill
.s tary service The Smiths were no
n far behind numerically. coming up t
n Sp
#, Brown" family with $4,000 is next.
More than half the letters inquirin
about insurance come from men VIII
either fail to give their identifyin
III number, or their address. In thO1
:" sands of cases they give their addres
but due to the fact that there are OF
IL ers with similar names who live in tt
eu same city, and have moved this info
a. nation is Of little value to the gi
" SearcherS.
'No Actual figures show that more ths
half the soldiers sailors and marin
-, have moved since leaving the servit
- Few forwarded a notice of a change
a'' address, This left the bureau wi
~. ONLY the name Of the man for recol
~ but through it's system of tracing mt
large numbers have been located
the girl sleuths and their correct {
dresses have been listed
~ Many amazing discoveries have be
made in names, and the number
ways they can be spelled. One you
woman has tabulated 40 ways. so
discovered to spell Aloysius
Another has specialized in the sp
ing Of Ignatz. She has found 1S WI
to spell this name.
Still another has found that il
can be spelled "a ways.
smsa To Bartholdt Otto Aabel (po
"a number 3.263, ,S38) of Minden, Neb.,
q longs the distinction of having
93A name the first in all the card in
&# files. The last card in the file be
*$:M the name of Wladyslaus Charles Zy
"a policy number 1902 ,689) of 421 Ma
zM street, Rome. n. 7.
I'M Constant combing is necessary
E#%8 keep the files up to date.