Gilpin observer., 1919-10-09
COLUMN


this column on Thursdays of each
week on Insurance, Compensation.
Vocational Training, Allotments,
Allowances, Bonuses, Extra Trav-
ell Pay, Delivery of Liberty Bonds,
Medical Care, Homestead Laws.
Loans, Educational Opportunities
and similar problems confronting
ex-service men or their families.
Give your full name, date and
place of enlistment or induction,
serial number, original orgariza-
ton, date and place of discharge.
and present address. Write your
inquiry to the E-Service Editor,
The Gilpin Observer, Central City.
Colo. Your inquiry will be given
prompt attention.
Initial Statement of Plan.
In order to help eX-service men
straighten out some of the difficult
ties of Government Insurance,
Compensation, Vocational Train
ing, Allotments, Allowances, Bon
uses, Extra Travel Pay, and other
difficulties that confront the men
getting back into civil life, the
Observer has established an EX-
Service Column in which will be
answered on Thursdays of each
week any questions that former
fighters wish to ask.
Altho rehabilitation is almost
entirely over, there is apparently
great need for a service of this
kind. The Government Bureaus
at Washington are smothered
with work. They have so many
problems to solve that it is only
when the fullest information is
given regarding a particular case
that they are able to locate the
mans record among the millions
of files pertaining to former SER
vice men. In many cases inquir-
les are sent in about a particular
mans troubles from half dozen
different sources. This only adds
to the confusion among the Gov
ernment Bureaus, and is not con-
ducive of the most efficient SER
vice on their part.
Red Cross a Clearing House
For this reason Cholasley Jones.
recently appointed Director of the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
has requested the Red Cross to
act as clearing house in all mat
ters pertaining to benefits provid-
ed service men under the War
Risk Law, and in the future when
aid is sought by a soldier of the
American Legion, American Lib
rary association, Jewish Welfare
Board, Knights of Columbus, Nat
ional Catholic War Council, Nat
ional Council of World War Vet
Grams, National tuberculosis as
sociation, Salvation Army, War
Camp Community Service, of the
Y. M. C. A., the facts will be pres
ented by that organization thru
the Red Cross to the proper Gov
ernment Bureaus. Also by coop
erative arrangement with the Red
Cross, the Observer is conducting
this Ex-Service Column first to ac-
quaint discharged service men
with their rights and benefits un-
der the various Federal and State
laws, and second to assist them
in securing these rights and bene-
fits. Here are few examples of
the kind of information the OBJ
server will disseminate:
New Rules Announced
A new rule of the War Risk Bu-
reau makes it possible for men to
reinstate their lapsed insurance
any time within 18 months after
discharge upon payment of two
months premiums and state
ment that they are in as good
health as at the time of discharge.
or at the time the grace period ex-
pired, whichever is the latter date.
A man may reinstate his insur-
ance even after the 18 months
have expired provided it has not
lapsed for more than year. In
this latter case, if more than four
months of the year have expired,
he must present in addition to his
own statement regarding his
health, the report of examination
by qualified physician. Detail
ed information on how to rein
state this insurance will be given
in this column to any man who