The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-07-16
YANKS APPLYING.
AT RATE OF 500.
DAILY FOR FORM
Veterans of Worlds War An
xious to Get Blanks for
Military Record File
TO SEND MANY TO SCHOOL
Adjutant General Believes Edu-
cation for Returned Soldiers
First Essential
TO SEND MANY TO SCHOOL

North Dakota's 10000 Yanks, or
the ninety per cent of them who have
returned to- this saate upon being
discharged from military service, are
applying at the rate of 400 to 800
per day for the military record
blanks which they are to file with
the adjutant general as the official
history of the army, navy Or marine
career.
This record will form the basis for
all future claims upon the federal
or state government for any bonus.
pension or other preferment which
may accrue to North Dakota fighters
as reward for their sacrifice It ie
highly important that this record
blank be made out and filed promptly
while the information requested Is
fresh Id the minds Of the |ex- service
man and while he still has in his
possession and in fully legible form
his discharge papers. .
Some Blanks Filed.
A few of these military informa.
ton blanks, already filed out, are
being received at the adjutant gen.
els office for filing. Each Of these
personal records is inserted in an
individual envelope, numbered and
filed away numerically. Henceforth
the adjutant generals office can
place it's finger in moment upon
that mans military record and car
obtain from that any information
which may be required by the state
or federal government in determ'n
ing any special awards to which this
particular fighting man may be en-
titled.
It is urged that soldiers, sailors
and marines who have mot vet writ
ten the adjutant generals Office max
ing application for their military rec.
ord blank do so at once. In addi
tion to forming a basis for the ad
justment of future claims against the
federal government, these blanks will
be Immediately used in determining
the compensation to which each
North Dakota fighter may ultimately
become entitled under state act an
proximating SIS for leach month
which Flickertail men spent in the
service of their country or one OF
it's allies.
100000 Available in 1920.
The half-mill levy provided for by
the sixteenth assembly will furnish
fund of 100000 for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1920, to apply or
this bonus. The average Flickertai
fighter spent twelve months in serv
ice and is entitled, under the North
Dakota act, to bonus of 5000
There are 10000 Yanks to be cared
for and the first years levy WILL
provide for an average of only 1900
of these veterans.
The bonus act requires that the
premium paid returned fighters be
invested in acquiring an education OF
providing a home. The Yanks, under
the terms of this act, can use their
bonus to acquire a home only
through the leagues ownhome-bu'ld
ing association. The educational field
is left open and in this department
the adjutant generals Office appears
to feel the greatest opportunity fol
the immediate future.
Now or Never.
"A lot of these boys will attend
school this fall or never" said an
officer of the adjutant generals de-
partment this morning 1--WE intend
to use our influence to get as many
of them to school this fall as posi-
BILE. Applications for bonuses from
returned soldiers who wish to use
their money as part payment on an
education will be given the prefer
ence for the present. If these boys
do not 20 to school this fall a ma,
iority Of them will become settled
in some employment and never will
get into the notion,again. We fee
that it is of the utmost Importance
to the state that as many of these
boys as possible receive encourage
ment while they are in the notion
Six hundred thousand would &c
quite a long wavs toward paying the
expenses of 1900 returned soldiers
over one college or university term
The adjutant general seems tn be
lieve that once started a majority OF
these boys would find some way oi
finishing their college or university