The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-04-16
CATCH UP ON
WAR WORK

blity for the buren1 TO mail 10 earh
Of the 4GlO.3sS men on It's list. infor-
nation relative TO the changes III ruiz
ings. etc. as rapidly as they were
issued TO make even one complete
mailing 10 each of the millions OF ad-
dresses and ut the same time to cope
with the work of the bureau was an
almost insuperable task. Naturally
much complaint developed on me
ground that service men were unabie
10 get information about what the
bureau of war risk insurance was Of
fering or was doing.
Handicaps Overcome.
Very serious handicaps in the ad-
dressing of the men have just been
overcome. Through special approprl-
alton made by congress. the bureau
has been enabled To put It's entire 'ist
OF former service men on addresso'
graph plates. a task which has requir-
rd several months and which has com
rleiely monopolized the plate-making
section OF great factory. In the
bureau Of war risk insurance itself
over nine hundred people have been
employed In putting the names ana
addresses on the plates.
In addition to enabling the bureau
Ia make full maillngs OF It's most iIil-
portant information TO former service
men and women. the sending out OF
premium notice has been enormous
ly Facilitated The new system or
printing both the premium notice and
| the premium receipt at the same time
from the addressograph plate and by
| filing the returned address0graph no.
| tce In place of the premium receipt
! 10 credit the individual account with
the remittance. reduces to a minimum
the possibility of misapplication or
premiums received. Additional safe
guard rests In the fact that each adj
dresSograph plate carries the certln-
cate or policy number. and the amount
OF premium regularly due from the
| service man. This prevents the err
rors that previously occurred through
repeated copying with n typewriter
In great business where there are
more than thirty million records. In
cludinr the names of more than nifty
thousand JohnstonS Johnsons. etc.
and proportionntely large numbers o.
Smiths. and Browns, occasional er
rors and misunderstanding were
bound to develop, but the ironing-ou
process is now so we'll under way tina
even such discrepancies will be rapid
~ corrected.
Difficulties Reduced.
The promptness with which pre-
MUM notices can now be mailed. Is eS
pected 10 ohviate largely the difficult
Ties and vexations which hithert
have been occasioned by premium M
ticcs being mailed where the payment
had already been made. Prompt RI
cciptlng for premiums. which now
possible and will he carried out. wi
largely do away with this dithcult
except, OF course, where notices Sei
out In previous month. are forwar'
cd before the current payments coul
be credited.
Issuance of the insurance polict'
for the permanent tconverteO COVER
ment life insurance. which are q
sired by all the men who are insure
has hcen delayed pending the compl
ton. which now has been passed.
The new policies are now being cor
pleted by The actuarial and legal g
perts and sent to the goNernme
printing office. and II Is expected til
they will be mailed out before June
With the insurance business of Z
: bureau on n current basis. II Is nc
, anticipated that former service m
: who have been deferred from keepi
M their insurance by reason of the q
!, lays which they had experienced
: the handling OF their accounts.
take advantage of the very liberal pl
visions for the reinstatement of W
risk Insurance by the payment of T.
: monthly premiums and a satisfaeto
statement of health and will get ba
!, on the books.
The new law has made the insl
: ance very attractive by enlarging
list of permitted beneiiciaries to