The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-04-03
CATCH UP ON
WAR WORK

bilfty for the bureau to mail TO each
of the 4,6103S8 men, on its list. infor-
nation relative to the changes in rlI-
ings. etc. as rapidly as they were
issued. To make even one complete
mailing to each Of the millions of adj
dresses and at the same time TO cone
with the work of the bureau was an
almost insuperahIe task. Naturally.
much complaint developed ON the
ground that service men were unable
to get information about what the
bureau of war risk insurance was Of
fering or was doing.
Handicaps Overcome.
Very serious handicaps in the adj
dressing Of the men have Just been
overcome. Through special anprouri-
alton made by congress, the bureau
has been enabled TO put its entire list
OF former service men on addresso-
graph plates. task which has reouir-
ed several months and which has COM
pletely monopolized the Matchmaking
section of a great factory. In the
bureau Of war risk insurance itself.
over nine hundred people have been
employed in putting the names and
addresses on the plates.
In addition to enabling the bureau
to make full mailingS of its most inn
portant information to former service
men and women, the sending out of
premium notice has been enormous
ly facilitated. The new system of
printing both the premium notice and
the premium receipt at the same time
from the addressograph plate and by
filing the returned addressograph no.
tice in place of the premium receipt
to credit the individual account with
the remittance. reduces to minimum
the possibility of misapplication of
premiums received. Additional safe
guard rests In the fact that each adj
dressOgraph plate carries the certifi-
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 a typewriter.
In great business where there are
more than thirty million records, in !
Guiding the names of more than fifty |
thousand Johnstons. JohnsOns, ETC., |
and proportionately large numbers of |
Smiths. and Browns, occasional err
rors and Misunderstanding were |
bound to develop. hut the ironing-0nt !
process is now so well under way that |
even such discrepancies will be rapid
" corrected.
Difficulties Reduced.
The promptness with which pre-
MUM notices cen now be mailed. is ex-
1ected to obviate largely the difficult
-fes and vexations which hitherto
nave been occasioned by premium no
ices being mailed where the payments
lad already been made Prompt re-
'eipting for premiums. which now is
possible and will he carried ont, will
argely do away with this difficulty.
except. of course. where notices sent
nut in a previous month, are forward.
d before the current payments could
'e credited.
Issuance of the insurance policies
or the permanent (converted) govern
nent life insurance, which are de-
fred by all the men who are Insured,
as been DELAYED pending the compile
ion. which now has been passed.
The new policies are now being COM
leted by the actuarial and legal ex-
erts and sent TO the government
rinting office. and 1t is expected that
hey will he mailed out before June /.
With the insurance business of the
ureau on "A current basis. II is now /
anticipated that former service men
'ho have been deferred from keeping !
p their Insurance. by reason of the de- !
ays which they had experienced in
ne handling of their accounts. win
Ike advantage of tie very liberal pro-
lsions for the reinstatement Of war {,
SIX Insurance by the payment Of two ,
lonthly premiums and a satisfactory \
-atement of health and will get back {
. the hooks ,
The new law has made the fnsur- $
nee very attractive by enlarging the q
st of permitted beneficiaries to In O