The Pulaskian., 1920-04-01
UP ON
 WAR WORK

Dillty for the bureaa to mail to each of the 4,610,3SS men on its list, infor- nation relative to the changes in rul- ings, etc, as rapidly as they were issued. To make even one complete mailing to each of the millions of ad- dresses and at the same time to cope with the work of the bureau was an almost insuperable 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 ad- dressing of the men have just been overcome. Through special appropri- ation made by congress, the bureau has been enabled to put it's entire list of former service men on addresso- graph plates, task which has requir- ed several months and which has com pletely 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 and addresses on the plates.
 In addition to enabling the bureau to make full mailings of its most im- 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- to credit the individual account with the remittance, reduces to a minimum the possibility of misapplication of premiums received. Additional safe guard rests in the fact that each ad- dressograph plate carries the eertifi- cate or policy number, and the amount of premidm regularly due from the service man. This prevents the CT TOTS that previously occurred through repeated copying with a typewriter. Tn great business where there are more than thirty million records, in cluding the names of more than fifty thousand Johnstons. Johnsons, etc, and proportionately large numbers of Smiths, and Browns, occasional er- TOTS and misunderstanding were bound to develop, but the ironing-out process is now so well under way that even such discrepancies will be rapid ly corrected.
 Difficulties Reduced.
 The promptness with which pre- mium notices can now be mailed. is ex- pected to obviate largely the difficult ties and vacations which hitherto have been occasioned by premium no- tices being mailed where thepayments had already been made. Prompt re ceipting for premiums, which now is possible and will be carried out, will largely do away with this difficulty, except, of course, where notices sent out in a previous month, are forward ed before the current payments could ! be credited.
 Issuance of the insurance policies for the permanent (converted) govern ment life insurance, which are de sired by all the men who are insured, has been delayed pending the compile tinn, which now has been passed.
 The new policies are now being com pleted by the actuarial and legal ex- perts and sent to the government printing office, and it Is expected that they will be mailed out before June l.
 With the insurance business of the bureau on a current basis it is now anticipated that former service men who have been deterred from keeping LID their insurance by reason of the de- lays which they had experienced in the handling of their accounts, will take advantage of the very liberal pro- visions for the reinstatement of war risk insurance by the payment of two monthly premiums and satisfactory statement of health and will get back on the books.
 The new law has made the insur- ance very attractive by enlarging the list of permitted benefciaries to in-