The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-07
BONUS MACHINE
STARTS JULY Is
%BRookINGS COUNTY OFFICE TO
BE SUPERINTENDENT BY
RAY FRIDLEY
EXPLAINS HOW BONUS WILL Be PAID
Blanks and instructions Expected to
Arrive Soon - Bonds Not
Sold as Yet.


Bookings county ex-service men
been expectantly awaiting an
nouncements of the beginning Of the
work Of paying the soldier bonus which
was granted by the last legislature,
and now the day is close at hand.
July Is has been announced by Col.
b.. Ray, executive officer of the bonus
board, as the day when the soldier
bonus machine will start operation.
Ray Fridley of Brookings, has been
appointed by the American Legion
post to have charge of the filing OF
in Brookings county and
he will have an Office at the county
court house where all the work will be
handled. The blanks and all neces-
sary instructions are expected to ar.
rive in time for the opening Of the
Office in the court house on July Is.
Every county in the state will be-
gin work simultaneously in filing out
the application blanks and it Is ex.
pected that the organization will be
working so smoothly that fully eighty
per cent of all the applications will
be made out in the first few weeks.
The applications will be gathered to.
gether and forwarded in one lump
to the headquarters of the state bonus
board at Pierre where they will be
numbered and filed and the necessary
examination made. The applications
will be acted upon in the order in
which they are received. 1t is esti-
amted that between two and three
hundred applications may be handled
each day and checks sem out, which
would indicate that only a few months
will be necessary to pay off the bonus
after all the applications have been
received and the preliminary work is
accomplished.
Governor McMaster, who Is the
nominal chief of the bonus board, has
made several trips east to investigate
the condition Of the bond market with
a view Of Offering the $4,000, 900 bond
issue Of the state, but has found that
conditions are not favorable at pres
ent for the sale Of the bonds. The
best advice seems to recommend their
sale later in the fall, September, per.
haps.
At present the service men are
asked to be ready with their dis
charges so they can respond to the
call on July Is and make out their
applications. 1t is necessary to send
the discharge with the application to
Pierre. If the discharge papers have
been lost, a certificate must be OBJ
tanned from Washington, D.. C.
Each application as it m into
the receiving department of the board
at Pierre, properly made out and ap-
proved by the county organization and
bearing the signature of those author.
lied to sign it, will be handled alike.
In the receiving department tile en-
velope will be opened and every sep
arate paper In it stamped with the
number. as well as the envelope. All
will then be pinned together, 10 even
the envelope being cast aside. The
number and the name will then be
recorded on a set of locator cards, and
also on a set of index cards. Lists of
100 applications will be drawn up to ac-
company the claims as they are sent
yer to the examination department.
The examination department will go
yer each application carefully, COM
pairing signatures, establishing dates
and identity and residence, and COM
putting the exact length of service.
When approved, the length of service
and mount due under the bonus law
will be written on the application in
the space provided therefor, and it will
go back to its place in the file. Lists
of the CLAIMS approved, giving the
length of time served and the amount
due, will be made out by the examine
ton department, n copy going back
to the filing department to be noted
on the locator card sc that the status
of a given claim may be found at any
time.
Another copy will go to the pay and
accounting department and the treas
urer, who will make checks to the
claimant for the amount named. The
number and amount and date Of each
check will be noted on the proper
blanks. as well IS the exact date that
It is mailed out to the claimant. 50
that the state will have a complete
record Of each individual.