Evening star., 1921-07-23
NEW PENSION BODY
NAMEDBY GARDNER.
G. B. Buck to Be Working
Actuary Of Board, With
Two Advisers.

Commissioner Washington Gardner
Of the pension bureau today an
nounced the selection Of George b.
Buck of New York city. Dr. James d.
Maddrill of Philadelphia and Joseph
S. Mccoy, government actuary of the
Treasury Department. to constitute
the board of actuaries provided for
in the civil service retirement act of
May %. 1920.
The board will meet at the pension
bureau at II o'clock Monday morning
for the purpose Of organization and
preliminary work on the large task
Of the operation of the retirement
law.
A report showing the operations of
the act for the fiscal year ended June
80. 1921. including specific recon. /.
mendations in regard to proposed
the board. and 1t is expected that the
report will be ready for transmission
to Congress not later than the time
for convening in regular session in
December.
Mr.. Buck will be known as the
working actuary'' of the board, and
the other two members will act in a
consulting capacity. The retirement
act provided that the commissioner of
pensions should select the board of
actuaries, one of whom was to be tire
government actuary, and that he shall
submit with his annual report to Con-
sress the recommendations Of the
board.
Valuation OF Fund.
The board is authorized to make a
valuation Of the civil service retire.
ment and disability fund at the end
of the first years operation and at
intervals of every five years there
after, or oftener, if deemed necessary
by the commissioner of pensions.
The board of actuaries will start
wark with $500 annuitants on the
rslls and 329 cases still pending. The
work of the retirement division, under
the leadership of John s. Beach, is
practically current. it was stated at
the office OF Secretary Fall Of the In
terror Department..
The working actuary." Mr.. Buck.
has had broad experience in the ac-
tuarial field. particularly in connec-
tion with retirement systems. In 1914
he was appointed actuary for the New
York city commission on pensions. He
also is acting as consulting actuary
in the reorganization OF the pension
systems Of Providence and Boston.
DR.. Maddrill also has had mature ex-
tical field, and during 1917 and 1918
rendered important service to the
committees in Congress which were
then considering retirement legisla-
ton.
Ex-OmclO Member.
Mr.. Mccoy, the government actuary
is the ex-officio member of the board
and has been for years an adviser, to
the committees in Congress handling
tariff and revenue bills.
Under reorganization plans recently
put into effect in the pension bureau
1885 claims of all kinds were han
died during June, which number was
1888 more than were handled during
May and 1000 more than in June
1920.
There still remain $4,000 claims, re-
sulting mainly from the new pension
legislation Of last year increasing
Spanish American war pensions. and
the Interior Department is sanguine
that these cases will be cleared up
speedily.
The great increase in the ability to
handle the accumulated cases. it was
stated, has come about solely as the
result of more efficient operation put
into effect during the past few
months, although the ranks OF en-
ployes at the pension office have been
comewhat reduced,