Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-03
VETS MUST GET
NOTARY STAMP
ON EVIDENCE
information to Support Claim
for Disability Has to
Bear Mark.

All evidence nov submitted in sup
port of a claim against the government
for a disability ~traceable to service
must bear the seal of a notary, accord
ing to Lloyd A. Ruth, district informa-
ton officer of the veterans bureau,
who was in Great Falls Saturday.
This information he gives as the result
of orders and regulations received re-
Gently from the Washington office Of
the United States veterans bureau.
"H~eretofore,' Ruth said, state
ments from physicians as to the con-
dition of a claimants health have been
accepted by our claims section, without
being sworn to before a notary, al
though sworn affidayits have always
been required from employers or the
claimants buddies. A recent ruling of
the legal department requires that all
evidence now submitted must be in
| affidavit form. So the claims section
must now hold up any cases coming
through until the evidence is properly
| completed. To obviate retarding the
| progress of q case, particular care
should be taken by the claimant and
the service officer to see that all state
ments submitted are notarized."
May Still Enter Claim
There are many former service men
| who believe that the time limit in which
to make application for compensation
for a service incurred disability. Ruth
shows this to be not true. but that the
| August 9 date which so many believed
to be the last date to apply for com
pensatiOn was but the last day TO get
a certificate of injury.
while August g." Ruth said. was
the last date to apply for a certificate
of injury. application for compensation
may be made at any time up to five
years from the date of discharge. The
certificate of injury is for the purpose
of allowing the man to apply for COM
%pensation on his injury after the five
! year period. if his disability should be-
gin to affect him to any appreciate
degree. However, if five years have
not elapsed since discharge and an
ex-service man has a disability, minor
now, perhaps, but which may later
grow more serious, he should submit
an application for compensation. This
will make his disability a matter of
record if service connection is estab-
lished and entitle him later to hospital
treatment and compensation if this
particular ulSdDLllt DeCUuItS "OISt.
Those who failed to secure a certificate
Of injury before August Q can correct
this oversight by making immediate ap-
plication for compensation"
Ruth a Disabled Man
Ruth is himself a disabled service
man. having sustained severe injuries
in an ~aeroplane crash in France, which
| required an Is months stay in army
hospitals. After he was discharged
from the Fort Sheridan army hospital
in 1920, he took up vocational training
at the University of Minnesota. where
he took a course under supervision of
the veterans bureau before assuming
his present duties.
Ruth is making a touf of the state,
speaking at legion meetings on advan-
tages accruing to ex-service men under
existing legislature and addressing
civic bodies on the activities of the
bureau. Undoubtedly there have been
many cases" Ruth continued, 'in which
disabled soldiers or dependents OF
those who were killed have suffered
real hardship. These cases have been
largely due to the great difficulty of
getting in touch with the persons who
are entitled to government aid and to
the delay incidental to organizing the
machinery necessary to handle relief
work on such a scale"