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Show 1 15 REORGANIZED apiil Demobilization of Military Forces Necessitates Necessi-tates Changes. j i W.IUNuTON, M;t- Kuim.. do-ihImM. do-ihImM. ;it ivn of tbo nii!it:ir foroos h.is J I :itori:t!ly jifivtoil tin' work of the Imi-j Imi-j can of war riK uiMiiaiuo :unl has no-1 no-1 tit:itoil .s i;oiii'r;il i ooi aui.a t ion of ho ork aloiii; funotiomtl linos. Thoro I ! . boon rapiil oi;inion in bonio of I v diw.Mons of tin buvoavi and a shrink-IU shrink-IU - in olhors, Hi I'luM o ha boon a :-haro falling off llll i i ho roooipt of now appiioauon; ro-.oolt!':', ro-.oolt!':', allot inout and allowance nuo tho -"inin of tho rinitioo ami !o iloovoaso Uio numbor of nion bo-I bo-I tu' ii''luoiod into tho mt ioo. At tho ::u t uno t horo has boon a irroat in roast in tho unmoor of iiis.ohar:.'0 no--o rt-voixt.i by tbo bureau, on tho re-I re-I .U't of whuh pa im'nt of a::r,l pro-! I ioi;lv m;nto ihoontinuotk Aiproi iato!y K.VO.'K'O iliM-h:irj:o notices havo I o-n loieivei. b'U thi tloes not moan tat :-u otniNl nutf.ber of al lot u.l' n t s anil tia:ioe h:'. bovn stopped. It has eon focad that w creator proportion II f doitaro uotifo aro th'jso of nieu ho t iirered '.iio or ioo after dratd. ros;- i;.:ioi ro.trdin Jepondouoy had been orke 1 out to sm-h a decree that fewer llll ii a w ith o!epeudonts ore aoeepled lor I loo atakini; of compensation awards .r doa! !i or disability iu tho ervioe j a bovomo one of tho ohief funotions i !' tho bureau of war risk in-uranoe. As ll t n are disrhared from the military I j.-p1!;-!- the iu estimation, adjudioation ud i-aytneuis of elaims for oomjnsa-I oomjnsa-I mi .'or dability luvomes one of tho I sot tmortaut tunetions of tho bureau I; f a : r'..k ium; ratteo. Moio claims for Sj in-pcu-ation have boon made thus far 1' i1 vt-a r t nan were ma le during the j ::::'e yerr .'i'l. I ompeDation awards j! r .;k-abditv ::-;uie up to .November 11. i:' :t:o d.-to of the armistice, eallod f -r moiittily meuts of U4,'J-l7.7ik ' H u.". iisai'O'.i av.ar f"r diabtli:y now J. II tor monthly t ry mint," uf more than ' 4 oasiiOiiLitiou death awards on the ;.to of the armitice called for monthly jivmeias of l1.'JP."J4. while conipen--ition denth awards iuv call for ton thl v pavmeuts of more than The number of ir.atured insurance pol-:ios pol-:ios due to doath in the service or Mai permanent disability has greatly mE"::creased as casualty lists have beui -? v loured up by the war department. The ii 'amber of death awards made since e';.:-aauary 1. KUi. is three times as threat .a the total number of insurance death wards made prior to that time. The '." ; otai of insuram-e death awar ls on the , are of the stjuia of the armistice had .;V con::nut-?ti aiu? of 135.:.t5 1.500, while -r-i'.: be total death awards now have a com-mred com-mred value of apsroximatelv 5S0O,- ;-eo.ooo. Cue of the principal task? of the in- urance division at present is the car-1,0 car-1,0 "in forward of a conservation pro- ir."aui. aimed to encourage men to main-"uin main-"uin their government insurance after laving tlie service. The bureau of war '-' "isk insurance is ursine men to "hold A '-i'nto L'ncle Sam's insurance" and to d - ee? the protection vrhich the war term t: isuraoee -affords them, until such time rii:s they arc :Me to convert to perma-forms perma-forms of go vera men t life insur- j . . n c e. Men will not be u r ? e d to e o d -": err their insurance until they feel cap--:"ble of meetinfr the costs of the perma-" perma-" ent insurance, and liberal provisions ,T.-3r reinstatement are n-.ade. |