| Show WAR wail nearly all of the workers in the war risk Insil insurance rance bureau are now housed in a central building in ili washington and it la is one of the handsomest buildings in ili the capital city until recently these workers were scattered through eighteen buildings over an area of 0 nine or ten miles locating them in one central building will make mak tor for greater efficiency in ii I 1 this now one of tile the governments overn ments largest and most moat important Pori allt bureaus expansion of 0 this bureau is almost without parallel in the history of the administration or of governmental affairs when congress passed the law providing for insurance for the count rys fighting vien men in october 1917 the treasury department had a force of twenty clerks issuing policies on oil ships and sailors within a few days the bureau was established t with a corps of 1600 wor workers kerg this number has now been multiplied by ten to date policies have been issued their average is and aggregate in february checks were ere mailed out by the bureau of which were allotment or allowance checks the bureau receives pieces of mail weekly of aich are letters most of the delays that have been barged to the bureau have been due 0 o carelessness by correspondents who tailed failed to give sufficient clent informs ilon don in their correspondence with the the possibilities for confusion may be appreciated from the fact that there are smiths among the allot tees or insured of these are william smi smiths hs there are 2625 john smiths the name brown appears times in the bureaus files and the name jones times with so many identical names listed it Is necessary that or respondents addressing the bureau of identification to insure minimum of delay on the part of the bureau so go into minute details in the matter in making reply |
