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"'TLMETTE FRIDAY DECEMBER 5 1924 URGES VETS TO · j:_ iope_ns_Dan_cl_ng_etas_·j1WNHIGHOIS NRANKSMINING 1 . ASK FOR BONUS War Department Officer Explains Stiuation Major General Robert C. Davis, the Adjutant General of the Army, who is in charge of the administration of the Adjusted Compensation Act (Bonus) for the War Department announces: "To date there have been received from the 4,500.000 veterans 1,500,000 applications for adjusted compensation. Of this number 850.000 applications have been examined and about four hundred thousand have been passed, and certificates fo.r amounts due forwarded to the Umted States Veterans Bureau for the extension of the benefits provided by law. 1he necessary clerical forces of approximately 3,500 clerks, after having been obtained and thoroughly in structed in their duties, is not working at maximum speed and efficiency. Prope~ty. including such items as desks, filrng cabinets, typewriters, labor saving machines, to the value of approximately a half million dollars has been assembled frem the various repositories of surplus and unused property, thus effecting a saving to the Government of that amount of money. In other · wards, the War Department is now ready to receive, verify and certify an average of 30,000 or more applications daily. Make· for Economy "It is imperative from the standpoint of economy in administration of the act and consequent saving to the taxpayer that these veterans who in ten<:! to a vail themselves eventually of the benefit offered by the Act should make their applications now. To extend the work over a period runnin~ up to January 1, 1928, the time limit within which applications may be made, can result only in a material increase in cost of administration which the War Department is endeavoring to hold to the very minimum. This is the situation so far as the taxpayer is concerned. "From the viewpoint of the veteran, it is even more imperative that if he intends to apply eventually for the benefits given' by the Act that he should do so at once. The War Department is daily receiving cases where veterans who have thought themselves in the best of health have died or been killed by accident without having submitted their applications for adjusted compensation. Their widows and children, many of them in needy circumstances receive, , in such cases, the amount of the adjusted service credit, an amount equal to approximately one-third only of that they would have received in one payment in cash had the veteran made application prior to death. For instance, should a veteran who served overseas for a period entitling him to the maximum amount of adjusted serviee credit of $625.00 die without filing his application, his widow, children or other dependent within the restricted class, will receive that amount only in ten quarterly installments, whjle if he filed his application prior to death the widow, children or dependents, wilt receive approximately $1,580 in one payment in cash. Caah Payment. in March "Lastly, the cash payments under the Act become due on March 1, 1925, and unless the veteran applies in sufficient time in advance of that date to enable his claim to be properly adjudicated and transmitted to the Veterans' Bureau, the payment to him will be delayed. "If you intend to apply eventually for adjusted compensation please submit an application at once. Go to the nearest recruiting or other Army station or any Navy, Marine Corps, or Veterans' Bureau agency for assistance. The many advantages of 1uch action are obvious, but the most im)K)rtant of these is the protection it gives your dependent in the case of }'OUr death. "lf.you ha~e no desire to avail yourself of the benefits of the act, notify the Department to that effect. W araa Aplaat Delay "If you are one of the 140,000 veterans who have not corrected and returned their applications, 'Please do not delay the necessary action longer. "Should application blanks be needed, they may be obtained through the American Legion, the American Red Cross, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans, all Post Office!t the National GtJard, the Organized Keserves, Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Recruiting Stations and Veterans 'Bureau agencies, or by addressing the Adjusted Compensation Branch, the Adjutant General's office, Waahinaton, D. C. "Assistance in making out application blanks will be given freely and willingly by all the above na~d agencies... by Pennsylvania and West Virginia. And yet in some ways Illinois is the leading coal state of the country for C(?Untries. the largest mines in the world are lo- ing schools of the cated here. To see the real 'longwall State College, West Virginia method' of mining one must come to Illi- and Carnegie Tech-have on their nois, and this state pointed the way to ulties at least one mining graduate others in the practical use of 'rock dust- Illinois. In the field of mining Stands Third in Coal Mining ing' for the prevention and limitation of the University of Illinois has world-wide recognition." m.ne explosions. Industry From the standpoint lllinoi1 U. Grad· Souarht "In view · of the prominence of Illi- teaching staff, research nois as a mineral prd'ducer it · is little ment and general While few people realize it, Illinois is wonder that the mining department of the mining engineering 1 one of the foremost mining states of the University of Illinois has achieved the Diversity of Illinois has few the country, and, if petroleum . we~e ex- such an enviable reputation. The grad- according to competent critics, cluded: Illinois would rank thtrd 111 .the importance o f her mineral productiOn, according to Prof. A. C. Calico, head of O IN the throng of happy folks who the l."niversity of Illinois department of mining. trod the pathway to the best LunchIf the average individual were a sked eons and Dinners in Evanston. to name the important min ing states he would probably mention Arizona, Montana, Colorado and Nevada as being among the leaders," said Mr. Callen. "However. stati tics show the value of Chic:a~o Ave. at GroTe SL the mineral production of Illinois in EVANSTON 1922 wa s nearly four times that of Arizona, more than four t imes that of Mcm·ana , nearly five times as great as Colorado's and over thirteen times that of Nevada. "Popular fancy thinks of California as our premier mining state, but if the Mi.. Stephanie F. Martin Formerly Gairing Fine Arts value of California's oil production were Mi ss Stephanie F. Martin. 1102 excluded the value of the Golden State's 1640 OrriDrton Avenue Grant street, Evanston, a member of mineral production would be only 40 the famous group of Morgan dancers. per cent of that of the Prairie State. EVANSTON I has just returned from ahroa4 and Larl'e·t Coal Mine· ha s o;l cned cla~ses in rythmic dancing A choice selection of Christmas Cards "While Illinois ranks sixth among the at Evanston. and Gifts f.or your approval The Morgan riancers were accorded states in the value of her mineral proan enthusia~tic reception in every duction, yet if petroleum were not con-PIC1URE FRAMINGEuropt:an coontry and acclaimed as sidered in the valuation totals she would Phone University 770 the most talented dancing group ever have third place. "In coal production fllinois has been sent to the continent from the United third for a decade, being exceeded only States. J The Parkway Tea Shop FIB ART SHOP rr Boys Like These Clothes-and they are exceptional values in his clothes is readily instilled . into IUJ1 P RIDE boy when be is permitted to select such fine garments as are these: Royalton Jr. Suits Slipover Sweaters Four-Piece Suits I A.- . . . 10 Wltla C..t .... ..... 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