BULLETIN WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, January 28, 1919. Employment of disabled soldiers by the State Department_ Telephone toll rates--. Section. I II III I. Employment of disabled soldiers by the State Department. Section II, Bulletin No. 48, War Department, 1918, is rescinded and the following substituted therefor: The Secretary of State has informed the War Department that in furtherance of the provisions of the act to provide for vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment for disabled persons discharged from the Army and Navy, the State Department will give due consideration to the cases of disabled soldiers discharged for disability who are certified to it by the Civil Service Commission. [230.224, A. G. 0.] II Shipping of the allowance of baggage of officers of The United States Army, formerly reserve officers, to their homes upon honorable discharge.--The following decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, contained in a letter to the Secretary of War, dated January 18, 1919, relative to the recrating and shipping, at Government expense, to their homes, upon honorable discharge from the service, the allowance of baggage of officers of The United States Army who were formerly reserve officers, and whose baggage was crated and shipped at Government expense from their homes to their first station in accordance with law, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: Officers of The United States Army who were formerly reserve officers are entitled to have their allowance of baggage, which was crated and shipped at Government expense from their homes to their first station in accordance with law, recrated and shipped at Government expense to their homes upon honorable discharge from the service, the appropriation available for payment of expense of such packing, crating, and transportation 66 2 being designated in the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. 43, W. D., 1918), as General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps." [300.22, A. G. O.] III__Telephone toll rates. In order that all branches and departments of the Army may take advantage of such opportunities as are offered for keeping commercial telephone tolls at a minimum, the following changes in telephone rates which became effective January 21, 1919, by order of the Postmaster General, are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: 1. Two principal classifications of service are .established, namely, station-to-station and person-to-person messages, the former being a call for a given station by number or by subscriber's name, and the latter a call for a particular person. 2. A new charge, known as a “report charge," will be made on person-to-person calls which are not completed for any of the following reasons: a. Inability to establish communication due to faulty address being given. b. Failure to find the party called due to his being out or otherwise absent. c. Calling party refuses to talk when facilities for communication have been established. d. Called party refuses to talk. 3. While it is not intended to discourage any means or communication, however costly, that will result in a net saving to the Government, it is desired to prevent any increases in expenses due to a continuation of such liberal use of the telephone for long-distance conversation as ay have been made in the past, when the need was greater and the cost less. 4. In this connection opportunities for economy are presented as follows: a. Reduction in the number of calls. b. Reduction in the length of conversation. c. Utilization of station-to-station calls in place of personto-person calls. d. Avoidance of "report charges" by exercising forethought. e. Utilization of reduced night rates where practicable. Between 8.30 p. m. and midnight the rates are substantially 3 30 per cent of the regular day rate. Between midnight and 4.30 a. m. the rates are about 25 per cent of the regular day rate. f. Utilization of telephone toll lines leased by the Army on a monthly rental basis where these are now available. g. Use of telegraph or mail where these will serve the same purpose. 5. Telephone expenses will be curtailed to a minimum consistent with the good of the service by judiciously effecting economies which may suggest themselves from the preceding paragraphs. |