The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-13
WAR DEPARTMENT
TO PAY EXPENSES
TRAINED CIVILIANS
Dependents of Soldiers Will
Also Receive Aid 1t Has
Been Announced Ac-
cOrding to Promise
By HUGH w. ROBERTS


Washington, October 12,-(Special)
The war department is preparing to re-
fund travelling expenses Of civilians who
attended training camps during the
summer, and to pay to dependent fam
lilies of regulars and volunteers of the
army certain sums for their sustenance
The statement of the department af-
fecting civilians, follows:
According to a decision of the comp
troller of the treasury of September %,
1916, the auditor for the war department
is authorized to settle claims for the re-
endorsement of those civilians who at
tended the military training camps dur
ing the calendar year 1916. The applica-
tons for such reimbursement should be
made directly to the auditor for the
war department, treasury department,
Washington, ID. c.
The army appropriation act approved
August 20, 1916, provides that the United
States shall pay the transportation and
subsistence of all persons between the
ages of IS and As years who attended the
military training camps authorized by the
Secretary of War during the calendar
year 1916. Each person who attended
these camps will receive refund of the
amount he paid for transportation, Pull
man or parlor car fare, and subsistence
while at camp. Neither the cost Of meals
nor lodgings en- route nor the cost of I'M
forms will be included in the refunds to
be made.
Military training camps were held in
the western, southern and eastern de-
partments during the summer of 1916. and
it is estimated that 10000 men attended.
The sum of s2,OOOO00 was appropriated to
defray the expenses of training camps.
The statement relating to pay to de-
pendent families of soldiers, follows
Under the provisions of the army ap-
preparation act approved on August ~,
1916, the dependent families of all mill
tiamen and regulars of the United States
army are to receive financial aid from
the government
The amount to be paid in each case
must not exceed $50 per month, and is
computed on basis of the amount which
the soldier was contributing to the sup
port of his family at the time he en-
tered the service. If the soldier is receiv-
ing more than SIS per month the amount
paid to his family by the United States
will be reduced by the amount in excess
of SIS per month which the soldier re-
ceives as pay This aid is given only to
those families of enlisted men who have
no income other than the pay of the en-
listed men adequate to support their
families. Only the wife, children and de-
pendent mothers of the soldiers are con-
sidered as comprising their families
The families of all enlisted men who
were members of the militia or National
Guard at the time of the calls of the
President of May 9 and June 49, 1916 and
were brought into the service of the
United States pursuant to those calls
are entitled to the benefits of the act
from and including June 10, 1916. The
families of men enlisting in the militia
or National Guard after June IS, 1916.
are entitled to the benefits of the act
from the date of enlistment The amount
paid to the family of an enlisted man of
the militia or National Guard may be