East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-21
Timely Information As to Pay and
Requirements of United States Army

geant major; sergeant major. junior
grade: master gunner, sergeant bug
Ter. assistant band leader.
SsO-Regimental sergeant major;
regimental supply sergeant; sergeant
major. senior grade; Quartermaster
! sergeant. . NJ. corps; ordnance ser
geant: battalion sergeant major, en-
sineers; battalion supply sergeant en-
gineers; electrician sergeant. first
class: sergeant first class. O NJ.
Corps, engineers, signal corps assist
ant engineer, musician, first class,
military academy.
$6s-Sergeant first class, medical
department: sergeant, field musician,
military academy.
SS4-Hospital sergeant; master en-
gineer. junior grade: engineer.
ss6-Quartermaster Sergeant. Sc
nior grade. . NJ. corps: band leader;
Master signal electrician; master
electrician, master engineer. senior
grade: master hospital sergeant: band
sergeant and assistnt leder, military
scdemy.
Monthly pay is increased with sue
cessiye enlistments-
Certain men because OF special
qualifications and service draw
monthly pay beyond the regular en-
hstment rate as follows:
Additional Pay Per Month.
Mess sergeant, Sc: casemate cleo
trician. SO; observer first class. SO;
plotter. 50: coxswain, SO: chief plant
er. 81: chief loader. (; observer sec
ond class. 81; gun commander, 81;
gun pointer, 81; surgical assistant, s.;
expert first-class gunner F. A, IS;
expert rifleman, IS; nurse (first-
class private). 50; sharpshooter, So.
first-class gunner, So; second-class
gunner, 50: marksman, 50; dispen-
sary assistant, 81; certificate of mer-
it, So.
Enlisted men are provided free
with all necessary clothing and
equipment.
Officers. in addition to fixed al
lovances for quarters, heat. and
light. receive the following sums
yearly, with provision for increase
every five years for all ranks below
brigadier general: Second Iieuten-
ant S1700: first lieutenant, $4,000:
captain. S24o0; major, $4,000; lieu
tenant colonel, $500; colonel. 1000;
brigadier general, $4,000; major gen.
eral. $4,000: lieutenant general. sll.-
600.
While in France pay may be
drawn either in French currency, at
an exchange rate announced month
ly, or in a check on the treasury os
the United States, which may easily
be sent to the States or cashed in
France at the current rate of ex-
change The present rate (July 15)
is $40 francs to the dollar.
1S2. Special provisions for men in
service. Legislation providing for
compensation and decentralization for
soldiers and sailors and those de-
pendent upon them has not yet been
passed Measures are being consid-
cred. however. for governmental ac-
tion in this matter. Preliminary
definite steps were taken of July 2,
when Secretary AcAdoo called a con-
ference of the life insurance compan-
les of the United States to consider
plans 10 this end. The conference
was attended by representatives of
the war. navy, and commerce de-
partments and the council of nation
al defense. After a prolonged discus
sion, the insurance men voted al
most unanimously that the insurance
and decentralization of the soldiers
and sailors should be undertaken by
the government The preparation of
necessary legislation was begun i'm
mediately
On July 13 Samuel Gompers. chair
man of the committee on labor of the
council of national defense, appoint
ed Judge Julian W. Mack. United
States circuit court of Chicago, chair
man Of the section on compensation
for soldiers and sailors and their
Judge Mack will work
in cooperation with the treasury de-
partment. He has expressed, as his
opinion. the belief that the respon-
sibility of providing funds for sep