The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-10-25
WIDOWS OF ALL
WARS WILL Get
SIS A MONTH
Poundstone Tells About In
crease In Pensions Under
New Law.
ey RAMSEY PouNDsToNE

Tuesday The Palladium published a
review Of those PROVISIONS OF the re-
Gently enacted War Risk Insurance
act pertaining to the allotment Of sol
diers' pay for the support Of depend
ent relatives, and the family allow
ances made by the government as con-
tributory support to such dependents
Article three Of the War Risk law
deals with compensation for death or
disability
Under this article the government
obligates itself to pay compensation
for the death or disability Of COM
missioned officer or an enlisted man,
resulting from personal injury suffer
ed or disease contracted IL the line
OF duty. Women members OF The
army and the navy nurse corps also
are included in the provisions Of this
article.
Interests other Widows
The concluding section Of article
three is of vital interest to the Wild
ows of soldiers Of the Civil War, the
war with Spain, and the Philippine In
surrection, now on the pension TOLL
or who shall hereafter be placed on
the pension roll.
This section provides q monthly
minimum pension Of $50 per month.
This new pension rate is now opera
tive. Heretofore, under the general
pension laws, pensioned widows OF
Civil War soldiers, under the age OF
seventy, were entitled to a pension OF
s12 per month. Soldiers widows who
were seventy or over that age we're
entitled to a pension Of $40 per
month
For the former class the new law
means q pension increase Of S13 per
month. For widows seventy or older
II means an increase Of SIS per month.
Members Of the Indiana congress
sional delegation played an active
part In saving this section Of the law.
Sections of the War Risk Insurance
law dealing with compensations ror
dependents of soldiers Of the present
war, who shall die in the line OF duty
or who shall be disabled by injury OF
disease, are herewith reproduced:
Widow Gets $25.
SEC. 301. That if death results
from injury
II the deceased leaves a widow or
child, or If he leaves a widowed moth
er dependent upon him for support,
the monthly compensation shall be the
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following amounts:
(a) For a widow alone, S25.
(b) For a widow and one child,
(c) For a widow and two children,
s47.5o, with IS for each additional
child up to two.
Ia If there be no widow, then for
one child, $40.
(a0 For two children $40
~ For three children, $40, with So
for each additional child up to two
(g) For widowed mother, $4,000
The amount payable under this sub
division shall not be greater than q
sum which, when added to the total
amount payable to the widow and
children, does not exceed s75. This
compensation shall be payable for the
death of but one child, and no com
pensation for the death Of g child
shall be payable If such widowed moth
er is In receipt of compensation under
the provisions of this article for the
death Of her husband. Such compen
sation shall. be payable whether hel
widowhood arises before or after tbs
death Of the person and whenever hel
condition is such that If the person
were uV1nS the WluOW6u INQUIRER WOuil
have been dependent upon him fol
support.
Shall Pay For Burial.
If the death occur before discharge
or resignation from service, the Unit
ed States shall pay for burial expense:
and return of body to his homo a sum
not to exceed 500. as may be fixed BY
regulations.
The payment of compensation to :
widow or widowed mother shall con
tinue until her death or remarriage.
The payment Of compensation to Oh
for q child shall continue until sucf
child reaches the age Of eighteen years
or marries, or IL such child be inca
pable, because Of insanity. idiocy, OF
being otherwise permanently helpless
then during such incapacity.
Whenever the compensation payable
to or for the benefit of any person un
der the provisions of this section Il
terminated by the happening Of tht
contingency upon which it is limited
the compensation thereafter for the
remaining beneficiary or beneficiaries
If any, shall be to the amount which
would have been payable to them i