Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-19
Veterans Offer Their
Pensions to Aid Uncle
Sam to Win War

Washington, March 19.-Bent
with age, some disabled by wars
fought years ago, pensioned veterans
and widows of soldiers killed in ac-
ton. are finding a way to help win
the war.
One by one, silently sacrificing
what little comfort government
pension permits them. 300 have re-
quested the bureau of pensions TO
transfer their meagre allowances to
the government in place of, the son
| cannot give to Uncle Sam.
Il have no sons to give to Uncle
Sans army" read a short but I'M
pressive letter received by the bu-
reau from a 67 year old widow
spending her last years peacefully In
California. II cannot wait till mar
~ or die, when my pension automat-
ically stops. But | will give my $25
month pension to the government.
| do this at great sacrifice.
Commissioner Salzgarber is in re-
ceipt of hundreds of similar letters
from old veterans who have made
similar requests.
"This deed of yours speaks loud
err than words" he wrote in reply to
the patriotic old woman, and any
thing | might say would be too weak
to express adequately an apprecia-
ton of your patriotic deed Of self
sacrifice
Stating that she had started an l
acre farm to help in food production.
a 70 year widow pensioner in Colo
RADIO asks the bureau to transfer her
pension to help Uncle Sam win the
war
The first man after Americas de-
claration of war to offer his pension
to the government is a Philadelphia
veteran. He said he offered his $40
a month because he was heart and
soul with the president"
Many of these. the bureau OF pen
sons discloses. are veterans Of Ger
man birth and extraction. Many
request that pensions be converted
into Liberty Loan Bonds by the bu-
reau of pensions. Some who are still
ablebodied have enlisted and some
have received army commissions.
Many of the determined but poor
veterans have turned over their
small bits to the Red Cross, the Y.
NJ c. A. and other humanitarian
war organizations.
A S72 month pensioner has ap-
piled to the bureua for reduction
to $50 a month as the only way of
"doing his bit for the country, stat
ing that this would sacrifice the
continuation of his education which
the pension had enabled him to OBJ
TAIN"
$12 Stipend Given Up.
That he might be zone of the
millions of Sammies going to France
to do the kaiser" Civil war veter-
an has turned over his SIS month
pension to the government. He add.
ed that he wished to unburden the
government OF the expense.
Being barred by age and disabil'
ity from serving with the armed
forces of the United States" an in.
mate Of the soldiers home in Wash.
ington writes to Commissioner Saltz.
CARRIER, land believing in the same
principle as I did in 1898, / wish tc
pledge to my country my entire
pension for a period Of five years.
'It's all l have,". he adds, land
my prayer goes with it-that it will
buy victory to our army. Let us put
America first and not only stand be-
hind our president, but stand with
him. And though our cause is JUS
| should we lose we will nail the Stars
and Stripes to the mast and go dowr
! fighting rather than be the puppe
of the German war lord"
His pension was found to consist
+! Of SO per month.