Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-01-02
PAY THAI SAMMY
REALLY RECEIVES
$33 MONTHLY IN UNITED STATES.
20 PER CENT MORE IN 81
FRANCE.

Y NJ
20 PER CENT MORE IN
FRANCE.
Washington.-Ask the first 10 people
you meet what Uncle Sam pays his sol
diers.
1t will be safe to bet they don't know.
Half Of them may have some hazy
Idea about a dollar. a day. and you
will find lots Of people who think Uncle
Sam stills pays the old scale Of $13 a
month, but few outside the army know
the ms and outs of the wage scale, even
for private soldiers.
The whole pay system Of the United
States army has been revolutionized
since the war started.
$33 Monthly.
A private in the Uncle Sam army,
regular, national guard, or national
army, receives in cash, as long as he
is in the United States, $33 month, in
addition to food, clothing and medical
attendance. ~ 81 ~.
When he is sent to Europe he gets 20
per cent extra, whether in training or
in the trenches, which brings the mini
mum cash pay up to $1,000 a month or
$3.50 day.
/ The revolutionary part of the pay
system, however, about which most peo-
pie are ignorant, is the scale of allow
ances made by the government to the
soldiers dependents. We are thus
breaking away from the old theory of
paying soldiers fiat wage for fighting
i to the new theory that the nation is
responsible for the welfare not only of
the man in service, but for the depend
ents whom he left behind him.
For 'Wee Wife,"
| Under the new scheme if there's a
wee wife waiting she receives each
month direct from Uncle Sam SIS a
month, which is virtually an addition
to the fighting mans wage and brings
his total compensation up to $4S
! month while he is in the United States
and to .$54.60 abroad. s
If there is one child with the wife,
the allowance is $25 a month; two
children $3.50 and so on up to the point
where a wife with six children Uncle
Sam pays $50 month in cash to the
family. -.
It may not be enough to support
them, even with what the enlisted man
can send home out Of his wages, but it
is at least recognition of Uncle Sans
responsibility and bulwark against
dependence or charity.
| Dependent Parents.
Allowances are also provided for
dependent parents, $40 month for
each, and for brothers, sisters and
grandchildren, SIS a month for each,
with the proviso that ! any case the
government will not p; % the depen-
dents of any man mo Il $50 per
month. . -
No mawkish prudery e. nto the
drafting of these PROVISIONS; by~ac-
knowledging his illegitimate child a
soldier may secure for it the full gov
ornamental allowance, the only provision
being that if it is born after Dec 81,
1917, it must be born in the United
States. So in the case of a wife, there
need be no legal marriage if there is
proof that they have lived together as
man and wife for two years prior to
enlistment. -. .%--r
- Uncle Sam also sees to it that his
soldiers do not throw all the burden of
1 caring for dependents on his broad
shoulders by making it compulsory for
each man, who has left wife or child
behind to pay over to them thru the
treasury at least SIS month and as
much more as will equal the allowance
which Uncle Sam makes up to half a
mans pay. Thus for the man in service
abroad who has left wife and child
) behind, the man will have to assign to
| them at least $3.50 a month to which
the government will add $25, making a
, total Of ALSO which they are sure to
receive +Ts
Old System Erased.
The old pension system is wiped out
/ by the new and far more equitable
system of compensation for death and
disability. - ...z=.s. &. ...S =. ..a
. This Compensation differs from that
provided in any other law It takes the
! family as unit that is serving the ma
ton, not the individual man. 1t bases
the compensation on the size of the
family from time to time. While q
/ totally disabled bachelor will get only