The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-02-21
HEALING THE HURTS OF MEN
DISABLED IN The SERVICE

ceive this sum. whatever it may be,
| during his entire course.
\ married man and his wife will re-
| ceive SO per month from the govern
ment. provided they live together
| while he is taking Il course of instruc-
| ton. If his course is such that he must
! live apart from his wife, the govern
ment Will pay him 500 per month and
his wife $50 per month. The larger
his family the larger the amount paid
by the government fer its support.
The same allowance and allotment
viii be paid to dependents as was paid
to them while the man Aas in the ac-
tive service. If he is n'Iried, his wife
viii receive $50 a month. II he has a
Wife ard child they will receive $40 a
month. and so Will be paid for each
additional child up To three If he
has Il mother dependent upon him she
will receive the same amount she re-
ceived while he was in the service.
In the case of a commissioned off,
Ger undergoing training the support
paid by the government will always
equal the pay for the last month of ac-
tive service, an amount always in eX-
cess of the minimum guarantee of $65
per month. He Will be expected to
maintain his dependents out of the
amount paid him while undergoing
training.
When the disabled soldier has COM
pleted his course of training he will
receive the compensation prescribed
by the war risk insurance act SO long
as his disability continues.
That til re is danger of confusing
compensation with insurance payments
is shown in the cases of some dis
charged men to whom compensation
had been granted for injuries received
in line of duty and who have discon-
tinued payments of their insurance
premiums. In some instances they
have discontinued such premium pay
Rents owing to mistaken belief that |
the sums they are receiving monthly |
from the government were insurance |
payments.
Only in those cases where the dis |
ability from which the man is suffer |
ing is total and permanent does the |
discOntinuance of insurance payments |
by the disabled man who is receiving /
compensation involve no risk and |
cause no harm. This is because in |
cases Of total and permanent disability |
there is right to recover government |
insurance payments as we'll as compen-
satiOn, which made further premium |
payments unnecessary as soon as the
disability was in fact total and perma-
ncnt.
Should Verify Payments.
Any man who is receiving what he
believes to be insurance payments
should carefully verify that the
Payments he is so receiving are In fact
insurance payments rather than COM
pensatiOn payments, and should not
cease making insurance payments I'M
I'll he has definitely determined that
the payments he is receiving are gov
eminent insurance payments rather
than compensation payments.
The Red Cross is undertaking to see
that every discharged soldier or sailor
coming TO its attention is fully in
formed as to his rights to compensa-
ton and insurance, and gives assist
ance in making application for il.
When the arrangements for training
nave Doen MADE, the tCeu cross Is pre-
pared TO see that the family receives
assistance or service
which may be needed in addition to
the provision made by the government.
Since, under the law, the taking of vo-
training is entirely optional
with the man, and his own will and
ambition must first be enlisted in or
Ter to insure success, the influence OF
he family may be a vital factor.
Whether man receives compensa-
ion for disability or not, whether he
receives re-education or not. the board
$ ready to help him get a good job
L he is entitled to compensation and
goes into training, when his training is
inished the board will undertake TO
ind him a place in his new vocation.
All disabled soldiers whether in or
,ut OF the hospitals, should address
heir communications to the federal
BOARD for vocational education, Wash
ngton, or TO the district Office of the
FEDERAL board of the district in which
lie is located.