Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-11-12

disability incurred in the recent war
is as follows: Total permanent dis
ability, 500 a month; total tempo
rary disability if the soldier has
neither wife nor child living, $50
month if he has a wife but no child
living. 800 month; if he has wife
and one child living, $95 a month; if
ing, 500 month, and if he has no
wife but one child, $50 month; for
each additional child where there is
10 wife living. So a month if he has
mother or father, or both dependent
on him for support. so month in adj
dition.
The new legislation says specifically
what a man who served in the war
shall receive for a certain disability.
Under the existing law it has not al
ways been easy for the war risk bu-
reau to determine the amount of ben
eft a soldier should receive. The new
legislation provides that if the medi-
cal examination shows that Il benefici-
airy under the law is only so per cent
disabled, he is to receive one half the
amount set out in the schedule. Thus,
for instance, the legislation says that
man who has totally lost his hear
ing is only 80 per cent disabled and
may earn so per cent of his own liv-
ing. Accordingly he and his family
would only receive so per cent of the
compensation allotment for total dis
ability.
Removes an Injustice.
The pending bill also moves to erad-
icate an alleged injustice caused by
the laws former definition of parents.
The new proposal is to include in the
definition of father" and mother"
stepfathers. stepmothers, fathers and
mothers through adoption, and per-
sons who have stood in relation to
former soldiers and sailors as par
entS for a period of more than one
year. This change is made to benefit
hundreds of persons throughout the
country, who, having brought up adopt
ed sons or stepsOns or children with
out legal process, could not receive
the bepefits of the old Law because they
did not come within the definition of
father" and mother" The new pro-
vision is made retroactive from Dc
tOber 6, 1917.
The cases of hundreds of men who
after being indicted into the military
service, but before they were actually
sworn in and before they had q chance
to apply for insurance, are to be taken
care of in the new bill While the
new bill declares that q person is not
in the active service until he has ac-
cepted and enrolled. two provisions
are made that cover most of the above
cases. One provision is that if man
is killed or injured in line of duty,
after induction, but before final ac-
ceptance, he is eligible to the benefits
of the act; the second provides that
a man who applied for insurance af-
ter being indicted and before being
finally accepted, shall be eligible to
benefits under the law.
Two sections of the pending bill
would cut off all government family
allOtments and allowances at the end
of the fourth calendar month after the
present emergency, as declared by the
president; and thereafter the only al
lotments to be made soldiers families
will be those voluntarily made by the
men themselves. This will mean the
elimination of a great lump from I'm
Gle Sans budget, four months after
the declaration of peace, for although
the payments are now being cut down
owing to the decreased army they are
still up in the millions.
An extra allowance of $50 q month
is made in the bill for q person so dis
abled as to he in need of an attend
ant or nurse constantly. The bin also
provides for ample medical and hos
pital services for disabled veterans
and also for such supplies as artificial
limbs, truSSes and similar appliances.
Arrangement is made under the bill
for exchanges of hospital service with
foreign nations. The class Of bene-
ficiarieS of the term insurance which
the men are now permitted to take
out is enlarged in the bill to include
uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, broth
ers-in-law and sisters-in-faw of the
insured.
If a person entitled to insurance
should die before receiving all the
240 monthly payments provided for in
the existing law, the remaining pay
ments would go to such persons with
in the permitted classes of beneficial
ries as would be entitled, under state
law, to the property of the original
beneficiary in case of his intestacy.
Red Cross Roll Call.
Another American Red Cross roll call
will be made November Pill. If
the expectations of the organiza-