The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-11-06

is as follows: Total permanent dis
ability, 500 a month; total tempo
rary disability If the soldier has
neither wife nor child living, $50 II
month; If he has wife but no child
living, 800 month If ne has a wife
and one child living 500 month; If
he has wife and two children liv-
ing 500 a month, and If he has no
wife but one child, 500 q month; for
each additional child where there is
no wife living, So month; If he has
mother or father, or both dependent
on him for support. $40 month in adj
dltion.
The new legislation says specifically
what A man who served I'm the war
shall receive for certain disability.
Under the existing law II has not al
ways been easy for the war risk bu
reau to determine the amount Of ben
eft soldier should receive. The new
legislation provides that II the medi-
cal examination shows that n benefici-
airy under the law is only 80 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 50 per cent of his own liv-
ing. Accordingly he and his family
would only receive 80 per cent Of the
compensation allotment for total dis
ability.
Removes an injustice.
The pending bill also moves to Grad
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 MS par
ents for 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 benefits of the old law because they
did not come within the definition of
father" and mother" The new pro-
vision Is made retroactive from Oc-
tober 6, l017.
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 a chance
to apply for Insurance. are to be taken
care of In the new bill. While the
new bill declares that a person is not
in the active service until he has ac-
copied 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 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 month
is made In the bill for person so dis
abled az to he in need of an attend
ant or nurse constantly. The bill 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
erain-law and sisters-in-law of the
insured.
II person entitled to insurance
should die before receiving all the
24O monthly payments provided for in
the existing law, the remaining pay
ments would go to such persons with
in the permitted classes of beneficial
rles 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 2-11. IL
the expectations of the Organiza-
ton are realized, several hundred
thousand new members will be
enrolled. Each new member viii
mean one additional dollar for the
work of the organization, for that Is
the price of admission. The peace
activities of the Red Cross are to be
multiplied many times compared with
what they were before the recent war,
and these activities Will, of course,
take money. An enormous amount or
work remains to be done in Europe
before the organization can withdraw,
but In due time 1t is proposed to CEN
ter all the activities in the United
| States.
The program of camp service ac-
tiyltIes In this country under the d.
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