Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-24
Pau for Disabled Soldiers

~ URTHER assurance that disabled war
III veterans taking $ocational training in
Atlanta, and possibly all in Georgia
and the south, will get an increase OF $40
month in their allotment from the gov
ernment is contained in the current issue
of the American Legion Weekly.
Hope that the increase would be granted
was expressed to ex-service men in At
lanta recently by Senator Hoke Smith. who
was instrumental in training the vocation
al educational bill and who fought hard
against the amendment of Senator War
rem limiting the full compensation to vo-
cationaI students residing in congested
centers of population where maintenance
and support is above the average and COM
paratively high"
Within the past few weeks Senator Smith
was informed that the vocational board,
in interpreting the amendment, had de-
cded to give twenty dollars month in
crease to students in communities where
the cost of board and lodging was forty
five dollars a month or over, ten dollars
a month increase where the average cost
was between forty and forty-fve dollars a
month, and not to give any increase to
students living where the cost of living
was less than forty dollars a month.
The Senator's prediction that Atlanta and
many other southern communities will fall
in the "forty-fve dollars month class
is borne out by the article in the American
Legion Weekly which states that the Vo-
cational board, getting it's information in tele-
grams from the Red Cross, the Y, M. Z. A,
the American Legion and other authoritative
sources in all parts of the nation, has begun
to classify the different communities with a
view to giving the extra allowance on the
August pay check.
GAS this is being written, states the LIE
gion's correspondent, kilograms are
pouring into the board from It's dlvlslora-
| Offices recommending this city and that, one
training center and another, for the full
! twenty dollars monthly increase. To be ex-
act, on July &c, just five days before August
LIST paw day, 1882 vocational students in
| twenty-three vocational training centers had
| been designated as entitled to the monthly
increase of twenty dollars in their allow
ance, and such progress was being made that
the auditor of the board stated that, in all
proba bility, $4,000 students of the 80, 662
disabled men drawing compensation, in all
but the most isolated places of training,
would get the twenty dollars increase on the
August list payroll"
Atlanta, states the Legion Weekly, in nam
ing over a list of cities, is certain to fall in
the class where the high cost of living de-
mands the full increase. The designation Of
a city in certain class also takes in all
towns, cities and institutions within COM
muting distance of the place named.
The Legion Weekly predicts that so many
training centers will fall into the ''forty- five
dollars a month class and that men living in
those not included will raise suhc protests if
they are not given the full increase, the board
eventually will issue a blanket order giving
the increase to every man, no matter where
he lives.
1t is to be hoped that the Legion Weekly
is right, for The Journal agrees with Senator
Smith that no man who was disabled in the
war and is now seeking to rehabilitate him
self should be excluded from any sum the
government can afford to allot him while he
is studying to put himself again on his feet,
Independent and self-supporting.