The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-30
U. S. HELP SOLDIERS;
HAS SPENT z BILLIONS
COST OF TRAINING AND CAR
ING FOR THEM is HALF Bill
LION. 100000 IN HOSPITALS.

More than $2,O00,0O0,OOO has been
spent by the United States to date in
caring for sick and disabled veterans
Of the world war. In addition, this
country expects to spend $500,000,000
annually for many years to come in
caring for and training the crippled
veterans.
There are now $4,000 of these dis
abled soldiers under federal care in
the hospitals, and it is not expected
the peak load" of the sick will be
reached until 1926, when the number
it is estimated will reach $4,000.
Soldier Bonus Also Looms.
Approximately 100000 former ser
vice men are now receiving vocational
training, their education being paid
for by the government and their de
pendents receiving allowances during
their courses of instruction in various
institutions and industrial plants of
the country.
In addition to the foregoing facts,
obtained from the official records OF
the United States veterans bureau, it
is estimated that the soldiers bonus
for former service men, who have not
been so disabled and incapacitated for
civilian employment, will cost the
United States eventually in excess of
$4,000, 100000.
Hospital Program Costly.
One hospital construction program.
for which congress appropriated $l8,
100000 over a year ago, is well I'M
der way now, and in the present ses-
sion of engress a second hospital con-
struction program of $17,000,000 was
authorized. Only recently the house
passed an appropriation bill to make
the S17,000,000 Immediately available,
and the senate is certain to pass the
same measure within the next week
or two. The veterans bureau shows
the following expenditures to April |
1922:
Military and naval family allow
ances, $298,615,000; military and naval
compensation, 1857, 100000; insurance,
$23,000000; administration, $780,
$50; disqualification, $224,729, 402; hos
pitaI construction, $47,085, 900; voca-
tional training, $469, 1928, $40; DISPOSE
ton of remains. $33,473, 782; bonus al
lowance of $50 each at retirement,
$248, 682, 200; payments TO benefciaries
of men and officers, $40, 495,0 900; total,
| 1896, 260634.
Made Big Appropriation.
I'm addition to the foregoing" said
Representative Tom Connally, OF Tex
as, in presenting the table to the
house, congress already has appro-
priated for the fiscal year, beginning
July /, $406,038,842 for the above pur-
poses, and it is probable this sum will
be increased 1t is estimated that $780,
100000 each year will be necessary for
these purposes"
Other figures on the wounded and
disabled are: Approximately 10000 in
hospitals; total number of wounded IS
208,562; total number discharged for
disability is 2519l6; the government
is paying compensation on 50,42O
death claims and 156,539 disability
cases; the amount paid last month for
this compensation was $10,340,000;
the government is paying insurance
on 134,550 death claims and 6,299 dis
ability claims; the amount paid in war
risk term insurance last month was
IS8, 454, 900; the committed value of war
risk term insurance allowed by the
government is 326,985,836."
Mental Cases Numerous.
Most OF the hospitals to be erected
by the government out of the new
| $1,000. 900 appropriation for construc-
ton will be for the care of veterans
with mental disorders. There are 9,00G
world war patients under care in state
and other institutions on a contract
basis, and it is the plan of the gov
eminent to care for all such patients
in federal institutions, built and operat-
ed by the United States.
Generally speaking, the officials plan
that there shall be an acre of ground
for each patient, and experience has
shown that building OF hospitals OF the
type planned is costing an average
Of $4,000 a bed. In other words $50
bed hospital, fully equipped, would
have a site of $50 acres and the cost
exclusive of the ground, would be APP
| DrOximate1v 81 600 100000