The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-24
HUGE SUM IS DAILY SPENT ON SOLDIERS

Sam's flat answer to those who charge him with failure to alleviate the physical and financial disabili- ties of his veteran fighters is that more than one million dollars day, including Sunday. is being expended by the government for the ex-service man and their dependents. Support ing this answer, Uncle Sam points to the 1922 budget estimate of ex- penditures to be made directly for the benefit of ex-warriors, which calls for half a billion dollars.
 Colonel C. R. Forbes, director of the United States Veterans Bureau, outlined for Internationl News Serv- ice the expenditures his bureau con- templated for the current year. The estimate, in round figures, calls for $b10, 100000.
 TRAINING WORK CONTINUED
 This sum will be divided, Colonel Forbes said, into seven composite branches of soldier relief work. For vocational training, the sum of $167,- 5OO,OOO; for medical and hospital services, the sum of $64,600,000; for payments on war risk terms incur ance. the sum of $1S,700,000; for U. S. Government life insurance, the sum of $5,7O0, ,0O0; for soldiers oom- pensation, the sum of $161, 100000; for retroactive government allowances on proven and extent claims, the sum of $2,O00,Ooo, and for salaries and expenses, that is administration. the sum of $31,5OOO00. These fig ures total 100000, from which Colonel Forbes deducts the s5,700,- 900 to be paid in United States gov ernment life insurance claims, on the ground that it Is a self-supporting branch of the bureaus activities.
 Of the $161,500,00 allotted to vo- cational training Colonel Forbes be- lieves that not more than $3,OO0,0O0 will be used for administration ex- penses at the governments camps training schools and reconstruction centres. Thus the major portion of that allotment will go to pay the ex- service men an average of $115 per man per month while in training.
 $115 MONTHLY IS AVERAGE
 He pointed out that $115 was an average, declaring that the pay ments vary between $sO and $170 per month per man. The greatest amount will be expended for men at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. In addition it will pay for the for mer coliders stationed at the hu- reau's six additional large training centres and forty-one small training centre.
 The administration, or salaries and expenses. item will include sal aries and expenses of the bureaus Washineton office. its fourteen dis trict offices, it's 126 sub-offices and as well, the salaries of all teachers.
 Colonel Forbes declared that the bureau is handling satisfactorily 2O3- GOO comnensation claims for which the $161 100000 has been allotted: and 150 GOO insurance claims. for which the 17OO 900 has heen set aside.
 5o,ooo BEING EDUCATED
 The bureau, its director continued to exn1ain, is maintaining slightly more than 50 900 former soldiers in American public and private educa- tional institutions and an average of '9 900 in placement training in in dustrial schools.
 The number of men in all voca- tional schools is 5,o35, 15O of whom are at Camp Sherman In govern- ment and private hospitals the hur- eau is taking care of 303O0 disabled veterans, some of whom are also rendered vocational training. and some of whom are also on the in- surance and compensation paprol's.
 In round figures. vocational train ing is being afforded 195,ooo veter- ans, Colonel Forbes declared
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