Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-31
GOVERNMENTAL CARE OF
WORLD WAR VETERANS
Daily Letter by Frederic }. Haskin

the government. More than 10000
of these men were receiving in ad-
dition to the training, what is call
eG maintenance pay the amounts
ranging from $50 to $40 a month.
Since the government undertook the
work of rehabilitating vo~cationally
handicapped veterans, about $4,000
have taken advantage of it.
C r.. Forbes, director OF the Bu-
G a is authority for the statement
that this government has been more
liberal with it's disabled soldiers
than any government in the world.
For the relief of these veterans, a
total of more than a billion and a
quarter dollars has been expended.
The end of the work of this Bureau
IL not in sight, by any ean 1t
is estimated that eventually the
number Of veterans to receive voca-
tional education alone will amount
to between $4,000 and 100000.
Recently a conference was held
here of the leading lights of the ed
ucational world. This conference
made many recommendations to the
Veterans Bureau, and these recon-
rnendations are being carried out to
the best of the ability of the officers
VI tile bureau II % ~
known experts in neuropsychiatric
and mental disorders recently con-
cluded a conference which bids fair
to assist the Bureau materially in
decreasing the number of mental
cases and to provide Il cure for men
with d~isordered minds.
mo stone has been. lat unturned
to provide the disableS veterans
of the World War with every posi-
BILE advantage" says Director Forbes
land statements to the effect that
the government has been derelict in
it's duty show an absolute lack OF
information of what has been done
for them" i.
The work of the Bureau is not
easy by any means. Handling so
many deaths and disability claims is
an enormous business in itself, RI
valling the business Of a big insur-
ance Company which has built up it's
organization with it's gradual In
crease of business through many de-
cades.
Peculiar Cases Arise
Often one Ease will cause the
Bureau no end of difficulty. Re-
Gently a death claim came before
the Bureau which showed that the
veteran who had taken out the IN
suranc was related to A pen cent
of the population of his home town.
The late Bonnie +. Taylor had the
policy, which named his father az
beneficiary. The father died, leav-
ing the money to the next of KIN
The Veterans Bureau requested a
list of relatives falling in what Is
known as the permitted class and
this is what happened:
The Bureau received a list nVe
feet long containing the names ages
and addresses of nine brothers, SIN
sisters. six uncles, six aunts, twenty
three nephews, nineteen nieces, si1
brothers-in-law, eight sisters-lniaV
and a stepmother. OF this total o.
81 living relatives, xcluslv o.
cousins 80 bear the name OF
lor. The remaining relatives IN
clude the names of Berch, summers
Davis, Campbell, Broadwater' Goss
Lemon. Bornes, Thornton, Man
ming and Ponder. On examination
of this amazing list. it was fount
that 50 of these relatives are nov
residents of Crystal Springs. Ihus
according to the last census ngure
given for this town, Bonnie Taylo
was related to a trifle more than
per cent of the fetal reputation
, which amounts to 1895. h oides
of the relatives given in h llst j
an uncle Of 20 years. The young
est is a nephew born in January Q
this year. All of them live IN MIS-
sissippi. uuo,
AS long as Taylor's father i've
the case was simple enough. IN
veteran had a term insurance polc,
for $500 and the Veterans Burea
forwarded a check to the elder lay
Ior each month for $2S.75. IN
complications started when n 81
der TAYLOR died., leaving no WI
when 204 installments of the GOV
eminent insurance remained un
paid. u,
The solution of the wa
based on the inheritance laws !
effect in Mississippi. In en-
the uncles and aunts, sisters-in-la
and brothers-in-law, nephews an
nieces. as we'll as all cousins, WEI
excluded from the dement's OIL tn
government insurance. The month";
mount is to be divided between IN
nine brothers, six sisters, and tn
stepmother. Hereafter, n check &c
s1.a2 will be- forwarded each mont
to each of the surviving relative
of the former soldier.