Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-12

81. 9ss. o60.s34 has been appropriated
for the welfare of soldiers and sailors
of the late war, in such items as fam
,ls ai,iHt training. &C. The appro-
priations for the fiscal year 1923 are
s406.03S,S42 for these purposes. mus
the United States is expending more
than s1.ooo.o0o q day for me wei1are
April /, specified. are as follows:
Military and naval
family allowances. $2sS.6l5,000
Military and naval COM
penSatlon ....,...... ooa,d000,00nooo
insurance ...'.'''.'''' eS'ooS'SSo
Administration ........ S3,S9o,Sou
disqualification ........ 224,iz9,4u@
Hospital construction. 47,o95, 600
Vocational training 80. 469123,3l0
Disposition of remains. 33413,IS2
Bonus allowance $685.. 24S,6S2,2uV
Payments 10 benefi-
Charles of army men
and officers ......... 1U,49o, o0V
Total ............... S1,996,260,634
The number of former service men
receiving vocational training is 1OS,-
zoo. The average received per month
by each man is Sis. This includes
compensation which goes to families.
In addition, the government supplies
the men with books, tools, medical
care, transportation, tuition in schools,
&c.
Other figures on wounded and dis
ablcd men are as follows:
approximately $4,000 are now in
hospitals.
The total number wounded is 20s.-
The total number discharged for dis
ability is 251,915.
The government is paying compensa-
ton on 50,420 death claims and 1885,
539 disability cases.
The amount paid last month for
this compensation was S10,340,000.
The government is paying insurance
on 134550 death claims and 6299 dis
ability claims.
The amount paid in war risk term
insurance last month was SS,454, 069.11
The commuted value of war risk
term insurance allowed by the govern
ment is .$l.326. 9S5,S35.70.
If there is any duty which lies upon
the heart of President Harding more
of providing for the disabled men who
fought for the United states during
the late war. He has emphasized his
sense of responsibility many times
and has more than performed all that
duty required in imprcssinS upon Con-
grcss the need Of forethouSht ard lib
crafty Vim providing for these men,
AS for Congress, it is sufficient to say
that every dollar estimated for by the
executive departments has been APP
propriated. In no other branch of
governmental activity is this the case.
II is only in dealing with former SER
vice men that Congress has met the
estimates without cutting off single
dollar.
Soon the country will have before it
the proposal for bonus as worked
out by the Senate committee. Whether
this plan will be approved by the Pres
ident remains to be developed after
conferences. Alternative plans are
suggested and perhaps there will he
notifications resulting in a Satisfac-
tory compromise. President Harding
has frequently said that he would not
approve of bonus legislation which
did not provide means of raising the
required revenue.
The appropriate in behalf of for
MGR service men have been made BY
Congress without thought of partisan
ship. Just as all partisans fought in
the war without drawing political
lines, so Congress draws no lines when
providing for the nations defenders
II would be a pity TO see bonus legis-
lation injected into tho Forthcoming
campaign as a political bone of con-
tcntion. If bonus bill should be en-
acted. it will be by the votes of all
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