Imperial Valley press., 1925-12-28
BY JOSEPH s. WAsNEY

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dee. 28.-Caring
for disabled World War veterans
and dependents of deceased soldiers
cost the government s393.7j5,857
dnriro the last fiscai year, General
Frank T. Hines, director of the vet
eraus bureau reported to CONGRESS.
The terrible aftermath of the war
was shown bv General Hines state
ment that 2l1 GA veterans are dis
obled from wounds or disease con-
tracted while in the service and that
27,625 veterans have died since the
bureau was established.
Ncuropsvchiatric diseases were
the ma ior cause of disability. Hines
said. There were 44S45 neuropsv
chiatric cases under care of the vet
Grams bureau on June 80. To the
soldiers who suffered mental dis
orders from the war the government
is pavinp $2.017.705 monthly.
T. B. Claims Many
tuberculosis was the disabling
cause in $3.50 eases and the month
" navments on these cases was $2,-
S75,565. Fifty two per cent of the
tuberculosis eases were rated as to-
tally disabled.
General medical and surgical con-
ditionS were the cause of disability
in 10000 eases or 57.2 per cent of
the entire number of cases on which
L iep IL hn, r
paid by the government. The
monthly value Of payments for the
general cases was 5000, 400.
Vocational training work of the
veterans bureau has practically
been completed, Hines reported. On
june 80, 22,937 former service men
were in training to fit themselves
for industrial life. These men will
have completed their courses be-
fore June 80, 1926. To refit vete-
rams for commercial life the gov
ernment expended $60,4S2,479 last
year.
Compensation Payments
Compensation payments were be-
ing made to the dependents of 65,-
500 veterans who died in the SER
vice or after discharge as a result
of injury or disease incurred in line
"f duty. The totol monthly payments
70 these dependents June 1925 was
81 .744, 900 or an average of $26.44
for each case.
Compensation was being paid to
16.346 widows, 1899 children and
81 .284 parents of veterans who have
died as a result Of service. Thirty
two per cent of the deaths for which
compensation is now being paid were
due to casualties in action while di-
sease caused the remainder of the
deaths.
Insurance records on June 80 were
by the bureau for 552,-
$40 vetrans carrying $2,S65, ,02S,729
of insurance. The majority of the
veterans held 20 payment life poll.
ries.
Term Insurance Claims
On June 80 monthly installments
Of term insurance were being paid
to lO,470 permanently and totally
disabled veterans. The total amount
to be paid is $S7,S36,097. Monthly
of term insurance were
being paid to the beneficiaries of
l41, ,3S4 deceased veterans, the to-
tai amount of insurance involvd be-
ing $1,275,216,6Ss.
Through the calendar year 1924
here has been been total of 1864
awards made to permanently and to-
ally disabled veterans for convert
ID insurance in the amount of So
72S, S,S96. There have also been
wards made as a result of death of
1851 veterans in the amount of $l7,-
1897.
a total of 2,s45, ,lSO applications
or benefits under the World War |
adjusted compensation act were re-
eived by the veterans bureau up
o June 30, 1925. Cash payments
to $2,959,31992 were
made to S9,S13 veterans. Adjusted
ervice certificates We're authorized
ssued to 2,640,l77 men. The face
alue of the certificates was S.
32,SO9, l67. Awards of $6,339,-
7l.49 Were made on 1928 depend
ncy cases and claims of 4416 bene-
iciaries amounted to $4,634, ,013.S8.
With the passage of the World
Var veterans act in 1924 it was an
IClnatp1 thot thara u,o,lI bo i, 80,