Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1919 — SERVICE OBJECTORS RETURN WAR FUNDS [ARTICLE]

SERVICE OBJECTORS RETURN WAR FUNDS

Feb. 26.—Conscientious objectors have returned to the war department, the Friends’ society, the Y. M. C. A. and the Red Cross approximately $20,000 of the money paid them, the war department an. nounced today. Of this sum $4,319.82 has been received by the war department; $4,000 by the Friends’ society and $270 by the Y.M. C. A. It is estimated that the 1,200 objectors who were given farm furloughs have senlt to the Red Cross SIO,OOO representing the difference between a dollar a day rate paid to soldiers, and the prevailing wages received by these men.