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HUGfSUMS FOR ‘VETERANS' WHO NEVER FOUGHT Real Heroes Are Paid Less Than ‘Gold Bricks’ for War Disability. < (Continued from Page 1) body defied identification. His was selected as the outstanding example of ®elf-abnegation to represent all those who marched away and never returned. If the Uhknown Soldier has a mother and father living, each is receiving sls a month. If the Unknown soldier left behind only a mother, she now is gettin® S2O a month. If the Unknown Soldier left a wife, she is receiving a dollar a day, S3O a month, in return for the man she gave. If she has his child to rear and educate, the United States adds $lO a month, with six dollars additional a month for each additional child. | Well Paid for No Risk To visualise the iniquities and abuses made possible under this program of legislation, let us take the- hypothetical case of a man drafted into service just before the armistice. Say that he spent a month in the army, taking out war risk insurance, which -he allowed to lapse promptly with his discharge; that he got a Job and worked regularly until June, 1924; that he then discovered that an old case of syphilis, which he contracted in the army, and for which he was courtmartialed, had developed into locomotor Atajda: that he had reinstated his government insurance and shortly afterward became totally blind as result of his malady. Under the law, this man’s troubles would be the result of his war service, although there was no obligation on him as a soldier to expoet himself to syphilis. Nevertheless, congress has rated him along with the man whose eyes were gouged out in a bayonet fight with the enemy, and he would receive SIOO a month for total disability, an additional SSO a month for blindness, SSO a month for an attendant and $57.50 a month from his government insurance, a grand total of $257.50 a month. He is receiving far more in a week than any of the Unknown Soldier’s dependents get in a month. “Soft” for Officer Or consider the hypothetical case of an emergency reserve captain who did a short tour of duty in noncombatant service. Say he was discharged suffering from some minor malady, such as a. cough due to over-smoking, or chronic constipation. He worked at his profession after the war, earning a good living. Meanwhile, his slight indisposition became somewhat worse. In 1928 —ten years after the armistice—congress passed the emergeney officers’ retirement act. Under the terms of that law, if the exofficer could show that his difficulty was 30 per cent or more "permanently” disabling (which it would not be hard for him to prove), he would be handed a present of SI,BOO a year for life, regardless of whether he later recovered from his disability, and regardless of what he was earning in civil life. The law makes a case like that possible, places a value on this kind of case at five times the value of the life of the Unknown Soldier, so far as his widow is concerned, and seven and one-half times the payment to his mother. Pets of Government Victims of other wars in government hospitals refer to World war veterans as "heroes." This’because a World war veterans’ lobby has been able to shove through congress laws giving veterans of the late war far- greater emoluments than those of other wars. For instance, a World war veteran gets his traveling expenses and receives $2.65 a day in addition when he reports for physical examination to determine whether the government owes him anything for disability. These payments are made whether there is any merit in his (Slaim or not. Veterans of other wars pay their own traveling expenses, receive no wages. A Soldier blinded by a German bullet gets $l5O a month in compensation. If it was a Confederate bullet, an Indian bullet, or a Spanish bullet, it brings $125 a month. System Is Confusing A German shell which caused total deafness brings a man SIOO a month: a Confederate or a Spanish shell brings S4O a month. These are typical examples. To enumerate all would fill a volume. The whole problem becomes confusion twice confounded when an effort is made to gauge the value of dead soldiers of various wars. A widow of a veteran of the Civil war Who is past 70 and was married prior to June 27, 1905, collects S4O a month: if she was married to the soldier during his service, she gets SSO a month. Thus she is rated higher than a World war widow. . The mother of a Civil war veteran receives S3O a month—ten dollars more than the amount given the mother of a World war veteran. The mother of a veteran of the regular army or navy is entitled to from sl2 to S3O a month, depending upon her son's rank. Orphan brothers and sisters do not figure at all in the compensation legislation for World war veterans. But in the case of other wars, if a pensioner dies from a service-con-nected disability, leaving neither widow nor legitimate children, the pension may be paid in the order of preference to a mother, a father,

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or a brother or a sister under 16 years of ageA survey of legisation concerning veteran relief for the World war shows that the Washington veteran lobby constantly has been urging—and getting—grants of money for men who suffered least from their war experiences. An example of this is the fact that an insane World war veteran without dependents whose malady is service-connected, in a government institution, gets a cut of S2O a month in his compensation if he has been hospitalized for six months. On the other hand, if the veteran has gone out of his mind because of something that happened to him in civilian life since the war, he gets no reduction in disability allowance. Nor is a Civil war veteran subject to reduction under the same circumstances. The insane and dependents of the dead are last In the long line of those waiting for payments at the treasury window. That is, unless in the case of the insane their insanity was due to a few special diseases which have been written into the law. It now is proposed that an additional law paying a bonus be added to this heterogeneous woodpile of legislation. The bonus will cost at least two billion dollars. Veterans’ relief already is costing a billion dollars a year, which is more than the treasury deficit for the fiscal year of 1931. Next: The history of fifteen billion dollars.

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CLAIMANT TO ROYAL BLOOD DIESJN WEST Wesleyan Bishops Declared He Was Son of England’s King Edward VII. By United Prctt LOS ANGELES, April B.—Simple funeral services were arranged today for John Guelph, 71, bishop of the Wesleyan Episcopal church, who claimed to be the legitimate and privately recognized son of King Edward VII of England. Guelph, who died of a heart attack, called himself Prince John Guelph de Windsor, declaring himself the first born son of Edward VII and the princess of Waterbury of the line of Henry IV. He said he was born as the issue of a secret marriage ‘ which he claimed was ended by the wrath of Queen Victoria, but never annulled, though Edward later married Princess Alexandria of Denmark. His claims were not recognized by George V, present ruled, but his representations stirred the British empire a short time before the outbreak of war in 1914. Guelph came to San Francisco in 1901 and married Jennie Ward Hays, daughter of a prominent San Francisco physician, who. with a .son, Lionel Victor Guelph, a broker, survive.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belone to: J. J. Manchester. 847 Park avenue. Ford couDe. 64-563. from Virginia avenue and Louisiana street. Savage Smith. 1628 North Meridian street. Ford roadster. 49-301. from in front of 1628 North Meridian street. BACK HOME AGAIN Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Gus Sansone. 2237 Brookside avenue. Ford coupe, found at Marion. .Ind. Nellie Lewis. 714 Pleasant Run boulevard. Ford sedan, found at Lebanon. 111. Studebaker coupe. 102-914. no certificate of title, found in alley in rear of 2107 Boulevard place. Frank Sullivan. 3612 East Michigan street. Oakland sedan, found at Holmes avenue and Tenth street.

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