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...complex overhauling of veterans' compensation, allowance, pensions, insurance and hospitalization to save about $127,000,000. Examples: No Federal income tax payer could draw a pension. Civil disability allowances would be granted only the totally and permanently disabled. Retired emergency officers in hospitals would have their pensions cut to $20 per month after 30 days treatment. Veterans now drawing $50 per month for arrested tuberculosis would lose their compensation. A system of periodic physical examinations would weed out malingerers...
...deed Dr. Norris, 64, would have lost a $3,300 yearly pension. But the money has no great meaning to him. He is one of the Pennsylvania Norrises whose American ancestor, Isaac, was a friend of William Penn. Isaac Norris' descendants founded Norristown, Pa., became wealthy bankers, merchants, and landowners in & around Philadelphia...
When asked where his brother was. Samuel Insull, who lives in an expensive ($10 a day) hotel on his $1,500 monthly pension, said he did not know. But the Press located Brother Martin in Anne McLean's Boarding House ($20 a week) in Orillia, Ont., a small town 86 mi. north of Toronto. No sadder birthday has long-nosed Martin Insull had than the one which came last week, his 63rd. He described himself as a "man without a job, without plans, without a future.'' Asked what he did all the time, he replied, "Oh, I take long walks...
Unsatisfied with these outlays, the Legion wants the Government to pension the widows and children of all veterans...
...days and out of 300,000 men under arms, 5.547 lost their lives. In 1915. 28,912 veterans of that war were drawing $3,851,699 for real hurts. In 1920 the bars were dropped: any veteran disabled in any way or over 62, was eligible for a pension. Today Spanish War pensioners total 235,463. N. E. L. would lop $109.000,000 from the Government's bill by limiting payment to those disabled in actual service...