HOW VICTORY
LOAN FUND IS
TO BE SPENT
NEW YORK, May 6 (by Associated
Press).—The money raised from the
Victory Liberty loan will be used to
pay for bringing the American troops
home 'from France, the cost of their
demobilization, part of the war insur
ance claims of the soldiers and sailors
killed or injured in the fighting, and
will furnish funds for the care of the
wounded and for the vocational train
ing of the maimed and other post-war
expenses says a representative here
of the Liberty loan committee.
“One of the biggest items of ex
pense will be for the transportaion
and demobilization of the troops the
cost of which, from the time the arm
istice was signed until the army is re
turned to a peace basis, will amount
to approximately $2,320,273,000,” he
adds in a statement.“There were about
2.000. 000 men overseas when the fight
ing ended. According to the army
transportaiton experts, it will cost
$200 a man to bring them from the
fighting lines in France and Belgium
to their homes in the United States.
This will make the transportation bill
$400,000,000, of which $128,000,000 rep
resents the fare of the soldiers in
France, $124,000,000 their fare across
the Atlantic, and $148,000,000 their
transportation from United States
ports to their homes.
“It will take at least ten months,
the army authorities say, to complete
the demobilization of the troops from
overseas. Their maintenance in that
period, including housing, clothing
and food, will amount to about $1,000,
000,009, °f which $279,428,130 will be
for food.
“The demobilization, transportation
and maintenance expenses of the 1,
€55,000 soldiers who did not get to
Europe, will amount to about $920,
273.000, bringing the total for the
whole army to the amount already
stated, $2,230,273000, which will make
quite a hole in the Victory Liberty
loan receipts.
“There are about 200,000 sick and
wounded soldiers still being cared for
1
In the government hospitals. The per
capita cost of caring for these pa
tients is figured by the army medical
department at $725, which brings the
total cost of those now undergoing
treatment to $145,000,000. T^ere are
eight army hospitals in the United
States. The cost of their operation
ranges from a few hundred thousand
to a million dollars a year each.
“The amount of war risk insurance
the government has outstanding is
$37,000,000,000. The claims already
filed amount to $5,000,000. If all the
soldiers, numbering approximately
72,500, who were killed in action, or
died of wounds, accident and disease, 1
were insured for the full amount of
$10,000 each permitted under the plan,
their claims woul aggregate $725,000,
000. Payments on these claims will
be made at the rate of $50 a month
to the dependents of each soldier,
which calls for the expenditure of
$43,500,000 a year for about sixteen
years. However, it is not probable
that many of these claims, or of the
thousands of others that wil be filed
by soldiers disabled in the war, will
be acted upon in time to make much
of a drain upon the proceeds of the
Victory loan.
"The federal board for vocational
training, which the government has
established to care for disabled men
after their discharge from the army
or navy and train them to earn a live
lihood, will cost several millions of
dollars a year to maintain. Already
12,000 men have applied for training
in the institution, and as they are to
be paid at least $5 a month each while
undergoing training, their pay alone
will amount to about $1,000,000 a year.
“Other expenses to be met out of
the proceeds of the Victory Liberty
loan will be the purchase of wheat at
the guaranteed price of $2.26 a bushel,
and extension of credit to the coun
tries associated with us in the war to
enable them to purchase war material
and other property of the United
States in such countries which is no
longer essential to this government.
Funds also will be needed for the up
keep and other expenses of the navy
since the signing of the armistice and
for the operation of the railroads. In
addition to these military costs, the
civil expenses of the government are
running at about $2,000,000,000 a
year.”
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AMERICA’S WAR SERVICE
THEME OF NEW PICTURE
LONDON, May 6 (by Associated
Press).—America’s war service is the
theme of a picture just conlpieted by
one of this country's foremost woman
artists, Miss Margaret Lindsay Will
iams. It is to be shown at the Royal
Academy.
“An Empire's Tribute to the Flag
of Stars,” is the title of the picture.
Britannia is depicted with the laurels
of honor and victory clinging to her
shield and her blood-stained sword
laid down, kneeling on the eagle of
militarism which lies dead, slain by
many powers. She is kissing the Flag
of Stars—the symbol of aspiration—
which is held by a winged and olive
crowned figure of peace, which has
just alighted on the world.
Miss Williams as a pupil of Sargent
won the Royal Academy's gold medal.
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