Costs Mounting. Washington. Renewsd agitation for the passage of legisiation permitting World war veterans to borrow the re maining 50 per cent of the value of their bonus Insurance certificates served to focus attention on the tre- mendous growth in recent years of the funds expended hy the war vet- erans’ administration, Testimony delivered before the house appropriations committee by Brig. Gen, Frank T. Hines, administrator of vet- erans’ affairs, disclosed that the vet- erans’ administration 18 now a billion dollars a year concern with expendl- tures still growing. His figures re- vealed that in 1033 the veterans’ ad- ministrator expected to expend in ex- cess of a billion dollars on adminis- tration of veterans’ matters, payments fo beneficiaries, on adjusted compensa- gion certificates, hospitalization and pther activities. During the past twelve years the In- dependent establishment handling vet- erans’ matters has expanded by leaps and bounds until today it is estimated fit will take 40,000 civilian employees to care for the Interests of the hun- dreds of thousands of veterans now receiving ald from the government in pne form or another. During the next fiscal year this department will utilize facilities at more than 300 hospitals and furnish beds for in excess of 63,- 000 patients, Build New Hospitals. With the approximately billie lar appropriation, which it now assured of receiving, new hospitals will be built, new beds provided, ap- proximately a miillon veterans given treatment of some kind, or funds for some particular reason, loans made to pther veterans on bonus certificates, compensation pald to disabled veterans and salaries paid to the army of em- plowees, In event legislation Is passed permit- ting the veterans to cash the full value of thelr compensation certificates an- other two billion dollars would be add- ed to the sum which the veterans’ ad- ministration would handle in the next few years, The big items in the ministration bill as req by General Hines follow: Administration, medical, domiciliary services, £116,000,000, PEC wn dol- seems veterans’ ad- for 103 om nested hospital and Army and navy pensions, $225,000, 000, Adjusted $150,000,000, Military and naval service, 000,000, In his budget message Hoover asked $1,000,300 000 erans’ administration affairs, mately one-fourth of the entire eral budget, Of this sum $150,000,000 was for use In making loans to veterans on their bonus certificates. The house appro- priations committee cut this figure to $040,237,7095, Virtually no cut was made at all Inasmuch as the $50,000,- 000 reduction was effected by cutting down the figure for bonus payments with the definite understanding Gen- eral Hines can go to congress to get this sum, if it Is needed, in a deficiency bill next December, As of December 31, 1031, erans whose hospitalization was au- thorized by the veterans’ administra- tion were recelving treatment, Three hundred and twenty-two hospitals were utilized: 64 by the administration itself, 216 belonging to state and civil institutions, 17 to the public health service, 16 to the United States navy, 7 to the United States army, and 2 to the Department of the Interior, On December 21, 1931, the veterans’ administration afforded domi- ciliary care for 17,210 additional vet- erans, During the 1031 year the de partment treated 850,409 out patients and gave 2,148,432 physical examin. ations, As of December 31, 1031, 318,114 vet- erans were receiving compensation for disability Incurred In, resulting from, or aggravated by military service dur- ing the World war, Compensation was also being paid to the dependents of 07.543 veterans whose death occurred in, or resulted from service In the World war. The amount of compensa- tion payments, depending upon t! gree of disability, ranges from £8 per month for a temporary partis tion to $200 per month for known as a double permanent total disability. General Hines sald the tive awards for tion has Increased by June 20, 1923, A big increase In those receiving ts for d ity resulting from other than military and was recorded last year, service certificate fund, $110,- President for vet- approxi- fed- 42,225 vet- Was 1e de il condl- what Is and number of ac- disabi 135,024 the n benef) naval service FIRM In CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. GOES Teo DY mn P, ove SWART Lo, Nn. J., tH Tne MAME ANDY = 15 FROM THE AMOS - SE — CATS AND CANARIES By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Emeritus Dean of Men, University of Illinois. It takes a good deal to give a young person a thrill today. They are so fed up dally upon amusement that it is only the unusu- nl and the extreme thing which ean give them a sen- sation of delight or Interest, Once a rag doll or a branch of a tree cut into the sem- blance of a horse would throw a child into an ec- stacy of Imagina- tion and delight, Not so today. It requires a doll that can walk and speak French, or an electric train that lays down Its own track as it rushes about the nursery to get even an ordi- nary rise out of a young child. The high school boy might once have been in the seventh heaven If he could own a bicycle, but he yawns today unless he can have a snappy high-powered motor car which will speed along at 75 miles an hour. It puzzles parents now to devise some new amusements for their children or to find something new and startling to give them. Far be it from me to long for the “good old days” There were many things In our youth which were crude and Inadequate, but our amusements were simple and rare enough to be appreciated when they came, There were the Fourth of July celebration In the summer, and the annual visit of the circus in the fall, and these two events looked forward to with the keenest interest, and prepared for as well, The old bugey up, and the horses groom were wns washed and the We we could get harness greased ed to a saved what little our hands on, ms prettiest girl high polish, money date with the » and set out to have a glo The antieipa- tion and th Yue events in retrospect served ns fo r six m In winter there ties, or dances at a ne 1 noticed In the onths at least, were occasional par. wr's house. account of a re held in a nearby vors presented to each which followed rsian cats and ea. must be thrilled cost! used at 312, Western Newspa any por Unlos.) 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The gown, of by a Japanese, can be so speeded as | corded silk crepe, employs the fash- to picture revolver bullets In flight. fonable scarf tied at the throat, BIT A —— (assy GERTIE Mark Koenig, who has played shortstop for the New York Yankees in three world’s series and is now with the Detroit Tigers, has started the ex- traordinary move of making a pitcher of himself, Manager Stanley Harris thinks he will make an efficient hurler, SO EVERY TIME ALI BABA SAID, (0 [ “OPEN, SESAME,’ > "THE The shoe repair shop of Anthony Rizzo in Painesville, Ohio, was filled with flowers the other day after the | reception of a telegram from New | York announcing that Anthony, ot Tony, as his friends know him, had been chosen national champion shoe | repairman at the fifth annual shoe re- | palrers’ and dealers’ exposition, Each | contestant submitted three pairs of | shoes, one shoe of each pair In the | original tate of wear and the other repaired in the contestant’'s best man. ner, Tony comes from a cobblers' | family, His grandfather had a little | shop In Palmere, Italy, many ime | A SLIGHT MISTAKE PR.LD.KELLOGC'S ASTHMAREWMEDY for the prompt relie? of Asthma end Mey Fever. 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