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M ■if‘ ' * .iArfi Thursday, July 17, 1930 McCURMICK MESSENGER, McCOKMICK, SoutM GfAnm. Page NumEer Cappelmann Offers Suggestions Veterans Insurance Question STATE SERVICE OFFICE, CO LUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA BULLETIN: COLUMBIA, July 5, — TO ALL POST AND COUNTY SERVICE OF FICERS: 1. You have no doubt followed press reports on World War Veter ans Legislation, but there is given herewith a brief report on the Amendments to the World War Veterans Act of 1924, for your in formation. We have listed only the more important amendments. 2. We are not prepared to state definitely just what the exact pro cedure will be in reference to the “disability allowance^ feature, but our suggestion is that those vet erans who are more than 25 per cent disabled permanently, make informal application in the follow ing fonA, mailing direct to the Veterans Bureau, Columbia, S. C. at once: (Form) U. S. Veterans Bureau, Columbia, S. C. ^ (Place and Date) Claim No. % (if you have claim) Gentlemen: Application is here with made for such benefits to which I may be found entitled un der the Act of Congress, approved July 3, 1930, H. R. 13174, amending the World War Veterans Act of 1924. Your truly, (Name) Rank, Organization, Serial No. (if possible) (Address) 3. The Act provides for “disabil ity allowance” from date of appli cation therefor, in such form as the Director shall prescribe; but pending the receipt of the form from the Director, we suggest the above informal application. It can do no harm, hnd may, do much good. Amendments: (Section numbers refer to sec tions of the World War Veterans* Act.) 1. Section 5-(a) Removes Comp troller General from Veterans Bureau. (b)' Due regard shall be given to lay and other evidence not of a medical nature. 2. Section 16-Premium refunds authorized on retroacitve perman ent and total ratings on War Risk Insurance. 3. Section 19-(a)^Authorizes the courts as part of the judgment on insurance suits t» direct a refund of ^rfcthhims. (b) Extends the time for bringing suits on insurance claims tor one year following approval of this amendatory act. ^ (c) Broadens the law affect- 'ing attendance of witnesses and attorneys, travel payments, atid other matters affecting insurance suits. v ^ 4. Section 21-(a) Where pay ments are withheld from guardians of incompetents or minors because of misconduct, these payments are authorized to persons having them in custody. (b) Conserves handling of in competent’s funds in event of v: Section 38-This is a new sec tion added to Title I, directing the Secretary of War to assemble in Washington, all medical and serv ice records of World War Veterans. 6. Section 200. The existing law . is not disturbed in any particular, but an amendment is added to it providing disability allowances to permanently disabled veterans for disabilities not acquired in the service for which compensation is not payable, at the following rates: 25 per cent disabled, $12 a month; 50 per cent disabled, $18 a month; 75 per cent disabled, $24 a month; totally disabled, $40 a month. To receive such payments, a per son must have enlisted prior to November 11, 1918, served 90 days during the World War, and the disability must not be the result of his own willful misconduct. Vet-, erans are not entitled to the disab ility allowance who have paid a Federal income tax for the year preceding the filing of application. Compensation and allowance may not be paid during the same per iod. 7. Section 201-(a) The amount paid dependent's father and mo ther shall not be less than $20 a month. (b) The date of determination of dependency shall be the anni versary date of the original award. (c) Bodies of deceased veter ans shall be transported free from National Homes to places of burial. \ (d) Flags furnished free to drape caskets of all veterans. 8. Section 202 (Subdivision 3)- An additional $25 a month shall be paid fbr the loss of the use of a creative organ or of one or more feet or hands from an injury re ceived in active service in line of duty between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918. For the forces in Russia this date is extended to April 1, 1920. These amendments are desired to cover particular am putations. 9. Section 202 (Subdivision 5)- The word “constant*' sUicken out in connection with the words “need of nurse or attendent.” 10. Section 202 (Subdivision 7»- (a) Where insurance and compen sation payments have accumulated above $3,000 in the estate of an insane hospitalized veteran, with out dependents, the 20 monthly | payment shall cease. (b) A minimum rating of 25 per centum is allowed for arrested tuberculosis in combinatkm rat ings. • | 11. Section 202 'Subdivision 15) Pensions - for disability may be evaluated and combined with com- j ensatidn payments. IS. Section 206-Repealed. Re- ! V ite •* * SSsc: \ '(/mette, utu imldero/iulo. [LDER, YES-BUT SOMETHING MORE. Chesterfield offers richness, aroma, satisfying flavor. BETTER TASTE—that’s the answer; and that’s what smokers get in Chesterfield in full est measure—the flavor and aroma of mellow tobaccos, exactly blended and cross-blended. Better taste, and milder too! . Ak-J*:-. LJi © 1930, Laoorrr ft Myers Tobacco Co. US6ETT A HYERSJOMGGO COl 1 quired submission of evidence for compensation claims prior to April 6, 1930. 13. Section 209-Repealed. Re quired applications for compensa tion be^ filed before April 6, 1930. 14. Section 214 (a) Permits pay ment of dependency allowances where an insane veteran has dis appeared. (b) Broadened from . “wife, child or children” to “depend ents.” 15. Section 301 (a) . * Recovered permanent and total cases allowed to reinstate War Risk Insurance which has lapsed, and convert it. <b) Refund of all unearned premiums allowed. 16. Section 307 (a) Insurance policies made incontestable from date of issuance, conversion or re instatement except for fraud, non payment of premium or where the person was not a member *of the military or naval forces. (b> Bureau 1 prevented from raising plea of estoppel in con nection with suits on original con tracts of insurance because of subsequent reinstatement of con version. 'O'Insured allowed to make claim under a former policy. 'd) Recovery prevented on more than one policy. 17. Section 311-Where insured is totally disabled for four consecu tive months, total and permanent disability benefits to be payable. Insured must apply for these bene fits and Director will determine the amount of monthly premium. Our office will be glad to answer any Question; we are here to as sist the veterans of South Carolina in every possible way. E. HENRY CAPPELMANN, State Service Officer. R. H. HILTON, Assistant. S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW- County. Fairfax — Construction of labor atory by United States Department of Agriculture here nearing com pletion. Allendale — Harold Langford re purchased Unity Grocery stores. Fairfax — About 750 people em- ployed at local cannery. Road from Bamberg to Hunter’s The following: record of Indus- Chapel being reconstructed. , t _ r ! a A^ cU ! lty . UStS “ shov ? in8 course^established ^cm Henderson- ville road next to Texaco Filling u The Town Doctor DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: investment of capital, employ^ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, station. Sumter — Shaw Lumber Com pany, capitalized at $4,000, granted charter of incorporation. Tigerville — Greenville Public rect. usually of towns mentioned, and Library established branch library may be considered generally cor-jin this community. Newberry — New front being constructed on Lominack’s Hard ware building. Antioch — Presbyterian Church edifice dedicated. Easley — Western Electric Sound Columbia — Boy Scouts of the Central District of South Carolina Sv e Mr te »„H‘wrl 4 iSystem"instailed"in Lyric'ThTatre" stow^ r an( * MrS Wl ^ iam Bar “ Calhoun Falls — Dial type tele- Air marker on New- ?^ ne system inau S urated in this THIS IS THE “LET DOWN” SEASON Newberry — an muiKei un mew- _ ...... - berryCctton Mills building re-, cit ^ bevl n e _ contract let to gSsfne^s TOev ^shVo? accounVof ttou- painted. Greenwood Lumber Company for business when* thpv qre nntVof 6 sands of them tell a different story. —Highway i : h t ey „! t re „".°^ g 1 l t ; But regardles of that, you can’t Every year when the month of July rolls around there are certain people and certain businesses that regularly get out the old “off sea son,” “Everybody’s on vacation” and “it’s too*hot” abilbi for not doing anything. There is no “off season” for the man, the business or the commun ity that has the gumption to keep going to go o-et it. The very fact that there are # so many peo ple who LOOK for a reason and excuse to “let down,” and use every chance to get out of work, makes it that much easier for the live wire who really has the “want” to get somewhere, and has it bad enough. Towns and business that talk and I times ab hard b a S re ie usuaUv S th*' Ied 1 ” tl ° belief that motorists ones that do not actually try to get SDend their money only wlth such business. They wish for more 'business that either you are over looking or do no work to get. : Every visitor that comes to spend ; a vacation in McCormick is more business for you. Everybody who leaves McCormick on a vacation is business for you. Which is the ! better for you in dollars and cents is debatable, but there is enough either way if you go after it. \ Every automobile with an out-of- state license plate that drives through your town is worth an average of five dollars, if you stop them. For every 100 you stop you have fifteen thousand dollars worth of cash business that you wouldn’t otherwise get. You won’t stop them if you don’t try—if you don’t ask them to stop, give them a reason why . they should stop, and then sell them when they do stop. You who are not in business may say, “that would be fine for the gas station, restaurants and hotels, but where would I get anything out of it?” In the first place do not be mis- v™* . Miniature golf course construction of State nignway tine half there is tn nut nfuwu u established on East Mam Street. ma j n tenance shop at bid of $5,400 business that l.hev^fi^endv^av-f make money unless your neighbor Construction work underway on t b e located on McGowan Avenue, no ^^urdtv n^hnL^s L s«Ti does ’‘ and if onl y $15,000 a month bridge over Golden Creek on the, Poft) , fort _ Plowf , r and vese- K,?±" s 5 e , s /’iV 0 5 e “: is added to the gross business of the community YOU will get yours tomaUc^ele^ric^okl^chute for Club.. j If a woman wants a new fur ^ 0U L h ._ afc t0 Southern Railroad Company, com- ! Charleston — $30,000 appropnat- coat she asks for it. Not the pleted. ed by Congress for deepening west-. “give-me, give-me” kind of ask- Work on unpaved section of ? rn channel and extending train- ing; but she starts selling—she in- vou are out „ al j r j ht. ^ut Sum ter-Florence Highway between mg walls for Winyah Bay project, fluences toward the getting of the tv,* Tt/hr* Hopcn’t Hnixm* lend your effort to SELL the traveler on McCormick. Don’t “let down” this summer. FORD BATTERIES $7.95 WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE 622 BROAD PHONE Hi# AUGUSTA, GA. Sumter County line and Timmons- ville will get underway at once. Newberry — Remodeled opera house formally opened to public. Myrtle Beach — General Water works & Electric Corporation pur chased electric light and power properties of Myrtle Beach Estates. Sumter — Boyle Road & Bridge Company, capitalized at $25,000, filed articles of incorporation. Dillon may get new post office building. Camden , — Palmetto. Packing Corporation doubles capacity, J. Gary Martin received contract for Baron DeKalb High School which will be erected Just half way between Camden afid Kershaw iif >1 district No. 14 in Kershaw A Great Discovery When Pasteur discovered, in 1852, that the infection of wounds was caused by malignant bacteria, he per formed a service of inestimable value to mankind. Since then medical science has been producing better and better antiseptics, to kill these germs that may enter the smallest cut and give us diseases such as typhoid, tuberculosis and lockjaw. Now, all you have to do to be sure that these dreadful germs will not. infect a is to w^h that wound; however amail, thoroughly Liquid Borosone, the modem antisep tic? You can get Liquid Borosone, m ft •iso t» ftt needs pun* from STROMS’ DRUG STORE fur coat. AND, she usually * gets seldom" “let'out 7 ” 0 ** * ^ d0Wn lasrss Sa’uK’HK | K »Mi& D ,n s as>. ,, s KsraK&c °s»»,;3j on s i is the case of using that portion onerattar^ith the Ltonl ciub) of the anatomy referred to as the opeiatl °^ wan the Llons C1UD • , “noodle”, and too many of us look at things we do not see. Business is based on selling—in fluencing. If you are going to in fluence people you have to do more than just leave them to their own , . .... . . * alibis. You have first to influ- ftn d Artificial £yes fitted without ence yourself—*sell yourself on the tyrugs, Drops or Danger, idea that if business is off it is Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, your fault—which it is. When you have done that, business will start to ge Tb here is, right now, plenty of DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optemetristi 956 Rtoftd Street August*. G*