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^ V0L 36 KINGSTREET SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1920. NO #|i
' SPENDS MILLIONS
ON ARMY OUTFIT
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4A0OO,<H> PIECES OF UNDERWEAR |
AND HUNDREDS OF THOUS- J
k ANDS OF SHOES RESERVED
Washington, April 26.?Every now j
B and again there comes to the notice
W of the outsider, watching the records
of expenditures of hundreds of mil|
lions of dollars for the cost of government
floating by instances that
i stand out as if illuminated of business !
methods used by government officials
which, to say the least, arc peculiar, i
It would seem much of the govern1
racr.t business associated with the pur-1
^ chase of suplies of all kinds is done '
by officials who are in the mental
state of one waking up on Monday j
morning in blissful ignorance i f what
oe had dore on Saturday night.
There seems to be no casting back
in the sense that inventories of supplies
on hand should be measured up,
with supplies needed.
The appropriations for horses and I
mules are used in every session of
L Congress as if the life of die army
horse or mule is limited to one fiscal1
B year.
BP1 Take, for instance, the matter of'
underwear for soldiers. The war department
has on hand millions of undershirts
and drawers. Of 3ummer,
undershirts of a certain grade there
are in warehouses controlled by the
war department more than 15,000,000. j
Stacked away with the undershirts1
are between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 ;
pairs of drawers, suitable for wear,
in summer.
On March 30, the Quartermaster j
General of the army asked for bids
for 267,283 men's undershirts under
Circular No. 226. Bids for drawers
about an equal number were asked
for at the same time.
(Buying Right Sizes on High Priced j
Market.
This demand upon a high price market
for underwear against an apparently
unlimited supply on hand
prompted The Evening World correspondent
to do alittle investigating.
All the records were thrown open
to him. He was given an opportu-,
nity to look over the lists of supplies
on Hhnd, and he found that the army
owns in fact close to 40,000,000 gar- j
*-?. nn^onroar in SUm
rinents suiuiuic iui uuuv*twv?>* ?
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But there were not two months
ago, in all this vast stock, more than
a few thousand^undershirts size 34 or
drawers about 28 inches waistband
j^easure. The bids for 267,283 men's
Undershirts call for size 34 garments.
Most of the undershirts on hand
are offeize 38 and larger, and the
drawers?millions of pairs of them?
were manufactured, it would appear,
for men of Aldermanic girth and ab- j
normal length of leg.
It was explained to the corresponI
dent that during the war, summer underwear
was ordered in assorted sizes.
Since the war it has developed that
Hr the average chest measurement of a
Wr recruit is 34 inchs, and his waist
measurement is about 28 inches. The
charts indicate that the recruits are
not so well developed as the volunteers
and drafted soldiers who were
taken in during the war, and that
the men who have been in the regular
oioso of the war have
unity buivc vitv ?
shrunk around the chest and abdomen.
We have, according to the figures
in the Quartermaster's department,
"a perfect 34" army. For a year past
the drain upon the 34 size underwear
has been terrific. There were no
perfect 36 sizes on hand, so men requiring
shirts measuring 36 inches
around the chest were given 34's, with j
the result that the wear and tear was
* something terrific. Why the perfect
36's were not given 38 size undershirts
is not explained.
"It can't be done according to reg- j
ulations", explained the patient Quartermaster
officer. If a recruit's j
measurement call for a 34 shirt he
has to have a 34 shirt. And our con- j
tracts specify that the shirts must not:
shrink." i
"What's to be done with these mil- j
lions of undershirts anu drawers,
which are too large for our sylph-like
recruits?" asked the correspondent,
k "They are being held in reserve,"
A was the reply, "or upon being found
useless they will be condemned and
sold as surplus."
"But why", persisted the corres|Bf
pondent, "were all these extra size
^B shirts and drawers bought during the
war when it was quite plain from the
records that the underwear size of the
| TYPESETTING SCHOOL GROWS
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i Institution Conducted by Southern
Publishers Successful.
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Macon. Ga., April 27.?New equipment
for the S. N. P. A. typesetting
school, being conducted here by the
Georgia-Alabama Business College,
has arrived and new classes are now
being formed. Some of the students
who enrolled early in January are going
out to positions. The school is
undertaking to fit the students into
the nlaces for which they are best
suited. Some of the young men are
well educated and are well prepared
for business. Some of them are former
bank clerks, some are college men
some are ex-army officers, and all
of them seem to have been carefully
suited for the positions into which
they have gone. The non-printer students
are given to understand that
this is a plan used to introduce them
into the printing business. They are
going in to learn the business. Quite
a number of them have gone to work
and have made good. The same office
in which the first one secured a
position wired back to the school two
days later for another just like him.!
The students have had their daily i
lectures on the whys and wherefores
of the style printers use in the different
printing offices of the United
States. They have had some drill in
type combinations and measurements, 1
so they can make some headway in
setting other type than straight mat- j
ter.
And now a complete printing office
outfit is being installed so as to give
the non-printer students a chance to
Jeam about the problems of the hand :
compositor. What they are taught is j
being taught thoroughly, so that their ;
start will be an encouraging one.
A great many commendatory editorials
have been written by the papers
in this section where these students
have been doing relief woik in connection
with their studies at the type- i
setting school.
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53 CENTS COLLECTED $100.
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Ratio of Expenditure Made Public by
Internal Revenue Bureau (
For every 53 cents expended in the
administration of the internal revenue
laws for the fiscal year 1919 the .
bureau of internal revenue collected
$100 in revenue. Total collections for i
the year amounted to $2,850,078,771.56 t
and total expenditures to $20,573,771.52.
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These figures were made public by
the bureau of internal revenue in an- i
swer to statements appering in va- <
rious parts of the country concerning i
the cost of collection of the income
tax. 1
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average recruit is 34 around the chest
and 28 around the waist?"
"Search me," replied the Quarter,master
officer. "You see the records.!
We are shy of 34 sizes in undershirts
and we must have over 250,000 of
them, and we must have about an
equal number of drawers. Another
thing we have to figure is supplying j
the Officers' Reserve Training Corps
personnel with summer underwear, j
and those birds run aooui o* or uu- ]
der around the chest. It's all figured
out on charts and everything."
So there you are, the army has on i
hand millions and millions of summer;
undershirts and drawers, but none that!
will fit the men of the army. Instead
of stocking up on normal sizes the
army stocked up on abnormal sizes, j
The army is buying shoes for soldiers
at a cost in excess of $7 a pair..
The army has in warehouses throughout
the country hundreds of thousands
of pairs of army shoes that cost
on an average $2.70 a pair.
The Evening World correspondent
asked why such a surplus supply of
shoes could not be utilized?
"Most of them," explained the pa- f
tient Quartermaster officer, "are hob- |
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nauea snves. nu wvav ? ,
shoes were all right on the roads and '
battlefields of France, but they are
no good for duty on the border, for j
instance. Hobnailed shoes down here
would blister the soles of a soldier's
feet. We have to outfit those men
with new shoes."
It also develops that a considerable j
percentage of the surplus hobnailed
shoes are of large sizes and unfitted
jfor the feet of the 34-inch chested
recruits. Utilization of the surplus j
supply of militap^ underwear and
shoes apparent)^!pon the enrollment
of any army of big men.
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DECLARES CHARGES ' *
BY SIMS AN INSULT ,
Says Sims is Sometimes Impulsive?!l
Declares Secretary Daniels
Is Not Target
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Washington, April 27.?Sharp criticism
of Rear Admiral Sims, voiced to- r
day before the Senate naval investi- *
gating committee by Rear Admiral J. I
S. McKean, former assistant chief of j?
naval operations, resulted in a tilt 8
between Chairman Hale and Senator ^
Trammel, Democrat, of Florida, when 8
Admiral McKean was reprimanded by &
Senator Hale for indulging in "per- *(
sonalities." 1;
The officer declared that he was only d
following a precedent set by Admiral e
Sims in his testimony, while Senator v
Trammel remarked that the chair
man's objection to personalities had iu
not run against Admiral Sims' "snap-js
py comments." - ?
Admiral McKean, whose appearance C
followed completion of the cross-ex- r
amination of Capt. W. V. Pratt, who< b
had been on the stand several days, jb
insisted that he was not asking to j a
defend Secretary Daniels or to "damn!
Sims" in what he said. c
Insult, Says McKean.' [ h
Admiral Sims' charge that delays
on the part of the Navy Departmentj
early in the war prolonged hoctilities
four mouths and cost 500,000 addi
tional lives were ."monstrous." Admir-1 f
al McKean adding that if it had been 1 s'
made by a patient in the "govern-' o
mcnt insane aslyum" it could be un-1 f<
derstood, but that, coming from a1ft
rear admiral of the active list, the v>
head of the naval war college, it was n
an insult to every o'ficcr and man n i i?
the navy or who served in the navy s<
during the war." l v
"It has been or will be entirely dis- :li
approved," he declared. S
The charge that the department had
no plans for war also was unfounded, F
t^e officer said. He added that one' tl
plan in particular had been in exist- j w
ence four years before the war, and tl
was corrected up to the time the Uni-, fi
ted States joined the Allies, and con-' p
stantly changed as the situation al- L
tered during the war. The plan was o'
not perfect, he said, because of new p
elements injected into the war by the vi
German submarine campaign. la
Criticising Operations Cheif. tl
Capt. Pratt, in answer to Senator s<
Trammel, who sought to show that it
Admiral Sims' letter to Secretary it
Daniels, entitled "Some naval lessons!
of the world war," was in reality a, it
sweeping criticism of Secretary Dan- n
iels, and of naval officers generally,, b;
said he had no reason to doubt Ad-1 c<
miral Sims' declaration was not in-j S
tended as a personal criticism. He h
could not avoid the impression, how- - n
ever, he added, that Sims was criticiz- il
ing the chief of naval operations, k
whether he intended to or not. p
"I cannot say what was in Sims' i(
mind," Capt. Pratt said. "He is some- h
times impulsive, and was exceedingly -i<
so when he said the navy was respon- o
r*.Kla 4 Via lnccnc nf fKo uror "
OIU1C 1VI lite 51VOV IVQOVO vrx vuv n?M.
Secretary Daniels was not Admiral a
Sims' target, the offi. r declared, add- v
ing he knew of no specific instances tl
where Mr. Daniels interfered with t<
Sims. v
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Items From Beuiah. I
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Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Cox of Florence ^
spent Saturday night and Sunday with a
their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. c
W. H. Thompson, returning Sunday a
night.
Mr. D. M. Lesesne of Kingstrec
came out and spent Sunday with his
brother-in-law, W. H. Thompson.
Mrs. McClary, wife of Mr. J. C. g
McClary, was taken to the Kingstree c
infirmary a ;few days ago. It lis e
hoped she will soon recover. f,
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Snipes and
children spent Sunday with their pa- v
rents at Beuiah. r
Services were held at Beuiah church e
Sunday afternoon by the pastor, Rev.
Shealy. a
Mrs. Wm. Dukes has returned home
after spending two weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. S. L. Thompson. ?
Farmers are behind in setting out
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their tobacco on account 01 uieir piaau> j.
being so small and scarce. ^
Miss Addie Duke and Miss Addie
McCutchen are spending a few days
with Mrs. S. A. Burch at Florence. . r
Mrs. J. C. McCutchen's little grand- J f
son, Herbert J., has been quite sick, o
but is some better at this writing. t
April 26, 1920. S. L. T.
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We Americans think we invented j ]
cussing, but you ought to hear a Paris j
taxi cab driver when someone gets in t
his way! a
SEVERAL PERSONS
SEVERELY INJURED
I ail and Rain Does Damage to Crops
in Sumter and Clarendon
Counties. i
A hail, wind and rain storm, six
niles wide and extending for about
orty miles in length, equal in pro ortion
to that of June 8, 1919, Monlay
visited the Tindal and Brogden
ection and extended to Harvin and
Ucolu in Clarendon County, doing
rreat damage to all crops. The toiacco
crop is reported to be a total
oss. Yoimg cotton and corn is bady
damaged. The full extent of this
lamage cannot yet be fairly estimatd,
but some state that a plant over
idll be necessary.
Several prominent men traveling
n an automobile near Tindall suffered
evere personal injuries. Mr. John A.
lcKnight of Sumter and Mr. Dwight
'ain, who were traveling along the
oad near Bethel church, were bruised
y hail stones, Mr. Cain having been
eaten into unconsciousness for sever1
minutes. It is said that some of
he hail stones were as large as a
up and many the size of the proverbil
hen egg.
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Good Citizen Passes Away.
Greelyville, April 27.?The host of
riends of Mr. Thomas J. Hogan are
orely saddened at his death, which
ccurred here Thursday, April 22nd,
jllowing ill health for several months. '
Ir. Hogan was 66 years of age and
'as one of the oldest and most promient
citizens of this community. He
! survived by his widow and three
ins, Dan J. and Jamie D. of Greelyille,
and T. Pressley Hogan of Co- j
imbia, and an adopted daughter, Mrs.!
. G. Rogers of Dillon.
Mr. Hogan came to Greelyville from j
airfield county in 1885 and went into
te saw mill business-with his brother,
hich he remained interested in -to
te time of his death, although the j
rm underwent a few changes, at
resent being known as the Mallard j
umber Company. He was also half j
wner, with Mr. T. W. Boyle, of this'
lace, in the Greelyville Land & De-1
slopment Company, one of the largest
tnd owning concerns in this part oft
te State. He was also iterested in
iveral other enterprises in the comlunity
and considered one of its fore- J
tost citizens.
Mr. Hogan has been known to his j
tultitude of friends by the intimate j
ame of "Uncle Tom," and was pro-1
ably the most beloved man in this j
immunity for the past generation, j
cores of his friends have often been j
tn make the remark that they;
ever knew of any person saying an }
1 word of him and no one has ever)
nown of his having an enemy. Hisj
assing away will not only be a great
>ss to the community at large, but'
is death will mean a deep personal j
>ss in the hearts and lives of scores
f his friends.
His funeral, conducted on Friday i
ftemoon, April 23rd, at the Greely-1
ille Baptist church, was probably (
tie most largely attended in the his- j
Jiry of the town. The floral offerings i
re re most liberal and beautiful. The i
unerai ,services were conducted by;
nglesby Masonic Lodge, of which he !
ras a member. He was also a memer
of the Woodmen of the World J
nd a communicant of the Baptist
hurch. His body was laid to rest'
t Mount Hope cemetery, Greelyville. j
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Hebron Club Meeting.
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The Hebron Democratic club mei;
iaturday afternoon pursuant to the1
all of the county chairman and electd
officers for the ensuing term as
ollows:
S. W. Baker, president; B. C.. Baker,
ice president; R. E. McElveen, secetary.
The club gave its unanimous
ndorsement of the administration.
Messrs. S. W. Baker, Bartow Smith,
nd G. H. Williamson were chosen as
elegates to the county convention.
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Committee on Registration: vv. m.
luddin, C. A. Buddin, I. C. Coker.
Executive committeeman: R. C. Mcllveen.
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Veterans Called to Meet May 10th.
The Record is requested by Comnander
H. J. Brown to "call the Conederate
Veterans ti meet promptly
n May 10, at the courthouse in Kingsree.
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The State Senate of Albany, N. Y.,
ast week passed a beer bill which
termite 2.76 percent alcoholic content
teer to be sold in hotels, restuarants
ind clubs.
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HOTEL INSPECTION
Score Cards for Rating South Carolina
Hostelires Being Prepared.
Columbia, April 27.?Score cards
for rating hotels, restaurants and public
boarding houses in South Carolina
are being sent out now by the State
board of health, as required by the
new hotel inspection act of the recent
legislature. J. W. Woodward, State
hotel inspector, is assisting in the distribution.
The hotel law requires that every
transient hotel shall keep posted in a
conspicuous place a list of charges,
and also the score card^ of the State
board of health. This score card
shows how nearly the establishment
comes up to the requirements of the
inspection system.
The score card coYfsrs such points
nf Vintpl .sanitation, such as cleanliness
of floors, screening, cuspidors, ventilation,
adequate plumbing, individual
soap and towels, improper advertisements,
educational placards, cleanliness
of attendants, fire escapes, clean
linen and safe milk and water supply.
It will be possible for a hotel or restaurant
to score 1,000, which is perfection;
though a score of 850 is excellent;
750 to 850 is good; 600 to 750
is fair; below 600 is bad and prejudicial
to health.
The State board of health is required
under the new law to inspect
every hotel and restaurant in the State
once a year at least. To each hotel
that comes up to the requirements of
sanitation and service the board of
health issues a certificate, which shall
be posted conspicuously. The work of
inspecting the hotels of the State is
now in progress. The inspection fee
is $3 for hotels with ten to twenty
rooms; $5 for twenty to thirty rooms;
$10 for thirty to forty rooms; $15 for
forty to sixty rooms; $20 for sixty to
100 rooms; $25 for more than 100
rooms. Each restaurant pays an in- j
?- ( tin
sp^psion iee 01 ?iu.
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APPARENTLY HAVE NO CHOICI?
South Carolina Democrats Open on!
Presidential Race.*"
Columbia, April 27.?National poli- j
tics have not yet brought to a head
any sentiment in South Carolina with
regard to the Democratic choice for
the presidential nomination, though at
some of the club meetings last Satur-!
day night expressions were given. In
a few cases McAdop was endorsed as j
candidate, according to advices reach-,
ing the Capital City from various j
parts of the State. In others the sen- j
timent was for uninstructed delega
tions, though in the large majority of
cases there was no discussion of the |
nominee at all. There will be definite j
expressions at'the county club meet-j
ing^ on May 3. j
So far very little attention has been;
attracted to the State Democratic con- j
vention, which meets on May 19. The
question which at that gathering will
likely receive the largest amount of
attention will be that of preparing the
way for women's votes in the primaries,
following ratification of the suf- J
frage amendment.
The main question for the State con- j
vention, however, will be the election (
of delegates to the national Democratic
convention in San Francisco in
June. Senators E. D. Smith and N. B.
Dial, Governor Cooper and former
Govornor Manning will likely be desi
tn attend the Frisco gather
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ing, and they will probably be sent
without instructions.
Presidential sentiment was wavered
in South Carolina. There was a goodly
Hoover boom, until Hoover declared
himself a Republican. There is a
good deal of Palmer strength in the
State and also a strong McAdoo fol- j
lowing, though neither candidate has
to make it apparent that he is the
South Carolina favorite. The strongest
probability, it seems, is McAdoo
sentiment. *
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CARTER GLASS ENDORSED |
Virginia Democrats Favor Policies of j
Wilson.
Bristol, Va.-Tenn., April 26.?Senator
Carter Glass, former secretary of
treasury, received his first endorsement
for Democratic nomination for
the Presidency at a mass meeting of
the Democrats of Washington county,
Virginia, held in Abington today.
Resolutions endorsing the policies of
President Wilson were drawn up and
a vote of sympathy inspired by the
death of Senator Martin was extended
to his family.
ELEGANT ADDRESS .!
BY GOV. MANNING
AT MEETING HELD HERE LASTFRIDAY
IN INTEREST OF
* MEMORIAL FUND.
Ex-Governor Manning spoke in the
| courthouse here last Friday in the interest
of the South Carolina Memorial
I fund. In spite of the publicity'given >
the meeting prior to the date of hpld- .
ing, less than fifty men and two or
three women were in attendance.
Mr. Manning gave six sons to the
great world war. One of these never
returned to his native soil and to the
bosom of his home.
Governor Manning made a most
elequent address. He pictured coildiT
tions in this country at the outset of >
the war and sketched briefly the va- ;
rious phases of war woric all of which ?
was carried to a successful conclusion
in a manner which amazed the world. ;
Referring to South Carolina the Gov- \
ernor declared that this State furnished
more than the quota of men, gave
$80,000,000 to the various Liberty
Loans, $16,000,000 to the various war
work organizations, and that her soldiers
won one-eighth of the Congressional
medals awarded for distinguish
ed service. He expressed the fear |
that in this era of reconstruction men
and women were so busy adding to
their fortunes that they were forget- \
ting the men who fell in France in the :
effort to make this country whete the
sun shone and the birds sang and the
land lay in peace and plenty, a lad
of the free and the home of the brave
for all time to come. Should any one J
stop for a moment's reflection, however,
he would realize the debt du^ to
the boys who made all of this possi- i
ble. Governor Manning told of con- J
ditions in the war stricken area as he *
saw them during his visit to Europe
after the armistice was signed, and
declared feelingly that the pen pictures
portrayed for us could not bring
a realization of the real conditions.
He referred to the plots in all parts
of France and Belgium dotted with
the graves of Americans, South Carolinians,
who fell in the great struggle
and whose graves are now covered
with poppies. .
The Governor was introduced by Mr.
E. C. Epps, chairman of the Memorial
fund.
At the conclusion of Mr. Manning's
address, Mr. A. C. Hinds called lor
subscriptions and a liberal pledge>was
made by those present.
The quota of Williamsburg county
to this fund is about $3,500, entirelr s t
too small a sum for our citizens to
shrink from donating to this most excellent
cause.
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OPPOSES PENSION BILL
Senator E. 0. Smith Expresses Disapproval
of Measure.
In the discussion of the pension bill
in the Senate a few days ago, Senator
E. D. Smith took occasion to ex- ?
press his strong opposition to a cer- <
tain provision in it, besides his disapprobation
of the general tenor of it
as a whole.
The section which he particularly
attacked provides that any widow of
a federal soldier who had served in
the Union army during the Civil War
for a period of ninety days in any
capacity would receive a pension of
$30 per month no matter how many
times she had been married or di- ?
vorced since her husband's death. Tb*
only restriction placed against the
wife receiving the pension was the fact
of a present living husband or a divorce
for misconduct of the wife.
Senator Smith called attention to the
fact that a widow of the Civil War
?- 1 ".nfiv fimos
class, no matter jiuw mouj ~
raaritaily removed from her soldier ^
husband, would receivd a pension,
while the soldiers of the world war
received no pension except their insurance,
for which they had to pay
He noted well that the pensions for
the Civil War were borne by the
whole country and benefited only a
section, whereas the burden and benefits
in pensioning in the case of the
world war would fall o all alike.
Senator Smith said the whole pensioning
system was wrong because of
politics. Nearly sixty years after the
Civil War the pension appropriation 4
is by far greater, he said, than it was
twenty years after and the fewer the
numbers to receive pensions the greater
the amount.
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