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Show NEW PAY SYSTEM PLANNED IN ARMY If Put Into Effect It Will Bo of Great Convenience to the Soldiers. ! (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN" FRANCE, July 20. Every American soldier sol-dier in France will receive a "bank book" enabling him to draw $7.0 a month from any disbursing officer, if the change in pay methods of the American expeditionary expedition-ary forces now under consideration is put into effe1 t. The purpose is to enable every ev-ery soidier to oMm promptly at )e;jt a part of his monthly pay, regard ler-s of where he may be. whether in a hospital or with some organization other than his own. The "pay book"' system la In no- in the Urit ish aru.y. The num of ?7.50 a rri'-nt h has been fixed as the minimum which a soldier snouid have for his personal per-sonal want every month, a nd it would he given to hi in or. It is demand. Each three r-r four months there would he a general a'-ounting, .VL whkh h . h to-. to-. '.al fay. his; insuiauce nnd other aliot-1 aliot-1 ments, 1:1s Liberty loan s..i sr rlptiou.s nd other iten.R would he r:i n p, t r n- -' her w.'.h his morthiy drafts. The h,,iar.(- t:,.n due him vou.ij be 7.UI a1 di.roeal. The po!d:'-r would have, the adva-vae of being ab.e, at al! Times and under ail circ j rr.s" a n ""B to d 1 aw cornet h i r r from ariv rur-rb-rrriaM'-r in whose district h" rr..ht' f:nd h;m-ef. Tho proi-os 'd 5 viern would el rr. In a te tV pre--ne-ep-ny of av!7 on h-. nd eih Roio-f. r's r v;r-e re-M,j r enever ut--; - a w 7- nr.- v.. o n e v . T . s - r v e r r- - o r 3 s'. t''n, ' i'i for t; Ties of p ? - '.r,, I,"t take ;:.-' our,: tre freq -m ;-,;,,';..-, which ail military men u-uf-t be prepared for. In rr.'iny Inrtrr-ef nowa'h; f j worVre hardships on iu'3ivio;l iu-n who are ' nsf erred '-"t thn their f-er-.-;fje Tf.r. o.-'f-' c 2 n fr'low them ar;d who cotue-n cotue-n utly far, no' d ra w t i.e. - ,'- y when r-r!rnr,t re e-.rr;!.erj e-p e.ally ;i'lwi;,i;.L"''(i:,; lor & lup wn-rre 1 1 e .-.re eo- c: n ; rce numbers f,f "'sials" s'ray helor.irin:: to dozens an) . r-n-et r,f nrLUH r ; zi .:or,? v.ui i ir.s: to join rl-f r ou'fi-.-c ye: unntue to draw what iw:'y i- ilue. ri.ern until the service rec-ori rec-ori have caught up to them. |