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Show VETERANS AIDED BY REED-JOHNSON LAW Additional benefits of $28.S11,113 have been received by some 55,000 disabled dis-abled World war veterans under the operation of the Iteed-Johnson bill, which was passed in June, 1924, under un-der the sponsorship of the American Legion. Approximately 30,000 of the 55,000 benefiting by the liberalizing provisions pro-visions of the law had never before received compensation from the government gov-ernment in any form, according to information in-formation received from the United States veterans' bureau by Legion rehabilitation officials in Washington. Twelve thousand veterans suffering from tuberculosis were awarded $13,-000,000 $13,-000,000 in compensation. Mentally Incompetent In-competent veterans got $7,500,000 In added benefits under the new law. Dependents of disabled veterans to the nui her of 4,330 received additional addi-tional allowances totaling $300,497, and 12,344 dependents of deceased veterans received increased allowances allow-ances amounting to $1,154,2S0. Veterans Vet-erans received in allowances for nurses and attendants $525,S00. Nearly $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 in compensation was awarded to S00 veterans in the so-called "wilful "wil-ful misconduct" cases. Nearly 10,000 veterans have obtained ob-tained hospital treatment under the general hospitalization provision of the Reed-Johnson bill. This provides that veterans may get treatment regardless re-gardless of the nature or origin of their ailment. Hundreds of thousand of cases which had been lying untouched in the veterans' bureau, because inadequacies inade-quacies In the law prior to the passage pass-age of the Reed-Johnson bill, made it Impossible to take favorable action upon them, are now being reviewed by the veterans' bureau. This review, which was suggested by Legion officials, offi-cials, is now well advanced. Additional extensions and clarifications clarifica-tions of the laws affecting the disabled dis-abled were sought from congress at Its session beginning in December, 1925. "When these extensions and clarifications are made," Watson B. Miller, chairman of the Legion's national na-tional rehabilitation committee, declared, de-clared, "the most remarkable milestone mile-stone in the progress of the United States towards the rehabilitation of its war disabled will have been accomplished." |