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Show Fewer Pensioners. The greater part of the pension-reduction pension-reduction brought about by the Roosevelt Administration has been by eliminating pensions to veteran for disability not conected with military mil-itary service. Where there were 872,-000 872,-000 such beneficiaries on the roji in March, 1933, the number had been cut practically in half by the close of the year. Payment of pensions for non-service ailments were limited lim-ited to those suffering permanent and total disabilities. Much was accomplished ac-complished by placing upon the applicant ap-plicant for pensions the burden of proof that the injuries or drease were received in line cf military duty. du-ty. While veterans who have been receiving re-ceiving these pensions object to the new policy of economy, the general gen-eral public, if it understands the view, will not be fooled by their clamor. In nearly every community of the nation, up until the recent economies were effected, there were numerous cases of able-bodied men. some financially independent, receiving re-ceiving monthly gratuities from the Government. There is no excuse for such a policy and it would never have come into existence if it had net been for the desire of politically minded congressmen to buy vctes br.ck home by means of pensions from the Federal Treasury. |