From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Dec. 11,
1919.
American Soldiers
Will Meet Their Obligations
“Be it said to the ever-lasting credit of the American
veteran that there does not show on our books that any one of them has shown a disposition
to deny his obligations or refuse to meet them,” says Aronnoff, secretary for
the Federal board for vocational education.
The statement was made by the secretary of the board while
being interviewed regarding the use of a revolving fund of $200,000 advanced by
the Elks for use of the disabled soldiers. The books show that more than $230,000
has been loaned, the more than $100,000 has been returned in small payments and
that the fund was of great benefit to every disabled man. This money was
advanced to the veterans to tide them over the interval between the time they
went into training and the arrival of their first bi-monthly check. They are
allowed to take from one to six months to refund the loan.
The Elks distributed this $200,000 loan among the 14
districts of the Federal board for vocational education, giving each district
vocational officer monies to use at his discretion. In speaking of the loan the
district officers united in saying, “The loan has been a God-send to us and to
the disable men.”
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