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Excerpt from Family Allowances, Allotments, Compensation, and Insurance for the Military and Naval Forces of the United States Provided Under Act of Congress Approved October 6, 1917 But, before starting 011 an explanation of the law, it behooves me without the slightest. Degree of undue humility to say that the re marks that were made about me this morning as to my connection with the law were greatly exaggerated. I do not underestimate them at all. I deem it the greatest opportunity, the greatest privilege of my life, to have been given this opportunity to do my bit toward the war service in this particular constructive way. But it is not my law at all; I was only one of many. Happening to be selected as chair man of a committee. Naturally I had to guide the drafting of the measure and the piloting of it through Congress. But a great many had a larger or smaller share in the work; it is no one man's law, and no one man's nanre ought ever to be associated with a law of this kind. It is the soldiers' and sailors' compensation and insurance act. T is for them, and every one of us who has had anything to do with it wants to have his individuality sunk and his connection with it for gotten so that the fact that it is for the soldiers and sailors may always be remembered. And for that reason I am not going to mention the names of those who had to do with the act; for the fur ther reason, too, that I might forget one or the other. And that would be unfortunate, there were so many. Now, then, to take up the act itself. And perhaps it would be clearer to sketch first the underlying principles and then the general scope, and then in a general way each article, and then to get down to the details of each article. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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