War Pensions
The largest single vote for any of the great departments in the house of commons was $268,000,000 for the ministry of pensions. The number of beneficiaries is about 1,500,000. At the end of the current year no less than $4,565,000,000 will have been spent on war pensions, compared with a little more than half that sum by Germany and less than half by France. The reason for the difference is that the rates in this country are much higher. A 50 per cent disabled man get $5 a week, as compared with $115 a year in France and $90 in Germany. This year's estimate shows a decrease of nearly $17,500,000, but for the next ten years the mean expediture will be about $180,000,000. The item that has contributed most to the decline this year is the reduction in the number of children to whom allowances were given. The