Price of Glory: $50 & Keep

The Senate finally agreed with the House that minimum pay for servicemen should be $50 a month. The soldiers' pay bill went to the President. The law made the extra pay retroactive to June 1. With $50 a month, food & shelter, an enlisted man will be richer than many an average pre-war citizen.

Another bill to ease the soldier's and sailor's lot will probably get final Congressional treatment this week: the benefit bill for allowances to dependents. An enlisted man's wife, for instance, would receive $22 a month from her husband's pay, plus $28 from the Government--so that the wife will get $50, the husband $28. This bill has also been made retroactive to June 1, but machinery to make payments won't be ready before November.

The conferees wrote into the bill a recommendation that draft boards defer bona fide family men, whether supporting their families or nota recommendation many of the boards cannot heed unless they can draft 18- and 19-year-olds. But with family allowances in force, some patriotic 3-As will be able to volunteer.

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