Excerpt from War Risk Insurance-Allowance Refund: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Third Session Mr. Treadway. Absolutely. The chances are if the mother wasn't a widow and the father was alive and working at a mill and earning a fair wage, or something of that kind, the mother wouldn't have suffered without this contributing part. But you know. As we all do, that boys and girls help at home when they are still in the homestead, and whether or not it was in the form of seven or eight or ten dollars a week, as you say. That was a' support or maintenance of the home. Mr. Esch. Have you any idea of the number of such cases that will be covered by your amendment? 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.