Room for the Dead

At war's end, the U.S. will have more than 13,000,000 new veterans, and all except aliens and those dishonorably discharged will be entitled to burial in military cemeteries--along with their wives, widows, minor children and unmarried daughters. To provide grave-space for the host of warriors and warriors' kin that may be buried in military cemeteries in the years to come. Congress last week hunted earnestly throughout the country for new burial grounds.

Recommended in bills now before the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees were national cemeteries in U.S. territories and 42 states (in addition to the 92 now in existence, where 483,000 veterans of former wars and their nearest kin are buried). The War Department and its grave-keeping Quartermaster Corps had asked $122,900,000 for 79 new cemeteries, with a capacity of 5,335,000 graves.

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