Reward for Garand?

Pending in Congress last week was a bill to award Rifle Inventor John C. Garand $100,000. Reason: as a civilian employe of the Army's Springfield (Mass.) Armory, Inventor Garand would otherwise get nothing but his $5,400-per-year salary for developing the Army's Garand rifle.

In any case, Mr. Garand will hardly fare worse than the fathers of the Army's Springfield rifle, which the Garand is replacing. The Springfield was developed by-two civilian workers: Daniel J. Manning and John L. Murphy. Last fortnight the Congressional Record printed a letter from Daniel Manning's son (Leonard T. Manning of New York City): "All he [Inventor Manning] got from the Government for his 40 years of service and . . . the improved 1903 Springfield rifle was a small pension from the date of his retirement in October 1926 to the time of his death in May 1927, a mere eight months. ... I believe Mr. Garand should be paid. . . ."

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