Illinois Valley News, Thursday. December 19, 1940
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Prepare For
War Abroad
Legion Head
Milo J. Warner, national com
mander of the American Legion,
said recently that the American
people “must be prepared to do
our fighting outside the United
States, not for the salvation of any
other country, but for America I»
He made this statement in an
address at a luncheon which the
Indianapolis Chamber of Com-
merce gave for him and Legion de-
partment officers for their annual
conference at national headquar-
ters.
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gamzing of many State Guard OFF IN A CORNER
units. »»
WITH PHIL SNORT
Judge Patterson, himself
World War veteran, expressed the
Dear Ed:
hope that “thousands of Legion-
Yesterday. Jack Endert and I
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naires'
would join the State
made a trip over on the Rough-
Guards.
and-Ready, two miles from the
main surfaced highway and eight
-o-
-o*
miles from my hime. Jack went
Bloat Deaths Caused By for a material purpose and I sim
Poison (¡as. Not Pressure ply to meet old friends, which dis
tance and oppirtunity forbid me
doing except on rare orcasions. To-
That death from cattle bloat is
da.v it struck me that that place
caused by the poisonous nature of
and those friends are a good theme
the gases concerned rather than
for this letter. The place is the last
by the pressure of those gases, is
place west of the highway and
the conclusion of R. W. Dougher
north if Rough-and-Ready creek.
ty, asistant professor of veterinary
known as the Wing ranch. Here is
medicine, after extensive research
where the Oregon mountains come
into this ancient malady conducted
down to meet the valley floor,
at the Oregon experiment station.
where the shores of an ancient
Dr. Dougherty recently reporter!
lake once was and where boulders
his findings to the American Vet-
and wash gravel do not exist, but
erinary Medical association at its
where fine alluvial soil does. On
national convention in Washington,
this slightly rolling alluvium glade
D. C.
stands a roomy, unpretentious
It was found that carbon mon-
home with the unwritten word wel
oxide, which is the poisonous ex-
come over the door, that can be
haust gas of automobiles, and hy-
seen a furlong away; yes, visible
drogen sulphide, sometimes called
to my eye from my home in Elk
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rotten-egg” gas because of a
valley.
similar odor, were generated in ab-
The first time I saw Ida Wing
normal quantities under bliat con-
was the winter of 1904-05, a
ditions.
young woman in her early 30's.
Experiments were carried on
She was at the Albright hime, here
with an animal which had been
in Elk valley, caring for the family
provided with an artificial open
who were all down with bad colds.
ing from the side into the stom
I guess we call it the flu these
ach through which the nature of
days. The two miles from the high
the gases generated could be stud
way to the Wing home is rough
ied. If these two gases mentioned
and hard to negotiate now, by car.
were introduced into the stomach
What must it have been 37 years
under moderate pressure, she soon
ago when the only means of loco
showed symptoms of bloat distress
motion was horse and wagon, or on
and had to be relieved to avoid
death. Ordinary air, on the other foot, and the miles out and in to
He recalled that the Legion in
convention had “declared that we
can not properly protect America
unless we make it strong enough
to meet any possible invasion be-
for it arrives so that our homes re
main intact, our families secure »»
He said that this country should
“give all practicable aid to Great
Britain and to those aligned with
her in her fight,” adding:
This does not mean that we send
troops to Europe. It is our duty as
citizens of America to face facts as
they actually are and not as we
would like to have them.
“With that, at all times, goes the
keen desire and determination to
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avoid war if possible, but in any
event to preserve our own Amer- i
ican form of government and its
hand, could be introduced under
basic concepts.”
great pressure without causing any
The War Department is making serious difficulty.
plans for state civil-defense units j
Tests made on a heifer which
whose main job in a national emer actually died of bloat revealed the
gency would be to watch over vital the gases in the paunch in about
industrial and transportation facil the proportions found dangerous
ities, Robert P. Patterson, assist samples of the blood showed that
ant secretary of war, said. He out it had absorbed large quantities
lined these plans in a speech to of hydrogen sulphide gas into the
commanders and adjutants of the blood stream, whicli was the prob
Legion’s 58 departments.
able cause of death.
He said that the department
Studies are being continued to
was drawing up regulations for reveal, if possible, methods of pre
organization of “State Guards” venting or curing bloat, based on
similar to the “Home Guards" these hitherto unknown facts con-
which in the World war reached a I j cerning it.
total strength of 79,000 in 27
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“The State Guard will be alert
to the fact.” Judge Patterson said,
“that the wars of today know no
front line; that a tiny village hun
dreds of miles behind the theoreti
irti
cal front may suddenly become the j
scene of desperate and blazing ac- 1
tion.”
He explained that states plan-1
ning such establishments must
prepare “a comprehensive program
of organization and training for
guard duty, handling disorderly ’
crowds and overcoming the light j
resistance of armed forces.
“The attention of the State '
Guard,” he went on, “will be par-
ticularly directed toward the
guarding of utilities, power plants,
water works, industrial plants,
docks, railroad yards, air fields
and other sensitive areas.”
Judge Patterson said that the
units would be formed under State |
laws “as infantry or as military
police” and the War Department
would issue 1917 Enfield rifles and
small accessories and sell certain
other enuipment to each “for a
force not more than one-half the
strength of the National Guard of
the State.”
New legislation will be necessary
in many cases, he said, and “since
most State legislatures wi'l not
meet until January, there will in
evitably be some delay in the or-
the Wing place were tripled. Yet
in sickness, accident or death one
would find Ida where she was
needed most, to administer as doc-
tor, nurse or friend, a soul stead
fast to her fellow creatures in ad
versity. In those days we only had
one doctor for the whole Illinois
valley. Dr. Spence, who was held
in the same esteem that our own
Dr. Collman is today; but most
always the way to Dr. Spence was
long and travel was slow and hard,
then people would say “Get Ida
Wing," and Ida was gotten.
The rest of this story will be
told next week.
o-
Mr. and M rs. Earl Boyd will
leave next Sunday for Hanford,
California, where they will spend
the Christmas holidays with their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Eddie Martin.
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