Sherman County observer., December 13, 1918, Image 1

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F iv e G ent*
19J8.
VHAT COUNTRY MUST DO
FOR ITS DISABLED SOLDIERS
Good Will Given a New Impetus
roblems of Reconstruction Confront Am erican Red
Cross W ith N ew Tasks and New Responsibilities.
D oling these Christmases, when
In the trenches and on mined seas
sing enrols; when oar country slows to
Its uttermost boundaries wjth the sym­
bol of the Bed Cross; when the most
earthbound look f o f awhile at the
crosses and the stars— new under­
standings, new simplicities, new w ill­
ingness for service come to very many
men and women.
And as our soldiers and sailors who
went”out young and strong and singing
the “Long, Long T ra il” and “Over
Thera” now corns back crippled and
disabled, Americans are seeing more
and mors their own part and responsi­
bility In reconstruction. This work
means teaching the blind to see, giv­
ing movement to the paralysed, power
to the remnants* of arms and legs to
do fu ll duty, ths chance of health to
the tubercular, light to minds be­
fogged by shell shock.
'O ur government, the Medical De­
partment of the Army and the Ameri­
can Bed Cross, from the time of our
entranoe to the war, have been work­
ing out the tasks preparatory to thia
reconstruction, which Is the key-word
to their usefulness and happiness.
The work Itself Is already begun to
ths hospitals where our returned men
have been brought
T his has meant the equipment of
hospitals, the recruiting of the doc­
tors and nurses and the formulation of
plans for training for vocations, which
w— m independence, replacing activi­
ty for Inactivity. » <e
" T or this physical reconstruction In
our m ilitary hospitals at home, our
government through the office of the
Surgeon-General, Is asking for recon­
struction aids. This hospital service
Is open to hundreds. Indeed thousands,
of women who as wives of men In the
service have been technically barred
from other m ilitary bospltal service.
They are needed at once and may
learn full particulars regarding train
tog, qualifications, pay and so forth
by writing for Information to the office
of the Surgeon-General, Division of
Reconstruction, Washington, D. C.
They are civilian employees of the
Medical Department of the Army, and
their work comes under one of two
classes— either the distinctly physical
reconstruction which has to do with
massage, electrotherapy, dydotherapy
and mechanotherapy, or the occupe
tlonal work which w ill prepare the
men to take up the regular vocational
training fo r which we often hear the
word “re-education,”
The Federal government has charge
of this work. Other agencies working
under government control w ill help.
The American Red Cross, especially,
will*snpplement It, and through Its
Home Service has assumed the obllgn-
*Mon to assist every soldier or sailor
and his fam ily whenever they need
aid or counsel from i t
When American soldiers, blinded In
battle, recover from their Immediate
wounds at the base hospitals to France
special work for them Is commenced.
Later they are brought to the United
States M ilitary General Hospital No.
7, at Baltimore, for further medical
and surgical treatment and special
teaching. The Ideal of the government
will be to place every blinded man In
a condition to take care of himself and
those dependent on him. In many
cases, it Is hoped, the men will be able
to command a larger salary after tak­
ing their training than before they lost
their sight
American Ited Cross has supple­
mented the Army’s plan by creating
the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.
One of Its functions will be to provide
certain financial aid to equip the blind
man after his re-education Is complet­
ed, as, for instance, furnishing type­
writers to those who enter commer­
cial life. I t will be unearthing new oc­
cupations. helping to establish homes
and arrange home work for those who
cannot go into offices or factories.
But It w ill do something else that Is,
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CARING FOR THOSE
WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND
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THE RED CROSS MAN.
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again, a Christmas story. This Red
Cross Institute win, In so fa r as Is hu­
manly possible, have the relative who
w ill be responsible for the care of the
blind man when he returns home, take
the government training, side by side
with him, as is now done by the British
and French. With this full under­
standing at home of his difficulties and
possibilities, many an ambition at first
undreamed of may be fulfilled.
Through the gift of Jeremiah Mil-
bank of New (York the Red Cross was
enabled to establish to New York its
experimental Red Cross Institute for
Crippled and Disabled Men. One of
its principal objects is to assist In the
general campaign of public education
regarding the results which can be ac­
complished by systematically re-traln-
Ing disabled men for occupations to
which they can successfully compete
with able-bodied men.
“Thus equipped,” writes W. Frank
Persons, Director General o f Civilian
Relief of the American Red Cross,
“they may confidently look forward to
a future of normal human work and
play.”
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By Jeanne Judson.
★ Because of her continued absence
★ The Red Cross man was here ★ from school and the fact that she lived
rather an undesirable neighborhood*
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today,
★ In
and was on the streets all day a school
A He seems to know some magic ★
teacher recently brought to the atten­
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way
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★ tion
the Home 8ervlce department
★ O f being everywhere;
★ of the of Red
Cross the story of a girl of
★ In Paris when a chap is broke, ★
A He passes out a Yankee smoke, ★ ten years whose mother was 111 and
only other relatives were two
★ And at the front, he*s there.
★ whose
brothers, one in camp and the other a
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* youth of seventeen « ★ hose earnings
★ He gives us something hot to ★ seemed to be the only means of sup­
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drink,
★ port for the family.
★ He seems to want to make us *
The Horae Service worker called, i
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think
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* found the mother very ill and needing
★ We’re happy and at ease;
★ hospital care at once. Arrangements
★ He keeps as busy as can be,
★ were made for the mother’s care and
★ Just working for my mates and ★ also for a home for the girl In the
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me,
* country where she would receive real
★ His method sure does please. ★ home training and love. The mother
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★ grew worse and died soon afterwards.
★ And though he doesn’t tots k ★ The seventeen-year-old boy enlisted.
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gun,
* The boy in camp had not known that,
★ We know he’s with us everyone, ★ his mother needed his help, but was
★ TUI duty sets us free;
★ glad to contribute from his pay when
★ His wheeled canteen Is far more ★ the true circumstances were made
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fa ir
★ known. The girl Is now In the coun­
★ Than any lobster palace rare,
★ try, going to school, and Is receiving
★ We drink his health in tea.
★ allotments from both of her brothers
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★ and Is well cared for. She is under
A statement of Dodge’Brothera war
activities is due the owners of their
P ears.
Dodge Brothers refrained, during the
progress of the war, from any refer­
ence to the performance of the car in
r Government service. •
It seems proper now, however, to dis­
close the facts—intensifying that good
. will which owners of Dodge Brothers
cars have always manifested.
Dodge Brothers car was the only one
of its class approved and adopted by
“ the War Department. '
In a separate Ordinance Works, built
especially for the purpose, costing mil­
lions of dollars and employing thous­
ands of their skilled motor workmen,
Dodge Brothers undertook an import­
ant duty designated by the War De­
partment.
Without the aid of their great motor
organization, Dodge Brothers could
not have fulfilled the heavy obliga­
tion which they were asked to assume
by the Ordnance Department.
The other service required of Dodge
Brothers raotof WoTks, by the Gov­
ernment, was to continue to furnish
their cars as they were needed.
The record of those thousands of
camp and army cars is one in which
any owner may feel the utmost pride
and satisfaction.
Their performance justified the com­
pliment impliep in their selection by
the Government.
The great works in which nearly three
hundred thousand of their cars have
been produced in the past four years
furnished a vast store-house of human
energy and equipment for the ord­
nance work.
Naturally, it will take time to adjust
the motor works to its full accustomed
activity.
Gradually Dodge Brothers will resume
the grateful task of continuing to de­
serve the good will of America—and
indeed of the whole v/orld.
Dodge Brothers consider good ^will
their most valuable possession.
They will never knowlingly do any­
thing to lessen it.
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★ the watchful care of the Home Service
Hospital searchers are being sent by
the American Red Cross Into all the
hospitals along the fro n t Their task
Is to supplement the necessarily mea­
ger reports sent by the Army to the
families of the kilted and wounded
with more detailed letters. It Is the
human touch that makes the whole
world kin.
workers and comes to them often for
counsel.
A portable kitchen. Installed by the
American Red Cross on the exact spot
where Joan of Arc was captured, pro­
vided tea, coffee and other refresh­
ments to 10,000 soldiers and civilians
daily.
By courtesy of H. C. Temple, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“OOl GRANT A, WE FORGOT SOMP1N’!”
MEAT INCREASE
AT TIME NEEDED
HAVE QUEER PETS
beef showed 1,203,000,000 pounds as
against 1,484,000,000 pounds for the
three month period ending September
L this year.
We must Increase our meat ship­
ments, especially our pork products, Lonely Men in Signal Tower
to meet the added demands of the mil­
Welcome All Sorts.
lions liberated from German oppres­
Producers
Responded
Nobly sion. And at the same time we must
look forward to the rehabilitation of
When Demand W as Shown
the European meat herds. The policy Cockroach That Likes Tobacco and
Drinks Ink Is Ona Visitor—Toad
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which guided our meat program In the
Came Regularly for Its
past year has been fully Justified, for
only the heavy pork production which
Feast of Files.
CATTLE AND HOG FIGURES. It has brought about will enable ns
even partly to satisfy the Increased
A Boston and Maine railroad /fignal
demands on na for the coming year. towerinan tells this story of pets he
Government Justified In Pork Polley
There will be a world shortage In fats, has made In bln lonely perch above the
Which Nov/ Provide« Chief 8vp-
and It Is to the United States that Ko­ tracks;
rops must look to supply Its deficien­ » At midnight nine months ago a cock­
pty to Moot Throe Billion
cy. At the same time there will con­ roach crept out from under the tele­
Pound Fat Shortage.
tinue to be heavy demands for beef. graph desk and began to drink out«of
Owing to the limited refrigerator ship­ ths Inkwell; Just about that time 1 laid
In line with the general plan of con­ ping capacity European imports of my cigar down on the desk and began
servation formulated by the U. 9. Food beef for some time will be limited. to work the telegraph key.
Ths United States, Australia and
The cockroach walked over to my
Administration Immediately following«
Argsntlne will be able to maintain a
the entrance of the United States Into supply that will keep all available cigar and sucked at the moist end for
a second or so, then ran to the Ink
the war the contribution mad« by the freeser vessels operating at capacity.
well again and took a drink, then came
meat producer« of this country to the
back to the cigar; he repeated this
wer program 1« of particular signifi­ A m erica's Pledge to
performance several times and stag­
cance, as It demonstrates the hearty
gered away drunk as a lord.
the A llie s W h e n T h e ir
co-operntlon accorded the Food Ad­
Every night around midnight for the
Lines
W
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re
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reakin
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ministration by the mast producer« of
past hlne months this cockroach has
the country.
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drank from the Inkwell on my desk
America will send the food, what­ and either sucked the moist end of my
According to reports of the U.
Department of Agriculture, there was ever needs for victory. They believed, cigar or some moistened tobacco I
an Increase In cattle of 10,288,000 head they stood fast and with our mgn they place near the inkwell for him.
and 12,441.000 hogs, these figure« com­ carried on—to victory.
One of the boys found a tiny musk­
piled to January 1 last. Ia the same
rat In the marsh back of the signal
Origin of Cotton Boll.
period there was a decrease of 810,000
tower one day, and he brought It Into
The pink boll worm, the worst enemy the tower. The muskrat became very
head of sheep, but indication« ar« this
decrease wlU show an Increase follow­ known to the cotton crop of India, tame and proved a most affectionate
probably originated there. Later It wns pet. He slept on the desk near the
ing the latest reports
Since January 1 unofficial Informa­ found In Burma, Ceylon, Egypt and In telegraph Instruments for over two
tion Indicates an Increase In hogs of almost every other cotton district on years. Although he went out very
not lees than eight per cent, and not the globe.
often, he wouldn’t stay long, and
more than fifteen per cent, compared
would scratch at the door nntll some
with on« year ago, with an Increase 1«
of ns would run downstairs and let
Statues for Bea-HIvss.
average weight
him In. Unfortunately onr pet was
A landowner In Silesia, Germany,
Following the request of the Food
killed by a freight train while cross­
has a collection of statues representing
Administration for Increase In hog
ing tbs tracks near the tower one day.
Rlhllcal nnd ecclesiastical characters
production for the fall of 1018 and the
A fter the muskrat died we brought
which he prises very much. Llfeslse
Spring of 1010 the Incrsass may yield
In a tiny woodchuck that a trainman
figures of Moses, the twelve apostles
not less than l .000,000,000 pounds
had captured out on the line, and he
snd ancient dignitaries stand solemnly
more of pork products than were
became very much attached to all of
In a row. But the owner mixes busi­
available last y ^ r . Without thia in­
us, and, like the muskrat, he became
crease ths shipping program srrnnxed ness with his fine art, which ths high­
a very clever and amusing pet
by Mr. Hoover regarding animal food est art critics say never should be
“Shuck” stayed with us two years, and
done, nnd has fixed these figures as
products would have been Impossible. homes
for the busy bees. There Is this ‘ finally he disappeared one day. Pos­
The dressed hog products during the
sibly some dog got him, or he may
three months ending September 80, record of bees selecting a stranger
have been crushed by a train.
1917, amounted to 908,172,000 pounds, kind of hive than the aolemn figure of
For the past 20 years an English
while for the same months of 1918 the Moses or Pitol : “And he turned aside
sparrow has nested In ths eaves of the
to
see
the
carenas
of
the
lion
;
and,
production was 1.277.880.000 pounds,
tower, and this sparrow files In and out
an Increase of over 874.000.000 pounds behold, there was a a warm of heea and
of ths towsr at will, picks up bread
bona? in the carcass of the lion.”
for the quarter
crumbs on ths floor and catch«« aa oo
(Judges
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Christian
Herald.
During ths same period In 1017 to-
gnectafl ffisashtor iMMflfi 0L4I1M90
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They were furnished, not in hundreds
but in thousands—both for the traili­
ng camp* here, and for service in Bel­
gium, France and Italy.
A
«■Sam
raknuk
U M L w U M te
fower men Is that our pet sparrow may
some day eat our pet cockroach.
Last year a toad hopped up on to
the doorstep of the tower and sat thers
blinking. One of the boys fed him
a fly and the toad gobbled it In an
Instant and every afternoon all sum­
mer long that toad hopped up on to
the step and ate files aa fast as ths
railroad men would feed them to him,
The boys took turns and fed him In
relays; the yardmaster said the boyi
were neglecting their work to feed the
toad; but he became ao fascinated
watching the performance that h«
caught files for an hour one day and
fed the toad.
I ’m afraid the toad win go hungry
thia summer If he ahowa up, for we’re
too busy moving war supplies to both­
er with feeding pets around a railroad
yard.
Every stray dog that ever wandered
Into the ward has found a haven In th«
tower, and several litters of pupple«
have been born there.
We’ve had cats galore; one cat Is
particular was a snake catcher, and
she brought to a snake nearly everj
day.
Aerial Postal 8ervlee.
Negotiations for aerial postal serv­
ice have been completed between the
British and Dutch government», and
Holland la very busy making final BP*
rangeinenta. The Journey from Am­
sterdam to London would take but one
and one-half or two hours. The Dutch
military airmen, who have been In
training since the beginning of the
war, are to act aa pilots and the min­
istry of war la lending full co-opera­
tion to the scheme. On the same lines
an air service between Amsterdam and
Grolgen la also being arranged. Ground
for large airdromes Is being prepared
hear the Dutch metropolis.-—Scientific
American.
Austrian Chlld-Sli
The report of a parliamentary com­
mittee appointed to Investigate condi­
tions surrounding.child labor In Aus­
tria discovered a most deplorable con­
dition, according to ths Arbelter Zel-
tung of Vienne. More than one-third
of an schoolchildren are engaged In
some kind of work. In soma districts
all the children of school age ere work­
ing. Out of every 100 schoolchildren
between six and eight years, 18 ere at
work; between nine and ten, 38; be­
tween eleven and twelve, 50, and be­
tween thirteen and fourteen, 62. Two-
fifths of theee children have been
working from the time they were flvq
or ate yean eld.
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