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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1921)
600,000 Yets of W ar Are Jobless « ------------------- ----------------------------------- children, fathers and mothers, depend ent upon them for support. “Now that business depression has become intensified and the ranks of the unemployed swelled by the addi tion of millions of men who had been holding jobs until a few months or even weeks ago, the lot of the long unemployed veteran is such that com passionate Americans need not look to Former Service Men Battling Harder Russia, to Hungary and the other Survey by American Legion Shows Desperate Plight of Men Who Went to Front. FIGHTING FOR EXISTENCE Now and Under Greater Odds Than They Fought in the Trenches in France. stricken nations of Europe for human suffering to touch their heartstrings. - “ The plight of unemployed veterans Is serious enough today. But winter is just around the corner. Open-air work will soon cease. The harvests which have provided temporary work for many will soon be gathered. Park benches and doorways will soon be untenable at night. “This is the situation that faces the American Legion and the Ameri can people today. Scarcely having finished the campaign to relieve the hardships of the physically disabled veterans of the World war, the Ameri can Legion is now realizing that it faces another campaign of equal mag nitude to save its comrades who have become economic casualties.” Hard Winter Ahead. “ If they were lucky enough to have savings from before the war awaiting them when they were discharged, those savings have long since disap peared. They found themselves with out funds early in the period of in dustrial depression which set in while this country was getting back to a peace-time basis. Workers who had been employed steadily at high wages during the war were able to coast into the depression period living on their savings, but for many months unem ployed ex-service men have been, per force, little more than industrial scav engers, compelled to seek odds and ends of work desperately to meet their simplest necessities. The more fo r tunate havle been largely dependent upon relatives and kindly friends. Those lacking these have been roam ing from city to city, restlessly seeking work. Many of them have wives and |j§ I - Jff ¡|§ - „ ' iS & ' V ffift ¡É:ÉÈÉÎ M M Tom b o f Dante in Verona, Italy Indianapolis.—Between 600,000 and 700,000 veterans of -the World war are out of employment and struggling for existence, according to a survey com pleted by the American Legion. Many of these men, the survey dis closes, are fighting harder now and under greater odds perhaps than they fought in the trenches. The survey was conducted through the 11,000 posts— of the Legion. Pennsylvania alone reported 150,000 ex-service men out of work. The New York Legion department esti mated 100,000 veterans jobless in the state, and Illinois and Massachusetts reported respectively 35,000 and 30,000 ex-service men out of work. Georgia was the only state that re ported improvement in the unem ployed situation. “Unemployment not general enough to require aid from Legion,” was the report from that state. Iowa reported that the indus tries in that state were showing signs thi^fe, although a serious condition IM te r was anticipated. The report011 18 Desperate, scribed conditioiE? Pennsylvania de- the state of Washinfedeplorab,e and service men not to go t advised ex> until conditions improved. ijg* state unemployed war veterans were "an’s £9 to number 30,000, but industrial con dition6 were reported as ‘ better than two months ago.” Commenting on the situation which has come out of the business depres sion, the American Legion Weekly says: “Figures alone, however, do not tell the plight of American unemployed veterans, for the greater part of these jobless ex-soldiers and ex-sailors are not only out o f work, but are engaged at this moment in a struggle for ex istence with their backs to the wall of circumstances. They are for the most part men who have been econom ically on the defensive ever since they left their country’s service. Many are men who found their old jobs gone when they took off their uniforms, and no other jobs to be had. Those who succeeded In discovering' some work after being .discharged from the army or navy found they were pitted in re morseless competition against men who had not been In the service. Many employers dealt with them by the rule of ‘last hired, first fired.’ Lafayette-Mame Joint Celebration in New York The 164th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis of Lafayette, major general, U. S. A., and the seventh an niversary of the battle of the Marne, were celebrated with impressive services at the Lafayette statue, Union square, New York. This photograph shows Maj. John F. O’Ryan, speaking. The statue of Lafayette overlooks the speaker’s stand. Find Log Book of Constitution The six hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante coming this year, thousands of tourists are visiting the beautiful gothic tomb of the Italian poet in Yerona, Missing Document Just Recover ed Dates Back to Building of “ Old Ironsides.” Plan Big Fight TELLS TALES OF ADVENTURE Against Cancer American Society for Control oi Cancer Announces a “ Na tional Cancer Week.” SPECIALISTS ARE INTERESTED Inform ative L iteratu re W ill Be Carried to Every Corner of the Country,— Causes 10 Out of 100 Deaths Among Those Over Forty. New' York.—The American Society for the Control of Cancer, which, since its organization in 1913, has beeh fighting cancer with facts, sent out from its headquarters, 25 West For ty-fifth street, New York, announces an unusual feature of its already re markable campaign. This is a “ National Cancer week,” which will begin October 30 and end November 5. The purpose of the effort, the most comprehensive and important in the society’s career, is intended to carry facts concerning cancer to as many persons in the United States and Can ada as can be reached through the professional and lay press, by lec tures and by the spread of informative literature. The work will be carried on by the foremost physicians and surgeons in the country who special ize in the control of this dread dis ease; by state and city health officers and by the public-spirited citizens, who have given much of their time and New Guardian o f the White House Old Boy is the new watch dog of the White House, who has recently ar rived to keep Laddie Boy company. He is five months old and was given to Mrs. Harding by a friend in Washington. considerable of their money to the movement. Book Disappeared When Vessel Went Out of Commission and Officials of Navy Department Have Since Hunted High and Low. Maybe it was caused by the oranges, lemons, etc., being served out as ra tions. The log says that those who were not sick “ spent the day in har mony and festivity” after the Rev. Addison-Searl, the ship’s chaplain, had made an Independence day address. The mall was received in the evening from the sloop. Washington, 36 days out of Boston, and papers from various parts of the country were in it. At Port Mahon, in the Balearic islands, three men of the crew de serted on a stormy night, Oct. 5, 1821. A detail of 10 men and officers was sent out, wfiich succeeded in recaptur ing two of the deserters after a three days’ search. The third man managed to hide successfully, but gave himself up two years later at the same port. Boston.—The logbook of the frigate Constitution, missing for fifteen years, The society’s organization is an ex Las beeu found at the Boston navy, ceptionally efficient one, and the mes yard. High and low the officials of the de- sage of the “Cancer week” will be car ried to the remotest corners of the partment have sought the volume ever A Stormy Christmas. country. It includes regional direc l since the famous old ship went out of On Christmas night, while the Con tors, state chairmen and local commit • commission for the last time in 1907, stitution was anchored in Gilbraltar tees, all w orking under the direction ¡ says the Boston Herald. harbor, a great storm occurred. Rain Of D r . C h a r le s A . P o w e r s , p r e s id e n t. T h e d is a p p e a r a n c e o f th e lo g b o o k fell in torrents and the deck of the Assisting Doctor Powers are such men was a complete ' mystery and the de frigate was swept clean. The United of note as Dr. Robert Abbe, one of the partment had come to the conclusion States schooner Nonsack, standing foremost authorities on cancer in that some person had purloined the close by, sent boats and men to the America; Dr. James Ewing, patholo book and that it would probably never vessel in case of need. After three gist-of Cornell university ; Dr. G. E. again come to light. days the tempest subsided, after caus Armstrong of Montreal, noted Canadi Covered With Grime. ing much damage and the loss of Andi now, quite accidentally, It has many lives. an surgeon; Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins university, Balti turned up, covered with grime and On Sunday, after divine service, more ; Dr. William J. Mayo of Roches cobwebs, in the upmost corner of during which the child of a “native” ter, Minn.; Dr. Clement Cleveland, for building 82, at the Boston yard, where was christened “ Constitution Jones many years head of the Woman’s hos apparently it had lain, with a lot of Nelson,” it was learned that Thomas pital in New York; Dr. Francis Car other rubbish, since her captain hauled Worthington, a seaman, had been ter Wood, director of the Crocker down his flag for the last time. killed in a pistol duel with a foreigner The logbook, which is in manu over a pretty dancer in a cafe. A cancer research laboratory, Columbia university, and head of the board of script, of course, is very well pre party brought the body back to the scientists, and. many other prominent served and its .entries are remark ship and it was buried subsequently ably clear and legible. They bear at sea. specialists. Since its inception the society has the signatures, written in the flowing Many distinguished persons, includ maintained that accurate information script of a past generation, of Capt. ing members of the nobility and gen concerning cancer is the best means Isaac Hull, Commodore William Bain- try, visited the ship during the months known to lower the mortality of this bridge, Capt. Charles Stewart, Capt. she spent in European ports, and the disease. It was believed, and it has Jacob Jones, Capt. Otto C. Badger and officers were fairly deluged with in since been proved, that a large num other commanders of “ Old Ironsides.” vitations to parties and other enter Many interesting episodes and tainments. The greatest friendliness ber of cases can be cured if taken in hand early, and its efforts have been events are narrated in the volume, was displayed toward the Americans directed toward urging persons to seek told in crisp, sailorlike fashion, with everywhere. competent advice the instant they rec out adjectives or embellishments. The log recites that three men were ognize any of the symptoms made Some of these occurrences have been drowned in the waters of the Bay of plain by the society’s campaign of ed forgotten and their re-telling at this Naples, while diving, on the morning ucation. In this policy the society at time makes a strange tale of the 109 of June 15, 1822. The undertow took first met antagonism from that ele years which have elapsed since the them to the bottom and the bodies ment which considered cancer a dis old ship has- been in the service of were not recovered. Services were grace and which believed the less said Uncle Sam. held for them over at the side of the The logbook tells, in brief, of the ship. about it the better. building of the Constitution, in Bos On the morning of June 20, 1822, a Decrease in Deaths. ton In 1794, and modestly recounts her brig, under the command of Capt. Those interested in this educational many engagements and adventures dur Poola Dabinowich, informed Com movement are extremely encouraged ing the war of 1812 with Great Britain, mander Bainbridge that on the pre by the fact that during the last three most of which are familiar history. vious night two Greek ships had at years deaths from cancer have, for Describes World Voyage. tacked the Austrian fleet and had the first time in two decades, shown It describes, in detail, the famous succeeded in destroying the admiral’s a slight decrease. It doe3 not claim voyage around the world, which began ship, having on board 2000 men. that all this decrease is due to its in 1844 and ended in 1846, during Next morning the Constitution campaign, but it believes that its cam which the Constitution visited the reached the scene of the battle and paign has had something to do with Azores, Madeira, Brazil, Cape Town, found hundreds of dead bodies float it, and intends to push its work in the Madagascar, China, the Philippines ing around the isle of Tuno, where it future even more vigorously than in and many other glaces in the course occurred. the past. of her circumnavigation of the globe. In Foreign Seas. Some idea- of the ravages of cancer In crossing the China sea it is noted Many months were consumed in may be had from the fact that it that the ship sailed through a mass cruising along the coast of Turkey, causes ten out of every hundred of floating pumice stone,’ which had many ports being visited. At Smyrna deaths in this country where the vic been cast up by a spouting volcano in the American counsul paid an official tims are more than forty years old ; Japan. At Canton, China, the crew visit to the ship, and was given a that about 85,000 deaths a year are were called on to help extinguish a rousing reception. recorded, and that the mortality among huge fire which threatened to destroy On the return voyage through the women is considerably greater than the city. Mediterranean John Richards, seaman, among men. Women afe exceptional The Constitution, in 1821, made a fell from the maintopmast into the ly susceptible to this disease, but it is tour of European waters where, on sea, and before a boat could be gratifying to.know that if the symp account of her exploits and victories lowered “ an undertow took him to the toms are early recognized a great ma during the war she was the object of bottom.” jority of cases may be cured. Be great attention and curiosity. After ■ When the Constitution sailed into cause people are better informed, early a trip of 46 days, under the command the harbor of Gibraltar, April 23, diagnoses are more common now than of Commodore Bainbridge, she reached 1823, she fired a salute of 21 guns in the past, and, moreo ver, the methods Gilbraltar, short of provisions. from the broadside in honor of the of treatment, which now include radium A detail of men was sent ashore to coronation of King George IV of Great and the X-ray, are becoming more and procure food, and “ after a lengthy Britain, which took place at noon on more efficient and effective. talk with natives.” according to the that day. During “ National Cancer week” log, they succeeded in bringing aboard Another severe storm blew up that there will be lectures in many cities oranges, apricots, lemons and vegeta night, and the next morning a British by the foremost authorities on can bles. One rather wonders how such frigate was seen hard and fast on the cer, the distribution of literature at fare appealed to a crew of husky rocks. Fifty men were sent to help these lectures; activities by the de man-’o-warsmen after a 46 days’ pull her off. Carpenters were sent to partments of health throughout the cruise. the aid of an American sloop which country and by the medical societies, Arriving in Genoa harbor on July was flying her ensign union down and and the publication of numerous arti 4, 1821, a sickness broke out aboard leaking. Another ship lost her bow cles in the medical and lay press. the ship which lasted for two days. sprit in the gale.. W ill Spread Message. After four years in European duty the Constitution was relieved from duty by the frigate Cyane, the log book records “in a downpour of rain.” After an uneventful trip of 41 days she arrived off Sandy Hook. This was before the days of clipper ships and fast steamers. It took longer to sail across the Atlantic than to go to New Zealand today. During the civil war the Constitu tion was used as a training ship at Annapolis. She was again pressed into service in July, 1877, when Congress author ized the President to supply trans portation for goods sent by American citizens to the Universal Exposition at Paris, 1878. After a successful trip under the command of Capt. C. Badger to France, made in 50 days, she was ordered back In 1879 from Havre with a cargo. She went aground off the French coast and it took five tugs to pull her into deep water again. She Comes to Boston. At the hundredth anniversary of her launching the secretary of the navy ordered her taken to Boston. She was brought back to the city and to the harbor where she first kissed salt water. Amidst cheers ef thousands she was tied up at the Charlestown navy yard, where a great demonstration was held at the Old South Meeting House in honor of the occasion. After the war of 1812, with no rec» ord of the disappearance of the orig inal figurehead that ornamented the bow of the Constitution, an idea was conceived by an admirer of Andrew Jackson, then President of the Unit ed States, that it would be a graceful compliment to the chief executive to have his statue placed on the bow of the frigate. The new figurehead portrayed Jack- son holding a scroll on which was inscribed “The Union, it must be pre served.” No sooner had the sculptor, L. D. Beecher, begun his work than the enemies of President Jackson be gan to fight the plan. The Whigs of Boston scattered handbills over the city bearing, in large letters, the headline, “ Freemen Awake!” They prayed the people to take action against this “ Wooden God, this image of a tyrant,” and “For God’s sake, to save the ship from the foul disgrace.” The sculptor was offered large sums of money to allow the figure head to be stolen, but he would not consent. The matter caused such ex citement in Boston that it was neces sary to berth the Constitution be tween the Columbus and the Inde pendence, and to station guards on each ship to protect the obnoxious statue. However, a daring young marine captain from Cape Cod named Sam uel Dewey, on a wager of $100, stole into the navy yard one stormy night, climbed up the anchor chain, unob served, sawed off the head of the Jackson statue, placed it in a gunny sack and made his escape. The next morning when the decap itation was discovered there was a tremendous uproar. Dewey later went to Washington, where he exhibited the head to many of the leading Whigs. Finally it was carried to the navy de partment and offered to Mahlon Dick erson, the secretary of the navy, to whom Dewey told his story. The secretary was furious and threatened arrest. He went to the White House with Dewey, 'taking the head wrapped in a bandanna hand kerchief. Andrew Jackson, when he heard the story, saw the head and burst into uncontrollable laughter. “Why this is the most Infernal grav en Image I ever saw. The fellow did perfectly right; tell him to saw it off if it ever appears again,” declared the President. After - the Washington incident Dewey was made a postmaster in Vir ginia as a reward for his exploit. The sta'tue was found just 27/ years after its mysterious disappearance on the grounds of Jonathan Bowers at Wll- lowdale, near Lowell.