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The American Legion Weekly, of- in plain and simple language, pre- sented by one who knows the con- netka Legion Post's proposed Cab- aret Ball, January 28, 1921, is to be securing funds to further this most 'urgent and obviously deserving ser- vice to the sick and disabled veterans of the World War. full, reads as follows flect that just on its outskirts there the moment he would trade all the for a single dry, of the World war. tive red tape and inefficiency, con- some day everything will clear up "and be all right. : "may die in the meantime. nouncement that Congress is to be "west is the way out to health and can be given them in tents, shacks and helpless. ' sentatives of reaus handling the disabled man's this. The New Your and ial publication of the American Legion, will provide that information ditions as they really are. The Win- given for the express purpose of The article in By J. W. Rixey Smith It would be small comfort to a man lost deep in a dismal swamp to re- ran a fine macadam boulevard. For broad stone highways in the world safe path out of the marshes. ' y So it is with the disabled veteran Entwined in a thousand legislative difficulties, sur- rounded on all sides by administra- fused and dazed by the multiplicity and duplicity of sign posts in his wil- derness of suffering, he has little ear for the sweet music of promises that For one thing, he He takes little stock in the an- asked for many millions of dollars with which to build hospitals for him that will be ready in 1925. He sees Tucson, Ariz., where the tubercular ex-service men, pre-possessed of the idea that there in the arid South- happiness, in the meantime crowd for what medical care and attention and shanties. He sees state institutions for the insane, sometimes for the crimin- ally insane, in which mentally dis- abled ex-service men are crowded into left-over spaces, farmed out to Discussed by Writer in Legion Weekly ays: "Prospects for 1921 Forcast Improved But Still Inadequate Treatment for America's War Cripples." the Disabled Man" gion's representative said, 'we are perfectly willing to help design a new fire engine, but we most assur- edly expect and demand that the fire- men on the job shall utilize the one they now have to the limit during this emergency." The three government agencies charged with the welfare of the dis- abled ex-service men are asking Con- gress to approriate at this session $323,000,000 for their work for the next fiscal year. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance is asking $160,000,000 with which to pay compensation claims, the Federal Board for Voca- tional Education is asking $78,000,000 for its task of rehabilitation, and the Public Health Service $50,000,000 for rehospitalization and $35,000,000 for the erection of new hospitals. The bureaus, will, of course, work on June 30, 1921. Since hospitalization and beds for disabled ex-service men are the most dire need in the emergency, what the Public Health Service is doing and planning to do in the matter of open- ing up and running Government hos- pitals in the present and the immedi- ate future is of transcending interest and importance. It has already placed nearly nine thousand men in fifty- two of its own hospitals. There are in addition; 5658 new Public Health Service beds in imme- diate or future prospect, 2,375 of which are for tubercular ex-service patients, 100 for mental ex-service patients and 3,183 for general ex-ser- vice patients. There are fifteen Public Health Service hospitals taken over or about to be taken over to be run for the disable ex-service men. They are No. 51, at Tucson, Ariz., now being enlarged for 200 tubercular patients; No. 54, at Arrowhead Springs, Cal, 'being enlarged for 118 tubercular pa- tients; Camp Kearney hospital, linda Vista, Cal., taken over for 987 tuber- cular patients; Army Hospital, Oteen, N. C., taken over for 1,100 tubercular patients; Lenwood Hotel Hospital, Augusta, Ga., to be opened January 1 for 100 mental patients; Carville, Ia., hospital for lepers (only two ex- service leper cases have so far been discovered); Lake City, Fla. Hos- pital, opened November for 200 gen- 'says that the average length of time 'be given such treatment as the local St3 - ry for od CabdUr eas [v] efor 52.30. or $3 a day. He sees the 8267 tubercular ex- service men in hospitals and wonders how many of the other 38033 dis- charged from the service with the disease are, wandering the streets, shifting for themselves as best they 'may. 'He sees the 5351 nervous and men- tal casualties in hospitals and insane asylums and asks himself what is Yeppening to the 71237 others simi- larly afflicted who are not in hos- He sees the 6297 general and sur- gical cases under treatment and re- members the hundreds of thousands of others discharged with general disabilities and ponders on what may be coming to them. Hospitals in 1925, yes, but what of the heart- burning days ahead of 1925? ~ Neither does there appear as a lamp to his weary, stumbling feet pital. the promise that there are to be new laws in his behalf, laws that will con- solidate into one piece of effective machinery the different government "agencies charged with his care, laws that will cut away some of the under- brush that clogs his way to compen- sation and vocational training, laws that will remove many of the cum- 'bering technicalities that cling to his feet when he tries to move forward. "All very fine," he says, "and I hope they will help the man who I am the problem. I am Tom Jones who has waited three months, six comes next, but what about me? months, nine months, a year, written a hundred letters and filled in a hun- dred forms, but am still penniless I am Sam Browne who has dragged himself to the Govern- ment door dozens of times seeking a way out through vocational training and now am 'turned down' or 'pend- ing" Iam John Smith who has been sick since last June, who has begged a bed from the have it not. What about me? The problem of the disabled ex- service man for 1921 is an immediate emergency. When the National Com- mander and the Committee on Hos- pitalization and Vocational Training of the American Legion met in Washington last month with repre- the Government bu- affairs, they appreciated Though they worked hard on an ulti- mate program of bureau consolida- tion and law revision, they served notice that Government officials in- volved should and would be held to the strictest accountability for a lib- eral construction and effective ad- ministration of such laws as existed or might be immediately passed for the disabled man. "With the house on fire, the Le- Government and being enlarged for 200 general pa- tients; Speedway Hospital, Chicago, to be ready in five months for 843 general patients; Altamont Hospital, Newport, Ky., to be ready in January for 200 patients; Aberdeen Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., to be ready January 1 for 300 general patients; Fort Wil- liam Harrison Hospital, Helena, Mont., opened November for 100 gen- eral patients; Fox Hills Army Hos- pital, Staten Island, N. Y., taken over November for 1,000 general patients; Corpus Christi Hospital, = Corpus Christi, Tex., to be ready in six months for 200 general patients. These hospital beds provided will bring the total number of Public Health Service beds available for dis- abled ex-service men up to approxi- mately 15000. Where will the rest of the 30,000 disabled ex-service men estimated as needing beds during the year be put? There is the rub. Several thou- sands of them may be able to get government hospital beds in Nation- al Soldier's Homes or in Army, and Navy hospitals and the remainder will be put in contract beds where- ever they may be had in private and state institutions and hospitals. It is promised that the 600 beds now available in Soldier's Homes at Johnson City, Tenn. Dayton, Ohio, and Marion, Ind, will be increased to 2,000. There is little promise, however, that the 2,300 Government beds now available in Army and Navy hospitals can be increased in number. New York state has appropriated $3,000,000 to build a 1,000 bed hospital for neuro-psychiatric patients on Long Island, but even though the work! is carried on night and day, as it is promised, the hospital cannot be depended on as available for 1921. The state of Oklahoma may follow New York's example, but that hos- pital is even more in the future than New York's. It looks, then, very much as if ten thousand or more sick and disabled veterans will continue during the months to come to be tucked away by the district super- visors of the Public Health service here and there and everywhere in any old beds that can be rigged up for $.50 or 2$3 a day. The only way out of it, so far as hospital beds for the disabled is con- cerned, is for the Public Health service to take over more hospitals and run them. It may not be able to build them, but there is nothing to stop the service from leasing as many as it can lay its hands on. If hotels could be found at Augusta, Ga., Newport, Ky, and New York City that could be turned into hos- pitals, why cannot they be found else- where? If Doctors and nurses can eral patients; Boise, Idaho, Hospital i= be found for these men in private institutions, why cannot they be found for them in Government hos- pitals? Since the Army has hospitals in which there are 5000 beds that would be available if it could employ additional personnel and make alter- ations, why not take them over? Perhaps next 'in importance after hospital beds for disabled is the matter of Government compensation. One Hundred and ninety thousand claims turned down and eighty thou- sand pending! The Bureau of War Risk Insurance it takes for a compensation claim to be put through from the first paper to the first check is about two months, and that only two weeks intervenes in the regular course of events between the time the papers in the case are com- pleted and the check goes out. They say that they hope to shorten these periods of time; that, in fact, they are doing it all the time. They admit, however, that many of what they term "tough" cases remain unsettled after three, six, nine and twelve months. i They assert that they will have cleared their slates of all pending and unsettled cases by January 1, and that they will then be in a position handle claims submitted day by day. But this is all Greek to the man in Wayside, Minnesota (who has been flat on his back for nine months and whose papers have flitted merrily back and forth without bringing him a cent. Vocational education and rehabili- tation for disabled soldiers of the World War will, during the coming twelve months, be judged by its fruits. Up to the present time only 1.800 men have completed. their train- ing and 1800 more been placed in positions as a result of training, so that one can hardly say whether the $90,000.000 appropriated to the board for this year is getting hoped for re- sults or not. There are now 60,000 men in training, however, thousands of whom are expected to complete their re-education and start out in life anew during the year. Eight thousand men are being trained while they are mending in hospitals. The board is maintaining 110 local branch offices throughout the country in addition to its 14 regional offices, and reports indicate that it is in much closer contact with the disabled men it serves than any other of the government agencies, for vocational training is now decided right in the field. Immediate relief that is being sought from the present session of Congiess as iirst-aia 'legislation to help the Bureau of War Risk Insurz| ance. the Vocational Board and the Public Health Service do their work for the disabled men covers many of the unfortunate situations in which the world is now involved by reason of jokers, inconsistencies and defici- encies in the existing laws. The changes asked immediately are: The power to give hospital treat- ment to all ex-service men with disabilities traceable 'to the service, regardless of the degree of disability. The right of the Federal Board for Vocational Fducation to furnish medical care and treatment to all men in training, a right denied by a decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury. Authority for the War and Navy Departments to spend the necessary amounts for additional personnel and equipment in army and naval hos- pitals for looking after ex-service patients, the departments to be reim- bursed from the appropriation for hositalization of ex-service men. Provision for the payment of a flat $100 monthly allowance, with the sev- eral sums allowed for dependents, to all men taking vocational training. The privilege of vocational training for all disabled men drawing com- pensation from the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, regardleess of the question of a vocational handicap. In addition to these changes in the law to meet the present emergency situation ,the consolidation of the three ex-soldier bureaus under one assistant secretary of one of the ex- cutive departments and an appropria- tion of $25,000,000 for the erection of Public Health Service hospitals are the two outstanding objectives in the drive for better things for the dis- abled man. \ EASTERN STAR CHAPTER INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS The Public Installation of officers of Wilmette Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, was held at Brown's Hall, Monday evening, January 3. The hall was crowded with members and their friends. New officers installed were: Mrs. Harriet Hoshen, Worthy Matron. Mrs. Anna Venton, Secretary. The retiring officers, Mrs. Helen J. Cook and Mrs. Richard D. Schuettge, reported a very successful year with a membership of 230. Meetings of the chapter are held on the first and third Mondays of each month at Brown's Hall. ° During the World War nearly 10,000 American Jews were commissioned officers in the United States army and 500 in the navy. n Film to Be Friday's Feature India James Fenimore ' Cooper's Famous, "The Last of the Mohicans," To Appear at Community House "The Last of the Mohicans," the film success to be shown at the Com- munity House next Friday evening, is one of the few film reproductions in which the principal events, featured in the book, have been included. All book-lovers have read Cooper's best Leather Stockng tale in which Uncas, the last survivor of the once brave and proud tribe of Mohicans fights for the whites. Maurice Tourneur directed the film. The beautiful scenery in which the forest scenes are laid is unsurpassed and the horrible massacre at Fort Henry is vividly portrayed. Hawkeye, with his trusty rifle and quiet manner and the villian Mague with his stealthy moves are also true to Cooper's conception of the char- acters. The picture is indeed worth a trip to the Community House. Super- intendent of schools Washburne en- dorses the film. The matinee will be at 4 o'clock to enable the school children to attend. The evening shows will be held at 7:15 and 8:35. ANNOUNCE LINEUPS FOR INDOOR BASEBALL LEAGUE The Great Lakes Indoor Baseball league opened Wednesday evening at Community House. Wisconsin de- feated Illinois in the only game of the evening. 'Harry Anderson out- pitched Bailey in a 10 to 6 viciory. The lineups for the season will be as follows: Michigan Lucchesi, Ulbrecht, Dehmlow, Eck- art, Ilg, Runnfeldt, Blasius, France, Benz. : Indiana Kreger, Deily, Cazel, Siegle, Do- herty, Anderson, Paulson, Dethloff. ; Illinois Bailey, Voltz, Moore, Carpenter, Kassner, Stordeur, Blow, Voltz, Carl- son. Wisconsin Dehmlow, Eckart, Anderson, Dietz, Wood, Eckart, Odh, Amendola, Bartz. : While there are only 401 persons in Jowa and Nebraska whose income } exceeds $25000 there is an automo- bile for every six persons residing in those states. ~~ GYM CLASSES FOR MEN Harry P. Clarke wishes to an- nounce to the men of Winnetka that beginning today there will be volley and handball for men from 5 to 6 o'clock every Saturday afternoon. The Business Men's gym class meets every Monday evening. The classes are held at Community House gym. GILLIS ILSSLI LIL SAS SS SS SSSI SSS SSSA SASSI ASS 7 A A 111 1 Office Phone Winnetka 344 Residence Phone Winnetka 1468 'Charles R. Bakkemo 'Painter and Decorator Holder of Diploma for Painting ESTIMATES FURNISHED 952 Spruce St., WINNETKA, ILL. SILL LLLLSLLILLSLSLS SSIS SSIS SILLS SAS ASSIS LISS S SSAA S SSIS Hd ASSLISISLSISSLL ISLS LSS LSSLISSSSSSLSSSLSSSSISLIS ISIS SE E'VE raised the pur- ity standard to the air and we'll never haul it down. Every article of food sold here must live up to the high class rep- utation enjoyed by this grocery shop. PHONE FOR IT ! WINNETKA You Will IF NOW you will and better prices. The quality of our where. i= ELM 22 Iz; Mea L are always rushed with auto- 4 mobile painting during the early spring months and we anticipate a big business this year. not miss your car so much. We can give you better attention if not better than you can obtain else- Painting, overhauling, upholstering, in fact everything for the automobile. LINCOLN WM. T. WEHRSTEDT, Prop. Phone Win. 165 562 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka Be Sorry WAI * J painting is on a par TH Bh. AVE STREET