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Bellefonte, Pa., November 12, 1926.
VETERANS STILL
NEED RED CROSS
Aid to Disabled Men Increases
as Problems and Legislation
Bring Complications.
20,000 MEN DIE EACH YEAR
Many Entitled to Benefits Still
Uninformed of Just Claims
to Compensation.
Eight years after the World War
finds service to disabled veterans still
% major responsibility of the Ameri
ean Red Cross.
This situation is due to the increas:
ing problems involved and the com-
plex character of veteran legislation.
There is also an increase in numbers
of “death cases” handled, as com-
pared with claims for living veterans,
though the work for the latter re-
mains heavy. About 20,000 ex-service
men are dying each year, a consider-
able percentage of these having serv.
ice-connected disabilities.
In a majority of cases, Red Cross
Chapters find their assistance is need-
ed in helping dependents present
their claims for death compensation,
insurance payments, bonus, burial al-
lowances, and other government ben-
efits due them. An episode of the
past year illustrates the difficulties
frequently encountered by the Red
Cross experts in rendering such as-
sistance. A veteran dying from serv-
ice-connected disease, was trying from
his bedside to establish at that late
time his claim for Government aid to
his family, and the necessary proofs
were in a physician’s records across
the continent from him. To obtain
the needed affidavits before it was too
late, a cross-continent airplane flight
was necessary, then a Red Cross
Chapter in Pennsylvania hurried the
investigation, sending the papers
back to the veteran and his Red
Cross helpers in Oregon, by air-mail.
It reached there in time.
Another discovery in Red Cross as-
gistance to veterans and their fami-
lies is that many dependents of these
men unquestionably entitled to Gov-
ernment aid, have struggled along,
ignorant of their rights.
Aproximately 2,686 Red Cross Chap-
ters carry on Home Service work, in
assistance to veterans and their dam-
ilies. The Chapetrs also conduct
campaign among veterans for reir-
statement and conversion of their
term insurance, Among its other du-
ties, the Red Cross assumed at the
request of the Canadian Government
the administration of a fund allotted
to the care of Canadian disabled vet-
erans living in the United States.
In the United States the Red Cross
assisted an average of about 80,000
disabled veterans and their families
every month in the past fiscal year.
Indicating the size of this undertak-
ing, National Headquarters of the
Red Cross expended $1,641,178.18 on
disabled veterans alone, and $509,
451.72 on assistance to men on active
duty with the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps, while Red Cross lecal Chap-
ters expended a total of $1,987,000.
Red Cross assistance to service men
overshadowed every other phase of
its program, even its disaster relief,
until the Florida hurricane.
Help for veterans covers many de-
mands, from temporary aid until Gov-
ernment claims are adjusted or until
the ex-soldier is properly hospitalized,
to extending capital loans to rehabili-
tated veterans endeavoring to become
self-supporting in business. Several
such capital loans were to blind vet-
erans.
Contact with veterans in hospitals
is maintained by Red Cross personnel
which doctors agree influences the
veteran's welfare and improvement.
The Veterans’ Bureau was planned
to carry on social work in its hospi-
tals for mental eases, and in many
cases the Government and the Red
Cross are co-operating for the welfare
of the men suffering war disabilities.
The public is invited to assist this
work by joining the Red Cross during
the Annual Roll Coll, November 11
to 25.
ALWAYS AT WORK TO RELIEVE
DISTRESS
Since 1905 the American Red Cross
nas given relief to 854 disasters in
the United States alone. A year sel
dom passes without a major calamity
due to tornado, earthquake, fire or
flood. The Red Cross in each case has
remained on the job until relief was
completed.
Last year the Midwest tornado
which struck five states was the out-
standing relief operation by the Red
Cross. The Florida hurricane in Sep-
tember created a problem which ex-
ceeded in proportions any disaster
since the San Francisco fire.
By joining the American Red Cross
every American can do his part to
make its services continuously effec-
tive. The Annual Roll Call from No-
vember 11 to 25, this year, is your ep-
portunity.
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when it is news. Read it.
LOCAL MARKETS
ARE ESSENTIAL
Equal Responsibility for Thelr
Support Rests Upon the
Farmers and Merchants.
MUST ASSIST EACH OTHER
Prosperity of Community Depends
Upon Each of These Two Classes
Buying Products and Goods
of Each Other. 2
(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
The first essential in the develop-
ment of any business is the possession
of a market. The manufacturer must
have a market for his products or he
cannot succeed, no matter how valu-
able those products may be or how
efficiently his plant may be operated.
The wholesale merchant and the re-
tail merchant may have the choicest
stocks of goods, but they may as well
go out of business if they have not a
market where they can dispose of their
stocks. The farmer may produce
bumper crops, but they will rot upon
the ground if he cannot find a market
for them. The wage earner's skill and
muscle bring him no. returns unless
there is a market for his labor.
The question of markets is the big
one in every line of business and in
every community the question is a
vital one. In each community, which
must be taken to include not only all
the people who live in the town but
the farmers who live in the surround-
ing country as well, there are two
sides to the market question. The busi-
ness men of the town must have a
market for the things which they have
to sell. Otherwise they cannot con-
tinue in business. At the same time
the farmers must have a market for
the things which they raise or they
may as well go out of business.
When Either Fails Both Suffer.
fhe merchants of the town can pro-
.ide a market for the products of the
farmers and the farmers can provide
a market for the goods which the mer-
chants have to sell. As long as each
class of citizens provides a market for
the other class all is well and the goose
hangs high, but when either class fails
to provide a market for the other the
goose is cooked, not only for the class
which is deprived of the market but
for the other as well.
The farmer has a right to expect the
town which is his natural trading point
to provide a market for his products,
and the town is not performing its
proper function as the trading center
of its community if it does not see
{ that such: a- market is provided. The
responsibility of looking after the ful-
fillment of this obligation rests largely
upon the merchants of the town. The
farmer is a producer and he must dis-
pose of his products before he can be-
come a consumer. It is, therefore, not
only right but necessary from a busi-
ness standpoint that the merchants
should aid the farmer in turning his
products into money. Otherwise the
farmer naturally will have no money
to spend in the stores of the town.
Obligation on Farmers.
Jn the other hand, the merchants of
ne town have a right to expect the
tarmers to provide a market for the
merchandise which they have to sell,
and the farmers are not doing their
duty to their community if they do not
provide such a market. In this case,
also, it is not only right but it is nec-
essary to the prosperity of the farmers
that they should aid the merchants in
turning their merchandise into cash.
Otherwise it is obvious that the mer-
chants will have no money with which
to buy the products of the farmers.
This is a double-barreled proposition
and the obligation rests equally upon
both the merchants and the farmers to
maintain the markets which are essen-
tial to both classes of citizens.
town which would import from points
hundreds of miles distant the farm
products which it could buy at home
would be pursuing a very short-sighted
policy, for it would be making it im-
possible for the farmers in its terri-
tory “to buy the goods of its mer-
chants. As a matter of fact no town
does this unless it is forced by unusual
conditions to do so. A town may be
located in a community which is not
productive enough to meet the local
demands, and in that case it is forced
to import farm products but the town
which is compelled to do this is at
an disadvantage from a commercial
standpoint unless it is essentially a
manufacturing town, in which case its
products are sold to other communi-
ties and bring in enough cash to offset
that which is sent away to purchase
farm products.
Must Have Outside Business.
In the average community, however,
the town is dependent for its pros-
perity upon the money received from
the farmers in the ordinary channels
of trade, rather than upon that ob-
tained from the sale of its own prod-
acts. ' In the average town the mer-
chants cannot make money and con-
tinue in business if they are depend-
ent solely upon the people of the town
for their business.
No business can last long with “ev-
erything going out and nothing coming
in,” and it is equally true that no busi-
ness can be operated on the principle
of “everything coming in and noth-
ing going out.” To maintain the bal-
ance which is necessary to the mainte-
nance of prosperity in a community
there must be an even trade between
the business men of the town.
Any
black one below.
Horizontal.
1—Ember
4—Famous corn state
7-—Grecian portico
8§—Slams, as a ball
16—Reconnoiters
12—Liquid measure in metric system
14—Heavy plank
i6—Vehicle for hire
17—Simplest geometric figure
19—Organ of hearing
20—Balked 22—Stick
28—Printing measure
24—Part of a shoe
26—States
27—Money making establishment
28—Happy 29—A mount
81—Apparatus for lime making
32—Thus
84—Period of time
35—Well-lighted by the sun
87—To bend the body
88—Salary
40—Not (French)
41—To close tightly
42—Baucy
44—To bother
46--Toud shouts
48—Tidy
43—Watering place
§0—~—German (abbr)
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the puxsle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word whick will
fll the white spaces up te the first black square to the right, and a numbes
under “vertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next
No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dice
tionary words, except proper mames. Abbreviations, slang, imitials, technical
terms and obsolete forma are indicated in the definitions. §
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 2.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS.-WORD PUZZLE
When the correcy letters are pluced in the white spaces this puzzle will
spell words both vertieally and horizontally,
The first letter in each werd is
(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Vertical,
1—Small particle
2—Ancient French coin
3—Small ax
4—Part of “to be”
b—Bird of night
6—To moan
6 A—Clothed
7—Mark left by a wound
9—Title of address (Spanish)
10—Place where two pieces are pu'
together
11—To embark
13—Communists (coll)
14—Insect
16—Part of “to be”
20—Dispatches
21—To loiter
24—To hasten
26—Moving vehicle
27—Scant
28—Chinese plant
29—To stitch
81—A knoll
33—Night bird
86—Skyward
87—Vegetable from which sugar is
made
39—God of love
41—Heavenly body
45—To open a keg
45—To observe
30—A pitfall
32—To fly
47—Sun got
Solution will appear in next issue.
Locusts to Visit This Country in 1927.
Pennsylvania is due for two visits
by the 17-year locusts within the next
two years, T. L. Guyton, State ento-
mologist, said. The first brood will
appear in 1927 in Adams, Franklin
and Cumberland counties, and the sec-
ond brood will make its appearance
i the year following, in Berks, Bucks,
| Chester, Dauphin, Delaware, Lancas-
I ter, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery,
| Northampton, Philadelphia,
| Potter, Schuylkill and Wyoming coun-
| ties.
I “Jt will be advisable for persons
| planting orchards in these counties
' either to delay the time of planting
{until after these years, or to make
{some provision for protecting the
| young trees during the period that the
| locusts are present,” Mr. Guyton said.
: This insect causes damage by the egg-
| laying habit of the female. The eggs
| are thrust into the center of a small
{limb in a row from an inch to an inch
‘and a half long, running lengthwise
on the limb. After the small insects
(have hatched and dropped to the
i ground, the limb becomes very much
| weakened and in heavy storms may
be broken off, thus destroying thc
' shape of the trees. If not broken off
!in later years, these places will pro-
: vide entrance for rot fungi, which
! may cause the loss of the limb after
it has reached considerable size.”
Airplanes Must Show Numbers 3 Feet
| High When Over Los Angeles.
! Los Angeles police are now enforc-
ing an ordinance providing for license
‘tags on airplanes. They aren't tags,
| such as tacked on the front and rear
bumpers of your car; they are num-
i bers three feet high painted on the
i bottom of the plane.
{| All airplanes flying from Los
Angeles fields must have a number,
‘ so that machines flying too close over
the city or committing any other
breach of aerial etiquette can be
: checked.
Enforcement of the ordinance fol-
lowed the death of two young girls
| who were recently killed on the beach
i when struck by a low-flying plane,
| and as a result of the penchant of cer-
| tain giddy pilots for flying at a dan-
gerously low altitude over the Los
| Angeles coliseum during football
| games.
{
| Adjusted Compensation Claimed by
3,250,000.
The benefits of the adjusted compen-
sation act have been requested by
about -3,250,000 World war veterans
up to the present time, according to
the national rehabilitation commission
of the American Legion, which has
been in close touch with the working
out of the bonus law for which the
American Legion made a determined
fight. The number of death claims
which have been paid under this law
is 20,678, totaling $21,342,715. Claims
of dependents for benefits on account
of deceased veterans, under the provi-
sion of the law, numbering 22,455,
have been disallowed, but the opin-
ion has been expressed by officials of
the veterans’ bureau that on review
under terms of amendments passed by
| congress on J uly 8, 1926, a large num-
ber of these claims will finally be paid.
Pike
Solution of Cross-word puzzle No. 1.
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Grouse Wanted for Disease Study.
An examination of specimens of
ruffed grouse secured from various
sections of the State has developed
the fact that a number of these birds
contain parasites which prove detri-
mental to the health of these wonder-
ful game birds.
As the grouse situation in this
State is particularly acute at the
present time, and the supply must be
protected to the full extent if we are
to be assured of any future stock, an
urgent request is made to all sports-
men throughout the State who secure
any grouse during the coming season
to forward the entire alimentary tract
to the Bureau of Animal Industry, in
care of Dr. E. L. Stubbs, director, 39th
and Woodland Avenues, Philadelphia,
Pa., advising the office of the Board
of Game Commissioners of such ac-
tion, and sending as complete data as
possible to Dr. Stubbs, requesting him
to make a report to Dr. H. J. Don-
aldson, president of the Board of
Game Commissioners, 410 Pine street,
Williamsport, Pa.
al Estate Transfers.
Frances S. Barnes, et al, to Philips-
burg Veterans Association, tract in
Philipsburg; $14,000.
George H. Musser, et ux, to James
J eather, tract in Boggs Twp.; $2-
Joanno Gentzel, et bar, to M. L.
Newman, et ux, tract in Penn Twp.;
$1,000.
Nannie M. Lucas, et al, to Trustees
of Lick Run Lodge 211 I. O. O. F.,
tract in Howard Twp.; $4,000.
Frank D. Gardner, et ux, to C. D.
Lauck, tract in Ferguson Twp.; $325.
Della Bowes, et bar, to Anna Bowes,
et bar, tract in Liberty Twp.; $900.
Mary C. Osman to Ida B. Shuey,
tract in College Twp.; $1.
3 Boyd Osman to W. W. Shuey, tract
in College Twp.; $115.
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Marriage Licenses.
Melvin A. Pletcher and Grace M.
Kerchner, both of Bellefonte.
Andy Oppman and Minnie C. Allen,
both of Connellsville.
Henry A. McCreanor, of Pittsburgh,
and Carrie J. Arner, of Ford City.
William E. Mingle and Irene E.
Knarr, both of Schuylkill Haven.
Thomas H. Green, Indianola, and
Elizabeth M. Sicks, Pittsburgh.
Andrew Rodkey and Margaret Stine,
both of Houtzdale.
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