By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
RMISTICE day is a day
for recalling the thrill of
joy which swept the world
on November 11, 1018,
when the four-year cre-
scendo of the guns was
stilled and the costliest
war In all history came to
an enc... For us it is also
2 day for remembering the Americans
who crossed the Atlantic to play their
part in that titanic struggle and who
never came back—ths 30,000 men who
sleep beneath the white crosses in the
Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Oise-Alsne,
Aisne-Marnpe, Somme and Suresnes
cemeteries in France, in Flanders
field in Belgium and near Brookwood.
England. But, most of all, it should
be a time for remembering those who
did come back, not the men who were
returned unharmed to their rejoicing
families, but the “human wreckage of
war'-—men with blinded eyes, with
deafened ears, with gas-seared lungs
with severed legs and arms, with shat-
tered nerves, men whose precious
years of youth and opportunity bad
been sacrificed for their country.
How many of them are there? The
best answer to that Is a statement
made by Gen. Frank T. Hines, direc
tor of the United States Veterans’ bu-
reau that more than six hundred mil.
lions of dollars has been spent by the
government in the rehabilitation of
nearly 130,000 legless, armless, sight-
less and otherwise crippled or phys
feally handicapped men to the point
where they are capable of self-sup-
port; that more than 26,000 men and
women who served with the military
forces of the United Stsies are now
receiving treatment In government
operated or supervised hospitals; that
there are still In hospitals today more
than 18,000 ex-service men who are
undergoing treatment for disabilities
due to their war service; and that
there are under guardianship 25,727
veterans who are incompetent to take
care of their own affairs.
“The problem of paying the human
cost of the World war was a huge
one in the beginning,” says General
Hines. “It is still a major national
problem.
“Across 3,000 miles of ocean, In 1017
and 1018, we transported an army of
2,000,000 Americans, practically with-
out loss of life from enemy guns, tor-
pedoes or mines,
“Across the same expanse of water,
a little later, 117,000 wounded and
sick were brought back to the United
States—some to live, some to die,
many not to know for years the price
they must pay for their participation
in the war,
Beyond the sea, on foreign soil,
80000 soldiers of the American Ex-
peditionary Force were killed in ae
tion, or died of wounds, injuries or
disease.
“In the single great offensive opera-
tion of the American First army, In
the period between September 20
and November 11, 1018-—the attack
which brought about the enemy's ap
peal for the armistice—our losses
were 117,000 In killed and wounded.
“These items, large as they are, do
not constitute the total human cost
of our brief participation in the World
war. There were, in addition, scores
of thousands of youn: men who either
died in the training and concentration
camps here in America, or In those
camps contracted diseases with last-
Ing effects.
“The total toll of war was such that
death or disability claims have been
filed for one fifth of all the men who
served In the armed forces of the
United States during the World war.
More than half a million claims have
been allowed. And nearly ten years
after the war—on July 1, 1028-250.
O0U veterans, were receiving disability
compensation. That army of disabled
focluded men afflicted with anemia
receiving from $40 to $100 a month,
depending upon the seriousness of
their condition. It included thousands
of men with impaired hearts or ar
teries,. We had and have scores of
thousands of other cases
every disease or abnormal physical or
mental condition from bronchiectasis
to dementia precox.”
Another aspect of this problem is
presented by General Hines in these
words :
“As time goes on the obligation of
the government changes. The average
Disabled
bugle's eal . . .
drum’s low beat . . .
Crowds surging through the flag-
swept street . .
The the
And straight, young
marching by
music flung
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figures
To against the
Yet on this day of peace 1 see
Another, lonelier company:
These are not they who fell
these still
Are tortured on Golgotha's hill!
And one is here who not again
Will feel the pulse of rapture
when
The high, hard trail has yielded
to
conquering steps . . .
Another who
His
No longer now will joy to see
The April dawn's swift ecstasy
Of blue and gold , , .
here one lics
With pitifully staring eyes,
And
To whom the drum’'s low beat
will bring
Remembrance of some hideous
thing. . « .
So, on this dey of peace, | see
Another, lonelier company:
These are not they who gladly
died
But they who still are crucified!
«Catherine Parmenter in the
New York Herald Tribune,
po
1. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge as a volun.
teer “Gray Lady of the Red Cross”
reading to several of the disabled
veterans of the World war at Walter
Reed hospital in Washington,
2. Two patients at Genera! Hospital
No. 81 of the Veterans’ bureau, New
York city, fashioning “Buddy poppies”
which are sold throughout the country
during the weck of Memorial day by
the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States. Five million popples
are distributed (n practically every
city and town in the country, and pro.
ceeds being devoted exclusively to
welfare work among disabled veterans
3. A scene during one of the annual
garden parties held on the lawn of
the White House for disabled war vet.
erans in Washington hospitals while
Calvin Coolidge was President.
thirty-four years. That nge is beyond
ntibility tao
Vet.
therefore,
We shal
hospitals,
have in
bureau
fewer and fewer cases of tuberculosis,
the surgical and general
including, of
shot and injuries sustained in
the war, have heen We
bad 10.000 in 1022 there ure
only 6,700,
“But in another direction the
ernment’s obligation is increasing.
There has been a steady, upward
trend in the number of veteran pa
tients with mental and nervous affiic-
tions. In 1919 there were less than
3.000 such patients, Including those
who bore the so-called “invisible scars
of war”; the shell-shocked veterans
Now there are 13000, Our medical
experts estimate that the peak of such
cases will not be reached until 1047,
when, with the veterans at an aver
age age of fifty-three, there probably
will be between 40,000 and HOO00 suf.
fering from nervous and mental dis.
orders. We may have to provide hos.
pital facilities for 23,000 of these un.
fortunate veterans.”
Another estimate of the increasing
importance and scope of rehabilita-
tion is given by the Disabled Ameri
ean Veterans of the World War, a na.
tional organization of disabled ex.
service men established in 1021, This
group has been named by congress as
an official representative of the dis
abled who present claims to the gov.
ernment. According te Willlam E
Tate, national commander, during the
next decade, more than 275,000 ex.
service men will need help as a result
of disabilities incurred during the war.
+ 80 when Armistice day comes "round
each year, it behooves all Americans
in the midst of their solemn celebra-
tion of the day to give a thought not
only to those “who gladly died” but
also to that “lonelier company” of
those “who still are crucified.”
too,
cases,
“So,
medical course,
shell
decreasing.
Now
gov.
Primitive Pearl Fishing
Arabian pearl divers In the Per
sian gulf take world records for a
minioW:m of diving equipment, They
go to the bottom with a stone to
pull them down, a rope to pull them
up and a clothes pin on their nose,
The diver stands on a large stone
with a rope tied to it, that he may
descend quickly to the bottom of the
sen, He walks about the bottom pick.
fog up oyster shells and putting them
in a basket which Is suspended from
his neck. After he has been down
about two minutes, he is dragged
quickly to the surface by means of a
rope tied about his waist,
Pearl fishing Is one of Arabia's most
important summer industries says the
report to the Department of Commerce
made by Consul John Randolph of
Bagdad.—Detrolt News,
The octopus or devil (ish Is 2 feed
delicacy in oriental countries
Movement Imperative
1 find the great thing In this world
is not go much where we stand, as in
what direction we are moving, To
reach the port of heaven, we must sall
sometimes with the wind, and some
times against It; but we must sail,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor,
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Wide Sailing
“Railing the seven seas” is meant to
convey the Idea of walling all the
sane.
WHY WE BEHAVE
LIKE HUMAN BEINGS
By GEORGE DORSEY, Ph. D., LL. D,
: 3
The Oldest Egg in the World
HE race to be human began with
the first living being. That be-
ing was possible because the earth
brought from the sun some very re-
markable elements and because the
sun continued to shine, Under its bene-
ficial rays, certain elements became
began to perform like an organic in-
dividual. It could do what matter
had not done before, behave like a
living being. It grew, but its size
was limited by i's nature, as is that
of a raindrop or a drop of oil or a
plece of Jelly. It split up. It devel
oped new ways of growth, and evolved
sex.
Various theories have been proposed
as to how all this came about; even
propaganda for taking the future of
the race in our own hands. Mean-
while, do not forget that the egg with
which we begin life has been living
since life began; that egg has had a
long history and has learned much
about life. Otherwise we could not
learn to behave like human beings In
so short a time,
Our most human parts—brain, skull,
teeth, volce organs, upright gait, and
fingers—are not new, they are not
sential,
A man, monkey, opossum,
mon: they must eat
die. Every animal must have
and stomach, or the equivalent.
it viscera. Viscern are vitals,
without which there is no
What else
in common? A motor mechanism to
bring the necessary of life
within reach of the body's vi-
tals,
The our body is
marily that of the mechanism for get-
animal
elements
living
history of
en as food, and method of growth, In
other the chemical activities
whereby living beings maintain life
ure fundamentally the same in all an-
mals, but laboratory In which
these activities take place and the
mechanisms for carrying the labora
words,
the
tion as to food,
enormously,
enemies, elc, vary
Even our primate ancestor
tree lacked no parts to become hu-
man ; certain parts merely had to be
altered. Say two million years
.
brain bided
was not yet
while
time ;
body and
the earth quite
As Bergson puts ft: “Man only
realized himself by abandoning a part
of himself on the way;
yet ready to fight for
his mere wits”
est weapon.
his
pieces have no living representatives
because they over-specialized:
gave up so much to tusk,
nine, wing, leg.
length, or armor,
enough to live on.
eges in one basket,
that they had
They put all their
ized they could not meet change.
idea, could talk it over with
human, but that he can be so inhg-
man in so many ways.
Reading the timetable backward
suggests a parallel process, which
seems to have been at work in human
culture: progress by leaps;
long pauses. The pauses grow shorter
as time moves on,
For a hundred thousand years man
gets along without steam control. The
steam engine is invented. In the twin.
kling of an eye steamships plow the
seas, and every land is ribbed with
shining rails. The age of steamn blos-
somed out of nothing. Cossip former.
ly passed from mouth to ear; at
breakfast, now, Cape Town reads of
the color of the hair of the girl the
prince of Wales danced with the night
before. This Is another new age.
How did man get along without ra-
dio, newspaper, steel, steam, plumb.
ing, arch, calendar, spear, flint knife,
fire? He did. But he gets along fast.
er with them. So with life itself. It
got along without mammary glands
and internal Incubators, skull and
vertebral column, head and tai,
brains, But with brains, head, back
bone, and placenta, the procession
speefled up, life shot out in new di-
rections.
Progress is often made by lying
low; let the other fellew try out na.
ture’s new-fangled notions. By hold-
ing out, man came on the stage dur.
ing the big scene, When the call went
forth for clever people who could dou-
ble, shifty people who could walk back
to town if the show “blew.” who could
catch an? fry their own fish In case
of need, who could dig out, swim
across, climb up and jump down, who
were handy with thelr hands, had
gond memories and could mix, man
appeared.
All this took brains: a big brain, a
brain so big it had to wrinkle or burst
its case; a brain with frontal lobes so
big they dwarf the hind brain. A
brain big In every way; in absolute
size and weight, in proportion to spi
nal cord, in proportion to body,
48 by George A. Dorsey.)
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Or some other ache or pain pre-
vents your keeping an engagement—
Remember Bayer Aspirin! For
there is scarcely any pain it cannot
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These tablets give real relief, or
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the medical profession would not
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Those Party Lines
The old
in a Col
phone is
told her
would hav
evening
The next
mother
cat belonging to
aorado 3
on
mother
she
That
her yard.
day a sack con
cat and five kittens
nd
And
taining a
was left at the
two,
in,
by,
gate,
day or three hal
wandered
left
evidently having been
close
Natural Envy
A young frog who's just
jump thinks he's pretty smart,
# thousand grasshoppers doing
thing. Farm and Fireside,
he see
the same
The really important personage nev-
er seems to be nearly so happy as the
chap who only feels Important.
Wayne News-Sentinel
Are ie prepared to render
first aid and quick comfort the
moment your youngster has an
upset of any sort? Could you do
the right thing—immediately—
though the emergency came with-
out * warning—perhaps tonight?
Castoria is a mother’s standby at
such timés. There is nothing like
it in’ emergencies, and nothing
better for everyday use. For a
sudden attack of colic, or the
gentle relief of constipation; to
allay a feverish condition, or to
soothe a fretful baby that can't
sleep. This pure vegetable prepa-
ration is always ready to ease an
ailing youngster. It is just as
Lake on a Roof
A summer garden on the roof and a
winter garden on the ground floor
will be features of new flats being
built on a corner site in London. Mr.
Martin W. Harvey, the builder and
architect, said the building will have
ten floors, each covering an acre. The
roof, 100 feet above the street level,
and reached by four lifts or by marble
stairs, will have two golf putting
greens, a miniature Jake, pergolas,
rock gardens, and shrubberies,
Lote of women-haters are afraid to
mention the fact to thelr wives,
Balanced
ng a good deal
anced
t. N.Y,
Deadly Evils
and giotton;
y from the
Theodore Parker,
It is part of the cure
Cured Seneca.
ver you give for
Whate
and welfare of old folks is well given,
the comfort
harmless as the recipe on the
wrapper reads, If you see Chas.
H. etcher’s signature, it is
genuine Castoria, It is harmless
to the smallest infant; doctors
will tell you so.
You can tell from the recipe on
the wrapper how mild it is, and
how for little systems. But
continue with Castoria until a
child is grown.
Curious Old Beliefs
In Sweden a book is placed heneath
the head of a newly born child so that
he may be quick at reading. They
say, too, that so long as a child is
unchristened, the fire must never be
extinguished lest evil spirits come, and
no one must pass between the fire
and the child whilst it is being fed by
the mother,
Thilosophy is Just a cushion to soft.
en the sharp corners of life.
It is far better to end the day with
a laugh than to begin it with one
or
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are qui
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