The Rocky News (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1919 Page: 2 of 6
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the r o c k y KE w s_
jpian to Reclaim t
Disabled Yanks
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opening up for
for such a group of men
tlinated It would take i«J««
OOO.OTiO to pay the support, tmtim.
Estimates That u.’SS
WOO Will Have to B. U--ESSZ25J3~
retrained and fitted for a ne v
edera! Board
X)0 Will
Fitted for Vocations
,356 ALREADY IN TRAINING
lovernment Work, on Four Year
Program, but Fund. Are Needed
to Complete Plan^Board Re-
view. 1.000 Caw. a Day.
Washington. Working to °VPrcon)*
he handicap, of nten Injured In the
rar the federal government Is
driving to place the vocationally d;^
ibled soldier hack
=s&:?«=3
Ural thousand additional men will
have been approved by October.
According to recent figure, reported
to ,he bureau of war risk Insurance
by the army. 149.433 men have been
discharged from service with a disa-
bl”only cases showing 10 per cent dis-
ability have been reported, the reP°z
states. -At this rate It 8*em*
able that the total number of cases ut
disability resulting from the war and
entitled to (monetary) compensation
will be close to 200.000.”
$350,000,000 Needed.
A central case board has been es-
tablished in Washington to finally ap-
prove all cases sent in by the dl*t*“‘
hoards. This system. It Is explained,
is necessary because the board Is op-
erating under a budget system of ex-
pense from congress. This board re-
views an average of 1.000 cases a day.
The majority of these have to be re-
jected, though. If a more liberal lnw
should he passed by congress in the
future these cases would he reopened
and It Is supposed the majority o
them would then he approved The
documents and evidence in each case
are carefully preserved so that the ex-
pense of obtaining them again will he
minimized.
. and textbook cost alone. Kuxther Pr>>
vision would have to be made
traveling expenses of tb* -J
lca! attention, and mechanical *PP
an. es and for .sjuipmen and adm.n^
‘ tration of the broader law■ * P .
traveling exposes. m(.* it
other special expenses f <ni0
approves, in addition to 1*3™* *
to' m- n with dependent* and W *
month to men wirhout *V*
and family allowances to the t
class. _ - __
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WORLD
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EASY WORK FOR YOUNGSTERS
Cops Give Hermit His
Annual Shave and Bath
Training and Experience Which Boy.
and Girls Realize I. of Great
All-Round Value.
SOLVING THE LEISURE HOUR PROBLEM
Ga. Masks for Painter*
Wilmington. Del .-To avoid turpen-
tine "Jags” shipyard painters working
down In stdt* l»M»
SEE*. mo™ tin.™. ... ! -«* «“ »«>“
twl ........ ,h.
...l« >• oomp*te
r,S Ortwr -who,.- mow .nd
in independent Income for blm« b
According to Information
mblic by the federal hoard Mr
^tloUl education It is likely that
^ many as 80.000 men who served
„ he war will have to he re-edu-
«,il. either vocationally or occupa-
l*°Under this plan the federal hoard
I. now working on what »■
^11, a four-year program, .although
appropriations so far have been male
UD to July, 1920- 1“ “nolher
y,h P|t Is estimated. 17.000 men
5f be approved to go into lmtnedinte
training with the opening for the
Si terms of the professional and
technical schools of the cf,aatr*’ ^
40.000 or 80,000 men disabled In the
aervlce of the country will all be
placed In training for various lines
of activity and nearly all of them
will have completed rehabilitation by
the summer of 1923. By far 1 ®
lorlty of the men to be rehabilitated
will have finished their retraining
Is expected, within a ye»r or two
»,n*. of fhom l» »»“ *“
month*. nnd will b. book “ “JJ
feet In that time In professional and
Industrial ranks.
May Extend Work
So far no provision has been made
by Congress for rehabilitating men
whose disabilities do not amount to
a vocational or occupational hand!
TJtZSX sr~ DEVELOPS 23-KNOT speed
gress .nay yet he asked to provide l Ufcl
•ome means of compensatory train-
ing. as well as the compensation al-
ready paid through the war risk bu-
reau to men who have simply suftere
physical disabilities, without economic
loss to them. In their country's service.
To carry out such a program, It Is es-
timated that the federal government
would have to expend upwards of
>alf a billion dollars.
Up to the present time the voca-
s
annual haircut. shave
The police did the tonsonal act
and £Lo administered the scru
io\X ^ John°fl. a
strong man and put up a de-
termined struggle throughout
the preformance. He went
the police station with Kr,zzl-
hair and beard, which reached
almost to his waist
away with a smooth face aud
head and smelling like high-
priced toilet water.
John got his first haircut,
.have and bath In twenty years
last year when the cop* ran
him In and trimmed him up.
See Ship Which
Routed Foe Subs
! Thousands Pay to Get View
Great Britain’s Mystery
Craft.
See at Close Range—Dough-
boy* Inspect Ship.
^■'T-birrv;
lb. I’m. a British antl.ubma-
iaif a Diiiiou UUH.W- peep, . phip, which was moor-
Up to the present time the voca- rine my vlctoria embankment for
jonal education board has got In touch ( ed off Q public Inspection at the
,rtth some 153.000 men and has actual- n ' S ^c,al pence celebrations.
, surveyed and interviewed 110,135 cl(»e of th wa8 |he first of the "hush’
"»■ w~ ,o -
lorlty of these will not be able to ob- | at close range
1 * . . ____* tha nnt nf run*
tain retraining under the act of con-
gress us It now stunds, even with re-
cent amendments.
All of the men more than 10 per
cent disabled will receive money com-
pensation to the extent to which they
It was'only ten yards from the em-
bankment to the quaint looWn ; U-boat
i\1.1»*r but the Intervening distance
had to’be made in small boats. These
each carried eight passengers, and the
fare wus one shilling, so the water-
GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR RETURNING
V-
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luiuitmik' ................ rimiiiera of war embarking on a hos-
Gertnan convalescent and
pltnl ship at Dover. England, for Rotterdam.
men’s pockets soon were bulging, hut
j there was no complaint about profit-
eering.”
Doughboy# Inspect Ship.
Among the curious who sw-armed
over the vessel were a number of
American soldiers. S«me of t.em
i took a peculiar Interest In the guides
‘explanations and comment on the
boat’s “trick" fittings—her geared
turbines, gadgets, deptji-charge throw-
" I trained to them a night of peril
through which they passed from South-
ampton or Winchester across the sub-
marine and mlne-lnfested English
other French port—and the war. That
night of fearful expectancy passed
snfelv they had marvelled at the
clency of the convoying craft which
they knew had been oft In the dark-
1 ne«s somewhere, plowing through roll-
Ing breakers, eager for an encounter j
with Its frequent aftermath of oil and
bubbles” from a vanquished undersea
b°But as these doughboy spectators
heard a member of the crew of the
-hush" ship say: “She does every-
thing but loop-the-loop.” nnd ^w oth-
ers demonstrate parts of the ships
fighting equipment hitherto kept se-
cret. they understood why they hud
been so secure. _
Twenty-three-Knot Speed.
The “P-31” Is 244 feet loDB' wlth nar‘
row beam, seven-foot draft and
equipped with Independent engines,
fore and aft. that can speed her
through heavy seas nt 23 knots an
hour. Built high forward and low at
the stern, the vessel 1ms somewhat
the appearance of a suhnm^ne—an ef-
fect that her designers Intended.
“Fritz sometimes would think she
was a ’sub’ and would open fire on
bor_but when she slewed arourid In
her own length and got Into action
Heine was sorry he had spoken, said
a sailor who had been through elgh
engagements on the fighter.
There had been other brushes with
enemy craft, he explained, adding, “but
unless vou enn bring home a hit of the
I corpse, the admiralty say. ‘not Proven.
lf8 no use to tell them nt.out the oil
and hubbies.’ they’re no proof because
Fritz used to release oil nnd hubbies
1 to make us wuste ammunition.”
(Prepared by The United States Depart-
ment. of Agriculture.) i
Teaching poultry club boys and girls
the rudiments of poultry keeping: was
begun by the United States department
of agriculture about seven
The average youngster takes to p
trv keeping with interest, particularly
when he is allowed to sell the surplus
®eat and eggs and invest the income
True savings hank or in better foun-
dation stock for the Improvement of
his flock. The training and ®sT*rleD
which the children realize from their ,
daily association with bens Is of ***“
all-round value to them and Is o. spec-
ial help in developing a love foP coun
trv life and in keeping rural boys and ,
girls on the farm. What » y0™JL 1
school girl can accomplish In poultry
raising is indicated by a letter from a
poultry club girl who writes:
“I keep Barred Plymouth Rocks and
single-comb Rhode Island Reds, and
in setting my hens I always remove
the broody hens from the *ay‘ns hens
and place them in some otner building
where they will not be distn^!fn J
never set hens that are exceedingly
heavy, as they are more likely to break
the eggs. |
“When the chicks come I do not
feed them anything except grit and
charcoal until they are 48 hours old.
when I give them either oatmeal and
hard-boiled eggs chopped fine, or els
biscuit crumbled up with 4he ****•-
feed in this manner fer the first
or six days, giving the chicks smal
quantities four to five tiroes a day, as
these youngsters like to eat often.
“At about the end of the first week
I begin feeding small grain in the
morning, at midday, and In the eve-
ning. and keep a mash made of wheat
bran and a little cornmeal. and 10 per
cent of beef scrap before the chickens
all the time.
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When the leisure hour problem
unrest will disappear.
theory on which the comrnuni y s'rN’
ice, incorporated, an outgrowth of Urn
war camp community service, p
ceedlng in Its national campa gu. -
ganlzatlon has been completed fm ^1-
nbis and plans for the establishment
of the work are under way.
“In correcting the apparently un
friendly relations between cap tal and
labor, community service believes it
can perform a valuable work by
viving the neighborhood spirit, ear
the leaders. “This can be done by
teaching the foreign horn the
of Americanization, directing t e e
ure of the people along Instructional
and educational lines, finding a stimu-
lating substitute for the disappearing
saloon, furnishing a gathering P
with a healthy atmosphere, organ zing
the social, educational and recreational
_____.i nnii democratic as to win the
” the social, educational ami
ot o„, « on Bnos .0 »,o.a and d.»ocrn..= ns .0 win ,W
support of all races, creeds and classes. national basis and ha»
“Community service has bera or^nl completed In Indiana,
elicited a ready response. °z(j® New y0rk, Kew Jersey, Ohio and
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania. Michigan, Tsew
11H°Among those interested hii the n^i0^ “^aT^irdinal^bbons, Hugh
MiS winSm £rnfht ?h„ds. John O. Agar and Theodore
Roosevelt.
AGAINST “JIM CROW” RAILROAD CARS
“This spring I hatched 135 Red
chicks and 110 Rocks and raised near-
ly all of them. 1 sold 30 young cock-
an ^ _ *___j iftR oka nt
______young
erels and have on band 195 chicks
Federal legislation prohibiting
Jim Crow cars or other legislation dis-
criminating against negrow °n J
roads or steamships within the United
States was urged by Representative
Madden of Chicago (portrait herewith)
before the house committee on Inter-
state and foreign commerce the other
dav Mr. Madden advocated the n-
ot.b. provisions ot o««Ur
Introduced by him In general railroad
legislation. A delegation from the
Colored American council, which spon-
sors the bill, was present.
Representative Sanders of Louisi-
ana was the most outspoken In oppo-
sltlon to the bill among members^
the committee. “We contend that the
negro prefers separate accommoda-
tions." said Mr. Sanders. “Our negroes
down South, knowing they aren t wel-
come in the white man’s coach, don t
8° *Mr. Sanders asked Mr. Madden If
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BRYAN FINDS 1920 GETTING NEAR
Barred Plymouth Rock Pullet.
present, some of them very fine pullet*.
I have sold 59 settings of eggs this
spring, while during the four month,
from February to June I ^164 d^
en eggs to neighbors, while »e used
40 dozen on our own tnble. During
this period mv Rhode Island Reds laid
.mi. <»• B""ed boc“
laid 853 eggs
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PREPARE DUCKS FOR MARKET
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WATERSPOUT WRECKS HOUSE
Debrl. Strewn Along Connecticut
Coast for Distance of
Two Miles.
Ten Million Are Coming
Feed Colors Flesh.
Ducklings to he mnrketed should b«
fattened for two weeks before killing
on a ration made of three pa ,
weight, of cornmeal. two Parta 0 t
filings, one part of bran, one-half part
of beef scrap, with 3 per con grit
nnd 10 per cent green feed added t
tnu mash or a mash of three parts
cornmeal, one part low-grade wheat
flour, one part bran, one-quarter part
beef scrap with the green feed ana
grit, and 3 per cent oyster shell ndded. ,
Feed this ninsh three times dni y,
giving all the ducklings will clean up
5 a half hour. The green feed Is
William Jennings Bryan Is back ,n
the public eye again, this time In the
role of assailant of the National fee-
curity league. He finds his ammuni-
tion In the report of the sPe®lal co“‘
mittee to investigate the National Se-
iw. .ub»i.w.. u» bou»-
of representatives on March 3- 19ly-
The house of representatives adopted,
the report of the committee. Mr
Bryan says this report should be read,
by every voter, because we are ap-
proaching the campaign of 1920. He
says in part: . .
“Here we have It; the secret Is-
ont The men connected with the
league as supporters or officials rejv
resented almost every predatory In-
terest and fuvor-seeking corporation.
The questions Indicated that the two-
things uppermost in the minds of
those in charge of the leagues activi-
ties were first, the protection of the-
meut packers, and, second, opposition
railroads, nnd to this may be added the
to government ownership of me 1
i“l Z r°r»tl.o S Vermuent »< «*• ™"ro«be
now before congress.”
WESTERN MAN MAY SUCCEED REDFIELD
Vow York.—Reports came from
tlle east mid west met. n waterspout
wa*. seeVto form .»*«»• »«a.f ml e
off Shore nt Iloton l’oint. It was
,Tb.l^r,rb:“X..
Anna nnd ‘be cabin off, lenvln*
rest of tbo launch undamaged.
Fight men who had come from New
York in the launch were In u bouse
near (he shore. The house was
moved several feet off It. *««nd«.
lions by tbo waterspout and the
sw-on<l floor and attic
,nvnv nnd smashed to pieces. The
debris was strewn along tbe coast Mr
two tulles.
Europe Expects Greatest Exodus
in History.
united States Warned to Take Steps
to Guard Against Being
Swamped.
London.—The greatest pxo<!"* '"
hlstorv is looked for ns soon ns Europe
finds the necessary transportation fa-
?"mU im'Mf''' :f'M'
British government Indicates 1 .
000 persons are eager to leave the com
tlnent. The eltuntlon is regarded as
fU Brit aim Stilly aware of all Hint this
exodus will mean, will continue Its Im-
migration restrictions. A government
1 “Britain ennnot siistnm nny nmn'
than It has. a,id the emigrants wlU
likely seek homes In the LuiU 1
1 State* ”
(ifficials here are Inclined to warn
the united States to take steps guard-
ing ngainst being awamped.
British officials hope some 2,000,000 j
Tews of eastern Europe will go to
Palestine, but no one has any Idea
of how to sustnln the rest of the
I wouUl-he emigrants except by such
aid as to make It possible for them
to stay In their respective native coun-
tries.
Storage of food, lnck of produc-
tion, and unsettled political and so-
cial* conditions are expected to last
for a long time all over Europe. Pas-
senger ships nro booked months ahead,
but there are not enough vessels for
carrying even tbe most Important und
Immediate traffic.
sometimes left out of the ration dur-
Ing the Inst seven days of fattening
as It tends to color the meat nnd may
produce a slightly flabby, rather than
firm flesh. However, It Is easier to
keep Ihe ducklings In good feedla*
condition on a mash containing green
feed.
RANGE FOR GROWING CHICKS
Young Fowls Will Not Eat Too Much
If They Are Permitted to Hava
Necessary Exercise.
The resignation of Secretary of
sets
fastens public attention upon hlmand
his cabinet place. It ‘f ^ion
Washington that I resident
may select a western man as his sue
^Announcement of Mr. Redfleld’s
resignation did not come ns a surprise.
Since his disagreement with Dlreptt’
; General of Railroads Illnes regarding
1 prices for steel several months ngo It
hud been almost common gossip that
he contemplated early retirement Mr.
Bedfleld. however, denied that h
resignation wus the result of frlctl®
between himself nnd other admlnlstra-
j tlon officials.
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Italian provinces In which 70 per
cent of the communes are without tele-
„hone service are authorised to Issue
bonds jointly with the euminunca to
extend the wire facilities.
„Sh«" n p'™> ”«t
1,1 C nt nil tiroes to growing chicks.
Such a mnsh should contain plentfo*
bone meal, ground very fln^ and floe-
ground oats and barley. to
have the mash ground very fluo.
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In an ailja
communlcntl
Hadjetlache,
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personally 1
leadership a
fled detect!
him the m<
the crimlnt
Elsewher'
of a bolshe
the police
the fate of
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after hh
and con
the poll
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crimes
the girl
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task o
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If less
“My resignation,’* he said, “Is not
the result of uny quarrel, disagree-
ment, chagrin or any other unpleasant
occurrence, but is caused solely and --
entirely by my de8lr*X*™,ce m?re to my personal allalra. which for more
ness and give my alter. Ionrami * " re '10 y 1
than eight years hr.ve been . Marsh of Waterloo. Ia.. have
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