New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1623 New Britain Is Important Cog In Soldier Rehabilitation Machine T, J. Bannigan Tells of Work Done Here at Lions’ Club Meeting—State Com- mander Kelly of Ameri- can Legion Speaks. “The chief difculty of the Amer- fean Leglon I8 ignorance; lgnorance within the organization and the lgnor- ange of the people,” Edward V. Kelly, state commander of the American Le- gion told the members of the New Yritain Lions' club at & meeting held last evening at the Elke' club on Washington street. “Not only those outside of the leglon but many of the members themaelves belleve that it is merely an organi- zation having clubrooms for soclal events, playing pool, smokers and get togethers. The vision of the men be- comes narrow and it is then purely a local organization, That is not the American Legion, The American Le- glon has been organized to serve God and country,” the speaker continued. Mr. Kelly sald that the men of this country learned the meaning of the word service during the war and when the armistice was signed they wondered how they could perpetuate thelr service. As a result a gathering was held in Paris at which time the legion was formed with the motto “For God and Country We Assoclate Ourselves Together." The legion commander touched the hearts of those in attendance at the gathering when he stated that the war is but a memory for many but for the disabled and wounded it is still raging. “No one can deny the bitter and damnable neglect encountered by the men who came back,” Mr. Kelly as- serted. Godless Country Must Fall. Mr. Kelly sald: “The day there is no God in an organization a menace looms up before us. Rome fell when Ythe Romans lost their faith in God; Russia ‘fell when the Russians lost their faith in God and we will fall .BABY.SnS.Q@%%’hm p withou! use 1ICH Y,‘,’m'}.";fiuf;?*..! Important to all Wofien Readers of this Paper Thousands upon thousands of wo- men have kidney or bladder tgouble and never suspect it. ‘Women's complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the reswit of kidney or bladder disease, If the kifineys are tiot in & healthy condition, they may cause the other organs to become diseased. You may suffer pain in the back, headache and loss of ambition, Poor health makes you mervous, {rritable and may be despondent; it mgkes anyone so. But hundreds of women claim that Dr, Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restor- ing health to the kidneys, proved to bejust the remedy needed to overs come such conditions, Many send for a sample bottle to see what Swamp-Root, the great kid- ney, liver and bladder medicine will do for them, By enclosing ten cents to Dr, Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N, Y., you may receive sample size bot tle by Parcel Post. You can purchase medinm and large size bottles at all drug stores. when we lose our faith in Ged." Because the American Legion is a living monument to those men Who died in memory of their country, Mr, Kelly asserted that every ex-service man who is not & member of the or- ganization should join, Mr, Kelly compared the name Lions and Legion and what the two stand for, He sald the Legion stood for everything Lions did with an addi- tional meaning for E and G, L is for the loyalty to country, community and home, I 18 for the individual integrity in thought, word and deed; O is for the one flag, one language; N is for the new ideals, new hopes, new am- bitions in business and profession; § {# for service that is founded on the Golden Rule, For E and G which are not in Lions Mr., Kelly added E is for oternal vigilance and G for God in Us. Thomas J, Bannigan, sub-district manager of the United States Vetor- ans' bureau in Hartford, also spoke, Previous to his address President W, W. Bullen called for the reports of the banquet committee and the steer- ing committee, It was reported that a banquet will be held at the installa- tion of the ofcers at a place and date to be announced later, Willlam Gothwalte reported for the steering committee and stated that the committee suggests to the club members that an entertainment be given in the near future to ralse money for a local charitable institu- tion. A new committee consisting of Willlam Gothwaite, W. C. French, Dr. J. H. Potts, C. L. Plerce, Sidney Con- don, Harry Hancock and H. J. Don- nelly was appointed to complete plans for such an event, The entertainment at the luncheon was provided by Mrs. Clara Birnstein, soloist, assisted by Miss Anna Mawe at the piano and an act from the Ly- ceum theater. “Tom"” Bannigan Feels at Home, The address, which was given by Mr. Bannigan and is as follows, was greeted with an outburst of applause: “It is indeed a great pleasure for me to have the privilege of being with you on this occasion. The many familiar faces surrounding this fes- tive board recall happy reminiscences of the past in New Britain when I was in close touch with many of you during my residence here. It seems good to greet once more old friends like Bob Vance, Tom O'Connor and others here tonight. “Probably the one big job that we have been engaged in since the armi- stice, is the rehabilitation of the dis- abled veterans of the world war, This gigantic task has been given to the United States Veterans' bureau and has had the personal attention of the president of our United States, to whom Colonel Forbes, our worthy di- rector, is responsible, “The question has been frequently asked, ‘What will the Veterans' bureau accomplish for the ex-service men?’ Anyone asking this question will find the answer in the program that has been outlined for the United States Veterans' bureau and which will be carried through to completion just as surely as the sun shines. This pro- gram provides compensation for every man who suffered injuries or con- tracted diseases while serving in the military or naval forces during the world war that may have rendered Rim 10 per cent or more physically disabled; to provide the best talent for all men needing medical or surgi- cal oare; to see that every man in need of hospitalization, because of in- jurles received or diseases contracted in line of duty in active service, is placed in a hospital under government supervision and to maintain an ef- fective follow-up system among con- valescents and those who have been discharged from the hospital as reaching the maximum improvement or as cured, in order that their best interests may be closely safeguarded; to conduct the vocational rehabilita- tion of men with vocational handicaps of ten per cent or more in govern- ment training centers where it will be possible to keep a direct record of their tralning progress and (o leek after their moral and physical wel. fare; to give prompt serviee in the handling of all elaims for compensa- tion, voeational training and hos- pitalization through the district and sub-distriet ofices that have been es- tablished throughout the country, The bureau has made wonderful progress since it has been decentralised, This calls for the transfer of active and pending disability cases from eentral office in Washington to the fourteen district offices throughout the country. These cases have been sent to the distriet wherein the claimant resides. Vocational Rehabilitation. *“The most important duty of the bureau at the present time is the vo- catiopal rehabilitation of our disabled men, In this connection the bureau is instructing many men in trades and technical training centers been estab- lished which are maintained or su- pervised by the bureau, It is not the policy of the bureau to interfere with the training of men in universities and accredited institutions but it has eliminated the farming out of men in schools which do not meet full re- quirements, We have trainees In every state trade school in Connecti- cut, including the Connectiout Agri- cultural college, where at the present times there are approximately 40 trainees, Here in the New Britain trade school we have 23 trainees, and in your local industries we have 47 trainees in placement training. “Our own state of Connecticut is in the second district which com- prises the states of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. The Hartford office covers the counties of Hartford, Litchfield, Tolland and Windham. In the Hartford office at the present time we have about five hundred men in training and it is our one ambition to sce that these men recelve every attention and consideration from our sub-district office. Our one thought at all times is not to place the men into jobs but to see that they are praperly placed in a vocation . that will be beneficial to them in years to come. “The Hartford sub-district office is located in the American Industrial building, 988 Main street, where the open door policy prevaile at all times. In the words of Director Forbes, the United States Veterans' bureau was created to serve all ex-service men and women and he insists that all vet- erans’ get a square deal. Employes of the bureau will give them a cor- dial welcome and full information concerning their case. The law will be administered in the broadest and most sympathetic way possible. You are entitled to information, assistance and advice concerning the law and the bureau regulations. The service of the bureau are at your disposal and it is expested that you shall always receive courteous and helpful treat. ment. It is the thought of the United States Veterans' bureau that every ex- servicemen receive the benefits which our grateful government has provided. Appreciate New Britain Aid “1 wish at this time to express the appreciation of the Hartford sub-dis- trict office of the bureau fdr the fine cooperation we have received through the New Britain post of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Miss Conroy of the Municipal Home serv- ice, all of which have been coopera- tive at all times in helping us in our work. These agencies have cooperat- ed in a most intimate and construc- tive way with the bureau and I wish to assure them that we will do every- thing in our power to arrive at the solution of that big problem to which all ex-service and welfare organiza- tions and the Veterans' bureau are jointly and commonly obligated. It is the one thought of our worthy di- rector, Colonel’ Forbes and our dis- trict manager, Major Lent, that all cmployes of the Veterans' bureau do everything possible to facilitate the carliest possible accomplishment of everything planned in the interest of our disabled. Training In New Britain. “Many of our disabled trainees have been and are at the present time be- ing trained in many representative in- dustries in New Britain. The list in- cludes: The American Hardware Cor- poration, Corbin Cabinet Lock Com- puny, Landers, Frary & Clark, North & Judd, Anderson Electric Company, Universal Auto Company, Fafnir Ball Bearing Company, Hart & Cooley The D. MILLER CO. 26 CHURCH STREET Your Money’s Worth Or Your Money Back WHITE SALE Large stock Sheets, Pillow Cases, Sheeting, Cotton Cloth, Nain- sook, Cameo Cloth, Cambric, Long Cloth, White and Colored Outing Flannels. 109, Off Regular Price Large stock of Armstrong’s Linoleum and Linoleum Rugs, all . new patterns at 10% discount for this week. Bailey Lino, value 69¢c,at ................- 50c¢ Sa. Yd. All Remnants of Linoleum to go at 1-2 Regular Price, up to 5 or 6 yards. PALAC ONE WEEK STARTING NDAY Comppny, The Banley Works New Britain Machine Company, Corbin Serew Corpeoration, Franklin Marshall Motor Company, C. O, Palmer “We have also twe or three of eur trainees taking up pharmacy in your local drug stores and another trainee becoming & finger print expert with your police department. All of these trainees are making excellent progress and they are indeed fortu- nate in belng able to receive Lraining in these excellent places in the com- munity, “We have put forth every effort to expedite action In all cases through our sub-district effice and will con- tinue to do so in the future, Our one thought at all times is ‘service to ex» service men,' We are now arranging to keep the local sub-distriet effice open one night a week to accommo- date men who are not able to come during the day. We have also inaug- urated an insurance section within this Hartford sub-district office so that matters in general pertaining to war risk Insurance can be handled within the sub.district office, 1t gives us great pleasure to know that the Hartford sub-district office stood first in the last peried, for getting employ- ment for our rehabilitated trainges Employment is one of our big proh- lems and we appeal to the big indus- tries of our community to give us every helpful asslstance and co-oper- ation in absorbing our men when they arrive to the point of employability, From time to time, many of our trainees will reach the rehabllitation stage and we solleit employment for trained and skilled ex-service men. If you have an employment opporturty for a trained war veteran, kindly get in touch with the bureau. The United States government has completed the education of these men along many industrial and professional lines. It is your duty as patriotic citizens to see that these men are given a chance to take thelr places as wage carners in the community. No matter what the position is that that you have to fill, see if a tralned ex-service man is available or If you hear of a future vacancy, let us kr'mw about it Paying a Million a Day “It may be interesting to know at this time, that the United States vet- erans' bureau is paying out over one million dollars in cash every day in- cluding Sunday, directly in to the hands of ex-service men or their de- pendents, and is providing, without cost, hospital care and treatment to over 40,000 veterans; is giving voca- tional training without cost of over 100,000 disabled ex-service men; is conducting an insurance business for over 600,000 ex-service men without any cost of administration to them. It is conducting over 50,000 medical examinations every month. It is giv- ing outside treatment in cases where Just arrived, a carload of these beautiful ru Come in and see them. These rugs make a dull roo Make your selection from our as a spring morning. 9x12 GENUINE NE ” 9x10-6 7-6x9 6x9 ”» » hospitalization is not required to ov 20,000 ex-gervice men every menth is requiring for 1933 expenditures in behalfl of the disabled ex-serviee men 510,000,000 which is mere than the cntire expenditure of the whele Unlted States in 1897, “In short, the United Btates of Am- erica is already doing mere for its disabled veterans than any country In the world, despite the fact that their losses were far heavier than ours, Do these facts indicate that the disabled ex-service men are being neglected? “The country is gratefal to its herole defenders and is deing all it possibly can for these disabled in the war, and 1 am glad to state that the men in their turn, are, with very few exceptions, deing all that can be ex- pected of them, We realize that they are facing their new physical and mental difficulties with the same emergy and cheerfulness that they showed at the war front. They are trainihg for the mastery of their new trades with as much will as they went over the top, They are fighting to be- come engineers or business men, or lawyers, or commercial men, and they are learning, consistently and perais- tently and their vocational reconstruc- tion, fellowing physical, is going on so marvelously that Uncle Sam has overy reason to believe that these bureau trainees will become the lead- ers in the nation's industrial, com- mercial and professional lines, You will find that the veterans' bureau s always ready to serve, but you must also realize that we are guided by law and regulations, “Our service men could have no more healthy sign of assured pro- gress in problems affectng the dis- abled than the personal attention that these questions are recelving from the president. It means that the chief executive realizes that the care of the disabled veterans of the world war is an important governmental problem which President Harding, with his thousands of responsibilities, any one of which claim his attention, is ranking the hospital and rehabilita- tion matters among the first. “Let us continue to go forward for the American ideal. “All for one, One for all, All for America.” r n THIEF SWALLOWS KEYS Paris.—S8eized by police, a thief swallowed several skeleton keys, ex- pecting with their aid to effect his escape. He got a stomach ache. Prison doctors were called. Keys were removed with stomach pump. The thief is still in jail. —— . Strictly fresh eggs 61c. Russell Bros. » » KAISHA SHIP COMPANY DECLARES BIG DIVIDEND Business Has Inoreased on the Lines | Operated by Well Known Jap- anese P Tokio, Jan, 16 Kaisha, operating a large floet steamships, despite complainis of de pression in the shipping trade, past half year at the rate of 15 pe eent, senger business on all iast six months, but by strict econom and adjustment of the services divident was made possible, The company now. has 109 vessel in operation, in aclition to 30 & ¥ which have been chartered for speclal during the period amounted to 2,215,000 tons and 119,000 passengers were carried serviees, The cargo carried over a total of 2,626,000 miles The Tsingtao and Bombay services were stated to be the most active a present, large Ccargoes being carried on the inward trips and light ship ments on the outward Voyag these services, On the Company The Nippon Yusen of was | able to announce al today's meeiMg of its shareholders a dividend for the The report of the directors said that in general the carge and pas of the eom-~ pany’s lines has declined during the the services the shipments of carge were reported 1o be falrly aetive and there has been & small increase in the Rum- ber of boals operaled On the European services the car- g0 movement has been dull during the six months, but the number of pas: sengers carried showed & distinet ia- erease. On the American services the passenger traffic has been small, but the shipments of carge from the Unit- led States to Japan have been brisk. | Timber, flour and wheat composed the .| bulk of the carge handied, On the South American services, business in all respects was reported to be extremely dull, Mrs. Corbin Re-elected Sunshine Society Head y At a meeting of the Sunshine so- ciety yesterday afternocon Mrs, George W. Corbin was re-elected president, s | Other officers elected are as follows: Vice-president, Mrs, W, W. Marsland; second vice-president, Mrs, Henry Thompson; secretary, Mrs, Willam Horsfall; corresponding secretary, Mrs, Leslie Brotherton; treasurer, Mrs, John Pinches. v Billiards hvae been played since the reign of Elizabeth in England, Strictly fresh eggs 61c, Itussell Bros, —advt, tonight? They’ll appreciate . . . NONE SUCH MINCE MEAT “LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE" ”» ” Make your selection early. 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