Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-08
GOVERNOR HARDING SAYS IOWA
BOYS IN NEW YORK NEED
MONEY WHEN THEY LAND.
PLANS TO SECURE $500
FROM EACH COUNTY
Soldiers Will Be Coming Back For
Months-Money viii Be Sent to Iowa
ton Where Needed-Sold,ers Hungry
For Home News and Mothers Pies.

Special 10 Times Republican.
Des Moines. May s.-On his return
from New York City Governor W. l.
Harding announced Wednesday that
he would at once start plan for ra!s-
ing funds for the returned soldiers in
New York City. He says the boys need
extra money or the Iows0s in New
YORK who are interested in their well
fare need it and ne proposes 20 help
them get il.
The governors plan is 10 raise 5000
in each county Of the state TO send
down TO the Iowa society in New York
or the commission appointed by the
governor TO look after the soldiers
welfare. He says the boys viii be COM
ing back for a year yet and the fund
appropriated by the Thirty e.ghth gem
eral assembly is only for the care OF
sick soldiers or those who have been
disc hargeG and are without funds 10
return home on. The governor will
write TO each county council of de-
tense and ask that organization to help
work out the plan. The money is TO
be forwarded to the state adjutant
general al the state house, Des Moines.
and he will send il on to the Iowa com
mittee of New York OF which Judge
Jerry B. sullivan IS the chairman ana
Ambrose O'Connell. secretary.
The governor also reports that #
the publishers OF newspapers in Iowa
could see how eagerly the returned
soldiers look for their home papers in
the Hall Of States they would lose no
time in sending the paper to the IL
brary OF the Hall Of States. New York.
Hungry for Home News.
The boys are hungry for home
news said the gOv ernor. When !
wen: into the Hall Of States and
looked around q while I found out the
corner in the library where the Iowa
newspapers are on file. I noticed a
young soldier sitting there reading a
Waterloo paper. l spoke TO him and
Black Hawk county.
q This IS the nearest 70 home news
7 can get. the young fellow told me.
TWO companions were sitting near.
one Of them reading q Fonda Iowa.
newspaper. for he was from Fonda, and
the other a Clayton county paper as
mis- home is in Strawberry Point
The governor related q number Of
incidents where the Iowa workers in
New York helped out the returning
soldiers.
There is most naotheriy woman in
charge OF the work for the Iowa boys
in the hospitals he continued. "One
day she found wounded Iowan and
as usual after visiting with him asked
him If there was anything especially
he wanted. He said no but as she
turned away he called her back.
Say there is one thing l would
like" he declared
What is it, she asked.
A home made raisin pie he re-
Piled
III Is needless 10 say he didn't have
long TO wait for that raisin pie and ne
is still Dragging about IT.
There is one Iowa lad down there
in the hospital with one leg and one
arm gone He has been there six
months. He lost lot of blood when
he was hurt and il has been neces
sary to restore that lost blood by build
ing up his system. The Iowa workers
are taking him out for daily rides in
an automobile as they are other con-
valescent soldiers. These outdoor
rides are proving OF wonderful help TO
him.
I'm one hospital i visited there were