Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-02

Ing. dfty-seven are totally blind AMI
few have lost their reason. Many
have hear! trouble. many have been
Gassed.
Though numbers return with
the Cross de Guerre for distinguished
service. and one with the Distin.
guished Service Cross of the Ame--
lean Army. the honors are not pa
raded. They are worn modestly.
\ Miracle shop
Bone grating ~ replacing parts
of arms or legs or noses. The Army
medical departments operating
room Ia veritably Il miracle shop.
Where formerly 4 limb would be
amputated. bone grsftii now re-
stores the function. Nerves are re-
generated by ele ..r,sn. treatment
and the best medical and surg cal
talent OF the nation has been drawn
into the work. Encourage your
p'ys to undergo tho treatment and
~ take the time nsse3sary for tteir
physical restoration.
And with physical reconstruction
is being given educational instruc-
tion. giving therapeutic work to
those whose needs SO dictate and
providing educational and diversional
work for those able to undertake 1t.
by this medus we are hoping to
rcinstate into civil lie every dis
sbled soldier capable OF becoming a
wholly self-supporting. self-respect-
Ing individual who receives his pay
because he earns IL.
"In the desire to show our ad-
miration for the mem who have gone
to France, we are likely to overlook
the work of those men who have not
been privileged to go overseas. All
OF the heroism of this war has, by
nc means. been confined to the men
in the front-line trenches. The men
who have served in training camps
and hospitals have often been In
greater danger than have been many
of the men who went across.
Personally. / believe that these
men are entitled to just as mulh
honor rs any other soldier in the
war. They could not say in what ca
pacity they would serve. and many
of them were eattos their hearts out
to go across. yet they could not so
until ordered. They went through
real danger. without the excitement
and the glory of the foreign service.
To be sure, they cannot wear med lls,
gold cords or any of those things
which nave been awarded to the
overseas men,"
4 Colossal Task
DEMONSTRATION In France, where
the figures of losses creep into the
millions. will be one OF the remark
able 1cats of the ages" Major Du
Font said in his add. ess. More thai
$4,000 buildings have been de-
stroyed, he said. and the rebuilding
of these and the rehabilitation OF the
many thousands cf wounded will be
colossal task, al.h5st as big as the
successful conduct nc the war itself.
still stares France in the face, Major
Du Pont asserted.
Miss Fraser, representing the
British government. believes that
rcpara.ion should he demanded f
Germany. She dscIA'',d:
william Hole nzn!lcrn, Germ an
military leaders. submarine cor,-
manders and all who perpetrated the
unmenti, nable afro '.t;es of the Hun
warfare should be held personally
responsible under the laws of ma
tional justice.
Germany is not repentant. She
is not sorry but for one thing, and
that Is that she was beaten, and,
therefore, is unfit to be represented
at the peace table.
"The Allies should demand Justice
through financial reparation for the
country laid waste. The leportatio:,