Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-02

With the defeat in conference of
the million-dollar appropriation for
advertising on, be-
wor p;,L roeae half of the war
risk insurance bu-
Appropriation. reau that service
received a severe blow. The object
of the appropriation inserted by the
Senate was to enable the bureau to-
publish to the host of insured, or en-
titled to be insured. all notices of
rulings. regulations and kindred i'm
portant matters Without this fund
it will be impossible or useless. to-
throughout the country. AS an IL
lustration of existing difficulties
which the proposed course would rel !
lieve, one may cite the result OF hav-
ing no Office or suitable headquarters
in some Of the larger cities A SOL
der entitled to disability, compensa-
ton by reason of wounds or Illness
arising from wartime causes stands
in need of government aid The re-
lations Of the war risk bureau and
the Vocational Training Board are
not understood generally. and. in con-
sequence, the sick man goes to the
i wrong place. He has either his trip
for nothing or he may miss the real
object and in the end find himself
without the benefits that the country
intended him TO have.
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Senator Spencer of Missouri has
| introduced a resolution granting to
student nurses
Bonus for Student honorably dis
charged from the
Nurses Urged. military service
| the sixty-dollar bonus allotted by
| Congress to the soldiers and sailors
| and others in the military service.
During the latter part of the war,
| when the country was feeling the
| need of civilian nurses who had been
| taken into the Army or the Navy
1 hospitals. the medical branch of the
Army instituted classes for the train
| ing of nurses in the Army hospitals.
/ They received training In general
/ nursing as well as in the special care
of the sick and wounded OF the Army.
credited to them in any further
courses that they might take to
qualify for the profession of trained
| nursing. The unexpected arrival OF
| the armistice put a premature end to
these classes and very few II any.
course 1t was one more case of the
| premature ending of the war prevent
ing a wonderful result.
The argument heard against the
passage of the resolution-that the
| girl student will receive under it the
same reward as Congress gave the
nurse who put in eighteen months
| of nursing in Francis met with
| the reply that the boy Of eighteen
who was in cantonment for rev
no
| from Cantigny to Sedan were placed
| on an equal footing when it came
| to the question OF bonus
| The Knights of Columbus believe
| that its organization should be kept
available for
Knights of Columbus Pc a e-t i'm,
Peace Time Work. diers NO
longer are calling for doughnuts and
| coffee, but the Knights propose to
establish vocational. and other schools
for the veterans who are anxious to
work nights or other times for their
| self-improveme. With this in view
old homes and introducing the edu-
cational features by degrees. In
Boston they have already opened a
strong school, feature OF which is
thorough instruction in the funda-
mentals of automobile repair and
driving The benefits OF this move
ment, although under church aus
pices are non-sectarian.
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Hospital treatment for war veter-
ans who had been discharged from
the service
Hospital Aid for oe IN
Discharged Veterans. 1917, ana
has been gradually increasing until
at the present time more than 1900
ex military men and women have
been treated in hospitals operated in
behalf of the war risk bureau. AL
most 1000 of these patients remain
lin HOSPITALS Nearly a third of the
total cases were of tuberculosis and
a quarter Of nervous or mental dis
orders. At the present time there
aye 2,313 nervous and mental and
24sO tuberculosis cases under treat
meet.
The public health service has forty
i he's ,,itals, operated largely on be-
+. hafI of the war risk insurance bu-
reau. They are located throughout
1.-THE United States and their number is
100 -rH-- o"'"5 r. fhc, uee ri civil
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