The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-12-26
HELP THE SICK SOLDIER
CAN RECEIVE AID FROM
HOSPITALS
Recent Order Was Issued BY
Public Health Service,
Washington \

Any ex-service man who nee65
medical or surgical treatment be-
cause of illness or injury contracted
in the army or navy, can hereafter
enter any army hospital Public
Health service hospital, or local
civilian institutions or sanitorium,
and have all his expenses paid by
tho government. Few soldiers or
sailors seem to be aware of this
privilege which is theirs for the
asking, and today the war depart
mert Instructed the entire personel
of the Office of the assistant to the
secretary of war, i'm charge of soldier
employment and welfare work, to
bring this to the attention of all
such men.
Lieutenant Colonel Mathew C.
Smith, of the general staff, and head
of the bureau, has issued bulletin
for nationwide distribution, which
says:
ANY discharged service man who
is in need of medical treatment
and feels that his illness is due to
wounds or other disabilities received
or aggravated while in service,
shout; at Cnce see the nearest army
hospital or local Representative of
the, United States Public Health
service for an examination. Ad-
dresses may be ascertained from the
postmaster The American Red Cross
representative and state or NUM-
ciplc health officer also are able to
advise service men about their cases
and shonld be consulted.
IF discharge or other papers
showing that the disability was
existing at the time of separation
from service are available. they
should be taken along, as they will
be OF help in making G-doeisieR on
tho case. However,. IL those papers
are not available the man should
not hesitate to reply. Such an appli-
cant will be Immediately placed under
treatment pending the receipt of
the necessary papers.
IF there is no representative of
the health service in the ex soldiers
home town and no army hospital at
hand, and il is possible for him to
travel, such travelling expense
hospital expenses and wages lost
while UNDERGOING examination will
be paid by the government, should it
be decided that treatment is noces-
sary.
On the other hand, il the physical
condition of the man makes II inn
possible for him to travel. he viii be
examined and treated at his horne In
special cases where il is found that
change of climate will be bene-
fetal patients will be sent to speci-
aIlv designated hospitals"
About Three Hundred Times More
Than Before the War.
Berwick. Eng, December 6-[By
The Associated Press THE cost of
living in Odessa is about SEQ ti-lcs
more than before the war, says Miss
Russell, sister of the local food con-
troller. who has just returned from
that Russian city. She lived there
for two and one half years
A pair of boots, she says, cost from
1000 TO 5000 rubles-a years salary
and dress was only to be had at
a similar ruinous figure. In Odessa
the day before she left the English
pound was equivalent to 500 rubles
instead of less than ten as in pre-
war days.
"The bolsheviki," she explained,
ARE communists and the principle
of the communists is everything for
themselves and nothing for the rest
turn, and they treat them with ruth
less cruelty. Life for the educated
The others they say have had their
people is utterly impossible Those
who have money are fast eating into
their capital; those who have not
are dying of starvation. That also is
an expensive business, for the cost
of coffins has reached n prahibitiyn