The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1920-12-11
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Current Events For tia Children
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BAKER SETS sIACKERs FREE
WHILE WOUNDED SUFFER-


comes all the yellow fellows will say
they don't think its right to fight, just
so they can get out of it,' said Jack
in very disguised tone.
What are you two kids fussing
about now," asked Uncle Ted from the
other room. Cant you play without
fussing all the time7" E
"Sure can," replied Jack, "but
Sister n axes me tired when she says
war is all wrong and that the fellows
who wouldn't fight were all right.
They were just plain yellow. that's all
that was the matter with them.'
81 don't know about that" said
Uncle Ted, "but do know that the
way Secretary of War Newton D. baker
has treated the conscientious object
ors' is something that no man who did
fight in the war can swallow without
feeling mighty funny. l fought in the
war all the way through, and"
"You bet you did, interrupted Jack.
"It is nothing to brag about, Jack.
1t was my duty. Ny country needed
me and l did what was right. But to
get back to what I was saying. 1
don't object so much to the kind way
in which Secretary Baker has treated
those men who refused to shoulder
rifle, but l do object to the way this
Administration has treated the wounj-
ed men who DID FIGHT and who are
now almost forgotten. If wounded
man goes to the War Risk Bureau thoy
send him to the Public Health Service
and the Public Health Service sends
him to the Vocational Education Blu
reau, and they say they can't do any
thing until they hear from the War
Risk. He is simply showed from one
place to the other.
Just while ago several men from
the American Legion met in Washing
ton to try and remedy this condition.
They will have bill introduced in Con-
gress to bring these three branches to
gether so that the wounded men will
receive better treatment and SO that
proper hospital quarters will be provid
Ell instead of the poor ones now in use. -
Didn't Secretary Baker let out a
lot of those men who wouldn't fghtr"
ASKED Ruth.
eyes, he did. He let out lot Of
them long ago. after they had rested in
prison, with good food and warm beds
as compared with the kind of food anil
beds the FIGHTING men had to con-
tend with. l know that the first men
he let out received full army pay, too
for the time they were in prison. Now
the latest thing Mr.. Baker does is to
issue an order which sets all of them
free. There were 80 of them left. Mr..
Baker, in his order, sets them free be-
cause he says their sentences were re-
mitted to the peace-time basis for the
otfense charged How he can figure
that is more than l know. Why should
he put their sentences on a peace time
basis when they refused to fight at a
time when the country needed her
fighting men-at a time when we were
at war. Mr.. Baker has certainly been
most kind and gentle with these men
and spent lot of time seeing that
they got it just as easy as possible-at
least ! can't see anything else to it.
The case stands on its own merits.
''But as ! said before, that isn't 40
bad as the way he has NOT thought
of the men who DID, fight"
"Well, he won't have to worry about
the DIRECTORS now. 30 he ought to have
lot of time to think of the wounded
men," said Jack.
eyes; jack" answered his uncle.
that is very true, and just what
Colonel Galbraith, head of the Ameri-
can Legion, said when he heard of Mr..
Bakers order.
"However Riddles, we won't have to
worry with Mr.. Baker much longer.
Which reminds me that Senator Hard
ing is mighty busy now deciding on a
really big man to take his place, and
I'll make you both little bet that
when he announces his cabinet you will
find that every name in it is the name
of one of the biggest men in the coun-
try, well fitted for the particular ca5i-
net job which he will be asked to hold.
1t surely will be wonderful TO look to-
ward Washington and know that men
who are thera conducting public affairs
are planning the best things for this
country, first, hast and all the time.
There will be no playing or meddliag
with the business of other countrieA