The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1920-12-09
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gust - they can get cut of Il. said
Jaek IN = very disgustsd tone
~whAt are you tao Kid fussing
about nov >" asked Uncle Ted from
the other room. Cant you play with
suf fassing al tho time"
aSgre can. replied Jack. but
Sister makes me tire when she Gays
var 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 dent know about that" said I'm
sle Ted, hut I do know that the way
Secretary of War Newton d. Baker
kas treated the conscientious object
srG Is something that no man who did
Eghi in the war can swallow without
feeling mighty funny fought in
an war all the way through and -"
you bet you didw interrupted Jack.
1T is nothing 20 brag about, Jack.
II was my duty. Ny country needed
me and did wha, was right. But TO
get back 10 what | was saying. ] do
Dot object 80 much 70 the kind way in
which Secretary Baker has treated
those men who refused 20 shoulder a
rife but | do object to the way this
Administration has treated the wound
ed men who DID FIGHT and who are
now almost forgotten. II a wounded
saan goes 70 the War Risk Bureau
they send him to the Public
Heslth Service and the Public Health
Service sends him TO the Vocational
Education Bureau and they say they
sant do anything until they hear from
the War Risk. He Is simply shoved
from one place 10 the other
"Just little while ago several men
from the American Legion met in
Washington 20 try and remedy this
condition. They will have a bill intro
duoed in Congress TO bring these three
branches together SO that the wounded
men will receive better treatment and
30 that proper hospital quarters will
be provided instead Of the poor ones
now in use"
"Didnt Secretary Baker let out a
lot Of those men wo wouldn't fight :"
asked Ruth.
Yes, he did. He let out lot Of
them long apo rfter they had rested
In prison with good food and warm
beds as compared with the kind Of
food and beds the FIGHTING men had
TO contend with | 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
G TO issue an order which sets all Of
them free. There were 33 Of them left.
Mr.. Baker in his order sets them free
because he says their sentences were
remittcd to the peacetime basisforthe
offense charged. How he can figure
that is more than know. Why should
he put their sentence on peace time
basis when they refused TO fight at
time when the country needed her
fighting men-at time when We were
st war; Mr.. Baker has certainly been
most kind and gentle with these men
and spent a 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 so
bad as that he has not thought Of the
men who DID fight"
We'll, he won't have to worry about
the objec tors now 50 he ought TO have
a lot Of time to think Of tho wounded
men," said Jack.
"Yes, Jack" answered his Uncle,
that Is very true and just what Col.
GSlhraith. head Of the American Le-
gion, said when he heard Of Mr.. Bak-
er's order
However, kiddies, We won't have TO
worry with Mr.. Baker much longer.
Which reminds me that Senator Hard
ing is mighty busy now deciding on
really big man 70 take his place and
III make you both a little bet, that
when he announces his cabinet you
viii End that every name in il is the
NINE Of one Of the biggest men in the
country. well fitted for the particular
cabine, JOB which he viii be asked 70
hold. Il surely will D. wonderful to
look toward Washington and know