The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-04-01
A Congressman at Work

have gotten the information. as his
daily mail so fully indicates
You wonder what they all want.
Well, here are few of the things:
Many men want their bonus, many
have travel pay to adjust, some offi-
GERS have lost baggage claims. Many
allotment and allowance claims have
been bungled and need adjustment.
Some paid for their bonds and never
got them. Some want their insur-
ance Strengthened out or converted
and do not know how to go about It.
Many have lost their discharge pa
pers and want duplicates. Some need
help in getting their compensation ad-
nation. Many, in the country espe-
cially, need help in getting the uni
forms they are entitled to. All are
entitled to a service button, which
Mr. Hardy gets and sends to all who
write him: Many letters come from
mothers who need insurance adjust
ments. to get their young boys out of
the service, and now letters are COM
ing in from mothers who want the
bodies of their boys brought back from
France.
OF course all Of these matters are
not necessarily the duties of a con-
gresham. and many of them could be
accomplished without his aid, bet
many folks do not know how to go at
it, and many who do, have found out
to their delight that Congressman
Hardy has been able to do more for
them in a week or SO than they have
been able to do through months of
correspondence. Mr.. Hardy has sim.
ply made a speciality OF this work.
knows where to go and how to go
about II, and he gets results. And he
takes as much pleasure in 1t as II each
boys case was that of his own son.
1 suppose every congressman has
had some difficult cases and unusual
experiences. Here Ia one I think is
worth telling: The day before Christ
mas. on my rounds. dropped in to see
Hardy. He was out. His secretary
told me he was down trying to get a
boy out of jail. That night heard
the story. The day before. a young
soldier. a regular. came over to the
House office building with a hard luck
story. His chum was in the guard
house. charged with stealing an auto
mobile tire. His chum had served
nearly seven years in the regular army
and was just about to be discharged
In fact his discharge was made out
and was on the generals desk ready to
be delivered. The boy had hoped to
get out for Christmas. He was
truck driver assigned to Walter Reed
hospital. few days before Christ
mas he brought a large tire into the
shop. which he said he had found. An
officer in another department down
town traced the tire to the hospital
and had the boy arrested and thrown
into the guard house. The friend found
little luck in getting help until he
told somebody that the father of the
boy lived In Pueblo. Colo. Then he
was passed on to Hardy who repre-
sents the Pueblo district. Hardy
used the phone good deal that night.
convinced himself that II was a worthy
caase. and got line on the officers
who would have to be seen. The next
day he spent the whole day driving
around the city through a fierce bliz-
zard seeing the people interested. He
wound up at Walter Reed with all the
charges Withdrawn and convinced the
general that the discharge should be
signed and delivered before Christ
mna II wasn't n case so much of mill