Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-08-06

by their age from finishing the APP
premiership. They were kept out OF
working at the trade they had
chosen. Some others tried to get
into trades and were barred by age
rules.
These disadvantages | relate are,
of course, financial as we'll as mem
tai. Investigators recently examined
into the savings accounts of war
workers and found that the average
put away by each worker, while the
war was on, was about $500. To
this must, of course. be added the
present increased earning power or
the man who stayed at home over
the man who went away and lost
touch with civilian pursuits.
All of us know of such cases. Two
men are working side by side IN a
shop. One went to war and the 9th
er married and stayed at home. The
fighter came back, after two years,
to find he could have his old JOB
back, the job he had had before he
went away. 1t might be he received
more money for the same work.
Usually he had not had a chance to
save a dollar from his army pay.
But he found that his former COM
NJ no hn
him two years before, was now as
sistant superintendent. The pres
sure of war conditions had forced
this man to the top, not because h.
possessed unusual qualifications but
because someone had to be used to
fill vacancy. This other man had
home, money in the bank and a
block of Liberty Bonds. Probably he
had an automobile, too. Such cases
are common.
The same situation prevailed in
offices. Many of us know the sur
prise we encountered when we cams
back to find men who had been I'M
der us or even with us, now blos-
somed out into high executive re-
sponsibilities.
Certainly great many men have
found thmselves under a physical
handicap. Probably a million and a
half men were at the front or facec
lH11 =
ing those of the front. Physicians
have found that the nerve systems or
these men aged ten years in the one
or two years they served. In one
company of men from Worcester,
Mass, II already have developed tu'
berculosis after coming home.
All the foregoing seems like fair
proof that the service man faced a
disadvantage-phy mental ana
financial-on his return, and that
this disadvantage has lasted a year
in many cases and will last longer
| to those suffered while in service
and you get the sum total of the
service mans sacrifice. 1t is this
sacrifice the government can partly
compensate; not fully. but in part.
This part payment is all the serv-
ice man asks. He does not want the
debt of gratitude wiped out, but he
does not believe he is putting a price
on his patriotism by accepting a set
| Element.
1t is fair TO question the motives
of the man who tells you that you
are unpatriotic to expect compensa-
ton. When a man talks too loudly
to you about your patriotic duty,
look into his own patriotism. Make
sure that ne did his bit in the war
to the best of his ability. Not in
every case will you find that such
man has been a Stacker. But there
are many such cases.
Recently high Legion Official at
| tended banquet in New York City.
One of the speakers took up the ssoi-
diers compensation question. He
roared that it was an unpatriot1c
thing for the former service man to
expect to be even partly compensat-
ed. When he had concluded his re-
marks, the Legion official took oc>
casion to ask the speaker a few ques-
lions. He discovered that the man
had contributed the sum total OF
nothing to his country's success in
the war None of his immediate
family fought. He had steered care
fully away from Liberty Bonds, with
their 41a per cent return, in favor
of war babies, with their so and Is
per cent returns. This man owned
great blocks of securities that would
| be affected in value if bonds were is
sued to compensate the former serv-
| ice man Rather than lose a few