The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-07-16
Pershing Honors
Stubby
By SANFORD HAMILTON,

SluOpy was III tHe Wdr' Oo was
Richard. Stubby is alive. Pershing
pinned medal on him. Richard is
dead. Sick and neglected, he killed
himself. Stubby is a dog. Richard
was only worker.
Here are the facts, from the New
York "Times" for July 7,
Washington, July 6.-Stubby,
brindle Boston bull terrier, which
served overseas as mascot of the
American Expeditionary Forces, was
today decorated as wounded hero
of the World War by General John
J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chlef of
the American forces in Europe during
that war.
"ln presenting the medal the Gen.
eral made little impromptu speech,
but Stubby made no reply. He merely
licked his chops and wagged his dim
inutive tail"
Washington, July Cdr. Thomas
W. Salmon of New York, who was a
Colonel in the Medical Corps of the
army during the war, testifying today
before the Senate committee investi-
eating the condition of wounded, i'll
and otherwise disabled ex-soldiers,
made the statement that in 1920 400
former soldiers committed suicide in
New York State.
"Most of those unfortunate men,"
DR.. Salmon added, "would be alive to-
day if they had been given the proper
attention"
Richard was one of the four hun
dred. He was in a fly-by-night "con-
tract hospital" of which there are all
over the country 1,100, operated by
making doctors. Business is
business. Medical attention costs mo-
ney. The less attention, the more pro-
fit, Richard didn't get the right treat
ment. He suffered and suffered till
he couldn't put up with it any longer.
He committed suicide.
And Pershing, under whose COM
mand he was driven to the hellish
horrors that shattered this health, is
making speeches to dogs, pinning
medals on bull terriers.
How many Observation-Disclosures
for suicide-are there in the country
Tubercular and mental cases alon,
total about 100000. And thousands
of them cannot get beds even in econ
tract hospitals" Of the 1,725 forme,
soldiers who last year applied in New
York for mental treatment only 3OI
were taken care of.
And Pershing honors Stubby.
Nero is supposed to represent tn
lowest dregs of vice of ancient Rome
He fiddled while Rome burned. H
fiddled; he didn't make speech to
dog. That honor waited two thousan
:. years for representative of our ow
gang of murderers by due process {
law.
), Pershing honored Stubby? M
Stubby honored Pershing by waggin
q its tail at him.
i Stubby represents higher standa,
of morality than Pershing. A dog WI
not fawn at fellow dog, gain h
confidence and then get a bite out
him. If he wants to bite-he goes
it. But capitalists the world ov
i cringed before the workers wi
golden promises when they need,
them to fight their battles for pr
fits.
And now! You see how they ire
us now. What are you going to I
j about it?
Are you going to let those ma
eating hogs keep on ruling you?
you don't care for yourself, is the
none whom you promised to love a,
. protect? None to whom, bringing the
! into the world, you owe protection Z?
| What stuff is it running in 70
veins that you are satisfied to
flattened under the heels of degen,
ates who honor dogs and drive
D suicide the thousands who surviv
b their butchery Of millions?
Workers Of America, where is yc
manhood?