Arizona republican., 1921-12-15

ans having been found and compen- sated by cleanup squads. who did not know that they were entitled to gov- ernment aid. At Stockton, Cal, a battle scared ex-service man desir- ing compensation came before the cleanup squad. He said he had heart trouble. So slight was his heart ailment, however. that the ex- | arnining physician found that it would not entitle him to compensa- ton. But to his great surprise he discovered that the vet had scar about 10 inches long and 2 inches wide on his hip. where muscle had been shot off
 ! His chief complaint seemed to be | that he had heart trouble. but he cas- ually mentioned the fact that he had this ugly shrapnel wound in the hip and besides a bullet wound in one arm. He almost forgot to mention 1 the latter disability. the doctor said. | It was also found that he had not | fully recovered from a sort Of paral- ysis of the throat. arms and legs. | The vet said that he had always been too busy to file a claim for compensa- ton, before, but that while working in the mountains he saw a poster an- lnouncing that the cleanup squad was coming to Stockton. so he decided 10 go there for an interview. He was rated as 50 per cent disabled and therefore entitled to $40 a month com | pensation.
 When the cleanup squad sat in Hartford, Conn. a veteran came be- fore it. He showed the doctors Of the squad a wound in his life side that made them stand aghast. The head of the cleanup squad was called into the room and he, too, admitted that in his crowded experience in the department with disabled ex-service men, he had never seen such a ghas.- ly wound. This soldier had not re- ceived a penny of allowance since his discharge over two years ago.
 An explosive bullet had opened a wound across his left side. just above the hip, over II inches long, and had forced the hip out so that
 the cavity was from to 6 inches deep. It had not yet fully healed and the veteran applied for compensation inasmuch as he was unable to work.
 Humorous incidents come to light , in connection with this work as the unemployment situation leads some Of the ex-service men to strain a
 point in order to obtain compensa-
 tion. In Knoxville. Tenn, a young
 man presented himself and told of his : affliction. which he was informed was not compensable. The young man
 was taken aback by this prompt dis
 missaI of his argument and paused a
 moment Suddenly his hand began
 to tremble while resting on his knee
 as he said, '.I am also very nervous
 In some parts of the hill country of
 Tennessee and West Virginia the
 governments representatives with the
 cleanup squads were mistaken for
 .'Reyenooers" In other remote dis
 tricts they were mistaken for draft
 officials who the less literate portion
 of the population believed were
 searching for draft evaders. One agent of the veterans bureau who had preceded the squads for the pur- pose of making the advance arrange
 ments was picked up by group oi men in an automobile who offered tc
 take him to his destination He ac- } cepted the offer and got in the car
 but he had to rest his heels on several
 dcmijohns of "corn likker." The tril
 was interrupted in several places . while deliveries were being made.
 In Buchanan, Va, man who had II his face almost blown away by a
 gasoline explosion in France told the n cleanup officers that he did not know
 that he was entitled to compensation , because The wasn't any hero soldier
 and didn't get shot, but just got blew 1 h up trying to put fire out in camp