New Britain herald., 1921-07-12
Q Assoc,oted Press
Member Audit Bureau of Circulation.
CONGRESS AND ITS TALK

CONGRESS AND ITS TALK
 When the prodigal son return
 ed, they shot the fatted calf; . when the disa bled American sol
 dier returned they shot the bull
 So goeth the saying of G. H. G1llen, national commander of the National Disabled Soldiers League when he spoke of Congressional treatment of the 611,000 soldiers and sailors who were disabled to some extent during the war with Germany and his feelings will be echoed in many places along the broad land not only among men who have been deprived of some of their faculties but by normal individ- uaLs who are awaiting some action by Congress upon matter in which they are interested, whether it is tax legis- lation, the tariff, or soldier welfare. About the only thing that isn't safe in the vicinity of the white building at the nations heart is the bull. They shoot at many other marks, but seem to miss them consistently. Which is the age old complaint against Con- gress in new words.
 The matter of caring for invalids. who were so rendered during the World War is of paramount import ance and many are there who are not being cared for. The efforts of some branches of the service which takes care of the wounded are well rewarded, their charges are lucky in deed. But many of the less severely injured today roam the streets, with little to eat and no hope of ever sur mounting the barrier of red tape that surrounds the government coffers, to which they have a right. case in point is that of the individual in New Britain who, last week, went crazy and, few hours afterwards received a check for the money which was due him, some $1,90O, a fact which might hear of such cases, they have the un- usual mark that calls attention of the world to them, they have the element of news" so valued by the papers. But we do not hear of the little cases that are going on from day to day everywhere, of the broken will alter the status of things that are being brought about by the failure to ment, whatever its further duty might be. Congress has serious measures to contemplate, we know, measures that might mean the difference between election and defeat a year or so hence But some day the public is going tc awake to the need of legislation that will alter the status of things that ar, close to its heart and pay less atten- getting so wide an airing.
 i A Bolsbevik is a Bolshevik and ac. cepted as such among the greater number of people. But a man who has c real grievance does not need the powers of an orator to drive home realization of that grievance to tht public. And the soldier who wa wounded serving his country and i now compelled to go hungry has { grievance and he is still enthroned il the hearts of the populace. He is no q Bolshevik if he complains. he simply airing the right to which n is entitled and he will be general. listened to. We are spending larg, sums in Americanization, we ar carefully instilling the doctrine o patriotism into every individual, as w should, but every man who saw tn highest patriotic duty possible, in tn forces of his country in war, and ha . grievance against that country nov is doing an incalculable harm to pa triotism. And he may not be blame for it. What is more-the publi knows he Is right when his condition . seen. Isn't it about time that a nor thorough search was made for thos suffering from the effect of the wa and that something tangible was don for most of them? If we value tn influence that the sufferers are boun to have upon the body polite it i
 TAFT TAKES OATH.