The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1921-09-24
BUDDY--THE CLEANUP
SQUAD IS COMING SOON
Bio Drive In Search of Disabled Vet.
Grams is About to be
Launched.
(By J. C. 5arnes)

1870
the Flu force you to do some unwel-
come bunk fatigue, and leave your
pumps in rotten condition? Did you
slice your index finger off while cary
ing spuds for the Royal Chef while
on X. P. detail? Did you inhale some
of the German gas, swear that you
would only puff and never inhale a.
gain? If any-of these things happened
/ to you while wearing the 0. d. and
doing twelve to tWenty.four hours Q
day for thirty per and chow and you
find that since going back to the old
Job that you sorta have to dodge the
boss to hold on, or if he has caught
you at it and let you go and now you
find that if you are lucky enough to
get job you can't hold it; why you
are the chap that your Uncle Sam is
looking for.
! Do you know that if you were
wounded to such an extent that you
can't carry on in the old job that you
are entitled to compensation and vo
cational training. Did you ever heal
of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
or the Federal Board of Vocational
Rehabilitation? Well these two nigh.
ty big Governmental bureaus have
been combined into what is now
known as the U. S. Veterans Burenau
and they are working night and day
trying to find chaps like you that had
a little hard luck while in the service
and to give you what your Country
has provided for you.
Colonel c. R. Forbes, director Of
the U. S. Veterans Bureau has in,
structed all his fourteen district man
ayers throughout the United States to
put on an intensive CT EAN- U P
DRIVE which will last about three
months in order to comb the country
for fellows just like you, men, who
have a disability as result of their
service in the world war and who do
not know that they are entitled to
laid.
Colonel Dallas B. Smith, the new
District Manager of District No. 6
with headquarters at the New Hi
hernia Bank Building, at New Orleans
has organized three cleanup squads
which have been in the field since
the goth of August One squad is
working in Alabama, one in Louisiana
and one in Mississippi. There will be
an advance man who will 60 ahead of
the squad about one, week andw he
will advertise the coming of the squad
through the press, by posters, hand
bills, American Legion Posts, churches
Rotary Clubs, Kiwanis Clubs, Chamb.
ers of Commerce, Postmasters, Red
Cross Chapters and every available
medium in order to get the good word
to all the boys that may have claim
/ against their Uncle Sammie. So II
, you were lucky and came out better
than you went in and know some guy
that didn't come out Jake" you look
up your BUDDY and tell him all about
this cleanup squad andw hat they in
tend to do. They will help him file
his claim for Compensation or for Vo
cational Training, and if he is sick
there will be competent doctor or
the squad who will examine him and
! If he has never filed a claim for com
a pensation, he will help him file it anG
= he will then give him transportation
and send him to one of Uncle Sam.
hospitals for treatment and keep hin
j there until he is we'll.
Isn't that fine thing? That is wha
t the cleanup squad is going to do S,
s it's up to you and all the old gant
= that wore kahki, the blue and tn
r white to help find the chap that cam,
out in bad way and get him fixet
h up. Talk to your Red Cross Chapter
. your American Legion Post, you
postmaster, your Chamber Of Com
y merce, your minister; ask them-the,
$ all know about it. Read the papers
r they are going to keep you informed
n watch them closely for the itinerar
e telling you just when the squad viii
o be in your town or parish. Watch TO
the big red posters on the, telephon
poles and the little red hand bill
;. telling you all about it.
u Uncle Sam wants to find every ma
that has claim against him so tina