The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-09
Mealtime Thought: Thousands Of Yanks Hungry
And Simply Because They Went to War For YOU
BY WINIFRED BLACK


plain truth about the situation as
II really IL from one end or this
country to the other =,
The American Legion knows-the
relief committee knows. The men
on those committees can tell you
stories that will make your heart
fsll--stories of young fellows camp
ing together in cheap lodging
houses, two in a sagging bed and
eating when they eat at all out or
cracker boxes.
Going TO school. too, in the day.
time, good many OF them-the
Government Vocational Schools are
doing good workout how can
man study with hunger gnawinS
at him like a wolf?
The teachers in the vocational
schools are experts In the treat
ment OF a fainting man. they
didn't have TO take lessons In any
FIRST aid to the injured class.
They get plenty OF practical eNpe-
rience right in their own school
it's nothing at all out OF the usual
routine to see young Fellow sit
ting at HIS desk sway and tumble
to the floor unconscious. Hungry,
that's adjust plain hungry and
tired and discouraged and trying TO
night IL out just the way he fought
IL out at Chateau Thierry.
POLICE EASY NOWADAYS.
Maybe he slept two in q bed in
q stuffy lodging house room. pack
ed to the very doors with all kinds
OF unhappy derelicts.
Maybe he spent the night on one
n
stretched on the ground somewhere
the police are easy with young
fellows they find asleep in the by
ways these days. Many OF the po-
lice were in the army them
selves and they don't forget quite
as easily. perhaps, as some Of US
who stayed at home and made
money--and spent tall through
the war.
Compensation-yes, they were
promised that. but some of them
don't know how to apply for II, and
some OF them haven't been able to
get sufficient evidence to get their
cases through. and some OF them
have made application months ana
months and dreary heartbreaking
months ago. and nobody at wash
ington has been able to get
around to" their cases yet.
Is IL true that the War Risk In
surance Bureau and the other de-
partments which attend to the In
vestigation OF claims for compen-
.sstion for wounded men have dis
charged half their forces, and are
running with a lame equipment
these days?
Is 1t true that many q poor boy
las died in the last few months be-
cause he didn't quite know how to
unite the yards and yards of red
tape that twisted between him and
Justice?
DIsINTEREsTEDNE FLAYED.
What are we all thinking about
that we are willing to sit quietly
In our comfortable homes and let
these boys who have done the work
Of heroes and made the American
flag respected around the world as
IL never was respected before, faint
and die Of starvation, and Of ILL
ness, and OF wounds, right on our
very doorsteps. and we, never even
try to lift a hand to help them?
What can we dor
A thousand things-ten thou
sand, a hundred thousand.
In our own cities we can each OF
us connect ourselves with the
Disabled Veterans OF the World
War Association--lesrn few
tacts about this situation. turn In
n dollar or two and help out tenn
porarily, make places for these
Home Again Johnnies" of ours
somewhere, somehow.
IL II was your boy, you'd do
tiff Il was my boy, I'd man