Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-08-18
CLEANUP SQUAD COMING
FOR DISABLED VETERANS
(By ]. C. Barnes.)

stray bullet while sojourning in
France? Did the flu force you to do
some unwelcome bunk fatigue, and
leave your pumps in rotten condi7
ton? Did you slice your index finger
off while carving 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 again? If any of these things
happened to you while wearing the
old o. d. and doing II to "a hours
a day for $50 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 you find
that if you are lucky enough to get
a job that 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 or disabled to such an ex-
tent that you can't make good on the
old job, that you are entitled to COM
pensation and vocational training. Did
you ever hear of the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance or the federal Board
for Vocational Rehabilitation Well,
these are the two mighty big gov
ernment bureaus that are working
night and day trying to find chaps
/ like you that had. little hard luck
while in the service and to give you
what your country has provided for
you.
Col. C. r. Forbes, director of the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, has
instructed all his Ia district managers
throughout the United States to put
on an intensive cleanup drive which
will last about three months to comb
the country for fellows like you, men,
who have disability as a result of
their service in the world war and
who do not know that they are en-
title dto aid
Col. Dallas B. Smith, the new dis
trict manager of district No. g., with
headquarters at the United States
mint building, New Orleans, has or
gaalzed three cleanup squads which
will start work some time after the
goth of August. One squad will work
Alabama, one Louisiana and one Mis-
sissippi. There will be an advance
man who will go ahead of the squad
abcut ere week and who VII adver-
tise the coming of the squad through
the press, by posters, handbills, the
American Legion posts, cnurches, Ro-
ltary ard kiwanis, Chamber of Com
merce, postmasters, Red Cross chap
tiers and every available medium in
cider to get the good word to all
the boys that may have a CLAIM
against their Uncle Sammie. So if
you were lucky and came out oe. ter
tnan you went in and know some grIy
thai didn't come out cake" you box
up your buddy and tell him all about
this cleanup squad and what it in
tends 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 on
the squad VINO will examine him and
if he has never filed claim for COM
pensation, he will help him file it and
he will then give him transportation
and send him to one of Uncle Sans
hospitals for treatment and keep him
there until he is well.
I Isn't that fine thing? That is
what the cleanup squad is going to
do. So it is UP to you and all the
old gang that wore the kahki, the
blue and the white to help find the
chap that came out in bad way and
get him fixed up. Talk to your Red
Cross chapter, your American Legion
post, your postmaster, your Chamber
of Commerce, your minister, and ask
them-they know all about it. Read
the papes, they going to keep You in
formed, watch sher closely for the
itinerary telling you just when the
squad is going to be in your town or
county. Watch for the big red posters
on the telephone poles and the little
red handbills telling you all about it.
i Uncle Sam wants to find every man
that has claim against him so that
he can pay the claim; if you haven't
a claim, you can help Uncle Sam just
as you used to by going out and fiad-
ing the chap that has the claim and
by telling him of the cleanup squad
that is coming to help him.