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THE ONLY INDEPENDENT
VETERANS’' NON-PARTISAN
POLITICAL PUBLICATION
IN THE STATE OF WASH.
INGTON
VOL. IV, NO. 19
VETERAN HOUNDED BY SOCIAL SIREN
FIELD NOTES
Time—Evening
PLACE—Official hideout in ti
Olympic Hotel.
CHARACTERS—SeveraI electiy
heads of county departments, vi
lage politicians, stooges and “boar
of strategy” strategists.
SCENE—Typical “board of s.r
egy” meeting. Some seated, other
sprawled over one or more chair
Table on one side of the room we
stocked with various well know
brands of spirits frumenti, gin, cha
ers and whatnot.
{continued from last week)
Stooge pacing back and fortl
nervously puffing a stogie and giy
fng & wonderful imifation of Naj
olon trying to decide what to d
with Josephine~-after she caugh
up with him.
STOOGE—It's this way, gang
The Boss is on his way out. H
drew a bum hand on the draw
shoved in his stack and then go
taken just like Grant took Rich
mond. Martin had four aces to hi
four queens. Damn the queens, any
how! They're ALWAYS getting on
of us in bad.
PRRSOaND, YPCE g ek bk
my boy. But that - o
is not what made
me laugh. I was |
thinking of Atee
gee and the’ play ‘
he made to get
some information out of a dame—
some information I needed.
STOOGE—He didn't get it, did
he? :
SECOND VOICE—HeII, no. She
was too foxy. Ate a lotta lunches
and dinners, swizzled a lotta beer
and wine and then gave Ateegee a
swell impersonation of a clam on
a vacation, Heh, heh, heh!
STOOGE—Yeah, I heard about
that. Now, let’s get down to busi
ness. The Boss is out - that’s final.
Hairoil Harry’s on the way out.
That leaves only Trotzky to handle
things in the setup, and that's bad
-—very, VERY bad. We gotta have
a new boss. Who'll he be?
THIRD VOICE I nominate
Stooge for the office of First Voice.
FOURTH VOICE Second the
nomination. Move the nomination
be closed. :
STOOGE—Thanks, gang. | de
clare the nominations closed and
myself unanimously elected First.
Voice. The secretary is instructed
to make his records so read.
Now, we gotta have another
Stooge. That's an appointive office.
Let’s see . . . . 80-Peep, you'll make
a good stooge. You're elected,
(Loud applause.)
From now on, gang, I'm the fair-.
haired boy around the City-County
Building. Don't forgetit! Don’t
overlook it! And DON'T GET
GAY! Get me? Meeting Is-ad
-Journed. On your way, soldiers!
SECOND VOIC E Hold the
phone! 1 gotta idea.
AUTHOR’'S NOTE
~ Our former First Voice is dead.
Long live the former First Voice!
He bows himself gracefully out of
the picture for the time being and
his very competent stooge (former
Second Voice) takes his place as
the ranking head of the Monkey
Business Department. Little Bo-
Peep becomes the new stooge, a
stooge everyone knows—and likes
~but who seems to have the bad
habit of “sticking out his neak”
where the opposite sex is concern
ed. It may be that on his new job{
he will use a little discretion about
his indiscretions. We hope so—for
~ And now—about future Field
Notes. As in the past, they will
mn much of inerest about col
~ (Turn to Page 6, Please)
THE VETERANS' REVIEW
Sec. 562, P. L. & R
The present standing army of the
United States is one of the small
est in the world and ranks about on
a par with that of Turkey, accord
ing to officials of the Veterans of|
s Foreign Wars,
“Our army is smaller than the
o | armies of such countries as Yugo
. |slavia, Czechoslavakia, Switzerland
4 and Sweden,” Commander-in-chief
Bernard Kearney * The British
_| Empire has 390,000 soldiers in ac
; tive service with 612,000 in trained
| reserves and 46,000 in a separate
l‘ air corps.
: “France has 600,000 men in its
| regular army and 5,500,000 in train
ed reserves with 34,000 more in a
separate air force.
“Italy has more than 1,200,000
'| soldiers and more than 5,000,000 in
‘| its trained reserves and also an es
; timated 200,000 in its separate air
| forces.
' “Japan has a standing army of
280,000 with active reserves of
; 2,000,000, Germany had 426,000
soldiers in active sgervice until
'| recently, when an announcement
| was made that its regular army
| was being doubled in size. Ger
many also has a trained reserve
of 1,850,00, and other of the great
nations of the world have equally
impressive forces.
**“With the unsettled conditions
existing in Europe, Asla and Afri
ca,” Commander Kearney pointed
out, “we would be living in a fool's
paradise if we did not realize that
certain nations might selfishly at
tempt to draw us into armed con
flict in a manner similar to that
used prior to our participation in
the World War.”
INCREASE PERSONNEL
Proposals submitted by Veterans
of Foreign Wars include a minimum
of 18,000 officers and 286,240 en
listed men in the regular army and
a National Guard of 425,000 offic
ers and men, as provided for in the
National Defense Act of 1932, and
that attainment of this force be
made possible within five years.
The 120,000 officers of the Or
ganized Reserves, also provided for
in the Defense Act, should be pro
vided within three years, Kearney
declared. Complete mechanization
of all branches of the army within
two years; motorization of all trains
of more than half artillery and all
transportation facilities within two
years, also are among the provi
sions recommended by the VFW.
CHANGES ASKED
Complete modernization of all
field artillery, of adequate anti-air
craft artillery, sea coast defenses| .
and other equipment are included
in the VFW national defense pro
gram. Commander Kearney feels
that equipment and ammunition suf
ficient for the first 90 days of
conflict should be available within
two years. He also mentioned the
increase of the air forces to a min
imum of 5,000 combat planes with
the necessary commissioned and
enlisted personnel to maintain and
operate them.
“Participation in the armed con
flicts of our nation has made us
practical men and not theorists,” he
said. “Much as we desire peace, we
realize that in the present state of
the development of civilization, we
can maintain the peace of our
people only by being prepared for
war.”
Civil War Vet
Answers Call
BELLINGHAM—W. 0. Nicholson,
95, prominent member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, passed away
here recently. He has been a res
ident of Bellingham for 44 years
and a Mason for 66 years,
Nicholsen’s passing leaves but
eight Civil War veterans in this
eity,
Dolly Secord Wins Hearts of
Local Disabled Veterans
It was November, 1918 - - -
depths of despair - - - - would t
question millions were asking
those left at home - sweethearts
In one of the Red Cross hospi
her bit for for the soldiers in ]
the young wife of Corp. Paul Smith
of the 17th Casual Company. He
went overseas with the U. 8. Air
Corps when their baby daughter
was only seven months old.
During his twenty-two months of
service, young Smith sustained in
juries that totally disabled him, and
he spent six years in a veterans’
hospital from 1919 to 1925,
Dolly’s visit to the hospital where
lay the wrecks of what once were
the flower of American manhood,
stirred something deep within her.
They had sacrificed everything for
}thelr country—and for an ideal. As
‘the years slipped by, the nation
gradually forgot thoese living her
anti Accordianist March, -
| FIGHTING SPIRIT
~ Ten years ago, Mrs_Secord activ
ely interested herself in behalf of
disabled veterans. The death of her
’hluhnd made her resolve that his
ONLY INDEPENDENT YETERANS' NEWSPAPER
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FIRST NOVEMBER NUMBER, 1936
a world was struggling in the
he war never end? This was the
- - the men in the trenches - -
- mothers - children - wives, ...
tals in Denver, Colorado, doing
‘rance, was Dolly Secord, then
“The Voice of the Veteran”
ARMISTICE
DAY
3
i The Question
Treasured for twenty years,
A copy of r, yo{low with age,
With lists of the dead, wounded and missing,
Spotted by stains upon the front page.
man in uniform, but my baby boy,
& His promise of manhood fulfilled,
i_nlimd to fight for his home and his land
. .~ Knowing that he may be killed.
Midst the stories of heroism and death,
Here his with the missing | read,
But | knew by ache | felt in my heart
[hat somewhere in France he lay dead.
flm\ the war was over, the Armistice signed—
. Whistles! Bells! Black headlines exclaim
That peace is declared, the boys can come home,
memonq the missing—his name.
He was so young, 50 in love with life,
- Yet he on a battlefield fell.
Oh, why should a lad at-the threshold of life
Be plunged into war's raging hell!
. And so on this earth, bled our beloved men
" But it was washed by their loved one's tears:
~ While the pain of a mother's empty arms :
oy y "~ Must go on and on through the years. . v
Is it he in the-UIRMIOWA Soldier's fomb? ' -~,
Or he sleeping in France 'neath the sod?
Counted as missing here on the earth,
| know he is present with God. —Contributed.
The cAnswer
Lwill do the best I can to settle my account with the Unknown Soldier. I remounce
war. I renounce war because of what it does to owr men.
I bave seen the long, long hospital trains filled with their mutilated bodies;
I remember the maimed mem for whom the War is not yet over.
1 renounce war because of what it compels us to do to our ememies, bombing their
mothers in villages, starving their children, laughing over our coffee cups about every
damnable thing we bave been able to do to them. | remounce war for the undying
hatreds it arouses, for theé dictatorships it put in the place of democracy, for the starva
tion that stalks with it.
I renounce war and never again, directly or indirectly, will I support another.
O Unknown Soldier, in pemitent reparation I make you that pledge . . .. ..
- —DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK.
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DOLLY SECORD
passing should not be in vain. From
the beginning, her fighting spirit
marked her a a leader.
For the past six years, Dolly has
served as chairman of the Forget-
Me-Not drive in Denver, Colorado.
She had held the office of vice-com
mander and national executive com
mittee-woman before she became
national commander of the Auxili-|
ary to the Disabled American Vete
rans.
And now it is November, 1936.
The national commander of the
Auxiliary of the Disabled American
Veterans is the honor guest of the
Auxiliary to Seattle Chapter N 0.2.
Her visit is just one of the 260 she
plans to make to the various units
during the year.
A banquet was held in her honor
at the Gowman Hotel on Sunday
evening, November 1. Many state
officers, both DAV’'s and Auxiliary,
were present to welcome their
charming, auburn-haired leader.
VERNA PRESIDES
- Presiding as toastmaster at the
speakers’ table was Verna Marlow,
’fltt. president of the Auxiliary,
)vmh among many distiguished
Buests present were Hannah Valen.
tine, president of Seattle Chapter
No. 2, in a flowered crepe gown;
Betty Ruth, chaplain and past com?
. Turn to Page 4, Please)
NP
Huge Sum Paid
To Veterans
Over EIGHTEEN MILLION DOL
LARS have been paid to World
War veterans in this state, exclu
sive of those in the Spokane and
Tacoma areas, since last June 15,
according to Raymond Wilson, cash
fer at the Seattle Postoffice.
The exact amount is $18,230,000,
Wilson said, and a total of 55,930
checks have been mailed to cover
bonus paymeats. The average daily
turn-in of SSO bonds for treasury
checks is near 800, he declared.
The Seatle postoffice handles all
bonus payments for the state, ex
cept those of veterans living in
the Spokane and Tacoma districts.
- ADOPT UNIFORMS
~ WASHINGTON, D. C.—The War
Department recently announced
that the Uniform Board had tenta
tively adopted a new blue dress
uniform for both enlisted men and
officers. It will consist of a dark
blue roll collar coat and light blue
trousers.
There will be no change in offic
ers’ service uniforms, it is said.
INSIDIOUS PROPAGANDA BROADCASTED
BY SOCIAL SERVICE SIREN KEEPS _
VETERAN FROM REGULAR WOR
Tom Thorne Tells Story of Reception Accorded
Him After Release from Veterans' Hospital at
American Lake—Children Penalized and Insulte
Fourth of a series of articles dealing with veterans afflicted witl
mental and nervous disorders, the treatment accorded them and th
way the GUARDIAN RACKET is worked.
By PAUL m:ERFIELD
CHAPTER ¢
In previous chapters, Tom Thorne, disabled war veteran
with a so-called “mental complex”, described the horrors and
inhumanities prevalent in the Veterans’ Hospital at American
Lake. In the last issue, he promised to tell about what he faced
when through the efforts of friends on the outside, he was
discharged from the hospital. That story now follows, Read it—
and marvel that such a condition | e e
should be permitted to exist in this
day of supposedly enlightened civ-;
ilization.
. - .
When I left the veterans’ “prison”
at American Lake, [ returaed to my
home town. Naturally, the recep
tion I got was a cold “hello, Tom.”
L had expected something like that
but still, I wasn’'t all together pre
pared for it. All my former friends
seemed in a 'hurry to get some
place. They just said “hello” and
kept on going.
In my neighborhood, where | own
ed my own home, things were much
the same. The neighbors stared at
me, seemed to be saying to them
selves, “I wonder if he is as harm
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LEARNS TRUTH
After a few days, some of my
nearest neighbors warmed up a bit.
It was then I learned how the SSS
(Social Service Siren) had public
ized me to the world in general
She, or one of her representatives,
had called upon all the neighbors,
told them [ was insane, in a bad
way (“poor boy,” she said) and that
she was there to help me straighten
out my case, and would they please
tell her all they knew about me.
Was I a hard drinker? Did they
ever notice me acting queerly? Was
I a woman chaser? Had they seen
me around young girls? Hadn’t they
seen me, through my own windows,
beat up my wife and children? Did
they know someone who knew me
when I was a young lad, or where
I had worked, or someone with
whom I had trouble? And so on and
so forth,
All this was supposed ‘> be con
fidential and a help to me. HELP?
If any of those SBSB harpies ever
helped a veteran, | hope they
stick me back in that hellhole
for the rest of my days! HELP!
May God have mercy on their
black hearts for the atrocities
they have committed in the name
of “help”.
Is it helping a veteran to publi
cize him from door to door among
his friends, among casual acquaint
ances, in his own neighborhood? Is
it helping him to tell his employer
he is an NP, an untouchable?
The SSS harpies spend the tax
payers’ money to destroy veterans
with mental complexes, to brand
them with the hideous cachet of
insaity for all time. They did it to
me. They enlisted the aid of the
Red Cross in other communities |
where I'd lived and the Red Cross|
assisted them by broadcasting the
same brand of insidious publicity.|
LIFE OF HELL
Not only that, but the Red Cross
helped them to destroy my rating
and thus enable the MO's of the
Bureau to keep me from a fair, im
partial review of my record. The |
‘MO’s harassed Ine at their “kanga- ||
roo courts” (staff conferences) and |,
made my life one continued round |,
of hell. s
One of the most onerous featur. ||
es in connection with the SBS is |
assurance she giv es outsiders |«
that whatever they tell her about
a veteran will be treated confid- ||
entially and that “not a person |f
in the world will ever know what ||
you have told me.” s
This encourages people, particu- t
—A e e
AN INDEPENDENT VETER
ANS' NEWSPAPER DEDL ||
CATED TO AND PUBLISHED ||
FOR THE RANK AND FILE || .
OF THE EXSERVICEMEN|]
Price Five Cents
larly women to talk and the S 8
displays considerable subtlety 1
getting people to talk. If the imagl
nations are stretched a bit, why
that’s all right—no one will
kuow it; “confidential,” you lx
It is surprising what one's friends
will say about one during a “con
fidential” chat with other people.
BAD BUSINESS 2
The SSS takes all these m&
dential notes and reports, sorts.ou
the worst ones and Ntfi
before the MO staff at rican
Lake. The veteran does not kaow
from where or whom all 3”! ;,
comes and-consequently is unprep
t ¥, AT
‘to d;s_'nfl, s
iTBT, . T e £
formation as the SSS gathers
~ should at all times be av:
~to the veteran and those person
ally interested in him, This would
eliminate a lot of “monkey busi
ness” and false reports now filed
with the MO’s. J
Two courts, one in California and
the other in Missouri, have ordered
the Veteran’s Bureau to allow the
interested veteran full aceess to any
and all records pertaining to hig
case, The courts of this state also,
should rule likewise and put an ead
to the despicable system now in
effect.
SOCIAL OUTCAST :
But I am geting away from my
story. The publicity broadcasted
by the SSS had ruined me, both
socially and in a business way. No
one wanted to associate with me,
My children were insulted in the
neighborhood and at school, Other
children told them their Dad was
(Turn to Page 6, Please) "™ =
Herron Succeeds
Fred Surry As
Vet Leader
Succeeding Fred H. Surry as con
mander, Everett H. Heron, Seath
fireman, will head Col "Theado'e
Roosevelt Post No. 24, Veterans ol
Foreign Wars, during the coming
year,
Working with Herroa will be
Emmett Mullins, senior vice com
mander; Lonie Powers, junior vice
commander, and Clarence R. Chris.
tie, quartermaster, 3
The new officers and members
of the Auxiliary were installed o 3
Tuesday evening, November 3, at
the Veterans Memorial Hall, Civic
Auditorium. i koo
g
RESERVE OFFICERS =
TO STUDY PLANS
The employment of the 3rd Dh'f‘
ision in the Defense of a River
Line” will be the problem worked
out by the officers of the ;_th,b B
serve District when they report al
8:30 o’ cloek, Saturday mo:
November 21, for a 2-day coataet
camp at Camp Lewis, it was ré
cently announced,
Officers who attend mw:,;‘
for the full period fis
fourteen hours credit. Those repoit:
Ing after scheduled thne will bi
time aerved.. . . SRS
R et S SR