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THE ABERDEEN WEEKLY. ABERDEEN, r.IICGTnSIPPI
Vet
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600,000
War Are Jobless!:
Survey by American Legion
Shows Desperate Plight of
Men Who Went to Front.
FIGHTING " FOR EXISTENCE
Former Service Men Battling Harder
Now and Under Greater Odds
Than They Fought In the
Trenches in France.
Indianapolis. Between C00.000 and
700.000 eterans of the World war are
out of employment and struggling for
existence, according to a survey com
pleted by the American Legion.
Many of these men, the survey dis
closes, are fighting harder now and
under greater odds perhaps than they
fought In the trenches.
The survey was conducted through
the 11,000 posts of the Legion.
Pennsylvania alone reported 150.000
ex-service men out of work. The
New York Legion department esti
mated 100,000 veterans jobless in the
state, and Illinois and Massachusetts
reported respectively ?J)Q and 30,000
ex-service men out of work.
Ceorgla was the only state that re
ported Improvement in the unem
ployed situation. "Unemployment not
general enough to require aid from
Legion." was the report from that
state. Iowa reported that the indus
tries in that state were showing signs
of JIfp, although a serious condition
this winter was anticipated.
Situation Is Desperate.
. The report from Pennsylvania de
scribed conditions as deplorable and
the state of Washington advised ex
service men not to go to that state
until conditions Improved. Michigan's
unemployed war veterans were said
to number .TO.OOO. hut industrial con
ditions were reported as "better than
two months ago."
Commenting on the situation which
has come out of the business depres
sion, the American Legion Weekly
says :
"Figure? alone, however, do not tell
the plight of American unemployed
veterans, for the greater part of these
jobless ex-soldiers and ex-sailors are
not only out of work, hut are engaged
at this moment in a struggle for ex
istence with their backs to the wall
of circumstances. They are for the
most part men who have been econom
ically on the defensive ever since they
left their country's service. Many are
men who found their old Jobs gone
when they took off their uniforms, and
no other jobs to be had. Those who
succeeded In discovering some work
after being discharged from the army
or navy found they were pitted In re
morseless competition against men
who had not been In the service.
Many employers dealt with them by
the rule of last hired, first fired.
Hard Winter Ahead.
"If they were lucky enough to have
savings from before the war awaiting
them when they were discharged,
those savings have long since disap
peared. They found themselves with
out funds early in the period of in
dustrial depression which set in while
this country was getting back to a
peace-time basis. Workers who had
been employed steadily at high wages
during the war were able to coast into
the depression period living on their
savings, but for many months unem
ployed ex-service men have been, per
force, little more than industrial scav
engers, compelled to seek odds and
ends of work desperately to meet their
simplest necessities. The more for
tunate have been largely dependent
upon relatives and kindly friends.
Those lacking these have been roam
ing from city to city, restlessly seeking
work. Many of them have wives and
children, fathers and mothers, depend
ent upon them for support.
"Now that business depression has
become intensified and the ranks of
the unemployed swelled by the addi
tion of millions of men who had been
holding Jobs until a few months or
even weeks ago, the lot of the long
unemployed veteran is such that com
passionate Americans need not look to
Russia, to Hungary and the other
stricken nations of Surope for human
J suffering to touch their heartstrings.
"The plight of unemployed veterans
is serious enough today. But winter
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ork will soon cease. The harvests
hich have provided, temporai-y work
for many will soon be gathered. Park
benches and doorways vlU soon, be
untenable at night.
"This Is the situation that faces
the American Legion and the Ameri
can people today. Scarcely having
finished the campaign to relieve the
hardships of the physically disabled
veterans of the World war, the Ameri
can Legion is now realizing that It
faces another campaign of equal mag
nitude to save its comrades who have
become economic casualties."
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The six hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante coming this year,
thousands of tourists are visiting the beautiful gothic tomb of the Italian poet
in Verona.
Plan
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Asraint Cancer
American Society for Control of
Cancer Announces a "Na
tional Cancer Week."
SPECIALISTS ARE INTERESTED
Informative Literature Will Be Carried
to Every Corner of the Country
Causes 10 Out of 100 Deaths
Among Those Over Forty.
New York. The American Society
for the Control of Cancer, which, since
Its organization in 1913, has been
fghting cancer with facts, sent out
from Its headquarters, 25 West Forty-fifth
street. New York, announces
an unusual feature of its already re
markable campaign.
This is a "National Cancer week,"
which will begin October 30 and end
November 5.
The purpose of the effort, the most
comprehensive and important in the
society's career, Is Intended to carry
facts concerning cancer to as many
persons in the United States and Can
ada as can be reached through the
professional and lay press, by lec
tures and by the spread of informative
literature. The work will be carried
on by the foremost physicians and
surgeons in the country who special
ize in the control of this dread dis
ease; by state and city health officers
and by the public-spirited citizens,
who have given much of their time and
New Guardian of the White House
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Old Hoy is the new watch dog of the White House, who has receutiy ar
rived to keep Laddie Boy company. He Is five months old and was given to
Mrs. Harding by a friend in Washington.
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considerable of their money to the
movement.
Will Spread Message.
The society's organization is an ex
ceptionally elticieut one, and the mes
sage of the "Cancer week" will be car
ried to the remotest corners of the
country. It Includes regional direc
tors, state chairmen and local commit
tees, all working under the 'direction
of Dr. Charles A. Powers, president.
Assisting Doctor Powers are such men
of note as Dr. Robert Abbe, one of the
foremost authorities on cancer la
America; Dr. James Ewlng. patholo
gist of Cornell university; Dr. G. E.
Armstrong of Montreal, noted Canadi
an surgeon ; Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood
of Johns Hopkins university, Balti
more; Dr. William J. Mayo of Roches
ter, Minn. ; Dr. Clement Cleveland, for
many years head of the Woman's hos
pital in New York ; Dr. Francis Car
ter Wood, director of the Crocker
cancer research laboratory, Columbia
university, and head of the board of
scientists, and many other prominent
specialists.
Since its Inception the society has
maintained that accurate Information
concerning cancer Is the best means
known to lower the mortality of this
disease. It was believed, and It has
since been proved, that a large num
ber of cases can be cured If taken in
hand early, and Its efforts have been
directed toward urging persons to seek
competent advice the instant they rec
ognize any of the symptoms made
plain by the society's campaign of ed
ucation. In this policy the society at
first met antagonism from that ele
ment which considered cancer a dis
grace and which believed the less said
about It the better.
Decrease in Deaths.
Those interested In this educational
movement are extremely encouraged
by the fact that during the last three
years deaths from cancer have, for
the first time In two decades, shown
a slight decrease. It does not claim
that all this decrease Is due to its
campaign, but It believes that its cam
paign has had something to do with
It, and intends to push Its work In the
future even more vigorously than in
the past.
Some Idea of the ravages of cancer
may be had from the fact that it
causes ten out of every hundred
deaths In this country where the vic
tims are more than forty years old;
that about 85,000 deaths a year are
recorded, and that the mortality among
women Is considerably greater than
among men. Women are exceptional
ly susceptible to this disease, but It is
gratifying to know that if the symp
toms are early recognized a great ma
jority of scases may be cured. Be
cause people are better Informed, early
diagnoses are more common now than
In the past, and. moreover, the methods
of treatment, w hich now "Include radium
and the X-ray are becoming more and
more efficient and effective.
During "National Cancer week"
there will be lectures in many cities
by the foremost authorities on can
cer, the distribution of literature at
these lectures; activities by the de
partments of health throughout the
country and by the medical societies,
and the publication of numerous arti
cles In 'the medical and lay press.
HIGH RENTS HALT WEDDINGS
London Prices Too Steep for Young
Couples Contemplating Marriage,
Sa,ys Newspaper.
London. An "Agony" advertise
ment which appeared recently in a
rewspaper spoke eloquently of the
s ilfering peculiar to these days. Of
fering a cottage for sale, it began:
"To those about to marry, ad their
Pii rents."
VVhj the parents should be dragged
In is hard to say; they crobably want
a home themselves. Every few
minutes one stems to meet somebody
In search of a house. There are. it
Is true, more houses ifor sale with im
mediate occupation than there were a
year ago. But the prices asked for
them are so egreglously beyond their
value that neither those about to
marry nor their parents can. In gen
eral, afford even to look over them.
As for flats, they are rarer than
good deeds in a naughty world. A
speculative estate agent, wishing to
take advantage of the large demand,
went carefully into estimates for build
ing blocks of fiats In a suburb, and was
forced to the conclusion that, at
present prices, he would be unable to
let under $1,000 a year. And this
would be prohibitive to most of his
desirous clients.
A Book.
If a book come from the heart, it
will contrive to reach other hearts;
all art a,nd author-craft are of small
account to that. Carlyle.
Millerand Still Persistent
Alexandre Millerand is as pertina
cious with a tennis racket as he has
been In working his way up from a
poor student to a successful lawyer.
Journalist, politician, prime minister
and president of the French republic
But this time the handicap is too
great. Even the hardest plugging can
not overcome the disability of near
sightedness and a start so late in life
that it puts a limit on the speedy shift
ing about of many pounds of solid
flesh, v
Millerand wears eyeglasses, and
during the very cheery tennis match
he has each afternoon at Ramboull
let with his sons and daughter the
glasses are often removed by the ball,
put over a bit too quickly for the pres
ident's untrained and restricted vision.
But the sturdy statesman, one of
the most devoted fathers In all France,
just chuckles with the rest and re
turns the ball with his best skill. Both
his sons and his elder daughter are fairly strong players, and father hopes
that some day he will be a good player too. He is no less a trier now he Is
elderly than he was as a youngster.
And he has the consolation that he can still give his athletic boys a few
points when it comes to his favorite pastime of walking.
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Happiest of All Boy Scouts
Probably the two happiest lad3
in the world today are J. W. F. Marr
of Aberdeen, Scotland, and N. E.
Mooney of Kirkwall, Orkney, both
patrol leaders of Boy Scouts. Real
od venture has come Into their lives.
Tor they have been selected by Sir
Ernest Shackleton to make with him
a voyage of 30,000 miles through un
charted Antarctic seas in the little
schooner Quest.
When Sir Ernest announced fiat
he wanted a cabin boy for the trip, a
thousand boy scouts applied. The
choice narrowed down to two, and as
the explorer could not decide between
them, he took them both.
Marr, eighteen years old (portrait
herewith), is a student in Aberdeen
university and a football and tennis
player. Two yenrs ago he saved a
young girl at Banff from drowning,
and immediately afterward made a
gallant but ineffectual effort to save
another boy and girl who were also in danger. He has won several scout dec
orations. "I was going to be a farmer, like my father, but I don't think I
shall now," he said after his choice as one of the Quest's crew had been com
municated to him. "I shall go on expeditions with Sir Ernest Shackleton,
ir he will let me, the next time as well. I have always waited for this
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work. My two sisters are
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In hospitals are many women who are there for surgical operations, and there
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It is very true that female troubles may through neglect reach a stage
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It IP WlNA
Alexander, who became king of
Jugo-Slavia on the death of Peter re
cently, is considered by international
diplomats to be one of the most im
portant of men to the world's safety.
lie alone. It Is believed, can hold to
gether the kingdom of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes and keep the bol
shevists from gaining control there,
lie is the younger of Peter's two sons,
the elder, George, having been forced
to renounce his claims to the throne
because of his outrageous life.
Alexander seemed a modest and
inconspicuous youth when he was
made regent and heir apparent. But
he has developed marvelously since
then. Jugo-Slavia, made up as it is
of Croats, Slovenes and Serbs all of
the same blood but by no means of
the same opinions has been main
tained as a going concern very largely
through Alexander's strength and fair
ness, lie is strong enough to be "the
ruler, but he is also fair enough not to attempt to penalize those who differ
from him. The Croats and Slovenes have their fair share of the government,
but theirs is a loyalty to Alexander, it is believed, rather than a loyalty to
the new kingdom. With Alexander removed anything might happen.
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Sutherland's American Bar
One of the busiest men In Eng
land took time recently to get mar
ried, and among the wedding gifts was
a decided novelty a complete Ameri
can lar. The happy bridegroom was Sir
William Sutherland, private secretary
to Prime Minister Lloyd George, al
ready popular and now likely to be
more so.
The bar Is a Jacobean cabinet fit
ted with everything, including liquors,
needed for concocting cocktails. It
has decanters, shakers, syphons, a
dazzling array of liqueurs, whiskys,
brandies, sirups, gin and vermouth, in
addition to cigarette boxes and ash
trays. It was furnished for Sir Joseph
Hewitt, who is the donor, by a cock
tail expert lna leading West end ho
tel, who forgot nothing.
The only drawback Is that it will
take another expert to utilize the ma
terials. It looks very much as If Sir
William would have to hire an Ameri
can bartender. That, however, should not be difficult nowadays, and he will
not need to send to America for him.
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With a handshake and a "best of
luck" wish. Miss Julia Lathrop the
other day inaugurated her successoi
as director of the children's bureau
of the Department of Labor, and
started to her home In Rockford, III.,
for a rest. Miss Grace Abbott of Ne
braska with as little ceremony as
sumed her new duties.
Thus simply one of the most Impor
tant jobs in Washington, In so far
as the future Is concerned, changed
hands, and the bureau whose busi
ness it Is to guard the welfare of the
40,000,000 children of the country had
a new pilot.
Miss Abbott has for a number of
years been one of the most active co
workers of the bureau. She waa for
a time executive of the Illinois state
immigration commission. During the
period the child labor act was in
operation she was director of the
child labor division of the children's
bureau. Subsequently she was an adviser of the war labor policies board,
and secretary of the child welfare st andards conference.
Ssupg WR wears'-
lniERSM,TH,? Chills and Fever
sy Chill Tonic But a Fine General Tonic
Ward Off Malaria and Restores Strength. Try It
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TAKES UMBRELLA TO MASTER
Clever Dog That Keeps a New York
Commuter Dry When He Gets
Caught in Rain.
"I'll show you a regular dog," sa.d
Gardiner to his friend Johnson, whom
he had invited to dinner at his hom
In Long Island, according to the Ne-v
York Sun. They had alighted from
the train and it was raining. Gardi
ner gazed up and down the street
anxiously.
"What are you looking for?" asked
Johnson.
"There!" exclaimed Gardiner, Ignor
ing his friend's question and point
ing down the street. "There's a reg
ular dog."
A Belgian police dog came running
toward the station with an umbrella
In its mouth. The dog stopped in front
of Gardiner.
"That's my dog," said Gardiner. "On
rainy days my wife gives him an um
brella and he brings it down to the
station so I don't have to walk home
In the wet."
Pals.
Ethel, age seven, had disobeyed her
mother, and as a result was severely
spanked. After the girl had had her
"cry," she walked into the next room
where her, mother was sittinjr, threw
her arms around her and said:
"Mother, you and I are pals; we
don't care anything about spankin
do we?" And mother could nut re
strain a smile.
HIS POINT QUITE REASONABLE
A Good Logic in Negro's Contention
as to Lion's Probable Change
to a Meat Diet,
A negro employed at one of the
Holly wood movie studios wa dm f red
by a director to do a iiov4 oiwtly
scene with a lion.
"You get into t Ii i -s Led." ordered th
director, "and we'll bring the li"n in
and put him in bed with you. It will
be a scream.
"Put a lion in bed with me !" yelled
the darky. "No, sah ! N..t a-tall. I
quits right here ami now."
"But," protested the director, "thl-i
lion won't hurt you. This Ii n was
brought up on milk."
"So was I brung up on milk," wailed
the darky, "but I eats meat now."
Los Angeles Times.
Tommy Spilled the Beans.
Mrs. Brown (to casual callers)
Why, how do you do? What a pity
you didn't come a little earlier; we've
just finished luncheon.
Tommy Brown Oh, ma, aren't we
goin" to have any more? I hadn't
had half enough when the floor hell
rang and you all jumped up. Boston
Transcript.
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The Caddie's Retort.
"How are you playing?" we aske-I
a golfer at the club tlu other da v.
"You know me," said the man. "Mv
regular game a lot of careless work,
but now and then a ?oml shot. Always
there are some jrood shots sprinkled
through the day like plums In a pudding."
Whose fault is it when your
husband is cross at
breakfast?
If you hit your thumb
"With a hammer you
wouldn't blame your
thumb for hurting.
Then why blame your
husband whose nerves
may have been pounded
by coffee, and whose rest
probably has been broken
by the irritation of the
caffeine it contains?
If you stay awake half
the night you don't feel
any too cheerful.
The caffeine of coffee
end the thein of tea are
known drugs. If their use
is persisted in, sooner or
later the nervous system
may give way.
Then you may have
insomnia, or disturbed
sleep. Your nerves and
tissues will be robbed of
that stability essential for
normal and happy living.
You can avoid thi3
possibility if youll stop
drinking tea and coffee and
drink instead, rich, pleas
ing Postum.
Postum is the deli
cious cereal beverage with
a coffee-like flavor. It
affords the advantages of
a hot drink, without tha
ill effects of tea or coffee.
Order Postum from
your grocer today. Try
it with the family for a few
days, and see what a dif
ference there'll be how
it will permit Nature to
bring sound sleep and
strong, sturdy, quiet
nerves. Sold by grocers.
Postum conies in two
forms: Instant Postum (in tins)
made instantly in the cup by
the addition of boiling water.
Postum Cereal (in packages of
larger bulk, for those who pre
fer to make tha drink while tha
meal is being prepared) ma da
by boiling for 2Q minutes.
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