The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., July 12, 1922, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

About The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise. (Cody, Wyo.) 1921-1923

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wEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1922.
Bureau Big Aid
to Ex-Soldiers
Government Is Finding Places
for Disabled Men Who Have
Been in School.
ALL VOCATIONS REPRESENTED
More Than 100,000 Are in Training
Now, and Ultimately 318,000 Will
Have Been Rehabilitated—Find
Job to Fit Man.
Washington, D. C.—A new kind of
employment agency is being opened
•y the government. Most offices of the
•ort start out in business with a list
of alluring positions and Invite jobless
tnen to apply for them. The govern
ment is beginning at the other end. It
bus a group of well trained men on its
hands and its employment agency will
try to fit them into the jobs which are
no doubt available about the coun
try. but which are just now singularly
elusive.
The new agency is in the veterans’
bureau, and its efforts are to be put
forth in behalf of the disabled war
veterans who are being rehabilitated
nnder the direction of the bureau.
Although It is more than three
Fears since the war ended, the peak
of rehabilitation has not been reached,
largely because so many of the vet
erans have been taking three and four
year courses.
To date 16,485 men have completed
their training and are employed. More
than 100,000 are In training now, and
ultimately 318,000 will have been re
habilitated. Many of the disabled
pen have not begun training. They
are not yet physically able, their cases
are pending, or for some other reason
training has been deferred.
The new agency, which calls Itself
by the mouth-filling title of the
Trainee-Employment Section of the
Rehabilitation division of the Vet
erans’ bureau, has just begun its task,
it has men of practically every voca
tion on its hands, from dentists and
farmers to stenographers and shoe
makers.
The employment section has begun
to establish contracts with organiza
tions that are In touch with all angles
of the job market.
Where Men Are Needed.
Employment experts of the Veterans’
bureau are making a study of the pro
fessions and trades to determine which
are crowded. A partial survey indi
cates that training has been provided
in the past in some vocations which
are badly overcrowded, .while other
lines in which trained personnel is
needed have been overlooked. In fu
ture the bureau will consider supply
and demand in starting its dllsabled
men on new work.
A number of doctors are on the list
of rehabilitated men, and these, at
least, should have no difficulty in es
tablishing connections, since small
towns all over the country have been
sailing for doctors.
Considering the need for farmers,
tt Is also encouraging to learn that
15,000 veterans are studying some
phase of agriculture. Some of them
have already found positions which
they will enter on graduation. A num
ber are going to teach agricultural sub
lects In high schools and colleges.
One man is going South America as
salesman of agricultural implements.
The students of farming are being
urged to buy land and start in busi
ness for themselves, and many are
planning to do so.
The men who have been studying
trades are placed in union shops for
practical experience. When ;hey are
able to do a full day’s work they are
ronsldered rehabilitated and given po
rtions.
A man learning a trade or business
tn rehabilitated when he has a posi
tion, and the government’s responsi
bility toward him ends. It Is more
difficult to say when an artist is re
habilitated. Is he a full-fledged artist
rhen he paints his first promising pic
ture or when he makes his first sale?
France Honors Captain Guynemer
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President Poincare speaking nt the recent unveiling in the Pantheon,
Paris, of a memorial plaque to Captain Guy Amer. famous aviation hero of
•be war.
All of the men whom the government
has undertaken to have trained were
unable to return to their old positions
on a competitive basis with other
meu.
Right Men for the Jobs.
Tie bureau is trying to impress on
the public the fact that it need not
hesitate to employ the rehabilitated
men. The government Is not sending
out any one-legged park gardeners. A
man who was so badly injured about
the face that he is at a disadvantage
in meeting people Is not trained to be
a traveling salesman. On the other
the loss of a leg does not af
tfect the work of a draftsman and a
disfigured face is not a handicap to a
stock breeder.
The employment section is distinctly
proud of the fact that so many of the
bureau’s trainees have a greater earn
ing capacity now than they had in
their pre-war occupations. A typical
case is that of a man who had been
a landscape gardener on a large es
tate. He lost one arm, and is now
an auditor in the government service
at $1,200 more a year than he was
earning before the war.
The Veterans’ bureau says that It is
starting its employment services with
men of fine caliber. A report has just
come from the University Os Florida
stating that the average scholarship
In its lotv department is 85.5 per cent
for trainees of the Veterans’ bureau,
while other students averaged 79 per
cent.—Frederick J. Haskin in Chicago
Dally News.
Bowlder Keeps
Old Feud Alive
Burial Lot in Durham, N. H., Has
the Only Spite Monument
in Existence.
DISPUTE OVER WILL IS CAUSE
Brother and Sister Disagree Over
What Constitutes a “Suitable Mon
ument"—Courts Finally Called
Upon to Settle Matter.
Durham, N. H. —Spite fences are not
unusual, and there is the tradition of
cutting off the nose to spite the face,
but what is probably the only spite
monument in existence stands in the
little burial lot of the Joy family at
Packer’s Falls in this town. The out
come of years of family disagree
ments and controversies, a rough
stone, bearing a quotation from the
will of Sarah E. (Joy) Griffiths and
erected as a reproach to her memory
by her brother, Samuel Joy, still
stands today in the little burial Jot
which has been owned by ‘he Joy fam
ily since 1780, and the reason for Its
existence is almost forgotten.
A hand chiseled on the rough stone,
which is of native New Hampshire
granite and about 4 by 5 in dimensions,
points to the handsome marble monu
meat towering 15 feet above the
ground and bearing the name of David
F. and Sarah E. Griffiths. Beside the
luind Is the Inscription In large capi
tals: “A Suitable Monument and Fit
Up the Lot." It was the manner in
which this provision in the will of his
sister, Sarah, was curried out that
angered Samuel and caused him to
take such a novel means of perpetu
ating the memory of a fancied in
justice.
Left Strange Will.
The story begins with the marriage
of Sarah E. Joy to David F. Griffiths
on February 11, 184 G.
There were two children from the
marriage, both of whom died In In
fancy, and David also died at the age
of thirty-six years and was burled in
VICTIM OF CHILD LABOR
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This little girl is kept at her task of
stringing labels, pay for which is one
cent an hour. A thorough investiga
tion of the child labor conditions In
Rhode Island has resulted in startling
disclosures of the hardships, long
hours and small pay that more than
five thousand children have been sub
jected to by manufacturers of cheap
jewelry, small wares, hosiery and un
derwear.
the lot of the Griffiths family in Dur
ham. It Is not clear whether there
was any ill-feeling between Surah and
her husband, but after his death she
moved to Manchester, and In her will
she requested that she be buried in
the Joy family lot and not with her
husband.
Sarah survived her husband by 32
years, dying in 1887. She left an es
tate of about $4,000-—and a will. Her
immediate heirs were Nancy S. Fesler,
her sister, and Samuel, her brother.
Apparently Nancy was not avaricious,
but the $4,000 would have been of
more gratification to Samuel had it
, not been for the will.
The stumbling block in the will was
the provision that a suitable monument
be erected to the memory of Sarah and
the burial lot fitted up. Nancy and
Samuel, the administrators, differed as
to how this provision should be con
strued ; Nancy insisting that an im
posing monument be erected, wMIe
Samuel held that a ‘‘suitable monu
ment” meant merely a simple head
stone such as had been erected at the
graves of other members of the Joy
family buried In the lot.
Nancy, however, was firm for the
I “suitable monument,” and insisted that
her sister deserved a more Imposing
commemoration than a mere head
stone.
After this controversy over the suit
ableness of the monument had gone on
for some time, Samuel became bitter.
Deciding it was time to let the world
know the folly of his sister, Sarah. In
leaving such a will, he erected about
her grave, which was still without a
stone, a board fence on which he
painted the words, “A $3,000 Grave."
Taken Into Court.
Up to this point the nephews of Da
vid F. Griffiths, Edward and Arioch,
had taken do part in the quarrel, feel
ing that the affairs of their uncle’-
wife did not concern them. But at
this overt act, Arioch decided that it
was time for him to take a hand in
the proceedings, and one dark night
lie removed the fence with its sarcastic
legend and left the grave once more
bare.
Samuel was not to be thwarted In
bls purpose, however, and bis next
move was to put up a small stone bear
ing the words, “I Am a Socialist.”
What became of the stone remains a
mystery, ilowever, the son of Nancy
Fesler had taken sides with his mother
and with the Griffiths brothers and its
disappearance is credited to him.
Three or four years had now passed
since Sarah’s death and the terms of
her Will nad not yet been carried out.
It was a hopeless deadlock, und after
many fruitless conferences between
Nancy and Samuel, the case was final
ly taken to court. George W. Sanborn
of Kingston was appointed to execute
the will, which he did without delay.
His action must have given gratifica
tion to Nancy, for he caused to be
erected a huge monument costing $3,-
500, and spent the remainder of the
money on a fence to surround the lot.
Samuel, defeated on all sides, was
still determined on revenge. Deprived
of any participation in the estate of
fils sister and seeing his opponents
victorious in the end. he hired a stone
cutter to carve the hand and the words
from the will on the block of granite
and set It up in the burial lot about
20 feet from the marble shaft over
wbld) there had been such bitter feel-
Cardboard.
If the wind rattles bedroom win
dows at night, small bits of cardboard
stuck Into the sides will stop the nolst.
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TESTING FOR TUBERCULOSIS
Reports Show That Eradication Work
Can Be Carried on Without
Destroying Industry.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
That testing cattle for tuberculosis
and the cleaning up of Infected herds
are having a permanent effect in re
ducing the extent of the disease is
shown conclusively by figures recently
collected by the United States De
partment of Agriculture from inspec
tors in charge of the eradication work
in various parts of the country. The
Inspectors were asked to supply
figures on the results of three or more
tests on badly diseased herds, those
that had not less than 10 per cent of
reactors on the first test. The first
test on more than 58,000 cattle in
these bad herds showed that 26 per
cent had tuberculosis. Another test
six months later on the same herds,
from which the reactors had been re
moved, showed only 6.9 per cent of
the disease. By another six months
the percentage had gone down to 2.8.
A fourth test on more than 25,000 of
these cattle showed only 1.8 per cent
of tuberculosis.
The reports from which these
figures were taken show that under
normal conditions herds very badly
diseased may be established as rela
tively free in a short time. They also
show that eradication work can be
carried on without destroying the
cattle industry as is - sometimes
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If Any of These Cows Have I uoer
culosis the Hogs Following Them
Are Certain to Get the Disease.
thought. Erratic results were obtained
on a very few of the 1882 herds tested,
the list of this class containing less
than 100. Out of the 126,668 herds
under observation December 1. 1921,
there were only a very few that had
not shown satisfactory improvement
as a result of testing.
PREVENT ANIMAL DISEASES
By Taking Proper Precautionary
Measures Many Ailments Could
Be Thwarted.
Many of the diseases suffered by
live stock on the farm could be pre
vented by proper precautionary meas
ures, according to Dr. Robert Graham
of the University of Illinois. Nearly
all diseases to which animals succumb
are preventable, he declares, and the
surest way to keep your animals
healthy Is to adopt such health meas
ures ns will prevent them from get
ting sick.
The continuous use of old feed lots
year after year without regard to ro
tation Is one way to spread disease.
Eu€h class of live stock has its own
peculiar ailments, which may be
largely eliminated by the rotation of
feed lots.
Keep yourself posted as to what dis
eases are prevalent in your neighbor
hood, and then do everything In your
power to keep your own live stock
from getting them.
FEEDS FOR WORKING HORSES
Mature Animals Require Starchy or
Carbonaceous Rations to
Furnish Needed Fuel.
The charpcter of feed required by
horses that are working is quite
different from’ that required by young
growing animals or dairy cows. Ma
ture horses need starchy or carbon
aceous feeds to furnish fuel rather
Mian large amounts of protein. For
this reason corn and timothy hay may
be fed more liberally than such pro
tein feeds as wheat and alfalfa. Oats
furnish most of the protein needed,
and a good rule for feeding a horse
doing moderate work Is given as one
and one-fourth pounds of hay and
three-fourths pound of gjaln to each
hundred pounds of wheat, but horses
at hard work are sometimes given as
much ns one and one-fourth pounds of
grain.
PASTURE IS PIG ESSENTIAL
Rape, Alfalfa and Clover Are Bone
and Muecle Building Feeds
and Cheapen Gains.
Pasture is of course vital to the
best development of pigs. Rupe, al
falfa or clover should he available
to the spring pigs, as these forages
contain much bone and muscle-build
ing feed, mid they help to cheapen
gains.
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