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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM MONDAY, MAY 19, 1919.
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ' AND SUN-TELEGRAM " 1 1 t 1 ' 1 Published '' Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. , Pallidlunr "Bulldinr, Nortli Ninth and Sailor Streets, Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Seo t oad Claas Mall Matter. - " M EMBER OF TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Prw Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication, of all new dicpatcbes credited to It or not otherwise, credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. AU rlfhts of republication of apeV ctal dlapatebes herela are also reserved.
Our Returning Soldiers To make the number of returned citizens equal to the number of returned soldiers is the problem that is now before the federal board for vocational education. About two million of our soldiers have been returned to civil life. Two
hundred thousand have been wounded but many of these will soon be physically fit to take up their duties again, while it is estimated that at least ten per cent of them have handicaps which must be overcome. From the latest reports tuberculosis is responsible for 22 per cent of the disabilities incurred, wounds not necessitating amputation and miscellaneous wounds for 31 per cent, nerjb'e diseases for 8.3 per cent and wounds requiring amputation 5 per cent. To make these 20,000 disabled soldiers the equal of 20.000 citizens contributing economically and socially to their community life, is the duty delegated to the federal board by the government. It is a difficult problem but results are being found. The great majority of these young men are under thirty years of age ; youth plus will power is one .of the known quantities in . the equation. The broad scope of the training given is one of the chief factors in the solution. Whatever a man wishes to train for, wherever he wants to train, the federal board stands ready to advise as to the proper course and to provide a suitable place where his ambition may be attained. More than one hundred different courses are already being given under the direction of the federal board in almost 400 institutions of learning scattered throughout the country from Florida to the great -Northwest to 1860 men who have begun
their training. In the few months that have elapsed since the boys began their homeward journey, nearly 5000f these disabled soldiers, after conferring with the federal board have started life again; some placed by the board and others self placed ; eome in the old jobs, others in new and better ones. The process is fascinating, the results are interesting. Plumbers too disabled to work at their trade, have become sanitary inspectors; farm laborers are being trained for agricultural
specialists; wounded tailors are studying designing and wireless telegraphers are being made out of wounded barbers, while a stone cutter with a weak heart is now doing the work of a secretary. Up to May 1 the central office had approved courses for 4,376 of these men. The equation is being completed and each day's results are proving that returned disabled soldiers plus training and application, are equivalent to returned citizens upon whom the nation may confidently depend for its future welfare and happiness. It is not generally known that the federal hoard for vocational education maintains a course designed to prepare disabled soldiers for civil service positions. There are .32 men now study
ing to qualify themselves for positions under the civil service, and the board will undertake to prepare any student who so desires, provided he can qualify as physically competent to do the work. A good many of the disabled soldiers now being vocationally re-educated are taking courses of training somewhat out of the ordinary, and the list of those who are undergoing re-education April 1 reveals some interesting sidelights on the desires and ambitions of the young men of the country. Two are studying air-brake operation ; 3 are taking bee culture; 9 have entered barber colleges. It would not be supposed that boiler making was the sort of light work the disabled man would select but 3 students have elected that. Twenty-six are taking carpentry and 2 biology. Dentistry is fairly popular, there "being 31 stu
dents in that, while 2 are studying "edge trimming," and 11 of them are studying embalming. Forestry has attracted 18,while 2 are taking special courses in geometry. Jewelry and watch
repairing have attracted 26, and 13 are embarking upon the uncertainty of journalism. Owing to impaired hearing on account of the tremendous
din of artillery fire, 23 men are studying lip reading. One is taking massage and 20 have gone in
for oxy-acetylene welding. Three men are study
ing vocal music, 2 are studying violin and 14,
various other instruments. Eleven are studying theology; 5, window trimming, and 7 are prepar
ing to be veterinary surgeons. Landscape gar
dening is being taken by 9; sign painting by 12;
pharmacy by 24
It is very necessary that the public should
understand the provisions that the government
has made for the retraining of the soldier dis
abled to such an extent that he cannot return to his former employment, nor can he take up a new occupation without training for it. Without
thinking, the public often contends that the sol
dier has "done his bit" and therefore the government should give him sufficient compensation
to live without bothering himself about a job for
the rest of his life. Upon serious thought this
same public will realize that this condemnation to such continuous inactivity is no kindness to the
soldier who has sacrificed his health for his coun
try. The government has planned a better way, and stands ready to show tlie wounded man that
his country still needs him, and needs him to such
an extent that provisions have not only been
made for his re-education in some new trade or profession, but that money will be paid to him and his dependents during the time required for his preparation for this further service for the
nation. The war risk insurance bureau pays compensation to the man and allowances for the support of his dependents during the entire period of his training. . The amount given the man in training varies according to the size of his family. A single man gets at least $65 a month, but there is a graduated scale of payments for a married man who has a wife and children, which is based upon the family requirements. For instance, a married man living at home with his wife and one child would get (including the family allowances) $80, and if he must train away from home the total amount is $105. If he has four children he will receive $117.50, unless he must live away from
i home during his training, when the family is
paid $122.50. Increase in these allowances is made up to the number of six children, except in the case of a widower, who is allowed an increase up to eight children.
Educational Leaders Planning World-wide Child Welfare Program to be Submitted to President Wilson for Enactment by Congress Into Law
CLEVELAND, O., May 19 A study
ot Cleveland's child-caring institutions
and agencies begun' by experts on child welfare from England, France,
Belgium. Serbia and Japan, and representatives of the child's .bureau Of the United States department of labor will form the basis for a world wide program for child welfare, to be submitted to President Wilson and later to
congress to be enacted into laws. The tentative . program as drafted in Washington and outlined here for the first time suggests standards for the public protection of the health of school children, for the protection of the health of adolescent children In or out of school and for the prenatal care and protection of mothers. Sir Arthur Newsholme, M. D., is at the head of the delegation of distinguished European personages who are now touring the United States to study child welfare and other social and industrial conditions. They are also attending a child welfare conference conducted in Washington by the department of labor. Sir Arthur has been instrumental, in saving the lives of thousands of babies in England and is recognized Internationally as an authority on the causes of infant mortality. Recommendations Suggested. The world program as announced at the conference includes the following recommendations: Tentative standards for protection of the health of the school child. 1. Proper location, construction, hygiene and sanitation of school houses; adequate room space; no overcrowd ing. 2. Adequate playgrounds and recreational facilities, physical training and supervised recreation. 3. Open-air classes and rest periods for pre-tubercular and certain tubercular children, and children with grave
malnutrition. 4. Full-time school nurse for not more than 1,000 children to give instruction in personal hygiene ami diet, to make home visits, to advise and instruct mothers in principles of hy-
Sir Arthur Newsholme, M. D.
giene, nutrition and selection of diet
and to take children to clinics with
permission of parents.
5. Adequate space and equipment for school medical work and available
laboratory service.
6. Part-time physician with one fulltime nurse for not more than 2,000
children, or full-time physician with
two full-time nurses for 4,000 children
for:(a) Complete standardized basic physical examinations once a year. (b) Continuous health record for each child to be kept on record with other records of the pupil. (c) Special examinations to be made of children referred by 'teacher or nurse. (d) Supervision to control communicable disease.
(e) Recommendations of treatment
for all remedial defects, diseases, deformities and cases of malnutrition.
(f) Follow-up work by nurse to see
that physician's recommendations are
carried out.
7. Available clinics for dentistry,
nose, throat, eye, ear, skin ana orthoepedlo work; and for free vaclna-
tlon for smallpox and typhoid.
8. Nutrition classes for physically
subnormal children and the mainte
nance of mid-morning luncn or not
noon-day meal when necessary.
9. Examination of all atypical or
retarded children.
10. Education of school children in
health essentials.
11.- General educational work in
health and hygiene, including educa
tion of parent and teacher, to secure
full cooperation In health program. For the protection of the health of adolescent children either in or out of school the tentative standards include: Complete physical examination once a year and recommendation for treatment at children's health centers or school; clincs for treatment of defect and diseases; education compulsory to at least sixteen years of age with vocational guidance and training; clean, ample recreational opportunities to meet social needs and
When Was Asylum Established for the County's Poor?
The date of the founding of a county asylum as a refuge for those unfortunates who have found the struggle ot life too hard for them, Is lost in the mists of early Wayne history. The first county farm, however, was In Jefferson township. It was managed by a superintendent, who leased the far mfrom the commissioners, and was paid a certain amount per capita for the care of the paupers. This system worked badly, abuses creeping In, and In 1845 the farm was so miserable that the commissioners passed a formal order calling It "miserably deficient." and ordering a new location and a .new system of managing the farm. James Perry, Samuel Hanna and Samuel K. Hoshur were appointed a commission to investigate and report to the board.
No record of the commission's findings has survived, but It resulted in a decision to abandon the old farm and the old system. In 1846 the nucleus of the present farm near Centerville was purchased, and the commissioners contracted with Jason Ham to build an asylum of brick to be two stories high and forty-flve feet square. In 1847 they ordered the Jefferson township farm to be sold at auction, tut could not sell it In that way and in 1848 sold it to William Conway for
&3.500. January 6, John Crum, super-
legal protection from exploitation, intendent, was ordered to have the
vice, drug habits, etc,
For the public protection of maternity and prenatal care the program recommends establishment of maternity centers to care for all cases not receiving supervision from private physicians, employment of sufficient number of public health nurses to do home nursing and give instruction to expectant mothers; maternity hospitals or wards in general hospitals to take care of all complicated cases; all midwives to have adequate training and be licensed and supervised; training and registration of household attendants for home nursing and general education of the public on Infant mortality and their solution.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
YES, HE'S CRAZY FOR CHANCE NOT
Boston Herald. Tho Kaiser ought to welcome any chance to show the world that he Is not a coward.
LOSE INTEREST IN THIRD TERM Baltimore American. According to the observations ot former Senator Ham Lewis, his old friend, President Wilson, will find some surprising Changes on his return.
UP AGIN A MAN'S SIZE JOB Ohio State Journal.
One of the little problems which the new Republi
can Congress faces is how to do away with all the un popular taxes and Etill get enough money.
ALWAYS WILLING TO ACCOMMODATE Philadelphia Press.
The Huns are acting just as if they wanted Foch to give them another licking, and Foch is acting just as if he wouldn't mind doing it.
THE GEORGE MATTH EW ADAMS DAILY TALK ONE THING THAT NO ONE WANTS TO BORROW I meet with so many people desirous of borrowing from me something which I own that it started me to thinking. And I said to myself "Well there's one thing that no one wants to borrow, and that is my troubles!" I do not believe that 1 have a great wealth of troubles just my share. But no one Beems to want to borrow them. And I am not anxious about loaning them, anyway. For the reasons that I consider everybody has about all the troubles necessary to the completion of their Immortal happiness. 1 , Now trouble can be exaaggerated, Just like anything else. There is nothing in the world that grows so quickly as trouble. In the morning It may look like a little baby but at night time it may have grown to the dimensions of a full-grown giant. But the delightful thing about trouble Is that you can do anything that you want with it. You can dismiss it you can throw it out of the window you can bury It you can forget it you can pay no attention to it. And while It may continue to "loaf around," still, it may be none of you: Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to have a trouble-cleaning day. I would have every trouble Imaginable, brought right out into the sun on that day and I would have the sun's blistering rays burn up every trouble. So that at night time, the world might go to sleep quickly, without having to toss about for an hour or two in its bed. Let's get together for a trouble-cleaning day! What do you say!
Dinner Stories
"Here's a fine cod!" said the fish
monger admiringly, as he held up a
large and flabby fish for his customer's inspection.
"Hum!" replied the lady, doubt
fully. "How much is it?" "Shilling a pound, ma'am," the fish
monger said, in the tones of one who
is making a sacrifice.
The lady examined the fish more
closely.
"Its not very fresh" she murmur
ed doubtfully.
"Oh, yes, ma'am!" protested the seller. "It's a beautiful fish!" "But it is quite flabby and soft." "That's right," said the fishmonger, angrilly, as he saw he had failed to make a sale; "go on insulting it! It's dead, and can't answer back!"
paupers removed from the poor farm to the new asylum. In the meantime
the plans had been changed and an-
oiner wing was duiii on tne original
building.
The new system, which put the su
perintendent on a salary while the products of the farm were to be used
to support the Inmates, was put Into effect and worked successfully. The
buildings have been enlarged and im
proved and the size of the farm was doubled about 1880 by the purchase of 160 acres.
ACCEPTS MANAGERSHIP
Everett Harlan, for some time district agent for the John Hancock Ma-
j tual Life Insurance company, has accepted the district managership of ; the Mutual Life Insurance company i of New York. Local offices have been established at 204-205 Colonial build
ing, this city.
Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON
Here comes another of those famous benefactors to mankind. Some leather souled plant wizard has invented an edible parsnip. , Wonders will never cease.
WATSON, WHADDYA MAKE OF THIS? Indianapolis News. Is there anything significant in the fact the Austrian peace delegates at the Versailles conference are to be housed In a museum?
REAPING WHAT THEY SOWED New York World. Herr Ebert and other Germans violently "peace of violence." Well it was a war of wasn't it?
assail a violence.
The District of Columbia courts are hearing a beer case now, which leads Uncle Terwlliger to remark that the thing to do with a case like that is to drink it, not hear it.
A good many men use their religion as a life preserver. They never use it unless they have to.
THINGS THAT GET YOU NOWHERE Eating a dill pickle before going to bed.
Spending your money for political banquets. Wearing $50 suits of underwear. Reading the London "Times."
we got the phonograph, and now I'm going to see him." K. C. Star.
ANOTHER CONTRIBUTOR DOES HIS DUTY Dear Roy Just to inform you that Troy M. Odor, of Waco, Texas, is an onion vender, I felt It my duty to repeat this fact. Josse Mittlemann. At last, the unspeakable Turk Is speechless.
Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today
FINDS SHERMAN WAS RIGHT Indianapolis Star. Now Heiuie knows war is hell.
After a Kansas City woman had informed about forty friends last Sunday that she was going "to see" Caruso Monday night, her husband exclaimed: "Why do you say you're going to 'see him? Caruso isn't a movie show." "He is as far as I am concerned," she replied. "I've heard him ever since
Death Losses Among the Colleges
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From the Indianapolis Star.
i RESIDENT Charles F. Thwing of Western Reserve
University has gathered from the colleges and uni
versities of the country the numbers of men who
lost their lives in the great war. The figures collected from the institutions themselves show that almost 5,000 have fallen. Of this number almost one-third have died
in action or of wounds, one-third of disease and one-third f-
of all other causes. This number belongs to the 150,000 who enrolled from colleges and universities and includes teachers, graduates, former and present students, but it does not include members of the Students' Army Training Corps. The percentage therefore was about 4, about the same as the percentage of men who fell as members of the expeditionary force in France. ' As might be expected, the larger and older institutions sent the greatest numbers. Harvard sent 10,000 and lost 300; Yale lost 136, Cornell 158, Columbia 128, Princeton 120. The percentage of American college men who gave up their lives in the civil war is much larger than that in the last war. The per cent then ranged from 10 to 40 with especially heavy losses in the Southern colleges. - The losses of the allies were much greater than our cwn; for-example Toronto University contributed about 6,400 men and lost 604 or more than 10 per cent, Oxford In the midyear of the war sent 11,176 men and lost almost 1,500 or almost 13 per cent, Cambridge sent
In France the number
J3.128 and. lost almost", 1,300.
reaches the total of 6,000 with names of 635 from the University of Paris alone. We are especially interested in the honor roll of the colleges of Indiana. Died of Dis- Other College. Wounds, ease. Causes. T'l. Indiana University . .10 23 2 35
Wabash 6 5 0 11
Franklin t 1 3 1 5 DePauw. 3 5 1 0 Hanover 1 4 0 5 Butler 3 5 0 8 Purdue 15 23 7 45 Union Christian 0 3 0 3 . Rose Polytechnic 1 5 0 6 Taylor 0 1 2 3 A total of 130 The larger number of these men, more than 5,000, who have already died were young men, most of them under 23 years of age. As President Thwing concludes, "Life lay before them, and life means much to a college boy. It means opportunity, work, service, duty, truth, liberty, friendship, family, happiness and love. It means all." And the loss to the country of some of the best of America's future men of influence is likewise incalculable. It is when we think of the havoc of war in this way that we begin to have a faint conception of the real destruction of modern warfare.
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Coal contracts were let by the board of works for the coming winter. The
highest price paid was $3.23 a ton.
Fifty-eight orphans from New York went through Richmond, enroute to New Orleans. Miss Maria Francisco, a student at Earlham College, gave a recital at the college. She was assisted by Miss Mary Ann Kaufman, vocalist.
Hilbert Toler, sustained a broken collar bone when he fell from his bicycle.
I'm on my way to happiness
see you Monday on page 3
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Kenneth Toler, son of Mr. and Mrs.
THIS WEAK, NERVOUS MOTHER Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Restored Her Health.
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sicKiy most oi ioe time. I went to a doctor and he said I had nervous indigestion, which added to my weak condition kept me worrying most of the time and he said if I could not stop that, I could not get well. I heard so much about Lydia E. Pinkham's V eeetable Com
pound my husband wanted me to try it.
1 took it lor a week ana ieit a utue oeiter. I kept it up for three months, and I feel fine and can eat anything now without distress or nervousness. "Mrs. J. Worthline, 2842 North Taylor St., Philadelphia Pa. The majority of mothers nowadays overdo, there are bo many demands upon their time and strength; the result is invariably a weakened, run-down, nervous condition with headaches, back ache, irritability and depression and soon more serious ailments develop. It is at such periods in life that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will restore a normal healthy condition, as it did to Mra. Worthline- . -
Here's good news for the ladies
No more worrying about the family meals no more complaints from father and other, members of the family. Breakfast is now an event of pleasure, anxiously looked forward to by all. The Coffee question has now ceased to be a problem ir homes where "Bona" is served.
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makes cheerfxn home
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