The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 51, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 April 1932 — Page 7

VETERAN BUREAU GROWING RAPIDLY

Billion a Year Concern, With Coktr-Motfhting. Washington.—Renewed agitation for die passage of legislation permitting World war veterans to borrow’ 1 the remaining 50 per cent of the value of their bonus insurance certificates served to focus attention on the tremendous growth in recent years Os the funds expended by the war veterans' administration. Testimony delivered before the house appropriations committee by Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of veterans’ affairs, disclosed that the veterans’ administration is now a billion dollars a year concern with expenditures still growing. His figures revealed that in 1933 the veterans’ administrator expected to expend in excess of a billion dollars on adtninis-' tration of veterans' matters, payments to beneficiaries, on adjusted compensation certificates, hospitalization and other activities. “ During the past twelve years the independent establishment; handling veterans’ matters has expanded by leaps and bounds until today it is estimated It will take 40.000 civilian employees to care for the interests of the hunt dreds of thousands of veterans now reci-nlng aid from the government in one form or another. During the next fiscal i year this department will utilize facilities nt more than p<>o hospitals and furnish beds for in excess of 63.000 patients, i " Build New Hospitals. With (lie approximately billion dollar appropriation, which it how IWM assure,! of .receiving., new hospitals will be built, new tads provided, approximately a million veterans given ent of some kind, or funds for some particular reason, loans made to other veterans on bonua certificates, Compensation paid to disabled veterans an<l salaries paid to the army of employees. U'/' ~ Jn event legislation is passed permitting the veterans to cash the full value of their compensation certificates another two billion d»ll;irsom id be added t<> the sum which the veterans’ administratlon would handle ip the next' .few years. • The big Items In the veterans’ administration bill as requested for 1933 by General Hines follow; Administration, medical, hospital arid domiciliary services. $118,000,000. Army and navy pensions. $225,000.0O" Adjusted service certificate fund, $150,000,000. Military and naval service. sllO.000.000. In his‘‘budget message President Hoover asked $1 «00.3(»9.000 for veterans' administration affairs, approxi-

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Scotch Girl* Form Club to Aid Harassed Wives Glasgow. Scotland.—Scottian people having .domestic crises can now be polled out of their troubles by a •Orel organisation of girls, who have established headquarters nere. These Scottish girls, who call them•elves “The Good Companions,” are • group of graduates of the College st Domestic Science Each I* a spe

mately one-fourth of. the entire federal budget Os this sum $150,000,000 was for use In making loans to veterans on their bonus certificates. The hou«e appropriations committee cut this figure to $949,237,795. Virtually no cut was made at all Inasmuch as the $50,000,000 reduction was effected by cutting sh>Wn the figure for bonus payments with the definite understanding General Hines can go to congress to get this sum. If it is needed, in a deficiency bill next December. As of December 31. 1031. 42,225 vetShoe Repair Champ. The shee - repair shop of Anthony Rizzo in Painesville, Ohio,' was filled with (lowers the other* day after the reception of a telegram from New York announcing that Anthony, or T"Hy. as his friends know him, had been chosen national champion shoe repairman at the fifth annual shoe repairers’ and dealers’ exposition. Each contestant submitted three pairs of. shoes, one shoe of each pair tn the original state oL wear and the other repaired In the contestant's best man ner. Tony comes from a cobblers’ family. grandfather had n lit’le shop In Palmero, Italy, many years ago. Tony's father learned the trade and e ;i me to America and settled in Mount Mo.rris N. ¥.. where Tony began his appXentieeship nt six.

clalist in her own particular branch of house management, and some of them possess the diploma of the school of art and are qualified decorators and designers. Their motto Is. “If you have a do> mestic crisis we can pull you through.” ‘ For a reasonable fee the girts are willing to come to the aid of any harassed wife or mother. They will look after the children, cook the meals, advise on the decoration of

erang whose hospitalization was authorized by the veterans’ administration were receiving treatment. Three hundred and twenty-two hospitals were utilized: 64 by the administration itself, 216 belonging to state and civil institutions, 17 to the public health service, 16 to the United States navy, 7 to the United States army, and 2 to the Department of the Interior. On December 21. 1931. the veterans’ administration was afforded domiciliary care for 17.210 additional veterans. During the 1931 year the department treated 850.469 out patients and gave 2,148,432 physical “examinations. As of December 31. 1931. 318.114 veterans were receiving compensation for disability Incurred in. resulting from, or aggravated by military service during the World war. Compensation was nlso being paid to the dependents of 97.543 yeterans whose death occurred in, or resulted from service in the World war. The amount of compensation payments, depending upon the degree of disability, ranges from $8 per month for a temporary partial condition to S2OO per month for what is known as a double permanent and total disability. General Hines said the number of active awards for disability compensation has increased by 135,024 since June 20, 1923. A big increase in the number of those receiving benefits for disability resulting from other than military and naval service was recorded last year. Fox Hide* in Chimney Llarithony, England.—Br’er Fox, hard pressed by the hounds, swam the Severn, and then bolted into a private house, here and ran up tlie chimney.

I I 1 l l l l l-l 11111 11-Il I I'LM-l-l-i-CATS AND CANARIES J :: \ — | T By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK + ■ • Emeritus Dean of Men, 2. University of Illinois.

' It takes a good deal to give a young person a thrill today. ' They are so o . fed up daily upon

amusement that it is only the unusual and the extreme t,h In g which can give /them a sensation of delight or Interest. Once a rag doll or a branch of a tree cut into the semblance of a horse would throw a child Into- an ecstacy of Imagination and delight.’ Not so today. If

requires a <l<>l! that can walk and speak French. or an electric train that lays down its own track ns it rushes about the nursery to get even an ordinary rise out of a young child. The high school boy might once have been in the seventh heaven if he could own a bicycle, but he vriwns today unless he can have a snappy nigh-powered .■rotor ear which will spee<l along at • • miles an hour. It puzzles parents now to devise some new amusements for their children or to find something new and startling tn give them. Ear be it. me to long ,for the “good old Mays.” There were many things, it) our youth which were crudeand inadequate, but our amusements were simple and rare enough to he appreciated when they ‘‘“came. There were the Fourth of July celebration In the summer, and the annual visjt of the circus in the fall, and these two events were looked forward to with 'the keenest interest..and prepared for as well. The old buggy Was washed up. and the harness greased, and the horses groomed to a high polish. We saved what little money we rout'd get our hands nfl. made a dale with the prettiest girl available and set out to have a glorious time Tire antlclpn I ion and the two events in retrospect served us for six months at least. In winter there were occasional parties, or dances at a neighbor's house. I noticed tn the account of a recent social affair held in a nearby city that the favors presented to each guest nt the dinner which followed the dance were Persian cats and canaries. dur young people must be thrilled and aroused at any coat! 1»II, Wewern Newrpapvr Union.)

bouse, or garden, organize a party, drive a car, or do almost anything about the house except pay the bills. New Movie ’'Camera Fart - Rochester, N. Y.Va motion picture camera, capable oi making 20.0U0 photographs a secbndL was placed on view here. The machine. invented' by a Japanese, can bexo speeded as to picture revolver flight

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL.

America’s Youngest Grandmother n ■hi ■ MBf^l w 1 I Through a contest conducted by a food store exposition held in Washing, ton. the youngest grandmother in the United States has been found. She is-Sirs. Louise Skelton of Potomac. Va„ thirty-four years old: and she is shown in this photograph with her daughter, Mrs. Colene Acheson,' seventeen, and her grandson, who is one year old.

WILDCAT BOUNTY ENRICHES TRAPPERS

Steel Traps Click Dollar Tunes Throughout Maine. Augusta. Maine.—-Steel traps have clicked a cash register song throughout the state of Maine during the past ,vat ieducing the number of wildcats by nearly 1,000 and enriching the trappers to the extent of nearly $15,000. The forest felines, wildest of the wild creatures sought by sportsmen, as elusive as shadows when stalked by the man with a gun. have suffered heayy casualties In'traps because of a v-qpkness which they share with huStreet Ensemble I ... 1 A smart street ensemble for spring is selected Ann Harding, KKOItadia star, in this black and white Hattie Carnegie model. The coat, of corded lightweight wool, sponsors the smart button trimming. The gown, of corded silk crepe, employs the fashionable scurf tied at the throat.

Mammoth Telescope May Find New Stellar Plan San Francisco.—Belief that a new stellar system, millions of light-years away from the earth, may be discovered with the new 200-ipch telescope to be erected at Mount Wilson, was pdvanced here recently by Dr. Willem de Sitter, astronomer at the University of Holland. •‘Recent findings." he said, “lead us to a conception of the universe free from the finite limits hitherto imposed upon it by astronomers. The universe Is greater than we ever it may be Infinite. “I doubt If anything resembling human life will be found op/any other planet, but I think It probable that man, in the future, may be able to travel from the earth to other planets " The proposed Mount Wilson telescope. twice as powerful as the largest telescope in use at present, will be eventually superseded by Instruments twice as large again. Doctor de Sitter predicted. Her Milk Bottle Drive <- Just a Strategic Error Chicago.—Anne Berdnlck. twentyone, saw two men outside her window fighting with a third. "It’s fa the.," she gasped and picking up a milk bottle ran to his aid. She beat off the two assailants with the bottle and the third man muttered his thanks and ran away. Back home she found she had been an unwitting Good Samaritan. Her father was sleeping peacefully in bed.

mans—the desire for something for notiiing. ■ ■. • When roaming the woods in search of his natural focal, live game, the wildcat enjoys comparative safety, for his habitat breeds no animals capable of engaging him in combat and he is gifted with uncanny ability to sense the presence of and evade his most deediy enemy—man. But the tawny untamable, like his two-legged foe, usually finds the lure of “something for nothing” most difficult to resist. Thus the success of trappers on capturing the game’that seems to meow in derision at rifles and shotguns. Thus the cash register song, echoing alone the traplines, a 'dirge for the cats, but a joyful chorus for those to whom it means “shoes for the baby.” Each time the jaws of a cat trap snap together the state parts with S2O in bounty money. The cat. snarling in rage and pain, has his fury aggravated by the discovery, that the bait —food which he had attempted to seize without earning it through the usual stalk and kill, “something for nothing”—is just beyond the reach of his paws. Earl’s Gold Sword Sold to London Bullion Firm London.—A field marshal's z?wprd, sheathed in solid gold and with a goldhilt, has been sold to the London Bullion company by persons taking advantage of the present monetary situation to profit by gold disposal. ' It was understood that the sword was the one presented to the late Earl of Ypres, then Sir John French, after the Boer war. The blade was preserited by the citizens of Kimberley in 1901 in gratitude for the action of the earl, who led a series of cavalry charges to lift the siege of the • city. • . The new owners said they had no Intention of melting rhe sword, but probably would offer it to the citizens of Kiuiberlev. i -

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with a long, heavy pole, and wore him down. Veracity “Does that man, always tell truth?” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “If it's about somebody else.”