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i THE ASIIEVILLE CITIZEN, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1920. ' ' 4; -. - i .... i - -,- . - Iff YOU KNOW HOW IT IS - - - - By J. Norman Lynd jr'', t '' m HY THROAT ISMh &1GHT - IT ) Sia! "Wp f,4 I V HISSED -SOMETHING cSrw TO- 1 ' 7 1 1 HA?EMT SMILED IN MOUTHS j . ' !,' I 1 TAJE A GLOOMY VIEW CP ( TAKEN INTERNALLY. I iWfa'Wl 1 THINGS' ! "WHEN THERE l pPEPBR U''7'' 'Vll J COMPANY IN THE HOUSE JM j CV-AttH -MYffiLV h''3M VI ASHAMED OP MYSELF.' 1 JTx3TCH PIYSEUK Jiji t KY OONVEWATCN HAT I'LL CALL i&SS l-' ? BECOME CULL AND TONIGHT AND Lrjffl "NOW THAT TRC FAMILY PHVS1C1AN CAN PEESCKIBB A PINT EVERY TEN DAYf . VTCLL HEAt? JXSY FROM THOSE HARDY QTIZEW WHO "NEVER HAD JiO VSF. FPR.NO DOCTORS; imun, j i SWEET EXPLAINS FEATURES OF BILL Telis How Benefits Have Been Increased. Monthly Compensation Is Almost Treble That Paid In the Past. WASHINGTON. Jan. 18. How .-nonthlybeneflts pa;d undst the war risk insurarct act hiv) been Increased a.id the class of benetl-'iar'es ei larged by the recently enacted Sweet bill was explained today by its author, Itepresentative Sweet, of Iowa Converted insurance may now ba paid in a lump sum or In Installments for 36 months or more at the option of the policyholder, Mr. Sweet said, while the policies may ba niado pay able to any of the following: Parent, grandparent, step-parent, parent through adoption, husband, wife, child, grandchild, stepchild, adopted child, brother, sister, half uister, half-brother, brother through adoption, stepmother, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother-in-law, sister-in-law; any person who was in the re lation of a parent to the insured for one year before the Insured's enlist ment, the children of such person; and parent through adoption of the insured's wife or husband. "The monthly compensation paid under the new law," said Mr. Sweet, "ta more than double almost treble that paid in the past. This increase, which Is permanent, will add tSO, 000,000 a year to the amounts paid by the government to the disabled ex service men and their families. "By th4 retroactive provisions of the law, all payments of compensation will be Increased to the new basis. Payments now are being made by the war risk bureau to make up the dif ference between the old rate of com pensation and the new one. This is an immediate and direct benefit to 241,522 veterans, among whom $t4, 606,000 Is being distributed. For Instance, an unmarried soldier who his been drawing $30 a month for the last year will receive $600 afonce, the monthly compensation by the new law being Increased by $50 In his case." Mr. Sweet also explained the per manent monthly Increases provided for all disabled ex-service men. For total temporary disability, the new compensation will be paid as follows: To the unmarried veteran, $80 a month, an increase from $30. To the veteran with a wife, $90 a month, an Increase from $45. To the veteran with a wife and rhild, $95 a month, an Increase from $3A. T the veteran with a wife and two r more children, $100 a month an increase from $65. To the veteran, who has no wife, but one child.. $90 a month, with $5 for each additional child, an increase, fi'.om $40. To the veteran with dependent par 'ents, art extra allowance of $10 a month for each is also granted. Other Hatiugs. . t "Of course, all disabilities will not 1 came within the rating of total tern- porary," Mi". Sweet said, "and so the I new law provides that all disabilities I the military service. This automatic shall be rated by the war risk bureau, j insurance, amounting to the payment These other ratings are: partial and of $25 a month for twenty years, was temporary, total and permanent and under the original law granted only partial and permanent, and for each ! for the first six months of the life of the monthly compensation shall be a ! the original act. The extentlon, un lercentage of the degree of reduction j der the nw law, will cost the govern- in earnings capacity resulting from this disability. The reduction in earn ing capacity must be at least ten per eent before one can receive any com pensation. "For total permanent disability the rompensatlon is fixed at $100 a month, The law specifically provides that the "For the unfortunate ex-service men loss of both feet or both hands, or the j confined in asylums, the new law gives sight of both eyes, or the loss of one I the immediate benefits of the insilr foot and one hand, or one foot and'ance without waiting the appointment one eye, or one hand and one eye. j of guardians. Money payable to such or becoming permanently bedridden : persons will be placed In the treasury enaii oe aeemea 10 oe total perma- nent disability. Then, too. double to tal permanent disability entitles one to $200 a month as long as he lives. For instance, this double payment Is tor the few men who lost both eyes. one hand and one foot, or both eyes ad both hands or both eyes and both feet. "The Helplessly disabled are furth er cared for under the new law by -- ' . . . A the provisions directing the war risk bureau to allow an additional $20 a mouth to those veterans In need of an attendant. "No penalty is Imposed by the law on those disabled men for their In dividual success in overcoming the handicap of a permanent Injury. The law directs that disability ratings shall be based as far as practicable upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from injuries In civ il occupations and not upon the im pairment of earning capacity in each individual case. From time to time, the bureau is directed to readjust the schedule of ratings in accordance with actual experience. "Besides, the money paid by the government as compensation to the war-disabled men, the law also pro vides that all injured veterans shall be furnished with reasonable govern ment medical and hospital services, and such "supplies, including artifi cial limbs, trusses and similar ap pliances as the war risk bureau may determine. . "This,, medical anJ hospital treat ment will be given to Americans, who may be living in foreign countries as well as in the United States, and Americans who fought In the armies of the allies can receive the treat ment at hospitals In this country. In Canadian Army. "Twenty to thirty thousand Amer icans were part of the Canadian army and of Tiecesslty the Canadian gov ernment must look after these who are maimed and crippled, no matter where thty may live. Many of these have returned to the United States and can be treated in our own gov ernment hospitals by the new law authorizing the" bureau to establish reciprocal arrangements for the treat ment of the veterans. In turn, the Americans who go to Canada can be treated in the Canadian hospitals, or supplied with artificial limbs and ap pliances. In either case, one govern ment, will call upon the other to be reimbursed for services rendered and for appliances furnished." Provisions of the new law liberaliz ing the insurance provisions of the original war risk act also were ex plained by Mr. Sweet, who enumerated numerous benefits to the veterans that I result from his bill. Tho .i.ii i, ,.,.j 1 stride th. h,.finiUri.. , " ited class," said Mr. Sweet, "but the nP, b'inr.: ,w T,: Jy m.nn. th oflm '.v.. . " the terms 'father' and 'mother' to include per sons who have stood in loco parentis (place of parents) to. a member of the military service for at least o'ne year. "These are many cases where the soldleror sailor has designated an aunt or uncle or some one who has been In the position of parent to him prior to entering the war. These per sons, under the original law, were not within the pemnitted class of beneflciaries, and the lntent'on n the soldier was thus defeated, and the in surance would go to the father nir. who has never nerh,u. M vvhb? .5? provisions of the law, If the soldier had designated hig aunt who in reality has been a mother to him, she will in fact become his beneficiary" and re ceive the insurance money. These changes are made retroactive to the date of the passage of the original war risk Insurance act. Then, too, the new law permits converted insurance to be made as- slgnable; that Is a beneficiary can make assignment of his interest to another person, provided that the-lat- ter is within the permitted class of beneficiaries. Another Change. . "Another change in the insurance provisions provides that automatic in surance is provided for the first 120 days after a persons admission to ment about $6,500,000. Incidentally. the extension grants the insuranoe to all of the officers and -crew' of the naval collier Cyclops, which disap peared at sea In 1918 when bringing a cargo of war ore from South Amerl- ca. 110 tneir credits, ana may be disbursed to the chief executive officer of the asylum for the maintenance and com fort of the inmate. "Another change In the lnsuraHfee provisions is that authorizing the in surance to be paid to the ex-service man's estate where no one of the per mitted clasa of beneficiaries survives the insured. To dispose of the so-called 1a- IPAIGN BYEX-CONVIGTS Gray Brotherhood Would "Humanise" Prisons. One Object of Move Is to De feat Anarchy Behind Prison Walls. NEW YORK Lm. Sv. A nation mrlrtn ciininalifii to "humanize" the prisons of the United States has beei undertaken by the Gray Brotherhood an organization of reformed: ex-con vlcts, according to a former inmate of Sins- Hin who served 10 years behind gray stone walls. Another object of the campaign is to counteract anarchy for. he said "of the ouu.uuu convicts men and women, who annually emerge from American prisons folly 90 percent are potential Bolshevists, This man, a product of the New York slums, who not only redeemed his own life but saved two younger brothers from criminal careers, all as the result of the mutual welfare work at Sing Sing of which tho Gray Broth erhood movement is an offshoot, ue clared that American penal Institu tions are being surreptitiously flooded with radical literature, with leaflets of "hope to the oppressed" and that the secret movement to Bolshevize the nations prisons is being combdtted from the inside. He said that supported by the efforts of 18,000 members of this Gray Broth erhood, its unnamed leader known as the Gray Brother hopes to make pris on reform a plank in the platform of one of the big political parties In the 1 next presidential campaign. He is re puiea 10 oe a man 01 great innuence in Washington and to be the intimate or several senators. The former Sing Ising Inmate said that the Gray Broth 'er was back of a prospective ,inves mo icniiaij.., r ,,, tin 1 LigaLioii 01 (itsui'L, jiiiiiu.o, pi inuu, in tended to be the first of the Broth- erhood's national prison reform pro gram "If the Gray Brother should come in here now and tell me to jump out of that window , (a four story leap) "I'd do it at once," confided the form er inmate of Sing Sing. "We all would trust him w th our lives and, believe me, this prison investigation backed by him is going to be a thor ough Job. The people outside haven't any idea of how Bolshevism is spread ing in the prisons. A few days ago :Iour im. 11 was aiscoverea oy our 'eTorrcrdTrr'irnt' bars. Teachers Sympathetic. "The Reds have their literature in the pubLc libraries, some teachers in the public schools are 'sympathetic' and for some time they have been dis tributing their doctrines in . prisons, Jails and workhouses to win over to their s.de the army of discontented malefactors who have an alleged grlev- ance against society. The Gray Broth erhood Is alive to their propaganda, however, and hopes to abolish it. One of the best ways to stop it is to treat convicts like human beings Instead of beasts and give them a chance to redeem themselves. The state Is breeding anarchists by turning at large men and women who have been brutally treated and who leave prison with hearts filled with the desire for retaliation and revenge. "Under the old system a kind hearted warden is engaged In making healthy burglars and porch climbers of first offenders. The prison exper ience did a man no good and he had no conception of rlg"ht and wrong no sense of responsibility to society, when he came eut. With our method it is different As an Illustration, there are 1,600 former ex-conricts and members of- the welfare league, ' in New York city. AH of them are mak ing good. Most of them are young and of the 1,600 more .than 400 were In the army or navy during the war. ducted man' problem, provision is made that if, after induction by the local draft board, but before accepted and enrolled at camp for active ser vice, the person dies or has become disabled by injury such as by a train wreck en route to camp or by die ease not due to willful misconduct that he" shall receive compensation, as In creased by the new law. and further. if application was made for Insurance that it shall be deemed valid." They Include former burglars ( box men) ami s.niilar so-called 'shik' thieves. "Since ThnrmiB Mutt Osborne, f mm -er warden lit Bins Sinn, took charge of the nuvul prison at Portsmouth, N. H , three years ano, he liaa I n Instrumental In returning lu.uuu form er inmates, men, 'miiilc'itviT1 In char acter, to the United States navy, enough to man three battleships. The present 'crime wave' In I'hlc.iKu Is 1 11 to bad prison treatment ami the de- sire of ex-convlots to 'not even ' If; It had not been for Osborne's admin istration In New York prisons New 1 Yotk would bo Buffering from the sumo evil." : SHELBY NEWS ASKS FO RRECEIVERSHIP Step Taken to Liquidate Minor Itusl uoks KntatiKleiiients. (Spsclat to The Cltiien.) SHELBY. Jan. JS - The Shelby Xeus, a weekly newspaper, asked for a temporury receivership throuirh Judge Allen, who Is presiding over a term of court at Lincolnlon The request was grunted and W. 11. Thompson, n stockholder, wis ap pointed temporary reeeher A hear in? will be granted January 2ti, at which time It will be decided wheth er or not to continue publlcntion. It Is understood that no pressing obligations are to be met. but J. T. Babington, who has been editor since Ihe death of W. 11. Miller, has been unable to get sufficient mechan ical help and the step was taken to clear up minor business euiantrle inents. Publication has been sus pended until the receiver determines the disposition of the plant. Charles S. Webb, of (ireenvllle S. C, who recently gave JUfc.ooo to urman university, has donated an encyclopedia to the local public, li brary. Mr. Webb is a brother of the two judges here. Undertaking Not Too Great for Wealthy State of North Carolina. , f Ashevllle Cltlien Bureau. j 0i Merchants' Uanli 1 Itulldlnir. Illy .MM', H. WAKUl'.N.) 1 KAIjKKiH, J in. 1 S The proposal of the executive committee of the North Carolina (iood Itoads associa tion to ask die legislature to launch a program for a, Olio miles of hard ; surfaced roans in r?orth Carolina, I meeting a mixiure t)f sentiment Iti the capital. It is generally estimated that the project would cost ITO) million dollars, based on the present cost of construction. Stretched over a period : of Mfleen years, that would require an outlay of money amounting to ubout ten million dollars 11 year, i which is .-limit ten times the amount I that the state is now paying for good , road construction. Those more conservatlie good roads ; enthusiasts who cannot follow the Good Roads nssoclnt ion to this length. I point out that this Is entirely too long 1 a period of time fo legislate for. The . forthcoming session of the legislature which meets in .luly may lay out such a plan, but the next legislature, which will bo composed of new men. might not approve, and this would bring about endless i onfuslon. The I conservative element would make haste W'lth the road work a little more slowly than the association. On the other hand, there are peo ple here who express the belief that should .Mr. .McCIrl and his forces be The railroads are indispen sable to our whole economic life, and railway securities are at the very heart of moat investments, large nd small, publio and private, by individuals and by insti tutions. WOODROW WILSON THE war could not have been won without railroads? Transport by rail and sea is an indispensable arm of national defense. Carrying capacity, from the wheat fields and the mines and the steel mills to the front lines in France, was the measure of our power in war. And it is the measure of our power in peace.' Industrial expansion increasing national prosperity greater world trade are vitally dependent on railroad growth. The limit to the productive power of this country is the limit set by railroad capacity to haul the products of our industry. The amount of freight carried on American rails dovhled from 1897 to 1905 since that year it has doubled -again. It will double still again. To haul this rapidly growing traffic the country must have more railroads more cars and engines more tracks and terminals. Sound national legislation, broad-visioned public regula tion, will encourage the expansion of railroads, without which the nation cannot grow. note dttirlnt information (WiniiM t ririd Matioma (ur Of urUin to IX Auodatum of itativat StteittMU, U Broodwav, Aew Fork able to persuade the legislature to pass such a measure, there urn many of the present generation who would live to call the (looil Bonds as-ocia- j lion Mended. These itdheraniH of the anihitiouH plan point out that suich an j nndcrtukim; i not too reat for a mule which ha.i the abundance of! tteahh thnt l now beliiR developed 1 In North I'arolln.'i It lookH mlRhly 1 tdu, I lM'se people auree. but even as recently two veins au'o. one cotild iuii be found who would predict that, ihe I'Unklnn reHOtirees of the Kinle would in the vear la:'0 be 40111111111011 dollars. ' MODERN APARTMENT HOUSE FOR SHELBY leeland Had largest Cotton Crop I icr In lltlfl. (Special to The Citizen.) SHIOI.HY. Jan. IS The College inn, formerly a boarding school building has been sold Tor J:'".li0n by the own er, Mr leaves of 1'nlon. S C, to A P. Weathers C T. Hold and 1'. B. Me Murry who plan to convert Ihe build ing into a modern apartment house. 23.7.M bales of cotton were ginned Iti Cleveland count' prior to January 1 This is the lar l crop ever rais ed In this county. UNJllY.'im.H IA!Ci: iilVKX BY MILS. DAVIS AT CANPMm CAM U.KH, Jan. IS. A most en joyable dance was given at the home of Mrs. Annie liavls at Candler Sat day night. Those present Were: Mr. and Wis. l.ee Howell. Mr. and Mrs. Trunk Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Morgan, Misses Mary l.ee Cuthey, Kltzaheth Whiteside, Bertie UoniHii. Olayds Curtis anil Cella Messrs. Blanton I.uther, 1 1 n II . Ted I.uther. Kuben Young; TbomaH Kirkpat- rick, I.ove Gudger. Thomas l.uther. Weaver Klrkputrick. Frank Young ami (ilen l.utlur. MRS TROUBLES OVER Georgia Woman Says That Padgett's Indian Herb Juice Entirely Relieved Indigestion. "I want to tell everybody about th wonderful good Padgett's Indian Hrt Juice did for me," says Mrs.-Mary Eva lingers, who lives in Tennlle, Geor gia. "There has been times In the post year that I could not eat anything. I wai In a mighty bad run-down con dition, ull tired-out and nervous, be cause I suffered so from Indigestion, j I could not Und anything that tastad I good to me and nearly avurythlnr I I ate soured 0.1 my stomach. I could ' not sleep at nights because I was so ; restless and nervous and the least unusual noise would startle me and I , would Jump out of bed and tremble i all over " I "I thought for a long time that I ' would never get well and I tried so j many medicines and none . of them I did me any good. I was persuaded to I try a bottle of Padgett's Indian Herb Juice and before I had finished the I tlrst bottle I could Just feel the good i it was doing for me. I began to sleep nt nights and my appetite began to I return and soon I was completely ft I well person. I am truly grateful for ! what Padgett's Indian Herb Juice has done for me, it is a wonder medi cine." Your druggist sells Padgett's In dian Herb Juice under our own per sonal guarantee and will refund your money if not satisfied. Adv. I
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