Show 1 r- r rr r- r rIs r Ii Is Patriotism Dead i Fn rT lIE in American Legion T Weekly maltes maes a some Bome startling j L of or the governments government's failure to lo pro i provide e y for disabled veterans of or the war The statement is f made mude h by that journal which nominally speaks speak for the t American expeditionary y forces that the thc the federal hour hoard for fOT vocational training is useless ci either through h i or OT luck lack of or int interest ret to provide a means of or livelihood liveli- liveli hood hod for disabled service ser men The charge is made that only three thirty men out r I of lerl in military service ice have received training Draining that fits them to r resume a place in civil chil life and sod earn a living and that u up to June 21 last only clev- clev cv- cv eu JL m men n had 1111 been graduated an and Jl placed t ed in gainful u occupations oc- oc by the boar board But the climax of hc the charge of incompetence or negligence is the thc statement that up uI t t September 4 the number of f f former soldiers ims im's with lint anti 1 without training who had been provided provide with 1 employment employment employment employ- employ ment was only 0 but hut that of this number 1 fl r had placed themselves After all nIl the promises ntH anti and plans made ninde during the f ar f war and immediately following n. n the armistice for g the tho rehabilitation of or the soldiers this in indictment if the fi fig fig- to tor r arcs arc correct is a terrible commentary upon both t the c r federal ral board rind 1 the American nation It is doubly humiliating g Hint the t soldier finds it neCe necessary to remind official Unit Hint the men who no the Hie nation through his Ins organ r II cashed in ill the cad ri or of their manhood on the f forgotten Tt Jt i is n 1 f Condition front soon c hac ll C been t-o t s o which should shame those who arc for it iL into to l out the immediate nn and s adequate measures carry and anal do tardy justice lothe to lo plans which have o gone pone awry the men who fought 4 that out nation might n Pm m Sis n |