Show IE W AY Al HELP DI DOER Veterans Veteran's Pay r- r large large I Is s T Ten en enat hat at of Yank Time of Need Needs s Jungmeyer i f Correspondent rB B. B C. C March I 1 Ith In Canada for tor The Thet hing our northern t neighbors blaze the reconstruction trail for tor a n w a a. better and nd bigger national ICs For Ioor the light It d m throw on our own readjustment Beds eeds I observed anada settling such postwar ems ms as these Demobilization Soldier r land set set- Unemployment The The veteran In politics Profiteering Womans Woman's n new e w station rs that bound ngo to effect across the h bor- bor that hat hather her biggest job turned hero back to an army ot of Jp p and on the farm tarm workmen I business men soldiers and their wives i impressed me that the aver average ge Canadian Canadian Can Can- adian adian comprehends better than the average American how much all the theother theother other problems depend upon this And the dominion demobilization pOlicy hews straight to that line n It puts enough money in the discharged discharged dis- dis charged mans man's Jeans so that he need become neither a beggar nor a Bolshevist Bolshevist Bol- Bol during the process ot of tion I lIe gets post discharge pay ranging I from three to six months months' army wage amounting In many cases to over for tor the married man and somewhat less for tor the single In a lump sum He gets on top ot of this a war service I gratuity from to for tor the married private and from to for the unmarried according to length ot of service on a belligerent front This I Is paid In six monthly Instalments The Incapacitated man receives eight months months' vocational training under un- un un-I un der the invalided soldiers soldiers' commission wIth pay ot of from 40 to 76 75 per month Disability compensation runs up to for the private and widows widow's pensions pen pen- are 40 per month with an additional additional ad- ad 8 for tor every child under 16 Employment bureaus are maintained for tor discharged men To prevent profiteering upon Its maimed soldiery Canada placed the handling ot of artificial limbs eyes spectacles and like appliances with the invalided soldiers soldier commission The e p permanently n nt disabled d and those hose suffering from recurrent wound trouble trouble trou- trou ble are cared for in sanitaria the latter latter lat lat- ter receiving temporary pay based on rank and period of service the thc former pensioned These are some of the more important import import- ant provisions made to tide Canadas Canada's fighting man over the period between khaki and mufti And here linking up with the demobilization demobilization de- de mobilization are some of the opportunities the dominion holds out to the valiant men who have made them possible Ownership of good farm tarm lands on on easy terms Better homes at less cost than rent Government Instruction for tor a better job A program which contemplates the absorption ot of Canadian soldiers arriving arriving ar- ar riving at the rate ot of a month into their old life in such manner that healthy democratic national evolution shall be assured I dont don't mean to Imply that Canada has blazed the trail to Utopia Canadians Canadians Can Can- are frank to bluntness Theres There's Theresa a lot of growling over the situation and the wa way Its It's being tackled But Its It's the growl ot of the bulldog with a bite behind it and an eagerness to take hold and keep hold until the problem problem lem Is settled and settled right Second Article Saturday |