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Show I LEAVES LEGS IN FRANCE; DANCES FOXTROT HERE Uncle Sam Gives Soldier Boy New Lease on Life. Lilliard Evans is a colored soldier boy who had both legs blown off in action. ac-tion. He lives for the present at Let-terman Let-terman General Hospital at -the Presidio Pre-sidio In San Francisco. He can and does dance fox trots and one-steps. How? Why? Of course to dance a fox trot or a one-step one-step a fellow has to have legs good legs. Well, Evans has them not his own legs of flesh and bone, but his own willow legs with joints and everything. He is going to leave Letterman pretty soon and go back to work and make his living and probably get married and raise children. That's the how. The why of it is the government of the United States has gone in for leg and arm maning. It is giving a specially spe-cially built leg or arm or hand or a pair of legs or arms or hands to every soldier who lost his legs or arms in the war. At Letterman in particular they are making legs and arms and hands In their own workshop. They are making mak-ing them because they have hit upon a better artificial limb than the private manufacturers are turning out, not excepting ex-cepting the "Liberty Leg" which the government supplies in most cases. This is one phase of the reconstruction reconstruc-tion work that Uncle Sam Is quietly carrying on. It is one of the least expensive, ex-pensive, but it Is costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Remember that when Uncle Sam come aknocking at your door with the Victory Liberty Loan. Much of the money you will lend Is going to regenerate these men who gave of their fleeh and blood for their country. |