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Show .simTcoM cur " War Veterans Line Up for Morgan Home-Loan Bill WASHINGTON rosts of the American Legion iu several parts of Die country coun-try are lining up behind a bill recently introduced in congress by Representative Repre-sentative Dick T. Morgan of Oklahoma, by which any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine may borrow $4,000 from the government to buy or build a home, repayment, to be made within a period of (30 years, with interim in-terim interest on the principal of 3 per cent per year. Congressman Morgan's bill proposes pro-poses to create a government corporation corpora-tion with .$100,000,000 capital, subscribed sub-scribed by the federal government. The corporation Is to be authorized to make a loan tip to $4,000 to any honorably hon-orably discharged soldier, seaman or marine, to be used in the purchase of a home. Loans may run for the entire time limit of 60 years, or taken np in whatever payments the soldier can make. The Interest is to he 3'2 per cent on the unpaid principal, with amortization payments on that, made annually. The loan may be made to the full appraised value of the home and Its improvements. The $100,000,000 capital to be furnished by the government under the bill will be used as a working or revolving fund. The chief funds for financing the proposition will be obtained through the issue and sale of bonds, limited by the amount of mortgages held by the corporation. To insure the sale of these bonds at a low rate of interest, the bill provides pro-vides that the government shall guarantee payment of both principal and the interest. To meet any losses the corporation may sustain, the bill provides for the accumulation of an ample reserve or guarantee fund. Soldiers will not have to break home ties, leave their friends, give up their present employment and business, and go to distant states to obtain the benefits of the act. The benefits will be equitably distributed to every state. Under the plan proposed by Secretary Lane, embodied in the Mondell bill, only farm homes will be provided. ...Contrabass Sarrusophone Stumps Army Officers A SIMPLE and a civil question can an army teach a man to play the contrabass con-trabass sarrusophone? almost lost a recruit to the military establishment establish-ment and caused some trepidation at the war department. Elmer Swann of Hagerstown, Md., who has "rendered" musical pieces with the home band, entered en-tered the army recruiting office at 509 Tenth street and said he .would enlist in the army if he could be taught to play the contrabass sarrusophone. The sergeant seemed undecided as to whether to throw him out or take him seriously. Then he asked the captain. cap-tain. The captain assumed an attitude of deep thought and, murmuring some inaudible plea, retired to his back room, where he telephoned the major 0 j-, IF TH' ARMY I ' Lt4- teU WILL TEACH ME TO PLAY at the war department. "Just hold the wire," the major answered and rushed to the colonel. "That," said the colonel, "is a matter which requires some deliberation. I will send you the desired information iu a moment." When the major had departed he frantically called up a band leader at Washington barracks and learned that the afore-mentioned instrument is something like a bassoon, and is taught in the army. Whether or not its similitude simil-itude to a bassoon made the character of the sarrusophone more comprehensible comprehen-sible to the colonel he made the following notation' to the major: "Of course the contrabass sarrusophone is taught in army bands. It resembles the bassoon and is a very important instrument." "You should have all that information at your finger's ends," the major telephoned the captain. "The instrument you speak of is like a bassoon and our bands would sound flat without it." What the captain told the sergeant is not known, but the sergeant told the prospective recruit to sign the dotted line. He also added to himself that this "baboon" business was new to him and, probably, some Dew feature of the. educational scheme. Yoila Kid Skirts for American Profiteeresses WASHINGTON modistes are exercised over reports from Paris that designers design-ers ore telling American buyers that if they don't like the new knee-length knee-length skirt style "they can lump it !" or the equivalent in parlevous t 1 horrors'. (V V W) WE COULDN'T 5tX9MVELl-THAT Francais. The latter threw up their hands and vowed they'd never, positively posi-tively not. ever, dare to take home "those tilings" for American girls. Their hostility toward the "last word" in Parisian fashions failed to awaken the old-time solicitous interest of the creators. Of course it's too bad, the latter said, but explained that they're really rushed to death making things to reveal the pretty calves of their own girls. And wftuld Monsieur Americain please not paw over the goods if he wasn't going to buy 'em? Kids are responsible for the ruction. For when It was decided to fashion this season's skirts from hides of the caprlc younger set, the designers wotted not of structural limitations imposed thereon thereby. The sons and daughters of William and Nanny Goat are such little fellows that, if you're adhering to a. one-skin-skirt principle, that skirt has got to be all-fired short. Paris Is adhering and the skirts certainly are. Well, all the profiteeresses and other rich ladies will shoe-horn themselves them-selves into kinds this fall except those who, less pecunious, choose to reveal their legs through transparent creations. In former years Parisian designers have worked to please the American girl ; she was their principal customer and what pleased her had to ploase every one else. Now it transpires that during the war the French women have become subscribers to Paris fashions to such an extent that all styles are created with a view to pleasing her first, others incidentally. Wide Range of Schools Open for War-Disabled OF T11R 5-10 schools, colleges and universities which have opened their doors for Uie re-educntion and vocational training of discharged soldiers, sailors and marines disabled in the world war. more than 100 an; in the middle West, and of these 30 are in Chicago, with seven others in Illinois, according to the federal hoard of vocational education, edu-cation, while eight commercial and in-' in-' dustrial establishments in Illinois, of which six are in Chicago, have undertaken under-taken to train disabled men. It is the policy of the board to utilize existing institutions for instruction instruc-tion rather than to set tip special schools and classes for the re-education of wounded soldiers for civil life, find also to assign the men, wherever possible, to institutions in or near their home. A total of J.. courses has been provided, the instruction ranging from hoe culture to hoilermaking, farm man agement 10 photography, and from concrete construction, sheet metal work auto mechanics, and plumbing to salesmanship, tl.coh gy, diamond carting, medicine, and dramatic art. Educational institutions in Chicago to which disabled men have beet, se-i Dumber 31. |