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Show VETERANS SUFFER FROM COLD Measure Offered to Provide Shivering Men With Clothing Now Being Eaten by Moths. War veterans are suffering from the cold in the very shadow of warehouses ware-houses where vast quantities of surplus sur-plus army clothing lie idle. This anomolous condition will be righted if a bill favorably reported in the house by the military affairs committee Is passed. - - . The bill authorizes the secretary of war to co-operate with the surgeon general In providing all disabled veterans vet-erans under care in government hospitals hos-pitals and institutions with adequate clothing and equipment. Thousands of dollars' worth of this material is now stored away, inviting moths, while thousands of former soldiers are fhivering from exposure. House leaders have demanded a special rule for consideration of the measure. Statements were made on the lloor that if congress could rush through an appropriation of 520.000,-000 520.000,-000 for starving Russians, It ought to be able to put through a simple bill to help cold service men. |