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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1920
Page
2
The federal board for vocational education plans to protect the health of disabled veterans in training. Medical follow up will assess suitability of training to disability, with reports from doctors nurses and counselors. Men may receive free medical care while in training but must apply through a board representative.
The many friends of Trustee J. Ross Burns, a genial trustee, will be glad to learn his condition was reported somewhat improved today. He is confined to his room with a severe case of fever.
Market reports from Louisville note hog prices easing, with top hogs at about 11, porkers at 11.75 and throwouts 11.50. Cattle show strength amid active demand, eggs drop to seven cents per dozen, grain and flour prices listed, and assorted produce and clover prices described.
A Red Cross survey reports one hundred thousand Vienna schoolchildren are underfed and ill due to shortages of food fuel and hospital care. Juvenile crime is rising as hunger spurs acts of violence and the city’s juvenile court coping with increasing cases. Milk relief has begun with nine cars allocated for hungry children.
London reports United Press notes Professor Taonard Hill claims a low neck blouse is health giving. He conducted medical research asserting the open neckline lets heat and moisture escape, framing the garment as beneficial rather than harmful to health. Women observers question and joke about the findings.
In the seventh district convention at Nashville on April 13, forty six delegates will be named. Republicans use 200 votes for representation, placing Lawrence County with nine votes as the largest delegation, Wayne eight, and Maury four. District results show Hughes with 1,837 votes in Lawrence and Williamson at 414, while Maury totals 720 and Wayne 641. State convention totals allocate eleven votes to the first district, ninety five to the second, and eighty one to the third, which voting solidly could control the convention.
Washington March 4 A large relief map of Belleau Wood being prepared by Marine Corps topographical experts will measure twenty two feet square and depict terrain over sixteen square miles. The mapping party returned from France with data for the project.
Washington advises every household to start a thrift home garden to reduce food bills and boost self sufficiency. With commercial growers facing labor shortages, homes can produce vegetables, can surplus for storage, and follow a four step plan: locate land, plan, seed, start early. A Department of Agriculture booklet can guide planning and seed needs.
Paris reports rapid setup to aid American war grave visitors arriving this year. The American Red Cross runs a central information bureau guiding itineraries to cemeteries in the devastated region. France will add a central office providing hotel rooms and rail tickets with branch offices at railway stations and English speaking staff. A British syndicate plans an all British hotel of 2000 rooms, largest in France.
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