Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-06-10
LOCAL ELKs WILL
HELP RELIEF WORK
National Organizations Forms
Commission For After War
Activities
SUPPLEMENTS BUREAU

be losal lodge of ELS has easefei
s5itll SPIRIT into ire mi 9rtaaf phase 81
Ar Nngs Min slie rtionai or-
ga iza len has nna taken garoits ]
re rational Eiks iseIisf tlls'
ion 70 further The work local
committee lisss been app9inte con s!ss-
;ng John Is Iey RMS u
itiagelg Z Melvin Philip Miller ami
Jafaes 4 walton
John Is Tenor terner Cover Ise { 81
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@ti rtfer af the Els Cd rtnan ne
tile comm ed. and quarter ef 4
million dollar h been appr1,r 81
sa cafry sis hf r.s
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ne slerai goYerInssent, asiess me
var risk iilsaraiis ana i1ai
tfAi na. ii .isiltg
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iesl has besen made 81 Tho 4 .N rnnte'st.
though ii, case has not been Need
llp0n Tlore arc other cases which
sare deserving. bit for witch na otii
.eial provision has hseii mad d. and Inc
Elks through II ennl,ri ion. are do
silts something III his way 100
ss IA case typical Of this class is that
.af Sergeant Major Loo Charles Nc
Alahon
when ne World war broke out Leo
Charlie NsMalton Nas ltusls, M,
andlns. hi hloaae Anlefi can III 2.s,
elis Mlla had Used fer ses years.
In states bordering so elanatla anu issi
lofmed lnait:. friend ships With many
young Canadian about his own 4 ge.
With some 81 nom III hid been assoc
sistei 81 hospital IS irlS III e level md,
OHIO
III July 1915. after nletiitaEing for
nlfntlts ever the sinking IL the
i.nf tauia during Whtcll time he
IN ca, afi touch Mifh his anatiian
ft..ls he N.ent across The border AMI
nalistesl for tlie VAR Mitll the Can ttliaii
Iare, His phssstlise ana ilrnlallty
aNerc such That He N.as readils d eeepsed
KS y = ~ y - 1901
u thp famous Princes Pits.
After 81 months spent it lii var
lots fighting front ana HI numerous
haspi Is M Franae. England and New
York, LEO Charles saeaIahon CROPPED
his way into the oiiiee of the National
lslits War Relief Commit sion Iii New
York ono day last week To make iii
auiry about vocational training lis
eyes we're badly affected from being
gaRsed he said, and after six months
total blindness hts sight had been Tlar
TALLY recovered. Mllerrnpon tho Ten
porary pension Sc SO 4 month he had
been receiving from the British GOV
erlnent had been discontinued
Having fought With the armies 81
The Allies. instead 81 with the United
states forces, he vas entitled TO Meth
er pension nor vocational training
from tha government hi this country
gntler the law passed i,y congress
When Mcmahon entered the office
&c tie Fslks War Relief Commission he
wore the uniform III Canadian sen
geant-Inaior. he used d stout cane for
support as VOL as FOR feeling his WY
and II VAS at once apparent that he
could scarcely distinguish the person
ll was talking With across the room.
Iut ne had smile mi his face
Governor john IS Tenor chairman
nf The EllSs War Relief Commission
Sal down BY the side Of Sergeant Ac-
aiahon and asked him 10 ten his story
II was very brief. He had been blinds
ed by gas, he said. and had later part
Iy recovered his sight hut would moi
he able IA continue the medical work.
ne Was engaged II when be enlisted
He had an honorable discharge and