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Important to Ex-Scrvicc Men
and Women,

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important to Ex-Scrvicc Men
and Women,
The Oconee Post Of the American
| Legion is in receipt OF valuable. in
formation concerning the o pro-
visions OF the Government War Risk
Insurance, and the new provisions
fer compensation, medical and surgi-
Gel ARE and supplies.
This matter is too bulky to have
printed in the local papers, but any
ole desiring such information can
o.tain it by writing to the Adjutant
Of the Oconee Post Of the American
Legion at Walhalla, S. C.
If you expect to take out insurance
1T will pay you to Investigate the new
forms Of war risk insurance. 1t has
many new and liberal features in
addition to those it had during the
war. and the premiums are very rea-
Sonable.
or special Importance in obtaining
compensation, medical care, etc., Is
the necessity Of obtaining a certif-
cate of injury within one year after
discharge. The provision is given
below:
"No compensation IS payable un-
less the disability or death Ian be
traced to an injury or disease incur
red in the service.
MANY persons, however, have re-
ceived injuries or contracted disease
in the service and the i'll effects
thereof do not appear until some
line after their discharge or resig-
nation. II the disability resulting
from injury or disease contracted
in the service does not occur before
one year after discharge, you may
be unable to obtain compensation,
for the law provides that when such
a disability or death occurs,a Is shown
ny the medical evidence, after one
year after your discharge, a certih-
rate or injury must have been OBJ
tanned from the Director Of the bu-
!eHu within the year from the date
of your discharge in order that the
government may pay you.
"If you were injured, or contract
ed disease, while in the service, even
though the injury or disease was Of
a minor character, be sure to apply
for II certificate OF injury before ono
year after the date Of your discharge
or resignation, in order to protect
yourself and your dependents Act
now.
"Do not fail to get this certificate
If o sustained injury or contracted
disease in tho service, which, even
though 1t may not bother O now,
may become aggravated hereafter.
TO get 1t. apply to the nearest dis
:rict supervisor Of the Public Health
Service or write to the Chief Medi-
cal Advisor, Bureau Of War Risk
insurance, Washington, d. c., giving
your full name and organization and
rank at time Of discharge or resig-
nation"
The address Of the Office of the
U. s. Public Health Service for
South Carolina Is: gu. S. Public
Health Service, 80 Edgewood Ave,
Atlanta, Ca" A. ID. Harkins,
AdJutant, Oconee Post, Am. Legion.
ii clip from the American Legion
Weekly the following very interest
Ing article by Frederick A. Wade,
II am sure that a careful reading
ny all, both members of the Legion
II those not associated with the
organization, will prove benencial:)
Fill Up Those Blank Files.
They say a man ceases to grow
when he becomes satisfied. The same
rule holds good for an organization,
me American Legion Is not salts
he'd. h Legion knows that this Is
no time for glances backward. II
a travelled straight and fought
hard. But its biggest battles are
ahead. A world Of deeds to be done
stretches out before it's feet. Before
these battles can be waged the ranks
must be recruited to full strength.
requirements must fill up blank files.
The Legion feels that it has need
and immediate use for a million new
members to bring It's total enroll
ment around the two and a half mil
lion mark. 1t needs them at once. It
was only fifteen months ago, on Feb
ruary Is, 1919. that twenty members
or the a. e. r. got together in Paris
and crystallized the idea Of a veter-
n organization. Only six months
6 the first national convention was
held and the organization got a name
and a constitution. There is every
reason to be proud Of these attain
ments-proud, but not satisfied. The
Legion will not be satisfied until
every eligible ex-service man and
woman Is enrolled under its banner
For God and Country"
So the Legion will hold a nation
wide campaign for new members
from May II to May 20, inclusive.
The goal Is to be one million new
paid-up members, and the bringing
back into the fold Of any who were
once members. but have fallen away.
When that drive Is finished and
numbered among Legion successes
then the Legion will be more than
ready to grapple with the big prob
lens of the immediate future. II
then will have enrolled more than a
majority Of all the men and women
who served the United States in any
active capacity during the great war