The Washington herald., 1920-03-21
American Legion

Bureau only when sought by the
individual. according to a state
! ment issued by Director r. @. Chol-
meley-Jones. Of the War Risk In
surance Bureau.
In his statement. Director Jones
included q statement to members
or the American Legion by Presi-
dent Fred A. Rowland, OF the Ma
! tional Life Insurance Company of
Vermont. who said:
Can you Imagine what would
happen IL all the employees in the
500 life insurance companies OF
America were drawn into one de-
partment, and were required to ad-
minister the tremendous work tie
War Risk Bureau has had TO do
in Washington? In view of the fact
that IL wrote over $4,000. .000, 900
worth OF insurance within a lew
months, necessarily there were siis-
takes-the contrary would have
been impossible. No executive OF
any life insurance company hesi-
tates to recommend, in the most
emphatic terms, that the govern
ment insurancs Is a good thing.
You cannot expect the regular
| old-line life insurance companies to
furnish insurance at the same rate
| as the government does. The gov
ernment premium does not carry ad-
ministration expense. That is borne
/ by the tax payer. There Is no tax.
there is no labor expense. All of
| this is borne by the tax payer. So
in the last analysis there is every
reason, and every life insurance
agent will tell you there Is every
reason, why you should hold on to
your government Insurance.. 1t is
the cheapest, has the most sub
| stantial backing-the Treasury of
the United States itself-and will
: be made most attI lctive.'
Members of Stuart Walcott Post,
J No. 10, will meet in the board room
Of the District Building Tuesday
night to listen to addresses by Col.
Z. Lester Jones, commander OF the
| District department of the Ameri-
can Legion, and Count Alexander N.
Lockwitzky.
| Alfred A. Strauss, post adjutant,
in announcing the lecture, says of
the count:
Born a count, reared in the lap of
luxury, inheritor of the privilege of
forcing others to labor that he
might live without labor; taught to
look down upon and despise that
! proletariat. he one day came to real
ize the injustice and inhumanity of
II all. He opened a free school for
the education of the children of the
peasants. For this the Czar of all
the Russias condemned him to eXii :
for a term of years at hard labor on
the bleak island Of Saghalien.
Torn from his wife and children,
whom he never again set eyes upon
(she and his aged father dying Of
| grief, his estates confiscated, he
was put in irons and with a band of
murderers and robbers sent to a life
of degradation and misery.
Next Tuesday evening he will
! tell the story of his miraculous es-
cape to this country. Among his
frst acts here was to apply for nat
nralization, with the result that in
due time he renounced all allegiance
to any prince and potentate and be-
came citizen under the flag of the
Stars and Stripes"
George Washington Post, No. !, is
making a big effort to increase its
4
Z being sent out to all members of
the post to help in the campaign.
The campaign committee is as fol-
lows: William F. Mahoney. chair
man; A. NJ. Walker. l.. S. Mohler, A.
G. Keen and A. II. Scot. The per-
manent office of this post is in 73O
Southern Building where Miss West
will handle the business of the post.
| Marine Corps night will be ceIe-
brated by George Washington Post,
No. l, at a big reception and enter
tainment to be given March 80 in
the drill hall at the Marine Bar
racks, Eighth and G streets south
east. Senior Vice Commander How
ard NJ. Peter is in charge.
! Members of George Washington
Post, No. l, held their regular semi
monthly meeting Tuesday night at
/ the Carroll Institute Hall. Com
rade Lawler presented five resolu-
tions, principal among them being
one that the George Washington
Post go on record that the next
chief of police of the d. c. Police
Department be a man who has serv-
ed in the military force of the U. s.
government.
Comrade Walker offered the reso-
luton that the Eagle Hut, at Ninth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. be
allowed to remain until tho last of
the summer of 1920. All resolutions
were adopted. Comrade J. Dono-
ghue was appointed chairman OF
the publicity committee. vice Com
rade Stephen F. Tillman, resigned,
who will shortly leave to enga ge in
publicity work in the Western
States.
The next meeting of the post will
be Marine Night" Comrade Peters
will be in charge, and the meeting
place will he at the Marine Bar
racks, Els and G streets south
east. c ades Donnelly and
Rookie gave several exhibits of box
ing before the members of the post.
Opposition to the stand of the
American Legion executive commit
tee for a bonus for all ex-service
men Is voiced in resolution
adopted by Leon Goodaie Post, No.
Sc, American Legion, of Glaston-
bury, Conn. In a letter to The
Washington Herald, signed by a
committee of the post composed of
Frederick H. Weed, chairman,
Samuel Hans and Harry Williams.
and asking for publication of the
resolution, 1t was said that I'VE
hope there are a sufficient number
Of right spirited service men among
the members to create a sentiment
against a grasping spirit contrary
to- the high ideals on which the le-
IL eric nurna AoA G..l.