New-York tribune., 1920-04-12
New York Legion May
Hold Post Referendum
on the Bonus Question:
Majority Favor a Test
Bronx Posts Plan Cam
paign to Raise Funds to
Erect Permanent Head
quarters in the Borough

Numerous inquiries have been re-
ceived as to the exact status of the
state income tax law in It's effect on
former soldiers. sailors and marines.
Briefly, it is this:
Governor Smith has signed the
amendment enacted last month by the
state Legislature, which exempts all
monies earned by former service men
from the government during the year
1919. The law heretofore provided that
such sums be deducted from the amount
Of exemption allowed the veteran.
Returns must be made by April Is
at the latest.
penalty OF per cent annual in
terest will be imposed. dating from
March Is, the day originally set as final
for the returns.
While this amendment will mean a
loss of hundreds of thousands. perhaps,
to the state. the entire Legislature al
most was agreed that the original law
vas manifest|y unfair to veterans.
Senator Davenport told the State
Legionnaires at convention in AL
bany in February that the tax on vet
Grams pay was "joker" that mad
slipped through, and he led the fight to
have it repealed
Committee Is Aroused
The tendency on the part of some
Legionnaires, many Of them hgh in the
administrative affairs of the organiza-
ton, to combine personal attack with
their criticism of the Legion's stand on
the bonus, as expressed by the national
executive committee, has aroused the
state executive committee
At q meeting of that body, held Sat
urday night at Albany, resolution was
passed deprecating and condemning the
personal attacks made by individual
m embers of the Legion on state and
national commanders for upholding the
action of the national executive com
mittee in favor OF adjusted compensa-
sion as "being unfair, misleading and
detrimental to the best interests Of the
Legion"
There has been some talk in local
erendum on the bonus question. The
proponents of the four-ply recon-
mendation of the national executive
committee are inclined to favor such a
move, despite the fact the agitation is
on the other side. Those who indorse
the bonus are certain a great maj jority
of Legionnaires are for it and are con-
tent to have the tcst made.
Give Thesr Men Jobs
If there is any profession or trade
for positions at the employment bu-
reau for ex-service men, 1877 Worth
Street, it would be difficult to name it,.
A list issued by that bureau carries the
names of 143 veterans of different
training. They need jobs badly
To Get Dental Treatment
All patients, before being eligible for
dental treatment must have C num-
Der. number stands for claim num-
Der, and is obtained from the compen-
sation and claims division, Bureau of
War Risk Insurance, Washington, d. c.
After patient has been found to
be eligible for treatment. he is notified
TO report to a certain dentist in his
vicinity to whom he will show his
letter of notification as authority for
treatment.
No dental treatment is rendered to
patients Of the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance where conditions found were
not acquired during or aggravated by
military service
Canada Won't Give Cash
Efforts being made by Robert Night
lngale, first vice-president of the Amer
lcan volunteers of the Canadian eX-
peditionary force, to have the Dominion
award cash bonuses to former members
Of Che Canadian armies now in the
United States, instead of the soldiers
land settlement scheme. to which the
men in the United States are not en-
titled, probably will be unsuccessful.
Sir George Foster, acting premier.
has announced that the Canadian gov
ernment will not withdraw its opposi-
ton to granting cash bonuses
New Bronx Headquarters
Plans are being made by the COM
bined posts of the Bronx to wage a
campaign to obtain funds to erect a
permanent headquarters in that bor-
ough. At the last meeting of the
Bronx executive committee County
Chairman William F. Deegan appointed
special committee to make a survey
Of the borough in an effort to find a
suitable location for the proposed new
building. 1t is estimated that build
ing such as the tentative plans call
for will cost approximately s4oO 900
There are forty-eight posts in the
borough with a membership of close to
10000. Every post is represented on the
general committee. Members of the
committee were unanimous in pledging
their support to do their share to
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