Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-07
American Legion Notes
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Delaware Post has gone on record as
favoring the passage Of the Manner bGN-
mo bill The bows who boxed ~hllc IN the
service know the good that can he gotten
from good, clean, well conducted boxing
matches.
The National Executive Committee Ct
the American Legion viii meet IN Wash
ington this week 10 pass on many matters
Of ir1portance TO the organization FIRST
among these will be formulation Of a
plan II push the Legion program o. ald
for disabled veterans Of the World war
Tho legislative campaign with reference
10 the so-callod bonus will also be dis
cussed The committee probably VIII tahe
action on the offer of S5,O00.GOn by inc
Knights Of Columbus which was mace
with the stipulation the money be cS
pended for the erection 81 memorisi
building in Washington and also on tlio
question of Joining the veterans Leag'le
nf Nations rs the tentatively organl7ec
Inter-Alhcd Veterans Federation ha~
hoon called Veterans Of nine nations have
ioined y committee Of Leglnnnalrcs
narticipated in the causis at Paris when
the Federation was organized.
The National Committeeman Of the
American Legion from this state. homhs
" Miller az Wilmington, left for asnirg-
ton last night 70 attend tho ncc'Ir &
A matter that VIII clam the attr'iio'l
of the committee Is the Hofgdoli casc.
which has recently come again 70 tfc
notice of public because Of IN atiempf
made bv some American from the Army
Of Occ,IpstIon to capture this draft dodrcr
IN German soil Il demand thai The
legion committee INSIST that the vel q
secrecy surrounding tins case he h!ted
ard the country learn why this draf
dodCcr. sentenced 10 . term IN prison
was permitted to make hle escape whlic
on a search for POT Of coli MI Nlii'F
said. Prom the sold of our crcm1
Germany. be now hurls denaTce az tlls
whole nation and We w1tress the remark
able spectacle of the general commandlrg
the nited Stetcs forces on the hhii e
apologizlng to Germany for the attefnn'
10 capture this fugitive wEen N fac j.
there was any apology It should corr
from the other sid for harbonng such
man The BergdoIl case Is traVesty sgalr :
the memory Of those brave men who paId
the supreme sacrifice and the dear ores
who mourn them
Matters OF nat oral legislation which
f the rOflDliILtf VIII ft3DSiIC4 AIftiNANAf iii4 >
prepared by the Legion providing for
adequate appropriations for the bureaus
charged with caring for disabled ex-Ser-
vice men. 1T is not that the money ap-
propriated has been meagre. but the per
sonnel OF the bureaus charged with eN-
pending the money has not been of the
character TO understand the ex-servlce
man or they 70 understand them, sad
Mr. Miller The Legion also viii ask thar
the Langley bill 20 provide Appropriation
for the building of enough hospitals be
passed 1T is not generally understood
that the peak loa-d IL the number Of ne. { &
and tubercular cases among eX-Servlce
men as the result of war Will be reached
not this year but FIVE or SIX years from
now and we must have hospitals 10 care
for them
4 third measure in which the Legion II
interested is the Rogers-Capper bill pro-
viding for the consolidation Of the Bureaus
of War Risk Insurance. Rehabilitatlop
/ Section of the Public Health Service a. /
the Federal Board for Vocational Training
Itis believed that if these three bureaus
| administering to the disabled ex-seryice
| men were placed under one head more
! efficient management would cnsue. As
| chairman OF the Legions National Legs
| lative committee at Washington for one
| yeaE, an assignment from which he rc
| signed last June, Mr.. Miller had much
| to do with initiating these measures He
| now member of the National Executive
| Committee, the governing body Of the
/ Legion between the annual conventions.
! The legion welcomes the new Ferdi-
! nand Speer pest Of the Veterans Of Foreign
/ WaIs to the city and wishes it well and
assures the baby organization Of all the
help. cooperation and friendship possible
in the endeavor to make the lor Of the
| ex-seryice man a better one
Of the men now under treatments in
| government hospitals about ono third
are neuro- -psychiatric and six Of ever
| ten Of these are suffering from some
| form of insanity In order to better care
| for these men the American Legion ma 4
tionaI body has asked the government:
! Fol- co ordination Of all bureaus
| responsible for the care Of the disabled
| q Money foi the building Of sufficient
| hospitals for their proper care.
If YOU want bonus, either state or
federal why don't you try writing to your
| senators and telling them that we ex-
pect to get some attention from them and
! what we want. The four-fold plan Of
| the Legion is the best one for all concerned
A state bonus bill has been introduced
| in the Ohio state Legislature by Senator
| Arthur III. Day, an ex-Soldier 10 have the
! question of q bonus that would give II
1 e.. &c