South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-29
ORIENT NO PLACE
FOR The JOBLESS
AND PENNILESS
Legionnaire Who Travels TO-
900 Miles TO Convention
Issues Warning.

Don't go 70 the Orient unless you
can get back. That's the advice OF
Whipple s. Hall. who Travelled ten
thousand uiles-probable farther
than any other delegate-to repre-
sent the philippines at the Third Ma
tional Convention OF The American
Legion.
Either a sure thing job or money
enough to make the voyage a round
trip one are essential, the experience
Of many ex-service men proves.
While Legionnaires in the Philip
pines have no unemployment prob
lem ia the sense en- which most home
departments are faced with Il, they
have none the less been kept busy
caring for veterans who have work
cd their way down from Siberia, or
who have reached the Philippines as
merchant sailors without resources.
The situation has become cOmplicat-
"a by the fact that many OF the
Siberian veterans have been accom-
panied bv Russian wives who were
as destitute as themselves. and these
the auxiliary has cared for effec-
lively.
Department Liberal
Most OF the veterans of the Siber-
ian campaign reaching the Islands
have been in desperate plight.
Somehow there managed 10 stru ggle
down through China, IN itself no
light undertaking for a penniless
voyager. and reached one of the
ports The Philippines doomed large
as the nearest home ground for these
hungry. homesick wayfarers. and
many OF them Contrived TO bridge
the gap OF sea between tha Asiati-
mainland and the Islands. reaching
there, Of course in more pitiable
condition than they had been in any
where on their journeyings. The
Department OF the Philippines has
been liberal in dealing with these
refugees. most of them secured dis
charges abroad I'm the belief that the
Orient was bIossomins with good
Jobs for sturdy eX-serviCe men, They
have been returned 10 this country
largely through Legion assistance
convinced that there aren't any sucI
blossoms.
The Department Of the Philippines
is anxious TO bring this lesson home
20 veterans generally without MAX
ing it necessary for them to go
through the same narrowing expert
enccs. Virtually all manual labor in
the Islands is. of course, performed
by natives. who also now hold many
minor clerical positions Only a
man who has job beforehand or
is absolutely convinced he IS a mas
ter of some specially Cane even ne
had better see II there's a job frst)
should consider going OUT To the Is
lands at this time, according 10 Mr..
Hail.
Has Six Posts.
The Department OF the Philip
pines now comprises six posts. of
which the chief is Manila Post No
4. Harry Morgan, post commander
Sidney u. Rawiands is department
commander and Philip ID. Carmau
department adJutant. All the other
posts are in the Manila area. includ-
ing Quentin Roosevelt Post. com
posed of men still in the service
which recently almost suffered ex-
tinCtiOu when its entire membership
was transferred 20 Hawaii The post
has been kept intact. however
though it still has TO keep in mind
the hard fact that when a man Joins
tho army. the War Department is
very likely 20 let him see the world
on short notice.
Mr. Hall remained in this country
for some weeks following the con
venuou az Kansas City. and was a
recent visitor az National Headquar-
tiers he started on his way back 10
the Philippines taking with him Off
cially expressed assurance OF the
convention that the Legion's Va
tionaI Legislative committee viii
press two definite requests OF his
department for rulings which. If
adopted. Will prove OF immediate
benefit 10 eX-service men living in
Americas most distant possession.
The first OF these. a resolution 20
permit eX-scrvice men in the Philip
pines the privilege OF being cared for