The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-09-07
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take up our regular work at the meet
ing on the night of Labor Day.
Every Legionaire is urgently request
ed to attend this meeting as matters
of Importance will be considered. The
matter Of the Football team viii be
decided. Turn out boys and let us
have full attendance.
To be hurled through the door of a
moving freight train by |. W. w.
members was the experience OF Legi-
onaire Charles Rand Of Malone, New
York, when he refused to join the |.
w. W. while on his way from Council
Bluffs, Iowa to St. Paul to look for
work. The train on which he was
riding was going twenty-five miles an
hour and good fortune alone saved
Rand from death. On his arrival in
St. Paul his brother Legionaires took
care of him and helped secure work
for him at the state fair grounds.
s.On troop train from Camp Dodge
about June Goth, 1919, was a captain
from the Twin Cities who could help
me secure payment of just claim.
am not positive as to his name but
believe it was Smith. He was travel
ing with Company F, 32d Engineers
at the time. If any buddy knows his
address, will appreciate receiving It,, ;.
writes Legionaire Joseph Drew OF
Cascade, Iowa, to Minnesota Legion
News Service at ST. Paul.
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The world may forget, but a moth
er's heart never does. And though
Chris Kowalske has been reported
"killed in action July 18th, 1857 his
mother, who lives at 603 Ellis ST.,
Peoria, Illinois, cannot believe 1t, and
recently she came all the way to St.
Paul to see a buddy in the Aberdeen
Hospital, St. Paul, who remembered
seeing Private Kowalske in Fort
Smelling Minnesota hospital in 1919,
but has since lost trace of him. kow-
alske served as a private in Co. F.,
47th Infantry, 4th Division. He is
5 #. 8, las pounds, has straight dark
hair, heavy eyebrows, : dark brown
eyes deep-set and wears signet ring
with initials &c. K" The American
Legion is endeavoring to secure ma
tionwide publicity with the object OF
helping Mrs. Kowalske find her long
lost boy.
NEWS FOR THE DISABLED.
Heretofore, the U. S. War Risk
Bureau handled compensation and IN
surance claims.
The U. S. Public Health Service
handled medical treatment.
The Federal Vocational Board
handled vocational education.
Each bureau worked Independently
Much of their work overlapped. There
was no single coordinating head. All
claims had to be referred to head
quarters at Washington with result
ing delay, confusion, and red tape
Many a disabled buddy gave up in de-
spair. And all this time the Legion
was urging Congress to pass the
Sweet Bill, which would end these
troubles. After two years Congress
PASSED it. How does the Sweet Bill
affect the disabled ex-service mans
chance for securing justice?
$50
In MANY ways. Here are the two
most important. The Sweet Bill has
amalgamated the three bureaus men
toned above. They are one BODY,
known as "The Veterans Bureau,
with one coordinating head over all.
The other great victory was the clause
in the Sweet Bill which says that
future claims need not be sent all the
way to Washington for a decision.
Awards may be made or changed by
each district branch of the Veterans
Bureau. Minnesota is in the Tenth
District, the headquarters Of which is
in the Keith-Plaza Building, Mime
apolis. Awards and changes now are
made there, instead of at Washington,
D. c.. A big slash in the red tape has
been made. And in the Tenth District
another slash will soon be taken.
Here's how.
Commencing Labor Day in ST.
Paul, Travelling Squad" of the Vet
Grams Bureau, representing the three
former agencies mentioned above, will