The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-07-27
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thru any Legion post.
While June goth, 1921 was the last
day on which lapsed war risk insur-
ance could be reinstated, new ruling
just issued says that lapsed or cancell-
ed term insurance may be reinstated
any time before January 1, 1922 upon
payment of two monthly premiums
and proof that applicant is in as good
health as when the insurance lapsed
or was cancelled. Legion Service
Bureau, Old Capitol, or U. S. War
Risk Representative, Kieth-Plaza
Building, Minneapolis, will furnish
blanks and help buddies reinstate their
wartime insurance.
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One of the measures backed by the
Legion which Congress recently en-
acted, provides that 100000, shall be
placed at the disposal of the Federal
Board for Vocational Training, which
will use it in making loans to tide dis
abled veterans over rough spots.
Plans for distributing this money will
soon be completed, and then, should a
disabled veteran be temporarily in
need of funds, he can secure them
from the Federal Board.
The distribution of enemy guns and
material captured in the world warts
being held up pending passage by
Congress of a bill distributing this
material to states on the basis of
population. In the meantime, Legion
posts may obtain government eaissons
and limbers for use in funeral cere-
monies from the Chief of Ordnance,
U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. at a
cost of $40 for the caisson and S. for
the timber, which will be- shipped to
the nearest depot, transportation costs
to be paid by the Legion post.
Obsolete and defective cannon and
field pieces are given away by the
Ordnance Department, Washington,
D. c. for decorative and display pur-
poses upon application Of municipal
corporation, soldiers monument as
ISOLATION or G. A. R. post. Until
this law is changed to include Legion
posts, the latter should obtain the
cannon by application thru the mayors
of their respective municipalities.
"Ex-service men do not want to
ruin their country. They think just
as much of it as the men who made
large profits or earned unprecedented
wages while they were in the army
or navy, but they cannot see how the
distribution of loss than the cost of
a single month of the war will bank
rupt the country or cause business de-
PRESTON" declared State Commander
A. H. Vernon, adding, president
Harding's message is very disappoint-
ing to all ex-service men and, | be-
lieve, to the average American, in that
it treats the adjusted compensation
bill as mere gratuity and opposes it
on the grounds of its ultimate cost,
which will be approximately the same
no matter when the measure is enact
ed The American Legion believes
the measure acknowledges a moral
obligation of our country to treat its
soldiers with approximate economic
justice as compared with other citi
zens. The Presidents message may
proceed in postponing consideration of
the bill, but adjusted compensation is
far from dead Sooner or later it will
become law"
The American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, with more than a million
members, has joined hands with the
Legion in obtaining legislation for the
relief of disabled soldiers of the great
war More than 1900 bureaus of the
Federation have endorsed the legisla-
tive program of the Legion. Enact
ment of the bill consolidating the three
government bureaus handling ex-
soldier affairs will save the national
budget S15,0O0,O00 year through eli
minating much work now done in
duplicate and triplicate, and will cut
miles of red tape which hitherto has
rendered relief ineffective. The bill
has passed the House of Representa-
tives unanimously and is on the
calender of the U. S. Senate with a
favorable committee report behind it.
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Life size replicas of the old ''tin hat"
of A. E. F. days will bear the names
and service records of Illinois soldiers,
to be placed on trees of the memorial
highways of. Illinois, according to
plans of the Department of Illinois,
American Legion. Ali over the coun-
try trees are being planted on the
great highways of the nation, in honor
of our soldier and sailor dead
"The City Council of the City of
Virginia has officially instructed me
to invite you to make this city your
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