Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-31
COMPENSATION
STILL BIG issue,
LECI0kiS TOLD
National Conn snander Emery De-
clares 1t Has Not Been Settled
openind Convention
MANY NOTA3ALEs AT !
sRD ANNUAA GATHERING
Foch, Beatty, Diaz, ershing An3
Others Honor G
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 81

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 81
sociatcd Press Nothing is
- tbo boor of praeidort ii
-. NJ
'""i' W i''Ne iei'ei y iii''t
war veterans absolutely complies +
no man in the service has dee
appreciation of what that serv
means or tbo sacrifices made bv !,
~ ,,.a.4;
'oia''9' anu u '"o 's"''oi0
CURED by the country ana no M
will go further to minister to tn
true welfare of those who have beel
IN tbo soryico and thoic denendentaN
than tho nrcsidont of the limit
State ~vicn, pravifi,.r,4- funfifl9xe
tho national convention If tbe
icap Legion today
KANSAS CITY. Oct. 3t.-The is !
sue of national adjusted compensa-
tion for the ex-service men has not
been Mt all settled. John G. Emery.
national commander of the American
Legion. declared here. TODAY in his
address oneninp the third annual
oonye,s > of the Lesnn.
"such means as we're uscl last
summer to beat adjusted ompensa-
ti,, carnot ultimate,y succeed.,
Commanderv Emery told the Legion
Nothing is settled until x Is settleSsll
right.
"Tbe American peonla ara !
court of last resort and wherever thsS
American neonIe have bv tho baIfotV
passed Indictment an the matter of
adjusted comnensation thai indement
has been an enlargement of tbe ia
pion's stand
81 cannot conceive of Conrrass
SO dereljct in it's d,,tv 50 nnmindfpl
of lis iust ob1igation to those ,vbo
served their country at preat finan-
c;al loss or 20 hind to the wishes X
our neonle as to he rislad aoain into
refusing TO adjust the economic hal
ance between the man who went 81
war and tho man who did not >
Commander Emery renorted +ba4
ain the face Of adverse industrial con.
ditjons. which have bif fba ex.eeyviee
men harder than anv other class tba
Legion has gained in STRENGTH and
it's financial nos;tion has steadily in,-
proved
Fer Rarri,r AN pol;i;o;sn.
He suggested thatA Tho nolitical
clause in fbo LEGION a constitution
which "wiII not perm "a INV one who
holds or is seeking a N led eleet;S.e
public office to hold ofAe in the Le-
gion or in any department or post
thereof" be extended to include an
pointive Offices. He added that he
felt that mo person in public life.
in community, state or nation. should
be allowed to speak for the Legion,
and that the Legion must be allowed
to continue to sneak for itself whenlz
issues involving service men are
concerned, and then in terms whlcf
all the world win understand.
Commander Emery paid high trib 7
ute to the late Commander Frederic
w. Galbraith, Jr.. who was killed in
an automobile accident. He said his
one aim bad been to carry througlI
the great program which Commando
Galbrath had left unfinished.
A notable public service of the pal W
year, Commander Emery pointed o.
was the Illustration Of nation-wl
German propaganda campaign in
United States" This he said.
to start with a series of "Rh;ne
ror' meetings
The notorious propapandist
Mach, believed he had 50 clevely
F., cealed his motives that he
Calhraitb to snoal, ~ tbe frst -
horror meeting at Madison adj or . s.
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