Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-30
AMERICAN LEGION. axren-
ON WORK IN STATE

VN " ORh N -oNhNE At joint meeting of the ltsHe executive and the state legislative com mittee of. the American Legion at head quarters in Hartford. this week the fol- lowing report was read by Thomas l. BsnniEan, department adjutant. on the activities of the lefion during the past two months.
 '-rotal number of posts to date. ss: total number of auxiliaries. g charters issued to posts. s5: permanent charters mailed to posts 54 charters issued to posts since last meeting. .; application for post charters pending r. applications for auxiliary charters pending 4: bulie- tins issued since last meeting. 2: cir ciiars and stories sent newspaperS. (.
 Due to the fact that the city cf Hartford bv charter provision is gr- able to appropriate moasy for the ecn- tinuance and maintenance of tse soi- diers, Sailors. and Marines' cldb. de- partrnent headquarters was forced te 'vacst- it's quarters and seek temporary heassA rters elsewhere.
 Memorial day is approaching ard posts have been asked to ta<. ai. ae-
 tive part with other vsicran nrEzh'-
 zaticns in observiuz his day. For the decoration of rrar@s nf men who H@
 overseas. each post 5as been asked hy
 national headquarters tO contribute s
 sum equal to ten cents ! member. paid
 up as of March i. and no ost 10 con'
 tribute less than s5 So far the resnonss
 has hot been what 1t should be. but 4
 Is hoped that each post will re:1gi'.ze
 Its duty and contribute 10 this worthy
 fund.
 Each post has also been requested tc
 make an earnest effort to commemorate
 this day by purchasing from nationa
 headquarters. and selling in thei- com
 munity the poppies of France, the of
 ficial flower of the American legion. At the request ot the national com , mander the time for removing dclin . uuents from the mailing list ot Tn American Legion Weekly was extende . to April 1 In view of the abnormal con ditions prevalent throughout the coun try. This served somewhat to give. th posts. better chance to recruit ol' members who were delinquent.
 . "The service division at these head i quarters continues to exert every effoi e to adjust cases. with more difficult prot
 lemS than ever to handle. especially compensation cases. for while the br . reau was without head there seems !, | have been a wholesale slaughter oi f cases where men had been receiving flu . lcompensation for total disah.'ty. Do'
 ems of cases of this kind n HartfoI
 alone have been called to our attention = and even men in hospitals have bee
 cut. The United States public heal' service. when questioned. asser: that ? ports have been forwarded to ins1re su r. compensation for a totally GlsaSled ma y and the bureau of war risk insuranr e when questioned assert tha. all awar' t. are based on fsports from the Unn' a States public health service.
 Il Within the rast week the United Stat r- public health service has been placed u n. der the Jurisdiction of the bureau Of VI le risk insurance, and the former directc 2 R. C. Cholmeley-Jones. has been reinsts 1t ed temporarily. We must forward lett le after letter from these headquarters m IS a case Is satisfactorily adjusted, whi as means even more correspondence than h. entailed In originally establishing clai sn Even with the limited nersonnel. and lii
 tied finances. state headquarters is det' SC mined tfat every effort win be made