The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26
salnte MT. Forbeu


 thing which strikes the American Legion as one of the most unfair bits of propaganda yet circulated ia the taouiated statement set out iron, Washington by Charles K. Forbes director Of the veteran bureau this week.
 Mir. Forbes has so juggled his figures as to leave the impression upon the casual reader that the gov ernment has paid billion and one half dollars to the veterans since fhe World war. For instance fin tbe sam column he places vocal tional training insurance, compensation, allotment allowances, hospital services. and ad ministration.
 or course Mir. Forbes knows that the $2Ss.000. 900 paid out on war risk insurance policies ia plain matter or business done on contract. He ought to know that if the beneficiar- ies under the risk insurance policies nave received s2SS,000.000 from the government that the insurer had nai5 the premiums on those policies Not only does he not take into account the Rremiums paid on policies which nave been settled. but he likewise omlts the millions of dollars maid ana being paid on other war risk insurance policies.
 MT. Forbes also by the same tokan puts In three million under the head oI aiiotments. Again he ignores the 1act If he understood 1t that tbe payment or these aliotments was also matter of contract between tbe government and the original al,at' tors. ''A"A @iiot7
 The Legfonnaires wonder how Mir. Foroes considers that thirtv- five millions of dollars of marine and seaman's insurance should be listed as gratuity The same question should be asked Mir. Forbes with rc- ierence to the eight million of ooiiars which he has listed under medical and hospital services And countless there are many besides services men and women who have watcheo the way some cases of compensation, hospitalization q n d vocational training have been ad- m mihstratered, who will ask whether the forty-seven millions of dollars listed under the head of admin strative Is a proper charge to be in cluded in the elaring total of inc billion and one-half dollar.
 A complete French village, Hotel de Vile accommodating one thousand will be planted at Madison Park. Oklahoma, as a recreation center for the American Legion Post will build cottages there where the mem bers may spend their vacations.
 A fellow was found wiping his automobile with an American flag. a Legionaire saw him and after questioning him pronounced simply Ignorance" the ignorant one was given instructions as to how the cciors should be treated. Learning of the incident the mans employer presented the Legion with large flag.
 John J. Payne released two years ago from a German prison is being looked for by the American Legion. His mother lives at Newburg. New York. she has not seen him since Christmas 1920.
 Birmingham is not the only place where grafters operate by calling themselves representatives of the American Legion. A man In the streets of New York had a large G. I. can labeled For Ex-soidiers," he raised nine thousand dollars. The American Legion investigated the operation and learned that ex-sold- iers got $50 of it and the man got in jail.
 Brooding over war horrors con- tinues to wreck minds of ex-soldiers. The American Legion at Tampa. Fla. reports 12 cases of ex-service men pronounced "incurably insane" since November, 1921.
 History as taught in public schools children against foreign Alvin Owsley, head Amer ican Legion, Americanization com mittee. told educational authorities in New York.
 ITO sail away for year and a day.r The New York delegation plans to charter steamer to take them to the American Legion convention in New Orleans this year.
 Headquarters of Birmingham Post No. l almost daily receives inquiries as to which states of the union are paying an adjusted compensation to their ex-service men.
 At present these are the states which do: Minnesota, Maine. Michi- gan, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Hampshire. North Da- kota, Ohio, Oregon. Rhode Island,
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