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special committees, accorQlnS TO worn
/, received here.
1t is expected that between $4,000
| and 10000 members of the organiza-
tion will attend the convention. The
delegates will represent the 500
chapters and 100000 members. An
| elaborate entertainment is being
worked out. Efforts are being made
railroads give reduced rates to vet
Grams attending the convention.
Officers of Lincoln Post, No. II. the
American Legion, were elected re-
Gently, as follows: Commander, AL
bert E. Ham; senior vice commander.
Leon Fraser; junior vice commander
Thomas J. Ahearn; finance officer
John F. Folsom; adjutant. John c. r.
Palmer; assistant adjutant, j. r.
Brennan; sergeant-at-arms, FRANCIS
Kelly. master-at-arms, Tom CORN
ley: color bearer. Harry W. Chamber
lin; chaplain, F. !. Winter; welfare
officer. DR.; J. A. Ballard: surgeon IT
I. I. Hirchman; historian, c. F. Col
Inns; resolutions committee chairman
E. Hayes; entertainment chairman, |
+. T. Hitch: membership chairman,
Thomas ]. Ahearn; ways and means
chairman, Leon Fraser.
A valentine dance was given by the
Greater Commonwealth Post OF the
National Disabled Soldiers League at
| the Arcade last Tuesday night, when
was largely attended. National Com
| mander John T. Nolan accompanied
| the other national officers to the
dance. The navy yard orchestra 1uf-
nished the music. The committee In
IcIo fa1 % %
son, chairman; Michael J: Muller,
| James Henderson and Abe Miller.
An amendment providing that the
one-cent-per-mile rate be granted all
\ veterans travelling to and from their
national conventions or encampments
has been introduced to the trans
po.tation act by Senator Wesley Jones
passed, will make permanent the spe-
! cial rate granted the American Le-
gion by the railroads last year. NOT
more than one convention or encamp-
ment may be held per year on which
! the proposed rate would apply.
National Capital Post. No. 127. Vet
| Grams OF Foreign Wars, last Sunday
| dead al the Keller Memorial Church.
The post commander. Rev. Harrison
| D. Boyer, delivered an address on
| The Price of Liberty" At the last
meeting the post went on record con-
| demning the Veterans Bpreau in ap-
pointing retired regular Army officers
| to executive positions, in the bureau,
| thereby allowing them to draw sal
aries from two sources from the gov
| ernment. A resolution was also
| adopted that the Congress should not
levy tax for bonus on necessities Of
\ life, thereby increasing the cost of
| living. but place the tax on luxuEt,s
| and amusements, inheritance and in
L - - han
| received and it is contemplated by
the commander to have an officers
| meeting this week to go over the new
| ritualistic work of the order.
At the last meeting of the Ladies'
Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
at Pythian Temple, plans were formed
to have box party at o'clock Feb
wiz be used for relief work among
the families of veterans who have suf-
| fered from the navy yard wholesale
! discharge. A regular business meet
ing will be held on that date at Z
| o'clock.
| Three new members were taken in
at the last meeting. Mrs. E. L. Smith
| SON. Mrs. Roberta E. Fawcett and Mrs
Daisy Pugh. The president appointed
Mrs. Fernando Statsbergas chairman
of the publicity committee
| More than 10000 veterans have come
| to Washington during the past year
! to adjust their service claims, accord
ing to a conservative estimate by
Watson D. Miller, commander Of the
District Of Columbia Department of
the American Legion. Something has
been done for a great many of these
| men in the past. he said. but owing to
changed conditions, both in the gov
ernment's methods and in the ex-
chequer of most of the relief organi-
cations. 1T is not possible to afford
extensive relief.
Commander Miller made this state
ment to a group of twenty former
service men who appeared at the
headquarters Of the American Legion,
| asking for help, both in money and
influence before the Veterans Bureau
AT meeting OF Equality Walter
Reed Post, Veterans Of FOREIGN Wars
Thursday night at Pythian Temple,
resolutions were adopted requesting
the annual convention of the Depart
| ment of the District, Veterans of For
eign Wars. be held April II. It was
announced delegates to the conyen-
tion will be elected March I6. 1t was
also announced that on March sew
eral vacancies in the executive staff
will be filled.
Brief addresses were made by John
II. Dykes. commander of the post;
Earl Hamilton Smith of the Admiral
Peary Post; r. B. Handy, director of
the service bureau. New members
\ were admitted as follows: ]. F. Law
| cry. Heneck Moeldrup. Edward A.
Delivam and Franklin I. Winter.
| At the last meeting of the Henry
C. Spengler Post, No. -, American
Legion, the members were addressed
| by Col. Alfred W. Beach of the George
| Martin Post, American Legion, No. 3,
| Newcastle, Wyo. Capt. Charles B.
Hamilton of the Tuscania Post, No.
174, American Legion, Buffalo, N. Y,
told of the accomplishments of the
| American Legion in Buffalo and New
| York state generally.
! Dozens of disabled emergency Off
GERS of the Army at Walter Reed.
Mount Alto and other hospitals
| throughout the country are anxious
ly awaiting the opinion of the War
| Department upon the avisability OF
the Bursum bill. This measure is
framed to give the disabled emer-
gency officers of the Army the same
privileges as go to the disabled re-
serve officers OF the Navy and ma
rines and the regular officers of the
Army and Navy.
! The American Legion's military af-
fairs committee gave it's support to
the general staff's plans on the mill
! tary policy and the national legisla-
! tive committee has presented
fo