The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-09-14
AMERICAN LEGION
WEEKLY LETTER

pieces" committee of thirty prom
inent New York business men has
written to Brig. Gen. Charles E. Saw
yer, President Harding's personal
physician. and "chief co-ordinator'' for
the Federal disqualification Board.
The statement is made in an invita-
tion asking Gen. Sawyer to come to
New York and see for himself the
"wretched situation which exists in
this district for the care of sick and
wounded world war veterans"
The letter, sent by the state hos
pitalization committee of the Ameri-
can Legion, was in answer to Gen.
Sawyers reply to A. A. Sprague,
chairman of the Legion's national re-
habilitation committee, in which the
Presidents physician claimed ade-
quate hospital facilities for ex-service
men in need of medical and surgical
treatment
The state Legion committee wrote
Gen. Sawyer: "If you are unable to
obtain through your own channels a
true report on the wretched situation
in the Second District, we further ask
that you spend "A hours in New Yorx
in order to meet committee of about
twenty-five or thirty business men
and men recognized as medical au-
therities to talk over the situation
with the actual facts at hand. The re-
habilitation committee will guarantee
to tear your desk figures to pieces
and conduct you to place where you
can see with your own eyes the true
conditions, and perhaps you can have
a report which is in harmony with
the conditions existing"
The letter, signed by Col. E. Gar
rett Day, chairman of the hospitali-
zation committee for the second dis
trict( includes New York, Conn ecticut
aid New Jersey), William F. Deegan,
state commander of the Legion, and
Cornelius W. Wickersham of the New
York disqualification committee,
states that one-third of New York's
$500 tubercular veterans are in "con-
tract boarding houses with little or
no government supervision"
The New Jersey Legion answered
Gen. Sawyer's reply with a request
to President Harding asking that
hospital for veterans suffering with
tuberculosis be built in New Jersey
at once. Four hundred veterans, the
! letter states, are in contract institu-
! tons.
In resolutions being adopted by
American Legion posts throughout
! the South, the posts elnbheuses and
clubrooms are being offered 20 the
various municipalities as headquarters
for fuel administration bodies which
will have charge of coal distribution
during the coming winter
Mrs. Hannah Chaplin, mother Of
Charles Chaplin, film star, will be al
lowed to remain in the United States
by special order of Secretary Davis
of the Department of Labor. Mrs.
Chaplin is mentally deranged from
shell shock sustained during war
time raid over London. Under the
laws of the immigration Department
mentally irresponsible persons are al
lowed only year in this country but
following reports of California ply
sicians that Mrs. Chaplin's condition
is rapidly improving she was allowed
to remain.
According to Senator Watson of
Indiana the Soldiers Adjusted Com
pensation measure will pass the SEN
ate in record time as soon as the Tar
iff bill is out of the way The Indiana
Senator backs this contention up with
an opinion that once it is brought up
the Adjusted Compensation bill viii
pass in four days.
To obtain necessary funds for its
Veterans Mountain camp the New
York American Legion will stage the
Empire States largest track and
field meet at Syracuse September q
An innovation IN athletic meets is
now on. The Legion has divided New
York state into districts and is hold
ing tryouts in all. The winners In the
district meets will go to the finals
at Syracuse, the winners there being
awarded medals and the honor of be-
ing the states best athletes.
Thirty hours before the declaration
of hostilities which later plunged al
most every civilized nation into war
Corp. Andre Peugeot of France was
killed. He met death at Jonchery
France, on August 2, 1914, at the
hands of band of Uhlans. France
has just dedicated a monument tc
Corp. Peugeot, the first man killed in
the world war.
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