Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-11


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.1\SSA Plans were out
.SNZTzTSSNNEA lined Yesterday rt
! EkyAYyS1ESNSSVS VI meeting of the
MIN K),EaBE RelIablIta . II
SVNIGSNIAE Committee Of Dis
! ANNt&SEyXS trict No. 3.
M11 which includes
AS1S Pennsvl-v n | a
u and Maryland, in
| the Arcadia Cafe Colonel Joseph II.
Thompson. of Beaver Falls, chairman,
and commander Of the state Command
cry of the Legion, presided.
Not destructive criticism and com :
plaints against the Government and
Federal Bureau for Vocational Training
Is the aim. but operation with them,
Ia order that the Government may BE-
compelled to give aid to the man who
nccls 4, and also be protected from
those who seek unjust claims.
This matter of handling the dis
abcd veteran is the biggest job in the
country today, declared Colonel
Thompson. Anarchists are being
made Of some very fine fellows because
they feel that they have not received
n square deal. and their applications
have been forgotten or laid aside.
There has been n failure TO show nc.
ton IN many cases.
The cases Of mental affection are
worse than the physical. We realize
that tho Federal Board is trying TO do
the right thing. and we intend to CO.
operate in its work.
1t was the consensus Of opinion Of
the committee that board Of three
specialists. the best men possible, be
named to sit as final boards of appeal
in cases which had come to a deadlock.
or in which applicants had failed TO
get action. In such event the claimant
for disability compensation or for
training or both would go before the
board handling his particular form of
disability. \ signed report on his con-
dition. with recommendations for dis
position Of tho case would then he turned
over 70 the Rehabilitation Committee of
the Legion. which in turn would take
action.
Failing TO receive the disposition
asked in the district. tn" committee of
the Legion would then take the case to
national committee sitting in Wash
incton 10 have tho case referred direct
to President Harding.
1t was announced that separate con-
fercnceS on surgical cases. hospitaliza-
tiOn. mental diseases. tuberculosis and
orthopedic treatment would shortly take
place in Washington. attended by spc-
cialists Of national roputc. The recon-
mCndatlnns of the various meetings will
then be returned to the Legion. which
will endeavor to carry them out to the
letter.
To date 10000 personal contacts
have been made by members of the
Legion cleanup squad. consisting of 100
n al, l.
state. Direct appeals to the bureau
for men in need have already been
made. The district is one Of fourteen
in the country and has progressed more
rapidly than those in other sections
DIR. ID. j. McCarthey. a member of
the Rehabilitation Committee. recon-
mended that the largest and best psycho-
path" hospital in the United States be
established in Philadelphia. nt what i~
now the Naval Home, nt Thirty fifth
and Grays Ferry road. lie declared
that many psychiatric cases were now
III institutions that were untitled to
receive them. and that tho treatment
was neg igblc: that no effort was made
to cure patients who were durable cases.
The Stat" Hospital AZ NorriStown was
condemned for its handling of mental
cases. Of which it has seventy. DR..
William f.. Rakcn. of the committee.
declared that he had had letters not
only from patients. but from employees
there, telling Of the dcplorable condi-
tions in the treatment Of shell shocked
men who had been sent there.
l'r. l.. Il. Rogers, Of the Veterans
Bureau. Will be one Of the speakers M
a meeting Of the Stcrs Price Post. No.
III. to be he'd Thursday evening. April
-. III the l.. q. :. Of 4. Building.
Judge Lewis and Clarence Loeb will
also speak.
The annual dane" Of the William r.
Roche Post will be given in the Elite
Studio. Fifty second and Market
streets, April 20. The proceeds will be
added TO the home fund.
Tn" Thomas Roberts Rcath Marine
Post plans its Easter dance at the New
Century Club for next Monday. David
{. Levy + chairman Of the Eutcrtnn-
Meut Committee.
On April 22 n cake walk will be given
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