The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-11
10 TAKE CENSUS
 0F VETERANS OF
 WAR NEXT WEEK
Local End of National Census of Veterans Tn Charge
 of Legion Post.

The national census of veterans e. the World War, recently launched by the American Legion. will begin here the latter part of raxt week, when every ex-service man or woman in Juneau and in this imm ediate vicinity ! will be enumerated, according to an announcement made today by George i A. Mann. Adjutant of the Afford John ] Bradford Post of the Legion. The local part of the census will be car ! ried on under the direction of tn | local Post and it's Auxiliary unit l The canvass will be made as com ! plete as possible. Every veteran will i be interviewed, asked AS questions ! and his answers recorded When i the national census is complete m. tional headquarters Of the Legion | expects to have concise and com plete record of every man and woman ' who was in the service. This recorl will be invaluable to the Legion in prosecuting it's fight for the dis abled, and for all classes of veterans i who have unsettled claims or adjust meats to make with the government 1 In the past two years the national i service division of the Legion has 1 been instrumental in settling claims ! in favor of veterans totaling more than s1O,O0o000
 Every veteran will be asked if he was wounded or gassed or injured by 1 accident, if his health was impaired in any way while in the service and 1 if he has received satisfactory medi- cal treatment and compensation. It 1 is known that there are many still | suffering in various ways as result of their military service who have never been reached by government relief. The services of the Legion are laid at the disposal of all per. sons in this position.
 There are other ex-service men in T more fortunate position, who have re-established themselves financially and can spare to their less fortunate comrades the benefits to which they are entitled under the pending ad- Justed compensation bill. These per sons are. to be asked if they will devote their shares of the government compensation allowance to aid their needy and disabled "buddies." In this way the Legion intends to estaD- fish a rotating fund for the immedi- ate relief of all whose needs are too pressing to wait cn the course of government procedure. There are ! nf helped by the passing of laws. They need care taken of them right away, ' according to local Legionaires. IL has been a case of "let George do it." and George" as usual has stayed around the corner. This is the con dition that the rotating load fund Of the Legion has been designed to rem edy, and the Legionnaires are confi- dent that the same old spirit that brought in wounded comrades under fire will not be found around the corner in the relieving of the ex
 service man in distress today.
 All veterans are to be sought out whether members of any soldiers or ganization or not The matter of their membership in the Legion is Of no consequence The fact is that there is no other organization of suf
 ficient scope to undertake and carry through a national census of veter- ans, and with the very apparent need of such census the Legion has taken it up.
 The recording of what choice each veteran will make under the five alternatives provided for in the Ad. }usted Compensation bill will be a very important result of the census
 This question is to be asked of every ex-soldier in the community. The hill offers the soldier his option of
 my one of the five following pro- visions for compensation: CD Ad. Iusted pay for the term of service nut in; CD a paidup 2O-year insur ance policy; (3) expenses paid for a. course in vocational training; (4 a loan for the purchase of a farm or home; (5) application of a mans adjusted pay On the purchase of government improved land.
 The adjusted pay is to be set at
 ne rate or $l day for home service and $1.25 day for service overseas The face value of the life insurance policy offered is to be 3.3S times the amount that would be received by the same man as adjusted pay. His vo. cational training aid or farm or home loan would be 40 per cent of what he would receive in cash.
 All back claims against the govern. ment are likewise to be entered in the Legion census. If man did not get his $60 bonus on discharge he is requested to make it known If the government owes him back pay. travel pay, if his allotments or i.iS- erty bonds have gone astray. if he has never received his Victory medal he is to enter his complaint on inc Legion questionnaire.
 We want to know everything that every ex-service man has got coming to him." is the word that has come from Department Headquarters i,ere That is what the local Post is going