The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-08-11
AMERICAN LEGION NOTES.
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Much interest was manifested J

Much interest was manifested
the meeting OF the post NO. "a last
Monday night. a good attendance
Of the members was on hand, and
upon the call of the commander for
criticisms and suggestions from the
floor for the good of the ORDER %
quite q number Of practical sugges-
ticns were offered.
The election Of delegates and al
teIlases to department convention
which meets at Florence, August %
and "a, resulted as fellows: Dele
gates: John 3. Settler, Hal Kohn,
ElDert J. D.ckert, B. NJ. Scurry, S.
Clyde McCariey, ]. L. Keitt, Jr., B.
V. Chapman, and J. c. Crotwell; al
ternates: Call julien, Miss Theresa
L:ghtsey, A. j. Bowers, Jr., W. S.
Matthews, Chalmers Brown, T. Roy
summer, Duane Livingston and r.
C. Floyd.
A resolution indonsing the request
of Colonel A. A. Sprague that Gen
eral Sawyer 'st2nd aside and allow
the program of the veterans bureau
to go into effect, and az once was
passed unanimously, and the dele
gates to the convention were IN
structed to introduce this resolution
on the floor of the convention.
The post voted unanimously to al
low troops one and three of the local
Boy Scouts the use. of the hall one
night each week. Follow ng this a
motion was carried that committee
be appointed to look into the matter
Of the post fostering a scout troop,
and to make report at the next
meeting.
Clifton Graham drew the attend
ance prize, beautiful knit tie.
The hospital situation as it affects
the disabled service men is very
much in the lime light today as a
result Of differences Of opinion be-
tween General Sawyer and others
who are closely associated with the
disabled men. IT. might be interest
inc to note some of these differences.
General Sawyer says. that the peak
of the disqualification has already
been passed.
Other medical experts say that The
peak will not be reached before
1926.
General Sawyer says, Il am using
nv influence wherever possible to
prcvent undue elaboration Of high
powered hospital, preferring to use
that money * for the purpose
of developing places of domicillatIon
that will be comfortable and ut Tor
the Individual who passes The hosp
tai period"
Colonel James says that tins mon
ev was appropriated to provide' hos
p;tals ''that will be comfortable and
ft'' for the poor fellows who will
never live tc 'pass the hospital pc
Rod" unless these "high-powered'
hospitals are provided for them be-
fore it is too late. That while he il:
using his influence to prevent the
hospital building program from 60
ing forward many a mothers son,
who offered his all on his country's
altar. is "farmed out" to private IN
stitutions wholly unified to give
them the care and treatment they
deserve.
General Sawyer says that stat.oti-
cal charts shaw that there are lO,-
191 vacant beds in government cwn-
ed or leased hospitals.
Colonel Sprague says that the sta
t..::tical charts show that today there
are S,611 patients in contract insti-
tut.cns, public and private, over
which the government has no con-
troll; that the vacant beds referred to
by General Sawyer. are neither suit
able nor available for these patients
He also calls attention TO the fact
that many Of the hospitals listed as
government hospitals are only emer-
gency buildings leased from year to
year, which the government aban-
F.! Gons as soon as proper hospitaliza-
t;cn can be secured in government
owned hospitals.
John B. Settler,
! Publicity Officer.