Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-05
Notice to Every Ex-Service Man and
Woman.

Woman.
Announcement is made by r. M.
Wells, commander of American Le-
gion Post No. %, Orleans, Vermont,
that the national census of veterans
of the World war recently authorized
by the American Legion will begin on
Monday, May 1st, when every ex-ser-
vice man and woman in Orleans and
surrounding towns will be ennumerat-
ed. The census will be carried on un-
der the direction of Orleans Post and
Orleans unit of the American Legion
auxiliary.
A house-to-house and farm-tofarm
canvass of every city block of Orleans
and surrounding towns will be made.
Every veteran will be interviewed.
asked 48 questions and his answers
recorded. When the national census
is complete national headquarters of
the Legion expects to have a con-
else and complete record of every man
and woman who was in the service.
This record will be invaluable to the
Legion in prosecuting it's fight for
the disabled. and for all classes of
veterans who have unsettled claims
or adjustments to make with the
government. In the past two years
the national service division of the
legion has been instrumental in set
ting claims in favor of veterans to-
tallng more than $40 0,0OO, 900.
Every veteran will be asked if he
was wounded or gassed or injured by
accident, if his health was impaired
In any way while in the service, and
IT he has received satisfactory med
lcal treatment and compensation. It
is known that there are still many
suHerlng In various ways as a result
OF their military service, who have
never been received by government
relief. The service of the Legion Is
laid at the disposal of all persons in
this position.
There are other ex-service men in
more fortunate position, who have
re-established themselves financially
and can snare to their less fortunate
comrades the benefits to which they
are entitled under the pending adjust
ed compensation bill. These persons
are to be asked if they will devote
their share of the government COM
pensation allowance to aid their needy
and disabled "buddies" In this way
the Legion intends to establish a ro-
tating fund for the immediate relief
of rall whose needs are too pressing
to wait on the course of government
procedure. There are thousands of
these. They will not be helped by the
passing of laws.
away, according to local Legionnaires.
1t has been case of "let George do
it" and George" as usual has STAYED
around the corner. This is the con-
dition that the rotating loan fund of
the Legion has been designed to rem
edy, and the Legionnaires are conf
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-ser-
vice man in distress today.
All veterans are to be sought out
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 veterans
and with the apparent need of such a
census, the Legion has taken it up.
The recording of what choice each
veteran will make under the five al
ternatives provided for in tho Adjust
ed Compensation bill will be very
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question is to be asked of every ex-
soldier in the community. The bill
offers the soldier his option of any
of the five following provisions for
compensation: (1) Adjusted pay for
the term of service put in; (2) A
paid-up 20-year insurance policy; (3)
Expenses paid for course in voca-
tional training; (4) A loan for the
purchase of a farm or home. (5) An
plication of a mans adjusted pay on
land.
The adjusted pay is to be set at
the rate of $1.00 a day for home SER
seas. The face value of the life in
surance policy, offered is to be 1888
times the amount that would be re-
ceived by the same man as adjusted
pay. His vocational training aid or
farm or home would be 140 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 $50 bonus
on discharge he is requested to make
it known. If the government owes
him back pay if his allotments or
Liberty bonds have gone astray, if he
has never received his Victory medal,
he is to enter his complaint on the
Legion QUESTIONABLE.
eve want to know everything that
every ex-service man has got coming
to him" is the word that has come
from state headquarters at Burling-
ton, VT. That is what the local post
s going after.