The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-03-16
LOCAL CENSUS
is UNDER WAY
Legion Makes Progress in
Ascertaining Needs Of
Ex-Service Men

According to the announcement
made today by Roy II. Nicholson of
Robert w. Ely Post Of the American
Legion, the national census of veter-
ans of the World War recently author
lied by the American Legion, is now
well under way in Kennewick and vi
cinity. 1t is the aim of the census
takers to secure the war record Of ev-
cry ex-service man and woman in
Kennewick and Benton county. When
the national census is complete ma
tional headquarters of the Legion ex-
poets to have concise and complete
record Of every man and woman who
was in the service. This record will
be Invaluable to the Legion in prose-
cutting its 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 in
strumental in settling claims in IA
vor of veterans totaling more than
$4,000, 900.
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 that there
is no other organization Of suffic-
lent scope to undertake and carry thru
a national census of veterans, and
with this very apparent need of such
a census, the Legion has taken it up.
All back claims against the gov
ernment are to be entered in the Le-
gion census. If man did not get
his $4,000 bonus on discharge he is
requested to make it known. If the
government owes him back pay, trav-
ell 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 Le-
gion QUESTIONABLE. ave want to
know everything that every ex-service
man has got coming to him." is the
word that has come from the Seattle
state headquarters. And this is what
the local post is going after.
The buck private, or rather the ex-
buck, is going to receive more atten-
tion than he ever did in the war, now
that the American Legion veteran
census takers are on the job. 1t is
the needs and desires of the man in
the ranks that this census is designed
to bring before the nation. Said COM
mander Nicholson today, 81 want ev-
cry ex-service man to understand that
whether he is a member of the Amer
lean Legion or not makes absolutely
no difference in this case. What we
are going after is census Of ex-ser-
vice men; we have the members of
the American Legion already listed
at headquarters. ANYBODY can sign
up for the Legion any time he wants
and welcome, but what we are after
now is the name and the needs of
every man or woman that served the
United States in the world war. 1t
happens to be the Legion that is tax
ing the census because it's all in the
Legion's line of work, but the census
is conducted for the benefit of all
the veterans of America"
"At the termination of the census
taking we will feel that the census
has not been complete if we have ov-
erlooked the name of any man or wo-
man in this county and all ex-service
men and women can greatly assist
the census-takers in asking for these