Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-02
PLEA IS
| MADE BY EDGE
Senator Comes Out for Com
penSation Bill in Toms
River Address
OPEN SOLDIERS HOME
Governor SiIzer and Geran
Also Speak-This Section
is Well Represented
OPEN SOLDIERS HOME

An unusually big surprise was Civ
gu the leglonaires of this city as
Well as all those present Yesterday
afternoon, when United States san.
ator Walter e. Edge indicated in an
address at the dedication of the con-
valescent home for ex-service men
at Toms River. that when the sold
Ter bonus bill again presents itself
It will receive hearty support from
MIN. The senator voted against this
measure at the last session.
Giving Lis reason for the unusual
move made him the senator said:
since the veto of the bill arrange
menfs have been made whereby one
country, Great Britain will settle her
war debts to the United States. and
am informed that within six
months three other countries will
have made plans to pay their debts
to us. Owing to this and to the fact
that the efficiency budget bill is in
effect, thus cutting down an enor-
nous expenditure of unnecessary
FUNDS, taxation materially has been
reduced. l therefore see no reason
why congress cannot arrange a bust
ness-like bonus bill and pass it. I
prophecise that such bill will be
passed next winter and / hope to be
in position to vote for it and to
work for its passage"
The senator then touched on the
care and the disqualification of the
ex-serv1ce men and said that the
United States government was spend
ing over a million dollars every
twenty-four hours for this work. This
being the ease the senator remarked
it would be NECESSARY fos private
citizens to contribute their Ncare.
In charging the federal govern-
ment with no. living up to itfa duty
in this work the senator said:>A"It
is too bad that the American Legi6A
and its Ladies Auxiliary and private
citizens are compelled to provide
funds for the erection and nainten-
anee of homes for convalescents in
New Jersey. 1t is too bad that our
government does not provide them.
The government is supplying the
funds and the veterans bureau
supposedly is caring for our veterans
but unfortunately the bureau is not
living up to its job, because it does
not know how. Individually it may
know how, but as an organization
it falls"
{ In further remarks the Senator
commended the Ladies Auxiliary of
the American Legion and said: "The
CONSTANT personal touch, of the aux
iliary is doing more and better work
than the government can or ever
will be able TO do
Going back to the bonus bill the
senator said that the reason for his
not voting in favor of the measure
was not because he had anything
against the veterans. or felt that they
did not deserve the premium but
because fne bill was not arranged in
buriness-like way.
Governor George s. Silzer who
spoke briefly owing to later en-
gagement, praised the work of the
American Legion, and its Auxiliary
for the work done among the wound
ed and disabled and while he COM
mended them on the completion of
the home as partly filling the needs
of the disabled, he said, it was too
bad the government had not taken
the initiative in the home instead of
It being necessary for the veterans
themselves to care for their wound
ed. He pledged the state of New
Jersey in so far as he can bring it
about to aid the organization in care
of these men.
Other addresses were given by
Department Commander of the
American Legion Alan Bruce Conlon,
Department President of the Aux
iliary, Miss Louise r. Curry, Past
Department Commander of the Le-
gion, Joseph d. Sears, Charles
Browne. Congressman Elmer H.
Geran and N. Paul Case, district
chairman.
A feature of the dedication of the
home was the blessing by Chaplain
Cuthbert p. Newton, Baptist, of
Trenton; Chaplain John Walsh,
Catholic of Trenton; and Chaplain
Samuel Friedman, Jewish, of Phiia-
delphia.
Following the ceremonies and the
various talks. taps" were blown by.
a bugler while. the audience which
consisted of about 1000 stood with
heads bent low in silence in memory
of Americas soldier deao.
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