Evening star., 1924-02-10
Veterans of Great War

In conjunction with the members
of the American Legion, nationally
responding to a call issued by John
r. Quinn, the national commander,
the members of the American Legion
in the District of Columbia will at
tend u series of meetings arranged
by the various posts during the next
week, at which the subject of ad-
justed compensation will be thor
oughly discussed.
The first meeting of the series will
be staged by the members of the
George f. killeen Post at Masonic
Hall, Wisconsin avenue, near NJ street,
tomorrow night at o'clock. The
speakers will be Senator Smith w.
Brookhart of Iowa and Representa-
tive Walter F. Lineberger of Cali
fornia. William F. Franklin, senior
vice commander of the Department
of the District of Columbia, the Amer
lean Legion, who is a member of the
post of which Bernard :. BuScher is
the commander, will also speak.
Tuesday night the subject of ad-
justed compensation will be dis
cussed at the banquet to be given at
l.
of the Stuart Walcott Post. of which
Charles Riemer is the commander.
Tho members of the Vincent 3.
Costello Post of the American Legion,
of which l.. j. Lefferts is the COM
mander, at their meeting last week
adopted a resolution reaffirming their
Endorsement of the pending adjusted
compensation legislation shortly to
come before Congress for action. And
the Lincoln Post. of which +. A. Awl
is the commander, has likewise given
emphatic expression of its approval
of the efforts of the national organi
zation Of the American Legion in be-
half of this legislation:
There are twenty-eiSht posts of
the American Legion in the District
of Columbia and the Augustus p.
Gardiner Post is the only one that
compensation measure and the Ameri
can Legion's policy in indorsing it.
Final plans are taking shape for
the annual ball of the Department of
the District Of Columbia of the Amer
lean Legion, which will be held at
the New Willard Hotel February IS
at $3.50 o'clock. John r. Quinn. the
national commander of the American
Legion, who will be in Washington
on that date, has accepted the invi-
tation of the department to be pres
ent. and it is probable that one or
more of the past national command
ers will also attend for a short time.
On Lincoln's birthday anniversary,
Tuesday, the department organiZa-
ton will be officially represented at
the annual Lincoln day celebration of
the Grand Army of the Republic at
First Congregational Church. 10th
and G. streets, to which members of
the American Legion generally have
been invited to attend.
The Mount Alto Hospital and Ace
>chapters of the Disabled American
Veterans are in the midst of men,
shows the chapter at the institution
on Wisconsin avenue leading by ten
members.
The Washington office of the Dis
abled American Veterans has sent
warning to chapters throughout the
country that March 4 is the last day
upon which unnaturalized former
service men may be admitted to citi-
zenship under the special exemption
offered by the law of 1919. An hon
orable discharge and evidence of
good character is all that Is now re-
quired for the alien veterans to be
admitted. After the 4th of next
same for all classes.
The Disabled American Veterans
legislative program has been pre-
sented to all members Of the newly
formed veterans affairs committee
of the House of Representatives. The
committee, of which Representative
Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota is
chairman, is expected to start func-
tioning this week.
Representing the recognized world
war service organizations, Gen. Mil
n ,vSsJ
d. John Markey, Ennalls Waggaman.
e. w. Bethlehem, John Thomas Tay-
lor, Thomas Kirby and l. S. Ray met
at the Army and Navy Club during
the week to consider certain legisla-
tion for disabled veterans. The opin-
look for action by Congress at this
session is most encouraging.
Vincent Costello Post at its meet
ing Tuesday night at the District
building was addressed by Gen. John
r. McQuigg, formerly of the 37th di
vision and a member of the national
executive committee OF the American
fight that will be carried on by the
legion from February 10 to II in be-
half of the adjusted compensation.
Commander Reimer of the Stuart
Commander Miller of the Bureau of
Engraving Post. On Wednesday
evening the Costello Post drum
corps, in charge Of Sergt Henry
Loyeless, paraded to Gonzaga Hall
that was put on for the Bureau of
Engraving Post.
The American Veterans of Hellenic
Descent, an organization composed of
world war veterans, is to give it's
first annual ball Tuesday evening at
the City Club: