The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06
legion Asks
Help to Raise
Endowment Fund
F. w. STANTON HEADS LOCAE
COMMITTEES; CAMPAIGN To
RAISE $3.50 SPONSORED BY
MELVIN DASKAM POST.


present time carrying on great cam
paign to raise $5,OO0,000 as the
American Legion Endowment Fund
to be established for the disabled and
the orphans Of the disabled. Mime
sofas share is $3.50, 900 and the share
of Melvin Daskam Post No. 38 is $3.50
MI. f. w. Stanton has been appoint
ed chairman. On May IL the drive
in Redwood Falls will start. The
cause is worthy one in which every
citizen is asked to help. The need
for this Endowment arises from war
results burden which every Ameri-
can should help to carry.
The case of the disabled veteran
with the government is an official,
intricate, legal problem, involving
many technical complications. Under
given sets of facts, prescribed by law,
the government can extend legally
specified medical or hospital treat
ment, money compensation, or voca-
tional training. Within it's necessary
limits, the government on the whole
has done well, and is tending steadily
to do better. 1t does not and cannot
have completely intimate contact with
the disabled man, his family, his
needs.
The problem is that of restoring to
physical, mental and spiritual health
and to status of self-support and
self-respect, man who has suffered
the wounds, disease and shock Incl
dent to war; Government machinery,
however ample, remains machinery.
1t is limited at the top by the limit
Of ability which government service
has been able to command. 1t is
limited at the bottom by the extent
of human contact possible to govern
ment machinery. The American Le-
gion rehabilitation service knows no
limit at either end.
The providing of an American home
for the orphan of every man who fell
in the nations service is so obviously
right that it needs no discussion.
These children are plainly entitled to
the same chance in life which they
would have received had their father
not given his life to America. That
is the very Minimum. "A home for
every homeless child of a veteran" is
the basis of The American Legion's
child welfare program.
The constantly growing casualty
list, as men die by the thousands each
year from wounds and disease incurr-
ed in the World War, accentuates this
need. The accumulating discovery of
these children in almshouses, in un-
happy and unfit homes of distant
relatives unable or unwilling to give
proper care, in the very streets and
alleys sometimes, has wrung the
heart of the Legion. It is determined
that every homeless child of vet
eran shall have a fair and square
chance at life, an honest, happy Am
erican home; proper education.
While almost every home that has
been disrupted by wars tragedies Of
fers special problem the child well
fare plan of The American Legion
has certain definite bases of action.
Primarily, where one parent survives,
the effort is to maintain the natural,
original home Where none survives,
or surviving, none is willing, compet-
en- or able to maintain home, there
must be home found for the child.
Preferably that home will be found
by adoption into the family Of Le-
gionnaire, family carefully select
ed and tested as to it's hearts pur-
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