The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-08-14
TUESDAY, AUGUST Is.
THE AMERICAN LEGION AND LEGION AUXILIARY ASSISTED BY
A CITIZENS COMMITTEE WILL CONDUCT DRIVE FOR ELYS
QUOTA Of THE 100000 ENDOWMENT FUND.
WHAT THIS MEANS?

What has been done in the neuro-
psychiatric field has been done in
| the field of tuberculosis cases, and
in the general raising of the level
Of diagnosis and curative practice.
The Legion has gone above and be-
You'd where mechanical government
system could go.
| Personal Service.
Consider the problem at the bot
TOM. Presume the government 100
per cent. effective, which it cannot
| be, at disqualification, medical care,
compensation and vocational train
| ing. 1t has not reached into the
home of the disabled man, nor taken
hold of his spirit and character, nor
provided him with the inspiration to
come back from shattered body and
dismayed mind to healthy, happy
self-support, ambition, independ-
ence. 1t rests with the Legion, its
posts and its members, to take every
disabled veteran by the hand and
help him up that road.
When he must go to a hospital,
his home must be preserved, his
wife and children aided and encour-
aged, his own mind relieved of
worry for them. When he has been
schooled by vocational training, he
must be aided to rself-cYnfidenca to
find and hold job. None can
know as his comrades know what
myriad problems must be met, what
need there is Of strengthening assur-
ance,. Located at his home is Lee
gion post. His next neighbor is a
Legionaire. Through his whole
course of rehabilitation" in its
broadest sense, the Legion stands by
as we stood side by side cover
there. No Leg.onaire can ever
forget that when a comrade fell,
there, but for the Grace of God, fell
-. The wounds borne by the dis
abled are borne for each .Legionaire,
and by the same token for each citi-
zen of our country.
The work of 1se american Lee
gion for the disabled must go on so
long as there is a disabled man or
Legionaire left. Nothing must be
left to chance. Every particle of
the human wreckage of war which
can be salvaged must and shall be
saved. The Legion is confident that
the relatively small sum of money
necessary to back up very great
determination to meet this obliga-
ton will be readily provided.
Child Welfare.
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 plain
| ly 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 mimi
mum. IA home for every homeless
| child of a veteran" is the basis Of
The American Legion's child well
fare program.
The constantly growing casualty
list, as men die by the thousand
each year from wounds and disease
incurred in the World War, accentu-
ates this need. The accumulating
discovery of these children in aims
houses, in unhappy an: unfit homes
of distant relatives unable or un-
| willing to give proper care, in the
very streets and alleys sometimes,
has wrung the heart of the Legion.
1t is determined that every homeless
child of veteran shall have fair
and square chance at life, an hon.
est, happy American home; proper
education.
| The Home Ideal.
| While almost every hcme that has
been disrupted by wars tragedies
offers a special problem, the child
welfare plan of The American Le-
gion1 has certain definite basis OF
acCion. Primarily, where one par
ent survives, the effort is to main
tain the natural, original home
Where none survives, or surviving
none is willing, competent or able
to maintain a home, there must be
home found for the child. Pre-.
ferably that home will be found by
adoption int the family of lie.
| gionaire, a family carefully select.
| ed and tested as to it's ability to
bring up that child.
4 The characteristics OF the adopted
home must accord as well as pos
/, sible with what the parents, if liv
ing could have given, or dying
would have approved for their baby
Questions of financial ability, o.
social. moral and religious environ
ment must be considered. The lie
gion, being wholly seclarian, hopes
that homes will be found where thu
religion will be that to which tn,
child might have been attracted il
its own natural home. 1t seeks
not perhaps wealthy families, blu
families which stand the test o
thorough going, wholesome charac
ter and American ideals. as foste
homes for the homeless children o
| veterans.
For All Children.
In this very work the Legio
seeks the assistance of every estah
3 lished agency in the. country devoi
ed to child welfare. To all sue
: agencies It proposes to give assist
ance. and to the whole national dut
r of child care it brings the powe
q and enthusiasm of its whole nation
q wide organization and membership
t 1t will help hold the far-fung lin
t of defense for childhood agalns
y poverty, hunger, disease, vice, il
norance, crime and death. It wi