Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-06
Gardiner Legion
To Start Drive
For Quota of S862

Gardeners quota for the American
Legion Endowment Fund has been
announced as $S62, and work on
| the raising of this sum will be
started Immediately by the members
of Benjamin E. Smith post No. q. The
post at it's regular meeting Thurs
day night will perfect plans and
committees for this campaign. and
the contributions will be solicited.
This nation wide effort to raise a
fund of five million dollars with
! which to endow the Relief Work for
disabled men and orphans of veter-
ans is being made by the American
Legion in conformity with the official
action taken at the Sixth Annual
National Convention held at st.
Paul, Mimi, Sept. 1919, 1924. The
income from the American Legion
Endowment eund will be applied by
the Endowment Corporation and I'M
der the trust agreement to press for
ward the rehabilitation Of disabled
ex-service persons and to care for
and find homes for the orphans of
ex-service persons. The care of the
disabled and the orphans of the
World War are the first purposes of
the American Legion. To these
purposes 1t directs the energy of its
membership, and of the American
Legion Auxiliary of women, through
the 1900 posts Of the Legion and
$1,000 units of the Auxiliary and
through the State Departments of
each, the whole backed UP, ,co-ordi-
mated, directed and energized by the
national organization. The objective
of the American Legion in its work
e., ~ Il s.a 1rI Nxvsp h1c,
been summed up in four words
Temporary Care, Permanent Cure"
Every disabled man of the World
BILE, be restored in mind, body and
support and effective independent
citizenship. The Legion service CO.
operates closely with governmental
and other agencies. The Legion
supplements government service out
side the limitations of statute, and
also acts as the advocate for. the dis
abled man in securing government
aid where the law can reach. Lee
gion service reaches to the family of
the disabled, to the problem of suit
able employment and adjustment to
the business Of life after leaving the
hospital, to the whole upbuilding OF
the spirit which is often broken by
lcng suffering, and disqualification
The National Legion service with
volunteer experts on its committees
| guides, improves and often directs
government service into most useful
| and practical channels. It has i'm
proved curative practices in and out
Of hospitals secured improved types
Of hospitals, spurred on government
| service to the object of Cure, and
supplemented where other services
| stopped.
Just as the rehabilitation work OF
| the whole Legion membership and
its posts 10 co-ordinated and directed
through a national service so the
whole child welfare program of the
Legion is operated under guidance
| Of the national Child Welfare Com
mittee. This program has for its
motto, "A Home for Every Homeless
Orphan Of q Veteran" Plainly, in
the whole far flung battle line OF de-
Tense for helpless childhood against
| poverty, disease vice and crime, the
Legion holds especially that sector
| OF the line protecting the $4,000 or
phans Of World War service men
or these children incomplete surveys
show 5000 service mems orphans
without any blood relations to give
them care. Cooperating with es-
tablished child welfare agencies, the
Legion is especially concerned with
these children. 1t is determined that
they must not suffer because Of the
sacrifices Of their father for his
country