Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-29

| OF which he is a member Post Comdr.
| William c. Murphy, fr., presided.
At this meeting the delegates to rep
resent the National Press Club Post at
! the approaching department convention
were elected They were II. A. Bauk-
| hage the senior vice commander, ana
! H. Edmund Bulls, the post adiutant,
who recently retired as department ad-
| lutant The alternates selected we're
Richard Seelye Jones, past depart
| ment and post officer and Richard
! Westwood a past adiutant OF the Ma
| tional Press Club Post,
William Wolf Smith general counsel
of tho United States veterans Bureau,
who is the alternate national executive
committeeman and who has been out
| of the city. Is scheduled to- return I'M
mediately prior to the department con-
vention.
Delegates to the departmental con-
vention will be elected by the George
| washington Post, No.f1 at the meeting,
August 7, at l44l Rhode Island avenue:
The number of delegates will depend
| upon the number of paid-up members
in the post and those who have not paid
their 1923 dues. An initiation will also
| be held when several new members VIII
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American Legion,
Comdr. Painter has returned from his
vacation and will preside at the meeting.
Henry c. Spengler Post, No, H. met
al the Thomas Circle Club wednesday
and Comdr. Ben L. Fuller presided.
Comdr Ben l.. Fuller. Mai f. H. Hale
and Capt Jesse c. Sweeney. were elected
delegates to the department encamp-
ment. and Capt. Chester M Reich,
Lieut.. c. H. Kelley and N. Ward Guth-
RE altcruates. The post voted that its
representatives should be uninstructed
and given permission to exercise their
own discretion and Judgment in voting
on questions and candidates presented
to the department encampment
Resolutions intended to clarity the
World War veterans act and indorSing
the efforts now being made to perfect
LEGISLATION affecting I. the appointment
,promotion, den1otion and retention OF
Veterans In governmental positions we're
adopted by the post and forwarded to
the department. for consideration at the
forthcoming department cncampment,
The committee in charge of the birth
day celebration of the post, to be held i'll
September, outlined its program. and in
formed the post membership that the
verSary will be submitted for approval
at the August meeting.
Disabled American War Veterans.
The washington Office of the D. A. v.
announces that some of the legislative
items that will be pressed before the
next session OF Congress are as follows
That the permanent hospital con-
strlction program OF the Veterans
Bureau be completed at emergency
speed,
That the sites OF hospitals be located
as near as practicable to the center OF
the disabled military population.
That. the class of non-service con-
nected disabilities, which the Veterans
Bureau is inundated 70 hospitalize, be
increased by law.
That Congress empower the President
to transfer individual units of the Sys-
tenn of National Homes for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers to the Veterans
Bureau.
That the House veterans committee
make personal inspection OF Veterans
Bureau hospitals and the National
Homes during the coming year.
That the system of .diagnostic centers
Of the Veterans Bureau be. expanded by
additional clinics. 80
That disabled veterans eligible to
United States. civil service positions be
furnished with written explanations why
they are skipped in appointments and
that the positions be held open until the
veterans have an opportunity to answer
the objections.
That ample appropriations be provid-
ed for the Veterans Bureau to maintain
a suitable system TO assist disabled
veterans to obtain employment.
That the cost of printing blanks for
reduced transportation fares for men
OH turlough from hospitals be assumed
by the Veterans Bureau.
That there be established perma-
nent medical corps in the Veterans
Bureau
That man who has carried a tenn
porary total rating for IL consecutive
months shall be rated as permanent
and total and this rating shall continue
during the totality Of the disability.
That the director of the Veterans
Bureau be given discretionary power to
raise TO $50 month the compensation
allowed the hoSpitalized insane in indi-
viduai cases when the facts justify the
increase, -
That there be an increase in allow
ance for attendants by the Veterans
Bureau
That the dependents allowances be
paid when men on permanent and
total rating die, regardless of the i'm
mediate cause of death.
That the Veterans Bureau be equip
ped to give radium treatments when
needed by any class of disabled veter-
ans.
That Congress provide for pilgrimage
TO Europe for all mothers and unmar-
ried widows OF former service men
buried overseas.
That the principle of the Mcclellan
Fitzgerald bill, TO give proper credits in
The postal service for military service,
be enacted
That the salaries and promotions OF
warrant officers Of the Navy be revised
oy passage OF the principles of the
3hortridge- Britten bill.
That an adequate national defense be
maintained capable of sudden expan~
sion for training Of citizen-soldiers.
That there be an increased appro-
priatior for Citizens Military Training
Camps and the National Guard.
That Congress enact the Britten bill
to provide Is additional cruisers and
one aircraft carrier
That restriction of immigration be
continued as the national policy of the
United States.
That there be enacted a universal
CONSUMPTION act 10 be effective in the
next national emergency.
Disabled American Veterans.
Campaigns Ia put through the legis-
lative ana rehabilitation programs of
the Disabled American Veterans. as
adopted by the recent eighth national
convention at Denver, were decided
upon At series Of conferences here
last week which were participated in
by Willard w Rice of Minneapolis. the
new national commander and the STAFF