Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

eiioo"ing tent at Camp Good Will
last Summer, for distributing maya
zines to the hospitals and for sponsor
ing and equipping a base ball team.
Rose O'Hara is the post welfare Off
Ger and Ethel j. Rule is the post Amer
! icanization officer
Sergt Jasper Post, No. 10, the Amer
lean Legion, met Wednesday evening
at the clubrooms, 1926 Massachusetts, |
avenue, with Comdr John j. Orlosky |
presiding. Officers were elected as fol-
lows: Edmund Callahan, commander;
Andrew F. Mclaughlin, Russell w.
Clarkson and Fred Real vice COM
manders; Walter Cupp, post chaplain.
These officers will be installed at the
December meeting Five applicants
were elected to membership: John T.
Powell, Harry J. Hooley, Niles N. War
lick, John F. Driscoll and Edward
| SwartZ.
Disabled American Veterans.
The executive committee of the Dis
| trict of Columbia Department of the
Disabled American Veterans will meet.
during the coming week at department
headquarters in the Earle Building to
consider reports on the annual Forget
MeNot campaign, which ends today.
! After weeks of preparation the drive
was launched last Friday, and George
w. Phillips, past commander who was
director of the undertaking, stated that
the early returns indicated the cam
paign would be successful. Two of the
earliest contributions were from Herbert
| Hoover and William Green, president OF
the American Federation of Labor. 4
AS soon as all returns are in the execu-
tive committee of the department. will
| decide upon the future of the liaiSon
service which the department here has
been maintaining at 1910 street to as
sist the disabled men of Washington
and their dependents in the prepara-
ton and presentation of their claims.
This service lis available to any veteran
his wife or widow without charge of
any sort and is supported by the funds
from the Forget-Me-Not drive.
The Veterans Bureau has just COM
pleted its study of the proposals for
changes in policies that were adopted
by the eighth national convention OF
the D. A. v. at Denver last Summer.
With the rehabilitation program out
of the way the bureau will now study
the proposed amendments to the World
War veterans act which the D. A. v.
will present at the coming session of
Congress, it being the policy of Gen.
Hines to obtain from each of the major
services of the bureau its reaction be-
fore the Veterans Bureau reaches its
decision as to its position on the pro-
| posals when they are placed before the
veterans committee of the House, of
| Representatives.
Having furnished the d. A. ". here,
with its reaction to each of the pro-
| posed changes in procedure in the Vet
erans' Bureau, the bureau has now
taken up consideration with the legis
lative program which the d. A. v.
adopted at its eighth national conven-
| ton at Denver last June and which
will be presented as soon as Congress
reconvenes Later on the director plans
conference with all the representa-
tives of the three World War organi-
cations, the " F. W., the American
Legion and the D. A. w., to explain the
bureaus stand on each item on the
programs of each of the associations.
| The position of the d. A.. " on the
matter of amendments to the Tyson
Fitzgerald law for the retirement of
former disabled emergency officers is
still unsettled pending a complete study
of the procedure that the Veterans Blu
reau has set up for the administration
Of this act.
Hundreds of men who expected to be
retired have been barred, and there
have come from various parts OF the
country proposals to amend the law.
National Comdr M. w. Rice Of the
d. A. ". went to his home in Mime
apolis to vote. but he plans to make an
early trip to Washington and decision
on the whole legislative situation will
then be made by the organized disabled.
| Patients in all of the four Govern
ment hospitals In Washington will be
better off if the Veterans Bureau is
successful in its proposed recommended
ton to Congress that authority be
granted for an extension of the social
service of the bureau in all institutions.
All this work was formerly done by
f, the Red Cross, but when that organi-
Zation limited itself largely to recre-
ational activities the bureau organized
| a force of its own. However, this Serv-
ice has not been entirely satisfactory
so Gen. Hines, following strong recon-
mendationS by the D. A. w., has decided
to ask Congress for broad authority in
the matter.
Military Order of the World War.
Maj Gen. William D. Conner, COM
mandant of the Army War College, was
the speaker at the meeting and lunch
con of the District of Columbia Chapter
of the Military Order of the World War
thursday at JIle Army ana navy CluD.
| Gen. Conner, who was introduced by
Maj. Gen. Greed c. Hammond, chief of
the Militia Bureau, and commander of
the Washington chapter, used as his
topic Impressions of China" The gen.
erals long residence lin China and his
intimate knowledge of the Chinese af-
! fairs, life and customs, enabled him to
present a very unique picture, which
/ gave his audience a more intimate and
! fuller knowledge of what China really
was and its form of aspects.
At the guest table, In addition to Gen.
Conner and Gen. Hammond, were Gen.
Grote Hutchinson, who has recently re-
+, turned from abroad Admire! CoWie,
the vice commander in-chief of the
order: Col. Thomas j. Dickson, chaplain
general; Maj. w. l., Symonds, judge
advocate general of the order; Maj.
Gen. Amos S. Fries, chief of the Chemi-
cal Warfare Service; Admiral G. w,
Dyson and others.
Lieut.. Col. Henry s. Merrick, Cavalry,
was elected to membership.
The entertainment committee re-
ported progress on the annual banquet
and ball, which will be held on Lin
coins birthday at the Hotel Mayfiower.
Arrangements are also being made for
the annual massing of the colors and
church services, which will be under
the guidance Of Capt. George F. IN
macht as chairman.