Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
Veterans of Great War

or to take vocational training courses.
II Il the aim OF the Legion ana auxiliary
| to give every war orphan the same op..
portunity for higher education he might
have had II his father had not been
killed In the war.
State appropriations to supplement
| the Federal compensation which Is PAID
to war orphans remaining IN scnool Pc
yond the age Of 10 were secured TINS
year Ia Utah. Connecticut, Delaware
and Maryland. Bills providing for
| similar appropriations were introduced
| In the state legislatures OF number
| Of other States and the ground pre-
| pared for their passage In the futlfe.
Valuable scholarships for war orphans
were obtained In o number OF State
educational Institutions and national
scholarship fund from which the edu.:
cation OF war orphans will be aided
was started.
The next regular meeting Of Victory
Post, No. I, will be held Tuesday at
pm. at o36 Grant place. at which time
the newly elected officers will be in
stalled by the department commander,
L. Z. Atkins. and his offieial STAFF.
In addition to the department officers
the post win have as their guest Senator
Willard Tydings, Of Maryland; Col.
national legislative committee; Capt.
Watson B. Miller, chairman Of the ma
tional rehabilitation committee; Past
Department Comdr. Of the State Of
Kentucky Allen =. Denton; Past De-
partmei1t Commanders Of the District
OF Columbia Harlan Wood, Gen. Amos
A. Fries, Col. j. Miller Kenyon, Maj.
Paul v. McGahan, Mai. Frank Peck
ham, Gen. Rufus II. Lane, u. 8. M. c.,
and Admiral r. H. Leigh, U. s. N.
Gardens on Benning road northeast.
regular meeting at the Washington
Hotel September 4, the newly elected
officers being installed by Mrs. Dorothy
B. Harper. chapeau paSSe, as follows:
Chapeau departmental, Miss Edna Nc
1ntoSh; les demi-chapeauX, Mrs. Amy
Hammond and Mrs. Roberta Fawcett;
l'aumonier, Mrs. Mary K. Kileen; FAR
cierge. Mrs Ethel Fowler: la cassiere,
Mrs Carolyn Herman; Ia surintendante,
Mrs. Helen Sprague.
Delegates to the Marche Rationale,
| to be held In Louisville, October 2, are:
Miss Emily Carey, Miss Edna Mcintosh
and Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper; alternates,
Mrs. Irene Arnold, Mrs. Mary Esther
Kolhos. Others who will be in the ct
40 delegation are Mrs. Roberta Fawcett,
Mrs Eunice Cox, Miss Irene Key, Miss
Janet McRae, Mrs. Ethel Fowler, Mrs.
Helen Sprague, Mrs. Madeline Murphy.
Mrs. Ada v. Murray and Mrs. Ruth
Pritchard.
At the marche departmental held
in August 1t was voteS to continue the
salons special work in the interest Of
World War orphans, to adopt a child
| for the salons care when practical, to
continue its child welfare work through
| the direction of the D. C. Legion De-
partment child welfare officer and to
form an ct 40 drum and bugle corps
Perfecting plans and drilling the drum
| corps will be Partner Gertrude Lyons.
Committee appointments for the en-
suing year will be announced at the
next regular meeting, to be held at the
washington Hotel in October.
A bon voyage party will be given for
| Mrs. Amy Hammond, September 10,
who sails for Spain September 81 to
visit her son, who is in charge Of the
American aeronautics exhibit.
The advisory council Of the U. s. S.
Jacob Jones Post, No. 2, met at the
home Of Miss Charlotte Berry, 161 v
street northeast, Thursday evening.
Helen Mccarthy and Charlotte Berry
were hostesses.
The regular meeting Of the post will
be held tomorrow at the Thomas Cir
Gle Club, 1925 Massachusetts, avenue
| northwest, at pm. All members are
requested to attend, especially those who
are planning to go to the national con-
vention at Louisville, KY. September 80
to October 4, as this will be the last
post meeting to be held previous to the
nauonal convention. /, z..-;.ss
The members Of this post are invited
by Comrades Rule, Hall and Reagan to
visit their gardens, and those of the
boys who made gardens under the
sponsorship Of the post in its Ameri-
canization work, at the Community
Gardens on Benning road northeast.
The Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing Post, No. 23, will resume its regular
monthly meetings tomorrow night. after
Summer vacation schedule that has
lasted since its last meeting on June TO-
During this recess the post executive
committee, transacting the business of
the organization, has held several inn
portant meetings, reports Of which will
be given tomorrow night. The main
business Of this meeting will be q COM
plete revision of the post constitution.
The committee In charge of this work
has been conducting meetings through
out the Summer, and much work has
been done to prepare a new constitu-
ton to be placed before the members
for their consideration. The post entry
in the department parade Of last month
won prize Of twenty dollars in gold.
Several social events were held by the
post chief among which were 9 crab
feast at Mclean, Va, and beach out
ing to Chapel Point. Refreshments
will be served at the meeting, which
will be held at the Red Mems Hall,
713 D street.
Former emergency officers who have
been retired under the emergency OH
GERS retirement act cannot make allot-
ments Of their retirement pay in favor
Of wives or children, according to
the United States Veterans Bureau, the
national rehabilitation committee of the
American Legion has been informed
The decision was rendered in the case
of o retired emergency oficer who re-
quested that $40 month Of his retire
lnent pay be paid directly to his wife,
from whom he was separated. In dis
approving the request, Director Hines
pointed out that under the laws and
regulations governing the allotment Of
the pay Of Army officers, only Officers
on the active list and retired officers
on active duty were permitted to make
allotments, and that furthermore the
emergency officers retirement act Is
silent as to allotments and contains no
provisions with respect to payments to
ofncers' dependents.
Veterans Of Foreign Wars. :.
The counsel of administration, Dis
trict Of Columbia Department, Veterans
Of Foreign Wars, will meet at the Sol
diers', Sailors and Marines Club to-