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NEGLECT OF DISABLED MEN WELL KNOWN TO LEGION MEN
Legion’s Investigation Shows Lack of
Attention to Mon Who Suffered
Terrors of War.
Gilbert Bettman, Chairman of the Na
tional Legislative Committee of
the American Legion.
GIINwt Bettman, who »as recently
Investigations by the American l-e appointed chairman of the national
gioii reveal shocking conditions of mla-
legislativa
com
mamigement and neglect In the gov
mittee
of
tin»
ernment's treatment <»C disabled vet
American Leglou.
eran*. according to reports of the l-e
Is well known to
(Cepy fer Thin P*partm*«t AuppUod I-
gkai's rinding* made public by F. W.
many
Legion
th» Am«rle*n ! »«ion New»
)
Galbraith, Jr., national commander.
member* becuuse
The Legion has launched a nation-wide
ho helped to draft
DAVIS FACES IMPORTANT It)? fight for the cwrectiou of these condi
the four-fold op
tions, which Mr Galbraith ha.« ile
tional plan of ad-
Prominent mincie Legion Man Head» scribed a* "a blot and a disgrace or
justed compensa*
Committee on Hospitalisation and
the name of our country.’’
tlon ami. with
Vocational Training.
More than 'JO.«»»» veterans are still
James G. Sc rug
in hospitals suffering from wounds aud
ham. naw nation
Gen. Abel Davis, who has been ap iudrmltle* suffered In their country's
al
vico command-
pointed chairman of the committee on service. Many of them have been there
. ,-cu.eU it Iwfore the »ays and
h o s p I tallitatlon since they were brought back from V.
means committee of the house of rep
and
vocational France on the hospital ships. Their
training of the number i* increasing at the rate of 2,- reMtn tati ves.
Mr. Bettman was graduated from
American Legion, 500 a month, due mostly to the develop
Harvard college aud the Harvard law
is a front-line sol ment of tuberculosis among men who
school with three degrees, and prac
dier who won the wvrv gassed Statistics show that
l> I » t I nguished more than 500.000 men we^e dis- ticed law In Cincinnati until a short
Service Cross and charged with disability rated higher time after the outbreak of the war.
Appointed as assistant to the di
Croix de Guerre than 10 per ceut. Experts agree that
rector of the bureau of war risk Insur
when
he com the peak In hospitalisation will not
ance, Mr. Bettman served In that ca
manded the On* come for live or ten years. Yet, gov
pacity until the German offensive of
Hundred and ernment hospital* at present are tilled
March 21. when he was commissioned
Thirty -second iu- to overflowing uud even contract ar 'captain In the military Intelligence di
fantry In France. rangement« are not l>elng made rap
vision of the general staff.
General I’an* »as born In Chicago idly enough to care for the ever rising
Mr Bettman attended the St. Louis
and received his education In Chicago tide of disabled men whose condition*
caucus of the American 1-eglon and
schools. He attended Northweaterh demand hospitalisation.
Certainly, there Is no lack of wil the Minneapolis aud Cleveland con
university, and served as a member of
ventions. He has served as chairman
the Illinois legislature and also held lingness on the i>art of the American
of the war risk committee and as a
the position of recorder of deeds of. public to do all In human pourer to ahi
member of the' naflonal beneficial leg
Cook county, Illinois. He Is now vice those who paid the price for the vic
islative committee.
tory
The
same
expert*
who
estimate
president and trust officer of the Chi-
that the peak of the problem will not
cagO'Title and Trust company.
General Sherman Stuff.
The military can-er of General Davis come for five or h>n year* »ay In the
It was a perfect French night. In
dates back to 1887. when he enlisted meantime $5,000.000.000 must l>e qvent
In the Illinois National Guard., He In Its solution. .The government' has other words, the rain was coming
served as a private In the Spanish- not been niggardly. More than $.'•<»>.- | down steadily and the mud was at Its
American war and remained In the 000,1»») already has been spent. Mis stickiest. In "squab" formation—twes.
army afterwards. He attained the management Is the gist of the Legion's threes, fives and else»—a regiment of
rank of major, and served for some charge Lack of vision and foresight Buffaloes was moving Into an al*
time on the Mexican bonier. After and thè ever-present governmental red leged rest camp. Ttie accent wii on
a short period at Camp Logan with the tape Is blamed »« re*i*mslble for the the camp.
The moat forlorn of all the forlorn
One Hundred and Thirty-first infan death of disabled men before aid could
try. he was promoted to colonel and reach them, for the Incarceration of crew staggered against a barracks
given command of the One Hundred disabled in Jails a'SI insane asylum*, doorway where he was accosted by a
and Thirty-aecond Infantry, which par and the charity ward* of public hos white non-com.
"Well. Sam. whaddye think of this
ticipated in a number of major of pitals h here they received the same
war uow? Pretty good war?"
fensives In France. He has received treatment as paupers.
"Boss, dis yeah war never was a
In addl’lon to Its activities In advo
the rank of brigadier general In the
cating reform In the conduct of the good war—and dis last day practical
Illinois National Guard.
government bureau*, the American Le- ly done ruined It com-pletely,"—Amer
g' n ! r.; ded'eated Itself to the trv- ican Legion Weekly.
PEOPLE FAVOR BONUS BILLS mendou* task of "humanising' thr
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dreary live* of 20.000 disabled bmklle*
New York, New Jersey. Washington who are patients In the hoepltalx all
over the country.
and South Dakota Sanction ths
Every Legion post In this country DESIRED TO TAKE THE VEIL
Proposition.
ha.« been »«signed to the definite job
The passage of soldier bonus bills In of taking care of a certain hospital Oldest Daughter of Thomas Jefferson
Attracted by Quiet Life Within
New York, New Jersey, Washington whore former service men are patients.
Convent Walla
The Women's auxiliary also will be
and South Dakota by overwhelming
majorities at the November elections mobilized to share In the work and
Martha Jefferson, oldest daughter
is unquestionable proof of the public's civic and philanthropic organizations
of Thomas Jeffimson, third President
recognition of veterans' claim*. I m the In the hospital town* will be enlisted.
There Is also the dangerous possi of the United States, came near to be
opinion advanced in an editorial which
bility
that the hospital patients, re ing a catholic sister. She was a stu
appeared recently In the American le
maining day after day wph no Inter.-») dent at the school of Ahbaye de Pan-
gion Weekly.
"tine-fourth of the five million men other than their physical condition, themont at the time the French Revo
who served In the arnw and navy live will become bitter against ihe country lution was in progress. The daring
in states which have shown their sense which once honored them and whl“h and flippant Infidelity of the French
of justice by awarding compensation." apparently has east them aside. In frightened and disgusted her. and she
the writer says. “Three-fourths of the several hospitals, Bolshevist agents clung to the calm and serene life of
the convent with all her strength. Iler
veterans of the World war live tn have distributed inflammatory liter»
¡hlrty-slx states which have not faced ture by Ingenious methods, of which mother had taught tier In the ways
the issue—in most of them because an example Is the Inclosure of the of the Church of England, but the sur-'
there have been no recent sessions of printed matter In bouquets of flowers rounding« at the school overreached
In one case discovered by Legion In this, and «he decided tn become n
state legislatures.
nun.
"The United States senate will soon vestigators the propaganda was en
She wrote to her father asking hl«
pass on the question of national com- titled: "You fought for America and
I>ensation for World war veterans what did you get out of It?" And In permission to adopt the veil. N.-
Facing them squarely I* the Fordney deed. it does seem that the sick vet answer ‘ame for several days, ano
bill, adopted by the lower house. This eran got little out of It except a short then Jefferson appeared In persie-
bill Mil meet every test of justice. It period of popularity, the consciousnes« He greeted the girl with a tender
is In accord with the sentiment of the of having done his duty and a maimed smile. Interviewed the abbess, and
then came out and told the girl to
people of the country as attested by and diseased body.
pack her things. Her school life
"The 2.000.ÌM») who are their bud
■he state bonus election*. Its passage
by the senate will mark the fulfillment dies.'' said the Legton's national com was ended at that moment, and the
of a national obligation. The state bo mander, "and are banded together In next day. she was Introduced to
nuses are the expressions of a desire the American Legion, are determined •letv and made the rnlstre«.« of her
by the peoplA to give a square deal. that the hundred million shall not for father's household. She doclsrred years
fterward that neither she nor her
They do not lessen In any degree the get. In th!» work of giving the di»
federal responsibility. which cannot be nbled man a fair deal and making him father had ever nlluded to the sub*
avoided on the plea of state generos content we shall a«k the co-operation Ject by a single word from that
of every loyal American. We forigli' day on.
ity.”
together and we will stick together.”
Historic Stratford-on-Avon.
NORTON IS NAMED ORGANIZER
The history of Stratford-on-Avon
OL’LD STEER SHY OF CAMERA may be traced trick for a period of
World War Fighte- Appo'nted Organ,
1,100 years, urid as the birthplace of
izer of the Vermont Department
Colonel Whittlesey, Leaoer of “Lost Shakespeare Is has become a classic
of the Legion.
Battaion," Bricks Off From Mo
renter visited annually by some fiO.ta»»
tion Picture Machine.
people.
The Guard house, where
In keeping with the policy of the
Shakespenre
was horn; Shottery.
American Legion of electing real fight
Although Colonel Whittlesey, an ac-
ing men for Its of five In-“ ' T o' '11» American Legion, where he courted Anne Hathaway;
Charlotte park, once the seat of Sir
ficial*. Hj-nrj L.
led the famous Thomas Lucy. whose displeasure
Norton, fifty years
“lost
battalion" Shakespeare Incurred by stealing
old, a tighter for
through the Ar n's deer; the Shakespeare Memo
four years and
gonne and wii « rial theater, on the hnnks of the Avon,
seven months In
ne of the 51 and Shakespeare's monument, are nil
the Cnmi'lian and
American* who places worthy of visiting In the old
American armies
won the blue ro market town of Stratford-on-Avon.
during the World
sette of the con-
The Shakespeare hotel, situated In
war, has been ap
grAslonal medal the center of the town and close to
pointed organizer
of honor, he told the Shakespeare Memorial theater,
of the Vermont de
Fatty" Arbuckle was erected In the Fourteenth cen
partment of the
hat he would tury. A few door* from Shakespeare
| Legion. Mr Nor
e
"scared to hotel Is the Harvard House, which
ton enlisted in the Canadian engi
death" If placed was the early home of the Harvard
neers in 1914, and served with them In before a motion picture camera.
family, founders of Harvard univer
France untl' 1917, when he received
“You can starve a man; you can sity.
a commission In the American army. wound him with bullets,” said Colonel
He served with the Three Hundred Whittlesey during a recent visit to a
How to Know Postry.
and Seventy-second Infantry, attached Hollywood movie studio with the port
to rhe One Hundred and Fifty-seventh ly comedian, "but you can't dim hl«
We literates have been taught to
French brigade from Its arrival In love for the movies. Juat a few hour« rend poetry, and taught also that It
France March 18 1918. until be was after my boys of the Three Hundred I» highly commendable to enjoy It. In
discharged In February, 1919
and Eighth Infantry had landed In a order to know what kind of poetry
safe billeting area on being relieved ought to be especially enjoyed, we read
There Are Fronts and Fronts.
from their perilous position, the whole other books, written by critics. In or
A mud-spattered doughboy slouched hunch were In a 'Y' hut watching a •ler to understand what the poetry
that ought to be admired means, w*
Into the Y hut where an entertain five-reel comedy."
read other books by professional
ment was In progress and slumped
grammarians. By the time we have
Into a front seat.
In These Days.
finished this preparatory reading. we
Firm, kindly and efficient, a Y. M
"Who's the boss here?" asked a are somenhat confuted. We are In
C. A. man approached him saying:
"Sorry, buddy, hut the entire front traveling salesman as he stopped at doubt ns to what p<*-try, actually 1«.
a farm with a set of the World's Rest cud how It differs from prose, li^hls
section Is reserved for officers."
Literature In 12 volumes.-
predicament we fall hack on the print
Wearily the youth rose,
“He Is." replied the man st the door er. If every line begins with a cap
“All right." he drawled, “but the one
I Just got back from wasn't. "-»Amerl wearily, pointing to the hired man ita^ letter, »e assume that It Is po
ioatlng hard in a field, "I'm only bls etry.—Samuel McChord Crothera in
can Legion Weekly.
employer
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