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Show Brig. Gen. Sawyer vs. American Legion A ; Kr ' 1 .Mv Brig. Gen.r Charles E. Sawyer. President Hardlhg's personal physician physi-cian and chief co-ordinator of the fed-ral fed-ral board of hospitalization (portrait herewith), appears to be In bad with the American Legion. Anyway, Col. A. A. Sprague, chairman of the legion's national rehabilitation committee, charges him with standing In the way of proper care for "wounded shell-shocked shell-shocked veterans, and holding up hospital hos-pital plans voted by congress. , "I recognize the fact," Colonel Sprague wrote to the President's physician, phy-sician, "that before becoming chief , co-ordinator of the federal board of hospitalization, you had no contact with the men and women who were serving In the army and navy during the war and no experience either In the field or In government service that Would give yon a chance to really know how men feel who lose their nerve, their health and their minds in devotion to duty, or now tiieir families look upon these men who went out In the strength of their youth to Invest their lives In their nation's service," Appealing to General Sawyer to "stand aside," Colonel Sprague said over 4,500 mental cases are still confined in contract Institutions, and that of the remaining 4,715 victims of mental disorders only" 3,500 are In government Institutions devoted entirely to their care. 1 Crissinger and State Banks Fall Out The long-standing feud between state and national banking Institutions Institu-tions over branch banks has Just come to a head as a result of Comptroller of the Currency Crlsslnger'a policy, in which national banks, to compete successfully suc-cessfully with state institutions, are allowed to maintain additional offices. . The fact that there was such a policy came to light when the comptroller comp-troller sent a letter to Senator McCor-mlck McCor-mlck (III.) In answer to a protest from the Chicago and Cook County Bank-era' Bank-era' association admitting frankly that he had found a means of getting around the law against national bank brnnches, and that he had no hesitation hesita-tion In resorting to such an evasion If evasion It be in order that national na-tional banks might survive the competition compe-tition of state Institutions. In this communication Comptroller Crissinger agreed that the nationnl banking act forbids national bank M,iuiiri r f&l' 11- v:J v ,fS branches except In the case of state banks having branches at the time tuey may be nationalized. Twenty-two states, on the other hand, permit state Institutions to have and to operate branches, and the result has been, as the comptroller points out, that stute banks and trust companies with their branches scattered over a given community have reduced, the national banks in some cities to a negligible neg-ligible number. ' Smoot Will Head Finance Committee Ir " !'.. Reed Smoot, Republican, of Utah, will be the next chairman of the senate sen-ate committee on finance. This comes about through the defeat of Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota for the Republican nomination for senator. Senator Smoot, now in his twentieth year In the senate, under the rule of seniority will succeed on March 4 next as chairman of the committee com-mittee whose deliberations and decisions deci-sions directly concern every roan and woman in America. . - ' " Senator Smoot was born In 1802 at Salt Lake City, and got his education educa-tion In his native state. He is a banker and woolen manufacturer. He lives at I'rovo City. His father was a Kentucklan and his mother of Norwegian Norwe-gian stock. He is an apostle of the Mormon church. When he was elected elect-ed In 1903, the fight to unseat him lasted three years. Senator Smoot Is of that kToud of the Renubllcan nartv. sometimes rererred to as standpatters and more often as the Old Guard. Senator Smoot Is a regular watchdog of the treasury. He Is also admitted to be one of the hardest-working men who lias ever sat In the senate, a man who begins his day's labor almost with the sun and who- ends it as a rule long after most other senators have called It "a day's work." He is a master of, statistics, to whom the study of financial history Is a pleasure; a senator to whom vacations when congress Is In session are 'unknown. Kansas Het Up Over "Henry and Me" What's the matter with Kansas? Nothing except that the state Is all bet up over the fact that ''Henry and Me" have fallen out over the railroad strike and "Henry" had "Me" arrested und the courts will settle it In October. "Henry" Is Gov. II. J. Allen (portrait (por-trait herewith), sponsor of the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations. "Me" Is William Allen White of the Emporia Em-poria Cuzette and suthor of "The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me," a hook written after the return of the two chums from overseas. Both have reputations as publicists and editors. Bill stuck a placard up In the Gazette Ga-zette window announcing that he sympathized sym-pathized with the strikers. Attorney Generul Hopkins said the placard was against the antl-plcketlng section of 1 be law. Rill refused to take It down, inylng It was tyranny an attack n free sieech. Henry had him arrested arrest-ed and he gave bond. Then Henry made a public speech In Kmporlu and Bill Introduced liliu. llenrv said, ainoiij; other things: "If trouble should arise In Emporia, Will White would be a brlgrdlet general In ibe posse which would go out to protect law and order. The euly time Bill is dangerous is when he sits down before a double-action tjpevvrl'er mill writes out his emotion. When Bill put up that sympathy curd he became dangerous because of the faith 10 many have lu his judrutUit. His arrest la t grist compliment to blm." |