Show Legion V Would Push Work on Public Improvements Chicago While While o Willie the American Le Legion lon Is constantly looking after the welfare of or ph physically disabled comrades the Legion now feels that It should give attention to the many thousands s of or veterans who are ph physically sound but financially disabled dis dig This statement was made maae madeI b by Ralph T. T ONeil O'Neil national commander com com- mander mallaer of the American Legion Lelon In commenting on the time public improvement Improvement Improve improve- ment pro programs tams being sponsored by bythe bythe bythe the ten thou thousand and Legion posts In ten tho thousand sand cities reports show that there t mere afre fe about worth of public Improvements planned and und neatly nearly ne II ren ready r to carry through points out Mr 11 OXe ONell ONeil nut But many millions of dollars worth of ot projects projects projects are tied up in red tape tupe and money appropriated Is 1 lying ln Idle Since a great deal of power man Is required In construction work labors labor's la- la labors labor's labors labor's la la- bors bor's share of this two half billion billion- dollar billion-dollar program will be In Inthe Inthe inthe the neighborhood of one and una a half- half billion dollars Labor nee needs s that mone money money Tire The American Legion Leg unemployment ment commission hen headed ed by Howard Howard Howard How How- ard Savage e past lIast national comman commander com corn man mander el asks s that each Le Legion lon post support in its own community needed needed need need- ed etl projects so that employment ment may be furnished immediately This will nill be he to the public benefit for projects built hullt now note will cost far farless farless farless less than thrum later Inter when higher hl prices return Further money productively productive productive- ly h spent to the benefit of labor and the community will not have to be next winter wintel in spent nonproductive relief work orl with the same men teen The fhe service ex nuts mUll asks no charity char char- charity ity but an opportunity to support himself h by building up his community community com n and his home |