Show i u e eAI AI nI IAN I Copy for tor This Department Supplied by National Headquarters of rt the American Legion Lesion VOCATIONAL PLAN GETS 0 O. K National Headquarters Receives ves Many Expressions of Approval of the Wark Accomplished Remarkable tributes to the success of the American Legions Legion's plan o of cooperation cor co- co 0 S operation wit with h the Federal FederalS r S Board for Voca Voca- Education I tion to bring about Immediate a admission d m i s s 31 I on to training at government gov gOY d-c d expense of thousands of S disabled former formers s 8 service e r v ice men S ha have ve been bee n received re re- re- re eels eels-ed d at nation nation- r G. G J J. J MURPHY al headquarters of the Legion Head of Service since the inauguration Division of the system was announced a few weeks ago Probably the most significant Instance Instance instance in In- stance of ot efficiency under tinder the time I new arrangement ar are ar- ar comes from Oshkosh Wig Wis post No r-o. 70 located 80 melt mets who had put in claims for training but bad been unable to obtain a decision on their cases The post got these men together and notified the district office of the board at Chicago which sent a flying squadron of trouble men to Oshkosh Everyone of the SO cases was cleaned up at once It Is the time Intention of the Legion through its national vocational officer at Indianapolis and operating co-operating Legionnaires Legionnaires Le Le- res glonna In every department and community throughout the country to see that this same system is put into universal practice until the last red tape entanglement is swept from the path of er e every crippled veteran whether er or a member of the Legion or not who Is entitled to training under the provisions of the vocation rehabilitation tion act Since the Legion took tool up this wor work In Michigan a n total of ot 2500 cases have been settled by the Legion and the federal fed feli- era eral I board working together Conferences Conferences Confer Confer- have ha been held In 15 5 districts ot of the state and Legion men accompanied accompanied by bj representatives es of the board met vocational officers of the local posts and sought out the men whose cases uses had not been acted upon In New r-ew Jersey the Legion and fed oral eral board have offices in the same building and through operation co the board is brought In touch with everyman every everyman man who has a n claim with the result that immediate action Is being obtained obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed in practically every instance Four district conferences eS have nave been held In Ohio and d arrangements have bave been made to have flying dying squadrons visit the posts as fast as men inca n having claims can be located and gotten to to- gether In U Utah lh the tle Legion is Interviewing every Enery service ex-service man in the state with willa reference to any aDY claim he lie may have I As soon as ns such a man is located his hi case is taken up and settled tely In Wisconsin arrangements have bave been made to hold bold A vocational conference conference conference confer confer- ence as a part of the state convention on of ot the Legion at Green Bay as asU asa a U final determined effort to wind up any and all cases that may still b be 00 pending at that time Similar reports all attesting great success for the time operative co-operative plan have ha rome come in from California Arkansas and Alabama GIRL WHO HAS TRICK MEMORY I Miss Tillie Turk Knows Names and Addresses of Scores of the theLe Legion Le gion Boys Boy There Is te a young woman in New work orl who knows b by iy heart henrt the names and addresses of ot S 5 more mere macre men she sue has never neve neverseen seen seers and ritho r. r are members of ot ofF F S the time American AmericanS Legion than anyone anyone any ally one In America Her lIeI trick memory memo mans ory Is one of the tho timings things that enables eats ena bles her to hold holdS S down the tho responsible sible position of or head heal of ot rime rhe wailing mailing department lIt of the tho American Legion on Weekly the Legions Legion's official magazine l Her Ier er name is Miss Tillie Turk and her address as stated is Ig New York City |