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Show V i -' ; ji -if -T-v- ; (t-'.:":i t vi"i H' u -' i LMQM (Copy lor This Department .Supplied bj the American Let: ion New- Service. ) MEANS VICTORY FOR LEGION Repon of Dawes Committee Embodies Principal Features of Organization's Organiza-tion's Relief Plan. All Investigation speed records at the national capitol were broken by President Harding's Hard-ing's special commission com-mission to frame a comprehensive program for the relief of disabled veterans, which was headed by Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes of Chicago. Chi-cago. . He Jammed through, in less than two days, an inquiry into treatment of disabled soldiers, recommendations recom-mendations that mean adequate hospital hos-pital treatment to 10,000 wounded veterans vet-erans now in poorhorses, asylums, Insufficiently In-sufficiently equipped hospitals or in no institution at al", as well as payment pay-ment for disability to thousands of veterans not in hospitals. The report of the Dawes committal Is considered as a great victory for the American Legion program for disabled dis-abled soldier relief. Its recommendations recommenda-tions embody the principal features of the Legion plan. They are : 1. Appointment of one official to have charge of all disabled sohjjors' relief and benefits. There now are three departments. !2. Decentralization of administration, administra-tion, so officials with delegated authority author-ity may act without red tape. 3. Appropriation of whatever additional addi-tional money Is necessary for new hospitals. Other members of the committee were: F. W. Galbraith, Jr., national commander of the American Legion; Franklin D'Olier, past national commander com-mander of the American Legion; Thomas W. Miller of Delaware; Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the" Navy; Mrs. Douglas Robinson of New York, a sister of former President Presi-dent Roosevelt ; John L. Lewis of Indianapolis, president of the United Mine Workers of America; Mrs. Henry Rea of riifsburg; Milton J. Foreman of Chicago; Henry S. Berry of Hen-dersonville, Hen-dersonville, Tenn., and T. V. O'Connor of Buffalo, head of the longshoremen's union. |
