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Show CARE FOR WOUNDED BUDDIES Nation-Wide Movement to Aid and Cheer Thousands of Wounded Men Now in Hospitals. A ration-wide movement to care for tiie 17.000 ex-service men who are now in hospitals suffering from disabilities incurred In the service, has been launched by the American Legion through its Americanism commission. Bulletins have been issued to state chairman asking them to organize local lo-cal Legion post committees to co-operate with the hospitals for the entertainment enter-tainment of the men in the wards, and for their care after discharge. Efforts will be made to provide visitors vis-itors for those men who are confined to hospitals to mitigate the loneliness of their enforced inactivity, and In this part of the program the Women's Auxiliary is expected to be of particular particu-lar value. To men who are discharged Individual Individ-ual assistance will be given by members mem-bers of the local Legion post in securing secur-ing work and in straightening out any difficulties that may arise in the matter mat-ter of compensation, insurance and so on. A system of interstate co-operation will provide for every man who leaves a hospital in one state, a welcome wel-come in the state for which he is bound. "If there Is any one thing that all members of the Legion are agreed on more than anything else, it is that wounded men should be generously taken care of," declared Arthur Woods, chairman of the Americanism commission. "It Is the personal contact con-tact with the man that counts. We must show him that we are genuine friends. And certainly, no man ever needs a shove upward more than a discharged, disabled service man who has to make up so much lost time under un-der such tremendous handicaps. I know you will agree that this is a challenge to service on our part which we, of the Legion, will not Ignore." |