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Show VOCATIONAL PLAN GETS 0. K. National Headquarters Receives Many Expressions of Approval of the Wfrk Accomplished. rU'innrknlilt tributes to the success of the Amnion) Legion's plan of co- operation w 1 t h the Federal Board for Voca-cational Voca-cational Education Educa-tion to bring about immediate a d m 1 s s i on to training, at government gov-ernment expense, of thousands of disabled former service men, have been received re-ceived at national nation-al headquarters of the Legion, since the inauguration inaug-uration of the G. J. MURPHY. Head of Service Division. system was announced a few weeks ago. Probably the most significant Instance In-stance of efliciency under the new arrangement ar-rangement comes from Oshkosh, Wis. Oshkosh post, No. 70, located 80 men who had put In claims for training, but had 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 80 cases was cleaned up at once. It Is the intention of the Legion, through Its national vocational officer at Indianapolis, and co-operating Legionnaires Le-gionnaires 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 every crippled veteran, whether wheth-er a member of the Legion or not, who Is entitled to training under the provisions of the vocation rehabilitation rehabilita-tion act. Since the Legion took up this work In Michigan, a total of 2,500 cases have been settled by the Legion and the federal fed-eral board, working together. Conferences Confer-ences have been held in 15 districts of the state and Legion men, accompanied accom-panied by representatives of the board, met vocational officers of the local posts and sought out the men whose cases had not been acted upon. In New Jersey, the Legion and federal fed-eral board have offices in the same building, and through co-operation the board is brought In touch with every man who has a claim, with the result that Immediate action Is being obtained ob-tained In practically every Instance. Four district conferences have been held in Ohio and arrangements have been made to have "flying squadrons" visit the posts as fast as men having claims can be located and gotten together. to-gether. In Utah, the Legion is interviewing every ex-service man in the state with reference to any claim he may have. As soon as such a man is located, his case Is taken up and settled immediately. immedi-ately. In Wisconsin arrangements have been made to hold a vocational conference confer-ence as a part of t lie state convention of the Legion at Green Bay, as a final determined effort to wind up any and all cases that may still he pending at that time. Similar reports, all attesting greal success for the co-operative plan have come in from California, Arkansas and Alabama. |