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Show More Efficiency in Veterans' Bureau (3 fOPOSEOcmWEsl SWEEPING recommendations designed de-signed to Increase the efficiency of the veterans' bureau have been made in a report by the special senate committee investigating government activities ac-tivities for the relief of former service serv-ice men. The report was the committee's commit-tee's second. The bureau should "broaden its Interpretation and widen the scope of application of existing laws," the report said, adding that additional ad-ditional legislation would be sought to meet deficiencies shown. Among recommendations were : Appropriation of $10,400,000 for hospitals; hos-pitals; transfer of all government hospitals, including soldiers' homes not needed by the army and navy, to the bureau, creation of a chaplain corps for service in hospitals and training centers ; provision of cemeteries ceme-teries at soldiers' hospitals ; standardization standard-ization of training, permitting the applicant ap-plicant to select as far as possible his own vocation ; extension of Insurance to $10,000 to each policyholder If he desires, and extension of Insurance and compensation privileges to Americans Amer-icans who served in allied force. Cancellation of contracts with state, municipal and private hospitals not In existence April 1, 1917, and with Bll similar institutions which are found unsuitable, was recommended as one administrative reform, others under this head including: Issuance of rules and regulations for the maintenance main-tenance of order and discipline; thor- ough Inspection of hospitals and training train-ing centers, elimination of politics from appointments, establishment of additional vocational centers at institutions insti-tutions where mental and tubercular patients are treated. To July 1 there had been 388,000 applications ap-plications for vocational training, the committee found, adding that "although "al-though we are approaching the third anniversary of the armistice," only 5,-050 5,-050 have been rehabilitated. Only 12,000 men have accepted training without pay, out of 96,913 eligibles, and only 96,000 with pay out of 159,309 ellglWes, the report said. The committee said that the government gov-ernment had failed to obtain "results commensurate with the large expenditures," ex-penditures," in rehabilitation work, and expressed belief that knowledge of the government's failure prevented pre-vented men "from seeking hospital treatment until too lata" |