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Show TO AID ALL EX-SERVICE MEN Outline of Year's Work Made Known In Resolution Adopted at Legion Convention. The policy of the American Legion for the coming year which definitely means the policy of nearly 1,000,000 persons throughout the United States holding membership in the organization, organiza-tion, and in reality represents the principles which will guide hundreds of thousands of unaffiliated ex-service men and women in this country for the same period, is embodied in the resolutions adopted at the recent national na-tional Legion convention in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. These principles cover a variety of problems. The American Legion has taken a definite stand upon practically every question of national and international inter-national importance now before the people of the United States. The most important of these is the question of rehabilitation, according to Legion leaders. The American Legion, Le-gion, at its national convention, adopted adopt-ed 91 resolutions embodying recommendations recom-mendations for governmental steps, legislative or otherwise, all insuring more complete justice to disabled service serv-ice men at the hands of the United States Veterans' bureau. Although such a mass of suggestions for the improvement of the government's service serv-ice to disabled ex-service men is proof that the bureau is not entirely as it should be, most of the resolutions call for legislative changes, and Indicate no fault in the administration of the body. In fact, the convention expressed ex-pressed its appreciation of the way in which the bureau has been conducted by Director Frank T. Hines, who has served as head of the bureau since last March. Outstanding among the resolutions offered under the head of rehabilitation rehabilita-tion are those continuing the work of the national rehabilitation committee of the Legion along the same broad lines as heretofore ; recommendation that the federal law be amended to the end that no time limit prevent a veteran vet-eran from receiving medical treatment or hospitalization for disability attributable attrib-utable to service ; a suggestion that congress appropriate additional funds to permit improvement of the caliber and efficiency of the bureau ; a request that nearly 5,000 beds he added to government hospitals to care for present pres-ent and future needs, and a resolution Instructing the national rehabilitation committee to survey ail federal and state penal Institutions and insane asylums to determine the number of ex-service men therein suffering from curable mental ailments caused by service. The Legion for the fourth time reaffirmed re-affirmed its stand on adjusted compensation com-pensation and demanded that congress pass the adjusted compensation bill without further equivocation or delay. The national Americanization commission commis-sion of the Legion was authorized to establish a bureau of community welfare, wel-fare, work out a program whereby posts throughout the country can cooperate co-operate In movements for civic betterment, better-ment, and urged that all posts devote their best efforts to the benefits of their local communities. Specific details of the suggested program pro-gram recommend the Leglcn work for the betterment of schools, recreation, park and playground facilities, furtherance further-ance of boy scout work and active participation par-ticipation in scout and troop organization organiza-tion and management; medical clinics, municipal music concerts, public forums, fo-rums, community buildings and city planning. The fulfillment of the terms of the national defense act of June, 1920; the bringing of the navy's auxiliary strength to the standard required by our capital ship strengtli authorized under the 5-5-3 agreement and the development de-velopment of aeronautics, especially a merchant air service, also was strongly strong-ly advocated. The American peace award plan was favored by another resolution, and the national commander was directed di-rected to appoint a permanent international inter-national peace committee to report at the next annual convention. The Legion denounced as un-American nny Individual or organization which creates or fosters "radical, religious re-ligious or class strife among our people, or which takes Into Its own hands the enforcement of law, determination deter-mination of guilt or Infliction of punishment." pun-ishment." The Legion again afiirmed Its policy In favor of suspension of all Immigration Immigra-tion for five years and stridor regulation regula-tion In the absence of an exclusion law. Oilier resolutions, forming the keynote of the American Legion policy for the next year embodied the following follow-ing poinls: Indorsement of the rnalnlcnance of cordial reliilions with our allies In tin-World tin-World war and approval of the French policy In the occupation of the Ruhr; Indorsement of fcind-roclaimitlon projects, proj-ects, particularly those In Ihe Colorado and Columbia river basins, which, It Is pointed out, would make available hundreds of thousands of acres for soldier set I lenient ; Indorsement of a conslll ul lonal amendment empowering congress to enact legislation to prevent child labor ; l(ealllnr,.illon of the demand for a universal service law for Hit! conscription conscrip-tion on labor and capital as well as man power In case of war; A demand for I he Immediate passage of Hie r.iir.Hiim bill, giving disabled emergency ollicers of the World war the retirement, lights enjoyed by ollicers olli-cers of Ihe regular army, and A declaration Ijir the establishment! in ciingrcHS of a special commit t ee to (leal Willi all matter affecting the In-ten-Hls of World war veterans. |