| Show Care of War Var Veterans Discussed At Beaver By Commander Mabey l If lf federal aid is denied disabled World War veterans local communities ties will ill ha have ve to take care of them either through local taxes or by charity charity char char- ity declared Commander Charles R. R Mabey in an address made at the Convention of District No 7 of the American held at Beaver re recently re- re In addition to this burden the merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant and others of the entire com cm community will be deprived of the money now coming Into it as aid to these veterans he said The speaker asserted that representatives representatives of interests that now pay larg large federal Income taxes are asking in the name of economy to transfer a large portion of the veterans' veterans cost from large interests to the distressed 10 local loal 31 taxpayers lie He named the National Economy League an and ani the Chamber Chambel of I Commerce of the United States as instigators in in- in Their yardstick is mone money he said They have presented no arguments arg to show that federal expenditures under un- un under un nn- der Ier existing law are arc wrong or improper They have ignored the fact that disabled dis ds- I and helpless men must receive I help and care They never point out that men do not pay federal income tare unless s they have incomes to Justify them The organized groups simply have Lave presented a series of conclusions not sustained by medical or other scientific scientific scion scion- evidence Instead they introduced their attorneys I For thirteen years the American Legion has cooperated with congress in the problems of the veterans Le Legion Legion Legion Le- Le gion cooperation has been welcomed and the Legion has always al kept in to mind the welfare of the nation as aswell aswell aswell well as the welfare of the veteran Th Legion has brought these pro plO blenis to congress ach ch year Our un 1 hun hundreds dreda s. s of expert witnesses wl witnesses e have ha ed cd altogether for months before com corn corn- mattes They have given their firsthand first firsthand firsthand hand experiences and have Included experts in social work claims and diseases The Legion has never merely said Enid these are the conclusions of a million veterans veterans but but for each conclusion Slon has brought forward able and Informed witnesses giving underlying reasons the necessity the justice for the conclusion conclusion conclusion con con- reached by the veterans in an their deliberations Such testimony has been commented upon at length Lythe Lythe Ly by bythe the governments government's own experts and then all of this evidence has been re reviewed reviewed reviewed re- re viewed with great care by ional lonal before their own conclusions wre finally reached I |
