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Show H NEW POLICY FOR SOLDIER RELIEF B Special Commission Gets President's B Instructions and Begins Work. B Washington. progress in solving B the government's problem caring for B ex-service men, whether sick or dls- B abled or physically fit but having fl- B nanclal claims to bo adjusted, was B made Tuesday at the first meeting of B President Harding's commission, head- B ed by Charles G. Dawes of Chicago. It B was agteed that tho administrative B machinery operating separately from B soldiers' relief, should be consolidated B under one central authority, probably B a new executive officer wlio would bo B responsible to the president. B Heads of all soldier relief bureaus B said they favored the general Idea of B ' consolidated service liureau. The B endorseuient, Chairman Dawes said, B promised quick solution of the problem B as it related to tho general humluls- B I ration of 'aid for men. alleged to B ,IIIV0 suffered under tho system of B divided governmental responsibility. |