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Show SOLDIERS'liS 1 FIGHT JUST BEGUN 1 '. A VETERAN8 AT ANNUAL IfU GATHERING ASK ONLY $fH FOR JUST DUES iH u'l deport Criticizing Presldont And Dr. Wlr'' Sawyer 0.1 Treatment of Dlo- 3lK' abled Veterans Approved lllcr By Commander ll'T" II C New Orleans, l.n. While h's "bud- If.- lies" ohoutol und stamped tholr ap- i& i oval, retiring Nut omit Commander ? .ljnf.,rd SlacNldor oponod the fourth IS nuuiit convention of the American S,t .cglou bore Monday with n militant fjf ei-lifrntlon that the soldiers' bouua j ,jj- glit has only Just boun. If m From out of tho long, hnrd bnttlo f 1 no und his aides dlroctod unsuccesa- 1L tally to put tho "ndjustod coinpensa 1 Ijf;; t on" bill over tho top ut Washington, j lj MncN.dcr qssortod thnt "no ono mnn ami .1 untouched by war, without kith or kin awl- , c thoso who served, no ono group, 1 financial or otlionvlse, can otand bo- Wl tween tho wlshos of the Amorlcan Iwl j pooplo and the fulfillment of what m .( tuoy bollovo to bo a Just obligation." fli He mado no direct reference to tho Lglj J veto by Presldont llnrdii.g of tho Mo Uj' 1 Cutnbor-Fordnoy bonus monouro, nor M I to tlio little group of senators who ifi-J sustalnod tho veto, but ho loft no y Joubt ns to wlwin ho referred ns ho Hu cnrofully almod each of his barbed MlsW orbal nhnfts at tho oppononta of "nd- 721 justod compensation" for tho nation's iirl ox-Borvico men. Si I "A ront, well financed attack by in m In torcnts which wo cannot holp but tool K T- nro sordid and eoltlsh, has given us ifjf ono little sot-back but thoso who rep- mf'i present tho pooplo nt Wash'ngton nre ..' with us by great majorities," SlacNId- or added, ns bo dwelt upon tho pas- flu sngo of tho McCumborFornoy bill by m M a voto of 333 to 7 In tho houso and 47 m to 22 In tho somite. K S "Wo hnvo only Just started to flglit," I; M ho snld, "Tho 'adjuatod compensation h V legislations Is right' Wo know It is M right nnd right nlwnys provnlls In H i Amorlcn. It Is mt a question of rats- S'llj Ing tlio noccssary fund. A maximum m! a annual payment of $100,000,000 Is not Ix. m ovon nn npproclablo fraction or n 5L- IB ft- 000,000,000 nntlonnl budgoL That is to Ji simply camouflage threnva ui to hide K 39 tho real Issuo. jB TtJ "It Is a quostlnn of promises un- K j flllod, a question of whether tho mnn X IB who offered his llfo to his country In H Jfl tlmo of noed is to bo loft with tho H IM fooling thut his country Is unjust and flj ;ffl ungratotiili flj 'ji "Thnt Is not for tho good of the Bl-.flTl nation, tlmt Is not tho deslro of tho 191 pooplo back homo nnd In n republic Hj jM tholr will will bo cnrrled out It is HJal our task and wo shall accomplish it. Enfl Upon tho condemnation of tho na- V; f flj tinnnl government's enro of sick nnd I- flj d'sablod world war veterans and tlio 1; flj criticisms of President Harding and K ' :H his iiorsnnnl physician, Brlgad'or Gon- l1 ' ' oral Charles E. Sawyer, chlof co-or- 1 ,fll illnntir of tho fodoral board of hos- E, 9J pltnllzntlon, contnlnod In the 158-pago H, 1 flj report mado public previously by A. A. 1 flj Spraguc, of Chicago, chnlrmin of tho w 'Jfl legion's national rehabilitation com- P jOI mlttco, MncNldor Btninpod Ids un- if flfll quallflod approval. f AflJ |