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Show Large Crowd Gathers To Hear V.F.W. Commander-in-Chief James E. Van Zandt Speaks Forcibly Favor of Adjusted Service Payments Featured by an enthusiastic reception re-ception accorded to him by veterans vet-erans and non-service citizens alike, the official visit of James E. Van Zandt, national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to Beaver Wednesday will long be rememberd by him and by Dr. W. G. Preston of Logan, state commander. The meeting was in the nature of a district visit for districts 8 and 9, comprising Beaver, Bea-ver, Millard, Iron and Washington Washing-ton counties and there were representatives repre-sentatives present from virtually all of the communities within those districts. Scheduled to arrive in Beaver at about 2 o'clock, the party was some two hours late but that fact didn't serve in the least to dampen the enthusiasm of those who were gathered to welcome him. Following an informal reception at the court house on the arrival of the distinguished guests, the veterans and their ladies repaired to the I. O. O. F. hall, where a banquet was held, with inpromp-tu inpromp-tu speaking by the visitors and others. The public meeting in the evening, eve-ning, held at the high school auditorium, audi-torium, was attended by a huge crowd which listened attentatively while Commander Van Zandt told eloquently of his conviction that now was the proper time to pay service men the value of their adjusted ad-justed service certificates. He expressed himself as feeling that it was not for the various organizations organi-zations to say how these certificates certifi-cates were paid that this was a prerogative of congress but of the need for paying now there was no question at all. During the course of his speech he flayed unsparingly the distribution distri-bution of relief with too much out of every dollar going to administration adminis-tration expenses and too little to the people in need, whereas pay- ment of the adjusted certificates would entail little overhead expense ex-pense beyond the writing of the remittance vouchers. He expressed himself as feeling ' certain that congress would pass the needed legislation despite the threatened veto of President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, but stated that there was much work yet to be done with senators who were not favorable to passing a bonus bill over the president's veto. I Bob Nowers, district commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, acted as chairman of the meeting and the speakers stand was given an official color by the presence of Mayors O. F. Hubbell of Milford, Mil-ford, honorary member of the Milford post, and E. A. Griffiths of Beaver, both of whom spoke briefly. Musical numbers included includ-ed selections by a gMs chorus and a vocal solo by John Williams. The high school band played several numbers concident with the reception preceding the banquet. ban-quet. Lack of space prevents the publication of the "seven point" program advocated by the Veterans Vet-erans of Foreign Wars but this will be published next week. |