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Show Tjfie AMERICAN LEGION (Copy for Tills Department Supplied by National Headquarters of the American L.eyton.) INCREASE FOR DISABLED MEN Darrow Bill Enlarges Amount by $20 a Month for Veterans While Tak-Ing Tak-Ing Training. Another Important victory in the American Legion's long fight for beneficial bene-ficial legislation In behalf of sick and disabled ex-service men is revealed in r telegram announcing passage of the Mil, recently received at T.egion national na-tional headquarters from Thomas Y. Sillier, chairman of the organization's national legislative committee In Washington. The senate In n niglit session, according ac-cording to the message, passed the measure as a rider to the deficiency appropriation bill, and as it previously had been passed by the house. It now awaits only the signature of the president presi-dent to become a law. The Darrow bill Increases, by $20 a month, the amount of money paid to disabled veterans of the world war while taking training under the direction direc-tion of the federal board of vocational education. This is the second time the Legion has obtained an increase for the maimed heroes, having pushed through congress, last December, the Sweet '.Ml!, which raised the amount of compensation com-pensation for thein from $30 to $?0 a month. "The pnssage of the Darrow bill," said Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant of the Legion, "was largely due to the work done by Legionnaires who visited Washington in Its Interest. General published reports Rt that time indicated indi-cated that the Legion representatives confined their activities solely to the 'lending fourfold optional compensation compensa-tion bill. Results show that the needs of the disabled men always have stood iirst on the Legion's program and the organization Is going right on working for these unfortunates, irrespective of what congress may or may not see fit to do with the problems of ex-service men as a whole. "The passage of the Darrow bill will give great Impetus to the Legion's cooperative co-operative plan to assist the federal board In getting every eligible disabled man Into training at once, as many had refrained from taking training because be-cause of the inadequate compensation heretofore allowed." |