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Show .The m Amman LEMON ' (Copy tor Thin I if part mrnt Supplied by ths American I.cKlnn News S.'-vlct. ) TO CHEER DISABLED HEROES All Legion Pests to Join In Campaign to Aid World War Men In Hospitals. More than 2,000,000 men In almost 10,000 American Legion posts in all parts of the United States and Its possessions pos-sessions have been enlisted 1n a campaign cam-paign to make life more worth living to some 20,000 sick and disabled heroes of the World war who still are patients In government and private hospitals and to humanize all actlvl- ' ties that enter Into their care and treatment. Government bureaus at Washington have supplied the Legion with lists of these hospitals, about 1,200 in number, and the number of ex-service men who are patients In i each. The country has been districted j according to I.egiou membership and J each of the five national vice com- j manders of the Legion has been as- i signed to supervise the work of Le- ! glon posts, committees and Individuals in various states. A plan to take a census of all ex-service men. especially especial-ly those still In hospitals, and straighten straight-en out their compensation and Insurance Insur-ance claims, is Included In the general program. The full weight of the women's wom-en's auxiliary of the Legion will also be thrown behind the movement flnd the assistance of all loyal Americans is being asked for and gladly accepted. "These men In hospitals are our first concern," F. W. Galbraith, Jr., national commander of the Legion, said recently, "and the situation with regard to them is far from satisfactory. satisfac-tory. They are coming to believe, and justly to a large extent, that their country has forgotten them. Their greatest need Is a friendly handclasp, cheerful .smile and an unqualified and oft-repehted demonstration that we have not forgotten them and will never forget thein while God gives us strength to stand four-square with and behind them so long as they need our help. It's not our Job alone It's everybody's Job but It's just a 'little closer to the hearts of men and women wom-en of the Legion." The Legion takes the position that the maimed World war heroes represent repre-sent America's fundamental obligation and that the Legion, backed by the full weight of sound public opinion, can make conditions with regard to them as nearly perfect as human agencies will permit. |
