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Show BOOTH TELLS LEGION'S PLAN FOR ORPHAN FUND "A home for every homeless orphan or-phan of a veteran." This is the slogan slo-gan of the American Legion, that will be sounded from one end of the land to the other in the nation-wide campaign for $5,000,000 endowment fund. State Commander Booth announces an-nounces that the drive for Utah-r quota will commence April 6. The American Legion chartered by Congress, has carried during six years of reconstruction since tnt world war, a large load, shared b governmental agencies, in the care and cure of the war's disabled and in the care, upbringing and education of the orphaned children of those who gave their lives in the service. This responsibility, welcomed by tnu Legion, has been shared by the people peo-ple of the United States. The Legion has spent its own money, has sometimes some-times borrowed it, has often been unable to see very far ahead in the sources cf financial needs, has received re-ceived numerous gifts. The flscai policy back of the largest war reliel program in America has been frankly frank-ly "hand to mouth." Such a policy is neither , just adequate, nor economical. econo-mical. Eased on this six year experience is the proposal to raise in 1925 the American Legion -endowment .fund of five million dollars as a perpetual trust from which only the income shall be. used as the financial backbone back-bone of the rehabilitation and child welfare work of the Legion, the central cen-tral generating plant for the nationwide nation-wide activity of 11,322 Legion posts and 6,500 auxiliary units of women which together throw more than 900-000 900-000 volunteer workers into the field. "The endowment plan is a practi cal ana Dusiness-iiice undertaking. I Happily the common sense thing tu do is also the thing which appeals to i every sound and worthy emotion. It ; is a right and sacred duty to cure the ! "isabled man. The Legion's motto j of "Temporary Care Permanent i Cure" express the determination that every sufferer from wounds or dis-jj ease should be made whole, .should!' be restored in body and mind andi spirit, to become self-supporting and J self-respecting citizens, and not let t j to perpetual care in a public inslitu-'; lion. That program is as sound and i economical as it is humane. j It is right that every child of a world war veteran who gave his lifef ' be given as good a home, as good anjj education, as fair a chance in Ameri-;i can life as if that father's sacrifice,! had not been needed. It is vastly lesij costly to save the child now, than to permit it to grow up in ignorance, ' vice, pauperism and crime. Every,; needy child saved to healthy matur- ity in body and mind and sound de- velopment in character saves thous-:' of dollars to society which carries the heavy burden of criminality, pau perism and visciousness. Ninety-three Ninety-three percent of criminals have a record of neglected childhood. There! are at present 30,000 world war veterans' vet-erans' orphans in the United Slates. 1 Of this number 5,000 are dependent. ' The American Legion Endowment !' j Fund is being raised by national state and local committees in which j: mmuiil service is being given by pub-1 ' iic spirited men and women and by 'members of the American Legion j :'nd its Auxiliary bodies. The spirit of public cooperation is such that no lit avy expense is involved and the cost of financing this work for the disabled and the orphans for al .in.?, will be smaller than the cost of marketing first mortgage bonds on aund business prosperity. The Legion Le-gion is justly proud of its own spirit and that of the very fine type of rr.i-Z'-ns coope rating with it. whjet. i.'akes this business-like operation no. i'u!e in an endeavor of su'h im-,'ort;ince im-,'ort;ince ;.nd appealing character. Mr. Il'-oth e-prev?r-s hi-- onf-'-n e '-.a: Utah will ra:F-" ;M quota with- ;. h-. .ij.B to i for !,; n .'! but Stra; r- jc. - Tin; ;,- : i?.--r will P;ve E'.a-i'.y and pru V.y. ' i: c t;anH.'.:l I 1 tv-r the pr;v.eee of .;,r;Ltr :h;s re.--m i j ' o n .- i 1 , i ' i ' y to 'he... whoso -acrino- ' to their country was beyond uioiuy and beyond price. |