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Show I it IfiB ift (Copy for This Depart nit-nt Supplied by l'hc Aincrlenn I , c n i o 11 News S-'rvic'1. ) MEANS VICTORY FOR LEGION Report of Dawes Committee Embodies Principal Features of Organization's Organiza-tion's Relief Plan. All investigation speed records at the national capitol were broken by President llai'd- ing's special commission com-mission to frame a comprehensive program for the relief of disabled veterans, which was headed ,v Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes of Chicago. Chi-cago. He jammed through, iu less than two days, an inquiry into treatment of disabled soldiers, recommendations recom-mendations that mean adequate hospital hos-pital treatment to 10,000 wounded veterans vet-erans now in poorhouses, asylums, in-Kullieicntly in-Kullieicntly equipped hospitals or In no institution at all, as well as payment pay-ment for disability to thousands of eterans not in hospitals. The report of the Dawes committee is considered as a great victory for the American Legion program for dis-'abled dis-'abled soldier relief. Its recommendations recommenda-tions embody the principal features of the Legion plan. They are: 1. Appointment of one official to have charge of all disabled soldiers" 'relief and benefits. There now are three departments. 2. Decentralization of administration, administra-tion, so officials with delegated authority author-ity may act without red tape. ' 3. Appropriation of whatever additional addi-tional money is necessary for new hospitals. Other members of the committee were: F. W. Galbraith, Jr., national commander of the American Legion ; Franklin D'Olier, past national commander com-mander of the American Legion ; Thomas W. Miller of Delaware; Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the Navy ; Mrs. Dou'as Robinson of New York, a sister of former President Presi-dent Roosevelt ; John L. Lewis of Indianapolis, president of the United Mine Workers of America ; Mrs. Henry Rea of Pittsburg; Milton J. Foreman of Chicago; Henry S. Berry of Hen-dersonville, Hen-dersonville, Tenn., and T. V. O'Connor of Buffalo, head of the longshoremen's union. |