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Show THE ENDOWMENT , FUND (frpHE endowment fuad ef . x $5,000,000 which the American Amer-ican Legion U seeking in order to Insure the proper care of disabled veteran of the war and orphaned children of veteran vet-eran la necessary," declared National Commander James A. Drain, of the Legion, In an Interview In-terview at national headquarters headquar-ters recently. "Experience baa ahown that That la why the Legion baa started Its nationwide nation-wide campaign for this fund. "The fund wUl provide a yearly Income," ha continued, "estimated at $220,000. This fund will leave nothing to chance. Nothing must ever be left to chance when It cornea to a question of the care of the disabled and the orphan. "The Legion, yon know, has used freely Its own financial resources re-sources In this work. It has from time to time had gifts from group and Individual. At time it ha borrowed money. At other time It ha been Impossible Im-possible to see the way clear for a month ahead. The work ha gone forward, of course, but It financing can fairly be described de-scribed only as 'hand to mouth.' Very clearly, such a policy 1 neither adequate, Just nor economical. eco-nomical. We cannot go on In that way. Thlt fund will enable In to do the work with assurance assur-ance that we kliall have the means to perform what the Legion Le-gion desires and seek to do for these unfortunates." |