Show BILLION B Illi 0 N PAID PA I D TO DISABLED 0 I S A B LED LEDOR OR THEIR KIN VETERANS TOLD Letter from ge Read at Convention in inEl inEl El Paso l I MANY J. J Y IN HOSPITALS Ogden Prepared to Press Claim for 1928 Gather Gather- Gathering ing ingEL EL EI PASO Juno By y The TheA A Press President Coolidge In a letter to the disabled veterans which ho he sent fent to be read at their national convention here toda today loud cd the organizations organization's work vork In securIng aid for the veterans and declared that the ho government would con con- continue Its work ot of compensatIng the disabled ills His letter was as follows TEXT OP Upon the occasion ot of the sev- sev seventh seventh convention ot of the Disabled Disable American Veterans of oC the World War r I Ish to ex- ex extend tend through you OU my personal greetings to those men and wom- wom women en en disabled In the military and naval service of this country Your organization has done don much much to brIng about the present s tory program ot of go re- re ller ilef Sympathetically have you OU considered and zealously have you ou supported their needs The government gladly has recognized Its obligations to Its veterans and their de- de It has obtained gener- gener generous ous and human legislation for their benefits Through the lib lib- liberal liberal eral interpretation and of these laws It has been po possIble to extend to man many thousands the financial and phI physical 1 cal relief so much needed BILLION BILLIO lAID PiD r I ani am advised that to date corn com compensation payments have been made In excess of one billion dol- dol dollars lars bra and that payments are now being made on claims which represent n a net Increase In Inthis inthis this particular typo type ot of benefit ot or nearly since the commence commence- commencement ment ot of this fiscal year In the governments government's vocational t ram program now nearing corn com completion more than have completed their training or been titled for tor gainful occupations This program cost nearly More than 6 has been appropriated for the construction ot of modern fireproof Institutional buildings There are arenow now flow available a to the disabled vet vet- veterans rans erans hospital beds and 26 patients are now being tak tak- taken en n care ot of That more than ot f these patients are arc suffering from disabIlIty not directly due to their military service indicates the extent to which the govern govern- government ment has gone in expressing Its appreciation ot of military service honorably rendered The government In both legis- legis legislative legislative and executive branches has welcomed your our counsel I desire relationship to continue so that th the laws so amply providing Cor th disabled disable veterans may be properly executed Note The Ogden delegation Is prepared to extend a formal Cormal Invitation tation to the convention to hold Its ta next annual gathering In Og- Og len In 1928 |