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Show DIMS ; I UP IRK OF j LEGION POSTS Maintainancc of Law and Or-, Or-, cler Greatest Single Service. He Tells Vets ORGANIZATION SERVES NOTICE ON RADICALS Deplorable Condition of Dis-Abled Dis-Abled Men Much Better Now, Commander Says CLEVELAND, Sept. 27. The gecat-I gecat-I est single service American Legion members 'have rendered this country Is their ' verile stand for the maln-1 maln-1 tenaneo of law and order," Franklin D'OIIer, national commander, said In his address. "We quickly served notice In no uncertain terms upon those wild radl- cals who would by force attempt to Injure those very institutions we had risked our lives to protect," Command-D'OIIer Command-D'OIIer said. 'We staled plainly we I vc re ready for them and could meet their force with far greater force suf- j ficlent to stop them Instantly. INSl U NC I l'( l,l Y I " During these present days of un-n un-n i and readjustment, the American l-CKion and Ihe stand of the ex-ser-vice man for Inw and order 1 the crc.it. -i possible Insurance policy our , . ountry could possibly have and the onlj insurance premium the ex-service man expects In return Is simply fair play from the government with which he has played so fair. It Is only eighteen months ago that at the Paris meeting the idea of a veterans' organization was first seriously, seri-ously, considered In a big way and the p nam' American Ix'gion heard for the firs! time. Since that duy our organization organ-ization has grown so rapidly that In every state and In every community1 throughout ihe length and breadth Of the land the uuine American Icglon stands for the highest Ideals and most wonderful spirit of unselfish service shown by every man and woman in the army, navy and marine corps dur- i Ing the war. RIGHTS OF STATES. "W have integrated the main function of national headquarters as service to tho different state depart- , ments and have at all times favored tho maximum recognition of the rights of individual states not only In their relations with the national hcadquar- I ters. but as between the states themselves them-selves as well. lsBI,F.I Ml V "The first official act of this adinln- istrution, after the close .f (he Minne-apolls Minne-apolls convention, was to call a con- forence In W ashington to consider the deplorable condition of the disabled man. Although the war has been over more than a year, government compensation com-pensation to disabled men was so Inadequate In-adequate that many men were sub- i jects of private charity. At this con-' I ferenco practically every state In thel j union was represented and work begun Ion Monday morning actually on 1-cgls-1 lation which waa passing both the sen-1 j ate and the house before the end of the1 same week, resulting In the fact that' 'there Is now being distributed to dls-abled dls-abled men one hundred million dofc-' liars more eacb year. And the rea- i son this legislation was passed was becauso tho American Legion puts Its i request before them so plainly and so 'forcibly that congress knew that our requests were Just and had the backing back-ing of not only cX'SBTVlcc men but the public as well. FINANCIAL li "After having looked after those, physically disabled and while still working for further Improvement In I their condition your national officers and executive committee took up the. question of adjustment of compensation compensa-tion to those who had suffered financially finan-cially because of their service The, last convention fully recognized this obligation on the part of the country I toward the ex-servlee man. but adopt-1 ed a policy of watchful waiting on the implied promise ihut congress would i act. The national executive commit-1 tee '.'i days later rcall7a-Ml nothing had been done, nor was congress llkeb j to do anything They therefore abandoned aband-oned the policy of watchful waiting ;.nd worked nut the four-fold, optional plan covering land settlement, home. ..id, vocational training and adjust-, ment of compensation. In presenting! this plea, to congress it was requested1 thai each feature be made na liberal 01 was consistent with the welfare of the country. As a result of Ihe most active work on the part of your national na-tional officers and slate officers, this' plan wits finally embodied In a bill j which passed the house a few days' before adjournment of congress bull too late for action by the senate." |
