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[THE LEGION'S FIRING LINE
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY POST 60 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AND THE AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
urnor
10,653 Battles, 10,653 Vic
tories Goal Set For Na
tional 'Push
ELiGiBLES Outlined
All Such Arc Asked To Affiliate
Themselves With ‘lineal Tost In
This Commit ilty ’During
This ,Offensive
The greatest American Legion mem-
I bership campaign in the history of
t.he national organization is beginning
| this month, and the goal is “10,633
j battles, 10,653 victories.”
The following appeal was issued to
day by Alex S. Watkins, commander
of Henderson Post, No. 60:
"February begins.
j “The greatest. membership
I offensive in-history.
“10,653 battles, 10,653 victories.
“Entire membership of the Ameri-
I can Legion wil'l be drafted'for action.
“Henderson Post, No- 60, wants
I every Legionnaire Who-has-not paid
I his dues to do so in February. All
I ex-service men living in Vance county '
I who have an honorable discharge are '
I invited to make application for mem-
I bership in the local post. You need
I the Legion and the Legion needs you.
“Forward inarch.
“Pay up now. , , >
“ALEX S. WATKINS. '
“Post Commander.”
Occasion Will Take Place ; of
Legion’s Regular Feb
ruary Meeting
Members Os Henderson Post, No.
I 60, have been invited to be guests of
I the Junior Auxiliary of the Legion
I at the post headquarters tomorrow
I evening at 7:30 o’clock, and this
I gathering will take the place of the
J regular February meeting, which has
I tbeen set forward from next Monday,
j The folowing announcement of the
I change was made today:
“The Junior Auxilary of the Amer-
I ican Legion has invited the local post
j to be their guests Friday night at
I 7:30 o’clock at the Legion hall.
“This will take the place of our re-
I gutar February meeting, which would
I be on Monday night, 'February 6-
“Any business to be transacted will
I follow immediately after the enter
-1 tainment.
“ALEX S. WATKINS,
“Poet Commander.”
it • 1
I Legion Auxiliary
To Meet Jointly
t ' .« <- > ‘'y : v ’ ;•>;£ \
The American Legion Auxiliary will
I meet, tomorrow evening at 7:30 o’clock
I in the Legion headquarters, it was an-
I nounced today.
At this meeting, the members of
I American Legion Post 60, and the
I Junior Auxiliary wili be special
I guests. The Junior Auxiliary Will
I have charge of the program.
All members of the post are cor-
I dially invited to attend, and the fol-
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Mutual ‘Life Insurance Companies? JEj JL Jam jL
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Stock Fire Insurance Companies are operated in the interest ot| FROM ST SB JM >BC
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Mutual Fire Insurance Companies are operated in the interest of’ flg - . - ABJk
policyholders. » MW* SJL W*lS
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policyholders.
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IHENDERSON. C.,J DAILY DISTA’FCH, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 1938 1
Facts On The Legion’s
Fight For Hie Disabled
The American Legion sees in the
attempt to reduce benefits'to disabled
World war veterans, the desire to
overturn the basic theories of'Vetrans’
relief Which have existed since the
foundation of our country. Summed
up, it is a declaration that all pre
vious Congresses, back to the Revolu
tionary war, have been wrong in thejr
legislative theories. Congress has beeh
tcld in el feet it did not know what
it was doing. The organized op
ponents want to remove the veteran
from the -position of honor he has
held in Amenca.n life and history
since Colonial cays and place him in
exactly the same position before the
national government as the private
citizen who tendered no military as
sistance to h.s government in time
of . national peril.
The opponents say, ir effect that
the government owes no more obliga-'
tion to the aged and helpless soldier
who returned unwounded from the
trenches where he fought for the de
fense of alt the-people, than it does
’o the war .profiteer who massed a
fortune While the soldier was fighting
at the risk of >his life, undergoing
hardships and dangers of all kinds
'and foregoing the financial oppor
tunities which the knew
so well how to capitalize.
These organized groups, the Na
tional Economy League and the Cham
ber of Commerce of the United States
would place these two men—veteran
and profiteer—on a parity so far as
the obligation of our Federal govern
ment is concerned. They say that
when each of them become old and
destitute and infirm, that each should
go to the poorhouse and become the
beneficiaries of the charity of their
own local communities.
For thirteen years the American
Legion has cooperated with Congress
in a joint effort to solve the difficult
and distressing post-War problems of
veterans’ relief, on account of those
Who incurred death or disability as
a result of service in the armed forces
during the World war.
For Congress, this has been only
one of the many important national
problems demanding solution, but for
the Legion it has been our primary
interest and our first duty. Under
(these Circumstances Legion coopera
tion has been welcomed by Congress,
and we have endeavored at all times
to work in close harmony with the
committees of the House of Represen
tatives and the Seniate.
The Legion has always kept in mind
the interest of the nation as well as
of the vteerans —for we realize that
the welfare of the veterans and wel
fare of the nation are indissolubly
-bound together.
The Legion has brought these pro
blems to Congress each year. Our ex
pert witnesses have testified for
-months before committees. These ex
perts have come from every state in
the Union. Their numbers have run
Into the hundreds. They have en
deavored to give to Congress their col
lective experiences, gathered at first
hand contact with the problems con
fronting thousands of disabled. They:
have included experts in social work,
experts in claims handling ,s£hd. medi
cal expats rin 'surgery apddf fictions
such as : tuberciulbsis , mepxali, <Jls
— ~— ; —
-WWlng ladies will act as hostesses:
Mesdames J. R. Biller, L. D. Wall,
C- L. Carter, C. O. Seifert, A. C. Yow,
W. B. Daniel, Jr., W. H. Flemjng, E.
E. Fenner, C. R. Passavant, j. r. Mc->
Duffie, Alex Watkins, W. C. Cates,
F. S. Upchurch,'W. M. Haithcoek, O.;
B. Mitchell,, Eugene Teiser, F. M.
HafWArd, and B. G. Allen-
abilities.
We have never merely said that
these are the conclusions of a mil
lion veterans. For each conclusion
presented by the Legion to Congress
over the years, we have brought for
ward able and informed witnesses
prepared to submit the Underlying
reasons ,the necessity, the justice for
the conclusions which the veterans
had reached in their deliberation. The
mass of testimony thus rendered has
been commented upon at length by
’the government’s own experts, and
then all of this evidence has been
reviewed with great care by congres
sional committees before their own
conclusions were finally reached and
’approved by both houses of Congress.
No one can successfully question
the industry, the intelligence and the
high sense of duty with which mem
bers of Congress have endeavored to
solve the difficult and countless pro
blems involved in World war veterans
relief. Anyone who dares challenge
this devotion of our legislators, by
this fact alone exhibits a lack of
knowledge.
, The lives of many thousands of vet
erans have been saved by the pro
vision of the World war Veteran’s
Act,.-Lately Congress has listened for
several weeks to men backed by large
fortunes, who have co-n.tinua.lly at
■ tacked Federal expenditures on ac
count 6f veterans. These men are ac
tuated by a purpose—^Which is to re
duce federal benefits to veterans.
Their yardstick is money. They
have —rpresented no arguments to
show that Federal -expenditures un
der existing law are wrong or im
proper. They have ignored complete
ly the abvious fact that care must
be provided disabled men. They have
neglected to state that such action
would increase city, county and state
expenditure®. They have failed to say
that city, county and state taxes have
increased much -more rapidly than
efderal taxes. They have failed to say
that city, county and state taxes are
frequently owed by people unable to
-pay them. They never refer to the
fact that fdeeral taxes are peid by
people who can afford them, that men
do not pay federal income taxes un
less they have incomes of sufficient
size to warrant such payments.
Yet in the name of economy these
representatives of wealthy Interests
ask that Congress transfer a large
’portion of the veterans’ cost from the
wealthy income taxpayers of this
country, to the backs of the distressed
and needy local property taxpayers.
In making their proposal to cut vet
erans’ benefits the organized groups
simply have presented a series of con
clusions not sustained by either medi
cal evidence or scientific data. In
stead they introduced attorneys and •
statisticians, research experts skilled
in mathematic. Where are their doc
tors, their social experts, witnesses
backed up with scientific knowledge?
If federal care is denied these dis
abled veterans, the local communities
will have to take care of them, either
through local taxes, in local hospitals
or poor farms, or by charity. ReSide.3
the local merchant and local doctor,
the entire local community will be
deprived .of the 4 ihillions of dollars
now -’coming .into in- the
form of sqph- aid- to these* veteran^-
Tj j . !'■ r « ’
LOS ANGELES GETS
$22,800,000 CREDIT
Washington, Feb. 2.—(AP) — The
.Reconstruction Corporation today
agreed to lend Los Angeles $22,800,000
for construction of an electric trans
mission line from Hoover dam to that
city.
Ten Reasons
WHY
One Should
Join L egion
1— >The blue and gold button of The
American Legion testifies service
for God and country in war, and
' service to community, state and
nation in time of peace. (PEACE
TIME SERVICE.)
2 You are making it possible to at
tain our objective of every disabled
ex-service man and his dependents
taken eare of by our government.
(REHABILITATION.)
3 By belonging you are helping to
carry out the great Child Welfare
program that the Legion is spon
soring. (CHILD WELFARE.)
4 You are backing the greatest prin
ciples of Americanism by combat
ing un-American, principles, sup
porting patriotic education among
the children and our citizens and
making our communities better
places to live in- (AMERICANISM)
5 You will help teach sportsmanship
and higher ideals to the youth of
America through the Legion Junior
Baseball, Boy Scout and School
Medal Awards program. (JUNIOR
EDUCATION.)
6 You will help in our great National
Defense program for adequate na
tional protection and thorough co
operation with the R. O. T. C. and
C. M. T. C. programs. (NATIONAL
DEFENSE.)
7 Every piece of legislation bene
ficial to ex-service men has found
the American Legion behind the
wheel. (LEGISLATION.)
8— You become a member of the most
democratic organization in the
world.* No rank in the Legion, no
race, no creed. Honorable discharge
and service during the World War
the only requirements. (NON
PARTISANSHIP.)
9 You join up with a real bunch of
“he-men” who served side by side
with you, through thick or thin;
whether you were a millionaire or
not, you were their buddy. (COM
RADESHIP.)
10— Individually you and I can do lit
tle; collectively in the 10,653 Posts
with over a million members we
can accomplish anything that is
worthy. (ORGANIZATION.)
Exemptions 'From Gasoline
Taxes Sought In Latest
Bills Offered
i’fV* /.
OnflyJTlannteh BnrAri,
In the Sir Whiter Hotel.
BY J, C. BASKKBVIIiIi.
Raleigh, Feb. 2. —Several more bills
have been introduced in the House
designed to either — take money out
of the State Highway fund or reduce
the amount of revenue flowing into
it. Two bills were introduced Wed
nesday to exempt owners of grist
mills, feed mills and stationary en
gines from payment of the gasoline
Ten Reasons
WHY
Continue
Membership
1— When I joined the American Le
gion I did not join it for just one
day or for one year—l enrolled for
a life-tjme.
2 I want t obe one of more than a
million men who will march thro
ugh 1933, 1934 and 1935, in and out
of all the years ihat tie ahead.
3 I wish to protect today my place
in the Legion in 1953 or 1973.
4 I believe in the majority rule,
which is the basis for government
in the American Legion, as well as •
in the government of our people
-5 I refuse to turn my bacTt on a rec
ord of fourteen years of unself ser
vice because I disagree with a sin- 1
gle convention action. I joined the *■
American Legion to render an un
selfish service, and I refuse to be -
selfish now.
6 am imbued with a true sense of \
appreciation of what the Legion *
has done for the veteran and for
America. *
7My loyalty was unquestioned in
1917 and 1918; I do not want it »
questioned now by deserting a
great cause. /
8— know the American Legion will
remain faithful to its creed in the •
will and capacity to do good for
our country.
9—l desire to continue to have a voice J
in the affairs of the American Le- *
Sion. * \ # ; iiil *
10— I am not a quitter.
_ _ _ 4
tax, One of these bills was introduced
by Representatives Lumpkin, of
Franklin, and Davis, of Hyde, while
the other was introduced by Repre
sentatives Graham and Thompson, of
Robeson counties-
For the past, sessions of the legisla
ture repeated attempts have been -
made to exempt owners of stationaryi
gasoline engines and of grist and *
feed mills from payment of the gaso- -
line tax. The General Assembly hast .
so far refused to do so on the grounds
that the granting of such exemption
would lead to widespread evasion of
the gasoline tax. The opponents of
this exemption argue that the good
roads help the operators of these mills
by making iit possible for people to
get to and from them more easily
and that they hence should pay the *
tax. It is also maintained that if these 1
operators were permitted to purchase '
tax-free gasoline, there would be great >
danger that some of them would use 1
it in their automobiles.
Another bill designed to raid the
highway fund was that introduced s
by Representative Rouse, of Kinston
Lenior county, which would compel
the highway commission to take over
$2,200,000 worth of Lenior county j,
rood bonds, sold for the construction
of highways before the State took over
all the county goads. -t
Still another bill introduced earlier *
in the w&ek to’ require the highway
commission to reimburse the counties 1
for the road machinery taken over
under the new highway law, was re
ported unfavorably by the House com
mtttee on roads. It is not expected
that the bill introduced by Represen
tatives Ewing, of Cumberland, and
Watson, of Nash, to divert the pro- ,
ceeds of one cent of the gasoline tax..;
to the counties will be aAroved. ;
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