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r # ail. 4 ? wa?OHMEBEMM S ' .4 ft & A 9 !I w ^ S @ S Will Explain ? ? ? HOW MUCH I ? Tf VlP PYrippf? c 9 $300 rain insurar <0 sires, and in case insurance regard W When it rains 1 he also loses in Cc ? ing rain insuranc I his is a new Ins . . it is not only a nc ? ' ^ i| 9 8 $ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? i ?> <?> vy < > <?> ' > <?> <j~- > <5, < > < > < > < / ?> <4> ? ' I ?> <? I AMER5CAN LEGION NOTES. <$> > <s> <$> <?> *?> ^ $ <S> < > <S> G> <?> 3> Post No. 24 is in receipt of the following letters from Senators Dial and Smith: United State Senate, August 12, 1922. Mr. El'bert J. Dickert, Commander, Newberry, S. C. Dfir Mr. Dickert: I have just received your letter of August 8 with resolutions relative to the Sawyer matter. Please let me assure you that I have the interests of the service men deeply at heart and will always do whatever I can for them at any time. I will give this particular matter my very careful consideration. Thanking you for your letter 1 am. Yours very truly, (Signed) N. B. Dial. I Washington. D. C. August 12, 1922. Mr. Elbert J. Dickert, Commander, The American Legion, Npw.Kprrv. S. C. I have your letter of the 8th instant, enclosing a copy of the resolutions adopted by your post, relative to the efforts of General Sawyer in the matter of building hospitals. I have read carefully and with much interest what you have to say ar.d will give the matter my attention. I wish to thank you for calling this matter to my attention. I am very much in favor of the government providing its own beds for every disabled veteran. To place them ;n private hospitals tends to commercialize the attention they receive. Yours very truly, (Signed) E. D. Smith. I predict that Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer will soon have a ou'ol'oninfr -f "r?*> ro^llv W <5?Y>f*Pr? II4-n Cl Ui^UH.b IX 4.V. - V ~ . I. in his indictment of the public that it is no longer concerned a bout the welfare of the veterans of the World war. General Sawyer in his reply to Coionel Sprague's accusation that he was obstructing the hospital buiklinrr program took occasion to say: "A year and a half ago when I came to my office in Washington, there were not minutes enough in the day to give attention to the people who were here sympathizing with the In Detail Mer< * INSURANCE SHOULD ;toss sales of about SI,GO ice to be fully protected, : of rainfall as specified, less of his income. ie not only loses the profi irry over, the goods grow e he can protect himself a urance that J. A. Bu I sw Insurance, but it i World war veteran and wanting to do something, special for him. Today trte story Is very different. Few are there indeed who have particular concern." Why this apparent unconcern for the welfare of the disabled veteran? Is it because the public has ?een ied to 'believe the veteian is being properly cared for? I wonder if General Sawyer's over-hospitahzation propaganda has had anything to do with this feeling? Has the publicbeen informed that today nearly four years after the armistice, over 8.000 disabled veterans are farmed out to contract institutions 'because of the. fact that there are no available beds for these patien-s in government owned hospitals? No! General Saw yer, vcyj arc wrong when vo'u infer that "Few there are indeed who have particular concern.'" As soon as the public is informed of the true status of the veteran and vour attitude i * toward the hospitalization proposition you will hear from it, just as you are hearing from the .American Lesion tod:/ . * General Sawyer has filed his answer to the public in the case of the American Legion versus Sawyer, on the. charge that Sawyer has obstructed the hcsnital program for disabled veterans. IL'S reply is a reiteration of statistics about the present number of hospitals, number of beds "available ' st:it;r.cr that "thorp .ire 9i) government hospitals with a total bed capaciy of 28.412 beds, 10,15*1 of which are unoccupied.'' But he. absolutely ignores and does not mention in any way the fact clearly stated in the same statistical report that there were 8,0:1 patients in contract hospitals. 4,")17 of whom are mental and nervous cares and 2.774 of whom are tubercular. Why? Doesn't he want the public to know these facts? These thousands of "available beds are not avail;' le for the thousands of veterans in contract hospitals, almshouses, insane asylums and the like. Dr. Sawyer knows i x _ _ ? i : i i i i tney are not avaiiame oui ne aoesn i say so. He kpc-\vs that an empty bid in a soldiers' home or a surgical ward or a tuberculosis hospital is not "available" for a neuro-psychialric patient. They may sometimes be put there. But I am sure that it is r.ot the wish of the public. Colonel Sprague gives the following incident : ' On n visit to a nparby hospital T 8????@???@?? W IflP% f f 1% ?g 8 IS ?! h 111 P ^ ^ l/Ult L i &S8g&Bssm3gasM3&s?tam32E&^ ? O I7P SITS Jd 111 ucp chants May Be . THE MERCHANT Ct -0 he should carry not le or he may carry more il we pay the full amou.nl ts from the day's busine ing: old on his shelves. I .gainst these losses. rton, the Insurance ! them, or be glad f s also a very attract ' """ I I II ""MnaaU'm"a>n" I ?"" " i m||| found the following1 situation: Three men were hospitalized in one room, one of them a mental.case, another a general surgical case, and the third suffering 'from tuberculosis. The mental case escaped one nirht and was recaptured, wandering about the vicinity In his pajamas. He was put back in the room and the next nlif'it L-ill /i/J fVirt ipnt with a chair, while the surgical patient looked on helpless." Comment on th:s incident would be superfluous. General Sawyer says nothing as to his long and earnest opposition to "high-powered1' hospitals. Of the details of his maneuvers to prevent the building of such hospitals h;makes no reply. However, his summary of his position is the one enf*ghtcn:ng feature of his answer: "From this position I will not bo forced, cajoled or sfcsmneded." * j.- . ?. l prcux;. L:WL w^cujti iuc nt.iv u >. months General Sawyer is jroing t:> be deluged with resolutions, and I have a "hunch" that not all of them will come from American Legion pests. I am confident of the fict, that the public does '"have particular concern" about the welfare of the "8.611 patients in contract hospital?," iin?1 I believe that Gencr-. al Sawyer will .be notified of this fact. Already resolutions have been -TvAm 1/i/riAn nii^f ; "H l i illi^ JI 11KJHI n;j;;v/i j/v.. w ^...w ... pa: tmer.ts throughout the country. But so far as we have been ible to ascertain Post No. *24 holds the honor cf being" the first post in South Carolina to forward resolution-. By the wax, request has come from ? nartment hc-.id'.'Ur.iter.' that wc .ce to i. that our resolution, or one similar in nature, "is presented to the resolution committee in Florence, for adoption by the department.'' How* ver. the resolutions havt n:;i been confine'; to the American Lesion. i\!r<. '..Avc-li ! '. Iiobart, national president of the auxiliary, in a letter to Colonel ra.ru e . .ys: ''The women cf the Amern m Lezi:m auxiliary, 1 GO.000 ^wor/s. are b;.:-k of you in your demand that I,' > i IfltlyC i n t ( '*!(' '* Inu" w'th the hospital building j?rogram." She ur>res Dr. Sawyer t > visit the hospitals and see the conditions personaliy. And expresses indignation that he should assert that few persons were now intpresto ? i: 5 ? Q ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? @ @ ^ <wf w*$ if5# Mil 4? ^ JLjI If 1| ^ Irt y ? I &i I fx& &3k ?:*&lbs rr-Jp*$. *dlJ^ g s J? Is w ^Sk^ja a it , tsPlilllff^r i B; > t^l 1 Assured of A G L.-U^r,- ^ SuRRY? j I Tf ss than ! . 11 ' he de- tica.ly : of the ' 1 histra< erenee I ; lects in ;ss, but | entire t 3y buy- serious . I lects it Vfan, is offering the i yj * * ; to have them call a *1 *5" ive proposition for t! ? i wr?i ?I7 ' > . in- ( i "" ^ as*? @ ? ? ?-/$5 ? ? ? ? ? ? ' the disabled xeteran. She concludes ' 'the women hayp not forgotten, and will rot forget,J1 Capt. Hami^on Cook, national cc mm a inter of the Disabled Veteran* of the 'vVorld--Wor,'has just issued, a statement (ieclWv:nj that Brig. Gen. Charles E. Snv/j'er's connection with 1 he gjvernmen''''hospita 1 ization program for men yrounded and disabled ii: tho World v^ir had been "meddle some, troubie.seetfe, and void of any benvncial results whatsoever."' ''The Disabled American Veterans of the "World War want contract hospitals absolutely eliminated and the government to take charge wherever disabled men are' undergoing treatra. at," Capt. Cook stated. Dr. John Taylor Halsey, dean of the Tulane University Medical o/hoo: and vic-e chairman of the sixth district rehabilitation committee of the legion has taken issue with ,GeneiaI bawver on me question c: avaii:o:c bedc. And ethers too numerous to mention have taken 'advantage cf the opportunity to enlighten the general <\s to the true sta-ftis of public opinion on the hospitalization que;iion. F. J. Dickert.'chairman, Kai Kohn. J. C. Crotweil. W. S. Matthews, K. C. Floyd, Duane Livingstone and John.B. Setzlei' v.*ill ivnresent t';e post at thv Florence convention Aj"u.-t 23 and i'-i. Hal Kohn has just received a supply of legion buttons. If you don;t have one get a button and wear it. it i;- a ba< .re of honor. Only membo j v'f tiv- legion can v ear one. , John B. Set;:ier, Publicity Officer. / PRESIDENT ASKS ME/ 1URE TO PREVENT COAL GGUGiNC C'niv'? Ex'jcvtiv:.- Rccommends Federal A^cr.cy to ~uy and Distribute Fac! Washington. Aug. 18.?President Harding lay * ni:ist!.l bef. r. tv.ijrvc.ss the critic::! situation cviiii'o i hy t."' tV ' v i'a . i l Ki Appearing bo fore a joint session congress, the presidentvafter reciting tli. v rurt. c : I he a;: u:< ..si vat. 1.) briny pcuee to the c..?a! industry ar i to me iransporianon sysu-nis, iki-'li red that be was "revived to use ill! -he power o*" the t;t vernm. :i* ir, 'a:: r:i it tran ;>o: t t: -n ar ' ?rstai:< ^ ?$ 3k jQ (?. <*> "> -" ? * * "ii- *r fc)' si- V' -? * '-'i' '*!. Vi* '<c> V 0, 4^% ? 1 l| M 13 M &V&* k M I ft W* ?' f* 1= ?j& sp H I .V"" -. ? ? kr~xx&i [i w i^.vi V3- &&; t J, i& %3? Ski ar Pi 13 If! 'i iisisiir'l Aim 1^ -4? "4^' 4^ &, CJl' sa S ? 3 U8X3UT** / ood Trade Matt< IS THIS A GOOD B most decidedly a good p can not lose. In other w le will, be such that the c to him, while on the oth< ! most eases nearly as nju ;hirteen, in which case, if i 1;^ affect his Saturday bu lany times the premium 1" \ merchants of Newbei t his office. le live merchant and wn?-r mil ) mifiwjM a .mm ?r.wiaii immtmm gwiaifii . if| W ? ? ?. $ -3 . ? 9 < ? # ? @ the rierht of the men to work." The president recommended "imjnedia:,e.provision for a temporary coal agency, which needed capital, to purchase* sell and distribute coal which is-carried into interstate shiprnent." He said this "agency mi^ht net be needed", ;cai would "be. the instrumentality for guarding the public in teiTst y&ere pr.vate conscience is insensible to' a public need." i In addition to asking for federal cor.i agency to .purchase fuel for interstate shipments, the e:<c:cutfve raise recucsleu authority to create a coal commission to invest i;*ite me Yvhole industry and. with authority ":o icveui every phase oi'.eosi production. sale and distribution." The need for such a - e.e-vhing na-' titfnal investigation is ini))erat!\\. the '? president s.e:d, if another coai st;ike next Apvil is to bo avoided." Tiie r..iirc:ul labor board, Mr. Harding' said, should be given j> ,wer to enforce its decrees against both eeoitai and labor but he did not ask for rev"; ion cf the law at the present time, saying such action' would not i>e nelplui *:n tne present tnrearenea . r r:J; - s ol' transportation." Harding, after iv*vi-::r.g to det&r ior&tion of railroad equipment. loss-; es to shippers, and strike violences, ciue to inability of the railroad labor board to enforce its decre.es, said it: was not his thought "to ask congress io uv:i! with . 11 es fundamenta 1 pro b:c.: ? ;v iiily iin.c. Xo ha??ty action , wo is h! ^ ^nti-bute to the solution of the present cri. 'cal situation," the , pre;;.lent continued. 4"The-re is exist i::;r L'vr by v:h:<. li to settle the pre(ii.-pu-.r . There are statuu?ci? iddin^.conspiracy io hinder in- ' v.- l: i\- . T ii e re a re 1 a v.*s 1 lo uriv.iv the hljrhest possible safety -.0 railway service. "It is my purpose to invoke these iaws. civ:, ar.d criminal against all ui'ci: !ers ail':c.v A: omphalic declaration of disap-; provui ajr::ins; the apparc.r. move On the part of some dasses of industry 1 te he i-.j ?:- ui.-ioiis was made by the president. _ He asserted *" thai it was in the public interest t a:.' refit : y the ?00?i in labor unions. , i Mr. Hardin;? bitter!y denounce "the butchery .:t Hyrrhi, 111., and other outbreaks of violence. "We most reassert," he said, "the . 6 * i e ? ? ? @ ? ? e ? @ "3 l3f* :s a;rL.sg? sasezaaKraBQi! * "0 ^ f 5 ?FS Not Flow M 4 m UY FOR THE MERGH reposition for the merch; ords, if it is a clear day ost of this insurance will i i ua :x ^_ 3i' nariu, u 1 trams uii uiie ch, or more than he pays he did not have the ins siness, while with this f le pays. *ry, and he will call 'f ' i ' J insures him a good < s v . I - : @@ -S @ @ ? ? ? S ? ? $ , _ .. T.sr fc^_'.: -rrj . -- .- -w^r'r- xrr.-.. rcaxarsUA.:~jauXX doctrine that In this republic the iir~t obligation and the first allegiance of every citizen, high or 3ov;, .:s to his government, and to hold'thit^overnm-nt to be the just and unchallenged sponsor for public Welfare, and the liberty, security, and rights oi ail its citizens, .-to niatser.-waat--etouds may gather, no matter what storing may enf-ue^ no matter what hardships; may attend cr what sacrifice may bp necessary government by law mast j and will be sustained." i Mr. Harding' ask d t'no speedy enactment of a law giving the Inderal government power to deal with sit nations like that at Herri?!, Illinois.' lie asked passage of a pending bill "for the 'better pro: .'-tlon of the. aliens and for the enforcement of . 1 Laeir treaty ngnts. "My renewal ol" tis oft made recommendation," said Mr. Harding, "is impelled by a pitiable sense of impotence t<> deal with the shocking crime at Herrin, 111., which so recently shamed and horrified the country. In liiat butchery of human beings. wrought in madness, i* is alleged that two aliens were- murdered. Tills act f i? adds to the outraged sense of American justice, the humiliation which i.es in the federal government's confessed lack of authority to punish that unutterable crime." T'uruing to the coal situation the president suid: '"The simple but significant truth is that, except for such coal as copies fr6m th districts workpdf by nonorganized miners, the country is at the mercy of the united mine workers." New York, Aug. IS.?The strike A railroad shopcraf; unions will be . . n: r. r< - j? , sectiea nere, warren c. stone ox sne Brotherhood of 'Locomotive Ln^inL'ors declared tod \y as the committee 3t ;ive rail brotherhoods finishes sevii'.I . informal ..conferences i.-efore r., ting the rail executive. ' The- strike rrrast be settled.'' he :or..ir.iu-d, uand it must be settled ht. her:- at those meetings. Cv*r?di:?on.< over the country pieman-i that x sett; em ens be marie .at once and i\v are opi.-mis.c that it can be done oon. The five brotherirbods are rea:'y to CD anything possible to bring"! mvKtnt eon^itions to an end." Washington. Aug. 18.-?Unless J : " " vrh. li;>111* developments ^ ? i it^i^IuStsaSaBSSS. ^ *. Ci ?. ; 9 II A* | x | ,' , , n . m inch, it Kams. ? 5 ANT? ? a ? ' ant since he prac-, ~ every Saturday ~ make little cliff- a Saturday he col- ? | premium'for the J ? iirance, it would :: >rotection he col : : ' ? to explain it to * ? @ @ day rain or shine. ? ; @ 1 1 ' A i . , i fciraacjw i ? mmmammmwmaoammmmmmmamm> ?9999999999$ . a=r==r?, ' ~ arose President Harding's message dealing with the-rail and fcoal situ- '/' ] ation was expected to be presented ^ggj to congress early this afternoon.; The message :v-?s Concluded late y?s- ^ t'erclay and sent to the public .printer " last night* but as the-chief executive -J still was uncertain of his course when '' j the house adjourned' no arrange- % p| ments were made to meet earlier . thr.n the usual hour of 12 tVclock. - ?? It has been understood yesterday V' that the president would delay send" . in? his message pending outcome of the rail strike conference in New York but last night it was said he i - If concluded he should no longer delay in presenting facts as to the industri- 1| al situation to congress and the :;'r r-nnnrrv vpo-nrHlpcsr'ftf--t.lip pr>rrfprpm;p >" 'i now in progress. That he in reading ./: /? his message would, "make some rec- i% ommendations" became known Jast ._.f night bat there was no indication as y| to their nature. Those m close touch with the Whi:e House were ^aid to believe the message would, suggest the need of leg:.- lation for controlling coal distribution and prices .but that no &e- ' ,|| ticn in the rail situation .would bd; suggested. It would,; however, sure congress and the country that *? the government intends to do every- *)|| thing within its power for the main- M| tenance of rail transportation. Though eariy resumption of ecal '-&A mining in the br.unainous fields and ^ v. svHCiemenT: o.s ne aiunracne ?? strike as i result of the negotiations now go ins? on ;'i Pni-aceiphia sre 'f$& looked tfj by a-J in'.nwtrat* jn c-fiicials as precluding a serious fuel shortage r '.*"% this winter ic vv;?s ;v." "m! irat there will, be soir.c-*ii'iictt:t' 1 r'M ting the supply ;./o; * * y distributed and to prevent profuvonr*.::. it was for that reason . . a said t'.:e i ::lcnt decided 10 ?.oint out to o^gr&s ' ^ r':.- need '*or !ej;; t(. strer-gchen he present control system. . ^ ;v that congress has refused to let Henry Ford' develop Muscle Shoals let congress go ahead and do it. The ^ountry won't like a dog-inthe-manger spirit. , , : It is s:<id that tobacco smoke kills ga inland that there are germs in. M kisses. ?0, Johnni-e, if your girl ' smokes, it would seem to be safe bet '11 ' her ki^s^s ;>r#* ?.*?* ^rom cremis, . < . '* / '' ' 1 t 'V' . . ' ? ; VI /" /' !33M