The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No 4 (January 28, 1921)] . th interestto see whether Congress will follow therecommendations of Secretary Danielsand complete the naval program. Sometimes, Congress controls the de-partments by means of limiting thepurpose for which the appropriationmay be used. Thus President Roose-velt ordered the Marines detached fromduty on naval vessels. In the next ap-propriation bill, Congress, in grantingmoney for the support of the MarineCorps, directed that a certain propor-tion of it should always be attached tonaval vessels. Again, in 19l4 theNaval Appropriatio
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No 4 (January 28, 1921)] . th interestto see whether Congress will follow therecommendations of Secretary Danielsand complete the naval program. Sometimes, Congress controls the de-partments by means of limiting thepurpose for which the appropriationmay be used. Thus President Roose-velt ordered the Marines detached fromduty on naval vessels. In the next ap-propriation bill, Congress, in grantingmoney for the support of the MarineCorps, directed that a certain propor-tion of it should always be attached tonaval vessels. Again, in 19l4 theNaval Appropriation Bill directed thatno powder should be purchased withthe money appropriated, unless thepowder factory at Indian Head, Mary-land, shall be operated on a basis ofnot less than its full capacity.(Continued on page 22) THE AMERICAN LEGTON WEEKLY f 1 The Insane Veteran and a Nations Honor The Better Way Out of the Present Deplorable Situation Involves a Lapseof Time ; the Worse Way Out Is Merely Barefaced Shirking of Public Duty By DR. THOMAS W\ SALMON PSYCHIATRIC. Almost a third of all ex-service pa-tients are neuro-psychiatric cases SOME weird scientific words cameinto popular use with the must have beenfamiliar to very few people not inter-ested in the chemistry of high explo-sives until under its own name it became synonymous withdeath and destruction. Doctors specializing in mental andnervous diseases sometimes referred totheir patients as neuro-psychiatriccases, but it remained for the war, onaccount of the enormously increasedimportance of nervous and mental dis-eases among soldiers, to add this un-wieldy term to official governmentreports and even debates in conferences at which the treatmentof ex-service men and women is dis-cussed, this term is now used as freelyand nearly as glibly as if it had alwaysbeen a household word. Few people, however, even those whoknow in a general way what neuro-psychiatric patients are, realize fromexa
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