Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-28
CONQUERORSOF KAISER HOSTS
 TACKLE H. |. 1.
By CAPT. KENT. A. HUNTER.

By CAPT. KENT. A. HUNTER.
 The High Cost of Living is in for finish fight with the real scrappers -the ones who whipped the Ger mans.
 The National Council of the Amer ican Legion-the world war veter- ans organiZation-has officially talk. en up the high cost of necessities. It authorized the various state units to carry the word down to local posts and gather data with which to crush the profiteer and hammer prices down to a point where the soldiers dollar wears the purchasing power he knew before he went to Europe.
 Call Sent Out to Posts.
 Bulletin No. ', sent out to the ninety-four posts in Illinois yester- day by Earl Searcy, secretary of the state committee of the legion, carried the call to the posts. One paragraph read:
 'It you know or hear of employers who are deliberately turning their backs upon returned service men worthy of employment, let the com munity know.
 "If you know of stay-at-homes in business who are taking advantage of the present high cost of living to double or treble rent or other profits, thus piling difficulties in the way of the soldier starting life anew, get that business mans record and make him pay the penalty"
 We Set Watch on Profiteers.
 MT. Searcy spoke of the plans for following out this phase of the le- gion's work.
 A body such as the American le- zion is ponderous, and doesn't get into action with hair trigger effect, he said, ''but once going, its momen tum is terrific and dangerous to try to stop. The national committee has recognized the high cost of living problem. Its method has been to refer the matters endorsed to state organizations for action. It gives the state organizations and the local posts full sway to decide their plan of action.
 We intend to get reports from each post-and that covers the state as with a rake-on grocers, butchers, clothiers and supply dealers who are profteering. The local posts can take immediate action on the local situation. From the temper of in- quiries coming in daily, that action will be summary.
 Will Seek Legislation
 "The state and national organiza, tions with the data furnished by the locals, will be in a position to pre- pare legislation and take state and national steps to combat the prof. tecrs.
 "The members of the legion, all ex-service men, know the value Of organization and concerted action. Their training in the army has taught them, too, the futility of starting anything and not going through to the last objective.
 Investigations by clubs and so on, political bunk by candidates for office. and even state and national governmental investigations and prosecutions, unless. carried through to that final objective, do nothing but give the profteers a stronger hold by getting them organized.
 '"The legion has no politics. It has fangs of independence and proposes to snap them shut on the swollen financial veins of the profiteer."
 One local in Oak Park, already has started it's campaign against the profiteer.
 The Seth division association, Will liam Q. Setliffe, secretary, is con- sider:ng the purchasing of several carloads of government subsistence stores for distribution to former BlackhaSk men. MT. Setliffe visited the quartermaster yesterday and made arrangements for central de livery point for such stores as the members of the associsti tion indicate they will need. When the delivery has been made, all members of the association will be notified as to the time and place of sale.
 The association now has more than 800 members in Chicago and 2,000 in the state. Maj. Gen. T. H. Barry former commander of the central de- pertinent, and Maj. Gen. Martin, the last division commander, have ac- cepted the honorary vice presidencies in the association.
 Hints at a Boycott.
 "The Seth Division association has only been organized about a month" said Secretary Setliffe, land many of our men are still scattered, but they are joining daily and move by the association to boycott profiteers and to urge their friends and relatives to do so Is bound to make itself felt with vengeance" z.