The Coconino sun., 1920-12-10

As a result of meeting between F. w. Galbraith, Jr., national com mander of the American Legion, and Charles D. Orth, president of the Ma tional Security League, a general con ference of every established organiza- tion in the country, which has been active in Americanization work, will be held soon.
 Mir. Galbraith said after the meet ing; "The effectiveness of the vari- ous organizations engaged in Ameri- eanization work is greatly decreased on account of the duplication of effort. Its whole success depends upon our ability to consolidate into one power ful and united army the many small CT units which are now taking pot shots at the enemy"
 That the Security League is in ac- cord with Legion Americanization plans and that Legion cooperation will lend tremendous impetus" to the work was the declaration of Mir. Orth, who called upon all patriotic societies to unite in a general scheme of oper- ation.
 Demands "as a matter of right" that General John J. Pershing divulge to ex-service men his reason for the communication of the sentence of Hard boiled" Smith and that Secretary of War Newton D. Baker advise former soldiers whether there is any good and sufficient reason for the final com mutation" were expressed in a recent resolution of G. o. 30, University Post, of the American Legion at Brooklyn, N. Y.
 City authorities of La Crosse, Kas., turned over the policing of the city to Glen s. Vandeveer Post No. S3 of the American Legion during recent five day celebration, which the post staged with considerable profit to it's treas ury. Former soldiers walked "beats," directed traffic and kept order in the city to the entire satisfaction of the authorities.
 Enthusiastic over the work of Led den- Young Post No. POS of the Amer ican Legion, the board of trade of Ridgeway, Pa., has undertaken the task of supplying a home for the post. Subscription papers have been circu- lated and options obtained on two suit able buildings near the center of the city.
 Henry L. Norton, fifty-years old, who has been appointed organizer of the Vermont department of the Amer ican Legion, served four years and seven months in the world war. He enlisted in the Canadian engineers in 1914 and served with them in France until 1917 when he received com sion in the American ramy. He served with the 372nd infantry, attached to the 157th French brigade from it's ar rival in France March IS, 1918, until he was discharged in February, 1919. A brother, Paul J. Norton, first com mander of Springfield, Mass, Legion post, was with the 26th division and two nephews, John H. Norton, of the 47th infantry, and Ralph Norton Dawes, band leader of the 104th in- fantry, lost their lives.
 Preservation of an Indianapolis tra- dition which has endured for more than fifty years was assured when McIlvaine-K Kothe Post No. 153, of the American Legion took up the duties of carrying on the customs of a soci- ety of Civil war veterans. The tra- dition is the firing of salutes from a Civil war cannon in an Indianapolis cemetery on Decoration Day and in the courthouse yard on Washington's birthday. The old cannon originally was on confederate flat boat which patroled the Ohio river between Louisville and Cincinnati, but was cap tured by a federal gungoat in 1864 The cannon has been in the hands oi the Legion post since last Decoration Day.
 Reports from the Texas departmen of the American Legion on Tag Day which was held there Armistice Da. for the benefit of the American Me morial Tubercular hospital, show tha the drive was huge success. Pos No. 50, of Laredo, was the first to re port that it had sold the full quota o tags. The hospital will be built a Kerville, Tex.
 Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant 0 the American Legion, has received letter from J. Brooks Parker, of Phi adelphia, who has just returned froi Paris, in which was enclosed lette from Commandant Perignon, of tn French Association of those person decorated with the Croix de Guerr The letter tells of the work of tf French Association and states that il membership is open to Americans wi have been decorated. The address Association Amicale des Croix ( Guerre, 5S, Boulevard Haussman Paris.
 Latest reports from the state d partments of the American Legic show total of 9,S69 posts. Eightet new posts were established during tl week ending November 12. Illino and Texas led, each state having ad ed four posts. Seventeen new uni of the Women's Auxiliary raised u total to 1,4S9. Kansas was first wi