Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-10-08
Carrying On With the
American Legion

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The mayor of Wenatchee, WasL.,
the county sheriff and all his deputies
are members of the loca. post Of the
Legion.
DIR. A. A. Van Dyke, st. Paul. MIMI,
member of the national executive COM
mittee has been elected commander of
the Minnesota department 10 succeed
A. Ii. Vernon, Little Falls.
More than 100 movie stars, members
of Hollywood, Cal, post of the Ameri-
can Legion, will attend the reunion
of the Ninety-first division at Los An
| geles, September "A and 20.
At least II bands from Missouri
will attend the national convention Of
4 the American Legion at Kansas City,
October 80, 81 and November /. st.
Louis will send band of 100 p nes.
n4olC plC~NiShLll tAk ROpoia~
tion OF Radcliffe, Ia, Is enrolled In
tn. American Legion. :'he town has
LOG service men out of population Of
S00. every one of whom belongs to
| the local post.
To teach children proper love and
respect for Old Glory. state school
leaders and committee from the
American Legion are writing simple,
/ impressive ceremony to be followed
In every school room.
When violence was threatened
against Mrs. Ida Crouch Hazlett, so
cialist speaker at Des Moines, Ia, re-
| Gently group of American Legion
| men seized her and carried her to n
/ police station for protection. Her SYM
! pathizers at first believed she was
! being kidnapped
| A meat cutter Is the commander a
| railroad sWitchman the vice comman-
| der and bank clerk the adjutant of
| the American Legion post at Harlow
ton, Mont, which has the largest per-
centage of potential membership In
| the state. In village of $500, the
post has 32-piece band.
Citizens Of Ephrata, Wash. had been
discussing city park for years. One
Sunday morning the local post OF the
American Legion turned out In force
with wagons, shoyels, rakes and picks
and before the church bells rang had
ground prepared for the park. The
citizens will complete the work and
stop discussions.
President Hard'ng's call for world
conference on disarmament this fall
Is expected by officials In charge OF
the third annual national convention
of the American Legion In Kansas
CITY. October 80. 81, and November i,
to insure the presence of number
Of distinguished foreign generals at
the Legion convention.
There is no railroad, no post Office,
Iot even town. But there is a thirty
Ing s1nost of the American Legion in
a farming locality Is milesghorth,ees
of Paige..N N. D. The men1meet every
week in a differena farm house to hold
socials and dances. The farmers of
the area are furnishing the Legion
posts with funds to erect a copmu-
nifty house.
Following representations made to
the United States Civil Service com
mission by the American Legion, dis
abled veterans of the World war who
nave undergone training by the fed
eral board for vocational education
VIII be allowed to enter examinations
for any government position for which :.
they have been trained If application
Is made within 90 days after cOmple-
ton Of training.
Admiral Sir David Beatty. first sea
lOrd OF Great Britain, will attend the
American Legion convention In Kansas
City. Oct. 80, 81, and Nov. /, accord
Ing to a cable received by the conven-
ton committee from Ambassador Har-.
vey In London. Admiral Beatty, fifty
years old. Is called the Infant prodi-
gy' of England's naval forces. He
was the youngest captain and the
youngest admiral.
To Jog the memories Of members
of congress celebrating on legislation
for the disabled service men OF Amer
lea, James G. Russell, member of
Blackhawk post, the American Legion,
Chicago, recently sent a picture post
card to all of them, II showed SOL
der, severely wounded In action near
st. Souplet France, Oct. 10, 1918, be-
my helped from the battlefield by two
hosp ni men, and smiling.