The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-01-06
American Legion Notes

the alternative of $4,000 farm or
home loan or cash compensation at
the rate of $15 month of service
for the veterans of the World War,
will be pressed by the Oregon de-
partment of the American Legion.
1t was so decided at a recent meet
ing of the state executive committee
of the Legion. The Legionaries al
so voted to sponsor in the legislature
la bill similar to the Japanese law of
| California aimed to prevent land
holdings by orientals in the state,
when it was pointed out that the
adoption of the California law caus-
| ed an influx of Japanese into Ore
gon.
A national poll of the members of
the Legion may be ordered by
National Headquarters in the near
future to determine which plan men,
bers will choose in the event that
the Legion four-fold bonus bill is
passed by the Senate. The Senate
Finance committee reported to the
National legislative committee in
Washington that this step might be
| necessary to ascertain an estimate
of the immediate expenditure which
the bills passage would call for.
Charging that army overcoats
are being solicited from former SER
vice men for disabled veterans be-
cause the government has failed to
clothe them adequately, Miles D.
King, member of the West End
Post of the American Legion in New
York City, has written a letter Of
protest to Secretary of War Baker.
The writer states that surplus army
clothing is being sold right and left
at what is supposed to be sacrifice
prices, and l am therefore unable to
understand why these convalescent
soldiers cannot be furnished with
sufficient colthing."
The appeal to former service men
to give up their overcoats, accord
ing to the letter, was made from the
American Red Cross, through Le-
gion member at meeting of the
New York post.
In an effort to alleviate the ma
tional shortage of employment,
American Legion posts in many
parts of the country have established
employment bureaus for local form
er service men where industrial es-
Establishments and business houses of
community list their "help wanted"
These post bureaus are operated free
of charge and eligible to any veter-
ans applicant, regardless of Legion
membership.
J A recent report that the Inte1na-
tional Molders' Union had advised all
it's members that if they become af-
fliated with the American Legion
their union cards would be forfeited
has been declared a falsehood in a
letter from an officer of the union to
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor. The
letter states that eve do not wish to
mar the wonderful record our men,
bers made during the war by pro-
hibiting them from joining such a
patriotic body as the American Le-
gion." ;
By the way of showing their
gratitude to the newspapers of the
state for their loyal support during
the year of 1920, the, Minnesota de-
partment of the American Legion
has sent each newspaper letter OF
thanks. Each letter bore the sigma
ture of A. H. Vernon, department
| commander.
Bookkeeping for American Legion
posts has been simplified by a COM
plete post accounting set, which has
been prepared by a special commit
tee and now is ready for delivery.
The Emblem Division of National
Headquarters is filling orders for
them.
American Legion memoirs in Pine
dale, Wyo. claim that their Phillips
Edwards Post is farthest from a rail-
road of any post in the United
States. The distance from the near
est railway line is said to be llo
miles. There are thirty-five MEM
bers in the Post, which represents a
territory of five hundred square
miles.
More than a hundred cases were
handled by the war risk insurance
officers of the Norfolk, Va, Post OF
the American Legion between Jan
uary and November of last year. In