The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-01-07

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This department of The Courier will
be each and every issue devoted to
items of interest to ex-service men.
Members of the American Legion are
requested to sent in any items of in
tereSt.
Bookkeeping for American Legion
posts has been simplifed by a COM
plete post accounting set, which has
been prepared by a special committee
and now is ready for delivery. The
Emblem Division of National Head
quarters is filling orders for them.
BY way of showing their gratitude
to the newspapers of the state for
their loyal support during the veal of
1920. the Minnesota Department of
the American Legion has sent each
newspaper a letter of thanks. Each
letter bore the signature of A. H. YER
non, department commander.
American Legion members in Pine
dale, Wyo., claim that their Phillips
Edwards Post is farthest from a rail-
road of anv post in the United States.
The distance from the nearest railway
line is said to be 10 miles. There are
thirty-hve members in the Post, which
represents a territory of five hundred
square miles.
In an effort to alleviate shortage Of
employment. American Legion posts
in many parts of the country have es-
tab]ished employment bureaus for To-
cal former service men where indus
trial establishments and business
houses of the community list their
"help wanted" These post bureaus are
operated free of charge and eligible to
anv veteran applicant. regardless of
Legion membership.
A rational poll Of the members Of
the American 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 tho imrcdiate
expenditure which the bills passage
would call for.
Wholesale swindlinp CT "e'nra"s and
gold star relatives by un7cruru1nns
lawyers who demand e~v0rbitan+ fees
for obtaining compensation in cases Of
injury Or death is being investiga.ed
by the Massachusetts, Department Of
the American Legion. The widow Of
one man is said to have paid a law
yer's fee of ten per cent of a $4,000
due to her through the death Of her
husband overseas. The War Risk Act
prohibits any lawyer receiving more
than 81 as a fee for pressing a COM
p%ensation claim.
State legislation which will offer the
alternative of a $1,000 farm or home
loan or cash compensation at the rate
of $15 a months of service for veter-
ans of the World War, will be pressed
) by the Oregon Department of the
American Legion. 1t was so decided
at a recent meeting of the state eXecu
tive committee of the Legion. The
~Legionnaires also voted to sponsor in
the legislature a 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
caused al influx of Japanese into Or
egon.
Charging that army overcoats are
being solicited from former service
men for disabled veterans because the
government has failed to clothe them
adequately, Miles D. King, a 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 ! am therefore unable to
understand why these c~onvalescent
soldiers cannot be furnished with suf-
ficient clothing"
The appeal to former service men
to give up their overcoats, according
to the letter, was made from the
American Red Cross, through a Legion
member at a meeting of the New York
post.