The Coconino sun., 1921-01-14

of $15 a month of service for veter- ans of the World war, will be present. ed by the Oregon department of the Legion. It was so decided at recent meeting of the state executive com mittee of the Legion. The Legionnair- es also voted to sponsor in the legis- lature 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 an influx of Japanese into Or egon.
 A national poll of the members of the Legion may be ordered by nation al headquarters in the near future to determine which plan members will choose in the event that the Legion four-fold bonus bill is passed by the, senate finance committee reported to the national legislative committee in Washington that this step might be necessary to ascertain an es- innate of the immediate expenditure which the bills passage would call for.
 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 Legion in New York city, has written let ter of protest to Secretary of War Baker. The writer states that "sur- plus clothing is being sold right and left at what is supposed to be sacri- flee prices, and l am therefore unable to understand why these convalescent 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 Red Cross, through a Legion member at meeting of the New York post.
 In an effort to alleviate the national shortage of employment, Legion posts in many parts of the country have es- tablished 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 eligi- ble to any veteran applicant, regard less of Legion membership.
 A recent report that the Interna- tional Holders Union had advised all it's members that if they became af- filiated with the Legion their union cards would be forfeited has been de- clared falsehood in letter from an officer of the union to Samuel Comp CTS, president of the American Feder- ation of Labor. The letter states that "We do not wish to mar the wonder ful record our members made during the war by prohibiting them from joining such patriotic body as the Legion"
 Legion members in Pinedale, Wyo., claim that their Phillips s-Edwards Post is farthest from railroad of any post in the United States. The distance from the nearest railway line is said to be no miles. There are thirty five members in the post, which represents a territory of five hundred square miles.
 Wholesale swindling of veterans and gold star relatives by unscrupu lous lawyers who demand exorbitant fees for obtaining compensation in cases of injury or death is being in- vestigated by the Massachusetts de- partment of the Legion. The widow of one man is said to have paid a lawyers fee of ten per cent of $1O,- 900 policy due to her through the death of her husband overseas. The war risk act prohibits any lawyer re- ceiving more than $3 as a fee for pressing compensation claim.
 Establishment of radio depart ment for receiving wireless news and keeping in touch with American Le- gion Posts throughout Louisiana is announced in a recent issue of The Pelicanaire, the official newspaper of the Louisiana department of the Le- zion.
 Through cooperation with anna teurs in towns in which there are Le- gion Posts, constant liaison will be maintained between the Legion news paper and the local posts. Arrange ments have already been made for this service from Shreveport, Opell- ouses and Franklinton to New Orleans where The Pelicanaire is published. By the use of the radio service, the press sheets of news from all over the world sent out daily from the Arl- ington station will be received by the Legion organ. This service is con ducted by the United States navy for its battleships and stations.
 Three hundred volumes covering the field of American activities in the World war have been received through the medium of the American Legion Weekly as start of complete Le- zion war library, which will be estab- lished in a room at national head quarters. The collection of books in- cludes volumes dealing with the hist ory of units from companies to di- visions. It contains the products of hand presses in French and German rript yehonc as wa1l as mara ambitions