The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-10-14
| Am g r1can
|6Lsqli!o!,nn..

I'VE are q nnuncaI outfit, but we got
Ia get organized" declares q letter to all
members Of the Minneapolis Mark HAM
ilton Legion post, which adds. "An mus
actors belonging to the Marx Hamilton
post win meet September 18th to organ
Ike band and orchestra, q glee club and
quartet q vaude-villian company. and q
YOU are! The good ones are probably too
good for US anyway. II you can play any
thing from bugle to q Jews harp. II
you can do any sort Of stunt from card
man, we want you. Even II you can't do
these things, come anyway, for We can
teach you, or You can carry the bass
drum. or take tickets. or shift scenery.
as stage managers and directors"
A year ago. Legionaires Of the Giant
the boys Of the nnaRSS to heRTa
Troop No. so. Boy Scouts Of America
and since then have, helped them to be
good Americans. September 23d the post
at which the boys gave demonstrations
of their expert knowledge. including an
exhibition of handicraft work: So inn
pressed was was Mnnesota Legion Com M
would appeal to all Minnesota Legion
posts to adopt boy scout troops and help
finance and train them. Nothing which
the eountry can said ao = commander Van
Dyke.
Biwabik Minnesota Legionaires recent
30 egnerseticaiiyp S did the committee work
that II soon had clubrooms. Then 1t ap-
pealed to citizens for equipment and SON
had enough chairs. tables. a stove desk
and even a pool table and a plano were
installed to make the members coy for
the winter. A second committee which
was to help the women organize on aux
Hairy unit quickly reported that 1hts
tee has plans for dances. plays and
other winter entertainment up Its
sleeve and promises TO make tnngs
merry in Biwabik during the winter
season.
The school board at Nashwauk Min
nesota Is arranging to turn over the VII
lage school building to local Legionaires
for use as a meeting place. clubrooms,
and Legion Auxiliary doings. The plan
contemplates the furnishing OF q care
taker by the township board and n;5 neat neat
shcool contains a fine auditorium tsn
win be just the thing for home talent
plays, dances and other entertainments
You have heard of the man who had
money in both pockets Well. he had
nothing on the turkey ratified at smok-
er given by Osakis Minnesota Legion,
on each foot The Legionaire who got the
turkey and the ten dollars paid seventeen
cents for his chance. Lucky Legionaire!
: National Headquarters of the Legion
has honored Minnesota Legionaires by
choosing State Commander Arthur A. Van
Dyke to act as Chairman OF, Legion Ma
tional delegation consisting OF the state
commanders of the departments OF Iowa.
attend the national convention OF The
Great War Veterans of Canada at Port
Arthur Ontario, which meets ,Octoper
18th. William T. Mollis1n OF rar,Tau MIS- Is
nesota Department at Washington. ID. G.
when the body IL Americas Unknown
Soldier is laid to rest in Arlington Gem
etery on Armistice Day.
Iesionaires at Delano and Herman re-
port that they have adopted the Minnie
apolis plan Of honoring their hero dead.
or of the boys who did not come back.
while at Herman three trees have been
planted in their memory. Other M,nneso..
tn egion POSTS are PLANNING 70 carrr o,.I
this beautiful plan of remembering those
who made the supreme sacrif1ce
One by one they are coming back. Not
to the biare of martial music, not TO the
guns roared and death faced them. they
did not finch. They went forward.and
fell upon the field of battle. One hum
bred bodies came back last week Among
thew were the bodies Of Isaac James,
Stephen Gust. James w. Adams. Erdroy
Peterson Melvin E. Hearl. and Wendell
and Leo I.orentz. after whom the Legion
posts at Ironton. Robin sdale, welcome.
Moorhead and Mankato. were named.
One of the most important actions of
the 1920 Minnesota Legislature from the
r 1Aw.k AZ ytaxr q
law e Which es authorized each Minnesota
County Board to furnish $25 to each Le-
gion post to help defray Memorial ex-
penses. In an effort to learn how this
has asked its posts whether or not their
requests for this fund were granted. OF
the replies so far received, the posts at
Saltwater. Wabasha Cambridge, Al
bany. Buffalo Jordan Lake City Ray
mond, Wells. Emmons. Herman. say their
county boards furnished the money. while
posts at Holt, Staples Eagle Bend, and
the Giantvalley Post of Minneapolis de-
The s25. was to be paid to each Legion
post by it's county boadr on the request
of the post officers.
EVERY time the American Legion boys
don their uniforms to take, part in our
public demonstrations. the realization Of
what these uniforms stand for is brought
home to every one IF u.s. Save the 'Vrt-
county RECORD OF huSnIOIu 1lHHeSOld
"There is a dignity and bearing to the
man in his country's uniform not pos
sessed at other times. Deep in every
mans heart, beneath the human weak
ness and bravado, is the spirit of the
true soldier. the spirit that bound our
boys together through all the horrors of
the great war. The past associations and
of our boys will never wear
out nor be outgrown. and whether uni
forms are available or not, 1t should not
keep ex-soldiers from taking part in hon
oring the memory of our heroic dead
Civilians will take off their hats as the
nag and the boys go by"
In telling of the funeral of Wendell and
Lorentz. only sons of Mrs. Frank Lorentz
OF Mankato, In whose honor Mankato
Legionaires provided a military funeral.
DR.. Helen Hughes Hielscher says: "It
was heart gripping to stand by the wide
grave where these two soldiers were laid
SIDE by side, as their mother so often
laid them in their little bed at night She
was standing there now. but instead of
her softly crooned lullaby 1t was the
for now 1t was men and soldiers that
were being laid to rest. May the lesson
OF patriotism which they wrote in their
blood never fade from the hearts of the
nation for whose honor they died"
Daily, in the hundreds of American
Legion employment bureaus throughout
the nation, the spirit of comradship
which Legionaires carried back with them
The other day the st. Paul Legion EmA
ployment Bureau phone rang. "A man to
clean house. said voice score of un-
employed and hungry veterans hung on