Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-12-30
LEGION NEWS

@E| OF FE 5T11
Every rural school center and village
in Oklahoma will have a detachment OF
American Legion members Small com
munities which cannot maintain char
tered posts will be organized into out
posts.
The placing of trained, sympa-
thetic war mother" at Ellis Island to
aid women immigrants to get suitably
located in the United States is being
considered by the American Legion
Auxiliary,
To liven up the towns long winter
evenings, the American Legion post OF
Strathcona, MINI, challenged the citi-
zens to a whist tournament, The final
game of the series lasted until 800 a
m, the ex-soldiers winning.
A gold star mother 100 years old is
being taken care of by the American
Legion in White Plains, n Y Her son
her only support, was killed in France
The government check, paid for her
sons death, merely covers her rent
She is Southern negro.
Suspension of immigration for three
years has been advocated in a hearing
before the House committee on immi-
grafton by John Thomas Taylor, vice
chairman of the American Legion's leg
slative committee A bill to so sus-
pend immigration is pending
If a pending ordinance allows the
employment of 200 additional police
men in Los Angeles, Chief of Police
Jones will fill the vacancies with eX-
service men, he has informed the Amer
lean Legion, seeking the organizations
cooperation in obtaining candidates.
AS a part of its Christmas program,
the American Legion of Omaha, Nebr
sent Mrs Marie Anderson, 60 years old,
to Leavenworth, Kan, to visit her son.
The boy is serving a sentence for an
offense committed after he ran away
from home at sixteen years to join the
army. He served during the World
war.
Cabot Ward, vice commander of the
Paris. France post of the American
Legion has been elected first vice
president of the Interallied Veterans
Federation in its second annual CON
gress in Paris A British veteran is
second vice-president and a French
veteran heads the organization
Many sick and wounded ex-soldiers
who Travelled far to obtain treatment
in the army and navy hospital at Hot
Springs, Ark. are in destitute circum-
stances after they have been refused
admission to the hospital, according to
national headquarters OF the American
Legion. Only the Surgeon General Of
the army or the [. S. Veterans Bureau
can admit men to treatment there.
Members of the American Legion
post at Greenville S c., will serve as
policemen during the annual banquet
of the police department of that city.
The request for the Legionnaires to
police the city for three hours during
the entertainment was made by Chief
of Police J. Z. Smith The Legion
nare, will name their chief to serve
during absence of the regular police
/ force.
Pekingese tdogs wearing Expensive
while eX-soldiers sit shiverlng on park
benches aroused the ire of the Rev
S. Park, Cadman, Congregationalist
minister of Brooklyn, during the Amer
lean Legion's attempt to get overcoats
for needy eX-service men. Rev. Cad
man advocated taking the coats of
these overdressed promenaders with
poodle dogs on a string and wrapping
them around the half frozen backs OF
our boys
An order issued by the Secretary OF
the Navy and construed as affecting
adversely the retention of disabled men
working in government shipyards was
protested in a resolution passed by Dis
trict Lodge No. n, International Asso-
citation of Machinists, in convention at
Washington d. c. The American Le-
gions national headquarters has thank
ed the labor organization for its coop
Grafton "in obtaining a square deal for
sick and disabled former service men
Amounts received as compensation,
family allotments and allowances un-
der the war risk insurance and voca-
tional rehabilitation acts, or as pen
sions from the Government for mill
tary or naval service in time of war
NAV be exempted from income tax
returns of ex-service men. The exemp-
tions were obtained following an ap-
peal made by the American Legions
legislative committee The tax exemp-
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