Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-09
American Legion News

American Legion News
Proof that disabled veterans APP
preciate the efforts of the American
Legion in their behalf is provided by
statistics showing that of the number
of ex-service men confined in hospital
of thirty states, one third are Legion
members. The figures were obtained
from a report of the Service Division
Of National Headquarters, based on
a Legion national census.
The week ending February 26 was
one of the most successful in the his
tory of the American Legion and
Women's Auxialiary of that organi-
cation from the standpoint of new
posts and units. Eight-two posts of
the Legion and seventy-three units of
the Women's Auxiliary were added.
Applications for thirty-two charters
for the Auxiliary were received in
one day. There are now 10000 posts
and 2, 15O units, according to National
Headquarters.
Alvin w. Owsley, of Austin, Tex,
who was a pioneer in American Leg
ion organization in the Southwest,
has been appointed assistant director
of the Legion's Americanism Com
mission Mr.. Owley is speaker of
national prominence and acquired es-
pecial recognition among ex-service
men for his efforts in obtaining the
passage of a bill in the Texas legis-
lature providing million and a half
dollar for hospital at Kerrville,
Tex.
When the employment bureau of the
Legion in ST. Paul enrolled four
hundred ex-service men out of jobs,
0. w. Krause, secretary of the bu-
reau, appealed to the public of St.
Paul through the local newspapers.
AS a result, more than one hundred
men found employment in one day.
A plan by which thousands of men,
bers of the American Legion might
be given free course in government
is proposed by Representative Hamil-
ton Fish, Jr., of New York, an Amer
lean Legion member. Mr.. Fish sug-
gests that each member of the House
and Senate bring a Legionnaire to
Washington for three months as one
of the secretaries permitted him in
his office and replace him at the end
of the period with another and so on.
Mr.. Fish has already started a relay
of New York Legion members in his
office.
An appeal has been made to Nation
al Headquarters of the American Lee
gion by officers of the American and
French Children's League to aid the
League in it's distribution of several
millions of peoples, which the women
of France have made to be worn on
Memorial Day. The peoples will be
sold in all parts of the United States
and the proceeds will be used for
French and American war orphans.
The fact that a veteran who gets
into trouble with the law is an ex-
service man will not be emphasized
by the Associated Press, according
and correspondents. The American
Legion at it's Second annual conven-
ton passed a resolution urging the
press to adopt similar policy.
American Legion. members were
chosen for office at two California
special election in one week. Walter
F. Linberger, past commander of Long
Beach Post No. 27, was elected to
Congress and Walter C. Smith, of
Golden Gate Post No. 40, to the state
legislature. Two Legion men now rep
resent California in Congress and
fifteen >eX-service men have seats in
the state legislature.
Enlisting new members is not diff
ficult for Medford Post No. 81 of the
American Legion, which received a
prize flag as the most efficient Okla
homa post in a state membership cam
paign. With membership of fifteen
last September, the post obtained re-
newals from every member and added
fifty-four names to it's rolls. Will
ken Green Post No. 100, of Gotebo
would have received the prize, had it's
report been made on time. The Cote
DO post renewed it's fourteen members
and gained seventy-six recruits.
Every American Legion post in
Kings County, N. Y, has adopted a
ward in Fox Hills Hospital, Staten
Island, N. Y, which shelters more
than one thousand disabled veterans
of the World War. The Legion mem
bers have established regular shed.
ule of visits, entertainments and
gifts parties as well as system OF
| assistance in obtaining compensation
and other rights of their comrades.
Billy Marvin. an ex-service man
| OF Mulberry, Kan, found real help
in the Fred Hutchinson Post of the
American Legion at Mulberry anc
Den uller fOSC, OF flCtSDurg, Kan
While member of the 106th Infantry
Marvin suffered disability which nee
essitated his removal to Arizona. The
Mulberry post staged a benefit dance
the entire proceeds being given tt
| Marvin, and the Ben Fuller Post also
aided him financially.
A meeting of Aarving- Campbell
Post No. 70, of Pontiac, Ill, was the
scene of the preventative of the Dis
tinguished Service Cross to Sergeant
Isadore Solomon, of that city, who wa.
cited for extraordinary heroism in re
covering an airplane message in from
of the line near Sommanthe, France
November 4, 1913, in the face O.
heavy machine gun fire.