Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02
American Legion Activities

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The Women's Auxiliary of the
American Legion passed the 1000
unit mark by nine before the middle
| of February and was still going for
| ward at the rate of more than fifty
units week. Meanwhile the Legion
is gaining at the rate of approximate
| ly thirty posts a week, with a total
of 10,143 posts.
The Minnesota Department of the
Auxiliary, with 149 units, has now
| displaced the Massachusetts Aux
iliary for leadership. Massachusetts,
is second; then follow New York, and
] Pennsylvania.
In percentage of gain within the
/ last three weeks, the Ohio Depart
ment leads the Legion, Missouri, Tex
as, Illinois and Oklahoma follow in
relative order.
By arrangement between the Amer
lean Legion and Bureau of Com
mercial Economics, the most COM
plete and valuable collection of ed
ucational and travel motion picture
films in existence will be placed at
the disposal of the Legion posts for
free exhibition. Legion members will
order films from catalogues which
will be sent to all Legion posts. The
! films will be sent from a number of
distributing centers, which will be
designated in the catalogue. One
thousand separate topics are en-
braced in the films, which have been
taken in all parts of the world.
An American Legion button stop
ped bullet, which struck Gitamona
Scala, Legionnaire of Newark, N.
j., and probably saved his life. Scala
was an innocent bystander at dis
pute between four men during which
the gun play started.
Wearing his army gas mask, the
Rev. F. w. Smith, commander Of Ray
Stone Post of the American Legion
at Shrewsbury, Mass, braved the
smoke and flames Of fire in the
town hall to rescue two American
flags from post headquarters room.
Clutching the flags, he CROPPED his way
back through the halls, feeling his
way out by a string that he had tied
;; to the back door on entering the build
ing. Rev. Mr.. Smith served as a
chaplain with the Canadian Black
Watch.
An ex-service man with eight bars
on his Victory medal has been en-
rolled by Argonne Post of the Amer
lean Legion at Des Moines, Ia, in a
membership campaign. George Lee
ander, the embryonic Legionnaire,
was with supply train attached to
the Mallet Reserve of the French
| Army. He took part in the Some de-
fensive, Aisne, Montididier Noyon,
| Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne,
| Somme and Oise-Aisne offensives
| and also served in a defensive Sec
tor.
Foreign posts of the American Le-
| gion have been asked to cooperate
with the Federal Board for Vocation
al Education in carrying out a sys-
tenn whereby American veterans in
France, England, Italy and Belgium
are to be provided with vocational
training. The plan is based upon a
reciprocal agreement between this
country and the four allied countries
under which they are to train dis
abled eX-service men in our own, each
nation paying a stipulated sum fol-
each veteran so trained.
The first convention of the Wo-
mems Auxiliary of the Virginia De.
be held May 13 and IA, it was decided
at meeting Of the Legion's stats
executive committee. More than ], Joe
new members were obtained for the
Legion in Virginia between January
1 and February IL.
| Player pianos, monographs, desks
and Shetland ponies are among the
prizes in membership contest which
the Texas Department of the Amer.
lean Legion has started. Posts will
be graded on the proportion of number
of members obtained to the population
of the community.
The Women's Auxiliary unit OF
Murphy Ma jor-S Sloan Post No. 284 OF
the American Legion at Atchison
Kan, is the first colored auxiliary il
Kansas and one of the first to be or
ganized in the country.
Job applicants and employers are
listed in a card index, according t.
their abilities and needs by Nashville
Tenn, Post of the American Legion
which has been successful in obtain
ing employment for many ex-service
men.
Backed by the American Legion or
ganizatior of the state, bill pro
viding for exemption from payment
of taxes by veterans has been passed
by the Wyoming legislature. All ex
service men in the state, whether OF
not they enlisted from Wyoming, will
benefit from the bill.
Essay contests on the subject o.
Lincoln's Gettysburg address and the
application of Washington's Fare
well Address to present-day condition!
in America were held in Spokane
Wash, high schools by Spokane Pos
of the American Legion, which re
warded the winners with prizes.
The latest Endorsement of thu
American Legion by labor organiza
ton came from Nevada, where G. w
Harrington, state organizer of tn
American Federation of Labor, and
number of labor leaders pledged thu
cooperation of their organization witt
The Legion in it's fight against radi
calism.