Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-04-21

orlal resolution was passed requesting
Congress to adopt the Legion's legi- !
slative recommendations.
After it was announced that there
were 5000 former service men in Los
Angeles out of work and that an
average of 500 men apply for en-
ployment to the American Legion
headquarters there daily, the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton of that city decided that it was
time to act. A campaign of relief
has been started and the funds will
be administered by the chairman of
the American Legion Interpost Coun-
ell.
Three to one is the score of the
legislative program of the. American
Legion in Iowa. The following Legion
measures passed: bonus bill, provid-
ing fifty cents day, with a maxi
mum Of $50 to be voted upon at the
general election in November 1922;
Tax exemption of $500 for veterans
of World War, $500 for Spanish
American War veterans, and So, 900
for those who fought in the CivilWar,
and veterans preference on all poll
tical appointments, state, county, city
and schools for both World War and
Spanish-American fighters. A legion
boxing bill was passed in the house,
but was defeated in the senate of the
Iowa Legislative body.
George Sylvester Viereck's boast
that he can control 100000 Amer
lean votes in the interest of Germany
has been denied by letters from twelve
leading citizens of Teutonic extraction
IN Louisville, KY, to the jefferson post
of the American Legion in that city
The letters, together with resolution
condemning Viereck as an advocate
of un-American principles, have been
made public by the post Louisville
Legionnaires will hold an all American
meeting on Decoration Day, May so.
When the fire department dashed
down the main street and red flares
burned in the stiffness of the night the
solid citizens of Appleton, Wis, rush
ed out of their homes in alarm. What
they discovered was that the local
post of the American Legion was
starting its membership campaign.
Bands began to play and illuminated
floats appeared. Boy Scouts marched
IN parade with the legion members.
+. The effect of the night attack was so
strong that 600 members were obtain
! ed the next day.
! Although he was arrested and con-
1 vlcted of a misdemeanor, a twenty
+ year old wounded war veteran. is To
/ receive through the offices of the
! American legion of Detroit, Mich. an
education as an electrical engineer.
+ The boy had enlisted at the age of II
and was twice wounded during the
/ St Mihiel drive. He had always want
! ed an education, he told the Judge. but
/ was compelled to leave school when he
! was six years old because of the sep
aration of his parents. The Judge
placed him on probation to a represen-
tatlve ct the Legion, who is arranging
for the youth to enroll in an engineer
3 ing course under the Government pro-
visions for vocational training of
wounded veterans.
When the government salvage de
pot employment office at Toledo. o..
failed TO employ reasonable number
+ o. X-service men, the Lucas County
/ Council of the American Legion inyes-
tigated the situation and obtained a
promise Of adjustment from the cap
tain in charge of the depot The Lee
glon's investigation showed that. out
Of POI employees, 81 were ex-service
men, so We're ineligible at the time
Of war and Ia had never been in
service.
A French 'Medal Commemorative
Of the world war" awaits American
and French citizens who went to
France to serve with the horizon blues
during the period of hositilities,. ac-
cording to a letter to National head
quarters of the American Legion from
Brigadier General L. Collardet, French
military attache at Washington. He
requests that persons eligible for the
decoration apply to the French En-
bassy at the national capitol.
The Bronx County, N. Y. American
/ Legion will on Memorial Day dedicate
tree to each of the 760 Bronx men
/ and women who made the supreme sac
/ rifice. Around each of the lindens on
/ Grand Concourse the City of New
4 York will place an iron guard. To
/ this will be affixed bronze plate, con-
/ ceived by the Bonx Legion and paid
/ for by its members.
Opposition to the proposed emigra-
ton of several thousand Mennonites
from Canada to Missippi, which the
! American Legion has registered, is
backed up in a resolution passed by
the Punxsutawney, Pa. Lodge, No. 500,
international Association of Machin-
lists, affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton ofLabor, which characterizes
the sect as "unpatriotic and a menace
! to the United States Government"
Henry Harrison, an English author,
i who has, just passed away, spent 80
years compiling a dictionary of sur
names of the United Kingdom
The municipal council of Paris is