The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-15

has protested to Minnesota senators
against postponement of the consid
GRAFTON Of the adjusted compensation
bill. Legionaires all over the state
are urging Senator Nelson and Kellog
to work for and vote for the bill and
secure It's enactment now. Legion
aires OF Minnesota feel that the ma
jority Of the people of this state be-
!ieve that the American Legion bill
Is Just and fair and that should be
enacted now. Both bodies of the
Mtnnesota legislature have endorsed
II. 1t passed the national house OF
representatives and has twice been
approved by the Finance committee of
the United States senate. It has been
endorsed by the legislatures of many
states beside our own. The United
States Chamber of Commerce is re :
ported to be heading the fight against
the Legion's bill, but practically every
minnesota commercial body to which
tne measure has been explained, has
endorsed 1t. Many misleading esti-
mates as to its cost have been printed
In barrage of editorials throughout
the country recently. Other editorials
deliberately ignore the principles of
Justice underlying the bill. None of
them cite the fact that the adjustment
OF compensation for the defenders of
our country will cost less than it cost
10 carry on the war for a single
month. Neither do they explain that
the money needed to do justice to ex-
service persons is only two thirds of
the amount promptly appropriated for
the adjustment of compensation of
Cancelled contracts for war materials
Instead, they try, to brighten the
country into repudiating it's debt to
us defenders, by crying 1T will ruin
tne country. This eleventh hour at
tack on the bill won't succeed If Min
nesota Legionaires can avoid it.
A novelty rare to conventions will
be inaugurated at the Winona Legion
and Legion Auxiliary Conventions
August End, when the convention ses-
sions will be held on the new Strek-
fus excursion steamer WASHINGTON"
capable OF carrying three thousand
nve hundred passengers. The FORE
noon session Will go up the river.
back to Wtnona at noon for lunch then
down. the river for the afternoon.
The boat Is one Of the most beautiful
on the entire Mississippi. Legionaires
will have a deck all to themselves for
their convention work, while the Leg
ion Auxiliary delegates will hold forth
on separate deck And so, the his
tory OF the Legion and its auxiliary
will be made while passing through
one Of the most beautiful panoramic
views in the great northwest.
Sergeant Alvin York, famed for his
individual war record, has enrolled as
a member of the David Summers
Legion post at Chattanooga, Tennes
see. York was present at the original
meeting at which the Legion was or
ganized in France in 1919, but did not
join the organization until few days
ago.
Legonaires of Window, Minnesota,
helped put on a wide-awake Indepen-
dence Day celebration. Not only did
the people express their appreciation
of the manner in which the ceIebra-
ton was conducted, but the Legion
boys cleared five hundred dollars,
which with three hundred previously
cleared this year, indicates the man
ner in which Window citizens are
supporting their local post of the
Legion.
Commenting on the plans OF local
Legionaires to construct a bathing
beach at Jordan, Minnesota,
the Jordan Independent writes,
This plan of the Legion Is
entitled to our support. What finer
brave soldier boys could there be than
the boulevarding and parking of the
millpond, the building of the neces-
sary hath houses, The preparation oil
the necessary roads and bridges, and
probably the erection of a grandstand
for summer evening hand concerts?"
CARRIED in war paint and their ma
tive costume, twenty or more full
blooded Chippewa Indians marched in
the parade. watched the ball game,
and danced with the Legion boys at
the Itasca County Rally Of the Legion
in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Dare
devil afrplane stunts and a parachute
part Of the entertainment.
The Legion post at Amboy. Mime
sofa, has ordered one hundred pairs OF
automobile tags bearing the word
size to the Minnesota auto license,
and will be fastened above or below
te license plate. so that when Amboy
Legionaires and citizens 20 motoring
afield, these tags will serve the pur-
pose of banners in advertising the
"old home town" ~.
The Central Minnesota Baseball
league, comprising teams from Glen
coe, Stewart, Lester Prairie, Hutchin-
son, Brownton, Winsted and Plato,
organized by the Mcleod County
Legion Central committee last April,
Is proving a decided success. The
general public is strongly supporting
the various teams In the league,
which is governed by board or com
mittee made up of one Legionaire
representative from earh LEGION post.
Each team will play twelve games
this season.
When the Legion and its Auxiliary
at Chisholm. Minnesota, decided to
raise several hundred dollars to be
expended by the Lexion Auxiliary
State disqualification Committee for
sick and disabled soldiers in hospit-
ais. every civic organization in CHS