The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-08
AMERICAN LEGION NEWS

National headquarters will give a
silver bar to all posts bringing their
coiors for the parade in Kansas City,
at the American Legion convention.
This is q. precedent established last
year at Cleveland and the colors of all
posts will be decorated with a silver
service bar every year they are carried
, in the mighty legion parade. Every
Kansas legion post represented, is
urged to carry their colors and receive
service bar.
With a cast, of 200 Denver legion
of the mountain city. a jazz spectacle
OF song and dance and scinti.lating
color will be presented during the con-
vention. Name IT. is it's name.
Cooks drum corps of 100 pieces.
which has appeared at many national
conventions. will accompany the Den
yer theatrical troupe. The production
will be directed by a New York
theatrical ma~ager. The scenic art
list and tech al stage manager also
are professios ais. The play will be
presented in Denver october 20 and
20. 1t will play in Kansas City on the
three nights of the convention.
Use of the giant liner Leviathan, for
months idle at the army docks at Ho-
boken, as shelter and sleeping quar-
ters for homeless and jobIess ex-serv
ice men is being sought of the ship
ping board by the American Legion.
Following the shipping boards an
nouncement that the ship is going to
be reconditioned and restored to serv-
ice, the legion likewise requests that
as many unemployed service men as
possible be hired for the extensive re-
pair work. The minimum estimate of
the cost of reconditioning the liner is
$4,000, 600, and a large number of men
could be employed thru the winter.
ha ncf Nrsr4 NnVsH Ill r1v-
the part of the shipping board and
would earn the everlasting gratitude
of the ex-service men if imme diately
the unemployed could be put to
work reconditioning this ship or if.
in the meantime, homeless ex-service
their temporary headquarters" John
T. Taylor vice chairman of the
legion's legislative committee at
Washington has written A d. La<er,
chairman of the shipping board,
Thousands of these men are walking
the streets or sleeping in parks at
night and permission to use the ship
on which they once crossed the ocean
would give them the feeling that our
country has not forgotten them -
The Leviathan, formerly the Ger
man Vaterland, carried $500 Ameri :
can officers and 10000 enlisted men
to Europe before the armistice. Her
average capacity per trip was $4,000
men.
President Harding's rep to Rep
lresentative Lamar LETTERS. Alabama.
and the legislative committee of the
American Legion in Washington that
there was no ex-service man of the
world war of outstc ding qualification
to be a member OF American COM
mission to the into national disarma-
ment conference has provoked wide
spread comment.
1t is pointed out that the president
appointed an ex-service man secretary
of the navy and another assistant Sec
rotary He turned to man in service
during the war for the post of alien
property custodian. He made a service
man assistant postmaster general. He
placed an A. e. F. veteran at the head
of the national budget. He confided
the task of organizing the new vet
Grams bureau to a former soldier.
The public, too, has recognized out
standing qualifications for public serv-
ice among men who served in the
army and navy, it is shown. 1t has
elected twenty-six veterans to the
house and two to the senate. In nearly
a dozen states service men are the
governors.
Eight members of the present con-
ference on unemployment now in ses-
sion were in service during the world
war. However, none were delegated
especially to present the views of the
service men.