The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-16


on Legion Day. Other purses rang
ing from ten to fifty dollars will
go to the posts most ably perform
ing competitive drills, and to the
winners of various Legion athletic
contests, including a Legion base
ball game. September 18th is the
big day, and posts at Madison, Daw-
son, Ivanhow, Hendricks, Minneota,
Marshall, Porter, Clarkefield, Arco.
Boyd, Clarissa, Hanley Falls, Mari
setta, Cottonwood and Granite Falls
are expected to compete. Posts
from any Minnesota county or the
adjoining counties of South Dakota
are eligible, provided they are with
in fifty miles of Candy, Mimi.
While most Minnesota posts are
up-to-date, Legionaires of Osakis
post believe in being ahead of the
times, and already are planning an
Armisticei Day demonstration that
will awake up Douglas County from
stem to stern. warning" tags
are mysteriously appearing on every
automobile entering Osakis. One
reads Thirty kilometers to Osakis
on November 11th": Another an
nounces, "Osakis, Big Armistice Day
Celebration-Fire Up The Old Tin
Lizzie And Be There; and so on.
Osakis has one of the best Legion
bands in Minnesota. Every Osakis
Legionaire is booster for his post
and his home town.
In a recent address, Minnesota
Legion State Commander, DIR. Ar
thur A. VanDyke, answering the
question, "Who are we?", declered !:
"The American Legion is simply
your sons and daughters of the
world war organized to perpetuate
in our government that spirit of un-
selfishness which characterized
Americas attitude in the great war.
A father might as well fear the
growth of his son as the growth of
the American Legion. The only
ones who fear the young men and
women of the Legion are those who
would like to injure our country by
dividing its loyal citizens among
themselves by fostering false hate
and suspicion. Long after these
people are forgotten, the American
Legion will still be working for the
honor and in the service of it's coun-
try.
The Worthington Progressive of
Worthington, Minnesota recently
conducted a QUESTIONABLE wherein
each citizen was asked to state the
most pressing needs of the home
town. The reply which the editor
considered best, contained, among
other suggestions, the following
"We should have clubrooms for our
Legion and National Guard boys.
An armory would supply these needs.
The State of Minnesota will con-
tribute $4,000. toward the erection
of such a building. Many Min
nesota towns are taking advantage
of this fact-taking steps to erect
National Guard armories in their
communities.
When the commissioners of ST.
Louis County, Minnesota recently
initiated a movement to erect a
$4,000. memorial in honor of those
who served their country Elmer
McDevitt, representing twelve hun
dred Duluth Legionaires, informed
them that this is no time to spend
thousands of dollars for commemor-
ative monuments when thousands Of
service men are walking the streets
jobless and hungry. McDevitt de-
clared that those to whom the mem
orial would be dedicated prefer to
wait for it until their less fortunate
comrades have been cared for. The
memorial was to have been in the
nature of tablets bearing the names
of the service men and women OF
st. Louis County. -
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Here, I'll go your bond, buddy,
said a. big policeman to James An
derson of Nashville, Tennessee, 81
wear the same button pointing to
the blue and gold emblem of the
American Legion in Anderson's coat
lapel. Anderson had been arrested
and was facing detention in Jail for
violating a traffic ordinance. He
was passing some unhappy moments
when his policeman escort noticed
his Legion button. 1t developed
that both men belonged to the same
Legion post.
Appointment of a special commit
tee, the duty of which will be to
report as to the advisability of the
Legion of Minnesota establishing a
Memorial Hospital at Rochester,
Minnesota, at an approximate cost
of $250,000. in which sick and in
jured veterans of the great war
would be treated by the Mayo
brothers and other eminent physi-
clans at slight cost, was directed by
the Minnesota Legion State Execu-
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