The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-09-09
Carrying On With the
American Legion

I American Legion s
The mayor of wenatchee. WASH.
the county sheriff and all his deputies
are members of the local post of the
Legion.
DR.. A A Van Dyke. st. Paul. Mimi,
member of the national executive COM
mittee, has been elected commander OF
the Minnesota department TO succeed
A. III. Vernon. Little Falls.
More. than 100 movie stars. members
of Hollywood, Cal, post of the Ameri-
can Legion. will attend the reunion
of the Ninety first division at Los An
geles, September 24 and %.
AT least IL bands from Missouri
will attend the national convention of
the American Legion at Kansas City.
October 30 81 and November l. ST.
Louis will send band of 100 pieces.
More than one-eighth OF the popula-
ton of Radcliffe, Ia. Is enrolled in
the American Legion. The town has
1O6 service men out of population OF
800 every one of whom belongs to
the local post.
To teach children proper love and
respect for Old Glory, state school
leaders and a committee from the
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impressive ceremony to be followed
in every school room.
When violence was threatened
against Mrs. Ida Crouch Hazlett, so
cialist speaker at Des MOines, Ia, re-
Gently. Il group of American Legion
men seized her and carried her TO
police station for protection. Her SYM
pathizers at first believed she was
being kidnapped.
A meat cutter is the commander,
railroad switchman the vice commaR-
der and bank clerk the adjutant of
the American Legion post ar Harlow
ton, Mont, which has the largest per-
centage of potential membership In
the state In village of 300, the
post has a 32-piece band.
Citizens of Ephrata, Wash, had been
discussing a city park for years One
Sunday morning the local post of the
American Legion turned out in force
with wagons, shovefs, rakes and picks
and before the church bells rang had
ground prepared for the park. The
citizens will complete the work and
stop discussions.
President Harding's call for world
conference on disarmament this fall
is expected by officials IN charge OF
the third annual nationat convention
of the American Legion In Kansas
to insure the presence of number
of distinguished foreign generals at
the Legion convention.
There IS no railroad. no post. office,
not even a town. But there Is a thriv-
Ing post of .the American Legion I'm
a farming locality 10 miles northwest
of Paige. n. ID. The men meet every
week in different farm house to hold
socials and dances. The farmers OF
the area are furnishing the Legion
posts with funds to erect a cOmmu-
nifty house.
Following representations made TO
the United States Civil Service COM
mission by the American Legion, dis
abled veterans of the World war who
have undergone training by the fed
eral board for vocational education
will be allowed to enter examinations
for any government position for which
they have been trained If application
is made within 60 days after compile
ton of training.
Admiral Sir David Beatty, first sea
lord of Great Britain, viii attend the
American Legion convention in Kansas
City. Oct. so, 81, and Nov. /, accord
ing to a cable received by the cOnven-
ton committee from Ambassador Har-
vey in London. Admiral Beatty, fifty
years old, is called the Infant prodi-
gy" of England's naval forces. He
was the youngest captain and the
youngest admiral.
To jog the memories OF members
Of congress celebrating on legislation
for the disabled service men of Amer
lea, James C. Russell. member of
post, the American Legion,
Chicago, recently sent a picture post
card to all of them. 1t showed a SOL
der. severely wounded In action near
St Souplet, France. Oct. 10. 1918. be-
Ing helped frOm the battlefield By two
hospital corps men. and smiling.
Wherever there are Americans,
there Is a baseball diamond. It cost
the Ketchikan (Alaska) post of the