The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-12-22
AMERICAN LEGION
WEEKLY letter

soldiers through their own stores has
been proposed to the American Le-
gion Auxiliary by Mrs. Clarence Il.
Edwards, Boston, Mass, wife of the
commander Of the 26th Division A. e.
F. The plan will be discussed at a
meeting of Auxiliary executives in In
dianapolis January Is, 10 and 20.
In the plan the handiwork of the
disabled would be sold in principal
towns and cities in stores established
and operated along lines of womens'
exchanges. Women dependents Of the
disabled also would there dispose of
their home products. The plan would
make the disabled self supporting and
not patronized by charity, it's hackers
declare.
American Education Week will be
observed annually, with programs
similar to those Of December 4-1O, ac-
cording to the Americanism commits
sion of the American Legion. The
commission, with the National Educa-
tional Association, directed the ini-.
tial movement.
Reused over the report Of relatives
that soldiers body had been SO
jammed into a cheap casket that it
was with difficulty removed for prop
er burial, the American Legion of
New Jersey is making a thorough in
vestigation of such practices.
A hero yesterday-broke and job
less today, Sgt. Carl Naef, who made
a sensational but unsuccessful at
tempt to capture Grover Bergdoll,
draft evader, in Germany, has been
taken in charge by the American Lee
gion of New York. His only assets
upon returning from German con-
sisted of a police dog. s..
A resolution unanimously endorsing
Hanford MacNider, national comman-
der of the American Legion, has been
adopted by the Des Moines, Ia.,
Trades and Labor Assembly. "He has
always been fair to the purposes that
organized labor stand for, and we
convey our hearty congratulations to
the Legion for securing him as COM
mander," the resolution reads.
More than 5000 veterans of the
World War now suffering from tuber-
culosis, are without proper care or
disqualification in the state of New
York, according to VIM. F. Deegan,
commander of the New York Depart
ment of the American Legion, who
has just completed survey through
Legion posts of the state.
The first American Legion building
financed exclusively through the sale
of municipal bonds is that now under
construction at South Pasadena, Cal
The building, which is to be Of the
bungalow type, will stand in Ameri.
can Legion Park, public park Of
South Pasadena.
There is not one jobless ex-service
man in Louisiana, the American lie.
gion Employment Bureau Of thai
state having found workafor every
veteran seeking employment
Maple Leaf Post of the American
Legion at Seattle, WASH, composet
of British T0mmies," has Officially
adopted by Hanford MacNider, ma
tional commander of the Legion int
the circle Of "jolly fine chaps" Nj
MacNider recently visited the pos
headquarters and shook hands Witt
800 members.
| u. s. Army tanks of the type tina
waddled over the Hindenburg line ant
ex-soldiers who fought on the lin
have combined in Duluth, Minn., q
furnish Christmas trees for childrel
of the city. The American Legion J
supplying jobless ex-service men TO 9
the cutting. Tanks and trucks hau
them to a central location where tn
Legion is selling them, the proceed
going toward a Merry Christmas fc
the unemployed and their dependents
Employment projects ranging frol
land reclamation schemes to the worl
i ing Of a gold mine in Missouri hay
been submitted to the American u
gion's national unemplo loyment cornci
Milton D. Campbell, Cincinnati, q
: has been appointed chairman Of "a
: council which will meet early IA ~
uary at the Legion's national head
, quarters, Indianapolis, to draft rem
. edial measures for the winter.
: Religious factions in American u
q gion posts have been severly con
demned by Hanford Mach Nider, low,
Y national commander of the organizs
ton. Speaking at Portland, Ore, ~
e MacNider declared that religion 8
s between man and his God, and thi
q the person who would bring religiot
( differences into Legion activities e. s.
It not worthy of membership n I'll
e country was founded because of reli,
IS ious intolerance sin others" the Legic
,fI head said The Protestant, Cathol
o 81 Jew Who endeavors to force relil
Y ious issues should 81 effectivel
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The alleged statement 81
i Miller, president 81 the polie cii q
2 missioners of 81 .oniil q o., Il s