The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-10

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jr., National Commander of the Amer
can Legion, who wrote to Senator
Willis, as follows:
at seems to me that you have mt
the nail squarely on the head n l
desire to command for the straight
forward statement. l hope that you
may follow it up in the Senate while
the American Legion, joining hands
with other loyal Americans, may DEM
onstrate to the world that we are an
Organization of the friends of our
own country"
Warrant for the arrest of Roger
Baldwin, founder of the American
Civil Liberties Union, has been sworn
out by Major D. Campbell, acting for
the American Legion in Cincinnati,
O.. on a charge that Baldwin violated
a state law in "openly advocating
revolution" Baldwin spoke in Cinci-
matt in behalf of liberation of the
"political prisoners" of the war and
is quoted as saying that he preferred
PERSISTENCE by arms" to mo resistance
at ALL" During the war, Baldwin
served a Jail sentence as a result of
his seditious activities.
AIllO1lS liz l.poO M
manding immediate aid for disabled
veterans and urging the passage of
the American Legion's relief program
bv Congress were those passed unan-
imously by the student body and fac
ulty of two Arkansas colleges. With
the resolutions of the two institutions,
Central College and State Normal,
were similar documents signed by the
Commercial Club, Rotary Club, B. P.
O. E., a literary club and the local
post of the American Legion.
Elk Sergeant Stamford, of the 18th.
Field Artillery, A. E. F., gained some
knowledge of fires and gas while in
France. When a house caught fire in
Glen Rock, Pa. recently, the sergeant
brought out his gas mask, plunged
into the smoke-filled residence and eX-
linguistic dthe fire. The only casualty
came when the veteran who is a com
mander of his post of the American
Legion barked his nose-the gas mask
was too small.
Another movement to induce the
United States Government to force
the release by the Bolsheviki of Cap
tain Emmett Fitzpatrick, Uniontown,
Ala, has originated with the Depart
ment of Poland of the American Lee
gion. Latest reports declare that the
American, confined in a Moscow pris-
on, is in a deplorable condition from
brutality and terror. Captain Kill
patrick, a Red Cross worker, was cap
tured in Grimea.
A fire which threatened to wipe out
the town of Alpine, Tex, was checked
when the Big Bend post of the Ameri-
can Legion turned out in force to fight
the conflagration. Then the Legion
aires offered their services to the
mayor in patrolling the devasted area.
The offer was accepted on the spot
and for twenty-four hours the Legion
men walked posts in the familiar mil
itary n
The melting pots works overtime in
the little town of Frontenac, Kan. In
a population of less than 1000, twenty
two nationalities are abiding in peace.
All of them are represented by the
local post of the American Legion and
nj it's unit of the Women's Auxiliary.
More than ninety per cent of the LIE
gionaries are members of the United
Mine Workers, employed in the coal
mines near Pittsburg, Kansas.
When it was proposed in Berlin that
the famous iHndenburg wooden sta
tue, into which the former kaiser
drove a gold nail and the common
German iron one, should be sold at
public auction, an American appeared
on the scene. He offered 10000
marks for the figure. Pressed as to
his reason for buying the statute of
the Boche general, the American de-
clared that he proposes to bring it to
America and let Americans drive
nails in it again at twenty-five cents
a nail. Half the proceeds would go to
the American Legion and the other
half to the Red Cross.
A house-to-house canvass of the en-
tire city of Chicago has been under
taken by posts of the American Le-
gion, in seeking out veterans who
have bee unsuccessful in adjustment
of compensation claims with the Gov
eminent. A recent campaign in Him
OILS Melted a gain of 10000 members
for the first four months of 1921 over
the corresponding period of last year
jefferson Post Handicap" was the
feature race of Derby Day at the
famous Churchill Downs race course
at Louisville, Ky. The race was named
in honor of jefferson Post of the
American Legion.
Twenty new posts of the American
Legion and sixty-nine units of its
Women's Auxiliary We're formed dur,
ing the week ended May 2S.
Federal Air Licenses.
Washington, June 7.-(Special Cor
respondence) = Congressman Freder.
lex C. Hicks of New York is actively
working for his bill providing for the
Federal licensing of aircraft. Recent
fatal accidents in the air has impress,
ed upon him the necessity for early
enactment of such legislation. Mr.
Hicks declares hundreds of old army
planes are now privately owned anc
are now privately owned and are be,
ing used on sightseeing trips and fol
"ijoy riding in the air" without proper