The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-07-01

any estimate. The number of claims
filed from the inception of the Bureau
to May 1919 was 209, 700 while on June
l, 1921, the number in file was 631,-
$50 showing IN increase during that
period of 422,280. The number of
awards for death and disability for
the first period was 41,O73; the num-
Der of awards at the end of the sec
ond period was 323,415, an increase
during the second period of 282,342.
For the first period the ratio was one
claim pending to every two filed: For
the second period, the ratio was one
claim pending to every eight claims
filed.
A national fund for the erection
of a memorial to F. w. Galbraith Jr.,
late commander of the American Lee
gion, has been started by Homewood
Post Philadelphia. A check covering
the first contribution to the fund has
been forwarded to the national head
quarters of the Legion at Indianap-
oils. The Legion's committee of
which T. Scenes Walmsley, of New
Orleans, is chairman, has not yet an
nounced a plan for a memorial.
Members of the Kings County New
fork American Legion posts will visit
the grave of Col Theodore Roosevelt
at Oyster Bay, July A, to deposit a
memorial wreath and conduct a brief
service.
The super-slacker of the United
States" as he describes himself is be-
ing sought by the federal authorities
aided by members of the American
Legion throughout the northwest. He
has written to Governor Hart of
Washington, requesting that his name
be placed at the top of the Stacker
list. He wrote that he was P. f. Say
lor of Genessee, Idaho, and although
he successfully lodged the draft by
moving to another city and assuming
another name, he has enjoyed all the
glories of a returned A. E. F. hero
through the purchase of a soldiers
discharge and several war medals"
And you ought OF hear me tell the
girls of all the battles l was in, he
writes.
The Elks lodge of Lafayette, Ind,
has withdrawn for a Fourth of July
celebration to avoid conflict with a
celebration of the American Legion,
That Georges Carpenter, in his
coming bout with Dempsey, will hit
the latter so hard that he will see tri-
colored stars for the remainder of his
life, is the hope of the American Lee
gion of San Bernardino County, Calf,
which recently, at ar interpost meet
ing, unanimously adopted a resolution
supporting the French pugulist. Men,
bers of the American Legion Post of
Palatka, Fla, have sent Carpenter a
copy of a resolution which they re-
Gently adopted giving the latter the
moral support of the post.
The American Legion of Nebraska
is preparing to fight the suit insti-
tuted in the district court by the Me-
braska district of the Evangelical
Lutheran synod to test the constitu-
tionality of the Reed-Norval language
law passed by he last Nebraska leg
is lature. The contention of the synod
is that the law, which prohibits the
teaching of any foreign language in
any school in the state below the
enghth grade, restricts religious lib
erty. This contention is refuted by
the legion.
An American Legion home to cost
S125,O0O will be erected this summer
at The Dalles, Ore.
Members of the St. Charles, Miss
ouri, post of the American Legion
held a hammer and saw" meeting at
which a portable dance floor was
erected in four hours. Members of
the local labor unions donated their
services in assisting the Legion in the
construction of the floor.
An inheritance of $4,000 made
scarcely a ripple in the life of Joe
Bokau, member of the Kern post of
the American Legion at Toledo. Bokau
is a policeman. When notified of his
good fortune he was asked if he in
tended quitting the police force.
81 can do a greater service as a pO-
than in any other way, and,
after all, what pleasure is greater
than that of doing something worth
he said.