The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-12-01
Carrying On With the
American Legion

| AMERICAN LeglOnsfOr MS tnlrd term.
Yellow Medicine Is the tenth coun-
ty in Minnesota to make American
Legion Day" regular event Of its
county fair
'The PaJama Gazetteg is the name
Of publication edited by the disabled
soldiers of Asbury hospital at Minne-
apolis, MINI.
The bodies of Gunmar Dahl and Da,
vid Thor, pals" killed in France by
the same shell, were buried in the
same grave in their native Illinois
town.
New Orleans will be the scene Of
the 1922 national convention of she
American Legion. Tile Southern city
guaranteed 100000 for defraying ex-
penses of the meeting.
Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee, Wis,
has vetoed a resolution of the city
council indorsing the work of the
American Legion in finding positions
for jobless ex-service. men.
81 am convinced that the American
Legion is an established power in the
United -States-a power for truth and
equality" declared Marshal FOch at
the close of the American Legion's
national convention at Kansas City.
A monumental building to be erected
in Washington in memory of the Ma
tiOnal Guardsmen who gave their lives
in the World war, has been suggested
by Maj. Gen. George G. Richards,
chief Of the militia bureau of the War
department.
The growth of the American Legion
is shown by the organization of 1850
new posts in 1920,2l, Many new posts
were organized by American ex-serv-
ice men in foreign countries and to-
day the sun never sets on the Amer
lean Legion.
The daisy has been adopted by the
American Legion as its official flower.
The poppy. which has been popular
with Legionnaires because of its associ-
alton with Flanders, was voted out be-
cause 1t was not an American flower
and could not be obtained in large
quantities.
The employment of jobless ex-serv-
ice men to assist the police in COM
batting the holdup men has been be-
gun In Lincoln. Neb. The plan was
evolved following series of robberles
in the residential district of the city.
The mayor and chief of police of Lin
coin have Endorsed the plan.
Following a reception for him at
Kansas City, staged by $4,000 mem
bers of the American Legion, Marshal
Foch, who came to America as the
Leglon's guest, declared that although
Washington and New York were the
head of the United States he was GER
tain Kansas City was the heart.
The original post of the American
Legion, George Washington Post No.
l. lost no time in signing Marshal
Foch as member. The generals
simo was met at the station at Wash
ington, D. c.. on the day of his ar
rival in America and presented with q
membership card and ceremonial
badge of the Legion.
Marshal Foch is now u devotee of
the corn-cob pipe. When his special
train was stopped at Washington, Mo-,
on its way to Kansas City, he was
presented with box of the Missouri
product. Later. while he was attend
ing the American Legion convention,
he was offered cigar, but he declined
in favor of the corn-cob furnace"
More than 10000 bodies of Ameri-
cans who died in France during the
World war will rest forever in the
sacred soil near the Ibattlefelds, Sec
rotary of War Weeks declared In a
recent letter to. the American Legion
at Washington. A total of 43,670
bodies have been returned to the Uni
ted States, according to the war secre-
tary.
"If you will walk down Main street,
U. S. A." writes George f. Kearny in
a widely published magazine article,
"you will come to a building which
houses the American Legion post OF
the town 1t is the most democratic
institution that can be found and the
discussions Of the post are worthy Of
the closest study as an index of the