The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-07-08
Carrying ON
With the
American Legion

1 u, a
srable portion is planted and tended
by disabled veterans of the World
war. While receiving 500 monthly
compensation from the government,
the men are placed on tracts of land
| by the federal board OF vocational ed
| ucatton and are assisted In getting out
their crops. r. I. Fisher, assistant
national director of the governments
rehabilitation work, recently compli-
mented the California department OF
| the American Legion for safeguarding
the interests of the veterans who are
winning their way back TO health and
usefulness in the fruit-grOwing project.
The aid of women's clubs Of the
West in the interest of a coast to coast
Victory Memorial highway will be so
licited by Capitol post of the Ameri-
can Legion in Topeka, Kan, with
which the plan originated. The To-
peka Woman's club will place the re-
quest for cooperation before the COM
Ing convention of the state federation
| of wOmen's organizations. Integral
highways now in use would be hard
| surfaced by the government Bronze
memorial figures of American soldiers
| in full equipment and with rifles at
present arms" would mark all state
boundaries.
Another move to induce the United
States government to force the release
| by the BOIsheviki of Capt. Emmett Kill
patrick, Uniontown, Ala, has originat-
ed with the department of Poland OF
| the American Legion. Latest reports
| declare that the American, confined in
a Moscow prison, is IN a deplorable
condition from brutality and terror.
Captain Fitzpatrick. a Red Cross work
er, was captured in Crimea.
The National Americanism commits
sion of tie American Legion is making
arrangements to have a member pres
ent at all Legion state conventions. In
| addressing the conventions the Ameri-
canism officials win lay emphasis upon
the necessity of cooperation with
/ teachers for the furtherance of educa-
ton in citizenship, the promotion OF
patriotism and the development OF
Americanism.
A hOuse-to-hOuse canvass of the en-
tire city of Chicago has been under
taken by posts of the American Legion,
in seeking out veterans who have been
unsuccessful in adjustment of compen-
sation claims with the government. A
recent membership campaign in Illt-
nOis netted a gain of 10000 members
for the first four months of 1921 over
the corresponding period of last year.
The American language will replace
German in the services of the Bethany
Reformed church of Baxter, Ia, under
the provision of a resolution adopted
by the congregation after a conference
with the local American Legion post
commander. The Legion objected to
preaching in German at the funerals
of veterans who were killed in France.
Aerial mail flyers, their mechani-
clans and all who assist them in the
L. S. Post Office departments air mail
service viii be ex-service men, accord
ing to an order issued by John S. JOr-
dan, San Francisco, chief of construc-
ton, acting superintendent of the traf-
fic division, air mail service, a copy of
which has reached American Legion
national headquarters.
A proper education for American
children in China and Japan is the
end sought by the Picking (China) post
of the American Legion, which has
written to Legion national headquar-
tiers to enlist the aid of ex-service men
in the movement. The American
Chamber of Commerce and other or
CARNATIONS are working with the Lee
gion in the project.
Because they believe that Memorial
day should be observed in a reverent /
and decOrous manner, members of the /
American Legion in Indianapolis, Ind, /
have asked that the annual motor
speedway race be held in the future on
July instead of on May 30. More
than 10000 persons attended the in 1
ternatiOnaI motor classic this year.
When the town of Lawton, Okla. +
set about building a road to the oil .
fields, 20 miles away, Lowry post of T
the American Legion undertook the +
about eighteen miles from town. Dur
ing the construction members of the +
posts Women's Auxiliary brought food F
to the busy Legionnaires every day.
Fifty-eight years of residence in
America were not enough TO induce a
resident of Emerald, Neb, to famili-
arize himself with the American Ian
guage and institutions of government.
AS a result his application for final
papers was denied at a
hearing in which Amer
lean Legion members testified.
A resolution calling upon congress
TO pass the American Legion's legisla-
ton for the relief of disabled veterans
of the World war sent by an American
Legion post at Newberry, S. c., was
accompanied by large pair of shears
An attached card bore the Inscription:
For the Love of Mike, Cut Out the
Red Tape"
"No plan for future preparedness
can be carried out without the support
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