Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-06-16
AMERICAN LEGION
NEWS SERVICE

"For Sale-My body and soul for
a chance to work. / was wounded in
France"
The advertisement in local news
paper brought the population of
Louisville, KY. face to face with the
plight of disabled and unemployed
veterans. The soldier, Fred C. Rrain-
er, of Birmingham, Ala, twice was
wounded while serving with the Rain
bow Division, was taken in charge by
his comrades in Louisville posts of
the American Legion. He was for
merly deputy sheriff in Birming-
ham.
The American Legion will assist in
obtaining recruits for the Citizens
Military Camps, to be operated this
summer by the war department, ac-
cOrding to a resolution by the Mill
tary Policy Committee of the ex-ser-
vice mems organization.
Creation of sentiment to cause the
holding of the annual motor speed
way race on July instead of on
Memorial Day has been started by
posts of the American Legion in In
dianapolis, Ind, where the interna-
tional automobile classic was staged
on May 80. More than 10000 per-
sons from all parts of the United
States attended the race on a day,
which the Legion sets forth, should
be observed in reverent and decor
Gus manner.
Seventeen posts of the American
Legion and thirty-three units of its
Women's Auxiliary were chartered
during the week ending June 4, Le-
gion national headquarters has an
nounced.
Learning the blood TRANSMISSION was
necessary to save the life of Welton
A. Crawford, veteran of the World
War, struck and seriously wounded
by a street car in Jackson, Miss, the
local post of the American Legion
asked for volunteers from its men,
bership. Within a few hours twelve
Legionnaires had responded and the
TRANSMISSION was completed. The vet
eran will recover.
Your presence is desired at Police
Headquarters"
Former soldiers of Tampa, Fla,
who received this notice signed by
the chief of police, lost no time in re-
porting. The chief, an enthusiastic
member of thealocal post of the Amer
lean Legion, employed this method
to impress upon the ex-service men
the needs of their post. More than
200 veterans were locked up in an
Office before the chief explained him
self.
Citizens of Robinson, Ill. are rally
ing to the support of the American
Legion post there which is endeav-
oring to rescue a deserted cemetery
near the city. The Legion men found
that three soldiers of the War of 1912
were buried in the abandoned plot
Markers will be placed over the
graves of the long-forgotten veterans
and the cemetery reclaimed from the
wilderness surrounding it for many
years.
Rows of white wooden crosses, re-
pleas of those which mark the soil
OF France where American soldiers
sleep, used in Madison, Wis, to adj
vertlse a Chinese relief drive. were
removed upon the representations of
the local American Legion Post. The
Legion members demonstrated their
sympathy for the starving Chinese byI
subscribing to fund, but they renon-
strated against cheapening the senti-
ment attached to their buddies'
graves.
The Spirit of the American DOUGH-
Doy has been selected by a dispIav
OF IA statues by the National Men,
oral Committee of the American I,e-
zion Tor use in the Legion's memorial
20 the victims of the Arnistice nav
attack by I. w. WIS in Centra1;sS
wash, as well as in the I,ep;on's'
national Memorial. The staf1e is
mat OF a doughboy breaking THROUGH
oaro wire. In one hand IS . hard
grenade and in the other a rife with
a bayonet affixed. Fifty-two ex-sarl
wee men posed for the scuIptor r
NJ. vlquesney, of Americas. Ga AZ.
Ter the statue had been partially COM
pleted 1t was subjected to an exano-
lnauon of hundreds of former infan-
erymen with view of maxine A.
artists conception an accurate eer ,.oe
ooctiion OF an American soldier IN