The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-11-11
Carrying On With the
American Legion

Daniel Chester French, sculptor, whn
created The Minute Man az Concord
has been selected TO design the me-
mortal for Massachusetts dead in the
World war which is TO be erected
somewhere along the American sector
in France. Henry Bacon. designer of
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
ID. c., will be associated with him.
The Community House at Camp Gus
ter, Mich, purchased by a Chicago
company for $4,000, has been repur-
chased by the state of Michigan and
| will be presented to the American
Legion for use as hospital for sick
and disabled veterans. The building
will be improved at the expense OF
the state.
General Lafayette post of the Ameri-
can Legion. composed of New York
City policemen, has mortgaged its
Long Island clubhouse for $1,000, the
money TO be used in helping unem-
ployed veterans. The policemen-Le-
giOnnaires haYe pledged themselves
TO canvass their beats for jobs for
their unfortunate "buddies."
1.-The Book of Misery" containing
/ thousands of news-clippings and let
| ters describing the plight of Americas
/ World war veterans in the recent
/ period of unemployment will be pre-
scented to Congress by the Legion as
documentary evidence in favor of
relief for ex-service men.
Unemployed eeI-service men sleep
ing in Bryant Park, New York, were
awakened one recent midnight by the
sound of bugle mess call. Seven
hundred of the unfortunate men lined
up for chow A committee repre-
senting the George Dahlbender Post Of
the American Legion, led the men to
a restaurant where each was fed at
the expense of the Legion post.
The American Legion has asked the
shipping board to permit the use of
the giant liner Liviathan as a tenn
porary shelter for jobless ex-service
men. The liner has been idle at the
HOboken army docks for several
months. During the war it transpOr-
ted 10000 American troops to France.
Charles w. Seymour, of Hartford,
Conn, rendered his resignation as
state senator following his election to
the commandership of the American
Legion in Connecticut. Officers of the
Legion cannot hold public office which
is elective.
A twenty-acre park, known as
american Legion Park" has been ded-
icated by the city of Melrose, Mimi,
to the men of the city who were in
service during the World war. The
Melrose Legionnaires have established
a childrens Fairgrounds, a tourists
camping grounds and a baseball dia-
mond.
Ex-sOIdiers and marines, members
of the American Legion, were the
heroes in the rescue work which fol-
lowed the explosion of a tank con-
tanning 100000 cubic feet of ammonia
fumes in New York City One of the
former service men is accredited with
having rescued ten persons from a
tenement which had become filled with /
the fumes
A party" which is said to have /
cost $4,000 was given by L. Gordon /
Hamersley who served as a lieutenant /
in the Sixth Field artillery of the /
First division. at his estate near larry
town-on- the Hudson. The guests were
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and members of the JEFF Feigl post
of the American Legion.
Emergency officers of the army dis
abled during the war don't belong
on the retired list Of the regular army.
Secretary Weeks told officials of the
American Legion. who are fostering a
Elan for the retirement con retirement
pay of the emergency officers of the
World war.
The first woman to hold the position
of adjutant of a state department
of the American Legion is Miss Ho-
norah H. Cuttings, of California. Miss
yeomanette in the navy. She is act
Ing duJuldnl u tIlc 1dlllOInid uG-
partment.
Failure to doff his hat when the
funeral cortege of an American soldier
passed, caused Adam Kosloski 20 lose
his job as constable at Sank Rapids
MINI. A complaint against KosIoski
was filed by members of the American
Legion.
Five hundred deaf and dumb chill
Llren Of New York attended a showing
Of the film-play, 1.-The Man Without
a Country" as guests of the Ameri-
can Legion. Each child wrote an essay
On Americanism based on Impressions
Of the play.
Five hundred unemployed veterans
IF the World war in New York were
given employment as movie supers in
he studios at Mamaroneck, Long
island.
The Mark-Hamilton post Of the
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