The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-09

Flour City. Last week Kelly found
more than one hundred jobs for his
buddies. These jobs ranged all the
way from washing windows, making
beds, scrubbing floors, repairing
railway cars, baking bread, tending
the baby, and driving everything
from Fords to vacuum cleaners.
"Blood is mixed with the mortar
that holds these stones erect. Trow-
els made from bayonets spread it
here. Magnificent as this tribute
is and proud as / am to behold it,
| pray that it may be the last monu-
ment France may ever have cause
to erect to an American soldier
And by the same token, may Amer
ca never have cause to raise a
shaft to French soldier of another
war. We hope there may arise
someone who will point the way to
an understanding whereby all wars
may cease, declared National Com
mander Emery of the American
Legion, speaking of the unwilling
of the French monument to the A.
E. F. at Flirey, France.
ITO those cities which are still in
doubt as to how they should honor
their soldier dead, we commend a
study of the plan adopted by Mime
apolis", writes the editor of the
Youths Companion of Boston, Mass,
who adds, "The Minnesota city has
added to its already beautiful park
system Victory Memorial Drive
eight miles long, bordered by $50
elms, each of which bears the name
of a Hennepen County man or
woman who died in the service of
America. Surely no means of hon.
oring the dead could be more beauti-
full or more charmingly combine
sentiment with practical benefit to
the community. Is there not some
thing piquantly sweet in the idea
of living thing as a monument
to one who laid down his life for
others? We speak often of keep
ing green the memory of those we
have loved. That is what they have
done in Minneapolis, literally as
well as rethorically".
l know every Legionaire in Min
nesota will agree with me that so
long as a single veteran of the Civil
War remains, the boys in khaki will
give way to him and pay him hon.
orr, said Mayor Hodgson of ST..
Paul in a recent address, adding,
''Had it not been for the soldiers
of the Civil War there would be
no American Legion, because there
would have been no America to
fight for".
Among the provisions already
made at Kansas City for the Third
National Legion and Legion Auxil-
larry Conventions are five thousand
beds for the delegates and eighty
thousand beds for the visitors. The
slogan of Kansas City Legionaires
is, "a bed for every man" and ga
man for every bed". Needless to
say, this does not mean that the
ladies will be forgotten. From all
over Minnesota, Legion and Legion
Auxiliary members are notifying
state headquarters to be sure to re-
serve places for them on the special
train from the Twin Cities to Kan
sas City, and on arrival there. BY
the way, the Chief of Kansas City
Police is an active Legionaire. (?)
With remittances for 25 new
members from st. Paul Post No. s
and for ten from the post at Brain
erd, received August 23d, paid-up
membership of the American Legion
of Minnesota for 1921 now exceeds
twenty-nine thousand and is well on
the way to the thirty thousand mark.
A bulletin just mailed to Minnesota
posts urges each to do its part
toward bringing the paid-up mem.
bership to thirty thousand by Sep
TENDER 30th, so that Minnesota may
be entitled to another Legion dele
gate to the National Convention at
Kansas City October 31st. That
will give Minnesota thirty-ive votes.
In answer to the inquireies of
many Minnesota Legion posts which