The spectator., 1921-09-06
Carrying On With the
 American Legion

are members of the local post of the Legion.
 Dr. A. A. Van Dyke, St. Paul, NIinn., member of the national executive com mittee, has been elected commander of the Minnesota department to succeed A. H. Vernon. Little Falls.
 More than 100 movie stars, members of Hollywood. Cal. post of the Ameri- can Legion, will attend the reunion of the N!nety-tirst division at Los An geles, September 24 and 25.
 At least II bands from Missouri will attend the national convention of the American Legion at Kansas City, October 30 31 and November l. St Louis will send a band of 100 pieces.
 More than ne-elghth of the popula- tion of Radcliffe, Ia., is enrolled In the American Legion. The town has 106 service men out of a population of 500. every one of whom belongs to the local post.
 To teach children proper love and respect for Old Glory, state school ? leaders and committee from the American Legion are writing a simple. Impressive ceremony to be followed in every school room.
 When violence was threatened against Mrs Ida Crouch Hazlett, so- cialist speaker at Des Mo.nes, Ia., re- gently, group of American Legion men seized her and carried her to Il police station for protection. Her sym fpathizers at first believed she was being kidnapped.
 A meat cutter is the commander, q railroad switchman the vice comman- der and q bank clerk the adjutant of the American Legion post at Harlow ton, Mont, which has the largest per centage of potential membership in the state. In village of 2,5O0, the post has 32-piece band.
 Citizens of Ephrata, Wash, had been discussing city park for years. One Sunday morning the local post of the American Legion turned out in force with wagons, shoyels, rakes and picks and before the church bells rang had ground prepared for the park The citizens will complete the work and stop discussions.
 President Hardng's call for world conference on disarmament this fall is expected by officials in charge of the third annual national convention of the American Legion in Kansas City, October 30. 3l. and November 1, to insure the presence of number of distinguished foreign generals at the Legion convention.
 There is no railroad, no post office, not even town. But there is a thriv- ing post of the American Legion in farming locality 15 miles northwest I V. week in a different farm house to hold socials and dances. The farmers of the area are furnishing the Legion posts with funds to erect n commu- nity house.
 Following representations made to the United States Civil Service com mission by the American Legion, dis abled veterans of the World war who have undergone training by the fed eral board for vocational education will be allowed to enter examinations they have been trained if application is made within 60 days after comple- tion of training.
 Admiral Sir David Beatty, first sea lord of Great Britain, will attend the American Legion convention in Kansas City, Oct. 30, 31. and Nov. l, accord ing to cable received by the conven- [ tion committee from Ambassador Har- vey in London. Admiral Beatty. fifty years old, is called the infant prodl- gy' of England's naval forces. He was the youngest captain and the youngest admiral.
 To jog the memories of members of congress deliberating on legislation for the disabled service men of Amer lea, James c. Russell, member of Blackhawk post, the American Legion, Chicago, recently sent picture post card to all of them. It showed a sol dier, severely wounded in action near St. Souplet, France, Oct. 19, 1918, be- ing helped from the battlefield by two hospital corps men. and smiling. Wherever there are Americans, | there is baseball diamond. It cost the Ketchikan (Alaska) post of the American Legion S3,500 to construct | ball diamond upon which teams ! could play between the Alaska rains