Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-11
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The Joint meeting of tho three posts
held ina the club rooms OF the Hotel
du Pont was an innovation in this
section. and one the most of us feel
ought 10 be repeated every once in a
while not, OF course, often enough to
make them ordinary. but every few
months. SO that every Legionnaire can
feel that his buddies in the other posts
are working with him for the good of
the ex-scrvice man. Credit for the ar
rangcmcnts of details and everything
in connection with the affair, as well
as conceiying the idea of the meeting.
Is due Gus wedler. post commander of
John l.. Fisher Naval Post No. Is.
Drs Florence Nj. Sewerd and Victor
II. washburn, who are candidates for
the new seven member school board.
are members OF Delaware Post No. /.
American Legion.
Hanford Mac cNider, department com
mander Of the American Legion, State
Of Iowa. recently addressed a meeting
of the Federation OF Labor at Des
Moines. Iowa. He received an unusual
ovation when he declared that the
legion has no quarrel with labor. Any
one who says SO lies. You have a lot of
veterans among your members. IL
you don't like the way the Legion is
run. get into Il. talk il TO the right
direction and east your votes"
\ bin proposing that the government
issue to former service men five per
cont tax exempt bonds in amounts not
more than $3.50 for service overseas
and $500 for home service has been
introduced by Representative Volk,
Republican. New York.
The bonds would expire in ten years.
would be negotiable and would be is
sued TO war veterans at a rate of S1.75
and sI.25 a day for service overseas
and in the United States, respectively.
As an alternative to the issuance OF
bonds. the bill also would provide for
paid-up insurance. The face value Of
each policy would be the amount
which adjusted service compensation
plus IS per cent, would purchase ''at
single premium rates" at the nearest
attained age July l. 1922. The policies
would carry cash and loan values
after the flrst year.
II viii be very pleasant to veterans
To know that Christy Mathewson, the
big Six" of baseball. at one time the
greatest pitcher in the National
League, who served as a captain over
seas in the chemical warfare service,
and who has been suffering with lung
trouble caused by gas, is recovering
and will soon be around again.
"Christy'' was one of the very few pro
fcssional athletes who entered the ser
s,-F II nd
we are ali glad 10 know he viii soon
IL sound again
Delaware Post. No. l. had the largest
meeting that il has held for many
months last Monday evening in St.
Andrews parish house, Eighth and
Orange streets The large number
present reminded one Of the other
times, and it is to be hoped that all
those who were present last Monday
viii be on hand at the next meeting.
Each meeting win be a special one
with something doing"
Ex-Sergeant Stamford of the Eigh-
teenth Field Artillery. A. E f.. gained
some knowledge OF fires and gas while
IL France. When a house caught fire
in Glen Rock, Pa, recently, he brought
out his gas mask. plunged into the
snoke-filled house. and extinguished
the FIRE The only casualty resulting
was that the veteran, who is com
raander of Glen Rock Post, barked
his nose. the gas mask being too small.
We VINO claim TO be real Americans
feel that we have very weak represen-
tatives in England. in George Harvey
and Admiral William S. Sims
The following is an editorial from
this weeks Legion weekly which
speaks for itself. Read it and think
Il over.
Wabash. Ind, May 1s.-John RAIDER.
twenty-five. a veteran of the World
War. was found lying unconscious
under a bridge four miles west Of town
yesterday He had attempted to walk
from Detroit, Mich. TO his home in
Marion. H.. after being discharged
from Detroit hospital without any
nooey and he fen exhausted as he
nsarec this city. RAIDER told the local
authorities he had been under the
bridge for three days without any
thing 10 sat and that he had been too
weak TO summon aid He said he had
been wounded during the war and had
gone 10 a hospital in Detroit for treat
Tusnt several months ago. At that
time he had $500. and he had spent all
OF this in obtaining treatment.
ST. Louis. Mo. May 1S.-When a
man Of twenty-three who had been
convicted Of highway robbery in the
Circuit Court in ST. Louis had been
given a sentence OF fifteen years inn
prisonment, he asked Judge Hall for a
private interview. He then revealed 10
the judge that he had deliberately con-
cealcd his military record through
fear. Il did not want the jury TO
know I had been an overseas soldier
for fear they would hold il against
me. ar did everybody / tried TO get work
from" ne said The judge comment
ed. after hearing the young man s
story: He drove a truck in France.
hut seven St Louis employers. in
Guiding one he had worked for before
going 70 war. refused to give him a
Job. as they We're not hiring e1-
soldiers. The government paid him a
small allowance as a disabled soldier.
but he was kept from getting ii with
f11f a long DELAY"