Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-07-01
AMERICAN LEGION
 NATIONAL DOINCS

A national fund TOT the erectlOn or a memorial to F. ". Galbraith Jr., late commander of the American Legion, has been started by Home wood Post of Philadelphia. A check covering the first contribution to the fund has been forwarded to the na- tional headquarters of the Legion at Indianapolis. The Legion's commit tee of memorials of which T. Semmes Walmsley, of New Orleans, is chair man, has not yet announced plan for a memorial.
 Members of the Kings County New York American Legion posts will visit the grave of Col. Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay July 4, to deposit a memorial wreath and con- duct a brief service.
 / 'The super stacker of the United States" as he describes himself is be- ing sought by federal authorities aid ed by members of the American Legion throughout the northwest. He has written to Governoc Hart of Washington, requesting that his name be placed at the top Of the stacker list. He wrote that he was P F Saylor of Genessee, Idaho, and although he sue cessfulIy lodged the draft by moving to another city and assuming another name, he has enjoyed all the glories of a returned A. E. F. hero through the purchase of a soldiers discharge and several war medals" And You ought to hear me tell the girls of all the battles I was in, he writes.
 The Elks lodge of Lafayette, Ind, has withdrawn plans for a Fourth of July celebration to avoid conflict with a celebration of the American Legion
 
 That Georges Carpenter, in his coming bout with Dempsey, will hit the latter so hard that he will see tri- colored stars for the remainder of his life is the hope of the American Legion of San Bernardino County, Caiif., which recently, at an interpost unanimously adopted res olution supporting the French pugi- list. Members of the American Legion Post of Palatka, Fla, have sent Carpenter a copy of a resolu- ton which they recently adopted giv- ;no tba latter the moral support of the post.
 The American Legion of Nebraska is preparing to fight the suit insti- tuted in the district court by the Ne braska district of the Evangelical Lutheran synod to test the constl- tutionality of the Reed-Norval lan- puare law passed by the last Nebras- ka legislature. The contention of the synod is that the law, which prohibits the teaching of any foreign language in any school in the state below the eighth grade, restricts religious Ip- erty. This contention is retuted oy the Legion.
 An American Legion home to cost S125 ,0O0 will be erected this summer at The Dalles, Ore. /
 Members of the St. Charles, Mis- souri. post of the American Legion held a Hammer and saw" meeting at which a portable dance floor was erected in four hours. Members or the local labor unions donated tneir services in assisting the Legion m the construction of the floor.
 The American Legion's bonus legis- 1at;on for service men of Oregon was sustained by three to one vote m recent referendum. It provides TOT tbe navment of $15 for each month or service.
 American Legion posts throughout .Io ITnited States will read the lass nnbl;c speech of Go. F. w. Galbralth at their Fourth of July celebrations; The speech a plea for the Citl7ens Military Training Camp, was aeilVe,eu @ bv the late national commander lew bours before he met death in an auto1 mobile accident at Indianapolis come to you," declared MT. GalDraitn' "as one of those thousands of Amer jeans who went into the world wa, ~. without the benefit of tralhins camp. We believe in prepar'ng ome vo1ne men of this country for cltlzen- ship. A part of this citizensnlp 1 ' o,,r s;sts of being ready to defend our UT country in time of need." Coples oa the speech are being forwarded to ..s s,e nosts from the national headquar'ei' of the Legion at Indianapolis.
 A movement has been started oy :. nnmber of posts of the American en;on to have the body of the un- t-nown American soldier, to be brought hack from France, buried under sns dome S of the National capitol instead aa,.s, of in Arlington National Cemetery. hs . 'i The George Washington .p,,,ats post nas appointed committee to torlns."'a an . "PF Ll,,od in COnpreSS