Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-01-28
NATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF
 THE AMERICAN LEGION

quick to offer its aid to the police at the height of the crime wave, is now establishing employment agencies and aiding ex-service men during the pres ent low tide of industry. A national survey of unemployment is being made by the American Legion Week. ly and all posts have been encouraged to establish agencies by F. w. Gal braith, Jr., National Commander.
 Massachusetts Legionnaires have obtained employment, for twenty per cent of applicants at their offices. Employment officers of Minnesota posts are discouraging to the cities and interchanging information in re- gard to prospects for employment in their communities. Spokane eX-ser- vice men and their families who are out of work are being supplied with food and other necessities by Legion members.
 More than two hundred answers to the memorial calling attention to the situation which surrounds the rehab- ilitation of disabled veterans of the World War, presented to the Presi- dent, President elect and Congress by the American Legion, have been re- ceived at National Headquarters by F. w. Galbraith, Jr., National Con- mander. In almost every instnce, the senators and representatives wrote that they would support the Legion's program for reform of the rehabili- tation system.
 Paris, France Post of the American Legion has started a campaign to hold the 1922 Legion convention in Gay Paree.
 National Headquarters of the American Legion has distributed five thousand copies of manuel which members of the Legions national speakers bureau will use during the approaching membership campaigns. The manual, which was prepared by the American Legion News Service, gives brief history of the organiza- tion, outlines the definite accomplish ments for the benefit of exservice men and the country and sets forth the plans fthe Legion for the fu- ture.
 The state legislature of Oregon has sent a memorial to Congress urging immediate passage of the, American Legion's four fold adjusted compensa- tion bill. The. action of the Oregon legislators was unanimous. It is be- lieved to be the fore-runner of num- erous similar moves on the part of sSstate legislatures in an effort to ob- tain the passage of the bill.
 The present system of immigration was condemned by members of the Braxton County Post of the American Legion at Sutton, Va, in vote fol- lowing a discussion o1 the problem. Forty-nine per cent of the vote was for stopping immigration entirely; eleven per cent for forbidding it for two or three years, and forty per cent for establishing an effective system of regulation. There were no votes in support of the prevailing system.
 
 In recognition of the American Legion's efforts in behalf of disabled veterans, the sick and wounded ex- soldiers of Detroit have organized a Legion Post with a membership of more than two hundred.
 Following an appeal by the New York Department to eight thousand ministers of all religious denomina- tions of the state, more than five ! hundred cities and towns participated in American Legion Sunday, Janu- ary 16. Posts attended the service in body.
 Minnesota Legion posts will assist ex-service men of their state to ob- tain their quota of the 4,800 lost Lib erCy DOnQS ana O,OVO uiiCldliicu ulo- charge certificates filed away in Washington, D. c. Alphabetical lists of owners have been "issued" to each post by Legion state headquarters.
 Ideas from exservice men in regard to what type of war memorial should be erected in the United States are sought by T. S. Semmes Walmsley, chairman of the National Memorials Committee of the American Legion. Information is also desired in regard to local memorials which have been constructed. It should be addressed to BOP Marine Bank Building, New Orleans, La.
 Members of a commercial club in Worland, Wyo., showed their apprec- iation of the American Legion by ex- tending free active membership to the members of Floyd Minch Post of their