The Coconino sun., 1921-11-25
SOLDIER ANDS SAILORNEWS

 One grand assault on the magnif- cent digestion was expected during the visit to the grand Amerique. Tres bien, and one had been in the train ing for the glorious eatings. But, pour pamour de Mike, it is les chev- aux, of other colors to train for the unexpected company of wild bob cat, is it not that it is?
 Consequently the undomesticated kitten presented Marshal Foch by Montana members of the American Legion now bays the moon in a cage at the Bronx Zoo, New York, and Le Marechal sleeps of nights.
 The untamed tabby, brought 1500 miles by airplane by Montana Legion naries and given the Marshal at Kan sas City, rapidly changed into a white elephant. The Foch party car ried it in strong box from the west and through several eastern cities, newspaper men of the special train standing guard. But when the Foch special stopped in New York for an hour enroute to Princeton University and while the allied generalissimo was still abed, the Montana mascot was quietly transferred onto a truck and hurried through the early morn ing hours to the geological gardens. The spirit of the Montana Legion naires and their bob-cat was highly appreciated, but "Viola" as the French said it.
 Disinterment of the bodies of Amer ican soldiers buried in Brest, France, during the war, has been completed, according to word received by the American Legion. Army authorities have forwarded to the four permanent American cemeteries in France 1,0S0 bodies, removal of which to the United States was not requested by relatives.
 When the Y. M. c. A. in Soerville, Mass, burned down, American Legion men rescued "A lodgers, clothed them and turned the Legion clubrooms in- to the temporary Y. M. c. A. of the city.
 
 More than a million members of the American Legion have pledged them selves to assist in the American Edu- cation Week campaign, December 4- 10, under the auspices of the Legion and the National Educational asso- citation composed of school and col lege teachers. The purposes of the campaign are to inform the public of the accomplishments and needs of the public schools and to secure support and cooperation of the public in meet ing these needs.
 Louis w. Hill, the railroad magnate, was unanimously elected mayor of "Slippery Gulch, the wickedist city," staged for one week at St. Paul, Minn., under the auspices of the American Legion. Governor Preus of Minnesota assumed the role of a bad man known as Mexican Pete" and Lieut.. Gov. Collins was his rival in the character of "Alkali Ike"
 An effort to prohibit the holding of dances in the public school, at Katon- ah, N. r., was defeated by the Ameri- can Legion and the Village Improve ment society of that place.
 A bronze tablet has been erected at Brookline, Mass, to the memory of Ebert E. Scott, a former newsboy known as "Scotty" who was killed be- hind his machine gun in France. He is believed to have been the youngest American soldier killed in the world war. The American Legion partici- pated in the unveiiing ceremony.
 Fifty per cent of the men employed on the new highway projects in Min nesota are ex-service men, according to report received by the American Legion employment bureau at Minne- apolis.
 In campaign to collect overcoats for jobless ex-service men in New York, John Golden, the theatrical pro- ducer, offered one of the best seats for his play, "Thank You" to every person bringing discarded overcoat to the theatre. Several hundred coats were obtained and distributed through the American Legion welfare organi- zation.
 More than 15,000 members of the American Legion representing every one of the AS states participated in the ceremonies honoring the unknown comrade of the world war at Washing ton Armistice Day. National com mander MacNider, in the name of the Legion, placed huge wreath of flow CTS on the flag draped casket.
 Hundreds of letters and telegrams have been received by the war de- partment from members of the Amer ican Legion in all parts of the coun- try in refutation of the charges of Senator Watson of Georgia, as to the hanging without court-martial and other derelictions in the A. E. F.
 A Christmas gift to the ex-service men of the United States in the form of the passage by congress of the Fordney- -McCumber adjusted compen- cot;on hill ir nredirtion made at