Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-06

| The biggest potatoes Of the year,
Weighing from two to five pounds each,
were served on the Foch-American Lee
g1on Special en- route from Minneapolis,
Mimi. to the Pacific Coast The ''spuds"
were SO big that they required an hour
and half in the baking Selected by L.
X. Owen, superintendent of dining cars
on the Northern Pacific Railroad, the
biggest of the tubers was served Mar
shal Boch, whose amazement was evil
dent.
Training allowance for sick and wound
ed ex-service men will not be reduced
twenty per cent, according to c. R.
who has informed the American Legion
that this move never has been consid-
cred Ninety per cent of the 100000 dis
abled men now being trained receive
500 a month.
Three French war brides confronted
Marshall Foch when the American Lee
gion Special stopped in st. Maries. Idaho.
They were crying.
I'VE love America, but oh! how we ars
lonesome for France" they sobbod
Never forget France" Foch replied.
but you must love your new home and
honor your husbands"
But the Marshal had to blow his nose
hard.
Ex-seryice men of the World War who
want to be first, second or third class
q
percent advance On their civil service
ratings and credit for time spent in
service. President Harding's executive
order putting the provision into effect
was recently promulgated at the in
stance Of the American Legion.
Receipts from the entertainments given
By posts of the American Legion or its
auxiliary are not taxable under the new
revenue law passed by the extra session
or the 9th Congress. Such receipts, even
when the proceeds of the entertainments
we're given for charitable purposes. were
taxable under the entertainment tax of
the old revenue law.
The examination of Boy Scouts in MIN
neapohs has been entrusted to members
or the Raoul Lufberry post Of the Amer
lean Legion. A board appointed by the
post will have charge of the examina-
lions in sixty subjects and will make rec
concentrations as to the awarding Of
nlerit badges.
The high school graduate with the best
athletic record in Elkhern, Wis, will re-
eeive annually an American Legion
medal, gift Of the local legion post.
Fifteen cents buys a meal for needy
sx service men and families at the Amer
lean Legion Restaurant, Toledo. The
menu includes steaks or chops, potatoes,
bread. butter and coffee. The differences
between the cost Of the food and the
price at the counter is made up by en-
ployed Legionnaires.
When Marshal Foch, now on a tour of
the country with the American Legion.
returns to New York, Dec. IA, TO sail
for France on the liner Paris he will
have Travelled 10000 miles, visited forty
two States, nd stopped at 200 cities and
towns. He made MS two hundred and
forty-ffth speech at Richmond, Va. be-
fore starting West and had received the
degree of LII. D. from twenty one Amer
lean universities.
eff pardon is granted to Debs or others
fairly convicted OF treason or sedition
during a time when the Nations very
life was at stake, the lives of those boys
who lie on the fields of France and those
who lie broken in hospitals have indeed
been sacrificed in vain" Hanford Mac
Nider, commander of the American
Legion, has telegraphed President Hard
Ing, requesting that mo leniency be
shown those traitors who stabbed us in
the back while we were giving our all
to this country"
Kansas City is soon to have a municipal
airport as a result of the interest in
aviation aroused by the recent successful
air meet, held in connection with the
American Legion convention. Action "a
now being taken by a committee of mepi-
bers of the Flyig Club of Kansas City to
find a suitable field.
Following a series of shooting scrapes
in and near Wichita, in which two men
were shot to death and four others dan
gerously wounded, 500 members Of the
American Legion volunteered to aid in
preserving order in case of emergency.
The Legionnaires will be availabIs for
police duty Immediately If the trouble
with the gangsters becomes acute.
Schonenhauer.' by Arthur Schnnenhnnar.