Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-12-09
NEWS NOTES F ROM
 AMERICAN LEGION

weighing from two to tlVe pounds each, were served on the Foch-Amer- ican Legion Special en route from Minneapolis, Minn., to the Pacific |coast. The "spuds" were so big they required an hour and half in the baking.
 Selected by L. K. Owen, superin- tendent of dining cars on the North ern Pacific Railroad, the biggest of |the tubers was served Marshal Foch, whose amazement was evident.
 Training allowances for sick and wounded ex-service men will not be |reduced twenty per cent, according to |C. R. Forbes, director of the Veterans Bureau, who has informed the Ameri- can Legion that this move never has been considered.
 Ninety per cent of the 100000 dis abled men now being trained receive S10O a month.
 Three French war brides confronted Marshal Focn when the American Legion Special stopped in St. Maries, Idaho. They were crying.
 "We love America, but oh! how we are lonesome for France" they sobbed.
 "Never forget France" Foch re- piled, "but you must love your new home and honor your husbands"
 But the Marshal had to blow his nose hard.
 Ex-service men of the World War who want to be first, second or third class U. S. Postmasters are to be given a five 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 pro mulgated at the instance of the Amer ican Legion.
 Receipts from the entertainments given by posts of the American Legion or it's Auxiliary are not taxa ble under the new law passed by the extra session of the 67th Congress. Such receipts, even when the proceeds of the entertainments were given for charitable purposes, were taxable un- der the entertainment tax of the old revenue law.
 The examination of Boy Scouts in Minneapolis has been entrusted to members of the Raoul Lufberry post of the American Legion. A board ap- pointed by the post will have charge of the examinations in sixty subjects and will make recommendations as to the awarding of merit badges. The high school graduate with the best athletic record in Elkhorn, Wis.,, will receive annually an American Legion medal, gift of the local Legion post.
 
 Fifteen cents buys meal for needy ex-service men and families at the American Legion restaurant, Toledo The menu includes steak or chop, po- tatoes, bread, butter, and coffee. The difference between the cost of the food and the price at the counter is made up by employed Legionnaires, When Marshal Foch, now on tour of the country with the American Legion, returns to New York Decem- Der IA to sail for France on the liner "Paris", he will have travelled 16,OOo miles, visited AZ states, and stopped at 200 cities and towns. He made his 245th speech at Richmond, Va, before starting West and had received the degree of IL. D. from 21 American universities.
 "If pardon is granted to Debs or others fairly convicted of treason or sedition during time when the na- tion's 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 secri- ficed in vain," Hanford MacNider, commander of the American Legion, has telegraphed President Harding, requesting that "no 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 mu- nicipal airport as a result of the in terest in aviation aroused by the re- cent successful air meet, held in con nection with the American Legion