Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-06-17
AMERICAN LEGION
 NATIONAL NEWS

We have come to the time when e should begin to legislate for the Fople of this country" said Senator rank B. Willis of Ohio in the United Fates Senate. "When measures are Foposed for legislative sanction, inn hediately the consideration that is hggested is, what will some foreign htion or some alien think about it? e have organizations of the friends
 various foreign countries; let us hve an organization of the friends
 our own country for a while and De how that will work"
 The sentiment expressed by Sena- pr Willis is praised by F. w. Gal raith jr., National Commander of the merican Legion, who wrote to Sena pr Willis, as follows:
 '1t seems to me that you have hit be nail squarely on the head and l esire to commend you for the traightforward statement. I hope hat you may folio wit up in the Sen te while the American Legion, join hg hands with the other loyal Amer ans, may demonstrate to the world hat we are an Organization of the Fiends of our own country"
 Warrant for the arrest of Roger aldwin, founder of the American ivil Liberties Union, has been sworn ut by Major Milton D. Campbell, cting for the American Legion a incinnati, O., on a charge that Bald in violated a state law in "openly hvocating revolution" Baldwin poke in Cincinnati in behalf of iber- lion of the political prisoners" of he war and is quoted as saying that preferred resistance of arms" to no resistance at all." During the lar, Baldwin served jail sentence as result of his seditious activities.
 Among the 1,600 resolutions de- banding immediate aid for disabled eterans and urging the passage of be American Legion's relief program B Congress were those passed un- nimously by the student body and hculty of two Arkansas colleges. Pit hthe resolutions of the two in fitutions, Central College and State formal, were similar documents sign D by the Commercial Club, Rotary Tub, B. P. O. E., literary club and he local post of the American Legion. x-Sergeant Stamford, of the 18th. field Artillery, A. E. F., gained some nowledge of fires and gases while in rance. When house caught fire in len Rock, Pa. recently, the sergeant rought out his gas mask, plunged hto the smoke-filled residence and ktinguished the fire. The only cas- |hlty came when the veteran who is pmmander of his post of the Ameri- an Legion, parked his nose-the gas kask was too small.
 Ts | AnOther movement to induce the l nited States Government to force the please by the Bolshevih of Captain 1net Fitzpatrick, Uniontown, Ala,
 originated with the Department of
 md of the American Legion.
 st reports declare that the Amer
 confined in Moscow prison, is
 deplorable condition from brutal
 nd terror. Captain Fitzpatrick, a
 Cross worker, was captured in
 ea. Es..
 fire which threatened to wipe out
 town of Alpine, Tex, was checked
 the Big Bend post of the Ameri-
 Legion turned out in force toI |ght the conflagration. Then the offered their services to De mayor patrolling the devastated Fea. The offer was accepted on the bot and for twenty-four hours the egion men walked posts in the fam ar military manner.
 xx.x The melting pot works overtime in (e little town of Frontenac, Kan. a population of less than 2,0OO, Fenty-two nationalities are abiding peace. All of them are represent in the local post of the American egion and in its unit of the Women's uxiliary. More than ninety per cent the Legionnaires are members of e United Mine Workers, employed the coal mines near Pittsburg, Kan.
 kS When it was proposed in Berlin at the famous Hindenburg wooden atue, into which the former kaiser owe a gold nail and the common srman iron ones, should be sold at blic auction, an American appeared
 the scene. He offered 3O,OOO arks for the figure. Pressed as to 5 reason for buying the statue of @ Boche general, the American de- .red that he proposes to bring it to nerica and let Americans drive nails