Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-12-23
NEWS NOTES F ROM
 AMERICAN LEGION


 soldiers through their own stores has been proposed to the American Legion Auxiliary by Mrs. Clarance R. Ed wards, Boston, Mass, wife of the commander of the 26th Division, A. E. IF. The plan will be discussed at a meeting of Auxiliary executives in Indianapolis January IS, 19 and 20. In the plan, the handiwork of the disabled would be sold in principal towns and cities in stores established and operated along lines of women's exchanges. Women dependents ot the disabled also would there dispose of their home products. The plan would make the disabled self support ing and not patronized by charity, it's packers declare.
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 American Education Week will be observed annually, with program sim liar to those of December flo, ac- cording to the American commission of the American Legion. The com mission, with the National Education al Association, directed the initial movement.
 Reused over the report of relatives that a soldiers body had been so damned into cheap casket that it was with difficulty removed for proper burial, the American Legion of New Jersey is making a thorough investigation of such practices.
 A hero yesterday-broke and job less today, Sgt. Carl Naef, who made a sensational but unsuccessful at tempt to capture Grover Bergdoll, draft evader, in Germany, has been taken in charge by the American Legion of New York. His only as- sets upon returning from Germany consisted of police dog.
 A resolution unanimously endorsing Hanford MacNider, national com mender of the American Legion, has been adopted by the Des Moines, Ia., Trades and Labor Assembly. "He has always been fair to the purposes that organized labor stands for, and we convey our hearty congratulations to the Legion for securing him as commander" the resolution reads.
 More than 5000 veterans of the World War now suffering from tu- berculosis, are without proper care or hospitalization in the state of New York, according to William F. Deegan commander of the New York Depart ment of the American Legion, who has just completed survey through Legion posts of the state.
 The first American Legion building financed exclusively through the sale of municipal bonds is that now under construction at South Pasadena, Calf. The building, which is to- be of the bungalow type, will stand in Ameri- can Legion Park, a public park of South Pasadena.
 There is not one jobless ex-service man in Louisiana, the American Employment Bureau of the state hav- ing found work for every veteran seeking employment.
 Maple Leaf Post of the American Legion at Seattle, Wash, composed of British Tommies," has officially adopted Hanford MacNider, national commander of the Legion, into the circle of "jolly fine chaps" MT. Mac Nider recently visited the post head quarters and shook hands with 300 members.
 U. S. army tanks of the type that waddled over the Hindenburg line and ex-soldiers who fought on the line have combined in Duluth, Minn., to furnish Christmas trees for children of the city. The American Legion is supplying jobless eX-service men to do the cutting. Tanks and trucks haul them to a central location where the Legion is selling them, he pro- ceeds going toward a merry Christ mas for the unemployed and their de- partments.
 
 Employment projects ranging from land reclamation schemes to the work ing of a gold mine in Missouri have been submitted to the American Legion's national unemployment coun- cil. Milton D. Campbell, Cincinnati O., has been appointed chairman of the council which will meet early in January at the Legion's national headquarters, Indianapolis, to draft remedial measures for the winter
 Religious factions in American Legion posts have been severely con demned by Hanford MacNider, Iowa ,o24;nn,l oF l,o