Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1921-07-20

, at, who is now railway mail clerk
running from Portland, was registry
sergeant in A. p. o. III at Tours,
France. 1t is great sport for such
fellows to get together for a few
hours and compare notes of happen
ings overseas.
The constitution committee OF the
Women's Auxiliary TO the American
Legion met at the home of Mrs. Don
NJ. Spencer at $40 Iowa street, last
Thursday evening, where they com
piled the constitution and bylaws un-
der which they will operate
Two hundred and fifty members
OF the American Legion, headed by
Past National Commander Franklin
D'Olier. and representing every state
and every branch OF service, will sail
for France August 3 on a pilgrimage
to the former battle zone of the
world war.
The pilgrimage is at the instance
of President Mllerand, who ON be-
half OF the French government, in
vited the American Legion to send
representative delegation OF former
service men to attend the unyeiling
OF the F'liery monument and to par
tcipate in a series of events planned
especially for the Americans.
The Fliery monument at Fliery,
France. is tribute OF the citizens
of that town and Lorraine, to the
valor of the American troops who
delivered their soil from German oc-
cupation. Fllery is in the old Toul
sector and was once the regimental
headquarters of several American di-
visions.
This delegation will also visit the
battle-torn town of St. Die, well
known to Americans who served on
the old Luneville front. In st. Die
also lived the Alsatian, Waldsee Mul-
ler, whose suggestion it was that the
western continent take the name OF
the explorer and navigator, Amerigo
Vespucci. The name, America, for
our continent, had its birth in this
town.
Marshal Foch. who is coming to
the United States this fall to attend
the national convention of the Amer
lean Legion at Kansas CITY, viii
meet the Americal Legion delegation
in France this summer He hopes
to entertain them in the old house
In which he was born. The house is
In the Pyrennes, and the Legion men |
will mark 1t with a memorial tablet, /
The American Farm Bureau fed
Grafton, with more than 100000
has joined hands with the
Legion in obtaining legis
latiOn for the relief of disabled sol
diers of the world war. More than
/ 500 bureaus of the federation have
endorsed the legislative program Of
The Legion. These issues cannot be
pressed too strongly at this time.
Our disabled comrades are in great
need and every effort should be ad
'anced toward their immediate re
lief.
One of the most impressive cere
monies in which the American Le-
zion delegation to France will par
icipate on their trip will be the lay
ng of the corner stone OF the new
,ridge to span the Mame at Cha
The new structure will
,e known as "Pont Roosevelt" in
lonor of the late Theodore Roosevelt
md his son, Quentin. Quentin ROos-
welt waS an aviator who lost his
life near Chateau-Thierry. THIS will
ring back to memory to a few Of
'ur Ashland comrades some of the
Genes that they know something
bout from actual experience.
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
amy and the Frisco lines has Of
cred one cent mile rate for
Ielegates to tho American Legion
at Kansas City. This rate
lsO applies to the wives and others
Tho are members of the WomeD's
Iuxliary Our delegates will got
he benefit OF this rate from either
'ortland or Sacramento. but II does
ot apply to the Southern Pacific
ines to these two points.