The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-05-13

ana come III SleepefS, WHICH tHe rail-
road companies will park at Lewis
town. This will make a convenient
way to live during the Convention
and will help on the housing plan.
But don't worry about rooms; we
can accommodate all of you.
Instances where the American Le-
gion has lent a helping hand in times
of catastrophe as well as in the or
binary routine of civil life are report
ed almost daily to national headquart-
erS.
Texas and Arkansas Legion mem
bers assisted in the recovery of 100
bodies of victims of the recent Texas
tornado as we'll as carrying on relief
work among the survivors. The Will
Jams post of the Legion at Clifton
Forge, Va, has arranged to take up
picks and shovels to help the city
build a $4,000 playground. The
spring municipal house cleaning in
Kansas City, Mo. and Eunice, La. re-
ceived fresh impetus when Legion
members provided wagons and fatigue
details for the work.
Seventy-five percent of requests for
information received at the American
Legion's National Service Division in
Washington are concerned with COM
pensation and disqualification claims.
Other inquiries come in the follow
ing proportion: Vocational training
10 percent; retainer pay, 8 percent;
Liberty bonds and Victory medals, 212
percent each; miscellaneous, 5 per-
cent.
With the holding of the United
States Attorney General that the gov
eminent will not be liable in the send
ing out of the lists of men who evaded
military service, the War Department
will send the draft deserter lists di-
rect to state departments of the Am
erican Legion. Departments in turn
will distribute them to posts which
will check them before they are re-
leased for newspaper publication to
make certain that no men are unjust
ly branded deserters and evaders.
every member of organized labor
who is an ex-service man should join
the American Legion and help his
buddies in their fight to obtain rec
ognition of their claims" says an
editorial in the California Oil Work
er, Official newspaper of District Coun
ell No. 1, Oil Field, Gas Well and Re-
finery Workers of America.
"The charge has been made that
the Legion was a ~capitalistic lnstl-
tuition, but it's very composition is
enough to prove that such an
ton is absolutely baseless. The Lee
gion's big job at the present time is
to win decent treatment for several
thousand disabled veterans and to pro-
vide employment for approximately
400, 1000 more who are now johless.
Nothing very capitalistic about that
program, is there?"
Twenty-seven posts of the American
Legion and 10 units of its Women's
Auxiliary were formed during the
week ended April 30, national head
quarters reports. Washington led the
states in posts organized, with Wiscon-
sin second and Iowa third. Kansas
led with ten units of the Auxiliary,
followed by Iowa and Minnesota. New
Yeork has the largest number of LIE
gion posts with $40; Illinois is second
with 727 and Pennsylvania third with
CIT. A total of POI units OF the Aux
iliary in Minnesota placed that state in
the lead. Iowa is second with 1870,
followed by New York's total of l7S.
Special American Legion editions
have been issued by newspapers In
all parts of the country as an and to
local posts in carrying on their ac-
t~ivities. Newspapers in the following
cites have given over n edition to
the Legion: Memphis, Tenn; Merrill,
Wis; Patchogue, N. Y; klnston, N.
c.; Parkersburg, W. Va; Green City,
Mo-; and Fremont, o.
More than on thousand members OF
the American Legion in Wichita, Kan,
can be called out to attend special
meetings or to answer emergency calls
on a few minutes notice. BY a system
of three relays on the telephone, all
members of Thomas Hopkins post can
be notified in less than an hour, oc-
cording to the post commander. The
system works in this manner: The
post adjutant call ten members, who
in turn call from five to ten men; the