The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-07-23

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"Good-by Broadway, Hello France,
song relic of the late war, will again
be sung when $50 members of the AM
erican Legion sail August 3 from New
York for a tour of the erstwhile bat
tle-centers of France. TIC experience
the grand and glorious" feeling of
going to France without having TO
worry about getting shot, is the dream
of nearly every member of the former
A.. E. F. This desire to return to the
old battle fronts is indicated by the
rapidity with which the quota for the
Legion's pilgrimage is being filled.
John G. Wicker, Jr., chairman of the
pilgrimage arrangements committee,
has opened headquarters at 627 West
Forty-third street, New York. and is
daily receiving kilograms and letters
requesting reservations. Representa-
lives for the trip are selected through
the various state departments of the
Legion. Expenses are borne by the
individual members of the party, ex-
cept in cases of local posts %defraying
expenses of representatives selected
by them. 1t will require about six
weeks TO make the trip, including sail
ing time. An elaborate program oil
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age has been announced by French
Government.
mo man has a monopoly on fame
and fortune. No man, group of men
or governmental system can bar the
individual from his inalienable right to
progress, writes Judge Kenneshaw
Mountain Lands.
The quota of American Legion men,
bers who next month will join in the
Legion's pilgrimage to France is rap
idly being filled. Every state will be
represented on the trip and applica-
tions for reservations are being made
through the various state departments.
Two of the early reservations were for
the Legionnaires who will represent
the Lost Battalion" of the 30Sth In
fantry and the 10th Infantry of the
Twenty-seventh Division. These rep
resentatives will be enlisted men chos-
en- by popular vote.
Brigadier-Genera Asher Miner, of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, who lost a leg in
France, was one of the speakers at
the banquet rendered by the New York
Shipbuilding Corporation on the occa-
sion of the trial trip of the new liner,
american Legion. General Miner
was responding to MajorGeneral
Price, of Philadelphia, who told how
his compatriot, after losing his leg had
agreed to go before his men for moral
effect. The loss of that leg" declar-
ed General Miner, sis justified by the
privilege of being a member of the
American Legion"
Service bureaus of the American
Legion have become accustomed to
unusual requests, but the one receiv-
ed recently by the bureau at Omaha,
Neb., is unique. The request came
over the telephone from the possessor
of a sweet feminine voice. Il would
like to borrow two of your eX-serviee
men for the evening", said the voice.
"They are to be escorts in a theatre
party" The request was complied
with.
The American Legion post at Null
berry, Kan, which won first prize in
the recent membership contest re-
ports that fifty of its total enrolment
of siXty-siX men are union labor men.
The other sixteen are merchants,
farmers, clerks, doctors and school
teachers.
The Loyal Order of Dads has been
founded at Ft. Myers, Fla, by Dad"
Sheldon Foote, who has announced
that membership will be open to all
fathers of e%X-seryice men of the army,
navy and Marine Corps of the United
States, who served in the Spanish-Am-
erican or world wars, or who are now
in service. The members will en-
courage clean. patriotic living in their
communities, irrespective of party, pol
itics race or creed. The organization
will be affiliated with the American
Legion. The headquarters will be at
FIT. Myers.
Charles w. Bartlett, chairman of
the distinguished visitors committee
of the national convention of the Am
erican Legion, will go to France next
month as a member of the commits
sion to represent Missouri in the pur-
chase of a site for a memorial in
France to Missouri's soldier dead.
While in France Mr.. Bartlett will call
upon Marshall Foch and extend to
him personally the written invitation
which the latter has accepted to at
tend the national convention of the
Legion at Kansas City October 81. and
November 1 and 2.
Roy L. Rinker Post of the American
Legion at Apache, Okla, has offered
a reward to any person who will find
an ex-service man within ten miles of
the town who is not a member of the
American Legion.