Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-06-09
AMERICAN LEGION
NEWS SERVICE

Instances where the American Le-
gion has lent helping hand in times
of catastrophe as well as in the or
binary routine of civil life are report
ed almost daily to national headquar-
tiers.
Texas and Arkansas Legion mem
bers assisted in the recovery of 100
bodies of victims of the recent Texas
tornado as well as carrying on relief
work among the survivors. The Will
liams 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-
celved 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 following
propOrtion:- Vocational training, 10
per cent; retainer pay, per cent; Lii
berty bonds and Victory medals, 2 1-2
per cent each; miscellaneous, 5 per
cent.
With the holding of the United
States Attorney General that the gov
eminent will not be liable in the
sending out of lists of men who evaded
military service, the War Department
will send the draft deserter lists di-
rect to state departments of the
a I
turn will distribute them to posts
which will check them before they are
for newspaper publication, to
make certain that no men are unjust
Twenty-seven posts of the Amer
lean Legion and 73 units of it's Wo-
mems Auxiliary were formed during
the week ending April 20, national
headquarters reports. Washington led
the states in posts organized, with
Wisconsin second and Iowa third. Kan
sas led with ten units of the Auxil-
larry, followed by Iowa and Mime
sofa. New York has the largest num-
Der of Legion posts with $40; Illinois
is second with 727 and PENNSYLVANIA
third with SIT. A total of POI units
of the Auxiliary in Minnesota placed
that state in the lead Iowa is sec
en- dwith $50, followed by New York's
total of 178.
More than one thousand members
of the American Legion in Wichita,
Kan. can be called out to attend spe-
claI meetings or to answer emergency
calls on a few minutes notice. By a
system of three relays on the tele-
phone, all members of Thomas Hop
kins post can be notified in less than
half an hour, according to the post
m nd h1
this manner: The post adjutant calls
ten members, who in turn call from
live to ten men; the latter each notify
ten more men. Each man has a card
with the names and telephone numbers
allotted to him.
Between 5000 and 1000 maple trees
are to be planted along the Lincoln
County highway in St. Joseph and
Laperte counties in Indiana, as mem
orial to the soldiers from the two
counties who lost their lives in the
World War. The planting will be in
charge of the American Legion posts
at South Bend and Laporte.
Leaves of absence will be granted to
eX-service men taking training under
the Federal Board for Vocational Edu-
who are duly accredited dele
gates to the American Legion national
at Kansas City, October
81, November / and 2.
L. w. WIS may be excluded from
Kansas through in Interpretation of
the anti-syndicalist law fathered by
the American Legion and passed by
the Kansas legislature in 1919. The
decision will be made in the hearing
Of an injunction suit against members
and organizers of the |. w. w. before
q district court in Eldorado.
E Stars of motion pictures were guests
and performers of Los Angeles, Cal,
Post, No. 8 of the American Legion
at an entertainment and smoker. The
mayor of the city made an address.
Among the screen favorites who fra
ternlzed with the veterans were Har-
old Lloyd, Carter De Haven, Jackie
Coogan, juvenile lead with Charlie
Chaplin, and Jack Coogan, father of
the young movie star.
Praise of the ideals and purposes
OF the American Legion was voiced
by Chm Yun-peng, premier of China,
a speaker at a dinner given by the
Legion post in Peking. Other guests
OF the foreign post were Admiral Sab
Chen-ping, Chinese Minister of the
Navy; Charles B. Crane, American
Minister to China; and Major Cen
eral Crozier, retired head of the Or
dinance Department, United States
Army. n