Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-07-28
WEEKLY AMERICAN
LEGION LETTER
PARTY OF $50 WILL TOUR
FRANCE AS GUESTS
OF GOVERNMENT


John G. Emery, national commander
of the American Legion, will head the
party of $50 members OF the American
Legion who will sail August 3rd, for
France, where they will tour the form
er war zone as guests of the French
government. Mr.. Emery's decision to
join, the Legion pilgrimage to France
is the result of urgent requests from
the French government and Legion
officials.
Other Figures
The former national commanders
Franklin D'Olier, of Philadelphia, and
Henry ID. Lindsey, of Dallas, Texas,
will be in the party, which is to be
composed of Legionnaires from every
state in the union. John Sproul, son
of the governor, will be the Pennsyl-
yania delegate. The ''new AEF," as
the delegation has been called will
sail on the mail liner George Wash
ington. An American Legion emblem
will fly from the mast of the former
presidential ship when she sails out
OF port at New York. There will an
informal farewell at the docks.
A special program of entertainment
for the passengers on board will be
arranged by the Legion committee
When they land at LIE Harve they will
become guests of the French govern
ment and from then on they re-live
their A. E. F. days, but without the
former hardships.
Among the distinguished visitors at
the national convention of the Amer
lean Legion at Kansas City this fall
will be Stubby, hero of Seichprey, who
recently was awarded a gold medal
for bravery and faithfulness. The dec
Grafton was presented by General
Pershing. Stubby has been especial
~ invited to attend the convention as
guest of honor. He is a Boston
bull TERROR, wounded in st. Mihiel
drive.
Special to Shriners
A national census to determine how
many veterans of the world war are
Shriners has been started by Ararat
temple of the Mystic Shrine at Kan
sas City. The purpose of completing
the census is to make it possible for
the Kansas City Shriners to send spec
ial invitations to the veterans to at
tend the annual national convention of
the American Legion to be held at
Kansas City, Oct. 31st. and Nov. LIST
and End The visiting Shriners will
be guests of Ararat temple during the
convention and will be entertained
in the homes of Kansas City Shriners.
An exhaustive exposition of alleged
pro-German activities of the Los An
geles Examiner, New York American
and other Hearst publications during
the war, presented by the Pasadena,
Cal, post of the American legion, re-
suited in the post placing ban on
! the Examiner
! At recent conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, Sergt
Alvin York, who is credited with hav-
ing captured a larger number of Ger
mans than any individual in the Am
erican army, said that prohibition laws
should be repealed if it is found that
they cannot be properly enforced.
When the American Legion accept
ed the invitation of the French gov
eminent to send party of former ser
vice men to France for a tour of the
old war zone, John J. Wicker, Jr., of
Richmond, Va, member of the Lee
gion's national executive committee,
was selected to manage the pilgrim
age. Wicker has conducted tours to
Europe, Palestine, Egypt and the
Orient. He was in Rome with a par
tyof tourists when the world war start
ed. Later he went to France in the
United States aviation service. He
Is a lawyer.
Mental Wizard
Michael Nolan, the newly-discovered
mental wizard, who made perfect
score of 212 in thirteen minutes in the
army alpha test, is charter D,amber
Of the Rainier Noble post OF th2 Am
erican Legion at Seattle, Wash Nolan
is AZ years old, lumberjack and for
mer sailor. He was shell-shocked in
France and Is now student of the
Federal Board of Vocational Train
ing at the University Of Washington.
He recently passed perfectly, in one
minute and ten seconds, an informa-
ton test of sixty questions. One of
the questions asked the definitions
of the following words: Agoratum,
architrave, chamfer, Heterogeneous
elohim, gambit, guimpe, intaglio, meta
carpal, mitosis, NADIA pomology, ro-
coco and simony.
Posts of the American Legion and
the Great War veterans of Canada
have been asked to help find Capt
II. Hudson, formerly Of Edmonton,
Alberta, heir to the million dollar es-
tate of his father who died recently in
Michigan.
Management of the $4,000 Amateur
Athletic club building at Bend, Ore
pOn has haan furnad over IN tha Iooa1
post of the American Legion.