Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-03-11
NEWS NOTES FROM NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
 OF AMERICAN LEGION

Proof that disabled veterans .ap- preciate the efforts of the American Legion in their behalf is provided by statistics showing that of the num- Der of ex-service men confined in hos pitals of thirty states, one-third are Legion members. The figures were obtained from report of the Ser vice Division of National Headquar- ters, based on a Legion national cen sus.
 The week ending February 26 was one of the most successful in the his tory of the American Legion and Women's Auxiliary of that organiza- tion from the standpoint of new posts and units. Eighty-two posts of the Legion and seventy-three units of the Women's Auxiliary were added. Ap- plications for thirty-two charters for the Auxiliary were received in one day. There are now 10,200 posts and 2,150 units, according to Natinal Headquarters.
 Alvin w. Owsley, of Austin, Tex, who was pioneer in American Leg ion organization in the Southwest, has been appointed assistant director of te Legion's Americanism Commis- sion. MT. Owsley is a speaker of na- tional prominence and acquired es- pecial recognition among ex-sevice men for his efforts in obtaining the passage of a bill in the Texas legis- lature providing a million and a half dollars for a hospital at Kerrville, Tex.
 When the employment bureau of the American Legion in St. Paul enrolled four hundred ex-service men out of jobs, O. w. Krause, secretary of the bureau, appealed to the public of St. Paul through the local newspapers. As a result, more than one hundred men found employment in one day.
 A plan by which thousands of mem- bers of the American Legion might be given a free course in government is proposed by Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., of New York, an American Legion member. MT. Fish suggests that each member of the House and Senate bring a Legionnaire to Wash ington for three months as one of the secretaries permitted him in his of flee and replace him at the end of the period with another and so on MT. Fish has already started relay of New York Legion members in his office.
 An appeal has been made to Ma tional Headquarters of the American Legion by officers of the American and French Children's League to aid the League in it's distribution of sev-- eral millions of peoples, which the women of France have made to be worn on Memorial Day. The peoples will be sold in all parts of the United States and the proceeds will be used for French and American war or phans.
 The fact that a veteran who gets into trouble with the law is an ex- service man will not be emphasized by the Associated Press, according to orders issued to it's superintendents and correspondents. The American Legion at it's Second annual conven- tion passed a resolution urging the press to adopt a similar policy. American Legion members were chosen for office at two California special elections in one week. Walter F. Lineberger, past commander of Long Beach Post No. 27, was elected to Congress and Walter c. Smith, of Golden Gate Post No. 40, to the state legislature. Two Legion men now represent California in Congress and fifteen ex-service men have seats in the state legislature.
 Enlistiing new members is not diff ficult for Medford Post No. 37 of the Anericop Tauiop uyhioh ,.o,o;x,ol .