The Aberdeen weekly., 1921-12-02


ty in Minnesota to make American
Legion Day" a regular event OF its
county fir.
''Tte Pajama Gazette" is tho name
OF publication edited by tbs disabled
soldiers of Asbury hospitn at Mime
apolis. Minn.
"Say 1t with jobs" Is the slogan
adopted by the American Legion in
Chicago in its caUpaign to aid un-
employed ex-service men.
The bodies of Gunmar Dahl and Da-
vid Thor. pals killed in France by
the same shell, were buried in the
same grave in their native Illinois
town.
New Orleans Will be the scene of
the 1922 national convention of the
American Legion. The Southern city
guaranteed 100000 for defraying ex-
penseS of the meeting.
Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee. Wis,
has vetoed a resolution of the city
council indors,ng the work Of the
American Legion in finding positions
for jobleSS ex-service men.
A monumental building TO be erected
in Washington in memory of the Ma
tional Guardsmen who gave their lives
in the World war. has been suggested
by Maj. Gen. George c. Richards,
chief of the militia bureau of the War
department.
The growth of the American Legion
is shown by the organization of 1.050
new posts i'm 192O-21 Many new posts
were organized by American eX-serv-
ice men in foreign countries and to-
day the sun never sets on the Amer
lean Legion.
The daisy has been adopted by the
American Legion as its official flower.
The poppy, which has been popular
with LegiOnnaires because of its associ-
alton with Flanders, was voted out be
cause it was not an American flower
and could not be obtained in large
quantities.
The employment of jobIess ex-serv-
ice men to assist the police in com
batting the holdup men has been be
gun in Lincoln, Neb. The plan was
evolved following a series of robberies
in the residential district of the city.
The mayor and chief of police of Lin
coin have indorsed the plan.
Following a reception for him at
Kansas City. staged by $4,000 mem
bers of the American Legion. Marshal
Foch. who came TO America as the
and New York were the
head Of the United States he was GER /
tain Kansas City was the heart
The original post of the American /
Legion. George Washington Post No. /
l. lost no time in signing Marshal /
Foch as a member. The generals
simo was met at the station at Wash /
ington. D. c.. on the day of his ar
rival in America and presented with
card and a ceremonial
badge of the Legion.
Marshal Foch is now devotee of
he corn-cob pipe When his special
train was stopped at Washington, Mo.
)n its way to Kansas City, he was
presented with box of the Missouri
product. Later. while he was attend
ng the American Legion convention.
he was offered a cigar, but he declined
n favor of the corn-cOb furnace"
More than 10000 bodies of Ameri-
ans who died in France during the
World war will rest forever in the
acred soil near the battlefields. Sec
etary of War Weeks declared in a
ecent letter TO the American Legion
t Washington A fetal of 1850
odies have been returned to the Uni
ed States. Recording to the war secre-
airy.
eff you will walk down Main street,
J. s A." writes George F. Kearny in
widely published magazine article,
YOU will come TO a building which
Ouses the American Legion post OF
he town. II is the most democratic
lstitution that can be found and the
iscussions Of the post are worthy Of
be closest study as an index OF the
1ture."
A survey recently conducted by the
merican Legion shows that between
10000 and 700 900 service men are
N of employment in the United
tates. The East has a greater per
entage of iobless men than any 9th
: section of the country, with 10000
,rmer soldiers, sailors and marines
New York alone, without regular
many in actual want.
Police officials Of Iowa are investi-
lting the writing of threatening let
RS TO several members of the Amer
an Legion in Iowa. The letters are
slieved TO he the work Of I. w. VS.
ne of them demanding 5000 or
ell blow you to h" was received
John r. Wallace, son Of the secre-
ry of agriculture. Young Wallace
vice commander OF the Argonne
,st of the Legion at Des Moines-
AIRY H Polk, another Des Moines
AcsoD member received letter