The Coconino sun., 1921-01-28


 tral Trades and Labor Union of Eas St. Louis, H., one of the strongest la Dor bodies in the country, has passet resolution placing the organization on record as being entirely in harm ony with the Legion's national policies and recommending that all it's mem bers, who are eligible, affiliate witt the Legion. The Central Trades Coun cil of Oklahoma voted to cooperate with the Legion in meeting the prob lem of unemployment. Preference ir employment for union men who arc veterans will be given by the secre taries of various affiliated unions by direction of the council
 Legionnaires in New Orleans, La. have something to say in maintaining law and order in that city. The new superintendent of police, judge of the First City Criminal court, three as- sistant district attorneys and three as. sist city attorneys are members of local posts of the Legion.
 A true American Legion romance eliminated in the marriage of Roy F. Patrick and Miss Estelle Agans, both charter members of the Frederick Phillips Post, of Council Grove, Kas. To be sure that the ceremony was sui ficiently Legionaire, the services of a minister, also charter member of the post, were obtained
 A complete survey of the "shame- ful neglect" and inefticiency attending the care of the sick and wounded vet erans of the world war was presented January 10 by the American Legion in the form of memorial to President Wilson, President-elect Harding, all senators and congressman and to the people of the United States through the press and from the mouths of three thousand volunteer Legion speakers.
 In addition to the summary of de- plorable existing conditions, the Le- gion's solutions for remedy were pre- sented. These included the combining of the bureau of war risk insurance, the federal board of vocational educa- tion and the public health service un- der one head, responsible directly to a of the cabinet, and the imme- diate appropriations of moneys for the construction of a large number of hospitals.
 The memorial was presented to President Wilson by John Thomas Taylor, chairman of the Legion's na- tional executive committee, and to Senator Harding by F. w. Galbraith, Jr., national commander, in a confer ence on the general situation of the disabled at Marion, O.
 Franklin D'Olier, past national com-l maner of the Legion, who has just re- turned from trip to the Orient, re- gently related details of how he was under the surveillance of supposed agents of the Japanese gov ernment durding his stay in that country.
 Easing their action on the ridicul- ous assumption that MT. D'Olier was in the country to organize American veterans into a reserve, the Japanese, according to the national commander, made practice of searching his bag gage and ransacking his personal pa pers and effects in almost every stop ping place. His guide" MT. D'Olier said, was in reality spy.
 The Legion official left this coun- try shortly after the second Legion at which approval of the Japanese exclusion laws was voted and it is believed that the Japanese fancied that Mir. D'Olier's mission was official instead of pleas lre tour.
 Kansas members of the Legion are in the throes of struggle as cham pions of the cigarette. The fight is centered at Topeka, where the local post has urged the repeal of the Kan sas law prohibiting the sale of cigar cites. Dr. William A. McKeever, of the University of Kansas, author of the anti-cigarette law, and leading opponent of the Legion's stand, has appealed to the ex-soldiers to "turn aside from the selfish cigarette and