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American Legion that none save ex
service men will be employed as pilots
OF Uncle Sans airplanes in the u. S
Post office Air Mail Service. In.
structions to that effect have beer
issued, and Legion posts are asked tc
inform eligible air pilots of the above
mentioned ruling.
10 plant a tree for every wal
veteran and affix plate bearing his
name and military record, is the sug-
gestion of National Commander Gal
bralth of the Legion. Four million
trees OF types recommended by the
Y. S. Forestry Bureau would be
planted along the great nat ional high
ways. The idea is meeting the ap-
proval of the strongest newspapers in
the Middle West and has the indorse-
ment of the U. S. Forestry Bureau.
Approximately half million poppies
were placed on sale in Minnesota on
the morning of May 2Sth. SO great
was the response that practically every
poppy was sold by evening And so,
half a million Minnesctans paid honor
to their loved ones who died that
liberty might live, and at the same
time helped to provide funds to care
for and find work for sick and unem-
ployed buddies temporarily out of
work.
Though located many miles from
''their boys" who are lying sick or
wounded in Twin City or other govern
ment hospitals, the women of Mime
sofas PIT Legion Auxiliary Units are
adopting these boys and are helping
to cheer them by sending them scores
of little personal gifts which assure
those who suffer that their sacrifice is
not forgotten.
When Legion representative ap-
peared before the Winona Trades and
Labor Assembly last week and ex-
planned to the members the real aims
and ideals of The Legion, the union
men promptly passed a resolution in
dorsing the latter organization and
urging eligible Trades and Labor mem
bers to become members of the Ameri-
can Legion.
Seventy-seven signatures, covering
several feet Of paper, accompanied the
application for Auxiliary Unit Charter,
when the auxiliary to The American
Legion Post at Aurora Minnesota was
organized last week The Auxiliary
promises to be several times as big as
the Legion Post. The latter has IA
paid-up Legionaires. Practically all
of the larger Legion posts in Minnesota
have now organized Auxiliary Units.
In 1921, .Legionaires of Minnesota
more than tripled their 1920 contribu-
tion to the Legion Overseas Graves
Decoration Fund. The National Or
ganization had pledged itself to
decorate the grave Of every American
soldier sleeping in foreign SOIL Min
nesota's 482 Legion posts remitted
$500 to help accomplish this sacred
task.
Feeling that the fathers of ex-
service men deserve some recognition,
The Legion and Legion Auxiliary at
Staples, Minnesota held a very sue
cessful Fathers Night" recently.
Among other activities, the Auxiliary
there has contributed $18 to the State
Auxiliary Fund for sick and disabled
soldiers, made and sent two bathrobes
to disabled boys at the Ashbury
Hospital, Minneapolis, held ''fruit
shower" at which a barrelful Of jellies
jams and canned fruits was obtained
and sent to the wounded boys at Ash
bury Hospital, cleared over 500 at a
May Day Dance and gave the money
to the local Legion boys to help them
in their Memorial Day plans, raffled a
scarf knitted by wounded soldier and
sent the proceeds-$53.61- - to him
and now is planning to hold a joint
picnic with the Long Prairie Legior
Post and Auxiliary Unit at: Horseshoe
Lake in June. And that's just {
sample of how Legion Auxiliary Unit;
are, helping their local posts. Bette1
organize one. Eventually, why mo-
now? '& at tss
National Commander F. w. Gal.
braith Will Visit Minnesota.
From June II to IA, the man VIII,
has been described as "every inch /;
fighter, the head of the American
Legion throughout the nation, will b
the guest of the great state of Mime
sofa, and Minnesota Legionaires, prou
of their chief, will vie with each othe
to do him honor. Minneapolis, ST
Cloud, St. Paul and Duluth have bee
selected as the points to which legion
aires from the surrounding territor
will rally to meet Commander Ga
braith, shake his hand, and gain
wider view of the Legion, its activitie
and its purposes.
The Legion's chief will be the prir
cipal speaker at the Victory Memoir;
Way dodioation in Minnea no1is 3on th