Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-01-13
NEWS NOTES E ROM
 .... .> AMERICAN LEGION

Jim ("Sailor") White, the strong man of the Navy, is in the habit of pulling loaded freight cars with his teeth and cracking railroad spikes be- tween his thumb and forefinger. When he entered State headquarters of the American Legion, he offered to lift desks and things with one hand, he wanted to tear up radiators by their roots, he wanted to bash in the front of iron safes.
 He was out of job, and his energy with no outlet, was becoming terrific. The Legion succeeded in placing him opening and closing doors in a { club.
 A national archives building in E which would be assembled all the records of the World War is the aim , of the American Legion's committee on memorials. A bronze tablet erect b ed to a comrade who gives his lie Gin line of duty," upholding law and order, is a further recommendation of the committee.
 Government nurses will not rank with "scrub maids" if a protest to the Senate made by John Thomas Taylor of the legislative committee of the American Legion, bears fruit. Taylor objects strenuously to the section o1 the pending reclassification bill which he says twill tend to lower the nurs- ing profession in the eyes of the pub lic" ..--......
 Loans, without security and at a low rate of interest, will be provided . for sick and wounded ex-service men by a big rotating fund, plans for . which are being worked out at na- tional headquarters of the American Legion. Ex-soldiers who do not need | the ready cash from Government com pensation would contribute their bonus to the fund. -- .-.-
 English and civics will be taught at American Legion posts in Greater s New York, at the request of the X Board of Education. This furthers the Americanization campaign al ready under way. ~. .'.- ~ .-.. All that the Veterans Bureau has accomplished in disqualification and rehabilitation of ex-soldiers, will be wrecked if medical reserve officers are placed on a civilian status, ac- 2 cording to John Thomas Taylor, vice chairman of the American. Legion's Legislative committee, who is protest .. ing the recommendation of the Bureau of Efficiency. "Behind the recom- mendation is an attempt to make the treatment of the disabled man foot ball of politics,"T aylor declares.
 The sunny south appeals to jobless ex-service men, according to statistics of the American Legion employment bureau at Birmingham, Ala, which recently registered 145 men from all parts of the country and only lO5 TeSlQcQCS Ol
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 A thousand dollars, farm experience and an agreeable wife are the requisi- tes of an applicant for tract on the state soldier land settlement project. The applicants wife must signify her willingness to take up rustic pursuits. according to an announcement from American Legion headquarters. This is designed to preclude unsuccessful
 "Army discipline" is not imposed upon sick and wounded eX-soldiers un- der Government treatment, c. R. Forbes, director of the Veterans Bureau, has informed the American Legion. A disabled soldier is not A. w. O, L. merely because he leaves a Government hospital without, con sent of physicians. His only penalty is that he must foot his own transpor- tation bill if he wishes to return.
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 All states are planning exhibits in connection with the conference of Amsxican Legion officials to be held at national headquarters January 19 ands2O. The conference will be at tended by General Pershing, Secre- tarw IDenby, and representative ot Presidetn Harding. .5..M ., nlT|
 To aid in combating the "dope" evil (which has invaded number of ex-service hospitals in California, the Amsrican Legion is working with the