The Glasgow courier., 1922-01-06
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
VALLEY POST NO. Al at Chamber
Of Commerce Rooms, Glasgow, first
Wednesday each month. ..

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Members Of the American Legior
all over the country hereafter will be
kept informed Of what Congress and
the government are doing for ex-ser-
vice men through a weekly. bulletin
issued by the Legion's legislative COM
mittee. The bulletins will be sent to
all Legion newspapers and publica-
tions and state officials.
2. Marriage after the entrance Of
America into the world yar did not
constitute an attempted evasion. Of the
draft SO as to deprive the service man
Of bonus claim under the Minnesota
statute, the Minnesota supreme court
has ruled.
Parents or wives of Americans who
died overseas during the world war
and whose bodies have not been re-
turned would have an opportunity to
visit the graves Of their deceased at
government expense in a resolution
introduced into Congress by Rep.
Hamilton Fish, New York, a member
Of the American Legion. The 'resolu-
tion directs the Secretary of War to
provide transportation to American
cemeteries. overseas.
"A request that the United States gov
ernment be asked to negotiate an
agreement with Great Britain for re-
ciprocal treatment of disabled war
veterans, travelling or residing in eth
er country, will be considered at the
next meeting of the legislative COM
mittee Of the American Legion. Such
an agreement is in effect between this
country and Canada.
American Legion members are
urged to pay poll taxes, register and
make no attempt to dodge jury duty
as part of the activities for 1922 in
instructions prepared by Alvin M.
Owsley, director of the Legion's
Americanism commission. The Legion
men are urged to make full use of the
franchise and prevent miscarriages of
justice under the jury trial system.
All American Legion posts in Miss
ouri have been called up on by DR..
Harry F. Parker, state commander, to
back a $6O,OO0,OOO bond issue for the
construction Of hard roads. Ex-ser-
vice men will have preference in en-
ployment.
Pekingese dogs wearing expensive
coats while ex-soldiers sit shivering on
park benches aroused the ire of the
Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, Congrega-
tionalist minister of Brooklyn, during
the American Legion's attempt to get
overcoats for needy ex-service men.
Rev. Cadman advocated taking the
coats off "those overdressed promen-
aders with poodle dogs on string and
wrapping around the half frozen backs
of our boys.
Suspension of immigration for three
years has been adocated in hearing
before the House committee on immi-
grafton by John Thomas Taylor, vice.
chairman of the American Legion's
legislative committee. A bill to so
suspend immigration is pending.
A gold star mother 100 years old
is being taken care of by the Ameri-
can Legion in White Plains, N. Y.
Her son, her only support, was killed
in France. The government check,
paid for her sons death, merely covers
her rent. She Is a Southern negro.
If pending ordinance allows the
employment of 200 additional police
men in Los Angeles, Chief of Police
Jones will fill the vacancies with ex-
service men, he has informed the
American Legion, seeking the organi.
zation's cooperation in obtaining can
didates.
AS iVrt of the Christmas pro.
gram, the American Legion of Omaha
Neb., sent Mrs. Marie Anderson, &C
years old, to Leavenworth, Kas., to
visit her son. The boy is serving a
sentence for an offense committed
after he ran away from home at six.
teen to join the army. He served dur.
ing the world war.
Many sick and wounded ex-soldiers
who travelled far to obtain treatment
in the army and navy hospital at Hot
Springs, Ark, are in destitute cir.
cumstances after they have been re.
fused admission to the hospital, ac.
cording to national headquarters OF
the American Legion. Only the Sur.
geon General of the army or the U
S. Veterans Bureau can admit men te
treatment there