The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-02-28

Discharged by Wall street bank
ing house for refusing to write let
ters to congress attacking adjusted
compensation, an ex-service man
has turned to the American Legion
al New York for help in finding an
other position. He was one of three
out of $50 employees who refused to
sell his pen. The legion secured his
affidavit stating that typewriter
forms were passed out by the firm
to all their workers with an order
that each employe hand in four I'M
sealed letters, one to President
Harding and three to congressman,
and the remark that "you fellows
had better write these letters tonight
if YOU want to keep your jobs"
The order of Commander OF the
Legion of Honor" conferred on him
by the French government, has been
declined as a personal decoration
by Hanford MacNider, commander
of the American Legion. He cabled
Marshal Foch that he wished to
accept the award only "as tribute
TO all members of the legion"
With stores closed, the country
side out en- masse, and plane
wheeling overhead to direct the at
tack. the American Legion at Bea-
yer City, Neb., staged record wolf
and coyote hunt for the benefit of
farmers. The money for the pelts
went to needy ex-soldiers.
Ex-service men in Alaska will
vote without paying a poll tax. A
state amendment, backed by the
American Legion, grants them the
exemption.
One thousand "doughnuts and
coffees" a day to feed the jobless
and homeless ex-soldiers in the
growing bread line at St.Marks-in-
the -Bowery, New York, are being
supplied by single post OF the
American Legion during each day
and night. The unfortunate men
sleep in the church.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacher, Ameri-
cas- premier ace, was the frst Ohio
war veteran to turn back his state
bonus check of $1S5 to a fund to
establish a hospital for Ohio's dis
abled sildiers. The American Le-
gion has asked all other veterans
who do not have imperative need OF
cash to follow Rickenbacher's lead.
A string of world war medals
(bought at a sale) across his chest,
the worlds fastest working beggar
took 5000 an hour from New York's
theater crowds until the American
Legion got the police on his trail.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Pittsburg, Pa, the home. of Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mellon, has
voted for the American Legion's adj
iuoted compensation bill. Almost at
the same time the chamber at Los
Angeles, Cal, with 5000 members,
and called the largest in the United
States, endorsed the bonus. Calling
the United States chambers tactics
unfair, the local commerce board at
Ell Dorado, Kan, denied its member
ship and then voted for the compen-
sation measure.
Racing a street car for a mile, an
ex-soldier in Dallas, Texas, just up
from a sick bed, beat five other ap-
plicants to a job.
To prevent the spread of a small
pox epidemic, American Legion mer
by day and night guarded all roads
into Mansfield, Ark, to stop en-
trance or exit.
Every sick and wounded ex-ser-
vice man in New York state hospi-
tails viii be assigned an able bodied
member of the American Legion
who will see that his charge gets &
square deal.
Body pains and legal aches viii
not go unsoothed in Providence, X
l. Doctors and lawyers are offerinl
free services to jobless American
Legion men.
A referendum on adjusted com
pensation taken by the Kansas City
70, ,.oek &c tba Anaar;oau aorio.