Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-02-17
NEWS NOTES FROM
 AMERICAN LEGION

Investigation by Congress of the al legged illegal hangings in the A. E. F is termed Ca farcical burlesque" by the American Legion at Minera Wells, Tex. "This abortive investiga, tion is an insult to every loyal Amer, ican," a resolution reads. "We believe it is time members of the board be, gan devoting their efforts to matters of import instead of indulging in the hearing of unsupported and absurd complaints made by a few obviously disgruntled and irresponsible muck rakers."
 The American Legion Weekly of February 10 prints an article by an ex-captain in the iSgnal Corps, quot ing General Bullard's order to shoot "on the spot" any person advising surrender during battle, but flatly denying that evidence of any such in stance has been substantiated.
 District schools in Moffat County, Colo, had decided to close their doors for a period of weeks, due to insuffi- .cient funds. The American Legion succeeded in raising $916 to keep them going, taking the stand that Ca shortening of the school term or a curtailment of athletics would be a backward step, depriving children of rightful advantages"
 
 Ex-service men in Calcutta, India, have applied to the American Legion for charter.
 Found wiping his auto with an American flag, a man in Tampa, Fla, was questioned by the American Legion. He was pronounced "simply ignorant" and given instruction in how to treat the colors. Hearing of the incident, the mans employer pre- sented the Legion with large flag.
 A complete French village, with 3'Hotel de Vile" accommodating 1000, will be planted at Medicine Parka, Okla, as a recreation center for the American Legion. Posts will build cottages where members may spend their vacation.
 Hiring squads of unemployed ex- soldiers, each squad in charge of an ex-nurse, has been suggested to the American Legion in Toledo, O., as means of tearing down unsightly cleo ton posters.
 "Nervous" ex-soadiers present a special problem in hospitalization. Neuro-psychiatric treatment at Gov ernment institutions is under investi- gation by the American Legion, and a conference of specialists has been called by the Veterans Bureau.
 John J. Payne, released two years ago from a German prison, is being looked fo rby the American Legion. His mother, at Newburg, N. Y, has not seen hi msince Christmas, 1920.
 Holding aloft atin can labelled "For ex-soldiers," a man raised 5000 in New York streets. The American Legion learned that ex-soldiers got about $50 of 1.-the man got a jail sentence.
 Gathered at the call of radical New York labor leaders, 600 unemployed men threatened a tear-gas attack on Fifth Avenue financiers. The Amer ican Legion was condemned as "tool of capitalism" and ex-soldiers present were told they should have kept their Army guns to "force the Government to give them jobs."
 Breeding over war horrors continues to wreck the minds of ex-soldiers. The American Legion at Tampa, Fla, re- ports twelve cases of ex-service men pronounced 'fncurably insane" since Thanksgiving.
 Good standing in the American Legion Will De the only security re- quired to float a loan from the Legion's rotating fund for disabled and needy ex-soldiers.
  History as taught in public schools prejudices children against foreign countries, Alvin Owsley, head of the American Legion's Americanism com mission, told educational authorities at New York.
 "To sail away for year and a day" New York state delegates plan to charter a steamer to take them to the American Legion convention at New Orleans.
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