The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-25
AMERICAN LEGION NEWS

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and distributing some eighty thousand
| missionaries which are to be filled
/ out by every ex-seryice man in Kan
sas The data thus compiled will en-
able the Legion to render the service
needed by each individual.
Kansas American Legion Auxiliary
women are organizing to help put over
| the state bonus. Mrs. Ida Walker, of
Newton, member of the legislature
who introduced the bonus bill in the
| 1921 session, has teld the American
Legion she wants nurses included in
| the compensation
! Representative from all Kansas Le-
gion posts will be invited to attend
a Legion track meet at Parsons this
spring.
! To make Lebanon, Kan. a more
| beautiful town is the task assumed by
the American Legion post there. Plans
for providing free camping ground
and a community park were made at
a recent meeting of the Legion and
representatives of the city council and
commercial club. A Lebanon citizen
has offered the Legion grove mile
and a half from the town as a camp
ing ground.
A memorial to Leavenworth, Kan,
men who lost their lives in the world
war is under consideration by the
| legion post and its auxiliary there. 1t
has been suggested that row of trees
| be planted in one of the avenues. If
| this plan is followed the trees will be
PLANNED in the near Future and me
mortal services will be held on arbor
| day.
Failing in his attempt to commit
suicide by freezing in a snowdrift at
Emporia, Kan, Chester Hagerman,
| jobless war veteran, is being sought
by the American Legion A Medi-
| cine Lodge woman says her son, VINO
bore that name. was reported killed
! in action" and a body supposed to
have been his was brought from
France for burial at Emporia.
Members of the American Legion
Auxiliary at Cimarron, Kan, have
cleared s1.15S.67 during the past year.
Moreover, they own their club rooms
and have them equipped with furni-
ture, dishes, stoves. curtains, etc. The
unit has contributed literally in re-
headquarters and voluntarily gave
500 to the auxiliary state hospital
fund.
with u.s." At least one large Wall
street concern has forced its employees
to write letters attacking the bonus,
according to a report received at Kan
SaS headquarters of the American Lee
gion from national headquarters in In
dianapolis.
The Legion in indianapolis asserts
| that it has direct evidence proving
that the concern assembled it's work
| ers in groups, handed out suggested
| forms, and informed the employees
| that they were each to draw up four
| letters urging against the passage of
| the pending compensation bill, these
| to be mailed to congressman after be-
ing approved by the heads of the firm.
| Letter writing under the LASH is the
Legion's term for these methods.
Another body that is fighting I'M
| fairly, according to national headquar-
/ ters,. is the United States Chamber of
/ Commerce, whose QUESTIONABLE dis
| tributed to ALL constituent chambers
| ignores three out of the five provisions
| of the compensation bill. Many COM
merce boards in widely separated
/ points in the country have gone on
record as opposing the stand of the
| Creek, Mich, Lake Charles, La, and
several cities in Oklahoma and Ohio
having recently been added to the list
| of those favoring compensation. In
| Toledo, following a hearing by the
American Legion, business men re-
fused to vote on the question, charg-
| ing that it had been impartially pre-
sented by the United States Chamber.
For it's own information, national
headquarters of the Legion, has
started a nationwide census among
ex-soldiers, each man to be inter-
viewed personally in order that vital
data on compensation may be COM
piled for use in pushing the measure
| thru congress. The Kansas census
will be taken in March.
| According to a statement received
at Kansas state headquarters of the
| American Legion, preparations for the
| second annual national convention of
| the Disabled American Veterans of the
| World War. which is to be held in
San Francisco, June rs to 80 inclusive,
| have been started under the auspices
| of three special committees; one from
| the local chapter of the Disabled Vets
| organization, another appointed by
| Mayor James Rolph, Jr., representing
! the citizens of San Francisco, and
third committee named from the Of
| ficials of the leading fraternal and
[ civic organizations of California, all of
whom are cooperating for the sue
cess for the coming conference. Head
quarters have been opened at the st.
| Francis hotel in San Francisco
| 1t is expected that $4,000 to 10000
members of the Disabled Veterans or
ganization will be in attendance at the
| conference next June, delegates and
visitors going to San Francisco from
/
| senting the 500 chapters and 100000
members of the organization.
| The charges of desertion standing
| against Lloyd Allen Wright, Order No.
| 1872, a registrant of the local board for
| Marshall county, Kansas, has been set
aside
Draft records show that this regis
| trant was directed to report to the ad-
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