The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-04-20

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| r.. WEEKLY LETTER
A Legion commander for the first
time made use of the radio telephone
In roalcasting message to the ex-
service men of America when Hart
ford MacNider stood in Detroit, Mich.
and from station WWJ sent an Easter
greeting that was heard in all middle
western states and as far south as the
gulf. l%..... -
The fine points of bravery are not
unknown to Gov. Harry L. Davis of
Ohio but when he was asked to pick
| the bravest ex-service man in Ohio to
represent the Buckeye population at
national assemblage in San Francis
co, California, he declined the large
responsibility. At his request the Am
erican Legion undertook the selection.
Poison gas which A. M. Thomson,
cheyenne, Wisconsin, policeman inhal-
ed IN France during the war four
years ago, had just caused him to lose
20 teeth, according to a report made
by the American Legion. The police
man recovered from a long illness
after the teeth had been removed, 4.
Smarting red eyes among BROOKLYN.
N. T., school children caused several
shop owners to be hailed into court.
1t was found that merchants were
selling wartime device for purify
ing water consumed by soldiers as
toy bombs, which threw off poison
fumes upon exploding.
A community playground will be
erected by the American Legion at
nashville, Tenn, the ex-soldiers bear
ing the expense of apparatus and up
keep.
When two desperate criminals broke
JAN at Springfield, Tenn, and took re-
fuge in the woods, the chief of police
called on the American Legion after
his own force had failed i'm its effort
to capture his former guests. The
eN-servlce men formed a battle line
and the two fugitives were landed
back in the ,calaboose.
Judge Harry S. Keldan of Detroit.
Mich, opening his court for business.
found d that the entire jury panel had
been snapped up by other jurists. His
honor asked the American Legion to
further the cause of justice with re-
suit that a new set of ten talesmen, =
all Jooless ex-service men, was i'm
paneled.
A thorough canvas of the ex-service
men of Stuttgart, Ark, failed to bring
to light a single unemployed veteran.
The unemployment committee of the
American Legion was formed to func-
ton SO it dug up two jobs for men al
ready employed which were better
than the ones they had.
Hanging in the room which Mar
shall F'och has reserved in his home
for the thousands of presents he re-
ceived while touring the United States
under the auspices of the American
Legion are the keys to eleven of
Americas largest cities Ali the gifts
which Americans bestowed on the
Marshall are in his "American room"
except the famous Montana bob cat
which now PAGES cage in the Paris
Geological Gardens. E..
Time has so thinned the ranks Of
the G. A. r. at st. Cloud, Mimi, that
the few remaining members have vot-
ed to disband and turn over to the
American legion the responsibility of
observing Memorial and other days
on which the boys of 81 have honored
their dead comrades for more than
half a century. =
So confident are the ex-service men
OF Emporia, Kan, that the adjusted
compensation measure win be passed
by the Senate that the American Lag
ion members Of that place have pledg-
ed 5000 Of the expected money TO Do
used as the nucleus of fund to erect
a suitable community club house.
In Korea, where Fords costs 81
O12.50, former members of the A-E.F.
have banded themselves together
under the leadership of IN. i. Swine
heart, treasurer of the Southern Pres
byterian mission Of the Hermit Kins
dom, and formed a post Of the Amer
lean Legion. About dozen ex-fgters
most Of them missionaries. make M
the post membership.
Former Navy radio operators and
members of the army signals corps.
have organized under the auspices of
the American Legion II Nebraska and
are broadcasting market reports
weather forecasts and weekly nausicaI
consents 70 the rapidly growing .lexion
of wireless telephone users.
The superstition that aIl army 90
sergeants are hard boiled took win
whom an investigator uneartae<l 6
ex-top kick Id Chicapp WHO n ~ y