Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-02-10
NEWS NOTES FROM
 AMERICAN LEGION

flag to designate places where liquor is prohibited" is taken by an Amer ican Legion post composed of news paper writers in San Francisco. The journalists term such usage as Gan insult to those for whom the star stood"
 Chinese eX-soldiers of the American Legion in New York City are to be employed in rounding up 50 slackers of their race, supposed to be in hid ing in Chinatown. The men qualified on their knowledge of the quarters many liternal "ins and outs."
 Among the we'll known men who have signed up with the American Legion in New York for 1922 are Jack London, Andrew Carnegie, George Washington, John Philip Souza, A. J. Drexel Riddle, Jr., Fred erick Wilhelm, A. Kaiser, Rupert Hughes, and King Albert of Belgium.
 Five million questionnaires will be used by the American Legion in its service and compensation drive, to be undertaken by states. Each man who served during the world war will be advised of government benefits, urged to carry government insurance, and asked to designate the nature of ad- justed compensation he wishes.
 On hill in Eden Park in Cincin- nati, overlooking a bend in the Ohio River, bronze memorial will be erected to the memory of F. w. Gal braith, late commander of the Amer ican Legion, who was killed in an automobile accident last June.
 Secretaries, dieticians and techni- clans who served with American fore es have been declared ineligible to membership in the American Legion by the national organization.
 The oldest and the youngest vet eran of the World War are members of the same American Legion post in Washington, D. CIV. N. Will Hams who saw active duty at 80, and s. F. Tillman who enlisted at IA.
 An organization to cooperate close ly with the U. S. Veterans Bureau in all parts of the country in obtain ing adequate care for disabled ex- soldiers will be formed by the Amer ican Legion.
 More than 60,000 applications for adjusted compensation have been fil- ed by ex-service men in Ohio, accord ing to the American Legion, which is distributing necessary blanks through out the state.
 The American Federation of Labor , favors the adjusted compensation bill for ex-soldiers, Daniel J. Tobin, treas urer of the Federation, has informed the American Legion. But it does not favor sales tax as means of rais- ing the money.
 Questionnaires sent out by Kansas posts of the American. Legion show that but 35 per cent of the states ex-service men would elect the cash payment provision of the five-option adjusted compensation (bonus) bill. More than 43 percent declared for paid up insurance, with farm and home aid a second best bet.
 E. c. Sheppard, wounded ex-soldier, began his honeymoon in New York City. He awoke while wandering the streets of Rochester, N. Y., unable to recall his name or where he had left his bride. He is now in a hospital where the American Legion is caring for him. His lapse of memory is be- lieved due to war injuries.
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 Four hundred business men of South Bend, Ind, voted unanimous support of the adjusted compensation bill, following a speech by Hanford MacNider, commander of the Ameri- can Legion.
 There is not one jobless ex-soldier in Louisiana, the American Legion employment bureau in that state reports.
 The Canal Zone will take prom inent part in the approaching national carnival of the Republic of Panama. Participation of the Canal Zone was made possible through efforts of American Legion posts there.
 The Dominion government will pay half and municipal governments half in the relief of unemployed Canadian