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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
National Organization

National Organization
 Hanford Macnider, commander Lemuel Bolles, adjutant.
 Russell c. Creviston, director organization.
 state Organization
 Harry Ayers, commander.
 J. Fred Johnson, vice com mander.
 Joe Yates, adjutant.
 Frank Dixon. national commit teeman.
 Birmingham Post No.
 George Lewis Bales, post com mander.
 Arthur Greenwood, finance of ficer.
 A. c. conoley, vice post com mander.
 Mrs. ". R. ovens, assistant adjutant.
 oscar Dewolf Randolph, chap lain.
 Paul Angel, vocational officer. Mrs. William Sell, historian.
 Walter Brown, counsel.
 Standing Committees
 Executive: Walter E. Bare. Jack Bethea, Crenshaw Chambe flayns. Arthur Greenwood. Thomas N. r CAlA IHHCi AAoNaf Headley Jordan, Matt Murphy. Jps Nelson, Morton Simpson, Ds. Ross c. Spier, NJ. NJ. Ullman, Dr. c. c. Wiley. W. c. O'Bear. Sam c. Bow man, Mervin Sterne. Frazer Banks, o. c. Carmichael, S. P. Smith, Aubrey c. Cooper, pr. James F. Hardin, William S. Pritchard. Americanization; Frazer Banks. Tgra FNitlg n son.
 Clubroom and headquarters Headley E. Jordan Walter E. Bare. NJ. NJ. Ullman. Compensa tior.; pr. H. P. Hanna. Constitution and bylaws: Matt Murphy, Champion Harris.
 Employment: J. T. McEwen. Ru- fus Bethea.
 Entertainment: A. c. Conoley Morton Simpson, Headley Jordan Funerals: Arthur Greenwood. Hospitalization: pr. c. c. Wiley. Miss Elizabeth LaForge.
 Insurance: William Rogers. Public affairs: Frank Dixon. Publicity: Headley Jordan. Vocational training: Paul An gell.
 Entertainment: Headley Jordan, Morton Simpson, A. c. Conc ey. Women members: Miss Eliza beth LaForge. Miss Julia Turner. Boy Scout activities: Walter Brewer, Briggs Rogers, Houston Willis.
 The WOmen's Auxiliary
 Mrs. W. R. ovens, president.
 Mrs. c. E. Yost, vice president. Mrs. Girard Wood. secretary. Mrs. Charles Parkman, treas urer.
 Executive committed: Mrs. l. semiss, Miss Edna Sivley MrA. H. G. Moore.
 Publicity: Mrs. Girard Wood. Public affairs: Miss Mamie Barr. Entertainments: Miss Edna Siv- ley.
 Hospital: Mrs. Girard Wood.
 Ex-post Commanders
 pr. William Jordan, Joe Yates, Frank Dixon, Champion Harris.
 Legion Schedule
 Birmingham post, No. 1, the American Legion, meets on the 18th of each month at o'clock in the evening. The headquarters and office of the post are at the Chow House, opposite the Tutwiler on Twen- tieth street. The executive committee meets by call of post commander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
WILL REBUILD RHEIMS
 WITHIN FIVE NEXT YEARS
,y Associated Pr

Rheims, France, February 1l.EThe city of Rheims may be rebuilt wityin five years. This is the opinion oS Marquis Melchior de Polignac' presifI deht of the Co-operaticve Society f9.i the Reconstruction of Rheims.
 At the most, he says, the work WIFI not require more than six or seven years.
 The amount of work remaining 70 be done is estimated by the marquis to cost 1000. 100000 francs of which 100 ,OoO, ,oo0 is for reparatlons and 90a,- O0O, ooO0 for reconstruction. He says that the society will have 20o.g0o,O91 francs placed at its disposal each year for the next five years This is by arrangement of credits with the de- partment of public works.
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having distinguished visitors as guests of the post, we have tried not to allow any opportunity to be un- used, and have had during the fiscal year of the post the adjutant general of the army, Gen. Peter C. Harris; Miss Annie Wheeler, the daughter of the late Gen. Joe Wheeler; the ma tional commander of the legion, John G. Emery; Dr. c. B. Glenn, super .intendent of the city schools; Will liam l.. Harrison, member of the city ccmmisslon; the department com mander, Harry NJ. Ayres; department vice commander, J. Fred Johnson; Post Commander Buck of Pratt City, Post Commander VandeGraaff os Tuscaloosa, Post Commander Lips comb of Bessemer and others, both within and without the legion.
 ?. Our post has sought to stand first for the disabled among our "buddies." We have tried to make real the last clause of the preamble of our constitution, ito concentrate and sanctify their comradship by our devotion to mutual helpful ness" We have, therefore, opened the >'Legion Chow House" where cots and food are provided for the worthy and needy veterans.
 8. With the same principle in mind we are maintaining our employment office where the unemployed vet erans may register without cost, we are keping in touch with the various people who employ men and meet pay rolls, and in this way we are a n iOhS for the fellows and great many more temporary jobs.
 We realize that this, is time of unusual depression here and else where, all over the world. Buts.we are proceeding on the theory that though the times are bad. the peo- ple are all right. Accordingly we have not given up the idea of nav ing A clubhouse for the local post We already have the names Of a number of the members with month lv subscriptions of from S5 up vol unteered opposite their names. By this means we propose to make our dream of clubhouse come true.
 5 As soon as the spring season opens, we propose to organize a legion drum corps Men who were musicians in the service have voluN- teered to constitute d tohtiifeNSS " carry out this plan of organizing and training drum corps, which we belieye will be from 20 to 50 men strong.
 6. As means of raising money, we have raffled two automobiles and staeed one boxing bout. Right now we are planning other boxing bouts, and committee is already at work on plan to produce local falent l show
 z. Last but not least we have con 6ucted military funerals for every veteran whose body has been, re- turned here from overseas. and Tor those who have died in or around Birmingham since the war.
 -s. Birmingham Post No. l, while perhaps the biggest in point of mum bers in your department, realizes that numbers alone do not make the American Legion what it must De Eff 1t takes its proper place in tnis country, and represents as 1t shouio 1 the men and women who constituted the army, navy and marine corps during the World war. We there l fore wish we could know more oi the other posts in the depart ment. which are perhaps smaller m 1 point of size than we are, but wnicn are perhaps more keenly alive to the 1 greater opportunities which presen' themselves to the American Legion the greatest political. non-re-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
"FOCHL0O" MAY BE NEW
 NAME OF WATERLOO
nv AssocIate,I rress

Waterloo. Belgium, February H. One of the new names suggested fog this town is "Fochloo,'H after Field Marshal Foch. The desire to charge e the name is due to an effort to avoid recalling "the humiliation of an all lied and friendly powers--the defeat of Napoleon.
 A. petition is now being circulated among the inhabitants of Waterloo asking Parliament to- pass biH abandoning the old name. Several new names beside that of "Foch- loo" have been suggested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12

1CAuf iOHEs hetHs ROuu one" new post adjutant, wires that he is doing" Mississippi this and next week, letting them have little coal'i and so will not be here for the Legion meeting Wednesday night, February I5.
 Comrade NJ R. Parks will occupy the post of adjutant at the meeting The Soldiers Bonus Biggest News
 in America
 One of the most interesting things said about the soldiers bonus this week is a part of a court decision handed down in the court of appeals of New York The judge in his de- cision said, We were all vitally in- terested in the war. Defeat spelled unspeakable calamity. Yet the men who gained the victory were not In any respect servants of the state. It cid not call them from their homes or lead them to battle It did noth- ing. It exercised no authority. It is said that our soldiers were taken from homes and occupations and were compelled to risk their lives for in- adequate pay, while others earned large wages in safety; that the sta tute attempted in small way to distribute more fairly the public bur den. It's al ltrue, but again the state was not the actor. Neither it nor it's servant injured any one. It re- csived no property for which 1t has not paid. Nor were services rendered to it in any sense that services were not rendered to every city in the land. That services rendered the United States, incidentally benefited every state Is no roundation for claim of obligations, however great the gratitude due. Gratitude may impel an individual to reward his benefactor. One may do as he will with his own. The state of New York may not. It's constitution for bids It may not attempt to equallze among it's citizens inequalities caus- ed by federal legislation. For that equalization. resort must be had to the federal government"
 Here the judge is deciding whether or not the state of New York Is in debted to the ex-service men who were inducted from that state.
 The court is deciding whether money may be taken from the state treasury of New York and paid as bonus to the veterans in the state of New York.
 The significant thing about this court decision is that the judge, who delivered the aDoVe opinion, polhleu out very clearly where the duty of paying the bonus rests and where the moral and legal responsibility concerning the payment of the bonus also rests
 All together, this judicial express sion is one of the dearest and most unanswerable arguments that has been made during the three years of almost continuous discussion of this subject of adjusted compensation to be paid from the treasury of the gov ernment which did call these men away from their homes, and sent them to battle while that same govern ment paid the men who remained at home in safety three and four times their usual wage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
Alexandria, Va., Has Been Reno For
 Washington's Unhappily Married

I to investigate may discover that its term on the gilded way was about six weeks In the same way, the usages of divorce compress the call endar year into very moderate com pass in Alexandria. From AZ to 45 days is said to be ample time to ac- compish a years residence and to satisfy all the other requirements es- scntial for getting divorce. But isn't there danger that the world will learn about the speedy divorce and that friend wife or friend husband may succeed in throwing a monkey wrench into the nicely oiled legal machinery? Maybe so-now, but a month ago nothing could have worked more smoothly or noiselessly.
 Process Not Complicated
 The process isn't anywhere near so complicated as one might think. The divorces are granted in the corpora tion court. The fact that they form a con siderable part of the courts busi- ness is indicated rather overwhelm- ingly by the statement that of cases 1141 to 1421, inclusive. fairly recent cases taken at random-only one, No. | 1227 Is said not to have been di- vorce case.
 The investi igation of the divorce
 
 the seeker of freedom finds the way nicely smoothed for him If he pat ronizes lawyers who specialize in that sort of work. He must, of course, be in a position to prove that he has had a residence in sAlexan- | dria for a year. but eX-post facto <, residence is not difficult to arrange. A receipt for a years rent is the big item: the prevailing price . for that l Is about $50, figure which indicates that the high cost of Washington apartments does not extend to the territory across the Potomac It is not necessary to spend even one night | in Alexandria; a Washingtonian need only take trolley or taxi, go over to Virginia long enough to pay the rent and get receipt, and start the legal machinery.
 Changing night gown in a closet somewhere" is given by one reputed authority as a part of the process required of acquiring residence in Alexandria.
 "Divorce Ring
 "When your year begins, it's up; you're all through" was the lucid explanation advanced by man said to be prominent in the divorce ring, lin discussing the phase of resident requirement. In other words, pay ment of years rent today is payment for the year preceding the date. not following it. No wonder rents are low in Alexandria.
 The notice of divorce must be ad- vertised in an Alexandria paper once a week for four weeks. That's why lit takes AZ days to get divorce about 30 days are spoiled right there. But the Alexandria paper doesn't have a very large circulation and sell dom does copy get outside Alexan- dria. The person from whom the di- vorce Is sought will, in all probabil- ity, never see it.
 Of course, notice also has to be sent to the "last known address" of the respondent But husbands and wives are strangely forgetful as to the domiciles of the ether halves of the matrimonial teams. A man who has lived all his life In North Da kota may be served with a notice in Tennessee; his wife, in applying for a divorce, would somehow be unable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
Let George Do IT

Vigorous objection to the admis- sion into the United States of Grego- rie Semionoff, self-styled ataman thead-man) of the Russian Cossacks, has been made by the American legion, appearing before Secretary of Labor Davis. The legion clalms he is an undesirable alien. He has been granted permission to stay in the country for six months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
SPECIAL ORDER Number 8.

SPECIAL ORDER Number 8. Headquarters Post No. 1. Tho American Legion.
 To all "trOOps' who wear the Blue and Cold service badges: Wednesday night Is February 10. The fifteenth of each month Is "D-dny" In Birmingham Post No. L.. The Post meets then. 8 o'clock is "H-hOur."
 Vital matters are up for We'd nesday night. Let's go. Signed.
 GEORGE LEWIS RALLIES,
 Post Commander. Officiaii
 Headiey Jordan, Adjutant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
ADJUTANT YATES
 WANTS MORE PEP

Joe Yates. department adJutant' has inaugurated a scheme by wnicn he hopes to have every post Tn Ala bama profit by the experiences or its rother posts through a series or In ter-post letters.
 mingham post. No. l;
 Complying with your suggestion that the several posts of the depart- n,ent summarize their activities for the past year and outline some of the things which are proposed for the immediate future, I beg to submit the following:
 1. Realizing that considerapie stimulus and inspiration is given by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12

At the instance of the American Legion. a bill has just been intro duced in the United States Senate, au- thorizing an investigation of one of the divisions of the civil service com mission The Vice President ap- pointed as members of the investiga- tion committee the following sem ators: Sterling, Cummings, Colt, Mo Kellar, Ransdell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
In Flandern Fieldr

The Secretary of War has just been given authority under House resolu- tion 263 to purchase certain lands for cemeteries for our dead In Eu- rope, and to make further improve ments on these and other sites all ready set apart for that purpose. The bill was referred to the committee on military affairs, before which committee hearings will be held within the next few weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
NeuUs Of the American Legion Here and There

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12

ligious, non- military organization on earth. Yours to command
 GEORGE LEWIS BALES, Commander Birmingham Post No. l,
 the American Legion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
Better Than steerase Hammock

An early vote in Congress is ex- pected on a bill introduced providing that a certificate in lieu of discharge may be issued to the next kin of those who "did not come back"
 Another interesting bill lately in troduced In Congress Is one carrying the request of several European posts of the American Legion to secure use of army transports for the return to this country of destitute ex-service men still in Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
Relative Values

How much war trophies are ac- tually worth depends on whose neck was risked to get them. John G, James room ins an Amaha, Neb., boarding house was rifled of all his X. E. F. souvenirs from medal laden belt captured from German major. iron crosses picked up from the battle fields, the gas mask he had used in many battles, Red Cross bags containing shrapnel extracted from his wounds, a silver cigarette case taken from German prisoner, 10 his American legion button. HA told the court they were worth sf0,000. But the law only compelled the land- lord to pay $50, because the trophies were in a suitcase at the time they were stolen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12

inkwell and a soft. inaudlble damn ing of tine persons who harbor ar unbridled romantic conception q Alaska;
 q. There isn't gold miner ir the post.
 . The thermometer has never dropped lower than five below.
 B. The deepest snow in recen' years was three inches.
 A. Some winters pass with prac- tically no snow.
 5 Overcoats are often nuisance in January and February.
 6. Raincoats and umbrellas art commonly worn.
 [. No one has ever worn furs oi snow-shoes to a post meeting.
 s. Gold fishing is the princips1 industry.
 9. No one reads by the neither lights or the midnight sum"
 The fact that people ride in auto mobiles and play baseball aere is evil dently hard to understand Tn thd states. judging from the number p| curious inquiries. which como inJath' mails. Ketchikaners throw ei their vests and smile when they ra os heavy snowfalls and traffic ue1 ups in New York and Boston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
KENTUCKY COUNTIES
 HAVE NO AUTOMOBILES
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Frankfort, Kyn February IT. Three Kentucky counties contained no automobiles of any kind on July 1. 1920, when the assessment of taxes for 1921 was made, acording to tfs annual report of the state tax co'~' mission. These were in the mountai, counties of Knott, Leslie and Clay.
 Six other counties had no motor trucks although a few automobiles were listed. They were: OwsEs' county, two passenger cars values at S550; Powell, 62 passenger cars valued at sl9,325: Rockcastle. fp' passenger cars valued at $SS,sG Jackson, three passenger cars valued at s7e0; Magoffin, four passenger cars valued at S700 and Breathitt, six passenger cars valued at $e150.
 All of these countines are in the mountainous section of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
The Live Ones

The membership campaign went well this week: Among those who have given most attention to the job of putting the blue and gold button on them this week are: Dr. F. W. Scott, Thomas G. Wingo, Dr. John C.. Galloway, J. F. Curt, U. V. Wellows, Dr. J. F. McDonal. pr. L. NJ. Winn, c. W. Cox. pr. J. Livingston, Brenton K Disk. Chappell Cory, E. E. Daniel, L. C. Albright. pr. Raymond R. Nc Daniel, Ralph Jackson, George Frey. Hugo Black, Champion Harris, H. M. Powell, pr. L. L. Calhoun, Guy H. Wilson, R. E. McAdory William G. Prichard, H. B. Bradley, H. NJ. Davis. J. A. Burton, Jr., Fred G. Calder, R. J. Adams. l.. F. Jeffers, c. F. Simpson. Dr. l.. R. Dillon, Dr. J D. Sherrill, pr. C. c. Wiley, Dr. l.. T Kincannon, Dr. Walter A. Weed. pr. Edward l.. OConnell, pr. A. c. Cameron, Joe Yates, Aubrey Cooper, Joe Nelson, Sam Bowman. Clarence Cox. T. K. Byrne.
 Field Marshal Horace Wilkinson Is preparing orders for fresh "offen- sive" this week; 1922 bids fair to be great legion year in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12

to remember just whore he lived. So he never would contest the proceed ings, and friend wife would soon be rid of him.
 Instances have been alleged where a husband would kiss his wife good by before leaving on short trip, and return home to find that he was sim gle again, his wife having meantime acquired a years residence in Vir- ginia and having proved that he had deserted her for three years One judge in Alexandria, it Is said, has given 1000 divorces in two years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
sousA,s acoMRADEs OF THE LEGION.

March Kings" latest composition is American Legions official quick step.
 When Lieut. Com. John Philip Sousa composed his latest and one of his most thrilling marches en-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
Legion Would Preserve Record.

Legion Would Preserve Records Rough plans have already been prepared by the Fine Art commission for a national archives building, in which valuable government docn- ments and the military records of all men who served in the war will have safe resting place. A bill pro- Niding for an appropriation is be- fore Congress
 The thousands of Civil war cases still being brought up demonstrate the necessity of preserving the mili- tary records of soldiers from the menace of fire and decay. The archives building is sought by the American legion. the National His ! torical association. and other organ izations 10 whom war documents are vital
 At present, official records are stored about the national capital In various structures. many of which have been declared unsafe Anxiety for the safety of their own records has served to arouse veterans of the legion to take steps toward the erea- ton of a permanent archives build- ing.
 An item of s50O.o00 to acquire q site for the proposed structure is included in an appropriation recently paSSeQ DN the steps toward the erection of the building will be taken If the House assents to the appropriation.
 Icebergs and Orange Blossoms The job of warding off the promis- uous sympathy which comes from ex- | soldiers in sunny Florida and the ice tound coasts of New England fo, their poor" comrades in Alaska. has | fallen to the historian of an Alaskan
 post of the American Legion. A let | ter which he has sent out explains
 that the "rigors" of life in Ketchikan are mythical. and that service men 1 here are able to do an honest day 8 work without donning snowshoes.
 Tell us about riding to work be-
 hind husky-dogs, tell us about the
 igloos and the gold-diggers and the
 sordoughs," cry the frantic buddies | in letters from states And all the time the Ketchikan boys sit in their ! shirt sleeves, famed by the warm Japanese current that swings in
 along the coast and gives Revillagi-
 gedo Island a gentle, harmless eli 1 mate.
 Please note following wrote the
 historian. with a vicious dab a. his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
Post Adiutsnt Globe Trotter

P0St AdJutsnt Globe TrOtter
 Headley Jordan, long, keen, good one" new post adjutant, wires that he is doing" Mississippi this and next week, letting them have little coal and so will not be here for the Legion meeting Wednesday night, February 15.
 Comrade M. R. Parks will occupy the post of adiutant at the meeting.