The Belding banner-news., 1922-03-15

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| (bought at a sale) across his chest
the worlds fastest-working beggal
took $50 an hour from New York's
theatre crowds until the American
Legion got the police on his trail.
,fo prevent the spread of a small
pox epidemic, American Legion mer
by day and night guarded all road.
into Mansfield, Ark, to stop en-
trance or exit.
Every sick and wounded ex-service
man in New York state hospitals
will be assigned an able-bodied mem.
ber of the American Legion, who
will see that his charge gets a square
deal.
Body pains and legal aches will
not go unsoothed in Providence, X
/. Doctors and lawyers are offering
free services to jobless American
Legion men.
A referendum on adjusted compen.
sation taken by the Kansas City
Kan, post of the American Legion
showed rs in favor of paid up insur-
ance, AS for farm and home aid and
20 for cash.
Several thousand ex-service men
who returned to "do Europe right"
are stranded in the large cities
there. Posts of the American Legion
in London and Paris are helping them
book passage "back home AGAIN..
A two dollar bill was sent by the
American Legion in Boston by a
hard-working woman whose son is
insane from war in .uries. She ask
ed that hungry sol.er be fed
To Colorado alone $4,000 tubercu-
lar ex-soldiers have migrated. Only
two percent of all hospital cases are
Colorado citizens. The American
Legion is sending the names of the
service men to posts in their home
states to set up lines of communica>
tion for them with friends and rela-
tivcs.
+. C. Sheppard, wounded ex-ser-
vice man, 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 hospital where the Amer
ican Legion is caring for him. His
lapse of memory is believed due to
war injuries.
Four hundred business men of
South Bend. Ind, voted unanimous
support of the adjusted compensa-
tion bill, following speech by Han
ford MacNider, commander of the
American Legion.
The American Legion has set Oct.
16, II, Is, 19, and 20 as the dates for
its fourth national convention to be
held in New Orleans. The city will
raise $150,000 for entertainment.
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Adjusted compensation won a de-
cided victory in the nationwide re-
ferendum conducted by the u. S.
Chamber of Commerce-4.116 cham
bers voting favorable, 1857 loting
against the measure.
"From the u. S. Chambers point
of view," said John Thomas Taylor,
vice-chairman of the American Le-
gion's legislative committee, "the
referendum was flat failure, for
that body represents the most highly
organized opposition to the bonus.
BY trying to separate the cash fea-
ture from the more productive pro-
visions of the bill, and by other
means, it has done everything in its
power to influence its constituent
members against the bill. In spite
of this facs, the vote shows almost
2 to l favorable.
"The Legion despises unfair dis
crimination-cash and the other fea-
lures cannot be separated as the u.
5. Chamber separated them in its
referendum"
The American Legion has won the
first suit in its history, brought to
defend its name. Judgement by de-
fault and damages were awarded the
Legion against Francis H. Shoemak-
er. alleged radical worker, for state
ments made in a speech last Decem-
ber. Shoemaker was quoted as say
ing that the Legion is "subidized by
big interests" and opposed TO or
ganized labor.
Charging that the bonus is at
tackled mot by those who fought"
but "by those who prohibited, the
American Legion at Marion Ohio,
home of President Harding, has ap-
pealed to congress to look ct the
facts "in the light of pure reason.
Making expenses by selling chew
ing gum, on ex-cavalryman is walk
ing from Chicago to Los Angeles to
get job promised him there. "Jt's
1,500 miles, but jobs are scarce, he
says.
The longest wireless jump ever
made at sea was recorded when the
steamer American Legion, entering
Buenos Aires, picked up a message
from ship off Honolulu, 1000 miles
distant.
Arrested for a minor offense, Cor
don Seybold, Oneida, N. Y, ex-ser-
vice man, says state troopers swung
him up by his wrists and pummeled
him to get a confession. The Amer
lean Legion has engaged counsel to
probe the charge.
X Happens So.
When ! was boy knew a boy who
didn't appear 10 amount to much; ;
work was thing that he didn't en-