The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-08-24
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WEEKLY LETItRI;

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WEEKLY | LETTER
Looking back at their happiest mo-
\ ments while in service, an American
" Legion post in Washington, has abol-
ished assembly calls and for the next
few months will sound only mess call.
Instead Of holding regular meetings
the ex-service mel will: hold field
dinners. S @ Il ..Fs; i. = :
DR.. J. R. Patton, u. S. Veterans
Bureau attache, has been transferred
from the bureaus Burlington, VT, Of
flee following charges Of the Ameri-
can Legion that Patton used "hard-
boiled" tactics in dealing with sick
and wounded veterans who applied to
= him for examination. In announcing
Dr.. Patton's ehange Of duty Director
Charles r. Forbes, head of the bureau,
stated transfer was .for the good Of
the service" ~
So many violations of flag etiquette
were brot to the attention of Hazel
ton, Pa, American Legion that the or
ganization has appointed a committee
to call and instruct the violations in
the proper display of the flag.
More than half of the 500 wounded
veterans in Walter Reed hospital at
Washington, d. c., have undergone
blod TRANSMISSION. The men who volun-
teer for the most part are American
. Legion members who have obtained
work around the hospital as ambul-
ance drivers, clerk, special police, etc.
The only remuneration these veterans
take for giving their blood to their
comrades is a ten day leave to re-
cover.
: When the Oklahoma American Le-
gien takes over Bartlesville for it's an
nual convention that city will present
typical scenes in Paris. The citizens
of Bartlesville have arranged to de-
corate it's stores and streets so that
the former service men will think
themselves on the boulevafds ard in
the shops of the French capitol. Even
Bartlesville's river will be renamed
the Seine.
The Legion at Fort Mcpherson, ,Neb.,
has $50 bushels of potatoes on hand
which it will sell-plus freight to any
member of the 40-S. The potatoes
were grown on an acre of land, the
work of. planting and caring for the
plot being done entirely by members
of the post.
Though the 100000 expected to be
left after the paying of adjusted COM
pensation to New Jersey war veterans
cannot be used for a hospital for dis
abled ex-service men, the American
Legion has requested Gov. Edwards
to call special session of the legisla-
ture to appropriate similar amount.
The hospital would be state owned and
state operated and men disabled over
seas or who served and have become
disabled since would be eligible for
admittance.
A number of Richmond, Va, world
war veterans have so far been unable
to establish their claims for compensa-
ton although all are suffering from
wounds or sickness due to war time
military service. The men have been
"adopted" by local unit of the Am
erican Legion auxiliary which is prov
erican Legion, auxiliary which is pro-
viding them with necessities ad medl-
cal attention. u&$, .a&ss:...
Mrs. Emma G.. Bergdoll, mother of
Grover c. Bergdon, Americas most
famous Stacker has withdrawn her ap-
peal from the finding of a Washing
ton, D. c., Judge who dismissed Mrs.
Bergdoll's petition asking for the re-
turn Of $1,5O0,O00 worth of property
seized by the Alien Property Custod-
ian. No reason was given for the
withdrawal. The government seized
the property as it was unable to as
certain what belonged to Bergdoh
and what belonged to his mother.
E To fill the big gap in the wounded
veterans life between the time he
leaves the operating room and returns
to his home, the American Legion here
has opened Blessed Haven, a retreat
for convalescent ex-sevice men. The
haven was built and will be maintain
ed BY one post of the Legion, Byron
Pennington Croker post.
The retreat was established prirn-
arily to take from the hospitals those
veterans who have completed their
!. treatment but who are still too weak
I to return to their homes. The Croker.
\ post recuperation haven is the only
one Of its kind IN the state. Since
its being put on az. operating basis,
i however, other Legion posts are con-
sidering similar retreats. These will
be placed In the more thickly popu-
lated sections in order to bring the
wounded men as near their homes as
possible.
Compensation adjustment, back
pay, or whatever it may be called, !" is
sure to be as much al, issue in the
congressional races this year as III
\ 1920, declares the Cincinnati Enquirer
& Id al article about Kentucky. Beer il
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