The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-01-20

The 43,262 good deeds to unfortun-
ate buddies performed by American
Legion posts of Minnesota in 1921,
cost $4,000. The list does not include
$1,000 cases wherein hospital treat
ment, back pay, vocation training, and
compensation were secured for dis
abled men.
Ex-soldiers who have lost their dis
charge papers will be able to obtain
duplicates from the Secretary of War
under a bill introduced into Congress
at the request of the American Legion.
Slackers and draft dodgers will not
escape punishment through the opera
ton of the statute of limitations if
the House passes a bill to continue the
military status of deserters. The Am
erican Legion, supporting the eas
ure, urges unrelenting Federal war
fare against slackers.
States which pay adjusted compensa-
ton to their ex-service men now in
clude Minnesota, Maine, Michigan,
Massachusetts,, Missouri, New Jersey,
New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Vermont, Wisconsin and Washington,
according to John Taylor, vice-chair-
man of the American Legion's legis-
lative committee.
Gun play between the chamber of
commerce and the American Legion
post at Akron, Colorado, resulted in
the death of 936 rabbits, which were
distributed to needy families in Denver.
The shooting match benefited farm
ers, who have been greatly troubled
with rabbits.
Jim ("Sailor") White, the strong
man of the Navy, is in the habit of
pulling loaded freight cars with his
teeth and cracking railroad spikes be-
tween his thumb and forefinger. When
he entered State headquarters of the
American Legion, he offered to lift
desks and things with one hand, he
wanted to tear up radiators by their
roots, he wanted to bash in the front
of iron safes.
He was out of a job, and his energy.
with no outlet, was becoming terrific.
The Legion succeeded in placing him
opening and closing doors in a club.
Loans. without security and at a
low rate of interest, will be provided
for sick and wounded e~x-service men
by a big rotating fund, plans for
which are being worked out at nation
al headquarters of the American Lee
glon. Ex-soldiers who do not need the
ready cash from Government compen
sation would contribute their bonus to
the fund.
A thousand dollars, farm experience,
and an agreeable wife are the r%equisi-
ties OF an applicant for a tract on the
state soldier land settlement project.
The applicants wife must signify her
Willingness to take up rustic pursuits.
according to an announcement from
American Legion Headquarters. This
is designed to preclude unsuccessful
experiments.
Army discipline" is not imposed
upon sick and wounded ex-soldiers un-
DER Government treatment, C. R. For
hes, director of the Veterans Bureau.
has informed the American Legion.
A disabled soldier is not A. ", O. T..
merely because he leaves a Govern.
ment hospital without consent of phv-
sicians. His only penalty is that he
must foot his W transportation bill
if he wishes to return.
Rah-rahs have supplanted doughboy
battle cries with 100 former soldiers
who have enrolled as students in COL
Ieges and universities of Wisconsin.
The service men are going to school
again under the provisions of a state
bonus which allows them $50 a month
Tor foul years along with their educa-
ton.
A national archives building in
which would be assembled all the rec
ords Of the World War is the aim Of
the American Legion's committee on
memorials. A bronze tablet erected to
a comrade who gives his life "in line
OF duty, UNFOLDING law and order. is
a further recommendation of the COM
mittee.
Government nurses will not rank
with SCRUB maids" if a protest to
the Senate made by John Thomas Tay-
Tor, OF the legislative committee of the
American Legion, bears fruit. TAYLOR
objects strenuously to the section of
the. pending Redistribution hill
which he says twill tend to lower the
nursing profession in the eyes of the
public.
WISDOM FOR WET WEATHER