The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-04-06
AMERICAN LEGION
WEEKLY LETTER

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When the Paris Figaro published
cartoon against the payment of
the expenses of the United States A.
my of Occupation, the American /, Vi.
gion in France registered healthy
kick. The picture showed a doupfbov
pushing aside Marianne ais the latter
is about to take a plate of gold from
Germany.
Every Chamber Of Commerce iii the
State of Washington has voted In IA
vor of the American Legion's plan for
adjusted compensation.
When John Al. Isham Of Boise.
Idaho, discovered that Oscar Weymire
his old bunlmate in the army, had not
paid his American Legion dues he de-
":ded ~ visit Weymire. The latter
was trapping 800 miles wa but Is
ham made the trip by foot, morse and
skates ano arougst in the dues.
The strength that won the Argonne
and st. Mahiel is being used to guard
New York against payroll and bank
messenss 'cbheries. The American
Legion is furnlsilrS ex-soIdie-s vino
go heavily armed with TIE neh s.s j. s.
wcren MD ~ -.s4-. .s.i.ss... IN j
the business sections. 49, + - q,
hundreds of ex-gobs who raked
mines out of the North Sea during
the world war want to re-enlist, but
In Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
"hooch Navy" Four submarine chas-
ers are being put in commission at
Baltimore, Nd, and when completed
will form a Navy that will wage war
On rum runners. Ia
A discovery that Harvard, Neb., &
didn't have way of getting the lat
est news on the weather, crops and
current events caused an old Navy
radio operator to get busy. Now the
American Legion lis issuing shot off
the wire" news to the Harvard >eiti-
zenry. ~ 81, m%
''If the Legion wants the flag taken
down they can hire couple of steepIe
jacks and take it down." was the ans
wer the board of commissioners made
to the Littleton, Col, American Le-
gion post when it protested the i'm
proper care being given the flag on
the court house. Nothing loath,
couple of old mast climbers turned
the trick.
war wounds has caused a Des Moines,
Iowa. family to send a request to the
American Legion for an ex-service
man for adoption. 5. Il tssysss.sssss
War wounds and nervousness laid
to shell shock is believed responsible
for the act of Ralph w. Harrison Of
Maplewood, N. j., who committed sui
eide by shooting himself with the ar
my revolver he had carried in France.
The American Legion team of Gold
en-. Col, composed entirely of men
whose rifles played a part IN the
"VIiO VOL OdttACos Has 1SSuCu q CGG1t-
lenge to any rifle team in the United
States the scores to be telegraphed
to each team at the end of each range.
When carnival pitched its tents
on his hotel property and an appeal
to the authorities proved of no avail,
Charles E. Young, ST., of st. Angus
tine, Fla, used the old sea method of
showing distress and hung the Ameri-
can flag on his hostelry upside down.
The American Legion protested and
Young publicly apologized.
The Chicago, ILL.,, board Of alder
men has voted to send dsleG1tion
of five of it's members to WashfngtOn
to help in the fight for the Amaxicm
Legion's bill for ABUSED conpensA-
tion.
Alexander Lochwitzky, q former
Russian count and Major IN tho
American army during the world war,
has sent an appeal to the New York
American Legion asking that Job
be found for him "doing anything z
He speaks eight languages fluently.
Everything he had was lost in the San
Antonio flood. $@.5E& " {ss s4s sS$