The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-07-27
LEGION
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Robert Bruce MacGregor Of Seattle
soldier Of fortune who has spent the
greater part of his 48 years drifting
around the world looking for chances
to fight, recently obtained jobs for
236 former soldiers. In MacGregor's
career he found wars sever different
times and jumped into them all. His
last war was the one where the Allies
won from the Germans.
He served with the original Prin-
cess Pat regiment which numbered
1,093 men in 1914. Eleven of those
1908 are how alive. Two of the eleven
can walk. One of them is McGregor.
Before the World War MacGregor
fought in the Philippines did his bit in
the Spanish-American War. The Box
ers started mixing it up IN China and
he was off to the fracas. The Natal
Rebellion croped up in South Africa.
MacGregor made the jump from
China and landed in the middle of
that war. The Matabele Uprising and
the Jameson Raid followed. IT, !
Twelve medals, four decorations
and wounds which keep him constant
ly under the doctors care are his
spoils.
Despite his disabilities he still
fights. Just now he is giving the un-
employment problem battle in his
home city, Seattle. Besides that he
has adopted and is educating fif-
teen year old boy. ' =
The entire issue of the Western
Kansas News of June 20 was turned
over to the Goodland, Kansas, post of
the American Legion to use as the
post saw fit. 7. A. McCants, editor of
the News, who is an enthusiastic LIE
gion booster, said that the American
Legion Edition was a decided success
and added that the columns of his pa
per are always open to whatever the
Legion may want to get before the
public.
A. Fl. G. Fokker, whose airplane
were used extensively by the Germans
during the war, has come to America
and is now cooperating with the
American Naval designers, according
to American Legion information. Ex-
periments in which Fokker is taking
an active part are being made at the
government aviation station at Ana
costa, D. c..
The membership rolls of the. Lon
don post of the American Legion show
that it has members III Is countries,
including eX-seryice men in such
places as Java, China, Egypt, Turkey
and British. East Africa. ---,-,---,s..-,.~ ..-.
So many ex-service men in Ohio
applied for compensation under the
state law that the original appropriat-
ed fund was exhausted. In order that
all veterans might receive the pay
ments due them the American Legion
urged Governor Harry Davis to call
a special session of the legislature to
enact the necessary legislation for ad- y
ditional funds.
"The former service men of Amer
lea represented by the American Le-s
gion have deep regard in their
hearts for France-for there exists
between our two great republics the
strongest of all bonds, those between
men who have fought side by side
against a common enemy,s and the
gift of your wonderful painting
America to the American Legion has
welded those bonds even stronger"
wrote Hanford MacNider, national
commander of the Legion i'm q letter
of appreciation to Leon Reni-Mel,
painter of the French picture which
has just been presented by the French
government to the American Legion.
The painting is now on exhibition In
an Indianapolis art institute and will
be placed at Legion headquarters
sometime in the near future. s
Because it represents the defenders
of right and justice, the American Le-
gion was asked to lay the cornerstone
of the Rapillion, Neb., county court
house, which will cost over a half
million dollars. .&
There will be no adjournment of !
Congress until the soldiers, compen-
sation bill has been made D law. II
will be taken up and disposed of un-
der special agreement as soon as
the tariff bill is passed" says state
ment made by Senator McCumber Of
North Dakota, chairman of the Sex
ate Finance Committee, to Mrs. H. r.
Smith of Whitman, Mass. Mrs Smith
accompanied by scores OF American
Legionnaires and twenty wounded
veterans from the Waiter Reed hos
pital, carried q petition bearing =
million signatures to Congress, urging
the passage Of the bill. IS
More than 100000 former soldiers
will attend the New York State Amer
ican Legion convention and soldier ~