The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-02
AMERICAN LEGION
WEEKLY LETTER

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Discharged BY wall street banking
house f0r refusing to write letters to
Congress attacking adjusted conapen-
sation, an ex-service man turned Ia
the American Legion at New York for
help in finding another position. He
was one OF three out of $50 employees
who refused TO sell his pen. d. 5
The Legion secured his affidavit
stating that typewriter forms were
passed out by the firm to all their
workers with an order that each en1-
ployee hand IN four unsealed letters,
one to President Harding and three
to Congressmen, and the remark that
you fellows had better write these
letters tonight il you want to keep
your jobs. ss .s5s ss
The order Of Commander of the
Legion Of Honor conferred on him
by the French government has been de
cIined as personal decoration by
Hanford MacNider, commander of the
American Legion. He cabled Mar
shall that he wished to accept the
award only as tribute to all mem
bers of the Legion =
With stores closed, the countryside
out en-masse, and plane wheeling
overhead to direct the attach, the
American Legion at Beaver City ,Neb,
staged a record wolf and coyote hunt
for the benefit of farmers. The money
for the pelts went to needy ex-soldiers.
Ex-service men in Alabama will
vote without paying poll tax. A
state amendment, backed by the AM
erican Legion, grants them the ex-
emption. ~
One thousand doughnuts and coffee
a day to feed the jobless and home
less ex-soIdiers in the growing bread
line ait St.Marks In the Bowery, New
York, are being supplied by single +.
post of the American Legion, during
each day and night. ~
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Aneri-
cas- premier ace, was the first Ohio
war veteran to turn back his state .
bonus check of $185 to fund to es-
tablish hospital for Ohio's disabled
soldiers. The American Legion has
asked all other veterans who do not
have imperative need of cash to fol-
low Rickenbacker's lead.
A string of world war medals
(bought at sale) across his chest, the
worlds fastest-worlring beggar took
$50 an hour from the New York's
theatre crowds until the American
Legion got the police on his trail.
The chamber of commerce of Pitts
burg, Pa, home of Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon, has voted for the
American Legion's adjusted compen- 4
sation bill. Almost at the same time
the chamber at Los Angeles, Cal, with
5000 members and called the largest
in the United tates, endorsed the BON
us. Calling the us. Chambers tactics
unfair the local commerce board at
Ell Dorado, Kan, denied its member
ship and then voted for the eompen-
sation measure. 81 ia
Racing a street ear for mile, m
ex-soldier in Dallas, Tex, just up from
a sick-bed, beat five other applicants
to job.
To prevent the spread OF . small
pox epidemic, American Legion men
by day and night guarded alI roads
into Mansfield, Ark, to stop s1tzanes
or exit.
Every sick and woundsd sx-ssxvice
man in New York state hospifalo win
be assigned m zble- bodied menlh@ Ok
the American Legion, Who win -
that his charge gets square dsal.
Body pains and legal aches win not
go unscother in Providence, II II
Doctors and lawyers are offering frse
services 10 jobless American Lsxion
men.
A referendnm on adjusted compsn-
sation talsn by ne Kansas City, Knn
post Of The American I4exion shoMed
q ii favor of paid up insurance 4E
Tor Farm md home aid, - = foe
cash-
Seversl thousand ex-serviee nsa