Evening star., 1925-08-16
LEGION TO FIGHT
HONORARY TITLES
Appointment to Governors
Staff in Virginia Held Injury
to Service Men.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

''cIsl DISpatch 10 Inc star
RICHMOND. Va, August l5.-The
State convention of the American
Legion is to make war on the naming
"f colonels for the staff Of the gov
ernor. The organization takes the po-
sition that the titles are fiction; that
The men who are named-some 80 Of
them-wear much gold braid. but
have never seen service, and are for
ornament only, serving to minimize
real service, and that the men who
have risked their lives are ignored.
he legion insists that If there are
20 he colonies for social and escort
functions for the governor the men
so chosen should be taken from the
National Guard OF the State. from
FORMER officers or soldiers or from re-
tired service men. The session at
Staunton repeated its position on this
NATTER adopting resolutions against
The further increase Of titled officers
and urging that the law providing for
the naming of the Colonels be so
amended as to be applicable to men
who are or have been soldiers, the
persons so appointed 10 hold the rank
attained when named and to serve
for the term of the governor.
On the list of the colonels who
have served are men engaged in
farming, banking, law practice. bust
ness, politics and others strangers TO
military duty. and who spend hundreds
of dollars for equipment for their
social functions.
Will Fight Evolution.
Virginia is to he one of the States
which will bar the teaching of evolu-
ton in the schools in which any part
OF the support is taken from the pub
lie till. That is the declaration of
patriotic orders that have announced
they will foster and support such a
movement at the next session of the
Legislature. There are several or
Ganizations already behind this project
and others will join in making a
formidable demand on the Legisla-
ture for such a law.
ku kluX klan. men and women;
Daughters of Liberty, Patriotic Order
of Sons of America, Junior Order of
American Mechanics and Fraternal
Order of Americans are sponsors of
the movement.
Phone Rate Fight.
The League Of Virginia Municipali-
ties is waging a bitter and determined
fight against the rate increase of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
co, Each city having an exchange
OF the system is making an appropria-
ton of % cents per telephone for the
fund for the employment OF lawyers
and several cities have agreed to this
plan. Others are believed ready TO
make a strong presentation when the
hearing takes place. The slogan is to
give the amount named at this time
or be pr ared TO pay least 81 a month
increase for telephone service.
An investigation of the books and
reports of the phone company will be
made.
Dance Hall Nuisance"
Several counties of the State are
dance halls. These counties are near
10 the larger Cities-NorfOlk, Rich
mond, Washington and Roanoke. The
cities can and do control the halls
to some extent. but in the counties
where the halls flourish there are
only the county police forces, which
are said TO be wholly inadequate to
cope with the evil. The promoters of
these halls build as close as possible
10 the cities. it is said. TO attract the
young people. The officers say that
the halls are largely supported by
bootleggers. who find the young men
ready, willing and able to pay high
prices for liquor. In Henrico County,
Just out of Richmond, Ave boys and
two girls under IS were found drunk
In one of the places and brought TO
court. They had partaken of liquor
in the dance hall. There are similar
complaints in every direction and the
next Legislature is TO be asked to
vest the counties with power to sup
press these halls by taxation, close
I,ys