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Show u ' 1 - WEEKLY AMERICAN LEGION NEWS LETTER ' ' Adjustments and troasurors of ten thousand posts of tho American Loglon are busy collecting post, department de-partment and natlonnl duos for the yoar 1921. Itoports lndlcnto that tho "button membership," thoso who are membors of tho Legion but who are behind In thotr dues, will bo sub-stantlally sub-stantlally decreasod, Tho clarification clarifi-cation of- tho Legion's position la regard re-gard .to Organized Labor and political activity together hvlth tho vlgordus light it has made for tho sick and disabled dis-abled war votorans aro bclloved to havo encouraged paymont ot duos and to havo gained many thousands of now mombers. Exomptoln of Votorans from paying poll taxes was refused Indorsement by Vermont American Loglon post commandors and adjutants and membors mem-bors of tho stato.oxocutlVo committee at a rocont conteronco which was attended at-tended by P. W. Oalbralth. Jr., National Nation-al Commander of tho Legion. A bill which was Introduced In tho state legislature did not moot with tho Legion's approval bocauso tho ox-scr-vico man hold that- it was their duty to pny taxes tho samo as any othor body of citizens. The compulsory study of Amorlcan history and civics in tho publlo schools, ns recommondod by Honry J. Ryan, chairman, of tho Americanism Commission of tho Amorlcan Legion, waa Indorsed at tho first annual stato convention of tho Indiana Department of tho Legion's Auxiliary. Tho principal prin-cipal spoakors at the convention wero Colonel L. R, Ollnllllat, stato com-mandor, com-mandor, nnd Lomuol Hollos, national adjutant ot tha Loglon. |