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Show THE The- WAR WORKER - IS OHIO MAYOR Miss Amy Kaukonen, Guardian tle Buckeye City, Active Auxiliary Affairs. i. TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S, n .1 n nw of LitIn Ohio not only boasts that she has produced many more than her share of the nation s chief executives, but she also Copf th for Thla American Department Supplied legion News Brvlc.) by IN COMMAND OF FLOOD CAMP M. L. Geisenberger, Valuable Aid at Natchez, When Mississippi Went on Rampage. Lieut. After the American Red Cross at Natchez, Miss., had obtained from the government several hundred army tents to house flood refugees. It was found that the government had fulled to send along anybody who could direct the erection of the canvas shelters. Fortunntely members of the Nutchez American Legion had had experience with practically every sort of tent from "pup" tents on up. After having rescued hundreds of people from housetops and treetops, the Legionnaires took upon themselves the Job of erecting a tent city to house these refugees. A Legion doctor laid out the camp from the standpoint of sanitation, nnd M. L. Geisenberger, a former lieutenant, was made commandant of the refugee camp. More than five hundred people were taken care of during the . llrst few days, and as the flood urea widened the number rapidly increased. The Legion's work In the cure of Hood victims received unstinted praise from every quarter of the country. NAME IS NOT IN DICTIONARY "Legionnaire" Not Yet in Official Guide Promises to Hold for All Time to Come. The American Legion Weekly comments on a New Zealand Newspaper's use of the word "legionary" to denote a member of the American Legion. "The word 'legionary' has an honored place In the dictionary which 'legionnaire' has not as yet, the Weekly points out. "Rut all the sentiment, and It Is a case where sentiment counts, is on the side of 'legionnaire.' 'Legionary' connotes an embattled toting a shield and spear for Julius Caesar. 'Legionnaire' culls to mind (from the French point of view) a regiment of foreigners of the French Foreign Legion. " 'Legionnaire' as Indicating a member of the American Legion, seems too firmly established to dislodge. We must remember that all Legions Rohad one man, Foreign and American thing in common: They fought In France." Ro-inu- No Difference Now. points with pride to the fact that her little city of Fulrport has one of the most attractive and capable "lady mayors" in the counI try. Miss Amy Kuukonen, who 51 during the war was a member of the volunter medical service corps of the United States army, has given entire satisfaction as mayor of Fair-port. Mayor Kaukonen finds time from her otiicial duties to take part la the affairs of the American Legion AuxThat she Is a iliary of her city. stanch supporter of the Legion is evidenced by her statement : "It Is distinctly an American organization. In which politics and selfish interest have no place. Its cornerstone Is American munhood. Its objects liberty, fraternity and service. Its principles are us broad as the continent upon which falls the shudow of our flag." CARE OF FRENCH WAR ORPHAN Argonne Association's Plan May Used for Unfortunates in Be United States. plan for the care and training of French wnr orphans, worked out by the Argonne association, an organization formed as a permanent memorial to the Americans who fought In France, is said to be functioning so satisfactorily that a similar organization may be formed for the care of orphans in the United States. The Argonne association was formed in 1018 by a group of Americans Interested In French orphans. It has as its motto: "To provide for the child who has no parents, a home and a family life; to secure him his birthright of health; to educate him and train him to earn a livelihood ; to develop his character that he may become a useful and an upright citizen and to do these things so well und so economically that others shall follow this example Is the aim of the Argonne association." The orphans cared for under the association's plan are placed In private homes In a community where they are "ally wanted. They nre not "fanned out." There Is a community school, playground und vocational truining center where the children are dally brought together to get their menu; nnd physical development. There are three such centers In France where the orphans are given three distinct stages of training. A HE WELCOMED MARSHAL FUCH V1' 9 dally" welcomed Ernest R. II a L Arizona's of secretary state, who In the !y 1 of the date's chief exbecame ecutive ictlng governor. It had not been absence X I Tf 4 ' i A ') fi A many month since Mr. II a 1 1 had seen the marshal under entirely different circumstances. On that former occasion, Mr. Hall wore an "isHe was known as sued" uniform. "Corporal Hall of the Twenty-seventEngineers." Although he was over draft age and a member of the state senate when war was declared, he was one of the first men In his community to enlist. Just now he Is almost an proud of his position as chaplain of the Frank Luke, Jr post of the American Legion as he Is of the secretaryship. h Director That's all right, old man. It's the lust scene In the picture. American Legion Weekly. Suggestions of a Doughboy. Being the suggestions of a douglt-ho- y on the manner of conducting the next war, together with certain reflections on Ui.i conduct of the lust one. writThat nil song writers, would-bers, song leaders and vaudeville singer be marked Clans That they tx drafted In the first contingent and hove at least six months' Intensive sanitary detail, etc., training at K. hefore being permitted to compose their country's song. That any person who shall write compose or sing, or attempt to write. or sing songs 'expressing rnmixiHO doi'gliboy sentltiwjit without such previous training sluTII he liable to death t and shall be sent over the top at with a lantern in each hand. American legion Weekly. e I, mid-n'gh- ifjix? AMDJfTA3JAvm jf B'llll (Carrying On With the Legion j Tyron, Neb., 20 miles from a railroad. In the lnid.it of the sandhill has dedicated a Vl.Tm Amert hall. an Legion re-do- The Legion In Massachusetts has rnlsed funds to Install a radio receiving set In each of the Mate's five hospitals where service men are lelng cared for. Free traveling libraries are being furnished Oklahoma posts of the American legion hy the department of education. The post may keep each collection of books two months. W AffricS' jem to forget the cows and chickens. TO of the 8,300 vocational trainees In he Seattle (Wash.) district of the et era rig' bo res u are taking up agriculture as their new occupation. When asked utmiit their work, these embryo farmers Invariably reply, "It's a great life." Commander 1 on ford 'MncNider of the I,cg!on has announced himself In 'avor of every Legion post adopting i troop of boy scouts or forming troops In communities where none exist. "Scouting Is the best education In America today for developing future citizens and I favor anything that tends toward Its promotion," Mr. UacNIder says. 1 ttj iMif In 1580 In Lincolnshire, England. At 16 he ran, away from school and served a year or so as a soldier In France end the Netherlands. Finding he knew nothing of the art of war he went homa and studied and planned campaigns for several months. Then he started for Transylvania, where the) Christians were fighting the Turks. On the way" his shipmates thought him a Jonah and threve him Into the sea. Smith found his way to ani other ship, engaged In a fight with a rich Venetlaflj argosy, captured It, and was rewarded with a rich purse containing $12,000 in gold as his part of thai spoil. "SHWHrfflDERSm msmwiMRifflttr By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN NCK upon a time, more than 800 was engaged In years ago, the pleasing sport of turning band springs In front of ber father's hut In that part of the present United States which our forefathers named Virginia after Elizabeth of England, the Virgin Queen. She was ten or eleven years old and her father, was head chief of the Algonqulan Indian tribes of the rea runner, came at gion. full speed through the forest with a message for the chief. He turned the corner of the hut Just as the little daughter of the chief turned one of ber fastest hand springs. The girl's flying feet struck the runner in the chest, caught bin) off bnlanv and knocked him over. A great shout of laughter rent lip from the Indians. But the chief was not pleased. He called bis little daughter to him and said sharply: "This Is not maiden's play, will you never cease to be a (torn boy) I Yes; this was Powhatan speaking to Pocahontas away back In 1607, the year of the first per manent English settlement now within the limits of the United States of America Jamestown, Va. Evidently the chiefs daughter did get over being a totn boy, for she saved Capt. John 8mltb from the executioner's stone club "When no entreaty could prevail she got his head In her arms and laid her own upon bis to save him from death." And the old record gives account of her noble conduct "when her father with the utmost of his pollcle and power sought to surprise and massacre all the whites. During the time of two or three years she. next under God, was still the Instrument to preserve this colonic from death, famine and utter confusion, which If tu those times bad been once dissolved, Virginia might have lain as It was at our first arrivall." "It Is not too much to say that, with the exception of Isabella of Castile, no woman has so greatly Influenced the destinies of the western hemisphere as the gentle, humane daughter of Towhatan," says Miss Ella Lomilne Iorsey, president of the I'ocahontas Memorial association. "The great Spanish queeu gave her Jewels thst the continents across (he ocean might t redeemed Pocahontas, from her sylvan for Christianity. kingdom, gave the Jewel of her friendship that the adventurers might live. Had she hot so acted, all the five heroic efforts of Hulelgh would hsve been void, the blood, the treasure, the hope, the g courage, the high heart and Talth of those men who were his companions would hsve passed like the smoke of a dend camp Are and left only the name of a lost colony." And yet, strsngely enough, the high brow historians seem to have dechb-- that tb saving of Opt. John Smith was a fairy story. Of course they didn't dare say I'ocahontas never lived. Yet I'ocahoatas. though every school boy knows her name, for a long time has been not much more than a tradition and her story a legend. Well, anyway, today yon can see I'ocnhonts In brne and a mighty preseuitii I'wahontas She Is too. William Onlway 1'nrtrlflge made her counterfeit presentment. It stands on Jamestown Inland, within sight of the landing place of Capt. John Smith and his s -- gov-erne- das-dln- c fellow-adventure- rs thirteen years before the coming of the Pilgrim Fathers, made the first permanent English colony In the Western world. A distinguished company Journeyed to the historic spot on the occasion of the unveiling. It Included the donors of the statue ; the officers and members of the Pocahontas Memorial association, of whom a large number were from Washington ; the officers and members of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; lineal descendants of the Intrepid Indian princess, and many notables from distant parts of the country. All wore the gay green and yellow ribbon on which, lu gold letters, was commemorated the corn which Pocahontas brought to the starving settlers and the tobacco which-watheir currency. Dr. Julian Alvln Carroll Chandler, president of William and Mary College, was chairman of the ceremonies and the student body acted as ushers. Tha Pocahontas Is no myth was attested by a group of children on each side of the statue, lineal descendants of the Indian princess, the Misses Elizabeth Epes Flckllng and Caroline Banister Baker of Washington, Harriet Nichols Garret and Aurella Huger Terry of Virginia, Masters Richard Minor Ely, Nathaniel Coleman Bryden. Frank Robertson Blackford and J. Stan ard and Lloyd Archer, Jr. Pocahontas, according to unquestioned history, was taken as a hostage to Jamestown In 1013, and baptized, receiving the name Rebecca. In 1614 she married John Rolfe. She went to England In 1616 and was made much of by the court. After a short stay she prepared to return and died of consumption Just before the sailing date. She left one son, Thomas Rolfe, from whom a number of F. F. Va claim descent. These Include some of the Randolphs, Murrays, Guys, Whittles, Elbrldges and Boilings Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, born Boiling, Is a descendant. Sr Pocahontas has come Into her own at last. And the Pocahontas Memortnl association purposes to Increase her fame In the land. The association was formed In Washington In 1005 and Incorporated In 190(1, with the pledge of commemorating the life and heroic deeds of the Indian princess by the erection of memorials such as was unveiled on Jamestown Island. The society will continue Its work In historic research and publish documents bearing on the Jamestown colony and the Indian wars of the "ra. There are about three thousand members d In this national organization and branches by regents are established In nearly all the states and Insular posseslons. In emulation of the work of the Pocahontas association the Smith's are getting ready to do somethlttg for the memory of their ancestor who should be more famous In America than he Is. It's time they did. There are but three reminders of Mm hi this country: one In the congressional library nt Washington; one In a church In Smith-fielVa, and Smith Island In Chesapeake Bay. The Captain John Smith Memorial association, with headquarters In Norfolk. Va., Is about to open a cnmpn1n to rehabilitate the memory of the savior of the Jamestown colony. For to him, quite as much as to Pocahontas, the Jamestown It Is colony owed Its escape from extinction. proposed to bring his remains to the United Htatea arid to entomb them In the old lighthouse at Cap" Henry, built In 17S. near which the first English settler landed. Near by they propose to erect an Imposing monument. Capt. John Smith wss .hurled In the obscure nothtendon,-anparish church of St. Hepu't-hreing hut a commonplace stone marks the spot. The British government has been npproHcbed on the subject of transferring the remnlns. Capt. John Smith was an adventurer of kt..o before he came to Virginia. He who, d "It's a Great Life." Proving that ftny I'aree didn't cause ceJl&tzk$&2&? New England Ma-to-a- Ernest Hall, Arizona's Secretary of State, Knew France's Idol Under Different Circumstances. When Marshal Foch visited Arizona on his recent tour of the United States as the guest or the American Le- - jf-?ion, he was oftl- - & p. Movie Director Now here Is where yon Jump off. Star I know, but suppose I'm hurt? Mr , til In his fighting against the Turk he won honor and fame and a coat of arms and his title of cap-- 1 tain. Before Ober Llmbach, In Transylvania, ha devised a strategem of lights which enabled the, Christians to annihilate half of the Infidel army.' At another time he killed and cut off the heads of three Turks In lists held before the opposing armies. Finally he was left for dead upon the. field of battle. Sold as a slave by the Turks, he was sent tot Constantinople, thence' he was sent to Russia.! There he was worked In a chain gang. One day; while threshing wheat he was exasperated by the) overseer, whereupon he beat out his brains with, a flail and escaped. So at 27 we And Bmlth starting out tor Virginia In 1607. It was the great adventure of his Ufa which gave him lnmortal fame. He was not the leader of the colonists. He was merely onet of the Important men In the party. The year be-- 1 fore the king, James L had granted a charter ta the Virginia company for the purpose of establishing trading; colonies In America. The charter ran to London and Plymouth merchants whoj divided Into two It was the London company which made tha Jamestown settlement There were great difficult ties from the start. The colonists were poorly1 selected there were "forty-eigh- t gentlemen t four carpenters." The site selected was malarialj The colonists had no stomach for work, pre ferrlng to search for gold. The Industrial sys-- t tem, under which all labored for a common store, did not encourage thrift. The government was) cumbersome and the king's appointee were Incom- petent Smith became Involved In a serious difficulty before the voyage was finished and actually landed In chains. Edward Maria Wlngfleld had charged him with mutiny. The opening of sealed Instructions showed Smith to be one of the council and he was released. Later he was given charge In December, 1607, he was capof the supplies. tured and saved by Pocahontas. He was tried fop the loss of two of his men. sentenced to death,, and only saved by the arrival of the "First Supply from England. Soon after he was elected president of the council. During the winter of 1608-0- 9 the colony nearly lost 60 out of 120 and nearly Smith saved It by perished from starvation. getting corn from the Indians. Smith sailed for England In IrtOB for treatment of a severe powder burn. He never returned to the colony. He traveled In England, preaching In 1614 he exthe colonization of America. plored the const of New England In the Merest of private adventurers, made a good mp of It and gave It Ita name. He published a ninher of books about his experiences In America, and else where from 1COS to 1B31, the year of his death. Capt. John Smith's claim to fame rests upon, the fact that It was he who kept the Jamestown colony together for two years. He was the one capable man among misfits. He drilled the sol. dlers. He compelled labor "He who will not' work will not eat" was his uiettim. He repaired, the fort, traded with Ihe Indians, kept their friendship under difficulties and made daring voyages of discovery. He actually succeeded In giving the colony the character of permanency. Because he did this, Ihe London company had the courage to keep on. A new charter was secured and Increased efforts made. Success finally crowned these efforts. There followed Ihe Pilgrims and the Puritans and English settlement o the Atlantic seaboard wns assured. With the name and fame of Pocahontas, therefore. Is Joined the name nnd fame of Capt John Smith. She saved Mm and she helped him tire the Jamestown colony, Pocnhontss In brotite at Jameetowu should be Joined by Cap). John Smith In bronze." |