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Show MINIS Rev. I H. tK is rOST G. LEADER Former Scoggins, GAINS 8 POUNDS IN TWO WEEKS TIME BOY Buck Private, Head" Strong American Legion Organization. Dyspepsia Entirely Overcome and She Eats, Sleeps and Feels Better Than in Years, Says Boston Resident. Texas county somewhat larger than the state of Rhode Island has A been discovered which contributed no commissioned officer to the World war, far This Department by the American Legion News Supplied Service ) (Copy MEUSE SWAM UNDER M. In the fighting In France Sergt. M. Waldo Hatler of Joplin, Mo., swam the Meuse river under fire after a com. rade had perished the In a The shavetail. highest ranking In the FIRE Waldo Hatler of Joplin, Mo., Wears Medals for World War Bravery. Sergt. attempt, landed within the German lines and explored their positions thoroughly and swam hack even not county Is a mer sergeant of ordnance. The commander of the local Legion post at Moran, the county seat, is Rev. H. G. truck driver, Methodist Scoggins, minister and former buck private of lie was a corporal once, Infantry. but like the Immortal Mulvaney, he was rejuced. Under his leading the Moran post has a membership in the county 1)0 per cent of possible. CHAIR American the command. For this he has received the croce di guerra of Italy, the equivalent of the French crolx de guerre. Ilatler met Gen. Armando Diaz, commander In chief of the Italian armies In the World war, at the third national convention of the American Legion in Kansas City. After this meeting the Italian decoration was presented at a special ceremony In The Missourian also wears Joplin. the American Medal of Honor and the French croix de guerre. P. OF V. FORTY AND FOR THE COMMANDER Elaborate Reed Piece, Gift to From the Department of the Philippines. Mac-Nide- r, A chair of woven reeds that will sustain the weight of half a dozen men now ornaments the office of Commander Hanford MacNIder of the American Legion, as a gift from the Department of the Philippines. It is modeled on the throne of a Moro the chair never felt a painter's brush, It is built up In a bright color scheme that is the gift of the sun Itself. Split bamboo and Rail- way Station OF THE CANAL ZONE Miss Viola Bissell Wins Contest Sponsored by American Legion Department of Panama. Bamboo Chair in Natural Colors. carefully chosen reeds were selected in the course of the tropical summer for their varying shades. These were assembled at Manila and woven into a great chair without nails, pegs or paint. The workmanship is elaborate and Oriental in design. The "Queen of the Canal Zone has been chosen through an election sponsored by the American Legion, o f department Defends the Negro. His appointment of a negro boy to Annapolis naval academy Is defended by Representative Martin Ansorge of New York as a matter of Justice to the contest was trict, and in recognition of the valor and patriotism of the 500,000 colored hoys In the United States service in the World war. The appointee, Emile Treville Holley, is a freshman in the College of the City of New York. Harvard university makes no discrimination against negroes, and there are several posts in the American Pana m a. The won by Miss Viola Bissell witli S00 votes. Acto tier cording e n t h u s ia s t 1 c site is subjects of the true American type, tall, blonde and athletic. The Iana-ojan- s 7, large colored of his population Legion. Slightly Deficient. Here's one that has leaked out of au O. T. C. after a couple of yeurs or so : A young man, a good soldier, but was up sadly lacking in book-Iarnifor a commission- - He staggerod through part of the examination to the increasing bedevilment of tfie officers in charge, but when it came to geographical questions his Ignorance was limitless. Finally one of the officers, after listening to a piece of astounding misinformation, jumped to his feet and thundered: My sainted aunt's black cat! Here you arc stiy you want to defend your country and, by the whiskers of a ring-toemonkey, you dont even American Legion know where it Is! Weekly. d Middle West National Cemetery. the prairies of the Platte river in Nebraska is located the only national cemetery in the Middle West that of Fort McPherson. Here under the cottonwoods and evergreens of the plains lie the dead of the American wars of the west. Reiently 15 of the World war dead from France have been hurled there by Fort McPherson post of the American Legion. On 301 of the earlier grave markers Is the single word, Unknown. On We Aim to Please." Convict No. 7111 hear Bill the Mugg is out again and that hes the guy In Chi most popular hold-ucago. Convict 117 Yeah. He always gives the victims back car fare, so now he gets the cream of the trade. Amert can Legion Weekly. p lOMiimiilUMMttMMiHIMMWUtlMWMM j Carrying On With the American I Legion Hundreds of the small were used to sweep the clear of mines during the he put on the scrap pile, a states. t t craft that North sea war are to navy order Ten dollars a month for each months service, with 25 per cent ad- ditional for overseas service, is to be paid World war veterans of Maryland by the state. The veterans of the Hattie of Washington during the World war are being rapidly scattered. The latest order transfers 19S officers out of the capital city. draft Reorganization of war-timbonrds to assist the Legion In finding Jobs for service men has been proposed by Dr. John Grier Ilibhen, president of Irinceton university, e eanvnss of IndiIn a ana cities, Iloosier Legionnaires interviewed 130.000 former service men and women and listed 1,500 cases involving disability, compensation and lost Liberty bonds. house-to-hous- S. frauds. At the same time Mr. Daugherty announced the creation of a special tribunal within the department of Justice, which will constitute a board of review to determine whether to proceed with or abandon suits, according to the probability of success. Mr. Thomas, the attorney general said, will sit with him on this tribunal, together with such other special counsel as have been or may be employed In the different cases, as they come up for consideration, so that there will he at all times a complete and thorough centralization of departmental knowledge with respect to every step that Is taken or contemplated In the preparation of these war contract cases. Mr. Hoover will be associated with United States Attorney Peyton Gordon of the District of Columbia. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gordon, the announcement said, will work on the fraud cases with equal authority. Mr. Thomas will bring to the department of Justice, Mr. Daugherty said, an unusual and exact experience in precisely those matters which will now come before him in his new capacity, some of the most important phases of his work while In the senate having dealt with these matters in some of their aspects. The plan of organization, Mr. Daugherty said, contemplates division of the work under five special assistants having in charge all cases in the respective fields of aviation, camps and cantonments, foreign expenditures, quartermaster corps and ordnance. Bottomley Sent to Prison for Fraud Iloratlo Bottomley, member of parliament and publisher of the weekly, John Bull, was dis- o declare her famous smile would win in any contest over any of the beauties of America or Europe. C. S. Thomas to Assist in Fraud Cases Thomas of Colorado, a Democrat (portrait herewith) has been appointed by Attorney General Daugherty one of the special assistants of the attorney general to aid in the prosecution of war Sous Chef de Chemin de Fer tionale des 40 et Iluit Chevaux. This means In EnNational glish, QUEEN Officials of agricultural and farm organizations who are mobilizing here to fight the recommendations asserted that they have assurances from Secretary Wallaces closest friends that he will not wait for congress to act on the proposals to cut up the Department of Agriculture, but will submit his resignation as an emphatic demonstration of his opposition to the plan and as part of the organized effort to induce congress not to sanction the transfers. Secretary Wallace has made no public statement, but he Is known to hnve protested vigorously to the President against the transfer of the roads, forestry and markets bureaus, but has not been summoned by the President as yet for a final conference on this phase of the reorganization committees report. President Harding Is understood to be in favor of the transfers. Former Senator Charles EIGHT Agent of the 40 Men and Eight But In Horses. A. E. F. patois It stands for vice president of the Forty and Eight, the L e g I o n's Roughhouse club, named after the little French boxcars built to carry 40 men or eight horses." This imposing title is borne by C. E. Cronkite of Los Angeles, Cal., formerly first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-secon- d field fjignal battalion. protest. chieftain. Though E. Cronkite of Los Angeles Is Second in Command of Legion Roughhouse Club. Assistant If President Harding accepts and sends to congress recommendations of the government reorganization commission transferring the bureau of roads and the bureau of forestry to the Department of the Interior and the bureau of markets to the Department of Commerce, Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace, his associates declare, will resign from the cabinet in e William Strother, Houston, Tex., World war veteran sojourning in A. E. F. scenes in Iaris, France, wants to clind) Eiffel tower, a feat never yet accomplished. for the benefit of a French veterans' organization. The Legion's campaign for Jobless soldiers was aided materially by a Detroit (Mich.) court Judge who, finding all Jury panels exhausted, directed obb that unemployed tained for Jury service at $4 a day. anti-Americ- found guilty in Old Bailey court of the fraudulent conversion of 150,000 ($000,000) and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. It was said he might also he expelled from the house of commons. The jury deliberated for less than half an hour, reaching its decision on the first ballot. Mr. Bottomley announced that he would appeal, hut he was denied hail nnd was removed Immediately to Brixton prison. After the armistice Mr. Bottomley organized victory premium bond clubs, selling certificates and promising high rates of interest. The defendant was rightly convicted by the Jury for a long series of said the judge. The poor frauds, people trusted him, hut lie robbed them of 1 50.0(H) in ten months. The clime was aggravated by the defendant's high position and tiie number and quality of his victims and his callous effrontery. I see no mitigation and sentence him to penal servitude for seven years. Bottondeys publication, John Bull, has been noted for Its frequent and vehement attacks on America and things American. Reed May Sit in Senate Seat of Knox WMitrfWHmtiiimimiimimnitirtinHiwiiitMWnimiiifiiiiiimimmiiiiiinMiMXiiimimmiHHimiiHmimmwiwm'emwiiinimnitHiHmiitiiiinvhiiiiimwmmtmiomiiftviifiimiimttimimiiHmiwimit nwminiwimmHiii(nwwmmi inwmnuwiiminmmnnntniiHiiiinnMnnmiMnimmniummwininn,mHii4mmuHimimninmimnmemmoinMimt,i,, iwnmiaiiii.iin- Here Is an MaJ. David A. Reed, a - World war, who was nominated by the Republicans in the recent Pennsylvania primaries to fill the unexpired term in the senate made by the death of Former Senator Knox. If elected, Major Reed will lie one of the hahy senators, for lie is only forty-twyears old, a brilliant lawyer (Conducted by National Council Scout of America.) TO tt the Boy WITH SCOUTS , Alvin M. Owsley, director of the National Americanism commission of the American Legion met recently in conference with the executive officers of the Boy Scouts of America at their national headquarters, New York city, to develop plans for an Intensive effort on the part of the American Legion to strengthen the work of the Boy Scouts of America throughout the United States. Mr. Owsley explained that pursuant to the action of the national convention at Kansas City, and following recent personal Investigation by the national commander, Hanford MacNIder, the American Legion would Immediately begin the development of a plan whereby the American Legion posts In all communities where there are not Boy Scouts would be asked to sponsor the organization of a troop, and in other communities to with existing troops in the strengthening of their work. Already the American Legion has sponsored the organization of 50 troops. Commander MacNIder has Issued a strong appeal to all Legion posts to with the local councils and various troops throughout the country, and has suggested the Idea of posts adopting one or more troops, especially in those neighborhoods where the boy lives. The American Legion now lias 11,000 posts, organized in all parts of the United States, The Boy Scouts of America lias 1S.OOO troops organized In 4,700 different communities. There are 6,000 communities in the United States which do not have any troops, and It is hoped by the officers of the Boy Scout of America, through the of the American Legion, to especially reach these communities. It was explained by the chief scout executive, James E. West, that for the most part these communities are in the rural parts of the country where there has been a lack of resources In developing the leadership necessary to secure the troop committee and scoutmaster, and the Boy Scouts of America for this reason are particularly appreciative of the interest of the American Legion In undertaking this extension of their program. At the present time the membership of the Boy Scouts of America numbers 410,000 boys and 110,000 men giving service on a volunteer basis. It is hoped by with the American Legion this membership will be substantially Increased within the next year. under-privilege- d Too young yet to be admitted to a scout troop, Reeve Geary of Far Rockaway lias nevertheless done everything in his power to get ready for the great event, when his next birthday warrants Ills debut into the movement for which he cherishes so ardent an enthusiasm. lie had nearly committed to memory the official scout handbook, particularly the chapter which deals with first aid and life saving, and hero tales of boy scouts thrilled him to tiie marrow. And then, all of a sudden, before he could don the coveted scout uniform, he found himself called upon to do a deed which for would have done credit to any eagle scout. This d Is what happened. Reeve and his brother, John, together with two other youngster were playing on tiie shore at the foot of Clinton avenue, Jamaica Bay Reeve was on the beach while the other three clambered about in a motor boat which was anchored near oy. Suddenly to his horror, he saw John lurch over feet first into the deep water. Instantly Reeve was in the boat. Calling to his brother not to be afraid, he hung his legs over the edge of the boat Into the water telling the younger lad to catch on to him. But John was too frightened to heed instructions and Instead of getting hold of his brothers feet went down into the water. Reeve dived after him and as soon as he came to the surface got him to shore, with the help of his companions. True to tiie scout ideals, though he isnt yet a scout, Reeve told no one but his parents about the accident. eleven-year-ol- d eight-year-ol- o and a soldier who rendered conspicuous service In France. lie is a son of Judge Janies II. Reed, the former partner of Knox, and when he had graduated from Princeton, in 2 1)00, he was admitted into this firm, the leading law firm in Pittsburgh. Major Reed served In the Three Hundred and Eleventh lield artillery, organized in the anthracite regions, proved a remarkable organizer nnd executive, and took part In t he fighting at Verdun and in the Argonne. He was a member of the allied economic commission. His conspicuous service in Pennsylvania was rendered in 1912, when Governor Tener appointed him chairman of the industrial accidentl commission. lie Is a member of the American Legion. SCOUT SAVES Not Custodians. At the town meeting of a small place up country" a citizen made a motion that was seconded In an astonishing ci way. Mr. Moderator, he suld, I move that the town set aside money for three cuspidors to be stationed at proper places. 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