Show AMERICAN copy or till department supplied by tb legion new service HONOR TO MINNESOTA WOMAN dr helen hughes Hl elscher is chosen state president of auxiliary of legion approximately four hundred delegates fr sn all parts of minnesota at tended the first elate convention of the auxiliary of the american legion in minneapolis the meeting marked the beginning tot the national organization of the auxiliary which Is expected ultimately to bind together about ten million women the mothers alves sisters and daughters of former service men of the world war the delegates at the minnesota conference represented about efiem bers of the units of the auxiliary in that state the convention adopted a state constitution ution modeled after the tentative constitution previously used by auxiliary units and voted to dedicate themselves to the cardinal principles of the legion officers elected were dr helen president mrs E A lewis first vice president mrs myrtle getz second vice president mrs 0 B de laubler Laur ler historian mrs george C barber representative on the national executive committee miss pauline representing the organization division of national headquarters addressed the corn en lion outlining the plans and alms of llie organization kansas members of the auxiliary will hold their state convention january 10 and 11 and other states are expected to take similar action in the near future WARSAW POLAND HAS POST all members arc ex service men now on duty with the american red cross A post of the american legion with 10 members has been formed in war aw poland all the members are ex bervice men who are now on duty with the american red cross the post nas n as organized by charles of new richmond als head of the publicity department of the red cross in arsaw and has the following oell cers II 11 n nail of mcdonald pa commander leed bowe of McA IlAi rex adjutant frank R mckannay Mc of richmond me treasurer commander hall who served in france with the three hundred and seventh supply train Is chief of stores or the red cross in poland rowe who was in the medical detachment tt medical train no in france went to poland a year ago with the united states army typhus expedition posts of the legion also are now being formed in jerusalem palestine and in peking china MOST POPULAR AT CARNIVAL marle balzarina nl carries off honors at contest conducted by windsor terrace post brooklyn miss marie balzarina nl of brooklyn N Y was voted the most popular girl in a contest held during a weeks carnival of windsor terrace post of the american legion the popularity c 0 n test which Is becoming a favorite pastime among eastern posts of the american legion has been the means of boost tug the financial standing ot several posts aa well as affording amusement for the members and their friends NO TIME FOR BLUE LAWS indications are that legion national officers will not take post alve stand blue law agitation Is apparently obnoxious to a large number of mem bers of the american legion according to expressions of opinion received in letters at national headquarters national officers have been called upon to take a positive stand particularly against those who would do away with the cigarette aa individual citizens and voters our membership can support or oppose what it sees fit said one national officer of the leafon so long as they conform to our national constitution I 1 think the veteran however Is against intolerance the national organization of the I 1 eglon has no time for this controversy tro versy however we have our hands full in our effort to make life what it should be for the disabled NEGLECT OF DISABLED MEN legions investigation shows lack of attention to men who suffered terrors of war investigations by the american legion reveal ing conditions of mis management and neglect in the governments ern ments treatment of disabled let erans according to reports of the legions findings made public by F W galbralth jr national commander con mander the legion has launched a nation wide fight for the correction ot these condl alons which mr galbralth has described as a blot and a disgrace on the name of our country more than veterans are still in hospitals suffering from wounds and infirmities suffered in their count rys service many 0 them have been there since they were brought back from france on the hospital ships their number Is increasing at the rate of 2 a month due mostly to the development of tuberculosis among men who were gassed statistics show that more than nun were discharged with disability rated higher than 10 per cent experts agree that the peak in ft not come for five or ten years yet government hospitals at present are filled to overflowing and even contract arrangements range ments are not being made rapidly enough to care for the ever rising tide of disabled men whose conditions demand certainly there Is no lack of willingness lin gness on the part of the american public to do all in human power to aid those who paid the price for the victory the same experts who estimate that the peak of the problem will not come for five or ten years say in the meantime must be spent in its solution the government has not been niggardly more than already has been spent mis management Is the gist of the legions charge lack of vision and foresight and the ever present governmental red tape Is blamed as responsible for the death of disabled men before aid could reach them for the incarceration of disabled in jails and insane asylums and the charity wards of public hospitals where they received the same treatment as haupers paupers in addition to its activities in advocating reform in the conduct of the government bureaus the american legion has dedicated itself to the tremendous task of humanizing the dreary lives of disabled buddies who are parents in the hospitals all over the country every legion post in this country has been assigned to the definite job of taking care of a certain hospital where former service men are patients the women s auxiliary also will be to share in the work and civic and philanthropic organizations in the hospital towns will be enlisted there Is also the dangerous that the hospital patients re day after day with no interest other than their physical condition will become bitter against the country which once honored them and ahl h apparently has cast them aside in several hospitals bolshevist agents have distributed inflammatory literature by ingenious methods of which an example Is the inclosure of the printed matter in bouquets of flowers in one case discovered by legion in the propaganda was en titled you fought for america and what did you get out of it and in deed it does seem that the sick veteran got little out of it except a short period of popularity the consciousness of having done his duty and a maimed and diseased body the who are their buddies said the legions national commander and are banded together in the american legion are determined that the hundred million shall not torget in this work of giving the disabled man a fair deal and making him content we shall ask the operation cooperation co of every loyal american we fought together and ve will stick together WOULD STEER SHY OF CAMERA colonel whittlesey leader of lost battalion backs off from mo tion picture machine although colonel whittlesey an ac member of the american legion led the famous lost battalion through the argonne and was one of the 54 americans who won the blue rosette of the con gressional gress lonal medal of honor he told fatty arbudkle Arbu dile that he would be scared to death it placed before a motion picture camera you can starve a man you can wound him with bullets said colonel during a recent to a hollywood movie studio with the portly comedian but you cant dim his love for the movies just a few hours after my bivs of the three hundred and infantry had landed in a safe billeting area on being relieved from their perilous position the whole bunch were in a Y hut watching a five reel comedy in these days whoa the boss here asked a traveling salesman as he stopped at a farm with a set of the worlds best literature in 12 volumes lie Is replied the man at the door wearily pointing to the hired roan loafing bird in a field I 1 m only tola i legion |