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Show THE S ALIN A SUN, SAUNA, UTAH LEGIONS NATIONAL CHAPLAIN QTSffiO. Rev, )mm Ezra C. Clemans, Known Padre," Hae Seen Long Military Service. aa il Ml Every Picture Tells It was on the Mexican border that Ezra G. Clemans, national chaplain of the American Legion, won the title of which has clung to him Padre, throughout the years of the World war and up to the time of his selection as new chaplain of tlie veterans' organi(Copjr for Thu Department Supplied by the zation. American Legion News Servtza.) For 37 years, Chaplain Clemans has service to the military organizagiven LABOR AND LEGION ALLIED tions of his state and nation. He gradu-uutey from Shattuck school, a Member of Brotherhood of Locomotive academy in his home state of Engineers Decries Efforts Minnesota, in bis nineteenth year, and of Propagandists. In the same year enlisted as a private In the Faribault Guards, an organization Declaring that no two American of that city. His early training was exmovements are more thoroughly allied pected to fit him for life work us a than the American Legion and organphysician, but a visit to a revival meetized labor, Frank Weulg, a prominent ing and conversion there, led to a member of the Brotherhood of Locomochange of destiny and consecration of tive Engineers In Iowa, and senior vice his life to the clergy. commander of the Legion in that state, At the opening of the Spanish-Amer-leadecried efforts of propagandists to diwar, he becume chaplain with tlie vert the purposes of the two organized rank of captain, and served with the forces. Twelfth Minnesota regiment throughVice Commander Wenigs statement out that war. was made during the course of a joint For six months In 1916, Chaplain meeting of members of the State FedClemans spent his time with Minneeration of Labor and of the Legion in sota guardsmen on the Mexican borOttumwa, la. der. It was there that the men learned The speaker denounced the efforts of to call him Padre. At the outbreak certain interests to lead labor unions of the World war lie entered federal into the belief that the Legion men service as chaplain with the rank of were willing and would serve as strikemajor and was attached to the One breakers. He cited recent Incidents in Hundred and Thirty-sixt- h Infantry. Denver, Colo., where, in face of a On arrival overseas he became chapthreatening strike of street railway lain of the Seventh Aviation center at employees, announcement was made Aunalt, an Important air service stathat the members of the Legion would tion, later to be named as senior chapman the cars in event of a walkout. lain of the Intermediate section, S. O. This, the Legion men held as false S. On his return to the United States. Inpropaganda, emanating from capitalhe remained with the Fifty-eight- h ists who seek to forestall any alliance fantry until that organization was debetween labor and the Legion. mobilized In October, 1919. As a mem- On many questions, declared Wenlg, are the two organizations allied. He referred to the prohibition of child which both the labor, concerning American Federation of Labor and the 'American Legion announced similar 'programs by action of national conventions. He cited the policies of the two bodies as allied on the immigration question, which he said was a more serious threat against the national entity than any other, labor seeing in continued entrance of aliens a possible system of wage slavery, and the Legion anticipating a high per cent of people who were willing to live in the nation, but not to fight for it Th endorsement of the adjusted bill by the American Federa-Itloof Labor, Wenig declared, clearlj showed the sentiments of labor In I that direction, while the 20,000 made during the war were the chief opponents of the bill, he said. LEGION a Story (Conducted by National Council of tha Boy Hcouta of America ) NEW BOY SCOUT BADGE d Blind, crippled and otherwise physically handicapped boy scouts who have not been eligible to work for Merit badges because of their disabilities prevented them from fulfilling the requirements for secoud class rank and for first class raDk, whence the scout Is permitted to enter the fascinating Merit badge field, will be heartened In their advance In scout-craby the recent decision of the executive board of the national council to create an Achievement badge for physically handicapped scouts In recognition of certain requirements. The badge will permit them to take up with modification any of the 63 Merit badge subjects, which range from aviation to zoology and Include such other subjects of boy Interest as radio, wood craft, electricity, tracking, trailing, svvlmming, pacing, etc. The present decision nowise moderates or lowers the regularly prescribed standards of scouting; It rather represents a means by which physically disabled scouts may be encouraged to sernl-fuilitar- n n IS SEEKING DATA AUXILIARY Questionnaires Are Sent Out to certain Constructive Work of Past Year. y , tricts. By this survey, Mrs. Stewart hopes to determine what constructive work is outstanding in each department during the past year. Information as to methods of accomplishment of this work is also sought. According to earlier reports, specific problems have arisen in each department and information on these is sought from the states so that assistance may be afforded by national headquarters. Further data on influences working- against the organization, process and promotion of and other membership campaigns, points are requested in the question naire submitted. - Plea for Patriotism. A plea for active be- tween the American Legion posts of the nations and the schools to keep alive patriotism has been made by Superintendent James J. Reynolds of the Flatbush (L. I.) schools. In making this plea, the educator requested that the veterans organization pursue a certain course in order to encourage One of these patriotic observance. suggestions was that a Legion speaker be present at every school on pa triotic occasions, and that each new school be presented with a flag from the Legion posts because the men of that body represent a highly patriotic Superin portion of the population. tendent Reynolds further suggested that the history of each Legion post, particularly in regard to the deeds of its members in service, be presented to the schools in order that such records may be retained for patriotic study in years to come. Fined for Indecent Letter. Emil Dick, superintendent of the Barker mills at Auburn, Me., has been fined $10 by a Jury in United States District court for sending an Indecent letter through the mails to Alvin M. Owsley while the latter was national commander of the American Legion. The letter used a strong epithet in attacking. Mr. Owsley and declared the stand of the commander favoring French occupation of the Ruhr was French propaganda. Do You Suffer Constant Backache Feel Old and Worn Out? Then Follow the Advice of These Good Folks! DO YOU get to fall behind in keeping the blood-streapure, and poisons accumulate that well kidneys would have filtered off. Racking backaches come with stabbing pains; muscles and joints ache constantly; there are headaches, too, with dizziness and distressing kidney irregularites. Nerves are jumpy"; one feels old all worn out Give your weakened kidneys the help they need. Use Doan a Pillt a stimulant diuretic to the kidneys. Doan a have helped thousands. They are recommended by grateful users everywhere. Ask your neighbor! up these winter mornings m feeling tired, weak achy all over ? Are you so lame, stiff and miserable it seems you can never get back in trim? Does your back ache with a dull, constant throb? Sharp, rheumatic pains torture you at every step? Then you should be giving some attention to your kidneys! Winter, you know, is danger time for the kidneys. Thats because exposure to colds and chills wears down body resistance and throws an unusally heavy strain on the g kidneys. The kidneys are apt maximum achievement. To qualify for the Achievement badge, the scout will proceed as for second and first class rank, except that he shall also present a written application signed by a registered physician, addressed to the local court of honor, explaining the apparent physical disability which makes It Impossible for him to meet the prescribed hard-workin- Use Doans, Say These Good Folks: L. P. MILLER, carpenter, contractor, S. Main St., Manti, Utah, says: My kidneys became weak and they acted too freely. I started to have trouble with my back and when I stooped I had a catch through the lower part of it. There was a weakness in my back and I didnt feel like myself at all. I tried one box of Doans Pills and they proved to be the best remedy I ever used. They strengthened my back and kidneys. MRS. E. WARREN, First West First South St., Manti, Utah, says: I had kidney trouble and suffered with dull aches through the small of my back. Often sharp pains seized me through my back. I became so dizzy that black spots danced before my eyes. I had Bevere headaches and my kidneys acted irregularly. Doans Pills gave me wonderful results. My kidneys became normal in action and I wag soon free from all other symptoms of kidney trouble. , requirements. It Is further recommended that scouts making application for the new Achievement badge be encouraged to exercise their own Initiative and judgment in devising and passing some test within their physical capacity as evidence of their scout spirit and their eagerness to develop to the fullest their abilities. The Achievement badge Is to be In both metal and cloth. The cloth badge Is to be worn on the sleeve with any Merit badge subsequently awarded. Co., Mfg. Chemists, Buffalo, N. Y. Because of the many appealing At all dealers, 60c a box. efficient cases of deserving and scouts, displaying in their dally lives highest Ideals of scouting, but who Colorado Had Tsetse Flies. Like Laughs in Schools. This world is incorrigibly sentibecause of physical handicaps have of Several critic the severest One kind of species of tsetse flies, Insect None mental. but that songs liberty been hindered in official advancement our public schools will recognize as which today carry the germs of the In rank, the organization after special become immortal. growing is in the field we used to know African sleeping sickness, existed In and sympathetic consideration has arIn 1902 In a girls high what Is now Colorado more than a milher of the Minnesota National Guard, rived at the foregoing decision. discipline, ASPIRIN as DEMAND BAYER" 26 per cent of the lion years ago. York to In New has' been school Clemans assigned Chaplain inoffense tickets the One Hundred and Thirty-fiftif You many hundred of Take Without Tablets Fear BOY SCOUT, HEALTH WORKER read Reported to the principal for See the Safety Bayer Cross. fantry. Last week, says a writer laughing. During the World war. Chaplain A garbage can became the unusual Warning! Unless you see the name In Worlds Work, I saw a teacher disClemans Is said to have preached to more men than any other chaplain in theme for special appreciation of the Bayer on package or on tablets you play a check slip marked full of rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness the A. E. F. He was well known for scout spirit In a recent account by the are not getting the genuine Bayer Ls." caused by Catarrh. turn. scout a York of New good Mall, millions and his visits to the sick. One of his traits Aspirin proved safe by Whats this? Sold by druggist, for over 40 ytan A lady of the tenements, relating prescribed by physicians for 23 years. is a faith in service men, to whom he Thats tlie number of laughs I was F. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohio J. was loaned thousands of dollars which the Incident, says: Yestlddy morning Say Bayer when you buy Aspirin. able to induce in my English class this I answered Adv. when an Imitations bell the month. prove may repaid. dangerous. rang invariably SAVE YOUR EYES! His career in civil life is equally as there stood a little fellow in a brow-Dee Ir. Thompson's Kyewater ' at yourdrmyjUtsor The author whose books are popular We must maintain a true and un- 1167 Buy prominent as that in the military. He suit with a colored handkerchief Hlver. Troy N. r. Booklet. Methodist a of is at present pastor round his neck. Say, he says, you enough for a paper cover can afford to swerving adherence to promises and W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. church in Owatonna, Minn., which pascovenants. got a garbage pall out on the curb cover himself with broadcloth. torate follows a long and useful servthats slopping over, without a cover ice to his church. Shortly after enteron It. You ought to have a larger one. Well, I told the kid that we ing the ministry he became district superintendent, and was one of a group didnt have any too much money, and of pioneers who brought about conwhat we did have didnt go to buy struction of 30 new churches in the garbage pails every time some fresh state. Chaplain Clemans was field repkid wanted us to. But, you see, he resentative for the board of confersays, Im a boy scout and Im trying ence claimants of tlie M. E. church, to a Merit badge In public health. which helped to make available a fund Now that pail of yours is open, so the of $10,000,000 for the care of retired flies can get Into it; then they fly mother who permits constipation in her baby or older ministers, their widows and orphans. straight into your house and walk all is risking the health, even the life of her little one. life his of recountal According to his over the stuff you eat with their dirty work he also had a prominent part in feet Besides, Its against the law. It must be remembered that an infant is helpless, unable to tell in Minnesota. league no I that I but have Im sorry, says, constipation is making its life miserable. Consequently In the Legion he become affiliated with to get one. He looked at me the mother must be able to recognize signs of constipation in money Calhoun post In Minnesota In 1919. He a minute without saying a word and her baby. Convulsions, night terrors, grinding the teeth in sleep, was elected chaplain of Owatonna post off. I forgot about It enwent then feverishness, fretfulness and such symptoms any of these may on acceptance of the pastorate in that This morning the bell rang tirely. indicate that poisons from baby's stagnant intestine are floodcity, and held the office of department again, and there stood the kid holding ing the little body. Chaplain chaplain during that new pall in his hand. Here, he Clemans was one of the supporters of In older children biliousness, coated tongue, loss of appetite says, shoving It at me, the fellows In the Chaplains assothe mother that constipation is present. Constipation, warn to want me to give this you. ciation within tlie ranks of the Legion, my troop unchecked in youth, may lead to serious consequences. In Then In it. and all We got chipped and has many achievements to his be got all red In the face, saluted and constipation, according to intestinal specialists, lies the primary credit in sponsoring the work of the of all illness, including the ran cause of more than away. organization both in his own post and life. of If kid. all them diseases bless God the boy gravest throughout the state. scouts Is like that, they're all right. Laxatives Only Aggravate Constipation Finds Jobs for Many Veterans. mother should not resort to laxatives. A noted authority The NUMEROUS for TURNS GOOD found SCOUT A total of 4,194 Jobs were says that laxatives and cathartics do not overcome constipation veterans in Kansas City, Mo., by tlie a Amerito but is do scout Each boy by their continued use tend only to aggravate the condition pledged employment committee of the a million and half often lead to permanent injury. and deed can Legion, according to a recent redaily, good port submitted to tlie organization. At good deeds in unison may reverberate Why Physicians Favor Lubrication to the very portals of St. Peters gate. least 400 of the men thus employed a can result as Half a million youngsters who are in permanent positions Medical science, through knowledge of the intestinal tract kindof an act of the Legions efforts in placement. spontaneous perform observation, has found in lubrication a means of gained by According to the figures nearly 1,000 ness without a thought of a forthcomovercoming constipation. The gentle lubricant, Nujol, penetrates of the positions found for the former ing tip would be worth a great deal, and softens thehard food waste and hastens its passage through if there were nothing n.ore. The ea service men were permanent pos.tions, and out of the body. Thus Nujol brings internal cleanliness. the remainder representing tlie gerness with which youngsters Join Jobs which are usually afforded the boy scout organization and tlie loyNot a Medicine fo re important Than veterans of more or less transient alty with which they uphold the scout Nujol is used in children's and general hospitals and is prescribed boap and Water These Jobs, committee character. banner, are testimony to one of the by physicians throughout the world. Nujol is not a medicine or members declare, have permitted ninny remarkable social achievements of relaxative and cannot gripe. Like pure water it is harmless. bemen to retain their Port Townsend (Wash.) cent jears. cause the work forestalled requests Leader. Let your infant or child have Nujol regularly and see rosy for charity or relief. cheeks, clear eyes and happiness return once more. A SCOUT IS BRAVE FELL Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys Foster-Milbu- m h As- In order to determine the needs for development of the organization, officials of the American Legion Auxiliary have sent out questionnaires to various departments of the organization. These particularly affect the program of the Womens stand-borganization with regard to the assistance to be rendered the veterans association. Mrs. Jennie Stewart, of Bartlesville, Okla., vice president for the southern district, was the first to send out this questionnaire, though the course will Immediately be followed by others in charge of the work in respective disj Winter Find You Tired and Achy? ft Halls Catarrh Medicine Teach your child internal cleanliness -- n w-i- THE k Anti-Saloo- n 1921-192- newly-organize- d three-quarte- X-ra- short-tim- rs y e . t, Mrs. Pershings Birthplace. A marker denoting the place of the birth of the mother of Gen. John J. Pershing has been erected near Maryville, Tenn., by American Legion members of that state. The tablet is on the site of the old log cabin which served as the home of the leaders mother. A special ceremony, participated In by many prominent Legionnaires and Tennesseeans, marked the dedication. The tenth scout law Brave" hap a touching little Illustration In a story reported from a PittsAs the nurse was burgh hospital. boy patient bringing a out of the anaesthetic after a serious operation, she found lying In the palm of the lads right hand n scrap of crumpled paper. Strnlghten'ng out the scrap to see If It had any hear Ing on the lads welfare, she rend the "A Scout Is twelve-year-ol- Get rid of constipation and avoid disease by adopting the habit of internal cleanliness. Take Nujol yourself as regularly as you brush your teeth or wash your face. For sale by all druggists. "Vrgularat aawwr d words, scrawled In a hoylsii hand Scout Is Brave. A RE 6. U-- PAT. OFF. For Internal Cleanliness |
