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Show WHAT THE LEGION IS DOING Reno (Nev.) Editor, on Eike Ride Through Country, Spreads News of the Posts. Traveling 325 miles a day, and camping at night by the roadside, Donald Don-ald F. Chase, twenty-one years old, recently re-cently passed through Middle Western cities on a bicycle from Reno, Nev., to Syracuse, N. Y. Young Chase's family lives at Syracuse Syra-cuse and, as a vacation from his duties as city editor of the Nevada State Journal, the energetic lad decided he would ride through and see his mother. The Reno American Legion saw a chance to do some worth-while advertising. adver-tising. So arrangements were made whereby Chase should speak before 110 Legion posts on his way across the continent. At first lie spoke only of what the Reno posts of the Legion and ' the Nevada state department are doing, do-ing, hut later lie found that he could he of greater service by telling each post of all the good things that other posts along his route are doing. The young galling gun which he carried with him saw service when an automobile driver ran into his bicycle near Topeka, Kan., and then refused to slop to see what damage had been done. Chase put a bullet in a tire and then made (he driver haul him and his bike to town. "One doesn't realize just what the American Legion is doing until he visits vis-its Legion posts and sees the efforts of these posts to improve their communities," com-munities," he said. |