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Show I Carrying On With the I : American Legion j The mayor of Wena tehee, Wash., the county sheriff and till his deputies are members of the local post of the Legion. Dr. A. A. Van Dyke, St. Paul, Minn., member of the national executive committee, com-mittee, has been elected commander of the Minnesota department lo succeed A. H. Vernon, Little Falls. More than 100 movie stars, members of Hollywood, Cal., post of the American Ameri-can Legion, will attend the reunion of the Ninety-first division at Los Angeles, An-geles, September 24 and 25. At least 11 bands from Missouri will attend the national convention of the American Legion at Kansas City, October 30, 31 and November 1. St. Louis will send a band of 100 p'""es. More than one-eighth of the population popula-tion c- Radcllffe, la., Is enrolled In thi American Legion. The town has 100 service men out of a population of 800, every one of whom belongs to the local post. To teach children proper love and respect for Old Glory, state school leaders and a committee from th American Legion are writing a simple, impressive ceremony to be followed In every school room. When violence was threatened against Mrs. Ida Crouch Hazlett, socialist so-cialist speaker at Des Moines, la., recently, re-cently, a group of American Legion men seized her and carried her to n police station for protection. Her sympathizers sym-pathizers at first believed she was being kidnaped. A meat cutter Is the commander, a railroad switchman the vice commander comman-der and a bank clerk the adjutant of the American Legion post at Harlow-ton, Harlow-ton, Mont., which has the largest percentage per-centage of potential membership In the state. In a village of 2,500, the post has a 32-plece band. - Citizens of Ephrata, Wash., had been discussing a city park for years. One Sunday morning the local post of the American Legion turned out In force with wagons, shovels, rakes and pick and before the church bells rang had ground prepared for the park. The citizens will complete the work and stop discussions. President Harding's call for a world conference on disarmament this fall is expected by officials In charge of the third annual national convention of the American Legion in Kansas City, October 30, 31, and November 1, to Insure the presence of a number of distinguished foreign generals at the Legion convention. There is no railroad, no post office, not even a town. But there is a thrlv-1 thrlv-1 ing post of the American Legion In a farming locality 15 miles northwest of Paige, N. D. The men meet every week in a different farm house to hold socials and dances. The farmers of the area are furnishing the Legion posts with funds to erect a conimu-nlty conimu-nlty house. Following representations made to the United States Civil Service commission com-mission by the American Legion, disabled dis-abled veterans of the World war who have undergone training by the federal fed-eral board for vocational education will be allowed to enter examinations for any government position for which they have been trained if application is made within GO days after completion comple-tion of training. Admiral Sir David Beatty, first sea lord of Great Britain, will attend the American Legion convention In Kansas City, Oct. 30, 31, and Nov. 1, according accord-ing to a cable received by the convention conven-tion committee from Ambassador Harvey Har-vey In London. Admiral Beatty, fifty years old, is called the "infant prodigy" prodi-gy" of England's naval forces. He was the youngest captain and the youngest admiral. To jog the memories of member of congress deliberating on legislation for the disabled service men of America, Amer-ica, James C. Russell, member of Blackhawk post, the American Legion, Chicago, recently sent a picture postcard post-card to all of them. It showed a soldier, sol-dier, severely wounded In action near St. Souplet, France, Oct. 19, 1918, being be-ing helped from the battlefield by two hospital corps men, and smiling. Wherever there are Americans, there is a baseball diamond. It cost the Ketchikan (Alaska) post of the American Legion $3,500 to construct a ball diamond upon which teams could play between the Alaska rains. Gaines start at six o'clock In the evening, eve-ning, and continue until midnight. A Legion baseball team recently spent "4 hours on a gas boat to go from Sitka to Juneau to play a game od schedule. Seattle, Wash., where the Bolsheviks Bolshe-viks tried nut their first American soviet government and met Ole Hanson, Han-son, now is in the hands of the American Amer-ican Legion, The state's lieutenant izo-.eu.or. tne mayor of the city, th aruirMoy general, the prosecuting attorney at-torney ami tu;o city counciimen are mcnliers of Rainier-Noble post of the I Legion. The city's police force like I wiso is well representor' In the pos' j membership. j |