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Show LEGION (Copy for This Department Supplied by th American Lesion News Service. ) ARKANSAS POSTS WERE BUSY Review of Activities of Past Year Shows Legion Aims to Be of General Service. A convincing refutation of occasional occa-sional slurs at the American Legion on the grounds that the organization does not represent the war veterans and promotes only its own selfish interests is contained in a review of the work of Arkansas Legion posts in the last year. In that time, the department of Arkansas, under the leadership of 0. L. Bodenhamer, then department commander, com-mander, pushed forward rapidly in both membership and activities and now stands as a recognized force in the national organization. How the community is being helped by the Legion is demonstrated by the record of many Arkansas posts. Members Mem-bers of the Lake Village and Eudora posts, during recent high water, patrolled pa-trolled the levee night and day, saving considerable property from damage. The Stuttgart post is now planning a new home, which, when completed, will house the town library. Warren post has one of the foremost buildings in the community as its home, and 1 becoming an influential factor In civic betterment. Texarkana post has added much to cummunity spirit by its successful suc-cessful conduct of the town baseball park during the last season, and the Fort Smith post is active in education- , al and welfare work. Several of the posts have been Instrumental In-strumental in obtaining suitable war memorials. A Legion cemetery Is be- : ing maintained by the Jonesboro post Paragould post is erecting a monument for the Greene county veterans. Blythe-Ville and Marlanna poBts started start-ed the movement to honor the memory mem-ory of Herman Davis, America's greatest great-est war hero, with appropriate monuments mon-uments as well as scholarships at the University of Arkansas. Hot . Springs post has handled the cases of a large number of veterans who, hearing of the health-giving waters, wa-ters, went to the springs without sufficient suffi-cient funds. At Russellville, the Legion Le-gion is planning classes in parliamentary parliament-ary law, Americanism, military funerals, fu-nerals, etc., for the benefit of veterans. vet-erans. All of the posts are doing similar sim-ilar work for ex-service men, regardless regard-less of their affiliation. |