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Show Carrying Cn With t!ie j; American Legion . . . J Lemuel Bolles of Senttle, Wash., lins been elected national adjutant of the American Leeiun for his third term. Yellow Medicine Is the tenth county coun-ty In Minnesota to make "American Legion Day" a regular event of its county fair. "The Pajama Gazette"' Is the name of a publication edited by the disabled soldiers of Asbury hospital at Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, Minn. "Say It with Jobs" Is the slogan adopted by the American Legion In Chicago In its campaign to aid unemployed un-employed ex-service men. The bodies of Gunmar Dahl and Da-vld Da-vld Thor, "pals," killed In France by the same shell, were buried in the same grave in their native Illinois town. New Orleans will be the scene of the 1922 national convention of the American Legion. The Southern city guaranteed $100,000 for defraying ex- penses of the meeting. Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee, Wis., has vetoed a resolution of the city council Indorsing the work of the American Legion In finding positions for jobless ex-service men. A monumental building to be erected In Washington in memory of the National Na-tional Guardsmen who gave their lives in the World war, has been suggested by Maj. Gen. George C. Rickards, chief of th militia bureau of the War departmental The growth of the American Legion Is shown by the organization of 1,050 new posts in 1920-21. Many new posts were organized by American ex-serv-fce men in foreign countries and today to-day the sun never sets on the American Amer-ican Legion. The daisy has been adopted by the American Legion as its official flower. The poppy, which has been popular with Legionnaires because of its association associ-ation with Flanders, was voted out because be-cause It was not an American flower and could not be obtained In large quantities. The employment of jobless ex-service men to assist the police In com- j uuuiig Lite uoutup nieu tuts ueeu utj-gun utj-gun in Lincoln, Neb. The plan was evolved following a series of robberies in the residential district of the city. The mayor and chief of police of Lincoln Lin-coln have indorsed the plan. Following a reception for him at Kansas City, staged by 50,000 members mem-bers of the American Legion, Marshal Foch, who came to America as the Legion's guest, declared that although Washington and New York were the head of the United States he was certain cer-tain Kansas City was the heart. The original post of the American Legion, George Washington Post No. 1, lost no time In signing Marshal Foch as a member. The generalissimo generalis-simo was met at the station at Washington, Wash-ington, D. O., on the day of his arrival ar-rival in America and presented with a membership card and a ceremonial badge of the L'eglon. the corn-cob pipe. When his special train was stopped at Washington, Mo., oo its way to Kansas City, he was presented with a box of the Missouri product. Later, while he was attending attend-ing the American Legion convention, he was offered a cigar, but he declined in favor of the corn-cob "furnace." More than 30,000 bodies of Americans Ameri-cans who died in France during the World war will rest forever In the sacred soil near the battlefields, Secretary Sec-retary of War Weeks declared In a recent letter to the American Legion at Washington. A total of 43,070 bodies have been returned to the United Uni-ted States, according to the war secretary. secre-tary. "If you will walk down Main street, U. S. A.," writes George F. Kearny In a widely published magazine article, "you will come to a building which houses the American Legion post of the town. It Is the most democratic Institution that cm be found and the disf-ussions of Hie post are worthy of the closest study as an Index of the future." t A survey recently conducted by the American Legion shows that between flOO.000 and 700,000 service men are out of employment In tho United States. The East has a grealer percentage per-centage of jobless men than any other oth-er set:ion of the country, with ."0,000 former soldiers, sailers and marines in New York alone, without regular employment, many In actual want. Police officials of lown are Invest!, gating the writing of threatening letters let-ters to several members of the American Amer-ican Legion In Iowa. The letters are believed to he the work of I. W. W's, One of them demanding "$200 or we'll blow you to h " was received by John B. Wallace, son of the secretary secre-tary of rgrieul'aro. Young Wallace Is vice commander of the Argonne post of the I.-g;on at lies Moines. Harry II. Polk, another lies Moines I.eg'ori member, received a letter thre,"t:Ti:t:g to blow up his house he-rau'-e he '-led the boys to death In battle.'' |