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Show h Carrying on b With the American Legion Of nil the fruit that grows in t lie Imperial valley of California, a consid-erahje consid-erahje portion is planted and tended by disahled veterans of the World war. While receiving $100 monthly compensation from the government, Ihe men tiro placed on tracts of hind by the federal heart! of vocational education ed-ucation and are assisted in getting out their crops, it. T. Fisher, assistant national director of the government's rehabilitation work, recently complimented compli-mented the California department of the American Legion for safeguarding the Interests of the veterans who are winning their way back to health and usefulness in the fruit-growing project. The aid of women's clubs of the West in the interest of a coast to coast Victory Memorial highway will be solicited so-licited by Capitol post of the American Ameri-can Legion in Topeka, Kan..' with which the plan ' originated. The Topeka To-peka Woman's club will place the request re-quest for co-operation before the coming com-ing convention of the state federal ion of women's organizations. Integral highways now in use would be hard-surfaced hard-surfaced by the government. Bronze memorial figures of American soldiers in full equipment and with rilles at "present arms" would mark all staff boundaries. Another move to induce the United States government to force the release by the Bolsheviki of Capt. Emmet Kil-patrick, Kil-patrick, Uniontown, Ala., has originated originat-ed with the department of Poland of the American Legion. Latest reports declare that the American, confined in a Moscow prison, is in a deplorable condition from brutality and terror. Captain Kilpatrick, a Ked Cross worker, work-er, was captured in Crimea. The National Americanism commission commis-sion of the American Legion is making arrangements to have a membov present pres-ent at all Legion state conventions. In addressing the conventions the Americanism Ameri-canism officials will lay emphasis upon the necessity of co-operation with teachers for the furtherance of education educa-tion in citizenship, the promotion of patriotism and the development of Americanism. A house-to-house canvass of the entire en-tire city of Chicago has been undertaken under-taken by posts of the American Legion, in seeking out veterans who have been unsuccessful in adjustment of compensation compen-sation claims with the government. A recent membership campaign in Illinois Illi-nois netted a gain of 10,000 members for the first four months of 1921 over the corresponding period of last year. The American language will replace German in the services of the Bethany Reformed church of Baxter, la., under the provision of a resolution adopted by the congregation after a conference with the local American Legion post commander. The Legion objected to preaching in German at the funerals of veterans who were killed in Prance. Aerial mail flyers, their mechanicians mechani-cians and all who assist them in the U. S. Post Office department's air mail service will be ex-service men, according accord-ing to an order issued by John S. Jordan, Jor-dan, San Francisco, chief of construction, construc-tion, acting superintendent of the traffic traf-fic division, air mail service, a copy of which has readied American Legion national headquarters. A proper educatlou for American children in China and Japan is the end sought by the Peking (China) post of the American Legion, which has written to Legion national headquarters headquar-ters to enlist the aid of ex-service men In the movement. The American Chamber of Commerce and other organizations or-ganizations are working with the Legion Le-gion lu the project. Because they believe that Memorial day should be observed in a reverent and decorous manner, members of the American Legion in Indianapolis, Ind., have asked that the annual motor speedway race be held In the future on July 4 Instead of on May 30. More than 130,000 persons attended the international in-ternational motor classic this 'year. ... When the town of Lnwton, Okla., set about building a road to the oil fields, 20 miles away, Lowry post of the American Legion undertook the building of a much-needed bridge about eighteen miles from town. During Dur-ing the construction members of the post's Women's Auxiliary brought food to the busy Legionnaires every day. ... A resolution calling upon congress to pass the American Legion's legislation legisla-tion for the relief of disabled veterans of the World war sent by an American J Legion post at Newherry, S. C, was accompanied by a large pair of shears, An attached card bore the Inscription : "For the Love of Mike, Cut Out the Ked Tape." |