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Show Carrying On With the American Legion An army kitchen and 1,000 cots have been placed In former barracks at Cleveland to care for jobless ex-serv-lo- men. A 5 per cent discount on all purchases pur-chases has been accorded members of the American Legion by the majority of merchants in Arcadia, Fla. u There Is a Polish post among the posts of various nationalities of the American Legion. Argonne is its name and it is located at Toledo, O. i Motion pictures are shown three nights a week at the Americjm Legion theater, which h;is just been established estab-lished by a post in Alta Vista, Kan. w Agents of the Chicago American Legion Le-gion post which has undertaken the reconstruction of Mesnil-en-Arronaise, Picardy, have gotten the project under way. Harold Wells, Petersburg, Va., blinded blind-ed in the war, was loaned $1,000 by the American Legion post there. He established es-tablished a tobacco shop and has paid back the debt. This country is well rid of Grover C. Bergdoll, slacker, according to an Illinois American Legion post, which recommends that the War department drop the case. The few remaining Confederate veterans vet-erans of Tennessee were able to attend the annual meeting of their association because of the efforts of 20 American Legionnaires of Nashville. Employees of the elevated railways of Chicago have formed a post of the American Legion and have dedicated a bronze plate to the memory of eight "L" men killed in the war. Four leading concert eompanles are to appear in Christopher, II L this winter win-ter because of the American Legion post there, which has succeeded in in-"ugurating in-"ugurating a lyceum course. The state of Michigan has bought Che community house at Camp Custer, Improved the place and turned It over o the American Legion posts to be used as a hospital for veterans. While Cincinnati was discussing the need of cleaning the William Henry-Harrison Henry-Harrison statue there, the Bentley American Legion post, armed with brushes, buckets and sot p, did it, All American flag has been given the Hellenic post, Minne! polis, of the American Legion, by the Greek citizens there. The post is composed of Grecian Gre-cian born veterans of the A. E. F. Five hundred ex-service E.en acted as "supers" in the filming of a motion picture at Mamaroneck, N. Y. They were sent to enact a "battle" by a New York American Legion employment bureau. bu-reau. Twelve overseas veterans refused to face death again in fumigating Immigrant Immi-grant ships. The American Legion employment bureau In New York had received the call from the Immigration officers. Due to the propaganda of the American Amer-ican Legion In Birmingham, Ala., the hundreds of former service men have been placed in positions ranging between be-tween that of short order cooks to construction con-struction foremen. Work has been supplltru every applicant appli-cant at the Wichita (Kan.) American Legion post employment agency, according ac-cording to the Department of Labor. Seven states have been surveyed and that city heads the list. By means of entertainments given by the school children of Minnesota, the American Legion Auxiliary of that state will be enabled to erect a building build-ing to care for deititute veterans on their discbarge from hospitals. Unemployed service men of Minneapolis Minne-apolis have been organized by the American Legion posts there and are campaigning the city, selling handbags, hand-bags, automobile booster plates and similar articles bearing Legion sanction. sanc-tion. Jerked from his floor-bed bv B rush of ,r)0 proffered positions, a Kansas City former soldier has been nble to sup port himself, his wife and t ve children. chil-dren. He had registered the previous day at the American Legion employment employ-ment office. Oscar E. Curlstrom. Aledo. 111., new commander of the United Spanish War Veterans, was one of the committee of fifty A. E. F. men which started the American Leglen In Paris In 1919. He Is an ndopted member of the G. A. R. of Illinois. Feeling against Grover C. E rgdoll, slacker, was so high at the Missouri state convention of the American Legion Le-gion that when It was announced that a motion was to be read about him it was passed by popular acclamation before be-fore even reading It. Adjusted compenrBtlon will not be squnndered by former service men. according to a Toledo (O.) newspaper. I According to figures from a campaign. I 17(1 want home aid, S8 want cash, 40 i hof the certificate plan and 5 pel j ait want rotational truiuujg. j |