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Show MANY LEGION MEN BACHELORS Investigation Discloses Fact That Majority Ma-jority of Ex-Service Boys Prefer Single Blessedness. Three years after the war 61.6 per cent of the former service men are still bachelors, according to Gray Wag-gett, Wag-gett, adjutant of the Evanston (III.) post of the American Legion. Mr. Waggett has been conducting a campaign cam-paign to gain information about Legionnaires Le-gionnaires In the Middle West, and bases his statistics on 100,000 replies received. Of the 38.4 per cent who married American, French or German girls, 10 per cent have children. The house owners totaled 13.8 per cent and the business owners aggregated aggre-gated 15.5 per cent; nevertheless 21.7 per cent are able to drive their own automobiles. Legion posts, too, have the blllet-ownlng blllet-ownlng fever, 44.5 per cent having permanent per-manent quarters now, while 26 per cent will get theirs In a short time. These statistics apply only to that part of the country. |