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Show AFTER THE FAKE PROMOTERS American Legion on Watch to Detect and Expose Organizations Victimizing Victim-izing Ex-Service Men. "ilic harpies who prey on public ynipathy and the vampires who attach at-tach themselves to every legitimate and worthy camimign for the relief of liuuuin distress, lmve been flying In fiocks behind the trudging army of job-unting job-unting ex-service men. The police courts are revealing the sordid operations opera-tions of scores of avaricious persons who have been conducting money-rals-liig campaigns on a get-rich-quick basis, ba-sis, on the pretense of assisting unemployed unem-ployed World wlir veterans. Some of these (iy-by-nlght promoters have ftinncd large organizations, using as dupos veterans win) are, themselves, hottest, but have been Induced by urgent ur-gent need to grasp at the straw of a job which the swindler dangles before them. Behind a shield of plausibility, 'the promoter sends his money solicitors out upon the public. Needless to say, little of the money raised actually Is sed to assist the unemployed ex-teervice ex-teervice men. The promoter takes good care to see that his account books, If lie keeps any, never record the full titnounfs which have been extracted from the sympathetic public. And !f ke makes u pretense of accounting for the way the money is expended, this ccountlng Is only a clever construc-Son construc-Son of falsities, intended to protect the promoter, If he Is made the subject sub-ject of Inquiry by public officials. The system by which he operates precludes honesty. These swindlers often copy the Barnes and methods of organizations which are legitimate and have reputable repu-table sponsors. The names the employment em-ployment swindlers select for their organizations or-ganizations only too often inspire public pub-lic confidence because they may easily he confused with those of long-existing public charitable societies. The American Amer-ican Legion is constantly on the watch to detect, expose and prosecute organisations organi-sations victimizing ex-service men. The public should come to know that any organization ostensibly for the telp of unemployed veterans should be regarded suspiciously If It doe-s not have the Legion's indorsement. American Amer-ican Legion Weekly. |