Iron County Record | 1922-04-14 | Page 3 | Carrying on with the American Legion

Carrying On With tho ss American Legion A plen that all students at Nebraska university Join the Legion "for the honor of the institution and tho perpetuity per-petuity of our country" has been mnd by Chancellor Avery. Tlie "Society of Military and Naval Ofllcois of the World War" has come Into existence In New York state. Plans are under way to make it a nationwide na-tionwide orgunlzntlon, with hereditary membership. Kx-servlce men who ask for aid at' Ituclne, Wis., receive no hearing unless un-less they hold a letter of endorse ment from the American Legion. "Impostors "Im-postors in bought unlformu" have brought on the move. Influx of Jnpiiuese on newly opened farm land Is opposed by the American I Legion of central Oregon. George Shlinn, so-called Japanese potato king, j bus shares In n company which owns ' 17,000 acres of this land. "To aid and to nld quickly" Is the object of tho Washington State ns 1 soelntlon In Now York Clt whlcl ii checklitg u) on Washington stnie soldiers In need. TJie Legion Is asking other btntos to "do IL'ieiviso." "Walt two years until the gits gets working good," wns no Idlo Jest on the -part of the Germans. Almost one-third one-third of tho IJO.OOO Ijospltul cases In America nre sumyipg from mentn! disorders, the Legion reports