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Show Carrying On With the American Legion ; ' . '. fcfflfffjj.iA,JJJJ, 7 ! Tho muyot of Wcnatchee, Wash., tho county sheriff nnd ull his deputies nro members of the local post of tho Legion. Dr. A. A. Vnn Dykp, St. Paul, Minn., member of the national executive com. mlttee, has been elected commniidqr of the Minnesota department to-F!ceed A. II. Vernon, Little Fulls. More than KM) movie dars, members of Hollywood, Cnl., post of the American Ameri-can Legion, will attend the reunion of the Ninety-first division at Los Angeles, An-geles, September 24 and 25. At least 11 bands from Missouri will attend the national convention or the American Legion at Kansas City, October .'10. Ill and November 1. St. Louis will send a bund of 100 pieces. More than one-eighth of the population popula-tion of HndcllfTe, In., Is enrolled In the American Legion. The town has 100 service men out of a population of SOU, every one of whom belongs to tho locnl post. To teach children proper love and respect for Old Glory, state school leaders nnd a committee from the American Legion are writing a simple, Impressive ceremony to be followed in every school room. When violence wns threatened against Mrs. Ida Crouch Hnzlctt, socialist so-cialist spenker nt Des Moines, In., re-cently, re-cently, n group of American legion men seized her nnd curried her to n police station for protection. Her sympathizers sym-pathizers at first believed sho was being kidnaped. A meat cutter Is tho commander, a rnllroad switchman the vice commander comman-der und n bnnk clerk tho adjutant of the American Legion post nt Harlow-ton, Harlow-ton, Mont., which hns the largest percentage per-centage of potential membership In the state. In n village of 2,000, tho post hns a 32-plece band. Citizens of Ephratn, Wash., hnd bceu discussing n city park for years. One Sunday morning the local post of the American Legion turned out In forco with wagons, shovels, rakes and picks nnd before the church bells rang hud ground prepnred for the park. Tho citizens will complete the work and stop discussions. President Ilnrdlng's call for n world conference on disarmament this full Is expected by olllclnls In charge ol (be third annual national convention of the American Legion In Knnsaa City, October HO, JU, and November 1, to Insure tho presenco of a nunibet of distinguished foreign generals ul the Legion convention. There Is no railroad, no post office, not even a town. But there Is a thrlv. lng post of the American Legion In a farming locality 15 miles northwest of l'algc, N. D. The men meet every week In a different fnrni house to hold soclnls and dances. The fanners ol the nren are furnishing tho Legion posts with funds to erect a community commu-nity house. Following representations mndo to the United States Civil Service commission com-mission by the Americnn Legion, disabled dis-abled veterans of the World war who have undergone training by the federal fed-eral board for vocational educntlon will be allowed to enter examinations for any government position for which they have been trained If application Is niiidu within GO dnys after completion comple-tion of training. Admiral Sir Dnvld Bentty, first sea lord of Great Britain, will attend tho American Legion convention In Knnsaa City, Oct. 80, HI, nnd Nov. 1, according accord-ing to n cable received by tho convention conven-tion committee from Ambassador Har-vey Har-vey In London. Admiral Bentty, fifty years old, Is called tho "infant prodigy" prodi-gy" of England's naval forces. Hq was the youngest captain and the youngest admiral. To Jog the memories of members of congress deliberating on legislation for the disabled service men of America, Amer-ica, James C. Itussell, member ol Blackhawk post, the American Legion, Chicago, recently bent u picture postcard post-card to all of them. It showed a soldier, sol-dier, severely wounded In action neat St. Souplet, France, Oct. 10, 1018, be-lng be-lng helped from the battlefield by two hospltul corps men, and smiling. Seattle, Wash., where tho Bolsheviks Bolshe-viks tried out their first American soviet government and met Olo Hun-son, Hun-son, now Is In the hands of tho American Amer-ican Legion. The stute's lieutenant governor, tne mayor of the city, tin attorney general, the prosecuting attorney at-torney and two city councllmen an members of Itulnler-Noblc post of tin Legion. The city's pollco forco likewise like-wise Is well represented In tlie post membership. |
