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Show imiMiLim Copy for This Department Supplied by the A-nerfcnn I.t-Lrion News Service.) LECiLr.4 lCs - 1 Sturgis, South Dakota Legislator, I Author of Measures in the Interests In-terests of Americanism. The first man on the Job in the morning, lie further surprised legislative legisla-tive circles by syrr&tK never missing a J?:-: - '-p- " single roll call f 'r v"." during the time V2 m. the legislature K wns in session. 'n j He was a chap- V w lain ln tne army, J. r' he explained, in "J , which well-known c-s organization a mun was eltuer s 3 on t,ie dot or , v-j ahead of it or he wasn t ! Carroll D. Ersklne, preacher-legislator of Sturgis, S. D., has carried what he learned In his country's service serv-ice with him, the electorate of. his state say. He left after 15 years of Presbyterian ministry on leave of absence ab-sence to serve as chaplain of the Eighteenth Battalion during the World war, seeing 14 months' service. After Af-ter the armistice, while stationed at Camp Merritt, N. J., he met all transports trans-ports at the docks and ministered to wounded men being returned to American Amer-ican hospitals. In appreciation of his work the men presented him a jeweled watch. In the legislature, Mr. Erskine was author of a' bill to insure proper observance ob-servance of Armistice day, and of another an-other requiring all school teachers to take nn oath of loyalty to the Constitution. Consti-tution. He is a member of the American Amer-ican Legion in Sturgis, and state chairman chair-man of the boy scouts. He was born in Binghamton, K. Y.. and educated at Lake Forest college, Illinois. TO OBTAIN DENTAL SERVICE Veterans, to Receive Treatment, Must Comply With the Conditions Prescribed. An outline of the procedure for ex-service ex-service men to obtain dental treatment has been prepared by the national service division of the American Legion. Le-gion. Dental treatment will be furnished by the bureau of war risk ' insurance insur-ance to veterans of the World war under the following conditions: 1. " Where a person has been awarded award-ed compensation for dental disability. 2. When such treatment is necessary neces-sary for the cure of a condition which resulted from military service and is the reason for which compensation has been awarded. 3. In emergency cases which are immediately necessary for the relief of conditions endnngerlng the life of the patient or causing great pain. Claimants who have not been awarded award-ed dental disability, but feel they should have such due to military service, should Immediately file claim in the regular manner; whereupon they will receive an order from the district medical supervisor to report to the nearest dental examiner for examination ex-amination and such emergency treatment treat-ment as may be required. Approval of the dental examiner's report must be made by the bureau of war risk insurance. To receive the benefits of the dental 'laws, claimants must pursue their case through the regular channels, as bills contracted outside of the authority of the bureau of war risk Insurance will not be paid, except where sufficient evidence is produced that the case was emergency or that the claimant was ignorant of. his rights to dental treatment. treat-ment. MOTHER SEEKS SOLDIER SON American Legion Searching for James E. Adle, Shell. Schock Victim-Disappeared Victim-Disappeared in February. Refusing to believe that her son Is dead, although she read recently a new s p a p e r ac- s count of the bur- y"'''' lal ln Minnesota r " v nf a soldier who - ( bore marks of f j identification Iden- v " r tical with those of , her son, Mrs. - ; Margaret Adle. Lowell, Mass., has p appealed to the -s, q American Legion V 4 : . for help in her j . j 1 untiring search. m The boy sought Is James E. Adie. a wounded service man of the World war who disappeared on February 27 Inst while on his way from Lowell to Boston, Mass., where he was to re-cehe re-cehe a government examination. The former soldier was suffering from o severe attack of shell shock at the time. With, her husband's death since the war, the mother is In straightened circumstances. Her son's government compensation checks have been arriving arriv-ing monthly during his absence, she declares, but they cannot be cashed without his signature. To Roosevelt's Memory. A bronze tablet dedicated to the memory of the late Col. Theodore Koosevelt recently whs presented the American Legion of Kimis County. New York, by the United Spanish War Veterans. The tablet was composed of metals taken fr.-m the ill-fated Mulne. the Olympia. Dewey's flagship; the Oregon, which made the trip fr"tn San Francisco in t'me to aid In the detriic-ion detriic-ion of Cervern's fleet at Santiago and tie old bnitlei-hips New Yt!: anC Brooklyn. WHISTLE BROUGHT HIM FAME Restaurant Cook, Harry Keynston Jones, Famcus as Author of "Rose of No Man's Land." From out the hustling kitchen of a popular summer resort restaurant near St. I'aul, Minn., , there issued dur- yfP lnS the vacation i, ; season lilting ' songs and whis- C 5"f tied ditties that " V- ' sounded so t ' fJ strangely famil-':i famil-':i inr that Ameri-0i Ameri-0i ' fvS;.!; ' yp5. can Legion serv-iv-hV'S,V''S e meQ f the .iKi"VWf. 't World war de-, de-, , v eided to investi-sisS investi-sisS " gate. They found the musician to be one Harry Keynston Keyn-ston Jones, a five-foot-ten Cockney, also the restaurant cook. Jones began his musical career ns chef of a Winnipeg grenadier regiment during the war. Later he tended the private skillet of Gen. Sir Julian Byng at Vimy Kidge, and more important than that, he wrote "Rose of No Man's Land," the war song that had a long run of popularity. A penny whistle which he bought and played for the prime purpose of amusing his kitchen police caused his rise to music fame, he declared. In France he was transferred to the officers' mess. There Lieutenant Colonel Col-onel McEae, who later wrote "In Flanders Flan-ders Fields," heard the penny whistling, whis-tling, and the two became friends. 1 Some time afterward they together turned out the 'words and music of the No Man's Land song. Jones, wounded at Cambrai, was invalided in-valided back to Canada. After his discharge from the hospital he began ' a sightseeing tour of the states, depending de-pending upon his cooking ability for i ready employment. He now has a song with a New York publisher which he hopes to put forth soon. ; HEADS WAR DISABLED SCHOOL Dr. Arthur Davis Dean, Veteran of the I World War and Educator of t Wide Experience. Dr. Arthur Davis Dean, recently : chosen by the government as school . superintendent ol y " all America's war f I disabled, is him- f self a veteran of J, ,s the World war as ' 7 well as an edu- ' jr 3 cator of wide ex- v A. ' perlenee and a S specialist In voca- tionnl training. y S During the war, , 1 J Dr. Dean, a major : In the sanitary , g corps, worked on BsiiJa& rj the physical and meiual rei.aijniiauuo of the sick and wounded as they were returned to the United States In almost al-most all the large government hospitals hos-pitals of the country. With nine years' experience ln vocational education educa-tion work In New York state, he served as head of the division of vocational schools ln the state department of education ed-ucation from 1008 to 1017, when he became be-came professor of vocational education In Teachers' college, Columbia university. univer-sity. He directed the New York state prison survey in 1019 and Investigated the possibilities of industrial and agricultural agri-cultural educntion in rorto Rico for the Insulnr government. Dr. Dean was born Sept. 15, 1S72, at Cambridge, Mass., and was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tech-nology. He Is a member of Columbia university post of the American Legion. ONE-ARMED VET ALMOST WON Ernest JVIastros, Second in1 Swimming Race; Wounded Buddies Winner and Third in Sprint. The throng of spectators who watched the finish of an exciting sprint t during a swimming swim-ming meet In Madison Mad-ison Square Garden, Gar-den, New York, recently, vigorously vigorous-ly applauded the efforts of Ernest Mnstros, a little chap who brought up In s ec o n d ' r- "S a place. Their en- v i.V5 f h u 8 I a s m was heightened when the race had finished fin-ished nnd they saw Mastros as he was climbing out of the big tank. He had lost his left arm, serving with the American forces In France, nnd he all hut won the event by the sole power of his good right nnd his abundance abun-dance of gameness. However, the winner of the race. William Mclntyre. also was wounded In I' ranee, the surprised crowd learned later, as was Harold V.. Taylor, who finished a close third In the snme match. The trio of wounded war veterans vet-erans are members of the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan Life post of the American Legion, fenced of men nnd women employees of the life insurance company who -ei-vr.'i during bf '.Vnrld war. |