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Show Carrying cn With the American Legion j Of all the fruit that grows in the Imperial valley of California, a considerable consid-erable portion is planted and tended by disabled veterans of the World war. While receiving $100 monthry compensation from the government, the men are placed on tracts of land by the federal board of vocational education ed-ucation and ure assisted In getting out their crops. It. T. Fisher, assistant national director of the government's rehabilitation work, recently complimented compli-mented the California department of the American Legion for safeguarding the interests of the veterans who are winning their way buck to health and usefulness in the fruit-growing project The aid of women's clubs of the West in the interest of a coast to coast Victory Memorial highway will be solicited so-licited by Capitol post of the American Ameri-can Legion in Topeka, Kan., with wl!ch the plan originated. The Topeka To-peka Woman's club will place the request re-quest for co-operation before the coming com-ing convention of the state federation of women's organizations. Integral highways now in use would be hard-surfaced hard-surfaced by tbe government. Bronze memorial figures of American soldiers In full equipment and with rifles at "present arms" would mark all statft boundaries. Another move to induce the United StateB government to force the release by the Bolshevik! of Capt. Emmet Kll-patrick, Kll-patrick, Unioutown, Ala., has originated originat-ed with the department of Poland of the American Legion. Latest reports declare that the American, confined in a Moscow prison, is In a deplorable condition from brutality and terror. Captain Kllpatrick, a K&4 Cross worker, work-er, was captured In Crliuivi. The National Americanism commission commis-sion of the American Legion is making arrangements to have a member present pres-ent at all Legion state conventions. In addressing the conventions the Americanism Ameri-canism officials will lay emphasis upon the necessity of co-operation witli teachers for the furtherance of education educa-tion in citizenship,- the promotion of patriotism and the development of Americanism. A house-to-house carvass of the entire en-tire city of Chicago has been undertaken under-taken by posts of the Amerlcun Legion, in seeking out veterans who have been unsuccessful in adjustment of compensation compen-sation claims with the government. A recent membership cnmpaljpi in Illinois Illi-nois netted a gain of 10,000 members for the first four months of 1921 over the corresponding period of last year. The American language will replace German in the services of the Bethany Reformed church of Baxter, la., under the provision of a resolution adopted by the congregation after a conference with the local American Legion post commander. The Legion objected to preaching in German at the funerals of veterans who were killed In France. Aerial mall .flyers, their mechanicians mechani-cians and all who assist them in the U. S. Post OfHce department's nlr mail service will be ex-service men, according accord-ing to an order Issued by John S. Jordan, Jor-dan, San Francisco, chief of construction, construc-tion, acting superintendent of the traffic traf-fic division, air mall service, a ropy of which has reached American Legion national headquarters. A proper education for Anierican children In China and Japan is the end sought by the Peking (CbiiM) post of the American Legion, whlh has written to Legion national headquarters headquar-ters to enlist the aid of ex-servlee men In the movement. The American Chamber of Commerce aud other organizations or-ganizations are working with the Legion Le-gion in the project. Because they believe that Memorial day should he observed in n reverent and decorous manner, members of the American Legion In Indianapolis, Ind., have asked that the annual uiolor speedway race be held In the future on July 4 instead of on May 30. More than 130,000 persons attended the International In-ternational motor classic this year. When the town of Lawton, 0!;la.. set about building a road to the oil fields, 20 miles away. Lowry post of the American Legion undertook the building of a inucli-nceded bridge about eighteen niHes from (own. Dur Ing the construction members of the post's Women's Auxiliary brought looil to the busy. Legionnaires every day Fifty-eight years of residence In America were not enough to induce a resilient of Emerald. Neb., to familiarize famili-arize himself with the American Ian-gunge Ian-gunge mid insl itul ions nf government. As u result his application for fuia' it izi nsliip papers was denied at ..aturnli-ation In-ur'ng in which Anit-i can Le.'Jiu members testified. w A rcKo'iitlon ca'llng upon congros .o pr.r, the American Legion's logislu li-i for the rel et' of disabled vsieram- .f the World war sent by an Anierican Legion posl at Newlerry. S. C, a- iccouipanied by a large pair of shears An attached card bore the liiser ptUui "For tbe Love of Mike, Cut Out 'lilted 'li-lted Tape." "No p'an for future prepiirednes. tin be carried out withoul the suppon of the Anierican Legion," said Genera Per.-hlng at u banquet he'd lu his hon or ei l.i "co'n Ni b. |