Show LEmON BOYS m STOUT Vets Call for Needle and Thread Oftener Than Ice Water I Br By D LEU LEC Special Correspondent of Tho The ThoI I Standard Examiner Copyright 1923 1823 SA SAN FRANCISCO CISCO Oct 20 20 Th 20 The rhe American Legion Is growing b 13 leaps leap and bounds both umer 1 and otherwise It Is If grOV- grOV leg Ing so fast fost that most of ot Its lt former bell and selete s typo type soon will have to lay Iny aside their old uniforms In favor o 0 new ones one with mth greater creator Interior parking apace Most of the th dele delegates ates i no participated l In the galaxy or of i parades staged stared hero here during the na- na na-I na I lional nal contention COD this week show show- na-I na pd considerable bulginG at the J I within th I Beam Beam- But expansion is 0 o 0 great that thit local hotels 1 n Lit report that thai there ther WOre were more emergency calls for tor needle and M than there were for Ice Ic- ater v ater Numerically the legion lerion also Is Irn proportionately Or In 1919 wit han ban Initial membershiP n m ot At 1042 the tho membership Tolls rolls or of orthe the the- org haio Il IlG G pasSed the seven even million mark marlc Including their wives and andra S of th the or atlon place the total at II 12 million to tomako tomake make mako either cither of the th old political parties sit tit up and nd talc take notice oven BO US Like the Grind Grand Army of the th Be Re- Re which for tor almo almost t a 11 dozen dorn Re-I Re sears Hars after atter the end of UH the war be- be treen t ten the stateS de developed eloped so h d within Its ranks that It H had but little political entity the thele le legion lon also may nry let eral c se eral ears eare e r pie elapse laPse before It assumes I the th pow pow- powerful I erful Influence in political and chic chlo affairs that thit It ll Is entitled to toi tom I h hIt i It lt tremendous I Inability or of o Its members member to agree 01 many Important Im issues WM was dent dent- the th convention lon sp olon The Th still till Is li split on the th Question of ot a soldier bonus bonu Thero There are 01 r both pro pro- pro bonus bonus and bonus anti organizations within the legion Th Thi pro bonus pro element however Is considerably con In the h majority and nd due du to the fact that members of ot arle aries are tiro most moat 1 solidly Mildly behind th tha nd for at t least lct seine SOlI OIA kind ol ot adi dl Isted compensation the te matter Is expected to bo be b forced before congress agaIn Biln ImAN I The Ku Klux Klan Klin Is l which brought forth such uch a r fight to n the convention belore a a I tion was waa adopted putting th thi legion Ion on rt record ord as S against any ony organization tion to fostering rat rat-ial religious r or clus strife li h 1 regarded by the thereat I rat reat majority of o l legion lon leaders to t lave been a tempest In a teapot S among among most of or the tho dele dele- delegates gates Is declared to hll e favored the Klansmen Klan altogether on the theory to introduce a a i tion especially directed against the th organization to furnish It wIth the publicity that makes It e Small factions one for an anthe the other bitterly against the Klan never however ho ever In injecting the th right fight before the con consention That lI sentiment of at least St forr or of the th delegates nas ens against the Klan Ioan us LS evidenced e when 1 a resolution Introduced by Oklahoma Olahoma delegates organization III il of ot the tion waa wai rejected ree ted so o It os as never put to a vote R flAtLY TO DIS ED I The Th one big Us suc I-suc upon which the legion 1 i Is united and vh ch Itin- Itin It if I I Ithe I U thi falI tails falls t til to sIo show re lilts Ill ma mai about a display re-I re of Its lis full political th In tho th thi I next presidential and ind s 1 Is the rehabilitation of ot disabled veterans The Thi Th lon legion Is 19 I anery through and ond through over th the alleged neglect o of wo and I I disabled 3 by go governmental ern mental agencies It approves of tho the work or I l lc Inee I last March by General Generl Frank Frnnk nw hod hf ad ot of th the United States vete ans vete ns bu bu- bu U rI but Its attitude Is 15 on one of waiting to teo seo th t there Is 11 no letup In what hat legion rs I charge chargo char o Is long delayed d 10 e lIet for tOr those tho e who suffered d most moat Grievously Over DOver ThereS There'S There The same tarn sam watchful attitude Is to toh ht h manifested toward rc gc al nl steps In caring for Wc World nir lr tr orphan orph n who for fop th tho past two veers veora have been alleged of ot h lek l c of or t HERO is T irol Tt nt Louis Van VJ lemi Irol- Irol b by birth and fourteen n del dal man rn n geno gaso f San Sl ans an ares quite A jolt when ho he refused to pos pose for tor newspaper n aror photographer and aDd nd declared that all thIs hero stuff Is the bunk Van who served with the Ninth U S a Infantry Is probably the themo meet st mo t decorated decorated h mien man to to corn com d out e I I I h d of the th war wr When he enlisted emitted td vl ho os barely bar ly able abl to mk mak make understood od In With l ws trw Inter p reporters nho ho trl tried d to Inter Inter- IlOw him he h showed moro more PriM pride In mastering the lan language of the tho country of ot his adoption thin than he did In his collection ot or d decora cora cora- Dont ou 1 think Im I'm Im I'm talking pretty good a English now ww was his l In question One Ono of Van t feats 18 was w a to If aint the Mouse Meuse hobnob with Ith the tho and learn their tl plans plan The Th Information he h brought brou ht back was of ot Immense value There Thero t oa os nothing heroic about It h he declared In fact It Was enY eney y I spoke poke their language knew lenew the country and takIng t any an f gre great t chances I ea BM A prouder of being cing picked to do the ob than I 1 as of getting the medal m dl DEEP RED lIED S Reverting to the rapid growth of the th legion there thoro hone i li one doughty captain from front Illinois nho ho ho 1 li Is stIll blushing over a near calamity ot of he first t days day's day d y parade p nd The rho Th captain dropped his swag swag- W otI I gr and stooped to pick It 1 Ip ip There Ther was w a rendering rip of long duration rend and his lil pants pints parted partee o 0 full length of th tha tho rear scam Ire If wasn't t wearing a belt b lt and both ii hands were wr to hold the slipping breeches br eche Into place ploce pile Just then somebody wag waa about I bouti t yell y ll for a barrel a 0 oung lAdy along the th sidelines handed him a aroll aroll roll I aI roll of clothes clothe line tin which she h had hod d and nd was w carrying home home- homeard homeward homeward ward ard Comrades Wrapped wr pp ed d him himI f I round and round and ind bo be marched 1 1 lavely vly onward |