Show legion news the american legion membership contest I 1 has ended the blacks and the blues fought the contest out to the finish the blues won but the blacks c went down with plenty of lighting fighting spirit the legion membership Is well up to the 1932 level and a very few new members and we will have reached our quota in spite of depressions holidays and moratoriums it if conditions of the weather justifies the local post Is planning to sponsor a ski tournament at the ecker I 1 hill 1111 parleys park a week from next sunday the plans are at this writing in embryo national headquarters 0 of the legion Is co operating cooperating with the national government m ent in investigating certain alleged abuses which has crept in to th the management e or of the vet veterans erana adment administration s oratio whereby some few men not In titled to pensions are receiving the same this does not however mean they are advancing the cause of certain sell self styled economy advocates which would close most of the viet veterans erans hospitals these economists say ray nothing of the eleven billion dollars of taxpayers money loaned to our foreign associates in the world war and which they propose to cancel of the refunding of hundreds of millions of dol lars to large income taxpayers by secret methods of the money which has been expended to farmers railroad men and civilian employed emp loyes as bonuses they hey do not refer to the facts that federal taxes tor for 1921 were 55 per cent of the count rys total tax bill and federal taxes have dropped to but 33 per cent of |