North Carolina Newspapers

I ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD, ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. r ra 3 !v . ft-'- flM .. ? V-Wfjf If-' is : i i rl i , -? -: v '.amir" faa . a- wt.ua was. , , . 5 , AAmr -f i-v ,f 4: r r , j'l lit L'i - - -- x . -tJ n if. t 1 irS!Cf!"7. V"?. 8(IJm",lnK armament conference Ht Its opening session. 2-Capltol Illuminated by the "Light of the Mates for the conference. 8-11 1 undiluted Jeweled portal erected for the coufvrvnce, showing Washington monument iu ceuter. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Conference May Agree on Naval Armament Reduction Plan Within a Few Weeks. HUGHES' PROGRAM APPROVED Suggested Minor Modification Are Being Diacuised China Pleadi for Recognition a Independent Na tion League Council Gets Af ter the Serbs Progress on Tax Revision Bill. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. TT APPEARS that the prophets In W ashlngton were all wrong. The great conference seemingly Is going to reach and sign on agreement on limita tion of naval armament without waiting to settle the problems of the Pacific and the Far East. This tendency Is result of Secretary Hughes' down right action In laying before the con ference In Its first session the Amer ican proposal as to navies. Briefly, that proposal Is that the United States, Great Britain and Japan agree to suspend naval construction for ten years, and during the succeeding ten iearg build only for replacement; that All uncompleted capital ships and many other specified capital ships be crapped at once; that the aggregnte capital ship tonnage be limited to 500, 000 each for England and America, and 300,000 for Japan; that the sea power of the three nations be main tained on this basis. There are other features of the program, but every one Is fnmillar with It by this time. The conference, and the world, were at first astounded by tills unexpected laying of the American cards on the table, and then the plnn was greeted with loud and universal acclaim. The delegates of the other nations could not, If they would, refuse to Indorse It, and at the second open session Orent Britain, Japan, Italy and France, formally accepted It "In prln-' clple," with minor modifications. These, as set forth then and later, were as follows; By Great Britain Limit size and y. tonnage of submarines: nermlt con struction of one capital ship a year curing ten-year period to retain shlp- yard facilities; permit retention of more light cruisers end gunboats to police the high seas; reduction In , number of naval ship building yards. By Japan Increase of Japan's na Vol strength to 70 per cent of British and American ; cessation of construc tion of naval bases and new fortifica tions In the Pacific. By France Allowance of eight cap ital imps to safeguard French col onles. By Italy Allowance of six capital Vftlps to protect Italian interests. A committee, of which Col. Theo dore Roosevelt Is chairman, set to work at once to study the plan and proposal modifications, and by the end 1 in week It was predicted on agree ment would be reached within two or '. three weeks. Among the American experts there was considerable oppo- , jmion to the British suggestions, nd the Englishmen dropped the Idea of one battleship a year. Japan's proposition that there be no Snore naval bases or fortifications con structed In the Pacific was expected, nd perhaps proves a bit awkward nr the United States. It means the bandonment of work and plans In Phlllnnlni-S Dutch rTnrho. uA wHMThara whlflh I. - v ... w iim unvi uvvn couaiuerea -oat necessary for the safety of our fMseaslona In the Pacific If not for "at of our Pacific coast But If Mr. "-Shea' general program Is accepted the other powers it wmiid x,m i United Statei cannot well declined - Bceept tnis plan of Japan. In the .-crapping proposal America hat moat unselfish and perhaps she ' 1 B(tori to b ai generous In other ".Mera. WHEN th. tlma came to pot for . " w'rd p,an tot tettlement of ' problem! of the Far East Don tbe great power seemed ready with a program. But China, whose status Is the crux of the situation, set before the committee on fur Mistern affairs the demunds of the Asiatic republic. Dr. Alfred Sze, nruu vi me ijunese delegation, was the spokesman and he held a pre liminary conference with American ofilcluls and In his demands followed their advice In all except one point the creation of a permanent court of arbitration In the Far East China asks resect for her territorial lntegrl ty, restitution of seised provinces and regions, abandonment of special rights, monopolies, privileges and extrnterrl torlal rights, and withdrawal of foreign troops from her soil and permission to direct her own domestic affairs and govern her own Internal and foreign policies. She does not demand that all foreign monopolies and privileges In China be abandoned at once, but that she be given a chance to put herself on a level with other powers and that as time goes on and conditions warrant the economic and political fetters on her be loosened. The British delegation approved the Chinese demands In general, especially tne open door policy and the abandon ment or "spheres of influence.", The Japanese, It was understood, accepted the Chinese program In principle but would Insist that withdrawal of In terest In China should Include all foreign powers. The Chinese dele gates say they make their demands In behalf of all China, Including the soutnern part where Sun Xat Sen holds somewhat precarious sway, and that Manchuria. Inner and outer Mongolia, Tibet and Turkestan are In eluded In "the Chinese republic." it is believed one result of the dis cussion of China's program may be the friendly abandonment of the Anirlo- Japanese alliance, and the British would be glad to see this source of trouble replaced by some'forni of agree ment Dy the great powers. PltANCE, as has often been pointed out 18 especially Interested In the matter of reduction and limitation of lund armament and Premier Brinnd took the lead In this, though he had no concrete plan nor any working agreement with the United States dele gation. In his speech he discussed ihe military situation In Europe. particularly as It effects France, sut forth the number of men under arms In the various European countries and made plain the menuce of the Bed forces, especially In Hussla. Nor did he neglect to call attention to France's Ierll from Germany which, he noted, Is a nation of 05,000,000 while France milliners but 35,000,000. It Is plain that the French will not consent to plans for radical military armament reduction until the Russian and Teu tonic threats ore removed. "VER In Europe the League of Na tlons feels that Its authority is be ing flouted by Jugo-Slavla, and it has determined to show that It can stop a war. Therefore It advanced the date or Its Paris meeting and took up the matter of the Invasion of Albania by the Serbians. The latter had been ordered to get out of Albania and to oDserve the boundaries of that state as established by the allied ambassa dors, but In effect at least, they dla- regaruea Dotn demands. They did, uuwever, disown tne troops in Al bania, claiming they are lrreculars over which their government has no control. Meanwhile those "irregulars" are said to be threatening Tirana, the Aiuaman capital, and the situation Is about the same eg at Vllna who tne league acored a failure. of Oottlngen, Berlin and Paris, and speaks tiermnn and French. Next January Germany Is due to pay a reparations Installment of $100,000, 000, and In February a quarterly pay ment of about $00,000,000 on exports. Her financial experts are wondering where It Is to come from and the allied reparations commission In ses sion In Berlin Is working over the problem. The commission believes the tiermans can raise the money for those two payments and urge them to do so as a show of good will. There was reason to believe that If they did, the French delegates would consent to grant concessions for the rest of the year. The commission rejected a plan 01 me industrial leaders of German to pawn the country's Industries as a guaranty for the reparations pay. ments; Instead it suggested that the industrial Interests make sacrifices for their country Instead of trying to prof it irom its misery. That Germany is miserable In some respects is made evident by the riots in uerlln caused by the Increasing cost of foodstuffs. Many shops were looted. High prices, of course, are caused by the decline of the mark. T JLSTER still stands firmly, or stub- bonily, as you choose to look at It In the way of settlement of the Irish trouble. Crulg and his cabinet oiuujiMg uie n,nifusii nan. m. Jected it as unfair to their part of the lsianu and offered some kind of a substitute. This the British cahlnet In turn rejected, and an exchanee of noies oetween L,loyd George and Craig left the status unchanged. The Ulster ftes reiterated their determination not to submit to anything considered a violation of Ulster's rights. Th British premier's stand was strength ened by the action of the Unionist party in convention In Liverpool. The insui negotiations are drainrlnir nut so that Lloyd Georee abandon his contemplated trip to Wash- jugiou 10 tuke part in the armament conference. ITARL and Zlta, ex-rulers of Austria AV Hungary, have been landed on their island of exile, Madeira. Portu gal consented to care for them th but the expense, reckoned at about $80,000 a year, will be paid by the states which formerly mad up their empire If the plan of th council of allied ambussadort 1 carried out. DRESIDENT Harding last Monday signed without any ceremony the nroclamatlon of neace .between th. United States and Germany and there U much debate aa to whom he will select for ambassador to Berlin. First choice among the guessers la Con gressman Alonson B, Houghton of Corning, N. T, He was born in Massa chusetts fifty-eight years ago, graduat ed from Harvard and the universities 'VHE congressional conference com 1 mittee on the tax revision bill has been ironing out the differences be tween the house and senate measures with considerable rapidity, both skies making concessions. One of the Im portant actions was the elimination of the house bill provisions for the exemption of forelcn traders .nH foreign trade corporations. On Thurs day the conferees suspended their meetings to allow the house to vote on yueauou or surtax rates. The senate nad fixed the niiivlmnni mtu at 50 per cent and the house 'at 82 twr cent The "Insurgent" Reimi.il. cans of the house were determined to carry mrough the senate nl.m .n n, leaders turned to a compromise. Just ueioie me house met President Har ding took a hand in tha affnli- h in. forming the house conferees that a "JHiimuin surtax rate of 40 per cent would be agreeable to the administra tion. The house, however, by a vote of 201 to 1T3, instructed its conferees to accept the 50 per cent rate. SPECIAL SESSI ALL UHGEflTAINlY NOTHING IN WAY OF PROGRAM OF CORRECTIVE LEGISLATION HAS BEEN NOTED. 10 BE ACTION OH EDUCATION Vague Rumors are Current of Attempt to Call Constitutional Convention to do Something About Taxes. Raleigh. Uncertainty enwarps the coming session of the legislature. No legisla tive program has been worked out. Municipal authorities whose agitation over the failure of the municipal Fl ame act brought about the session have evolved nothing yet In the way of a program ot corrective legislation. The State Hoard of Education will be eminently satisfied with a resolution appropriating $700,000 to cover a de ficit. Beyond that there is no plan. It Is generally supposed that the cities will ask the proper passage of the municipal finance act as It was writ ten last February. No fault has been found with it except that it had not the proper entries made in the Senate Journal. Representative Matthews of Bertie, chairman of the House Com mittee on Education, will likely offer a resolution for the relief of the school fund. And that is all. Vague rumors are current of an effort to abolish capital punishment; of an effort to call a constitutional convention to do some thing about the taxation system, and to modernize the basic law generally; of an effort to resusciate the revalua tion act and restore something of equity in taxation among the counties. But whether any of these things will be attempted remains to be disclosed. Governor Adv'e Commission. Conf-rring with the state highway commission. Governor Morrison urged the use of federal appropriation mon ey 011 particular projects, recommend ing that the commission not under take to smi-ar It over several road3. This is proposed so that the people may know what roads the state has built and those the government mon ey will build. This money will be used on Inter state highways, in compliance with the federal law. The commission voted to apportion the million and three quarter dollars of federal money among the nine con struction districts on tie basis of area, mileage and population. Governor Morrison also urged th commission to enlarge Its construc tion program to the largest extent that sound business and good engi neering will permit. He told them that if this state can lead Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia by three or four years In its road systems it will be worth more to the state than the entire system will cost. (Oepr fnr ThU rpirtin,nt Suirlld th A-mrkn Legion Ni Service 1 May Move Revenue Office. Winston-Salem will be the home of the North Carolina branch of the De partment of Internal Revenue, no mat ter whether the district Is divided or not, in the opinion ot most Raleigh folks. If the authorization comes down for a dli-lslon of the State Into two dlstrlrts, with lines similar to that dividing the eastern and western district during a part of the Demo cratic administration, Mr. Grlssom, it is Bald, will take over the western district and open up offices in Win ston-Salem. No one doubts that this will be done if the state is divided In to two districts and an additional col lector appointed. SERVED IN WORLD WAR AT 70 Lieutenant Colonel Wood Began Fighting for His Country at Age of Fifteen. One of the most remarkable war records evr brought to light Is that of Lieut. Col. 5 5ir. 1 Morrison and Bally Differ. North Carolina farmers, delegates at opening session of the fourteenth annual convention of the State Farm ers' Union hoard Governor Morrison and J. W. Bally, and they heard ex pressions of views on the state's ag ricultural life as far apart as the east from the west. The governor found North Carolina rich In Its agricultural life, ranking sixth In the total value of its agri cultural products, second In value per capita and first per acre planted. Mr. Bailey mentioned frequently of late as candidate to succeed Governor Mor rison found the state languishing ag riculturally, the farmers In the depths of despair and the whole state in a bad way because of the poverty of the agriculturalists. Examination for Postmasters. Washington, (Special). The postr office department announced examln ations for the following postoffices in North Carolina, the examination to be held Dec. 10: Ayden, Belhaven, Chadbourn, Fair- mount, Freemont, Gibson, Halifax Klttrell, Manteo, Plymouth, Spring Hope, Troy and Vlneland. The war finance corporation has ap proved loans for agricultural purposes of $575,000 to two North Carolina banks and of one loan of $90,000 to be used for the exportation of tobacco. Mora Money for State. The war finance corporation an nounced that an additional $150,000 has been advanced in North Carolina for agricultural and livestock pur poses. Jno. F. Oakly has been named post master at Benaja, and Miss Mary E. Taylor at Como, Hertford county. Miss Bettie Martin has been confirm ed as postmaster at Biscoe, and James E. Houser, at Cherryville. Prohibitionists are Hands Off. The executive committee of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon league ha let It be known that it will not ask the special session ot the legis lation for new laws affecting prohibi tion, although It considers legislation to make the state laws harmonise with the federal acts is badly needed. It will play hands off this time be cause It considers the assembly ha been called for a specific purpose. '"pHE week In America was not with- out its serious labor troubles few weeks are. The garment workers of New York went on strike in pro test against the restoration of the piece work system. Their leaders said most of the 60,000 workers quit, but the employers asserted that 60 per cent of the workers had refused to go out. In Chicago there was a short but lively strike of the teamsters accom. panled by some violence. The men rerusea to accept a wage cut of $3 a ween ordered Dy an arbiter and ac cepted by the union officials. After &iig out two aays they returned to work with the understanding that they ahould have rehearing before uie aruiier. Alexander M. Howat for twenty jmn n imaer 01 tne Kansas miners ana now peir president was einiii from the United Mine Worker of America for his refusal to obev th order of the International officer tn enoine strike in that state. About 4,000 n.ansa miner also were suspended irvm raemoersMp. Howat and hi crowd hav fought uncompromisingly against the Kansas Industrial court The Colorado Fuel and Iron company' miner In Colorado atruck and state troop were called out West Point Appointments- Washington, (Special). These men have been designated for West Point: Robert L. Brldger, Winston-Salem; W. Oscar McMullan, Elizabeth City, and Wilbur R. Carleton, Alexander, Messrs McMullan and Carleton are first alternates. State College Dairy Herd. ' The dairy herd at State college has come to the front with still another record. The JerBey cow Peur's Col lege Farm Fawn, sold at public auc tion in Charlotte for $830, the highest price ever paid for a Jersey in this state at any public sale. Lease of Muscle Shoals. Washington, (Special). The an nouncement by Secretary Weeks, of the war department, that plant No. 2, at Muscle Shoals, had been leased to the Alabama Power company, means that the mills and other plants In North Carolina requiring electric power, will not have to cloBe down. The rates to be charged for the plant are $10,000 a month, 1 cents per kilo watt hour. Marshall W. Wood, U. S. A. (retired) of Boise, Idaho, who began fighting for Ills country in the Civil wnr at the age of ftf- wn years and, after surviving campaigns in the Indian ami Span ish A m e r I can wars, entered the World war when seventy years old, serving nearly three years. Today, although seventy-five year old, Colonel Wood Is inspector general of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Is chaplain of the John Regan post of the American Legion, Boise, Iduho, which he organized and served as Its first commander. Colonel Wood was born June 1840. Fifteen years Inter he was bearing a musket in the Civil war. He was twice wounded during this serv ice. Later, he served In the Indian wars as senior medical officer In two expeditions agulnst the Cheyenne and Sioux. In the Spanish-American war he was chief surgeon of the First di vision of the Fifth army corps from Its organization until Its ahadoiiment after the Santiago campaign. In the World war Colonel Wood was on active duty from June 23, 1010, un til February 2$, 1019. He was under fire in all except the World war and received three medals for distin guished service. PLAN FOR CANADIAN LEGION War Organizations Approve Proposi tion to Amalgamate All Veterans Similar to American Body. Fees of Lightning Rod Agents. Insurance Commissioner Wada Is sending checks to the different coun ties covering license fees for light ning rod agents operating In these counties. The fee this year Is ten dollars per agent, and tha county gets all the money these agents pay to the insurance department. This year bo far there has been but $790 paid into this fund. Legion Committee to Meet. The state executice committee of the North Carolina department of the Amerioan Legion will meet in Salis bury Tuesday, November 29 .accord ing to the call Issued by Commander Thomas W. Bird. Putting on Passenger Coaches. The Norfolk Southern railroad is putting on rebuilt pasenger coaches at the rate of one every 12 days, and by next Maty the system will have as fine a pasenger service as any road operating in the state, according to information given the corporation commission by an official ot the road. ::els torninq in russia evlst Government Said to B firing Organization of Capital ' ' Trust and Combination. -;wTrusts and combination . openly fostered by the Bol . ovemment Every day brings "ments of new combination fnctorte to which the soviet nt has granted a concession, bj frank dicuslon. of the lor wganlxlng a.nd combining Industrie In a wy to Insure their success In the future. It 1 difficult to believe that gov ernment which so recently denounced all the proceese of capitalism 1 now openly advocating and assisting their adoption. Thfl great effort of the economic council of the government Is to get email Industrie started which will supply the small manufactured article required all over Russia, such as household utensils, kitchen eoulnmen. i.. - ... " ' "'utu 'of3 ana, small nardwara. too 1 Such factorlea will require large quantities of sheet tin and sheet Iron, which many of them hope to get from America. The present supply ln Rus sia U prtetlcally nil. In cities like Moscow and Petrograd the government will supply tlmsa small Industrie with electrical power. The government has granted a con cession to a combination , of smfttl knitting factories in Petrograd, which will resume work on the condition that 12 per cent of their output , will be tid to the governmout la tak Meeting of Secretaries. Secretaries of local merchants' as soclatlons ln IS North Carolina cities met here for a conference on various phases of association work. At banquet they wei9 addressed by W. A. Clark, of Richmond, Va.r secretary of the Virginia Merchants' assocla tion, and Miss Isabelle Craig Bacon, of Washington federal board ot voca tional education. Miss Bacon spoke to the secretaries of Uie enuibliiililuHut tit sitieaiuauMuip schools for retail stores, Report of Employment Offloe. A total of S16 man applied to the half dozen employment offices of North Carolina asking tor help in get ting Jobs during the past week, and S40 of the seekers were placed In po sitions. The week' report indicates some falling off in the Improvement shown In the unemployment situation ln North Carolina, for there were 220 more appeal for Jobs than there were requests for help from those who hire people. The offices referred 383 peo ple to place where they might find work, but only 340 landed. Reason for Change In Rout. Whether or not the temporary or der restraining the highway commis sion from changing the route of the road from Tarboro to Halifax, which was originally routed by Hobgood, will be continued will be decided at a hearing on November 28, in Halifax The highway commission was consld ering changing the' rflut from Hob- good because that Community , now has a good road. road, while another eight miles away, g tot and the commtcalon wanteg to help takeicar at th rvoleas comnuftity, Fight on Capita Punishment Evidences of a continued fight over the state ln behalf of the enactment of legislation at the special session looking to the establishment of pardon board and the abolishment ot capital punishment are reported by members of the general assembly via iting Raleigh. Tucker for District Attorney. Washington, (Special), r National Committeeman Morehead scored again when the nomination of Irvln B. Tuck er, of Columbus county, for district attorney for the eastern part of the state, was sent In. Mr. Tucker will be confirmed within a reasonable time, Former .Senator Butler opposed his nomination, but will not try to pre vent his confirmation. He said if the hide had gone why not let the tall go. Wlliam S. Carowan was nominated for postmaster at Columbia. Two Pardons are Revoked. Governor Morrison has revoked the pardon of John H. "Red" Britt of Bun combe county and of Fred Rector of Madlaon county. Britt was granted a conditional parole on October 12, 1921 but Information reaching the Gover nor Is that the man has already brok en his parole and it Is revoked. Fred Rector, ha been free even a shorter time. He was paroled In or der that he might be treated for tuber culosis. But he ha not taken ad vantage of the opportunity and ha violated the conditions ot the parole. The amalgamation of all war vet erans of Canada Into a Canadian Legion to be founded on principle similar to those of the American Legion has been approved by official of the various war organizations. More than 10,000 leaders ln the vet erans' associations have pledged their support of the merger. It hus been shown that one organi zation can operate more effectively anu at less expense than a half a dozen organizations with a common Interest and purpose. The merger will make possible a closer co-opera tion between the veterans and th Canadian government, which has al ready spent $84,000,000 In the estab lishment of returned soldiers on lund. A recent report shows that 27,000 Individual ex-service men have been benefited by the laws, the objects of which were soldier re-estnblishment and the development of the agricul tural resources of the dominion. Un der the law, uny ex-service mun eligi ble from a military standpoint, having seen service overseas, may, apply for loans up to the maximum of $7,500 for the following purposes: For the purchase of land, $4,500; for stock and equipment, $2,XKi; for permanent improvements, $1,000. If on Incum bered land, the ex-soldier is entitled to loans amounting to $,r,000; If on free lund, to loans amounting to $3,000. In the case of purchused land the settler must pay 10 per cent of the cost price of the laud as a guurutitee of good faith. Carrying On With the American Legion Daniel Chester French, sculptor, who created "The Slimite Mmi lit Concord." has been selected t design the me morial for Massachusetts dead lu the World war which is to be erected i somewhere along the American sector In t runce. Henry Bacon, designer of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, I. C, will be associated with him. The Community House at Camp Cus ter, Mich., purchused by a Chicago company for $:!0,0K), has been repur chased by the state of Michigan and will be presented to the American Legion for use as a hospital for sick and disabled veterans. The building will be Improved at the expense of the state. General Lafayette post of the Ameri can Leulon, composed of New Xork City policemen, has mortiruired Its Long Island clubhouse for $1,ikk), the money to he used in helping unem ployed veteran. The policemen-Legionnaires have pledged themselves to cunvHss their bents for Jobs for their unfortunate "huddles." "The Book of Misery" containing thousands of news-clippings and let ters describing the plight of America' World war veterans in the recent period of unemployment will be pre sented to Congress by the Legion a documentary evidence ln favor of relief for ex-service men. Unemployed ex-service men sleep ing lu Bryant Purk, New York, wer awakened one recent midnight by the sound of a bugle mess call. Seven hundred of the unfortunate men lined lip for "chow". A committee repre senting the George Dnhlhender post of the American Legion, led the men to a restaurant where each was fed at the exjiense of the Legion post. The American Legion has asked the shipping board to permit the use of the giant liner Llvlut'mn ns a tem porary shelter for Jobless ex-service mei,. The liner has been Idle at the Hohoken army docks for several months. During the war It transpor ted 140,000 American troops to France. Charles W. Seymour, of Hartford, Conn., tendered his resignation aa state senator following his election to the commundership of the American Legion ln Connecticut Officers of the Legion cannot hold public office which Is elective. DEFENDS THE DISABLED MEN Medical Director Decries Statement Regarding "Fakers," and "Com pensatlon Chasers." In an appeal for the proper care of disabled veterans of the World, war Dr. Thomas W. ' Salmon, director National tee for Hygiene, medical of the t ak e s X, 1 Dispute In Ninth District Information from Commiaeioner Doughton's district is that th Wilkes county people do not foel that they have been getting their part of the roads allotted to this district. They believe that the road from North Wilkesboro to Jefferson woult be one ot the first constructed. It' was at the former place that Governor Morrl on made his good roads speech, vthlca gome of hi friends recall a beTtng a pledge that he would us sv ry effort ln his power o get th mads tor tot ration If elected. occasion to decry the statements re garding "fakers," "goldb r I c k e r and "compensa tion chaser i." "Let us not be pilnlpii iv this loose talk about fakers," says Doctor Salmon, who Is a member of the American Legion Hospl. tallzation committee. "Of course there are such men among those who apply for relief. But you will find them everywhere; In business, in colleges, ln politic and even In the churches." Doctor Salmon, In his plea for com plete and efficient care of the disabled men, answers the assertion that there are 6,000 empty beds ln th govern ment hoipltal8. He explain that bed alone cannot cure the disabled and besides, he say, most of the 6,000 empty bed are needed to constitute the reserve that everr hosnltal with an active service need. New Club House at II Pats. A new $88,000 club house for Legion naires of the southwest has been opened at El Paso, Texas, by -$l Paso post of the American Legion. The new home la In the business district of tn city. Not Intentional. Mother- What make you want to get all dirty and bloody fighting? Son I didn't exactly want to, Ma, but that other kid was kind of, htndy with ... hi sfteUv American leim i A twenty-acre park, known aa "American Legion Park" has been ded icated by the city of Melrose, Minn, to the men of the city who were In service during the World war. Tha Melrose Legionnaires have established u cniiurens playgrounds, a tourist camping grounds and a baseball dia mond. Ex-soldlers and marines, members of the American Legion, were the heroes ln the rescue work which fol lowed the explosion of a tnnk con taining 600,000 cubic feet of ammonia mines in rew York City. One of the former service men Is accredited with having rescued ten persons from a tenement which had become filled with the fumes. A "party" which Is snld to have cost $10,000 was given by L. Gordon Hamersley, who served as a lieutenant In the Sixth Field artillery of the First division, at his estate near Tarry town-on-tlie-Hudson. The guests were disabled soldiers of the First division and members of the Jeff Feigl post of the American Legion. Emergency officers of the army dis abled during the war "don't belong" on the retired list of the regular army, Secretary Weeks told officials of the American Legion, who are fostering a plan for the retirement on retirement pay of the emergency officers of the World war. e The first woman to hold the position of adjutant of a state department of the American Legion Is Miss Ho- noruh H. Gittlngs, of California. Miss Glttlngs served during the war as a yeomanette ln the navy. She Is act ing adjutant of the California de partment. Failure to doff his hat when the funeral cortege of an American soldier passed, caused Adam Kosloski to lose his Job as constable at Sauk Rapids, Minn. A complaint against Kosloski was filed by members of th American Legion. Five hundred deaf and dumb chil dren of New York nttended a showing of the film-play, "The Man Without a Country," as guest of the Ameri. can Legion. Bach child wrote an essay ou AuieilmnUin baited on impression oi me piay. . Five hundred unemployed veteran of the World war ln New York wer given employment aa movie super In the Btudlo at Mamaroneck, Lon Island. The Mark-Hamilton poet of the American Legion at Minneapolis la wganlrlng it own band, orchestra, glee club, vaudeville team and dn natlc company. Nashwauk, Minn., has turned ovet in abandoned school building to the americnn legion for a club house. Hie building will be remodeled. The American Legion post at Fair. nont, Minn, ha been awarded a Bfj. year lease on the former city water plant there at a rental of $1 year. The building I valued at $23,000 ami Is ln th heart ot the business div trlct It will be converted Into a club house. ' j ' One hundred aliens manning tha ' ' shipping board fleet; at Camp EfMla, Va, have been discharged and thelf places filled with unemployed Ameri- rt n aiiniH a f t A tni.nn.. i American l$m. . ... ..... . ,. Wekl.;;,..p r ; J