AMLIULAN LhGION IS OILS 1 Michigan department ot U.e i.-K-onTS
I member of Charles A. Learned post of
With the incoming of a new admin-1 Detroit and served on the first execu
Istration, the American Legion Is five committee in his state. During
keenly alive to the duty of protecting the Spanish-Anerican war Mr. Denby
all ex-service men and women now in was h gunner's mate on the U. S.
the government employ under the civil Yoemite and when the world war
service and also 1o the possibility of broke out he enlisted as a private in
increasing the number of veterans in the marine corps. He retired from the
jrovernmeet service. At present, only service with the rank of major in the
about one-twentieth of thoe in the reserve.
civil pervice, 20,000 out of 420,000 are Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., assistant
veterans. This condition exists in secretary of the n.avy, served as a lieu
rpite of the fact that S,",000 ex-service tenant-colonel in the 2fith Infantry of
persons have fought government job; the First Division and wa;-. wounded in
70,000 of them passed the examina- act on. He was one of the founders
tions and measured up to all require- of the American Legion at its first
ments and 4f,000 have been recom- meeting in Paris and was prominently
mended or certified for appointment by ment'-oncd for the first commandership
the civil service. ; until he refused to allow his name to
The law requires the civil service be used as a candidate,
comnrss'on to submit the names of
three el ig bles for each appointment to "Americanizat'on week" or citizen
be made, including the ex-service per-1 shin week was observed in the schools
son making the highest mark, and and by part-otic societies of Nebraska
leaves the appointment of one of the during; the (even days ending March 4.
three to the head of the executive de- j Heading of patriotic quotations, Amcr
partment. The fact that in 20.00Q out ican poems, patriotic addresses and
of 4f.,000 cases the department heads ! pageants were arrong the features of
have preferred civilians to veterans is j programs given throughout the state.
not at all satisfactory to the Legion,
according to Stete Adjutant F. B. J TIIK MOVIES
O'Connell, who adds that the national
legislative committee intends to see
that a better showing is made in the' William Russell in 'The Challenge
future. ' tne 'axv" 's lnft i eat me of tonight's
. I Imperial program. It is a high-colored
A national census of service men in ! ftory, written by K. Lloyd Sheldon,
hospitals of thirty states, conducted bv with scenario by Denison Chft, and
the American Le'g'on, show that one-; directed with infin-te care by Scott
third are Won members. According ' Dunlap. The story deals with life nt a
to the state officers, the figures are: fur trading post in the Far North,
tower than the average in Nebraska, where life is still primitive. The role
proof that the wounded and disabled of a captain in the Royal Mounted
veterans appreciate the fight the police is admirably su'ted to Will:am
Legion has made and continues to Russell, who gives a stirring charac-
make in their behalf. .tenzation or a red-b ooited, two-tisieu
guardian ot law ana order.
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We refuse to believe, from now on,
that business is rotten. One Alliance!
firm, organized less than a month apo,
at a time when every mechant was
down in the mouth over the outloolJ.
has made a most astounding success,.
and has doubled, redoubled and again
redoubled the value of its . capital
stock.
We refer to the R-II Company, In
corporated, which was organized with
a capital consisting of three hundred
and fifty-. -even thousand gazabos
(equal to eighty-five cents in United
Stales money) and three 12'i cent
buffet checks.
The object of this company, we un
derstand, is to furnish nmusement to
tired business men whose wives are
temporarily (or permanently) out of
the city. There are but two share
holders, ami to date but two customers.
Of course, there would be thirty or
forty if the facilities of the company
permitted taking care of the business
that would flock to them upon invitation.
low, he ftumbled to where he had left
his team, only to find that someone
had unhitched the horses and driven
them awnv.
'Kzra Perkins," he said to himself
sadly, passing a hand over his brow,
"if you're Kzra Perkins jiou've lost a
pair ofdurn good horses. But," bripht
ening, "if you ain't Kzra Perkins
oue found a durn good wagon."
A plan by which thousands of Amer
ican Legion members might be given a
"Isobel" or "The Trail's Lnd," is
fro ram.cn in rnvoinmont i nimiospil the attract'on for Saturday, and House
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bv Representative Hamilton Fish of . eiers neer nan a ii.ie iwm-i .-u ic
New York, himself a legionnaire. Mr.
Fish suggests that each member of
the house and senate take a legion
to his typical ruggedness and natural
talent. Peters is a member of the
Royal Northwe.-t Mounted police a
member to , Washington for three j strong -and ! likable character, whjle
months ns one of the secretaries per
mitted in his ofTice and replace the
veteran at the end of that period with
another one and so on. He has- al
ready started a relav of New York
legion men in his ofTice.
The American Legion at its second
national convention passed a resolu
t'on urging newspapers not to empha
uiif the fact that he is an ex-service
man when a veteran gets into trouble j the story
Miss Novak is cast ns the beautiful
and faithful wife of the man the offi
cer has sworn to capture dead or alive.
It was inevitable, of course, in a Cur
w.rd story, for the officer to fall in
love with the woman but it was a
sort of spiritual love which both the
woman and her husband understood.
There springs up a wonderful friend
ship between the three, and it is the
development of this theme that makes
I r.e on cer saves me man
with the law. This policy will be ob
served by the Associated Press, ec
rordlnjf to orders issued to its superin
tendents and correspondents.
The poppy has been adopted as a
memorial flower by the American
Legion. On Memorial day these fow
ers, thousands of wh'ch have been
made by the women of France, will be
worn and used as decoration
American ' and
and woman from the clutches of a vil
lainous member of the force, anil wan
ders about the northland for nearly t
year. He finds but to relate' the story
is to spoil it.
"You Never Can Tel!," with Bebe
Daniels, the pippin, is the Sunday
movie. The fair young maid was an
evneit handler .-f checks, but alas for
The. her soaring ambition, they were hat
French Children's checks, not bank checks. And she did
league is aiding in the distribution.
Ceneral John J. Persh'ng, whose
home is in Lincoln, Neb., will pay home
folks a visit in June when he comes
to deliver the commencement address
at the University of Nebraska. The
announcement of the general's arrival
was made by Chancellor Samuel
Avery, a legionnaire, at a meeting of
the Lincoln post, of which General
Pershing is "Member No. 1." The rot
is making arrangements to entertain
the distinguished guest during his visit
at the state capital. .
The Ame'-ican Legion is represented
in the official family of President
Harding by two members who have
taken a prominent part in the forma
tion of the ex-servk-e men's organiza
tion. PMwIn Tlonbv. th new secretary of
the navy, Is a'charter member of the l skill by Frank Mayo,
need money badly, tco, for her folks
at home were about to be dispossessed
because they couldn't pay the rent.
Her face would have to be her fortune,
she decided. At that, you would have
thought her a millionaire's child. How
this audacious little moth fluttered
about among the real bu'terflies of
high society makes one of the smart
est comedies you can imagine.
Monday comes "Tiger True," in
which Fritizi Brunette makes her ap
pearance as a fearless girl proprietor
of a soft-drink saloon and soup kitchen
in the roughest part of the slums. The
character of a man of fashion who
hungers for adventure and who be
comes a "bouncer" in a cheap under
world cafe in order to keep his eyf
on a girl of the slums in whom he be
romes interested"! is an unusual one.
but it is played with much charm and
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Palace Market
PHONE 131
Despite its unprecen'ed success, the
R-H Company, Inc., will go out of
business some time before St. Patrick's
day. unless two wives decide to length
en th.rir visits.
We have been pio-nised an option
on the company when the owners go
ou of business, and beginning next
Monday, sealed proposals will be re
ce:ved at our o'Tire from those who
desire to become a partner in this en
terprise. Naturally, we reserve the
right to reiect any and all bids. All
bils must be accompanied by a cash
deposit of at least 42.000 gazabos, or
something like 10 cents, which may or
may not be returned, -depending on
how much we need the money.
Today's Best Story.
Tn the brave days of old before
VoMead's name was listed in Who's
Who, there was a certa-in farmer who
formed the hab't of celebrating on his
monthly trips to town for his supplies.
One afternoon, at the close of one
Someone was wondering jmt why it
is that the freight tonnage lias
slumped to such an alarming extent.
We do not presume to pose as an ex
pert, but c.-terday we had our atten
tion called to one instance wh'ch may
.throw Konie l pht on the subject. A
I small typewriter stand, weigh n'ne
teen pounds, was received from Toledo,
Oh o. Co t of stand. $!. Freight
charges, t. in. Cost of same item by
express, $1.10. Thank our lucky star
that stand came prepaid.
We reca'l the significant statement
in some college paper that although
there are some towns too small to
have "new-papers, all of them hu-.-r
sewing circles.
Cal Ha.-hm-in is organizing a r.ew so
e'ety, for the benefit of oppressed mar
ried men. The t-h-'ef advantage is that
the membership card is in the form of
a perm't. m be signed by the wife
which reiiiU about as follows:
PKRM'T
This is to ceit-fy: That I,
the legally wedded w'fr
of do '.lereliy
permit my husband to go where lr
pleases, drnk what he pleases ;nd
when he pleases, and I furthermore
permit b in to keep and enjoy the
company of any lady or ladies he ,ees
fit, as I know he is a good judge. I
want him to enjoy life, as he will be
a long time dead. Signed .
That form of perm't is hereby
recommimlrd to the R-H 'i'omp.my,
Inc., for use with customers whof-e
conscience bothers them.
Cal said that one man showed this
permit to his wife and n-d-ed her to
sign it. Her reply was that il she could
was iU te certain that hed be a long
Jtime dead, all right, and would legin
We learn 'atcr, front nut'icnt'o
ninrrrs ttvit bo tbinlv rli I fimmi n
'didn't weir u raincoat. It was a
slicker. The re t of the it.ny is true.
One of the things that continue to
get our goat is that occasionally it
tloesn t s:pear in print as we wrot ' it.
! Th-'s is due to the devilish m ichin.i
t'ons of either the op. or the prenf
reader. It's a wonder that there i :r.'t
more murders in printing office .
F'rinstance, last week we printed a
liftie sfiiih troin the pen of the ed lor
of the Po'tcr Review, who had hern
accused by the unthinking of mai u
fruttir ng home brew, when in le.ility
the culprit was his predoceor. The
op. nnd the p. r. omitted to credit the
art'ele to the Review, and only the
fact that we have hitherto lived a pure,
spolless and noble life prevented peo
ple ironi conciud ng tnat we were
lived up with (Jus livers or Charley
offers. It's risky crouch, vou un ler-
tand, without I'ttenipting to make it.
A pteacher rnminded us this morn
ng of the S. P. C. S. C. P. (i., and
vanted to know if we belonged. He
aid that all ceh blitzes with a firnt
a me the same as ours had enli:ted in
he cause. As soon as we learned the
tame of the organization the Society
"or the Prevention of Calling All
'lerping Car Porters George we sent
n for half n dozen membership blanks,
ind will distribute them among the
Georges of our acquaintance.
We clipped a good story for this
column yesterday, but the office boy
eleured our desk and it's lost.
In 1922 the Plasters' union gained
the.r great victory, the five-hour day.
In 1924 the bricklayers, after doing
no work for six months during which
their wives took in washing, achieved
the three-hour day.
In l!2 the the Affiliated Unions of
Hod-Carriers and Waiters landed the
two-hour day.
In 1!27 the unions of carpenters,
joiners, barliers, surgeons, butchers,
motormen, ballplayers, pnpei hangers,
janitors, lemonade bartenders, school
children, brakemcn, plumbers, burg
lars, mule-drivers, caddies, chiropo
dists and clergymen obtained the one
hour day. All the other unions auto
mati allv adoi.ted th
(tal, A'dsonopolis, District of Democ
racy, to same working period.
In 102H the universal convention of
organized labor met to consider the
ominous cjuestion, "What next?"
"Brethren," said the chairman, "we
seem to be up against it. What can
follow the one-hour day? There is
nothing left to rompier. Our occupa
tion as walking and talking delegates
. la trrr n '
"Not so," responded the gentleman
from Rolshevikia. "We have not yet
reached the limit. Hitherto we have
been agitating for 'shorter hours for
labor,' but all we've gained has been
fewer hours. The hours are as long
as they ever were. From now on let
our slogan be: 'A shorter hour for
labor.' "
In 192S organized labor secured the
thirty-minute hour, with time and a
half for overtime and fifteen minutes
for lunch. Life.
It is surprising news to hear that
a telegraph messenger boy has been
killed. Most peoide thought that they
were indestructible.
Another thing which we suppose
would happen if we should have hard
times would be that hotel clerks would
get polite again.
Kngland confesses to being tired of
American "movies."' Can even that
great F.nglish-spcaking bond survive
this blow ?
That drive on smallpox is likely to
succeed more iiickly than the drive
on .crime. Nobody wants the smallpox.
Maybe that man in Washington who
was carrying three automatic revol
vers .three razors and two dirk knives
was a lobbyist for big nrmament.
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