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THE NORTH PLATTE BAII-WEEKLY TIM BUN 13
AMERK'AN
LEGION
(Copr for Thl tprtrnnl flupplled br
th American l.lon Vewa Sarvtce.)
POST GETS ARTISTIC RANGE
Chicago Organization Acquires Use of
Famous World's Fair Field
Museum Building.
Tho American Legion will soon have
thu use of a building known to mil
lions In America na tlie embodiment
of beauty In art and nrcliltucturc, tho
old Fine Arts building of tho 180.'I
World's Fair. The crack of army
rifles will be heard In the famous
structure, for It has been 'turned over
to thoIIydo Pork post, No. JM, of tho
Legion Jn Chicago, au an Indoor rlllo
rang;.
Tho largo edlllco, known as the old
Field museum after tho World's fair,
was evacuated with the completion of
the new Field museum. Various or
ganizations of Chicago Immediately
besieged tho park commissioners for
permission to use tno building, but
the Legion post's request alone was
granted.
Legionnaires now have a rlllo range
de luxe, one that will tend to erase
the veteran's memories of sweltering
days, shivering days and cold, moist
days spent In trying to locate tho
bullseyo on the army's outdoor fir
ing points. The building Is so largo
that a 'JOO-ynrd range was established
without difficulty, along with the
shorter distances.
GETS MONEY FOR W.' A. A. L
Hungry Rooster Proves Gold Mine for
Woman'o Organization In
Kansas..
How many grains of corn will a ter
ribly hungry ro'6ster eat after lie has
missed his meals for live hours? Tho
Plymouth Hock In tho photograph
tucked away 281) grains In record tlino
and mado $328 for tho Women's Aux
iliary of the American Legion, In Clin
marron, Kun.
Tho bird was placed In a show win
dow on tho main street In tho Kan
sas town. For five hours ho scratched
and crowed for provender, which was
not forthcoming. Then 1,000 grains of
tempting yellow corn wore spread bo
fore him. Guesses as to how many
grains of corn It would tako to assuage
his hunger were sold at ton cents each.
In tlireo hours Mr, Hock had gulped
288 kernels of Kansas corn and re
tired for tho night. Thon he wns sold
Mbe. Lelah L. Klein, Clmmarron, Kan.,
and the Lucrative Rooster.
twice, given back to tho women, and
was finally auctioned off. In nil, ho
netted $.'128, a fraction moro than
$1.15 for overy grain of corn ho nto.
Mrs. Lelah L. Klein, national execu
tive commlttoowoman from tho Kan
sas department of tho Auxiliary, linn
lled tho contest. Ono of the most
active workers for the Auxiliary In
lier state, Mrs. Klein wna'cdueati'd In
Wollosley college and In tho New
I3nglnnd Conservatory of Music. Ilor
liuslmnd, who was u caplaln In tho
medical corps, was gassed In tho Ar
gonno-Mouso offensive.
THE AMERICAN LEGION GIRL
Wlsa Margaret Sousa, Daughter of Fa-
mous Bandmaster, Acquires
New Title.
Miss Margaret Sousa, daughter of
John Philip Sousa, famous band direc
tor, has acquired
n now title. Sho
Is known as tho
"American Legion
Girl" because of
her starring In
a Legion motion
picture, "Lest Wo
Forget," u film
depicting thu
struggles of tils
abled veterans to
obtain Justice and
unomp 1 o y in o n t
conditions nmong those who ascaped
Injury In the World war. '
Reporting to Davy Jones,
Sam, on hoard the transport, hud
Just, been Issued his first pair of hob
nulla.
"Qiui thing, sunh." ho ruminated. "If
Ah falls overboard, ah certainly will
go down at 'tenshun." American Lo
tion Weekly
AN ALL-AROUND LEGION MAN
Michigan's Newly Appointed Head of
National Service Dlvis(on la
Equipped With Information.
A sailor, n traffic cop, n first ser
geant, nu assistant provost marshal
and a patient In
army Hospitals
for almost two
years, Albert III
Hann of Michi
gan, newly up
polrted head of
the American Lu
g I it n' a national
service division,
Is well equipped
to minister to the
needs of ex serv
ice men.
Mr. Haan gain
ed the rank of
captain on the bnttlefleld and wns sc
verely wounded In action at .Tuvlgny.
Franco, while serving with tho Thirty
second division. In Walter iteed hos'
pltnl, Washington, for more than a
year, he found out what the govern
ment Intended to do' for the wounded
by studying plans and legislation con
cerning the subjeqt. Dlst'hnrgcd from
tho hospital last full, he was mado a
special representative of the bureau of
war risk Insurance.
In nrmy and navy camps ho was In
strumental, through the American Lo
glon, In causing the reinstatement or
conversion of $5,000,000 In wnr risk
Insurance. In Michigan last Novem
ber, ns field representative of tho war
risk bureuii, ho directed a cleanup of
hospital, Insurance and compensation
claims that placed tho state ahead of
nil others In welfare accomplishments.
During the campaign he Investigat
ed tho condition of ex-service men in
tho stnto prison at Jackson nnd tho
Insnne asylum In Kalamazoo, no
worked with the Legion's welfare de
partment to cause the parolo of 150
men last year to tho Legion. Ho ob
tained $300,000 In funds raised during
tho war and used It in settling claims,
relief of tho disabled and their do
pendents and In untangling Insurance
difficulties nnd remedying hospital con
ditions. Mr. Ilnan Is twenty-eight years old.
Coming out of high school, he entered
the Unked Stntes navy ns un appren
tice senmnn. He served four years on
tho U. S. S. Idaho and wns discharged
as a quartermaster, second class. Ho
then beenmo a motor nnd traffic police
man In Grand Haplds, Mich. In 1910,
ho went to the Mexican -border as a
first sergeant In the Michigan Infan
try. Before ho entered tho lines In
France, ho was assistant provost mnr
shal at St. Nazalre, ns n first lieuten
ant. Before tho battle In which ho
was wounded, ho had served In three
offcnsl ires.
BOOKS FOR DISABLED HEROES
Oongresa Appropriates $100,000 for
Reading Material for Soldiers
Confined to Hospitals.
Disabled heroes of tho World wnr
nro not to bo without good books to
rend whllo they aro fighting to regain
health In the hospitals of this coun
try. Congress bus appropriated In tho
dvli sundry bill tho sum, of $100,000
for tho purchaso of books, with tho
result that each of tho 23,000 disabled
veterans will soon have three or four
now books to read.
The American Library association,
fthlch still has charge of tho libraries
In the larger hospitals, has been em
barrassed by a shortage of funds, and
up to this time pasts of tho American
Legion have taken over the duty of
supplying books to tho disabled In
hundreds of tho smaller hospitals. The
appropriation by congress does not
mean that either the services of the
American Library association or the
American Legion In this respect aro to
ho dispensed with, hut that they are
to he greatly augmented and roln
forced.
CREED OF THE DISABLED MAN
Afflicted Fellows of Washington, D. C,
Post, Look on Brighter Side
of Things.
Disabled veterans of the World war,
nearly all of them overseas veterans
and members of tho Walter Heed post
of the American Legion In Washing
ton, D. G., have adopted what they
term, "Tho Creed of the Disabled
Man," which, called to the attention
of President Harding upon a recent
visit to thu hospital, was by the Pros
idont prouueed lino. The' "creed"
roads af follows:
Once moro to ho useful to seo pity
lu tho eyes of my friends replaced
with commendation to work, pro
duce, piovldo and to feel that I havo
a1 place In tho vorld, seeking no fa
vors and given none a man among
men In spite of this physical handicap.
Cost of Living In Paris.
Tho cost of living In Paris Is not
exorbitant for au ( American, who Is
pnld In American dollars, according
to a letter from a member of tho Paris
Post of tho American Legion.
"llewaio tho big restaurants and
duck into the stde streets unfrequent
ed by tourists," tho veteran wurns.
UI had a lino meal today for 8.50
franca, or about fifty coats.
"Tho menu Included: Frlturo do la
Loire, 1.50 francs; omelette cham
pignons, 2.25 francs; Chateaubriand
(which Is fried spuds and watercress),
2.50 francs ; celerl braise, 75 centimes ;
macaroni, 75 centimes and fromage,
75 centimes.
"And after tho meal, cafo cognac
for 05 centimes 1"
Town and Harbor
(Prepared by tho National Oeoitraphlo So
ciety, waamngton, u. v.)
Tho Virgin Islands, bought by the
United Stntes from Denmark In 1017,
to which American mnrlnes recently
stnrted to lly from Wnshlngton arc
Interesting and worthy of considera
tion not only because of their eventful
history but also because they have
figured In many diplomatic negotia
tions and because of their strategic
Importance to the United States In
relation to tho Panama cannl.
That this group of ubout fifty
Islands, only three of which nro big
enough to have a name on any but
hydrographlc charts and local maps,
and the biggest of which one could
walk around In nine hours seems Im
portant to our government may be
Judged by the price It paid for them.
We gave less thun two cents an acre
for Alaska, less than three cents an
ncro for Cnllfornln, Nevada, Colorado
and Utah, less than 14 cents nn ncro
for Florida, and under 27 cents nn
ncro for the Philippines. Eyen for
the Cannl Zone wo paid hut' $35.83
per acre.. Yet the $25,000,000 for tho
group we paid Denmnrk figures out
moro than $2115 per acre for her hold
ings. Authorities have disagreed ns to
the area of the islands. Even as to
tho three main Islnnds St. Thomas,
St. John nnd St. Croix there Is no
ngreement upon the question, of nreu.
In order to get a definite Btntemcnt
ns to their size, plnnlnieter measure
ments of them were made on hydro
graphic charts in the offices of the
Nntlonnl Geographic aocloty, and they
show thnt St. Thomas Is 28.25 squatp
miles In area, St. Croix 84.25 square
miles, nnd St. John 10.07 squnro miles,
linking a total of 132.47 square miles
for the three Islands. Some authorities
give the urei as 188 square miles and
othera ns 142 Hquare miles.
Finest of Harbors.
From tho standpoint of tho United
States, St. Thdmns Is tho most Im
portant of the group of Islands. This
Importance arises from the fact that
the harbor on tho south sldo of tho
Island, on whose borders tho town of
Chnrlotte Amnlle is located, Is ono
of the finest In all .tropical America.
From the dnys of tho buccaneers Its
strategic ndvuntnge has been realized,
for when tho Spanish Mnln wns the
happy hunting ground of the gentle
men of the Black Flag this harbor
was their headquarters.
The harbor Is completely sheltered.
Outside Is a roadstend pnrtly pro
tected by an outlying Island, which
provides anchorage for a great number
of ships. At Its mouth tho harbor
Is 000 feet wide, nnd ono passes
through this narrow neck Into ,a
beautiful basin, three-quarters of a
mllo In diameter, whose waters nro
seldom disturbed however much tho
sea beyond may rage. A trado wind
blows during the whole yenr, with the
exception of the hurrlcn'no months
August, September nnd October when
It becomes Irregular and sometimes
ceases to blow altogether. Tho
greatest heat Is experienced In August,
September and Octiber ; but even then
It rarely rises above 01 degrees
Fahrenheit, whllo at times It falls ns
low as 64 degrees.
On three sides 'of tho harbor tho
mountains anil their outlying foot
lillls rise sharply from the water,
leaving hut n very narrow beach; so
Unit the major portion of the town
had to find room for expansion by
climbing up the side of the mountain.
Just outside of and above the town
are the two old towers, commonly
known ns Illuebeard's Castle and
Hlackbeard's Castle. Legend bns It
that boa those daring old buccaneers
had their headquarters and played
their romantic roles as "tho hornots
of tho Spanish Main;" but history
disputes legend, for It says that they
were built by the Danish government
ns n measure of defenso lu lflSO.
Views From the Heights,
lly climbing tho mountain to Ainu
polio, wKhln easy walking distance of
Charlotte Amalle, one can, on a clear
day, get n view of Porto Hlco. St,
Croix, and Hequles. A little farther on
one reaches heights whore views, un
surpassed In all the Caribbean region
may he had of Porto Hlco to the west
and tho Lesser Antilles to the south
Tho West Indlnn-Pannma Telegraph
company has a cable olllco at Chnrlotte
Amnlle, and It was from this placo
that tho world got so ninul) of Its
news during tho Spanish-American
war, ns well as during uio Martinique
disaster.
cf Charlotte Amalle.
Under the Danish regime the
governor of. th,o colonies lived In
Charlotte Amalle from October 1 to
April 1, and In ChrlstlnnstiM, on tho
Island of St. Crolr, from April 1 to
October 1. He wns nsslstcd by a
colonial council, consisting of four
members nominated by the crown and
eleven elected by the people. How
well the population wns represented
may be Judged by the statement that
out of nearly 11,000 inhabitants, In
1891, only 200 were voters. There was
no color lino In St. Thomas, or In
either of tho other Islnnds for thnt
mutter, nnd tho lnrger part of the
population Is of mixed blood.
Tho state church wns Lutheran,
nlthough nil others were, tolerated.
Tho Catholic nnd Episcopal congrega
tions nro tho largest. The former has
established a flno school for girls. The
Jews hnvo n well-built synugoguo, whllo
the Moravians have lone been doing
nn Importdnt work among the ( negroes
of the Island. The Dutch Reformed
nnd Wesleynn churches have nlso been
engaged In like work.
May Be a Second Gibraltar.
Naval officers declare that St
Thomas possesses advantages ena
bling jt to be converted into a second-
Gibraltar. The structure of the Island,
with Its long central ridge, having
a general elevation of ubout 1,000 feet,
with some points 1,500 feet, Is
especially fitted for tho emplacement
of fortifications commanding both
shores at the same time, .making it
extremely difficult for nn enemy to
npproach or obtain a foothold on the
Island. Tho elevated ground In tho
Imraedlnto neighborhood of tho ex
cellent roadsteads mnkes the question
of harbor defense n comparatively
easy one. While being near other
Islands, St. Thomas Is practically In
the open oceans and permits entrance
and egress of a fleet without being ob
served.
St John, the smallest of the three
Islands, with a good harbor In Coral
Bay, Is only 8 miles long and 4
miles wide In its broadest part It
has n population of less than 1,000;
but It Is nn island that has done great
service to America, for It Is from hero
that come tho leaves of the bay tree
(Plmentn ncrls), from which that well-
nigh Indispensable toilet article for
men, ony rum, is prepareu. wnno
most of the bny ruin Is made' In St
Thomas, St. John produces most of
tho raw materials from which It Is
distilled.
This Island once hnd mnny logwood
trees on It, but . they have almost
entirely disappeared. Charcoal has
long been In demand nnd tho natives
use logwood In Its manufacture.. AU
of the Islands have a striking variety
of vegetntlon, 1,200 species having
been counted on St. Thomns, . nnd a
proportionate number on St, John nnd
St. Croix. The plantain banana,
sapodllla, bell apple, orange, mango
nnd lemon thrive. Sugnr-cane flourish
es when cultivated according to
modern standards.
Communication between St. Tlmmns
nnd St. John Is maintained by several
sloops. Ono Df these has a history
of moro thnn a century In active ser
vice. It Is the Vigilant, which hns
been, In turn, pirate, slave trader nnd
mnn-o'-war. Then sho beenme a pro
saic dispatch boat, carrying mnll and
cargo between the several Islands.
St. Croix the Largest.
St Croix is tho largest, richest, and
most populous of the three Islands. It
lies -10 miles south-sodthenst of St.
Thomns, has an area of 84.25 squnre
miles, nnd' n population of approx
imately 20,000. It has much rich
sugar land, more than 10,000 ucres
being devoted to the crop. It Is
purely agricultural, with a fine tropical
climate, excellent scenery, good roads,
nnd hospltnblo people. Hero, as In
the other Islands, one hears perhnps
more Hngllsh spoken than any other
tongue. Tho Danes never attempted
to Interfere with t'.tr natlvo preference
for English and never mado Danish
compulsory In tho schools.
The Island Is perhnps moro llko
"United States" than any other terri
tory In the West Indian group. Be
fore tho dnys of Bermuda's ascendency
ns a winter resort, nnd of Palm Bench,
tho Hlvlera and other places, many
fashionable Americans Journeyed to
St. Croix to cscnpe the cold. Also the
children of the prominent families of
St. Croix came to the United States
to study, for the St Croix plantor
admired Amcrlcn nnd her straight-from-tho-shouder
way of doing things.
ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on Genuine
Mi
Tako Aspirin only as told In each
package of gonulno Hnyei' Tablets of
Aspirin. Than you will bo following
tho directions nnd dosage worked out
hy physlclntiB during 21 years, nnd
proved pnfo by millions. Tnko no
chnncca with substitutes. If you sec
the Hnycr Cross on tablets, you can
tnko them without fear for Colds,
Hcndnche, Neuralgia, Rheumatism,
Enrnche, Toothache, Lumbago nnd
for Pnln. Hnndy tin boxes of twelvo
tnblots cost few cents. Druggists nlso
sell larger packages. Aspirin Is tho
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of
Mononcotlcncldcstcr of SaUcyllcacld.-
Adv.
"I'll Say I WasV
Mrs. D. Plrlo Beyen came to "Kansas
City last week to attend tho nurses'
convention. Her visit to the mlddla
West resulted In renewing many ac
quaintances made during her four
years' service ns nn overseas nurso.
Many of her patients were men from
thu Eighty-ninth nnd Thirty-fifth divi
sions who fought In tho Argonnc.
At Eleventh and Main streets she
spied n familiar figure directing the
trnfllc
"Sny, buddy," sho called, "weren't
you lu the nrmy?"
"I'll say I was," replied the traffic
officer.
"Weren't you with the Ono Hundred
nud Thirty-seventh?"
"I'll say I was!"
"Do you remember When you wore
going through tho village of Beu Quit
Vaux mid the little fat .nurso who
brought you a bowl of soup?"
"I'll sny I do; were you that little
nurse?"
"I'll sny I was." Kansas City Star.
Important to all Women
Readers of this Paper
Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or tho
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy con
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
''You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes, you nervous, irrita
ble and may be despondent; it makes any
one so.
But hundreds of women claim that Dr.
Kilmers Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
Many send for a sample bottle to see
what Swamp-Root, the great kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, will do for
them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y you
may receive sample size bottle .by Parcel
Post. You can purchase medium and
large size bottles at all drug stores. Adv.
Greatest Great Neck Loafer.
At Great Neck there Is an old man
who hos the rating as premier of all
loafers. It Is related of hlra that he
Is so lazy he refuses to eat antiriiun-
ger drives him to. It
It wns with some surprise, there
fore, that a Great Necklan encoun
tered the old loafer up early one
morning. The friend could not sup
press a question.
"How Is It you're up so early?"
he asked.
"Well, that's funny," snld the old
man. "Hero I've been getting up this
early every morning for teil yeart
to get my wife off to the work at the
laundry nnd you never knew anything
about It." Now York Sun.
Catarrh
Catarrh Is a locl disease greatly Influ
enced by constitutional conditions.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is a
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the blood and building up the System,
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE restores
normal conditions and allows Naturo to
do Its work.
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It Makes a Difference.
"Another bum politician after a Job."
"lie got tho Job."
"Ah, ono of our best minds."
to.,
Boom
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Class In Physiology.
Teacher Where Is the heart
10-
cated?
Little Jimmy (silent).
Teacher (places hand on boy'a
chest) Don't you feel the beating?
Little Jimmy No; I usunlly feel it
on the other side n little lower down.
For true blue, use Red Cross Ball
Blue. Snowy-white clothes will bo
sure to result. Try It nnd you will al
ways use It. All good grocers have It
His Reason.
"I wish you would tell me," said
tho agent, who hnd been a long time
on Mr. Snnggs' trail, "what Is your
objection to having your life Insured?"
"Well, I don't mind telling you," re
plied Snnggs. "The Idea of being
more valuable dead than alive Is dls
tnsteful to me."
Sure
Relief
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I
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4, Dee Bldg., Omaha, Neb.
dc2!ll,f,n, 5,l,i Immlmiton
and Celonlsauon, Dominion ol Canada
