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THE NEW TAX LAW ' ON DOfiSJ FORGE ; TREASURERS THROUGHOUT THE [ STATE ARE NOW SUPPLIED c WITH TAX TAGS. [ b FULL TEXT OF LAW IS GIVEN: i One Half of Fine# Imposed go to the c Informing Witness and the Other * Half to County School Fund. 11 $ Columbia. $ The dog tax act approved by the J1 legislature is in effect and county 11 treasurers in, all parts of the state n are supplied with tags to be attached $ to collars. Dog owners will pay an 1 annual tax of $1.25 in lieu of the ordi- 5 nary tax. h The new law reads as follows: S "Section 1. Annual dog tax imposed: Be it enacted by the general as- p sembly of the state of South Carolina, that from and after the passage of t] this act there shall be levied on all ^ dogs, six months old or older, in the c state of South Carolina, an annual a tax of $1.25 per head. c "Section 3. That every owner dt a p dog shall be required to collar and w place the aforesaid dog tax upon the g eald collar, except when such dog 0 shall be used for the purpose of hunt- ^ ing or when such dog shall be upon a p chase or hunt g "Section 4. Any person owning, b , harboring of maintaining a dog, fail- p ing or refusing to return and pay the s, tax aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty w of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic- 9 tion thereof.) shall be fined not less ^ than $5 or more than $20, one-half of n which shall go to the person report- b ing said failure to pay said tax, and t] one-half to the public school fund in which said derelict occurs." Will Recommend no Increase. jc No lncrecse in appropriations by the state for the various institutions. t( departments, boards and commissions n will be recommended by Governor ^ Cooper to the legislature next year, q but on the other hand some decreases a; are likely to be favored by the chief jr executive. b, The legislature of course doesn't -p have to take the governor's recom- 8) mendations, and as a matter of fact b; the general assembly last year did ^ not follow the chief magistrate's suggestions in every particular. Tt is probable that closer attention wi'.l be ? paid at the coming session, however. bi tj Conference Plane Abandoned. tc Plans for the first day's session of ^ the governor's conference to be In Co- c lumbla practically have been abandoned, Governor Cooper said. Governor Cooper was anxious to show the vis- g, itlng governors as much of the Pal- jj metto state as possible while they m are here and wanted the first session e( to be in Columbia and the other two day's meeting in Charleston. The plan would mean considerable Fl Inconvenience to some of the chief magistrates, however, it is found. li: D Successor to Sheriff Fant. T Governor Cooper has under consid- q -eration several names for the office of 5. sheriff of Uaion county to succeed the q late J. Hay Fant. who was accidently killed last week when he hit a negro with the butt of his revolver. In the g list of applicants who would become the highest peace officer of Union Q] county Is a man 73 years of age. The governor has not yet appointed a sue- t cessor to Mr. Fant, but he Vflll likely do so within the next few days. Too Charters Granted. ,tl The Latta Investment company of m Latta was 'chartered by the secre- cl tary of state with a capital stock of $3,000. The firm will do a general G merchandise business. Officers are: A. R. Bethoa. presidtnt; G. Q. Watson, 01 vice president; Crum McFarland, tl treasurer; George F. Bartelle, sec- IS retary; W. J. Robinson, general man- ot ager. it The Batesburg Lumber corporation w of Batesburg was chartered with a tc capital stock of $5,000. ol Carter Gets Conscience Money. E Samuel T. Carter, state treasurer, checked off a tax doger from the path g! of the wayward and placed him, the t "unknown taxpayer," on the side of tt the ledger that leads to the straight O and narrow path. h The reason for this checking off was the receipt by Mr. Carter of a ei perfectly good $10 bill from some man f( who wished to pay a debt he owed r< the state. The sum was sent as con- m science money, apparently, the send- g: er not leaving any method of identifi- f< cation. ai To Call for Road Bids. N Bids for the construction of a five mile section of the mountain to sea t< highway in Charleston county will be b called for by the state highway de- h partment. The stretch to be built will 0 run from Goose Creek to Summerville tl and will cost approximately $25,000. w In this new work all grade crossings are to be eliminated, the highway de- 4. partment announces. n Arrangements have also been made T with Dorchester county officials to 3, continue the construction of this road C in that county. p Motorcycles for Police Work. A Twenty-five motorcycles of one maKe ana is or anoiner maae imic w Just been turned over to the state a highway department by the depart- B ment of agriculture, it was announced C and officials of the highway depart- tl ment are now selecting the machines B at Camp Jackson. And as soon as ei the selection is made of the number V. | allotted they will be repaired and will E be available for counties for work. b< ft/ They are to me used to a large ex- c< tent in policing the roads over the ti K& vtrte. R ow Auto License Fees. L. H. Thomas, secretary of the tate highway .commission, and offlials of the motor vehicle license diision of the highway department i&ve been making a comparative tudy of fees charged by South Caroina and other states on automobiles. Their study so far has revealed hat South Carolina is far below a arge number of states in the fees harged on various machines to be egistered. It is probable that the figires these officials are compiling will >e offered the legislature in order that his body may determine whether or tot it Is desired to Increase the fees lightly here. In two classes of automobiles seeded for a comparison, Fords and Jadlllacs, the investigation shows hat in Iowa the fee for a Cadillac 1b 55.80 as compared with $16 here, in daho the license fee for the same car s $40, in Oklahoma $36.25, in Oregon 36. in Vermont $32, in North Dakota 31.10, in Alabama $26.25 and in forth Carolina $20. For Fords the [cense fee ranges as follows; Veraont $23, New Hampshire and Idaho 15, Virginia. $13.80. Maryland $13.80. 'ennessee $11.50, Connecticut $11,0, Georgia and Alabama $11.25 and forth Carolina $10. The license in louth Carolina is $6. \ __ _____ ? - II r- t_ I _ as t I I TODiern OT ine recoie minucu. The gravest social problem facing he state of South Carolina today is he problem of the feebleminded, ae> ording to Dr. V. V. Anderson, assistnt medical director of the national ommittee on mental hygiene and diector. of the mental hygiene staff rhich is now making a mental hyiene survey of South Carolina. One ut of every four persons passing hrough the state, county, and city enal, correctional and dependent intitutions, Dr. Anderson says, has een found to be feebleminded. Aproximately 1 to 2 per cent of the chool children of the state, 5,000 of rhom were examined by the survey taff, are also feebleminded, Dr. Anerson found. These children are inocent and no menace today, he says, ut will later "provide the gri3t for he courts and prisons." I i oans Scottered Over State. Approximately $1,400,000 has been >aned to South Carolina bankers by le war finance corporation since Oc>ber 1, when the South Carolina comlittee began to function, according > Latta Law, secretary of the South arolina committee. Applications for n additional $500,000 are now pendlg and requests for further loans are eing received daily. Mr. Law says, he loans already made have been mattered over the entire state, many anks being just now awakening to le value of the corporation. overnor Issues Two Paroles. Clinton Isaacs, convicted of forgery Bfore Judge Rice in Darlington couhr in September, 1920, and sentenced ) serve two years, was paroled durig his good behavior by Governor ooper. George Gore, convicted of violating le prohibition laws before Judge ease in Union county in September, >20, and sentenced to serve 12 onths or pay $1,000, was also parol1 during his good behavior. ederal Recognition Extended. Federal recognition wa3 extended > three officers of the South Carona national guard. Maj. James C. ozier of Rock Hill, commanding the hird battalion, Lieut. Enos W. Ford, reenrille, adjutant of the Second ittallon, and Lieut. B. F. Bozard, rangeburg, were the officers federalrecognized. peclal Term for Bamberg. Chief Justice Gary has signed ah *der for a special term of the court ! general sessions for Bamberg coun' to begin Monday, December 12, and vntinue for one week if so much me be necessary. The extra term was ordered upon le request of Solicitor Gunter who ade application for the term to the liet justice. iris of The '60s. The Girls of the '60s have taken it a charter which makes the name ley adopted upon organization in >17 exclusively theirs. Although no :her organization is entitled to use . the Columbia women invite all the omen of the state who are eligible, > join them, the idea being that out Mown chapters may then be formed. ffect.of New Road Law. R. T. Brown, dvisional highway enIneer, leaves for Montgomery, to at;nd a meeting of state highway for le Southeast. V. E. Fowler and S. H. benhaln, federal engineers located ere will also attend. One of the main matters to be tak* a up at the meeting will be the efict of the new federal aid law on >adwork. Several changes have been lade and the various highway enineers are anxious to learn what ef>ct these will have upon the federal Id work. urtlng Force Enlarged. Several additions have been made ) the nursing force of the state oard of child hygiene and public ealth nursing, giving at the close of ctober a staff of 42 nurses. During le month of October 3,458, visits ere made by the nurses in the field. Forty-six nurses were inspected and 218 children examined, out of which umber 2,239 were found defective, he total number of defectives was 627. A through ronow up OI me hester tuberculosis clinic is now in rogress. sk for Special Election . A petition asking the governor to rder an election on the question of part of Colleton county annexing to eaufort was filed with Governor ooper. The petitioners claim that te territory wishing to change to eaufort is located in Lowndes. Frasr and Blake townships and embraces 13 square miles. All constitutional requirements have sen met, the petition sets forth. As >mmissioners in favor of the annexaon the petition. S. E. Boynton and . F. Huggins are recommended. Pretty Vi ^^BBHHWBHBHBB The delegates to the conference or building, will be able to look out on th plant life In America. The water lily Make Str Cancer * Artificial Tumors Produced in White Rats by Infesting Them With Parasites. X-RAY MACHINE IS IMPROVED Rays of Unusual Power Developed by Recently Perfected Apparatus Will Greatly Aid in Cure*? I Is Notable Advance. , New York.?What is called "a most < Important and far-reaching contrlbu- i tlon to cancer research" Is made I known by Dr. Francis Carter Wood, dl- rector of the Columbia University In- 1 stltute of Cancer Research, endowed I by George Crocker, In a report to Pres- I ldent Nicholas Murray Butler. j Doctor Wood states that two of the < workers in the Columbia laboratories, Dr. Frederick D. Bullock and Miss M. < R. Curtis, Ph. D., both ranking as asso- i ciate in cancer research, have dlscov- ' ered a means of producing cancer artificially In rats, large numbers of which i are constantly used in Columbia's 1 work of cancer research. I "After five years of hard work," 1 says Doctor Wood, ^'Doctors buuocic < and Curtis have finally shown that if < white rats be Infested with the eggs ] of a certain parasite and kept for a I period of not less than eight months, tumors will develop about the areas in 1 which the parasites are present, and < that these tumors are virulent cancers which rapidly kill the animals in which they start and can easily be transplanted to others. I "This Is not the first time that can- ( cer has been produced artificially. It , Is Just 146 years since the London sur- , geon Pott showed that certain types of ( sxinsvn* fnllnu? portnln orpunntlnns In which Irritating substances come In contact with the body. The best known of these types of cancer Is the chimney-sweeps' cancer, which developed to such an extent in England that lawB were passed regulating the conditions ,under which chimney sweeping could be done. Names Forms of Cancers. "Other forms of Irritation cancer are the well-known Kangrl basket cancer of the Kashmir native, the betel-nnt cancer on the Inner surface of the GOOD REMEDY F( #Concentration Is Recommended ]t by Eminent Music Director. c c Cultivate an Interest In Work, an In- < terest That Becomes Absorbing? 1 This Absorption Prevents Attention From Wandering. London.?-What are we to do about i our "nerves"? It is the question which < bothers half the world today. Every- < body who has to work under the eye t n /ritlc. from the orator who won- ( ders how his speech Is going to the shop girl who Is aware of tho shop- i walker's eye while she Is selling a yard l of ribbon, Is liable to an attack of what s we call "nerves." > To all such sufferers, says the Dally < Mall, Sir Hugh Allen spoke when, as 1 director of the Royal College of Music, he addressed the students of the col- t lege at the opening of the Dew term. ? MORE KIDS NOW #Census Bureau Statistics Show ' Increased Attention. ? i Utah Show* Largest School Attend- ( ance In 5-20 Age Group, and Louisiana Smallest?Growth, 5.1 Per Cent In 10 Years. ( Washington.?The department of j -> thrniicrh thft hnrflfln Clf , CULUUlciWf ~-?-- ? ? I census. Issued a preliminary statement , giving statistics of school attendance, j by geographic divisions and states, . compiled from the returns of the fourteenth decennial census, taken as of , January 1, 1020. < The total population, 5 to 20 years of a<e, inclusive, enumerated In con- ] tlnental United States, numbered 33,250,870. Of this number, 21,373,070 at- j tended school at some time between ] September 1, 1919, and January 1, < 1920. ] The total population 7 to 13 years j iew for Armament C fc^B|BMMg|jj^ s '^-*%t* l ri4^^\ r*+-y??s**. +:i* 5r*:x?j < i limitation of armaments, while atten Is beautiful sunken garden, which conta shown In this photograph Is the Victor! ides in Research; i cheek among Vajays and Filipinos, and the cancers following chronic Xray dermatitis. It has also been known ^ that It Is possible to obtain a consider- ( able number of cancers In animals by t Inbreeding cancerous strains, but some { years are required to get enough stock, the number of tumors so obtained Is not always large, and the time of their ? appearance cannot be determined, so n that experiments requiring many tumors cannot be planned. "Another means of Inducing cancer 0 has been by painting the skin of an e animal with tar. This experiment Is based upon the observation that workers In briquette factories, where the Bkln of the bunds is constantly In contact with tar, not Infrequently develop cancer. Professor Fibiger of Copenhagen has shown also that cancers can be produced in the stomachs of rats by feeding the animals on a certain parasite, but here also the actual percentage of production Is small. "In the method devised in this laboratory, however, the yield is very considerable, over half the animals of a certain strain developing cancer. Doctor Wood quotes Dr. J. A. Murray, director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, a noted Investigator of cancer, as saying recently that "one of the great disadvantages which retards progress In the study of cancer Is the absence of a means of producing the diseases at will In exper- j [mental animals." "With the discovery made In this laboratory," Doctor Wood adds, "this disadvantage no longer exists." 8e?k Hlfih-Power X-Rays. Doctor Wood reports the construe- | Lion of a new machine through which, luring the coming winter, will be addk! "new and important facts to the rery vital Question of the treatment of ;ancer by X-ray." s "There has been under considers- v Jon for some time," he continues, dis- ^ usslng experimental work, "the erec- j, Jen of on apparatus for the produc- 0 Ion of a direct current at high volt- l iges in order to produce X-rays of un- s lsual power, as the limitations of the k commercial machine in certain modes b >f treatment are obvious. n "The matter had been discussed In f in Informal way during the last two ( >r three years with a number of ex- a jerts, among them Professor, Duane t ind Professor Davis, and at the last ti DR THE NERVES : I c b fie was speaking mainly to those who c ire or wUl become public penormers >f music?but his words apply to f everybody. g *It Is not much to say," be de- y ilared, **that nerves are the most t] leeded Ingredient In the performer's ^ rctflt, and that nervousness has brought r listress If not disaster to countless n nuslclans. 'Nerve' and "nervous' are p vords which have the most diverse y neanlng in our language. We speak a >f nerve as of something strong, vigor>us, as courage and boldness and f issurance, and of nerves as a dls- g ?rdered state of the nervous system. T "By "nerves' we mean that miserable M itnte which attacks us at all turns of t] he road, when we have to play or v ilng, when we don't know our work, vhen we are late, when we have to a Jo things In front of others. Personally 0 [ know of no greater discomfort c "I have known a man called upon to t jpeak suddenly among mends to De ai- f] solutely dumb, and another to have ] b GO TO SCHOOL L i i of age, 15306,703 Included 13369,010 8 children attending school. 0 The percentage attending school 8 among the population 5 to 20 years of v age Increased from 69.2 for 1010 to e 3i3 for 1920; and the corresponding h percentage for children 7 to 13 years of age Increased from 86.1 for the ; earlier to 00.6 for the later year. Among the Individual states the largest proportion attending school In the 6-20 age group, 79 per cent Is Bhown for Utah, and the smallest, 63 per cent for Louisiana. In six states ?Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, Utah and Oregon?the proportion of school attendance for this age group was more than 70 per cent For the 7-13 age group the largest proportion of school attendance, 90.1 per cent, Is that for Massachusetts, and the smallest, 75.9 per cent for Louisiana. In seven states?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, Iowa. Delaware, Idaho and Utah?the proportion was 95 per cent or more. !onferees jLjy*-?ny^v ^MBM^JiPHP^^jBKjt, < .- - Y^ft^-^yaga dine sessions In the Pan-American Ins some of the rarest specimens of a Regla, discovered In Bolivia In 180L , innual meeting of the Crocker board t was proposed that the accrued In- j jome of the Bondy fund be devoted o the construction of a more powerul constant current X-ray apparatus ' han had yet been attempted, with the iecessary equipment to permit of ac- 1 urate ' determinations In physical 1 inlts of the exact quantity of radla- 1 Ion given off by the X-ray tubes. ] "Many unforeseen difficulties In the ' >btainlng of equipment and materials 1 lave, of course, arisen, as Is usual in he construction of research apparatus; iut the machine has already been run I or considerable periods, delivering a ontlnuous current at high voltages, I nd gives promise that It will shortly 1 e capable of furnishing not less than < 00,000 volts with considerable amper- I ge, and do this for such loug periods ] f hours or even days as may be nee- 1 ssary In the experimental work." I SEE^ | "I've tramped over 12,000 miles to 1 ee if there's one solitary woman left >*ho doesn't try to do poor, little old 1 idam out of his own little job." Such * . -i.- ......... i n v } IIIC OIL'IJ \JL V;Oi 1 V/. VUUUW/lunu f Chicago, executive secretary of the ? ,eague of Young Americans, who was 1 een in London recently wearing a < hakl suit and a bright smile. "I've 1 ieen looking for the sweet, gentle- e lannered Englishwoman we used to 1 all in love with in the states," said Mr 1 Countryman. "Trying just to catch I glimpse of her, I've added 400 miles 1 o my record in a walk from Glasgow 1 o London?and I'm still walking." * ttered a string of unintelligible non- t ense. I have known conductors who i onfessed to a feeling of complete < lankness at the beginning of a coo- 1 ert "Now the paradox of the whole aN . air is that you cannot be a really ' ood performer or conductor unless ou are nervous (in a sense and in ' he right degree), and you cannot be C yop are nervous! The case Is eally this: It is only those who have ervous susceptibility and a delicately balanced and well controlled nerous system who will ever make an ppeal by their performance." Beyond the need for obtaining their ull knowledge of the matter in hand ir Hugh advises the nervous "to cultlate an Interest in work, nn Interest - hlch becomes absorbing, which menns hat our minds are taken nn with whot ,e are doing?not with why we are do J ig It This absorption prevents our ttentlon from wandering. The power 1 f attention which enables us to con- ' entrate upon what we are doing, ahd o become unsusceptible to outside In- 1 luences, but It Is also the best way to 1 ulld up character." In Illinois the 5-20 age group Is glv- 1 n as numbering 1,886,010. Of these * ,226,601, or 05 per cent attended * chool, an Increase of 4.8 per cent 1 ver the 1010 figures. The 7-13 age roup's population totaled 800,832, of I ihom 815,080, or 04.7 per cent attend- 1 d school. This percentage was 5.2 8 igher than that of 1910. 1 >?##?##############?###? < : Snakes Milk Cows !: t In Ohio, It's Said ij 8 Wooster, O.?A heated argn- !| ment as to whether It Is possible <! for snakes to milk cows has In- I 11 volved Wayne county and other <| 8 Interested farmers. The contro- <1 ? versv started when a furmer re- 11 ported that several of his cows <! 1 had been milked by large snakes, ! A local doctor said such a thing ji was Impossible. Now every other '' fanner In the county Is recalling & Instances where snakes have been known to milk cows. , ' ? 11 v V Americ an i sc (Copy for Thla Department Supplied by the American Legion New* Service.) ID ========= tt SERVED IN WORLD WAR AT 70 D Lieutenant Colonel Wood Began Fighting for His Country at Age e of Fifteen. ? cl One of the most remarkable war ^ records ever brought to light is that of Lieut. ' Col. w M a re h it I I W ^ ICJf Boise, Idaho, who A began Agisting for ^ the Civil war at ^ teen ye org and, p.j pj^vlp after surviving g >',campaigns In the P9^1|jBii *ndIan and Span* Ish - American wars, entered the World war when seventy years old, tl lervlng nearly three years, te Today, although seventy-Are years- v old, Colonel Wood Is Inspector general 1)1 of the Grand Army of the Republic,* 'w and Is chaplain of the John Regan ?d< post of the American Legion, Boise, n Idaho, which he organized and served as its first commander. Colonel Wood was born June 4, lr 1846, Fifteen years later he was a bearing a musket In the Civil war. He 8< was twice wounded during this service, Later, he served In the Indian U1 wars as senior medical officer In two 8* expeditions against the Cheyenne and Sioux. In the Spanish-American war a be was chief surgeon of the First dlrlslon of the Fifth army corps from its organization until Its abadonment ifter the Santiago campaign, 81 In the World war Colonel Wood was ^ en active duty from June 28, 1916, un- p til February 28, 1919. He was under ? are In all except the World war and received three medals for distln- 11 julshed service. t PLAN FOR CANADIAN LEGION c St War Organizations Approve Proposl- tl tion to Amalgamate All Veterans L 81ml iar to American Body. L Is The amalgamation of all war vet;rans of Canada into a Canadian Legion to be founded on principles " ilmllar to those of the American ic L<eglon has been approved by officials to >f the various war organizations, sc VIore than 10,000 leaders In the vet- M trans' associations have pledged their a rupport of the merger. ct It has been shown that one organl- m :ation can operate more effectively ind at less expense than a half a lozen organizations with a common nterest and purpose. The merger h< vill make possible a closer co-operaIon between the veterans and the tn Canadian government, which has al eady spent $84,000,000 In the estab- 'c lshment of returned soldiers on land, A recent report shows that 27,000 ^ ndlvldual ex-service men have been jeneflted by the law*, the objects of vhlch were soldier re-establishment ind the development of the agricul- ?! ural resources of the dominion. Un- ^ ler the law, any ex-service man ellgl>Ie froth a military standpoint, having teen service overseas, may apply for oans up to the maximum of $7,500 lor the following purposes: For the ai mrchase of land, $4,500; for stock ind equipment, $2,000; for permanent mprovements, $1,000. If on Incumjered land, the ex-soldler is entitled to aI oans amounting to $5,000; If on free 01 and, to loans amounting to $3,000. In he case of purchased land the settler A nust pay 10 per cent of the cost price P' >f the land as a guarantee of good pi 'alth. ^ DEFENDS THE DISABLED MEN oi ol Medical Director Decries Statements n< Regarding "Fakers," and "Com- O peneatlon Chasers." y' ? i lr In an appeal for the proper care of P< llsabled veterans of the World war, )r. Thomas W. _ Salmon, medical ^ llrector of the pi National Commit- hi ee for Mental M he statements re'goldb richer a" di ind "compensa- oi Ion chaser s." ^a 'Let us not be T ? aisled by this A Wtk oi oose talk about ol akers," says Doctor Salmon, who Is a ember of the American Legion Hoepi allxation committee. "Of course there 0j ire such men among those who apply ^ 'or relief. But you will find them rverywhere; in business. In cpllegee, [s n politics and even In the churches." Doctor Salmon, In his plea for compete and efficient care of the disabled ^ nen, answers the assertion that there 9r ire 6,000 empty beds In the governnent hospitals. He explains that ni eds alone cannot cure the disabled ind besides, he says, most of the 6,000 >mpty beds are needed to constitute lB he reserve that every hospital with in active service needs, H New Club House at El Paso. A new $80,000 club house for Legion- n< laJres of the southwest has been opened it El Paso, Texas, by El Paso post p]f if the. American Leglorl. The new -pj, lome is in the business district of j3 he city. trl Not Intentional. Mother?What makes you want to et all dirty and bloody fighting? shi Son?I didn't exactly want to, Ma, ya ut that other kid was kind of handy pj, r'lth his fists,?American Legion ca Weekly. An I Carrying On With the i|| American Legion Daniel Chester French, sculptor, who eated "The Minute Man at Concord," as been selected to design the meorial for Massachusetts dead in the 'orld war which is to be erected >mewbere along the American sector France, Henry Bacoq, designer of ie Lincoln Memorial in Washington, . CL will be associated with him. t ? ? The Community House at Camp Cus:r, Mich., purchased by a Chicago >mpauy for $30,000, has been rep aria sed by the state of Michigan and ill be presented to the American eglon for use as a hospital for sick id disabled veterans. The building ill be Improved at the expense of id state. * General Lafayette poet of the Ameriin Legion, composed of New Tork lty policemen, has mortgaged its ong Island clubhouse for $1,000, the loney to be used in helping uneraoyed veterama. The pollcemen-Lelonnalres have pledged themselves > canvass tneir Deats ror jods ror lelr unfortunate "buddies." * "The Book of Misery" containing lousands of news-clippings and let>rs describing the plight of America's. Forld war veterans In the recent erlod of unemployment will be predated to Congress by the Legion at Dcumentary evidence in favor of jllef for ex-service men. Unemployed ex-service men sleepig In Bryant Park, New York, wert wakened one recent midnight by the jund of a bugle mess'call. Seven undred of the unfortunate men lined p for "chow".' A committee repre;nting the George Dohlbender Post of le American Legion, led the men to restauratat where each was fed at re expense of the Legion post # The American Legion hat asked the lipping board to permit the use of ic giant liner Liviathan as a ,temorary shelter for Jobless ex-service ten. The liner has been idle at the [oboken army docks for several lonths. During the war It transporid 140,000 American troops to France. * Charles W. Seymour, of Hartford, onn., tendered his resignation as :ate senator following bis election to le commandership of the American egion in Connecticut Officers of the egion cannot hold public office which elective. * i A twenty-a ere park, known as American Legion Park" has been dedated by fhe city of Melrose, Mlnm, i the men of the city who were in frvlce during the World war. The elrose Legionnaires have established children's playgrounds, a tourists^ imping grounds and a baseball diaond. Ex-soldiers and marines, members t the American Legion, were the ;roes in the. rescue work which folded the explosion of a tank conlining 600,000 cubic feet of ammonia imes in New York City. One of the >rmer service men it accredited with iving rescued ten persons from a nement which had become filled with le fumes. as A "party" which is said to have yst $10,000 was given by L. Gordon ameraley, who served as a lieutenant i the Sixth Field artillery of the irst division, at his estate near Tarry>wn-on-the-Hudson. The guests were iSabled soldiers of the First division ad members of the Jeff Feigl post : the American Legion. * * Emergency officers of the army dialled during the war "don't belong* a the retired list of the regular army, ecretary Weeks told officials of the merlcan Legion, who are fostering a Ian for the retirement on retirement ay of the emergency officers of the ' rorid war. see The first woman to hold the position . ! adjutant of a state department ! the American Legion la Miss Ho)rah H. Olttinga, of California. Miss It tings serred during the war as a ?omanette in the navy. She is act* ig adjutant of the California de* irtment Failure to doff his hat when 'the ineral cortege of an American soldier issed, caused Adam Kosloskl to lose s job as constable at Sauk Rapids, inn. A complaint against Kosloskl as filed by members of the American eglon. t Five hundred deaf and dumb cbll en of New York attended a showing ! the film-play, "The Man Without Country," as guests of the Amert tn Legion. Each child wrote an essay i Americanism based on Impression! ' the play. m Five hundred unemployed veteran* ! the World war In New York were ven employment as movie supers In e studios at Mamaroneck, Long land. * i i Tt)e Mark-Hamilton poet of the merlcan Legion at Minneapolis 1* ganlzlng Its own band, orchestra, ee club, vaudeville teams and drastic company. , ? ? ? Nashwauk, Minn., has turned over i abandoned school building to the nerlcan Legion for a club house, le building will be remodeled. The American Legion post at Fairjnt, Minn., has been awarded a 55fir lease on the former city water int there at a rental of $1 a year. ie bntldtng Is valued at $25,000 and In the heart of the business dlsct It will bo converted Into a clubuse. One hundred aliens manning the Ipplng board's fleet at Camp Eustls^ have been discharged and their ices filled with unemployed Amerln seaman, at the Instance of the aerlcan Legion. k t% . J. . i