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Newspaper
Darlington Herald
Location
Darlington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
2
A Congress recess to January 3 was approved while the House Ways and Means Committee weighs a beer tax to fund a soldier bonus. France accepts Hughes naval plan and Japan’s posture is noted. Various domestic incidents, legal rulings, and international tensions fill the roundup with named places, people, and decisions.
Indiana news highlights the Central Labor union in Terre Haute planning action against rent profiteering, coal property tax reassessments raising personal taxes in Vigo Knox Vermilion and Warrick counties, and Miss Peterson becoming Indiana's only female American Legion post commander. Other items note Wabash County tax reductions, Indianapolis hosting the next War Mothers convention, railroad sale delays, and local civic happenings.
S D Cunningham of Centralia Washington, long known for his IWW prosecutions, is named commander of the American Legion in Washington. The Armistice Day Centralia parade killings led to his high-profile role as special prosecutor, with radicals convicted and upheld by the state supreme court.
President Harding told Representative Tamar Jeffers and the American Legion committee that no ex service men qualified for the international disarmament commission. A Legion statement lists ex service men in key roles including secretary of the navy, assistant secretary, alien property custodian, and head of the national budget. The public elected 26 service men to the house and two to the senate, with several states electing veterans as governors and eight members of Hoover’s unemployment committee being ex service men.
Secretary Hoover’s committee on unemployment aided ex service men across the country. Arthur Woods of New York, head of the Hoover effort, coordinated nationwide job programs. Woods, a former War Department aide in 1919, organized a national bureau for civilian life of veterans and led New York’s police and the American Legion’s Americanism commission.
The page notes a boy’s modern Fourth of July diary. He recalls bathing in the morning, listening to stories about Abraham Lincoln, staying in after supper, reading Bible lessons with his mother, and singing The Star Spangled Banner before bed.
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