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County, State, or National Government.FACTSAbout the AMERICAN LEGIONForGovernment, which department helps them to learn and gain lucrative occupations.(i) It authorized the appointment of a competent legislative committee to see that the above recommendationsVETERANS OF THE ARMY, NAVY t were effectively acted upon by Con-and MARINE CORPS(1) What is the American Legion? (a) It is the organization of American veterans of the World War. It is non-partisan and non-political. It is a civilian organization—not military or militaristic. It makes no distinctions between overseas men and men Who did not get overseas.(2) Who is eligible?(a) Any soldier, sailor or marine who served honorably between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918.(3) Are women eligible?gress, and that committee has been appointed and is now at work.(j) It authorized the establishment of a bureau to aid service men to get Te-employment; and of a legal bureau to help them get from the Government their overdue pay and allotments. These two bureaus are being organized at the National Headquarters of the Legion and will be in active operation by July 1st.(13) What else did the St. Louis meeting do?(a) It endorsed all steps taken by the Paris meeting, and adopted a temporary constitution which conformed(a) Yes, those who were regularly enlisted or commissioned in the army ito thp tentative constitution adoptednavy or marine corps.(4) When was the Legion started?(a) It was first organized in Paris March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand officers and men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Force to an organization meeting, ’\vhich adopted a tentative constitution and selected the name “American Le-gion(5) What has been done in America regarding it?(a) The action of the Paris meeting was confirmed and endorsed by a similar meeting held in St. Louis May 8, to 10, 1919, when the Legion was formally recognized by the troops who served in the United States.(6) Are the organizations in France and America separate?(a) No. . The Paris meeting appointed an Executive Committee of seventeen officers and men to represent the troops in France in the conduct of the Legion. The St. Louis meeting apointed, a similar Committee of Seventeen. These two Executive Committees have amalgamated andin Paris.(14) What does this constitution stand for?(a) The preamble answers that question; it reads: “For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the Ignited States of America; to main tain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent. Americanism; to preserve the memories andincidents of our association in theGreat War; to, inculcate a sense of individual obligations to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the clases and the masses; to make right'the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles, of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comra'dship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness. -oOWENS DECLINESFEDERAL APPOINTMENTii!are now the operating body of the Chief Justice Thomas H. Owen of• tLegion. r . the Oklahoma supreme court has been(7) Who are the officers of this offered and declined the post of as-national governing body?(a) Henry D. Lindsley, Texas, Chairman; Bennett C. Clark, Missouri, Vice-Chairman; Eric Fisher Wood, Pennsylvania, Secretary; Gasper Bacon, Massechusetts, Treasurer.(8) Where are the temporary National Headquarters of the Legion?sislant attorney-general of the UnitedStates under A. Mitchell Palmer, it was stated yesterday at the capitolfrom a reliable source.#It is understood that the? place was offered to Justice Owen by C. B. Ames, assistant to’the attorney-general, on his recent visit to Oklahomare]W:afiegualun(a) At 19 West 44th Street New ■ City, Attorney General Palmer au-York City.thorizing Ames to make the offer.(9) When will the final step in the If Justice Owen had accepted, it isorganization of the Legion take place ?(a) November 10, -11 (Armistice Day), and 12, at Minneapolis, Minn., when a great National Convention willbe held.(10) Why were those dates selected ?(a)To celebrate the completion of the first year of peace, and because by that time practically all of the men of the A. E. F. will be at home« jand will have been able to participate in the election of their delegates to the Convention.(12) What didtthe.Legion do at its St. Louis meeting?(a) It demanded investigation of the pardon and subsequent honorable discharge by the War Department of convicted conscientious objectors.(b) It condemned the activities of the I. W. W'S., the Anarchists, and the International Socialists.(c) It protested against certain nefarious business concerns who are employing men in uniform to peddle their wares. • ■(d) It recommended that Congress should take steps to reclaim arid, swamp and cut over timber lands, to afford ex-service men an opportunityunderstood that he was to have been given, complete charge -of the prosecution in civil and criminal courts of about ^ dozen cases instituted by the department of justice under federal anti-trust laws.oFORD SAID “CAN THE FRENCH”'Ato establish homes for themselves and-* ( -* - -sl fitting place in the constructiveMT. CLEMENS, Mich., July 23.— Admission that he had said that French officers who came to the United States to negotiate a loan “should be canned out of the country” was drawn from Henry Ford today shortly after he took the stand for his eighth day of examination in the trial of his $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune. Ford also admitted he was opposed to the manufacture of war munitions prior to 1917 and that he was not in favor of making trouble over the submarine cam- attrlt;ticaste]Uitli'listo:tu:m:W“elitceSIwdeedrese:obGiw i venoGipaign.SENATE TURNS DOWN PRES.work of the country.(e) It demanded of Congress the same disability pay for men of theNational Guard and National Army asnow pertains to those in the Regular establishment.(f) It initiated a campaign to secure to service men their rights and privileges under the War Risk Insurance Act.^'(g) It demanded that Congress should deport to their own countries those aliens . who refused to join _ the colors at the outbreak of the war, and. WASHINGTON, July 3.—By a voteof eight to seven president Wilson's request for authority to appoint provisionally an American representative on the inter-allied reparation commission, before the ratificaton of tjie peace treaty, was refused today by ; the senate foreign i*elations committee The committee in rejecting the pres-vemihipi.ingcncident’s proposal, adopted a resolution sponsored by Senator Knox, republican, of Pennsylvania, an out and out opponent of the acceptance of the peace treaty in its present form, which was as follows:“It is the judgment ofthe committee that until the proposed treaty is ratified in accordance with its terms no power exists to execute any of itsatN.endeatveenpleaded their citizenship in other provisions either provisionally or otheVcountries to escape the draft.(h) It undertook to see that disabled soldiers, sailors and marines /: should be brought into contact withDepartment of; tite»wise.A new suggestion for senate reservations in ratifying the league of nar4 lt;tions covenant developed at a WhiteHouse conference, genator Calder,P.MtethhssiiMCi
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