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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1922
Page
5
The Iowa American Legion launches a week long drive June 28 to July 5 to recruit ten thousand or more members across 610 posts. July 1 is national membership day, with plans to recruit veterans who have not joined the Legion.
Hanford MacNider, nationwide leader, finished talks across Iowa and nearby states and heads east to observe Senate debates on the Adjusted Compensation bill. Over 2,000 attended Legion Day in Sheldon with another crowd in Dubuque. Iowa Bankers Association, in convention, unanimously backed the compensation bill after hearing him in Davenport.
W. A. Stevens of Argonne Point and five American Legionnaires joined the Des Moines unit to face Charlies A. Learned Post of Detroit in a thirty days contest for champion after a membership drive, but the report ends before a conclusion.
Spanish American War veterans may buy round trip tickets to their Los Angeles national encampment this fall for one way fare. Purchases, which may be made from August 14 to 19, will permit returning as late as October 25.
Governor Kendall will be principal speaker at The American Legion celebration in Nora Springs Iowa on June 23 and 24. The event features boxing bouts a 40 and 8 initiation and numerous other attractions carded for the two day program.
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, asserts the national guard stands for liberty against tyranny of a large standing army. The remark was made in reply to a letter from Adjutant General Logan of Iowa seeking his position.
A. G. Shanin of Mason City was declared an alien enemy and refused citizenship by a federal court upon his application, after stating he would not fight for America during the war.
Governor Kendall will address the The American Legion celebration in Olin Iowa on July 3 as part of the community event.
The national American Legion legislative committee plans to press for 200 for each veteran’s body shipment after two Iowa veterans were returned from a government hospital in St. Louis. The committee investigates care and logistics amid the public outcry. A Moro chief throne chair, presented to National Commander Hanford MacNider by the Department of the Philippines, sits in his Indianapolis office.
The article notes the St. Louis undertaker received only 50 dollars per body due to a new government rule awarding contracts to the lowest bidder and capping costs at 100 dollars per body. Council Bluffs officials report funeral costs, including casket lining and shroud, could not exceed 30 dollars of materials. Commander DeWitt has sent related items to Senator Rawson, and government headstones will be used if private ones are not provided. For private monuments later, government headstones would be discarded. Information via Army Quartermaster E. K. Smith. The piece also covers the national American Legion essay contest with 2,000 dollars in prizes and judges chosen by John J. Tigert. Iowa children show interest.
The Douglas County Post planted the first outdoor bed of American Legion roses at Hanscom park in Omaha Nebraska. The Legion rose resembles the American Beauty but is hardier. A separate note recalls the steamship American Legion crossing the equator on its last voyage from South America where passengers felt a recoil like a struck vessel and found a shark carcass stuck to the prow at dawn.
The Iowa Legionaire asks servicemen readers if the United States should go to war. Most early replies are unequivocally yes, one writer says no, and several add that war should not occur until government compensation is adjusted.
Polk County treasurer BE Bennett urges veterans to apply for tax exemption before September 1. The guidance appears in the Iowa Legionaire, noting that the exemption stems from a law enacted by the Thirty ninth General Assembly and would ease work for county treasurers and auditors while saving money for veterans.
In Correctionville Iowa a local clash over fair events escalates as Governor Kendal is slated to speak at an American Legion gathering amid mounting tensions and civic friction.
The Iowa Legionaire reports a June 29 celebration at Rockwell City and criticizes so called needy veterans who prey on citizens. The Legion and Chamber of Commerce organize a joint committee to investigate suspicious strangers and report findings to protect towns from fraud.
Several thousand Iowa Legionaires will mobilize at Burnington in October to ride special trains south to the national American Legion convention in New Orleans. Plans were laid at a Des Moines conference of state Legion leaders with decorated trains, post bands, and the Towa corn song to be sung many times by travelers.
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