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The American Legion
News: Local, State, National
?weet Bill, Now Awaiting j
President's Signature,
Confers Many Benefits
on Disabled Veterans
Congress Is Expected to
Hake Up Bonus Issue
at Once; Notes of New
York Gty Legionnaires
An Indication of the important part
tne vole? of the American Legion is to
?l?v in the framing of the national
JegisUtion having to do with the wel- i
fare of the former service man and
?woman is found in the prompt action
taken by Congress last week after its
members had conferred with the Le- |
?ion's national commander ami na- '
tional executive committee.
On Monday the representatives of
? he Legion arrived in Washington and j
had their first of a series of discus- j
sions with committee members from [
Congress. In keeping with the legis- j
lative program adopted at Minneapo?
lis the Legionnaires_made it plain that
their first duty was to safeguard the ;
welfare of disabled veterans. Congress '
accepted this view without question,
and on Thursday the Senate passed the
Sweet bill, which materially increases
war risk insurance payments. Few
amendments were made, and the House
readily concurred in them, so that on
Saturday night the measure was finally
adonted and turn? d over to President
Wilson for his signature.
Briefly, the welcome increases for
disabled veterans are:
[f th?' disabled person has neither
? fe nor child living, $80 a month in?
stead of $30, as at present.
If he has a wife, but no children liv
ing, $90 instead of 545.
If he has a wife and one child. $95 ?
;-<tead of $55.
If he has a wife and two or more
children living, S100 instead of $65.
If he has no wife, but one child liv?
ing, $90, with $5 for each additional
child, instead of $40 and $10 for each
r.ddifional child.
The Sweet bill also awards $5.000 in- j
5r?rance to the family or estate of !
every man attached to the 1'nited
State? naval collier Cyclops, which
mysteriously disappeared on March 4,
1918. No trace of tho vessel or her
crew has ever been found.
The bill enlarges the war risk insur?
ance restrictions so that uncles, aunts,'
rephews, nieces, brothers-in-law and !
sisters-in-law can be made beneficiaries
of government insurance in thefuture.
The passage of the Sweet bill has
great significance for the members of
the Legion. It means that the national ?
legislative bodies recognise the organi?
sa' ion as the official spokesman for all
veterans and will subscribe to any rec?
ommendation it makes within reason.
The Sweet bill was acted upon, first,
because ?t was considered most impor?
tant by the veterans themselves, but
other reforms indorsed by the Minne- '
apo?s convention, including the much
dis'tussed bonus issue, will be acted
?pon without delay.
t'rve Hospital Service
Former service men who need
medical or surgical treatment because
of illness or injury contracted in the
army or navy hereafter will be received
at an army or navy hospital, public
health service hospital or local civilian
institution or sanitarium, and have
*!1 their expense- paid by the gov?
ernment, according to an announce?
ment ?nude by the government.
Mob and the Legion
Under the caption. "A Mob Is Not the
Legion." an editorial appears in "The
American Legion Weekly," to be cir?
culated this week, which should be a
lesson to the scattered- few who have
"taker; tho law into their own hands."
The editorial reads, in part:
"There is one service yet to be asked
of the press of the country by the
American Legion. We would ask an
intelligent and honest differentiation
i between the acts of the American
Legion and unauthorized acts of occa?
sional individuals. If an agitator Is
mobbed by an ill-advised crowd the en?
terprising reporter too often need only
see a couple of legion buttons or an
olive drab shirt to fasten his account
of the occurrence upon the American
Legion. It means a better 'story' that
way. The mere fact that the Legion,
as such, had nothing to do with the
affair; the mere fact that the Ameri?
can Legion, as such, Is the unswerving
advocate or law and order and opposes
ttift violence in any and every form, is
lost sight of.
"The Legion is committed to the pur?
pose that violence does not beget law
and order. Things are entirely in the
public's hands in America. Normal
processes provide a,cure for every evil,
political, industrial and social. Ameri?
can ideals need no improvement, but
their attainment requires stimulation.
The American Legion always will
apply this stimulating process in an
orderly and lawful manner, whether in
deleting negligent public servants or
suppressing the anarchistic philosophy
of imported home-grown defectives.
We look forward to the day when tho
term 'law and order' and the term
'American Legion' will be inseparably
associated in the public mind."
How New York Is Working
The Department, of the State of New
York has taken steps toward carrying |
an orderly and effective fight to the j
un-American organizations in this ter?
ritory by organizing: county commit- I
tees on anti-American activities. These
committees will be central clearing
houses for all complaints to be lodged
by Legionnaires and will thoroughly
investigate them. No individual mem?
ber of the legion.or post is to be per?
mitted to proceed without authority
from its committee. Lorillard Spencer
is chairman of the New York County
Committee and Cephas Brainerd is sec?
retary. The headquarters is at Thirty
ninth Street and Madison Avenue and
is open at all times to receive com?
plaints.
The War Memorial
While no indication has been given
of the referendum to determine the
wish of the Legionnaires in regard to
what form the war memorial is to
take, sentiment seems to be evenly di?
vided between the proposed building at
Forty-first Street and Park Avenue
and the project to build a memorial
structure in each of the five boroughs
of the greater city.
French Memorial Diplomas
On Washington's Birthday, February
22, the Legion and the L'nited States
Army Recruiting Service will dis?
tribute to relatives of men who died
in service the French Memorial Di?
ploma, contributed by the sister re?
public in recognition of America's sac?
rifices. Major Francis V. Lowden calls
attention to the fact that nddresses of
relatives are in many cases inaccurate,
and asks that they communicate with
him at 461 Eighth Avenue so they will
be certain to get a diploma.
The diploma carries a symbolic group
executed by a noted artist, and is in?
scribed with the words:
To the Memory of
of the United States of America.
Franee's Homage.
The Presl'lent of tho Republic.
It is signed by President. Poincar?. j
The relatives of all men who died in ;
service, whether it was in France, |
England, Italy, Siberia, Belgium or at
home, will receive the memorials,
which will be delivered in person by
a member of the Legion,
Generala We?r D. S. C.
Nine generals-two major generals
and seven brigadiers?were awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross for
valor under fire in the World War. They
were Major General William IL Johns?
ton, of the 91st Division, and Major
General Robert Alexander, command?
ing the 77th, and the following briga?
dier generals:
Douglas MacArthur, 84th Infantry
Rrigade; William Mitchell, Chief of
Air Service; Benjamin A. Poore, 7th
Infantry Brigade; John B. McDonald,
181st Infantry Brigade; Beaumont B.
Buck, 2d Infantry Brigade; Fred W.
Sladen, 5th Brigade, and Dennis E.
Nolan, 55th Brigade.
New National Treasurer
A new national treasurer ha3 beenl
named by the National Executive Com
B. Al?mmt Se (Un.
Chr?stmnias Suggestions
?o the
Dep'? of Il interior Decoration
(Fourth Floor)
A mroagni fice o? t collection of antique
textiles off the XVDI aod XVIII centuries
made up Soto Piano Covers, Table
Scarfs aod Wall Panels, edged with
gold galoon of the period aod lined
with antique taffetas, aod satio; a
variety of pieces of "Occasional" Fur=
niture suited to the Living Room,
Library and Boudoir, including Needle
point Chairs and Settees, Period
Chairscovered 5o brocades and velvets
suitably triiromed, Tables of Walnut,
Oak or Mahogany; Comimodes off Satin=
wood decorated or inlaid, and Foot=
stools upholstered in tapestry.
jtlabi?on ?abenue ? Jf t(tb ?abrnue
34tb anb 35tb &>trect? i?eto gorfe
mitteo of the Legion to succeed Gasper
Bacon, of Boston. He is Robert II.
Tyndall, of Indianapolis, former com?
mander of the 150th Field Artillery.
War Records for State?
A special force of clerks Is hurd at
work in Washington preparing tho
record of military scrvico of each man
who nerved in the war. Tho records
will be turned over to the ndjutant
generals of the various states by the
War Department. The work covers
more than 4,000,000 nnmes and will not
be finished until July 1, 1020, when
every state will have a complete serv?
ice record of all the men who served
from within its borders.
Free Night School
The Knights of Columbus nre con?
ducting a free night school for veter?
ans at 240 West Fifty-first Street, this
city, offering courses in accounting,
commercial law, business English,
French, public speaking, salesmanship,
Spanish, typewriting, stenography and
other subjects. No fees are accepted
and veterans are urged to enroll.
' Changea in Titles
The State Executive Committee has
abolished the titles of commander,
vice-commander, ndjutant, etc., for lo?
cal posts. Officials will be known here?
after as president, vice-presidents, sec?
retary and treasurer.
LEGION NOTES
Save^iay Post 724 claims the honor
of being the first to adopt n French
war orpnan through "The Home Sec?
tor." At the regular meeting of
the post, next Saturday night, at
the Post-Graduate Hospital, ?in effort,
will be made to subscribe sufficient
funds to adopt another baby.
Th? Tribune is asked to publish the
following military note:
"From -The 107th Infantry Post,
American Legion.
"To?Ex 7th Regiment men who nre
now ex-service men. All sometime
members of the 107th Infantry.
"Subject?Your Post.
"This is a message to those of you,
officers and men, whose whereabouts
are unknown to us at this time.
"We want vou to know that your
post has been in existence some five
months: that while still growing, it
has passed the stage of organization;
that, tho personnel is of the repre?
sentative standard of our organiza?
tions and that the post night is the
third ' Friday of each month at the
headquarters, the 7th Regiment
Armory.
"If previously a member of nny other
post, you are eligible here as an as?
sociate member.
"This is your post!
"The 107th Infantty Po?t of the
American eLgion."
"Elsie Janis and "Her Gang" will
give a testimonial nerformance or.
Sunday, January 4, at the Cohan
Theatre. The proceeds will be donated
to the American Legion of New York
County. All the tickets for this per?
formance will be sold through thp
posts of the American Legion. Appli?
cations from the posts will be received
until midnight of Monday. December
20. The applications, accompanied by
cheek or money drder payable to
Edward C. Delafield, treasurer, should
be mailed to him at County Head?
quarters, 261 Madison Avenue.
POST ACTIVITIES
Arrangements have been completed
to procure the ballroom of the Penn?
sylvania llotel for the dance arranged
by the Greenwich Village Post, in con?
junction with the Barbara Frietchie
Post on January 28.
Motor Service Post is desirous of
hearing from members of Sanitary
Trains, Ammunition Trains. Motor
?Supply Trains, M. D. S. men, and any
one else that ever "turned 'em over,"
or stepped on the Bclf starter at tho
front. Address George I. Hacken
bcrger, 2109 Avenue J, Brooklyn.
Tiger Post, American Legion, com?
posed of veterans who drilled with
Boyce's Tigers, has tnken a booth for
the week at the Exposition of Civic
Betterment Activities under the aus?
pices of the War Cnmp Community
Service at the Grand Central Palace.
Paintings by artist Tigers nre on view,
and a man will be on duty every day
to explain the intricacies of the War
Ki.sk Insurance Bureau.
The John Frnser Bryan Post, No. 10,
hns elected the following officers: '
President, Frank Clay Bryan; vice
president, Alfred W. Minuse; secre?
tary. Morton W. Davis; treasurer,
Chester B. Renting; historian, Henry
B. Barry; chaplain. Hartley J. Hart
man; executive committee, William T.
Hannegnn, Harry F. Nlmphius and
Irving G. Davis. Standards will bo
presented to the post by Mrs. D.
Bryan to-morrow night.
Sidney Bnnkin Drew Post, 340, hnB
established a business office in the
Unity Building, nt 10J West Forty
second ?Street. The purpose of this of?
fice is to give the members of the post
who travel a permanent business of
lico address.
Disabled service men who are mem?
bers of Federal Board Students' Post,
760, at New York University, will re?
ceive Christmas gifts to-day from the
pupils of Public School 132. The school
children raised a-fund to get presents
for the service students. The gifts
will be presented by B. Carroll Roece,
director of the day division of the Tinl
versity. Fountain pens, purses, cigar
| ctto cases and other useful masculine
| articles are among the presents.
Empire Post, 250, will meet in Hotel
i McAlpin to-night, A revised constitu
I tion of the post will be presented for
I adoption, new officers for 1920 will be
elected and n number of resolutions
will be presented for adoption.
Ossining Post, of Ossining, N. Y., has
established a bureau to keep track of
legislation affecting service men.
At a meeting of the Union Club Post
on December 17 the appointment of
leaders of post teams of action to co?
operate in the activities of the New
York County Anti-American Activities
Committee was announced as follows:
Educational team, William De Forest
Manice; press and publication, Alfred
Bell; deportation. J. Mayhew Wain
?wright; meetings and speakers, Howard
C. Dickinson.
The ::08th Infantry Post will hold its
next meeting at Terrace Garden, Fifty
1 eighth Street and Third Avenue, on
Tuesday night, January 13.
There will be a meeting of the Joseph
| Hodges Choate Post at .10 West Forty
fourth Street on the night of January
7. George Brokaw Compton will be
the principal speaker.
Manhattan Naval Post, 338, will
be one of the only two posts of the
1 Legion to have a booth at the Ex?
position of Public Spirited Activities
at th?> Grand ("entrai Palace this week.
The Naval Recruiting Service will share
' the booth. The other booth will be
| occupied by Tiger Post, 2.?..
Berber Will Claim Seat in
Congress January 5, He A.sserts
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 21. Victor L.
j Berger, who was reflected to Congress
; fr??m the Fifth Congressional District
; on December 19, following his expul
! sion from that bod.\, to-day said that
I ire would go to Washington on January
.r> In claim his seat.
Policeman Shot
In Thief Chase;
Bullet Hits Girl
Laborer Arrested in Cellar,
Following Street Battle,
Charged With Complicity
in Butcher Shop Robbery
Policemen and robbers engaged in a
running pistol fight yesterday shortly
after it had been discovered that the
butcher shop of Joseph Fusco, of 26
Thompson Street, had been broken into
and $300 taken from the cash register.
Patrolman Harry Cohn, of the Mac
dougal Street Police Station, was shot
in the chest. Joseph Ballingham, a
laborer of 202 West Tenth Street, was
later arrested. A stray bullet also
struck Miss Stella Raft'eny, an eighteen
year-cld clerk, of 44 East Forty-fourth
Street, in the right foot.
Ballingham was captured in a cel?
lar and taken into custody charged
with breaking into F'usco's place in
association with two other men.
Wym Wahesdole and John Klywo,
Hindu oilers on the steamship Kura
meric, tied up at the piers of the
American Dock Terminal on Slaten
Island, visited two "friend.-," George
Rhnmosellt ?? an?T William Eissinelly,
at. 7 Fifteenth Street, Coney Island,
yesterday afternoon. They told them
a wondtrr story of the glories of their
ship and invited them to look it over.
The hold of the vessel, they said, was
! "simply remarkable," and they must
see it at once.
And so the "friends" went down into
the hold. In a moment Rhamoseller
and Eissinelly were beaten over the
head, $216 taken from them, and all
their clothing removed except their
trousers and their undershirts. They
were set ashore in a dazed condition.
When they came to their senses they
tramped along in the cold in a state
of semi-undress to the Stapleton police
; i
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ST. NICHOLAS for?
ever! Put the mod?
ern Christmas stocking
is a plain wl ite hox, th?
cover of which says
Ovington's. The prices
are reasonable ? the
values are great.
OVINGTON'S
" The Gift Shop of Slh Ave."
314 Fifth Av.,near32d St.
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"Thoughts are the Masters and the Thinkers
are the doers."?Confucius.
One of the most successful of teachers is a Montreal Nun?suc?
cessful because she ' insistently teaches undergraduates to
THINK. Force of thought is better than force of will.
A trip-hammer is all force, but unless guided by a
THINKER strikes a pile or a cream-puff with equal
power. Then there is the nagger with a tongue-will
of poiseless, perpetual power but ? thought-proof
J)o you fail in clearness o? thought and ex?
pression?especially in conversation?
I>o yottas host, hostess or guest want a spur
to cleverness of thought, wit and repartee?
Do you teach, preach or lecture??want a
text for letters, talks?or Sermons?
Do you teach at home??at office?or both?
If an employer, commend KEYSTONES OF
THOUGHT to your employes?surely to the
stenographers.
If you have a delinquent debtor send him ot?
her a marked copy?Page 132.
Is Christianity a Failure? Have you an ac
fear, the blues, "Keystones" is your pre?
scription.
Is Chrisianity a Failure? Have you an ac?
tive or passive grouch against the clergy (a
now fashionable disease among front pew
profiteers) because of "what they say and
do and because of the way they live"?
Do you want to give straight-to-the-point
advice to your children, your friends, your
employes and YOURSELF?
Do you want something to "crib" for public dinners and other
occasions? The most delightful of all after-dinner speakers are
a couple of New Yorkers, one English, the other Irish?a Fletcher
?a Murphy. Never lengthy, always aphoristic, they say more
in five minutes than all the "wax-works" on the dais drone,
drawl or spout in hours.
THEN READ?MEMORIZE AND USE
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Station. The police at once arrested
the "friendly" oilers, and, it is said,
found the stolen money in their pockets
and the clothing in their trunks on
board ship.
John Finnen, a longshoreman of 260
Avenue B, was arrested by the police
of the Fifty-first Street station yester?
day, charged with participation in the
daring hold-up aSturday of the pay?
master of the M. P. Smith ?Si Sons
Stevedore Company on the pier at the
foot of East Twenty-fourth Street. He
was arraigned before Magistrate Brough
in the Vorkville police court and held
in $6,500 buil for examination to-mor?
row.
Three masked men entered Abraham!
Latner's saloon, 511 East Twelfth
i Street, last midnight, backed the pro?
prietor and" a score of patrons against
the wall and got away with $3,000 in
loot. A policeman, attracted by a shot
one of the hold-up men fired at a re?
sisting victim, reached the scene just
after the robbers had fled in a taxicab.
Nathan Bodna, of 515 East Twelfth
Street, was the man who showed fight.
I He had a money order for $1,700 in his
pocket, and when one of the two ban?
dits who were searching the saloon cus?
tomers attempted to take it from his
pocket BocUia hit him on the jaw. At
this the third desperado fired, the bul?
let striking Bodna's watch, deflecting
and grazing his abdomen.
Wood Alcohol Fatal to Three
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 21.?Three
persons died here to-day and four
others are near death in hospitals as
a result of drinking denatured, or wood
alcohol. The police are investigating,
believing tho alcohol was sold as a
non-poisonous beverage. Fourteen hare
died here of alcoho poisoning since
November 1, according to Coroner Will?
iam J. Zoul.
Seized Convict Accused
Of Planning New Escape
John McAllister, who covered his es?
cape from Sing Sing last July by leav?
ing a dummy in his cell and who was
retnken in this city December 11, was
placed in solitary confinement in the
Bronx County Jail last night, following
discovery in his cell of diagrams of
the key and lock. Sheriff James F.
Donnelly believes McAllister planned
to ?,'ive the diagrams on the next visit?
ing day to a confederate who would
have a dux ?cate key made and smuggle
it i>nto the jail.
From now until he goes to trial on
the Sing Sing escape charge and- sev?
eral others growing out of it. no one
will be allowed to visit McAllister, he
will be deprived of his exercise period
and will have to forego the use of
knife, fork and spoon at meals.
The key which might have been made
from McAllister's ?lia?.?:ram? could have
opened every cell door on the tier.
Sheriff Donnelly said, and it is possible
ti??- convict planned a wholesale jail
delivery.
Sheriff Donnelly doesn't care how
?oon McAllister is brought to trial and
removed from his custody.
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In the Home
OF all times o? the year Christinas is the time for
music IN THE HOME. Everybody is at home
Christmas. The thoughts of all are centered in
the home at Christmas. Love for home, and for all in
the home, rises to its greatest heights fit Christmas. There
MUST be music to fully express the love and good will
and happiness that are in every heart in every home at
Christmas.
The picture shows a Christmas dance in the home?
AMPICO playing. You don't need any one to play the
piano if you have an AMPICO Reproducing Piano. The
best players of dance music have played the best old and
new dances for the AMPICO. A hundred great artists
have played the best music of all kinds for the AM PICO
?classical, operatic, songs, etc. Thousands went yester?
day to Carnegie Hall to hear RACHMANINOFF
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this evening?any evening?for you and your children
and your friends?in vour home.
We have the largest stock in
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?the good kind?ready for
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About 70 used upright pianos, taken in exchange and put in
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