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Title: The American Legion Weekly (Volume 4, No. 27 (July 7, 1922))
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Legion. National Headquarters
Subjects: American Legion periodicals
Publisher: American Legion
Contributing Library: The American Legion National Headquarters Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Three hundredand eight treesalong KingsHighway Park-way, St. Louis,are decoratedwith these stars.Each star standsfrr a soldier orsailor who diedin active service LIKE a rare orchid, sentiment flour-r ishes only under the right condi-tions. When The American Legionarranged Arbor Day exercises in St.Louis, Missouri, the note sounded wasfelicitous. Golden stars, each bearing the nameof a soldier or a sailor who died in ac-tive service, were placed on the 308sweet gum, European sycamore andgreen oak trees which were plantedalong Kings Highway Parkway. Years from now when these saplingshave grown into wide-branched trees,stretching their leafy boughs from eachside of the parkway, stories will stillbe told of the ceremonies which theLegion arranged. Many of the moth-ers of the heroes the trees commemo-rate witnessed the ceremonies. Judge Landis Hands Down a Decision
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Judge Landis and the Legion gang he hung out with while the guest of Ty Cobbat Augusta, Ga. From left to right: Spencer L. Hart, commander, Louis L.Battey Post; W. Woods White, Jr., manager, Legion baseball team; Judge Landis,Alfred M. Battey, Ty Cobb, Rodney S. Cohen, Landon Thomas SUPPOSING all the nice thingswhich have been said about JudgeKenesaw Mountain Landis, HighCommissioner of Baseball, weremultiplied a thousandfold. How nicewould that be? Judge Landis thinks,not equal to an American Legion mem-bership. Here are his words: If all the nice things that have beensaid about me could be multiplied athousandfold, I would gladly trade itall to become a member of The Ameri-can Legion. Judge Landis has a son who is aLegion member, so he ought to know. The ruler of baseball was visitingTy Cobb recently at his home in Au-gusta, Georgia. While there JudgeLandis, in company with a committeefrom Louis L. Battey Post, visited theU. S. Veterans Hospital, and was sotouched with the patients

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