Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1920 — LEGION PLANS TO ADOPT 3,000 FRENCH ORPHANS [ARTICLE]

LEGION PLANS TO ADOPT 3,000 FRENCH ORPHANS

The American Legion. yesterday inaugurated *a campaign for the readoption of approximately 3,000 of, the more than 3,700 fatherless | French children whom the American expeditionary force cared for during the war. It was said that only about 700 of the children have beMn able, to live ‘ without outside assistance ’ since the A. E. F. ceased to provide lor them. J The forty-two - members of the national headquarters staff of "the Legion, at Indianapolis took the initiative in the movement by voting to adopt at least one of the orphans.