New Britain herald., 1919-10-20
EX-SERVICE MEN
 TO MEET TONIGHT
Br0Ck-BarneS Post Issues Invita-
 tion for All to Attend
ALL SEEKING GOVT. BONUS
Minstrel TrOup Gives Interesting Per- formancc - Local Trolley Traffic Temporarily Held Up When Barn is Moved Across Road-Briefs

Is MONCu ACrOSS ROaU-Br1ofS.
 There will be a meeting of Brock Barnes post this evening at o'clock in the Town hall. The American Le- zion wants every service or ex-serv- ice man, regardless of whether or not he belongs in this town, to attend this evenings meeting. In making the request for members the officers of the local post use the appeal sent out by other posts in surrounding towns as follows:
 This is your meeting and we can not carry out the present plans until you join. Don't say you will wait and see what they are going to do. If you do that we will never get started on a large scale. Come up and find out what we are going to do. It will not cost you a cent if you come to this meeting. We just want to show you that it is for your own interest to join. We have a lot of business to transact as our delegates will un- doubtedly give us a good report of the convention held in Hartford on October Il. It is a duty you owe to yourself to attend this meeting and find out what the American Legion stands for. Don't stand on the curb stone and let outsiders tell you what the American Legion is for. We will show you that it has come to stay, regardless of what the curbstone art ists say. Come in and ask questions. Come in so that we can vote on meeting place. Come in and talk over
 the proposition of taking over the
 town fund"
 This message is clear enough and
 oh t0 roo1 l. 6yriI t0 every man who served his country
 that he should at least attend the meeting tonight and voice his opin- ion of the dongs of the post The following resolutions, adopted at the Hartford convention, will show the men what it is intended shall be done at the meeting: Tt is the sense of this convention that all men who served with the armed forces of the United States are r1ghtfully entitled to secure from the government a sufficient sum to enable them to support themselves until such time as they have regained the finan- cial position which they held before the war; The passage added that lnanN}service men have gone into debt and are still doing so, owing to the fact that they have no funds, and that many of them were not able to purchase set of 'cits' after being discharged
 The conventions resolutions ended as follows:
 ''It is the vote of this convention that the national convention demand of congress the immediate passage of legislation providing $18O for each man or woman who served in the
 
 additional $1S0 to each man or wom- an who was wounded, 10 per cent or more of total disa biIity
 The following resolution was also passed:
 Resolved, That the convention en- dorse the action of the St. Louis convention in demanding that con- gress should deport to their own coun- tries those aliens who refused to join the colors at the outbreak of the war and pleaded their citizenship in other countries to ecape the draft. Also that every effort be made to have laws passed to this effect and that such undesira ble types be forever ex- cluded from our land.' A member of the Meriden post said that the convention should have the delegates go home and report that the service men should boycott all business men who were not 100 per cent Americans during the war. Such matters as these will be dis ] cussed at tonight's meeting and every man is expected to follow the ex- ample set by the minority and be present to take part in the proceed ings.
 TO Present Entertainment. he Children of Mary sodality met yester- day afternoon at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy The principal busi- ness was the discussion of plans for an entertainment for the benefit Of
 the church. Another meeting of both organizations will be held on Friday evening in the church following Octo- Der devotions. All members are re-
 quested to attend, as this will be business meeting and arrangem ents for the benefit show will be com-
 pleted
 Rehearsal Held. The Plainville Young Mems club minstrel troupe has been formed within the past two weeks and the performers are now taking off the rough edges The members are WoiklnS under tHe ulIeClloll oA dul Hayes and he expects the number to go off without hitch at the next trial. If present plans mature, the first per formance will be ready within four weeks. A number of local young women have been asked to participate and they were present at yesterdays rehearsal
 Barn on Trolley Tracks. Workmen were employed yesterday