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Notable Committees Promoting
Constitutional Celebration

le states, the mayors of 90 important
clt1es, leading educators, lawyers and
business men, supreme court justices,
authors and professors. are included
in the membership of the committees
organized by the National Security
league and associated patriotic bodies
TO promote a nation wide celebration
Of the Am erican constitution on Sep
tenlber II next
Thousands of Meetings.
This movement is being developed
by the Security league in connection
with its national educational propa-
ganda to combat Bolshevism and
other un-American influences. Asso-
ciated with the Security league in
this effort are the leading patriotic
organizations of the country. The
constitutional celebration, and a pre-
1iminary campaign of constitutional
popula rization and Interpretation to
give added force to the celebration. is
under the direction of a notable or
ganization committee, headed by Dr.
David Jayne HILL historian and dip
lOmat. AN honorary committee rep
resentatiVe of the entire country has
also been formed by the Security
league and associated bodies, through
whose assistance the organization
committee hopes to promote meet
ings during the summer eliminating
in simultaneous constitutional cele-
brations held next fall in every city,
town and hamlet in every state in the
Union.
10 Governors.
The following governors of IS
states are personally members Of the
honorary committee:
Cows. Norbeck of South Dakota.
Milliken Of Maine. Carey of wyo-
ming. Sleeper of Michigan, Alcott of
Oregon Sproul of Pennsylvania,
Smith of New York. Boyle of Nevada.
Larrazolo Of New Mexico, Campbell of
Arizona, Roberts of Tennessee, Corn
we'll of West Virginia, Harrington of
Maryland. Townsend of Delaware,
Shoup of Colorado and Goodrich of
Indiana
Cows. Hulcomb of Connecticut, Edge
of New Jersey, Bamberger of Utah
and Dorsey of Georgia have appointed
representatives. to serve on the COM
mittee in their stead.
Other Members
Among the notable members Of the
committee, representing state and
local bar associations, state and local
boards of education, chambers of
commerce. etc, are:
Mrs. Mary G. G.. Bradford. state
uperintendent of public instruction of
Colorado. and recent president Of the
National Education association.
Henry w. Taft, we'll known New
York lawyer and brother of ex-
President Taft, president of the New
York State Bar association.
Brig Gen. Richard W. Young. rep
Pa ha1 Of -to11
Frank Cody, acting superintendent |
of schools Of Detroit.
DR., J. V. Chapman, state super |
visor of rural schools of Kentucky, |
appointed by State superintendent of |
Schools Gilbert
Frederick Rueckert chairman of |
the state board of education of |
Rhode Island.
Judge Henry Horner Of the probate |
court of Cook county, Chicago.
Ex-Congressman William H. Flen-
ing of Georgia, appointed by President |
Black of the Augusta Bar associa-
ton.
Judge Walter l. Smith of the u. S.
circuit court Of appeals in Iowa.
Hon. leopold Feliu, mem Der of the
Porto Rican senate, representing the |
Bar association of Porto Rico.
George e. Gallagher, president Of
the San Francisco board Of education.
James w. Chapman, Jr., president !
OF the board of education of Balti-
more
H \. Leighton. president Of the
board of education of Minneapolis.
DR.. Henry L. wolfner, president Of
the St. Louis board of education.
Ex-Judge r. D. Marshall of the
Wisconsin circuit and supreme courts,
appointed by Chief Justice Winslow,
president of the Wisconsin State Bar
ssociation.
Bar Associations Act.
In accordance with a resolution
passed by the executive committee of
the American Bar association at its
recent meeting in Chicago. President
Page has appointed a committee of
three to formulate plans for the paar-
ticipution of the association In the
celebra ton. A resolution was passed
at the recent convention Of the Vir-
ginia State Bar associa ton in Rich
mond directing the president to ap-
point committee Ito be composed Of
one member from each senatorial
district, to arrange throughout the
state a conspicuous. appropriate and
educational celebration of the birth
day of the constitution on Septem Der
H."
Hon. James G. Jones Of St. Louis,
president of the Missouri State Bar
association, who is a member of the
honorary committee, has assumed full
charge Of the celebration in that state
for the distribution of the prelimi-
nary literature and the organization
Of meetings through the associa tons
district and county committees.
Business Men Assist,
An example of the cooperation OF
the great commercial bodies of the |