Weekly journal-miner., 1919-06-25
YAVAPAI MEN ID FORM POST
 TOMORROW

Under personal instructions from E. P. Conway of Phoenix, temporary chairman of the American Legion in Arizona, the local ex-service men will form the Prescott post at an organization meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms tomorrow night al o'clock.
 MT. Conway accompanied iby Robbie Baker, drove up from Phoe nix Sunday and met a number of Prescott men, who have been wait ing for tne proper authority to or ganize the local post. That author ity was given. and after IS have been signed up here, a charter will be granted.
 Prescott is looked upon to supply So delegates 10 the state convention at Tucson July il. No less than 800 are expected from over the states. And by the time of the November national convention it IS expected Arizona will have 10 or more posts with l5,000 members signed up. The
 delegates to the Minneapolis conven- ion will be selected from the floor It the Tucson meeting, and tnere will be six votes for Arizona. Votes may De split, however, so more than siX members can go
 .. What It Is
 ME. Conway explained that ithc Legion aims to be something that will give expression to pure Amer icanism, without partisanship except On that issue.
 An example of the creed was given by MT. Conway, who, said: We don't intend to support any candidate for public office, but we will reserve the right to oppose any man about whose Americanism there is ques- ton"
 Col. Roosevelt, who was instru- mental in getting the organizers of the Legion together. but who refused to head it, put 1t pretty well when he said the organization is not to take anything out Of the government, | but to put something into it. Mir ! Conway intimated that it would not be merely social club for returned soldiers and sailors, but would have q definite and not too easy work to do. You don't want to get the idea that you can get together, snake hands and talk oven what you all did in the war"
 Meeting Wednesday Night
 Under the authority granted by the ! state chairman, the local members of the returned soldier band, issued d l call yesterday for a meeting at the ! Chamber of Commerce tomorrow 1. night at o'clock. Eligible to be- come members of the Legion and | 10 attend this meeting are all men, bearing honorable discharges from he service of the United States of America during the period this na- ion was in a state of war with Ger many Hence, the membership may lclude not only soldiers, sailors and marines, but members of the Y. M { {. A., Red Cross, Salvation Army, Knights of Columbus and all similar who worked for their during the war.
 There is only one reservatOin in he honorable discharge proposition, md that is, no conscientious object DTS (whose discharges are as honor lble in the opinion of the secretary of war, as any others) will be per nitted to join the American Legion.
 The Arizona headquarters do not avor forming lot of little posts, put urge the organization of a com oaratively few large ones, with out posts to take care of the men in iso- lated places. Under the national IS men may get a char CT, but it is hoped that there will be 10 such small posts. Prescott and .erome will each have Yavapai coun V posts, with outposts if needed al Humboldt and other small CT communities. Mir. Conway and lis aides have gone on to Jerome nd Flagstaff in order to get things tarted at those places. At the call ,f each local post, an experienced or ,anizer will be sent out from Phoe lix to get things lined up so there will be a minimum of confusion as