The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-29
KENTUCKY VETERANS
BEGIN ORGANIZING
American Legion Plans To Take
In Nearly 100000 Former
Soldiers And Sailors
PARTISAN POLITICS BARRED;
RANK NOT AN ISSUE


the uniform In the great war. NJ home
and abroad, are forming Throughout
the State what will be units Of The
American Legion, the great aSSocia-
ilon of veterans started early this
month alta national caucus IN 81.
Louis. AT which all existing projects
for such an organization were ANAL
gamated and AT which a program was
laid down tn enable every precinct,
county, town, city and State To begin
organizing.
Untll the st. Louis meeting. project,
IN various parts If our state and ma
tlon were held In allegiance because IT
the lack Of u definite national move
m'nt. though IN all quarters there cN
listed 4 strong sentiment for an early
association through which could be
prrpctuajed the ideals for which the
war was fought. through which the re-
turned soldier and sailor could becuw,
more uf fGctnr N Government and
through which I'll things that stand for
risht. progress. and undlutrd Amer.
canlsm could he upheld. Now. with a
definite and amalgamared national err
sanitation. ken'ucky Veterans are 20.
ing ahead
appointment Of an Executive Com
m''tce for krnDcky and 4 call for u
meeting Of tina, body NJ rNe Scelhach,
in Louisville. saturday. May slSi. is
announced by Judge Henry DeIayeu
Norman. of this county, who was
elected temporary State Commander
by the Kentucky delegation in ST.
Louis. n 4. Sachs. Adiutant. has
been directed by the NATIONAL ENecu-
tive Committee 10 proceed with the in
corporation Of the Legion in Ken
tucky. These articles of Incorporation
and the date upon which organization
meetings viii be held simultaneously
In every county In Kentucky will he
considered by the Executive Commit.
teemen NJ this meeting, rs well as 9th
er important matters.
Under authority given him in 81.
Louis, Judge Norman has appointed
an executive committee as follows !:
Roger H. Williams. Lexington. State
at-large: NJ l.. Sosnin, Louisville.
State-af-large V. q. Fraser, Wickliffe.
first district; NJ. X. Gordon. Madison.
Vile, second district: DIR. John YoWc.
Glasgow, third district; y. H. Jones.
Ky, fourth district I;
Emmett oNeal, Louisville, fifth dis
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Sixth district: George II. Smith, Lex
ington, seventh district; John Muir
Danvllle. eighth district; Walter Mob
ley. Olive Hill. ninth district; Scwell
Combs, Hazard, tenth district; Vernon
Faulkner. Iiarbourville., eleventh dis.
trict; George Ewald. Of Louisville. i
the State Finance Officer
The Kentucky Delegation. at St
Louis, recommended chalrTnen for
some>of the districts and authorized
the state Commander TO appoint q
chairman and two vice-chairmen for
each Congressional District. Immcdi-
ately after the Executive Committee
nxetS, these appointments will be an
nounced The district chairmen win
then promptly designate a person In
each county 10 officially organize n
post nj the county seat, and To aid and
assist elsewhere, but each post shall
elect its own officers and manage it,
affairs without outside Interference.
The tentative organizations now be-
Ing formed will receive charters later
through the State organization. The
absence Of charters, however, Com
Moornan explains, does not
deter the immediate formation IT posts
IN precincts, counties, towns or cities.
Under the constitution adopted by the
caucus, any fifteen or more
eligible veterans can associate them
selves together In the formation Of
post. In the Fifth district, embracing
has been undertaken by
Chairman McAleekm along the lines Of
organizations in which Louis
Vile men were larg ~ represented,
such as the 33Gih National Army Regi-
ment the former First Kentucky Ma
tional Guard Regiment, etc, and also
along the lines of large institutions OF
Industries from which there went a
large number Of soldiers or sailors
who participated IN the war. The
method of organizing posts IL being
lef, 10 the local organizers. Each post
however, will have a commander, vice
finance officer, adjutant
chaplain. and master-at-arms.
Louisville has been made Southern
II the National Commit
Tee on Publicity and Information, Of
which George :. Wheat, If the New
York Herald; Uric Bell, Of the Louis.
Vile Courier-Jouinal, and Jack Collier,
Of p0catello, Idaho, are members. Re
turning veterans are applying to South
ern headquarters for information, and
II win he given them as received from
National and State Headquarters.
Throughout Kentucky, according 10
reports reaching southern headquar
tiers, much interest IN being manifested
In the Legion, not only by former serv.
Ice men, but by their mothers ana
fathers and other loved ones Interested
IN seeing their soldiers permanently |
Identified ne having taken part In the
for liberty. When the date n |