Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
MANY TO ATTEND
LEGION CONVENTION
Philadelphia Will Send Thirty
three Delegates to Minneap-
oils on November 10
BONUS TO BE DISCUSSED

Philadelphia will send thirty three
delegates to the national convention of
the American Legion to be held i'll
Minneapolis November 10, II and II.
The delegation will travel to the west
crn city in special train, leaving
here November s.
In view of the great Importance of
this convention interest has been in
tense and delegates will go from here
and from all parts of the state with
propositions to be placed before the
body for it's consideration.
The three principal questions over
which the service men and women are
concerned relate to the bonus. tho ma
tional policy of the legion as'it af-
fects method of obtaining remedial leg
islation and the enactment of bene
fetal laws and the recommendations
as to the suppression Of bolshevism i'll
the United States.
Bonus Favored Here
While the Pennsylvania state con-
vention has placed itself on record
through the representatives at the can
tonment early in October. as being
opposed to requests for bonuses as such.
it is certain that many of the national
delegates from Philadelphia and from
Pennsylvania will vote in favor of the
bonus. A number of posts in Philadel-
phia have expressed themselves by res.
olution as favorable to the bonus and
this frame of mind is bound to assert
itself in Minneapolis.
In order that the principle OF home
rule might prevail in the selection of
delegates to the national convention the
men were chosen from the congressional
districts and by the vote. of the dele
gates in the state convention from such
districts. An effort was made at Har-
risburg to distribute the delegates as
fairly as possible among the various
posts, but it was manifestly impossible
to give each of the seventy five posts
representation. with only thirty district
delegates to be elected from the six con-
gressional districts.
Philadelphia received three delegates
at-largc in addition to the thirty dis.
trict delegates-W. w Atterbury, of
the Pennsylvania Railroad post; n.
Nevin DIETRICH. organizer of the Ger
mantown Post No. 3.and George Went
worth Carr, the chairman of the county
committee, who will head the local del
egates.
Philadelphia Delegates
The representatives of the six con
gressional districts are as follows:
First district--Frank W: Melvin, post
No. 10: William l.. jenkins, Post No.
96: A. II. Freclon. Post No. 81 Nj. A.
Thormahlen (All Navy. Post No. l9I,
and w. T.. West. Post No 1917.
Second district-H. II. Tully, Post
No. ia: Carl Sachs, Post No. 1SS; X.
r. Hogan. Post No. 1856; u, ii. Wal
berg. Post No. 14G. and W. ii. Crcamer,
Jr.. Post No. 19j.
Third district. w. Study (Penn-
sylvania Ralroad. Post No. 2O4 Rob
crt l.. Denig. Post No. 1SG; " illlam j..
pohn 4 NplSnn
Post No. 1S9, and James Il. Anderson,
.Ir.. Post No. 2S9.
Fourth district-Michael SAKE. Post
No. 81 Fred Il. Gretzmacher, Post
No. 1:J3 Russell c. Cooney, Post No.
o64 : Harris w. Watkins, Post No. 259,
and Benjamin Colder, Post No. 81. .
Fifth district. !. Lamond, Post
No. 9S; Raymond Kramer. Post No.
49, Richard Hopkins, Post No; 2o3
Lester Was. Post No. 700, and John
Adams. Post No. 9S.
Sixth district-Thomas +. Meehan,
Post No. So: Vincent A. Carroll. lr..
Post No. 20: Lucien a. Hauslein. Post
No. 81: Isidore Baylson, Post No. 4,
and Nillard d. Brown, Post No. g..
MANY Of the posts are experiencing
difficulty in financing their delegates
TO the national convention. The youth
of the legion argues against large sums
in the post treasury, ana the "TRIP WI, Mlll
cost between $50 and $3.50. depending
upon the taste of the delegate. In one
congressional district, the Second, a
conference of all posts has been held,
and it has been proposed to levy a
ner capita tax on the membership of
the posts included in the district. Each
man will be allowed S125 for the trip,
A number of the delegates have volun-
teered to pay their own expenses, but
this is considered something of an i'm =
position on the,person who goes to Min
neapols to represent the legion from
his district.