The Adair County news., 1919-06-04
KENTUCKY VETERANS
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American Legion Plans To Take
In Nearly 100000 Former
Soldiers And Sailors
PARTISAN POLITICS BARRED;
RANK NOT AN ISSUE

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soldiers, sailors and marines, who wore
the uniform in the great war, at home
and abroad, are forming throughout
the State what will be units of The
American Legion, the great associa-
ton of veterans started early this
month at a national caucus in st.
Louis, at which all existing projects
for such an organization were ANAL
gamated and at which program was
laid down to enable every precinct,
county, town, city and State to begin
organizing.
Until the st. Louis meeting, projects
in various parts Of our State and ma
ton were held in allegiance because of
the lack of a definite national move
ment, though in all quarters there ex-
listed a strong sentiment for an early
association through which could be
perpetuated the ideals for which the
war was fought, through which the re-
turned soldier and sailor could become
more of a factor in Government and
through which all things that stand for
right, progress, and undiluted Ameri-
canism could be upheld Now, with a
definite and amalgamated national or
ganization, Kentucky veterans are 60
ing ahead.
Appointment of an Executive Com
mittee for Kentucky and a call for a
meeting of that body at The Seelbach,
in Louisville, Saturday, May 31st, is
announced by Judge Henry DeHaven
Norman, Of this county, who was
elected temporary State Commander
by the Kentucky delegation in st.
Louis. D. A. Sachs, Adjutant. has
been directed by the National EXecu-
corporation of the Legion in Ken
lucky These articles of incorporation
and the date upon which organization
meetings will be held simultaneously
in every county in Kentucky will be
considered by the Executive Commit
teemen at this meeting, as we'll as 9th
er important matters.
Under authority given him in st.
Louis, Judge Norman has appointed
an executive committee as follows
Roger d. Williams, Lexington, State
at-large; NJ L. Sosnin, Louisville,
State-at-large; V. G. Fraser, Wickliffe.
first district; NJ. X. Gordon, Madison
vile, second district; DR.. John Young,
Glasgow, third district; S. 81. Jones,
Elizabethtown, KY, fourth district e;
Emmett O'Neal, Louisville, fifth dis
trict; William Cromwell, Frankfort,
Sixth district; George R. Smith, Lex
ington, seventh district; John Muir,
Danville, eighth district; Walter Mob
ley. Olive Hill, ninth district; Sewell
Combs, Hazard, tenth district; Vernon
Faulkner, Barbourville, eleventh dis
trict; George Ewald, of Louisville, is
the State Finance Officer
The Kentucky Delegation, at st.
Louis, recommended chairmen for
some of the districts and authorized
the State Commander to appoint a
chairman and two vice-chairmen for
each Congressional District. Immedi-
ately after the Executive Committee
meets, these appointments will be an
nounced. The district chairmen will
then promptly designate a person in
each county to officially organize a
post at the county seat, and to aid and
assist elsewhere, but each post shall
elect its own officers and manage its
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
mander Norman explains, does not
deter the immediate formation of posts
in precincts, counties, towns or cities.
Under the constitution adopted by the
national caucus, any fifteen or more
selves together in the formation of a
post. In the Fifth district, embracing
Louisville, the, organizations of such
branches has been undertaken by
Chairman McMeekin along the lines of
military organizations in which Louis
vile men were largely represented,
such as the 336th National Army Regi-
ment, the former First Kentucky Ma
tional Guard Regiment, ETC., and also
along the lines of large institutions or
industries from which there went a
large number of soldiers or sailors
who participated in the war. The
method of organizing posts is being
left to the local organizers. Each post,
however, will have a commander, vice
commander, finance officer, adjutant,
chaplain, and master-at-armS.
Louisville has been made Southern
headquarters of THE National Commit
tee on Publicity and Information, of
which George S. Wheat, Of the New
York Herald; Uric Bell, of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, and Jack Collier,
of Pocatello, Idaho, are members. Re-
turning veterans are applying to South
ern headquarters for information, and
II viii be given them as received from
National and State Headquarters.
Throughout Kentucky, according to
reports reaching Southern headQuar-
tiers, much interest is being manifested
in the Legion, not only by former serv-
ice men, but by their mothers and
fathers and other loved ones interested
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