Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-31
FORM UNION To
HONOR BIRTHDAY
Of CONSTITUTION
Movement Organized By Ma
tiOnaI Security League Re-
CeiyeS Wide Co-Operation in
Prominent Committee.

New York, March 30.-rne Nation
al Security League announced tOdaE
that it has received to date promises
of active cooperation in the great ma
tion-Wide celebration of the birthday
Of the American Constitution, on Sep
TENDER Z next, and the preliminary
campaign of constitutional populari-
Zation, which is organizing from the
following bodies
National Association for Constitu-
tOnal Government, Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution, American Rights
League and the American Defense
Society.
These ORGANIZATIONS will be repre-
scented on the general committee in
charge as follows
Notable Delegates.
National Association for Constitu-
tionai governmental. David Jayn"
Hill historian and diplomat. Presi-
dent who will act a Chairman of the
National Security Leagues commit
tee.
Sons of the voluton-Gaillard
Hunt, author and historian.
American Rights League-Maior
George Haven Putnam, the publish
or, president.
American Defense Society-Henry
G. Quinby, chairman board of direct
ors.
The National Security Loague will
he represented on the committee nv
Col. Charles Il. Lvdecker the
Leagues president, and DR., Robert NJ.
McElroy, head of the department of
history and politics in Princeton Tn
iversity who has been educational
director of the National Security
League, under leave of absence, for
the past two years.
Other Members
Other members of the committee,
who have been accented to date, are:
Hon. William l.. Harding, Govern
or of iowa.
Charles ]. Bonaparte, former at
torney general of the United States
and secretary of the navy
John NJ. Parker. of New Orleans,
progressive candidate for the vice
presidency in 1916.
Edgar A. Panci oft, Chicago law
yer.
DR. w. w. Willoueshy, author and
constitutional historian, for many
years editor of the american Politi-
cal Science Review"
Louis Annis Ames, president-gen
cral of the Sons of tho American Rev
olution
The membership Of the committee
will be increased as other patriotic
and educational Societies appoint del
cgatcs.
Preliminary Work.
AS a preliminary to the exercises
which will be held under the auspices
of the committee in every part of the
country next September, the commit
tee is now engaged in nation wide
educational campaign for the popu-
larzation of the constitution by in
depreciation. This work is being done
by the circulation OF pamphlet liter1-
ture and by speeches made by the
thousands of volunteer speakers en-
rolled on the Security Leagues staff
in all parts of the country.
The Security League hopes to make
DR.. Hills wellknown book. "The
Peoples Government" the basis of
the literature which it is circulating
on the subject, ARRANGEMENTS to this
end are now being negotiated with Dr..
lIilPs publishers. Other pamphlets
and books already in circulation by
the committee, through the National
Security League, are:
The Literature.
The Fundamentals of tho Amnri-
can Political Svstem" by DR.. Will
loughby, a member of the committee.
"Some Fundamental Political Prin-
cip'os' by nr. w. F. Willoughby, di-
rector of the institute for govern
ment research.
"a Catechism on the Constitu-