Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-08
Il EGION PUTS Oil
CAMP PAIGN SEPT. IS
ONE MILLION
TUTAL STRENGTH
New Mexico Is Expected to
Raise Its Membership to At
Least 1929 Within One
Week S Time,
INTENSIVE DRIVE IS
COMMITTEES PURPOSE
Teams VIII Be Formed and
Each Locality win Be Called
Upon to Deliver a Minimum
Number,

New York, Sept IA nationwide
campaign to increase the membership
of the American legion to 100000
veterans of the great war viii bs
started by all state branches and To-
cal posts throughout the country on
Monday, September l5. The drive Will
last six days closing on Saturday, sep
tember 20. In that time each state
will be expected to fill a membership
quota necessary to make the strength
Of the legion national y one million
members
More than one-third OF the million
400, 900 soldiers. sailors and ma
rines of the recent war organized in
upward of $500 posts from coast to
coast---has already been obtained.
Harry ID. Lindsey. chairman of the
national executive committee, has APP
pointed these 100000 the general
membership dfive committee, each one
with quota of three of his bud
dies to enroll in his local post in the
week of the campaign The slogan
of the drive will be Lets Stuck To-
gether' It will he posted in large and
small communities throughout the
country,
Quotas Worked Out.
The membership quota for each
state has been worked out on the ba-
sis of the number of men who served
! in the army, navy or marine corps
| during the war from that state. Many
states have almost reached their as
| signed quotas already and the drive
In those states will be to double their
F, present enrolment. one of the chief
! incentives Of the campaign win bo
| the fact that each states voting
! strength at the national convention
/ III Minneapolis on November 10, IL
| aad l2 will be based on its member
ship prior TO october 10, thirty days
I before the convention assemblies.
/ The campaign for one million mem-
I bers will be conducted on intensive
/ lines Counties and posts will be as
/ signed to their individual quotas
| Teams will be formed in each post
and cities, towns and county districts
! divided into workable subdivisions SO
! that an opportunity win be available
| for personal appeal to every eX-ser-
vice man. Mondays aud evening
meetings will be held and speakers
sent to theaters, motion picture
houses, agricultural fairs and indus
! trial districts to present the legion
! to the veterans.
AmcriCa Needs Hep.
| In a statement today to the mem
bers of the legion on the membership
| drive, Harry u, Lindsey, chairman
| of the national executive committee,
! says.
| Veterans working for the Ameri-
can legion are working for America
which needs the help of all her sons
! to conserve the principles for which
the United States fought against Ger
many Editors, merchants, employers
and all good Americans extended their
cooperation in Liberty loan drives.
| You members of the American legion
| represent drive started by 4,SOO,-
men and women who offered their
/ lives to safeguard the liberty which
| they now enjoy
To the state which leads the coun-
try In the membership drive, the ma
| tional executive committee viii pre-
sent a banner at the Minneapolis con-
vention on November II, American
Legion day. when Marshal Foch and
other distinguished guests of honor
are expected to he present,
The membership quota assigned to
New Mexico for the drive week is
3,222.