Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1919-12-18
AMERICAN LEGION DRIVE

has beef organized and we now have
36 members, or 1T least that many
have presented their applications and
been passed on. We are making a
special drive in order TO enlist all the
boys who saw service in The late war,
beginning December 10 and endinp
January I, 1919. Every ex-service
man in Bath Coimty is asked to be-
come member of Bath Post No. AZ.
You owe it to yourselves, to your
family and to your country TO ASSOC
ciate yurself with an organization
that has incorporated within its
creed desire to defend your coun-
try and uphold its Constitution, to
maintain law and order, to keep fresh
in your memory and perpetuate
one hundred per cent. Americanism,
10 stand for the promotion of peace
and good will to all peoples of the
entire world, to have that desire to
live in your respective communities
and elevate the morals of the COM
munity and be the means of incul-
eating in the minds Of the people a
desire TO make America the greatest,
the best and the happiest nation in
the world. Now that is what the
American Legion stands for. That
is what it is organized for. 1t is up
to you who braved the many obstl-
Giles and dangers when you donned
the uniform of your country and
took an active part in order that vic
tory might crown your efforts and
make the United States of America
the teacher Of the whole world that
Democracy shall reign supreme, to
aOw express your true citizenship
by becoming a member of the organ-l
izatiOn that means to perpetuate and
keep fresh in the minds of the Amer
lean people one hundred per cent
Americanism.
a great victory for the American
Legion has been won by the passage
in Congress- of the WolcOtt- johnson
Bill to which President Wilson has
affixed his signature, officially in
cooperating the American Legion as
the National Organization of the !
American veterans of the great World !
War. / wish to add just here that !
no other association of this kind /
ever been thus honored by Congress
in the history of the United States |
rs has been the Incorporation Of the |
American Legion. incorporation Ov- /
er the signature of the President !
means that the American Legion has
arrived and that it is here to stay
that it has been a potent factor in
the National life of America.
The American Legion now has a
membership in the United States of
100000 and it is growing fast Th,I
men seeking membership without BE-
ing solicited and it is only a sg.rt \
time hence when all the four m.roll
men will have become full Fl g-.
members of the organization. 30
come on boys and enlist YOU YES
with us and help us make Bath "oun-
ty better ! having lived in il
Bath F has appointed 4 ,oln-
tiittee Q ed of Alex ficui7 ster,
". S. samas, C. b. Lar, H.-
per OF 49,. Legion Membr nA and
Mr.. J. j. acy of the cftlzen S TO-
head the Committee, said Con tee
to be known as the Monumer Com
mittee. This Committee will g,..it |
funds for the purpose of erecting a
imminent in front of the Court hur
to the memory of the boys W. lost
their lives in the late war. The non-
ument to cost not less than g. 900. |
Now 1 earnestly hope that the citi-
zenship of Bath county will be pa
triotic enough to subscribe literally |
to this Monument fund. TIL monu-
ment will perpetuate the rt,mory of !
those dear BOYS who ga up their
lives that Bath county stght live.
Let us subscribe a sum Pf about
$4,000. 1t will be money Nh spent
and you will have a monun INIT here
that you all will be proud I. - Each
Bath coutny man, who lo3. his life
while in the service, wiz have his
name inscribed thereon. ha.e ask
ed that this Committee g,. tuyether
and map out and plan IA camp aign.
BY becoming "A memb of the
American Legion the yearly dues are
only $500, one dollar of which goes
to the State and National Organiza-
ton, and one dollar goes ~ the local
Post. 1t is very small 90 and ev-
cry boy who was in the .rgice can
well afford to become a ualnber for
so small fee.
Bath Post will meet : 'gular
session next Saturday n.n.t a' 7 o.
colck in County Attorney office at
Court House. | am requ Jug a full
attendance of the member rip at that
time as we have some important bus
mess that will come before the Post.
All the boys who have presented their
applications for membership are re-
quoted to be present.
d. w. DOGGETT,
Commander.