The sun., 1919-09-14
AMERICAN LEGION
READY FOR DRIVE
Will Open Tomorrow Morn
ing Weeks Campaign for
Additional Members.
EXPENSE rs SUBSCRIBED
Committees Named to Cover
Manhattan Island
Thoroughly.
EXPENSE is SUBSCRIBED

The\ American Legion national drive
for membership will begin tomorrow
morning and last through the week.
During this time the American Legion
hopes to swell its membership to in
clude every man and every woman who
served in the uniform OF this country
during the war with Germany. Be-
cause of the large number of transients
continually passing through New. York
this section has organized perhaps bet
ter than any other in the country for
this campaign. The New York county
organization has outlined plans for
covering thoroughly the districts OF
Manhattan Island.
George Brokaw Compton, chairman
of the New York county organization,
Is the man in charge of work in this
county. Mr.. Compton was Major from
the first Plattsburg training camp, who
became interested in the legion move
ment while still on the other side. He
was one of New York States delegates
to the st. Louis caucus.
Mr.. Compton's chief appointee for the
drive work is Richmond Levering, who
will be chairman of the membership
drive committee for New York county.
Mr.. Levering was one of the organizers
of the American Protective League,
which cooperated throughout the war
with the Department of Justice secret
service agents in uncovering German
plans in the American hemisphere. Mr..
Levering later was called into the chem
ical warfare service, in which he acted
as a Major until after the armistice
was signed.
Mr. Leverings committees. operating
under the direction of the general MEM
bership drive committee, are many and
will cover all angles of the work. One
OF the most important of them is the
finance committee, headed by Harold
Bolster. Chells A. Austin of the Mer-
camille Trust Company is treasurer for
all the drive work.
The dues assessed each member of
the organization will not be used to
defray the expenses of this membership
work comes through private -suhscrip-
tions from men interested in the well
fare of the legion.
The other members of the finance COM
mittee are Francis L. Robbins, Jr.,
! Major-Gen. Robert Alexander, Major
Gen. William l.. Sibert, Major-Gen. John
F. Organ, Joseph L. Seligman, Louis
NJ. Josephthal. Wesley N. Oler. Jr.. Ber-
nard F. Flurscheim, Michael Friedsam,
Charles Elliott Warren. George A. Bur-
rell, Forsythe Wickes, Robert L. Bacon,
Every United cigar store on the
island of Manhattan will be distribut-
ing point for American Legion literature
and enrolment blanks during the COM
ing week, plan made possible through
the courtesy of Jesse r. Taylor. general
manager of the United Cigar Stores
Company. One particular store will be
deIignated as a post headquarters in
each geographical district
Authorized representatives will be in
these stores, which are located centrally
in each of the twenty-seven districts, to
! collect dues and give out the American
| Legion button. Every War Camp Com
munlty Service information booth, can
teen and sleeping unit has been thrown
open as distributing centres for Ameri-
can Legion information.
1t is estimated by the drive commit
tee that there are 100000 service men
on the island of Manhattan. This en-
tire number will be approached. by rep
resentatives of the drive committee dur
ing the week. The Women's National
League is furnishing motor transporta-
tion to the legion to assist in the work.