Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-15

h chairman, and members Of other
posts are invited to attend. The only
business other than having a good
time WIN be the completion Of the
wom41s auxiliary of the post, which
is now being organised. Special cars
will be run to Forest Glen from 18th
street and Florida avenue. beginning
ut pm.
No less than 1000 persons attended
the outing at Chesapeake Beach last
Thursday, held under the auspices of
Maryland. Virginia and the District Of
Columbia There were LOO who
went by train from this city. while
500 made the trip from Baltimofe
by boat, and many others drove to the
beach from Washington, Baltimore
and Annapolis in motors.
A joint committee looked after the
athletic contests, bathing and dane
ing features. and it is planned to have
the big picnic repeated annually.
Miss Bessie Smith of Belleau Wood.
No. 3, Of the American Legion in this
city, left last week for France. She
won the trip by virtue of having
sold the most subscriptions to the
Marine Marin =, and a, Indian ;nsa magazine pub,
Corps and the I'd Division Asso-
citation. Belleau Wood Post, or
ganized by the women who served
in the Marine Corps during the war,
has been meeting but once a month
during the summer. but will map
out an active winter program at the
September meeting.
Although E. l. Poff, former COM
mander of Walter Reed Hospital
Post of the American Legion, is now
spending his vacation in Roanoke.
Va. he is not necessarily idle. and
recently instituted a new post of the
order in that town. This Is the
newest of several posts of the v. F. w.
entity of washington through the
work Of men of this city.
Within the near future Sergt.
Jasper Post, No. IS, of the American
Legion is to give an informal dance
in it's new clubrooms. 11o1 E street.
this having been decided on at the
first meeting there last week. The
post was the first to organize a rife
club. which action is to be followed
of the city preliminary to numerous
shooting contests to be held next fan.
Several hundred members of George
Washington Post No. of the Ameri-
can Legion made the trip to Marshall
Hall yesterday, the occasion being
the first annual outing of this oldest
and largest legion post in the Dis
trict.
Ex-service men of the American
Legion and the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars, as well as those of other or
CARNATIONS, are very much interested
in the announcement that Secretary
Baker is in favor of Withholding the
names of 10000 men wanted as
draft evaders and not making public
the list, as it was announced more
than a year ago would be done. AL
though the list has been checked and
rechecked. with both the Army and
Navy records. the Secretary hesitates
for fear that injustice would be done
to some whose names are in there
through error.
Many who answered the call to arms
and who have waited some two years
to see those whose fear overbalanced
their patriotism brought to justice
are disappointed in the Secretarys
ruling and the question is furnishing
debate in many local post meetings
of former service men. The Secre-
tary's position is certain to be the
subject of much discussion at the
national conventions in this city and
Cleveland, Ohio. next month.