The New York herald., 1920-01-19
AMERICAN LEGION POSTS HERE
WILL FIND JOBS FOR VETERANS;
YEOMANETTES TO GIVE PARTY
Miss Rite w. Tandy Will Direct
Dolly Madison Posts Social
Activities.


With the assertion that the former un-
employed service man is the best BoIshe-
visit propaganda, Wade III. Hayes, State
Adjutant of the American Legion. today
will send to all presidents of Legion posts
in the metropolitan district letter invok-
ing the aid of every member of the organ
| ization in the work of obtaining with the
cooperate nof the Re-employment Bu-
real for Ex-Service Men congenial employ
ment for the large number Of men who
fought for Uncle Sam and still are un-
placed IN civil life.
| At the time the Unemployment Com
mittee of New York City for Ex-Service
Men. operating in conjunction with the
Merchants Association of New York and
other organizations, discontinued its ac-
tivities there were more than three hun
dred daily applicants for positions. This
was in the middle of December. Convinced
that the work should not be abandoned
in midwinter. IL at all, a new committee
wa sorganized by members of the Legion.
with DR.. Richard Derby as chairman.
Each member of every post in this city
should at once become 2 personal mis-
sionary in the endeavor to find jobs for his
fellow fighter" Mr.. Hayes says In his
letter. 1.-The money with which to operate
the bureau and the machinery for admin
istration are at hand, but the Jobs are
hard to find. and they ere not forthcoming
in number sufficient to take care OF the
number of registrants, whose quahfica-
tions range from those Of high grade ex-
ecutives and organizers to those OF the
day laborer.
"If each member Of the Legion in this
city will find vacancy and report IT 10
the Bureau the employment situation Will
|be largely solved by early spring. IL is
urgently requested that each member IN
|ouire at his place of business and among
his friends as to whether 1t is not possible
ito employ an additional former service
imam.
"AlI openings should DO reported imme-
Idiately, preferably by telephone. to the
|director of the Employment Bureau Tor
Ex-Service Men. No. 500 Pearl street, Man
haitian; telephone Worth-926O.
"An unemployed former fighter is the
best Bolshevist propaganda Steady work
ibrings satisfaction and contentmenI
Fight radicalism at its very roots by get
lting a job for your soldier comrade.
Russell e. Sard, State Commander OF
the American Legion. has requested that
la special meeting of all posts throuSnout
the State be called for the purpose or
explaining the plan of the Y. M. c. A. to
vice men in Y. NJ. c. A. schools, in home
study correspondence courses, colleges
and technical schools for the purpose OF
the possibilities of education
flor men who served In the war.
Lucfen s. Breckenridge, Of the 30Sth In
fantry Post, has been selected secretary
Of the New York County Committee. to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of George ]. Russell. Mr.. Breckinridge
was a major in the 30Sth Infantry and
served with the Seventy-seventh DIVISION
In tho Argonne. He was awarded the
Distins s,uished\ Service Cross for gallantry
in acton William f. Collins will continue
as executive secretary.
The county headquarters of the legion
have been removed from No. PSI Madison
avenue to No. 13 East Forty-first street,
| in the building occupied by the Navy CLUB.
The Medical Department Post. in which
Il is proposed to enroll all medical o1ticers
and enlisted personnel who served In the
Medical Department during the war ana
now reading in New York county, has peen
Torrned at the New York Academy OF
Medicine, No. II West Forty-third street
DR.. Samuel Bradbury. No. 116 East sixty
third street, is receiving applications for
membership.
Resolutions that Edward Everett Hale's
book. "The Man Without a Country, oe
suggested to the County Committee Tor
stiii higher reference, with the object or
introducing the book into the pubic
schools. were passed at the last meeting
of the Manhattan Naval Post IL was SAID
at the meeting that the book would go
great way in teaching the young element
love Of country and Americanism. Inc
post will hold a get together sociapie ana
dance for its members and their friends
next Thursday night.
Raymond Kipp, Kings County Treas
urcr, will address the Elmer r.. Bennett
Post tonight at the Republican Club. No
236 Barley street, Brooklyn. Former ser
vice men of East New York. Cypress Hills
and woodhaven will attend the meeting.
Charles Doyle, No. $50 Enfield street,
BROOKLYN, is chairman of the Member
ship Committee.
| Ansell Clark, head of the New York
section of the Federal Bureau or toreign
and Domestic Commerce, will address the
Columbia University Post at the club, No.
West Forty-third street, tomorrow night.
| Plans for a permanent home for the Har-
lem Post will be announced at meeting
OF the post in the rooms Of the Harlem
Board Of Commerce tonight at half-pas'
eight o'clock.
| Special efforts win be made at meet
| ing of the David w. Gentle Post tomor-
row night to form ladies' auxiliary. II
| is expected that Mrs. Balcom, recently
appointed by the Bronx County Committee
to act as organizer for the various post
auxiliaries, win be present
Reports Of officers and committees will
be heard at a meeting tomorrow night al
fifteen minutes after eight o'clock OF the
County Committee In the Central Club for
Nurses, No. 122 East Forty-fifth street.
| Prominent professional performers ap-
peared at the last meeting OF the 3o6th In
fantry Post In the Hostess House. No. $40
Lexington avenue.
Irwin Ira Rackoff, president Of Murray
| Hill Post. will address the Mems League
Of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church.
surrectipn. spoke briefly. She was well
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