The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-12-02
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ground, national and Minnesota
department Legion officers and
members are turning toward 1922
its problems and hoped-for
achievements. And so that the
organization may be ready to
launch its program for 1922 with
the start of the New Year, the
eleven thousand Legion posts
throughout the nation are busy re-
Winding their members that each
New Year brings it's readjustment,
and that to be in good standing
on January 1st next, every Mime
sofa Legionaire must in the mean
time get squared away for another
year by seeing his post adjutant
and paying his yearly assessment.
The adjutant, in turn is expected
to remit the state and national
dues of the members of his post
on or before December 31st, 1921.
Ne ~
A bulletin just mailed to the
4S5 American Legion posts in Min
nesota urges all posts to remit the
1922 dues of every member before
che first of the New Year A national
publicity note cites the fact that
practically all Legion Departments
are racing to see which can have
the largest percentage of renewals
for 1922 RENTED to national
headquarters by December 31st,
1922. The Minnesota officers have
announced that every Minnesota
Legion Post which by 5 P. M.
December 31st, 1921, has remitted
the 1922 dues of at least 1879 of
its present membership, will re-
ceive high quality Autographed
citation signed by the Department
Commander and the Department
Adjutant.
A Wisconsin Legion Post has an
nounced that the last of its men,
bers to pay 1922 dues will suffer
derision of spending an evening
in an improvised guard house.
Down in Kansas the finance COM
mittee of Legion Post chose 4
A. M. as the best time to collect
1922 dues. Members of the com
mittee rout the Legionaires out of
bed at that urearthly hour and
refuse to let them slumber again
Ut. the pay vi
A SoL,!i Dako a Legion Post is
Offering ZACH servire ,.an who
pays dues for 1922 before Decem-
Der 18th, biscuit baked by a re-
cent bride and Legion Auxiliary
member. Three of the biscuits
will contain cash prizes $40
and SIS in gold, but no biscuits
will be broken until the night of
the banquet, Dec. 18th, when they
will serve as admission tickets
There is a big rush for the bis
cults and the Legionaires' nerves
are on edge awaiting the fatal
night.
"As State Commander l am
sending this personal message to
you because / feel that if YOU
thoroughly understand the situation
you will have no hesitation in do
ing your part. You have placed
on my shoulders the responsibility
o f upholding the reputation of
The American Legion Of Minnesota
and of increasing it's membership
during my term of office. I want
to do that, but every one of our
thirty thousand Minnesota Legion
aires must help by paying his 1922
dues now instead of putting it off
from day to day until they are
past due. Then your state and
national leaders will know where
the organization stands and can
make their plans for 1922 without
fear of financially embarrassing
our great organization, and YOU
will not miss any of the 1929
issues of our national publication.
The American Legion Weekly, as
you will if you fail to get SQUARED
away before the first of the year.
reads portion Of a special letter
signed by Department Commander
Arthur A. Van Dyke, copy OF
which is being mailed each Mime
sofa Legionaire.
When chatting together, HAM
ford MacNider and Marshal Foch
discovered they both celebrate on
the same birthday-October I'd.
During his Minnesota visit, Mar
shall Foch remarked to Arthur A.
Van Dyke, Legion State Command
err, Yours is a great organization.
But you can make it greater and
stronger by getting every man who
served under the American colors
to enroll himself under its banner.
He owes it to himself and to his
country to be a member of the
great American Legion"
"a "a
Though he is over seventy years
of age, Marshal Foch is great
traveller. After he had travelled
five thousand miles in connection
with his visit to the Legion's Ma
tional Convention in Kansas City,
and was asked whether he felt
able to make an extended trip
through the West and South as
the Legion's guest, he exclaimed,
"Oui! Oui! tres bon! l am en-
joying it all immensely. After
the difficulties of the great war,
these visits to see your country
and your people are full of pleas
ure. / would not be without the
memory of the trip you plan for
me. 1t shall be the most enjoy
able memory of nv life"