Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-10-06
JAMESTOWN IS HOST TO LEGION
BOYS
Third Annual Convention of Nortl,
Dakota Department Held Last
Week. Much Interest
Manifest.

Manifest.
Glen Turner and the Record man
represented the local post of the Am
erican Legion at the convention at
jamestown Wednesday and Thursday
of last week. The convention proved
to be successful one, and the people
of jamestown backed the Jamestown
post to the limit in providing good
time for the several hundred visitors
who attended.
The writer has been member of
all three conventions of this depart
ment of the Legion held to date. He
does not hesitate to say that this
meeting was by far the most benefi-
cial to the Legion of any yet held. The
first two conventions had more of a
spirit Of hilarity and good fellowship
and not enough Of the feeling of the
Importance of the work to be done.
As result, Legion expenditures were
allowed to mount up faster than the
receipts from dues, and deficiency re-
suited. Although comparatively small,
this loss had good effect on the del
egates. It caused them to about face
and to look into the future from a
strictly business point of view. AS
a result, steps were taken to curtail
the next years expenditures to some
thing like four or five thousand dol
lars less than heretofore. When the
time came to elect officials, the busi-
ness qualifications of each gained far
more prominence in the discussions
than during former years. Added to
that, there was an absolute absence
of hard feeling when the convention
adjourned. This could not be said
of former conventions.
The convention went on record as
demanding steps to rid the state of
the I. w. w. menace; it favored fur
ther steps to make Americans at heart
out of our foreign born, and to pro-
vide more stringent school laws. A
large share of the time of the conven-
tion was devoted to the interests of
the disabled service man. A resolu-
ton was passed demanding that or
carnations similar to the Red Cross be
required to return to the use of dis
abled service men the funds that were
raised for war purposes and which
have been diverted to various peace
time enterprises. Major j. M. Han
ley, of Mandan, was endorsed as a
candidate for national commander.
A resolution was introduced calling
for the assessment of every member
of fifty cents to pay up an existing
deficit, etc. This was strongly op-
posed by the Linton delegates, and
was side-tracked. It is planned, in
stead, to borrow sufficient funds to
meet the situation, and then to make
a place in future budgets for reas-
enable amount as sinking fund to
pay up the loan.
Mandan and Devils Lake were op.
ponents for next years convention,
and Devils Lake put it over us.
Officers were elected for the ensu.
ing year, and delegates chosen to the
national convention to be held at Kan
sas City the last Of this month. The
Record man was one of the delegates
elected to the convention.
Too much cannot be said for the
excellent entertainment provided by
the jamestown Legion boys and the
people of that city. A big parade was
one of the features Of the affair, and
it was second to none ever seen by us
before. Bands from Fargo, Casselton,
Harvey and jamestown attended. The
Casselton band was composed entirely
of Legion members. The improve
ment shown in each convention is the
best evidence that the Legion's annu-
al get-togethers will soon be an i'm
portant event in the lives of those
who served in Uncle Sans forces
Eventually, a state encampment will
be provided in connection with each
annual convention.
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