Evening star., 1921-05-01

number of games are already booked /
with teams at nearby camps. u" ne {
team will play this afternoon at 80 !
o'clock at 18th and II streets north !
east against the Arlington Athletic
Club.
A meeting of the post is to he held |
Tuesday night in the board room. hlS-
trict building. when a representative !
of the War Department will distribute
victory medals. Discharge papers are
necessary to secure these medals.
\ request has been made by the post |
to the War Department for two large
captured German cannonS to h"
placed on the lawns in front of the
District building.
Plans are being comnleted for the
funeral of Vincent +. Costellos body,
which is to arrive at New York city
about May 16.
Ty cobb. manager of the Detroit
American League base ball team.
has become a member of Charles y.
Leonard Post. American Legion of
Detroit. which presented him with
floral horseshoe at the opening
game of the season.
President Harding and Marshal
Foch are expected to be guests of
honor at the national convention of
Mo. October 81.
The National Service Division of
the American Legion is now in full
operation here. Announcements is
made that the division will endeavor
to work in the closest cooperation
with all government denartments
| 1ealing with veterans. but that il
does not intend to build up a large
office to usurp the activities which
/ rightfuliy belong to the government
agencies.
Claims and other requests for as
siStance may be forwarded to the
service division from the following
sources: National headuarters of the
American Legion. at Indianapolis;
State Department headquarters: posts
of the American Legion. field work.
ers of the American Legion, legion
members and any eN-serNice man or
woman.
Owing to a railway tie-up the
| Rainbow exposition scheduled to
open Monday on the lots facing mon
station plaza did not open until
Tuesday. The band concert which
| was to have been given last sun
day to the patients at Walter Reed
Hospital will be given at 4 O'Clock
! this afternoon.
A representative and officer of the
| local Rainbow Chapter appeared be-
| fore the House District committee
| last week and received Endorsement
| of the exposition. The attractions
| commence each afternoon at o'clock
and continue through until II o'clock
| in the evening.
| Vice President Coolidge has writ
! ten letter of Endorsement of the
activities of the local chapter as
| follOws.
The Rainbow Division. by reason
| of it's membership. is peculiarly rep
resentative of the whole nation. 1t
| is eminently fitting that its head
quarters should be in Washington
| that its activities should radiate from
| this center. and that its members
! should Sturn their eyes in this direc-
tion for that continuing inspiration
| in peace which we need to have sup
plant the activities of war. Action in
the field is done. Action in those
great efforts which have characterized
| America goes on increasingly. In
fact, it is the discipline of peace
that makes possible the success OF
| war.
ut is time when we may well turn
our thoughts from destruction to con-
enemies to the building up of our
selves. from every hostile thought to
A contemplation of charity. beneVo-
lence and peace. These things come
from action as well as thought.
your organization, in it's attempt
to administer to the well being of its
former members, to their support, to
their assurance of a continuing re-
lmembrance on the part of their coun-
trymen, is performing most patri-
otic service. May that success which
marked your efforts in war, empha-
sized and increased, mark your ef-
forts in peace"
President Stubbs announces that the
next dug-out meeting will be held
Monday evening. May 9.
At the consolidated meeting of
Equality Walter Reed Post. No. 2s4,
Veterans Of Foreign Wars, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Com
mander. Philip F. Beck: senior vice
commander. William G. Mackay; jun
ior vice comma nder, Robert f. Sims;
Iquartermaster, f. l.. Donaldson: quar-
termaster sergeant. w. G. Jameson
chaplain, Lawrence Battson: officer of
the day, William A. Moore; inside
Isentinel. H. H. Clements; trustees. Ed
ward S. Battleheim and W. G. jamie
son.
The post also created a special Of
flee to be known as the official post
representative and to have charge of
all post activities in Walter Reed
Hospital and other Washington hos
pitfalls where members are being treat
ed. Past Commander w. G. Jameson
was elected to fill this new office His
mail address is I'll Mount Vernon
place. The next meeting is to be held
Thursday evening.
| he seCOIlE annual excursion or the
Bureau OF Engraving and Printing
Post. the American Legion, is to be
held Saturday, August 90, to Marshal
Hall. Martin Dyer is chairman OF
the excursion committee and is ar.
ranging an elaborate athletic pro.
gram, together with Il base ball game
A number Of wounded veterans from
local hospitals will be guests o.
honor.
Alien soldiers, who saw service il
the world war in the United State
Army, and who were naturaliZed dur
ing the war period. will be grantee
their papers upon application to tn
| bureau of naturalization, Departmen
of Labor. the national headquarters o
the American Legion has been ad
vised. Applicants for the final papers
Of which there are 1000 waiting de
livery here. must notify the natural
| ZatiOn bureau of the date and plac
of the naturalization proceedings.
The American Legion extended it
country last w6Yk with the issuauc
of Il temporary charter for post "A
Macaraibo. Venezuela. There are no,
1888 posts and 2.613 units of the lie
gion's Women's Auxiliary. Kansas le
all other departments in new post
for the week. with Wisconsin IA clos
second Iowa was first in obtainin
auxiliary units. while Kansas an
Michigan tied for second place. Th
setts, Ohio and Oklahoma were cite
for organization activities.
Entrance of the legion in the Sout
Sea Islands is forecast in repoT
that former service men in Auck la NJ
New Zealand, are organizing a legio