Evening star., 1921-07-01
LEGION T0LAUNCH
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
"Eyery Member to Get 4
Member" Slogan for Cam.
paign Beginning 18th.

Every member to get a member
has been adopted as the slogan fo
the District Of Columbia Department
American Legion, for a membership
drivs to begin July and to last unit
the 18th. The campaign will be ruI
through the various posts in the de
partment, every post to decide on it
own method for securing members.
BILE trophy will be presented u
number of recruits.
| Application blanks for membership
in the legion will be placed in depart
ment stores. theaters, banks and gov
ernment departments. where they viii
De available to all eX-service men.
GaibraIth Leaves Letter.
| In planning the drive for member
ship in the legion the local DEPART
ments throughout the country are fol
| lowing the wishes of the late Nationa
Commander Galbraith. who. before hii
death. wrote letter which he prob
ably intended sending broadcast ove
the country to every chapter. TIL,
| letter was found among the effects o.
Col. Galbraith after his death. Col
lGalbralth's s proposition was to doubl,
the membership in the legion-a tire.
\
dously simple" he said in the letter
! The slogan adopted by the Distric
chapter is taken from the letter
| which follows. in part:
Men and Women of the Legion: This
| is just a little across the-table chai
| among US legionnaires-a shop talk
nave had occasion to say d good dea
| about the legion. its aims and ideals ]
! nave had occasion to do a good deal tc
demopstrate that the legion is an or
1 JEanlZdtlOn which ftS i..l
But, this hasn't been shop talk or shor
| work.
Sets Aside July 4.
THE legion has earned the right,
| think, to do something in national way
primarily in the interest of its organiza-
/ ton. and the time has come to exercise
| that right. l propose that the American
I, Legion shall exactly double its member
| ship. A tremendous undertaking. you
| say. Yes. tremendously simple. Just
an intensive, effort when every legion
member in the world shall go out, lay
firm but friendly hand upon a buddy
and sign him up. Every member get a
| member-and the job is done. And the
day I've set aside for the beginning Of
| this intensive effort is a day most fit
ting. 1t is the Fourth of July
From then until October 81. when
the third national convention will open
in Kansas City. the order of the day
will be. Every member get a member"
What day? Any day But if you can
turn the trick on the very first day Of
alf-the Fourth of July-your bit is done.
And there is no reason it cannot be done
on that day. no reason why the legion.
by the TIME the last pinwheel buzzes out
at 12:O1 on the morning of July s. can
not have doubled its membership.
| Fight for Bonus.
THE disabled situation is almost
cleared. thanks 10 your efforts But
there remain another class of disabled,
the financially disabled. who have wait
ed Patiently until their physically inca
pacitated buddies should be cared for.
| Our next legislative effort will be for
! them. Our adjusted compensation meas
ure once passed the lower house of Con-
gress by an enormous majority.
I'VE are preparing to renew the fight
| for il. And we shall see that il is pa S.
ed, and passed during this session of
Congress if the membership wills it,
Likewise shall We gain the other OBJ
| jectives .sought in our legislative pro-
gram. in our r'Americanization progrs am,
in other tasks the legion has set for IT.
self.
| But We must have with US the vast
ma jority of the ex-service men of The
country