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The Eighth District Legion has
voted to contribute the proceeds of
all Eighth district poppy day sales
to the Legion's Memorial Hospital
which is to be built at Rochester.
Many posts and Auxiliary units in
other Minnesota districts have taken
similar action. The letter accom-
panying one check said: 'In wear
ing the poppy for remembrance,
honor was paid not alone to the
dead but to the living, to those
broken in health and body and mind
who are still suffering for their war
service. In the Legion Memorial
Hospital we provide for those for
whom no other provision has been
made"
Eleven Legion departments are
over their 1921 membership mark.
Why not Minnesota? We can do
it! Twenty-six thousand five humid
red of our .wenty-nine thousand
paid up buddies of 1921 have al
ready reinstated. Let's round up
the other two thousand five humid
red. One hundred and fifty of our
Gopher posts have already stepped
on The gas and shot over the topi
But we want all of this Gopher
Gang to leap clear off the 1track on
July First!g Many buddy has been
forgetting to remember" 20 pay
his dues for 1922. Let's relieve
his troubled conscience on July
First? And in addition to reinstat-
;nr old y,oa,,oharc and .orrollsnn non,
ones, let's take the subscriptions of
citizens clubs, libraries, etc, to re-
ceive the American Legion Weekly
at So per year. Circulation is as
vital to the Weekly as membership
is to the Legion. And reading the
Weekly will help folks to understand
and cooperate with US in our plans
for the good of our communities
and America.
In making success of the big
Gopher Legion membership drive
July First, Minnesota posts will use
posters, lantern slides, advertise
ments, and will build booths on the
streets 20 catch the Gophers! The
post commander, thru courtesy of
the local newspaper, will publish a
statement; wards, precincts, town.
ships will be canvassed. Outlying
towns will be visited. The Legion
Weekly will send data to help.
Every Gopher, will be on the job.
The Legion Auxiliary, Boy Scouts,
and other organizations will help.
New posts will be organized in small
towns if necessary. If one plan
won't work, then other plans will
be. originated. That's where the
Gophers shine! They never sit
back and say it can't be done.
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And to The Gopher post in each
congressional district which forwards
to Minnesota Legion Hq. between
June both and 500 p. M. July
18th, the creates. proportionate in
crease in Legion Membership over
that shown for the post by the
books at State Headquarters on
June 30th, the Gopher Gang will
award a silver loving cup, suitably
engraved. This means ten cups for
the state. Instead of one for the
whole state, there will be one for
the best post in each district. This
will be an honor well worth striving
for, and every Minnesota post is
out to bring home the bacon!
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A New Orleans vacation! A
Gopher buddy suggests that all Min
nesota Legionaires save their vaca-
.tion time as well as vacation money
until October 16.h and then take
IN the trip to the Southland and
New Orleans, for which very low
railroad rates-one cent per mile
will be available. Have you read
the article in the June 9th issue of
the Legion Weekly, showing Mime
sofas Horse and Buggy cartoon and
telling about plans of Minnesota
posts for the New Orleans trip,
particularly of the activities of the
Legion posts in Bemidji, Monte
video and st. Paul?
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Wil the Gophers be represented
IN the big athletic contest a. New
Orleans? New Orleans is offering
athletic championship contests dur
ing the Legion National Convention
next October. Post No. 8 of st.
Paul has several good Legion box
ers who will competed II your post
mas any, have them hold Open the
dates, October 16 to 20, and ad-
wise Minnesota Legion Headquar-
tiers.
ronow Minnesota Legion's Lead.
NOT satisfied with the efforts of
me Government, or with any Of the