New-York tribune., 1922-04-24
MacNidcr Appeals to Posts
10 Pull Together and BE
Real Asset for Good in
Every Community in &. ..
Insists Ex-Service Mem Owe
TttoLess Fortunate Bad
dics'' TO Give Them Every
Aid to Recover Health

Ianford MacNider, national com
mander, has written a personal letter
to all post commanders. In this letter
he asks the cooperation Of oil posts
and announces that without thls co
operation the Legion could not cxist.
His letter follows
"Mr Post Commander:
''You have the most important JOB
in the whole American Legion and one
Of the most important in your whole
community. Down here at national
headquarters we are but a switchboard
10 coordinate your activities and to
carry out TO the best Of our ability the
commands which you give Us through
the national convention.
"For after all, the Legion ia in the
post and You arc the head OF one o.
those most impotant units. II we are
TO deliver the goods and produce the
results you expect Of US, we nave got
TO have members. and this, Of course,
means work for you.
"Wc know you are doing your ut
most to build up your post and to make
it a real asset for good in your com
munity. Although your efforts may
not seem to be over appreciated right
now. YOU can be sure that II you ouIId
the Legion up and make 1t function 50
that the good people know 1t IS on the
job and endeavoring to be helpful to
the community, that this big ooPoI-
tunity YOU have to prove yourself
n
lost on the community or your com
radcs-to say nothing OF the satlsf@c-
ton Of having done something fot
YOUR buddes and your home town.
Every man who was in the service
owes it to his less fortunate huddles,
who are still living the war IN hos
pitfalls, blind, manned and broken IN
health, to Join the Legion and nght
for them. We have got TO stick TO-
gether if we are going to accomplish
proper legislation TO take care Of them
and to get adjusted compensation Tor
all ex-service men. The Legion is the
great organization Of ex-serVice men
accepted by the nation which looks to
the Legion as the expression OF the
veterans of the great war. II Is the
big going organization, and no man
can stop it by standing on the OUTSIDE
Ten years from now the Legion is
poinC to mean so much TO these men
that thew cant afford to weaken II by
staying out now when it is starting its
real constructive worn and establishing
precedents for all time. The Legion
has no invisible inside workings. L =
Just you and me and million other
fellows all plugging together for the
good Of our country. Ask these men
who are not in If they want to desert
their buddies who are oUt CT luck or
show them that the Legion stands he
hind them, Legion members or not, 10
see that they get a square deal from
the country they fought for.
'We must build this American Legion
of ours SO big and fine and strong and
keep it so clean and straight and Amer
lean that when we advocate certain pol
icies or ask for certain Legislation
the good people Of our communities
will know that they can support these
things without question.
Get every eX-service man and Wom-
an in the community into the Amer
lean Legion. The Legion Will be just
as strong as you make it. The nation
is watching TO see whether we really
mean those things that we say we rep
resent; whether We are standing be- /
hind our own organization and really
intend to be of service to our country /
There are II 900 posts in the Legion
now and the membership is running
ahead OF any previous year The auxil- F.
larry. the backbone of the Legion. is
swinging along. | hope you have one
and that it is helping you.
',"ill YOU do this for Us? Sit down
and write to me ABOUT your post: anv
suggestions or criticisms about the VA.
national headquarters and The Weekly
are working or not working. Send it
along and meantime
Keep 'er rollin'!.
''HANEOPp Af,NrDCD