The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-05-18
AMERICAN LEGION NOTES

Commander, who attended the State
wide meeting of the Legion and Aux
iliary at Topeka, reports that Hays is
receiving very favorable considera-
ton among leaders in Legion affairs
for the next State Convention. The
Sixth District Convention of The
American Legion and Auxiliary
which met here April 29th, voted IN
animously to support Hays for the
next State Convention. 1t is now up
to Casper J. Middlekauff Post No.
173 and Hays to show that we want
this convention for 1923. This years
Convention is at ElDorado. We must
send a large delegation to ElDorado
for work for the 1923 convention to
come to Hays. Let's gol Everybody.
The meeting of the Legion and
Auxiliary at Tpoeka, last Saturday,
was held at Memorial Hall and had a
fine program. The meeting was call
ed to order at 10 o'clock by State
Commander w. S. Metcalf. Short
memorial services were conducted by
Rev. Z. A. Blackman of Chanute, Lee
giOn National Chaplain, for the 23OO
Kansas buddies who paid the supreme
sacrifice during the World War. Col.
J. N. Harrison, post department COM
mander of the G.. A. R., bid the Lee
gion welcome to Memorial hall He
said "Our ranks are getting thinner
year by year and as our boys are
dropping out it is up to the American
Legion to take up the torch and carry
on" Mrs. Rose Cravens of Salina,
president of the Kansas Auxiliary.
talked on the service of the State.
Auxiliary. J. G. Somers, Chairman
of the State Compensation Commit
tee, outlined the work of the com
mittee on the Kansas Adjusted Com.
pensation Bill. Hanford MacNider, |
National Commander of The Amer
lean Legion, addressed the meeting at
200 p. m. MacNider makes a very
favorable impression and is a forceful
speaker. His address was broadcast
by radio. 81 am glad to come to a
conference like this" said the Com
mander. ''The Legion is in the post
and the Auxiliary is in the unit We.
at national headquarters are your
servants"
IF every department would only
do like Kansas has become a slogan
at national headquarters in Indian
apolis," said he eve are interest
ed in all the things that you are do
ing and carrying on out here. In the
American Legion we have the cradle
of the whole future of America. You
can see the opportunities to make
America stand for all that is clean
and right. The American Legion is
not going into politics, but it is going
to see that the country stays Amer
lean. is going to see that the men
who came back blinded and otherwise
wounded are going to get a square
deal from the country they fought
for. Every American citizen wants
the disabled service men cared for.
cannot help but feel that any man,
who is eligible to join the American
Legion and does not do so, is a de-
serter just as much as if he were de-
sorting buddy on the field of battle.
1t is our duty to see that our men and
women who were in the world war,
are well cared for. want to con-
graduate Kansas on the way it took
hold of the unemployment situation
and the LegiOn's part in that work
am going to see that every man, who
offered his life for his country is go
ing TO get a chance to live his life for
his country. Congress has already
started to aid the disabled and the
other eX-service men with the good of
the country at heart but further con-
fusion or delay is not good for any
one. The women of the auxiliary
have been a wonderful aid to the Lee
gion. During the war we knew where
the women who are now members of
the auxiliary were, but they never
knew where We were. The women's
auxiliary is the backbone of the Le-
giOn. Ny mother happens to be the
president of her local unit and she
thinks she has more important job
than have. The auxiliary is going
to pull US through during the coming
years. The Legion has an awful big
horse to ride. Post commanders, de
partment commanders, and others
will come and go, but the Legion has
got to go on and it has got to be kept
clean and straight. No race, no creed,