Evening star., 1922-01-22

Ine ADMIRAL H0D0rL r.. TeSTy onlp
No. 427. Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
at its last meeting, elected officers
for the ensuing year as follows: Cap
/, tain. z. ]. Stewart; executive officer.
A. r. ,Cavanaugh; navigating officer,
/, H. L. Miller; chaplain. B. F. Stewart;
paymaster. R. ID. Trussell.
| Announcement was made that at
! the meeting January rs there Will
(, be a social. The meeting Is to be
i held at s21 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast at o'clock.
oficers for the ensuing year were
installed last Wednesday night In
! George Washington Post. No. 1. the
American Legion. at largely at
tended meeting in the board room,
District building. by Departm@entt @ !
Commander Watson B. Miller. Tne
officers installed were as foilows: s:
vice commander, John Thomas Tay-
lor: second vice commander, :: y.
Walker; third vice commander, VIII
liam F. Mahony; adjutant. Lew >.
Mohler: assistant adjutant. X. =. NOR
fleet: finance officer. Rufus HARDY;
geant-at-arms. Stephen F. Tillman;
master alarms. James e. CahiH; sur.
geon, w. N. Williams: historian. Paul
" Collins: chaplain. Robert p. Brown
ing: color bearers. Frank Platz and
William E. Porter.
presented his annual report OF the
activities Of the post during the year,
as did also Finance Officer A. L. Gia-
comini: these together with the re-
port of the auditing committee. com
posed of f. P. Ellis, chairman; E. L.
showed tho post to be in good finan-
cial condition. The report of the post
commander showed that during the
year 100 new members had been add
ed to the rolls, making the total
membership on January last OF
1:4s6 members. The following were
elected to membership in the post:
George w. Rogers. David B. VIII
liamsky, Thorstein N. Buttedahl.
Howard NJ. Brock, Thomas F. Mahan,
Francis x. Sullivan and Nathan VIII
liams. >,
address Of Post Commander Fisk, De-
partment Commander Miller installed
the officers. followed by a brief ad-
dress to the newly elected officers
and members OF the post.
Following the address of Depart
ment Commander Miller. Commander
Charles B. Hanford presented to
retiring Commander Fisk a past COM
mander's jewel. set with diamonds
Past Department Commander James
A. Drain made an address.
A letter was read from National
Commander Hanford MacNider, ac-
cepting the invitation of the post to
attend the third anniversary on
March next in this city. The silver
bar donated to the post for having
the post colors represented at the
third national convention at Kansas
City was presented to the post by
Past Commander Fisk, who carried
the colors to the convention city and
turned them over to Color Bearer
Frank Platz for the big parade.
Announcement was made that
subscription dance will be given by
the post Thursday. February 2. at Mrs.
Dyer's, 1917 r street northwest The
committee is composed of Stephen F.
Tillman. chairman; Mortimer e.
Moorehouse and William ]. Hoffman.
Commander Hanford was presented
with a handsome mahogany silver
mounted gavel. being the gift OF Past
Post and Past Department Com
entation was made by A. l.. Giacomini.
Two thousand Veterans Of Foreign
Wars have joined in committee
pledging their help to explain the
advantages of the options other than
cash in the national bonus legisla-
ton. These men have agreed not to
take the cash bonus, but to select
some other option. A committee OF
ten thousand to carry on the educa-
tional work nationally Is being or
ganized by the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars. Robert c. Woedside, COM
is undertaking TO
prove to Congress that 80 per cent
of the men who do not now need the
money to relieve distress will take
other than the cash bonus.
Arlington Post. No. 139. American
Legion. recently organized in Arling-
ton county, Va, is to hold Dig
meeting in the interest of the post
next Wednesday night at the AIRING
ton county court house at o CLOCK.
representative j. ]. McSwain, who
held a commission as captain during
,ba world war. is to deliver an ad-
dress.
s;se of the Arlington Trust Company
az commander. Mr.. Prosise was a
first lieutenant overseas and received
twenty-one wounds. Ihe ere;nn orsan1I, a
the interest of the ex-soldier and the
American Legion. oficers OF the
most, in addition to Mr.. Prosise. are
DR.. w. C. Welburn of Ballston, s. r;
Thomson of Clarendon. first and second
vice commanders; George .. Lee, Fort
nj
wocd, Balls,on. treasurer: DR.. s. T.,
holland. Clarendon. service officer;
Joseph L. Crupper. jr.. Falls Church,
associate service officer; Herbert L.
Porter, Clarendon. historian; waiter
Crack, Washington, d. c., athletic
sergeant-at-arms.
At the January meeting of the Blu
reau of Engraving and Printing Post.
American Legion. the result OF the
1922 was announced. Commander
Francis F. Miller was elected unani-
mously for a third term Other OFF,
GERS elected are as follows: Vice COM
mander, Earl Lindsey; adjutsnt,
Ger, Walter Powell: executive com
mittee. George Campbell, Martins
Dyer and Charles Ladson; sergeant
alarms. Frank Brahler.
A campaign for membership will
be started by the post Immediately
man in the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing. An amendment to the con-
stitution making the executive COM
mittec of the post representative OF
at least three divisions of the Bureau
of Engraving was proposed.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt assistant
secretary Of the Navy, speaking be-
fore the first meeting of the Lincoln
Post. No: II. Wednesday evening at
the Racquet Club, said: The Ameri-
can Legion is the most thoroughly
democratic and American organiza-
ton in this country. 1t is composed
of men from all ranks and ratings in
all branches of the service and from
all classes in civil life. Every ma
tionality, every creed, every faith is
represented" Col. Roosevelt related
how he found four men in his regi-
ment who, as far as he was able to
determine, were unable to speak any
known language. Finally a private