The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
AMERICAN
\LEGIONl

with civic organizations in every
city, town and community from Maine
to California swinging into action at a
given signal, with governors of states
and mayors of cities marshalling their
forces and detailing the units for
duty, and with b-committees repre-
senting every element in the country
falling into line. an attack on unen-
ployment, directed by the American
Legion from its national headquarters
in Indianapolis will be launched
March 20. aiming at the immediate
relief of the 100000 ex-service men
now jobless thruout the nation.
A proclamation setting aside March
90 as Legion Employment Day" has
been issued by Governor Henry j.
Allen.
EMPLOYERS and business men in
every town will be invited on March
90, to meetings of special Legion COM
mittees in chargeof the project, and
will be asked TO create jobs and stinu-
late production in all lines of indus
try. The. Legion intends to work only
with such methods as have already
proved effective where they have been
tried. Distribution of employment by
changing men on daily shifts: pushing
and county highway improvement;
speeding up Of municipal and public
utility erpriSeS-woodyardS, recrea-
ton centers; dredging, paving, INSTALL
alton work of all kinds; reforestation
and reclamatiohs projects; truck gar
dening, with the establishment of
community gardens worked by ex-
soldier labor; stimulating building and
real estate develoI ment; encourage
ment of me '-back-to-the-farm
movement-al these means Will be
stressed in a concerted effort to put
an end to what Hanford MacNider,
commander of the Legion. has termed
the greatest crisis in the Legion's
history: the jobless soldier"
In handling the employment day"
program in the larger cities the Legion
will suggest that each city be divided
into regions, each under its own post
and employment committee, with a
general committee co-ordinating the
efforts of all.
The official call for the second an
nual convention of the Kansas depart
ment of the American Legion Aux
tliary has been issued from state head
quarters of the auxiliary here by Mrs
Ray Htle Calihan, state president and
Miss Emma Hadorn, state secretary
The annual convention will be held
at Salina, April II and Is.
Representation to the annual con-
Ventlon as provided by the state con-
stitution will be by unit, the official
call states. Each regularly organized
unit will be entitled to three dele
gates and one additional delegate for
each fifty members or major fraction
thereof Each unit represented at the
convention will be entitled to cast the
vote of the delegates present. The in
dividual units also will be entitled to
alternates equal in number to the reg
ular delegates.
The call for the convention also in
structs local units to send to the state
headquarters. the list ~ delegates
elected to the convention. The certified
lists are required to be at state head
quarters not later than April 1. Dele
gates will then be issued credential
cards, which must be presented at the
convention to entitle the delegate to
a vote.
The program for the annual conyen-
ton has not been completed, State
Secretary Emma -Eadorn said today
The work of the convention will in
clude the election of officers. election
OF delegates and aIternates to the sec
ond national convention, and the adop-
ton OF plans for the work of the
auxiliary during the coming year.
Railroad lines in the state have
granted a one and one-haIf fare rate
to the state public utilities commits
SION Tor permission to publish such
rate The special rate will be gra nted
on the certificate plan.
Approximately 500 members of the
Legion Auxiliary are expected to at
tend the annual convention, Secretary
Hadorn said today. The auxiliary now
has 227 units organized in the state
tWenty-three of which have been or
gaplzed since January l. Mrs. Raw
lille Calihan, Garden City, has been
president of the auxiliary during the
past year and Mrs. Sherman Medil.
LeaYenworth- vice president.
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