The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-13
Most of Legion and Auxiliary
Organizations Represented.
State Commander MetcaIf Gives
an Address Today.
HANFORD MAC NIDER is HERE
National Head of Auxiliary Is
Also a Visitor.
Banquet for Visitors Will Be
Held Tonight.

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Today is American Legion day in
( Topeka Officials and representatives
of a majority of the American Legion
and Legion auxiliary organizations in
Kansas are here for the state conven-
/ tion of officers of the veterans or
ganizations. The meeting convened
! this morning and will continue thru
/ out the day.
The session got under way this
morning with an address of welcome
/ by Ralph T. O'Neil and short addresses
! by State Commander Wilde S. Net
calf. Mrs. Russell Cravens, Salina,
state president of the auxiliary: J. G.
/ Somers. Newton. chairman OF the state
compensation committee; r. c. Meek.
Sou Chef Chemin de Fer" of the
forty and eight" and Department
I Commander of the C. A. r., George
Washburn.
Two Noted Visitors Here.
National Commander Hanford Mac
| Nider of the Legion and National
I President Mrs. Lowell f. Hobart of
the Auxiliary, arrived in Topeka this
morning and will be the principal
/ speakers at this afternoon; session.
Discussion of Legion and auxiliary ac-
| tivities of the Kansas departments
| will close the afternoon session.
A bugle and drum corps from Kan
sas City, Kan. added a touch of mill
/ tary atmosphere to the meeting this
morning. Delegations rom a num-
Der of the posts are large. Ell Dorado
sent not only officers of the Legion
gram committee for the state conven-
tion, which will be held there next
fall
A banquet will be given for the Wis
itors tonight, followed by a program
in charge of Capital Post No. l, for
Legion members.
A membership of at least 1900;
gold star membership of 5000; an
auxiliary unit for every post of the
American Legion in Kansas; no
bachelor" Legion posts; greater CO.
operation between the Legion and
auxiliary; a citizenship club for boys
and girls in every town in the state
where there is a Legion organization.
These were the principal lines Of
activity urged upon members of the
Kansas department of the American
Legion Auxiliary, by Mrs. Russell
Cravens, Of Salina, newly elected pres
idenS of the Kansas department, in an
address to Legion and auxiliary Off
GERS.
Service must be the key-word to
our activities during the coming year,
President Cravens declared "An
working together with an unselfish
purpose, we can gain for our members
/ a comradeship that cannot be gained
otherwise. In so doing, we also can
reach the objectives of our program
for the year.
Must Have Cooperation.
1.-The most successful way in which
the Kansas department of the auxil-
iary can build up its membership is
to secure the cooperation of the legion
! members. If every legion member in
the state would bring one of his
friends into the auxiliary, the member
ship of the Kansas department would
be doubled before the year is over
Mrs. Cravens urged greater activity
of all units in welfare work, advising
each unit to keep in touch with fam
lilies of former service men and to
render every assistance possible to
those who are in need. She declared
particularly in favor of larger pro-
gram for the Kansas department in
Americanizarion work.
Every auxiliary unit and legion
post should sponsor citizenship club
for boys and girls who are to be the
voters of tomorrow" Mrs. Cravens
said. I'VE can do no more worthy
work than to encourage the boys and
girls of Kansas to a greater realiza-
ton of the obligations of citizenship.
To do this, we need only to teach to
the boys and girls the ideals of the
legion and the legion auxiliary Units
located in centers of foreign popula-
ton particularly have an opportunity
to carry on this work, and to assist
foreigners to attain citizenship"
Other Lines of Activity.
Other lines of activity of the auxil-
iary's program for the year out
lined by Mrs. Cravens. include:
Greater hospital activity
Work for the adjusted compensation
measure.
100 per cent organization for every
unit.
Cooperate with legion on Memorial
day exercises.
Create market for articles made by
disa bled veterans in hospitals.
Make the endorsement of the legion
auxiliary a stamp of success in every
community.
Find Jobs for Ex-Service Men.
Hanford MacNider, national COM
mander of the American Legion, who
addressed a statewide convention of
legion officials. said the bonus bill in
troduced in the senate yesterday by
Senator Bursum of New Mexico, does
not greatly concern the legion since
the drafting of the bonus bill is in
charge of a senate committee. He
said many such bills have been pro-
/ posed.
The national commander expressed
the opinion that all former service
men who needed and wanted employ
ment have been placed at work thru
the legion's employment campaign