Bisbee daily review., 1922-09-20


 There were other resolutions thank ing the speakers for their appearance before the convention and commend ing the Y. M. c. A. ,Elks club and Y. w. c. A for their hospitality
 A resolution urging the abolition Of the compulsory military training in the high schools was defeated after much argument pro and con A resolu- ton to make Fl Presidente Teuuila an honorary member of the American Legion also was defeated, very re- luctantly by some of the members.
 Adoption of reportsand changes in the constitution by the various off cers was the main order of business yesterday morning, the scheduled speech by G. w. P. Hunt, former gov ernor of Arizona having been post poned until the afternoon because he was unavoidably delayed at Globe.
 Ray Jenkins of Tucson, state treas urer. reported that the expenditures for the year were $9OO in excess of the receipts, but as there was $14OO in the treasury when he took charge of the books a balance of $500 is still on hand.
 Benjamin F. Mills. state historian, urged every post to furnish him with data for compilation of a history of all the posts in the state. So far he he said, only three posts had given him any data. He said that the his tory of the Fred Hilburn post was the most complete he had yet received and warned the other posts that they would have to Work hard to even equal the accomplishment of the local organ ization.
 D. A. Little, department adjutant spoke of the work accomplished by the department during the past year. He said the membership of the American Legion had fallen off about 400 in the past 12 months, particularly in the larger posts.
 Duane Bird, state commander, ex plained that the decrease in member ship in the larger posts was due to the industrial depression, pointing out that in the smaller towns the posts were almost 100 per cent
 The changes in the constitution adopted at yesterdays meeting were minor in importance and included a change in the policy of selecting the next convention city. The constitution specifically provided that the conven- tion be held on the Third Monday in September, and under the amendment adopted the next place and date will be decided by the convention. This was made because. many favored hold ing the convention in the northern part of the state earlier than in a southern city because of the climatic conditions.
 Any post in the state can send more than the two delegates allotted under the original constitution, but they have only fractional vote, under an amendment adopted. As an example, Chairman Martin explained a post en- titled to three seats in the convention could send six delegates with only one half vote each, or twelve with one quarted vote each. This amendment was suggested, Martin said, to in crease the attendance at the state con ventions because many refuse to at tend unless they are delegates.
 l will no b compulory pay a full var dues if member jois he Ameri- can Legion in July, under an amend ment adopted. The new member will be required to pay for six months only and the additional national dues.
 The final amendment to the consti- tuition was the removing of the publi city, work from the office of the state historian to the department, who is more in touch with the situation.
 A vote of thanks to the department officers for the, sacrifices they made during the past year was taken.
 Commander Bird told of the plan in augrated last year by every post in