The Coconino sun., 1923-06-15

the many ambitions and hopes the
auxiliary have for future development
and accomplishments, among them OPP
! portunity to be even more helpful to
the Legion and themselves and event
ually to become the most influential
woman's organization in the various
states and the nation.
| Mrs. Bowyer concluded with trib-
ute to the Legion's state commander
and other state officials for their
splendid cooperation during the year,
and then expressed the desire of the
/ auxiliary to be partners with the Le
! gion.
Major Louis T. Grant, manager of
the 18th district, United States Vet
Grams Bureau of San Francisco, ad-
dressed the joint session. He said
whenever a call for general cooper
/ alton had been issued by the bureau,
4 the Arizona department had always
reported promptly and satisfactorily.
He reviewed the plans and things ac-
complished by the bureau also the
criticisms that had been made OF the
bureau and the difficulties encounter
ed in its work. The bureau, next to
| the postal department, he said, is the
largest governmental department.
The Legion today, he said, is on
trial before the people of the United
States. If the Legion is to prosper,
/ is to be respected, it must take an
active interest in vital public mat
ters. Only by this activity can the
| Legion regain the prestige and numer-
ical strength it enjoyed during its
first years of existence. The day we
stand, not along by words, but by
4 deeds, for constructive legislation, in
non-partisan manner, that day will
see former service men by the tens
of thousands focking to join the or
/ ganization.
! Martin T. Schriver, district
manager of the Tucson office, U. S.
4 Veterans bureau, spoke and was fol-
| lowed by Dustin Gustin, sub-district
manager, of the Phoenix office. Both
expressed deep gratitude over the vote
Of appreciation of ~their bureau Of
fees passed that morning by the Le-
gion.
Mr.. Walker, director training in the
! Phoenix u. S. v. B. office, and Mr..
Connor from the San Francisco office,
also spoke on rehabilitation.
Jimmie Mulcare, secretary Of the
| American Legion rehabilitation COM
mittee, handling California, Arizona
and Nevada, spoke of the work en-
countered in his department.
R. l.. Wetherill, one of the national
committeeman of the Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans, plead for a stand-to-
gether attitude on the part of all for
mer service men, no matter what war
! they fought in. He declared for his
tory text books particularly true to
America. He denounced the tendency
of certain elements to tear down, de-
claring the time must come when the
immigrant nearing New York, shall
realize when he sees the Statue of
Libery that here is the line beyond
/ which bolshevism, anarchism and So
! vietism has no ancestry and no hope
of posterity.
/ At this juncture the ladies returned
to their own convention hall, after
which James M. Brown, grand chef
de gare Of the Forty and Eight OF
/ the state, mounted the platform. Just
because he's an engineer, and engln-
eers never talk, he made a rafting
good one Then he unloaded his
/ white mans burden on to the vice.
president of the national organization,
| Forty and Eight, G. e. Cronkhite of
Los Angeles, whose talk, mainly
along Americanism lines, was lnsplr-
ingly patriotic.
The Legion and the Forty and Eight
are the same, inasmuch as no man can
become a member of the latter unless
he has for at least three months been
an active, helpful member of the for
mer; although the main purpose OF
the Forty and Eight is to furnish rec
reation. 1t is medium for fun and
play, leaving most of the more SER
ious objects to the parent organiza-
ton.
President Marvin of the state uni
yersity was scheduled to speak during
the afternoon, but didn't appear.
Wednesday Morning
j First the band, then brief invo-
cation by Rev. FIR. c. Vabre of Flag
staff, praying to the God who had
strengthened the hands of past great
patriots to be with those here assem-
bled, guiding them in peace as He did
in war.
A telegram from DR.. Cloyd H. Mar
vim, president of the state university,
said illness prevented his attending
convention, expressing high regards.
Hunt Again
/ Then came a telegram from Cover