The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-02-15
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Go Out and Get Members

nlm we elected MIN 10 Office, d Leg
ionaire said recently. Commander
Barron has recently announced ar
rangements for q climatic ten-day
sprint to wind up the Minnesota cam
paign. The Gopher State aims to in
crease its membership from the 1922
total of 10000 to total of 10000 for
1923. Commencing on the birthday
anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, and
closing with the anniversary of the
birth of Gearge Washington, the Min
nesota Legion and Auxiliary unite
forces, to use our Commanders own
words-Go Out and Get Members.
Over the Top
Every organization that is worth
while, that the red-blooded men and
women interested in it's welfare, wish
es to grow and prosper, not so much
for the sake of being big, but because
of the increased power for good which
magnitude brings. To this trait, the
American Legion of Minnesota and
it's Auxiliary plead guilty. So do
each of the AZ Legion departments
of the nation. They are all for the
American Legion as their united ma
tional organization, but they have an
equal pride in seeing that their home
state upholds the proud record in Lee
gion national affairs which it has won
in other fields of endeavor. This pride
of place goes on down through the
various districts of Minnesota, to the
individual Legion posts of our home
towns, each of which strives earnestly
to live up to the record of it's commun-
ity for fine and worthy achievements.
1t is so with the buddies of your
town. Today we are face to face with
the Lincoln Washington Gopher Le-
gion Membership Drive, lasting from
February 18th to 22nd, during which
every red-blooded Legionaire will
strive with all his might to win new
laurels for the home town and the
North Star State by surprising all
other states in the percentage of SER
vice men and women who are enrolled
under the Legion banner for greater
service to their country and common
wealth. In other words, it is the duty
of every Gopher Legionaire to person
ally enroll one or more Gopher bud
dies within the American Legion Of
Minnesota and the home post by Feb
ruary 22nd. The spirit with which
each buddy enters this, contest is the
spirit of the little Legion post at La
fayette, Minnesota, which in letter
to State Legion Headquarters writes:
Yesterday afternoon two of the boys
went out and enrolled five new men,
bers and the same evening the post
commander and adjutant tramped
three miles in the snow and signed up
two more in a cow barn while thew,
were milking the cows"
The good which the American Le-
gion posts of the nation are doing for
their home town communities is tire
mendous. To give rather than to re-
celve is their motto. Not only do they
initiate many community activities
but they are back of every worth
while endeavor started by other or
CARNATIONS. To encourage love of
flag and country is one of their prin-
clpal aims. So too, behind 95 per cent
of the activities which benefit former
service men, stands the American Lee
glon. 1t does not claim to be the onIy
organization which attempts anything
constructive. But whether or not the
Legion formulates them, it is heartily
behind every clean-cut, practicable
movement for the welfare of great
veterans. And wherever a buddy serv-
ed, whether at home or abroad, the
American Legion welcomes his COON
Grafton along the paths of peace. With
IN It's ranks it is the great aim of Lee
glonaires to unite all their comrades
and to travel onward together in the
service of their country. Buddies of
the Legion are good company for any
man. Join them.
Things to Think About
On January Goth, in the Pine Knot
OF Clouquet, Minnesota, appears the
following:
So many good things were said bv
National Commander Alvin OwsIey in
his recent address at st Paul that we
nave decided to quote a few of Them
Speaking of the Legion, Commander
OWsley says:
We believe in physical develop
A11SIle 90 dS~IiSC O0COr1aC1On.
We believe in work as against idle
ness; in efficiency as against waste:
and in education as against ignor.
ance."
That's fine creed, buddy; are you
prepared to identify yourself with
1t by becoming a Legion member
Read it again, study it; if that creed
were followed in its entirety by the
Individual, by the state, by the nation
then America would become the IJton,,
ia OF the World, and Bolshevism and
Its klndredisms would be relagated to
the limbo of the past. Again, from
Commander Owsley: 'i
There is no denying that radical
ism is in the ascendancy in this coun-
try. Do you realize that there were
more anarchists, communists and rev
idelists with theories cal
culated to tear down our government
last year than in any wear
in history? soai
Ihey are men who hate all pov-
eminent and despise all discipline. In