The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
FRANK PERKINS POST
Number Is, American Legion


There is no truer saying than the
slogan of the American Legion which
is: THE American Legion Is A Le-
gion Of Honor" The foundation of
the Legion passed through all of the
petty chickering's, personal spite and
jealousies, and all the other usual
attendant philippians when something
worth while is born into the world
The Legion is founded upon the ques-
ton whether the surviving fellow
citizens of the Great World War
would really make the occasion of
their personal tragedies of lives un-
fulfilled for creating a truly better
and more effectively just democracy
There were doubts, and fair doubts,
as to its ultimate success upon the
plane necessary to give it life and
prestige. These ex-service men were
too intelligent and brave-minded to
drug themselves with fact-evading pla-
titudes. American political history
and the sheer moral weakness of the
human race justified them but these
doubts did not deter them from the
performance of their duty. How we'll
they have succeeded the world knows
today. The American Legion stands
as an eXemplification of the honor
and fair mindedness of the human
race. It's very being refutes the
cynical who look for an ulteriOr
motive in every performance And,
today the American Legion has sue
ceeded in recOnsecrating the purpose
of not only it's individual members,
but of the entire citizenship in any
community in which it has a post
so the individual citizen may be a
decent member Of the body polite
and to do his absolute best to make
American institutions work honor
ably and with justice for the hap
piness of all. The Legion has foster
ed the spirit of Americanism in an
entirelv new light known heretofore
The local Post is known as the
Frank Perkins Post Number Is,
American Legion, Arizona Branch.
The Frank Perkins Post was origin
ally organized in 1919 with a charter
membership of about ffty-five. Today
the membership is in excess of one
hundred twenty and this Post ranks
in first division among the largest
and most active in the entire state
The Post was named after Frank Per-
kins native of Arizona who was
killed during the Vesle River En-
gagement on August Is. 1918 He
was member of Company X, 31st
Infantry, Fourth Division
Present officers of the Frank Per-
kins Post are: J. Lieberman, Com
mander; A. R. Kleindienst 1st Vice
Commander; w. D. Myers, End Vice
Commander; w. J. Meader, Adjutant;
R. S. Grant, Finance Officer; C. c..
Meyer, ergeant-At-Arms and w b
Darling, Historian. The Executive
Committee is composed of: ]. Lieber-
man, A. R. KIeindienst; w. D. Myers,
G. G. Meyer, w. B. Darling, R. S.
Grant, w. ]. Meader, and G. c. Cres-
we'll
Commander Lieberman has been a
resident of Arizona since 1914, and
is a native of Kansas He served
with the 9Th Field Artillery. First Di-
vision, and was overseas about two
years. He was discharged as Cap
tain in the Officers Reserve Corps.
Commander Lieberman is connected
with the Santa Fe Railway here in
the superintendent office Adjutant
Meader served with the 21st Engin-
GERS overseas and was discharged as
a Corporal. He is an Accountant
with the Santa Fe here in the Super
intendent's Department, First wee
Commander A R. Kleindienst served
with the Three-Hundred Sixty-F7irst
Infantry, 91st Division He was in
service about two years and served