The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-15

his home town post under his
leadership. There were but l.10O
men In service in the entire county.
James A. Drain, a former gen.
ral, of Washington, D. c.. who
was defeated by a small margin on
he seventeenth ballot at San Fran
lsco last year by National Com
E>ander John r. Quinn, OF Cali
furnia. is again primed by the Dis
trict of Columbia department. of
which he has been commander for
twenty months.
Cleveland is promoting Brigadier
General John Rea McQuigg. COM
mander of the Seventy-third Infan-
try. Thirty-seventh Division, Ohio
National Guard. a veteran Of the
Spanish american War. the punt
tive expedition into Mexico and q
| wounded survivor OF the Argonne.
| who is a member of both the ma
tional executive and finance COM
mittees and a past department com
| mander of Ohio.
Back World Peace.
The Virginia department is COM
| ing to the convention with a pro-
posal to put the Legion more
| actively in the work for world
peace. 1t will suggest the national
| commander and a committee
officers, study the plans now ad-
vanced and select the best of them
for the support of the Legion.
A program directing to the IL 900
Legion posts in the country re.
sponsibility for the care of the dis.
tbled ex-service men in their i'm
mediate territory will be advanced
by the Iowa department.
| The fight for adjusted compensa-
| ton is over, acco- ding to Legion
| chiefs, who declared efficient and
economic administration Of the
present bonus laws" is the chief
concern of the organization.
A report of Watson b. Miller,
chairman of the national rehabili-
| tation committee, will be read the
first day of the convention. Amer
termination, touching on every
point from immigration to school
boy training, will be on the second
days program, with John j. Tigert,
Of the United States Commission
/ of Education, making an address.
Judge Kenesaw NJ. Lands, high
commissioner of baseball, will adj
dress the Auxiliary Wednesday.
Constitution Day. The address
Thursday, Child Welfare Day, will
be made by Mark T. Mckee, Of
Detroit
The Legion will point the atten-
ton of the convention to its child
welfare work, which 1t holds Of
next importance to rehabilitation,
considering the anticipated in.
crease of 5000 World War orphans
to $4,000 within the next ten years.
Whenever it is impossible to
maintain the original family ties,
children will be placed in approved
foster homes or kept in homeIike
Legion Children's Billets." Billet
No. l, now housing twenty-seven
children at Otter Lake, Mich, is
only a step ahead of Billet No. Q,
which is under construction near
Independence, Kansas. BY a spe-
cial assessment of fifty cents per
member, the Forty and Eight has
raised a fund of $4,000 to carry
on child welfare work.
While the convention is consid-
cred the premier business conven-
ton" of Legion history there will
be plenty of entertainment for the
$4,000 members and their friends.
The States dinner, given by the
auxiliary Tuesday, will be ultra
spectacular, with each State table
vieing with the other in pomp ami
| Splendor.
The Forty and Eight will elect
officers Thursday, to be followed
by a dazzling parade, headed ~
fifteen Forty and Eight bands, 10
the State fair grounds, where 4
class of 800 will be initiated, wit a
all the fancy frills Of ingenioN }
minds of forty-eight States.
National officers will be electe
Friday following the awarding o.
the 100 per cent membership, Hal
ford McNder, Franklin D'Oliel
Frederick w. Galbraith, Milton ]
Foreman, Henry w. Lindsey, Aid
North Carolina trophies.