Evening star., 1925-06-28
LEGION TO LAUNCH
PERSONAL DRIVE
Campaign for $4,000, 900 Fund for
Widows of Veterans Prom
ises Success.

Direct personal solicitation through
out Washington will be launched to-
morrow by teams composed of mem
bers of the American Legion in inter
est of their national campaign for a
$4,000, 900 endowment fund for the
care of disabled veterans and orphan
ed children of the World War, Robert
N. Harper, chairman of the citizens
committee, and John Hays Hammond,
chairman of the advisory committee,
announced today.
Each of the % posts of the Ameri-
can Legion has been directed by Frank
l.. PeCkham, retiring department COM
mander, who is at the head of the
District Legion campaign committee,
to appoint the members of it's teams
and inaugurate this cleanup cam
paign.
The American Legion auXiliarieS in
the District of Columbia will join with
the members of the posts to which
their units are attached in soliciting
subscriptions in the public phase of
the campaign.
The American Legion has practical
ly concluded its canvass for subscrip-
uons from its local membership.
Women's Drive Succeeds.
The members of the u S. S. Jacob
Jones Post. No. 8, composed entirely
of young women who served as yeo-
men F) in the United States Navy
during the World War, are jubilant
over the results of their campaign.
Miss Helen McCarty, commander of
the post. announces that with many
OF the out-of-town members yet to be
heard from, the post membership has
contributed in excess of $500 to the
endowment fund
The prospects of bringing this
amount up to a still higher figure are
excellent. it is said.
Paul j. McGak-k, past department
commander, Wa, has Just returned
from a meeting of the national eX.
ecutive committee of the American
Legion at indianapolis, declared that
this record of individual subscriptions
by members of a post placed the Jacob
Jones Post in unique position in
the ranks of the posts of the Ameri
can Legion nationally.
Field Secretary William B. Crush
in charge of the campaign headq1ar
ters at 329-A Bond Building, has re
ceived contributions from the Henry
G. Spengler Post and from the aux
iliary unit of the Henry c. Spengler
Post.
Responses Good.
At the meeting of the department
executive committee of the District
of Columbia Department held last
+ Thursday night it was announced, ar
excellent response was made by mem
bers of all the local posts. 1t is the
aim of the District LeGionnaires to
have each post account for a per
sonal contribution from each indi
vfdual member. This would encour
age the people of Washington to con
tribute more generously to the fund
approaching that the Legionnaires
themselves thoroughly believed in the
purposes for which they were making
personal contributions.
A contribution to the fund by Brig
Gen. Frank T. Hines. director of the
United States Veterans Bureau. has
been reported to the national head
quarters. 1t was given to Charles
Riemer, commander of the Stuart
Walcott Post. and to Past Department
Comdr. Peckham. Owing to the fac,
that Gen. Hines is member of the
George Washington Post, No. l, the
first unit of the American Legion tc
be chartered, the check was turned
over to Wallace Streater, the com
mander of that post, and will be
counted on the quota of the post.