The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-08-19
COMMANDER DRAIN
SPEAKS AT DILLON
Continued from page One)

TEEN Of the audience. For Tod ana
Country" which he explained summed
up the purpose Of the organization
which stands for religion without
bigotry and politics without partisan
ship.
National Commander Talks.
National Commander Drains adj
dress was in part as follows:
"The American legion, in the very
hour of its birth in the American ex-
peditionary forces, dedicated itself to
make up to America and to the world
to the full extent of its powers for
the terrible losses and privatiOns and
~sufferings Of the World war.
'That task, in many and varied
forms, has been its chief concern
from that day to this. Trying to live
up to that ideal has been no light and
easy task. For it has involved Crap
ping with many of the problems Of
reconstruction which confronted a
war-torn world. How effective the
legion has been in its efforts you may
know from the fact that national
leaders have hailed the legion as 'One
Of the greatest forces for good in
America today" the commander de-
clared.
Commander Drain then recounted
some OF the fields Of Legion activity.
He laid particular stress on its work
for Americanism, for better citizen
ship and better preparation for it, for
education against illiteracy, for COM
munity betterment, against revolu-
tionary radicalism. He declared that
the legion is particularly concerned
with the questions Of peace and pre-
p~aredness, believing that there can
be no peace without justice, working
for such a peace and, at the same
time, urging that the United States
must be prepared in keeping with its
responsibilities and with the world
situation.
Two Foremost Tasks.
1.-TWO tasks are foremost in the
thought of all Legionnaires, he con-
tinued. Zone OF them is to see to 1t
that our disabled comrades have the
best care and cure which modern
medical science affords. The other is
to see to it that every orphaned and
dependent child Of a veteran of the
World war has had a home and the
chance in life which his father would
have given him, had he been spared
to do it.
There must never be any doubt
that these two services of the Ameri-
can Legion will be performed and
performed properly, so long as there
is need for them. To that end the
legion inaugurated it's campaign for
the S~5,OOO,OOO endowment fund.
On the work. for that endowment,
the Montana department has played
a leading part, n Of which you have
every reason to be proud. You men,
with the able assistance of the women
Of your fine auxiliary and with the
generous support of the people of the
state, have gone out and raised your
quota for the fund. Yes, and you
have done more than that, you have
raised a large OversubscriptiOn and
are still pushing on. With some Of
your larger towns yet to make their
intensive local appeals, I am told that
you expect to stop with nothing less
than a so per cent Oversubscription
Il want to congratulate you on be-
half Of the national organization for
this splendid support. The campaign
is moving ahead well all over the ma
ton. If every post and every depart
ment does its part as you here in
Montana have been doing yours, ths
campaign will be crowned with sue.
cess"
Membership Work
Commander Drain also congratui
lated the department on the results
of its membership during the year
'You have already exceeded your to
tai membership for 1924 he said
Il trust that you win push on to ad,
to the rolls every eligible veteran i
the state.
Membership is important Upo
i depends the success Of our genera
activities. But there is sOmethin
more important than mere number
That is that every unit in the lis
every man on the roll count as on
full power in the efforts Of the whol
It is the enthusiastic working, pIal
ming, striving legionnaire whom 3
want. men such as Won Of MontaI