Evening star., 1926-04-11
Veterans Of Foreign Wars.

The council of administration Of
the Department of the District of Co.
lumbia, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
held it's regular monthly meeting in
the National Guard Armory, April Z.
Department Comdr. Francis c. HUM
presided. The plan of the annual
poppy campaign devised by the poppy
committee was submitted by Depart
ment Junior Vice Comdr. Charles Fl.
Reilley and was approved by the coun
Gil. The department will purchase
| buddy poppieS manufactured by dis
| abled and needy veterans under the
supervision Of the national body. The
plan for an intensive recruiting drive
was adopted, and the recruiting teams
| of the various subordinate posts viii
engage in active competition until the
close of the campaign, June l. The OBJ
| jective of the drive is to increase the
membership by at least 1000 overseas
veterans.
Comdr. Douglas A. White of Co
lumbia Post. 833. has appointed a
committee to select an appropriate
testimonial to be presented at an open
meeting in May to the one hundredth
recruit initiated in Columbia Post.
The presentation will be made the oc
casion for a gathering of all the mem
bers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
in the District Of Columbia.
The ladies sNIxiliary of Federal
Post, No. SEA, will hold five hundred
and bridge party. April IS, at St.
Agnes Parish Hall. The proceeds will
be devoted to relief work among
needy veterans and their families.
The auxiliary appointed the following
poppy committee: Mrs. Catherine
Roney. chairman; Mrs. May Petty.
Mrs. Lola Heise, Mrs. Eugene Nc
Farland and Mrs. Ed Grant.
Disabled and needy veterans. war
manned heroes of the Argonne and the
Somme, of Verdun and Chateau
Thiery, are making the thousands of
buddy poppies for the 1926 poppy sale
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The buddy poppy making begins
early in anticipation of the nation
wide sale the end of May. Among the
most active workers are the patients
in United States Veterans Hospital
No. 81, under the direction of the oc-
cupational therapy department of the
hospital. Poppies are also made in
other Government hospitals and IN
specially equipped poppy factory
WOrkroomS.
Top Notch Tent of the Military
Order of the Cootie. the official side
degree order of the V. f. W., will
shortly initiate a big recruiting drive
in an effort to bring the Pup Tent up
to the quota set by cootie headquar-
ters. Plans are being made for a
"Cootie Crawl" to Annapolis, Md, in
the near future. 7. n. T. has as its
guests about SO cooties from that city
on the occasion of its third birthday
and at that time the "scratchers" of
the Maryland capital extended the
local tent an invitation to visit them
in their seams"
insignificant, Seam Squirrel Jones
of T. n. T. asks that all coolies de-
string to take the second degree of
the order notify the insignificant
keeper of the Crummy Duffie Bag,
Joseph B. Gardella. before the first
May meeting. Hia address is 519
Sixth street northeast,
1t is expected that the District of
Columbia department of the V. +. w.
will again give up one night during its
annual session in June, to the cooties.
It is on this night that the second
degree is given.
National Capital Post, 127, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, will commemorate
it's seventh anniversary tomorrow
evening at Pythian Temple, 1912
Ninth street. The speakers will be
Col. Z. Lester Jones. member of the
post, and who was the first comman-
der of George Washington Post, and
later the first department commander
in the American Legion; Col. Win
field Scott, commissioner of pensions,
and Col. John T. Axton, chief Of chap
lains of United States Army.
The post was organized April IL,
1919, at an informal meeting at the
Cosmos Club with 81 present. Capt.
Herman F'lugel, U. S. A., assumed the
Office of temporary chairman; George
]. Neuner acting recording secretary.
The following temporary officers were
selected to serve until closing of char
ter: Commander, George J. Neuner;
senior vice commander. Bertram E.
Snodgrass; junior vice commander, J.
B. Much; quartermaster. Sidney l..
Savage; adjutant, Francis J. Van
Reuth; chaplain, Capt. H. K. Gibson;
patriotic instructor. Samuel H. Jacob
son; surgeon, DR.. M. L. Turner; officer
of day. Charles E. Currier; sentinel,
Edward j. Sullivan; color bearers,
Floyd G. Carroll and Bertel Peterson,