Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04

committee headed by Past Depart
ment Comdr. Paul j. McGahan.
At the recent meeting Of the de
partment executive committee, Chair
man McGahan, reporting for the com
mittee which consisted Of Miss Helen
D. McCarty, Robert n. Tolson and
| Raymond A. Burke turned one-quarteI
of this sum over to the department
welfare fund to be utilized in depart,
mental welfare work.
| The II posts that participated in
the sale of the memorial poppies were
the L. S. S. Jacob Jones Post, the
Jane A. Delano Post, the Belleau
Wood Post the Lincoln Post, the Ser
| geant Jasper Post. the Edward
| Douglass White Post. the Kenneth
| Nash Post, the Bureau of Printing
and Engraving Post. the McGroarty-
| OConnell Post. the James E. Walker
Post and the Kenneth Lewis Post
More than half of the money raised
in the campaign was raised by the
| women members of the l.. S. S. Jacob
Jones Post and the Jane A. Delano
Post. The Nash Post led the male di-
vision.
In addition to this out-and out
American Legion sale of peoples. the
! various units of the American Legion
Auxiliary in the District of Columbia
under the direction of Mrs. Mayme
Dorsey, the chairman, engaged in a
poppy sale; and there was also a col
lateral sale by the members Of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars in the Dis.
trict. The thanks of the Department
of the District of Columbia of the
American Legion has been extended
to the Board of District Commission
erS for their action in issuing a proc
lamatlon authorizing the poppy cam
paign by the American Legion and
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Delaware will lead the parade, grace
the front row in the convention and
move in the finest hotel accommodate
tons at the national convention at
Philadelphia October II to Is.
That is the official information an
nounced by national headquarters
when the national membership con-
test to decide parade order, seating ar
engagements and accommodations at
the national convention ended on
June Is.
Delaware, with an unprecedented
percentage of 20S.33 for 1926 as figured
against the average membership of
the department for the years 1929
2425, will head the legion procession,
while cantering hard on her heels in
second position will follow the famous
orange1colored horse of the Floridians,
travelling under a heavy load of 1921
per cent. Idaho. in third place with
5000 per cent. will complete the tri-
umvirate to lead the most colorful
parade in America" France and
Wyoming will swing along in fourth
and fifth positions. respectively.
An unusual and significant feature
of this years parade position figures
is the fact that % legion departments
surpas sed their average membership
Of the past four years, as against only
four departments to surpass their
four-year average in 1925. Further,
each of the first five departments in
percentage to have led the parade in
1925. Florida led the parade in 1925
at Omaha with a percentage of 1895.
The first 25 departments in order
follow: Delaware, 20S.33; Florida,
1921; Idaho. 1870 France. IA;
Wyoming. 1901; West Virginia,
1928: Arizona, 1908; Colorado.
1856: Canada. 1908; Philippine
Islands, 120.50: Alabama. 1922:
Georgia, Ill so; Panama, 110.57; Con-
necticut, HOSP; Oregon, 11O49; Okla.
homa. 109.59: Utah, 104.05: Kansas,
1898; North Carolina, 1883; Ten
nessee, I03.07; Nevada, 1902 80; Illinois,
1925: Maine, AS; Wisconsin, 81 98,
and Minnesota, 1929.
The Independent Boys Band, so
pieces, featured the annual excur-
sion and field day of the Sergt. Jasper