The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-10-26
LYLE ZUMWIVKLE
GIVES INSTRUCTIVE
TALK AT BANQUET
BANQUET-RALLY IN CONJUNC-
TION WITH SECOND DISTRICT
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE is Sue
CESSFUL.

An interesting and extremely in
structive talk was given at the Sec
ond District American Legion Ban
quet-Rally by Department Command
er Lyle Zumwinkle, formerly of Red
wood Falls. The Rally was held 1T
the armory Tuesday night, October
25th, in conjunction with a member
ship drive of the second district. The
speaker used as his subject, Service
Of the American Legion to Commun-
ity, State and Nation"
Commander Zumwinkle, in start
ing his impressive and forceful ad-
dress stated that he was greatly i'm
pressed with the strength of both CT
the Legion organizations and that
the Legion would not and could not
function as it does without the aid of
the Auxiliary.
"Service is my subject" said the
speaker, ''The preamble to the Consti-
tuition is our rule and guide. One
thing that it says is to give service
to community, state and nation; this
of course, is the primary obligation
of the American Legion. The Ameri
can Legion was conceived, born and
dedicated on the battlefields of
France. Our Buddies went down at
our side, gassed, shellshocked and
wounded and some paid the greatest
sacrifice a man is called upon TO
make, his life for his country"
In stressing the Importance of SER
vice to the comrades who have paid
dearly for their parts in the war,
Commander Zumwinkle stated that
just recently he visited the Veterans
hospital at Fort Smelling; in this hos
pital as we'll as in others through
out the United States there were hun
dreds and hundreds of those unfor-
tunates that were just waiting 10
die and it was the duty of the men,
bers of both the Legion and Auxiliary
to do something to help these men.
"That the American Legion has ac-
complished many things for the bet
terment of the disabled is borne out
in the great scandal of the nation in
1920 and 1921 when down in Wash
ington there were bureaus establish
ed for many different things in which
crooks of all natures were getting
rich. To overcome this crookedness
the Legion had all bureaus assembled
into one known as the Veterans Bur-
eau. This bureau is the smoothest
running department Of the govern
ment and for those men for whom the
war is not over, a great justice was
accomplished"
From the service for the disabled
men of the nation the speaker gave q
brief talk on community service and
brought out the point that unless the
posts of the communities in which
they exist do something to help the
community he would gladly call in
the charter and have it cancelled.
IF an organization, no matter what
organization, lodge, church or club IS
not doing something for the benefit
of the community then the organiza-
tion is greatly in need of DOCTOR"
said the speaker. 81 have yet to find
one post in the department of Mime
sofa that is not doing something
worth while for its community"
"As for service to the State, the
American Legion and American Le-
gion Auxiliary has sponsored move
ments for. several years to get the
people out to vote at each election.
Exercise that privilege that every
American citizen distinctly enjoys"
said Commander Zumwinkle. every
one has little right as to how this
state government of ours is to be
run, therefore use that power in vot-
ing"
In closing Commander Zumwinkle
stated that there were two things
that can and must be done in respect
to service of the American Legion in
the United States. "One is that the
outstanding activity of the Ameri-
can Legion this year is World Peace
and therefore the Legion favors the
Universal Draft Law in which not
only the sons of the nation would be
drafted for service in case of war but
also Capital and Labor would be
drafted. The American Legion be-
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