Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

CduD, 1Olo L. SITeet nOIIHWeSIs' |
8pm.
With National 1Condr. o. L. Boden-
hame1, urging every department to go
"ovef., the top" with its membership
quota and Department Membership
Chairman William z. Spicer urging
every local post to surpass its quota
activity s corltinnHs from this stand
point in the Department. of the Dis
trict COLUMBIA, the American Legion.
The4lacest report, Just issued by the
department member hip committee Tor
the Hssrl J. Brown trophy for posts IN
class l. shows Sergt. Jasper Post IN
the lead with 20 per cent OF its 1879
members paid up for the year 1880;
u. S. 8. iJaeob Jones Post second, 81
per cent; George Washington Post,
thirdS'el per cent; Augustus p. Gard
ner PoSt,. fourths AZ per cent; Victory
Post,s fifth, AZ per cent; Vincent b.
Costello Post sixth, 80 per cent; James
E. Walker Post, seventh, ~ per cent.
In class Q for the L, E. Atkins Trophy,
Jane A. Delano Post is holding first
honors with 81 per cent; Bureau OF En-
cravinS and Printing Post, second, with
81 per cent: Lincoln Post, third, 70 per
cent; SeeOndS DIVISION, fourth, ga per
cent; Lafayette Post, fifth, So per cent;
Stuart Walcott Post, sixth, so per cent;
Kenneth H, Nash Post, seventh a. per
as per cent; Henry c. Spenglef Post,
ninth. Al per cent; James Reese Europe
Pose.:enths SO per cent.
TffExfeHGing post in class three Tor
The Mabel F. Staub trophy Is National
Press Club Post, with So per cent;
Cooley-McC ullough Post, second, Oh per
cent; Stephen P. MeGroarty post, tnlfd'
Is per cent; Belleau Wood Post, fourtn,
ii per cent: George e. Killeen Post,
fifth, % per cent; Tank Corps, sixth,
20 per cent.
The two-day session of Area 'B" Of
the American Legion Child Welfare Dl-
vision concluded yesterday in New
speakers from different sections OF the
country. The conference opened Friday
morning in the East Room, Russell Sage
Foundation, 100 East Twenty-second
street, being called to order at $50
O'Clock by DR.. Samuel A. Loveman,
area chairman. Reports were presented
from department chairman, Child Wei
fare. Legion and Auxiliary were read
followed by a report OF Miss Mar)oria
A, Provost, area field secretary.
The afternoon. session opened at 2
O'Clock, Miss Jane NJ Hoey, assistant
director Welfare Council, New YORK
City, speaking on How a Welfare
Council Can Serve You; Miss Jessie
p Condit executive secretary, Essex
County Children's Aid Society, Newark,
N. j., 1.-THE Preventive Side OF Child
Welfare Work.; Richard HartShorne,
department commander of New Jersey
on New Jersey War Orphans Educa7
tional Program"
The annual dinner, took place Fra
day night at tbs O'Clock at the Prince
George Hotel with DR.. Loveman, pre-
siding, followed by an address of well
come from the Department OF New
York by Judge Irving I. Goldsmith
chairman of the Department of Child
Welfare committee. The other speak
ers included G. c. CarStenS, executive
director, Child Welfare League of Amer
lea, on How the League Can Serve
You; Dr. George K. Pratt, assistant
medical director, the national commit
tee for social hygiene, on THE Child
From Pre-school to Adolescence; Homer
Folks, secretary, State Charities Aid So
ciety on Community Resources"
At the final session yesterday morn
ing at $50 o'clock Miss Helen|D. Cole,
director, Boarding Home Department,
Children's Aid Society. spoN on THE
Solution of Problem Cases by Boarding
Home Placement; DR.. H. E. Barnard,
director, White House Conference on
Child Welfare and Pfbtection, THE
White House ConfeLknce"; William
George, founder On The George
Junior Republic" which he founded.
Mrs. Mary A. hickey, Department
Columbia. represented the local depart
ment at the conference.
The American. Legion Auxiliary has
made a gain 81 65,523 members to
March l over tie same date last year,
according to report announced from
national headquarters. In the first two
total set as the membership goal for
the year has been enrolled. The great
est gains were in Arkansas and West
Virginia. The former won the Towne
trophy.
American women who served as
nurses in the British and Canadian
armies during the, World War will hold
their first reunion during the national
conventions of the American Legion and
Auxiliary at Boston on october to 8.
The reunion will be part Of general
reunion Of all men and women who
served with the British forces.
The rules under which half a million
boys will compete for the 1880 cham
pionship in the American Legion Junior
base ball program have just been an
nounced.
The competition will be open only to
boys who are amateurs. They must
not have attained their seventeenth
birthday before September IS, 1880, to
- be eligible. All games will be played
under the official rules of base ball and
on regulation diamonds. Each player
must be a bona flde resident of the
community represented by the team in
which he enrolls. All tournaments to
decide State champions will be under
the direction of the State organization
OF the legion. All regional and sectional
tournaments and the junior world series
will be played under the direction OF
the national director.
All players must have been enrolled
before June 15S 1880. No team may
carry more than IA players. This per-
sonnel cannot be changed after date OF
official enr0llunent except in case OF
deaf OF disability, and then only upon
authorization OF the department athletic
officer and the national director. The
State championship teams must be
certified by their respective department
athletic officers to the national director
not later than August 10, 1890.
In cities or towns having populations
Of $4,000 or more, according to the 1920
Federal census, no team will be allowed
to draw persons from more than one high
school. The high school record of Feb
ruary Is, 1880, will govern as to bona
fde enrolment of player. Strict rules
governing ineligiblity and the penalty
for the same are provided. The rules
that require certificate of entry with