Evening star., 1937-01-10
Sons of American Legion
Sponsored by 10 Posts
District of Columbia Department Hopes to
Perfect Organization of Junior
Groups During Year.

Legion will take on new life
L during the coming year, look
ing toward the perfection of its junior
organization known as the Sons OF
the American Legion, according 10
w. R. Clifford the detachment COM
mander Of the sons.
Already there are about 10 posts in
the city of Washington sponsoring
souadrons of the Sons Of the Legion.
Eligibility for membership is limited
to the male descendants of members
Of the American Legion, or OF male or
female veterans who died in service
during the World War. The sons Or
ganization is comparatively young,
having been chartered in 1882, but
has steadily grown in membership. At
present there are enrolled through
out the country total of 47.613 sons.
In addition to the purposes of the
Junior group as set forth in the pre-
amble to the Constitution the organi-
Eation has 10 ideals which must be
subscribed to by every boy who is
accepted into membership, they are:
Patriotism, health, knowledge. train
ing, honor, faith. helpfulness, courtesy
reverence and comradeship.
The department Membership Com
mittee has decided to allot to each
post a quota in order that the goal of
1850 as set by the department COM
mander at the start of the year may
be met at an early date. Several
prizes for membership have already
been won and will be announced in
the near future with several others
to be contested for during the year.
The membership at the close of the
year was 4,075.
Plans for the department military
ball are rapidly being formed under
the leadership of the chairman of the
Ball Committee, James Kehoe.
Mrs Mary Esther Kolhos is busily
engaged in making plans for the
annual area B child welfare con-
ference to be held at the Wardman
Park Hotel in the near future
The department guard of honor is
also rapidly forming plans for the
pre-inaugural ball to be sponsored by
that organization at the Broadmoor
Hotel on the evening of January 10.
Sergeant Jasper Post.
Sergeant Jasper Post, No. 13, met
ut Pythian Temple on Wednesday
evening, when new applicants we're
given the obligation of membership
by the crack 40 and 8 degree team.
who were present for the ceremony.
The present membership of the post
Is 410, it was reported by the
post membership officer, William P.
Kershner.
The quota for this year, as set by
the department membership officer,
Edward Dixon, is $50, compared with
703 last year. Post Commander Fred
Money expects to reach the goal.
The post will sponsor a dance at
the Broadmoor Hotel January Is
Dept. Comdr Horace w. Lineburg and
members of his staff, Post Comdr.
Fred Money and Unit President Mrs.
Dorothy B. Harper will be guests Of
the post.
Nash Post No. 8.
The next regular meeting of Nash
Post will be January 13 in the old
Naval Hospital Building, 915 Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast, with Comdr.
Mulvey as presiding officer.
Post membership officer, Joe Gold.
berg, reports the post now has a paid
up membership totaling 208.
The annual post dance will be held
January is at Almas Temple.
Jane A. Delano Post.
The Jane A. Delano Post, No. 6,
meets on the first Thursday of each
month at the Nurses Official Registry,
1746 K street. The present member
ship of the post is SO against a total
of 126 for last year. New members
are Emily Kleb and Annie NcNally
Mccormack.
The Guard of Honor of the Ameri-
can Legion is planning an inaugural
ball, January 19, in the Silver Grill,
Broadmoor Hotel, for which Chair
man H. j. Mclaughlin has appointed
. number of committees.
Several national officers and de-
partment officers have notified the
chairman they intend to be at the
dance with departmental staffs
Among the committees appointed
are:
Ball Committee-Anthony G. Amory,
M. j. Angevine, George w. Johns, A.
H. Grolman and John J. McGinnis |
Reception Committee-Alfred May,
Wilmer May, A. S. Miskell, Thomas j. |
Murray, Guy c. Nadeau, F. Rose and !
George Royal. Floor Committee-A.
D. Sherman, P. A. Sugrue, E. P. Tur-
ner, F. j. Waple and Charles E. Wolfe. |
Distinguished Guests Committee-Zac |
Lyons, George Booth, A. H. Waters, !
w. j. Brownold, A. H. Sherman, w. P. |
Kershner, George H Goettings, Hor-
ace w. Lineburg and Lieut.. Thomas
Mason, ir.
George Washington.
"Past Commanders night" was cele-
brated by George Washington Post
Tuesday night at the Club Admiral
with national end District officers
present. Addresses were by Comdr.
Harry Coope, Harold K. Phillips, ma
tional publicity officers and editor of
the National Legionnaire, the official
newspaper of the American Legion,
who is spending several days here
from national headquarters in Indian
apolis; Department Comdr. Horace w.
Lineburg and Department Member
ship Officer George Dixon. National
Director John Thomas Taylor, past
commander Of the post, outlined the
legislative program of the Legion to
be presented to the present Congress
and stressed the most important fea-
lures of bills of interest to veterans,
widows and orphans of veterans He
lauded the work of Editor Phillips and
the success of his newspaper and
publicity work. It was decided to take
up the proposition of printing a his
tory Of the post in book form and Past
Comdr. Howard S. Fisk was requested
to present the matter at the February
meeting.
Vincent B. CosteIlo