The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02

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s pm, September I, Post Home,
Stock Island.
Regular Post Meeting, Wednes-
day, September 8, 8 pm, Post
Home, Stock Island.
Voiture 728, 40 and 8, Friday,
September 3, 8 pm, Post Home,
Stock Island.
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Post Meeting:
Having attended the last Post
Meeting and Initiation ceremony
by the Key West Guard of Honor,
| l was rather dismayed by the lack
of attendance at the meeting. /
am unable to understand why so
many Legionnaires do not attend
the meetings. We don't have but
two a month and those at oppor-
tune times for most.
It gets rather discouraging to
those who do attend because they
have to carry the brunt OF the
work load for the many programs
we carry on. With a larger at
tendance more would be available
to take their fair share of these
programs. I think everything has
been done that is possible to get
them to the meetings, except a
couple, but still no one shows up.
I would say we had less than
SO at this last meeting and for
club with membership the
size of ours, it is downright dis
graceful. know that some (even
y get a little tired Of the pickering
that prevails in any club but one
of the things we should forget
when we attend these meetings
are our personal little battles.
When we forget and let our per-
sonal feelings enter into the
meetings, it discourages the new
members that attend.
Acting Post Commander Lewis
requested at the last meeting
what / am driving at: Leave
your battles outside when you at
tend the meeting and take care
of the problems at hand. That,
| in my opinion, is sage advice. /
believe if we all observed this,
we would have more at the meet
ings and have harder working
Post.
What Your Gard Should Mean 70
You:
If your American Legion Mem
bership card could speak, this is
what it would probably say:
81 am documentary evidence
of your unselfishness-your will
ingness to assist other veterans
who are less fortunate than your
self-because your membership
helps to support the American
Legion's national Rehabilitation
and Welfare service program on
community, state, and national
levels.
81 am proof, beyond dispute, of
your compassionate interest in the
tragic plight Of the widows and
orphans of the men with whom
you served in the Armed Forces
because your membership is sup
porting the fight for adequate pen
sions for the nations widows and
orphans.
ST am a testimonial that you
did not discard your love for
America when you snapped your
military uniform for civilian gar
ments-because your membership
gives added strength to the Amer
lean Legion's national security
policies.
81 am a witness to your contin-
ued devotion to the welfare OF
the United States-because your
membership helps support the
American Legion's program Of
education in Americanism for all
citizens.
81 testify to your faith in the
basic principle that the youth of
today must be properly trained
to assume the duties of citizen
ship in the future-because your
membership helps the American
Legion foster a constructive youth
activity program.
81 am a. symbol of your con-
| tempt for communism and for all
other subversive doctrines-be-
cause your membership is making
| it possible for the American
Legion to fight these evils with
unrelenting vigor on every front.
81 certify that you are a civic
minded citizen, one who displays
an honest concern for the well
fare of all citizens-because your
membership helps activate
American Legion sponsorship of
of a great variety OF community
service projects"
The above was written by a
patient of Bay Pines (Florida) Hos
pital. We should heed those
| words!
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This N That:
At the last meeting we had two
speakers on the program. First
was Charles Curry, the local
Chairman of Civil Defense. He
gave the structure of the Civil