Show legion auxiliary members meet at park city park city post Aerne rican legion was host to members of the leg ion and the auxiliary from the newly created eighth district on friday evening oct 5 in their new memorial bauld ng this building with its beautiful spacious rooms might well be the envy of a city ten times time the size of park city present for the meeting were the department commander bob shel by state adjutant art horseley Hors Horst lev and his office assistants ralph rampton and sit thompson na t onal executive comm brands I springer as well as 3 harry hickman and fritz bills both of whom are past national exec autive committeemen were also there jack lewis commander of the eighth district served at pre siding officer for the auxiliary mrs department president mrs R ruby u b y cushing first vice pers ident mrs bird president of the eighth dist r ct and Ms mrs J harry hickman were present bob shelby gave the opening ad dress on the welfare of the A merican legion and the welfare of the thousands who are eligible to membership in this great or gamza tion age should make no difference he said as many of the posts today are quite capably officered by the young men many a veteran of the late war does not realize how much more good he could do for himself his country and his god if he belonged to such an organization as the legion his obligation should be work P K hayes the next speaker gave some facts and figures on legion mem membership bersh in the state stressing the fact lehat that though the legion might be on its way to this year s quota it lacked a lot of having the membership it should have considering the available ma tenal francis springer national ex committeeman emphasize emph asiz ed the fact that the legion was an organization formed for and by veterans for veteran benefit like bob shelby he felt that the ob I 1 of membership is work and gave as an example the amen banisin program that the legion is striving for this year it is 1 A free country 2 the freedom we fought for 3 the peace we fought for 4 universal military training the late sen john moses gave as his personal opinion and belief the fact that congress and the A merican people had heeded the plea of the american legion for universal military training wor id war II 11 could have been avoid ed he felt that teddy Roosevel ts motto of speaking softly and car crying a big stick still makes for good understanding springer also reminded all vet yet erans who are eligible that they should keep up or take out as the case might be their govern ment insurance housing is one of the important issues facing the re turned veteran too as in many cases abs and housing are inde pendent the wagner ellender taft bill holds no preference for I 1 veterans art horseley Hors and his assistants spoke next and art in his usual manner got right down to brass tacks and told a few facts that could penetrate anyone s m mis s he gave gae a very interesting talk and quiz over some of the t things h 1 that confront his office and that of a service officer officers s job that might pop up at any time horseley Hors also told of the actions that are beng made for the return of the war dead and what would be expected of the legion in connection with the return of the bodies of our fallen buddies jack lewis appointed george as chairman of the ath letic letle committee for the eighth dis brict max booth will be the too ele e county representative on the athletic committee refreshments and visiting fol lowed the business sessions the george A greenlee post was represented by commander and mrs john L journay and mr and mrs wilbur house mrs house being the music chairman for the district as well as for the local auxiliary guy cerulli command er of deseret post accompanied them I 1 |