Show ORGANIZATION GALL CALL FOR VETERANS MADE American League Branch of oC Ut Utah Uth h Meeting Fixed For May Mar 1 I in Salt l Lake kc Summons City City Summons lulled by Committee Gall Cull for the first meeting of oC the Utah branch of the American o veterans of the world war warr 1 r yesterday by General j chard W. W Young following a meet meet- oC the committee at the Commercial Commercial Commercial Commer Commer- cial club The Salt Lake convention of or the veterans will be held Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day today S 8 p p. p m. m with the Commercial Commercial Com Com- mercial club as meeting place Eight Ig t delegates to attend the national nation nation- al convention to be held In St Sl Louis May Ia 8 S 9 10 will be he selected from the men present The purpose of the American L gjon g- g I lon jon It was WitS announced among other t things Is fa to bring together on an equal footing all men of the service 4 and to keep peep alive alive the association I and spirits of oC brotherly comradeship that has haR grown up up through service In the field With this end in view the distinction due to rank in the service service service ser ser- vice will play no part in tIle the Rank Disregarded A colonel or corporal or private ate it is said will stand on equal footing In fact one of the aims alms of the so society society society so- so will be to foster and encourage the spirit of genial comradeship arid add unity which the distinction of the rank rendered impossible In active service Those The Those present at yesterdays yesterday's meeting meetIng meet- meet Ing InS were General Young chairman of ot the committee committed who presided Major I arold P. P Fabian Major l Wesley E. E King Lieutenant Baldwin Robertson Sergeant Partridge Lieutenant Dee Stone Lle Lieutenant tena t Harold Smoot and Smoot-and nd Captain Hamilton Gardner Following the meeting the committee commit commit- tee gave out the h following statement state state- ment t This call marks the beginning of ofa ofa a great and the gener gener- generations to come will point with pride to an ancestor whose name appears appearson on Its It's membership rp 1 it Is the duty of ot every member and mem ex f ber bel of the service to attend this j tea me meeting and to fak take fake part in the organization of the Utah Utah t ranch branch Text of Call Th The The call call in full fuli follows To ail all present and discharged officers of of- cers and men meIl of the military y r rand a and d n naval val establishments of the Continued d on Seventh Page Pageo o 0 o CALL FOR Fon VETERANS Continued from Page One United States Stares In February of this year car a temporary tem tern committee of or American officers officers om- om cers serving In France was formed for the he purpose of gathering together er from t tho o whole army two caucuses which should represent respectively the troops In France and those who had been retained in or returned to America The purpose was to take tako the necessary necessary necessary essary Initial steps toward the formation formation formation for for- mation of a nonpartisan and nonpolitical nonpolitical association which shall keep alive the principles of Justice freedom freedom freedom free free- dom and democracy for which these veterans fought Caught shall preserve to o future generations the history and Incidents of their participation In the war and shall shan cement cement and perpetuate perpetu perpetu- ate the ties of comradeship formed In service In accordance with these Ideas the temporary committee convened in Paris on March 15 16 a caucus of ot nearly 1000 officers and men who were leaders of their units and who represented all the combat divisions and all sections of the S. 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S Beginning Reviewed This caucus approved the steps taken by the temporary committee adopted the name American Legion drew up a tentative constitution and appointed representatives to act Jointly with committees which should be appointed by the caucus to be beheld beheld beheld held later in America The temporary ary committee has called a caucus to tobe tobe tobe be held In St St. Louis on the and of May where representatives tives of officers and enlisted men who have been in the military and naval service of the United States either here or overseas In the war against the central powers will meet In order to discuss and formulate te will such tentative arrangements as later result in creating a permanent na Ional organization Pursuant to the direction of or the temporary y committee headed by Lieutenant Colonel Theodore RooseVelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt In New York City a temporary state committee for the state of Utah has been organized which includes both officers and enlisted men from the various arms of the military and naval forces of or the various units of or orthe the amb army and navy In which the men of Utah Utah- m served This committee held its first meeting at the Commercial Commercial Commercial Commer Commer- cial club in Salt Lake City Cily at noon Wednesday April 28 23 To be wide Nation As a result of ot this meeting meeting and and under the authority above cited a state caucus for the state of Utah is hereby called to Convene at the I Comm Commercial club lub in Salt SnIt Lake City at eC t S p p. p lii In Thursday May 1 for the purpose of or determining upon a more permanent form o of organization in Utah ll and the tiie selection of eight d dele dele- legats le- le gats to the caucus to be held in St. St Louis on May 8 S. S The Tho American Legion as proposed propos propos- ed by th organizers will extend into every ory section of or each state state in the union and separate posts posts posts' or branches will be subsequently subsequent subsequent- ly organized at various points In the state All An officers and enlisted men who have served In the military or naval establishments of the United States at any time between April 6 6 1917 and November 11 11 1918 1913 ar are eligible for tor mem membership in the American Ameri Amerl- can can Legion and all su such h men in the st state te of Utah whether permanently or temporarily located in the state ar hereby Invited and urged to at atten attend attend at- at ten tend the state caucus It Is the wish of tie the national nation 1 organizers that 60 per cent of the personnel of state or- or of the enlisted enlisted enlisted en en- ons shall consist listed men By order of r BRIGADIER GENERAL RICHARD W. W YOUNG Temporary State Chairman Wesley King E.-King E. E King Major 0 O. R R. C C. Temporary State Secretary |