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Show WESLEY E. KING IS MADE HEAD OF LESION The name of the Soldiers' Sailors' and Marines' club of Weber county will be changed at the next meeting, which will be held on June 16, to a post of the American Legion, the new national organization recently formed at the convention held in St. Louis. At the caucus of the state organization organiza-tion held during the past two days In Salt Lake City on call of Brig. Gen. R. W. Young many matters of importance im-portance to all ex-service men were taken up and discussed. Wesley E. King was elected state chairman of the legion, to serve until the October convention, when a permanent perm-anent state organization will be com pleted. Royal J. Douglas of Ogden was elected first vice chairman; Knight Starr Jordan of Provo, second vice chairman, and H. W. Bingham of Logan, third vice chairman. Baldwin Robertson of Salt Lake was elected Secretar and Sherman Armstrong ol Salt Lake, treasurer. Provision was made for the appointment of a state executive committee, to consist of the officers and one representative from each state. This committee, in turn: is authorized to select a committee f seven to carry on the business of the state chapter. Plan Rural Homes una or tne most important, actions of the caucus was to go on record as to its desires in the matter of the cooperative co-operative plans of state and government govern-ment for providing rural homes for returned soldiers and sailors. A resolution res-olution was unanimously adopted authorizing au-thorizing the state chairman to appoint ap-point a permanent committee of five, whose duty it shall be to represent the interests of the service men in consultation con-sultation with other civic organizations organiza-tions and with the state soldiers' set-tlemen set-tlemen commission. The resolution indorsed the project and expressed the desire that the bill before congress give the secretary of the Interior broad discretionary powers, pow-ers, in order that he might apply the 1" ni in ol tin act ro the requirement and peculiar conditions existing in each state. The so-called 'infiltration 'infiltra-tion plan" was recommended as a temporary tem-porary means of providing farm homes, until such time as a large community project can be developed. The question of providing employment employ-ment for returned service men was also the subject of a vigorous resolution, resolu-tion, in which employers were urged to list their requirements with the bureaus that are tndeavoring to find places for the men who have been discharged. dis-charged. It stated that som employers employ-ers had failed to list their wants, especially es-pecially had faiied to list their higher class positions, and that, consequently, many returned men had been forced to accept employment for which they were unsuited. and that others had not been able to get any sort of satisfactory satisfac-tory work. To Form Local Posts Another resolution urged tnat service serv-ice men throughout the state lake immediate im-mediate steps to form local organizations organiza-tions and affiliate with the state and 'national bodies of the American Legion, Le-gion, in order that effective action i might be tak n at once In protecting land fostering the interests of the returned re-turned service men The chairman was authorized to appoint a commit tee of five in each county to begin the formation of local posts. Resolutions passed bv the national caucus in St. Louis also were adopted and approved, as expressing the sentiments sen-timents of the state organization on several subjects. Included in these was a strong resolution condemning the action of pardoning conscientious objectors and giving them honorable discharges from the service. An in vestigation by congress of this action , is demanded. Another resolution demands that congress pass legislation to send back to the countries from which they came aliens who withdrew their first citizenship citi-zenship papers in order to evade military mili-tary duty, and that all naturalized citizens ci-tizens who were convicted under the espionage act have their citizenship papers revoked and that the v shall be deported as soon as they have completed com-pleted the serving of their sentences. State Dues Fixed The state caucus atso condemned the misuse of the uniform In no uncertain un-certain terms, and the members resolved re-solved that every effort would be made to prevent it in the future. The caucus went on record as being unalterably unal-terably opposed to the practice cf using us-ing the uniform as an aid in peddling, hawking and panhandling on the streets. On the recommendation of the fl-nanc fl-nanc committee, the state dues were fixed at $1 per annum, 25 cents of which must be forwarded by the state chapter to the national body as revenue reve-nue for the maintenance of the national nation-al office. There was considerable discussion dis-cussion on the question of dues, it being be-ing held by some that $1 was too high. The committee, however, pointed to the fact that expenses for the first year, at least, when much local organization or-ganization work must be carried on, Will be exceptionally heavy. Furthermore, Further-more, it is proposed the expenses of delegates to the national convention in Minneapolis next November be paid from the state funds, and that sufficient suffi-cient .money should be provided, at least the first year, to take care of all such contingencies. The question of selecting permanent state headquarters was left until the October state convention, and it was decided to hold that convention in Salt Lake during conference week Mean time, the state officers elected were empowered to proceed with the organization or-ganization of Utah's 20,000 and more men in local posts. |