Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-03 | Page 16 | Legion Meeting Plans Complete

LEGION IE K PUNS COMPLETE Utah Will Be Represented at Sessions Next Week at Minneapolis. Advance delegates from every state in the Union will assemble in Minneapolis Minne-apolis this week to consider the tentative ten-tative program and other important preliminary matters for the first annual an-nual convention of the American lo-- lo-- pion, which will be held in Minneapolis November 1", 11 and 12. Hamilton Gardner, Utah State Chairman, and Baldwin Robertson of Salt Lake will attend. TIk conxention will be called to or-j or-j der at 10 o 'clock next Monday morn-I morn-I ing by Henry D. Lindsay, chairman of the" national executive committee. It is expected that at least 2500 delegates representing approximately 1,000.000 former soldiers, sailors and marines, now members of the legion, will attend at-tend this convention, the purpose of which is to establish the legion's permanent per-manent organization and determine its future policy. The business before the convention will be of vital interest both to ex service men and worueu and to tbc country at large. Tho program will in Clude the election of permanent officers offi-cers fir the ensuing year: the adoption of a permanent constitution aud policy of organization; location of national headquarters; membership questions of eligibility; nomenclature of post, state and national officers, and many other questions of organization nature. In addition the legion will take action on such questions of national importance as the future military policy of tho United States; educational facilities for ex-service men and women: proper care and rehabilitation of the wounded; war risk insurance; financial and other help for ex-service men needing assistance, anil soldier laud legislation. The convention, which opens next Mondav. will be the first general as- somblv of the American legion 6incc the Paris and St. Louis caucuses last March nnd Mav. respectively, when the organization of the legion was started. A: tbc Minneapolis convention the lc gion will be officially established as a big factor iu American life and affairs. The elected representatives of the million mil-lion men and women who served iu the war and who have joined the legion will express at the convention the things that are on their minds nnd will fix the course, policy and activity of the American legion for the ensuing olncc the Paris and St. Louis meetings meet-ings the American Utfion has been organized or-ganized nationally and locally with on actixe Mate branch in every state and local posts in almost every community. Oh October there were OOnfj local posts chartered by the national cxecu fivi gomtnltMt and 73o others organized organ-ized and awaiting national' charters. I Tin approximn ' membership of the lc lalon OS Inn tc .was more than 800,000, an' there is every indication thni when all the stale organizations report to the national n-crrtary at Min nenpolis the total membership of tbl lei'ion will exceed 1 .H'lii.il"".