Show rAM SERVICE STAR LEGH LEGION MEETS INSI S LI L o. o Iw VAR A MOTHERS HONO HONORED D BY f SENATOR lNA 10 Fourfold Compensation j Plan Favored by Women r i in Annual Session of State Organization of the Service Sta Start Star I V 1 le legion ion representing m more more- Jq than dozen en scattered a chapt chapters rs out the state indorsed th the fourfold compensation plan for service ex-service men at their annual state convention held hed Saturday at the Hotel Utah Other resolutions passed by bythe bythe the delegates before the convention adjourned favored a recommendation to toto I to the next state legislature calling for forthe forthe the passage of flag laws The laws recommended are to regulate the m manner manner man man- n- n I ner in which all display flags are exhibited cx- cx arid and to conform with the regI reg reg- I laid down by the war war depart depart- f A. A j ment meat I PLANNING HISTORY j I Another r. r resolution passed by the th the convention recommended the appointment appointment appoint- appoint j ment by the president of the state or or- or of a committee to communicate I cate with families of service men in inI Utah and secure data to be Included Inan Inan in inan I an authentic history of the war activities activities activities ties carried pa on here The legion pledged itself to urge the erection ofa oCa of oC ofa I a a state memorial to Utah men who paid the supreme sacrifice in the great war var 4 During th the afternoon session of the convention the delegates were Yer addres addressed addressed ad- ad dres dressed ed by Senator Reed Smoot Gov- Gov t elect emnor-elect Charles R. R Mabey and l ray McCarty state commander of the I American legion I SENATOR MOOT SMOOT SPEAKS v Senator Smoot spoke about the im im- 1 1 j I I par part women x nation hall hati In iii the carr carrying ing oh of the activities o of j the great war He praised the work of the Service Star legion and emphasized sized their part in the reconstruction r work vork Confronts them which now I find difficulty in expressing my ny deep appreciation at being able to appear ap- ap apt t pear before this great body of the J mothers mothers mothers' of the sons of the republic t t. t said Mr Mabey the next speaker 1 There can be no honor greater than to have given a son brother father 01 or I husband to the great cause a at stake sUllie I t the world only only-a few mon months past past Dur DueIng Due Dur v ving ing my term as chief exec executive ti e o of th 1 state I shall be happy to help further i ithe the organization tion of the Service Star legion or to help carry out any con- con good for it that may be in my power f LEGION OFFICER PRESENT Mr McCarty outlined the attitude delegates at the American legion national national na na- convention took toward th the Service Star legion He said while I they did not affiliate with the the- sister organization they passed favorable legislation leg leg- recommending the course each state chapter should take in ling lag the women's organization with th the I national affiliation depending on the tho time when 20 per cent of the state stat chapters should have identified themselves themselves themselves them them- selves with it The final firral work of f the convention in- in r dueled the election of officers for the st state te organization The f were elected Mrs 1 J. J G. G Flack pres dent Mrs Clarence Stevenson Price gold star mother Mrs Mariette Marlette Bees Bees- J ley Icy Provo first vice Mrs i iAnnie Annie V W. Cannon Salt alt Lake seconder r. f vice president Mrs 1 Melvin O. O t ard Springville third vice president Mrs drs Irs Green American Fork I fourth vice president Mrs Ernest La Lay Lay- ton recording secretary Mrs l Francis Francis' I Ryder Ogden corresponding secretary t j Miss Helen Jennings Salt Lake treas r Mrs C. C J. J Trotman Logan his his- c t LOrian ri and Mrs Marion Dorton Lehi Lehi 1 state organizer 0 The next meeting of- of the of-the the Utah Serce Service Ser Sen 1 ice ce Star l legion gion will be held beld eld in Salt Salt i. v Lake Ju June e 12 1921 |