Show eagles celebrate anniversary plan campaign the golden of the fraternal order of eagles TOIL be commemorated by tooele thoele aerie by launching of a gold rush cam earn laign december 1 is was ln bounced by F C stone aerie pres ident at last week weeks s regular meet ing the campaign will spotlight the 50 year history of the organization which is now the nation nations s largest benefit paying organization with a membership of approximately I 1 an effort will be made macle to in cerase the strength of the eagles for continuance of its rec ord in behalf of social legislation and human welfare mr stone said A campaign slogan hats oft off to the past coats off to the fut ure has been adopted every member of the local aerie will be enlisted in the drive which will be featured by the formation of four gold rush campaign teams to build the membership of the tooele thoele aerie the campaign will continue for six months ending june 1 1948 the completion of the current eagle fiscal year the campaign will pay tribute to the achievements of the eagles since their organization in seattle on february 6 1898 mr stone said the order was formed by only six men selves to making life better and happier he added the gold rush campaign is derived from the fact that about the time the fra order of eagles was start ed the yukon and klondike gold seeking days were at their height he announced that the order was determined to make its gold an niver sary year the most ing in its history and add new members for the current fiscal year he ile added during the first 50 i years the eagles have devoted their energies and grid resources for the benefit of all the people the eagles first proposed the national security act and spent more than a million dollars back in 1921 to popularize the need for such legis lation the eagles backed the first state old age pension law and were instrumental in obtaining such laws in the eagles obtained the first mo ther s pension and workmen corn com sensation pensa tion laws they campaigned for a mothers day after the idea was first suggested by frank her nur mg ing late editor of the eagle mag azine they have been active in youth guidance work and donated to father flanagan Fla s boys town these are some of the achievements in the first 50 years of history which will be commemorated with the gold rush campaign the campaign will serve to fur ther current objectives of the eagles which include extension of social security child health pro grams aid for returning service men aid for the handicapped and the conquest of juvenile delinquent dehn delin quen cy by building up the membership of the eagles through this cam laign the animation or will anten its activities in these field completion of the first three months campaign will be celebrated with a million dollar night program and the six months wind up will be marked by a golden an niver sary banquet he announced 4 |