Show PREACH TO GET MEMBERS ministers to al AM ald d in bringing the arion amen lean ican legion family number to some one at the national headquarters with a flair for statistics les tins ling figured ure d out that four thousand sermons sermon on it the lie american legion will bo be delivered in churches all over the land on sunday AIRY 10 part of tile ho work of posts of the legion lit in the membership campal id ile be waged stay slay 17 to 22 inclusive tins has been to enlist tile tho support of clergymen of nil all creeds they have been requested to at least make mention of tile lesion legion in their sermons of the sunday pi ec eding the alio drive many rabble rabbis hove have their intention of doing this in sermons delivered saturday may 15 it tins litis not been hard to win the support of these clergymen because the vast majority already are enthusiastic legion supporters ono one minister of a prominent and fashionable new york city church fairly leaped ot at tile alio suggestion ile ho declared lie he would not only preach in an entire cormon urging eligible parishioners to join but would call on every ninn mail find and woman to lend lead active aid la in lie campaign in some way lie ile insisted lie ho was going to roll up ills his shirt ti leeves and got get into the campaign himself even going so far as volunteering to speak from a soapbox soap box tit in union square legion lenders expect to get one million now new members at least this would bring total membership well above the two and a half million mark and would assure the legion a majority of tile ho former service lee men and women of the land the drive irlvy to Is entirely n post and member affair la a campaign of the rank and file die posts posta are assigned quotas to reach and will bo be graded on percentage pereen tage of efficiency will bo be so graded national it headquarters will give first and sec second prizes con consisting allting alsting of stands of colors to lending leading departments |