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Show STATE COMMANDER OF: AMERICAN LEGION TO; i ADDRESS DIXIE MEET; Community-wide interest is d -! vtloping in the forthcoming vi.it to L'tah's Dixie of Department Commander Charles R. Maby of Salt Iake. Commander Maby Is former governor of the State of i I'tah, and this will mark the first of his regular visits to the sever-1 al Legion posts of the Ft ah Dc-j part m en t. The exact nature of topics to be! discussed by Commander Moby at the St. George meeting which i will be held sometime during the! week of April 17th. has not been j disclosed, according to members; j of the local Legion committee j now handling preliminary preparations. pre-parations. It is. however, keliev-ed keliev-ed that he will have much to say regarding the- recent legislative and executive action which disapproved disap-proved the appropriation for the relief of disabled world war vet- j erans and the widows and or- j phans of veterans. ; Inasmuch as the meeting is! planned as a public session, it is also expected that then Commander Com-mander will discuss at length the purposes and program of the Am-j erican Iegion in the light that I these purposes and plans may af-l feet the rural community centers. He will also answer the few criti-i clsms which are alleged to have' been directed at the American j Legion as an organization, how-; ing the injustice of such allega-i Hons and their inexcuslbility. ; Commander Maby will be ac-j eompanied to the city by Department Depart-ment Adjutant O. A. Wiesley. The exact time and place of the pub-j lie meeting has not been an-i nounced. It is planned, however, j that as large an auditorium as i possible be secured and that the! public in general be invited, the committeo states. ! |