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Show BUSY COUNTIMG NEW NOSES Recent Membership "Push" Will Require Re-quire Time to Decide Total of New Faces Added. There are two reasons why It will be impossible for some time to announce an-nounce the total of new members obtained ob-tained in the Legion's recent membership member-ship push. The first is the inevitable lapse of time necessary to get Individual Individ-ual figures from nearly ten thousand Legion posts in all parts of the country coun-try and in some parts of other countries. coun-tries. The second Is the facts that, while the push closed officially on May 22, the enthusiasm accumulated and concentrated on that week of effort has spilled over the edges and gone right on effervescing. The full story of the push the methods meth-ods used, all the way from somebody's ingenious idea to everybody's solid hard work can perhaps never be told. Governors of more than thirty states gave whole-hearted endorsement to the push, and the resulting publicity was of immense value in directing attention at-tention to the Legion's effort. Governor Gov-ernor John H. Bartlett of New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, for instance, issued a proclamation, proclama-tion, exactly as on Thanksgiving. "In one sense," reads the proclamation, "this is an exclusive affair, as in the nation only four million, and in New Hampshire only eighteen thousand men and women are eligible for membership. mem-bership. Yet in a wider sense, the 'pu-h,' as It Is designated, carries a powerful appeal to all Americans who cherish our national tradition." |