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Show MANY POSTS SEEK TROPHIES Legion Organizations Display Great Interest In Honors to Be Awarded Award-ed at National Meeting. Competition for membership Is keen among departments of the American Legion this year, due to the plan to present national trophies and awards to the departments making the best showings before the fifth annual national na-tional convention In San Francisco this fall. Legionnaires will strive for two principal trophies the Hanford Mac-Nider Mac-Nider and the Franklin D'Oller trophies. tro-phies. The department that has the highest percentage of members as compared com-pared with the membership total for the year 1022 will win the MacNIder cup, which Is presented by the Iowa department. The Georgln department won this cup at the New Orleans convention con-vention and Is leading In the race this year. The D'Oller trophy has not yet been awarded, as It was first announced at the New Orleans convention. The department de-partment obtaining as members the highest percentage of eligible ex-service men In the state will receive this trophy, the gift of the Pennsylvania department. The trophies will not remain the permanent property of departments, but must be turned over each year. A gold pinto will be awarded to ench department winning a trophy. This will bo suitable to be attached to the department's banner, which will bear an Inscription reciting the honor won. There will be presented each year a sliver one hundred per cent membership member-ship honor plate to each department maintaining or Increasing Its preceding year's membership, In addition to the two trophies and their plates. |