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Show AT WORK ON BIG CONVENTION Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett, in Chard of Arrangements, Being Assisted by Many Other?. With a powerful former lieutenant general, who commanded ihe first army of a million fighting men In France, at the helm, and important committees headed by ex-ofiicers and "buck privates" pri-vates" alike, preparations for the American Legion's fifth annual convention, conven-tion, to be held in San Francisco next October, are progressing. Gen. Hunter Liggett, a favorite among Legionnaires because of his efforts ef-forts to build up the Legion In Son Francisco, finds the important task of j directing arrangements for the big national na-tional gathering! a pleasant, though busy and comprehensive job. Not all of the work of preparing for the convention is being handled by Legionnaires. San Francisco has made a systematic study of conventions and the result has been the development of an efficient corps of prominent business busi-ness men, who, originally "hobbylng it" as convention workers, got Into the hang of the activity so well that they find themselves called into conference .-'V;,' iff- ''-'A yy i'-A " ' v.- J i w 1 r - -"1 LIEUT. SEN. HUNTER LIGGETT every time a major conclave comes to the city. Many of these distinguished citizens, staid business men, whose "bit" during the war may have been the selling of millions of dollars In Liberty bonds and thousands of other splendid deeds, are today "drafted into the committees preparing for the national convention. Their ability to handle efficiently and well the "short cuts" that have been ferreted out through the staging of more than one hundred conventions each year, will serve the Legion convention -workers most effectively. Their part Is certain to dd to the already tentative program that is now in the making. San Francisco expects 150,000 visitors vis-itors to attend the convention. |