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Show . ' DESIGNS THE LEGION POSTER Drawing by Clarence Reeder, Newspaper News-paper Artist; Advertises the Big i Meet at New Orleans. Nineteen New Orleans artists com- . wted In a contest for a poster to ad- Y.. X L'-. vertlse the American Amer-ican Legion national na-tional convention, but a former "top sergeant" won the prize of $100. Clarence Reeder, staff artist of a New Orleans newspaper, who drilled rookies at Camp Pike during the World war, drew the winning poster. The successful design represents a doughboy, a sailor and a marine in uniform, looking at a guidebook, labeled "New Orleans, the Paris of I the V, S. A.." with a view of the famous French quarter below. Above the three figures are the Legion emblem em-blem and the words, "Oh, buddy, let's go." and JieUnv, "American) Legion National Convention at New Orleans, October 10-20." Forty thousand copies of the poster will be sent to all Legion posts and i will be on display In railroad stations I in many parts of the country. |