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Show TO JOIN SOCIETY Families of All Officers of the Reserve v Corps Asked to Send in Applications. LIFE MEMBERSHIP Society Purely Patriotic Entrance Fee Three Dollars Dues One Dollar Year. NEW YORK, Dec 15. Families of all the officers enrolled In the United States Reserve Corps have been invited invit-ed lo sec to it that as many of them as possible be made members of the Society of American Officers before they arc sent to serve with the American Ameri-can army in France. These officers include in-clude the men who were trained in and received their commissions from such camps as those at Plattsburg, N. Y., and at other points. In a statement issued today by the Society of American Officers, the fam-ilies.of fam-ilies.of all the ofilcors of the Reserve Corps are invited to send in applications applica-tions in behalf of their officers, giving their full names, addresses and the branch of the service in which they are commissioned. The announcement is commissioned by a state or the Federal Fed-eral government .is eligible fpr mem.-bership mem.-bership which he retains "for life unless un-less dishonorably discharged or convicted con-victed of a felony. "This society," the statement says, "founded upon lines closely following I that of the celebrated Society of the Cincinnati of Washington's day, undertakes un-dertakes to keep a likeness of every member and a subsequent running record rec-ord both of his origin, his experience and his military' career for the balance of his life. Society Purely Patriotic "The society is a purely patriotic one, iLs entrance fee is but three dollars dol-lars and its dues are only one dollar yearly. The one additional item of expense ex-pense is eighty cents for the little bronze botton, which servos as. an identification tag to be sent back to his family or the society from the battlefield bat-tlefield by his brother officer." It is suggested by the society that the young officers should not be required re-quired to add tho cost of membership to that of their uniform and equipment "Yet," the statement adds, "wo doubt If there is a parent or a wife, or a sister or a sweetheart In America who would not, be glad to know that the young officer was watched over and guarded by such an organization and its members mem-bers and, if lost, that the little emblem was likely to come back to them with the brief) word from some brother membor in arms." The president of the society of American Am-erican Officers is Brigadier General Oliver B. Bridginan, of tho Army and Navy club. New York City; its secretary secre-tary Colonel Thomas Denny, 30 Pine street, New York: its treasurer, Major William H. Palmer, 141 Broadway, New York. |