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Show MEMBERSHIP IN AMERICAN LEGION REACHES 400 MARK AND MANY MORE MEN ARE SIGNING UP i v Ml mbership in ihe American Legion has now reached the 400 mark, according accord-ing to Secretary A. E. Littlefie'd. He is verv optimistic over the results oT the membership campaign lhat has been coinK on since the formal organl zation of the Herman Baker post of the organization. With 'lie word be ing passed that all who Join up to Armistice day will be considered charter char-ter members, many from outlying ills-tricls ills-tricls are sighing up Owing to the fact that there is no other town within a considerable ra dius of Qgden to warranl the organixa-tion organixa-tion of another post ol the I egion l( Is thought hv the nirn in Charge or ihe Herman Baker post that this nn be made ihe largest posM in the Unl'.ed Slates and lhat is the goal they are endeavoring to reach. Secretary Littlefield stated this morninc tint practically every ex-erv ice man of Ogden and Weber county I Will have signed up by NovemVr 11 BO thai the American Legion would be "hat it Is designed to be. an organi- : zation for all service men. Governor Brough Endorses Legion. He is in receipt of n communication from Governor Charles M. Brough of j Arkansas, a Former fpden man inn well known here, in t h communics I i t Ion the governor Strongly endorses I 1 he l glon He says, in part "I am exceedingly glud to give an official nnd personal endorsement or, the American Legion. It is quite hi ting that the flower of our young man-hjJOd man-hjJOd should now band themstdveB to gether io perpetuate the principles for ' which they fought, bled and died in order that democracy nii-ht lie I COn9deV that the legion offers itself as a solemn obligation of good -ti. n ship, for former -er ice men in our na tional life, the rugged 1 On per ceni Americanism whicb means so much in ther.e troublous times." |