Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-30 | Page 6 | S. L. Delegates Arrive in City

S.'L DELEGATES Vanguard Reaches Here for State Convention of American Legion Tho vanguard 6f more than 600 American Legion delegates and members mem-bers who will attend the second annual an-nual convention to be held here Monday, Mon-day, Tuesday and Wednesday, arrived in Ogden yesterday afternoon. The first convention arrivals wore fifteen delegates from the Salt Lake posts, who made the trip a day before schedule in order that they might visit Ogden canyon and othor points of interest before the opening of tho first session Monday afternoon at 2' o'clock in the Ogden High school assembly as-sembly hall. To Register Delogntcfl. Tomorrow morning the legion men are oxpected to arrive on every incoming in-coming train and plans have been made to take them immediately to tho convention headquarters in tho University club for registration. Immediately Im-mediately following they will bo assigned as-signed to hotels, rooming houses and private homes by mombers of the 'billeting committees who have ar-. ar-. ranged tho accommodations. 1 During the morning tho delegates i) and visitors will join with tho G. A. R. veterans, the Spanish-American war veterans and the Boy Scouts in a Memorial Day program which will be held on tho city hall lawn. Tho former soldiers will then go to the cemeteries, where tho graves, of the men who died In service will bo decorated dec-orated with flowers, banners and American Legion insignia. Mayor Frank Francis of Ogden will dollver tho opening address at the first session of the convention Monday afternoon. Business will then come before the mooting. Sessions will bo held also Tuesday and "Wodnesday morning and afternoons. President's Message. Prcsldont Woodrow "Wilson has sent a Memorial Day message to the Ogden members of the American Legion. The messago was received hero this morning morn-ing and follows: "Wo approach the annual celebration celebra-tion of Memorial Day with our hearts filled with tender and grateful memories mem-ories of thoso who have given their lives for America. The day has by custom cus-tom boon consecrated to the country's heroic dead. It is observed by thoso who were comrades In arms and who shared with the well-remembered i dead the experiences, the hardships, the perils and the glory of war; It Is celebrated hy the people of tho country generally who take it as an annual occasion to renew their loyalty loyal-ty to their country, and to draw fresh inspiration for the tasks of peace from the memory of the sacrifices which were made so freely in times of wax. The day is, therefore, filled with both memories of the past and inspirations for the future. It gathers the traditions tradi-tions of-what we have done in order that we may have courage for what we havo to do. Progress moves like an army; it has its days of training and preparation, its days of conflict and its days of vindication; it has Its campfires and its memories. To you who were soldiers of America in the great war f send affectionate greetings. greet-ings. What your arms have done for liberty in France your spirits will continue to do for justice at home,;' Great experiences make great -men and out of tho tragedy of th-fs tost a new, heroic quality haacome to American manhood. You,' represent it and your country's affection for what you have already done Is only equalled by its confident hope of the manly part you Afe still to play." WOODROW WILSON.