Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-30 | Page 6 | Legion to Seek New Members

LEGION Tl SEEK MEIERS Drive Will Be Held Through-j out State From May 17 to May 28 With the formation of plans yesterday yes-terday to inaugurate a campaign by the Utah American legion to secure IS, 000 new loglon members during the period from May 17 to 2S, Ogdpn Is assured tho biggest delegation In American legion history, during the State convention which will be held hero May 30 to June 2. Plans for tho big membership drivo were made following tho return tn Salt L,ako yostorflny of John IToldcn, stato adjutant, from a con- feroncc of Btnte socretarJeH In Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, who announced that similar campaigns would be hold throughout tho United States. Tho drive will add 1,000,000 members mem-bers to the 90Q0 legion posts throughout through-out the United States. and territorial possessions, If. plans arc realized, llolden llol-den says. Latest returns from posts show that one and one-half millions porspps now hold membership cards. . With the addition of 1,000,000 members to this number the American Ameri-can Legion will have a majority of all men who served during the great world war. Although the legion is less than fifteen months old, It has boon estimated the present dally membership averages of the organization organiza-tion is 3000 persons. Direct appeals to individuals will be the mothod adopted to reach prospective pros-pective members. Mr. llolden says. Discharged soldiers will be asked what the government Is doing for thom and what they require. Tho greater their needs, tho more ready tho legion will be to annex them to Its fold and see they arc served, according ac-cording to the adjutant. Radicalism and kindred tendencies will be hard hit .by the result of tho drive, say those in charge of it, for every man who joins tho legion is a direct blow at Bolshevism and wobbly wob-bly doctrine. John llolden attended tho national convention of the I. W. W. recently held' in Chicago, and declares numerous numer-ous ex-soldiers, still wearing uniforms, uni-forms, wore in the assemblage. Those especially arc tho men itho legion wants to reach, that they may bo won back to the precepts of good government govern-ment and Americanism.