Show CAMPAIGN FOR membership indianapolis h lud iru may 16 th the A american ree rican Ie giona campaign ampa ign for or anh membership will willil start tart monday may 17 1 throughout the nation ampro xi posts of the organization will work simultaneously and I 1 it la is elpe expected e ted that on one million new nev members wi will I 1 I 1 be gained to in the th campaign this would give a total tota of two and on one half million arl 0 mum hers bera to the american america agi legion n T the he national head headquarters liner bernu of f the th or niza tion here has received assurances from every one of the forty fort nine departments of the country countr that they are completely organized and are only awaiting the date se eel for the opening ot of the campaign I 1 in anthe the macor majority y of states state guy gov erners have proclaimed this thia week a BE AMERI AMERICAN CAN LEGION WEEK the acal active en cooperation perot ion of the red cross Y M C A K knights kights of 0 columbus core community service incorporated rat ed and the salvation army lids h been obtained end and persons prominent antin in ail 11 balka of life t the country have united in ondo ising the legion and ita it campaign As aa a matt of fact the great american public has haa been eager to support the legion in this schmitt and oil has c cooperated iterated with the same enthusiasm elii exhibited baited in various liberty bond campaigns even though shaugh the public will not be called upon to contribute money A special effort will be made locally and throughout the nation to enroll ex BE service men and worn e en n who abw always have intended to join the legion but have put of doing so the financial obligation of belonging bellizin g I 1 la very slight alight espe eapen lally when organizations such as the I 1 W ware W are considered whose d dues te are twice taice those of the american legion lg i on and rd of the communist party of aril america that usually re 9 adires ca st lio 0 campaign the le legion won be haa in made a de great steps in the fe few mouth months of it its existence in g gaining a ining the affection and res pe hect t 0 of f the by average 1 raze american in cooperation wit with other agencies it to is working along a broad scheme of americanization designed to in terest lerest the foreign born lo in no numerous met crises such as aa note nota and dis a asters star I 1 the members of 0 the legion have shown themselves first in ID work ing to alleviate conditions that tha t the organization la is not a believer in direct action has been demolat demonstrated rated by such buch instances as aa the massacre af d I 1 ha ts me members in here at C Cent entrails raila washington i ng t on is when hen the very comrades of these men prevented the crowd from asea assailing ling the members of the I 1 W W who fired the murderous shots the organization is nonpolitical been because use its in membership embraces embrace men of everli every shade of political opinion it has always refused to take sides in despu disputes between labor end and capital isa leaving to each in freedom alg of holes choice in the question it is a also I 1 nonmilitary non don military membership not affecting a man mans liability for military ml gitary service in any way |