OCR Text |
Show Legion Making Ilrive For IVew Members The American Legion is enrolling enroll-ing members nationally at the rate that averages one for every 9 seconds sec-onds for 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. The enrollment of 3,326,556 in 15,975 posts averaged a member for every 10 seconds. This was announced here today i by Commander Nello H, Nielsen of Post 70 of th'S -A.mfli'cap.. Legion here as the local organizations , 1947 membership drive is coming to a close. The National 1947 membership quota of the American Legion is 3,979,174 and the local post's share of this quota is 50 members. We now have 45 so let's get busy and get a 100 per cent. The American Legion has grown into the worlds largest veterans organization because it is enrolling annually a majority of the servicemen service-men and women of World War I and II, Post Commander Nielson said. There is good reason for that. The American Legion offers the ideal vehicle to every war veteran for making his continued service to community, state and nation count the most. An Army Air Force colonel recently re-cently asked. Past National Commander Com-mander Lynn U. Stambaugh, what advantage would there be for me to belong to the American Legion ? . Stambaugh saw that the colonel was a strong healthy resourceful young American in full possession of his faculties and replied, "The American Legion has no advantages advant-ages to offer you colonel. You have come out of this mess with no disabilities. dis-abilities. You do not need the Legion. Le-gion. All the Legion could offer you would be an opportunity to' work your head off for the fellows who were less fortunate than you. in the outcome of their service. That's the kind of veterans the American Legion welcomes into its ranks, men who want to work their heads off for the welfare of their disabled comrades or the war widows, or the war orphans, of all underpriveleged children, for National security, for 100 per cent Americanism and for making their community a better place to live. In return for such service they will find the American Legion a good fellowship that can be found nowhere else and the satisfaction of being potent factors in building a better and greater America to make their own personal wartime sacrifices worthwhile. |