Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1920 — THE AMERICAN LEGION. [ARTICLE]

THE AMERICAN LEGION.

•Indianapolis, Ipd., Nov. program for a state conference of commanders and adjutants of Indiana posts of the American Legion, to be held at Culver Military Academy Saturday and Sunday, November 6 and 7, will include an address by Major-General Leonard A. Wood, according to announcement by L. Russell Newgent, state adjutant. Approximately 500 Legionnaires will attend the conference. They will go to the conference at reduced railroad rates. , Commanders of , the state departments of Hli--1 no is and Ohio will be present. The first session of the conference, which will begin Saturday afternoon at 2:30, will open with music by the Culver cadet band. First call and assembly will bring the Legionnaires to attention, and they ’will sing “TTie Star Spangled BanI ner.”' The Rev. J, A. Lard, of Hebron, Department, chaplain, will ! give the invocation, ana L. P. Gig--1 nilliat, department commander, who ■ as commanding officer of the Cul--1 ver Academy, will be host at the ‘ meeting, will call, the Legionnaires to order. The afternoon .program ; will include discussions of Legion activities to be conducted during the winter and spring. Russell G. Creviston, assistant national adjutant, will lead a discussion of post activities, in which Philip B. Stapp, commander of the post at Greensburg, and Dr. Gregory B. Hunt, , commander of the Richmond post, will also take part. Post commandI ers will discuss membership drives, and action will be taken on a proposed state-wide drive to be conducted before the first of the year. ! Dr. John H. Gilpin, Ft. Wayne i post commander, and Ross HutchinI son, Arlington post commander, will lead a discussion on stimulation of post attendance and social activities. Frank McHale, Logansport post commander, and . Joseph D. O’Neal, Muncie post commander, will talk on plans for raising money for and equipping clubrooms. Plans for a state Legion basketball league and district and state tournaments to determine the statj championship, will be made following a discussion led by James H. Mason, of Gary, department athletic officer. Walter H. Unversaw, Kokomo post commander, will lead a discussion of auxiliary, activities. Plans will be made for a state auxiliary membership drive, and for the formation of a state auxiliary organization. A state convention for the auxiliary will probably be held in December. » At 7:30 p. m., the Legionnaires will witness a demonstration of the tableau and ceremonial to be followed by local posts in Armistice day celebrations for presentation of Victory Medals. Music by the saxophone sextet of the 150th Field Artillery, moving pictures of Indiana Legion activities, and three 3-round boxing matches .will be included in the program,‘which will close wiht a swim for the visitors. The Sunday morning session will open at 10:30 o’clock, with an address by Dr. Don D. Tullis, educational director of the M. C. A., who will talk on ‘’The General Scholarship fund of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A.” Judge Robert Marx, of Cincinnati, president of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, talk on “Service To Our Disabled Comrades.” Gerald J. Murphy, director of the‘national service division of the Legion will discuss a “Clean-up Campaign.” ' . T “ At 3 P; M. Major General Leonard A. Wood and F. W. Galbraith, Jr., national commander of thg Legion, will review the infantry, cavalry, artillery and aviation corps of Culver cadets. Exhibitions will be given by the Black Horse Troop and infantry corps in the gymnasium immediately afterward. The closing session will be held at 4:30 py m., when addresses will be made/ by Judge Raymond S. Springer, on "The Legion’s Americanization Program,” and Major General -W-oodjo Music by the Cadet band will close the conference. Miss Dessie hutherford returned to Monon todajr after spending the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Firman Rutherford. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Markin and" daughters, Elizabeth and Frances, who have been visiting with Charles Webb and family, went to today. . Omar Osborne, who is employed in the maintenance department of the Monon railway, spent the weekend here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Frank Osborne. He returned to Chicagd this morning. Edison Murray returned Sunday from Sullivan, where he had speijt a few days with his wife, who recently underwent an operation for the removal of her tonsils. Mrs. Murray remained in Sullivan and will visit relatives. Mr. Murray was delayed in returning home by the Illinois-Minnesota football game, which was played at Urbana Saturday and which he Judge William D.j Darroch of Kentland was in Rensselaer today and is reported to have told a very trustworthy citizen of this • city that Warren T McCray .is an honest gentleman, good neighbor and a worthy citizen and that it was a shame that the false statements bad been made, for file purpose of injuring the Republican candidate m his race for governor.