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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1929)
CORVALLIS ON ii TO NETS AVilhycombe Post Sends Big Delegation to Guests Of This City CORVALLIS, Aug. 7 Withy eombe Post No. 11, Corvallis, will be at the state convention lit full force with five delegates and five alternates. Many other members of the post will attend during the convention. The CorraHls drum and bugle corps, uniformed and equipped durlg the past year, will compete in the drum corps con test Fridav evening and will ap pear In the parade Friday morn ing. Corvallis post is also enter ing a golf team, in the convention tournament. The service men of the college town have followed the communi ty service program as outlined by the state officers, and signal ac complishment have beea com pleted. In his annual report to the state department, Captain II. Lester Barrett, commander, sub mits as the post's greatest achive ment, the instilling in the mem bership of the post, their respon sibility as Legionnaires to their community as citizens. This has been accomplished through a dsfl nlte nroeram of service work throughout the year. Captain Bar rett says, which has kept the col lective and Industrial mind of the post on service work. Many Activities Included This program has included such activities as the annual Legion Air derby at Corvallis, including sponsorship and improvement of the airport there; the conduct of a successful Automobile and Indus trial show, in the absence of a county fair in Benton county; the complete equipment of the drum and bugle corps as a community advertising factor; the acquisition of a permanent home for the Legion for the express purpose of binding more closely the post membership in continued commu nity service work; and the crea tion of a substantial fund for playground equipment and main talnance on the various school rounds of the city. The Corvallis post membership numbers 277, against 176 last year, and over the top on the al lottment of 210, the quota given, the post by the department at the beginning of the year. Delegates Picked Confab Delegates to the Salem conven tion here Thursday, Friday and Saturday are : Captain H. Lester Barrett, commander; Dr. Floyd C. Rowland, commander for next year; Francis Ziegler, immediate past commander, John Bauer and E. K. Weston. Alternates are Roger Q. Mills, Sandy McHugh, A. L. Keenev. Daria Straw, manager of the drum and bugle corps, and Arthur von Lehe. Members of the golf team from Corvallis are C. G. Blakeiy, winner of the state Lions club tournament at Tilla mook, captain; Carl Lolell, E. G. Queensberry and William J. (Bill) F OFFERED TO CORPS No less than four trophies In addition to the cash awards of 200 have been provided for hon or winners in the big legion drum corp competition Friday night. The Clifford W. Brown trophy, a cherished momento to Salem le gionnaires who knew lta donor and who previously held the cup nere, goes to the drum corps scor ing highest in general competi tion. The trophy is now held by Portland Post No. 1. The trophy offered by the Sie-kerling-Lucas company of Portland Is to be awarded to the corps mak lag the best score in the musical division. This trophy is now held try Capitol Post No. 9. The trophy offered by the Beal y Military academy goes to the corps making the best score in tke marching section. This trophy is now held by the Calvin Funk yest of Cottage Grove. To the best drum major in the contest goes the Abrahamson tro--a-ay which is now held by Ray C. 'Williams of the LaGrande post, who won the honor in 1928. When setting annual plants, dofxlt make the mistake of hap hazard planting. Plants should not be plant. (1 any old way, but ---h hi carefully arranged. '-it- together that will dash with each other. OUR inDPHIES ARE May I ou Have A HOT TIME '. - . . in the Old Town Tonight and every night Httlman Fuel Company Salem's Heat Merchants Help For Service Men Great Motive In Legion's Work Development of Good Citizens, Help for Boys in Community, These are Among the Aims of Great Organization It Is not uncommon to bear some well meaning individual ex press some such idea as "Why an American Legion?" They will expain that the war is over and the sooner we let that part of our national activity become his tory and cause its grim terrible ness to be eased by forgetful, ness the better off we will be. And they will add that about the only thing the legion is good for is to get the men who served in the World war together regular ly and keep the idea of war alive in their consciousness. These opinions may be sincere bat they ara erroneous, and like all such opinions they are based upon Ignorance and are appall lngly unfair. The American Le gion has a tremendous work to do and it is doing it as it fought the war saying little either be fore it acts or afterward. No one has eevr been much annoyed by long tales of bravery and achieve ment told by the men we know who helped to fight to regain world peace. If we found out about what they did we had to work for the information. So with the Legion it is not adver tising its activities. Hard Lessons Learned What it Is doing' is attempting to put to good advantage some hard learned lessons which came as part of the heritage from the war. For instance Its members learned that the majority of American men are not physically developed to withstand galling tests for physical strength; they learned that for all our vaunted education an astounding number of our men- were sadly wanting In that basic demand of any re public; they learned that while there was a creditable showing of war time patriotism there was not sufficient deep.seated under, standing of the needs of national life on the part of the "mass" to insure his peace-time working to- wacd the best interests of the na tion -and the ultimate develop ment of honorable peace among nations. The legion has termed this last short-coming a lack of Americanism." Most vital of all, they learned that the untouched brother will remember while service is needed perhaps he will remember but that when the excitement is over and serveces are no longer needed those who got hurt In the melee are very apt to have to fight for attention when they need it. Therefore we find the legion pushing hospitalization and reeonstructhion for the luck less veteran "buddies". Hospitalization Carried On The great American public has dismissed the war so completely from its mind that it fails to re ali2e what the American Legion knows that there are in veteran, special veteran, and civilian hos. pitals for the year ending in June 1928, 25.899 buddies as In con trast to 25.310 the year before. When the figures are announced for this year the number will be still larger. The public does not know that these hospitals ad mitted for examination and treat ment, 73.270 World war patients during the past year and that over 1,099,803 complaints for compensation have been filed which would compose about 20 of all those men who served in the American forces. Neither does the public know that during the fiscal year end. ing June. 1928. $2,542,103 bad been paid to dependents of 85, 634 veterans who died In action or in hospitals since the war end ed. "What has the American Le gion to do with this?" Well, it has a committee in every post in each of the 48 states whose sole business It is to look after get. ting the proper attention to the service men who need aid. Government Aid Supplemented True, the government has es tablished a large and expensive system, the veterans bureau, to care for these conditions. Yes, and the government has extensive prison Inspectors, and commit tees to care for prison conditions, one of which is overcrowding, but. its largest prison, Leavenworth, has had over 3000 Inmates when it was only, equipped to handle a The little over 2000 It took a riot to bring conditions to ISeht. The government does about all it can, but it represents the lay. man and if the layman does not assist neglect follows. The Le. gion simply assists the eovem. ment and attempts to eliminate as much neglect of the deserving as possible. Why an American Legion then? The answer seems evident. Its members are lovalW nrnmnt. Ing for the good of the country wnat they have found needed. Health Work Augmented Health Is emphasized through supporting In every wav Dossihle such movements as the Boy scouts, and the Junior baseball leagues; children of dead or dis. abled veterans are educated through the aid of scholarship funds; Americanization ha3 been emphasijed in the work of indiv. idual posts over the country to promote the assimilation of the foreign born, for active commun ity service, for the whole-hearted support of such progressive measures as .promotion of "air mlndedness," and similar other activities. What the American Legion does is to fall in step with the best and the most needed meas. ures of the nation and then push as well as step. Its conventions may not be perfect for it is a large organiz ation whose only requisite for membership is that said applicant has been a duly qualified member of Uncle Sam's fighting forces during the World war Service has naught to do with It so far as membership is concerned. Mishaps are not the standards for Judgment however, but rather "by their works shall ye know them" and the Legion's "works" speaks for itself. SALEM IS BLESSED IN ANNUAL Salem is blessed with an even rainfall, not excessive but ade quate for most crops. In some parts of the valley irrigation is being carried on to assure a can- stant supply of moisture for growing crops. West Stayton Is the center of the Santiam Irrigation district and scores of carloads of veget ables are raised and canned in that vicinity through the use of the water which thiS system af fords. The average rainfall in Salem is 37 inches, about the same as Kansas City and St. Louis. The rainfall is lust a. liitio m -,-, Chicago and considerably less man isew iorK uity or Boston. In only two years in the last 62 during which statistics of temper ature have been recorded locally, has the Willamette river been frozen over. The first time re corded here was in 1861 and the next In 1923. Don't forget to clip the edges of the lawn and flower beds. Nothing looks as untidy as poorly kept edges along the sidewalk around trees, and along the beds! When' the lawn is mowed, the grass should not be dropped if the grass is tall. Don't drop the grass unless the crop is light or the lawn is mowed twice a week. Don't forget to sweep the walks after mowing. OREGON STATESMAN. SakraC Oregon, Tuesday Morning, BUSY. PROGRAM ITS CROWD Wide Range of Entertain ment Provided for Visiting Guests (Cont'd, from Page 1, sec. 2.) reports and addresses. The com mittee on selection of the meeting place and time for the 14th an nual convention will make its re port as the chief business of the meeting. Convention committee will also report, and then the meeting will be given over to ad dresses by distinguished guests and visiting department officials. The meeting will adjourn at 1:50 o'clock. Other events arranged for the morning hours include the bowl ing tournament which Is to g.et under way at the Winter Garden, 333 North High street, at 9:00 o'clock, sight-seeing trips from 10 to 11 o'clock, cars to start the tours from the armory, and more post stunts on downtown streets beginning at 11 o'clock and last ing until noon. Sports in Afternoon . In the afternoon, an unusual feature of the sporting program, the state championship junior baseball game, will start at din ger field, 14th and B streets, at 2:30 o'clock. Stunt finals for sur vivors of the poet stunts held downtown Thursday and Friday mornings also will be held on the field at this time. The Auxiliary . glee club contest will take many cohorts of each auxiliary to Waller hall, on the Willamette university campus, at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Spectacular event of the entire three-day session and the one which is Invariably synonymous with legion conventions, comes at 7 o'clock Friday evening. It is the drum corps contest, to take place on dinger field. A pretentious display of fireworks will add to this exciiing occasion. Public dances from 9 o'clock on and midnight matinees at the Capitol and Elslnore theatres at 11:30 will be held again Friday night. And for Legionnaires who haven't yet called it a day, an in formal parade will form at 12:30 a. m. on Liberty street at the ar mory- "Come as you please" Is the order for the latest or ear liest event on the program. Convention Parade Feature Election of officers Saturday morning and the convention par- j ade Saturday afternoon will be the particular feature of the fin- j al day of the confab. Program for i that day will get under way at 9 o'clock In the morning with the closing business session at the capitol. Order of business follows: advancement of colors, invocation, report of trophy and awards com- ; mittee; addresses by distinguish-! ed guests; unfinished business; election of officers, including: del egates to the national convention al Louisville, department com mander, department vice-commander, department finance offi cer, department chaplain, nation al committeeman to serve two years, and department executive committeeman, seven to be elect ed. Following retirement of col ors and benediction, convention adjournment will be taken. The bowling tournament start ed Friday morning will continue Saturday, beginning at 9 o'clock in the morning, and at the same hour the Legionnaires' golf tour nament will get under way at the Salem golf club. Sight seeing trips, cars leaving the armory, will be made from 10 to 11 o'clock that morning and at 11 o'clock the de partment commander will present trophy and prize awards contest ed for during the convention. Presentation will take place in the hall of representatives. The convention parade will be highlight of the afternoon, the scores of decorated entries to form on Court street at 2:30 o'clock for the procession east on 12 th street; The new executive committee giga. Welcome Lem LINE AT Md Ray Sfta&im GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION OR will hold a session at 4:30 o'clock and -public dances at 9 o'clock will complete the convention business and - entertainment. Sight-seeing trips to neighbor ing cities have been arranged for Sunday, automobiles to leave Sa lem at 8 o'clock that morning, for the visitors and delegates who are remaining over. Students Plane Crashes in Field CAMPBELLSVTLLE, Ky., Aug. 7. (AP) A barnstorming stu dent pilot's airplane crashed in the center of the business district here late today and the young flier and two Campbellsville bus iness men were killed. The dead are Francis Mitchell, 25, the pilot, Louisville; Carl E. Carter, 23, drug store owner; and Flave Courts, 23, clerk in Carter's store. TT T7 IT 77 T7 O O For Yoiuur Angnst 13, 1929 9LEE CLUBS TO I Waller Hall, on Willamette Campus, Scene for Rivalry The music competition .which is always a feature of the Amer ican Legion Auxiliary convention, will be held Friday afternoon, August 9 In Walier haH on the Willamette university campus-beginning at 3:30 o'clock. Both glee clubs and quartettes from the various auxiliary units wifl compete. Capitol Post unit of Salem will sing as a courtesy ! but will not enter into the compe tition. Last year this group won all-state honors but as the host T CONTEST Have a Drink On Us (Steejgoim - WacDnnffiig toim j Wattes SBeE'va So J 304 S Commercial 0 Gasoline ess group will not compete this year. Quartettes from Sheridan, St. Helens, McMinnville, Med ford and Hood River will vis for the Lytfia Horsfall silver trophy which will be awarded to the la dies' quartette Judged best. Official Number Chosen Each quartette will sing one number of Its own choosing while the state competition number is "-The Indian Mountain Song" by Cadman. The winning glee club will also be awarded a silver trophy. Each club is to sing a number of their own choosing while the competition number is "The Great Awakening" by Cramer and Barlow. The judges will be three prom inent Salem musicians, all expe rienced in Judging ensemble sing ing. In addition to the silver tro phies $25 in cash will be given the winning , glee club and $10 in cash to the winning quartette. onnmnres CALIFORNIA Both eompetitio numbers are particularly difficult and each competing group has been work ing for some time preparing to? the contest. Much is expected r: the Oregon group and the state competition numbers are far more difficult than those of tfcr national contest. The national quartette competition number is "Lassie o' Mine." Pacific Flyer to Get Flying Cross SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 7. (AP) Ninth area headquartr announced today that Captain Fi nest L. Smith, who, with Emory Bronte in July 1927, flew an a:i plane across the Pacific to i Island of Molokia, Hawaii, :; receive the distinguished flying cross for his achievement. Major Inderal Hines. commandant. wi'l 'present the decoration at a cere mony at Crlssy Field, Aug. 15.