. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No. 51 (December 23, 1921)]. ercent enrollment inits community and during its exist-ence has procured beautifully-fur-nished quarters and established it-self in the community as an organi-zation composed of two-fisted Amer-icans with the welfare of the townat heart. Peterson-Cram Post wins the mono-grammed cigar. Organizing a civicbody to co-operate with when there isntany is getting toward the ultimate incivic activity. LAST week we printed a page ofphotographs of Legion bands. Howabout fife and drum corps, bugle corps,orchestras, and other post musical
. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No. 51 (December 23, 1921)]. ercent enrollment inits community and during its exist-ence has procured beautifully-fur-nished quarters and established it-self in the community as an organi-zation composed of two-fisted Amer-icans with the welfare of the townat heart. Peterson-Cram Post wins the mono-grammed cigar. Organizing a civicbody to co-operate with when there isntany is getting toward the ultimate incivic activity. LAST week we printed a page ofphotographs of Legion bands. Howabout fife and drum corps, bugle corps,orchestras, and other post musical out-fits? Can we get enough pictures ofthese to make a page? Send them in. DECEMBER 23, 1921 PAGE 13 Dances, Show Windows, Flags and Trenches.—Four posts in four States carry on with fourwidely-different ideas—but they all got are the things that keep the Legion be- fore the public, and help give it standing in com-munities. The live post is known by the dust itkicks up. A post never knows how good it isuntil it has been tested in the public Sioux City (la.) Legion-naires prepared thiswindow exhibition ofthe principal Germanimports into Americaduring 1917 and many German hel-mets are rusting inAmerican attics? Mostposts have a few per-sonally-gathered sou-venirs of this kind. Hand it to Victor Cand-lin Post, Greeley, Col.,for thinking up thisway to make $850 at acounty fair. The trenchsystem (below) led to awar museum. Barbedwire, dugouts and duck-boards lent Governor of Colo-rado was one visitor(below at right). Above is a glimpse ofthe Ernest T. Birch Postand its Auxiliary en-gaged in rattling thefunnybone of its hometown, Milbank, S. a dress-up affair,with dancing, cards,other games and a ban-quet. Is it any wonderthe post has 225 mem-bers and the Auxiliary125? Most all Baltimore tooknotice when the Auxil-iary presented to theUnited Railways Post astand of colors. Thewomen obtained fundsfor the colors by giving acarnival. A
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