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_ 28 WILMETTE LIFE ........ May 18, 1928 COntract ·f or Hotel Rooms for Annual Legion Session The American Legion, in handling housing arrangement'5 for 100,000 World war veterans and members of their families going to San Antonio for the organization's national conven tion Octoher 8 1o 12, is carrying out a very comprcheJ1sive program which, it is J,eJieved, has never before been attempted fot a Jlational convention·. In sever(JI major respects. the plan being followed by the Legion differs from the ho'u sing program of the Repuhlican s for their national convention at Kan sa s Cit\· and from that of the Democrat.' for their gathering at Houston. a survey just completed re veals. The Legion. through it s convention 1 bureau. is entering into a definite legal contract for every room in all the hotels in the convention city. according to Philip B. Stapp, general com·ention director. Assignments are being made by the bureau on receipt of an agreed deposit, equa.l to the first day's charge. · Wilmette .Legion Notes ;....---------------' The coming week will be an active one in the calendar of the Legion auxiliary. On Monday, May -21, at 12 :30, members from the district will attend a luncheon to b~- given for the Department President, Mrs. E. D. En'ni-5. at the North Shore hotel, Chicago avenue and Davis street, Evanston. Mrs. Ennis is the wife of Lieut. Enni · a pilot in the air forces during the war. She has been closelv associated with the ~uxiliary ever since ;ts foundation. having come into her present office through succe3sive service as Unit President, district Committeewoman, and second and first vice president of the department. See dae wonder/111 newWestnnplay.. grounds in th~ South Dakota Blade Hills of Make This a 1/eal VACATION Chicago an'-a North Western offers you an incomparable variety of places to go and things to do. Let us help you plan your trip. On \Vednesday, May 23, from 1 :30 to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, members from the Wilmette unit will be busy in the auxiliary hooth at the Woman's Fair. Artic1es made by disabled vetThe St. Francis X a der Househ old erans will he on display in this booth Order of Martha will meet at the home throughout the week. and pamphlets of Mrs. George E. Tarnow, 126 Fourth setting forth the purpose and ideals of street. next Monday afternoon. the organization wilt be distributed. On Wednesday, too, in the evening. comes the long-heralded party at the \rVoman's club. the final social affair of the season for members and their friends. Mrs. George Bassler ha charge of ticket reservation5. Pivot bridge will be played. and a prize captured at each table. The committee promises some interesting "door prizes" as well. Fortunate indeed will be the gue st whose ticket i5 drawn in the raffle during the course of the evening. for the holder will he entitled to a lovcl~ hand made bed spread; the fateful pasteboards arc for sale by man y of the members. It is to be hoped that none of th c readers of this column missed the time ly and splendid editorial on the disahkrl ,·eterans in the \VTU1E~ LTFF: for May 11. The president of the local unit. Mr.. Arthur John·son. has been very interested in completing plans for Poppy Day. :May 28. Captains for the day. who are organizing the workers at the various selling stations are Dr. Bea trice Hawkins. and Mesdames Klebba. Van Inwagen, Hopp, and Bettinghau s. In looking forward to Poppy Day it is verv heartening to learn that a big work - is being done by American -; "Over There," where opportunity still offers. The national vice president. Mr5. Bessie Smith. in her recent visit to the local unit. related two such incidents which should help to estahlisl1 abroad a fairer opinion of a pcopk too often classed as "money getters." · She toM one American woman so J,!'rateful for her son's safe return. that she has bought a chateau in Francc where- she offers a horne for some 40 war victims. with faces so marred that· thev can never again 1ningle with thcir fellow men. And more! She spend" mucl1 of her timr among these men ,,·hom the world could not look upon . and makes fqr thf'm a real home. She told also of the "Trench of the Bavonets." where under the bombardmetlt a trench of soldiers with fixed bavonets was so buried that only the points of the bayonets protruded-a pathetic relic of the war'·s toll. About this spot ·some American has built an enclosure and there erected a fitting monument so that this trench become.; ~ miniature cemetery. sacred to all Americans because of the unkno\\·n soldiers who lie huried there. 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