From the Ipswich Tribune September 4, 1930 edition
Legion is Subject of Lions Club Meeting
Monday September 1 was the date of the scheduled meeting of the Lions Club at the C & C Café.
Club songs were sung, with Mrs. Sam McCleary as pianist.
Lloyd Cronholm addressed the club on the subject of the American Legion. He related its history since the organization of the first post in Paris; told about the first convention in 1919 at Minneapolis when the constitution and by-laws were drawn up.
Today the Legion numbers a membership of two million people.
He spoke of their interest in developing civic enterprises, citing as an example in Ipswich, the raising of the funds toward the arch and the graveling of main street.
It is one of the strongest nonpolitical organizations in existence.
The three objectives of the Legion is to aid and assist in securing compensation for disabled veterans, to help in the education of children of disabled veterans and to establish the universal draft law. The Legion believes that the universal draft will tend toward universal peace. It is planned to have a commission appointed composed of a representative person from every walk of life and formulate a plan to place everyone in the country on an equal footing-the capitalist, the farmer, the businessman to be drafted so that no one reaps the benefits of war. If there are no profits there will be no war.
A challenge was issued by the Legion to play a diamond ball game with the Lions club at a joint picnic. The losers are to pay the expense of the picnic.
Haldor Bergan, high school principal was a guest.
Elmer Lass and Lloyd Cronholm was the committee in charge of the program.
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