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SKETCH HISTORY OF V. F. W.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is just what its name implies-an organization of men who, like the Crusaders of old, have followed the Stars and Stripes into Foreign climes, and brought the faith of Washington and Lincoln unto for- eign tryants and, despots-men who have proven their patriotism by the of- fering of their mortal bodies and im- mortal souls in sacrifice that liberty should not perish from the earth, and that American ideals and institutions might be preserved for posterity.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars is a permanent organization. It will con- tinue as long as it is necessary for American citizens to defend the faith of their fathers against foreign ag- gression, and uphold these principles and ideals for which the heroes of '76 risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in establishing the nation.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States resulted from the amalgamation of several societies formed immediately following the Spanish-American War in 1899, little groups of veterans returning from campaigning in Cuba and the Philip- pine Islands, founded local societies upon that spirit of comradeship, known only to those who have faced the dangers of war side by side. Sim- ilar experiences and a common language drew them together. The American Veterans of Foreign Serv- ice was chartered by the State of Ohio on October 10, 1899. The Colorado Society, Army of the Philippines, was organized in Denver, Colorado, De- cember 12, 1899. Shortly thereafter, a society known as Foreign Service Veterans was born in Pennsylvania. These organizations grew up side by side, increasing in scope and mem- bership until 1913, when at a conven- tion held at Denver, they merged their interests and identities in a national organization known as the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
This new organization immediately took its place among other National Societies of Veterans. At the close of the World War, younger veterans re- turning from Europe joined by thou- sands. The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States immediately be- came the second largest service men's organization in the country. It has posts in every state in the union, in the Canal Zone, in the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippine Islands, France and China. Every member is an American citizen who served in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps under actual campaign conditions.
The V. F. W. is an organization unique in its eligibility requirements. To join its ranks, a man must be able to produce an honorable discharge from the Army, Navy or Marine Corps, showing "Service honest and faithful" in time of war in the theater of operation. Those venerable men who served in the first Mexican War of 1846 and who survived from that far distant day until just re- cently, are among those whose names occupied a place of distinction on
V.F.W. rosters; those who campaigned in Cuba with Roosevelt and Schley; in Porto Rico with Miles, and in the Philippine Islands with Dewey and Funsten; who captured the walled city of China with Chaffee in suppressing the Boxer Uprising; who pacified the hostile Moros in later campaigns, and who have brought peace and security to those turbulent countries which rim the Carribean Sea, and the veteran's of that mighty army who went "Over There" to break the Kaiser's strangle- hold upon civilization, compose this unique organization.
Why do we limit our membership to those who have served in our count- ry's foreign wars and campaigns? Other organizations composed of ex- service men represent but one war or campaign. Being so limited the mem- bers pass on, and the organization be- comes but a memory. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, having within its ranks today men who have served their country through more than thirty years of American campaigning, is destined to live as long as it is nec- essary for our country to defend its rights and maintain its integrity through force of arms. They are men who know what battle means. They are believers in preparedness to the end that the young American man- hood of this or future generations shall not be sacrificed needlessly, should an emergency arise.
While we limit our membership to those who have seen "overseas serv- ice," we have never limited our activ- ities. Throughout our existence since 1899, the Veterans of Foreign Wars has been ready to go to the front for legislation, either state or national, designed for the aid and benefit of soldiers, sailors and marines and their dependents, regardless of when or where they served.
In our membership requirements we really make no distinction. We mere- ly recognize one that already exists. Our government has always recog- nized this distinction, as well as all other governments which have existed since civilized governments have been organized. All governments have rec- ognized military service at the front by the award of some medal or other similar honor. Our country, by the issuance of a campaign badge and battle clasps for the Victory medal, has also recognized this distinction. When the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States limits its mem- bership to men who have been awarded a campaign badge by the government of the United States, it does not feel that it injures anyone any more than do those organizations who accept into membership all who wore the uniform in some particular war, and that recognize a distinction between the men who served in uni- form with the colors, and the patriotic citizens, who, because of age or other disqualifications, were unable to serve with the colors, but who perhaps gave equally valuable service in civil life.
The basic principle of our order is conmradeship-the kind of comrade- ship that exists between buddies at
the front-practical and sympathetic and devoted to the welfare of each other and the cause that represents the common good for citizenship in general.
We maintain a National Americani- zation Committee, which functions to inculcate the doctrines of patriotism in the hearts young and old among native born and aliens alike. The com- mittee has a director and staff, with offices located in New York City, and the work goes on throughout the year in schools, among the alien popula- tion and especially in communities throughout the country where there is a large foreign language element. It was the Americanization Committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that first launched and then successfully promoted the movement to make the Star Spangled Banner the official nat- ional anthem of this nation-to be so preserved and respected until the end of time.
We have built a National Home for widows and orphans of ex-service men at Eaton Rapids, Michigan. The Home functions on a system of small "building units" and individual homes designed primarily to preserve the family group and to keep mother and children together whenever possible. In such cases where an ex-service man is disabled to such an extent that he cannot support his family, arrange- men'ts can be made to care for and educate his children so that they may not lack the opportunity of becoming intelligent and useful citizens. As our plans mature, this Home will become a community of young Americans, each one the child of a soldier, each one to go forth educated and trained for a life fully inbued with the ideals of American citizenship such as their fathers fought to defend and perpetuate.
To the country at large, the Veter- ans of Foreign Wars of the U. S. pledges its efforts toward the preser- vation of American ideals and tra- ditions, with a program designed to support every movement in behalf of higher standards of patriotic citizen- ship. To the prospective member who is eligible to join the ranks of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, we offer a four fold program-one that embodies rehabili- tation of the veterans, through legis- lation and service unselfishly ren- dered; child welfare, with a practical method of providing for the widows and orphans of our deceased and total- ly disabled comrades; Americanism, based on a sane and practical founda- tion that encourages respect for the constitution and its principles of equality and freedom, and a spirit of comradeship that is understood only among those who have survived the same dangers and made the same sac- rifices on the altar of American pat- riotism. If you are a veteran, with a record of overseas service in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps, you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, your comrades and your country to become a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
PROGRAM COLORED DELEGATION STOKES-ALEXANDER POST No. 2227 V. F. W .- HOSTS Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2227 WE
FRED HICKMAN Colored Chairman
Saturday, August 26th 8:00 P. M .- 12:30 A. M. Entertainment for guests-Liberty Hall, N. 8th and W. Walnut Sts.
Sunday, August 27th
11:00 A. M. V. F. W. Services in following Churches: St. Marks A. M. E., 1517 N. 4th St., Rev. R. E. Wilson, Pastor Calvary Baptist Church, 1717 N. 4th St., Rev. S. J. Williams, Pastor St. Matthews Church, C. M. E., N. 6th and W. Walnut Sts. 3:00 P. M. Entertainment Liberty Hall, N. 8th and W. Walnut Sts.
8:00 P. M. 34th National Encampment Memorial Services, Milwaukee Auditorium 10:00 P. M .- 12:30 A. M. Entertainment, Liberty Hall
Monday, August 28th 8:30 A. M .- 12:30 P. M. Reunion, Stokes-Alexander Post No. 2227, "Dugout," Liberty Hall 3:00 P. M. 8:30 P. M. Band Concert Entertainment
A Home With Children Needs A SECOND BATH
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Compliments of LEO A. O'REILLY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Germantown, Wis.
V. F. W. FLY
While in Milwaukee Special Priced Airtours A complete Airtour over Milwaukee, see our parks, harbor and Lake Front, convention hall, famous Lake Drive, downtown section, and many other places of interest.
35 MILES $1.50
Milwaukee and Land O'Lakes tour. Above Airtour and in addition, a trip to the famous lake district where a beautiful group of lakes, towns and farm lands will be viewed from the air.
95 MILES - - $5.00
Charter Trips available, anywhere, any time.
Transportation to and from Airport included in tour prices. Prices based on a party of five. See our representative at our booth in convention hall for further information. If your group numbers less than five, we can work up a party at our booth.
LARGE CABIN PLANES - LICENSED PILOTS MIDWEST AIRWAYS, Inc.
Wisconsin's foremost aviation firm Members of V. F. W. Phone Sheridan 3222
Compliments of The Outdoor Advertising Association of Wisconsin
Members located here, there, and everywhere throughout the state
"Veterans of Foreign Wars" We Extend OUR WELCOME TO YOU
If you drive to Milwaukee, let us take care of your car during the convention. Our special rates will please you. Complete service - washing, greasing, repairing, etc.
SIXTH STREET GARAGE
Phone MArquette 4567 732 N. 6th Street "Official Hotel Schroeder Garage"
WELCOME Veterans of Foreign Wars To the Hotel Plankinton MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Radio in Every Room-No Extra Charge Air Cooled Lobby and Coffee Shop
Tuesday, August 29th
8:30 A. M .- 1:00 P. M. Reunion, Liberty Hall 1:30 P. M. Parade Formation 6:00 P. M .- 12:30 A. M. Entertainment
Wednesday, August 30th
8:30 A. M .- 12:30 P. M. Reunion, Liberty Hall 3:00 P. M. Special Entertainment
6:00 P. M. Dinner-Honored Guests 8:30 P. M .- 12:30 A. M. Entertainment, Liberty Hall
Thursday, August 31st
8:30 A. M .- 6:30 P. M. Reunion 9:00 P. M. Grand V. F. W. Ball, Liberty Hall
Friday, September 1st
8:00 A. M .- 6:00 P. M. Reunion, Liberty Hall 8:00 P. M. Smoker
AUXILIARY PROGRAM TO BE ANNOUNCED.
ROBT. H. DENT, Chairman . Registration, for Colored Posts V. F. W., U. S. A.
F. W. HICKMAN Commander Stokes-Alexander Post No. 2227 General Chairman Colored Com- mittee.
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Chairmen of Committees
726 18
OLIVER C. REMEY Publicity
1853
C. M. SOMMERS Banquet
1691
E. L. DREYFUS Drum and Drill Teams
1691
L. T. BARNABY Entertainment
2304 MILW
M. OESTERRIECH Parade
BEN BELTER Cootie Parade
2304
EDW. MAJCHEZAK Registration
EDW. BUTLER Memorial
726 WB
EDWARD CROSBY Aviation
Chairmen of Committees
1912 WS
TOM TEARNEY Boy Scouts
1855
FRANK MILLER Information
23041
WALTER GRAJECK Badges
920 Ml
MILTON WENZEL Relief
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GEO. LEMPKE Printing
126
DR. B. C. KANE First Aid
726
GEO. NIENOW Signs
1853 WISE
EARL HESSLER Historian
726 WISCH
ERNEST KIETZMANN Lake Transportation
Chairmen of Committees
726
JOHN HOOD Music
726 MIN
DAN FULLBRIGHT Halls and Meeting Places
1690
H. B. WAGNER Military Reception
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BEN GETTELMAN Publisher, Reception
Jose
JOHN TRAYNOR Decorations
853 WIST
LEON J. DEALY Program
920 MIL
R. ZINDA Local Transportation
MRS. DORA KIRCHEN Badge
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Chairman of Auxiliaries
MRS. EMILY PISKE Gold Star
MRS. HILDEGARDE CLAUS Distinguished Guests
MRS. GEO. GRAHAM Gold Star
MRS. CLARA WICKERT Finance
MRS. FREDA JAMES Chairman
MRS. HATTIE ULLMER Program
MRS. MINNIE PLUNKETT Gold Star
MRS. ELIZABETH NEMITZ Drum Corps
MRS. ELLEN WARD Gold Star
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Chairmen of Auxiliaries
MRS. LUCY BEATTY Parade
MRS. LORETTA HIRSCH Nurse
MISS IRENE WARD Military Reception
MRS. MAUD BELTER Lake Excursion
MRS. ROSE AMOS Housing
MRS. ELEANOR DIETTERICH Train Transportation
MISS BESSIE PALMER Signs
MRS. BESS WILLIS Relief
MRS. LYDIA LEMPKE Printing
Chairmen of Auxiliaries
MRS. ERNA SEEFELDT Halls
MRS. MARGARET KIETZMANN Reception
MRS. ROSE HOCKING Drills
MRS. NELLIE SMITH Local Transportation
MRS. MARGARET BARNABY Registration
MRS. EVA FULLBRIGHT Information
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MRS. MINNIE HOLDMAN Memorial
MISS VIVIENNE HART Banquet
MRS. BERNICE TREMAIN Historian
: : V. F. W. AUXILIARY ::
Mrs. De Coe Forms New Auxiliaries
Consuelo Peart DeCoe first became identified with the Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States as a member of Ethel Lansdale Auxiliary to Lt. Lansdale Post No. 67, Sacramento, California,
CONSUELO PEART DE COE
shortly after the World War. It was not very long before her untiring energy and zealous activities were rec- ognized by her sister members with her election as Auxiliary President. In 1929-30 Mrs. DeCoe was elected Auxiliary President of the Depart- ment of California and Nevada. It was during her term as Department President that the Department of Cal- ifornia-Nevada took the prize for the organization of the greatest number of Auxiliary units formed by any one Department Auxiliary throughout the country.
Mrs. DeCoe's record of achieve- ments on the Pacific Coast won her the acclaim of the organization at large and at the 1930 National En- campment at Baltimore, she was elected National Conductress. Her vivid personality, and her executive ability won added popularity through- out the country for Mrs. DeCoe and at Kansas City in 1931, she was ad- vanced from the office of Conductress to National Senior Vice President- a meteoric rise in Auxiliary circles that was more or less extraordinary. It was in her home city in Sacramento in September, 1932, when Mrs. DeCoe was advanced to the highest office within the gift of her organization as National President.
Thus far during the first five months of her administration as Nat- ional President, the Auxiliary has in- creased its membership by leaps and bounds through the organization of new local units. On February 1st, a total of 120 new Auxiliaries had been formed since the Sacramento Encamp- ment-a mark that is 30 Auxiliary
units greater than the total ever or- ganized during the first five months of any previous administration.
Perhaps one of the main reasons for the success of the present National Auxiliary President is the fact that both Mrs. DeCoe and her husband have been intensely devoted to the activities of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for the past several years. While the wife was giving of her energies to the Aux- iliary, her husband-Darold D. DeCoe -was simultaneously sacrificing his time and labors in behalf of the par- ent organization. While the wife was gradually moving upward in the ranks of the Auxiliary, Darold D. DeCoe was meeting with similar rec -. ognition in the V. F. W. It was an interesting coincidence when Darold D. DeCoe completed his term as Com- mander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States at the 1932 National Encampment at Sacramento, while his wife was stand- ing on the threshold of her term as National President of the Ladies Aux- iliary.
MRS. FRANK KRAWCZAK Hostess
Sept. 2nd Named As V. F. W. Day at Fair
Delegates and visitors to the 34th National Encampment of the Vete- rans of Foreign Wars of the U. S., to be held in Milwaukee from August 27th to September 1st will migrate en masse to Chicago on Saturday, September 2nd.
This date has been set aside by the Century of Progress officials as
"V. F. W. Day" at the World's Fair.
Bands and drum corps that jour- ney to Milwaukee will also make the trip to Chicago for "V. F. W. Day." Special trains are to be routed on their homeward trips via Chicago.
When any one sees your V. F. W. Cross of Malta, they know you have been a good soldier.
HISTORY OF THE LADIES' AUXILIARY TO VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS U. S. A.
The department of Wisconsin Ladies' Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars was instituted during the 4th annual encampment at Manitowoc on June 20th, 1925.
At present there are 38 Auxiliaries in the State of Wisconsin. There are 7 in Milwaukee. Of the 38 in the State, Swanson-Williams was the first. It was instituted August 25th, 1921. Wausau was second, instituted in November, 1921. Superior third, January, 1922, and Eau Claire fourth, in March, 1922. And so on until the present 38.
In the city of Milwaukee, Swanson- Williams first, Runge Bros. second, Nowak-Plunkett third, Gerald George Graham fourth, George A. Ward fifth, Stokes-Alexander sixth, and Leslie Knutsen seventh. There is one colored Post and Auxiliary in the State, Stokes-Alexander, and it is in Milwaukee.
National President Consuelo Peart DeCoe and her Secretary, Grace H. Davis, visited Milwaukee on February 5th and again on May 7th. Work was mapped out for the forthcoming months to make the encampment a complete success.
Freda James was chosen General Chairman of the Auxiliary Encamp- ment committee. She is assisted by an advisory board consisting of the Department President, Mina Cashman, and the six local Presidents. She is also assisted by the finance committee consisting of four department officers of Milwaukee and Racine. Meetings of the ladies of the advisory board, finance committee and chairmen of the various committees, are called the first and third Thursdays of the month at the Hotel Pfister by Sister James.
BERNICE TREMAIN, Historian.
MRS. H. C. HANSEN Hostess
City Of Milwaukee Has Historic Beginnings; Growth Is Rapid
In 1 1673 Father Marquette and Louis Joliet, returning to the Mission of St. Francis Xavier at De Pere from their trip down the Mississippi, skirt- ed the West Shore of Lake Michigan in their canoes. Milwaukee Bay is distinctly marked on the map at- tributed to Marquette which was dis- covered in a convent in Montreal and is now in the Jesuit College in that city. La Salle and his party probably stopped here on their way south in 1679, and the name first appears as "Millioke" in the Jesuit Relations of that year. This and the numerous other variants were attempts to trans- literate the Indian name (meaning "good lands") of the village which the white men found here. The first Eng- lishman known to have visited the spot was the adventurous trader, Alexander Henry, in 1760. There is record of a French fur-trading post in 1763. In 1795 Jacques Vieau estab- lished a permanent post for the North-Western Fur Company, which he seems to have kept up until it was superseded in 1820 by one belonging to Astor's American Fur Company. Vieau built a dwelling and a ware- house and engaged in extensive trad- ing operations. In 1818 there arrived' a young Frenchman, Laurent Solomon Juneau (1793-1856), who married one of Vieau's daughters and eventually bought out his business. The settle- ment was on the direct line of travel from Fort Dearborn (Chicago) and Green Bay, and as soon as the Indian titles were extinguished by the treat- ies of 1831 and 1833 with the Menom- inees, colonists began to come to the neighborhood. In 1833 Morgan L. Mar- tin (1805-1887) of Green Bay explored the harbor, made a map of the place, and entered into an agreement with Juneau and Michael Dousman for its development. A sawmill was built in 1834. The east side was platted in the summer of 1835, and the west side a little later by Byron Kilbourn. The rival settlement, officially Milwaukee East Side and Milwaukee West Side, were popularly known as Juneautown and Kilbourntown. A third, called Walker's Point, was established on the south side by George H. Walker. The east side and the west side towns had bitter quarrels, especially over the building of bridges, for their streets, having been surveyed inde- pendently, did not come out at the same point on the river. They were separately incorporated as townships of Milwaukee County in 1837, but in 1839 united as wards of the same vil- lage, each one keeping complete finan- cial and administrative antonomy of its own affairs. Walker's point was annexed as a third ward in 1845; and in 1846 the three were incorporated as the city of Milwaukee, of which Solomon Juneau was elected the first mayor.
The first vessel anchored in Mil- waukee Bay in 1779. A Chicago pack- et entered the river in 1823. The first newspaper, the Milwaukee Advertiser, began publication on July 14, 1836,
and a public school was opened in that year. In 1839 George Smith and Alexander Mitchell established the Fire and Marine Insurance Bank, which for 40 years was one of the strongest banking houses west of the Alleghenies. Its note passed at par through panics under which even gov- ernment issues depreciated, and it financed the "Milwaukee" and other west railways. The first brewery was built in 1840, by Owens and Pawlett. Connection was established with Chi- cago by telegraph in 1849; by railway in 1856. About 1840 began a stream of immigration from Germany, which was accelerated by the revoluntionary movements of 1848 and continued for half a century.
In 1900, out of a total population of 285,315; 53,854 had been born in Germany, and 151,045 more had one or both parents of German birth, mak- ing a total of 72% who were either German by birth or of the "first gen- eration." The population of the city has grown steadily from the begin- ning. By 1860 it had reached 45,246, and the increase in successive decades since then has been 58%, 62%, 77% (1880-90), 40%, 31% and 22%.
Drum Corps Help Liven Up Things by
Norbert J. Beihoff, Mus., B. President of the Beihoff Music Co. and Director of the Beihoff School of Music
There has been a tremendous in- creasing movement in the organizing and developing of drum corps among the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The popularity and almost necessity of a drum and bugle corps can be eas- ily appreciated because it is the most valuable unit within a post, giving strength, unity, justifiable pride and a lasting comradeship to those within it and also to those who sincerely wish to increase the value of their organi- zation.
Action and life which produce the spirit of an organization are synony- mous with a drum and bugle corps.
Just visualize the many times dur- ing a year that a corps can put the finishing touch to a momentous occas- ion.
A drum and bugle corps can be or- ganized quite easily and without much of an initial expense. To start with, bugles can be purchased and also drum sticks, employing pads instead of drums to produce ensemble practice and develop technique. During the time of practice, many means of rais- ing funds necessary to purchase the drums can be arranged. Card parties, cooperation with shows, obtaining sponsorship or support of some inter- ested persons are various ways that
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