Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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i m .— «w-s THE 1L920 ElHF JBS (!% Anmiran ifoijtflu Many of the ex-service men, who make up a large percentage of the student body, of the School of Engineering, have subscribed to the principles, and become members of the greatest organization of veterans in the history of the country. The high ideals of the organization arc well put forward in the following preamble of the National Constitution of the organization. For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: “To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americanism ; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the great war; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation ; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.” At the time of the first national convention held in Minneapolis starting on Armistice Day there were more than one million members represented, ot over twenty-five per cent of all the men in the military service of the United States in the war. This was a very healthy growth for a youngster less than nine months old. The number of Legionaries in the S. O. E. is well over two hundred and growing like the Legion itself. Most of these members have united with the Sergeant Arthur Kroepfel Post, the first post organized in the state of Wisconsin. This post has been distinguished for it’s initiative and successful endeavors. Many of the students have taken an important part in the most success- ful activities of the Post and have done much to make it a success. The regular meetings of the Post arc now enjoying some form of enter- tainment at each meeting and in the near future a monthly dance is under consideration. A Ladies Auxiliary is being formed of wives, mothers, and sisters of the members. The members in charge of this organization are army nurses who are working hard to help promote the success of the fellows here as they were self sacrificing and heroic in their work “Over There.” The American Legion is rapidly coming to it’s own prominent place in the life of the nation and shortly it’s weight will be felt by those lukewarm and half hearted patriots and those who tried to interfere in the successful prosecution of the war. Duo to its efforts for the help of the wounded and disabled service men the “Sweet Bill” was taken out of the regular channels leading to stagnation in Congress and passed and made law. This and the much needed reorganiza- tion of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance which is now taking place are its first contributions to the aid of the ex-service man and are due directly to the pressure brought to bear by the American Legion. ---------d. m Page Four Hundred Forly-tz+o

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 % ... Sts' ' '-, ' -THE 1920 IMF' -.... ; order, adequately drafted and carefully scrutinized to make the administra- tion of the club as real as possible in comparison with the national affair that we arc to handle when solemn duty calls. We also maintain an information bureau concerning Far Eastern topics, problems, and questions of interest for the benefit of Americans with whom we are desirous to pro- mote international good will and cultivate better understandings. The club also invites visitors, Chinese as well as Americans, to our regular meet- ings for the purpose of hearing the other man's point of view and thus widen- ing the general fund of intelligence of the student. Considering that the club is only three months old, born on the 10th of last October, the 8th anniversary of the Chinese Republic, we have made no small amount of progress in establishing ourselves as an active body of stu- dents. We feel confident that the future of the Chinese Students’ Club will be assured of permanent success, but only as long as there are energetic young students forthwith coming to this city to replenish those who leave after graduation. And so from the insignificant gathering of a few students the Chinese Stu- dents’ Clubs of the United States have grown to something of importance', to assume the duties of a nation, to voice the sentiments of a pent up people, to be the forerunners of modern civilization in China, to be the torch-bearers for the enlightenment of four hundred million population. Truly, the Chinese students are destined to play a great part in the future years in the reshaping of China, and their success should be certain, for they are American trained! “FRIEND” He is not very much of a friend who has to be reassured about our every word and act. You cannot count on a man or woman who since last you saw him may have heard something about you that he is waiting to have dis- proved. No one is much the richer for the kind of friend who falters: “That doesn’t sound like him ; it doesn’t seem to me it can be true.” What we ex- pect of the few, the very few, whom any one can count as his true friends is an outspoken declaration such as: “That simply is not true. I know the man.” Now and then we are disappointed when we find that the feeling of some- one we have trusted and loved is not our feeling. It is a loss, but our poverty is nothing, compared with that of the man who has no friends in whom he trusts, from whom lie waits no explanation. To have no friends who trust you would be a pitiable case, but not so pitiable as to have no friends in whom your confidence is complete. J. C. H. Page Four Hundred Forty-one

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 ■THE 1920 EMF- - The high ideals and non-partisan attitude of the organization are and will make it’s attitude of great importance to the welfare of the nation to which it offered all, during the war. A. W. Merriam is now serving his second term as member of the execu- tive committee of the Post. P. J. Reinhart as chairman, ably assisted by F. J. Jutrash and Reimcr from the school made a great success of the entertainment committee, last year, in a short space of time they put over a very successful smoker, dance and several other interesting features'of entertainment. They also laid plans for several other entertainments which will bear fruit in the near future. For the new year many of the students are working for the good of the post on committees and in other ways. F. A. Ericsson, F. J. Jutrash and the other members of the new enter- tainment committee have started off with a rush, pulling off one successful dance, and having arranged for some form of entertainment for nearly every meeting of the Post within a month of entering on the work. They have many enjoyable entertainments in prospect for the coming year. THAT BLOODY WAR “I was a simple country boy And lived out on the farm. I never even killed a flea Or did any body harm. Chorus: That bloody war, That bloody war. One day the sheriff caught me. Says, “Come with me my son: Your Uncle Sammy needs you To help him tote a gun.” He took me to the court house, My brains were in a whirl; And when the doctor passed on me, I wished I’d been a girl. The local board says to us boys “What can you fellows do?” I say.s, “I’ll be the general. If it’s all the same to you?” They took me to-the train next day, The crowd it was immense; I never could get to my girl But I kissed her through the fence. Page Four Hundred Forty-three