League Secretary's Notes
THE YPRES TIMES
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parade generally was one of the most impressive
ceremonies ever seen in America and it is sug
gested by Capt. Henderson:Bland that a
ceremony of a similar nature might easily be
made an annual event in London.
PURLEY BRANCH.
The Autumn Meeting of the Purley Branch,
held on September 30th, at Coulsdon Court Golf
Club, was a great success.
Twenty-six members competed in an 18-hole
bogey competition and the winner was Capt.
L. R. Ray with a return of one down. Major
S. F. Wood and Mr. J.J. Mellon tied for second
place with a return of three down. Afterwards
a supper was held at the Club House, and other
members who had been unable to get down in
time to play joined us, and a very successful
evening followed. Capt. E. Featherstone, M.C.,
the Chairman of the Branch, presented the prize,
a good tankard named the Second Wipers Cup,
to the winner.
TO OUR NEW MEMBERS.
We are very pleased to welcome all our new
members who have enrolled during the last
quarter of the eleventh anniversary year. They
have joined us at a time when support is par
ticularly wanted, because the past two years of
depression calls upon us to double our efforts in
all departments of the League's work. How
ever, it is an encouraging sign, that such keen
interest is being shown by so many of the Ypres
warriors expressing the desire to join the League,
and in some cases to be allowed to pay their
initial membership subscription by instalments.
Of course, sanction is given, but naturally the
full membership fee must be received by Head
quarters before the issue of the coveted scroll
certificate, and before the League badge may
be worn.
We are anxious to thank our new members
for the help they have already extended, and
we trust that their support will be forthcoming
in our united efforts to make 1932 a success,
placing first and foremost, the important work
of recruiting. Membership forms will be gladly
posted on application to Head Office.
We ask our new members to make good use
of their copies of the Ypres Times by passing
them on to their ex-service friends with a view
to their becoming members, and we may add
that the Editor of this illustrated Journal is
always grateful to receive from any person,
whether a member or not, reminiscences, battle
articles, or articles of humorous vein which will
be of interest to readers of the magazine. We
hope that 1932 will bring you individually the
best of luck, as well as success to your work in
furthering the interest of the Ypres League.
TO OUR BRANCH SECRETARIES AND
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
In sending you our best wishes for a very
happy and prosperous New Year, we take the
opportunity to express our gratitude for all the
help you have given to the League in 1931.
The summary of the year's work, recorded in
the October edition of the Journal, is a com
mendable reflection on all who have worked so
hard. There has been a record number of tours
to the cemeteries and battlefields, and an ex
ceptional leap in the recruiting activities in this
country and America. The faithful promoters
of this work deserve our sincere congratulations,
and in anticipation of better times ahead the
results of 1932 may even reach greater
magnitude.
We have much pleasure in welcoming Capt.
E. Clarke Williams, F.S.A.A., who has accepted
the post of Corresponding Member for Heme
Bay. This gentleman has already armed himself
with a goodly supply of League literature and we
wish him every possible success in his generous
endeavours.
For work done during the past quarter of the
old year many are deserving of mention,
especially Mr. S. C. Allen Olney, who has
concentrated his attention so devotedly in
answer to the appeal of our late President,
F.M. The Earl of Ypres, by adding appreciably
to the strength of our Junior Divisiona very
necessary contribution, for it is the League's
duty to make the new generation remember how
their fathers fought, and to teach them the
lessons of the Great War. Boys and girls under
eighteen years of age who are lineal descendants
of those who served in the Salient are admitted
to the Junior Division. The subscription is put
at a shilling a year. May each new generation
as it comes along remember what Ypres
stands for and remembering, feel in itself the
will to stick up for the Right, and the power to
bring it to pass. That is the sure way to turn
the Great War into The war to end wars,"
and Mr. Allen Olney is at present our most
prominent stalwart in this essential branch of
the League.
In connection with our Travel Bureau,
difficulties during the latter period of the season
have been presented in the depreciation of the
and our travel guide quotations should have
justly been increased 20 per cent., but the
