Show I f Americas America's New Melting Pot I rr I I fHE consolidation a few days ago of off l I in Salt Sail the six American Legion posts f lake Lake Ink into one organization serves to again cal call call- attention attention- to the good that is being i. i done by the associations of former service servicemen servicemen men men In cultivating the spirit of Americanism American American- ism cm among their members 7 For this kind of work the American AmericanS f Legion most appropriately can be called 1 1 S Americas America's new melting pot and one whose 5 efforts in molding its foreign born members int into i patriotic citizens will have a lasting effect upon the nation Quite rec recently a comic comic- periodical conI con con- I tamed was intended as a humorous arti article le which declared that previous to Americas America's entrance into the world war an r Englishman could be found in an an establishment establish establish- ment conducted by another Englishman a aI i Frenchman ditto j and up or down the line f I of various various' nationalities the same conditions prevailed but that now all these men can Be fie found during the evening hours at American Amer Anier- lean ican Legion headquarters The sketch is not humorous at all becaUSe because because be be- cause it is in a large measure a fact and andI andone andone I one which conclusively proves that war associations associations asso- asso j- j and ad the struggle engaged in for the thep p purpose of insuring the world against the 1 imposition of despotism have imbued all j tho thOe of foreign birth or ancestry with a aI at t I spirit of pa patriotism and fellowship I t k This spirit undoubtedly was entertained by many of those of foreign birth or ancestry ancestry ances- ances ft try previous to their enlistment but they I i ha had little tittle opportunity and probably less encouragement encouragement en en- I F to display their feelings or lr voice their patriotic sentiments One of the results of the American 5 I Legion affiliations is a a decided disinclination Ito to make use lIse of the hyphen This connecting link of nationalities was shattered during t the war the war and very very few ew hyphenated Americans Americans' Ameri Amen tans cans now are in an existence Practically altof all alt allI I of the former ones now are straight out outI I Americans m s and will wilt remain such |