Show SWINDLERS IN UNIFORM ARE CONDEMNED BY THE U 3 government recently there has app appeared edred in the states a team 0 of f discharged soldiers who after aeto r fighting in the recon to uphold the dignity and principles of our hag flag and he united states s uniform insist upon belittling and desecrating dese crating the uniform bf b wearing it to arouse the sympathy of the public in general to 6 the purchase of unofficial un official and fake pham magazines magay ines etc in a majority of instances it at has been found that the nien men wearing the uniform for pedal ing hawking and panhandle panhandling pan handling handl 1 19 on the streets and from door 1 to 0 door are not bona bon a fide sold soldiers les but are using this method to take nefarious advantage of popular r sentiment this practice hajn ia jn direct violation of the th e national iiI g defense act of june 3 1916 and an d the offender to puni ment by fine of or im imprisonment not to exceed six months monta or both v jt the real american soldier i 8 absolutely and positively opposed to the use ot of the uniform fsr for commercial purposes because bedaub b the sight of a soldier peddling libi panhandling handling pan canvassing or csoll sol k citing in uniform creates ila thc fa lacious impression that he hai ha s i been neglected and ana is obliged J to resort to the public through tile patriotic appeal of his un uniform ifor to make a living As one exa service man puts it f there are arc crooks crook a and all d crool crooks buta boulb ill the emea meaner tibt 1 them all is tile the crook who 00 dis guises himself as a soldier and under cover of the glorious uniform or even an imitation of it swindles the patriotic with vario ous u s unworthy money raising schemes the war and navy departments are opposed to any such misuse of the uniform the american legion is oppose to it the public should not encourage it |