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Show FRIEND OF THE LEGION MEN Judga Kenesaw Mountain Landls of Illinois Demands Square Deal for tfie Ex-Soldiers. "The life of a Judge Is not all rosewater and violets," Kenesaw "f" 'ir? Mountain Landis, who recently rest re-st g a e d, swears, The virile Illinois ex-judge was used to being "between the devil and the deep blue sea," so many were the decisions he was compelled to give. Much of the latter lat-ter day vitality of this sturdy pi- toward getting a square deal for ex-. ex-. service men. Judge Landis has appeared ap-peared before scores of American Legion posts to speak for the cause of rehabilitation and reconstruction. "During the war I thought the people peo-ple of America were made over," he said recently, addressing the Blooming-ton, Blooming-ton, 111., commerce body. "Everyone got his feet off the ground. Everyone wanted to know, 'How can I best serve'? They gave bo that the soldier In the trench could strike his heaviest blow. But with the armistice, all this went down in cold-blooded selfishness. If this isn't corrected, we will have won the fight but lost the war!" Judge Landis, as baseball commissioner, commis-sioner, reinstated Joe Harris of the Cleveland Indians, ruling that his being be-ing gassed In the war caused him to do things that he otherwise, would not have done. |