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Show Love of Country Legion Film Tomorrow night, Saturday, "The Man Without a Country," will be screened at the Casino theatre, under un-der the auspices of Gunnison Guard Mount, Post 101,. American Legion. . , This picture, which is biting suit over the country through tho in-strumentlity in-strumentlity of the National organization, organ-ization, is proving one of the big features of the legion. The story jumps from the days of the world war back to the time of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and shows how patriotism is aroused in two men under two sets of circumstances. circum-stances. Arnold Daley, in the character of Thilip Nolan, is shown as a follower follow-er or Aaron Burr in the attempt to established an independent state of Texas, for the purpose of making war on the United States. Nolan, a lieutenant in the United States army, damned the United States and expressed the wish that he should " never see or hear of it again. The trial judges instructed that his wish should be his sentence. It was. Ar.d Nolan was sent aboard the Constitution, Consti-tution, the country's most noted battleship of that age, the early I ISOO's. He was transfered fro.n ship to ship, always at sea, and never nev-er allowed to see the' shores of the country he had damned, nor was l.c ever allowed to hear of it. With time came reflection. At first Nolan tried to treat his predicament predica-ment as a joke. But when the gravity grav-ity of it settled in his mind with the hunger for his country, his family, his sweatheart, who had been so faithful to him and whom he had deserted for the moment for a faithless woman he became a broken brok-en man, resigned to his fate. The j officers with whom he was associated associat-ed became more tolerant of him. silently pitying him. " And through a series of adventures adven-tures Nolan revealed his love of country. As an instance, when the Algiers pirates attacked the Constitution, Consti-tution, Nolan stepped into the breach and, fighting like a madman, saved the ship just as the pirates reached the powder magazine with flaming torch. He had proven then, and even before then, that he valued the honor of his country far above his life. He was a penitent patriot. He was commended by the commanding officer, worshipped by his associates; but, deserving as he was of pardon, they were honor bound to enforce his sentence. Not even then could they tell him what his eyes so dumbly dumb-ly plead for news of his country, how it was faring. Nolan grew to be a silent, palsied old man, a patriot among patriots, loving devotedly that which he had denied and damned his country. On his death bed he begged to be allowed al-lowed to kiss the flag, and the officers offi-cers had not the heart to deny his request. This story is in the form of a flashback from modern times when a young man has to choose whether he will serve his country or not. |