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Show a mK R a h ' (THE AMERICAN LEGION A hc American Legion' doesn't take dSK stoc-k in Jack Dempsey, champion , J nWP Oi"tho world. .' Many posts in var- 1 iSp8feKSt country passed reso- p,x4BnqcoiieTranj? him because he never p v! it into service, or offered to fight for vf coanuy. I lie w: tter is of little interest to the average Logan man further .than it shows that loyal Americans are not going to t forget the slacker. We predicted while j the war was being waged that every eligi- I ble man who was not in it would some j day regret that he had taken no part. We i expressed sorrow for the boy who was j kept out of the ranks and contempt for j the man who dodged military duty. And j here we are, a little more than a year j since the armistire was signed con- j demning a prize fighter because he would not offer himself for service at a time when his country most needed him. The American Legion is fast becoming I if indeed it has not already become, the I greatest force in this country. It stands between us and anarchy; it is what we shall'havc to depend upon to save us from the perplexities that grow out of war. In j a few yeai's its members will be running ! the country in every sense of the word j "for they will be-in. charge of the great businesses, the banks, the lines of transportation, trans-portation, the farms and the shops and the newspapers. And it ought to be mighty omforting to us to know that the United States is not going to the dogs as long as these four million American Legion Le-gion boys are dominating. |