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Show mfcm Copy for This Ix-p.i anient Supplied by the American LtoKii News Servlre.) WOULD "CLEAN UP" POLITICS Massachusetts High School Girl Choses Important Topic to Win Essay Contest. An appeal to the American Legion .0 "clean up" polities is contained In the essay of a high school girl which recently was awarded a prize In the Somerville (Mass.) post's competition "or the host article on "What Service ?an the American .Legion liender to :he United States?" Miss Eleanor Itnn-lall, Itnn-lall, the winner, makes tills suggestion sugges-tion : "When politics means graft, corruption, corrup-tion, and the attainment of selfish ?nds, then is our government debased, (t is the duty of the American Legion :o change this Interpretation of poll-tics,' poll-tics,' being careful meanwhile that the Mine is not played within the limits )f the organization itself. It must oust the grafter, wipe away the corruption, ind teach that the welfare of the gov-?rnment gov-?rnment should be first and foremost n the mind of every true American. These boys who fought in the mud In France must not allow the mud of corrupt politics to cling about this ireat nation. As fearlessly as they "ought in France, in spite of disagree-ble disagree-ble conditions, they must clear away the mire and show us to the world as .ve really are at heart a big-minded, idealistic people. "Thousands of foreigners coming to tur shores each year discover," Miss Randall continues, "that the 'streets tf gold' of America are covered by the nud of the slums and that their homes of happiness' are squalid flats in the tenement district. "Should it not be the members of the American Legion who should help the immigrant who has come to our chores?" she asks. "The United States has been rightfully called the melting pot' of all nations. After the melting who will mold? The men who fought for the democracy of the world are the ones best fitted for the task. They are the best guardians of those who hardly know what democracy means. Let them help the immigrant to understand and the down-trodden to rise and when this task is finished they will have rendered to their nation na-tion the greatest service in the history his-tory of the world." GETS OUT LEGION BULLETINS ! Miss Irene Harvan Who Prepares Orders Or-ders for Circulation Among Posts and Members. There is one young lady who takes it upon herself to get out all the bulletins bulle-tins and circulars from national headquarters head-quarters that reach 9.150(1 posts and 2.000.000 numbers of the American ' V I - ? I Miss Irene Harvan. Legion. This is Miss Irene Harvan, who transcribes and mimeographs such material after it has been approved ap-proved by Lemuel Bolles, the national adjutant. |