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Show HONOR TO CENTRALIA DEAD National Commander and Party Visit Graves of Legion Men Killed During Dur-ing City Parade. The head of the American Legion journeyed all the wiy to Centralia, Wash., to pay homage at the graves of the four men who were slain by members of the I. W.. W. last Armistice Armis-tice day. Two hundred Legion men and women accompanied Franklin D'Olier, their national commander, on his visit to the scene of the tragedy, and stood with bowed heads in Mountain Moun-tain View cemetery as he pledged the Legion to everlasting reverence to the memory of its martyred members. There was nothing of rancor In D'Olier's reference to the men who killed the peaceful paraders. But the speech served warning, as hundreds of other incidents of Legion history of the last year have served wanting, that the Legion is a wall of steel against all advocates of violence, whether they dub themselves "wob-blies" "wob-blies" or parlor bolshevists. "1 come here as to the shrine of the American Legion," said D'Olier. standing stand-ing at the foot of the grave of Wan ren Grimm, killed at the head of the Armistice day parade. "Centralia will mean to the Legion what Bunker Hill. Gettysburg and Chateau Thierry mean ro the nation. At these places, the spirit of America met the enemy and triumphed. Here, in Centraiia. the spirit of the American Legion likewise met the enemy of our country and triumphed.'' tri-umphed.'' As representative of the nearly two million members of the Legion. D'Olier D'Ol-ier laid a wreath of flowers on Grimm's grave. In the crowd were Grimm's old friends in Centralia and friends of Dale Hubbard, Ben Casngranda and Arthur McF.lfresh, who also were slain. "It is lifting that here today we should renew our pledge of patriotism and devotion to law and order and serve nntiHe on the forces of anarchy that more than four million ex-service men. who fought and defeated the foe without, are now sworn to fight to the death the foe within, who would work Injury to our sacred institutions. Our Inspiration shall be our martyrs and the restraint shown by rheir outraged rotnrades. By dedicating ourselves to the defense of our llag and all that It means, a defense based on fairness and justice, we shall nrove that our comrades in France ami Centralia have pot died in vain." j |