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Show LEGION MEN WANT P. M. FIRED Lincoln (Neb.) Post Takes Exception ! to Government Official's Demand for Use of German. A resolution requesting the government govern-ment to relieve Henry C. .Tarms, post' master of Emerald, Neb., from his office of-fice was passed by Lincoln (Neb.) I'ost No. 3 of the American Legion, as n result of the postmaster's efforts to supplant the American language by the Herman language in a church of Emerald. The trouble started when the pastor of the church invited two Legion members mem-bers to deliver patriotic addresses in Ihe church. When the speakers appeared, ap-peared, .Tarms objected to their presence pres-ence and called for a vote of the congregation con-gregation to decide whether they should be ousted. It was the will of the majority that the Legionnaires should not be heard. After the vote, the Legion members quietly left the church. The pastor, whose invitation to the Legion men was made in an endeavor to conciliate the pro-German and American elements of his church in their controversy over the use of the American or German language, then took the floor and expressed his surprise sur-prise at the turn of events and left the meeting. In commendation of the patience of the American Legion members a Lincoln Lin-coln newspaper expresses the following follow-ing sentiment in its editorial columns col-umns : "The policy of the Legion to send speakers to address meetings on invitation in-vitation only and to teach Americanism American-ism by example rather than by force, has everything to commend it. The small grpups of unassimilated for eigners in this country can readily be curdled into compact masses by hate. On the other hand, they can be dissolved dis-solved in time by patience and friendship. friend-ship. The American Legion is honoring honor-ing the name it bears when it adopts the la tter course." |
