Show DRAWING CLOSER TO LEGION Public Is la More Interested In Members of Organization Commander Owsley Believes The American public Is drawing closer to the American Legion in the opinion of ot Alvin Owsley Legion national national national na na- na- na commander who has hils recently completed a speaking tour which carried car ned ried him into eight states Cuba and Panama I believe the people are arc more Interested Interested Interested In In- in the question of disabled veterans obtaining ample hospitals and sanatoriums for the sick and wounded than they ever eyer were before he lie said They are beginning to understand Understand understand un un- that the first duty of ot the United States Is to care for these defenders Commander Owsley Owsley- said that tho the stand of the Legion for exclusion of ot Immigrants and in opposition to those who preach radical doctrines had found Immediate response Other Legion policies which were met with favor by the public he said were the stand for a universal draft act under which capital and labor andall and andall all the resources of or America would be called for national defense support of ot the action of ot the French and Belgian Bel TIel- gian glan troops In occupying the Ruhr and war on profiteers Declaring that the Legion members are rising to responsible positions Inthe Inthe In Inthe the state and nation Commander Owsley ley Icy pointed out that three go governors four lieutenant governors four United States States senators and more than thirty members of ot the lower house In the theco of the Legion co congress are arc members |