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Show LEGION FAVORS NATIVEJJIENT Foreign Singers and Artists, Veterans Hold. Receive Undue Attention AT'STIN' Texas. Nov. 10.The creation cre-ation of public opinion In favor ol American lingers and arl ist? as op posed to foreigners is ihe plan of the American committee of the Texas I department of the merican legion following recent authorization from j the legion state executive committee. Members of the committee ussert that hundreds of American artists, ! equal if not superior to foreigners, are without engagement because they have plnin Vmrican names which apparenily are not attractive to the music loving public, it is further stated that man American artists : are forced to adopt foreign nami j in order to appear upon the Anieil-can Anieil-can stage and that foreigners, whose ! ability It sometimes inferior to the 1 mericans, draw much larger sal- aries. The purpose of the American eon-niiitce eon-niiitce Is lo "acqualnl the public with the folly of tins discrimination" 'and to create a desire foi more j American singers and artists. The ! action w as taken following an ad dress to the committee by Miss Fior n Voorheea of New York, a rep-resentatlve rep-resentatlve ol the Music League or America. Concerts of ex service singers and other merican artists have been held under the auspices of the lesion In Dallas, Fort Worth, s.tn iitnn;.. Galveston and a number of smaller j Texas cities. oo |