Show american legion the local post of the american legion was in attendance at the funeral 0 of ralph crittenden at sunday ralph had been a legionnaire and died recently at the veterans hospital at salt lake city the body was consigned to the grave by the local post chaplain keith buck three volleys were fired over the grave and taps were ere sounded by wid bircumshaw the bugler A delegation ot of legionnaires tuesday visited the ex service mens plot la in the city cemetery cleaned up the place and some come of the graves of deceased ex service men in preparation tor for memorial day observance the post proposes to have tho the national emblem flying from the flagstaff on the legions plot on that day fifteen years ago the war to end war and to make the world safe sae tor for democracy was over since then democracy has been steadily loosing ground and a large part of the world is ruled by dictators and revolution Is in the air the preamble to the constitution of the american lesion is in part for god and co country u we associate ourselves together to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states benato mussolini and his black shirts are ex service men of the world war hitler and his brown shirts are ex service men of the world war the me republic of prance france in an des effort to hold the tx ex men in line to support the government has called maechel petain to the post ot of mint minister of war A comparable condition would be should we call gentral general pershing to the cs secreta 7 y of war the british commonwealths ol of democracies and the democracy of the united states are about all of popular government that Is left it if we e must have a revolution here the legion believes the same can be accomplished in an orderly manner and within the limits of the present constitution and by lawful methods the Ameil Arne lican can legion and the american federation of labor are the two most stabilizing forces on our body politic today they both stand for law and order and ana constitutional methods the legion agrees to safeguard slid and transmit to posterity the principles of democracy we ranst mist either uphold democracy or admit hyp by denying our own legion constitution in 1919 the legion was not the largest ex service mens organization in the field A society colled called the world war ivor veterans clairl clai ml a halt half million membership they claimed theer were amny things wrong in the world which Is true but they would correct by direct action irrespective it 0 ft f he be limitations limitation imposed by the united states constitution which of course would have been a blow to democracy well this organization faded tadad out of the picture the legion prospered pros perel and because of its success the country has tb the best insurance policy ever written W J BARDSLEY adjutant post no 14 |