Show I j I I Meeting Postponed Because of or the quarantine regulations prohibiting all aU public gatherings the an an- annual anI an- an nual election of or officers scheduled schedule for September was wu postponed as aa was waa also aWo the meeting of ot the Sons of the Legion The seventeenth annual national con con- convention convention convention of the American Legion will convene at St. St Louis Monday September lard Because e of the tremendous tremendous dous dotes membership strides this tW y year sr there will be 1308 1208 delegates delegate In the conven conven- convention convention tion hall hail and a ho host t of or Legionnaires from all fill over this country and from foreign nations Dr and Mrs W. W J. J Bardsley will attend att nd as delegates from the Department of or Utah The big ques qUell questions questions tlona will be the demanding of or an ade ade- adequate adequate quate national defence the universal draft and the taking the profit motive out of or war by drafting money as well as aa men The be demand that diplomatic rela rela- relations relations relations with the tho Communist Soviet gov gov- government government gov- gov government I be severed vered unless propaganda of or orthe the Soviet International in this country be discontinued The be immediate cash payment of or the adjusted compensation I certificates the remission of or interest charges on loans loana and without monetary inflation or other unrelated provisions The provision that no widow of a de deceased de- de deceased ceased service ex man shall hall be bo without some form of governmental protection We will probably look in to the loss of or lives live of Qt service ex-service men In la the convalescing ing camps campa on the Florida keys In the recent hurricane disaster We will re reiterate ye- ye reIterate iterate our faith in the constitution of or tho the United States and our demand for forlaw forlaw law and order We believe that assassination assassination assassination I tion la Ls a n poor way to settle a n. political dispute and that it lends leads the way to anarchy It would seem scorn that the world has made but hut little progress In govern govern- government government government ment since the time of or the Roman Itoman re re- re public It was wasat at the feet teet of ot Pompy's In the Roman forum torum that the dictator Caesar fell as ns Brutus plucked his cursed steel away and then began tho the downfall of or the ancient Roman em em- pire pine Of or all organizations the American I Legion stands for law and order and that abuses in our system shall be cor cor- corrected corrected cor- cor corrected I in an nn orderly order manner and with the machinery provided in our tion At this time Democracy is under I fire Ire and we can not be too careful of or our liberties Dictators are rampant in Europe The Greek republic is ready to fall and be bo replaced by a monarchy It j was in Greece during the time of Par- Par Parado ado acts the first republic was established With dictators and monarchs in power I there is no longer freedom of or speech of or the tho press and of or assemblage V. W. J. J BARDSLEY I Adjutant Post No 14 |