Show TELLS OF LEGIONS PROGRESS nations national commander command dot 0 oder makes clear chus wonderful work abc acc accod 1 in ay only OR ona year Addle ssang a large irge audience of members of the american legion and their friends I 1 la recently frank tin I 1 olier no na us A 1 command A er of the be amerl a can L legion gave s the following a ex of the sign organization R w A sad purposes purpose of at the d act team legion it as only Is a little A 01 er a vear go 99 i ID u lic A mc unit nil all were of who what t k kind ad t a veterans veteran n weAd we should audd lve live m corresponding acm Is to the GAR R and ad the ill confederate confect veterans let clumm erans we had bad all seen been the wonderful spirit of those in ID tile the service ice and a we thought it would be more mom tile titan unfortunate rotational if that spirit were allowed to die out art it therein therefore was decided to for form a griat gnat veterans vete at ians A organization to which el acry cry person would be eligible who be we was in bernce regardless of fietto 1 he were an officer or enlisted maa and whether he served in this country or r france r the movement was waa started on the fifteenth of tat last lear last a yen year ago go ia in a year a t time im from As that at eam small bei beginning an g it ft los has b become le an 11 or mith an sell organization organisation 1 in very every state stale of the union w wilh ith some borne 8 posts posta and a membership m cm berth p a ell over a million lion why is a it t that tile the american legion in n such each a short hurt time hill glow so 0 rap cap idly the lesson lenson 1 Is simply imply this stint at th i it t a was formed for far the purpose of atile that spirit of service which we 1 all I know knew about and that spirit of service Is ser service lee to our coun try and to act commit comrad ts W when re a were over we saw mu ourselves selve III uie radical tendencies 1 in france vic Q fhaid froni from officers corn lag ing from england of the radical ten denotes to in england and re ft e heard there ile a w was wl some I 1 concern or 1 in this imm coun t try ry a ns to what might hippie h ippen A when over four million me men we opre di sed oar tha first fire t service be 11 tender render to our coun try as Q civilians would sold be to see sea to it that this t p orMa eminent not tin this can country at that hint ve re m pento protecting against the A enemy we would world protect against the toes face within you yen have heard a great deal da about b t tile the stand of the american legion legar tor far law 11 and 11 order that it stand lot for law a w and order orde has done me more tor for our car coun try than 1 mal I of A us nealise realise I 1 was a snort hurt time agot ago to a 4 member of a foreign and 1 he 1 no was discussing the american legion and ad he said aid do A you all realize roost at of tile the die alsor my ra der and lawlessness 1 fu our 11 country try I 1 Is cause caused b bi ex service men w whereas berea A in A dons your country itry you be haie bour our ex a ke men putting putties down a A lawlessness and disorder I 1 was oas lathing in V in the office of the military intelligence of the me war which la Is connect ed d ith the aticy atto ga general I 1 a ills rod and they both bolli told me that tile the great mat est central factor 1 in curbing calling ills iv film files of the led and the 1 falia I would w 0 uld overturn our government by force aws hi tile c american legion those the 1 who would wild merburn turn our government I 1 by fa force ree know knoll they can only do so by force and the only great group of cit ezers mio tera recognize recognise gme fully the power of fort fore are am tile the ei si 1 l aste seel w who ho were cosm u force force ait A and fille as thin when aliey Y appreciated p the a fact that there wes were 8 posts post throughout the country and not a locality of any size but what had an american legion post and that it was a milling point around w aich the ex service noeo can gather A that in case or of lawlessness lawless a and an d that th at through tl tin e legion all 11 1 men rd we would id plot atop the attempts of in the rad leals that haa be turned the tide and made an emeit slam last sum luma war bier let me give you an illustration of th the Bount dec locha of cr their ju judgment diment N in the ills steel strike began 1 tn a sown 1 in olibo his the smile posts called a meeting and they offered their a r lee to the may or the in mavor r boon linand cil lately attly aware 1 in about two handled bundled ono hundred he b held III lu in mee and the other hundred he be put pal palming roling the residence section the next day the t h labor alabon union called bainy a meting tor th the e purpose of dramina ing IDS the lignal eai for strike breaking the head of the america I 1 egi eglon post past happened to be a union man and he be went to the meting inal be explained just exact exactly y eliut I 1 lot t they 1 ley were 1111 11 doing 11 9 that they re etere no part whatever in 11 th the c cont controversy cloray and ad were simply imply itar listed ested 1 in th thy protection of thair homes and it those of the union workers Y you u lire i loial 05 at pair patriotic site american ell L so are ro w we e W we are bull mhd in fir same thing s and ad there tore is thlin th 9 wh which tell YR you U have called ad for r ill tin lail purpose mall of I 1 to A lag um lie american legion when he you odo to ad what we are tiling to do da to pro protect se I 1 your homes town rom di disorders a tor far which ami ou will min not at be ble bin we w are trying to protect Y your homes hannes las as well vell as our swin own As A A ot at this very track frank statement me aab bv v the post past commander the meet set ex ing g of organized labor applee approved the act action on of the fagton gin and there wn waa im BO disorder whatever 1 in that community command Is ill ts B small ehg thing and ad et it 1 bhola A awo just what oil t tre it awe A P lagh is IB trying to do you roil ime have ro co tear fear about the stand of the american A us I 1 1 eglon I for far fil law and ad it r that Is I 1 one pat point n t upon which every member of apa the american orl mun legion la is pledged cn an I 1 Is one thing on which we a agres I 1 to us alir to of law am and titus ili order 0 H in Ir this country and in that I 1 way may we me hope to serie our country 1 la sol addition dill wf we arc going t to serva ats our rotor comra lea its through mutual helpful aca 8 IN 0 will see that the IR institutes dependents of time those who made ad the supreme im parem twel flee fee are taken cale caie of abat those 61 disabled phail phI Il are a property properly cared 1 for unfortunately t although ft a ae ear amhad had elapsed since the timing signing of t the b ar fin hales mi stice congress had bad not at done what it should Is anve done for the disabled men uhe ills american america legion lag called a m meeting coln g in 1 n last 1 I 1 december m c and explained what chev th thought ana we fair treatment to the fleA bled men a that let they not net be objects of cha charity ity of a character and 2 lefft oblee a considered bion day morning was actually passed tor by b both be hoewt by saturday li afternoon facine fx cine i list fiat the american america legion as ed was fair old and just jul and congreso con grea gres knew it had the support of the entire country and an all a 8 result a man aun rim can now tile live on the compensation he receives from bl government where he be ha A become ab I 1 1 disabled vie are to now asking congress cars an to do something JiIng for thus of cf our coni radea handicapped financially been because of their service in the army or navy IN tto is have been criticized lor for dong doing tills this on the basis that we re were ram putting a prim on A our patriotism tire due to the tact fact that anyone anone tg that statement sta does not net the situation atlantic I 1 tt it Is a historical tact fact that george it the father of our country countr received a grant 0 at several thousand acres of al land ad from this country in recognition of his ill ice fee burbig the ills revolution no one has ever criticized the foliar of our coun conn try as als I 1 having a ing put a price on his pa ia ii IM referring Re ferrin to a recent illustration i whon this country appreciated what admiral dewey had bad done by popular laub subscription n dial the presented linn bull with a hanin anino and no one met ever said land that admiral dewey bad put a price 0 on nta his the ex a service 1 I men a in 1 what they are a asking for legislation Is that thi tills country I 1 t shall hall merely help them ol overcome arcome tile the disadvantages incidental to their military and ad naval I 1 an service its 11 tte 0 have sui suggested a four told fold option al 1 aln ereg overl ng annd ad settlement home rid aid vocational training and tor for thoe the tho e who tire are not able to aadil them tn tic alves of anny all one of thoe three an adjustment in then their compensation corn pen smi on based on 11 length ot of service the ile american legion mery every time it refers colors to this legislation has co corales cone races pees to make it an aa liberal M as 1 la eamile consistent t out tile the welfare of at the country and ad no in one re 1 t is ID p to take st clunn to I 1 A statement A tat ement tile like that the american legion I 1 knows that while re ne A 1 in franca our strength in 1 tile the face or of tile the enemy waa mas not the strength of the two million rati lion men e in france or the strength of in the two million men imen 1 in the states slates but it was the 1 rough ot of tile the hundred million an americans back of thora four million ot of us u in 1 service ser vice we 1 I e were the spear A point in t ahe hundred ad re it m million fillon in patriotic t cloth Anie riana lack of us re ocre t the ile shaft mm tho the strength litA gIll the ammann Amo rican legion reatea malles that its future useful tor for a bood it in hia ill coca try will I 1 depend A on tile lie support aim 1 I p P rest we a X get A from tile the hundred million in w other slid and tte me know ve a could d ilo thing ultmont your sup port and ou M aw mav lost assured 1 ID all 11 our acts we idaile bee a to it that R keep elp cl aln A w terlly IY in a mind id the one h in n drill million other americans mile am just as puliS otlo mic slid ana just as loal us as we il are t |