Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-11-18
AMERICAN LEGION
OPENS BIG MEET
Law and Order Stand of Gov.
Coolidge Cfeered by
Delegates.
5000 ARE IN ATTENDANCE
Henry Lindsey of Texas Chosen Per.
manent Chairman-No Glass War
Will Be Tolerated by the Veter-
ans, He Declares.

Minneapolis. MIMI, Nov. 11.-Henry
| Lindsey of Texas was chosen perma-
nent chairman of the American Lee
gion convention. All convention off.
GERS were selected from the list OF
| temporary officers of the legion. The
treasurer's report shows an excess OF
expenses over revenue of $134, 941. SO
Law and order, liberty with re-
straint" and 100 per cent American
ism were the keynotes struck at the
| opening session of the American Lee
gion convention. "No set program and
no petty or platform politics. was the
prevailing sentiment
Thirty-eight minutes after the zero
hour of 10 a. M, Chairman Henry ID.
Lindsey raped down the pandemOn-
ium of state cheers and songs with
which the various delegations were
prOclaiming their allegiance, and in
augurated the first session.
Cheers for the law and order vic
tory of Governor Coolidge in Massa-
chuSetts marked a reference to that
event during the address of welcome
by Governor Burnquist of Minnesota.
That the fate of alien shirkers who
now demand citizenship will be set
tied by the former fighters was indi-
Gated during a speech by Mayor J. e.
Meyers of Minneapolis.
"a man who was not ready to de-
fend his country in its crisis is not
ready for citizenship today" said
the mayor and his speech was sus-
pended by a storm of approving wells.
mo strike of class against class will
be permitted to endanger American
future" said National Chairman Hen
ry d. Lindsey. The American Legion
will be no party to conflicts between
capital and labor but will set it's face
squarely for law and order. Our pro-
gram represents no class. but the one
great class of true American citizen
ship demonstrated by nearly 100000
men who answered the call of arms.
The power of the American Legion is
so great that we must view it as a
great responsibility. No man need
go home from this 6bnventiOn as an
apOlogist for what we have done. That
which is done here will be worthy of
the honor of our great country"
Nearly 1900 delegates alternates
and visiting members crammed the
convention hall as the initial session
was called to order.
Greetings from Marshal Foch, al
lied commander in chief to the Amer
lean Legion convention We're transmit
ted by J. J. JuSserand. French ambas-
sadOr to the United States. Marshal
Foch's message follows:
Marshal Foch's message follows:
my valiant War Companions:
1.-The 18th of November, 1918, saw
the capitulation of the enemy. van
quished Germany was craving for
mercy, and she delivered over to us
such trophies as history has never
known.
"This was indeed the victory of the
allied armies
with head erect the valiant Ameri-
can fighters of the Argonne, of the
Mouse, of the Somme, of Flanders.
after hard days, resumed once more,
by the side of the allies, the march
toward the Rhine.
''In this day. when for the first time
we celebrate the anniversary of the
armistice. l want to be with you TO
commemorate the past and to tell you
that with our eyes ever raised toward
the same ideal of justice and liberty.
we must remain united as we have
been in the days of trial and the days
of triumph.
proud to have been at your head.
l send my most cordial greetings to
the veterans of the great war. illustri-
Gus by their immortal deeds, and 70
those who. in the camps of America,
were preparing with ardor to come
and take their part in the battle.
Lastly, l wish to salute, as ever
living in the memory of the past, and
of the threshold of the future common
to us, the tOmbs of those who lie i'm the
soil of France, resting there. and are
as a symbol of our disSoluble union"