Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-08
WlBB|hG ON REDS
LEGION ACTIVE AGENT IN AMER
icANIzArloN.
Messages From Iows Pssts Pouring In
Upon STATE Delegation In Congress
Coal situation Also Being Given
Attention by lssIon-Two Import
ant Loyalty Bills.
tBy e. q. Dousherty.l

Washington, Dec. S.-widcspread
agitation for the enactment BY con-
gress Of some legislation that Will en-
courage 100 per cent Americanism and
bring speedy justice to undesirable
aliens and i. w. w. adherents. such ~
the murderers of the three former SOL
diers In Centralia. Wash. In the Ar
mistice Day parade. IL reflected In
messages that have been received by
Senator Kenyon and other members
Of the Iowa delegation In congress- from
tho American Legion posts In the
Hawkeye state.
Post No. 26, of Davenport, In . mos
sage received by Senator Kenyon.
urges the enactment Of some legisla.
ton to encourage unalloyed American.
isnl and to fittingly punish any indi-
vidual or organization whose tenants
endanger the welfare Of the law.abiA-
ing citizen"
A similar message urging action oy
tho senate Of the United States was
received from the post at Belle PLANE.
over which Louis Parazek and X, O.
Burrows preside as commander ana
adjutant respectively.
Major II. p. Hollowell. Of the Fort
Madison post. likewise sent q strons
endorsement Of criminal action against
the murderers Of the Centralia SOL
diers. and from numerous other posts
In Iowa of the American Legion, mes
sages and resolutions have been re-
ceived urging remedial legislation for
the present social unrest and the ac-
companying activities Of the un-Amer-
lean among the masses.
The coal situation also Is being CIV
en- consideration by posts Of the
American Legion in Iowa. One sig
nificant message received by Senator
Kenyon was the following from the
Davenport post:
IF the operators Immediately open
their mines and the miners return to
work at once. this post will use its
every influence to see that govern
ment investigation is made Of opera
tors profits. miners wages and the
cost Of coal to the public"
Important Bills Of iowans.
Tho Towner educational bill and the
Kenyon Americanization bill are two
measures that Iowa legislators believe
will be long steps toward discouraging
antt-American sentiment in this coun-
try. The Towner bill makes educa-
ton easier to accomplish, while the
Kenyon bill, If the states properly CO.
operate, makes education, 50 far as
reading, speaking and understanding
the American language Is concerned.
compulsory.
The Kenyon bill and the Towner
measure will undoubtedly decrease
illiteracy in the United States, and II
education means that the United
States will have a better citizenship,
Of course both measures will have an
indirect bearing on the elimination of
bolshevism and radicalism in this
country.
1t is for this reason that the mem
bers Of the Iowa delegation in con-
gress like to hear from such organiza-
lions as the American Legion. for they
all realize that service in the Amer
lean army is the best school of Amer
icanism that any one can attend. and
the entire membership of the Legion
diC graduates OIL tHlS SCHOOL.
Iowa Club in Georgia.
An Iowa club in Georgetown Univer-
sity Law School is to be organized
next week by John L. Peterson. Of
Council Bluffs, formerly secretary to
Representative Green, of the Ninth
Iowa district. and Clarence Church.
man and George Kern, of Des Moines,
who are assistants in the office Of
Senator Cummins, and Robert Colflesh,
OF Des Moines, an assistant of the of
flee Of Representative DowelL of the
Des Moines district. Colflesh, who
was cadet aviator in the service, and
who Is the proud possessor of the dis
service cross and the croix
de guerre, will probably be named
president Of the Iowa club, by a mem
bership which is to be in the neighbor-
hood Of twenty Mr.. Peterson, who
also served overseas. and who has been
In Washington for three years, ia q
senior in Georgetown Law. He has
been named one Of the assistant edi-
tors Of Ye Domes Day Books, the an
nual publication OF the ,,njvarsitv