The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-04-01
AMERICAN LEGION WANTS BERG.
DOLL BROUGHT BACK TO
THIS COUNTRY.
sED|TloN.Iis STILL AT WORK
Men Who Fought for Flag on the
Battlefield Are Being Compelled to
Continue to Fight for It in the Fields
of the Home Land.
Rv EDWARD 8. CLARK,

in conference with President Harding
concerning legislation which the serv-
ice men would like to have enacted
ut the extra session.
1t seems to be the belief Of the
Legion leader that at the next session
provision will be made FOR the group
ing of all government soldier relief
agencies into one bureau, and for
continuous hospital program, especial
~ for tubercuIous and neurOpsycli-
atric patients.
lie is the one BOche we want"
This is what the Lcgion's COM
Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft
evader, rich and influential, who is
now in country which he loves bet
ter apparently than the land Of his
birth. 1t is the belief in Washington
that the new administration will make
IN effort to lay hands on Bergdoll and
bring him back to this country. The
Legion says that it wants this NAH
and if the government wants him 1t
will get him.
Nearest Their Hearts.
OF course the proper care of the
sick and wounded soldiers is the thing
nearest the hearts Of the service men.
Already the country knows that the
sum of $6,OOO,OOO instantly is avail
able for decentralization purposes.
The sole fear now is apparently that
government red tape, apd the delays
which have become historic in Amer
lean administration, may prevent
quick relief for the sufferers, but all
that men can do to spur the govern
mCnt otis instant duty is to be done.
The American Legion has not for
gotten the recent meeting at Madison
Square Garden, New York city, where
Dro-Gcrmans were allowed to preach
doctrines that were more than semi
Seditiolls. Neither has the Legion for
gotten the attempt Of pro-Germans to
break up another meeting in New
York city which was called for the
purpose Of discipllning recreant
Legion member. If any one believes
that the American Legion is going to
let such matters as these drop all
other thought should be coming TO
him quickly.
Recently there was held in Madison
Square Garden, New York city, under
the auspices Of the American Legion
IAN All-American Meeting for God
and Country"
1t was not necessary at that meet
ing to have $500 policemen inside the
hall to maintain order. When the
lovers of Germany held their meet
ing they succeeded in securing the
services Of 1000 policemen who they
thought might be ready to club any
American Legion man who should
show any too marked an affection for
the American flag.
A Patriotic Document.
Here is the call for the recent meet
ing which the American Legion sent
out:
AN All American Meeting for God
md Country will be held in Madison
Square Garden, Friday, March IS.
y
uganda has been carried On through
out the nation. Forces identified with
movements and causes unworthy of
America again appear to break the
friendships born Of the common strug-
gIe--humun liberty.
"PrOpaganda in many forms, some
of it of foreign origin and in foreign
interests, is being disseminated, en-
tering the school, the home and the
church.
appeals for causes which in them
selves are worthy, namely: humanity,
the vehicle for the spread Of hate,
furnishing germs for future wars
Meetings which are disgraccful ex-
nmplcs of propaganda are being held
throughout the nation for the pur-
pose not only Of disuniting the Amer
lean people but also Of alternating us
from those peoples who gave with us
their lfc's blood on a common battle
field.
There comes time in the history
Of all peoples when they must prepare
themselves to meet a common foe.
Such time has come to the Amer
lean people. Our honor, our ideals
and our future are imperled. Shall
they remain undefended? The noble
dead and tlrOse who now lie in hos
pitfalls. living monuments Of willing
sacrifice, who gave their bodies for
their hearts desire, look to us to car
~ on-for God and Country
For the first time in the history of
the American nation men who fought
for the flag on the battlefield are be
ing compelled to continue to fight for
!. in the fields of the home land. The
enemy calls itself American. but it is
American to far less degree than
the Germans who fought against the
American flag in the Argonne, in the
St. Mihiel salient and along the banks
Of the Meuse and the Marine.