New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Wholesale designations Are
Said To Be Threatened Tn
less Colonel Who Spoke
at Rhine Meeting Quits
Officer Assails Post
Says the Organization Will
Be Better Off Without
the Dry Land Sailors

Regiment Post. refuses to resign from
the organization, according to state
ments made yesterday by various LIE
gion leaders and members.
Colonel Anderson, formerly 8 men,
ber Of the National Guard and an over
seas vat~ an, was one of the speakers
at The Horror on the Rhine" mass
meeting in Madison Square Garden
Monday night. Parts of his speech
which were read at Legion meeting
OF the Manhattan Naval Post, at 226
West Fifty-eighth Street, Wednesday
night. resulted in a resolution being
drafted, in which his resignation was
demanded.
He retorted yesterday by calling the
members of the post dry land sail
ors" and 'heroes of Pelham Bay
Statements from the Manhattan
Naval Post were issued yesterday by
John Mahon and Harold NJ. Schwartz.
The latter is former commander of the
Manhattan post and is an executive on
the state committee.
What Ex-Commandcr Thinks
Mr.. Schwartz, when asked what ac-
tion would be taken in the case OF
Colonel Anderson. said:
THE whole subject of the meeting OF
last Monday night is one that | can
hardly think about without wondering
what our Mayor will permit next in the
way of thrills for the disgusted pub
lic. The horror of the evening was the
rem arkable speech Of Lieutenant Colo
IL u ,.-i{ },
his supposed reputation and tried
Americanism could get up before an
audience of out-and-out Huns and tell
them that he loved them is beyond my
comprehension. In introducing my res
olution | fear that | failed TO express
the true feelings of my fellow members
in Manhattan Naval Post, $50 of whom
were there.
THE resolution was too weak, in the
opinion Of many OF them, and l think
that had Colonel Anderson been there
he would have considered himself
lucky to have escaped with few weeks
in the hospital. We of the Manhattan
post demand the expulsion Of Anderson
from the Legion, believing that he is
unfit to belong to a red-blooded Ameri
can organ cation.
Il will go further and say personally
that if the Legion does not eXpel him,
! will myself resign rather than remain
in an organization that will tolerate
having its members DETAINED.
Won't Tolerate Pro-Germanism
Anderson is known as Legion man
and the public must know and be made
to realize that the Legion Will not stand
for the pro- German element in its
ranks The public has confidence in
the Legion and in It's Americanism first,
last and always, and l feel confident
that | am not alone in my stand on the
subject Should the Legion take no
stand or action, mine will not be the
only resignation rendered, l am posi-
tive"
When Mr.. Schwa~tz's statement was
read to Colonel Anderson, he replied
with the following:
Il want to tell the dry land sailors
and heroes of Pelham Bay, or of the
good ship $50 Broadway, who in all
probability speak in the name OF the
Manhattan Naval Post, that they do not
feel as badly about me as | feel about
them. Ii any OF them, or others, choose
to resign from the Legion because Of
my membership, | know that the Legion
will be the better off by their so doing
and with their disassociation with it.
'In ali their prattle | wonder if they
have given any consideration to the
number of boys of German blood and
extraction who were buried in Ameri-
can uniforms? Do they know that in
all probability there were many of
the kindred of these boys at this
meeting? | say they are sorry lot of
gobs when they attempt to accuse me
of disgracing my country, after eleven
years of honest and sincere service.
believe me, can appreciate TO its
fullest extent the patriotic prompting
they may have had in joining that
branch of the service, and | think they
have supreme gall in daring to ques-
tion, when without the need Of the
glamour or glory or flag waving or
brass band l have been sacrificing and
giving.
Assails DRY Land" Sailors
mine is not the blatant, screech
ing kind that is to-day shouting for
recognition, however much / might be
entitled to it, The strength and char
acter of their membership | question.
Certainly they are not to be numbered
among those who served faithfully
under great privation and hardship and
arrived at last, praise God, on the
Rhine.
"If they and the likes of them vould
give more time and consideration tc
the welfare of their country by attend
ing to the insidious and destructive
propaganda of what their type choose
to call one of our Allies, instead OF
advocating and condoning the sou
torture and extermination by loath.
some disease of u people whose govern.
ment has been properly beaten anc
crushed, they will be the more sincere.
ly carrying out the dictates of the
American conscience
LAS an American and soldier have
made myself familiar with our Presi
dents utterance. 1t was he who stated
that ours was a war against the Ger
man government and not against the
German people, ana since also it was
\ the declaration of the President that
J. 1t was war for humanity, it is the
y duty of every American citizen to sec
that the ends for which it was FOUGHT
are achieved
at was on this basis that spoke a
Madison Square Garden. | might stat.
that had my speech been published il
full, instead of taking snatches which
were undoubtedly jumped upon BY
some whom | cannot call honest Amer
cans, a statement of my motives woulc
reyer have been necessary. There wa.
no mention in my short talk of nation
a. grievances Allied or otherwise, MOI
Of political parties"
Colonel f. C. W. Galbraith, nationa
commander of the American Legion re
fused to comment on the case. He sale
an investigation was being made, anc
he would be prepared to make state
ment within a day or two. He declared
fhe case would more than likely be