The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-31
WORK is NOT DONE
LegiOnnaires Have Big Task
Yet Ahead-COOlidge.
Vice President Speaker at OPEN
ing of Convention.
BRINGS WORD FROM HARDING
President Wants More Relief
for Wounded Soldiers.
Plea Is Made Against Sectional
ism in United States. e
BRINGS WORD FROM HARDING

B Kansas City Mo, Oct. 31.-Nothing
is closer to the heart of President
Harding than to- make the relief for
incapacitated war veterans absolutely
complete; no man not in the service
has deeper appreciation of what that
service meant, Of the sacrifices made
by the veterans. of the obligations in
CURED by the country, and no man
viii go further to minister to the true
welfare of those who have been in
the service and their dependents than
the president of the United States
Vice President Calvin Coolidge told the
national convention of the American
Legion here today.
He viii never sacrifice you for his
own welfare. He will sacrifice him.
self for your welfare, He viii do all
that can be done to prevent the need
of your again sacrificing yourselves
for your countrys welfare" MI
Coolidge said.
The. vice president reviewed what
had been done so far toward relieving
the incapacitated veterans; paid high
tribute to the valor of Americas
armed forces and declared the legion
represented a new ational conscious
ness"
Against SectiOnaIism.
He said every relief must be sought
and applied to the taxation situation.
Sketched the countrys financial sbli-
cations and added he J ew Of no pres
ent service that could be performed
for those who served the nation more
important than to reduce the great
drain upon the resources Of the peo-
pie Such a reduction, he said, would
bring about a return to permanent
prosperity.
He made a plea against sectional
ism. which he said had been largely
wiped out the fusing forces of war
and predicted a great future in the
nations life for the American legion.
The opportunity to make this ma
ton one. the sacrifice which made
this nation one was of your day
alone he said. "All the streams of that
great spirit are gathered up in you.
You represent a new national con-
seriousness. You represent The cousum-
nation Of those great forces coming
into action in the early days of this
century which not only made Amer
lea more American but made human
ity more humane. The hope of this ma
ton which more than ever before cor
responds TO the hope Of the world
lies in your power to ministe-' to that
spirit, to preserve that consciousness
and to increase those forces.
Veterans Work Not Finished.
THE work of Washington was not
completed at Yorktown, the work of
Lincoln was not completed at Apo
mattox. They live in our institutions.
forts caused to be adopted, the other
in the amendments which his sacri-
fices caused to be ratified. Your work
was not all done on the sea or on the
] attlefielt of France.
In recognition of the solemn obli-
CATION to you and your country men
OF economy and peace, a conference of
certain great powers, called on the
initiative of the president of the United
States is about to assemble in Wash
ingtOn. 1t proposes to search for
solution Of problems arising from the
conveyance of many different nations
in the Pacific and to provide by mu-
tual agreement for a limitation Of
armament. It proposes something that
America can do at home. 1t surren-
ders no right, it imposes no burden,
it promises relief at home and a bet
ter understanding abroad. If it can
be accomplished it's blessings will be
reflected from every fireside in the
land"