New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-08-31
W. SCHEI TURNED
DOWN BY LEGION
"sUPER-LOYALIsT" FAILS TO
AROUSE SYMPATHY OF
EXssERvICE MEN.
NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY AT
LAMBERToN is ONLY A
PERSONAL AFFAIR.

These are, lnQeeQ, nara Times Tor
''super-loyalists" of the stripe Of w. Is.
Schei, editor Of the Lamberton Star,
who has sought in vain to CONNER
cialize his particular pottage of patriot
ism, by means Of vituperation and
libel in the columns Of his sadly dila-
pidated sheet. Schei seems to be one
of those (happilt few mortals whose
distorted and badly warped brain will
not allow them to admit that the war
is over and hostiIties have ceased.
He apparently feeds on bile exclusively,
which may, in a: insecure, account fer
the TACT that his gastronomic troubles
have trekked upward until they finally
located nNthe cavity where ordinary
people havestheir grey matter.
Turned Down by Legion.
A little, insignificant item contained
in the American Legion weekly news
paragraphs. pertaining to the annual
convention of the Department of Min
nesota, recently held at Winona, must
have been an exceedingly bitter pill for
the elusive Lamberton scribe to swal-
low, for that item, together with the
other news, was publis he'd in large
number of Minnesota newspapers that
have a regular weekly Legion column,
and to charge each and every one of
these newspapers with being disloyal,
is too great an undertaking for even
the lone and only super-loyalist in
captivity" to take upon himself. So
he will have to be content to accept
the verdict of the American Legion
without equivocation.
Played on Sympathies.
Schei has travelled up and down this
section OF the state, preying upon the
sympathies of Legionaires and people
generally. In some places he was sue
cessful in putting his hard-luck story
across, but the Legion boys evidently
investigated his statements thorough
ly, for they have finally put him down
for what he truly is and for what many
people have long since known him to
be-a pitiably perverted mortal who
lost his mental equilibrium through a
too zealbus war frenzy. It must be
truly gratifying to these true-blue
Americans of Lamberton and else
where, whom Schei has maligned,
villifed and slandered through the
columns of his paper, to learn that the
American Legion has his number,
having sized him up correctly.
Two Investigating Committees.
Lest the mental contortionist of the
Lamberton Star may attempt to
spread the impression that he was not
given a square deal by the American
Legion, it need but be stated that the
action of the Legion convention was
based on the reports, Of Commander
Vernon and those Of two special COM
mittees, appointed for the purpose,
which were duly considered by the
delegates. And here is the verdict OF
the Legion conventions: H
''The executive committee directed
Department Headquartefs to inform
all Minnesota Legion Posts that the
Lamberton newspaper situation is a
personal, business and political con-
trovery outside the province of the
American Legion, no post Of which
should concern itself with the mat,
ter Il
That ought to sound the death-knel
-fguratively speaking, of course -o1
the greatest American in captivity, >
who guides the pol icy and the destiny
of that pillar of PATRIOTISM" the
Lamberton Star!