The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-11-18
|HANFORD MACN|DER ||S NEW LEADER OF
 FIGHTING TANKS

Kansas City, Mo Nov. s-Thirty- two. years old and the leader of a million fighting Americans. That's the record of Hanford MacNider. of Mason City, Iowa, the new national commander of the American Legion elected here at the L.egion's annual convention ss
 MacNider was elected by. acclama- tion. Following his election he was carried to the platform by the Iowa delegation. He said
 You know that the strength of the legion is in the men you repres- ent in your posts at home, not in the national headquarters There is where the legion is and where we shall try to reach. We must, build this legion of ours. so big, so fine. SO strong, keep it so clean and straight and American that when .Re ask for things for the ex-service man, for the disabled man and for those who are financially disabled, our communities
 will say: : If the legion is for it we are for it. For that service and with pledge to you of every economy and f all measures possible for constric- tive progress, I stand at your com mand. .a,--
 The vice commanders elected were H. Nelson Jackson, Burlington, vt. George L. Berry, of Tennessee: Ray mond O. Bracket, of Massachusetts, John A Mccormick, Colorado. Chas- M. Kendrick, California, Rev E. A.
 Blackman, of Kansas. was elected national chaplain. Mrs. Lowell Hob | art, of Milford OhiQ was elected
 president of the Wonen's Auxiliary of the Legion. S
 New Orleans, La. was selected. as the next meeting That city has pledged S100,000 for entertaining the Legionnaires there during the 1922 meeting next autumn
 The presence of the distinguished military commanders-Foch,-J Jacques.
 Diaz. Betty and Pershing- the gaze of the world on the Legion's great meeting. Their addresses in
 the convention started the Legion nalres' enthusiasm On a. rapid ascent At the opening session the Legion
 men honored their late commander Fred ". Galbraith Jr., with a memeri- al service John G. Emery, the re- tiring commander set of. roar of applause when he declared that. the people of the United States demanded an adjustment of the economic bal ance between the man who went % war and the man who did not s' The Legion's growth financially and numerically was shown by the annual report read to the convention By national Adintant Belles. It was reported that 1050 new posts had been added during the year Mr. Bolles outlined the Eegions campaign to
 assist unemployed ex-serviee men Major General Le Jeune. comman- der of the Marine Corps: General Robert Mcbride vice commander of | the G. A. R. and George L. Berry.
 official representative of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor were speak CTS on the opening day.
 The reception for Foch when 25. 600 l men in navy blue and olive drab. silhouetted by red fire. stond on the steps of Kansas City's new $2.5oo. .oea war memorial in Union Station plaza l waving their arms, was . dazzling spectacle.
 Another high of the three-day gathering was the annual Legion parade with endless cciumns of marching men, Legionnaire cowboys from the west, Indian veterans iu native costume and many attractive floats. With their former high GOTH manders leading the parade. the Legionnaires marched with old-time zip of A. ELF. days. Governor Hyde of Missouri and a dozen governors i from middle-west states; were in the reviewing box, and Vice President Coolidge. who as President Has1ding's representative hadY addressed the con vention. was an honor guest.
 The convention has convinced me that the American Legion is an established power in the United States-a power for truth and eQuali- .ty." declared Marshal FNoch before his departure from Kansas Ce;y.