Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-16
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LAND And WATER
Big Converted Warehouse Used
For The Housing OF
Vets
LISTEN TO REPORTS
Expected That Legion VIII Again
Favor Bonus

lNEW OINLEFAlNC, OCt. o.
TIE fourth national convention OF
the American Legion met here in
large converted warehouse on
the Mississippi river front, with
several thousand former fighting
men present and more pouring
into the city on regular and special
trans, ste.iraers. airplanes and
autos.
The opening session was featur-
ed by reports Of the national com
mander and adjutant. covering
their activities during the last
year.
Distinguished soldiers of seven ma
tons, bringing visible evidence Of
sacrifices they made on behalf of
their countries, were on the platform
as the Legion's guests.
They were delegates to the conven-
ton of this inter-allied veterans
federation, which has been in session
here the last two days, which to-
night is scheduled to conclude de-
alterations with an open session for
the purpose of forwarding world
peace.
The American Legion opened It's
national convention here today, with
in rifle shot Of the historic square
where Andrew Jackson mustered a
sharpshooting army of frontiersnien
and Gulf pirates to fight British vet
Grams of the NapOleonic wars, some
what more than century ago.
New Orleans, graceful product of
three civilizations-Spanish, French
and Ameriean-made its guests well
come, and in the narrow streets and
wrought iron balconies of the old
French quarter, there was more than
a hint of the French towns with
which the veterans Of the A. e. f.
grew IdfalHdF overseas.
The Legion "buddies' are bit
roomier around the the waist, some
of them, than they were four years
ago, when the fighting in the Ar
come was drawing to close, and
they were in those war-harnessed
French towns, where quarters were
Scarce and even stables were at
premium. But they were the same
old A. i. T. gang-the same hurrah
and noise, the same spirit Of Lets
go" pervaded their nineteen twenty
two assemb!age.
1t was not hard to imagine that
the old buildings which had seen An
drew Jackson's troops march out TO
defeat crack British army two
weeks after peace had been declared
in the War of 1912, the buildings
which had seen veterans of the Mexi-
can War and wearers OF the Com
federate gray and Of the Union blue
swinging along to martial music
it was not hard to imagine these old
buildings open THEN eyes bit be-
hind their dusty jealousies as the
veterans of the latest war gathered
in reunion, and to declare the policies
Of their organization.
I VIII Favor Bonus.
The Legion will be the guest Of
New Orleans for five days. During
that time, it is expected it will once
more declare itself with explicitness
in regard to the bonus bill; that it
will demand the removal OF Briga-
der General c. f. Sawyer, Pgesi-
dent Harding's physician, from the
position of supervisor of the hospi-
talization of wounded veterans, that
it will reaffairm its position as to
making American citizens. out of inn
migrants and instructing them in The
duties of citizenship.
Kenesaw Mountain Lands, conn
missioner of organized baseball and
an outspoken friend of the veterans,
was to deliver an address to the COM
rades of his son who fought in
France.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American. Federation Of Labor and
veteran leader Of organized labor IN
the United States, was. to make
speech. Whether Mr., Gonpers uoul.l
bespsak the support Of the Legion
in opposition to government by IN
junction" and to the ADMINISTRATORS
course in the coal and railroad Shop
mems strike a "strict neutrality" II
disputes between capital and labor,
but it was believed that some ref
erence would inevitably be made by