The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23

/ bereavement and express our appre
citation of her tender and helpful ser
vice to. our disabled comrades. Oul
loss is the greater because we realize
that there is removed from us hel
helping hand.
Resolved That we, the Legion.
aires of Minnesota extend to the
Grand Army of The Republic, the
Spanish War Veterans, the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, the Great War Vet.
Grams of Canada, the Disabled Amer.
| lean Veterans, and the American Le-
gion Auxiliary our sincere apprecia-
ton of the messages delivered by
! these organizations to our Fifth An
nual Department Convention; and
reaffirm our pledge of hearty coop
Grafton in all matters in which we
are mutually interested.
Resolved THAT we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota express our thanks
for the splendid favors extended in
various ways by the Shattuck Mill
tary Academy, the School for the
Deaf, the City of Faribault, the Fari-
bault American Legion Post, and in
particular to Mayor Thomas Quinn,
Ray Moonan chairman of the Con-
vention Arrangements Committee,
and his assistants.
Resolved That we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota express our
thorough confidence in and sincere
appreciation of the work of our
national and department officers dur
ing the past year.
Resolved THAT we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota appreciate the
assistance rendered the American Le-
gion in all its work by La Societe DIES
Forty Hommes ct Eight Chevaux dur
ing the past year; and that we en-
dorse the orphans program of La So
ciete as proposed and initiated by the
New Orleans Promenade of The
Forty and Eight.
Resolved: THAT we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota again urge the
adoption of the federal adjusted COM
pensation bill as adopted by the
American Legion assembled in Ma
tional Convention; and direct that
this resolution be Immediately COM
municated by our Department Adju-
tant to all agencies concerned.
Resolved: THAT we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota heartily endorse
the message and actions of our De-
partment with reference to those Vet
Grams Bureau employees who, as Le-
gionaires, have appeared in district
and state conventions of the Ameri-
can Legion with the insidious pur-
pose of destroying and discrediting
the work of the Minnesota Depart
ment of the American Legion in con-
nection with efforts to secure justice
for service men and women.
Resolved: THAT we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota most emphatically
condemn the disgraceful action taken
recently by the Minneapolis City
Council which extended an official
welcome to one Bentall upon his re-
turn from the federal prison where
he served a sentence for sedition and
for obstructing enlistment in the
armed forces of the United States in
the world war; and that we hold
equally responsible the members of
the Minneapolis City Council present
who voted for the motion, and those
who by their absence made such &C.
ton possible.
Resolved:-That we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota in Fifth Annual
Convention assembled, hereby charge
each and every Minnesota Legionaire
to re-dedicate himself to the princi-
plies laid down in the Preamble to our
Legion Constitution, and to learn by
heart the words of that preamble
which are as follows:
"For God and Country we Asso-
ciate Ourselves Together for the Fol
lowing Purposes:--To uphold and
defend the Constitution of the United
States of America; to maintain law
and order; to foster and perpetuate
a one hundred per cent Americanism
to preserve the memories and Incl.
dents of our association in the Great
War; to inculcate sence of individ.
ual obligation to the community, state
and nation to combat the autocracy
of both the classes and the masses
to make right the master of might
to promote peace and good will or
earth; to safeguard and transmit te
posterity the principles of justice
freedom and democracy; to conse.
crate and sanctify our comradeshiI
by our devotion to mutual helpful
ness"
To the members of the Legion
Auxiliary who came in a body to the
Legion Convention hall to hear him
Commander Owsley paid many beau
tiful tributes which they will never
forget. He told of the sacrifice
made by the mothers, wives, sister.
and daughters of the men who served
their country in the great war; Of
the wonderful work these same womer
are doing in the American Legion
| Auxiliary, particularly their tender
| solcituda sof tho sick ond uo,,ndor