New Britain herald., 1924-09-16
DAWES DECIDES HE WILL MARCH ALONG IN! VETS PARADE
Original Plans Were for Vice Presidential Nominee to Re
 view Legion Procession
BOOM IE STARTED FOR
 PERSHING'S ELECTION

---~- His Backcrs Sending Out "Fcclers'
 To See If He Would Accept. Lead.
 ership of Legion-Speakeri Urges
 Soldiers To Promote Study oi
 Constitution of United States.
 St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 16.--Decls- ion to march in the annual parade of the American Legion's national convention instead of reviewing the procession as originally Intended wa, announced by Charles G. Dawes up- on his arrival here today to be the guest for 12 hours of the Minnesota department of the legion. {e. The change in plans was explain cd by General Dawes as due to a desire to participate in legion con- vention activities as a member of his home post in Evanston. H., and to avoid any appearance as republican candidate for vice-president while in St. Paul. l.
 "As mere member of the legion I have no right in the reviewing stand and 50 intend to hoof it with the rest of the boys from Evanston" !" he explained.
 Boom For Pershing
 Politics came to the fore sharply today with well defined boom for General Persing to succeed John R. Quinn of California as national com mander. Legionnaires boosting him were reported telegraphing "feelers'' to the commander of the A. E. F., in an effort to ascertain his attitude. Business session activities includ- ed addresses by Charles P. Don- nelly, president of the Northern Pa cifc Railway; Albert D. Alcorn, commander-in-c lief of the Spanish War veterans, and John J. Tigert, United States commissioner of edu- cation.
 Mir. Donnelly held up the proposal for government operation of rail- roads, as an effort to establish bu- reaucracy, and. characterized tho is- Ssie as "a live one. potentially Ee. rious," @ Is
 MT. Alcorn brought greetings from the Spanish War veterans, while Commissioner Tigert lauded the American Legion for Its success in promoting educational and patriotic work, and expressed the hope that "we shall never abandon a sane pro- gram for better understanding of American institutions, ideals, history and government"
 T hope" he continued, we shall never consciously discard the songs and traditions through which this Knowledge Of America has been largely perpetuated id the past and upon which we must depend for an even larger knowledge in the future. At the same time, believe there is occasion and need for better un- derstanding ands appreciation of other peoples and other nations"
 Task of Education
 Asserting that 'to bring about this cosmopolitan appreciation will be one of the tasks of education Of the future" Mir. Tigert said. "it is not necessary to forget America to un- derstand, know and appreciate Brit afn Er1nno Ifalx nth peoples" .
 Urging the legion to promote study of the constitution of the United States, the speaker questioned d the prospects flor the future pros- perity and growth of the American government and our constitution If the masses of our people do not know, in general way at least, the principles upon which they are gov ern'ed."
 Mir. Donnelly, explaining that his remarks should not be taken 10 mean that he regards the menace of government ownership as in any sense imminent" declared:
 On very few questions not ac- tually submitted to the test of vote has the sentiment of the. country of the Business interests of the country - been. more authenticalIy expressed than it was in the demand for the discontinuance of govern mental operation of our railroads in the single instance in our history in which that form of operation was undertaken. .
 Propaganda Continues
 Yet the proponents of this doc Urine never sIacken in their efforts 10 win public favor for it; it has been written into the platform of one of the three parties now making their appeal to the American cleo torate and it would be folly for us to shut our eyes to the fact that the issue today is live one and that it may become a serious one.
 Government ownership attended with government administration or operation is bureaucracy. It is ad- ministration by buresus-by what ever name those bureaus might be called
 "1 am talking not about words, but about things The two million employees of the railroads would be government employees Their political influence CT power when acting in unison as as a bloc would be very great and 1t is vain to suppose that