The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-06
SET
FOR COOLIDGE
SPEECH TODAY
President to Lead Parade Il
Mile and Then Take Re-
viewing Stand -,
PHIL D-LPHIA IN 1926
Night Same as Day in Omaha
For Legionnaires-A
Gala Occasion
PHIL D-:LPHIA IN 1926

Omaha. Ncb., Oct. 6.-(P P-Thc
American Legion was all set today
to greet President Calvin Coolidge.
listen to an address by him before
the seventh national convention and
annual parade.
The president himself planned to
lead the parade over mile Of the
ness the spectacle as three miles of
former doughboys, sailors and mar
ines marched past.
the Legion put aside its other af-
session to listening to President
the program with him. John J. Ii
Education, and George l.. Berry of
Tennessee, head of the printing
pressmen's union and representative
of the American Federation Of La
Dor. President Coolidge's address
to the Legionnaires was set for lO:3O
a. m.
Another appearance fixed for the
president was luncheon at the
Omaha club just before time for him
to take his place at the head Of the
grand Legion parade. He will begin
the return trip to Washington this
evening.
Committees Busy
While the Legion outwardly gave
all its attention today to the prcsi-
dent and the parade. little groups Of
serious men continued graphing
with the serious problems confront
ing the convention. They were the
committees trying to bring order and
fixed routine for presentation to
the meeting from the great mass of
sugge stions covering numerous SUBJ
jects which found ready sponsors.
Should the four chief subjects for
conversation on all sides be advanced
to consideration by the convention,
the 1925 meeting probably would
take rank as the most important
since the Legionnaires laid down
their arms and retired to civilian
life.
Philadelphia Next Year
No one would confirm any inten-
tion to take any subject further than
committees or subcommittee; but
lobby and street arguments dealt
chiefly with whether the Legion, as
body, should declare an attitude
towards Col. William Mitchell and
his status brought about by his at
tacks on control of Army and Navy
flying; prohibitions: whether the
convention should abandon any of
it's first principles; abstention from
organized participation in politics,
and the method of selection of the
next national commander. That
Philadelphia would get the 1926 Le-
gion convention, to be held at the
same time as its sesqui-centennial
celebration, seemed to be forgone
conclusion. No other city was MAX
ing hard fight and the general
trend of opinion was that the con-
vention next year should go east.
Visitors Make Merry
Meanwhile the visiting Legion
naires made merry in their own in
imitable ways. Omaha last night
knew no night. The sun set but
strings Of incandescents blossomed
above all the downtown streets and
the former warriors played like tru-
ant school boys. Only little more
maturity marked their pastimes.
At midnight the old army game,
tossing dice, bloomed in all its pris-
tine glory. All through the down.
town section the boys fell on their
knees in little circles and prayed to
the Goddess of Chance. Every now
and then an automobile would come
charging down the sidewalks. No.
body seemed to suffer from the
frivolities of the holiday makers,
however, excepting possibly finan-
cially in some of the little circular
sections. and Omaha citizens, visit
ors and Legionnaires treated the
festivities as exuberant expressions
St ad the sht dnsn heart; OF the me- vsv 4
death, but had been snatched back
ready again to march to the defense
of their countrv