Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-22
airing Examines America'S War Goals
Legion S Commander
Talks With Authority

\ NATIONAL COMMANDER RoANE WARING of the
~ American Legion made an address to the towns
people of Freeport ~ Y, recently which explained the
detectives of the clearly that it will profit all
Americans to read it,
The Detroit Times and other Hearst newspapers are
therefore printing the address its entirety and the first
instament accompaneshis editorial in the opposite
column
AS the head of the American Legion, Mr. Warng
speaks with authority about
The Legion is composed of more than one million
who fought in the first world
More than 100 thousand of its members in active
service in the present
Most of the rest, including Mr. Waring, have sons in
this
And Congress has broadened the charter of the
American Legion to make veterans Of the present
eligible for membership it Is destined to continue 10 be
What it has long been-the biggest most influential
and important civilian organization with military back
ground in the world.
NIEN who have fought for their country fight
wi ing for it and have fighting for it, have definite
ideas about WHAT they fighting for.
After the last war the men of the American Legion
knew that they had achieved their purpose far that
possible in
They had preserved democracy and American free
dom and human rights which is what they had fought for
But they foresaw that there would be danger to antN
defeat of those purposes peaceme, If effective organ
zaton of loyal people for patriotic detectives was not
effected
The American Legion met that need and met it we'll
indeed
Tor nearly quarter of century, the Legion was vgi-
liant in the defense of democracy freedom and human
rights-against enemies within the United States.
Now there is to be fought for these pur
poses and after it there will be need for effective,
loyal and patriotic organization protect and preserve
what is
The American Legion Will meet that need again
largely through its who have followed in the historic
and traditional path of service and sacrifice,
1t will do because it will be composed of men who
loved America enough to fight for it. and who understand
and appreciate the American institutions which make
country worth fighting for.
THEY are men who believe with Mr. Warng that
Down through the ages have experimental
with different types of governments, searching for
perfect 1t here in America l61 years ago that
there developed the form under which
has been achieved ideal balance between the best inter
ests of the individual the hand and the greatest
welfare for all on the other.
Under that form. personal freedom and liberty
reached high in human history. America became
the mghties nation earth and Americans the happest
and the most prosperous people.
Our going to experience through their sery-
ice for God and country in this just what Legin
nares learned through bit in the last war greaW
awakening of their of appreciation of the blessings
of America.
"They are going to come home some day convinced
that other land under the has much to offer
America.
They going 10 return with the conviction that
the American form of government, as have known il
in our days, il the best that the mind of has yet
conceived"
With these detectives Americans will win not merely
this but will secure themselves and their children
permanent homeland of freedom and opportunity.