Judge — April 7, 1923 — page 2: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Now 4t can be Todd | When the Legion Was Fighting for Its Life The American Legion stands today an accepted fact in the mind of the American veteran and the American public; an instrument of incalculable power; the feared and fearless champion of what it holds to be right. Its destiny will be to mould the national history of the dawning generation, and within the next decade to influence profoundly the trend of world events. Who dreams of questioning the power or the permanence of the Legion now? In four short years the uncertain and unnamed project launched at a dinner at a Paris club has gone thus far. Fifty organizations of World War veterans were in existence when the Legion entered the field. Where are they now? They are gone. Of all that early company the Legion alone survives. Why? Is it because the Legion trod a primrose path? Because the problems, the trials and disasters that struck its fellows down passed the Legion by? It-is not. | It is because the Legion. because the men in whose hands the Legion placed its fate, had the courage, the moral and physical courage, to fight, to meet and master opposition; the judgment to solve difficult problems; the tact to adjust delicate situations. The Legion faces opposition today, to be sure. But this opposition is directed toward the Legion’s undertakings—adjusted compensation for example. It is not directed toward the Legion itself, because the Legion is accepted now. But there have been times when it was not accepted, when it was fighting for its life, and when it learned the meaning of ‘a close call.” The Legion has been in tight places, when one ill-considered word or action, or one sign of weakness by the I man or men in whose hands responsibility lay, would have spelled ruin. For three years the Legion’s foremost publicist, who has been behind the scenes in Legion I affairs since 1919, and as intimately associated as any other man with the outstanding figures and I events that have made Legion history, has been filling notebooks and storing them away against the day when he could tell the Legion’s story as it happened. That day has come. i A History of the American Legion |. By Marquis James . Former National Director of Publicity of The American Legion Large type, heavy paper, 352 large pages (6x9 inches) including 32 pages of photographs and an exhaustive alphabetical index; handsomely bound in cloth and stamped in gold with an R Introductory Foreword by Alvin Owsley, National Commander ABSORBING, INFORMATIVE, TRUE ; pat $2.90 Css The One Book Every Legionnaire Will Read This Year 0 WILLIAM GREEN, 625 West 43d Street, New York City Department and Post Officers ; Enclosed find check for] money-order for, 8 Send h i copies of above-described History of the Legion Speakers: For your convenience an exhaustive alpha- betical index has been added to the History. tI giving instant access to more than 2,000 Legion individuals, events and topics of in- terest. It tells Who’s Who, What’s What and a Why t New York City, N. ¥.. und Donnell, Treas.: W. D. Gre (name) (street or rural route) comicbooks.com