n of individual and national responsibility.
Such lessons, at the cost they were obtained, are not to be
forgotten or lost. The ideals of the fighting men of the states,
producing the valor and the power which made the American Army
irresistible, and the revelations by fire of new realizations
and brotherhood and of world and national citizenship are surely
to be felt in the calm, happier times of peace.

_Philadelphia Record_, April 10, 1919.--... If, as Colonel
Roosevelt predicts, the membership shall eventually comprise
4,000,000 men who were in the military and naval service of the
United States in the late war, it will have possibilities of
power that must be reckoned with. But if, in the long life
before it, the American Legion shall have no more to its
discredit than is summed up in the history of the G.A.R. whose
ranks are now so pathetically thin, it will have been a worthy
follower of its fathers.

_Paterson_ (N.J.) _Evening News_, May 7, 1919.--... The new
organization starts its career deserving and receiving the good
wishes of the entire country. The character of the men of the
American army who are promoting it and the high ideals which it
professes and proposes to maintain are a guaranty that it will
be a power for helpful service in the common family of the
nation.

_Duluth_ (Minn.) _Herald_, May 24, 1919.--There is a great field
for the American Legion, the organization of American veterans
of the World War, and judging by the spirit of the recent
convention and by the expressions of the returning delegates as
reported in the press of the country, it is going to fill that
field.

And the field that awaits it, and that it seems to intend to
fill, is a field of a vigorous and aggressive effort to demand
and enforce a strong and coherent and consistent Americanism.

Not the swashbuckling kind of Americanism--the
chip-on-the-shoulder kind--the we-can-lick-the-world kind. These
lads of ours are the last in the world to preach that fool kind
of Americanism. For they--or at least those of them who crossed
the seas and fought for liberty and peace on the other
side--have seen in the case of Germany what that kind of
nationalism comes to, and they are against it.

But there is a type of Americanism which is utterly free from
the taint of mi