"American soldiers and sailors don't want to go to a
city whose mayor would be ashamed to welcome such a convention."
A progressive Republican, son of a famous father, refuses the
chairmanship to quiet suspicion of personal ambition, and the
office goes to a Southern Democrat of whose party the gathering
is in complete ignorance.

One of the convention stenographers said: "This is the funniest
convention I have ever attended." We have an idea that there was
an element of prophecy in her homely remark--a body representing
more than four million American soldiers and sailors that makes
so little political noise is likely to be about as funny to the
conventionally minded politician as a bombardment of gas shells.
This language of restraint in the mouths of organized civilian
youth may prove to be a natural companion to the famous battle
slogan of the A.E.F.: "Let's go!"

_New York Evening Post_, May 3, 1919.--... The true usefulness
of a veterans' organization is not far to seek. Like the G.A.R.,
the Legion should maintain and develop the comradeship bred by
the war. It can assist the unfortunate in its ranks; it can take
care of the widows and orphans of soldiers, in so far as any
inadequacy of public provision seems to make care necessary. The
Legion can preserve the fame of soldiers and commanders, by
erecting monuments, by seeing that histories are written, and by
proceedings of its regular reunions. It can foster such a public
recollection of the great deeds of the war as well as broaden
and deepen American patriotism. Sherman remarked in 1888 that
there was some danger that a peace-loving generation in time of
crises "would conclude that the wise man stays at home, and
leaves the fools to take the buffets and kick of war." This
danger can best be met by just such an organization as the
G.A.R., with its campfires of song and story. Comradeship,
charity and patriotism--these should be the Legion's watchwords.

_New Haven_ (Conn.) _Union_, April 16, 1919.--... Its more
immediate task, as its promoters see it, is to help the members
and the families of members who maybe in need of assistance. No
comrade of the great struggle is to feel that he is forgotten
and forsaken by the comrades who served the same great cause.
Its large and more permanent duty is to spread the s