. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 2, No. 14 (April 23 and 30, 1920)] . logic. All in all it was to have been amerry tournament, with such a joust-ing of weapons as had never beenseen on a Detroit stage. The orderof battle was so drawn up that allthe rules of peaceful stage warfarewould have been observed, and theLegionnaires were confident that theresult would be all in their favor. But the Legionnaires reckonedwithout the police. It happened thatsuch a procedure as the Legion mencounted on had no police precedentsin Detroit, and there was immediatealarm over the plan in the mindsof Detroit
. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 2, No. 14 (April 23 and 30, 1920)] . logic. All in all it was to have been amerry tournament, with such a joust-ing of weapons as had never beenseen on a Detroit stage. The orderof battle was so drawn up that allthe rules of peaceful stage warfarewould have been observed, and theLegionnaires were confident that theresult would be all in their favor. But the Legionnaires reckonedwithout the police. It happened thatsuch a procedure as the Legion mencounted on had no police precedentsin Detroit, and there was immediatealarm over the plan in the mindsof Detroits blue-coated embodimentof the League of Nations —even stage war—must be pre-vented; peace must be preserved,even though that peace was a trucu-lent armistice. So ruled the forbade the debate between theLegion men and the reds. Whereat there was indignation inat least one Legion post: As aformer corporal remarked: If wecannot put it over the reds we shallbegin to wonder whether they maybe right. And being forbidden to APRIL 23 ang 30. 1920. Arthur Woods find out what the other fellow hadto say, the prospective debaters sub-sided in dissatisfaction. IN Detroit the soap box orators findan unusually favorable field fordaily battle, for in this industrial andautomobile city there are thousandsof foreign-born possessed of an in-tense curiosity and a desire to the absence of any other state-ments, misrepresentation is often ac-cepted by them as of full facevalue. The Detroit Legion posts plan wasan instinctive method with which tomeet the aliens demand for knowl-edge. And it is the problem of meet-ing that demand for knowledge whichfaces The American Legion as awhole in its pledged purpose of up-holding the elemental principles ofAmerican life and government. It isthis problem—among others—which the Legions recently establishedNational Americanism Commissionthinks ought to be met fairly andsquarely. Arthur Woods, formerly PoliceCommissioner
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