Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — LEGION OPENS FIRST MEET [ARTICLE]

LEGION OPENS FIRST MEET

Marshal Foch in Message Says America and France Must Stand United In Peace as In War. Minneapolis, Nov. 11. —To give the American Legion permanent shape and declare its policies as a force In the sodaland governmental life oMhe nation, 2,000 delegates representing all sections and classes of service men and women started their first convention here. Gov. J. ▲. A. Burnqulst, Cyrus Northrop, president of the University of Minnesota, and hfayor J. E. Meyers delivered brief speeches at the opening session In the morniag, which was called to order by Henry O. Lindaley of Texas, national chairman. Greetings from Marshal Foch, allied com-Xder-ln-chief, to the American leconvention were transmitted by J. J. Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States. Marshal Foch’s message follows: "My valiant War Companions: “The 11th of November, 1918, saw the capitulation of the enemy, vanquished Germany was Craving for mercy, and she delivered over to us such trophies as history has never known. “This was indeed the victory of the allied armies. “With head erect the valiant American fighters of the Argonne, of the Mbuse, of the Somme, of Flanders, after hard days, resumed once more, by the side of the allies, the march toward the Rhine. . ‘Tn this day, when for the first time we celebrate the anniversary of the armistice, I want to be with you to <ywnmemorate the past and to tell you that with, our ayes everraised toward the same ideal of justice and liberty, we must remain united as we have been in the days of trial and the days of triumph. “Lastly, I wish to salute, as ever living in, the memory of the past, and of the threshold of the future common to us, the tombs of those who lie In the sett of France, resting there, and are < aa a symbol of our dissoluble union." <