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Title: The American Legion Weekly (Volume 3, No. 51 (December 23, 1921))
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: American Legion. National Headquarters
Subjects: American Legion periodicals
Publisher: American Legion
Contributing Library: The American Legion National Headquarters Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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otherwords, that they do not proceed to theultimate passage of a good law by aprocess of elimination; by trying out allor most of the bad ones first. Certainlytwo laws that have been tried can bediscarded without argument, namely—the one we had and the one we have. There is no need for discussion hereof the law we had. There is little argu-ment today in favor of opening wide thegates and letting in every one from war-wracked Europe who can raise the priceto get here. With the exception of thepeople of France and England, manyof whom might be legitimately wel-comed to our shores, all who could raisethe price would come if we left the gateopen with no guards to watch. We dontwant all those people now, so thatsthat, so to speak. The old pre-war,come-on-come-all law is out. So lets take a look at the law wehave. To be sure its not much to look(Continued on page 20) PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Merry Christmas! \(/e sotta a^ful lotofxmasPresents ofpa santv claus wis 1 f By Wallgren
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PAGE 11 Keeping Step with the Legion Weve Much to Discuss THE purpose of this department isto transmit ideas and information.At the present time we have a topdrawer full of informationand about a quarter of abrain full of ideas. The ac-cumulation in the drawer wascaused by the recent neces-sity of discussing severalpressing matters which tookmost of our alloted space.These pressing problems—the new dues collecting andmembership recording sys-tem, post elections* and theLegions Christ-mas celebration—arent out of theway yet, but weshall endeavor todispose of themwith a few well-chosen words andthen get on with,new business. Thefew well-chosenwords are these:If you haventalready done so,read the an-nouncement o npage 18 of thisissue. It isanother reminderabout the newmembership cardsystem and if youdont digest whatit says and ob-serve the same there is going to be confusion. Andif you are not square with your post,get square immediately. Your postfinance officer may have to wait unt

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