_Manchester_ (N. H). _Union_, May 27, 1919.--... In spite of all that has been written and said it appears there still remains some mistaken idea and prejudices concerning this organization. The purposes of the American Legion are: 1. To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. 2. To maintain law and order. 3. To foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent. Americanism. 4. To preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War. 5. To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation. 6. To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses. 7. To make right the master of might. 8. To promote peace and good will on earth. 9. To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy. 10. To consecrate and sanctify comradeship by devotion to mutual helpfulness. This is the program and platform of the wonderful organization whose potential membership is the four million and more men who wore their country's uniform in the war. It is big enough and broad enough to admit every man and woman who joined the colors. If, as has been intimated, there are some few ex-service men who think they see in this tremendous movement something personal and partisan, they should take the blinders off, forget their unworthy fears, and come out into the open with their comrades, determined, as every man is who has already joined, that the American Legion will never be made the vehicle of personal ambition nor the creature of partisan purpose; but will be conserved to foster and promote only those high purposes which are so nobly defined in the language which is quoted above, taken bodily from the constitution of the Legion. PITTSBURGH, _Gazette-Times,_ May 29, 1919.--... In contrast with the Grand Army, the American Legion will embrace all sections of our land. Similarly it will be the private soldier's organization. Military honors will not count. Absolute Americanism is to be its dominating principle. With the dwindling ranks of the Grand Army there is need of such an organization. The Grand Army has long been a staunch bulwark of patriotism but time is doing its work. Others must soon take up where the veterans of the Civil War left off. Those of the new organization who saw service overseas possess a new vision of what America means. Because of their good fortune in going abroad they reaped an advantage over those who were denied the privilege, though entitled to no more credit. All who donned the uniform served. With an organization of such possibilities in numbers and all imbued with a patriotic fervor the safety of the Republic against the machinations of those who would tear down is assured.