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...smug letter of Russell J. Marden (TIME, Nov. 10, heading "Inspiration & Contrast") gives me a pain in the neck. He compares the meeting of 60 veterans of one division with an American Legion convention of about twice 60,000, to the disparagement of the latter...
...Sixty were present. Many had been wounded in action. None had liquor. The spirit was remarkably matured thought, striking dignity and intense respectability," says Mr. Marden...
...seems safe to conclude that Mr. Marden did not attend the business sessions, and the committee meetings of the Boston convention. There he could have found matured thought, dignity and respectability, but hardly intense respectability. When respectability becomes ''intense" it labors and creaks at the joints...
...Marden and his non-legionaire friends join the Legion and lend it their matured thought, their striking dignity and their intense respectability. They cannot destroy entirely the sense of humor that is characteristic of legionaires, and they will learn, among other things, that the Legion has kept faith with the disabled veteran and his dependents, that in its more than 10,000 posts it is giving unselfish aid to communities, states and nation, and that it is a mighty patriotic force that has served and will continue to serve this country well...
RUSSELL J. MARDEN...