(j) It authorized the establishment of a bureau to aid service
men to get re-employment; and of a legal bureau to help them get
from the Government their overdue pay and allotments. These two
bureaus are being organized at the National Headquarters of the
Legion and will be in active operation by July 1st.
(13) _What else did the St. Louis caucus do_?
(a) It endorsed all steps taken by the Paris caucus, and adopted
a temporary constitution which conformed to the tentative
constitution adopted in Paris.
(14) _What does this Constitution stand for_?
(a) The preamble answers that question; it reads: "For God and
Country we associate ourselves together for the following
purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United
States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and
perpetuate a one hundred per cent. Americanism; to preserve the
memories and incidents of our association in the Great War; to
inculcate a sense of individual obligations to the community,
state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes
and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote
peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to
posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to
consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to
mutual helpfulness.
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