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But I have a foot in an awful lot about Vincent autumn pilots Irene is now a host on the Pat new at sixty Polk Street in the revealing the stand to a magnificent pageant turned out by the New York state another can Legion which is Can clearing its convention here in New York City today the actual from all of these are because our convention concluded last night under the chairmanship of Louis drive home and say to decide the matter is that the your newly elected to take command of the American Legion of the on of the James Desmond. And this beautiful pageant here today we get the real thrill of Americanism the American Legion is one of the great organizations within the gates of our city and our nation is well known that unequivocal Eagle stands for that which is American and fine and hopeful for the future of. The American Legion and I was just going to put its convention in New York that is and get out of the nursing home and a lot of them from the American Legion and I had lain all the way for. The gun cause that they called me sergeant on this afternoon but we gotta get out of Iraq and I've never been turned out either your opponent and I certainly had color in the reader these badges but out of thirty of the art marched up town with the American Legion parade and took a seat just a few moments ago in the grandstand there are sixty votes on this beautiful sunny cross nodding in the New York City we are indeed happen that were able to give a proper exposition to this little demonstration here today yesterday even though they are placed a very sought after disposal although the midshipman from Annapolis there is magick and of course come from all over the United States that is the delegation included in yesterday the trip around the five hundred thirty miles of the Autocad line it's always a pleasure when these people from other parts of the country. Come to New York and make us the Yorkers realized what a great and wonderful city it really is and we never realize it so much until we have a delegation of this kind who have an opportunity to see New York for the first time we who have grown up here and seen its development and its growth from the small dwelling to the huge skyscrapers as one of the boys called it in the youth convention and city hall a week back when he called it the tallest city in the world that was quite a phrase and in the pit amazing phrase at that and when the strangers there's a New York and get the thrill of the city for the first time we thought of the real live our own experience some of also had the happiness of seeing most of this development and when and when we have time to reconsider the fact from that there's any we might call a vortex that the present thing catches us then we really stop and realize what a great and wonder city it most truly is New York City has everything that any other city has to offer and we never realize until a group of people come from other parts of the country and see the city for the first time possibly one of the point where stood qualities that can develop in our consciousness or our appreciation of things is to become blouse A I don't think of any of us really are some of us get a little tired and we don't like to enthuse any more because it's an extra effort well we shouldn't feel that way about it because it is that constant through the eyes of other people that keeps the city what it really is the American Legion today it's certainly most happy and it's trying out here on Fifth Avenue and they can take content themselves with the fact that they have an under the tide of loyalty to these United States of America and all it comprises the government of the United States of America. Will have the privilege of presenting some of the guests there before the near the city of New York speaks in the final part of the program. But we never really realize what a beautiful Avenue this is with the thoughts of these wonderful buildings the Apart. And houses that are rapidly taking place of the residences that used to be the tradition about the three ninth Street well every parade that takes place around the avenue you witness is a change in the use of the real estate in this part of the city and one by one the individual mansions are disappearing and that the apartment houses are taking their place where a greater number of people may enjoy the great open spaces of Central Park a pop pop out of our fathers and not the creation and the purification as little as commerce and industry would put it as a very valuable city. Outside of a thing at a cost of the ground we tread on and because of the expense of that ground we can't always move as fast as we'd like to because the amortization of the Stepanek spends required for these improvements is a matter that keeps the budget commissioner Mr Patterson and the mayor in a constant state shall we say of incandescence effervescent. Is one of those famous locomotive hear the bells. Ontario counties trying out. Engine number three twenty two and that means everything. Already in a. Forty minute or so. We spoke of the mounted police when they like this parade. And it's always a pleasure to know these beautiful animals as they lead and conclude any pageant here in New York City the horses themselves the parents also proudly that they seem to realize that they're part of New York City Of course anyone who has ever owned a horse and I might even use the time lived with a horse and a dog knows that it's the most wonderful trio in the world a man a horse another. Wrong when you have a horse of your own I speak with experience because before I got in radio I owned a saddle horse I've never owned anything since I got radio that's not a piece of any kind it's just merely an experience but I remember that a horse got so after a while to do all the other places that we'd stop and as we climb the arms mountain and pick up other riders to go for a ride through the Great South Mountain reservation there on the top of the orange mountain and that the horse really knew enough to bow to people as he came into the different places and that was treated like a person and very often given a pizza sugar I was all afraid always afraid of always getting diabetes so I kept down on the sugar right I'm a local horse like the unexpected and I used to ask them to exchange an apple I didn't know then that I was heading into the health education broadcast of the city station. This amusing. That devil called was won the title God called the office we go on and on. As we go around with childhood comedies you know. They're turned out in white trousers with gold stripes little arms colored coats and the GO trimmings and white hats what I want to call a Caucasian. A Drummondville because I had a magnificent touch to these up right here on Fifth Avenue. Out as another musical organization coming up from sixty third Street maybe I'd like to get that approach of the news that come out as we do in the entrance of the third autumn the Apollo top even our comp. They approach the full force and then the fading of the music. And. The Stars and Stripes and the various banners of the different companies of the American Legion lend the color and beauty to this by. Had him here and they haven't you and there's a great deal of music. I never saw so many bands and so often in a parade is the reason this Legion prayed here today and there were some of us receiving a great deal aside from the state as they march up here's a group coming up in double time they must a lost their place in the parade. Not a beautiful opening of a high from hard to go home I should say if. I can so promise with bright red sash and red high things on the uniform if they put the names on the drums we give them credit for what they are. Made of them out of I like to sort of a lot of notoriety which is the greatest form of sort of us. Public honors convey is dubious as they can often be honorable. It seems to be a lift of this parade everybody seems to be on the crowds along the curb and in the revealing stands I certainly enjoying every moment of them maybe they're enjoying the privilege of drying out too after all the rain this week I suppose if we tell you to conserve water anymore you'll laugh at us but there may be months ahead yet when we live long dry spells and eight million people using that water on the millions of visitors that come into our city naturally creates an anxiety for the commissioner of water supply. So when we are. After these things please don't think. Cooperate is good sort of. We may sound funny at times but preparation is a matter of the times viewpoint. Connected the county is coming along now. The drum major is quite a power I should say ballerina should I say like ballet dancer. Doing quite a drill with the drumsticks. Cotton. That's the tallest leader I've seen in a long while it looks to be about eight feet tall. Well Schenectady should be good it's one of the finest studies in the development of electricity I'm a General Electric is one of the greatest concerns and what about greatest assets the United States of America has among many assets when an emergency of any kind of element and we all know what they're capable of developing they are. Putting a lot of and much of that experiment took place in Schenectady and Thomas Edison the great pioneer of electricity and who promulgated so many of the fundamental facts about electricity the find of the development in which we are today he was a very great factor in the founding of the General Electric as well as the lamp works that I was in New Jersey and the famous old laboratory there at West Orange which succeeded Menlo Park. All some time understand the reason why the state of New Jersey prevented all the other stonier to be removed from the state of New Jersey where it belonged to Dearborn Michigan now this is no reflection on anybody it just seems to me to be a lack on the New Jersey patriotism and inferentially national patriot is. In not making the shrine at Menlo Park where these tremendous world shaking events took place in the great simplicity of the caracter of Thomas Edison It was my privilege to know him and work through the early developments of the Edison storage battery and for a man of his greatness and stature in the scientific world I don't think there was a more simple and direct personage in the world he'd even ask you if you didn't feel well if you seemed a bit draggy when you came into work in the morning because he had intentions of working you possibly till past midnight and he wanted to be sure of your insurance but it was always so interesting and so wonderful that it was a lesson in greatness true greatness to understand that the greatness of Mr Edison new was in the thing itself the individual really had his own ideas about that too. He had one remarkable expression that I never forgot when someone asked him how he can do so much he says I don't so much as that I furnish the inspiration and put the perspiration on the payroll. Comes a magnificent that he will corn out all in white and green and the stars and stripes in the Legion flags flying high above their heads we wish we could bring you the actual picture because I'm afraid my description isn't quite adequate to transmit the color and quality of the South that here. Thing Irish I never object to the color green. I post this from Geneva they are now in a bit of a right you know upon type and bright green on the drum major is a leader in the bright green the outfit. The leader was a very tall man the thing I like about that he was able to display a great deal of green. And I had great all revolutionary time of Mohawk the next delegation passing now is from Mohawk remember that remarkable book comes along the Mohawk. Book at South with a beautiful inspirational love writing about the early days of the rebel revolution and the force of Herkimer in the surrounding country there in the Mohawk Valley I regret to say that Hollywood massacre the book. It's a good thing to smile and laugh but we don't think that the qualities of patriotism are just. One of the distinctive features of this reviewing stand today is the magnificent head of white hair that was always a notable factor a former police commissioner and write the mission and write was the commissioner of the city in the autumn when W. N.Y.C. was founded and he was the first speaker on the program of the opening program of the station the amazing thing. That was twenty seven years ago and he doesn't look remarkably different from that day they have beautiful right so we have them and they have plenty of it right now he was a good commissioner of the wonderful town at that time he also served under Mao Walker's well. This outfit isn't right out for marine blue and gold. We're going to have an interview here but nobody seems to want to talk at all in the view that in different parts of the plane we'd like to the places we'd like to bring to the microphone and. And as soon as they get to where we can capture them for an interview we're going to ask them to give us a little cross-section of the state and the arc from the different problems of our great wonderful state we've watched the delegations from the different parts of New York state pass. On the Mohawk Valley is always an inspiring. Flashback to the early histories of New York State. And the part it played in the revolutionary history. Revolution has its quality to. These ladies are in beautiful silver grey in our inch colored blouses and. White hats with blue cock a. Y one way they come from out a solo around home province of New York City I say that because some of the New Yorkers go up. On browser The subways are rebuilt. It really left a mountain of deep golden yellow. Talk a for an eco yellow blue trousers silver piping. Now a beautiful color God. The city in the Ark has to handle so many problems that develop in relation to its commerce and industry and those of us who think straight realize that it is commerce and industry and the activity of the business man the man who creates the payroll that makes this one of the tallest to use the statement of that boy in City Hall last week on the Youth Congress the tallest city in the world. It's all right to have isms and ideologies if we start to practice them as we might say a diversion and we don't divert the real and true purpose of development in the world scene and if any of us read history a tall with any concept of that he we do know that it is commerce and industry that there was up the great empires of existence I use the word empire to properly illustrate the force and quality of beauty and accomplishment. The city of course has to meet situation such as no city in the world is called upon to do I'm midshipman yesterday aboard the boat that they were utterly amazed at the variety of things that are just and then take a part of the city on some of the our young engineers aboard that had been around the city since the battleship Missouri in the destroyers and carry them on the tour right here in the all. And they said that they expected to see things but the actual demonstrations of technical mechanical and other amazing operators as within the gates of our city was certainly a feast for an engineer and a short cut to many of the problems that in the abstract he found so difficult in the study hall and had to see them in operation here in New York where he was able and one engineer spoke he said everything I have wanted to see demonstrated I've been able to find a specimen of it here in the city of New York in actual operation as part of the maintenance of the city and he said it's really a wonderful thrilling thing to come to New York with a purpose with the idea of understanding what is taking place here and what is back of this great city. That wonderful city Poughkeepsie. Located as it is one of the historical spots on the Hudson is now the next allegation here is their music from focusing. On the magnificent array of the stars and stripes and Legion banners from ball caps and. You have a stop to think of what the young fireman and the young policeman has to know when he takes up service now with the city of New York it's not like the old Dutch settlement when he carried a lantern with a candle in it and cried out at midnight and other periods of the night all's well behind the so there in plain facades of these buildings is some of the greatest and some of the most dangerous technical operators in the world once it gets out of control and for that reason the firemen on the Policeman I was to be trying to make the situation scientifically and technically. Rock on the rest. They're counting on our coming along with the magnificent ray of flags of the Legion and our own stars and stripes. Rockland and Westchester County. One good thing about the organization of the city of New York in its government is the fact that the problem of buildings in licensing the purpose for which a building is to be used as a full plan and the charge of everything that takes place in that building these informations must be placed at the disposal of the police and fire departments and the men within the precincts of those buildings have to make a study AGA the contents of the building so they know how to meet the emergency OK. And now ladies and gentlemen there's a little bit of a lull in the music and we think at this time we'd like to present the mayor of the city of New York the honorable Vincent all Rampolla Terry. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm here that I'm here at the reviewing stand at sixty fourth Street and Fifth Avenue reviewing this perfectly wonderful parade of the American Legion of the Department of the state of New York on my left is the past State Department commander Dr Hahn of Buffalo New York and he was very proud indeed when he saw his buffalo contention walking by and he had every right to be proud because they made our wonderful a parents on my right is the new State Department commander of the American Legion my friend Colonel Jim Dam are asked. Because those of us who've seen this parade go by American Legion units representing every county in the state of New York. That what for anybody is that has me they say these American heroes of World War One and World War two macho up Fifth Avenue on this warm August day demonstrating to the people of ASADA and the people of this nation that as long as we have men in our country we're rolling the takeup ons in the defense of our country in time of war that's on America it's safe and if anybody thinks any other lies let them stand up and watch this kind of parade which is only partly due to other parades that demonstrate that the people of the city of New York are Americans first last and at all times thank. God just heard the mayor the city of New York the animals and all and pilot sorry and his tribute to the magnificent pageant of the American Legion here on the Fifth Avenue we'd like to ask the commander to speak if he would like to we would have to ask him corners because we haven't arranged to do saw Mr Prosper was in conferring always must take command of Desmond and if it's yes we'll put him on the other hand. A man who has been very busy here today and done a great assistance to walk in coordinating the factors of this great American Legion demonstration on Fifth Avenue when Alissa has a contact. It's a very difficult to talk again sighed wonderful music a low. I want the music in the worst kind of way and then we'd like to represent the adjutant of today's outpourings here on Fifth Avenue the honorable Maori stumbler who will give his impressions of the American Legion parade here today but he stand by I should like at the outset to thank the mayor for placing at the disposal of the American Legion the great facilities of this great broadcasting station W. and when I say typical of every out of a salary that the mayor had has brought us our disposal nay these three wonderful days possible I wish all of your people could have been at our convention sessions but opulent drum corps and band competitions last night and then to say this great parade marching up Fifth Avenue where our fortune to be one of the hill organizations that can parade up there if there. Was some of the that we can ever give the American Legion Mr stumbler will be most happy to do so and that is one of the things one of the preliminary factors you can always count on when the Legion comes into New York City and there's Committee and the radio as a means of expression well always be at the disposal of that great American institution the American Legion. The demonstration here to day is Ben most beautiful and inspiring and we think you know that there are other and regular programmes to take place on the city station and the description of this parade would be possibly nothing but a reiteration unless we had all the state counties tuned in and they'd like to hear descriptions of their own individual county how we thought of that's the situation today over the privy to the American Legion and the one of the great organizations that has no fear whatever about standing up and being counted as American we hail them and we salute them as a man will not declare on the salt there is no way of telling his qualities and if you do not know his qualities you cannot possibly classify and none of us with real home will applaud and wield a society like this. And hopefully the fall when I'll come up with non-lethal go down sixty bucks freed up the sound so as music artists up Brahman took off past the reviewing stand Good luck to the American Legion long life and continued prosperity and happiness to them and their loved ones will return and out of the studios This is an inevitable Broadcasting System.