The Story of the American Legion: The Birth of the Legion
Chapter 13
WHY THE AMERICAN LEGION?
As I glance back over these pages I am impressed with the fact that only the preface of "The Story of the American Legion" has been written here. When the reaches of the years shall gather to themselves the last of the men of the army, navy, and marine corps of the United States during its war against Germany that story may then be faithfully told. So the truth of the matter now is that history is in the writing so far as the American Legion in its relation to the United States of America is concerned. That statement isn't in reality as platitudinous as it seems at first thought.
We have arrived at world importance in history. We have come to that as the result of our part in the world war. Our isolation is over. We are the cynosure of all eyes. Uncle Sam is the dominant world figure; his hands control the reins that are driving the world. He has the enemies which all the successful have. There are those who had, and haven't, and there are those who never had, and want; all desiring, all envying the power of the United States of America. This great power and position was gained primarily by one motive--unselfishness. Just so long as it is our dominant trait will we retain what we have gained. Just so long as we remain true to our innate principles, to the tenets of our constitution, will we retain world importance and world influence.
There is a wolf at the gates of civilized Europe. If he gets inside nothing can stop him from ravishing us. This war has bound us so closely to Europe that we are, in a sense, one and the same. He who strikes our brother strikes us, even though he be so far away that the distance is measured by an ocean. We must get over the idea that distance makes a difference. The Atlantic ocean has just been crossed in sixteen hours. Remember, thought travels even faster.
The wolf that I mentioned is a Mad Thought. He is Bolshevism. He has the madness because of hunger, a hunger not only of body but of mind; the century-long hunger of the Russian peoples for Freedom. Russia has run in a circle. From the autocracy of the classes it has arrived at the autocracy of the masses.
Then, too, all our European brothers are war worn; tired, tired nearly to death with struggle and sacrifice, and this is not a frame of mind calculated to help reseat reason in the world.
Why the American Legion?
One of our great bankers recently returned from an intimate study of affairs abroad. His name is Frank A. Vanderlip. In an address before the Economic Club in New York City he said that Europe is paralyzed and that our task is to save.
I give the introduction to his address as it appeared in the New York _Times_:
"Frank A. Vanderlip, who spoke last night at the Hotel Astor, at a dinner of the Economic Club, which was held for the purpose of hearing his story of conditions in Europe, whence he has recently returned, said that England was on the verge of a revolution, which was narrowly averted in February, when he was there, and the conditions on the Continent of Europe are appalling beyond anything dreamed of in this country.
"He said that the food conditions in Europe would be worse instead of better for a year ahead, because of the dislocation of labor and the destruction of farm animals, and that the industrial and economic outlook, generally, points to a period after the war, which will equal, if not exceed the war period in suffering and misery.
"He said that Italy was afraid to disband her army, because she could not employ the men and was afraid of idleness. He said that the differential, which had kept England preëminent in international trade, was the underpayment of labor, and that this differential was now being wiped out, forcing England to face tremendously serious problems for the future. He quoted a British minister as saying that means would have to be found to send six or seven millions of Englishmen out of the British Isles and closer to the sources of food production, if continental conditions continued long as at present.
"He said that the best printing presses in the world to-day, except those in Washington, were at Petrograd, and that they were turning out masses of counterfeited pounds, francs, marks, lira, and pesetas, so skillfully made that detection was almost impossible. He said that these counterfeits were being spent largely by Germans to foment Bolshevist propaganda.
"Spain would, he said, be the most promising country in Europe except for the labor situation there, which had brought it to the verge of Bolshevism. He said that the most perfect laboratory of Bolshevism in Europe outside of Russia was in Barcelona, Spain, which he said was ruled absolutely by a mysterious secret council, which had censored and fined the newspapers until they quit publication and had enforced its will in all matters by assassinations, which no one dared to punish.
"He said that America alone could save Europe and that its aid must be extended to all countries equally. He said that this was necessary, not only to save Europe, but to prevent an invasion of America by the forces threatening the social overthrow of Europe."
Why the American Legion?
There, at least, is one great reason.
Our men of the army, navy, and marine corps got a schooling in the practical Americanism which our military establishment naturally teaches. Those who were aliens by birth and those native sons with inadequate educational advantages learned a great deal by association with men of better types and by travel. These men can and will stem the insidious guile of the wolf, and, to aid them in so doing, the Legion has an active speakers' bureau under Captain Osborn teaching Americanism in every section of the country. These speakers, in helping to organize the Legion along the right lines, teach the Constitution of the United States and preach that remedial changes in this government can be brought about in only one way, and that is, constitutionally.
Why the American Legion?
America is safe from any real danger if she can keep everybody busy. Less than two weeks after the caucus, the national executive committee had in process of formation a practicable scheme to aid in solving the reëmployment problem. As time goes on this department of Legion activity will become more and more efficient.
Here is another answer to the question.
All through these pages the reader has found references to this question of reëmployment; to anti-Bolshevism; the protection of the uniform; the non-partisan and non-political nature of the Legion; unselfishness; disability pay for the reserve forces; war risk insurance; allotments and back pay; the care of disabled service men; one hundred per cent. Americanism, and the deportation of those aliens who "bit the hand that fed them." The story has dealt almost entirely with these questions because primarily and fundamentally they are The American Legion. This program is the most important in the United States to-day. It means the betterment of the most stable forces in our community life, not only of to-day but for the next forty or fifty years. It means the proper extension of the influence of the most powerful factor for patriotism in our country--the onetime service man. It does not mean patriotism bounded on one side by a brass band and on the other by a dressy uniform and a reunion banner. It means real patriotism in its broadest sense--a clean body politic; a clean national soul and a clean international conscience.
This is the final answer to the question which serves as the title for this concluding chapter.
THE AMERICAN LEGION
LIST OF STATE OFFICERS
ALABAMA: Chairman: Bibb Graves, Montgomery. Secretary: Leroy Jacobs, Care Jacobs Furniture Co., Birmingham.
ARIZONA: Chairman: E. Power Conway, Noll Bldg., Phoenix. Secretary: Fred B. Townsend, Natl. Bk., Arizona Bldg., Phoenix.
ARKANSAS: Chairman: J.J. Harrison, Little Rock. Secretary: Granville Burrow, Little Rock.
CALIFORNIA: Chairman: Henry G. Mathewson, Flood Bldg., San Francisco. Secretary: E.E. Bohlen, 926 Flood Bldg., San Francisco.
COLORADO: Chairman: H.A. Saidy, Colorado Springs. Secretary: Morton M. David, 401 Empire Bldg., Denver.
CONNECTICUT: Chairman: Jas. B. Moody, Jr., 202 Phoenix Bk. Bldg., Hartford. Secretary: Alfred A. Phillips, Jr., 110 Glenbrook Rd., Stamford.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Chairman: E. Lester Jones, 833 Southern Bldg., Washington. Secretary: Howard Fisk, 833 Southern Bldg., Washington.
DELAWARE: Chairman: Geo. N. Davis, 909 Market St., Wilmington. Secretary: L.K. Carpenter, Du Pont Bldg., Wilmington.
FLORIDA: Chairman: S.L. Lowry, Jr., Citizens Bk. Bldg., Tampa. Secretary: J.T. Wiggington, 818--15th St., Miami.
GEORGIA: Chairman: Trammell Scott, 97 E. Merrits Ave., Atlanta. Secretary: Louis H. Bell, c/o Service Record, 208 Flatiron Bldg., Atlanta.
HAWAII: Chairman: Lawrence Judd, c/o T.H. Davies & Co., Ltd., Honolulu. Secretary: J.P. Morgan, Box 188, Honolulu.
IDAHO: Chairman: C.M. Booth, Pocatello. Secretary: Laverne Collier, Pocatello.
ILLINOIS: Chairman: George G. Seaman, Taylorville. Secretary: Myron E. Adams, 205 Marquette Bldg., 140 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
INDIANA: Chairman: Raymond S. Springer, Connersville. Secretary: L. Russell Newgent, 518 Hume Monsur Bldg., Indianapolis.
IOWA: Chairman: Matthew A. Tinley, Council Bluffs. Secretary: John MacVicar, 336 Hubbell Bldg., Des Moines.
KANSAS: Chairman: A. Phares, 519 Sweiter Bldg., Wichita. Secretary: Ike Lambert, Emporia.
KENTUCKY: Chairman: Henry DeHaven Moorman, Hardinsburgh. Secretary: D.A. Sachs, Louisville.
LOUISIANA: Chairman: Allison Owen, 1237 State St., New Orleans. Secretary: T.H.H. Pratt, 721 Hibernia Bank, New Orleans.
MAINE: Chairman: A.L. Robinson, 85 Exchange St., Portland. Secretary: James L. Boyle, 184 Water St., Augusta.
MARYLAND: Chairman: Jas. A. Gary, Jr., Equitable Bldg., Baltimore. Secretary: Alex. Randall, 12 West Chase St., Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS: Chairman: John F.J. Herbert, 749 Pleasant St., Worcester. Secretary: George P. Gilbody, 3 Van Winkle St., Boston.
MICHIGAN: Chairman: Geo. C. Waldo, Detroit. Secretary: Ryle D. Tabor, 312 Moffatt Bldg., Detroit.
MINNESOTA: Chairman: Harrison Fuller, c/o St. Paul Dispatch, St. Paul. Secretary: George G. Chapin, 603 Guardian Life Bldg., St. Paul.
MISSISSIPPI. Chairman: Alex Fitzhugh, Vicksburgh. Secretary: John M. Alexander, Jackson.
MISSOURI: Chairman: Secretary:
MONTANA: Chairman: Chas. L. Sheridan, Bozeman. Secretary: Ben. W. Barnett, Helena.
NEBRASKA: Chairman: John G. Maher, Lincoln. Secretary: Allan A. Tukey, 1st Natl. Bank Bldg., Omaha.
NEVADA: Chairman: E.L. Malsbary, Reno. Secretary: J.D. Salter, Winnimucca.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Chairman: Frank Knox, Manchester. Secretary: Frank J. Abbott, Manchester.
NEW JERSEY: Chairman: Hobart Brown, c/o Fireman's Insurance Co., Broad and Market Sts., Newark. Secretary: George W.C. McCarter, 765 Broad St., Newark.
NEW MEXICO: Chairman: Charles M. DeBremon, Roswell. Secretary: Harry Howard Dorman, Santa Fé.
NEW YORK: Chairman: C.W. Wickersham, 140 Nassau St., New York City. Secretary: Wade H. Hayes, 140 Nassau St., New York City.
NORTH CAROLINA: Chairman: C.K. Burgess, 107 Commercial Bank Bldg., Raleigh. Secretary: Charles N. Hulvey, A.&E. College, Raleigh.
NORTH DAKOTA: Chairman: R.H. Treacy, Bismarck. Secretary: Ed. E. Gearey, Fargo.
OHIO: Chairman: P.C. Galbraith, Cincinnati. Secretary: Chalmers R. Wilson, Adj. Gen. Office, State House, Columbus.
OKLAHOMA: Chairman: Ross N. Lillard, Oklahoma City. Secretary: F.W. Fisher, Oklahoma City.
OREGON: Chairman: E.J. Eivers, 444-1/2 Larrabee St., Portland. Secretary: Dow V. Walker, Care Multnomah Club, Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA: Chairman and Secretary: George F. Tyler, 121 S. 5th St., Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND: Chairman: Alexander H. Johnson, City Hall, Providence. Secretary: James E. Cummiskey, Crompton.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Chairman: John D. Smyser, M.D., 423 South Gargan St., Florence. Secretary: Ben. D. Fulton, 32 West Evans St., Florence.
SOUTH DAKOTA: Chairman: T.R. Johnson, Sioux Falls. Secretary: J.C. Denison, Vermillion.
TENNESSEE: Chairman: Roan Waring, Bank of Commerce and Trust Co. Bldg., Memphis. Secretary: W.R. Craig, Nat. Life and Accident Co., Nashville, Tenn.
TEXAS: Chairman: Claude B. Birkhead, San Antonio. Secretary: J.A. Belzer, Austin.
UTAH: Chairman: Harold R. Smoot, Salt Lake City. Secretary: Baldwin Robertson, 409 Ten Boston Bldg., Salt Lake City.
VIRGINIA: Chairman: Andrew D. Christian, c/o Ruy & Power Bldg., Richmond. Secretary: R.G.M. Ross, 508 1st Nat'l. Bank Bldg. Newport News.
VERMONT: Chairman: H. Nelson Jackson, Burlington. Secretary: Joseph H. Fountain, 138 Colchester Ave., Burlington.
WASHINGTON. Chairman: Harvey A. Moss, Seattle. Secretary: George R. Drever, c/o Adj. Gen. Office, Armory, Seattle.
WEST VIRGINIA: Chairman: Jackson Arnold, 111 Court Ave., Weston. Secretary: Chas. McCamic, 904 Nat'l. Bank of West Virginia Bldg., Wheeling.
WISCONSIN: Chairman: E.F. Ackley, 226 First Nat'l. Bk. Bldg., Milwaukee. Secretary: R.N. Gibson, Grand Rapids.
WYOMING: Chairman: A.H. Beach, Lusk. Secretary: R.H. Nichols, Casper.
CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AS ADOPTED BY THE ST. LOUIS CAUCUS
May 10, 1919
PREAMBLE
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 obligation 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.
ARTICLE I
_Name_
The name of this organization shall be THE AMERICAN LEGION.
ARTICLE II
_Membership_
All persons shall be eligible to membership in this organization who were in the military or naval service of the United States during the period between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, both dates inclusive, and all persons who served in the military or naval services of any of the governments associated with the United States during the World War, provided that they were citizens of the United States at the time of their enlistment, and are again citizens at the time of application, except those persons who separated from the service under terms amounting to dishonorable discharge and except also those persons who refused to perform their military duties on the ground of conscientious or political obligation.
ARTICLE III
_Nature_
While requiring that every member of the organization perform his full duty as a citizen according to his own conscience and understanding, the organization shall be absolutely non-partisan, and shall not be used for the dissemination of partisan principles, or for the promotion of the candidacy of any person seeking public office or preferment.
ARTICLE IV
_Administration_
I. The Legislative Body of the organization shall be a national convention, to be held annually at a place and time to be fixed by vote of the preceding convention, or in the event that the preceding convention does not fix a time and place, then such time and place shall be fixed by the Executive Committee, hereinafter provided for.
2. The annual convention shall be composed of delegates and alternates from each state, the District of Columbia, and each territory and territorial possession of the United States, each of which shall be entitled to four delegates and four alternates, and to one additional delegate and alternate for each one thousand memberships paid up thirty days prior to the date of the national convention. The vote of each state, of the District of Columbia, and of each territory or territorial possession of the United States shall be equal to the total number of delegates to which that state, district, territory, or territorial possession is entitled.
3. The delegates to the national convention shall be chosen by each state in the manner hereinafter prescribed.
4. The executive power shall be vested in a National Executive Committee to be composed of two representatives from each state, the District of Columbia, territory and territorial possessions of the United States and such other ex-officio members as may be elected by the Caucus. The National Executive Committee shall have authority to fill any vacancies in its membership.
ARTICLE V
_State Organization_
The state organization shall consist of that organization in each state, territory, or the District of Columbia whose delegates have been seated in the St. Louis Caucus. In those states which are at present unorganized the state organization shall consist of an Executive Committee to be chosen by a state convention and such other officers and committees as said convention may prescribe. The state convention in the latter case shall be called by the two members of the National Executive Committee in that state, territory, and the District of Columbia, and shall choose the delegates to the national convention, providing a fair representation for all sections of the state or territory. Each state organization shall receive a charter from the National Executive Committee.
The officers of the state organization shall be as follows:
One State Commander. One State Vice Commander. One State Adjutant. One State Finance Officer. One State Historian. One State Master-at-Arms. One State Chaplain.
ARTICLE VI
_The Local Unit_
The local unit shall be termed the Post, which shall have a minimum membership of fifteen. No Post shall be received into this organization until it shall have received a charter. A Post desiring a charter shall apply to the State Organization and the charter shall be issued by the National Executive Committee whenever recommended by the State Organization. The National Executive Committee shall not issue a charter in the name of any living person.
The officers of the local organization shall be as follows:
One Post Commander. One Post Vice Commander. One Post Adjutant. One Post Finance Officer. One Post Historian. One Post Chaplain.
and such appointive officers as may be provided by the State Organization.
ARTICLE VII
_Dues_
Each state organization shall pay to the National Executive Committee or such officer as said committee may designate therefor, the sum of twenty-five cents annually, for each individual member in that particular state, District of Columbia, territory, or territorial possession.
ARTICLE VIII
_Quorum_
A quorum shall exist at a national convention when there are present twenty-five or more states and territories partially or wholly represented as herein-before provided.
ARTICLE IX
_Rules_
The rules of procedure at the national convention shall be those set forth in Roberts' Rules of Order.
ARTICLE X
_Amendment_
This Constitution is to be in force until the November Convention, when it will be ratified or amended by that Convention.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE ST. LOUIS CAUCUS, AMERICAN LEGION
May 10, 1919.
_1. Endorsement of the Victory Liberty Loan._
WHEREAS, the Government of the United States has appealed to the country for financial support in order to provide the funds for expenditures made necessary in the prosecution of the war and to reestablish the country upon a Peace basis; therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That this caucus emphatically endorses the Victory Liberty Loan and urges all Americans to promote the success of the Loan in every manner possible.
_2. Conscientious Objectors._
RESOLVED: That this caucus go on record as condemning the action of those responsible for protecting the men who refused full military service to the United States, in accordance with the Act of Congress of May 18, 1917, and who were tried by General Court Martial, sentenced to prison, and later fully pardoned, restored to duty, and honorably discharged, with all back pay and allowances given them; and as condemning further the I.W.W.'s, International Socialists, and Anarchists in their efforts to secure the release of these men already pardoned, and those still in prison, serving sentence, and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That this caucus demand full and complete investigation by Congress, of the trial and conviction of these parties, and their subsequent pardon.
_3. Protection of the Uniform._
WHEREAS, it is recognized that the uniform of the United States is as much a symbol as the flag itself, and thereby entitled to fitting respect, and, Whereas, certain unscrupulous firms and individuals have taken nefarious advantage of popular sentiment by utilizing men in uniforms as peddlers and sales-agents, and,
WHEREAS, certain discharged men have so far forgotten the respect due the uniform they wear, as to use it as an aid in peddling goods; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED: That this national caucus go on record as being unalterably opposed to such practices, and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That each state and local organization here represented be urged to do all in its power to put an end to this misuse of the uniform, which has always been worn with honor and for noble purposes.
_4. Reclamation of Arid, Swamp, and Cut-Over Timber Lands._
WHEREAS, the reclamation of arid, swamp, and cut-over timber lands is one of the great constructive problems of immediate interest to the nation; and,
WHEREAS, one of the questions for immediate consideration is that of presenting to discharged soldiers and sailors an opportunity to establish homes and create for themselves a place in the field of constructive effort; and,
WHEREAS, one of the purposes for which the formation of the American Legion is contemplated is to take an energetic interest in all constructive measures designed to promote the happiness and contentment of the people, and to actively encourage all proper movements of a general nature to assist the men of the Army and Navy in solving the problems of wholesome existence; and,
WHEREAS, the Department of the Interior and the Reclamation Service have been engaged in formulating and presenting to the country broad, constructive plans for the reclamation of arid, swamp and cut-over timber lands;
Now, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: By the caucus of delegates of the American Legion in Convention assembled, in the City of Saint Louis, Missouri, that we endorse the efforts heretofore made for the reclamation of lands, and we respectfully urge upon the Congress of the United States the adoption at an early date of broad and comprehensive legislation for economic reclamation of all lands susceptible of reclamation and production.
_5. Reëmployment of Ex-Service Men._
WHEREAS, one of the most important questions of Readjustment and Reconstruction, is the question of employment of the returning and returned soldiers and sailors, and,
WHEREAS, no principle is more sound than that growing out of the general patriotic attitude toward the returning soldier vouchsafing to him return to his former employment, or a better job;
BE IT RESOLVED, That the American Legion in national caucus assembled, declares to the people of the United States that no act can be more unpatriotic in these most serious days of Readjustment and Reconstruction than the violation of the principle announced, which pledges immediate reëmployment to the returned soldier; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the American Legion in its National Caucus assembled does hereby declare itself as supporting in every proper way, the efforts of the ex-service men to secure reëmployment, and recommends that simple patriotism requires that ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines be given preference whenever additional men are to be employed in any private or public enterprise; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the American Legion recommends to Congress the prompt enactment of a program for internal improvement, having in view the necessity therefor, and as an incident the absorption of the surplus labor of the country, giving preference to discharged ex-service men.
_6. Disability Pay._
Whereas, under the provisions of the existing law an obvious injustice is done to the civilian who entered the military service, and as an incident to that service is disabled; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED: That this Caucus urge upon Congress the enactment of legislation, which will place upon an equal basis as to retirement for disability incurred in active service during the War with the Central Powers of Europe, all officers and enlisted men who served in the Military and Naval forces of the United States during the War, irrespective of whether they happened to serve in the Regular Army, or in the National Guard or National Army.
_7. War Risk Insurance._
WHEREAS, one of the purposes of this organization is: "To protect, assist, and promote the general welfare of all persons in the Military and Naval service of the United States, and those dependent upon them," and,
WHEREAS, owing to the speedy demobilization of the men in the service, who have not had their rights, privileges and benefits under the War Risk Insurance Act fully explained to them, and these men, therefore, are losing daily, such rights, privileges and benefits, which may never again be restored; and,
WHEREAS, it is desirable that every means be pursued to acquaint the men of their full rights, privileges, and benefits under the said Act, and to prevent the loss of the said rights, benefits and privileges; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED: That the American Legion pledges its most energetic support to a campaign of sound education and widespread activity, to the end that the rights, privileges and benefits under the War Risk Insurance Act be conserved, and that the men discharged from the service, be made to realize what are their rights under this act; and that the Executive Committee be empowered and directed to confer with the War Risk Insurance Bureau, that it may carry out the purposes herein expressed; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That it is the sense of this Caucus that the War Risk Insurance Act be amended to provide that the insured, under the Act, may be allowed to elect whether his insurance, upon maturity, shall be paid as an annuity, or in one payment; and that he may select his beneficiaries regardless of family relationship.
_8. Alien Slackers._
WHEREAS, there was a law passed by the Congress of these United States in July, 1918, known as an Amendment to Selective Service Act, giving persons within the draft age, who had taken out first papers for American citizenship, the privilege of turning in said first papers to their local exemption board and thereby become exempt from service, and,
WHEREAS, thousands of men within draft age who had been in this country for many years and had signified their intention to become citizens, took advantage of this law and thereby became exempted from military service, or were discharged from military service by reason thereof, and have taken lucrative positions in the mills, shipyards and factories; and,
WHEREAS, in the great world war for democracy the rank and file of the best of our American manhood have suffered and sacrificed itself in order to uphold the principles upon which this country was founded, and for which they were willing to give up their life's blood; and,
WHEREAS, these counterfeit Americans who revoked their citizenship in our opinion would contaminate the 100 per cent. true American soldier, sailor, or marine who will shortly return to again engage in the gainful pursuits of life; therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That we, the American Legion, do demand the Congress of these United States to immediately enact a law to send these aliens, who withdrew their first papers, back to the country from which they came. The country in which we live, and for which we are willing to fight is good enough for us; but this country in which they have lived and prospered, yet for which they were unwilling to fight, is too good for them, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That we demand the immediate deportation of every alien enemy who was interned during the war, whether the said alien enemy be now interned or has been paroled.
_9. Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines._
BE IT RESOLVED: That the delegates from the several states shall instruct their respective organizations to see that every disabled soldier, sailor and marine be brought into contact with the Rehabilitation Department of the Federal Board at Washington, D.C., and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the secretaries of the various states be instructed to write to the Federal Board for literature as to what it offers to disabled men, and that the members of the Legion be instructed to distribute this literature and to aid the wounded soldiers, sailors and marines, to take advantage of governmental assistance and that every effort be made by the American Legion in the several states to stop any attempt to pauperize disabled men.
_10. Espionage Act._
RESOLVED: That every naturalized citizen convicted under the Espionage Act shall have his citizenship papers vacated, and when they shall have served their sentence they shall be deported to the country from which they came.
_11. Resolutions._
BE IT RESOLVED: That copies of these resolutions be forwarded to every member of the United States Senate and to each Representative in Congress.
LEGION FACTS
What has gone before is the story of the American Legion in the making. Now it is a going, growing institution.
Because it will be of vital interest and importance to every one of the four million Americans who wore the uniform, the following information concerning the American Legion, in the form of questions and answers, is here given, as follows:
(1) _What is the American Legion_?
(a) It is the organization of American veterans of the World War.
(2) _Who is eligible_?
(a) Any soldier, sailor or marine who served honorably between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918.
(3) _Are women eligible_?
(a) Yes, those who were regularly enlisted or commissioned in the army, navy or marine corps.
(4) _When was the Legion started_?
(a) It was first organized in Paris, March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand officers and men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Force to an organization caucus meeting, which adopted a tentative constitution and selected the name "American Legion."
(5) _What has been done in America regarding it_?
(a) The action of the Paris meeting was confirmed and endorsed by a similar meeting held in St. Louis, May 8 to 10, 1919, when the Legion was formally recognized by the troops who served in the United States.
(6) _Are the organizations in France and America separate_?
(a) No. The Paris caucus appointed an Executive Committee of seventeen officers and men to represent the troops in France in the conduct of the Legion. The St. Louis caucus appointed a similar Committee of Seventeen. These two Executive Committees have amalgamated and are now the governing body of the Legion.
(7) _Who are the officers of this national governing body_?
(a) Henry D. Lindsley, Texas, Chairman; Bennett C. Clark, Missouri, Vice-Chairman; Eric Fisher Wood, Pennsylvania, Secretary; Gaspar G. Bacon, Massachusetts, Treasurer.
(8) _Where are the temporary National Headquarters of the Legion_?
(a) At 19 West 44th Street, New York City.
(9) _When will the final step in the organization of the Legion take place_?
(a) November 10, 11 and 12, at Minneapolis, Minn., when a great National Convention will be held.
(10) _Why were those dates selected_?
(a) Because by that time practically all of the men of the A.E.F. will be at home and will have been able to participate in the election of their delegates to the Convention.
(11) _Who were some of the men who initiated the formation of the Legion_?
(a) Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, of the First Division; Col. Henry D. Lindsley, formerly Mayor of Dallas, Texas; Sgt. "Jack" Sullivan, of Seattle; Lt. Col. Franklin D'Olier, of Philadelphia; Ex-Senator Luke Lea, of Tennessee; Lt. Col. Frederick Huedekoper, of Washington, D.C.; Major Redmond C. Stewart, of Baltimore; Wagoner Dale Shaw, of Iowa; Lt. Col. George A. White, of Oregon; "Bill" Donovan, of the "Fighting 69th"; Major Thomas R. Gowenlock, of Illinois; Sgt. Alvin C. York, of Tennessee; Colonel John Price Jackson, of the S.O.S.; Lt. Col. "Jack" Greenway, of Arizona; Sgt. Roy C. Haines, of Maine; George Edward Buxton, of Rhode Island; Eric Fisher Wood, of Pennsylvania; Chaplain John W. Inzer, of Alabama; Lt. Col. David M. Goodrich, of Akron; Chief Petty Officer B.J. Goldberg, of Chicago; "Tom" Miller, of Delaware; Major Alex. Laughlin, Jr., of Pittsburgh; Major Henry Leonard, of the Marine Corps; Dwight J. Davis, of the 35th Division; Corporal Charles S. Pew, of Montana; General William G. Price, of the 28th Division; Bishop Charles S. Brent, Senior Chaplain of the A.E.F.; General O'Ryan, of the 27th Division; Stewart Edward White, of California; Private Jesus M. Baca, of New Mexico; General Charles H. Cole, of the 26th Division; Sgt. E.L. Malsbary, of Nevada; Lt. Samuel Gompers, Jr., of New York; Col. Henry L. Stimpson, Ex-Secretary of War; Lt. Col. Charles W. Whittlesey, Commander of the "Lost Battalion"; Leroy Hoffman, of Oklahoma; Lt. Col. A. Piatt Andrew, of the American Ambulance in France; General Harvey J. Moss, of the State of Washington; John MacVicar, Mayor of Des Moines before the War; Sgt. George H.H. Pratt, of New Orleans; Col. F.C. Galbraith, of Cincinnati; Corporal Joseph H. Fountain, of Vermont; Devereux Milburn, of the 78th Division; Lt. Col. Wilbur Smith, of the 89th Division; Sgt. Theodore Myers, of Pennsylvania; Col. Bennett C. Clark, son of Champ Clark; Robert Bacon, Ex-Secretary of State.
(12) _What did the Legion, do at its St. Louis caucus_?
(a) It demanded investigation of the pardon and subsequent honorable discharge by the War Department of convicted conscientious objectors.
(b) It condemned the action of the I.W.Ws., the Anarchists, and the International Socialists.
(c) It protested against certain nefarious business concerns who are employing men in uniform to peddle their wares.
(d) It recommended that Congress should take steps to reclaim arid, swamp and cut over timber lands and give the work of doing this to ex-service men, and give the land to them when it had been made available for farming purposes.
(e) It demanded of Congress the same disability pay for men of the National Guard and National Army as now pertains to those in the Regular establishment.
(f) It initiated a campaign to secure to service men their rights and privileges under the War Risk Insurance Act.
(g) It demanded that Congress should deport to their own countries those aliens who refused to join the colors at the outbreak of the war, and pleaded their citizenship in other countries to escape the draft.
(h) It undertook to see that disabled soldiers, sailors and marines should be brought into contact with the Rehabilitation Department of the Government, which department helps them to learn and gain lucrative occupations.
(i) It authorized the appointment of a competent legislative committee to see that the above recommendations were effectively acted upon by Congress, and that committee has been appointed and is now at work.
(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."
(15) _How does the Legion govern itself_?
(a) The Constitution provides that the legislative body of the organization shall be a national convention, to be held annually ... composed of delegates and alternates from each state, from the District of Columbia and from each territory and territorial possession of the United States.
(16) _How is the Legion organized_?
(a) It is composed of State Branches, and these in turn are made up of Local Posts.
(17) _What is a Local Post_?
(a) The Constitution states that a Local Post shall have a minimum membership of fifteen. No Post shall be received into the Legion until it has received a charter. A Post desiring a charter shall apply for it to the State Branch, and the charter will be issued, upon recommendation of this State Branch, by the National Executive Committee. No Post may be named after any living person.
(18) _How can I join the American Legion_?
(a) By filling out the Enrollment Blank on the last page of this booklet and mailing it to the State Secretary of your home state, whose name is listed below. If there is a Local Post in your home town, your name and address will be sent to the Post Commander. If there is no Post in your home town, START ONE, write your State Secretary for the necessary particulars. The State Secretaries are:
ALABAMA.--Leroy Jacobs, care Jacobs Furniture Co., Birmingham.
ARIZONA.--Fred B. Townsend, National Bank, Arizona Bldg., Phoenix.
ARKANSAS.--Granville Burrow, Little Rock.
CALIFORNIA.--E.E. Bohlen, 926 Flood Bldg., San Francisco.
COLORADO.--Morton M. David, 401 Empire Bldg., Denver.
CONNECTICUT.--Alfred A. Phillips, Jr., 110 Glenbrook Rd., Stamford.
DELAWARE.--L.K. Carpenter, Du Pont Bldg., Wilmington.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.--Howard Fisk, 833 Southern Bldg., Washington.
FLORIDA.--J.T. Wiggington, 818 15th St., Miami.
GEORGIA.--Louis H. Bell, care of Service Record, 208 Flatiron Bldg., Atlanta.
HAWAII.--J.P. Morgan, Box 188, Honolulu.
IDAHO.--Laverne Collier, Pocatello.
ILLINOIS.--Name not received yet.
INDIANA.--L. Russell Newgent, 518 Hume Monsur Bldg., Indianapolis.
IOWA.--John MacVicar, 336 Hubbell Bldg., Des Moines.
KANSAS.--Ike Lambert, Emporia.
KENTUCKY.--D.A. Sachs, Louisville.
LOUISIANA.--T.H.H. Pratt, 721 Hibernia Bank, New Orleans.
MAINE.--James L. Boyle, 184 Water St., Augusta.
MARYLAND.--Alex. Randall, 12 West Chase St., Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS.--George F. Gilbody, 3 Van Winkle St., Boston.
MICHIGAN.--Ryle D. Tabor, 312 Moffatt Bldg., Detroit.
MINNESOTA.--Merle E. Eaton, care of Lee & Lewis Grain Co., 200 Corn Exchange Bldg., Minneapolis.
MISSISSIPPI.--John M. Alexander, Jackson.
MISSOURI.--Ed. J. Cahill, Service Commission, Jefferson City.
MONTANA.--Ben W. Barnett, Helena.
NEBRASKA.--Allan A. Tukey, 1st National Bank Bldg., Omaha.
NEVADA.--J.D. Salter, Winnimucca.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.--Frank J. Abbott, Manchester.
NEW JERSEY.--George W.C. McCarter, 765 Broad St., Newark.
NEW MEXICO.--Harry Howard Dorman, Santa Fé.
NEW YORK.--Wade H. Hayes, 140 Nassau St.
NORTH CAROLINA.--Charles N. Hulvey, A. & E. College, Raleigh.
NORTH DAKOTA.--Ed. E. Gearey, Fargo.
OHIO.--Chalmers R. Wilson, Adj. Gen. Office, State House, Columbus.
OKLAHOMA.--F.W. Fisher, Oklahoma City.
OREGON.--Dow V. Walker, care Multnomah Club, Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA.--George F. Tyler, 121 S. 5th St., Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND.--James E. Cummiskey, Crompton.
SOUTH CAROLINA.--Ben. D. Fulton, 32 West Evans St., Florence.
SOUTH DAKOTA.--J.C. Denison, Vermillion.
TENNESSEE.--W.R. Craig, Nat. Life and Accident Co., Nashville.
TEXAS.--J.A. Belzer, Austin.
UTAH.--Baldwin Robertson, 409 Ten Boston Bldg., Salt Lake City.
VERMONT.--Joseph H. Fountain, 138 Colchester Ave., Burlington.
VIRGINIA.--R.G.M. Ross, 508 First National Bank Bldg., Newport News.
WASHINGTON.--George R. Drever, care Adj. Gen. Office, Armory, Seattle.
WEST VIRGINIA.--Chas. McCamic, 904 National Bank of West Virginia Bldg., Wheeling.
WISCONSIN.--R.N. Gibson, Grand Rapids.
WYOMING.--R.H. Nichols, Casper.
WHAT THE PUBLIC PRESS THINKS
It is interesting to know what the press of the United States thinks of the American Legion. Practically every newspaper in the country honored the Legion with comment. In almost every instance it was favorable. Selection has been made of some of this comment--as much as is feasible to give here. It is of two kinds: first, what the press thought of the _idea_ of the Legion, and second, what opinion it had of the Legion after it was launched at St. Louis. The first type of comment was made prior to the caucus in this country and the second, afterwards. Comment on both types was generally favorable.
Lest insincerity be charged let it be said here that there _was_ some unfavorable comment. One New England paper was surprised that soldiers, sailors and marines were not clever enough to know that the American people would perceive their attempt, through this organization, to "drive a six mule team through the Treasury" and get pension and pay grabs. One Southern paper pictured Colonel Roosevelt returning from the St. Louis caucus, a defeated candidate for the chairmanship, with all hope of the future blasted, while one in Ohio said with equal accuracy and solemnity that "there is no need of such an organization at this time, now that the country is entering the era of peace."
But here is the comment. It comes from north, east, south, and west, and it is typical:
_New York Times_, April 10, 1919.--... It is a pleasure to know that Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, the worthy inheritor of a beloved American name, has called a meeting of soldiers and sailors at St. Louis. Lieutenant Colonel Bennett Clark, son of Mr. Champ Clark, is an associate of Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, in the plan for an organization of all our soldiers and sailors as the American Legion. These two gentlemen, associated in a patriotic movement, indicate by their names its common national purpose, apart from politics and partisanship. "A nonpartisan and non-political association is to be formed," says Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, "an association which will keep alive the principles of justice, freedom, and democracy for which these veterans fought." Justice, freedom, and democracy, without partisanship! The idea is noble. It should prevail.
_Leavenworth_ (Kansas) _Post_, April 30, 1919.--... The character of the men of the American Army who are promoting it [the Legion] and the high ideals which it professes and proposes to maintain are a guaranty that it will be a power for helpful service in the common family of the nation.
The plan of organization sprang from the desire of serious and able men in the American Army to maintain the high ideals for which all of them have fought, to preserve the soldier comradeship and carry it over into civilian life as an element of broad helpfulness while keeping the record of the army free from the taint of selfish aims. It was also wisely intended to forestall by the creation of one big genuinely representative, nonpartisan and democratic body, the formation of numerous smaller organizations in various places by men intent on exploiting the soldier sentiment and the soldier vote for other than patriotic purposes.
_New York Sun_, April 11, 1919.--... The American Legion will do an indispensable service. We, who have lived up to the past few years in an agitation of protest against the pension grab must now make our minds over sufficiently to realize that in the new situation we run immediately into danger not of over-pensioning the veterans of to-day but of neglecting them.
The new organization must of course be nonpartisan and non-political. Precedent enough exists in the career of the Grand Army to make that clear. It should include and enjoy the guidance of the most influential military men. Politicians it will have at its service so long as it is well run and organized from within. Despite its proper political limitations, it should serve as the most salutary means to influence returned soldiers to cling to plain old Americanism, shed their martial acquirements and return to plain, praiseworthy citizenship.
_Washington Star_, April 10, 1919.--... The American Legion is to be welcomed as an agency for the promotion of the best in our national life. It will represent, with other things, the majesty of numbers. A great many men will be eligible to membership; and they will be young, and full of hope and purpose. And when they act together in matters within the scope of their organization they will represent a force to be reckoned with in the formulating of public policies.
_Brooklyn Eagle_, April 11, 1919.--Organization of "The American Legion" is going on rapidily in every State in the Union. Vast as was the mass of eligibles on which the Grand Army of the Republic could draw after the Civil War, it did not compare with the Legion's bulk of raw material. There will be a formal caucus on May 8th, at St. Louis, of a real representative character, in which it is said the enlisted men of the army and navy will have a majority. Lieutenant Colonel Henry L. Stimson, once Secretary of War, outlines the plan. He believes that this country's future hereafter is in the hands of the men below thirty years of age who fought this war. He trusts that the lesson in practical democracy afforded by military experience and the ideals of democracy emphasized by military enthusiasm may be kept permanently alive.
That this is the main hope of the more active organizers we have no doubt. Men like Major General O'Ryan, General Charles I. Debevoise, and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Colonel Robert Bacon would never think of making such a body a lever for pension legislation or an agency of politics. Yet the temptation to a divergence from the higher ideals is strong, and the rank and file may not be inclined to resist it.
_St. Louis Globe-Democrat,_ April II, 1919.--... Such societies, it has been proved, are never partisan. They are invariably exponents of broad-gauge patriotism. That they have great political influence in a high national sense is true, but they have never misused it nor ever viewed their mission in a narrow spirit. They preserve the touch of the elbow throughout life, but only as thorough Americans, devoted first, last, and always to our common country.
St. Louis is proud to be selected as the place for the inauguration of this admirable and undoubtedly perpetual society. All wars are represented by societies formed by their veterans, and all alike have been truly and broadly patriotic. It will be the same with the new order, whose membership will, on the strength of numbers called to the colors, far exceed any former parallel. This event will be a datemark in our patriotic annals and in the progress of the nation.
_Syracuse_ (N.Y.) _Herald_, April 13, 1919.--It has been earnestly stated, as might have been expected, that the American Legion will be strictly nonpartisan. That much might be inferred from the circumstance that one of the leading associates of Roosevelt in organizing the Legion is Lieutenant Colonel Bennett Clark, son of the late Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives. Colonel Roosevelt is sufficient authority for the assurance that the movement is neither partisan nor political. He calls it "an association which will keep alive the principles of justice, freedom and democracy for which these veterans fought." Viewed in that sentimental, ethical and patriotic light, it is a commendable undertaking. The American people will wish it well, and be glad to see it flourish....
_Norfolk_ (Va.) _Dispatch_, April 9, 1919.--If the American Legion now in process of organization by young Colonel Roosevelt and his associates, clings to the principles of foundation and holds by the purposes proclaimed by its founders, it may become a mighty force for good in the land. It will be composed of several millions of comparatively youthful Americans, a large percentage of whom will be voters, while virtually all will have demonstrated their readiness to fight their country's battles with weapons far deadlier than bullets.... This assumes the legion will fulfill the part it has undertaken to play in the country's life. If it should degenerate into a selfish protective body, it will be worse than useless. But there is little reason to fear it will fall so far below its ideals while there is every reason to hope it will be a powerful factor in helping the country to find itself again.
_New Orleans Item_, April 14, 1919.--The American Legion through the tremendous influence and mighty power of 3,000,000 organized fighting men, is certain to shape and control the destinies of the nation in years to come to an extent of which the wise will refrain from even suggesting a limit. With the announcement by Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt that the "Legion will be interested in policies, but not in politics," the opinion may safely be hazarded that the great political parties of the country are due to have new mentors, from whom they may be forced to look anxiously for their cues.
Primarily among the announced purposes of the Legion is the perpetuating of those principles of justice, freedom and democracy for which its members either fought or stood ready to fight. On the field in France or in the training camps at home, the millions of America's best manhood have learned intimately and well a new lesson of individual and national responsibility. Such lessons, at the cost they were obtained, are not to be forgotten or lost. The ideals of the fighting men of the states, producing the valor and the power which made the American Army irresistible, and the revelations by fire of new realizations and brotherhood and of world and national citizenship are surely to be felt in the calm, happier times of peace.
_Philadelphia Record_, April 10, 1919.--... If, as Colonel Roosevelt predicts, the membership shall eventually comprise 4,000,000 men who were in the military and naval service of the United States in the late war, it will have possibilities of power that must be reckoned with. But if, in the long life before it, the American Legion shall have no more to its discredit than is summed up in the history of the G.A.R. whose ranks are now so pathetically thin, it will have been a worthy follower of its fathers.
_Paterson_ (N.J.) _Evening News_, May 7, 1919.--... The new organization starts its career deserving and receiving the good wishes of the entire country. The character of the men of the American army who are promoting it and the high ideals which it professes and proposes to maintain are a guaranty that it will be a power for helpful service in the common family of the nation.
_Duluth_ (Minn.) _Herald_, May 24, 1919.--There is a great field for the American Legion, the organization of American veterans of the World War, and judging by the spirit of the recent convention and by the expressions of the returning delegates as reported in the press of the country, it is going to fill that field.
And the field that awaits it, and that it seems to intend to fill, is a field of a vigorous and aggressive effort to demand and enforce a strong and coherent and consistent Americanism.
Not the swashbuckling kind of Americanism--the chip-on-the-shoulder kind--the we-can-lick-the-world kind. These lads of ours are the last in the world to preach that fool kind of Americanism. For they--or at least those of them who crossed the seas and fought for liberty and peace on the other side--have seen in the case of Germany what that kind of nationalism comes to, and they are against it.
But there is a type of Americanism which is utterly free from the taint of militarism and jingoism, but that yet is even more dangerous to anybody at home or abroad who flaunts the spirit of America and defies its power. And unless the signs fail, the American Legion is going to express and embody and inculcate that type of Americanism.
_Anaconda_ (Mont.) _Standard_, May 24, 1919.--... At St. Louis the members voted down all proposals for obtaining from Congress increases of pay for the soldiers and rejected all efforts to obtain canvasses of the members to ascertain their preference as to parties and as to presidential candidates. Everything was excluded which would tend to committ the organization to any particular party or any particular candidate. Young Colonel Roosevelt, son of the former republican president, and Colonel Bennett Clark, son of Champ Clark, former democratic speaker of the house, joined hands in the endeavor to keep partisanship and politics out of the organization.
_Collier's Weekly_, May 31, 1919.--A national convention of American soldiers and sailors in which no grievances were aired, no political axes ground, no special privileges or preferments demanded; where oratorical "bunk" was hooted down; where social discrimination was taboo and military rank counted not at all; where the past glories of war were subordinated to the future glories of peace and where the national interest was placed above all partisanship--that is something new under the sun. It was in such a convention held in St. Louis during the second week in May, that the new spirit of the American army and navy expressed itself articulately for the first time since the armistice was signed. The birth of the American Legion was attended by circumstances having a significance comparable with those surrounding the signing of a certain document in Philadelphia one hundred and forty-three years ago, come July 4th.
A brigadier general arises to "place in nomination the name of a man who--" and is cried down by doughboys with calls of "Name him! Who is he?" A proposal to give extra pay to enlisted men is unanimously defeated because, as Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt put it, "we are not here to sandbag something out of the Government, but to put something into it." The invitation to make Chicago the next meeting place of the Legion is refused because "American soldiers and sailors don't want to go to a city whose mayor would be ashamed to welcome such a convention." A progressive Republican, son of a famous father, refuses the chairmanship to quiet suspicion of personal ambition, and the office goes to a Southern Democrat of whose party the gathering is in complete ignorance.
One of the convention stenographers said: "This is the funniest convention I have ever attended." We have an idea that there was an element of prophecy in her homely remark--a body representing more than four million American soldiers and sailors that makes so little political noise is likely to be about as funny to the conventionally minded politician as a bombardment of gas shells. This language of restraint in the mouths of organized civilian youth may prove to be a natural companion to the famous battle slogan of the A.E.F.: "Let's go!"
_New York Evening Post_, May 3, 1919.--... The true usefulness of a veterans' organization is not far to seek. Like the G.A.R., the Legion should maintain and develop the comradeship bred by the war. It can assist the unfortunate in its ranks; it can take care of the widows and orphans of soldiers, in so far as any inadequacy of public provision seems to make care necessary. The Legion can preserve the fame of soldiers and commanders, by erecting monuments, by seeing that histories are written, and by proceedings of its regular reunions. It can foster such a public recollection of the great deeds of the war as well as broaden and deepen American patriotism. Sherman remarked in 1888 that there was some danger that a peace-loving generation in time of crises "would conclude that the wise man stays at home, and leaves the fools to take the buffets and kick of war." This danger can best be met by just such an organization as the G.A.R., with its campfires of song and story. Comradeship, charity and patriotism--these should be the Legion's watchwords.
_New Haven_ (Conn.) _Union_, April 16, 1919.--... Its more immediate task, as its promoters see it, is to help the members and the families of members who maybe in need of assistance. No comrade of the great struggle is to feel that he is forgotten and forsaken by the comrades who served the same great cause. Its large and more permanent duty is to spread the sentiment of patriotism, to set an example of love of country, and unselfish service, to keep blooming always in the soldiers' bosom the flower of sacrifice that springs from every soldier's grave in France.
_Philadelphia Press_, April 10, 1919.--The organization of the soldiers of the late war into a permanent body is inevitable and entirely proper.
_Capper's Weekly_, May 24, 1919.--The American Legion organized at St. Louis is the new G.A.R. and through its platforms the views of the soldiers who fought in France will be heard. It is already apparent what the trend of that sentiment is. Whatever military system this nation sets up, if it meets the approval of the two million men who served the nation in the Great War, it will be democratic in spirit and as far as possible in form. It will be an army in which the self-respect of the common soldier will be recognized. The returning soldier has no use for anyone living here who is not wholly American, and is for expelling the unnaturalized alien wherever found. Loyalty to the Nation is fundamental in the soldiers' view.
The Nation must safeguard itself and make a distinction between citizens who offer themselves and their all, and citizens who, for whatever reason, withhold some part of their allegiance. Brutal treatment of conscientious objectors is neither civilized nor necessary, but a differentiation is created by such residents themselves, and there should be corresponding differentiation in rights and protection. This is one of the subjects that the returned soldiers have at heart.
_Post Intelligencer_, Seattle, Washington, May 21, 1919.--... The American Legion will be a political force in the nation as it has a perfect right to be. No organization of its character is to be held together by the cohesive power of reminiscence. Something more binding is required, and that something will be forthcoming whether anyone outside the Legion likes it or not....
The American Legion will be made up of intelligent young men who will have a community interest and whose interest can only be furthered by united action. They will know that nothing is more transient than public gratitude, and they will assuredly not rely on it.
_Rochester_ (N.Y.) _Times_, May 23, 1919.--At its first convention held recently in St. Louis, the American Legion unanimously voted down a proposal to seek increased bonus money for the soldiers.
At that same meeting, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., refused to accept official leadership of the organization because he desired to allow no ground for any charge that he wished to utilize it to further his political career.
Such action by the Legion and by one of its most prominent members warrant its organizers in working to enroll all the men who served during the great war.
If this path is followed the American Legion will be a force for good in the country's affairs as well as a bond of fellowship among those who were members of the largest army ever raised by this republic.
_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.
_Burlington_ (Vt.) _News_, May 29, 1919.--So far as actual results are concerned America gains little from the peace treaty. If, however, the American Legion measures up to the standard we believe it capable of, America will be the greatest gainer of all in the war.
_Bridgeport_ (Conn.) _Standard_, May 28, 1919.--The statement that the American Legion is to let politics alone is good news to the people of this country who are looking toward this fine organization of American fighters to bring to our national life some of the spirit which chased the Fritzies back to the Rhine. The civilian public has a right to ask what are the aims of this new, and sure to be powerful, organization. Four million men are of its potential membership. These four million are to be found scattered in every city, village and hamlet in the country. They are to meet on terms of equality, officers and men. They know how to work together, how to undergo discipline for a worthy objective, and how to go over the top in action. It is good, then, to know that this new four million is not to be a political machine. We want no more of the mawkish of either fearing or catering to the "soldier-vote."
Only as a nonpartisan organization can the American Legion do its best work. Its able leaders know this. In a day when men are fast deserting unworthy party emblems to stand for what they think right, the soldier organization will have a wide influence.
We hail the Legion.
It had to come and it is coming strong and sure.
Good men are at the head of the column, and better men than those in the ranks exist nowhere in the country.
They are the pick of the best, physically best, in nerve and in courage, best in point of training, in discipline and best among all the nations who won the great victory.
There is still a fight in America. Democracy is never safe, only being made safe. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Eternal vigilance without regard to fear or favor is to be the spirit of the American Legion.
COMMITTEES
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ALABAMA D.W.M. Jordan John W. Inzer
ALASKA Edgar T. Hawley
ARIZONA John C. Greenway E.P. Conway
ARKANSAS Joe S. Harris James J. Harrison
CALIFORNIA H.G. Mathewson C.E. Palmen
COLORADO H.A. Saidy E.R. Myers
CONNECTICUT H.C. Meserve A.M. Phillips, Jr.
DELAWARE George N. Doris George L. Evans
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA N.C. Turnage E. Lester Jones
FLORIDA Davis Forster J.T. Wigginton
GEORGIA Louis H. Bell J.G. Juett
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS J.P. Morgan
IDAHO E.C. Booth Frank Esterbrook
ILLINOIS William R. McCauley Marshall Field
INDIANA Robert Morehead C.F. Strodel
IOWA H.H. Polk John MacVicar
KANSAS W.S. Metcalf Sidney Moss
KENTUCKY Henry D. Moorman D.A. Sachs, Jr.
LOUISIANA Allison Owen Ralph Michel
MAINE Albert Greenlaw Arthur L. Robinson
MARYLAND H.F. French Wm.A. Huster
MASSACHUSETTS G.G. Bacon J.F.J. Herbert
MICHIGAN Frederick M. Alger A.C. Doyle
MINNESOTA Harrison Fuller A.M. Nelson
MISSISSIPPI Alex. Fitz-Hugh Fred Sullens
MISSOURI Court P. Allen H. Stattman
MONTANA H.L. Blomquist C.E. Pew
NEBRASKA John G. Maher Ed. P. McDermott
NEVADA E.L. Malsbary T.J.D. Salter
NEW HAMPSHIRE Frank Knox Mathew Mahoney
NEW JERSEY D.B. Muliken P.J. Ehrhardt
NEW MEXICO B.M. Cutting O.A. Larrizola, Jr.
NEW YORK Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Louis Burrill
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA J.M. Hanley G.A. Fraser
OHIO J.L. Cochrun H.W. Snodgrass
OKLAHOMA Roy Hoffman Ralph H. Berry
OREGON E.J. Eivers W.B. Follett
PENNSYLVANIA Franklin D'Olier A. Laughlin, Jr.
RHODE ISLAND A. Johnson R.B. Weeden
SOUTH CAROLINA H.B. Springs M.B. Berkley
SOUTH DAKOTA J.C. Denison Joseph S. Pfeiffer
TENNESSEE Luke Lea Harry S. Berry
TEXAS W.E. Jackson Rolland Bradley
UTAH Baldwin Robertson Royal Douglas
VERMONT H. Nelson Jackson Joseph Fountain
VIRGINIA C. Francis Cooke Andrew S. Christian
WASHINGTON L.L. Thompson Russ Simonton
WEST VIRGINIA John G. Bond Charles McCamic
WISCONSIN James Ackley G.W. Strampe
WYOMING C.M. June L.A. Miller
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION Hayward H. Hillyer William P. Norton
WORLD WAR VETERANS G.H.W. Rauschkolb John S. Siebert
RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
ALABAMA Matthew H. Murphy
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA Ed. M. Le Baron
ARKANSAS Fred N. Tillman
CALIFORNIA E.H. Dibble
COLORADO H.A. Saidy
CONNECTICUT F.W. Carroll
DELAWARE George N. Doris
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Charles E. Johnston
FLORIDA Carroll Ford
GEORGIA Eugene Sibert
HAWAII J.P. Morgan
IDAHO C.M. Booth
ILLINOIS Marshall Kearney
INDIANA A.C. Duddelston
IOWA H.H. Polk
KANSAS W.W. Hollaway
KENTUCKY M.K. Gordon
LOUISIANA John D. Ewing
MAINE Roger A. Greene
MARYLAND H.L. French
MASSACHUSETTS L.A. Frothingham
MICHIGAN Avery Gilleo
MINNESOTA S.S. Smith
MISSISSIPPI Alex. Fitz-Hugh
MISSOURI H.C. Clark
MONTANA Sam Abelstein
NEBRASKA Hird. Stryker
NEVADA E.L. Malsbary
NEW HAMPSHIRE Frank Knox
NEW JERSEY E.A. Tobin
NEW MEXICO Roy H. Flamm
NEW YORK Robert Marsh
NORTH DAKOTA J.R. Baker
OHIO E.J. Rummell
OKLAHOMA E.E. Atkins
OREGON B.E. Leonard
PENNSYLVANIA Fred Hill
PHILIPPINES Robert R. Landon
RHODE ISLAND W.P. Shunney
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA William G. Buell
TENNESSEE G.P. Anderson
TEXAS Charles R. Tips
UTAH R.J. Douglas
VERMONT Guy Varnum
VIRGINIA John J. Wicker, Jr.
WASHINGTON John J. Sullivan
WEST VIRGINIA John C. Vaughan
WISCONSIN Robert Cunningham
WYOMING L.A. Miller
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION Joseph P. McGlinn
WORLD WAR VETERANS Thomas H. Dempsey
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS COMMITTEE
ALABAMA Bibb Graves
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA John C. Greenway
ARKANSAS Burton S. Kinsworthy
CALIFORNIA H.G. Mathewson
COLORADO R. Dickson
CONNECTICUT W.J. Malone
DELAWARE George W. Davis
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA John Lewis Smith
FLORIDA J.T. Wigginton
GEORGIA L.H. Bell
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS J.P. Morgan
IDAHO C.M. Booth
ILLINOIS C.G. Seeman
INDIANA Scott R. Brewer
IOWA Fred M. Hudson
KANSAS P.R. Johnson
KENTUCKY H.D. Haven Moorman
LOUISIANA Gus Blanchard
MAINE Roy C. Haines
MARYLAND Wm. A. Huster
MASSACHUSETTS W.H. Howard
MICHIGAN Howard Brink
MINNESOTA E.D. McCarthy
MISSISSIPPI Fred Sullens
MISSOURI Bennet Clark
MONTANA C.E. Pew
NEBRASKA L.J. McGuire
NEVADA J.D. Salter
NEW HAMPSHIRE Frank J. Abbott
NEW JERSEY Harlan Besson
NEW MEXICO D.H. Wyatt
NEW YORK Hamilton Fish
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA H.Y. Semling
OHIO J.F. Koons
OKLAHOMA Horace H. Hagan
OREGON Roderick D. Grant
PENNSYLVANIA D.G. Foster
RHODE ISLAND Percy Cantwell
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA Wm. G. Buell
TENNESSEE Ed. Palmer
TEXAS Claud Birkhead
UTAH R.S. McCarthy
VERMONT J. Watson Webb
VIRGINIA Wm. A Stuart
WASHINGTON L.L. Thompson
WEST VIRGINIA Charles W. McCamic
WISCONSIN Elmer Owens
WYOMING R.L. Powers
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION Haywood W. Hillyer
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
ALABAMA Cecil Gaston
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA Alexander B. Baker
ARKANSAS Ross Mathis
CALIFORNIA E.E. Bohlen
COLORADO E.R. Meyer
CONNECTICUT P.C. Calhoun
DELAWARE Irving Warner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Henry Leonard
FLORIDA A.H. Blanding
GEORGIA R.L. Wilson, Jr.
HAWAII J.P. Morgan
IDAHO Taylor Cummings
ILLINOIS Frank Harrison
INDIANA J.A. Umpleby
IOWA Maris B. De Wolfe
KANSAS P.C. Stamford
KENTUCKY J.G. Wheeler
LOUISIANA Louis Ginella
MAINE James U. Boyle
MARYLAND Wm. B. Wilmer
MASSACHUSETTS G.C. Cutler
MICHIGAN J.F. Young
MINNESOTA Paul McMichael
MISSISSIPPI George Hoskin
MISSOURI F.L. Smith
MONTANA C.E. Pew
NEBRASKA Geo. H. Holveman
NEVADA T.J.D. Salter
NEW HAMPSHIRE George V. Fiske
NEW JERSEY R.P. Schenck
NEW MEXICO Don. L. Blevins
NEW YORK Parton Swift
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA J.P. Williams
OHIO L.J. Campbell
OKLAHOMA Hugh Haughery
OREGON J.L. May
PENNSYLVANIA G.A. Rick
RHODE ISLAND Alex. Johnson
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA T.R. Johnston
TENNESSEE W.A. Shadow
TEXAS Arch C. Allen
UTAH D.E. Rhivers
VERMONT Leonard Nason
VIRGINIA C. Brook Bollard
WASHINGTON Fred Redinger
WEST VIRGINIA M.V. Godfrey
WISCONSIN J.C. Davis
WYOMING Wm. Shortell
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION Scott W. Lucas
WORLD WAR VETERANS Charles S. Watkins
CREDENTIAL COMMITTEE
ALABAMA Joseph Yates
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA F.P. Bernard
ARKANSAS Ivie Herschel
CALIFORNIA B.W. Herhart
COLORADO J.W. Gwin
CONNECTICUT F.S. Butterworth
DELAWARE George L. Evans
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA S.P. Knut
FLORIDA Davis Forster
GEORGIA J.G. Juett
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS J.P. Morgan
IDAHO Paul Peterson
ILLINOIS Roger Young
INDIANA J.W. Todd
IOWA P.M. Soper
KANSAS I.E. Lambert
KENTUCKY Richard H. Slack
LOUISIANA G.H.H. Pratt
MAINE Albert Greenlaw
MARYLAND J.S. Davis
MASSACHUSETTS G.F. Gilbody
MICHIGAN H.A. O'Dell
MINNESOTA George Chapin
MISSISSIPPI John M. Alexander
MISSOURI D.W. Cronkite
MONTANA Doug. McCallum
NEBRASKA Orlando H. Kearney
NEVADA T.J.D. Salter
NEW HAMPSHIRE John Santor
NEW JERSEY C.S. Brady
NEW MEXICO Jesus M. Baca
NEW YORK J.P. Goerke
NORTH DAKOTA J.P. Williams
OHIO H.L. Bimm
OKLAHOMA F.W. Fisher
OREGON C.L. Mullen
PENNSYLVANIA E.J. Pennell
RHODE ISLAND F.B. Thurber
SOUTH DAKOTA T.R. Johnson
TENNESSEE J.D. Robertson
TEXAS John S. Hoover
UTAH J.G. Wooley
VERMONT Alexander Smith
VIRGINIA G.R. Poole
WASHINGTON Fred Fein
WEST VIRGINIA W.J. Simmons
WISCONSIN M.A. Chybowski
WYOMING D.C. McCarthy
WORLD WAR VETERANS John S. Seibert
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION H.W. Hillyer
COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS
ALABAMA Beach Chenoweth
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA Alex. B. Baker
ARKANSAS Wm. Dougherty
CALIFORNIA B.L. Shuman
COLORADO D.J. Sparr
CONNECTICUT B.R. Mathies
DELAWARE E.H. Kane
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA L. Clarkson Hines
FLORIDA A.H. Blanding
GEORGIA Eugene Sibert
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS J.P. Morgan
IDAHO R.R. Wilson
ILLINOIS Charles Wham
INDIANA M.H. Thomas
IOWA Thompson L. Brookhart
KANSAS W.A. Phares
KENTUCKY E.H. Marriner
LOUISIANA L.P. Beard
MAINE Roger A. Greene
MARYLAND F.A. Young
MASSACHUSETTS W.H. Dolan
MICHIGAN Wm. King
MINNESOTA D.R. St. Julian
MISSISSIPPI Robt. Burnett
MISSOURI A. Field
MONTANA Ben W. Barnett
NEBRASKA Geo. Gilligan
NEVADA E.L. Malsbary
NEW HAMPSHIRE Arthur Trufant
NEW JERSEY R.F. Ritter
NEW MEXICO O.A. Lorizolla, Jr.
NEW YORK Thos. John Conway
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA G.A. Fraser
OHIO J.L. Hall
OKLAHOMA Earl McNally
OREGON W.P. Follett
PENNSYLVANIA C.A. Buettner
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Robert Landon
RHODE ISLAND Walter Sharkey
SOUTH DAKOTA W.G. Buell
TENNESSEE Ed. Buford
TEXAS Roy A. Jamison
UTAH J.C. Kundson
VERMONT L.H. Nason
VIRGINIA Robt. P. Wallace
WASHINGTON C.B. McDonald
WEST VIRGINIA Geo. S. Houston
WISCONSIN James Pfeil
WYOMING C.M. June
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION H.W. Hillyer
WORLD WAR VETERANS R.A. Thompson
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION
ALABAMA LeRoy Jacobs
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA M.E. Cassidy
ARKANSAS Roy Penix
CALIFORNIA Clair Woolwine
COLORADO W.E. Swink
CONNECTICUT R.C. Vance
DELAWARE Irving Warner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Donald McGregor
FLORIDA Conrad Ford
GEORGIA L.H. Bell
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS J.P. Morgan
IDAHO Paul Peterson
ILLINOIS Richard M. O'Connell
INDIANA Robt. Clee
IOWA H.D. Lemley
KANSAS M.B. Musselman
KENTUCKY James G. Juett
LOUISIANA Rudolph Wienan
MAINE Roy C. Haines
MARYLAND A.R. Hagner, Jr.
MASSACHUSETTS Donald Green
MICHIGAN Chas. D. Kelley
MINNESOTA Jno. J. Ahern
MISSISSIPPI Chas. R. Dolbey
MISSOURI Robert Fullerton, Jr.
MONTANA Ben W. Barnett
NEBRASKA A.L. Stuart
NEVADA E.L. Malsbary
NEW HAMPSHIRE C. Fred Maher
NEW JERSEY Allen L. Eggers
NEW MEXICO Jesus M. Baca
NEW YORK Geo. P. Putnam
NORTH DAKOTA Arthur Gorman
OHIO H.M. Bush
OKLAHOMA W.T. Burling
OREGON B.E. Leonard
PENNSYLVANIA Ammon Monroe Aurand, Jr.
RHODE ISLAND Harry F. McKenna
SOUTH DAKOTA T.R. Johnson
TENNESSEE H.H. Corson, Jr.
TEXAS John W. Young
UTAH Leo Meehan
VERMONT L.H. Nason
VIRGINIA D.D. Nei
WASHINGTON Russ Simonton
WEST VIRGINIA Geo. S. Houston
WISCONSIN C.M. Huntley
WYOMING Ralph L. Powers
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION H.W. Hillyer
WORLD WAR VETERANS C.P. Dimmitt
FINANCE COMMITTEE
ALABAMA B.F. Stoddard
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA M.E. Cassidy
ARKANSAS Garland Hurt
CALIFORNIA E.H. Dibbley
COLORADO Ed. Krueger
CONNECTICUT James B. Moody
DELAWARE Irving Warner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Howard F. Fiske
FLORIDA Davis Forster
GEORGIA
HAWAII J.P. Morgan
IDAHO John S. Green
ILLINOIS Albert A. Sprague
INDIANA Chester P. Wolfe
IOWA W.R. Hart
KANSAS J.B. Brickell
KENTUCKY R. Ewall
LOUISIANA Levering Moore
MAINE Waldemar P. Adams
MARYLAND Alexander Randall
MASSACHUSETTS J. Stewart
MICHIGAN George M. Kesl
MINNESOTA O.H. Baldwin
MISSISSIPPI Paul Chambers
MISSOURI D.G. Hubbard
MONTANA Arthur Barry
NEBRASKA William Richie
NEVADA T.J.D. Salter
NEW HAMPSHIRE William E. Sullivan
NEW JERSEY Paul De Voise
NEW MEXICO F.B. Humphrey
NEW YORK M.B. Murphy
NORTH DAKOTA G.A. Fraser
OHIO B.J. Hard
OKLAHOMA William Viuer
OREGON C.L. Muffin
PENNSYLVANIA James W. Gary
RHODE ISLAND Jas. Elinniskey
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA J.C. Denison
TENNESSEE Charles R. Bowman
TEXAS C.C. Beavens
UTAH Harold R. Smoot
VERMONT Pearl T. Clapp
VIRGINIA J.T. Wyatt
WASHINGTON C.S. Sapp
WEST VIRGINIA Clarence Jones
WISCONSIN P.R. Minnahan
WYOMING N.V. Swensen
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION Louis R. Florin
WORLD WAR VETERANS G.H.W. Rauschkolb
COMMITTEE ON NAME
ALABAMA Norman J. Reiss
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA Fred B. Townsend
ARKANSAS Roy W. Wood
CALIFORNIA Clair Woolwine
COLORADO Robt. G. Allen
CONNECTICUT P.L. Sampsell
DELAWARE E.H. Kane
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA J. Bentley Mulford
FLORIDA J.T. Wigginton
GEORGIA J.G. Juett
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS J.P. Morgan
IDAHO T.A. Feeney
ILLINOIS Thos. Harwood
INDIANA Augustus B. Wilson
IOWA Jackson R. Day
KANSAS P.K. Cubbison
KENTUCKY W.O. Sayers
LOUISIANA Davis McCutcheon
MAINE Waldemar P. Adams
MARYLAND G.H. Tieman
MASSACHUSETTS J.P. McGrath
MICHIGAN B.B. Bellows
MINNESOTA W.R. Sturtz
MISSISSIPPI Arthur B. Clark
MISSOURI H.W. Holcomb
MONTANA H.L. Blomquist
NEBRASKA Frank F. Fischer
NEVADA T.J.D. Salter
NEW HAMPSHIRE W.J. Murphy
NEW JERSEY G.H. Stratton
NEW MEXICO C.S. Caldwell
NEW YORK E.D. Bunn
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA L.B. Merry
OHIO R.E. Shank
OKLAHOMA Robert B. Keenan
OREGON W.B. Follett
PENNSYLVANIA B.L. Houck
RHODE ISLAND Jos. San Soneitr
SOUTH DAKOTA T.R. Johnson
TENNESSEE Barton P. Brown
TEXAS Russ D. Langdon
UTAH L.J. Seeley
VERMONT Alexander Smith
VIRGINIA Robt. R. Wallace
WASHINGTON Rob. S. Gordon
WEST VIRGINIA Jas. M. Crockett
WISCONSIN John P. Szultek
WYOMING Maurice Dineen
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION H.W. Hillyer
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS COUNCIL S.H. Curtin
WORLD WAR VETERANS John S. Seibert
COMMITTEE ON EMBLEM
ALABAMA J.F. Gillem
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA Fred B. Townsend
ARKANSAS Wendell Robertson
CALIFORNIA V.W. Gerhard
COLORADO M.C. Dameron
CONNECTICUT J.S. Hurley
DELAWARE E.H. Kane
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. W.G. Glenn
FLORIDA Mr. Bell
GEORGIA J.G. Juett
HAWAII J.P. Morgan
IDAHO Paul Davis
ILLINOIS W.C. Mundt
INDIANA N.J. Buskirk
IOWA A.M. Pond
KANSAS Foss Farar
KENTUCKY H. Reingold
LOUISIANA W.A. Coon
MAINE Frank M. Hume
MARYLAND T.H. Scaffe
MASSACHUSETTS H.H. Wheelock
MICHIGAN P.W. Nickel
MINNESOTA Conrad Veit
MISSISSIPPI W.T. Adams
MISSOURI U.P. Haw
MONTANA Worth C. Almon
NEBRASKA R.J. Webb
NEVADA T.J.D. Salter
NEW HAMPSHIRE Walter J. Hogan
NEW JERSEY J.M. Pancoast
NEW MEXICO F.B. Humphrey
NEW YORK F.W. Baldwin
NORTH DAKOTA Wm. Stern
OHIO E.L. King
OKLAHOMA P.A. Fox
OREGON R.D. Grant
PENNSYLVANIA L.L. Felts
RHODE ISLAND F.V. Thurber
SOUTH DAKOTA J.C. Denison
TENNESSEE W.R. Craig, Jr.
TEXAS S.P. Boom
UTAH Charles Parsons
VERMONT Joseph Fontain
VIRGINIA W.R. Trotter
WASHINGTON Fred. J. Shaw
WEST VIRGINIA Sam. Solins
WISCONSIN L.J. Woodworth
WYOMING
WORLD WAR VETERANS Geo. E. Davis
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION T.R. Smith
COMMITTEE ON NEXT MEETING PLACE
ALABAMA F.M. Ladd
ALASKA James Hawley
ARIZONA Ed. M. LeBaron
ARKANSAS Wm. G. Edgar
CALIFORNIA B.O. Shuman
COLORADO T.H. Wiles
CONNECTICUT W.D. Copp
DELAWARE Geo. L. Evans
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Louis P. Clephane
FLORIDA Mr. Bell
GEORGIA R.L. Wilson, Jr.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS J.P. Morgan
IDAHO Frank Estabrook
ILLINOIS Grover Sexton
INDIANA J.B. Reynolds
IOWA B.R. Finch
KANSAS Charles I. Martin
KENTUCKY Frank Bernhaim
LOUISIANA Clifford Stem
MAINE James L. Boyle
MARYLAND A.C. Solomon
MASSACHUSETTS Marcus Maddern
MICHIGAN Frank J. Tobin
MINNESOTA Loren B. Roberts
MISSISSIPPI J.S. Fleming
MISSOURI L.C. Lozier
MONTANA Arthur Barry
NEBRASKA Allan Tukey
NEVADA E.L. Malsbary
NEW HAMPSHIRE H.L. Hereaux
NEW JERSEY A.S. Westcott
NEW MEXICO S.S. Caldwell
NEW YORK Fred Gallager
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA Wm. Stern
OHIO Ralph Pearce
OKLAHOMA W.T. Butts
OREGON E.J. Eivers
PENNSYLVANIA A.I. McRae
RHODE ISLAND Walter Sharkey
SOUTH DAKOTA Wm. G. Buell
TENNESSEE G.C. Milligan
TEXAS L. Nicholson
UTAH Fred. Jurgensen
VERMONT J. Watson Webb
VIRGINIA G.R. Poole
WASHINGTON Albert Johnston
WEST VIRGINIA Joseph Jackson
WISCONSIN C.H. Foster
WYOMING Benj. Gregg
WORLD WAR VETERANS F.H. Rein
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION J.A. Bernard
ROSTER
ALABAMA
CHENOWETH, BEACH MEAD, Birmingham. U.S.N. GASTON, CECIL D., Birmingham. Med. Corps U.S.A. and A.E.F. GILLEM, JENNINGS F., Birmingham. 320 M.G. Bn. GRAVES, BIBB, Montgomery. 117th F.A. INZER, J.W., Mobile. 14th Inf. JACOBS, LEROY R., Birmingham. 38th Inf. JORDAN, WM. M., Birmingham. Evac. Hosp. No. 11. LADD, FRANK M., JR., Mobile. U.S.N. LONG, F.M., Jasper. 7th Inf. 9th M.G. Bn. LUSSIER, RICHARD F., Birmingham. M.I.D. Gen. Staff. MURPHY, MATTHEW H., Birmingham, 117th F.A. REISS, NORMAN J., Mobile. Q.M.C. STODDARD, B.S., Mobile. 49th Inf. YATES, JOSEPH A., Birmingham, 117th F.A.
ALASKA
HAWLEY, EDGAR T., Boise, Idaho. U.S.A.
ARKANSAS
BURROW, G.M., Little Rock. 18th Inf. DOHERTY, WILLIAM, Jonesboro. 153d Inf. EDGAR, WM. G., El Dorado. 153d Inf. HAMILTON, SCOTT D., Fayetteville. 346th Inf. HARRIS, JOE S., Monticello. 153d Inf. HARRISON, J.J., Little Rock. Care Pugh Printing Company. Instructor Tr. Camp. HERSCHEL, IVIE, Marion. 154th Inf. HURT, GARLAND, Newport. 162d Inf. JACKSON, THOMAS A., Little Rock. 154th Inf. KINSWORTHY, B.S., Little Rock. Off. Tr. Camps. LLOYD, T.H., Paragould. I.C.O.T.S. MATHIS, Ross, Cotton Plant. 2d Inf. PENIX, WM. ROY, Jonesboro. Kelly Fld., Tex. ROBERTSON, W.A., Ft. Smith. 13th Aero Squad. SMITH, E. ROSS, Little Rock. 141 M.G. Bn. STAFFORD, JOHN L., Springdale. 106th Am. Train 3 1st Div. TAYLOR, R.P., Paragould. Aerial Ob. C.A.C. TILLMAN, FRED A., Fayetteville, 12th F.A. WOOD, ROY W., Little Rock. Naval Aviation.
ARIZONA
BAKER, ALEXANDER B., Phoenix. 28th F.A. BERNARD, E.P., Tucson. 47th M.G. Bn. CASSIDY, M.E., Bisbee. Ad. Gen. Dep. GREENWAY, JOHN C., Warren. 101st Inf. LEBARON, EDWIN M., Mesa. 801st P. Inf. TOWNSEND, FRANK B., Phoenix. F.A.C.O.T.S.
CALIFORNIA
BOHLEN, E.E., San Francisco. 347th F.A. DIBBLEE, BENJ. H., San Francisco. F.A.C.O.T.S. GEARHART, B.W., Fresno. 609th Aero Sq. HAMMOND, LEONARD C., San Francisco, 91st Aero. HOUGHTON, A.D., Los Angeles. Am. Serv. League. KELLY, E.J., Los Angeles. 64th U.S. Inf. MATHEWSON, H.G., Alameda. C.A.C. PALMER, C.E.G., Coalinga. Canadians. SHUMAN, BLAIR S., San Francisco. 363d Inf. SLOW, ASHFIELD E., San Francisco. 347th F.A. WOOLWINE, CLARE W., Los Angeles. 8th Inf. Gen. St.
COLORADO
ALLEN, ROBT. G., Denver. 305th Inf. DAMERON, M.C., Pueblo. Camp Med. Supp. Depot. DAVID, MORTON M., Denver. 20th Inf. DICKSON, RAY, Ft. Collins. 30th Serv. Co. GWIN, JNO. W., Pueblo. 158th Inf. KRUEGER, EDW., JR., Buena Vista. Air Serv. LAWRENCE, C.W., Pueblo. U.S.N. MALONEY, B.F., Pueblo. 815th Pioneer. MYER, E.R., Boulder. 356th Inf. SAIDY, H.A., Colorado Springs. 341st F.A. SPARR, D.J., Denver. 157th Inf. STUBBS, ALBERT L., La Junta. Medical Corps. SWINK, WALTER E., Rocky Ford. U.S.N. WILES, THOS H., Denver. Chaplain.
CONNECTICUT
BUTTERWORTH, DR. S., New Haven. Chem. War Serv. CALHOUN, PHILO C., Bridgeport. U.S.M.C. CARROLL, FRANCIS W., Waterbury. Presidential Gd. U.S.A. COPP, WEBSTER D., Norwich, 301st M.G. Bn. HURLEY, JAS. S., Waterbury. 73rd Inf. MALONE, WM. J., Bristol. A.S. (A). MATTHIES, BERNARD H., Seymour. 105th Spruce Squad. MESERVO, HARRY C., Stamford. 68th C.A.C. MOODY, JAS. B., JR., Hartford. 301st Supply Train. PHILLIPS, ALFRED N., JR., Stamford. 55th F.A. SAMPSELL, P.L., New London. U.S.N. TILEY, MORTON C., Essex. U.S.A.A.S.
DELAWARE
DORIS, GEO. N., Wilmington. 364th Inf. EVANS, GEO. L., Wilmington. U.S.N. WARNER, IRVING, Wilmington. Cement Mill Co. No. 8.
DISTRICT COLUMBIA
CLEPHANE, LEWIS P., Washington. U.S.N. CONNOLLY, FRANK A., Washington. 312th F.A. FISK, HOWARD S., Washington. U.S.N. GLENN, WM. G., Washington. 103d M.O.R.S. HINES, L.C., Washington. F.H. 165-117. JOHNSTON, CHAS. E., Washington. U.S. Coast Gd. JONES, E. LESTER, Washington. Sig. Corps. KRUIT, PRENTISS, Washington. U.S.N. LEONARD, H., Washington. U.S.M.C. MACGREGOR, DONALD, Washington. Sig. Corps. MULFORD, J.B. Washington. 165th Field Hosp. Co. SMITH, JNO. L., Washington. Mil. Intell. Div. TURNAGE, M.C., Washington. P.M.G.O.
FLORIDA
FORSTER, DAVIS, New Smyrna. M.C. GIVENS, MORRIS M., Tampa. 31st Div. LOWRY, S.L., JR., Tampa. 31st Div. MCGUCKEN, HAROLD, Tampa. 124th Inf. WIGGINTON, J.T., Miami. 124th Inf.
GEORGIA
BELL, LOUIS H., Atlanta. 20th M.G. Bn. HILLYER, HAYWOOD H., Macon. 49 M.G. Bn. JUETT, J.G., Atlanta. 122d. Inf. SIEBERT, EUGENE, Atlanta. 437th Det. Eng. Corp. STOCKBRIDGE, BASIL, Atlanta. 122d. Inf. WILSON, ROBT. L., JR., Atlanta. 122d Inf.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
MORGAN, JAS. P., Hawaii. Inf. Replac. Troops Camp Grant, Ill.
IDAHO
BOOM, EUGENE C., Moscow. 18th Eng. BOOTH, C.M., Pocatello. 44th Inf. COLLIER, L.R., Pocatello. 163d Inf. CUMMINS, TAYLOR, Twin Falls. Coast Art. DAVIS, PAUL, Boisé. I.C.O.T.S. ESTABROOK, FRANK, Nampa. 146th M.G. Bn. FEENEY, THOS. A., Lewiston. GREEN, JNO. S., Twin Falls, 1st St. Inf. PETERSON, PAUL T., Idaho Falls. 75th Inf. WILSON, ALBERT H., Clarks Fork. Q.M.C. WILSON, R.R., Pocatello. Inf. (unassigned).
ILLINOIS
ADAMS, M.E., Chicago. Q.M.C. ADLER, MORRIS, Quincy. 1st O.T. Sch. ALLEN, ROYAL B., Marseilles. Q.M.C. ARNOLD, B.J., Chicago. Air Serv. AYRES, LESTER G., Oak Park. C.A. School. BOLIN, JAS. R., Paris. 2d Div. BOOSE, JOS. I., Chicago. U.S.N.R.F. BURNETT, GEO., Shelbyville. 130th Inf. BURNS, J.H., Carrollton. 337th F.A. BUSCH, A.H., Cicero. 117th M.G. Bn. CAVE, ROBT. R., Chicago. Q.M.C. COLLINS, W.H., Decatur. 119th Inf. CUMMINGS, JNO. P., Chicago. Tank Corps. CURRIER, C.L., La Grange. 25th Eng. DICKERSON, EARL B., Chicago. 365th Inf. DUTCHER, EVERETT C., Dixon. 342d Inf. EISENBERG, SAM J., Chicago. 332d F.A. ENGLE, ROBT. H., Freeport. 41st Inf. EVERSON, CHAS. W., Chicago. A.S. Sig. R.C. FAYART, L.E., Springfield, 9th F.A. FIELD, MARSHALL, Chicago. F.A. FLANNERY, FRANK B., Chicago, Beach Hotel, 221st F. Sig. Bn. FLORY, ROGER, Chicago. U.S.N.R.F. FLOYD, JNO. A., Chicago. 6th Cav. FORMAN, HAROLD, Chicago. 72d F.A. FREID, SAM'L L., Chicago. 50th Inf. GOLDBERG, B.L., Chicago. U.S.N.R.F. GOREY, THOS. V., Joliet. Q.M.C. GOWENLOCK, THOS. R., Chicago. 1st Div. GREENE, JNO. J., Chicago. C.M.G.O.T.S. HANA, LEO G., Peoria. 341st Inf. HARDWOOD, THOS. F., Bloomington. 343d Inf. HARRISON, F.J., Streator. 1st C.O.T.S. HARTFORD, C.E., Marseilles. Ordnance. HARTRICK, GUY R., Urbana. Ordnance. HELFRICH, GEO. R., Chicago. 17th Inf. HINDERT, GEO. C., Minonk. U.S.N. HIPPLER, S.H., Canton. 5th Reg. HIRSTEIN, A.K., Fairbury. 129th Inf. HUGHES, JNO. E., Chicago. A.S. ICKES, FAY, Springfield, 310th F. Sig. Bn. JEFFERSON, E.A., Chicago. 604th Eng. JENKINS, NEWTON, Chicago. 5th Reg. KEARNEY, MARSHALL V., Chicago. 303d Bn. Tank Corps. KELLEY, W.L., Shelbyville. Chem. War Serv. KENDRICK, J.E., Lincoln. 161st Dep. Br. KINGSTON, RAY, Shelbyville. 119th Inf. KRAATZ, C.F., Carbondale. 161st D.B. LAUER, ROBT. J., Chicago. 344th Inf. LEE, HARRY V., Chicago. Signal Corps. LING, WALTER, Evansville. 115th Inf. LYNDE, CORNELIUS, Chicago. U.S.N.R.F. MACAULAY, IRWIN, Quincy. Ordnance. MARKLEY, H.G., Watseka. 116th Eng. MARSH, A.F., Chicago. Const. Div. MARSHALL, THOS. H., Chicago. Inf. MCCAULEY, W.R., Olney. 308th Bn. Tank Corps. MEIERHOFER, EDW. H., Minonk. 68th Art. MERRICK, MARLOWE M., Chicago. Sig. Corps. MIDDLETON, A.B., Pontiac. M.C., 90th Div. MILES, GRANT M., Pontiac. 339th Inf. MILLER, JNO. S., JR., Winnetka. 33d F.A. MILLER, THOS., Chicago. 49th Inf. MOCK, HARRY E., Chicago. Med. Corps. MUNDT, WM. C., Fairbury. Radio School. O'CONNELL, R.M., Bloomington. U.S.N.R.F. OPPENHEIMER, J., Chicago. 333d F.A. ORR, PONCE B., Joliet. 1st Inf. PACKWOOD, LAWRENCE, Chicago. 521st M.T.C. PADDOCK, GEO. A., Evanston. 342d Inf. PARKER, HOWARD K., Taylorville. 106th F.A. PESAVENTO, A.J., Joliet. R.S. and C.O.T.S. PIETRZAK, MICHAEL, Oglesby. A.S.A.P. 9th Dt. POWELL, WM. J., Chicago. 365th Inf. REED, F.N., Evanston. 10th F.A. REEDER, RUSSEL, Canton, 1st Co. C.A.C. RHODES, BEN. S., Bloomington. 345th Inf. ROMINGER, W.E., Shelbyville. 14th M.G. SAYRE, C.B., Canton. 326th F.A. SEAMAN, GEO. G., Taylorville. 17th F.A. SEARCY, EARL B., Springfield. 311th Inf. SEDWEAK, C.E., Chicago. Q.M.C. SEXTON, GROVER F., Chicago. 108th Mil. Pol. Train. SIMONS, J.E., Glen Ellyn. U.S.M.C. SIMPSON, SIDNEY E., Carrollton. 164th Inf. SKUBIC, EDW. P., Chicago. C.O.T.S. SPENCER, R.V., Chicago. 160th D.B. SPRAGUE, A.A., Lake Forest. 341st Inf. STELLO, JNO. H., McLeansboro. 115th M.G. Bn. TAPP, H.F., Quincy. U.S.N.R.F. WALSH, MARTIN, Chicago. 1st Repl. Reg. WEBBER, R.W., Urbana. 210th Aero Sq. WERCKMAN, JNO. C., Minonk. 6th Repl. Reg. WERNER, R.L., Peoria. U.S.N.R.F. WHAM, CHAS., Centralia. F.A.C.O.T.S. YOUNG, R., Joliet. 41st Inf. ZERWEKH, PAUL W., Alton. Aviation.
INDIANA
ASCH, A.L., Indianapolis. Q.M.C. BREWER, SCOTT R., Indianapolis. Air Serv. BUSKIRK, N.J., Bloomington. 111th Inf. CASTER, SOLON J., Indianapolis, 150th F.A. CLEE, ROBT. E., Kokimo. 69th F.A. DAVIS, PAUL Y., Bloomfield. 335th Inf. DUDDLESTON, A.C., Terre Haute, 151st Inf. HOGAN, H.G., Ft. Wayne. M.T.C. JOHNSON, F.B., Indianapolis. Adv. Gen. LEVI, MORRIS R., Evansville. 42d and 32d Div. LONN, A.E., Laporte. 167th Brg. MCDONALD, T.M., Princeton. F.A. Repl. Tr. MOORHEAD, R.L., Indianapolis. 139th F.A. NEWGENT, L.R., Indianapolis. U.S.N. PUTT, GEO., Indianapolis. Motor Trans. Corp. REYNOLDS, JNO. B., Indianapolis. Air Serv. ROYER, S.D., Terre Haute. 349th Inf. ROYZE, JNO. A., Indianapolis. M.T.C. STRODEL, C.F., Huntington. Inf. THOMAS, MARK H., Huntington. Q.M.C. TIMKO, JOS. J., Brazil. TODD, JOE W., Hammond. Air Serv. UMPLEBY, JAY A., Gary. 139th F.A. WALTZ, RALPH H., Noblesville. F.A.C.O.T.S. WATTS, ALBERT H., E. Chicago, 139th F.A. WILSON, A.B., Indianapolis. 87th Div. WOLFE, C.P., Indianapolis. U.S.N.R.F. ZIISEL, FRANK F., Elkhart. 159th D. Br.
IOWA
BERGER, P.F., Carroll. 163d Disch. Off. BROOKHART, S.W., Washington. Inf. BROOKHART, T.L., Washington. M.T.C. COLE, J.F., Oelwein. 161st Depot Brig. COOK, DON C., Cedar Rapids. U.S.M.C. CIRCE, WM. L., Bloomfield. 1st Eng. CRONIN, EDW. P., Victor. U.S.N. DAY, J.R., Council Bluffs, 19th Div. DEWOLF, M.E., Spencer, 5th Inf. DORAN, LUCIEN S., Beaver. 339th F.A. FINCH, BUDD R., West Union. 126th F.A. HAHN, F.K., Cedar Rapids. 126th F.A. HAM, Jos. P., Dubuque. 168th Inf. HARKER, FRANK C., Ottumwa. 168th Inf. HART, W.R., Iowa City, 305th B. Tank Corp. HUDSON, FRED M., Pocahontas. 79th A.A. Bn. HUNGERFORD, JNO., JR., Carroll. Air Serv. KELLY, J.H., Sioux City, 99th Inf. KINS, WILL L., Hubbard. 159th Dept. Br. LEMLEY, H.D., Melrose. 109th Eng. MACVICAR, JNO., Des Moines. Q.M.C. MALCOMB, EARL, Laurens. 12th Inf. METZGER, T.M., Council Bluffs. 168th Inf. NEUSTRAND, OSCAR, Red Oak. U.S.N.R.F. NEWELL, FLOYD, Ottumwa. M.C. PATTEE, L.C., Pocahontas. Sig. Corp. PEASE, LIBERTY, Farragut. 168th Inf. PLAISTER, R.M., Dubuque. 163d Inf. POLK, HARRY H., Des Moines. 176th Inf. POND, ALANSON M., Dubuque. Med. Corps. PUSEY, MCGEE, Council Bluffs. 11th Bal. Co. SCHULTZ, E.R., Sioux City. Nav. Res. Fly. Corps. SHAW, ROBT. J., Hayesville. 40th Inf. SMITH, R.A., Council Bluffs. 163d D.B. SOPER, B.M., Nevada. Q.M.C. STROTZ, ROY R., Des Moines. 16th Inf. THOMAS, LEE A., Mondamin. 3d Con. Bn. WELCH, C.J., Denison. 4th Repl. Reg. 16th Co. C.O.T.S.
KANSAS
BARCLAY, JAS. F., Kansas City, 110th Eng. BLY, WM. D., Leavenworth. 365th Inf. BRANAMAN, H.A., Ottawa. 137th Inf. BRICKELL, J.B., Emporia. Med. Corps. BURNETT, R.H., Dodge City. Zone Sup. Of. N.Y.C. CLAUSEN, E.W., Atchison. U.S.N.A.S. CUBBISON, P.K., Kansas City. 354th Inf. EATON, L.R., Neodesha. 8th Eng. ELIAS, C.R., La Crosse. U.S.N.R.F. FARRAR, FOSS, Arkansas City. I.C.O.T.S. FOULSTON, S.L., Wichita, 91st Div. GRIEVES, LOREN C., Ft. Leavenworth. G.S. Reg. A. HANTLA, JNO. P., Spearville. 137th Inf. HASTY, LEWIS A., Wichita. 342d Inf. HOLDEN, HARLEY E., Neodesha. P.O. Dept. HOLLOWAY, W.W., Kansas City. P.M.G.O. JOHNSON, PAUL R., Independence. U.S.N. KURTZ, W.P., Columbus. 158th D.B. LAMBERT, I.E., Emporia. Air Serv. LEE, THOS. A., Topeka. 26th Inf. LEEKLEY, R.M., Arkansas City. 338th F.A. MADDEN, JNO., SR., Wichita. Air Serv. MARTIN, CHAS. I., Topeka. 70th Inf. Br. METCALF, W.S., Lawrence. 77th Brig. MOSS, SIDNEY A., Wichita. 125th F.A. MUSSELMAN, N.B., Arkansas City. R.M.A. O'REILLY, H.C., Strong City. 164th Depot Br. ORTMEYER, H.A., Wichita. 326th M.G. Bn. PHAREN, W.A., Wichita. 360th Inf. SNYDER, HARRY E., Council Grove. Med. Det. SPARKS, KEITH L., Greensburg. Med. Dep. STANFORD, F.C., Independence. A.S.S.C. WALKER, H. Jos., La Crosse. 418th Eng. WEED, M.S., Lawrence. 137th Inf. WILLIAMS, JNO. W., Ottawa. Air Serv. WOODS, JAS. A., Arkansas City. 101st Fld. Sig. B. WOODSIDE, L.N., Council Grove. 13th Cav.
KENTUCKY
BEARD, B.F., Hardensburg. 138th F.A. BELL, ULRIC J., Louisville. Inf. BERNHEIM, FR. D., Louisville. 159th D.B. BRONAUGH, ROBT. L., Nicholasville. 164th Inf. EVANS, LYNN B., Lebanon. U.S.N.R.F. EWALL, GEO. R., Louisville. 159th D.B. FISCHER, A.T., Louisville. A.S.R.C. FRASER, V.C., Wickliffe. 6th Inf. GORDON, M.K., Madisonville. I.G.D. HALL, HERMAN H., Viper. 327th F.A. HILL, J. MURRAY, Bowling Green. U.S.N.R.F. JUETT, J.G., Wickliffe. 18th Inf. MARRINER, E.H., Dayton. 131st Inf. MOORMAN, H.D., Hardinsburg. 10th F.A. MUIR, EDMUND A., Nicholsville. 22d Ret. Co. G.S. RINGGOLD, J.H., JR., Russellville. Air Sq. 260. SACHS, D.A., JR., Louisville. U.S.N.R.F. SLACK, R.H., Owensboro. 1st O.T.S. SOSNIN, M.L., Louisville. Base Hosp. Camp Crane, Luxemberg, Fr. SOYARS, WM. O., Hopkinsville. U.S.M.C. STEWART, PHIL. H., Paducah. M.R.C. WHEELER, JAS. G., Paducah. 159th D.B. YOUNG, JNO. S., Glasgow. Med. Corps.
LOUISIANA
BEARD, L.P., New Orleans. U.S.N.R.F. BLANCAND, GUS, New Orleans. Co. 10. COON, WM. A., New Orleans. 73d F.A. DAVIS, EDW., New Orleans, 1st Reg. F.A.R.D. GINELLA, Louis, New Orleans. M.C. MICHEL, F. RALPH, New Orleans. 46th F.A. MOORE, LEVERING, New Orleans. Q.M.C. OWEN, ALLISON, New Orleans. 141st F.A. PRATT, GEO. H.H., New Orleans. Air Serv. STEM, C.H., New Orleans. 2d Eng. WEINMANN, R.J., New Orleans, 151st F.A.
MAINE
ADAMS, W.P., Portland. 54th Ar. C.A.C. BOYLE, JAS. L., Augusta, 101st San. Tr. GREENE, ROGER A., Lewiston. 101st Trench Mort. Bn. GREENLAW, ALBERT, Eastport. Hdq. 26th Div. HAINES, ROY C., Ellsworth. 334th Tank Corps. HUMER, FRANK M., Houlton. 103d U.S. Inf. MILLIKEN, CARL E., Augusta. NORTON, W.P., Portland. 72d Art. C.A.C. PRESSON, GEO. MCG., Augusta. Adj. Gen. ROBINSON, A.L., Portland. 7th A.A. Bn.
MARYLAND
FRENCH, FINDLAY H., Baltimore. S.O. Camp, Greenleaf, Ga. GOOD, STUART S., Baltimore. 110th F.A. HUSTER, WM. A., Cumberland. 113th Inf. JOHNSON, WILLARD J., Baltimore. 351st F.A. KNAPP, RALEIGH T., Baltimore, 110th F.A. RANDALL, A., Baltimore. 110th F.A. SCAFFE, HAROLD, Baltimore. 14th F.A. SOLOMON, ADOLPH C., Baltimore. U.S.M.C. STEWART, DAVIS G., Baltimore. 351st F.A. TIEMAN, GEORGE H., Baltimore. Air Service. WILMER, WILLIAM B., Baltimore. Tank Corps. YOUNG, FRANK A., Cumberland, 115th Inf. YOUNG, HARVEY W., Baltimore. 351st F.A.
MASSACHUSETTS
BACON, G.G., Jamaica Plains. 316th F.A. BALDWIN, H.L., Malden. BURT, C.E., New Bedford. 121st F.A. CLEARY, JAS. P., Boston. Personnel Off. Camp Upton. CUTLER, GEO. C., Jr., Boston. U.S.N. DALTON, EDWARD P., Boston. A.G.D. DOLAN, W.H., Fitchburg. 26th Div. FOY, F.H., Quincy. 82d Div. Inf. FROTHINGHAM, L.A., N. Easton. Adj. Gen. GERMAIN, CHAS. F., Wollaston. 234th Eng. GILBODY, GEO. F., Boston. GREEN, DONALD R., Holyoke. 28th F.A. HERBERT, J.P.J., Worcester. 102d F.A. HOWARD, W.J., Whitman. 113th Eng. JACKSON, L.P., Athol. 74th Inf. MADDEN, MARCUS E., 64 N. Beacon St., 71 Art. C.A.C. MANIFF, HARRY, Revere. U.S.N. MARLEY, THOS. J., E. Boston. 104th Inf. MCGRATH, JAS. P., Roslindale. Hdq. 26th Div. MCINNIS, VICTOR A., Roxbury. 301st Inf. MOYNIHAN, NEIL P., Haverhill. C.O.T.S., Camp Lee, Va. NOLAN, DAVID J., Worcester. 52d Inf. O'ROURKE, JNO. J., Lowell, 101st Sup. Tr. PAGE, KENNETH B., Longmeadow. 104th Inf. PEABODY, J.C.R., Boston. Asst. to Dept. Insp., N.E. Dept. I.G. 5th Div. A.E.F. PRYOR, J.H., West Newton 372d Inf. ROSENFELD, JAY C., Pittsfield. 359th Inf. SAFFORD, RALPH K., Springfield. 104th Inf. SCOTT, H.J., Roxbury. 26th Div. SHINNICK, WM. T., Brockton. 55th Reg. C.A.C. SPILLANE, LEO A., Chelsea. Hdq. N.E. Dept. STEWART, H.J., Camp Devens. 36th Mis. Inf. STRANDQUIST, H.W., Newton. 102d M.G. Bn. THOMAS, H.C., Allston. 101st Eng. WHEELOCK, H.H., Fitchburg. 101st Sup. Tr. WILLIAMS, HARRY R., Boston. 101st Am. Tr.
MICHIGAN
ALGER, FREDERICK M., Detroit. 310th Amun. Tr. ALLEN, CARLOS R., Detroit. 125th Inf. BALDWIN, PAUL R., Manistique. Air Service. BELLOWS, BENJ. B., Highland Park. Ordnance. BERSEY, JOHN S., Lansing. Adjt. Gen., Michigan. BOWDEN, ISAAC, Port Huron. Base Hosp. No. 73. BRINK, HOWARD C., Grand Rapids. 126th Inf. BURGESS, FRANK, Grand Rapids. 126th Inf. CHRISTIE, J.T.C., U.S.A. Gen. Hop., No. 36, Detroit. Q.M.C. CONWAY, BERTRAM, 33 Cardoma St., Detroit. 367th Inf. DOYLE, A.G., Grand Rapids. 126th Inf. ENGLISH, RAND P., Detroit. 125th Inf. EVANS, LYNN B., University Club, Detroit. U.S.N.R.F. FEHRENBOCHER, CHRISS, 271 Harrison St., Gary, Ind. 10th Inf. GILDERSLEEVE, HOWARD, Grand Rapids. U.S.N.R.F. GILLEO, AVERY C., Grand Rapids. 126th Inf. GUELFF, JOHN J., Marquette. 328th F.A. HALL, WILLIAM D., Kalamazoo. 126th Inf. HANSEN, MYRON J., Laurium. S.A.T.C. HARRIS, H.H., Detroit. A.S.S.C. Aviation Training. HENRY, D.D., Grand Rapids. U.S.N.R.F. HULLFISH, HENRY G., Washington, D.C. Medical Dept. KELLEY, CHARLES D., West Detroit. 32d Div. KESL, G.M., Port Huron. M.D. KILMER, EDWARD H., Grand Rapids. 10th Inf. KING, WILLIAM, Detroit. 125th Inf. LARSON, WERNER R., Ironwood. Sanitary Squad No. 58. LAWSON, OTTO EMIL C.Y., Detroit. U.S.N.R.F. LOCKHART, ARTHUR, Grand Rapids. U.S.N.R.F. MAINES, GEORGE H., Battle Creek. 338th Inf. MCKEE, MARK T., Mt. Clemens. Chemical Warfare. MCMAHAN, F.V., 322 E. Grand Blvd., Detroit. U.S.N.R.F. MOERISCH, E.L., Escanaba. U.S.N. NICKEL, P.W., Grand Rapids. U.S.N.R.F. NORTON, ALBERT H., Detroit. 125th Inf. O'BRIEN, THOMAS, Grand Rapids. U.S.N. O'DELL, H.A., Detroit. Hdg. Chief Engr. QUASIGROCH, LEE J., Highland Park, Ill., Camp Custer. SMITH, GEORGE L., Detroit. 4th Tex. Inf. TABOR, LYLE D., Detroit. U.S.N.R.F. TARPESTRA, GEORGE, Grand Rapids. 154th Aero Squad. TAYLOR, W.J., Port Huron. Hdq. Det. 14th Div. TOBIN, FRANK J., Jackson. 126th Inf. VELDMAR, EDWIN, Grand Rapids. 26th Inf. WEIR, ORVILLE H., Detroit. 125th Inf. WILKIN, H.H., Detroit. U.S.N. YOUNG, JAY P., 706 Easterly Ave., 125th Inf.
MINNESOTA
AHERN, JNO. J., St. Paul. 88th Inf. ANDERSON, S.E., Ruthton. 351st Inf. BALDWIN, C.H., Redwood Falls. 87th Inf. CALDWELL, JNO. C., Albert Lea. 127th F.A. CHAPIN, GEO. S., St. Paul. 167th Inf. CLARK, GORDON M., Duluth. 125th F.A. CLIPPER, GEO. A., St. Paul. Q.M.C. COOK, PAUL B., Lowrny Blg., St. Paul. Med. Corp. EATON, M.E., Minneapolis. 309th Fld. Sig. Bn. FOWLER, F.J., St. Paul. Camp McArthur. FULLER, HARRISON, St. Paul. 163d F.A. HALL, LEVI M., Minneapolis. 124th F.A. HENDERSON, R.L., Minneapolis. C.A. KING, S.W., Austin. Motor Mechanic. LEWIS, H.B., Minneapolis. Dunwoody Tr. Det. LOWTHER, GEO., Minneapolis. Sig. Corp. MACMICHAEL, P.R., 119 N. 4th St., Minneapolis. I.C.O.T.S. MAGNUSSON, C.W., Hibbing. 85th F.A. MCCARTHY, E.D., St. Paul. 313th Eng. NELSON, A.M., Fairmont. 68th Inf. Br. NELSON, Roy, Minneapolis. M.G.S. NOLAN, M.C., Grand Meadow. Q.M.C. PAGE, RALPH W., Minneapolis. 303d Cav. PARKS, JNO. J., St. Paul. 101 Aero Squad. PARTRIDGE, C.A., Owatonna. 332d M.G. Bn. ROBERTS, LOREN B., Little Falls. 187 Aero Sq., A.E.F. ROGERS, M.J., St. Paul. 74th Eng. SCHAUB, H.W., St. Paul. 65th Pioneer Inf. SMITH, S.S., Worthington. 164th D. Brig. STROMGREN, E., Center City. Motor Amb. Sup. Dep. Louisville. STURTZ, WM. P., Albert Lea. U.S.N.R.F. TOMELTY, JAS. C., Little Falls. 337th F.A. USTRUCK, W.J., Montevideo. 346th Inf. VANCMA, GEO., Lakefield. 151st Aero Sq. VARNER, C.L., St. Cloud. Naval Aviation. VEIT, CON., 3733 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis. 70th Inf. WARNER, LEE F., St. Paul. Chem. Warfare. WILLIAMS, W.A., 621 Byron St., Mankato. 2d Eng.
MISSISSIPPI
ADAMS, WM. T., JR., Corinth, 115th F.A. ALEXANDER, JNO. M., Jackson. San. Corp. BURNETT, ROBT., Vicksburg. 334th M.G. Bn. CHAMBERS, PAUL, Jackson. U.S.N.R.F. CLARK, ARTHUR B., Indianola. 79th Div. DALBEY, CHAS. R., Jackson, 115th Inf. DUNN, ARTHUR JNO., Vicksburg. 162d Inf. FITZHUGH, ALEX., 1403 Baum St., Vicksburg. Comp Q.M., Camp Hancock, Ga. FLEMING, JAS. S., JR., Natchez. 52d Ammun. Tr. HOSKINS, GEO. C., Brookhaven. 162d Inf. SULLENS, FREDERICK, Jackson. Mil. Intell. Div. Gen. Staff. WHITING, JNO. S., JR., Farrell. 24th Co. C.O.T.S.
MISSOURI
ALBERT, WILFRED G., St. Louis. 57th F.A. ALEXANDER, F., St. Louis. 49th Inf. ALLEN, C.P., Trenton. Field Ord. BARCO, A.U., St. Louis. U.S.N.R.F. BENNETT, J.M., Neosho. S.M.A. BERNARD, J.A., St. Louis. 45th U.S. Inf. Medical Corps. BRADBURY, H.C., Jefferson City. U.S.M.C. BRUGGERE, W.H., St. Louis. 342d F.A. CAMBELL, C.W., Sedalia. 314th Eng. CARTER, A., Meadville. 18th Inf. CLARK, BENNETT, Bowling Green. 88th Div. CLARKE, HARVEY C., Jefferson City. 35th Div. CRONKITE, D.W., St. Joseph. Naval Aviation. DALLMEYER, PHIL. A., Jefferson City. I.C.O.T.S. DALY, RICHARD L., St. Louis. 12th F.A. DICKSON, J.T., Warrensburg. U.S.N.R.F. DIMMITT, C.P., St. Louis. Hosp. Guard. EGGER, E.R., St. Louis. 6th Reg. F.A.R.D. FIELD, ANDREW, Macon. 160th D.B. FOSTER, DICK B., Kansas City. 10th Div. FULLERTON, ROB., Louis, 111. 5th Mo. Inf. GARRETT, RUBY D., Kansas City. Signal Corps. GOOD, H.G., Carthage. 116th Engrs. GRAY, L.H., Carthage. 6th M.G.B. Marines. GREEN, FREDK. WM., St. Louis. 12th Engrs. GRIMSLEY, CLYDE I., Salina. 16th Inf. HAGNER, A.R., Hagerstown. Casual Air Serv. HAW, U.P., Benton. 90th Inf. HOLCOMB, H.W., Moberly. Q.M.C.S.C. HUBBARD, DOUGLAS, G., Versailles. 346th Inf. HUSTON, G.C., Troy. U.S.N. HYDE, L.M., Princeton. 338th Inf. JOHNSTON, GALE, Mexico. U.S.N.R.F. JOHNSTON, W.O., St. Louis. Bat. No. 60 Arty. C.A.C. KEALY, PHILIP J., Kansas City. 138th Inf. KLEMM, K.D., Kansas City. 106th F.A. KRECHEL, HENRY, Floissant. 128th F.A. LAFAYETTE, D. LYTLE, St. Louis. 332d Inf. LAYTON, CHAS. O., St. Louis. Naval Veteran Assn. LEACH, MERTON H., Jefferson Barracks. Q.M.C. LONERGAN, WM. J., St. Louis. 138th Inf. LOZIER, LUE C., Carrollton. 164th D.B. MCKINLEY, C.A., Clinton. 60th Pioneer Inf. MONOVILL, HAROLD P., St. Louis. Naval Overseas Trans. Serv. MONTGOMERY, P.S., St. Louis. 312th Inf. NEE, DAN M., Springfield. O.T.S. NEVILLE, J.H., Springfield. 41st Arty. RAUPP, WILLIAM, Pierce City. 2d Pioneer Inf. RAZOOSKY, JULIUS, St. Louis. Aero. Phot. ROBINETTE, P.J., Hartville. U.S.M.C. ROGERS, GEORGE, Missouri Ath. Assn. A.S. 133d Det. ROSEMANN, HENRY, St. Louis. Tank Corps. ROYAL, THOMAS V., St. Louis. SCHIELDS, GEO., St. Louis. Adj. Gen. Dept. TUCKER, PAUL, Lamar. 112th Inf. WANCHTES, GEO., St. Louis. WATKINS, CHARLES, St. Louis. Fort Sheridan. WHELESS, JOSEPH, St. Louis. Judge Adv. WHITE, J.M., St. Louis. Eng. WOODS, JOE, St. Louis. 354th Inf. YOUNT, M.P., Ironton. 3d O.T.L.
MONTANA
ALMON, WORTH C., Helena. U.S.N.R.F. BARNETT, BEN W., Helena. 163d D.B. BARRY, ARTHUR N., Billings. A.S. Dept. BLOMQUIST, H.L., Great Falls. MCCALLUM, D.S., Helena. 163d Inf. PEW, CHAS. E., Helena. 44th Inf. SHERIDAN, CHAS. L., Bozeman. 49th Inf.
NEBRASKA
COAD, RALPH G., Omaha. A.S.M.A. FISCHER, FRANK P., Scotts Bluff. 164th D.B. FITZSIMMONS, L.L., Fremont. M.O.T.C. GILLIGAN, GEO W., Lincoln. 41st Inf. GOODRICH, E.S., Fairbury. 305th Tank Corps. HOLDEMAN, GEO. H., York. 125th F.A. HOWARD, BERT, Tecumseh. U.S.N. KEARNEY, ORLANDO H., Morrill. 13th Inf. MCDERMOTT, ED. P., Kearney. C.M.G.O.T.S. MCGUIRE, L.J., Omaha. 3d Inf. MADDEN, RAY J., Omaha, U.S.N. MAHER, JOHN G., Lincoln. Chief Disb. Officer, Paris. MERSINGER, LEON, Plattsmouth. 222d Field Signal Bn. RADEMACHER, R.A., York. Unassigned. RITCHIE, WM., JR., Omaha. 69th Inf. ROBERTSON, HUGH C., Omaha. 356 San. Det. STIRCH, J.A., Lincoln, 350th Inf. STRYKER, HIRD, Omaha. 338th F.A. STUART, A.L., Fremont. 428 Eng., 109 Eng. TUKEY, ALLAN A., Omaha. 26th Inf. VANNESS, CLARENCE, Stanton. A.S.S.C. WEBB, ROBERT J., Omaha. 164th Depot Brig.
NEVADA
MALSBARY, E.L., Reno. 218th Eng. SALTER, J.D., Winnemucca. 2d Co., 3d Bn. I.C.O.T.S.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
ABBOTT, F.J., Manchester. 103d F.A. DESCHEMS, HOMAR J., East Jaffey. Motor Supply Train. FISKE, GEORGE V., Manchester. 75th Div. San. Tr. HEUREUX, L'HERVE, Manchester. 103d Inf. HOGAN, WALTER J., Manchester. 103d Inf. KNOX, FRANK, Manchester. 303d Amm. Tr. MAHER, CHARLES F., 612 Main St., Laconia. MAHONEY, MATTHEW J., Manchester. 103d Inf. MURPHY, WM., 49 Alfred St., 103d Inf. SANTOR, JOHN, Manchester. 104th F.H. SULLIVAN, WM. E., Nashua, 102d Inf. TRUFANT, ARTHUR, Hudson. 103d Inf.
NEW JERSEY
BESSON, HARLAN, Hoboken. 5th A.C. BRADY, CHARLES S., Weehawken. 322d Sanitary Train. BROMLEY, HERBERT L., 127 Clinton Ave., Clifton. Camp Hdq., Camp Dix. CANGEMI, ANGELO, Newark. U.S. Nitrate Plant, No. 1. DEBEVOISE, PAUL, Elizabeth. 312th Inf. EGGERS, ALAN L., Summit. 107th Inf. EHRHARDT, PHILIP, Jersey City, 111th M.G. Bn. MCGRATH, EDWARD A., Elizabeth. U.S.N. MULLIK, D.B., Leonia. Eng. M.P. PANCOAST, JOHN M., Hancock's Bridge. U.S.N.R.F. RITTER, RALPH F., Rahway. Staff, Ft. Hancock. SCHENCK, R.P., Jersey City. Q.M.C. STRATTON, GERVAS, Vineland. U.S.N.R.F. TISCHBECK, JOHN D., Newark. 112th H.F.A. TOBIN, ED. A., 27 Broadway, Camden. U.S.N. WEED, NEWELL P., 65 Union, Montclair. 344th Ban. Tank Corps. WESCOAT, ABSALOM S., Atlantic City. M.C.
NEW MEXICO
BACA, HERMAN G., Belen. U.S.N. BACA, JESUS M., Santa Fe. 115th Pv. Hq. BLEVINS, DONALD L., Las Vegas. 82d F.A. CUTTING, B.M., Santa Fe. Mil. Attaché, London. DILLARD, H. WYATT, Roswell. 358th Inf. DOLDWELL, C.S., Albuquerque. Inf. (?) FLAMM, ROY H., Alamogorda. 18th Eng. R.T.C. French Army. HUMPHREYS, FRED, B., Dayton. U.S.N.
NEW YORK
ALLEN, FREEMAN C., Rochester. Q.M.C. BALDWIN, FREDERIC W., Brooklyn. 308th Inf. BALL, GROSVENOR LOWREY, Lawrence. 306th Inf. BARNHILL, GEORGE B., New York. 820th Aero Squad. BARRETT, WALTER N., Saratoga Springs. U.S.M.C. BARUCK, S.L., New York. Q.M.C. BEERS, W.H., New York. 601st Eng. BERRY, CHARLES W., Brooklyn. 106th Inf. BLACK, JOHN, Brooklyn. Stars and Stripes Gen. Staff. BODAMER, HAROLD L., Buffalo. U.S.N.R.F. BOECKEL, FRED. W., Buffalo. 106th F.A. BOOTH, ROBERT C., Plattsburg. 303d Inf. BOYCE, A.L., New York. Q.M.C. BRADLEY, GOODYEAR, Buffalo. 106th Regt. BUNN, EARLE D., Newburgh. Train, and Unassign. Duty. BURRILL, Louis D., Syracuse. U.S.N.R.F. BUTLER, WILLIAM E., Brooklyn. Ambulance Service. CHURCH, ELIHU C., New York. 117th Eng. COMPTON, GEO. B., New York. 153d Depot Bri. F.A. CONWAY, THOMAS J., Ithaca. U.S. Marines. COOKE, JAMES P., New York. 106th Inf. COSBY, ARTHUR P., New York. A.G.O. DAGGETT, GEO. F., Brooklyn. Military Intell. Div. DAVIES, JULIEN L., New York. U.S.N.R.F. DEAN, CLARK M., New York. 107th Inf. DECLUCQ, FLOYD L., Cortland. 108th Inf. DECOURSEY, FALES, New York. U.S.N.R.F. DERBY, RICHARD, New York. 2d Div. DEYO, HARRISON, Yonkers. S.A.T.C. Columbia Univ. DRAPER, WM. H., New York. Co. 2, N.Y. Reg. DUELL, CHARLES H., New York. U.S.N. ECKERT, J.A., New York. 105th F.A. ENGEL, NICHOLAS, New York. 107th Inf. FINELITE, A.C., New York. Q.M.C. FISH, HAMILTON, JR., New York. 369th Inf. FLOYD, CHAS. H., New York. 107th Inf. FOX, E.E., 58 W. 47th St., New York. FRANK, EUGENE, New York. E.O.T.S. GALLAGHER, F.T.C., Oswego. 108th Inf. GOERKE, JAMES P., Brooklyn. U.S.N. HAYES, WADE H., New York. 27th Div. HEALY, Jos. P., New York. U.S.N. HELWIG, A.L., 517 New York Eng. Corp. HUDSON, DONALD, New York. 27th Aero Squadron. HUNT, CLYDE R., Woodhaven. 7th Bt. Hdqrs. INGRAM, LEE, Gloversville. 105th Inf. JAY, DELANCEY K., Westbury. 307th Inf. JENNINGS, ALLEN D., Brooklyn. U.S.N.R.F. KINCAID, J. LESLIE, Syracuse. 27th Div. KITCHEL, LLOYD, Bronxville. 12th F.A. KNOB, FREDERICK J., New York. U.S.M.C. KRUMM, EDWARD DELOS, Rome. 10th Inf. LYONS, WILLIAM M., Brooklyn. 114th Inf. MCADOO, WILLIAM GIBBS, JR., New York. U.S.N. Air Service. MCALPIN, MILO F., New York. 37th Art. MCILVAINE, TOMPKINS, New York. Intell. Service. MCKLAINE, OSCEALA E., New York. 367th Inf. MARSH, ROBERT M.C., New York. 351st F.A. MELA, HARRY F., New York. 152d Depot Bdg. MILLER, LAWRENCE, New York, 305th F.A. MOSLE, C. FRED., New York. 33d Inf. MULLIN, R. JEROME, Brooklyn. 308th Inf. MUNSKE, CHARLES R., Brooklyn. 102d F.A. NICKERSON, HOFFMAN, New York. Ordnance. OKERLIND, MELIN A., Jamestown. U.S.N.T.S. OSBORNE, FAIRFIELD, New York. 351st F.A. PERRY, FRANCIS W., Brooklyn. 77th Div. PRESS, THOMAS C., Bronx. 105th F.A. PUTNAM, G.P., New York. F.A.C.O.T.S. RACKOFF, IRWIN IRA, New York. 152d Depot Brigade. REID, D. LINCOLN, New York. 369th Inf. RIDDER, JOSEPH E., New York. M.T.C. RIFFE, JAMES, Elmira. 108th Inf. ROBINSON, Fordham Road and Valentine Ave., New York. General Staff. ROBINSON, FRANCIS H., New York. Q.M.C. ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, New York. 20th Inf. SCHMIDT, W.M., Pleasantville. 7th Inf. SELIGMAN, J.L., New York. 27th Div. SMITH, POWERS C., Watertown. 307th F.A. SMITH, THOMAS R., St. Louis. A.S.D. STONE, LAUE K., New York. 34th Aero Squadron. SWIFT, PARTON, Buffalo, 151st F.A. Bri. TAYLOR, H. IRV., New York. C.A.C. TOWNSON, K.C., Rochester. F.A.C.O.T.S. VAN BUREN, J.N., Dunkirk. Aviation. WELLS, JOHN, New York. 105th U.S. Inf. WHEAT, GEO. S., New York. U.S.N. WICKERSHAM, C.W., New York. 27th Div. WISEMAN, MARK H., New York. 7th Regt. WOOD, ERIC P., New York. 83d Div. WRIGHT, W.T., New York. 105th F.A.
NORTH DAKOTA
BAKER, JULIUS R., Fargo. 6th Corps M.P. Co. FRASER, G.A., Bismarck. Inf. P.M.G.O. GORMAN, ARTHUR, Fargo. 26th Inf. HANLEY, J.M., Mandan. 148th M.G. Bn. MERRY, LYALL B., W. Dickinson. 116th Supply Train. SEMLING, H.V., Bismarck. 116th Tr. Hdqrs. STERN, WILLIAM, Fargo. Q.M.C. TREACY, ROBT. H., Bismarck. 339th Inf. 160th Depot Brigade. WILLIAMS, J.P., No. Fargo. 3d Eng.
OHIO
BABCOCK, VEARNE C., Elyria. U.S. Naval Aviation. BETTMAN, GILBERT. 1114 Union Trust Bldg., Military Intell. Div. BIMM, HARRY L., Dayton. Air Service. BLACK, ROBERT L., Cincinnati. 37th Div. Military Intell. BRUML, MAURICE W., Cleveland. Air Serv. BUSH, H.M., Briggsdale. 134th F.A. CAMPBELL, L.J., Youngstown. 309th F.A. COBE, RALPH D., Findlay. 145th Inf. CONKLIN, WM. H., Columbus. Q.M.C. FESS, THOMAS L., Yellow Springs. 394th M.G. Bri. FUNM, NORBERT E., Sandusky. 147th Inf. GERLACK, F.C., Wooster. 146th Inf. HALL, JOSEPH L., Cincinnati, 5th Corps Artillery. HARD, DUDLEY J., Cleveland. 135th F.A. HORRELL, OLNEY W., Dayton. 134th F.A. HUSTON, C.H., Mansfield, 112th Am. Train. KING, E.L., Dayton. Air Service. KLINE, JOHN H., Dayton. 62d F.A. KOONS, JACK F., Cincinnati. 148th Inf. LEA, ANDREW B., Cleveland. 112th Engrs. MACDOUGAL, HARRY O., Akron. Ordn. MCGILL, DON. R., Nelsonville. 308th Tr. M. Btry. MURRAY, CHAS. J., Elyria. 42d Div. NICKLETT, A.P., Toledo. U.S.N.R.F. PERRY, GEORGE W., Youngstown. 1st Army, A.E.F. PHILLIPS, THOMAS A., Dayton. 812th Pio. Inf. PRIDDY, JOHN E., Findlay. F.A.C.O.T.S. RAMSEY, ANDREW M., Cincinnati. 26th Div. SEGAL, BEN M., Cleveland. 135th F.A. SONSLEY, HARRY J., Ada. 62d F.A. TURNER, CYRIL B., Columbus. 308th T.M. Btry. WILSON, CHALMERS, R., Columbus, 112th Field Sig. Bn.
OKLAHOMA
ADKINS, E.S., Muskogee. Hdq. 42d Div. BERRY, RALPH H., Tulsa. 173d Inf. BURLING, WM. T., Sapulpa. I.C.O.T.S. BUTTS, R.B., Muskogee. 162d D.B. CHASE, VAL D., Alva. U.S.N. FISCHER, F.W., Oklahoma City. Q.M.C. FOX, PHILIP A., Tulsa. 23d Engrs. GINGERICH, H.A., Okmulgee. 358th Inf. HAUGHERTY, HUGH, Enid. E.J.B.T.S. HAGAN, HORACE H., Tulsa. C.A.C. HOFFMAN, ROY, Oklahoma City. 93d Div. KEENAN, ROB. B., Sapulpa. 308th Aero Squad. MCNALLY, EARL, Okemah. 111th Amm. Train. MEYER, HOWARD W., U.S.S. Bank Bldg., U.S. Slipping Bd. NILES, ALVA J., Tulsa. 7th Div. NORWOOD, FRANK H., Prague. Ft. Riley. SAMS, VERNETT E., Wewoka. 49th Inf. SHEA, THOMAS J., Buffalo, N.Y. 56th F.A. TAYLOR, MAX A., Pryor. 330th Inf. THOMPSON, N.A., 111 E. Latimer St., Tulsa. 57th Inf. TULLY, B.L., 83d F.A. VIUER, WM., Tulsa. S.O.T.S.
OREGON
CRITCHLOW, HARRY, Portland. 363d Arab. Co. EIVERS, EDW. J., Portland. 162d Inf. FOLLETT, WILL. B., Eugene. 69th F.A. GRANT, RODERICK D., Portland. Air Service. LEONARD, BARGE E., Portland. 63d Inf. MAY, JOHN L., North Portland. 162d Inf. MULLEN, C.L., Portland. U.S. Marines. PARGON, JOSEPH A., Portland. M.C.
PENNSYLVANIA
AURAND, AMMON M., JR., Beaver Springs. Q.M.C. BEAMAN, JOSEPH W., Towanda. 140th Tank Corps. BECKER, H.M., Pittsburgh. (?) BIDDLE, CHARLES J., Philadelphia. Air Serv. BLANK, HARRY C., Allentown. C.O.T.S. BODIN, F.S., Wellsboro. B.E.F. BUCK, HOWARD, Philadelphia. 96 Aero Sq. BUETTNER, C.A., Johnstown. Amb. Co. COLLINS, J., East Pittsburgh. 371 Inf. DAVIS, SHANLEY, Pottsville. Aviation. DEARLOVE, CHAS., Philadelphia. 109th Inf. DETRICH, A., Philadelphia. School for A.R. & M.O. DIXON, F.E., Elkins Park. 318th F.A. DOBSON, W.F., 284 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. U.S.N.R.F. D'OLIER, FRANKLIN, Philadelphia. Q.M.C. DUNKLE, RAY, Dry Runn. 4th D.B. DUNN, STEWART, Pittsburgh. 83d F.A. EGLOFF, JOHN, East Pittsburgh. 8th Trench Mort. Bat. FISCHER, ANDREW, Johnstown. 7th Eng. FLOOD, FRANK, Pittsburgh. Chem. War. Service. FORESTER, I.G.. Philadelphia. 46th Inf. FOSTER, DAVID, Carnegie, 305th Field Sig. Bn. GEARY, JOHN W., Philadelphia. M.I.D. GENTZEL, PAUL, Bellefonte. 314th Inf. GREER, JOHN, New York City. Nat. Cath. War Council. HAUTH, M.L., Meadville. 29th Eng. HECHT, CARL C., c/o West Branch Knitting Co., U.S.M.C. HERBINE, A.P., Berwick. 314th Inf. HILL, FREDERICK, Pittsburgh, 90th Inf. HOEGER, ADELBERT, 1508 Sheffield St., Pittsburgh. 209th Eng. HOOPES, E.S., East End Ave., Beaver. Casual Air Service. HOSACK, GEORGE, 1415 Park Blg., Pittsburgh, 111th Inf. HOUCK, BYRON, Williamsport. 1st Reg. M.T.S. HUDOE, M.J., Uniontown. 306th Tank Corp. HULINGS, NORMAN, Oil City. 22d Aero Sq. HUNSICKER, STANLEY, Collegeville. Q.M.C. IVONY, LEO, East Pittsburgh. I.C.O.T.S. JOHNS, ALEXANDER, Monessen. 2d Eng. Tran. Regiment. JOHNSON, J.E., West Chester. 301st Tank Train. JOHNSON, MILLER A., Lewisburg. 162d Inf. JONES, WARREL, Clearfield. 38th Inf. KATZ, EDWARD, Honesdale. M.T.C. KELLER, OLIVER, Lancaster. Air Service. KNOX, ANDREW, Philadelphia. Med. Corps. KRESALES, KENNETH, Easton. U.S.A.A.S. KRUMBHAAR, EDWARD, Chestnut Hill. Base Hos. No. 10. LAMOND, JAMES, Philadelphia. Avia. A.S.A. LAUGHLIN, ALEX., JR., Sewickley. 88th Div. MCCALL, JOSEPH, Merion. 311th. F.A. MCRAE, A.K., Pittsburgh. M.T.C.T.S. METZ, BENJ., Pittsburgh. 124th Eng. MORGANROTH, C.K., Shamokin. 312th Inf. MUENCH, WILLIAM, JR., Philadelphia. 606th Eng. NEWCOMER, ROBERT, Pittsburgh. 76th Div. NOFER, GEO., 621 Belgrade St. 3d Div. Hdq. O'DONNEL, JAMES, Philadelphia. 315th Inf. PEARSON, ALFRED, JR., Somerset. 6th E.T.R. PENNEL, EDRED J., Norristown. 304th Ammun. Tr. PENNY, JOS. M., Philadelphia. U.S.N. PHELPS, L.M., Erie. 112th Inf. PUTLK, LAWHEND, Clearfield. Base Hosp. No. 4. REASA, THOMAS, Pottsville. 103d Eng. REHR, THOMAS, Pottsville. 103d Eng. Co. C. REIFSENDER, RUSSELL, Pottstown. 182d Aero Sq. RICK, GEO., Reading. 302 Guard and Fire Co. RIGBY, HOWARD, Pittsburgh. O.T.C. SAMSEL, HUGH, Stroudsburg. U.S.N. SAXE, MICHAEL, Philadelphia. 54th Inf. SEMBOWER, GUY, Reading, 114th Ord. Co. SHOEFFER, CLINTON, Pottsville. 103d Eng. SIMONSON, E.G., Philadelphia. 490 Aero Sq. SINGER, ROBERT, Stroudsburg. 109th Inf. SMYTH, WILLIAM, Philadelphia. Engrs. Adj. Gen. Dept. SPANGEL, LYELL, Williamsport. U.S.N. STEVENSON, RICHARD, Chester. Handley Page Training Dept. TYLER, GEORGE, Philadelphia, 311th F.A. WALSH, JOSEPH, Pittsburgh. 4th Eng. WEAR, BYRON, Hazleton. 146th Inf.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
LANDON, ROBERT R., Manila. 111th Corps and 2d Army.
RHODE ISLAND
ANGELL, CARL H., Providence. F.A.C.O.T.S. CANTWELL, PERCEY, Providence. 351st P.A. ELEONISKEY, JAMES, Main Crompton. Sig. Corps. JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER, Providence. C.A.C. MCKANNAH, F., River Pt. Medical Corps. SAN SONEITR, JOS., 4 Claremont Ave., 103d F.A. SHARKEY, WALTER, Woonsocket. 151st D.B. SHUNNEY, WM. P., Woonsocket. 103d P.A. STURGES, RUSH, Providence. Ord. THURBER, FRED B., c/o Tilden Thurber Co. U.S.N. WEEDER, R.B., Providence. 103d F.A.
SOUTH CAROLINA
FULTON, ROBERT, Florence. 105th Supply Tr. LACHICOTTE, N.S., Florence. U.S.N.R.F. REED, CHARLES, Charleston. 365th Inf. SMYSER, JOHN, Florence. Med. Corps.
SOUTH DAKOTA
BUELL, WILLIAM, Rapid City. 335th Inf. DENNISON, JOHN, Vermillion. C.M.G.O.T.S. DOUD, F.R., Mobridge. 13th Eng. JOHNSON, T.R., Sioux Falls. 102d F.A. MALONEY, PAUL, Aberdeen. 163d F.A. PFEIFFER, JOSEPH, Rapid City. Ord.
TENNESSEE
ANDERSON, GLENN, Nashville. C.A.C. BERRY, HARRY, Hendersonville. 115th F.A. BOLLING, W.E., Nashville. 114th F.A. BOWMAN, CHAS., Nashville. 2d Div. BROWN, BARTON, Nashville. 114th F.A. BUCKNER, ED., Thompson's Station. 114th F.A. BUFORD, NED, Nashville. Air Ser. CASON, WM., Nashville. 114th F.A. CORSON, HERBERT, Nashville. U.S.N. GLEASON, JAMES, Knoxville. 114th F.A. GRIFFEN, EUGENE, Nashville, 114th F.A. HAGER, RICHARD, Nashville, 115th F.A. HANDLER, WALTER C., Memphis. 55th P.A. Brig. HAYES, JOHN, Memphis. 114th F.A. KLEINE, KENNETH E., Memphis. Unassigned. LASON, WILLIAM, Nashville, 114th F.A. LEA, LUKE, Nashville. 114th F.A. MERNT, HENRY, Jacksonville, 115th F.A. MILLIGAN, G.C., Chattanooga. 156th Dept. Brig. MILLIKEN, Chattanooga. 81st Div. NAIVE, W.W., Clarkville. U.S.N. OXE, HOWARD, Nashville, 114th F.A. PALMER, ED., Nashville. 117th F.A. ROBERTSON, JOHN, Lebanon, 115th F.A. SHADOW, W.A., Winchester. Air Ser. SPENCE, CAREY, Knoxville. 117th Inf. WARNING, ROME, Memphis. 33d Div. WATSON, LAWRENCE, Columbia. 114th F.A. WINFRY, DOUGLAS, Memphis.
TEXAS
ALLEN, ARCH C., Dallas. 132d F.A. BACON, BENJAMIN, Wichita Falls. 360th Inf. BEAGLEY, JOHN, La Porte. Inf. BEAVENS, C., Houston. 357th Inf. BIRKHEAD, CLAUDE, San Antonio, 131st F.A. BOON, S.P., Brady, 111th Sup. Train. BRADLEY, ROLLAND, Houston. 132d F.A. CARREL, ALFRED, Austin. Air Ser. COHN, E.M., Dallas. U.S.M.C. FOY, HUGH, Dallas. Army Tran. Service. GAINES, J.P., Bay City. 26th Inf. GRUBBS, ROSCOE, Paris, 5th M.G. Bn. HOOVER, JOHN, Houston. 143d Inf. JACKSON, W.E., Hillboro. 141st Inf. JOHNSON, W.W., Galveston. U.S.N. KING, JOHN L., Ft. Worth, 111th Am. Train. LANGDON, RUSSELL, Houston. U.S.N. LINDSLEY, HENRY, Dallas. Gen. Staff. NICHOLSON, LE ROY, Ballinger. U.S.N. SMITH, C., Galveston. Inf. TIPS, CHAS., Three Rivers, 90th Div. Inf. VAMESON, ROU A., Marlin. 143d Inf. YOUNG, JOHN, Austin. C.A.C.
UTAH
DOUGLAS, ROYAL, Ogden. 81st Inf. JURGENSEN, FRED, Salt Lake City. Gen. KUNDSON, J.C., Brigham City. 326th Inf. MCCARTY, RAY, Salt Lake City. U.S.N. MEEHAN, LEO, Salt Lake City. U.S.N.F.C. PARSONS, C., Salt Lake City. Sant. Corps. RHIVERS, DONALD, Ogden. 18th Eng. ROBERTSON, BALDWIN, Salt Lake City. 362d Inf. SEELY, L.J., Mt. Pleasant. 814th Aero Sq. SMOOT, H.R., Salt Lake City. P.S.&T. WOOLEY, JAS., Salt Lake City. U.S.M.C.
VERMONT
FOUNTAIN, JOSEPH HARRY, Burlington. 101st Am. Tr. NASON, LEONARD, Norwich University. 76th F.A. VARNUM, GUY, Barre. Ordnance.
VIRGINIA
COCKE, FRANCIS, Roanoke. 217th Aero Sq. ISAID, JAMES, Roanoke. 117th T.H. & M.P. NEI, D.D., Norfolk. U.S.N.R.F. PALLARD, C., Richmond. 30th Eng. POOL, GEORGE, Norfolk, 111th F.A. STUART, WM. A., Big Stone Gap. 44th Art. Brig. THOMPSON, JOHN, Petersburg. 248th Aero Sq. TROTTER, WM., Petersburg. U.S.N.R.F. WALLACE, R.R., Hampton. 11th F.A. WICKER, JOHN, Richmond. 499th Aero Sq.
WASHINGTON
FEIN, FRED, 1131 Pleasant St. U.S.N.R.F. GORDON, R.S., Spokane. 54th F.A. JOHNSON, ALBERT, Aberdeen. M.S. MCDONALD, C.B. Camp Lewis, Signal Corps. MOSS, HARVEY, Seattle. I.G.D. REDINGER, FRED, Aberdeen. U.S.N.R.F. SAPP, C.S., Seattle. Ord. SHAW, FREDERICK, Tacoma. C.A.C. SIMENTON, RUSS, Seattle. U.S.N.R.F. SULLIVAN, JOHN, Seattle. M.I.B. THOMPSON, L.L., Olympia. U.S.N.R.F.
WEST VIRGINIA
ALDERSON, FLEMING, Charleston. A.G.O. ARNOLD, JACKSON, Weston. 150th Inf. BOND, JOHN, 317 Michigan Ave. Gen. Staff 38th Div. CROCKETT, JOSEPH, Welch. 315th F.A. DAVIS, RICHARD, Morgantown. A.S.A. FERGUSON, G.E., Charleston. 365th Inf. GODFREY, M.V., Charleston. Med. Corps. JACKSON, JOSEPH, Charleston. 365th Inf. JONES, CLARENCE, Hinton. 8th Inf. MCCAMIC, CHARLES, Wheeling. Ordn. REASS, JOS. H., Wheeling. Q.M.C. SHAW, HOUSTON GEO., Wheeling. R.I.C. SIMMONS, W.J., Hinton. 40th Inf. SOLINS, SAMUEL, Welch. M.C.
WISCONSIN
ACKLEY, JAMES, 417 Marston Ave., 168th Inf. BELLIS, NEWMAN, Wausau. 18th Inf. CHYBOWSKI, M.A., Milwaukee. M.O.T.C. CLARKE, ROBERT H., La Crosse. Development Bn. CLOW, WM. K., Milwaukee. U.S.N. CROSBY, H.S., Rhinelander. CUNNINGHAM, ROB., Janesville. Chemical Warfare. DAVIS, JOHN, Milwaukee. Train. Cp. DIETERIEN, W.H., Milwaukee. 120th F.A. DUTSCHER, GEO., Milwaukee. F.A.C.O.T.S. FERRIS, JOHN, Milwaukee. Gen. Staff. FOSTER, CARLTON, Oshkosh. 20th Eng. LACHENMAIER, FRED, 312 Caswel Blk., 100th Div. LEE, WILBUR, Oconto. 127th Inf. LYSTUD, ANDY, N. Hudson. 330th Mach. Gun. MERKEL, GEO., Appleton. 127th Inf. OWENS, ELMER, Milwaukee, 121st F.A. PFEIL, JAMES, Milwaukee. 340th Inf. PRANGE, HERBERT, Baraboo. 128th Inf. SALSMAN, JOHN, Madison. 32d Div. SMITH, B.L., Neenah. 18th Inf. STRAMPE, GEORGE, Janesville. SZULTEK, JOHN, Milwaukee. 121st F.A. WITTERSTAFFER, WALTER, Milwaukee. 340th Inf. WOODWORTH, LEIGH, Janesville.
WYOMING
DINNEEN, M.A., Cheyenne. 116th Amm. Tr. GREGG, BEN, Worland. 49th Reg. JUNE, C.M., Cheyenne. 13th Div. MCCARTHY, D.C.M. Casper. U.S.N. MILLER, L.A., Cheyenne. U.S.M.C. POWERS, RALPH, Tarrington. 40th Inf. SHORTELL, WILLIAM, Buffalo. 116th Am. Tr. SWENSON, NELSY, Douglas, 1st Inf.
WORLD'S WAR VETERANS
C.P. DIMMITT G.H.W. RAUSCHKOLB GEO. E. DAVID JOHN S. SEIBERT THOMAS H. DEMPSEY R.A. THOMPSON F.H. REIN CHARLES S. WATKINS
SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' COUNCIL
S.M. CURTIN
AMERICAN ARMY ASSOCIATION
H.W. HILLYER, 1215 Nat. Bank, Conwell Bldg., St. Louis, Co. B, 49 Mo. G.B. LOUIS R. FLORIN T.R. SMITH, 2848 Lyon St., St. Louis, 11th Co. A., S.D., Garden City JOSEPH P. MCGLINN J.A. BERNARD, 706 Pearce Bldg., St. Louis. 45 U.S. Inf. SCOTT W. LUCAS