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(Copy for This Department Supplied by National Headquarters of the American Legion)
THEY ARE BACK INTO “CITS” AND THE AMERICAN LEGION
The American Legion is experiencing a rapid growrn, ana nas Just
passed the 8,000 mark in the number of posts established. Recent reports
showed New York in the lead with 851 posts; Pennsylvania, second, with
522 posts; Illinois third, 494 posts; Iowa, 427; Minnesota, 409; Ohio, 357;
Michigan, 256; Indiana, 247; Massachusetts, 245; New Jersey, 244.
♦STARTED LEGION IN FRANCE
Franklin D'Olier, National Command
er, One of the Twenty Men to
Found Organization.
Franklin D’Olier. national command
. er of the American Legion, was born
April 28, 1877, In
Burlington, N. J.,
where he attended
local school and
prepared for
I Princeton univer
sity. He was grad
uated from Prince
ton in 1898, and
immediately en
tered business
[with his father,
William D’OlIer &
nnmmicfiinn
merchants in cotton and yams, in
Philadelphia. Upon his father’s re
tirement from business, the firm name
was changed to Franklin D’OIier &
Co.
Mr. D’OIier entered the military
service of the United States in April,
1917, as a captain in the quartermas
ter corps. After a few weeks' service
at the Philadelphia depot and several
months at Boston he was ordered to
France in August, 1917. Owing to
great scarcity of tonnage at that time
and the necessity for salving material
on a large scale, Mr. D’OIier was as
signed to the newly organized salvage
service, and in January, 1918, took com
mand of the first salvage depot that
was hperated by the American army.
Within six months the work had grown
so rapidly that the personnel increased
from 12 to 6,000, and this depot was
salvaging for about 750,000 men, and
was larger than any depot operated by
either the British or French armies.
This depot was at St. Pierre des Corps
near Tours, France, the headquarters
of the service of supply.
In July, 1918, Captain D’OIier was
ordered to Lyons, France, to organize
the second large depot, which at the
time of the armistice had a capacity
of faking care of salvaging for upward
of a million and a half men. He was
promoted to the rank of major, and
then lieutenant colonel, and assigned
to the general staff, and after two
years’ service in the army, 20 months
of which was in the A. E. F.,
was discharged from the service in
<|ril, 1919.
Mr. D’OIier was one of the original
20 men who initiated the American
Legion in France, February 15, 1919,
and attended the Paris caucus of the
American Legion on March 15. 1919.
After his discharge front the service
Mr. D’OIier joined Theodore Roosevelt,
who was at that time—early in 1919—
perfecting the preliminary organiza
tion of the American Legion in the
United States preparatory to the St.
Louis caucus, May 8, 9 and 10.
Mr. D’ORe: was chairman of the
Pennsylvania delegation at the St.
Louis caucus and a member of the na
tional executive committee from Penn
sylvania. After the St. Louis caucus
lie was placed in charge of the state or
ganization division at national head
quarters, New York city, and gave his
entire time without any remuneration
whatsoever to American Legion work
fn preparation for the Minneapolis
convention.
Mr. D’Olier’s work for the Legion
has been to co-operate with and co
ordinate the work of the state organ
izations of the Legion and to direct
the preparations for the Minneapolis
convention.
For his work In France Mr. O’Oller
received a Distinguished Service Medal
from the United States government
and the Legion of Honor from the
French government.
IN CHARGE OF HEADQUARTERS
National Adjutant, Man From State of
Washington, Has Seen Much
Military Service.
Lemuel L. Bolles, national adjutant
of the American Legion, is in charge of
■xgHggjpdittfo. national head
quarters of the
American Legion
a t Indianapolis.
He Is a native of
| Minneapolis. He
f was born In Min
neapolis on Au
gust 21, 1885, at
I tended common
school there and
j the MacAllister
A pflflpmv at ftt
Paul. He moved
to Washington in 1904 and graduated
from the University of Washington Law
school. From 1907 to 1915 he was em
ployed by the First National bank of
North Yakima, and was assistant ad
justant general of the state of Wash
ington from June, 1916, to September,
1917.
Mr. Bolles served In all grades In
Company E, 2nd infantry, of the Wash
ington National Guard from Septem
ber, 1904, to 1914, and commanded that
company from 1911 to 1914. He was
called into federal service with the
Washington National Guard in Sep
tember, 1917, and joined the 41st divi
sion at Camp Greene, N. C., with which
division he went overseas In Decem
ber, 1917, and served as a lieutenant
colonel on the general staff of the First
corps from May 1, 1918, to March 3.
1919.
On his return to the United States
in July, 1919, he was discharged from
the service, and was requested by the
national executive committee to assis*
in the organization of the American
Legion in the preparation for the Min
neapolis convention on the staff at na
tional headquarters. Mr. Bolles wa^
one of the original delegates to the
Paris caucus of the American Legion
last March.
None Down.
An elderly lady was questioning the
ex-artilleryman. “And what was the
most terrible sight you witnessed in
the war?” she asked.
“Well, it was like this,” replied the
soldier. “We had just spotted a Ger
man machine gun nest with about
twelve enemy gunners that were hold
ing up our advance. We located the
nest and put the first shot right in the
middle of the Jerries.”
“How dreadful,” Interrupted the old
lady, “did It kill them all?”
“No’m," replied the soldier sadly, “it
was a dud.”
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work, notwithstanding the fact some
people thing there is nothing much to
it. There is not any short cut to ac
quiring a thorough knowledge of the
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piano.
If you wish services that twenty-five
years of practical and theoretical
knowledge can give you, better have
Anderson attend to your piano, both
for the good of your pocketbook and
your piano. In town yet for a few
days. Phone Windsor hotel.
P. S.—Agent for Kohler and Camp
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