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OFFICE OF THE COMMANDER, AT NATIONAL HEADOUARTERS
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Lemuel Bolles, National Adjutant of the American Legion, Conducting a
Staff Meeting of Heads of the Different Divisions in the Office of Frank
lin D'Olier, National Commander, at National Headquarters, Indian
apolis.
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NO PATRIOTIC organization in
the history of the world has
had such remarkable growth
* as the American Legion, and
it is going forward with a speed that
indicates a membership of 2,000,000
before the end of the present year.
The Grand Army of the Republic,
founded following the Civil war,
reached its peak in 1900, when the
roster showed a half million members.
With 4,800,000 to draw from, it is pre
dicted that with the present campaign
for 100 per cent Americanism, the
roster of the American Legion will be
above the 2,000,000 mark by 1921.
The Grand Army of the Republic
has played an important part in the
} life of the republic. Once or twice
politics threatened its total disrup
tion, particularly in the year preced
ing the election of Gen. John A. Lo
gan as commander in chief. General
Logan succeeded in steadying the boat.
The disaffection grew out of reports
that men with bad Civil war records
were receiving preferment in appoint
ment to political offices.
To Maj. Benjamin F. Stephenson of
Decatur. III., belongs the honor of
, founding the Grand Army of the Re
* public. In 1866, the year following
the close of the Civil war, Major
Stephenson called together a handful
of veterans at Decatur and established
the first post. Only one charter mem
ber of the Grand Army still is living,
Capt. R. A. Smith of Lake City, la.
Major Stephenson, in council with
some of his comrades, drafted a secret
ritual. It was a wordy, oratorical af
fair and was revised in later years.
The ritual was so pretentious that it
was hard to find printers who could
set the type, but Major Stephenson
finally rounded up Isaac Coltrin and
Joseph Prior, printers who served in
the Union army and entitled to know
the contents of the ritual when they
joined the Grand Army.
Twelve men constituted the first
post and the hall in which they met
still is a hallowed landmark in Deca
tur. The Grand Array at first was a
sort of vigilance committee that sought
out persons given to disloyal ut
terances, and soon had them marked
for punishment if they did not de
sist. The men of the Grand Army de
manded a hundred per cent American
ism, just as the American Legion
makes it plain that only one flag, Old
Glory, will be tolerated in this land of
ours. On through the years the Grand
Army has stood for this same prin
ciple of patriotism, but death has been
removing its comrades at a rapid rate
and the ranks have diminished until
now only a few more than 100,000 re
main.
/ The American Legion was born in
France, and it was fitting to have it
so, for in Flanders fields repose thou
sands of American soldiers who died
that the principles of American free
dom might live. On February 15, 1919,
twenty American officers, who had
been assembled in Paris to discuss con
ditions in the American expeditionary
forces, met at the Inter-Allied club and
l there talked of the formation of an
after-war organization that would look
to the well-being of the men of the
service both on land and sea.
The decision was made at this con
ference to start an after-the-war or
ganization, while the men were yet in
France. Thus they would go back to
America with their minds and hearts
centered on protecting the principles
they had fought for. And they came
home to find that the great army of
men in American training camps were
ready, too. They had not crossed the
sea, but they were willing to go and
were equally willing to participate in
any movement that meant a bigger,
stronger America.
The twenty men who met in confer
ence February 15, 1919, in Paris agreed
at that time to call a caucus of men
representing every branch of war serv
ice and the caucus assembled in Paris
March 15, continuing for two days.
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The men who gathered at that event
ful meeting did many important things,
including the selection of a home for
the new patriotic organization. They
called it the American Legion, and
under that name it will go down in
the patriotic history of the United
States.
The caucus also named a committee
of fifteen to work in tfie United States
and to plan for a national meeting
within a year. This committee came
home and a caucus was arranged for
at St. Louis. May 8.
The St. Louis meeting was a revela
tion. There several hundred men who
had served their country at home and
abroad met and, forgetting both creed
and politics, worked to inject the prin
ciples of Americanism in one great
movement, the American Legion. At
this meeting a joint executive com
mittee was formed by men of 34 states
with units in the Legion. This com
mittee formulated a basis for perma
nent organization and agreed that a
constitutional convention of the Le
gion wmuld be held in Minneapolis In
November. An organization commit
tee of five was appointed to complete
plans for the Minneapolis meeting.
This committee was composed of
Henry D. Lindsley of Texas, Bennett
C. Clark of Missouri, Franklin D’Olier
of Pennsylvania, Dr. Richard Derby of
New York, and Eric Fisher Wood of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Lindsley was
chosen chairman of the committee and
because of that service and his sub
sequent work as chairman of the Min
neapolis convention, the title of first
commander of the American Legion
was conferred on him. Mr. Wood was
named the secretary. One important
step taken at the St. Louis meeting
was that of asking the congress of
the United States for a charter. This
request was intrusted to Luke Lea
and Thomas W. Miller. The measure
was Introduced in both houses June
27, last year. It passed the house of
representatives August 27 and the sen
ate September 5. President Wilson
signed the charter September 16, com
pleting the work of granting a charter,
the first ever granted to an organiza
tion of the nature of the American
Legion. The legislative committee of
the Legion also placed before the con
gress many other important legisla
tive matters, including bills covering
land grants for former service men,
bills dealing with the question of the
deportation of alien slackers and other
matters of interest to men of the Le
gion.
Important steps taken at the St.
Louis meeting provided for the open
ing of national headquarters in New
York and for the publication of a
weekly periodical that would be of in
terest to former service men. Plans
also were made to have three well
known men of the legion visit different
parts of the country to further the in
terests of the new onanization. The
men chosen were Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr., John P. J. Herbert and John W.
Inzer. These made tours of the coun
try to advance the organization of
local posts. When the American Le
gion met in Minneapolis the member
ship had passed the 750,000 mark, and
it was predicted that the million mark
would be reached in a few months.
There now are more than 8,000 Amer
ican Legion posts in the United States,
Alaska, Cuba and Hawaii.
Franklin D’Olier of Pennsylvania is
the new commander of the American
Legion. He, with other new officers
of the Legion have opened headquar
ters offices of the Legion in Indian
apolis. And Indianapolis and Indiana,
feeling a Joint pride in the honor paid
the state by the American Legion, wel
comes them. When they came they
heard that Indianapolis was preparing
to erect a memorial to her fighting
sons that will serve not only as a home
for the American Legion, but for other
patriotic bodies, including the veterans
of the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Spanish-American war.
HAS HUBBY OF 72
AND SON OF 80 ,
Aunt Sallie, Age 114, Has Had
Some Experience With
Husbands.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Smoking a pipe
and between puffs telling of many
things that happened a century ago,
the oldest woman in Brooklyn or here
abouts celebrated her one hundred :
and fourteenth birthday. She is Aunt :
Sallie Williams, mother of a son eighty
years old. grandmother of nine grown
ups. and great-grandmother to a dozen
of children.
Early in life Aunt Sallie, who lives
in the Cedars, Sheepshead bay, began
to acquire husbands. She was the
marrying kind and as a result of these
marriages she had 17 children.
“Mos’ ob dem is dead now.” says'
she, settling her black bonnet straight
on her head and ehopped some wood •
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to put on the fire, “but I still libs to
tell de tale. Dey was all good men
and de one I hah now—wall, I jes’
took him ’cause I was kin’ o’ sorry for
him. He is a young man, only seven
ty-two, and I been kinda helping him
along in life.”
The hubby referred to does look
considerably younger than his white
haired wife, but as to helping him
along most of that is done by him
self. Every morning before mammy
gets out of bed he makes the fire and
gets her breakfast. He is assisted
in these tasks by her son, aged eighty,
veteran of the Civil war, who has seen
his mammy’s loves come and go so
much that he’s getting used to ad
justing himself to his stepfathers.
At present Aunt Sallie, who is also
known as Mrs. Sarah Gouley, is con
cerned with keeping young.
So, taking the medicine she pre
scribes, she goes to the movies once
a year with her hubby while sonny
stays home and takes care of the
house. In all these years mammy has
taken but one trip to Manhattan, but
the lore of the community in which
she lives she knows by heart. She
was born in a little straw hut out that
way and still lives in a little cabin
like the ones of pre-Civil war days.
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