The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 03, 1928, AMERICAN LEGION EDITION, Image 12
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HISTORY OF THE LEGION
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At the caucus, also held ?t the Gosmoa
Club, an organization was effected.
Three hundred und seventy
enlisted men and officers attended
this meeting an<l formed an organization
known as General Pershing Post
No. 1, World War Veterans, hut it
was determined to proceed no further
until in touch with the overseas
movement.
"Immediately upon the arrival o.
Krie Fisher Wood in the United
States, he communicate*! with Colonel
Jones, and the Washington unit at
once accepted the plans formulated
at the Paris Caucus, with tho result
that the Washington unit ultimately
became George Washington Post No
I, Department of District of Columbia,
The American Legion. Other
loeal organizations composed of exservice
men, in various parts of the
county also joined in the movement.
"Temporary Working committees
formed in every state arranged for
the election of delegates to a national
caucus and effected working organizations
to handle the varied problems J
presented by demobilization of veterans.
"The St. Louis caucus was held
May H, H and 10, 1W10, and was
called to order by Theodore Roosevelt,
.1 r. Roosevelt declined all
unanimous election as chairman
and Henry D. Lindslcy of Texas
was then elected. The expected
period of economic ' and indus
trial unrest was at hand, and radical
agitation had reached proportions unprecedented
in America. The eyes
of the whole country were upon the
caucus of the infant America.)
I/egion, and relief was evident when
the caucus placed the Legion unmistakabl\
on record n* a great
patriotic organization opposed tot
radicalism in any form.
"Tin- caucus adopted a tentative
constitution more fully outlining the
Legion's aims and purposes and j
created machinery to effect a permanent
organization. Another executive
committee was elected which immediately
delegated its powers to
a sub-committee of seventeen which,
consolidated with the A. E. F. Fx- j
ecutive Committee, was known as the
"Joint Committee of Thirty-four."
"Temporary National Ifleadquart- j
ers were opened in New York City,!
where a working committee of five j
met dail\ to deal with the varie 1 '
problem* of the new and rapidly'
growing organization. This working j
committee was composed of the fol- i
lowing men: Henry I). Lindsley of
Texas, chairman; Bennett C. Clark
of Missouri, vice chairman; Eric
Fisher Wood of Pennsylvania, seere.
i
tary; Dr. Richard Derby of New
York; Franklin D'Olier of Pennsyl-j
vania. Thomas W. Miller of Delaware i
and Luke Lea id* Tennessee served :
as joint chairmen of the Legislative'
Committee, J. F. .J. Herbert of Massa-1
chusetts as chairman of the Speakers" I
Bureau; (1. P. Putnam, of New York,'
chairman of Publication Committee,]
land Ceorge A. White, of Oregon, edior
of "The American Legion Weekly."
Relief work, employment and Americanization
were the principal services '
I of the Legion at that time.
"A national chapter was granted
' h> Congress Septembei Hi, HMO, and
j t he charter convention was held in
i Minneapolis, November 10. 11 and 12.
The Minneapolis convention approved]
.the ii. n of the temporary organizu-j
! tion and adopted a permanent con- :
stitution. Franklin D'Olier was]
I elected the first National Commander I
and Lemuel Bolles liecame the first
; National Adjutant. [>ermanent head-]
quarters were established in Indianapolis,
Irui '
The Ixgion wau engaged in 1019
and 1920 in the almost superhuman
task <?f < i ?*ating something tangible
out of .i.m organization that actually
existed uly on paper. Part of the
A. K. 1 wag still in France or ;
(jertuui part in this country ami
j^iit ?i. mobilized. This condition held
true of the navy and of the millions
of mi who served in the training
gjiinp.v in this country. All uI these
men and women were preoccupied to
th e exclusion of nearly everything
else with the- task of readjusting
themselves to civil life.
U wa>( during these two years that
the groundwork was laid with an eye
to permanency. Aims and purposes
had to Is* fixed and defined ?o that
men and women exalted by the unselfishness
of war-time service could
cleave to them a^ goals worthily,
chosen.
Then in 1921 the nation plunged
into the depths of industrial stagnation.
Millions of men were thrown
abruptly out of work. some with
others dependent upon them. The
depression came just when some !,UO0.0U0
men had been placed back
into civil life. Great uneasiness existed
because some said that these
J.OfO.UOO veterans were trained with
Bolshevism.
The American Legion, almost over
night, turned itself into a nationwide
employment bureau with 11,000
hvanches. Veterans reported at posts
f<?r jobs and found them. More than
1.000,000 men obtained work through
the Legion's efforts and the talk of
Bolshevism among veterans died.
The next year, 1922, found the public
aghast that government agencies
for relief of wounded and disabled
veterans were not functioning properly.
The Ix'gion did the telling,
and, determined not to rest until
matters were rectified, began the
long and hard struggle that resulted
in the creation of the United States
Veterans' Bureau to take the place
of the three-headed agency that ha 1
failed.
As part of this light, the Legion
organized its rehabilitation service
in order that fights for claims of the
disabled could be carried on successfully
and to see that every claimant
for government compensation receive
justice. This service still continues
and will continue until there is
no longer need for it. The disabled
veteran is a charge of the Legion
that is placed first and above every
thing else. 1
A great step had been taken, and <
America began to realize that the <
Legion was a power for good that 1
could not be disregarded. I
In the years 1923 and '1924 there i
came to a head the great isue for
some form of adjusted compensation *
that started in demobilisation days i
It was a bitterly fought struggle that j
reached the heights of u national i
controversy. The Legion never re- i
treated from its position that aid for
the financially disabled by the waxwas
just.
With this Victory won, it was only
fitting that in 1926 the I/egion took
up the cudgels for another class of
war sufferers, the most pitiful of
all. These were the children of 40ho
men who had either been killed in action
or died us a result of their war
service. The f^egion carried to a
successful conclusion a campuign to
raise a $6,000,000 Endowment fund,
the income from which will be used
for the aid and care of orphans and
disabled veterans. That fund' has
been raised and is now invested in
safe securities. It will provide an
income as long as the Legion exists,
and then will be used for as nearly
a similar purpose when its present
need is past.
Thus, briefly, the Legion's history
| approached another great milestone.
Its every effort had been rewarded
with full success; its power established;
its desire for service unquestioned.
But in relieving the unemployed,
bringing justice to the disabled,
and providing for the orphans,
it had worked for others to the detriment
of itself, as an organization.
Each year had found the Legion's
ranks growing thinner. It had neglected
its internal welfare, with the
result that membership decreased
and needed constant attention. It
was recognized that its power to do
good could be measured only by its
strength in membership, and as the
public was vitally interested in all of
the Legion's endeavors, the building
up of its membership became a publie
affair. Campaigns to increase its
membership resulted in 1926 seeing
80,000 more members on the rolls
than the preceding year. Membership
work continued in 1927 with a
corresponding increase in members.
Business men, great corporations,
governors, mayors and public-spirited
citizens entered into the Legion's effort
to enroll all possible ex-service
men in Legion work.
Important as this membership efI
fort continued to be in 1927, with
employers in many parts of tho
country encouraging it to the extent
that they offered to pay the due# if
their eligible employes would join,
?nother greater goal came into view. I
To many of those who have watch- !
t?d Legion history, there has been
noticeable a distinct trend in policy,
n definite working toward a certain (
abjective. The movement has not'
always been apparent to the public,
nor, for that matter, to many legionnaires,
themselves, because it was
necessary in the first years of the
organization to meet and carry out
emergency public issues. But all
this time the Legion was preparing
itself to do one thing.
And that thing, that great objective
worthy of the Legion, something that
will be a life work of the organiza- J
tion, is community service. For the
first time it was decreed by an annual
national convention that community
service should be the muln
objective of the organization. This
was. for the year 1927, a year of"
many endeavors, including the conclusion
of the legion's great pilgrimage
to France.
The I^egion had been preparing itself
to turn its proven strength to
upbuilding the community in which it
lives. It is a noble anjbition, .\
magnificent ideal, a field in which
the Legion will labor the rest of it*
existence. In community service the
Legion has found ati issue as great
as the Legion, itself. To visualize
the vast possibilities of this objective,
one need only to pause and consider
the results of more than 10,000 posts
doing some worthwhile thing for
their particular communities during
the.one year of 1927. One need only
to think of tho effect on the United
States as a whole of the sum total of
those efforts, efforts that will affect
Portland, Oregon; Portland,
Maine; New York and California,
Florida and Minnesota and the other
states. From one end of the country
to another, the gigantic efforts is
being registered and will continue to
be from year to year.
At the present .time the Legion is
composed of three-quarters of a million
ex-service men and women, knit
together by the most trying years of
any organization's, existence and by
the common interest in the country's
I welfare. More and moA the Legion
is living up to the preamble of its
constitution.
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