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Show THE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN Texan Is Newly Appointed Director of the Legion's National Americanization Amer-icanization Commission. "He can tell you about an ordinary ordi-nary baseball game In such words and expression that fou will be grlef-Itricken," grlef-Itricken," is what they say of Alvln II. Owsley, Texas, newly appointed director of the American Legion's national Americanism Ameri-canism commis-alon. commis-alon. Mr. Owsley, Ows-ley, who left off being assistant attorney at-torney general of the largest state in the Union to Join ! PmiWlm , ','-! l """" the Legion organization, has become a "soldier and a statesman" of national prominence at the age of thirty years. In the West, the Texan has long been known as a speaker of unusual ability. When he went East and had as his field Americanism, its origin and Its purpose, Mr. Owsley began delivering deliver-ing addresses of such eloquence and Inspirational context that he became In constant demand and his repute as a master of diction naturally followed. Overseas Mr. Owsley commanded a battalion of 36th Division infantry until un-til his promotion to division adjutant. As head of the Legion's legislative committee in Texas, he obtained a $2,-000,000 $2,-000,000 hospital for service men at Kerrvllle, Tex. |
