Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-06-27 | Page 5 | New Legion Chief Outlines Program

r THE SALT LAKE TELEGRAM NEW LEGION CHIEF OUTLINES PROGRAM I I t I. I On X i I Af t 1 I it j I In n E r ISA A k kJ J i i I t FEAL E ESTATE li AND ANDRE II 4 d JY V e i V M ML L V iL R RE LE LED ruF ia z WAS in It TH THE T IA I- I A O 07 ThE I corn o 07 GRAND T GRAND RAPIDS Mich lIch Juno 27 27 Carry Carryon on That Is the keynote of ot the task that Major John G. G Emery of ot Grand Rapids has set for tor himself as new national commander of ot the American legion I r I consider the continuance of ot the fight tight that the late Colonel Fred W. W Galbraith Gaibraith Jr was making the most important part of ot the great post to which I r have haye been elected says Emery The legion must stand by its program program program pro pro- gram of ot keeping aflame In the hearts of ot former service men and women a sense sens of ot Individual and collective obligation obligation gation gatton to community state and nation nation na na- na- na tion and by its fight tight in behalf of ot disabled veterans of ot the World orld war Emery intends to his entire time to the administration of ot his new office The folks of ot his home town are both pleased and sorry over his election elec elec- tion sorry tion-sorry sorry because h ht hI hI'S is is S already alread resigned as president of n o II board of ot city c commissioners Emery has been ted with that high honor ever since he came home I from the war and he ho was right Inline in inline inline line for the office of mayor as the commission elects one of ot Its own members Major jajor Emerys Emery's war record Is Js' one that he may well be proud of He lie enlisted in 1917 when he was 36 30 lie might well have ha claimed exemption as he has a wife and two t daughters Jane 14 and Esther 10 However Howe he straightened up his business affairs at- at I fairs and entered the second of officers officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan In August 1917 he graduated as a captain of ot infantry and went to France with the first group of AmerIcans Americans Americans Amer Amer- after assignment to tho the railway railway rail rall- wa way transportation office at Blots BloIs France After Atter attending the First corps school at he ho took charge of ot Company F E Eighteenth infantry j First brigade First division Emery was fn rn the bl bIg battles at Can Cantigny tI gny St. St Mihiel and In the Meuse-Argonne Meuse offensive He lie was commissioned a a. major in Infantry in August 1918 It was shortly atter after this that Emery ErneI was wounded by shell shen fire He lie was sent home and discharged from the hospital and army March 31 1919 It It is fitting that Emery was born on Oil Jul July 4 lIe He has always alwa's lived InGrand in inGrand inGrand Grand Rapids In private life lite he Isa is isa isa a real estate and insurance broker