Show 1 I I I I I i r i j I I 1 MILLER DID GOOD SERVICE Chairman of National Legislative Committee Who Has Resigned Proved Value to Legion Time The recently announced retirement of Thomas W. W Miller of Delaware as chairman of ot the tue National legislative committee of ot the American Legion gives an opportunity of recounting the time efforts by which one Individual has done much to make the Legion what It Is toda today Mr Miller served as ns chairman of tI the e committee for foJ a full year car It was Wits under his direction that such generous results were obtained as ns tho the passage of the Sweet and Darrow bills for bet- bet of the tue condition of ot the disabled disabled dis lIs service ex-service men and such marked progress was made In placing so thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- before congress the claims of ot all ex men for just tion All during last summer anti and autumn Mr Miller handled bandied alone all Legion legislative matters at nt Wa Washing Washing- I II I 4 jk THOMAS W. W MILLER ton and before re the Minneapolis convention convention con COD he had succeeded In obtaining from congress an Incorporation of the time American Legion In September he was joined by the other members of the legislative committee provided for Cor by the tho convention Because Becam e of the pressure of his private vate ate business which Is the thc reason for Mr Millers Miller's retirement from this from this highly Important Legion post he lie placed his resignation In the hands of pf Mr DOller DOI DOl ler the national commander as early as last spring At that tune time however he was prevailed upon to remain at athis athis athis his post until congress adjourned b because bo be- cause his committee was In the midst of ot Its fight for legislation for the disabled disabled dis dis- and for congressional consideration tion of the four fold optional plan of adjusted compensation John Thomas Taylor Talor of Washington D. D C. C a n member of ot the committee since November has bas been Lleen appointed chairman to fill fiU out Mr Millers Miller's un- un expired term S Although Mr Miller Is only thirty- thirty three years old he lie has an nn unusual background of army service and experience ex ex- ex- ex in public life liCe lie ne enlisted In iii Inthe Inthe the army array as as a private and came out of It tt a colonel Although he had attended ed the time first Plattsburg school he was unable to obtain admission admission sion to the first officers' officers training camp after war was declared eI because of a physical handicap n He was n a first lieutenant before going o el overseas ens with the One Hundred and Fourteenth Infantry in- in fantry of the Twenty Ninth division with which he served In France He lie Hei first became conspicuous In public life as the time youngest member of ot the Sixty Sixty- Fourth congress having been elected at nt tho tiu age ago of t twenty h Before that he had been heen secretary of or the state of or ale at nt twenty |