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Show 1 MILLER DID GOOD SERVICE Chairman of National Legislative Committee Who Has Resigned, Proved Valuo to Legion. The recently announced retirement of Tlioimis W. Miller of Delaware, as chairman of the Nationiil legislative committee of the American Legion, pives nil opportunity of recounting tho efforts by which one individual has done much to make Hie Legion what it Is today. Mr. Miller served as chairnum of the committee, for a full year. It was under his direction that such generous results were obtained as the passage of fJio Sweet and Darrow bills for betterment bet-terment of the condition of the disabled dis-abled ex-seiwico men, and such marked progress was made In placing so thoroughly thor-oughly before congress the claims of all ex-service men for Just compensation. compensa-tion. All (luring last summer and autumn Mr. Miller handled alone all Legion legislative mutters at Washing- v.." V fv THOMAS W. MILLER. ton, and before the Minneapolis convention con-vention he had succeeded in obtaining from congress an incorporation of the American Leg'on. In September he was joined by the other members of the legislative committee provided for by the conversion. Because of th pressure of his private pri-vate business, vlilch Is the reason for Mr. Miller's retlienient from this highly important Legion post, he placed his resignation in the hands of Mr. D'Ol-ier, D'Ol-ier, the national commander, as early as last spring. At that time, however, he was prevailed upon to remain ut his post until congress adjourned, because be-cause his committee was in the midst of its fight Car legislation for the disabled dis-abled and for congressional consideration considera-tion of the four-fold optional plan of adjusted compensation. John Thomas Taylor of Washington, D. C, a member of the committee since November, has been appointed chairman to fill out Mr. Miller's unexpired un-expired term. Although Mr. Miller is only Milrty-three Milrty-three years old, he has an unusual background of army service and experience ex-perience in public life. He enlisted In the army as a private and came out of it a lieutenant colonel. Although he bad attended the first Plattsburg school, he was unable to obtain admission admis-sion to the first officers' training camp after war was declared because of a physical handicap. He was a first lieutenant before going overseas with the One Hundred and Fourteenth Infantry, In-fantry, of the Twenty-Ninth division with which he served in France. He first became conspicuous in public life as the youngest member of the Sixty-Fourth Sixty-Fourth congress, having been elected at the age of twenty-seven. Before that he had been secretary of the state of Delaware at twenty-six. |