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Show Amebian LEGION tCopy for This Department Supplied bj the American Legion News Service.) MACPJIDER, NEW LEGION HEAD Mason City (la.) Man Is Chosen National Na-tional Commander of the American Ameri-can Legion. "We must build this Legion of ours bo big and fine and strong, keep it so clean and straight and American, that when we ask for things for the ex-service ex-service man, for the disabled man and for those who are financially disabled our communities will say, 'If the Legion Le-gion is for It, we are for It,' " This was the first message of Han-ford Han-ford MacNider to members of the American Legion, following his election elec-tion as national commander of the organization. or-ganization. Mr. MacNider is the : fa V Ji HANFORD MACNIDER. Newly Elected National Commander of the American Legion. youngest national commander the Legion Le-gion has ever had. He is thirty-four years old. "He Is a natural leader of men," Eay his friends, who have watched him plug his way through Harvard university and who later saw him come out of the World war a lieutenant lieuten-ant colonel with three citations and eeveral decorations. His military record begins with his eervlce on the Mexican border in 1916 as a first lieutenant with the Second Iowa Infantry. When the United States entered the World war he enrolled en-rolled at the officers' training camp at Fort Snelling and was sent to France as a provisional second lieutenant In the regular army. In France he was with the Ninth infantry of the Second division. He was wounded at St. Mihlel. Mr. MacNider is an Investment banker at . Mason City, la., where he was born. He has been an active Legionnaire Le-gionnaire and has served as commander com-mander of the Iowa state department .of the Legion. |
