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Show " V. P. OF FORTY AND EIGHT C. E. Cronkite of Los Angeles (a Second in Command of Legion Roughhouse Club. "Sotis Chef de Chemln de Fer Na-tlonale Na-tlonale des 40 Hommes et Huit Chevaux." This ft" ' of f? means in English, Eng-lish, "National Assistant Kail-way Kail-way Station Agent of the 40 Men and Eight Horses." But in A. E. F. patois it stands for vice president of the Forty and Eight, the Legion's Eoughhouse club, named after the little French boxcars built to carry "40 men or eight horses." This imposing title Is borne by C. E. Cronkite of Los Angeles, Cal., formerly for-merly first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-second field filgnal battalion. |