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Show LEGION MAN IS Lh..M:R Sturgis, South Dakota Legislator, la Author of Measures In the Interests In-terests of Americanism. The first man on the job in the morning, lie further surprised legisla- t 3 tive circles by never missing a single roll call during the time the legislature was in session. He was a chaplain chap-lain in the army, he explained, in which well-known organization a man was either on the dot or ahead of it or he wasn't ! Carroll D. Ersklne, preacher-legislator of Sturgis, S. D., has carried what he learned in his country's service serv-ice with him, the electorate of his state say. He left after 15 years of Presbyterian ministry on leave of absence ab-sence to serve as chaplain of the Eighteenth Battalion during the World war, seeing 14 months' service. After Af-ter the armistice, while stationed at Camp Merritt, N. J., he met all transports trans-ports at the docks and ministered to wounded men being returned to American Amer-ican hospitals. In appreciation of his work the men presented him a jeweled watch. In the legislature, Mr. Erskine was author of a bill to insure proper observance ob-servance of Armistice day, and of another an-other requiring all school teachers to take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution. Consti-tution. He is a member of the American Amer-ican Legion in Sturgis, and state chairman chair-man of the boy scouts. He was born in Binghamton, N. Y., and educated at Lake Forest college, Illinois. |