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Show HOW THE SERVICE MEN STAND Checking Up at Washington by Legion Reveals That Many Members Are In Limelight When President Harding replied to Representative Lamar Jeffers, Alabama, Ala-bama, and the legislative committee of the American Legion that there were no ex-service men of outstanding qualifications to be members of the American commission to the International Interna-tional disarmament conference, there was n checking up to Washington to determine how service men stand to the eyes of the American electorate. A statement later Issued by the Legion Le-gion showed that the President appointed ap-pointed an ex -service man as secretary of the navy and another assistant secretary. sec-retary. His alien property custodian was to service during the war. The assistant postmaster general is an ex-service ex-service man. An A. E. F. veteran is licad of the national budget. The President confided the task of organizing organ-izing the new veterans' bureau to a former soldier. The public has elect ed 8 men who served either to the army or the navy to the house of representatives and two to the senate In nearly a dozen str.tee service men are the governors. Eight members of Secretary Hoover's national committee on unemployment were ex-service men. |