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Show The AfKBIOAN LEGION (Copy for Thu Department Supplied by th American Lofton Nw. Sarvica.) HE IS RE-ELECTED OVER HIS PROTEST E. P. Armstrong, national vice commander com-mander of the American Legion, is of the type of men which believes In getting things done. And he believes that the way to get things done is, forsooth, to go and do them. It is that driving power which has carried 1dm from commander of his post to a re-election, to commander of hi.s department, to a re-election over Ills protest, to a choice as national vice commander of the Legion. Those who have been closely associated with him in ids home department of Connecticut, Con-necticut, who have seen him work and observed the enthusiastic, compelling way in which lie works, say that every Legionnaire In Connecticut loves him. In four years of Legion work Armstrong Arm-strong has given largely of his time and energy and services to the cause of bettering the lot of men who returned re-turned from I be wur as physical wrecks. After he bad been drafted as commander of Corporal post at Wat.erbury in 1!)J2. be made the care of the disabled his first concern'. Conditions Con-ditions were bad then and were complicated com-plicated by serious unemployment. With others, Armstrong helped to find jobs for 1,000 jobless veterans. He found time in the midst of this activity ac-tivity to make bis post the largest in the state. Ke-elected, Armstrong organized a Legion band. He started a post newspaper. news-paper. He aided materially In secur- E. P. Armstrong. ing a Legion home for service men at Waterbury, worth $100,000. Then he was elected department commander. command-er. He took a leave of absence from the Scovill Manufacturing company to devote himself exclusively to Legion work. Great strides In helping the disabled dis-abled in Connecticut were made under his inspiration and guidance. He organized or-ganized 14 new posts and brought his department from forty-fifth to second In percentage of membership gain over the preceding year. He made a speaking speak-ing tour of the state on behalf of the Legion program, delivering from one to four speeches dally for forty-five days. Then after three nights of rest, he was off again, this time on a seven-ty-two-day schedule. He visited every post in his department and a number of cities where posts were being organized. or-ganized. At the annual department convention conven-tion lust fall Armstrong was re-elected. He had made strenuous protest. But the delegates staged a demonstration demonstra-tion for him in Wild West style and put him back in his job. At the national na-tional convention in St. Pail in 1924 he was chosen as one of the five national na-tional vice commanders. He resigned as department commander in order to devote himself to his work in the national na-tional field. Aiid now he Is busy again with his work for the disabled, devoting devot-ing himself to the Americnn Legion endowment en-dowment fund for the disabled and the orphans of the war. |