| Show WILL HELP HANDLE LEGIONS LEGION'S FINANCES I Leonard P P. P A Ayres res whose reputation as a statistician Is International and who is vice president of a Cleveland trust company recently became a member of the National Finance committee committee com com- of the American Legion Mr A Ayres res was appointed by National Commander John R. R to the position which he himself held on the finance committee prior to his elec clec- election tion to the commandership Mr Ayres organized the statistical divisions of ot the War department which have become models for other govern govern- ments Mr A Ayres res held the rank of colonel during the war and was the I Ionly only civilian soldier ever to head a division Islon of the general staff staf abroad I The statistical division of Pershing's headquarters at Chaumont the statistical statistical statistical statis statis- division of the service of supply and the statistical division Islon In the War Wor department at Washington were all organized by the new member of the ther r Region eglon committee After the armistice Mr Ayres was wasa wasi i a member of the United States peace commission headed by the lute President President dent Woodrow Wilson and was chief Aw AwK K y Y c Leonard P. P Ayres statistician and economic adviser to the commission He held a similar position with the commission headed by Vice President Charles G. G Dawes which helped to work out the so- so called Dawes plan for reparations settlements Before his entry into the United States service In 1917 1017 Mr Ayres was statistician for the allied statistical i board priorities board war industries board and the purchasing I commission For For his services during the war Mr Ayres was given the Distinguished Distinguished Dis Dis- Service medal Since the armistice Mr Ayres has held the rank of a colonel in the r reserves reserves re- re re- re serves and is now statistical consultant consultant consultant consul consul- tant to the War department He wrote the War departments department's statistical history of the World war a book which has been used as text by other governments in adding a statistical division to their war offices Prior to Americas America's entry Into the I World war Mr Ayres pointed out no army or military bureau had ever had hada a statistical department Wars used to be fought ought by armies he Ile said But Dut the W World war wor mobilized Industrial financial and man power resources of the nations Naturally statistical machinery was a vital adjunct America Americo wa was wag the first to appreciate this As a member of the National FInance Finance Finance Fi FI- nance committee Mr Ayres will wIn assIst assist assist as as- In the safekeeping and allotment of the funds of the Legion This committee committee committee com com- makes maltes out the budgets of ot all aU divisions and committees of the national na natIonal national na- na organization and assists other units of the organization In financial planning Mr Ayres was born In Connecticut in 1879 He holds degrees from Boston Boston Doston Bos Dos ton and Columbia universities |
