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Show LEGION WORKER IN CONGRESS Hamilton Fish, Jr, One of Writer of Preamble to Constitution, Seeks Increase In Compensation. The preamble to the constitution of the American Legion has been calleil plest, most efTee-p efTee-p " tlve nnd beautiful ( 1 pronouncements In Lh . p1 the English lan- Pvl yj gunge. I o Three men I wrote it In St. , I-ouls, Mo., In 1919 ps X a"d 'l never has been, nor probably ri 1 never will be, flXjt I changed. The men LrfAj ... were John Green- way of Arizona, Judge Davis of Oregon and Hamlltoq Fish, Jr., of New York. Mr. Fish Is now In congress helping help-ing to put Into effect the policies recited re-cited by the preamble he helped write. He has a bill pending to Increase the compensation from $20 to $50 for the nurses of blind, legless, armless and totally disabled ex-soldlers. He Is an ardent advocnte of reclamation of land through Irrigation, to encourage ex-servlee ex-servlee men to take up farming as a vocation. At Harvard he was captain of the rnrslty football team. In France he led a company of negro soldiers In the Fifteenth New York Infantry and received re-ceived the Croix de Guerre for bravery. |