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Show WELL POSTED LEGION MAN , Commander of Department of New Mexico Knev Aoout Professions Represented In Membership. In his brief career a farmer, trapper, trap-per, dynamite worker, oil field work- s' ",. V er, motion picture operator, bookkeeper book-keeper and lawyer, J. W. Chapman, J Gallup, New Mexico, Mex-ico, came well qualified to his present post as commander of the state's department depart-ment of the American Amer-ican Legion. He knows a little nhnllf evprv nro- I fessiou represented in the state's membership. mem-bership. Covering all of the United States and most of Mexico in his travels, Mr. Chapman settled down to the practice of law in New Mexico just before America entered the World war. When she did, he volunteered as a "Mechanic and chauffeur and spent two months In an army motor shop. Then h was transferred to a balloon school, Dut before he could get acquainted with the blimps they moved him aga'n, mis time to the company's personnel headquarters. head-quarters. He was !n au officers' train-ins train-ins camp when the armistice camf- Kntering Legion work early, 'x. Chapman was a member of the committee com-mittee which wrote the non-political clause into the organization's consti tutlon. He boils down his biography to this: "I am a member of the A. F. & A. M., B. P. O. E., and It. of P. ; I am an American by birth, training and Inclination ; an Episcopalian by faith and a prohibitionist by law. I sing, fiance, play the piano and am married. What else could I ask?" |