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Show SWALE WAS A DISHWASHER Commander of Legion's Washirigtor Department Licked Kitchen Boas, Then Took His Job. The story of how a fist fight made him a dish washer Is told by Thomas v. swale, commander com-mander of the American Legion's department of the state of Washington. Washing-ton. While the downtrodden down-trodden bookkeeper bookkeep-er of a. Great Northern construction con-struction gang-, ' Swale was cajoled into an encounter with the gang's fftJi-'ii. . : .-v.'. V v . -:-Sr:; v:::;'-::: . .i bully, who held the . rank of camp cleanser of the pots and pans. The fight became rough, the bookkeepei knocked out the dish washer and the foreman forthwith made up for lack of personnel by assigning Swale to wash the dishes until the beaten titch-cn titch-cn mechanic could return from the hospital. After gaining an' education. Swale, at twenty-three years and 200 pounds, was the "baby of the Washington legislature," leg-islature," serving for two terms. During Dur-ing the war he served in the army ln-teHigence ln-teHigence section In charge of I. W. W. investigations in the Pacific Northwest. North-west. He Is a practicing lawyer Id Seattle, Wash. |