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Show African (Copy for Thin Department Supplied by the American L,?(tlon News Service. HOLDS TWO LEGION OFFICES Winchester, Va., Man Is State Histo-' Histo-' rian as Well as Chairman of Americanism Commission. B. M. Boszel of Winchester, Va., has been entrusted with two oSices by the -nr. t vm- assart;; u iaMrsfc&a Virginia department depart-ment of the American Amer-ican Legion. He is state historian as well as chairman chair-man of the Department's De-partment's Americanism Amer-icanism Commission. Commis-sion. He also serves as historian of bis post. Born in Balti-m Balti-m ore, Md., Mr. Boszel was edu-c edu-c a t e d in the schools bf his state and received the A. B. and Ph. D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University. Afterwards he was a fellow 'in astronomy and an instructor in-structor in mathematics in that institution, insti-tution, and later a teacher of physics, mathematics and chemistry in the Washington high school system, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. From 1903 -to 1008 Mr. Roszel was head master of the Se-wanee Se-wanee Grammar School, in charge of the preparatory department of the University Uni-versity of the South. Since 1908 he has been superintendent of the Shenandoah Shenan-doah Valley Academy, a military school at Winchester, Va. Mr. Boszel served eighteen months in this country and overseas in the Army and was discharged a major. He has since accepted a similar commission commis-sion in the Reserve Corps. TRAVEL PICTURES FOR FOSTS Films Embracing One Thousand Topics, Top-ics, for Use of All Legion Organizations. By arrangement between the American Amer-ican Legion and the bureau of commercial com-mercial economics, the most complete and valuable collection of educational and travel motion picture films in existence ex-istence will be placed at the disposal of the Legion for free exhibition under un-der the , auspices of all posts. The films, which embrace 1,000 separate topics, are the property of the bureau, an altruistic institution the sole aim of which is to advance education and pride in American institutions. At the instance of national headquarters, head-quarters, the bureau has prepared a special catalogue in which each film is numbered and described. A copy of this catalogue will become the property prop-erty of each Legion post. The only expense attached to posts ordering the Alms will be the payment of express I charaes to and from the nearest dis tributing center of the bureau. No admission ad-mission fee may be charged by the post. A distributing center for the films will be established in almost every state. Responsibility for the transmission trans-mission of the catalogues and the information in-formation concerning the location of distributing centers to which each post must apply for films, rests with the state departments. The story of the establishment of (he bureau of commercial economics is that of a fulfillment of a vow which a blind man took years ago, should his sight be restored. Dr. Francis Hol-ley, Hol-ley, the founder and director of the bureau, vowed to work for the betterment bet-terment of mankind when h recovered recov-ered his sight, and the brueau is the result. LEGION IS HIS MIDDLE NAME Adjutant and Americanism Director of Chicago Post First to Name Himself Him-self After Organization. "Every American ought to have an American name." said Jacob Teinowitz. I i adjutant and Americanism director of Walter S. Poague Post No. 1G1 of the American Ameri-can Legion '. Chicago, Chi-cago, at a post meeting. "To prove that I stand up for my convictions. I have changed my name to Jacob Legion Tenny." Tenny said that there should be a law establishing an Ame'.ican standard of nomenclature arj that, in the meantime, it is up to .neinbers of the American Legion to set the fashion. "Teinowirz is a grand oh! name, but Tonny will be easier to pronounce." said Tenny. "I'm retaining my lirst name, Jacob, of course, but I'm adding Legion as a brand new middle name. So far as I know. I'm the lirst man who has named himself after the American Amer-ican Legion. There couldn't be any hetlnr name for a he-man son of an American service man than Leirion." Tenny enlisted with the lirst contingent contin-gent of eighteen men from the West side of Chicago and served overseas, lie is a lawyer and at the last primary election was a Democratic candidate for uiu;ih.'i',ia! judge. |