Show MILITARY SPIRIT GRIPS HIM daddy schick commander of cf illinois department of legion has ha long been in service charles W daddy schick co commander of the illinois department of the american legion was a member of a military organization that has baa been in existence since 1877 known then as the GoT governors ernoes guards this organization in earlier days one of the smartest military organizations ats was the nucleus of the illinois national guard and its history da dates tea back to the crack of tile the chit war their proficiency in arms which mode made them the envy of every other organization was founded on tactics and training given by the gallant major ellsworth the first northern officer eer to fall in the war who was a of abraham lincoln only five of the original company from which the governors guard was formed are alive and daddy schick who A ho was a member of the drum arps Is one of thern them the organization participated in many military contests which were frequent in earlier days and was nas once in competition with the famous meyers cadets cabets of toledo the toledo organization went through the manual of arms blindfolded but the illinois or stepped out on the drill field and without a single command executed the entire manual commander Sc hicks world war service edvice ed vice was unusual at the very hei bei 0 M 41 charles W daddy schick ginning of the war he left a position with a prominent life insurance company to become enrolling officer of the united states navy stationed with the naval reserve force of illinois he enrolled approximately men ile he later received an assignment to sea gea and served in foreign waters he left the service with the rank of lieutenant he became a charter member of the naval post of the american legion of chicago composed entirely of men who served in the navy and in 1921 w was a s named commander of the post under his guidance the post attained a membership of five hundred daddy as lie he ls is familiarly known know to every illinois legionnaire has one falling failing ills his early training Is responsible perhaps when lie served with the governors guards if there Is a drum in right bight he Is certain to get use ikse of it at new kew orleans he be usurped the place of a member of an illinois drum corps in the parade and forsook his place of honor at the bead of the illinois delegation just to get to beat that drum |