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IN the war. They feel that it is pet
ter to do it now when it can be done
thoroughly and correctly rather
fhan wait 100 years or so, to hunt
up the records, as was the case with
the Revolutionary war. People are
still paying all sorts of money to
trace the war records of their an
cestors, whereas. IL someone had
worked like Martha Poole is doing.
right after the war, think how much
time and money could have been
saved Martha Poole is a niece of
former Governor warfieId, of Mary
land. and is a very fine and capable
young lady and deserves all sorts of
credit. according to my way of
thinking. for giving up her time to
this work. Think how many more
members the d. A. r. would have IL
the Revolutionary heroes had been
50 recorded
The American veterans of the
world war are planning a new
grand army which will be a tre-
mendous body and a powerful factor
IN the national life of this country.
1t is called The American Legion
and has as its head in this country.
Lieut.. Col Theodore Roosevelt.
Champ CIark's son. Lieut.. Col. Ben
nett Clark. is another leader in the
movement.
The organization of a society of
American veterans of the world war
including both the members of the ex-
peditionary forces and their less for
tunate fellows whose service was lin
ited to the camps and cantonments OF
this country, is now well under way.
A meeting of officers and enlisted men
was held in Paris on March 15, 16 and
II, following a preliminary informal
meeting a month previously, and
Lieut.. Col. Theodore Roosevelt has
arrived in this country for the pur-
pose of completing arrangements for
the organization meeting which is to
be called here some time in April.
While the idea of such a society has
existed in a more or less nebulous
state in the mind of almost every man
who carried his pack up the gang
plank OF a transport and various or
gHnizations of a local character have
sprung into being in several locali-
ties. the first action toward the for
nation of a thoroughly representative e
body was taken by a group of Ma
tional Guard and Rserve Officers
u. who had been ordered to Paris by
general headquarters for a confer
ence with certain officers of the regu-
lar army and the heads of several
sections of the staff.
Among the men who met in Paris
on February Is. were Lieut. Col.
Theodore Roosevelt. jr.. then in
command of the Twenty-sixth In
fantTy of the First Division; Maj.
Eric Fisher Wood. a former Yale
athlete. who will be remembers as
the author of The Note Book of an
Attache." in which he described his
experiences in several of the bel
hgerent countries before the entry
of the United States into the war;
Lieut.. Col. Bennett c. Clark. of the
Eighty-eighth Division. son of the
Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives: Lieut.. Col. William ]. Dono-
van. of the 165th Infantry OF the
Rainbow Division. for many years
an officer of the famous Sixty-ninth
New York: Lieut.. Col. r. W. Llewel-
len. of the Twenty-eighth Division.
formerly adjutant general of the
State Of Washington: Maj. G. Ed
ward Buxton. of the Second Army.
formerly connected with the Provi-
dence Journal. and a number Of
others representing ten infantry di-
visions. the Service of Supply. the
General staff and practically every
grand division of the expeditionry
forces.