feet Indians. His tribal name is O-ma-ki-kia-yo, which means Big Bear.

"The chief," by the way, and "the boss" are the names the Headquarters staff have for the Adjutant. They work hard at Indianapolis and the boss sets the pace-that is, in so far as the Headquarters crew is concerned. The National Commander is really the pacemaker. It is a stiff pace, too. A Commander is in for one year. It is likely to be one of the eventful years of his life. Bolles has been there under five Commanders, and some of his division heads have served under three or four. Every year and every day has been an eventful one for them. As routine becomes established and improved, however, the pressure grows by degrees less severe. This has been a necessity. The stress of the early days was something no group of men and women could have endured indefinitely, and the gait is still a swift one. No administrative organization could have kept abreast of the meteoric growth of the Legion. The process of settlement and adjustment is not completed, but the channels of routine are gradually absorbing matters which in the earlier days would have precipitated situations of emergency.

Bolles's personal aide is Russell G. Creviston, the Assistant National Adjutant, who has held that post since the fall of 1920. Creviston joined National Headquarters as Director of Organization after the Minneapolis convention. The business of Headquarters is categoried for transaction by the following divisions: Administration, Americanism, Emblem, Films, Finance, Publicity and Service. With these may be included for the purposes of this review the duties of the National Treasurer, the National Judge Advocate and the National Historian.

The Administration Division is headed by Edward H. Prell. It has absorbed the Organization Division. It supervises the internal development of the Legion by the creation of new departments and posts, attends to the business de

Front row, Gioja, Italy, questor; Janne, Belgium, vice-president; Bertrand, France, president; Jackson, United States, vice-president; Yourichitch-Stourm, Serbia, vice-president; back row, d'Avigneau, France, general secretary; Holecek, Czecho-Slovakia, assessor; Heraud, France, assessor; Barlow, Great Britain, treasurer

tails of the functioning Headquarters and keeps the Legion's records. Its mission is to co-ordinate not only the activities and administrative operations of the various elements of National Headquarters but also the relations between National Headquarters and the headquarters of departments and posts.

The Americanism Commission was discussed in the preceding chapter.

The Emblem Division procures the manufacture and sale of membership buttons, department and post standardsin fact, all Legion regalia and property which bear the official emblem of the organization. The Legion emblem is copyrighted and the Legion, through the Emblem Division, exercises an exclusive right to its reproduction in any form. This has protected the Legion against the unapproved exploitation of its emblem, it has enabled units and members of the organization to obtain emblems at low cost, and has proven a substantial source of revenue to the organization. The director of the Emblem Division is O. E. Marquette, who has built up a business organization of extensive proportions. The annual turn-over is about $700,000. The yearly net profits to National Headquarters are about $60,000.

The Finance Division receives and disburses all funds. Its operation is superintended by the National Treasurer who, since 1919, has been Robert H. Tyndall, an Indianapolis banker. The early financing of the Legion was reviewed in a previous chapter. It has been no simple task. When Mr. Tyndall assumed office the national organization owed $257,000, its credit was low and there was immediate need for the creation of a fund of $100,000 to assure the continuance of the American Legion Weekly. Debts have been paid off and the Treasurer's report to the New Orleans convention showed assets of a net worth of $687,000 against liabilities of $151,000. The New Orleans convention adopted a resolution expressing appreciation of the services of Mr. Tyndall, who by his untiring efforts and the exercise of his

personal credit has contributed so greatly to the present healthy financial condition of the Legion.

The American Legion comprises numerically a small portion of the American public, yet the Legion has come to exert a considerable influence in public affairs. This is because the Legion enjoys the support of public opinion, without which it can accomplish little, no matter how large or how well disciplined may be its membership. The province of the Publicity Division is to acquaint the public with what the Legion does and why, and with what it aims to do. The Publicity Division, which played an important rôle in launching the Legion, was discontinued during the days of financial stress that followed the Minneapolis convention. It was revived by George d'Utassy, who saved the American Legion Weekly from an early grave. The American Legion News Service was started in June of 1920 as a department of the Weekly. Later it was taken over by Headquarters and in 1921 the Publicity Division was reconstituted and gradually expanded to include the News Service, National Speakers Bureau, American Legion Film Service and the editorial department of the Weekly. In December of 1922 the Film Service was raised to the estate of a separate division and the Speakers Bureau was consolidated with the Americanism Commission. The writer was Director of Publicity until May of 1922 when he was succeeded by Humphrey Sullivan, who resigned the following December.

The News Service is a news gathering and distributing agency which handles news and pictures of Legion happenings that are matters of news by a newspaper man's definition of that term. It regularly places news of the Legion in 10,000 publications. The Director is Eugene J. Cadou.

The Film Service is headed by Earle A. Meyer. It furnishes film programs for post entertainments and has assisted in the production and distribution of several films which portray ideals for which the Legion stands. The