enry Fairfield Osborne, Lieutenant Colonel Granville Clark,
Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Kincaide, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Fisher
Wood and Captain H.B. Beers. One of Colonel Roosevelt's first duties
as temporary chairman of the Legion over here was to create the nation
wide organization. He needed committeemen in every State to work the
State organization up, and to start the machinery for the election of
delegates to the St. Louis Caucus, for it had been decided that the
representation in St. Louis must be by duly elected representatives
from congressional districts in so far as that was possible. Each such
district was awarded double its congressional representation, in
addition to the delegates at large. It was no easy task to pick these
committeemen. The decision of the Paris gathering that the
organization must be non-partisan and non-political had to be adhered
to in its fullest sense. There were soldiers and sailors enough in all
the States who would have been willing to have started the
organization in their respective localities, but how _not_ to get
politicians of the lower order, men who would gladly prostitute the
Legion, its aims and ambitions to their own selfish advantage--that
was the problem which faced the temporary committee in America.

About three weeks before the St. Louis Caucus the following names were
chosen from the various States as committeemen:

OFFICERS
Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., New York, Chairman
Lt. Col. Bennett Clark, Missouri, Vice-Chairman
Lt. Col. Eric Fisher Wood, Pennsylvania, Secretary.

ALABAMA
Lt. H.M. Badham, Jr., Birmingham
Pvt. W.M. Cosby, Jr., Birmingham
Sgt. Edwin Robertson, Birmingham

ARIZONA
Pvt. Ned Bernard, Tucson
Lt. Col. J.C. Greenway, Bisbee

ARKANSAS
Pvt. P.R. Graybill, Democ. Pub. Co. Little Rock
Major J.J. Harrison, Little Rock
Pvt. Walter J. Wilkins, Pine Bluff

CALIFORNIA
Sgt. L.P. Adams, San Francisco
Corp. Chas. A. Beck, San Francisco
Lt. Col. Benjamin H. Dibblee, San Francisco
Chaplain Joseph D. McQuade, San Francisco
Major Stewart Edward White, Santa Barbara

COLORADO
Lt. G.W. Cutting, Florence
Sgt. C.C. Neil, Greeley
Major H.A. Saidy, Colorado Springs
Sgt. Phil. G. Thompson, Denver

CONNECTICUT
Maj. Morgan G. Bulkel