SEPTEMBER- 1937
Nineteenth National Convention • New York September 20-23 Copyright 1937, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. — We ll B e SeeingYou
By D I A
City of New York is proud New York is itself a city of superla- United States and that here Washing- THEand happy to welcome The tives. We New Yorkers who have at- ton took the oath of office for the American Legion on the occa- tended national conventions of the Presidency under the Constitution
sion of its Nineteenth Annual Legion are certain that our fellow whose century and a half of existence National Convention. We invite all townsmen are going to learn a good we are celebrating this year. Some Legionnaires, Forty and Eighters, deal about the Legion that they can- of the places you should visit will be Auxiliares and Sons of the Legion to not possibly know now. That march fisted in the booklet you will receive come along and partake of Father up Fifth Avenue will itself make when you register. Along with the Knickerbocker's hospitality. We sure history. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mu- will try to give you a good time. seum of Natural History, Aquarium, The cosmopolitan character of New \\ 7"HILE you are with us you will Parks, our City Hall, and other points " York City has been stressed for a * come under the scrutiny of men of interest acclaimed by world travel- century or more, and it is our boast and women whose opinions, expressed ers, I would like to extend to you a that nobody that comes to us need be in syndicated newspaper articles, in special invitation to visit the Museum lonesome. Whether you are from the magazines, over the radio and in the of the City of New York, where you West or the South or New England, newsreels command the respectful at- will get some idea of the way people there are people here who keep green tention of the nation. They have the lived up to the time when we, as the memories of an old home town normal American love of fair play. youngsters, saw kerosene and the that is your home town, and who will The Legion Convention will be big horse car go the way of the spinning be glad to make your acquaintance. news, and the activities incident to it wheel and the ruff collar. I am told that the reunions of war- will be given sympathetic, co-opera- New York remembers reverently time outfits planned for the four days tive attention. the days when you came through the of the Convention have set a new If you wish to make an American port on the way to the A. E. F., and record. I am looking forward to see- historical pilgrimage a part of your remembers joyfully too the thrill of ing many of my buddies and it is visit with us you will find here me- your return in 1919. All of our certain that more members of the great mentoes of the Dutch and English citizens join me in the hope you will Legion family will be our guests than colonial days and of the Revolution. come by the hundreds of thousands. any other city has entertained. That, I need hardly remind you that New You will never regret it—and we will of course, is quite right and proper York was the first capital of the always remember you!
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(fforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (7o uphold and defend the Constitution <-fofthe United States ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredpercent (Tlmericanism to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreaiTWar; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the com- munity, state andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood will on earth ;to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjustice.freedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradeship bu our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion.
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CONTENTS can almost count the min- that a model of the fair can be in- YOU THE KEY TO THE CITY Cover utes now— in fact, you can spected at a special exhibit in the Em- (See also page 44) count them by the application By Forrest C. Crooks pire State Building . . . Put Radio of a little simple atithmetic—to Sep- WE'LL BE SEEING YOU 1 City on your list—half a dozen tours tember 20th, or even to September By F. H. LaGuardia available, depending on how much LOST IN THE NAVY 6 21st, the day of the Big Parade . . . time you can give to it . . . The By Thomas F. Woods The Up Fifth Avenue Parade, we Illustrations by J. W. Schlaikjer United States Lines will hold open mean, in case it had slipped your mind MY BIT FOR BAKER 9 house on the Washington, largest By Thomas McMorrow . . . Quite a lot about the affair in merchantman ever made in America Illustrations by Raymond Sisley this issue: Greetings from the Mayor THE OBJECTIVE: FIFTH . . . The Queen Mary will be at her of New York, last minute notes AVENUE 14 pier for inspection September 21st.
from Bob Condon, Forrest Crooks's By Robert E. Condon . . . While the Normandie will un- IT BE IT'S cover (by the way, turn to page 44 CAN DONE— BEING fortunately be at sea during the days DONE 16 and read about that cover) . . . Con- By Judge Richard Hartshorne of the convention, other ships of the siderable, too, about the France- Illustration by Will Graven French Line will be ready to welcome
Italy invitation pilgrimage: Bernhard OUR POST IS DIFFERENT 18 Legion visitors . . . The Rex, pride By Bernhard Ragner Ragner on the activities of Paris Post, of the Italian Line, will come right {The City Eternal 20 Captain Ambassador Suvich and By Fulvio Suvich in and go right out again, pilgrimage
Huntington on Rome . . . Oh, yes, bound, but arrangements will prob- we almost forgot to mention Wally's The City Progressive 21 ably be made for other of the line's By Capt. C. H. Huntington two-page spread . . . Wally isn't too ships to be inspected. . . . Ask your STATESMEN OF TOMORROW 22 that you're accurate in his intimation By Sam H. Cobb Department Delegation Headquarters supposed to keep off the grass in Cen- EDITORIAL: what is this legion? 25 for details on these ship inspections tral Park, but as he wanted to make NEW YORK SAYS "COME AND —you'll want to see one anyway, GET IT" 26 a special joke out of it we've let it whether you make the pilgrimage or By Wallgren
. . . you've got . stand Buddy, your THE HOME IN OKLAHOMA 28 not. . . The Polish veterans want nose in the heaviest-advertising- By Boyd B. Stutler the pilgrims to come to Warsaw . . . revenue issue of this magazine that SERVICE-STRIPE OLYMPICS 32 By Minott Saunders ever was . . . First place, up to feature of the French trip that PAID IN FULL 34 ONE now, had been held by the October, sounds pleasant is a special trip By John J. Noll 1928, number, which now drops A REPORT TO STOCKHOLDERS 42 to Cognac—there are still several down one place to make room for By Harry W. Colmery, National A.E.F. veterans who don't appreciate Commander September, 1937 . . . Give a thought the fact that the well-known fluid was BURSTS AND DUDS 46 advertisers in a to those once while Conducted by Dan Sowers named after a town . . . Floyd Bennett
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may startle some readers . . . There's CHANGE OF ADDRESS of flying your own ship to the con- going to be a World's Fair in New vention ... Of course the France- to Indianapolis office, including old and York in 1939, but it isn't expected new addresses. Allow five weeks for Italy pilgrimage will be the biggest that many Legion National Conven- change to become operative. An issue al- thing of its kind since the Second ready mailed to old address will not be tion visitors will stick around for it. A.E.F. of 1927, and that was the forwarded by post office unless subscriber
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. . . What we were going to say was this magazine well in advance of impending ventionnaires in (Turn to page 74) address change will obviate this expense.
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FTER a whirl at organizing the State of New York's war work, right after the declaration of war, I saw that the politicians were determined to run that department "along with the others and I decided to get into one of the fighting services. This wasn't easy as I was almost blind in one eye, overweight, close to the age limit and had a leaky heart. Years of easy living had somewhat unfitted me for the hardships of war; but the spirit was willing and I knew that somewhere in the fighting machine was some job I could handle as well as a young Goliath, while he did something more active. The Army wouldn't give me a second look; neither would the sea-going Navy; but there was something new in the world called naval aviation. In New York I met a friend in a grand new uniform. "What's that?" I demanded, and when he told me I said, "Get me in." He looked me over and shook his head, but I wouldn't let him off. Finally he said he would try in Washington. There was plenty of or- ganization work to be done in his branch, and I was experi- enced in organization. Soon I received word to report at Washington for exam- ination. I knew a real examination would floor me, so I
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8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine Thomas Mc Morrow
Raymond Sisley
N. A.'s had it softer in the WEArmy, in general, than you N. G.'s and Regulars, I think. With us, a man could use his own judgment more, and cop a mope and have a little relaxation once in a while. That was my experience.
Let me tell you about it. We draftees from Harlem, New York, went off to the war in June, 1918, behind a jazz band from Yoll's Rathskeller. In my rank was a hotel clerk, a chauffeur, a teacher, and I, a magazine writer. It was a lot of fun. As we romped by Seventh Avenue a chap on the sidewalk hollered, "Hey, Tom!" Get this; it's funny. This chap had wanted to get into the Army as an officer, and he asked me to give him a letter to somebody. Just for a kid, I gave him a letter to the Secretary of War, starting "My dear Baker." A swell letter, except that the Secretary and I weren't acquainted at all. And, do you know, this dope took it to Washing- ton. "Hey, Tom! Yoohoo, Tom! Thanks Those four-man bunks didn't look good to me. I de- for that letter! I'm in a captain the cided to sleep up on deck Quartermaster Corps!" And so he was; hanged if he wasn't. I don't suppose the
Secretary ever saw that letter, but some- every man had his berth, and ate in the such a blessed relief to get away from all body did in Washington. And this dumb dining-car. Most of us had never trav- my worries. bird passed the war in Italy, as a captain, eled in such style. If this was the war, We were treated very kindly in Spar- while I was mugging along in France. we were for it; we liked it. Though I was tanburg, too; too kindly, I see now. As I We rode to Spartanburg in Pullmans; prepared to like it in any event—it was get it, the authorities were afraid of draft SEPTEMBER, 1917 0 riots, such as they had in the Civil War. But the drafting was done this time before the fighting and casualty lists began, so rioting was far from our minds. We were liking it immensely. "I'm the supply sergeant," I It was a mistake. The authorities told him. "You can put the didn't clamp down on us and show us, stuff down right here" right off, that we were in the Army now, and we got the notion, some of us, that it and strange, and inclined to hang back was all fun. The school teacher, I re- and look dumb, so the thing to do was to "Ah, McMorrow," he said approvingly. member, was put in charge of military jump out and look smart. An officer "And who else?" That made me an prisoners, and he went off with them to a asked for volunteers that evening to do acting corporal. I had hit on an army dance in the town. He brought them some digging—so help me, he asked for principle, as you know, soldier. Do the back to camp after the dance, or they volunteers. I jumped for a shovel and job, and be seen doing it. Keep in with brought him, so nothing happened to threw dirt like a badger. On the follow- the people just above you. When you him. It was mistaken kindness, and some ing morning, we were lined up, and this cop a mope, pick your spot. of us never did get the right slant on the officer looked us over and said, "I shall I think a corporal pulled down thirty- Army. I sometimes wonder if I did, when now put some of you men in charge of eight dollars, but I wouldn't be sure, I I hear the boys. tents." That meant me; I had a pain in became a sergeant so quickly. It may I was a private only over-night. the back. I called out, "McMorrow!" surprise some of you old fogies, if you As soon as I hit the camp, I asked "McMorrow?" said the officer, looking don't know what a draft outfit was. questions around and watched closely, at his list. "Who is McMorrow?" I In six weeks we took ship for France, and I found the privates did all the work stepped forward and clicked my heels as and I was made sergeant the first day but ate last and got least money. So why I had seen the sergeants do, and gave him aboard, in Hoboken. be a private? We were all bewildered a salute. The ship was the Mongolia, a China 10 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine and I was wrong, for the war was already on its last legs. The best job I could wangle later was provost sergeant. That was a fine job, and freed me from formations and drill, and gave me the run of the town, but, had I gone along with the adjutant, I might have become a colonel or even got a brigade. 1 see now that I should have written a good strong letter to my friend Baker in Washington. Gosh, when a construction foreman—that's what my friend was—could take a letter down to Washington and come back with a captaincy, what would they do for me, with a solid six weeks in the Army? Well,
it served me right; if a man won't speak up for himself, nobody else will. We landed at Brest and were greeted by the children of France as we marched through the streets. I had read in the New York Times
about the children of 1 ranee greeting their gallant Allies; but this was differ- ent. These children snatched at our packs as the men— heavy ar.d sickish from their weeks in the Mongolia—plod- ded along. I took a flying kick at one little bandit who was making off with a pair of Uncle Sam's shoes off a pack. I got the shoes back. He turned and pointed at me, and called me a very bad army name, in a delightful French accent. "So-and-so—you-u-u!" I had to laugh; he called me just what I was feeling like turer in Amsterdam, New York, and a at the moment. charming fellow—-and he spoke for me We met more of these greeters as we freighter, and too small for comfort; to the adjutant, and I was made a ser- crossed France on a train that moved at over five thousand men went that trip. geant without any fuss. a walk and only after the engineer and I arrived a bit ahead of the crowd, and The adjutant had to see me first, and conductor had exchanged bugle calls; climbed swiftly through the old hooker, I gave him a slashing salute and click. the children, and big ones too, jumped and I didn't like what I saw. Those four- It affected him strongly. He sent for me aboard, slapping bottles. "Eh, sol-dair! man bunks downstairs didn't remind me while we were in the Gulf Stream and Cognac! Une dollair!" And off again, of Pullmans a little bit. It was hot and asked me to enter his department, saying with our dollars. The stuff was beer smelly down there already, and what confidentially that he was looking for a and water. Well, there are mean people would it be later? new sergeant-major. He was a smart in every country, and tricks on travelers. I decided to sleep in the open air—it man, but hadn't much choice. We were wondering where we were was August—and I found nice quarters Had I known my business, I would heading, and, of course, we heard—we on the promenade deck, where two rows have taken him up like a shot. Instead, were going to Paris to be Military Police. of bunks were rigged. It was a lucky I went back to my lieutenant and asked Pretty soft, eh, soldier? Oh, yes, an pick; we went across by the southern him how much work there was to being a army outfit always knows where it's route, following the Gulf Stream, and sergeant-major. He gave the job a black- going. downstairs was no place to be. eye, saying that there were reams and On the third day, around midnight, However, it seemed that the prome- oodles of paper-work and that I'd better we heard thunder, and we figured it was nade deck was for sergeants only. Seeing stick along with him, and he'd have me raining in Paris. I put my head out of them putting men off, I got hold of my sent to an officers' training school in the third-class coach and tried to look platoon lieutenant —a carpet manufac- France. So I turned the adjutant down, around and remarked to Watt, the other
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platoon sergeant, "I hope they don't rained, as it cooled our feet, since we believe in Harlem any more. There make us get off in the rain. Funny, couldn't take our shoes off. wasn't any such place. though; the stars are out." The country It was a strange country, and strangest Beefsteaks. We'd lost our kitchens and was all black, and the only lights were when the firing paused and all was still. were living on the iron rations of the little blue ones, down by the ground. The sun shone on the high and yellow dead; my fancy was Schweinflcish, in Paris, I thought, must be expecting an grass in which owls and hares and foxes sein eigene Soft, Berlin, iqi8. I ate it air-raid. were lying still, and nothing moved or was with a German combination fork and The train stopped, and we got off in the heard. It was quieter than Sunday after- spoon. I had a German blanket, too. dark, and stood around, heavy and noon. No birds, no dogs, no roosters; Living there with the dead, eating their sleepy; and then we fell in and marched no houses except dead Montfaucon, food, drinking their liquor—I got a quart off—for Paris. The thunder was sharp shining in the sun like a hill of bones. of Lion de Beige cognac from a German and crashing now, and the stars were in The high air wasn't still, though; it machine-gunner—we became a nonde- strings, drifting along. I hoped for the rustled and creaked and grumbled up script group. I went too far, though, best but began to suspect the worst. there always. We distinctly heard when I put on a shiny new pickelhaube; it If that was Paris ahead, I missed my elevated trains passing up there, for all was comfortable and dressy, but it drew guess. We kept going, falling over our the world was on Ninth Avenue, passing bullets, and I went back to the old tin feet, and at last the first squad fell into every so often, but we looked up and saw hat. But most of my war memories have a canal. We were lost, and we sat down only the blue. It was magical, that light to do with something to eat. by the canal, until two o'clock the next and quiet, so safe and peaceful; and all There was the time that Sergeant Watt afternoon. Hell likely to crack down on us at any came down sick. He lay on the ground. It was a canal, sure enough, and not the second. "Mac," he muttered, "if I only had a river Seine; and it wasn't Paris over The barrage waked us at three every piece of real bread." I went back, watch- yonder—it was the Front. And we had morning from dreams of beefsteaks and ing for smoke, and located an advance no ammunition and no gas masks. That Harlem. Or, say, just beefsteaks; I didn't kitchen in a patch of woods, and a truck- canal was a lucky break for the gallant 53d Pioneer Infantry. Someone had pulled a bone. We retreated to a village called Frou- ard, near Nancy, and spent two or three weeks learning to eat canned willie and hard bread and put on our gas masks One—Two—Three—Four! That willie was awful. Give me a cutlet of fresh cat or dog, any time; not to speak of a luscious sirloin of mule.
I don't know how it was that I did not learn to put on a gas mask. For two weeks in Frouard I was drilling my platoon in putting on the mask—One—Two— Three —Four!—But I didn't bother to practice it myself. Well, we were crossing a bridge on our way back to the Front when a shell fell in the creek, and somebody yelled "Gas! Gas!" My platoon put on their masks expertly, thanks to my teaching, and I clapped mine on too, but I began to strangle. I sucked and sucked and couldn't draw air. I was blue in the face, when somebody yelled, "No Gas!" and I took the blamed thing off, and saw that what I had shoved into my mouth was the nose-clip. We went off for a trip to St. Mihiel, on French trucks, and then we came back and took charge of an Argonne sec- tor, as stage hands, in the area between the artillery and infantry. We stayed there for the rest of the war. We built roads, buried the dead, car- ried the wounded and the chow and shells. The 35th Division, the First, the 42d, and so on, came and went, but we stayed on like the mice in the ground. We lost a few men, and then we learned and became hard to kill. The Jerries worked our territory methodically. They pounded the cross-roads, and then they spaced the explosions; we could see them coming across the fields and we had only to step aside. We had the nearest shell- hole always spotted, and, at the first whistle, we went down with the mice. We were there from September 26th to November nth. We were glad when it in for it
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off our hats. It was a bad thing for us,
because it made us human again, for at least an hour. But that chaplain had real religion, wouldn't you say, soldier? We hadn't much to do with chaplains. They were supposed to be in charge of burying, I believe. I buried three hun- dred and seventy-six of ours, and about half as many Germans and mules— the Germans were killing nearly four to our one, I reckoned—and I don't suppose a chaplain officiated over twenty percent. But let's not go into the details of that business here. I'd rather talk about pie. Ah-h-h pie!
Sergeant Watt and I used to put useless men out of the Army. We had to get through with the work, and we couldn't be bothered by dumbbells. We'd say, "Here, you—you've been gassed. Hit that road, and keep going till you come to a hospital." Well, one day a replace- ment told us that hospitals fed apple pie; and we got a morbid craving for apple pie. We were hung up in one place about a week—that was when you lads were taking and retaking Exermont in that little valley—and we'd eaten the ground
bare. I found half a raw turnip, and it was a banquet. Our lieutenant decided to take us back of the seventy-fives and find a kitchen and beg a meal. As we started back, Watt said to me, "Mac, how about that apple pie?" The two of us fell out to tie our leggins; and then we struck off at a tangent, for pie. I guess we were both a little wacky. We wanted pie. We traveled the rest of the day, looking for smoke and finding kitchens and asking for pie. But no pie. We slept in a dugout that night, and kept on going the next day, and, at noon, we
came on a hospital, and, sure enough, it was feeding pie. Apple pie, cut seven inches across the shoulders. We parked our packs and fell in line for pie.
And there it was, right under our mess- kits, and no limit on seconds, when some- load of real bread. But the mess sergeant but that was his privilege; but I thought body yelled, "Hello, sergeant!" was a tough old Regular. "Don't you he should have given the order to his It was one of the mopes we had run know," he snarled, "that there is a special own men. I might have been wrong, but out of the Army. He was glad to see us. order from Chaumont forbidding kitchens 1 was very selfish about my life and my He was as friendly as a lost dog. We to feed any man not belonging to the men's lives. Well, about a week later tried to shush him but he wouldn't shush. unit? I wouldn't give you a crumb of we could have fires, and I had seven big The dumbbell finally brought a medical that bread if you and your buddy were beefsteaks, cut with an axe a l'Argonne. major down on us. We said we were both dying." And he glared and stalked I got them at daybreak that morning, gassed, but all we knew about gas was away, saying over his shoulder, "But if and they were mine. The perfume of what we had seen, and when we de- you take a loaf when I'm not looking, is frying steak brought noses out of the scribed how we heaved and the bubbles that my fault?" I hope that mess ser- ground all about. I had a steak, Watt came out of our mouths, he decided we geant sees this; he was a Regular, and a had a steak, our lieutenant had a steak, were too far gone to be in that chow line, regular guy. and he requested one for an overnight and he snapped, "You two fall out here. And there was the matter of the seven guest. And the guest who popped out of You're under arrest!" He went into the beefsteaks. the ground, yellow with hunger, was this house to get the guard, and we ducked in We were working with a regiment of the chaplain. Canned Willie for his. a hurry. Our lieutenant called us liars, First Division one day, and, the air being There were other chaplains. We found but was glad to have us back; we were full of scrap, we were hugging a trench on a dying German one day, and, when he good moochers, and if there was anything a hillside. A chaplain came crawling was gone, we put him under. A strange fit to eat within miles we'd get it and he'd down the hill, leaving his own men, al- chaplain was standing by, and he said to get it. though they were bandsmen and on the me. "Sergeant, no prayers were said for I remember one sweet windfall I got same work as ourselves. He told me to that man." I laughed; we all laughed. for him. go over the crest and bring in two men "Sergeant," he said then, "that man died The platoon didn't need two sergeants, who had just been killed. It was a foolish for his country." And he said prayers and Watt and I took turns at mooching. order—to pick up dead men under fire over the dead German, and we all took This day I was {Continued on page 68)
SEPTEMBER, 1937 13 Another claim to fame that is New York's, at the en- trance to 19 West 44th Street
A WAITING the zero hour! Plans can life from the /\ have been completed almost to highest brackets to / % the last detail, and now New the most humble. York City only awaits the first They will represent contingent of the throngs of Legion- every shade of re- naires, Auxiliares, their families and ligious thought and friends, who will pour into the city to political opinion. attend the Nineteenth Annual National These men of the Convention. The stage is completely Legion form a per- set. It only remains to ring up the cur- fect cross section of tain for the first act of the greatest con- America—a cross vention ever held in America, or in the section such as is world, on Sunday evening, September not possible in any 19th, at Madison Square Garden. other organization. Major General James G. Harbord, They will come President of the Convention Corpora- with banners flying, tion, said when he accepted that position bands playing, that he wanted to make the New York dressed in civilian Convention the greatest reunion of garb, in the blue and American citizens ever gathered in the gold uniform of the United States at any one time. Every Legion, and in uni- indication is that the desire of General forms of colors so Harbord will be realized. Accustomed radiant that by com- as it is to great gatherings of every kind parison a rainbow and character, New York City has never would blush because before been called upon to act as host to of its inadequacy. a gathering of such magnitude as that The holiday spirit promised for the latter part of September, that is ever present when The American Legion comes to and the carnival side Looking up Fifth Avenue town. of a National Convention presents a from 34th Street and, on Where will they all come from? They glittering, glamorous pageant. No gath- opposite page, looking down will come from everywhere, from Powder ering is more typical of America than the Fifth Avenue toward 34th River to Squcdunk, from Seattle to annual meeting of its greatest service Street, which is marked by Miami, from every section of the forty- organization. the Empire State Building eight States, from the island possessions New York City is happy to have the and many from foreign lands—from privilege of entertaining this American and who will swell the crowds in the city Greece to China and all the world in gathering for the first time since its during convention week to an extent that between. They will come from the cities organization. It is not only looking for- will amaze the city's seven million popu- and from the crossroads, these men who ward to its first view of America's great- lation. served America in 1917 to 1919, repre- est pageant when it will be host to the The American Legion has held its senting every blood, every creed, every Legionnaires and Auxiliares, but it will National Convention in other great tongue, and every nationality that has have a warm welcome also for the hun- American cities and it has filled to over- gone into the making of America of today. dreds of thousands of additional visitors flowing the boulevards of Paris. It has They will represent every walk of Ameri- who will come to share our enjoyment known the charm and the hospitality of
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Executive Vice-President, The American Legion
I?}? Convention Corporation of New York City
great centers from liar figure to even' American, ride the Boston to San Fran- subways, see Wall Street and the world- cisco and from Port- famous financial district. They will have land to Miami, but a chance to get a stiff neck from gazing we like to think that upward at the skyscrapers; see the bright New York, the met- lights of Broadway and its theatrical ropolis of America district centering around Times Square: and a city without walk up and down Fifth Avenue, one of a peer in all the the most famous streets in the world, and world, has something look over dozens of other streets of equal just a little different interest though not so highly publicized. to attract these hun- If inclined they will have a chance to dreds of thousands. visit the parks for which New York is
Certainly it has some noted, pass through its museums, and very special attrac- reverently inspect world famous churches. tions and facilities They will be able to see Chinatown, not offered by any second largest in the United States, the other place, which Ghetto and Pushcart town on the lower will prove most ap- East Side, and of course pay a visit to pealing. In this Coney Island, ten miles from New York, great reunion of (fare, five cents by subway from Times American citizens, Square; time, forty-five minutes), with
when New York w ill its Boardwalk and original places of become the Main amusement, and at night take more or less Street of America time out for a visit to Greenwich Yillage. with a composite This list could be extended by naming moving picture of a thousand interesting things and places. the people, the at- In planning for the care and enter- mosphere and the tainment of those who will attend the distinctive manner Nineteenth Annual Convention, the Con- and speech of every vention Corporation and the Chairmen one of the forty- of the more than fifty committees have eight States, the Le- proceeded with their duties in the full gion will come to knowledge that the Legionnaires make know New York and their own convention. But the Corpor- New York will be- ation, in co-operation with civic groups come better ac- and with the city and state governments, quainted with the was determined that nothing should be Legion. Both will left undone that would add to the be vastly benefited pleasure, the comfort and the enter- by the better ac- tainment of the visitors. Many months quaintance. of study and hard work have been For the first time given to this planning by members of many members of the staff and by some of the most dis- the organization and tinguished men of the city—men whose their families, who names are household words in all parts live at a greater or of the nation—and who have given freely less distance from of their time and their counsel. the eastern sea- New York will not alone welcome the board, will have an Legionnaires. For those coming in their opportunity to make own cars the convention will start some the eastern trip at a hundreds of miles away from the Holland very modest cost. Tunnel or George Washington Bridge. They will have a Posts in cities, large and small, adjacent chance to visit New to the metropolitan area are planning York, see the Statue receptions, celebrations and special facili- of Liberty, a fami- ties to welcome (Continued on page 49)
SEPTEMBER, 1937 15 (By Judge Richard Hartshorne
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AST March in these pages in an ar- I ticle entitled Our Commuting j Criminals we talked together about the problem created by the fact that our shrewdest and most desper- ate criminals had taken a leaf out of the book of our successful business men, and were spreading their business activities State, the Commission drafted a law to throughout the States. Of course this is a remedy exactly this defect. For this law sensible course to pursue, for the bad grants such power to arrest, at least when citizen as well as the good citizen. For the officer is a member of an organized the former can thus select the banks and police force, and is pursuing a felon other spots where the pickings are best, across the state line. and can thus take advantage of the loop- holes in our laws, which permit our invis- TO MEET the difficulty in bringing ible state boundaries to hamper the law- the criminal back across the state When they crossed that enforcement officer, but not the holdup line for trial after arrest, caused by the line they could laugh at men. present tedious, technical extradition him, but it's different now We did not then discuss the cure for procedure, with its varying methods, the the first situation, that is, to make the Commission drew a speedier, simpler, pickings from our banks, our stores, and and uniform extradition act, which not our homes more difficult for the criminal. only has these advantages but in addition in the affirmative, I sign the paper, turn Perhaps more of that anon. But, we did contains two novel provisions of great it over to the extraditing officer, and the discuss the second problem, how to pre- value to the public. The first of these defendant goes back to the State where vent our state boundaries, so advan- permits the defendant's waiver of this he committed the crime, with no delay, tageous for other reasons, from being entire tedious and technical procedure, no expense and no technicalities. And woven into a legal web which would and this waiver in fact occurs today, in that is all there is to two out of three of entangle the arm of the law, and thus the States where such act is in force, the former technical extraditions, as they keep the rascal from paying his penalty. more often than the formal extradition now occur under the model act of the proceedings themselves. Instead of this Commission. THE solution of this latter difficulty technical proceeding before the Attorney The second advantage of the Commis- of course lies in bringing our archaic General and the Governor, let me tell sion's act is the power which it gives to
laws down to date, and making them fit you just what happens in the ordinary extradite the "brains" of a gang, who has present day conditions, in the business waiver case today. successfully planned the crime, although of crime as well as otherwise. To this solu- As I sit on the bench three men step he has carefully stayed out of the State tion the Interstate Commission on Crime, up, one a local officer, another an officer where the crime was committed, knowing officially representing each of the forty- from the extraditing State, the third the that in ordinary circumstances he can eight States and the Federal Government defendant. They present to me two keep safe from all prosecution, either by as well in the field of crime control, set its sheets of paper on which appear some the State where the crime was committed
hand two years ago. To meet the diffi- signatures. I ask the defendant if one is or the State where he planned the crime. culty in arresting the criminal caused by his signature. He says yes. I thereupon To meet the difficulty caused by the the fact that the officer, generally speak- call his attention to his right to formal State's lack of power to obtain from an- ing, loses his power of arrest as an officer extradition, adding that I understand he other State the witnesses necessary to the minute he crosses the line into another desires to waive same. When he replies convict a defendant, and its lack of power
16 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine WILL CRAVEN where they belong to remain under proper average citizen, without any personal supervision by the parole authorities of experience in attempting to obtain the to take the depositions of such witnesses their State of origin. enactment of legislation, this problem of in the other State the Commission drafting a technical solution in statutory drafted an act to remove such witnesses NOW all this was very fine, and rep- form obviously presents much greater forcibly, if without undue hardship to resented a large amount of careful, difficulties, of a practical sort at least, them by the co-operative orders of the skilful, and entirely volunteer draftsman- than those involved in solving the knot- courts of both States. Finally, to meet ship on the part of the members of the In- tiest of legal problems. the difficulty which arises when criminals, terstate Commission on Crime, and those For not only does this require, in addi- citizens of one State, are ultimately re- law professors, commissioners on uniform tion to introduction of the bill, constant leased from confinement in another for state laws and others who co-operated attendance on the legislature, with inter- crimes committed there, and drift back with them. But, after all, the resulting vening committee hearings and persistent to their State of origin, unsupervised, to model bills were drafts which existed on buttonholing of the various legislators, start in on their criminal careers all over paper only, without the slightest force themselves driven to distraction by a again, the Commission drafted an act of law to make them of any real value thousand and one claimants on their at- authorizing the States to compact with to the public. To be effective, these tention— it also requires, at least as to a each other a fair and sensible business drafts had to be adopted by the legisla- measure with no partisan political bear- agreement in treaty form, whereby in tures of the various States and signed ing, that such a measure shall not only proper cases these men will be sent back by their Governors. And even to the have real merit, {Continued on page 50)
SEPTEMBER, 1937 17 —
Our Post u. DlFFERENT
Paris diverse and bizarre problems it is called DEAR Harry: I don't know if upon to solve, Paris Post is exceptional, you're pulling my leg or different and unique. (I hate to use merely exercising your imagi- that word, even when I use it correctly, nation but your idea of coming b ernhard but in the present case, no other adjec- to France (for the education of your tive fits the facts.) We are an outpost of children, sez you!) and running for Com- Ragner the Legion in the city where the Legion mander of Paris Post is a knockout. It was born; we are the spiritual guardians delights, intrigues and flabbergasts me. working cards? Do you possess the of the A. E. F. dead; and so we represent For, as Mark Antony might say, that is wardrobe, the versatility, the excess not the 1,500 A. E. F. exiles still hanging an honorable ambition. But, can you dollars, the patience, tact, time and ora- on in France but the nation-wide Legion get away with it? That is the ques- torical competence (both French and in America as well. tion. English) which are required? Mind you, Somehow, Paris Post is greater than Further, between you and me and the I'm not answering these questions; I'm itself; that sounds illogical, but I hope Saluting Demon, are you really equipped just asking you. you get what I mean. We stand for for the job? Are you an expert in medals, For, as you seem to understand dimly, something more vital and more impor- in gavels, in Forty and Eight boxcars, in because of its location and its "ambassa- tant than our own little group, and this deserted orphans, diplomacy, and French dorial" status, because of the complex, implies responsibilities, duties, and a
1.8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine different way of doing things—the French only upon himself and Paris Post but he is something more than Commander way. When we took part in the planting upon the Legion at large. of Paris Post. He is playing a symbolic of a "Pershing Oak" at Saint Mihiel, role, and he must do it with dignity, and when our color guard marched in the BY THIS time, I imagine the air in that includes dressing the part, according funeral cortege of Marshal Foch, when your office is purple with profanity, to European standards. Hence, the need we swore the "peace oath" before the as you give vent to your feelings; but for a stovepipe hat and all that. Be white crosses of Douaumont, not a single tout comprendre, tout pardonncr. Ask sure to buy one before you sail; unless spectator thought of Paris Post; 90 per- Harry Junior to translate that, if you've you want to borrow mine. cent of them didn't even know of our forgotten. Anyhow, let me explain. If the Commander of Hometown Post existence; but every one of them saw a On Memorial Day, for example, when the makes an aspect of himself, it's a bad vision of The American Legion, without Legion places flowers upon the tomb of thing for everybody concerned, but the any limitations, of which we are only a the Unknown Poilu beneath the Arc de harm done is generally limited, geographi- tiny fraction. Triomphe, the Ambassador (whatever his cally. Should the Commander of Paris Since you aspire to be our Commander, name or party) is always present, suita- Post make a false step, it would be
I'll give you the low-down on the situa- bly garbed in a morning coat and top hat. plastered all over France and America; tion in this rambling letter. As I mix So is the Minister of War. Accompany- your Post and the Posts on a thousand the trivial with the significant, you'll ing them are the chief "citizens" of the Main Streets might suffer. Yes, it's be both amused and amazed by what "American City of Paris," including the contrary to reason and logic, but the fact I write. Commander of Paris Post. If he were persists. Fortunately, no untoward When a man is elected Commander of dressed in a pull-over and a green fedora incident has ever occurred; I don't think
Paris Post (I'm giving you fair warning) hat, the French on-lookers might ask, it ever will, but this latent possibility the first thing he does is to buy a stove- "How did this roughneck get into the emphasizes the representative character pipe hat, a full-dress suit, and a long- picture?" It isn't asked, of course; the of Paris Post, and the decorum it imposes. tailed coat; that is, unless he has them Post Commander sees to that. Most already. The chances are he has. For, probably he detests this "uniform" as FROM the foregoing you will see, believe it or not, these garments consti- you once detested shavetails, but at Harry, the Hometown way of doing tute the uniform, on many an occasion, official ceremonies, noblesse oblige—he things, perfect on Walnut Street, doesn't for a Legion Commander in Paris; if he complies with French custom and tradi- pass muster on the Champs Elysees. didn't wear them, he would be a flat note tion, and wears it. We must modify and adapt it to the in the symphony. This does not signify For (I'm purposely repeating myself Parisian setting. An example: Each year that he is a snob, a fashion plate, or a here) he represents not only Paris Post we stage a Thanksgiving banquet; high-hat dandy; it merely means, when but that greater organization of Legion- Marshal Foch, when alive, was an annual in Paris, conform to the Parisian atmo- naires scattered from Penobscot to Pasa- guest; General Gouraud still joins in our sphere. If he didn't, it would reflect not dena, from Seattle to Savannah. When merrymaking. At least one minister he attends the funeral of an Allied mon- attends, sometimes two or three, all of arch (such as King Albert of the Bel- them war veterans. A place of honor is Ringside seats to the colorful gians), when he helps to decorate the reserved for the Ambassador and the pageant of Paris life abound grave of Lafayette as happens every Consul General. These gentlemen in the humbler quarters no Fourth of July in Picpus Cemetery, when (you've guessed it already) are all in full less than along the Grands he takes part in a memorial ceremony in dress and this, obviously, requires the Boulevards the Church of Saint Louis des Invalides, toastmaster, the {Continued on page 52)
SEPTEMBER. 1937 19 The Citv Eternal
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once lation of these monu- ROME,capital of ments, without hurt- the Ro- ing the later ones of man Em- papal Rome; and at pire, later cradle of the same time this the Catholic archaeological and Church, today capi- artistic restoration tal of Fascist Italy, had to be reconciled is a city of the spir- with the urban needs it. We can really of the more modern say Spiritual City. metropolis, which, as For this reason, in the time of Augus- which can be called tus, had to be pre- destiny, Rome gives pared to house two the mark of uni- million inhabitants. versality to all the For the practical ideas and all the carrying out of this political manifesta- work the most fa- tions which take mous architects, ar- place on the banks chaeologists and art- of the Tiber. ists of Italy were To bring this called. They have manifestation to worked following the fruition in this pres- directions of Musso- ent age Rome had lini himself, who to be brought back every time that dif- to its ancient splen- ficulties had to be dor. The problem surmounted inter- was not an easy one vened in person and because, owing to smoothed them out. the restricted site The results which of the seven hills, have been obtained three civilizations are really remark- followed eachother, (Turu to page 66) sometimes one on top of the other, without any topo- From Rome's graphic respect to famous gardens the remains of the one looks across preceding ones. The the Eternal City problem, therefore, to St. Peter's. was to find and put Above, the Vic- in view the monu - tor Emmanuel ments of republi- Monument, can and imperial which is also the Rome, with timely Tomb of the Un- restoration and iso- known Soldier
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Captain C.H.Huntington
is ever setting which en- ROMEchanging. hances both with- On the one out the slightest hand, with atmosphere of in- the revival of archae- congruity. ological research, it If you would see is going back to the this with me, as splendors of yester- you will see it when day, and on the other you visit Rome in it is going forward to reality, let us climb the modernism of to- together to the top morrow. Yesterday, of the Capitol, the today and tomorrow- millenary Acropolis all walk hand in hand of Rome, where as the tourist ob- from the high Capi- serves, almost from toline tower we the minute he de- may look down to barks from a luxuri- the very heart of ous Italian liner and the city with its puts foot to earth. new triumphal Spiritual restora- roads — the Im- tion has brought perial Way and about also material that leading to the restoration. There is sea. There unfold not a single Italian to us the wonderful today who does not remains of the im- feel proud at the perial period re- sight of Rome, en- cently brought to riched by newly un- light, affording evi- earthed treasures of dence, together antiquity. No other with those of the city in the world has Forum and of the combined theancient Palatine, of Rome's with the modern in a power and great- ness. The same ad- The city of the mirable vision we Caesars comes to may see over the
life in the gladi- . Monument to Vic- atorial figures tor Emmanuel, the that adorn the Acropolis of the Mussolini Forum. Third Italy, ad- Above, as mod- joining the Capitol. ern as tomor- Typical of the vast row is this traf- work that has been fic tie-up in the done throughout Vittorio Veneto (Turn to page 67)
SEPTEMBER. 19,7 21 Statesmen ^Tomorrow
Lloyd Wampler, Governor of the Hoosier Boys' State, delivering address EARN by doing! That was the have been given another at the cenotaph in the Memorial Plaza method of instruction developed strong demonstration of I at Indianapolis. Below, a Federalist by Mr. Squeers, headmaster of the capability of the j party convention at the Buckeye Boys' Dotheboys Hall, as told by the youth of America who State at Columbus late Charles Dickens. "What's a horse?" will hold the reins of asked Mr. Squeers. "A beast, sir," re- government tomorrow. plied the third boy. "So it is, you're It is not the idle dream of perfect in that," commented the head- an enthusiast to foresee master. "Now, go out and look after my that some of these boys horse, and rub him down well." who are getting their The American Legion has another first lessons in statecraft method of carrying the same idea of and practical govern- learning by doing into effect, relieving ment will be the great the young pupils of the drudgery imposed civic and public leaders at Dotheboys Hall. It is the idea of the of tomorrow. Boys' State program as conceived and Starting with the De- carried out. Three thousand boys of high partment of Illinois three school age have just completed an inten- years ago when the Boys' sive course in government and citizenship State idea was evolved under the directicn of the Legion. They by the Americanism have been learning government by prac- Commission of that De- ticing it in a practical way and under the partment, and the first most competent direction possible to of the series of states was obtain. And in this series of simulated established at Spring- state governments, set up with all of the field, the movement has political party machinery and carried out been unqualifiedly to the last detail in local and state govern- adopted by the National ment, we of the Legion and of America Convention and has had
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make it. Citizens of the Boys' State are instructed in the du- ties of the various Sam H.Cobb public offices; they learn the functions of each office, its DEPARTMENT OF OHIO, powers and limita- THE AMERICAN LEGION tions. They set up their own govern- ment in the three a place on the list of major activities of co-ordinate the National Americanism Commission. branches, have their In 1935, Illinois led the way and proved own Governor and beyond question the high value and staff of state officers, feasibility of the plan; Pennsylvania, their judiciary and West Virginia and Ohio joined the move- their legislative bod- in in these ment 1936, and 1937 four De- ies. partments were joined by Indiana, Kan- Too, they have sas, California and Oregon. Plans are their own city coun- being developed other by Departments cil and their own city to inaugurate their first states in 1938, officials. The boy is perhaps a half dozen or more. It is not given a chance to be too early to see that inevitably the Boys' a man. Amidst all State idea will be broadened into a higher this talk of faults field by the organization of a Boys' and flaws in the Nation. American form of If there are readers of this magazine government, the em- who think the Boys' State is a picnic or bryo citizen has a an outing gotten up for a limited number of boys and a staff of teachers, business The Beaver Boys' State assembled and professional men who go into camp in their camp near Portland, Ore- with them, let me set them straight. The gon, with the scenic Multnomah Boys' State is not a recreation camp. Falls in the background. At left, It was not so conceived and certainly the big guns of the Mountaineer in its operation it is not so carried out. Boys' State, Chief Counselor R. The citizens of a Boys' State comprise Worth Shumaker; Governor Paul a selected group of high school boys, Cronin, and Department Adjutant (age limits vary, but usually those in Edward McGrail their third and fourth years), brought to- gether from every section of the sponsor- ing Department. There the boys become Boys' State is to create leaders in the ser- citizens of a state created especially for ious business of good citizenship, that is, them—they are projected a few years into to assist young men of unusual talents the future when they must assume the to develop through practical experience duties and obligations of a citizen in their a high degree of responsibility toward the own community and State. They divide community, State and nation. A mem- into groups and become members of one ber of a Boys' State learns that a Con- or another mythical political parties, stitution and a Bill of Rights is some- the Federalist or the Nationalist. Cities thing vital and indispensable to the pre- and counties are established and a state servation of democracy; that in the government organized. Nominations and orderly processes of law are our only elections are held in strict accordance safeguards of life, liberty and the pursuit with the law governing the State in which of happiness; and that dictatorships the boys live, and by use of the established chance to learn for himself what his re- communism, fascism and other theories method of voting. For ten days each sponsibilities as a citizen will be when he of absolutism—are incompatible with boy citizen holds a responsible elective reaches the age of maturity. true Americanism. A member of a Boy.}' or appointive office in the city, county That, briefly, is the program in outline. State helps to draft bills, to enact them or state government. I believe, and I am not alone in the into law, to make them effective through For ten days, or the duration of the thought, that in conception and in prac- proper enforcement, and through Boys' state, he is a man of importance in the tice it is the most constructive youth State courts he takes part in the protec- operation of an organized government activity and program of practical Ameri- tion of personal and property rights. It which, so far as possible, parallels the canism yet attempted by The American is difficult to visualize a method of government of his own city, county and Legion. Aside and apart from the in- teaching government and the duties of State. Legislative, administrative and structional purpose of the annual gath- citizenship in a more practical manner, judicial problems are developed to hold ering, there is another value that has not even that of Mr. Squeers, who asked a the interest and inspire the best effort been sufficiently stressed. That is the boy to spell window, then to impress him of each boy citizen. Briefly, it is an edu- opportunity given the boys who make up with the nature of the object sent him cational program. In substance it is de- this selected group to meet and to ex- out to clean one. signed to instil into these boys from the change ideas with boys from other sec- All work and no play makes Jack a dull high schools a practical working knowl- tions, thus enriching their lives by boy. But when Jack arrives at the site edge of the structure of government and the welding of Hew and lasting friend- of his simulated state to take up his duties to impress upon them the verity that ships. as a citizen, bringing with him, of course, government is just what the citizens As set out officially, the purpose of the his enormous capacity for boyish pleas-
SEPTEMBER, 1937 ->3 An even two hundred boys were brought together at University of Wichita for the first Sunflower Boys' State. Healthy appetites were appeased by plenty of good food in an attractive mess hall, where each citizen was served individually
ures, he finds that adequate provi- tion of a large group, with buildings of all building, a replica of the home of Presi- sion has been made for recreation and kinds and character suitable for conver- dent William Henry Harrison which was a hours of play; play that comports with sion into a governmental center. There part of the Ohio exhibit at the Sesqui- his dignity as a man and a voting citi- the second Buckeye Boys' State was held, centennial Exposition at Philadelphia zen. The committee in charge has as was the first one last year. There eleven years ago, the general headquarters anticipated the need for clean, healthy were buildings that overnight, by a and administrative offices of the state sport under the super- were set up. From here vision of an athletic direc- the Legionnaire directors tor of recognized standing, and counselors operated. one who inspires clean The Buckeye State was sport and individual con- divided into four counties, fidence, and who, in most Galbraith, McQuigg, El- cases, has volunteered to den and Cole, each named give his time and di- for a deceased Past Com- rective talent to the pro- mander of Ohio, two of gram. whom became National The Buckeye Boys' State Commanders of The Ameri- in my own Department of can Legion. Each county Ohio may, I think, be was sub-divided into four safely taken as a model cities, the cities taking and as typical of the eight their names from Past States operated in 1937. I Commanders of Ohio with can refer to it as a model but two exceptions, Col- because of its close adher- mery, after the present ence to the general pro- National Commander, and gram operating under the Davey, honoring the Gov- same motivating idea, with ernor of Ohio. The other the same political structure cities were: Bettman, Ba- and the same unit organi- ker, Darlington, Warner, zation that was used by all Looking into internal affairs Mooney, Martin, White, the others. The Buckeye Boys' State —being examined for en- Ingersoll, Denny, Clegg, Campbell, Pat- differed only from the Keystone in Penn- trance to the Prairie Boys' terson, McCaw and Herbert. With a sylvania, the Mountaineer in West Vir- State at Springfield total of 666 registered citizens in the ginia, the Hoosier in Indiana, the Prairie Buckeye State, the average population of in Illinois, the Sunflower in Kansas, the the counties was approximately 166, giv- California, and the Beaver in Oregon, in change of name only, became city halls, ing exactly forty-one and one-half voters physical equipment necessitating slight court houses, a capitol, supreme court to each city—with just about enough deviation from a general set program, and building and legislative halls. And there, offices to go around. For once an experi- the number of boy citizens requiring a in the great live stock building, ample ment in government in a state composed larger or smaller staff of adult directors, dormitory space was provided. The almost entirely of office holders proved counselors and camp personnel. young citizens slept on cots in stalls highly successful. The State Fair Grounds at Columbus which in fair times are the homes of prize The boys began to arrive early, in fact affords an ideal place for the concentra- cattle, horses and sheep. In another earlier than had (Continued on page 62)
24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 'EDITORIAL*, —
WHAT IS THIS LEGION?
IS with a membership close to the million America read in this issue the article by Judge
mark, and second only to that of 1 93 Richard Hartshorne entitled "It Can Be Done IT 1 that The American Legion moves on New It's Being Done," which tells in a gripping York City for the greatest convention, in manner the story of what America is doihg to every sense, that this, the most influential body halt the crime wave that had been sweeping of ex-soldiers in history, has known in the over the nation. Everybody knew that thugs eighteen and a half years of its existence. Those and racketeers were levying on the American eighteen and a half years have been replete with people for an amount that ran into the millions the drama of service "for God and country," in of dollars yearly. But it appeared that nothing the inspiring language of the Preamble to the could be done about it. The various States, Legion's Constitution. Those years have proved jealous of the sovereignty guaranteed them, conclusively that no economic or political group, wanted to co-operate, but couldn't seem to get section or interest can gain control of the anywhere. And then the Legion got into the Legion, that while the course of events may for picture, and through a mandate by the National a time convince a given segment of the popu- Convention in Cleveland to push the program lation that the Legion is on the wrong track, of the Interstate Crime Commission, made its the time inevitably comes when that segment is influence felt in the various state legislatures. glad to utter a fervent "Thank God fcr The Thanks to that constructive work, as Judge American Legion!" Hartshorne shows, the day of interstate crime For despite various dire predictions to the (and that is by far the greatest part of our crime contrary, the Legion has not become a prae- problem) is on the wane. The American people torian guard aiming to seize the power of the know how to act once they are shown, and in state, as did the first Praetorian Guard and as this instance, as in several others, the Legion ex-service men in other countries have done. organization had a most effective part in Quite the reverse. The Legion has, indeed, set pointing the way. its face against any manhandling, any over- riding of the Constitution of the United States WHAT can such a group have in common and the precious privileges of its bill of rights, within its own ranks? Nothing but the and the existence of this greatest ex-service consciousness of a duty and a duty still to do. men's organization is the finest insurance policy If the Legionnaire manifests a slightly keener this country can have that we shall not have an interest in the affairs and future of his country autocracy of either the masses or the classes, (and he dees), may it not be because his life but shall continue to be a government of, by was once offered as a gambit in his country's and for the people. cause? Dees not such an offer, even though To what dc es The American Legion owe its happily fate may not have accepted it, implant strength and its prestige? To nothing save the in the man who makes it a rather livelier con- fact that its membership comprises the most cern in the state of the nation and of the com- representative body of Americans in America. munity in which he is a unit? There is nothing The Legion is a cross-section of cross-sections. remarkable about it. Any man, any woman, Its solidarity is the very product of its lack of who passes through a similar crisis (and God homogeneity. Its sameness is born of the very grant no American man or woman may ever host of dissimilarities which go to make up the have to pass through it again) must emerge roster of its membership. Every shade of from the ordeal with identical sentiments. political opinion, every known creed, every These of the Legion are men condition of private economy, is represented on its rolls. It Has the reputation (we do not say Who have crossed the sluggish shallows undeserved) of harboring a group of good two- where their little life-streams ran, fisted drinkers. And without having the repu- And broadened just a trifle, you will find; tation, it has equally a far more extensive body And their vision's cleaner, clearer and they of drys than can be found in any comparable hold just that much dearer organization. It embraces every conceivable The great and glorious land they left complexion of every conceivable quality or behind. quantity about which there can be any con- ceivable difference of opinion. This is The American Legion that New York As concrete evidence of the influence for good will see marching up Fifth Avenue on Sep- exerted by The American Legion upon everyday tember 21st.
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Peorick- H\e Ave. Assooio.H6n 5^ OohytMTlOM 4do- Inspecting -Hie line, o' w\arcK , I V Were Ve- |pull oa-V V\eavsinq 11 SEPTEMBER, 1937 — 7U.(Putth Home NATIONAL leaders in child TOcaring organizations and to many thousands of Legionnaires and other interested persons, mention of the name of Ponca City, Oklahoma, brings to mind just one definite thing The American Legion Home School. This home and school combined, which was established and is operated by the Department of Oklahoma, is now enter- ing its tenth year and its progressive de- Some of the larger girls help with the cooking in modern kitchens velopment has been such that for a long at the Home School. Below, playtime hour for the smaller children. time it has been looked upon as a national Across the top, panorama of the home buildings and grounds model. The Legion has made a home in Oklahoma. No project undertaken by that De- partment, or perhaps by any other, has had more loyal or sympathetic support from the membership, the affiliated Aux- iliary units and the public generally than has its child welfare program. The Home School is the notable achievement of this work, but it is only one item in a very broad program. Legionnaires have a personal pride in the Home School and maintain a personal interest in the chil- dren who are being cared for there. They have a vision of making a real home in which the children live as near as can be to the average American home. They believe in the home they have created; visit with the children, play with the younger ones and counsel the older. Result : The Home School has been made a real home and not just another institu- tion. The Home School idea had its incep- tion, writes Department Commander the child welfare program of the organiza- through death of parents or lesser adver- Herbert L. Schall, whose home is at tion. Leaders of the Legion in Okla- sity, had been deprived of a home. So Ponca City, away back in the early days homa very early began to think of and when, in 1925, the National Organiza- of the Legion, back in the beginning of plan for the children of veterans who, tion set about to raise a $5,000,000 en- 28 Thf AMERICAN LEGION Magazine —, —— m Oklahoma dowment fund for child welfare and re- The Home School was opened with forty welfare experts. This advice said, in habilitation, it found the Department children, the full capacity. With the effect: "Don't institutionalize the chil- of Oklahoma with some well matured addition of new billets the number of dren. Every child is entitled to a home plans for caring for their own problem children has been increased to one hun- if not a family home, then one as nearly and with leadership adequate to carry dred and two. like it as possible. Your duty does not those plans to a successful consummation. Maintenance of the Home is assured end when you feed and clothe and shelter The endowment drive opened the way. by the income from the Oklahoma Child children. Let them be children. Let Oklahoma was asked to raise $75,000 as Welfare Endowment them grow up as individ- its quota. The Department leaders vol- Fund and by appropri- uals. Give them the ? untarily doubled this quota with the ations by the State 1 Can parley Vroq beans proper training so that understanding that all money raised in Legislature for the Sol- they will become good the State above the sum fixed by Head- dier's Relief Commis- citizens." quarters should be kept to finance the sion, which is adminis- From the day the Department's own child welfare program. tered by a non-political Home was opened the At the end of the campaign, and after body of three men ap- home idea has been paying to National Headquarters at In- pointed by the Governor stressed. Care is taken to dianapolis the full sum of $75,000, the from recommendations see that the children who Department had $83,000 in the bank, 110 made by the Legion live in the billets look, acres of land adjoining Ponca City, and Department Executive act and dress like chil- the promise of two billets for twenty Committee. The affairs dren of normal American children each to be erected and equipped of the Home are han- homes; in other words by E. W. Marland, now Governor of dled by the American like your children and Oklahoma, and William H. McFadden, Legion Home School mine. They get good, a prominent oil operator and business Committee, appointed wholesome food, prepared man. Since the Home School was by the Department Ex- in comparatively small opened in ig2S other buildings and addi- ecutive Committee for a term of two quantities, and a properly balanced diet. tions have been built with the Legion's years. This Committee, like the mem- They receive competent medical care from own money—two more billets, an infirm- bers of the Soldier's Relief Commission, a staff of local physicians and dentists, ary, garage, laundry and store room. serves without salary. The staff at the all Legionnaires, who serve without profit Home consists cf a to themselves. They sleep in single beds superintenden t in clean bedrooms, with plenty of fresh assistant superinten- air. They keep regular hours, with set dent, one house periods for play, study, work and rest. mother in each of They act like children of the average the four billets, and American home because they attend the the necessary cooks, public schools and keep up with their manual help and su- grades. They attend the church and pervisors. Sunday School of their family faith or At the outset the choice. They have normal pleasures Oklahoma Legion picture shows, swimming parties, belong was mindful, in es- to Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls if tablishing policies they wish; take part in school athletics, and rules for the dramatics, public speaking and other operation of the activities; if talented, they receive train- Home, of the advice ing in the fine arts; their friends may and admonitions come to visit them and they may go visit- of the National Or- ing, subject only to the same kind of re- ganization's child strictions imposed by a mother or father in a home. There is no such thing as an adopted Two barbers and uniform; the children dress just as other two customers children do. Their clothes are bought all are Home for them individually, furnished or pur- School boys chased by Auxiliary Units or Legion SEPTEMBER, 1937 29 — Posts in all sections of the State. Each For the benefit of the more practical learn how to do his share in the work of child is sponsored by some Unit or Post, minded, it can be stated in all truth that the world, that he may best fit himself with the Auxiliary, of course, having the the average per capita maintenance cost into the social life of America? Obviously, greater number of sponsorships, of whose at the Home School is lower than average this is a problem to consider for each active Home School Committee Mrs. C. family costs, in spite of the fact that ser- child. No group rule or plan can be de- F. Marshall is Chairman. The larger vices which are ordinarily performed by vised that will adequately meet the prob- children are permitted to help in the selec- parents must be paid for. The figures lem in each case. So the Legion is plan- tion of their own clothing, the boys under actually compare most favorably with ning to solve it, child by child, by asking the guidance of the Legionnaire Superin- those of other state institutions which do each sponsoring Post and Unit to plan tendent, Harold Crosby, and the girls not need to consider the extra care and to make it possible for the child to carry with the help of Mrs. Crosby, Assistant attention which has made the Home on its own advanced training in the field Superintendent. School outstanding. The administration best suited to its own individual talent The girls learn to sew and mend, and of its finances under the direction of the and capabilities. make some of their own clothing. They Home School Committee, now composed do much of the laundry work in a modern of Legionnaires Perry Whiting and Guy A model of the Saratoga, built to plant under experienced supervision, and Connor, is handled with economy and scale, displayed in post club rooms both boys and girls take their turn at efficiency. by Pomona Model Yacht Club work in the kitchen and dining rooms. When the Home School opened in 1928 Bert Randall, H. R. Howard and Each billet prepares and serves its own the children were all small. Now they Commander Clyde Paige examine meals with its own force. The children are beginning to graduate from high and approve it eat at small tables set for four, and their deportment at meal time probably ranks above that of the average healthy, hun- gry youngster. The boys tend garden under the direction of a gardener, trim the hedges, mow the grass and keep the playgrounds in order. There are always plenty of chores around the Home to keep the boys and girls out of mischief and to teach them the value and necessity of honest labor. The more ambitious are permitted to find part-time or summer-time work for themselves, caddying at a nearby golf course, working at the swimming pools, at down-town business houses, doing special typing for outsiders, and other odd jobs. Some of the boys invest their savings in pigs and rabbits, which they sell at a profit. The children have their own Home School Savings Bank, officered by children, which is managed under adult direction. Some are building up quite tidy sums against the day when they start out to make their .own way in the world. A large room serves as a combined library and study hall, where assistance is given to children of all ages in their home work. Their play is supervised. They have up-to-date playground swings, slides and other equipment, the greater part donated and installed by Legion Posts. They have a fine tennis court constructed from funds left to the Home School by bequest of Legionnaire Fritz Blumenthal, who died a few years ago. school. Last year, one; this year, two; The youngsters of Federal Squad- next year, several more. This brings new ron, Sons of The American Legion, responsibilities to the Legion and to the win coveted trophy in Junior Rose Home School. What additional training Festival Parade at Portland, Ore- should be given each one that he may gon, with their American Flag 30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Members of the three Posts in Greece in the parade at their first Convention at Athens on May 22d. After placing a wreath on the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, the Legionnaires marched down historic Sygros Avenue to the Monument to American Philhellenes, where they laid another wreath The boy who graduated last year is program of Charles P. Rowe Post of others are general school awards, high taking junior college work, hoping to pre- Pomona, California. The idea took root school and junior college oratorical con- pare himself for entrance examinations to until now the club has become a gathering tests, and the Americanism Co-ordinating a technical school. The boy who graduated place for modelmakers, experimenters and Council, which is composed of one mem- this year will be taken to the home city and hobby workers of all ages and inter- ber of each of the service clubs of Pomona of his sponsors and there assisted through ests. At the annual show each year many and one from each patriotic organization. a business college course, a course for models are displayed that are not only which he seems well qualified. The girl, things of beauty, but have a considerable The Sons on Parade who has shown ability in secretarial Squadron, Sons of The work, has secured part-time employ- FEDERAL American Legion of Portland, Ore- ment at one of the state schools and will gon, is one of the youngest squadrons in work her way through the business that Department. In fact, the squadron school of that institution. Three state had been so recently organized that it colleges have already offered to help the had not had time to get a stand of colors students help themselves in securing to lead its section in the great parade at vocational, agricultural and professional the Junior Rose FestiVal at Portland training. this year. That, however, did not pre- Others, according to their fitness, will vent it from taking part in the great- be given opportunity to go into farm est juvenile demonstration in the North- work, to learn trades, or to become west —and carrying away high honors. craftsmen. Not all will go to college, of More than five thousand children course. Not all will be able to take participated in the big Junior Rose specialized training. But all will be commercial value—yachts, stream-lined Festival parade. Federal Squadron en- equipped to fit into the picture of good trains, radio-controled boats, airplanes, tered a floral American Flag, five by citizenship and honest labor which the and models of other types and designs. seven feet, made up of red and white Legion visualizes as the ultimate and The club has a shop very completely roses and blue delphiniums, mounted on proper goal of the children of all American equipped with lathes, saws and benches, two small wheels in the rear and carried veterans. All this to the end that no child while in an adjoining room it has access to by two of the boys in front. The flag shall be penalized because his father a radio and experimental laboratory. The design was given a mighty cheer all along sacrificed his life, his health or his earning work is carried on under the direction of the line of march and earned for the power in the service of his country. a committee of which Legionnaire Squadron an engraved plaque for merit. Pomona Makes Models Howard is the director. Bert Randall, who lost both eyes at Cantigny, is The Legion in Greece JUST about ten years ago Legionnaire Chairman. H. R. Howard organized and launched The Model Yacht Club is only one of ALTHOUGH the three Posts of The the Pomona Model Yacht Club as a part many Americanism activities carried on l\. American Legion in Greece are not of the Americanism and youth activity by Charles P. Rowe Post. Some of the bound together (Continued on page 70) SEPTEMBER, 1937 3i who also participated on the field in one heat of the hundred meter dash. The Hedjaz representatives couldn't play these western games, but to show their 'oyal spirit they gave exhibitions of sword dancing and Arab military camel racing. Of the forces operating to make these Inter-Allied Games possible and success- ful, the most persuasive with the majority of the nations was undoubtedly that of expedience. The Central Powers were defeated and disorganized as the result of a combined effort. Allied solidarity, both political and military, was still M I N OTT vitally important. Regardless of what Saunders was going on behind the scenes in the Hotel Crillon, the unity of purpose re- Editor, Press Section, Inter-Allied mained. So, too, did the friendships. Games of igig Men who couldn't speak each other's language or eat each other's food had a world is troubled today over feeling that they ought to get along to- THEintensive "war games," military "sports," the "athletic" training of youth. The terms have be- come menacingly familiar. Yet only eighteen years ago the most ambitious General Pershing military sports carnival of modern times takes a practice shot (he didn't was conducted in France under American com- pete.) Below, War- auspices and the loftiest ideals of peace ren Pershing, an and the brotherhood of man. interested spec- It was on January 10, iqiq, that Gen- tator at the eral Pershing issued invitations to the 1919 Inter- Al- commanders-in-chief of twenty-nine al- lied Games (he's lied nations, colonies and dependencies around thirty for their officers and men to participate now) in an athletic meeting "so that the ties of the much cherished spirit of comrade- ship which have sprung from the gallant pete in this "con- joint effort of our forces on the battle- tinuation of the field may thus be even more closely beautiful games of cemented." Ancient Greece," and Eighteen countries accepted with the General Paraskevo- warmest expressions of approval. The poulos, remarking that others declined chiefly because of their "as in ancient times, the remoteness from the scene and army barbarous were excluded plans which made participation incon- from the Games, it is the venient. Of the great Allies, only Eng- same today," sent along a land reacted coldly to the conclave and, branch of Olympia's laurels and a despite ardent pressure and appeals, branch of the Acropolis olive tree Vermeulen, France, war dis- refused to participate except in two or "to crown the brows of victors." abled, winning the modified three minor events. This was a disap- Roumania admitted her men didn't Marathon pointment, but the splendid spirit of the know much about such sports but would Empire's dominions, such as Canada, be glad to learn. The Serbian com- Australia and New Zealand, carried the mander said his men "welcomed the gether. So they were in a mood to play colors of the Union Jack with conspicu- opportunity to make a more intimate games together. Besides, this was a ous pride. Russia remained aloof, which acquaintance with their comrades of the victory celebration and they all wanted was not surprising. China deeply re- great and heroic American Army, not to be there. The question of who won gretted her inability to send teams, but having had the honor to fight side by the war had not yet become fighting hastened to put up three rich trophies side with them in that epic struggle." talk. with assurance of complete accord and Guatemala could not get a team over in Difficulties quickly arose, however, co-operation. time, but her colors were carried by over a suitable stadium for the games. The Hellenic army was eager to com- Lieutenant Aguirre, a student in Paris, Colombes Stadium, northeast of Paris 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine and scene of the 1900 Olympics, was by did not start until about the middle of April, and far the most desirable, but it became on May 1st the construction job stopped because of unavailable under the conditions re- serious labor troubles that were then disturbing quired. There was nothing to do but France. The desperate situation required desperate build a new stadium. The site chosen measures, and on May 5th eighteen companies of United was on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes, States Engineers were marched to the spot and put to four kilometers from the gates of Paris work. This force of about 100 officers and 3,500 men, working three shifts a day, did a heroic job; the Negro soldiers sang their songs as they passed the concrete and the French engineers marveled. At the same time several companies of French troops cleared the field and built the track. Thus was brought into being Pershing Stadium, with a seating capacity in concrete stands of 25,000, with 2,500 seats in the Tribune d'Hon- aeur, the gift of the Ameri- can Army to France "as a permanent witness of the ineffaceable friendship unit- ing the two democracies." Pershing Stadium still stands much the same as the Americans left it and is used for secondary football matches and athletic events. Its site was always against it for classic games, and in the Olympics were Bob Martin, U.S.A., kayoed 1924 held in the new and enlarged Colombes Stadium. Coghill of Australia to be- From the first it was definitely laid down that there come Inter-Allied heavy- weight champion must be no haggling or confusion over the old amateur- professional problem; that any man who had been an officer or soldier in any Allied army during the time be- and southeast of the city over inconveni- tween August 4, 1914, and the Armistice was eligible to ent routes. The land had been used for compete. Many athletes, however, feared they would years as a training field and was cut up by lose their amateur standing if they competed with pro- trenches and scattered with barbed wire. fessionals, and even the American Army had to take Although the contract was given to a stern steps to spike threats of action by athletic governing French firm in February, actual work bodies back home over the "pro" (Continued on page j6) America win- ning the tug- of-war from Italy SEPTEMBER, 1937 33 : 2i, 1*J-1CDJ&3BM Met-ujiicien 63 BSlBouleVARD i>l- Grand-Cert SOUDUPfB AUTOS 12 Octobre / / IB LUMIIRE E.E:tb'0',( "T TOOK a long time —eighteen years // idO'IOa Beoeption Park and eight months, to be exact—for l I one veteran of the World War to 01 enjoy the last laugh which is reputed -.V to be the best. Proof lies in the exhibits regardless displayed alongside. But of 1818 his good intentions, it was necessary that Cotobre 12, Souder un Sadiotcur.i. I'.utogeno 24 Army Regulations, paper work, red tape I Reparation d'un o^cion and other restrictions of the service be I 6 Kilos do gruisse oonsistante j hurdled before our grateful Government j ! Valvoliae recognized the justice of the veteran's 4 Silos do in -x?£dX . ^'roj-c^ claim. We hope that the recital of this j 600 will start new "raid on orftMi.--.oB joint experience not a j 600 sc the Treasury" by comrades who may 12 Boulons do &-0O . iaj claims. have equally just iliscr un Soussinot 4 1 OC We think the story told by Legion- naire Asa C. Caldwell of 201 East Semi- iotj 131 nole Avenue, McAlester, Oklahoma, is a classic—so without indulging in any fur- ther preliminaries we want you to read it (Turn to page 37) 34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine What's a convention without Budweiser? Remember St. Louis 1935 ? What a party that was ! More than 110,000 of you visited the Home of BUDWEISER in St. Louis. You emptied 142,152 bottles of BUDWEISER. You learned that the King of Bottled Beer has a taste so distinctive that no other beer flavor approaches it. You liked BUDWEISER's sprightly bouquet and lively natural carbonation. At least 142,152 empty glasses said you did. Then after you left St. Louis, you found that you could get this same fine beer everywhere — tasting just as good as it tasted at the brewery. Yes, BUDWEISER is all America's Social Companion — one beer that everybody from everywhere knows. Of course, BUDWEISER will be in New York. You're going to make this Convention a real party. You're going to really live! So, call for BUDWEISER. It's an important part of good living. ANHEUSER-BUSCH - ST. LOUIS Makers of trie World-Famous Order a carton for your home Budweiser NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED KING OF BOTTLED BEER SEPTEMBER, 1937 55 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ft ft ft w French government, on behalf of the french veterans of the world war, invites ten thousand american le- gionnaires and their families to spend six full days in FRANCE, AS GUESTS OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, between OCTOBER 1ST and OCTOBER 14TH 19 3 7 For particulars apply to The American Legion 1937 Foreign Pilgrimage Committee, 180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111., and the American Express Company. ft ft ft This announcement contributed by: Paris Exposition 1937 French Line Thomas Cook & Son-Wagon-Lits. 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The Amlrican Legion Magazine "While serving as company commander ceeded on our way, but in my judgment accepted at Dijon, Cote-d'Or, as being of Company A, 312th Ammunition Train, such a truck had cost our Government in proper condition for service at the 87th Division, my company was assigned probably five thousand dollars or more Front. for several months to the Motor Truck and as it had been driven only a few miles, "Upon my return to Bassens, I went to Convoy Service at Motor Reception I couldn't conscientiously abandon it. I the Camp Commander—a major whose Park A at Bassens, France. One of the figured that we could find a French garage name I do not recall—explained the oc- regular convoy trips we made was cov- with equipment whereby we could make currence to him, presented the bill and ered by Special Orders No. 281, Head- repairs for a very few dollars and deliver asked if he would 0. K. it and forward quarters, Base Section No. 2, Services of the truck in serviceable condition. We it to the proper department for payment. Supply, Bordeaux, dated October 9, 1918, therefore towed it and because of close The major reared back in his chair and as per copy of order enclosed. As you will coupling to the towing truck, damaged said, 'Captain, how long have you been see, our train consisted of 6 Q. M. C. the radiator shell badly in a sudden stop. in service?' I told him. Then he said, Class B trucks, 15 F. W. D. trucks, 18 "Upon reaching Poitiers, I made ar- 'You are not familiar with your Army Riker 3-ton trucks and 16 Packard 3-ton rangements for our men to work on the Regulations, are you?' When I replied trucks and that we carried as cargo truck in the garage of L. Lacombe and that I felt I was fairly well informed motorcycles, bicycles, Packard gas tank rented his welding outfit to repair the about them, he asked if I knew what an trucks and one Dodge light delivery—all broken radiator shell. We worked unauthorized expenditure was. I told consigned to the Motor Reception Park throughout the night, repaired the radia- him I certainly did, that I knew the ex- at Dijon. Seventy enlisted with a non- tor but had little success in hand-scrap- pense I had incurred had not been au- com in charge, ing a new connecting-rod bearing. The thorized but that I could not conceive and 2d Lieuten- next day, with the aid of one of the how our nation could ever finance its ant Byron T. French mechanics, the bearing was com- part in the war on the basis of junking Denison com- pleted and by late afternoon, we pro- new trucks costing many thousands of prised my group. ceeded on our way to overtake the rest of dollars when repairs could be made for "The crew re- the train which had gone ahead. I had about twenty-six dollars. He laughed sponsible for ser- the garage make out a bill in triplicate heartily and said, 'You will learn in time.' vicing all convoy and mark it paid, as I settled the bill of "I turned and left, but said to myself, trucks had failed 131 francs, 20 centimes, from my own T will some day collect that little bill and to put sufficient personal funds. The bill, as you see, was then will laugh as heartily as did that " crank-case oil in made against Motor Reception Park A wearer of the oak leaves.' one truck of our as I expected to be reimbursed when I train and as a re- returned to my home station. THE scene changes from the A. E. F. sult before we "The repaired truck operated perfectly in the year 1918 to the city of Mc- had gone thirty during the remainder of the trip and was Alester, Oklahoma, in the year 1936. miles a connecting-rod bearing was Coblenz, headquarters for the Comrade Caldwell's voice of experience burned out. True, under the regulations Third Army in the Rhineland, will continues: then in effect, we had the authority to be a goal of many Legion tourists "During more than eighteen years that abandon that truck as disabled, leave it in the Third A. E. F. this fall. This French garage bill reposed in an envelope at the side of the road and report it to the view of the city at the juncture along with other keepsake papers saved Town Major of the next town and pro- of the Rhine and the Moselle was from my army service. Last spring, I cure from him a clearance receipt for the taken from the hill on which presented this matter to my Congress- truck. Those, I'll admit, were the orders. stands Fort Ehrenbreitstein man and furnished him with a copy of my "Doing that, we could safely have pro- travel orders covering that particular SEPTEMBER, 1537 37 s ' convoy and also two copies of the garage or other had an animal as X da\4- See uM\ 4ket( OttwV acquired Spot can tell bill. In due time I was notified by the mascot—bears, dogs, mules, berl -Hkese ^pads Ujiik us about him. Later, Comptroller General that the War De- monkeys were represented, through a log I obtained, Used io do ai kowe - — partment and his department had O.K.'d and even a rooster or two and y I learned that the Lake- Sometimes !!? this claim for payment but that no funds parrots. The Lakeport' J port had made another existed to cover it. pooches were acquired by a trip to Bermuda, after "More recently, when the Deficiency method that in service was I had been transferred Appropriation Bill was passed by Con- politely called "salvaging," from her, and I wonder gress, funds were made available for pay- but we'll let Hanley tell about why Spot wasn't re- ing claims like mine and in June I re- them: stored to his first owner ceived a check from the Treasurer of the "Seeing that mascots are then. United States in the amount of $23.02, reappearing now and then in "During my time as per enclosed photostat. your columns, I am sending a away from the Lake- "No doubt the men with me on that snapshot in which appear two port, I was assigned to trip will remember this incident and I dogs that had such service on the Mount Vernon, the hope I hear from them—but I trust par- the U. S. S. Lakeport when I Covington and the ticularly that the major who kidded me was a member of the crew. America—helping to about my unauthorized expenditure will In a sense, these animals were outfit those ex-German read this account and make himself 'imported,' as they mysteriously (?) ap- ships for our service. Those ships you known." peared on board ship as we left Bermuda may recall formerly bore the names for New York. Incidentally, on that Kronprinzessin Cecelie, Cincinnati and WE THOUGHT that through the trip we had a load of onions for ballast! Amcrika, respectively. I was returned years we had learned most of the The day before sailing, mascots had been to the cargo fleet later. That was quite a abbreviations used to designate service discussed and that night, aided by a few fleet in itself as I know there were over outfits but we struck a slight snag lately. drinks, Spot, the Dalmatian or coach dog, sixty ships in the lake-boat type division In a letter from Legionnaire F. A. Hanley, and Ryan, the Irish setter, materialized. alone. How many other types all carry- who gives the Post Office in Albany, New "Before we reached New York, a Ber- ing cargo—not troops—I cannot imagine. York, as his address, he reported that he muda doctor wirelessed the skipper to "A short time ago I showed a sea pic- saw service on the U. S. S. Lakeport, return Spot on the next trip—but we ture to a fellow worker in the Post Office here and he said, 'That's just like the tub I was on during the war.' Up to that day I hadn't known my co-worker was even in the service. He inquired as to the cargo we carried and I told him our ship with others was carrying mines to Scotland to mine the North Sea—the Northern Barrage, as it was called. His group of ships were laying the mines we took over! Quite a coincidence—two fellows from the same town and the same office who had been on two ends of a war movement like that! "I have thought of a reunion of the crew of the Lakeport ever since 1921, but never did anything about it until lately. If I can hear from enough of them, I'd like to get a reunion under way. I even tried to collect pictures, stories and other such material to compile a history of the Cargo Division, but it seems a hopeless task. I would like to get the Gobs of the U. S. S. Lakeport are shown with Spot and Ryan, two mascots they acquired on a trip to Bermuda in February, 1918 old Lakeport gang together, though." Cargo Division, A. T. O. S. Now we didn't return to the island. We went to knew that A. T. S. stood for Army Trans- Scotland with mines aboard, as we had TH E o 1 d Service the added "0" had acquired 3- 5-inch port —but our and guns, and the questionq u 1 us buffaloed. So we asked an ex-gob on dogs stayed with us. They took shore "What outfit, the staff and after a moment's thought leave at various docks where we loaded Buddy?" heard "0" he made known that the stood for or unloaded, but I don't recall that they on all sides dur- Overseas—simple as that—and we de- ever made visits into the towns. The ing the early ciphered the initials as meaning Army two animals were with us until the ship days of the A. E. F., has been echoed Transport Overseas Service. It sounds went out of commission, when Ryan, the many times at post meetings and Legion logical and we hope it's correct. If not, setter, was taken by a fireman named conventions, when the conversation fellow Legionnaires will soon tell us. Sam Leslie to Seattle, Washington. veered around to reminiscences of service. Anyway, Hanley sent us the picture Wonder how long he lived? During the summer of 1918, however, reproduced in this page of the group "Poor Spot, however, being so big, that question became unnecessary after of gobs with two dogs they had acquired seems to have been more of a problem. G. H. Q. directed the commanding offi- during the war as mascots for the Lake- Paymaster Hitzel wrote me just last year cers of all combat divisions to select in- port. Strange how these mascot pictures that he had given Spot to the captain of a signia for their Divisions. This later in- and stories bob up every so often this nearby ship. The two dogs had been on cluded all of the organizations that long a time after the war. Evidently the Lakeport from February, 1918, until helped to make up the A. E. F. every ship at time every outfit and some July, 1919. Perhaps the captain who Several (Continued on page 74) 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 22 127 YEARS OF -AND BOTTLED IN BOND Lhis great Pennsyl- vania straight rye is different as day and night — so sturdy, full- bodied and mellow you can use less of it in a drink and still have its keen flavor "come through." Because it gives you not only quality but economy, Old Overholt is the fastest-selling U. S. bottled in bond whiskey. OVERHOLT STRAIGHT RYE WHISKEY BOTTLED IN BOND Under U. S. 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Not too far away, the dese surf of the Pacific Ocean at You will find a hospitable beauty with a characteristic ( Advertisement ! IN LOS ANGELES people, willing and eager to show you what you want to see. You will find a welcome wherever you go, as ex- pressed in resolutions passed by the Legislature, signed by the Governor and in similar action taken by the City And of course Hollywood, which has taken the whole world Councils and Mayors of every for its province. Here they're filming "Under Two Flags" city in the County. • The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of the 19)2 Olympic You will find 50,000 of Games, and now a famous sports center of Southern California your "Buddies" from every "Outfit" permanent residents of the County. And, when you go home, the memory of the wonder- ful time you had will furnish the theme for many a con- versation among the family and your Post. This invitation extended by LOS ANGELES COUNTY 41 (Advertisement) A Report^ Stockholders &u p D.ja .:!,.! 10 :/h Mnmtt-'SU HarryWColmery faittanapolb, India WarOn All i'ifilling Commander Alien 'Isms' THE AMERICAN LEGION Legion Aim than any organization publication in the coun- "OU are a stock- try! In addition, the holder1 in 'The subscriber gets a well- First numbers of American Le- edited monthly newspa- Legion publica- Ygion Magazine per containing informa- tions: The Ameri- and The National Legion- tion in which every Le- can Legion Week- naire. As such, you are gionnaire is interested. ly, July 4, 1919; entitled to information con- The American This small sum dees not cerning these splendid pub- pay for the paper and Legion Monthly, lications which go into nearly printing of the two pub- July, 1926; The a million homes each month. lications. Were it not for National Legion- Soon after The American the fact that advertisers naire, January, Legion was started it became recognize the value of the 1935 apparent that a publication magazine as a worth- was necessary to keep the members while medium, it would informed about the various activi- not be possible to supply the Legion ties in which the organization would membership with these two publications. take part. This resulted in the es- Last year the magazine showed a profit tablishment of The American Legion of $178,896.07 after all expenditures Weekly on July 4, 1919. Due to diffi- had been met. This fund was placed culties encountered in launching the in the custody of the National Execu- journal, it was soon heavily in debt. tive Committee. But the loyal men who gave intelligent You are interested in seeing The attention to the affairs of the Weekly American Legion Magazine and The would not give up. Subsequently, seven National Legionnaire prosper. You want years later, it was decided to discontinue these profits to continue for the benefit the Weekly and to establish a monthly of every member of the Legion. For this magazine which would be more carefully reason, I think you should be given some edited and placed on a high plane. This information relative to the sources of was done. But a large debt was incurred income, in addition to the small amount which, in 1927, amounted to $343,902. received from dues. A full page in The However, better days were ahead. American Legion Magazine the size of The magazine began to pay its way as this one, in black and white, costs $1600 a result of increased advertising revenue. each issue. With one color added, the It attracted the attention of agencies cost rises to $1900. The inside front ° 0; using it as an advertis- •ndR ners- f) cover the inside cover, in which soon began oche and back four ing medium. The indebtedness was colors, sell for $2300 each. The back wiped out and a profit of more than a mil- cover, always in four colors, sells for lion dollars was made in eight years. $3300. The smallest advertisement pub- This money has been placed in a reserve Executive Committee to the maintenance lished in the magazine, one column in fund under the supervision of the Na- of Headquarters, and seventy-five cents width and one inch deep, sells for $56 for tional Executive Committee. goes to the preparation, printing, and dis- each insertion. Everv member of The American Legion tribution of the two Legion publications. You realize the necessity for patroniz- is a subscriber to the Magazine as well as You have never received so much good ing the advertisers who buy space in your to the Legionnaire. Each one pays an- reading material in your life for such a magazine. If a business concern does not nual dues, one dollar of which is sent to small sum. Think of paying seventy-five get results from placing advertisements National Headquarters. Twenty-five cents for twelve numbers of an excellent in any publication, it soon withdraws cents of this amount is allocated by the monthly magazine which is far better from that medium. (Continued on page 72) 42 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine GREETS LEGION OLD QUAKER BUDDIES QUALITY ^ STRAIGHT WHISKEY drink o o th ) NOTE ^ YOU'LL MARVEL AT THE FLAVOR OF THIS RICH, SOFT, SMOOTH *. I. rs IS OLDN . ) -v— A^J rx_ Jn. Ts-J QUAKER^ I Old Quaker welcomes you back to Broadway . . . where you'll find folks harmonizing with Old Quaker's theme song: "There's A Barrel Of Quality In Every Bottle, But It Doesn't Take A Barrel Of Dough-Re- Mi To Buy It." That's why IF IT'S OLD QUAKER, IT'S ALWAYS OK! Mark the Merit "Mark of Merit" id this Whiskey. OLD QUAKER BRAND STRAIGHT WHISKEY AVAILABLE IN BOURBON OR RYE 90 PROOF Copyright 1937, The Old Quaker Co., Lawrenceburg, Indiana SEPTEMBER, 1937 43 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine This Months Cover four hundred separate figures, Mr. Crooks depositing Fa- adjusting and illuminating of the design SOMEeach of them the handiwork of ther Knickerbocker and before the engraving camera alone re- gone into to quired than six hours. It I Forrest C. Crooks, have key on Fifth Avenue more must be the making of the cover design for present the Legion with borne in mind that the design as here this issue of The American Legion the freedom of the city reproduced is am original print, made Magazine. Each figure is made up of four directly from the engraving camera separate units—a head, two arms, one focussed on the set, without benefit of any body (legs included). The principal the only articles in the set which were pro- intervening reproductive process. characters—Father Knickerbocker, with cured ready-made), and the uniforms on Mr. Crooks's first puppet cover design the big NYC key in his hands, and George the two leading men, which Mrs. Crooks for this magazine appeared with the issue J. Legionnaire of Massifornia—are fifteen made from Mr. Crooks's designs. for December, 1035, and was entitled inches high. The folks in the parade and Those who recall Mr. Crooks's cover "The Night Before Christmas." While along the sidewalk vary in height from design for the July, 1936, issue, which puppet covers on a small scale had three inches down to two, the smaller depicted an early celebrator of Inde- previously been used by other publica- dimensions being essential in order to pendence Day, will be interested to know tions, nothing so ambitious in this field create an artificial perspective. Actually that Father Knickerbocker's trousers had ever been attempted before, and the the most apparent distant figure is only were worn by the butcher boy in the result was really a brand-new type of some five and a half feet from the front earlier set, and that his hat adorned the magazine decoration. Since the appear- of the set. Similarly, the buildings in the genial gentleman who was the principal ance of the December, 1935, issue, Mr. background had to be constructed in figure in the composition. Crooks has won wide acclaim for his perspective.' Mr. Crooks, nationally known maga- craftsmanship in this department of Wood was used throughout, with the zine illustrator, has no idea how long it artistic activity, and has contributed exception of the decorations (which are took him to turn out all these figures in articles on puppet construction to leading paper), the flags, which are real flags (and his machine shop, but the assembling, magazines. 44 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — — . [More Than 500,000 Copies Already Sold] HOW 10 WIN FRIENDS and INFLUENCE PEOPLE John D. Rockefeller, Sr., once "The Reader's Digest" devoted 10 pages to this said: "The ability to deal with volume—because, in their words, "From Mr. Carnegie's extensive people is as purchasable a com- reservoir of experience has come the wealth of anecdotes and com- modity as sugar or coffee. I will pay mon - sense lessons in human relations in which HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE more for that ability than for any PEOPLE abounds." other under the sun." Wouldn't you suppose every college THIS IS A would conduct practical courses to develop this "highest-priced ability BIG BOOK OF under the sun"? To our knowledge, THIRTY-SEVEN CHAPTERS, none has. INCLUDING: The How to develop that ability is the Big Secret of Dealing with People Six Ways to Make People Like You subject of Dale Carnegie's new book. Instantly An Easy Way to Become a Good Con- A few years ago Chicago University versationalist and the United Y.M.C.A. Schools made a A Simple Way to Make a Good First Impression survey to find out the prime interest of How to Interest People DALE CARNEGIE adults. The survey took two years, cost Twelve to Ways Win People to Your Bale Carnegie is the man the men of business $25,000. It indicated that their first in- Way of Thinking come to for practical instruction in getting along A Sure Way of Making Enemies and with people. During the last 25 years, he has terest is health and their second, — — how How to Avoid It trained more than 17. 0D0 business and professional men more than other living to understand and get along with people; The Safety Valve in Handling Com- — any man. Large organizations such as how to make people like you; how to plaints How to Get Cooperation Westinghouse Electric Philadelphia Chamber win others to your thinking. Manufacturing Co. of way of A Formula that Will Work Wonders & Commerce for You New York Telephone Co. Philadelphia Electric Wouldn't you suppose that after the Bell Telephone Co. of Co. The Movies It. Radio Do Does It. Why Pennsylvania members of this survey committee had Don't You Do It? Philadelphia Gas Works American Institute of Co. decided to give such a course, they could Nine Ways to Change People Without Electrical Engineers, Giving Carrier Engineering readily have found a practical textbook? Offense or Arousing Resent- New York ment McGraw-Hill Publish- Corp. They searched diligently—yet could find How to Criticize—and Not Be Hated ing Co., New York Philadelphia Associa- none suitable. for It Brooklyn Chamber of tion of Life Under- How to Spur Men on to Success Commerce writers The book they were looking for was Making People Glad to Do What You have had this training conducted in their own Want offices for their executives. recently published and overnight be- — Letters That Produce Miraculous Re- This new book grew out of that vast laboratory came a best seller. 36,000 copies were sults of experience—the first and only laboratory of its kind in existence. sold in three days of last week alone. Seven Rules for Making Your Home Life Happier More than 500,000 copies have been sold to date! IT IS OUTSELLING ANY SEND NO MONEY People When he finally got in, he would invariably Try Dealing THIS WA Y with OTHER BOOK IN AMERICA TO- FIVE Days! DAY! find himself antagonizing, arguing. Then he would —for just get kicked out—never knowing quite why. This book has been published for only a short time. Yet, it is now outselling any other book— A blew Book—the Man Behind It He was such a failure he decided to go back non-fiction in America ! The presses to work in a machine shop. Then one day he fiction or — are now running continuously to turn out 5,000 This book is called Hoiv to Win Friends received a letter inviting him to attend the opening session of a Dale Carnegie course. copies daily. and Influence People and is written by — When you get your copy, simply read it ; there the one man perhaps better qualified to "I* may do you some good, Mike. are no "exercises" to practice. Then try for five write it than anyone else. days Dale Carnegie's simple method of dealing God knoivs you need it" with people. Judge for yourself, in your daily Dale Carnegie is the man to whom the big life, how easily whatever you do, say, or write men of business come for practical guidance on He didn't want to go—was afraid he would can win the friendship and hearty cooperation of be out of place. But his getting along with people successfully. During despairing wife made others—instead of arousing resentment, friction, him, saying, "It may do you the last 25 years he has trained more than 17,000 some good, Mike. or no action at all. God knows you need it." business and professional men and women is necessary to send any money now. among It not them some of the most famous in the He went to the meeting. Then he attended You may pay for "How to Win Friends and In- country. every other meeting of the course. He lost his fluence People" when it is delivered—with the foar, learned understanding that its price of only $1.96 When he conducts his course on How to In- how to talk convincingly, how to definite make people like at once, will be refunded to you if you wish it. If this fluence People and on Public Speaking in the him how to claim, it will mean more to ballroom of the Hotel Commodore or The Penn- win friends and influ- book does what we ence others. you than book you have ever read. If it sylvania, or the Hotel Astor (second largest hall O N LY ANY Today Michael O'Neil is a doesn't, we do not want you to keep it. Mail this in New York), it is packed to capacity. Large star salesman for one of coupon at once. organizations—such as The New York Telephone the country's largest manufactur- Co., Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co., and Dept. C-1610. ers of motor trucks. His in- SIMON and SCHUSTER, many others listed elsewhere on this page have — has skyrocketed. $196 386 Fourth Ave., New York had this training conducted by Mr. Carnegie for come Last their executives. year at the Hotel Astor, he stood before 2500 people and Publishers This new book grew out of that vast labora- told a rollicking story of his IF you decide SIMON and SCHUSTER, 386 Fourth Ave., N. Y. C. tory of experience. As the panel at the top of achievements. Few professional to keep it! Dept. C-1610, to Friends and Influence People. this page shows, it is as practical as 25 years' speakers could have equalled Please send me How Win I will pay postman only $1.96 plus few cents postage success with the problems of thousands in all his confidence—or his reception. charges. It is understood that I may read it for 5 days and walks of life can make it. every Michael O 'Neil's problem was exactly the return it for refund if I then feel that it does not in way live up to the claims made for it. The Case of Michael O'Neil same as that of thousands in other fields the fundamental one of getting along with Name is just one example of what Dale Michael O'Neil lives in New York City. He people. He Carnegie's help has meant to more than first got a job as a mechanic. When he got Address others in all types of endeavor. married he needed more money. So he tried to 17,000 What Dale Carnegie has done for them he can do State sell automobile trucks. But he was a terrible flop. City for you. Look at the chapter headings. They Check here if you prefer to enclose $1.96 plus 4c New An inferiority complex was eating his heart indicate the amount of hard-hitting, priceless York Sales Tax WITH this coupon; in that case WE out. On his way to see any prospect, he broke information his book contains. But the sub- will pay the postage. Same refund privilege applies, out into a cold sweat. Before he could get up ject is so intensely important that we say, of course. courage to open an office door, he had to walk look at this book without obligation. Then NOTE: If resident of N. Y. City add 4c for City Sales Tax. past it half a dozen times. decide whether or not you want to own it. SEPTEMBER, 1937 45 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine Bursts *2iD lids' "ILEY JACK- FROM Ernie Ward, of East Palestine, ENE MOONEY, WlSON of Roan- Ohio, we learn how some people keep G'from down at the oke, Virginia, was tour- within a budget. He says he overheard Triangle which connects ing in the Middle West a woman admonishing her little boy as Quantico with the main Pit last summer. One rainy follows: highway, says that in a evening he pulled into "Here, take this fifteen cents—dat's all restaurant frequented by a garage to inquire de money what we got. Tell de man a goodly number of about road conditions ahead. what run de place dat I wants free cents' passing Marines there is a sign which was "Couldn't say," drawled an indif- wurf of grits, two cents' worf corn meal, potted since repeal reading: ferent attendant in response to his an' tell de man yoh pappy am sick and to MEET FRIENDLY, question. sen' him a onion and—and I wants ten DRINK MODERATELY, "Do you know anybody who might cents' worf of corn likker, even iffen it PART QUIETLY know?" cost er dollar er drap." AND—CALL AGAIN "There's a fellow who works here what would," replied the attendant. "Can I see him?" AL IMBRO, of Kittaning, Pennsyl- MICHAEL ROTUNNO of the West "Well," replied the garage man slowly, l\. vania, tells one about the woman Virginia Rotunnos passes along "you'll have to wait a while. He got who was applying for a divorce. one about a show-off who used to wrap a stuck in the mud on that road this morn- "Your Honor," she said, "he broke one dollar bill around a wad of paper to ing, and he ain't got in yet." every dish in the house over my head and give the impression that he had a roll, and treated me cruelly." at every opportunity would make a dis- "Did your husband apologize, or play of it. One day he was hitch-hiking IITTLE Larry was not behaving so well express any regret over his actions at the and in order to affect a superiority to his j and had about exhausted his mother's time?" asked the judge. fellow hitch-hikers he slyly let one of patience. "Larry," she said, "if you don't "No, your honor, the ambulance driver them get a glimpse of the fake roll. It behave, I will spank you right here on the took him away before he could speak to wasn't long before one hitch-hiker got street." me." him interested in something and another The little fellow looked up. "But cracked him on the head with a rock. mother," he said, "where would you They quickly went through his clothes, sit?" NATIONAL Secre- and in addition to the one dollar bill tary Charles W. wrapped around the wad of paper they Ardery of the Forty and found exactly thirty-seven cents. The JOHN D. McGREEVY, ex-buck of Eight passes along the man who had wielded the rock looked Company C, 106th Infantry, and now one about the lecturer down on the unconscious form of his of Brooklyn, New York, relates that on pausing after a well- victim, counted the money again, and the way home from France in December, rounded period, when a exclaimed: iqi8, a bunch of the boys were discussing bleary eyed man arose and asked: "Why, the dirty, four-flushing crook! the hardships of war. One soldier, who "Shay, how long you been lecturin'?" There ought to be a law against such had remained silent through the conver- "About four years, my friend." people!" sation, was finally asked: "Well," said the questioner as he sat "What you been doing, buddy?" down, "guess I'll stick around and wait "Building warehouses." for the refreshments—you ought to be " ARE you sure," an anxious patient "Pretty soft, eh?" damned nigh through by this time." A suffering with pneumonia asked his "Soft hell! I had to sleep outside the physician, "that I shall recover? I have warehouse three nights." heard that doctors are sometimes wrong AYOUNG engineer was back home in their diagnoses, and have treated from a tour of three years' duty in patients for pneumonia who afterward IITTLE Johnnie had been taken to the tropics. During his leave he was died of typhoid fever." j see a group of Russian dancers, and guest at his old college fraternity house, "That may be true of some doctors," when he returned his father asked him and of course the undergraduates were said the physician. "But if I treat a man what it was like. eager to hear all about his experiences. for pneumonia he dies of pneumonia." "Oh," he replied, "They just stood on "There's nothing the matter with the nothing and danced." country I was in," he said, "except it requires a better class of immigrants and A MAN1 had fallen a decent water supply." afoul of the law. LONEL Ray "Come to think of it," observed a He had no money with freshman, "aren't those the only draw- which to hire a lawyer, land, Ohio, passes along backs to hell?" and the court had ap- one about a little girl pointed one for his de- who was reading her own fense. At their first con- composition at a patri- THE insurance agent had arrived at ference, the young lawyer asked: otic gathering. Her sub- the application blank stage of his "Can you prove an alibi?" ject was "Grant's Work in the Civil War." sales presentation. "An ali-what?" asked the prisoner. She got along fine until she started her "Have you ever had appendicitis?" "An alibi. Can you prove where you description of Lee's surrender. "Well," answered the applicant, "I were at the time the offense was com- "Lee," she read, "was handsomely was operated on, but I'm not yet sure mitted?" attired in full uniform, while Grant wore whether it was appendicitis or profes- "That's just what I'm afraid the prose- nothing but a ragged old union suit." sional curiosity." cuting attorney is going to do!" 46 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-.ine Why you should THINK iefore youDrink AT THE CONVENTION Some vitally important facts whiskies so as to bring out a superlative flavor and bouquet. about blended whiskey which Seagram has searched the world to find its master blenders. Their unique skill created the every man should know famous "Crown" taste — a taste so distinctive it required over 600 blending combinations Blending is an art that requires the utmost skill. with different whiskies to produce it. 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SEPTEMBER, 1937 47 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine * A (I C H OF CONSTANTINE And COLOSSEUM American Legionnaires! ITALY WELCOMES YOU With Special Entertainment, Celebrations, and Festivities ITALIAN TOURIST INFORMATION OFFICE New York: Palazzo d'ltalia, 626 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 333 North Michigan Avenue San Francisco: 604 Montgomery Street The Objective: J^ifth ^Avenue (Continued from page 15) visitors. Working in close co-operation with the Corporation in a splendid ser- vice that will more than repay the effort, are the Legion organizations in Pennsyl- vania, New Jersey and Connecticut. In these Departments information booths will be established along the main trav- eled highways to assist the motorists and direct them to any part of the city they wish to reach. Indications are that an increased number will travel by auto this year and also by that newest method of transportation and housing—the trailer. This seems to be just about the right place to say something about the enter- tainment features that have been ar- ranged and for which tickets will be re- ceived by each Legionnaire who registers, either in advance or upon arrival at the convention city. A nominal registration fee of $2 will be charged, the same as at all National Conventions in recent years, but I think all will agree that the attrac- tions made available by use of tickets given each registrant comprise the big- gest two-dollar value in America. The list is not complete, but here are some of the things that have been arranged: A sightseeing tour of New York City; a trip to Governors Island and New York Harbor, where a surprise attraction will be in store; a trip through one of the largest ocean liners docked in New York, with the option of choosing one of several of the best known luxury ships; a ticket to the Coney Island Mardi Gras; a ticket for admission and use of facilities at Jones Beach, a noted beach on the open ocean side of Long Island, and a ticket to a great boxing tournament where bouts will be staged between nationally known headliners of the squared circle. The STAGES IN PIPE-SMOKERS' LIVES coupon book also includes a ticket to the 3 WHEN P. A. HITS THE SPOT! patriotic and religious musical service at Madison Square Garden on Sunday Roll-your-owners, too, enjoy P. A evening, September 19th, which will probably transcend anything of like character ever attempted in New York City; admission to the Military Ball and entertainment at Madison Square Gar- den, for which the services of radio, stage and movie stars have been obtained; PPUES S C 'T- « grandstand tickets to the national cham- pionship drum and bugle corps contest HARDNESS." and to the national championship band contest. The registration fee entitles the registrant to the official 1037 Convention badge and souvenir program, devoid of PIPE JOY GUARANTEED! 50 commercial advertising and of a charac- Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don't ter that will be suitable for keeping as a find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever smoked, return the pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco in it to us memento. Try to buy a bigger two dol- at any time within a month from this date, and we will lars' worth. It just can't be done. refund full purchase price, plus postage. ( Signed) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. The churches in the city have ar- ranged to hold a special service in of the visiting Legionnaires at 11 honor THE NATIONAL o'clock Sunday (Continued on page 50) Prince Alb ert SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 50 The Objective: J^tfth ^Avenue {Continued from page 49) morning, and will welcome visitors to The parade! Well, there will two of historic march of the Army of the Poto- these services. Several of the larger ships them officially listed. Both will be history mac down Pennsylvania Avenue in of the United States Navy will be docked making. Both will be talked about for Washington at the close of the Civil War, in the harbor during convention week. years to come. Both will traverse streets for that huge parade recessed overnight. Through the courtesy of the Port Au- noted in history ar.d which have known The American Legion will march all night thority of New York sightseeing buses the tread of marching men since their long on a route exactly two miles in will be provided for as many as would earliest days. The parade will demon- length from 35th Street to 74th Street like to see Holland Tunnel, Triborough strate the might and power of the Legion up the grand canyon of Fifth Avenue Bridge, George Washington Bridge and in its numerical strength, in its virile over the same route that, twenty years other great facilities under the control manhood, and in its steadfast American- ago, many of the same men marched to of that body. The New York Police and ism. The parade will be the great show, embark for overseas, and over the same Fire Departments will put on a spectacu- the glamorous pageant of a continuous route that many of them marched on their lar demonstration, showing just how these stream of marching men for twice the return. two justly famous corps do their stuff, clock around. Twenty-four hours of Since one half of the parade will be at (more than 4,000 of them are Legion- parading in a peace-time demonstration. night, the line of march will be illumi- naires). These are just highlights; really, Nothing like it was ever attempted be- nated by a special electrical display, pro- space does not permit a listing of all the fore. viding a visibility equal to that at noon- things that have been arranged. Monday night will give New Yorkers day. The marchers will assemble across The Convention proper will hold its their first view of the dramatic spectacle the full spread of the city from Fifth opening session at Madison Square Gar- of a convention parade when the Forty Avenue east to East River and west to den on Monday morning, September and Eight will swing its column of clang- the Hudson. 20th, but the sessions on Wednesday and ing miniature locomotives and boxcars, More than 600 musical organizations Thursday will be held in the historic lighted by countless colored flares, up have signified their intention of marching Metropolitan Opera House. Who has Eighth Avenue and across Broadway and in the parade, and nearly one-half of the not read of these famous places and of the theatrical district. That will be a Departments have indicated that their some of the events held there? The show, lasting for five or six hours, and floats are ready or in preparation. Units Metropolitan has long typified the spirit with Forty and Eight cars from Maine of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, of New York. In addition to its musical to California in line of march. The gor- the New York National Guard, battalions activities, dating as far back as 1883, the geous pageantry of the national drum of the New York police and firemen, opera house has represented all the best and bugle corps contest will follow im- (who does not remember their march in in Xew York. While we associate the mediately after the Forty and Eight Cleveland's parade last year?) will lead Metropolitan with such names in the parade. This spectacular event will be the way. The only difficulty that now musical world as Gatti Cassaza, Caruso, held at the Polo Grounds, the home field seems to confront the Parade Committee Toscanini, Farrar, Schumann-Heink, and of baseball's New York Giants. is to hold the marching column within Edward Johnson, the opera house also The gigantic parade will begin to un- the twenty-four hour limit. recalls great patriotic gatherings in war- fold promptly at q o'clock on Tuesday We only await the zero hour. Father time, the reception to the Prince of Wales morning and will continue without inter- Knickerbocker hands you the keys to the in 1919, receptions to Presidents of the ruption during the entire day and night, city and for the full week the Main United States and rulers of foreign a full twenty-four hours for the Legion Street of America will belong to the blue governments, and dozens of other events. to pass in review. It will surpass the and gold of the Legion. 7/ (slan "Be Done^Ifs "Being T>one {Continued from page if) but shall in legislative parlance "mean these two lines of "votes" and legisla- the bills or, as was often the case and votes." Moreover, if all this difficulty tive nursing to The American Legion, properly so, to obtain legislative hearings exists in obtaining the enactment of a which has so often in the past proved its on the bills, at which their merits were single bill in a single legislature, how ability along these very lines, and whose fully explained to the members of the many times are the difficulties multiplied patriotic interest in law and order in the legislature before they were voted on. when the enactment is sought, not of one nation is real. Of course, in the midst of the tre- but of four bills, and not in one but in Nor did it turn in vain. For no sooner mendous pressure of all sorts and from forty -eight legislatures. had the National Convention of the Le- all directions under which the legislators The above four bills which were draft- gion at Cleveland instructed "all the work, with the inevitable last minute ed by the Commission, had merit, of Departments of the Legion to urge their legislative jams and partisan impasses, it course, and the Commission, with its respective state legislatures to speedily was often impossible to obtain the enact- membership of officials in every State enact the four model acts" above alluded ment of any of these bills on their first in the Union, had sufficient personal legis- to, than the Legion went to work. In introduction, and this despite their mer- lative contact to insure the introduction States as far separated as Arizona and its, the official backing of the Commis- of the bills. But its members did not Connecticut, and at all points in between, sion, and the best efforts of the Legion. have the time, in the midst of their other no sooner had the bills been introduced But when the legislative battle was over official duties, to give the bills the neces- than the Legion's legislative committees last June, both the Commission and the ary nightly nursing, nor did their backing started to buttonhole their legislators, Legion were delighted to find that one mean to the legislators that there were oft times themselves World War veterans. or the other of these bills had been en- "votes" behind the bills. The Commis- From these they either obtained commit- acted more than eighty times in the sion consequently turned for aid along ments sufficient to insure the passage of various legislatures throughout the coun- Thc AMERICAN LF.GION Magazine 51 try, and that within the space of a few months more than half of the States of * k the Union had thus taken definite action to co-operate with their sister States in curbing crime. To you who read these pages, the practical results of this legislative pro- H SSY gram to protect you and your fellow citizens from crime means simply this: Every member of every organized po- BRANDY lice in COGNAC force your State can now pursue, without unreasonable delay, and arrest a felon escaping across the boundary lines of any of the following twenty-two States: Arizona New Jersey California New Mexico Connecticut New York Delaware Ohio Kansas Oregon Louisiana Pennsylvania Maryland Rhode Island Massachusetts Utah Montana Vermont Nebraska Virginia New Hampshire West Virginia The Extradition Procedure has been unified and simplified, and additional power has been given to waive this tech- nical procedure entirely, and also to ex- tradite the non-resident "brains" of a local gang, by and between the following States: Arizona New Mexico California New York Delaware North Carolina Kansas Ohio Maryland Oregon Massachusetts Utah Montana Vermont New Hampshire Washington New Jersey West Virginia Necessary witnesses in criminal pro- ceedings, either before the Grand Jury or during trial, who are not within your State, can now be compelled to return from any of the following States, and in turn can be returned to any of such States: Arizona New Jersey 84 PROOF California New Mexico Connecticut New York Delaware North Carolina Louisiana Ohio The distinguished characteristics that make Three- Star Hennessy the Maryland Oregon connoisseur's liqueur also make it the perfect mixer. Its quality, Massachusetts Pennsylvania Minnesota Rhode Island bouquet and "clean" taste may be enjoyed in a host of delicious drinks. Montana Utah There's Hennessy-and-soda ... a favorite of long standing . . . Side- Nebraska Vermont New Hampshire West Virginia Cars, Stingers, Brandy Sour, Brandy Cocktail, Fish House Punch, Instead of having your neighbor States Georgia Mint Julep. And, if you let loose their parolees and probationers would enjoy an Old-Fashioned on you, or to wander about the country such as you never tasted before, unsupervised, the following States have SIT CO< agreed to arrange with each other in try one made with Three-Star FRANCE proper instances for their interstate Hennessy and orange bitters! a bearty supervision: lfyoujo^^I Arizona Montana Distilled and bottled at Cognac, France. California Nebraska Delaware New Hampshire J A? HENNESSY & C? Established 1765 Maryland New Jersey SOLE U. S. AGENTS: Massachusetts New Mexico {Continued on page 52) Schieffelin & Co., NEW YORK CITY • IMPORTERS SINCE 1794 SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 52 // Gan Be T>one—Ifs Being T>one {Continued from page ji) New York Rhode Island acquainted with their new powers, so are being made to advise the various law- Ohio Utah important for the safety of our citizens. enforcement officials in all of these States Oregon Vermont With all of these points the Interstate of the Union, by personal contact and Pennsylvania West Virginia Commission on Crime, with the con- otherwise, of their new powers and duties These practical results speak for them- tinued backing of The American Legion, under such act. selves. But this is no time merely for is definitely concerning itself. Its legis- But even in the couple of months that mutual congratulations. For it must be lative activities, so successful in the past, have intervened between the enactment borne in mind^that even this compelling will be continued, to assure the comple- of these statutes and the writing of these and cumulative evidence of real inter- tion of this program, both in the States words, such acts have proved their value state co-operation shows that only which have not yet participated and in to the public. For instance slightly over half of the States have yet those where such participation has not Perhaps quite as important to the joined the procession, and that in many been completed. A committee of officials American people as the concrete safe- of those which have joined, all four of the and members of the Commission, skilled guarding of their fives and property from model acts have not been adopted. Fur- in the effective handling of the parole crime which results from these acts, is the thermore, to carry out effectively the and probation problem, is today engaged demonstration, through the prompt and principles of the act to supervise out-of- in drafting model rules and regulations general enactment of this legislation, of State parolees and probationers, not only to implement the above Interstate Com- the practicability of the American pro- must the Interstate Compact, set out pact. Similar Committees are similarly cess of representative, democratic govern- in such act, be actually signed by the engaged in drafting model forms for use ment. Admittedly the legislative process Governors of the respective States, but throughout the nation under the other is ofttimes so tedious as to be dishearten- the "rules and regulations" for the actual acts. The signing of the Compact itself ing. On the other hand, the fact that the daily conduct of these interstate relation- is being definitely arranged for by the above crime control program obtained ships, as called for by the act, must be Commission, and it is confidently ex- such widespread support and action, prepared and adopted. Similarly, model pected that by the time the sessions of throughout so many legislatures in the forms must be prepared for use under the Commission are concluded at Kansas country, in so short a space of time surely the other acts, so that no longer may City on Sept. 24th and 25th, this Com- demonstrates that if the American citizen public prosecutions fail due to purely pact will have received the signatures of really wants governmental protection technical defects in such procedure, as is the Governors of the eighteen States and action, he can have it. - so often the case today. In the third "authorized and directed ' to sign same place, the various state officials, police, by the Commission's model act, as well as Legionnaire Hartshorne is Chairman and other authorities, whose powers the signatures of the Governors of certain of the Interstate Crime Commission as are clarified and amplified by such acts, States similarly authorized under separ- •well as Chairman of Ike Legion's Law must be given an opportunity to become ate legislative procedure. Finally, plans and Order Committee. Our "Post Is Different (Continued from page ig) Commander of the Department of hardest of all, we also represent The Nobody contends that the A. E. F. was France, to put on his "tails" and his white American Legion; namely, that of welfare composed exclusively of saints and angels; tie. Most of the guests as well, although work. In fact, ably aided by our devoted, we had our share of bad eggs and dam- there is a considerable sprinkling of industrious Auxiliares, we do all of the aged souls, and the tragic trail they left smokings (pardon, I mean tuxedos). We Legion's welfare work in France; we han- behind them—faith foresworn, homes lose money every year on this banquet, dle the veterans; the ladies look after cruelly broken up, children left hopeless but we deem it a good investment, not the wives and children. and helpless—zigzags all over France. for Paris Post alone but for the Legion in If an ex-service man from Arizona gets It's a damned unpleasant subject, but tolo, since it serves to maintain and en- into trouble in Brussels or Bucharest, if we can't blink the facts, and to Paris Tost hance its prestige in France. Some of another from Indiana is stranded in it has been, and remains today, a thorny the boys, this is no secret, would prefer Stresa or Stockholm, they don't cable problem and a sacred duty; especially, a more soldierish party, with less swank, their woes to Phoenix or Indianapolis; no, taking care of the innocent victims, that in the dugout of Pershing Hall, and we they speedily wire them to Paris Post, is, the kids. We have met this respon- do hold such parties—for ourselves. But, or deposit them in person on the doorstep sibility as best we can, for if we failed, you can't serve hot dogs and beer to a of Pershing Hall, and it is up to us to it is not Paris Post, or the Legion, but our French cabinet minister; and when we find a solution if we can. Exactly 90 per- country which would be blamed. And invite the Ambassador, a French admiral, cent of our welfare work is for ex-service the chief credit, for whatever success we or an Under-Secretary of State, eh bien, men who are not members of Paris Post, have had, goes to our Auxiliary. Within Harry, you understand Paris Post simply or even of the Legion. And yet, without its files are almost 2,000 case histories of T can't put on a cheap show. W e don't; any outside financial aid, except what we human frailty and Legion helpfulness. and the Commander (be forewarned!) have been able to beg or create ourselves, In some instances, the A. E. F. father is pays for quite a few of the guests out of we have been carrying this burden for dead; in others, he is sick and unem- his own pocket. 17 years. You don't expect a Chicago ployed; in still others, he is A.W.O.L. However, if our "ambassadorial" ac- Post to handle a welfare case in Tennes- from home and family. Here is one tivities were limited to gastronomy, to see; but we are supposed to take care of success story: veteran reunions, to ceremonies, and them all, whether they originate in Nor- Alice Jones (the girl is real; the name is such like, I wouldn't bother to write this way or Normandy. As I said, Paris Post not) was born in Paris, her mother died letter. But, in a more difficult field, the is different. under pathetic conditions in the hospital; The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine S3 her father deserted both of them, and his present address is unknown. She is now seventeen. Since the age of nine, she has been supported and educated by our Auxiliares. The Legion ladies have given her loving guidance and practical help. Last year, she received her diploma from a Franco-American nursing school; a job was found for her, and today she is self- supporting. Multiply Alice Jones (or John Smith) by 500, and you will get an idea of what our Auxiliary has done, and is still doing. It's an unending, up-hill task. Every story does not have a happy ending, as Alice's did; the drama is complicated by death, disease, and inertia; but in each case the job is attempted with courage, faith, and intelligence. "We are caring for hundreds of chil- dren," Mrs. H. Sanua Seymour, Auxiliary President, informs me, "born either in America or France, many of whom have been abandoned by their American fathers; children whose fathers died of war disabilities, children whose fathers, living in France, are crushed by the strug- gle for existence, and whose only hope is in our welfare work. Since the world economic crisis, the burden has been growing. We believe that Legionnaires, other Americans as well, should realize that this relief work is not purely our obligation, but a community duty which national honor and a sense of humanity require us to meet." Incidentally, as part of our welfare work, Paris Post has been in the steam- ship business for fifteen years. Our specialty is shipping A. E. F. veterans back home, with their families; fre- quently, the hardest part of the problem is to persuade them to return. In 1932, which was a peak year, we transported 319 persons to New York. Since then, the number has diminished slowly; for a while, it was 100 or thereabouts each year; then it dropped to 50; last year, the number was 27. I doubt if any other Post can point to such a record. Ob- viously, we couldn't and didn't pay for all these ocean passages out of our own treasury; we did what was possible, and raised the balance as best we could. The United States Lines helped by giving special rates, and the American Aid So- ciety of Paris co-operated. In many instances, we put this repatriation work on a personal basis; I recall how an ex- colonel interested himself in the family of one of his buck privates; he not only furnished the cash; he also gave the mat- ter his individual attention. Such ex- amples of practical comradeship were repeated several scores of times. This phase of our activity is destined to dis- appear some day; but that day hasn't dawned yet. I wonder if any other Post has to deal with the pestiferous problem of identity cards. It is everlasting with Paris Post. Through carelessness, the com- rades neglect {Continued on page 54) When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 54 Our Tost Is HIRTS AND ^IES 'Different for the {Continued from page 5j) New York City to renew their cards; then, one day, they get caught, and this exposes them National to fines, possible imprisonment, and even Convention expulsion from France. Still worse is the case of a worker's card, held by a Legionnaire, which has expired, and which the authorities refuse to renew. You can't work in France without such a card; it is dangerous not only for you but for the firm which employs you. Each Commander has had to wrestle with this almost daily problem; he must write letters, make visits, exercise patience and diplomacy; he must enlist the aid of influential friends (cabinet ministers, for example) and eventually, after much red tape, pleading and telephoning, Comrade Legionnaire gets his card. Dr. James V. Sparks, formerly of Indianapolis, twice Commander of Paris Post, has be- come an expert in the matter, and suc- ceeding Commanders have always drafted his services in this connection. All the while, Harry, Paris Post serves as a glorified errand boy for a thousand and one Legionnaires back home. We are asked to perform all sorts of odd jobs, STYLE ranging from the quaint through the 1-W—WHITE SHIRT humorous to the sad. A one-time A. E. F. Two-ply Legion white broadcloth shirt chaplain wanted to become pastor of the complete with finest quality accessories and American Church of Paris, a job which is silk embroidered collar emblems. Shirt com- TIES already held by another Legionnaire. plete, less tie, $2.75 each. Scores of Posts have asked for battlefield Style A—plain, without em- soil from Cantigny, from Flanders, from STYLE 2-B — BLUE SHIRT blem, blue, black or — gold the Argonne. A mother, a widow, a sister broadcloth (not illus- each. Style VA" Two-ply blue shirt 50c B—with asks for the photograph of a specific trated) same as above. Shirt complete, less silk embroidered emblem, A. E. F. grave; we turn such requests tie, black or gold, $2.95 each. blue, 60c each. over to the American Battle Monuments Commission, which handles them e.fi- ^-A-^ These cool, crisp, white broadcloth Legion shirts afford the ciently and promptly. Every week al- utmost in personal appearance and hot weather comfort. Ex- most we are asked to secure affidavits from French mayors, doctors or nurses, cellent workmanship and quality materials make these Legion attesting that the disability of some shirts — either blue or white— outstanding values. Be sure to include A. E. F. Yank is due to war service. We one of each when you "pack" for your state convention. For your have even helped to patch up broken war romances, and transform them into convenience in ordering, use the handy coupon below. weddings; this phase of our activity, how- The 1937 Emblem Catalog is free to Legionnaires. Writefor yours today! ever, belongs to the past tense now. Our business, as you remark, is exceedingly MaitJVjam! diversified. Here is an interesting example wherein EMBLEM DIVISION, National Headquarters Fidac (you know Fidac) co-operated 777 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana with Paris Post. One day we received a Please send me the following at once: letter which read: "In 1018, while ad- vancing with my company in the Meuse- 1-W white shirts, neck size sleeve length , Argonne sector, a shell exploded near 2-B blue shirts, neck size sleeve length , me. When my memory returned, I was hospital either in Nancy or Toul. I Style A plain ties, black , blue , gold in a don't know which. For disability claim Style B ties, with emblem, black , blue , gold I need the testimony of the French doctor Here is my check for $ Ship C. O. D. who originally treated me; I think I Name heard someone call him Dr. Adam." That was rather vague. By actual count, Street there were 118 doctors by the name of City State Adam in the French army during the war; further, there were 18 hospitals in Nancy, Serial No. of my 1937 membership card is The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 1 and 12 in Toul. For months we sought for "Dr. Adam," and finally we found him. Best of all, he remembered the A. E. F. veteran in question, and gave him the medical certificate he required. A MILLION LIVE A touching experience was enacted a PEOPLE I few years ago when an American Legion Post asked us to secure a piece of wood suitable for a gavel; this wood, it was specified, should come from a certain Vosges village where several of the local TELEPHONE CITY boys had been killed during the war. Commander Henry W. Dunning, now executive secretary of Fidac, wrote to the mayor of the village in question, and one day not long afterwards, the mailman delivered a package containing a charred yet firm section of a rafter from the vil- lage church which had been destroyed by o* *c German shell fire. Further, the mayor number S£e£ xbS was the same one who had been there .1 eeS holder tar" p\°V r\W during the war; he had himself cut the l wood. Additional proof, Harry, that the V than -^ion o Paris Post Commander's job has its More n he or org • %, ocV romance and its heart-throbs. jndW\dua\ ^ Other excerpts from our service record: »• Two years ago, the Grande Voiture of A.T. & Oregon of the Forty and Eight asked us to secure an authentic "taxicab of the Marne," a genuine veteran of this his- toric battle. This was a big order, rather a hard one, but we delivered the goods. The Legion post of Philippsburg, Kansas, wanted a French flag which had floated over Dijon's city hall during the war; also a helmet which had actually been worn by a poilu in the trenches. Both were found and dispatched to Philippsburg. U *W » country A Los Angeles Post wanted French . *V,S grass seed for its Memorial Isle projects; an telephone French tourist a Montana Post sought *TX*«* °TJ*BeU of or a * tf, posters to decorate an American version secusecures erage { ftem aV , yee s of "The Streets of Paris." A Pennsyl- System e«*!°^ BeU vania Post desired the bell and the whistle erV ten vears. of a French locomotive. All these objects ! '!"e than ^ Svste- were secured and sent to the homeland. "SSly tin BeU One of our specialties is blueprints and emp'0 photographs of Forty and Eight boxcars. securities. Thanks to our intervention, more than 250 such blueprints have been shipped to the United States. We have aided some 10,000 veterans to get their Verdun medals, issued by this martyred city to A fair deal for the public, the employee, and the men and women all soldiers who fought in this blood- drenched sector. And, as soon as the who have put their money in the industry is just good business Saint Mihiel medal is ready (it is due for Pershing's 77th birthday in September), I am sure our medal business will pick up immediately. By this time, it has probably pene- OWN WORK FOR TH trated into your cranium that Paris Post MOVIE CAMERA! is different. So is our Auxiliary Unit. The ladies (God bless them!) do some- For the first time, you can buy any nationally - thing that, I am sure, no other Unit known movie camera on terms as low as 10c a day ! Do does they run a school for Legion chil- — business with the largest firm deal- dren, so that the youngsters may be ing exclusively in movie equipment. taught the English language, and Ameri- Send for free illustrated catalogue giving complete canism, and so get acquainted with GOVERNMENT details. Modern daddy's homeland. This school meets on Camera Ex- Start $1260 TO $2100 YEAR 9660 Vetera ' FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Thursday, when French schools are closed; change (Dept. appointed last / Dept. G-181, Rochester, N. Y. Rush without charge, (1) 6l)1270-6th Ave. fiscal yea v Sirs: it is rendering an outstanding service to YOU GET 32 -page book with list of U. S. (Radio m PREFERENCE SI Government Jobs. (2) Tell me City) how to get one of these jobs. the Legion and this is no exaggeration — NewYork, N.Y. A DAY Mail coupon O Describe preference to Ex Service Men. today / Name to the United (Continued on page SURE. 56) / Address SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 56 Our Post Is T)ifferent {Continued from page 55) States. In truth, this school was decorated Chateau-Thierry medals or working But it can't be helped—it's all part of for its splendid achievements by the Voi- cards— is in a class by itself. My only our accepted job. tureNationaleof the Forty and Eight. The regret is that this letter will make me Now that you know the lay of the land, "decoration" was of the most practical exceedingly unpopular; its chief conse- if you still want to transfer to Paris kind, a check for $500 to enable the school quence will be to double the work of our and run for the job of Commander, to continue, to progress, to expand its service officers—and I'm one of them. come along! I offer you my services, free program. as the air, as press agent and campaign I heartily wish you could hear these manager. And, get this straight, a hi- kiddies singing Old Black Joe, or reciting larious welcome awaits you chez nous; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; you would the two juvenile Ragnerettes are elated be intrigued by the maps which they at the prospect of seeing Harry Junior draw of the United States; and, I am again. convinced, you would be thrilled to see When you do come, we'll open up how the Paris Post Auxiliary Unit is our pantry, our cellar, our hearts. For carrying on "for God and country," and this joyous occasion, my wife has already our children. set aside a foic gras from her Gascony Well, Harry, I could ramble along in farm; as for me, I'm reserving a case of this fashion for days and days, and write ancient Burgundy which won't be an encyclopedia about Paris Post. But, opened until your arrival. When shall I guess I've won my argument and made we expect you? Cordially and frater- my point; namely, that Paris Post nally yours, whether we're thinking of stovepipe hats, BARNEY The Service- £tripe Olympics {Continued from page 33) taint of the competitions. To draw a of Europe, were frankly astounded at This made any attendance count difficult, sharp amateur or professional line would the plenitude and variety of the food but it was estimated that between three have ruined the games, and this was one available for soldiers. and four hundred thousand attended the of the aspects of the program that the Nearly 1,500 athletes took part in the games in the stadium alone. Such events English did not like. games. Many of the countries could as golf, tennis, swimming, shooting, When the athletes arrived at the vari- not be represented by their best material rowing and riding were necessarily held ous camps in Paris, equipped by the because of the call of duty elsewhere. elsewhere. American Quartermaster Corps, they Then, too, the war had taken its toll, and The superiority of the Americans looked to their American hosts for prac- many outstanding athletes of practically quickly became so pronounced that the tically all their needs. The extent of this all the countries had fallen, so that in the majority of the track and field events was not anticipated, but the Army came ranks of all the teams there were ghosts developed into little more than exhibi- through with good grace. When the of champions whose prowess was needed. tions, except for the inter-team rivalry hungry guests were given the regulation And those who remained were inade- of the Yanks. The track was slow and doughboy slum, large and lengthy howls quately trained and handicapped by no world records were broken, although echoed in many tongues, but the task of the years the war had taken out of their many French records were shattered. supplying a native cuisine for each dele- athletic life. Those two old rivals, Bob Simpson and gation was one which the Army had not The American team was by far the Fred Kelly, staged their usual brilliant foreseen and refused to undertake. So strongest. Her military ranks had suf- show in the two hurdle events, with the visitors took the American ration and fered fewer losses than those of her Allied Simpson winning by scant margins. subjected it to such deft touches of their comrades, and she had a vast field to Charlie Paddock, then a youngster not own cooks that they gave it a complexion, draw from for comparatively well- yet heralded as the "fastest human," perhaps dignity, which it had never trained men. In addition to the men in scored his first international triumphs in known before. the A. E.F., the Army brought over from the hundred and two-hundred meters by This revealed many queer gastronomic home a large squad of specialists, many beating out Eddie Teschner in both traits. The Italians, Czechs and Rou- of them recognized champions, and only finals. Earl Eby won the 400-meters manians wouldn't touch our proud in a few instances could the teams of in good form, but suffered an upset when cereals, but asked for a money credit in other nations hope to compete success- he was distanced by Mason of New Zea- their place. The Australians wanted a fully against them. land in the 800-meters. All down the greater supply of food than the ration The games proper lasted for two line, on the track, in the field with the allowed, and this was arranged because weeks, June 22d-July 6th. Admission jumps and weights, the Americans gener- the continental athletes required less was by ticket only, and all tickets were ally showed a vastly superior technique than the American ration. Only the free, including the reserved seat admis- and condition than their rivals until the Australians, Canadians and New Zea- sions. These tickets were distributed performances, while edifying, became landers could eat as the American dough- before the games of each day by French monotonous. The story is told by the boy did. Many of the athletes wanted and American committees, with the aim final team standing: United States, 92; their wine with meals, but for this they that they should be circulated as impar- France, 12; New Zealand, 6; Australia, 5; had to turn to the French. Others, who tially as possible so that the most humble Canada, 4; Greece, 1. had come from impoverished districts as well as the distinguished could attend. There were several notable highlights The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 57 which thrilled the crowds, particularly action they used the old baseball swing. and second in seven more. Clean sweeps the two victories of Jean Vermeulen of The results were remarkable. So too they were made in five events. In the service France in the cross-country and the were in the grenade throwing contest. shooting the A. E. F. men won with both Marathon. This champion of long- Thompson threw the thing 245 ft., 11 in., rifle and pistol, taking four firsts. In distance races of pre-war days came back and second and third places were taken riding and fencing, however, the Yanks to competition bearing battle scars and by Americans, with all the throwers of couldn't make the grade. France, Belgium with his left arm hanging limp at his side. other nations hopelessly outclassed. and Italy divided the honors in both The Modified Marathon was started in Boxing and wrestling were among the horsemanship and fencing. Next to the the Stadium, continued over neighboring most popular sports during the Games, United States, France made the best roads outside and finished with a final lap with practically every nation entered. showing as a point winner, Italy was third on the track. When the French crowd, Some sort of match was always going on and Australia fourth. with hopes high and nerves tense, saw the in the ring centrally located in the While rugby and soccer, sports in familiar figure of Vermeulen appear first stadium. In boxing, under the special which the Yanks were outclassed, were through the gate it went wild. The point scoring system, the United States very popular, baseball didn't get over beloved veteran was all in, plodding as finished first, taking three titles, with with the foreign crowds. Only the United though his legs would any second become France, Australia and Canada close States and Canada entered, and aside as helpless as that bullet-crippled arm, behind on points. Bob Martin, much from the rooting of the doughboys there but that thundering cheer gave him just improved in form, looked like a champion was no enthusiasm for the play. Baseball the stimulus he required to get around when he knocked out Captain Coghill of is a hard game to follow for the un- that track. The doughboys in the stands Australia after a minute and a half of initiated, a dull game when not under- arose with the French and cheered and action. Eddie Eagan won the middle- stood. The Hedjaz children of the desert waved their caps at this gallant comrade- weight title and McNeil the lightweight. showed their contempt for it by conduct- in-arms as he carried the French Tricolor Gene Tunney had gone home, but the ing a sword dance beside home plate. to victory. light heavyweight class developed Spalla, Basketball, on the other hand, gripped The trick event of the games, that of who won the title for Italy. In catch-as- the imagination, and although the throwing the hand grenade, was won by catch-can wrestling the United States United States team won the final from F. C. Thompson ar A. E. F. army made practically a sweep, but in Greco- France 93 to 8, there was great interest in chaplain, with his foreign rivals saying Roman, where the Europeans were in the sport. Since then basketball has be- some sharp things about unorthodox their element, our boys were easily out- come popular in several European methods. Until the Yanks got into the classed. One of the outstanding stars of countries, particularly France. trenches this missive was thrown with a the games was Norman Ross, who prac- Only two unfortunate incidents marred rigid arm so that the grenade would clear tically alone won the swimming cham- the games, and they were soon for- the parapet of the trench. Although our pionship for America. gotten. On the opening day such crowds boys were taught to throw it in this man- Of the twenty-four events that were stormed the gates that they could ner, they had their own ideas about how contested during the whole series, the not be accommodated, and thousands such a thing should be thrown, so when in United States won first place in twelve who had come (Continued on page §8) ID RATHER BE YOUR WIFE THAN YOUR WIDOW. PLEASEPUT THIS BLOWOUT" PROTECTION ON OUR CAR WHETHER you're married or single—whether Golden Ply. This Goodrich invention is a layer or not you've ever had a blow-out, don't of special rubber and full-floating cords, scien- blind yourself to these facts. tifically treated to resist internal tire heat. 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And secondly, this sports carnival The Nation's military police, which seemed almost in- revealed the American Army in a light spired, and many an M. P. was shorn of both happy and impressive. It enabled his dignity before the French police got the men of other lands better to under- NEWEST the situation in hand. Several of the eager stand our military life and organization. customers were hurt, but none seriously. It was a striking farewell gesture of the Then on the night of the Fourth of July American forces' adventure in the World FASTEST when a fireworks display was given in the War. stadium, a series of sky-rockets proved The first troops to arrive in 1917 were faulty and exploded in the stands, caus- mainly engineers, quickly recruited and FINEST ing something of a panic. inadequately trained, and probably no- The scenes and achievements of the body knew better than Pershing how Inter-Allied Games have long since passed drab they appeared. But he had reason into the limbo of history and perhaps to be proud of the prowess of his men their significance was never fully grasped during the Games and when, before the by the folks at home. But at least they final events were completed, he led that served two useful purposes. They dem- brilliant Composite Regiment, with all it onstrated convincingly the high standard represented, in the great Victory Parade of athletics in American life, including in Paris on Bastille Day to acclaims that military life, giving an object lesson warmed every American heart. J^ost in the V\[ayy SKYCLUBS BY DAY {Continued from page SKYSLEEPERS AT NIGHT 6) car smashed into another. I escaped you in. You waltz right in here and give jjhlt IN POWER, SPEED from the wreckage with a scratched leg, me that gold." AND LUXURY a wrenched back and my precious suit- He took the money belt, counted the case. There was no taxi in sight and none cash and handed me a receipt, all ship- likely to appear as we seemed to be in a shape; but all the time he was doing it he Fly TWA . . . the nation's mightiest Sky- flat, waste swamp land, and my time was looked at me as if I were a criminal. liners . . . largest, most powerful in service, getting short. It was the hottest after- Still he wasn't a bad sort; he gave me 2,440 horsepower, 200 miles an hour . . . noon I had ever known, as I started off plenty of good advice. 2100-mile cruising range . . . 45 % power with the suitcase. Presently appeared a "Jack," he said, "you're in the tough- reserve . . . the world's fastest airline sched- good-natured gob going my way and with est camp in this man's Navy. There's ules . . . de luxe Skyclubs by day . . . his help we made camp in fair order. something queer about you, coming here luxurious Skysleepers by night . . . separate club lounge and sleeping compartment The guard at the gate looked over my after hours, an old paunchy guy like you papers and froze my soul by declaring with all this dough. But you're here any- . . . air conditioned . . . complimentary dining en route. that I had come to the wrong camp. The way, and if you ever want to get away camp where I belonged was "off there," you do as you're told and ask no ques- he said, pointing vagu?Iy across the tions. In that next room is the hardest- FLY TWA swamp. boiled bird you'll ever see in this war. The good natured gob, seeing I was all You go in there and do just as he tells When You Go to the Con- in, offered to help me and did; but his own you. When he speaks to you see that you vention . . . Save Time and schedule kept him from going all the way, call him 'Sir.' And when you take off and I struggled through the last half mile your clothes, fold them thus and so, in a Money . . . Arrive Cool, Re- of wilderness alone while the shades of neat pile. And don't ask him any ques- Relaxed. freshed and night were falling fast, all too bitterly tions." aware that I was breaking my first mili- With that he shoved me through the FOR INFORMATION CALL YOUR tary order by arriving late. The guard door. I could just make out the shape of NEAREST TWA TRAFFIC OFFICE OR at the gate gave me blue blazes and said a stout sailor man in whites asleep on a ANY HOTEL, TRAVEL BUREAU OR he could not admit me, as no commis- counter. The fear of God had been in- TELEGRAPH OFFICE. sioned officer was present at that hour. stilled in my fluttering heart so strongly When I asked him where I should sleep, that I hardly knew whether to wake this he waved his hand and said, "Oh any- sleeping demon or let him slumber on. where at all," meaning the ground, of Finally I coughed apologetically; he woke which there was plenty. up cursing, turning on the light, looked This gave me the shock of my pam- me over as if I were a worm and pro- pered life. I told him that I couldn't do ceeded to lay down the law. After the that, because I had a thousand dollars in demon had winded himself with pro- gold on my person and might be robbed. fanity and reprimands, he told me to "A thousand dollars in gold!" he re- take off my clothes. peated, with popping eyes. "I'll say you In doing so I followed the directions of can't sleep out. Now I've got to take the guard and this placated the demon a The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ! little, so that he explained there were two things which could be done with my "civvies." Either I could give them to the Red Cross or they would be burned. Afraid to question, I said "Red Cross." That was the last I saw of those clothes or my suitcase, either. Then the demon sent me to the showers preparatory to giving me a physical examination, jerk- ing and slapping me around the room and passing odious, although perhaps true, remarks on my girth and all-round wobbly condition. Finally he sent me down a long corridor, saying that "Snow- ball," in charge of "stores," would outfit me with a uniform. "Snowball" proved to be a jolly and sympathetic little negro, who was fresh out of uniforms. Not one in stock. The demon in charge raved horribly at both of us; but being a man of decision, he had Snowball make a garment for me out of a gunny-sack. Snowball cut a hole in the sack for my head and two arms; and there was nothing for me to do but draw the accursed, scratching thing over my head. Then, for the first time, the demon showed himself human. He and Snow- ball laughed themselves dizzy. The sacking came not quite down to my knees, and in front was even more elevated because of the pitch of front elevation. Even I was aware that I was something to laugh at; but I was also aware that bur- lap has its tortures for a skin accustomed to softer raiment. The demon led me back to his room and told me to lie down on the floor and go to sleep. He pro- ceeded to sleep on his counter but on the floor I merely scratched. After an hour or so of this in came an- other candidate for navy honors, a thin young fellow who turned white as snow under the demon's initiation. Snowball turned out another gunny-sack uniform for him. I think the newcomer looked as Free for Asthma HEAT WITH queer as I did, but in another way; his sack fell around him in folds. HOMEMADE GAS Ik PER HOUR Neither of us slept a wink. About An amazing- new way has been found to During Summer turn liquid fuel into instant heat. Now midnight in came two big Negroes. only a few pints of liquid will heat your home for hours except in SUB -ZERO If you suffer with those terrible attacks of Asthma when it is Demon scared them both out of their weather. This revolutionary invention hot and sultry; if heat, dust and general mugginess make you has proved so satisfactory in several wits, but there were no more gunny sacks wheeze and choke c *f each gasp for breath was the very last; thousand homes that it will now be sent if restful sleep is impossible because of the struggle to breathe; ON 30-DAY TRIAL to responsible peo- floor and they lay down on the beside us if you feel the disease is slowly wearing your life away, don't ple. No piping. No installation. Hotter than city gas or electric heaters at one- fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial just as nature made them. In the morn- tenth the cost. No soot or ashes. Porta of a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether ble—carry it any ing, you have any faith in any remedy under the Sun, send for this the demon shoved the two of us out where . Get it Free AGENTS! free trial. 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What they saw must have been one of the choice sights of the war—a tall, MILNER HOTELS stout man in a gunny sack tight around "COAST to COAST" his belly and hiked up well in front, and a | of Thes w h short thin man whose emaciated legs were $l-oo Day $1-50 Day £ tr K Do Want? YOU | all tangled up in too much burlap. tpecial education or experience usually Our rates never change even at convention required. Steady work. Short hours. Vaca- I 18-50. Social As I recall it, that day was Sunday, Hons. PENSIONS! Age Extra | time. More than one hundred hotels in thirty Security jobs expected soon. Send belnw for FREE Book. Tells how you can pas; with little doing, and by night we had different States, to accommodate you at the Liquor Gauger Civil Service Examination. something better to wear. The whites above rates. Stenographer MEN-WOMEN Meat Inspector l I they gave me, however, were never Home Office, 32nd Floor, David Stott Bldg. Custom House Start $1260 lo_$2U)0a*Jfear!_ Office Clerk Detroit, Mich. Arthur R. Patterson. (Former proportions. When Typist made for one of my l Govt. Examiner). Pri TREE BOOK Accountant Patterson School. 639 Mercantile Blilg. .Rochester ,N. T. I stood at attention, in the correct "WORLD'S LARGEST CHAIN of File Clerk Send^FREE Book, "How to secure a Go Income Tai ment Position. military posture, with my shoulders i Name I MEDIUM PRICED HOTELS" Auditor Address thrown back, (Continued on page 60) L J SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 6o J^ost in the V^Qrvy ^ (Continued from page 50) -fouAt my blouse and breeches failed to meet by my mettle at drill, I was given charge of about four inches, which may have had a drill squad. something to do with the nickname of In that camp we either drilled or dug all For the man trained "Old Man Navel" which was bestowed the time when we were not sleeping or upon me. eating. Sometimes we even drilled by in handling the rifle Monday morning, bright and earl}-, I moonlight. By this time I had sweated shovel and told off to a off twenty felt so Men used to rifle shooting take was handed a pounds and strong that most naturally to the over-and- digging gang. I was soft as butter, but as swinging along with a rifle mile after mile under style of double barrel shot- I had forced myself into this man's was just good fun. All this time, say I for dear life, sticking it out three weeks so, I never received letter guns because it is sighted along Navy, dug or a against blisters and sunstroke and faint- from home, a fact which a single barrel. Its recoil, too, is made me won- ing spells. In a few days I could see that der; and the rules ran just as heavy like that of the rifle . . . straight back. For these I was getting brown as an Indian and against writing letters as they did against reasons, many experienced that I was becoming hard as nails. The asking questions. But I thought no news wing shooters, as well as ensign in charge, discerning some hidden from home was good news, and didn't riflemen, prefer the over- executive ability in me, soon gave me worry too much. Some day, I thought, I and-under. charge of a digging gang. We must have will know what all this digging and drill- of a digging d, for we ing is for. I see that The two new Savage Over- set some sort But could a good sure made the dirt fly. I never did un- many persons in the camp were a little and-Under Models offer derstand what we were digging; perhaps puzzled presence there. these advantages at ex- by my were merely exercising for the good of The break came one day when I was tremely moderate prices. we our souls and bodies. ordered in for dental inspection. The They're well built, nicely In gang were several Negroes, one dentist, a lieutenant, junior grade, took balanced guns, with fast my I noticed had a stiff finger. one look inside mouth, and said, actions and positive lock- of whom my he failed to show one day, I 'em all out." I rallied to say up that stays tight. When up "Take went over to the Negro barracks, but no there must be some mistake. I had spent Model 420. 12 and 20 Gauge. enlisting Hammerless, Extractor, Take- one there seemed to know who he was or $300 on my teeth shortly before down. Proof test- where he was. So I lined up all hands in and had the word of one of the best ed. Selected Wal- s>l*UO a row, told them to hold out their hands, dentists in America that my molars were . *3*9 nut Stock . . went down the line until I found my man sound. Model 430. Same as 420 with the stiff linger and brought him back "Take 'em all repeated the extras : Matted Sight Line, with out," Fancy Crotch Walnut Stock, to work. He came peacefully enough, D.D.S. Fluted Comb, Checkering on grip and forearm, but the story grew, until on the white side "Never," said I. Jostam Recoil N»l 5 ° of the camp I was given credit for invad- Whereupon he had me listed as in- Pad .... 39 ing the Negro barracks, whipping a dozen subordinate and sent to the brig. The Send for literature of them, cowing the rest and dragging ensign came to see me there and talked back my man. That wholly imaginary to me as man to man. He said he could ' Savage Arms Corporation J in a Dept. 7087, Utica, N.Y. feat gave this poor old gob immense see my side of the case, but he was Please send descriptive prestige, and presently after showing tough spot. He had charge of the mili- literature on Over-and- Under Guns. Name | Address . I FRITZ SAVAGE HUNTING CLOTHES "L70R best fit, looks, wear, protection—be sure to get genuine Duxbaks. America's favorite make for over 30 vears. Fam- ous Duxbak fabric — xaterproofed without rubber. 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Still, fourteen or fifteen pretty fair teeth seemed to be worth a battle. I suppose I'd been in confinement a Leave later; be back sooner, yet have week or ten days when the ensign, with a FAST more time at the convention by going peculiar in his eye, around gleam came "American" . . . For example, from to say that my sentence was over and he Convenient Way Chicago, only 3 Hours, 55 Minutes; and I were going to take a little trip. from Cincinnati, 4 Hours; from Los I thought perhaps I was going to be court- TO Angeles, overnight as you sleep in a martialed; but instead we drove over to roomy berth ... In "American's" new Norfolk, friendly as you please. There Flagships, you relax, read, smoke, visit he took me to a tailor and had me mea- NEW YORK with your sured. He told me to stay there over- buddies. The smiling the night, get fitted for my new uniform next for Stewardess serves a delicious, compli- mentary morning and bring it out to camp in a American Legion meal, and almost before you box with me the next evening. He know it, you are in New York! stressed "in a box." Before he left we Convention Call your Travel Agent or the nearest grew a little chummy, and he told me Sept. 20-23 American Airlines Ticket Office how I'd fooled all of them by showing up there after hours, with all that gold, and me overweight and out of condition. I tried to explain everything; but he merely looked knowing and went away, after giv- AMERICAN ing me a little money for expenses. The next morning, blessed if that tailor AIRLINES INC. didn't fit me into a flying cadet's uniform; and when it was ready I took it back to camp—in a box, you bet. There I was ordered to turn in my equipment and JCegionnaires say good-bye in a hurry, for I was getting to hell out of there quick. Well, when it GOING TO EUROPE came to that I had a queer feeling. I wanted to get out all right enough; but Front and Center! somehow I hated to leave. That camp * * * had done something for me; I had sur- vived its harshness and was leaving it a Legionnaire G. Perera good deal better specimen than I had Head ofthe Foreign Exchange House been on entering. So I shook hands with the boys and toted my gear over to the PERERA COMPANY Operating office. under requirements ofthe Banking Law You know how much gear a man has to offers the complete specialized account for—rifle and blankets and mess facilities of his firm for your kit; well, all that was hung on me and I money requirements abroad. was still wearing the old whites that FOREIGN MONEY didn't meet in the middle. As I entered and tried to stand at attention, I no- OF ALL COUNTRIES ticed an officer sitting at a table. The Travelers Cheques back of his head looked familiar; but I "ONE CLASS" MEANS YOU HAVE had business to do just then and couldn't in Lire and Reichsmarks THE FREEDOM OF THE WHOLE SHIP investigate. After turning in my stuff at special Tourist Discounts I glanced over my shoulder and saw him Join the smart crowd of legionaires shaking with suppressed laughter. Then Our company, the largest in the he looked around, and if it wasn't the ForeignMoneyExchange business who recognize this bargain travel value. man who had moved heaven and earth can SAVE YOU MONEY Every privilege of a fine ship is turned to get me into naval aviation! He just and recommend to you the most over to the sat there roaring until he was purple in advantageous ways of carrying legion without restriction. funds, according to the condi- the face. You'll have the time of your lives if When he was able to talk he said: "I tions and regulations of the you sail this friendly democratic way. don't care what this war does for me from countries to be visited. now on. I've seen the world's funniest Book now for luxury at low cost. Write, Telephone or Call on Us sight; old Tom Woods in his war togs; 17 BATTERY PLACE Old Man Navel himself. Even if I never 10 BROADWAY, NEW YORK RED STAR NEW YORK, N. Y. make a safe {Continued on page 62) Telephone DIgby 4-7383 ARNOLD RERNSTEIN LINES SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The Amfrican Legion Magazine 02 JUSTTOUCHBUTTON- Jtyst in the V^Qrvy 1 ATEST 20 -TUBS {Continued from page 6i) MIDWEST TUNES ITSELF « ELECTRIC MOTORI landing again, I've lived long enough to wife wrote to the Assistant Secretary see the greatest show on earth!" and we've been combing all the camps for Only Midwest's Direct* After he calmed down, I this From - Factory Policy drew the you except one. No one dreamed Makes This and Other truth out of him little by little. It seems you'd be here. We've hunted you in hos- Sensational Features Possible at Amazingly that I had forced myself into the wrong pitals and on the high seas. You're a Low Prices! camp. This was a detention camp, celebrated case—the man who was lost where all sorts of suspects were held for in the Navy. And probably you'd still thirty days or more under close obser- be lost except for those teeth of yours." vation. They gave me back my thousand dol- If a man was suspected of having a pri- lars in gold. I left some of it for the tailor son record or if he was suspected of being and some of it for the mess fund, and then an enemy agent he was held here while he the two of us shoved off for Washington, was being investigated. The latter was where my devoted wife, who had come my case. Coming there after hours, with there to press the search for her shang- a thousand dollars in gold and my papers haied husband, was awaiting me. Look- not quite in order, overweight and out of ing backward, I can see that this weird condition and all that, I had convinced experience was one of the most satisfac- everyone that I was a spy. tory in my life. It proved that I could "Why," said my officer friend, "you've stand up and take it, and to this day my caused more commotion in this man's health shows the benefits of that stern maowmow Navy than any other gob in it. Your course of sprouts. smEs$o% HERE'S today's radio sensation!] Tomorrow Just touch an electric bu Statesmen of radio). ..its corresponding station zipf in . . . and the dial STOPS ITSELF automatically on the station. All this {Continued from page 24) happens in H second with Midwest Perfected ELECTRIC Tuning: (1) 30 PAVS You touch button—electric motor Bpeeds dial towards corresponding been anticipated, but they found Paul On a careful count of noses by the station; (2) Colorful Bull's Eye FREE TRIAL darts across dial and locates itself behind station; (3) Stat E. Kightlinger, Chairman of the Buck- astute boy politicians, the aspirants began comes in at exact center of resonance. Zip . . . Zip . . . Zip . . . you bring in 9 perfectly tuned stations in 3 seconds. eye Boys' State Committee, who is a dropping out one by one, some perhaps SO TUBES FOR PRICE OF 10 Why be content with an ordinary 10, 12 or 14-tube set. when former city attorney of Warren, with an influenced by the promise of appoint- you can buy a 20-tube Super DeLuxe ELECTRIC TUNING Midwest for the same money! It will surprise and delight experienced staff ready to make assign- ment to high office, so that when the you with its brilliant world-wide reception on 6 band; save bO'c —and get 30 days free trial in your own hi ments and to get down to cases. There major parties held their nominating con- when you buy direct from the factory at wholesale prices. You are triply protected with Foreiim Reception Guarantee, was W. L. (Pete) DeWeese, Camp Direc- ventions on Sunday afternoon there were One-Year Warran ty and Money-Back Guarantees. tor, Past Department Commander Wil- but two candidates in each party for the TERMS AS LOW AS $1.00 A WEEK You have a whole year to pay for your Midwest liam S. Konold, who served as Chairman highest offices. on the easiest and most convenient credit terms. Send for FREE 1936 Catalog of the Committee last year; Karl W. The general election of officers was MIDWEST RADIO CORPORATION Kitchen, of Cleveland, known to Legion- held on Monday, when the young citizens Dept. BB-74 Cincinnati. Ohio "PASTE COUPON ON It P0STCARP-..0K WRIT£ TODAY: naires throughout the whole organiza- had an opportunity to vote for the MIDWEST RADIO \ tion as the man who directed operations candidates of their choice by use of voting I CORPORATI 0 N Dept. Cind»iti,0. Name. { BB-7i at the National Convention last year; machines which had been installed Jake Saslavsky, Department Adjutant; especially for their instruction. William Joe Deutschle, editor of the Ohio Ameri- Livingston, a Columbus lad, the nominee To State \i can Legion News, and many others of of the Nationalist party, was elected to User-AgentsMahe Easy E-iira Money. Check Here Q lor details Q Check Here (or 24-page BATTERY Catalog equal prominence in Legion and civic succeed John Stern, the first Buckeye Boy affairs. Governor, and immediately began the For Comfortable, Pleasant A They also found there a staff of thirty- formation of his cabinet. That there was Voyage... Take" two senior and junior counselors, young independence of thought and a tendency , men who had been selected because of to vote a mixed ticket was shown when special fitness from upper classes of Ohio the election returns were tabulated; State Law School. though the Nationalists were successful in the higher brackets that party did not MOST of the boys arrived at the fair make a clean sweep in the election of grounds with a highly developed state officers and in the legislative bodies. Insure and Speed Up sense of the political possibilities, and After entering upon the arduous candidates for the major offices began to duties of his high office, it was not enough come into the open with the arrival of the that Governor Livingston was weighted PROSPERITY first contingents. By bed time on the first down with the cares of state, a session of ten legislature, visiting For many months, personal competition will be tremen- day no less than candidates for gover- his glad-handing the dous. Employers—up against new problems, righting for nor were seeking support, each with a dignitaries from hither and yon, deliver- 6urvival and profits—will be able to pick and choose. Naturally will prefer the trained the who they man— man strong following and a political organi- addresses of welcome, and what not has special ability. If you want to speed up your prosper- ing ity and insure your share in the business pick-up, you zation behind him. situation was (in the manner of the Governor of any of must prepare yourself. And your first step is to get the The facts about a proven training program. Check your sub- of ject below, write your name and address in the margin, somewhat clarified on Sunday morning our States or the Mayor the average and mail this coupon today. when the two major parties, the Federal- American city). He had capacity and Higher Accountancy DLaw: Degree of LL.B. O Salesmanship DExecutiveManagement ists and the Nationalists, took definite could handle his job. He knew what it was O Traffic Management Commercial Law Industrial Management Business Corresp. form and the platforms of the individual all about and drove straight ahead. But Personnel Management ^Business English candidates and the party pledges became in order to provide work for the courts adult business LA SALLE EXTENSION— training better known. to insure a public trial of sensational Dept. 9J61-R CHICAGO and The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Pirchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 63 proportions, some miscreants conspired attention to a case tried in the Buckeye to and did kidnap the Governor. The court. Boy court sessions were held even' kidnaping was accomplished at a late afternoon with Columbus judges and hour. There was excitement. The search attorneys acting as directors and advisers. I Warn Men was on; every police officer was called out. One case that had been previously tried The Governor was not found until early in the Columbus courts, a case which had next morning when, bound and gagged, many involved and interlocking elements, he was located in a small building near was brought on for trial in the moot Against Using the mess hall. court, and in this retrial a boy jury The search had uncovered a number of arrived at the same conclusion and clues—a ransome note, finger prints, an brought in the same verdict as did that in empty bottle, and other items, all of the regularly established courts. which were studied and analyzed under In the above there has been much said Misfit Blades the critical direction of experts from the about courts and trials, which may give regular State Highway Patrol force who the impression that dealing with infrac- —says St. Paul Druggist had been detailed as instructor-counselors tions of the law consumed a great part of to the Boys' State. Suspects were picked the time of the boy citizens; that it was a Users Praise Teamwork of up and quizzed. Some were released. lawless community of masterless young- Gillette Razor and Gillette Blade Definite suspicion seemed to rest on a sters. Such was not the case. In all my prominent boy official. He was indicted experience with boys of school age, and placed on trial. The first trial, hard extending back over a number of years in TELL MY fought by the young lawyers for both the very close and intimate association, I CUSTOMERS TO prosecution and defense, resulted in a have never before had a place with a AVOID MISFIT hung jury. When the case came on for group so earnest and so eager to do their BLADES IF THEY trial the second time it had attracted such full share of the work than the citizens of RESPECT THEIR attention that nearly one thousand the Buckeye State. Infractions of the SKIN. IT TAKES visitors were present. Again the case was rules were so few as to be negligible, and A GILLETTE BLADE fought hard; witnesses were cross- the same report comes from the seven IM THE GILLETTE examined; expert testimony offered, and other states. The Boys' State program is RAZOR TO GIVE REALl the usual number of speeches were made serious in its purpose and is so carried out. SHAVING COMFORT to the court and jury. The defendant The adults who have part in the conduct was acquitted. of the camps have, almost without excep- H.H. Bodsgard, 783 Iglehart Ave., St. Paul, Minn. A newspaper was established and tion, been vastly benefited by their published by the boy citizens; a National association with the boys and have gained Guard and State Highway Patrol organ- a new vision of the strength of our leaders THE SCRATCHING ized, and other activities of the average of tomorrow and the future of America. USED TO GET FROM normal American community carried on. I wish space permitted reprinting some MISFIT BLADES This accomplishment was not alone the of the very fine editorials published in MADE ME SWITCH special work of the Buckeye Staters for newspapers in some of the largest cities, TO GENUINE which distinctive credit should be given, commending the Boys' State plan and GILLETTE BLADES but was a program common to all the commenting on the patriotic purpose of IN MY GILLETTE states held this year, varying, as I have the Legion in formulating plans and RAZOR. BOY! said, in the several camps because of the sponsoring the states. I do want to quote WHAT A PLEASANT greater or less number of citizens enrolled from a resolution adopted by the Ohio SURPRISE! and the physical equipment with which State Legislature, which was in session to work. while the Buckeye boys were at the fair Demonstrating the fine sense of justice grounds, as typical of commendations H. B. Miller, 5511 Wash. Blvd., Chicago, III. and ability to separate the wheat from the that have been received: chaff in a case where the testimony was "Whereas, the youth of this State Enjoy The 'Teamwork' Shave highly conflicting, I have only to call has been directed (Continued on page 64) of a Gillette Blade in Gillette Razor MEN, if you are rfot enjoying real shaving comfort, you are probably using MISFIT blades in your Gillette Razor. The shaving edges of a misfit blade do not fit accurately in your Gillette Razor. Too much edge leaves your face raw and irritated ! Too little edge causes the razor to skip over the bristles and you don't get a clean shave. Why experiment ? The I Gillette Blade and Gillette Razor are made for each other. They work perfectly together in giving you the best in shav- u u j j , b [1- eO-Q BBODDoa:., ing comfort. Buy Gillette Blades today! The Keystone Boys' Staters grouped near one of the camp buildings at Indiantown Gap, adjoining the Pennsylvania National Guard camp grounds. Horse shows and reviews Gillette Blades were staged by the Guard for their entertainment Precision-made for the Gillette Razor SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 64 A Statesmen of Tomorrow (Continued from page 6j) toward the ideals of loyal and decent active head of a simulated state govern- citizenship by this operation and con- ment traveled to Columbus to confer with FALSE TEETH duct of the Buckeye Boys' State, and Governor William Livingston on matters AND REMOVABLE BRIDGES whereas, the enlightenment and awak- of state. ened interest in public affairs which The Mountaineer and the Sunflower \ NO this institution fosters in the young man- Boys' State, the latter held on the campus ; BRUSHING |7 hood of Ohio will find expression in the and in the buildings of the University of Just Works like magic. better government of tomorrow, therefore Wichita under the supervision of Bert A. or bridge m put plate be it resolved, That the House of the Hedges, President and General Director, water and add a httle ^ ninety-second General Assembly hereby were the first two held in powder. 1 hen, 1937, their J Polident it is • minutes, expresses its wholehearted approval and sessions running concurrently. The Sun- I in a few polish- sweet, clean and acclamation of the founding and perpetu- flower State in its first session enrolled an purified! e d-and actually ation of the Buckeye Boys' State and even 200 citizens who chose Paul Mason, Needs no brushing or sincerely commends those organizations, a high school youth of Harper, for their stirring. particularly The American Legion, and Governor. So readily did the boy citizens NEW individuals whose efforts are responsible take to the program that the Sunflowers , IKE for its institution." joined with the Mountaineers in legislative e u» -.v, and The resolution continued, expressing action asking for the formation of a Boys' staios its approval of any branch of the State Nation to be organized in 1938, or just as government which lent assistance to the soon as thirteen original states can be Buckeye Boys' State and concluded by brought together for the purpose of acv inviting the boy citizens to attend the forming a union. for \eanv06 sessions of the law-making body. What The plan of organization, as de- \en'ic : fine recognition of this novel experiment termined upon by these young legislators in teaching government! And here, for the and joined in by others, contemplates the purpose of the record, let me say that the organization of a nation to be composed Helps Remove False officials of Ohio from Governor Martin of thirteen states. Then the congress Look From Gums boy L. Davey on down lent every aid and would complete the union by the admis- Dentists highly recommend assistance possible. Governor Davey, sion of states from the unorganized Polident for safe care of Attorney General Herbert M. Duffy, M. territory, following established state dentures. You will find it a Allison, State Director of Finance, boundaries, in the same manner as wonderful comfort and con- Ray venience. Long-lasting can Mayor Harold Burton, of Cleveland, and followed by the Congress in the admission costs only 30 cents at any dozens of other officials highly placed of States. The plan also contemplates drug store. were so impressed that they spent hours setting up a national government as WERNET DENTAL MFG. CO. on the grounds, inspecting the operation nearly as possible paralleling the govern- 882 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Good Hi'usikecpingj of various offices, counseling and advising, ment of the United States, with a Boy ASK YOUR DENTIST! and studying the mechanics of the President and fully organized legislative Legion's effort. and judiciary branches. POUDCnT The second session of the Mountaineer If any member of the Legion or any Boys' State was held at the State Four-H citizen has entertained doubt about the TROTWOOD TRAILERS Park at Jackson's Mill—the boyhood serious purpose of the Boys' State or of Don't buy until you in pictur- intense interest of the see these famnus home of Stonewall Jackson— a the sponsors and Trailers. Write for esque setting amid the low, rolling hills of directing personnel, a glimpse at the I FREEratalog today. TROTWOOD central West Virginia. In that historic Hoosiers in their session in the great field TRAILERS, Inc. spot many of the West Virginia counties house of Butler University, on the out- 809 Main St. Trotwood, Ohio have erected cottages to house youth skirts of Indianapolis, would have (5 miles N. W. of Dayton) groups, and many adult groups, who quieted their qualms and fears. There a WE meet there from time to time. Other few more than 500 boys gathered for a facilities include an auditorium, mess week of intensive training under the ToAnySuitT halls and an administrative building, direction of Judge Wilfred E. Bradshaw, Double the life of your Breedlove, Chief coat and vest with correctly comprising a physical lay-out made-to- Director; William Coun- matched pants. 100,000 patterns. order for just such a concentration as the selor; Cliff Wells, who has led many Every pair hand tailored to your measure. Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before Boys' State. 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Easy Terms— as little as 12c a day. the work of the week was hailed by the grandson of the twenty-third. Lloyd C. Write today for this FREE press as the constructive of Gosport, State high school CATALOG. New styles, new most and far Wampler, features, new colors— 30 days reaching youth movement undertaken oratorical champion, who headed the free trial —24-hour shipments. The Kalamazoo Stove & Fur- within recent years. The enrolment was Nationalist ticket, was elected Boy Gov- nace Co., 2066 Rochester Ave., 399. The successful candidate for Gov- ernor in a thrilling campaign over Over 1,200,000 Kalamazoo, Michigan. Satisfied Users ernor was Paul Cronin, of Hollidays Cove, Bernard X. Slamkowski, of Indiana 37 Years in Business 'A Kalamazoo who, soon after laying aside his duties as Harbor, and during his incumbency Writefor FREE Catalog *gsis» Direct toYou" The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ! 65 greeted and entertained Governor Liv- The Legion in California held their ingston of the Buckeye Boys' State. first Boys' State at Sacramento when 254 The Keystone Boys' State held its typical, genuine, high-type American second session at Indiantown Gap, in boys attended the nine-day encampment. Central Pennsylvania, using a number of Action and attitude as well as accom- buildings of ALLEY an abandoned Civilian Con- plishment of the boys assures its continu- servation Corps camp on the edge of the ance as one of the major Americanism Pennsylvania National Guard camp. The activities of the Department, with a buildings were not sufficient to provide broadening of the program and an en- sleeping quarters for the 570 boy citizens, larged enrolment. •OOP! most of whom were quartered in a tent Under the very fine direction of Bert city. The Keystoners attracted wide Mann, Chairman of the Committee; attention and a number of distinguished Judge John F. Pullen of the Third visitors from distant points were received. District Court of Appeals, acting as Chief Past Department Commander JohnB. Counselor; Captain A. E. Waite, Camp McDade, of Scranton, served as the Director; James Howie, of Los Angeles, active director, with a volunteer staff of Deputy Attorney General, together with assistants, including Dr. John H. Gail- a group of junior counselors who gave braith, Medical Director; Ed Linsky, freely of their time, the boys perfected in Department Adjutant, and a dozen a systematic manner the details and others. John W. Fritz, Jr., a red-headed operations of the city, county, state and whirlwind from Johnstown, was elected judicial organizations. The highest honor Governor. of the Boys' State went to Tom Howard, Again the pioneer in the Boys' State of San Francisco, who made a winning scored heavily when the third Prairie race for Governor even though his party State met and organized at Springfield, was in the minority. Young Howard is a Illinois, with 1,144 boy citizens enrolled. junior in the Balboa High School, where To this Department is given full credit he has served as president of the student for the development of the idea, so body. splendidly described by Stephen F. To the Beaver Boys' State, held on the Chadwick, Chairman of the National Columbia River Highway between Wau- Americanism Commission, in this maga- kena Lake and the famous Multnomah zine for September of last year. The Falls, about thirty miles from Portland, Prairie Staters enlarged their program must be handed the palm for getting back this year because of the number of to nature in a setting of great scenic citizens to be placed in governmental beauty. Leaving the city behind, the units, and operated with a greatly Oregon boys spent one full week in an enlarged staff. abandoned CCC camp, in the heart of one CONVENTION An interesting sidelight is had in the of the most magnificent scenic regions in career of Robert Curzon, of Champaign, the Northwest, and in a center from the leader of the Federalist party, who which unusual hiking trails radiate to the TIME czttt/ycm/L was elected Governor. Robert attended slopes of snow-clad Mount Hood and the first Prairie State in 1935 and served along the cliffs of the Columbia Gorge. his district as a Senator; he returned in Preparation had been made to care GREYHOUND 1936 and was elected Lieutenant Gov- for 100 boys for the first session ernor, and at the third State made a of the Beaver State, and the full successful, but hotly contested, race for number were enroled and accepted Governor. at the camp, (Continued on page 66) "ALLEY OOP!" However the French spelled it, or the Yanks— pronounced it — it meant "get a move on" "let's go" — or "all aboard!" Today it means you, bound for the National Convention at New York. Make the trip in cushioned comfort, see this great country of yours close-up (as you can view it in no other way), and save a pocketful of dough — going by Greyhound. It's the Legion's own transpor- tation — you'll have lots of congenial company GREYHOUND TRAVEL BUREAUS CLEVELAND. 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ADDRESS- -AL-P SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 1 66 Statesmen Tomorrow YOUR CAR NEEDS of lA GOOD DOSE Of {Continued from page 65) George L. Rauch, of Portland, organized regularly enrol as junior citizens. I think >^XSANI-FLUSU' and directed the governmental unit. the view of the boy citizens is summed up Probably the most significant develop- in part of an address delivered by Gov- ment of the week was the innate democ- ernor Tom Howard on his return to San racy shown in the election of the Gov- Francisco from the California State: ernor of the Beaver State. The boy "Some people have fears regarding the selected for this honor was Bryce Side- future safety of our American democracy. singer, a fifteen-year-old Portland lad, Let me say that with such programs as whose father is a W.P.A. worker, whose the Boys' State these fears can be for- mother is dead, and who has been making gotten. At Sacramento we learned his own way selling newspapers on the Americanism and through the formation streets of Port- of citv and state land. His admis- OW.Werwl!! Yon \C I should \Ao,m\ ment, wherein he it is the only one compared the which assures the You can save repair bills and add to the purchasing power people life, lib- enjoyment of summer driving if you clean out the rust and scale in your radiator. of the people of erty and the pur- Sani -Flush does it, for ten cents, in a few the United States suit of happiness. minutes. with that of the The younger boys Just pour some Sani-Flush in the radiator. peoples of other who follow us will (Directions on the can.) Bun the motor. nations, and also need such Drain. Flush. Refill with clean water. A pointed out the instruction and cool-running car has more power, more snap. doors of opportunity which swing open in we feel that this program will be a defi- It doesn't depreciate so fast. Sani-Flush a land of democracy. nite contribution to their education." cannot hurt aluminum cylinder heads or The Boys' State program has passed The philosopher's highest praises were motor fittings. the experimental stage. It is now a fixed given to the man who made two blades of You'll find Sani-Flush in most bathrooms part of the Americanism work of eight grass grow where only one had grown be- for cleaning toilet bowls. Sold by grocery, Departments, and there will be several fore. Similarly is the Legion entitled to drug, hardware, and five-and-ten-cent stores others next year. The value of the course praise, for the harvest from its Boys' State —25 and 10 cent sizes. The Hygienic Prod- given is incalculable, both to the sponsor- movement is a large and growing group of ucts Company, Canton, Ohio. ing organization and to the boys who understanding, capable young Americans. Sam-Flush KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN T^ome: The (sity Eternal {Continued from page 20) To conduct world-renowned I ne service business- coun- d try or city. Nothing new. Now this, Vover 8.000 Rawleiqh Deal- able. The principal monuments of Roman Besides all Mussolini has given ers. Many do $3,000 - $5,000 life, is annual business in necessl- which are in the heart of the city, back the sea to Rome. It known that ' home-farm. Stocks ties tor all of /supplied on credit. Write forln- have been freed of superstructures, and at the time the Roman Empire Ostia, formation how to start In bush all the buildings which prevented their which was the city's port, was not very |. ( ness on our capital. Dept. 70- AIM W.T. Rawleigh Co., Freeport, 111. view have been joined by a series of far from the city itself. The Tiber during magnificent streets which give them back the course of centuries has changed the ENLARGEMENT their original unity. The Roman citizens shape of its mouth and has carried the sea of today can walk about in the gardens further away from Rome. It was, there- IFRFF Just to get acquainted with new customers, we will beauti- which were once those of the Forum and fore, necessary not only to build wide and fully enlarge one snapshot negative admire the statues of the Caesars just as modern roads to facilitate contacts be- (film) to 8x10 Inches—FREE— if you enclose this ad with 10c for return their ancient forefathers used to do. There tween Rome and the sea, but Mussolini mailing. Information on hand tinting has been no regret whatever if in certain has wished that a whole part of the in natural colors sent immediately. Your negative will be returned with cases so called local color was sacrificed to development of the new city should your free enlargement. Send it today. the solemnity and grandeur of the whole. spread toward the sea, so that in the near GEPPERT STUDIOS Dept. 548, Des Moines, Iowa future Ostia might consider itself a suburb SIDE by side with the Roman zone the of Rome itself. The World's Fair of 1941 Papal City, which also has so much will represent the crowning of this tre- FREE FALL historic background, has been cleaned up mendous city development. and embellished with the same painstak- Therefore, Rome today is in a mood of CATALOG ing fidelity to history, while beyond the continuous transformation. A remarkable Just Off the Press historic hills modern Rome has been de- city, which lives today on the resurrected Showing Hunting Foot- veloped, with the most modern concep- ruins of its ancient splendor in a new era wear, Clothing, and forty other leather and canvas tions but always with the architectural of civilization and of power—civilization specialties of our own manufacture for camp- imprint of the whole. To the modern city, and power which exudes from the stones ers and hunters. the parks and the themselves with which this ancient city L. L. BEAN. Inc. gardens and the beautiful Roman villas have given in the course of centuries many 76 Main Street ample has been Freeport Maine lungs to breathe. times rebuilt. The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 67 c R^ome: The Qity Progressive s . s . WASHINGTON (Continued from page 21) largest, fastest American the city, the old houses on each side of the her imperial greatness. liner in trans -Atlantic hiding Trajan's Forum to the II not re- monument, But Rome and Duce have service right and forming the street named after stricted their activities to the restoration Giulio Romano running along one of the and excavation of ancient treasures, for sides of the Aracoeli Square to the left, ever-changing Rome has been newly have been pulled down. endowed with powerful expressions of Around the column with its spiral bas- modern life evoking the profound admir- reliefs representing Trajan's victories ation of the tourist. over the Daci, the other columns of this One may glimpse the spirit of the Italy Forum have been restored and re-erected, of today and tomorrow in the Mussolini while beyond it the graceful hem'cycle Forum, the largest sports center in Italy of Trajan's Markets, discovered a few and one of the foremost in the world. years ago, now forms its background. It comprises the Fascist Academy of Physical Education, the Mussolini Sta- TO THE left of Trajan's Markets, no dium capable of accommodating 20,000 longer hidden by the houses that spectators, the Stadio dei Cipressi formed Via Alessandrina and now pulled accommodating 100,000 persons, the down, the remains of the fora of Augus- great monolith of the Mussolini obelisk tus and Nerva unearthed in the course of and the large swimming pool. All of this excavations started in 1924 are now visi- modern forum has been conceived on a ble, and above them one sees the graceful scale as vast as that of the ancient fourteenth-century loggia of the palace Colosseum. Yes, the Mussolini Forum of the Knights of Rhodes, which since and the Colosseum truly represent yester- of the r nitcd States Lines' Post No. the sixteenth century had been hidden day and tomorrow an Empire that was, Roosevelt-l — 945, who will act as host to fellow Legionnaires. by the old buildings surrounding it. and an Empire that has become greater And now, as our eyes turn to the right, than ever. the wide and straight new Imperial Way Sail September 23rd, Midnight comes into view, uniting Piazza Yenezia should one fail to see the new NOR 'V ou'll find the Washington equipped with to the Colosseum, already crowded with University City which is symbolic every convenience and luxury of modern pedestrians and motor cars. Here is of the motto coined by II Duce: "Libro e ocean travel. Staterooms are large—with modern Rome—the Rome of tomorrow. moschetto, fascista perfetto." The monu- comfortable full-sized beds. Broad, spacious Sweeping the horizon beyond the Pala- mental entrance, the Rectorate, the decks provide ample room for every kind of tine on the southern slopes of the Capi- Library, the Aula Magna and the deck sport. There's a completely equipped toline Hill, a vast open space is seen grandiose and numerous edifices for the gymnasium on board and a huge tiled indoor left side of Victor various faculties which form University below the Emmanuel pool. The food is great—everyone agrees on II's Monument. The narrow street City are not only fine expressions of the that—stewards speak your language and named after Giulio Romano has disap- severe architectural style of present-day know what Americans want ! Captain Giles peared and now we see the Aracoeli Italy but also symbolize an age of Stedman and most of the officers of the Square in all its grandeur, forming a part knowledge and enlightenment. Washington are Legionnaires. Throughout of the enlarged Foro Italico, in the midst In this one brief look together, we have your voyage, you'll feel truly at home—and of which stands the majestic and impos- seen indeed that Rome is ever changing. have a grand time with your new and old ing marble architecture of the Monu- When we mingle with Rome's citizens, sea-going friends. ment with its gilt statuary and its bronze the realization becomes acute. Now we Special 20% Rate Reduction quadrigas. can actually feel it —observe it in the Not only the Washington, but two other The narrow and dark Via Tor de' modern tempo which might well be com- United States Liners will offer a 20% Specchi has likewise disappeared and pared to that of a great American reduction in rates to all members of the around the base of the Capitoline Hill, metropolis. We feel it as we rub shoulders American Legion. , the New Way to the Sea, wide and full of with tourists from many countries and s. s. Pres. Roosevelt, Sept. 29th, Noon light, forms the counterpart of the Im- realize that Italy, always hospitable, is no s. s. Manhattan, Oct. Gth, Noon perial Way and renders visible the longer provincial, but knows fully how to Drastic reductions, too, in living costs ashore curved perspective of the Theatre of make welcome travelers from foreign in France. And for six days after the Wash- frame- cater their desire Marcellus, with the monumental lands, and how to to ington's arrival in Havre, every Legion- work of arches and columns freed from and comfort. naire will be a free guest of the French Gov- the shops and hovels that hid and dis- ernment. figured it. Captain C. H. Huntington, a native of spent Italy, Boston, has much of his life in Consult your local travel agent for THE demolition work undertaken to where his father was United States Consul fulldetails—or theAmericanExpress open up the Way to the Sea brought at Florence. During the war he acted as Company, Chicago, to light important remains of monuments liaison officer with the British and Amer- official transportation dating from the period of Augustus, ican forces at Italian General Headquarters. agents for the Ameri- namely the central part of the podium He was wounded in action and decorated can Legion pilgrim- age—or any office of from the Temple of Apollo and the ruins for gallantry. At the time of The American of the Portico of Octavia. Legion's iqji National Convention he Thus the opening of two great roads, accompanied General Diaz and General aptly named after the Empire and the (later Marshal) Badoglio to Kansas City, United States Lines One Broadway, City Sea, although a modern undertaking where Marshal Foch of France, General New York Offices in principal cities motivated by public utility, served to Baron Jacques of Belgium, Admiral increase Rome's archaeological treasures Bcatty of Great Britain and General "In Peace as in War We Serve" by bringing to light further evidence of Pershing were also in attendance. SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine —— 68 ?My Bit for "Baker CONVENTION GAIETY {Continued page ij) STARTS A DAY SOONER from away back by the heavy artillery, looking on the last peak of the Argonne and gazed for abandoned kitchens. I got my seven joyfully at those fields red with kraut. I steaks in such a kitchen previously; they was drinking champagne out of a bottle move in the dark and leave stuff. Well, trying to—at that great moment, having this day, along the road came a Y.M.C.A. been sent with a corporal to the gas wagon; and you know how often you saw school at Chatillon-sur-Seine. that. It was a sight from Heaven. We two schoolboys hadn't been in the The secretary stopped his wagon and S.O.S. since August. And now we were asked me where was a certain heavy going back to sidewalks, stores, women on the DAY LINE artillery outfit. I whispered a prayer to and children. We would get a haircut the God of hungry Pioneers to give this and shave and would wash. We would to I NO EXTRA COST . . . Rail Tickets man me, and pointed away from the take off our shoes and go to bed. Was Accepted — A Ibany — New York road, where he couldn't go, and said, that a detail? "I am the Supply Sergeant, and the cap- We thumbed the first army truck that Begin your Convention fun on the tain sent me here to meet you. So put it came along, and hopped it on the fly. broad, breezy decks of a Day Line r steamer! Whether you hail from the right down here." W e left it in the same way, tumbling our North, East or West—come aboard at Ten cartons of cigarettes, two boxes packs and ourselves out onto the road. Albany for a real get-together party of cigars, two pounds of chewing, forty This was at the first village that showed and enjoy 150 miles of river cruising. pounds of chocolate, boxes of sweet crack- lights—Les Islettes. After the Convention remember to ers, I don't start your trip home via the Day Line. and know what. I couldn't We found we'd been too hasty and were Music—excellent meals. lift it now, and I was weaker then, but not yet in the S.O.S. but we asked what I could lift it and run with it. As soon as entertainment the place had for travelers SIDE TRIPS TO WEST POINT he was gone, I got my raincoat around it and we were directed to a French speak- Don't miss a visit at Uncle Sam's fa- and got it up, and the arms tore out of easy in a barn. We went there. Nothing mous Military School. Any day except the raincoat. I located a pile of officers' but champagne, and no glasses. The Sunday you can see interesting War bedding at a cross-roads and slashed a Frenchman took our ten francs and Museum . . . buildings, grounds; "fu- ture veterans" at drill, etc. roll open and got a blanket. And I got popped two quarts and we tried to toss my loot on my hump again and got away them down. Try it. Try drinking cham- Hudson River Day Line from that road. That was Christmas Eve pagne out of a bottle. We took two gulps West 42d St. Pier for the fourth platoon. and swelled up like two observation Living on the country and helping balloons. We learned something about ourselves made us a little deceitful, I gas right there. That was a smart frog; think. You remember how the Y, for a he was making a fortune on champagne while there, would sell a man only a pack at five francs a quart. All he had to do ^..llllll^.nlllll^iilllllllLii.llllll^mlll'llal or two of cigarettes or a bar of chocolate, was to fill up the little we drank, and cork Ex-Service Men Get Preference while an officer could get all he wanted? the bottle and he was ready for the next Thousands of openings yearly. Men—Women, age 18-50. And how we met that situation by writing sucker from the lines. No glasses; that Start $105 $175 month. Get ready now for next en- — ourselves a nice fat order. "Please deliver was the trick. Of course, we could have trance test. Get our new plan—mailed FREE. Write, Sergeant Fotheringay such-and-such-and- got our mess-cups, but we didn't want INSTRUCTION SERVICE, Dept. 110, St. Louis, Mo. such-and-such—Major Gilfether." Well, any more champagne. We were swelled. this day—but I wonder if I'd better tell Between us, we had about six hundred OVER THE TOP this. No, I guess not. Let's skip it. francs when we graduated from the gas A NEW WORLD WAR STATUE Another feature of life in a battle zone school ten days later and started back. Created by E. M. Viquesney, resisted the wine and in famous sculptor of Spencer, that I'll have to skip is the mopes. Re- We women Cha- Indiana. Startling in detail, tillon, pretty as there ever commemorating the American member the mopes? Boys that claimed or much, were Doughboy. Surpasses his former things wanted to and success, the "Spirit of the they had lost their outfits, and were living so many we buy Doughboy". American in the dugouts. There came to be hun- bring back. SPECIAL OFFERS for com- plete Finance Raising Flans dreds of them, so that, on a nice day, it Not wanting to jackass the stuff and low statue prices sent on request. Build your World War was like Coney Island. Mopes lined up further than we had to, we didn't buy in Memorial this year. Our 12 inch STATUETTES are ideal and firing rifles at a German helmet. Chatillon, but put it off for the last big for trophies, gifts, etc. firing cannon too. know, the town in the S.O.S. I forget its name, but VIQUESNEY STUDIOS, Dept. AL, SPENCER, IND. And As you other armies had Battle Police, strung the Provost-Marshal's name was Lynch out behind the lines to plug anybody who Captain Lynch. WAKE UP YOUR turned back, but the A. E. F. didn't have We saw the town coming, and stepped any Battle Police. So we had mopes. off the train and walked in, so as to keep LIVER BILE- I had some experiences with the mopes, out of the bullpen that the Army had but I'll have to skip it for now. I will erected around the station to keep sol- You'll Without Calomel —And Jump Out say though that if you ever had any scrap diers out of the town. of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go thrown to you from behind, don't be too It was a fine town. It had everything The iiver should pour out two pounds of liquid quick to blame our guns; you were prob- we wanted. It had delicatessens and bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just ably getting that stuff from the mopes, bakeries and candy stores and cafes and decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. shops until we couldn't make up You get constipated. Your whole system is poi- I saw them loading and firing cannon, to smoke soned and you feel sour, sunk and the world hear the noise. our minds what to buy first. We de- looks punk. Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere bowel We began to eat in style when the First cided to have one more barber's shave movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those our six good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these Army broke through the Argonne, and first, and then we would spend flowing freely make you two pounds of bile and captured thousands of acres of red cab- hundred francs and be the princes of the feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little bage, turnips, potatoes and tobacco. I Argonne. We were going to fix every- Liver Pills by name. Stubbornly refuse anything wasn't with in the platoon up with something else. 25c at all drug stores. © 1931, CM. Co. the happy group who stood body The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 69 nice, and particularly fix up ourselves. about such trifles in the S. O. S. You the There was barber-shop, and barbers know how it was in the Army ; most offi- in white coats. But it happened to be cers had their minds on business, but after twelve on Sunday, and the door was there were always a few who only wanted locked. We went to creating a disturb- to play soldiers. But this Lynch wasn't ance. The head barber stopped waving a bad fellow at all when he got over his his finger at us, and opened the door, but, first mad, and saw that we weren't getting just then, the corporal said, "Mac, that fresh with him, and the upshot was that captain over there seems to want us." we carried our coats away under our arms, We had picked a poor spot for a protest but we had to go in that bullpen at the meeting. Across the street was M. P. station. headquarters, and standing before his The fence was ten feet high, with two place of business was the big boss M. P. lines of barbed wire, and we couldn't get HAVE himself. out, and we landed back in the barren "Hi, captain!" I called, waving. Argonne with our six hundred francs. "What's up?" You know how it was in Looking for fresh clothing in the Ar- the lines. We were all friends. No sal- gonne brought me a reminder that I, uting or clicking or any of that. This who was now a lousy tramp, particularly wasn't the lines, though. lousy, had once been a literary man. I'll "Come over here . . . Where'd you get tell you. those coats?" I was strolling with my pipe and sight- We were wearing leather coats; warm seeing one evening in the Argonne, and I and easy and smart. Honestly, I thought saw Engineers carrying fresh underwear. he only wanted one for himself. That's It was a chance to shake the cooties, as what a captain up in the lines would have they hung onto one's underwear and only meant, wouldn't he? went exploring at night, so I took off "I got mine off a dead lieutenant," I my Pioneer insignia and followed back on explained. "The corporal got his for a the stream of Engineers. bag of Bull Durham at the side-door of a Before I got there, I came on a chap clothing-dump in Fleury up the line. I'd lying on his back in a field and reading let you have this coat, captain, if I a story called Too Honest in the Popular IT'S SURPRISINGLY could get another, and it's not that I Magazine for August, 1918. A battery of mind the lousy bag of Bull Durham, six-inchers was firing over his head, and INEXPENSIVE but-" he had rigged a shelter-half behind him "Don't you know how to address an to break the noise, and went right on Specially planned for legion- officer? Sergeant!" Out of headquarters reading; and that was quite a compli- naires. • An opportunity to enjoy popped a dandy M. P. sergeant. "Arrest ment to me as an author. I had written special rates given by the Govern- these men. Take them inside. Take off that story Too Honest and sold it to the ment of France. • A chance to those coats." Popular. I offered him five francs for meet some of your old "Bud- It could have turned out badly for us. the magazine—ten—twenty!—and that dies." • The perfect way to get It seems that the coats weren't issued to was four dollars—but he wouldn't sell. acquainted with France all over infantry; and the captain thought we had He said finalK, "I have two thousand again! been impolite to him. They were fussy francs in my (Continued on page 70) • YOU CAN SAVE 20% on French Line steamers (special sailings only) • YOU CAN SAVE 50% on French Railway tickets (up until November IS) SPECIAL SAILINCS Lafayette Sept. 24 Normandie, World's De Grasse Sept. 24 Largest and Fastest Champlain Sept. 25 Ship Sept. 29 Paris Sept. 27 SEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT or American Express Co. OR CONVENTION COMMITTEE 180 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, III. CENTER • SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 70 zMy 'Bit for Baker {Continued from page 6g) clothes now, and I don't want to be America and their fellow-citizens. I may NEVER T found dead with more. But you come be all wet on this, but I feel that every around tomorrow night and I'll give you young American ought to do a hitch in the magazine." the Army at some time in his life. Bargaining for the magazine, I missed I don't claim that I was any great out on the underwear; and we moved shakes as a soldier myself, among our- that night and I didn't get the magazine selves. I think I was a little too old to be either. But it was a nice boost for the the best material; I was thirty -two in the Popular, and, when I got back to Amer- Argonne. You might have reacted dif- ica, I spoke about it to Charlie MacLean, ferently and seen things from another the editor. angle. You might say that things were It sounded like easy lying, but Charlie not generally like that. chanced an editorial on it, speaking of Which reminds me. Those were about men who didn't want to die rich, and of the words used by a corporal in my pla- the high prices that were sometimes paid toon as we lay in Pontanezen after get- for his twenty-cent magazine. "Not ting off the old Mongolia. He was funny. GREETINGS even the roar of the mighty Argonne Isn't it wonderful how some people al- could break our reader's mind from that ways believe what they are told, even of the Vermont Granite Popular story." The man who had been when they saw the thing for themselves Industry to the reading the Popular that evening wrote and know different? AMERICAN LEGION in from Oklahoma, and one of the gun- Mind now, we were just out of the ners of the battery wrote in from Norway, Mongolia, and he certainly knew what a In Annual Convention as he had been wondering ever since what troop-ship was like. He had come over At New York City that bird was doing out there behind the in a four-man bunk on E deck, by the THE BARRE GRANITE ASSOCIATION, INC. shelter-half. If the greater draught of Gulf Stream, in mid-summer, with all AND THE BARRE GUILD the Legion dredges up any of the people ports closed. It was the best that could I've mentioned here, though it's long be done for us, and no use kicking, but ago now, I'd like to hear. you were there, and you know how much The Army and I parted friends. fun it was. Well, he was lying there and Sergeant, character excellent, no de- reading some baloney in a magazine, merits, no A.W.O.L.'s. St. Mihiel and telling about transports and representing Meuse-Argonne. And they didn't add, them as pleasure-cruisers, ringing with "He picked his spots." They were good laughter and song. Even my outdoor u:,7':h,:h;i scouts. berth on the promenade hadn't rated COFFEE ROUTES PAYING to $60 I liked the Army. It did me good. I that description when the Gulf Stream National company needs more men at once to make regular calls on local don't see why we should wait for another climbed the old freighter; and this cor- '--^ routes. No experience needed. Operate on our capital. Big bonus $500.00 cash or Ford Sedan— war before having Universal Service, poral was down on E deck. He read a besides your weekly earnings. Rush name on postcard for do you? The fighting is a small part of few extracts aloud, and he looked at me FREE Facts. ALBERT MILLS, 4081 Monmouth, Cincinnati, O. soldiering, though most important, and and shook his puzzled brow. He dipped is the part that does the soldier no back into his darned magazine to be sure There Is A Thrill in Touring it good. Many of the Army of 191 8 never he had read it right. He could hardly When You... Take- heard a shot fired in anger, I believe, but believe it, but there it was before him in all went back into civilian life with print. broader minds and new ideas, and with at "Gee," he said, "I didn't know it was least an elementary knowledge of hygiene, like that!" cooking, physiology, geography and such Well, soldier, what do you say? Was useful sciences. And learned a lot about the Army like that? They ^Put the ZHbme in Oklahoma ~~ Start an exclusive, independent busi- ness of your own in the booming building {Continued from page 31) field. Experience not necessary. Only in- vestment $10. Secured by materials and exclusive franchise. Get complete informa- tion Box 2606, Memphis, Tenn. in a Departmental organization, they Greeks who were in American service have found it desirable to meet and con- during the World War are members of fer at various times on problems common the youngest Post at Patras. MORATORY- to all Posts. These informal conferences have given way to an established annual Welcome, Comrades Say Posts -TO -ORDER HEARING AID , MADE convention, the first of which was held at Only Radioear uses Athens on May 22d and 23d, with dele- THERE are something like three the Selex-A-Phone to and visitors from each Post in hundred Posts of The American determine your hear- gates ing aid requirements. attendance. Legion in and about the metropolitan The SELEX-A-PHONE has changed the character At this convention the initial steps district of New York City. Nearly every of a nation-wide business. of them has made some special ar- Radioear was the first, were taken for the erection of an Amer- one and remains to-day, the ican Legion Memorial Home in Greece. rangement for entertainment of the out- world's only laboratory- made-to-order hearing The largest Post maintained by the Greek of-town Legionnaires who will fill the city aid.Write for latest folder. veterans is at Athens, which has a mem- to overflowing before the opening of the E. A. MYERS a SONS 109? Radioear Building bership of 544; Tripolis has 112, and 82 Nineteenth Annual National Convention Beverly Road. Pittsburgh, Pa. Over Offices Coast to Coast 80 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 71 on September 20th. Some have made Moore composed of James Ellis, Chair- elaborate arrangements for entertain- man; Karl Goerdel, Bart White and John Cross the ment at their own club homes or at special Callan. The construction was financed by events, while many others will keep open the Post from their savings in a special "BIG POND" house in rooms in hotels. fund over a number of years. New Yorkers come from almost every- The first units of the Center include an Again where. It is almost as difficult to find a adult swimming pool sixty by one native son in Gotham as in Los Angeles. hundred and twenty feet in size and with Patcheye Jones of the Bronx will be look- a depth ranging to ten feet; a pool for the RE-VISIT ing out for Porthole Smith of Moscow, kiddies fifty feet in diameter; a locker Idaho, and perhaps will find him at the room with space for four hundred lockers; EUROPE headquarters established by Patcheye's a softball diamond, carnival and play- Post, and will find a dozen others of the ground equipment. Other features will be . via the old outfit at the reunion dinner, (see long added from time to time as the finances list in the Company Clerk's department). of the Post permit. REX LIDO Richard J. McNally Post, whose club- The dedication was made an event of house is located at 584 West 183d Street, note by the city of Kingsport. The officials, ROUTE in the historic Washington Heights Governor and other high State section near the end of the George county and city officers participated, with Washington Bridge, will not only keep distinguished leaders of the Legion and open house in their spacious club rooms Auxiliary of Tennessee and Virginia. but has arranged for a twenty-four-hour Immediately after the conclusion of the service for visiting Legionnaires in that dedication at Kingsport the official party, section of the city. The Post will establish including Governor Gordon Browning, an information booth on the New York United States Senator George L. Berry, side of George Washington Bridge, across and Congressman B. Carroll Reece—all which most Legionnaires who drive their Legionnaires and speakers on both pro- own cars will come, to direct the visitors grams—motored across the neck of East to down-town sections and to render any Tennessee to Erwin to take part in other aid needed. another notable Legion dedication. At Another Post that has prepared a Erwin, Unaka Post formally dedicated special service because of the wide con- their American Legion Memorial Home tact resident members maintain with and Public Hospital. Legionnaires of like calling in all parts of Several months ago, Unicoi County the country, is Insurance Post, which gave to Unaka Post by deed of gift eleven will officially represent the insurance acres of ground on which stood one three- interests. Official headquarters will be story brick school building, one three- maintained at the Pennsylvania Hotel story dormitory and a gymnasium. Under during the week. the leadership of Commander Frank G. Gentry, of Unaka Post, a plan was de- For the Benefit of the People veloped to remodel and reconstruct the buildings and convert them into institu- COMPLETED at a cost of more than tions to serve the people of Unicoi $40,000, Hammond Post, of Kings- County. The county had no hospital port, Tennessee, on June 12th dedicated facilities. Here was a job made to order. the first units of The American Legion One of the buildings was remodeled and Recreation Center, the realization of a made into a modern hospital unit that dream of community service which has meets all the requirements of the Amer- been uppermost with the Post for many ican Medical Association, and was fully It's "company at ease" the moment you years. The Center is located on nine acres equipped by co-operating agencies and board the REX! This fast Italian super- of ground conveniently located and easily by three Erwin physicians. The school liner leaves New York Sept. 25th—two accessible. Plans for the construction, the building, dedicated as The American days after the convention—and your cornerstone of which was laid in April of Legion Memorial Hall, is designed to easy, outdoor "Lido" life begins. Lounge this year, were carried out by a com- serve the general public as a community around in comfortable beach clothes mittee appointed by Commander E. B. center. Thirty- {Continued on page 72) swim in the immense, sunny pool—get a good tan, good exercise at deck sports. Italy welcomes you with reductions in Tourist Lira, hotel coupons, rail rates; LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE you'll enjoy traveling at so little expense! There are 5 return "Lido" sailings be- Mayor LaGuardia of New York: Aviators Post, New York City. tween Oct. 6 and 28; and 4 November Thomas McMorrow: Greenwich (Connecticut) Post. sailings. Ask for the special folder for Thomas F. Woods: Fort Orange Post, Albany. New York. Legionnaires. Robert E. Condon: Captain Belvidere Brooks Post. New York City. Judge Richard Hartshorne: East Orange (New Jersey) Post. Bernhard Racner: Paris (France) Post. Apply to your own Travel Agent or Sam H. Cobb: Navy-Marine Post, Columbus, Ohio. to American Express Company, official Minott Saunders: Paris (France) Post. transportation agents, 180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. National Commander Colmery: Capitol Post, Topeka, Kansas. J. W. Schlaikjer: Winner (South Dakota) Post. Raymond Sisley: Pacific Post, West Los Angeles, California. Will Graven: Advertising Men's Post, New York City. ITALIAN LINE Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- 624 Fifth Ave. New York naires, are not listed. Offices in Principal Cities. SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine "4 kave REDUCED They "Put the ShCome in Oklahoma WAIST MY 3 INCHES (Continued from page 71) WITH THE WEIL BELT!" ...writes George Bailey five hemlock and balsam trees were city officials and by all of the civi Wear the WEIL BELT for planted on the lawn, each one marked organizations. 10 days at our expense! with a bronze plate and dedicated to a The Post organized eight school patrols will appear many YOU L'nicoi County boy who lost his life in in the schools of Sioux Falls, with an inches slimmer at once and in ten days if your waist the World War. enrolment of more than five hundred line is not 3 inches smaller, it won't cost you a cent. active patrolmen. These youthful guar- "I reduced 8 inches". . .writes dians not only served as safety patrols in Geo. Bailey, "Lost 50 lbs," School Patrol Promotes Safety writes W. T. Anderson. . . . their school areas, but were given a Hundreds of similar letters. AX OUTSTANDING piece of safety special lecture course on safety and IF YOU DO NOT REDUCE your WAIST xi educational work in co-operation leadership. 3 INCHES in 10 DAYS with school and police officials is that The lectures were given on Saturday NO DRUGS, DIETS ...it will cost you nothing! OR EXERCISES accomplished by Harold Mason Post of mornings in a downtown theatre and were • You will be completely Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Legionnaire always well attended by adults, as well as SUPPORTS FALLEN comfortable as this ABDOMINAL amazing reducing belt Dee J. Richardson writes that the safety by the members of the eight patrol MUSCLES gently but persistently campaign was so highly successful that sections. * eliminates fat with every £ move! Gives an erect it has been commended bv school and Boyd P>. Stutler £S athletic carriage . . . ESp —it supports abdominal mm walls .. .keeps digestive Wf organs in place and with y loss of burdensome fat I comes increased pep and greater endurance. Report to Insurance Companies know the Stockholders dancer of fat accumulations. Doctors warn against obesity. Don't . . . wait act today ! (Continued from page 42) !i.i\a [gang THE WEIL COMPANY, INC. I am not asking you to buy any particu- face of occasional attacks on the Legion 559 HILL ST., NEW HAVEN, CONN. lar article; I am asking you to favor those as an organization and the veteran in Send me FREE, in plain envelope, your illustrated folder describing The Weil Belt and full details concerns which advertise in the magazine, general, open his eyes to the value of The of your 10 DAY FREE TRIAL OFFER. if at all possible. American Legion to the nation and to the Name , You are doubtless more interested in particular community?" Address the editorial content than in statistics. It has been my effort this year to inter- City Jtate_ if have given serious thought to est outsiders, the general public, in the Use Coupon or Send Name and Address on Penny Post Card And you the magazine, you have come to the con- work of The American Legion. The clusion that it has a pretty well-defined magazine attempts to do that service, editorial policy. In it the prestige of but it is more concerned with making The American Legion is emphasized. Its the Legionnaires interested in the organi- COMPETITION! function is to stimulate interest in the zation itself than in appealing to the gen- 12 FINEST LEGION CORPS Legion, to mirror back to the organiza- eral public. However, if both purposes NATIONAL PRE-CONVENTION tion the record of its accomplishments, can be accomplished to an appreciable SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th, 2.00 P. M. and the roster of the achievements which extent, the Legion will benefit. NEWARK, N. J., SCHOOLS STADIUM the membership continually seeks to The function of the magazine is not to Sponsored by EAST ORANGE. N. J. Drum & write into that record. initiate plans or suggestions for Legion Bugle Corps and NEWARK, N. J. POST # 10. The magazine is not a newspaper. activities. It does attempt to pass on From the very nature of the publication suggestions which have proved successful it is not possible to publish news stories in various communities. which necessarily must be six or seven For illustration: Some years ago a The American Legion weeks old before they reach the readers. certain Legion Post thought it would be National Headquarters It is, however, a medium for inspiring and well to purchase an ambulance for the Indianapolis, Indiana Financial Statement maintaining Legion morale. For this benefit of its community. This story June 30, 1937 reason a definite purpose is constantly was related in the magazine. As a result, Assets maintained by the editorial staff to inter- we know that several other Legion Posts est the lay member who does not always took the suggestion and purchased ambu- Cash on hand and on deposit.. $ 443,278.32 Notes and Accounts Receivable 49,654.47 attend the post meetings; the one who lances for their communities. Inventories 141.124.77 has never attended a department or In my opinion, the magazine should Invested funds 1,559,644.42 Permanent Investment: national convention; the one whose dues not suggest that Legion Posts purchase Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. 194,601.77 in Office Building, Washington, D. C, less are not always collectible without effort ambulances or engage any other depreciation 127,764.29 on the part of his post officials but who specific activity. But it renders a service Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment 34,364.95 — Deferred charges 17,505.08 constitutes the big majority of the Le- when it tells the story and thereby stimu- 32.567,938.07 gion's membership. lates interest in some worth-while project. No one can tell to what extent the In view of the fact that the magazine Liabilities, Deferred Income magazine is read by members of The is unable to present news to the member- and Net Worth American Legion, and, most assuredly, ship while it is news, we initiated The Current Liabilities 63.583.06 there is no way to measure reader interest National Legionnaire. It is designed to Funds restricted as to use 44,337.63 of non-members. Behind the scenes when publish spot news that is of interest to Deferred Income 349,373.00 Permanent Trust: every issue of the magazine is being the membership. Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. . 194,601.77 Net Worth: planned is this thought: "If a copy of This newspaper, which is distributed Restricted Capital 31,552,548.59 this issue should fall into the hands of .to the membership each month, also car- Unrestricted Capital 363.494.02 31,916,042.61 some outsider—a leading doctor, lawyer, ries information concerning emergencies 32.567.938.07 banker, minister, industrialist, or the and disasters in which the Legion always Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant plain man in the street—would it, in the takes a prominent part. The magazine The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine and the Legionnaire co-operate in mat- tiously if the magazine had not rendered ters of this nature. During the period of assistance. disastrous floods on the Ohio, the Man- Let me again remind you that you are GERMANY aging Editor and one of the two Associate a stockholder in these publications, that Editors of the Magazine aided the Editor they belong to The American Legion, of The National Legionnaire in preparing that the Legion profits by their efforts, Invites You copy and stories about the situations in and that each Legionnaire is benefited the flooded areas. The work could not by them. You are interested in making with proverbial hospitality, from have been done so efficiently and expedi- the Monthly and the Legionnaire better. the castled Rhine to thrilling Berlin, from the Bavarian Alps to HOBOKEN WANTS TO SEE YOU the charming ports of Bremen and Hamburg, home ports of By Adolph A. Langer our ships . . . invites you with Chairman, Citizens'' Committee of Hoboken for Legion Visitors A Citizens' Committee, with Mayor Bernard N. McFeely as hon- m orary chairman, and composed of representatives of the local Chamber 60% of Commerce, service clubs, women's organizations and local Legion RAILROAD FARES Posts, has been formed to furnish hospitality to thoseveterans attending the National Legion Convention in New York and who may wish to revisit Hoboken, the Port of Embarkation, where the famous Leviathan m is still berthed. 40% Hoboken, in other words, wants to see you. Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the United States Maritime Com- BY TRAVEL MARKS mission is aiding in the effort to have the United States Lines, owner of for post-Convention visits of Legion- the vessel, open it to inspection by the Legionnaires during the period naires and families. Passports and of the convention. Special exercises in honor of the Legion are being visas suspended on Membership planned, to be held on the Leviathan, or in the plaza adjoining the pier Certificates. if visits to the ship are not feasible, and with the historic former giant transport as a background. A special sub-committee has been ap- pointed, with City Commissioner Thomas J. McAleer as chairman, to arrange for the parking of the automobiles of Legionnaires, inasmuch as m will for 20% New York City be unable to provide, obvious reasons, parking facilities to the extent required by the visiting ex-service men who will ON THESE FAMOUS SHIPS invade its precincts in September. TO OR FROM These are but a few of the things that Hoboken is planning for members of the Legion. The city's latchstring will be hanging out in IRELAND • ENGLAND more ways than one, for the boys who will find the trip across the Hud- son so easy of accomplishment. The Port of Embarkation wishes to FRANCE GERMANY extend its hospitality, in full measure, to the boys who made First Street ring with the rhythm of their overseas boots back in 1917-18. ( FROM NEW YORK ^ BY NORTH GERMAN LLOYD Bremen Sept. 23 & Oct. 9 Europa Sept. 29 BY HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE Hansa Sept. 24 DeutschlanD Sept. 30 SI fouls Oct. 2 Hew IJorh v "After the Legion CONVENTION" Free book. Get it for plans. Tours of all Europe by American Express Company. Copy from them, or Your Travel Agent, or our 22 offices. Hamburg -American £ine rk north German £loyD m [H^Pl * [NOBIS] laiS) 57 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. |u£xei "Don't Worry, Folks, You're Still in California" SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — " (contents 'Page {Continued from page 2) New York will find the city easier to building has looked since the No Time Like up get around in than any previous con- 1880's. . . . When the George Now to Get in vention site. . . . Geography does Washington Bridge was dedicated Make up to $75 a week It's no trick to make up to $12 the trick—a long, thin, cigar-shaped five years ago the troops marched over a day when you use your car as a McNess Use Your "Store on Wheels." Farmers are buying island with the streets running from it in regular step, confounding all everything they canfrom McNess men. CAR Attractive business-getting prizes, also east to west and the avenues from the theories that the regular stride money-saving deals to customers make to Raise selling McNess daily necessities a snap. south to north, and Broadway cutting sets a bridge swinging and eventually This business is depression-proof. Your diagonally across like a slice from a drops it in the drink . . . They We Supply Capital— Start Now! PAY There's no better work anywhere — pie-knife. . . . The regularity of the build bridges so they won't drop pays well, permanent, need no experience to start and street numbering doesn't begin until nowadays . . . New Jersey Legion- we supply capital to help you get started quick. You start making money first day. Write at once for Mc- Fourteenth Street, after it's Ness Dealer all which naires look for a lot of Atlantic City Book—tells —no obligation. (92-A) plain sailing all the way up to 264th visitors during and after the conven- FURST& THOMAS, 486 Adams St, Freeport, III. Street . . . After that you're in tion . . . East Orange and Newark INVENTORS Yonkers, which is no inconsiderable (New Jersey) Posts of the Legion community in itself. . . . Below will conduct a special drum corps Do you feel you have a valuable invention? A novel invention may produce something salable Fourteenth Street the setup is moder- exhibition on the Sunday preceding if patented. Are you groping in the dark—getting nowhere? Learn how other men with inventions ately confusing, but moderately, . . only the convention—September 19th. . attained success. Write for our FREE Book. "Patent Guide for the Inventor" which tells you and you can't get lost there because The Yankees will be at home in the of fields where inventions bring profits if they are good patented ones. water holds you in on three sides. Yankee Stadium (playing the St. CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN & HYMAN BERMAN Registered Patent Attorneys . . . Don't forget the bridges when Louis Browns) up in the Bronx . . . 2473 ADAMS BLDG. WASHINGTON, D. C you're in New York, from the Brook- There will probably be a little foot- granddaddy of them all, to the ball for AMAZING Pass Cases Far MENI lyn, you to enjoy too. . . . We'll George Washington . . . Bridge- be seeing you. Coins AnJ Valuables Paid in Jnill Stamps Card Patentedloose LeafPass {(Continued from page Pocket 38) Section - 4 Passes — GENUINE STEERH I DE "Talon" Zipper—S3. 90 Postpaid Also with zipper keycase, $S. 90— Deluxe gift set Lodge fellows, business and railroad men all say HALVOR- Divisions had adopted special markings Take, as an example, the insignia of FOI.D is the only one worth while for passes, money and cards. Must lie right—more than 1,000,000 now in use. the If your dealer—luggage or department store or Jewelry for their baggage and equipment before Railway Artillery Reserve shown on store cannot supply you. order direct from us and give dealer's name. If looking for just an ordinary billfold, sailing for overseas—for instance, the page 38. That outfit, variously known Red Diamond of the Fifth Division made as the Expeditionary Brigade, Coast DtpL A-J, CHICAGO HALVORFOLD ILL. its appearance when it sailed in May, Artillery Corps, when it sailed for France 1918; the 31st (Dixie) Division was using in July and August of 191 7, as the First WANTED MEN its insignia of two red capital d's, placed Separate Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps, 1 to cast Christmas Goods, 5 and 10c Novelties, back to back in a red circle, as early as and the 30th Artillery Brigade, C. A. C, Toy Autos, Ashtrays, etc. Can be done in any spare room, basement or garage and no experience November, 191 7. But how many know Railway, consisted of the 42d, 43d, 51st, opportunity to devote spare or necessary. A rare that the 81st Division is credited with 52d, 53d and 81st Regiments of Artillery, full time to profitable work. Write Dept. 9 responsible for the adoption C. A. which manned the guns METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO. being mainly C, heavy 1696 BOSTON ROAD NEW YORK CITY of shoulder insignia? on railway mounts that were used in the When the 81st sailed for France in war. August, 1918, every man was wearing We are told by Legionnaire William SELL MADE-TO a "Wildcat" in cloth on the sleeve of his G. Kuenzel, president of the First Separ- I MEASURE CLOTHES SUITS Do you know uniform. The officers of the Port of ate Brigade, Coast Artillery Association, AS BONUS . hull u-U fin Mad i if you show them BIG Embarkation, Hoboken, asked the War who lives at 678 South East Street, Hol- S.viin-' II vim (to. you can muke oasy money for your' your o»n clo'hes FREE o( cost as a bonus self and eet Department if there was any authority yoke, Massachusetts, that the strange No experience needed. Work spare time. Every garment made-to-measure. Guaranteed to fit and satisfy. Beautiful outfi' — 100 Big Samples—Style Plates for such a marking. Before the reply creature in the center of the insignia is an FREE. Write TODAY! JIM FOSTER, Inc. that no authority existed was received, "Oozlefinch." This mythical bird is 2252-D S. Spaulding Ave., Chicago, the entire Division had sailed. When standing on a rail, with a curved section G. H. Q. of the A. E. F. directed that the of railroad track, from which the guns ARCHES OFF insignia be removed, the division com- were fired, encircling the creature. This H ^WAISTLINE mander protested that it was desirable veteran's association, by the way, is not only from the standpoint of morale, all set to hold a reorganization banquet IN 30 DAYS OR NO COST of dif- reunion during the Legion National "Reduced my waistline from 42 to 37 inches, but it would serve to identify men and says Dr. J. R. Gorsline. "I often recom ferent units that became confused in Convention in New York City, Septem- mend Director Belt to my patients, Director's controlled-stretch elastic cre- battle. G. H. Q. later authorized adop- ber 20th to 23d. All veterans of the sev- ates a gentle flexing action on the abdomen make. S.Youngblood with every move you g tion of insignia by all outfits, as stated. eral regiments mentioned and all who be- says: "It comfortably and automati- M cally exercises away the flabby waist- Jf Some of the insignia might be termed longed to the Coast Artillery Corps Ex- line fat." Director instantly improves appear- Jps naturals—the Keystone for the 28th peditionary Brigade which left Fort ance. Loose abdominal muscles go ^ back where they belong—and thou- f|5. Division of Pennsylvania, the Statue of Adams, Rhode Island, in August, 191 7, sands of men report relief from short- >• ness of breath, restored vigor, and jg>' Liberty for the 77th Division of New are eligible and are invited. aids that Director's exercising-action f|§|| elimination without use of cathartics. York, the Chameleon for the Camouflage You look thinner and years younger at once. Corps, the Duck Board for Camp Pont- DISTINCTIVE insignia or badges to Let us prove onr claims. divisions were Write TODAY (or FREE anezen. But some outfits adopted in- identify and corps 16-page] booklet and 30 Days' Trial Offer. fiivw in teresting and involved designs some of not an innovation of the World War. 360 North Michigan Avenue — LANDON & WARNER IZIl' Chicago. SIH. which were never approved by G. H. Q. During the War Between the States, all The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 75 army corps had special badges that were was moved from the bar to the room usually worn on the hat and this custom where the sessions of the Board were was repeated during the Spanish-Ameri- held. The group became known as the can War. Wearing the insignia on the Gridiron Club. shoulder evidently originated during the "The coat of arms of the Gridiron Club World War. came to life about that time and I de- Although one source of information signed the heraldic shield in which the includes the statement that the Oozle- Oozlefinch was a prominent feature . . . finch insignia of the Railway Batteries, Through all the changes of past years and C. A. C, was never approved by G. H. the advent of the great war, the Oozle- Q., the bird has quite a history, and is finch has remained in deep thought in his still to be seen at its original home at home at Fort Monroe, taken care of by Fort Monroe, Virginia. We wish that the ever faithful Keeney Champman, space were available to reprint the entire who has witnessed many a change at history of the Oozlefinch which Comrade the Fort during the forty-five years Kuenzel obtained through Captain which he has served there as steward. Charles Carey, As- "It is fine that the sistant Curator of Coast Artillery men History at the Unit- who were fortunate ed States National enough to cross the Museum in Washing- seas and go to war ton. Here are the remembered the ex- high lights from the istence of the history written by Oozlefinch — though Colonel E. R. Tilton, not its shape—and C. A. C: adopted it as their MAKE THE TRIP "A number of sacred standard. The years ago, I think Oozlefinch never AFTER THE CONVENTION about 1905, a certain crossed the ocean to officer of the Artillery the A. E. F. in per- AT 20% REDUCTION Corps, then Capiain son, but its spirit led • • • on ocean passage. That means H. M. Merriam, who the Coast Artillery- r was more or less men who went 2Q /o off not on recently increased famed for his stories, over." rates, but on the lower rates in effect spoke often about Jan. 1 ... a double saving! Round the existence of the many vet- HOW trips as low as $236 Cabin, $173 'Oozlefinch.' When erans get the Tourist, $127 Third, on questioned about urge, as we do, to this bird, he was dig occasionally A SPECIAL LEGION PARTY rather vague about Does anyone recognize this through the old per- CONDUCTED BY LEGIONNAIRES describing either its snapshot? It was found in the sonal war archives appearance or its and reminisce a bit Gerardmer Sector in 1918 • • • sailing in the Laconia Sept. 24 habits or where it over the mementoes for Cohh, Cherbourg and Liverpool could be found collected almost led Thos. all that he ever disclosed was that 'the twenty years ago? An average collec- — by J. Kennedy, Post 44, Oozlefinch was a bird which ilew tail tion might contain the bunk assign- Roxhury, Mass. — who conducted foremost to keep the dust out of its eyes.' ment ticket handed you when you the Massachusetts contingent in "Any naturalist, even a nature faker, boarded your transport, a leave pass that 1927. Other group leaders are Jos. having this description, would assume wasn't turned in, probably a piece of P. Riley, Wilson Post, Kings County, that the eyes of the bird were of much shrapnel that almost got you, snapshots N. Y., and Edw. W. Packer of Phil- importance. A little before Christmas of some of the old comrades, and even, as of the year mentioned, Mrs. Tilton, while with us, the 7-jewel nickeled-case wrist adelphia Post 20. The reduction shopping in nearby Hampton, came watch that we used all through the fra- applies on all these sailings: across the present Oozlefinch in a small cas. Evidently many a collection con- Direct to France Direct to England shop, and being impressed by the promi- tains an item or two that was picked up Queen Mary .... Sept. 22 Samaria Oct. 1 Laconia Sent. 2\ ~ *v . « nent eyes of the bird, bought it. I took somewhere in the A. E. F. —a prized no Georgic Oct. 2 Berengana„ Sept.s , 29 the bird over to the Fort Monroe Club souvenir that was lost by some fellow- Queen Mary Oct. 6 Scythia Oct. 9 and let him perch behind the bar. doughboy or gob. Wo Visa Required for Great Britain & Ireland "Early in 1908, the construction of Every so often, found souvenirs are the present Coast Artillery School at sent to us with a request that we try to SPECIAL Fort Monroe was begun. The Torpedo locate their owners or, if the owners School at Fort Totten, New York, was failed to return from the war, their rela- LEGIONNAIRE moved to Fort Monroe and consolidated tives. We have been successful in return- . . with the Artillery School. General ing many such mementoes—usually CRUISE. sailing in the famous world-cruising liner (then Major) R. P. Davis came to Mon- through correspondence, when the own- Carinlhia with Mr. Charles from roe as director of the combined schools er's name and outfit appears on them. Baum Sept. 22 5 P. M. for Nassau and and as president of the Artillery Board. Space restrictions in this department N. Y. at up. It became the custom to adjourn to the prevent us from conducting a regular Havana—9 days, $85 nearby club after the labors of the day. Lost and Found column, but now and Apply to Official Transportation Agents, American Ex- local agent or Cunard White Star Line, The Oozlefinch awoke from his sleep then we get a chance to list a found item press Co., your 25 Broadway and 638 Fifth Ave., New York. of several years, being aroused by the herein. noise of the shaking of the dice-box by The snapshot picture we reproduce of members of the Artillery Board. It in- a woman in her garden came to us with CUNARD WHITE STAR sisted upon joining the festivities and so another print (Continued on page 76) SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — — MANY NEVER 'Paid in Cjfull SUSPECTCAUSE {Continued from page 75) showing a woman in a launch. These New York, while the famous 26th and OF BACKACHES two prints were sent with the following 28th Infantry Regiments are stationed This Old Treatment Often letter from Legionnaire C. C. Hamilton at Plattsburgh Barracks, Fort Niagara Brings Happy Relief of Tobaccoport, Tennessee: and Fort Ontario, New York. Further Many sufferers relieve nagging backache quickly, once they discover that the real cause of their trouble "The two snapshots I am enclosing reunion information may be obtained may be tired kidneys. The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking the were no doubt lost by some soldier in from Joseph V. McCabe, reunion chair- out the blood. Most people excess acids and waste of France. I found these pictures in the man, in Broadway, New York City. pass about 3 pints a day or about 3 pounds of waste. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and Gerardmer Sector, Vosges Mountains. Another divisional reunion that will burning shows there may be something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Would be glad to return them to the no doubt establish a record is that of the An excess of acids or poisons in your blood, when owner if we can find him. I think the 77th Division Association. For due to functional kidney disorders, may be the cause New of nagging backache, rheumatic pains, lumbago, leg pictures were lost by some man of the York City is the 77th Division's home pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, pufnness under the eyes, headaches and Sixth Division. town—the Statue of Liberty its divisional dizziness. . _ , "I would also be glad to locate anyone emblem. Its clubhouse, located at 28 Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan s Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They of my outfit, Company M, 51st Infantry, East 39th Street, New York City, houses give happy relief and will help the IS miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Sixth Division, who has a print of the all of its activities and its memorial hall Get Doan's Pills. company picture that was taken at Camp the only World War division that can Learn Profitable Profession Merritt, New Jersey, a few days before boast of such a clubhouse. That is where in QO days at Home we were discharged. I lost my copy of 77th men will register. A large delega- Salaries of Men and Women in the fascinating1 pro- the picture and would like to get a new tion, including Major General Robert fession of Swedish Massage run as high as $40 to prefer open their of- $70 per week but many to own if possible." Alexander (retired), the division's fices. Large incomes from Doctors, hospitals, sani- one war- tariums andai private patients come to those who qualify through our training. Reducing time commander, is expected from the ilone offers rich rewards for specialists. Write for Anatomy Charts, sample les- 1AST call for outfit reunions to be held West. reunion dinner dance, son sheets and booklet-They'reFREE. The and THE College of Swedish Massage J in New York City, September 20th with General Alexander as guest of honor, 1601 Warren Blvd.. Dept. 675, Chicago M ye. iuerctior to National College of to 23d, is sounded insofar as the Legion will be at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, SUITS Given asBonusBesides Magazine is concerned. If your outfit West End Avenue and 73d Street, on the O' COATS Large Cash Profits, isn't included in the following list, there night of September 2 2d. Jack Kantor, FREE PANTS Premiums and Gifts is still time to notify the Reunions chairman of the reunion committee, 28 Sell oi.ly (4) suits to get a FREE SUIT. No limit to number of FKEE garments you may earn. Wholesale prlees Committee of The American Legion 1937 East 39th Street, New York City, can $17.99—$21.9!)—$24.99. Sample line FREE. No experience needed to make big money. All garments individually cut and Convention Corporation, Suite 31 12, 30 supply additional information. tailored to measure. Satisfaction or money back guarantee. Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, of Details of the following national con- Square Deal Tailoring Co., Inc. plans for a reunion. in 316 W. Van Buren St., Dept. Y-l, Chicago, III. vention reunions New York City may The American Legion 1937 Convention be obtained from the Legionnaires listed: Corporation will issue a headquarters Train Travel In Enjoy Swift Legion Women Reunion banquet and enter- directory of the various reunion groups — Comfort... Take- tainment for all Legion women, Hotel Biltmore, listed with the Reunions Committee of Monday evening, Sept. 20. Amy F. Patmore, chmn., Natl. Conv. Corp., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the Corporation and make this directory Suite 3112, New York City. Natl. Organization Would War Nurses— Hq. available to all Legionnaires who attend at Park Central Hotel, 7th Av. at 55th St., N. Y. C, the convention. This will enable you to registration starting Sun., Sept. 19. Exec, meeting, Sun., 10 p. m., Park Central Hotel; annual reunion find your old outfit after you arrive in and breakfast, Tues., 7:30 a. m., Sept. 21, Hotel Pennsylvania, 7th av. at 33d st. ; annual meeting to City. New York follow breakfast. Maude F. Mann, natl. comdr., Women's service groups are requested 120 Ward St., Paterson, N. J. The National Yeomen F—Annual reunion din- to report to Miss Amy F. Patmore, Chair- ner, followed by business meeting and election of officers, Hotel Martinique, Broadway at 32d St., YOUR man of the Legion Women's Activities N. Y. C, Sun., Sept. 19, 6 p. m. Mrs. Irene M. Committee at the Convention Corpora- Brown, chmn., Room 2307, 26 Broadway, N. Y. C. LATEST American Legion Founders—Reunion dinner tion address shown above. of all delegates to Paris and St. Louis caucuses, Hotel Roosevelt, N. Y. C, Sun., Sept. 19, 7 p.m. ADDRESS? With most of the present-day units of Irwin L Rackoff, secy., 6 E. 45 St., N. Y. C. the First Division stationed in New York Soc. of 1st Div.—Annual reunion convention. I S the address to which this copy of Hq. at Pennsylvania Hotel, N. Y. C, where reunion THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGA- City or New York State, the Society of banquet will be held evening of Sept. 22. Review, etc., Governors Island, during Division expects to have the entertainment, at ZINE was mailed correct for all near the First that day, Joseph V. McCabe, 111 Broadway, New future issues? If not, please fill in largest annual convention and reunion York City. 2d Div.—Second Div. Post, A. L., will hold re- this coupon and mail it to THE ever held by veterans of that famous out- union with Hq. at 3221 Broadway, N. Y C. Dance AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, and entertainment, Center Hotel, 108 W. 43d st., on fit. It is estimated that over 20,000 vet- 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Sept. 23. C. G. Cornelius, 3221 Broadway, New York City. Ind. erans of the First will be on hand to cele- Soc. of 3d Div. —Reunion of all 3d Div. vets From August 1937, and until further brate their twentieth reunion. Head- under auspices N. Y. Branch. S. H. Kornbluth, pres., 506 W. 213th St., New York City. notice, mailing address for The quarters will be established in the Penn- my 4th Div. Natl. Assoc.—National reunion, Hotel American Legion Magazine is sylvania Hotel for convention week. Pennsylvania, Sept. 19-23. Carlton E. Dunn, chmn., 8514-160th st., Jamaica, L. I., N. Y. NEW ADDRESS There will be a full day of reviews, en- 26th (Y ankee) Div. Vets. —National conven- Benjamin Pitman, pres., N. Y. Chap., tertainment, outfit meetings and other tion reunion. YD, 74 West Park pi., Stamford, Conn. Name 27th Div. Assoc. Reunion and dinner, Hotel (PLEASE PRINT) activities on Wednesday, September 22d, — McAlpin, N. Y. C, afternoon and evening, Sept. on Governors Island, where the 16th 20th. For details and copy Orion Messenger, write Address. to Eugene R. Collins, pres.. Observer bldg., Troy, Infantry is stationed in Fort That Jay. N. Y. 29th Div. Assoc. National convention reunion. .State. same night, the big reunion dinner will — City H. J. Lepper, adjt., 343 High st., Newark, N. J. be held in the Pennsylvania Hotel. The 37th Div. A. E. F. Vets. Assoc. —Hq. at Hotel Lincoln, N. Y. C, during Legion natl. convention Post No.. .Dept.. reunion will be attended by their World Jas. A. Sterner, secy., 1101 Wyandotte bldg., Colum- OLD ADDRESS War commanders, Generals Charles P. bus, Ohio. 42d (Rainbow) Vets. —Reunion and dinner US Summerall, Robert Lee Bullard and der auspices Father Duffy Chapter, N. Y. C. Address. Theodore L. White, Jr., Room 1006, 220 Broadway, Frank Parker, all now retired. Present New York City. City .State. division headquarters and the 18th Infan- 77th Div. Assoc.—Reunion and open house, 77th Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th st., N. Y. C. Reunion try are at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, dinner, Riverside Plaza Hotel, West End av. and The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 77 73d st., Sept. 22. Jack Kantor, chmn., 28 E. 39th 48th Inf. — Reunion, Hotel New Yorker, N. Y. C. St., New York City Banquet, Sept. 22. Harry McBride, 39 Mulberry 78th Div. Assoc.—-Hq. for registration of Light- av., Newport News, Va. ning vets at Legion national convention will be 50th Inf.—Regimental reunion. George S. maintained. John Kennedy, secy., New Hope, Pa. Brown, 53 First St., Newark, N. J. 80th (Blue Ridge) Div. —Reunion and dinner, 52d Inf.—Reunion. P. J. Cingerana, 885-9th av.. TENSHUN!! Sept. 20. C. C. Agate, 330 W. 42d St., N. Y. C. New York City. 81st (Wildcat) Div. —Reunion dinner during 20th Inf., Co. K and M. G. Co.—Reunion. Legion national convention. Jas. E. Cahall, natl. H. H. Priceman, 1041-60th st., Brooklyn, N. Y. adjt., Gateway Motor Co., Greensboro, N. C. 107th Inf., Hq. Co.—Reunion, Hotel McAlpin, 82d Div. Assoc.—National reunion. Hq. at Hotel N. Y. C, Sept. 20. Al Burgess, 10 Wall St., New LEGIONNAIRES Roosevelt, N. Y. C, opening Sept. 19. Dinner on York City. Sept. 20. Write R. J. McBride, secy., 28 E. 39th st., 308th Inf., Co. L—Reunion dinner, Mon., Sept. N. Y. C, for details and your copy of the All 20, Rosoffs, 43d St., near Broadway, N. Y. C, 6:30 A merican. p. m. R. Mannering, 567-92d St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 89th Div. War Society—Hq. to be established 325th Inf., Co. L—Reunion dinner with 82d during Legion national convention where vets may Div. A. W. Silliman, Ardsley, N. Y. o2 £ Cameronia, Oct. 15th. . . . Rate $96 Complete detaih from American Express Co., official transportation agency, your local travel agent or ANCHOR Offices in New York • Chicago • Cleveland • Philadelphia Boston • Neiv Orleans • San Francisco • Toronto SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 78 THE 'Paid in Cjfiull American Legion Magazine {Continued from page 77) INDEX of Edward B. Geary, 10 Old Orchard rd., Saco> 3d Heavy Mob. Ord. Repair Shop—Reunion. ADVERTISERS Maine. F. S. Earnshaw, Moundsville, W. Va. 404th Tel. Bn. —Reunion. Leonard E. Stanton, Q. M. Depot 8, Quai de Longwic, Dijon— 469 DeWitt av., Belleville, N. J. Reunion. David E. Posner, 6 State St., Rochester, 418th Tel. Bn., S. C. —Reunion. Report to N. Y. Mfg. 59 Akron Lamp & Company Alderman C. H. Robillard, City Hall, New York 314th Sup. Co., Q. M. C—Arthur Booth, 1801 Albert Mills 70 City. Natl. Bank bldg., Detroit, Mich. American Airlines, Inc 61 1st Depot Bn., S. C. Res., Ft. Wood, N. Y. 316th Sup. Co., Q. M. C, and Post Q. M. Det., American Telephone & Telegraph Co 55 Reunion, 165th Armory, N. Y. C. Silas A. Waddell, Gievres—Reunion at club-rooms F. W. Galbraith Anchor Line 77 627 Chislett st., Pittsburgh, Pa. Post, 313 E. 10th St., N. Y. City I. D. Ettinger, Ordnance Det., Domgermain—5th reunion. comdr., care of Post. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Fabian F. Levy, 419 W. Upsal St., Philadelphia, Pa. 318th Sup. Co., Q. M. C. —Annual reunion. Budweiser 35 Chatham (Mass.) Air Sta. —Reunion. Louis William (Speed) Leckie, R. 1, Wantagh, L. I., N. Y. White, 240 Centre st., Room 115, New York City. 319th Sup. Co., Q. M. Milton Gordon, 300 Bernstein Red Star Lines 61 C— 24th Aero Sqdrn. —Reunion. Henry J. Fisette, Madison av., Room 604, New York City. Barre Granite Assn., Inc., The 70 108 Byers St., Springfield, Mass. 324th Sup. Co.—Arthur C. Dennison, 1343 Bean. L. L 66 31st Aero Sqdrn. — Reunion, Prince George Princeton av., Philadelphia, Pa. Brewers Board of Trade, Inc 5 Hotel, N. Y. C, Sept. 20. James B. Chambers, 325th Sup. Co., and Q. M. Office, Camp de 155 Winthrop st., Winthrop, Mass. Meucon—T. F. McNamara, 161 W. 36th st.. Carter Medicine Company 68 95th Aero Sqdrn., 1st Pursuit Group—G. C. New York City. Cities Service Company 7 Talmage, 20 N. Green st., East Stroudsburg, Pa. La Societe des Soldats de Verneuil—Re- College of Swedish Massage 76 96th Aero Sqdrn. —Reunion. Carl C. Blanchard, union-meeting, Cabin Grill, 35 W. 33d St., N. Y. C., Farmington, N. H. Mon. night, Sept. 20. J. Continental Distilling Corp Cover III A. McCarthy, c/o 5th Av. 113th Aero Sqdrn., Sqdrn. C—A. K. West- Assoc., Empire State bldg., New York City. Cunard White Star Ltd 75 brook, Hobart Co., 71 Madison av., New York City. M. T. C. Verneuil Vets. —Reunion. Eugene L. 158th Aero Sqdrn. Reunion. Harry Levens, Blumenreich, 346 W. 34th St., New City. Doan's Pills 76 — York 3354 N. 25th St., Milwaukee, Wise. 311th M. T. C. (Camp Holabird)—Reunion. Emblem Division 54 Beaumont Overseas Club, Inc., 200-201st L. V. Doherty, 391 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. (496-497th) Aero Sqdrns.—20th annual reunion, 414th Motor Truck Co.—Ed. S. McGinnis, Ford Motor Company 8 N. Y. C, Sept. 18, at McAlpin Hotel—also Hq. 315 E. Brown st., Norristown, Pa. Foster, Jim, Inc 74 during convention. Warren E. Wastie, secy., 6 Co. A, 439th Motor Sup. Trn., M. T. C— 1st Cedar St., Lynbrook, L. I., N. Y. natl. reunion. H. Frank Jones, 395 Broadway, Franklin Institute 55 225th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion. L. J. Ford, 628 New York City. French Government 36 W. York St., Philadelphia, Pa. M. T. Co. 466, M. S. T. 417—Stephen S. Stasi- French Line 69 309th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion. Waldo E. Mer- owski, 34 Monroe st., Chicopee Falls, Mass. Frontier Asthma Company 59 ritt, 2 Church St., Allentown, N. J. 302d Trench Mortar Btry.—Rev. (ex-sgt.) Furst-McNess Company 74 380th & 828th Aero Sqdrns.—Reunion. Jay Walter F. Hoffman, Haverstraw, N. Y. N. Helm, 940 Hill st., Elgin, 111. Serv. Park Unit 381, Camp Upton—Frank Geppert Studios 66 486th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion. William A. Greenspan, 202 E. 100th St., New York City. German Railroads Information Office 79 Skinner, 75 Cedar st., Bangor, Maine. 311th Repair Unit, Co. C, M. T. C—Reunion. Gillette Safety Razor Company 63 619th Aero Sqdrn. —Reunion. George Mitton, J. W. Jones, Box 11, Elba, N. Y. ex-sgt., Ladd, 111. M. T. S. Trn. 402, Co. Reunion. Goodrich, B. F., Company 57 306— Mason H. 641st Aero Sqdrn. Reunion. Robert D. Taylor, Palmer, 999 Columbus av.. New York City. Greyhound Management Company 65 — 61 Endwell St., Johnson City, N. Y. Remount Sqdrn. 303—W. J. Calvert, 519 State Sqdrns. J. Palladine, Halvorfold Company, The 74 190th, 191st & 343d Aero — Mutual bldg., Worcester, Mass. 118 N. Pittsburg st., Connellsville, Pa. Camp Rochambeau, St. Pierre-des-Corps— Hamburg-American Line-North German Lloyd. 73 103d Aero Pursuit Sqdrn. (Escadrille John J. Santry, 202 Pond St., So. Weymouth, Mass. Hudson River Day Line 68 Lafayette)—Reunion. Write to Harry T. Lokan, Personnel, Railhead, 10th Area, Rolampont 71st st., Cleveland, Ohio. Ernest Vader, 132 E. Lincoln 68 1917 E. — R. av., Oshkosh, Instruction Bureau 2d Prov. Wing., Park Place, Houston—Reunion. Wise. Ironized Yeast Company 80 James N. MacLean, 84 William St., New York Harvard Base Hosp. No. 5—Reunion, Sept. 21. Italian Line 71 City. Abraham Green, 36 W. 44th St., New York City. U. S. School of Mil. Aeronautics, Grad. Base Hosp. No. 44—Reunion. Thomas McGann, Kalamazoo Stove Company 64 Class 5, Georgia Tech.—Frank G. Folsom, U. S. 296 AUston st., Brookline, Mass. Nav. Torpedo Sta., Newport, R. I. Base Hosp. No. 116 19th annual reunion, Hotel Warner 74 — Landon & A. S. C.. 3d Co., Hq. Bn., Tours—Reunion, McAlpin, N. Y. C, Sat., Sept. 18. Dr. Torr W. LaSalle Extension University 62 Hotel Pennsylvania, N. Y. City J. B. Sullivan, 5705 Harmer, 415 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company 5th st., N. W., Washington, D. C. Base Hosp. No. 117—Reunion. Mrs. Roland Chesterfields Cover II Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets. — Estey (Astrid Sand), 30 W. 54th St., N. Y. C, or Velvet 53 Annual reunion. Hq. in Parlor D, Hotel Roosevelt, Paul O. Komora, 50 W. 50th St., N. Y. C. N. Y. C, will open Sept. 19 for convention period. Base Hosp. No. 136 5th annual reunion. Grover Los Angeles County Council 40 & 41 — H. R. Hollenbeck, 117 Seedorf st., Battle Creek, C. Potts, 947 Keswick blvd., Louisville, Ky. Metal Cast Products Company 74 Mich. Evac. Hosp. No. 8—Annual reunion, Hotel Reunion at Fidelity Midwest Radio Corporation 62 31st Balloon Co.— Post, McAlpin, N. Y. C, Sat., Sept. 18, 6 p. m. H. C. A. L., 799-7th av., N. Y. C. John C. Eidt, chmn. Idler, secy., Gaul & E. Susquehanna av., Phila- Milner Hotels, Incorporated 59 Tank Corps Vets.—Reunion and dinner under delphia, Pa. Modern Camera Exchange 55 auspices Tank Corps Post, A. L. Henry W. Bell- Evac. Hosp. No. 14—Hq. at Lexington Hotel, Mothersiirs Seasick Remedy 62, 70, 76 smith, adjt., P. O. Box 589, Islip, L. I., N. Y. N. Y. C. Reunion lunch, Sept. 22, 5 p. m. J. Charles Myers, E. A. & Sons 70 Chemical Warfare Serv. (Edgewood Arsenal Meloy, Room 3050, Grand Central Terminal, and elsewhere)—Reunion and organization. George N. Y. C. National Distillers Products Corp. W. Nichols, R. 3, Box 75, Kingston, N. Y. Base Hosp., Camp Dix—Register with Henry C. Old Overholt 39 1st Gas Regt. —Proposed reunion. Leon Meyer- Mades, Highfield rd., Colonia, N. J. National Pre-Convent ion Drum & Bugle Corps owitz, 51 Chambers St., New York City. Base Hosp., Camp A. A. Humphries—Wilfred J. 3d Army M. P. Bn. (Coblenz) Reunion and Harris, 1928 Bristol court, Scranton, Pa. Competition 72 — organization. C. P. McGee, New Iberia, La. Camp Sevier Base Hosp. Assoc. —Reunion and Hose Co. 324 Reunion. Harry dinner, Hotel Governor Clinton, F. O'Brien, C. A., & Hyman Berman 74 Fire Truck — N. Y. C. Wm. C. Davis, 71 Main St., Ashland, Mass. Alexander, Jr., Kearny, N. J. Patterson School 59 14th Ordnance Co., Camp Raritan—Reunion. Conv. Hosp. No. 4, Nice, France—Reunion. Perera Company 61 Albert Thompson, 160 Pearl St., New York City. Rex Martin, Blacksville, W. Va. Polident 64 Premier-Pabst Sales Company 4 Rawleigh, W. T., Company 66 Reynolds, R. J., Tobacco Company Camels Cover IV Prince Albert 49 Sani-Flush 66 Savage Arms Corporation 60 Schenley Products Co., Inc. Old Quaker 43 Schick Dry Shaver, Inc 3 Schieffelin & Company Hennessy 51 Seagram Distillers Corporation 47 Simon & Schuster, Inc 45 Square Deal Tailoring Company 76 Sullivan Company, The 70 Superior Match Pants Company 64 Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc 58 Trotwood Trailers, Inc 64 "21" Brands Ballantine's 59 L^nited States Lines 67 Lltica-Duxbak Corporation 60 Viquesney Studios 68 Weil Corset Company 72 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Pfoducts Please Mention The American Legion Magazine GRAND TOUR OF GERMANY "Mind If I Smoke?" Med. & Q. M. Det., Fort Porter, N. Y. —Tom U. S. S. Oosterdijk—Reunion. G. A. Starling. 903 Beatty, 284 Brook av., N. Plainfield, N. J. E 39th st., Savannah, Ga. Veterinary Hosp. No. 0— Reunion. Colenzo H. U. S. S. Paducali — Reunion. Harry A. Fair- Hoffmire, ex-eapt., Adrian, Mich. brother, Hawthorne, N. J. Walter Reed Hosp. — Reunion of vets in wards U. S. S. l'lattsburg — Reunion. Daniel F. Du<;an, 12, 13, 18 & 53, in 1919. Chris Evensen, Box 121, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y. Templeton, Mass. U. S. S. Quinnehaug—Edward J. Stewart, New Club Camp Hosp. 52—1th reunion and banquet. York Times, 229 W. 43d St., N. Y. C. Miss Sarah Lawrence, 45 Prospect pi., N. Y. C. U. S. S. Rijndam — Reunion. James F. McKee- AND U. S. Army Amb. Corps—Reunion and banquet gan, 145 Greenpoint av., Brooklyn, N. Y. Hotel Forrest, W. 49th st. & Broadway, N. Y. C„ U. S. S. San Diego— Reunion of Marine det. at Sept. 22, 8 p. m., under auspices New York I SAAC Hotel New Yorker, N. V. C. Dee Miller White and Club. Wm. R. Best, comdr., 130 William st., N. Y.C. Jos. R. Snell, Marshalltown, Iowa. SAVINGS U. S. Army Amb. Corps Sec. 616 (Norton IT. S. S. Seattle— Reunion. Henry P. Fink, 85 Harjes Sec. 5)— Reunion banquet, Sept. 21. Park st., Easthampton, Mass. S. Simpson, American Rolling Mill Co., Middle- U. S. S. Susquehanna—Reunion. Carl Spencer, Glorious days in beautiful Berlin. Foam- town, Ohio. Ocean View, Norfolk, Va. in joyful Graves Reg. Serv. Unit 304 —Reunion, Sept. U. S. S. Volunteer— Reunion. Edward J. Burns, ing steins and happy songs 21. C. F. Pitt, 373 Fourth av., N. Y. C. 377 Fifth av., San Francisco, Calif. Munich. Romance at dear old Heidel- 78th Co., 6th Marines— Reunion. Mai. Melvin U. S. S. Westover— Reunion of survivors. Frank L. Kruiewitch, 316 Federal bldg., Washington & C. Benna, 701 Madison st., Oak Park, 111. berg. A sunny trip on the picturesque Christopher sts., N. Y. C. U. S. S. WiOuXmina—Walter G. Peterson, Joseph- Wiedersehen with old 82d Co., 6th Marines— Reunion and dinner with thai & Co , 120 Broadway, N. Y. C. Rhine. A happy 2d Div. under auspices 2d Div. Post, A. L., 3221 S. S. Athenia Reunion of — survivors. G. E. friends at Coblenz and a cheerful wel- Broadway, N. Y. C. Deane N. Harding, 119 Pitney, 48 Davenport av., Greenwich, Conn. Appleton st., Cambridge, Mass. U. S. Sub-chaser No. 23—Thomas J. Hutton, come throughout Germany. Sixth Battle Sqdrn., Grand Fleet—Reunion Pompton Lakes, N. J. of all vets of ships in fleet. C. Ivar Peterson, C. O. U. S. Sub-chaser No. 23—Reunion. Fred Cat- These and many other attractive fea- Miller Co., Stamford, Conn. — una, 1525 E. 26th st., Brooklyn, N. Y. North Sea Suicide Fleet (Mine Sweepers) U. S. Sub-chaser No. 81 —Reunion. Gerard tures of grand tours of Germany are pi., Passaic, N. M. Wolffe, 34 Belmont J. Fernandez, 215 E. Grand av , Bellmore, L. I., N. Y. U. S. Nav. Air Sta., Killinosholme, Eng. — U. S. Sub-chaser No. 90— Reunion. John C. available to you under the official tour Reunion dinner. K. Van Court, 8 Lee av., Madison, Perry, Acushnett rd., Mattapoisett, Mass. of the American Express N. J. U. S. Sub-chaser No. 17 4— Reunion. H. R. arrangements U. S. S. Algonquin—Reunion. Malcolm Letts, Sehaeffer, 9 Rockefeller Plaza., N. Y. C. Company for American Legion post- ex-shipswriter, 3532 Sixth av., Los Angeles, Calif. U. S. Sub-chaser No. 252—E. L. Anderson, 92 U. S. S. Batch (Queenstown Forces)—Reunion. E. Elm av., Wollaston, Mass. Convention tours of Europe. Specify Irwin E. Harris, Granite Falls, Minn. U. S. Sub-chasers 3/,3-1,-o-R—Walter (Buck) when U. S. S. Aztec— Reunion. Edw. M. Manookian, 8 Fulmer, 4405 Unruh st., Philadelphia, Pa. one of these tours of Germany Stevens st., Maiden, Mass. S. Submarine Flotilla, U. 8th Div.—A. W. making reservations. Write us for illus- S. S. Coamo, Armed Guard—Reunion. George I.awton, Jr., 179 Green st., Fairhaven, Mass. Shanks, 81 Wilson et., Brooklyn, N. Y. U. S. Nav. Base 29, Cardiff, Wales—Reunion. trated literature. You may never again U. S. S. Connecticut—Reunion and organization. P. H. Tuttle, Box 305, Somerville, N. J. Box 487 Closter, N. J. F., be able to enjoy these extraordinary F. N. Knight, ; U. S. N R. Annapolis Rifle Range—Ernest U. S. S. Dyer—Reunion. Edgar Kennedy, 76 Dalman, 121 Crescent St., Allegan, Mich. reductions: Hall St., Springfield, Mass. U. S. N. Nav. Proving Ground, Indian Head, U. S S. Elcanc, Asiatic Sta.—Bert M. Mooney, Md. —F. G. Dawson, 5740 Woodrow, Detroit, 136 Passaic St., Trenton, N. J. Mich. 20% OFF transatlantic round trip U. S. S. Essex— Reunion. H. R. Sehaeffer, 9 Syracuse (N. Y.) Camp Band and Hq. Co.—Al Rockefeller Plaza, N. Y. C Pearson, Legion Club, Mankato, Minn. steamer tickets, in all classes. U. S. S. George Washington —Reunion. Andrew Women World War Veterans—Reunion lunch- Butterworth, 89-88 214th pi., Hollis, L. I., N. Y. eon, A. W. A. Club, 353 W. 57th st., N. Y. C. Sept. 40% OFF the regular Reichsmark U. S. S. Housatonic—Reunion. Ross H. Currier, 20, 1 p. m. Dorothy Lewis, chmn., 272 W. 34th St., rate through the use of Travel Marks. 108 Massachusetts av., Boston, Mass. N. Y. C. U. S. S. Illinois — Reunion. John F. Handford, Vets, op A. E. F. Siberia — Reunion-banquet, 31 E. Tulpehockenst., Philadelphia, Pa. Sept. 21. Claude P. Deal, 920 Chester Williams 60% OFF all German Railroad Indiana V. Gallagher, Monroe, Mich. Los Angeles, Calif. U. S S. —C bldg., tickets for your entire trip. U. S. S. Iowa—Wendell R. Lerch, 400 Front st., Legion Last Man's Clubs—17th Last Man's Berea, Ohio. Club, Cook Co., Chicago, 111., will entertain all your identification U. S. S. Kittery—Reunion. D. J. Haggerty, ex- Last Man's Clubs of Legion. Walter Schalk, secy FREE VISA on , exec, offer., Box 16, Elizabeth, N. J. 11 E. Hubbard st., Chicago. certificate. Not even a passport needed. U. S. S. Leviathan—Reunion and dinner dance, American Vets of Foreign Allied Armies— Sept. 21. H. R. Sehaeffer, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, Reunion. R. J. Lewis, Apache Hotel bldg., Las N. Y. C. Vegas, Nev. U. S. S. Mohican—Edward Emmons, 38 Orchard Hawaiian Legionnaires—Members of Haw- GERMAN RAILROADS rd., Chatham, N. J aiian Legion Posts planning to march in convention Reunion. W. Tritt, are U. S. S. Narheeta— H. 2442 parade asked to write to Maj W. J. Gilbert, OFFICE Nostrand av., Brooklyn, N. Y. past comdr., Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, N Y. INFORMATION U. S. S. Nevada—Reunion. Jesse H. Davis, Paris (France) Post — Reunion of former mem- 665 Fifth Avenue Stanton, Tenn. Deis of Paris Post. John A. Savasta, 7th Dist NEW YORK U. S. S. New Jersey—Reunion. Ralph Scott, R. Court, 314 W. 54th St., N. Y. C, or Jack E. Specter, 333 N. Michigan Avenue 251 Post Street 3, Pendleton, Ind. Hotel Paris, West End av., N. Y. C. CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO U. S. S. Niagara—Reunion. Irving E. Ellis, 26 Military Order of the Purple Heart—Con- Robert St., New Britain, Conn. vention meeting. H. J. (Continued on page 80) SEPTEMBER, 1937 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazinf — 8o GIRLS LAUGHED "Paid in Cjfull {Continued from page 79) AT HIS SKINNY FORM! Lepper, natl. adjt., 343 High St., Newark, N. J. 359th Inf., Co. B—Reunion, Legion'Hut, Den- Camp Dix Hq. Co. —Reunion. Wm. P. Boehmer, ton, Tex., Sept. 12. Fred Hopkins, Jr., Krum, Tex. — till he gained Box 1318, Norfolk, Va. 51st Pioneer Inf.—14th annual reunion, Hud- The Society of Plattsburg—All vets who at- son, N. Y., Sun., Sept. 12. Marx Brozzio, chmn., tended May and Aug. O. T. C. at Plattsburg, Ft. State Armory, Hudson. 14 POUNDS QUICK Niagara, Ft. Myer, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ft. Benj. Har- 11th F. A. Vets. Assoc. — 12th annual reunion, rison, Ft. Sheridan, Leon Springs and The Presidio, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 4-6. R. C. Dickieson, secy.- this new San Francisco, invited to 20th anniversary reunion. treas., 6140 Sanders St., Elmhurst, Long Island, James N. MacLean, 84 William St., New York City. New York. easy way 322d F. A. Assoc.—18th annual reunion, Miamis- of reunions at times and burg, Ohio, Sept. 11. L. B. Fritsch, secy., P. O. NOTICES Box 324, Hamilton, Ohio. places other than the Legion Na- 327th F. A.—Annual reunion, Taylorville, 111., Sept. 12. C. C. May, secy., 1924 N. 5th st., Spring- tional Convention follow: field, 111. 328th F. A. Vets. Assoc.—14th annual reunion, Yeomen F—4th annual Armistice reunion, Hotel Durant, Flint, Mich., Sept. 4-6. L. J. Lynch, Bronx, N. Y., Sat. afternoon, Nov. 6. Sally R. Wolf, adjt., 1747 Madison av., S. E., Grand Rapids, chmn., 3400 Tryon av., Bronx, N. Y. Mich. Soc. of 5th Div.—Annual reunion, Hotel New 313th F. S. Bn. —Annual reunion, Chamberlain Yorker, New York City, Sept. 4-6. Walter E. Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 2. Dr. Chas. L. Aebischer, chmn., 1201 University av., New York Jones, secy., Gilmore City, Iowa. City; For sample copy The Red Diamond, official 318th F. S. Bn. Assoc. —Reunion dinner No; fAoulpe Id better5 stavf (joeaHKq epea^V.? T-HiouqM- I Saw Lpu. W a. Complete pevolutfav HrkaV -hwe !!? -tHe. Saluting Demon op the a •e.f. had extra*- special salutes" For. Extra- special New IRONIZED YEAST tablets Friends, and Favorites give thousands 10 to 25 lbs. 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Why they build up so quick reunion, Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, Z. Maurice Shea, secy., 129 Main st., Webster, Scientists have discovered that many are thin and run- Sept. 4-6. Yearly dues of one dollar bring you the Mass. down simply because they do not get enough yeast vita- official publication, The Division News. Report to 5th Enqrs., Co. D Reunion, Morris, 111., Sept. mins (Vitamin B) and iron in their daily food. One of — 4-6. the richest sources of marvelous health-building Vitamin James A. Sterner, secy., 1101 Wyandotte bldg., Fred Class, Morris. B is the special yeast used in making English ale, world- Columbus. Also look for divisional headquarters 34th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—-Annual reunion, renowned for its medicinal properties. at Legion National Convention in New York City. Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 5. George Now by a new and costly process, perfected after long 91st Div. Assoc.—19th Annual Convention- Remple, secy., 2521 N. 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