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( (fforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thejollowiny purposes: Do uphold and defend the Constitution- ofthe "ZJnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredpercent !7lmericanisrn to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the (freatTWar; to inculcate a sense ofIndiiddual obligation to the com- munity,stale 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.Jreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfdness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion.

June, 193 i MERI CAN Vol. 10, No. 6 43EGION Monthly

In This Issue

Cover Design: Six Months Out by V. E. Pyles Will Be Made

Outlawed by Peter B. Kyne Illustrations by Ernest Banmann in the July Issue Two Miles High and a Good Risk by William B. Smith, M.D. 10 a Suffering Snakes by Alexander Sprunt 12 of Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull

What Makes a Good Bank? by General Samuel McRoberts 14 2000 Prize

Toward the Perfect Diet by Dr. E. V. McCollum 16 Cartoons by John Cassel Contest

The Shots You Miss by Erwin Rudolph 18 Open to Every Reader When Mr. Baker Made War: Part Eight by Frederick Palmer 20

Pershing Tells the World A Review by T. H. Thomas 26 of

If You're Suing Uncle Sam by Raymond C. Parker 2*7 The AMERICAN LEGION Go, Gophers, Go! by Philip Von Blon 28 MONTHLY, Then and Now by John J. Noll J- with a First Prize $joo, Tobogganing on the Air by Charles Phelps Cushing 34 of — and thirty-five Additional Ready, Aim by. Frank J. Schneller 36 Awards ranging from White Collar 38 $25 <6 to $230 The Unfinished Battle 64 THE STARS IN THE FLAG

ARIZONA: The 48th and last State, admitted to the Union Feb. Rank among States 1920 (U. S. Census), 46th in population, 5th in - 14, iqi2. The Spanish first settled there in 1598. Mexico won it area, 45th in density. Capital, Phoenix (1930 U. S. Census), 48,118. in its war of independence. The United States, Mar. 1, Three largest cities (1930 U. S. Census), Phoenix; Tucson, 1845, in annexing Texas, claimed the portion east of the 32,506; Douglas, 9,828. Estimated wealth (1923 U. S. Rio Grande, and by the peace treaty with Mexico in 1848 Census), $1,314,291,000. The principal sources of wealth: and also by the terms of the Gadsden Purchase, 1853, smelted copper (1923 U. S. Census), $95,945,565; mineral acquired the remainder. After Texas, Sept. 9, 1850, output (1925), $114,202,670 including copper ore (the first transferred her claim to the United States, it was included state), fiold, silver and lead; livestock (1922) valued at in New Mexico Territory. Congress organized Arizona $57,658,000. Arizona had 12,470 men and women in Territory on Feb. 24, 1863. Arizona has 32,989 Indians service during the World War. State motto adopted on reservations, mostly Apaches, Navajos and Hopis. 1863, Ditat Deus (God Enriches). Origin of name: Two Population, 1870, 9,658; 1930 (U. S. Census), 435,573. versions are given; first, it derives from the Aztec Indian Percentage of urban population (coTiimunities of 2500 and language, Arizonac (ari, meaning small, and zonae, spring); over), 1900, 15.9; 1910, 31.0; 1920, 35.2; area 113,956 sq. miles. second, that it comes from the Spanish for the dry belt —Arida-Zona Density of population (1920 U. S. Census), 2.9 per sq. mile; 1930, 3.8. Nickname: Apache. Sunset.

The American Legion Monthly is the official publication of The American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright. 1951, by The Legion Publishing Corporation. Published monthly at Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second class matter January 5, 1925, at the PostofEce at Indianapolis, Ind., under the Act of March 5, 1879. General Manager, Robert F. Smith; Editor, John T. Winterich; Advertising Manager, B. L. Dombrowski; Business Manager, Richard E. Brann; Managing Editor, Philip Von Blon; Art Editor, William MacLcan; Associate Editors, Alexander Gardiner and John J. Noll. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 5, 191?. Price, single copy 25 cents, yearly subscription in the United States and possessions of the United States ti.;o, in Canada $1, in other countries $1.10. In reporting change of address, be sure to include the old address as well as the new. Publication Office, 2457 East Washington St., Indianapolis. Ind.; Eastern Advertising Office, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Western Advertising Office, 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

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I got $1,850 a year to start and I'm now earning $2,700. I'm All Through Worrying Now

"Until I got this Railway Mail Clerk job I was always worrying about money. Nowadays I never give a thought to lay-offs or slack times that have other fellows scared. Increases in pay come regularly when you're with the government. You don't have to do any boot-licking either. Everybody gets the same square deal. "Every year, Bill, I get 15 days' vacation and 10 days' sick leave with full pay. And we go on 44-hour week schedule July 1st. Mighty few fellows who are not in the government service get a break like that. Best of all. Bill, you don't have to keep worrying about the future all the time, wondering whether some day your going to be 'living on' your relatives and all that sort of thing. Your retirement pension takes care of you. As An Ex-Service Man I Got Preference "I suppose I'd be worrying myself sick right now, just as you are doing, if I hadn't happened to get hold of a book- let written by a fellow in Rochester named Arthur R. Pat- job you want and a lot of other interesting terson. Patterson was a -Secretary Examiner of the Civil — facts about jobs with the government. Service Commission for eight years. It was through the help he gave me that I got my government job so quickly. I Page 4, for example, tells what Uncle Sam didn't know a thing about it when I first wrote to him. I pays. Page 10 tells all about the vacations. didn't even know that we ex-service men get preference! Page 12 explains how I prepare you quickly "If you are 'shaky' about your job and wondering what's and how, if you don't get the job within a going to happen to you, I suggest, Bill, that you write to certain time after passing examinations, my Arthur R. Patterson in Rochester right now. I forget the help costs you nothing. Page 18 tells about name of the booklet he'll send you, but it's good sound stuff. the automatic system of giving you yearly raises. "Well, so long, Bill, we pull out of here in a couple of minutes There is no obligation of any kind in sending for this booklet. and I have to get going." My only suggestion is that you get ready NOW for the next Rail- # * * # way Postal Clerk examination! So mail this coupon at once and get going toward something that stops you from worrying The title of the booklet which this Railway Mail Clerk refers to about "hard times" and losing your job. Mail this coupon today. is "How to Secure a Government Position." If you are a citizen, Address A. R. Patterson, Civil Service Expert. PATTERSON 18 to 50, this booklet will tell you how to get the government SCHOOL, 636 Wisner Building, Rochester, N. Y. FREE BOOK

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According to \bung George Milner's Financial Code a Debt Was Never Outlawed Btf PeterB. Kune Illustrations b Ernest Bawnann

y/~T FOURTEEN dinner to his stockholders and the / § James Orson be- chamber of commerce and, with less J I came a page, on the than five hundred dollars capital in ^ -M- day shift, in a large hand to meet current bills and payroll, San Francisco hotel. At eighteen embarked upon his venture. Success he became a bell-hop ; at twenty he was his from the start. That is, he man- went to an up-state hotel in a town aged to take in enough money to meet of five thousand inhabitants and his payroll and pay something on ac- became night clerk. A year and a count of his current bills and this sort half of this and he journeyed to of business continued three months. Los Angeles to accept a day clerk- Then his creditors commenced to press ship in that growing city's best ho- him for the unpaid balances. tel; at twenty-five he was assistant Orson knew that if he could survive manager. Then his father died and six months the tide would turn and he left him an insurance policy worth would be on his way to a lucrative busi- forty thousand dollars, and with ness, a fortune, doubtless. Meanwhile this capital and his savings James he had to stabilize his credit, and he was Orson decided to go into the hotel averse to selling any more stock in the business on his own. corporation, since to do so he would Automobiles were still very ex- have to part with some of his own hold- pensive, but looking into the future ings and thus lose control of the enter- Orson decided that eventually only prise he had created. So he induced a the extremely poor would be unable to afford man named George Milner to lend him one. Already a movement was afoot to im- five thousand dollars on his unsecured prove the highways. In his mind's eye Orson note at eight per cent, interest payable saw a vision of automobile-filled concrete quarterly and if not paid when due, state highways connecting every county then to be added to the principal and seat in California, with concrete laterals join- bear like interest. The note was for ing the smaller towns. And in this connec- three years, but payable sooner at the tion he recalled that in traveling from the option of the signer. Mexican line to Oregon the best hotels were George Milner was the local harness- to be found only in those towns situated maker and saddler and he was convinced along the railroad—and these hotels were that James Orson was a bright, capable, very bad, indeed, and but one jump ahead of honest young man and that his enter- the old-time country hotel. prise was bound to be successful. So James Orson decided he would operate He was a good prophet. Orson's inn a hotel and call it an inn. He chose a small, grew in popular favor and Orson paid rather pretty country town, Las Flores, half the interest quarterly the day it fell due. way between San Francisco and Los Angeles, When the note had still one year to run induced the local chamber of commerce to Orson paid it, much to George Milner's donate a building lot to his enterprise, organ- disgust, for the latter considered the ized a corporation of which he was the con- risk a sound one and he did not know trolling owner and proceeded to build a of any other risk as sound, or so close at rambling, rustic, one-story inn with twenty- hand it might be watched and which five rooms and a bath with every room. Be- would bring him in eight per cent. cause he was catering to the motoring public He was relieved, therefore, when two and motoring in those days was a man's job, months later James Orson came to him he installed the best beds he could find. His and explained that one of his stock- dining room was spotlessly clean, his food holders, who had gotten into deep water prepared by a darkey who should have been financially, was desirous of selling his decorated, and served by neat, good-looking stock in the inn. Orson was desirous of waitresses. His prices were high and his bell- purchasing it but lacked sufficient pri- hops, two in number, were well-trained, vate means to do so. Would George snappy and snappily uniformed. Orson had Milner loan him the five thousand dol- a free garage, he kept his own books and lars again at the same terms as pre- clerked sixteen hours daily. After that an old viously. man, who worked for twenty dollars a George Milner would. He was glad month, his board and room, relieved him. to. He was a direct, simple, honest man When he was ready to open for business with a trusting nature. James Orson Orson spent five thousand dollars in a high- At eighteen he became a bell-hop showed him the latest profit and loss way billboard advertising campaign, gave a in a large San Francisco hotel statement of the business. The opera JUNE, IQ5I 5 —

tions showed a highly satisfactory monthly profit and the surplus his college plays, and one of them he wrote. He was sane enough, was thirty-eight thousand dollars, with no liabilities other than however, to realize that a college success did not, necessarily, current monthly bills. As yet the enterprise had paid no divi- predicate the same success on the stage in after life; nevertheless dends, but the stockholders were content, since they realized that the stage attracted him. So, when he graduated without a pro- the undivided profits must be used to enlarge the inn in order to fession, he went straight to the stage manager of a stock theater keep pace with the rapidly growing business. in San Francisco and asked for a job; and when that cautious The years passed. George Milner, always careless in business and thoroughly disillusioned individual asked him what he could matters and with implicit confidence in James Orson (who had do, George Milner laughed his gay, infectious laugh and an- meanwhile developed into one of the town's leading citizens), and swered: "Nothing! But I'd like to try to do something, if engrossed in his own business paid no attention to the due date of it's only carrying a spear." the note. Orson paid him his interest regularly. On the quarter "I have a stupid ass cast for a valet," the stage manager re- day following the maturity of the note Orson explained to George plied, half to himself. "He's a great deal of a nuisance. He has Milner that he had contracted to buy quite a block of stock from temperament—and an actor whose limit is playing a butler or a some of his associates and was temporarily hard pressed finan- valet shouldn't have temperament." cially to meet payments on it. Would George Milner mind if he He reached into his desk and drew forth a piece of manuscript. permitted the interest to ride and compound? Nothing suited "Here's the part, young man. When you know it come and see George Milner better, so the note continued to bear compound me again." interest, which remained unpaid for three years. Nor was the The following afternoon George Milner returned, stared sol- note renewed. George Milner did not worry. He could see that emnly at the stage manager and said nothing. The latter was Orson's Inn was doing a splendid business. Indeed, it had twice equally reticent. He took George Milner back on the stage to been necessary to spend fifty thousand dollars for an additional rehearsal and at the conclusion of the act the young man was wing, additional garage space and new furnishings. And all the engaged, while the actor he had superseded was given the cus- time the stock paid ten per cent. Yes, Orson was a sound risk. tomary two weeks' notice. Suddenly James Orson sold out his control of the inn and George Milner's rise to fame as a comedy-drama star was moved to Los Angeles. When a month passed and he had not meteoric. Briefly, he spent one year in stock in San Francisco, paid his note to George Milner, the latter became worried and then another season on the road with a number two company wrote Orson about it. His letter was ignored, so he took the playing a popular New York success. Then he played forty matter up with an attorney, who informed him that his note weeks in vaudeville in a twenty-minute, one-act play written by was not now collectible in law. It had outlawed! himself and scored a huge success. From vaudeville he went to A detective agency located James Orson in St. Louis and an play the lead in a three-act play of which he also was the author. attorney, representing George Milner's California attorney, The play was given its premiere in Los Angeles, a city from which called upon him and pressed for payment. Orson said he was many a New York success has emanated of late years. sorry, but he was not in a position to pay the note then and The play was most successful. It ran twenty weeks in Los could not say when he would be. Angeles and in the meantime George Milner married. Also his He never paid it, and eventually George Milner, his faith in mother quit teaching school. George's wife was a rising young his fellowman considerably shattered, charged the note off to actress, Shiela O'Sharon, who had played two successful seasons profit and loss. It was a hard blow, too, for his harness and on Broadway and was no longer inconspicuous. saddlery business had slowly been dying. Farmers were re- The Los Angeles impresario brought the play—it was entitled placing the cow men whose lands had become too valuable for Room No. o— to New York. And he brought with him the grazing; hence the taxes forced them to retreat. And the farmers author and leading man, George Milner, and the latter's wife were buying less and less harness. Tractors were taking the place of mules and horses, motor trucks were displacing wagons. In his forty-fifth year George Milner died and his business died with him. He left a widow and a son eight years old, and his widow taught school and raised George Milner, Junior, in that state of economic uncertainty frequently referred to as decent poverty.

YOUNG GEORGE graduated from the local high school and went to college, where he earned his way waiting on table, doing janitor work, peddling subscription books during vacation or picking hops. He was a clever boy and poverty had taught him a lesson. Very early in life he resolved that in his forty-fifth year he would not be a broken, penniless, dis- illusioned man as his father had been. He hadn't the slightest idea what he was going to do with his life, but he was re- solved it should be something worth while and very re- munerative. He was good- looking, he had a natural poise and the voice of an orator low, reso- nant, musi- cal. penetrat- mjm ing. He had a flair for sol- emn comedy which he de- veloped in college dra- matics, in which he soon became an outstanding figure. Coming events cast their shadows before. Three years in succes- sion he was the star of

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"This is Mr. Orson, the owner of the hotel. If you will be sensible and depart peaceably I will refrain from overwhelming you by force"

and leading lady, Shiela O'Sharon. In New York he engaged the best press-agent he could find and commenced immediately to blow his horn. tation of a hotel was IN THE twenty years that had elapsed since James Orson no better than that left California he had done well. He had a genius for taking of the class of guests over, rehabilitating and refinancing small hotels; when he had it admitted. If oper- one such cripple on its feet he took over another; when he had a ated in a loose, tol- chain of convalescents he sold them and started in all over erant, indiscreet again. Occasionally he dipped into the market, buying shrewdly, manner, it would dealing only in high grade stocks that paid regular dividends, soon achieve the un- holding them for a nice profit, then selling them. When the enviable reputation of being a hostelry where anything "went." post-war deflation period—that near panic of 1920-21 —struck People of unsavory morals would be quick to take advantage of the country, Orson had just sold out his interest in a chain of that reputation . . . the customary rules governing social con- hotels and had a fortune of something more than a million duct in the very best hotels would be strictly enforced in the St. dollars. When the price of gilt-edged securities struck bottom Swithin and to that end Mr. Orson had impressed upon the James Orson invested his entire capital in them on margin and telephone operators that upon them, to a large extent, depended then sat back for the inevitable recovery. When it came he had the maintenance of this high standard of respectability. They two million dollars and promptly purchased the controlling were experienced operators; there was no necessity for him to interest in the St. Swithin, a huge, new, modern hotel in the be obvious; they all knew the particular infraction of the house heart of New York City, for he was primarily a hotel man and rules to which he referred. A gentleman registering at the St. could find no real delight in any other enterprise. Swithin and engaging a drawing room, bed room and bath, might, with perfect propriety, entertain ladies in his suite. If, TELEPHONE operator No. 22 on the switchboard of the St. on the other hand, a gentleman engaged a single room only Swithin saw a red light register a call from room 1105 and well, that was different. Mr. Orson begged his operators to be plugged in. "Numba?" she queried languidly. Then she stif- on the lookout for such scalawags; women telephoning from fened. such rooms often supplied a hint of the situation, in which event "What I want to know—and I must have an answer here the house detective was to be communicated with immediately. and now is: Do you intend to marry me?" It was a woman It was not to be expected that the floor clerk could discover speaking, in a voice high, intense, strained with emotion. anything. People were adroit in evading surveillance ... no

"Numba, please?" No. 22 repeated discreetly. rough parties permitted . . . Eighteenth Amendment must be "Schuyler 9881," the woman's voice answered. respected and all employes were expected to co-operate with Now, No. 22 had but recently, in company with her sisters of the management, etc., etc. As a further incentive to his tele- the hotel telephone exchange, listened to a brief speech from the phone operators to be vigilant Mr. Orson stated that a reward new owner, James Orson. He had impressed upon them the vital of five dollars would be given any operator if a tip, furnished necessity for fast, accurate and courteous service; he had ex- by her, resulted in the discovery and ejection of a guest or guests plained to them that under his management the St. Swithin, manifestly undesirable. always a high-class hotel, was destined to achieve even a greater No. 22 had, in that hysterical demand from the woman in reputation for high-class service and respectability. The St. Room 1 105, gleaned a hint, to the effect that the lady in ques- Swithin, Mr. Orson explained, was catering to the very best tion was not the wife of the gentleman in the same room. Meta- people and, as his telephone operators very well knew, the repu- phorically speaking, No. 22's hackles instantly commenced

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telephoned immediately to the house detective, Mr. Joe Bran- nigan. While awaiting the latter's arrival she called room 1105 and reported sweetly that Schuyler 9881 was busy, but that she would try again presently. While conveying this information to the lady at the receiver she heard a rasping male voice say, very faintly: "Now that you've ruined me financially— "Oh, shut up," the woman replied acidly. "Thank you, operator." "Well, what a fine pair of boobs those two are," No. 22 mur- mured. "They must be drunk or something. I wonder what kinda hotel they think the St. Swithin is?" Mr. Brannigan arrived. No. 22 beckoned him. "There's a man and woman registered in 1105," she confided. "G. W. Milner and wife, New York City. From some conversation I just got a snatch of over the room 'phone I suspect she isn't his wife." "A pair of cut-ups, eh?" Mr. Brannigan murmured with profound satisfaction. "Thanks. Here's where I sneak up to 1 105 and do some listening at the keyhole." Long practice had made Mr. Brannigan an expert listener at keyholes. Upon arriving on velvet feet before 1105 he dis- covered, to his additional satisfaction, that the transom was opened about an inch, thus, in the language of the classic, en- abling him to get an earful. The woman was the first to speak. "I tell you I am afraid. I am going to leave before something happens. This is sheer madness—I don't know why I listened to you. I should have known better than to meet you here and risk a scandal." "Pooh, pooh," a deep, musical, resonant male voice answered. "You're suffering from nerves. Sit down, take a highball and forget it. You're unstrung. Nobody is suspicious, I assure you." "I'll not remain with you. I'm going to call up my sister and go out to her apartment. I can't tell you why I feel about this situation as I do, but—I do feel that way. I have a presentiment your wife is having us shadowed." "Oh, nonsense, Gertie, nonsense." "I shall not listen to you. I have a woman's intuition and I shall not remain another minute in this room. I'm going, darling. Kiss me good-bye now and please, please, do not at- tempt to see me again." There is a homely adage to the effect that a wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. Mr. Brannigan was warned. He could not afford to be caught eavesdropping outside the door. He was a trained house detective, of long experience, and while he itched to hammer at the door of room 1105, boldly charge its occupants with besmirching the fair name of the St. Swithin and order them out instanter, he was aware that prior to such forceful procedure he must be absolutely certain of his facts; he must have a corroborating witness, preferably two. People ejected from hotels had a habit of suing the hotel if they thought the latter's case was weak. People who had no regard for their reputations would sue for the mere nuisance value of the suit, hoping the hotel company would settle for a nominal sum rather than have any publicity about it. There were shyster lawyers who made a practise of fostering such suits. New York was filled with them. Mr. Brannigan, therefore, prepared to flee for reinforcements, but the man's voice, entreating, gave him pause. "Stay just five minutes more," he pleaded. "Give me just five minutes more to outline my future plans. I know they will appeal to you as sensible. Please do, Gertie." The lady's voice was not quite so harsh as she replied: "Very well, then. Five minutes." "How good God is," Mr. Brannigan reflected. "Five minutes' grace! Then he'll beg five minutes more, or they'll get so deep into their argument they'll forget all about time. And time is what I require in order to corroborate my testimony in case there's a flare-back after I give 'em the raus." He hurried down the hall and up another hall to the floor clerk's desk, where he telephoned down stairs to James Orson's private office. Briefly he explained the situation to the boss, whom he begged to come up to the eleventh floor at once and to rise; she remembered the new manager's earnest exhortation bring with him a couple of stout bell-hops and a stenographer. to help him keep the St. Swithin pure, nor did she forget that, Mr. Orson grunted his satisfaction and said he would be up at provided she acted with discretion, five dollars might presently once. roll her way. Therefore, instead of trying to ring Schuyler 0881 He was as good as his word. With his reserve of bell-hops and she consulted the guest list and discovered, to her signal satis- his stenographer he followed Mr. Brannigan to the door of No. faction, that room 1105 was (presumably) occupied by one 1 105, where the quintet cocked their heads to one side in a G. A. Milner and wife, of New York City. listening attitude. For five minutes the storm of argument, "Dirty work at the cross-roads," murmured No. 22, and charge and counter-charge, charges of indiscretions and flaunting

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly of conventions, floated to them through the transom, while the stenographer, using Mr. Brannigan's broad bent back for a desk, took down every word in shorthand. "Well, my dear," the woman's cool voice came to them pres- ently, "you've argued well but you have failed to convince me. I'm going now. Please." There was the sound of the key turning in the lock. "You'll not go until you've given me one more chance to explain," the man declared. James Orson straightened up. "That will do, Brannigan," he whispered. "We've heard enough to prove our case. Throw them out, and I don't care how rough you make it. The rougher the better. They'll argue the matter, of course, but then they always do—injured innocence. Tell 'em to shut up and get out. It they don't pack their bags, have the boys here pack them and carry them down-stairs. Then you throw, them out. Use force if you must—and if you must use force, make a good job of it." "Yes, sir," said Mr. Brannigan respectfully, and waited until James Orson and the stenographer had disappeared from the hall. Then he beat upon the door of room 1105 three hearty, measured thumps—ominous thumps, indeed. Absolute silence descended upon room 1105. Mr. Brannigan waited ten seconds and then commanded harshly: "Open the door—and be quick about it." The man's voice demanded: "Who are you? What do you want?" "I am the house detective," Mr. Brannigan roared trium- phantly, "and I want you two to pack your duds and get out of here before you're thrown out. See?" The door was unlocked and opened. George Milner stood in the entrance. "What is the meaning of this high-handed proce- dure?" he demanded sternly. Mr. Brannigan, accustomed as he was to monumental bluffs, was impressed by the look of self-conscious rectitude upon the guest's face. He was lost in admiration of it. He turned his cold glance upon the woman. She was wearing a negligee, and from where she stood by an open window she gazed upon the house detective with withering contempt, amazement and anger. "She carries it off even better than the man," thought Mr Brannigan. He replied to George Milner's blunt query: "You registered here as G. W. Milner and wife, of New York City." "Quite true." "The lady," said Mr. Brannigan, with fine irony and an attempt at excessive, politeness, "has, perhaps, a certifi- cate of marriage to prove she is your wife?" "I certainly have," said the lady coolly. Mr. Brannigan smiled upon her, almost paternally. He was a good sport and could admire courage and au- dacity under any circumstances. "Let's see it," he sug- gested. "How ridiculous. One does not carry one's marriage certificate around with one." Mr. Brannigan made significant gestures with his fat right thumb, over his shoulder and in the direction of the door. "Heraus mit 'em!" he said genially. "This sort o' thing don't go in the St. Swithin. A-r-r-h, cut it out, cut

it out. The old stuff don't go here, mister. On your way, on your way." "I refuse to be thrown out of this hotel in this high-handed and illegal manner," George Milner announced calmly. "Better go peaceable," Mr. Brannigan suggested, patient to the last. "The more row you make the more people on this floor will know what you been up to—and the more that knows how we handle such cases the better the management likes it. It's The bouse a good ad for us. Pack up now, brother, an' beat it while the detective lashed beatin's good." "I shall do nothing of the sort," said George Milner firmly. out with both

Mr. Brannigan had done his best to be decent. He nodded » mighty fists . . . his now to the two bell-hops and pounced upon George Milner. nose felt suddenly very who promptly struggled to remain in the room. Like most numb, then he found him- hotel detectives, Mr. Brannigan was far from being a weakling: self on the carpet again he had a few wrestling tricks up his sleeve and, if driven to it, could knock a guest down with one slap of his hamlike right hand. To his disgust he discovered that this obstreperous guest realizing how he had gotten there. He struggled to his feet was worthy of his steel; he found himself dragged into the room, through a haze and lashed out with both mighty fists ... his thrust forcibly up against the wall and held there. nose felt suddenly very numb, then the light went out of one eye, Naturally he lifted his knee and drove it into George Milner's a building fell against his jaw and he found himself on the carpet mid-riff. This forced George Milner to release his hold, where- again. upon Mr. Brannigan evidenced his resentment of the cavalier " Tackle him," he cried feebly to the two bell-hops, but these treatment accorded him by slapping the face of the obnoxious worthies, being discreet, retreated warily down the hall as guest. Instantly he found himself on the floor without quite George Milner advanced upon them. (Continued on page 42)

JUNE. 1931 9 Two Miles High and a Good Risk

By William B. Smith, MD.

^^TT y^OW would you like to travel on something four ability to consider facts as facts and then to arrive at a figure M Xhiinrlrr-rl times more hazardous than a railway?" that can be twisted into a shape best resembling a pretzel. These /-» m t This question was asked me the other day by a fellows have made a detailed study of available figures, and their ^—^ man of aeronautical experience, a man prominent last pretzel had it that air transportation is two hundred times in the underwriting group handling all kinds of insurance except more hazardous than rail transportation. Anyway, my friend was life insurance. Air travel, he told me, was four hundred times wrong by one hundred percent. But a travel risk even two more hazardous than railway travel. I assured him that I could hundred times greater than that which one assumes behind a agree only if the air traveling were done on a barn door. For his locomotive is more than I would accept. And since I travel calculations do not tally with the opinion of the Actuarial Society frequently, by choice and preference, in airplanes, perhaps I of America. should explain certain fallacies to any comparison between rail The Actuarial Society, you know, is a group gifted with the and air transportation.

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INSURANCE IS COMING TO REGARD THE HABITUAL TRAVELER ON RECOGNIZED AIR LINES AS A SAFE BET

Comparisons not only are frequently odious, but they are as alongside commercial aviation. Today, good conservative life frequently erroneous. I have not been able to determine mathe- insurance companies will not accept applicants for insurance matically just why the frequent comparison between air and who are engaged in sporting or experimental aviation. But they railway travel is erroneous, but that is my conclusion, just the are beginning to recognize that there is little or no risk to the same. policy-holder who is an habitual or potential traveler by air from Perhaps the difficulty lies in the larger variety offered by one place to another—the man who takes an airplane in the same aeronautics. Air travel is entirely new; it presents its own new spirit in which he would take the Twentieth Century or the shortcomings. Broadway Limited. Occupying a third dimension, moving far more rapidly than Other people who fly fall into different classifications. So, for any other means of locomotion, the airplane offers no valid that matter, do automobile racers, but ordinary motorists are comparison with anything. Nobody can say how many more not penalized because mortality on the great speed tracks is high. times hazardous it is than travel by railway, steamship or Because the driver of a speed boat is occasionally drowned, motor car. If we must compare air travel to something, then because an ancient schooner or a cockleshell catboat occasionally I believe its best resemblance would be to marine transporta- is lost at sea, insurance is not justified in penalizing the men tion. and women who cross the Atlantic on the Leviathan. The railway and the automobile operate on well defined high- The phrase, "four hundred times more hazardous than the ways from which they never—well, almost never—depart. They railway," just is not illuminating. There is more comfort in the are familiar to everybody. But millions of Americans have never figures of the United States Department of Commerce, showing been in the air or on deep water. that there was one fatality for every 1,400,000 miles of flying In many ways there are close resemblances between the air over scheduled air lines last year. Boiled down to digestible industry and the marine industry. These resemblances even go figures, this means that you can expect to travel 40,000 miles a into military design. The Navy has ships for offense and defense, year for 35 years over established air lines before you will meet for speedy maneuvering ability, for smashing attack; so has your end in the air. the Navy air service; so has the Army air service. It is not diffi- Of course these figures apply only to transport in regulated, cult to make a commercial comparison between the great Zeppelins supervised, frequently inspected planes. The United States which soon will be making regular transoceanic crossings and Government and most of the States exercise constant watch- the giant surface liners maintaining regular schedules today. fulness to protect planes, pilots and passengers. Such regulation One comparison between these two indus- is exactly parallel to that exercised by the tries is especially striking—the use of power- United States Steamboat Inspection Service. less craft. The sailboat is entirely dependent In spite of the constant increase in their upon the elements and upon human skill. number and their mileage, the fifty estab- The air glider depends upon the same lished, scheduled interstate air lines are factors. Then again, on water and in the air perennially watched. The Department of we find our ships carrying life-preservers; Commerce enforces rules to promote a maxi- buoys aboard steamships, parachutes aboard mum of safety. The air industry obeys these airships. rules. If we must compare air travel to something, When you go aboard a ship owned by the let us make the comparison with water travel. Cnited States Lines or by Robert Dollar, Whereupon we find comparative figures just you simply do not consider the possibility of as elusive, if not as unavailable, as before. a tragic voyage. It would be almost equally a The actuarial statistics accept water-trans- sign of timidity to betray fear in boarding one port as a universal risk. But it is virtually of the nation's second longest air mail, impossible to discover how many people ride express and passenger company's planes. on the water, or how often. This company has completed 11,000,000 If we could include among the risks of miles of flight in three and a half years with water transportation all those who go forth one pilot fatality and the loss of three pas- to rock boats, the result doubtless would sengers. The average passenger would fly offer a poor comparison with the record of 2,750,000 miles with this company before Dr. Smith is the railroads. Aviation is unfortunate be- Assistant Med- losing his life. You would inevitably die if cause its records are more easily available. ical Director of the Connecticut you rode that far on a railroad train— And these records include the casualties Mutual Life Insurance Company natural death, most probably, but you'd be among those who rock boats, and their and Chief Flight Surgeon of the just as dead. One air line in this country has victims. covered than miles, carrying Connecticut State Department of more 1,250,000 All this has a very direct bearing on life 122,000 passengers, not one of whom has Aeronautics . Eight years ago he insurance. ever been injured. began his active interest in flying Probably so many lives will never be con- If you insist that comparison of air mileage when he was made flight surgeon cerned with flying as are today concerned with other forms of transport is unfair, the 4?>d Division, Aviation, with the automobile and railway. Aside from of owing to the greater speed of airplanes, it the traveling public, the number of par- Connecticut National Guard. may interest you to learn of a regular air ticipating individuals will be limited. Of Since the organisation of the line which is just six and one-half miles long. these participants, the hazards will remain State's aeronautics department Flying across San Francisco Bay, this line largely with the operators. This group will four years ago he has served as a carried 46,000 paid passengers between be restricted by three factors: physical im- February 1 and It was no fly- member of the Aviation Commis- June 7, 1930. pairment, the cost of learning to fly, the cost by-night, hop-for-a-dollar line, either. A sion, and took an active part in of flying and maintaining aircraft. It is a questionnaire showed that 81 percent of its the revision of the Connecticut common prediction, I know, that we shall passengers were flying to save time. None of aviation law. He enlisted in have cheap planes, costing a minimum for them ever was killed. In one day this line May, 1917, with Base Hospital operation and maintenance. This may be carried 974 passengers. It carries a daily true, but even the participation of some No. 10, and saw service with the average of 254. That necessitates dozens of of our greatest industrialists has failed to British at Le Treport, France daily trips, yet the company's record is as make aviation a poor man's sport, although good as that of the competing ferryboats. the industry is a generation old. During June, 1930, the twenty-nine major To arrive at fair actuarial statistics on aviation, we must American air lines flew 2,230,762 miles. During the first six consider mortality experience in its various phases. It is absurd months of the same year, including the same month, the same to credit the experience of sporting and experimental aviation companies flew a distance equal to 430 {Continued on page 47)

JUNE, IQ3 II Suffering Snakes

BtfAlexander Sprunt, Jr. Illustrations b Charles Livingston Bull

J HE hognose," says Mr. Bull, "is the greatest bluffer I know among 7snakes. When you come upon him he throws himself into the position I have depicted and strikes at you over and over but—he never opens his mouth. He puffs himself up and tries to spread out the neck in a kind of imitation of the cobra, and certainly looks dangerous squirming and writhing and striking, but, curiously enough, his writhings carry him nearer and nearer some clump of bushes or cover at one side. Sometimes the tip of his tail, if he goes over dead leaves or through dry grass, will vibrate very rapidly, making a sound against the leaves or grass like a weak imitation of a rattle- snake's rattle. He will make no sign of life no matter how you shove him around, unless you turn him right side up, when he will immediately flop back again and appear as dead as before. If you turn away and leave him he will lie quiet for a few minutes, and then, if nothing hap- pens, he's off as fast as his thick, rather clumsy body will carry him." rHERE are divisions of the animal kingdom which arch tempter at that time is inseparably connected with man's strongly attract mankind, there are others which elicit aversion to reptilian life today. This may or may not be a reason. only indifference, and there are still others toward which A close reading of the Biblical account of the fall of man must the most decided aversion and even fear is manifested. bring one to the conclusion that the appearance of serpents was At the top of this last classification stand the Reptiles, particu- definitely altered after that deplorable occasion. A part of the larly the snakes. curse pronounced upon the Serpent by the Creator was: "Because Snakes! The very word seems to cause a shrinking, a repulsion thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle, and above which appears all but universal. Instead of admiration and in- every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust terest, they bring forth disgust and condemnation in spite of the shalt thou eat all the days of thy fife." The inference surely fol- fact that, without them, mankind would find life on this earth a lows that, prior to that time, serpents were provided with a differ- very different problem from the one it faces. Conservation is ent form of locomotion from that of crawling on their bellies. Just finding adherents today by the thousands; the movement to pro- what form this may have been is problematical, but the vestigial tect and conserve wild life is growing by leaps and bounds; it is remains of limbs which are found on certain snakes today go far fostered by the Federal Government and the States; it enrols toward substantiating this former state of appearance. armies of school children and sportsmen as well as numerous citi- If the theory outlined above is the correct one, then such a prej- zens in every walk of life. The readiness to protect birds is coun- udice is indeed difficult to overcome. Even so, there is wide try-wide, the willingness to conserve what is left of the forests and interest in snakes today, as there always has been. Where is the their dwellers is steadily increasing. But snakes! Brrrr! person who will not go to some trouble to see an extra large rattle- Kew people can see any good in snakes. Yet if all the snakes of snake brought in from the wilds and exhibited? Where is the this country were eliminated at a stroke, agriculture would be in individual who, given the opportunity, will not gaze fascinated at a sorry plight. Sportsmen, as well as farmers and consumers, a gigantic boa, python or anaconda? The reptile houses in our would suffer, for there would be a serious lack of game as well. zoos are not avoided by visitors. On every occasion the writer Snakes are essential in the balance of nature. has visited them, trouble was experienced in getting decent views There are those who account for the deep-seated prejudice of the cases because of the crowds of people. Aversion may against them by saying that it is an implanted, instinctive aver- operate, even fear, but there is an overpowering lure in these sion which dates back to the Garden of Eden. This is a sweeping exhibits which is just as strong as the prejudice against them. throwback, certainly. It is held that the Serpent, in beguiling Eve, It is a queer situation. brought eternal trouble and misery; that the form taken by the It is a strange though indisputable fact that most people seem

1 2 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly to think, that all snakes harbor a vindictive animosity toward all human beings; that they spend their time lying in wait for anyone upon whom they may vent this spite and that unprovoked at- tacks by them are common. Nothing could be further from the truth. Like all wild creatures, snakes invariably seek to avoid contact with man, and far from advertising their own presence they seek to conceal it ninety-nine times out of a hundred. If the truth were known, there are hundreds of people who have been, time and again, in the closest proximity to snakes while in the woods and fields and never knew it. The writer well remembers an instance when, while investigating a tract of land in search of marsh wren nests, his wife stepped across a cotton-mouth moc- casin and came to a stop directly over the serpent, only inches from its body. Without giving the reason, the writer asked her to retreat a few steps at once and she did so, but the snake never bull-snake, in spite so much as moved during the entire time, although one of the rHE of being the largest snake sort notoriously irritable, nervous and deadly. in eastern North America, Contrary to the theory of "instinctive fear" of snakes is the reaching a length of nine feet attitude of children toward them. Instead of showing a natural occasionally, is also a bluffer. repulsion they rather exhibit interest, and an inclination to re- When cornered or attacked, it gard serpents as a new kind of animated toy. At the museum puffs out the neck and forward with which the writer is associated a live snake collection is part of the body and makes a maintained, and its most enthusiastic visitors are children. terrifying sound. It is, how- They seem to have little or any fear of the reptiles, pressing their ever, absolutely harmless to faces close against the plate-glass fronts of the cases only a few anything larger than a rat inches from the occupants. As an experiment one day, the or possibly a rabbit, and is writer removed a young boa, about two feet long, from its box truly of great value to the and held it toward his two-year-old son. Showing no fear farmer as a destroyer of whatever of it, the youngster merely looked at it for a few mo- rodents, its slender body easily at close range, then turned toward something else. ments penetrating rat holes and in Caro- Some years ago a remarkable incident took place the gopher burrows." lina low country which is the most striking example of children's association with snakes of which the writer has knowledge. In a family living in a rural district was a little girl who was totally blind. Of a cheerful, happy disposition, despite her terrible handicap, she was regarded by her parents with a devotion easy

the cold scales with very evident pleasure, while the deadly reptile seemingly derived as much satisfaction from it as the child. Though he was stricken with horror at the sight, the action of the discoverer was commendable. Stifling an impulse to act precipitately, which would doubtless have terminated fatally by exciting the snake and causing it to strike, he asked the child in a normal tone of voice to move toward him. Obeying the command at once, she left the dangerous spot without harm. It is difficult, if not impossible, to explain such action on the part of the snake. That the child was utterly ignorant of the danger goes without saying; it was simply that she had discovered something new to play with and took a course soothing to the snake, whose presence had evi- dently been detected by the abnormally keen perception of the blind child. Certainly the

5*. reptile must have realized the utter lack of any hostile intent and so remained passive under the touch of hands which, under other conditions, must have an- gered it instantly. Fear of reptiles seems, then, to a considerable degree at any rate, to be an imparted one. Children to imagine. /Vccustomed to spending much time in the yard are ever ready to follow the actions and inclinations of their about the home, she was discovered one morning engaged in de- elders and the exhibition of fear on the part of an adult in the lightedly stroking the lustrous coils of a large rattlesnake! presence of a child leaves an indelible impression. So, if the aver- Crooning softly, she was running her hands again and again over sion to snakes is not drilled into children, {Continued on page45)

JUNE. 1951 13 — What Makes A Good Bank?

Bi/ General Samuel McRoberts

time to lock the barn is before he should naturally know much more than rHEthe horse is gone and the time to get the dirt farmer who comes to him for advice. acquainted with your banker is be- The prosperity of farmer, merchant or wage- fore you are in financial difficulties. earner is governed by factors that lie beyond Then the chances are that the difficulties may his immediate threshold. These remote fac- be minimized if not avoided. tors are in a constant state of change. They Whether you give him your confidence or forecast the trends of business, the pitfalls not, your banker remains a silent partner in and possibilities that are ahead. A banker your business. If you work for wages or cannot loan money alone on the showing of salary he has a stake in your job just as your current statistics. He must look ahead, and wife and children have. Your banker can by his foresight or lack of it his banking carry his end of the partnership better with house and its clients prosper or suffer. some light to work by; and by the same token The record of any bank over a period of you can conduct your business along sounder years reflects the wisdom of a banker's fore- fines or enjoy more security in your job. The sight, or the lack of it. A bank properly more a banker knows of his clients' affairs the administered makes a profit. It is a good better banker he should become. And a good plan to ascertain whether a bank has paid banker is a fine thing for the industrial and dividends continuously, and also what por- economic structure of any community, with GENERAL McRoberts has tion of its earnings have been paid out in all that this means to the individual pros- dividends and what credited to surplus. A had a wide banking experi- perity and happiness of those who live in it. safe guide is that not more than seventy ence. He was treasurer of Ar- The responsible officers of the bank in percent of earnings should be distributed, the mour Co. Chicago when he which you are a depositor are aware of this & of balance being credited to surplus. relationship. They are sizing you up all the was chosen a vice president of the If a bank does not make money, either time. It is one of the subconscious operations National City Bank of New York there is something wrong with its manage- of a banker's mind, against the day when you in 1909. From 1919 to 1925 he ment or there is no place in the community may come to him for a loan, for information was President of the Metropolitan for that bank. Banks that are a part of the or counsel on investments or any form of the Trust Company, and is now economic blood and sinew of a countryside, varied accommodation that makes a bank and are properly conducted, make money chairman of the board of directors indispensable to our society. You can simplify and rarely fail or suspend. The truth of this of the Chatham Phenix National the banker's task by meeting him half way. statement may be verified by an examination Bank Trust Co. and a director If you trust him with your money you should & of the causes of bank failures during the cur-

corporations . trust him with some knowledge of the affairs of a number of Dur- rent depression. The greatest single reason and expectations upon which you base your ing the ivar he became chief of the for such failures has been because the banks financial plans for the future. procurement division of the Ord- in question were superfluous. They should A banker appraises you carefully before he nance Department at Washing- not have been established in the first place. loans you any of the money other depositors ton with the rank of colonel, and Their elimination has been merely a part of have placed in his charge. It is your privilege was made a brigadier general and the natural working of economic laws. They and duty to appraise a banker just as care- were the creatures of an unusual prosperity. sent to France in August, 1918 fully before you leave your savings with him. Their foundations did not go down to the Do you know how to do this? Do you know what makes a bed rock of normal conditions. When business subsided, not to good bank or a good banker? Do you know how to read a bank normal, but far below it, they were left high and dry by causes as statement? Do you know how to go back of the figures on the easy to understand as gravity. A steady, even if small, growth face of the statement for the additional facts vital to a proper in the earnings of a bank over a term of years that includes the judgment of the bank's condition? If you do you belong to a lean with the fat is the best indication that a bank has a real select minority of depositors. reason for being. The first item in any appraisal of a bank is the human item So much for a bank's personnel and record. Now let us con- the character, record and integrity of its executive officers. Char- sider its present condition, as reflected by its statement. acter, as well as assets, is the basis of credit, and every depositor is The principal divisions of a bank statement are capital, invest- a creditor of his bank. Your bank will loan one man five thousand ments and deposits. The capital stock, meaning money paid in dollars as quickly as it will loan another, with equal assets, five by stockholders in exchange for shares; the surplus, meaning hundred. Character makes the difference. You have a perfect capital in addition to the par value of the stock; and undivided right to be just as discriminating as bank officials. Their private profits, meaning earnings not yet allocated to surplus or dividends lives and general reputation and standing as citizens should be an —these items form the cushion of safety for depositors. In most expression of the qualities of fair-dealing, soundness and conserva- States and under the federal banking act stockholders are liable tism which you should expect to govern the administration of the for one-hundred percent of their holdings to make good the lia- funds of the institution whose policies they direct. bilities of the bank. If a man has bought one thousand dollars' Then comes the question of fitness. A banker must have worth of stock he is liable for a thousand dollars. ability. He must understand more than the mere machinery for Loans and discounts represent money advanced to clients, running a bank. He must know the business of his community. against which the bank holds the clients' paper. To be perfectly In a farming country, for example, a banker should be a pretty clear I will define a discount by example. Assume that a person good white-collar farmer. He need not have the practical knowl- buys a farm tractor or a sewing machine, making a down pay- edge of the man who follows the plow, but in the field of markets ment and giving the dealer his three months' note for the balance.

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' If a bank does not make money , either there is something wrong with its management or there is no piact in the community for that bank. Banks that are a part of the economic blood and sinew of a countryside, and are properly conducted, make money and rarely fail or suspend

The dealer endorses this note to the bank which gives him the dition of a bank. Here are a few of the things you should look for: cash for it. Both the dealer and his customer are liable to the Capital, surplus and profits should equal at least twenty per- bank. cent of deposits. While it would not be correct in all cases to A rediscount is the operation of a bank raising money on such assume that if the figure runs under twenty percent it is an indica- discounted notes by putting them up as collateral for loans from tion of unsound banking, twenty percent is a safe guide. other banks. Loans and discounts should be as diversified as the business of Investments indicate a bank's holdings in bonds and real estate. the community. They should represent a cross section of its Deposits are money left with the bank by clients. They are business life. Where this is diversified all loans can safely be made payable on demand and represent a quick liability. Of course, no locally. Where the business life of a section is pretty much of one bank could repay all depositors on the spot, just as no life in- character—mining, agriculture, manufacturing or what not surance company could liquidate immediately if all its policy local loans and discounts should not exceed seventy percent of the holders should die on the same day. total. The remaining thirty percent should be in liquid outside So much for a short description of the principal items in a bank loans or in bonds. A bank's loans on real estate should in no case statement. It is the relation that these items bear to each other, exceed thirty percent of its total loans. The amount of a bank's and an analysis of certain of them, that indicate the true con- rediscounts or borrowings from other {Continued on page 63)

JUNE, 1931 15 —

Toward the Perfect Diet Btf Dr. E.V McCollum, Professor ofBiochemistry, Johns Hopkins University As told to Alexander Gardiner

J HUMAN beings owe a great debt of gratitude to vitamins and how necessary they are in the diet. At the present w /» / the rat, the guinea pig and other animals of rapid time we are familiar with six of these nutrient principles, vitamins Jf/f/ reproduction upon which experimental studies are A, B, C, D, E and G. Every one of these is necessary to normal J f made in the laboratory. Putting it in Its simplest nutrition. Here again you need not be alarmed. The milk man, form, these animals die that we may live, and live more abundant- the grocery man and the butcher bring you your supply of them, ly. The experimental inoculation of animals to determine the and the drug store is needed only for vitamin D, which is best best methods of curbing disease is a familiar fact to almost every- secured from cod liver oil. Whole milk, which has been called the body, but probably not many persons realize that in every civi- perfect food, and egg yolk contain all of the now known vitamins, lized country scientists in search of the elements of the perfect diet but are not uniformly rich in them. For instance, milk has not a for humans also use these animals. The cages containing them sufficient amount of Vitamin B to serve as the sole item in the are the proving ground of dietary practice, and the experimental diet. Wheat germ, yeast, liver and probably some other glandular studies to which they are subjected, with such observations as organs are richer in vitamin B than is milk. When milk is the sole can be made on human beings, form the basis of a large measure food of animals they cease to grow, and it has been found that the of our progress. most satisfactory food to sup- Our knowledge in this field of nutrition is plement it is liver. Aslittleas apparently nearing completion, and we may five percent of liver in a prop- look forward with confidence to the day when erly proportioned mixture of human children will have a much better chance whole dried milk and carbo- of surviving than they do today, and when old hydrates has produced excep- age in the sense of a breaking down of physical tionally good animals with no functions may be indefinitely postponed. The apparent loss of vitality to the past eleven years have shown an amazing fourth generation. Of course, progress and though the race will probably nobody wants to live on such never be content to rest on its oars and regard a restricted diet as milk and the subject as closed, it is quite possible that a eggs and liver, but from our dozen or so years hence we shall know all that studies of these we may evolve we need to know a minimum diet to sustain about the human life, and work from that to dietary. the perfect diet. From the data For the past fifty years now available we Americans have generally may say with some built their meals about bread assurance that the made from the refined wheat simplest diet which flour, which is deficient in all would furnish the vitamins as well as other everything neces- nutrient principles, though it sary for normal nu- is rich in potassium and phos- trition must con- phorus. The cereal grains tain appropriate wheat, oats, corn and rice are proportions of the most generally used thirty-six chemical keep well for a considerable substances. But time and in the past we in the don't be alarmed. temperate zone have relied Actually, we eat upon them as the staples of daily many times the winter diet. A typical this number in our meal of a few years ago con- ordinary foods of sisted of products made from animal and vege- white flour and other of these table origin. We cereal products having similar know to what ex- dietary qualities, with meat, tent each of our im- potatoes and sugar. No com- portant natural bination of these foods makes foods — cereal an adequate diet. grains, tubers, Every one of the vitamins is necessary to normal nutrition. But don t Mere variety in the menu fruits, roots, leaves, be alarmed. Your milk man, grocery man and butcher bring you virtu- is not enough. Animals will meats, milk, eggs ally all you need. Milk and the leafy vegetables are rich in them not thrive on a diet consisting —furnish the body solely of cereal grains, such with the indispen- as wheat, oats, corn, barley sable nutrients, and just where they fail. And we know what is or rye; legume seeds, such as peas, beans and soy beans; necessary to supplement a given natural food. tubers, such as the potato; and fleshy roots, such as the In the past several years you have heard a great deal about sweet potato, radish, turnip, beet, carrot and parsnip. Adding

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly lean meats, such as ham, steak and the like, does not enhance appreciably the value of this list of Such a diet will not give an animal an foods. Experiments have shown opportunity to grow as he should; he will prob- that in the case rats at ably be nervous and irritable, and will tend to of least, a diet with no grow old at an earlier age than is necessary. If we take less of the refined foods and make manganese in it kills the fuller use of the protective foods, which are milk maternal instinct and the leafy vegetables, we shall be much better off. In these days of quick transportation and advanced methods of refrigeration there is no reason why anyone should go without fresh meats and the leafy greens which are so important a factor in the diet. Physiologists and medical men everywhere recognize that whole milk is the one food for which there is no effective substitute. Normal individuals should take the equivalent of a quart of it a day throughout life. Lettuce, romaine, watercress, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, chard, kale, spinach, turnip tops, beet tops and dande- lion leaves allow a variety in the leafy vegetables. Once a day a liberal service of cooked greens or pot herbs should be taken. Twice a day a salad should be eaten, either of vegetables or fruits. The vegetable salads are usually dressed with salt, oil, vinegar and pepper. A dish of chopped meat or fish mixed with vegetables and seasoned with oil. vinegar and pepper is equally good. Salads, especially those of vegetable origin, encourage the consumption of raw foods, which are rich in vitamin C. They also encourage chewing, which use of refined foods of today has brought into sad neglect, to the disadvantage of the teeth. Just a word here about reducing diets. They must have the proper elements of the regular dietary, but in lesser amounts. Instead of a quart of milk daily a pint may be taken. A good daily diet for reducers would include two servings of fruit, two servings of vegetables, one raw and one green, a potato, an egg, one serving of lean meat, fresh egg or cheese, one small pat of butter (or a teaspoon of cod liver oil). Don't try to take off more than two biological disturbance may be set up. Manganese is one of a pounds a week. Drastic reduction may lead to tuberculosis and number of inorganic elements, many of which are more important, in some cases, as in that of a well known motion picture actor, to in the constructive diet of animals. We experimented on rats death. To increase weight eat more of the foods in the propor- with a diet containing no manganese. For one hundred days the tion used in the regular diet. rats acted no differently from ordinary. And then we found that Probably the teeth of Americans are better on the average than the mother rats in the group were neglecting their offspring; in those of most civilized peoples. The inhabitants of northwest fact allowing them to die. Another group of rats fed on a diet Greenland and the 140-odd people living on Tristan da Cunha, containing only five-thousands of one percent of manganese be- that little island in the south Atlantic Ocean which seldom sees a haved in a perfectly normal manner. It is usually easy to fool ship, have a better tooth structure than we have. But probably rats and make them nurse the offspring of strange mothers with- no others. The French and English were amazed during the war out being aware of it. But when the young of manganese-free to find that the American soldiers, even those past middle life, mothers were placed in the cage, the normal mothers refused to had most of their teeth. The enormous amount of money spent have anything to do with them. in advertising tooth brushes and dentifrices in this country has Thus it appears that in one group of animals at least the ma- been partially responsible for this. But our teeth are not so good ternal instinct is to a large degree dependent on an infinitesimal as they ought to be, and here a proper diet, we have found, can amount of a single mineral element in the diet. What may we not literally work wonders. Vitamin C is especially important in learn in our food studies about the hidden springs that control maintaining the health of the gums. Experiments in this country our conduct? The effect of the diet on the emotions provides a and abroad show healing of the gum lesions in pyorrhea can be fascinating field for experimentation. effected by feeding patients large quantities of orange and lemon juice and lettuce. WHY is there no vitamin F to go with the other vitamins? Decay of the teeth may be caused by an unhygienic condition There was, but it petered out. Shortly before the United of the mouth, but a deficient diet will also cause a breaking down States entered the war, a scientist claimed that he had found a of the tooth structure. It is not true in the absolute sense that substance which determined growth of animals. If it was with- "a clean tooth never decays." The large consumption of cooked held, he said, the animals were dwarfed. So vitamin F came in. and pasty starchy foods—foods which tend to adhere to the sur- but further experiments determined that its discoverer had been face of the teeth and to become packed between them—is an im- mistaken, so it was dropped. portant factor in tooth decay. Eating the proper foods and keep- The British have a different vitamin nomenclature from ours. ing the mouth clean will assure tooth longevity, provided the diet What we call vitamin B is B, to them and our G is B 3 . It is was satisfactory during the developmental period so that a sound likely that this summer at a League of Nations committee meet- structure was formed. ing a comprehensive system will be devised to harmonize these Since 191 7 it has been the custom to give infants the juice of slight differences. some fresh fruit or vegetable each day to prevent scurvy. This Mcst people, I have found, are anxious to know in what foods also is of help in insuring a good tooth structure. Experiments the various vitamins may be found. Here are the most common with rats have shown that, fed from very early life on certain foods containing them, with something about the effects that foods, they can be made to form good teeth which remain healthy follow upon a deficiency of a given vitamin: until the animals are old, while teeth of poor texture, quickly de- Vitamin A is found in butter, whole milk, yolk of eggs, caying, mark those having a less satisfactory diet. spinach, watercress, lettuce, celery leaves, turnip tops, beet tops The amount of a particular substance necessary in the diet may and radish tops. Steenbock made the discovery that there is no be infinitesimal, but if it is not furnished to the body some grave vitamin A in white vegetables such as (Continued on page 63)

JUNE, 1931 17 The Best Way To Tmprove Your Game Ts To Learn From THE SHOTS YOU MISS By Erwin Rudolph World's Pocket Billiard Champion

/T isn't the shots you make in pocket billiards that make note of the way in which he gets his position each time, and mak- you a good player, but those you miss. That's a plain, ing an effort to put into practice the sort of game he plays will everyday way of applying to my favorite game the old do more for you than anything else. Also, you can apply that saying that we learn by our mistakes. And it's my experi- method of second guessing on shots to those the expert misses. ence after twenty years of playing that in no game does it apply When a tournament player of the first flight has made two or more than in this one. The next time you miss a shot, put your- three shots he can usually be depended upon to clear the table self to this test. Ask yourself just what there was about your and place himself in position to pocket the lone ball separated execution of the shot that made it fail. Mull it over in your mind, from the fourteen newly racked. If for any reason he doesn't considering the thing from every angle. Do that after each failure break those fourteen balls wide open he will play safe, because during the game. At its close you will be on the road to becoming failure to make the shot in such a case will open up a run for his a good player, and if you make it a habit to go through this self- opponent. That run may carry to the end of the game. Don't analysis, I'll wager that you'll surprise yourself with your game. gamble on a shot at any time. If you can't make it, play safe.

"A good player may know exactly how be is going to play five or six shots ahead, and he may not. He generally ' knows which ball he ivants to be sitting in position on the table when all the rest of them are in the pocket

An expert player can teach you the fundamentals of this As champion pocket billiard player of the world, I imagine I fascinating game, but he can't make a greater even a good player rate as the best of the biggest army in sports. That is until next of you. That job rests with you alone. The instructor, if one is December, anyway, when I'll have to defend my title again. used, performs more convincingly and is more helpful to you There probably aren't any figures to prove it, but I think you'll when he clears the table than when he lays out a plan of campaign agree that more people play pocket billiards than baseball or in talk. Watching him pocket the balls, one after another, making golf, tennis or basketball. Even twenty-five years ago, when

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly baseball was a game to be point match, and you can played by the millions in- get an idea of how terrible stead of just watched, I was when 1 tell you his pocket billiards probably high run was five. 1 hadn't drew more actual players, seen a table in more than and although golf has six months, and it's a been attracting increasing game that has to be played numbers of people to pri- regularly if you want to vate and public courses, do well in it. regular and miniature size, Of course, a man has to the billiard rooms still have good health, a good have the bulge. You who eye, and lots of confidence read this, put it to your- in himself to reach the self. How many of your top llight of players and friends and acquaintances stay there. Although the play golf and how many champion now keeps his play pocket billiards? Let title for a year before he me know if I'm wrong. has to risk it in compe- Incidentally, I'm so sure tition, he had better keep Legionnaires are more playing right along or he'll than a little interested in go stale and somebody my favorite game, and else will come along and would welcome the chance take it. I go back to the to compete in it, that farm in Ohio in the spring I'd like to propose a na- and stay there all summer tional Legion tournament. and into the fall, keeping I'm sure there would be a outdoors as much as pos- lot of interest in such a sible, pitching hay and tournament, and there playing golf. It takes me could be elimination con- about six weeks to get in tests on the scale of the shape in the fall for the Legion's Junior World's Vinter competition. Dur- Series in baseball. It would ing that training period be a great thing for pocket and until the champion- billiards if such a tourna- ship is decided in Decem- ment could be held at ber I go light on cigar- some central point, say in ettes, but I don't go Chicago, or at the next through any training national convention in wrinkles except forbreath- Detroit, and a great thing ing exercises in the morn- for the Legion. And I'm ing. They put me in shape sure there would be no for the competition I'll trouble about getting some meet later in the day. worth-while prizes. Most of the pocket bil- I've been playing pocket liard addicts watch the billiards since I was a tournament player clear youngster, and while I the table of balls, some- make my living out of the times rack after rack, and game, if I suddenly found some of them, I know, some other way of getting think that the expert has that living, I'm certain every shot outlined right I'd still play the game in through to the end of the my leisure hours. You rack. But it just isn't so. don't have to be a good A good player may know player, though, to enjoy exactly how he is going this game, and though "The big difference between a fairly good player and a man in the to play five or six shots there are some people who championship class is that the really good player knows when and ahead, and he may not. can't bear to the he has the balls have how to play safe, and when a really hard shot is worth trying for" As soon as other fellow beat them, scattered he generally most men—and women knows which one of them and children, for that matter—get a good time out of it whether he wants to be sitting in position on the table when all the rest of or not they win. them are in the pocket. The big difference between a fairly good The game so fascinated me when I first took it up as a young- player and a man in the championship class is that the really ster in my 'teens that I used to work in an hour or so of it each good player knows when and how to play safe and when a really twenty-four hours while I worked in a steel mill by day and played hard shot is worth trying for. I think the reason I'm champion the violin in a movie orchestra at night. That was five or six years now is that on long shots I can usually do a bit better than the before we got into the war. I got to be a moulder in the factory man I'm playing. But if I gambled on shots instead of playing in my home town, Cleveland, and my job was to turn out two safe when I was in a tough spot, I just wouldn't be champion. motor-truck wheels a day. One day I wanted to get off at noon, The first time I ever played Ralph Greenleaf, who was cham- but the boss said I'd have to get my two wheel moulds ready pion until I took the title last December, was in Youngstown, for the pouring before I left the factory. So I hustled and got Ohio, in 1915. My first inning in that game brought me a run of both of them done by noon. The boss looked at them and said, 112, and I thought I was going to sweep right through for a win. "That's fine! After this you'll turn out four of those every day." But Greenleaf caught me and won the match, 500 to 398. Twelve So the steel industry lost a promising moulder! And I took up years later, on January 22, 1927, 1 defeated Greenleaf and became pocket billiards in a more serious way. I didn't make much champion. In those days the champion had to defend his title money at it until 1916, when I beat Frank Taberski, the cham- every sixty days. The first player I met didn't give me any pion, in an exhibition match in Cleveland. It was a long road trouble, but Tommy Heuston defeated me, and took the title. to travel before I got to be champion briefly. I was making He then retired undefeated, but is back in competition and is good progress when we got into the war, with service for eight still one of the best half dozen men in the game. months overseas with the 331st Infantry, 83rd Division. While There's an old saying that a game of baseball is never over until I was in a little French town I played a game with a fellow the last out. That's the way it is in pocket billiards, only more so. whose name I don't remember. He beat me in a twenty-five You've got to be on the alert every {Continued on page 59)

JUNE, 1931 19 W/ienMR. BAKER MAD E WAR

(Bif Qrederick (Palmer

J ^HEN Congress adjourned in mid-October, 1917,0m- to let it be known to the whispering gallery that their forebodings / scious of duty performed by its long summer had been fully justified. There must be the courage to make my %/ vigil and its colossal appropriations, the news from mistakes, but it must be a reasoned and not a blind and impulsive j f Europe was still favorable. Before the members courage. Baker's worst enemy could not have conceived of a were back in Washington, in early December, for the opening of meaner "damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-don't" job than the new session, the Italian disaster had written its warning on that of the Secretary of War in the winter of 191 7-18. the map. The war had ceased to be just a public irritation. It Communications for the Secretary of War's information from had become a savage factor in the national life. We were com- the State Department were more frequent as the Allied crisis mitted to it now. There was no turning back. We must see the grew more acute. Did Baker know that Pershing was paying wicked business through^ The expected German offensive was more attention to Joffre than to Petain? Wouldn't he drop a more than a threat. hint to Pershing? Wouldn't he remind Pershing that he had sent General Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, and Quartermaster General no liaison officer to the Belgians, whose feelings had been accord- Sharpe were catechized in the course of a prolonged investigation ingly hurt? Wouldn't he soften Pershing's stubborn attitude to- of the conduct of the war by the Senate Committee on Military ward the amalgamation of our troops with the British and French? Affairs. Baker's turn before the committee was still to come. The colored regiments brought up the race problem in a trying Meanwhile, plans of reor- domestic issue. This was a ganization were tripping over subject of special care with one another on Baker's thresh- him, as we shall see, but there old. The whispering gallery must be a decision, right or was already saying by mid- wrong. December that "if Baker The cries of "Why don't we didn't break they would get what we want?" and break him." Some of the "Why can't that be straight- callers who brought the gal- ened out?" in the ears of all lery first-hand observations the chiefs became stentorian said he was looking tired and and peremptory when they careworn. Their impression reached the Secretary. Im- was warranted if they saw portant men, who were him at the end of the day's charged with not doing their procession. As one of Baker's part, or even with selfish secretaries said, there were motives or profiteering, de- some callers who would make manded in their hurt pride anybody look tired and care- and hot indignation a hearing worn. But such turns of before him. satire did not come from him, The Allied ambassadors even in his whimsical moods and chiefs of staff of Allied that gave him a mental missions had burning appeals breathing space. which they did not wish to His gift of falling asleep commit to paper, and pre- immediately he was in a hori- ferred to make in person. zontal position brought him There were distinguished offi- fresh to his office in the morn- cers of the Allies and repre- ing. His hour at home for sentatives of Allied war in- luncheon and dinner in the dustries who had suggestions quiet of Georgetown gave which might be valuable if him a new draft of strength the proponents could agree as for the next session of the long to the changes which were day's routine. needed to speed up our war Less than ever might de- work. And often the con- cisions be delayed in the quest clusion was that what might of perfectionism as a nation do in England or France Secretary Baker beginning his inspection of the A.E.F. at rampant sought direction for would not do in America, for Tours, headquarters of the Services of Supply, in March, its energy in that period of the same reasons of national 1918, just before the great German drive. General Pershing national apprehension. A psychology that what would accompanied him on the trip, which took him from the ports Secretary of War could not do in England might not do stand hours at the fork of to the front line in France. There was also the road, hearing arguments the question of how far the whether to take the road to the right or left, when both led to the Allied personage represented his government and how far him- same goal on a life and death hurry call. If he took the road to self. the right and there was delay, the champions of the road to the One day M. Jusserand, the French ambassador, introduced a left might pause long enough as they pulled the car out of a slough French general who had come all the way from France to present

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The Official Newspaper of the A. E. F. Che SI

VOL. 1-NO. 6. FRANCE, FRIDAY,

WAR SECRETARY TO THE STARS WHAT WE'RE AND STRIPES: HERE TO STUDY I am glad to find in France a newspaper written and edited WEEDS OF A.E.F. by and for our soldiers. Wisely

managed, it can be a forum for Newton D. Baker Will In- their ideas, a means for each spect All Departments part of the American f.ont to speak to all the others, a means of Army Activity for draw ng closer together all the soldiers of the A.EF. VISIT TO FRONT IS PLANNED Co>d luck to THE STARS AND STRIPES Air Raid on Paris dives Cabinet (Signed) Member Taste of Hun Idea of NEWTON D. BAKER. JV.o lern Warfare France, March 1 2. FOROETS WAR IN TOY SHOP NATION Round of Calls and Conferences STEADY Mak.s the First Day* of Tour Extremely Busy Ones IN RESPONSE TO

Newton D. Bukor, Secretary o! War, RUSSIAN CRISIS baa come to Fraaiv. Mo is here to con- fer with General Pershing. V itli General Pershing he is now engaged in a tour of American Markets Reflect inspection of the A.K.r., planning. to see it trom beginning to end with his own Quiet Confidence of eyes so that when lie returns to his deok in far-off Washington, he may be Whole People guided in alt his acts by his first-hand knowledge, of the things that arc being done and the things that are being WAR REGARDED AS BIG JOB "«ded by the American Army in France. - he set* sail once more for •f his plans go through, Week of Nation WideOood Weather *»« ports at which * examined Does Much to Aid CJeneral •> have Industrial Drive

The Stars and Stripes tells the A.E.F. about Baker's arrival a perfectly confidential request to the Secretary: "We should like you to send twenty divisions to Russia." some member of the intimate "Very well," was Baker's answer. "We will. Our purpose is official family, which foregath- to comply with Allied wishes." ered in his office at the end of The general's surprise was manifest at the ease with which he the day, told him that he had _____ had gained his point. been reaching for another "buck" "But," Baker added, "as it will take three times as much ship- that did not belong to him at all. ping to transport and maintain one man in Russia as in France, it When peripatetic bucks, accru- will mean that for every man sent to Russia we shall have three ing endorsements in the vicious circle of their travels, interfered fewer in France." so much with speedy action in the War Department, he simply In that case, the general had nothing more to say—and nothing sent them to rest in the files. He seemed to accept the rising more to do except to return to France. criticism of his administration as a confirmation of the hypothesis that no Secretary of War could be a hero. If it had been in charac- TPHE devotion of Baker's intimates to him and their irritation ter for him to try to be a hero it would have been a handicap, when * with him was expressed in his phrase, "That's what a Secretary the thing was to bring the nation's sections and races, with of War is for." All with whom I talked agree on his unflinching differing local traditions and inherited methods, and all kinds of loyalty to his subordinates, the confidence he reposed in them. men and women, and all the powerful personalities which were They knew his remark, "A is tired; he has a tremendous bur- the creation of our American individualism, into harmony. den and we must make allowances"—when as yet Baker saw him A suggestion that he ought to adopt the modern custom of a as the best man in sight for his task. "See that B gets an personal press agent, who would see that he was getting over afternoon off!" When a subordinate had done well, all honor to right, as the saying goes, was the subject of a prolonged chuckle him. Let the press and the world know it. When a subordinate at the fantastic suggestion. As if he were not receiving enough failed, Baker seemed to take it for granted that the blame rested publicity! upon himself. In the face of the coming storm, as the clouds thickened and the "That's what a Secretarv of War is for" was his answer when forks of lightning were shooting at his head, he went on dictating

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Twz« during January, 1918, Secretary Baker appeared before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The first time the committee in hostile mood sought to prove that he teas jailing down on the job. When numerous attacks followed this inquisition the Secretary asked for another hearing and scored a triumph by his masterly setting forth oj what America was doing. Here are the notes which he used in the second hearing letters with machine-gun rapidity, having his whimsical moments ate chief, who had no "side" when all "Who's Who" seemed to when it did not seem to some people that he was taking his task be reaching in the War Department corridors to the tune of the seriously enough, never pompous, smoking his pipe, speaking his jingle of the new general's spurs. short and final "No's," never indefinite in his language, never He had confidential moments of philosophy when he dwelt on mumbling, never grumbling, taking his burdens as they came the part to which destiny had assigned him. Why should there with a certain jauntiness. He was something of an enigma even be this incredible orgy enveloping the world in death, misery, and to those who knew him best and who were gripped to him by an waste, prostituting all reason and the better instincts of man- extraordinary affection, but not an enigma to the clerks and at- kind? Why should he be in command of the processes of organ- tendants, who circulated a paper of good wishes on his birthday. izing death and destruction instead of solving problems of civic They had learned to like him for himself as a kind, fair, consider- betterment back in Cleveland? Those who believed that a Secre-

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tary of War should glory in war, be a partisan of war as war, look have time for conferences with major heads in all activities. fierce and bloodthirsty, could they have heard him in these mo- When voices were raised under the dome of the Capitol de- ments, would have had confirmation of their conviction that here manding by what authority Baker had created the council, he was softness when the emergency demanded strength. Vet these said that he might order any officer to any service he pleased. sentiments were the same that we who knew the front were famil- The members of the Council were the Secretary and Assistant iar with in the minds of the men who were doing the fighting Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff, Major General Henry G. from the Piave to the English Channel; and just as they took their Sharpe, Quartermaster General; Major General Erasmus M. places to go over the top to carry on the orgy, Baker of the Weaver, Chief of Coast Artillery; Major General William Cra- "fighting jaw" applied the merciless logic of piling up man-power zier, Chief of Ordnance, and Major General Enoch II. Crowder, and weapons as the only means to victory. Provost Marshal General. Brigadier General Barrette became acting Chief of Coast Artillery, and Brigadier General Charles NOW that I am going abroad apparently to remain for some Wheeler acting Chief of Ordnance. Wheeler's place was soon to time," said General Bliss before sailing back to France, be taken by Brigadier General Clarence C. Williams, who had "you will be wanting to make my successor actual Chief of Staff." been schooled for the job of Chief of Ordnance in France. Major Pershing's suggestion had been that Major General Hunter General Sharpe. later to command the Southeastern Department, Liggett should be our chief of delegation on the Supreme War was succeeded by Major General George W. Goethals. Council, that permanent body for co-ordinating Allied relations In spite of his prestige as the builder of the Panama Canal, any which was to sit at V ersailles. Baker chose Bliss, whose experi- suggestion that General Goethals, an Engineer officer, should be ence as our Chief of Staff and whose wisdom, statesmanship, and made Quartermaster General early in the war would have started knowledge of the languages and service with the House mission a train of rows sounding down through the Army and back and singularly equipped him for this part, which was both diplomatic forth between the War Department and Congress. Now his ap- and military. Liggett was afterward to command our First Army pointment was acclaimed. Edward R. Stettinius became Sur- at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne. General Sir Henry veyor General of Supplies. Stettinius had not been long in the W ilson, the first British representative War Department before he learned the on the council, was later to become chief difficulties of war administration. He, of staff of the British army, and General too, became attached to Baker and was Foch, the French representative, to be- sounding his praises as a great executive. come Generalissimo of the Allied armies. "In the face of all this maddening That parting between Baker and Bliss business," Stettinius exclaimed one day meant the tearing up of roots deeper than as he paced the Chief of Staff's room, those of eighteen months of official rela- "how can Baker keep so serene!" tions, roots sunk in sensitive tendrils of Meanwhile the War Department was personal affection. The two had been charged with using the excuse of military through the Mexican trouble together, secrecy as a smoke-screen to hide its and through the formative period of our failure. Did anyone think that the army policy in the Great War. Baker Germans did not know, through their would miss the entry of Bliss of the wonderful spy system, how many troops Olympian figure by the door to the right; we had in France? That they did not Bliss, the sage, with his classic and mod- know just what we were doing in every ern instances, his wit, his wide and com- detail? It was only Americans who were forting mental range, so companionable being kept in the dark. to Baker, and so imperturbable with his But the records were to show that the feet set firmly on the earth of sound prin- Germans did not know. They were ciples. much confused. The Allied commands "I'll not make a permanent Chief of and Pershing's staff in France were more Staff," said Baker, "until I know my insistent upon secrecy than our staff at man"—that young man whom he had in home. Its value had been sensationally mind for this period. revealed in Ludendorff's concealment of General Peyton C. March was still in his plan and his mobilization for the France in command of the A.E.F.'s artil- Caporetto attack, and was being ex- lery. General Biddle, Pershing's choice, pressed at the moment in Allied mysti- had been recalled from France as acting fication as to the number of divisions Chief of Staff in Bliss's place. If there Ludendorff was massing on the Western was a superman in the Regular Army his front and where his blow was to come. place in the winter of 191 7-18 was in the It was being laboriously proved every Chief of Staff's office in Washington. On day in the intelligence section of every strictly military subjects he must be the army as experts painstakingly sifted, final advice on which the Secretary de- tested, and checked off bits of informa- pended. He was the army expert of ex- tion from every source. Often some perts, the superior of the bureaus, the seemingly unimportant item, apparently supreme technical co-ordinator under the innocent in itself, was the missing part general staff system. that completed the picture puzzle. Censorship is one of the penalties of ON HIS way home about two o'clock war, a part of the defensive armor, as one morning, Baker entered a bu- propaganda is one of its weapons, anrl reau chief's office to find him with a pile just as loathsome in principle as war of charts on his desk and working out itself. What an outcry there would have computations on a pad. The habits of been against the "ex-pacifist" if he had peace were still strong upon him. So regarded nothing as "secret and confi-

long used to the strict censorship by dential" ! He would have been described Congress of even7 detail, he could not as betraying our Allies to the enemy, bring himself to let details for which he informing the enemy of our plans, the was responsible get out of hand. number and location of our own and the "You ought not to be doing that," said Allied troops, so the enemy would know hit surprise. One Baker, quietly. "Your part is to do the George E. Chamberlain of Oregon, chair- where he could us by thinking." of the ironies of the war was the criticism man of the Senate Military Affairs Com- by the militarists of the so called "ex- mittee and an implacable foe of Baker. AGITATION for more concentrated pacifist" for his militaristic methods. A speech by Chamberlain following the l authority and for more vigorous Secretary's appearance before the executives supported Baker in the crea- first THE day before I left Washington to tion of the War Council composed of the committee was a leading factor in go abroad with the A.E.F. pioneer veteran chiefs of bureaus, who were to Baker s demand for a second hearing staff in May, 1917, 1 met Colonel George

JUNE. 193 23 Secretary Baker addressing officers of the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Infantry at Gondrecourt on March 20, 1918. At General Pershing s right is Major General Hunter Liggett and behind him is Major General William Black

B. M. Harvey, who was lunching at another table at the Shore- American Review, established as its adjunct a war weekly which ham Hotel in Washington. Colonel Harvey received his military became widely known as Harvey's Weekly. This voice of the title for serving on the Governor's staff of the State of New Jersey, whispering gallery and organ of urgent criticism gained a wide in which he had his military experience. The colonel was one of circulation. The "nobby little Secretary of War" and "chatter- the most active conductors of the whispering gallery. ing ex-pacifist" was Harvey's particular target. "Of all Cabinet "I know when Pershing's going and on what ship," he said in members Mr. Baker will prove the least effective during the a voice that could be heard across the room. "It's the Baltic." progress of actual warfare. We assume, therefore, that he will be Every one of the Baltic party had sent as our representative on the been enjoined to the strictest secrecy Supreme War Council." And again: as to the ship and its time of sailing. "It goes without saying that all the All manner of important people multifarious documents that issue lunched at the Shoreham, where the from the War Department cannot be tables had been placed very close to- passed upon, much less edited, by a gether. The enemy's intelligence ser- man of sense." Again: "As long as vice would hardly be unrepresented at Newton Baker remains Secretary of this public listening post. It would War we cannot hope to reach a state have been somewhat discomforting if of efficiency that will give us strength the first report of General Pershing's to beat the Hun." At first Harvey landing on the other side of the Atlan- approved the War Council, though tic had been from the German port of feeling it ought to be outside the Kiel, accompanied by the explanation Cabinet. Later he referred to it as a that while there had been room for "group of superannuated generals him, his Chief of Staff, and his aides on whom he [Baker] had been forced to the submarine which had sunk the decapitate as bureau chiefs." Baker Baltic, other members of our very glanced through the pages of one copy limited General Staff which was to of Harvey's Weekly which was shown mould our army in France had been to him without feeling any of the left, under urgent military necessity, anger it had aroused among his in open boats on the Atlantic. friends. Rather it brought the whim- The whispering gallery had the com- sical light to his eye. pensating tidbit that some stupid "I hope I have more first-hand in- f (uartermaster's clerk or officer's "strik- formation about the War Department er" of that stupid War Department than Colonel Harvey," he remarked. had "given the show away, anyhow," Harvey had scandal as well as com- by labeling some baggage for General ment at Baker's expense. The War Pershing, "S.S. Baltic." But to no Department was a nest of nepotism George Harvey, who became a virulent intelligence section of any army would and the Secretary of War a war critic of Baker s policy, referring to him as this have been an excuse for such a profiteer. Harvey had discovered the "nobby little Secretary and highly intelligent leader of opinion as of War" that Baker's brother, H. D. Baker, Colonel Harvey openly violating the "a chattering ex-pacifist." Harvey knew was interested in the Engel Aircraft injunction to secrecy. The same ac- beforehand about the Pershing group' s sail- Company, which had a contract with tion in a restaurant in Paris, London ing on the Baltic and committed the the Government. Harvey continued or Berlin might have resulted in great indiscretion of talking about it openly for weeks to exploit his triumph in discomfort for the spokesman of such having forced the end of this sordid an indiscretion. But, happily, the business by his exposure. But it hap- enemy's army was not yet near enough our capital for individual pened that his brother's relation to the company had been dis- instincts of self-preservation to operate so acutely as in Europe. covered by Baker before it was by Harvey, through a copy of a At the turn of the year Harvey, who was editor of the North letter sent to the Secretary by a man who had been asked to buy

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stock in the company, in which the brother's interest was men- The War Department's appropriations for the then current tioned. Baker acted instantly through this telegram from fiscal year, seven and a half billions of dollars, were fifty times General Squires to the company: as great as for the normal year of 191 5, and ten times the normal "By direction of the Secretary of War your contract for air- appropriations for all purposes, one-third the gross value of the craft is hereby canceled." products of all our industries, and twice the total of the operating The company promptly protested that it had gone ahead with income of all our railroads. The Quartermaster's personnel had its contract in good faith at a time when every possible source of jumped from three hundred and forty-seven officers to more production of aircraft should be doing its utmost. Then Baker than six thousand and its appropriations to three billions, or sent Eugene Meyer, Jr., to Cleveland to make further investi- four times that of all appropriations in 1015. Two billions had gation as to the company's financing and methods, and gave already been obligated by contracts or disbursements. him a letter to F. H. Goff, President of the Cleveland Trust "This business involved accounting, determinations of stand- Company, in which he said: ards, prices, quantities, the creation of new manufacturing "I am asking Mr. Meyer to take the situation up with you in facilities, the substitution of materials for insufficient supplies, the hope that you will find it possible to ask two or three men of diversions of labor, the erection of storage warehouses, and the highest character and responsibility in Cleveland to act with difficult and often embarrassing questions of land and water you in bringing about the immediate, complete, and final separa- transportations," Baker told the Senators. tion of my brother from all interest in this company and its The Quartermaster had made four thousand one hundred and affairs, such separation to be without profit of any sixty contracts for one hundred kind to him. I have not discussed the matter with and forty-two different kinds of my brother, but Mr. Meyer tells me that he has articles. Aviation appropriations expressed a desire to do anything necessary to alone were five times normal War remove the embarrassment and all grounds of doubt Department appropriations. Avia- on the subject. I will be deeply grateful for your tion personnel had risen to one interest and help in this matter." thousand one hundred and eighty- Meyer found that the way the broker who was five from ninety-six officers and selling stock had used the brother's name was un- men. The appropriation for the authorized by the brother or the company; that the Ordnance Department alone had company was composed of reliable business men; been three billions, two hundred that the "Department of Equipment of the Signal millions of dollars, three times the Corps reports that the Engel Aircraft Company total value of our iron and steel should start delivery on its contracts about the first industries. week in February, and that the company is doing There had been some pneumo- its work with efficiency and promises to become nia in the camps. There had been one of the most valuable concerns in the production some outbreak of measles, but of spare parts, with the possibility of being used to otherwise no epidemics of com- advantage in the assembly of complete planes." municable diseases which are fa- The reports about the company's methods of vored by men living so close to- business and financing and as to the nature of the gether. The death rate in the work it was doing make a section of the Baker files home camps had been one-third of nearly an inch thick. After the brother had with- that in the home camps in the drawn from the company, receiving nothing except Spanish War. the money he had put in and his salary, the company After the statement the in- was reinstated in its contracts on the advice of terrogation began. Senators gen- Meyer and Goff and the officers of the Signal Corps. erally agreed that the men were all In this case Baker regarded himself as very much his getting enough nourishing food, brother's keeper. although the pies were not such as mother used to make and the BAKER appeared twice before the Senate Com- cooking generally was not up to mittee on Military Affairs. The first time was that to which rich men's sons were on January 10, 1918, the second, on January 28th, accustomed. So the army was which was the dramatic sequel and climax of the not "starving." That was some- first. Both are very important in the history of the thing, in memory of the embalmed war, the second a great moment in the history of beef scandal of the Spanish War parliamentary institutions. with which so many Senators were Senator George E. Chamberlain, Democrat, of familiar. Oregon, was chairman of the committee when No Senatorial voice was raised Baker was chosen. From the outset he had been an against the moral safeguards of the implacable critic of Baker's administration of the camps and the recreation and en- War Department. The whispering gallery was say- tertainment provided in contrast ing on the morning of January 10th that Chamber- with the saloons and "cribs" of lain was to have his "day." He was a prophet who former days; but not all Senators was to receive his due, an inquisitor who would accepted the health conditions as develop the evidence which would strip "the nobby satisfactory when out of the mil- little Secretary of War" to the nakedness of his lions in camps a certain number incapacity. were bound to be on the sick list. Baker's attitude was that of respect for the law- "Senator McKellar: 'With many E. R. Stettinius, who as a making power, respect which had a certain disarm- hundreds and sometimes many member of P. Morgan <& Co. ing quality. The restraint of the occasion itself J. thousands of men sick in these had been purchasing agent for favored Congressional dignity at its best. The camps and with their parents Senators were urbanely and considerately attentive the Allies in America, was writing to Senators every day, to the Secretary's opening statement. It was a made Surveyor General of Sup- sometimes dozens of letters com- written statement, one that might well have been plies in the War Department ing in complaining, of which I got by his assistants for a busy chief. The value of a several this morning, do you not resume of it is as the background of the unprepared think it would be wise on the part statement of the thoroughly aroused Baker on January 28th. of the Department to look into these hospital arrangements where He stated how from April 1st to December 1st, 1917, our so many of the boys are sick? Do you not think it would be a armed forces had increased from the total of two hundred and wise public policy?' two thousand officers and men, in the Regulars and National "Secretary Baker: 'So wise that it was done a long time ago Guard, to one million six hundred thousand in Regulars, Guard and has been constantly continued. I sent General Gorgas in and National Army, six times the total we had had at any time person to inspect every camp in which there was an unusual in the Spanish War and one and one-half times the force ever prevalence of disease, and have instructed him to have his medi- mobilized by the nation. cal representative at each camp make (Continued on page 49) 25 JUNE. i 95 i : Pershing Tells EWorld A Review* Bti T.H.Thomas

/ *"^'0R General Persh- would ever be sent over. In I ing the war began his letter of instructions § at Fort Sam Hous- Pershing was told that he ton as follows: was to exercise an "inde- "On May 3, 1017, four pendent command" — and weeks after the United States keep his troops "a separate had declared war on Ger- and distinct component of many, I received the follow- the combined forces, the ing telegram from my father- identity of which must be in-law, the late Senator F. E. preserved." But the plan Warren, in Washington: then was for this separate " 'Wire me to-day whether and distinct component to and how much you speak, consist of a single division. " read and write French.' "No such unit," Pershing These few words were the notes, "then existed in our first hint of the long trail Army." It was apparently that was to lead to Chau- from a fine sense of humor mont, but the General had that the Secretary of War no difficulty in grasping the informed him: "You are di- idea. "My reply," he notes, rected to co-operate with the "was rather optimistic, yet forces of the other countries it was comparatively accu- employed a gainst L the rate and perhaps justified by enemy." the possibilities to be im- It was with this slim pros- plied from Senator Warren's pect that the "Commander- letter." The reply read: in-Chief" set off for Europe, "Spent several months in and on the day he sailed the France nineteen eight study- Chief of Staff at Washington ing language. Spoke quite put on record the following fluently; could read and memorandum write very well at that time. "... General Pershing's Can easily reacquire satis- expedition is being sent factory working knowledge." abroad on the urgent in- On this basis the matter sistence of Marshal Joffre was settled, and the C.-in-C. and the French Mission that may fairly claim to have a force, however small, be been the founding father of sent to produce a moral ef- the Interpreters Corps. His fect. We have yielded to this reply, however, was none view and a force is being sent too optimistic. Clemenceau solely to produce a moral and certain others may have effect. If all necessary ar- found that as time went on rangements are not made on Pershing's accent grew stead- the other side, it is the fault ily more and more American of the French General Staff —but at no time was there and not of ourselves, since any doubt of his being able their officers were and are to catch their meaning. fully cognizant of our un- The language question prepared state for sending a turned out the least of serious expedition for serious Pershing's troubles. On his business. Our General Staff arrival at Washington a few had made no plan (so far as days later it was clear at is known to the Secretary of once that the question was "whether and how much" any War) for prompt despatch of re-enforcements to General Pershing,

American army could be got over. A check-up showed that there nor the prompt despatch of considerable forces to France . . . were available for issue 285,000 rifles, four hundred light field But it seems evident that what the French General Staff is now guns, nine hours' supply of ammunition "firing at the rate concerned about is the establishment of the important base and ordinarily used in laying down a barrage for an infantry attack"; line of communications for a much larger force than General thirty-five flying officers, and fifty-five training planes of which Pershing will have. They evidently think that having yielded to fifty-one were obsolete. No arrangements were yet under way the demand for a small force for moral effect, it is quite soon to be for supplying these deficiencies; no plan had been drawn up; and followed by a large force for physical effect. Thus far we have no neither the General Staff nor the War Department had come to plans for this." any decision in their own minds as to whether or not a large army For what, we may ask, was the Draft Act being voted? This memorandum, roughly speaking, explains all that fol- *MY EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD WAR. By General John Persh- J. lowed. Out of this minus quantity emerged the long series of ing, Commander-in-Chief of the A. E. F. Two volumes. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. plans, programs and schedules of the (Continued on page 42)

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly This fifty-six ton block of white marble, believed to be the largest ever quarried, is now being finished and carved at the West Rutland and Proctor plants of the Vermont Marble Company preparatory to being shipped to Washington to be used in completing the memorial to the Unknown American Soldier If You're Suing Uncle Sam Btf Raymond C.Parker

URING the World War the FRIDAY perfunctory, routine examination given United States Government en- them just prior to discharge. tered the insurance business in Probably a majority of these disabled order that the several million men soon applied for and received govern- men and women in active service might be ment benefits called "disability compen- afforded insurance protection not obtain- 3 sation" provided by Congress to partially able elsewhere. By the end of the war a pay the debt owed by the nation to its de- majority of those in the military and naval JULY fenders who were wounded or otherwise dis- service had contracted for and received cer- abled by injury or disease incurred while in tificates of war risk insurance, and monthly is the Deadline for the active service, but it seems that large premiums were being deducted from their numbers of these incapacitated men failed pay. These certificates, limited to ten Action on Disability to apply for disability payments under the thousand dollars, contained a provision policies of war risk insurance which they calling for their payment in monthly instal- Insurance Benefits had purchased from theGovernmenl during ments to a beneficiary in the event of death, the war, and which is, and always has been, or to the insured himself should he become a matter separate and distinct from the totally and permanently disabled. benefits that are known as compensation, adjusted compensation From the standpoint of the veterans, it is a regrettable fact (bonus) or disability allowance. Eventually, however, someone that a majority of the policy-holders, following their discharge advanced the just and fair theory that if an insured veteran's from the service, permitted this insurance to lapse for non-pay- injury or disease of a total permanent nature was incurred while ment of premiums. Perhaps most of them were not financially he was in the service it necessarily was incurred while his insur- able to continue it. However, since the war it has become clear ance was still in force, and by reason of that his policy then that many of the veterans were injured, or else developed a matured and no further premiums were due by him. This is the disease, while in the service which was not discovered during the position taken by the federal courts in {Continued on page 40)

JUNE, 1 93 1 27 Ordinarily one associates gophers with Minnesota, but this is another kind of animal, known in various parts of the country as turtle, terrapin or tortoise. But to Fort Myers, Florida, they're gophers, and racing gophers at that. Here they are shortly after the beginning of the great competition, which was won by Opaline, with Hard Surface second. Winter tourists swelled the crowd of spectators Go, Gophers, Go

/f$> A native Ohioan and citizen progressively of sand seats had been provided and were all filled a half hour before yj four other States in the snow belt east of the the race began. Tourists were paying fifty cents for the programs J M Mississippi we always supposed a gopher was a which had been distributed free by the post. Spectators stood on little beast that lived on western plains, a scam- benches, climbed trees and even took to the housetops as the pering and burrowing critter. Dudley Geddes, Past Commander zero hour for the unusual competition neared. Under a two- of Rabe O. Wilkinson Post of Fort Myers, Florida, drove us to column head the Fort Myers Press told the story of the race, the dictionary when he sent along a story of a gopher race, staged beginning: by his post, which added $500 to the post treasury. Gopher, we "Opaline, from the stables of the Sinclair Refining Company, is found, is also a small land turtle. the fastest gopher in this part of Florida. Taking a lead at the Racing turtles! Well, here were a half dozen photographs and start of the gopher derby here this afternoon, Opaline crossed the some newspaper clippings to prove it. The gopher race was so finish line a winner, a split second ahead of Hard Surface, entry exciting it made everybody forget a local election and hard times. of the city's street department . . . Miss City of Fort Myers was

Quite a lot of currency changed hands too. awarded $10 as the best decorated gopher . . . Among the out- Small boys provided the gophers when the post agreed to pay standing entries were Miss Information, Chamber of Commerce fifty cents a head for them. Public interest in the race picked up Sunshine, Power and Light Co.; Uneeda, National Biscuit Co. when every show window in town was displaying the racing tur- C. C. & Iodine, drug store; Back Taxes, county collector's office tles and sidewalks were crowded with clerks training their estab- Wrong Number, telephone company; Al Capone, sheriff's office lishments' favorites to wobble in a straight line. Businessmen, False Alarm, fire department, and Overdraft, Lee Countv from the town's bankers to the Bank." corner bootblack, paid $3 to enter Probably next year other posts a gopher in the race and this fee in Florida will have gopher races. included decoration of a turtle What a study for a slow motion with duco. There were 115 entries. camera those races will be! Rules provided the race would be won by the gopher which first Challenge traveled seventy-five feet in either direction from the starting line. THE bowling season of Bert H. Gophers must be left to their own Hickman Post of Richwood, inclinations after the starting gun. West Virginia, is probably almost Each gopher bore a number and over by this time, but it is a good the name of the owner or stable to bet that one challenge the post which he belonged. sent forth has not been taken up, Judges were Connie Mack and according to Robert B. McDougle Tom Shibc, manager and president of Parkersburg, West Virginia's of the Philadelphia Athletics, in Fort Myers for spring training. National Executive Committeeman, who calls attention to this E. S. Barnard, president of the American League, was also item in the West Virginia Legionnaire: present —one of his last public appearances before his death a few " 'I have been authorized to issue a challenge in regard to ten- weeks later. pin artists,' writes Wheeler Green, post finance officer of Bert H. Schools let out early for the race. Business stopped. A thou- Hickman Post. 'We have two one-eyed members of our post who

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" will meet any other two one-eyed bowlers in the State.' Try to The other is the village of Arcis-le-Ponsart, between the Aisne and tie that one! the Marne, where Lieutenant Houston fell. Germantown is the home of Henry H. Houston 2d Post of The Up Damariscotta Way American Legion, an active influence in all community affairs. In 1920 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Houston, parents of Lieutenant MAINE has its quota of broad cement highways but when you Houston, presented to the post a large house—a family mansion get of! the pavement in winter the going isn't so good, and which was the post's clubhouse for eight years. this fact makes Adjutant H. W. Castner of Richard R. W ells Post At the same time he presented a house to the post, Samuel F. at Damariscotta proud of the fact that fifty-five of the eighty Houston undertook the reconstruction of the shell-wrecked village widely distributed members turned out for a recent meeting. of Arcis-le-Ponsart. In 1927, when The American Legion made "I [>assed out slips at our last meeting and asked each man to its memorable pilgrimage to France as the Second A. E. F., put down the distance he had traveled," writes Mr. Castner. Legionnaires from Henry H. Houston 2d Post visited the French "The total mileage was 668. William Cruser held the record, village and the whole town joined in welcoming and entertaining with 72 miles. Walter Hill came them. some twenty miles, and had to Meanwhile Germantown had break thick ice in a brook late at been growing rapidly. The night to get water to keep the old comfortable mansion which had flivver from boiling over. George sheltered the post since 1020 Hodgkins of West Neck walked was in the path of business three miles to hitch a ride with development. In 1928 the post, another comrade. Abner Stet- with the friendly assistance of son had been sick, but the doc- the donors, sold its old home tor couldn't keep him from and received for it $121,000 in walking four miles. Past Com- cash. Work began immediately mander Page had to go to Port- upon a new clubhouse. To land on business the day of the supplement the amount re- meeting but he got back in time, ceived by the sale, the post had and his speedometer added fifty-six miles to the total. Arthur $16,542, from a building fund raised in 1920, and $20,585, from a Willey is a brand new member, and he came eighteen miles. fund raised in 1929. With interest on money the total amount Perley Bailey came from Edgecomb. He had trouble keeping to which the post had available for its new clubhouse was exactly the winding road and came through only because he was guided $163,809.85. by familiar trees and other landmarks. Henry H. Houston 2d Post spent $132,521.60 on its new build- "Four of the outfit, returning home after the meeting unusually ing and made a trust fund of the balance of $30,500, to provide late, were holding a conference to think up plausible alibis when for the operation of the building. The businesslike manner in they met a neighbor who had been routed out of his bed to search which the enterprise was carried through was commented on for them. widely. A leader in the enterprise was Charles I. Engard, Past "That is what winter is like up this way, but summer is a Commander of the post, who was elected Commander of the different story. Pennsylvania Department last autumn. "A lot of Legionnaires from out of the State show up around A photograph of the building was published as an illustration

Five thousand Legionnaires and Auxiliares from the southern counties of New Jersey cheered when National Commander O'Neil iuas greeted at a great meeting in the Atlantic City Auditorium by Congressman Isaac Bacharach of New Jersey, who sponsored the increased loan law for veterans. The National Commander stressed the necessity of giving needy veterans the right of way in applying for loans. At the extreme left is the Congressman' s brother, Mayor Harry Bacharach of Atlantic City. Mrs. Thomas Hutton, President of the New Jersey Auxiliary, and New Jersey Legion Department officers complete the group

Damariscotta in summer, and if they come to one meeting they in the Monthly for July, 1930. The building includes an audi- return for another." torium, seating 500, which can be converted into a ballroom. The large stage will accommodate any type of production. The Name and Fame game room, under the auditorium, has four bowling alleys, as well as billiard tables and handball courts, which are kept busy TWO communities keep alive the memory of Henry H. Houston during the fall and winter months. The canteen serves 2d, who was killed by a shell in battle in iqi8. One is Ger- meals. mantown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, his birthplace. It would take many pages to summarize Houston Post's activ-

JUNE. 193 29 At a bend of a rushing mountain river, Cordova ^Alaska) Post ities. The post, which first grew to 1,000 members back in 1922, Legion outposts. Evidently there is no problem of conser- is now the largest in the Department of Pennsylvania. to indicate that the nimble trout and other fish give the

Mofiey Back highway and traffic accidents. Becker-Chapman Post of The ATTENTION is again directed, for the benefit of ex-service American Legion wondered if most drivers realized that defective A men who have forgotten it, to the fact that it is still possible brakes were an invitation to a ride in an ambulance and that a for veterans in good health to reinstate Government insurance faulty steering gear might mean a car upside down in a ditch. In policies which were allowed to lapse. Many men who carried co-operation with the Chamber of Commerce, the Waterloo insurance during the war gave up this privilege when they were Safety Council and other bodies the post established for one week returned to civil life. The National Rehabilitation Committee of a Safety Lane for testing lights, horn, windshield wiper, mirror, The American Legion is anxious to have all posts again make it steering apparatus, wheel alignment and brakes. All this service clear that policies may be obtained in amounts ranging from was free. Three thousand cars were tested during the week and $1000 to $10,000 in multiples of $500. There are seven standard only one hundred were found not to need repairs'or adjustments. forms of policy available—ordinary life, 20-payment life, 30- The Waterloo Post also conducted a survey of accidents to de- payment life, 20-year endowment, 30-year endowment, endow- termine the street intersections which were most hazardous. ment at age 62, and five-year convertible term. Local offices of the Veterans Bureau will, when feasible, conduct the necessary Guam Says Hello physical examination without cost, and will in any event furnish the proper forms, rates and instructions. WHENEVER a Legion post in Iowa or Illinois gets tired of Incidentally, those who converted from the term insurance of seeing the same old faces at meetings it invites another outfit wartime days are getting larger dividends from the Government from an adjoining town to drive over some evening for a this year than in previous years. good time. It is not that way The total allotted for 1931 is with Mid-Pacific Post of The $8,200,000, or $900,000 more than American Legion, for that outfit for 1930. is at home on the Island of Guam, which is about the most solitudi- Par/ez Vous ? nous place on the map. If Mid- Pacific Post wanted to invite an- SOME thousands of onetime other post, it could send a radio doughboys who learned more to a San Francisco outfit, but the than enough French to order ham San Franciscans would have to and eggs or travel about Paris in travel 5,053 miles to make the a taxicab will be able to parlez call. Or it could find a nearer more than restaurant and taxicab Legion outfit in Hawaii, half way French if the Legion goes to Paris to San Francisco. Manila is 1,500 again in 1937. They have been miles west of Guam. The Pacific, reading Fidac, the official publi- you will have to agree, is cer- cation of the Interallied Veterans Federation, which is printed tainly the ocean of magnificent distances. with parallel columns of French and English. H. W. Dunning, You can take the word of Past NationalYice Commander John former Arkansas newspaperman and now a member of Paris Post, A. McCormack that Mid-Pacific Post isn't simply dreaming is English editor of Fidac. He sends word that the monthly pub- away the time in its tropical home. In a letter to National Ad- lication is read not only by American veterans who find it helps jutant James F. Barton, Mr. McCormack tells of the post's pres- them remember their wartime tongue but also in the reading entation of a flagpole and flag to the naval station and town of rooms of more than 300 public libraries in the United States and Agana. Governor Willis W. Bradley accepted the gift as the flag 100 libraries of American colleges and universities. The American was raised for the first time by Betty McCormack and Anne subscription price is $2.20. The address is Fidac, 15 Rue de Bradley. The four baseball teams of the Guam league took part Prcsles, l'aris-XV, France. in the ceremony with the Legionnaires. Other recent post activities include awarding of school medals, an essay contest and The Way to Safety the awarding of prizes for the best drilled companies in the Guam militia. WRECKED automobiles were by-products of the business Guam is just about big enough for an 18-hole golf course and a depression in Waterloo, Iowa, as elsewhere. The desire to couple of Tom Thumb courses. It is thirty miles long and seven keep the old family chariot rolling without repairs or adjustments wide. The temperature is near 81 degrees all the year. Magellan as long as it would navigate was being reflected in an increase of discovered the island in 1521 and the United States captured it

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maintains its clubhouse, one of the farthest north of the ration in Cordova, and the swiftness of the stream seems blank space dotted by a chain of lakes. This is Cameron Parish Legionnaires plenty of opportunity for that sport in season —and if you don't know it, parish in Louisiana means county. It is a parish ninety percent marshland or lake waters, peopled sparsely by the hospitable descendants of the French pioneers from Spain in i{ It is governed as a United States Navy of the Louisiana of several centuries ago. These folk live peace- station. fully by farming and trapping on the highly fertile ridges that are interspersed among the marshes and in the single tiny community Biggest Band Concert of Cameron which stands midway on a channel that connects the largest lake of the parish, Lake Calcasieu, with the gulf. DETROIT may hear the greatest trumpeting since Jericho Cameron Parish is the only parish in Louisiana without rail- and the loudest blasting of trombones in all history when road or telegraph. Only a few months ago it got its first electric the Legion holds its national convention this autumn. Massed lights and the telephone arrived. Oil has been discovered and the playing by all Legion drum corps and all Legion bands is the big parish is throbbing with new prosperity. It is soon to be con- idea which generated in the mind of Major Edward O. Halbert, nected with the mainland by a modern road built through the United States Army, one of the three judges of the drum corps marshes—the finest duck hunting waters in the country, inci- and band contests at the Boston national convention. Major dentally—and then the world will have access to a beach on the Halbert and the other judges, including Edwin Franko Goldman, Gulf of Mexico which will attract thousands. president of the Bandmasters Association of the United States, To the Louisiana Department of The American Legion Cam- Wallace Goodrich, director of the New England Conservatory eron Parish until March was the only parish in the State without of Music, and Walter M. Smith, director of the Shriners' band of a Legion post. It gave up this distinction on March 2 2d, a day Boston, praised the performances of the scores of Legion musical which will stand out in department history as the day Depart- organizations and submitted to Horace Z. Landon, contest di- ment Commander Sam H. Jones set out, like Columbus, in three rector, ideas for making the Detroit contests even more im- boats for the discovery of a new world. pressive. Department Commander Jones lives at Lake Charles, a Major Halbert was struck by metropolis of southwest Louis- the fact that almost every band iana on the River Calcasieu twen- and drum corps was groomed as ty miles 'above the place where carefully as the cadet battalions the river joins the lake of the at West Point or Annapolis. same name. "I marveled at the hours of In the good ships Weewanda, effort spent, the patience in per- Miss Top and Driftwood, Com- fecting details, to say nothing of mander Jones and most of the the cost of uniforms and equip- members of W. B. Williamson ment," Major Halbert com- Post of Lake Charles, including mented. "To perfect the the post's drum corps, voyaged uniformity of individuals some down the river, through the lake of the outfits had made amazing and landed at Cameron. Nearly efforts. Shoes were of the exact the entire population gathered in same type, leggings absolute front of the court house to wel- duplicates. The texture, quality come the visitors. The drum and color of the cloth in the uniforms were exact and all were corps played, and there were speeches in French and English and perfectly tailored fits. All instruments and trappings were of the then and there was born Richard Brothers Post of The Americ an highest quality and design." Legion with thirty-one charter members, named for Dorseli and Cash prizes of $3,500 will be awarded to the championship Remie Richard who were killed in action. bands and drum corps taking part in the Detroit contests in ad- dition to the large number of silver cups and other trophies, Getting the Jobs according to Dr. C. C. Hawke of Winfield, Kansas, chairman of the contests supervisory committee. IT IS worth emphasizing again that The American Legion has a National Employment Commission which is endeavoring Pioneering to get jobs for one million persons before the national conven- tion in Detroit next fall. Former National Commander Howard THE Louisiana coast of the Gulf of Mexico is a reasonably P. Savage of Chicago is chairman of the commission and Jerome straight line on the map from the border of Texas half way F. Duggan of St. Louis is vice chairman. The commission's to New Orleans. The map reveals strange country behind that "patriot card" is to be issued to each Legionnaire who finds a coastline, region unmarked by highways or railroads, a great job for an unemployed man or woman, (Continued on page 62)

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£-» NOTWITHSTANDING the general piloted the plane of the 103d Aero Squadron, J\ I impression that the Marines picture of which is shown in Then and Now in the 0 / \f during the war were not exactly January Monthly, I advise that my records indi- modest in telling of their part in cate that the pilot was First Lieutenant Van Win- it, mighty few of the ex-leather- kle Todd. I was sergeant major of the 103d necks have said their say in these columns. So let when Lieutenant Todd was reported missing us listen to Ralph E. Hodgkin of Henry K. Burt- while on flight over the lines on August n, 1918. ner Post, Greensboro, North Carolina, who sup- I quote from memoranda I made on that date: plied the picture of the Marine Detachment, of " 'On August 11, 1918, a patrol of four planes which he had been a member, on the U. S. S. operated over the sector St. Michel-Pont-a-Mous- Georgia: son between 9:05 and 10:25. On this patrol Lieu- "Like all other Legionnaires who read the tenant Van Winkle Todd failed to return after Monthly from cover to cover, I have often won- being in a combat.' And a second memo: dered if any other organization can boast of an 'First Lieutenant V an Winkle Todd disappeared experience such as happened to the Marine De- about 10:10 a. m., August 11, 1918, during a com- tachment aboard the U. S. S. Georgia. I am en- bat in which he destroyed an enemy plane. Last closing copies of three letters written for publica- seen being attacked by an enemy biplane and to tion in a booklet entitled 'The Log of the Leather- fall in a nose dive about 15 kilometers inside of necks,' which contains the military history of each enemy lines in the region of Euvezin, France.' member of the detachment after he left the Georgia. "The 103d, still retaining the name of the It is dedicated to the seven men who crossed the Great Divide. Lafayette Escadrille, was then stationed with the Third Pursuit "The experience of which I spoke is contained in the letter from Group and flying from a field just outside of Vaucoulers, France. Lieutenant Commander Gulliver, affectionately known to the It might interest the readers to know that the 103d was the first Georgia guard as Luke McGluke. It speaks for itself." American air unit actively operating in the Zone of Advance Unfortunately, we cannot reprint these letters—from Lieuten- against the enemy. It became a complete American Air Service ant Commander Louis J. Gulliver, U. S. N., Captain Sumner E. unit on February 18, 1918, when the enlisted personnel of the \V. Kittelle, U. S. N., and Captain Samuel L. Howard, U. S. M. 103d relieved the French enlisted personnel of their duties and C, in full, but they all follow the same trend in expressing their the former American pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille continued appreciation of this detachment during its service on the Georgia as the officer personnel. From time to time I have seen state- from September, 1917, to April, 1918. We take this from Lieu- ments to the effect that the 94th Aero Squadron was the first tenant Commander Gulliver's letter: American air squadron on the front. This, of course, is not true, "The Georgia was not to be fortunate very long, for soon orders because the 94th Squadron did not commence combat work on came for the Marine Detachment to leave for Quantico to prepare the front until April or later. The first real officially confirmed for France. I shall not soon forget the hour of their leaving the victory by an American Air Service unit was that of Lieutenant Georgia's quarterdeck. To show to this splendid body of men our Paul F. Baer of the 103d, on March 11, 1918." high regard and re- Lieutenant Baer lost spect, every officer on his life the latter part board the Georgia left of 1930 in China when his evening meal to get his plane collided with cold on the table while the mast of a vessel, he went on deck to while he was in com- grasp each hand and mercial service.

wave good bye. It . was a tribute that I WE succeeded in have never previously locating Van known to be given to Winkle Todd in Mat- any similar body of awan, New Jersey, men. It was a de- from which place he served and heart-felt reported that the pic- tribute." ture in Then and Now had escaped his atten- ANOTHER mys- tion. He adds inter- - tery of the A. E. esting details: F. and of these Then "I was shot down and Now columns has over Beney, near been cleared up by Thiaucourt. I was fly- sleuths in the Gang. ing a Spad bearing the In January we showed Contrary to the general opinion of gobs, Marines do sometimes warrant Indian Head insignia of our squadron, the a picture of an Ameri- commendation. This detachment on the U . S. S. Georgia during the Fall can plane which had of 1917 was highly praised. Later some of them fell in battle 103d, having been re- landed behind the en- cently transferred emy lines near Bency, from the French Army France, about which were grouped a number of German soldiers. in which it was known as the Lafayette Escadrille. The picture came from an ex-German soldier, Joe Bender, now a "My controls were shot away from below by a Fokker which resident of Philadelphia, and he wanted to know who the pilot had had been one of the group protecting the two 'biplaces' and which been and what became of him. The Indian Head insignia on the had been driven down by a patrol composed of Lieutenants Tobin, plane identified it as belonging to the 103d American Squadron. leader, Furlow and myself. Lieutenant Furlow, who was new at Right off the bat came a letter from Arthur B. Curran, Legion- the front then, pulled away from the formation because of ma- naire and attorney of Rochester, New York, who introduced him- chine gun stoppage about which I learned months afterwards. self as the former sergeant major of the 103d Aero Squadron Lieutenant Tobin, who had noted his signal, which I had missed, (Lafayette Escadrille). He said: followed. "In answer to inquiry as to what former air service captain "I attacked one of the 'biplaces' and shot it down. While

32 Tht AMERICAN LEGION Monthly maneuvering to get of this kind and so under the tail of the we call attention to second 'biplace,' my the following cases: controls were shot The father of Hen- away by what was, ry Bruce, battalion as far as I know, the sergeant major, first Fokker at the Headquarters Com- front capable of hang- pany, 306th Infantry, ing on its prop. I 77th Division, would fell 4,100 meters in a like to hear from spin, slowing up at former comrades of intervals to the ex- his son. Sergeant tent possible with Major Bruce was rudder and motor killed in action on only, my elevator and September 6, 191 8. aileron controls hav- This request on be- ing been shot away half of Mr. Bruce, at the stick. As a who lives in Long result of the spin, I Beach, California, received no injury was made by Legion- from two Hun chasse naire D. W. Benton. planes which followed 212 Foxhall Avenue, me down, and the Kingston, New York. tree in which my Past Post Com- wings caught slowed mander E. C. Bucher up the spin to the When a prominent civilian arrived in Brest, France, in 1918, George L. of Huntington (Indi- extent that I was Heiges took this snapshot with a bootleg camera. The visitor was the then ana) Post forwards not injured in land- Secretary of War Newton D. Baker the request of the ing—if a maneuver father of Graham E. over which I had no Scott, known to men control can be so termed. I was fired at by the Huns on the of Company G, 26th Infantry, First Division, as "Scottie." ground and therefore forced to run for cover behind a row of trees Private Scott was killed in action sometime in June or July, 1918, a short distance from the plane where I was shortly afterward somewhere in the area between Chateau-Thierry and Soissons. captured by what appeared to be part of a labor battalion. I Former members of Company G who remember "Scottie" and spent the rest of the war in various prison camps. who can give information regarding his death and burial are "The story by the German who supplied the picture is correct requested to report. in every detail except that I was a first lieutenant and not a cap- tain, and that the French women handed me notes of encourage- FINALLY we learn a little about some of the gobs who served ment and lump sugar which they had been saving since before during the war at Queenstown, Ireland—in which country the German occupation; the flowers mentioned being only inci- probably a lot of us thought no Americans put in time. Our in- dental. The German evidently did not see the beginning of the formant is Henry J. Tarmey of Caroga Lake, New York, and this fight, but this action was probably beyond his range of vision. is his story: "This story, the quotations from Curran's records and the pho- "My outfit had the pleasure of building the Naval Air Station tograph in Then and Now are tremendously interesting. They at Queenstown, Ireland, which included plowing beautiful Irish may serve as a basis for convincing my four girls what a bold, mud and lugging 94-pound bags of cement. Well, finally we had bad man their father was in his youth." our station finished. "About this time the commander discovered from my service NOTWITHSTANDING the cameras verboten rule of the record that I had spent some dozen years prior to enlistment A. E. F., many a good and unusual snapshot was acquired scraping chins in my dad's barbershop and I was instructed to by amateur (and some professional) photographers. For instance, erect a barbershop out of anything I could find handy. I was to the picture on this page in which appears the wartime Secretary be ready for action at the end of the week, with four thousand of War, Newton D. Baker, about whom Frederick Palmer has patients all ready to be operated on. been telling us things in the Monthly. George L. Heiges of Man- "I rigged it up—including a home-made American chair con- heim, Pennsylvania, the snapshotter, tells this story: structed of pipes, fittings and chain which would revolve—and "I was a hospital corpsman in Naval Base Hospital No. 5 which hung out a big sign reading 'Tonsorial Hangar.' occupied the old Carmelite Convent at Brest. I was detailed as "Sometime later, Admiral Sims came ashore to inspect the mail orderly and when making my rounds in Brest each day, occa- station and came strutting down the company street, looking as sionally placed my trusty kodak in the mail bag. solemn and stern as most admirals usually look, until he spotted "So it happened that I had my camera with me on Sunday my sign. The parade stopped and everyone gave the barber afternoon, March 10, 1918, when Secretary of War Baker ar- shop the once over and I wondered if maybe I had left a fly-speck rived at Brest. The presence in the Navy Yard of Admiral or something on the window, when friend Sims decided to give Wilson and General McClure, as well as a company of French the Tonsorial Hangar a look from the inside. Marines, drawn up at attention, in- "He came in and I got a big dicated that something unusual was kick out of it when he compli- about to occur. I learned Secretary mented me on my home-made Baker was about to come ashore. American style chair and said "When he showed up, I snapped it looked so much like home he the picture although a secret service was going to try it. Thereupon man said, 'You'd better not let the he sat down and had his beard admiral (Admiral Wilson) see you.' trimmed and had a splash of "I am sure that this is the only hair tonic (also home-made) picture that was taken of the event." administered — for which treatment I gratefully ac- EVEN after these many years, cepted a ten-shilling note." relatives of some of the men who failed to return from the war are RECENT listing of addi- still seeking some firsthand informa- tional members in our tion regarding the last moments of Unofficially Alive Veterans their soldiers. There may be some Club has brought a number more cases that can be cleared of additional veterans front up. Then and Nowers have been and center with accounts of exceptionally responsive to requests their {Continued on page 57)

JUNE, 1931 33 There he is, ladies andgen- tlemen, over the river and the telephone poles and all the other hazards, and it won t be long now before he N the big oval pasture enclosed by the race track, the old County Fair is off lands right in front of you Chenango Ground showing some novel exhibits. They are drawn up in a line at on these grounds." Thus the south end of the field, where the morning sun Ralph Grisivold broadcast- T burnishes high lights on their new paint, crimson and cream- ing at the Legion sponsored color, sky blue and black. At first glance, you'd take them glider meet in Norwich, to be three ordinary monoplanes. But look more closely and New York. The Legion you'll see that these planes are not of the common or Garden GliderClub' s primary type City variety. Note that they have no motors, no propellers. engineless plane (shoivn on These are the craft about which we've been hearing a great this page) start- deal of late—but which few of us ever have beheld. They ed all the fuss. are gliders. The Legion Glider Club of Norwich, New York, is about A craft of the to start its first air-toboggan field day.

secondary type , Ten glider pilots have signed entry slips and reported fit owned by a Nor- for duty in Contest No. i. This is a competition in "landing ivich Legion- on a mark." To the three victors in this contest the Nor- naire, is shoivn wich American Legion Post offers cash prizes of $125, $50 opposite and $25. A second contest, to start later, is a "duration flight for licensed pilots." In this event a prize of $500 is the Legion's bait to any glider who can succeed in staying aloft for two hours or more. But only a feeble breeze is stirring this morning, so no pilot present feels he has any real chance to grab that purse unless the weather changes. Better luck tomorrow, maybe! Half a dozen young men are pushing one of the three gliders forward. It is of simple construction, reminding somewhat of a type of glider in which the Wright Brothers were flying back in 1902. Remember the photographs of that box-kite affair with no fuselage, and skiis for its landing gear? But that history-making Wright glider was a biplane. The one we view this morning is a monoplane, a modern glider of what is known as the "primary type." The other two craft on display appear to be 1930 models in every re- gard. Their wing spread is greater than the primary's, and a fuselage en- closes the pilot's seat. To the eye of a reporter who may as well confess immediately that he is in no sense an expert on aviation, they look like up-to-the-minute modern monoplanes—except that they are minus a power plant. These are gliders of the "intermediate" or "secondary type." The Legion Glider Club of Norwich owns a primary. Fifteen enthus- iasts recruited from among the 250 members of the Norwich American Legion Post banded in a club and signed articles of confederation back in November of 1929. "We had heard about gliders and wanted to get in

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the game." Each of the fifteen chipped in $35; the jack-pot furnished more than enough to buy a new coaster suited to their needs. For their first training they met at the Norwich airport, about may manage to prolong his flight. But against these gliders of a mile outside the city, the Central New York Airways Field. the primary and secondary types, gravity has a big edge, so Here any Legion member would feel himself always welcome and usually the flights are brief. These two types, please understand, quite at home, for the field is owned and operated by Legionnaire are just what their name implies: they are gliders, not especially Warren Eaton, Chairman of the Aviation Committee of the designed for soaring. Department of New York, Legionnaire Melvin Eaton, past com- The "soarer" or "sail-plane"—a type not among those repre- mander of the Norwich Post, and Dr. M. A. Quinn, the post's sented at the Fair Ground today—is a craft of much larger wing commander in 1930. Warren Eaton, manager of the airport, was spread; it also is more delicately adjusted and to control it suc- appointed the club's official instructor; and it was stipulated that cessfully and safely requires a pilot well-grounded in the princi- his instructions should be law. ples of flying. At the time their first glider was delivered the ground was In these sail-planes amazing feats have been accomplished. covered with a nice soft blanket of snow. This was regarded by An American pilot has kept one of them soaring for nearly seven all members as a lucky break. For, please understand, you can't, hours. A German holds the world's record, of fourteen hours, as in a school for the powered airplane, "go up and take your les- seven minutes. A climb, craftily taking advantage of upward air sons" with the instructor sitting right at your elbow. You must currents, has attained 8,494 feet. To the question "how great a learn to glide "just as you learn how to ride a bicycle," by shoving distance can they travel?" the answer, to date, is 283 miles. off alone. And since these are necessarily solo flights, prudence All these world's records, at present, are held by Germans and counsels taking short and easy ones at first. Austrians. And all of us, indirectly, helped to prod them to that If you have flying instinct and a sense of balance, you may get proficiency. The Treaty of Versailles greatly cramped German the hang of the sport in ten minutes. But to become really expert activities in building airplanes. Thereupon Fritz and Heinie requires aptitude and long practice. Gliding is simple enough in promptly turned earnest attention to developing the motorless principle. Here's the way it's done: plane to the fullest extent of its possibilities. Ten years they've You and your glider get a flip into the sky by means of a been at it; and for the amazing things they've accomplished we "shock cord." This "shock cord" works just like the rubber should be the last to begrudge them due credit. band attached to a small bov's bean-shooter. It is a rubber band For the present, any serious rivalry to the prowess of the Ger- magnified to the thickness of a rope and drawn out to a length of man champions lies some distance ahead of the novices of Amer- fifty yards. The glider is the bean. Now watch how the bean is shot. ica's rapidly multiplying new glider clubs. But all over the land, In the role of "visiting firemen" we have with us at the Fair from Cape Cod to Point Loma, our enthusiasts are learning the Ground today a glider club of eight young men down from Sche- game. Thus far most of their efforts are confined to flying the nectady. This is their primary about to make a flight. primary and secondary types, in sports of the kind the Legion At the tail of the craft a clump of clubmen have dug their heels Glider Club is demonstrating for us at Norwich. into the ground, as for a tug of war. They are holding the glider This first contest of the day is a game chosen as suitable to the down to earth. In front, attached to the glider's prow, a rubber dimensions of the green oval bounded by the race track of the rope stretches out, "V" shape, with two shirt-sleeved crews Fair Ground. To the untechnical eye, it is a hopping contest, running and hauling at it. Their efforts cause the "shock cord" not for distance, but for accuracy in making a landing. On his to stretch out and tense. All ready now downward glide the pilot from Schenectady aims the nose of his "Let go!" the pilot shouts. craft at a circle of lime marked off in the far end of the field. The crew holding down the tail obey promptly. Like a squeezed In the center of it is the "mark," a flag. watermelon seed, the glider flies out of their grasp and leaps sky- This first flight falls short about thirty feet. The next con- ward. Kite-like it lifts a little higher, until the dangling shock testant overshoots. But presently a shout goes up from the cord drops off. crowd in the grandstand. G. M. Brown of Schenectady has The rope-pullers scatter to get out of the way, or flop on the landed his machine within a foot and a half of the flag. An en- ground. The glider pilot is up now and has attained flying speed. thusiastic fellow clubman slaps him boisterously on the back, From now on, it's a game of steering with the footbar and manip- and cries: ulating with his hands the control stick. The glide has begun "That's $125 for you, old top!" a toboggan ride on air. The pilot matches his skill as a flier The game keeps on through most of the morning, each con- against the wind's whims and against the testant allowed two trials. relentless downpull of gravity. By taking Now one of the larger advantage of up-bound currents of air he {Continued on page 60)

JUNE, 1931 The Legion s rifle team and the John R. McQuigg trophy it ivon in the Fidac interallied match held at Camp Ferry, Ohio, last year. The 1931 match will again he at Camp Perry, in the late summer Ready Aim- By Frank. J. Schneller National Director ofMarksmanship

'ARKSMANSHIP has determined the destinies matches, which include high-power, small-bore rifle and pistol of nations and the course of history. The Wil- competitions. Only Legionnaires in good standing are eligible in liam Tell incident exemplified the Swiss effi- the Legion matches. Legionnaires going to Camp Perry should ciency in their fight for freedom from Austrian take with them their Legion caps and membership cards. Last despotic rule. Our only disappointment in the popular play year many wired their dues and secured telegraphic eligibility- "Green Pastures" was the omission of the portrayal of David's authority. Department team captains have been asked to pro- marksmanship against Goliath. The invention of gunpowder cure certificates of membership for all team members. These alone would have changed the pages of history but little. Hireling may be obtained from Department Adjutants. soldiers, criminal use of pistol and gun avail but briefly. It is the The big event of the camp, which will be the latter part of man behind the gun, with courageous heart, steady nerve, clear August and early September, is the National Rifle Team Match sight induced and inspired by a conviction of justice and between approximately 125 teams representing the branches of humanity that has dominated. Regular Service, Reserve, R. O. T. C, C. M. T. C, National As a result of the experience of the World War, Legionnaires Guard and civilian teams from each State and a National readily adopted marksmanship as a recreation and means of American Legion Civilian Team. friendly competition. It is a definite contribution to national In 1929 the Legion team finished in twenty-fourth place. Last defense and a concrete aid to good citizenship among junior year we headed Class B teams and won the coveted "Minute Americans. A good shot must have a sound body which can be Man" Trophy for highest civilian team. This year we hope to built only by right living. repeat and to finish in Class A. All Legionnaires who wish to try

In 1923 the Department of Illinois presented the Milton J. out for the team are urged to advise promptly with certified Foreman Trophy as an incentive for rifle competition at national scores made last year and results of this year's scores in competi- conventions. It was found, however, that conventions are not tion. The team must include at least three tyros who have never conducive to marksmanship which requires being up early "al- shot in a national match team. ready, not yet." The elimination of rifle matches was considered. In 1930 the competition was held at Camp Perry, Ohio, in THE International Fidac match, suggested and organized by connection with the National Rifle Association matches. Two The American Legion and administered by Fidac, has proved hundred Legionnaires reported to the firing line. Twenty-three very much worth while. Our team, captained by John Rackie of Department teams shot in the first real national American Legion Philadelphia, at Camp Perry, won first place medals and one team match. Indiana won in a spectacular finish with the last year's possession of the Ohio Department's John R. McQuigg pair scoring six straight bull's-eyes at 1000 yards. Ohio was only Trophy. Second place was won by the Belgian service men's one point behind. Wyoming was third. Illinois, Washington, team. Legionnaires desiring to compete for place on our team, Massachusetts and Kansas followed closely. Reports from De- which will shoot the American score at Camp Perry in early partment directors indicate a decided increase in number of September, are requested to advise the 193 1 Fidac Team Cap- Legion teams in the matches at Camp Perry this fall. It will be tain, John Wohlshlager, Castorland, New York. a battle worth traveling many miles to witness. The National Postal Match was made the basis of a real De- The change to Camp Perry made possible the addition of other partment league by many Departments. {Continued on page 60) 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Of Interest to the Auxiliary

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JUNE, 1931 37 — White Collar

A Man Who Wears One

/~^K\ EN years ago my wife and I couldn't resist the spiring Pour years ago we found ourselves in possession of yet another \ fever—we left everything in our rented city apartment object of value—a son. So there we were—a daughter, a home, a 1 and drove out into one of the suburbs on the sea. There son—not to mention the car. > S we recklessly peeked into the windows of a bungalow Because of these priceless possessions we were unable to save and even more recklessly decided that we must have it for our money. We figured when the house really was paid for we'd put own. Our only possessions of any value at that time were our that monthly payment into a savings account for the children's three-year-old daughter Jane and a tiny, rather dilapidated car. education. Two years in France had interrupted my career as an electrical In the meantime we had good food, good clothing, read good engineer, but since my demobilization I had found myself ad- books. Occasionally went to a show that we particularly wanted vancing up the ladder each year, not exactly by leaps and bounds, to see, engaging a nursemaid when we did go out. We entertained but steadily. a lot—not formally, for our house wasn't that kind of a house, Somehow or other (we were a stubborn lot) we bought that but folks dropped in on us evenings, we lighted the wood in the house. A banker later told us it was by "high finance and nothing fireplace, and drew up a card table or talked. else". We bought it through a co-operative bank and our pay- And then, ten months ago, the firm for which I worked prac- ments were rather excessive in proportion to our income. But we tically shut down, and I was out. It was a shock, to be sure, but had our home! nothing to worry about—we had no thought that it would mean more than a month of idleness, at the most. I had all sorts of recommen- dations from people well known in my line of work. Armed with these, I started confidently out job-hunting. It was natural for me to first visit engineers—superintendents in charge of my kind of work who in the past had wanted my services. I discov- ered that the very week my own firm closed, many more had done like- wise. Here they were laying off men daily, there they were shortening the number of working hours, there they were closing the factory for an un- known period. No one could use me then, but they all wanted me to keep in touch with them from time to time. g ^V. Each morning I started out, a smile on my lips, waving my hand to my wife standing at the door with a "Good luck!" on her lips. After three or four weeks my smile had to be forced, my wave became less spon- taneous, and the cheery "Good luck!" sounded more and more like a prayer. We were beginning to be frightened. We sold our car that first month, but it was old and not worth much. It had given us our relaxation —our outdoors—and now it was helping us keep our home. To avoid our co- operative monthly payments, which seemed impossible for us to meet now with no income, we tried to change our mortgage over to a straight one. The banks weren't doing that. As it was, the house was just another thing to worry over. It looked as if we would be handi- capped instead of helped by having a home on our hands. We dreaded the day when we might be unable to hold it any longer. To lose our home, for which we had sacrificed so much, to tide us over a mere tem- porary disaster seemed pitiful. And because we had always paid cash for our groceries, meat and fuel, we found we had no credit. It began to look as if paying cash for things

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was not in itself a virtue. We sat down and tried to be calm and figure it all out sensibly. Our only asset seemed to be THE UNSEEN our insurance policies. Reluctantly we borrowed on these to the utmost. Since the day I first came home job- less, we had spent nothing for clothing, amusement or luxuries. What we ob- COURIERS tained for the sale of the car and the in- surance loans was saved for bare neces- sities. We had resigned from the few OF THE SPOKEN WORD clubs to which we belonged. Folks dropped in on us just the same, but they didn't get fed, and there was no wood for the fireplace. One night two or three couples drove over and were soon in the midst of a lot of jolly nonsense. Some- one suddenly sang out, "Come on, folks —I vote for sour milk griddle-cakes and Vermont maple syrup—do I hear my motion seconded?" In the midst of the gay responses, I sensed a wave of deep silence flowing from the arm of the chair where my wife had perched herself. I familiar telephone that Some time every looked up quickly, just in time to see The day — perhaps her jump up with a laugh and a "No use, stands upon your desk at the office many times a day — you use some folks—syrup all gone, and what are grid- or in your home is only a very small part of a telephone system that has dlers without Vermont syrup?"' And we part of the great communication sys- taken fifty years and more than four all agreed with her —they were no good tem that enables you to talk across thousand million dollars to build. without it. You see we were noted for the miles with such surprising ease. The simple words "long distance," our griddlers—my wife mixed 'em and I fried 'em. Behind it are complicated ex- which you speak so casually into carefully organiza- That night she cried a little, not, as changes, a trained your telephone, place millions of she told me between sobs, because she tion of more than four hundred thou- dollars of equipment at your dis- felt it at all necessary to feed sour-milk sand men .and women and eighty posal. Yet the cost of a call from griddle cakes to folks, she but because million miles of wire. These are the New York to Chicago is only three was frightened. She didn't want to be forces that make efficient telephone dollars and but a fraction of that reminded that there was no flour in the service possible. These are the un- for lesser distances. pantry. It was hard for a woman with a seen couriers of the whale of an imagination to keep from spoken word. Equipment of comparable cost is thinking of things that might happen. Tirelessly, day or night, without also needed to connect your home And there were the children. It seems rest or sleep, the Bell System awaits with the thousands or hundreds of she'd been keeping too much of this but the lifting of the receiver to carry thousands of other telephones in your worry inside her head was aching from — your voice to any one of thirty-two town or city. Yet the charge for it—she was losing her nerve. You see million other telephone users in this local service is only a few cents a day. we just weren't the type of people who could borrow money haphazardly. We country and abroad, and on ships at In relation to service rendered, couldn't just "take" help. With us it sea. It is done so quickly and with the cost of the telephone is one of would mean indebtedness. Each new so little trouble that few people the smallest items in the monthly debt would make it so much the harder stop to consider what goes on be- business and family budget. Few for us to clear ourselves in the future. tween the giving of the number and things purchased are of such real, While money lasted I chased each my the completion of the call. constant and increasing value. lead or rumor of a lead until it petered out. It began to look as if I was jinxed. Either the firm failed or the board of directors had decided not to appropriate AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY the money for the position, or I lived in the wrong place (this applying to "city jobs"—I was a suburban resident, pay- ing taxes outside the city), or they had hired a man half an hour ago. I then decided to look for any kind of a place. There were many things I knew I could do and my friends knew I could do. But I hadn't been doing them UNIFORMS —they weren't part of my particular OF job. And when firms or agencies asked DISTINCTION if I'd been doing that sort of work and I had to answer no their reply was (and For Legion Bands, justly, I suppose) that there were hun- Drum Corps, Etc. dreds wanting the job each of whom had Write for our new Legion been doing that type of work for years. Catalogue Samples Old Boats don't need a heavy hand at the I was given promises of good posi- Town and Prices helm. They're certainly easy to stcerl Built for tions—when things picked up. Because loads. CRADDOCK COMPANY speed, and to stand heavy I had no money to travel far distances, Fine Uniforms Free catalog shows prices and models. Also canoes; I had to keep to my regular hunting- ruwboats: dinghies; big, fast, seaworthy, all-wood, Craddoek Building, outboard family-boats; and speedy step-planes. Write. grounds. Because I had so many en- Kansas City, Missouri Old Town Canoe Co., 256 Main St., Old Town, Me. forced idle hours, my wife suggested UNION MADE that I take ( Continued on page 40) America's Most Progressive Uniform House Old Town Boats

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.some Civil Service examinations. This less fortunate children who had none. more, but she seemed to rise from each I have done. We both realized that in We'd always been a healthy sort of a failure with greater courage than ever. a few months—after times changed— family, but I suppose the worry had un- God knows what I should have done could get my own kind of work, but in dermined us. One by one we succumbed without her. Nights when I could not the meantime I was not earning enough to the grippe, first the children and then sleep because of my despair, and lay to feed the family. myself. The children we doctored with there tossing, she would "just happen'' We have not wanted people to see our remnants of things bought in the past, to think of an interesting story or a straits, not because of false pride—be- and they got along splendidly, only when funny reminiscence to tell me. cause our friends would understand and they began to convalesce they were hun- The youngsters were the same way we figured the others didn't matter gry for a lot of things they were used to she even had me doing stunts with them but we just haven't wanted to talk about having but couldn't have now. My wife every evening. We read a lot together it or become a subject of conversation. lay awake nights trying, she said, to sometimes I look over at her and catch We haven't wanted to feel that we were think of some way to fix just plain pota- her looking at me with a glance of aching being pitied. So we have joked a lot toes in a way to tempt little appetites. pity which changes instantly into a little about the whole affair. All of my friends But when I could resist no longer and chuckle over some altogether imaginary and acquaintances know I am out of found myself lying in bed helplessly ill story. Only once did she give way to work and they are doing all they can to my wife became frightened and called her tortured nerves. One night she threw help me find something. But with the the doctor. At that time we had only down the paper she was reading and exception of one or two people, whose forty cents to our name—not enough, rushed sobbing from the room. I couldn't friendship and help have been invaluable she realized, for a prescription. It had find out what the trouble was. Five to us at this time, no one knows the true got to the point where I had no money minutes later I picked up the paper and situation. to go out to answer what advertisements instinctively picked out the article which One night my wife met me at the door I might see. I couldn't lift my head. I had upset her. In large headlines I saw with a queer little hug. I couldn't teil coughed constantly. For my sake, and "Man Kills Himself Because of Unem- whether she was serious or not—she had her own peace of mind, she called the ployment—Leaves Family." a funny little quirk in her smile as she doctor and told him about the forty Occasionally some manager or other greeted me: "Do you know I'm on the cents. The doctor was disgusted with us will seem all ready to hire me for a welfare committee—to help the unem- for not calling him before. mediocre position, then he will ask for ployed? A man called me up today and Once more I was able to renew my my recommendations. Upon reading said. 'Isn't there some way you can search. But the leads had grown scarcer. these, he will say something to the effect. help me get work? I don't want a cup Ten months had gone by since I had "Oh, you're too good a man for this of coffee and a sandwich. I want work drawn any salary. People were beginning place — when business picks up you'd to do.' " Then she turned and walked to clamor for legislation to aid the un- leave us for your own class of work. We quickly away, and I heard her call out employed to get on their feet. Towns, couldn't hold you here." And out goes from another room, "How about coffee. cities, States, gave a lot of publicity to another pipe dream. Friend Husband —wouldn't you like the money they were spending to give There has been only one ray of light some?" I could sense the little catch in work to those needing it —road work, iri the whole situation. On the strength her throat. You see we hadn't had coffee construction work of all kinds. But you of the passage of the so-called Bonus for quite a while ourselves. see I was still comparatively well- Bill I have been enabled to borrow Around Christmas time we found our- dressed (good clothes, well cared for, enough money to make my house pay- selves unable to pay our church pledge last quite a while), I looked well-fed. ments and save our home. Ordinarily I —we felt humiliated about that. Living there were thousands more needy than should rather have kept my bond intact, where we did. the carfares mounted up. I. I "owned my home." These various but there's the old adage, "Circum- so we couldn't even get to church, let schemes somehow didn't work out for stances alter cases." alone pay our pledge. We packed up an me. And so, with the same sheaf of recom- enormous box of good-looking second- Each time I went out on a lead and mendations in my pocket that I had ten hand toys for poor kiddies. Those old came back discouraged I could see my months ago, with a lot of perfectly good toys were all we had a surplus of. wife coming to the door to meet me but indefinite promises for the future, Friends had always treated our own chil- looking quickly into my face, reading the with a good many grocery, milk and dren so generously that they had many news there, and as quickly bracing her- coal bills piling up. we are still somehow

more toys than they needed, and they self for the strength to bear it. Some- hanging on. And my collar is still sort of were glad to give a big share to other times I feared she couldn't stand much white.

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the many war risk insurance suitsbrought During the past several years a con- Costs of court must also be paid by the before them. siderable number of disabled veterans, veteran, and should the government ap- The United States cannot be sued un- after their claims for insurance payments peal from a decision unfavorable to it. less permission is granted by fiw. and were rejected by the Veterans Bureau, costs of such appeal are borne by the while a veteran cannot sue for compen- have availed themselves of this oppor- veteran even though he also wins in the sation unless he can show that the Vet- tunity of presenting such claims to the higher court. It is submitted that this is erans Bureau in denying his claim acted federal courts. Many of these suits have unfair, and that Congress should effect a in a clearly capricious, arbitrary and un- been won by the veterans, and at the change. reasonable manner, authority to sue for present time several hundred cases are Before filing suit in the federal court, war risk insurance benefits is given him pending. In the event the insured is it is mandatory that the veteran secure in various acts of Congress dealing with awarded the decision, the court grants a disagreement with the Veterans Bureau. the relief of World War veterans, the to his attorney a fee not to exceed ten This is done by filing a claim for a rat- latest being an act to amend the Act of per cent of the amount recovered to be ing of total and permanent disability for 1924, as amended, approved July 3, 1930. paid out of the funds due the veteran. insurance purposes with the regional

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office of the State in which the veteran resides. This application should be ac- 30 Worth of Food-energy companied by statements of doctors, affi- davits of laymen and other evidence upon which the claim is based. Care should be taken to show when and how foryour 5 the disability originated. It is not neces- sary to prove that the insured has not worked any at all since his insurance lapsed, because the courts have held that the fact that a veteran was able to hold up under work for several months at in- tervals will not bar recovery. Should the regional office reject the claim, the veteran must continue to ap- peal until he has had a disagreement with General Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans Affairs. Washington, D. C. or someone acting for him. Then suit may be instituted in the federal court for the district in which the veteran resides. As a general rule, claims against the United States are barred by the lapse of six years, but in the matter of war risk insurance suits Congress has from time to time allowed more time. At present the law provides that no insurance suit shall be allowed unless brought within six years after the right accrued, or with- in one year after the date of the approval

of the Amendatory Act of July 3, 1930. However, this limitation is suspended for the period elapsing between the filing in Peanuts are as tasty as they are wholesome. the Bureau of the claim sued upon and We see to that! First, only big Virginia the denial of it by the Administrator. So Peanuts, top-notchers of the crop can bear it is absolutely necessary that the claim Poached Eggs & Spinach O f\0 the Planters Brand. Then, Planters has be filed with the Bureau prior to July 3, learned ways to toast and roast those CALORIES 200 OU 1 93 1, unless the veteran has been de- whopping peanuts so as to bring out the clared incompetent or insane, in which Bag PLANTERS Peanuts last atom of flavor . . . learned how to keep Cf . crisp . . learn- event suit may be brought at any time them fresh and CALORIES 208 O ed how to blanch and salt them within three years after removal of his When Planters says that Planters Peanuts to a Queen's taste. Be sure yon disabilities. are "The Nickel Lunch," it's getting down are buying Planters Peanuts. of A number veterans left the service to real facts. Look for "Mr. Peanut" on the afflicted with diseases which originated familiar glassine bag. 5cevery- Two poached eggs on spinach (30c at while their insurance still in force, where. Nickel Lunch." was most restaurants) has 200 calories against "The and which caused a gradual decline in 208 calories for a nickel's worth of PLANTERS NUT & CHOCOLATE health and eventually death within the Planters Peanuts. COMPANY SUFFOLK, VIRGINIA course of several years. Some of these Nature has rammed and jammed Planters men left wives, children or other depend- Peanuts full-to-bursting with vim and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Toronto, Canada ents San Francisco, Cal. who may be entitled to the benefits energy . . . made them a concentrated food M To get Mr. Peanut' s paint book for the of the insurance. Also there are many that keeps you trim and fit. children, send us 10 empty Planters bags insane or incompetent veterans whose dis- But that's not half the story! Planters or 10 inside wrappers/row Jumbo Block. abilities came into existence, and ma- tured their insurance policies, before payments of premiums were discontinued. What has been said in the above para- graphs has had to do largely with vet- erans who dropped their insurance upon PLANTERS leaving the service. In addition to those, there are a number of disabled ex-service PEANUTS men who have kept their insurance in force by paying premiums, but have not been allowed insurance benefits by the NEW LIFE INSURANCE POLICY 3%0 A DAY Veterans Bureau for the reason that the officials of that organization do not re- The Union Mutual Life Company of Iowa, 1174 Teachout gard the condition of disability as total Bldg., Des Moines, la., is offering a new life insur- and permanent. Any veteran whose in- ance policy for less than 3M0 a day up per $1000, surance is now in force, finds and who depending on your age, that covers death from any his health so impaired that he cannot cause for and pays full benefits of for continuously earn a living, may right- $1000 $5000 fully consider bringing suit. In the words accidental death and special dividends, loan values, of the court, in the case of Wood v. U. S.. etc. Over $80,000,000 already has been issued under 28 Fed. 771, "I am of the belief that State and Federal supervision. Men, women and chil- when, by reason of physical or mental dren, ages 10 to 60, eligible. Send no money, simply disability, the insured is compelled to send name, address, age, and they will send this drop out of the ranks of the workers of policy on 10 Days' Free inspection. No medical exam- the world, and stand by the side of the ination, agents' commissions or other fees policy road and watch the world go by, there — savings. This offer is limited, so is liability un.der the policy." holders pocket write them today. ©1931.

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next eighteen months, and from this con- This question might very fairly be In 1931 all this makes far from pleas- genital weakness all of them were to suf- worked in as a watermark across each of ant reading, and to "prove" one side of fer. It was not on account of his original these eight hundred pages. For ten years the case against the rest only sharpens orders but in spite of them that Pershing we have accepted the easy answer, that the general unpleasantness. Would it presently cabled back from France his these Allies should have lent their ton- be more useful instead to look for detailed recommendation for an army of nage more promptly. General Pershing causes? a million—to be in France by May, 1918. now brings out in print what has long On our side, at least, one cause was What now appears is that this pro- been known as a rumor: while British that after wasting five months without a gram was turned down. Washington's shipping was being lent for hurrying plan, the Government failed in carrying reply offered but 650.000 men at a later American infantry overseas, the Ship- through the plan it had itself chosen. date (June 15th), and even this involved ping Board, oozing with idealism, di- Pershing's first difficulties with the Allies the most optimistic estimate of shipping. verted American vessels to pick up trade were due directly to this initial failure, As to shipping, no one seriously pre- in South America. As late as August, and the next steps only perpetuated the tended to the slightest optimism; and at 1018, Pershing had to make a personal trouble. The rushing of infantry to the end of the year, when our troop- appeal to Secretary Baker against "these France wrecked any orderly plan for the shipments were hopelessly behind sched- interests." future, and Clemenceau and Lloyd ule, the result was what all parties had This single detail serves as a reminder George exploited the emergency to com- really expected. With this foundered all that there are various sides to the story. mit President Wilson to a plan that could reasonable prospect of an "independent General Pershing's narrative brings out not be realized. What was required was American army," and during the next overwhelmingly the innumerable and baf- a sane and workable proposition—not six months or so General Pershing had fling difficulties he had to cope with; few political stage-effects but an honest reck- to tight for a mere hypothesis. Had an men could have held their grip amidst oning of a military problem—not only army been there, no one would have ob- such a tangle; and perhaps no other offi- troops but guns and supplies and rail- jected to its independence. The trouble cer in the end would have achieved a way material to move them. What burst was that neither Pershing nor anyone more or less independent American army forth instead were fantastic programs else on his side could deliver it. The on the Western Front. But it is a one- for eighty and a hundred divisions—im- principle was quite simple; but without man and a one-sided story: as sharply possible to deliver, impossible to supply the men or guns or other things neces- and continuously one-sided as Marshal or transport in France if delivered. Clem- sary for an army it made little difference Foch's recent memoirs. In both books enceau and Lloyd George were willing whether the principle was refused or ac- the standpoint is relentlessly narrow and to ask for anything; Foch was quite able cepted. That these things were lacking personal and partisan; in both the author to believe in such illusions; and no one, was not Pershing's fault —but was it the is revealed in single-handed battle against on our side was willing to take the re- fault of his Allies? a world of enemies. sponsibility of refusing them.

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; "I tell you this lady is my wife!" he of a house detective use violence on a send her up I think she may be your yelled, "and I'll not be thrown out of woman. I have told him she is my wife wife." this hotel.'' but he will not believe me. Now, all I George Milner merely laughed at that. Instantly doors up and down the long ask is that nobody shall interfere while "Well, be decent and get out without hall opened and heads peered out. An I attend to him." creating any further disturbance and audience always thrilled George Milner, He did—with neatness and dispatch, I'll see to it that she is informed that he raced down the hall after the bell- and when Mr. Brannigan was hors de G. W. Milner and wife are NOT regis- hops, crying aloud his fervent intention combat, George Milner and his wife re- tered here," Mr. Orson urged. to throw them down the elevator shaft turned to their room, locked the door "But we ARE registered here." When they outdistanced him, he re- and waited. While waiting they dressed "Be sensible, Mr. Milner, be sensible." turned to room 1 105 and discovered Mr and packed their bags. "Who are you to challenge my sense? Brannigan with Mrs. Milner in his Presently the room telephone rang I'll not be intimidated; your tale of a bear-like embrace, bent upon disposses- and Milner answered it. "This is Mr. lady at the desk is a fabrication to hide sing her in the momentary absence of Orson, the owner of the St. Swithin," a your infernal cowardice. You're afraid her paramour. Had he succeeded in doing cool voice assured him. "You appear to to rally your forces and return to the that, it was Mr. Brannigan's intention to have won the first round, Mr. Milner, attack." lock them both out in the hall, throw but you are not going to win the second. A click. Patient James Orson had their bags and belongings out to them I dislike a row of this sort in my hotel. hung up. George Milner turned to via the transom and then telephone for If you will be sensible and depart peace- Shiela O'Sharon. "This time, light of my the police to come and remove the un- ably I will refrain from overwhelming life," he assured her smilingly, "we will welcome pair from the hotel. you by force." be thrown out. But we'll go with a sting At sight of Mr. Brannigan's activities. "The lady is my wife and I will not in our tails. Hurt your head, darling?" George Milner made no move to inter- be intimidated," George Milner shouted, "Certainly not. I'm actress enough to fere. Instead he retreated to the hall and and far down the hall a faint ripple of know how to faint, am I not? George, waited until, with one mighty heave, Mr. applause testified to the instinct of the this is delicious—and such publicity for Brannigan threw his wife out of the average human being to cheer for the our show! Front-page stuff. We'll sue. room. She fell, bumping her head and under dog. of course." shoulder against the opposite wall of the "Well, then, how does this proposition "We certainly shall. I can't conceive hall and lay quite still. Thereupon strike you?" Orson continued. "The what's gotten into the management. George Milner turned to the heads thrust front office has just telephoned that a Evidently we have been mistaken for out sundry doors. lady with blood in her eye is at the desk, somebody else. However, I'm not going "You all saw this man assault my demanding to know if G. W. Milner and to plead or ask questions. We'll stand on wife," he cried. "You all saw this boob wife are registered at this hotel. Shall I our constitutional rights and fight 'em to

42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly a finish. Tough egg, that house flatty. now read the I'll bet anything he returns, leading the counter attack." Mr. Brannigan did, for the Branni- ENLISTED MAN'S story ! gans of this world are not readily dis- couraged. Again his ominous thumps resounded on the door, followed by his hoarse command to open. And now Mr. THIS MANS Brannigan had an audience, an audience that came out of its rooms, eagerly curious to observe the outcome of the siege, noting that Mr. Brannigan had a reserve of four bell-hops and four husky Day-by-Day American porters. The Record of An "Open, or I'll bust in the door," roared Private on the Western Front The Brannigan. "I defy you," the besieged replied in By CHARLES F. MINDER 306th Battalion, 77th Div., Co. B chorus. A wave of the Brannigan thumb Machine Gun and two hundred and sixty pounds of The memoirs of 2,000,000 men, and of every porter crashed against it. At the third mother's son, in the A.E.F.—from the Bronx to crash the wood around the lock splin- Belleau Wood! Not heroes—just boys doing a job tered and the attackers surged into the that had to be done. room. Get a copy today at your bookseller's, $2.00 They returned to the hall in the fol- lowing order: Mr. Brannigan, stalking PEVENSEY PRESS with great dignity, four porters carrying 598 Madison Avenue, New York George Milner, two bell-hops bearing the limp form of Shiela O'Sharon and two bell-hops bearing respectively one PHOTOS suit-case and one small bag. The column entered two elevators and disappeared ENLARGED AGENTS 2 AH HOUR Size 16x20 inches Here's your chance to make $2 an from the eleventh floor. In the lobby Same price for length or bust 10 hour—no matter where you live. G. W. Milner and wife, of New York groups, landscapes, Orders waiting in every home for pet animate, etc., or new Concentrated Food Flavors enlargements of any | City, protested and struggled, while fifty pari of group pic- 98— and 101 other fast-selling House- ture. Safe return of your «wu hold Specialties. They sell on people gazed upon the dreadful scene oricinal photo guaranteed. SEND NO MONEY sight. Every housewife needs too amazed to do more than gaze. At Just mail photo or snapshot (any them. Not sold through stores. sizeland within a week you will Big profits. Steady repeat orders the sidewalk Mr. Brannigan thumbed a receive your beautiful life-tike enlargements izel6x20in. guar- Wonderful chance to establish taxi, and opened the door. Into the in- anteed fadeless. Pay postman permanent, profitable business. 98c plus postage or send $1.00 Xo capital or experience with order and we pay postage. terior the porters hurled George Milner required. I give complete Special Free Offers instructions and furnish and before he could bounce out again eolargementwe will Bend Frek everything you need to start hand-tinted miniature repro- a first day. Fo the two bell-hops deposited his wife and duction of photo sent. Take ad- making money vantage now of thia amazing Tu.lor Sedan offered FREE to produc- the baggage in his lap, Mr. Brannigan ©ffer-'Bend your photo today. ers as extra reward. Write today sure. UNITED PORTRAIT COMPANY ALBERT MILLS, Pres., 7596 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio closed the door, handed the driver a dol- 900 W. Lahe St., Dept. G 33 1, Chicago, III. lar and thumbed him into the traffic.

THE following morning a seedy little man wearing a derby hat presented STOP FOOT himself at the door of James Orson's office and demanded to see him. "My business won't take more than two sec- onds," he explained to Orson's secretary. ACHES "I got a summons to serve on him. Folks name o' Milner are suin' him for for good damages." with overstrain- ed, weakened mus- James Orson apprised of this, came this new way cles. Tiny bones are displaced. Pain follows. out smiling affably and accepted the fatal document, returned to his lair sat guaranteed 2 A super-elastic band and assists and strength- down to read it. He was mildly inter- ens muscles, replaces bones. Pain stops instantly. ested. He had been anticipating such a summons. ber lift are urgently advised for severe cases'. Suddenly he reached for the telephone Pain stops like magic. Soon bands may be and called up his attorney. "Orson discarded and feet are well to stay. Nearly Burning, aching, tired feeling in the feet and 2,000,000 now in use. Specialists, amazed at speaking, Hotel St. Swithin. Must see legs — cramps in toes, foot calluses, pains in results, urge them widely. you immediately. Come over at once. toes, instep, ball or heel — dull ache in the ankle, calf or knee — shooting pains from back Free 10-day trial I'm too agitated call to on you. Good of toes, spreading of the feet, or that broken- Wear a pair ten days; if not delighted your God, man, I'm facing ruin unless we can down feeling—all can now be quickly ended. money returned. Go to druggist, shoe store or chiropodist. If they can't supply you use compromise." SCIENCE says 94% of all foot pains result coupon below. Write for free booklet. from displaced bones pressing against The attorney arrived presently and sensitive nerves and blood vessels. Weakened . MONEY BACK IF IT FAILS read the summons. "Hum-m-! Theat- muscles permit these bone displacements. I Jung Arch BraceCo., 318 Jung Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio Now a way is discovered to hold the bones I Send one pair of braces marked below : rical people, eh? Well-known playwright in position and strengthen the muscles. Amaz- ' (Persons over 145 lbs. require long braces) ing bands, known as Jung Arch Braces, are and actor and his wife well-known ac- worn. Pains stop, muscles grow strong. Stand, | FOR SEVERE CASES FOR MILD CASES with cushion lift cushion lift tress. Of course they'll use it for pub- walk, or dance for hours—you just don't get I — —without tired. Just slips on — results are immediate | BANNER (medium) $2 O WONDER (medium) $1 licity and it what a raft of they'll get! and lasting. They are highly elastic, amaz- | VICTOR (long) S2.50 MIRACI.K U.„ur J! no ingly light and thin, yet strong and durable. This is front-page stuff, Orson. Did you O Money enclosed. Send C. O. D. plus postage. The secret is in their tension and stretch. Worn j throw them out as undesirables?" with any kind of footwear. Nothing stiff to Shoe Size Shoe Width discomfort. | further weaken muscles and cause Send Free Booklet Orson nodded. The styles with exceedingly soft sponge rub- I Name "Violently?" j Address Again Orson nodded. ARCH | ' "And they (Continued on page 44) BRACES City . Stat,. JUNG'S Canada: 105 Dufferin St., Toronto. Add 26c to above uricea

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protested against this treatment, main- meet Mr. and Mrs. George W. Milner tained they were man and wife—in the and inspect their marriage certificate. presence of witnesses?" This being in order, Mr. Orson, on behalf For the third time Orson nodded. of himself and the hotel corporation, will "Why did you do it?" tender them an apology; after that Mr. Orson handed his attorney a typewrit- Orson will explain the extraordinary cir- ten transcript of his stenographer's notes cumstances which contributed to this of the conversation overheard through regrettable incident, and I feel quite as- the transom of room 1105. When the sured that, following his explanation, latter had perused it carefully he sent your clients will view this matter in a for Mr. Brannigan. sporty light and greatly reduce the "When you were first admitted to amount they claim as damages to their room 1105, Brannigan, did you observe reputations, feelings, persons, etc. I as- whether the Milners had anything in sure you, gentlemen, this case has most their hands." unusual aspects." "Yes, sir. They each held something George W. Milner's attorneys were that looked like a manuscript." the sort who lean backward in an effort "It is as I thought. Undoubtedly your to keep their clients out of court, and late guests of room 1105 are Mr. and accordingly a meeting was arranged in Mrs. George W. Milner and undoubted- James Orson's office. Promptly Orson ly they can produce a marriage certif- made a handsome apology, after having icate in court, even though they were inspected the marriage certificate; then unable to produce it in room 1105. Mr. he read his visitors the record of the Milner is the author of one of those new conversation he had overheard through bedroom dramas that are all the rage the transom. "You will admit, Mr. Mil-

Minot ' s Ledge Light — on Outer Minot near the entrance this year. His play is entitled Room No. ner," he ended, "that this conversation to Boston Bay, Established eighty-one years ago. 9 and it opens at the Majestic tomor- was not only highly suspicious, but abso- row. As an inveterate first-nighter I lutely—er—ah—convincing." have seats for it. Mr. Milner also plays "We were rehearsing our parts in our Character beams forth in silvery the lead in his play and Miss Shiela play," George W. Milner replied merrily. rays as the light-house flashes its O'Sharon, his wife, plays the lead oppo- "So that was what got your Mr. Branni- site him. I am convinced that what you gan all worked up, was it? Well, we can guiding message to passing ships. listened to, Brannigan, and you, Mr. Or- understand it now, and the suit will be Character stands out, too, in the son, was these two talented artists withdrawn. We have no desire to op- rehearsing a scene from their play." press you, just because we have you at pleasant fragrance and rich flavor of Messrs. Orson and Brannigan bounded a decided disadvantage. That wouldn't to their feet in profound agitation. be sporty, you know. Neither Mrs. Mil- "Then, why the devil didn't they say ner nor I are in the blackmailing busi- so?" Brannigan demanded. ness. While I was forced to assimilate "Why should they explain to you? a few hearty pokes from the estimable Did you explain to them? Did you tell Mr. Brannigan, I believe that on the them the suspicious lines you had over- whole I gave Mr. Brannigan far more heard?" than he gave me—and enjoyed the go TOBACCOS— "I'm afraid I didn't," Mr. Brannigan more than I can say. I require no finan- replied, much subdued. "When I feel I cial balm for my personal injuries and got the goods on anybody I just gives neither does my wife. And we will not, WIDER, day by day, spreads the circle of 'em the bum's rush." as you seem to fear, use the incident to OLD BRIAR friendships. Men who have "Brannigan," said Orson severe- press-agent ourselves or our play." tried many other brands find in OLD BRIAR'S James ly, tired." "This," said Orson, "is the inviting fragrance and flavor a sparkling quality "You're an utter ass. You're James "All right, boss," Mr. Brannigan re- most magnificent action I have ever en- they have never known before. It is not just an- countered during twenty odd years in other brand to be sampled with indifferent enjoy- plied briskly. "I'm fired. Fired for actin' cautious, for gettin' an' a lot the hotel business. I am at a loss for ment. It is a different kind of blend ... a rare you of witnesses on the job, for obeyin' words to express my appreciation, Mr. combination of choice tobaccos . . . with a distinc- Milner too, Milner. tive character you will like. orders, for takin' a first-class lickin' from —and you Mrs. And this bozo. I'm fired, eh? Well, you can I should be additionally grateful because bet your roll I'll make a first-class wit- this is certainly going to teach me to be ness for the prosecution. Gimme my sure I'm right hereafter before I go salary to date an' I'll go." ahead. I remember, when I was man- "I spoke hastily, Brannigan," James aging the first hotel in which I was an Orson soothed him. "Retain your job." owner. It was in a little town called— Las "Thanks," said The Brannigan icily. Flores, in California. A woman The attorney took down the telephone "Oh, are you James Orson, of Las and called up George W. Milner's attor- Flores, California?" George W. Milner neys. To them he explained whose at- interrupted interestedly. "Formerly pro- torney he was. "I think I can assure prietor of the Inn there? By George, you," he went on affably, "that this case come to look at you more closely, you can be settled amicably out of court. are. I was a little boy of ten when you Before you file your affidavit of service sold out your interest, but I have a faint I wish you would be good enough to recollection of you. Perhaps you remem- Size withdraw your suit. If, a little later, you ber my father. He was in the harness are dissatisfied with our attitude, you and saddlery business there. He has UNITED STATES can file it again and Mr. Orson will pre- been dead nearly twenty years, and he TOBACCO COMPANY sent himself at your office and accept died broke. He was always a trusting service. What we first desire to do is to man without any notion of business."

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James Orson swallowed twice—rapid- haven't the slightest objection to paying ly. "Yes, I remember your excellent it in full." father quite well. What a remarkable James Orson bowed affirmatively. He coincidence." He turned to his attorney. could not speak. "I imagine you will prefer to draw up a "I'll have my attorneys figure it out. release for us in this matter for Mr. and It will be a fearfully difficult task for a Mrs. Milner to sign. Mere formality, mere actor, Mr. Orson. They will com- you know," he added, beaming on his municate with you at the proper time visitors. "It can be mailed to your at- and if, then, they may have your cer- torneys and I wish you would both sign tified check to the order of Mary F. FREE Booklet it before a notary public. Meanwhile, I Milner, you will receive a release of any tells how to hit Homers want you both to be the guests of the and all claims against you of any nature with bases full St. Swithin during your stay in New whatsoever to date, together with the " York. Will you be good enough to ac- note marked 'Paid in full.' Who doesn't want to become the kind of hatter that pitchers fear every time lie comes to the plate/ company me while I show you the suite "That will be acceptable," Orson man- This TREE Booklet will help you to become one. I have in mind for you?" aged to articulate. "You are very kind. It lays bare the secrets of correct, dangerous hit- "Certainly," ting used by Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Hack Wilson. George W. Milner mur- And you will guarantee no publicity?" Al Simmons, and other famous slunuers of both the mured, and followed Orson out into the "Absolutely. Publicity would ruin this National and American Leagues. 1930" lobby, where he paused. "The note," he fine hotel. Of course you never meant "Famous Sluggers of not only gives you help in batting, but also batting records and photo- said, "is in the files of my father's old to give us a suite gratis. I realized that graphs of more than 5 0 of the leading sluggers in National and American Leagues. A copy is FREE attorney in Las Flores. I will wire your to get of your the him was excuse us out for the asking. Edition is limited. So write at to wire me the date of it and the date office before I talked too much. You are once to Hillerich & Bradsby Company, Inc., 404 Finzer St., Louisville, Ky. of the last interest payment. The rate very adroit, Mr. Orson, but if I may of interest is eight per cent, compounded hazard a small criticism, you talk too quarterly for something like twenty much. I have known men who waxed Louisville Slugger years. My mother can use the money rich, largely because they kept their Bats €p~~ nicely and I take it, Mr. Orson, that you mouths shut. Good-afternoon." used by 95% of all professional playere

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So // JJjJ MAN. minimized. It is not to be gathered that thoroughly attuned is it to sound vibra- j children should be encouraged to handle tions that impulses are transmitted by it reptiles as playthings—far from it —but in the same manner as sounds are con- simply that they should not be filled ducted to the human ear. Snakes are CUTICIJRA with an unreasoning and utterly erro- supposed to be capable of "charming" neous fear of them. their victims, which is not so true as is Shaving Cream If there are many variations and even the fact that small birds and animals be- Produces a rich, creamy lather that throughout the shave. paradoxes in nature, there are also some come so frightened at the close prox- remains moist At your dealer3 or sent postpaid on receipt striking parallels. Of these, the similar- imity of a snake that their temporary of 35c Address: Cnticura Laboratories, Maiden, Macs. ity between snakes and birds of prey inability to get away results fatally. cannot be overlooked. Both are regarded One of the most persistent fallacies with aversion and animosity by man- abroad in the land is that of the "horn- kind; both are condemned as a class be- snake." Any of the common serpents Greatest BoatMotor cause of the bad reputation of a few which possess a hardened tip to the tail Value of the Year/ individual species; both are shot, hound- come under this term, but the horn- 9*2 ed and persecuted at every opportunity snake, as such, is non-existent. How- and in each case undeservedly so. There- ever, one will hear the most emphatic in lies the pity. Ignorance and supersti- statements to the contrary from "eye- tion are said to be two of the greatest witnesses." The "hornsnake" is popular- EVINRUDE forces for evil in existence, and in no ly supposed to have an ancient grudge LICHTWIN-4h p only 38 lbs. phase of nature are these two qualities against trees, and kills them at every more vividly manifest than in regard to opportunity, which must be frequent. A can rent a boat and YOUpay for a wonderful the birds of snakes, par- friend of the writer's con- prey and more who was once vacation with what you ticularly the latter. ducting a nature column in a newspa- save on this genuine, new Evinrude or bi'v a Indeed, the ignorance, or perhaps mis- per received an account from a man good boat with what you information about snakes is amazing. who said that while on his way to church save. Costs complete only 75 pay down, That people who should know better one morning, he saw a hornsnake pierce #99. — or #36 6 months on balance. Drives can countenance the ridiculous state- the bark of a large tree, and when he rowboats up to 9 miles an canoes trolls as ments so often made in regard to their was on the way back from church, he hour, 12; slow as 2 miles. Primer habits is something to wonder at. Some noticed that the tree was quite dead! So makes even cold weather worth of these fallacies are really laughable confident was this observer that he actu- starting easy. Dime's of fuel lasts an hour. and at least make interesting reading. ally offered to and did send a specimen Shorten motor to only 22 removing Many shrink from the thought of touch- of this reptile to the newspaper office. inches by simply two nuts. Send for literature. ing a snake as the limit of lunacy. The It turned out to be a large garter snake. EVINRUDE DIVISION, Corpora- touching of some snakes undoubtedly is Almost as widespread is the "glass- Outboard Motors tion, 940 N. 27th Street, such if the handler is not aware of what snake" fable. When attacked or han- Milwaukee, Wisconsin. he is handling, but the danger attendant dled, these reptiles frequently lose por- on handling a harmless snake is nil. tions of the tail, which they snap off of FREE CATALOG Snakes are thought by many people to their own will. It is believed that, when 24 pages showing 9 models (4 electric starting), 2H to be cold and slimy. Cold they are, but left alone, they back up to these pieces 40 H. P. Spring-Cushioned Steering, Gcarless Rotary not slimy; no more so than a bird or and join them on again. Very interest- Valve and other advanced features fully described. an animal. The forked tongue of snakes ing, of course. (Continued on page 46) Askyourdealerorwriteus.

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except that it is not so. Added to this themselves appear at each shedding of JT)ELAYS may be mentioned the fact that the sub- the skin, one for every shedding, and ject is not a snake at all, but a legless since this performance is undergone two lizard. It is true that the mutilated tail or three times a year, it is fairly accu- will grow again, but imperfectly, just as rate to count three rattles as one year of do the legs of crabs when broken off. age. They are easily broken off in rough No account of the misinformation country and it will readily be seen that prevalent about snakes would be com- the counting of one for a year is ex- plete if mention of the hog-nosed snake tremely inaccurate. were eliminated. Only one attribute ac- There is a persistent belief that rattle- curately describes this absolutely harm- snakes will commit suicide by striking less, but thoroughly terrifying looking themselves. Only recently the writer

serpent. That attribute is bluff, and it noted an account in a newspaper which should be spelled with capital letters. stated that a large rattler had been cor- Bluff is a quality dear to the heart of nered by a game warden and as the many human beings, but the hog-nosed latter attacked it with rocks the snake, snake depends upon it for life itself, seeing that escape was impossible, delib- together with one other characteristic, erately struck itself in the body and that of feigning death. committed suicide rather than suffer

Because of its abundance it is fre- death at the man's hands! An interest- quently seen, therefore one hears of ing and touching story with but one ob- ''spreading adders," "blowing vipers" and jection — rattlesnakes are immune to garden "rattlers." All of these are one their own venom. Supply your salesmen with and the same, the hog-nosed. To one un- It is a strange fact that all snakes familiar with the snake, it is but natural seen by the uninformed, even if but for a United Hotel Credit Coin that it should impart a dangerous im- a moment, are invariably rattlesnakes. pression, for it presents a really fright- If there were as many of these serpents instant identification, ful appearance with the neck much flat- in existence as are reported daily during THE tened, the head, the summer months in this country the which this free coin pro- triangular in shape, held menacingly and the sharp hissing seem- woods would literally be full of them. vides, saves valuable minutes ing to denote a deadly creature. It will We are too ready to jump at conclusions

in getting checks cashed . . . strike, too, but if watched closely, will in the reptile world, as we are in other be to things. It comes back to and in checking out. A special seen do so with closed jaws. In- the old story deed, it is all but impossible to make a that any snake is a despicable villain system prevents any one from hog-nosed snake bite anything. Repeated and should be killed at sight. Should it? using this coin except the handling of many by the writer, during Now for the facts. Snakes were put original owner. Make more years of museum work, has resulted in into the world for a very definite pur- the same experience as that of others pose, and that purpose is the keeping in of your salesmen's time avail- never has a single snake struck with check of various rodents and other de- able for calling. Write our open jaws. Not that harm would result structive forms of life which, if left to Business Promotion Depart- if he had, no more so than from the increase naturally and without limitation, prick of a needle but they simply do would soon overrun the earth. If it were ment at Niagara Falls, N. Y. — not bite. Those who have been alarmed not for wildcats, foxes and other fur- for complete details and ap- at the presence of these serpents about bearers, rabbits would be so numerous plication blank. their yards, therefore, should regard in this country that we would be faced them in a different light; they feed al- with the same problems that confront most entirely on toads and frogs, with Australia and certain of the Pacific Save time in these the former as the favorite, so their eco- Islands. If it were not for snakes, to- nomic status becomes at once valuable. gether with hawks and owls, we would 24 UNITED CITIES It is not a large snake; one of three feet be in the midst of a plague of rats and is good sized, and their coloration is a mice. Not, let it be understood, a plague new york city's only United The Roosevelt mixture of pale brownish or gray, the of house rats and house mice, but of the Philadelphia, pa The Benjamin Franklin Seattle, wash The Olympic back marked with darker splashes and scores of species of native North Amer- Worcester, Mass The Bancroft the belly with black spots. They may ican rodents which inhabit the woods NEWARK, N.J The Robert Treat always be known by the distinct up-turn and fields. paterson, N. J The Alexander Hamilton trenton, N. j The Stacy-Trent of the snout, whence comes their com- Like the beneficial hawks, which suf- HARRisnuRG, pa The Penn-Hatris mon name. fer from the activities of such of their Albany, N. Y The Ten Eyck Among the poisonous snakes we find kin as the darters, the beneficial snakes Syracuse, N. Y The Onondaga Rochester, n. y The Seneca fables also, and because some snakes come under condemnation because of the Niagara falls, N. Y The Niagara are poisonous, the whole family is con- fear implanted in the human mind by ERIE, pa The Lawrence demned. The age of a rattlesnake is the deadly rattlesnakes, moccasins, cob- akron, ohio The Portage flint, mich The Durant popularly believed to correspond in ras and others. The chicken snakes, the Kansas city, mo The President years to the number of rattles, but this corn snakes, the black snakes and many tucson, ariz EI Conquistadot is most emphatically an error. They are more are killed because they are snakes san francisco, cal The St. Francis said to eject their venom in streams at and for no other reason. The writer shreveport, la The Washington -Youree new Orleans, la The Roosevelt their prey—a trick they do not indulge holds no brief for poisonous serpents, no NEW Orleans, la The Bienville it. The ringhals, one of the South Afri- more than he does for the injurious Toronto, ont The King Edward can cobras, does this at times, but not hawks. The former are distinctly dan- NIAGARA FALLS, ONT The Clifton WINDSOR, ont The Prince Edward rattlesnakes. Though many rattlers do gerous to human life and should be let KINGSTON, Jamaica. b.w.i. .The Constant Spring rattle before striking, more do not. Most severely alone by those who do not of the specimens encountered in the know them, but if unlimited killing of Carolina low country by the writer have them is endorsed, the same result will been completely silent, not even rattling follow as occurs when injurious hawks when teased with a stick. The rattles are killed by any and everybody. Any

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hawk or snake seen will, automatically, emies of quail. Exhaustive research has be a bad one and the innocent will suf- proved that they are in the forefront of fer with the guilty. the causes which militate against these Few people take the trouble to find game birds. Cotton-rats are the favorite IF WAN out anything about snakes, but there are food of many snakes. The misnamed those who should certainly do so, not- chicken snake, like its feathered fellow ably sportsmen and farmers. Sportsmen sufferer, the chicken hawk, is a wonder- STEAI everywhere are willing to talk about and ful ratter. It is a handsome, colubrine COVERNM listen to the subject of conservation; on serpent of yellowish hue, having four it depends their future sport, and snakes dark bands running the length of its L JOB ' play an important part in it. Again, body. A better name than chicken snake though it is difficult to make them be- is four-banded coluber. Often found lieve it, snakes are the farmer's friends. about poultry houses, they are killed How is it, they ask, that snakes are promiscuously and regularly, for they beneficial when they kill chickens, take are supposed to be the enemies of fowls $1260 to $3400 eggs and commit other depredations? when, in reality, they are on the search Yes, some snakes do take chickens and for rats and mice which are attracted by A YEAR eggs. But for one chicken taken by a the grain bins and corn cribs. These snake, how many rats are killed? That snakes do occasionally take chickens, but is something which is rarely considered. they capture a hundred rats to one fowl. PICK YOUR JOB An experience of Dr. Raymond L. Dit- The coach-whip snake, popularly sup- mars, the country's leading authority on posed to hunt human beings with a view reptiles, will not be out of place just to lashing them to death with its tail, here. He was once on a farm, doing devours numbers of mice. The common Ex-Service Men Get some collecting, and noted that rats were name of this serpent is derived from the Preference present in very large numbers. They likeness of the tip of the tail to a braid- had, in fact, been cutting into the farm- ed whiplash. The corn snake all but lives These are steady positions. Strikes, poor business con- er's profits for some time to an alarming on mice ; the well-known black snake eats ditions, or politics will not affect them. Government em- extent. Noting that some snakes were small mammals of various sorts. The ployees get their pay for twelve full months every year. about also, and that a discovery of any handsome king snake, sometimes called $1,900 TO $2,700 A YEAR Railway Postal Clerks get $1,900 the first year, being was promptly followed its killing, chain snake because of its and by black paid on the first and fifteenth of each month. $79.17 Dr. Ditmars ventured a mild protest as white markings, evinces a fondness for eacli pay day. Their pay is quickly increased, the maximum being $2,700 a year. $112.50 each pay day. he saw that the serpents were of bene- rats, mice and lizards. Unique in being ficial species. His protest was greeted immune to the venom of rattlesnakes Travel On by ill-concealed ridicule. Determined to and moccasins, this serpent can and does prove his point, he asked that he be al- overpower these deadly creatures and is Uncle Sam¥ lowed to dissect the snakes killed on the enough of a cannibal to enjoy internally Pay Roll farm, and this was granted. In almost the results of its victories. So, in addi- every case each snake contained either a tion to destroying rats and mice, it also full-grown rat or several small ones. destroys venomous reptiles, thus making When asked if such absolute evidence itself doubly valuable. did not convince him that he was mak- Such small snakes as the green snakes Railway Postal Clerks, like all Government employees, ing a mistake in killing them, the farm- are fond of insect prey. Caterpillars, have a yearly vacation of 15 working days (about IS days). On runs, they usually work 3 days and have 3 er showed an amazing state of mind by crickets, grasshoppers and spiders are days off duty or in the same proportion. During this off duty and vacation their pay continues just as though replying that a snake was nothing but a devoured freely. Every farmer knows they were working. They travel on a pass when on busi- ness and see the country. When they grow old, they arc snake, and fit only to killed. won- result from inroads be A what damage may retired with a pension. derful saying in- example of the that "eyes by insect pests. The menace of the CITY MAIL CARRIERS, POST OFFICE CLERKS - ' have they, but they see not. sect kingdom today is looming ever Clerks and Carriers now commence at $1,700 a year again find natural and automatically increase $100 a year to $2,100 and Of interest to sportsmen should be the larger, and here we a $2,300. They also have 15 days' paid vacation. City fact that cotton-rats are inveterate en- enemy to them in the snakes. residence is unnecessary. Forty-four hours a week. IMMIGRANT INSPECTOR — CUSTOMS INSPECTOR Salary $2,100 to commence. Work connected with Immigration and Customs examination of Incoming pas- sengers from foreign countries. Two utiles Jftgh and a Qood ^isk IS YOUR JOB STEADY? Compare these conditions with your present or your prospective condition, perhaps changing positions fre- ( Continued from page n) quently, no chance in sight for PERMANENT employ- ment; frequently out of a position and the year's average salary very low. DO YOU GET trips around the world at the equator. of the Coast Guard. Give aviation equal 51.900 EVERY YEAR? HAVE YOU ANY ASSURANCE THAT A FEW YEARS FROM So it is not at all a small industry assistance and advantages and there will NOW YOU WILL GET $2,100 TO $2,700 A YEAR V which now confronts the insurance com- be a beacon on every hilltop, a light- YOU CAN GET THEM panies of this country with demands for house on every mountain, beacons lead- Experience is usually unnecessary, an 1 insurance. Approximately three-fourths ing to every landing field, and a landing political influence is not permitted. Let us show you how. of a billion dollars is invested in Amer- field in every hamlet along every airway. GET FREE LIST OF POSITIONS ican aviation. This capital provided Apparently the aviation industry has Fill out the following coupon. Tear it off and mail it today — now, at once. transportation for 3,527,000 passengers gone ahead of its groundwork. On June This investment of two cents for a postage stamp may result in your getting a Govern- in 1929—an approximate figure, by the 30, 1930, there were 9,773 licensed and ment Job. way. The nation has 32,011 miles of air- identified aircraft in this country, of FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, way, 13,823 miles of which are lighted which 1,119 were in New York, 1.082 in Dept. D I 83, Rochester, N. Y. for night flying. California, 525 in Illinois; Nevada, least Rush to mo entirely free of charge (1) a full descrip- tion of the position Copy of 32- Given the same governmental assist- in population, had eight. California led checked below; (2) Free page book, "How to Get a U. S. Government Job" ance in navigation of the air as ships are easily in licensed pilots of all classes (3) A list of the U. S. Government Jobs now obtainable; (4) Tell me all about preference given to ex-service men. given along our coasts, air travel will with 2,635, New York had 1,608, Nevada Railway Postal Clerk ($1,900-52,700)

become correspondingly safer. Don't for- had eleven. There were 187 gliders in i Post Office Clerk ($1,700-52,300) City Mail Carrier .... ($1,700-52.100) get, if you compare aviation with water- California alone, 112 in Michigan, 108 Rural Mail Carrier ($2,100-53,000) borne commerce, that coastwise and in Colorado. Government Clerk— File Clerk (51.260-52,500)

[ Immigrant Inspector (52,100 53,000) even deep-sea traffic benefits from in- Unfortunately, statistical records of Inspector of Customs (52,100 up) numerable lighthouses, beacons, spindles the amazing growth of the air industry organizations are incomplete and unavailable. They and buoys, from elaborate Name. to make maps, to chart the seas and the came only with Federal and State regula-

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JUNE, 1931 47 -John Hancock Series "For the defense of c Two zJfrC/'/es and a American Liberty" Jfigh Qood Risk ( Continued from page 47) So reads the Commission issued by the Continental Congress of the last few years. The Regulation fatal accidents, or an average of 442,530 to George Washington, dated June Division of the Department of Com- miles per fatal accident. This for all the 19, 1775, and signed by John Han- merce has been organized only three industry. During the first six months of cock, President of the CongTess. years, yet during those three years flying miles, Next to the Declaration of Inde- 81,349 1930, 68,669,928 planes had physical examinations fatal pendence, this Commission is the were made, of 150 accidents, or a mileage of most important document bearing which more than half, 43.902, were made 457.800 on the average. This is only the famous John Hancock during the fiscal year of 1930. mildly encouraging. But if you sub- signature. The problem of calculating the future tract the record of scheduled air trans- The Commission itself, creased growth of aviation is akin to the prob- port from the total record, you get an and worn, probably from being car- lem of a telephone company in calculat- entirely different figure, just as you will ried on General Washington's per- ing the growth of a town like Miami, get an entirely different figure for deaths son through his campaigns, is now which was an unknown village within by water if you subtract the record of preserved in the Library of Con- gress with other historic documents. our own century. It is probable, how- trans-Atlantic passenger liners from the A full-size facsimile of the ever, that this country is on the way to total, which includes the boat-rockers Washington Commission lead in three major fields of aviation: and speed-maniacs. (8V2" x 15%", suitable for military, commercial and research. Two Over our scheduled air transport lines, framing) has been made by recent experiments tend to justify this we flew 9,201,338 miles in the first six this Company from the orig- prophecy. months of 1929, having nine fatal acci- inal, and may be obtained by In one of them, Captain Hawks dem- dents, or a mileage of 1,022.371 to the individuals and organizations onstrated that we may cross the country, death. During the corresponding period signing and mailing the cou- pon below. from coast to coast, in approximately of 1930, scheduled air liners flew 16.- half a day. By air, he brought Los An- 902.728 miles and had only six fatalities, geles closer to New York than is Cleve- a mileage of 2,817,121. land by rail. His flying time for the trip Even if you include in your statistics

was eleven hours and forty minutes ; his the most trifling accidents, a person fly- total elapsed time, including stops, was ing as a paying passenger in early 1930 of Boston. Massachusetts twelve hours, twenty-five minutes and would have traveled an average of 384,- Inquiry Bureau. 197 Clarendon St.. Boston. Mass. three seconds. In the future, you may 152 miles without mishap of any kind. Please send me your facsimile of the Washing- breakfast in It would be unfair to group ton Commission. I enclose 4 cents to cover Los Angeles and dine in such paying postage. New York, or even Boston. passengers—patrons of the established Name The other experiment has to do with lines—with all other flyers. It would be Address blind flying. The Army, the Navy and no less unfair than to compare the life A. l. M. some of our finest transport expectancy of a passenger aboard the Over Sixty-Eight Years in Business- commercial operators are conducting experiments Europa with that of a man rounding with instruments as the only guides of Cape Horn in a windjammer. r Floor Coverings the pilots. Captain Arthur Page of the Insurance, before assigning you a in Beautiful Colors/ Marine Corps, enclosed in a hooded premium rate, must ascertain your prob- cockpit, flew from Omaha to Washing- able expectancy of life. If you are a The Newest ton, making stops for fuel at Chicago poor risk, either insurance is denied you Just out latest thing in home furnishings— hand- — and Cleveland, and he never saw the or an additional premium be some, colorful Rubber Art Rugs, Comfort Foot must Mats, Art Bath Mats — a full range of beautiful, ground or the sky. He made his own charged, the size of it depending on your colorful. Rubber floor coverings for all rooms. Artistic* practical. Outwear ordinary rugs. take-offs, although the landings were occupational or physical liability to dis- Never look shabby. Lie flat, will not curl. Clinff to floor-never slip. Soft and BUI on made by Lieutenant Guyman from an aster. feet. Easily cleaned--simply wipe off. Ideal for hallways, between rooms, kitchen, bathroom, entranceways, etc. open cockpit in the same plane. Obviously, a man who can fly regular- AGENTS! cleanup In addition to the multiplicity of ly in airplanes for 40,000 miles a year Women wild about them. Low priced. Sell instruments to make the plane itself '°r 35 years is just an ordinary sort of fast. At least three sales In every home Simply show and t;tke orders. Pocket big secure, risk. Consequently, life-insurance prohts. HO experience needed. Weshow we now have such external aids some you how. Send for Catalog of thla and 47other Quality Rubber Products, to navigation as the radio beacon and companies already recognize him as a Direct from Rubber City. Free Ontflttn bustlers. Write Quick. air-markings over localities. Navigation good risk, and accept him at standard KRISTEE MFG. CO. rates. 336 BAR ST. AKRON, OHIO instruments are being perfected, motors are being perfected, design is being per- Ten years ago as a possible flier you fdQCKETT of fected. We can't perfect the weather, could buy no insurance that I can dis- MW+t —TEXAS REPORTS but we are making it more reliable by cover. Five years ago, if you told an Profit as a finding out more exactly what it is going agent that you intended to take an air- Jl*^ SIDE LINE to do. plane trip, or intended to learn to fly, Still, the life insurance industry must you would get no insurance. Today it is Make Colorcrete Products be cautious. It is not a new industry, possible to buy insurance, without extra New Easy Fascinating but older than aeronautics by a century premiums, and yet fly regularly—still Big Money for you part time — or so. Its greatest difficulty is to keep with the qualification that you will be a or full time. No experience necessary. Make them in 30 pace with the astonishing growth of the passenger on a recognized air line. Thus colors and shades, and in 38 a few insurance companies recog- designs. They sell on sight, newer industry. Recently, however, has now many of them for 10 times come assurance that the insurance world nize that air transportation compares cost to make. Learn how Mr. Crockett made has caught its breath and is about to favorably with any sort of transporta- with $1,231, O'Shea of Pa. $780 take a second wind. tion. Sooner or later this recognition 2 designs. Kauble of Iowa $2,000 with 3 molds, etc., by It has discovered, for example, that will become general. sending for the aeronautics industry presents two di- But the demands of aviation on in- Book on Colorcrete surance do not stop there. Having dis- Now is the time to act—before visions of people asking for insurance. else beats you to this someone At first glance, it would appear that posed of the passengers, we come to a great opportunity for your city. Equipment as low as $30. aviation is growing hazardous according yard full of bad boys. The rest of the 15 days' free trial. Write today to its growth, but analysis of available air industry is more difficult to pigeon- for book—32 pages of ways to make money. statistics shows that this is not true of hole. COLORCRETE INDUSTRIES all varieties of air transport. During the Roughly, the rest of the industry will ) Ottawa Ave.. Holland, Mich first six months of 1929. airplanes flew include pilots, students, instructors, air- more than 56.000.000 miles, having 128 port operators, mechanics. The risks of

48 The AMERICAN LEGION" Monthly these classifications vary widely. Cer- were 30 women. Of both sexes, 150 were tainly the air-transport pilot is safer at under twenty years of age, 544 between the moment than the chap who is dust- twenty-one and thirty, 191 between ing off cotton-fields in the South, or sur- thirty-one and forty, 33 between forty- veying timber in the North woods. one and fifty, four between fifty-one and So among pilots, further distinctions fifty-six. I found that 131 of them were must be made. We discover them rough- already connected with aviation, and ly in three classifications—military, com- that the next largest number were mercial and research. The risks of skilled laborers. The number decreased %\ military aviation are most easily ascer- according to the amount of cultural edu- * minutes to tained. Most companies, I believe, have cation required for the applicant's trade determined rates by which military fliers or profession—with some exceptions, of 2 S H/AVE can be assured. course. Thus there were 86 clerks, but So simple. Just smooth on and In commercial aviation are still more only 31 executives; 38 farmers, but only shave. The original no brush, no rub classifications. The solidly founded com- 15 professional men; there were 65 sales- mercial aviation company offers perhaps men, one military officer; 52 automobile shaving cream. Not a soap. Places a a minimum of risk. But commercial also mechanics, three professional entertain- protective film between the blade is the flier who takes you up for so much ers; thirty-four chauffeurs, four news- a ride. Here both pilot and passenger paper workers. Apparently the men of and skin. Softens the beard at the assume proportionately larger risks, per- the most initiative whose occupations skin line. Saves your face from razor haps. might offer little for the future in view bite and irritation. The coolest, clean- In research aviation, we come to the of educational handicaps recognized in most difficult statistics to acquire and to the new air industry an opportunity to est shave you have ever had. Very compile. The list includes test pilots and grow up in a business where formal tech- beneficial to the skin. Sold everywhere. stunt fliers, and on the whole it includes nical education is possessed by few. Generous Tube 35c many bad risks. But no matter what The occupation of the would-be flier Traveler's Jar 50c variety of flying is done, there is still is always important. For instance, a another classification concerned with the newspaper reporter seeking a license J4-ounce Jar 75c industry—that of the ground man. His may be sent out to pick up news of a "The protective film" lets risks are likely to go up or down with disaster—a flood, a forest fire, or even the razor cut safely, close TODK 5 down where the hairs begin the pilots, although it may be in less a war. He would be a poor risk. The degree. marital status of a man is important The actuarial statistics, therefore, to also; a married man would be expected to fly less, and to take fewer chances. LatherKreem be fair must first classify the applicant More Than A Fast Shavc-'Skin Comfort for statistics according to whether he I could go on endlessly with questions will be engaged in military, commercial which should be asked the flier or the CDCp One week'* supply of LatherKreem Moil coupon lo Dep» 130, A. I r\l— L- J. Kronk Compos,, 1885 University Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. or research aviation, then whether he potential flier. But not all the questions will be pilot, passenger or groundman. can be answered from statistics, either. But here another difficulty enters. Ac- It will be years, perhaps generations, be- tuarial groupings are calculated by the fore insurance will have universal aero- thousand. Before insurance can arrive at nautical data. its costs, it must have enough of what Insurance is not reluctant to insure New Kind Of is called "spread." The greater the num- the aeronautics hazard, only conserva- ber insured where there is a common tive. Before long, nothing will be can hazard, the greater is the division of thought of insuring the air-traveling hazard among them. At present, the public, but they are not all the fliers. Opener spread is not very great in many fields of It is reasonable to expect that we can aeronautics. Consequently, a company reduce the air hazard. But it is un- Works Like Magic! cannot insure enough individuals in some reasonable to expect that our air trans- At last! An automatic, simple little AGENTS can opening machine for the home. branches to make the process a safe pro- portation ever will be without accident. .Men and Women This revolutionary invention in only a few short months has banished old cedure. But we already have found that the Itave made up to $6 and $8 In an can openers from over 100, 0 0 0 kitch- ens. And no wonder! Imagine an Then, too, other hazards must be cal- passengers on scheduled air liners com- hour, full or spare time. Big, worth- amazing, lifetime device that holds culated—sex, occupation, marital state, pare as risks with the passengers on while commissions the can and cuts out the top leaving can rim slick, smooth and clean. JuBt turn a crank, on every sale. Ex- the probable amount of flying, physical oceanic liners. that's all. Approved by Good Housekeeping clusive Terri- Inst.. Modern Priacilla, etc. Write today tories. Send quick for special introductory advertising offer. condition. In this last connection, I Of course the classification for some fnr FREE TEST CENTRAL STATES MFG. CO. privileged for fliers negative, finally it offer. have been several years to may be when Dept. G-1004, 4500 Miry Ave., SI. Louis, Mo. study people who wanted to fly. Of 931 is determined. But then, the foremast applicants whom I examined, 756 were hand on a disreputable coastwise schoon- acceptable as potential fliers. Seventy er, beating up and down the Maine NEW WAY^ were questionable, and were generally headlands in all sorts of weather, could rejected after re-examination. There not buy insurance either. SAVES TIME-LABOR-MONEY Gy-ro washes cars in leas than half tho usual time. No soap nr chamois needed. Simplyattach to ordinary garden bose. Inex- ft REAL OPPOR- Water prcHMtrc does the work. When zMr. "Baker

JUNE, 1031 49 this guide tofieff record-Keepino efficiency. When zMr. 'Baker

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From four to six hours for three days "Secretary Baker: I seem to get so the hearings continued, Baker returning little chance to practice at my trade that from each session to catch up with his they may be less important than other- routine work for the day. He had to wise." meet questions and cross-questions in Senator Weeks wanted to know why all the range of the War Department's the camps had not yet received the two activities, which included all the kinds hundred and forty motor trucks to which HERE'S a book that will help you systematize your business—-cut of peace production and the many kinds each division was entitled. Again the an- operating costs and increase profits of new production which the war re- swer was that they would not be required now when greater record-keeping quired. He must know the state of until the division moved to France. But efficiency is important. Contains progress in every munition factory and did not motor truck drivers need train- life-size Bookkeeping forms, com- in spruce forests of ing? Baker replied pletely filled in, illustrating uses. production in the that forty thousand Shows simplest methods being used the Pacific Northwest, and be familiar were receiving special training at Black by 300,000 leading firms. Practical with every contract of any kind that Point. for office, factory, business or pro- had been made. Senators, who knew Senator Hitchcock inquired if there fession. Write on your business sta- wool, cotton, leather, or kind of had not been any consideration given to tionery and receive your FREE copy any by return mail. No obligation. manufacturing from expert study of providing hot food for the men in the JOHN C. MOORE CORP., Est. 1839 schedules in forming tariff bills, quizzed trenches. There had been. All the de- 6120 Stone Street, Rochester, N. Y. him about technical details in the mak- vices proposed had been submitted to ing of blankets, uniforms, undercloth- General Pershing, who knew best the Fill in Coupon, Attach to Letterhead, and 140-page Book Will be Sent you FREE ing, shoes, and other items. He had to systems in Europe, and his decision was explain how motor truck drivers were awaited. being trained and artillery being trained When Baker's concern over good work- in France; the mechanism of rifles, ma- ing conditions for women and children in State_ chine guns, and of the complicated re- factories was cited as a cause of delay cuperator of the French field gun; the in production, Senator Wadsworth called difference between the oil and spring the attention of the Committee to the PATENTS systems of gun recoil; why cantonments fact that in his State the law prevented Time counts in applying for patents. Don't risk de- were built in certain localities, and about the sweatshop system of the unhealthy lay in protecting your ideas. Send sketch or model for instructions or write for FREE book. "How to the use of wool scraps, and how wool lofts to which reference had been made. Obtain a Patent,'' and "Record of Invention" the Only once did Baker pro- form. No charge for information on how to pro- was worked in the weaving, and make any ceed. Communications strictly confidential. Prompt, cause of railroad delays and the duties test under the three days' fire as he was careful, efficient service. Clarence A. O'Brien, Regis- ten-. 1 Patent Attorney, 247-J Security Savings of the British Minister of Munitions. jumped from one subject to another. and Commercial Bank Building, (directly across street from Patent Office) Washington, D. C. He brought blueprints and charts to Then he said quietly, "Different things show the Committee systems of organi- in different places, sir." Not once did he zation, how accounts were kept, and how lose his temper, not once was he even ToAny Suit! progress in production was tabulated. ruffled. And no Senator lost his temper. life your I Double the of The questions by Senators did not The whole was held to a dignified plane. coat and vest with correctly matched pants.1 00,000 patterns. always harmonize, nor did their views. Once Baker seemed to be in a whimsi- measure; no Every pair hand tailored to your cal It "readymades." Our match sent FREE for yoor But this was in order in the course of mood. was in response to criticism guaranteed. O. K. before pants are made. Kit discussion looking for truth. When of the Depot Quartermaster in New York Send piece of cloth or vest today. the SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY one Senator said that he had seen men as not being open to suggestions or giv- US So. Dearborn Street, Dept. 480 Chicago at the camps without uniform another ing time to important callers. Baker said corrected him by saying that the man the Quartermaster would not be able to A Playing might just have arrived at the camp and see everybody who wanted to see him if not been outfitted yet. One Senator he had a fifty-hour day. DRUM CORPS 6 thought that Baker had been too con- "He is a very busy man—busier than siderate of the National Guard and I am,'' Baker remarked. Weeks from Now another that he had not been considerate "Busier than you are?" asked Senator enough. One Senator thought he had Weeks. ordered too many things and another "I am sure he is. He deals with a vast In just five simple steps- of detail I deal with from a ana within 6 weeks from that he had not ordered enough. One mass which now — your Post can have thought he had consulted men of busi- supervisory point of view." a playing drum corps ready if different for public appearance! ness experience too little and another When Baker was asked the Ludwig has worked out that he had consulted them too much. chiefs and commanders were doing the the plan — based on long done, re- years of successful experi- There was an occasional tilt to enliven best that possibly could be he ence — and will help yoit the war-sober proceedings. plied, "There are too many people in the put it in effect. Details free; send coupon now for new ''Senator Weeks: If you are looking world. I do not know." illustrated book, "Here for a man to make contracts, you ought He cast no reflection upon other de- They Come," giving all the facts. to employ a lawyer." partments of the Government for delays. Prize winning corps use "Secretary Baker: Oh, quite the con- He did not pass the buck to subordinates Ludwig drums — brilliant, trary quite the contrary." or Allies. There was no intimation of all snappy tone, easy playing. — Instruction manual with "Senator Wadsworth: Right you are." the embarrassment to War Department every outfit. "Senator Weeks: I tell you when I plans through the change in the Allied want a contract drawn I hire a lawyer." demands and attitude, the changes and "Secretary Baker: I am a lawyer and unexpected quantity of requisitions from LUDWIG & LUDWIG I do not want to make any reflections on the A.E.F. and all the fresh burdens that 623C Ludwig Bldg., 1611-27 N. Lincoln St., Chicago my union, but what we lawyers always had come as a result of the Caporetto Gentlemen: Send me your free book, "Here They Come" want to have clients tell us is what they disaster and the twenty-four-division and tell me how we can have a drum corps in 5 steps. want put in the contract. They think it plan. In face of Senatorial intimations Name and we pen it." that the Germans knew all that we were City _ "Senator Weeks: You will be unpopu- doing he refused to make any disclosures Street _ lar with the lawyers' union, even if you which would break faith with the Allies' State .County. are popular with all others." demand, and our Army's demand, for se-

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crecy, as personally repugnant as all represented by several of the Senators forms of censorship were to him. What who do not know the long and patient was a Secretary of War for? preparation necessary to prepare a plant His optimism, too, was a part of his to turn out new things in quantity, and task. If a general, a colonel, a captain, a who accordingly think the whole thing is sergeant may never let down with the to be disposed of by a surprised look at

slightest skepticism as to the complete such slowness. There is, too, the usual success of a coming attack, or if a foot- eager rush of disappointed contractors ball coach may not send his team on the and inventors to testify that their merits "Learn Electricity" field in a defeatist mood, a Secretary of were overlooked either from inertia or IN 12 WEEKS "IN THE GREAT SHOPS OF COYNE favoritism. War may be no exception to the rule. But when it is all said and The whole world of electricity is open to the Coyne trainer} man because the COYNE big, newly enlarged Philosophy has a small part in waging done, the showing is not bad and if the course is complete and trains you BY ACTUAL WORK war. whole truth could be told, which it can- on a vast outlay of electrical equipment. NO BOOKS- NO CLASSES—START ANY TIME. Baker's critics on the committee, who not, the showing would be very good. had expected a lisping, halting exposition, There are diplomatic reasons why much Not a Correspondence School We don't make vou a mere "paper" electrician. You be- had revised their views of him in one cannot be told; the French and English come a real EXPERT through actual work at COYNE. respect. He had proved himself to be at surpluses of artillery which they want to You Don't NeedAdvanced Education or experience! Any man who is ambitious and willing least a disarming and a masterful witness. exchange for steel billets but do not want can learn at Coyne. Supporting public opinion thought his to be talked about; the difficulties we Earn $200 to $800 a Month answers had been fully convincing, an have had with labor questions which it No books or useless theory. You are trained on everything from door bells to power plants, everything to make you exposition of magnificent achievement. would be unwise and controversial to a $50 to $200 a week COYNE-trained EXPERT. Hostile opinion saw him as admitting mention; the very great embarrassment errors, as too content in his optimism. over price; the questions of priority, as It is worth while to quote Baker's per- between the Allies' needs and our own ELECTRICAL SCHOOL CAVNFm i^Mlt SOOS.Paulin.iSt.. Dept. A1-04. Chicago sonal attitude toward the hearings in a all of these have at times been moun- COYNE ELECTRSCAL SCHOOL, H. C. Lewis, Pres. letter to Judge Westenhaver on January tains of difficulty, and perhaps the great- 500 S. Paulina St., Dept. ai-04, Chicago III. Please send me your Free, Illustrated Book on Electricity and 1 7, 1918: est thing we have done at all is the Coyne. No obligation. Give details of special offer too. "I don't think those who criticize the negative thing of our not raising rows. Name . . .

'delays' of the War Department have . . . Now is not the time to have a public Address. any other than a patriotic purpose. In- dispute, so I simply ask the Senators City .... deed, I share their feelings of deep when they talk with me privately to beat anxiety to speed our preparation along the Germans first and then beat me if I and bring the full strength of America to still seem to deserve it." bear to end this conflict successfully, and That "negative thing of our not rais- I share too their impatience to get rid of ing rows!" There were always rows DAYS! all fretting causes of delay. The only dif- enough without raising them as all the ference between them and me, I think, nation's effort drove pell-mell for the Ends Buying Razor Blades is that, having been busy at the infinite bottle neck. More rows would not pro- SendNo Money! S*1SS.dSS without a penny detail of the undertaking for a long time, mote national of war spirit. deposit I'll give you the harmony chance to try my amazing new-type blade I have a better realization of the fact Some peace was necessary in the War sharpening invention that means no more razor blades to buy and keen that some delays are inherent in the very Department in order to make successful cool shaves forever. Use for 30 AGENTS days. If not delighted, return: WANTED size and difficulty of the task; and the war. trial costs you nothing. New type razor blade also included! Then make only thought I out with is the Meanwhile, Senator Chamberlain had come money—placing this invention on fr the trial Kith shavers. prayer that my strength will not prove become spokesman of the crusade i. W. OIEPHOUSE. Dept. G-415 1418 Pendleton Ave. insufficient and that I will not allow my against Baker and the war administra- St. Louis, Mo. mind to be closed to any suggestion of tion. In a speech in New York on Jan- betterment or helpfulness from any uary 1 8th he said: Send for Free Catalog quarter." "The military establishment of Amer- 2000 illustrations And on January 23, 1018, he was writ- ica has fallen down. There is no use to — Dia- monds, ing to Westenhaver: be optimistic about a thing that does not Watches, Jewelry. Largest Diamond and Watch "To the outsider or the inexperienced exist. It has almost stopped functioning. Credit House in the World. it seems easy to put out the less efficient Why? Because of inefficiency in every and put in the more efficient; but the department of the Government of the LOFTIS BROS. & CO. turmoil which would have followed any United States." Dept. A-36, 30 N. State St. Chicago, III. civilian who would act rashly with an He followed this by an attack lasting organization as traditional and special- three hours on the floor of the Senate. ized as the Army would have been tre- "Poor bleeding France, my friends— mendous, and, after all, there are really bled white, not only for her own life and few people in the country who could for the liberty of her own citizens but with any confidence have been expected for America as well—is today furnishing to have all the qualities needed for suc- our troops as they arrive in France the cess in a task requiring not only indus- necessary heavy ordnance and the ma- trial experience but the knowledge of the chine guns for aircraft and for ground Army and of military matters in addi- service. tion. So I have gone on supplementing "You Senators know that there are sol- and gradually replacing until a more diers along the Atlantic seaboard who modern group are now practically in con- ought to have gone to France six weeks trol, and neither the Army nor the coun- or two months ago. They do not go. try feel, so far as I know, that I have Why is it? At Mineola there were a lot presumed to disregard experienced men. of Oregon and other brave boys who Wherever you go . . . hiking . . . campinsr

The investigations before the Senate went from a Southern encampment to . . . you need a compass. Every man and Committee seem to me on the whole that bleak and barren place, and where boy should can y one with him at all times. for beneficial."' some of them were kept over a month ^Tflv/pP ^omnasses are the best kind to carry depend He referred to the ill-will represented in extremely cold weather, not sufficient- because you can on them. Send for a free booklet and by a certain Senator "who is quite im- ly clad, and without the comforts that pick out the one you want. Prices from possibly small and nurses a grievance at camp life ought to have furnished them, $1.25 to $5.00. my having refused his improper re- waiting to get over. There must be quests." And then continued something wrong somewhere." Taylor Instrument Companies

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JUNE, i 93 i 51 When zMr. "Baker zMade War Continued PAYS YOU ( from page 51) UP TO to mention that the winter storms as . . . The country is entitled to know what $100.00 well as the lack, of shipping had delayed this war is, what its problems are, and And MORE WEEKLY the departure of the soldiers from the what steps have been taken to meet these Senator's State, soldiers who in common problems. ... It would have been a tragic with their fellows were accepting their thing if this tremendous effort, this whol- part gamely in that period when we were ly unprecedented sacrifice were, in fact, AGENTS—CREW MANA- straining every effort to meet the call of to turn out to deserve the comment that GERS—DEALER DISTRIB- UTORS. Something new Pershing and the Allies for man-power it had fallen down. and different! KINX—a huge, to meet the coming spring drive of the "I have not the least doubt that such fluffy handful of KINKY, chemically treated yarn. Germans. currency as that feeling has gotten is due Feathery, spring-like curl- President Wilson answered Chamber- in large part to the tremendous impa- icues that glide over smooth surfaces, removing lain in a powerful letter defending the tience of the American people to do this all dust, grit and dirt with- War Department; but that did not stay great thing greatly. Every one of you, out the slighest danger of scratching. KINX saves ten the agitation against Baker. Many of and every one of us, wants to demon- times it's cost in car washings. Marvelous for fine furniture, the President's followers said that he did strate the thing which we know to be woodwork, floors. Cannot injure true the finest finish. PATENTED not know the real conditions in the War —that our country is great and KINKY CONSTRUCTION. ABSORBS DUST LIKE A Department; he did not realize that he strong, and in a cause like this will hit SPONGE ABSORBS WATER. was leaning on a weak reed. The whis- like a man at the adversary which has BRILLIANT ASSORTED COLORS pering gallery had gone beyond "Pansy" attacked us. And always there is be- ATTRACT THE EYE LIKE MAGNETS KINX sells on sight to homes, as a nickname for Baker. It was calling tween the beginning of preparation and offices, stores, garages and the final wherever dust collects. him "Newty Cooty." The call was for demonstration of its success a STEADY REPEATS BRING "a strong man to drive things." period of questioning when everybody, YOU BIG PROFITS. A "he- FREE SAMPLE man," a superman, "a butcher and not a you and I and everybody else, goes Write at once for free sample Baker." through searching of heart to find out new offer. BIG SK \S( IN NOW— DON'T DE The whispering gallery was certain whether all has been done that could LAY. that Baker would have to go. President have been or that ought to have been STANDARD SPECIALTY CO. Place this eye catching Wilson could not retain him in face of done; whether anything remains that can display withl 2 dealers. Dept. 86 An easy day's work the tide of opinion that was seen to be be done. And we look back over the YOUR PROFIT S24.00 DECATUR. ILLINOIS! rising against him. Political philosophers past and realize that there have been de- said the time had come for a "scapegoat" lays and that there have been short- Utmost in $ and destiny had set the part for Baker. comings; that there have been things Would he relieve the President's which might have been done better. In Comfort embar- and Wear rassment by resigning? Not under fire. so great an enterprise it is impossible for Another Trade Builder challenge to the world, in 'sn Resignation now was in a different cate- frankness not to find those things. foot comfort and durability. A broad, roomy toe with a snug fitting ankle pattern supported by a gory from when he offered it a year ago. "But our effort is to learn from them placed right steel arch. A foot form combination last in widths from AA Nor was his resignation wanted by the not to repeat ; to strengthen where there to E EE • Sizes 5 to 15. Hours of Comfort , . . Miles of Service. Ask President. When Baker read Chamber- needs strengthening ; to supplement your dealer. Sold by thousanda. lain's speech it apparently affected his where there needs supplementing; and, M.T. SHAW, Inc. Dept. COLDWATER, MICHIGAN serenity no more than other criticism. by bringing two things together, our very But not so, not inwardly, after further best effort and the confidence of the attacks from many quarters. He made country back of that effort, to make our another prompt decision in his undemon- enemies finally feel the strength that is DINING strative way and in character with his really American. CARS "fighting jaw." On the previous occasion "The issue of this is far too large for his part before the Senate Committee any prejudice or favoritism to any indi-

had been as a witness summoned to an- vidual. . . . Nor am I here to deny delays, swer questions. Now it was he who asked mistakes, shortcomings, or false starts. I for a hearing, to which as many people think I can say with confidence that Investigate Write for Catalog and Price as the Senators chose might listen. His where those things have appeared we WARD & DICKINSON, INC. Silver Creek. New Y real audience was the nation. have sought the remedy; that in many places we have applied the remedy, and THIS time he had no prepared state- the largest purpose I have in being here S LOOK/Tints ment. Before he went to the Capitol is to urge that your committee, that the a NEW LOW PRICES he drew a sheet of paper from the rack Members of the Senate and the Mem- Why PayMore! on his desk. On it he wrote his heads, bers of the House, that every citizen in v and at the bottom the question, "What this country, official and unofficial, from GOODRICH- GOOD' YEAR- U.S. more can we do?" He was facing Cham- the highest to the lowest, realize that £ Jirestotic ami OTHER TIRES berlain and all his critics in that tense this is their enterprise, and to ask from Lowest Prices on Earth! moment when the War Department and you and from them every suggestion, Thousand!! of satisfied tire users all over the U.S.A. Our 16 years of business speaks of the war every criticism, every for itself. This bis responsible company will the Administration's conduct constructive supply you with reconstructed standard make tires at lowest prices in history- was at stake. The transcript of his ex- thought that occurs to any of you, and Guaranteed to give 12 months' service tempore talk is as it was taken down by I ask you, when shortcomings are pointed Don't Delay —Order Today stenographer for the Congressional out to you, whether they be well founded CORD Ti BALLOON Ti the Size Tires Tubes Size Tires Tubes 80x8, $2.20 $i. X4.40S2.30J1.10 Record of January 28th, and never cor- or whether they be not well founded, 2.25 L'9\ I Ml 2 40 2.70 31 lx. 1. 50 2.45 1.20 rected by Baker or one of his assistants. that you will instantly convey them to 2.9S 2BX4.76 2.4S 1.20 32x4 2 9S 29x4.75 2.45 1.20 There is space in The American Legion me, so that by the processes which the 33x4 2.95 30x4.95 2.90 1.35 34x4, . 3.50 29x5.00 2.95 1.36 for only excerpts which department has I search out 3.20 30v5.no 2.95 1.36 Monthly a few may where 33x4' 3.20 2hx5.-j5 2.95 1.36 34x41- 3.4S 80x5.25 2.95 1.85 express the temper of what he said. blame is to be attached, where remedies " 30x5 3.60 31x5. -Jr. 3.10 1.S5 33x5 ". 3.60 3(1x1",. 77 3.20 1.40 . . For one reason and another the are to be applied, and where strengthen- 35x5 4.45 311x1'. no 3.20 1.40 All Other Sues 31x11. no 3.20 1.40 impression has gone out into the country, ing and improvement of the organization 32x11.01) 3.20 1.40 D EALERS Xtxfi.OO 3.20 1.45 to extent at least, that the War De- is possible. . . . WANTED 32x6.20 3.50 1.66 some lly SI OO deposit with each til gentlemen, Weship balance (l.O.lAW)educt partment has fallen down in addressing "Now, about the plan of if cash in full accompanies order, ailing to k.vo 12 months service will be replaced at half price. itself to the task of conducting this war. the war." For the first time the public YORK TIRE & RUBBER CO., Dept. 748 I want to address myself to that question. was to hear, from the man who knew it -59 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago, III.

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best, that plan in its whole as it has al- agreed upon, weapons which were select- ready been described in this narrative; ed, and which we had started to manu- of how, at first, when Russia was still in facture, have been so far discarded that the War, and the British new army com- people have forgotten the names of them, ing to the full tide of its power, the almost, and new things in their places. Allies had thought that our part would "So that if one gets the idea that this be only financial and commercial; of the is the sort of war we used to have, or if coming of the Balfour and Joffre mis- he gets the idea that this is a static thing MEN- sions and of the call for a small body of it is an entirely erroneous idea." He told WOMEN our troops to show the flag. Now he of one dispatch of doctors and nurses Cash in might mention the disaster to the French upon our entry into the war, and of rail- offensive in the spring of 191 7; but not road and other special services to France; on LUX! This "MYS- the recent Italian disaster and its grave of the limitations of French ports and TERIOUS" consequences of the lack of ships for the transport of tiny disc makes and sudden demands. thousands gasp Made He told of the "strategists, mechanical men and supplies across the submarine by ii3 uncanny of pure method of boiling aluminu in, experts, experts in arms, experts in sup- zone, and the lack of transport across water steaming, sizzling with 8 font hot in split seconds, ZVb tit,.,, „ aterproof cord. plies, experts in industry and manufac- France. quicker than any other practi- AC or DC cur-

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the scrap heap. . . . sible, to be ready when the call came; "They said to us: This is a moving and if I were to have delayed the calling picture; it is something that nobody can out of these troops until the last button paint and give you an idea of. It is not was on the last coat, and the call had

a static thing. . . come in November, or December, or "General Pershing's staff of experts January, 'Send them and send them fast,' and officers over there runs into the thou- and they were still at home waiting for sands, and they are busy every minute; tailors, I would have felt a crushing load and every day that the sun rises I get of guilt and responsibility which, at least Battery cablegrams from General Pershing from in comparison with what I had felt about ten to twenty pages long filled with meas- having called them out, would have been Ignition Outboard urements and formulas and changes of a incomparably greater." — NOW it is possible to own a complete outfit millimeter in size, great long specifica- If he had told of the Allies' desperate boat and motor — at a price no higher than such a motor alone formerly cost. The Light- tions of in call changes details of things for our man-power at that moment, weight fits any boat, gives liberal power for fam- which were agreed upon last week and messages would have soon been coming ily and fishing craft, canoes, etc. Twin-cylinder de- sign; same construction and finish as motors cost- this changed week, and need to be changed down the corridor from the State Depart- ing several times as much. Exceptionally easy to again next week so that what we are ment, from the Allies, and direct from start and operate. Quiet. Weighs only 38 pounds. Quick take-down for compact stowage. Priced be- doing at this end is attempting by using Pershing, against a statement that would low #100 — and may be bought on extended pay- the eyes of the Army there to keep up encourage the Germans that if they ments; #36.00 down. Send today for catalog fully describing this and wide choice of other Elto mo- what they want us to . . . struck hard enough in the coming spring do. tors — 5 twins, 4 Quads, 4 "Already you will find in your further drive victory was certain. electric starting models and examination famous "4-60 World's into some of the bureau And Baker concluded: "In so far as I Champion speed motor. work of the department, some of the am personally concerned, I know what is ELTO DIVISION, Out- board Motors Corporation, divisions, when they come down, you ahead of us. I know what American Ole Evinrude, President, for will Send find that schedules which were feeling about (Continued on page 54) 3511 N. 27th Street, Milwaukee, Wis. ELTO Catalog

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this war is. Everybody is impatient to and his resignation, the supreme testi- The investigation had cleared the way do as much as we can. There will be no mony on this point out of his experience, for the bill. And the public agitation division of counsel; there will be all the was an act of wisdom and courage which and discussion had had a part in prepar- criticism there ought to be upon short- was to be a compelling factor in winning ing the Congress for the eventual deci- comings and failures." for his successor the authority that he, sion that there was an emergency for And Chamberlain said: himself, lacked. granting the President unprecedented "I know that you must be tired. The There had been much comment on the power over the civil life of the nation. Committee has been very much im- power of the President under the Con- The Act would make him supremely, one pressed by your statement." stitution, and its extension by the Na- might say, personally, responsible for all There was an end of the talk of com- tional Defense Act, which had given a our war effort. This was not a thing to pelling Baker's resignation. The Marne false appraisal to the public mind. "Ex- be granted by the nation's representa- of the War Department had been won. tra-legality" was a phrase which could tives in town meeting under the Capitol's Even the weather turned in Baker's not cover the present need. This could dome without something more solid in favor, no longer hampering deliveries. be given only by the Congress. No one public support than any passing wave of However, advocacy of a War Cabinet on was in a better position than Baker to public emotion, executive requests, or the lines of the British War Cabinet per- realize the importance of more concen- innuendoes from the whispering gallery. sisted in a section of the Congress. Re- tration; no one had so intimately press- Meanwhile, the thing was to make the ports which reached the White House ing reasons for being its partisan. On most of the authority that existed. On did not convince the President that the January 24th, four days before he asked February 1st, three days after his ad- British War Cabinet was an ideal insti- for the hearing before the Senate Com- dress to the Senate Committee, Baker tution or suited to our governmental mittee, we find him writing a letter to was sending to the President the result forms. The only War Cabinet we were the President, enclosing the copy of a of his conference with Bernard Baruch to have was in the meetings of the Presi- bill to be presented to Congress. This about a reorganization of the War In- dent, Secretaries of Treasury, War, and was the Overman Act, which was not to dustries Board. Navy, the Chairmen of the War Indus- be passed until May 20th. In the files, "We recognize," he wrote, "that the tries, the Shipping and War Trade too, are Baker's interlineations of Crow- present question is the appointment of a Boards, and the Fuel and Food Adminis- der's draft of the bill. They include the successor to Mr. Willard, and that the trators. phrase for "more efficient administra- redistribution of power will have to be Daniel Willard, Chairman of the War tion" as the appealing and sufficing pub- delayed until the President is empowered Industries Board, had resigned against lic reason for the Act, and also the one by legislation, but the immediate organ- the wishes of Baker and his colleagues. which authorizes such distribution of ex- ization could begin and suitable distribu- He had been the pioneer Chairman of ecutive functions "as he may deem nec- tion of power could then be made when the Advisory Commission, accepted the essary," which was the very symbol of a the legislation is assured." chairmanship of the War Industries free hand. Some of Baker's assistants The new chairman of the War Indus- Board in answer to appeals, and after and members of the War Industries tries Board must naturally be chosen that been under incalculable strain. He Board thought that the Congress would from among the men who had already had reached a point where he was con- be better occupied in passing such legis- been tried out in the co-ordination of vinced that he could do better work by lation than in investigating Baker. But business and government under war con- going back to his railroad. The problem the Overman Act was to be the substi- ditions. Judge Lovett was temporarily of industrial output had reached a crisis tute for many suggestions, including the acting in Willard's place. After thorough where he must have more authority; War Cabinet, bruited in Congress. consideration President Wilson chose Bernard M. Ba- ruch, the pioneer expert on raw materials of the Advisory Com- mission, perma- nent Chairman. But a strong man was wanted for another key post, the key position of army organi- zation. He must have had service with the combat branch of the army in France. Very significant on this score for the future was a cablegram on January 27th which had the usual signature of McCain, the for- mal one of the Adjutant General to all cablegrams. But the word Under the agreement ivith the French, American artillery was equipped with French guns. Here Baker was added. on the road between Esnes and Montzerille are French howitzers manned by men of the 18th The Secretary Field Artillery, Third Division himself sent it.

54 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "Can Major General Peyton C. March cilities and camps of our overseas army. be spared to return to this country as "Of course, we are constantly having Acting Chief of Staff? If he can, direct officers of the several Armies returning

his immediate return. I feel it urgently from France with information and rec- necessary to have him. Please reply.'' ommendations; but they frequently serve The tone was unprecedentedly peremp- only to illustrate the impossibility of se- tory for anything from Baker to Persh- curing a complete view of the situation ing; and, greedy as Pershing was to by any other course than a personal in- retain his able men, he had to part with spection. the officer been Baker's original Learn RADIO who had "In addition to this, the relatives and choice for a task whose responsibility friends of our soldiers are deeply con- in 10 Weeks in Great Coyne Shops

had no equal in the army except that of cerned to know the conditions under Fascinating Jobs, leading to salaries of $60. $70 a week and up! Manufacturers and dealers begging for Pershing, himself. Meanwhile March had which these soldiers live and the environ- Trained Men! Many openings in BroadcaBtingStations. Big call for Wireless put his stamp on the artillery organiza- ment in which they find themselves. It Operators, both at Sea and in the Air. You qualify in 10 weeks — NOT BY CORRES- tion in France. And General Crozier, the will be of importance if I can give com- PONDENCE, but by actual work, on actual Radio, Television and Sound equipment. former Chief of Ordnance, and now a forting assurances as the result of an member of the War Council, was on his actual visit to the camps; and it may be TELEVISION And TELEVISION is already here! Soon there'll be way to observe conditions abroad. that I can suggest betterments as the re- a demand for THOUSANDS of TKLEVISION EX- PERTS! Get in the floor Television! sult of our experience here where great on ground of Learn Television at COYNE on the very latest Tele- ALWAYS the Secretary was looking encampments have been built up, and a vision equipment! Big demand in TALKING PIC- TURES and SOUND REPRODUCTION 1 You learn '-apprehensively for the cablegram most wholesome and helpful environment ALL branches of Radio at Coyne. announcing transport arrivals on the provided with the co-operation of all the Not a Correspondence School No books. No lessons. All ACTUAL WORK on AC- other side. On February 5th the dread helpful and sympathetic agencies which TUAL RADIO. TELEVISION and SOUND EQUIP- MENT. No experience needed. Earn while you learn. news came. The British liner Tuscania, the people of the country have placed at Free Employment Help. MAIL COUPON NOW FOR BIG FREE BOOK. acting as an American transport, had our disposal. been torpedoed off the North coast of "The various reorganizations in the H. C. LEWIS, President Radio Division, Coyne Electrical School Ireland on her way to Liverpool. Accord- War Department have now progressed to SOO S. Paulina St., Dept. ai-ia, Chicago, III. Send me your Big Free Radio Book and all details of yoor Spe- ing to the first report it seemed certain a place where I feel that they will pro- cial Introductory Otier. Thia does uot obligate ma in any way. that all the soldiers on board had been ceed uninterruptedly with their task, and Name Address lost. For the first time his assistants I can with more comfort than would City .State. saw the Secretary very shaken. His have been possible at an earlier time, be imagination painted the picture to those absent for a brief time. I am writing, around him in all its horror. When we therefore, to ask your constnt to my ab- had as yet relatively so few casualties at sence long enough to pay a hurried visit 200% to 600% PROFIT the front, two thousand men, after all to France for such an inspection trip as Every man buys. their training in anticipation of the day I have herein outlined. My plans would Biggest money- when they should face the enemy, had carry me to France, and would include a maker in years. Big apparently gone down like rats in a trap thorough inspection of our ports, lines opportunity to earn without even arriving over there. It was of transportation and communication, $50 to $100 a triumph to herald to Ludendorff's army and camps, with a brief visit to Paris a Week forming for the great spring drive in as- and London." 24 Karat Gold Plated surance that the American army would The President replied on February 22d, The Crest Collar Layrite be drowned on the way to the front. that the comprehensive view Baker Invisible device keeps soft collars flat and free of in a jiffy. Eliminates starching. Happily, a later cable said that all but would bring back would be serviceable wrinkles. On Lasts forever. Men buy several at one time. Sells a few of the men had been safely brought to all of us; and suggested that it would for only 25 cents. Don't complain of hard times. Here's sure-6re money-maker. No competition. ashore. The relief over this came at a gratify the Italian military and people if Send 25 cents for sample and complete details. time when Secretary Daniels had the best he would also visit Italy, however briefly. CREST SPECIALTY CO. news that England had received during 62 Creat Bldg., 227 W. Van Buren St.. Chicago, the war. The submarine losses for Jan- FOR the first time in more than a year uary were down to three hundred thou- the routine of Baker's sixteen-hour sand tons, although there was still a day was broken. He would not be at his margin of tonnage destroyed over the desk tomorrow, or even next week, or UNIFORMS tonnage coming from the world's ship- for weeks to come. "The Secretary of WRITE FOR jm\ yards. British and American naval co- War leaves Washington today for an in- CATALOG No. SO. operation, the adoption of the convoy definite absence." Meanwhile, Benedict ALUMINUM HELMETS system, the depth bombs, were promising Crowell, Assistant Secretary, was to act POLISHED OR ANY COLOR to win the day. In France four of our in his stead. GEORGE EVANS&Co- divisions were now having, or had had, Of course, the whispering gallery could 132 N. FIFTH ST.- AX.DEPT- PHILADELPHIA. trench experience, the First, Second, surmise that Baker was going to France; Twenty-sixth and Forty-second. We were but the Navy, which was responsible for Heinie" looking up at Mont Sec in the miserable his safe conduct, would have no further National Legion Champion Drummer, sector at Toul. Three great British liners information given out until he arrived Gerlach, Uses Slingerland were being put at our service to hasten over there. He already knew the course Artist Model Military Drums our reinforcements. of the soldier from home to camp, and Slingerland Drums possess the Our war effort had turned the corner. camp to port. Now he was to follow the quality champions demand. March was coming from France. Criti- soldier from port to front. He had a "Heinie" Gerlach, National cism of 'the Secretary had dropped to practical reminder of the fuel shortage Champion for 1929-30. uses, en- dorses and sells Slingerland sniping attacks. So his absence would in Europe in the bags of coal stacked on drums in Pittsburgh, Pa. not be misunderstood as retreat under the decks of the cruiser on which he a Equip your corps with cham- fire. But leave required the consent of made the voyage. As she was doing rou- pionship instruments. Possess his commanding officer. On February tine duty in guarding and convoying drums that are Precision Built, easy to play, have tone, snap, troop transports, he shared the soldier's 20, 1018, Baker wrote to the President: reserve volume, and lasting "I have had repeated cablegrams and experience of darkened ships at night in quality. letters from General Pershing urging that passing through the danger zone. Let us show you TODAY how your Post can organize, equip, I visit our Expeditionary Forces in The Atlantic Ocean had never been so and develop a good corps for France, and as our plans have gone for- broad as when he crossed it. and tire only the Detroit Convention. ward I have come more and more to tourists France sought were soldiers Write for FREE Catalog and realize the need of an actual inspection bearing rifles as their passports. France Easy Payment Plan. of ports, transportation and storage fa- would have (Continued on page 56) SLINGERLAND BANJO & DRUM COMPANY

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spread the red carpet of official welcome, imagination. As at home, a definite out-

, Heat-prooi with all the honors she knows so well line was developing out of the smudge JLilqpMed GrapMite how to pay distinguished guests, for the of the negative. I recalled how six THE MOST AMAZING MOTOR first Cabinet minister to visit France in months ago I had heard some reserve PRODUCT EVER DEVELOPED the war, who represented the last reser- officers in a tent stacked with blueprints, PYROIL has overwhelmed the voir of for the Allies at a talk of a vast cold storage plant on a motor world. GRAPHITE— the man power greatest known enemy of time when Ludendorff was forming his space where not a handful of earth had heat and frirtion now made been lifted or a bit of material had ar- possible to use in any in- divisions for the decisive blow. But the ternal combustion motor! grand manner, although it might serve rived. Now, on the tour with the Secre- POSITIVELY public morale, which cannot altogether tary, I saw the plant seventy per cent STOPS WEAR—NOISE -ClITSREPAIRBILLS. be dissociated from public display and complete, set in a spray of spur-tracks. DOUBLES LIFE OF aggrandizement of personalities, was not As the Secretary went from place to CRANKCASE OIL. REDUCES GAS CON- in character for Baker, or suited to this place one set of the rulers of the local SUMPTION UP TO grave crisis in Allied fortunes. So he industrial realm succeeded another as his 40%. WITHSTANDS local HEAT UP TO 7500 F. asked the Allied governments, through guides. In his derby hat and civil- This motor, Only 1 pt. CANNOT BURN OR the State Department, to consider his ian clothes he was a dark outline on the when condi- of PYROIL WASH OFF BEAR- d with to qts of background of the khaki of generals, col- 8 - INGS. ENJOYS PAT- coming as unofficial. o^D^. , C °,U "o ,„ |S ENTED PROTEC- "It seemed to me of the highest im- onels, and majors surrounding him. They milc 9 at25mi.perhr.with TION-IS ADOPTED were showing a civilian all oil drained from crank- BY NATIONWIDE portance that my visit should not be deference to a case -with no harm to FLEET OPERATORS which was rare and wonderful in the motor! —IS GUARANTEED long; that it should be devoted inten- American world in France. 100 i, SATISFACTORY. SAVES 10 TIMES ITS sively to the study of conditions, and Some may SMALL COST! Guaranteed not to harm the finest that it should not be interrupted by a have had the preconception that he was motor mechanism. _ 0 _ — r H £ E round of official courtesies and ceremo- the worst Secretary of War that ever Endorsements— Proven Facts. Exclusive sales rights was, and many might have wanted to now open. Write at once for full details. DON'T DELAY. nial observances." violate military etiquette by more vigor- THE PYROIL COMPANY. 961 Pyroil Bldg .. LaCrosse, Wis This, as he said, would prevent his presence "being a distraction and an em- ous representations of the delay in their barrassment to the busy civilian and projects for want of material that had military men of the Allied armies who not arrived; but, withal, it was good to had their hands full." have him see what they were trying to ONE PLUG Pershing, Bliss, and a representative do against odds. He had no stenographer of the Embassy were waiting for him at with him taking notes; he made none /Agents & Distributors himself ; 'Making Big Money six-thirty on the morning of March 10th but the questions he asked had "turn the sympathetic quality of a man who . necessity everywhere. A at the railroad station in Paris. < the right brings back the light." had a mechanical lobe in his brain ' which . 6-in-l A German air raid added to the inter- Safe, economical , dependable ' Most useful invention Fuse Plug. est could understand their tasks. in years. Many of our distributors in of the night he spent in Paris. The making to exclusive territory $SOO simple official exchange of courtesies In one place the scene was ail-Amer- $1000 a month. Easy to demonstrate Profits begin right away. Writ© at once over, he went forth to see what America ican in areas of corrugated iron roofs, i. Seed 26c for sample and workine instructions. 6-in-l Fuse Co.. SOI W. Madison St.. Dept. 28. Chicago had written on the white sheet of paper except for the tower of an ancient vil- in France. At home, when he went to lage church in the distance; and in see a camp or a munition works, it was another our insistence was pressing for on a regular train; but now Pershing's space that would disrupt routine munic- private train was at his disposal, and ipal life. Each enterprre seeking sites Pershing was his guide. The Secretary or elbow room must negotiate, through fellow employees, in your friends, relatives, interpreters, with the local authorities, spare time, famous Davis fine-quality tailor- of War, once he was with the active made suits at $24.50 to $45. Fabric, fit and army, was having the strange experience who must often be subjected to prefec- satisfaction guaranteed. We furnish every- tural thing. Write quick for our money-making plan. of a soldier orderly assigned to him. and even higher influences before P. H. DAVIS TAILORING CO. There was some evidence that the Secre- the privilege was gained. It was as Dept. D-3, Cincinnati, Ohio tary did not know just what to do with though the American titan had one foot a soldier orderly; but none could gainsay on the home shore and the other striving that Patrick Walsh, who had won praise for a hold on the shore of France, while tfRAISRAISE CHINCHILLA for a pioneer heroic American exploit in one hand was stretching its powerful ZEALAND WHITE M^^^^ AND NEW the trenches, was worthy of this honor, fingers deeper and deeper into France to Ifl^ FUR RABBITS if Senator Chamberlain might be still of implant the material passed to it by the Make Big Money — We Supply Slock J^P^I^B. the opinion that the Secretary not. other hand. *uml* AND CONTRACT FOR ALL YOU RAISE was Paying up to $6.50 each. Large illustrated Inspection was to begin with the Serv- We were Allies and yet. in southern book, catalog and contract, also copy of ices of Supply, which had now set up its and middle France, where the people Fur Farming Magazine, all for 10 cents. STAHL'S G. were far removed from the front, we OUTDOOR ENTERPRISE CO., Bo< 102 •«. Holmes Park, Mo. own subsidiary kingdom, apart from H. Q., under Major General Francis J. appeared as invaders with our motor ONE CENT A DAY PAYS Kernan, with his headquarters at Tours, trucks, huge machines, our fractious, UP TO $100 A MONTH in the center of France. persistent energy, which seemed to the There were the ports, there was the French at times to be wasting itself as The Postal Life & Casualty Insurance front, and the distance to be covered be- prodigally as we wasted our material. Co., 650 Dierks Building, Kansas City, tween them with an establishment whose As our plants rose to maintain a vast Mo., is offering a new accident policy size would have been astounding to that army in the fall of 1918 the French of that pays up to $100 a month for 24 great quartermaster, Napoleon, who had that region, in the suspense of their fore- months for disability and $1,000.00 for built the straight highways of France for boding of another German blow, won- deaths—costs less than lc a day—$3.50 the march of his men and the easier roll dered if this colossal industrial demon- a year. Over already have this 68,000 of the wheels of his artillery and com- stration was our idea of a way to win protection. Men, women and children, missary wagons. a war. For they saw' no troop trains ages 10 to 70, eligible. Send no money. The S. O. S. reached a point of prog- coming from the southern ports. Those Simply send name, address, age, bene- of material Americans were cutting down French ficiary's name and relationship and they ress where the chaos of piles forests to structures which were will send this policy on 10 days' FREE was alongside projects which were a make inspection. No examination is required. quarter or half completed, or had suffi- of no use to the French, or to the Amer- This offer is limited, so write them cient form so that all was not left to the icans if they were not going to remain today.

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in France. Did the French army, in Then the rapidly-conducted traveler order to tight the Germans, need ice to went on to the regulating stations of the store its meat? A candy factory? Chew- advance zone which were forming in the ing gum as well as cigarettes? And such midst of more spur-tracks. These drew 10 MONTHS to PAY Send only $1 anil this extensive apparatus in order to unload on the stores of the intermediate zone in line reliable Elgin or Waltham watch comes ships? To stretch so many telephone their distribution of supplies to the to you postage prepaid wires? So typewriters clicking out front. There places —no COX), to pay on many were and occasions arrival. such quantities of orders and memo- when it was in order for him to "say 10 Days Free Trial randa ? something" to assembled groups. No- After examination and 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL At the ports Baker saw the ships wait- body knows how many of these talks he pay balance in 10 equal monthly payments. ing in dock for labor to unload them so gave to the olive drab hosts. Satisfaction Guaranteed they could go back for cargoes on the He was to see those who were "strik- All transactions strictly con- fidential. You take no risk. congested docks at home, and the piles ing the blows" in the march past of men Satisfaction absolutely guar- anteed or money back. No WALTHAM of material waiting for trains to take of the First Division of and the Second interest —no extras —no red guarantee FE 42 . . . it into the interior, and parts of motor who had already been in the trenches. tape. Written bond with every purchase. Nationally ad trucks to assembled; he new vertlsed Waltham be saw He had seen the army now from the or Elgin; guaranteed piers already in service, others waiting recruits arriving at the cantonments at FOR CATALOGUE accurate and depend- able. Engraved white for of latest eataloc for all Send copy lifetime case. Fine cranes to arrive and sites that had home the way to their billets in values showing special in gen- engraved open link uine blue-white diamonds from been chosen for others at the water's France. But that was not the end of the bracelet to match a—-*m 1?25 tuSl.flOll. with extension and standard center edge; concrete foundations for new journey. Logically, this ought to be the /£ 9-9 s a- ,v opening. Only $2.11) "••#19 tv- U watches from it month. structures set with steel uprights; and parapet looking out over no man's land. $12.50 up. ESTABLISHED 1895 lines of fresh earth turned for more Pershing was at first opposed to the Sec- spur-tracks. The whole was as an Amer- retary going into the trenches. A trench nnvA I DIAMOND f- CO. ican mining camp where American indi- might be peaceful for days and then sud- KillAL WATCH ADDRESS Df.PT. 14-T 170 BROADWAY. N Y. vidualism was under a military discipline denly the enemy artillery might loose "a J and formula that was strange to indus- hate." But Baker asked that he might trial discipline and formula. see the trenches, too, with his own eyes. Our supply organization had divided The place set was the sector occupied SOHG WRITERS the American world in Gaul into three by men from his own State of Ohio. I song requiremektsi parts or zones. The writing that it was was assigned by General Pershing to con- Don't Fail To Read duct him. TALKING PICTURES "Song Requirements ol Talking Pictures, making on the white paper across France He was to make a long day Radio and Records", an explanatory in- on request. followed the line of the railroads toward of it ; to see many things on the way structive book, SENT FREE Writers may submit song-poems lor free Lorraine. before the trenches. I recall In the intermediate zone, he reached examination and advice. Past experience where forty-five days' supplies for our a discussion that arose before our start unnecessary. We revise, compose and ar- range music and secure Copyrights. Our at four-thirty in the morning. had army were theoretically supposed to be Word modern method guarantees approval. always stored, he saw aviation training come that there was a good deal of artil- Write Today. A. L. Newcomer Associates. 1674 Broadway. Mew roik. N. V. grounds, and other schools, that repair lery fire in the Ohio men's sector. There- shop which had been shipped across the fore some of the officers present proposed in that the visit the trenches should be sea parts, salvage depots, material to BE A RAILWAYTRAFFIC INSPECTOR waiting on the sites of warehouses, given up. BOTH RAILWAYS AND BUS

empty warehouses waiting for material, "Gentlemen," said the Secretary, with > to $260 per month and expenBeB as passenger Bpector. Fascinating, outdoor work— travel warehouses for everything from medical the whimsical twinkle in his eye, "I do or remain near home— rapid advancement, train active men— 19 to 65-at home. risk lives." > you Certificate on completion of a few supplies to machine guns and ammuni- not want you to your weeks* course and place you imme- rliat<-ly 1" earn 1120 plui expenses per tion; shops for assembling the parts of That very neatly silenced objections nth and up or refund tuition, ite for Free Booklet and Teati- American locomotives, and a thousand- from this quarter. We were to go on loniale. STANDARD BUSI- NESS TRAINING INSTITUTE bed hospital which was to receive the with the schedule as planned. rDlv. 2406, Buffalo, N. V guests from the Meuse-Argonne battle. (To be continued PETTIBONE'S Then and 3\(ozv AMERICAN LEGION STANDARD

( Continued from page UNIFORMS Jj) DRUM CORPS and BAND erroneously reported deaths in action. 1919, two months after Bauer's dis- PETTIBONE'S Write for Catalog A CINCINNATI. 0. These men who, according to the official charge from service. This letter, as were certificates of death furnished by the the others, was officially endorsed Government, "died with honor in the "Killed in action." On July 15, 1918, service," together with brief credentials, Bauer was wounded by shrapnel while follow: in the Champagne-Marne defensive ac- James L. Robinson of Delnox Durbin tion and spent the balance of the dura- Post, Cameron, West Virginia, has a pic- tion in hospitals—but he came home to ture of his grave and three death certif- disprove the official report of his death. icates. Ex-Private Robinson served with A letter to his mother, written in Machine Gun Company, 39th Infantry, France on August 20, 1918, is proof of-

and was reported killed in action Octo- fered by William H. Taylor of North Patents Pendin ber 7, 1018. His parents received several Middleboro, Massachusetts, that he was 3VX O.R-'T communications from the War Depart- among the much-alive casualties. Here COfor HOMEF and CAMP ment, including blanks to fill out so his is the letter: Going camping, fishing, auto-touring'' War Risk Insurance might be paid. Not- "Dear Mother: I don't know at pres- Sleep on air. Save hotel bills. Oct this withstanding the insistence of the War ent whether or not you have received light-weight, low-cost SLEEPWELL Air Department, concerning health. Return- the parents ignored the any cable my Mattress from makers of the famous blanks, as letters continued to come ing from a training sector to my section from their soldier son and eventually he headquarters, I was mystified when my Al HO MATTRESS I returned himself. lieutenant told me that I was dead. Quickly inflated without pump. From Legionnaire Charles E. Bauer of denied it. He took me to the colonel Makes small roll. Easily carried. Write your name and address in Watseka, Illinois, we received a letter who gave me a special pass to go to the marcin for FREE circular and priced line which his brother had written to him on town where the cemetery is located Prices on this lowest of comfort equipment for campers. July 16, 1918, which was delivered with (Menil-la-Tour). There I found a new THE K & W RUBBER COMPANY about three dozen other letters in April, grave marked, ( Continued on page 58) 103 Rubber St. Delaware, Ohio

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'Private icl William H. Taylor, Co. C. gerford of Colorado Springs into the dis- from whom detailed information may be 314th Field Signal Battalion,' but with cussion and he advised that the piano obtained, follow: a different serial number than mine on "for some years stood in the Soldiers' THIRD DlV.—Special reunion (in addition to annual convention in New York in July). Ed. the identification tag. Then I knew I and Sailors' Club in this city until the Boivin, adjt., 230 Schcneetadv av.. Brooklyn, wasn't dead. A 'Y' secretary took me club went out of existence about in N. Y. Fourth DlV. lo the sergeant in charge. Showing him 1924, when the piano was put in storage." —General reunion of IVY men. Miss Dorothy Egan, asst. secy., 4th Div. Assoc., my identifications, I convinced him that Later the piano was transferred to 720 N. Michigan av., Chicago, 111. 32d Div. H. Freeman. I was a fairly live corpse. Colorado Springs Post Clubhouse. James —John Architects bids.. Detroit. Mich. "The chaplain next listened to my tale A. Peck, ex-Battery C, after much per- 42d Div.— E. D. Hennessy. chmn., 15432 Mar- and we all went to the officer in command suasion, produced the picture we show lowe, Detroit. Mich. 81st Div.—Reunion of all Wildcat veterans. in it of the town. After a long debate they and appear, in the usual order, Sgt. George Dry. care of R. O. T. C.. Cass started for another town, Toul, to cor- Legionnaires Malcolm D. Graham, Eu- Technical School, and Harold Heigho, 278 For- est av., Detroit, Mich. I Burt, Peck, himself, rect the mistake. While in that town gene and John Reis- H Company Club (126th Inf., 31st Mich. met my chum from Inf. and 1st Mich. Inf.) —Reunion all home who told me former members. Gor- he had written his don L. White, secy., 6409 Theodore av„ folks that he had Detroit, Mich. seen my grave." First Separate Brig., C. A. C, Assoc. Taylor adds that —Second annual ban- he would like to quet and reunion. William G. Kuenzel, find out who the chmn., 21 Gilman St.. other Taylor was. Holyoke, Mass. 21st Engrs., L. R., Soc.—Eleventh an- A member of nual reunion. Freder- AS ick G. secy.- outfit Webster, -that treas.. 6819-a Prairie called by Comrade av.. Chicago. 111. 23d Engrs.—Re- of Crosby 'the pick union, with 23d Engrs. the Army,' the Post, American Le- gion, as host. F. R. 148th Regiment, Erilsizcr. comdr., 5353 66th Brigade, Mo- Allendale, Detroit, Mich. torized Artillery," 26th Engrs.—Re- reports Neal J union and organiza- tion of veterans' asso- Hawkins of Port- ciation. Ray Bielman. land (Oregon) 8100 Gratiot av., or W. W. White, 15217 Post, "I wish to Forrer av., Detroit, claim for our bat- Mich. 31st Engrs.—Third tery the most un- annual reunion. F. E. usual souvenir of Love. secy.. 113 First av., W., Cedar Rapids, the war. Iowa. "Souvenirs were 39th Ry. Engrs., A. E. F.— Eighth an- plentiful—such as nual reunion. C h a s. machine guns, pis- M. Karl, pres., 11640 Princeton av., Chi- tols, rifles, etc. But Speaking of souvenirs, pipe the piano on which jour ex-red legs of Bat- cago. 111., or B. E. it remained for two Ryan. secy.. 308 Cen- tery C. 148th Field Artillery, are draped. It came home to Colorado tral St.. Elkins. W. Va. lone souvenir hunt- Tank Corps—Re- Springs, Coloradolo. via France and the Occupied Area in Germany ers from Battery C union of all former Tank Corpsmen. Vic- to find the real one. tor T. Porter. Tank "The time was about the middle of inger, all of the battery and of the post, Corps Reunion Ho,., 2006 Industrial Bank, Wash- ington at Grand River, Detroit. Mich. October, 1918. We had pushed up past in front of the post's "Hut." 313th F. S. Bn.— Daniel M. Lynch. Ham- Montfaucon and were near Nantillois mond bldg., Detroit, Mich. 326th M. G. Bn.—Walter W. Wood. Box the left bank of the Meuse. These reunion will ex- on OUR be held on an 1001. Portsmouth. Ohio. two men, scouting for souvenirs, in- cursion boat chartered for the oc- 330th F. A.— Carl Mounteer. 2224 1st Natl. Bank bldg.. Detroit, Mich. spected an unusually large German dug- casion. Officers during the war will be 49th Aero Sqdrn., Kelly Field. Tex.—Wm. out and found a regular Belgian piano. seamen and former gobs will officer the T. Welsh. 12619 Mark Twain av., Detroit. Mich. Flying Boat Sqdrn., U. S. N. Air Sta.. That night ten men from the battery boat." So reads the announcement of Porto Corsini, Italy — E. Manson Gates, North- moved it to the battery position. the reunion of all men who served at wood Center, N. H. 338th Aero Sqdrn. and Prov. M. P. Co.. "A few weeks later the regiment Naval Base Plymouth, England, to 27, Charlotte, N. C.—Reunion of both outfits. moved into Germany. The piano went be held in conjunction with the Legion Homer R. Ostrander, 91 N. Brook St., Geneva. N. Y. along in a truck. It was placed in the national convention in Detroit, Michi- 380th and 828th Aero Sqdrns. and Sqdrn. battery mess hall. gan, September 21st to 24th. Phil C. B. Selfridge Field, Mich.—Jay N. Helm, 940 Hill st., Elgin, III. "The middle of May, 1910. we got Pack, Ann Arbor, Michigan, is recruit- U. S. Naval Base No. 6—Proposed reunion orders to leave for home. The piano ing officer for the reunion and will fur- of Allnavy in and out of Queenstown. Frank Rose, 36 East Linden St., Alexandria, Va. went along in a boxcar to St. Nazaire. nish additional details. U. S. S. Rhode la' and—Former crew. Sum- France. How it got aboard ship I do not That gives an indication of some of ner W. Leighton, 1110 S. Elmwood av.. Oak Park, 111. know, but it did, as it provides music the unusual reunion plans being laid for U. S. S. South Dakota —Former crew. Philip for the Elks in their clubrooms in Colo- the convention period. Raymond J. T. Wallace. 14 Edwin st., Brookline. Mass. rado Springs, Colorado." Kelly, chairman. Reunions Committee, U. S. S. Wilhelmina—Former crew. Dr. M. M. Sorenson, 3025 Washington av., Racine, The secretary of the Elks Club in 11200 Shoemaker Street, Detroit. Michi- Wise. Base Hosp. No. Colorado Springs, upon inquiry, reported gan, will lend all possible aid in connec- 114, Beau Desert Hosp. Center. France— Former personnel. Geo. R. that the last part of Hawkins's story was tion with reunions. Barr, 610 West Congress st., Detroit. Mich. incorrect. Further investigation brought Reunions already scheduled in Detroit, Amer. Red Cross Hospitals No. 3 and No. 112, Paris— Former personnel. F. J. Maynard, ex-Batterv Commander Victor W. Hun- with the names and addresses of the men 501 S. Warren st., Trenton, N. J.

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Nurses—National Organization of American 328th F. A.— Eighth annual reunion. Occi- World War Nurses' special reunion and meet- dental Hotel, Muskegon. Mich., June 15-16. ing. Mrs. Samuel E. Bracegirdle, 5005 Spokane L. J. Lynch, adjt.. 209 Elm st„ S. W., Grand av.. Detroit, Mich. Rapids, Mich. Replacement Unit No. 4 —Proposed reunion 34th Enghs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion. and banquet. Miss Elizabeth C. Schau, Box C, Dayton. Ohio, Sept. 6. George Remple, secy., Traverse City. Mich. 1225 Alberta st., Dayton. M. T. C. 420, M. S. T. 411— Proposed con- Co. B. 104th Engrs. Assoc.—Annual meet- vention reunion. Adolph Illikman. Saginaw, ing. Legion home, Westmont, N. J., June 13. Mich. C. Lewis Brooks, secy., 221 Linden av., Wood- Domcermain Oitn. Det.— Fabian F. Levy, 213 lynne, N. J. S. Broad st.. Philadelphia, Pa. Third Trench Mortar Btty., Third Div.— University of Poitiers, France—Former Reunion New York City, July 20. Barney Galli- students. Alan B. Leonard. 601 Cadillac Sq. telli. secy., 294-17th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. bldg., or Dan M. Lynch, 703 Hammond bldg.. 52d Ammun. Trn„ C. A. C.—Reunion during Detroit, Mich. Legion department convention, Long Beach, Calif., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. McKinley H. Thomp- son. P. O. Box 81. Modesto, Calif. ADDITIONAL reunions and other ac- 333d Sup. Co., Q. M. C.—To complete roster and learn of next reunion, address Edwin E. - tivities at times and places other Foster, Clarksville, Tenn. New- Magical - Sensational than the Legion national convention, 308th Motor Sot. Trn. Vets. Assoc.— Sixth Sharpen a razor bli Je to unheard of Uoenncss for every follow: annual reunion. Warren. Ohio. Sept. 5-7. Carl shave— in less than G seconds — without stropping, honing L. Feederle, comdr., 1353 Mahoning av., N. W., or crank turning, with the new, sensational Monroe Mag- Second Div. Assoc. —Thirteenth annual re- Warren. netic Sharpener. union, Detroit, Mich., July 16-18. Arthur Cou- 406th Motor Sot. Trn., A. E. F.—Proposed Sharpen Razor Blades With a Magnet! nihan, secy.. P. Calif. O. Box 1361. Washington, reunion in San Francisco, Robert R. Marvelous? Yes! Mysterious? No! D. C. Morgan. P. O. Box 207, Sta. A, Palo Alto, We have discovered a marvelous new Third Div.— National convention. Hotel Calif. principle in razor blade sharpening. Victoria. New York City, July 13-15. Ed. Base Hosp., Camp McArthur, Waco, Tex. It is ELECTRO MAGNETISM have harnessed it so it instantly, Boivin, av., Brooklyn, reunion. members sug- We adjt., 230 Schenectady —Proposed Former automatically sharpens razor blades N. Y. gest time and place to Sam L. Iskiwiteh, 4257 to a perfection never before possible Fifth Div.—Annual reunion. Hotel Lafay- Archer av., Chicago, 111. and affords faster, smoother, cleaner ette, 31 W. 12th St.. New York City, Sept. 5-7. Jefferson Barracks Post Hosp. and Ex- shaves than men have ever enjoyed. Eminent s<-ientbts have tested the Mon- Edward A. Vosseler, secy., 200 Broadway. New amining Barracks Staff—Fourth annual re- roe and found it perfect. Thousands of York City. For divisional history and society's union, Jefferson Barracks. Mo., Sept. 6-7. satisfied users endorse it. Men accus- tomed to getting two or three shaves magazine, The Red Diamond, write Frank F. H. P. Riggin, 512 N. Pine st.. Little Rock. from one blade now get 25 or more. Many testify a single blade often lasts (1 months. Barth, 20 W. Jackson blvd., Chicago, 111. Ark. Div. Co. Assoc., Div. 13th 37th A. E. F. Vets. Assoc.—Annual 146th Am. 37th — AMAZING MONEY MAK- Money Back Trial Offer convention and reunion. Montgomery, Ala.. annual reunion. Farm House, Columbus, Ohio. Send $2.50, and the amazing Monroe ING OPPORTUNITY Magnetic Sharpener will be sent postpaid Nov. 9-11. John Edwards, secy.-treas., 329 June 13. J. Lee Snoots, secy.. 133 Brighton Salesmen make bie Try it for 30 days! If you are not de- Stoneman bldg.. Columbus. Ohio. rd., Columbus. weekly incomes intro- lighted, send it back and we will refund ducing the Monroe. your money. 91st (Wild West) Div.—"Back to the USAAC'S—Convention and reunion, Atlantic Commissions in MONROE SPECIALTY CO. 15-19. Hotel mivani-c: sales ru.iran- Front" reunion in Paris. France, including City. N. J., July John H. Fetter. teed. Write for offer. 119 W. 23rd St., Dept. AL-6, New York, N Y tours of England. Belgium. Germany and Jefferson. Atlantic City. France. Leave Pacific Coast, Aug. 14. sailing American Field Serv.—Annual reunion, At- on Leviathan, Aug. 19. Return to New York. lantic City, N. J.. July 15-19. Albert E. Herr- Sept. 20, in time to attend Legion national man, 1625 W. Diamond st., Philadelphia, Pa. convention in Detroit. George P. Miller, 451 A. A. S. —Annual convention, Atlantic City. Central av., Alameda, Calif. N. J.. July 15-19. Lyle C. Jordan. Hotel Jef- 355th Inf.—Annual reunion. Grand Island. ferson. Atlantic City. Neb., Oct. 15. Oscar F. Roeser, 1408 W. Italian Contingent, USAAS—Reunion, At- Koenig st.. Grand Island. lantic City, N. J., July 15-18. Wilbur P. Hunter. Sell QuicWy/ 10th U. S. Inf., Co. B (Cuba and Philip- 5315 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Pa. pines) —To complete roster and arrange re- Sec. 573. USAAS. Italy—Banquet and re- Sell Bostonian Shirts—the union, former members are requested to re- union. Hotel Jefferson, Atlantic City, N. J.. shirts of real value—and port to Thomas H. Bell, 1339 E. Narragansett July 15-19. C. Tom Mullins. 1522 Albany av.. maL money every week. Made of fine quality broad- St., Philadelphia. Pa. Brooklyn. N. Y. k cloth, guaranteed fast color. Newest styles, 112th Inf., Co. H—Fifth annual reunion, 638th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion. Albany. N. Y., 4 popular colors. Just one price— Capt. Geary's Camp, Boot Jack Mountain, near Sept. 5-6. Paul W. Stafstrom. P. O. Box 115. shirts for $5.95—and a liberal com- 1 Ridgway, Pa., Aug. 13. Wm. H. Cannon. Jr., Oakville, Conn. mission in advance for you on every sale. No investment or training Warren, Pa. U. S. S. Illinois—Former members of crew necessary. We give you FREE con- 135th Inf. Vet. Officers' Assoc.—To com- interested in proposed letter reunion, address pact Selling Outfit. Excellent op portunity to develop a steady plete roster, report to Lt. Col. T. E. Parkhill. J. F. Handford, 31 E. Tulpehocken st., Phila- profitable business. Write at 4228 Lyndale av., S. Minneapolis, Minn. delphia. Pa. 'or FREE OUTFIT. 135th Inf., Co. F—Reunion. T. E. Park- French Mallet Reserve:—Former members hill. 4228 Lyndale av., S. Minneapolis, Minn. of the "gypsies of the A. E. F." interested in OSTONTAN Manufacturing Co. 156th Inf. and 1st La. Inf., N. G.—First proposed reunion, address Howard T. Wiggers. 89 Bickford Street annual reunion. Monroe, La., during Legion 432 Main St.. Poughkeepsie. N. Y. Dept. F 318 Mass. dept. convention, July 16-18. John R. Humble, Detention Camp Det., Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. Boston, P. O. Box 852, Monroe. —Men interested in proposed reunion, write to 359th Inf., Co. B—Reunion at Legion hall, Sgt. F. A. Duvall. gen. del., Cincinnati, Ohio. Denton, Tex., Sept. 13. Fred Hopkins. Jr., Camp Meade Country Club and First Krum, Tex. Camp Ft. Niagara Assoc.—Reunion, Ft. Ni- UNIFORMS 11TH F. A.—Annual reunion, Wilkes-Barre, agara, N. Y.. Aug-. 15. Henry Roeser, Jr.. Pa., Sept. 6. R. C. Dickieson, secy., 4816-47th pres.-treas., of Ocean City. N. J., or Bill Peck. For Legion Drum Corps and st., Woodside, N. Y. 1695 N. 56th st.. Philadelphia, Pa. Bands. Write for NEW catalog showing 88 designs IN COLORS; also wonderful line of samples— QUALITIES and 156 SHADES. DeMoulin Bros. & Co., 1004 South The (§hots Yon ^Miss Fourth St., Greenville, Illinois.

( Continued from page ig) 4tYA/6xYourWaistline moment you're at the table. I had one shoot when I said. "Chick, you've got heartbreaking experience that I can never just about as much chance of winning forget, and remembering it helps me this match as that mouse has of get- every time I play the game. ting away." It happened in Sayre, Pennsylvania, Seaback straightened up and the game half a dozen years ago. I was playing was adjourned for the moment while we Chick Seaback., who is still a great play- all watched the cat. Pussy let the er, but who at that time was at the top mouse go and the little animal lay still of his game. He was usually able to while the cat crouched a couple of feet beat me easily. On this particular day, away, then came bounding up, pawed though, I was playing in grand form and the little thing a while and then went a clicking them off like nobody's business. bit farther off. And then suddenly as In fact I had just five more balls to go we watched, the sleek little mouse, to collect the $400 prize, while Seaback which had appeared too stunned to know was 108 balls from home. As I missed what was going on, leaped for the safety a shot and Seaback stepped up to the of a low-set ice-box and made it. E ' table and chalked his Seaback turned back to the table and cue. a cat came Wear "The LITTLE CORPORAL" BT into the billiard ran the 108 balls, the room with a mouse in to win match. AMAZINGLY comfortable. Reduces waistlines quickly. Be- tired, Improves its mouth. Seaback didn't notice it at I had called the turn both ways. I lieves aching backs. Increases energy. appearance. Makes you look and feel fine. No lacers. strap* first and was just about to lean over to don't try it any more. or buckles. WRITE FOR SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER. The Little Corporal Co., Dept. V6,

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It was won by Vancouver (Washington) ing a junior club for a year and organized which Tires You Know and Prefer Post team, holds the Paul V. Mc- a Legion post club in March. Already a AT NEW LOW PRICES! Nutt trophy a second year. The Van- score of teams have entered the Junior oldest and moot You can rely upon Chicago's couver men are marvelous shots. Match. Hawaii will girl reliable rul»l..-r company to deliver tire mileage Several Team have one at lowest cont. Actual tests on the worst roads in the country prove that our standard brand, are members of the Seventh Infantry, and three boy teams. California, Ohio reconstructed tires deliver BO to 60 per cent more service. A trial order will convince you. United States Army. As a compliment and New Jersey are leading in number

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craft, a spic and span new secondary, is while Warren Eaton of Norwich wins pushed out. These, instead of starting third with eight feet, eleven inches.) That Story only a hundred yards or so away from Now it is not the chief concern of this the circle, take off from as far back as account that the occasion of the big party three hundred yards. Legionnaire Warren at the Chenango County Fair Ground You Can't Eaton of Norwich is piloting one of them was a celebration of the Fourth and the which he has owned for about two fifth of July. Upon the shoulders of all months. He makes a long, graceful glide, of the 250 members of The American Le- beautiful to watch. In mid-air his cap gion Post of Norwich rested the respon- Forget flies off. He doesn't better the mark es- sibility to make this two-day holiday a tablished by Schenectady's Mr. Brown. success. They planned it to be "the big- Next, "Jack" O'Meara of Akron, Ohio, gest event Central New York has ever can read it again and again YOU gets into the game. He is young, slim, seen." if you save your back issues of serious-faced; a "pro" to whom the eager To my inexperienced eye the turn-out amateurs give merited deference. Yes- of attendance in the early morning ap- The American Legion Monthly. terday at Elmira he took off in his sec- peared anything but hopeful. But the Besides, back issues grow more ondary—a type, please recall, which is crowds swelled from a trickle to a stream. not designed for prolonged duration soar- By 12:30 Dr. M. A. Quinn, chairman of valuable the years. with Many com- ing—and managed to defy the force of the show, was estimating the throng as mand premiums now. gravity for an hour and thirty-five min- "somewhere between 12,000 and 15,000." utes. Twenty-three acres of motor cars were So bind every copy as you get it Naturally, he has an eye on the $500 parked south of the stands; and around purse which the Norwich Legionnaires the race track fences the pressure of the in this beautifully embossed, blue are offering for a duration flight of two crowd was only eased when state troopers and gold, artificial leather binder. hours or more. But the breeze still has allowed about a thousand to overflow no snap to it. Dan Cook, treasurer of the across the race track into the oval. Each volume holds six copies. Avail- Legion Glider Club, looks over toward These conditions increased the natural

able for volumes I to X. Price, the flags of the carnival company's tent anxieties of the members of the Glider city, just north of the grand stand, and Club. They had finished safely the first $1.00 per volume. Use the coupon. points out that there's barely enough part of their program for the day; now breeze at the moment to keep them flut- they faced delivering the goods to this tering. throng with their big headline act. And The American Legion Monthly. Pilot O'Meara 's secondary has a wheel the prospect wasn't any too pleasing, P. O. Box 1357, attached beneath it, and there's a brake with no breeze as yet and all these people Indianapolis, Indiana on that wheel to aid in making accurate cluttering up the oval, you could feel the Gentlemen: Enclosed is $ (In- stops. This lends him an advantage over nervous tension growing. sert proper amount computed at $1 .00 for each landing-gear of the pri- Young O'Meara was billed for binder.) Please send, postpaid, the new binder the simple skid Jack of Schenec- the headliner thrill. The overflowing of for Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, mary type glider. So Brown IX, X, of The American Legion Monthly. tady watches the ace from Akron with a the crowd inside the race track fences (Check or circle binder or binders desired.) certain amount of trepidation. Jack made his difficulties just a little more O'Meara gives him cause: in one of the formidable and perilous. But his tough- Name two flights allowed him the professional est break was that the wind still failed lands within five feet of the mark. (In him. He had announced that he would Address the finals he betters this mark and clinches attempt to glide from the top of East second place with two feet, eight inches; Hill—the other side of the Chenango City State 60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 1 ^

tfovv You Cm Own- River—and make a landing down in front Dropping, swooping, swift as a hawk and of the grand stand. Wind or no wind! So as silently, the glider sails, inky black now be began getting his glider aboard a against a white cloud. It grazes tree- Market trailer truck. tops; it skims safely over the race track ,%f 1/0 J From the moment the crowd caught fences; it zips on to touch earth square- prices ly in front of the judges' stand, Have you wondered how people sight of him, tension increased through- then you know, with large or small out a long wait. taxies a little distance past. Incomes no different than yours, eeem to have so much more than A circus hippodrome troupe put on The crowd whoops and swarms onto you? Take diamonds for example. Here's fiomo vital information for their best stunts of thrill and comedy on the field. State troopers rush to form a you: a % Century Old House has dia- mond offers, 6U% of market prices. the race track in front of the grand stand. cordon round the pilot and escort him A reason you rarely think of, makes But the laughs were not so hearty as they back. Young and slim, just as serious- possible RADICALLY LOW PRICES, even for FINEST QUALITY DIA- faced as ever wearing hel- You Take might have been. Too many thousands — an aviator's No Risk MONDS. Offers backed by thoroughly responsible guarantees. Examination of pairs of eyes kept lifting from the met now, with the goggles pushed back. Faultless Cutting Free. Send now, use blank below. track to the peak of East Hill. Evidently, But certain other faces now are of Try to Match at Why Pay Full Prices? 60% more something had gone wrong up there to more interest to your reporter. Blue and 10 large loan firms combined, worid'a diamond banking institution of 75 years, cause an unnaturally long delay and a gold Legion caps of overseas cut are oldest largest rated 'over $1 000,000.00, must sell the DIAMONDS on consequent tightening of the tension. cocked above these faces. Smiles appear, WHICH MONEY was LOANED BUT NOT REPAID. Diamonds too, from many advantageous sources. Send Exact descriptions. -Guaran- The crowd had turned out in force for not too broad, but expressing profound NOW. I.istn limited. Krco -all details.- teed amounts you can borrow. Examine Diamonds lree. at our riBk. this first day. The Legion must give them relief after long-suppressed excitement. Unpaid Loans-Low as s 60 per Carat their money's worth now if any custom- "Everything's gonna be al-1-1 right ers were to be expected to appear again now!" is their message. at the gates tomorrow. And Norwich Financially, too. The $10,000 and Address For Free List clip this now, fill in and mail to— Post had plunged into this affair on a more invested by the Legionnaires is Jos. DeRoy & Sons, Oup.f.O. 8715 DeRoy Bldg., Hittsburgh.Pa. grand scale; an outlay of $10,000 for ad- safe. When everything is totaled at the vertising and prizes, and an item in the end of the second day of the meet there's Headlights Throw bill for $7,000 worth of rain insurance. a net profit of $4,000. NOW, Pull an attendance total of around 20.000 Now I can get members of the Legion TWICE AS MUCH and they could keep out of the red. The Glider Club to talk a little more freely. 1 "Yes, sort of is — big test now was up to the fifteen of the a modern country club LIGHT Glider Club. If their headline act flopped, exactly what this is." For these fifteen yet D S Ml they would be the town's laughing stock enthusiasts, gliding takes the place of Themselves! for a year. Nor would matters be any golf. As demonstrated this morning, they Don't risk the danger of night crashes on the highway! An utterly new and FREE TEST better if O'Meara's ticklish can make a competitive game of gliding, Jack feat different kind of light invention now in- OFFER! ended in as in "landing on mark." they can stantly doubles road light, yet banishes a crash or a serious accident to a Or dangerous dimming. It simply replaces your present old- some of the spectators. take off from a high spot for a distance style glass "bulbs." Costs amazingly little. Ends need for expensive spot-lights, driving lights, and glare-shields. En- clear does blind Ready at last. . . \ glide. For the more proficient, sail- ables you to see as day but NOT the other fellow. Secret is in the new kind of light beam, double-re- Out to the center of the oval trots a planing lies just ahead. This, you are flected and infused, ends flickering "shadows." Agents a g 1 l wanted everywhere. Fleet, owners, H.J. fellow, easiest, ; ^Tr^ stocky white-shirted ; he wigwags told, is the "quickest, the the i»^J>BM^I 1 ^ Heinz, Houston Post- Dispatch, many others use and rocomiii'nd. Buet tner, N.Y., made over si'4lii» arm signals to the distant hilltop. State safest way to learn to fly." And the in 3 weeks. Write quick for territory and Free Test Offer. troopers are holding the overflow crowd cheapest. The cost of a primary glider HACHMEISTER.LINO CO., Depth" 240, Pittsburgh, Pa. as far back against the west fence of the is less than the price of a new flivver. A race track oval as possible. The spot secondary costs from $650 up. A soarer LEGIONNAIRES which O'Meara has designated as his may be bought for around $1,000. landing place is near the judges' stand. The personnel of the club appears to LADIES of the AUXILIARY If the pilot skims too low, a line of be about the same as that which you'd Many valuable territories are open to am- poles and telegraph wires await him find in a typical country club. Sherman bitious people of responsibility who can equal the record of our present sales personnel. If half-way down the slope of East Hill. Rife, president, sells automobiles. Vice a permanent business and good income inter- A road runs along there, too, black with president John Turner manages a fire- est you, write to us. Every letter will be answered. motor cars whose horns are honking im- place heater plant. Dan Cook, secretary NOWATER CLEANSER CO. .WARREN, PA. patiently. A barn below that, and many and treasurer, is superintendent of a treetops. Then the width of the Chen- hammer factory. On the roster is a mas- ango River. Then more barriers of trees ter painter, a veterinary, and two broth- WANT a new and fences. ers who build silos and airplane hangars. business profes- sion of your own. If he shoots too high, the peril is even Warren Eaton, field officer of the club, with all thetrnde you can attend greater. In a black mass south of the plays several other important roles. He DO YOU to? Tlun be- Fair Grounds are those twenty-three is manager of the Norwich airport and come a foot correctionist, and in a few weeks earn big income in service fees not medical acres of motor cars; next, the crowded official of a pharmacal company which is — nor chiropody—easy terms for home training, grand stand and the sidelines; the carni- famed for various nationally known no further capital needed, no goods to buy, no val tent show, the Ferris wheel, barns, products. agency. Address Stephenson Laboratory, 9 Back Bay, Boston, Mats. houses, more wires, poles and motor cars. Warren Eaton, a World War flier with Truly, this is no spot for a timid soul, a citation, mingles opinion and warning. or for any amateur. He says: CTPANGE IRONING CORD '"Watch him, now!" The announcer's "I feel that Legion posts throughout Pays Immense Profits voice roars through the amplifiers to the the country can do a great deal to spon- Prevents Scorching farthest corner of the field. "Watch sor and help form glider clubs in their Saves Electricity Cannot Kink him . . . He's off!'' communities. Boys between fourteen and or Snarl In swift flight a speck of crimson and nineteen are anxious to get into this form 200% Profit! Hudson made $75.00 in 15 min- black darts from hilltop. the far The of sport, so much so that they are trying ute sale to large Company We furnish thousands watching are on their feet. He to build their own gliders. This means for telephones. proof. H. M. Hay says, clears the telegraph poles and wires on that a great many of these home made "Out of hundreds of Never- knots left on trial have had the hillside, the highway's line of motor gliders are altogether too frail and un- only two returns. I sold over 8 0 to one bank." cars. He dives at the barn, as fly. if but he safe to It would be far better the NEW KIND OF CORD SET EREE passes over it appears to get a lift from Legion posts should get behind this looodHdo.iKccptnel Every Neverknot Salesman is given - • institute .,-rJ free the beautiful I)c Luxe Never- an uprushing air current. He banks as younger element, help them raise the knot Cord Set (with only Unhreak- able Snitch Plug of its kind in the World) which XmJ he gets that flip upward; he flits across funds to their glider, and then see buy automatically coils itself out of the way. prevents f W woman buys •»» the river's breadth and speeds to the that they are properly organized. Han- scorching and saves electric bills. Every instantly for it saves its own cost in electricity. It's brand southwest toward those acres of parked dled properly, I feel that gliding is a new and yours free If you work for us. automobiles. A beautiful fish-hook turn wonderful sport, but without supervision important! There .6 only one Neverknot. Olf'n On Write this Company (or exclusive territory, Plug Sane; now—and back toward the Fair Grounds. it can be very dangerous." special prices and big free offer. Fleclnc Bills NEVERKNOT CO., Dept. 6-0, 4503 Ravenswood, Chicago

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and certificate of honor will be awarded ows," which deals with the influence of of San Juan, Public Service Commis- to employers increasing the number of extreme radicalism in educational insti- sioner and Commander of the Porto their workers by ten percent. The cards tutions and other fields, should be given Rico Department of the Legion. and certificates, which will be awarded wide circulation by The American Legion. President Hoover commented to Col. on recommendations of posts, will be Expressing the post's attitude. Post Com- Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of the signed by National Commander O'Neil manger George M. Crowson asks the Island and one of the founders of The and Department Commanders. Monthly to call attention to the book, American Legion, on the honor guard royalties from the sale of which are to of veterans when he arrived in San Juan. Making the Million be used exclusively for Legion welfare Accompanying the Presidential party work. The Post Commander says the were a score of newspaper correspond- APRIL it seemed more likely than IN book is important because "of its au- ents from Washington, including Ulric ever that The American Legion would thenticity on a subject cautiously Bell, who was the first Department Com- have one million members before the avoided by the public press" and its re- mander of Kentucky, and Paul J. Mc- end of 193 1. On April 24th the Legion's lation to "nationalism in the younger Gahan, Past Commander and former national membership as shown by cards generation." Advertising Men's Post National Executive Committeeman from received by the Monthly was 860.931. action was indorsed by Arthur Poorman. the District of Columbia Department. a gain of 104,301 in the month immedi- Commander of the Illinois Department, ately preceding that date and a total and other department officials. The Roll Call within 16,823 of the enrollment at the strength SQUAD of Legionnaires and a file end of 1930 when the Legion's In Porto Rico A was 887,754. closer are represented among the Thirty-one departments had exceeded HT HE Porto Rico Department of The contributors to this issue of the Monthly. on April 24th their enrollments at the American Legion made a notable Peter B. Kyne, member of Merced end of 1930, and ten departments on contribution to the success of the visit (California) Post, was the second His- that day had the largest enrollments in of President Hoover to Porto Rico in torian of the California Department. Dr. their history. Porto Rico continued to March. Nine hundred Porto Rican William B. Smith is a member of Rus- lead all departments in percentage of in- Legionnaires provided a guard of honor sell K. Bourne, D.S. C.,Post of Wethers- crease, having enrolled 281 percent of its along one hundred miles of highway field, Connecticut, and was Post Adju- 1931 quota. Tennessee was second with used by the President and his party dur- tant in 1927. Charles Phelps Cushing 140 percent of quota; Alabama third ing their two-day visit. The fact that a belongs to S. Rankin Drew Post of New with 128, and Virginia fourth with 125. Legionnaire, identified either by a ban- York City, and so does Frederick Pal- ner or a brassard or the familiar Legion mer. Erwin Rudolph derives the right cap, was to encountered every few- to be a Cleveland Legionnaire from his Sinister Shadows be hundred yards, made a distinct impres- service in the 83d Division. Raymond ADVERTISING Men's Post of Chi- sion upon Mr. Hoover and the members C. Parker is a Legionnaire of Winns- - cago has expressed its belief that of his party. The guard of honor was boro. Louisiana. Frank J. Schneller of Edwin M. Hadlev's book. "'Sinister Shad- nrranged bv Major Miguel A. Munoz Neenah. Wisconsin, the Legion's Na-

The name and fame of El Segi/ndo (California) Post, spread nidely by that inveterate national convention- naire, Happy W'intz. is also spread by this band of the post's Boy Scout troubadours which seems to play every- thing that will make a noise

62 The AMERICAN" LEGION" Monthly tional Director of Marksmanship, is Colonel James L. Howard, the author Past Commander of the Wisconsin De- of "What Insurance Wants to Know 8 Incites Off partment. General Samuel McRoberts About You," in the April issue, is a is a member of Moses Taylor Post of member of Rau-Locke Post of Hartford, Waistline Mount Kisco, York. Connecticut. Philip Von Blon New "My waistline went from 42 down" to 34 inches. It took only 35 days," ^5 says E.D.Lane, of Albany,N.Y. "Director Belt got results. I never Toward the Perfect "Diet felt better in all my life." Director Belt gcta at fat and (Continued jrom page ij) quickly removesit by gentle vi- brating action on the abdomen, causing fat to be absorbed and potato, white varieties of turnip, carrot structure that causes the looseness of eliminated. Thousands have proved it and doctors recom- corn, that varieties of the teeth seen in scurvy. and but yellow mend it as a natural way to re- these foods contain it. It is found abun- Vitamin D is most abundant in cod duce. Stop drugs, exercisesand J dieting. Try this easy way. dantly in liver, kidney and sweetbreads. liver oil, but liver oils of fishes generally Vitamin A deficiency brings on an eye are good sources of it. Butter and egg Sent on condition known as ophthalmia, which yolk contain the vitamin in less appre- Trial — may cause blindness and other complica- ciable amounts. Rickets, caused by Vita- Let us prove our claims. We'll send tions. discharges as charac- deficiency, has been in a Nasal such min D common Director for trial. If terize the break-up of colds and in sinus the temperate zone but rare in the trop- you don' t get results you owe nothing. You don't trouble also occur under these condition's. ics and unknown in the Far North. It risk a penny. Write for trial offer, doctors' endorsements and letters from users. Mall Vitamin B is found in abundance in has now been established that the Eski- the coupon NOW 1

spinach, leaves of turnips or beets, rad- mos escaped it because they ate the fats Landon & Warner. Dept. E-122 360 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, III. ishes, watercress, lettuce, fruits, yeast, of marine animals which contained Vita- Gentlemen: Without cost or obliga- ' grains, peas, beans and in glandular or- min D while the ultra-violet rays acti- tion on my part please send me details I of your trial offer. | gans of animals, particularly the liver vated ergosterol in the skin of the tropic Name. and kidneys. It is not found in fats or dwellers in the tropics. Children will de- oil, ' Address. oils of either animal or vegetable origin. velop rickets unless given cod liver I Vitamin B deficiency brings on the dis- egg yolk or an abundance of sunlight. ease beri-beri, a paralytic condition ac- Vitamin E is present in wheat oil, cot- companied by swelling of the legs. It is tonseed, corn and palm oils, also peach 100 Shaves common in China, where rice is polished kernel, soy bean, peanut and olive oils. to keep it from spoiling. This removes Apparently all cereals and leafy vege- Srom EACH blade vitamin. the tables, and probably root vegetables as The NuEdjre hone puts a hair-aplittinj? edtfe on the dullest safety razor blade— Vitamin C, the most unstable of the well, contain a considerable amount of ANY make— in 6 seconds. Many get 100 shaves per blade. W.P. Walsh, Windsor, vitamins, is destroyed by heat in the this principle. Lack of it tends to pro- Ontario, hart until SdllM blade every day for 8 months. Honing «ives bar- bers presence of oxygen. It is in duce sterility in rats, but it is improbable thousands of smooth, clean abundant shaves from a single straight-edge blade. This scientif- the citrus fruits—lemons, grape fruit and that it has any importance in determin- ically beveled patented hone makes each 10c J4t*£»& J/ orange—and can also be taken in the ing sterility in human beings, because blade give $1 to $2 worth ofservice. MON- form of turnip juice and potato juice. the distribution of the vitamin in natural KV RKFUNDKh ,i n -t MORE than satisfied. Fruits and vegetables canned by the new foods is such that people are not likely vacuum process contain vitamin C. A to run short of it. small amount of fresh raw food, such as Vitamin G is found in lean meats, Free Send $1 for 1 (or send J2 fo 2 and we will include a thiru fruits, should be taken each day to in- milk, eggs, yeast and fresh vegetables. honelree). POSTPAID. Or

ney i sure a sufficient amount of this vitamin. Deficiency in this vitamin is thought to But moot) Hemorrhage is the outstanding cause pellagra, which is characterized most by NuEdge Hone Co., Dept. 600A, 134 W. Pittsburgh Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. change resulting from Vitamin C defi- stomach disturbances, skin eruption and ciency, but another effect, rarefication of nervous derangement. Pellagra is still the bones, also takes effect. While scurvy common in the South. Yeast and lean PANTS MATCHED is developing the bones become rarefied meats are believed to be the most effect- DON'T THROW AWAY THAT COAT ANO VEST!

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THE UNFINISHED BATTLE

C^EE yourCPost Service OfficerJor detailed'information on any of"the subjects relatinq to rufhts or benefits covered <_») in this deparlmentfffhecannot answer yourquestion, your(DepartmentService Officer canWrite toyourDepart- ment Service Officer or to theOZeqional Office ofthe^eterans (Bureau in tfourState on matters connected with uncomplicatedclaims orroutine activities. JJfunable to obtain service locally orint/ourState, address communi- cations to (National{Rehabilitation Committee. Ohe (Mmerican fejion, 7IO (BonatBuildiruj^WashirufionSZf.C.

Congress reconvenes The Tuscaloosa, Alabama, $280,000; Gulf- Eighth Inf., Co. I—Men who remember WHEN Stephen H. King, now deceased, while on S. S. American Legion will present to it port, Mississippi, $500,000; Chillicothe. Thomas, which ran through typhoon about Aug. 17, 1917, can assist mother in establish- a series of requests for additional legis- Ohio, Custer, Michigan, $370,000; Camp ing insurance claim. lation to clear up injustices under exist- $500,000; St. Cloud, Minnesota, $370.- 45th F. A., Camp Stanley, Leon Springs, Tex.—Statements from S. G. Arnold, major, ing law and to provide urgently needed Iowa, $620,000; Rutland, Massa- 000; medical corps, examining officer, and John E. relief for disabled men and their de- chusetts, $410,000; Boise. Idaho, $250.- Hl'miston, 2d It., witness, to support claim of Homer H. Gough for spinal injury sus- pendents. In recent addresses National 000; Helena, Montana, $330,000, and tained in service. Commander Ralph T. O'Neil has sum- Waco, Texas, $450,000. Camp Hosp. No. 15, Camp Coetquidan. France— Edward GrIVE requires statements marized the legislative program as A law enacted at the last session ap- from Major Schawwaker, Nurse Jean Brown follows propriated $3,435,000 for construction (now Mrs. Akins), Pvt. Pearson, wardmaster, and bed patients in surgical abdominal ward relieve the distress of Legislation to of Marine hospitals located at Chicago, on Feb. 3, 1919. Also empyema convalescent dependent children of veterans who lie Evansville, Indiana; Galveston, Texas; called "Jaco." 142d Inf., Co. K—Statement from former helpless in hospitals. Louisville, Kentucky; Memphis, Ten- Lt. Kai.l to support claim of Arlington Hot s;: and for unpaid transportation. Legislation to aid the widows nessee; Mobile, Alabama; Norfolk, Vir- ICth Inf., Co. C, First Div. Statement re- of veterans. — orphans ginia, and San Francisco, California. quired from former Cpl. Oscar Johnson in Immediate construction of the vet- connection with civil case of Henry P. Ben- nett of Ely, Nevada. erans' hospitals authorized by the last THE therapeutic value of work is Third Officers' Training Camp, Camp Grant, III. Congress. being tested in the National Soldiers' —Statements required by Capt. John L. Leach from William Billy Hays, and Passage of legislation providing for Homes, in which residents who are able- Burton E. Porter, 2d It., instructor of F Sec- the building up of the Navy to the bodied by usual standards have been as- tion. Sept. 5, 1917, to Apr. 17, 1918, to support strength allowed by the London naval claim. signed tasks in farms and gardens. When 602D Exgrs., A. E. F.—Statements from treaty. the new policy was put into effect at the Capt. David Kramer, Capt. R. W. Peabody, Legislation to increase the disability 1st Lt. Cauklin and 1st Lt. Young in support National Home in Milwaukee in April. of claim of George W. Logan. veterans to the allowance of World War Charles M. Pearsall, the home adjutant, Fifth Serv. Co., Signal Corps— Ex-Sgt. same level as the pensions provided for Frank S. Mauldin wants to contact former explained the intention was to raise members, especially ex-Sgt. Robt. E. McClin- the Spanish-American War. veterans of health standards and to promote con- tock and others on construction detail of camp telephone system, who remember his tentment. Fatigue details were assigned disability. wide attention given the ad- Martin, Lewis A. Formerly Co. A, 137th THE to Q3 1 men in the Milwaukee home who — justed compensation loan law has Inf.. 35th Div.. missing since Oct. 3, 1925. were not hospital patients. The men Six feet tall, black hair tinged with gray, brown overshadowed the fact that last ses- the were examined by medical officers who eyes, hole above ear, shrapnel wound back of sion of Congress enacted more legisla- neck, high cheek bones (part Indian), very certified they would derive benefits from neat. Mentality questioned. Deserted wife and tion affecting hospital construction than work. baby. Necessary to locate him to establish in- any previous session. Laws were passed surance claim. "Everything the men do will directly Dental Corps, Sursal Docks. Bordeaux, authorizing the construction of $24,477,- benefit themselves," the adjutant said. France—Statement required from former Capt. while ap- Conrad Ervin Mortensen to support disability 000 worth of new hospitals, will be devoted to "Three or more acres claim of Dr. W. G. Murray. propriations of were $21,765,180 made gardening. Flowers and vegetables will Sixth Co., 157th Depot Brig., Camp Mc- for Clellan, Ala. Statements from 1st Lt. Ray- the construction of hospitals author- will better food for — be grown. It mean mond G. Cooper and other men who remember ized at previous sessions and for begin- the mess tables and more beautiful sur- back injury to Eugene W. Nowell during ning construction authorized at this Sept. or Oct., 1918. while unloading lumber the roundings. Details of men will find from freight car. Also doctor who remembers session. especially appealing work in keeping the treating him and marking him off duty for The principal hospital construction law three days. lawns in shape." Seventh Engrs. Trn. Inf. Statements from appropriated $20,877,000 for new hos- — The business depression has made the Cpl. Harold Spickard, Carl Reeves. Jack Mc- pitals additions existing and for to national homes havens for many who Conville, Emil Robb, Pat Savage and others hospitals and National Soldiers' Homes. who remember knee injury sustained by Wil- would not otherwise be residents of them. liam E. Remey when he fell into shell hole. designate sites, which The law did not The law governing admissions to homes U. S. S. Huron—Former crew members are being selected by the Federal Board who recall Herbert M. Thompson who was is very liberal and. in general, any vet- struck on head with kitchen utensil during of Hospitalization. In general, however, eran unable to obtain his livelihood out- friendly scuffle on board ship. Thompson is these sites are expected to correspond now totally-disabled mental patient and state- side may find a sanctuary in them with- ments required to establish insurance claim. with the recommendations of the House out any sacrifice of self-respect. 307th Mobile Oitn. Repair Shop, 82d Div.. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. That A. E. F. —Statement from ex-Capt. Merwyn F. Strauss to support disability claim of ex-Sgt. committee reported in favor of these WHILE we are unable to conduct a John A. Rice. new hospitals: Vermont, $500,000; O'Neal, Thomas—Ex-pvt., Bn. A, Second general missing persons column, we Field Art., blue eyes, brown hair, 5 ft. 9 in. Chautauqua County, York, $750,- New stand ready to assist in locating men Missing. Necessary to locate him in connec- 000; South Carolina, $1,000,000; South tion with adjusted compensation certificate whose statements are required in sup- claim. Dakota, $500,000; California, $500,000; port of various claims. Queries and re- Co. E, Sec. 1, Marine Corps. Mare Island. Cincinnati, Ohio, $750,000; Arkansas, Calif.— H. E. Wetmore requires statements sponses should be directed to the from Sgt. Francis G. Smith and Pvt. Harold E. Nevada, $300,000, and $000,000; Wy- Legion's National Rehabilitation Com- Budlong to support claim. oming, $500,000. 109th Am. Trn., Camp Cody-, New Mex.— mittee, 600 Bond Building, Washington. Statements from ex-Lt. Winter, Teamster For the enlargement of existing in- D. C. The committee wants information Herman Ltn"Z and a medical corps lieutenant stitutions, the committee made these to support disability claim of H. E. WlNCHELL. in the following cases: recommendations: Bedford. Massachu- Shinliver. Edith Delight—Daughter of Vin- 3!>8ti[ Hosp. Coitrs. 00th Div.—Maj. Gordon. ton C. Shinliver, deceased veteran. Is living setts, $280,000; Coatesville. Pennsyl- Col. GARWOOD, Capt. Clark and other officers with mother. Mrs. Edith Shinliver Corwin. suffered from whom veteran obtained divorce in 1923. vania, $560,000; Augusta, Georgia, $280,- and nun who remember knee injury by Willie Earl Rav in wrestling match at Camp Necessary to locate this 17-year-old girl to 000; Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, $450,000; Travis. Tex. settle claim.

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