The American Legion Weekly [Volume 5, No. 30 (July 27, 1923)]

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Startling New Invention Ends loot Pains Instantly As if by magic this new scientific discovery instantly relieves all burning and * soreness—all strains and aches—and all other twinges and pains caused by faulty arches—giving you the wonderful feeling that you are actually walking on layers of airl No braces; no rigid appliances; no straps; no special shoes; no bandages; no medicines; no trouble or inconvenience of any kind.

MATTER how long you have suffered and tortured — and walking clerks, salesmen and others find that with 'these supports they NOthe tortures of tired, nching feet no or standing becomes unbear- — can stand or walk all day long able. matter how many different treatments without the least bit of fatigue. you have taken without results—here, at It's really just as if you were Rigid Devices Weaken walking on layers of air. last, is a marvelous new product of Science Foot Muscles which is actually guaranteed to relieve pains No Metal Send No Money- and aches—instantly! Thousands of men and wom- Many people have paid special- Never before has any scientific discovery en, seeking relief from their In diagram above "A" is a thin ists as high as $200 for the bene- soft flexible leather, fits meant more to the thousands of men and foot p tins, have resorted to layer of "B" that you can now secure from of specially the Airflex Arch Supports for an unnatural mechanical devices is a resilient . pad women who arc suffering the miseries of foot of intended to support their eompound- astonishingly small fraction this amount. You risk nothing in pains. For with this sensational new inven- fallen arches of these Most ilicm. for if after five days tion, it is just as if a magic wund were waved were hard rigid affairs, and yon are not more than delighted " over your feet — bringing them instant relief acted merely as "crutches with the improvement in your raet, your in- and comfort. It's actually mystifying! It's The arches immeliately flat- money will be tened out again when the stimtly and gladly refunded. hard to believe that anything can banish Don't send in advance. "crutches" were removed a cent agonizing foot pains so quickly. Yet you Simply till In the coupon, giving Then, too, they in no way the exact size of your foot ,as can try it—you can prove it to your complete helped to ease the shocks of Instructed below. Don't hesitate satisfaction—without risking one solitary cent! walking. It was tho same as to order by mail, for every day we Twinges in the arches ami instep— torriblo draw- putting a huge rock between lie fitting hundreds this way. Whin the postman brings you ing pains around t'ie ankle torturous aches in the the springs of — a wagon. There your supports, just pay him the heels blistered, " toes and —pains fro u burning, was no "give But their worst amazingly low price of $1.95 in swollen joints — even pains in the leu and thigh fault was that insteul of full payment. all vanish almost "while you wait!" strengthening and building up fallen arches, they ac- Slip the supports into your shoes. Try them. Walk It see-ns almost too good to be true, doesn't, it? tually weakened them. For, being rigid, they prevented on them. See If you are not amazed at the wonderful the muscles which supported the arches from getting any comfort they bring. This special low price may Yet the process is absolutely scientific, and offers exercise whatever. never be ottered again. So mail the coupon today positive assurance of quick — and permanent now—and say "Qoodby" to foot pains forever. Thomp- results. New Invention Brings Per- son-Ilarlow Co., Inc., Dept. A267, 43 West 16th Street, New York City Here Is the Secret manent Relief There's a bone in your foot call ed the astragalus But now, at last, you cannot only raise your fallen LOW PRICE INTRODUCTORY OFFER COUPON bone. This bone is a part of v our arch. Now arches to their natural position—thus Instantly relieving the arches are the "wagon-springs" all pain—but you can actually of your body, since they absorb strengthen their supporting mus- rlcs with every step take so that the shocks of walking. The as- J pu they soon are strung and well again ami THOMPSON-BARLOW CO.. Inc. tragalus bone, situated directly Actual Results no further treatment is necessary. Dept. A267, 43 West 16th St. beneath your leg bone gets the Wonderful Discovery This Is through a marvelous new of your But device called the Alrflex Arch Sup- whole weight body. "I wish to congratulate you New York, N. Y. port. are mad? of Russian it distributes this weight to the upon your wonderful discovery. They .Sponge Rubber which has been sur- balls and heels of your feet, just I purchased a pair last month Rend me at your risk the proper charged with and are In the spring, from you, and have been greatly nlr like a so that no shock form of wonderfully springy pads, pair of your new Airflex Arch Sup- relieved —and well pleased. is felt. scientifically formed to the natural Your remedy is bent yet dis- ports. I will pay the postman only This astragalus bone is held arches of the feel. You ran slip them covered. I also notice it does t sure of shoo $1.95 plus a few cents postage in in its proper place by a series of Into any stvlc shoe, and thev arc BO away with ball of foot cal- site, ntnndon pleco light and flexible that, were II not for full payment. It is fully under- cords in your feet and legs. But lousing." of paper and trace the wonderful comfort they bring you often these cords R. E. CLEA nr. outline of stock- stand, however, that If I am not very besome would never be aware of their presenile, inged foot. Hold weakened —so weak that the Ended His Pain With a marvoluuKl v gentle and even delighted after 5 days' trial, I may pencil upright. Kri- astragalus bone, being under a "I find them better than pressure at all points, this springy return them and you agree to refund cIomo tills with rubber at once litis the flattened tremendous weight, is easily any I ever wore. I never have without arches Into place. The uoupon. my money question. forced out of its natural position. a pain when I have them on. astragalus bone slips back Into position and this The moment this happens your I have tried others for 22 years and have paid good prices for Instantly releases (be pressure on the arches begin to sag even —md them, but never were they as delicate foot hones and sensitive the slightest sagging of your successful as yours are." nerves, muscles anil blood vessels. Name arches results in foot tortures that OTTO OENFER. At the same time, as this light and make life miserable for you. Wants Another Pair springy rubber yields to your weight, it reproduces exactly the natural Yet is it surprising? Just "They suited splendidly. spring of your arch! Its constant as any vehicle without springs Address Please s 1 me another pair compression ami expansion with every soon breaks down, so it is with to abov< step massages, exercises and strength.* your feet. Delicate bones are ly brother likes ens the muscles In a natural way compelled to stand terribly un- uch. I have told thus (prickly bringing back their old- >le what really City State.. natural strains; the foot muscles tlm'e vigor ami Strength, they are for the Even If you arc not now troubled and twisted out become torn with your feet, you will Ilnd the Alr- of place; tender nerves and R. T. DAVIS. flex Arch Support <>f tremendous Men's blood vessels are squeezed, pinched value. 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JULY 27, 1923 Copyright, 1923, by the Legion Publishing Corporation. PAGE 3 Alsace and Lorraine Today

By John R. Tunis

Before the Armistice a statue of the Kaiser frowned down upon the populace of Metz. French sympathizers pulled it from its pedestal and substituted this bronze poilu

hundred and fifty thousand porting the other end was a man in a The latter suddenly came to life. He ONEmen from Alsace and Lorraine faded blouse. But this blouse had once shot guttural sounds back. He pointed served throughout the war in been horizon blue! out the direction. He took me by the the German army. In the fall Five years ago these men were shoot- shoulders and turned me around. There of 1918 Alsace-Lorraine became French ing at each other over the front of a was the cathedral tower, sticking up again after having been a province of trench. Today they work side by side over the pointed roofs. the German Empire for forty-eight along the main line of the Strasbourg- "Funny he doesn't speak French," I years. The reabsorption of those 150,- Belfort railway. They typify the spirit said as we walked away. 000 "enemy" veterans into French civil- of the new Alsace. For the first time "Not at all," said my friend. "Half iandom was only one of the many diffi- in nearly fifty years the Alsatian is get- the Alsatians don't. Most of them cult problems that confronted the ting a square deal from his government. fought in the German army, remember." French administration when it took Of the 150,000 men from the province "Oh, not the police," I protested. over the government of the ceded terri- who fought in the German army, 30,000 "Sure, why not? Police and firemen tory immediately after the Armistice. —one fifth—deserted to the Allies. But and nearly all the city officials were in The problem has been solved, and the today both the man who fought with the army once. Why, down in Colmar best possible proof of that fact came to France and the man who fought against there is a man working in the town hall my attention as my train rolled'into the France are treated alike by the French who was a lieutenant in the old Ger- station at Mulhouse, in southern Alsace, authorities. No discrimination is shown. man army reserve. When the French early one morning in May, 1923. A policeman in Strasbourg made me dragoons entered Colmar early in There, working in the railroad yards appreciate that fact. August, 1914, he was at work in his as we steamed slowly in, was a man in "C'est par ici pour la catheclrale?" 1 office. Someone came running in and the familiar German issue field-gray asked him in my best A. E. F. French. told him the French were passing the blouse. That the French should allow He' was a tall, imposing man. He city gates. He ran around, collected these "Germans" to wear their old uni- looked at me hard—and through me. some troops, and drove them out. He's forms was surprising enough. But in Then my friend came to the rescue. My supposed to have killed the first French- the next few minutes something still friend is an American ex-service man man that foil in Alsace. But he's back more surprising came into view. An- who has lived in Alsace some time. He at his old desk today. After all, why other man in field-gray passed by, a speaks Alsatian, and he began shoot- not? He only did his duty. The long iron beam on his shoulder. Sup- ing guttural sounds at the policeman. French realize it, too. And they have THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY f ensG enough to know he can do his own French authorities. What about the particular job better than anyone else." young men? The class of 1919 was That was not the German way in 1870. being called to the colors in France. Then any Alsatian who had served with Should the youth of Alsace and Lorraine the French Army was under suspicion. be called also? Their elder brothers If he was an official his place was filled had just spent five years serving in the by a man brought down from the in- German army. Would these young men terior of Germany. The Alsatians reserve at all? Would they refuse to go? member this, and they compare it with Was it best to omit these two provinces the generous attitude of the French at when the youth of France were called present. up to undergo their eighteen months'

In fact, the thing that " made the training? greatest impression on me in all Alsace The best answer to that is the crowd and Lorraine was a poster I saw in the I saw one day last May in the town of rooms of a French veterans' society in Selestat. Selestat, by the way, boasts Colmar. It was a picture, almost life that it has given six marshals to France, size of a French poilu and an Alsatian more than any other town in the whole in a German uniform shaking hands. country. The day I was there was the Underneath in German it explained that day before the class of 1923 entered both men had served their countries upon its military service. It is a time and that both were entitled to all honors when the young men celebrate with one and privileges in the organization. This last drink. In France, at any rate, it applies, so I was told, to every one of can't do them any harm. That is what the big French veteran organizations. goes on all through the interior of the The monuments which Alsace and countryside on this day. I wondered Lorraine have erected to their dead a**e' what would happen in Alsace. also impressive. These plain granite A carriage rolling down the street shafts scattered throughout the coun- was the answer. It was an old vehicle, tryside are all the same—a simple shaft about the vintage of 1850. We would of stone with the names of the fallen call it a brake. It was drawn by two engraved thereon. The first one I saw thin horses and decorated all over the was in the little village of Turckheim, outside with the tricolor. Inside were a tiny hamlet in the shadow of the twenty-odd youths whose arms and legs Vosges mountains. All around were were sticking out at all angles. They still half ru'ned houses—ruins caused were waving French flags. They were perhaps by French shells. And here is singing loudly. They were cheering thing in Strasbourg that neither the inscription that Alsace and Lor- One France, Alsace, Selestat. the War of 1870 nor the World War raine put upon these tributes to their Exactly the same scene was being troubled in the slightest the Cathedral dead sons who fell on both sides of the — enacted in every city and town and vil- struggle during those five years when lage all over the country from Bor- her fate was in the balance: "To the As they solved the question of the deaux to Besancon and from Cannes to children of Turckheim, victims of the old soldier, so they have solved the Calais at this time and on this day. Great War." No mention of sides, you question of the young soldier. Right The next morning I saw a large nura- note. after their entry that problem faced the (Continued on page 24)

Very different from some of the French cities which survived the war, isn't it? It is Strasbourg as it appears from the air. Running through it is the Strasbourg-Rhine-Rhone Canal. Near the lower right hand corner some Ger- man barracks may be seen JULY 27, 1923 PAOB 5

>5 The Log of the "Legionnaire

The "American Le- Capt. C. E. McCullough gionnaire" as it appeared at the Indian- apolis Speedway on July 4th a few minutes before it started its flight in the Na- t i o n a 1 Elimination Balloon Race

was not an impulse of the mo- old story. He is still in the Army, Switzerland, had it not been for some ITment that took Lieutenant Bond stationed at the Aberdeen Proving Hungarian peasants who captured and me into the Na'tional Elim- Grounds, Maryland, in the Heavier- their drag-rope while the Americans ination Balloon race. We had than-Air branch of the Air Service. were close to the ground making ob- talked about and planned for our entry He has the distinction of being an servations the first morning after the for months. It was my first experi- aeroplane pilot, a dirigible airship pilot start of the race. ence in such a contest. It was, in fact, and a spherical balloon pilot. Also, When we had made up our minds my first balloon flight since I secured incidentally, he holds the ratings of to enter the contest we were confronted my discharge from the Army in June, Aerial Observer and Balloon Observer. with the problem of securing a balloon. 1919. But flying a balloon is like sail- Last year he was in the race which The answer to that was found in the ing a boat or swimming. Once you started at Milwaukee, and, as aide to interest and co-operation of the Army have got tt»e knack it becomes second Major Oscar Westover, of the Army Air Service and General Muir, in com- nature, and almost unconsciously you Air Service, was one of the team that mand of the Third Corps Area. As a do the right thing. So I didn't suffer won that event. The same team would reserve officer I was assigned to and much from lack of practice. probably have won the International in command of the 382d Airship Com- With Lieutenant Bond flying is an Balloon race that began at Geneva, pany, G. H. Q. Reserves, Third Corps

CAPTAIN McCULLOUGH (at left) is vice-chairman of the Legion's Committee on Aeronautics. Accompanied by his aide, Lieut. Carlton R. Bond (right), he left Indianapolis on July 4th in the "Amer- ican Legionnaire," a balloon of 80,000 cubic feet capacity, one of thirteen entrants in the National Elimination Balloon Race. The contest was held to select the three American entries in the international race at Brussels in September. It was for distance traversed. The "American Legionnaire" made a 324-mile flight, winning fifth place. Near Frankfort Springs, Pa., it encountered two storms which collided. From an altitude of about 12,900 feet the balloon was tossed by air currents up to 16,000 or 17,000 feet and afterward dropped rapidly toward the ground, which was finally reached in safety. It was during the race described by Captain McCullough that Lieutenants Roth and Null dropped in Lake Erie and drowned. A3E 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

Area. In order that my entry might apparatus and everything else that we quent landing. At 12:30 P.M., Eastern represent the Organized Reserves of could reach in the few seconds we had Time, we were at an altitude of 12,900 the Army, General Muir approved my to spare. feet, well above the clouds, and the request for the use of an Army balloon Our basket swept through the top country below us appeared only now in the race; and the Air Service went branches of the first tree, which helped and then in small patches as rifts in the limit in furnishing a fine balloon break the force of our fall and onward the clouds occurred. We observed cloud and complete equipment. It is hardly progress. The surface wind must have formations to the northeast and also necessary to say here that we feel been blowing around thirty miles per to the southeast, which indicated wind deeply grateful for this help and co- hour and we were not only coming down and rain, but we did not fear them at operation. at a terrific speed, but traveling over first. We soon found, though, that As I write this I do not know ex- the ground at a rate which was far these clouds were approaching us with actly how we came out. We didn't from being slow. Our gas bag had tremendous speed, and as they drew win; but it is evident from newspaper been almost entirely deflated by the nearer it was apparent from the way reports that we are far from being pressure of the cyclonic winds caused they were boiling and swirling in huge the tail-enders. The "American Le- by the two storms coming together, puffs, that we would be in trouble if gionnaire" made a wonderful flight and and was so flabby that we had no we got caught in them. The gathering we are proud of her no matter in what lifting power whatever. As we passed of these storm clouds made a wonderful sight. Our one regret is that we did not think to take some photographs with the camera we had along. It looked for a while as though both storms would pass by us, one to the north and the other to the south, but instead of that they came together at the exact spot where we were hovering over the Ohio River near Coraopolis, Pa. The first thing that came after the storms hit was a roaring twisting wind which sucked us upward to an altitude of 16,000 or 17,000 feet. We did not have time to look at our altimeter for we were too busy getting things ready to throw overboard when the descent, which we knew must follow, occurred. The winds seemed to be trying to tear our gas bag to pieces and the Basket from the rigging. There were terrific roaring sounds all around us. The bag was squeezed with such force that we were deluged with the gas and the French Prepared Chalk, which was in the interior of the balloon on the var- nished surface of the fabric. It was difficult as well as fast work in the basket as it jerked and swayed in the winds. It seemed at times that we might actually be thrown out of it. When the descent began it was more terrifying than the ascent. We did not know how fast we fell at first, but from the pressure we felt on our ear- drums (and which did not leave mine for hours afterwards) it must have been at terrific speed. After we had Captain McCullough (left) and Lieutenant Bond giving a final inspec- thrown out all of the sand we had tion to the basket from which a few hours later they narrowly escaped left—fifteen bags of it—we were still being hurled. The "American Legionnaire" was perfectly equipped falling at the rate of 12,000 feet per and proved to be a staunch air craft minute. Fortunately, we came out of the clouds about 5,000 feet above the ground. If the clouds had been much lower, we might not be here to tell this position she finished. We found her through the first tree we crouched down story. Heaving over our oxygen tanks a good balloon and Lieutenant Bond in the basket and escaped being struck and other articles of any weight that and I extend our congratulations to the by the larger limbs. As we rose to look we could put our hands on broke our men who made her in record time at over the edge we saw that we were rate of fall to about 1,000 feet per the Scott Field Air Intermediate Depot. headed full-force for the second tree. minute. We may have slowed up a Our part in the National Balloon The basket hit the trunk of the tree, little more than that by the time we Race was concluded when we were but fortunately, sideways. Our rigging hit the first tree, but it was entirely forced to the ground by being the "nut" caught on one of the main limbs, the too fast for comfort. in the "nut-cracker" of two colliding bag came to the ground, and for a This is telling the conclusion of the storms which squeezed out practically few moments we were suspended there story first, but the ending is most prom- all of the gas in the bag and made us about thirty-five feet from the ground. inently and forcibly in our minds at use every grain of sand ballast we We knew the basket would not stay this time. The log itself will tell the had. We landed in a big butternut tree there and prepared ourselves for a complete story of the flight. on the farm of Mr. H. F. Wasson, hard fall, but the weight of the rigging Inflation of the balloons at the Auto- one mile south of Frankfort Springs, with the net and bag was sufficient to mobile Speedway, Indianapolis, started Beaver Coxmty, Pennsylvania, at 1:15 let us down with only a jar. For one at 3:30 P.M. on Tuesday, July 3rd, P.M. Eastern Time, Thursday, July second, however, there was danger that after a hard thundershower. It went on 5th, after twenty hours and four min- the basket was going to tip over on ac- all night and the next morning, with utes in the air. count of ropes on one side being caught, frequent showers to make the work wet The fact is we landed in two trees, but good luck was still with us and the as well as interesting. Lots were drawn and it is fortunate that we did or we limb broke and we fell with the basket for order of take-off. We drew No. 4, would have suffered some broken bones right side up. but because of valve trouble in Pilot or worse. As we came out of the Lieutenant Bond and I have had a Razor's balloon he took-off first which storm clouds we were falling at the good many experiences in ballooning, made us 5th. We left the ground at rate of 1,200 feet per minute. We re- but never anything, as we agreed after- 4:11 P.M., weighing off beautifully and duced that to about 1,000 feet by dump- wards, which could compare with oui going up to 1,000 feet in nine minutes. ing overboard our oxygen tanks and experiences in the storm and subse- (Continued on page 21) JULY 27. 1923V Has Your Post a Home? By Alan Bruce Conlin Commander, Department of New Jersey, The American Legion

" A LEGION post needs a clubhouse for three rea- ^1 sons: first, to give the skeptical prospective member a return {on his dues; next, to prove to the post itself and to the community that the Legion is not merely living on sentiment but is also capable of present accomplishment; and finally to express in permanent, visible form the patriotic ideals and purposes for which The American Legion stands."

members felt that at last they had MOVE WE TAKE made a definite start toward real- izing their dream of a home of their own, and their consequent enthusiasm was natural and justified. Yet I sensed somehow, and I HOMELESS vagabond is think correctly, that the enthusi- out of luck usually be- asm of this rousing meeting was cause of his own short- momentary, the product of comings. A homeless Le- largely particular events the progress of gion post, as a rule, has only itself — show, the ten dollar option, to blame. The vagabond can often the spellbinding speeches. Such be jarred into getting a new grip the enthusiasm was alto- on himself and making good. The splendid gether worthwhile, but unless it post without a place to hang its were followed up it would certainly hat needs a renewal of the "let's surely fade away into noth- go" spirit that chased Fritz back and than one to Berlin. ingness. It takes more peppy meeting to make a Legion A couple of months ago I visited during the same evening three posts located in neighboring Jersey towns. The differing circumstances of the three posts made me realize more keenly than ever before exactly how much it means to a post to have a permanent clubhouse, a home of its own. but everything he said was I'll tell you just the impressions I triple distilled pessimism, solid got from each of those posts. To avoid black gloom. I asked him a the possibility of hurting anybody's few questions and discovered feelings I won't mention names. that, except for a couple of At the first place I hit that night dances that had been more or the post was meeting in a fire house, less fizzles and a half-hearted a dreary, barnlike structure. Some petition to the town officials for twenty fellows, sitting glumly around, a memorial building (which listened patiently enough to my talk. letter had been promptly I gave them the usual line about the tabled and forgotten) the post necessity of worthwhile present ac- had done practically nothing complishment if a post is to be success- in three years to justify its ful and the foolishness of trying to existence. exist solely on sentiment dated 1918. The next post I saw that They didn't throw any bricks, but there night was in marked contrast. weren't any loud cheers either. Then The room was packed, the somebody got up and waded doggedly meeting program moved snap- into a long speech on some minor local pily, and enthusiasm was at a issue. By ones and twos half the small high pitch. Announcements about a post. It takes a continuous program crowd percolated out before the meet- show then under way intended to raise of activity and accomplishment. ing was over. I don't know whether money for a building fund and discus- My third call that night was on a it was my speech that wearied them or sions of questions relating to it—re- post that rejoiced in the possession of whether they were just sick of speech- hearsals, advertisements for the pro- its own building. It wasn't very large ifying in general. gram, selling tickets—held the mem- or very pretentious, but it had an at- The post commander got me in a bers' interest. But the big question tractive exterior with tall, white col- corner and started telling me all his before that meeting, the proposition umns, and inside were pool tables, a troubles. "Every meeting is like this," that brought out the most stirring comfortable assembly hall, committee he complained. "Half of them beat it speeches and that secured the most re- rooms, a kitchen—practically every- out and go around the corner to the sponsive interest on the part of the thing that a small community post pool room. The fellows haven't got Legionnaires, was discussion of the could wish for in its clubhouse. the right pep. They're discouraged be- clubhouse they proposed to build. It occurred to me that the first post cause the town has forgotten them. The building committee of the post was like an unlucky bachelor living Nobody gives a darn any more about had just paid ten dollars for an op- precariously from hand to mouth, that us ex-service men." tion on a site for their clubhouse. Ob- the second rpsero'-'ed a luckier bache- He went on at considerable length, viously this wasn't much, but the po'-t (Continued on page 23) PAGE 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

gency, consists chiefly of the rebuilt antiquated airplanes of five years ago—obsolete war equipment. That cannot provide security. EDITORIAL Mayhew T. Wainwright, who recently resigned as As- sistant Secretary of War to sit in Congress, said in his report of the Air Service:

Its war-time equipment has been practically used up. The amount of money appropriated for new aircraft is so small that within two years it will have on hand less than one-half the number of aircraft necessary for its normal peacetime work. There will be no aircraft to equip and expand the Air Service Whom Should a Senator Represent? in time of emergency, .no reserve on hand, and it will be impossible in less than a yea.r to expand the remnant of the aircraft

are touched by the plight of our majestic contem- industry which may be "left or create it anew. . . . This situation WE is not only serious but actually alarming. porary, the New York Times, which essays the un- welcome task of chronicling the toppling of an idol. These are not the words of an alarmist. It is a sad truth that, when aerial preparedness is considered, the four- Senator Edge of New Jersey, [remarks the Times] has been thought of as one of the steady and dependable members of the teen world aviation records which we hold are of no more

Senate. . . . But in his address at the formal opening of the Con- consequence than the latest non-stop dance record. valescent Home of The American Legion at Toms River, N. J., he stated that he hoped a business-like bonus bill would pass at the next session of Congress. For it he promised to vote and work. The Changing World Thus the Times notes the announced decision of the senior THE tennis and golf matches draw tens of thousands of Senator from New Jersey to support the position of The spectators now whereas a few years ago they drew American Legion on a most important question of domestic scarcely none at all. Tennis and golf, especially the latter, economics. As long as Senator Edge worked and voted were considered to be pastimes of the leisure class. Twenty against adjusted compensation he was a "steady and de- years ago only a few exclusive shops in our most fashionable pendable" statesman vr-hose judgment was sound "especially cities sold golf balls, for instance. Now you can buy them in matters of finance." Now that the Senator has promised at the five-and-ten-cent stores anywhere. In those days to support adjusted compensation, in the Times's estima- tennis was played chiefly at the more swagger colleges. tion, he is none of these things. Now settlement house playgrounds in New York's east side Senator Edge did not declare himself without having and Chicago's west side are equipped with courts. reasons, nor without stating those reasons to the public. The annual tennis and golf championship matches have The Senator said that with the huge British war debt settled become truly national events only since the war. The and the government deficit turned into a surplus the country baseball magnates were worried at first. They viewed with is now fully able to pay its debt to the veterans—a condition alarm the fact that the baseball no longer was the universal which nullifies the argument which has prevented such pay- summer game of the kids. Tennis and golf were sharing ment heretofore. their endeavors, and the baseball kings were wondering The Times remarks that these reasons "are not good" how this would affect their gate receipts. and darkly hints that other factors have influenced the New It hasn't affected them at all. Attendance at the ball Jersey Senator. parks this summer is greater than ever before. More people are also turning out to watch the experts on court and It would be unkind, [suggests the Times] and doubtless un- links perform. It is a general move into the open air. fair to link this change in the Senator's attitude with the fact that he has to go before the people next year for re-election. It It is the result of our changing modes of life. More people may be that he bepan lo see the light when his colleague, Senator work indoors than ever before, and they get out of doors Frelinghuysen, was so unexpectedly defeated last November. to play. As our national life becomes more highly indus- trialized and energy-sapping, more recreation is required to So that is it. That is the kind of man this Edge is. maintain the normal balance. That is what is going on. He means to represent the people of New Jersey. He means to stand for the things they stand for. He is swayed by what they think. In this instance the people have mani- A Gratifying Decision fested a desire that the Government shall pay its long M. KILLITS, in overdue debt to the veterans of the World War. Government FEDERAL JUDGE JOHN sitting To- ledo, Ohio, recently handed down a decision denying finances unquestionably are such that this cm be doie. citizenship to foreign-born men who, on the ground that Therefore Senator Edge declares he is for paying the debt. they were conscientious objectors, claimed exemption from That is the grudge the Times, and the anti-compensation- military service during the World War. ists generally, have against the Senator. Because he seeks The decision should be gratifying those to represent the voters of New Jersey instead of the finan- to who believe that most of the so-called conscientious objectors cial interests which contributed least to the war and got were unwilling to bear arms because they were too selfish, too afraid most out of it, Senator Edge no longer is "steady and dependable"—except as an instrument for carrying out what to risk their lives, or too sympathetic with our enemies. everyone knows is the will, not only of the voters of New "We are unable to see how any applicant who con- Jersey, but of the country. scientiously objects to bearing arms in his country's defense can take the oath of citizenship without reservations," said Judge Killits in explaining his verdict, "and we are But It Doesn't Mean Anything unwilling to accept an oath that is subject to any reserva- UNITED STATES Army flyers recently established eleven tion whatever. Without any intention to reflect upon the quality new world records, bringing the total held by Ameri- of the profession of conscientious objectors, we feel can pilots to fourteen. The records for speed, altitude and that it is enough that the country must endure the native distance are all held by United States aircraft piloted by born of that persuasion whose citizenship is a birthright Army flyers. without extending the number by the favor of the natural- These things are encouraging to aviation enthusiasts, but ization laws." they have not one iota of significance as regards aerial pre- During the war there were, no doubt, a few idealists who paredness. They prove that given an opportunity, American genuinely loathed the idea of war—men who would rather aeronautic engineering genius is superior to that of the do anything than lend their aid in a struggle between human rest of the world. beings. But such persons were, like angels' visits, few and It must be borne in mind that these records were estab- far between. lished with experimental aircraft. None were stock models, s*e ais .ee although the Liberty motor confounded its critics in the dis- It is a relief to know that the North Dakota farmer who tance and speed records. has whiskers seventeen feet long does not use tobacco in Our air force, upon which wc must depend in an emer- any form. PACE 9 Tour Home Town The Health of All the People

average child born today in By Harold S. Buttenheim to be, 'We have done better than other THEa progressive American com- municipalities. Now we will go on Editor, The American City munity will live at least five Magazine doing better still, and show other munic- years longer than a child who ipalities what can be accomplished was born at the beginning of the present the United States as the result of the when a really enlightened and energetic century. Census Bureau statistics show work of sanitarians in declaring war on and devoted community undertakes to that the expectation of life of a baby the mosquito, which seems to have had make that city the healthiest place pos- boy at birth had increased from 48.2 a monopoly in carrying the disease to sible for all the men, women and chil- years in 1901 to 50.2 in 1910, and to human beings. A much more common dren who live in it.' Another thing to 53.9 years in 1920. The girls have even scourge of mankind, tuberculosis, is do is to see that adequate appropriations a better chance, their expectation of rapidly losing ground before the ad- are provided for public health admin- life having increased from 51.0 years vance of civilization. In 1900 the tuber- istration. It is perfectly absurd to see in 1901 to 53.6 years in 1910, and to culosis death rate in the registration the amounts that are provided in some 56.3 years in 1920. These figures are area was 201.9 for each 100,000 of the communities. It is estimated that from the Federal Census Bureau statistics population. By 1910 the rate had fifty cents to one dollar per capita per for the so-called original registration dropped to 160.3, and in 1921 it was year will provide a fairly good ordinary States—the only ones for which com- under the one hundred mark for the public health administration." parative figures are available for the first time—99.4 to be exact. In planning your public health pro- twenty-year period. The annual death Recognizing, as we must, the com- grams, don't forget the children. It is rate for the entire registration area in munity's responsibility for the public a very remarkable fact, and one little the United States shows a decrease health, how shall we proceed to trans- complimentary to human intelligence, from 17.6 per thousand in 1900 to 11.6 late our faith into works? that until recent years there was no per thousand in 1921. An honest study and fearless publica- such thing as publicly supported child To what causes may this fine show- tion of the facts are important first welfare undertakings, and very few ing be attributed? Partly, of course, steps. If the vital statistics are being such undertakings privately supported, to the fact that the average individual properly recorded in your community, that more than scratched the surface. has learned to live a saner life, men- you can tabulate the general death rate The saying, "As the twig is bent the tally and physically; partly, of course, and the diseases which contribute to tree is inclined," was almost as old as to the increased skill of our physicians, that death rate and compare the fig- the everlasting hills in 1912, when the surgeons and mental practitioners. But ures with those of other communities. first public agency in the world was in a very large measure it is due to the Suppose they are unfavorable. This is established to consider as a whole the constructive work of our sanitary en- the best possible reason why your news- problems of childhood, the United gineers and public health departments. papers should have the courage to pub- States Children's Bureau. It was not We are gradually learning that the best lish the facts instead of avoiding the that people didn't believe the old say- way to cure many of the ills that flesh issue. Let the facts thus published be ing, but apparently they didn't care was supposed to be heir to is to reach discussed before city officials and civic enough to apply it intelligently, or didn't them at the source and nip them in the and social welfare agencies in the com- know how to do so. bud—or the germ. munity, and some sort of action is in- We have been literally throwing away The reduction in the typhoid fever evitable. child life in this country. It was not death rate is an excellent case in point. But suppose you discover that your until 1908 that any American city ad- In the good old days, before the instal- city is below the general rate for muni- mitted that the death of babies was a lation of municipal filtration and chlo- cipalities in the registration area. What municipal concern. That year New rination plants, the typhoid germ dis- ought your attitude to be? In answer- York City established a Division of ported itself unmolested in our public ing that question recently, Dr. George Child Hygiene in its Department of water supplies. But by employing sani- E. Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Health. The State followed later, and tary engineers to remove the filth from Foundation, said : "Your attitude ought now forty-six out of the forty-eight, of the water and to the States and a kill any of the growing list of deadly germs cities have spe- that remain, the cial divisions or average death bureaus dealing rate from typhoid with the saving fever in the regis- of life and the tration area has preservation of decreased from health of chil- 35.9 per 100,000 dren. in 1900 to 9.0 in That this in- 1921. Some of creasing interest the more pro- in child welfare gressive cities is producing real have brought the results is evident typhoid fever from Census Bu- death rate down reau statistics, to five, three, or which show that even two or le^o the infant mor- per 100,000. In tality rate — the such cities, people number of babies enjoy the pure born alive who water which they die within the first year — drink ; the doc- has tors have been decreased from largely relieved of 100 out of each one impossible Twenty-four boys in the New York State Hospital for Crippled and De- thousand births task, and the un- formed Children are gaining a more cheerful outlook on life, and so paving in 1915 to 76 per Miller dertaker is learn- the way to better health, through the help extended them by Burton thousand in 1921. ing patience. Post of the Legion of West Haverstraw and its Auxiliary unit. The two Public health is Yellow fever organizations have adopted a Boy Scout troop composed principally of purchasable, and has become al- youngsters on crutches. The photograph shows post officials starting on the supply is un- most unknown in an outing with a group of their proteges limited. PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Dressing Up on a Hot Day By Wallgren

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JULY 27, 1923 PAGE 11

This Iowa Post's Memorial Colorado War Chests Open Will Endure Through the Ages BELIEVING to Peace Needs in our Gov- the last member of the Le- war-chest funds were being WHEN ernment and our WHEN gion in Sigourney, Iowa, has been raised, while The American Le- democratic insti- buried with honors in the town's ceme- gion was sporting around in O. D., tutions is fine tery, Sigourney will not forget the Le- navy blue, mud, ice and suchlike gar- enough. It is the gion. Leo R. Farmer Post of Sigourney ments, the chests were intended, as natural, impul- has just helped its town acquire a a rule, for relief work among service sively fresh atti- thirty-acre park of natural woodland, men. The Department of Colorado of tude of the aver- and if the post should never do any- Undcrwood The American Legion knew this. So age citizen. But © thing more than this to keep its mem- when the Legion recently came into it is an impulse and not so valuable as a ory alive it has made itself solid with custody of a $25,000 fund left over reasoned, well-thought-out conviction. posterity. The oaks and hickory trees from the Colorado War Chest, it was We have not only to believe, but likewise now growing in the park will be vigor- decided to use the money for relief to teach others, especially the ous and green when every member of foreigners work among ex-service men. The within our shores, the value of our present the Legion has passed on. fund will go to buy food, coal, clothes, scheme of things. The American Legion There are fewer than one hundred medical services, rent and such things has asked for a period of time in which members in Leo R. Farmer Post, but for veterans in need of them. Up to to conduct such teaching. It believes the post has no difficulty in raising fifty dollars will be granted in indi- that we should stop all immigration for $4,500 for the park project. It obtained vidual cases. The money will not go five years so that we can determine upon a a part of this sum by giving a Play as a loan, but as a gift. program of Americanization and then Day celebration on the town's public carry it out. The Legion is moved by no square. Then it canvassed the people ill will toward the peoples of other lands. Oklahoma Plans to Start the of the town for subscriptions. The If the truth be known, it is the most town was divided into districts, and 100% Literacy Column powerful force in the world today, and it sergeants and corporals were assigned would save these people from industrial EVERY resident of Oklahoma will be to interview residents of each district, slavery in the America of their dreams. able to read and write when a cam- ft took talking and persuasion, but the Thoughtful men will examine with care paign now being carried on by the community was quickly fired by the the appeals which industrial barons arc Americanism Committee of the Depart- spirit of the Legion's effort, and the now making for freer immigration. A ment of Oklahoma has been completed. vision of the park soon was made a well-grounded suspicion is that they are And with the disappearance of illiter- reality. The post is now planning to more concerned with a cheap, servile and acy in the State, hundreds of persons construct cement walks and driveways. overflowing labor market than with the who until recently had possessed not human rights of the peoples involved. even the rudiments of education will A $50,000 Burial Plot for Where thoughtless industrial leaders have acquired a working knowledge of America's Defenders would bring more foreigners to make American history and the principles of matters worse, the Legion would deal our national, state and city govern- in mental system. THE American Legion post first with those who now constitute a Youngstown, Ohio, is making plans menace to a government of sound public The Legion's campaign is based on for one of the most beautiful cemeteries opinion. Before more thousands are what is known as the Jones Plan, a for war veterans in the United States brought who would break down our over- plan originated by a county superin- following the presentation to the post taxed schools, we want to educate the tendent of public instruction who is also of a large park tract in Belmont Ceme- present population. An effort should be a Legionnaire. In each county a Prin- tery by Judson Brenner, father of three made, too, toward the physical distribu- cipals' Club has been formed, composed World War service men and himself a tion of the immigrants. Idle land in the of all the principals of the schools. Y. M. C. A. worker during the war. West cries for development. Idle men in Many of the rural schools are con- The- tract is valued at $50,000 and has the congested centers of population cry solidated institutions with from five space for 500 graves. The donor has for work. National Commander Ow - to fifteen teachers in each building. established an endowment fund which let, addressing the American Library As- Each principal pledges himself to or- will meet the expenses of maintaining sociation Convention in Hot Springs, Ark. ganize the work in his district and the plot. Veterans of all American to see that fifty per cent of the wars will be buried in the plot, which illiteracy in his district is eliminated has been termed "Defenders' Lot." The drive ended the post had signed up 200 in one term. post is planning to erect a monument new members, making its strength 60 The first step is a tabulation of all in the center honoring the soldiers of percent greater than last year. The those unable to read or write in each all wars. drive was conducted as a part of district. A card index file is used to Macon's celebration of its hundredth classify the names. Teachers and as Centennial Observance anniversary, in which all the nation's many volunteer high-school students as Nets 200 Members wars were depicted in pageant. Neel can be enlisted are asked each to adopt Post staged a spectacle commemorating an illiterate and to begin immediately FOR three days the bugles blew and the World War, assisted by its Aux- teaching him to read and write English. the band played and the service iliary, National Guard companies and After an elementary knowledge of the men of Macon, Georgia, lined up be- other organizations. The post also had language has been communicated, the fore the recruiting tent of Joseph N. a leading place in a parade in which teaching of history and civil govern- Neel, Jr., Post. When the membership 10,000 persons marched. ment will be undertaken.

Macon, Ca. lines them up and then signs them up ?AGE -12 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

the state capitol and shook down Governor It's the Life of Riley for These Kids William E. Silzer as one of his first custo- mers. The Rev. Gill Robb Wilson, former A. E. F. sky pilot, now a Presbyterian minister in Trenton, took a stand in the center of the city. The whole town was covered. In a few hours the amateur paper salesmen had collected $300. When the scouts, who reported a wonderful day, got back to Trenton each one was given the amount of his average day's earnings from the sum collected by their substitutes, and the balance was put in a general scout fund to be used for buying uniforms and equipment. This big day was only one of the features by which the Trenton post has attracted and held the boys of its scout troop. Dur- ing the winter the Legionnaires gave les- sons in scout craft. Members of the post also gave talks on the city's industries and on opportunities in business for the boys. Naturalists gave lectures on wild animals and their habits.

How Membership Trophies Will Be Awarded at San Francisco

the Fifth National Convention of ATThe American Legion to be held in San Francisco in October the presentation of national trophies and awards to the departments making the best showings in membership will have new importance, in view of rules recently approved by the National These Boy Scouts (above), in private life leading newspaper merchants of Executive Committee to govern the honors. Trenton, N. J., were able to drop the cares of business and take to the woods The two principal trophies are the Han- when the members of a Trenton Legion post deployed and kept the local ford MacNider Trophy and the Franklin papers in circulation. Below is Adjutant General Gilkyson, a buck private D'Olier Trophy. The MacNider Trophy, Legionnaire, selling for cash in hand a late wuxtry to the Governor of presented to The American Legion by the New Jersey Iowa Department, is awarded each year to the department that has the highest percentage of members for the period from January 1st of each year to a date thirty days prior to the convention as compared with the number of members in the department on December 31st of the preceding year. The Department of Georgia now holds this trophy, having been presented with it at the New Orleans convention. The D'Olier Trophy has not yet been awarded to a department, as it was first announced at New Orleans. It will be awarded annually by the Department of Pennsylvania to the department obtaining as members the highest percentage of eligible service men in the State. Title to both trophies will remain in The American Legion. Each department winning a trophy will be required to furnish a bond, an insurance policy and other security to insure its return for presentation at the succeeding convention. Each department winning a trophy will also bo given a gold plate, suitable to be attached to the department's banner, which will ELKINS-OLIPHANT POST of Trenton, had the big idea. The boys wouldn't have bear an inscription reciting the honor won. New Jersey, was godfather to one of to give up their jobs. The post members Departments having fewer than 1,000 mem- the lustiest troops of Boy Scouts in the would pinch-hit for them. While they were bers on December 31st shall not be eligible world, but when it got ready to take its rambling the woods and shooting the to receive a trophy. The awards will be proteges on a canoe trip and hike, it rapids in canoes, Legionnaires would be based on figures from the books of the struck a snag. It happened that the scouts selling their papers. National Treasurer. were not a ready-money outfit. Few of Thus it happened that when the scout In addition to the two trophies and their them had fathers in the foreground or troop set forth, forty strong, by truck for plates, there will be presented each year background ready and anxious to shell out the hike and boat rides and feeds by the a one hundred percent membership honor the dollars for uniforms, tents and camp fires, Legionnaires were out on the plate to each department maintaining or hatchets. For the most part these were streets of Trenton wearing overseas caps increasing its preceding year's member- boys who put in a regulation day in school and carrying bundles of newspapers. ship. This plate will be of silver. and spent hours before and after school Trenton's afternoon newspaper had pub- Nine battleships, thirty-eight destroy- selling newspapers on the street, manning lished one of its early editions as a "Le- ers and many auxiliary craft are ex- shining stands, or doing dozens of other gion-Scout" special and the volunteer news- pected to take part in the naval show to useful jobs. boys began to put zip and zow into the be held in connection with the Fifth Na- A street corner concession for a news- job of selling them. Strict orders were tional Convention. Naval authorities of paper isn't anything to be trifled with. given that change should be given cus- the Allied countries have been invited to One by one the scouts came round to the tomers Only when requested. Adjutant send vessels for the review, which is to be post and confessed reluctantly and some- General Gilkyson of New Jersey, one of one of the most impressive features of what shamefacedly. Then a Legionnaire the newsboys, took his stand in front of convention week. . .

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vii.lf-: Epson Baptist Church. $7: Claremoni. Claremont Post. $12.60; MlLFORD: Ricciardi Hartshorn Post, Two More Departments Exceed Quota for $16; Newmarkei : Robert G. Durgin Post. $20; Bristol: George Minot Cavis Post, $12.50; G. B. Cavis. $3; L. E. Allard. $2; Miss Mary U. Mus- Overseas Graves Decoration Fund grove. $1; Charles E. Kenney. $1; Mrs. Grace Spencer. $2; H. C. Whipple, Miss Sarah Danforth. $2: $1; John Brown, $1 ; Frank Fowler, $2; Mrs. Abby T. Chase, $10. NEARLY $70,000 is still to be raised if NEW JERSEY. Anandale: Reformed Church, $5; Fi sm- ington: Methodist Church. $9.25; Klinesville School. |1.»5; the total of $200,000 is realized for the St. Magdalene's Church. $10. Voorhees Corner School, $1.55. American Legion Overseas Graves Endow- 1'lemington High School, $4: Flemington Post, $10.83; Blooms- bury: McCullough School, $1; Centerville: Cenlerville School. ment Fund. Contributions have been Graves Fund $1.40; Clinton: Pittstown School. $3; Clinton Public School., $11.14: High Bridge: High Bridge Public Schools, coming in to the office of the National $10.25; Ridg- Schoot, $1.70; Califon: Bunnvale School, $1.41; Farmeravifle Treasurer at an average of several hundred Total School, $1.10: Ringoes: Unionville School, $1.42; Oluwick: Mountainville School, $1: Locktown: Locktown School, $1.50; dollars a day, is but this considered hardly Quakertown: Quakertown School, $1.60; Reaville: Keaville sufficient. School, $1; Pleasant Run: Pleasant Run School, $1.50; Stock- To July 7th ---- $126,888.71 ion: Presbyterian Church, $2; Lebanon: Hamden School. The Department of Indiana, having still $1.40: Glen Gardner: Glen Gardner School. $1.40; Milford: Everittstown School, $6.20; Everittstown: to raise approximately thirty percent of Week ending July 14th - 3,915.54 contribution box. $1.23; Sergeantsville: contribution box, $1.36; Whitehouse its quota based on the $200,000 which has Station: Charles Wykoff. $1: Red Bank: Trinity Church. $12.00; First Methodist Episcopal Church. been set as Total to July 14th - $130,802.25 $25.40; St. Anthony's now the Legion goal, has sent Roman Catholic Church, $10; First Presbyterian Church, $37.75; American Legion word that it plans to institute a brand new Auxiliary, $21.50; Colts Neck: Dutch Re- formed Church, $8.40: West Hoboken: West Hoboken Post, drive. Its first effort easily overreached $2: North Plainfield: Ball Kirch Post, $29; Butler- John A. Dean Post, $50; New Egypt: E. Oland Nixon Post, $5 Long its quota of the $100,000 which was the Branch: International Lions Club. $25; To-Kalon Castle, K Kate L. Hawley, $5; Upland: Auxiliary to Upland Post, $10; of G. E.. $10; Long Branch Fur Dressing and Legion's first objective. Other depart- Dyeing Co . $10 Emanuel 8; Co., Pasadena: South Pasadena Pott, $29. $5: C. C. Lloyd, $2; Oscar Cobb, $2; WilBain ments report that they D. contemplate similar CONNECTICUT. New Britain: citizens. $300; Meriden: Walling. $5; Glen L. Berry, $5; Herbert A. Reden. $1 Harry C. Rehm, action. Mtriden Post, $8.50; Clinton: Auxiliary lo Howard Hillard Post, $1: Riverton: Riverton Public School. $8 50 $10. NEW MEXICO. Santa Fe: Montiya Montoya Post $20 The latest statement of the National FLORIDA. De Funiak Springs: De Funiak Post, $20; Tal- N E R£- Bu"ALO; Henry Hacker.»$2; John A. Boechat «» . iY,\'? Post, $12.13; Brooklyn: Mrs. Treasurer shows that thirty-six lahassee: Claude L. Saul Post, $10; Tampa: American Legion Margaret Watson. $5; First New depart- Department Florida, York Cavalry Post. $25; Dunkirk: W. H. Wills. of $120. $1 ; New Paltz- ments have American Legion Post, $6; Flushing: Oscar not yet reached their new quota GEORGIA. Bain bridge : Bainbndge Post, $11.40; Athens: Ammann Post $25- Castleton: Castleton Post, Allen R. Fleming, Jr., Post, $31.50; Savannah: Mrs. W. F. Baker. $10; Montgomery: Emory Osborn based on the $200,000 sum. Post, $20; New York City: New Hamp- Mrs. Arthur Wilson. Mrs. Charles Hogan, Mrs. Louis New, $50: Francis Lutkenhouse. $1 Cat- taraugus: Auxiliary lo Petersen Angove shire and Vermont are the latest Robert J. Smith, $2. Post, $3- Red Bank- to go over Elizabeth Fishback, $2: HAWAII. Schofield Barracks: Schofield Barracks Post, Sparrowbush: Auxiliary to James C Bill Post, the top, the latter with a remittance from $11.20. $2; Saranac Lake: Harry D. Madden. $1- War- wick: Morris Rutherford. Schenectady: department headquarters of ILLINOIS. Champaign: Champaign County Post, $10; Lake $5; Auxiliary to Schenec- nearly fifteen tady Post. $25; Elmhurst: Elmhurst Post, $25 Forest: Auxiliary to George Alexander McKinlock, Jr., Post, NORTH CAROLINA. hundred dollars. In the table printed be- $34.85: Plainfield: Marne Post, $5; Carrier Mills: Marion FayetTBVIlle: Cumberland Post. $25; Scotland Neck: Roanoke Post. Oshel Post, $5; Havana: Havana Post, $27; Voiture Locale 116, $12.50: Cliffside: Marion low departments which have B. Hawkins Post. $12; Charles exceeded $9; BrookfielD: Auxiliary to Edward Peeley Post, $2; Peca- H. Haynes. $2.50; Baron P. Cald- well, $2; Grover C. Haynes. their quota are shown in heavy tonica: Auxiliary to Eugene J. Barloga Post, $10; Rochelle: $2; Charles F. Moore. SI. 50; B. type: B. Goode. $1; Charles T. Greene. AuxiliarytoRochellePost.HO; Oak Park: Auxiliary to Oak Park $1; Otto Ruppe, SI; George C. Shufford, $1; Hollis M. Owens, Post, $5; Glen Carbon: Auxiliary to Harry G. Sealon Post, $5: $1; Newton- Auxiliary ti Newton Post. $10; Southern Amount Percent. West Chicago: Hortense L. Johnston, $1; Chicago: Hinsdale Pines: Auxiliary to Sand Hits Post, $5: Charlotte: Hornet's $356.40 .476 Post, $1; Monmouth: Auxiliary lo Mariam B. Fletcher Post, $5: Nes Post. $2; Auxiliary lo Hornet's Nest Post. $25; Alaska Brimfi eld: Brimfield Post, $17.70; Lena; Sprague Inman Post* Greenville: Auxiliary to Pitt County Post $15 156.30 .990 V\ insion-SaleM: Auxiliary : $23; Western Springs: Mr. and Mrs. T. Gladden. $1: Alton: to Clyde Boiling Post, $25; B. iios Arizona 622.45 1.117 J. John H. Newton, Alton Post, Highland Park: Dumaresq Spencer Post $154.39; $10; Monroe: Melvin Decse Post $>9S4 Argentine 25.00 2.190 $50; HI L Washburn: James Sherman, $1; Kankakee: citizens of Kan- Ud' P"'- Siryker: Yack'ee Memorial Arkanaas Post.P„?, $5.70^"7n °vvWinchester: 1,648.95 1.038 kakee County, $100; Kankakee Post. $5; Voiture 473, $1; Roy Cameron Ellis Post, $5; Toledo: Tony Vrroblewskt Post, Brazil 25.00 1.450 F. Dusenbury, $1; Barney Adelman, $1; William Lord. $1; Wil- $5; Hubbard: Hubbard Post S25- Le- banon: Ralph P. Snook California 3,621.22 .526 liam H. Maitland. $1; Earl Cubberly, $1; Ed Bass, $1; Ed Reno. Post, $10; New Knoxville: Washington S: Be "-le Center: Canada $2; Mrs. H. Vanderwater, $1. '.*l „ WiUard Stout, Post, $25; Berea 24.45 2.840 AlbertM E. Baesel Post, Canal Zone INDIANA. Lapokte: Hamon Gray Post, $520.80; Alexan- $15; Mansfield: McVey Post $59 50 102.68 .880 Defiance: Herbert E. Anderson : dria: Alexandria Bright Post, $20: Rochester: Auxiliary to Post. $13; Cincinnati: Sidnc. China McDougall Kite. $10; 21.02 .453 Leroy C. Shellon Post, $10: Oakland City: John Riley, $1; Jas- Clyde: American Legion Auxiliary $\ Colorado Oberlin: Auxiliary to Karl Wilson Post, 741.99 .454 per: Auxiliary to Dubois County Post, $5: Williamsport: Warren $7 ; Stockport- Byro.' Hook Post. $10.30; Post, $21.30; Lowell: Lowell Post, $5; Indianapolis: Auxiliary Canton: Canton Post. $100; Celina-' Celina Connecticut 2,114.40 L277 Post. $13.50; Zanesville: Zantsvillc Post, $284.20: Cuba to Bruce P. Robinson Post, $10: Berry Copeland Post, $37.75; Mc- Findlai . 54.50 1.220 Christ Boulder, $2; Ruth Jester, Ehaine Kolhe Post, $5: Auxiliary to Irvington Post, $58: Tell $1; Theodore Bayl". $s \I r . Delaware Charles Kieffer, 290.42 2.138 City: Perry County Post. $47.01; Flora: Clarence Wiles Post, $5; Greenfield: Robert A. Sma. Post $5-' .MINERAL City: District of Columbia. 1,202.15 1.190 $5; Montezuma: Morris Long Post, $5; Hagerstown: Aux- Mineral City Post, $6.50; McCoMB: Milliard Butler Post. $25; Florida 1.161.34 .776 iliary to William O. Frazier Post, $5; KendaLVille: Kendalville Georgetown: Carey Bavis Post. $25- Minerva Minerva Post and citizens. Georgia Post, $41.19; Gkeensberg: Joe Welsh Post, $10; Elizabeih- $40.25; Bellaire: Sons of Israel Con- 1,167.49 1.043 gregation, $5. TOWN: Auxiliary to Kent Voyls Post, Hawaii 265.30 1.173 $5. OKLAHOMA. IOWA. Gilman: Earl Murdock, $2; Whiting: O. G. Lichten- Tishomingo: James D. Davis Post $5- Mus- Idaho 473.34 .602 kogee: Bess Ross, $2; Enid: L. D. Hinman. berg and Paul Watson, $1. OREGON. $1 Illinois 5,845.75 .421 KANSAS. Girard: George C. Brown Post. $30: Topeka: Roseburg: Umpqua Post, $5; Portland: F. SalI!M: Indiana Capitol City Post, $5; C. G. Blakely. $5; Tonganoxie: Lester " ; Tinkam Gilbert. $S; Maupin: 4,394.00 .667 McMinnville: Post 73, D. Hamill Post, $7.50: Great Bend: Argonne Post, $10; Auxiliary Department of Oregon 65 Iowa 4,552.38 .339 $9; Deer PENNSYLVANIA. S74 Japan field: Ralph Shepherd Post, $6.60. Lancaster: John M. Grolf, $5 Phila- 100.00 )EL : li 4.580 County H A "" .°r* P°! «• -'04. KENTUCKY. Monticello: Wayne Post, $48. , 'Z >. j*i $58.25; Auxiliary to! Herbert»7 a* Warrmer Post. 2,939.75 .449 LOUISIANA. New Orleans: Auxiliary to P. S. Morris Post. $5; Confluence: Auxiliary lo Harry °r 1,570.65 .684 $10; Baton Rouge: John A. LeBauve, $1. i'.™" Wi «"=SBURG: James Steele Post and Auxiliary. $100; Pittsburgh: Louisiana 569.43 .263 MAINE. Sanford: Thomas W. Cole Post, $77.67; Bath: Auxiliary to Post SI, $15 80- Ml Wash ngton-Pittsburgh: Auxiliary Roland H. Smith Post, $15; Gray: John J. Weber, $1; Aucusta: to Kenneth Newman Post $5 Maine . . 1,301.62 .649 Tarentum: Auxiliary St. Mark's Church, $29.75; Dexter: citizens. $8; Madison: lo Post SS, $44.40; Bangor: Post 37S 1,494.90 1.692 Arendtsville: Emile TardiS Post and Auxiliary, $14. $5; Ira E. Lady Post, $25; Nazareth: Harold V. Hcnechl 7,418.25 .793 MARYLAND. Chesapeake City: Hevlow Slicker Hager Post, $15; Mifflin: Auxiliary lo Junila Post IV LlTITZ: Garden Spot Mexico 175.50 2.580 Post, $8. Post. US; Blairsville: Rev. H E Lloyd' r MASSACHUSETTS. Merrimac: Stanley F. Wood Post. : C St0Uffer nd r Ed Nesbit - ' °- M - McMdlen! Michigan 3,783.53 .631 Vs w % ^ .? „¥ J: $ ; W. J. Stinson, $1 $5; school children, $10: North Adams: Frank R. Stiles Post, ; W. G. Livingston, $1; Erma Bo.-sman Minnesota 4,753.05 .533 Freeman Ferguson. $100; Clinton: Mrs. Patrick Philbin. $5; Pittsfield: Pitts- /-•„ c $1; Newcastle: Auxiliary lo Poll Mississippi 1,033.48 .743 343. Smithport: Held Post. $100; Boston: American Legion. Department oj Massa- $^0; .4 uxiliary to Post 12S. $9.40; Erie Reformed Cor«iregation.AnS h Missouri 1,200.91 .176 chusetts. $1,091.73. e Chesed.$5; Rogers Israel Post. $25; Chapter A V. W W.. Montana 979.15 .681 MEXICO. Iampico: Tampico Post, $2. * ?• : $10; Dr. Otte Behrend. $10; Clara R. Cob- lentz. $5; Bishop John Nebraska 1.925.39 .387 MICHIGAN. Owosso: Patterson Dawson Post, $50; Ouack- C. Ward, $5; Dr. Elmer Hess, $5 H H. Clemens. $5; Mrs. Ella R. Griffith. enbush Post, G. A. R . $15; W. R. C, Quackenbush Post, $10: $5; Otto H. Hitchcok. Nevada 77.25 .334 Service Star Grand Ledge: Auxiliary lo Roy Cole Post, $28: Decatur: Post $5; Legion. M. O. D.. $5; J. F. Wadsworth, c $5; C New Hampshire ... 1,749.41 1.165 Brooks, mP V U Uca> 46i 309. $5; Pontiac: G. A. $2; Grand Haven: American ' - ,5; Jud Henry A. Clark, h MrM° ?;W.S?VB. Trask.$5;t f" .? « New Jersey 4.786.48 1.056 Legion Auxiliary, Department of Michigan, $15; Mount Clemens: Mrs. ElyGriswold. $5; Ely Griswold f*5; A K Rlblet ,5: American Legion Auxiliary, $10; Laingsburg: Clare Burt Post, Dr- 3 - Stackhouse. SS; New Mexico 885.33 1.272 ! .'c ;. Thomas E. Dur^ ban, $S; \Mary Metcalf. $5; Hartland: Harley J. Kirk. $1; Buchanan: Auxiliary to $5; Eleanor C. Price. $3; St. Mary's- New York 6,540.18 .449 ' iI<" S s Ralph Rumbaugh Post, $15; Detroit: Pulaski Post, $5. 3 '' * M0: Mkdia; Ct™<°« T. Smith North Carolina 745.27 .329 Post. $28.47; ^Reading: Z° MINNESOTA, Pine Island: Auxiliary to Charles Cowdin Mary M. Schwartz. $3; Summit Hill North American Post Dakota 1,056.28 .392 316, : Post. $2. $10; New Kensington: J. L. Cumrauws $2 Ohio 9,100.21 .761 MISSISSIPPI. Clarksdale: Clarhsdalt Post, $19; A. B. Sitroudsburg: Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Flagler. $10. RHODE ISLAND. Eden Oklahoma 3,155.16 .752 Admas.$l; C. F. Baitzer. $1; R. E. Wilbur, $1 ; Dr. E. L. Wilklns, Park: Edward H. Adams. $1- Lonsdale: John McKeown Post. Oregon 599.85 $1; Dr. R. R. Kirkpatrick, $1; F. H. Cannon, $1; Louisville: $10. .266 S U 1 H A 0LINA R. L. Mitchell, $5; Washington: Pat Harrison, $5; Laurel: - WtNNSBORO: Auxiliary to Winnsboro Pennsylvania 9.767.78 .668 Post.D P $11.25;. , ,F Spartanburg:= Marvin E. Staintin Post, $10; Meridian: H. N. Eason, $2; Jack- American Legion Department of South Carolina, Philippine Islands 30.20 1.000 son: Typographical Union, $2; Thad B. Lampton, $2.50; Aber- $118; Greenville: Auxiliary Department of Rhode Island 1,975.88 2.280 deen: Daniel W. Bird Post, $26.15; H. G. Howell, $1; B. L. South Carolina, $100. SOUTH DAKOTA. South Carolina .... 1.289.98 1.245 Jones. $1; Tupelo: Lee County Post. $25; Gulfport: G. C, Belle Foueche: George W. Miller Post. Smith, Joe Graham Post, $6; Corinth: Perry $10; J. F. Peck. $S; Mrs. L. C. Gass. $2. South Dakota 1,032.30 .300 Jr., $1; A. Johns Post, $63.10; B. T. Whitfield. $1; Indianola: Indianola Post, TENNESSEE. Chatianooga: Auxiliary to Davis King Sum- Tennessee 756.61 .405 $20; Greenville: Beppo Arnold Post, $50; Canton: R. E. mers Post, $25. TEXAS. Texas 1,733.49 .417 Spigey, Jr., $1; Starkville: Oktibbeha Post, $25; New Albany! Austin: O. C. Taylor. $1; McKean L. Eilers, $2 Utah 474.85 .932 Potter Henry Post, $10.60. M. L. Van Orden, $1; Ku Klux Klan, $85.78; Herman E. Becker. Vermont 2,028.14 1.513 MISSOURI. Meadville: Howard Collis, $5. $1: Jack Wakeman, $1; John L. Lewis, $3; Dr. W. E Watt' MONTANA. Great Falls: Great Palls Post and Auxiliary, $5; Robert B. Gragg. $1; M. H. Reed, $1; S. L. Staples. $5; Hu- 1,403.12 .826 bert B. $50; Malta: Malta Post, $20.35. Jones, $1; Auxiliary to Travis Post, $25; Norman Arlitt, Washington 1.406 $1; Leo Ehlinger. Hill, NEBRASKA. Battle Creek: Auxiliary to Post 75 , %S: Cres- $1; John A. $2; Mrs. A. O. Watson $5-

Dr. C. : West Virginia 3,215.17 1.945 ton: Auxiliary to 306, $2.50: Broadwater: Jess Snider Post, H. Otken. $2; Mrs. R. Barrow, $1; W. L. Bradiield $2 Wisconsin 4,699.92 .732 $25; Lexington: Lanning Post, $25; Pawnee City: Thomas Verner Stohl, $1; J. W. Hawkins, $2; Fred W. Adams. $2 A

Little Post, $10; Fairbury: Auxiliary to Post 24, $15.40; Valley: F.Hughes.$5; M. E. Liedburg, $1 ; Mrs. K. C. Miller, Wyoming 844.35 1.141 $1 ; Thomas Auxiliary to Post SS, $5: Vbridgre: Auxiliary lo Post 259, $6: Watkins,$2; Col. Will White. $1; Mrs. Huddle, $1: L. C. Youngei Louise Contributions to the fund should be sent Superior: Auxiliary to Post 103, $8. 60; citizens, $8.40; Imperial: $1; Haynle, $1: Louis Younger, Jr., $1; Mrs. Eugene Auxiliary to Post 92, $10; Gibbon: Auxiliary to Post 310, $5; Haynie. $1; Albert Younger, $1; P. Hornberger, $1; Ralph to the National Treasurer of the Legion, Broken Bow: Auxiliary to Post 126, $10; Syracuse: Auxiliary Younger, $1; Miss Vivian Franklin. $1: Alfred Younger. $1- lo Post 100, $6.20; Cedar Rapids: Auxiliary lo Post 44, $3.40: E. Paxton Davis, $1; M. O. Gresham. Indiana. All those over one $1; J. A. Belger, $1: A. Indianapolis, Chester: Auxiliary lo Post 263, $6; Dorchester: Auxiliary to T. McKean, $1; Joe Dacy, $1: John Jacobs, $1; Ralph Bidder, dollar are being noted in the Weekly. The Post 264, $4: Johnson: Auxiliary to Post 330, $2; Minden: Aux- $1: W. J. Moore. $2; Dr. R. V. Murray. $1; Daughters of 1812. iliary to Post 94, $10: Seward: Mrs. Myrtle Fahey. $1; Mr. $3; Katie Weed. $1: H. F. Nitschke, $1; J. L. Garrison. $1 ; R. following are acknowledged this week: A. Campbell. $1; Auxiliary lo Post 33, $19.40. Barrow. $1; B. E. Giesecke, $1; A. Watkins Harris. $1; S. H. $16.25. NEVADA. Elko: Reed Post, Boon, $1; Eugene Sanders, $1: H. A. Sandberg, $1: Col. T. J. ARIZONA. Yuma: H. H. Donhersley Post, $25. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Peterborough: William 27. Cheney Stockton. $1; J. R. Williams, $1; J. C. Capt, $1; Edwin D. Hop- CALIFORNIA. Modesto: Modesto Post, $267.20; Berkeley: Post, $25; Deery: Post 9, $2: Laconia: Frank W. Wilkins Post, kins, $5; Margurite McHenry. $2; R. G. Storey. $2; R. Lowe. v, Golden Gate Mabel E. Bryant. $3.50: San Francisco: Post, $4.50; $92.50: Somersworth: Somersworth Post, $45; Pittsfield: $1; B. L. Dillingham, $1: A. F. Martin, $1: B. H. Hamilton, ti; Gustine: Manuel M. Lopes Post, $10.50. Los Angeles: Mrs. Peterson Cram Post, $9.60; Concord: Concord Post. $1 1.05; Goss- W. D. Shelley. $2.50; Henry Bouchard. $!; Travis Post. $25: ;;;

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George C. Hawley. $2; W. D. Goodlet, $1; 0. G. Roberts, $1: Voiture SS, 40 &• S. $10; Mrs. Delia T. Oliver, $1; St. Croix Falls: reinauguration of "floating court" to help these Fulmore School, $4.47: Mayhew Mantor, W. M. Young, Jr., St. Croix Post. Auxiliary to St. Croix J. C. Reynolds, $1; S3; $5: applicants. $2; Walter Tips Company, $12.50; L. J. Bailey, $1: Albert Sidney Post, $5; Waterloo: Jackson Humphrey Post, $13; Barron: Johnson Chapter. U. D. C, $5; Douglas Thrasher, $1; Mr. Halden, Ben Brown Past. $18.75; Sun Prairie: Elmer Peterson Post. Finance and Dues : Adopted report recom- P. Galbreath, Auxiliary Fergu- $1: Ben Thrasher, $1: J. L. Beard. $2; Mrs. H. $10; Menasha: to Henry Lent Post. $10; Grace mending that expenses of delegate to National $1; Dr. Z. T. Scott. $1; R. T. Ford. $1: Dr. George Green. $5: son, $5; Sheboygan: Auxiliary to Prtscott Bayens Post, $10: Flick. Convention, estimated at $300, be met by volun- Eric Anderson, $1: Sam Austin. $1 : Mrs. Josephine Du Blane, $1 Kenosha: American War Mothers, $10; Judd: Fred $1; W. L. Baiter, $1; H. H. Luedeclte. $1: Mrs. Grace Corbett. $1: Monroe: H. O. Schulz. SI; Randolph: F. J. Bohling. $1 ; Mus- tary contributions from posts on a basis of fifty $76.24; Herman Mrs. Pearl Ottman. $1; C. G. Haines. $2; public schools. coda: Leslie J. Lee Post, $18: Rev. John E. Prucha. $1; cents a member. Rejected proposal to increase John Donnan. $1; Dr. M. P. Smart, $2; E. E. Barrow. $2.50; Fla- Peer. $1; Reedsburg: Auxiliary to Charles P. Furham Post, $10: tonia: Auxiliary to Jrromt Michal Post. $5.20; Clifton; Stlmar Superior: E. H. Sears, $2; Ft. Atkinson: Paul F. Florine Post, department dues from $1 to $1.50. Washing/on Courtly rosl. $10; MlL- $30; Belmont: William G. Kinnins Post. $10; Lodi: Merton. ErkksonPost.il: Brenham: Miscellaneous : Thanked Alaska Legislature Mathis: Robert Cillrtl Post. C. Maynard Post, $10; Auxiliary to Merton C. Maynard Post: FORn: Morrel HaPgood Post, $22.50: for adopting a memorial resolution favoring the $10: Victoria: Leon Zror Post, $100; Denison: Auxiliary to $10; Tomah: Elmer W. Grossman Post, *10: Arthur Lange. $2; Fred W. Wilson Post, $5; PORT Arthur: Auxiliary to Lambert Lew Wallace. SI: Lake Mills: Clarence Bean Post, $10; Mellen: adjustment of compensation for Alaska service Louis Seif Post, Frank O'Connor Post, $60: Post. $10. E. $15.50; Berlin: men by grants of land. Repeated indorsement Little Chute: Jacob Coppus Post, $8; Niagara: Henry Cretlon r Bt'RY: Middlebury Fast. $9.75: Middle- VERMONT. MmDLE Post. $25. of Boy Scouts and Legion's intention to assist bury High School, $22.35; Enosburg Falls: Enosburg Post, WYOMING. Buffalo: Auxiliary to Samuel Mares Post. in formation of scout troops. Recommended $15; Swanton: Swanton Post, $10; Poultney : Auxiliary to R. James Claire Carmody Post. $5; Wells River: Earl Brock Post, $5: Laramie: Voiture Locale 401, $25; Moorcroft: Jess legislation dealing with Alaska fisheries to pre-

Fitch. ; $.!; Chester: Sons of Veterans Auxiliary, $2: Bennington: Williams Post. $5; Thomas Nicholas, $2: E. L. $1 Raw- vent extinction of salmon and to preserve rights Woman's Relief Corps, $46; Randolph: Randolph High School. lins: Fred Duncan Post. $25; RlVERTONI Riverlon Post, $10; $13.31; Ludlow: Caroline B. Coburn. $2: Brandon: Brandon Fort Bridger: Fort Bridger Post, $10: New Castle: Grorge of cannerymen and fishermen. Post, $38; Sons of Veterans Auxiliary. $5; Danville: Henry Monroe Post, $16; Green River: Corporal of the Guard Post, L. Dan/orth Post, $2.50; Wilmington: Sons of Veterans Auxiliary. SIS: Lusk: Auxiliary to Post 4. HO; Lusk Post, $15; Deaver: $5: Rutland: Rutland County Council, American Legion, $2.25; Fred D.Grifin Post, $3. Glenrock: Jesse Martin Post, $10; Salt Arizona Sons of Veterans Auxiliary. $25; Montpelier: Sons of Veterans Creek: Orin Snyder I ost, $20; Torrington: Travis Snow Post, Auxiliary. $5; Waterburv: Wotcrburv Post. $48.32; Fair Haven: $50; Worland: Floyd Minch Post, $10; Saratoga: Angus En- Americanism: Urged the Governor to provide Campbell County Basin: Fair Haven Post. $13.60; Woodstock: Ora 22. Paul Post. $50; gland Post, S10; Gillette: Pell, $13.45; for carrying out laws to give elementary educa- Barre: Rons of Veterans Auxiliary, $5. Marion Tanner Post, $10; Kemmerer: Kcmmercr Post, $25; Cody Cody Club, $15. tion and courses in English language to foreign- rosl. Win- VIRGINIA. Petersburg: Petersburg $42.07; born residents of State, and requested that chester: Robert V. Conrad Post. $10. Legionnaires be appointed officials to have WASHINGTON. Pullman: Maynari Price rosl, $18.40; SgATTMi: American Legion Department of Washington, $1,150; charge of this Americanism work. Recommend- F. H. Morrison, $1; Ferndai.e: Kulshan Post, $15; Charleston: ed that all posts arrange for ceremonies in con- Auxiliary to Charleston Post, $15. nection with examination of foreign-born for WEST VIRGINIA. St. Albans: American Legion Auxiliary. citizenship. $1.20; Kingwood: Auxiliary to George D. Jackson Post. $10; Bishop. Scarbro: While Oak Post. $5; H. Scott. $10; W. C. Boy Scouts : Requested that each post in $1: V. P. Spradlen. $1; A. Griffith. $1: W. A. Mann. $1; Dr. Bur- Arizona help maintain a troop of Boy Scouts, S. W. Price, $5; A. J. Bishop. $1: Dr. H. J. Smith. $1 ; C. E. gc«. $1; J. V. Mayo. II; J. A. Wrenn, $5; Allen Bros., $1; J. and where necessary assist in establishment of H. Beake, $1; S. S. Thompson. $1: W. L. Hauler, $5; M. C. new scout troops. Hess, $!; Lopinsky's Store, $1; O. P. Anderson, $1; M. D. Mc- Flag : Called for general observance Mahon. $1; R. R. Roach. $1; John Samuels. $5; D. C. Staton. of June $10; G. C. Hughart. $1: J. M. McCauley, $5; Hyman Fisher 14th as Flag Day. Urged that Legislature pass E. M. Tutwiler. $5; W. S. Harding. $1; $5; E. Blackwell, $2: law requiring United States Flag to be flown O. W. Dixon, $1; E. J. McCool, $5: Princeton: Princeton Post, $12.50: Auxiliary to Princeton Post, $128.60: MARTINSVILLE: over every school building in State every day. Berkeley Post, $5: Kingston: Kingston Post, $10; Richwooii: Asked Governor to mount a more suitable flag- Bert Hickman Post, $20; Cameron: Delno Durbin Post, $15; staff on state capitol. Welch: mite boxes, $52.24: H. T. Graham. $1 : J. N. Harmon. $1; Hatfield, Cooper. $1; E. A. F. Lickie. $1; W. J. $1: G. J. W Insurance : Favored rewriting of War Risk Polon, $2; W. S. Renls, $1: Huntington: Womack, $5; Sam Insurance bill to remedy "discrepancies, injus- W. E. Haddon. SI; Ripley: Mrs. W. L. Carson. $2; Wheeling: E W Stifel,$50: Elkins: C. G. McFerran, $2; Millard VV. Martin. tices and contradictions" under present phrase- SI. H. H. Keim. $1: R. F. Hamlll, $1: George E. Brown. $1; ology and provisions. H. L. Adamson. $1; George W. Wilson. $2: George G. Martelme-. Land: Expressed appreciation of state ad- $1; R. M. Baker, $1: Garland W. Talbott. $1; Wayne Jackson. SI; Ross J. Leader, $1; S. M. Kendall, $1 ; R. E. O'Connor, $1 ministration's efforts to carry out terms of sol- Waters. S. Irons, $1: C. E. P. B. Craig. $1: John R. Jr., $2; R. diers' land settlement act and steps Caravasos, Clay urged that Harwood, $1: Howard W. Smith, $1 ; P. C. $1; B. Whctsell, $1: Fred Graham, $1; F. C. Wimer, $1; Joe Nallen. be taken to speed up work to make land avail- $1; Charles H. Kerner. $1: Charles D. Hardman. $1; Robert 11. able to service men. Heavner. $1; W. C. Armentrout, $1; B. Bu/zerd, $1: J. Fred Rehabilitation: Contended that present M.Smith, $1; J. L. Maguire. $1; T. M. Cheek, $1. methods Veterans in WISCONSIN. Ashland: Roy Kelly Post. $10: Nfenaii: of Bureau rating tuber- Mr. and Mrs. MowTy Smith. $10: Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Anderson, culous service men do not make allowance for Meyer Burnstein & Sons, $2; $5 20- Mrs. Albert Bearstow, $1: varying powers of resistance to disease and re- C. B. Circle, Ladies G. A. R.. S5; J. P. Hawley Post, $40: F. J. Sensenbrenner, $25; Mrs. Thomas Kelley. $1; Mrs. Mary Dra- quested revision of rating scale. Favored rating heim, $1; Mr. and Mrs. H. Auspach, $2: Miss Mary Auspach, $1 of total and permanent disability for tubercu- Jagerson. $1; Mrs. James Romer. $1; Miss Mary Mrs. George A. lous men who have not shown any improvement Romer, $1: Mrs. Mary Runde. $1: Dr. Greenwood, $2; Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Brown. $5; Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Klmberly. $5; after eighteen months' treatment. Endorsed and Frances Lampert, ; Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Pinkerton. $5; E. E. $1 commended work of Legion's National Rehabili- Kimberly, $5; Mrs. Max Meitz. $1: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Elwers. J. tation Committee. legislation $2; Fond DU Lac: H. Ammel, $1: Milwaukee: A. J. Lindeman, Urged that for Auxiliary to Myron Rieff Post, $5; $10- Eddie Lyon Post, $6.40: Hilton U. Brown, Jr. Post of In- benefit of disabled men of World War be made Arthur Kroepjel Post. $5; Eden J. Baldwin Post. $10; Auxiliary to applicable to disabled men of Spanish-American Luck: Victor Post, $8.63; Colby: Auxiliary to Raymond W» dianapolis has established an honor Raymond Firnstahl Post, $5; Green Bay: Sullivan war and other wars. stahl Post, $5; roll in of the soldier Post, $12; Oshkosh: Alley H. Cook Post. $26.27; Viroqua: Wil- memory War Records and Trophies : Recommended liam A. Jacobson Post, $5: Marion: William Bertram Post and its from whom the post takes name of state Camp Fire Girls of Marlon, $20.21: Janesville: Richard Ellis compilation war records to preserve Post, $10; Mrs. Ellis, $1; Reedsville: Auxiliary to Joseph Cost and the members of the post who history of each Arizona man's service in World Mrs. Carl Miller and daughter, $1 .50; Briggs PostAS; Baraboo: have died. A bronze plaque, in- War and indorsed movement for establishment villk: Carl E. Grubman Post, $5; Appleton: Oney Johnson Post. $2.50; Ripon: Auxiliary tc Frank H. Brown Post. $10; Hart- scribed in honor of Hilton U. of war trophies' museum. Herbert F. Loper, $2; Mayville: Bonau Whereat! Post. ford: is on a panel $20; Madison: Benjamin 11. Bull. $2; Randolph: H.A.Johns. Brown, Jr., mounted Post. WTnneconne: W. H. Grace, $10; Horicon: Horicon $10; of polished oak bearing the names South Dakota tt: Marinette: H. J. Brown, $20; \Teddy Budlorg Post, $25; Administration : C A. Goodman, $10; H. R. Goldman. $5: E. W. LeRoy. ?5; M. of deceased members. The death Limited future department Bird, $5; H. C. Hanson, $5: F. E. Noyes, J. Ciilnan, $5; M. D. conventions to two days. Adopted rule that Evans. The Strand Theatre, roll now bears three names 15: Ray M. Lauerman, $5; L. J. $5: delegates to national only Lauerman, 5; convention can be $5: J. R. McLain, $5; A. P, Scheldt, $5; Frank Lauerman. $5; A. Sterling for Charles J. Lauerman. $5; Frank J. reimbursed their expenses after submitting Correll, C. A. Lind, Dai>y Daw- Miller, $5; Mrs. Effie K. $2: $2; evidence that they attended all convention ses- son. $2: R. H. Churchill, $2; Mrs. C. E. Shields, $2; Miss Hattle sions and the caucuses of the dele- L McCarthy, $1; John S. Peterson. $1; Ellen Benson, $1; Fred department Popp, $1; Pound: Dr. G. E. Armstrong, $1; Neenah: W. J. STATE CONVENTIONS gation unless excused by the chairman of the Mrs. II. K. Stuart, $5; G S. Gaylord. 25; Mr. and Durham, $2; delegation. Took steps to counteract unofficial Mrs. George Bergstrom, $5; Mrs. Marie L. Brandsmark, $1; Rev. R A, Heron. $1; E. E. Jandrey, $10: Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Clark, acts by persons attending national convention Mr. and Mrs. S. Shat- $25; Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Babcock, $20; F. who are not elected delegates. tuck, $10: Mr. C. A. Babcock, $25; Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Mahler. Alaska Condemned liberation of "polit- $5 Miss Barbara Beaver, $1: Harry Peck. $1: J. C. Fritzen, Americanism: $!• Neenah W. R. C, $5: Mrs. J. R. Bloom, $2; Miss Emma Auxiliary: Thanked Auxiliary for support ical prisoners" and "war obstructors" sentenced Helen Babcock, $5: Miscellaneous, $680; Johnson, 11: Miss membership and pledged during the World War and branded recognitions Mrs. A. F Lyons, fig Carl Gebhart, $1; Mrs. James Webb, $1. in building up Legion Willis, Mrs. A. II. Wleckert, MissLucileMatchct.SI: Mrs. L. .1. $1; co-operation with department organization of and courtesies shown these prisoners as acts Nels Larson, $1: Miss Helen Arm- $1; Mrs, Harold Welckert, $1; time as Legion's de- calculated to encourage disloyalty. Bergstrom. II. Auxiliary meeting at same man, $1: D. W. Bergstrom, Sr.. $5; J. M. $5; N. i Bergstrom, $5; Charles Korolor, $1: John Knether, $1; News partment convention. Constitution and By Laws : Denied all de- Publishing Company. $5; Miss Margaret Barnett, $5, H.S Lyons. officers right to hold any political Administration : Recommended that roster partment W, G. Brown. $2; Fond du Lac: Major A. M. Trier Post $5; service of United States office, whether appointive or elective, and denied $100; BosCOBEL: John P. Blake Post, $10; AMERY; George H. of all persons entering Larson Post, $10; Genoa Junction: Harry C. Sttnhtllt Post, $5; and Allied pov/ers in World War from Territory right of a department official to resign from Baraboo: Sam Briscoe, $1: E. C. Henke, $1; C, M. Bubois, $2; F. of Alaska be permanently recorded at depart- his Legion position to seek a political position. B. Moss, $2; H, C. Langdon. $5; J. H, Whisson. $1; Kradwel's : Indorsed action Drug Store. $3; Mrs. D. A. Watson. $1; Dewey Schuster. $1; ment headquarters and that separate rosters be Foreign Relations of Na- Kingslord. E. C. Mler, $5; Mrs. M H. Mould. $5; A. C. $1; kept by posts listing service men in their com- tional Executive Committee in commending oc- C. H. Stewart, SI; H. J. Steeps. $1; F. R. Bentley, $5; Dr. L. territorial governor to cupation of Ruhr Valley by French. W. Sayles. $1; Di. C. M. Hall. $1. E. A. lsenberg, $1; J. E.O'Nell, munities. Also requested $1: G. W. Andrews. $1: F. E. Morey, $5; Jetferies Electric Co. have roster of all Alaska service men and women Land: Favored amendment to state law to Gollmar, $2; Ridley Brothers, $10; Hood S3; Mr. and Mrs. E. F, and made available for general cir- permit disabled service men to buy state lands I iugerald, published Brothers. $5; Bank of Baraboo, $S; E. C, $1 ; Waltei Schroeder. $1; John Wesley. $1; John Hernngton, $1; L. S. culation. from Land Settlement Board on second mort- Wakefield, $1: Farlow Burt, $5; Archibold Kellogg, $5; Grant providing exemption from interest AMERICANISM : Urged territorial legislature to gages and Burton. $2; Fred Zantuw, $2; Rev. E. C. Coontz, $1; W. A. literacy test of all voters. payments for five years. A. Hattle, $2; H.L. Bretthauer. $1; C. L. Roser, $1; Mr. and Mrs. enact law requiring E. H. Foster. $2: George A. Weber. $1; H. M. Acott, $1; Giant Requested judicial action to expedite granting Miscellaneous : Censured State Legislature $5; Carroll Hacket, $1; Bert Bellows. $1; OakfielI): Briggs. of citizenship papers to applicants who have for not making adequate provision for preserva- James Tew, $3; Waupun: Women's Relief Corps, $5; Auxiliary historic battle flaps. Declared in favor 10 Dan E. Getchel Post, $14; SOUTH MlLWAUJCM: F.vrrhart Van declared intention to become citizens but be- tion of Beaver Dam; Vullmer, Etmtren Post, $10; Raymond $1; cause of distance and geographical difficulties of co-operation between Legion and Disabled Brandon: Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Burleton, $1; Chippewa in court. Asked American Veterans of World War. Fall&: Joseph Hebert, $1; Alfred A. Hebert, $1; Milwaukkb: are prevented from appearing — —

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than walked out the door and made his way up the path. Upon inquiry I found that the soldier was Corporal Henry Blankfield (which Then wasn't his real name). He was not a corporal now. The lieutenant colonel of the regiment who stood nearby had a few minutes before torn the chevrons from his coat. Blankfield and had deserted his post of duty. To the Army this is an offense punishable by death. The colonel had been lenient. The next morning, with a squad of men, I was making my way up Talma Ridge. Much Now work lay beyond for us. We observed approaching us four stretcher bearers and on their shoulders a wounded man. As we came up By the Company Clerk beside these men bearing the stretcher I stopped and asked them if they would halt for a moment. A word of cheer was usually welcome. The cap about it, men ? Have we found just the toughest break for a man HOW PROBABLY had slid down over the face of the man on the the right title to fit this department in service was to be one of that group stretcher. I pulled it back. To my utter a corner of the magazine devoted to talk- of casuals or replacements—men without amazement I beheld the face of Blankfield. But ing over the old days, with an occasional an outfit. Transfers from one unit to an- what a change from the night before ! His look at the new days? When the Company other or from hospital to hospital often face bore a calm, peaceful expression. He smiled faintly. Clerk took on this detail a couple of months spelled delayed or undelivered mail—the "Buddy, I'm glad to see you, but not just in ago he pondered long and deeply before severing of all connections with the folks this condition," I said. "Do you know me?" chose he "Then and Now." At the same back home. That was the fate of our de- he asked. "Your name is Blankfield, and I time he invited suggestions for a better ceased comrade John C. Kelley. Can any- think you have done something right noble," title. Several have been submitted—"The one report to the Company Clerk the pres- I said. His face took on a slightly stern but not Listening Post," "In and Out," "For Auld ent whereabouts of Sergeant Barry or unpleasant expression. The faces of the tired men who stood about lighted with interest. Lang Syne" and "The 0. P." Is any of Chaplain Walsh, who are mentioned in the The wounded man arose, resting on one elbow. these better? Or is there a better one than following letter from Mrs. Mary Frances "Yes, I am Blankfield. Yesterday, I was a any of these or than and — "Then Now"? Kelley of Roxbury, Massachusetts: quitter and yellow, the worst name a soldier Send your suggestion to the Company Clerk, can be called in this son, John C. Kelley, left Boston for Camp man's army. But, by the The American Legion Weekly, 627 West 43d MYDevens with the 301st Infantry. From Eternal, I went back and I fought with the rest Street, New York City. Camp Devens he went to Camp Merritt, New and reached the objective first. I got this We didn't think that the boys who were Jersey, for the journey overseas. He was trans- for my pay." He pointed to a bad shrapnel wound in his side. "It's whether I on the U.S.S. President Lincoln when she ferred many times and our mail never reached good pay live through it or not. I've earned an army was torpedoed had forgotten their ship- him, although the Government tried its best to blanket locate him, as our returned letters indicate. to sleep in and my chevrons. I con- mates who went down with the ship, but the devil that Finally word was received that he died October cuered was inside me. I'm not report had never been made to the orderly a quitter." He fairly shouted this last state- 10, 1918, of wounds received in action in the room of any memorial observances until Argonne. ment. He was weak and white. The bearers had shifted the burden to their we printed the letter from Comrade T. E. The first notice we received of his death was rested shoulders and were about to go. Blank- Metcalf in the Memorial Day issue. Read on a returned letter marked : "Died of wounds field motioned to me. He wanted to give me a what Harry R. Williams, ex-No. 3 Gun C C No. 333—Sgt. Barry." This letter was parting word. His face had a languid smile Crew of the Lincoln and now commander returned to us on February 10, 1919. We have Sergeant Barry, upon it. "Chaplain, I think I'm not coming of the Legion in Yonkers, never been able to locate this of Cook Post through this. Will do a favor?" I which we would like to do. you me New York, reports: assured him I would. "Write, then, Finally we located a boy who fought with my to my mother and tell her of the son a quitter son and who had returned to Camp Merritt. who was Arthur Metcalf of Samsula, but came back. And tell her, too, that I re- RECENTLY, He said that Private John C. Kelley had volun- of membered a line of a she used sing Florida, asked through the columns teered as a battalion runner and was never hymn to if steps to when I was kid in 'To the Weekly any were being taken seen or heard from after he went out on his last a back home Iowa, him honor the who went down that overcometh * So long, Chaplain." the memory of men mission. The records state that he was with President Lincoln she All of us were stirred to the depths stood with the U. S. S. when Company E, 16th Infantry, First Division. The who was torpedoed and sunk 450 miles off the coast there. "Good-by, the best of luck and God death certificate is signed by a Chaplain Walsh, 1918. bless you, corporal. deserve better chevrons of France on May 31, but the Government says there was no Chaplain You For the information of Metcalf and scores than the old ones." smiled The Walsh with the First Division. He wanly. of other comrades, I want to report that the stretcher bearers moved on. The Red Cross has sent pictures of his grave U. S. S. President Lincoln Club was organized With my squad I resumed the course up the in France. We have written to Hoboken, New in 1920 and has held memorial services and a Ridge. In a few minutes I looked back to Jersey, for any of his effects that might have gee reunion annually ever since. handsome bronze the bearers just as they were turning A been returned, but we have never had a reply. in by tablet bearing the names of the twenty-six men the garden wall of the old farmhouse. My wish We will be very grateful for any details con- who went down with the ship and a picture of was that the lieutenant colonel be there cerning the wounding and death of my son. might the sinking ship has also been placed on the just then to see a quitter that came back. wall of the United States Barge Office Build- The name of John C. Kelley, private, ing in Battery Park, New York City. appears in the Honor Roll in the official A fellow still has 'em when Last Memorial Day morning the club mem- History of the First Division during the THRILLS? he unexpectedly runs into an overseas bers held a short service at the tablet and World War. The only information given placed a wreath on it. The following evening buddy—especially one who he thought had is that he was a member of Company E, a reunion dinner was held in New York City been bumped off on the other side. This 16th Infantry, and that he died of wounds. with an attendance of sixty, including "Tex" happens frequently at outfit reunions or Grube, who came all the way from Texas for are some remembrances that Legion conventions'. T. N. Troxell, ex- the second consecutive year, and John MacDon- THERE most of us like to forget —of those captain, 109th Field Artillery, now of Con- ald and Bill Trussell, who came from Atlantic, men who couldn't stand the gaff in a tight cord, Hampshire, re-established liaison Massachusetts. The balance were from New New Chicago, who served York and vicinity. place. But E. S. B., of with a former fellow-in-arms through this Letters were received from Captain Percy W. during the war as chaplain of an infantry department. This is what Troxell reports: Foote, who will shortly be assigned to New York regiment, came up against one of these in- Lind, is gave me somewhat of a thrill to read Lt. in charge of recruiting : Lieutenant who cidents that had a different ending, so IT Cali- Col. William Aird's letter in the Weekly of at the Naval Air Station in San Diego, we're passing it to you: June 22d. On October 31. 1918, the 53d fornia ; and the famous Master-at-Arms Sam Artillery Brigade was supporting Rogers, also at San Diego. Old days at sea OUR first aid station was the farmhouse at the 91st Divi- were recalled and old tales related by those Talma. The ridge just beyond, which sion near Waereghem, having been detached present. extended across to citadel hill near Grand-Pre, from our own division, the 28th, after we by three were relieved in the Argonne. As commander Next year it is hoped to have a much larger had been wrested from the enemy Battery B, 109th Field turnout at the fifth annual reunion, and all days of hard fighting. of Artillery, I was day and ordered to support Major Aird and his machine- former U. S. S. President Lincoln crew men It was nearing evening of the fourth I battalion. I reported are requested to send in their names and I was returning to the first aid station. As gun at his P. C. and the addresses to Harven D. Carter, in care of passed through the door into the rather darkened later in day went forward with him and stern voice Lieutenant Merel. Boche machine-gunner Pierce Oil Corporation, 25 Broad Street. New room of the old farmhouse I heard a A corner, "You have spotted us and got me through the lung, after York City, in order that they may be notified say to a soldier form in the find which I lost track of Major Aird's adventures. of further activities of the club. been inspected by two doctors and they orders are I finally got home via English and American A letter was sent to Shipmate Metcalf in nothing the matter with you. My report hospitals. The letter in the Weekly is the first Florida and he responded, saying that his sug- that you go back to the company and word I have had that Major Aird got through gestion in the Weekly had brought him letters to your captain for duty." was from many shipmates who had the same idea This sounded harsh. The soldier form arose safely and that he promoted to a lieutenant rather colonelcy. he had. from the dark corner. He shambled P r.,E 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

The Selfish Rooster In a country district not a hundred miles BURSTS AND DUDS from Richmond, Virginia, there is a man who several years ago gave his youngest Payment is made for material for this department. Unavailable manuscript returned only when son a sled for Christmas. accompanied by stamped envelope. Address 627 West 43d St., New York City Much to the youngster's disappointment no snow fell that winter and the sled was reluctantly put away. The next year proved equally discouraging, but the third Tolerance At the Museum saw colder weather and one January day a few flakes began falling. Hearing a com- We stood out there in the twilight glow Hard-of-Hearing Old Gentleman (to at- motion in the yard, the father went out While the western skies turned pink. tendant) : "And what does that skeleton The crimson sun was sinking low. represent ?" to investigate and found the youth chasing a rooster. And we stood there and let it sink. Attendant: "A dinosaur." "What's all this for?" H.-of-H O. G. (irascibly): "You dunno, he demanded sternly. It Should sir. Well, what are you doing here, then?" As Be "It's snowing," explained the boy, "and Hardfast, the efficiency expert, had just can't you see that darned rooster is eating returned from lunch after having com- Such a Nerve it up as fast as it comes down?" pleted the process of turning the office into "Well, Mr. Silverstein," began the new a model of system. office boy genially, "it looks as if we'd have Methodical "Anybody call while I was out?" he some rain today." snapped to the office boy. "Say!" ejaculated the head of the firm Agatha: "Grandma has had the same "Yessir!" answered the lad, just as snap- angrily. "Where do you get that 'we' physician for fifty years. She never devi- pily. "Your wife." stuff?" Then, turning to the head book- aies." "What did she say?" keeper, he added: "Look, Morris, did you Harriet: "No, she keeps the straight and "She wanted to leave a message, sir, but ever? Two days he's been on the job and allopath." she I transmitted your orders and hung he wants to become a partner already I" up, but said she'd see you about it later." Final Bid '"Transmitted what orders?" Disinterested "That 'To whom it may concern: No per- Knick: "That auctioneer remembered his dying sonal messages will be received or trans- Minister: "So you want to get married?" calling to his day." mitted over the office phone on and after Mild Mr. Shrimp: "Not particularly, but Knack: "Yes. His last words were, 'Going! Going! Gone!'" March 1, 1923."* this lady does."

Inexperienced Second String One Way to Get Warm take this woman The Minister: "Do you Canvasser: "Is the head of the house "Didjer read about the guy who pleaded for better or for worse—" in?" the unwritten law for killing his janitor?" Johnsing: "Pahson, dis his Nervous Misto Mr. Meek: "Yes, my wife is out." "Fair enough. He probably broke *.p am mah fust wife. Ah don' prezackly know home by playing freeze-out." how to take her." Making It Easier Comfort Gratified In their cross-country honeymoon trip in the flivver, Jack and Betty were relieved "Yes, it's flu, all right," said the doctor, John Hornsbee's boy got hit by an "So to find that Hickville boasted a hotel. It leaning over the patient's bed. "But cheer out along the country road yes- automobile wasn't such a much of a hotel, though, and up, old man," he added consolingly. "There terday?" , . . , in the room assigned to them they found aren't nearly so many cases as there were Josh says as how the boy always "Yup. the screens rusty and full of holes. this time last year." hankerin' for a taste of city life." has had a During the middle of the night Betty awoke to hear her husband moving rest- Unintentional Guess Where lessly about the place. Specialist: "After going over the symp- There once was a miser named Bent, "What in the world are you doing?" she toms carefully, I find that you have acute never would cough up a cent.^ demanded. Who sore throat." When they wrote: "Dues are due, "Taking out these screens so the bugs in making so Fair Patient: "Flatterer!" He contracted the flu, can fly without blame much fuss trying to find the holes," replied Jack. And, to get out of paying, he went. Arcticklish Experiences Hot Competition Two explorers of the far North were relating their ex- "Nix on dis Boston Blackie: periences to each other and up on de window, guy! Get naturally drifted around to the dis floor.' roof! I'm ransackin' subject of temperature. "Nuttin' doinM Chicago Red: "Would you believe it?" nar- story an' I'm goin' Dis is my rated the first. "In 1911 it was ter stick to it." so cold up around Baffin's Bay that if a man wanted to get Achers of Gold downstairs in a hurry, all he would have to do would be to extremely sorry, sir," "I am throw a bucket of water out the explained the dentist as he ex- window and slide down the the banker's teeth, "but amined icicle." impossible to fill these I find it "Call that cold?" ridiculed the gold today." with other. "Why, up in Greenland that'll be all right, doc- "Oh, on the hottest days of the sum- answered the financial tor," mer, we had to build a fire absent-mindedly. "A cer- wizard under the cow to keep her from check will answer just as tified giving ice cream." well." Too Whit, Too Whoo The Modern Daniel The owl, he is a noble bird, It was a rather small circus And he has lots of grit; and carried but one lion, one This is the story that I heard, tiger, one elephant and so on To wit: down the list. After the trainer had put the He went to see his lady friend; didn't bill or coo, lion through his paces, an He with elderly lady appeared at the But stayed her for hours cage door and remarked: on end woo. "Aren't you afraid that this To ferocious beast will attempt to make a meal of you some day?" Nothin' On Mother "To tell you the truth, Tommy: "I can lick you." (No ma'am," confided the man in answer.) "My father can lick the dazzling uniform, "if busi- your father." (The supreme ness doesn't get any better, I'm insult.) afraid I'll have to make a meal The Perfect Hostess: "Why, Lieutenant Bobby: "Aw, that's nothin'. of this ferocious beast." Flightly, so good of you to drop in for dinner.*" So can Maw."

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with a claim against his Government. That How the Legion Is Fulfilling Its Creed of center—the P. C. of the Legion's Nationa 1 Service Division — is in Indianapolis, a hard- Service to the Disabled Veteran working unit of the Legion's National Headquarters. It is presided over by Washington, July 16lh. quest he appealed to the Pennsylvania Claude J. Harris, who dropped the in- department of the Legion. The depart- INTRODUCING Mr. Louis De Lane, late surance business in South Dakota like a ment couldn't get action and last corporal, B Company, 148th Infantry, summer hot potato when the war came along and M. came to Washington with a letter from 37th Division. Before the war Mr. De Lane left it to get along as best it might. In the Pennsylvania department to Mr. De was an actor. He played stock. the Army Harris developed into a sergeant Lane. Mr. De Lane is1 still on furlough from major, than which there were few more De Lane assembled a history of the case the theatrical business. His office is in the impressive ratings. What with -his in- in much greater detail than it has been Bond building, in this city. He has five surance training and his army paper work related here. He got M. to send for several stenographers. I have never seen any of experience Harris was admirably fitted to pictures he had made, and for his1 paints them idle. Mr. De Lane dictates from fifty and brushes. De Lane made an appoint- to sixty letters a day. These letters are ment with the central board of appeals of merely a by-product of his regular job. the rehabilitation section of the Veterans There is an oil painting on the wall of Bureau. He took M., his paints, his brushes Mr. De Lane's office—a portrait of the Na- and his pictures along. De Lane argued tional Commander of The American Legion. M.'s case before the board, exhibited the "When did Mr. Owsley sit for that?" the man's talent, your correspondent inquired. pictures as proof of and offered as further evidence to have the "He didn't sit for it," said De Lane. artist paint the "That was painted from a photograph." sketch and portrait of any member of the board. Notwithstanding "The artist being an old friend of the these representations the board ruled ad- commander, I suppose?" versely. Training could not be granted. "No, he never saw him." Lane told M. to return and "Why, then, did he paint the picture?" De home await developments. De Lane speci- "Gratitude," said De Lane. "That's one sent mens of M.'s work to Henry K. Bush- of the compensations of this job." Brown, a well-known Washington sculptor The story is this: and artist, and asked him to express an When the war came along L. A. M. was opinion of their merit. studying portrait painting in Philadelphia. Mr. Bush-Brown said they showed talent. De Lane took this He exchanged his brushes for a rifle and went away with the Army. But his talent before the rehabilitation board. No result. De Lane appealed the matter in person to found him out, and presently he was busy the assistant director of the Veterans with brushes again —Camouflage Section, Bureau in charge of vocational training. A. E. F. They put him to work adjusting went over the whole and displayed the military shortcomings of nature in the He case all of his exhibits. The board of appeals vicinity of the trenches. Gas masks are no was overruled and L. A. M. was sent to art great aids to landscape work. It is difficult school to one of the foremost academies to wear one while applying the cloak of — in the United States. invisibility to a new machine-gun position. M. used to get so wrapped up in his art "I Will Never Forget the Legion" Louis De Lane, who has obtained a mil- that he would forget about his mask until lion and a half dollars for the disabled the sickly-sweet odor of phosgene reminded SHORTLY after Mr. Owsley was elected in half a year him. After a few trips au front he went to National Commander, De Lane received a hospital. the portrait which adorns his wall. With it He never felt just right after that, but was a brief note of thanks from L. A. M., become chief of the National Service Divi- they sent him to the camouflage headquar- who said he was doing fine at the academy sion. Heaven knows how many type- ters, which was at Dijon,—a safe enough and had never felt better in his life. "I writers (neuter gender) have been worn to distance from hostilities. He stuck the will never forget what The American Le- scrap iron in his office in the dogged quest war out, feeling pretty rotten, but telling gion has done for me," he wrote. for justice for the disabled. himself that the air of the States and his Such is an example of the direct service The First Step : The Post old associations in the Philadelphia art the Legion makes it its business to render colony were the tonics he needed. In the the disabled—a species of service it has WHEN a veteran or the dependents of spring of 1919 he came home and was dis- been rendering for more than five years. I a deceased ex-service man feel they charged. He tried to resume life where he distinguish between direct and indirect have a claim against the Government the had left off two years before, but it was service in this way. The Legion has writ- logical place to initiate it is with a post no go. He kept trying, though, until the ten and forced through Congress legisla- service officer of the Legion. In practice this fall of 1919, when he decided to go South tion creating and controlling the Veterans usually happens, though sometimes claims for the winter and take a long rest. Then Bureau, the agency through which gov- are presented directly to state and regional

•—darkness. ernment relief to veterans is dispensed. officers. It is not often, comparatively That is indirect service. But the Legion speaking, that a post service officer can Hospital In an Arizona does not stop there. It has erected an or- see a claim through to final settlement. The WHEN the mental mists cleared M. was ganization which covers the country and next step is the department service officer. in a government hospital in Prescott, by which veterans are assured of the bene- He gets his facts through the post officers Arizona. It was the fall of 1921. The story fits the laws have made available. That and prosecutes the claim with the local dis- of the intervening two years has never been is direct service. trict office of the Veterans Bureau. There entirely pieced together. They are a blank The case of L. A. M. is a fair and typical are fourteen such offices. If he does not in the life of L. A. M. At the hospital he example of this direct service. It is not succeed the case goes to the regional serv- was classed as a neuro-psychiatric patient, an involved case, especially. Neither is it ice officer, or, as he is officially known, the suffering also from bronchitis due to gas an entirely simple rule-of-thumb case. Ob- district liaison officer of the Legion. There poisoning. At Prescott M.'s mind cleared serve the little quirks and divarications are fourteen of these, one in each district of rapidly and his bronchial ailment improved. from the channels of official procedure the Veterans Bureau. Their salaries are He was transferred to a hospital in Cali- which fie Lane resorted to to impress the paid by the Red Cross, which represents fornia to complete his convalescence. He authorities favorably. If it had been a one of the contributions of that organiza- applied for vocational training, which was rule-of-thumb case it is unlikely that it tion to the Legion's rehabilitation program. granted, but his actual induction into train- would have reached De Lane, because ac- Liaison officers are so called because they ing was deferred because Veteran Bureau cording to the system now in vogue, De are the links which unite and co-ordinate officials feared a recurrence of the mental Lane receives only the unusual cases, the the activities of the Legion and of the condition. cases, which, for one reason or another, Veterans Bureau throughout the country. He was discharged from the hospital as post, department and regional service of- These functionaries have many duties. cured and returned to his home in Pennsyl- ficers of the Legion have been unable to Arguing claims is merely one of them. vania. He renewed his efforts to obtain adjust satisfactorily with the district offi- When the decisions go against the admission to an art school under the provi- cials of the bureau. veteran in the district the claims come to sions of the vocational training act. Fail- De Lane's office is not the official center the National Rehabilitation Committee of ing to obtain favorable action on his re- of Legion activity on behalf of the man the Legion in Washington, where they re- PAGE 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

ceive the attention of the practiced Mr. De ence frequently are necessary. Many in- organization relies for the co-operation Lane. They come in a pretty regular flow stances have been found where men today which often brings victory to the most diffi- —about fifty a day. Only a small part of are suffering severely from the effects of cult undertakings. Read this: these are cases. Often claim new a travels gas which at the time were deemed so "I have held three positions in the back between Washington and its place of slight not only by the medical authorities Legion—post service officer, post com- origin a dozen times. this tedious proc- By but by the men themselves that no official mander and department insurance officer, ess evidence is collected and a case kept record was made—at least none that can none of which pay a cent, as you know. going until every avenue has been ex- be found. For over three years I have given my time plored to ascertain if the claimant has a free. I am broke, discouraged and about just claim on the Government. A Long Distance Claim worn out. I have no stenographer, clerk values of the claims settled The money or assistant and, believe me, the work is at Washington office of the Legion from is the case of a former first lieu- the THERE piling up. I cannot quit, for there is tenant January 1st to June 30th of this year is of Engineers now living with something about this work that makes me This has paid, his wife in Honduras. He wrote that he $1,514,538. much been or was carry on, and when I win a victory like

- slightly gassed and had Vill be, to veterans and their heirs as a thought little of this one my morale goes over the top." it at the time. After the vesult of the Legion's policy of painstaking war he got worse. This from the department service (insur- His lungs became affected persistence in sponsoring the rights of and he lost all ance) officer of a large Middle Western ex-servicemen. These claims rep- his upper teeth. He was advised to disabled to go State, himself a disabled man. The vic- resent principally the payment of disability the tropics, which he did, and his health tory he speaks of was a notable one. It has improved. and death compensation, War Risk Insur- He is drawing $7.50 a brought joy to a mother who had earned month compensation and ance and vocational training pay. An- thinks he should her living over a wash-tub since her son other common form of claim is that of the have more. "To be compelled to live here came home from the army broken-down hospitalization or medical treat- is in itself worth $7.50 a month," he writes. veteran to physically. After a lingering illness he ment, but nearly all of these are settled De Lane could find no record in the Ad- died. He had been discharged apparently jutant General's files that without appeal to Washington. this officer had in sound condition, but a few months after- vocational training or disa- been treated for gas. He asked the To obtain man ward, without warning, he simply went to in Honduras for the of the bility compensation it must be established name medical pieces. That his death was due to nerv- is officer who treated him in the field that the claimant's disability of service and for ous reaction from the strain of war there origin. obtain death compensation for the names of others who might be able to To was not the slighest doubt, but it took a corroborate dependents it must be proved that the man the lieutenant's story. These weary year to assemble proof that would names have come in, some of died of an ailment contracted in or ag- them without meet the technical requirements of the pravated by the service. To obtain the initials. Imagine the difficulty five years Government. of War Risk Insurance to de- after the war of locating from among all payment "How long will this condition last?" I pendents after a policy has lapsed through of the Dr. Browns in the United States the asked De Lane. "How long will it be nec- of prior to the very Brown who as a lieutenant, Medical non-payment premiums essary to exert such strenuous effort to Corps, such a date, administered death of the insured is more complicated. such and obtain for veterans and their dependents first aid It must be established that the insured died to a first lieutenant of the First the relief the Government clearly intends of an ailment of service origin, and that be- Engineers who had been slightly gassed. that they should have?" fore he died he was entitled to disability De Lane says it is easy. He will get the "I have no idea," he replied. "The first right compensation sufficient to cover the un- Brown surely, and if the facts in two years after the war, when the veteran paid premiums. the case are as the man in Honduras re- rehabilitation problem was new and com- The Government requires absolute proof presents them to be he will be able to get paratively simple, scarcely anything was all foregoing. establish this him $40 or $50 a month compensation. of of the To done right. The condition today is 1-rgely varieties are Death claims are always difficult, be- proof only certain of evidence the result of the chaos of that period'. If cause the witness admissible, and this evidence must be in most important in the there had been competent management of case called. specified form. These safeguards, of course, cannot be Recently $25 a things in those days there would be no ne- are designed to protect the Treasury month death compensation was obtained cessity for the sort of thing the Legion for the against unworthy claims, but very fre- widow of a soldier who died in is doing now—certainly no necessity for quently they make it difficult for the vet- May of 1919 of motor paresis. For more it on such a grand scale." eran with a worthy claim to get relief. It than two years De Lane and the officials "Are conditions getting better?" job to marshal evidence for a of the Connecticut department of the Le- is De Lane's "They are, but there is still room for gion to establish claimant and to present that evidence in worked that this death improvement. I am getting fine co-opera- was injury received in proper form to the Veterans Bureau much due to an the serv- tion from the Veterans Bureau. On the court ice. succeeded, the the same as a lawyer presents to a They and Legion has whole I would say that, within the limits the evidence in favor of a client. This calls this letter from widow: of my observation, the situation looks bet- for patience and resourcefulness plus an "I cannot tell you how much I appreciate ter for the disabled man now than ever encyclopedic knowledge of the minutije of all the help you have given me, and I before." rules, regulations and hardly believe you can understand it Veterans Bureau what M. J. procedure, which are endless and ever- is going to mean to me, but please try to realize how thankful I am." changing. Idaho Legislature Provides for The Washington office has two or three De Lane has a hundred such letters. At hundred cases working all the time, and the outset of his investigation De Lane World War Memorials every day fifty or sixty of these cases pass became convinced that this was a just BY amending a law passed in 1919, the through the hands of Mr. De Lane—add- claim, and discouragement after discour- Idaho Legislature this spring provided ing a link here, smoothing out a wrinkle agement simply added new energy to his for the establishment of a memorial com- there, gaining a point some place else—in effort. What convinced him that he was mission in each county to be composed of the complex process of building bridges of right was this. As a preliminary move he the commander or commanders of Ameri- evidence to span the gaps of doubt that obtained an affidavit from the man's pre- can Legion posts and other "established separate the claimant from the relief to war employers—a large manufacturing and recognized" World War veterans' or- which he is entitled. concern—which set forth that in eight ganizations and the county commissioners. The principal difficulty usually is in years the man had not missed a day's work, Each county commission is empowered to establishing conclusively that ailments are was dependable, thorough, industrious and decide on a memorial to honor the deceased of service origin. This is because the an all-round good man. He came back in service men of the World War. The State medical records of the Army are some- March of 1919 and was scarcely able to do will provide $1,000 for the erection of a times incomplete; usually they are incom- two days' work in succession. On May 5th memorial when a county appropriates an plete in the cases which reach Mr. De Lane. he quit, and on May 19th he died in his equal sum and acquires a site. This is no reflection on the Medical Corps, sleep. A thorough combing of the man's The Legislature also passed a law direct- which had other things to do besides keep service record disclosed that in January of ing county recorders to record all discharge records. Sometimes a trifling hurt or ail- 1919 he had fallen in a ditch in camp and certificates of World War service men on ment, scarcely worthy of attention at the injured his back. It took two years of ef- application, and to make certified copies time, might later develop into a serious and fort to prove by conclusive medical testi- of the record when requested. A fee of compensable injury or even result in death. mony that the injury to the man's back, twenty-five cents is authorized for making De Lane often finds it necessary to go which was believed to be inconsequential the record or furnishing a certified copy. back to the morning reports of a man's at the time, actually caused his death five Laws in the interests of service men company or detachment to trace an injury. months later. passed at previous sessions of the Idaho He also assembles evidence in the form of Too much credit cannot be given to the Legislature are as follows: A law provid- testimony of a veteran's former buddies post and department workers, who serve ing for the payment of funeral expenses, and squad-mates. Months of correspond- without pay, and upon whom the national not exceeding $76, by the county treasurer JULY 27, 1923 PAGE 19 whenever a service man dies without leaving an estate or for the burial of the wives Do These Women Hold Rank as the or widows of service men where other means of payment do not exist; a law Greatest Service-Star Mothers? establishing a Veterans' Welfare Commis- SOMETIME ago The American Legion and again during the St. Mihiel offensive. sion to administer emergency financial re- Auxiliary asked, "What woman is most Five of the seven sons saw action overseas disabled destitute service lief to and men eligible to membership in the Auxiliary?" and four were casualties. Walter, formerly and their dependents; a law admitting The first candidate nominated was Mrs. a corporal in the 6th Cavalry, is still a World service men to the Idaho Sol- War A. C. Adams of Nashville, Tennessee, whose patient in a government hospital. Simon diers' Home; a law providing penalties for photograph, with those of six sons who was wounded while in action with the First the wearing of the Legion emblem by those were in service during the World War, Gas Regiment and Joseph was injured in not entitled to do so. appeared in the Mothers' Day issue of the an airplane crash at Tours while serving Weekly. as an aerial gunner in the 147th Aero 113,000 Additional Acres Open This record, however, is shattered by the Squadron. receipt of subsequent information. Mrs. Two additional nominations are Mrs. to Veteran Homesteaders M. J. Daly, a gold-star mother of Kane, Julia Cassidy of Philadelphia and former Pennsylvania, had seven sons in America's Governor and Mrs. Richard I. Manning of land is available for World War MORE war forces, and a son-in-law completed a South Carolina. Both of these families veterans who feel the homestead urge. full squad from the family. One of the exhibited six-starred service flags '17-'18, The latest communique from the Depart- in sons, Michael John, died of pneumonia representing six sons from each who wore ment of the Interior opens up about 113,- while serving with Company D, 2d Bat- the uniform. 000 additional acres. California, Colorado, talion, Gas Defense Service, at Edgewood Texas, too, has a candidate. Nevada, Utah and New Mexico are the With Arsenal. Mrs. Daly was an honored guest Mother Kowalski as an honorary corporal, states which beckon. Here are fhe details: at the convention of the Department of the Kowalski squad of fighters fell in re- California: 36.000 acres in San Bernardino Pennsylvania of the Legion at Williams- cently for a reunion in their Brownsville county near Kelso and in San Diego county port last year. (Texas) home. Benjamin Kowalski, the near Campo or Boulevard described as moun- Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Jacobson of New father, was a member of the Q. M. Corps tainous, rolling, and level and well adapted for York City are proud of a record identical stock raising. For information address local of the United States Army back in 1878 land offices at Los Angeles or El Centre with Mrs. Daly's. Seven sons and a son- and 1879 at Fort Brown, Texas. He ap- Colorado: 1,800 acres in Costilla county in-law were their contribution to the fight- plied for a commission in the World War, near the town of Russell described as moun- ing forces. At the time of entering service but his 63 years counted against him, so tainous and heavily timbered. Address land the sons' ages ranged from 32 years down he and Mother Kowalski had to content office at Del Norte. to 14. The youngest, Daniel, added a few themselves with strenuous Red Cross work. Nevada : 22.000 acres in Nye county near the town of Carrara described as level with a years to his age in order to be accepted in One major, two captains, one first lieuten- scant growth of grease wood and bunch grass. the Navy. He later became a sergeant in ant, one corporal and a field clerk were the Address land office at Carson City. the 17th Company, 5th Marines, and was official representatives of the elder Kowal- Utah : 40,000 acres in Washington county wounded northwest of Chateau-Thierry skis in the days of '17 and '18. near the town of Central described as mostly mountainous, covered with scrub timber and a fair growth of native grasses. Address land office at Salt Lake City.

In addition 11,000 acres in Juab County near the town of Mona, Utah, will be opened to ex-service men at the Salt Lake City land office after the State of Utah has made selections of part of the land in accordance with public land grants to the State. This land is also described as mountainous with scrub timber and native grasses. Another tract consists of 2,318 acres in Routt county, Colorado. The land was recently excluded from the Routt National Forest, the coal lights kaving been re- served and filings limited to the surface only. I f is described as mountainous and useful for grazing. Filings start August 21st. O'her public lands open to veterans include 160 acres at the Sante Fe land office in New Mexico and 640 acres in Utah County, Utah, bordering on Utah Lake, near Alberta. On all these lands ex-service men will be given a preference of 91 days in making entries, after which the land will be A Texas service sextette: Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Kowalski and their six sons thrown open to the public.

of the State. Originally the law provided sylvania Legionnaires, however, are unwill- North Dakota Authorizes Sale of payments must be used for buying a home ing to accept the opinion of Philadelphia's or securing an education in North Dakota. law officer and are insisting upon a test Bonds for Compensation In 1921 the law was amended, and there case in court. the recent session of the North are now no restrictions on the use of the Under the new law any former service ATDakota Legislature a law was passed compensation money. man taking an examination for appoint- North Dakota also has law exempting in the civil service of authorizing the State Industrial Commis- a ment or promotion service men from payment of certain tax any of the cities within the Commonwealth sion to sell $7,000,000 worth of bonds to levies, a law for the protection of the automatically receive a rating of 15 permit payment of all pending claims under would Legion's emblem and a law making Novem- percent before his examination papers the North Dakota Adjusted Compensation ber 11th a legal holiday. were passed upon. This provision, Mr. Law enacted in 1920. Heretofore payment averred, is class legislation of claims was made only when the neces- Smyth and a sary funds were secured through direct Adverse Opinion on Pennsyl- violation of the State Constitution. before In making public his opinion, the City taxation. Some months will elapse vania "Soldiers' Preference Bill" necessary legal and administrative details Solicitor declared that he regretted that so-called "Soldiers' Preference he could not rule otherwise. He informed can be carried out and payments made to THE Philadelphia service men. The adjusted compensation Bill," recently enacted by the General Legionnaires that he would be law provides for payment of $25 for each Assembly of Pennsylvania, has been glad to assist them in the preparation of month of service to veterans who at the declared unconstitutional by David J. a new preference bill for presentation at time of entering the service were re idents SmyMi, City Solicitor of Philadelphia. Penn- the next session of the legislature. — : : THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

Disabled Men Are Asking Department has been studying the ques- Settling a Doughboy-Gob tion, and it seems likely that the fruits Help of These Comrades of its investigations will carry weight with Argument the new commission. 'pHE adjustment of many claims of dis- Electrifying- the A. 10. F.—To settle a 1 abled men against the Government In all events, the hands of the commis- little dispute between a doughboy and an ex- sailor, will you please give me the following for hospitalization, compensation and vo- sion are practically tied until Congress information : Did the A. E. F. have any electric it cational training is being held up awaiting votes some money. The bill creating it power stations in France for lights or power ? the necessary affidavits of former fellow- was passed in the final rush of last ses- Where were these plants, if any ? Were any oi these plants installed by doughboys sion and leaves the important question of and by what figh'ers or of nurses and doctors who at- company ?—Fritz K. H. Eickhoff, ex-U.S.N., tended them. The question of securing money up to future Congresses. The next Wayne, Nebr. such affidavits and statements from officers Congress is expected to remedy this de- The A. E. F. installed and operated elec- and men who are still in active service has ficiency. tric plants for light and power at Is-sur- been taken up with the War Department The commission, which is likely to de- Tille, Bassens, Gievres, La Rochelle, La and the Adjutant General, Robert C. Davis, cide on a trip to France the better to do Pallice, Neuvy Pailleux, Marseille, St. Nazaire, Mehun, Mesves, has promised co-operation. In a letter to its work, is headed by Gen. Pershing. The Mars, Savenay, Beau Desert, Mazieres and other places. Joe Sparks, chairman of the National Re- Legion's representative is Alien Property The plants were installed and operated by habilitation Committee of the Legion, he Custodian Thomas W. Miller of Wilming- Engineer organizations, among them the says, "If, before final action is taken, you ton, Del., former lieutenant colonel in the 24th and 37th Engineers and Company or any of your agencies find that any dis- 79th Division and present National Execu- B of the 38th Engineers. abled men are having difficulty in obtaining tive Committeeman from Delaware. Other affidavits from individuals now in the mili- members are Senator David A. Reed of tary service, I shall appreciate it if you Pittsburg, Pa., who was a major In the will advise me in order that I may take 311th field artillery; Congressman John LEGION LIBRARY special action to obtain such evidence as Philip Hill of Baltimore, former colonel in is desired." the Judge Advocate General's office; Rob- The men in active service are lined up ert S. Woodside of Pittsburg, Pa., a cap- Book Service to help. The men in "inactive service" tain in the 38th infantry; D. John Markey The 107th Regimental Publication Com- should be equally ready. The Service Di- of Frederick, Md., lieutenant colonel, 115th mittee is offering The History op the vision, National Headquarters, The Ameri- Infantry, and former chairman of the 107th Infantry, 27th Division, to former can Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana, wants military affairs committee of the Legion, members through the Book Service. This to hear from the following: and Mrs. Fred W. Bentley of Chicago. book of 550 pages is considered a model The secretary of the commission is Major Medical Officer at Infirmary. Camp Kearney, regimental history. It contains a compact Hq. Troop, 16th Div., Xanophon H. Price of the Regular Army. attending patients from chronological account of the outfit's career, Dec, 1918. an honor roll arranged by companies, a Medical officer, Major, in charge of regimental description of all battles in which the regi- infirmary at Meudt. Germany, Mar., 1919. Private Roth, who was a patient at Hosp. OUTFIT REUNIONS ment engaged, detailed casualty tables, No. 216, Nantes, France, Nov., 1918. commendations, citations and decorations, Lester E. Boman, Murray D. Ullery, individual company histories, biographies Raphael Kelly, Walter McGetrick, all of Co. of all officers, and a complete regimental Motor Supply Train, First Div. former officers and men of the crew C, ALL roster. In addition the history contains Leland White, Co. D, 5th Engrs., formerly of the U. S. S. President Lincoln over two hundred illustrations which in- of Truro, Iowa. which was sunk by a German submarine clude photographs, airplane views of the Capt. Wakner B. Van Aken, 1st Lt. Joseph off the coast of France on May 31, 191S regions C. Miller, 2d Lt. Fred P. Feliz, Pvt. Clarence fought over and individual por- are invited to join the U. S. S. President G. Brown, Sgt. Wm. J. Abraham, Pvt. Clifford traits of all officers. An unusually liberal club organized in E. Parker, all of Co. B, 27th M. G. Bn. Lincoln Club. The was allotment of campaign maps is in the book. Miles C. Spence, Co. D, 103d Amm. Train. 1920 and each year on Memorial Day holds Price, $5.00. Comrades of Lawrence J. Shaughnessy, Pvt., a memorial service for the men who went By arrangement with the publishers, the 65th Balloon Co. down with the ship and on the day follow- following outfit histories may also be ob- Comrades of L. Reece, Co. B, 57th Engrs., ing, a reunion and dinner. Eligible men tained through the Book Service (for addi- France, 1918. are requested to write to Harven D. Carter, Comrades of Victor L. Simensen at Base tional books available see other issues of in care of Pierce Oil Corporation, 25 Broad Hosp. Nos. 93 and 30, France, Nov. and Dec, the Weekly) 1918. Street, New York City. Comrades of Tillman R. Harrison, fireman The History of the First Division in the the 3/c. So. 116, U. S. N., who were with him at Outfit reunions reported follow World War. Official. The complete story of reunion at its overseas service Norfolk, Va., Feb. 12, 1918. Co. G. 329th Inf.—Fifth annual division from assembling for Ohio, Queries aimed at locating former service men Ekko Cottage, Riverview Park, Fremont, to its demobilization as a part of the A. E. F. 5th whose statements are necessary to substantiate Aug. 4, 5. Address Edward Heider, 323 N. In addition to an accurate account of all activi- compensation claims should be sent to the Serv- st., Fremont. Ohio. ties the book contains the honor roll, commenda- Reunion at Fredericks- tions, orders, eight color plates and seventy- ice Division, National Headquarters, The Ameri- HQ. Co., 116th Inf.— field can Legion, Indianapolis, Ind. The Service Di- burg, Va., Sept. 3-5. Address Stanley Garner, seven other illustrations. Set of twelve 1 :20,000 News, Va. in separate con- vision will be glad to assist in finding men after in care of Garner & Co., Newport sector and operations maps

of Cumberland County. tainer. Price : $5. other means have failed and if necessary, will Co. K Association 4, Baker Official. An. advertise through the Weekly. N. J. —Reunion Saturday evening, Aug. History of the 310th Infantry. Hous-. Viieland. N. J. Address Anthony De account of the regiment's career in train. ng Luca. 52 S. Laurel st.. Bridgeton, N. J. camp and overseas. Maps, photographs, cita- to Provide Commission Named Announcements for this column must be re- tions, field orders, operations, reports and a list. 265 To cover the A. E. F. Battle Markers ceived three weeks in advance of the events with complete casualty pages. which they are concerned. cost of the book the Association of the 310th was the war won? A board has Infantry has been forced to advance the price HOW the book to $3. just been named by the President of Pictorial Record of the 27th Division. Over the American Battle Monuments Commis- Free Scholarships for Vets 300 official photographs of training at Camp sion —which will endeavor to answer the Under Kentucky Laws Wadsworth, all battles, post- Armistice period, question. Its work will not be embodied home-coming. Citations and decorations. Chro- in books nor in any sort of perishable ANY resident of Kentucky who served nology of activities. 8x10 inches. 244 pages. maps, but in the enduring' meadows and in the World War is entitled to a Price: $2.75. valleys and hills of France. free scholarship in either the state univer- Pictorial History of the 26th Division. Five hundred photographs. Ten thousand recog- If it succeeds, a veteran can go to France sity or the eastern or western Kentucky nizable faces in group pictures. Brief history. a year or two hence, and, walking over normal schools. These scholarships in- Honor roll. Citations. 8x11 inches. 320 pages. familiar ground, find it charted and clude free tuition, all fees, room rent, fuel Price : Cloth, $5 ; leather, $8. ordered with markers and bronze maps and light—everything except free board. History of the 79th Division. Official. Over and with lasting monuments which will Persons eligible for scholarships must meet 200 illustrations. Maps. 510 pages. Price: $5. make clear and concise the location and the requirements for entrance prescribed History of the 29th Division. Official. Com- movements of all divisions and the site of by the university of normal schools. plete roster. 240 illustrations. Maps. 493 pages. Price: $5. all engagements in which American troops The publication of a history of the part History op the Fourth Division. Official. took part. taken by Kentucky in the World War has Sixty illustrations. Maps. 368 pages. Price : $2. authorized by the Legislature. This is the comprehensive job of the been Prices listed are net and include packing and their commission. Just how it will go about it Service men may have discharge mailing charges. Send order with remittance to at county court houses is another question. For two years, how- certificates recorded the Legion Library, 627 West iSrd Street, New ever, a battle monuments board of the War on payment of a fee. York. City. — — — —

21 JULY 27, 1923 PAGE

Young Private du Claire (A Spruce Division Incident)

YOUNG Private du Claire, a Canadian frog, Had a voice .like the blare of a horn in a fog; When he felled a tree we stood rooted there !" Scared stiff, don't you see, by his shout of "Tim-ber-r-r The lumberjack's warning to those in the. way Just a hint that it's unwise and risky to stay.

Young Private du Claire said, "By Gar, I go in; Maybe I don't care how I'm spending my tin." And they gave him his pass and the top had to stare, are you going For when he made a break for to go anywhere, You could bet your last dollar he'd make some fool slip, Or spring something new ere he'd finished the trip. to EUROPE? YOU have been planning to IF Now Private du Claire at the Rex movie show go to Europe, send the inform- Right off from the square saw a picture, you know. ation blank below today. Learn Called "Samson," the tale of "le grand weight liftaire," how economically you can make the Whose deeds made him pale as he sat silent there, Away down in center, directly in front, trip this year. You will be given And never emitted a sigh or a grunt full information about the Govern- ment ships, which are operated by Until the point where the temple came down, the United States Lines between And Private du Claire saw the Philistine's clown New York and Europe. In every Huge columns lay low and his voice, then and there, are the finest afloat. !" class, they among Broke up the whole show as he shouted, "Tim-ber-r-r ! ! A tribute sincere to the art, I should say, Make Your Plans Now Which seldom is met in our epoch blase. The Leviathan, world's champion —Charles Nicholls Webb ship, fastest, largest, finest, is the latest addition to the great fleet. The Log of the Legionnaire Next sailings are: President Roosevelt {Continued from page 6) Aug. 11 Sept. 15 Oct. 23 Leviathan Sept. 1) Here is our log just as it was written: the Navy's. We are evidently in the Aug. 18 Sept. 8 4.20 P.M.—At 1,000 feet, traveling lead. President Harding northeast at about eight miles per 6.45 P.M.—4,900 feet. Traveling Aug. 21 Sept. 22 Oct. 27 hour. north of east with good wind. Had George Washington 4.30 P.M.—2,000 feet, traveling a lit- coffee some and a sandwich. It tasted Sept. 1 Oct. 6 Nov. 13 tle north of east at slightly accelerated good as we have had no lunch. speed. In addition to this there are eight 7.00 P.M.— Everything stowed ship- 4.40 P.M.—2,500 feet, still traveling splendid cabin ships. Five in the shape in the basket now. A little more north of east at between 10 and 12 and three to comfort. Now up to 5,200 feet. Navy service to London miles per hour. balloon trailing us, but has gone higher. Bremen including the America, 4.50 P.M.—3,000 feet, about same Not much time for notes. Too much world. conditions. largest cabin ship in the to do. Watching ballast and gas, maps, 5.00 P.M.—3,600 feet, still maintain- the ground and conditions generally. Write Today For— ing about same direction and speed. Still traveling north of east at maybe A Booklet of suggested tours, ranging 5.10 P.M.—4,100 feet, direction due 18 miles per hour. from $495 up for a six weeks' trip; east with a wind velocity of about 15 7.15 P.M.—5,300 feet. Passed about information about the chief events in miles per hour. We have managed to 3 miles southeast of Middleton, Indiana. Europe in Spring and Summer; a arrange our numerous belongings in Now going at about 16 miles per hour. handsomely illustrated booklet showing some sort of order in the basket. Lieu- Thermometer down to 56 degrees. exteriors and photographs of interiors tenant Bond climbed into the load-ring, 7.50 P.M.—5,300 feet. Traveling of U.S. Government ships; full infor- an upper rigging, in order to stow away east, but with diminished speed. mation about sailings, accommodations some coats and canvas carryalls, and The lights of Muncie, Indiana and New- and rates. gave me a scare when one of his feet castle, Indiana, in sight. Making notes slipped. It is strange how perfectly SendThis Blank Today now by the light of a flashlight sus- at home we feel. No nervousness what- pended in the' rigging ever about standing on the edge of the above us. It gives very good illumination. INFORMATION BLANK basket and holding to the ropes with Board 8.00 P.M.—Practically To U. S. Shipping one hand. becalmed at Information Section Washington, D.C. 5,500 feet with temperature of 58 de- E.C.S.S. B225.S 5.20 P.M.— 4,200 feet. Direction and —_____ , grees. Still in the Government j wind velocity about the same. vicinity of Muncie Please send without oblieation tbeU.S. and Newcastle. Numerous Fourth of Booklet eivine travel facts and also information re 5.30 P.M.—4,500 feet. Conditions Government ships. 1 am considerini July celebrations below. We can both gardine U. S. same, except for slightly increased wind a trip to Europe . to Orient , to South AmericaD hear and see the fireworks. All noises velocity. I eo date will be about can be heard very distinctly, If 5.45 P.M.—4,700 feet. Conditions the mooing of Name — same. • cows, dogs barking, the rattling of trolley cars. AddreS3 6.00 P.M.—4,000 feet. Still travel- 8.30 Tmrn _ State- ing east with good wind at about 18 P.M.— 5,400 feet. Still barely moving. miles per hour. A D-H plane from v Chanute Field, flew around us. The 9.30 P.M. —Came down to 2,600 feet For irformation in regard to sailings, addrea pilot and his passenger waved to us and to try for better air currents. Now we responded. traveling north of east at about 10 miles United States Lines 6.15 P.M.—Passed over Pendleton, per hour. Much warmer—69 degrees. Indiana, at altitude of 5,000 feet, still Plenty of Fourth of July celebrations 45 Broadway New York City traveling east. below us. Voices singing "The Star Agencies in Principal Cities 6.30 P.M. feet, passing over a Spangled. Banner" —4,900 come up to us dis- Managing Operators for point about 6 miles south of Anderson, tinctly. We join in the singing, but Indiana. Only balloon in sight one of doubt if they hear us. U. S. SHIPPING BOARD . .

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10.30 P.M.—Have come down to 2,400 8.00 A.M.—12,500 feet. Tempera- feet and now moving about 10 miles ture 43 degrees. Traveling north of per hour a trifle north of east. Passed east at fairly good speed. We are still Winchester, Indiana, about 5 miles to above the clouds, which are banked the south. The lights of Union City below us, and we can see the ground in the distance. in small patches. Only balloon now in 11.00 P.M.—Being closer to the sight is one of the Navy's, which is ground had its effect. Gas warmed veered far to the southeast and is drop- up, cordage dried out, and we have ping lower. 7 Diamond shot up to G,200 feet. Did not valve, 8.30 A.M.— 13,300 feet. Temperature Solitaire Cluster however, as we are saving our gas. 52 degrees. Slightly warmer than in Temperature down to 53. Expect an- lower altitude. Still well above clouds other drop as soon as gas cools. Slow and traveling north of east at improved | For Down! Yours *2B speed up here. Less than 5 miles per pace. hour. Direction east. figure : due Greatest Value Ever Offered I — We 9.00 A.M.—14,000 feet—Temperature Hexagon mounting of Platinum set with a cluster we have just about crossed the State 50 degrees. Now traveling northeast of 7 perfectly matched blue-white Diamonds; line into Ohio. at fairly good speed. Dense banks of ! looks exactly like one large diamond. Green artistically hand-carved and en- 12.00 Midnight—Down to 1,700 feet clouds us obscure | Gold shank below ground. Be- graved. Only $57.50. and 72 degrees. I again temperature ginning to feel effects of altitude. We Ten Months To Pay Bond has remarked that perhaps some- both have had a few whiffs of oxygen. thing fell off of our basket, possibly a i The ring will be sent you for only $2—if satisfied, keep We are making a breakfast of sand- it and pay only $5.60 a month for 10 months. No red sand bag, which helped us to shoot up wiches and coffee. tape—no delay—Transactions strictly confidential. If I I not pleased, return AT ONCE. as we did. Better wind at this height. 9.30 A.M.—15,000 feet. Traveling Send for FREE Diamond Book 7 or 8 miles per hour. Direction—trifle north of east at good speed. are Greatest book of its kind ever published. Contains the We most amazing values in Diamonds, Watches and Jew- j north of east. hoping it is 30 or more miles per hour. elry. Write to Dept 1093-M. 1.00 A.M. Thursday, July 5th—Down Still feeling altitude and requiring a to feet, temperature 73 degrees. , THE HOUSE OF QUALITY 1,000 few breaths of oxygen every few min- . CAPITAL (i.OOO.OOO. ^ ^m Automobile party below saluted us with utes. long tooting of their horn. We hailed 10.00 A.M.—15,100 feet. Tempera- LW-SWEET INC them and asked name of nearest town. ture 33 degrees. Having some discom- 1650 - 1660 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. They shouted back that we were about fort in breathing, especially when mov- 18 miles southwest of St. Marys, Ohio. ing around in basket and leaning over 1.30 A.M.—Going up again. 2,200 moving sand bags. Feeling a little feet now and still climbing. We passed light-headed. We are taking turns at near St. Marys Lake. Over Celina, inhaling a few breaths of oxygen. Still northeast 12 BECOME A Ohio. going about They give immediate relief, but as soon MAIL miles per hour. as we move around again we need more. RAILWAY CLERK 2.00 A.M.—7,500 feet. Temperature We are both acquiring headaches. Our Examinations soon. $1600 to $2300 a year. 47 degrees. Still going same direction B, Steady life-time job. f'ommon education wind direction and velocity are too t^aiiniiiiiniiMMiHr sufficient. No at about same speed. good to lose, though. We are going to "pull" necessary. \ 3.30 A.M.—Passing over Indian Lake, stick it out up here for a while longer. Patterson Civil Service School •» Ma'J coupon ior Ohio, at 6,000 feet. Sighted balloon to Dept. AG37 ROCHESTER, N. Y. \ Catalog. Think we must be in Pennsylvania by higher. Bibb: Send me without, charge your \ Pallerson Ci?il' the west of us about 1,000 feet now, but cloud banks below make it describing this and other Catalog. Serfice School Our course is changing to slightly south S. Government positions. n difficult to locate ourselves on the map. U. \ ep|. AJ37 of east. Starting to climb higher. \ Rochester, 10.30 A.M.—15,500- feet—Tempera- Name N.Y. 4.00 A.M.—Went up to 8,000 feet, but ture 28 degrees. Getting used to the slid back to 6,000 feet. A balloon, discomfort of breathing, but feeling the Address evidently the Navy's, still following us. cold. Still moving eastward with ex- Now going practically due east. Dawn cellent wind. is now well broken and it is rapidly *I^2J?& foRYouRSPARE Time 11.00 A.M.—15,800 feet—Tempera- getting lighter. ture 22 degrees. Cold and uncomfort- ^introducing new style Hosiery. Evenu 4.15 A.M.—3,800 feet. Tested valve. you have only one hour a day for spare able, but we seem to be moving faster is a large red ball in time work you should make $2.00 or It works O.K. Sun in the right direction. Still above traveling directly more In this off hour by our plan. Pro- the east. We are clouds. fits begin at capital once—Takes no to towards it. Have sighted another bal- start. You simply take orders— We de- 11.30 A.M.—12,900 feet. We are of about 7,000 feet up liver and collect—Your pay daily. loon ahead us much more comfortable now, but we Tou need not be experienced south of east. Navy to be suc- and traveling like looks of clouds approach- cessful. teach do not the We you. Outfit furnish- balloon still following us close, but seek- ed. Send today for full details. ing from the northeast and southeast. ing altitude. Third balloon now MAC-O-CHEE MILLS Co. lower Through an opening in the clouds be- Desk 26714 Cincinnati, Ohio about 8,000 in sight, also, behind us, low us we can see a wide river with a feet up. large island in the center and a good 5.00 A.M. Have come down to 200 — size town on the south bank. By refer- feet or possibly lower. Our drag rope ence to our map we find this is Coraopo- As one of the oldest pat* is on the ground. Sun behind clouds, ent firms in America we lis, Pa. consequently expansion of our gas give inventors at lowest 1.15 P.M.—Eastern time. Landed PATENTS™ ~~ ~" ~ » consistent charge, a counted on for altitude without use of service noted for results, evidenced by many well known on farm of Mr. H. F. Wasson one mile

Patents of extraordinary value. Book t Patent-Sense, free. ballast being delayed. Lacey & Lacey, 643 F St., Wash,, D.C. south of Frankfort Springs, Beaver Estab. 1869* 9,400 feet. Temperature 6.30 A.M.— County, Pa., after being caught be- finally the sun and 43 degrees. We got tween two severe storms, sucked up rose rapidly. are passing Marion, We from an altitude of 12,900 feet to 16,000 Ohio, President Harding's home, about or 17,000 feet, and then forced to de- 5 miles to the north. Now traveling scend so rapidly that at times it looked Post Officers, about 15 miles per hour. Five due east as though we would be thrown out of in sight; one ahead of us balloons now the basket or killed when we struck Fallin forIdeas! altitude, two southeast of about same the ground. Closest railroad station D 66 cuts for your use in Sample st ationery and us considerably lower, one to the south post printing. (Circular prices. Burgettstown, Pa., on Pennsylvania of us still lower, and one a considerable No. I.) Railroad, about 9 miles distant Great Blotters printed for post distance behind at about 6,000 feet. cuts for postal cards. notices. difficulty in packing balloon, account O 14 7.30 A.M.—11,400 feet. Tempera- (C rcular No. 2.) Prices for special car- having landed in tree. Had to chop toons by Wally and ture 48 degrees. Well above clouds in of the above down half of tree to get net and rigging Stickers Helfant. bright sunshine. Traveling due east cuts. off. Another thundershower shortly Multigraphing. pace. One Navy balloon still at good finished. Considerable diffi- O Stickers ii three colors. after we Ask for samples. Check a few miles ahead of us at same alti- culty in finding anyone in nearby towns D Engraved 'etterheads article you need. Your tude. Another Navy balloon 5,000 with Legion and Auxili- suggestions as to other who had a truck we could get to carry feet below us and traveling south. An ary embK ms in color. printed matter required by balloon basket, packed with balloon and Other engraved work. posts w!ll be appreciated. Army balloon is following us about 6,000 equipment to Burgettstown. Finally POST PRINTING SERVICE feet 'below. An unidentified balloon is following at about 7,000 feet. succeeded and reached Burgettstown B27 West 43d St., New York -

PAGE 23 JoLY 27. 1923 just in time to make 8.31 P.M. train down at Marilla, N. Y. (about 463 for Pittsburgh. Finis balloon race, miles from Indianapolis) won the race; but we may be in the money yet, as H. E. Honeywell, of St. Louis, who to Brockton, Y., we figure it is 300 miles from Indianap- travelled 413 miles N. olis to where we landed. and Lieut. J. B. Lawrence, of the Navy, (Editor's Note.—Lieutenant Robert who landed at Glen Campbell, Pa., tied S. Olmstead, of the Army, who came for second place. This is unofficial.)

Has Your Post a Home? (Continued from page 7) lor with occasional sprees of hilarity definite focus for all activities of the and the hope of a more settled future, post. A post without a headquarters is that the third post was in the case of like a nation without a capital. When a prosperous married man, happily and the gang gets together only once or definitely established in his own home. twice a month in rented rooms there Perhaps the matrimonial metaphor obviously can be little chance for the doesn't exactly apply, but I do know development of a spirit of fellowship. that the third post was the only one When the Legionnaires have a club- of the three whose future was satis- house open to them every night in the factorily assured. At the meeting of week where they can get together in- that post no funereal clouds of gloom formally then the membership list, and discouragement were hanging over instead of being a hit or miss con- the proceedings. It wasn't character- glomeration of isolated units, becomes ized by a frothy enthusiasm that might a unified, homogeneous body and the produce results or that might evap- post develops a genuine spirit of fel- You orate like a soap bubble. On the lowship and a morale that erasures con- contrary, that post had accomplished sistent and resultful support of all post something for itself and for its com- activities. Can Now See munity, had put itself definitely on the Besides a clubhouse makes it easier map, had got itself a headquarters and cheaper to carry on all sorts of first which served as a continual rallying activities. When you have to hire a for the time point for renewed vitality, and in the hall every time you want to run a show process had built up a firm, modest, or a dance you are apt to think twice the fulfilment of your mission in and justifiable confidence in its ability before starting anything. When you France—the haughtiest "war lord" have your own assembly room in your to do things. of modern history caged like a wild The post commander told me that own clubhouse you can put on any- beast behind the barbed-wire of his some of the gang were at the club- thing you want as often as you want to. house every evening, shooting pool or A considerable proportion of ex- prison at Doom. A motion picture otherwise foregathering sociably. A service men, like men generally, want has at last been made of the man di- one for their troop of Boy Scouts met there something money. Every rectly responsible for the bloodiest night a week. The D. A. R. and other post has its nucleus of enthusiastic Le- war of all times a'picture shot with- patriotic organizations also held their gionnaires, men who would be Legion — meetings in the Legion building. Of members under any circumstances, but out his knowledge, which caught him course, whenever the post wanted to in most cases the majority of the in his furtive moments as he nervous- run off a dance or a show, their own membership is made up of men who in ly paced the narrow paths of his building was available. There was no greater or less degree take the attitude, J Dutch prison. hall to be hired, also no bill. "Why should I join the Legion? What In these three posts you have in a am I going to get out of it?" After nutshell, I am sure, the circumstances all, you can't expect men busy making of nine out of ten posts throughout the a living to give up time and money The Ex-Kaiser country. I know that they are typical simply for the privilege of getting to- of conditions in my own State of New gether occasionally to live over old Jersey. As department commander I times. They have to be made to see have visited most of the posts in the that the Legion is achieving worth- in Exile State, and invariably the live posts are while accomplishments to-day for all the ones that have clubhouses. Prob- ex-service men and for themselves. The Only Authentic Motion Picture ably cause and effect work both ways The easiest and most effective way to of the Prisoner of Doom in this proposition ; that is, the active visualize the accomplishments of the posts are more apt to go out and get Legion and of your particular post to Colonel Hanford MacNider, Past Nat'l Com- themselves clubhouses, while on the skeptical prospective Legionnaires is mander of the American Legion, says that other hand it is certainly true that to show them your own post's club- this film is "one of the epoch-making events the possession of a permanent head- house. of the screen industry." You and your quarters increases the vitality of a The experience of outfit, my own buddies will see this proud Hohenzollern, post. Martin Wallberg Post of Westfield, humbled beyond words and guarded night percent of New Jer- Jersey, About twenty New shows just what a club- and day against escape. You can make sey posts own their own buildings. house means to a post. were We money for your post by asking the manager Another fifty or sixty percent rent some luckier than most organizations in that of your local picture house to book it for a sort of headquarters, varying from a got mighty we a satisfactory clubhouse special "LEGION NIGHT." For particu- single room to sizable clubhouses. The without having to buy it, but in lars fill in and mail this coupon. other twenty or thirty percent meet every other particular our experience now and then here and there and are is typical. ———DETACH AND MAIL——— "more or less alive. We started off in 1919 with perhaps W. W. HODKINSON CORPORATION Half a dozen of those owning houses more than the usual quota of senti- 469 Fifth Avenue, New York built up, and have from the ground mental spirit. As our charter number I am interested in receiving full particulars of your plan thus have secured exactly what they (three) indicates, ours was one of the for showing "The ex-Kaiser in Exile" in this community, together with Catalogue of Hodkinson pictures. wanted. The majority, however, have first Legion posts to be organized in the bought buildings, remodeling them to State. Our post is named after one

suit their needs. A few ' of these of the first Americans to be killed while posts, including my own, have taken carrying the America:: flag in action advantage of the state law which per- in the World War. mits municipalities to lease unused In 1920 we secured permission from public buildings to veterans' organiza- the town authorities to use a con- tions on a year-to-year basis at a demned and ancient schoolhouse as our City merely nominal rent. meeting place. This was bptter tha" As I see it, a post clubhouse has sev- nothing, but there was still lots of eral values. First of all, it provides a room for improvement. For some time StoU PAGE M THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

the building had been standing idle scrubbed it all over again. They without repairs and open to any tramp provided curtains for the windows, who wanted a sleeping place. Worst couches, pillows, pictures, magazines, of all, it was impossible to heat it all sorts of decorations and comforts. properly. Chiefly for the last reason, What has our clubhouse meant to I imagine, attendance at meetings, us? The most obvious thing is that which had noticeably improved for before we got the clubhouse the largest a while, dwindled off again. number of names we ever had on our \Vz CARAT$99^ With a large assembly hall down- roll-call was seventy-two, but since We are direct tmoorters of perfectly cut. sparkling, brilliant, stairs and smaller classrooms upstairs that time our paid-up membership has blue- white, genuine diamonds, which we now offer at only $197.00 per carat from 1-8 carat to 2 carats. The former the building had the makings of a averaged over three hundred. Before, price was $325.00 per carat. YOU SAVE 40 PER CENT. worthwhile clubhouse, so we set to our meetings were held at irregular 30 DAYS FREE TRIAL work to make it what it should be. intervals; attendance was uncertain. You can send cash with order, or we will send to your bank or express office for inspection before paying. If you can First of all we kept after the town Now we have two meetings a month, duplicate these diamonds for less than $325.00 per carat, we will return your money. Guarantee Certificate Given. officials until they gave us definite con- one business and one social, and it WRITE FOR CATALOG trol of the building on a dollar-a-year takes pretty rotten weather to cut seri- You should know the exact weight and quality of any diamond! lease as authorized by state law. There ously into the size and enthusiasm of ynu buy. Our catalog tells you, and it brings a large jewelry store into your home. You save 40 per cent when you buy was a little difficulty in clearing up the our get-togethers. Before, whenever from ua. $1,000,000.00 back up our guarantees. title, as the last recorded deed dated we wanted to give a show, the hall B-GHTTEIUSONS FIT? back to George III. cost us seventy-five dollars, leaving but Then we pitched in ourselves to put a small margin for profits. Now we \ 172 Nassau St.. Dept. 1071, New York a the building into shape. We cleaned run off our affairs in our own place out the accumulated dirt of years. We rent free and we literally clean up. knocked down partitions so as to give The same thing is true of dancing and us the floor plan we wanted. We in- boxing matches. Incidentally, most of stalled stoves so that every room could our profits from shows and the like go pf* And Suit Given be made comfortably warm. We re- directly to help the disabled. paired the front porch and painted the Our clubhouse has proved its prac- To quickly obtain some good agent9 In territory where we are not represented, whole building inside and out. So far tical value in a number of other ways. we offer one man in each community the six chance to obtain oar finest all wool $30.00 we have put about hundred dollars The Boy Scouts, the D. A. R., the given and suit $5 to $25 daily in spare into fixing it up. United Spanish War Veterans and time introducing our guaranteed made to order suits, $18 and up. Special offer ex- The fact that we dug in ourselves other patriotic organizations hold their pires not later than January 1st, 1924 so and worked hard for our clubhouse meetings at headquarters. if interested write at once for full details. our It is Just your name and address on a postcard made the people of the community my hunch, however, that the greatest brings prompt reply. ready to help us. The local Red Cross value of the clubhouse has been in in- AMERICAN WOOLKN MILLS CO. Established 1S8I D»pt.l g7f;, Chicago unit gave us five hundred dollars' tangible things—a strengthened morale worth of furniture. Three pool tables in our membership and increased good- were given us by different individuals. will on the part of the whole com- Mk T8X JH IU STUDY AT HOME Become a lawyer.. Legally These are now in use every night. munity. M XmKmlffl trained men win hifn^h positions JajgsA K$M8&&m$M a°d bitr in bijHin.ps phonograph, proposition, SBwHsm wB^SmIm Three pianos, a and To sum up the whole I jHw «B» wHsHBsibt tunitfes now than ever before. various other furnishings were also figure that a post needs a clubhouse gSBttJBB&L Wm la Be independent—be • leader. JgHH^A «h Lawyer* earn. given us. for three reasons: First, to give the m $3,000 to $10,000 Annually MSSm We guide yon etep by step. You can train at borne We were greatly assisted with our skeptical prospective member a return time. record* letters , duringepare LetuBBendyou and from LaSalle students admitted to the bar in various clubhouse both by our Fathers' Auxil- for his dues; next, to prove to the post

I states. Money refunded according to our Guarantee I Bond if dissatisfied. Decree of LL. B. conferred. iary and our Women's Auxiliary. The itself and to the community that the Thousands of successful students enrolled. Low cost, easy terms. We furnish all text material, including fourteen- volume Law fathers made it possible for us to have Legion is not merely living on five- and "Evidence'* Library. Getour valuable 120-page "Law Guide"' books FREE. Send for them-NOW. " the clubhouse, but the Women's Auxil- year-old sentiment but is also capable LaSalle Extension University* Dept. 7361 -L, Chicago iary made it a home. After we men of present accomplishment; and finally, had cleaned up the building thoroughly to express in permanent, visible form according to our ideas it was still not the patriotic ideals and purposes for Sell Shirts clean enough to suit the women. They which The American Legion stands. Sell Madison "Better-Made" Shirts. Paja- mas, and Nightshirts direct from our factory to wearer. National ly advertised. Easy to sell. Exclusive patterns. Ex- Alsace and Lorraine To-day ceptional values. No experience or capital required. Large steady income (Continued from page 4) assured. Entirely new proposition. WRITE FOR FREE SAMPLES. MADISON SHIRT CO., 503 B'way. N. V. City ber of the youngsters marching off to inhabitants, the largest in either Al- barracks. They were not yet in uni- sace or Lorraine. Here was a city com- form, but already there was order. posed of many people who were German There was discipline in their line as or else pro-German in their sympathies. they swung down the hot, dusty street. It was just after the war, feeling was A French officer was standing on the high, and to protect themselves the curb, and I asked him if they made good French ordered those whom they were recruits. convinced would plot against their ad- "The best in all France," he said. ministration to be sent across the river There was a touch of pride in his voice. into Germany. Later on I talked with "The best?" I was surprised. "How a woman over in Baden, on the other is it that they make the best?" side of the Rhine, who had been de- The August and September issues of the He shrugged his shoulders. ported soon after the Armistice. Weekly will contain just the articles to as- "I do not know. It is so. Perhaps On the surface her case looked to be sist you in your Convention Membership because they have been trained in Ger- a hard one. She had certainly been un- Drive. There will also be articles of ex- ceptionally wide interest. man schools, these young men, and they justly treated. There were tears in her Col. Frederick Palmer, war correspon* find our discipline easier to live up to. eyes as she told me how one night she dent and well-known journalist, will begin But now our commanding officer asks had received orders to be ready to leave articles covering a series of the present sit- when he makes up his lists her home at ten the next morning. uation and conditions of the entire Ameri- for them can battlefronts of France, and Mr. Charles for new recruits. You have seen, they "Twelve hours' notice, that was all. P Steinmetz, the electrical wizard, will are soldiers." A poor, harmless widow, they order me give his ideas of the electrical world that were, too. In fact, the tactful to leave in twelve hours. The house I will exist a hundred years from now. They yet forceful way in which the have lived in for forty years. And here If your Post will tell us how many copies and you can distribute to prominent citizens or French have handled this problem has I am with nothing." to ex-service men, we will print them for helped allay the feeling caused by the Yes, it seemed hard. It was not until at cost all through the months of you Aug- For, being human, if the afterward that I discovered the reasons ust and September. Why not send the deportations. magazine to every ex-service man in your French authorities have been diplomatic for her deportation. She was a German city with the compliments of your Post ? in most of their dealings in Alsace and who had come into Alsace from Bavaria Just write for 50 or more a week for the they have also made some with her husband in 1873. Twice dur- next two months. They "will cost Legion Lorraine, Posts oniy 3c a copy. mistakes. The worst one occurred right ing the last war she had given informa- THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY after the Armistice. tion to the Germans which not only led 627 West 43d Street New York Imagine the scene as the French came to the recapture of French prisoners into Strasbourg, a city of some 250,000 of war who had escaped and were in -

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hiding but also has caused the death of The Kleberplatz is now the Place he people who had shielded them. Small Kleber, and so on. No, the French a $10,000 wonder that the French did not desire have used no compulsion. If you want her presence in Alsace. to speak French you may. If you want Opportunity That there were cases of hardship to speak German you may. Perhaps office the commissariat general in that is why French is being the of spoken Get into the tire business. Be a tire broker. Strasbourg admitted to me freely. more and more all the time. There is No investment requirement. J. B. Owens "Yes, we made mistakes. In the con- no language question in Alsace today. building up a $50,000 business in Florida. fusion after our entry into Alsace un- Once I wandered into the biggest cafe J. A. Dunlevy's estimated earnings for 1923 over $10,000. Start now. Rig replacement demand there were some people who in Strasbourg. It is doubtedly very modern, so just beginning. A bigger, better, stronger tire were unfairly treated. But, on the modern that it has a "dancing" (pro- for less money. Startling new tread design does away with chains. Sells on sight. other hand, we actually sent away fewer nounced "Danseeng") , as the cafes do in people than we wished, and there are Paris. On the newspaper rack was a today many people in the two provinces copy of the Republique, the pro-French ARMOUR CORDS who ought to be living in Germany. paper of Alsace. It boasts on the front DIRECTFROMFACTORY 1 We want one auto owner in each locality Had they been across the Rhine during page that it was and always will be __1 to use and advertise Armour Cords. You [can make bigmoncy andgetyourowntiresFrea the past five years our task would have French. Just under it was the Strass- J by simply sending us orders from friends and been easier." burger Neue Zeitung. Such a thing I neighbors. No Capital or Experience needed, "We deliver and collect direct. Pay you daily. do not admit this. They would never have I The Germans been possible under Most Liberal Tire Guarantee Ever Written say the people who were sent away were German rule when the Republique was lArmour Cords are lionded n^ainst Accidental mostly innocent people. They say much published, circulated and read under ^Damage, Wear and Tear, Tread Separation, Blis- tering, Blow-Outs and Rim-Cutting for suffering and hardship was caused, that penalty of a couple of years behind the KAy l 10,000 miles. Wo are actual manufactur- the French were unnecessarily cruel. bars. That is the difference WKim «T8. Write today for Great Special Offer between to Agents and low Factory Prices. They put the total of the deported at the two administrations. ARMOUR TIRE & RUBBER CO., PeptSOE, DAYTON, 0. 150,000. The French deny this. Less Few people in the world today seem than 90,000, they say. Most of these to be satisfied with life, and the average they class as pro-German agitators, Alsatian is no exception. Under the editors, capitalists, or people whom they Germans he was far from contented. were unable to trust. They also point But he was usually prosperous. Today out that after 1870 no less than five he is usually contented, if he is not hundred thousand French were sent always prosperous. However, compared away from the two provinces. to the scene across the river in Ger- Happily, however, this is all a thing many he is certainly fortunate. of the past. If the French were hasty Over there in Germany is poverty, and caused suffering by their deporta- filth, dirt, an air of resignation on the SEND NO We make this special offer to tions, they have now practically stopped faces of prove the wonderful value, the people. Sunday afternoon inuntrMnurv them. their treatment of the in Bfy ] e and fit f progress tail- Today Kehl, the little town across the Rhine oring. We will tailor to yourspecial order one of these fine suits, send it to you two provinces has softened the bitter- from Strasbourg, is I a dreary time. {postage prepaid and guarantee abso- ness which this policy caused. Except Strasbourg on Sunday is alive. On one lute satisfaction for only $14.95. We have other striking bargains in for this they seemed to have used much bank is an equally unhappy people, the zest of finest made -to -order suits at

i $39.50. tact and good judgment in their deal- living gone from their faces. . $14.95 up to But this 3 ings with the natives. Evidences are is what you see in Strasbourg's -AGENTS WANTED-f«?| g great extra every week, taking orders from your on every side of you in both Alsace and park, the Orangerie, [friends and neighbors for our high-clasa tailor on a Sunday after- Ung. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Lorraine. noon. 'Big Sample Outfit FREE "Der verbeliebte schauspiele Tom First of all it is Drop ua a line today ond we will send you absolutely free, our btff crowded. Hundreds assortment of woolen samples, style book aod special wholesale Mix (The beloved actor, Tom Mix"). of couples will be walking through prices, on our made-to-measure suits. the THE PROGRESS TAILORING CO., Dept. U- 1 02, CHICAGO This was the sign that greeted me over vast flower beds or in the adjoining a movie in Colmar the first night I was woods, others sitting at tables in the there. Do you think the Germans would large beer garden which overlooks the have permitted a sign like this in lake. It is not very large, this lake, AGENTS £8T* French right after the war of 1870? and it is full of rowboats, most of them Walk along the side of one of the filled with children, splashing each Hustlers make 825 a day selling the canals which thread through Strasbourg other with water. A band is playing. PREMIER KNIFE & SCISSOR SHARP- and give it its sobriquet of the Venice You can observe ENER. Every home, tailor shop, res- as you walk along taurant, meat-shop buys on minute's of the North and side of upon the an that the people are well dressed and demonstration. Sharpens dullest old stone house you will notice a queer well nourished. No signs of poverty knives, scissors, sickles, etc. quickly. plastered square. Before 1870 this or privation. Money back guarantee removes 90% It could just as well be your sales resistance. Sent post- street beside the placid canal of had been any one of a dozen cities in the United paid for 50c. Trice to agents $2 a named the Rue Carnot. The Germans States—except for the beer garden. Dozen, $21 a Gross. Price of sample changed the names of all the streets refunded upon receipt of first order, They protest little in a Strasbourg Co., 806- AL East Grand Blvd. Detroit, Mich. and took down all the French street "ler Mfg. about the high cost of living. As a signs. But this one had its name carved matter of fact food is cheaper in Stras- in the stone of this old house. So, Pay Now! not bourg today than in almost any Buddy Gets a General's city of to content with their new signs, they So can you I Work for yourself. Make $5,000 $10,000 France. And it is plentiful. In a stay of a year surfacing Floors by American climbed up and plastered the name over a week I "Universal' method. Experience or was served fruit of all kinds, unnecessary. New so that it would be unreadable. large Investment, including strawberries and cherries in .Id, big profits. Writeiiiiickfordetalls. There it is today, a strange plastered profusion, very good meat, fresh aspar- American Floor blotch, testimony to the stupidity of the agus and mushrooms, all in larger quan- Surf. Mach. Co. German administration. The French tities than one receives in French hotels. 527 So. St. Clair St. have not made this e,rror. French is The bread is cheaper and far better Toledo, O. used in both Alsace and Lorraine. So than anywhere else in Europe, not ex- is German. cluding Great Britain. A significant "Sortie," says the big sign in the sta- _ sign. When the bread is good the tion at Colmar. Right under it is the country is not word "Ausgang." suffering. It is true that business is not boom- The Alsatian who does not know a ing in either Alsace or Lorraine at pres- word of French and wants to find a ent. But business is not too certain street in Strasbourg can always booming anywhere in Europe. It is true that Wanted—Railway Postal Clerks do so by its old name. Thus the French there is kicking and grumbling in Alsace ~ might have called the Zurichstrasse the $133 to $192 Month and Lorraine. But there is the Rue Marechal Foch. They didn't. They same FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Bo s—Mee / kicking everywhere you go. That many " call it the Rue de Zurich! De A- 187 Rochester, N. Y. Alsatians realize ^ up / P'- > Each street its this was brought to name has equivalent open to ex-servlco men; (i) free book Grande Rue talking to a very fat Mall > describing them. man who was Coupon/ Ancien sitting just inside. «t / Name Langstrasse once f The fat man was complaining loudly mm*/ Address PAGE 26 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

because trade was so bad. The occupa- tions under the French. In three days tion of the Ruhr was hurting his busi- I am chef de gare. I would have waited ness. He sighed loudly. forever under the Germans." "Ah, before the war things were not "I take it you don't like them very like this." well." The conductor pulled the bell rope "Ah, but I know them. Just now you with a snap. asked me if I favored the seizure of the "You a're right, my friend," he said. Ruhr. Why not? If she had not done "But do you realize that in the good old that, La France, she would never have days for which you long you would not been paid. Do not forget that we of be sitting in that seat. It would be re- Alsace and Lorraine know the Ger- served for a German." mans." Now the average Alsatian was looked That was largely the feeling through- down on by the real German. Alsatian, out the country. Those there were, like the dialect, is not German. It is as the people in the metallurgical industry, unintelligible to the Prussian or Ba- who were pro-German. They had big varian as to the Frenchman. The Alsa- businesses before the war. Today they tian was held in check. You can im- are losing money. There are but a agine the Prussian officers mounting this handful of blast furnaces in operation same little jerky trolley, taking the now as against some sixty in 1919 and seats away from civilians, men and twenty or thirty last January before women. You can imagine the fat Al- the French invaded the Ruhr. Natur- satian rising quickly to his feet as they ally these people blame the French for Montgomery all their troubles. Dial came in. And you can understand why most Alsatians remember these little And then there is the class who are While other watch dealers are raising their prices, asking you for larger monthly payments, and mak- things and prefer French rule to Ger- neither pro-French nor pro-German but ing payment terms harder for you to meet, we are pro-themselves. One man in a big wine offeriogi you our new model Santa Fe Special, no man. advance in price, no money down, easier terms and No, the average Alsatian does not firm spent an hour telling me about the smaller monthly payments. WE realize the war is over and In order to double our business we MUST want the Germans back. A vote taken "crise d'industrie" and how hard things give you pre war inducements, better prices, easier now would show an enormous majority were. Over his door was a large sign terms and smaller payments. in favor of staying with France. And with "Vive La France" painted on it. Adjusted to Positions vote was postponed Someone told me the next day that dur- Adjusted to Temperature every year such a LOOK Adjusted to Isochronism would mean a larger majority. There ing the war that sign read "Gott Strafe Adjusted to the Second is still discontent about many things in England." Thin Model. All Sizes both Alsace and Lorraine. But there Climb to the top of the ancient cathe- Without of advance payment let us place one penny in Berlin Bremen, dral at Metz and you will have visible in your hands to see, to examine, to inspect, to ad- is also discontent and mire, to approve, a real masterpiece in watch crea- in Lyon and London, in Manchester and proof of the success that the French tion. A Watch which passes the most rigid Inspec- tion and measures up to the exacting requirements of Moscow. government is having in Alsace and the great Santa Fe Railway System, and other great Strasbourg is the capital of what was Lorraine. That proof lies in a number American trunk lines. once Alsace. Metz is the capital of of long, low gray stone buildings. These Page 12 of our Watch Book is of Lorraine. Look on the map and you buildings are situated in every direc- Special Interest to You will notice that whereas Alsace is sepa- tion, on all sides of the city. Ask for our Watch Book free— then select the Watch rated from France by the chain of the They are barracks. Or rather they you would like to sec, either the famous Santa Fe is only barracks. are nothing, Special or the 6 position Iiunn Special, and let us Vosges mountains, Lorraine not were Now they explain our easy payment plan and send the watch closely united with it, but bound up by as you will see if you descend and. get express prepaid for you to examine. No Money Down. Remember—No money down—easy payments buys the Moselle River, which flows down near to them. Courtyards deserted, a master timepiece—a 21 Jewel guaranteed for a life- the old Toul sector. window panes broken, weeds growing time at about half the Drice you pay for a similar into what was once watch of other makes. No money down—a wonder- Naturally, therefore, Lorraine is the up between the stone flags, they present ful offer. more French of the two. an unkempt, dishevelled appearance. SANTA FE WATCH CO. In Alsace you hear the older men With but three exceptions these bar- 7111 Thomas Building Topeka, Kansas greeting each other with "Bon jour," racks are abandoned. (Home of the Great Santa Fe Railway) "Comment ca' va?" and other French Before the war Metz was the seat of phrases. After that they talk Alsa- a German army corps, and not counting A letter, postcard or this coupon will bring universal auxiliary services some forty-five thou- my Free Watch Book. tian. French is not the Alsace. But in Lorraine it sand troops were quartered in and SANTA FE WATCH CO. tongue in been around the city. Today there are hard- 7111 Thomas Bidg., Topeka, Kansas is pretty generally used, and I had ly five thousand troops in Metz, about a Please send me your New Watch Book with the in Metz two days before hearing a word understanding that this request does not obligate me of anything but French. Then it was tenth the number the Germans garri- in any way Alsatian spoken by two French officers soned there. This same ratio holds who were conversing with a civilian on throughout the entire district, and it the main street of the town. explains only too well the feeling of the Right after the Armistice, I was told, people toward the French and toward Address State no French was spoken anywhere in the the Germans. The French have done two provinces. Now it is about all you things which have made them unpopular hear in Lorraine, and it is being used at times. But they do not find it necessary to overrun the region with sol- Is Your Band Equipped more and more in Alsace. In the vil- lages and the countryside where the diers to collect taxes or call up the For the Convention? German influence did not penetrate so yearly class for its military service. the French first came into Al- Remember good instruments improve the strongly during the occupation French When there playing of a band as well as its appearance. is talked almost exclusively. sace and Lorraine was some un- C. G. Conn, Ltd., will be glad to help you Because he talked French I got an employment and* a certain dislocation which will be a secure the equipment big of industry. This disturbed everyone. factor in putting your band in the prize win- insight into the way things were run ning class. We've helped organize and before 1918 from the chef de gare of a But that feeling is passing. Unemploy- bands and orchestras. equipped thousands of small town in southern Lorraine. The ment no longer exists to any large de- Our experience is yours to command, with- gree. And there is no active opposition out obligation. railways in both Alsace and Lorraine to French rule, which is generous, Write now for information and quotations on are run by the Government. the complete sets or individual instruments. This man had been a sous-chef under farsighted, and liberal toward the natives of the two provinces. C. G. CONN, Ltd. the Germans, and although he had passed his examinations for chef he had "Alsace has been divided into the de- been appointed. partements of Haut Rhin and Bas Rhin, 703 Conn Bldg. Elkhart, Indiana never "Three times before the war I saw a Lorraine is now the departement of German sent down from the interior to Moselle. Already there is no such thing THE LAST WORD be put over me. Why? Because I was geographically as Alsace and Lorraine. years' time there will be no One last effort on membership will put the not a German. Then came the war. In twenty sense of the word, Legion well over the top. For five years I was obliged to fight. such thing in any goal of that last effort should he for The once again I was sous- and the departements of Haut Rhin, and every Post to get signed up in the On my return each Moselle will be as French Post just FOUR MEMBERS EACH WEEK chef. One day the French march into Bas Rhin and UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15. Lorraine. Then the chef left. Sud- those of Aisne, Dordogne, or Loir et can do this if you personally will Your Post ?a! I take my examina- Cher. do your share BST GETTING ONE MEMBER. denly—comme . — . . . .

Buddy, Jr., on Cameras Pratt & Kingdon, Photographers 9 18} 4 Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa Dear Buddy in the Barrel: Perhaps you do not like letters from a small boy however, some busy people do. I've heard my daddy say several times he wanted to write you, and since

he hasn't, I am going to write. My papa gets the Legion Weekly and how WE do enjoy it. There is just Mother and Daddy and I, but we read the Weekly from cover to cover. It is such a good paper and carries many valuable advertisements. But my daddy says the paper should have

more ads and that is why I am writing.

I am going to send you my picture (you see my daddy is a photographer). Daddy carried a camera with him to France and GEE! he had a hard time getting films. But say, that does not compare with it now—he says he will have to stop using the camera, for he can

find no ads for supplies or cameras in the Weekly. ^"""To the Advertising Manager Of the manufacturers, Daddy thinks that at least I 627 West 43d Street, New York

I I would like to see the following ^ brands of cameras advertised the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y., and the in our Weekly:

| Ansco Co., Binghamton N. Y., should have ads in

' OUR paper. Of the dealers the Bass Camera Co., i

109 No. Dearborn St., Chicago, The Central Camera 1 GiOc reasons I

Co., 124 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago; Abe Cohen's I I

Exchange, 1 1 3 Park Row, New York City, The New York Fulton St., Camera Exchange, 109 New York is all | This coupon for Legionnaires and Auxiliary Members to fill out. ! City. But if you are a dealer or salesman, please | check dealer | or Of course there are many more, but that gives a - salesman. If not dealer salesman, please state occupation j few'who ought to advertise in the Legion Weekly.

I Thanking you very much for so kindly giving your I Name j J time to my letter, I beg to remain Address Yours very truly, j j I Frederick H. Kingdon Pott

"BE IT RESOLVED, that with a firm belief In the OUR DIRECTORY value of our magazine—The American Legion of ADVERTISERS Weekly—as a national advertising medium: with the These Advertisers support us— Let's reciprocate. And tell our American Legion Weekly." or tell the same thing to — realization that due to limited subscription price and them so by saying, when you write "I saw your ad in the salesman or dealer from whom you buy their products. constantly Increasing cost of production, the improve- ments which wc desire to see In It will only be made AUTOS & AUTO ACCESSORIES possible through Increased advertising revenue—and WVWVFranklin Institute 25 American Automobile Digest that Increased advertising revenue depends primarily Clement C. Gaines Chevrolet Motor Co upon our support of advertisers In the Weekly—we VVAlexander Hamilton Institute... VWVWElectric Storage Battery Co hereby pledge our support and our patronage, as Indi- WVVLaSalle Extension University 24 International Body Works viduals, and as an organization, to those a. verllsers VVVVPatterson Civil Service School.. 22 WLIberty Top & 1 ire Co who use the columns of our official magazine—The VVVVVStandard Business Training Institute...... BOOKS AND American Legion Weekly." WWVF. w. Tamblyn PUBLICATIONS VWUnivcrsity of Applied Science WVVAmcrican Pub. Co Resolution passed unanimously at the Second Washington School of Cartooning BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES National Convention of The American Legion. American F loor Surfacing. Men Co 25 SMOKERS' NEEDS American Woolen Mills 24 VWWAmerican Tobacco Co '. Anglo American Mill Co R. F. Simmons Company .'. '. '. '. '. WWLiggett & Mvc.-s Tobacco Co '. Armour Tire it Rubber Co 25 WVVVL. W. Sweet, Inc WVVVComer Mfg. Co Back Co-er W. Z. Gibson MEDICINAL SOFT DRINKS Gleamo Mfg. Co VBayer Tablets of Aspirin WCoca Cola VHoleomb & Hoke Co VMusterole Co. Interstate Tailors Othine. SPORTS AND RECREATION Klngcry Mfg. Co MEN'S WEAR WMac-o-Chee Mills Brunswiek-Balke-Coll«nder Co. 22 VWVHai lev-Davidson WMadisnn Shirt Co 24 VB. V. D. Company Motor Co.. . WVVVAlbcrt Mills WWCIuett. Peabody & Co WVHendee Mfg. Co Paul Rubber VThe Florsheim Shoe Co Marble Arms & Mfg. Co Co Cycle Premier Mfg. Co 25 WHart Schaffner & Marx WVMead Co VVVKahn Tailoring VProgress Tailoring Co 25 Co VSanta Fe Railway VVNu Way Strech Suspender Co. STATIONERY WWStandard Food & Fur Co VVV\/Rcliance Mfg. Co Paramount Paper Co. M. II. Tyler Mfg. Co MISCELLANEOUS Post Printing Service. 22 Wolverine Climax Co Rand Company WAmerican Chicle Co FOOD PRODUCTS VVColc & Co VVVWThe Genesee Pure Food Co VDictogranh Products Corp TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH WVH Clay Glover VWAmerlcan Telephone & Telegraph Co. HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES W. W. Hodkinson Corp 23 WWHartman Furniture Co VPhiladelphia Key Co INSURANCE Thompson-Barlow Co Inside Front Cover TOILET NECESSITIES VVJohn L. Forhan Co Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. . J. Whiting J. J. Adams — A. S. Hinds Co INVESTMENTS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS VVVWThe Pepsodent Co Caldwell * Co WVVRucseher WJ. B. Williams- Co Clarence Band Instrument Co Hodson * Co VWVO. Q. Conn, Ltd 2C VVG. L. Miller Bermuda Line Hawaii Tourist Bureau VVVFlour City Ornamental Iron Co PATENT ATTORNEYS WVU. S. Shipping Board 21 VWB. Gutter & Sons 24 LACEY & LACEY 22 Ingersoll Watch Co VJ. M. Lyon * Co SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION TYPEWRITERS VVVVRedding 4 Co VRtlss Electrical School Remineton Typewriter Co. VWWSanta Fe Watch 26 Coyne Electrical School Young Typewriter Co

v service Stripe—Awarded Advertisers with U8 Regularly for Over Six Months. The vv, vw. vwv. vvvvv ind vvvvvv LET'S Stripers are increasing. Notice the i(. This Is the Insignia for the Croix de Coupon, awarded When the Seventh THEY PATRONJZE Service Stripe is Due. ADVERTISE Wc do not knowinglv accent false or fraudulent advertising, or any advertising of an oblectlonable nature. See "Our Platform.' THEY Issue of December 22. 1922. Readers are requested to report promptly any failure on the part of an advertiser to make good any repre- LET'S ADVERTISE sentation contained in an advertisement in The American Legion Weekly. PATRONIZE Advertising rates: $3.00 per agate line. Smallest copy accepted, 14 lines (1 Inch). The Advertising Manager, 627 West 43d Street. N. Y. City. iggest Opportunity of Your Life Will You Give Me a Chance to Pay You $100 a Week?

I want to make you a special new offer whereby you can earn from $100 to $1,000 a month cash. And I am going to tell you how to get started immediately without waiting or delay.

$3 an Hour Carl P. King, of Kentucky, You can be your own boss. You can work just You can see how simple it is. We furnish you a machinist, says: "Since I as many hours a day as you please. You can with a complete outfit and tell you how to get the time received my outfit, start when you want to and quit when you want the business in your territory. We help you to I've spent calling on cus- tomers has paid me $3.00 an to. You don't need experience and you get get started. If you send us only two average " hour profit your money in cash every day when you earn it. orders a day, which you can get in an hour or so in the evening, you can make $100 a week. These Are Facts Maybe You Are Worth Does that sound too good to be true? If it does $1,000 a Month then let me tell you what J. R. Head did in a small town in Kansas. Head lives in a- town of Well, here is your chance to find out, for this 631 people. He was sick, broke, out of a job. is the same proposition that enabled George offer. I gave him the same He accepted my Garon to make a clear profit of $40.00 in his ehance I am now offering you. At this new work first day's work—the same proposition that gave high $69.50 for one day's work. ho has made as as R. W. Krieger $20.00 net profit in a half-hour. If that isn't enough, then let me tell you about It is the same opportunity that gave A. B. of an electrical E. A. Sweet, Michigan. He was Spencer $625 cash for one month's spare time, engineer, and didn't know anything about selling. In his first month's spare time he earned I need five hundred men and women, and I need $625 a Month $243. Inside of six months he was making be- them right away. If you mail the coupon at the Andrew B. Spencer, of Penn- month. bottom of this ad I will show you the easiest, sylvania, is an insurance man tween $800 and $1,200 a who represents us in spare quickest, simplest plan for making money that is another I want to tell you time. We paid him $625 for W. J. McCrafy man you ever heard of. I will send you a beautiful one month's spare time. regular job paid him $2.00 a day, about. His style book and samples of cloth. I will tell you enabled him but this wonderful new work has where to go, what to say, and how to succeed. to make $9,000 a year. Inside of thirty days you can have hundreds of Yes, and right this very minute you are being dollars in cash. offered proposition that has made these the same All you need do to-day is write your name down successful. it? men so Do you want below, cut out the coupon and mail it to me at once. You take no risk, you invest no money, and this may be the one outstanding opportunity A Clean High-grade of your life to earn more money than you ever thought possible. Dignified Business

Have you ever heard of Comer All-Weather Find Out NOW! Coats? They are advertised in all the leading magazines. Think of a single coat that can be Remember, it doesn't cost you a penny. Yon Large and Steady Profits worn all year round. A good-looking, stylish coat don't agree to anything, and you will have a J. J. Maher, of Maint, finds that's good for summer or winter—that keeps chance, without waiting—without delay and the Comer business a sure out wind, rain or snow, a coat that everybody without investment—to go right out and make way to steady and large prof- for men, big money. it. Don't wait. Mail the its He averages $250 to should have, made of fine materials— Do $350 a month, and frequently women and children, and sells for lens than the coupon now. goes over $500 mark. the price of an ordinary coat. C. E. COMER, The Comer Mfg. Co., Now, Comer Coats are not sold in stores. All Dept. Dayton, our orders come through our own representa- F-442 Ohio tives. Within the next few months we will pay our representatives more than three hundred JUST MAIL THIS NOW! thousand dollars for sending us orders. , , And now I am offering you the chance to become THE COMER MFG. CO. our representative in your territory and get your Dept. F-442, Dayton, Ohio. share of that three hundred thousand dollars. All Gentlemen: — Please send me, without obligation you do is to take orders. We do the rest. We de- | on my part, copy of your booklet and full details | liver. We collect, and you get your money the of your proposition. same day you take the order.

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256 for One Month s Important Notice Spare Time The Comer Manufacturing Company is the biggest Address. F. E. Wright, South Carolina business of its kind in the world. Every state- railroad man, finds the Comer ment is true Every promise will be fulfilled, and Agency a great profit maker. any one writing to them is assured of honest, For one month's $256.56 square treatment. f PRINT OR WRITE PLAINLY) leisure hours' effort.