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Vol. 6 No. 47

received by this advertising depart- ment from remote parts of the globe deserves only the most earnest NOVEMBER 21, 1924 consideration. Our mail under foreign postmarks proves one thing: The Weekly Cover Design follows the Flag all over the world and stays with it. Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts IN 1918 we met the German with In every foreign possession of the cold steel. Now a German wants United States, The American to meet us with more cold steel —in The Army at Sea 3 Legion's official magazine is one of the form of "pocket knifes." the best known of this country's By Roy Horton Although his aim Is commercial, periodicals. This is not only be- he might be said to offer us a "clasp" cause of Army and Navy connec- of friendship. tions, but because the up-and- Listening In For Health .'. 5 received his letter the other doing, pioneering type of younger By Robert Mountsier Wc day It was from Hamburg, Ger- American in those parts is pretty many, on the let lerliead of a dealer a] it to be the holder of a Legion steel iron wares. to membership. Sing Kee, D. S. C, Still in in and Attachgd the letter was copy for an advertise- The Weekly is n familiar f;ice on Service 7 ment of wh.il were said to he very rhib library tables ;ind in homes in fine "pocket knifes." The pro- every "American colony" —In posed advertiser was not hampered London, Paris and Berlin, in South Editorials . 8 by undue modesty, for his letter America, in Central America and requested: other parts of the tropics; in the Make 1925 the Big Legion Year 9 "Please let this add come about Orient and throughout the Pacific five inch high and give him a space zone- on the front page." Legion posts in other lands are The Terrible Turk. 10 He closed by asking us to send him embraced in the Foreign Depart- By Wallgrcn the bill for prompt remittance. ment of the Legion, and are among the most enthusiastic and loyal of its Unfortunately for the immediate units. marketing in America of the Ham- The Things That Count 11 burg chap's "pocket knifes," The Here is a world-wide clientele, By Frederick Palmer Weekly does not do business this superimposed on the big American way with unknown accounts. And circulation which intensively devel- field. no matter what sort of ad it is, we ops the national It Was Service That Built cannot give "him" space on the The advertiser who takes space in Legiondom's Biggest Post ... 12 front page. (This is a European The Weekly is on the way toward By Arthur Van Vlissingen, Jr. custom). Later on this office and more inquiries and increased sales the Hamburg dealer may come to wherever he is, or desires to be, a satisfactory and mutually beneficial factor in the market: In Mem- What We Forget ...15 terms. phis or Manila, in Sheboygan or By Thomas Boyd The letter from far away Germany Shanghai, in Paris, Illinois, or Paris, has its illuminating as well as its France. side. It indicates that this advertiser is over- Outfit Reunions 22 amusing For the who enterprising dealer had heard good looking no opportunity to build busi- things about the advertising influ- ness in familiar or hitherto unsought Bursts and Duds... 23 ence of The American Legion fields, The Weekly offers unusual Weekly. advantages. Useful data as to its No doubt too, he has certain circulation at home and abroad will reasons for knowing that its readers be furnished on request. We keep are energetic men of action, who such information fresh, up-to-date It takes members generally get what they set out and dependable at The Ad Shop, after. And possibly, from personal 331 Madison Avenue, New York to make a Legion. observations of their conduct after City. the Armistice, he thinks they're the What's your post sort of men he'd like to do business with.

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Speaking of insomnia, the disease seemed to be prevalent at all times on shipboard, and in the war zone it increased almost to the proportions of an epidemic

By The Army at Sea Roy H orton

HISTORICALLY, the United In the Navy men were taught same by heart. After that they might States Army was developed infantry drill, the handling of small not make the spectacles of themselves on the basis that the person- arms, and even artillery practice, pre- on a transport that they did a few nel could serve and serve well sumably so that they could go ashore years back. You know when I mean. even if great numbers thereof became and conquer the Republic of Haiti with Why the Army officers were so at sea sick on a ferry-boat. It never oc- a three-inch field piece, but the Army as to the ranks in the Navy I never curred to the various fathers of our youngsters were brought up at West could understand. They seemed intel- country, the uncle Senators and the Point with no idea of the Navy except ligent enough in other respects. One cousin Congressmen, that the Army to beat Annapolis in athletic contests. thing is certain, however, and that is would ever have to take to water. As Future preparedness programs, how- that they did not improve their stand- for the high-ranking officers, after ever, should include a trip on a ship ing on the ship by not being able to thirty or forty years in the service you for each and every enlisted man and distinguish between a chief petty officer would not expect them to even suspect officer in the Army even if it has to be and a captain. Show me the junior it. The only thing in that line they confined to the Hudson River Day Line. officer in the Navy who was not ready bothered with was the building of pon- Then they ought to be sent into solitary and eager to take advantage of such toon bridges, and that knowledge was confinement with a list of the various ignorance to be high-hatted to an officer of little use to them in stormy weather ranks and insignias of the Navy and who ranked him. When I was the low- four days outward bound for France. kept there until they have learned the est kind of an officer, ranking with but PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY after an ensign, as the saying goes, the question. It was not being done had to do his sleeping in the daytime. many a major came up to me and that season. He was always severely Speaking of insomnia, the disease saluted before asking me some import- disciplined and in consequence thereof seemed to be prevalent at all times on ant question—such as "Have you a spent many days in the brig and all his shipboard, and in the war zone it in- match?" (We took all the matches pay, but black as the crime was and as creased almost to the proportions of an away from the Army and gave them summarily as punishment was meted epidemic. It was difficult to get about crew.) I out to the can never remem- out, the recurrence of the strange phe- the boat deck through the crowd. I ber being any too cordial under such nomenon was always greeted with more had a slight attack myself on my first circumstances. or less mirth in the navy officers' mess. trip but was given the cure. enlisted The men were just as much When you stop to consider that the One night as I stood by the rail a at sea as the officers, but with different only excuse a transport had for its ex- certain hard-boiled old sea-dog stopped results. They did not know a navy istence was the carrying of troops, the beside me. officer when they saw one, so they took attitude of the navy personnel was noth- "Say, kid," he said, "why don't you it for granted that we were all privates, ing short of ridiculous. The comfort of turn in?" or at the most non-coms. This was the soldiers should have been the first I stared at him a minute and then especially true of dark troops, of which consideration, and as they all doubtless said in a weak voice, doubtless due to our ship seemed to have a virtual realized that fact, it must have been the ravages of insomnia, "Why don't monopoly. Their favorite titles for us irksome to hear constantly the warn- you?" included boss, Jack, buddy, corporal and ing, "You can't stand there, soldier." Even I will have to admit that that sergeant. Such lapses in military eti- Still there was no partiality shown ex- was a pretty weak come-back in any quette, however, did the enlisted men no cept perhaps to colonels and generals, language, including the Scandinavian. harm. We did not care what they called and they were only given the run of "Son," the ancient mariner replied, us, within reason, as long as they did the ship on sufferance. I can well re- "I'm on the way there now. I've just what they were told and kept out of member that we had to request two come off watch." the way. A major, on the other hand, colonels to rid the bridge of their pres- "Listen," he added after a moment's did not make his life any more pleasant ence on one trip because they were thought, "you want to get the right by going about saluting every member constantly sighting submarines and attitude on this here submarine menace of the crew who wore regular man's torpedoes and mines and things. stuff. Don't let it get your goat. Just pants. Even assistant secretaries of war did before I left the bridge the navigator not rate very much. One crossed with was showing the captain how we was us and had the stateroom opposite mine very.likely to meet a submarine tonight. not rate anything on believe me, mine was not among THE Army did and It was reported this afternoon in this suites. fact, the only non- a transport, anyway. They were the bridal In locality and he has .it doped out that treated with all the courtesy generally navy man who rated anything in par- its course and ours will just about con- accorded a housebreaker. We had on the ticular was a Congressman. He was verge at quarter past four. Right away ship colored mess attendant had a in stateroom N. 1 on the boat deck, a who put I left a call for four o'clock. See. The and unfortunate complex brass and everything, and signs pernicious bed altitude to take is that you and I have posted all which led to his telling army officers who were instructing hands to be got to hurry if we want to get a night's crossed his path to go to hell. Of course silent in the vicinity because the gentle- rest before the blow-off comes. Come thing like absolutely out of was troubled with insomnia and a that was man on, let's get below." I did turn in and was not bothered by insomnia—or by the submarine. The soldiers were not subject to the malady because they could simply sprawl out on the boat deck and sleep there, conduct which would have been as unbecoming to an officer as last year's hat. In that connection let me say that I was one man who walked all over the United States Army during the war. I had to get aft from the bridge in the dark. A passageway at dusk would be a tangled mass of arms, legs and bodies an hour later. It was a squashy feel- ing to step in the middle of a man's stomach in the blackness. Gosh, how I dreaded it! Although they were for the most part too sick to care, there was always the chance that one would rise in wrath and cast me over the side. That is what was done with anything which was not wanted on the ship, and it was almost a habit with the Army.

THAT brings to mind one dirty trick that the Navy played on the Army. The soldiers on this particular ship had to take their abandon ship stations at four o'clock, or whatever hour just pre- ceded dawn, and stand there until the morning was well under way. I might explain in passing that "morning" in the Navy comes before eight o'clock. After eight it is "forenoon." I could never quite reconcile myself to that nomenclature. It appeared that by navy standards I had very rarely been up in the morning at all before I en- listed. Not content with getting them up in the middle of the night, the ship's au- thorities made it still harder for the When you stop to consider that the only excuse a transport had for its Army by issuing orders to the effect soldiers should existence was the carrying of troops, the comfort of the that no one should dare to take off his have been the first consideration life preserver, or any of his clothes (Continued on page 21) NOVEMBER 21, 1924 PAGE 5

RADIO set ivith a good pair of headphones will do more to effect a cure in a tuberculosis case than any other apparatus yet devised. — Dr. W. k. Foley, Chief of

Medical Service, Veterans Bureau Hospital No. (>8, Minneapolis, Minnesota

For the last fifteen months Gerald H. Philips of Beacon, New York, has been lying flat on his back, bed- ridden, in the Veterans Bureau Hospital at Maywood, Illinois. While his eyes see only the ceiling and walls of his hospital ward and the rows of his fellow-sufferers, his ears, served by the modern magic of radio, hear songs that are sung and words that are spoken in almost every large city in the United States. The springs of his hospital bed serve as the antenna for his five-tube receiving set. This photograph and the upper picture on the next page were taken by Sidney Wilson, another Maywood patient, who has completed a vocational training course in photography

Listening In for Health

much has been written about By Robert Mountsier staffs working with them, radio has SOradio as an aid to politicians, had in veterans' hospitals and homes preachers, aviators, fish trawl- an interesting past, even though com- ers, spinach growers, grouch dealing with an infinite variety of sub- paratively brief, and it has a future raisers and such like that the ex- jects broadcast from points east and full of even greater promise and benefit. tensive use of radio for patients in west. As a result of the efforts of the As to the past, Hospital No. 68, in hospitals maintained by the United patients themselves, of a few interested Minneapolis, believes it was the first States Veterans Bureau and by the and generous citizens, newspapers and Veterans Bureau institution to be com- Army and Navy has been somewhat clubs, of the Veterans Bureau and of pletely equipped with radio. No. 68 overlooked. Radio as an adjunct in the American Legion posts and Auxiliary started its listening-in career on a treatment of thousands of hospital cases units, there is no longer a veterans Radiola Sr., with two stages of ampli- is today an established and accepted fact. hospital in the country without a Dr. fication and a W. E. horn, which sup- Nowhere has its value and importance Radio on its staff. With many Veter- plied entertainment to about thirty bed as a means of recreation and as a ther- ans Bureau hospitals equipped with cases in the solarium. apeutic agent been more conclusively central sets, loudspeakers and head- proved than among veterans disabled phones, General Frank T. Hines, di- by their war service and confined to rector of the Veterans Bureau, says: "I T was not long before we conceived hospitals and homes throughout the "Radio has proved itself a great aid 1 the idea," says Colonel H. D. Luse, country. and beneficial influence in the care and medical officer in charge of No. 68, Day after day, as they sit or lie or treatment of disabled veterans. It pro- "that individual radio sets could bo ambulate, America's war disabled, no vides a means of positive improvement, used to great therapeutic advantage, matter in what part of the United both physically and mentally, for the help the men to pass away the long States they may he, are able to listen patients in the hospitals." hours of hospital confinement and to to all kinds of music and to programs Thanks to ex-service men and medical keep their minds from their own PAGE 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY troubles and pains. We were fortu- for any patient confined to his bed, and newness of the hospital routine wears nate in having a Class B broadcasting we have encouraged radio to such an off, and he becomes restless. Lying day station located about two miles from extent that every patient here has either after day with nothing to do but think the hospital, and this nearness ren- a set of his own or one furnished by about himself and his health, he natu- dered the use of crystal sets highly the hospital. At the present time, when rally begins to worry. efficient. As a means of light occupa- a patient enters No. 68, he is issued, tion, many of the men were instructed along with his hospital equipment, if in the construction of small crystal sets he so wishes, a crystal radio set for " ME wonders about the folks at which could be attached to the springs his use while here." II home. Even if he has no fam- of their hospital beds. In discussing how radio works as an ily, it is difficult for a sick man not to "The result of this use of the radio aid in the treatment of tuberculosis, find something to worry about. Loss of was so satisfactory that at Christmas, Dr. W. K. Foley, chief of No. 68's appetite generally follows such a condi- 1923, enough enthusiasm had been medical service, has the following to tion, with subsequent loss of weight. worked up with disabled veterans tak- say: The patient becomes more or less irrita- ing vocational training at the Duri- "A radio set with a good pair of ble, and he feels that the treatment he woody Institute to induce them to con- headphones will do more to effect a cure is receiving is not right. As a result, struct about 150 small crystal sets and in a tuberculosis case than any other we face one of the biggest obstacles present them to the hospital. Later on apparatus yet devised. When a patient possible in the treatment of the disease. we interested certain local associations enters a hospital with tuberculosis and "About two years ago we first hit upon in the purchase of seventy-five crystal hears that to be cured he must go to the idea of utilizing radio entertain- sets complete with receivers and spring- bed and remain there for several months ment. There was one patient who gave coil aerials. or even a year or two, he naturally us no end of trouble. He came almost "Many of the men have graduated •becomes discouraged. Nevertheless, he every hour to the office with some little from the crystal stage to that of a tube is put to bed, and the first week or two complaint. Gradually he worked him- set, and at the present time we have he rests fairly well and his condition self into such a state of mental frenzy in this hospital about one hundred tube usually shows improvement. Then the that his condition grew rapidly worse. sets of all makes, from Then one day we in- a single-circuit to the stalled a small radio reflex circuits, includ- set at the side of his ing neutrodynes, ultra- bed. He became inter- dynes and superhetero- ested at once, and it dynes. On the roof are was not long before we more than one hundred noticed a decided aerials, inside the change in his attitude building about one toward everything. hundred and fifty. Oc- Last summer he left casionally some patient the hospital cured. will notice interference That was the begin- from the use of the ning of radio treat- single-circuit sets, ment at No. 68. I which we are gradually would rather give a discouraging and hope patient a radio set to have entirely elimi- than a whole handful nated in the near fu- of pills — it does him ture. Even in summer more good." it is not uncommon for Veterans Bureau the larger sets to pick Hospital No. 64, at up the eastern stations Camp Kearney, Cali- with little interference, fornia, uses a different and during the winter system of radio in its months we have re- treatment for bedrid- ceived stations in all ren tuberculous pa- parts of the United tients and convales- States and in Canada cents. More or less and Cuba. along the lines laid down in the Veterans Bureau specifications S a result of this for centralized sys- "A hospital's work Minutes seem like hours no longer at the Veterans Bureau Hospital tems, Camp Kearney with radio and our in Maywood, Illinois, for Doctor Radio is always on the job with a has a central station study of its use for pa- good story or a new song. Lester N. Sicard of Muskegon, Michigan, using more than 9,000 tients, we feel that ra- a former naval aviator, sits up in bed to get the latest one, and Dean feet of wire for connec- dio offers the best form Moore of Astoria, Illinois, formerly of the 39th Railway Engineers, tions to all wards and > (Cont'd page of recreation possible gets it in his armchair while he tinkers with the dials on 16)

Headphones are as indispensable as crutches and wheel chairs in this convalescent ward of the United States Naval Hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts. The Navy Department is preparing to install uniform radio equipment in all beds in the hospital — :

NOVEMBER 21, 1924 PAGE 7 Sing Kee, D. S. C.—Still in

HERE is quite a difference between the Connecticut Yankee and the Kentucky T mountaineer, although Service both may have sprung from the same Elizabethan Eng- land. The Hoosier hasn't citation describing this everything in common something else and ac- with the Texan, though companying his D. S. C. both may be listed in reads as follows: the census under the For extraordinary hero- name of Brown. And ism in action at Mont a Nelson or an Ander- Notre Dame, west of son of Minnesota are Fismes, France, August apt to be easily distin- 14-15, 1918. Although guishable from a Fitz- seriously gassed during patrick or an O'Brien shelling by high explo- of Pennsylvania. sive and gas shells, he re- But you can't tell fused to be evacuated and Lee Lock of Cleveland continued, practically sin- from Woo How of San gle-handed, by his own Francisco, or Gum initiative, to operate the Wing of Atlanta from regimental message cen- Ming Ling of China- ter relay station at Mont town, New York City. Notre Dame. Through- Of course you can't. out this critical period he Every Nordic-Ameri- showed extraordinary can that all knows heroism, high courage Chinese look alike. and persistent devotion That fact is a part of to duty, and totally dis- every genuine, blown- regarded all personal in-the-bottle American danger. By his deter- credo. mination he materially every American And aided his regimental com- knows that all Chinese mander in communicating not only look alike, but with the front line. that they also all talk alike—using a vocabu- Not the deed of a lary of only seventeen won't-fighter, that. words with variations But it happened six in sixty-nine octaves years ago. According and dress alike and act to the old tradition, alike. In short, they Sing Kee today should are all alike in every b e indistinguishable way—as much alike as among the thousands so many peas in one of Chinese laundrymen great Chinese-Ameri- and restaurant keepers can pod. Every Chi- scattered through nese laundryman is the American communities twin of every chop- and the Chinatowns of suey waiter, and—as our larger cities. But, an enlargement of the in truth, he is one of tradition there are no the easiest men to find — Sing Kee, who made the D. S. C. grade for extraordinary heroism Chinese who are not in the whole of New in action near Fismes in August of 1918, with Mrs. Kee, looks laundrymen or chop- York City. out placidly on the world. Kee is now an interpreter in the suey restaurant work- There is a glass door Immigration Service, and is stationed in New York City ers. Still another in a building at the extension of the tradi- Battery, at the tip-end

tion, as commonly subscribed to until prised when he found that he had many of _ lower Manhattan, bearing this recently, is that all Chinese are pacifis- hundreds of Chinese young men in olive legend tic by nature—won't-fighters. This last drab—good marchers, rifle-firers, tent- "U. S. Immigration Service, Chinese extension is always qualified by such pitchers, pack - toters, all - round good Branch." exceptions as tong wars in American men in any battle. They didn't speak Chinatowns and civil wars across the pigeon-English. They were products of Pacific. American schools and colleges, and they BEHIND that door you will find Sing It was a good tradition while it were stickers at the fighting game. And Kee. And the man who proved his lasted. But the World War came along among them was Sing Kee. worth in battle is still giving his Gov- and spoiled it. It was one of the hun- Getting down to cases, Sing Kee was ernment the same kind of service. He dred and one traditions, including the only Chinese-American service man is an interpreter, appointed in Septem- many of our favorite faiths and beliefs, to win the Distinguished Service Cross ber, 1919. His war service gave him which were scrapped on the battlefields in battle. Before he became a member enough extra credits to place him at of France. of The American Le

WILLIAMS POST of Farmer JO,City, Illinois, fired the first shot in the end-of-the-year battle of the dotted line and dropped into National Headquarters on October 3rd fourteen paid-up membership cards for 1925. But while that shot was still echoing, Victor Cornell Post of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, won first honors in the over-the-top-by-January-lst advance by sending in 83 paid-up 1925 membership cards, five more cards that it had for 1924. And, crowding Cornell Post for the honor, Fowler (Indiana) Post sent in 108 membership cards for 1925, four more than it had this year— it was showing the rest of the posts of its department that it stands squarely be- hind its buddy, Thomas S. McConneil, of Fowler, who takes office as Depart- ment Commander on January 1st. Other runners-up for the honor of being the first post to exceed its 1924 membership before January 1, 1925, were Pulaski Post of Detroit, which came through with 107 for 1925 as compared with 102 in 1924, and Roy Cole Post of Grand Ledge, Michigan, with 43 for 1925 as against its 42 this year. These were the earliest posts to reg- ister in the drum-fire barrage of the 1925 membership drive, the bar- and Harry Fox is nominated the Legion's champion member-getter of the United rage has been advancing by tens and States by his outfit, Harold Mason Post, the largest post in South Dakota. hundreds of paid-up 1925 members Fox, using an automobile to call upon prospects in his spare time, signed with each new day. Every department, up 423 members in six months, or half of his post's total enrollment. He almost every post, has given signs that will be out to beat his own 1924 record in 1925 it will try to reach New Year's Day, little more than a month from now, with a 1925 enrollment greater than ment before January 1st. All posts on by the first of the year and thus put the enrollment it has for this year. each list will be awarded citations set- the department in the national running. National Commander James A. ting forth their accomplishments. The Department of Florida, which Drain has declared repeatedly that the These will be signed by the National almost monopolized the national mem- Legion's program for 1925 depends on Commander and the National Adju- bership trophies at the Saint Paul Na- the success of early membership-get- tant. National Headquarters is also tional Convention, is now trying to sew ting efforts. In past years many im- supplying to all departments special up its lead for 1925. Everybody remem- portant activities in the Legion's na- literature and blank forms to be used bers that Florida won the MacNider tional, department and post programs in the early membership-getting drives. Trophy, the Lindsley Trophy and the have been slowed up by the fact that Reports from all sections of the Galbraith Trophy at Saint Paul. The the first few months of the year have country show that departments are department doesn't make any secret of had to be devoted largely to member- mobilizing their full strength to reach how it won them. The important fact ship-getting. This year, Commander the New Year's Day goal. Pennsyl- is that the Florida department had Drain hopes, with each post and de- vania is out to get 60,000 men signed signed up 5,282 members before the partment reaching its full strength up before January 1st. Illinois held middle of last January. This year it early, the Legion's whole strength will Armistice Day rallies in every post as is going to do even better. It is so con- be thrown into the big jobs ahead when the starting point of its drive to exceed fident it will do better that it has just the year is starting. this year's membership. Colorado sets signed up for a membership duel with In recognition of the importance of its mark at 15,000 members. Montana the Department of Connecticut, which early enrollment the Organization and is out to get 8,000. With Helena Post, was the runner-up in this year's mem- Membership Division at National North Little Rock Post and Pangburn bership race. Headquarters is compiling lists of all Post over their 1924 totals on Novem- James W. Morris, Jr., Florida's Com- posts which exceed their 1924 enroll- ber 1st, the Arkansas Department is mander, enthusiastically outlined the ments before December 1st and those counting on each of the "big ten" terms of the battle with Connecticut. other posts which exceed 1924 enroll- posts of its State to go over the top {Continued on page 19) PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY The Terrible Turk By Wallgren NOVEMBER 21, 1924 PAGE 11

A Personal Page by Frederick Palmer The Things That Count

SOME soft-hearted people are worried about how the Racial hate ami prejudice overseas are taking a much-needed turkeys themselves feel about it. But the turkeys ought rest. American relief is not required to keep European chil- to be thankful, to«, if they look at it in the right way. dren from starving. Trotsky's army is not making war on If they were not in sueh demand they would never have been anybody but Russians, and famine horrors are not added to hatched and tenderly raised against the day when their heads the horrors of Bolshevism. should be lopped off. They would never have lived at all The Dawes plan is in operation under an American agent instead of having the honor of being the national bird one day general, and the Germans are getting real money in place of in the year. paper which changes value by the hour. France is prosperous. All any citizen of these United States needs to enjoy Thanks- Europe as a whole is at work and feeling better. All this is giving is an appetite, a turkey to satisfy it, and to look upon the good news to former American soldiers and sailors who were cranberries when they are red and sufficiently sweet. Only facing the submarine menace and the trenches on Thanks- the American who has not the price of a square meal and no giving Day, '17. It lessens the prospect of having to leave home to eat it in has any kick coming. our homes again.

Even if it is his fault that he has not the price, those who have square meals and a home can best be thankful by forget- TV/f ANY million voters went to the polls to register their ting this fault and offering him a square meal and a home to choice in a peaceful national election. When the result cat it in. I do not like to think that any cx-scrvice man or was known the next day it was accepted without a tumult or woman has not a full stomach at two in the afternoon of anybody raising an army to dispute the verdict by force. Thanksgiving Day. I do not like to think that any ex-service "Of course," you say, but that "of course" expresses a reason man or woman will not have a home dinner on Thanksgiving for thanks when you consider how they hold elections in some Day. other countries. It is a reason for indulging the "grand and You married ex-service men, do not forget to ask yourself glorious feeling" even on the part of those whose candidates

if there is any veteran you know who may miss a home Thanks- were beaten. giving dinner. Have him in! Warm the cockles of his We have more automobiles than all the rest of the world, bachelor heart, make him young enough to wear a bib again more good roads than last year. Our standard of living and as you give him a chair beside the kids. This experience may our wages and what we get for them are the highest in the world. cure him of his single cussedness and lead him to take on Our savings banks accounts and our endowments for educa- marital blessedness before turkey day comes around again. tion have increased. The lonely ranch can tune in to hear It is estimated that the percentage of Legionnaires who are music and speeches in distant cities. We are free of debts to married is 73. \, which is an increase of eight percent in the other nations and other nations owe us vast sums. We have last year. It seems to me that this is the biggest thing, after freedom of thought and religious practice and all kinds of all, that the Legion has to be thankful for; and it is a big thing freedom which other peoples do not enjoy. for the nation to be thankful for. You may know someone who has more money and com- fort and a better automobile than you have, but you may have THANKSGIVING DAY is the day when all grouches more of the things that count for human happiness than he should be stowed. Even the wry victim of indigestion has. He may be envying you their possession; he may be ought to be happy in watching others do their duty not in the envying you your children, your health, your content and your trenches but as trenchermen. On this national anti-grouch free conscience and your Thanksgiving Day smile.

day the thing is to give thanks for what we have got and not There is still another thing that he may be envying you, worry about what we have not got. the thing that counts the most of all to you. On this Thanks- It comes in the season when the crops are in. Good or giving Day and on all Thanksgiving Days to come ex-service bad, you can't change them now. After the crops were in our men and women have one possession which nothing can change pioneer ancestor had time to spare to take down the old blunder- or take away—that they were in uniform when their country- buss and get a wild turkey fat from fall feeding. Mother shoots needed them. the barnyard turkey today with coin of the Republic at the They may be thankful for the Legion and the work that it market price per pound. has done in the last year; that there was a housecleaning in the We may be thankful that we do not have to live in the Veterans Bureau and a better law put on the statute books; hard way that our ancestors did, thankful for all our modern that the Legion is going right on looking after the disabled; improvements and comforts. The day after we may go out that a wrong was righted in the Adjusted Compensation to work for more improvements and comforts, but on Thanks- Act. giving Day the spirit should be, "All is for the best in the best As a people we may all be thankful that we live in a land of worlds." that has not known the foot of a foreign invader for over an We have a right, a national right, to sit back after our last hundred years; that it has not been and is in no danger of

helping of turkey, as we let our belts out another notch, and being Bolsheviked ; that the new spirit of an Americanism glow with gratitude that life is sweet and joyful and that for which the Legion has stood from the first and which thinks it is good to be alive in the land of turkey and cranberries. in terms of quality instead of numbers has further restricted We may think kindly of our neighbors, well of the community immigration. Yes, thanks for these United States which is in which we live. giving thanks to our own efforts in making them what they are; Four million ex-service men and women, who know what and thanks for the spirit that is in us to make them still better war exacts when it takes them away from home ami neighbors, so we shall have more to be thankful for on future Thanks- may rejoice that there is no war or alarm of war in Europe. giving Days. PAGE 12 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

It Was Service That

By Arthur Van Vlissingen, Jr.

When Joseph Corbett's pack became too heavy, Omaha Post of The American Legion helped him carry k. Corbett was unable to work because of the leaky heart which the war left him. He found himself without a home, facing a Nebraska winter. It wouldn't have been so bad if Corbett had been alone. But with him were his wife, a three-year- old daughter and a son but a week old. Omaha Post built a home for him in a single day. The post bought building material and a large group of members put up the house a lot %&

does Omaha Post, HOWthe largest post in the Legion, manage to keep its 3,125 paid- up members pulling together? Does it not inevitably lose, through its great size, much of the advantage of friendli- ness and general acquaintance which are so large a part of most successful posts? What good is such a big post, any- how? In the answers to those questions treasury after national and department money for me. I don't see why that will be found most of the answers to dues have be-en deducted. That gives isn't just as good common sense for the successful conduct of Legion posts the post an income of between $2,300 Omaha Post as it is for a manufac- in large cities. For Omaha Post is and $2,400 a year—which is not much turer or a department store owner. successful—successful beyond any other in a big city. And I want to propose that we do some- big city post, perhaps, in all the Legion. Of course the post makes money on thing of the sort." It has earned itself a large place in outside activities, also. How it makes The upshot was that J. J. Isaacson, the. community ; and Omaha (which, by them go, and what it does with the a member of the post, was employed to the way, will be the scene of the Le- money, constitute an interesting story take charge of all promotional activi- gion's 1925 National Convention) is a of a Legion outfit in action. ties. He also edits and manages the community so thoroughly organized in The plan of money-making was the county paper, which is published by all directions that for any organization outgrowth of the post's first two years Omaha Post. For hisi publishing ac- to earn itself a place among the top- of existence. During this period it at- tivities and managing such activities notchers is something of a feat. tempted to make money by the orthodox of the post as bowling tournaments, And besides earning itself a place in method of having a committee in charge golf matches, and so forth, he receives the community, Omaha Post has man- of an outside activity. And it didn't a salary from the paper. aged not only to keep its head above work as well as some of the men at the Then, for his work in promoting other financial waters, but also to get a top thought it should. money-making activities for the post, shoulder out and part of an arm. It "We wouldn't any of us dream of he receives a percentage of the profits meets all expenses, and manages to getting a committee of volunteer un- which he earns for the post after all save something out of its regular in- paid workers to take over a department expenses have been met. The post pro- come. And it isn't a large income, as or a new enterprise in our businesses," moter is responsible to, and reports far as dues go. A member of this post one of the officers finally expressed him- directly to, the post finance committee. pays three dollars a year, of which self. "If I decided that as part of my Given the wrong kind of man in this fifty cents goes to pay his subscription business I wanted to start selling a new job and a lax control, you, of course, to the Douglas County Legionnaire, and product, I'd go hire me a good man and have a situation laden with fifty per- seventy-five cents remains for the post make it worth his while to make some cent dynamite. But Omaha Post has —

NOVEMBER 21, 1924 PAGE iz Built Legiondom's Biggest Post

the right kind of man as promoter; maintain clubrooms. It does not want Omaha is on the natural track of and, just to make sure nothing slips them. As the officers, who have been the nomad men who drift across the by him which would not be as it should studying the situation carefully ever country. It is the big railroad center be, the committee scans everything very since the start, explain: west of the Mississipi, and here con- carefully which is proposed as a money- "In a city as large as Omaha most verge the men who travel in side-door making enterprise. of the members of the Legion have Pullmans and on the rods. Most of the "If an enterprise is not commen- their own social channels all established. post's employment activity is among surate with the dignity of Omaha Post Perhaps it is a man's church which these men —men who do not belong to we turn it down, no matter how much holds his interest outside of working the community, and who, under other money it might make for the post," ex- hours. Maybe it is his downtown club, circumstances, might be a positive plains Commander Leo Bozell. "We or the Y. M. C. A., or a fraternal menace to it. For a foot-loose man value our standing in the community order, or the golf club he may belong who is hungry and out of work is the too highly to sell it for a few dollars to. What it is, is of no significance. finest sort of prospective first-offense of gate receipts. Even if it were not The significant fact is that practically criminal. for our liking to stand high, we should every member has such a set of outside be entering into a poor business deal; interests, and if we were to try to build our reputation will continue to make up a structure of sociability we should "\^/rE have n0 doubt," declares us good profits as long as we run the simply be attempting to tear him away Hough, "that we have prevented right sort of affairs. So we run the from the allegiance to whatever organi- more crime, and have kept more former right sort of affairs—good shows, box- zation has his natural preference. service men from taking a step in the ing matches, and the like. Everyone "In a good many of the larger cities direction of jail, than any other agency who comes feels satisfied that he has the Legion organizations do not stand in Omaha. But the word has pretty well had his money's worth—and he buys a as high as they should. Everyone got around that the Legion post can find ticket next time he is asked." knows that. We are convinced, from a man a job in Omaha. And among the observations elsewhere and from per- residents it is understood that the sonal experience in Omaha, that the Legion can furnish men for almost any THE basis of the Legion's existence big reason is that their energies are sort of job, whether permanent or for' in Omaha is not social, except in the expended in the wrong direction. There a few hours' work. sense of social service. There are no are, of course, other contributing rea- "The result is that the men out of social meetings at all, except big pic- sons why the Legion has been able to work come to us, and the people of nics held perhaps twice a year in one build itself a position as strong as it Omaha send to us when they want help. of the city parks. As for the broader has in Omaha. But the principal rea- We have almost always a demand for definition of social, the post is a mem- son, we know, is that we devote our men to ck> odd jobs and take temporary ber of Omaha Council of Social Agen- thought and our time and our funds employment. It varies from regular cies along with the United Charities and to the proper functions of the Legion employment in a factory or office or all of the other organizations which are in a big city." warehouse all the way to the house- concerned with relief work and the like. Part of the office space of the post holder who wants someone to mow his There is one difference between is devoted to an employment section. lawn, shovel off his sidewalks or carry Omaha Post and most of the other local It looks pretty much like the employ- out ashes. Often we are able to piece social agencies, however. Omaha Post ment department of a manufacturing together enough odd jobs to give a man is not a participant in the Community plant or big business house of any sort. a regular income and regular employ- Chest funds, despite a standing invita- If anything, it is less dressy. But ment—taking care of half a dozen tion to come in and name the share of through that corner of the office pass people's furnaces, for instance, makes the funds which it requires to carry a great many men who are in need of a very decent living for a man who on its relief work. That would be an employment, and who get it. needs something to give him a living easier way to get the money than by keeping after every decent chance to pick up a few dollars. But the post's officers hold to the idea that they would rather set their members to selling tickets to a patriotic mo- tion picture, on a percentage basis from the theatre manage- ment, than be hampered by the rules which must surround any- one who accepts aid from a com- munity fund. "We co-operate with the Com- munity Chest folks in every way we can," is the way Adjutant Harry C. Hough tells about it. "But we prefer to remain un- hampered. We are careful about whom we aid, of course. But as it is, we can do what we have always preferred to do that is, give some relief to an occasional man who is not en- titled to it rather than let some- body slip by unaided when he really should have what he asks for." In the post's offices on the ground floor of the courthouse Hough maintains the only quar- ters which the post has. In ac- cordance with the principle that the post is strictly a business organization for service, and in The employment service maintained by Omaha Post is intimate no sense a social entertainment and serviceable. It gets results, often tiding a man over with institution, the post does not temporary work until it can connect him with a permanent job —

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A view of the five-bed ward which Omaha Post maintains in St. Joseph Hospital. Dr. Boler, one of the Legion physicians, is shown reading the chart of a patient's condition

until with regular job. the he can connect a courthouse had suffered ; they po- "The police know about this, too. If liced the streets and backed up the regu- they pick up a man who claims to be lar police force to the last man. Next! a former service man, and who needs day the State troops began to arrive, employment so that he will not have to but for three or four days the Legion Qet Out the beg, they turn him over to us. We get was on the job, until they were relieved him a job—and usually the police never by the authorities. Old Kit Bag hear from him again. He fits into the How much damage and loss of life city, goes to work as a self-respecting they saved Omaha will never be known. and respectable citizen, and either stays It was, however, a great deal. After It's about time to pack in Omaha on that basis or moves along the riot the Chamber of Commerce up the old kit bag and elsewhere without giving anyone in offered the post any amount of money Omaha any trouble. We place about it wanted to ask for the services of its forget all your troubles two thousand men in jobs every year." members. But the post agreed heartily that come with the Then, too, Omaha Post maintains a that what they had done was simply five-bed ward in St. Joseph Hospital. their duty. They did not want pay- daily routine of life. The post rents this ward by the year. ment for restoring order in Omaha. If a service man needs medical and Then, two years afterward, a big Get out where you hospital attention and hasn't the funds strike came in the stockyards. The can stalk the buck, the to pay for tlvem, he goes into the Le- more repressive of the employers gion ward. Legionnaire doctors take wanted the Legion to police Packing- blue bill or cotton tail care of him. And if he is in need of town. The Legion refused, on the and bring back that special nursing, the nurses of the grounds of having no interest in any old thrill of life in the nurses' division of the post take care disputes so long as there was no dis- order. And after that it stood in right open. If the kit bag of that. And then there is, so the officers with the workingmen of Omaha. It is well stocked with maintain, a very real advantage in had measured up to the sympathy they Kraft Cheese, you'll having just the one post in Omaha. hoped for—a strict neutrality. As Commander Bozell says, "In Omaha On one occasion a veteran passed a get more kick from the Legion is either for or against bogus check in a department store and your outing for Kraft anything. One post is not taking one was caught. The store manager called Cheese will stimulate stand while another takes another. We Omaha Post headquarters. "Come thresh out very thoroughly any ques- over," he asked Hough. And when that old army appetite. tion which becomes a matter of dispute. Hough came they went into the case And the executive committee is ex- together. They found that here was For any kind of out- tremely careful never to commit the another case of a man out of work and door recreation Kraft post to any action which might be dis- a first offense. They got him a job and puted until the question is brought be- the man has never slipped since that Cheese in tins is con* fore the members at a regular meeting day. venience itself. of the post. The membership of the post is not, The thing which first put The Amer- of course, maintained without effort. ican Legion on the map as one of the The post sails into the job of increas- KRAFT CHEESE COMPANY big vital organizations of Omaha came ing the roster just as it sails into a at the time of the race riot in Sep- case of veteran relief work. Last drive New York CHICAGO Pocatello, Idaho tember of 1919. The riot flamed up, the post sent all the way to the East KRAFT-MAC LAREN CHEESE CO., LTD. for permission to use a vacant store MONTREAL. CANADA as such things will, and a couple of hours after its beginning on a small which a chain organization was about scale the courthouse had been gutted to occupy with a store. The room was with fire, .and nobody knew where It on the best corner in town. And the was going to stop as a disorder. post took more applications there than Before the riot was more than well it ever took anywhere in a similar under way the Legion was mobilizing. space of time. The members got on their uniforms Yes, there is a real field for a Legion it was still possible for most of us, post in a large city. The main thing back in those days, to do it without a is to have a post management which shoehorn — and set out to police the is smart enough to find out what that town. They guarded the city hall from field is and hold the post's activities JtafcM? Bern the possibility of any such attack as within it. 15 NOVEMBER 21, 1924 PAGE

rrfHOMAS BOYD is the author of "Through the Wheat," a "war ± novel" that attracted aide attention on its publication a year and a half ago. "Plumes," by Laurence Stallings, happens to he the "war novel" of the moment. The American Legion Wee khj asked Private Boyd to write about Captam Stallings's book. IncidentalVg, the private and the captain, Marines both, served in the same outfit—the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division What We Forget By Thomas Boyd

is easy to forget. There was, fore that time came he wanted to have ITfor example, a war some six years found out what the last one had been ago. And that war lasted for a caused by, what was the reason for it. good long while. Even for us He had a son and a leg with seven Americans, who only knew nineteen, holes from Maxim machine gun bullets months of the carnage, it was a furious, in it. The son had been born while stressful time. Our casualty lists grew the father was in France. The mother to sickening lengths and the men in the had been a wife only a little more than lines had a taste of despair, the feeling a year. And it seemed to Richard that they would attack and be relieved, Plume when he returned to her that attack and be relieved until a shell or he was a pretty poor excuse for a hus- a bullet stopped them. But many peo- band. Richard Plume has an ancestor ple seem to have forgotten the fact of who took part in every war that was a war. every fought by America. Each one, It is easier to forget than to remem- from the early eighteenth century Noah ber. We had a manufactured hate who "was killed while on scouting pa- against the Central Powers. Some of trol organized by an unfortified settle- free Cop^wday us choked and stuttered, trying to find ment" and "thus founded the war-like It Hbouit n wonderful selection of, words that were Ugly enough to apply tradition, persisted in unto this day Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry, j Toilet Arti- to the character of a man with a with- among the Plumes," of going to war to Silverware, Ivory Wart, suitable for save your neighbor's each cles and Novelties—all ered arm and a spiked mustache, a man property— Christmas Kilts. )lakr your selec- named William Hohenzollern. Hun Plume got in the way of an enemy bul- tions 'rodny on our Busy Confidential and atrocity came to mean the same let. Most of the Plumes thereafter Payment l*s««—onc-litth after you j and examine your purchase deciding came back to their cabins and licked receive thing. A favorite sport was and the balance Id ten enxj monthly the kind of torture by which the Kaiser before the fire. payments. would be put to death. Then at the Richard Plume, a short while before height of these fancies the Armistice Woodrow Wilson was re-elected Presi- was signed and our fat, juicy victim dent, was a young college instructor in

j strolled from Berlin to Holland. If his the South. He and Esme had been ! hide has been punctured it was done married for about six months and they more by accident than design and the were happy. People were singing "I weapon used was neither warlike nor Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier." Probably a tack. have Then, on one clear, cool morning, j retributive. We war [ forgotten even to inquire after the old was declared by America and George man's health. The supplements to the M. Cohan wrote the popular song. You Sunday newspapers have lost interest may remember it. It was called "Over long ago. There." Richard Plume said good-by That is very understandable. It is to Esme in his olive drab uniform also very sensible. For if we are which showed that he was a private, healthy and normal we go forward in first class, in the Army of Uncle Sam. our thoughts instead of backward. Each Several months later he came back day brings new and more personal vicis- with a commission, a decoration, and situdes of life and gradually the old the shattered leg mentioned somewhere ones fade to nothing. A healthy man above. would be a fool indeed to continue to Those were the good old days. The think upon the Hohenzollerns when he surgeons did not want to amputate the has his family and his work to occupy leg while there remained the possibility his mind. of saving it. As a result, Richard Yet there are men who carry about Plume spent the greater part of his with them, night and day, a leering, time in the hospital, the Walter Reed burning reminder of what they have Hospital in Washington. When he was been through. They are the disabled, not in bed he was out looking for a job, the men with "artificial appliances" or working at a job. He could have re- such as arms and legs and skulls, whose turned home_ and his romanced about Knit—ftK. H-hii« KOM. IS jenr! hunt! shoulder blades go into the making of wounds as his ancestors had romanced that part of the backbone which a shot about their wounds. But he had this ,,.,»> If >ou do not . find from a Maxim has splintered — those curious desire to look forward and that our price on CUALLBNGE diamond rlnte Is hobbling truths that God of War is a backward. So he supported his wife any least 1(1% lower than that of any contradiction in terms. at Such a man is and child in Washington on the money other concern, either cash or credit, Richard Plume, the principal character allowed by the Government until he got v»e will Kindly refund your payment within in "Plumes," a novel by Laurence Stall- a job. the in full, If you return the riutt" With leg paining and rot- Today for your ings. two weeks. .Send ting—I believe you will feel that agony Diamond and filft Hook— IT'S FKKK. Richard Plume remembered the war. when you read "Plumes"—he hobbled THE HOUSE OF QUALITY" Looking it backward .' at was a pretty about the streets of the city, slipping ^ AUTHORIZE O CAPITAL St.OOO.OOO. steady business with him. But he did on the ice and feeling the metal brace not stop there. He also looked ahead; tear at his thigh as he went down L.W- SWEET INC and he saw who — cannot see it?—a time among the feet of casual passersby. E3B2BJ 1660 BROADWAY, NEW YORK when there would be another war. Be- This is a good book to read. It is —— —

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about a man who is a little above part in the war and went to Frano normal rather than below. It is a pres- immediately. He became a captain ii entation of war that the reader knows the Fourth Brigade of the Secont instinctively has not been distorted by Division. June of 1918 came am the author. It is a prod, rousing the there was a forced march througl memory and forcing it back to the Meaux to Chateau-Thierry. A fev reality of those awful days half a dozen weeks later Captain Stallings was or years ago. dering his company into a woods filler, It is easy to forget. Not only that, with Germans. A town or something unpleasant events disappear more rap- was to be taken. Stallings reached the idly from the mind than others on outer fringe of the woods and fell, witr which we can look with gratification. seven Maxim bullets embedded in his Thus the war is virtually blotted from leg. For a long while he lay there; our consciousness, awakened only at in- then he crawled back to a first aid frequent intervals. We think only of station. the good times, voluntarily. The train- Until very recently, Captain Stall- Do You ing camp becomes a place where we got ings has been a frequent guest of the Want sweet watermelon for thirty-five cents United States disabled veterans' hos- apiece, or where we had a bed with pitals. His leg was operated upon four A Better Job? sheets and a comfortable mattress in- or five times. At last it was ampu- stead of a sack of straw to which we tated. Quite obviously, "Plumes" is his later became accustomed. We have for- own story. But that by itself is fact THE only difference between success and failure a is a matter of training. The big men in busi- gotten the sickening cry of "Stretcher- hardly worth remarking upon. The ness today did not reach their present success bearer on the right" and the hours of surprising part, the excellent part of through luck or chance. hunger, thirst and filth. We remember the novel, is that Captain Stallings, They got into the work for which they were that, after all, we must have been now Mr. Stallings, could subdue his best fitted—and then trained themselves, to pretty damned good to have stood it the bitterness and write a work in which know more about their jobs than else. anyone way we did stand it. Perhaps most each episode has a universal rather When opportunity came—as it always comes distinctly of all our impressions at, say, than a personal significance, that he^ these men were ready to grasp it and turn it into fame and dollars. Champagne is the one of the warm hole could be so restrained, that he would where we wrapped up in a blanket and be so honest. You have just as good a chance to succeed as these slept. Or else the hot meal, with ser- The pitiful part is that it is so hope- men had—perhaps better I Good positions are always waiting for trained men—positions that you can get geant major coffee, which the artillery less. It all ends well enough in the if you train yourself to deserve them. outfit gave us when we tramped tiredly hook: the young son remarks propheti- You can secure this training easily and quickly back from the lines. Yet, no doubt, cally, "I won't let any generals get me." at home through spare-time study with the we had seen men torn to pieces, had But whether the prophecy is fulfilled International Correspondence Schools, just as watched their bodies turn black under is the guess of any man. On one hand so many other men have done. The I. C. S. friends car- there are the crutches, way is the practical way—the fascinating way the sun and had seen our men with sa wed- —the profitable way. ried to the rear on a blood-soaked off arms and legs, the bedridden; in short, the junk heap of the nation's All that we ask is this: —Fill out the coupon printed stretcher. below and mail it to Scranton. This doesn't obligate To think only of the pleasant aspect finest men. On the other hand, there you in the least but it will bring you the full story — of war is selfish and luxurious. Some are the bands, there it the stretched of what the I. C. S. can do for you. Today is the think of the skin over the head of the drum, and day to send in that coupon. "Tomorrow never comes." day it may be costly. We mm «— — mm mm mm mm mm mm — I" living instead of the dead and the muti- how it resounds under the beating of INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS lated. And that is disrespectful to the those two shapely sticks! And how it Box 7064-J, Scranton, Penna. who, sends a series of shivers, thrills, zig- Without cost or obligation on my part, please tell me men who suffered most, to the men how I can qualify for the position or in the subject be/ore if anyone did, won the war. One first zagging up and down your spine! which I have marked an X: sergeant used to assert that we all were Merely the drum. You don't even need BUSINESS TRAINING COURSES of dead men. the bugle or the colors and standards (Business Management Salesmanship living on the reputations Industrial Management Advertising It may be true. At least let us try furling in the wind. Merely the drum. Personnel Organization Better Letters the next But when you get all three together Traffic Management Q Show Card Lettering not to belittle them. After Business Law O Stenography and Typing war we may be on crutches, and it is the cripples could form a line as long Banking and Banking Law D Business English Accountancy (including C.P.A.) Civil Service well to know the reasons for such and strident as Coxey's army and they Nicholson Cost Accounting Railway Mail Clerk would still be unheard and unseen. Bookkeeping Common School Subjects things. Private Secretary High School Subjects Laurence Stallings was well fitted to For I begin to suspect that that really a Spanish Q French QDlustratlng write this book. He enlisted, or took is the contest: the stump of legs against TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL COURSES at the beginning of our the beating of the drums. Electrical Engineering Architect a commission, Electric Lighting Architects' Blue Prints Mechanical Engineer Contractor and Builder Mechanical Draftsman -j Architectural Draftsmar Machine Shop Practlee Concrete Builder Railroad Positions Structural Engineer Gas Engine Operating Chemistry Pharmaey Listening In for Health Civil Engineer Automobile Work Surveying and Mapping _ Airplane Engines (Continued from page 6) 8Metallurgy Mining Agriculture and Poultry Steam Engineering Badio Mathematics all beds. A regular schedule of hours is and amplified by Western Electric ap- Namt maintained, according to what is avail- paratus, with duplicate set, A and B Street able on the air and also according to the batteries, and a string of chargers to Address . hours that fit in best with the patients' keep the batteries in good condition. City.. . Bute.. regime. The connections permit any All the patient has to do is to connect Occupation one or all of the patients to plug in his head with his own private 'phone Persons redding in Canada should ttnd this coupon to the headphones and listen to the programs when he wants to listen to the world International Correspondence Schools Canadian, Limited, Montreal, Canada picked up and amplified by the hospi- instead of telling it. As in other radio- tal's master receiver station. This equipped hospitals, patients, nurses and consists of a Federal No. 58 DX re- doctors are living testimonials of the ceiver, with an additional two-stage benefits of Doc Radio's cure-all. MEN WANTED veterans disa- amplifier and a cage antenna. The To the many whose audible to all the bilities confine them to their homes We want one ambitious man in each apparatus makes county as Sales Representative. Our patients programs from the chief broad- radio is even more of a godsend than Salesmen make big money taking orders casting stations in the west and some- to their buddies in hospitals. Take, for the Cole Visible Gasoline Gauge. Only Chicago stations. Camp for example, the case of a bed-ridden scientifically accurate gasoline gauge that times from the ex-service in Alabama fits on instrument board—always in sight Kearney's radio outfit was financed by man down ' prevents short measure—stops running out of the San Diego Community Service. Chester Hargrave. The installation of gas—low price—in a class by itself—sells Hospital, in Washing- a radio at his bedside by Birmingham °n8iEht Walter Reed $10 TO $20 A DAY ton, D. C, claims the largest "radio Po^t of The American Legion brought the outside world, from which he ^or , hours. You get your system. Nine hundred sets of ItxC Wtt&iffCl^ * ° " central" pay n advance We deliver and cut off for the \jtt)OTne £/iueeS ' headphones and five loudspeakers en- seemed to be completely collect. Commissions paid on daily en- rest of his life, right into his home, orders. able the patients to hear the repeat Exclusive territory nights of con- ___ Capital not necessary. Write. tertainments of the country's leading and now his days and THE STEMCO radio stations. The programs are re- finement are full of a variety of enter- ENGINEERING CO. ceived in the control room on a five-tube tainment. To the blind, and even to to 202 Webb St.. Dayton, Ohio Freed - Eisemann neutrodyne receiver many deaf, radio gives more than NOVEMBER 21, 1924 PAGE 17

any other of the war's disabled. Among sets hooked up by the air to stations the latter is George Lynch, of Charles- broadcasting American Legion pro- ton, South Carolina, formerly of the grams. If this prophecy of American Navy, who can hear over the radio with Legion broadcasting stations is to come perfect ease, although it is almost im- true, the foundations are now being possible for him to hear otherwise. laid in the veterans hospitals of the American Legion posts throughout country, as may be seen from the fol- the country have devoted much effort lowing : Winter helping provide the disabled with Edward Hines, Jr., Hospital at May-

Commander Glendon T. Tongue, it took has, in addition to a large number of I as we show you the way to establish a profitable and dignified business of your own. L. D. Payne a special meeting to WDAR (Philadel- private outfits, a set installed in the sun I I averaged $20.77 profit per day for 217 days. phia) and with the Legion's national parlor by the Red Cross, and a $2,500 _ I DePries has averaged $150 per week profit for six years. Slidell and Viles sold $25,000 in two years. G.Howard ritual made a member of Harry E. layout, including five loudspeakers and earned $100 in one day. Write quick for details. Ehrhart of WDAR, who had been giv- 144 headsets, installed by the Veterans THE FYR-FYTER CO.. 350 Fyr-Fyter Bids., Dayton, O. ing as his excuse for not joining the Bureau. Legion the fact that his position at the Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 65, St. broadcasting station kept him at work Paul, Minneapolis, makes a specialty FARN MONFY every night. Another initiation cere- of individual sets, since it is a general ' mony by radio was that of Calhoun hospital where no uniformity of treat- " AT HOME Post of Minneapolis, which with the ment can be followed, and Colonel H. can help of WLAG initiated John A. Ewing B. Fralic, the medical officer in charge, VOU earn $1 to $2 an hour in your spare 1 time writing show cards. No canvass- Oscar Rocksped, patients and at Hos- considers it best to confine all radio ing or soliciting. Weinstruct you by our new pital No. 68, as they sat up in hospital work in wards to individual sets. The simple Directograph System, supply you with and bed and invalid chair. And not to be majority are crystal affairs, and no work pay yon cash each week. Write today for full particulars and free booklet. forgotten is the broadcasting hit made attempt at amplification is made. WEST- ANGUS SHOW CARD SERVICE LIMITED by The American Legion Band of No. 65's most interesting set is owned Authorized Capital $1,250,000.00 Cameron Ellis Post of Winchester, by David E. Woodward, formerly with 180 Colborno Building, Toronto, Can, Ohio, when the band sends the hoe- the 151st Field Artillery. Before en- down music of "The Old Coon Dog" tering the hospital, Woodward was and "The Old Gray Mare" out into the engaged in the electrical and radio MAKE $20 A DAY air from WSAI (Cincinnati). business at Big Lake, Minneapolis, Take Orders for Patent Flan- % There are those who prophesy that where he himself constructed and sold net Shirts — Patent Work Shirts High in ev.ery — Grade Dress government hospital for World more than a hundred sets. Woodward Shirts. Factory to wearer. Some- War veterans, in every national home built in the hospital a crystal outfit. thing new. No competition. All or part time. Sample book nts into pocket. We for veterans of all wars, in every priv- The cost of material, including antenna deliver and collect. Backed by $600,000 fac- ate home where there is a disabled sol- and earphones, was $16. It has a two- tories. Our agents coining money. No ex- perience required. Write today I dier, in every Legion clubhouse or post circuit hook-up with tuner and a seven- ' PATENT SHIRT CO., 101 South Wells Street Storm Collar Department 212 Chicago. Illinois home, there will in time be receiving strand wire antenna, 130 feet long. .

PAGE 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEK A'

THE 21 JEWEL

Here are John A. Ewing and Oscar H. Rocksped, patients in Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 68 at Minneapolis, Minnesota, shown in the midst of Special their initiation into The American Legion. They couldn't leave the hospital 1 to attend the initiation ceremonies held in Calhoun Post's clubhouse, so station WLAG installed a receiving set and loudspeaker at their bedsides NbMbi and relayed the whole works to them We will send this famous watch, express prepaid, for you to examine, to inspect, to admire, to approve, without one penny advance payment. Examine the The aerial, which extends from the ing the summer months and its easy watch and be convinced it's the best watch buy you window access ever saw. Just a small payment down, the balance nearest Woodward's bed to the by all patients; a two-stage re- in easy MONTHLY payments. You use the watch top of a chimney, is about 150 feet generative set, with Magnavox loud- while paying for It. high, with a short water-pipe grounder. speaker, used by the Knights of Colum- Save 1/3 to 1/2 of Your Money Woodward has heard Hastings, Ne- bus for By purchasing this Famous Santa Fe Special Watch. entertainment, and private Not only are you saving money from the present- braska, on a long-distance crystal which sets, ranging from simple regenerative day prices of watches, but you can still secure the "Santa Fe Special" Watch at the same low prices he uses in connection with his set. single-tube outfits to five-tube neutro- and terms that have made our watches famous. Great annoyance has been caused by dyne circuits. The most flexible set is Ladies' Wrist Watches the hospital's X-ray room, which, dur- owned by a member of the medical This artistic, dependable Ladles' Wrist Watch, fitted with genuine Illinois Springfield movements. A ing the hours when it is operated, pro- staff—a De Forest multiple-wave, two- perfect timepiece. Beautiful 14-karat white or green duces on the hospital's sets loud buzzing stage set, with special attachments. SOLID GOLD cases. Ask for New Watch Book, showing cases in all the new shapes and designs. sounds that drown out all broadcast- During the more favorable months sta- Watch sent on approval and sold on payments. ing. If WLAG is closed down perma- tions as far east as Pittsburgh are Send for Free Watch Book nently because of a receivership, radio readily heard. However, consistent re- Clip the coupon, fill out and receive the FREE WATCH BOOK. All the newest watch case designs receiving, especially on crystal sets, in ception of broadcasters in the Middle in white or green gold, fancy shapes and thin models the United States Veteran Bureau hos- West and East is hindered are shown. Read our easy payment offer. Wear by distance the watch 30 days FREE. Watch sent for your pitals in the Twin Cities will be hard and by time variations. For example, examination and approval without a penny down. Nothing to risk. See the watch before you buy. hit. Station WLAG has broadcast an 8 p.m. program from Chicago must Write for FREE book today and select your watch. in be sought in Mail coupon. many concerts and events addition Tacoma at 4 p.m., Pacific SANTA FE WATCH COMPANY to furnishing a complete program of Standard time, when the Tacoma Dept. B-lll, Thomas Building, TOPEKA, KAN. educational and entertaining features. seeker is deprived of the benefit of The Home of the Great Santa Fe Railroad The United States Naval Hospital at night reception. An electrical process used in Santa Fe Watch Co., Dept. B-Hl, Thomas Bldg., San Diego, California, has only one a nearby smelter sometimes Topeka, Kan. radio set, a standard single-circuit re- causes much interference. Please send prepaid and without obligation your Watch Book Free, explaining your "No Money generator, partly bought and put up by Fort William Henry Harrison Veter- Down" Offer on the Santa Fe Special Watch. a patient named Morrison who died ans Bureau Hospital No. 72, Helena, Name. before its completion. Following his Montana, has one small radio set, Gov- death patients and members of the hos- ernment owned. Atmospheric static Address pital corps took up a collection and was so bad during the summer that it completed the outfit. This set gets all was almost impossible to operate. fGet Saxophone^! Pacific Coast stations as far north as Fitzsimons General Hospital, United San Francisco. Ships in the harbor States Army, Denver, Colorado, has BOOKe//CC and the Navy's high-power station near approximately one hundred radio re- It's easy to be San Diego often mess up reception of ceiving sets, ranging from small crystal popular socially- to be entertainment programs. sets to the latest type of superhetero- welcome everywhere- dyne. with a sweet-toned Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 24, Many of these radio outfits were Palo Alto, California, has as its chief built in the hospital's educational de- radio equipment a large Western Elec- partment. Favorable conditions for re- SAXOPHONE tric receiving set donated by a popular ceiving exist at Fitzsimons, and it is subscription fostered by the San Fran- not unusual for patients to listen in on Easiest of all instruments cisco Call. In the infirmary wards each programs broadcast 1,500 miles distant. toplay. Three patient has a headset, and in each of Fitzsimons holds the unique position lessons sent the ambulatory wards there is a loud- among hospitals of having a broadcast- free give you speaker. The radio entertainment in ing station of its own, with a range a quick start. In a few the open wards is taken care of by the of some 1,500 miles. weeks you Red Cross. Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 90, will be playing popular tunes. Just Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 59, Muskogee, Oklahoma, entertains the pa- send for a copy of our Saxophone Tacoma, Washington, receives with tients in its tuberculous ward with an Book, giving first lesson chart and containing pictures of famous pro- various outfits—a five-tube radiodyne, Amrad set donated by the Americanized fessionals and orchestras. It's free. presented to the general medical ward Syrians of Oklahoma. This outfit re- BUESCHER BAND INSTRUMENT CO. for Christmas, 1923, by the Minute ceives stations from coast to coast, in- Everything In Band and Orchestra Instruments Women of Chehalis and now in need cluding Mexico City and Havana. The 365 Buescher Block, Elkhart, Indiana of tube renewals and various adjust- cost of upkeep holds down the number ments owing to dwindling interest dur- of private sets. Authorized by the — -

PAGE 19 NOVEMBER 21, 1924 Veterans Bureau to expend $1,500 for Grebe radio outfit presented by Frank a receiving set to be used with loud- N. Doubleday, the publisher, of Garden speakers and headsets in the various City, to the Red Cross in 1922 and wards, the hospital found it could not operated continuously since then in the -bids recreation room and social center. billiards purchase equipment because the submitted were all about $4,000. The United States Naval Hospital at Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 93, Chelsea, Massachusetts, reports among a gentleman's game Legion, Texas, has a number of receiv- its many receiving sets five important ing sets, with chief interest centered ones—two Westinghouse regenerative on a five-tube Kennedy, presented to sets, installed by the Army and Navy the patients of Ward 8 by the Galveston Club of Boston, a five-tube neutrodyne Auxiliary of The American Legion. In- and a Crosley tri-dyne, both owned by stalled this summer by the camp elec- the Red Cross, and an Erla reflex tri- trician and the radio instructor, this plex, owned, installed and operated by set is now under the care of Lee Walsh, William E. Rockford, formerly a mem- who during the war served with Co. B, ber of Truck Company 5, 108th Supply 156th Infantry. Atmospheric disturb- Train, 33rd Division. Rockford, a pa- ances during the summer prevented tient suffering from arthritis, paid for any long-distance receiving. Electric the parts of his set from his compen- grills and X-ray and physio-therapy sation, and he has made Ward 5-1 the machines create trouble at times, but radio center of the hospital. Using a these are not generally in use during radiator about 100 feet above the sea- periods. The Veter- his only connection, the best receiving _ level as he has ans Bureau has appropriated about listened in on all the high-power sta- $3,000 for installing a central receiving tions of the country, from KCI (San plant with connections to all the wards Francisco) eastward, and his outfit and a loudspeaker in the recreation loud-spoke the Republican and Demo- a health-givingexercise and recre- room for the walking cases. cratic national conventions for a dis- ASation, restful to the mind, billiards Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 55, tance of 300 to 400 feet. A number of is an ideal game. Fort Bayard, New Mexico, boasts a crystal sets in the hospital receive is the result skill brigade of radio fans who have all clearly up to about seventy miles. Its popularity of the kinds of hook-ups, from superhetero- The Chelsea hospital was in on the and science continually employed in the of and varied shots. It dynes to the old-style regenerative that radio show and demonstration given by execution many arouses friendly competition and stimu- does its own broadcasting by making WNAC (Boston), WGI (Medford), and physicalwell-being. noises and throwing them back out on WTAT (Boston) and WBZ (Spring- lates the mental its aerial. John M. Nuckols, sometime field) to raise a fund to supply the You will find Brunswick tables and ac- soldier, reports that a single-wire aerial Army, Navy and Veterans Bureau hos- cessories in your organization's club generally gives the best results at Fort pitals in New England with radio out- rooms. Billiards played with this ex- Bayard and that the Hazeltine neutro- fits. This hospital will soon be fur- cellent equipment, in the club atmos- dyne works especially well under con- nished by the Radio Fund, through the phere, attains its most enjoyable form. ditions peculiar to the Southwest. A Roxy Radio Committee, with standard « E - COLLE N DER Q>mpany neutrodyne set, with four or five tubes, equipment similar to that in Army and CJhe B RUNSWICK BALK Branch houses in the punduat cities steps out and gets from coast to coast Navy hospitals on the Atlantic Coast, in Uie United $1&U4 and CtuuKta and beyond borders, from Calgary, each bed to be supplied with headsets. 623-633 SoUth Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO Canada, to Mexico City and Havana. It is probable that all other equipment Special radio entertainments are given will in time be removed. by the Red Cross and the Sojourners' Among hospitals being equipped with HANDS U Club. Special concerts for the patients master receiving sets—amplifiers, bed- Protect yourself against at Fort Bayard have been put on the side terminals, loudspeakers and all hold-up, rowdies, etc. with this clever cigarette case air by KHJ (Los Angeles Times) and are Veterans Bureau Hosiptals_ Nos. 96 of light weight metal. Looks (Omaha World-Herald using exactly like the real thing! Pull WOAW and 98, at Tupper Lake and Beacon, the trigger, back flies the lid the Woodmen of the World studio). N. Y. Various eastern hospitals are showing your cigarettes. Lots of fun scaring your The United States Naval Hospital at receiving equipment through the Roxy friends, and a great Newport, Rhode Island, has a West- Radio Fund, which the Capitol Theatre protector. Sold exclu-

I sively by us. PAY POST-^

ern Electric superheterodyne recently started. aid 1 MAN $1.79 on de- of New York With the of Rat _ pending livery plus postage. made available by the radio fund of various newspapers and organizations Money back if not satisfied. WJAR (Outlet Company, Providence). it has raised about $150,000 for radio PATHFINDER CO., Dep.X3B.534 Sixth A»e.,N.V. The United States Naval Hospital at equipment for disabled service .men in Brooklyn, New York, uses a special hospitals.

Make 1925 the Big Legion Year (Continued from page 9)

"Florida announces that on Nov. 11th for the other guy? Never. It's not a campaign will be started to procure being done in the Legion circles of renewals on membership for 1925," he Florida. It's entirely out of order. says. "Florida would be glad to join Take that man's name, sergeant. Take Connecticut in a friendly contest to cov- Connecticut's number, Mr. Commander er that period and suggests as an addi- and Mr. Adjutant. Get the membership tional incentive that all Legionnaires committees to work on Armistice Day. attending the Omaha convention from Slip the 1924 boys a pink ticket. That's that department which shows during what's being done in the Legion circles that period the greatest percentage of of Florida." renewals based on its 1924 membership Meanwhile word comes from Con- be the guests at a dinner given by the necticut that it hopes to surpass its 1924 Become Railway Mail Clerks Legionnaires attending the convention membership record, profiting by the ex- from the department which is not so perience it gained in a big drive con- fortunate." ducted last spring. In that drive Con- $1600to$2300Year Department Adjutant Howard Row- necticut mobilized every post for a mem- ton of Florida passes Commander Mor- Every Ex-Service Man Should ber-getting campaign of many weeks. Mail Coupon Immediately Franklin Institute, ris's word along to Florida posts in a The Depl. T187 whole Legion force of the State Steady Work No Layoffs - characteristic bulletin and adds: composed a campaign army, which was Paid Vacation! r Rochester. N. T. "Now, big boy, what you goin' to do sub-divided into corps, divisions, regi- Examination questions and free Mm about it? I know. The same old spirit ments and P ,e OflMMni leeeona: (2) List of many companies to fight the battle Ex-Servlcep.. a....,!,.., Men O C Government jobs obtainable: (3) Tell me that won the Lindsley and Gt a MacNider for new members. This system, which R ^ now I can (ret position : (4 ) Send information preference ^ regarding preference to ex-service men. Trophies will prevail. Whoever heard won for Connecticut last spring, also o'f Florida getting beat? Whoever helped the Massachusetts and Oklahoma Name. heard of us having to buy the dinner departments to exceed their member- Address —

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J ships of the prosperous preceding year. signed up members for the Legion in his The Minnesota Department is one of spare time simply by making a list of the first to get a 1925 campaign under all his prospects and seeing them one way. It is making a war game of mem- by one. He uses an automobile to speed f// Ta\ilorraps bership getting. The entire department up his calls on the men he is after, and >f was "mobilized" for member-getting at he usually has to see a man only once. 11 a. m., zero hour, of Armistice Day, He says that he knows a thousand and > Millions of Caps Will and each of the ten districts was sup- one reasons why men should join the Be Sold This Season plied with a schedule of the membership Legion, and he presents to each man the quotas it is expected to reach on stated reasons he knows will appeal to him pVKRYBODY buys "Taylor" Madc-to- dates. Under this schedule the depart- most. Measure Caps sold direct-to-wearcr Motorists, Golfers, Business Men, Sports- ment hopes to reach a total membership Another record-maker this year is men, Students. Customer selects style of 31,000 members. It expects to have John A. Smith of Sioux City, Iowa, who and fabric—the cap is tailored to his in- 6,200 signed up for 1925 by November describes his methods as follows: dividual measurement. Satisfaction or Money Back. Your commission, 85c. on 30th, 9,300 by December 15th and 12,400 "I went out on the streets, into fac- every cap—paid in advance. Write for by January 15th. Blue prints showing tories, drove to nearby towns and de- our sample outfit and FREE CAP offer. the objectives and dates have been sup- voted all of my spare time calling on Act quick! ex-service men and writing letters to TAYLOR CAP MANUFACTURERS plied each of the districts. Dept. A. L. Cincinnati, O. While Florida and Connecticut are some who had never been members of fighting it out along the Eastern sea- any Legion post. The superintendent of board, three other departments are en- one of the largest factories in Sioux gaging in a membership-getting con- City, himself a Legionnaire, instructed test in»the shadows of the Rocky Moun- his time-keepers to obtain the names of tains. Colorado, Utah and Wyoming all veterans in the employ of the plant. have mutually agreed that the depart- This done, the superintendent and I ment enrolling for 1925 the largest per- made a trip throughout the plant, to The PerfectWritimoInstruhent, centage of its 1924 membership shall every department and office, called the The New Improved Writes like pencil with { be presented veterans together, and I told them about INKOCRAPH k b d by the other two depart- ^n ^Wt X $™ ments with a stand of department the Legion. They were then given a blot, scratch, leak, clog or Boll bands. Makes 3 or a carbons. 14 kt. gold point, shaped like 6ne lead colors. chance to have one dollar a week de- pencil point. Guaranteed. SEND NO MONEY. Pay postman SI pins postage** Agents wanted. Reports tell of hundreds of other ducted from their pay until their 1924 INKOGRAPH CO., Inc. ,181» Centre St., New York competitions being started among de- dues in Monahan Post had been paid. partments and among posts of the same This plan alone netted over 100 mem STUDY department. The favorite plan is a con- bers inside of three days. Other fac , AT HOME t Become a lawyer. Lesally test between two posts in the same sec- tories, hearing of this plan, granted the J trained men win the highest $ positions and biggest success in tion of a State, each having approxi- same privileges to their employes and 7 business and public life. Be io- ependont. Greater opportuni- I worked in each of them. a now than ever before. Big mately equal numbers of eligibles to porations are headed by men draw from. In many of these contests "During this time calls were coming > legal training. Earn $5,000 to $10,000 Annually the losing post is to be host to the win- to me to visit several of the smaller sur , We guide yon step by step. You can train at home dur- ing spare time. Degree of LL B. conferred. LaSalle ning post at a dinner or outing. rounding towns which had no Legion studentn practicing law in every state. We furaish all calls, I signed 1 text material, including fonrteen-volume Law Library. Success in these contests is, of course, posts. Answering these Low cost, eaBy terms. Get our valuable 108-page "Law Guide" and Evidence' booka free. Send for them NOW largely dependent on the efforts of indi- up over fifty more members for Mona LaSalle Extension University, Dept. H361-J- Chicago Post. Another way in which_ 1 The World's Largest Business Training Institution vidual go-getters. The prize member- han getters of the United States will have a worked was through the lists of delin high mark to shoot at in 1925, for this quent members—some who hadn't paid year Harry Fox, a member of Harold dues for two or three years. In using Mason Post of Sioux Falls, South these lists, I divided the city into small Dakota, hung up a record by obtaining districts and paid a visit in turn to each es—it la easy selling Packard Shirts 423 new paid-up members for 1924 by district until I had signed up each and E Quality. Individual patterns and re- I ! mark able values. Direct from our own his own unaided efforts. Mr. Fox's post every one in the district. When found modern factory. Big demand. Steady, has 856 members, so that Mr. Fox him- that a man was out of the city perma- increasing repeat business. No capital some v or experience required. We furnish self got almost half of the total number. nently I wrote him, and signed up , every thing, inclading FREE Sample) Fox, served with 8th members scattered from Maine to Cali- ' Case and AUTO. Packard Mfg. Co, who Company F, dept. 1 05 829 Orleans SI., Chicago, Ul. Infantry, is a dry cleaner. He has fornia." — » 1

NOVEMBER 21, 1924 PAGE 21 FALL LATEST The Army at Sea $30 Style- When do Men STYLE (Continued from page 4) Biggest Astrakhan Bargain other than his hat, for sleeping pur- start to get young? Ever Trimmed poses. This chapter on bedside eti- Adver- quette was openly violated by the ship's tised Coatee crew, but I know that the Army took When they shave it seriously. As long as they thought compliance with the order necessary to with Barbasol. Saves Dress avoid court martial there was not much time, looks better, sense in going to bed at all. POIRET To the oft-mentioned man-in-the- feels like a million. street the words "life preserver" call TWILL to mind a circular dingus like a cruller No brush. No rub-in. JVeave Serge with a hole big enough to insert one- You just try it — self into. The idea of trying to lie clown in such a contrivance is liable to three times —accord- *098 bring on hysterics, so lest some of my ing to directions. 35c readers be men-in-the-street, I must ^Jc.O.D. correct any such impression. Far be it and 65c tubes. Everybody ia from to allow stories to wearing them. me my be Astrakhan trim- laughed at. Our life preservers were med coatee effect dr e a a e e have built like vests with the non-sinkable taken New York. Chicago sod the padding front and back and were not entire country by storm. Here Is the so uncomfortable to recline in as the most etrlieh crea* Won for this Fall. circular variety, but they were bad A master designer a prize • winning mas- enough. terpiece. Excellently mad* of fine qual- On first trip I was a little afraid ity Navy Blue Polrat my Twill Sarse, Weave someone might come spying in the still- »* the best wearing The and most fashion- ness of the night to see if I had re- able material today. Barbasol Becoming to all egea moved anything more than hat, and Co. and figures. Novsltv my buck lea and Kinst I honestly tried to obey the order. The .''Indianapolis 14. 16 "Tut" cuffa. Betba first to wear this lat- life preserver came off after about Ind. and 18 est style eult dres* »* for far this spring. thirty minutes. Shortly afterward my Please mail me your Free Trial Misses SEND NO blouse and collar followed. Two nights Tube of Barbasol. MONEY later t was forced to part with my But roeb yoor fcder now I Give ue Nam*. Address Hid Size. We will shoes. My stateroom was situated right Name- Money ship the drese by parcel post. Pay the mailman $3.98 and postage in the midst of the army officers' quar- Back when the package arrives. Then f* Address..- » Not' examine the drees In your owu ters and I needed my shoes at my side borne. If not satisfied In every Satisfied way return the dress to us and to throw at any misguided corporal we win refund every cent of A-L-W.l 1-2 your money. who might come in to call me at dawn 8 LUCILLE MARDINE & C0,,fe," by mistake. The next night I put on my pajamas and went to bed like a For Modern Shaving regular human being. There did not SAMPLE RAINCOAT FREE seem to be any tendency to check up on us, and I had decided that any sink- [ have given 70,000 people free Goodyear ing which did not give me time to dress Raincoats for living advertisements. If yon V-hK) MAJ)E THE SUraLME SACRinCE lN THE entirely mniiiiKiKHHimHi Mitttnuf mjkwli nwminn mm uumi«k ii|ihs u uiihuiip >vant would be too serious to worry mm a $16.45 Raincoat free, write me today. iwuhlud iimmn *m p inn it Hunilwi u'hwu wciHimirU Pinui iMunii n

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twelve-fifteen and then called down to the bridge. "Hey," I cried, "whereinell is my re- lief?" American Red Cross "Oh, I forgot to tell you," answered the ofncer-of-the-deck. "The skipper is not sending anyone up to relieve you. He doesn't think it safe for a man to try to make it." It took a second for that to sink in. "But what about me?!' I wailed. "What do I do, stay up here all night?" "That's up to you," came the cheery reply. "You can come down if you want to. Let your conscience he your guide." How about that? Wasn't that a pretty dish to set before me? I went down, but do not let that prejudice you in my favor. I was just too cold and wet and miserable to stay. Of the simple things the army wrote home before the ship left Hoboken and the things they wrote home before they left the ship in Brest I will say noth- ing. It was part of the fun of a deck watch in port to read the army mail, but I feel that the contents of those letters should be held in confidence. It surely was interesting after a quiet trip to read that we had been forced to push submarines off the bow with boathooks. Seasickness is another topic which I feel should be forbidden. Even navy officers have been known to be seasick, so why stir up unpleasant memories for both of us?

Sing Kee, D.S.C.

{Continued from page 7) and is almost tall—he would have made a good heavyweight boxing champion CFMFMBFD or guard for a football team. Now, what is the background which produced this Chinese hero of Mont Notre Dame? First, it must, be said Annual Roll Call that Sing Kee is a third-generation American. Grandfather Kee disem- barked from a sailing vessel at San Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Francisco during the gold rush of '49. He prospered, and his son, Sing Kee's father, ran an employment agency, sup- Help for Ex-Service Men plying Chinese laborers to the fruit Disaster Relief districts of California until the passage of the Exclusion Act. Sing Kee himself Public Health Work was born twenty-eight years ago in the Santa Clara Valley. He was gradu- Since the Armistice the Red Cross has expended $50,000,000 for services ated from grammar school and attended high school. After leaving high school to men of the Army and Navy and World War veterans. It is now he raised prunes for a while and then assisting more than 100,000 disabled veterans and their families each made a visit to China. month. To 180,000 soldiers, sailors and marines on active duty it is He was twenty-one in 1917, a clerk giving the same service it gave during the War. It has 41,000 nurses in a general store on Mott Street in York City's Chinatown, when he enrolled for emergency war, disaster, epidemic. New — became a rookie in the 77th Division at Camp Upton. JOIN NOW When he came out of the Army he went back to California and married a girl who had been born in China. Then he entered the Government's im- POST HISTORIANS! migration service. He has a son, a LEGIONNAIRES! fourth-generation American. EVERY Legion Post and many Legion- naires, with an eye to the future, want OUTFIT REUNIONS By connecting yourself with to keep a file of The AMERICAN LE- us, learning all the facts about GION Weekly. the big national cleanup Our folder makes this easy. It keeps Announcements for this column must be re- which have in- movement we ceived three weeks in advance the events with all the copies conveniently, neatly and safe of augurated and are pushing into every comer of which they arc concerned. our country, and then following our simple in- from mutilation. Each Binder is embossed structions and guidance in establishing your own in gold with "The LEGION Beaumont Club (200th-201st Aero Sqdns.)_ partly our capital. An interesting oc- AMERICAN business on —Seventh annual banquet and reunion, Cafe cupation with $5,000 to $10,000 yearly possibilities Weekly" and holds a year's copies. Order Boulevard, Bway and 41st st., New York City, for those meeting our qualification requirements. now and begin with January, 1925. Nov. 22d, at 8 p.m. Address Frank D. Van Write today for full information descriptive book- Valkenburg, 72 Simcoe st., Oyster Bay, N. Y. let, application blank, etc. Noobligation. Address Full Book Cloth {red) $1.25 postpaid Yeomei* F. — Reunion at Rittenhouse Hotel, Exterminating Engineers of America, Inc. THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 8, of all girls who served Desk 17 500 Fifth Avenue, New York 627 West 43d St. NEW YORK in U. S. Navy. Address Anna Perry, 4841 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia.' — " " — — —

Rattle "Can anyone tell me," asked the teacher, Bursts and Duds "what makes the sound we call tintinnabu- lation?" "Please, ma'am," replied a Payment is made for material fur this department. Unavailable manuscript returned only when youngster, accompanied by stamped cuvelopc. Address American Legion Weekly, 027 W. 43d St., New York "it's pa's second-hand flivver." No Extremes Despite the Ads Recurrence of Slavery Hostess: "Are you looking for any par- The teacher was trying to give her pupils (From the Tampa Daily Times) ticular girl?" an illustration of the word "perseverance." "City Will Buy Rex Beach Soon." Young Man: "We-e-ell — not too particu- "What is it," she asked, "that carries us lar!" along rough roads and srr.ooth roads, up Precaution hills and down hills, through jungles and The Awakening swamps and raging torrents?" We two were wed There was silence, and then Tommy A year ago "How long have you known your hus- raised his hand. Love at first sight, band?" inquired the new neighbor. "Please, Miss," he said, "there ain't no I'd have you know. "We've been back from our honeymoon such car." But this I say, two weeks," replied Mrs. Nubride in a bit- Upon the Book, ter burst of confidence. Lament He's wise who. takes A second look. It All Depends We working girls who hope to wed -E. D. K. Each week should lay away Slowing "My dear," asked the dreamy young A tidy sum to help make lives Up wife, "do you believe that in the end the Of future husbands gay. Kindly Old Party: "So you're running right must always win?" But Fashion plays a crooked game away from home?" "No," yawned her husband from behind With would-be frugal maids; Urchin: "I was the first block, but now the sporting page. "Sometimes a left jab Last week we all paid barber bills- I'm walkin'." puts them to sleep in the first round." Next week we'll all buy braids. —Margaret Burton.

Constant Reminder Flubb: "Do you think you'll ever forget the big scrap ?" Dubb: "Not whiie they put up beans in cans, buddy!"

Perfectly Democratic The president of a large telegraph com- pany was being introduced to the employes of his organization in a large Western city and wished to show the proper spirit. "My boy," he said to a freckled-faced messenger, "I am very, very happy to make your acquaintance." "Don't mention it, mister, don't mention it," replied the youth. " 'S all right by me, you bet."

The Eternal Questions

"I wonder why I ever got married." "I wonder if I put in too much yeast." "I wonder what the boss would do if I asked for a raise."

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