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So much has been written in the Weekly about The Amer- Legion posts and the organized auxiliaries many thousands ican Legion's $5,000,000 Endowment Fund that we are of volunteer workers are enlisted to aid in the work. Let glad to devote space to a presentation of the case for the the Legion speak for itself: 'In performing service of this Fund in the words of an outsider—the New York Times. kind The American Legion spends relatively little money. It The Times has always been friendly to the Legion, though commands enormous value of service. The American Legion while the adjusted compensation fight was on it merely Rehabilitation Service, which the income of the Endowment bowed in passing instead of stopping to shake hands. But Fund will finance, costs fewer thousands than the govern- the Times no less than the ment relief costs in millions. Legion and the Weekly rec- Yet the government service ognizes that the War of the would time and again have Bonus is over and done failed terribly but for the with. The Times is whole- Table of Contents Legion service.' Director heartedly in favor of the Frank T. Hines of the Vet- Endowment Fund campaign, erans Bureau has testified as an editorial published in that 'many detailed types of Cover Design by Willard Fairchild a recent issue testifies. The assistance fall into the hands editorial is an admirable of the Legion posts for ful- Is Fritz Duquesne Alive? . .By Arthur Pound 4 summary of what the cam- fillment.' Also he says: paign is all about. We are Living Up to the Legion Idea in 'From- a survey of disclo- sure the Times will have no Santa Barbara By E. H. Risdon sures through the guardian- objection to posts of the ship subdivision in the bu- Legion asking their local Over the Hill to the Vesle reau, circumstances affect- editors to reprint the edi- ing the children of veterans By John J. Noll 8 torial, and we are sure that are not in many instances local newspaper editors, on Out Where the West Does Its Stuff what the public or the bu- their side, will welcome By Carter Johnson 9 reau would desire them to such a clear exposition of be.' Aside from rehabilita- the Endowment Fund idea. Editorial 10 tion of special cases, The follows: Legion has The Times editorial A Notable Service Record American "What The American Le- pledged itself 'to find a The Truth About Buffalo Bill gion Endowment Fund is, home for every homeless and what will be done with Nobody Has to Sell America to orphan of a veteran, a home the income from it, should where health, education, af- Jake Osipchack By Frank F. Miles 11 be made known to everyone fection and character-build- concerned about the relief The Amateur Gardener (Part II) ing shall take the place of of disabled veterans whom disease, ignorance and per- By Wallgren 12 the law does not reach and haps development into lives about the care and bringing A Personal Page By Frederick Palmer 13 of vice and crime.' Already up of their orphans. Who 5,000 orphan children are that remembers the sacri- Outfit Reunions 15 cared for through local fices of the Great War does posts. When temporary pro- 17 not acknowledge the duty Taps vision is necessary, 'billets' to help the Legion in this Bursts and Duds 18 or groups of homes for six 8 patriotic work? The men to twelve youngsters have of the Legion are committed been established with a 8 by its Constitution, which SEVENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION 'house mother' in charge. 8 binds them 'to consecrate What such an undertaking and sanctify our comrade- OMAHA means to the welfare of the 8 ship by our devotion to mu- country no intelligent per- tual helpfulness.' How many OCTOBER 5th to 9th son needs to be told. Pub- cases of want, disease and lic officials from the Presi- homelessness the Legion has dent down, prominent relieved with its own funds, women in all parts of the how often members have contributed from their small store country, officers in the land and sea services, and men emi- 8 of money, will never be known. The Veterans Bureau func- nent in civil life have approved of The American Legion tions under a law of Congress that does not cover all cases Endowment Fund and promised their assistance. People 8 of distress. Many deserving ex-soldiers cannot qualify for never engaged in a more unselfish work. Contributions may 8 aid under the terms of that law. The Legion succors them. be made to National Treasurer, The American Legion, In- It acts as a benevolent association auxiliary to the Veterans dianapolis, or through any one of the 11,000 posts of the 8 Bureau. The time has come to raise an endowment fund to Legion." Thus does the Times hroadcast the need for the carry on the work the Legion has been doing. The amount Endowment Fund. The nation is answering the appeal, con- 8 asked for is $5,000,000. The fund is to be 'a perpetual trust fident that a worthier cause never existed, and confident also from which only the income shall be used for the rehabilita- that the Legion's intelligent devotion to the disabled man tion and child welfare work of the Legion.' Outside of the and the orphan will not slacken.

The American Lesion Weekly is the official publication of The American Le?ion and The American Legion Auxiliary and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright, 1925. by Th« Legion Publishing Corporation. Published weekly at 2457 E. Washington St.. Indianapolis. Ind. Entered as second class matter January 5. 1925. at the Post Offireot 8 Indianapolis, Ind., under the act ot March 3, 1879. Price $1.50 the year. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 5, 1925. In reporting change of address, be sure to include the old address as well as the new. 8 Publication Office, Indianapolis, Indiana; Advertising Office, 331 Madison Avenue, New York City; Western Advertising Office, 22 West Monroe Street, Chicago 8 8 PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

Is Fritz Duquesne Alive?

By ARTHUR POUND

Fritz Duquesne, arch-adventurer, whose dominant life motive—hatred of England—caused him to lead one of the strangest careers which destiny has ever mapped out for a hunted man

Fritz Duquesne alive? istence fraught with thrills and high born leaning for France and his ad- IS This is not a mere academic adventures, many of which had been miration for French culture. question. The United States Gov- encountered in worthier causes. With- We debated that point one afternoon ernment, which still holds against out attempting to extenuate his later in October, 1913, while walking in the him charges of murder and arson, crimes, I feel compelled to say that wild gorge of the Cuyahoga River near would like to know. And with me it Duquesne's lapses from legality re- Akron, Ohio, where I was editing a is a personal matter, since I have al- sulted, in the main, not from weakness newspaper and whither Duquesne had ready written his obituary and pub- and crookedness but rather from come to interest rubber manufacturers lished it. strength and determination. By and in South American exploration. The Duquesne is credited with having large, he seems to me a victim of Fate Germans of Akron had just celebra- been the brains and leader of the Ger- no less than one of the notable villains ted, with many hochs and more beer, man spy system in South America dur- of history. He nursed a great, undy- the centenary of the battle of Leipzig, ing the greater part of the World War. ing hate, and in the end fed his better at which Napoleon received his first In this capacity he caused the erection self to it as a sacrifice. Born to a open defeat. Our reporters had brought of wireless stations communicating place in the sun of South Africa, he back word that Duquesne had spoken with Berlin, directed the burning of was kicked out of it and not allowed at their Schiitzenspiel, out-Teutoning coal docks up and down the east coast to return. With extraordinary talents, the local Teutons. of South America, and is said to have he yet lacked the talent of subordinat- "How could you," I asked, "the bear- planned the "sinking without trace" of ing himself, and so could never work er of a great French name and with provision ships leaving Buenos Aires up to a place in the sun of another the best French blood in your veins, for British and French ports. These latitude. And so Fritz Duquesne, who glory in an old defeat of the French "spurlos versenkt" casualties remain might have been under other cir- for the pleasure of their enemies?" among the unfathomed mysteries of the cumstances an honored leader of men, "Ah," he said, "you do not realize seven seas. Ships would leave port in is now a fugitive from justice. Un- the situation. The French are done, good order and go down with all hands less, indeed, he has died since his ex- because they will not breed. Either in mid-ocean. Presumably time-bombs traordinary escape from the clutches of England or Germany will dominate did the work, but until Duquesne writes the police in New York in 1919. Europe. Soon—any day now—they his memoirs the precise method of their The hate to which Duquesne fed will fight it out. And if England's destruction may not be known. himself and his career was hate of foes were Red Indians or African And such memoirs as those will be! the British Empire. He served Ger- blacks, I would be with them against For Fritz Joubert Duquesne was not many merely for the sake of in- the British Empire." merely a German spy. That sorry juring Britain. His Anglophobia was This all-consuming hate goes back to phase was but one chapter in an ex- strong enough to overcome his blood- Duquesne's youth, to the Boer War in JULY 31, 1925 PAGE 5

South Africa. Duquesne is a Boer, a boys" that they were to spend their Later Duquesne was given charge of descendant of the leader of those three long summer vacations in England, the Boer information service. Captured hundred French Huguenots who, flee- perfecting themselves in the language behind the enemy lines, he was sen- ing religious persecution in France, and its dialects, and studying the ways tenced to be hanged as a spy at sun- joined forces in 1688 with their Dutch of this strange island people who would rise. That afternoon he killed his co-religionists in colonizing South not let the Boers go their ways in peace guard, donned the guard's uniform and Africa. One of his ancestors was that in far away South Africa. strolled through the garrison to a near- Admiral Duquesne who goes down in So Fritz Duquesne went first to the by field where British and Colonial offi- history as one of great naval heroes French artillery school at which Na- cers were playing polo. There he of France, in whose honor the French poleon had studied, and then to the felled an orderly who was exercising in America named their fort at the Ecole Militaire at Brussels. When- spare mounts, leaped on a polo pony's juncture of the Allegheny and Monon- ever opportunity offered he crossed the back and cut away for the Tonga gahela Rivers, on the site of Pitts- Channel to the island he thought of Hills, which separate Natal and Portu- burgh. even then as enemy's country. As a guese East Africa. Hotly pursued, he In South Africa the Duquesnes result he speaks beautiful English, the rode his horse to death and then wan- prospered, becoming one of the great English of the universities and au- dered afoot until taken, more dead than families of the veldt country, with thentic society. The classics of Eng- alive, by natives who turned him over boundless acres and innumerable blacks lish literature are at the tip of his to the Portuguese authorities. The to do their bidding. In general this tongue. I have heard him quote cantos latter interned him at their port of was true of most of the French-blooded of Sir Walter Scott and pages from Lorenzo Marquez. Boers. Sir Harry H. Johnston, in his Shelley without a skip, and with blaz- "Colonization of South Africa", refers ing dramatic power. Moreover, he to their superior intellectual and social mastered the chief dialects of the Brit- Duquesne says the British tried to qualities. French names appear all ish Isles. He can talk in as many have him poisoned in jail, and that through Boer history; in their great minutes the lingoes of Glasgow, Aber- the Portuguese, fearing for his life, de- struggle for independence Generals deen, Yorkshire, Wiltshire and Cock- cided to send him to Lisbon for safe- Delarey and Joubert played leading ney London with enough fluency to de- keeping. At any rate he was shipped roles. The latter was Fritz Duquesne's ceive natives of those parts; in fact, off on a steamer bound for that port, uncle on his mother's side. As a lad, he has deceived them often enough but fell sick of fever and lapsed into therefore, young Duquesne looked for- when his life hung in the balance. A unconsciousness. When he came to he ward to assured social position, riches great actor he might perhaps have was in a hospital at Naples. Mean- and power. been if his lot had been cast with the time President Kruger had fled from theatre early in life, but instead he has South Africa to The Hague, capital of done his acting on a wilder, broader the Netherlands, the better to finance BUT the war clouds hung heavy over stage, where death is the penalty of a the war. Unexpectedly free, young that primitive pastoral civilization false step or slurred accent. Duquesne went to Kruger by way of of the Boers. President Johannes Paulus Fritz Duquesne is now forty-foui*. Paris. His French name and blood and Kruger of the Transvaal Republic He was eighteen when President Kru- education, combined with the anti- (Oom Paul) saw war in the offing long ger called him and his mates back to British feeling in France, earned for before it came, and one of his prepa- South Africa just before the Boer War him an enthusiastic reception in the rations was to send the brightest boys broke in all its fury. He was in on French capital. in the Boer schools to the military the early Boer successes. After the At The Hague Duquesne worked out schools in Europe. He could well af- battle of Colenso he had a battery of with his aged but astute President the ford these scholarships, because gold captured British guns to command, a Cape Town Plot, which was intended had been discoverd on his ranch, and captain at nineteen. His lithe, whip- to bring final disaster to British arms a city named after him, Johannesburg, cord body bears numerous wounds re- in South Africa. It aimed at nothing had sprung up there to his vast pros- ceived in action—tell-tale marks of less than the complete destruction of perity. Privately Oom Paul told "his identification if he is ever recaptured. the chief military base of the enemy.

Cape Town, South Africa, seen from the end of Cape Town Pier, with Table Mountain in the background. During the Boer War Duquesne here attempted to carry through the des- perate Cape Town Plot aimed at com- plete destruction of that vital British base. The city was divided into four districts, and Du- quesne, registering in all four under different names, contrived to spend part of every night in each district in order to facilitate his escape if the British got wind of the plot —

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Cape Town is the only good harbor in under a different name, maintaining But it was not to be. As zero hour a long stretch of difficult coast. There residence at four addresses. Each approached, one of the local Boers, a the British had their reserves of men, night he turned in at each address, but man of property, wilted at the thought munitions and supplies. .From Cape from three of his domiciles he departed of his personal losses in the impending Town their rails ran up to the front. unobserved to sleep at the fourth, on debacle and informed the authorities. If Cape Town were made untenable the the theory that by so doing he would Duquesne and all his aides were ar- Boers might get a draw; otherwise be less available to searching parties. rested. Two by two the plotters were they were doomed. Meantime he organized his force. taken into various disaffected portions Amply financed by Kruger, Duquesne This was drawn chiefly from the Boer of Cape Province for execution. Du- slipped across the Channel to London. boys who had been to England and the quesne and his younger brother were There he managed to secure passports Continent; the South African conflict held to the last, in the hope that they and documents accrediting him as a was open war along a vast front, and might yield information. Meantime war correspondent for a London news- with their knowledge of the country the executions shocked public opinion paper. In vain I tried to get at the they had no difficulty filtering through in America and Europe, and even in details of this extraordinary transac- the lines and reporting to Duquesne in England itself, where pro-Boer senti- tion. Cape Town. But there were not ment had been steadily growing. The "No," said Duquesne. "Not all the enough of them for the job, so the English Liberals were against the war; men who helped me do it are dead as leader had to draw upon Boer resi- both Asquith and Lloyd George had yet. Later on, years hence, I may tell dents of Cape Town for assistance. In raised their voices against the govern- you." all, nearly twenty men were involved, ment, and Lloyd George had been forced But I have an idea that a certain each of whom became responsible for to don woman's clothes to escape an London editor of American birth and the destruction of an enemy vantage angry mob after denouncing the con-

, hot Boer sympathies, who was ban- point. Barracks, wharves, depots, mu- flict. The Chamberlain government ished from England for his pro-Ger- nition dumps, warehouses, public build- consequently took counsel of caution, man attitude during the World War, ings, power plants, railway shops, commuted the sentences of the Du- may have had a hand in helping Fritz bridges were to be mined and the blasts quesne brothers to life imprisonment at Duquesne into Cape Town under such set off at a given time. For himself hard labor, and shipped them off to the favorable auspices. At any rate out Duquesne chose the most difficult task Bermudas, whither many other Boer he went to "the Cape" on a P. & 0. of all, the destruction of the water pipe prisoners of war had preceded them. liner that carried, in addition to Du- leading from the reservoir on Table In confinement in Bermuda Du- quesne, British troops and stores. Mountain. Cape Town, in the twin- quesne's active mind soon began to play Cape Town was under martial law. kling of an eye, was to be shattered and with the idea of escape. America was

Everyone had to register. The city flooded beyond repair, whereupon the close at hand ; moreover there were was divided into four districts, and British lines would have to fold up in friends even closer. These sent the Duquesne registered in each district retreat and the Boers .would be victors. (Continued on page 14)

Living Up to the Legion Idea at Santa Barbara

an earthquake in late clubhouse on the corner of De La WHENJune shook the city of Santa By E. H. Guerra Street and Chapala Avenue, a Barbara along the clifftops two-story building which the post had beside the Pacific Ocean in RISDON constructed after several years of California, Santa Barbara Post of The fund-raising, was wrecked so badly American Legion rallied for rescue and that it will have to be torn down. The relief while the first cries of the in- —at 6:42 o'clock in the morning whole front of the buiTding fell into jured were heard among the wreckage. Ewald rushed through the streets, gath- the street. It was typical of the spirit In less than thirty minutes from the ering together all the Legionnaires he of bo£h the Legion and the spirit of time the city had been roused in ter- encountered. With Post Adjutant Rob- Santa Barbara that two flags were ror by the heaving of the ground and ert Blachford; E. L. Spencer, a mem- flying above the clubhouse ruins as the the collapse of hundreds of walls, or- ber of the post executive committee, Legionnaires worked. ganized patrols of Legionnaires were and Jess Culbert as his aides, Com- The women of Santa Barbara Post's marching through the stifling dust mander Ewald assigned members to unit of The American Legion Auxil- clouds to help remove the dead from duty at important points on the city's iary were close behind the Legionnaires the ruins, to save the half-crushed vic- main thoroughfare. In a short time in the work of relief. Under the lead- tims of the catastrophe who lay where a hundred Legionnaires, all working in ership of its president, Mrs. Starr they had been overwhelmed, to put out close touch with Ewald and his aides, Gruner, the unit opened canteens (in- fires and to guard against looting. were distributed through the zone cluding the first one established after The Legion acted at Santa Barbara where the earthquake had done the the disaster) .and served coffee and as swiftly as it acted at Lorain, Ohio, most damage. All these men stayed sandwiches to workers and refugees, stricken by tornado a year earlier, as on the job without relief until two organized for such relief details as pro- swiftly as it .rushed to the aid of a o'clock in the afternoon, and many viding clothing and temporary shelter score of Illinois and Indiana towns stayed until the following morning. to the homeless, and aided other relief stricken by a cyclone four months ago, One Legionnaire, Richard Ewell, was organizations such as the Red Cross as swiftly as it has responded to the on duty thirty-six hours and refused and the Salvation Army. Practically call of disaster in a score of other com- to leave the truck he was driving until every one of the 150 members of the munities stricken by floods and fires forced to do so by other post members. Auxiliary unit took part in this work. and mine disasters. Harold C. Whitney, manager of a line They worked continuously, without Henry L. Ewald, Commander of of motor trucks running between Los sleep or rest, during the twenty-four Santa Barbara Post, who was slightly Angeles and Santa Barbara, put all hours following the disaster. injured during the work of relief, dis- his trucks at the service of the post True to Legion tradition, posts from played the leadership which is now in^ and stayed on duty himself all the first surrounding towns and even from dis- stinctive in the Legion when he placed day and the next night. tant points quickly reinforced the ef- himself at the head of all the members As the Legionnaires worked tireless- forts of Santa Barbara Post. First to of his post he could assemble in the ly to help those who had suffered most, send a delegation of workers was earliest minutes after the earthquake. they had before them the ruins of their Lompoc Post. This post has only twen- Immediately after the first earth shock own home. The American Legion ty members, but almost every one of JULY 31, 1925 PAGE 7

them came into Santa Barbara. Posts at Ven- tura and Oxnard sent large relief delegations quickly. During the first day offers of aid began coming in from all over the country. Posts from Seattle to San Diego and from as far east as Maine, without waiting to learn full details of the disaster, wired asking how they could help most. The Los An- geles County organiza- tion of the Legion ear- ly placed at the dis- posal of the Santa Bar- bara Legionnaires the services of the sixty posts in and about Los Angeles. Santa Barbara's city manager, Herbert Nunn, showed his con- fidence in the Legion by appointing two Le- gionnaires to act under him as second in com- mand during the emer- gency. Fred Johnson was Mr. Nunn's chief aid during the day and One hundred Legionnaires of Santa Barbara, California, working under Post Commander H. L. H. J. Ullman held the Ewald, were on the job policing the stricken area within an hour of the time a severe earth- same post night. at quake visited their city early in the morning of June 29th. Ewald, the coatless man with the The responsibility of cigarette in his mouth, and with one hand bandaged, the result of minor injuries sustained in restoring .order and rescue work, is shown standing near the emergency relief office the Legionnaires established getting the city started on the work of its own rehabilitation rested largely on these this meeting the Legion was assigned from the start and that there had been two men. the task of patrolling the most impor- no looting or ransacking. After its first impromptu activities, tant section of the city. The chief of The work of the Legionnaires in pre- the Legion was. honored at a meeting police issued a statement lauding the venting fires .among the ruins was of the Santa .Barbara city council work of the Legionnaires. He declared made easier by the fact that all power which was attended by representatives that the work they had done had en- lines were turned off immediately after of all the city's civic organizations. At abled complete order to be maintained the earthquake. The smallness of the death toll in Santa Barbara was due to the early hour of the earthquake. It .came when most citizens were still asleep in their homes. Had it occurred several hours later when the city's office buildings and stores were crowded, the list of killed would have been appalling, for it was in the busi- ness section that the greatest damage oc- curred. Many of those killed were crushed un- der the ruins of down- town hotels. Santa Barbara Post, having proved true to the Legion's best tradi- tions in the hour of dis- aster, is now taking an active part in the com- munity movement to restore the city. Re- building plans have been announced by practically all the own- ers of buildings which were destroyed, and Santa Barbara Post, with the same spirit that characterizes its An Auxiliary filling station in action. The Santa Barbara Unit established the first relief fellow citizens, Js mak- canteen after the disaster, and performed noteworthy service in conjunction with the Salvation ing plans foyjfia. new Army and the Red Cross clubhouse. Wounded men of the 3 2d and 28th transferred as replacements to the Divisions will probably remember First Division, while the three remain- Mont St. Martin as it appears in the ing infantry regiments, the 125th, upper photograph, for it was here 126th and 127th, were assigned as tem- that casualties sustained in the Vesle Over porary labor troops in the Service of fighting were hospitalized. The house Supply. As a result there was a short- at the extreme right of the picture be- age of 9,000 men in the division when fore which stands an ambulance was its actual training period began. the first-aid dressing, station. Mont The entirely depleted 128th Infantry St. Martin is in seen the lower picture the Hill Regiment was brought back into being as it looks today. The dressing sta- by transferring men from the 125th tion has been rehabilitated and the and 126th Regiments, and replacements village church is getting a new steeple later brought the division up to fight- ing strength. It was through the ef- to the forts of the divisional commander, Ma- the Thirty-Second Divi- jor General William G. Haan, later a WHEN of sion, composed National corps commander, that the initial Guardsmen of Michigan and orders converting the outfit into a re- Wisconsin, arrived overseas placement division were rescinded. The during January and February, 1918, it Vesle enemy offensive of March 21, 1918, may appeared for a time that this outfit, also have had some bearing on the which later was to prove one of the matter. hardest-hitting divisions of the A. E. It so happened, after its precarious F., might cease to exist as a unit. The By JOHN J. beginning, that the Thirty-Second was captains and privates of one entire the first American division to set foot regiment, the 128th, were immediately NOLL (Continued on -page 17) ,

JULY 31, 1925 PAGE 9 Out Where the West Does Its Stuff

By CARTER JOHNSON

word went eastward and WHENwestward that Utah and Ne- vada had oversubscribed their quotas for The American Le- gion Endowment Fund—each State raising almost half again as much as the sum which had been asked of it— that news did not have its full sig- nificance for those who have never seen

If anybody has gone higher for The American Legion Endowment Fund than Department Commander John E. Booth of Utah, Mr. Booth would like to hear about him. Here is Mr. Booth, more than a mile and a half above sea level, pausing for a snapshot during the 5,000 miles of driving he did to put his department forty percent over its quota

the rugged country which lies between magnificent distances, sage - strewn the crest of the Rockies and the desert and pine-clad Sierra, Legion Sierras. posts are so widely separated that a Twenty-five thousand dollars does jack rabbit would have to carry his not seem a formidable sum, but the lunch to post meetings. There are six- raising of that sum and more by the teen posts in the State. Be it recorded Legionnaires of Utah was a surpass- to their lasting credit that they quickly ing accomplishment. In a State with raised the $5,000 quota for Nevada and only three cities of more than 10,000 added several thousand dollars for good population, with an average population measure, for Nevada acquired in the of only five persons to the square mile, World War the habit of doing more with a total population of less than than its share. 500,000 scattered over the vast area of Commander Kane knew he could 84,000 square miles, raising $25,000 for count on Nevada, because his State was any cause was bound to be a tremend- the only State to execute the first draft ous task. When one appreciates also call at its own expense. It was the the great distances between scattered first State to fill its quota of volun- towns and the absence of railroads in teers, giving eleven times its allotment a large part of the State, he can unr of young men. It also was the first derstand something of the problem State to subscribe its quota for the which faced John E. Booth, Commander First Liberty Loan. Besides Nevada of the Utah Department of The Amer- happens to have a Legionnaire as Gov- ican Legion, when he personally took ernor—James F. Scrugham, prominent charge of the work of raising the in national affairs of the Legion since State's quota. the organization's cradle days. E. E. Roberts of Reno, Nevada (left) The problem that faced Commander In both Utah and Nevada, as in until recently had two chief distinc- Booth in Utah differed only in magni- every other State where the Legion has tions. He was mayor of Reno and tude from the one which faced Joe presented its appeal, it was recognized father-in-law of Walter Johnson, pre- Kane, the Commander of the Depart- that the success of the campaign was mier baseball pitcher. In the Reno ment of Nevada. For with an area of assured if the Legion could get its case campaign for the Endowment Fund, 110,000 square miles, Nevada has only before a sufficiently large number of Mayor Roberts won a new distinction. 77,000 people, an average of less than people in the limited time the cam- The team he headed went over the one person to the square mile, and paign was to last. top in a hurry. In the photograph Reno, with 12,000 people by the 1920 Commander Booth decided to carry above Mr. Roberts is seen handing census, is the State's only sizable com- the Legion's message to the people of his own subscription card to Jerry munity. Uncle Sam still holds title to Utah personally. He is a druggist at Sheehan, honorary county chairman ninety percent of the land in the State. Spanish Fork. For a whole month he for the drive And in Nevada, glamorous State of (Continued on page 10) —

P/. GE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY EDITORIAL and country, associate ourselves together the FOR God we for vivid picture of that service which is the watchword of following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution the Legion translated into action in time of crisis. If the of the United States of America; to maintain law and order ; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to pre- Legion had no other reason for being, its work in these four serve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great great emergencies would have established that reason. War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the commu- nity, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote The Truth About Buffalo Bill peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to pos- its fiftieth reunion the class of 1875 at West Point an- terity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy ; to conse- AT crate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual nounced that it would arrange to sponsor the produc- helpfulness.—Preamble to Constitution of The American Legion. tion of a motion picture portraying the life of Buffalo Bill. Here is a real chance for one American movie to refute A Notable Service Record its quota of the criticism Lord Lee of Fareham has lately made against our pictures. Lord Lee is an Englishman this issue the Weekly publishes an account of the sig- IN who understands and likes the United States. But he says nal service rendered by The American Legion and The our movies, taken as a whole, are very bad. He says they American Legion Auxiliary in the Santa Barbara earth- untruthfully depict America. They show a false America quake. This is the fourth instance this year in which, which exists nowhere but on the screen. These pictures faced by a tragic crisis which temporarily numbed the af- are exhibited all over the world and create damaging im- flicted communities, local Legion posts and Auxiliary units pressions on audiences who are unable to judge how false have quickly recovered their poise and plunged into relief and foolish they are. work with all the power at their command. In addition There is a good deal to what Lord Lee has to say. That Legion and Auxiliary relief effort has been intelligently so many of our motion pictures bear so little resemblance expanded in many smaller emergencies that have failed to to the verities of American life attract the widespread attention naturally bestowed on the (or any other) is not an especial tribute to the imaginations great calamities. The year's record of Legion and Aux- of those who produce such movies. On the contrary it is a mark of their lack of iliary assistance in four major disasters is worth sum- imagination. marizing: If thrills and sensations are what they want they can pick enough of them right out of history, past February 2Qth : Explosion in coal mine at Sullivan, Indi- and contemporary. Our best motion picture producers have ana, costs fifty-one lives. Sullivan Post within half an hour done this right along. mobilizes fifty members for guard duty and to assist in remov- That is why a movie about Buffalo Bill could be made ing bodies. Legionnaires stay on the job for sixty hours, until to be a good one. This generation knew William F. Cody as the last body is taken from the mine. a showman, but the class of 1875 at West Point knew him March 18th : Tornado sweeps through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, with heaviest loss of life in as a figure in American history—a plainsman, scout and southern Illinois, recording toll of approximately 850 dead and soldier who was a factor in the winning of the West. vast property loss. A fourth of the casualties are in Murphys- When the frontier had vanished Cody's occupation was boro, Illinois. Members of Paul Stout Post of that city organ- gone and he turned to the show business because he liked ize for immediate relief under the leadership of Commander R. Z. the easy freedom of the life and because he had to make a Gill, Jr., the appoints chief of police. Williamson whom mayor living. Post of Marion, Illinois, transports an army field kitchen thirty A good many people of this day and time think the miles on a handcar and sets up a relief center in Murphysboro. may character Other Legion details come from Carbondale, Herrin, Sparta, of Buffalo Bill is more fancied than real. Cer- Marissa, Tilden and Chester, members of the Marissa outfit tainly it has been colorfully and extensively Actionized, and Robert F. Arnold Post—collecting 25 cots, 100 blankets, 100 this has been both a bad and a good thing. It has de- loaves of bread, 100 pounds of sausage and • a large supply of tracted from Buffalo Bill's authenticity as a figure in his- clothing, and, finding the highway impassable, flag a freight train tory. But it has also preserved his name for posterity, to get to Murphysboro. In West Frankfort, Illinois, which suf- while other scouts and frontiersmen, perhaps as noteworthy fers severely, Earl Cowan Post plunges immediately into prac- as Bill, have been forgotten. tical relief work, as does McLeansboro Post in its own stricken Jim Bridger, appears briefly community. Aid comes from as far away as Chicago, which who in "The Covered sends the skilled emergency unit of Chicago Medical Post to the Wagon," was as great a plainsman as Cody. But ten scene of the disaster. thousand people have heard of Buffalo Bill for every one

Mat 27th : Explosion in coal mine at Coal Glen, North who knows of Jim Bridger. Jim and Bill were somewhat Carolina, entombs fifty-four men. Loe County Post of Sanford, different, though. Bill was more of an all-round example twelve miles away, and its Auxiliary Unit have canteen established of the spirit of the early West. For instance, Jim was a within two hours of disaster. Legionnaires, sworn in as deputy trader as well as a scout. He made a fortune and saved sheriffs, throw fence around mine mouth to keep back the curious, it. Buffalo Bill cared nothing for money except to spend regulate traffic on crowded country roads, and assist in bringing it. After all his bodies from mine, while Auxiliary workers dispense food and years in the show business, after all the care for children. Legion and Auxiliary workers remain on scene money he had made, he died broke. until every victim of the explosion is buried, every stricken fam- So much fiction has been written about Buffalo Bill ily visited, and every orphaned child cleaned and fed. South that the truth would be not only refreshing, but entertain- Carolina Legion assumes burden of raising $35,000 state relief ing. A faithful motion picture woven about his life on the fund to care for helpless dependents of victims. plains could be made a minor American epic. June 29th : Earthquake shocks cause death of ten persons and enormous property damage at Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara Post has an organized patrol on the streets with- Most pugilists look as if they played by ear. in thirty of first occurred at 6 :42 a. m. minutes the shock, which •> > The Auxiliary Unit to Santa Barbara Post establishes the first If there's anything in evolution canteen after the disaster. One Legionnaire works thirty-six the pedestrian of today ought to develop into hours without rest and is then forcibly made to quit by fellow the kangaroo of tomorrow. Legionnaires. Legion details from Lompoc, Ventura and Oxnard •> V > early on scene. Los Angeles County Council of Legion places at Nowadays when a fond parent tells his offspring "Oo-oo, disposal of Santa Barbara Post services of sixty posts in Los see horsey!" Angeles area. Santa Barbara's city manager appoints two he is really giving the kid something to look at. Legionnaires to act under him as second in command, one for day and the other for night duty. For fifty years a Rhode Island farmer wore the same There are inevitable omissions in the above summary. suit of clothes. Another five years and it should command a It is sufficient, however, the Weekly believes, to present a fancy price at a church rummage sale. JULY 31, 1925 PAGE 11 Nobody Has to Sell America to Jake Osipchack

By FRANK F. MILES

Jacob Osipchack of Des Moines, Iowa, badly wounded in the Ar- gonne, became a cabinet maker after taking Veterans Bureau training. He owns his home and thinks this country is far supe- rior to either the old Russia he was born in or the new one of the Soviets

days. He saw light again at the American hospital in Paris, recovered enough so he could be moved early in February, reached Camp Grant, Illinois, February 25th, and was discharged in March. Jake could not return to ditch tiling. He still hadn't mastered English well enough so he could speak it with any degree of fluency. He knew no trade, but, he says, he did not worry; he came to America because he thought Amer- ica spelled Opportunity. He had found it before the war, and he was certain America would take care of him. In 1921 he started taking a vocational training course to learn cabinet making. His THANK God I am an American edge of the English language. He problem was much harder than that of citizen. Nothing could induce me found employment as a ditch tiler and most men because he first had to study to return to Russia. This coun- had taken out his first citizenship pa- English and acquire the very rudiments I education. But he wel- try has heen very good to me. I pers when he was inducted at Blue of an American would die for Old Glory." Earth, Minnesota, June 5, 1918, and as- comed what to him was a most trying Jacob Osipchack of Des Moines, signed to Company F, 354th Infantry, ordeal, and last December he completed Iowa, was telling of his experiences in Eighty-Eighth Division." his course. He had, however, been em- the A. E. F., and of his struggles since. About a month later he sailed for ployed as a trainee by the Klondike In- One might wonder how he, born a Rus- France. His regiment had been in the cubator Company of Des Moines for sian peasant, could show so pronounced Argonne eight days when on the night two years. a preference for Americanism over of October 5 he was one of eighteen But that's not all Jake has done. He czarism or sovietism, but Jake can men detailed from his company, to go and Miss Florence Gunder of Leon, explain it so clearly and impressively a mile and a half back to bring chow Iowa, were married in September, 1920. as to leave no doubt whatever and at up to where the company was billeted. She proved to be a most remarkable the same time inspire his auditors to a Jake got his load of chow all right young woman at helping her husband. deeper appreciation of America. and was about half way on his return When he took his present job, they con- And, if this country has been good trip when hell broke loose all around ceived the idea of building their own to Jake, there is no obligation on his him. He leaped behind a tree for pro- home, and to pay as they went. So, part. He has paid in full for the good- tection. The Boche storm contained every pay day, for two years, Jake ness bestowed upon him. Moreover, he mustard gas and Jake didn't have his has bought materials and he and Mrs. has proved he would die for Old Glory, mask with him. Osipchack have added to their home. for he came close to it in the Argonne. "I feared the gas would get me if I Today at Twenty-Eighth Street and He still suffers intensely at times but stayed where I was," he said, "but I Garden Road, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob never with bitterness, always with feared if I left my place I would be Osipchack and their children, a girl thankfulness that his life has been riddled. It was a choice between gas four years old and a boy a year old, spared. and shells, and, as the gas worked are living in a comfortable home. Jake served in the Russian dragoons slower, I decided to take a chance on "We are proud we have paid for when he a boy. Four it." everything we have got and owe no- was ^ years before the United States entered the All the rest of the night he stood body a cent," said Jake. "I'm a poor World War, he came to America in the there. About dawn the firing lulled man, poor as people go here, but I'm steerage. He was then 24 years old, and he made his way back to his outfit. rich as compared with what I would be strong and healthy but with almost no A few hours later he was stone blind. in Russia. My wife and I could not do education and utterly without knowl- The blindness continued for seventeen over there what we have done here." PAGE 12 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

The Amateur Gardener (Part II) By Wallgren —

JULY 31, 1925 PAGE 13 A PERSONAL PAGE by Frederick Palmer

Now, in this between-you-and-me page, I am going to contest closes at the office of the Weekly on September 20, offer some prizes to encourage the you of the partnership. 1925.

The subject is as big as the world and I wish the prizes might be larger. But they are all I A Prize its future. can afford. I hope that they are big enough to bring a Offer What good did you get out of your big response. If any Legionnaire wants to increase them, service in the war? This is not advo- his addition will be welcome. Now, come on! cating the moral value of war. We know that war is bad. The World War is a fact that we cannot change in its in- A man who was taking his family on a holiday tour in fluence upon the lives of those who served. a third-hand flivver, and had been full of trouble in keep- Then, out of the ordeal, the thing is to make the most ing its junk assembled, looked skyward, of its lesson to each of us that we can. This is the best What You Get after groveling over a blowout, to see a respect to pay to the memory of the dead and the sacri- Out of It silvery phantom appearing out of the fice of the maimed. Seven years' after the war we may clouds in the distance. As the great think back to it clearly; we may harvest the influence of it dirigible swiftly passed, he thought, "Going some! I wish upon us as individuals. I were up there." Then a skinny horse drawing a man in a Wherein are you stronger? How did it help you to be dilapidated wagon went by. "Even a flivver is better than a better citizen? What incident in the service affected that for seeing the world," he now thought, feeling better. your life helpfully? Did it teach you self-reliance and '"And those fellows up in the Shenandoah don't get ac- self-control? Did it give you a new capacity for happi- quainted along the road as I do." You may always find ness and an appreciation of some things of life which you someone who has more than you have and also someone had not appreciated before? who has less. It is harder to find someone who gets all Perhaps some man or woman who was permanently in- there is out of what he has. valided can point to some compensation for his injury which is thus the easier to bear. There are men who A picture in an illustrated paper shows an Eastern learned for the first time to feel for others and how to take woman in full cowboy costume on a Wyoming ranch un- a joke on themselves during their war service. It is for der the caption, "When a Lady is Not a each one to express through his personal experience what When Is a Lady." Did she cease to be a lady good he got out of this horrible business of war. The sum Lady Not—? when she changed her attire? It does of all the answers will be more valuable than a thousand not require a prize offer to get an an- books of theories. We may learn what is the moral sub- swer to that. It is: Not if she was one before. stitute for war which was the concern of that great phi- The fact of which we may be sure is that she had enough losopher William James. money to go West in summer to be a "dude wrangler" un- I will give a prize of $50 for the best answer; $30 for der the instruction of thoroughbred men and women riders the second; $25 for the third; $15 for the fourth; $10 for who are paid for their services. According to some ideas the fifth and for the five next best $5 each. The letters the difference between being a gentleman or a lady and of the ten winners will be published in the November 6th just a man or a woman is playing at cowboy or cowgirl issue of The American Legion Weekly. as increasing numbers of Easterners do every summer—or Conditions: The contest is open to all Legionnaires, earning your living as one. men and women. Length, positively not over two hun- All the dudes of either sex cannot fail to learn some- dred words. Longer offerings will be excluded. Write thing on such a holiday from association with genuine on one side of the page. Typewriting not necessary. Do men and women in the open. I hope that the "When is a not sign your name to the manuscript. Place your name Lady" of the picture may return East a real woman in full, with name of post to which you belong and your whether in a ball gown or chaps. The dudes do not get post office address, in a small envelope and pin firmly to all the fun out of it; their hosts must have a good deal of the upper left hand corner of the first page. Or, lacking fun in talking over the ways of the dudes. the small envelope, write full name, with name of post and post office address, on the upper left-hand corner of As we learned at school, Congress makes the laws and the first page; then turn and pin down the corner so as to the President enforces them. Looking out from the White cover the address. Address all letters to Prize Contest, House he does not see many examples Personal Page, The American Legion Weekly, Indianapo- An Eye-Opener of law breaking; he must trust enforce- lis, Indiana. for Coolidge ment to assistants. No sooner was The range of the contest is broad. I want nobody to President Coolidge settled in his sum- feel cramped. Do not think that you have to be a natural- mer home on the New England coast than he saw how born writer and facile with words in order to compete. one law was being broken. A rum fleet was in sight from What is wanted is your personal note. The man whose his porch, we are told. Nearby was a favorite landing hands are so stiff from the day's labor that he feels that place for its cargo. This time he saw for himself how the he can handle a crowbar better than a pen has as good a law was being broken. The rum fleet is not there now. chance as the man who goes behind a chauffeur to his It is not using its favorite landing place. For the Presi- office where he has a stenographer at his elbow. I hope dent put a personal impulse behind some of his law-en- our army nurses will compete. Think what your experi- forcing assistants which made it a personal matter to

ence in France or in the training camp did for you. Then them. That is what it must be to all assistants. If we

write at once. In the event of indecision between the cannot enforce this vital law it is a confession of national merits of two letters, the earlier arrival will win. The weakness or that it is a wrong law. PAGE 14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Is Fritz Duquesne Alive? (Continued from page 6) prisoners flowers, tobacco and food, ing water. The Bermudas lack springs "Frankly," said the matron, "I think iand in these packages occasionally and streams,- human needs being met you are an impostor. We're just over were words of cheer and counsel. entirely from cisterns. Therefore, to from Bermuda, and things there are Money came in, ' secreted in cakes. drink meant to risk capture, since not at all as you say. I don't believe Finally the "underground" brought water existed only close to habitations you were ever in the Bermudas in your them, bit by bit, a complete map of the and in much frequented spots. life." islands,- with the houses located there- Duquesne. and Oosterhuysen hid by Duquesne looked over her shoulder at on where help could be found. Three day in the brush, changing islands each the girl, and recognition dawned in of the prisoners — Fritz Duquesne, night. Close work, often, with war- their eyes. TBopp and Oosterhuysen—decided to ships flirting their searchlights about, "This young lady," said he, "can tell make a break for liberty. patrols beating the brush almost on you whether I was ever in Bermuda or their heels, and Oosterhuysen sick and not. Don't you remember, miss, that feverish from a wound which was get- hot afternoon three months ago when am definite in naming Duquesne's ting worse daily. Duquesne rustled you were playing tennis and you fol- I companions for the reason that, in a food and water for him, and toward lowed your out-of-bounds ball across recital where much is personal narra- the last carried him about on his back the road? It came to a stop, you will tive insusceptible of proof, the Ber- from one shelter to another. Finally recall, close to a knot of prisoners who, muda escape is corroborated down to dysentery overtook -the patient; when chained together, were drawn up under the last detail by Oosterhuysen. His it was a case of doctor or death Du- a tree for a little rest before they corroboration of it came through one quesne managed to get his stricken were marched on to new quarters. You of those odd tricks of circumstance mate to one of the refugees marked on drew back in fright when you saw us, which the World War, by jumbling all his map—the winter home of an Amer- but I told you not to be afraid, that we sorts of persons together indiscrimi- ican maiden lady of independent means wouldn't eat you, and kicked the ball nately, multiplied beyond the ordinary. and independent views. out to you. You remember that, don't Among my reporters on the Akron She was friendly but helpless. "I you?" paper was W. H. Kingsley, now editor can't keep this poor fellow here," she of the Torrance Herald at Torrance, said. "The authorities know where I California. In April, 1917, Kingsley stand; this place has been searched TO her aunt's disgust she remem- joined up and went to France as a twice already. Besides, there isn't a bered, and later, to the disgust of medical sergeant with the Second Di- doctor I can trust. I'll have to sur- her relatives, she married Fritz Du- vision Marines. En route from Parris render him to save his life." quesne. The best blood of England was Island to the transport, Kingsley met In her carriage she drove Ooster- in her veins and made roses of her Oosterhuysen, who had enlisted in our huysen down to the military hospital cheeks; her family name is preserved forces at the close of the Boer War the next day, while Duquesne, fed, alike in Burke's Peerage and a famous and so had sixteen years of service be- bathed, heartened, and with a fresh work of English literature; her rela- hind him in 1917. Learning that he disguise and money in his pockets, tives have married into some of Amer- was a Boer, Kingsley asked him if he went back to the bush. Lack of space ica's most affluent and noted families. knew Duquesne. forbids a full record of his adventures I met her as Mrs. Duquesne, but she "I'll say so," replied Oosterhuysen. in his flight to America. But at last, divorced her husband after it was ob- "He saved my life in Bermuda." through a mixture of bribery and bold- vious he had gone German, and she has "Well, he's dead," said Kingsley, this ness, he reached Baltimore on a yacht since remarried. For all these reasons being months after my .obituary of belonging to Miss Emerson, daughter I shall not identify her further. Duquesne had been written on the of the Bromo-Seltzer king. He rode Peace came to South Africa in time, basis of Associated Press dispatches the rods out of Baltimore, walked but not to Fritz Duquesne. Perhaps from South America. Whereupon this across Jersey, and reached the Boer if he could have returned to his be- veteran top-kick broke down and wept, consulate in New York City. Presi- loved homeland he might have sal- mourning Fritz Duquesne as "the best dent Kruger sent him $600 and word vaged something from the wreckage of man in this God-damned world." And that he should stay in the United the family fortunes and carried on. the story Oosterhuysen told Kingsley States, since the war was almost over. But he was proscribed; Chamberlain checks exactly with the story Duquesne thought he knew English too well and told me. would be a trouble-maker if he went They began by bribing the guard. At BUT the war dragged on ; those Dutch- back to the Transvaal. Duquesne says a fixed hour of the night the latter was men in South Africa were a long that General De Wet vouched for him to arrange safe passage through un- time in learning they were licked. personally at the London conference of locked doors. He did so. But when Meantime, if Duquesne could not fight, 1904 but that Chamberlain remained the three men were midway between he could talk. Propaganda is the modr adamant. However that may be, Du- the outer door and the prison wall he ern word. He began with a rous.ing quesne was by nature and training un- opened fire on them in the dark, from speech- at Cooper Union in which he fit for settled, humdrum existence. He the rear. It seems there is, or was, in painted in the blackest colors the Brit- needed action. So he flitted 'round the the British army regulations a substan- ish conduct of the war, concentration world. Wherever the shots were pop- tial reward for an escaping prisoner, of civilian populations, burning of ping Fritz Duquesne was sure to show dead or alive. Mr. Guard, having col- ranch houses, dispersion of herds, and up, now as war correspondent, now as lected once, was not overlooking the all the rest of that terrible campaign. soldier of fortune, sometimes no doubt chance to collect again. Bopp dropped, Certainly the picture lost nothing in as vender of contraband arms. In one shot through the heart. Oosterhuysen the painting; but remember, please, his or another of these capacities he was was wounded, but Duquesne, untouched, background of suffering. His family in Siberia in the Russo-Japanese War, helped his companion over the wall and had lost everything; some of them had in the Balkans in 1908 and with Huerta down to tidewater. died terrible deaths; others were un- in Mexico. At one time he held a com- The Bermuda archipelago consists of dergoing exposure and privation at mission in the Belgian State Constabu- many small islands; the largest is only that very moment; he himself was an lary. He had a wide and close ac- • eight miles long, the smallest a mere outcast in a strange land. He drew quaintance with Latin-American nota- pinpoint in the blue. Some of the also upon the prison horrors of Ber- bles; his last act before sailing for smaller ones are not inhabited at all, muda. South America early in 1914 was to being given over entirely to Nature, His audience was mostly friendly, give an elaborate dinner in New York which in that sector runs strongly to but he noticed dissenters, so he ended for the charge d' affaires of Guate- underbrush, the juniper predominating. the lecture with a request that any mala. And when all other sources of The natives are mostly Negroes who who disbelieved him should come for- excitement failed, he went exploring. raise garden truck. Not a bad neigh- ward to the platform for a personal in- From a trip into the interior of borhood to hide out in, providing one terview. Among those who remained South America Duquesne emerged with can swim and live on onions. But was a British matron accompanied by specimens of a rubber-bearing vine there was one difficulty—lack of drink- a beautiful girl. which he claimed grew there in abun- - .

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dance. He claimed further to have been convicted of murder and arson, transplanted it successfully in Trinidad perhaps executed, certainly jailed for and Jamaica, thereby demonstrating life. But his hoax succeeded. Du- its fitness for cultivation on planta- quesne escaped from Bellevue with the tions. To Akron he came, bearing his help of outside aids, and has never specimens and credentials. There was been recognized since by the keen eye nothing the matter with the latter; in- of authority. deed, in the course of the ensuing nego- The fact that the United States tiations Duquesne was vouched for by might enter the war, a war Duquesne some of the best known men in Amer- prophesied so definitely in the fall of ica, including ex-President Roosevelt. 1913, never entered his calculations. When Duquesne left Akron he took He had been a naturalized citizen of with him $5,000 and a contract from a this country for many years, and leading rubber company which, if all boasted of America with an exuberant Steady? had gone well, would have given him patriotism. I like to think that he had riches beyond his dreams. All he had himself killed off down in the Argen- Beeman's to do was to go to South America and tine as soon as he saw that our entry quiets prove that his find was there in com- was inevitable in order that he might mercial quantities by bringing out five not be called upon to act against the nerves tons of rubber from that source, where- United States. But this is a clear case upon the company agreed to form a of the wish being father to the thought, keeps you subsidiary corporation to exploit the and the facts may be far otherwise. discovery on a large scale, giving Du- * * * calm -its quesne forty-nine percent of the stock. Is Fritz Duquesne alive? He asked me to go with him in return I think so, because he is such a use is stock. Said for a substantial block of hard man to kill that he could hardly he: be shuffled off without a combat that "There's just one catch in this prop- would attract notice. He warned me osition. This $5,000 isn't enough to once that a man with enemies should h sensibk let me hire another dependable white sleep with his shoes on, ready for 9 man. Unless I can get a volunteer I'll action. habit' have to go it alone, and depend on But if alive, where is he? Well, he anyone I can pick up. And it's bad might be in Germany,' helping to get country." that much-talked-of secret army under Off he went, however, after - outfit- way. An excellent spy-soldier, 'with all ting in New York, and to this day no the languages of western Europe at his expedi-' one knows whether his rubber command, he may still find work in tion was an honest one or merely a Europe. Or he may be helping France blind to get himself to his appoi-nted or Spain in the Riff, or helping Abd-el- place in the German scheme without Krim against France or Spain. That raising the suspicion there that a well- would be all the same to Captain Fritz financed stranger would encounter. At Joubert Duquesne. any rate the company that was backing Yet I suspect that he is -doing none Tepsin Gum again, him never heard from him nor of these things. My guess is that he did I, until there came out of Buenos is bootlegging on a grand scale. .If AMERICAN CHICLE CO. Aires, more than two years later, an there really exists an international Associated Press dispatch telling of his rum-running organization he has the death at the hands of natives in the brains to conduct its operations. wild Chaco district of the Argentine. So if you see a handsome five-foot- The cables brought more details the nine man of swarthy, open-air com- next day. Duquesne was not dead but plexion, wavy brown hair, and unfor- had been severely wounded, in defend- gettable steel-blue eyes, ask him to ing his caravan against native raid. Bo; a show you the soles of his feet. If one M Another day brought the definite news F of them has scar running the full a To secure boosters of his death. Whereupon I wrote a length of the sole, that is Fritz Du- 1 j» T for our unbeatable long obituary of this extraordinary J5©nCl IN vaIues,classy styles quesne. A British lancer pinked him O and perfect man, an obituary which was widely _ _ , _ tailor- f there in a charge while Duquesne was IVI If |\I p V ing.we make this * * ' a~t * introductory copied, since Fritz Duquesnes do not . free half under a horse with one leg in the suit offer. Our new plan enables you to get die every day. one of our fine.made-to-order air—a fair hit, blimy! And if, after suits, in any style you like without spending money. It is of record, however, that not reading this, you feel like turning him everyone on this planet was as gullible AGENTS Earn $9 to $18 DAILY in, call the police. But if you ever WAMTCn Cash for you besides Free I in tak- LIT as the matter of Duquesne's give him a chance to talk, you'll never «« s u jt for spare time show- ing-off. The intelligence services of ing our wonderful samples to neighbors call headquarters. For Fritz Duquesne, and friends, we show you how, prices Allied powers must have remained un- so low folks buy on sight, get cash and man- of tragedy and sin that he is, is FREE SUIT. No experience needed. Biggest convinced, and presumably communi- sample outfit, agents wholesale prices, real the best company in the world. wool pieces, fashion styles, tape measure, sim- cated their suspicions to our Govern- ple directions. WRITE AT ONCE for FREE euit offer and Free sample outfit. ment after our entry into the war. At PROGRESS TAILORING CO., Dept. g-ios, Chicago any rate when Duquesne appeared, in New York in 1918, in the uniform and OUTFIT REUNIONS bearing the papers of an Australian officer, the New York bomb squad laid Announcements for this department must be Makes Pumping Up Tires hands on him and thrust him into the received three weeks in advance of the events Unnecessary Tombs on the minor charge of having a with which they are concerned. Chicago, III—W. V. Hughes of 2512 Mon- false passport. More serious charges Co. M, 145th Inf. (37th Div.) —Reunion Aug. were brought later. In the Tombs he 9 at Chardon, O. Address R. H. Pollard, 213 E. roe, this city, has perfected a new air- feigned paralysis so' successfully that Jackson St., Painesville, O. tight valve cap that enables auto owners 112th F. S. Bn. (37th Div.)—Seventh annual to pump up their tires once and never he was sent to Bellevue Hospital for reunion at Cincinnati O.. Sept. 5-7. Address observation and treatment. I have Matt J. Mosbacher, 422 Buckeye-Commercial touch them again until punctured or worn talked to reporters who saw Duquesne Bank Bids'.. Findlay, O. out. Leading tire manufacturers, after 148th Inf. (37th Div.) Reunion at Cincin- — thorough tests, have approved Mr. Hughes' brought into court on a stretcher and nati, O.. Sept. 5-7. Address Robert F. Ohmer, 60 who confessed they were utterly mis- Spirea Drive, Dayton. O. invention and banished the old theory that led. The bomb squad detectives, the 89th Div.—Annual reunion at national con- air escapes through rubber. One inflation vention of American Lesion at Omaha, Neb., court several physicians experi- lasts the life of a tire, and tire mileage is and Oct. 5-7. Address Kenneth G. Irons, 1054 Board enced in the tricks of criminals were of Trade Bids., Kansas City. Mo. doubled. These caps retail for $1.25 for all deluded by this super-actor in the 408th Tel. Bn.—Annual reunion at Lesion set of five. The inventor wants agents National Convention in Omaha, Neb., Oct. 5-9. supreme crisis of his life of many and will send proof and samples Free. Address L. D. Brobeil, Room 1109, Telephone crises. If he had failed he would have Bldg., Omaha. Write him today.— (Adv.) PAGE V6 — THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

Out Where the West Does Its Stuff (Continued from page 9) left his drug store in charge of a man- the Browning machine gun and other By getting more miles out of it. My wonderful new invention, the ager. And in that month he covered firearms. The quota for Ogden was Stransky Vaporizer, increases almost five thousand miles in his auto- set at $4,800. This was raised quickly mileage 35 to 50%. power and mobile. visited thirty-four Actual tests demonstrate it pos- He communi- and a sizable additional amount was sible for car to go ties having Legion posts and countless contributed. Especial help was given P other smaller centers in which the Le- by the Relief Society of the Mormon Y«.. ?X 57 MILES ON A GALLON gion does not exist as an organization. Church in Ogden, which solicited and Try It! Everywhere he helped Legionnaires and obtained its * Try this wonderful device at my from members more than risk. I want to place a sample of this wonder- committees of public-spirited citizens $1,400 for the Endowment Fund. device on a ful invention in each community. Use and try this organize to obtain local contributions plan that a trial will cost you nothing. Write for details of this Throughout the campaign in Utah offer. Also learn how to make big money acting as my distributor toward the Utah State quota. cordial assistance was given The in your territory. Be first and get the first sample. Act now. Throughout his journeys up and American Legion by the Mormon J. A. STRANSKY down and across the State Commander Church. In a large number of towns 3031 Main St., Pukwana, So. Dak. Booth was accompanied by Robert E. Endowment meetings were held in the Driscoll, a Legionnaire of Nebraska church tabernacles and almost uni- City, Nebraska, one of the field secre- formly the bishops presiding over com- IMake*25°J taries for the Endowment Fund Cam- munities gave their endorsement to the perdaywHtesRCBecHfiam paign assigned to assist departments. Legion's appeal. In Salt Lake City Mr. Driscoll had left his own business the great department store conducted FREE SAMPLES affairs in Nebraska to help raise the by the church—the Zion City Co-oper- Sell Madison "Better-Made" Shirts for Legion's national fund. ative Mercantile Institution—contrib- Largre Manufacturer Direct to wearer. No capital or experience needed. Many earn S100.00 Taking turns at the wheel of the uted a full-page newspaper advertise- weekly and bonus. Write for Free Samples* ment in which all MADISON SHIRT MILLS, 584 Broadway, New York automobile, Mr. Booth and Mr. Dris- the facts concerning coll were driving almost constantly, the Endowment Fund were explained Secured. Trade- taking time out only to eat and sleep in connection with an appeal for con- marks and Copy- and not always finding time to eat and tributions. This advertisement was in- PATENTS often sleeping by turns in the car. valuable to Salt Lake City Post in its rights registered. successful campaign to raise its quota. Registered Patent Attorney Typical of their experiences was the E. E. STEVENS, Late of the 115th U.S.Infty. difficulty they had in getting from The whole success of the Utah cam- LEGIONNAIRE OF MARYLAND Price to Beaver City, a distance of 195 paign was made possible by the lead- Solicits as a member of the old established firm of MILO B. STEVENS &CO.. the business of his fellow Legionnaires and of their friends miles. Finding that a bridge had been ership given by Lafayette Hanchett, We offer a strictly professional service at moderate fees. Preliminary advice without charge. Send sketch or model for examination. Offices washed out along a canyon road near chairman of the State campaign com-

Barrister Bldg. , Washington. 338 Monadnock Block, Chicago, 111. D C ; Hurricane, Mr. Booth and Mr. Driscoll mittee. Mr. Hanchett is president of and two Legionnaires accompanying the Utah Power and Light Company them spent an hour removing boulders and is a dominant figure in the busi- so that their car could cover a short ness life of Salt Lake City. The com- detour. A ninety-mile night ride over mittee was composed of the most a canyon road in a snowstorm was an- prominent men of the State, in and other event. The campaigners left out of the Legion. Logan at 11:30 p. m., following an En- Especial credit is also given by Utah dowment meeting, and arrived in Salt Legionnaires to Kirke M. Decker, Ad- Lake City at 4 a. m. jutant of the Utah Department, who Carbon County was the first county conducted the office details of the En- in the State to go over the top. Its dowment campaign. He spent almost quota was $1,026, but it contributed eighteen hours a day at his desk dui-- $2,500. It did this in the face of the ing a large part of the campaign. Mr. desperate situation arising from min- Decker before the campaign began had ing disasters last year in two of the accepted an important executive posi- principal towns of the county, Price tion with a theater company in Port- and Castle Gate. Loss of life had been land, Oregon, but for the good of the heavy in each disaster and the relief Legion he postponed his departure un- problem thus created had strained the til the big task of his department had town's available resources. In Castle been fully completed. Fall In Gate, however, citizens contributed to United States Senator Reed Smoot the Legion's fund $350, or $115 more of Utah rendered great help to the Le- and Follow Me than the quota which Castle Gate Post gion in its campaign. Senator Smoot had expected to raise. At Helper, in gave several addresses in support of preserve I'm on the right road to Carbon County, the quota was $170, but the Endowment Fund campaign which Just my copies of the "WEEKLY". Helper Post raised more than $400. were broadcast by Salt Lake City and look at this binder! I bought it An encouraging feature of the cam- Los Angeles radio stations. from The Legion Book Service for paign in Utah was stimulation to the The news that Utah had exceeded its $1.25. one yourself you'll Get — Legion's growth. Four new posts were quota was given to the country at a did years after! be glad that you started in the State as the result of time when the Legionnaires of Nevada for one today! Send meetings held for the Endowment Fund were engaged in their effort to raise and other new posts are expected to be their State's quota. Commander Kane The Legion Book Service formed. And in scores of small com- had requested all the posts in the State The Jtmerican Legion Weekly munities public-spirited citizens gladly to try to raise their quotas in a cam- Indianapolis, Indiana formed committees to conduct drives, paign lasting but four days. Darrell although their towns had no Legion Dunkle Post of Reno decided to set the posts. pace for the rest of the State. In the In Ogden, the local committee for face of drives for funds by the Y. W. the campaign was headed by Gus L. C. A., a church building campaign and Becker, manufacturer and sportsman, the Near East relief, Post Commander a rifle shot of international reputation. George Allard launched his campaign To set the pace for his town, Mr. and the Reno quota of $2,000 was ex- Becker and his brother contributed ceeded by twenty-five percent before more than $500 to the Fund. Mr. sundown. Becker gave a dinner at which plans With the assistance of T. Gordon for the Ogden campaign were prepared Bracking and John F. Ness, Legion- and the support of all prominent citi- naires who conduct an advertising zens was enlisted. Among those who agency, display advertisements were took an active part in the campaign prepared and published in the news- were John M. Browning, inventor of paper space contributed by the regular JULY 31, 1925 — PAGE 17 users of the space. The advertise- Reno's example was followed by most ments, each one giving an explanation of the other posts in Nevada. Senator of the purpose of the Endowment Fund N. H. Getchell, chairman of the drive and voicing an appeal to all citizens to committee in sparsely-settled Lander The Old Razor contribute, were published in the Reno County, raised the full amount of the newspapers for seven days before the county quota in one hour's solicitation was 0. K. after all" drive was scheduled to start. May in the town of Betty O'Neal. Lee Har- 25th was stressed and the impression ris, campaign committee chairman in developed among Legionnaires and Eureka County, before the drive start- Just needed Barbasol other citizens that the drive must be ed sent to the Nevada department to produce a quick, completed in one day. headquarters a letter saying he feared For the actual work of solicitation it would be impossible to raise the clean, cool and silky teams were formed composed of Le- quota assigned. Then just to prove shave. No brush. No gionnaires and prominent citizens. One himself wrong, he collected the entire of the best records was made by the county quota personally. Congressman rub-in. The modern team headed by Mayor E. E. Roberts Samuel S. Arentz, Legionnaire, helped way. it — three of Reno, father-in-law of Walter John- Yerington Post get its quota by ex- Try son, baseball pitcher of world's series plaining the drive's purpose to all his times— according to fame. constituents. The ease with which the amount Ormsby County, containing Carson directions. 35c and sought was raised in Reno furnishes City, the State's capital—and, incident- 65c tubes. additional proof of the fact which ally, with its two or three thousand stands out in the history of the whole persons it is the smallest State capital national campaign—that once the pur- in the United States—had a quota of pose of the Endowment Fund has been $158. This sum was exceeded in four explained adequately and widely, citi- hours the first afternoon of the drive. zens will contribute generously. It passed $350 several days later.

Over the Hill to the Vesle (Continued from page 8) on German soil. It was assigned to a of the Vesle River and to provide a quiet sector in Alsace—then part of means of crossing this stream. On the the German Empire, in May, 1918. afternoon of August 4th the attack on On the night of July 30-31st, the Fismes began, and by nightfall, after Thirty-Second relieved the Third Amer- severe fighting, the town was in Amer- ican Division on a line just north of ican hands. On the following day the Roncheres, which objective had been mopping-up process began, but it was attained by the latter division in the not until the night of August 6th that Allied counter-offensive in which the the town was entirely rid of enemy A. L. W. 7-31-25 Chateau-Thierry salient was regained snipers, who had caused many casual- from the enemy. At the same time the ties. For Modern Shaving 63d Infantry Brigade of the Thirty- During the night of August 6th-7th, Second relieved the Twenty-Eighth the Twenty-Eighth Division relieved American Division in the sector to the the Thirty-Second, the latter moving District Salesmen left. Wisconsin men, comprising the back to rest after its first tour of duty men can 127th Infantry, had the honor in the in an active front. Near the town of m Wanted gss^SEra100.00 division of capturing the first town, Mont St. Martin, where a dressing sta- its(gss'jfjjfJiTii a week at start. OurUur union madmade suits Bnl overcoat3 l/N' c ^ at $23.SO (none higher) Cierges, after taking Hill 230, which tion had been established, rolling iApE are America's biggest values. We show latest nifty colors and styles for men and of particular value to the enemy. kitchens was were operating in full-blast «ld young men. Only pure wool fabrics. Immediately following the capture of and the Michigan-Wisconsin fighters «JT* The overcoats are satin lined. Protected territory. Canusesparetimemeninsome Hill 230 the Germans began a retire- found plenty of hot food. mtowns. Write today for application blank ttllCi* and free sampleof the world's greatest clothing ment along this section of the front " values. Address C. B. HARVEY, Box 00, CHICAGO and the Thirty-Second Division was ordered to advance on August 2d. TAPS When this drive started it was found that the Germans were abandoning their positions without the stubborn re- The deaths of Legion members are chronicled in this department. In order that it may be sistance displayed by them the previous complete, post commanders are asked to desig- three days. The forward movement nate an official or member to notify the Weekly was rapid and the day's objective, a of all deaths. Please give name, age, military record. line a little south of Chamery, near which town Quentin Roosevelt's grave Max W. Bader, Neivark (O.) Post. D. Apr. is located, was attained early in the 29, aged 35. Served with 403d Tel. Bn. day. Although enemy machine-gun Alden E. Baker, Commemorative Post, Del- phos, O. D. June 27, aged 30. Served with crews retarded the progress to a cer- 84th Div. tain extent, no organized resistance Charles M. Barnes, Lexington Post, New was met, so the pursuit continued to a York City. D. July 4. Served in Navy. Peter Behmer, Corporal Russell D. Sprague line north of Dravegny. In the first Post, Liberty, N. Y. D. June 29, aged 33. general advance the Red Arrow troops Served with Supply Co., 309th Inf. reached a depth of six kilometers. John Biggs, Columbia Post, St. Helens. Ore. T>. Apr. 13, aged 34. Served with 36th Spruce When the advance was resumed on Sq.. A. S. A. P. August 3d increased resistance was John J. Brooks, Waptcs-Bauer Post, Nokomis, met, but by the end of the day the di- III. Electrocuted in mine at Nason, 111., June EX-SERVICE MEN 26, aged 25. Served on U. S. S. Shaw. vision's front line had moved forward Become Railway Mail Clerks Elmer S. Butler, Lester Harris Post, Nation- seven kilometers to the hills overlook- al Sanatorium, Tcnn. D. May 28, aged 30. Served ing the Vesle. It was on this day that in Army. $1900 to $2700 Year Robert M. Cass, Cecil Fogg Post, Hyde the village of Mont St. Martin was en- W. Steady Work No Layoffs Park, Mass. T>. in Los Angeles, Cal„ June 8, Paid Vacations Franklin Institute veloped in the forward movement and aged 28. Parris Served with U. S. M. C. at ' Common education sufficient. Dept. G188 to Allied territory. The left Island, S. C. Rochester, returned Ex-Service Men N. Y. Meyer Cohen, Corporal Russell D. Sprague flank of the Thirty-Second now lay get special .^Cr Sirs: Send me. without charge, Post, Liberty. N. Y. D. June 28. aged 32. V$? today— s Information regarding preference to neva, III. D. July aged 32. Served with Co. south of the town of Fismes. 4, SURG. S ei-service nien. G, 145th Inf. The next order received by the divi- y Namc_ Thomas V. Egan, Lafayette (Ind.) Post. D. s sion was to establish American control July 12. Served with 17th F. A., 2d Div. S AddrcBB — —! !— ;

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little hand doesn't weigh Absolutely of yours as much Not Hard to Find as my big paw." Jasper: "I want you to fix this cuckoo [Ad in the Columbia (S. C.) State] clock." Poor Sport WANTED—Two osculating counter isn't a cuckoo clock." Jeweler: "That fans. Must be in first class condition and just struck thir- "So you went fishing with Dave. Did Jasper : "Yes it is. It reasonable. teen." you have any luck?" asked Jane. "No," replied Fay. "He was afraid of Red Hot Papa The Way of Wisdom capsizing the canoe." [From the Ambridge (Pa.) Citizen'] "This," announced the proud Mrs. New- The bride was attended by Miss Martha Guileless and Innocent bride, "is the first dinner I ever cooked." by Mr. Reed D. Ac- "Splendid !" exclaimed her diplomatic Fair and the groom [Ad in the Rivcrhcad (N. Y.) Ncics] hauer, a very warm classmate of Mr. Carle. husband. "Let's celebrate by going out to COW—Fresh Holstein cow ; big milker a cabaret." young absolutely straight. Not Dumb But Dumber ; You Just Can't Keep Them Still "Aha!" chortled tlie poor nut. "I have Wliat Price Higher Learning? [From the Homestead (Pa.) Messenger] a good scheme to get rich quick. I'll open [Ad in Washington Star] up a floral shop." The intruder grabbed her and placed his "But where are you going to get your BARBERS—2, white, reliable, no col- hands over her mouth, stuffed a handker- capital to buy the flowers?" asked the wise lege graduate, $1!5 and bonus over $35. chief down her throat and bound her hands. s^y- He asked the girl where her , , , replied "Don't need any ; that s the father was and she that beauty of it all. I'll cater only he was at the hospital and he to funerals where flowers are again asked her where the omitted." money was kept, to which the girl replied she did not know. The Higher Criticism George, the village loafer, had A Draw

by some means edged past the Side Show Barker : "I un- doortender and was among those derstand that the India rubber present at a dramatic perform- man and the contortionist had ance by local talent. Before the a fight."

show was half over he was Manager : "Yeah." showing signs of restlessness. "Who won?" "How do you like the show, "I don't know. The India George?" asked the man next rubber man says he knocked the to him. contortionist for a curve, and "Well," was the reply, "if I the contortionist says he wasn't settin' down, I'd feel like bounced the India rubber man I was wastin' time." a couple of good ones."

Danger Ahead Disqualified "Has your old man found a ''Maizie has a character part job yet?" inquired Mrs. Blubbs. in the new show at the "No," replied Mrs. Scrubbs, Frivolity." "but if he ain't careful he will. "I don't see how she is go- He almost applied at a place ing to get away with it," com- yestiddy where they was needin' mented Maizie's very dearest a man." friend. "She lost what little character she had long ago." The Star Witness at ''Look here, chief," demanded Explained Last the captain of the tramp An exceptionally dull speech Steamer, "what became of that had been made, but the diners missionary I put ashore here broke into the customary hand- about six months ago?" "It's only a rubber ball, mister." clapping. "I refuse to answer, by ad- "Why the dickens do they al- vice of counsel," replied the ways applaud a thing like cannibal chief, "but I don't mind telling The Versatility of Jane Addams that?" growled a veteran banqueteer. you that there's nothing in the theory that "Oh, replied his table neighbor, "that's [Headline in Rochester Times-Uriion] you can't keep a good man down." to give the fellows whose cigars have gone Hubbell Class Receives Massage From out a chance to light up without making Extra! Army Invades Fijis! Miss Addams. a noise." [From McAlester (Ohla.) Neivs Capital] The Mental Hazard That's Gratitude for You The order states that hats and shirts [Boone (la.) Xcws-Republican] will be the only uniform necessary. I st-stutter when I utter Words like "e-evolution," Rain Proves Great Benefit; Three But I'm better on the letter Iowans "It's a Young Man's Game" Die. "R" as "re-revolution." [From Elmira (N. Y.) Star-Gazette] I get madder than an adder No Demand for Gentlemen At "c-c-c-competition," G. G , 19, veteran newspaper M [Ad in Greenville (S. C.) and advertising executive, died at his home But the noun that throws me down is News] at Flushing, L. I. "S-s-stati WANTED—Boarders." Couple without S-st-drat it! children or gentlemen. Probably Hanging on the Line St-stat—'Zat it? Statistician !" Only One Skull? Shucks! [From Lawton (Okla.) Constitution] [From the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal] Sheriff Frampton stated this morning A-attack me once with "acme" That's the word I've got v-vanquished. that he is offering $50 reward for the It happened that Robert was badly hurt. capture of the whereabouts of Perry. I don't shy at "d-d-diet," One leg was broken and one arm and skull And I'm good at "a-a-anguished." injured. Here's How "Ariadne" one time had me, But my life's ambition A Constant Strain "Your scales are wrong," complained Is to vault without a halt through The tired business man had gone to con- the lady shopper. "The meat you sold me "Stoo-stu-stets—No sult an oculist. this morning as two pounds doesn't weigh S-s—Let's go "Are you bothered with things dancing that much. I weighed it myself." St-sta—Yea, bo! before your eyes?" inquired the medico. !" "The scales are all right, ma'am," an- Statistician "Yes," admitted the T. B. M., sadly, swered the tactful butcher. "That dainty —Reed Calvin. "the chorus girls bother me some." FREE- To Yout

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