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December, 1938 Vol. 25, No. 6 LEGIONMAGAZINE

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CONTENTS business insur- SEVERAL correspondents have or finance (outside of ance) public administra- written to inquire whether ma- COVER DESIGN , three are By W. Aylward terial submitted in the $1500 J. tors, one is in real estate. And if that Prize Contest for Legionnaires, the NOVEMBER 7-11 3 adds up to more than the total of By Amico Barone rules of which are repeated in this J. nineteen living Past National Com- Illustration by Jes Schlaikjer issue, must relate to the World War. manders, blame the lawyers, because MURDER AT THE BEND 5 some of them have fingers in other The rules deliberately omit any ref- By Emmett Brightwell pies and so get counted twice. (In- erence to specific subjects, which Illustrations by Jes Schlaikjer means, of course, that contestants can cluding Present National Comman- THE RANK AND FILE CARRY ON 8 der Steve Chadwick, the lawyers write about shrimp-fishing in Kam- By John T. Winterich chatka or grenade-throwing in the number a round dozen.) HOW I LOST MY DECORATION 12 Argonne, or anything else. And once By Armitage Whitman again we beg to call attention to the Illustration by Frank Street THE Twenty-first National Con- vention fact that it will be impossible (as it LOOK ALOFT! 14 of The American Legion would be unfair) for members of By Robert Ginsburgh will be held in Chicago September the staff to enter into correspondence FIRST BLOOD FOR YANKEE 25th to 28th next. We mentioned regarding the contest. SULLIVAN 16 this fact last month and we shall By Fairfax Downey mention it next month. Chicago will Illustrations by Harry Townsend PAST National Commander of be the second city to duplicate a A SPOKESMAN FOR A MILLION 20 The American Legion, Frank- Legion convention, having been the By Alexander Gardiner lin D'Olier, who served in 1919- host city in 1933. Cleveland was the EDITORIAL: Free Speech— first, welcoming the gang in 1920 1920, has been elected acting presi- Definition 23 dent of the Prudential Insurance and again in 1936. Apparently your CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT 23 Company. Insurance folks, by the town has to begin with a C if you FRONT AND CENTER 24 way, loom pretty numerously among are to get two Legion conventions. '89 ex-Commanders. Frank N. Belgrano, KEEPING ALIVE 26 And Chicago and Cleveland are the By Bert Kemmerer only list. forestall Jr., is another president, of the Pacific Cs on the To FOR MERIT 28 Mutual Fire Insurance Company, angry protests from St. Louis, we and By Boyd B. Stutler is vice-president or director of nu- hasten to add that the expression MARKING TIME ON CHRIST- merous other insurance firms. Ray National Convention is to be con- MAS 32 Murphy is (draw a deep breath) strued in the narrowest of senses. now By John J. Noll The Legion's start on American soil Assistant General Manager of the A SKI-ING HE WOULD GO 35 Association of Casualty and Surety By Wallgren was made in the great Missouri me- tropolis in 1919, and we returned Executives. James A. Drain is with BURSTS AND DUDS 40 the Social Security Administration, Conducted by Dan Sowers there in 1935. The first occasion was and social security is certainly a form a Caucus, the second a regular Na- of insurance. That's four out of nine- tional Convention. teen. IMPORTANT THE superb photographs of egrets gone to all this trouble, made by Legionnaire Harold HAVING A form for your convenience if you wish we made some more investiga- to have the magazine sent to another ad- Haliday Costain which illustrated the tions into the private lives of Past dress will be found on page 58. In noti- article "Closed Season" by Alexander the Indianapolis address be sure to National Commanders, and found, fying Sprunt in the September issue were include the old address as well as the new naturally, that lawyers topped the taken on the Louisiana estate and don't forget the number of your of Ed- list—eleven of them. Three are in Post and name of Department. ward Avery Mcllhenny.

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2 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Camions suddenly began to streak white beams down shell-smashed roads. Someone had ordered the drivers to turn on their headlights

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to my mother on the rattly portable IIGHTS! I L LU STRATI ON BY The magic word sped like a J.W. SCHLAIKJER company typewriter a letter which I i tongue of flame racing through thought was filled with momentous news. dry grass. Camions suddenly the greatest rumor of them all sweeping But the letter was never mailed. Soon began to streak white beams down up to the very front. Flashed to all after writing it I slipped it into a diary, shell-smashed roads— roads whose only corners of the earth, it aroused mankind and so it found its way to America with night light for years had been that shed to wild outbursts. It brought relief to me after the war. by the moon and the stars and the angry, countless parents, wives and sweethearts The letter, written in Cunel on the flashing mouths of guns. and carried a hope of escape to those evening of November 7, 1918, gives an We could hardly believe our eye^. men in arms who had thus far eluded idea how a weary Yank reacted to the Where but a moment before it had death. news, fake news, which rocked the world. meant deadly danger to strike a match It was not surprising that the civilian Here it is:

in the open, someone had now ordered populace, particularly in America, should France, November 7, 1918 truck drivers to turn on their headlights. have been fooled into a premature cele- 7:10 P. M. This daring signal to the enemy was bration, since the press formed an eager Dear Mother: About an hour ago I heard enough flaunted although the heavy rumble of and natural channel for the swift dis- commotion to make one think that the artillery fire still rolled back from a semination of the false report. What was war was over. And that was just about front line but a few kilometers away. surprising, however, was that the rumor what had happened. For the first time There could be but one explanation. not only sped up to the front through the in more than four years the order was unofficial of The armistice had come! network communication but given to turn on lights. Automobile The place was Cunel, war-shattered that it also influenced someone in drivers did not realize at first what had Argonne village. The time was early authority to issue so radical an order as happened. It was hard to believe that

evening of November 7, 1918. The outfit that which caused those camion head- you could really have lights turned on, was the Ninth Field Signal Battalion of lights to be turned on on that heart- and especially at the front here. Every- body was yelling and laughing the Fifth (Red Diamond) Division. breaking night. and shooting off revolvers and rifles and With the switching on of the lights a The other day, going through a bundle acting as if they were crazy. We were frenzy swept over Cunel. Soldiers on all of wartime letters, I came across one more or less prepared for the news at the sides shouted: "The war's over!" Rifles which brought back a sharp memory of radio office here. We have not at this incident of twenty years and pistols were fired into the air to that remarkable moment learned anything definite yet, herald the end. ago. Sitting in the wrecked remains of a but there must be a temporary armistice But the war wasn't over. It was simply French villager's home, I had tapped out on at least. We (Continued on page 52)

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Phil Bemis was mus- WHENtered out of the Fighting Umpteenth he found that a callow youth from the local business college had grabbed his old job. Therefore, when his old friend, State Senator Sutter, asked him how he would like a place as ranger with the Oklahoma Fish and Game Department, he brazenly catalogued a gilt-edged and complete list of qualifications.

Chief Menefee, it seemed, was in the Senator's debt—something about appro- priations. "You will succeed Jamison at the Kia- michi station," Menefee told him. "Has Jamison resigned?" Recent ex- perience had soured Phil on chiseling. "He was drowned." "Couldn't he swim?" "He had been awarded a life-saving medal." "And before him?" "We had Blair." "Did Blair resign, or was he drowned, too?" "Same as Jamison. He was pulled out of the river below the Bend." "How long has this been going on these drownings?" "It began with Kane seven months ago. Three months later Blair went the same way. Jamison was buried, with depart- mental honors, day before yesterday. Say, what's eating you? Don't you want this job? Because there are a thousand men— "Easy, Chief. Sure I want it. Also a line on the terrain. If this is a new No Man's Land, now—but had you thought of murder?"

• "We went into that. Doc Mabry did post mortems. Here's his report. No marks of violence, no contusions, no wounds. They were drowned all right. The coroner's report, likewise, is exhaus- "Are you prepared to die?" tive. Sutter said you have special quali- fications. The first thing that we want

DECEMBER, 1938 s you to do down there is to find out a wheel. It ought to be surveyed and these three rangers who were drowned." why this Bend is so dangerous for trained salvaged. "Not at all," Doc Mabry insisted. river men." After a bit of trouble it was repaired. "Quiet as a mill pond. Deep in places, "And if I fail—just forget the depart- It was able to limp into the station late but there's hardly any current at all." mental honors, will you, Chief? A simple Wednesday. "Who owns the frontage there?"

firing squad and taps, echoed softly from My first duty being to discover, if pos- "Parson Wiker. Not really a parson, a high tree, will do." sible, what makes the Bend such a dan- but a mountain exhorter. He sometimes "O.K. And here are your keys for the gerous swimming-hole, an early start on holds street meetings and occasionally car and ranger cabin, also a current ex- Thursday was undertaken for the purpose conducts funerals. He mixes well with the pense voucher and requisition for sup- of contacting Doc Mabry. This seemed natives in that Bend country, farms a plies. Keep a daily log of what you do, a better approach to the problem than little, likes to fish and feeds his neigh- see and hear. Report weekly on the regu- that of trial and error, since the experi- bors with frequent barbecues. Eccentric, lar form. Anything of emergency impor- ence of others apparently indicates that I'd call him, but probably well-meaning." tance may be set forth at length in a sep- only one error is allowed. arate letter." On the way to Antlers a And thus, attended by the best wishes rod came loose in the motor. of the entire department, Phil Bemis The wreck was pushed off the left. road and a tow-car sent out In Monday's mail Chief Menefee later. Since then it has been watched especially for his first communi- in the repair shop and the cation. There was none. He buzzed his press of emergency matters secretary. has made it impossible to find "A special memorandum for Ranger time to make out a survey Bemis," he snapped. "His weekly report sheet and ask leave to expend is missing. Impress him with the impor- twenty-three dollars and fifty tance of making these promptly." cents for repairs. Another Monday rolled around. Still Doc Mabry was in his office no word from Bemis. Menefee fumed, above the drugstore. We had tried long distance. Lines down. Cursed a friendly visit and he showed because radio equipment had been cut a desire to be helpful. He is a from his budget. Then he became afraid. right guy, no less. He knows A bulky envelope finally appeared, well this Bend country. postmarked Antlers. The clerk hurried "There must be some strange with it immediately to Menefee. current in the river there," I "From Ranger Bemis," she pointed suggested, "which tripped out. Menefee slit the heavy manila wrap- ping. Out tumbled the missing reports, three of them, and a thick letter. Quickly he scanned the stereotyped forms, then turned to the closely typed pages.

FROM: Ranger Bemis, Kiamichi sta- tion. TO: Chief Menefee. SUBJECT: Murder at the Bend. [Menefee wiped his glasses carefully and read that line a second time—Mur- der at the Bend. Then he settled to read the entire letter, puffing occasionally as he drew mechanically on his cigar.] Ranger Bemis presents his compli- ments (the supplemental report began) and begs leave to say that pursuant to instructions he proceeded on May i to take up his duties at Kiamichi station. And since nearly everything that has occurred is of an emergency nature, this report is a long one and for the sake of clarity and brevity Ranger Bemis begs leave to depart from the examples set up in the departmental guide and make it informal. In the first place, the reason you have had no reply to your memorandum of May 8, and your gripe of May 15, is that there has been no time to go to the post office. Ditto for the weekly reports, all of which you will find enclosed. Poachers! It came To begin at the beginning, on the to him suddenly journey down a rainstorm slowed me the two were Par- up considerably. Then this pile of junk son Wiker's Sons the department calls a car slipped off the side of Windingstair Mountain and broke

6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "He should be a good man to know," I others shucked their clothes in order to Just below, where the mountain comes observed. swim faster; I lost no time in diving for down to the left bank, the stream sud- "Most assuredly. Do you plan to go the silty bottom of the river. I was driven denly flattens out, a sand-bar blocks into that locality at once?" into the mud, but remained conscious. the way, and the dead current, feeding "Without delay. My instructions are The others died." into a fifty-foot gravelly throat, becomes to discover, if possible, why expert swim- Doc Mabry became thoughtful. "You a mill-race. mers drown so easily in the river there— may have something there," he admitted. A nice overnight stop for migrating if Kane, Blair and Jamison were really "But there were no marks on these waterfowl was my first impression of the drowned." bodies." Bend. "No question about that, my boy. "There were no marks on those bodies, And, with sure instinct, as dusk gath-

Every test indicated it. Besides, the cloth- either," I protested. "We recovered them ered, here they came, ducks mainly, ing of each was found piled neatly on the later and gave them decent burial." circling high, then diving for the eddy bank where each had tied up." I left the doctor musing over that. The water near the left bank—thousands "In the same place?" repairman's helper was waiting to convey upon thousands! "That is the only unusual circum- me back to the station. On the way back up river, I skirted stance. There is a huge elm overhanging Before leaving, though, I got a hunch quietly the opposite bank, with oarlocks the sandy beach just below the Bend. —like the time I went A.W.O.L. to Paris. muffled and feathering lightly. Imagine You will notice it, first thing, as you ap- A major's uniform hid my corporal's my disgust, after an hour's stealthy row- proach the shallows. It was there, appar- stripes, and I got away with four whole ing, to hear reverberating through the ently, that Kane, Blair and Jamison, at days. hills the echoing thunder of some ancient intervals of months, disrobed and en- Upon arrival back at the station that fowling-piece. Some poacher was pot- tered the river for a quiet swim." nice new uniform with cordovan leggings shotting those ducks! Here was food for thought. went into mothballs. Everybody down For hours I could not sleep, striving to

"Did it mean anything to the coroner here wears dungarees. devise a plan to intercept the marauders. that while Kane went bathing in mild A couple days were spent getting set And when sleep did come I was brought October, and Jamison took his swim in at the cabin, cleaning up the oil range awake again and again by drumfire send- late April, Blair must have yielded to and building a squirrel-tight locker. The ing its echoes rolling up the river. that boyhood urge in mid-winter?" skiff was safe at the landing and provided Can you blame me for neglecting re- Doc Mabry smiled. "Hardy outdoor means for immediate exploration of the ports after that? men have unaccountable tastes in bath- river. I loaded up supplies and patroled the ing." The Bend is just like Doc Mabry said river constantly. With the exception of "I know, Doc; but this is too much! —quiet and peaceful. The river is broader the Wikers, father and two sons, local There's a bath at the station. Hardy and deeper, and the current gradually denizens resident along the stream men do not take cold outdoor swims just slows down to be almost imperceptible. showed extreme reluctance, amounting for fun. Usually, there is more impelling Dense forest lines both sides. Opposite to open hostility, to give assistance. necessity. I took a cold swim only once. Parson Wiker's place, at the lower end, Parson Wiker, however, proved quite It was in the Aisne. There were four of there is a cleared grove and a boat land- friendly and agreed to keep watch on the us on patrol. The enemy, under a flare, ing. Two or three river craft were moored Bend, with the help of the boys, releasing dropped a mortar shell in our boat. The here. me for rest and {Continued on page 42)

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ENGLAND, thank you, is The Legion was in it, up to the hilt. NEWlooking forward to an old- The Legion was in it both ways. The Le- fashioned winter. It is used to gion suffered, and the Legion alleviated weather like that, and knows suffering—brought life and hope in the But a Legion National Convention how to make the most of it. It is used to wake of death and despair. Never before, doesn't take in everybody, nor does it dis- taking nature in its stride, and nature, on perhaps, had Legionnaires themselves rupt that capacity for organization which the whole, is kindly to it. been the victims of disaster in such num- was instilled into every yet-to-be Legion- Except once in a while. And the great- bers. But others came first. naire in his service days. No better exam- est exception in recorded history oc- The Legion was in it—so much of the ple of smooth Legion functioning will curred on September 21, 1938—the day Legion, that is, as had not gone to Los ever be provided than New England of- when summer changed places with fall. Angeles for the Twentieth National Con- fered to the world last September. On that day wind and rain wrought such vention. And the thousands of New Eng- Of the six New England States (and havoc as New England had never wit- land Legionnaires who attended the con- only Maine reported no fatalities attri- nessed since the Mayflower dropped an- vention included, of course, virtually all butable to storm or flood), Rhode Island chor in Massachusetts Bay. Even on that the ranking department officers. What was the hardest hit. Now while Rhode historic occasion the weather was nothing the Legion accomplished in New En- Island is the smallest of the States in to write home about, or, if you look at it gland this fall, therefore, was a rank-and- area, it ranks first in the concentration of another way, was very much something to file job. its population—where there is one human write home about, for the breaking waves being in Nevada there are some 855 in dashed high, and the woods against a DON'T hold that against the bigwigs. Rhode Island. Rhode Island's death stormy sky their giant branches tossed. They had no advance tip on the total, still incomplete as this is written, But nothing like the tossing they took in hurricane. Their job was in Los Angeles. will exceed 300. 1938. Many of them suffered material losses, Narragansett Bay splits the State in Some 700 lives were lost. Nearly 60,000 and every one of them suffered a severe two in the fashion of a sharply-pointed dwellings were destroyed or damaged. nervous and emotional strain from the triangle with the compact city of Provi- Billions of feet of timber crashed earth- very fact of being so far away from the dence at the apex. The hurricane scooped ward. The property loss ran into fantastic scene, ignorant for days of the fate of up part of Narragansett Bay and flung

millions. Hundreds of water craft were their families, let alone of their physical it into Providence. This was at 5:15 on smashed to flinders or stranded high and possessions. For during the period of the afternoon of September 21st dry a mile from shore. Automobiles, some stress many parts of New England were Providence will never forget the time be- of them occupied, were pounded into rather more effectively severed from the cause all the electric clocks in the city junk, rolled into swollen streams, cov- world than Tierra del Fuego or Pitcairn stopped at that instant. The heart of the ered by tidal waves. Island. city was a dozen feet deep in water which,

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Legionnaire Francis W. Flannigan of Hartford, all unconscious of the fact that a Hartford Courant photographer has a bead on him, pilots a group of Carry refugees to safety. On On opposite page, Athol (Mas- sachusetts) Legionnaires hold the swollen record of its splendid accomplishments. back Meanwhile let's look at a few of the waters of Millers River items that are going into that record. after that first terrible and almost instan- Down in Xarragansett, whose world-fa- ver. He lost, in addition to about every^ taneous surge, took four hours to run off. mous Pier was pounded for a loop and a thing else, not only his Legion cap but his That's all there is to a tidal wave. half, Fred L. Gamache, newly-elected Legion uniform, complete with Past

On the way up to Providence, of course, Commander of Eicke-Tefft Post, dashed Commander's badge on the front of it. the wind-borne water had dashed against out of his home at his wife's heels just Learning that this account would appear the shores, sparing nothing. And before before the waves reached it. "The Auxili- after the event, Vice Commander Miller it reached the Bay, it had curled up the ary strong-box!" screamed Mrs. Ga- confided to your correspondent the fact ocean front like piecrust, not only along mache. Back dashed Gamache, to emerge that at its next meeting Providence Busi- the Rhode Island coast, but (since nature presently in water knee-deep and getting ness Men's Post planned to present Dol- is no respecter of state boundaries) along deeper not by inches but by feet. He liver with a new- gold Past Commander's the Massachusetts and Connecticut and had the Auxiliary's slender funds. And badge. Long Island shores as well. that's all he did have. Swept out to sea For some fifteen years Providence Post In Rhode Island The American Legion was everything the Gamaches themselves has been conducting at Camp Cyril Hen- has a permanent disaster relief setup. owned, including (and this troubled him ius, Quonset Point, a summer camp for There's precaution for you, because up to most) his Legion uniform and his Manual underprivileged children known as Hap- last September 21st you would have re- of Ceremonies—and installation only a pyland. More than 200 children have been garded Rhode Island as pretty nearly a few nights off. An appeal to Past Na- spending two health-giving weeks there disaster-proof State. The Legion's de- tional Executive Committeeman Ralph every year. The hurricane blew the main partmental program there is this year in S. Mohr produced another Manual, but building at Happyland sixteen inches off charge of Department N ice Commander Gamache meanwhile had thrown himself its foundations, but the damage can be Gordon T. Miller, who reports that of the into the thick of relief work. repaired, and at Happyland next year it State's 65 Posts, 22 were in storm-af- will be a case of pleasure as usual. But fected areas, that 46, including the IEGION searchers among the wreckage Happyland did its bit for the distressed largest, were "very active" during the in the Conimicut area found a Legion in spite of its own plight. Some seventy four to five days which constituted the cap bearing the numerals 58 and feared mattresses were borrowed from there by direct emergency, and that every one of the worst. Post 58 is Providence Business Riverside Post to provide for its own the 65 did something. Eventually the Men's Post. Department Headquarters community's homeless. Riverside Post Rhode Island Department will have com- in Providence found that everyone in the and its Auxiliary gathered some 8000 plete reports from all its 65 Posts which Post was safe, and that the hat belonged pieces of clothing into the post home, will constitute a permanent statistical to Past Post Commander Walter Dolli- which it used as a distributing center.

DECEMBER, 1938 9 Moreover the members collected more than a hundred pieces of used furniture with which to re-establish hurricane vic- tims as housekeepers. Richard J. Dennis Post of Edgewood assembled some 10,000 pieces of clothing and inaugurated a sys- tem for the exchange of needed supplies among other Posts that proved effective. Legionnaire and former Governor Norman S. Case is a member of Provi- dence Post. He was confined to his home with arthritis when the roof began to come off. A hasty exit was required. De- spite his condition and the damage to his own home, Legionnaire Case stood his

turn at his post headquarters. . In the Conimicut-Longmeadow-Oak- land Beach area a few miles below Provi- dence, a cluster of shore colonies that contain a heavy proportion of year-round residences, the storm laid things so flat that if you saw a house still standing you could almost be sure it had blown or drifted there from somewhere else. Three hundred houses were destroyed in the Conimicut area alone. Commander Er- Hurricane and tidal wave victims are cared for in Portsmouth (Rhode Island) Legion Post's home

"Where are they?" asked Vice Commander Miller, during the Rowley. desperate period when virtually the entire "There!" and the veteran State was without electric light and tele- pointed to a home a hundred phones, made half a dozen radio addresses yards away whose back porch which brought men from all over the floor was just awash. State to points where their services were "Two girls?" asked Rowley, most urgently required. detailing approximate ages Portsmouth Post fed 500 and provided and clothing. shelter in its post home for 150 persons "Yes!" when practically all the houses in the "Oh, we got them out half town were demolished. Thereafter they an hour ago, but if you're in cared for some 225 persons for the balance any doubt come on and of the week. look." The pair waded to the house, walked up the buried steps to the back door, and went through the premises. Nobody home. The veteran sighed his re- lief, stepped off the porch, and Commander Edwin Barber of Westerly Post promptly disappeared. Row- first aid receives treatment after a nail from ley, assuming the comrade a wind-shattered dwelling pierces his foot. had made a misstep in the Standing by is Past Commander Clement stress of his emotion, prepared Bradshaw to follow. Then Rowley dis- appeared. Both came up sput- nest Bragger of Shields Post and his com- tering. During their inspection of the rades, nearly all of them hurricane suf- house the porch steps had floated away. ferers in differing degrees, were on the No part of the little State suffered job well before the big wind stopped blow- more heavily than the city of Westerly ing. Post Commander Sydney Vaughn and the area below it fronting on the At- has a cottage there which came through lantic itself. H. W. Merrill Post's roster with minor damage. He housed 24 hurri- included several Legionnaires who lost cane victims that night. dear ones in the disaster, and 172 mem- Post Commander Thomas Rowley of bers suffered property losses. But they Henry A. Wilcox Post, Oakland Beach, threw themselves into the relief task none had one experience that provided a the less, saving the lives of perhaps fifty lighter note in the midst of stark tragedy. persons, recovering ten bodies. Third Dis- What the well-dressed man Paddling around the stricken district in trict Commander P. John Ashworth, wears in hurricane rescue work hip boots, he was approached by a frantic whose territory embraces the hilly west- as shown by Commander Ernest veteran who had only recently moved into ern part of the State, got his district into Bragger and Past Commander the neighborhood. action at once, and continued on duty Vaughn of Shields Post, Conimi- "My children!" cried the buddy. for a full week following the disaster. cut, Rhode Island

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Rhode Islanders at the Los Angeles convention on the morning of September 2 2d propped the local morning papers on their breakfast tables and couldn't be- lieve their eyes. There before them, several columns wide and a page deep, was a wired photograph of Exchange Place in Providence with water purling twelve feet deep around the corner of the Providence Biltmore Hotel. "Fake!" they said. "California propaganda!" And if you know Providence at all you would have agreed with them. Water in Ex- change Place seems to a Rhode Islander as incongruous as palm trees atop Pike's Peak would seem to a Coloradan. They started home that night, still indignant at this lousy California trick. They began to get telegrams—"Everybody okeh" "Don't worry safe"—"AO well." By the The home of Keene (New Hampshire) Post as viewed through a screen of fallen elms. At the left is the same building in the 193 6 flood crisis when it was headquarters for the local rescue navy

outdistance room delegation, has been very greatly appre- charges. That was ciated, and we all look forward with pleas- Mr. Smith's only ure to a future visit from any or all of complaint, as wit- your party. To use a Hollywood expres- ness this letter which sion, you are a four-star group and we he wrote Adjutant w ish you could extend your visit." Murray the follow- Connecticut's situation brings a second ing day: factor into the September disaster situa- "This is a sort tion. Rhode Island suffered chiefly, al- of testimonial due most exclusively, from the hurricane and you, and your dele- the resultant tidal wave. Connecticut time they got to Chicago they were fran- gation from Connecticut. I only regret it caught the hurricane and in addition a tic. By the time they reached Albany or isn't an engraved bronze plaque. serious flood resulting from several days New York and found they couldn't get "In all my experience I have never been of torrential rain. This was true as well through— host to a convention group as considerate in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and One department officer who didn't go as yours, or composed so entirely of ladies Vermont. was Adjutant Clarence W. Lambert. The and gentlemen, and believe me it has been Connecticut, and the city of Hart- hurricane found him ill in bed, which was a pleasure to accommodate you. ford in particular, felt the full force of a sort of a break for Lambert, for the "Your cooperation, and that of your the disastrous (Continued on page 46) tidal wave reached as far as Department Headquarters and put the elevator out of commission. But the next day he was up and in the heart of the work, with the result that he put himself out again and at this writing is in Newport Naval Hospital. The Rhode Island Legion did more than give of themselves. The Depart- ment voted $1000 out of its none too ample treasury to the Red Cross, and in- dividual Posts contributed nearly another thousand. North Kingstown Post, located in an area that suffered extensively, and comprising only some forty members, gave $500. Out at the New Carlton Hotel in Los Angeles the Connecticut delegation heard about the disaster and, not being con- fronted with any incredible photographs, believed it, particularly after Depart ment Adjutant William C. Murray was called by Department Headquarters at

Hartford, which confirmed it. Thereafter there was such a boom in long-distance calls from Los Angeles to Connecticut that Legionnaire Duncan L. Smith, man- Another hurricane victim—the home of Jutras Post of Manchester, ager of the New Carlton, complained New Hampshire. Despite the damage it suffered, it sheltered sixty ruefully that toll charges were going to persons. In the flood crisis of 1936 it housed nearly five hundred

DECEMBER, 1938 1 1 how i lost my Decora tion By Armitage Whitman, M.D.

THIS is a story of frustration. I or record our operative procedures either They thought it a good idea, and re- didn't lose it, because I never got by writing them ourselves or dictating turned to act upon it, but turned up at

it, but even now, after nineteen them to a clerk, it seemed something of dinner discouraged and depressed. They years, the disappointment is still a problem how best we might utilize our had applied to the colonel for a donor, but bitter in my mouth. professional skill. Put that way, our he, a coarse and worldly man ("sale type It all came as a great surprise. I was presence did seem a little foolish. As it d'active" they called him—dirty speci- leading a placid and rather boring life at happened, the assistant to the chief sur- men of regular; their surgeons, like ours, Chaumont, American G. H. Q., as safely geon had broken his leg the night before, were reserve officers, and no love was tucked away as any member of the gen- and, as I could at least make myself lost) asked if they didn't know the army eral staff, serving as orthopedic surgeon understood and understand him in re- regulation stipulating that anyone giving to Base Hospital 15. The time was April turn, he selected me to replace the un- blood for a transfusion was entitled to a 17, 1918, when the British were fighting happy broken-legged one. The choice week in bed, and a week's "permission with their backs to the wall. at once made me a pariah with my coun- de convalescence." Hero or no hero, his Out of a clear sky came an order to trymen. They thought I was using the brancardiers were too busy to be spared proceed to Creil, to report there to a language to put over a fast one to my own on such a flimsy pretext as a foolish ex- Major Alexander, to serve under him as advantage. periment. assistant surgeon on his operating team, The French were even more bewil- I was amazed, and told of recent ex- attached to the First French Army. An dered by our joining them at all, because, periences in New York, during the polio- operating team, I may explain, consisted as they comfortingly explained, their myelitis epidemic of 1016, when patients of a surgeon, assistant surgeon, anaesthe- army was in full retreat, they had only who had had the disease gave blood as tist, two nurses, and two orderlies. moved in at seven that morning, and ex- often as once or twice a week for the manu- It took three days to get from Chau- pected to move out at any moment. facture of convalescent serum. That was mont to the outskirts of Amiens. We Certainly, we could unload our baggage received with politely lifted eyebrows, spent the last night about four kilo- if we wished, but would only shortly and "Ah, ces Americains, epatants, ne meters from the city on a train. The give ourselves the pain of reloading it. sont-ils pas?" The translation of that in track ahead of us was blown up, and As for quarters—there was the whole contemporary English is "Oh yeah!" Austrian Skoda howitzers were trying to insane asylum to pick from, only don't National and personal pride stung to the blow us up. get ourselves mixed up with the wounded. quick, I said that provided our bloods By pure chance, stumbling on an am- My French gradually improved. Usu- matched I would be glad to give the bulance driver, we found the hospital ally on alternate days I found myself blood myself. we were looking for, situated, appropri- quite fluent. The surgical unit of a divi- That was received with the most gal- ately enough, in the Insane Asylum of sion of the Chasseurs Alpins joined us. lant Gallic expostulations. Noble, I was the Department of the Somme. The regu- This greatly elevated our social tone. that beyond question, but had not my lar inmates had been evacuated. It was a The Chasseurs correspond socially to the great self-abnegating soul carried me too splendid group of buildings occupying an British Guard Regiments, and one of the far? Had I not forgotten that I was assist- imposing elevation about two kilometers ing the chief surgeon, and in that capa- south of Amiens, marked on every map, city, if in no other, was far too valuable and affording a perfect front row seat for A True a vessel for them to trifle with? Poor M. the war. The front ran from one end of Renan, already one assistant killed under our horizon to the other. As a spectacle, Short Short him, so to speak, and now did I wish to particularly at night, it was unequaled. jeopardize another? Enfin, life saving was We were three teams in all—dirty, a fine thing, but where was my loyalty hungry, thirsty, somewhat shattered as Story to my chief? Indeed they made me feel to nerves, strangers to each other, and my motives quite unworthy, but I did strangers still more to the astonished head nurses was a Countess. They made have the strength to offer to bet that if French, who had no idea that we were special pets of their "Braves Blesses," they took my blood at night I would be coming. They—a logical people—seemed and no stone was left unturned to do on duty the next morning. The offer was to think it strange that among this large anything that might help them. rejected, with a strong undercurrent of group of friendly aliens I was the only Consequently I was surprised to hear feeling that the matter of a man's life one who could speak any French what- their concern over a desperately wounded was not a fit subject for a wager. ever. Undoubtedly we were of the highest sergeant, who seemed slowly sinking At dinner that night the talk fell upon rank of surgical genius, but if we couldn't from hemorrhage and shock, and asked the subject of decorations. The French speak to the patients, ask for instruments, why he was not given a blood transfusion. take their decorations seriously, at the

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front, and I have seen a man's life, liter- mit myself, more than the best." At this staying in bed and giving him a week's ally, saved by the Medaille Militaire. moment they were standing by the trans- leave—well, God was good—not often, He had lost a leg, and before its award he fused sergeant's bed. Then came a brief but evidently sometimes. had been hopeless, feeling, I suppose, that lecture on the miracles of modern surgery The colonel seemed gradually coming the future held nothing for an incapaci- and the latest laboratory discoveries. to a close. The general's attention wan- tated man. In suffering his loss he had True, there was a war on. Bombs and dered somewhat, and he stooped to pat not been conscious of any particular shells were bursting at our very doors the sergeant's cheek. The colonel's voice heroism, but when the medal was first they were—but when it came to the life dropped two tones. He wheeled, and as pinned upon his shirt, and later hung at of a chasseur, did science, even under the astonished general turned, flung his the foot of his bed, so that his eye need such grim and crude conditions, lag be- left arm toward the brancardier. never leave it, he became a hero, and a hind? Ah, no. Then followed a descrip- "Et voila, mon General, est le brave pensioned one as well. So he got better. tion of the desperate condition of the type qui a donne son sang pour votre Next day the atmosphere in regard to sergeant, the apotheosis of modern chasseur."* transfusions had changed. Contrary to science, the transfusion, the miracle of I never saw Coquelin, but the colonel regulations, and undaunted by the colo- recovery, all spun out in greatest detail. was good. He broke the general down.

mm ^1 "... who has given his nel's scorn, a nosy and impudent chas- blood for your chasseur" Tears streamed down the general's seur surgeon had dug up an old bran- cheeks. He tore the Croix de Guerre from

cardier, well over fifty, with what I his tunic, pinned it on the brancardier, should think were the flattest feet in The general was visibly affected. In kissed him on both cheeks, and saluted. France. He could barely move sufficiently the next bed to the sergeant was the "Ainsi," he said, "soit-il toujours pour to present himself for the colonel's in- blood donor, the flat-footed brancardier. chacun qui donne son sang pour un de spection. Even that disgusted "sale type He had been sitting up in bed reading, mes chasseurs." d'active" could think of no occupation at but when the general made such an un- It was an interesting experience, but which he might be useful, and when it was expected break in the monotony of his withal a bitter one. I should have been found that his blood matched the ser- convalescence, he put his book aside, in that bed. I—an ally, an American, and geant's he was turned over to be bled. and sat there smoking his pipe and an officer. If I know that General the The transfusion was given. The ser- blinking amiably, his spectacles down his Legion of Honor would have been none geant mended, and from that day his nose, and his pipe barely showing be- too good. I hope the President of France recovery seemed certain. A sensation neath his sweeping gray mustaches. His reads this. ensued, and no one noticed the temperate- feet formed two enormous protuberances ness of my enthusiasm. at the foot of the bed. The sheets de- A week later the General of Division spaired of covering them. The colonel's *For the benefit of those whose French is on the level of my German the colonel said: of the Chasseurs Alpins arrived, with lecture he did not listen to, considering "And there, my general, is the brave type staff, to inspect his blesses. Everything such matters as above his head. Indeed who has given his blood for your chasseur." was just so. He found nothing to criticize. the whole affair had been something of a And when the General pinned the medal Surely his poilus got the best of surgery mystery to him. He was glad to give the on the brancardier he said: "Thus be it al- and the best of nursing. "The best? Ah blood, it had not hurt, and its loss had ways for each who gives his blood for one oui, mon General. Nay even, if I may per- no effect upon him. If they insisted on his of my chasseurs."

DECEMBER, 1938 13 Robert Ginsburgh Look

1LASH. Hobard 78. One airplane. in general terms. The details T7 Heard. 4:25 A. M. Medium. were left entirely to his own Southeast. Hobard 78. William judgment. He had little in the r Heath." way of precedent. Aircraft warn- William H. Heath, who, on July 18, ing nets on a large scale were 1018, had given his right arm for his unknown in this country. Foreign country at Mount Kemmel, Belgium, experience offered little guidance. while serving as a Private First Class, In closely congested Europe, with Company D, 119th Infantry, 30th Divi- frontiers but a few hours apart, the sion, voluntarily came back to the service spectre of aerial bombardment looms on October 10, 1938, as Bill Heath, citizen large before the civilian population. of Pollocksville, North Carolina, and The fear of attack is ever present. placed his eyes, his ears and his voice at Mindful of these dangers, European the disposal of the American Army. civilians are ever eager and ready to co- Bill had joined the aircraft warning operate in an impending defense. Accus- network of the Anti-aircraft Defense with tomed to central control and govern- headquarters at Fort Bragg, North ment by decree, they are prepared to take Carolina. orders from the military establishment and

Bill, who is a member of Donerson readily fall into line. Hawkins Post of The American Le- In the United States, with wide oceans on gion, and nineteen hundred and ninety- our borders, the possibility of an attack upon nine other patriotic men, women and our shores seems more remote. Public opinion children of North Carolina, most of them has not yet been awakened to the real threat Legionnaires and members of their fami- that may come to our security from the opera- lies, had enlisted for the duration of the tion of airplanes from carriers one hundred miles Joint Anti-aircraft-Air Corps Exercises, off our shores or from land bases on islands ad- October 10-17, 1938- Without pay, each jacent to our mainland. American citizens, by tra- volunteered to devote eight hours a day, dition, are opposed to military control and no one principally between dusk and dawn, to realizes that fact any more than the Army itself. watching the skies for "invading" planes To mobilize the countryside on a voluntary civil- and to report by telephone to the com- ian basis for exercises in anti-aircraft defense, in a mander of the Anti-aircraft Defense their problem under simulated conditions located in the number, the heights of their flights and heart of peaceful North Carolina, therefore required their direction. enthusiastic leaders, patriotic citizens and a well The duties of the individual observers developed organization. appeared simple enough. Anyone who General Gardner found them all in North Carolina. Types of planes could see and hear, and talk over a tele- First, he looked for an agency that could reach every which the obser- phone should have qualified. However, nook and corner of the State. He was tempted to call vers were re- to find a team of observers in every eight- upon Reserve officers in every local division but he found quired to identify mile square of the maneuver area cover- that there were many parts of North Carolina without a ing almost the whole of the Tar Heel single Reserve officer. It was suggested that he use the State, to train each of its members in mayors and town officials as the spearhead for civilian co- his specific assignment, to organize them operation but soon learned that there were large areas in the into a cohesive and smoothly functioning State without such officials. The one organization that unit in the Anti-aircraft Defense Team, seemed to meet his requirements of devotion to national and to marshal the wholehearted support defense, decentral- of the civilian community behind the ized administration military effort was a job to tax the inge- and statewide cover- nuity of any general officer of any army. age was The Ameri- Brigadier General William Bryden, can Legion. Commanding Fort Bragg, the director General Gardner of the exercises, prescribed a civilian called upon Hector warning net as an essential feature of the defense project. He figured that on M- Day the Regular Army and the National By kerosene lamp Guard would immediately be called to Legionnaire Wil- the colors, that the Reserves would soon liam H. Clark follow and that the job of keeping the reads the message Army informed of invading airplanes which his son would have to fall upon the men, women Billy telephones and children behind the lines. army headquar- General Bryden gave the assignment ters, identifying to establish the civilian warning net to plane passing Brigadier General Fulton Q. C. Gardner. over their home General Gardner's instructions were at Hope Mills, quite brief. The order was couched North Carolina

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Army with a map showing his county divided into squares eight miles on a side. The telephone companies voluntarily came into the project and agreed to furnish each county chief with a list of ! subscribers and available telephones Aloft within each area covered by their lines. C. Blackwell, the Department It was up to the county chief to find Commander of North Carolina the subscriber nearest to the center of for his cooperation. The whole each eight-mile square, solicit his co- Legion Department immediately operation and organize a team of ob- was placed at the general's dis- servers around each telephone selected posal. The wheels began to move. as a focal point. Commander Blackwell assem- bled his district commanders and SOME units represented in the eight- invited General Gardner and his mile squares offered no problem at all. A there was but one telephone Sew mP . executive officer, Colonel Sanderford Frequently Jarman, to discuss the project. Out of in the entire area and the subscriber was this first meeting grew the organiza- found ready to cooperate. Other units tion of the civilian aircraft warning net were found with no telephones at all. In The maneuver area was divided into these cases, the aircraft warning net nine districts. Each of the nine district called into action state and federal chiefs who attended this meeting agreed agencies, forest patrols and Coast Guard to serve in a similar capacity in the stations. In at least five cases radio organization of the State for the purposes stations were set up by the Signal Corps of these exercises. Their names read like a of the Regular Army. Wherever more Who's Who in The American Legion not only than one telephone was available in the in North Carolina but in the entire nation. center of a unit, subscribers vied with Here they are: Jerome B. Flora, Elizabeth each other for the privilege of granting City; Frank Miller, Washington; Tom C. the use of their homes. Daniels, New Bern; H. L. Swain, Williams- In less than three weeks after the first ton; June Rose, Greenville; Henry L. Stevens, meeting between the Regular Army Warsaw; R. S. McClellan, Wilmington; R. L. officials and the leaders of The American McMillan, Raleigh; and H. C. Blackwell, Legion, there were established in North Fayetteville. Carolina three hundred and seven sta- The thirty-nine counties in the maneuver area tions for the aircraft warning net. Of this were sub-divided among the nine district chiefs number, two hundred and forty were and each took command of three to seven units. strictly civilian in character and were To head each of his county organizations, the manned by men, women and children district leader selected a county chief. He had no outside the federal and state government difficulty in enlisting the services of the leaders of the establishments. respective communities. While Legionnaires pre- After the observation posts were dominated, there was a liberal representation from selected, parties had to be organized to other civic, patriotic and philanthropic groups. man them. The number in each party To stimulate interest and to explain in greater detail was left to the discretion of the principal the scope and purposes of the net, General Gardner, observer. In practice, the number varied Colonel Jarman and Commander Blackwell visited from four to fifteen. It was prescribed almost every county in the State. Wherever they spoke that each observer should be intelligent, they met with enthusiastic response. Business men, dependable, capable of working harmoni- farmers, housewives, newspaper editors, Boy Scouts—the ously with others, possessed of good eye- whole community freely offered to help. sight and good hearing and with ability The principal job of the county chief was to organize the to speak clearly and distinctly over a observation posts within his unit. He was provided by the telephone without a marked accent. To each of "these observation posts came a detail of the 51st Signal Battalion, Department Com- Regular Army, to instruct the members mander Hector C. in observing, reporting and talking over Blackwell taking the telephone. For training in observa- charge of the tion, a book of silhouettes was passed message center in around among the members of the party his home town and each was instructed in the general i of Fayetteville. appearance of the three principal types Next to the Com- of planes to be used in the problem m mander and phon- pursuit, attack and bombardment. ing the message is The recording was made very simple. Legionnaire J. D. The observers were provided with a Pendleton, with blank form which called for the following Roy B. Case back information: Code number of observation of Commander post; number of airplanes noted; type Blackwell' of airplanes noted; whether seen or heard daughter Ann. by the observer; time it was seen or

Seated are Wil- heard; the altitude at which it was flying, I I liam H. Shaw and that is, very low, low, medium or high; John H. Dewey the direction of (Continued on page 37)

DECEMBER, 1938 1 5 First s> Blood

panaceas, daguerreotypes, artificial teeth, flute lessons, and trusses to those who felt the need of them. Twenty miles upriver the steamboats nosed into the shore and made fast. The crowds streamed up to a smooth expanse of turf where two ring barriers enclosed Fairfax a 24-foot square. Makeshift bars did a rushing business as damp gentlemen took precautions against catching cold. Downey Soon the greensward around the ring was covered by spectators exercising squat- ter's rights on places of vantage. Many glanced back curiously over their shoul- ders at a novel sight on the outskirts of •Stl Harry Townsend the crowd. This exhibition of pugilism was to be graced with women patrons: the wives and daughters of Irish work- men living in the vicinity. They stood ALWAYS fought with the on boxes, the light of battle in their eyes HEStars and Stripes bound bound to see this fight, and just let any- around his mid-riff. That was body try to stop them. why the Irishman christened Twelve noon and Christopher Lilly James, who became an early champion Yankee Sullivan appeared, accompanied by his seconds of the American prize ring, was called and Yankee Sullivan. With a flourish, Yankee Sullivan. Though he was rele- and his camp; another to his opponent, Lilly shied his castor in an arc before him. gated to the ranks of forgotten men by a Thomas McCoy. It sailed down on to the turf and his hat later Sullivan—the redoubtable John The sun began to beam as the boats was in the ring. Thomas McCoy followed L.—Yankee's chronicle is an extraordi- chugged up the lordly Hudson. Gentle- suit. The two men stepped to their cor- nary one. Before relating it from the out- men in rain-bedraggled beavers, tail ners and peeled. Lilly showed a fine pair set, it would be well to present a certain coats, and pantaloons dried out on deck, of shoulders, neck, and bust (as the male crucial episode, for it was this event unfolding their morning New York Her- thorax was then designated). McCoy's which streaked an already checkered alds. Yesterday had been a bad day on bust was broader but his neck less sturdy. career with crimson and bordered it with the stock exchange, but then that might Both were in the pink and 23 years old. black. have been expected with a presidential McCoy weighed in at 137; Lilly a trifle Yankee Sullivan was not in the ring as campaign on. Yes, even though the heavier. principal or second in the prize fight election was two years off. The Whigs, At the ringside, Enoch E. Camp, re- which took place on September 13, 1842, editorialized James Gordon Bennett the porter for the Herald, made ready his in Westchester County, New York, be- Elder, were trying to fly Henry Clay into note book. A corking good sports writer, tween the towns of Yonkers and Hastings. the White House on wings of song, a de- Camp, specialist in "The Manly Art of But as a chief promoter, he was deeply vice which had served well with "Tip- Modified Murder," as W. O. McGeehan involved in its untoward consequences. pecanoe and Tyler, Too." But Mr. Ben- would christen it some 80 years later in nett, reprinting the words of "Clear the the Herald Tribune. What if neither of EARLY in the morning on the day Way for Clay" (to the tune of "The these fighters was first-string and the of the fight six chartered steamboats Little Pigs Lay — ") was sceptical. purse only $200 a side? The Herald man slipped away from New York City docks Throats ought to be wetted for singing, expected a real fight, and what was more, with a certain amount of stealth. Laws and a good, rousing hard cider cam- it was without the law and hot news. prohibiting prize fighting had been passed paign was cramped this time by the in the States, as well as abroad, and small activities of all the temperance societies YET for a minute it looked as if wonder. Its practitioners were tough 'uns, raising rumpuses in this year of 1842. there would be no fight at all. An quite a few of them with criminal records. Readers found no advance notice of the excited gentleman pushed through the InEngland,set-to'sof "the sweet science" fight, of course, but some recognizing a crowd, announced himself to Yankee

had resulted in murders, free-for-all riots, Herald reporter aboard anticipated it Sullivan as a local Justice of the Peace rapine, and robbery. But law or not, would be covered. Others noted that, and declared that this illegal mill must 1,500 sports devotees boarded the steam- should the fight prove disappointing, be stopped. A dirty look from Yankee boats, a number which would have been there would be fireworks at Castle Garden and angry mutterings from the crowd far larger but for the torrents of rain that evening and at the Chatham persuaded the Justice it might be well

which were falling. One of the vessels was Theater a drama entitled, "Butchers of to let it pass. He retired to a ringside seat reserved to Christopher Lilly, principal, Ghent." Advertisements offered baldness with the air of one who, having done his

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine duty, was now going to enjoy himself thoroughly. "Time!" called the referee. "Toe the mark." Both fighters came up cautiously to scratch. McCoy struck out. A rally. Lilly threw him. In this pre-Markis 1' Queensberry era, wrestling, with cross- buttocks, chancery holds, and wrenches

were all to the good. And it was bare- knuckle boxing as a matter of course. A hundred years earlier, John B rough ton, the famed British bruiser, had devised "mufflers" out of regard for the "tender- ness and delicacies of the frame" of pupils in his boxing school, the mufflers being gloves guaranteed to protect from "the inconveniency of black eyes, broken jaws, and bloody noses." But such were for pupils, not pugilists.

McCoy rose from his fall, with blood running from one ear. Lilly's backers cheered, particularly his promoter. First blood for Yankee Sullivan's protege. Nothing daunted, McCoy defied his opponent in Round 2: "You ain't got old Murphy to deal with now." Irritated, Lilly swung on him, and Reporter Camp scribbled: "Lilly downed him with a smack in the mush trap."

Round 4. Lilly made a pass, missed and fell on his butt. Round 8—A counter by McCoy cut Lilly's smeller. The man with the broader bust was warming to his work. Bets aggregating several thou- sands were offered on McCoy, fewer and fewer finding takers. In Round 14, McCoy got in two good blows which Lilly returned with a smash to the dice

box that rattled it. Next round Lilly landed three blows on what Camp now described as McCoy's potato trap, thus adding to the mush diet. But Lilly was

bottom man when they clinched and fell. McCoy either slipped or dropped after a body blow by Lilly in the 18th round. Yankee Sullivan, suspecting a ruse for a rest, yelled out, presuming to speak for McCoy: "What a coward I was when I fell!" The opposition retorted sarcasti- cally. "Yes, you were!" Lilly was going stronger by Round 21 and becoming the favorite. He tendered McCoy a slap on the snuffbox. McCoy's lips and cheeks were bleeding now, what with his adversary's persistent pounding of boxes and traps. Up they came for Round 26. Already Always first blood for Yankee Sullivan the fight had been in progress 30 minutes.

DECEMBER, 1938 17 Lilly smashed away. McCoy was hitting through Round 119 he continued to over. Lilly, declared the winner, jumped the turf often and being bounced on the take terrific punishment. At the end of the ropes, amid huzzas. McCoy lay limp ropes. His swelling face was a study in that round he staggered back to a seat on the turf. purple and scarlet. Lilly was unmarked. on his second's knees. "Stand back! Give him air!" The de- "Ain't Chris the portrait painter!" A gasp from the crowd. McCoy had feated pugilist's heavy breathing slowed yelped an admiring Lilly fan, and none slid from his perch and collapsed against and stilled. His pulse grew faint, faded of the opposite camp was able to retort a corner post. out. They laid his body on one of the with a remark about painting the lily. "Time!" the referee called. McCoy liquor bars. Two of his brothers, who had McCoy stated in the 42d round that he could not get up. The fight which had watched the fight, carried him home on a was as strong as ever, but blood was gush- lasted two hours and 41 minutes was shutter to his widowed mother on Roose- ing from his mouth. Lilly repeatedly velt Street. A report spread threw him and fell on him. "Hit him in that she had told her pugi- the head, Lilly. That's the place," came list son that he was to come advice from the ringside. Lilly obliged, home a winner or not come and it was observed that McCoy's teeth home alive—with his shield looked loose, as well they might. or on it —but this she de- "Mac," Lilly remarked in the 53d, nied. "we've got a week before us. Don't be in Excitement ran high a hurry, Tom." However, McCoy seemed through the city. "Brutal to feel that matters should be expedited Murder," proclaimed the while he could still see, for his eyes were Herald. "We refer to our re- rapidly swelling closed. At that spectacle, port in another column for shouts from the ringside grew savage and ominous. "There's been a death in Mac's family. The guard found his cor- His shutters are closed." ner. Once more, first blood "Chris, you've got the shutters up. —in a way—for Yankee Put a bar across." Sullivan Now McCoy was growing weaker, winded. Sullivan protested as many of the customers relented. "He's sick. Take him out. Call a doctor," came the cries. Still the courageous, incredible McCoy fought Mi, and in a clinch he patted Lilly on the back and actually told him, "You're game." Then he demanded, "Who's tiredest now?" in spite of the fact that he was bleeding like a harpooned porpoise by Round 84, and ringsiders were telling the referee it was a shame to let the fight go on. Yet when a Lilly second shouted in Round 106, "You've got him now!" McCoy mumbled, "Not so sure." On

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A fight was a fight, and let the chief promoter, was at large. Sighted Americanized, Old Glory bound around prize fight wait. But the referee cruising in the lower bay in a small boat his middle, Yankee stepped again into was a stickler for the rules in the hope of boarding a ship for Europe, the squared circle and proceeded to it took two craft of the United States make himself first champion of the the details of a cold-blooded murder, Navy to chase him ashore on Staten United States. A whirlwind fighter from committed yesterday at Hastings, in this Island and a detachment of the United the word go, it was almost always first State, under the name of a prize fight. We States Army to round him up there. He blood for Yankee Sullivan. In one bout a now call upon the authorities to punish was sentenced to prison for two years. smash on his mouth started his gums all concerned, to the full extent of the That was not the first time James bleeding, but he held in the red stream law, and put a stop to these disgraceful Sullivan had fallen into the clutches of until after he had tapped the claret of his proceedings in this country forever." the law. Born near Cork in 1813, he opponent. McCoy was the first prize fighter in early drifted into pugilism. He had won From his eminence, he was dragged this country killed while actually in the three good fights and was building up a by the unfortunate result of the Lilly- ring. A coroner's jury found that his reputation when he was arrested on a McCoy bout to wear New York prison death was due to strangulation by blood larceny charge and convicted. The na- stripes. Before he had served his time, from the mouth, nose, and vessels of the ture and value of the property he he was pardoned by Governor William neck, as the result of blows and injuries allegedly stole is no longer of record. It H. Seward, later to be Lincoln's Secre- received in a fight with Christopher need only have been a trifle in the Eng- tary of State. The condition of the Gov- Lilly. A hue and cry arose for the arrest land of that day to have imposed upon ernor's pardon was this: Yankee must and punishment of Lilly, the promoter, him the heavy penalty he received henceforth foreswear prize fighting. and seconds of the fight. The town could transportation to the Australian penal But what else could he do? There lay talk of nothing else, and the Herald sold colony of Botany Bay, there to serve a his quickest and easiest money. In 1841 like hot cakes. sentence of twenty years. Yankee had seconded Country McClos- The crafty Lilly circulated a report key when he lost to Tom Hyer in 101 that he, too, had died from injuries. POPULATING one of the remoter rounds, and at the finish of the fight, Under cover of that sensation, he escaped parts of the far-flung Empire and Yankee, champ though he was, had chal- aboard a packet bound for England. growing up with the country failed to lenged Hyer. Now that unfulfilled en- Having fought and run away, he lived to appeal to Sullivan. He watched his gagement beckoned. Promise or no prom- fight another day and, as a member of chance and blew. Aboard a bark with ise to His Excellency, Mr. Seward, Yan- the legion of the American filibuster, other convicts and ticket o' leave men, kee could not resist. He and Hyer mixed William Walker, to die in battle a dozen he reached the California settlement it up unofficially in a brawl in a Park Row years later amid the jungles of Nicara- which would later become San Francisco. saloon. Though beaten into insensibility, gua. Gold was still to be discovered and the Yankee publicly advertised that it had The police net began to gather in the climate alone could not hold a fighting been no fair fight. Hadn't he been prac- rest. Though the astonishing discovery Irishman. He worked his way eastward tically dead drunk at the time? Let Hyer was made that the revised statutes of the overland, no mean feat circa 1840. Next meet him fair and square in the ring and State of New York had failed to prohibit the nervy fellow took passage from New take the licking that was coming to him. prize fighting, there had been a killing, York to Liverpool and entered the Eng- and Country McCloskey, a pugilist who lish prize ring once more. Three more PRUDENTLY avoiding New York, had served as a second, and others were fights had been chalked up to his credit they were matched to fight at $5,000 given short jail sentences and paid small when the British police got on his trail. a side, the bout to take place on Pool fines. No more Down Under for Sullivan. He Island in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland,

Finally only Yankee Sullivan, the doubled back to New York. on February 7, {Continued on page 44)

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wick will travel nine or ten times as eastern Washington just about the time By many miles as all his American forbears young Chadwick was married, and he together, though not like them in search and his bride went to Colfax, close to the Alexander of a home. That hundred thousand-odd Idaho border, to make their home. He miles he will cover will constitute his was soon mayor of Colfax and winning Gardiner travels as spokesman for a million Le- success in his profession. In the years that gionnaires, up, down and across the followed the Chadwicks had a son and THEY know him throughout this nation on Legion business. three daughters. The boy, born on August Legion as Steve, but for the That first Stephen Fowler Chadwick, 14, 1894, was named for his grandfather, record he's Stephen Fowler Chad- born in Middletown, Connecticut, in Stephen Fowler Chadwick. The three wick, chosen National Comman- 1825, studied law in New York City and girls are all married, two of them living der of The American Legion by acclama- was a member of the bar there when he in their native State. The third, who is tion at the Los Angeles National Conven- left for the West. In 1853 Attorney Rich- known in business circles as Elizabeth tion. From Seattle on Puget Sound in ard Smith of Virginia set off out from the Chadwick, is an executive with an the State of Washington, a native of the Old Dominion with his wife and his advertising agency in New York City. little town of Colfax in the extreme east- daughter Jane, traveling by ox cart ern section of that State. across the plains to Oregon. In 1855, As a Westerner, the National Com- Richard Smith having in the meantime mander doesn't put as much stress on become Judge Smith, Jane was married ancestry as he does on a person's ap- to Stephen F. Chadwick, who himself proach to the civilization built up in this became a judge, and then Secretary of country under the Constitution of the State and Governor of the State of Ore- United States. If a late arrival believes gon. In 1863 Jane Smith Chadwick in the historic democracy under which gave birth to a son who was named America has grown great he ranks equally Stephen James. As the boy grew up he with the man whose ancestry goes back attended Willamette University and the to Jamestown or Plymouth Rock. Never- University of Oregon, and in 1885 was theless, it is an old and pleasing custom, admitted to the Oregon bar. Two years when a man comes to the fore, to look later he married at Portland, Oregon, into his ancestry the better to establish Emma Plummer, daughter of a Union his viewpoint. Army physician whose knowledge of Steve Chadwick's roots are sunk deep telegraphy was so valuable to the North in America. that in the early part of the Civil War he The first Chadwick in this country was had been sent to California to build a Charles, who arrived at Watertown, telegraph line north to British Columbia. Massachusetts, in 1630. The three thou- Emma Plummer had been born in Wind- sand miles he negotiated with a few hun- sor, California, in the same year as her dred other Puritans in search of a home husband. where they might worship God in ac- The wheat country was opening up in cordance with the dic- tates of their own con- science remained a rec- The National Commander ord trek in the history with his mother, who at of the family until the seventy-five retains her keen seventh generation interest in Seattle civic affairs Chadwick, the first to be named Stephen, traveled some seven The boy has at forty-four become head thousand miles from of The American Legion. New York City to Ore- In 1900 young Steve Chadwick's gon Territory by way of father became a judge of the Superior the Isthmus of Pana- Court of Whitman County, and in 1908, ma, in 1851. when the boy was in high school, was The total journeyings elected by the people to the State's Su- of generations one preme Court. He became Chief Justice in through eight of the 1919. direct line probably to- The Steve Chadwick the Legion knows taled less than eleven had the normal bringing-up of a small thousand miles. In the First Lieutenant Chadwick as personnel officer town American boy. While he had duties next few months the of the 27th Infantry at Khabarovsk, Siberia, to perform about the household it was ninth generation Chad- in the winter of 1918-'19 not necessary for him to contribute to

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was a Virginian, suggested that Steve be sent to the Virginia institution for the two-year course, since it was evident that

he intended to follow the law. So it hap-

pened that in the fall of 191 2, after a year at the University in Seattle, Steve Chadwick took the long train ride to Virginia and entered the Washington and Lee law school. Originally named Washington College, for the Father of His Country, the in- stitution at Lexington became famous when Robert E. Lee, accepting the de- cision of Appomattox in the finest spirit of Americanism, became its president in the fall of 1865. Five years later he died, and in 1871 the name was changed to Washington and Lee University. Lexington is by way of being a shrine of the Confederacy, for within its confines lie the bodies of its most famous military leaders, Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The Virginia boys who formed the bulk of the student body at the univer- sity had quite a field day imitating the talk of the boy from the Far Northwest, and of course their soft drawl was to him something to Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick and their children, Mary Tyler conjure with. He Chadwick and Steve, Jr. At right, Stephen Fowler Chad- was homesick, but wick as a freshman in high school at Colfax, Washington what with organiza- tion of the junior its support. But as a youngster of ten he In 1908 when Steve's father law class, hazing passed out the dodgers for the itinerant was elevated to the Supreme and fraternity rush- patent medicine vendors who around the Court the family moved to ing he soon got into turn of the century were a feature of the state capital, Olympia, the groove of things. small town life. He also distributed leaf- where the high school course A classmate of lets advertising the road shows that peri- was completed. The fall of Steve's was Charlie odically visited Colfax. If he was lucky 191 1 found the boy a fresh- Crush, who years enough to get on good terms with the man in the liberal arts col- later was to become guardian of the stage entrance he'd sell lege of the University of Department Com- his two passes and see the show as well. Washington at Seattle. He was only mander of The American Legion in Vir- Later, during high school days he was a seventeen, but because of his father's ginia and who this year is one of the Na- messenger boy and a freight clerk for the place in the life of the State he was better tional Vice-Commanders. A class back Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad. And known than most of his fellow classmen, of them and a member of Steve's frater- two summers he put in as a machine and the small town boys made him their nity chapter of Kappa Sigma was Adrian operator in a salmon cannery. Quite candidate for class president against a H. Boyd, who this year is National evidently Judge Chadwick was a firm divided Seattle crowd which couldn't Executive Committeeman from Missis- believer in the dignity of manual labor. agree on which of two candidates it would sippi. Judge Rudkin, who like Judge At Colfax High School, which he en- support. So Chadwick got the job. Chadwick is now dead, certainly started tered in the fall of 1907 as a red-cheeked At the time Steve entered the univer- something when he suggested that Steve kid of thirteen, Steve became forthwith sity one of his father's eldest and closest go to law school in Virginia. an interscholastic debater. The small friends was Chief Justice Frank H. Rud- Chadwick took the difficult two-year picture reproduced on this page is from a kin of the State's Supreme Court, soon law course in stride. In his senior year group photograph of the class which was to resign that post to become United he was president of the Harry Lee Boat taken that year. Studies came pretty States District Judge for the Eastern Club and coached its crew during the easily to him, and he spent a good deal District of Washington and later a Cir- spring months on North River, he having of his spare time on odd jobs that kept cuit Court judge in the Ninth Circuit. made it understood at the college that he him in pocket money. Rather small for Judge Rudkin, a native of Ohio, had was one of the late Coach Hiram Conni- his age, he was fond of tennis, with taken his law course at Washington and bear's boys and so a rowing expert back hunting and fishing as runners-up in Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, home in Seattle. The Harry Lee boys sporting activities. and knowing that his colleague's mother won a great victory that year over their

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historic rivals at the university, the was to marry and leave the ancestral was no telling when the troops at Fre- Albert Sidneys. In the classroom his home for a permanent abiding place three mont would be able to proceed overseas grades were satisfactory enough to quali- thousand miles away the boy who was to perhaps the war would be over before fy him for membership in the honorary marry her must prove himself. they ever got to the eastern seaboard. legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi. After Meantime the clouds of war were set- But as an officer he could volunteer for the completion of his course he returned tling over America, and in early April of immediate service overseas and—well, home and in that summer of 1914 was 191 7 the United States definitely ranged anything could happen. It happened the employed by the State Board of Control itself on the side of the Allies against very next day, August 14, 1918, when he of Washington, examining titles of state Germany. As soon as he could make the was told that he was to be placed in com- institutions to make certain that their arrangements Chadwick entered a volun- mand of 1250 men who were to sail for boundary limits were clearly fixed. tary training camp at Fort Lawton, Vladivostok, Russia's Siberian seaport. When fall came his degree of bachelor Washington. This was in May, 1917. Quite a present for his twenty-fourth of laws was of no present use to birthday. Everything was just as he had him, for he was only twenty, and the hoped, except that he was to cross the minimum age for admission to the bar wrong ocean. was twenty-one. So he returned to the By the time they sailed from San Fran- University of Washington for another cisco the number of men in his command year of law, taking courses supplementary had risen to 1900. Arrived at Vladivostok, to those in the W. and L. curriculum. they were used to bring up to war The students with whom he had entered strength two regiments from the Philip- the university three years before were pines, and the force which Major General now seniors, and it was like a homecom- William S. Graves came to command ing to Steve. As undergraduates that grew to about 8,500 men, who were scat- class had the distinction of never knowing tered north and west from Vladivostok, what it was to see the university's foot- to guard the Trans-Siberian Railway and ball team defeated, for Gil Dobie's Allied military stores which it was feared elevens ran roughshod over all opposi- might fall into the hands of the Ger- tion from 1908 to 1916. The Washington mans, with the withdrawal of Russia crews were good in those years, and while from the war and the rise of the Bolshe- not quite the top-notchers they have viki. A further objective of the expedition since become, it was the period in which was to succor the Czechoslovak army many of the present eastern crew coaches which on the collapse of Russia had made were getting their Washington training. its way eastward to escape capture by Chadwick picked up another LL.B. at the forces of the Central Powers. the end of that year at the university, The American troops were a part of a but he still had to wait until mid-August joint Allied force, with the Japanese before he was admitted to the bar, on his furnishing most of the men, but with twenty-first birthday. He went into a French and British troops in some quan- Seattle law firm to put into practice what tity. General Graves's orders were set he had learned—and nothing particular forth in an aide memoir from the United happened until the United States got States Government, which was anxious into the war in April, 191 7. that under no circumstances should While he was at school in Virginia American troops take sides in the inter- he had gone down to classic William nal affairs of Russia. But as General and Mary College in Williamsburg, sec- Graves has made clear in his book ond oldest college in the United States "America's Siberian Adventure," he suf- and today, through the munificence of fered from the same sort of meddling in John D. Rockefeller in financing its res- the conduct of the expedition as plagued toration to its eighteenth century mag- General Pershing in France. Not merely nificence, familiar to every section of the were the Allied officers carrying on in- country. The occasion was a dance, on trigues, but American civilian officials the last night of the year 1913. There were likewise trying to put the American Chadwick met Margaret Gardiner Tyler, military force at the disposal of the White daughter of Judge David Gardiner Tyler Russians, whom the Japanese were vigor- of Charles City, Virginia, and a grand- ously supporting in the hope that a vic- daughter of John Tyler, tenth President tory over the Bolsheviki would mean a of the United States. She was visiting Fisherman Chadwick slice of Manchuria for Japan. The cruel- at the college in the family of her uncle, ties of the Bolsheviki in the western part Lyon Tyler, President of William and of Russia were matched by the cruelties Mary. Steve saw a good deal of Miss Three months later he was in the Second of the White Russians in the east in their Tyler in the succeeding months and for Officers Training Camp at the Presidio dealings with the peasants, and it is quite three years after he left Lexington the let- of San Francisco, where in November he evident that General Graves and his men ters passed frequently between Seattle won a first lieutenant's commission. felt like crying out, "A plague o' both and Virginia. From December of that year until April, your houses." When the expedition was Perhaps Judge Tyler was just as well 1918, he was stationed with the 91st Divi- finally withdrawn in 1920 it was recog- satisfied at young Chadwick's being sion at Camp Lewis, Washington, when nized generally that the Americans alone rather far afield. As a boy of sixteen the he was assigned to Company D, Eighth of the forces in Siberia acted disinter- judge had fought with the Rockbridge Infantry, Eighth Division, at Camp Fre- estedly. Artillery in the Army of Northern Vir- mont, California. Lieutenant Chadwick served as a line ginia under General Lee and had studied It was while he was with this command officer, then as battalion adjutant and under the general at Washington College. that he sought to engineer things so that finally as personnel officer of the 27th Later he had been a member of Congress. he might get to the Western Front, with Regiment through a severe winter in

So it may be presumed he had no preju- a side trip down to Virginia while await- Siberia, being stationed at Spaskoe and dice against youth. But if his daughter ing sailing orders in New York. There at Khabarovsk. (Continued on page 37)

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine * JE D I T © RIAL * FREE SPEECH-A DEFINITION

of the most important pronouncements to at least that part of it relating to individual rights. ONEcome out of the Los Angeles National Conven- It seems worth while to print the resolution in full: tion, in the light of several incidents within BE IT RESOLVED by The American Legion Na- the year past, was a clear-cut, straightforward tional Convention Assembled at Los Angeles that: definition of the right of free speech. The resolution

clearly and in unmistakable terms defines the right of 1. The right of free speech is essential to keep a in- the individual under the Constitutional guarantee of people free. A people cannot long remain free, if they dividual freedom to think as he pleases and to express cannot fairly object to the conduct of those they have his thoughts without let or hindrance. It is also recog- themselves placed in authority. This guarantees free- nized that this guarantee of freedom of thought and dom not only to the one who agrees with us, but to the speech does not license the individual to preach sedi- one who disagrees with us. Such is the proud constitu- tious doctrine, or to incite to violence and crime. tional heritage of America. Notwithstanding the dissenting opinion of a small 2. But, like all other rights, the right of free speech (but very noisy) minority, The American Legion is not must be exercised in a civilized community with due re- an enemy of free speech or independence of thought. gard to the rights of the rest of the community. A right As a very definite factor in American life, it is not a granted by the people for their own protection creates coalition holding a mailed fist over the heads of public no right to destroy the people. Hence free speech must officials to enforce compliance with unreasonable de- not incite to violence and crime, or to corrupt the public mands and selfish desires. Neither is it an entity bent morale. Reasonable limitations to this end are lawful on controlling the thought-stream of the Republic by as protection to freedom of speech. silencing those who disagree with its policies and prin- ciples. The Legion and Legionnaires recognize the all- 3. The American remedy to end violations of the embracing principle that the rights they claim for them- right of free speech is, not the use of unlawful force, but selves they must accord to others. the use of lawful methods. Complaint should be made There are those, of course, who will see in the action to the duly constituted authorities; and if one is law- of the Los Angeles Convention a bit of sophistry; a fully deputized, such authorities may be directly aided. definition as uncalled for, because of the claritv of the 4. The American remedy to overcome the preaching language used in the section which it defines, as there of unwise doctrine, though in a lawful manner, is not would be for an endorsement of the Bible, which we unlawful suppression of the preaching, but education look upon as our spiritual guide. But events in recent in wise doctrine. Wisdom in the end will always over- months have made it seem necessary to put into words come folly, and meanwhile an orderly society will be for public dissemination just what is understood in the preserved. term "freedom of speech." True, there are those who will disagree with the definition as given, which is only That is the definition given as the mature thought stating the practices and principles of the Legion of the delegates assembled at Los Angeles, and is the through long years, but to do so they must disagree law of the Legion, a guide to its Posts and individual with the Constitution of the United States itself, or members.

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"To Perpetuate Americanism" McCoy became Gen. Hill's adjutant. Softball Champs In France Major Hill reported to Col. To the Editor: With all of this talk of To the Editor: As an ardent softball fan, McCoy as battalion commander. foreign agencies at work in our country out here in the wild and woolly West, I Incidentally, we of the 127th Infantry the realization is brought home to many write to you concerning an article which soon learned that the men of the 128th Americans that The American Legion is appeared in the July issue of your maga- thought the world of Hill once they got one of the few 100 percent American zine written under the heading of "Soft- into action with him. Byron Beve- organizations active in our country. ball Comes of Age," by John R. Tunis. ridge, late Major, 127th Inf., Madison, I realize that the Legion has been an Mr. Tunis declares that Joe "Two- Wisconsin. important factor in maintaining Ameri- Gun" Hunt is the Lou Gehrig of softball can standards but there is no provision The S. A. T. G. and that Arnold Trujillo is a full-blooded so far as I know for bringing new blood Indian. Hunt has been playing softball To the Editor: After reading the article into the organization. In another fifteen around Phoenix ever since the game by L. T. Stephenson "The Days of years your ranks will be considerably started and as for his batting ability, out '98," in the September issue it occurred thinned out and likewise your influence of approximately 100 times a year at bat to me that a group of approximately will be lessened. he receives usually some 10 hits for an 150,000 World War veterans who hold While you are still strong enough why average of .100. - honorable discharges from the U. S. don't you sponsor an organization for Mr. Arnold "Nello" Trujillo, the "full- Army might not be recognized as an out- young men based on the same solid blooded American Indian," happens to fit with the rights and privileges of other American principles as the Legion? be Castilian Spanish and is one of the ex-service men. I doubt very much if the idea is origi- finest speedball and curve ball artists in I refer to the S.A.T.C. (Student Army nal but it is at least original in my mind the game. He holds the world strikeout Training Corps). In the summer of '18 and I think enough of it to pass it on. record as you state. James F. Brush, these men enrolled in 500 colleges and There are a lot like myself—I was twelve Phoenix, Arizona. universities throughout the United States years old when the Armistice was signed and said to Uncle Sam, "Here we are, use and am now thirty-two—a great many of us in any way that you see fit to win the About "Back Pay for You?" our generation and even younger are war." Although these men were under growing into substantial places in our To the Editor: In the September issue of military training they were not inducted communities. I for one would like to see The American Legion Magazine, under into the U. S. Army until Oct. 8th. some effort made to perpetuate the or- the caption, "Back Pay for You?" W. Strange as it may seem, about the same ganized Americanism as is done at pres- Everett Fast, Assistant State Service percentage of these men suffered from ent by the Legion. Tom C. Buck- Officer, Department of Kansas, pointed disease and inadequate hospitalization as thorpe, D.D.S., Van Buren, Missouri. out in his letter that veterans of the en- in some other cantonments. C. — J. listed services who were honorably dis- Marti, Post 40Q, West Salem, Ohio. More About General Hill charged after November n, 191 8, and To the Editor: Your very interesting received upon discharge mileage at a To the Editor: I fully enjoyed the story article "The General Died a Major," in lesser rate than the rate of five cents per about Montauk. Every word Mr. Post the September issue, referring to Henry mile authorized by Section 3 of the Act wrote is true, giving facts of actual ex- Root Hill, who went to France as a of February 28, 1919, 40 Stat. 1203, are periences at Camp Wikoff, located in brigadier general in the 33d Division and entitled to the difference. 1898 about twenty miles east of this place. was killed as a major in the 3 2d Division, Mr. Fast's letter seems clear and vet- I visited this famous (or infamous) recalls rather an odd incident. The article erans who have read it carefully will not camp in September, 1898, as did many states that when Major Hill reported to gain the erroneous impression that he others from Eastern Long Island. Of the Col. Robert B. McCoy, commander of speaks of a newly discovered basis for 1000 or more cases of typhoid fever there the 128th Infantry, the colonel saluted veterans' claims against the Government. were nearly 300 deaths. I believe many first. That was instinct on the part of However, the many inquiries received by of these men could have been saved had Bob McCoy, for there was an odd history our Posts, by the office of the National the camp been ready for them. . . . in their association. Legislative Committee, by the American The first troops arrived, I think, in the When the National Guard was called Red Cross and by the General Account- steamer Gate City. This ship was wrecked out for Border service McCoy, then a ing Office and the Veterans Administra- and a total loss in 1900, off Moriches, major, was inspector of small arms tion, have suggested the possibility that about 25 miles west of here. Harry B. practice in the Wisconsin National some veterans have gained this erroneous Squires, Second Vice Commander, Top- Guard. That office was not called into impression and the advisability of con- ping Post, A. L., Bridgehampton, N. Y. Federal service. Later he was sent to sulting representatives of the General Camp Wilson, Texas, where the Wiscon- Accounting Office for further information

sin and Illinois troops were stationed, to Because of space demands, letters quoted is recommended to all concerned. The in this department (responsibility for state- become assistant chief of staff prior to General Accounting Office has furnished ments in which is vested in the writers and the march from San Antonio to Austin following advice: not in this magazine) are subject to abridge- informally the and return. The march ended, there was ment. Names, addresses and post affiliation 1. The Act of February 28, 1919, is still no work for him at division headquarters, must be given, though the editors will with- in effect and veterans who are entitled hold publication of these if the circumstances but there was a vacancy in the office of to file claims thereunder may still have warrant. adjutant of the Illinois brigade. Major their claims {Continued on page 55) 24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 1VI O matter when you buy a bot- to perpetuate the famous Crown tle of Seagram's 7 or 5 Crown taste with infinite exactness.

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AT THE time, it was said, there was Guthrie, Oklahoma, as it looked business and a sharp axe felled a log /\ a noticeable lack of sentiment in April, 1889, a few days after across Cottonwood River which divides / % in the settlement of Oklahoma. the Opening—an event which is the city and charged twenty-five cents a The blade of the political always spelled with a capital O. head to cross. crusader remained sheathed from the ab- Below, the Legion-created, Le- Thus the Oklahoma movement was sence of an ideal, and a burning issue to gion-engineered annual '89-er launched, and Guthrie, the most spectac- prime the pen of the scribe also was celebration opens with a big pa- ular boom town (and there have been truant. rade along Guthrie's Oklahoma many) in the saga of the Sooner State, But there was a grand prize, mundane Avenue. Here is the 193 8 pro- as such, was the shortest lived. and sure-fire, which attracted alike busi- cession, with Okmulgee's prize- A month after the Opening, more than ness man and gambler, cosmopolitan and winning Legion drum corps pro- 200,000 persons inhabited the Territory, backwoodsman, law-abiding citizen and viding the lead-off music which previously was known only to ruffian—a home in the pristine, red soil of Indians, outlaws, Texas cattlemen and the Territory. isolated troopers in frontier cavalry

The sentiment came later, and it came On opening day the first passenger posts. to stay. And The American Legion has train from Arkansas City, Kansas, had Came 1929. Gods of the red lands (so had a lot to do with fostering it and de- been halted at the little town of Orlando. it was believed) were dead. . . . veloping it. At a pistol shot it chugged south into Skulking Comanches, Cheyennes, Ara- April 22, 1889, at high noon, Oklahoma Oklahoma, to be immediately followed pahos and wily Cherokees no longer Territory, an area of 38,715 square miles, by fourteen more trains to Guthrie and sent up supplications beneath the stars, was thrown open for settlement by presi- the land office, the only frame structure in or stalked the buffalo, or took to the war- dential proclamation. Shoals of home- the city of tents. path. Long since they had been relegated

seekers, afoot, riding mules, horseback, Many curled up in saddle blankets, if to the reservations. The plaintive bal- in covered wagons, buggies, stage coaches, they were lucky; hundreds of others lads of trail drivers, on their way up from every which way, swearing, shouting, shivered under the stars, supperless. Texas with longhorn herds to Dodge City, grim and determined, dashed toward Gamblers plied among the gullible. An Caldwell or Abilene had passed with their Guthrie, where the United States land enterprising young Hebrew sold bananas, authors to the Valhalla of cowmen. The office was located, to file on claims. By purchased in Wichita the night before, at sorties of Payne's Boomers into the for- nightfall 15,000 souls were congregated a quarter each. Drinking water was at a bidden territory before the Opening were on less than a half section of land. premium. A new arrival with an eye for scarcely recalled, and the wild dash of the

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Sooners seeking homes in the Run was nearby ranches. Range horses and spotted tion was colorful, if not colossal, and fresh in the memory of but a corporal's Indian ponies were roped and corraled, there was noise, and fun. Wild, un- guard of oldsters. The halcyon days were and in some cases ridden for the first bridled shouts of the range, Indian yells, gone. time, in preparation for April 22, 1929. an occasional pistol shot, bobbing som- These highlights of the last frontier Prairie schooners, chuck-wagons and breros, loud shirts, jingling accoutre- were being discussed, somewhat sadly, stage coaches were reclaimed, their ments, piebald Indian mounts and range at a meeting of Le Bron Post of The warped, weather-beaten frames rein- ponies, lowing oxen and the creaking American Legion in Guthrie. forced and rotten canvas replaced. covered wagons, at least made a favor- A veteran had been talking. He con- Quickly the parade was formed. A able impression. tinued: squadron of 150 horsemen, a chuck- At the annual '89-er banquet in the "There's a debt to our community, to wagon and a prairie schooner or so were lone Hotel, favorable comment was our parents who had settled here, that in line and by noon the march was under heard of the first demonstration to be we owe. Soon there is to be a banquet way down Oklahoma Avenue West to the sponsored by the members of Le Bron Tost Alive Bert/Kemmerer down town to observe the anniversary of the Opening. Maybe a hundred old timers will be present. Next day there'll be a brief story in the paper. And unless some- thing is done, that will be all." The idea that something be done about it was received placidly by the burghers of Guthrie. The sponsors, however, be- lieved they had something. Owing to the cosmopolitan settlement of Oklahoma, it was proposed to divide the group into state sections for the parade. McKean dissented. The question was debated at length, and the committee chief gained support.

Later it was given the nod by those in the thinning ranks who made the Run in 1889. There was further discussion and an idea was given wings. There would be a celebration and a parade sponsored by The American Legion. The entire com- munity was asked to A chuck-wagon of the old days, take part. brought out for the 1 93 8 celebration It was late March. Doors and windows of business section. Mounted Yolney Hoggatt, then editor of the the hut on Oklahoma veterans—buckaroos for a Great Divide, a Denver farm publication, Avenue were ajar. Al- day—followed the national S. T. Bledsoe, president of the Santa Fe ready in this south- colors and the post stand- Railroad, General and Legionnaire Roy western country red- ard toward the ancient (as Hoffman of Oklahoma City, who estab- bud flamed like abor- time is counted in Okla- lished the Guthrie Daily Leader in 1889, iginal signal fires from homa) brick city hall, and many who made the Run, in recalling the sandstone bluffs where the State Constitu- pioneer days were high in their praise overlooking the Ci- tion was born during 1907. and declared that the local Legionnaires marron. But there was Drum and bugle corps were had instituted not only a patriotic enter- fustian mockery in the absent and there was not prise but a commendable civic one as bark of coyotes from even a band. well. blackjack thickets and The modest formation Their conclusions were prophetic. the low, rolling sand- moved on. A few merch- From this unpretentious beginning in hills skirting the Department Commander ants and their clerks peered, 1929, the Oklahoma '89-er Celebration has brackish waters of the Raymond Fields, Chair- mildly interested, from grown into national significance. Last meandering river. No- man of the Distinguished shop doors. Eyebrows were spring the parade was ten miles long and madic breezes from Guests Committee raised over soft-drink there were 83 bands and drum and bugle the Gulf far to the glasses by drug-store habi- corps in line. Airplanes soared overhead. south stirred the tues along Guthrie's main Art Gobel, famed Bartlesville flier who clumps of buffalo grass and scraggly stem, registering displeasure. Apparently spanned the Pacific a few years ago, did a sand-plum bushes. The time for the fete the veterans were stealing their stuff. fine job of sky-writing. was scarcely a month away. Traffic was halted only briefly, for this Not alone Le Bron Post of The Ameri- The veterans responded. Enthusias- pageant of the old Southwest soon tra- can Legion, but city, county, and State tically, they fell into step. versed the business district, then headed in its entirety have become a part of the Soon western riding gear, long unused, south to the fair grounds to disband. ambitious program. The attractions are was hauled from attics and barn lofts of Now, even this first modern demonstra- greatly multiplied (Continued on page jg)

DECEMBER, 1938 27 —— For Merit

the city of which receive their training at TODAYMonterey, Califor- the historic old Presidio of

nia, is one of the Monterey. Legionnaire Win- most American of sor Josselyn, who is not un- cities, rooted deeply and known to readers of this maga- firmly in American ideals zine, (remember his "How and in the American way. About a Hole in One Contest?" But, something less than a in the March, 1938, number?) hundred years ago, in the writes of one phase of this years before the little mis- program, the award of medals understanding with our of merit each year to four neighbor south of the Rio high merit men in the camp. Grande, Monterey was so Says our correspondent: foreign to the United States "The annual award of merit —in government, popula- medals to members of the Re- tion, time and distance serve Officers Training Corps that it maintained a fully at Camp John P. Pryor, lo- accredited consul there to cated at the Presidio of Mon- speak for the Republic and terey, has proven to be one of its nationals. The cities the most popular public activ- that border the Mediter- ities of Monterey Peninsula ranean were next door Post. When the award of the neighbors, so to speak, medals was inaugurated in when compared with this 1937, the response from the town on the Pacific Coast. corps, the military authorities California was then a and friends of the training province of Mexico, ow- camp was such that the idea ing allegiance to its merry- was made a part of the Post's go-round governments, and permanent program. Monterey was its capital; "A direct reaction from one the gayest and most ambi- of the winners in 1937, Cadet tious city of Alta Cali- Harry A. Stephenson, Jr., was fornia, the most important given by letter: 'As recipient seaport of the province, of the infantry medal I am and its principal military, mindful of the high ideals commercial and financial which it represents. It shall Past Commander J. P. (Pop) Pryor and Past remain an inspiration center. Ninety years have Department Vice Commander W. A. Irvine always wrought great changes for me to achieve the highest awarding medals to merit men at Camp Pryor. the capital was lost to rank in my chosen profession Monterey Peninsula Post does this every year Sacramento, and commer- —the military service.' And cial importance to other at the same time a letter was coast cities, but the Monterey of today is Peninsula Post—a progressive unit of received from Colonel Troup Miller, nth no less interesting than it was during the the California organization and one of Cavalry, then Commandant of the Presi- days of Spanish and Mexican occupation. the leading civic organizations of its dio of Monterey, in which he said: T The Monterey and Monterey Penin- home city. wish to thank you and the members of sula of today means different things to Monterey Peninsula Post has initiated Monterey Peninsula Post, The American different people. To some it means the and developed a number of distinctly Legion, for your interest in the training shrine of early California, site of the first worth-while programs and projects, not of the students of the Reserve Officers San Carlos mission, the old theater, the the least of which is support of and co- Training Corps at this station, by fur- old custom house over which have flown operation with the R. 0. T. C. units nishing three beautiful medals for merit the flags of Spain, Mexico, the United and excellence in performance of their States and the Bear Flag of an independ- duties in camp. These medals should be a ent State. To others it means the fish- continuing inspiration not only to the eries and canning industry, or the delec- recipients, but to their fellow students as table gustatory qualities of the abalone, well' rhapsodized in the poem of George Ster- "Added to these testimonials have been ling. To still others mention of Monterey editorial praise in the local press and conjures up visions (or memories) of the much favorable word-of-mouth comment. Del Monte recreation center, or the Another significant factor has been the artists and writers colony at nearby keen competition among the candidates Carmel-by-the-Sea. To the Legion, Mon- for medals. Four medals were given in terey is the "home port" of Monterey 1938, owing to the size of the camp, and

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine the board of officers in charge of selection P. Pryor, for whom the camp was named Division of the Saginaw Police Depart- declared afterward that any of a dozen when it was founded in 1922, who died ment is indeed grateful to The American other men might have qualified with the of wounds sustained in the Argonne Legion for this practical contribution, same excellence. Standards of excellence when commanding Company D, 2d Ma- which we are sure will be a real instru- in general military requirements are set chine Gun Battalion. He was post- ment of character building as well as a by the camp commander. humously awarded the Distinguished direct means of rendering valuable serv- "The medals are of silver, bearing the Service Cross. ices to parents by cooperating with Legion emblem, suspended from a ribbon "Comrade Pryor annually presents his them in keeping small children away from of Legion colors and are suitably engraved personal trophy to the unit of the Civil- as to the nature of the award. The 1938 ian Military Training Camp at Camp Just le^on awards were made to Cadets Clark J. John P. Pryor which makes the best Uoure bacK Guild, Jr., Brown Military Academy; camp record. For the past two years Com- Kenneth E. Stager, University of Cali- rade Pryor and Past Department Vice fornia at Los Angeles; Wendell H. Best, Commander William A. Irvine, now serv- University of Utah, and Charles Van ing Peninsula Post as its Adjutant, Cott, Leland Stanford University. A have made the formal presentation of the signiacant comment was made by one of medals for merit to the selected R. 0. T. the young men who received a medal. C. students." He said: 'You'd be surprised how much this encourages me to go ahead with my Saginaw Navy studies in military science back at college. On our campus there is a lot of scoffing WE'VE all heard about the Swiss at those of us who take this training. You navy. Now the city of Saginaw, know the anti-military spirit. Well, this Michigan, has the start of a navy of its medal is going to be own —an all-metal boat presented to the the river, with its ever present danger of mighty helpful to us police department by Saginaw Post, The drowning. in counteracting that American Legion. It is designed for police "But let there be no misunderstanding spirit.' use in supervising and controlling juve- about the purposes for which this boat, "Of particular in- niles along the water front, and at the so generously and so wisely donated terest to Monterey places used for swimming in the summer. by Post No. 22, will be used. It will not

Peninsula Post is the In accepting the boat for the police be used to 'catch kids.' It is not for that fact that Past Com- department, Legionnaire Walter M. purpose. We are not concerned in arrest-

mander J. P. Pryor, Germain, supervisor of the Police Crime ing children. We are concerned only in now serving as Post Prevention Division, said: "A river has apprehending wrong-doers for the sole Chaplain, sponsored a natural attraction for youth. It is the purpose of acquainting them with the the idea of present- mecca of many adventures, ranging from dangers of childhood delinquencies, and ing the medals. He healthful, wholesome pursuits to unlaw- through friendly association and cooper- is the father of the ful, degrading indulgences. Considering ation assist them along the road to gocd late Captain John all these things, the Crime Prevention citizenship. This philosophy is predicated on the belief that the boy who has offended the law or otherwise seriously violated the

rules of society is more apt to respond favor- ably to friendliness than to fear. Also that the

police officer who is activated by sincere motives of helpfulness is more likely to gain the understanding of the motivation of err-

ing youth that is essen- tial to the solution cf juvenile problems. This is seldom possible by the mere exercise of legal authority." Twin Drum Majorettes

AS A result of the L\. Los Angeles Con- vention and the wide- spread publicity given the hundred or more star drum majorettes who strutted, high- stepped and cart- wheeled along the line Saginaw, Michigan, had a launching when the first boat of its navy, given by Saginaw of march in the Big Post, slid down the ways into the Saginaw River Parade, it would seem

DECEMBER, 1938 29 National Convention parade since the custom of awarding service bars for appearance was instituted (Kansas City, 1921). Reading from top to bottom one can list the Convention parades in their order, and as I write, the colors are at Los Angeles to march with the Iowa delega- tion and earn another bar. We members of Monahan Post are justly proud of this

record, and we are of the opinion that it cannot be equaled by any other Post. At least we send forth the challenge and offer photographic evidence of our achieve- ment." Question: Will Past Commander Frohow hear from other Posts? Answer: Yes, and how! In the same letter our correspondent tells of another recent achievement of Monahan Post which seems worth while passing on. For several years the Post has maintained a ceremonial squad consist- ing of a firing squad, color bearers, color guards and buglers, in all numbering sixteen men. As the personnel of this squad varies from time to time, the question of providing uniforms has been a perplexing one. During the past year a solution of the problem has been found in the adoption of a uniform cape to be worn over street clothes. The capes, made of Legion blue cloth, with Legion gold linings, and rolled- down collars bearing the insignia on the lapels, were made in the Woodbury County Sewing Room, WPA, from designs furnished by a post member. The idea has worked out nicely, since there is no size restriction and the capes can be worn by any one who is called upon to serve.

Pannill Post, Martinsville, Virginia, has a Junior Drum Farraguf s Flagship and Bugle Corps led by twin sister drum majorettes, Misses Grace and Dorothy Alexander THE HISTORIC old Hartford, flag- ship of Admiral David G. Farragut the whole country has become drum ma- Mo nah an Champs during the Civil War and from whose jorette conscious. Hailed as the main at- bridge the doughty old Admiral com- traction in the parade, one of the most SIOUX CITY, up in the northwestern manded at the Battle of Mobile Bay, is widely circulated picture magazines de- corner' of Iowa, is the home of to be preserved as a national monument. clared the classy young ladies stole the Edward H. Monahan The fine old ship, Now oil uje need is Sbwefcod^ show. And to prove it, printed action Post, and Monahan a relic of the days pictures of a couple of dozen taken as they Post has done for of wooden ships led their organizations down Figueroa Sioux City what the and iron men, is Street and in the Coliseum. Classy? Yes, "Tall Corn Song" has now undergoing ex- comrade, take the Step-Keeper's word done for the whole tensive repairs and

for it if you don't believe the pictures. State of Iowa. Mona- restoration at the Now, here is the Old Dominion with han Post has won so Navy Yard at an entry which gives promise of future many honors and has Charleston, South performance in Legion and public events held so many cham- Carolina, and will in Virginia and elsewhere—unique in pionship records that later be assigned a that the two drum majorettes are twin in the Legion the permanent berth at

sisters. The young ladies are Misses Grace town is known by its some place where and Dorothy Alexander, who lead the Post. Just a reminder - And a Xmas Tuee. it will be accessible Junior Drum and Bugle Corps sponsored of Monahan Post's to the general pub-

by Pannill Post, of Martinsville, Virginia. first leap to fame—its band won and held lic. Farragut's order, "Damn the tor- Pannill Post's junior organization is a the national championship in 1922, 1924, pedoes; go ahead," was given from this newcomer, organized during the summer, 1925, 1926, and 1927. ship. and made its first public appearance the Past Commander Harry L. Frohow What could be more appropriate, latter part of August. It will be just in now writes to call attention to another argues Admiral Farragut Post of Hast- good shape and form to do a preliminary record and to invite comparison and ings-on-Hudson, New York, than that at the Virginia Department Convention competition with the other eleven thou- the Hartford be permanently assigned to next year, then do a snappy parade down sand-some-cdd Posts. Comrade Frohow the last home of its famous commander. Michigan Boulevard in Chicago in Sep- says: "The picture enclosed [shown on The Post has opened a campaign looking tember, led by the charming sisters page 31] is the staff of Monahan Post to that end, and has enlisted strong sup- Alexander. standard which has been carried in every port in its cause, beginning with the

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1 endorsement of the Westchester Rochester (New Sure, I like -fmckfei^! . Toledo, Ohio, through the County (New York) Legion or- York) Police Post, medium of the American- ganization. Then, early in Septem- "our Squadron of 1 luenf »Vk4V\* Artno( and +f\eq ism Committee of Vernon- ber, a delegation from the Post Sons of The Ameri- McCune Post. Comrade dan'.! visited Hyde Park and, after lay- can Legion has al- Gerald J. Cullen reports ing their case before President ready established an that, with the cooperation Roosevelt, presented him with a activity record that of Legionnaire E. L. Bow- model of the Hartford, made to other units may view sher, Superintendent of scale from Navy plans. with surprise, if not Schools, more than four Hastings-on-Hudson, says Le- envy. The Squadron thousand copies of the gionnaire George Kuhry, has the won first honors for official flag code have been right to claim permanent posses- best discipline in line placed in the Toledo public sion of the Hartford because of the of march in the Me- schools. Every grade and association of its illustrious com- morial Day parade, high school room in the mander with the town. It was at and three members city has been supplied Hastings-on-Hudson that Admiral took honors in their with two or more copies. Farragut took up his residence first rifle team com- after his retirement from the Navy, petition in June. Raymond Jef- Eleven Years a Champ and it is in that area, in Woodlawn fery, Jr., was awarded the Post Cemetery, that his body lies. trophy for highest individual SOMETHING of a national record is believed to Farragut House is a land-mark in score; Jeffery, John Irish and have been achieved by Hastings and Grace Church, which R. Fogarty won medals. the Drum and Bugle Corps of General stands within a stone's throw of his "Other public events in which Gorgas Post of Birmingham, Alabama," old home, was erected in part the Squadron has participated in asserts Corps Commander Joe Dena- through his beneficence. The full uniform were the Elks Flag burg, "with the attendance of the corps American Legion Post takes its Day observance; presentation of at the Los Angeles Convention. The con- name from the old hero, whose colors at the Fathers and Sons clave was the eleventh annual National name is inseparably linked with the banquet, and presentation of a Convention attended by the Birmingham naval history of our country. flag pole to the Locust Club." unit, and it can boast that it has never a national meet, Accessibility is another point missed even though they argued by Admiral Farragut Post. Flag Codes For Toledo have been held in all parts of the country. corps traveled Hastings-on-Hudson is located ten The Birmingham over SPLENDID piece of Ameri- miles to and from Los Angeles in miles north of the metropolitan A 5,000 canism educational work area of New York. chair cars. This is in contrast to the Pull- has just been accomplished in man cars enjoyed by practically all other The Rochester Boys musical units in attendance at the Heavy with earned bars, gathering. ORGANIZED only a few Monahan Post's colors have "Another record of which the General months ago," writes Le- seen the four corners of Gorgas Corps is quite proud is that it gionnaire Maurice Scanlon, of America has been the (Continued on page 5j)

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Admiral Farragut Post, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, presents President Roosevelt with model of the U. S. S. Hartford. Left to right, Legionnaires George Kuhry, James Reilly, Charles Rustemeyer, son of the Commander; President Roosevelt and Attorney General Homer Cummings

DECEMBER, 1938 31' — 8—

OK Christmas

No mistaking the thoughts of there was still a job pany. My husband also has a diary which WHILE the guard on holiday duty of work to do, while the he kept from the day he enlisted until he above—he stepped out the date fighting was still going on, was home again—covering the period in the center of his figure- a holiday, whether patri- from July 1917, to May 22, 1919." post. (Look at the picture up- 25, otic, religious or otherwise, meant just Now Mrs. Lauth is the kind of woman side down.) The outfit, the 162d another day for the soldiers in the lines. we admire and we wish more wives of Ambulance Company; the place, After the Armistice, however, it was a fellow Legionnaires who are dilatory Fort Ehrenbreitstein, Germany different story, and the three holidays about sending pictures and stories to which followed shortly thereafter The Company Cierk would follow the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's example she has set. Reading of that Day—were properly observed by every- we show was taken—just twenty years diary, we wrote Comrade Lauth, who one. Drill schedules, reintroduced to keep ago. belongs to Christie DeParcq Post of St.

the men fit for fighting, just in case armis- Behold the guard on his lonely vigil Paul, and asked him to tell us something tice terms were violated, and to keep up even on holidays some few soldiers had about his service and particularly of that the morale of the troops, were suspended, necessary duties to perform. But the Christmas of 1918, and finally with the entertainment was arranged, and special spirit of Christmas was in his heart. Note further cooperation of Mrs. Lauth, we chow, within the limits of the Q. M., was that as a variation from his figure-eight succeeded in obtaining this account: provided. post in the hollow square of ambulances, "We left EUendale, North Dakota,

"Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht" was the he tracked into the snow "Dec. 25, 1918." October r, 191 7, originally as Company theme song for those outfits lucky enough The picture came from Mrs. Herbert J. K, Second North Dakota Infantry, but to spend that Christmas of 1918 up on the Lauth of 1994 Laurel Avenue, St. Paul, upon arrival at Camp Greene, Charlotte, Rhine in occupied Germany. In that land Minnesota, with this letter: where the Christmas spirit was so highly "It will not be long now before Christ- developed, although our beaten foe had mas will again be here, so I am sending little reason for joy, the triumphant you a picture my husband took twenty Americans really expressed themselves. years ago this coming Christmas Day. And what better location for a Christ- The picture was taken from the barracks mas party than Fort Ehrenbreitstein, at Fort Ehrenbreitstein, where my hus- that proud citadel of Germany high band was stationed. Who the guard is, above the Rhine opposite the city of Mr. Lauth doesn't remember, but he was Coblenz? It was there that the picture a member of the 16 2d Ambulance Com-

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football. The highlight of the football season was the game at Coblenz between the 4th and 89th Divisions, won by the 89th, 14 to o, which was another step to- ward the A- E. F. championship which the 89th won. "On March 31, 1919, the i62d Ambu- lance Company left the Fort for its jour- ney home. I would certainly enjoy hearing from some of my old comrades and others who knew our part of Germany."

TO A veteran of the Wildcat Division, we are indebted for the attractive pastoral scene that is displayed— scene that reminds us that not all of France was mutilated with trenches and barbed wire, and makes us forget that one of the first details assigned when a new town was occupied was one for the purpose of policing-up. The snapshot was A soldier with an artistic sense took this shot of shepherd his flock at the village a and edge of the uou~ru**He !'.

of Poincon-les-Larrey, France, in the spring of 1919 See !!

North Carolina, we were transferred to presents donated by the Red Cross were the n6th Sanitary Train. Sailing from given. They consisted of cigarette cases, New York, December 14, 1917, we ar- pipes, lighters, rings and mouth organs.' rived in Brest on December 27th, and "I recall it snowed at Ehrenbreitstein then being unattached, traveled over a on the afternoon and evening of Decem- good part of France. We were on duty in ber 24th, hence the tracks of the guard the Argonne front when the Armistice and the Christmas date outlined in our went into effect, and arrived in Coblenz ambulance park. on December 17, 1918. "Now for some of our daily life at "As for that Christmas of 1918, I recall Ehrenbreitstein. Being an ambulance that we were paid on December 20th and outfit, our main duties were to make everyone put in three francs apiece to- daily trips to the different units stationed ward our Christmas dinner. And now the in and around that city and pick up hospi- made by Legionnaire I. J. Lowder of 122 following from my diary, just as I wrote tal cases for delivery in Coblenz or Neu- North College Street, Charlotte, North it twenty years ago: wied. For those not on that detail, there Carolina, and it came to us with this " 'Wed., Dec. 25 —A fine dinner today. was plenty of drill. For recreation, we letter: Steak, creamed potatoes, creamed peas, would go to Coblenz, either to the 'Little "The enclosed picture was taken by cocoa, tarts and apple pie. A third of a Play House' or the 'Fest Halle' where me after the Armistice while my outfit, pie apiece. In the evening, we gathered there were boxing and wrestling bouts Company L, 3 2 2d Infantry, 81st Divi- sion, was headquartered in the village of Poincon- les-Larrey, about 12 kilometers from Chatil- lon-sur-Seine, to which training area the Division was sent after being re- -lieved from the lines in the vicinity of Verdun. No doubt many of the boys will remember this village and may even remember the names of the peasant man and woman who were tending this flock of sheep at the edge of our town. "The soldier in the picture was named Hor- ton and I certainly would

like to learn if he is still

living and what he is doing. The captain of our Company, Joseph L. is represented in this plane crack-up on a field at St. Comedy, not tragedy, Jean- Chandler, whom we all de-Monts, in September, 1918. Millard P. Dunn tells of the unexpected results liked so well, died two years ago in Sumter, around the Christmas tree in the Mess almost nightly, and other entertainment. South Carolina. The other officers I recall Hall and after a talk by Captain Lane, Then there was basketball and, later, were Lieutenants Hood and Cromartic.

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You could vMelV- Wte up and scared but quite happy teresting to the Then and Now Gang, ?hojO Quicker if Ij'd over the whole thing. and this is its story: "One of the officers was a "I served in the Navy in the Armed Lieutenant Rogers from Texas, Draft Detail, mostly at the Navy Yard, and if he should see this picture, City Park Barracks, Brooklyn, New he will probably call me names York. When the barracks was abandoned, as I promised to send him a I took this picture off of the office wall,

print and I don't think he ever where it had been hanging for some time

received it. He can have one in back of the captain's desk.

now, if he writes to me." "The picture was purported to have While Comrade Munn re- been taken by the Red Cross in Germany ports that he was a sergeant at and sent back to the States during the the time, he failed to identify war. It is supposed to represent some his squadron. What outfit, American sailors who had been taken off Buddy? torpedoed ships by German submarines "We remained in Poincon-les-Larrey and delivered in Germany for imprison- almost six months before leaving for home IS THE picture we are about to intro- ment. A faded notation on the back of and when we pulled out practically all of duce^—and which is reproduced—au- the print states: 'Chief Delaney and Boat- the village's two hundred inhabitants thentic, or is it a deft bit of German prop- swain Mate Rupp, both sitting; in the were there to bid us good-bye. rear of Delaney is Miller, and in It would make me mighty happy the rear of Rupp is Jacobs.' Now

if some of the old wartime com- I wonder if that can be confirmed

rades would write and tell me and also if they, or someone who what they're doing." knows of the incident, can tell us about their capture. AIRPLANE crack-ups — and "Incidentally, I wasn't always - there have been quite a few a yeoman. I enlisted as appren- of them reported in recent tice seaman in Des Moines on months—generally are tragic. April 24, 1917, was sent to Great There is little reason for laughter Lakes and in September was in connection with them. That, transferred to the Philadelphia of course, in the majority of in- Navy Yard. October found me in stances was true also in the A. E. New York in the Armed Draft F. But here is an exception. After Detail and within three days we looking at the picture on the pre- were assigned to the S. S. Wcst- ceding page, sent to us as Exhibit wcgo, a tanker, as gun crews. I A, you'll probably come to the couldn't swim and had never conclusion that the pilot and ob- before seen a big gun server, at best, landed in a hospi- "We left for France in Novem- tal, but not so, according to this ber and made Dover by following account which came with the a mine net dragged by two traw- picture from Millard P. Munn of lers in the English Channel. Sergeant John Crowley Post, From there we crossed to Calais Mohawk, New York: where we dumped some of our "I doubt if the enclosed picture gasoline cargo—and I remember has ever appeared in Then and we could hear the guns boom Now and so I am sending it along while there, as the front wasn't for the Gang to see. far from Calais at that time. Does anyone recognize these gobs? The pic- "The crash pictured was the Thence we hauled the rest of our ture is reported to have been taken in a funniest thing that I witnessed or load to Rouen, via Le Havre, up German prison camp to which they were re- heard about in my whole period the Seine River. And we got shore moved after being taken off torpedoed ships of service. It occurred on a leave and made all the places. No Sunday afternoon in September, American soldiers that we saw 1018, at St. Jean-de-Monts, France. aganda of World War days? Here's a there at that time. "We had crashes enough which were in chance for our G-2 men to show how good "On our way back to Plymouth I slept no way funny but this one was different — they are, and, incidentally, a chance for crossing the (Continued on page 57) no one was hurt, although a couple of ex-gobs to enter into the guessing games lieutenants received the scare of their this department furthers now and then lives. through publication of "whoosit" pic- "I was crossing the flying field when tures. You all may remember the pic- two D-H 4's, which were being ferried in, ture of the kitchen detail used in the issue appeared. One of them made a perfect of January last. It brought the Company landing; the other leveled off but did not Clerk just one hundred and four letters. land, as the pilot saw that he did not Of the hundred and four Legionnaires have sufficient room and attempted to who offered what they thought to be

lift his plane up for another try. bona fide identifications of the outfit and "He was headed for the officers' bar- of the men shown, only two were correct. racks and when he gave it the gun his So let's see what can be done with the left wing caught the top of the officers' picture of the four gobs. latrine, tipping it over on its door—and Here is the story as told by the con-

it so happened that there were two tributor of the picture, Harry J. Black, officers inside at the time. They both Argonne Post, Des Moines, Iowa, whose crawled out of the hole where the roof home is at 3333 54th Street in that city: had been a minute before, a bit mussed "Here is a picture that may prove in-

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(Continued from page 15) the flight; and the signature of the ob- through. A few minutes later came active and intelligent interest in the server. All the observer was required to another, then another. Between four problems presented and to the public do was to place a simple mark opposite o'clock and full dawn, a little more than spirited and patriotic manner in which the pertinent remark and then prepare two hours later, three hundred and they have contributed of their time and to repeat it over the telephone. eighty-seven messages came in, accur- efforts in solving those problems, and The meaning of the message that Bill ately stated and well reported. In most to the leadership that they have exercised Heath sent, reported at the beginning of cases but two and one half minutes in the organization of the large number of this article, now becomes fully clear. elapsed from the moment of observation observers involved, they have been very Bill Heath had seen one airplane, type to the recording of the news at head- largely responsible for the success that undetermined, flying at medium height quarters. has been attained in the organization of in a southeasterly direction. the Net. In this work they have been ably Teaching the observers to report over BASED on these reports, the Army was seconded by the assistance and active the telephone also presented some diffi- able to trace the flight of the "inva- participation in the work of the ladies of culties. A few of the observers became ders" across North Carolina, determine the Auxiliary. too telephone conscious to speak at all the speed of their travel and locate their "There was but little in the way of and many valuable seconds passed before probable destination. The civilian warn- precedents to guide in the organization they uttered a sound. Others developed a ing net in North Carolina had come up to of a Warning Net to be manned chiefly by hitherto unnoted tendency to stutter. the fullest expectations of the Army. The volunteer civilian observers, and the After a little practice, however, they next exercise and every one that followed experiences to be gained in this connec- overcame their self-consciousness and during the maneuver period found tion in the present Joint Anti-aircraft- learned to speak clearly and distinctly. observers on the job, recording accurately Air Corps Exercises will be of great value Finally, came the early morning of and reporting promptly. General Bryden to the War Department in the formula- October 10th. General Bryden, General pronounced the civilian warning net a tion of plans for the organization of such Gardner and their staffs assembled at tremendous success. General Gardner, Nets on a nation-wide basis in case of their headquarters and waited. Would who was responsible for its detailed war. the network function? Would the vol- organization, authorized the following "I feel that The American Legion, in unteers be at their posts at four o'clock statement: its full and effective cooperation in the in the morning to look for invading air- "In the organization of the Warning organization of the Warning Net, has planes? Would they report accurately Net the members of The American made a distinct and patriotic contribu- what they had seen and heard? Legion in North Carolina have played a tion to the national defense." Promptly at four o'clock, by pre- prominent and important part. They The American Legion had proved itself arrangement, the "enemy air fleet" flew have occupied a great many of the key an asset to national defense. A new field into the State of North Carolina. At 4:05 positions and due to their standing and for its possible usefulness in an emergency the first report from the civilian net came influence in their communities, to their has been found.

spokesman for a ^Million

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His service was under Colonel Henry D. The discouraged officers remaining the information in that memorandum Styer, who commanded the first units in behind with their equally dispirited to good effect, but dictates of high gov- Siberia, before the arrival of General troops begged the officers w-ho were going ernmental policy kept the Ame;icin Graves, and who was known as "Com- home to do something about getting the troops in Siberia until March 31, 1920. mander of the American Zone of Ad- expedition recalled. Chadwick was one Meantime, in July, 1919, Steve Chad- vance." Brigadier General Styer, now re- who promised to do something. When he wick was married to Miss Tyler in Vir- tired and a Legionnaire of the Pennsyl- was discharged at the Presidio of San ginia, and became associated with his vania Department, in a letter from Salt Francisco on May 5, 1919, he remembered father in a Seattle law firm, the elder Lake City tells me that in the trying that promise. But he would go home first. Chadwick having given up the Chief Jus- times in Siberia "there was no one more On the train bound north Chadwick ticeship. In September, 1919, Steve joined reliable or efficient at my headquarters traveled with Lieutenant Warren Grimm the newly formed Seattle Post No. 18, than Steve Chadwick." of Centralia, Washington, the same The American Legion, and thus began Lieutenant Chadwick with some fifty Warren Grimm who was to die on an activity which in the years to come other temporary officers was lucky November 1 ith of that year in the attack was to take an increasingly large amount enough to get the chance, early in 1919, on the American Legion Armistice Day of his time. He kept up his interest in of leaving Siberia for the States. The war parade in that city by a gang of I.W.W.'s. military matters, for ten years holding had been over on the Western Front for Late in May Chadwick went on to a commission in the Organized Reserves nearly five months, but the Allies couldn't Washington, D. C. Since Senator Hiram and serving as a member of the original seem to make up their minds what should Johnson of California had made a speech board, consisting of one from each of the be done in Asiatic Russia, where the job on the Senate floor demanding to know nine corps areas, which drafted the pro- of guarding the railroad and the military why American troops were still held in gram of qualifications for advancement in supplies had become thoroughly monoto- Siberia, Chadwick went to see him. The the Reserves. nous to the American soldiers. They Sen? tor placed a stenographer at his dis- In 1029 Steve and his father formed the couldn't figure out why they were there posal and he dictated for half a day a law firm of Chadwick & Chadwick, taking in that impossible climate and wondered memorandum which set forth, from a into the firm as a student assistant Or- at times if they would ever see home junior officer's standpoint, the status of ville Mills, a six foot, five and one-half again. the A. E. F. Siberia. The Senator used inch youngster who had just graduated

DECEMBER, 1938 38 spokesman for a zM^illion

{Continued from page 37) from the law school of the University of her vital interest in the city to which she tee was to consider bills in which we were Washington. The elder Chadwick died and her family have given so much. interested that were before the Washing- in 193 1 and Mills became a partner. From 1927 to 193 1 she was Most Worthy ton Legislature at Olympia. Steve as When the senior member was elected Grand Matron of the General Grand Vice-Chairman had the job of outlining National Commander of the Legion last Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, some thirty or more of these bills. He did September he arranged with Mason the largest organization of women in the this so clearly and concisely that the Wheeler, a Legionnaire who was for world, and as head of that body traveled committee was able to end its delibera- several years on the district bench in around the world. She was a war worker tions on time, which in view of the cir- Nebraska and who has been in practice in 191 7-18, and has been throughout the cumstances was rather remarkable. We've in the State of Washington for some half years active in The American Legion been glad to have Steve take an increas- dozen years, to become an ingly active part in the work of associate of the firm. His law the Chamber. Right now he's offices in the Central Building a vice-president in our organi- in Seattle aren't going to see zation, and we hope he con- much of Steve Chadwick in the tinues, as his father did before next ten months. him, to work with us."

Here perhaps is the place to Seattle is a strong union labor set down some of the family city, and to learn what orga- and personal data about the nized labor thinks about Chad- National Commander. He was wick I talked with Basil Gray, forty-four last August, is about head of the theatrical workers five feet, nine inches tall and union, who is a Legionnaire. weighs about 165 pounds. He Gray U blind, a victim of the and Mrs. Chadwick have two Kleig lights. He is a near neigh- children, Mary Tyler Chad- bor of Steve Chadwick's out at wick, who at seventeen is a Lake Washington, which marks freshman in Scripps College, the eastern boundary of Seattle. Claremont, California, and Here, just a few hundred yards

Steve, Jr., fourteen years old, a from Chadwick's home, the Un- freshman in Garfield High iversity of Washington crews School in Seattle. Steve himself work out. is a Democrat in politics as his "Labor knows that Steve „ Cheer up, Snodgrass! Business conditions father was before him, an Chadwick is a straight shooter," probably won't be good very long." Episcopalian and a Mason, a Gray told me. "He has on a member of the University Club number of occasions appeared in Seattle and of the Seattle Tennis Auxiliary, Department of Washington. for clients before the Labor Council in dis- Club. He was active in organizing There's nothing uppity about Steve putes between concerns and their work- Service Lodge of Masons in Seattle, Chadwick, as the people of Seattle will ers. We have always found him fair, and made up of ex-service men, and served tell you. Because of his connections he on a number of occasions we have simply as Master of that lodge in 1921. His could move in the most exclusive circles told him to work out the solution to the grandfather Chadwick served a term as of his home town if he wanted to. But problem himself. I personally am grate- Grand Master of the Masons in Oregon though he is liked and respected by all ful to him for the support he gave me and his father held the same office in the the judges and his fellow attorneys as when I ran for the city council. He made Washington jurisdiction. The National well as by the Chamber of Commerce a fine radio address in my behalf, and Commander holds directorships in the crowd and they are glad to honor him, he even though I didn't win I appreciated Seattle Club of the Pacific Coast Base- is equally at home among the rank and his kindness." ball League, the Pacific Iron & Steel file. A fine extemporaneous speaker, he's The Washington Department Conven- Works, makers of heavy logging machin- also a good mixer in the smaller groups tion of 1935 gave Steve Chadwick the ery, the Seattle Brewing & Malting Com- in which we humans continually find our- opportunity of showing that he has cour- pany, and the Barkon Tube Lighting selves, where the ability to tell a story, age to oppose action by the Legion which Corporation. swap small talk and be at ease is not al- he believes to be wrong. National Com- In 1926 Chadwick was elected to the ways the good fortune of the man who mander Frank Belgrano, scheduled to Freeholders Charter Commission, set has a good platform manner. make an address before the convention, up to draft a charter for the city of Seat- Christy Thomas, Executive Vice- was delayed in arriving at the convention tle, running second in a field of thirty- President of the Seattle Chamber of town, Tacoma. It had been a pretty try- five. The youngest member of the com- Commerce, touching on one of the many ing year for the Legion generally, be- mission, he was chosen by that body to activities of the Chamber in which Steve cause the campaign for payment of ad- act as its secretary and took a prominent Chadwick takes an interest, told me that justed compensation had been compli- part in the deliberations. Though the one of the greatest assets of the National cated through introduction by Congress- politicians were able to defeat the pro- Commander is his ability to get at the man Wright Patman of a rival bonus bill posals when they came before the citizens heart of a proposition quickly and to to which a currency inflation rider was in an election, a good many of the mea- explain what it's all about. Said Thomas: attached. sures have since been put in effect. This "I was impressed on one occasion by Undoubtedly there was sentiment for civic interest comes naturally to the son this ability of Steve's, which I had not Patman's plan in the Legion, and as Pat- of Emma Plummer Chadwick, whose suspected, and have seen it repeated other man himself was and is a Legionnaire, twelve years of service as a member of times. The chairman of our legislative Commander Belgrano had not been given the Seattle Library Board is a record in committee wasn't able to be in town for thorough-going cooperation in his efforts that city. Mrs. Chadwick at 75 retains an important meeting when the commit- to gain adoption of the Legion's own bill

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by Congress. When Belgrano was unable impressive of the fact that it carries on as dedicated to the promoting of better to make his scheduled talk on time there a service center of distinction. citizenship is well known. Under Chad- was an attempt from the floor of the con- Incidentally, Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, wick's direction the book Isms was pre- vention to censure the National Com- who recently completed a year of service pared, as well as the pamphlet Our Chil- mander on the ground that he was dodg- as National President of The American dren's Future. ing the bonus issue. Steve Chadwick, Legion Auxiliary, is a member of the It might be well to digress here to say knowing the true situation, took the floor Post's Auxiliary Unit, Judge Douglas that Chadwick's interest in youngsters is and though a part of the convention was being a member of Steve Chadwick's not merely theoretical. Judge William G. unruly as he started to speak, before he Post. The Department of Washington Long of the Juvenile Court in Seattle, had talked five minutes he had the cen- for four successive years has furnished a Legionnaire, told me that one of the sure action whipped. When Belgrano National leadership to the various Legion most effective methods used in his court spoke the next day he was received amid organizations. In 1935 Fred M. Fueker, to straighten out youngsters who run a- the friendly atmosphere that usually who is now Department Adjutant, was foul of the law is to subject them to the greets a National Commander in a Legion head of the national Forty and Eight, companionship and interest of an adult gathering. Incidentally, it's history now in the following year Mollie Averill be- who has made a success of his career, not that within a year of that time the Le- came Chapeau Nationale of the Eight and merely financially, but a success of char- gion's fight for a real bonus measure Forty, to be followed by Mrs. Douglas acter. ended in complete victory. and Steve Chadwick in 1937 and 1938, One of the dozen or so men on this a record that will be exceedingly difficult, informal panel of good citizenship, and IT WAS Charlie Ardery, who for years almost impossible, for any other Depart- this is the first time anything has been has been Correspondant National of ment to equal. said about it publicly, is Steve Chadwick. the Forty and Eight, who first conceived The road to the top in Legion service Such work is Americanism at its best. the idea that Steve Chadwick was ma- brought Chadwick over the years in- terial for the National Commandership. creasing responsibilities. After serving THESE are trying days for the nation That was away back in 1023 when Charlie his Department in various offices he was and for its individual citizens. Amer- was Adjutant of Seattle Post No. 18 and National Executive Committeeman from ica has problems that will tax her courage, Steve Chadwick its Commander. Charlie 1927 to 1929. In 1930 he became a mem- both within her borders and in her rela- moved on to Indianapolis, from where ber of the National Americanism Com- tions with other nations, problems that he has since directed the manifold activi- mittee, and since 1935 he has been chair- bid fair to prove more troublesome than ties of the Forty and Eight. Soon after- man of its successor, the National Ameri- any we have faced since 1918. If an ac- ward Seattle Post combined with Elmer canism Commission, which under his quaintance with the background of these activities until in J. Noble Post and Rainier Post, taking guidance has expanded its problems their various ramifications over the number one position in its De- now it is one of the most influential of the is an earnest of what he will accomplish, partment that Noble Post had held. It is various boards that carry out the man- Steve Chadwick will help make some im- a large and going concern, this Seattle dates of the Legion's national organization. portant Legion and therefore American Post, and its offices, over which Harry The work of the Commission in Junior history before he retires from office at Weingarten, the Adjutant, presides are Baseball and other boyhood activities Chicago next September.

Keeping '89 ?Alive

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and varied, but they are representative Guthrie publisher, and John Gaffney, Cow waddies from Calgary to San An- of the Southwest—a band of Cheyenne local stockman. Fields, a Past Post Com- tonio are his friends. and Arapaho Indians, with their minia- mander and Past National Executive As an illustration of its growth, five ture village on Oklahoma Avenue; one Committeeman from Oklahoma, and years ago the celebration drew 10,000 of the truly great rodeos of the nation; present member of the Legion Publishing visitors. In 1937, 50,000 persons witnessed parades, barbecues, banquets, carnivals. and Publicity Commission, has contin- it. In 1938, the Associated Press and the Prominent guests from all parts of the ually been active. He has recently been United Press and correspondents of country trek annually to Oklahoma's named Oklahoma Department Com- numerous individual newspapers esti- homecoming at the famous old territorial mander. mated that more than 100,000 visitors capital. Through his efforts two Past National were in Guthrie on the day of the Big There is a well-defined organization Commanders, Ralph T. O'Neil and Harry Parade, April 2 2d. Next year it will within Le Bron Post to engineer the Colmery, have visited the celebration. draw even more. program. The general '89-er Celebration As chairman of the distinguished guests One of the most remarkable facts of chairman is chosen following the National committee, Fields has brought many the entire observance is the faithful at- Convention, and he in turn names the other notables as guests of what has been tendance of Legionnaires themselves, chairmen of the four sub-committees, called "the greatest pioneer fete in the who come from Posts all over the Depart- commonly called "The Four Horsemen." Southwest." ment of Oklahoma. Literally thousands Glen Farquharson for the past eight of them and scores of drum and bugle years has been chosen general chairman. JOHN GAFFNEY, although not an corps make the trip each year. The De- For the past ten years the four sub-chair- ex-service man, has helped the local partment Commander invariably rides men have served in practically the identi- organization on numerous occasions, and in the first section of the pageant with cal positions they now have. The Four has aided Chairman McKean as parade the other distinguished guests. Horsemen are: Bert McKean, parade marshal for the past five years. Like any other big-time enterprise,

chairman; A. J. Workman, finance; One of the most astute rodeo impres- the Oklahoma '89-er Celebration must McMillin, advertising Carey, arios in the West, Carey, whose elder advertise its attractions. Everett McMil- Everett ; Joe Joe rodeo. All except Carey are Legion- brother Paul wears the Order of the lin, who served in the Ninetieth Division naires. Purple Heart, has since 1930, when the during the war, since the beginning a Two other important places each year rodeo was added to the celebration attrac- decade ago has handled this detail. have been filled by Raymond Fields, tions, been chairman of that committee. Folders, street (Continued on page 42)

DECEMBER, 1938 National Commander Henry a walk, put one foot down and then see COMRADE L. S. Chermak of Los PASTStevens tells the story about an how fast you can get the other one out in Angeles tells of a little boy who was habitual police court offender front of it." begging his father to let him go to the being up for trial. movies. The father refused permission. Sergeant Lee of "I've told you no, and I mean it," he "I wonder if there is anything good FROM Johnnie that could be said about you," said the Omaha comes a story of the mayor of said. "Use your will-power a little and judge. a certain city who was welcoming a Le- forget about the show." "Yassah, jedge. I's a deacon in mah gion Convention. He opened his address "I ain't got no will-power, and I don't church." by saying: want no will-power," replied the boy. "I "You a deacon! How in the name of "I don't have a key to the city to give want to go to the show." goodness did a bum like you ever become you, but I'll help any Legionnaire pick a deacon in a church?" the lock." ETTOIRE GIANOLA, of Riverside, "Well, your honor, you see it's this West Virginia, sends the one about way; there's a powerful roughneck ele- ND another convention story in circu- the woman who was registering her name ment in our church and they demanded A lation has to do with two women in in the bank-night book in the theater recognition." lobby when her little boy wanted to know what she was doing. HISTORIAN Archibald B. "S-s-sh!" said the mother. Oliver of Lawrence (Kan- "I'm writing to Santa Claus." sas) Post writes about two in- mates of an asylum who had THE teacher had been at- been given a hammer and one tempting to explain the word nail. One of the inmates had "widower" to a class of young- placed the nail head first against sters. the wall and started hammering. "And, now, James, what would Seeing that he was getting no you call a man who had just lost appreciable results, he said to his his wife?" companion: "Very careless, ma'am." "The bird who made this nail is crazy. He put the point on the COMRADE Con Conrath, of wrong end." El Paso, Texas, writes that "Oh, no!" replied the other. he saw the following sign in a "You're the one that's crazy— repair shop on the Pacific Coast: this nail goes in the opposite NO CREDIT (Sad stories of delinquents) wall." 3 One said, "I'll pay you if I live." He died. Paul W. Johnston, of FROM One said, "I'll see you tomorrow.". Princeton, New Jersey, comes He went blind. the tale of a man who disliked One said, "I'll pay you or go to hell." work. He was stretched out He must have gone. under the protecting shade of a tree when his wife went out and 'It's Schulte's confectionery store! Toasted DEPARTMENT Commander awakened him. marshmallows! —can you imagine! Eli Jennings, of Ohio, tells "Loafing, loafing, continually one about an impecunious tenant loafing!" she said. who had not paid his room rent "Well," he replied. "It beats doing the lobby of a jammed hotel who radi- for several weeks. Something was always nothing, don't it?" ated a happiness that was far and beyond happening that took his ready money, that of anyone else present. One delegate and tomorrow was going to be the day. AN OBESE patient at a Veterans asked another: Finally came the breaking point. l \ Hospital had reached the stage of "Wonder what those women are so "See here," said the landlord, "I'll active recuperation. Dr. F. B. Steele, who happy about?" meet you half way. I'm ready to forget was in charge of the patient, told him he "Why, don't you know? The lady on half of what you owe me." could take some exercise by walking the left is the wife of the man we just "Great! I'll meet you!" replied the around the grounds—it would help him elected state commander." impecunious one. "I'll forget the other lose some weight. A week later, when "Well, but why does the other woman half." weighing-day came around, the patient look so happy?" had lost only two pounds, and com- "It was her husband that just got NEBRASKA Admiral Don Eagle, of plained about it to the doctor. defeated." Dayton, Ohio, tells of overhearing "Well, why don't you do some walk- this conversation between two men on ing?" asked Dr. Steele. MICKEY CARULLI writes from the street: "I've been out for a walk every day Morgantown, West Virginia, to "Glad to see you, old man. Can you this week," the patient indignantly tell about an accident in which a tire lend me five dollars?" explained. blew out and upset his car, badly spilling "Sorry, but I haven't a cent with me "I've seen you," said the doctor. him and some companions along the today." "You haven't been walking; you've just highway. When he came to he could hear "And at home?" been moseying along. Now," continued his radio still going. A swing band was "They're all very well, thank you, the doctor, "the next time you go out for playing "Cry, Baby, Cry." very well." 40 — .

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{Continued from page 30) banners, automobile banners, window remainder goes into a special fund to be Possibly the most significant feature placards and similar media are pre- used as the nucleus for the next season's of the entire festival is the annual ban- pared and ready for distribution weeks celebration." quet held by the Oklahoma '89-er Asso- before the celebration, which in the past Last April the '89-er Celebration was ciation, which is made up of persons who has been for two days. And finally, but boosted, particularly in the East, by the actually made the Run. The associa- assuredly not the least in importance, appearance of Legionnaire Fiorello H. tion's first banquet was held in 1890, the comes the finance chairman, A. J. Work- LaGuardia, Mayor of New York, as the year after the Opening. The organization man, a Fourth Division vet, who has guest of honor. Mayors from cities in was chartered by the State in 1914, but always had this job. eight Southwestern States held an infor- previous to that time there had been

"At first it was an easy task," Work- mal conference and visit with Mayor La- celebrations and barbecues, and similar man recently said, "simply because there Guardia following the parade. Several observances. were no finances to speak of or to worry hundred municipal executives turned out Chairman Farquharson was once over. But through the years this respon- for the meeting. Unofficially escorted by asked sibility has grown as the celebration has. two former trail drivers, Rolla Goodnight "When Le Bron Post also is history, And in but one year has it failed to pay and Frank Eaton, and officially by a who then will sponsor the Oklahoma for itself. guard of honor composed of pioneer '89-er Celebration?" "Le Bron Post, however, has never peace officers of Oklahoma, the New York Farquharson was primed with the attempted to have the festival a money- executive's day at the celebration was answer. making enterprise, but there is usually a one which he fully enjoyed. Meeting his "Chairman John Gatchell, of the junior small surplus after the bills are paid, special train at daylight in Perry, the division of the Big Parade, can tell you prize money awarded the band, drum and honor guard, the Four Horsemen and all about that," he said. "Haven't you bugle corps and rodeo contestants. other Legion officials accompanied La- heard about the Sons of The American Then there are payments on the hut. The Guardia to Guthrie. Legion?"

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(Continued from page 7) pressing duties incident to my job else- "A picnic?" I had beached the skiff I laid the rifle carefully in the leaves where. nearby. and settled down to watch. Presently I On Tuesday, while puttering about the "Just a few loaves and fishes for the espied a second craft tied up almost be- station after returning from the upper Lord's poor," he announced piously, neath my post of observation where an patrol, I heard a boat putting in at the pointing to the trench where fish, fowl animal trail led down to the water. station landing. and a pig sizzled gently, being tended by What lay in the bottom of that skiff It was the younger of the Wiker boys. the two sons. so absorbed my attention I not only for- "Pappy says that with the full moon And in the afternoon there was gath- got for the moment the two rowing across, there'll be dinnymitin'." ered a motley crowd from the surround- but nearly tumbled into the river besides. "Dynamiting? Where?" ing hills who feasted while the parson Dynamite! The stuff was tied up, four "On the river. At the Bend. Pappy says exhorted. sticks to the bundle, with a length of it is always best when the moon is full." After that, the full moon remaining, tarred fuse already attached. "Well, son; just tell your father that I practically lived on the river, snatching "Are you prepared to die?"

I'll be there! Whom does he suspect?" food and rest when I could, hugging at This ominous query came from my "Pappy don't say." night the willow-fringed bank of the rear. For a moment I had the feeling of "All right. Glad you brought the word. Bend. being trapped by an enemy patrol in a Want a bite to eat? You must be spent Just at dusk on Wednesday I had tied listening post. after that long pull upstream." up for a snack in the shallows below. I debated whether to bring the rifle The boy went sullen. "I don't eat Smothering the coals with sand, I went to bear, but the click of a shotgun ham- strangers' food," he declared. for a walk along the white shore to loosen mer argued a negative decision. I had occasion to ponder that haughty the stiffness in my legs. "Yore sins have found you out, refusal of friendly hospitality later. Could I wandered farther from the skiff than brother," the lugubrious voice continued. he have said, "ranger's food?" I had intended, watching for sign of shore I recognized its timbre. All I noted at the time was Indian-like fires. It was nearly dark and the light of "Don't shoot, parson. Let us reason absence of expression on his face, and the the moon was just beginning to silhou- together. I realize I am not perfect." contemptuous swagger of his shoulders. ette the frowning brow of the mountain. "Arise, then. But don't try anything It was a lonely, uneventful all-night Shortly the clip-clip of a muffled oar funny. Like its owner, this here splatter- vigil on the river for me, for there was no came to my ears. I crept to the bank and gun is kinder old and powerful loose on "dinnymitin'," nor did the parson put in peered through the tangle of willow. A the trigger." an appearance. This seemed unusual, for skiff was being rowed slowly and softly in Flicking a few more leaves over the deer

I had expected to find him at the landing. a diagonal course across the stream. rifle, I stood up. I loitered in the vicinity for several hours, It contained two figures. One manned "I was just interested in your fishing deciding at last that he felt he had co- the oars and the other busied himself operations," I apologized. "A unique operated sufficiently in sending me warn- with a channel net, paying it out over the system." ing. side. "Like Peter of old, I am likewise a But the very next day he was busy at Poachers! Suddenly, it came to me the fisher of men." the barbecue pits. two were Parson Wiker's sons. "I had been thinking of that, too," I

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 43 admitted frankly to the old codger. "O' course, you-all heard about Jami- son—the yuther rangers?" "Yes—funny how they all drowned that way, three in a row." "Not funny, igzactly; the Lord called 'em. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away." The old coot actually was in earnest!

"But listen, parson; doesn't it seem a bit hypocritical on your part, a minister of the gospel, violating the law this way?" "I am the law, saith the Lord God of Hosts. Besides, brother, seein' as how you ain't goin' to be in our midst much longer, I don't mind tellin' you that I am not a minister—only an exhorter." "But the preaching, and the marrying and the conduct of funerals, the feeding of the poor?" "Camyfladge, brother, all camyfladge! Take that barbecue, now. It costs me nothin' 'ceptin' a little work by the boys

and a little dinnymite. I make it as salty as all git out. Back up in the hills I got me one of the finest chock beer plants in all the Kiamish. Cooled in the spring up there, it makes a mighty fine drink to follow up salty barbecue, and it brings twenty-five cents a pint." "Uh-huh!" I observed. A skiff scraped bottom on the pebbles behind. The boys were back from string- ing the net. How would it do to dive for the rifle and take chances on Wiker miss- ing? A wild idea. I decided to play along, hoping for a chance. It seemed unlikely the old coot would plug me with the shot- gun except as a last resort. Jamison and the others had not been bruised, even. "It's time to git in the boat, brother." The boys had transferred the oars to the craft bearing the explosive. Watching my step, I picked my way gingerly for- ward and sat in the bow. The old man sat opposite me with the cocked blunderbuss just out of reach. The lesser of the boys pushed off and the chunky one manned the oars. In midstream he ceased rowing and busied himself with one of the dynamite bombs. The fuse finally was adjusted to his satis- faction, and he calmly applied a match, setting up a lively splutter. He poised for the toss. "Ready, Pappy," he announced. "Jump!" Parson Wiker commanded, prodding me roughly in the chest. I did a Brodie backward into the stream, striv- ing for bottom. From above, dimly, I heard a gentle splash as the dynamite followed. Down, down, down—the river at that point is all of twenty feet in depth. That night patrol on the Aisne! Praise the Lord—that old coot has me doing it —there was a soft mud bottom! I hugged it, kissed it, buried my body in it! Somewhere above there followed a dull, far distant roar. The concussion drove me into the ooze, groggy but not uncon- scious. Doing a mud crawl, I made for the shore we had (Continued on page 44)

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recently left. With lungs fighting my was like that. Thousands of fish, stunned I hadn't, of course, but I was on him will for inflation, I turned on my back by the concussion of those explosions, instantly. among the lily pads and thrust my nose had risen and were floating into the net. "Bring that tiller rope!" above water. Do you see, now, what happened to The chunky one complied, whimpering. A second explosion came, a third, a Blair, Kane and Jamison? I tied the old coot good and fast, and fourth and a fifth, at intervals of thirty Water, incompressible as granite, nudged him back into the boat. I now seconds. The skiff, with its murderous crushed their lives out before they could noticed for the first time that these two crew and cargo, receded farther and reach mud! boys were just over-grown kids. farther until the opposite shore was As the skiff drew near there sat Parson "What are you-all goin' to do with our reached. The parson, apparently, rested Wiker in the bow with the shotgun across pappy?" the younger blubbered. calmly confident of results. his knees. Beside him, high and dry, were "Sorry, my boy," and I really was Having regained breath, I slithered up two left-over bombs. sorry, "we three must take pappy to jail." the bank, recovered my rifle. By this time As the boat scraped bottom just be- "Oh!" he exclaimed with very apparent the craft had turned about and the three neath me in the moonlight, I took careful relief, eyeing the two left-over bombs. had secured the farther end of the net to aim at one of the bombs. P.S. —Old man Wiker is still in jail. an oar and were sweeping the river as "Overboard with that gun!" I yelled. I forgot to mention that, when the old they slowly hauled in. The full moon was Wiker whipped that blunderbuss up coot fired, he took me in the shoulder now well up and its wake guided the and fired, point-blank! with a handful number four shot. Doc rower on the return. My attention was My deer rifle exploded at the same Mabry says that amputation will not be drawn to the choppy surface of the water. instant. Wiker tumbled into the shallow necessary, and that I will be out of the Did you ever see a river shortly after water. Both boys began to wail: hospital in two weeks. being bombed in an air strafe? The Bend "You done killed our pappy!" After that, what do you want me to do?

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1840. Before dawn of that day, the sheriff Sullivan. Not long after that fight, Hyer It was a glorious scrap. A fight was a descended on the island in a raid. Not retired as champion and the crown re- fight and let the prizefight wait. only was he assisted by numerous depu- verted to Yankee. There was fight in the But it would not wait—not in the ties but by a company of militia—the old frame yet. On October 12, 1853, he opinion of the referee, who was a stickler second time the troops had been called took on John Morrissey for $2,000 a side for rules. In the midst of the turmoil, he out in compliment to Yankee Sullivan. and the title at Long Point, Canada. He called the contenders to scratch when Hyer and Sullivan ducked out of rear had Morrissey whipped when a wrangle time was up. Morrissey, who had stayed windows of their quarters and escaped started. The crowd broke into the ring quietly in his corner, responded. Yankee, in skiffs to Rock Point. Snow had to be and a free-for-all resulted. Yankee Sulli- who was taking on the crowd and having swept from the ring, and the pugilists, van, true son of Erin, joyously mingled heavy going, was otherwise engaged. waiting for time, sat with hot bricks at in this impromptu Donnybrook Fair. Morrissey 's fight, was the decision, and their feet. Hyer stood 6 feet 2 the championship. Yankee patro- and weighed 185; Sullivan, 5 feet nized another hospital. 10M and 155—a heavy handicap He was 40 now—old age for a for Yankee. pugilist. Training between fights Sports reporters for the Herald in New York saloons had done and Spirit of the Times, that pre- him no good. With his money, it mier American sporting sheet, had been easy come, easy go. In watched them shy their castors short, Yankee Sullivan was on the into the ring, Sullivan's a cap skids. of rich, dark-green velvet, Hyer's Young—and even old men were a foggy felt. They peeled, shook going West. The California he daddies, advanced springily on had known thirteen years ago took their pins and raised their maw- on a new lure for the Yank. In '49 leys. Bettors thrust flimsies into it had been discovered that there the hands of stakeholders, and was gold in them thar hills and the fight was on. there must still be plenty of it Not first blood nor yet last this around. time for Yankee Sullivan. It was Other men, figured Yankee a fast and furious fight, but the Sullivan, arriving in the lively taller, heavier Hyer knocked him burg of San Francisco, could go flatter than a flounder in a mere grub in the earth for yellow sands. sixteen rounds. Toward the last For him not the diggings but the Yankee could not get his arms up. pickings. Sydney-Town, later to be Hyer caught his head in chancery, known as the Barbary Coast, was mashed his face and sent him to a showing signs of lusty life again af- sajourn in the hospital. ter the knock-out blow dealt by the Still Ladv Luck had a smile for Vigilantes (Continued on page 46)

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in 1 85 1. Ex-cons, from Australia wel- underworld leaders, the outraged decent penitential acts. He was ready to pro- comed the new arrival from the East who element rose and organized the second mise anything. had once been one of their fraternity- Vigilance Committee, wresting the rule Deportation would do, they informed Hoopla for red liquor, women, and high of the city from the machine and round- him, and he would not be hanged. He old times! They had to be financed, but ing up the thugs. could not quite believe it. Awakening Yankee Sullivan knew how to get what one night in a cold sweat, he called his it took. FOR the third and last time law and guard and told him he'd had a terrible Not for nothing had he been a saloon order laid hand on Yankee Sullivan's dream. Trial, conviction, and sentence to owner and all-around brawler in New shoulder. He was arrested and locked up execution. The heavy footfalls of the York. A useful hand at the polls, he had in a room in the headquarters of the hangman approaching his cell. The learned a trick or two in the great game Vigilantes. ghastly grip of hemp around his neck. of politics as played by the past masters Even for the hardboiled, that place The creak of the opening trap, a sudden of Tammany Hall. So he joined other was bad on the nerves. It echoed to the drop, frantic feet treading on nothingness, graduates of that training school who clatter of arms and the roar of throngs and— were manning the San Francisco political of angry, determined citizenry. Avoiding Forget it, advised the guard. But machine run by David C. Broderick, who adjournment to a proper gallows, scaf- Yankee could not. There was no question subsequently won a seat in the United folds were built out from the window that the man had guts. In scores of

States Senate and was killed in a duel by sills, noosed ropes strung from overhead fights in and out of the ring, he had taken one of the judges of the California beams. Malefactors dropped through the and given terrific beatings. Their memory Supreme Court. scaffold traps to dangle as gruesome faded as the blackness of another night With the prestige of an ex-champ and ornaments of the facade. And the sounds shrouded his cell. the might of a strong-arm man, Yankee thereof were far from reassuring to pris- Was it a touch of the horrors, conjuring rose to the rank of a trusty henchman of oners awaiting a verdict—usually not up images in an alcohol-sodden brain? Or the big boss and got his in the looting of one of acquittal. a conscience tortured by crimes uncon- the city of hundreds of thousands of dol- Yankee Sullivan had signed a written fessed? Whatever the impulse, they lars in graft. confession, naming persons whom he ac- would not hang Yankee Sullivan by the But the carnival of crime, debauchery, cused of bribing him to stuff ballot boxes neck until he was dead, dead, dead. He and all manner of dirty work at the and otherwise oil the machine. He had seized a dull table knife. Next morning crossroads of the Pacific Coast could not promised to quit fighting and lay off the the guard found his corpse with the two go on. The score for 1855 was 326 mur- liquor. He would leave town, he vowed, large arteries of the left arm near the ders in San Francisco alone. When two and go back East, preferably alone and elbow severed. prominent and widely respected citizens lacking company of other members of Once more, first blood—in a way—for were shot down in 1856 by notorious the gang who might misunderstand his Yankee Sullivan.

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1936 flood* and learned its lesson well perately did, you called the Legion. In Traffic duty—Main and and at the same time The American 1936 the Legion supplied some 80 percent Westland Streets. Legion performed yeoman service and of the boats. In 1938 it bettered that 3:40P.M. ..Out—In 6:00 P.M gained an experience that would be bound figure. Transportation of cots to to prove invaluable if its services were Department Headquarters kept a com- Windsor Post Home. ever again required. They were. And plete and detailed log of Legion effort 3:45P.M. ...Out — In 4:45 P.M... the Legion was ready. which will be one of the Connecticut Le- Survey on HuyshopeAve. The dikes are higher along the Con- gion's most precious possessions. Here 3:45P.M. ...First Shift.... 3 men necticut River than they were in 1936, are a few extracts from it (the date is Evacuation of but they weren't quite high enough. September 2 2d): 18 Cleveland Avenue Through Legion Department Headquar- 3:00 A.M Two boats to do police 3:50P.M. ..Out — In 4:40 P.M... ters in the State Office Building, con- duty. Evacuation of 56 Nor- ducted, during Adjutant Murray's ab- 5:30 A.M Six boats to do police wich Street—n men. sence, by his secretary, Mrs. Elisabeth duty. 8:40 P.M. ...Second Shift . . . .3 men

Buckland, poured a stream of men, Le- 7 130 A.M Ten boats to do police Evacuation of gionnaires and non-Legionnaires, for duty. 18 Cleveland Avenue assignment to whatever task required 11:30 A.M Two boats for telephone manpower. "Poured" was the word. In company for use on Hicks Hartford reported one illuminating de- the first 25 minutes after one regular call Street. tail that is eminently worth passing on. went out, 165 men responded, and within Foot Guard Hall—four- In the 1936 crisis the National Guard was the first hour 317 went to work sandbag- teen men. used to maintain order in schools and ging a weak spot on the dike. Three hundred twelve other public buildings which were used to Not alone men. If you needed a boat, men for Colt's Dike house refugees. This year the authorities and if you were in Hartford on September emergency call. requested that this duty be performed by 21st the chances were that you most des- Boats from Park Depart- Legionnaires. This implied no criticism of ment, Bristol. the National Guard—the authorites sim- *See Th; American Legion Magazine for June, 1936: "Water, Wind, and a Helping Hand" 3:09P.M. ...Out — In 3:50 P.M... ply felt that Legionnaires, as more ma-

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 47 ture persons most of whom were them- selves men with families, were psycho- logically better adapted to the job. This attitude is particularly significant in view of the occasionally expressed opinion that perhaps the boys (meaning us boys) are getting a little too rickety in the joints for this strenuous disaster relief work.

Well, ask one of the Elmers (even if he does stick the Elmer in the middle of his name) —Post Commander Clarence El- mer Cyphers of Harry L. Faulk Post of

Saybrook. Saybrook is at the mouth of IN 1884 • ."This picture is out

the Connecticut River where it meets of the family album, which is fittin' Long Island Sound. Cyphers launched a in connection with Union Leader. boat and somehow brought it inshore (the Because it was my old Dad who shore was a highly unpredictable quan- told tity about that time) and after a redoubt- me, when Union Leader was able and dangerous struggle effected the introduced at the turn of the cen- rescue of a father, mother and three tury, 'Son, come what may, you'll children who must almost certainly have never find a finer tobacco than been lost but for his courage and stamina. Union Leader all your life through! Ask, too, Post Commander Louis H. Chevalier of Glastonbury Post, on the Connecticut below Hartford. The river widened out there to nearly three miles, the current was viciously swift, and the stream was filled with all kinds of un- pleasant and dangerous objects. Cheva- lier, Glastonbury's only link with the out- side world, crossed to Hartford and car- ried back typhoid serum that may have prevented a busy little epidemic. New London, Norwich, Mystic, Ston- ington—no communities were harder hit, TODAY..."This snapshot proves and no communities will hereafter be how true my Dad spoke. For here quicker to rise and bless the name Am- I am, 84 now, and puffing erican Legion. In New London fire was on the added to the horrors of wind and water. old pipe filled with Union Leader. Norwich Legionnaires, at the height Yes, sir! Dad was right! The of the emergency, took charge of the feed- mellowness and mildness of Union ing of two thousand people, operating Leader make it a life-time pal for food stations not only in their own city but in Baltic, Baltic Depot, Hanover and any man. Union Leader is like an Taftville. Food in bulk was sent to Leba- old friend— the longer it's with you non and Colchester. Under a Legion the better you like it." —Thomas chairman, this food distribution was con- II. Taylor, Lake Luzerne, N. Y. tinued for fourteen days, according to a detailed report sent to Department Adju- tant Murray by Commander John W. McKenzie of Robert O. Fletcher Post. The Legion in Norwich was called out again on Saturday, September 24th, to assist the state health authorities in in- (/n/wtleadev structing storekeepers as to how their flooded premises should be disinfected. A Legion group too was in charge of the erection of temporary shelters for un- ALWAYS . . . UNION LEADER has housed farm animals. won the lasting friendship of smokers At least 12,000 Legionnaires were mo- bilized in the affected areas in Massa- through its flavor, mellowness and chusetts, according to figures assembled mildness. Flavor that comes from by Department Headquarters at Boston rich hill-grown Kentucky Burley. for Department Commander John J. Mellowness nurtured by long aging Maguire. Jack Maguire was at Los In oaken casks. Mildness which re- Angeles, naturally. Returning, his train sults started east over the Berkshires from from a special "•bite-removing" Albany with misgivings. The misgivings process. No wonder smokers call Union were justified. No trains had gone Leader the friendliest of smokes! through for long, wet, windy hours, and this was in the nature of an experiment.

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{Continued from page 47) had to go through three feet of water. region for three desperate days. They pa- horror of wind. The little rivers kicked And that was the last train to go through trolled the beaches, aiding the homeless up too, and were no longer little. Of the for another considerable interval, but and stranded, moving furniture and situation in flooded Ware, District Com- Commander Jack reached Boston. houses, searching out bodies in the welter mander Raymond L. Bickford reported: He found things humming at Depart- of wreckage—and finding them. "If you "One half of the town was run like a little ment Headquarters under the direction of could have seen the look of appreciation city by Past Commander Gilbert S. Department Adjutant Coleman C. Cur- and gratitude that came over the faces of Southworth." ran, Chairman of the Department's Emer- those stunned, beaten folks when the Le- Legionnaire William C. O'Neil, a mem- gency Relief Committee. This setup, gion got to work you would never forget ber of Ware Post, sends this graphic organized following the 1936 floods, ready it," declares Dr. Hall. account of the showing made by the Ware for any emergency that might arise but Soon a hundred Legionnaires from comrades in the crisis: little knowing what it was letting itself "Ware is divided geographically by in for. includes ex-officio as vice-chair- the Ware River, the business side of man James MacManus, Chairman of the town being located on the northerly the Department Community Service side and the mills, churches, hospital, Committee, and each of the ten Dis- and the Legion home on the other. trict Commanders in the Department. "The bursting of dams to the east of Ralph Lavers, Clarence Piper, and the town caused the bridges in Ware to Gilbert O'Neil serve on the committee collapse, and not only was the town in addition as liaison with the District split in two by the loss of the bridges, Commanders. The treasurer of the but every approach to the town was committee is Department Treasurer cut off from the rest of the world. Charles McCarty, who is also liaison "The isolated townspeople were at officer with the American Red Cross. first panicky but were soon calmed by

The setup is here elaborated in order to the efficient police and other local indicate how essential such an organi- officials when they learned that the zation is, and naturally it cannot be only immediate need was for serum to established overnight. offset a possible epidemic. State Commander Maguire offers in ad- officials quickly sent planes to the be- dition one special comment : No matter leagured town with serum and then the how extensive your disaster may be, job of inoculating the residents began. turn your Department Headquarters "Members of Ware Post at once not into an intelligence center and have all only turned Legion home into a place pertinent information relayed to it. of refuge, feeding and furnishing sleep- With such systematization, not only ing quarters to those who saw their will the Department know exactly homes go down the river, but organized what is going on, but the most isolated a 'town' of their own on their side of point in the Department will be able to the stream, took over the operation of When the waters divided Ware, Mas- learn how affairs stand at any other the newly created village and even sachusetts, into two isolated units, isolated point. And if communications erected a sign over the Legion doorway Legionnaires took over the government are bad, the Department will know it as with the caption: 'Woolenville Town of one half and turned their post home quickly as anyone and can take steps Hall'. The name was derived from the into a "town hall" to provide relays of messages or man- fact the woolen plant, at least what power. It worked in Massachusetts, was left of it, was located there. and it worked surpassingly well. Brockton, Middleboro, the Bridgewaters "A 'mayor' was named in the person Naturally the Auxiliary is in this setup and other (normally) neighboring com- of Past Commander Gilbert Southworth, too. It is organized, under Department munities had beaten their way through and an entire group of 'officials' appointed President Mrs. Susan T. Esler and De- to the coast to lend aid. Before the end to handle police, fire, health, highway and partment Secretary Adelaide Fitzgerald, of the week another hundred had as- other duties. on virtually the same lines as the Legion sembled, for much remained to do. For "Messages to the officials (real ones) plan. instance, Legion details recorded the on the other side of the river were sent Within twenty minutes after the hurri- names and numbers of thousands of small by tying the notes on baseballs and cane struck the Boston metropolitan craft, some of them half a mile from the tossing them across the surging stream. area, Department Vice Commander shore, some high in treetops, and handed "The veterans donned their uniforms, Thomas A. Quinn of Cambridge, as acting them over to the insurance adjusters. took over traffic and other duties, handled Commander, was on the only radio hook- Mattapoiset Post lost its clubhouse, the inoculations of 2000 persons aided by up still working calling on The American but forgot to mention the fact in the heat the only hospital physician living in the Legion of Massachusetts to mobilize for of the crisis. Books, charter, numerous isolated area, and for three days and the emergency. citations for less strenuous and heart- nights without rest or sleep carried on As in Rhode Island, particular hell was breaking jobs than this—all went by the their tasks until a temporary span was bailing along the southern ocean front, board with the post home. erected across the rapidly-falling waters. where the Mattapoiset-Wareham-Bourne- A hundred miles away, the Connecticut Members of the Post were tendered a vote Falmouth area along the shores of Buz- Valley saw history repeat itself and add of thanks by Ware citizens. zard's Bay was hard hit. Dr. John H. something. Turner's Falls, the Deer- "Only after they completely turned Hall, Commander of the Tenth District, fields, the Hadleys, Northampton, Hol- over their emergency jobs to the town which includes this area at the very yoke, Springfield suffered as in 1036, not officials did they take down the sign shoulder of Cape Cod, had the full so extensively in general so far as flood was which, in actual fact, converted their strength of the Legion mobilized in this concerned, infinitely worse with the fresh home to its former activities.

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49 "A pseudo charter of the 'town's' incorporation during the emergency period now hangs in a prominent place in the Legion home." I IT'S MO Nearby Palmer Post rounded up OH, JOHN batteries to operate a radio which was the YOU GOT region's only contact with the world out- WONDER side. To Orange and Athol, where the IT- WHY situation was critical, came Legionnaires from Worcester and other communities YOU SEEM large and small to lend a good right hand to the local veterans. So far as the records show, only one LOADS Legionnaire actually did a runout—but wait, boys, give the man a chance. Dr. YOUNGER Arthur E. Westwell was in the thick of the work at Belchertown when he sud- THAN YOU denly vanished, bundled his wife into their car, and made his way somehow DID 3 down the tree-strewn highways through Ludlow to Springfield. And there, in a MONTHS hospital, Mrs. Westwell presented him AGO with a baby daughter. Then the doctor Two Secrets You Should Know went back to work in Belchertown. Massachusetts has some interesting of Feeling Younger AFTER 40 figures recording in some slight degree how Legionnaires themselves suffered. 1. Get every day a good supply —Fleischmann's fresh Yeast. It of extra vitamins gives rich amounts of 4 needed Post Commander William Hallahan of vitamins. More than this, it acts 2. Step up your digestion Charlemont lost his wife in the flood that like a "booster" for these vita- mins. It helps to increase the di- Fleischmann's after 40 need certain vita- swept his town. Legion officials in the People gestive action. Your body can mins just as much as children do Holland-Wales-Brimfield area estimate then take up the vitamins faster Yeast helps but many fail to get enough of — and more fully, and you get more that twenty veterans in those communi- them. And poorer digestion— out of them. '/4#er40<;" ties suffered a combined property loss of common after-40 trouble—may- many slow you down. It also may keep $16,325—an average of more than $800 the vitamins you eat from doing Just eat Fleischmann's Yeast Feel Younger hour before meals every day — plain or high as their full good. each. One member's loss was as dissolved in a little water. Keep this is tonic food that gives Copyright. 1938. $3700. But, forgetful of self, these men There a up faithfully and see if you don't help for both these after-40 needs feel younger and better than in years. Standard Hrands Incorporated toiled night and day to alleviate the suf- ferings of others. Legionnaires in one Bay State district ENRICHES THE FLAVOR assembled data on the plight of individual comrades. Some typical instances are given below, with the names of both Le- OF ANY TOBACCO Yello-Bole has real honey gionnaires and their towns undisclosed, in the bowl. The honey seeps into the briar wood as you for whatever else these buddies may have smoke, and keeps on blending HONEY IN its flavor with the pipe. Result: been deprived of, they have not lost their THE BOWL Yello-Bole starts sweet, stays pride: (Ye//ow) sweet. You spend $20 or more YOUR a year for tobacco, and $1 1. has wife and three children. spent on Yello-Bole will make Water reached six-foot level in home, NEXT PIPE tobacco much more enjoyable. destroying everything on the first floor, also food supplies in cellar. His occupa- tion is the shoe-repair business, which is 1 YELLO-BOLE REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. heavily mortgaged, and he is still paying bill of 1936 flood. Unable to get MINSTRELS Unique first parts for complete assistance. show, with special songs and choruses. Black-face plays. — Jokes. Gags, Posters. Make-up 2. — . There are six in family. Water Bit? cash profits for yoo; full or spare Goods. Wigs, Bones. Tambou- time. Over 250 household necessities- rines. Lively, up-to-the minute reached seven-foot level in home, spoil- things people must buy. Proven fast sel plays for dramatic clubs lers; steady repeaters, earnings very first and lodges. Denison ing all furniture, food and clothing. Hur- day. FORD TUDOR SEDAN GIVEN plays produced YOU AS BONUS. I'll show you how everywhere, 60 ricane removed roof from the south side to start at once; Bend yoo everything— Big years of hits. Display Outfit and quick cash plans. Details Free Catalog FREE— no obligation. Justeend name of the building. He is a barber and has T. S. DENISON & CO. ftt RFRT MILLS 6479 Monmouth Ave.. Cincinnati. 0 ?03 H. Wabash, Dept. 69, CMtMg home which is heavily mortgaged on ac- count of the 1936 flood. Using burlap bags for bed clothing. GET ON "UNCLE SAM'S" PAYROLL * 3. has six in family. Flood reached five-and-one-half foot level in home, spoiling all furniture, food and floors. Removed roof from building, south side Many 7939 appointments / / FRANKLIN INST., Dept. E180, Rochester, N. Y. blown in. Garage and car destroyed by expected 0* Gentlemen : Rush to me without charge, 32 page falling timbers. Man has no visible means

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Starting back to work in shop October 1 tional possibilities of the situation were so It was in mid-afternoon of September at wages of $17 per week. No visible much appreciated that Plymouth Unit 2 1 st that the flood situation in New means of immediate relief therefore. may adopt the plan as a permanent fea- Hampshire began to look critical. De-

5. has four in family. Flood ture of its ritual. Although the installing partment Vice Commander Romeo V. reached seven-foot level, destroying all officer was two hours and forty minutes Morency, who is also Commander of furniture, floors, clothing and food. While late in arriving (no fault of hers) the cere- Jutras Post of Manchester, as Acting visiting this home the ambulance called mony was carried out with dignity with Commander drove to Department Head- to remove a son who is twelve years of only a single absentee—an ill member quarters in Concord at three o'clock, age to the hospital for an immediate ap- who could not have attended anyway. having already notified the southern tier pendix operation. Earns $18.50 a week. New Hampshire, also, knew What It of towns and cities to prepare for the

Home has mortgage as a result of the Was Like in 1936. New Hampshire, emergency. At 3 : 20 wires went out to all flood of 1936 on which he is still pay- of New Hampshire's 78 Posts calling ing. There is no cash available or no them to action. Past Department change of clothing available for Commander John L. Sullivan, origi- children. nator of the mobilization plan and 6. has three in family. This the director of the test last March, man had a bowling alley on which he stood by in an advisory capacity. depended for a living. Water reached All this activity, remember, was seven-foot level in home and spoiled for flood relief only. The wind hadn't all furniture, clothing and food. come yet. It hit the southern border Water reached twelve-foot level in of the State at 5:40, roaring up from bowling alley, spoiling all visible Providence, and it hit hard. Mean- means of income. He is still paying while Morency had reported by tele- bill of 1936. phone to Department Commander

7. -. Water reached five-foot Leo Ray in Los Angeles and had re- level in home, spoiling clothes, floors ceived orders to carry on. It was a and food stuffs. Had just purchased good thing he telephoned when he gasoline station which is entirely did, for a few minutes later most of wiped out. No visible means of sup- the telephone and power lines in the port due to this condition. This com- State were out of commission. rade is also paying for his 1936 flood At six o'clock Morency reported to relief. the Governor in Concord that the Department Headquarters in Bos- Legion in his State was at his dis- ton is doing what it can to alleviate posal. More than 4000 of the State's these victims temporarily, and the nearly 6000 Legionnaires were ready Red Cross, with its vast resources, for action—and most of them got a will step in and handle the tremen- chance to act. dously important task of rehabilita- Keene, Nashua, Peterborough, Mil- tion. ford, Manchester, the Weares (which A year ago Mr. and Mrs. Edward are not to be confused with The Norman of Dalton, far out in the Weirs) —these suffered most, al- Berkshires, moved from Massachu- though it is inaccurate, and in some setts to Homestead, Florida. There, instances downright unjust, to imply in the middle of September, they re- also, had its permanent disaster-relief degrees of distress in such a calamity as ceived warning of an impending hurri- setup as a result. New Hampshire tried this which overtook a whole region of cane. This was a new experience in their out the potentialities of its setup last America and was pretty impartial in the lives—nothing like it had ever been March in a test mobilization, as has been manner in which it distributed its several known in placid Dalton. They enjoyed, duly recorded in this magazine.* To re- horrors. so to speak, the novel experience of put- capitulate briefly, the New Hampshire These communities, therefore, benefited ting up hurricane shutters and then Legion mobilized in that test virtually its most from the Legion's help. In Peter- stood by, with considerable foreboding, full strength of more than five thousand borough ordeal by fire was added to awaiting the worst. members, many of them physicians and ordeals by wind and flood, and among the There wasn't any. Then, a few days nurses. It also mobilized, or stood ready buildings destroyed was the headquarters after, news began to trickle through of a to mobilize, a quantity of equipment of the local Legion, with all the Post's severe storm in New England. The whereof these figures represented at the equipment and records. Peterborough is Berkshires were strangely isolated. Mrs. time an exact census: Passenger cars, the home of Irene Mclntyre Walbridge, Norman, a loyal Auxiliare as her husband 3,045; light trucks, 790; heavy trucks, Past National President of The American is a loyal Legionnaire, thought Dalton 491; radio equipment, 73; boats, all Legion Auxiliary, and her husband's shoe- might be in distress. She explained the classes, ambulances, airplanes, store suffered in the combined disaster. 701 ; 75 ; situation to her fellow Auxiliares of n; portable electric-lighting plants, 2; Legion fire patrols walked the streets of Homestead Unit, and a check for $25 was blood transfusion squads, 20; plus pul- Manchester, fourteen of them that first dispatched to the Dalton Unit. They motors, inhalators, oxygen tents, dyna- night, fewer on succeeding nights as order had use for it. mite, rolling kitchens, stretchers, leg- was restored and paths were cut through

. The Auxiliary Unit in Plymouth, where splints, screwjacks. It announced, too, trees. Manchester's chief of police, fellow the rock is, was one of the numerous Posts that it could mess and shelter 20,263 dis- Legionnaire James F. O'Neil, was at Los and Units which had to conduct its instal- aster victims—probably even a few hun- Angeles but was in prompt touch with the lation by candle-light some days after dred more in a pinch. local situation by a telephone wire that

the big wind. The romantic and emo- *Sec "Legionpower," May, 1938, issue. miraculously stayed put. Also in Los

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Major General William G. Price, Jr., congratulates ex-Private Abian A. Wallgren of the Marine Corps on his new daily comic strip recount- ing the doings of Hoosegow Herman, a character familiar to readers of the Legion Magazine. General Price commanded the 53d Artillery Brigade, 28th Division, throughout its A. E. F. service, and became commanding general of the Pennsylvania National Guard on his return from France in May, 1919. General Price is a member of Chester (Pennsylvania) Post of the Legion and Wally is a Past Commander of Thomas Roberts Reath Marine Post of Philadelphia Hundreds of Men from All Walks of Life Take Amazing Tests that Disclose Important Truths about Shaving Angeles was Maurice F. Devine, who is three-ply disaster from a radio message not only Legion National Executive to Leominster, Massachusetts, which was TO BARE the facts about razor- blade Committeeman from New Hampshire relayed to Philadelphia and thence to quality, Gillette retained Dr. William but also president of Manchester Chapter Department Headquarters in Concord. M. Marston, eminent psychologist and Detector. of the American Red Cross. Red Cross District Commander Earl Roberts was originator of the famous Lie

Strapped to the Lie Detector . . . the and Legion, by the way, according to the first to bring to the outside world the same instrument used by police . . . these Vice Commander Morency, functioned story of Peterborough's plight. men shave one side of the face with a Gil- together perfectly in the Granite State. The Legion responded to every call, lette Blade, the other side with a blade As in other stricken States, Legionnaires however goofy. Would somebody go to of different make — while their invol- in charge of relief details were frequently such an address and see if Minnie was untary emotional reactions are recorded. endowed with purchasing power by Red alive. Minnie turned out to be a pet cat, Results Are Amazing Cross officials and were thus able to pro- and she was purring on all nine. A well- Dr. Marston proves the Gillette Blade is immediately for those in acute dis- meaning youth relayed on foot a radio vide far superior in every respect to substitute tress. message from Peterborough to Jutras blades tested. You get shaves that are: Evacuation was the biggest job which Post's clubhouse in Manchester. Could (1) Easier. (2) Faster. (3) Free from irritating fell to the lot of most of New Hampshire's the Legion send forty cops at once? It disturbances that can upset you for hours. mobilized Legionnaires. Most of those sounded like a lot to ask, even in time of Read the graph above. Weigh the evi- dence. Try a Gillette Blade yourself and 701 boats, all classes, were put to use, and grave peril, but the Legion would try. — learn what a big difference it makes when those Posts whose own communities were Before they had quite unmanned the you shave with a blade that's precision- lucky enough to suffer little damage dis- Manchester police force someone dis- made to fit your Gillette Razor exactly. patched not only manpower but equip- covered that the earnest messenger had fry to less fortunate districts. made a mistake. He meant forty cots. ment Prepare your beard for a perfect shave with Gillette And those 73 radio units—were they They were provided. The housing prob- Brushless Shaving Cream. It softens wiry whiskers double quick, speeds shaving, soothes and tones worth their weight in platinum! At the lem, by the way, was nowhere nearly so the skin. A big tube costs only 25£. You'll like it! time of the March test-mobilization the serious as in 1936. Jutras Post's club- r radio equipment was generally looked house, itself seriously damaged by falling upon, even by its most rapt devotees, as a trees, as the photograph accompanying pretty plaything that fitted well into the this article proves, sheltered 60 persons as looks of the things but would never have against 480 two years ago. any real practical significance—not in Past Vice Commander William D. New Hampshire. Well, in some ways McPherson of Concord answered a radio almost stole the show in September. jangling telephone that asked if the Le- Once again in charge of Walter Lessard, it gion could evacuate a family of twelve performed superbly. Nine sets in south- persons named Soandso on such a street. ern New Hampshire were the only means "Oh, yes, I hauled that outfit away in of communication there for two days ex- a boat in '36," said McPherson, "but cept for short phone hookups. The rest there's only eight in the family." BLADES PRECISION-MADE TO PIT YOUR GIUETTE RAZOR EXACTLY 011 of the State heard about Peterborough's "No, no, mis- (Continued page 53) I

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(Continued from page ji) ter—there's twelve. I'm sure of that." E. Wilson's Post. Legionnaire Pirie lost astated on its sweep in from the tropics "Well, this is no time to quarrel about his life when his car plunged into a wash- was the southern shore of Long Island. the census figures," said McPherson. out in a road during the high water. He Here Suffolk County Legionnaires sprang

' We'll get 'em." served three years in the Navy, and is into action, particularly at Westhamp-

McPherson got 'em. There were survived by a widow and four children. ton, where Commander Clarence J. Lash- twelve. The family had increased by two Up to late in October his body had not ley of Arthur Ellis Hamm Post was in sets of twins since 1936. been recovered, despite the fact that charge of the work of rescue. Legion- Vice Commander James W. Doon of searching parties consisting of members naires of Patchogue Post and of Smith- Henniker, in charge of the Concord area, of Barre Post had been looking for it Wever Post of Sayville also performed and Vice Commander Clyde G. Robinson, steadily. effective service in the devastated area. in charge of the coast region around The greatest damage in Yeimont, to Naturally a summary like this cannot Portsmouth, had slightly different prob- which both hurricane and floods con- hope to set forth in detail the full extent lems but shared one isolation. tributed, occurred in the southern and and scope of what the Legion did last While Vermont suffered least of the five eastern parts of the State. In this area September. It can only touch a high spot affected New England States, it was the some 500 Legionnaires were mobilized here and there and seek thus to present a only one to report the loss of a Legion- and patrolled the stricken countryside sketchy suggestion of the whole. Actual- naire's life. The victim was Elliott J. and removed families from their endan- ly, the whole thing can be summarized in Pirie of Barre, a member of Barre Post, gered homes. a few brief words: As usual, The Ameri- which is also Department Adjutant Leslie The first land which the hurricane dev- can Legion was on the job.

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know that the German mission has gone As it turned out, of course, we woke up man headquarters. Its contents follow: across the line to either accept or reject the next morning and found there was the terms. That they will accept is The German artillery, in the sector still a war going on. As a matter of fact, practically assured or they would not on both sides of the Fourmies-La Capelle not many minutes after this letter was even come over. They must realize that road, had orders to cease firing. Evi- finished ,by the light of a sputtering our terms will be very severe. dently the fire of the ammunition dump candle we realized it was all a hoax. It seems queer to think that tomorrow near Fourmies, which caused irregular Officers came careening in sidecar motor- explosions, fire. the war will be over. No more carrying < appeared to be artillery gas masks around, no more turning the cycles along muddy and pitted roads to HY-BP 0214 lights out at night for fear of air raids, blast out the befuddled truck drivers and Evidently the Allies had made some no more looking for dugouts when we order them to put out toot sweet the protest to the Germans concerning these move anywhere; in fact no more worry blankety blank lights. except as to when we are going home. explosions. This was doubtless at the time Along with the letter to my mother Can you imagine that going home! when German plenipotentiaries came — which I never sent I found two wireless But suppose we wake up tomorrow and through the lines for the discussion of messages written on the backs of French find out that Germany will not accept Armistice terms and there was to be no the terms? Poor she certainly message blanks in the precise handwrit- Germany— firing on that section of the front. will get beat up proper then, for we will ing of our crack operator—a sturdy The other message is in French and is be a mad crowd of Yanks. Middle-Westerner of German descent. signed Erzberger. It was he who headed Tomorrow we move up—we are ever They are not dated, but I recall, and I the German group which came through on the move. The Germans are certainly can tell from their contents, that he the lines to prepare for the Armistice. doing a double time rearward. Their picked them out of the air during the communique yesterday said that they The message was apparently sent while first week of November, 1918, when the had made a great movement followed he was still behind our lines at the con- negotiations began which led to the real by the French. ference. Translated it reads: Armistice. It's only about half past seven but

I guess I'll go to sleep. Breakfast is at One was addressed to Allied G. H. Q. German plenipotentiaries to the Ger- 6:15 so you see we are rather early and was picked up from the Ger- man high command, to the Chancellor birds. I guess we get flapjacks of the Empire and to the naval for breakfast —not bad for the high command: Before making front, eh? You'll have to make any decision, beg to await the

" communication in a lot of those for me when I So- Mou'kb qou YeW 1+ took telegraphic get back. code completingHelldorf 's mess- Oc**e abound , Columbus I don't know when I can get a IcMqfiwe to age of this morning. > , this letter off to you. When you now on"-eU .'.r 2048 America -teo" do get it probably everything will be over but the shouting. Picking these messages out of You may be interested to know the air, we of the radio group that I am company clerk now, knew that steps definitely point- the chap that did have the place ing toward an Armistice were having been wounded. Hope being taken. That is why we that he will be back soon for were in a frame of mind to accept he was a fine fellow and knew the rumor as genuine when the his business.

Well, here is hoping it will false report spread up to us. On be over tomorrow. the other hand, all our hopes were Love to you and Pa and Delly, not blasted when the "lights out"

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53 order came on the evening of the 7th including box cars. But at last we had because we knew that negotiations were something for which to thank the Lord, NEVER S£EN> for also through the air came the real 'ZwVE i.i progress. of hope. Firing would cease at UK^ME The next three days we were constantly message A WATCH on the move—forward. The night of the 11 the next morning. 10th was a horror. The boys on the other The night passed. Dawn brought a side seemed to be trying to get rid of as dull gray day—typical Argonne weather. much ammunition as possible in the last The big moment came and the rumble of hours of the war. Everything came over the guns died away— this time for keeps. Three Extra Features At No Extra Cost!

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"In Corpora] John Loudenslager Post almost the entire relief resources of the Post in the County—effected a test mo- the step-up system for the promotion State were turned out in an incredibly bilization that was almost complete. of officers is observed, thus making the short time, on call of the Legion. "The Post had an enrolled membership junior offices the primary consideration New Hampshire does not stand alone of seventy-two. It could not afford to for the commandership. When a member in its fine record. Other Departments spend a lot of money on the project, but reaches the top at the post of command have made similar tests and have the members were convinced that a he has had at least live years of active reported a response far beyond their measure of the response to a disaster office holding. This system insures that expectations. This training on a state- call should be taken in the community. the Post will have a Commander who wide basis is more spectacular than the Legionnaire Hubert W. Eldred was has been tried and named as Chairman tested and who can of the general mo- best represent The bilization committee, American Legion in and Archie M. Main, the community. His vice-president of the selection is not the Bath Iron Works, result of a random was called upon to nomination from the serve as Vice Chair- Post floor. Our mem- man. Within three bers believe the sys- weeks the County tem to be the best was organized into solution of the prob- sixty-two committees, lem of the selection each committee hav- of Post officers. ing three officers, and "The Past Com- over 8,300 people of manders also comprise the 1 1 ,000-odd resi- the majority of the dents were connected Board of Trustees to directly or indirectly guard the perpetuity with one or another of a debt -free Post of the mobilization day home. Several of these committees. The in- Past Commanders as- dustries of the city sisted in the develop- of Bath, with more ment of the impressive than 2,000 employes, 10 o'clock memorial gave the heartiest sup- service observed in port. Loudenslager Post (see "Fire alarm code this magazine, May, The Junior Drum and Bugle Corps sponsored by Grand Island whistles were ar- 1937)- (Nebraska) Post boasts an eye-filling trio of high-stepping, ranged; canvassers "In the accompany- baton-twirl ing drum majorettes—left to right, Misses Lucille sought out and listed ing picture the Past Johns, Marcia Mikel and Mary Winter emergency relief re- Commanders are ar- sources; professional, ranged in the order technical and skilled of their service, beginning on the bottom city- and county-wide mobilizations men and women were registered; Red row and reading from the right: C. Wilson effected by Posts and county organiza- Cross, Salvation Army, Boy and Girl Fry, Paul Cameron, Gerhard Lauder, tions. Attention has been directed to the Scouts, National Guard and peace officers Frank Mooney, John Centner, Philip accomplishment of Roland Smith Post of were enrolled, and enough transportation Crossan, Clyde Rankin, John Pickard, Bath, Maine, in effecting a complete equipment secured to move the entire William Schollenberger, Martin Koitszch, mobilization of manpower, material and population. When the alarm was given at Charles Brendlinger, Warren Walker, equipment in its area. Fortunately, the the zero hour—the time had been fixed se- Alfred Grayshon, Frank Adair, Dr. John members of Roland Smith Post and the cretly—the response was prompt and im- Mackin, and Walter Setzer." citizens who responded to the test were mediate. The first call was given at 8 o'clock not required to turn out for service in the in the morning, followed by other code Bath Mohiliz.es September disaster, because the storm calls at fixed intervals. By 9:17 every unit had spent its force before it reached had reported for duty—Battery H, 240th THE hurricane which swept over the Maine. Coast Artillery, Maine National Guard, North Atlantic seaboard in Septem- Posts in all parts of the country are reported at the Legion Hall with forty- ber wreaking greatest damage in New giving attention to the organization of five men in heavy marching order within England States, brought the severest test disaster and emergency relief corps. For one hour, and other units, including State

the Legion's disaster and emergency that reason it is believed the plan worked Troopers from distant points, were

relief plan has yet known. That storm out by Roland Smith Post is of timely equally as prompt. also demonstrated beyond question the interest. The Publicity Officer reports: "The efficiency, speed, order and efficiency value of the test mobilization "The American Legion disaster relief quietness with which this emergency

plan which has been so strikingly tested and emergency mobilization plan is disaster relief mobilization was carried in simulated disaster calls within the past potentially one of the most valuable of all out was a revelation to the city and year or so. Readers of this magazine will the activities of the organization. This Sagadahoc County. The cost to Roland recall the fine record made by the was most convincingly proved in Saga- Smith Post was exactly $1.65 for three Department of New Hampshire last dahoc County, Maine, where Roland long distance telephone messages—one March, (see May number, 1938), when Smith Post, of Bath—the only Legion to the State Police, and one each to the

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55 Department Commander and Depart- Says Voyageur Robbins: "Our Legion ment Adjutant." Degree Team was organized in 1933 by Dr. A. H. Wittmann, then serv- Man Can Now Degree Team Champ ing as Chef de Gare, but who has been promoted to Grande Chef de Train SPEAKING of Legion Degree Teams, of the Grande Voiture de Pennsylvania Voyageur Joseph Robbins, Corres- and with Talk With but one exception all members God pondant of Voiture Locale No. i, of the team today are the same as when Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, insists that it was organized. Unfortunately, no STRANGE PHENOMENA the team put out by the Voiture Premiere records were kept of the service of this FOLLOW NEW TEACHING is the berries. The Voiture Nationale team during the early years, in fact com- seems to agree with him, at least to the plete records can be given for only a A new and revolutionary religious extent of awarding the team the Robert couple of years. During that time the Movement which teaches that man can now talk with God, is attracting world- John Murphy Memorial Trophy at the team has exemplified the ritual of wide attention to its founder, Dr. Frank New York Promenade Nationale, which initiation on thirteen occasions, inducting B. Robinson of Moscow, Idaho. This new Teaching, which, in its first is awarded annually "to the Voiture a total of 558 candidates into The year went into 67 different countries, is accom- Locale whose Legion Degree Team American Legion, in the presence of panied by phenomenal results in human renders the most outstanding service to audiences totaling 5,865. lives, which are considered by many to border on the miraculous. its Posts of The American Legion during "The the Degree Team serves not only "PSYCHIANA," this new psychological the year." At Los Angeles the Philadel- fifty-seven Legion Posts of Philadelphia and scientific religion, teaches that God exists here and now on the earth as the phia team was given permanent custody County, but is available to any Post in most dynamic yet invisible Power the of the cup which has been for used some the Eastern Judicial District of Pennsyl- world can ever know. The world is await- years, and a new one provided for the vania. On some occasions the team has ing a revelation of this Power. "It is ab- solutely possible," says Dr. Robinson, "for team of Voiture Locale No. of traveled as 174, far as one hundred and sixty every normal human being to contact Washington, D. C, which was acclaimed miles from Philadelphia to initiate and use this Power to bring health, hap- piness, and abundant success here the 1938 honor team. a class." Boyd B. Stutler and now, while living on this earth." Dr. Robinson claims further that it is possible for all who understand this dy- namic Power as Jesus understood it, to J^ront and (Renter duplicate every authentic work He ever did. When He said, "the things that I do shall ye do also"—He meant just that. Continued from page 24) And He meant it literally. This new un- derstanding of God is very rapidly sweep- ing 'round the world, and you are invited considered in the General Accounting ments were made by finance officers of to write to "PSYCHIANA" for details of Office. the services immediately following ap- these strange phenomena which are fol- lowing its application in human life. There 2. Many thousands of claims of vet- proval of the Act of February 28, 1919 is no charge for this Teaching. We are erans who were discharged between and before they were informed of its trying to help you find this Power. Send name and address to "PSYCHIANA." November 11, 1918 and February 28, provisions, it seems safe for veterans 464-12th Street, Moscow, Idaho.—Copy- for the difference 1919 between travel discharged after that date to assume, in right 1938, by Frank B. Robinson. pay received upon discharge and the five the absence of information to the con- cents per mile authorized by the Act of trary, that they received upon discharge February 28, 1919 have been received travel pay at the rate of five cents per and settled by finance officers of the ser- mile, the full amount to which they were vices the General Accounting and by entitled. Watson B. Miller, Director, BLUE STEEL DOUBLE-EDGE Office, the greater volume of them during National Rehabilitation Committee, The the years immediately following the American Legion, Washington, D. C. 1DD RAZOR RLADES World War period and the General Ac- FITS OLD OR NEW TYPE RAZORS Check or Stomps counting Office suggests the volume of Our Oldest Railroad Send Cash. Money Order, H. WEISER. 24 STONE ST., NEW YORK CITY such claims already disposed of would To the Editor: In your July issue you ran indicate that few justified claims remain the following: "On July 4, 1828, the first to be filed and that interested veterans passenger railroad in the United States, the nucleus from which the Baltimore & should consider carefully whether they GENUINE U. S. A. OVERSEA CAPS Ohio system grew, began operations." have not already received the full amount OLIVE DRAB, ALL WOOL 50c I called the attention of the Charleston each of travel pay to which they were entitled News and Courier to this statement, and Dark Navy Blue, other colors upon discharge before putting themselves on request. All sizes beg to enclose their correction of your Special Price in large lots. in the position of filing claims which may statement, as follows: We pay parcel post Send Check or Money Order be unjustified. "Far be it from The News and Courier M & C SPECIALTY CO., 592 Broadway, N. Y. 3. Except in isolated cases where pay- to quarrel with (Continued on page 56)

LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE REGAIN HEALTH W. J. Aylward, Port Washington (New York) Post. Amico J. Barone, Charles C. Kennedy Post, Chicopee, Massachusetts. wNcdllKcd WAY; Jes Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. Stop taking harsh, irritating drugs for rheumatism, neuritis, colds, headaches, John T. Winterich, S. Rankin Drew Post, New York City. Btomach and digestive disorders caused or aggravated by constipation. Drink mineral Frank Street, Sergeant Clendenon Newell Post, Leonia, New Jersey. water—Nature's product—made right at home by simply adding Crazy Water Crys- Robert Ginsburch, Black Diamond Post, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. ' tals to your drinking water. Millions of users will tell you they have been Fairfax Downey, Second Division Post, New York City. l-M greatly benefited by this wonderful '"U | III * " i ii| product of old Mother Nature ... Harry Townsend, Frank C. Godfrey Post, Norwalk, Connecticut. Alexander Gardiner, George Alfred Smith Post, Fairfield, Connecticut. Bert Kemmerer, LeBron Post, Guthrie, Oklahoma. Get a package from your druggiat today Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- drink your way to health the natural way. Write for free booklet containing diet lieta, and the amazing etory of naires, are not listed. Nature's wonderful gift to suffering humanity. CRAZY WATER CO., Dept. P-6, Mineral Wells, Texas

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the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for its opportunity to serve as an aviator. I was Imitation is the most sincere flattery claim, but the cold, indisputable fact is trained by the Royal Flying Corps in possible. Perhaps the professor could get that at Charleston, South Carolina, was Canada and served overseas with the all teachers to join his organization? If so, the terminus of America's first steam rail- 139th and the 12th U. S. Aero Squadrons. perhaps the Legion would give him a Ph. road for passengers and freight. This It was my privilege to observe (from the D. for writing a dissertation on how he railroad went into scheduled service air, too) and absorb the heart beats of the did it. Clarence E. Harper, Com- Christmas Day, 1830, and has been in average American. mander, Naval Post No. j/2, Chicago, operation ever since—in these latter Ordinarily self conscious, unable to Illinois. years as a division of the Southern Rail- express my thoughts in public, I am, as Medals in Peace way System. a rule, a very ordinary individual who War and "Charleston is willing to accept the loves peace and harmony among friends To the Editor: In reply to "No Medal for Baltimore and Ohio's claim that it is and organizations. I try to maintain an This Hero," the citation of the comrade America's oldest railroad, but not Ameri- open, unbiased receptive mind. However, who gave his life as I understand it, in ca's oldest steam railroad for passengers I am cognizant of being biased towards the saving of the life of a buddy when a and freight. The South Carolina railroad the veteran and The American Legion. tank tipped into an abandoned cistern was committed to steam locomotives Being biased upon these two subjects, should be respected and not ridiculed. from the outset. It is well known that the and, because of what they have come to In army citations there is always more Baltimore and Ohio believed that horse- mean in my life, I lose my self conscious- meaning to the citations, as they are cut drawn cars were preferable to trains ness and am no longer reticent whenever short. hauled by steam locomotives. 1 think of either. I am aware of many Picture this act in an army tank with "It is easy to get at the facts. It is easy undesirable traits of character in myself water flowing into it and the rescue, then to get the story of the Baltimore and and in many other average veterans as picture the story of your Department

( Brio's race between a horse-drawn car individuals, but as an organization the Commander who wrecked his car (a and a steam locomotive. Where the Legion is great. steel body, shatterproof windows and Charleston venture succeeded, the Balti- I hope that this letter may inspire you overstuffed seats) and faced certain more venture with steam failed. These or other comrades to greater work for this death rather than to run down an old things are in the records. The first locomo- great organization. Permission is granted man who suddenly appeared on the high- tive in service here was the Best Friend you to publish this letter if you consider way. of Charleston, an American-built loco- it might furnish inspiration either to a Now these things happen many times motive. greater or a better membership. a day, while driving a car, and every "W hen the Best Friend began service, Whitehurst M. Carner, Livingston driver of a car is expected to do such the railroad was not so long, but it was Post 20, Livingston, New Jersey. things for safety's sake. I say, don't still building and in less than four years drive a car if you are not going to avoid Leadership it was operating between Charleston and The Legion and the killing of human beings. Hamburg, opposite Augusta, on the To the Editor: In the September, 1938, Don't ridicule the army medals. Re- Savannah River. Successors to the Best issue of The Phi Delta Kappan magazine member they were well earned by many, Friend hauled trains which constituted published by that fraternity, an article and they were not asked for. Vincent the first troop movement by train, regu- appears entitled, "The Legion makes a P. Kielpinski, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. lar soldiers on their way from Macon to Ph. D." by Dean of Personnel, Forrest H. * * * Charleston. The railroad owning the Best Kirkpatrick, Bethany College, Bethany, To the Editor: In a recent issue of the Friend had the first railway mail service. West Virginia. In it he comments on Legion Magazine the letter of John "There is nothing to argue. The facts Professor Gellermann's dissertation, "The Magill, Verona, N. D., entitled "No are with Charleston. They are contained American Legion as Educator" and Medal for This Hero," in which he made in the minutes of the railroad company makes remarks that on the face of it are a parallel of two men who risked their and in the newspapers of that time. Not not particularly favorable to the Legion, own lives to save the life of another, only was Charleston served by America's such as the objections voiced by Prof. provides an interesting contrast. first steam railroad for passengers and Gellermann that the high caliber of men One was voted a medal, the other, al- freight, but by the world's first long-dis- heading the Legion does not represent though his ranked creditably with the tance steam railroad—and Branchville the rank and file, that the Legion repre- other, received only injuries for his deed. was the first railroad junction. It is easy sents only a small portion of all World After reading Comrade Magill's letter to learn when the Baltimore and Ohio War veterans, and that it is a pressure it got me thinking. Why not a medal for abandoned its horses and began the organization that forces its ideas on the the totally disabled veteran? Now, first regular use of steam locomotives." country at large. These points, however, of all, let me state I am not a disabled I thought you might want to publish may the more substantially prove to all veteran. So I am not thinking of myself this, just to keep the record straight. World War veterans the great strength of but of the wartime disabled. The veteran S. C. Sxelgrove, Charleston Post 10, the Legion because it is a minority organi- suffering with a lung ailment, the nervous Charleston, S. C. zation, with a high type of leadership wrecks, the mentally ill, the blind, the selected by its members. As far as the deaf, and countless others. Handicaps of The Meaning the Legion Legion's ideas are concerned they readily that make their life one of sorrow and To the Editor: Three o'clock, morning, speak for themselves. pain. Thomas Carlyle wrote: "111 sitting at the typewriter trying to com- We would respectfully draw attention health, of body or of mind, is defeat. pose a few words on "W hat the American to the fact that the leaders of the coun- Health alone is victory." Legion Means to Me" for the purpose of try's largest organizations are by no Personally I think a veteran with a increasing membershio of a small town means of the present rank and file. They service-connected total disability is en- Post, thousands of miles from where my may have started that way, but because titled to the Purple Heart or some other heart is visiting the great National Con- of untiring effort, education, experience medal to distinguish him as one who vention, the thought just came to me, and confidence in their own ability, they gave his health and happiness for his that, perhaps, I am only expressing after went to the top. country. Perhaps, though, a broken all, the thoughts that millions are It is interesting to note that the remedy heart would be more appropriate. thinking. suggested by Prof. Gellermann for the James DuBoise, Railroad Post, New In retrospect, it would seem that I evils of the Legion as a pressure group is Haven, Connecticut. could be considered an average veteran or counter-organization; he calls upon teach- Legionnaire. No better, and probably ers to "build rival organizations with Why Not Thesf Reunions? not too much worse. Maybe a little more common social objectives," but does not To the Editor: The writer, a Legionnaire fortunate than some in having had the hint at any definite objective. who did not get to France in 1918,

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served in a Regular Army regiment that twelve days over the zig-zag course. was one of the units of a Division that Well do I remember the tiers of bunks KIDNEYS was scheduled to sail in December of that three deep below the water line where year. There were approximately twenty many of us were quartered. MUST REMOVE of these Divisions numbered from eight I was informed recently that the Mon- to twenty and from ninety-four to one golia is still in service between Los hundred and two. One of these (the 8th) Angeles and the Orient. Stanley R. EXCESS ACIDS had some of its units at Brest and the Shores, Walbrook Post, Baltimore, Mary- Help 15 Miles of Kidney Tubes others, including the 20th, were scheduled land. Flush Out Poisonous Waste If you have an excess of acid waste in your blood, to land in France by Christmas. your 15 miles of kidney tubes may be over-worked. Despite a few regimental gatherings Auxiliare Subscriptions These tiny filters and tubes are working day and night to help Nature rid your system of poisonous waste. been no great effort since the To the Editor: I say that I have en- there has May When functional kidney disorder permits poisonous war for the personnel of these Divisions joyed the various articles in the Legion matter to remain in the blood, you won't feel well. This may cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, to form asscciations like the Divisions Magazine and I shall miss it. I have leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, that had combat records. Truly, both wondered, so many times, just why it is swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. If you have trouble with frequent or scanty officers and men have memories of asso- that an Auxiliary member should be de- passages with smarting and burning, there may be ciation together that they would like to nied the privilege of a subscription to this something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Kidneys may need help the same as bowels, so ask re-live at some future National Conven- wonderful magazine I know so many — your druggist for Doan's Pills, used successfully by tion of the Legion. Gerald E. Cronin, other widows who have expressed a desire millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 1 5 miles of kidney tubes flush out Detroit, Mich. to continue to receive the magazine. poison- ous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. Mrs. Beulah S. Todd, Los Angeles, Cali- The Transports fornia. To the Editor: The letter of Comrade [Editor's Note: Members of The American Oscar L. Pate in the August issue of our Legion Auxiliary may subscribe to the type CHEAP OIL BURNER WHY COOK OR HEAT With COAL or WOOD magazine regarding the transport Mon- Magazine at the rate of seventy-five Quick heat at turn of valve— hot- ter, no dirt, ashes or drudgery. golia recalls memories of the sturdy old cents a year. Just notify this office or send BurDB cheap oil new way — no flogging up. cattle ship that carried our regiment, the the subscription to The American Legion SENT ON TRIAL Fr-" Engineers, safely to France in about Magazine, Indianapolis, Indiana.] 66th ation. Write for FREE BURNER to E£L"wh 0 will , Wonderful money-maker. Write quick— a postal card will do. UNITED FACTORIES, P-101 Factory Building, Kansas City, Mo. zJtitarking Time on (Christmas THOUSANDS INSURED (Continued from page 34) FOR $1 .00 A MONTH One' Half Regular Rate First S Years Policy Mailed for FREE Inspection Channel and the next morning they told —something that might have been used A new low-cost Special 20-paynient Life Insurance Policy us that the convoy picked up a lifeboat in '20 Years Ago.' is offered without Doctor's examination, if you are in good health and under age of 55 ; liberal cash and loan full of sailors from a torpedoed ship. We "I was a member of Company E, 103d values' houhle Indemnity! SEND NO MONEY! No

agent will call ! Just write American Life and Acc. Ins. left Plymouth after dark and so didn't Engineers, 28th Division, and on the date Co., 227 American Life Bldg., St. Louis, Mo., sending your full name, date of birth, race, height, weight, duties have time to get our official positions in stated, we were detailed to take up of occupation, name and relationship of your beneficiary, and condition of your health. Your policy will be mailed the convoy so held our position for the mines—six- or eight-inch shells in boxes at once. Save by mail—Write NOW. time. About nine o'clock a ship was tor- that had been buried in the area of pedoed in our convoy in the exact posi- Vigneulles. While working on this job, OF THE tion, so I was told, where we should have about three o'clock in the afternoon one PSORIASIS SKIN could it burning, but of the boxes exploded, setting off been. We see we two The symptoms of this skin disease are swell* kept on going. Believe me, from then on others. I was standing about twelve to ing and reddish, dry, flat papules or patches. Covered with silvery scales or crusts. Send we ceased to be careless about going to fifteen feet away when it happened, but IOf for sample of Dermatin No. 1 & 2, bed—we slept in our uniforms, shoes and I was blown into the air. As a result, I • nd see why psoriasis sufferers "rave" shout this discovery. Valley all, and, by all means, our life belts. am deaf in the right ear and had trouble Laboratories, Spring Valley, New York, Department 106 "The Westwego returned to the Phil- with my head, neck and back for several adelphia Navy Yard and within a month years. Also a bad case of shell shock. we were again transferred back to New "This accident also killed five men, New Adding Machine York. I was assigned as orderly in the office, blowing them to pieces. One was Drown Fits Vest Pocket! Adds, subtracts, and multiplies, up to one finally took an examination for yeoman and another Smith of my company, billion—yet it costs only $2.95. Weighs only 4 ounces. Not a toy—guaranteed and got a permanent job there, ending while the other three were of Company D workmanship. Perfectly accurate, very fast. Sells to business men, store my sea service, but thousands of men of the 103d. I understand a Legion Post keepers, homes—wherever figures are used. Grab this opportunity. office for in Philadelphia is after went through that duty as named one of the Write at once for FREE_ A _ U _A Sample Offer and M ones AuCNTS ,Costs^fw Armed Guards on merchant ships. Won- latter. MakingPlan. 100^ Profit! the rest terrible thing VE-PO-AD, Dept. 144 der where the old shipmates and "That was a to happen 303 W. MONROE ST., CHICAGO of the gang are now?" nine days after the fighting had ended. No doubt the colonel had a lot of explain- AFTER the toll taken during actual ing to do as we had protested doing that HERNIA . fighting during the War, the loss of job as there were a lot of German life through accident or illness after the prisoners nearby, so why should we have IF you suffer from this dis- ability and your doctor ad- Armistice went into effect was particu- had to take those chances. We were the — vises the use of a proper- larly tragic. Such a case is reported in a men who paid the price, as all our ob- fitting support—write NOW letter from Arthur L. Coash of Charles jections to doing the job meant noth- for full information regard- ing the famous A. Learned Post, Detroit, Michigan, ing at all. Even so, I am thankful I am whose home is at 48 Charlotte in that still living although I have worked very BROOKS RUPTURE APPLIANCE

The principal points of this form of truss : — Made his the little since discharge." city. It was called to mind by my for the individual requirements of each case (not a "20 Years Ago" calendar, the last instal- stock truss) — light, cool, comfortable, sanitary (washable), no metal springs or hard pads, low ment of which appeared in the November ""N TOW that we all are about set to priced, designed for all forms of reducible rupture in men, women and children, and SENT ON TRIAL issue. is Coash's story: -L\| make the National Convention Here TO PROVE IT. Free details sent in plain envelope. "As a twenty-year member of Charles trek," wrote Haskell C. Billings, His- All correspondence held in strict confidence. BROOKS CO., 405-A State St., Marshall, Mich. A. Learned Post, I wish to tell of what torian of Berkeley (California) Post (Since 1897 Specialists in the Manufacture and Fit- happened on the 20th of November, 191 whose head- {Continued on page §8) ting ofAppliancesfor allforms ofReducible Hernia)

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58 CAN YOU USE ^hCarking Time on (Christmas MORE MONEY? {Continued from page 57) Make up to $1.50 an hour in your spare time selling American Legion Magazine subscriptions to folks in your community. quarters are in the Veterans Memorial my report of the results of my search foi Building in that city the letter Legionnaires everywhere are earning this — being captured World War colors, which I easy spare-time money. Send us your name written in August, "I could not resist began during the war, I have continued and address today for full information. the temptation to tell you this one. the search and have met with some suc- AMERICAN LEGION "As you will probably recall (believe it cess. In my previous letter to you I could THE or not), there was organized in the Cana- report that I had located only three MAGAZINE dian Expeditionary Forces in the winter German flags, all of which are in the 777 N. Meridian Street of ioi5-'i6, the 97th Battalion composed museum at the United States Naval Indianapolis Indiana entirely of Americans who Academy at Annapolis, had crossed the border Maryland. They are, as So- You cM a ~\ fCertiu) wot to enlist. This Battalion previously stated, an en- gerMM Mistee / I if l^e's a

was officially known as • - The American Legion Kerr VJoV do \V Kerr, she sign from the German the 97th Overseas Bat- i|Ou Call Uiff /Missus\7 must be a submarine U. C. iij, National Headquarters VUeu-a Herrmq!!*// talion, American Legion, Wimm!!? Indianapolis, Indiana taken at Brest, France, and its cap badge was the shortly after the Armis- Financial Statement Canadian maple leaf on tice; an ensign from the September 30, 1938 which were superimposed German cruiser Geicr Assets the Washington family which was interned at Cash on Hand and on deposit $ 387,618.60 coat of arms and the Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov- Notes and accounts receivable 83,117.48 Inventories 83.S40.56 words '97th Overseas ember 8, 1916, and later Invested funds 1,721,451,71 Permanent investments: Battalion, American Le- seized by the United Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 199,607.43 . gion.' [A story of this States, and a flag from Office building, Washington, D. C, less depreciation 125,264.29 early American Legion of S. M. S. Cormoran, sal- Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation 31,869.92 the C. E. F. appeared in vaged from the wreck of Deferred charges 27^49.42 Then and Now in the that vessel after it was ?2,659,819.41 Legion Monthly for July, sunk by its crew at Guam 1929, illustrated with on April 6, 191 7. Liabilities. Deferred Revenue and Net Worth photostats of the badge "Regarding the capture Current liabilities 74,906.86 Funds restricted as to use. ... 25,007.91 referred to. Look it up. of the Alexander Agassiz Deferred revenue 226,329.00 Vicksburg Permanent trust —The Company Clerk.] by the U. S. S. Overseas Graves Decoration Trust 199,607.43 "And now for a coincidence: Comrade and believed to be the only case where Net Worth: Restricted capital gl, 716, 561. 26 Thomas McLaughlin and I served to- a German flag was captured on the high Unrestricted capital 417,406.95 82.133,968.21 gether in that Battalion; also, later, seas by the United States Naval Forces X2.659.819.41 served in the American Forces, and are during the World War, C. E. Taylor, Doth now in the same Post of The Ameri- Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy, can Legion—Berkeley (California) Post former Acting Officer in Charge, Office of —and in the same post of the Canadian Naval Records and Library, Navy De- Legion, which also bears the name of partment, Washington, D. C, has kindly CHANGE OF ADDRESS? Berkeley Post, (of which I am the present supplied me with the following record:

Commander and McLaughlin is Past " facts in the case of the capture UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, MY a 'The Commander.) Add to that, we are both of the Alexander Agassiz are as follows: mailing address for The American members of the Drum and Bugle Corps " 'The Alexander Agassiz was an Legion Magazine is of Berkeley Post of the Legion. And it auxiliary schooner of 32 tons, of American all keeps us plenty busy. ownership and registry and was carrying ADDRESS NEW "Strangely enough, until two years cargo and passengers between Mexican ago we had not seen each other since we ports in the early part of the war. Name- in at " suspicious move- (PLBA8K PRINT) parted 191 7— the time of our trans- 'Due to certain fer from the Canadian Expeditionary ments, her questionable crew of Mexicans 1938 Membership No Forces to the A. E. F." and Germans, irregularity of papers and Can anyone tie or beat that record? well-founded belief that she was being Address- prepared to conduct a raid upon shipping hobbies? Well, some of in the Pacific, she was captured March ClTY- UNUSUAL you may recall that several years 17, 1918, on the high seas, off Mazatlan, ago—in the issue of May, 1936, to be Mexico, by the U. S. S. Vicksburg, State- precise—we reported that Legionnaire C. assisted by the U. S. S. Brutus and U. S. Stewart Peterson of 149 West 84th Submarine Chaser 302, and taken to San Post No.- Street, New York City, had made a Diego, California. long-time search for information regard- " 'Upon examination, a small quantity Dept ing captured enemy battle flags. He of ammunition, a secret cipher and a OLD ADDRESS doesn't collect the flags himself— that German flag were among the articles might prove to be quite an expensive found on board. So far as is known, the undertaking—but he merely keeps record German flag was never flown on the Address. of them. Not long ago, former Lieutenant Alexander Agassiz. After serving its Peterson sent us a story reviewing his purpose before the Prize Court, the flag ClTY previous finds and advising that more was returned to the Vicksburg for such war trophies had been discovered by retention there. State- him. We'll let Peterson tell his own story: " 'The opinion handed down by the "Since May, 1936, when you published Judge of the District Court of the United

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States, after review of evidence in the the World War in the Army, Navy or case of the Alexander Agassiz, was that Marine Corps. WAKE UP YOUR seizure was justified; however, condem- "We hold our reunion on February 22d nation was not allowed for such reasons of each year or as near that date as we LIVER BILE - as no overt act was committed, lack of can arrange to have a week-end reunion proof that the owner and captain had any and banquet. The service strength of our Without Calomel — And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to intention of belligerent adventures, in- battery was 243 men, and we have had Go The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid sufficient arms, fuel and food on board as as of the old members present many 67 bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing for raiding operations. Restitution was at one of our reunions. Can any outfit freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get ordered upon each party paying its own that holds an annual reunion tie or beat constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour, sunk costs incurred.' that? and the world looks punk. A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. "So much for the Alexander Agassiz "We trust you can give our challenge It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and publicity in order that see and the flag taken from her. we may how make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet "James H. Tolley of 641 O'Farrell far out we can throw our chests or how amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. Street, San Francisco, California, who far back we must go and sit down. Any Stubbornly refuse anything else. © 1930. c. p. inc. was at Guam when the S. M. S. Cormoran acceptances of the challenge or inquiries was blown up by its crew and the flag, should be sent to D. W. Rabey, 316 WE later to rest in the museum at Annapolis, Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia." salvaged, has written an interesting ToAnySmtT Double the life of your the point of numbers, the Los account regarding this incident. FROM coat and vest with correctly Angeles National Convention last matched pants. 100,000 patterns. "Former Sergeant A. H. Benishek of Every pair hand tailored to your measure. September broke all records for outfit Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Route No. 5, pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece reunions at one time and place. The Re- of cloth or vest today. wrote about a flag he took SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY me German Chicago unions Chairman of the Convention Cor- 209 S. State St. Dept. 709 from an abandoned German war plane. poration in Chicago, where the Legion "Arthur J. Schmitt, 115 West Washing- will meet next September 25th to 28th, WANTED—MEN- ton Street, Belleville, Illinois, reports to cast Christmas Goods, S and 10c Novel- will have a real mark to shoot at—but that his brother, a member of the 124th ties, Toy Autos, Ashtrays, etc. Can he done with the central location of the next Na- in any spare room, basement or garage and Field Artillery, 33d Division, who was a no experience necessary. A rare opportunity tional Convention city, he may better to devote spare or full time to profitable scout, took a German flag in battle. The work. W rite Dept. 9. the record. At any rate, some outfits are Hag was on a staff surmounted by an already announcing reunions for that METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO. eagle and it is about 3^2 feet long and 2 1696 Boston Road New York City place and time, without waiting for the feet wide. The flag was flown over a Reunions Chairman to be appointed. German artillery battery and in the Following are the early birds: retreat, the flag was captured. Learn Profitable Profession Nati.. Assoc. American Balloon Corps Vets. "Possibly at some future time places in days at Home —Three-day reunion, banquet and dance. J. Mack" QO lin Perkins, personnel officer, Towanda, Pa. f Men and Women in the fascinating pro- might be found in military museums f Swedish Massage run as high as $40 to 23d Engrs. Assoc.—Write to H. H. Siddall, eek but many prefer to open their own of- where these World War colors might secy., ")440 Hidf»ewood court, Chicago. 111., for ad- r*re incomes from Doctors, hospitals, sant- _ and private patients come to those who vance reunions news and copy of official paper. qualify through our training:. Reducing appropriately rest along with those of ne offers rich rewards for specialists. 07th C. A. C , Btry. C; 7th Co., Ft. Winkiei.ii Write for Anatomv Charts and other wars." Scott; 44th & 45th Prov. Cos., Presidio— He- booklet— They're FREE. union. Gerald D. Nolan, ex-cpl., 372 Bridle Path, THE College of Swedish Massage Worcester, Mass. 1601 Warren Blvd.. Dept. 975, Chicago 13th Co. and 10th Regt., USMC, Quantico— uecettor to Nat\onal College of Ma»»ag* since TWENTY long years the War Proposed reunion. Heport to Nate Leibow, 8 N. went West—and while there are Cass av., W'estmont, 111. World War Vets, of C. A. C.—Formally or- literally hundreds of veterans' organiza- ganized at I. os Angeles Natl. Convention. Reunion to be held with Legion National Convention in Kidneys Must as as tions, from groups small companies Chicago. Report to R. R. Jacobs, comdr., Battle and batteries to entire Divisions, there Creek, Mich. 185th Aero Sqdrn. —Proposed convention re- are still scores of outfits that haven't union. Floyd Perhan, Lakeside, Mich. Clean Out Acids 224th Aero Scjdrn. Reunion. Banquet, the pleasure of reassembling — Sept. yet enjoyed 25, 1939 W. V Matthews, 2209 Cuming St., Omaha, Excess Acids and poisonous wastes in your blood are removed chiefly thru 9 million tiny delicate to fight the war over again. this de- Nebr. And Kidney tubes or filters. And functional disorders partment gets plenty of inquiries about of the Kidneys or Bladder may cause Getting Up Reunions and activities at times and Nights. Nervousness, Leg Pains, Circles Under some of the backward groups. Why not Eyes, Dizziness, Backache, Swollen Ankles, or places other than the Legion National Burning Passages. Help your kidneys purify your get busy and call the roll of your old blood with Cystex. Usually the very first dose Convention, follow: starts helping youf kidneys clean out excess acids, comrades? and this soon may make you feel like new. Under 4th Drv. Assoc., N. Y. Chapter—Meeting 2d the money-back guarantee Cystex must satisfy While scores of veterans' organizations Wednesday each month at Child's, 109 W. 42d completely or cost nothing. Get Cystex (siss-tex) st.. New York City. (Continued on page tiO) today. Only 3c a dose at druggists. The guarantee held their twentieth annual reunions this protects you. past year, some of those that were a bit slower in getting under way are quite DISCARD YOUR OLD AERIAL cocky about their records. We may be It Is Most Likely Corroded and Has Poor or Loose Noisy Connections Complete RE BUZZES. CLICKS an.! shorts from summer rains and winter snow and starting something, but we're willing Does away with when using an F & H Capacity Aerial Eliminator. Anyone ran connect it in a ent's time to the radio set occupies only the stick for of Aerial entirely — IVi inch by 4 inch space behind to our neck out the good the — Just place yet enables your radio to operate without an aerial and tune in stations over entire broadcast hand cause by broadcasting this boast received an F & II Ca- frequencies. pacity Aerial ELIMINATE THE AERIAL FOR GOOD El i in i n a t o from D. Wilkie Rabey: Attach this unit to your radio make your set complete in itself forget aerial (size W-t in. x — — wires and troubles—move your set anywhere no more roof climbing, un- 4 in.) within — "The 'Battery F Overseas Club' is out your set. sightly lead-in or aerial wires. instruc NOT NEW—VALUE for national recognition and hopes to Simple ALREADY PROVED tions furnis On the market five years. 100.000 customers in IT. S. and foreign coun- with unit. Eas tries, in use obtain it through your Then and Now from the Arctic Region of Norway to the Tropics of Africa. connected by a Each factory tested on actual lo ig distance reception. Cannot harm set department. one to aerial Kasily connected to any radio, including radios having no ground or radios ground of set. S DAYS TRIAL for doublet aerial. Note: It will not operate on battery "This Club was organized eleven years radio will then i or automobile radios. Mail coupon at once. Pay postman $1.00 plus a few and tune in th pennies postage on delivery. If not entirely satisfied, return within live manner as if i and ago this coming February and is com- days your dollar will be refunded without question. connected to an Operates on hot JUST MAIL THIS COUPON posed entirely and exclusively of veterans F H Radio Laboratories, and long waves & Dept. 38, Fargo. N. Dak. Send F & H Capacity Aerial. Will pay postm in $1 plus few of Battery F, 61st Artillery, Coast Artil- WHAT USERS SAY cents postage. If not pleased will return wil hin 5 days for SI refund. LaPorte, Texas. the Capacity Aerial Che'-k here if sending- $1 w i til order—thus After using saving postage cost same refund Eliminator over a year on my 1935 small 7 tube set — guarantee, Check here Q lery Corps, who had six months' service if interested in dealer's proposition. can say it brings in reception with fine volume and ckirity, pulling in stations from Japan. Europe. overseas. 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THE ?J{(arking Time on (Christmas American Legion Magazine (Continued from page §g) INDEX of Chapter maintain? headquarters at 259 W. 14th St., 333d F. A., Btry. B—Annual reunion, Chicago, ADVERTISERS New York City. Howard S. Smith, secy. 111., Jan. 21, 1939. M. J. Kennedy, 241 Addison 5th Div. — Limited number of copies of divisional rd., Riverside, 111. history still available. Five dollars. Wm. Barton Btries. C & D, 4th & 5th Regts., F.A.R.D., Bruce, pres., Soc. of 5th Div., 48 Ayrault St., Prov- Camp Taylor—-Natl, organization being formed idence, R. I. to prepare for reunion. Send names, addresses to 26th Drv. Assoc., N. Y. Chap.—YD vets, in Frank O'Sullivan, btry. clrk., Galena, Ks. Albert Mills 49 N. Y. and N. J invited to join. Jos. Greenberg, 2092 102d Mob. Ord. Repair Shop—Vets, invited to Davidson av., Bronx, N. Y. attend meeting and reunion. Write Yets. American Life & Accident Insurance Co.. 57 Assoc. 27th Div. Assoc.—For up-to-date roster of Ordnance Dept., N. Y. Natl. Guard, 216 Ft. Wash- veterans, report to Gen. John F. O'Ryan, 120 ington av., New York City. Broadway, New York City. Vets, of 13th Encrs. — 10th annual reunion, Brooks Appliance Company 57 Soc. of 28th Div. —All vets requested to send Minneapolis, Minn., June 16-18, 1939. Hq. at Cur- name, address and units to Harry J. Ritter, secy.- tis Hotel. Jas. A. Elliott, secy. -treas., 721 E. 21st treas., Senate Hotel, Harrisburg, Pa., for up-to- St., Little Rock, Ark. date roster. 14th Engrs. Vets. Assoc. — Meeting 3 p. m., Calvert Distillers Corp. Rainpow (42d) Div. Vets. —21st annual re- first Sunday of each month, Back Bay Station, union, Oklahoma City, Okla., July 14-15, 1939. Boston, Mass. Write C. E. Scott, comdr. -editor., Old Drum 36 Albert Hoyt, natl. secy., 3792 W. 152d St., Cleve- 54 College av., Medford, Mass., for bi-monthly land, Ohio. Neics. Carter Medicine Company 59 77th Div. — Limited remainder of divisional his- 15th Engrs. Mothers and Wives—Meets 1:30 College of Swedish Massage 59 tories msv be purchased for fifty cents. Chas J p. m., first Tuesday of each month at Congress of Cahill, asst. treas., 77th Div. Assoc., 28 E. 39th St., Clubs, 408 Penn av., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Beulah Crazy Water Company 55 New York City. E. McGraw, secy., 1700 Benton av., E. Bellevue, 80th Div. Vets. Assoc. —20th annual reunion Pa. and convention, Uniontown, Pa., Aug. 3-6, 1939. Vets. 31st Ry. Engrs.— 11th annual reunion, Dr. S. A. Baltz, chmn., Uniontown. Natl. Hq., San Francisco, Calif., in Aug., 1939. F. E. Love, Denison, T. S. & Company 49 Mark R. Byrne, secy., 413 Plaza bldg., Pittsburgh, secy. -treas., I0i\i 1st St., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Pa. Iowa. Doan's Pills 57 82n Div. Assoc. —All 82d vets who report to 5th Constr. Co. (Bricklayers)—Proposed re- R. J. McBride, secy., 28 E. 39th St., New York union of vets of Driffield and Sussex, Eng. H. B. City, will receive copy of last issue of the All- Skinner, 35 E. 4th St., Newport, Ky. Emblem Division 41 .4 merican. 30liTH F. S. Bn. Assoc., 81st Dry. —History of 83d Div. A. E. F. Vets. Assoc.— All Slid vets Battalion about to be printed. Vets send name and are invited to join revived organization. Report to address to Warren W. Irwin, 243 Roosevelt rd., Eugene F. Trunko, paymaster, 312 Akron Savings Rochester, N. Y., so copy may be mailed. F & H Radio Laboratories 59 & Loan bldg., Akron, Ohio. 310th Sup. Trn., Co. B—Proposed reunion. War Soc. of 89th Div. — Revival of divisional Report to Lloyd E. Smith, 34555 Wick rd., Romu- Franklin Institute 49 association. All 89th vets invited to join. Big re- lus, Mich. union during 1939. Chas. Stevenson, secy., Bakery Co. 337 Proposed reunion in Boston, Frontier Asthma Company 53 S. 2205 — Grand, Kansas City, Mo. Mass. All vets to be guests of New England mem- 92n Div. War Vets. Assoc.— All vets invited to bers. L. E. Bancroft, Box 79, Sudbury, Mass. join. Osie Kelley, pres., 720 E. 50th pi., Chicago, 111. 313th M. P., Cos. A & B—Permanent organiza- tion formed recent reunion in Iowa. For complete Gillette Safety Razor Company 51 18th Inf. Assoc. —To complete roster, report at to A. B. Cushing, secy. -treas., Box 1771, El Paso, roster, report to Geo. P. Gillan, adjt., Omaha Post, Tex. City Hall, Omaha, Nebr. 36th Inf. Club— For roster, report to Harry Air Service—-20th anniversary reunion of All Corps pilots enlisted Knox Company Cystex 59 Berg, 3139 15th av., S., Minneapolis, Minn. Army, Navy and Marine and (>4th Inf.—Proposed reunion. Report to Nicholas men who trained at Florida Air Stations during war, Belotti, 3940 Carpenter av., Bronx, N. Y. at Miami, Florida, Jan. 6-8, 1939, during 11th an- 30Sth Inf. — Regimental reunion, Governor nual Miami Ail-American Air Maneuvers. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company Clinton Hotel, 31st st. & 7th av., New York City, 40th Aero Sudrn. — ProDosed organization and Sat., Feb. 4, 1939. John E. Hayden, chmn., 28 E. reunion. Earle Gardner, 43 So. Blvd., Oak Park, 111. Velvet 43 39th st.. New York City. 220th Aero Scjdrn. —Forming national organi- zation for first 1939. 1 12th Inf., Co. H For information regarding with plans reunion during Lorillard, P. — Company annual reunion, report to Ernest W. Cuthbert, Send names and addresses to J. O. Lewis, 123 W. 71st st Cincinnati, Ohio. Union Leader 47 secy., Ridgway, Pa. , 51st Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Base Hosp. No. 45 Vets. Assoc. — Annual Flushing, N. Y., Sun., Sept. 10, 1939. Eugene reunion, Richmond, Va., Feb. 25, 1939. L. C. Bird,

Cornwell, secy., 19 Pine St., Kingston, N. Y. adjt , Richmond, Va. Media Research Bureau 45 120th F. A. — Reunion, Milwaukee, Wise, Dec. Camp Grant Base Hosp. —Proposed reunion. 12, Col. Penner's birthday. Tom J. Fallon, 759 N. Harold E. Giroux, 841 W. Barry av., Chicago.Ul. Metal Cast Products Company 59 Plankington av., Milwaukee. U. S. S. IHah —Proposed reunion. V. F. Kohler, 111th F. A., Btry. F (Rockpridge M & G Specialty Company 55 Art.)— Pro- Peekskill, N. Y. posed reunion at Lexington or Richmond, Ya. John Noll Morgan Lithograph Company 1 Report to Robert D. Beeton, 1(530 Fuller st., N. J. \\ ., \\ ashington, D. C. The Company Clerk

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Seagram Distillers Corp 25 Standard Brands, Fleischmann's Yeast.. 49 Superior Match Pants Company 59

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Walker, Hiram, Inc Cover II Down, temporarily, but not out! This picture of a group of smiling Weiser, H 55 doughboys with their nurse was found on a Los Angeles, California, street in September, 1937. The first Legionnaire who definitely identifies Yello-Bole 49 himself may have the print

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specifically

I GUARANTE E S

that "EVEREADY" "PRESTONE" ANTI-FREEZE, if used according to printed

directions, in normal water cooling systems, will protect the cooling system of your car against freezing and clogging from rust formations

for a full winter; also that it will not boil away, will not cause dam-

age to car finish, or to the metal or rubber parts of the cooling

system, and that it will not leak out of a cooling system tight enough to hold water.

NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY, INC. GENERAL OFFICES: NEW YORK. N Y BRANCHES CHICAGO. SAN FRANCISCO UNIT OF UNION CAXBIDE ffW3 AMD CARBON CORPORATION

FIND YOUR CAR ON THIS CHART IMPORTANT! The price per gallon of an anti-freeze means nothing unless you know how many gallons you will need during the entire winter. You can't get that imorrnation on a boil-away anti-freeze. But you can get it for "Prestone"

anti-freeze . . . and here it is. See how reasonably you can get tvto-way protection all winter long against both freeze-up and rust formations with one shot of "Prestone" anti-freeze—one shot because it won't boil off, no matter how warm the weather gets between the cold snaps. If your car isn't on this chart, your dealer has a chart showing all cars; and amounts needed for temperatures to 60° below zero.

Find your car and read from left to right. The first figure shows the protection you get with one gallon of "Eveready" "Prestone" anti-freeze in the cooling system; the "— second with one and a halfgallons— and so on. "+" means above zero. " means be- low zero. Ifyour car has a hot water heater, add \ gallon to the Quantity called for.

MODEL 1 1V4 2 2'/2 1 l'/i 2 2Vj GAL CAL GAL. GAL. GAL. GAL. GAL. CAL. A GALLON AUBURN LAFAYETTE '36 Why take chances with boil- 6S4, + 12 - 4 -27 -59 6, '34, '35, '36 + 15 + 2 -16 852, '36 + 17+6-9 -28 "400", '37, "38 + 16 + 4 -12 away anti-freeze this winter? LA SALLE BUICK Start the season right, with 40, '34, '35, '36, '37, '38 + 6 -18 -54 35-50, '35; 50 (Str. 8), '36 + 12 - 4 -27 -59 '38 60, 80, 90, '36, '37, '38 + 12 - 4 -27 345-C, '33; SO, '37, +20 +12 + 1 -12 "Eveready" "Prestone" anti- CADILLAC LINCOLN freeze in your radiator. One 85, '37 - Zephyr, '36, '37, '38 + 22 +14 + 4-6 + 12 4 -27 -59 stop at your service station 90, '36, '37; 60, '38 + 19 + 9-3 -19 V-12, '33 to '38 +23 +17 +10 + 2 60, 70, '37; 65, 75, '37, '38 +20 +12 + 1-12 NASH now, and you're safe against 60, '36; '38 70, 75, 90, +22 +15 +8 0 3720, '37; 3820, 3880, '38 + 10 - 8 -34 '34, '36 boil-away, freeze-up and rust- 355-D, '35; 80, 85, + 16 + 4 -12 -34 '36 '37 3620, 3640, ; 3780, + 14 0 -21 -50 CHEVROLET Adv. 8, '34, '35;Amb.8, '36 + 17 +6-9 -28 clogging till winter long. All Models, '36 + 8 -12 -43 OLDSMOBILE PRESTONE No worry, no uncertainty, '38 All Models, '37, + 6 -18 -54 F, '35, '36 -25 -62 + 3 NT no going back for more. You CHRYSLER F, '34 ;L, '35, '36; F, '37, '38 + 10 - 8 -34 -62 'FREEZE L, '37, '38 17 6, '32, '33, '34, '35; AF, '37 - -27 -59 + + 6-9 ^ pay for "Prestone" anti- + 12 4 Royal, '37; C18, '38 -12 -34 19, 20, + 16 + 4 PACKARD freeze only once-a-winter. And DeL-8, '36; Imp., '37 + 18 +8-6 -23 120, '35, '36; 6, '37 + 14 0 -21 -50 AF-8, Imp. *36 -8, '35; 6, + 15 + 2 -16 -42 6, '38 + 8 -12 -43 if you'll check back after a - -34 DE SOTO + 10 8 winter of guaranteed freeze- 1400-1-2, '36; 120, '37; 6, '34; AF, AS, '36; 6, '37; Super 8, '38 + 16 + 4 -12 -34 up protection, driving com- S-5, '38 + 16 + 4 -12 -34 Super 8, '35, '36 + 18 +8-6-23 fort DODGE 1500-1-2, '37 + 19 +10 0 -IS and peace of mind, you 'll '33 '38 6, '32, '33; D-2, '36; 12, to +21 +16 +10 find that "Prestone" anti- D-8, "38 + 8 -12 -43 PIERCE ARROW freeze has actually saved you money. Senior-6, '30; DU, '35: 1601, '36; 8, '37, '38 + 20 +12 + 1 -12 D-5, '37 12 - 4 -27 -59 '36 '38 the guarantee. It + 12, to +24 +20 +15 + 6 Read insures your car against winter's FORD PLYMOUTH greatest driving hazards ... boil-away, freeze-up, and rust. V-8, "32 to '36; V-8-78, PF, PG, '34 PS, P6, '38 + 6 '38 '37, + 18 + 8 - 6 -23 PI, P2, '36; P3, P4, '37 + 8 V-8-74, '37, '38 + 10 - 8 -34 -62 PONTIAC GRAHAM 8, '33, '34, '35; 6, '36 + 8-12 -43 80, 90, 110, '36; 95, 116, 6, '37, '38 + 10 - 8 -34 -62 120, '37, '38 + 10 -34 -62 8, '36 + 12 - 4 -27 -59 EVEREADY 74-6, '35; 85, 'J7 0 -62 8, '37, '38 + 15 +2-16 -42 TRADE-MARKS HUDSON STUDEBAKER 6, 'it (late); 6, '36 to '38 + 3 -25 -62 6, '36 to '38; Com., '38 + 6 -18 -54 8, *36, *37 + 16 + 4 -12 -34 Die, '34, '35; Pres., '37 + 10 - 8 -34 -62 6, '35 (early); 8, '38 + 14 - 0 -21 -50 Pres., '36, '38 + 12 - 4 -27 -59 112, '38 0 -34 -62 PRESTONE TERRAP LANE HUPMOBILE 6, '36, '37, '38 + 3 -25 -62 ANTI-FREEZE 6-618-G, >36;6, '37, '38 +16 + 4 -12 -34 WILLYS 422, '34; 8-621-N,'36;8,'38 +18 + 8-6 -23 77, '33 to '36 -21 The words "Eveready" and "Prestone" are trade-marks of 527, '35; 627, '36; 8, '37 +19 +10 0 -15 •37, '38 - 6 -47 National Carbon Co., Inc.

COSTS MORE BY THE GALLON LESS BY THE WINTER

••• • v.'.'''.. .. . T . \':J , <>J^^^UaSSSmm High-tension times are hardon nerves

BEAGLE HOUND-English fox-hound in miniature. Solid and big for his inches, true beagle has the long -wearing look of the hound that can last in the chase. One of oldest breeds in history. U. S. standards specify 15 inches maximum height.

He's giving his

nerves a rest • • •

ADOG'S nervous system is just as complex as your own. His reactions are lightning-quick. But when his nerves need a rest, he stops — relaxes. We often neglect our nerves. We press on heedless of nerve tension. Take a lesson from the dog's instinct for protection. Ease up — rest your nerves. Let up — light up a Camel. Keeping Camels at hand provides a delightfully pleasant way of giving your nerves a rest. Often through the day, enjoy Camel's ripe, expensive tobaccos. Smokers find Camel's costlier tobaccos so soothing to the nerves.

People who know the sheer joy of an active, effective life say: "Let up — tight up a Cumet!"

COVERING TRIALS, ACCIDENTS, sports puts a big strain on the nerves of Western Union telegrapher, George Er- rickson. "I avoid getting my nerves tense, upset," says operator Errickson. "I ease off frequently, to give my nerves a wel- come rest. I let up and light up a Camel."

pip you know: Smoke 6 packs of Camels and find IN THE HEART OF out why they are THE CONGO, Leila Denis the LARGEST- and her explorer husband SELLING CIGARETTE filmed Universal Pictures' IN AMERICA epic, "Dark Rapture." She says: "Such ventures can — that tobacco U "cured" by several be quite nerve -straining, methods — which include air-cured and flue-cured? Not all cigarettes but it's my rule to pause can be made from choicest grade

frequently. I let up and tobacco — there isn't enough! It is important to know that Camels are light up a Camel. Camels TlRAISHt, DOMESTIC, a matchless blend of finer, MORE -I are so soothing." V EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS — CIGARETTES Turkish and Domestic. / Let up_Light up a Camel

Smokers find Camel's Costlier Tobaccos are Soothing to the Nerves