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January issue of this magazine ABSOLUTE CENTER, U.S.A. 3 THE By Karl Detzer was on the press when the infamous Decorative Map by Henry J. O'Brien Japanese attack on Hawaii forced war I HELP? 4 upon us. In the circumstances, with the HOW CAN By A. D. Rathbone, IV issue reaching members of the great 6 Legion family three weeks or more after BESIDE THE ANGELS OF MERCY By Howard Stephenson the beginning of hostilities it became Illustration by Gregor Duncan necessary for us to make changes in the TWO WRONGS 8 magazine, and rather quickly. The art By Arthur Leo Zagat editor cut in on the drawing of the Illustrations by J. W. Schlaikjer grim-looking youngster labeled 1942 THE ARMY HITS ITS STRIDE 10 which made up the front cover, and in- By T. H. Thomas serted a notice concerning the clarion BATTLESHIP BOSS 12 call to service issued to all Legionnaires By Paul Schubert by National Commander Stambaugh. On HE WAS A FARMER 14 the first page of the magazine proper By Harry Botsford Frank Street was a discussion of the war powers of Illustrated by the President of the United States in IN MR. LINCOLN'S SERVICE 16 Hyatt peacetime which Professor John W. By Jack Illustrated by Harry Fisk Curran of the Law School of De Paul University in Chicago had contributed. "WHEN GOOD FELLOWS GET TOGETHER" 18 The illustrations used with that article By Thomas A. Larremore proved remarkably pat for the editorial Illustrations by George Shanks RACE OF THE CENTURY 20 Important By Ted Meredith FEBRUARY-BY THE NUMBERS 22 A form for your convenience if yon wish to By Wallgren have the magazine sent to another address EDITORIAL: to our fighting men 23 11 ill he found on page 45. OHIO: IN THERE PITCHING 24 By Frederick C. Painton The U. S. at War, which was substituted 26 on page one and continued to the back OUT OF THE FOLDER of the magazine (the publishing term is PACIFIC OUTPOST 30 By John Noll the back of the book), where Professor J. (Continued on page 48) BURSTS & DUDS 56

of Legion and is owned THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE is the official publication The American exclusively by The American Legion, Copyright 1942 by The American Legion. Entered as second class Stam- matter Sept.*26, 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under the act of March 3, 1879. Lynn U. baugh, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairmaniof the Legion Publications Commission; Vilas H Whaley, Racine, Wis., /Vice Chairman. Members of Commission: Phil Conley, Charleston, W. Va.; Britain, Conn.; Theo- Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Jerry Owen, Salem, Ore.; Harry C. Jackson, New dore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; Robert W. Colflesh, Des Moines, la.; Dr. William F. Murphy, Pales- Milford, Tex.; Lawrence Hager, Owensboro, Ky.; Frank C. -Love^Syracuse, N. Y.; Elmer Nelson^ tine, Glenn H. Campbell, Mass.; William B. Fischelis, Philadelphia, Pa.; Claude S. Ramsey, Raleigh, N. C; Cleveland, O.; Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, Neb. _ ,. - Uirector ot Director of PublicationsAJames F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Editor, Alexander Gardiner; Stevenson; Advertising, Thomas O. Woolf; Managing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler;,Art Director, Edward M.

Associate Editor, John J. Noll. ^ - • / in fiction and semi-fiction articles that deal with types are fictitious. Use ot National Distillers Products Names of characters our the name of any person living or dead is pure coincidence. New York Magazine 2 The AMERICAN LEGION When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine Our center of population, from 1790 to 1940. Left, Prof. Cogshall at the present center on a Hoosier farm

NOVEMBER 18, 1941, an ONelderly astronomy professor from Indiana University put on his rubbers and tramped into a little grove of hard maple, hickory and walnut trees on a southern Indiana farm, to "shoot the sun" with an old- shrewdness and self-sufficiency, and he fashioned mariner's sextant. He moved "don't know much about the neighbors east fifty yards, west half that distance, & and don't bother them any." backed up a little to the north. Then The owner-brothers are farm-bred, he kicked a deep heel-print into the soft KARL DETZER but live in cities now, Gilbert traveling earth, and having thus marked the for a Philadelphia chemical house, Ralph spot, picked up a handful of dead Carlisle, the nearest village, has 850 selling Palm Beach clothes. They leave maple branches and piled them carefully inhabitants and has doubled in popula- the management of the acres to their over it. tion in 50 years. It has a branch bank, father, but return to it in the fall to Thus for the fifth time in forty years three churches, a movie theatre, a chain spend their vacations hunting, so the old Professor W. A. Cogshall had found the store and half a dozen filling stations, man has planted twelve acres in millet exact center of population for the a grain elevator down by the railroad and cane as a shelter for quail, and "the

U. S. A. He paced off the distance to the tracks, and it complains that passenger boys find the shooting pretty good." nearest maple tree, tore a sheet from his train service isn't as good as it was There's an eleven-room white house notebook, and with a pencil stub wrote before the State built a concrete road with ornate porches and long windows in tall, firm letters, "Center of Popula- through town. that come down to the floor and "make tion 75 feet due West of this Tree." He The farm where Professor Cogshall drafts," according to J. R. Corbin, who tacked it to the rough bark, then trudged shot the sun is owned by two brothers, disapproves of them. Neighbors can't a quarter mile back to the highway. Gilbert and Ralph Corbin, and is man- remember when the house was built, but

Every ten years the federal census aged by their father, J. R. Corbin, a the architecture indicates that Grant bureau lists the longitude and latitude lean, energetic 71 -year-old Hoosier who might have been President when it was of every man, woman and child in the might have stepped out of a book by new. nation. Its statisticians add these to- Tarkington. He has keen, level eyes, Part of the house is occupied now gether, find a mean, and send it to Pro- a slow mid-American drawl, a native by Chancy Bennett and his family, who fessor Cogshall. Armed with his sextant, object to the local notoriety the place the 68-year-old Hoosier astronomer sets has taken on since the population center out, shoots sun or stars, finds the exact moved uninvited to these acres. Ben- spot, marks it, and months later a crew nett, a small, sandy, red-faced farm- of masons sets up a stone monument hand, is "A-Xumber-One with stock and there. hogs," according to the elder Corbin. Center of population has moved four- "but has to be handled with kid gloves." teen miles southwest in the last ten Good labor is hard to get in that sec- years. It lies now in a pleasant rolling tion of Indiana, hard to keep, and feel- pasture on a 244-acre farm, two and a ing its power, it can be both irascible half miles east of the village of Carlisle and domineering. So the center of pop- in Sullivan County, just north of Indiana ulation, like the rest of the nation, has State Road 58. The history and environ- its labor problems. ment of the plate, its ownership and The farm is doing .very well now, use, the people who live on it and near Prof. W. A. Cogshall, who authen- after a checkered .career. A former it are so typical of America that there is ticated the center of population as owner, riding the crest of. prosperity in something almost prophetic in that sheet a spot two and a half miles east the 1920's. put in a nine-hole golf course of paper tacked to the tree. of Carlisle, Indiana (Continued on page 47)

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HOW CAM S HELP? A FEW ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION EVERY AMERICAN IS ASKING

are United States and its THEREmany tough possessions can play and thankless his or her part. They jobs in this are: the armed forces, man's—and woman's the productive forces, —war, Mr. and Mrs. the protection of Legionnaire, and civilians. The first they're made to your needs no amplifica- measure if you still tion. The second is "can take it." War is concerned not only different now, you with production of know, vastly differ- guns, shells, tanks, ent. Remember, that's and planes, but also what we said back ir. with food, clothing, AUXILIARY POLICE INSIGNIA STAFF '17 to veterans of BASIC CORPS f ue l, and practically other wars? Now it's all of the other neces- being said to us. Nevertheless, this new sities of the nation's life. war is brutal and ugly, a fact which can Civilian - defense is not directed at be adequately and safely faced only by enemy people or planes; its aim is to the largest and most thoroughly co- make us strong enough and sufficiently ordinated organization for civilian pro- A. D. well organized (1) to defeat the pur- tection this world has ever seen. Such pose of an enemy air raid, which is to an organization is the United States RATHBONE IV create terror, havoc, panic, and suffer- Office of Civilian Defense, created May ing among the non-combatant popula-

20, 1 941, by Executive Order of Presi- defense, and for the moment our fast- tion in order to force surrender on our dent Roosevelt, and offering in the growing army of active defense is the Government; (2) to enable us to guard vastness of its scope literally thousands one that needs and will get equipment. ourselves against sabotage and the ter- of different jobs to be done by millions There's no I.D.R. in this civilian out- mitic activities of fifth columns, things of volunteers. fit; there are no regimental reviews, that can and do happen on the coasts, But don't forget, these war-time jobs parades, or bands, and the top-kick is in the interior, anywhere; (3) to care aren't easy. You perform them in addi- just another gent like yourself, who for and strengthen the health and tion to your every.day work—a three- works for a living, does his defense job, morale of all of us, to insure our general hour stretch as Auxiliary Policeman, too—and neither of you gets paid for welfare, and to maintain the proper level guarding an aqueduct in the middle of that. And if he does happen to rank of such important items as nutrition, the night, or you're on post in Aircraft you, in all probability it's because, long education, recreation. A healthy people Warning Service; cold, raw spots, like before Pearl Harbor, he began putting of high morale just won't be licked. Ask the Argonne, but minus the compensa- in from two to four hours a week at- the man from Coventry, Pearl Harbor torily blood-warming feeling that at any tending night classes to learn the tricks other points in Hawaii. moment Fritz might start something. of his new trade. Simultaneously with the activation Your uniform, for the present, will con- Because this business of defense of a of the Office of Civilian Defense, The sist of an emblematic armband, and democracy is something that cannot be American Legion became closely iden- some day, perhaps, you'll get a tin hat, deputized, there are three generalized tified, both as to operations and per- or you may dig your old one out of the branches of service in one of which sonnel. From the offices of the Di- attic. You're in the army of passive every able-bodied man and woman in the rector, who is New York City's Mayor,

There's a job for you in this all-out war. Read this article— the most important ever pub-

lished by this magazine—then get your neighbors and friends to help do the job, for victory ©

ENROLLEE FIRST CLASS MEDICAL CORPS SQUAD LEADER NURSES AIDES CORPS SECTION LEADER 4 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine —

Legionnaire Fiorello H. LaGuardia, and Deputy Director, T. Semmes Walmsley, Chairman of the 1922 National Con- vention at New Or- leans, all the way down the line to the latest enrollees in fire, police, BOMB SQUAD AUXILIARY FIREMEN FIRE WATCHER RESCUE PARTY and warden units, in canteen service, motor opportunity to utilize to great States and the localities," is greater corps, and nutrition advantage the experience than ever before. To become more groups, are to be found gained in the last World War specific, to answer the pertinent and American Legion men by ex-service men throughout personal question: "How can / help?" and women. Henry H. the country. Many of these let's get down to cases; let's take this (Hank) Dudley, for- men having been under fire Civilian Defense business apart and merly Nebraska's De- would, in the event of an look at the requirements. We've high- partment Adjutant, A emergency, prove most use- lighted the "why" and the "what" of later a Field Secretary ful in leadership, as well as population protection. Now let's see in the Legion's Na- ROAD REPAIR CREW to great advantage in instruc- how it works. tional Rehabilitation tion. From top to bottom the O.C.D. is Service, was "drafted"' "I have no doubt that strictly a civil affair, co-operating with from his latest Legion many of these ex-service men the armed forces, but directly under the job as head of the Di- are already used by you in guidance and command of the heads of vision of Civilian De- the organization of these pro- civil governing units, such as the Gov- fense at National Head- tective services. It is my be- ernors of the 48 States, mayors or select- quarters by Director lief that their increasing use men in cities, town, villages, and super- LaGuardia to take A would tend to develop their visors in counties or rural areas. Each charge of the O.C.D. full leadership and if they civilian defense organization, whether Veterans' Groups Divi- should be chosen, first for in- in a metropolitan area, a smaller city, or DECONTAMINATION CORPS sion. struction, and then utilized throughout the general countryside, is In nine regional of- by the States and localities, an entity unto itself—a division, a fices, corresponding in you would be able to get the regiment, a company, a squad, if you area and jurisdictional maximum benefit from them. will, that has been assigned its own sec- extent to the nine Army "All of the veterans' organ- tor, the large or the small community Corps Areas, will be izations have tendered their in which it lives, in the far-flung battle found Regional Direc- services to me, which I now fronts of today. tors, seven of whom are in turn urge you to use. While Collaborating with the head of the Legionnaires, including A I would not restrict their serv- governmental unit is a council com- Past National Com- ices just to the protective posed of representatives of all phases of manders Colonel Frank- certainly civil life, plus an executive director, DEMOLITION & CLEARANCE CREW branches, I would lin D'Olier and Major see to it that they are given a whose job is to co-ordinate the multi-

Raymond J. Kelly. Hun- particular mission to do on tude of interests. Besides the veterans' dreds of others, mem- this very essential and im- organizations and the American Red bers of the Legion or portant branch of civilian de- Cross, these include labor and trade as- the Auxiliary, at once fense. sociations, patriotic and fraternal so- became active in the "For the immediate utiliza- cieties, civic and educational bodies, establishment and or- tion of their services as air professional groups, churches, women's, ganization of state, raid wardens and aircraft and youth's clubs. In short, the whole county, and commu- A warning service they may be community is in this picture. Enlist- nity defense councils, called upon to take the lead ments will be accepted from individuals in the training of other MESSENGER and may be asked to urge or from entire organizations, such as civilians for their share younger men exempt from Posts of The American Legion or Units in the myriad of jobs military service to join them. of the Auxiliary, but it must be under- to be done. This will encourage men of stood that the head of the local defense On November 14, non-military training to join council, be he mayor or selectman, re- 1941, Director La- in the effort. Sincerely yours, mains the commanding officer and issues Guardia addressed the F. H. LaGuardia, U. S. Di- all orders. In other words, while a Le- following letter to the rector of Civilian Defense." gion Post may enlist en masse in the Air Governor of each State: In short, the organization Warden Service, each member from then "My dear Governor: and operation of a great, na- on works as an individual member of In the civilian protection-wide defense council—as that service and takes his orders from DRIVERS CORPS tion work there is an far-flung and as divergent as the duly accredited officers of the De- the Army we used to be in fense Council. for the war-time protection Our new national civilian army and

of United States civilians is, each of its thousands of component de- and has been since its incep- fense councils has two departments: the tion, a "natural'' for the Le- Combat, or Emergency Division, and the gion and the Legion Auxiliary. Community, or Long-Range Division. And now, more than at any The first requires careful preliminary ATA previous time, the need for organization and, for some types of leadership, "first for instruc- units, intensive training of personnel. It

AIR RAID WARDEN EMERGENCY FOOD AND HOUSING tion, and then utilized for the sees action in (Continued on page 50)

FEBRUARY, 194* Beside the Angels of Mercy

American Red Cross is the THEAmerican people. Its mother- Illustrated by hood in times of trouble and dis- GREGOR DUNCAN tress embraces us all. Legion- naires, now as in 1918, are doing valiant HOWARD service in its behalf. The war crisis finds members of the great Legion family manning watch STEPHENSON towers, on lookout for enemy planes in dead earnest. It finds them giving blood to be re- Grim days lie ahead. Cool heads are duced to blood plasma and flown to needed. Where trouble will strike we sites of disaster and danger. cannot know. Whether it comes from It finds them taking charge of relief blasting bombs of the enemy, from and rescue crews which must be held in the inhuman work of saboteurs or from readiness against havoc in a thousand flood, earthquake or storm—the Legion communities. has a part to play, in meeting and mas- It finds them helping to lead and rally tering the crisis. We do know that the the people in a great national outpouring Legion, because of its long record of of funds and equipment for the Red cooperation with the Red Cross, will be Cross—not a sacrifice, but a pledge of constantly called on for work and leader- devotion. ship and unselfish help.

"The American Red Cross is again on Just what are our responsibilities as the job!" That is how National Com- Legionnaires? What is expected of us? mander Lynn U. Stambaugh summed it Because of the special fitness of Legion up in his message of December 13th, men to cope with emergency, our war joining in the appeal for a $50,000,000 Red Cross war fund. Mrs. Mark W. Murrill, National Presi- dent of the American Legion Auxiliary, called personally on Red Cross Chair- man Norman H. Davis, to notify him that the Auxiliary had voted $1,400 for a Red Cross mobile unit, to be used as an ambulance, blood-donor unit, or canteen. Other mobile units will be given as needed, she announced. In Hawaii and the Philippines, Red Cross workers carried out extensive evacuation of civilians from danger zones immediately following the first attacks

on Black Sunday, December 7. They were indeed "Angels of Mercy." Relief was provided for wounded and homeless. Emergency medical stations, equipped and ready, swung into immediate action. When war and disaster strike, the Red Cross must meet them with its work of mercy. Not a week goes by, even in peacetime, but some American community must have help. And behind the unceasing drama of preparedness against sudden death lies a story that never has been detailed—the story of the teamwork between the Legion and the Red Cross in times of emergency. Some years ago, after a cyclone had cut a murderous swath across three States, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes inquired as to how the Red Cross managed to get to the scene of trouble so quickly. "The Red Cross," an official replied, "doesn't have to get' there any more. It is there." I can think of no better way to describe the prompt- ness with which The American Legion

answers a Red Cross emergency call.

6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine $50,000,000 FOR THE RED CROSS

Our President: The American National Red Cross lias been spending funds at the rate of more than one million dollars a month, which is but a small fraction of the amount the organization now this campaign an overwhelming requires. . I appeal to the American people to make success.

Our National Commander: We are engulfed in another great war. During its course and in its wake will come a deluge of human grief. The American Red Cross is again on the job. members of The American . . . 1 am calling on the 11.780 posts and 1,130,000 Legion to respond to this $50,000,000 appeal from the Red Cross as their first service for God and Country in the present emergency.

And How About You? work is expected to be handled with is no casual, haphazard thing. By formal power, will cooperate and serve with the greater coolness, more effectiveness, less agreement made between the Legion and American Red Cross in its complete dis- lost motion than in the case of untrained the Red Cross in 1938, definite disaster aster relief setup. civilians. To a great extent, relief work duties have been assumed officially by First step for the individual Legion we are called on to perform will follow the Legion—duties on the part of na- Post prior to disaster is the appointment the lines of the disaster work in which tional and regional headquarters, and of a liaison officer, to keep in contact thousands of Legionnaires have been reaching down to every individual Post. with the local Red Cross Chapter. The engaged in peacetime emergencies, work- What are the Legion's official duties in Post then sets up its own organization for ing with the Red Cross. For even in emergency? To avoid du- exclusive Legion func- ordinary years, a new disaster occurs plication of effort and tions, the formation of every third day, somewhere in the United conflict of responsibility, Angels Of Mercy adequate emergency pa- States. they have been outlined trol squads and traffic The Red Cross, rightly, is the central as a three-fold obligation, squads. In order to as- directing agency. The Legion is the as follows: sure complete coordina- wheelhorse of the team. The aid it gives 1. The American Le- tion among Posts with- gion will assist the Amer- in a local territory, a ican Red Cross in per- County Red Cross Co-

fecting a unified disaster operation Committee is relief organization with- called for, consisting of in the Red Cross which one or more members will be prepared at all from each Post within times for prompt action. the County. Further 2. The American Le- help from the Legion is gion will augment duly asked in assisting the constituted civil or mili- A sure> fire song hit Red Cross to perfect a tary authority with aux- of the 1942 season permanent disaster re- iliary units for protection lief organization. Legion of life and property, traf- Posts are expected to encourage Legion- fic regulation and main- naires to join the Red Cross and to turn tenance of law and order. out as workers in the annual Roll Call. 3. When disaster oc- When disaster strikes, the Post liaison curs, The American Le- officer establishes a liaison gion, with all of its man- office in the local Red (Continued on page 42) m / ,1

FEBRUARY, 1942 7 change his mind." He turned on a tap, picked up soap. "He won't," Martha sighed, setting on the table a heaped bowl of greens. "As long as Richard thinks he's right, nothing will change him." "Then he's got to be made to see that's wrong—-" "Hush!" She gestured to the open window at the other end of the room. "Here he comes." Bf ARTHUR LEO ZAGAT When Dick Potter entered, his father's face was buried in a towel, his mother MARTHA POTTER lifted the lid was, "You didn't fetch the mail, I see." slicing the crusty bread she'd baked last off a pot on the stove and steam "No." Potter was tall, gaunt, his com- night. "Here's your Gazette, dad." He

from it filled the big kitchen with ap- plexion weather-crackled with the con- put down the folded and wrapped news- petizing fragrance. Boots thudded on the sistency and color of fine leather. "Dick paper beside John's plate. "And a notice back porch. John came in, the am- will see the flag's up when he passes the of an open meeting of your American moniacal odors of the barnyard that box, coming in from the south field." Legion Post, Saturday night." This was clung to him not unpleasant. Crossing to the sink, his limp, from a a blue-printed post card. "I see some Martha brushed graying hair back from shrapnel wound at Pont-a-Mousson, was actor's going to do impersonations of her sweat-dampened forehead. In the very bad, which meant that he was outstanding figures of the World War." look that passed between those two was greatly disturbed. "I want him to have The corners of his firm, sensitive mouth the warm, placid affection of long years time to think it over before he has to twitched. "The Great Mistake, they together, but all that she said to him tell us it's come. I'm still hoping he'll mean." " " " "

"Richard!" Martha's cry held pained He looked down at it and a pulse protest. throbbed in his broad forehead. "It's "Sorry, mom." Turning to her. he was from the Draft Board. It says that my loose-coupled, a little awkward in his claim to deferment as a conscientious brown work suit as the young Lincoln objector has been turned down, and was awkward. "But you know how I that I'm to report for induction Monday feel about fine, decent men getting to- morning." gether to remind themselves that they His mother's workworn hand went to were once murderers." her bosom and her lips trembled. Then "Soldiers, Dick." John's tone was low, she was smiling. "I'll have to look over but two pallid patches bloomed at either your socks right— wing of his blue-scrabbled—nose. "Com- "No." Dick's bronzed neck corded. rades who fought together "You don't have to. I'm not going." "To make the World Safe for De- She made a small, hopeless gesture mocracy." The youth's fingers, calloused and turned to fumble with the bread by pitchfork and plow-handle, crumpled knife. The clump of John Potter's boots, the long envelope that had remained in "Always." They'd said all this before, going toward the table, was a succession them. "Yes, and you won, I've heard, but they couldn't keep from saying it of hammer blows against throbbing si- but it seems that democracy still needs again. "I can't think of anything that lence. "Get washed up," he said heavily, saving." There was bitterness in his would make it right— for one man to kill "so we can get started eating. There's voice and his gray eyes were sullen. another. If I could work waiting to be done." He let him- "What better proof do you want of the "Richard," Martha intervened. "What self down into his chair as though old adage, two wrongs can— never make is in that letter?" fatigue had sapped all his strength. a right? Killing is wrong Dick started to say something but "Not always, Dick." Illustrated by Jes Schlaikjer (Continued on page 38) THE AfS/UV HiTS

during the tests of large-scale maneuvers. hitter commanding officers. It was much By For this, we have to thank chiefly less worried by training with dummy the far-sighted training program Gen- guns than by the prospect of fighting eral Marshall put in action long before under dummy Generals—under officers T. H. THOMAS the emergency arose. Only the downfall and staffs who had had no chance to of France could arouse prepare themselves by working in the the country to the need field with real troops. of setting to work in The Carolina maneuvers also proved earnest—but in certain the wisdom of getting troops into train- essential matters the ing promptly, whether or not all types General Staff had set of weapons were ready. If a Gallup poll to work long before had been taken on the question of that. Even when the training with dummy tanks and wooden country was indifferent guns, the country and Congress and the

to the whole matter, it press and the troops themselves would had pressed the point have voted loudly against General Mar- that no plant in the shall. The showing made in the autumn United States was maneuvers proves that he was right and tooled up to produce the others wrong. the essential items of In his address to the Legion Conven- up-to-date arms and tion last September General Marshall equipment—and even pointed out that in the past we had before the outbreak of followed the costly method of training

the Hitler war it had green troops on the actual field of battle. secured an appropria- This was so even in 191 7. "Our troops tion large enough to were sent overseas versed only in the make a beginning of basic training of the soldier. Divisions actual manufacture. As were equipped in the field, and trained CaDET a result, the types of within sound of the guns along the front guns most nakedly ab- held by our Allies. Corps and armies sent in the maneuvers were actually organized on the battle- Naval A of 1940 could be seen field." The present policy has been to take that something extra ... have you gpt it?

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Herewith, and we make no apologies for it, are recruiting posters of the Army, the Navy and the Ma- rine Corps, together with an appeal to young men who have been rejected by the Air Force for physical reasons, to get themselves in shape and try again

sight of the troops at work busily at work, last Novem- THEin the Carolina maneuvers was ber, in the Carolinas—and heartening and encouraging be- in fairly large numbers. yond all belief. Most of these deliveries Hitler and the Japanese, as was to be were not due to any sleight- expected, have fired the starting gun of-hand trick by the O.P.M. without regard for our training sched- during the previous months, ule. The declarations of war have come but to contracts made by before our new forces are fully armed, the Ordnance Department and before our combat units have as far back as the begin- ^Ihe attention of aH young men.who reached the stage of training planned ning of 1939. are citizens of the United States, is incident to to fit them for taking their places in a Long before the Selectees invited to the advantages the United States Navy modern line of battle. But even so, the came into the picture also, enlistment in

IIMIT* Ift AMU UNUfcM it plain fact remains that we have now a long-range training pro- ACt more trained officers and men than we gram had begun taking in have ever had in time of peace—and hand the weak points of the they are in a far more advanced state Regular Army. The Gen- ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ of training. For the first time in our eral Staff had not forgotten history, in time of peace, we have Com- the experience of going into mands and Staffs with the experience of the field in 191 8 with im- actually handling large units in the field, provised staffs and pinch-

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 1

HAS THE AIR FORCE TURNED YOU DOWN?

ZF YOU are among the 50 to 75 percent of applicants for the Army and Navy Air Services who have been turned down for physical reasons, don't despair.

You may still be able to mal{e the grade, for . . .

The American Flying Services Foundation, which is sponsored

by the Department of New York^ of The American Legion has gone to bat for you.

Remember the name of the flight surgeon who examined you?

If you don't you can doubtless get it. Write the foundation at 60 East 42nd Street, New Yorl^ City, telling them about your exam-

ination and if possible just why you were turned down. They in turn will ma\e arrangements for you to get remedial treatment, and when you are in shape you may present yourself for re-exam-

ination to the same flight surgeon, at the place where he first examined you. The Foundation has had such good results with

the rejectees it has wor\ed with that it talkj about getting more

than half of these youngsters right into the service they long to join.

Army and Navy Flight Surgeons anywhere in the United

States are invited to send in to the Medical Division of the Founda- arineCorpj/ tion, at 140 East 54th Street, New Yorl^ City, the names of the men they have rejected because of physical defects. reverse this tradition, and to get both of training in the particular type of World War. the National Defense Act of troops and staffs trained before enter- work our Army most needed. 1920 left us with the framework of a ing into action. This policy lies at the During the twenty years following the much larger peace-time Army than ever basis of the whole series of maneu- before. But with the whittling vers in different parts of the coun- down of army appropriations

try, in and 1. in later this 1940 194 Those in the 1 years became Carolinas were in a way the cul- more and more a paper frame- ' Bcatsckieiixd mination of this course. They were Heute qefioct wis work. The regiments were far on far a larger scale than the Today, Germany is Ours; below proper strength ; a large annual maneuvers carried out in proportion of the enlisted ** Germany and France before 1914. Ydotqtti Ait gaaze Welti strength had to be used for which brought into play two or non-military duties; and the three Army Corps. Tomorrow, the Whole World few Regular Divisions that In the Carolinas the Red and remained were scattered in Blue armies brought into a single small packets over wide areas. field of operations two fully or- The staff schools continued ganized Army Headquarters, an training officers in the various Air force for each army, five Army duties involved in handling Corps, and thirteen Combat Divi- large units, but no such units sions. In the opening attack of the existed, and the army budgets Meuse-Argonne, the First Army rovided little money for field I DUt into the field three Army Corps maneuvers. and nine Divisions. It has often been pointed The Carolina maneuver was thus out that when war came in not only the largest training exe - - 1--. 191 7 no officer on the active cise the Army has ever seen: it list had ever commanded a brought together a larger body of Division in the field. Roughly American troops than had ever speaking, we were returning been grouped in a single operation to this same state of things

in wartime. But it was no mere twenty years after 191 7. The sham battle on an unprecedented OH, YEAH? Regular officer had had more scale: in purpose and in character theoretical instruction and

it was a highly practical program book (Continued on page 44)

FEBRUARY, 1942 1 Battleship

FIFTY thousand details fill the Commander's day and follow him into the night. That was the case in peacetime. Now those duties are multi- plied and intensified. He is second in command. He is the big battleship's boss, the Ex- ecutive Officer. The only man over him is the skipper, but the skipper remains detached from the crew, from the ship's work, from the mechanics of getting things done. The skipper lives by himself, has his own steward and cook, his own

one-man Mess. The skipper is the ship's Mr. Big—and merely signifies what he wants done. No raising his own voice to bellow fog-horn orders against the gale—not for the skipper. He just tells the "Exec," and the Exec gets the results. To be active boss of 1500 men and sixty officers, a 30,000-ton ship and fifty million dollars worth of

government property, that is just about the Navy's toughest, roughest and most eagerly desired assignment —desired because in many ways it's more kick to be boss of a battleship

than it is to be skipper. Not that the skipper isn't boss. But it's the Commander who does the active bossing. In a dreadnought's organization, ship and crew are subdivided into Departments and Divisions. Each

Department is topped by a Depart- ment Head, usually a Lieutenant- Commander. The Navigator navigates and also has charge of signals and communications. The Gunnery Officer (usually known as the G.O.) does the shooting. The Chief Engineer (the Chief) runs the engines and makes the boilers boil, while the Supply Officer (Pay) and the Medical Of- ficer (the Surgeon) pay off and dis- pense pills, respectively. As for the Chaplain (Padre), he's not strictly

a' Department Head, but is useful in the Mess because of the ribbing which can be aimed in his direction. "Listen, Padre, are you trying to tell us a man like you would do three years' duty in Samoa just because of the climate? Wasn't there a little brown babe somewhere in the background?" With guns blazing, the U.S.S. North Carolina, one of our newest The Commander, as President of batttle wagons, goes into action. Despite the sinking of the Hood, the Wardroom Mess (the senior the Bismarck and the Prince of Wales, the battleship remains the officers' mess), sits at the head of most formidable fighting craft afloat the Wardroom table, with the Mess The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine —

way of following him wherever he goes. Even when he's shifting into civilian clothing, hoping to make the five o'clock officers' liberty boat in which most of his married wardroom messmates hit the beach and go home (on the

'J days when the ship is in port and they have PAUL SCHUBERT no night duties), he has to expect almost anything to happen. ranged down the sides according to rank Before he gets his and the Mess Treasurer at the foot. But vest buttoned there's a the Commander doesn't get served first, knock at. the door—it's except when it is his turn. The Ward- the officer-of-the-deck's room Steward puts a marker (called a messenger. "Command- "buck") in front of the place to be er, the officer-of-the- served first at each meal, and "passes deck says to tell you the buck" from one place to the next, a draft of ten men just meal by meal. The Commander takes reported aboard from his turn with the rest. The officers pay the training station, for their own food, but the Government and the working party provides dishes, linen and silver. ain't got back from the In some battleships the wardroom Nitro yet so he ain't "country" is aft; in others it is for'ard, got no motor-sailer to away from the rumble and throb of the send for the guard- propeller shafting. The passageways and mail, and can he have staterooms are clean, well-kept, quiet. If permission to hoist out it weren't for the smell of paint, salt- the 2d race-boat so the water, and shipboard, it would seem like engineer's crew can take a cross between hospital and monastery. v. workout? A peacetime scene aboard the U.S.S. New York The hum you hear is the sound of venti- Another knock—the as she left for maneuvers off Hampton Roads lation blowers. Chief Yeoman. "Sir, Each officer's room is about the size here's tomorrow's sched- of a decent closet in a house ashore. In ule. Will you initial it, it, in built-in metal furniture, a man please?" manages to stow all his uniforms and nautical gear—overcoat, boat cloak, 0500 Reveille blues and whites, sou'wester, gold 0515 Turn to; carry out morning orders "swabs" and mess jackets, sword and 0700 Breakfast pistol, books, photographs of wife and 0800 Underway with little Babsie, spyglass, binoculars, the Fleet etc., etc., etc. whole darn business. The bunk takes up one end of the room ; a leather-cushioned And the morning or- "transom" takes up the other, and if he der book hasn't been wants to feel especially homelike, he written up yet. The squeezes in an easy chair. Commander reaches for The Commander is luckier. The Com- his fountain-pen. "Aug. mander has a cabin to himself—an en- 15. Wash down decks. tire separate living room opening off his Fourth Division use stateroom. And the Commander has his holystones on oil stain own bath. st'b'd side No. 4 tur- But the Commander's cabin doesn't ret. Pipe down scrub have much of an air of leisure. The and wash hammocks Commander hardly knows what leisure before getting under-

is. A big safe next the inboard bulkhead way. Side cleaners ." houses the ship's service and wardroom over . . mess funds as well as a stack of signal The Department books and lead-bound confidential pub- Head closest to the lications. The round table with its green Executive is the First

baize cloth is covered with requests for Lieutenant (First Luff.) "job orders" for the next Navy Yard The First Luff has

overhaul period . . . charge of the hull—the The Commander has an office, amid- ship's structure—-and is ships on the gun deck—the Executive a glorified nautical Officer's Office, with yeomen, typewrit- housewife, the hardest ers, desks, filing cabinets, mimeograph worked man in the machines. He ought to be able to relax world. The First Luff is when he comes below to his cabin also Damage Control The captain takes the salute from his execu- But the Commander's work has a (Continued on page 48) tive officer, who runs the ship for him

FEBRUARY, 1942 13 ustration by FRANK STREET

WAS born on a farm. HEAll his life he loved the farm and judged things with the calm and patient appraisal of a man accustomed to watching things grow and mature. Unhurried, while others were inclined to become impatiently aroused, his judgment was balanced by the invariable tolerance that comes to those familiar with the useful art of shrewdly handling men, crops and animals. He was physically big, even as a youth. It was six feet and two inches from the top of his sandy hair to the bottoms of his big feet. He tipped the scales at 210 pounds. When he was sixteen he wore a size thirteen shoe. Lafay- ette once remarked, "His hands were the largest I have ever seen on a human being." He could bend a heavy horse- shoe with those hands, almost effort- lessly. And, if his feet were large, they could tramp endless miles, tirelessly and with the stealth of an Indian. There was an unstudied and natural dignity and reserve about him that won for him the respect but seldom the genuine affection of others. His eyes were frankly blue and serene ; his shoulders were broad and his waist was trim. By HARRY BOTSFORD Like many farmers of his generation, his formal education was somewhat calculations, contained 298,000 seeds to ure fields and translate the answer into meager. A sexton, it is recorded, taught the pound; and New River grass proved acres. It also told how to draw simple him a little elemental arithmetic and to have 844.000 seeds to the pound. legal papers. It was a book literally the boy found in the science of numbers He took pleasure in making these and filled with useful knowledge and aston- something fascinating. He acquired from other experimental calculations. Figures ishingly interesting facts. It was his the same source a capacity to read and were his friends. He planned on being favorite volume. the foundation of a fantastic system of a farmer in his own right. Farmers must Then he had other books; they all spelling that was to plague him all of know how to figure accurately. He was related to some phase of farming and his useful days. going to own his own land. In land there he studied their contents closely: Figures, their exactness, their utter was wealth. Land could be made to pro- The Farmer's Assistant. dependability, their measurability and duce. These were simple facts, a primi- Anderson on "Agriculture," in four unfailing obedience, gained and ever- tive philosophy ; but he believed in them volumes. lastingly held his honest affection and ardently. Price's "Carpenter." support. He found keen pleasure in com- He studied. First there was "The The Complete Farmer. puting the number of seeds in a pound, Young Man's Companion," a stout, Boswell on "Meadows." Troy weight, of red clover seed and meaty, handy little manual that told him Gibson's "Diseases of Horses." discovered it to be 71,000. Timothy, how to calculate interest, how to make Duhamel's "Practical Treatise of Hus- according to his shrewd and accurate ink from simple materials, how to meas- bandry."

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-.int Farmer

He took up the burden of management of his farms with vigor and ability and shrewdness. He was a master of detail

He absorbed the concentrated knowl- to store up more knowledge, to read He saved his fees. When he was only edge in these books. To him they were more books. When the boy was eleven his sixteen he purchased Bullskin Plantation, more interesting than any novel. They father had died and left him some farm- consisting of 550 acres of fair Virginia treated of familiar things, things he land which he failed to claim during the soil, without improvements. It was paid could touch, things he could do with his life of his mother. He went to live with for with money earned and saved. Dur- hands. Literally, his education, plus ex- his half-brother, Lawrence, a large land- ing the next four years he bought 1008 perience, came from these books. Farm- owner, three years after the death of additional acres out of his modest earn- ing: rearing healthy slaves, the proper his father. It was a family where every- ings. crops and strong animals—these consti- one worked. He learned to become a Then came long and busy days for tuted his science, his philosophy, his qualified surveyor, a good profession in him. His brother's health was seriously religion. Indeed, his knowledge and his a land where lawsuits and boundary- impaired and the management of the common sense was so commonly disputes were abundant. Real estate farms fell on his broad shoulders. There acknowledged that neighboring farmers speculation was common and each time were 25,000 acres, a large part under

and plantation owners frequently con- a property changed hands it had to be cultivation. There were overseers to di- sulted him and profitably followed his surveyed. It was work he enjoyed; it rect and instruct, slaves to be fed and advice. enabled him to apply that useful science managed and a host of farm animals to

Old Lord Fairfax, cynical, bitter and of numbers, it taught him the virtue of look after. It was a big job for a youth, intelligent beyond most Colonials, en- unfailing accuracy and gave him valuable a task that required sound judgment, couraged the quiet and awkward youth information on land values. {Continued on page 51)

FEBRUARY, 1942 15 "Mr. Lott," said Eastman, "I MISTER EASTMAN, usually am well within my rights" punctilious, seemed in no hurry to leave for his office. chair. His voice, pleasantly sonorous, He had put aside his news- rambled on, curved and undulated across paper and was sitting erect and contem- HYATT the room, echoed against the walls and JACK ears. plative in the stiff ball-and-claw-legged resounded in Rebecca's

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Illustrated by Mister Eastman got to his feet and stood there for ages more than a mo- FISK HARRY ment. His eyes met Rebecca's. They said nothing. He murmured a goodbye, officers. The knob of started out. Mister Eastman never kissed his walking stick ca- Rebecca goodbye when he went to his ressed his left cheek. office; why, then, did she feel so strange

It was a lovely thing, today .... should she perhaps have gone

that stick; heavy, to him and kissed him. . . . "Mister Bennett, editor of the famous straight, blackest of ebony, burnished to New York Herald, says that Mister a beautiful lustre. It was topped with a MISTER EASTMAN pushed the Lincoln has been vested with more round knob of ivory, mellowed with age map aside; he had been building power by Congress than was ever before and handsweat. Mister Eastman's father roads and locating business sites and criss-crosses curlecues here given to one man by any legislative body had given it to him on his eighteenth making and since the time of Sylla, in ancient Rome." birthday as a reward for the youth hav- and there, designating his paper dreams. Rebecca listened, for she loved her ing earned his first hundred dollars that Newtown was growing and he saw for it, great future. husband's voice as it thrust itself into year; he did not carry it until he was come ten-twenty years, a fertile her thoughts, burying all else. The sultry twenty-one. He had never been without All this was fine, land, and since it less than five miles from the vacuum of late August was in the room, it since. The stick was not ever a symbol was yet she ceased rocking a moment to draw of senescence when carried by Mister Thirty-Fourth Street ferry to New York, that see her camel's hair shawl over her thin Eastman; rather it meant as much to it was not unlikely 1883 would shoulders. In the far corner of the yard him as did breathing, and held an equal- all of three thousand people living here. worked long young Jonathan Rapelyje paced back and ly responsible position in his life. A town Mister Eastman had and foolscap, forth with a stick over his shoulder, scoffer once said behind his back that diligently on this large sheet of while nearer two bluebottles buzzed Mister Eastman probably slept with his marking it with hieroglyphics understand- (Continued on page against the mosquito netting. stick. He didn't. 33) Long Island's morning mist hung like Rebecca shifted un- sheets of gray gauze across the yard. easily in her rocker, Mister Eastman plucked carefully at fighting a quick-march- the ends of his drooping, light brown ing parade of yester- mustache and went on. day's swarming upward "Now the whole militia and every able- like hornets forcibly bodied man in the country, married or evicted from a nest, single, is placed under the control of the stinging. She fought the President of the United States. The fact that the law, the existence of the state militia is ignored. I people, had summoned think we should stay out. This is not our her husband to do his quarrel. We should stay home and mind part. Gone was the pla- our own business. That I intend to do. cidity and austerity, in This town needs me, and I am staying." flight all reason. My No meaningless somniloquence, those man must go to war. words; you could be sure that Cornelius He was a good man, a Eastman had given the matter much seri- fine husband. He had ous consideration. Rebecca nodded ac- helped build this town. quiescence, as was her duty. She felt that He was the only sur- women were born to be ruled by men, veyor the Island knew and she did not resent it. and Newtown did need some of its men to stay THERE will be more draft riots," at home. said Mister Eastman, with certain- Mister Eastman spoke ty. "More bloody riots of a people fight- at last. "Jonathan Ra- ing against the power of a Government. pelyje will be my sub- Many were killed last month along Third stitute. The law says

Avenue, in New York, and only Governor this is my privilege, that Seymour's speech from the steps of City neither honor nor dis-

Hall prevented further bloodshed. grace enters into it, but "As you know, Rebecca, I have been only necessity. I have conscripted. After all, I am only thirty- asked him to go and he

six, and though we have been married is more than willing. I fourteen years we have no children, and have paid him his boun- I therefore come within the provisions of ty, three hundred dol- the act. Perhaps I should have taken the lars, gold, for with the commission General Charlie Yates of- decline of paper cur-

fered me last year, and gone off with the rency, it would hardly Regulars. But I feel that this town of be fair or just to pay Newtown needs me more in the year of the man except in coin. 1863 than it ever did. Yet the law .... He is a competent gar- Congress and President Lincoln .... dener, and we will miss says I must go to war." him. He will leave for Mister Eastman was silent for a long his rendezvous in moment, staring at the portrait over the Broome Street, New mantel, that of his grandfather, who had York, shortly before Perhaps, she thought, she been one of General Washington's staff noon today." should have kissed him

FEBRUARY, 1942 17 WHEN GOOD FELLOWS

HAVE you a chorus in your Post A. Department Commander of New York, or District or County organi- By THOMAS and solo tenor robust o in his own right: zation? If not, do you want "The songs learned in the training one? If you like choral music, LARREMORE camps went with the men overseas and Bach or barber-shop, you'll welcome the they sang Over There just as lustily over idea. If you're a real "singing fool" here. Long, Trail you ful director. I have no doubt that the there as over The Long won't rest until started the lanes and you've one. process of building good glee clubs in echoed through narrow There never was a better choral oppor- The American Legion Posts might pro- villages of France, to say nothing of tunity anywhere right in roman- than our own ceed also along parallel lines today and Hinky-Dinky, Parley-Vous. The Legion today, or one worse neglected. tic strains of Till Meet Again and that the members would profit by it as We A million strong, blended with we boast only about much now as then." Rose of No-Man's Land fifteen glee clubs. Why? the more determined measures of Keep The Army took its vocalizing over- We certainly had a singing in Allemand, and army, seas. Writes Major Frank Love, Past Your Head Down, // He I9i7-'i8. From the cowsheds of the Can Fight Like He Can Love, and it USAACS at the Allentown, Pennsyl- was possible, largely, to picture the state vania, Fair Grounds to the colored labor of mind of the particular vocalist. The battalions swinging along the roadways Americans trained singing when the of- down South we sounded off. The brass ficers were not too hard-boiled; they hats in Washington rated singing so went overseas singing; they came back highly that they engaged trained mu- to march up Fifth Avenue singing and sicians, like Ken Clarke, to get the boys they still like to sing." warbling, regardless of previous experi- But Legionnaires do not sing as much ence. At the head of these, in the Com- now as then. Again, why? Some say, mission on Training Camp Activities, sat "Singing is effeminate" or "We're too Peter W. Dykema, now Past Supreme old." But listen to Martinelli singing President of the great musical fraternity Otello and decide whether he seems ef- Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Peter writes: feminate. As to age and health, Battis- "The song leaders considered their tini, the Italian baritone, took his regular job to be getting the men together in turn, in opera, when past 70. Singers, large groups and producing as wide par- barring organic weakness, accident or ticipation in singing as possible. Smaller dissipation, usually remain disgustingly groups of men were organized into glee healthy. A good choral director not only clubs. Most of them were just the ordi- teaches music but builds his charges up, nary run-of-the-mill, practically inter- Thomas A. Larremore, President of bodily, by insisting on proper breath- ested in mass singing and glad to have the Legion Choruses Association, Di- ing, posture and vitalizing of the phy- a little opportunity to sing under a skil- rector, Syracuse Chorus, 1930-'31 sique. Band or drum-corps men, our age,

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "The Boys From Syracuse," representing the Post in the GET TOGETHER Central New York metropo- lis, never beaten or tied

frequently collapse, performing in hot weather. Singers do not. On which side is Father Time working? No, singing is not effeminate and we are not too old. One reason why Legion glee clubs have developed slowly is due to a strange indifference shown the choruses by our own Posts and the membership generally. But the principal reason for the current choral lag was the diver-

ing American contribution to there, still functioning under Ben's baton the art of the ballet. Choral as the oldest known continuous Legion singing lacks the glamor of chorus. bands and drum-corps. Its ap- Then along came Frankford, Pennsyl- peal is musical only. Young vania, Legion Glee Club, 1929-30; Faust Legionnaires preferred the more Post Glee Club, Detroit, Mich., late spectacular activities, naturally 1930; Sidney's Singing Soldiers, Sidney,

enough. Ohio, 1 931; Suffolk County Glee Club, Nevertheless, some of us Boston, Massachusetts, 1932; Glee Club wanted to sing and in time glee of Corporal John Loudenslager Post, clubs developed. In 1922 the current Philadelphia, 1933; Ironwood, Michigan, sion of musical Legionnaires into bands national choral champs, and drum corps, when most of us could "The Boys From Syra- take and enjoy, besides the music pro- cuse," staged a minstrel duced, the strenuous physical demands show under Professor these activities entail. Band work blends Clifford W. Walsh. Then, fine performance of fine music with uni- incredibly, they hiber- forms, parading and "spots" in the pub- nated until December, lic limelight. And many Legionnaire 1930, when seven, awak- bandsmen draw union pay, even while ened by Walt Coling, playing at Legion functions. Drum-and- met, reorganized, and bugle corps cannot compare, musically, with Frank Love as Pres- with bands, for bugle-harmony is rudi- ident, started their re- mentary and bugle-melody is often so markable march to glory. curtailed as to mutilate tunes attempted. At Chester, Pennsyl- Nevertheless, drum-corps pageantry is vania, in April, 1927, glorious and it affords endless challeng- Ben Price, of Sergeant ing possibilities of rhythm. Legion drum- Alfred Stevenson Post, and-bugle corps constitute an outstand- formed the glee club

Post Glee Club, 1934; Trenton, New Jersey, Post Glee Club, 1937. Known Legion choruses with histories not sent the writer, despite his request, are the Singing Cannoneers, 128th Field Artillery Post, St. Louis; The Gleemen, of Square Post, Chicago; the choruses of Brockton, Massachusetts, Post; Rose City Post of Portland, Oregon; Thomas Hopkins Post of Wichita, Kansas; and the Singing Legionnaires, a District organization, of Los Angeles. About a dozen other groups have disbanded. With glee clubs forming and national band and drum corps established de- velopment of national choral consciousness, looking to national choral contests, became inevitable. But it crystalized The Glee Club of Trenton (New Jersey) Post doing slowly. The first gropings apparently its stuff at the New York World's Fair in 1940 {Continued on page 40)

FEBRUARY, 1942 19 Watching Rice run most of these races, I have been convinced that not one of them was properly paced in the early part or he would not have had the strong finishes with which he has thrilled the crowd. Many of his last quarter miles have been better than a minute. Spread this over the full distance evenly,

and it is sure to take seconds from his best time. Greg has several years of competition ahead of him and because of a hernia disability, will not be called to the service during this war. He was rejected over a year ago for this reason. But, after this season, for some time he will not find that competition to get him to such time as we expect of him. MacMitchell is looking at an entirely different picture. A senior at N.Y.U., just turned twenty-one and headed for a career of physical education, this season of 1942 is probably his last as an amateur. Being a senior and twenty-one, Les is headed for the service. When he gets in he will not have time to train, so out go his chances at records. A short war and a return to civilian life would see him following his career in physical education, which would of course take his amateur standing away. Gregory Rice, former Notre Dame athlete and holder of the world's This seems his last year and he should the most of it. Some one has record in the two mile run, nipping Efaw of Oklahoma A. & M. and make "The Nurmi of to-morrow" Lash of Indiana to win at his favorite distance, in the games at Boston named Les and I like that a lot. Certainly, this young runner has shown that he has a "HpHE two-mile record should be fif- when because I have in mind the match range comparable to that of Paavo, who J- teen seconds faster than it is," which could bring this about. held records from 1500 meters to the said Paavo Nurmi when he was here I want to see Greg Rice in top form, longest distance run in one hour. last. Paavo, the greatest of all distance as he was a year ago when he made his MacMitchell has run within two sec- runners of a few years back, should present world mark, and I would place onds of the world records of all dis- know, and since he made the statement Leslie MacMitchell of New York Uni- tances from the 440 yards to the 1500 quoted we have seen the two-mile time versity in the same race. meters, holds the indoor mile record improving with great strides. This might get a laugh from a lot of with two others, and has been three Nurmi predicts an eventual 8.42 for people, who think of MacMitchell as a times Intercollegiate cross country the distance. As it stands now the mark miler and know that he holds the indoor champion over five miles. is 8 minutes 51.1 seconds, held by Greg mile record at 4 minutes 7.4 seconds, All this, except the last cross-country Rice, former Notre Dame star who is jointly with Cunningham and Fenske. title, came before he was 21 years of now wearing the colors of the New York Or, it might be asked, "Why should he age. We know that a runner's peak comes Athletic Club. This is not far behind change his distance? Why not stick to along about 25 years, but for Les that Nurmi's goal. He would have the race the mile and make a better mark there." peak must be forgotten. We are at war. run at an even pace, 4.20 for the first First, I am not picking the winner of During this month he will have several mile and 4.22 for the second one. this proposed two-mile "Race of the chances to set a mile figure better than I am going to go along with Nurmi, Century." I merely want to show why the existing one of 4.07.4. He gets his since I have always felt that the record it is a "natural." And why it should be first big chance in the Millrose Games was in for a great assault, and have done at this time. on February 7, in Madison Square Gar- watched the improvement with a great We start with Rice. He has shown a den, New York City. Later in the month deal of satisfaction. steady improvement for the past three he is scheduled to defend the Baxter I' go along with Nurmi and go him seasons, until he hammered the indoor Mile trophy, at the New York Athletic one better. The two-mile record can be mark from 8.58 held by Don Lash of Club meet. This is the race where he lowered to his figures and during this Indiana and made in 1937, down to equaled the record in 1941. season. He did not say when. I say 8. 5 1. 1 last winter in a race in Chicago. If Les has not knocked the mile mark

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Eu TED MEREDITH mile figures started downward. George sky high by that time, I will be fooled. Mehl will take a record-breaking per- Bonhag of New York ran two miles in- Last year he was chased to the tape by formance. There was so little difference doors in 1910 in 9.14.4, which was good Walter Mehl of Wisconsin. Walter is between MacMitchell and Mehl last until Al Shrubb of England cut it down still a threat and a big one. He is taking year that we are looking forward to to 9.09.6 in 1910. Both were long dis- graduate work at Wisconsin and will their matching strides again this season. tance men who usually raced at a longer have plenty of time to condition himself But why should MacMitchell run a route than two miles. Wide of Sweden, for the season's races. In fact, to beat two-mile race against such a runner as known as a 1500-meter runner, came Rice when he has plenty cut out for along in 1926 and did 9.01.4 at the dis- himself in the mile, a distance which he tance. The first miler to move out, has shown himself so fitted to dominate Wide proved that the speed at the mile this winter. The reason from my point was a great asset in longer races. of view is that he can run a very fast (Continued on page 49) two mile and it would seem that his only

chance to prove it is this winter. Should he come up to the expectations of his coach, Emil Von Elling, and many other experts, all the marks from three-fourths of a mile to two miles would be his before he finished his normal running career.

He is a courageous runner and has ambitions to leave records which will back up all the predictions made for him during his college years. Von Elling has handled him carefully. It was not until last winter that he allowed him to get into the big-time competition and

run special races. If it were not for the

present conditions. I would say that it would not be unwise to hold him back another year but with another year so doubtful, this winter seems to be the

time. Nurmi is the one and only runner who held records for the one and two

miles at the same time. It is a great

feat and for an athlete of ours it looked too much to expect until MacMitchell came along. The fact that MacMitchell can run under 49 seconds for a quarter of a mile and win five-mile cross-country races in a short space of time, is proof that he would not be overreaching in stepping up from the mile to two miles in the same season. It has been done successfully. Three years ago Glenn Cunningham was asked to run Don Lash at two miles. He was a bit timid at first, but consented and Leslie MacMitchell winning the in- justified himself by winning in time tercollegiate five-mile cross-coun- close to nine minutes. Cunningham did try run for the third successive not take the pace but hung on to Lash time. MacMitchell's consistently until the final lap, when he sprinted fast running of every distance home a slight winner. MacMitchell defeating Walter Mehl from a quarter mile to five miles In fact it was not until runners with of Wisconsin, defending champion, makes him the logical opponent of successful mile careers started to move in the National A.A.U. 1500-meter Rice in the two mile out to the longer distance that the two- run at Philadelphia last summer

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22 77if AMERICAN LEGION Magazine TO OUR FIGHTING MEN EDITORIAL

Officers and men of the United States Army, Navy in history—a machine that has never bothered to ob- and Marine Corps: serve the decencies civilization learned to impose upon itself after thousands of years of barbaric strife in which YOU we are entrusting the destiny of the the conquered were either slain or sold into slavery. United States of America and of democratic Pearl Harbor and the merciless strafing of Manila af-

TOpeoples everywhere. stand behind you a ter it declared an open city are but chap- We had been united nation, ready to make any sacrifices ters in a tale that includes massacre by the Japs of necessary to provide you with the equipment and the their ally, Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, and his staff in Man- weapons you will need to beat back and utterly smash churia without warning; the wanton air bombardment the threat to everything America has held dear since of open towns in Abyssinia and Albania by Mussolini's it won its independence in 1776. Our sacrifices will be Fascists, the wiping out of Rotterdam's most important puny compared with those you will be called upon to section and the killing of 32,000 people by German air- make, but they will be up to the full capacity of our borne bombs, after Hitler had solemnly pledged himself powers, and they will guarantee that your privation will not to violate the neutrality of Holland; the merciless not be in vain. bombing of hospital trains in Corinth during the Greek You will save this nation, as the citizen soldiers of campaign. All these show the character of this Thing all our wars have saved it. You will pay the price in you have got to destroy utterly, lest it wipe out the your blood, as the strongest generation has paid that fruits of man's upward climb through the centuries. price whenever the safety of the United States was in You have not willed this war, but your generation balance. The uniformed services do not start the wars must pay the price, just as our generation paid the price in which we become engaged; they finish them. in 1917-'18. Mistakes were made after the Armistice of For various reasons we have lost all the early rounds 1918 which ended our war—grim, tragic mistakes. No of the great conflict in which we and our allies are con- need to recount them here. It is sufficient to say that, fronted by the most ruthless, conscienceless machine having helped to put over (Continued on page 33)

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New York City statue of patriot Nathan Hale: "I re- Statue of Harrison Grey Otis at Los Angeles: gret that I have but one life to lose for my country" Filipinos and Americans now fight side by side

FEBRUARY, 1942 23 Legion firemen donning slickers, helmets and boots for a test emergency at Columbus, where the first THIS particular course for auxiliary firemen in the evening a Fire Brigade of Columbus—please re- State was instituted. Inset, the ONchunky, middle-aged man with port immediately to your squad leader. badge graduates of the course earn thinning hair unlocked the Report at once. That is all." door of his house and stepped John Legion had frozen. Now, he aside to let his wife enter first. The suddenly said, "Judas Priest!" and gether, and you never had anything to man—we'll call him John Legion be- raced for his hat and coat. He turned worry about except chow. I now know cause that isn't his name—said to his at the door and yelled, "I'll be back that that was the easy end. Now, I knew wife, "Turn on the radio, honey, and when I get here, honey," and ran as what it is to stay behind and feel help- see if there's anything new." It was fast as he could to the garage and his less and wish to God there was just midnight, the American-Japanese War car. one little thing you could do." was only briefly born and he hung on As the speedometer needle hit forty Sensing the approach of the climax, the news like the rest of us. he found himself grinning joyously. His he had, months before joined the Colum- By the time the radio was warmed face was hot with excitement. For the bus Auxiliary Fire Brigade and had gone up he had doffed his hat and overcoat, first time since he had heard of the to school under Battalion Chief Lee and had lit a cigarette. Into the room treacherous Jap attack on Pearl Harbor Green. It had been a tough course, poured the rhythms of a rhumba from and had realized that he was forty-seven worked out by Fire Chief Ed Welch. Columbus' Deshler-Wallick Hotel. John and too damned old to fight, he felt As his motor whined louder he tried to

• Legion started toward the radio" to good. From the moment war began he remember how you rolled a hose, what switch to another station. As he did so, had wanted to do something—anything it meant to ventilate a fire. Then he the music was abruptly burked. There to help in this crisis. grinned; as a kid he had always wanted was a brief, queer silence. He had said to his wife on that De- to be a fireman. Well, this was it. At Then a man's calm, unhurried voice cember Sunday, "Back in 1917-1918 I last he was doing something. said, "Attention, please! Legionnaire enlisted with the others, and after we As it turned out, however, he was not and other members of the Auxuliary put on olive drab we were all in to- needed. The fire was in the E. C. Guesy

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Lumber Company, and its red fury lit of having the local fire chief prepare a the sky for miles. But a general alarm course. fire & "When Mayor La Guardia, National had gone out, every piece of apparatus in Columbus had responded. Director of Civilian Defense, went One hundred and fifty thousand dollars' FREDERICK C. through here recently I showed him the worth of hardwood was going up in outline and he was enthusiastic, indeed. smoke and flame, but there were enough PAINTON He said that every Legion Post should regular firemen. have an Auxiliary Fire Brigade as part "Just drill," Chief Welch told the of its Civilian Defense aid." Legionnaires when they ran up in rubber hand extinguishers and how do they "All our war service comes under coats and helmets. "If we have an in- work? What's a booster tank? Why is a Civilian Defense," Jake Saslavsky said. cendiary bomb raid there won"t be careful record made of hose use? How "We have police schools going in fifty enough of us and we'll need you." He do you extinguish incendiary bombs? cities to train men in police work. Ordi- paused, then pointed to the fire. It was What is the composition of an incendi- narily a police force is ample for its acting queerly, springing up in places ary bomb? How do you "ventilate" a job. But in war-time and blackout it the it had no right to be. fire in order to put out with well, we read of the looting that went "Paper, rags and oil," he said grimly, least amount of damage? What is a on in downtown Seattle on their first "it gives you an idea how an incendiary "firemen's drag"? A "firemen's carry"? blackout. We knew how London suffered fire looks." Why is a knowledge of knot-tying vital from crime during the early days of the in fire-fighting? How do you make a blackout. At a time like that the police

"doughnut roll"? What is a "street drag"? need extra help. And the Legion, dis- I HEARD about this incident when I went into Adjutant Jake Saslavsky"s A "ladder drag"? How do you climb a ciplined and organized, is the ideal agent office to find out what the Buckeye ladder? If a little moisture in hose is to supply it." Legion was doing for 1942. Sitting with beneficial, why is water in hose danger- He went on to explain how the State him and Department Commander ous? Highway Patrol was training Legion- Floyd R. Hartpence, I discovered that Out of the seven-page outline of study naires in traffic drill to meet emergen- 52,000 Legionnaires of Ohio have en- the questions in the quiz touch on only cies. How the excellent Ohio Disaster listed for the duration. a few points. But if you are signed up Relief set-up had been swung into action "We sent out Ed Welch's outline of with Civilian Defense as air raid warden to supply deputized aids to sheriffs and his fourteen-week course." Hartpence or in other capacity the above will give other help in rural areas. The Ohio said, "and right now, in Ohio's fifty you some idea of just what you don't Legion was supplying officers and non- fires, the major major cities, we have Auxiliary Fire know about putting out coms for the State Guard; were the key Brigades. The local Posts took the cur- hazard in air raids. men in the air-raid warden organization. riculum to the local fire chief and got "I wish," said Hartpence gravely, One hundred Posts sending men to first- training." "that you'd put somewhere in your aid schools and Auxiliary women fol- will Hartpence is a lean, dark-eyed man story that the Department of Ohio lowing suit. with a great deal of energy. He fixed me be glad to mail this course of study to "A lot of people say," Jake went on, with a pair of knotted eyebrows, and any Post or Department of the Legion "that Ohio, located where it is, will said, "Don't tell me that you think that wishes to train its members. Ed probably never have need for this or- putting out a fire is simply just pouring Welch has covered every angle of fire- ganized civilian defense. But America water on it; that it doesn't require any fighting and it would save time instead {Continued on page 35) skill." I murmured that I didn't know anything about fire-fighting. He nodded, handed me Ed Welch's syllabus. "Neither did the rest of us, which is why this pamphlet should be in the hands of every Legion Post in the United States."

I took a quick look through it and agreed. If you think fire-fighting is simply pouring more water on a fire, give yourself a radio quiz on the following questions. What's the difference in battling a Class B and a Class X fire? What's the chemical difference between various

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1IVE - WIRE Le- thousands, of flags gion Posts have been supplied to j make news public institutions by and a lot of Legion Posts. The it. A glance at the times call for a dis- daily grist of mail play of Old Glory, that falls like autumn and Legion units have leaves on the desk of not been slow to dis- this department would cover the lack of the be sufficient to con- national emblem in vince the most hard- places where it should ened skeptic—there's be flown. news, ideas, reports in In a more substan- each one of the doz- tial way the Legion ens of letters ad- has rallied to the de- dressed to the Step- fense of the Govern- keeper. And behind ment in buttressing those letters stands a its defenses along the terrific volume of Le- financial front. Hun- gion effort and accom- dreds of Posts, fol- plishment. Dozens lowing the lead of Na- and dozens of times tional Headquarters, we have regretted the have invested their lack of space that savings in Defense keeps a lot of these Bonds or Defense fine reports out of Stamps. Here is the print, so for this once bond purchase reports we are going to take for one day: Ham- a cross-section out of the old folder—run- of-the-mine letters High school stu- and serve them out dents gave drama- with only the loosest tic rendering of sort of classification. the Bill of Rights News? Just to on Oakland (Cal.) prove the statement Post radio program OUT OF THE FOLDER

that Posts make news and that local mond Post of Kingsport, Tennessee, re- newspapers will print it, here's a letter ports $5,000; Capt. Belvidere Brooks from Oscar W. Eggeson, Past Comman- Post of New York City traded its check der of Henry R. Hill-Joseph W. Emery, for a substantial bond; Miles Curfew, Jr., Post of Quincy, Illinois. Not only a Adjutant of Salina (Utah) Post, with letter, but a scrapbook in which Com- thirty members, reports the purchase of rade Eggeson has, by actual count, $1,500 in bonds; David Woodside, Pub- pasted up one hundred and fifty-eight licity Chairman of James A. McKenna separate clippings from Quincy news- Post, Long Island City, New York, papers about the Post and its activities Public Library, and at Mobile, Alabama, writes that his Post has just made a during the Legion year ending in August. Commander Leon Schwarz presented a similar investment in like amount; from Small wonder that that Post was large flag to the Mobile Chamber of Chicago, Illinois, Christ S. Minneci, awarded the Paul G. Armstrong Amer- Commerce on behalf of Lamar Y. Mc- Adjutant of Paul Revere Post, reports icanism Trophy; it had already won the Leod Post. These three letters came in purchases totaling $1,325; West Chicago Mel-Tierney Department Safety Award the same mail and were sent before the Post, says Legionnaire Ralph W. Mar- its junior rifle team won the William blitz fell on Hawaii. Since the assault shall, bought $1,100 worth of defense, Randolph Hearst Rifle Trophy in the 6th on Pearl Harbor hundreds, perhaps and Commander H. E. Zinn of Weston Corps Area; its junior drum and (West Virginia) Post, reports the bugle corps a high ranking first- Look-Paddq's purchase of a $1,000 bond. It placer; all in addition to its takes money to carry on a war; S\ed aqa" broad Americanism and commu- months ago the National Execu- nity service programs. tive Committee recommended that Leland C. Taylor, Adjutant of Posts place their surplus funds in Norway (Iowa) Post, reports the Defense Bonds. Remember Pearl presentation of flags to three Harbor! ef- churches in its home town; J. Not slacking* in membership R. Hogentogler, Commander of fort, Legionnaire V. L. Lawrence John Lewis Shade Post, Clear- says that Akron (Ohio) Post, with field, Pennsylvania, says his Post a quota of 750, had enrolled 1,005 gave a flag to the local Shaw members by Armistice night.

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Window display including replica of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier installed for Johnson-Costello Post, Penn Yan, N. Y., by Legionnaire Hugh S. Meldrum

These Legionnaires, he says, range from tion and dedication of a marker at the der Leon L. Stock. One part of the unemployed men to presidents of Ak- grave of Master Sergeant Taylor B. youth work cited by Commander Stock ron's greatest industrial plants. In the Hickman, D. S. C, who was one of the is the annual Hallowe'en theater mati- same mail comes a letter from C. R. heroes of Balangiga, a survivor of the nee given for fifteen hundred youngsters Coffin, Adjutant of Makinson-Carson massacre in the Philippines nearly forty in cooperation with local theaters and Post of Kissimmee, Florida, telling of years ago, and who served with distinc- newspapers. The young folks are enter- the achievement of his Post, its Aux- tion in the World War. Commander A. tained and instructed; consequently they iliary, Sons of the Legion Squadron and C. Pfefferkorn of Bolinas Bay Post, have no time for destructive devilment. Junior Auxiliary. This unit, severally Point Reyes, California, writes that his At the last Hallowe'en not a single ar- and as a whole, was the first in Florida Post has taken over the care of the neg- rest was made and the police report to reach the 1942 quota. Some job—and lected graves of four Coast Guardsmen only two calls to quell disturbances. And they held a big joint meeting at the Post who lost their lives in the Post's area Everett is a city of 30,000. Department home in celebration. between 1891 and 1900. Gravestones Commander Heywood N. Saunders of As this is being written in mid-De- have been erected and the lot has been the District of Columbia has com- cember, the Armistice Day activities are enclosed with a neat, white-painted, pal- mended the Blood Donor squad of the still being reported, and nearly every ing fence. U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue Post one is accompanied by a picture of a Good citizens are being trained for its splendid, unselfish humanitarian window display, parade shot or memo- through the aid of Earl Faulkner Post work. Charlie Wolfe, captain of the rial group. Too bad there is not space of Everett, Washington, says Comman- squad, reports seventy-two volunteer enough to go around, but here are a few: Columbia System Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, had its usual striking window display in one of the most prominent sections of the city, according to E. M. Doran, Publicity Chairman. A display remini- scent of 1917-1918 was installed in the window of a postoffice sub-station by South Hills Post, Mt. Lebanon, Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, says Commander Thomas L. Algeo. Johnson-Costello Post, Penn Yan, New York, attracted more than local attention with its display arranged by Legionnaire Hugh S. Mel- drum, and appropriate memorial displays were made by Garrett Cochran Post of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Emil Hagberg Unit, American Legion Auxiliary, of Argyle, Minnesota. And, though a bit belated, Chaplain Ernest Weals tells us of the splendid Memorial Day service arranged and carried out by Frank R. Kirk Post of Crafton, Penn- sylvania. Continuing in the same theme, here

is a letter from Commander Fred V. Carney of Madden-Cover-Carney Post, John Lewis Shade Post, Clearfield, Pa., presents an Anderson, Missouri, reporting the erec- American flag to Shaw Public Library in its home town

FEBRUARY, 1942 27 worked after school hours alertness in making first report of planes to make money for fam- during the late fall Atlantic Coast tests, ily support and to pay and a splendid report of the work of

the dues. Then the Post Charles A. Fowler, Jr., Post, Great found out about it. In Neck, Long Island, New York, in the addition to other things defense program and in caring for the

the Post voted life mem- men in service. Ira J. Friedman, Pub- bership to Comrade Ca- licity Chairman, says that the Post sees' pece and to Comrade to it that every man who enters service George Kocserha, another from Great Neck leaves with cigarettes, blind member. Comman- reading matter and other comforts pre- der E. C. Downs of Clar- sented on behalf of the Post by some ence Fields Post, Ash- one or more of its officers. land, Kentucky, put on Roscoe Crafton, Commander of Dud the usual Post program Cason Post, Blytheville, Arkansas, says of collecting used and that his Post has been active in promot- shopworn toys for Christ- ing the National Cotton Picking Con- mas giving. The com- test held at Blytheville in the late fall bined Posts of Duluth, of each year. D. Wandle Day, Service Minnesota, according to Officer of Stanley Hardman Post, Trini- P. R. Curry, Child Wel- dad, Colorado, reports that the Post's fare Chairman of Lake- firing squad recently officiated at the view Fost, chipped in to- burial of Comrade William Messer, gether to provide a sup- Trinidad's last Civil War veteran, and ply of blocks for the city fired the last salute over his grave. Le- nursery schools. Past gionnaire Lynn G. Case writes that a Commander Oscar Mar- total of 917 boys and girls were trans- quardt designed and in- ported from the Cortland (New York) stalled a Roll of Honor Post home to Little York Lake during Commander Julius Lovington of Rutherford memorial wall-case in the the summer swimming season. It is a of Alva Courier Cortland Post (N. J.) Post helps Comrade George S. Car- home regular summer work of penter cut his one-hundredth birthday cake Post at Chester. Illinois. and its Squadron of Sons, and both units Sergeant Edward F. contribute to the financial support of members who have responded to 122 Younger—who selected the Unknown the program. calls. "In a number of cases," he says, Soldier from four caskets at Chalons- Radio has its place, and a mighty im-

"the donors have reached the hospitals sur-Marne, France, in 1921, now a mem- portant one it is, in the work of the within five or ten minutes after the calls ber of Van Buren Post of Chicago, spoke l egion. A number of Posts carry on sus- were received." for his Post on a radio broadcast on tained programs through the courtesy of Letters are received telling of dozens Armistice Day, says Jim Mangan, Pub- local stations and many of the programs

o'f regular and special projects, just the licity Officer. have claimed places of more than local things that make up the day-to-day Preparedness has become so much a interest. One such program, that organ- work of the average active Legion Post. routine Legion work that but few re- ized by Commander Homer W. Buckley Comrade John H. Laux of Newark ports are made. But one mail brought a under the sponsorship of Oakland (Cali-

(New Jersey) Post, writes to say that letter from A. J. Robin, East Orange. fornia) Post, has attracted such nation- Comrade Joseph Capece's membership New Jersey, with pictures of a watch wide attention that it was the subject in the Post has meant a lot to him in station on the roof of a school building, of a feature article in the Christian the past, but it has been hard for him manned by Chatham and Madison Post Science Monitor, of Boston. Celebrat- to keep it up. Comrade Capece is almost members; a newspaper clipping coming the 150th anniversary of the adop- blind and has had no employment for mending the Air Raid Corps of Asbury tion of the Bill of Rights, Commander some years. His five sons, all young, Park (New Jersey) Post for its super- Buckley developed a two-months' series of bi-weekly broadcasts dealing with the historical background of each amendment, climaxed on Decem-

ber 1 6th by a rousing patriotic program .open to the public. The program was an educational one, aimeo at all age groups.

This series could be carried on indefiniteh. and cover many othe phases of Legion worl and activities, but the limitation of space presses. Pie suppers, installations, birthday parties, and a dozen and one other things A two time winning baseball team sponsored by a woman's Post—Edith Work have not been men- Ayers Post, Cleveland, Ohio, backed this group of champions of the diamond tioned; this is enough

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine to show clearly that publicity officers birthday, with a big cake (scr-AT- V^^-lV\e uxnptt\^ Commander' sej do iyou ; Arms)-* - are alive to their jobs, not only locally and all the trimmings, 'f quvjs mind busliVV up -tVus session but with the national publications as the twenty-seven piece \ ar\d qittiA W\ UecVc back up \o Ua* iaa a rvU la ' r\r\nii\ f/P well. junior band of Villotto- Riggin Post of East One Hundred Years Rutherford, and a lot of visiting dignitaries. In ONE hundred years is a long, long recognition of Comrade time in the life of a man, but Carpenter's services in Legionnaire George S. Carpenter of the British Navy, six Rutherford, New Jersey, has weathered British sailors attended the storms and strifes of just that many as official representatives years. He is —it is more or less safely of their government, all assumed — the oldest Legionnaire. If of whom were veterans of the first claim was accorded the youngsters rep- there are any older, this department World War and have seen hard service resenting Edith Ayers Post following would like to hear about them. in the present conflict. President Roose- capture of their second straight title in But Legionnaire Carpenter is a bit velt sent his greetings, read to the as- The Press-American Legion Junior Base- dismayed. An Englishman bred and sembly by Commander Julius A. Lov- ball League. The lads courageously born; officer in the British Navy during ington. The President wrote: "Permit fought down a ninth-inning uprising by the American Civil War; on active duty me to join with others of your friends Variety Post to nab a 4-3 decision and with the American Navy during the in extending hearty congratulations on again gain possession of The Press World War, he keenly feels the restraint the notable occasion of the centenary trophy." of age that keeps him out of the present of your birth. I hope the day will bring conflict— the first one he has missed in you many pleasant reminiscences and Boy Scouts

FEBRUARY is a month of anniver- saries—a month that looms large in the patriotic calendar of America—but not the least of the annual observances is the birthday of the Boy Scouts of America. On February 8th the Scouts will celebrate the thirty-second anniversary of the founding of this great youth movement and will, at that time, start on their thirty-third year with a greater numerical strength, more firmly en- trenched in the public consciousness, and with greater opportunities for service than ever before. The Boy Scouts of America, trained under competent leadership, may be said to constitute our first line of junior home defense. The Legion takes pride, and a great

pride it is, in the Scout Troops under individual Post sponsorship, not only in number but in efficiency, Boy Scout Troop No. 90, sponsored by Omaha (Neb.) and an ever- Post, the Legion's largest, loading up for a two- readiness to respond to calls for com- weeks trip to Yellowstone Park and points west munity and broader service. Scouts have {Continued on page 52) seventy-five years. A native of Bath, that you will accept my very best wishes

England, born November 6, 1841, he for your health and happiness." was graduated from Christ Church Col- lege, Oxford, before entering the British Two-Time Champs Navy, in which he served fifteen years. Later he was appointed Collector of "W 7" HEN a baseball team sponsored Taxes at Kingston, Jamaica, by Queen V V by a woman's Post wins its sec-

Victoria, and from that island came to ond straight championship, it is news," America. opines Legionnaire Mary C. McHale of When the United States entered the Edith Work Ayers Post, Cleveland,

World War he promptly reported him- Ohio, and this department is inclined to self to the nearest recruiting station, agree with her. "Our team graduated gave his age as fifty-five, proved his from the American Legion Junior Base- naval service and was accepted. He was ball competition this fall, but we all assigned to the U. S. S. Scythia. On dis- hope that we will hear from them in charge at the end of the war he returned the professional leagues. They are to Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he good!" Boys will grow up, and the became a member of Wilbur M. Comeau junior baseball age limit is seventeen. Post. Later, when he removed to New But there are a lot of other good young- Jersey, he transferred to West Hoboken sters in Cleveland—Edith Ayers Post Post and last August lodged his mem- can coach another team to victory. bership with Rutherford Post. "Winners and still champions!" says John Butt as "Elmer" and Ruth His home Post threw a big party for the Cleveland Press in the best prize- Thompson as "Mabel" in T. H. B. him on the occasion of his one-hundredtb ring announcement manner. "This ac- Post's Gay Nineties comedy

FEBRUARY, 1942 19 Men of Troop B, 4th Cavalry, visited the volcano of Kilauea on the Island of Hawaii in 1917

"Kilauea volcano instead of being a peak, appears to be on level ground. The crater is about 3,000 feet in diameter and is full of burning, bubbling lava all the time. Kilauea is merely a hole about 4,000 feet up the side of Mauna Loa, which in itself is a volcano. Although active, Kilauea is not a dan- gerous volcano, as most of its activity has been confined to its pit, except for two explosive eruptions recorded in 1790 and 1924. Occasionally, lava flows over the floor of its main pit, into the lava beds. "These lava beds run down one side

Hawaiian Islands were in- "One of my interesting memories of of the mountain to the bottom, while on THEdeed a pacific outpost of the service in the Hawaiian Islands with the other side they reach within a mile United States—a land of flowers Troop B, 4th Cavalry, was a trip a or so of the Volcano Hotel, which is and soft music and romance, a group of us took during the early fall of seven or eight miles from the crater. At mecca for tourists, an Eden even for the 191 7 to the volcano of Kilauea on the night, sitting on the hotel veranda, it is United States Forces stationed there at Island of Hawaii, one of the Hawaiian a beautiful, but awesome, sight to watch the Crossroads of the Pacific Ocean, our group in the Pacific. I am enclosing two the actions on Kilauea. Towering above powerful base for the Pacific Fleet. They pictures taken during our tour. Kilauea are Mauna Kea, which with its were a pacific outpost until the treach- "We had been given two weeks' leave 13,825 feet height, is the highest island erous attack by Japan upon Pearl Har- to make the journey and the men of mountain in the world, and Mauna Loa, bor and upon the air fields and Army Troop B each contributed five dollars 150 feet lower in height. Mauna Kea Posts on Oahu, the island upon which towards the expenses. We chartered a has snow on its summit. Honolulu is situated. And now we are in ship from the Hawaiian Steamship "Of course, we heard the story of an all-out war with Japan and Germany Company at Honolulu for the 185-mile Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes, and Italy, a war in which the services of sea-trip to Hilo on the Island of Ha- to whom in the early days natives used us veterans of the earlier World War are waii, which proved to be a twenty-four- to make human sacrifices in hopes of again offered to our country in such hour voyage. Arrived at Hilo, we still keeping the volcanoes from erupting. capacities as the Government may deem had a seventy-mile trip by train out to "One of the pictures shows the crater

us fit for. Many of our comrades are where the volcano of Kilauea is located. of Kilauea with the lava crust about the again in active service—a far greater percentage will no doubt be enlisted in the State Guards and in civilian defense positions. Several months before the catastrophe occurred, ex-Trooper C. W. Arnett, Troop B, 4th U. S. Cavalry, of 120 North Elm Street, Wellington, Kansas, in browsing through his souvenirs of the war in which we fought, came across some pictures which were taken while he was in service in Hawaii during 191 7, and sent them to us. The two photographs we show and Legionnaire Arnett's accompanying letter cover a far happier period in that Pacific outpost during a wartime period. Today's war is a grim 'reality there. But veterans of World War I, though standing ready to give full service in the present emergency, are still justified, we feel, in continuing to reminisce about the days when they were in uniform. Comrade Arnett tells Part of the crater of Kilauea volcano, 3,000 feet in diameter. The ac- this story of his experiences: tive center is toward the left, with beds of crusted lava surrounding it

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine which had been sunk by gunfire from a U-boat. These survivors, four old men, and two boys not over ten years old, had been adrift in a little two-by-four boat for three days. They told us later that the sight of our American destroyer was the happiest moment they had ever had in their lives. We almost had to use force to keep them away from the scut- tle butt (drinking-fountain to land-lub- bers!) for fear they would make themselves sick from pouring down too much water. We arrived back in Brest harbor the next morning at 10:30 o'clock. When the freighter Westbridge, above, was torpedoed in August, "At the time of these incidents, I 1918, the crew of the U. S. S. Burrows picked up her survivors was a member of the bridge gang, a quartermaster, on the Burrows and was edges and the active section in the mid- a sinking condition, though she survived. one of the salvage crew that boarded dle, and the other shows some of the "We picked up the crew of the West- the Westbridge. soldier tourists, including Richards, bridge and discovered among the sur- "I enclose a copy of a snapshot of the Dougherty, Heist, Haga, Crayne, Aller vivors two young women stowaways Westbridge in its sinking condition, and Hamlin. I should like to hear from who were on their way to France to visit taken from the Burrows. The West- them and also from Captain Weiss, their boy friends. A boat was sent to the bridge however, managed to remain John Suggs, Bud Souls, John Bradshaw, Westbridge with a salvage party from afloat, was towed into Brest and later Albert Blaisdell, Frank Dougherty, Ralph the Burrows and one of our salvage crew refitted for further service. If any of the Bookhammer and other men who served found in going through the disabled former gobs on the Westbridge or Bur- with me in Troop B ship's crew quarters, one rows will write to me, I'll gladly send during 1917." member of her crew still them a copy of the snapshot print." /, asleep in his bunk. He AFTER the first, fierce, S>£iave- didn't know his ship had . surprise onslaught \u\\H>" been torpedoed and aban- WE VETERANS who because of upon our ships in the doned. Was he surprised physical disabilities or encroach- Pacific, the Navy im- to hear the news! But ing age can no longer offer our services mediately got into action luckier still, the ship did in the active forces of our military es- and is giving a first-class not sink. tablishment to help win the war, can account of its fighting "In the meantime, an- contribute in a substantial way through powers. That is no more other destroyer—I believe the purchase of Defense Bonds (which than we expected of the it was the Warrington— someone recently suggested should be present-day gobs who are arrived and picked up the called War Bonds) or Defense Stamps. carrying on the tradi- survivors from the Mon- It takes billions of dollars to conduct a tions of the Navy estab- tanan. Shortly afterward war successfully. Which brings to mind lished by the men in blue the Montanan sank. We that in our World War, men in the sev- in our war and in wars stuck around for a couple eral services were not only enlisted or preceding it. of hours longer hoping the inducted to fight the war, but they were

The picture we show sub would come back so invited also to finance it. Remember the of the U. S. S. Westbridge, after she we'd get a crack at her, but as she failed Liberty Loan drives in the various had been torpedoed, came to us from to appear, we headed for Brest, France, camps, aboard ship and on shore stations Peter E. Cocchi, Legionnaire of 25 to unload our cargo of survivors. —and the millions of dollars' worth of Maiden Street, Springfield, Massachu- "That same afternoon, we picked up bonds for which the fighting men sub- setts, who is secretary of the U. S. S. the survivors of a French fishing smack scribed? Burrows World War Association, and with it came this yarn: "The veterans of the crew of our ship, the U. S. S. Burrows, have formed an association and have held several successful reunions. We would like to let the rest of the gang know about this, so more of them can enjoy our meetings. "And now, Company Clark, how about a little story about the World War I destroyers? I think that some of us guys who served aboard those tin cans during 191 7 and 1 91 8 should receive some recognition, as we had some interesting experiences, too. "On August 15, 1918, at 7:16 p. m., the Destroyer Burrows left the convoy she was helping to escort to go to the assistance of the S. S. Montanan, which had been torpedoed. We arrived at the scene of the torpedoing at 5:55 A. M. the next morning and instead of only the Montanan, we found also the U. S. S. The Engineer Division, U. S. S. Charleston, stages a parade on deck Westbridge, a freighter, torpedoed and in to celebrate going over the top in a Liberty Bond sale during our war

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here five months—and hoping to stay here, want to get the ball rolling for an' other reunion during the Legion Na- tional Convention in New Orleans, next September 21st to 24th. We hope to have a bigger and better reunion than our first one in Boston. We also invite the many soldiers, marines, armed guard crews and others who were at one time or another on the Charleston or in her convoys. I wish all of the men would write to me here at the Naval Base, Algiers, Louisiana."

Comrade Turner is assured of at least one attendant and collaborator, because a former shipmate of his on the Charles- ton, Legionnaire A. H. Russell, Modern Cafe, Three Rivers, Texas, wrote us also at about the same time, suggesting Chowtime for men of Service Park Unit 355 at Castelf ranco, Italy, a reunion of the crew at New Orleans. in 1918. Sergeant Mullin at right (uncovered); Stokes at ex- So, gobs, there you have two men who treme left; Clarke, in center, now on New York's police force will work for a successful meeting. Rivalries developed between com- Charleston, with the Allen, McCall, Write to them. panies, battalions and regiments, divi- Preston and the ill-fated Cyclops, es- sions aboard ships, and among other or- corted the Mallory, Finland and San COOPERATION, plus, is what The ganizations as to which would first reach Jacinto—Convoy Group Three—into the Company Clerk can usually depend a hundred percent sub- harbor of St. Nazaire, France. upon from the Then and Now Gang in scription of Liberty Bonds, That was, of course, in 191 7. connection with the unidentified pictures or top that mark. Past "The Charleston made five that are occasionally used to illustrate Commander 0. D. Turner, trips in convoy, brought back his columns. If you'll refer to your Jan-

of Lamar County Post, seven loads of troops after uary, 1 94 1, issue of the Legion Magazine Vernon, Alabama, who re- the war, trained armed guard (page 34.) you will find a picture of a cently reported to The crews and did many other soldier dinner party, which we suggested

Company Clerk that he is duties. might have been some holiday celebra- again on duty at the Naval "Through announcements tion—the only clew, from the fact that Base at Algiers, Louisiana, published in your Outfit No- the photographer's stamp showed he was reminded us of these bond tices column, we succeeded in located in Padova, Castelfranco, being sales by sending us a pic- holding a very successful re- that it was probably held in Italy. The ture of his division aboard union of former officers and picture had been given to Legionnaire the U. S. S. Charleston men of the Charleston in Bos- Charles C. Curtis, Colonel, C. 0. of the celebrating its completion ton during the Legion Na- 213th Coast Artillery, Allentown, Penn- of a hundred-percent pur- tional Convention in 1940, sylvania, who had been recalled to serv- chase of bonds. Inciden- and received many letters and ice, by Dr. Albright of his city, who had tally, the ex-crew of the cards from shipmates who received it from some man evidently Charleston has organized a couldn't be there. We are still trained at the Allentown Fair Grounds. veterans' association, held a successful getting cards and letters. Many of our Several Legionnaires wrote to us reunion during the Legion National Con- men are back in service. promptly regarding the group shown vention in Boston in 1940, and is point- "Now I am on duty at the Naval Base Lloyd Willoughby of 333 North Mich- ing towards another reunion next Sep- here at Algiers, Louisiana—have been igan Avenue (Continued on page 54) tember in New Orleans. But we'll let Past Commander Turner tell about the picture and more recent activities: "The first thing I read in the Legion

Magazine is Then and Now, and with the present sale of Defense Bonds and Stamps, I remembered a picture in my war archives showing the result of a Liberty Bond sale aboard my old ship,

the U. S. S. Charleston. That picture is enclosed. "The picture shows my Engineer Di- vision of the Charleston on parade on the deck of our ship after we had reached a one-hundred-percent subscription. When it was suggested on board that all men who wanted Liberty Bonds could get them, it did not take these lower-deck fighters long to sign up every man. We then went on deck for our parade and soon other Divisions of the ship followed. Service Park Unit 355 all set in 1919 to leave Castel- "What a ship! What a crew! Twenty- franco. Rumors had destination as Coblenz, Germany, or four years ago last June 28th, the a Russian port. It turned out to be Hoboken, New Jersey 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jinr " To Our Fighting Men

(Continued jrom page 23) what it will take to destroy this organized tyranny. the knockout against Prussian imperialism, we Amer- We Americans are of many races and creeds. In time icans neglected to secure the peace which we had fought of peace we glory in our differences, for under the Con- so hard to win. stitution which is our shield and bulwark every person So the fight's got to be won all over again, and you, has the right to live his life according to the dictates with us of the older generations, must make certain of his conscience. In wartime we put first things first, that it won't happen again. We must "organize the giving up the precious privileges guaranteed us by the world" after the victory which your valor will gain for Constitution, in the interest of our salvation as a nation. us and our allies. They have performed miracles of IS perhaps fitting, in view of the national unity bravery in standing up to a powerful and ruthless en- IT have achieved to gine of destruction and tyranny that was years in the we quote here a few words spoken some forty years ago by United States Senator making. In justice to you and to ourselves we must say George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts in candidly that had not President Roosevelt and the a eulogy of President William McKinley, who had just been slain Congress of the United States taken a realistic view by an anarchist. Senator told the of the world situation and acted, Hitler's despotism Hoar Massachusetts Re- publican State Convention: would almost certainly have conquered the European continent and we would now be facing the Axis powers . . . You and I are Republicans. You and I are men of the North. Most of us are Protestants in religion. alone. As it is, you must in the phrase made famous by We are men of native birth. Yet, if every Republican were Garibaldi in addressing his Italian patriots in the early today to fall in his place, as William McKinley has fallen, '60s face "cold sickness misery," and hunger and and I believe our countrymen of the other party, in spite of plus the "blood, sweat and tears" that Winston Churchill what we deem their errors, would take the Republic and immortalized in his message to the beleaguered British bear on the Flag to liberty and glory. I believe if every Protestant were to be stricken down by light- nation in 1940. a ning stroke that our brethren of the Catholic faith You and the American people as a whole know of the would still carry on the Republic in the spirit of a conscientious efforts made by your Government to out- true and liberal freedom. I believe if every man of law war as an instrument of national policy. Even after native birth within our borders were to die this day, the men of foreign birth, the Japanese conquest of Manchuria, and the rape of who have come here to seek homes and liberty under the shadow of the Republic, Abyssinia and Albania by the Italians, President Roose- would carry on the Republic in God's appointed way. velt invited so-called the "have-not" nations (Germany, I believe if every man of the North were to die, the

Italy, Japan) to participate in a world conference which new and chastened South, with the virtues it has cher- ished from the beginning, would have guaranteed all nations access to the mate- of love of home and love of State and love of freedom, with its courage and its rials necessary to an ordered, peaceful existence. The constancy, would take the country and bear it on to invitation was contemptuously rejected by the leaders the achievement of its lofty destiny. The anarchist must of those nations now menacing our existence. slay seventy-five million Americans before he can slay You are the heirs of a great tradition. The United the Republic. Of course, there would be mistakes. Of course, there States has never lost a war, and it will not lose this one, would be disappointments and grievous errors. Of course, because our leaders by far-seeing action bought eighteen there would be many things for which the lovers of months of military and industrial preparedness between liberty would mourn. But America would survive them the fall of France and the stab in the back in Hawaii. all, and the nation our fathers planted would abide in perennial life. Nobody can foretell what you will have to face, but your Government is girding itself for a long war, and That is the sort of country for which you fight. It's neither "good news" nor "bad news" will cause a let-up a country worthy of your highest devotion, and you in the effort which we shall make that you may have will not fail it.

In Mr. Lincoln's Service

(Continued jrom page 17) acts of another man, or another nation. one-half score of any random picked one able only to himself. We will build a I do not mean to have you ever down- thousand men desire war. And this schoolhouse here. Oak street must be trodden, or yoked at the neck by some is the message I would give to all: No widened and made the main thorough- tyrannical man or body of men, but so man is cowardly if he stands unappalled fare, broad enough for four carriages to sure as the Lord is my Shepherd, there at the turbulence of terrified people, if pass abreast. Here where stands Jack- is never a just cause for war, no sense to he sees at first sight the disingenuousness son's blacksmith shop will be a library armed conflict, no glory in battle. of human hysteria, and steadfastly says '/ and perhaps a post office. The railroad "Yet I know this to be true : You and will not go to war!' depot will come in about there. your sons will go to war, as will the sons Sage advice, puerile prattle? Just Suddenly he heard his grandfather talk- of your sons, for there will always be a what were those words? Mister Eastman ing to him. It was 1844 and Grandfather war so long as there is a civilization. No went down the stairs and into the brassy sunlight Eastman was still a hale and hearty matter how courageous and determined ; walking stick swinging slowly, though somewhat bitter man at eighty- you are not to take up arms, you will do rhythmically, he strode northward. His seven; young Cornelius Eastman was so. You will take up arms and kill your thoughts peregrinated. That wife of his. just rounding sixteen. fellow man, or be killed— if you listen to Rebecca had appeared so distraught this "Neil, you are growing quicker than minds other than your own. Men will, morning. Poor woman, she did not look forever. this is at all weeds. . . . Remember this about war: men do, always and And well, lately. He hated to see her Man sees inevitably a casus belli in the the horrible part of it, Neil; less than brown eyes losing their lively animation,

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which seemed to be the case these days; Yes, Mister Eastman said, silently. steadily. "Likely as not Mayor Opdike she was a pretty woman, cultured, but She probably is sick, come to think of of New York will send over a ladies' growing old rapidly. Had their barren it. She lost one baby in childbirth, the phaeton for your majesty." bed brought this on? He did not know. second Rapelyje child. Fruitful woman, One man guffawed. A few grinned, Rebecca, dear woman! Cannot you she was now with child again. Boy and mirthlessly. Reedie subsided, mumbling. loosen your pretty tongue once again? man walked on. The boy said, "But I'm Rapelyje offered Kouwenhoven a You, with your fine, purposeful mind, going to see father and say goodbye and fresh chew of his plug, but Kouwen- you have never helped me decide things. tell him I will take good care of mama. hoven said no, he was worried about his You do not plan with me. I must always He forgot his stockings mama washed crippled sister. There was some money, guess your thoughts, for you are silent for him and I'm taking them over to blame little though, and she might man- —when I need you most. I am like an him. Do you think he'll be mad at me?" age to eat sparingly, but that was about orphan. And man cannot stand alone, Mister Eastman said he didn't know. all; Rapelyje, you're fair lucky, getting or lonely. "But," he added, "we will soon find out." all that gold from Mister Eastman. "You walk awful fast, Mister East- It was only three-quarters of a mile. Rapelyje grunted; he felt no resentment, man." for he liked the stocky, usually phleg- The childish voice, close on his heels, matic Kouwenhoven. He closed his eyes cut into Mister Eastman's thoughts. He and figured carefully: Annie needed a slowed down and glanced around. It doctor, bad, and there was the green- was young Jonathan Rapelyje, scuffling house he had planned for years, his own through the dust with a package in one business; he had accepted Mister East- hand and a tree branch over his right man's offer for those two reasons, the shoulder. The boy's blue eyes looked doctor and the greenhouse. However, doubtfully at Mister Eastman's face, he'd write his wife and tell her to look then a friendly smile crinkled his face. after Miss Kouwenhoven; they could "Aren't you a long way from home, spare some of the money. Not much. Master Jonathan?" Mister Eastman be- Conversation ceased as all eyes went lieved children should be seen, but not down the road; down the road and then heard. Yet this boy's face carried a man- across the fields, for through the fields liness he liked; he was no saucebox. Jeremiah Lott's stalwart figure was "No sir, I'm not so far. I go away over visible and to the east and down the lane to Barrow's woods some days. I go came the unmistakable Mister Eastman hunting." and at his side young Jonathan Rapelyje. Mister Eastman relit his segar. The Rapelyje scowled. He had told the boy boy's eyes were on the walking stick. He to stay to home; all the men by mutual seemed hypnotized by it. Well, what did agreement had told their families to stay he hunt, Mister Eastman asked, casually. away. Now what had happened? Was Rebels. Mister Eastman nearly choked Three-quarters of a mile almost to the Annie sicker? And what was Mister on the smoke. Why, there are no rebels foot. Mister Eastman knew; he had sur- Eastman doing here? Rapelyje's heart up this way, certainly not on Long Is- veyed all this land long since. pounded savagely, for this might be dis- land. The boy wasn't so sure about that aster topping the deadly heartbreak of he'd seen four or five of them skulking TWO of the men, Rapelyje and Kou- leaving a family behind in time of war. through the bushes one afternoon last wenhoven, squatted on their heels at Jeremiah Lott arrived first. All the week and he had fired a shot or two at the side of the road, silent, chewing to- conscripts were standing, even the quiv- them. . . . bacco and from time to time expectorat- ering Reedie. Lott had not sighted Mister "You shot at them? You haven't a ing in the road. The two, with eight Eastman. gun, have you?" others, were waiting for black-bearded "Everybody here?" Lott demanded, "No sir, I haven't, but I make believe Jeremiah Lott to come across the fields drawing a sheaf of papers from his with this." The boy dropped the package from Winfield way. Lott had been ap- pocket. He counted the men with his in the dust and showed Mister Eastman pointed leader of conscripts and charged fierce, unfriendly eyes, and began call- how to aim and fire with the tree branch. with the responsibility of seeing that ing their names. "Of course, it's not 'xactly like having a they arrived in New York before sun- "Rapelyje, Kouwenhoven, Sullivan, real gun. It's not even as good a make down. Dufoy, Mueller, Reedie, Mortimer, Sus- believe ..." ." as that. The boy pointed at Three of the men shuffled their feet darff. . . Mister Eastman's walking stick. in the dust of the road, not particularly No one answered. Mister Eastman The rattle of a sword, the sight of a nervous but anxious to be on their way nodded to all. Young Rapelyje had flag, the beat of a drum. None of these to war now that they must go; one of dropped back, abashed. Lott continued was here. Just a childless man heeding them carried a musket, held muzzle calling the names. Rapelyje looked the enthusiasms of a boy of eight. Time down through the crook of his arm. No steadily, coldly, at his son. stood still as Mister Eastman looked one joshed him about it; he thought he "Jonathan," he said, "you brought my gravely at young Rapelyje. He saw in might as well bring his own gun, one extra stockings." that boyish face much of his own youth, he knew how to shoot. The other con- The boy handed him the package, some of his loneliness, many of his scripts lounged on a slight bank across stepped back again. He said, calmly and dreams. Mister Eastman took up his the road. One of them sat up suddenly clearly, " 'Bye, father, I'll be brave. I stride. The boy trotted with him. and waved his unlit segar in swift circles; won't cry, and I'll take good care of Fifty paces. A hundred. Young Ra- his eyes bulged and scattered from face mama, like you said." pelyje said, "My father told me to stay to face and a bit of spittle was on his The boy seemed to edge nearer Mister home. He told mother to stay home, too. lips; fright was there, ill concealed, and Eastman. And Mister Eastman was He's going to fight the rebels, but he a sudatory odor came from him. studying young Rapelyje's face again. told me to stay home and said I was big "Jumpin' Jehosaphat!" he shouted. He suddenly wanted to do something enough to take care of mama. Mama "The might leastwise send a dray for this boy. No trace of tears on the wanted to say goodbye at the meeting to take us over. Five-six miles to the youth's manly little face, just a quiet place, but she couldn't. She's sick and ferry and my feet ain't so good." wonder presaging coming terror and she was sick like that before." "Shut up, Reedie." said Rapelyje, loneliness. Yet Mister Eastman didn't

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine know just what to do. It was a strange, Eastman turned and faced the elder pipe eddied about the opened-mouthed new feeling, this desire to help; not at Rapelyje. group. all like his almost automatic buying a "John," he said, his voice deepingly "Makes no difference to me, Mister cord of wood and groceries for Cousin clear, "go home to your family." Eastman," he said, "who goes or who ." Mary and her sickly husband, nor guar- "But, Mister Eastman, I. . . don't go, just so I take ten men to New anteeing to pay for the new hymn books "Go home to your family. Get a doc- York with me. We're leaving now." for Pastor De Puyster's Church. tor—a good one. The money is yours." Mister Eastman paused only to won- Men shuffled uneasily in the dust. Lott "He cannot go home," said Jeremiah der if men who hated war always changed nodded to Mister Eastman and lit his Lott, thrusting his body and words into their minds at the crucial moment, or pipe, signifying he was ready to leave. the tense tableau. did some of them have the tenacity to ." Mister Eastman turned and handed his "I want to go home. . . whined refuse forever to bear arms. He did not walking stick to young Jonathan Ra- Reedie. know the answer. He now knew nothing pelyje. Children do things to you no "Mister Lott, I am well within my of the past, and less of the future. He man or woman, law or mandate can rights," said Mister Eastman. "I have gave Jonathan Rapelyje a firm, friendly ever do. decided to go with you." shove homeward and fell in step with "This will help you to be brave, Mas- Lott scowled, an immense terrifying Kouwenhoven. After a while he reduced ter Jonathan. You shoot all the rebels scowl and then his eyes softened for a his stride, for Kouwenhoven was short you can." fleeting second and the smoke from his of leg and asthmatic.

Ohio: In There Pitching

(Continued from page 25) our concern. So our Americanism pro- obligation to the community, State and was surprised once, and believe me, gram is vital and must be continued. Nation.' Much as we should like to we're not going to be surprised in this " 'To maintain law and order.' Our throw aside the worries and responsi- State. It can happen here." auxiliary fire and police brigades, our bilities of being on the side-line in this He picked up a sheet of paper cov- work with Civilian Defense, what are war, we cannot—we must not—do so. ered with a lot of figures. we doing but carrying out this provision This time it is our job to keep the home "One of the queerest developments of our Preamble? All the drill and study fires burning clearly. Since the Legion's of the war," he said, "is the sudden may seem useless, boring now, but in birth it has created in every commu- boost in membership of the Ohio De- time of attack—in the confusion of a nity respect and gratitude for what it partment. Veterans who had never blackout—with enemy planes roaring has done. If a community needs a joined the Legion before are now sign- overhead—the training and discipline swimming pool, and the Post had ing up. It looks as if veterans, unable you are getting now will make you planned to make one—then the job to join the uniformed forces, and still swift and efficient then, and save lives must be done. The one thing the 528 wanting to serve somehow, are joining and property. One slogan we should all Posts of Ohio can do is fulfill to the the Legion as the one disciplined or- remember is: America can't be surprised last letter its program of service to its ganization that can give them some- twice. community. Every one of our 52,000 thing to do. They're signing up, as it " 'To foster and perpetuate a one hun- Legionnaires must re-dedicate himself were, for the duration." dred percent Americanism.' What does to this task. "This is all swell," I said, "but all of that mean? It means that every pro- "Remember, one day soon there will them can't be firemen, cops or air-raid gram, every objective we have sought in be another veterans' organization cre- wardens. What are you going to give all the years of the Legion's existence ated, made up of those men who are the others to do?" must be carried on as before. We've got now fighting in the front lines of democ- Commander Hartpence smiled mys- to go on doing the peacetime job in racy. We who pioneered the tradition teriously. "I'll give you an answer to wartime. In 1941 Ohio had 787 youths of veterans' service in peace to the na- that—tonight. You come along with in the Buckeye Boys' State. They tion, must continue to set an example me." learned the meaning of American citi- to those who now so nobly defend the He picked up a batch of telegrams zenship; its duties, its privileges, its future of the country. from Posts wanting assignments, and responsibilities. Let us have 900 in 1942, "Our obligation to our wounded and that night we went to a Legion Post or a thousand. They're the ones who disabled comrades has grown no less meeting. will make democracy a going concern because of this new world conflict. Our "You fellows," Hartpence told them, in i960. Let us increase the Squadrons pledge to care for the widows and or- "have been asking what you can do to of the Sons of The American Legion phans of veterans must still be reserve the country in this crisis. Well, from 84 to a hundred—or even more. deemed. " there is your answer"—he pointed to Let us put school awards in every school. 'To make right the master of might; the wall behind him—"it was written Conduct more essay contests. Make a to promote peace and good will on twenty years ago. You've read it a hun- study of practical Americanism a part earth; to safeguard and transmit to dred times, and it's a perfect order of of the curriculum of every high school. posterity the principles of freedom, the day. Let me read and interpret it We've got many sponsored Boy Scout justice and democracy.' to show what I mean. troops. Let's have more. We've got a "There in simple dignity is written " 'For God and Country, we asso- junior baseball organization we're proud the war aims of the United States in this ciate ourselves together for the follow- of, but let's increase the number of conflct. To make those words a reality ing purposes: to uphold and defend the teams. Americans are dying half way around

Constitution of the United States.' "To those splendid men in the Army the globe. They'll do their job: it is That's a job all of us must do. Only and Navy now bearing the onslaught of for us to carry out our duties here at a few will wear the uniform again. But world forces of destruction we must be home. For twenty years the Legion those who do must return to find that certain to keep the faith; train Ameri- served in peace; now it must serve democratic institutions have been pre- can youth to understand the liberties equally well in war, giving the same served—that what they are fighting for the Army and Navy are now shedding measure of devotion it has yielded since is not lost. We took the front line in their blood to defend. 1919. Indeed, we should be more zeal- " 1917-1918, this time the home front is 'To inculcate a sense of individual ous in carrying out our Legion program.

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By so doing we shall 'consecrate and age at the American Rolling Mill Com- the nation are millions of tons of scrap sanctify our comradeship by our devo- pany. Zanesville collected 305,000 iron that are needed. " tion to mutual helpfulness.' pounds. More than one hundred and "I want that idea passed on to the Those listeners came up off their fifty Posts fell in line, and tens of Legion as a whole," Commander Hart- chairs, their faces flushed, and their thousands of pounds were collected and pence said. "The millions of tons of eyes bright, and they yelled their ap- sold for twelve dollars a ton. Some of abandoned steel lying in dump lots is proval. When I left Ohio the Post club- the Posts gave their collections to child vital to our defense. If we in Ohio can houses were registering Legionnaire welfare; others were contributing to collect more than three million pounds, skills for use in Civilian Defense, using the United Service Organizations. Still then other Departments can do as well them as headquarters for C. D., and others not only aided national defense or better. And finance their community pitching into the duller disciplined effort by collecting much needed scrap iron, betterment efforts in the doing." of preparing to meet any emergency. but financed the building of a club- Yes, Ohio has enlisted for the dura- Middletown and Zanesville started house. Hardly any Posts made less than tion and has produced ideas of civilian collecting scrap iron to prevent a short- $1,000 by this means. And throughout defense that will be used everywhere. We Are Coming, Father Abraham

(Continued from page 1) ner," Grant's "I propose to fight it out Hicksite Quaker, a birthright member, ing of flesh and blood. It is heard only on this line if it takes all summer" letter with all of the inborn pacific tendencies once in a while at special events, but the to Secretary of War Stanton, "Father of his people, but as his son-in-law later galloping, rhythmic tune composed for Abraham" of Gibbons attracted but said, he had "a reasonable tendency to- it by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore is still slight attention—but enough to recall the ward wrath in cases of emergency." His played, and the spirit of the song is as song and the incident that inspired it to wife and eldest daughter were at the fresh today as it was in that gloomy sum- public attention at just the right time. front serving in hospitals, so the war mer of 1 862* when it was written by The summer of 1862 was a gloomy one was, after all, very close to him. The James Sloan Gibbons, New York Quaker- for the North. The national army in the evening papers headlined the call of the banker, to stir the drooping spirits of an field had met reverse after reverse. There President for volunteers, indicating that already war-weary people. Change a few was dissension in the ranks of those en- the President himself believed the war words in the lyric to fit the most recent trusted to preserve the Government. would be a long one. He could not rest, crisis and you have a song made to order Politics, jealousies, defeatist movements so he started out on a long walk. "I be- for 1942: "We Are Coming, Uncle pressed down upon the President who gan to con over a song," he later wrote. Samuel, Hundred Thirty Million Strong." was called "Old Abe" by many, some in "The words seemed to fall into ranks and What strength there is in the altered first a spirit of derision and contempt, others files and to come with a measured step. line of the last verse: "You have called using the term because of their ad- Directly would come along a company us and we're coming, by Pearl Harbor's miration for and confidence in him. He of soldiers with fife and drum, and that bloody tide." was also called "Uncle Abe" and "Father helped matters amazingly. I began to Strange how the same theme motif oc- Abraham" by many as an expression of keep step myself—three hun-dred thous- curs time after time, war after war, and affectionate regard. He was, as he said and more—it was the very natural an- generation after generation in the in- many times, sprung from the common swer to the President's call—we are spirational songs. That line of Gibbons', people and God must love them, He coming—and to prefix the term father. "From Mississippi's winding stream and made so many of them. He was Father Then the line would follow 'We are from New England's shore," reappears in Abraham to the men who filled the ranks coming, Father Abraham!' and nothing "the halls of Montezuma to the shores of of .the Army. was more natural than the number of Tripoli" of the Marine Hymn, as "they McClellan's Peninsular Campaign had soldiers wanted 'three hundred thousand were summoned from the hillside, they fizzled out to an inglorious finish with more.' Where from? Shore is the rhym- were called in from the glen" in Mrs. staggering losses in men and material. ing word wanted. A Western regiment Guillbertford's "Keep the Home Fires National prestige and public morale were marched by—from Minnesota it was Burning," and again as the sweeping sinking. Defeat had followed defeat since and the line came at once in full: 'From "from the mountains, to the prairies" in the first major clash at Bull Run in the Mississippi's winding stream, and from

Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." All summer of '61. Then, on July 1, 1862, New England's shore. Two lines in full. are songs that were not written at the President Lincoln called for three hun- . . . Then followed—how naturally: of righteous are for three years' white heat a anger but dred thousand volunteers 'We leave our plows and workshops, our expressive of the same devoted patriot- service or until the end of the war. wives and children dear, ism, elevation of spirit, indignation In his New York home, James Sloan 'With hearts too full for utterance, with but a silent tear.' against wrong, and a strong determina- Gibbons sat himself down to take stock tion to preserve the national unity what- of the state of the nation in the philo- And so it went on, word by word, line by

ever betide. That is the spirit of the sophic calm of his Quaker mind. He line, until the whole song was made." America we know; the America we love. was well into middle-age, born at Wil- And it was made when it was first set

In mid-November, just before the per- mington, Delaware, on July 1, 1810, and down on paper; but one slight alteration fidious Japs struck at Pearl Harbor while was, therefore, past the age when he was made before it was forwarded to their envoys were talking peace to the could render active and efficient service William Cullen Bryant, poet-editor of President and the State Department, a in the field. Though a banker and busi- the New York Evening Post, for publi- noted manuscript collection belonging to ness man, he had interested himself in cation.

the late Colonel Louis J. Kolb was of- public questions for many years, had The lyric was published in the Eve- fered at public sale. One of the items in written dry, dull books on banking and ning Post on July 16, 1862, without sig- that sale was the original manuscript, so economics, had interested himself in the nature or indication of authorship. No attested in a personal letter by the au- slavery question and, as the son-in-law explanatory statement was made and it thor, of "Three Hundred Thousand of Isaac T. Hopper, had made some- was immediately assumed by Post read- More." In a sale that included Lincoln's thing of a reputation as a philanthropist ers that the poem was the work of Mr. letter to General Hooker, an original and reformer. Bryant. In fact, at a public meeting manuscript of "The Star Spangled Ban- Gibbons was perturbed. He was a held in Boston on the day after the

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poem appeared it was read publicly by family was not by Bryant but by James own life endangered. His good works Josiah Quincy as "the latest poem writ- Sloan Gibbons he exclaimed: "What were many, but it was "Father Abra- ten by Mr. William C. Bryant." our old friend Gibbons!" When assured ham" that got him his place in the great

The swing of the words, literally that it was by none other, Jesse hesitated Dictionary of American Biography. He tramped into marching rhythm, easily for a few minutes, then announced a lived on in New York until his death adapted the lyric to a musical setting great decision: "Well, we'll keep the on October 17, 1892. and a half dozen or more of the war- name of Bryant as we've got it. He's Father Abraham may or may not have time composers tried their hands at it, better known than Gibbons." The poem been embarrassed at times by the in- not the least of them Stephen Collins appeared so regularly in newspapers and timate, personal use made of the song.

Foster, by long odds the most eminent magazines, in broadsides and sheet music He had to listen to it many times as it of our composers of folk music. But his form under Bryant's name that he, to was sung by groups that visited the "Father Abraham" lacked a lot of having settle matters once and for all, penned White House for one purpose or another. the qualities of "Old Folks at Home," a little denial of authorship: "The There is no record, so far as I can find, "My Old Kentucky Home," "Oh, Susan- spirited poem entitled 'Three Hundred of any expression by him about it. But nah," or any one of a dozen others that Thousand More' which has been copied we do know that he was a lover of song could be mentioned. It failed to click. in many of our journals both daily and and that his heart was often touched. The Hutchinson Family, a noted group weekly as the production of W. C. There is the now classic story—fully that toured the New England and North- Bryant, is not from his pen but from authenticated—of Lincoln's last days ern States for years singing the songs that of James S. Gibbons of this city." when he claimed "Dixie" again for a of freedom, made a setting and included The little slip of paper on which Bryant united nation. Lee had surrendered at "Father Abraham" in their repertoire. entered his denial was given to Gibbons, Appomattox. Washington put on a dem- Luther 0. Emerson, gospel hymn com- and by him given to Charles Nordhoff onstration comparable only to that held poser, tried his practiced hand, with but not the current Mutiny on the Bounty at the time of the 191 8 Armistice. A little effect. Earlier, however, Patrick Charles, but an elder man of the same crowd gathered on the White House Sarsfield Gilmore, America's number one name—who attached it to the original lawn and called for "Old Abe." The military band leader from before the manuscript; then after nearly eighty President appeared at a window and

Civil War down to his death in the early years it again comes to light in the said: "My friends, you call for a speech, 1890's, gave the lyric a musical setting Kolb collection. but I cannot make a speech at this that has survived. His was the one that Gibbons gained nothing but name for time. . . . You have a band with you. caught the popular ear and "stuck like his song; it even caused him great mone- There is one piece of music which I burrs to the skirt of a blackberry girl." tary loss, for in the draft riots in New have always liked .vhich heretofore has Nearly all of these early compositions York in 1863 his home was marked out not seemed proper to make use of. bore the name of William Cullen Bryant. for destruction, his two youngest daugh- Now ... I declare it contraband of war When Jesse Hutchinson was told by a ters barely escaped by the aid of a and our lawful prize. I ask the band to friend that the song used by his singing friend, his papers were destroyed and his play 'Dixie.'"

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hear me. My car broke down at the Two Wrongs bottom of the hill here and I thought maybe you could tell me where I can find someone can fix it." "My boy's good at that sort of thing," {Continued from page 9) our way of thinking he needs it or not. tightened his lips again and went to the That's the way this country was built, Martha said. "I'm sure he'll be glad to sink. His father tore the wrapper from by neighbors helping one another." see can he help you soon's we're finished the Gazette, unfolded it and held it up "Neighbors," John mused. "Can you dinner. Meantime, you just set down and in front of him. "What's the news, tell me, son, how far away folks have eat with us." She rose, without waiting John?" Martha asked, as she asked at to live before they stop being our for acceptance, and bustled off to the this moment of every noon. neighbors?" dish cupboard.

"Manila got it again last night," he The youth's brows knitted. "Well, dad, "Thanks," the man grunted, using his told her from behind his screen. "They that's kind of hard to say. In pioneer foot to pull a chair up to the table. "I smashed a hundred women and children days, of course, anyone who lived within don't mind if I do." to bits. Three more of our ships have a day's journey of you was your neigh- Dick came toward him, holding out a been sunk. Here's something. They bor, but now that you can fly almost half hand. "Let me take your hat." A small muscle knotted in his dark cheek. "And haven't caught that bandit yet, that Wolf around the world in a day you can't fig- — Mullin that held up the bank cross the ure by that any more." if you'd like to wash up line in Briardale last week. Seems like "No?" Potter asked softly. "Why "What's the use washing?" The stranger the police have clean lost track of him." not?" jerked off his hat, tossed it to the kitchen Dick's chair scraped. Martha took "Good Lord, dad! Do you mean to— dresser. "You only get dirty again. Sit hers. "All right, father," she said. Dick broke off. Stiffening, his look was down, kid, and take a load off your feet." "We're ready." on the closed door to the front rooms. "That's right, Dick, sit down," John He folded the paper carefully, put it "Someone's in there," he whispered. "I put in before the resentment flushing his down. He bowed his head. "We thank heard a footfall." son's face could find expression in words. ?" You, Lord," he began, his tone that of "So did I," Martha breathed. "Are you traveling far, Mister—er— one who speaks intimately to a friend "What's got into you two?" Potter's "Smith." Once more there was that physically present, "for the food we're voice seemed needlessly loud. "This the odd, humorless smile. "Nat Smith. I'm about to eat. We thank You for our fer- first time someone's dropped in— hunting a one-horse burg called Lons- tile fields and the sun and the rain that "Anyone who might be dropping in dell." promise us a good harvest. We thank would know to come 'round here to the "Then you've got only about seven You for letting us live as free people in back." Dick shoved erect. "I'm going to miles more to go, straight down the dirt a free land." see—" The door opened and closed road you're on to where it hits the high- Dick's head started to lift, bowed again, and a man stood before its age- way." again as he realized that his father was darkened panel. "The hell you say." Smith looked sur- not through. "Thought there was nobody home." prised. "Say. Maybe you know an old "We thank You," John Potter's low His thin smile was not reflected in the codger named Harkins lives somewhere voice went on, "for making us want to eyes under the brim of his felt hat. near that Lonsdell." do what's right, no matter how hard it "Then I made out talking back here." "Jed Harkins?" is to do it, but we ask You to help Road dust powdered his sallow, ferret- "Yeah." us understand what's really right. We're like face and his tweed suit, and his "Yes, we know him. Matter of fact, he all mixed up just now, Lord, and we're right hand was buried in his coat pocket. lives just the other side of this hill, less awful afraid we might make a bad mis- "Don't you hicks believe in keeping than a mile through the woods you can take." doors locked?" see out that window there." There was a glint of tears in Martha's "We've no reason to," Dick told him. "You don't say. This stuff's damn eyes as she whispered "Amen," but "Folks around here know enough to good, lady." Smith cut another big lump Dick's tension had eased. "Dad," he knock or yell before walking into some- of meat, stuffed it into his mouth. Dick said, "you meant that for both of us, one else's house." put down his own utensils, said, "Don't didn't you?" "I did knock." He seemed to look at pour my coffee yet, mom. I just recalled

"Yes, son. I meant it for all of us." all three of them and out of the window, I got to 'phone Elmer down at the store The mother piled plates with succulent all at the same time. "I guess you didn't and tell him to order those special disks pork tenderloin, with boiled greens and for our cultivator." He shoved his chair creamy mounds of mashed potato. In back, got long legs under it. "If he—don't the stove, the fire crackled merrily. The get the letter off on the two-four leafy fingers of an old oak tapped at "Sit still, punk." A stub-nosed re- the top of the window. "By the way, volver was abruptly fisted in Smith's Dick," Potter remarked, "Jed Harkins hand. "You ain't 'phoning nobody." The sent word he'll be ready for the roof- black gun nosed from Dick to John raising of his new barn tomorrow morn- Potter, rigid in his seat, to Martha at ing." the stove and back again to Dick.

Martha's fork stopped on its way to "Spread your hands on the table, both her mouth. "It's a wonder Jed don't of you." hire his work done instead of asking all The youth put his hands flat on the you men around here to drop your own table. "What—?" Potter gasped. "What's and come do it for him. 'Tain't as if he all this?" needs your help, what with that pile of "He's Wolf Mullin, dad." Dick's lips money everybody knows he's got hid on were grayish, numb-looking. "I knew he his place and him with no kinfolk to was lying when he said his car broke spend it on." down at the bottom of the hill. With the

"Why, mom!" Dick roused from his wind the way it is, we should have heard brown study. "That doesn't sound a bit "It not only turns and butters the it coming along and we hadn't. And like you ! Jed's our neighbor and he's got flapjacks, but it wipes the syrup just now I remembered the picture in the right to ask us for help, whether to off their vests as they go out." last week's Gazette."

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Mullin's mouth opened in a silent, Say. You wouldn't happen to know the drag of the woman's feet as she canine laugh. "Okay. So my name ain't where your friend Harkins hides his waited on the thug who'd invaded her Smith and my jaloppy threw its crank- dough, would you?" home and did as he pleased here, under shaft a couple miles back, but that just Dick's nostrils flared but his father threat of his black gun. makes it sure no nosey's going to spot it answered, evenly. "No. Jed's never told At last he was sated. "Okay," he and come up here looking for me." His anyone and never will.'' grunted, rising. "Now plank your fanny slitted eyes shifted to Martha. "You got "Says you." The fellow leered at him, down in that chair and put your arms some rope handy?" winked. "What do you want to bet he back like they've got theirs." Her fingers plucked at the hem of won't be begging me to let him spill his She obeyed and he lashed her elbows her apron. "There—there's a coil of guts to me ten minutes after I go to work with the piece of clothesline that had clothesline in the broom closet." on him?" been left over when she'd tied up her "Get it." A dish she was taking off the table men. ' Through those woods out there, She stumbled across the floor, almost slipped from Martha's hold with —a crash. you said, didn't you?" He leered at Pot- as if she'd gone blind. Mullin was on his Mullin's gun leaped into his hand "You ter, let his gun snout at Dick for a ter- feet when she returned with the coil of rat," he snarled. "I ought to— rible second, then turned and strode to strong cord. His revolver was watchful "Damn you, Mullin!" Swollen veins the back door, out through it. as, at his order, she lashed Dick's elbows bulged —Dick's brow. "Call her that again Breath whistled from between Potter's behind the chair's back and then, when and I'll " The flat of the gun smacked teeth. Dick's chair creaked as he strained he'd sliced the rope with the bread knife, against his cheekbone, came away to forward, blood purpling his face, and her husband's. leave a scarlet ooze of blood. then he was up out of it, his lashings Mullin inspected the knots, grunted "There's plenty more where that came sliding limp down the chair back. "I satisfaction and went back to his seat, from, punk," rasped from straight, cruel knew I could get loose," he threw over taking along the length of cord that was lips. "And you'll get it if you don't keep his shoulder as he pounded to the door left over. "Fill up another plate of meat your mouth buttoned." through which Mullin had entered. "But and be quick about it." He put the gun "Please, Richard," Martha begged. I didn't dare try with him watching." In down ready to his hand. "I've been on "Please be quiet. I'm sure Mr. Mullin the entry beyond he twirled the crank of the lam so long my belly thinks my won't hurt us if we don't make trouble a wall 'phone. "I'll have the cops . . . throat's cut." for him." Hell!" He stared at a wire that dangled John Potter's Adam's apple moved up "That's the ticket," Mullin grinned. from the receiver. "He's cut— and down his wrinkled neck. "Where do "You behave and you won't get hurt. I "The rifle, Dick," John yelled. "It's you think this is going to get you?" he don't want nothing from you. Okay, loaded, and I can see him kiting across asked hoarsely. "You can't keep us mom. Spill me some coffee with plenty the barn lot." prisoners here forever." of sugar and cream, and hand over a "Got you!" The youth snatched the "I don't have to." The way he gorged, slab of that cake I see there." And then, long gun from the bracket of deer ant- he hadn't lied about being half-starved. for long minutes, there was only the lers across which it lay, thudded back "I'll be on my way soon's I'm filled up. sound of heavy breathing in that kitchen. into the kitchen and to the window. The THE 5 CROWNS ROLL TOUGHNESS OUT

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rifle butt jammed against his shoulder in his thoughts, he bent to pick it up. with blanks, this morning after you'd and his face was a taut, expressionless "That was one time killing certainly gone out." mask as sunlight flashed on the polished wasn't wrong." His look met the anger and contempt barrel. The rifle cracked. "No son," Potter said softly, his in his son's face bravely, but there was "He was almost in the woods," Dick seamed countenance glowing with an in- a quiver of panic in his voice. "Tom said, peering out. "I had to make the ner light. "There are times when it's Coster, our Adjutant, is Chairman of the first shot good, and I did. He's pitched right to kill. There are things it's right Draft Board. He 'phoned me last night into the brush but there's a bullet in his to kill for. Your home. Your neighbor's that notice was coming, and I knew I skull or I never brought down a stag in home. Human freedoms that have been had to do something to make you under- those woods." won by blood and sweat and tears and stand the difference between a murderer "You killed him," Martha sobbed. that must be preserved by sweat, and and a soldier. So—so we hatched up this ." "Richard. You've killed a man." tears—and blood if need be." act between us and . . . and . . He turned, slowly, and his eyes were "Yes." It is very hard for youth to ad- "You tricked me." Dick Potter's hands veiled. "I aimed to kill him. I had to. mit that it has been wrong. Admitting it, were closing into fists on the table, and ." You heard what he was going to do to Dick couldn't bring himself to meet his his throat was thick. "You lied . . our neighbor. I couldn't let him do that. father's gaze but watched his own hands "Richard!" Martha strained to him I had to stop him." smooth out the newspaper.— "Yes. Now I against the tightness of her bonds. "Rich- "You were right," John Potter said. see how wrong I " He checked. "Dad!" ard, dear. Perhaps it was wrong of your "Don't let anyone ever tell you that you Now he did look at his father, and his father to play a trick on you, but that weren't right to aim to kill him." eyes blazed with anger. "This headline doesn't make what you've just said any ?" "How could anyone— Dick caught 'Briardale Bandit Nabbed!' That wasn't the less right. You thought it was Wolf himself. "I see. I see what you mean." Wolf Miillin and you knew it!" Mullin you aimed your rifle at, and you He came slowly to the table. "There John Potter's cheeks sucked in. "No. knew you were right to do that." wasn't any question in my mind that I He wasn't Wolf Mullin, son. He's Ben The youth's hands opened again and wasn't right to try and kill him." As Foster, the Legionnaire who's going to the anger died out of his eyes. "Okay, he put the rifle down, it brushed the do those impersonations at the Post, and mom," he grinned. "You better start Gazette off and automatically, absorbed you didn't kill him. I loaded that rifle looking over my socks." "When Good Fellows Get Together"

(Continued from page ig) Nally (who also obtained a silver cham- member club, with possible emergency took place in 1932, when "Tiny" Quant, pionship plaque ) and set to work. The increase (not yet invoked) of five dol- of Detroit, contacted Fuller and Love, second contest (also unofficial) went lars more. At present its annual income of Syracuse; and the new Suffolk County off as scheduled, with Boston, Detroit, is eighty dollars, increasable to $120.00.

Chorus, of Boston, began work for na- Syracuse and two newcomers, Trenton, Obviously it is non-profit-making. It tional recognition and contests. Accom- New Jersey, and Kings County, New always has been. All Legion choruses are plishment languished until 1936, when York, participating. John Clough, Syra- invited to membership, but non-member Suffolk County induced the Massachu- cuse's Director, became President of the groups are afforded all privileges, except setts Convention to recommend to the Singing Corps, the writer Vice-President voting on Association matters. Impor- National Convention recognition of glee and Benjamin and Fuller retained their tant decisions are worked out by pref- clubs and instruction and assistance to offices. Soon after, the name was changed erential balloting. The association is the various Departments in their promotion. to The Legion Choruses Association; only organization devoted solely to the Later in that year came the first con- the slogan, "For A Singing Legion," was welfare of Legion choruses. At present test, unofficial of course, when Boston, adopted; and Quant was added, as 2d it is laying plans to establish male quar- Detroit, Sidney and Syracuse competed Vice-President. tet contests. at Cleveland and then joined forces in The third contest (still unofficial) was All contests to date have been won several non-competitive numbers. The held at Los Angeles in 1938, following by Syracuse, directed by John T. Clough four clubs banded together to form the long-distance arrangements with a com- (1936-40) and DeWitt Botts (1941), American Legion Singing Corps. Six petent local committee, whose appoint- with Harrie Southwick as Accompanist people deserve the principal credit: ment was engineered by Vic MacKenzie. and Assistant Director. Syracuse, indeed, Countess Elektra Rosanska and Charles Syracuse sang against two California is the cord that has held the contests Chylinski, Directors of Boston and De- groups, The Chanters, of Los Angeles together. Had "The Boys" not reached troit, respectively; and the Four Wheel- and the Karl Ross Chanters, of Stock- Los Angeles and Milwaukee the national horsemen of the early days—Charles ton. Non-competitive, combined num- contests of 1938 and 1941 would have Benjamin of Sidney, Lemuel Dagle of bers, were rendered at the contest and become mere local meets, between Cali- Boston, Chester Fuller of Syracuse. Liv- on the National Religious-Patriotic Pro- fornia and Michigan contestants, re- ingston Quant of Detroit. The countess gram at the Hollywood Bowl. The L. C. spectively. Second place was won twice became President of the new corps, A., now with ten member choruses, by Detroit; once each by Sidney, Los Chylinski, Vice President, Benjamin, adopted a written constitution and set Angeles, Trenton and Ironwood. Sing- Secretary, and Fuller, Treasurer. of by-laws, based largely on the college- ing standards have risen steadily. Syra- By midsummer, 1937, however, the contest regulations of the Intercollegiate cuse each year has topped its own pre- organization had broken down, with both Musical Council. ceding score. Trenton, third in 1937, the Countess and M. Chylinski out of The L. C. A., unofficial, is a demo- took second in 1940, and Ironwood dup- the picture. Less than six weeks before cratic unincorporated body organized by licated this record in 1939 and 1941. the New York National Convention, with the choruses and operating under its Usually the unbeaten champions have nothing accomplished, Fuller called on 1938 constitution and by-laws. Its six enjoyed a comfortable margin of vic- this writer to help. The two enthusiasts officers, elected annually and forming tory. But in photo-finishes at Chicago, got themselves appointed a Choral-Con- its Executive Committee, serve without in 1939, and Boston, in 1940, Syracuse test Sub-Committee of the New York salary, although allowed expenses. The nosed out Detroit and Trenton, respec- Convention Corporation, received carte sole finances of the Association come tively, by merely .483 and .03 of one blanche from Chairman Lawrence Mc- from its dues, ten dollars per year per percent! The champions have collected

40 The AMERICAN LEGION Maeazine so many gold cups that "Tiny" Quant stitutions and hospitals throughout New recently advised them to beware Federal Jersey and in nearby Pennsylvania. prosecution for hoarding! Their last ac- Takes part in all civic affairs, singing quisition was custody of the new, per- for Red Cross, Community Chest, and manent, traveling trophy donated gen- other organizations." Save for mileage, erously last fall for choral contests by Faust and Sidney keep busy similarly. Alonzo Cudworth Post of Milwaukee. All clubs, and especially Boston, perhaps

Twice, under spur of competition, the most active of all, go in heavily for choruses have reached such superb Legion functions. Chester and Frank- heights that the audience, swept off its ford also specialize in church work and feet, simply "took the numbers away the latter claims "much credit for in- from the singers" by drowning out the stilling new life into dull evening serv- final measures with tumultuous applause. ices." Syracuse and the defunct Hayes- This happened when Syracuse, under Velhage Chorus, of West Hartford, Con- John Clough, turned back the thrust of necticut, were honored by invitations to The Chanters, at Los Angeles, with The sing at Departmental dinners for Na- Lost Chord, and the following year at tional Commanders. Trenton put on an Chicago, when Faust all but toppled hour program at the New York World's Syracuse with an inspired reading of Fair Court of Nations. Faust has en- John Peel, by Marion Leacock. joyed unusual success with theater en- Competitive singing was transferred in gagements. Many groups broadcast, 1938, to the National Contest's Super- Syracuse once radioing a program to the visory Committee, which now includes Byrd Antarctic Expedition and once be- one choral man, Chester D. Fuller of ing "televised" at New York. All groups Syracuse, appointed by Ray Kelly when give private concerts, some, notably National Commander. The N. C. S. C, Loudenslager's, apparently very swanky however, has adopted most of the occasions. A natural affiliation for Le- choruses' own rules. There must be at gion choruses is the Associated Glee Be on the alert least 13 singers, with no maximum Clubs of America, but few have taken for two enemies! set. Average contest groups run around advantage of this. It was a trip to the 22, while the larger clubs frequently Adirondack Conclave of this body, in You watchers for enemy aircraft have another formidable foe to fight in the use 35 men. While non-Legionnaire Di- 193 1, that set the five-month-old Syra- long vigil "on the hill" and that's rectors and Accompanists may be util- cuse Chorus on its feet, from the stand- — the common cold. The most comfort- ized, most actually are buddies. All point of morale and made "The Boys" able defense against it is really warm singers must be paid-up Legionnaires. first realize they might, indeed, be able underwear Duofold. Its unique fab- Three judges, usually seated separately, to "go places." — ric in two thin layers gives you the evaluate the contest numbers for dic- Some choruses boast large repertoires; warmth of wool, but not the itch. tion, ensemble, interpretation, pitch and Chester claiming 200 numbers, Frank- Inner layer, next the skin, is all fine tone—and nothing else. ford nearly 100; with Syracuse and cotton. Outer layer consists of wool The L. C. A. introduced combined, Trenton probably in between. The enor- and other fibers. Styles to meet all non-competitive singing at the first con- mous possibilities for stimulating good preferences — including longs with test, along lines worked out by the will for the Legion, through community built-in Action Support*. Wear them Associated Glee Clubs of America, and choral work, are obvious. on one watch, and you'll never be incorporated provisions for it into the Most Legion choruses are self-support- without them again! constitution and by-laws. Such singing. Trenton receives "a small budget" ing is always popular. Additional chance and Hayes-Velhage Post paid L. C. A. for it frequently opens up as part of the dues for its group. But the general story National Religious and Patriotic Pro- is otherwise. Loudenslager's singers grams at National Conventions. Such bought their uniforms individually and gatherings give the choruses their great- its chorus has always been self-sustain- est audiences, over 25,000 at Hollywood, ing—without dues, at that. Frankford exclusive of the radio broadcast, almost is "compensated except for Legion, Com- as many at Boston and Milwaukee. Such munity and charitable affairs" and de- appearances furnish excellent practical rives a sufficient "and always increas- demonstration of what the Legion can ing" income. Syracuse gets parts of its do culturally. The writer has cited them staggering transportation costs defrayed frequently to drive this point home to by loyal individual contributors but

skeptics. Non-competitive singing is still earns its own way otherwise, usually by administered by the L. C. A., whose programs and broadcasts for pay, al- members choose, by ballot, the numbers though "The Boys" often return the thus to be rendered. guarantee to "an organization raising Notwithstanding national contests and money for a good cause." In 1931 these festal singing, most Legion choral work men paid for their own uniforms by is done near home. The glee clubs' justi- building a grandstand for the Depart- fication of existence depends more on ment Parade and charging admission. how they serve their communities than Ironwood, denied Post aid in 1935 be- on what they do at the national cause a Sons' Drum Corps was in the gatherings. making, got the canteen concession at Most meet their responsibility ade- a County Fair and earned its uniforms that way. wipe transportation quately. Trenton "averages about 35 To out concerts per year and travels about 40,- loans Ironwood "sponsored dancing par-

000 man-miles; makes yearly visits to ties . . . and served large banquets, various State, County and Federal in- from 300 to 525. At these we were

FEBRUARY, 1942 41 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine nicknamed 'The Singing Waiters'." Bee- by not starting glee clubs. Expenses need willing to attend rehearsals regularly and thoven once wrote, "Man! Help Thy- not frighten. Music for a starting group subject themselves to the discipline de- self!" The Legion choristers do just does not run into big money and can manded of all the singers by the director. that. Nobody else helps them, much. be handled by a small preliminary as- But in the long run the chorus will sink The magnitude of transportation cost sessment on the singers. Post halls may unless its necktie tenors, bar-room basses entailed in bringing choruses to contests be used for rehearsal, and Post pianos, and gargling greenhorns get into it and can be realized from a few figures. Syra- if not too impossible. Uniforms can behind it. Untrained voices, singing alone, cuse paid $5000 to reach Los Angeles wait. While Frankford pays its Director rarely sound well. But combined into and borrowed $1200 to get to Mil- and Accompanist, such officers frequently glee clubs they can achieve amazing waukee. Little Ironwood went "in the serve Legion choruses gratis, particularly musical beauty. Disregarding mathemati- red" $400 to participate at Chicago if buddies themselves. cal laws, choruses are the one human and $250 to place second at Mil- product in which the whole exceeds the waukee. Unfortunately, no national finan- EVENTUALLY, trained men can be sum of its parts. cial assistance is at present available to found to take these positions, either The writer would like to close by the choruses, although in almost all other in the Post or out. Pending discovery, tendering, on behalf of the L.C.A., a official national contests cash prizes are some Post members or friends can usu- friendly invitation to the National or- awarded. The N. C. S. C. recommended, ally be induced to "pinch hit." In the ganization. Unless the current war pre- as a starter, two such prizes, totaling writer's opinion, Syracuse lasted through vents, 1943 will bring a 25th Anniversary $150, for the 1942 choral contest, but its early months in i930-'3i mainly be- Armistice Day Service at Arlington. this idea was rejected. cause of the devoted, if untrained, serv- What a spot for a large chorus of he-man While Frankford organized in 1929- ices of Van Spooner, struggling away as Legionnaires, singing two of the great 1930 largely as a spiritual antidote to Accompanist until his talented successor songs of our own World War, In Flan- the market crash, most groups come to- appeared. If a Post seems too small for a ders Fields, The Long, Long Trail and gether, like Syracuse, "with the one chorus, a group can be organized along whatever else may be needed! Several thought of singing for the joy of it" County or District lines and still be good Legion choruses are located quite and, like Chester, "want members who eligible for national competition. The near Washington and others are not im- love to sing and enjoy good fellowship." L. C. A., naturally, is always ready to possibly far away. The L.C.A., with ma- With such a spirit, Syracuse can get help out with suggestions, on request. chinery and trained personnel already away with "an average year of 47 re- The N. C. S. C. confines itself to mere available, is prepared, on request, to as- hearsals;" Syracuse, Faust and Iron- administration of contests. semble the needed choral group for non- wood can go into the red to reach con- Nor should prospective founders of competitive participation and to arrange tests and, somehow, claw their way out new choruses be discouraged for lack of the musical part of such Service. Time again. Boston, after an exhausing two- trained or experienced vocal material. As will have to be allowed. And funds made hour concert at the Long Island Hos- Peter Dykema pointed out, the official available for expenses, including a sub- pital can steam back up the Bay on a singing program of I9i7-'i8 was planned stantial part of transportation cost, since tugboat singing so gloriously, on deck, to make the most of the run-of-the-mill the Association's slender budget will not

as to draw applause from passing vessels singer. It aimed to take advantage of his permit it to assume financial responsi- half a mile away. Without this spirit no relatively slender training and average bility. If the National organization will

chorus will survive, no matter what its endowment, kindled to enthusiasm by a supply authority to act, and, if in some talent, intelligence or leadership. With desire to sing. way sufficient funds can be raised, the

it, "run-of-the-mill" singers can touch Legion choruses should be set up along L.C.A. will undertake the rest of the

the heights. the same lines. Trained soloists and responsibility. If this comes to pass, lis- Posts where such spirit exists lose semi-professionals, such as church choir ten to the Legion choristers really go to great chances for pleasure and service men, can help greatly when they prove town.

Beside the Angels of Mercy

(Continued from page 7) Norman H. Davis, National Red Cross wave since 1815. But one engulfed its Cross headquarters. Volunteer patrol and Chairman, pointed to an enormous map shore cities in 1938, at a cost of 288 traffic squads recruited from Legion of the country in his office in Washing- lives. Children in Helena, Montana, membership report to police or military ton. It showed a record of disasters in wondered, like most of us, what an headquarters for special assignment. All 21 States, natural, not war causes. Every earthquake's like. In 1935, they learned. Legion facilities are immediately placed month is charted for potential trouble. Helena had 2,000 quakes that year. at the disposal of the Red Cross through Over a 21 -year period, the Red Cross "We can't anticipate what demands the Post liaison officer. has dealt with 1986 disasters in the the next emergency will make," Mr. How well these duties are being car- United States. Aside from war dangers a Davis told me. "We want to be ready. ried out I heard from the lips of top total of 120 are forecast for 1942. They We must be ready, no matter where dis- Red Cross officials in Washington. They will include cyclones, epidemics, cloud- aster strikes, how large the area or how are proud of the work the Legion has bursts, fires, floods, forest fires, hail- many people are involved—or how few." done and is doing. They are particularly storms, hurricanes, mine explosions, bus One large room in the Washington gratified at the Civilian Defense re- and train accidents, shipwrecks, snow Red Cross headquarters is a mass of sponsibilities accepted and executed by storms, tornadoes, typhoons, and other telephone lines and tables, a clearing hundreds of Legion Posts. It is proving windstorms. house for disaster messages. Hourly re- a comfort to them to have the depend- Red Cross headquarters must look for ports from the Weather Bureau, day and able American Legion ready to carry on. trouble anywhere. That, Mr. Davis sees night, are charted on a map which fills What is the extent of the normal dis- as the first essential. Local chapters one wall. This is the center of the nerv- aster job in which the Red Cross needs must look for trouble any time. In ous system of disaster relief. But its —and is getting—enthusiastic Legion Delaware, which had but one disaster in sinews are in the drilled leaders who help and support? And what is the addi- 21 years, the same clockwork must be make up local Disaster Committees. tional burden caused by the war emer- ready to function as in Texas, which "Many Red Cross chapters are headed gency? had 159. Rhode Island had had no tidal up by Legionnaires," DeWitt Smith,

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National Director of Disaster Relief for persons and responded to every possible ida Refugee Evacuation Plan is matched ihe Red Cross, pointed out. He said that kind of emergency plea. by a similar one in the Ohio Valley, both there is a strong tendency for Legion "Outside the flood areas, many more ready for immediate mobilization and members to assume the major adminis- thousands of Legionnaires and members execution on a moment's notice. trative roles in disaster work, in addition of the American Legion Auxiliary, went Miss Mabel Boardman, National Sec- to the assigned special duties of patrol to work to support their comrades at the retary of the Red Cross, summed up for and traffic squads. The number of Le- waterfront with the necessary supplies me the underlying reason why Red Cross gion men in key posts in the disaster- and funds. In hundreds of cities and help is so prompt in times of disaster. emergency setup has greatly increased towns, Legion committees, working with Charles Evans Hughes, she said, once during the past few years, Mr. Smith military efficiency, made house-to-house expressed his amazement at this speed. told me. canvasses to collect contributions of "I pick up a newspaper and by the "The greatest peacetime disaster with cash, food, clothing and bedding." time I have finished reading the account which this generation has had to cope It was following the experience of the of disaster, the Red Cross is at the was the Ohio-Mississippi Valley flood of 1937 flood that the present "teamwork" scene," he told Miss Boardman. "How 1937," Mr. Smith added. And this ex- arrangement between Red Cross and Le- do you get there so fast?" cerpt from the official Red Cross report gion was set up. Its first great test came "We don't get there. We are there," on that disaster tells its own story: in the following year, with the hurricane was her perfect answer. "The Departments of West Virginia, which swept through New York State The Red Cross is no outside agency. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and New England. Its war and disaster preparedness has and Illinois mobilized practically every "Generally throughout the disaster," become an integral part of every Amer- Post within their confines for action. the official Red Cross report recounts, ican community. The Red Cross now Thousands of Legionnaires served during "American Legion Departments and has over 3700 chapters, with 7800 the emergency along the long waterfront Posts with Auxiliary Units worked with branches. And the Legion, both officially from West Virginia to Tennessee. and through the Red Cross in the serv- and through the work of individual Le- "These men helped to quiet the fears ices they rendered. Department and gionnaires, carries on its comradeship. of the panic-stricken, rescued marooned Post liaison officers were appointed, who Tempo of Red Cross disaster prepara- victims, evacuated thousands of home- conferred with the Red Cross staff. This tion work has of course been stepped less, pulled oars, ran motor boats, stood arrangement greatly facilitated exchange up by the war. Disaster Institutes, many guard, did patrol duty, preserved or sal- of information, handling of inquiries and of them in cooperation with Legion- vaged property, prevented looting, main- planning of cooperation. Legionnaires naires, are scheduled for several hundred tained law and order, kept communica- were helpful in the emergency period, communities in 1942. tion lines open, operated portable radio rescuing sufferers and caring for the In general, the human problems to be sets, opened field kitchens that fed thou- refugees." faced in war are comparable to those sands, established emergency hospitals, Time and again since that date Le- encountered in peace-time disasters, such hauled supplies, provided safe drinking gion man-power has been recruited for as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes or water, directed traffic, located missing the Red Cross in emergency. The Flor- explosions. They necessitate providing,

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on the basis of need, medical care, food, more extensive industrial war activity. heroine today. What is the first thing a

clothing, shelter, and other basic emer- 3. Sporadic air or sea attacks in Red Cross nurse does when she is called gency necessities. There is some differ- coastal and boundary areas. Problems of for war or disaster service—get into her ence as compared with peace-time dis- emergency relief resemble those of peace- white uniform? I put the question to asters. For example, disasters incident to time disasters to some extent. Nurse Margaret Dizney, blue-eyed, yel- war can occur at more places simul- 4. Sustained air or sea attacks, which low-haired supervisor, a member of a taneously, and may be repeated at more would mean intensification of effort and Red Cross disaster unit. frequent intervals than during peace- help in control of panic and hysteria. "Much more likely to put on her hip- time experience. An obvious first essen- 5. An actual theater of operations in boots and raincoat," this youngish-vet- tial is the perfection of the nation-wide Continental United States involving eran of 13 years' disaster service assured disaster preparedness organization. ground troops. The area would of course me with a smile. "Disaster means reality, Looking to the future, Red Cross offi- be put under military jurisdiction at hard work, often rescue work. The nurse cials see five distinct possibilities, against once. wears her Red Cross arm band insignia which plans might have to be made. The The Red Cross emergency set-up is on duty, of course, her blue uniform as Legion is to be called on for counsel, flexible enough to fit into any necessary a rule. She carries her nursing kit. She guidance and help in execution. program. reports promptly at local Red Cross 1. The same kind of disasters that oc- The military will be largely in control headquarters. From that moment on, cur in peace-time. They assume even with respect to sustained air or sea at- she may be plunged into any kind of greater importance during the stress of tacks. Damage done by sporadic sea or emergency." war and must be prepared for in ad- air attacks, however, would be handled Before she quits the job she makes vance. readily by the present disaster prepared- certain everything has been done for 2. An increased number of disasters, ness machinery. the victims of disaster that could be such as fires, explosions and epidemics, The Red Cross nurse was our heroine done. That's the way the Red Cross expected to result from the faster and during the World War I, and she is our works, in peace and in war.

The Army Hits Its Stride

(Continued from page 11) and taking up a new front many miles ward over the roads from railheads far learning than ever before, but those years away. Yet even in the midst of these in the rear, and distributed promptly to of economy gave little experience in the sudden displacements of large bodies the troops under actual field conditions, actual handling of troops. It was not a of troops, an observer could drive freely (generally under cover of darkness). case of dead-wood, or of incompetent over the roads they were using. Even The gas required for about 50,000 ve- men in the higher commands; the Regu- with unprepared movements due to hicles had to be steadily on hand, and lar Officers' Corps as a whole was not sudden emergency of battle, one side hundreds of filling points re-arranged given a chance at the actual work of of the road would be left clear, and from day to day in a constantly chang- managing large field units. Commanders the long lines of trucks would not jam ing pattern. Real telephone line also and staffs had had all the training that up in disorder. had to be laid and picked up again schools could give, but not the actual A still better proof of this is the fact without delay, as the set-up of head- command of real troops. that the civilian population could use quarters and command posts followed If war had come two years ago we the roads in normal fashion throughout the steady shifting of the front. The should not have been able to bring the whole maneuvers area. Local civilian Engineers also had to do their work on even the Regular Army into the field traffic could go ahead with its daily a thoroughly real basis. A heavy pon- on a workmanlike footing. This was business in places where heavy troop toon bridge, able to carry medium proved fairly well by the official critique movements were being carried through tanks, was picked up, transported 74 of the Louisiana maneuvers in the on rush orders, or even in towns in the miles (in 80 vehicles), and re-erected spring of 1940, carried out by five front of actual fighting. All this meant all within 17 hours. Regular Divisions. No National Guard highly competent staff work on the part Of the forces at work in Carolina, units entered in, and the selectees were of 15 or 20 headquarters in the Red more than half the units were National not yet in existence. Yet the official and Blue armies, and excellent road Guard Divisions. More than half the critique made clear that traffic control discipline on the part of the troops troops were selectees. Of the officers, and the movement of troops over the themselves. Also, the control of traffic by far the larger part came from the roads were chaotic; there were spec- at cross-roads and at street intersections National Guard and the O.R.C. Yet tacular road blocks and bungles in di- in towns and villages was strikingly this mixed and very new body of troops recting troop movements; and merely good. The M. P.'s were thoroughly made a far better and more finished from the process of getting themselves primed in advance as to the task on showing than was seen in the Louisiana under way the two sides worked into hand, and they were quick and compe- maneuvers of 1940—which were car- thorough confusion. tent (even good-natured) in dealing ried out wholly by Regular Divisions. All these were the things conspicu- with unexpected situations. (It was said The immense progress made since ously last absent November : Road blocks that some hundreds of them had been 1939 is due to the hard work put in were the exception rather than the rule. put through a special course of training since then by both Regular and National Whole Divisions and Army Corps in actually handling traffic in New Guard units. The smaller maneuvers moved about with a speed and good York City.) have gradually given the commands and order and general briskness such as no It must be noted also that the maneu- staffs of every Division actual experi- one could have imagined in 191 8. The vers were a wholly different affair from ence in the practical work of trans- general scheme of operations called for war games or staff-exercises on paper. port and supply, and in troop-move- a type of mobile warfare which in- For the transport and supply people it ments over the roads—as well as han- volved sudden moves and constant shift- amounted to the real thing. Three hun- dling troops in the field. At first, of irigs of position—orders which might dred thousand troops had to be moved course, this had to be done under the involve suddenly uprooting thirty to about and kept supplied with food and handicap of having units far below forty thousand men, moving them all other requirements. Real supplies strength, and with serious shortages of across a network of little-known roads, and ammunition had to be brought for- arms and equipment.

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine It called for no little backbone and determination for the General Staff to carry through these plans, when the country was loudly ridiculing the idea of training with dummy guns. But it FALSE TEETH has proved a sound and intelligent pro- Played "hob" with Daniel Dobb— gram. One result of it was that as new equipment came forward in 1941, the But this is how he saved his job staffs of our many Divisions were able to handle it in competent fashion. This From door to door trudged Daniel Dobb, His sample case in hand; in itself is no small matter. By the present tables of organization each Square Yet all day long he made no sales, Division (22,000 officers and men) has No orders cotdd he land. a little over 3000 vehicles, so that when Alas! his dingy, foul a move is ordered, it is a case of a false teeth good-sized town starting off on wheels Were more than folks at short notice. A Triangle Division on could stand. the march requires at least 75 miles of roads. In marching west to the Louisi- ana maneuvers last spring it is reported that when the head of one Division (moving in a rather open column) A dentist said: "Try POLIDENT, The modern thing to do. reached the Mississippi River, the tail "Although you neither rub nor scrub of the column was still in Alabama. The new'; tanks of one Armored Division were Your teeth will 'look like brought to the Carolina maneuver area "It brightens smiles; checks Denture Breath; \ by train—they amounted to nine train- Is inexpensive too." loads. An Armored Corps, spaced out

did ! And now his order file properly for moving by road, requires Dobb Is simply overflowing; about 400 miles of roads. pay-checks, too, are lush and fat; On the next to the last day of the His His bank account is growing. maneuvers a Blue force made a break- through on the western flank of the The lesson? POLIDENT can keep Your plates clean, sweet and glowing! Red army and pushed forward in a deep advance into Red territory. The Red Di- visions next in line were then attacking to the northeast, and at nightfall it CLEAN PLATES, BRIDGES WITH looked as if they might be struck in the flank and rear, and possibly knocked out of action. Instead, during the night P0LIDCI1T two Divisions or more pulled out from ALL DRUG STORES, ONLY 30c their attacking front; pulled back far to the rear, and took up a new front facing west. By daybreak they were vigorously AMAZ- I counter-attacking the Blue Division which ING CHEAP OIL BURNER had broken through, and ended the day STOP Your Rupture WHY COOK OR HEAT With COAL or WOOD Why suffer with that rupture? Learn m Clean heat at small cost—no very successfully. Taking everything dirtj — about my truss invention for reducible lflf ashes or drudgery.y. Burnsuurns low-priced, free flowing oiI-*^UM/\oil— ***Ul rupture. Automatic air cushion assists I ins ^ into account, this shift of front must W* vB Ivvi no small openings to closr up. i * •vCV/Vw'V'*'* Nature to close theopening—has relieved ve its ef-_ < * '* ^Stf have involved a movement of at least thousands of men , women and children. Noobnoxious springs ficiency, or hard pads. No salves or plasters. Sent on trial to prove venience and economical operation. A Guarantee with each b 7000 vehicles possibly 10,000. Some of it. Beware of imitations. Never sold in stores. Write today CPPPIAI OFFPD TO AGENTS — for confidential information free in plain envelope. ortv" HL vr r and take orders. Wonderful Money Maker. Write quick postal the tank units were said to have cov- Company, State Street, Marshall, —a card will do. Brooks 105 Michigan United Factories, B 101 Factory Building, Kansas City, Mo. ered over 90 miles during the course of the night. Yet in the morning the roads over which they had passed were clean and clear—not dotted with ditched YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? trucks or smashed-up vehicles. By day- IS the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was light, all this mass of transport was mailed correct for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail to tucked away out of sight in woods be- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. hind their new front. Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine i A movement such as this, of course, NEW ADDRESS would have been quite impossible with Name the type of trucks and tanks we had (PLEASE PRINT) in 1918. The present-day vehicle makes Street Address easy things which would not have been attempted fifteen years ago. The war City State of movement it has brought in is a faster and more open game than was 1942 membership card number even thought of in earlier days. But Post No Dept. it is also a far harder game to play. The old address improved equipment requires much Street Address

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One sharp point of contrast with 191 things a complacent self-admiration so- 1 91 7. Out of the 18,000 men of the

is the streamlining of the general set-up ciety. From a professional standpoint, 26th Division, for instance, 10,000 were of staffs and headquarters. The immense it is highly critical of itself—and all selectees received by the Division at the mass of paper work of the old days has ranks are decidedly impatient of people beginning of March, 1941. These new been cut down to an absolute minimum. who make the same mistake twice, or men were handled separately and put Important operations orders are boiled fail in getting ahead as fast as possible. through the basic course of training down to a few clear phrases on a single (This was the case also in 191 8.) But which gives each man a ground-work in sheet of paper. In a Divisional H. Q., the troops themselves have little idea all the essentials of his particular arm and even in the headquarters of an of the progress already made. Only an of the service. They were then assigned Army Corps, all the apparatus of each old-timer who has not seen troops in the to their units, and trained as units, in staff section is carried within a single field since 191 8 could realize—with a exercises by company, battalion, and truck: maps, typewriters, files and rec- shock of surprise—that in many ways regiment, within the framework of a ords, and everything needed to function these troops were already far more ad- single Division. (This was as far as any in actual operations. The Signal Corps vanced than the Divisions sent off to unit carried its training in 191 7, and unit also gets its stuff into a single truck. France twenty-odd years ago. not all could go this far.) Officers and personnel sleep in tents; it It came as a surprise, also, to learn is not necessary to set up shop in build- that more than half of these troops were AFTER about three months of this sec- ings; and as a rule towns and villages still in civilian clothes at the beginning - ond phase of work in the training are avoided as locations for headquar- of 1 94 1. If all the selectees engaged camps, the Divisions marched off south ters. had been ruled out of action by the to go through a third stage of working in The whole establishment of the com umpires, the maneuvers would have the field in large units—whole Divisions mand echelon of a Division or Army come to a halt on the spot. By and and Army Corps operating against each

Corps is thus gathered up in about 14 large, more than half of nearly every other in maneuvers on a much larger vehicles—trucks, command cars, etc. All unit in the field was made up of selec- scale. They lived and bivouacked in the the equipment and all the personnel tees. In some of the Regular Divisions open under actual service conditions; of the Command echelon—including the proportion was even higher: one of and for the first time commanders and kitchen and mess tents—can move about them earlier in the summer had 10,000 staffs were able to bring into the field easily with no more of a caravan than selectees out of a total strength of 13,- large units well up to strength, with this. 000. The National Guard units brought most of their transport and equipment. At a pinch, the whole affair can be with them into Federal service most of This period of corps maneuvers packed up and got under way on the their own personnel; but to reach full brought them up to the point of tackling road within about 15 minutes—and strength they were filled out with selec- the final phase, in which thirteen Divi- more than once a headquarters would tees. On the average, selectees make up sions took the field against each other, move out on this short notice. An old- between 50 and 60 percent of the divi- grouped in two fully organized Armies: timer could only look on in amazement sional strengths. not paper commands, but real Armies, and wonder. This large contingent of new troops with 300,000 real soldiers actually pres-

Among all concerned, in the Carolinas, was broken in and trained to the point ent in the field. the conversation on the spot turned of being able to take part in large-scale General Johnson Hagood made the largely on mistakes and errors: on maneuvers within from six to eight point that this is the first time such a bungles by the enemy, or things done months. This was made possible by a thing has happened in the history of the wrong or left undone within their own far better and more systematic scheme United States. In the course of a con- units. The army of 1941 is least of all of training than could be followed in versation at Camden he pointed out that never before, in peacetime, had division and corps commanders been given the chance to work in this thor- oughgoing fashion. None of the officers who took their Divisions to France had any such advantage: never before had

it been possible even to consider such a feat as assembling an American Army in the field for systematic training in peacetime. General Hagood pointed out also that the scheme of intensive training of new recruits carried out in 1941 was no haphazard expedient for hurrying half- trained men into service as soon as possible: no "quick-result" device adopted under the pressure of our pres-

ent circumstances. It is a carefully- thought-out plan which embodies the experience of training we gained in the World War. The concept of an intensive "basic training" period was in fact worked out and applied in France (in certain replacement camps) in the sum-

mer of 191 8, and before the end of the war Major Huger Jervey was hurried back to Washington carrying an urgent recommendation that the plan be adopted in training camps in the United States. A year or so ago, long before the first

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine selectees were inducted into service, a he noted, "the soldiers are better trained chorus of military experts in the press than ever before; the generals are bet- began wailing over the dangers of an ter; the staffs know more about their army of "half-trained conscripts." By job." November 1041, no officer even sug- An outside observer, with far less gested that in respect to training the experience than his, can only add that selectees formed an inferior category. it is hard to imagine a body of officers In talking over the matter last Novem- and men more keenly concerned with ber with many senior officers of the the work in hand: more in earnest about Regular Army, every single one ex- what they are doing. On driving away pressed the view that the best types of from "the war in the Carolinas," a for- selectees were invaluable recruits, and eign military attache made the remark: that they had added a thoroughly brac- "When you have 300,000 soldiers as ing element to the Army. Thanks to an interested in their work as these men intelligent scheme of training, they have are, the maneuvers are worth all the been brought forward more rapidly and trouble they cost." General Marshall in far more uniform fashion than the has put the case even more strongly:

new recruits of 191 7. They will be a "Tremendous sums have been spent on good deal better still in the course of our national defense effort, but I know 1942. But already, General Hagood ob- of no single investment which will give served, the forces now in the field make this country a greater return in security up by far the best Army we have ever and in the saving of lives than the pres- had in time of peace. "In this Army," ent maneuvers."

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' Continental Distilling 000 for it, could sell it today for almost catters is drilling for oil in the "back Corporation twice that figure. Bought "on time," it forty." Philadelphia, Pa. has paid for itself in 18 years, is now But old man Corbin doesn't let that clear of mortgage. excite him now. If they strike a gusher Last summer its fields yielded 2800 he and his sons will be rich. If the hole bushels of wheat, 5000 bushels of corn, proves dry, they'll still have 244 good Free for Asthma and on the 275 acres of pasture are 51 acres, debt free, a lot of fine stock, head of purebred, black Aberdeen cattle enough fuel in the woodlot, and in the During Winter and seven "scrub milk cows," 100 hogs, spring the sap from the sugar maples, If you suffer with those terrible attacks of Asth- ma when it is cold and damp;*if raw, Wintry and last fall the owners strung 1 200 rods and the quail in the crisp days of fall. winds make you choke as if each gasp for breath

was the very last ; if restful sleep is impossible of new woven fence around the pasture. Fifty little pigs are squealing in the because of the struggle to breathe ; if you feel the The elder Corbin, a life-long Republican, barnyard, the granary's full, the cows disease is slowly wearing your life away, don't fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. admits sadly and with some bewilder- are giving down plenty of milk rich in for a free trial of a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether you have any faith neighborhood is "solid ment that the butter fat, the mortgage is burned, in any remedy under the Sun, send for this free Democratic," and that the township has labor's still a bit of a headache, the old trial. If you have suffered for a lifetime and tried everything you could learn of without relief ; even elected only one Republican trustee for golf course makes fine pasture lands. if you are utterly discouraged, do not abandon hope but send today for this free trial. It will single in years. things a term, 20 That's what are like in the ab- cost you nothing. Address A little creek winds hesitantly through solute center, measured by the sun and Frontier Asthma Co. 69-J Frontier Bldg. 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York the pastures, slowly eroding the bottom stars, of the U. S. A.

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such a tremendous thing as a world war The Message Center couldn't make us forget that February belongs to our two greatest Americans, (Continued from page 2) Legionnaire Rathbone is the most im- and Legionnaire Schlaikjer's intensely Curran's article appeared under a new portant bit of reading matter we have moving cover pays its respects to them. title and with such changes as were made ever carried in this magazine, for it Also there is an article on George Wash- necessary by our actually being at war. answers the question every American is ington as a farmer. Legionnaire Stutler's The rather indefinite title which headed asking himself at this momentous period short article on the famous Civil War up the editorial was made necessary by of our history, just how to contribute song We Are Coining, Father Abraham, the fact that all of the work had to be to the job of winning the war. There's was planned for the February issue as a done on Monday, December 8th. When a place for you to fill in the war effort, Lincoln feature long before the bombs Hitler, Mussolini and their straw men and maybe How Can I Help? will give began to fall on American territory, but got around to- declaring war on the you the information you need. The T. it is even more timely now, we feel, United States the January issue of your H. Thomas article, The Army Hits Its with Uncle Sam preparing to expand the magazine was already issuing from the Stride, which shows you something of Army to whatever size may be necessary press. what the army maneuvers of the late to do the biggest job civilization has fall mean to our military establishment ever been called upon to undertake THIS being the first complete wartime now that we are at war, will hearten the defeat of the Jap-Nazi-Fascist gang- issue of your magazine you will find everyone who reads it, and Beside the sters. that it carries very lLtle that does not Angels of Mercy will remind you that Remember Pearl Harbor— touch on the fight civilization is making the Red Cross needs your financial help and Manila! against the Axis tyranny. The article by in its greatly expanded program. Even The Editors

Battleship Boss

(Continued from page 13) Luff spend too many hours crawling "Battle Two." the secondary command Officer and Repair Officer; the Boat- through those double-bottoms with flash- station, ready to take over in case the swain and the Carpenter are his right- lights looking for rust . . . skipper falls. handmen, and his gang includes painters, The fact is, when men have to go to In the other "all hands evolutions." artificers, sailmaker's mates and the sea in a ship, and their lives hang on the Fire Quarters, Collision Quarters, and "Jimmy-legs"—the chief police petty tightness of her hull and the soundness Abandon Ship, the Commander goes to officer. of her plating, cleaning and painting is the trouble spot and takes active charge. In size, number of rooms, compart- more than a duty. The Navy Regulations have an entire ments, the ship is as big as the biggest The Commander's ship is not only a section devoted to the duties of the of skyscrapers. All metal, constantly ex- seagoing vessel but a man-of-war. She Executive Officer. Battleships are not j posed to weather, salt-water, fog, sun, may have to fight battle, and then her the only naval vessels to have Execu- she takes a never-ending amount of water-tight compartments will be put to tives, though in smaller ships the job is upkeep. The driving force behind this a sterner test than Admiral's Inspection. usually filled by an officer of lower rank upkeep is the Commander. A lead-pencil sized hole through a water- than Commander. In destroyers the First of alf she needs daily cleaning. tight bulkhead will let in enough water, Executive is a Lieutenant or Lieutenant There's about 50,000 square feet of if the compartment on the other side is Junior grade. In repair ships, tenders, or teakwood deck on the topside to be flooded, to raise merry hell. light-cruisers, a Lieutenant-Commander scrubbed and holystoned to the flax- Yet it's amazing how many people "goes as Exec." Experience as Execu- straw color which is the most pleasing want to drill holes in bulkheads! Elec- tive is the great school of command, in sight in the world to a seaman's eye. tricians with a wire to run, or ship-fitters which men acquire the practical knowl- Sometimes you'll see the Boatswain putting up some gadget, or engineers. edge that makes them good skippers using lime to bleach that deck, after the When men live as close together as later. ship has been in the Navy Yard where they do on shipboard, their contentment The new giant 35,000-ton battleships the workmen's grimy boots tramp shore is so important that time and thought North Carolina and Washington, which grit and dirt into her. spent in keeping them "happy" is well were put into commission in 1941, have But there's nothing to equal the south- justified. But too much coddling can Commanders who were classmates near ern sun for bleaching the deck. A couple ruin a ship. the top of the Naval Academy class of of weeks in the tropics, far from grime I saw one Commander come to a bat- 1 91 7. Nearly twenty-nine years of sea- scrub her down every morning and have tleship in which discipline had grown lax faring and naval study and experience a field day (a thorough general ship- after a long period of coddling the crew. have prepared Commanders W. P. 0. cleaning) every Friday, and how the The new Executive, putting on the Clarke and Andrew G. Shepard for the deck begins to gleam! Of course they're screws, became the most hated man in big task of getting these new ships off not quite as fussy nowadays about those the Navy. But the ship began winning to a good start. Months before the ships things as they were in peacetime. trophies in gunnery, engineering and were taken over by the Government, the The Admiral who comes aboard to athletics, and when the same Com- new Executives had reported for duty inspect knows this ship-keeping job in- mander was transferred a year later, and were climbing about the hulls, por- timately. "Nice looking ship, Com- over a thousand men lined up to request ing over blue-prints, and working on the mander!" That makes up for a lot of permission to go along with him to his Organization Books which will be the detailed effort. But if the old geezer new ship! ships' Bibles. says: "Harrrumpf ! Cap'n, it seems to me When it comes to combat organiza- Commander Clarke, the Executive Of-

I noticed a certain amount of rust in tion, each of the 1500 men and 60 officer of the Washington, is a big, tough, your double-bottoms!" And the Cap- ficers has a battle-station job at engines, tall man of deliberate positive move- tain turns to the Commander and says: guns, communications or ship-handling. ments—a former crew man who looks as "How about it, Commander?" The active battle leader is the Skipper, if he could step into an eight-oared shell No, no—can't let anything like that up behind the Conning Tower's thick today and pull as well as ever. Tried and happen! The Commander and the First armor. The Commander stands by at tested on the seven seas, he comes from

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recent cruiser duty in Spanish waters orders and passed them on. during the tense atmosphere of Europe's "Commission pennant hoisted, sir."

crisis. "Very well. Set the watch." The Exec of the North Carolina, "Aye, aye, sir." Boatswain's pipes

Commander Shepard, is the opposite shrilled— the first breath of a battleship's pole in appearance and temperament life. The watch on deck took up its short, dynamic, with snapping black duties—Quartermaster, Boatswain's eyes and lively energy, the "spark-plug" Mate, Side-boys, Messengers, Officer- type. In an eight-oared shell he would of-the-deck . . . be coxswain, not stroke, driving his men If you go aboard the Washington or on toward the finish line. North Carolina years from now, wher- These Commanders hold the toughest ever they may be lying, you'll find men assignments of the year 1942. Each man, keeping watch on deck. The duty is approaching his job in his own way, is passed on every four hours of a ship's going to do wonders for his ship. life, as long as she flies the commission ARMY TWILL When the North Carolina and Wash- pennant and is an active part of the ington went into commission, quaint old Navy. UNIFORMS... SPORT and WORK CLOTHES quarter-deck ceremonial governed the And down in the Commander's cabin LOOK FOR THIS LABEL ARMY mill occasion. The commission pennant was there'll be a Commander, looking up as || 8V

million yards already 5 hoisted, the colors run up to the staff, the ofneer-of-the-deck's messenger raps $$25 f^s REEVES °" sold to the U. 5. Army. All sanforized* the skipper's orders were read out to all. at the door and reports: j goods bearing this label In each ship the Executive Officer, "Sir, there's a ten-man draft just come meet Army Specifications. proud of his new battlewagon and his aboard, and the officer-of-the-deck says Glengarrie Poplin for matching shirts — o SANFORIZED' Fabric in a wide range of colors job, to attention, re- to tell you the side-cleaners have finished called the hands 'Fflb'iC (hr.okog* not more ihon 1% |U S Go»er«m«nr Ml CCC T 191-oJ See your nearest dealer for uniforms, sport and work ported them "up and aft," took the painting the starboard side." clothes made from these famous fabrics or write to A REEVES BROS., INC. f% 54 Worth Street, New York City JUJll^ lt Race of the Century FISTULA (Continued from page 21) ing the best in his final performance. May Become Serious Ray had, prior to that, found no Last spring he ran five races in two days Joie Anyone suffering from Fistula, Rectal competition at his favorite mile distance at the Penn Relay Carnival and never Abscess, Piles or other rectal or colon and twice made indoor figures at two looked better than the final of the one troubles is invited to write today for a miles. First, in 191 7 he ran a mark of mile relay when he was timed in better FREE copy of an up-to-the-minute, 122- page book telling about these ailments 9.1 1.4 and in 1923 he bettered this to than 49 seconds for his quarter mile. and related disturbances. Also describes 9.08.4. As I said before, this is one race I the mild treatment successfully used in Nurmi took a crack at the indoor mark would not want to pick. There are those thousands of cases. References from in 1925 in New York and was the first who would advise that MacMitchell every state. Write today—a postcard will do. The McCleary Clinic, C266 Elms to drive the time under minutes, his trail Rice and hope to win in the sprint. 9 Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo. time was 8.58.2. Twelve years later, There are others who would have Mac- Don Lash of Indiana broke this mark Mitchell make the pace hot and try to with 8.58 and then came Greg Rice kill Rice with speed. CONDON'S ENORMOUS with a series of new figures which ended Certainly, to make a record the pace last season in 8.51. 1, the present best must be hot. Which of this pair would 5 SEPARATE J time. be at a disadvantage under such condi- '20c PACKETS. ONE | OF EACH COLOR —

There is no doubt that Rice can better tions is doubtful. Rice, at home over the I CRIMSON—PINK—YEL- LOW— LAVENDER AND WHITE, this his distance, j time. However, he must change would seem to have the advan- r Gorgeous Blooms 6 in. across, 2H in. 'thick, on strong, sturdy, well- schedule of last year and pace his race tage in many ways and would not be one ^branched plants 3 ft. high. CONDON'S BIG 1942 SEED, faster from the start. to be nipped on the tape. . PLANT & NURSERY CATALOG FREEI Send Dime Today for This $1.00 Collec- Rice should have little fear of a faster How is MacMitchell going to work tion and Catalog, or Postal for Catalog alone. mile. In fact, there were many who felt out to the two miles? will be busy He CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN Rockiord, Illinois last winter that Rice was the runner to during February with his mile running. set milers back if he elected to run the After the national championships on shorter race. It was planned to get Rice February 28th, the mile distance is for- MANY NEVER into the Columbian Mile in the Knights gotten. The following week is the Inter- of Columbus meet last March, but Greg collegiates, where he runs the mile but would not listen to the proposition. not in fast time—he won't have the SUSPECT CAUSE His coach, the late John Nicholson competition. He can use this meet as a of Notre Dame, cautioned Greg against training run. A week later is the Knights OF BACKACHES getting into the mile in big races. Nick of Columbus Games, two weeks after This Old Treatment Often Brings Happy Relief thought he was lacking in speed for these the championships, during which period Many sufferers relieve nagging backache quickly, "hot" miles and so Greg has always he can get the long work necessary to once they discover that the real cause of their trouble may be tired kidneys. passed up the mile. carry out to the longer race. The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking the the blood. They help We know that Rice has run a 4.12 Certainly, the race will catch the fancy excess acids and waste out of most people pass about 3 pints a day. mile. That was in college and he looks of the fans. It is the "natural" of the When disorder of kidney function permits poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- seconds better than that now. There is indoor season. Both runners seem to be ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep nights, swelling, puffiness every reason to believe he could carry facing their last indoor racing. Neither and energy, getting up under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or a 4.20 first mile of a two mile race. can hope for an Olympic meet to show scanty passages with smarting and burning sometimes shows there is something wrong with your For MacMitchell, 4.20 would be play their worth against the world. Even the kidneys or bladder. druggist for Doan s 3 . for the first part of the race. He has Pan American Olympics would not bring Don't wait! Ask your ^|" used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They kidney had days when he was called on to run out their best such as a race with this give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get three races in fast time and ended look- set up, do. must Doan's Pills. FEBRUARY, 1942 49 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine prove home food supplies and aid in How Can I Help? maintaining morale. Said Legionnaire McNutt in address- {Continued from page 5) Navy, have consciously or unconscious- ing the conference: "To begin with, it case of actual attack by an enemy; ly fitted him for his job today. First, in (the campaign) has set out to reach it watches over industrial plants, 1917-18-19 he learned the meanings of every man, woman, and child in the bridges, water supplies, and other stra- authority and organization; how to use country with information concerning the tegic areas, guarding against possible them and respect them. Then, for 20 newer knowledge of nutrition. In other saboteurs. The Community, or Long- years or so, he acquired stability, men- words, we propose to see that people Range Division begins operations right tal balance, discretion, so that today, have the knowledge and the means to now and functions continuously and pro- even if he has taken on a little surplus provide for themselves the basic foods gressively. It is the business of both weight, he is ideally suited to take over —milk and cheese; oranges, tomatoes, Divisions to utilize and to cooperate and once more carry on. grapefruit; green, leafy and yellow vege- with the existing public services that Now let's go back to that Community tables, as well as potatoes, apples, and

fall naturally within their respective or Long-Range Division which, like all other vegetables and fruits; lean meat, scopes and to implement and foster behind-the-lines organizations in any poultry, or fish; eggs; bread and cereal, those services by the enlistment of vol- either 'enriched' or whole grain." And unteer workers in the various branches. that can and should comprise an im- In the Combat Division are the local portant phase of any community's De- fire and police departments, the emer- fense Council work. gency medical services, the public works, As for the women of the nation, there and the utilities. These services exist in are so many things to be done they just about every community, however can't possibly be enumerated here. small or remote, but the one other ma- There's First-Aid, nursing, care of the jor detail in Combat is that of wardens sick, care of children. Can you drive a which, up to now, Americans haven't car, operate a switchboard, type, write felt the need for in civil life. Today, shorthand, act as hostess at community

however, an Air Raid Warden's post is social gatherings , for men in uniform being organized to serve each unit of 500 and for defense industry workers? You people, and usually there are four can collect clothes for refugees, provide wardens to each post. That, in itself, hospital comfort articles and surgical will necessitate a small army of wardens. dressings, prepare for mass-feeding in Those six primary services include time of disaster, knit, sew, assist with

innumerable jobs, so if you want to join publicity and public speaking, help in the Combat Division, you have a wide information centers, in making surveys choice, indeed. If you've had training or of housing and emergency transportation experience in any phase of the work, you facilities. You can even qualify yourself can be extremely valuable as an instruc- to join the ranks of the Combat Divi- "Well, well and what did mother tor or as a leader. If you haven't, you — sion in many fields, such as Air Raid send this time for her darling may attend classes and learn. You'd be Wardens, Fire Watchers, the Medical little boy to eat all by himself?" amazed at the things an auxiliary fire- Corps, Nurses' Aid Corps, Staff Corps, man or a member of a rescue squad has Messengers' and Drivers' Corps.

to know. There's a lot more in the life of war, is less publicized, not so glamorous, It has been said that in the last war an emergency policeman than walking a but without which no combat or front Germany devoted approximately 50 per- beat and swinging a club—the bomb line troops could long exist. There are cent of her civil resources and energy squads, for example, usually formed of terrificly important items such as nutri- toward winning the conflict, and that carefully picked men. Want to play tion, health, education, recreation, wel- present Nazi leaders estimated that if around with unexploded bombs or de- fare. 100 percent of all civilian strength could layed-action fuses? Join the auxiliary be enlisted in an all-out war, they stood police. If you've had First-Aid work or IT'S hard to believe that Army physical a whopping good chance of coming out would like it, enlist in the Emergency examination boards at induction sta- ahead. Best available figures have it Medical Services. Have you had engi- tions in one Corps Area rejected as high that better than 80 percent of all Ger- neering training that would be helpful as 28 percent of the Selective Training man civil existence is unalterably allied in road and street repairs? Do you know and Service Act registrants who were in active cooperation to further the

how to cut off gas and water mains? called within that area, but it's a fact. Hitler ambitions. However, Great Bri- Then there's the Demolition Squads And it's been a further shock to the na- tain is said to have marshaled some 40 which tear down dangerously wrecked tion to learn that malnutrition was at percent of her potential civilian strength buildings, and the Decontamination the bottom of far too many of these toward smashing those ambitions, while Squad, where your knowledge of chem- rejections. the United States at present can claim

istry will be handy, and all these come Something is being done about that but 15 percent active civilian participa- under the head of Public Works. right now. At the joint instigation of tion. It is readily apparent that the Then there's the broad field of public Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. United States Office of Civilian Defense utilities that must be maintained in case Wickard. and Director of Defense offers the machinery whereby our own of disaster. Know anything about tele- Health and Welfare Services, Paul V. percentage can be increased to an im- phone systems, telegraphy, municipal McNutt, Past National Commander, a posing figure—the matter of personnel signals, radio? You'll be valuable. How National Defense Garden Conference to make that machinery function to its are you on knowledge of electricity for was called in Washington December 19 maximum capacity is entirely up to us. light and power, and high-tension lines? and 20. The purpose of the conference Hundreds of thousands of us are al- • Are you familiar with any operating was to plan and carry out a campaign ready "in," doing what we can. Of the phase of municipal gas plants? If you to increase home and community gar- 12,000 American Legion Posts and the stop to think about it, the life and dens; to improve health through encour- Units of the Auxiliary nearly every one

training of the average Legionnaire, ever aging better food habits, and the use of is and has been engaged for months in since he joined that other Army or high-vitamin and mineral foods; to im- some form of defense effort. On the

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West Coast, particularly since the yth thousands in every community, east, day of last December, the indicator of west, north, and south, have begun their Legion activity has swung to "Full Speed share of the 0. C. D. Long-Range pro- YOUR Ahead." Mid-western auxiliary police gram. Similarly on the Gulf, and per- units are guarding industrial centers, haps even more intensively on the West watching over factories engaged in war Coast. In this vast army of the populace materials production. Entire Depart- that has sprung into being almost over- CAREER ments have inaugurated courses for this, night, the Legion and the Auxiliary are, that, or the other service. of course, extremely well represented. "Career men" will hold rhe key The vast system of water supply But, splendid as the cooperation and posirions of tomorrow in avia- tion. Complete technical edu- reservoirs and aqueducts for New York spirit of service has been—it is nowhere cation is the surest guarantee of City are guarded nightly by professional near enough! success in this technical industry. Far-sighted young men are guards as well as business men who We must build the greatest, most re- invited to contact these two leading schools. Catalog on request. commute to their offices in the city sourceful, most highly trained civilian ACADEMY OF AERONAUTICS every morning. England's towns force the world has ever seen. must New We LaGuardia Field, L. I., N. Y. and cities are particularly well organ- enlist every ounce of energy of every CASEY JONES SCHOOL of AERONAUTICS 1100 Raymond Blvd., Newark, N.J. ized to protect the "nation's arsenal" American man and woman, if we would U.S. Government Approved and the civilians and workers who live compete with both the armed and civil- there. The 300-mile-deep strip along the ian mights of the Axis Powers. Atlantic Coast, termed by the Army "the In your neighborhood, there is a target area," is a veritable hive of civil- branch of the United States Office of ian defense preparation. Women by the Civilian Defense. MINSTRELS Unique first parts for complete show, with special songs and choruses. Black-face plays, a Farmer Jokes, Gags, Posters, Make-up He Tambou- Was Wigs, Bones, Goods, rines. Lively, up-to-the-minute plays for dramatic clubs (Continued page his and lodges. Denison from 15) properly attended to, mind, his whole plays produced everywhere,ere, 60 ^\ iron discipline, long hours in the saddle affection, turned yearningly to Mt. Ver- years of hits free Catitatog V * I and in the office keeping strict account non, his wife, his stepchildren, his be- T. S. DENISON & CO Wabash. Dept. 89, Cfaicia* of every acre, every shilling made or loved acres and his gardens. At Valley N. expended. He handled this task so effi- Forge, in the darkest days of the Revolu- ciently and with such excellent traits tion, we find a letter written to John of sound management that, when his Parke Custis in which he said: "Lands brother died, it was discovered that he are permanent—rising fast in value had named George Washington as his will be very dear when our independency executor and general manager. is established." Eventually, through inheritance and During the long, heart-breaking years WOODSTOCK purchase, these lands came under his of the Revolution, he paid scant atten- ownership. It pleased him to handle the tion to the management of his vast hold- TYPEWRITER entire and undisputed burden of manag- ings. Exclusive of the 18,000 acres of the ing the entire enterprise. He learned, Custis estate which came under his from experience, how to handle men to control when he married, he owned SPEECH MAKERS the best advantage; how to extract from 12,000 additional acres. It was a self- Send for FREE sample copies. man and beast an honest day's work; supporting community, this Mt. Vernon how to buy supplies with an eye to the estate. There were five white overseers, demands of the present and the possi- scores of slaves, a number of skilled SPEAKERS LIBRARY MAGAZINE bilities of the future this, alone, — —Illustrations ) — was a workers, such as millers, blacksmiths, ( Speeches Jokes real task when supplies had to be pur- weavers, tanners, masons, carpenters and TAKOMA PARK (e) WASHINGTON. P. C. chased fully a year ahead of delivery. a distiller. During the war, only infre- From his brother he had inherited a quent letters from Washington contained military office and had served with signal advice or instructions to those in charge. Your Feet honor and distinction. Military experi- the Saw His task, he believed, was to win ^^Thousands relieved from pain walk ence saddened, aged and steadied him. war. Like most farmers, one task at a ^freely with HEEFNER When he assumed command of the Army time constituted his primitive logic. ARCH SUPPORTS Write for free at the start of the Revolution, he was It had been a hard and unrelenting Booklet not filled with enthusiasm, nor did he struggle, too, to keep Mt. Vernon self- "FOOT take the task lightly. He knew, in part, supporting. At first, his main crop had FACTS" what was ahead. He didn't like military been tobacco. England craftily gave the HEEFNER ARCH SUPPORT CO., 59 Lewis Bldj., Salem, Virginia service; but it came under the heading Colonies a monopoly on the import of of Duty and he was never one to dodge tobacco to Great Britain but she or evade a responsibility. thoughtfully tied a few restrictive strings Supplies were ever an obsession with to the gift: the Colonies could not ship Asthma Agony him. Men and animals deserved decent tobacco elsewhere and the edict further and adequate food and forage. Other- specified that the crop had to be sold First Day wise the pitiful army couldn't fight or solely through British agents. These Curbed march to the best possible advantage. agents profited mightily by virtue of this For Thousands of Sufferers He expected soldiers to obey just as he benign arrangement, jockeying prices to Choking, gasping, wheezing Bronchial Asthma attacks poison your system, ruin your health and had expected slaves and workmen to such low points that the planters were put a load on your heart. Thousands quickly choking, gasping issued and easily palliate recurring obey when he necessary instruc- invariably deep in debt to the agents Bronchial Asthma symptoms with a doctor's pre- thru tions. who also acted as purchasing agents for scription called Mendaco, now distributed drug stores, to help nature remove thick strangling the planters on goods and equipment excess mucus and promote welcome restful sleep. Mendaco is not a smoke, dope or injection. Just REGARDLESS of where his camp was needed on their properties. Washington, pleasant tasteless tablets. Printed guarantee with each package—money back unless it satisfies you. - located, once military duties were himself, was a victim of this economic Ask your druggist for Mendaco today for only 60c.

FEBRUARY, 1942 SI When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine surrealism. More than once he was true farmer can appreciate. A new type Getting Up Nights forced to take his stubborn pride in of plow, an improved method of plant- hand and write to his London agents ing or harvesting a crop, a better process

saying he could not meet their bills for tanning a sheepskin : these interested Makes Many Feel Old and praying for more time. him more than diplomatic exchanges of Do you feel older than you are or suffer from This condition stirred a slow and meaningless courtesies, more than the Getting Up Nights, Backache, Nervousness, Leg Pains, Dizziness, Swollen Ankles, Rheumatic smouldering anger in the man and he current political intrigue. A "chace" Pains, Burning, scanty or frequent passages? If fought it intelligently and sanely. He after a marauding fox, astride a horse so, remember that your Kidneys are vital to your health and that these symptoms may be due to cut down his tobacco crop from 89,000 that could endure miles of rough going non-organic and non-systemic Kidney and Blad- at speed; the baying Tipsey, der troubles—in such cases CYSTEX (a physician's pounds of prime leaf a year to 5,000 top of prescription) usually gives prompt and joyous re- pounds. By 1773 he was bitterly opposed Pompey, Old Harry, Maiden, Lady, lief by helping the Kidneys flush out poisonous excess acids and wastes. You have everything to to tobacco growing that, when he rented Dutchess, Mopsey and Drunkard making gain and nothing to lose in trying Cystex. An iron- tenant, specified in the stirring music as he and his friends clad guarantee wrapped around each package as- farm land to a he sures a refund of your money on return of empty lease that the tenant should grow no galloped across country—this was more package unless fully satisfied. Don't take chances on any Kidney medicine that Is not more tobacco than was actually needed to his liking than the cheers of thousands Don't delay. Get Cystex (Siss-tex) guaranteed. "chewing and smoking in his own or the thin music of fife and drum. from your druggist for today. Only 35c. family." It was a simple solution to an He was land poor, and happy about The guarantee pro- Cystex economic problem most of his neighbors it. He had a serene belief that land HelpsH«ln« FlushFinch KidneysKidnput tects you. were doing nothing about. Conversation values would increase with the years. WE wouldn't cure the trouble; decisive ac- At his death, he owned 71,000 acres of tion and another crop would. land and he knew virtually every acre ToAnySuit! Wheat became his main crop and a of it. At Mt. Vernon he was plagued Double the life of your coat and vest with correctly fairly profitable one, too. During the with a soil that was inherently poor and matched pants. 100,000 patterns. Every pair hand tailored to your measure. war and prior to it, his crop was sold in that defied efforts to build it up. Yet, Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece the West Indies. During his absence, he did make it pay, a task no other of cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY the management of the estate was passed owner has ever been able to duplicate. 209 S. State St. Dept. 252 Chicago on to a kinsman, Lund Washington, who Born a farmer, he died a farmer. Ex- did a fair job of it. A few infrequent posure to inclement weather while su- TOMBSTONES letters from the owner constituted the pervising farm work, incessant bleeding DIRECT TO YOU instructions that were on the part of a well-intentioned sur- Genuine Beautiful entire stock of ROCKDALE Monuments, necessary for the proper handling of the geon, contributed to his death. Markers. Satisfaction or estate. The great military leaders came to his Money Back. Free letter- complicated ing. Freight paid. Free The farm had always come first in his funeral, brave in their dress uniforms catalog. Compare our prices. ROCKDALE MONUMENT CO. thoughts. On that eventful day, away and powdered wigs. The diplomats DEPT. 550 JOLIET, ILL. back on May 30. 1765, when Patrick minced through the rooms in gold lace Henry's golden voice took command of and glittering medals. The politicians Learn Profitable Profession the Virginia House of Burgesses and strutted in reflected glory behind the in QO days at Home shook the souls and the passions of bier. Men spoke, in hushed voices, of Earnings of Men and Women in the fascinating pro- those who sat in that sun-drenched his military ability and his infrequent fession of Swedish Massage run as high as $40 to $70 per week but many prefer to open their own Large_ incomes from Doctors, hospitals, room, opened new and startling vistas mistakes as a national leader. Some sanitariums and private patients come to nose who qualify through our training Washington, sitting alone and whispered of his courage, his gallantry, Reducing alone offers rich rewardj for to them, specialists. Write for Anatomy Charts, booklet—They re FREE. obscurely in the room, remained un- his strict and unswerving integrity, his - fi and moved. He heard every word of a speech business ability. that will remain imperishable and he But none spoke of the thing he loved viewed the impulses it released calmly most. They didn't understand, these Large Flowered 3 < A t night, in and politicians, the and without comment. That soldiers, diplomats 'MUMSlUli his diary, he wrote that on that day heart and the soul of the man. Martha To acquaint you with my Out stared- tMhW Peter Green had come to Mt. Vernon Washington, bent and burdened with ing Bargain Offers in Plants—Bulbs — Seeds — Shrubs and Nursery Items I will as a gardener and that the clover had honest grief, knew more than they did.

send you 3 Giant Flowering Chrysan- , themums for lOc with copy of my been cut for hay. No word of Patrick The neighbors, the farmers who lived Illustrated Catalog— rnrr Big 1942 , like rULb featuring more than 150 New and _ Henry's speech or its import marched close to Mt. Vernon, knew, but Rare House Plants — and thousands of garden items at Bargain Prices. Send 10c tocover post- across the pages of that diary! He was most farmers, they were incoherent in age and packing 'Mums, or Postal for Catalog Alone. H.W. BUCKBEE — GREAT NORTHERN SEED CO. not a man to be stirred by impulse. the face of sorrow. CHARLOTTE M. HAINES Now owned and consolidated with He took up the burden of manage- He was buried in the ground he loved R. H.SHUMWAY SEEDSMAN ROCKFORD. ILL. ment with vigor and ability. Carefully so well. Perhaps Pompey, the old hound, and shrewdly he watched over his broad a most sagacious, understanding and un- and rolling acres, his buildings, his goods predictable animal, lifted up his head to BUY AMERICAN LEGION and his chattels. the gray sky in a long bugle of sorrow. As he grew older his affection for the Pompey, perhaps, understood more Do business with Legionnaires land grew into a passion that only a than any of them. whenever possible.

No matter what you are buying, whether it's food, clothing, hard- Out of the Folder ware, gasoline or professional services you can generally find a Le- (Continued from page 2q) its sponsorship. Homer L. Chaillaux, gionnaire to do business with. labored well with their elders in emer- Director of the National Americanism gency and disaster work; now that war Commission, estimates that 18,000 Le- And don't forget our friends who is upon us there is an added responsi- gionnaires are in active service as Scout- advertise in our magazine. You bility laid upon these lads who are just masters and members of Troop Com- have always supported them in the below the age for active military serv- mittees for these Legion-sponsored units. past. Please so. It continue to do ice. The Legion closed the year 1941 He goes a step farther in his estimate helps the Legion. with 2,676 active Troops, 285 Cub that twice that number are on active Packs and 175 Sea Scout Ships under work with Troops under the sponsorship

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of communities, churches, service clubs, a cast of sixty-live men and women fraternal organizations and other civic drawn from the Post and Unit. The cos- groups. tumes were garnered from attics. In ad- HERE'S THE WAY An adopted Califomian himself, Di- dition to the five acts, a number of rector Chaillaux points with obvious "between the acts" features were intro- TO BIGGER PAY pride to the Scout record made by Cali- duced, including a barber shop quartet fornia. That Department, he says, has and a Floradora Sextet. The show was more than three hundred Scout Troops presented at the York Community High USE YOUR CAR AS A McNESS STORE— Write for FULL DETAILS leading the School at Elmhurst to a standing-room under Legion sponsorship, Send today for Free facts on how you can use your car as a McNess Store. See how you can entire nation in point of numbers and audience of over sixteen hundred. make big money in your own business supply- ins farm families with daily necessities. You in Scout activities in a broad and va- need nu experience. Special bargains, contests, prizes, samples, advertising—all available to help build big business. ried field. His statement is substantiated Outpost in Defense $100 to $250 Weekly Sales by the records of the National Conven- are being: made by many who run McNess Stores. Opportunity to the Frank Bel- 1 tion since 1936 when N. LETTER written by Lewis W. make big money is unlimited. Permanent. No lavoffs—No Boss- awarded annually A es. We supply capital to help you grano, Jr., Trophy, Island, in Green from Johnston start at once. Write today for full details—no obligation, to that Department which is deemed to the mid-Pacific, dated November 15th THE McNESS CO. have rendered the most outstanding received this department on the 13 Adams, Freeport, III. and by (114) service to the program of the Boy Scouts day after Japan's stab-in-the-back, tells of America during the preceding year, of the organization of an American Le- was first put in competition. The coveted gion Post on that Island on Armistice trophy, one of the finest given each INVENTORS Day. Of the 350 men working on a de- year, was awarded to California at the TAKE flrst step to protect your Invention fense project on that Island, only about L without obligation. Get free "Record of Invention" and 48 page Book. Cleveland Convention in 1936, and was fifteen are eligible to member- form percent "Patent Guide for the Inventor." Time re-awarded to the same Department at ship, says Legionnaire Green who was counts I Write today. CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN New York, 1937; Los Angeles, 1938; as Acting Commander. Of that Reg named 245-B Adan Chicago, 1939; Boston, 1940, and Mil- fifteen percent, several preferred to re- waukee, 1941. In fact, the splendid Bel- tain their membership in their home not left grano Boy Scout Trophy has Posts. The new Post started off with a the city by the Golden Gate since the SSSSZ FALSE TEETH membership of thirty-one. Disappear like magic! Without brushing'. first award was made. Johnston Island has been under RETTO DENTURE CLEANSER removes Jap tobacco stains, tartar, decaying food particles Chaillaux, with pardonable Director assault, but at the time this piece was quickly and easily- Banishes "Denture Breath" refreshed. Recommended by den- State elation, calls attention to the fact leaves mouth written the island and its Legion Post tists. Hundreds of thousands of cans used. More for youl Cali- money. Don't be satisfied with any cleanser until you try that the very physical contour of held out. Retto. You'll like it better or your money back. fornia it readily adaptable for the at all makes Midway Island, too, has been very Insist on Retto Cleanser and Retto Adhesive FREE Sample. creation of a great Scout interest from 10c Stores and Drug Stores. — much in the news. The heroic stand made RETTO PRODUCTS CO., DEPT. B, CLEVELAND, OHIO good beaches to the rugged coast line, by its small garrison of Marines and high mountains and snow-play the most Naval forces, aided by the limited civil- of the year, the lure of the desert, and ian group, will stand as a bright page in Scratching other natural features which afford color !ISf the military history of America. Midway Relieve Itch Fast and opportunities for practical training is the home of Midway Island Post No. Relieve itching of eczema, pimples, and pleasurable outings. The direction rashes, athlete s foot and other skin 21, affiliated with the Department of troubles. Use coolingantisepticD.D.D. of the Scout program in that Depart- Greaselsss, stainless. Hawaii, with an active group of veterans Prescription. Stops itching quickly. 35c trial bottle ment is under a Legion Commission and who hold high the traditions of service in proves it—or money back. Ask your comprises an activity within itself. Vis- druggist for D. D. D. Prescription. that station at the crossroads of the itors at the Milwaukee Convention were Pacific. A letter received by the Step- given a chance to get a good close-up of keeper from Commander Arthur Kellert, California Scouting in a splendid exhibit dated December 2d and received long made up for that national meeting. The after the Jap attack had been made, an- Better Built — Lower Prices Commission is under the Chairmanship Canoes, Rowboats, Outboard nounces the award of medals to two Motor Boats, Olympic. Snipe, of Legionnaire L. E. Fear, of San Lean- Comet and Sea Gull Sail Boats members—John K. Kehahu, Jr., and CATALOG FREE dro, who was in personal charge of the Save Money— Prompt Shipment—Two Emery Walker—for outstanding heroism. Factories. Milwaukee exhibit, and who has given THOMPSON BROS. BOAT MFG. CO. <8» "The above two men," says Commander 1 16 Elm St. ten years to active Scout work. .) CORTLAND, N. Y. Kellert, "made a splendidly heroic, but futile attempt, to save a co-worker, Home Talent Charles Booth, from drowning. They STANDARD tSBSZVSSi TRACTORS M ,as Tractorsf or Small ]

risked their lives in a furious, gale-lashed , Florists, Nurseries, rrowers, Poultrymen. AMATEUR and home-talent shows sea and it was only by superhuman effort & 2 Cylinders Htgn Wheels, Rubber or LX. *n«. a Tawncli continue as a popular winter di- that they were able to overcome the ad- Lawns'* steel Tires. Walk or Ride. Do Belt Work—Free Catalog* version of several Posts, both as a social ditional hazard of a tremendous current STANDARD ENGINE CO. event and as a means of adding to the and save themselves." Minneapolis.Minn. NewYork.N.Y. Philadelphia. Pa. 3220 Como Av. 639 West 26 St. 1914-26 Fairmount treasury of some specific community Another letter comes from B. Frank service fund. T. H. B. Post of Elmhurst, Watson, Judge Advocate of First De- Illinois, is fortunate in having so much fense Program Post located at Argentia, FREE BOOK ON dramatic talent wrapped up in the mem- Newfoundland, reporting the Armistice bership of its Post and Auxiliary. T. H. Day activities of that outpost on the COLON TROUBLES B. found a lot of fun in staging its most upper reaches of the Atlantic defense The McClearyClinic,HC266 Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo., is putting out an recent five-act Gay Nineties comedy, line. A patriotic program, including a up-to-the-minute 122-page book on Colon "Elmer," and incidentally picked up a pilgrimage to Patrick Cove where a Le- Disorders, Piles and Constipation and lot of good, hard cash for the rehabilita- gion marker was placed at the grave of commonly associated chronic ailments. The book is illustrated with charts, dia- tion and child welfare funds. Comrade Anthony J. McGrath, and a grams and X-ray pictures of these ail- "Elmer" was written by Mrs. Fae W. ball at night were features of the ob- ments. Write today—a postcard will do Cosner, a member of the T. H. B. servance. —to the above address and this book Auxiliary Unit, and it was put on with Boyd B. Stutler will be sent you FREE and postpaid.

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THE Pacific Outpost American Legion Magazine {Continued from page 32) of the personnel of sections being deco- INDEX of Chicago. Illinois, notwithstanding the rated by the armies under which they Italy connection, thought it was a group served. And right here let me mention, ADVERTISERS of Headquarters Detachment, 33d Divi- the entire company, S. P. U. 355, re- sion, at its Christmas Dinner, 1918, at ceived for meritorious service, the Diekirch. Luxembourg; Harry Appel- Italian War Cross from General San- American Legion Magazine, The. .Cover III feller of Route 6. Wapakoneta. Ohio. ex- tucchi of the Third Italian Army. Second Battalion, 333d Infantry, said "The road from Castelfranco leads to Brooks Appliance Co 45 his outfit had a Christmas dinner at Mt. Grappa which was made famous in Zelenika. Dalmatia, in 1918, and thought 191 8 by the Allied victory; then con- tinues Calvert Distillers Corp. the group might be of the First Bat- to the Brenner Pass, which not so Special & Reserve Whiskies 43 talion of his regiment which was sta- long ago was brought to our attention by Casey Jones School of Aeronautics 51 tioned at Traviso, Italy—and that was a meeting of Axis heads. A chateau in College of Swedish Massage 52 getting pretty close. Charles M. Ma- the center of Castelfranco, which had Condon Bros., Seedsmen 49 rello, Editor of the Yeadon Times, Yea- served as a hunting or summer lodge of Continental Distilling Corp 47 don, Pennsylvania, offered the informa-

tion that it might show enlisted men of

D. D. D. Corp 53 G. H. Q.. Base Section No. 8, Padua, Denison, T. S. & Co 51 Italy, at their Christmas, 1918, dinner Doan's Pills 49 another good shot. Duofold, Inc 41 It remained, however, for Peter Mac- Keith, cx-Captain, Q. M. C, of 46 Ivy Eveready Flashlights & Batteries 37 Street, Newark, New Jersey, member of Newark Post of the Legion, to hit the Franklin Institute 47 nail right on the head, and his report Frontier Asthma Co 47 was substantiated in a letter from Le- gionnaire Carl E. Stokes of 374 South Heefner Arch Support Co 51 Anacapa Street, Ventura, California. All right. Comrade MacKeith, you tell 'em: "The picture, in the issue of Knox Co., Cystex 52 January the Legion Magazine, of soldiers sitting Knox Co., Mendaco 51 down to a 'Thanksgiving, Christmas, "That Colonel and his wife sure have got their nerve!" New Year's or some special dinner.' is a McCleary Clinic 49, 53 picture of my wartime command. Serv- McNess Co 53 ice Park Unit No. 355. The event, held the late Kaiser William, became the on March 1919, at Castelfranco, National Carbon Company, Inc 37 2, home of S. P. U. 355 for about nine Veneto, Italy, was in celebration of the National Distillers Products Corp. months. first anniversary of my taking command Old Grand-Dad 2 "The duty of our unit was the main- of the organization. tenance and keeping in operating con- "The Unit was formed in Jacksonville, dition the rolling stock of the Ambu- O'Brien, Clarence A 53 Florida. March 2, 1918. It consisted of lance Corps. This was before the time Ostrex 55 automobile mechanics and specialists of the wage and hour controversy—long twenty-five in number—with Sergeant hours and hard work were the order Polident 45 1st Class Ihlenfeldt in charge of opera- of each day. Ambulances had to be tions, Sergeant 1st Class Salen in charge ready and they were ready at all times. Reeves Bros., Inc 49 of administration. In my opinion two Castelfranco was selected as the base Retto Products Co 53 better qualified and conscientious non- in August, 1 91 8, because of its central R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. coms in the A. E. F. than those two location as related to the front lines, Camels Cover IV boys would have been hard to find. and was about ten kilometers behind the Rockdale Monument Co 52 After getting organized, we were de- lines. In addition to the work on the tailed to Camp Crane, Allentown, Penn- Italian front, a detail of our unit com- Seagram Distillers Corp 39 sylvania, for service with the United manded by me, convoyed nine ambu- Shumway, R. H., Seedsman 52 States Army Ambulance Corps. lance sections from Genoa over the Speakers Library Magazine 51 "In June, 1918. S. P. U. 355, along Italian Alps into France for the final Standard Engine Co 53 with 33 ambulance sections, landed in big push which ended with the Armis- Superior Match Pants Co 52 Genoa, Italy. These sections were com- tice. posed of upwards of 700 vehicles, in- ''The boys in the picture whom I Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co 53 cluding motorcycles. Dodges, G. M. C's, remember are: seated on my right, Ser- Cadillacs, three-, five- and seven-ton geants Ihlenfeldt, Lindberg, McColl, Union Carbide & Carbon Corp 37 trucks, together with operating person- Staveley, Leigeois, Coughlin, Richards, United Factories 45 nel. The vehicles were shipped to Italy Tobia, Duffany, Shephard, Blair, Cagnon 'knocked down' and had to be assembled and McMullin. Opposite side of table:

Van Karner r Chemical Arms Corp 55 and tuned up, w hich work was done at Sergeant Salen, Privates DeAlbano, the Lido in Genoa. Colonel Persons, in Collins, Boule, Carmichael, Karpel, Walker, Hiram & Sons command of the U. S. A. A. C. as- Bostwick, Cobble, Clark and Fitzgerald. Ten High Whiskey Cover II signed the vehicles to sections which Prominent at end of table, in white, is Woodstock Typewriter Co 51 were then ready for front-line duty. Cook John Watts. The hazardous work of the ambulance "How the picture got back to Allen- Zanol 55 sections is legion with the American, town is a guess. None of the personnel Zircon Company, The 55 British, French and Italian armies, many of the outfit came from Allentown, but 54 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answer •ic Advertisements Please Mention the American- Legion Magazine '

New Orleans, Sept. 21. Ted Stolp, secy.. 5404 N. I suppose Cupid knows no distance. It 5th St., Philadelphia, Pa., or Claude McClin- would be a great pleasure to me to hear tock, treas., 4320 Tennyson St., Denver, Colo. CASH World War Tank Corps Assoc.—Annual re- For from all of the boys of the S. P. U. 355 union. New Orleans Bn. now being organized. Pontchartrain, New who may have seen the picture in the Chas. C. Zatarain, 5910 Orleans, La., or E. J. Price, adjt., 130 N. Wells 111. MACHINE GUNS Legion magazine." St., Chicago, World War Navy Radiomen—Annual natl. 1914-1918 Strangely enough, MacKeith failed to reunion and All-Navy headquarters, New Or- HOTCHKISS MODEL leans. Mark Feder, Yeoman, 132 S. George St., list among the dinner guests Carl E. They are needed for National Defense. York, Pa. Stokes whom we mentioned as the Write at once stating serial number man who supported MacKeith's identi- REUNIONS and activities at times and and type of tripod, if any. We will pay fication—although Stokes recorded the . places other than the New Orleans you cash for these guns, IN NO Legion National Convention follow: outfit as M. S. T. U. 355 with the MATTER WHAT CONDITION. Italian Army. Stokes wrote that the Soc OF 3d Div.—Annual natl. reunion, Roches- ter, N. Y., July 9-11. Ted Dash, 2493 East Av., Van Karner Chemical Arms Corp. only man in the group he had heard Rochester. Licensed f ire-Arms Mfg. Div. from since his discharge was A. J. 28th (Yankee) Vets. Assoc.—Annual natl. convention, Springfield, Mass., June 25-28. 202 E. 44th Street New York, N. Y. McMullin who was in the Veterans Dennis J. Brunton, chmn., 42 Runney St., Hospital, Los Angeles, California. Springfield. West Soc. of 28th Div.—For membership, write Later correspondence with Comrade Lambert J. Sullenberger, natl. v. p., 535 S. Lime St., Lancaster, Pa. MacKeith disclosed the fact that the 32d Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Chi- HUE! cago, Dl., Sept. 5-6. Lester Benson, chmn., 205 outfit was organized as Machine Shop SEND NO MONEY! ttnr«o" Wacker Drive, Chicago. FOODS, GROCERIES. SOAPS; ETC. - fall (which in- Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets. Natl. reunion, eizo packages, worth $5.00. Yours ABSO- Truck Unit 355, Q. M. C. — LUTELY FREE! Show these products to Orlando, Fla., July 13-15. Barney J. Sullivan, friends and neighbors. Take orders for terprets Stokes's M. S. T. U.) and in reunion chmn., Court House, Orlando. sensational values, more than 200 quality products used in every home. Earn big 78th (Lightning) Div. full Italy the designation was changed to Vets. Assoc.—An- profits, or spare time. No experience nual spring reunion, Capitol Hotel, necessary. Write f,„ FKKK *5.<» Assort- 50th St. & ment of Products NOW. ZANOL. 4957 Service Park Unit 35s. MacKeith ad- 8th Av., New York City, Apr. 18. For reserva- tions, write Raymond W. Taylor, gen. secy.. Box mits that he failed to recall Stokes's 485, Closter, N. J. 56th Pioneer Inf. Assoc. name when he first wrote us, and added —11th annual reunion, Smithfield, N. C, Aug. 1-2. James K. Men, Women Over 40 that Burham was also present—which Dunn, secy., 723-1 1th St., New Brighton. Pa. 308th Inf.—Annual reunion, Hotel Governor addition completes the roster of the Clinton, New York City, Feb. 7. Frank W. Unit. Winkler, chmn., 840 Grand Concourse, New Don't Be Weak, Old York City. 332d Inf. Assoc. (ind. F. H. Unit)—21st an- Feel Peppy. New. Years Younger nual reunion, Canton, Ohio, Sept. 5-6. A. A. Take Ostrex. Contains general tonics, stimulants, often MANY outfit veterans' associations Grable, secy., Canton. needed after 40—by bodies lacking iron, calcium phosphate. 1st Corps Art. Park Annual reunion, Vitamin 1^. A 73-year-old doctor writes: "It did so much have long since come to the con- — Pitts- burgh, Pa., July 4-5. Emory Jamison, 1905 for patients, I took it myself. Results fine." Special intro- ductory size Ostrex Tonic Tablets costs only 35c. Start Charles St., Wellsburg, W. Va. clusion that a natural for outfit re- feeling peppier and younger this very day. For sale at ail 304th F. S. Bn.—Annual reunion-banquet, good drug stores everywhere. unions—except for localized groups—is Lancaster, Pa., May 2. J. P. Tyrrell, 6144 Mc- Callum St.. Philadelphia, the annual Legion National Convention. Pa. Vets. 13th Engrs.—Annual r»union, St. WHY WEAR Thousands of veterans who feel they Joseph, Mo., June 19-21. Jas. A. Elliott, secy.- treas., 721 E. 21st St., Little Rock, Ark. DIAMONDS cannot afford the expense or time to at- 15th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—21st annual reunion, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., Apr. 25. When diamond-dazzling Zircons tend a reunion only, do manage to at- from the mines of far-away R. L. Knight, publicity chmn., 224 N. Aiken Mystic Siam are so Effective tend Legion National Conventions, and Av., Pittsburgh 6. Reunion at New Orleans and Inexpensive? Stand acid, full FIRE, true Legion Natl. Conv. also planned. rut glass, of with their backs, thrilling beauty, ex- they are eager to get together 19th Engrs. (Ry.) Assoc.—Annual reunion, quisite mountings. Examine be- Philadelphia, Pa. For date, fore you buy. Catalogue FREE. old comrades. This year the Legion will write F. P. Conway secy., 4414 Sansom St., Philadelphia, Pa. The ZIRCON CO. meet in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sep- 314th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Dept. 34 Wheeling. W. Va. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 7. Bob Walker, secy., 2720 tember 21st to 24th, and scores of out- Ann Av., St. Louis. 104th F. S Bn.—Reunion, Jersey City. N. J., Legion will hold reunions in that city during The American fits Feb. 7. Vets write to Louis Burckard. 2204 convention week. Last year, no reun- Bergenline Av., Union City, N. J., or Geo. National Headquarters Deecken, adjt., 97 Garrison Av., Jersey City. ions were announced for Milwaukee. It 304th Ammun. Trn. Assoc.—25th anniversary reunion. For time and place, write R. B. Indianapolis, Indiana is not too early to start lining up your Cook, secy-treas., 300 Howell St., Philadelphia, Pa. old outfit for 1942. Financial Statement Co. 6, 1st Air Serv. Mech.—Annual reunion- Details of the following New Orleans dinner, New York City, Oct. 24. C. R. Summers, 3258 Glenview St., Philadelphia. Pa. November 30, 1941 National Convention reunions may be Co. A, Military Police, 86th Div.—For membership in proposed Legion Post of M.P. vets, obtained from the Legionnaires listed: write Earl Solomon. 440 S. Dearborn St., Chi- Assets — cago, LI. Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets. Utilities Det.. Camp Dodge, 1918 Spring — Cash on hand and on deposit $ 667,465.99 11th annual national runion. Thomas W. Mur- frolic, Minneapolis, Minn.. Apr. 11. Ray Luther, phy, reunion chmn., 30 Porter Av., Ocean comdr., 5317 Park Av., Minneapolis. Accounts receivable 154,735.20 Springs, Miss. Base Hosp., Camp Lee, Va., Reunion Assoc. Inventories 131,547.24 Air Serv. Vets. Assoc.—-Annual convention —For 5th annual reunion place and date, and Invested funds 2,478.455.34 reunion of men of all branches of the Air Serv- free 1942 roster, write H. W. Colston, secy., 1357 ice. Henry Le Lebvre, chmn., 1820 St. Charles New York Av., N. E., Washington, D. C. Permanent investment: Av., New Orleans. U. S. S. Java—6th reunion of crew. Lake Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 21 1,560.93 Aquilla, Chardon, Siberia A. E. F.—5th annual natl. reunion. Ohio. July 26. Wendell R. Office building, Washington, D. C., less Lerch. secy., 348 Front St., L. A. McQuiddy, natl. adjt., 1112% Menlo Av., Berea, Ohio. depreciation 125.970.97 Los Angeles, Calif. U. S. S. Missouri—Proposed reunion of equipment, less Chemical Warfare Serv. Vet. Assoc.—6th former crew. Ralph Emerson, Oscar Greise and Furniture, fixtures and 43,556.95 annual reunion. Geo. W. Nichols, secy.-treas., other shipmates, write to Lawrence H. Groll, depreciation 2d c/s., 728 Erie St., R. R. 3, Box 78, Kingston, N. Y. Napoleon, Ohio. Deferred charges 34,771.22 12th (Plymouth) Div. Vets. Assoc.—3rd Natl. Otranto-Kashmir Assoc.—Annual re- annual reunion. Harry Berg. natl. adjt., 3146- union, Davenport, Iowa, Oct. 4. A. H. Telford, secy., 124 E. 13,848,063.84 16th Av., S., Minneapolis, Minn. Simmons St., Galesburg, El. 20th Div. Assoc.—Annual reunion. Harry Sup. Co., 10th Inf., Camp Custer. Mich.— Write to Rade Ribich, 1969 Trowbridge St., McBride, 1234 26th St., Newport News. Va. Liabilities, Deferred Revenue Hamtramck, Mich., regarding photograph Co. E, 16th Inf. Reunion. F. H. (Cpl. Red) of — wagoners and teams. Ashby, 612 Av. E, Ft. Madison, Iowa. and Net Worth Baca County (Colo.) Vets. Proposed re- 21st Engrs. L. R. Soc.—Annual reunion. — union of vets of all branches of service who Chas. L. Schaus, secy.-treas., 325-47th St., Union Current liabilities $ 1 12.063.32 came from Baca County, 1917-1918. Marion M. City, N. J., or J. M. Kellner, pres., R. 7, Oak- Funds restricted as to use 35,263.45 Cochran, ex-75th Inf., Springfield, Colo. wood Manor, Pontiac, Mich. Paris Post (A. L.) Group No. 1 Regular Deferred revenue 620,484.68 23d Engrs. Assoc. Natl. reunion. For details — — meetings. New Rochelle House, 56 E. 41st St., and copy Highway Life, write Jim P. Henrick- Permanent trust: New York City, third Monday each month, 7 Decoration Trust 21 ,560.93 sen, N. Overseas Graves Fund 1 2922 Kilbourn Av., Chicago, 111. p. m. Jack E. Sptctor. liaison offer., 180 River- 56th (Searchlight) Engrs.—Annual re- side Dr., New York City. Net Worth: union. W. B. Robbins, secy.-treas., 80 Central World War Provisional Officers Assoc.— Restricted capital. . .$2,416,171.28 St., Hudson, Mass. Ex-provisional or probationary officers of Army. Unrestricted capital.. 452,520.18 $2,868,691.46 114th Sup. Trn., Cos. D & E—Reunion. W. Navy and Marine Corps are eligible to member- W. Bloemer, Co. Clerk, Co. D, Batesville. Ind. ship in organization to obtain desired legisla- Motor Transp. Co. 389 (formerly 18 Train) ton. John S. Tyler, pres., 2211 Fairview St., $3,848,063.84 —Proposed reunion and organization. Lewis Allentown, Pa. J0HN J NOLL, Hibbard, 612 W. Washington Av., Ionia, Mich. Adjutant U.S.S. De Kalb Last Man's Club—Reunion, The Company Clerk Frank E. Samuel, National

FEBRUARY, 1942 55 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine —

Needham of EGIONNAIREE Gordon THE late William A. MacCorkle, for- L Gus Zoellner Post, Kellogg, Ida- mer Governor of West Virginia, was, ho, says that while he was in the vet- in his young manhood, a very close friend erans' hospital at Walla Walla he became of Devil Anse Hatfield, noted feud very friendly with a comrade, then well leader. Political ambitions stirred Mac- on the way to recovery. The veteran Corkle very early in life and he became confided to Needham that he was about a candidate for Governor. He relied on to be married; in fact his bride-to-be his friendship with Devil Anse to deliver would take him away from the hospital. the delegates from Logan County; a dis- The day of discharge arrived and with it cussion with the clan leader disclosed came the lady. She was all that the old warrior was all bubbling over with plans for for him, but when the county the future. "We'll get along convention met other party- all right," she told a circle leaders had notions of their of well wishers. "He has a own. small ranch and has made After he'd bucked the op- application for $30 a month position for some hours, Hat- Government constipation." field arose, looked around over the crowd, then in a benign before manner addressed the conven- A' Christmas a mother tion: "My fellow citizens," he took her young son down to said, "I have proposed in- Pittsburgh to see the win- structions for my friend Mac- dow displays in the big city, Corkle and you have not recites Legionnaire George passed them, and you have Miller of Slippery Rock, broken up the convention two Pennsylvania. That evening cr three times, and I will say some friends dropped into that if you don't pass them the family home. Bobby the next time, Brother Toler seemed a bit bashful and re- and I will go over to my served, and of course the house and get our Winchesters visitors tried to draw him and we will see that justice is into conversation. done."

"Well, Bobby, did you . The instructions, Governor see the big stores?" the MacCorkle always chuckled, visitor asked. were thereafter duly and Bobby nodded. promptly passed. "Did you like them?" brought another affirmative THE Aussie just about had nod. his fill of London weather. "And did you see Santa It had rained constantly since Claus?" the visitor persisted. his arrival on leave. Looking Another nod. up in the sky, he saw a bunch "Certainly I heard the bugle call, and I'd "Did he say anything to of barrage balloons. "I won- say somebody is off key around here!" you?" der," he said, "why they don't Bobby indicated that he cut every one of them loose had had some words with Santa. drink, tried to arouse him. After pulling and let the place sink." "Well, what did he say? I'm sure it and shaking for a while, the guide opened was nice," continued the questioner. one eye. The question was popped quick- "Huh," snorted Bobby. "He said, 'Get ly before the big chief dropped back into The American Legion Magazine will " th' hell off'n that bicycle!' his alcoholic snooze. pay one dollar for each joke accepted "Me Governor of Utah," solemnly an- for Bursts and Duds. Address Bursts and Duds, The American Legion Maga- 1EGIONNAIRE Mary C. McHale of nounced the Indian, "me no talk." zine, 15 West 48th Street, New York j Edith Work Ayers Post, Cleveland, City. Don't send postage, as no jokes Ohio, chortle the got a —before Jap as- kN THE day after the Brooklyn will be returned. sault, of course—out of a statement o 'Bums" booted the world's cham- made by a speaker at the Post's banquet. pionship into the discard, says Jack "It's a great thing," he said, "to be living Kreger of Hunts Point Post, New York, in a country where the only people the a friend who had taken the defeat to Army wants to beat is Notre Dame!" heart leaned up against a building on Times Square in Manhattan borough. A WALLACE McCASLIN, Kincaid, bookie asked him to hold down the place Kansas, ex-gob, says a Fort Riley for a while and take all bets. Eddie wore outfit went into violent convulsions in a sorrowful, woe-begone countenance trying to execute a command "Hips on the picture of down-and-out-to-rise-no- shoulders, place!" shouted by a young more defeat. A kind old lady saw him officer at his first physical exercise drill. and, moved with compassion, pressed a half dollar into his hand with a word THIS one comes from Springville, of courage. "Keep hoping," she said. Utah. C. H. Wilkinson tells of a The next day the lady passed the friend who, some years ago, started out same spot and Eddie was there to meet with a wagon load of freight to supply an her. He wore a big smile and an all's- Indian agency outpost. He had an Indian well-with-the-world expression. He hailed guide and a bottle of busthead liquor. the lady and peeled a five dollar bill off a They agreed to continue working on the thick roll. Handing it to her he said: bottle just as long as either could give "That was a good pick, lady. Keep Hop- the correct response to the inquiry: ing won easy—and paid nine to one." "What did the Governor of North Caro- lina say to the Governor of South Caro- SMARTEST simile of the month: lina?" After a while the Indian fell asleep; "Quiet as the cash register in a the driver, feeling the need of another suki-yaki joint. "He used to own a junk yard!"

56 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

INC. PRINTED I N THE U.S.A. BY THE CUNEO PRESS, In Times of Peace, They Learned for V

FOR some two-score years, the automobile builders of the country have been cultivating the art of progress through change.

Year by year they have pushed forward the quality and value of their product to the point where today's automobile dollar buys many times as much as it did even a single decade ago.

Even more important to the country now, however, is the mastery of productive skills this has given our automobile men.

They have learned not only how to clothe a car in comfort, power and streamlined beauty, but flow fo build, swiftly, effi- ciently and in tremendous volume.

Now that knowledge gives a keen edge to America's sword as the car builders complete the conversion of plants from peacetime work to wartime production.

They are building planes, tanks, airplane engines, trucks, rapid-fire cannon, machine guns, shells, cartridges—they are building a hundred and one things essential to complete and final victory.

Trained by their peacetime habit of progress, they have converted plants by the hundreds into busy arsenals from which pour the latest and best weapons of war in huge and steadily growing volume.

Their job isn't finished; much as they have accomplished already, they are just beginning to hit the full, all-out stride that will nail down total victory. (From the painting "We Shall Be Realty," by Jes Schlaikjer.)

But automobile men are used to jobs that aren't tools that we need to complete our present job. finished. They have worked for 40 years on the automobile, and aren't through yet. And they will be ready then, once more in the forefront, to pick up the threads of peacetime prog- So you can count on them, as you have learned to count on the cars they build—teamed up with ress and move forward with America and all the the rest of American industry they will give us the world to a still better and finer future.

The American Legion Magazine is proud to publish this message in behalf of the automotive industry now engaged in defense work. 'Set m up FOR CHAMPION LOWELL JACKSON

TALK ABOUT your wood-gettin' won- THERE'S A SWIFT FLASH of the arm. AND SET UP THE CAMELS, TOO der! You're looking right at him — The snap of a wrist. The ball whirls St. Louis, Ail- alley. . . . Whether you're in there "Low" Jackson of 1941 down the Take a good long look American, captain of the world's match at the way "Low" Jackson tossed that bowling yourself— or watch- game champions, and possessor of one one — that's an All -American hook. ing — nothing hits the spot like of the highest-scoring hooks in bowling Close to the gutter. Three-quarters today. Light up a slower-burning Camel down, she starts to break — straight for a cool, flavorful Camel and watch this champion in action. the slot. Watch it now — it's —

C-R-A-S-H! A perfect hit! The very THE SCORE -BOARD tells the story. TWENTY TIMES "Low" Jackson

sound of 'em falling sets you tingling More smokers prefer Camels . . . smokers (above) has rolled the perfect score all over. Like a homer with the bases like Lowell Jackson to whom mildness (300). Every time he lights up a Camel loaded... a hole in one... like the full, is so important... smokers who want a he smokes with the assurance of mod-

rich flavor of a certain cigarette, it never flavor that doesn't tire the taste . . . smok- ern laboratory science that in the smoke fails to thrill. No matter how much ers who want more out of a cigarette of milder, slower-burning Camels there you smoke, there's always a fresh, wel- than something to carry in hand or is less nicotine ( see below, left). Get a come taste to a Camel — for Camels are pocket. You'll never know what you've package of slower-burning Camels to- milder with less nicotine in the smoke. been missing until you smoke Camels. day, and smoke out the facts foryourself.

The smoke of slower-burning Camels contains By burnin wer than the average of the 4 other LESS largest-selling brands 28% tested — slower than Camel any of them — Camels also give you a smoking plus equal, on the NICOTINE overage, to the Cigarette of than the average of the 4 other 5 EXTRA largest-selling brands tested — Costlier less than any SMOKES of them—according Tobaccos to independent scientific tests PER PACK! of the smoke itself! R. J. Reynolds TohaecoCo.. Winston-Salem. N. C.