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Old Grandfather Thunderstorm's naughty radio boys, the Council Bluffs, Iowa, separated from Omaha by a toll static kids, have been lulled to sleep by the dog days bridge across the Missouri River, is planning to take and the Autumn air is turning clear and snappy—just the care of thousands of Legionnaires during the national con- kind of weather when programs broadcast by distant sta- vention, mostly members of the Iowa department who come tions come in good on the loud speaker. Almost every Le- for their department convention in Council Bluffs, starting gion post clubroom nowadays has some kind of receiving set October 2nd, and stay over for the national meeting. Billets —permanent equipment or brought in by its Legionnaire have been arranged for in hotels, homes and in some of the owner for special occasions. larger halls and most mod- Here's a tip for next Mon- ern down-town buildings. day evening — September The toll bridge will be free 14th. Get the gang together to Legionnaires. and listen in on "American Table of Contents Legion Invitation Night," a program broadcast from Sta- Frank Clay Cross, di- tion WOAW, Omaha Ne- Cover Design by Addy Bian rector of the National braska, on a wave length of Americanism Commission, 562 meters. From 9 to 11 The Omaha I Knew asks that the Legion's most p. m. the air will be full of By Samuel Taylor Moore 4 active workers in American- music and advance informa- ism activities come to Oma- Illustrated by Art Helfant tion about the national con- ha for the national conven- vention the Legion will hold The Collecting Mania tion a day early. On Sun- in Omaha, October 5th to day, October 4th, an Amer- By Ellis Parker Butler 6 9th. The program is given icanism Conference will be in the radio column on Illustrated by Paul H. Carruth held in Omaha. There will page 17. be a number of important Editorial 8 addresses and the floor will Citizen Pershing be open at all times to dis- Finding a casual in the As FIDAC Meets cussion and the presentation A. E. F. was a harder of ideas. Here is a mighty Back to the job than getting track of an Army Again fine opportunity for any Le- A. W. O. L. But if plans By Leighton H. Blood 9 gionnaire to get a hearing work out right it will be an on any plan he may have in Empty All Around By Wallgren 10 easy trick to find any buddy mind. The number of Le- to Omaha for the gionnaires serving on the who comes A Personal Page By Frederick Palmer 11 convention. Round about National Americanism Com- Omaha's courthouse sixty Why Willie Jones Quit Running Away mittee, the department com- booths will be mittees and on the conven- registration By A. V. Levering 12 erected, one for each state tion committees is necessar- and department. Legion- Outfit Reunions 13 ily limited, but the Omaha naires will be driven in free conference gives every man automobiles from the depots Legion Radio 17 a chance to exert his per- right to the states' registra- sonal influence in shaping tion booths. Here they will Bursts and Duds 22 the Legion's Americanism register and be assigned to activities for next year. Not quarters. The free automo- the least beneficial effect of biles will then take them to SEVENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION the conference will be the their quarters where they personal acquaintances may leave their baggage and OMAHA formed by those who attend come back down town in the it. Knowing the man from automobiles if they wish. As OCTOBER 5th to 9th the other state is essential rapidly as the Legionnaires to a proper understanding register, their names, home of what he is trying to do. towns and the location of And that goes for the whole their Omaha billets will be telephoned to a central exchange year, not merely for the short period of a convention. department which can be reached only by telephone. Special telephone booths will be erected all over the business district and at outlying points. All a Legionnaire will have to do to More good news. Stanley G. Saulnier, editor of the locate a friend is to enter one of these booths, pick up a Infantry School News at Fort Benning, Georgia, an- telephone and give the name and home state of his friend. nounces that Charles B. Harrison Post, which draws its mem- In a few minutes he will be told just where his friend is stay- bership about half and half from among the service men of ing. The Northwestern Bell Telephone Company is installing Columbus, Georgia, and the men still in uniform at Fort Ben- this system, at an expense of 145,000, without cost to the ning, is now the largest post in Georgia and in the south- Legion. By the way—remember to take your paid-up mem- eastern United States. In a hot-weather membership drive bership card if you go to Omaha. the post recently raised its membership to 1,138.

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DURING the General Fracas, me cards to all clubs in the city, indi- when doughboy, gob or marine cated the mess hall, and then excused sighed a devout desire to be himself. Retreat hadn't sounded but country, every- The he couldn't wait. social engagement back in God's A body knew he meant his own home at the Omaha Country Club prevented. town. I declined several invitations to step Loyalty to one's native heath is a out that evening and, rather bewildered normal emotion, and one that is stim- by the social activities of the post, ulated constantly by booster organiza- turned in early. Sometime after mid- tions ever alei-t to discover and pro- Omaha night one of tentmates returned my claim some exclusively local quality of armed with a bottle of excellent rye nonesuchness. and after demanding in a loud voice Consequently a native son invariably to know why we should sleep while regards his home town through rose- better men were awake he generously tinted spectacles. Perspective is dis- I Knew ministered to our needs. torted. Sooner would Gloria Swanson Notwithstanding this episode not a admit that Pola Negri is a greater cel- man was late at reveille, and from that luloid emoter than herself before a day on the real hell of army life was resident of Kokomo would yield that By SAMUEL morning schools and drills. They in- New York or even Paris is a better terfered so with the pursuit of plea- all-the-year-round place of residence TAYLOR MOORE sure. Except for two hard-boiled old than the old home town. Regular Army sergeants who rudely If the foregoing impresses you as a insisted on our mastering the school digression it is merely to emphasize Cartoons by of the soldier and squads right, we that the writer of this story about might easily have qualified as cotillion Omaha, Nebraska, chosen corral for the Art Helfant leaders. impending national roundup of Legion My second day in camp I was issued mavericks, is not a native son. an O. D. uniform and at the same time I was a stranger in Omaha and they It was a sultry July day when I re- received guest cards to seven clubs. took me in—and not in the invidious ported in civilian clothes at Fort Oma- Over the week-end I was entertained sense. In olive drab, issue and tailored, ha after a long trolley ride from the in private homes for at least three dif- and in mufti, I have sojourned in Oma- union station. The post adjutant ferent meals, and last but not least I ha for days and weeks at a time. It's turned me over to a diminutive blond met a score of charming young ladies. a great old town. After all it isn't the sergeant with hair neatly parted in I want to emphasize that I was an en- material assets that make a city. The the middle, and therefore easily recog- listed man during this cordial welcome final test is its people. And in sundry nizable as a Yale man. I had arrived and entertainment, and when, some wanderings about this continent from prepared to lead something in the na- four months later, I was commissioned Cape Cod to the Golden Gate and from ture of a dog's life, for just a few it made no difference in the attitude

El Paso to Chicago, never have I en- months previously, while still a civilian, of my new friends. Apparently _ no countered a more charming and hospi- I had observed the rigorous training of prejudice exists in Omaha against table group of residents than lavished soldiers for the punitive expedition at officers. kindnesses on this native New Eng- Columbus, New Mexico. Until I left Omaha to embark for lander. I am sure my opinion will be Instead this affable young man es- France in January, 1918, not a week- backed by the thousands of veterans corted me to a comfortable pyramidal end went by that headquarters was not who trained for their war service at tent, introduced me formally to the flooded with invitations for soldiers to Fort Omaha and Fort Crook. members of our detachment, promised dine with citizens. The homes of a SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 PAGE 5 former United States senator, bank claimed, laughing. "Pretending they're do something distinctive, so we decided presidents, business leaders, as well as intoxicated!" to put on some bouts. many more modest dwellings, were In the old days Omaha was a wild Some inkling of what was up reached wide open to soldiers. Automobile and woolly town. Like a settled, staid the post commander. He sent for the rides, theater parties and dances at the father who likes to conjure visions of squadron commander and myself and clubs and in the hotels in- his youthful oat sow- demanded to know if we were project- variably followed dinner. ing, so native Oma- ing a prize fight. We preferred to use The churches were partic- hans are inclined to the term boxing contests, and he was ularly anxious to please. dwell on the gory finally won over, bestowing a final ad- Omahans proved them- glory of the past. For monition that the bouts must be gen- selves real folks to the tlemanly. He promised to soldiers. be on hand to see that they Whether, in common with were, and I was to be held a national condition, the personally responsible. extent of such hospitality I was low in mind when has receded in these piping we were excused because days of peace cannot be as an added feature I had stated with assurance. This projected a battle royal. much I know. Last fall I Tickets had been sold on landed back in Omaha un- that basis, and one mem- expectedly when the air- ber of the committee had plane in which I was mak- spent two days recruiting ing a transcontinental flight participants among the crashed in the outskirts of poolrooms of the black the city. From temporary belt. Nine colored giants headquarters in the Fonte- had agreed to accept com- nelle Hotel I telephoned pensation of fifty cents old acquaintances. They each to take part in the "She's already got a husband," he replied. "He doesn't like me." were as cordial as they melee, with a grand prize ever were in war days, of ten dollars for the last and it is a pretty safe wager that Le- many years there were more murders man on his feet in the ring. gionnaires will find the citizens gener- and bloodletting escapades in Omaha The show opened with the post com- ally as wholeheartedly hospitable as than in any city in the country. But mander in a ringside seat. The con- they were in 1917 and 1918. all that is gone. The hell-holes have testants in the first bout were evenly Omaha is naturally dry. Neither is been boarded up and the desperadoes matched, and after four rounds of live- Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the river, have gone the way of the James boys, ly and bloodless action the colonel altogether an oasis. Omaha became I do recall one murder during my shook hands with both young men and pretty thoroughly sponged by the Ne- days in Omaha. The perpetrator es- in a few brief words expressed the braska state dry law some years be- caped. Some days later a Negro sus- hope that this manly form of athletics fore national prohibition was enacted. pect was apprehended. In our detach- would continue. Then the second bout During the war prohibition was en- ment was a college man who had taken started. It consisted of the traditional forced fairly rigidly and there was lit- a course in criminal psychology. With two blows—when the vanquished got tle drunkenness. Most of the liquor his sergeant's chevrons he called at po- hit on the point of the jaw and when consumed came from private stocks. lice headquarters, introduced himself his head hit the planking. At once the Which reminds me. as an expert criminologist and finally colonel was on his feet asking for me. Two army officers on our post mar- prevailed on the authorities to produce He had never witnessed a more brutal ried girls in Omaha. Whether war the suspect. For an hour or more the exhibition—what did I mean by calling hysteria precipitated the romances I bright young man subjected the cring- such revolting spectacles "boxing con- do not know, but certain it is that the ing prisoner to his scientific probing. tests"? I mumbled something about a two bridegrooms had not dwelt in de- At the end of that period the volunteer mistake, saluted snappily and cornered tail on their human weaknesses. Both criminologist pronounced the suspect the referee, imploring him to prevent a husbands were given a night off to at- unqualifiedly guilty. Within twenty- second knockout at all costs. The tend a meeting of a fraternal organi- four hours the prisoner had established colonel was leaving shortly for a social zation of which they were members, a perfect alibi and was released. engagement in town. while the brides awaited their home- At the risk of seeming conceited I While the opponents in the third bout coming. It is possible that the newly- will admit that I inaugurated the first were preparing to enter the ring an- wed husbands were delegated to visit a fight ring at Fort Omaha. The other other catastrophe visited me. The door sick brother. At any rate, when they companies in our balloon, squadron had opened and nine dusky gladiators returned to the post, their military car- banked dollars to the credit of their pushed in, primed with juniper and riage was more than slightly lopsided, company funds by promoting dances on corn juices. The colonel was rising One bride surveyed the pair eager-eyed, the eve of our entraining for the At- from his chair. I was torn between "Oh, look at our husbands!" she ex- lantic seaboard. My outfit wanted to (Continued on page 20)

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At once the colonel was on his feet. He had never witnessed a more brutal exhibition PAGE 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY The Collecting Mania

A man once upon a time could wear whiskers because he liked their looks By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER CONSIDER this mania folks have dish of vanilla ice cream without hav- for collecting things. Take this ing him explain that he eats it because hobby for collecting second-hand it contains 1256 calories and seven Cartoons by postage stamps, for instance, gross of vitamines it is a godsend to I am willing to stand up in church and have something foolish that can be Paul H. Carruth announce that the most sissified thing done. My father for many years was a great big able-bodied man can possi- a bookkeeper. When I was a small bly do is to spend hours and hours of lad I discovered that I was able, by off postage stamp, unless it is a worn- precious time gathering together a lot resting my left heel on the floor and out automobile tire, and even they can of annulled, defaced and ex-officio post- raising the left side of that foot, to be sold as junk. The only objection to age stamps and pasting them in al- bend my big toe downward from the collecting postage stamps is that the bums. In the utmost seriousness I de- end joint and make it crack with a collector can usually sell his collection clare that I think this thing of col- loud snapping sound. day after tomorrow for more than he lecting discarded postage stamps to be I demonstrated this paid for it day before yesterday, and the lowest form of mental exertion of to my father with no ~\ that postage stamps—being so small

' — ;l is capable. is, I anc* f at are ust bout the most corn- which a man And that mean pride. V^^P?t=»-» J shouldn't wonder, why I have been a Yes," he said, "I J-£r^??lw pact and convenient things to store. tireless postage- These two are se- stamp collector rious objections, for fifteen years I admit. They or more. It does prevent the post- a man a lot of age stamp collect- good to know he or from feeling is doing some- absolutely weak- thing absolutely minded and irre- idiotic and non- sponsible, which sensible, and to is the feeling we have a real good need. time doing it. This thing of The trouble feeling that we with the world is must be rational All bookkeepers should indulge in some amusement, such as collecting old that it is getting has gone too far. furniture or patent medicine bottles of the hoop-skirt era to be so full of It has gone so far intelligence and that the man who ethics and sense that it is not worth see! But I don't believe that is an ac- picks up a pin because it is lucky to living min any more. A man can't complishment that would be of much pick up a pin feels he has to tell you buy a dog that looks like a dish-mop service to a bookkeeper." that he has picked up the pin because it nowadays without first getting ready Right there I think he was wrong. I will come in handy. He will try to spoof to make an affidavit that it is a full- think all serious-minded bookkeepers you with a long explanation regarding bred Czecho-Slovakian heath-hound, should learn to crack their toes or wig- how his wife's mother is always asking and worth seventy-five dollars, and gle their ears or indulge in some other him for pins, and how his wife is always useful for catching rats. There was a harmless and useless amusement, such asking him for pins, and how his day when a fellow could pick up any as collecting old furniture or patent daughters are always asking him for old pup in the alley and all the excuse medicine bottles of the hoop-skirt era. pins, and how he tries to keep a few he needed was that he loved it. A man Indulging in such time-wasting pas- pins under his coat lapel because the once upon a time could wear whiskers times is folly of the deepest dye, but house he lives in has such steep stairs because he liked their looks; now he has no man is a wise man to say he wears them because he has until he learns to be throat trouble. Nobody ever gives a considerably numerous boy a dog now because a boy likes a sorts of a fool. dog; the dog is given because—so the Collecting postage MY bluff goes—taking care of a dog teaches stamps, to my notion, the boy kindness, consideration, polite- ranks near the top of ness, respect for the American flag, all collecting because how to care for the teeth, gums and there is nothing quite tonsils, and arithmetic. I admit here as useless as a cast- and now that the reason I collect post- age stamps is because it gives me a few minutes of completely idiotic in- anity of mind now and then. I collect postage stamps because there is no rea- son in the world, that I can imagine, why I should. In my opinion that is the finest thing about collecting anything, aside from collecting bills. In a period when you I have been a collector, and always with limited means at my disposal, ever can't sit down with a man to have a since I was a child —

SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 PAGE 7 and it is hard on an old lady like his grandmother to have to climb the stairs for a pin. And the man who picks up a pin because he thinks it may come in handy sometime does just the other thing—he tells you that he does not pick up the pin because he is the sort of man who picks up anything that is lying around lost, but that he believes there may be something in this idea of picking up a pin being good luck. The world is jammed full of men who go fishing for their health and play golf to avoid anemia and harden- ing of the arteries—to hear them tell it. We need more men who collect brass jugs and are willing to admit It is that it is merely and solely because the same interesting game of pursuit and capture they have a bug in the bean. We need more plain unadulterated foolishness that cost real money—fifty cents or a something else—coins, most likely, for scattered around or one of these days dollar—and we would lose hope and I had a good collection of copper coins we will all go crazy. start exchanging everything we had for until I exchanged its constituent parts I have been a collector, and always something else. We would begin to for coins of the size of silver dollars. with limited means at my disposal, collect cent pieces of every year of is- I built up quite a collection of those since I was a child. I had a twenty- sue, and run up against the place that five franc pieces of various mintages, five-cent stamp album and was collect- could not be filled unless we were mil- Mexican dollars, American trade dol- ing stamps a few days after I climbed lionaires and had $2.50, and we would lars coined for business with China, out of the cradle and fell on the floor start exchanging again like mad. Spanish, English and German coins, for the last time. I "exchanged" with Some of the lads who put "exchange and so on, all approximately the size boys in other towns, for none of the ads" in the columns of Harpers Young of our silver dollar. I got some of boys I knew were simple enough to People had a well developed business these by exchanging, but I got more waste time with from the mer- stamps, or if they chants in town were they did not and from one of tell me. In those the bankers. The days Harpers coins were Young People, of "passed" on the blessed memory, merchants or printed free "ex- taken at a dis- change ads" in- count by them, side the front and and they would back covers, and sell them for a one ad would good whole-souled bring letters from American dollar dozens of boys. any time. I got We kept the lists a lot of them, for and did a big by that time I business trading was out of high "three mounted school and work- specimens of sea ing, and had some moss from Pa- spending money. I used a fanning motion of my hand to show I was not really interested cific Ocean" for To anyone who "ten stamps from has not been a Russia, Germany and France." We instinct. A favorite "exchange ad" collector of one kind or another I can traded anything that could be tied up was one that read: "Will exchange hardly explain the delight of securing in a package and sent by mail. When twenty varieties European stamps, no an addition to my collection as I felt I saved up a few pennies I sent them two alike, for a silver dime of any is- it in those clays. I cannot remember to someone who advertised "five large sue." That, however, was commercial- ever feeling the same pleasure upon pennies for 10 cts." izing the game. Even I guessed that receiving my wages or even when re- No one ever got a "complete" collec- that exchanger was not entirely bent ceiving a present of money. To find a tion of anything. We could collect on securing a complete collection of new coin or, earlier, to go to the post postage stamps by the hundreds but dime coins, and I was as innocent as office and be handed the letter that I we never completed the stamps of any most, in those days. knew contained a wanted stamp, was one country. We would buy and ex- Oddly enough, I can't remember what an exquisite delight. It was a culmina- change and get a fine array and then became of my juvenile stamp collection, tion of a wished for happiness. I think run up against the "rare" varieties although I probably exchanged it for that explains why the collecting mania gives so many rational people such dis- proportionate pleasure. A collection is never complete. And though you think you have a pretty good array, the non- collector is apt to be unmoved by the rare gems of your collection. He will even yawn as you point with pride. A collector is, let us say, trying to gather together examples of all types 7\ of viuijpcuuaicChippendale chairs in the genuine " [ i article. He begegins his hunt for a shell-

i back French-tjtype Chippendale chair and while he is hunting it he has all the pleasure of pursuit. He finds the specimen and he has, for a moment, the joy of acquisition. It is a most amaz- ingly satisfying feeling. He has gone a- hunting for one particular thing and he has hunted it down and bagged it. He has it. The next moment he has a The non-collector is apt to be unmoved by the rare gems of your collection (Continued on page 14) —

PAGE 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY EDITORIAL FOR God and country, we associate ourselves together for the These are facts the taxpayers should carry in their fallowing purposes: To uphold and defend the (''(institution minds, says Pershing of the United States of America; to maintain law, and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred -percent Americanism ; to pre- Yet the politician, himself oftentimes uninformed of Ms coun- serve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great try's history, frequently appeals to the ignorant and unthinking War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the, commu- on the score of economy by making a comparison of our army of nity, state and. nation ; to combat the autocracy of both the classes today with that of twenty-five years ago when we were in no and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and flood will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to pos- way adequately prepared. He does so usually without noting terity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy ;' to conse- our great increase in "population or our enormous increase in crate and sanctify our comrtidesh i /> by our devotion to mutual wealth, and the unwisdom of neglect. Such demagogues are dan- helpfulness.—Preamble to Constitution of The American Legion. gerous. Let us then bravely shoulder our load of taxes, and also .-rc&olv-e-_t6-4jay the small additional outlay that our children may Citizen Pershing "not have to take the risks that brought us into this position. ON September 12th a year ago when the name of John Sound and serviceable reasoning, that. Citizen Pershing J. Pershing was removed by law from the active list finds his work to do, at home and abroad, and he does it. of the Army the General said he hoped that his "retire- A year in "private" life has not diminished his usefulness ment" would be in name only. He said he intended to or his prestige. It has added to both. The old C.-in-C. of work on his memoirs, but this would not consume all of the Amexforces remains one of the most useful of his time, the remainder of which he wanted to continue to Americans. devote to the service of his country if work could be found As FIDAC Meets for him to do. A good many men would have thought it As this is read, the is ending one year and be- was time to take a rest, but not so Pershing. FIDAC xXginning a new one. Delegates representing the World Work has been found. Few Americans have put in a veterans' of all the Allied countries are gath- busier or more profitable year than Pershing has during War societies ered in Rome for the annual congress of the society which the past twelve months. His first assignment of note was for four years has been devoting itself to a study of the an extended diplomatic mission of good-will to South Amer- problems common to the service men of all countries and ica. The United States is not overly popular among the to strengthening of the bonds of mutual understanding Latin-Americans. We do not understand them, they do not a and sympathy. understand us. Pershing went down there, speaking their States will await the results of the con- language, understanding their customs and their manners. The United gress in Rome with unusual interest. For that congress He did good work. Now he is back there again in connec- at the year in which American president tion with the settlement of a dispute between Chile and comes end of a an visited nine countries expounding Peru over the former Peruvian provinces, Tacna and Arica, of the FIDAC has an conception of the possibilities of enduring world which Chile annexed after a war with Peru forty-five years American peace. Thomas W. Miller, president of the FIDAC, a mem- ago. Pershing's is a hard job and a thankless one. Whether ber of Legion, has had an exceptional op- eventually the disputed territory will remain Chilean or The American portunity to acquaint the service of Europe with the revert to Peru, not more than one side will be pleased. men practical progress which The American Legion has made But Pershing has not gone through his career trying to in the campaign to make wars unlikely. He has told thern please people. He has gone through it trying to do the of universal draft act, sponsored by the Ler right thing. the proposed gion, with a view to taking the profit out of war and plac- At home the General's services have not been less dis- ing capital and labor on the same status as fighting man- tinguished. He has confined his labors to the thing he power in any future emergency. Behind the Legion's pro- knows most about—the question of military preparedness. posal lies a new conception of national unselfishness. The Shortly before he sailed on his latest foreign mission he Congress of the FIDAC should indicate whether the ideas delivered a speech over the radio, which was given on such which are making progress in America will find acceptance short notice that it was not picked up by the newspapers. overseas. It was on this familar subject of preparedness. It met The American Legion has sent to the congress in Rome the commonest of arguments which are advanced against a delegation of Legionnaires whose records are a guaran- sound defense—the cost of it. We have always been un- tee that the American viewpoint will find most suitable ex- prepared for war because we sought to save what an ade- pression. The chairman is L. R. Gignilliat, superintendent quate military establishment would cost. Of this Pershing said: of Culver Military Academy at Culver, Indiana, a Legion- naire who has been prominently active in FIDAC since it It has been said, and with truth, that the Government is a was organized. Other members of the delegation are Wil- poor business manager. It is too often penny wise and pound liam B. Follett, Winter Park, Florida; Joseph H. Thomp- foolish, and too often only the political considerations of the mo- son, Pittsburgh; Congressman A. Piatt Andrew, Gloucester, ment count. In the light of history it is clearly our duty to sup- Massachusetts; Rev. William P. O'Connor, Past National port an adequate military establishment during peace, or else the next generation will have to pay the price that has always been Chaplain, Cincinnati, Ohio; Lemuel Bolles, Past National paid for past neglect. Even while paying war costs inherited Adjutant, New York City; Edward L. Logan, Boston; from their fathers, no American generation has been wise enough Julian Thomas, Paris, and H. E. Stewart of Montana. to provide against wars that have fallen on their sons. The Rome congress is being held less than a month be- fore The American Legion meets in Omaha for its national The General declared that if we had been reasonably convention. The word that comes from that congress is prepared in 1914 we would never have been obliged to enter bound to be listened to with more than ordinary interest by the World War, and if we had entered would have ended those who will make the decisions at Omaha on the Le- it much sooner than it was ended. gion's policies for the year to come. Probably two-thirds of our national debt at the end of the war [Pershing continued] was the direct result of our participa- The real proof of the pudding is in the digesting. tion. That is to say, we are paying on a debt of some twenty odd billions when the chances are that the expenditure of less than one-hundredth part of it annually at the right time would have A cling-stone peach, of course, is the One that refuses saved us from this war entirely. The estimated expenditures of to return the diamond. the Government for 1926 are $3,375/(00,000. Of this only i4 $1,160,000,000 is for the current running expenses of the Gov- ernment. The rest, totaling more than $2,000,000,000 is the One of the most dependable ways to start the day wrong penalty we pay for our past unpreparedncss. is to push in the top of a milk bottle with your thumb. SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 PAGE 9

The new Army's cooks look like cooks, anyway, and expert testimony tends to confirm the belief that they know their stuff. An Army meal today is the kind you dreamed about seven or eight years ago

REMEMBER, back in those days section. Xnowing something about raid- when you and I were fighting ing, and the fact that the battery was to make the world safe for de- short, made me a driver pronto. The '"mocracy, how some thousands Back lead driver was Hydock, with Abe of well-intentioned people back here at Wiener on the wheel team. Corporal home were worrying about our morals Touroch was cannoneer. and whether we were getting enough The other drivers of the section were spiritual training with our drill. Privates Seal, from Virginia, a barber, All of us have heard what a hard- to the whose enlistment ended while we were boiled irreligious lot the Regular Army at Timonium; Chicora, an Italian, is. They have chaplains, yes, and all and Newland, from Indiana, as well that sort of thing, but many believe as Private Biros, a Slovak, with all that Kipling's summary of the soldier, taking turns driving in sections that that "single men in barracks don't were short-handed for the day. With grow into plaster saints," is just about Army a Norwegian sergeant, Olsen, Europe right. I want to blast a little of that and America were well represented. right here and now. The second week in the Sixth Field As I have mentioned before in this Artillery was spent, for the most part, series, the battery clerk of my bat- in hikes through the reservation to tery was a Baptist minister, descend- harden the horses for the longer hike, ant of a long line of clergymen. Cor- Again first to Timonium, where a two-day poral Conway had his church detail military show was to be held, and then every Sunday night and has had it ever into Camp Meade for the summer to since he came to the Sixth. Now sky instruct the C. M. T. C. When horse pilots are of several varieties. I was By LEIGHTON H. exercise only was in order the fun was sent into a light tank battalion from on. Several large excavations on the a heavy outfit in France as a replace- BLOOD reservation made it possible to send the ment and found two privates in the mounts down sharp declivities. Lieu- new company who were preachers, and tenant March, who led these expedi- they never let you forget that they smiled or misbehaved in church. John- tions, would start off with the moderate were. And—they were poor soldiers. ny never said anything but the rest of drops, ending with those almost Conway is a good one, and he never the men did. Conway didn't preach. straight down. This the men liked, lets religion get the better of him. The regimental chaplain did that. and the one that lost the mount he was I think that many a minister and Twice I saw that detail go off to leading came in for plenty of ragging. priest can take a little leaf out of the church, once at Fort Hoyle, and again Regimental field day came before the book of this corporal-preacher. Every at Timonium where they walked three start for Timonium, and B Battery man in the outfit respected him. He miles to a village church and back. An won a first when Sergeant Willem, rid- was quiet and an old-timer. But every Irish sergeant, McGraw, marching ing Jack, took the enlisted men's jump- Sunday night he went about announc- alongside a French Canadian, with a ing contests. The twenty-year top from ing that Conway's Detail was ready to Russian Orthodox corporal and a cou- E Battery, standing near, asked me go. And then you would see soldiers ple of Slovaks and the German guidon who was jumping from B, and what polishing leggins, shoes and buttons, carrier, Draber, were all in line. Creed mount. "Jack," someone said, "with and, by and by, down the road to the and race meant nothing. They liked Willem up." chapel would go Johnny and his de- Johnny; they seemed to like church, too. "Might just as well call the races off tail. He had his own choir, all soldiers, The second week at Fort Hoyle found and give the ribbon away now. Jack of course, and woe unto the man that me a swing driver on the piece of my (Continued on page 18) PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

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You always get a dividend of good feeling when you source. Their contributions mean one vast contribution give up something you need to somebody who needs it from the members of what we want to be the most con- more. West Springfield (Mass.) Post structive organization in our nation. "Take Ours!" wanted and needed a new clubhouse. It You are not asked to compete for the money, but for a Is Their Way had the money, $7,500, appropriated by big purpose. You cannot be too humble or too important the town selectmen. When the selectmen, not to write two hundred words now that the heat of the because of lack of funds, refused to provide for a public summer is over and we are all energized by cooler weather. swimming pool for children which would be used in winter for skating, the post said, "Take our money! We'll There is one peace plan whose principle, it seems to me, wait on that clubhouse." The members of the post would we all must favor. It is the Herman-Jordan plan which have got a lot of happiness out of that clubhouse, but now has been adopted by the World Federa- everyone when he sees the children swimming or skating Are We All tion of Education Associations. Its con- will have the happiness of thinking: "I gave up some- agreed? cern is not with Leagues of Nations or thing for that. I own a little interest in that." Security Pacts. Such high politics it leaves to the statesmen. It would educate the young who Look at the date of this issue! Then, remember that are to make the nations of the future to think in terms of the Prize Contest closes September 20th. If yours is not fair play to your neighbors. There is plenty for it to do among the contributions flowing in you without getting beyond this simple program. Opportu- Make Haste better put it in the mail box soon, or it nity calls it from every European frontier where race or Too Late will arrive too late. hatred is being bred and trained into youth. "What good did you get out of your service in the war?" What good out of the bad? What Are our public lands being mismanaged by "mollycod- value and help did you gain out of the training, discipline, dles" and "dudes" as Senator Ashurst says? A Senatorial hardship, horror and destruction? Committee is going to try to find out. The prizes are $50 for the best answer; $30 for the We Want Uncle Sam is still our biggest land- second; $25 for the third; $15 for the fourth; $10 for the tO Know owner. In extent his holdings are equal fifth ; and $5 each for the five next best. to twelve times the area of New York The contest is open to all Legionnaires. Contributions State, or more than twice that of Texas. may not be over two hundred words. Either put your Are ninety millions of our hundred and thirty-six mil- name, address and post in an envelope or write them on lions of forest lands treeless? Is our government merely the upper left hand corner of the first page and turn down keeping vast sections from being made profitable if indi- so that the name will not be disclosed until after the con- vidual enterprise were given a chance? Is our obsolete tribution is read. Address all contributions to Prize Con- hit and miss system, or lack of system, preventing us from test, Personal Page, The American Legion Weekly, In- growing more beef and mutton? Are possible homesteads dianapolis, Indiana. lying fallow as a result of a dog-in-the-manger policy?

Do not think that it is necessary to have been overseas in If so, no one has such a right to be interested as the ex- order to compete. What good did you get out of camp and service man who wants to make his future on the land! out of being in the uniform of your country under her There used to be a saying that "Uncle Sam is rich enough orders? In your first week in camp you may have learned to buy us all a farm." Perhaps he has a few farms left. a lesson which will stick with you for life. We do not want our public domain exploited and dam- Within the Legion are men of all occupations. I want aged by speculators and profiteers who pay no price for all represented, including the nurses who are members of the privilege; but we do want every availble acre for a the Legion. As I said in my first announcement the win- homestead to be used in making a home. The more homes ner is not required to be a facile writer. The direct per- on the land the better for us all. Let ex-service men who sonal note out of the heart is the thing. live in the region of our public domain be heard from in "The man whose hands are so stiff from the day's labor this investigation. that he feels that he can handle a crowbar better than a pen has as good a chance as the man who goes behind a Sixty-two years is the time that Belgium has to pay her chauffeur to his office where he has a stenographer at his war debt to us. England had sixty-two years. France will elbow." expect the same. It is the most colossal The answers will be worth a thousand volumes of theo- A Long instalment plan in history. ries. They will come from men and women who know war Time Ahead What may happen before the last pay- through the harness of its discipline and bearing its bur- ment is made? Will it ever be made? dens and who offered their all as the price of the experi- In sixty-two years wars may have changed the map of ence and the dangers of war. When we have all the Europe and the world. A Russian army might be on the answers we shall consider if there are any of the benefits coast of France. Or a Chinese army might be in Moscow. received that can be gained without paying war's frightful Yes, considering the changes of the last quarter of a cen- toll. tury anything may happen in the next two quarters and a And there may be another question to be answered by half. Debts may have been wiped out by the wiping out your contributions. The object is not just to hold a prize of the debtors. The world's monetary system may have contest. We want to hold a council on this mighty sub- changed. We might even have the United States of the ject of war and peace among those who know war. For World of which we have dreamed. The point is that we they can give us evidence which can be had from no other did not play the Shylock in 1925. PAGE 12 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Why Willie Jones Quit Running Away

was just a spindly boy with By A. V. a troop under the guidance of some of HEoversized hands and oversized our men who really know their stuff." feet and, presumably, an over- When the speaker sat down the post sized brain. At the very LEVERING was quietly thoughtful for a few mo- threshold of the critical period of ments. If the keynote of Legion Scout adolescence, when his body was the work is unselfish service to others, battleground of the conflicting natures since he ran away the last time. And wasn't his argument right in line? The of boy and man, he had done some- at the home they have decided he isn't post decided to look around. thing which a self-protective society re- going to run away any more. The an- The final choice was to start a troop gards intolerantly. Upon the recom- swer is that Willie Jones is now a Boy at the Boys' Home, a charitable insti- mendation of the Juvenile Court he Scout—an American Legion Boy Scout, tution of Jack- went to live at the Boys' Home, so that if you please, a protege of Edward C. sonville which is he might have a good chance to culti- De Sausure Post of The American Le- a bit different vate balance while the struggle of the gion of Jacksonville. from most insti- forces within him was determining A new style in adopting Boy Scout tutions for boys. largely the kind of a man he would troops—that is the record set by De It was an out- become. This was in Jacksonville, Sausure Post. De Sausure Post set out growth of the Ju- Florida. to find a less beaten track than usual, venile Court. If He wasn't a bad boy—not at all a track which would give opportunity boys were getting that, by the tests which the child ex- to do more good than usual. It suc- into trouble and perts and the sociologists use to make ceeded. coming into court their definitions of that term. His When the project of sponsoring a because of it, oversized hands simply impelled him to Boy Scout troop was first discussed by some citizens had action; his oversized feet felt a con- the post, someone wanted to know just intelligently asked stant call to go somewhere; and the how the boys were to be selected for a few years ago, mind within his well-shaped and alto- the troop. The first idea was that they why not get down to the root of the gether prepossessing head worked should be gathered from the families trouble and try to stop it? Investiga- overtime supplying ingenious if some- of members of the post. It seemed like tion showed that a large proportion of what erratic impulses to keep his hands a good way to go about it, until an- the boys who came into court for de- and feet busy. Perhaps one of the other man arose. linquency were pretty much a product farthest advanced "Of course Boy Scout work is good of the streets. They had no parents, scientists in the for every youngster," he argued. "And or incompetent or unfit parents, and new field of psy- of course we should like to have the were allowed to shift for themselves. chology which boys of our families get the benefit of Under the circumstances, they quite finds an explana- it. But, after all, are they the ones naturally fell into ways which led to tion for behavior who really need it most? trouble with the authorities. And by in the normal or "I don't think so. Scouting gives a the time the law got around to giving abnormal func- boy a clean mind in a sound body; it them some corrective attention it was tioning of a half- gives him an understanding of good generally too late to do much good. dozen glands of citizenship with its responsibilities, So the Boys' Home was opened. To the human body and it gives him an amount of knowl- it come youngsters of ten years and up, would have un- edge of how to shift for himself and for the most part boys who have not derstood him. He how to conduct himself out of doors. had a decent chance on account of lack might have said "Now, if we do our duty by these of the proper kind of home life. Death, that he was re- boys of our families, and give them desertion, divorce, separation, and just acting to an ex- the personal attention that we ought to plain cussedness on the part of parents cess of energy which is generated mys- be eager to give them just because they in most cases are responsible for the teriously when the thyroid gland is too are our kin, we can individually do a broken home. In the Boys' Home these powerfully endowed for the body it greau deal of this work for our boys. unfortunate children are placed in a serves. "I want my boys to be Scouts. But home-like institution which is decidedly His name might have been Willie I'll take the responsibility for that my- more of a home than an institution. Jones, for in almost every way he was self. I'll get them into troops as they From this little home during the like the thousand and one other Willie grow up to it, and so will the rest of World War twenty-three soldiers and Joneses who never get into any trou- you if you aren't sillier than you look. sailors, including the superintendent, ble worth mentioning and grow up Men, that is a responsibility for us as were contributed to the service of the stoutly under the guidance of a father individuals. And this city is big country. And out of the twenty-three and a mother. So we'll call him Willie enough so that it can absorb our young- stars on the service flag one turned to Jones and give him the other name sters into Scout troops and never feel gold. they came to know him by at the Boys' the addition. To the boys of the Boys' Home De Home in Jacksonville—"the boy who "But in a city of this size there must Sausure Post went and started a troop runs away". be a lot of boys who haven't the kind of Boy Scouts. The plan is somewhat At the Boys' Home they liked Willie of people who will see that they get different from the orthodox method, be- Jones, but they regarded him as an in- the advantages of being Boy Scouts. cause conditions are different from corrigible runaway. When he was in And these are just the kids who need those ordinarily prevailing in a troop. the home, studying or playing or eat- most what scouting can give them. These youngsters crave, and need, ing his meals, he was a model young- "So I suggest that guidance beyond that of the youngsters ster. The trouble was that his wan- before we make any who spend their lives in the quiet, or- derlust overpowered his every other definite decision as derly surroundings of their parents' feeling occasionally — and then he how we select our homes. would be gone until they found him. boys for the Scout So the post came to them, not as He was always happy when he came troop this post will though it were conferring a favor, but back—happy to be back—but almost sponsor, we look more as big brothers who naturally from the moment of each fresh return around and see wanted to help them get on. Individual restlessness would start to replace hap- where we can find members of the post "adopt" individual piness, and then he'd be gone. the boys who will boys of the home. A Legionnaire fur- And then Willie Jones quit running get the biggest bene- nishes his boy his equipment, and away. It has been many months now fit from belonging to takes a personal interest in him as his .

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personal protege. The Auxiliary unit made the neckerchiefs for the Scouts of What of the Facial the troop; each troop, of course, has a Whatnot? distinctive color of neckerchief. The color scheme decided on for the Legion troop was blue, with a border of red and white. The scoutmaster, C. A. Hicks, and the assistant scoutmaster, J. C. Munoz, are members of the post. The Scout committee is also composed of three members of the post: Judge W. S. Criswell of the Juvenile Court, the Le- gionnaire who comes closer to the lives of these youngsters than any other man in Jacksonville unless it be the men who run the home—Harvey R. Payne and Dr. E. H. Teeter. Results have been showing from the very beginning. The first notable ac- complishment came when every young- ster had passed the Scout tenderfoot test in two weeks, an unusually short time. But that was hardly remarkable, under the circumstances. For these boys are self-reliant and full of initi- ative. Their way of living has made them so, of necessity. They know how to do things for themselves, as young- sters must who live in an institution. Many men have been good or great or both, in spite of whiskers And they pick up Scout ways a good that were as needless as four-wheel brakes on a wheelbarrow. deal faster than could boys who have It is wr ell, therefore, to approach the old plush album in a spirit led sheltered lives, with family and servants at hand to help them with of reverence. Behind Uncle Zachariah's bewildering begonias every little difficulty. there may have been genial impulses that never got the publicity Membership in the troop is being they deserved. Imagine how your own radiance would be dimmed held out as a reward for good conduct if a tangled mass of whiskers made you look like a partial eclipse. in the home. That has a good effect there is longer on all the boys in the institution; it is Fortunately no any reason why a man should a way of making the good influence of permit a basketful of furniture stuffing to make him seem what scouting reach out beyond the confines he is not. of the troop. And, at the same time, Colgate's Rapid-Shave has shaving so easy, it automatically brings into the troop Cream made and the boys who will be most likely to pay has taken discomfort out of it so thoroughly, that whiskers have attention to the work, and to be a ceased to crowd into society, and few of them continue to credit to the troop. These are the boys accumulate icicles. who deserve membership, and they are the ones who get it.

OUTFIT REUNIONS COLGATE'S

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123d F. A.—Reunion at Galesburg, III.. Sept. It emulsifies the oily coating upon each hair of the beard, per- 12-13. Address Byron H. L. Nelson, 11 So. La- Salie St., Chicago. 111. mitting moisture to penetrate and soften it at the base, where Cos. B, D, M, 56th Pioneer Inf. Reunion at — the razor s work is done. Old Orchard, Me., Sept. 13. Address Horace H. Towle. Westbrook, Me. You will realize as soon as you try it that Colgate's gives a better 316th Inf. (79th Div.)— Sixth annual reunion at new Elks Home, Philadelphia, Pa.. Sept. 26. shave. It leaves the face soothed and velvety. Address Ray Cullen, 7025 Reedland St., Phila- delphia. A clean shave daily has become a business, as well as a social 128th Inf.—Reunion at Portage, Wis.. Sept. requirement. 26-28. Address Col. John Turner, Wisconsin Veterans Home, Wis. Co. M, 257TH Inf. <90th Div.)—Reunion at COLGATE & CO. Established 1806 Oklahoma City. Okla.. Sept. 28. Address J. C. Fullerton. 2119 West 21st St.. Oklahoma City. 8th F. S. Bn.—Former members interested in proposed reunion at Omaha, Neb., during Le- gion national convention. Oct. 5-9. address Chap- lain John H. Keplinger, Union Star. Mo. Co: F. 36th Inf.—Former members interested in proposed reunion at Omaha, Neb., during Legion national convention. Oct. 5-9. address Louis G. Leuts, 112 W. Washington Ave., Flora, Let us fend yoi« a Co. 3d trial tube of this _ C, Corps Art. Park—Former members interested in proposed reunion at Omaha. Neb., marvelous cream during Legion national convention, Oct. 5-9. ad- — enough for 12 dress Elmer Dept. 291 J. Swanson, Post Office, South St. better shaves than Paul, Minn. 581 Fifth Ave., New York have ever had Evac. Hosp. No. 1 —Former members inter- you Please send me trial tube ested in proposed reunion at Omaha. Neb., dur- Just fill out and of Colgate's Rapid -Shave ing Legion national convention, address War- mail tfie attached Cream for better, ren F. Gilbert, 109 So. 25th Avenue, Omaha, or easier shaving. coupon, with 4c. W. A. Reimers, 5613 Leavenworth Street. I enclose 4c. Omaha. - Name 313th Field Hosp. (79th Div.)—To complete roster and make arrangements for reunion to Address be held in Philadelphia Pa., Oct. 10-12, former members are asked to address Edward H. Kin- State sey, Perth Amboy, N. J. PAGE 14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

DAYJEWELED The Collecting Mania MOVEMENT (Continued from page 7) new and equally insistent desire—he most exquisitely carved on a brown must get an authentic specimen of the shell—not so common—and I found an- Chinese Chippendale chair. It is the other with a head of Minerva, as deli- same interesting game of pursuit and cately cut as any I have seen. I found capture. And with the bagging of the three dainty little cameos no bigger Chinese Chippendale he begins a new than match ends. hunt for a Chippendale Gothic chair. I had shifted from shell cameos to It is endless and the appetite increases stone cameos when I met my Nemesis. with each success. Every day the col- Stone cameos, cut in agate of all col- lector learns more of the technic and ors, are irresistible, and I had begun finely specialized details. What he buying them when, in a good shop near comes to know about Chippendale fur- the Invalides, I ran across a Napoleonic niture is as truly knowledge as any- cameo pin with which the dealer said thing else. He comes to be a wise man he could furnish authentic documents in his chosen field of collecting and he proving it was given by Bonaparte to enjoys being wise. Madame So-and-So. I forget her name. A few years after the Spanish War, The cameo was dark agate, set in a when I was in Paris, the antique shops frame that had a dozen small diamonds fascinated me, and in the window of and was about as big as the first joint For This Latest Model Imported one I saw a shell cameo I rather ad- of a man's thumb. The cutting left a Jewelled Movement Watch mired and I bought it. I paid less than profile bust of Napoleon in relief in Runs 8 Days with One Winding a dollar for it—about ninety cents, if I dull white, and across the brows was remember rightly—and I immediately a wreath of leaves in gold. When I 20 Year Guarantee began collecting cameos. It was one examined the wreath to see how it was grand excitement and the best fun I held in place I turned the pin over and Only a down payment of 10c required had in Europe, any time or any place. found on the back a most delicately and we make immediate shipment of In those days the cameo had not had carved Napoleonic bee, little larger this beautiful and serviceable watch. its revival, as it has had since then, than the head of a pin. The cameo WE TRUST YOU and they were cheap, and the hunt had had been drilled and this bee was the Shipment Same Day the additional zest that I did not know flange or nut or washer on the end of seven words of French. the minute gold bar that connected with No References Needed But in spite of this I found buying the wreath and held it in place. Elsewhere you would probably be required to pay cameos in Paris great fun, as it is to Well, I felt sick when I heard the upwards of $16 for a full-jewelled open face 8 Day watch of this quality. Our price reduced to $12 and buy anything in antique shops when price! It was not more than I could you may pay It $1 per week. you know what you want and really pay, but it was a lot more than I ought Make first payment only to postman when he want it. The method, of course, was to spend for any cameo in the world, delivers package. the old one of entering the shop and bar none. I went back to that shop Send name and address at once. Our money back and 20 year guarantee protect you- asking the price of something I did not again and again, fretting and whining want, deciding it was too high priced, like a Scotch terrier at the wrong end L. J. Deelite Co., 530 Broadway, NewYork and then asking carelessly what that of a rat hole, feeling that life would cameo cost. This is the method every not be worth living if I did not own collector should use on all occasions. that cameo, but frightened stiff for fear The dealer expects it. It is supposed I might have to go hungry and then to be the ultimate of cleverness and to swim the Atlantic to get back to Amer- 30*75 hoodwink the dealer and catch him off ica. It was the year of the bank panic, his guard. I used to follow it up by when none of the banks in New York Here's an Amazing New Way a fanning motion of the hand to indi- had any cash; my money was in a New to Make Big Money in Your Spare Time! cate that I was not really interested. York bank. When I went to my Paris McDonald made $58 in one week The only trouble is that the dealer bank it told me a draft might be hon- Hampton made $7.63 in four hours- thought of it before I was born. It ored and it might not, but the papers just wearing this beautiful Hand Tailored Taylor Cap. is such an old trick that once when I were full of the Grand Crash Amer- Wear This Gap went into a shop and asked the price icaine, and the bank did not seem hope- FREE of a cameo the first thing, and then ful about it. I want to give you a FREE Cap—your friends it, dead. If one of the real joys will be delighted with its Class, Style and Fit and bought the dealer dropped There you have you will makea generous profit ta kingtheir orders. it had not been that his wife was in of collecting. Day after day and week Finest materials and workmanship. Choice of 5 love with the janitor next door and had after week and year after year we styles and 25 fine fabrics. Send your name right that face face away for details. Write at once. J. W. Taylor, intended to poison her husband collectors come plump to President, Taylor Cap Manufacturers, Depart- evening at dinner I might have been with the most delightful agony. It ment iim. Cincinnati, Ohio. in serious trouble. As it was she made heats the pleasure of the small boy who me a present of the cameo and it is lusciously bites down on his sore tooth AFTER TEN DAYS TRIAL one of the most prized in my collection, to see just how much it hurts. Con- FOR THIS LONG WEARING because it has a history. tinually we meet temptation in its most Bearing L.C.SWilTrH In collecting cameos I ranged all over thrilling form; we are endlessly finding NO RED TAPE— NO DELAY Paris and I did not spend much money something we positively must add to Test this wonderful typewriter in your home oroffieelOdays. Send No Money. If you ar. because I did not have much. I bought our collection and positively cannot af- not satisfied it is the best buy you ever made, your express agen twill refund your $3 deposit quite a number of shell cameos before, ford. If we grab Old Man Temptation PRICES ever made on LOWEST | the world famous L. C. Smith - being the rankest kind of amateur, I by the neck and strangle him and don't full size—all late style operating conveniences—absolutely highest discovered that the stone cameos were buy the cameo we swim for days in a quality rebuilt — 6 Year Guaran | tee. Small Monthly Payments. the most desirable. I found one ancient sweet agony of regret, and if we let FREE: Course of Instruction, cut in lava, possibly be- us on the Tools, Waterproof Cover, all free I Roman cameo Old Man Temptation whack today for New to you now. Send | Special Offer and Booklet of Valu- fore Pompeii was destroyed. In a box head and we do buy the cameo we swim able typewriter information. Smith Typewriter Sales Corp. under the stalls of a book-seller on the for just as many days in an even 400-360 E.Grand Av,, Chicago* quais I found the remnants of some sweeter agony of remorse and contri- cameo-maker's stock—blanks of oval tion, flavored with the joy of posses- shape cut from the shell but not yet sion. No one can understand this un- Shirts carved, cameos partly completed, less he has experienced it. Mighty few cameos evidently done by apprentice people except collectors know how Direct from 'factory hands. In the studio of a Spanish much pleasure can be got out of suf- . to wearer. Easily sold. Over one million sat- artist I found .some Spanish cameos of fering. isfied wearers. No capital or experience but of considerable required. Large steady income. Many earn great crudity charm I had a perfectly grand time over $100. to $160. weekly. Territorynow being and unlike the vast mass of cameos, that Napoleonic cameo and I might allotted. Write For Free Samples. which are Italian. I found one early have suffered all that spring and sum- MADISON SHIRT MILLS, 564 B'way, New York shell cameo showing the three graces, mer if someone had not told me there —

SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 PAGE IS was a nice little collection of cameos in the Bibliotheque Nationale. That's the National Library, and the last place I would have looked for cameos. I had always thought a library was where books were kept and, being an author, I never go to libraries. But I went to see the cameos in the Bibliotheque Nationale. One look was enough. It took me about two minutes to decide that with my income and the time at my disposal it would take me about four million years to get together a collection of cameos that I could mention without a blush of shame after seeing one sixty- fourth of the collection in the Biblio- theque Nationale. I saw at once that as a cameo collector I ranked about minus zero. The Bibliotheque Nationale seemed to rank cameos like the Na- poleonic one over which I had yearned as also ran and selling plater, and did not bother to show them in less than ten gross lots. My memory is not very good, but there were little trifles like a whole sea-shell as big as my head carved in the year 43 A. D. with a rep- resentation of the conquest of Troy, showing 864 warriors and a job lot of gods and goddesses that would fill a first-class pantheon and spill over. There were unimportant little items like the cameo Nebuchadnezzar wore in his crown, and the cameo Noah carved on the Ark while waiting for the high water to evapox- ate. I don't know but that there was a cameo carved by Adam. If they did not have that one then they probably have it by this time. I went back to our pension and began collecting postage stamps. There is one thing about postage stamps that is comforting—the first stamp was issued in 1840 and there is no danger of stroll- ing into a museum and finding one is- sued by King Solomon to commemorate the visit of the Queen of Sheba. The idea of collecting postage stamps seems to have originated with boys girls, for some reason, never seemed to take to it, possibly because they find greater pleasure in collecting the boys. what a whale of a difference There are some women now who have notable collections, but they probably went into it on an equal rights plat- just a few cents make form, and because they felt they ought to do it if men did it. A list of the men who collect postage stamps would be a surprise to most people. It would include kings, senators, financiers, gen- erals and many notable men in all pro^ fessions. Army and Navy men are frequently collectors. Collections worth Declaration of a million dollars are not talked about Independence much; collections worth thousands of dollars are so common that they excite A facsimile copy of the Declara- tion of Independence has been is- no comment whatever unless they con- sued by the John Hancock Mutual tain some especial rarities. The Scott Life Insurance Company. postage stamp catalogue lists a 10 cent This reproduction is a composite reduced facsimile, one-quarter size, stamp issued in Baltimore in 1845 at taken from a facsimile reproduc- $8,000, one issued the same year in tion of the original Declaration of Independence made by W. I. Stone Alexandria, Virginia, at 810,000, and ! in 1823, under the direction of John one issued the next year at Boscawen, Quincy Adams, then Secretary of New Hampshire, at $12,000. There are State. The original engrossed Dec- laration is in the custody of the Li- at least thirty stamps issued in the After Many Years brarian of Congress at Washington. United States that are quoted at $1,000 The John Hancock Company will or over probably more and a rapid It will be pleasant to know that your send this copy of the Declaration — — copies of The American Lesion Weekly are free for framing. glance through the latest catalogue neat, clean and safe from destruction. shows at least 155 postage stamps The attractive binders which have been specially made for this magazine, hold all listed at over $100 each. the copies for one year. The above do not include stamps Full Cloth (Red) Gold Embossed. printed on envelopes or revenue stamps. Postpaid $1.25 each. The two-cent vermillion stamp, printed Send for one TODAY ! ! Over Sixty Years in Business Billion on an envelope in 1880-1882, for exam- THE LEGIOM BOOK SERVICE NowInsuringNearlyTwo jffl The American Legion Weekly Dollars on 3,500,000 Lives Jfs ple, is worth $200. If someone who Indianapolis, Indiana bought a five-cent box of matches made —

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by the Maryland Match Company back possibility of securing a reasonably in Civil War days had saved the one- complete collection was greater. Diamond Import cent revenue stamp that was printed There are now thousands of thou- on watermarked paper and pasted on sands of adult stamp collectors in all the box, he would have made a good in- parts of the world and there are thou- i>s — vestment, for the stamp is now worth sands of dealers, but to secure a stamp hw Sale tn " " figures pay $225. These are for United DIRECTi FROM needed to fill a spot in an album the States stamps only, a very small part collector must often consult dozens of ANTWERP TO YOU! of the catalogue, and stamps of other $50,000 worth of Genuine AA1 quality, brilliant,urn.. blu dealers and wait for years until some white diamonds were obtained - * —*— J through lucky deal by our countries worth hundreds or thousands collection is Antwerp buyer at a figui ir below the market price. This is broken up, and all the Your chance to buy a Di md--take advantage of it today. of dollars are amazingly numerous while there are more collectors enter- SEND ONLY $2 you'll find if you investigate. ing the field, stamps are being de- Your choice of these two specials shown below will come for your approval and 15 Day Trial. If you can duplicate it for I doubt, for example, whether many stroyed by fire or otherwise and prices less money elsewhere, send it back and we will gladly refund your deposit. If satisfied, pay the balance in 10 equal monthly payments. know where New Britain is—I don't are mounting. In 1916, when I began No Red Tape-Prompt Delivery-Transactions Confidential mean the Connecticut city. Its first collecting the stamps of the little Reeular 550 Value issue was as late as 1914-1915, but one Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, the first stamp is worth $125, one is worth $150, four stamps issued (in 1852) were five are worth $200 each, one is worth listed at one dollar for the first two and $300, one $350, two $400 each and two three dollars for the second two, each. $600 each, and there are a number so They are now worth four dollars for rare that no prices are quoted. New the first two and ten dollars for the Brunswick, the next country in the other two, each. The highest priced A-JS This Ladies' 18k White A-»6 Beautiful 13k White catalogue, has stamps quoted from $125 stamp was then listed twenty dollars; Gold Dinner Etins looks like Gold hand-engraved ladies platinum—ordinarily sold for ring set with 3 sparkling, to $800. An unused Newfoundland it is now forty dollars. But this is not $85. 7 AA1 quality genuine blue-white Dia-4:<-> m crt blue-white Dia- 4 a monds. Special* shilling y 5qn" -'3 71 stamp of 1860 is worth $1,000, all. Many of the stamps could then be monds. Examine 'hi' Sales Price . . ' it I Sales Price " Terms $2 Down but you can buy a cancelled one for bought at less than list price; now Terms $2 Down 3.65 A Month 6.25 A Month $500. On the other hand you can't get more than list price is gladly offered 3,000 Other Big Bargains a 6V2 pence stamp of the same year for many of them. Send for our complete Booklet—IT'S FREE! Thisho.tk contains n.utmOther Pig Bargains for less than $1,250, and it would prob- But the real fascination of stamp in Diamonds, Watches and Je ably require quite a hunt to get it at collecting I have hardly touched upon, TO PAY ON EVERYTHING. that. You can see that an enthusiastic if I have mentioned it at all. It is in • AUTHORIZED CAPITAL s f.OOO.OOO. ^ boy whose father has a mere four or the expert knowledge that comes with LW- SWEET INC five million dollars could easily bank- the specialists' study of their stamps. rupt papa and still not have much of a This is akin to the dog fancier's knowl- [dept. 1660 BR0ADWAY, X NEW YORK collection. edge of the fine points of the particular On the other hand there are thou- breed of dogs he likes best, or like the sands of stamps of almost no value. flower-lover's interest in the delicate Howto Be a You can buy 10,000 mixed United variations in tulips or dahlias. I might States stamps for $2.50, which is al- put it this way—a raw collector might most less than nothing each, and I have begin by wanting one stamp from each T4RSALESMAN a quotation on mixed foreign stamps country of the world, and be interested Hundreds who never thought they of $1.95 for 10,000. The small dealers until he has that collection complete. could sell, now STAR Salesmen will show you sheets containing hun- Any stamp will satisfy him. Presently making$5,000to$i0,0Q0aYear! dreds of stamps, no two alike, from he will want to have one stamp of each Amazing new system of teaching right at which to choose at a cent or a half cent denomination of each country of the home makes salesmanship easy as A B each. On these cheap stamps some world one cent, two cent, three cent C. Simplemlesand laws anyone can learn. — Equivalent of actual experience. Be ready in dealers will give a discount of 90 per- and so on. Then he may feel that it 20 weeks. Free Employment Service. Hundreds needed. cent—for a stamp listed at one cent will be better to try to collect every rBFir THls REMARKABLE you pay only one-tenth of a cent. stamp of one country, and decide on l*CCi SALARY RAISING BOOK The original idea of the boy when Luxemburg. Send postcard today for free copy of remarkable book, he began collecting stamps was to get He almost immediately discovers that Modern Salesmanship." No obligation. See for yourself "every kind of stamp there was". This when he has the ten centime lilac how easy it is to jump to big earnings as hundreds of others have done! Address National Salesmen's Training Ass'n. is the "general collection", and it in- stamp of 1865-1872 he has not every- Dept. M-75 N. S. T. A. Bldg., Chicago. cludes all countries, but to complete thing he can have in that stamp. Some such a collection is such a manifest of the ten centime stamps printed in impossibility, both on account of the those years were lilac in color, but some fSSGENTS time required and the money involved, were rose lilac and some were gray that most of the advanced collectors lilac, and he has to have those. Then have become specialists. This means he discovers that the Luxemburg post for good reliable salesmen to take orders for Brand that they collect only the stamps of office printed over the face of some of New line of Christmas Cards. Finest line you ever one country, one group of countries, or these stamps the letters OFFICIEL, saw. Every design patented. Nothing else like of one period. There are even col- meaning they were to be used on public it. Cost no more than ordinary kind. MEN OR WOMEN lectors who specialize in one stamp business only, and he has to have that Make big money devoting Bpare time. Here's something only, as, for example, the United States stamp. But he also discovers that, by brand new. A Big Seller. A Big money maker. No com- three cent red stamp of 1851-1856, col- error, some of these overprints were petition No selling experience necessary. Territory given. Write today for sample outfit. Get started at once. lecting all the minute variations, dif- printed twice on one stamp, or three SUNSHINE STUDIOS, Dept. 2104, Dayton, Ohio ferent postmarks, etc., of that one times on another. He has to have these stamp. You may not believe it, but double surcharges and triple surcharges such a collection is intensely inter- before he can be truly happy. Or, it AAA DAY esting. may happen, one of the plates from >&

SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 PAGE 17 the dealers and does not find a copy, so he watches the auction catalogues and when he sees the stamp listed he bids for it. Usually the other fellow gets it, and he begins his hunt again. He writes to dealers in Luxemburg, in London, in Paris. He is a lucky fellow Be sure when he finally nails that stamp. Practically every stamp ever issued to see can be made a specialty in this way. A man can collect varieties of the Bos- cawen, New Hampshire, five cent stamp that it's at $12,000 a throw, and when he has one his collection is complete, because only one is known to exist, or he can collect varieties of the ninety cent stamp of 1860 at $800 per stamp and spend enough money to build a court house, or he can specialize in the three LOOK cent stamp of 1917, which is worth al- most nothing. Probably an earnest collector could gather ten thousand va- for rieties of this last stamp—or more and be able to point out how each stamp differed from every one of its this fellows. There are innumerable shades of violet in this particular stamp, from LABEL a vivid violet that is almost purple to a wishy-washy violet that isn't much of anything. Millions of this stamp were issued by the Government. One Qet the underwear you ask for variety not perforated on the sides is worth $25 today and will go higher. Remember that no underwear The rare stamps are so valuable that without the red woven "B.V. D." they are not handled with the naked is "B.V.D." fingers, but with tiny tongs made for MADE FOR THE label the purpose. reason why so many A Assure yourself of that Famous Fit, of are rare now is the older stamps Comfort that the early collectors pasted them Long Wear, and Cool fiat to the album page with glue. The which have kept "B.V.D." the stamps had little value. When a new world's most popular men's tried to album was needed the owner BEST RETA I L TRADE underwear. peel the stamps from the old page and ( TradeMarkReg. U.S.Pat. Off.andForeign Countries) ten out of every hundred were torn "B.V.D." and then thrown away. When a mod- "B.V.D." The B.V. D. Company, Inc. Union Suit ern collector thinks of the stamp trea- (Patented Features) Shirts and Drawers New York sures that were destroyed in this way Men's $1.50 the suit 85c the garment his hair stands on end and he has Sole Matters of "B.V. V." Undenvear Youths' 85c nightmares for a week. Now stamps are affixed to album pages with thin 19:5 to I like * B.V.D.* Best © transparent peelable hinges. 860 "Next Myself The B.V.D, Co.Jn

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Back to the Army Again (Continued from page 9)

can outjump any horse in the brigade," rumors were that the second couldn't said E Battery's first soldier. make it. I suppose the second heard YANKEE For the hike to Timonium I was as- the same about us. But the old esprit signed to the third section under Ser- de corps was there. Every man geant Jimmie Mullen, of twenty years' watched his team, pampered them, service. Mullen gave me the swing talked to them at every stop and fed team on the piece. That hike was as them grass, and wet their heads and tough as anything ever done by the nostrils from his canteen. And don't Sixth in France. The thermometer you think that we could have stood a registered a hundred by noon, with little pampering ourselves. I can't re- miles to go. But on we went. member in all my experience going Hikes always make soldiers growl. through a more distressing day. A cold Everyone, especially those who had bottle of anything would have been the new improved hiked before, expected that his neigh- real bona fide nectar of the gods to me. THE boring driver would be as sore as a At last some of the men who had model with many- boil by nine in the morning. We all been at Timonium with the regiment predicted it. We moved out on the the year before and so knew the coun- new features of grace and time set—believe it or not. No one, at try gave out the glad tidings that we six that morning, realized how hot it were approaching Towson, with only beauty. It has the de- was to be before we'd see Timonium. three miles to go. We came in, and As we passed by regimental head- B Battery men gloried that night in pendability that everyone quarters at Hoyle the regimental com- the fact that every horse was there. mander and General Collins both The heat had been record-breaking, expects in an IngersolL looked us over. Then through the res- but we should worry. The honor of the ervation and out into the sandy road battery and of the regiment was saved. that led away toward the State high- We had fought through and won. $1-75 way and Baltimore. Little talk, and When the horses saw the cook tents, no singing. Singing around quarters, already up, and fires going, a last fee- yes. But not on the hike. That famous ble gallop was still in them as tired artillery song, "Keep Those Caissons soldiers held tight to sweaty reins. a-Rolling Along", is played and sung The Battle of Timonium was a show every day in quarters, but I never affair and pretty realistic—inter-regi- heard even a whistle on the hike. mental contests, such as shelter-half Every little while Major Ernest J. pitching and section races, with a sham Dawley, the battalion commander, battle for two nights. I was out of would ride along, or stand by the road, that. The second day at Timonium I to see things going, the K. P. I glad, in Just give men a wonderful new how were for was put on was a way, kind of safety razor and ma!:e unheard heat was beginning to become oppres- for after that I would be able to say I of profits in your full or spare time. Our startling new sales plan brings you sive. Trotting the horses had ceased had performed every duty on the books. prontsoffrom$2 to$500onone$4.50sale! at about seven, after only one short B Battery's kitchen at Timonium You makeone simple little sale and that sale goes on working for you, paying spell on the reservation. At every stop was probably the highest ranking you profits while you sleep! we eased cinches and fed the horses kitchen in the history of the Sixth $66 IN ONE DAY One man sold 33 In one day-hls first profit $6fi. handfuls of grass. Blaze, my mount, Field. The battery was short-handed with extra profits ot from $1 to |600 on each Bale! One hoy sold nine in three hours. We was easy riding, and the heat at first and had no cooks. Just before we left can't explain our plan here—ofhirs might copy It. But joat write for full details in contidei No experience failed to bother him or his partner. a cook had been shanghaied from F needed. Send postal today. RHODES MANUFACTURING CO. Before noon it was found that the Battery, and the mess sergeant and Dept. 410-M Penbieton & Cozens Ave. St. Louis, Mo. road that the regiment had intended to the detail sergeant were also taking take had been torn up only the day be- shifts. The detail sergeant, Lionel fore for repairs, and that a longer and Darrah, a graduate of both the cooks a Day Easy harder route, with many sharp hills, and bakers' school and the mess ser- would have to be followed. By noon geants' course, volunteered to act both SELLING SHIRTS everyone was feeling the heat, men as as cook and mess sergeant. Two first- FREE SAMPLES well as horses. Water and a camp class privates, specialists sixth class, a Yes, hundreds make more than that! But site were found, and after wading the one of them myself, were K. P.'s, with no wonder Fash ion Wear Shirts in the latest styles and fabrics take prospects "off their horses in a brook, watering and feed- a third buck on the same detail. And, feet" when you tell them the amazingly low ing them, the sandwiches in the saddle boy, prices for these fashionable, smart shirts. we fed those troops. ^"^ EVERYBODY BUYS §A OR bags and lemonade were most welcome. K. P. these days, in the field, is just THREE FINE SHIRTS FOR "Well, Blood, something like them what it was in the old clays. There Every man is a prospect. And they usu ally take advantage war days, eh?" yelled Willem as I was are potatoes to peel, as well as onions. of our big special offer on 3 shirts —with a good profit margin for you. READ struggling to place the nose bag over Goldfish and canned willie, as I have Don't waste time in correspondence. **I walked into a lit- Just tle factory in Ches- Blaze, who was fighting to get at his been happy to point out, are not issue send postal for Free Samples terfield and a half complete line. Make ©10 to $20 the day hour later walked oats. "Many a hike I had then that any longer, but there is still sow belly it arrives visiting offices, factories, out wi»h orders that garages, etc. Write quick. Address Rave me a profit of was like this. We'll soon find out who and rice and corned-beef hash. Darrah $40 and I had the FASHION WEAR SHIRT CO. cash in my pocket." the soldiers are in this outfit," he made corned-beef hash on two occasions 1 200-20 Jackson Street J. E. Burns. Dept. L-31 Cincinnati, Ohio added, as he ducked under the shade that would melt in your mouth, and, as of a gun-carriage. Two hours lay-off, somewdiat of an epicure, I can truth- OPEN A and then harness and hitch. No one fully say that I had more than seconds, wanted to move, the men, I think, much, being a K. P. and close to the pan. less than the horses. There were eggs for breakfast every That afternoon my team was morning or so, as we lay about Tu- Make $300 to $500 a Month switched over to swing of the store monium waiting for men and horses to Open and own a profitable chain store right in wagon—the heaviest unit of field artil- shape themselves for the two-day hike your home town under a tried and proved plan. lery on the move. More than 6,000 into Meade. It wasn't bad, and the Beone of large chain now distributing standard radio and auto supplies. Profitable all-year pounds, and placed at the head of the boilers, pans and kitchen utensils business— no dull months. battery to set pace. Corporal Algers seemed to clean themselves. Large Corporation furnishes everything drove lead with Private Hare on wheel. The Sixth's band was with us, of including complete advertising equipment. No I'm never going to forget that after- course, and every morning they gave experiencenecessarybecauseeasily learned;chain store noon. Many horses fell out. times systems furnished free. You can doalarge business with At a concert in front of the colonel's head- email capital — $750 to $1500 and easily make $300.00 to we passed batteries stalled and horses quarters. As the mess tents spread $500.00 or more profit per month. If you are ambi- tious to get into business for yourself, write at once. being led from the traces and fresher along nearby in a row, we all kidded UNITED AUTORAD SYSTEM ones being put in their places. the boiler makers that they were or- 72 East 18th Street, Chicago, Illinois Rumors flew up and down the line. dered out for the benefit of the K. P.'s We were in the first battalion, so the on duty. The latest jazz sure makes — SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 PAGE 19

scrubbing a 56 boiler seem not such a Where a private received $30 a "BestThingI Ever hard task after all. month during the war he now gets $21. Saw," The buck on duty in the kitchen was But he has sheets, pillow cases, and named Blunt. Several times his name mosquito bars, and plenty of ratings Says TOMMY GALSON and mine had become confused at Fort not known in those days. His laundry (Leading Contender for the Hoyle, he answering calls for me and is also done in the Army laundry and Bantamweight Title) I hitting the deck when his name was he has little use for the old ki-yi brush called. I had a chance to talk with save for leggins, and he can even send him while we peeled potatoes. He was these to the laundry. only a kid about nineteen. Until he At Timonium two of the battery joined the Army he had never been to were discharged, as their enlistments school a day. He could write his name were up. They were Privates Seal, of and that was about all, he told me. my section, and Hare, of the third. He was born in Ohio. His family Seal, the battery barber, went away had moved to a Canadian homestead, with a good-sized stake, as did Hare. back in the woods, and raised silver Both had been putting money away foxes, he said. Until about a year ago with the quartermaster, and Seal had he had never set foot in the United made good money as a barber, a trade States—he couldn't walk when he had he learned mostly in the Army. He left. Then he came back to Ohio to cut my hair and did a good job. visit relatives. He saw American sol- "Are you going to re-enlist?" I asked diers for the first time and decided to him. enlist. "I don't know," he answered. "I "I've been going to school up at think I'll try civil life and perhaps go "I never undertook anything in my life with Hoyle," Blunt told me. "Now I can to a barber school and learn more such an ambition as I did the Jimmy DeForest Boxinj? Course by Mail, owing to the fact read and write a little. I can read my about barbering. Then if things aren't that it is the best thing that I have ever had the mother's letters and write letters to so good I'll buy a set of good barber good fortune to become familiar with. Heart- her. I go to school every afternoon tools and an electric clipper iest and sincere congratulations for this mighty and come good work." while we are at the Fort. I think I'll back into the Army. I can make (Signed) TOMMY GALSON. get along all right. I can read news- money here. I know that." papers a little now. Some of the fel- Both Seal and Hare came from the lows help me, too." same town in Virginia, having enlisted Blunt's case is like that of many na- together. That they had money is JIMMY DeFOREST tive-born Americans, I have found. Un- well shown by the fact that they went like the first and second generation directly home instead of back to the World's Greatest Trainer Europeans in the outfit, he had no finance officer at Hoyle, who had their schooling, while the Russians, the Ger- final pay, preferring to go home first Will mans, the Slovaks and others had a and later to Richmond to collect their Make YOU a common-school education at least, and last pay check. some had attended high school. But Many Legionnaires have wondered Finished Boxer Blunt is learning, and when his enlist- what Army life was like today. I have My course starts at the very beginning and teaches you all the ment is up he will be able to take his tried to give a picture of it. At the fundamentals of boxing. It embodies all I know based on my 35 years' civil place somewhere in life, or he can end of the thirty days that I put in experience, during which time I have trained stay in the Army and make something with the Sixth Field Artillery, with no more champions and real contenders than any other man living or dead. All the tricks I of himself there. That's one thing one in the outfit knowing who I was, taught Dempsey, Firpo, Joe Gans, Pal Moore about this man's Army today. There taking things as they came, guard, and a host of others are embodied in this one and only complete course in Boxing. are all kinds of specialized schools, and fatigue and K. P., I had in five Every days blow, every defense, every trick, and new an- they'll make you anything you want to become a private first class, specialist gle in ring strategy is explained and illustrated, be, if you'll only give them half a sixth class, which meant a base pay of so that anyone can readily understand and mas- ter them in a remarkably short time. chance. $33 a month. If I feel rather proud Many of the soldiers today put away about that please excuse me. I ate the money with the quartermaster. Two food that was served the outfit. Never 20 Weeks All You Need men in the battery owned small tour- once did I patronize the regimental res- In 20 short weeks you can be a finished boxer ready taurant. to take your place along with the best ing cars and the supply sergeant had And eight pounds registered of the lads who are real drawing cards for an expensive motorcycle. The money on the scales that were not there be- bouts at the big fights. In a short time there- after, by applying the principles I teach quartermaster they knew was fore when my little re-enlistment you, with the was your name will rank as one of the clever boxers money in the bank. Others had sav- over, not to mention a healthy tan and of your locality. Boys I am training, who a ings accounts, especially the old-timers muscles that did their stuff as they year ago were unheard of, are now fast ap- proaching the championship titles and several and non-coms. That soldiers are sit- hadn't since 1918. of them are actually contenders. ting on top of the world just now is I have come to a couple of conclu- best shown by the pay schedule of the sions about this United States Army, You May Be One of the Lucky enlisted men of the Army as it is to- Model 1925, as seen from the eyes of day: the enlisted man. The men that come Boys I Will Train FREE

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That is Michael Gallo's income from his own business on Fifth to him in the morning. No more bru- the company fund. I could imagine the Avenue. New York. Hundreds of others ninkin? big money in Professional 1'hotogrraphy. P'-sitions pay up to 82V> a week: or tality. lady barbers with razors poised sug- start your own business. No experience nect^snry. Learn at home. To make the red history of a gory gestively over the Adam's apples of Earn while learning. All branches: Motion Picture, Portrait and Commercial Photography. evening short, out of the remaining their civilian patrons asking softly if

" ,ir Cholc*. Motion Picture nine bouts eight were knockouts in they wouldn't like to buy a ticket to i~* A 1M17D A 17 DCC Y LA1V1LKA rKLL yia the first round. if I live to cele- the dance. *^*JVAnastiirmat lent. Z2FV2ZWrite today And lor Iree book. Note: If you prefer to coma to our New York or brate the centennial of the Armistice I Yes, sir, there was lots of fun out Chicago studios for instruction, write for Catalog R-'.t" to nearest address: HI West 3«th St., K. Y., or 630 S. Wahash Ave., Chi.l should never ask a more glorious enter- in Omaha. Time effaces the unpleas- NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY tainment than that battle royal. Ex- ant memories, and I now forgive Mess Dept. 97, 143 West 36th Street, New York, N.Y. cept for such interruptions as were oc- Sergeant Zuber for his animosity casioned when one of the participants toward me. I don't recall the origin A STEADY JOB would be catapulted from the ring, of it because Zuber never horned into Men are glad to buy Style-Center landing among the spectators, it went our classes of comparative numerology tailored -to-measure suits and over- forward finely. I kept my eye on the in pasteboard and ivory, but just so coats at $23.50. Our salesmen make post adjutant and though he was cry- sure as I won a place among the first $75—$1 50 everyweek. Write for agency. ing "Brutal! Brutal!" he was choking ten men in the mess line he would The Style-Center Tailoring Co., 501 so with laughter that he darn near order an about face and maneuver the Anderson Bldg., Cincinnati, O. strangled. rear of the column first into the mess For two days thereafter I held my hall. My presence near the head of STUDY AT HOME breath evei-y time I passed an orderly the line was a positive guarantee that irae a lawyer. Legally trained win the highest positions and on the post, thinking he might be bear- the first should be last. biggest success in business and pub- ' is i. Be independent. Greater op- ing orders for my arrest and court- Omaha a fertile soil for romance. ' portunitiea now than ever Defore. Big f corporations are headed by men with martial. But nothing untoward oc- I lack vital statistics on marriages and r legal training. Earn $5,000 to $10,000 Annually curred. After the Armistice my former births, but they were many, both among J We guide yon step by step. You can train at home dur- squadron commander was ordered back officers and enlisted men. I believe the ing spare time. Degree of LL. B. conferred. LaSalle vJ students practicing taw in ever; state. We furnish all to revived the majority proved successful. But text material, including fourteen-volume. Law Library. Low cost, easy Fort Omaha and he have terms. Get oar valuable 108-page "Law Guide' ' and "Evidence" last still sta- I prospective conventioners books free. Send for them NOW. bouts. At reports he was must warn LaSalle Extension University,, Dept. 9361-L Chicago tioned there, and I'm sure that if the who might be smitten by a fair young The World*s Largest Business Training Institution Omaha Legion reception committee Omahan to go slowly. It is entirely asked him he would be glad to arrange possible that the lady might be already some bouts for visitors to the conven- encumbered with a husband. I speak Post Adjutants tion. I can assure you that he is a from experience—happily not as a better match-maker than myself. principal. Send for FREE catalogs show- We coined money on the fight and In my company was a young boy of ing the full line of the company did not lose out on a fare- nineteen from an upstate New York well dance either. It happened like city, only son and sole support of a POST PEP POSTALS this widowed mother. Until he joined the In one of the lesser hotels downtown Army he had never been away from And Sixty-five Humorous Cuts the tonsorial parlor is staffed by a home. In Omaha he had met and be- for Meetings, Dances. Enter- corps of lady barbers. I emphasize that come smitten with a titian-haired tainments. Post Magazines, etc. it was not simply a beauty garage but young woman. I first learned of the a regular barber shop. Although I romance when the boy persistently "FOR GOD AND never enjoyed a shave or haircut at the would go A.W.O.L. from the post. hands of the fair razor wielders they There was nothing to do but confine COUNTRY" must have been good. At least the him to the guardhouse, hoping thereby A knockout argument for pros- whole company patronized the shop to cool the fires of his passion. It regularly, and one six-foot-four Texan didn't work. His sweetheart invaded pective members. was so honored as a visitor that the the post. The colonel heard the girl's POST PRINTING SERVICE slightest patronage entitled him to kiss tale and referred her to me. She Dept. S the head barber and all the other lady stormed magnificently and wept copi- The American Legion Weekly tonsorial artists right down the line. ously all over the muster rolls on my Indianapolis, Indiana I hasten to add that his was not a gen- desk. But like a stern old Puritan I eral privilege. Many soldiers nursed was adamant. She went back to the —

SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 — PAGE 21 colonel. Later we talked it over, but in admiration. Others seeking the without releasing the love-sick swain favor of her smiles were quick to ap- for three or four days. preciate the advantage. A chorus of The morning following his release he verbal valor went up. "That's what I came into the orderly room to tell me say." "You've got to make one jump that he intended to marry the girl. to get confidence in the old 'chutes." There are some points not covered in Ad infinitum, ad nauseam. Army regulations. I took it upon my- It was safe enough to talk like that self to forbid the marriage, intimat- because the War Department had pro- ing general courtmartial, Leavenworth, hibited parachute jumping except in an all manner of dire things. Under such emergency. At that time it was re- Keep fit i a picture of impending catastrophe the garded as an unnecessary hazard. A boy assured me he would pass up his factor in that decision had been an ex- Beemarfs choice. I was well pleased with my- periment conducted with a new type self—until the next morning. of parachute. For the test the new helps the Again the youth appeared in the or- 'chute had been loaded with sandbags. digestion derly room to announce that he had It tore to shreds on the way down and married the young lady. My threats the sandbags were buried about six feet and nerves dwindled into compelling him to sign in the earth. allotment blanks for his wife as well However, echoes of the vain boasts -its daily The com- as for his mother. Then to prove I penetrated to headquarters. use is knew when I was licked I granted my manding officer interpreted them as blessing in the form of permission for genuine. He wrote to Washington, re- him to live off the post for a week. lating the desires of the cadet detach- Three days later he was waiting to ment and urging that restrictions be \t semsibk see me when I arrived to sign the modified to permit parachute jumping X morning report. on a volunteer basis. In a remarkably "You were right, Lieutenant. I short time the plan was approved. habit" shouldn't have married that girl," he Simultaneously modesty became a pre- said. vailing trait. Almost everyone, includ- "Sick of marriage so quick?" I asked. ing myself, was willing that someone "It isn't that," he replied. "She's al- else should have the honor of making ready got a husband. He doesn't like the first practise jump. me." Eventually a volunteer appeared It was true. Under a slightly altered an emergency captain who had been a name, the records at the county clerk's professional aeronaut in civil life. He office showed, the girl was already descended safely. Then former Presi- married. Investigation disclosed that dent Taft came to visit us. Perhaps it was her apparent intention to marry with an eye to posthumous newspaper as many soldiers as possible under as- glory, the youngest youth in our de- sumed names and addresses and re- tachment volunteered for the Roman TepsinGutn ceive monthly allotments from each. holiday. He, too, got away with it. The district attorney took up the mat- Precedent had been established. One ter and the get-rich-quick scheme was by one we gritted our respective teeth, AMERICAN CHICLE CO. effectively halted. so much as one can grit incisors that Fort Omaha is now an infantry post chatter nervously, and volunteered. as well as Fort Crook, and unless spe- The memory of those sad, lugubrious ^$$1 Experienced men can S***1 easily earn $100.00 cial arrangements are made it is un- gazes as the gas bag left the ground a week at start. Our union made Buita likely that conventioners will find en- bearing an unhappy captive aloft! Leo ijH^r an<* overcoats at $23.50 (none higher) >j4DE are America's biggest values. We show tertainment in the form of free balloon Stevens, the well-known professional vv*^ latest nifty colors and styles for men arid flights and parachute jumps, which aeronaut, supervised each departure. itAi ypunK men. Only pure wool fabrics. • The overcoats are satin lined. Protected were a wartime attraction at Fort He was regarded as a merciless mur- fidle-V^ gm4.$ territory. Canuse sparetimemen in some 9** »C0*" towns. Write today for application blank Omaha. derer as he proceeded unemotionally and free sampleof the world's greatest clothing Adjoining Fort Crook is an aviation with preparations. I think more de- V values. Address C. B. HARVEY, Box 00, CHICAGO field dedicated to the memory of Jai-vis vout prayers were breathed in that old Orfutt, an Omaha boy who lost his life wicker basket than in a Billy Sunday in the aviation service overseas. He revival meeting, for I imagine every- went to England on the Adriatic with body felt as I did. our squadron, and a finer chap never Sailing skywards I recalled a dozen lived. This field is now the headquar- things I should go right back to at- ters of the central division of the air tend to. Things that really shouldn't mail, and it is a spectacle worth going wait. Clothing requisitions, ration re- out to see when the night-flying mail turns. Then that sick headache, and a planes arrive and depart at midnight sudden malady for which Doan's pills and at two o'clock in the morning. are recommended. Yet I knew, and so

• Whether a visit to the field is on the did everybody else, I imagine, that the official entertainment program or not, only way to get back to earth and live don't miss it. in peace and amity among men was to If an Easterner may offer a single descend by parachute. suggestion to the committee on ar- The crisis was the leap over the rangements I would urge that a Red side. To hesitate was to be lost. Yet Cross canteen be established with the the darned old jump wasn't such bad same charming girls who ministered to sport at that, once you started falling. the needs of the soldiers at Fort Oma- As a matter of fact it was fun. Be Railway Mail Clerks ha. The colonel himself was an early vol- I'll never forget the moments of tor- unteer. Confidence came as the jumps You Get Preference tured nerves and unhappiness caused ran into the hundreds without an ac- Every Ex-Service Man Should Mail by an idle boast in that Red Cross can- cident. Sometimes three volunteers Coupon Immediately Franklin [intitule. teen in the fall basket. ' of 1917. would jump from the same A Travel—See Your Country ^ Dept. H 189 ' To impress a charming volunteer good gallery could always be depended Steady Work No Layoffs Rochester, N. Y. waitress with his bravery a red-headed on from the city. Paid Vacation! Sirs : Send me. without charge. (1) Sample Railway Mall questions and buddy of mine observed loudly, "I want Almost every student from the later Common "CC Clerk Examination sam coaching: (2) List to make a parachute jump. Do they cadet school made a parachute jump. education {r6e ple sufficient ^Ki of other Government j obs obtainable; t8> Send think I'm going to France to be shot In our detachment I only recall one Tell me how 1 can get a poeition; (4) ~* Information regarding preference to ex-eer¥lce down without a chance to make at who failed to volunteer. Yes, sir, it s men. least one practise jump?" was that doggoned redhead who started X Same The eyes of the beautiful girl flashed all the trouble. afldrcu — — ; ! ; ! ;

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