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had just been operated self). Finally the Irishman cut in, saying, MIKEon and was placed in a ward "All those things for yourself. Wouldn't between two other boys from you buy anything for your wife? Tony, the Emerald Isle. After he where is your chivalry?"

ha< 1 come out of the ether and was still sort Tony: "Oh, I trade HIM in on a Ford." of woozy, the Irishman on one side yelled over to the third one saying, "Pat, how ON THE platform at a small town was your operation?" Pat replied, "Sure, railroad station someone had left a they forgot to remove the sponge from me goat crated up for shipment to a nearby and they had to re-operate and takeout the town and it was awaiting arrival of the sponge. And how isyoursjim?" To which town's only train. The Negro helper Jimreplied/'Theyforgotthescissorsinme. around the station happened to see the They had to re-operate and take out the goat reach out and consume the shipping scissors." About that time Mike's doctor tag which was attached to the crate. Calling the station agent, the Negro made this report: "Come 'ere, boss, this yere goat done gone and et up whar he gwine."

RECENTLY this sign ap- - peared on the rear of an old Ford on the streets of Thomasville, Ga.: "Drive on, big boy, and speed up —Hell ain't full yet." ARECRUIT, waiting, with only an army blanket around his shoulders, in his Company Street, for the Doc- tor from the Regimental In- firmary to conduct the usual medical inspection, exclaimed disgustedly: "I enlisted in this damn army as a private, and damn little privacy do I get."

WHITE captain, placed a;in command of a fresh company of Negro draftees in a Southern camp at the beginning of the World War "Why do they always run was given the assignment of Regimental out of gas at night?" Guard duty for a 24-hour period, the stuck his head in the door and hollered, at the main entrance to the camp. He Guard composed of his Negro draftees. "Anybody see my hat?"and Mike fainted. halted and challenged them at the proper He carefully instructed them before- time in the accepted manner, and for a hand in the Manual of Interior Guard HARD-BOILED shavetail in the A reply one of the party advised him in no Duty, particularly how to advance per- Army was reprimanding his com- uncertain terms, "We are the Berry's." sons during the hours of challenging. mand for not having passed inspection. The soldier, not to be outdone, countered, Immediately after midnight, the first "And listen, you birds, there will be no "I don't care if you're the Bee's Knees, sentry halted him and inquired in a mild liberty for the next week for the showing you're not allowed in camp at this time voice: "Who is dat." The Officer of the you made today. Get that no liberty." — of the night." Day informed him: "Officer of the Day." A little Hebrew in the rear rank yelled The Negro was silent for a while and the ' aloud, ' Give me liberty or give me death. AX IRISHMAN and an Italian digging Officer of the Day, thinking that he would To which the Lieutenant hollered, "Who Ix. a ditch were discussing what they say something to refresh the sentry's said that? Who said that ? I want to the would do if they had a million dollars. mind as to how to properly advance know who was the punk that said that." The Italian said, "If I had da million O. D., said: "Well, what are you going to The Hebrew yelled, "Patrick Henry, adol ida by da swela suit da swela da hat, say?" The sentry replied, "Boss you all Lieutenant, Patrick Henry." daswelada shirt" (and soon all for him- is out a little bit late, ain't you?" SCENE: Art Museum—Two middle- aged ladies standing before statue of '" saw Venus de Milo. One says to other doubt- fully, "Er—I suppose, Edythe, this =2.-4 statue is supposed to represent Disarma- „ ment." A SCOTCHMAN vacationing in the South (when it suddenly became extremely warm) sent the following Scotch telegram to his wife to send his summer underwear: Mrs. Sandy McTavish 288 5th Ave. New York, N. Y. S.O.S.B.V.D's.P.D.Q. Sandy The American Legion Magazine will "Whatever you do, pay one dollar for each joke accepted don't fly under them!" THIS is a story about a rookie on for Bursts and Duds. Address Bursts guard duty one night at an infantry and Duds, The American Legion Maga- zine, 1 5 48th Street, New York post under command of a Colonel Berry. West City. Don't send postage, as no jokes He suddenly observed a group of three will be returned. women approaching his post, which was

AUGUST, 1940 clor Qocl and Go unity, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes : To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War, to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity

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COVER DESIGN I WAS THERE! 12 * COME AND STAY AWHILE 22 By Charles R. Chickerinc- By Frederick I'almer By H. Lyman Armes BURSTS AND DUDS K.O. BY SAILOR GUNS 14 By Bill Cunningham LO. VANISHING ATHLETE 24 KEEP EDITORIAL: TO AMERICA Drawing by William Heaslip By Jim Hurley i kih: HERE ARE YOUR PILOTS. TEAMWORK DID IT SECURITY FOR TOMORROW 26 By Fairfax Downey UNCLE SAM 16 By Samuel Taylor Moore By Boyd B. Stutler LIES OF DUTY By Carey Worth Stevenson FOOLING THE ENEMY 18 SOUND RECALL TO YESTERDAY 50 Illustrations by Jay Merrill By Frederic Sondern. Jr. By John J. Noll IT S NOT TOO LATE 10 EVEN AS YOU AND I 20 By Kent Hunter By Frank A. Mathews, Jr. TOMAHAWK. LEGION PARADISE 54 Cartoons by John Cassel Illustrations by George Shanks By Watson B. Miller

+ +++ - TTTTTTTTTTTT if The war continues to bulk large their way around in the air and other fellows, and mentions among in the news of the world, but so who will have an important part others some Americans named utterly unpredictable has it been in the training of the youngsters George Washington and Frederick that only a hardy optimist would soon to form the bulk of the Army Funston, both of whom you may refer to it in other than general and Navy air force personnel author- have heard of. Bill Cunningham's terms. The way in which it has ized by the ten-billion-dollar defense story K.O. by Navy Guns details the raised hob with monthlies, weeklies, program. telling part played by the U. S. dailies and the radio is a caution. In Navy's 14-inch guns in the fighting * It's Not Too Late by Kent Hunter Teamiuork Did It Fairfax Downey that ended on November 11, 1918. deals with the Fifth Column and brings to you in the words of the We predict that it will stimulate con- Trojan Horse elements in this coun- German officers who were responsi- versation in many a Legion club- try which national, state and muni- ble for it, the graphic story of how house. This time the Navy will be cipal officials are preparing to and why the steamroller Hitler's doing the pitching. squelch once they try any tunny men set in motion flattened out stuff. Fooling the Enemy ranges in everything in its path, in Poland, * The Boston Convention doesn't its interest from Norway, Holland, Belgium and ancient Chinese get under way until September 23d days to the present war. Mr. Sondern France. Frederick Palmer, easily the (it runs through the 26th) but New shows that in every war the success- most famous of war correspondents, England is ready to show you its ful side has pulled fast ones on the in / Was There! recounts for you merits as the nation's summer play- some of his experiences with the ground, one gathers from H. Lyman British and French armies and with Armes's Come and Stay Awhile. the British navy. Here Are Your Important Wisconsin's Legionnaires think that Pilots, Uncle Sam, by Samuel Taylor they too have something to interest A form for your convenience if you wish to to the civil- the vacationer, as you will discover Moore, introduces you have the magazine sent lo another address Legion Paradise. ian pilots of America, who know will he found on patje 35. in Tomahawk,

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The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine EDITORIAL* TO KEEP AMERICA FREE

AT LONG last the scales have fallen away dered back to Washington by the President /\ from the eyes of the American people and publicly reprimanded. / % in the supremely important matter There is no desire here to attempt to place -A- of national defense. Events in Eu- the blame on the shoulders of any individual rope and in Asia have highlighted in a grimly or organization. The American people them- definite manner the situation the United States selves were responsible for the sorry mess. We will have to face in the next few years. We had the greatest Navy in the world after the have embarked on a ten-billion-dollar pro- Armistice, but soft-headed sentimentality cut gram which, if time is on our side, will pro- it down to equality with the British navy and vide us with the essential defenses against any a basis of our five tons to Japan's three. How power or combination of powers. If the ten- we wish we had that tonnage now! Some years billion dollars grows to twenty or thirty bil- ago Japan denounced that naval 5-5-3 treaty lion before we reach our goal it will still be and embarked on a building program that has eminently worth while, for if we cannot guar- brought her up to equality with us. Late in antee to our people, their children and their June our national capital was startled to learn children's children the type of government that by a weighted index the principal naval under which we have grown to greatness in fleets of the world rated as follows: United the short span of one hundred and fifty years, States 100, Great Britain 100, Japan 100, then indeed life will not be worth living. France 50, Italy 50, Germany 33. The impli- We have accepted the challenge of dicta- cation in those figures is certainly that the torship in adopting this fast-moving, long- two-ocean Navy which we are about to build range defense program. We dare be free! and which the Legion has been seeking, lo For twenty-one years, in season and out of these many years, is a vital necessity. Devel- season, The American Legion has preached opments of the past few months have shown the necessity of a realistic approach to the how deficient is our military establishment in problem of keeping our shores inviolate, and the matter of guns, ammunition, mechanized of maintaining in all its vigor the historic equipment and airplanes, a condition known Monroe Doctrine which guarantees to the right along to every military attache in Wash- Western Hemisphere the right to go its way ington. free of Old World power politics. Yet during the lush twenties, when this country enjoyed a BUT now at last we are awake. For better greater degree of prosperity than it had ever or for worse the new defense program must known before, public opinion flatly refused to go forward speedily and efficiently to its com- provide the Army and Navy with more than pletion. Neither "good news" nor "bad news" the bare necessities that would keep them from outside our borders shall stay our hand. from disintegrating altogether. For twelve The Legion is determined to keep before years a regiment of Regulars was quartered the American people constantly the dangers in tents because Congress refused to appro- of apathy and complacency, of indulging in priate the necessary funds to build barracks. mere hope that we shall be safe from attack. When the Chief of Staff of the United States Whatever the cost of maintaining our free- Army in a public address on the Pacific Coast dom may be, we shall pay it gladly. God help- dared to speak of this condition he was or- ing us, we can do no other. * * *

AMERICA: 1940

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.—John Milton, Areopagitica. AUGUST, ig 4 o 3 TEAMWORK

The Blitzkrieg, in the Words of the German Officers Who Put It Across

THUNDER rumbles, lightning flashes and strikes. Incredibly swiftly it is over. soon our batteries spoil the accuracy So, compared to the campaigns of the First World War, was the Herman Blitzkrieg, of the foe's fire. Prepare to attack. It is a rumbling, flashing and striking down Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France. tough nut we have to crack. Concrete

How did it work? What made it click' emplacements, machine-gun nests with Air superiority and improved weapons. The fast, hard-hitting motorized columns and the flanking fire, tank traps and barriers of stealthy, treacherous Fifth Columns. First-rate tactics, long-planned strategy, and fine stajf iron rails set in concrete, and barbed work. All these add up into the answer, given by the Nazis themselves. A stream of pub- wire entanglements on a dominating lishul German military documents has been flowing into our War Department where they crest which must be approached through have been translated. a depression 800 meters wide. And we On these documents arc based the following battle-pieces. have only an infantry battalion with two ritle companies to deliver the assault! But we are to have help. Thunder overhead, and here comes a whole squadron of our bombers. They swoop, motors roaring, sirens shrieking. Hits or not, that racket must be ruinous to the nerves of the lads over there. Tons of high explosive are dropped, black geysers spurt high into the air. Only one bomber is downed by anti-aircraft. Yet still our attack is withheld. We are to risk no more lives than we must. Our

planes and artillery give it to 'em again. And now we are off. Our heavy-machine-gun platoon, along with light infantry cannon, opens on their machine-gun nests. Our three anti- tank guns spit shells at their observation

(By FAIRFAX A German tank crossing the Ourcq River. Below, a troop carrier with HAVE been in Corps caterpillar tread rumbles through DOWNEY Reserve, but tonight we WE a captured town are marching up to relieve troops in the line. A motorcycle courier roars back from up ahead with orders for our battalion commander. We move faster through the night, and the word for silence passes down the ranks. The gloom of forest shrouds us.

As we emerge from it, we discern dark heaps on the ground—enemy dead, the first our young soldiers have seen. The lads eye the bodies nervously and glance

toward us World War veterans. To us it is an old story. Our calm bearing steadies the youngsters. Now we are close up. Before dawn we are dug in, crouched in foxholes and none too soon, for with dawn a barrage cracks down on us. Our artillery blazes back, but those gunners on the ridge are really good. Their counterbattery makes our guns limber up and change position frequently. We lie there and take the shelling, and it

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turrets. Under this fire we advance by rushes. Flanking machine-gun tire catches us, but we burrow into the soft earth of a potato patch.

Crash-bang! Our artillery, damn it, is firing short into us. Green rockets up, quick! Good! The fire is lifted. Up and at 'em! The sinking sun is red behind us, but the town to the rear of the foe is as crimson with flames and the blast of shells. Our right platoon cuts through the wire, finds a gap in their line. In one hour and ten minutes since the launching of the assault, the concrete fort is ours.

ABROAD river barred our path. Vainly had we tried to force a passage by a surprise attack. It was shat- tered by the fire of our adversaries from buildings of the town over there and fortified positions on the bank. We must try again. Our companies move up at night, while the engineer platoon prepares three large and two small inflatable rubber boats. Handy things, these. We could use more of them. The enemy is not asleep. Forty minutes before our barrage is due he gives us a heavy barrage at 3.20 a.m. from cannon and heavy infantry mortars. In spite of that we press on into a town on our side of the river. There, civilians, firing from barns and roofs, give us a smart fight. Part of a company mops V them up, but a barn catches fire, destroy- ing our artillery observation and forcing our heavy machine guns from position. It's going to be harder going now.

As our barrage is laid down, two companies launch their inflated rafts. The first crosses without loss. The second is forced back but covers the first company with rifle and machine-gun fire. Then the Third Company makes a great find a barge which dum-heads among the enemy neglected to sink. It's anchored in midstream, but the company secures it and crosses safely. Volleys still flame from the brush and the houses of the town. Our artillery, unable to observe, can help us little. Yet by hard fighting we establish a bridgehead which battalion HQ organ- izes. Steadily the rubber boats ply back and forth.

The 6th Company is over now. Sud- denly a superior hostile force clashes with it in the thick brush. It's touch and go. In the nick of time the 2d Company, which had managed to cross, comes to the rescue. The two companies close the bridgehead. Resistance slackens, and we bring over the rest of our troops. We're across! The river is behind us. We march on.

TWO motorcycle companies. Two platoons of anti-tank guns, motorized, and armored cars. In support, platoons of combat engineers and accompanying A German mechanized column swings along a dirt guns. That was our outfit, and our job road. In the right background note the motorcyclist was to feel the way for the infantry divi- who is ready to ride back to get help from the sions and scout {Con inuid 011 p.ige 40) artillery if the column finds the going too tough

AUGUST, 1940 KNEW something important was up "Search this man!" said Brunner. I the moment I entered the Chief's "I have an idea you may find office. He had that look of quiet con- something" centration I'd learned meant action ahead. The Chief has charge of our dis- trict Naval Intelligence. With him was a Your job, Dahlgren, is to prevent this. younger naval officer. You have authority to use Dewson and "This is Jimmie Dewson," the Chief anyone else you need. That's all." said. "If the Navy has a better test pilot, Action came quickly enough, and be- he'd be here." fore I was prepared for it. I'd only had Jimmie grinned and we shook hands. I time to establish contact with the factory hadn't seen him since Naval Academy and to check its espionage protection days when I was graduating and he was when— that very next morning—my one of my plebes. phone buzzed. "The Navy Department is sending It was the factory superintendent.

Dewson out on Long Island to run final His message was brief ; his news bad. acceptance tests for the new X-VF-7," I crossed to the Chief's office. continued the Chief. "It's our first air- "The factory just phoned. Some infor- craft with this new high-speed wing de- mation on that wing design has been sign and it will be ready for testing in a stolen," I told him. week." "Exactly what?" He stopped and looked us both over "Don't know yet, sir. No details on the appraisingly, as if weighing our capacity phone. I'm having a look now." for handling a difficult assignment. "If they've jumped the gun on you,"

"X-VF-7 is generally believed to be the the Chief said, "your objective now is to finest fighting airplane in the world prevent such information as they took today," he said slowly. "It's far ahead of from leaving this country. Understand?" anything now used in Europe. If either "Yes, sir." side over there could put in service a few "And call on me for anything you need squadrons of these little fighters, it would . . . Anything or anybody." probably mean mastery of the air." It turned out to be a most ingenious The Chief's bright blue eyes ranged method of espionage, 1940 style. No old- over me. fashioned stealing of "the plans." The "Dahlgren, the Democratic Towers same result was obtained, however, but have ordered four hundred X-VF-7's for by a means that made it easier to steal cash and carry delivery. Under our latest and conceal the desired information. neutrality regulations, they can probably I met the superintendent in his office. get these fighters to Europe in their own With him were two men. One was seated merchantmen. The Central Power has in a corner. The other, introduced as the bought no fighters, having no means of head draftsman, gave me the facts. transport. The Central Power hopes to "We spotted a small camera under this offset those four hundred planes by fellow's belt when he signed out a sketch stealing X-VF-7's plans and manufactur- two hours ago. Each separate sheet of ing the ships in its highly efficient air- X-VF-7 's plans has to be signed out of the craft factories. safe in my presence by the man who's to

"We have learned that their cleverest use it. The drawings cannot be removed secret operatives are here in New York from the drafting room. When work is now with the mission of securing all neces- completed, the sketches are signed in, sary information on X-VF-7. Sketches also." of the new wing design. Possibly one of "What about the camera?" the new test ships nearing completion . . . "Well, we watched this man and he CAREY WORTH STEVENSON —

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took the sketch over to a corner. While The youth gave no answer. Nor could in bulk, are no larger than a pack of the other men were setting up their I get a single word from him in reply to cigarettes." boards, he opened his shirt enough to repeated questions. He kept his eyes on I was back in my office explaining to expose the camera and photographed the the floor and his mouth shut. He had Jimmie. sheet." been, I saw, well instructed. "You've flown blind in an airplane," I "Let me see the camera," I asked. "Turn him over to the local police," said. "We fly blind most of the time in As I suspected, it was a specially built I told the superintendent. "I'll have his this counter-espionage business." affair with an excellent lens. Its tiny history looked up. Have you a record of "Couldn't you start with the man pictures—using super-fast, fine-grain film what drawings he's seen?" you've caught, and work back from -could easily be enlarged to the size of "I've checked that," said the head there?" the original drawing. draftsman. "Over the last month this "That youngster has been with the The man on whom they'd found the fellow's signed out practically all the company a year. He came well recom- camera hadn't stirred from his chair. essential drawings for X-VF-7." mended. His references were checked and He was a youth, really, sullen appearing "That makes it just fine," I said. proved good. The people back of him and not over 25. "What we are to locate then, gentlemen, bought his loyalty fairly recently." "What's your story?" I asked the and prevent being removed from this "Paid him to photograph the sketches?" young fellow. country is a set of X-VF-7's plans that, "Yes, and supplied the camera. As a AUGUST, 19+0 —

result of his work, there's a set of X-VF- "No," was the reply. "We've had to here; you're 36, a bachelor and present- 7's plans kicking around somewhere on a get a new man, Russell Pfann. Tom has able. W hat more do you need to cultivate few small pieces of film. We know the been laid up for several days." this Tula Erlich . . . Now get busy." people who want those plans. The prob- This was unlike MacCleary, who usu- A bit stung, I got very busy. Within lem is, to connect them with the man ally trained for his job like an athlete. an hour I discovered that Miss Tula we've caught—and before they smuggle It could mean much or perhaps it meant Erlich had been launched socially five the film out of the country." nothing. years before; that she was now 26, blonde I tossed two small folders across to "Any chance that Tom's ailment may and said to be beautiful. Within two Jimmie. not be a natural condition?" hours I was cutting in on Miss Tula "There they are. Baron Hugo Grunow, "Well, I couldn't say as to that." The Erlich at an informal cocktail dance I head of the Central Power's commission superintendent plainly was meeting this had found she was attending in Green- to the 1940 World's Fair and Mr. A. thought for the first time. "The doctor's wich Village not a mile from Headquar- Karona, trade commissioner handling report said it was tropical dysentery." ers. purchases in this country." The disease, very painful, is seldom I saw at once that she neither knew Jimmie skimmed through the folders fatal. But it would incapacitate a pilot nor cared who I was. There was some- which described the two men's activi- needing perfect physical condition to thing mechanical in her smile, in her ties; then looked at me in amazement. handle a very fast airplane. It could be dancing. It was as though she were hah in "You've got enough on these fellows induced, I knew, through deliberately a pleasant coma and—having been now to hold them for conspiracy against poisoned food. everywhere and done all there was the United States," he said. "Why not I played a hunch. would require everything super-special, stick them in jail for six months? By that "Have your new test pilot take his double-strength before it could penetrate time the X-VF-7's will be delivered." meals and sleep at the factory until after her boredom. "It's not that simple, Jimmie. In the Navy gets the ship," I requested. I drew her to one side. Europe, such men would be cooled off in The superintendent agreed and I felt "You are the most beautiful woman a concentration camp. Over here they somewhat easier. We could then have at I've ever seen," I told her without any hide behind enough rights, privileges least Pfann and the new ships being build-up. And at that moment I almost and diplomatic immunities to protect constructed under guard day and night. believed it. them on everything short of being caught Slender, sleekly groomed, green eyes in the very act." Illustrations by veiled, she simply looked at me as if "And they hire someone else to do the JAY MERRILL tired beyond the effort at expression.

'very acts' for them. They keep clear." The Chief had me in for a progress Still holding her hand, I led her out on "Right. Now you're beginning to ap- check a few days later. the terrace. There, in full view of Mrs. preciate the spot some of us poor devils "What have you got?" he asked. Tony Ravioli hanging out diapers across in Intelligence are on. We're sure this "Absolutely nothing," I replied. The the court in this surprise-proof village, Baron is here to get X-VF-7's plans and Chief wants facts. "I'm getting daily I kissed her. one of the new ships, too, if he can do it. reports on the movements of Grunow and It wasn't a nice kiss, with quotes But we are also sure that he and the the commissioner. Nothing suspicious around the word. It was a deliberately commissioner will appear to lead blame- so far. Here's a list of everyone they've brutal kiss, calculated to arouse any feel- less lives. All we can do is to check each seen the past week." ing that lay behind that beautiful mask. of their contacts, tighten our espionage The Chief took the list and went over She didn't resist, nor did she respond. defense and burn a candle to Allah." it carefully. He went up and down it a When I released her, she drew back, the My phone rang. It was the factory couple of times before speaking. green eyes open wide. superintendent again. "Who's this girl Grunow's been seeing "You look so clean ... so strong," she "The first two X-FV-7's come off the —Tula Erlich?" said softly; her first words. line next week," he said. "We're starting "She was a debutante a few years Then, with a little shiver, she was in preliminary testing the fifteenth." back," I replied. "The Baron's giving my arms again. This time pressed close. "Is Tom MacCleary handling the her quite a play." Her hands went up to clench in my hair. ship?" I asked. The preliminary testing "That all you've found out about her?" "Who are you?" she whispered. routine lasting several days is conducted "But, Chief," I protested. "This girl's Before I could reply, her lips found by a civilian pilot before the company strictly social register. She wouldn't be mine. turns the new ship over to the Navy for mixed up in a thing like this." final acceptance trials. MacCleary was a "Son, you don't know New York." IT WAS a week later, the morning on veteran of many testing assignments. The Chief was suddenly abrupt. "See which preliminary testing of X-VF-7

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "You've figured that kid wrong,

Jimmie, just as 1 did." "That kid!" Jimmie laughed. "She's tough as a gangster. Cood looking enough, I grant you. But she's hung around the social fringe tor five years since that phoney debut her shrewd mother wangled for her. If you don't think she's out on the make, tell me why some guy hasn't married her." "I know we've uncovered some dubi-

ous points about her," I admitted. "She's a fed-up post deb just jaded enough to

welcome what she thinks is a new thrill.

She's been seeing the Central Power agents secretly. But from her standpoint, we know she needs money badly and I

doubt if she realizes the seriousness of the activities she's mixed up with." "Yeah," said Jimmie. "And I doubt if you realize you talk like you were half in love with this Park Avenue Mata Hari." "Come on," I said, my face reddening. "Let's get out to the factory." On the way to Long Island I considered what Jimmie had said. Was I in love with Tula Erlich? Kissing her that first time had been clearly in line of duty.

That it was an extremely pleasant duty and that subsequent frequent repetitions had increased its attraction enormously were the thoughts which bothered me. I knew that she was an accomplished liar and that, despite our new intimacy, she was not admitting me into her confidence. I'd had proof of that. Our men reporting on Baron Grunow had described in detail Tula's secret dealings with him. Yet, the day before, I had managed a direct, face-to-face Then, with a little shiver, meeting of Tula and the Baron at a rest- she was in my arms again aurant where I knew he was lunching would be brought to a spectacular climax "That's only part of it," I told him with the commissioner. Both had looked in the vertical terminal velocity dives. wearily. "There's more. Item one: Our squarely at Tula, and she at them; but I'd made no progress in linking the pic- own Air Forces are supposed to have ex- with the impersonal glance of complete ture-taking draftsman with our Central clusive use of X-VF-7 for a year. If the strangers. Power people. Jimmie meant well in President wishes to let one side have the "I don't like the way that fat oaf trying to cheer me up, but I was low. advantage of using some X-VF-7 's im- looked at you," I'd told her with assumed "Hell, feller, you're trying to fight the mediately, there's no point in permitting jealousy. The Baron was large and well war singlehanded," he said. "Suppose the other side to steal the same advan- padded. you haven't got anywhere toward recover- tage. Item two: There's a personal ele- "Never mind, darling," she replied. ing those films of X-VF-7's drawings. ment." "When men don't look, I'll get worried." Suppose the Central Power does manu- "You mean Erlich, that imitation "Do you know the fellow?" facture a flock of them. It's no skin off glitter girl?" "I never saw him before," she had re- our official elbow. This country's neu- I was somewhat surprised to find plied. tral." myself defending Tula. Yes, Tula was a {Continued on page 50)

AUGUST, 1940 9 .

Complacency is out of order when danger threatens

Cartoons By JOHN CASSEL

But We Can't Slack on the Job of Rooting Out the Enemies Within

THANK God, America's awake. It took anschluss in Austria, the rape of Czechoslovakia and Poland, Nazi seizure of Denmark and Norway and scrapping of the neutrality of Holland and Belgium to set off the first tinkle of our defensive alarm clock. And it took the crackup of the French and British armies—those armies we've always been taught to believe would stand off the world—to make us sit up in bed and put ^>th over the side to the floor. But oh, mister, what happene«>efore that alarm rang! ^| We watched Blum's crew of governmental left-wingers tage the French air defense, first by a policy of refusal t^H place obsolescence, then by nationalization of the aircraft munitions plants, the defects shown to exist by their experi- dustry and finally by acceptance of sit-down strikes by Frenc' ments in the Franco guinea-pig war. workmen, even in government factories, as a part of "the in We watched the Italian and the Nazi spies, secret agents, alienable rights of Labor." saboteurs and Fifth Columnists outmaneuver and outsmart the We watched Hitler scrap the Versailles Treaty, line by line, Communist spies in Spain. from his march into the Rhineland to his final announcement of But we decided "it can't happen here" and refused to do

complete rebuilding of the German war machine by his gamble mi. Ml about it. A year ago. at Plattsburg, Lieutenant General on war at Munich. Hugh T>rum in reviewing the three weeks' maneuvers, revealed We watched totalitarianism grow strong in Europe and the Far Fast as Hitler, Mussolini and Japan played badminton We In ilu 'eft-winders start a "smear" campaign against

with the fatuous "appeasers" of the democracies. Japan's Martin hies .m. I in, nnti-ism committee we sponsored, and saw

!.><>, i i antics in Manchuria held the spotlight as diplomatic fire was J. Edgar I it a ml he "FB.I. raked pi drawn there. Then Mussolini grabbed Ethiopia until the Ger- in the United States Senate by some ITT who mans, Italians and Japs found out who their enemies were from couldn't see the Red forest because of the trees of idealistic that Geneva-League-of-Nations joke about the sanctions. Then "civil liberties." Hitler took the heat off Mussolini by one of his series of At times we did develop something of a lather over the Com- threats in Germany. munists, but practically refused to take the Nazi bundists We watched Japan (in China), Mussolini (with Haile Selas- seriously. We let the Earl Browders, the Fritz Kuhns and the sie) and Hitler, (with practice marches into Austria, Czecho- literal thousands of their satellites do just about as they pleased. slovakia, Sudetenland and the Rhine) test out the war ma- We let the Fifth Column parachutists of Russia, Germany, chines they had built Italy and a dozen other countries land behind our coast line We watched the German and the Italian generals take their defenses and did practically nothing to cut them down—until land and air toys into the Spanish revolution for a laboratory they had bored well within. test against whatever the supposedly hated Communists from We let Harry Bridges and his gang dig in on the Pacific Coast. Russia had to offer. We let Mike Quill take over the Transport Workers Union. We When Franco took over Spain, the Nazis, the Fascists, and let literally scores of unions fall into the hands of the Reds. the Russians went back home, to correct, in their factories and We let teachers and textbooks creep into our schools to

id The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine openly preach inferiority of our form of government to that of Communism, National Socialism and a dozen other types of un-American ideologies. We let our schools reach such a point that the New York Board of Higher Education would have placed Bertrand Russell, notorious British atheist, Communist and advocate of licentiousness on the staff of tax-supported City College had not a storm of public indig- \~s f7- /* ALL. nation developed a court injunction. We even saw the faculty council of tax-supported Brooklyn College, New York, refuse a charter for a campus unit of the R.O.T.C. on the same day they granted a charter for a student Karl Marx Forum. We apathetically let the Red Russians, the Black Shirt LAWS Italians, the Brown Shirt Nazis and the Pelley Silver Shirt anti-Semitics and Christian Fronters infiltrate into our US T National Guard and plan an overthrow of the American Flag, Constitution and Government. When Major Vickdun Quisling, in Denmark, turned out to be a Fifth Column operator who made Hitler's entry into Oslo possible, America began to prick up the collective national ears. When British Intelligence operatives tossed Sir Oswald Mosley and a batch of his pro-Nazi fifth columnists in jail,

we began to ask one another if, after all, we shouldn't pay \ a little more attention to The American Legion and to Martin Dies quit calling \ and every patriot who talked Americanism a "red-baiter."

k When the King of the Belgians ^uddenly surrendered to the Nazis and made Allied defense of Bel- gium an impossibility, we really roiled over in bed and began to rub our eyes. We know now, that while we were leaning over backward to gi\ e every Tom, Dick and Harry from abroad the freedoms guaranteed under our Constitution,

/ The agents of alien ideologies use our constitu- tional guarantees as a screen for their plots against us

we have been allowing the termites of un-Americanism to bore into the very rooftree and rafters of our Democracy. We know that there must be action, and we dimly understand that two steps must be taken, and taken quickly, before that rooftree and those rafters fall. First, there must be strong insecticide sprayed into every governmental timber, to kill the borers from within, figuratively, at least. Then there must be an inspection of the whole structure for weakened timbers, and replacement of all rotten wood. Nationally that program is under way—under the American system of conducting purges with ballots instead of bullets. And as the Legion might have expected, one of the strongest men, in the vanguard with the biggest Flit-gun, is Congressman Martin Dies of Texas, backed by Joe Starnes of Alabama and every other member of the Dies Committee. There are, according to careful com- pilations, at least 3,500,000 aliens in this country—counting as aliens those who have not gone {Continued on page jj)

KENT HUNTER

AUGUST, 1940 : 1 —

British tars aboard the aircraft carrier Furious let go at a hostile plane

ONE can understand as French and British armies were in khaki. trenches in the quietest periods all NOwell as you veterans of 1017- Protective coloration is not important to through the World War. A few trickled '18 what I have to tell. I was the visible airdromes and the pilot in in from the clash of patrols in No Man's seeing with your eyes. You the visible plane. In their smart, trim Land. were there in the spirit of memory as I light blue the aviation lot were the I spoke to a man in uniform who wore rode over the roads where we had "candy boys" in what a well-dressed the World War ribbon, and, telling marched and over our battlefields. soldier would wear. him I had been in France in our Army in Over there—Then and Now. The Then I shall not forget that first Sunday in 1918, I asked if I might join his group to us had been the period from the train- Paris, the first Sunday of a belated around the cafe table. ing camps to the days when our drives spring. Many soldiers were on leave in "Oui, oui, mon ami. This is my wife, clinched the victory. Some of us saw the the capital and throughout the land. In this my uncle and his wife, and this my Rhine. The Now for all of us is the Paris they were walking the Boulevards youngest son." tragedy of a world in which the sword and along the Seine with their sweet- American soldiers had been billeted in has been unsheathed, and millions face hearts, wives and families, and sitting his mother's house in Lorraine. She was conditions worse than death. around cafe tables. You have the picture very fond of one cal'ed Jim. But, without For my Now of this story I shall start without further words. knowing Jim's family name, we agreed with a column of marching French sol- Six months of war, and not a single it was no use trying to identify him diers I saw out of a car window on my bomb had been dropped on Paris—no among all the Jims in the A. E. F. way from Rome to Paris late in February. great bombing raids by either army "My oldest son, he is in a good place,'' They were swinging along just as we did just reconnaissance flights and the "dog- said the veteran. "He is in the Maginot some twenty-two years ago. fights" in the air with which we were Line. That's the place to be, under thick Possibly it would be a surprise to you familiar. It was war, yet it was not war. roofs of cement—better than our old that they were not in horizon blue, but in No such steady drain of casualties as dugouts, hein?" khaki. Except the air forces both the the ambulances brought in from the "And you?" I asked. A FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF HIS EXPERI- ENCES WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES AND THE BRITISH FLEET

1 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "I am in the reserve—guard duty. In sheer ten-foot stone wall with a top of guarded the safe passage of our troops case of a big battle I might be in it on the broken glass against scaling by a small through the danger zone in 1917-18, that front line again. Hut the youngsters boy who wanted a ripe peach from the no way has been found to take the buck^ think we old fellows are back numbers. orchard it enclosed. lunges, tosses, plunges and rolls out of a We had no Maginot Line. The young- All the set guns in their fixed positions, destroyer in a corkscrew sea. Nor has any sters are bored by marking time. I'm not. all the fields of barbed wire and tank death ray yet been discovered which will

I know what real war is. I pray they may obstacles faced the Rhine to meet a shoot under the waves and burn a hole never know." frontal attack. Occasionally a sceptic through a U-boat. But they were to know—and how! whispered the question, "What if an in- Next, this war tourist of a Legionnaire Ride out with me in a car, in those vading army should get behind the was back across the English Channel days when winter was drawing to a close, Maginot Line?" which for the most with the British Expeditionary Force in over familiar ground to our old Lorraine part could tire in only one frontal direc- France— the H.E.F. The same British, sector. tion. though they looked strange in their baggy Ruined villages and towns long since And this was to happen. new-style uniform known as "battle rebuilt, but otherwise here was the France From France I went to England, where dress" and "Belisha Bags." the A.E.F. knew in war time. The gates even more than in France it was war and They had gone in heavily for tanks and were lowered long before the train yet no war. It was still being called a motorization of all kinds. No neigh of arrived at the crossings. Estaminets, phony war and a microphony war. The an army mule ever welcomed the dawn. British were talking about the peace No soldier had to walk. All soldiers rode terms after the coming Allied victory. in tanks or on trucks. I had a look-in at the different types of tanks, at the anti-tank guns and anti- aircraft guns. The British had the last word in modern armament. I did not see much choice between being inside a tank in battle or inside a submarine under a bombardment of depth charges. Just consider this kind of awar—that is, before war really began. On the British main front line I did not hear a single shot fired. Any soldier who fired one

A German tank "Somewhere in Belgium" detours around a dynamited road. Below, Tommies in the days before Dunkirk's fall preparing for Goering's bombers

FREDERICK PALMER villages, farmhouses with the familiar manure piles, and the people were the same. Again I went to a little restaurant in a back street where Madame had served me when I had a billet nearby. "My, but you have kept young," I said when I received the same old greet- ing. "That was my mother." The mother, a gray-haired likeness of the daughter, appeared in the doorway. Some favored some kind of a "United Both laughed merrily at the joke. States of Europe." Others were for leav- They felt quite secure, as did all the ing the peace terms to the French: would have created as much commotion people I met—secure behind the wonder- They would fix the Germans so they as though you shot off a revolver in the ful Maginot Line. The door was fast could not make war again. main street of your home town. There locked against the ancient enemy. It was The British had their Maginot Line— would have been a rush of M.P.'s to pinch Security, the most treasured word in the the sea. They felt secure in the vastly the offender. He would have had time language. superior power of their navy. At sea in the hoosegow to reflect on his error. The French might be given to holding there was a grilling, ceaseless siege of For no enemy was in front of the main to their old ways, but into that long war against mines and submarines. British line, though up in the Saar British rampart they had incorporated every- Here was the only active front for an troops were between French divisions and thing engineering skill and scientific de- oldtimer to see. I was out on a mine- did have patrol action. The main British fense could devise. It was called impreg- sweeping trawler and a submarine-hunt- line faced the Belgian frontier. Belgium nable. It looked as so— much so as a ing destroyer. I assure those of us who was a neutral, {Continued on page 37) AUGUST, 1940 13 WHO WON THE WAR? THE U. S. NAVY'S 14-INCH GUN- NERS STAKE OUT A CLAIM BY SAILOR GVA/S

must have heard about the right in the middle of where the heaviest YOUlush who vveaved to a lean cussing occurred. But the years have been against a fairly stationary lamp- long, and the world has been spinning. post, who finally managed after Names, dates and Gallic diphthongs sundry difficulties to get a match out of have a habit of slipping. Efforts to check into his pocket, who struck it and almost lest the few involved should fall jumped out of his skin when the house print too utterly awry, led to a casual across the street promptly burst into examination of such records as were flame! easily available. These records led back- Although your correspondent has long wards and crosswise to others. Curiosity since learned not to overmatch himself at carried on where reportorial caution had the public pumps, and the ultimate re- begun, and gradually the realization sult was slowburning rather than ex- dawned that instead of a private Punch plosive, that's about the way it's been and Judy show between a strutting with this literary epic. What follows, stickler of a general and a lanky looking hereinafter, started several months ago hayseed of an admiral, I had stumbled as a hilarious recollection of a really funny upon one of the truly great epics of Admiral Plunkett feud in France up close to the fighting American war history, and just possibly tines between an over-military general had found the positive answer to that un- the tale as the pop of a wad of chewing and an under-military admiral, neither of settled and slightly razzberrious question gum in the midst of a naval engagement. whom could figure exactly which ranked that has been troubling the eldering relics of the late A. E. F. for more than twenty July '17 until the show closed the other, ' and both of whom were set FROM down, there was an extra arm in down i-n the mud some five miles apart in years, viz. and to wit, "WHO WON THE officially as the Railway Ar- command of two outfits supposed to be WAR?" France known the working together. I've still got my funny story, but it tillery Reserve. We never knew what pattern like a "Reserve" part referred to unless it was Most of it was to be spun purely from belongs in the general that they were reserving us for the war personal recollection as I, a tender young piccolo solo in the middle of a symphony. follow, for never did get lieutenant just up from the ranks, was It's about as important in the whole of that was to we any guns of our own. Long-range rifles of whitewashed French barracks were sup- naval caliber on railway mounts were posed to be souvenirs of an instance something this nation didn't have when where their own officers turned machine it decided to fight, and the Armistice guns on them in an effort to hold them in arrived before we got more than five line. Mailly had enjoyed no spectacular made. Those—they are the five this history in that particular war despite an article is about—and one eight-incher occasional air raid that never amounted that arrived after the Armistice were the to much. only railroad guns the U. S. ever made. Local talk was that the Germans would But we were an organization equipped have captured it and probably have de- to service and shoot same if any ever stroyed it at one stage but for the fact should arrive. And we did service and that the Rainbow Division made a mis- shoot some that were loaned us by the take and charged when the French had French. It was a French idea, anyhow. ordered a general retreat. But those The United States had never done any of Yanks apparently knocked the line back that kind of fighting, had nothing to do so far there was never any danger with it, and knew nothing about it. It thereafter. was a French suggestion that we go in for Life in the headquarters end of this ly with the French, and land naval cannon, rolling the monstrous business was really pretty dull. The hitting something occasion- contraptions up close enough on railroad various regi men ts , armed wi th French ally, too, when the venerable tracks, to fire from fifteen to twenty-five mounts of mostly ancient models tubing didn't explode. But most- miles on rail heads, forts and other —the standards being 24-G, ly we were waiting for our own objectives, a job the modern dive-bombers Model 1876, and 32 c. m., weapons to arrive and our own great seem to have inherited. Model 1870—were up on the division or corps or whatever it was to The American answer had been to take various fronts firing most- be to start functioning as the A. E. F.'s the Coast Artillery, the 5th, 6th and 7th real heavyweight slugger. provisional regiments of it, most of which Life in that post would have been came from the rock-ribbed coast of New prosaic to the point of stagnation if it England, but which included some bat- hadn't been for the blistering presence of teries from as far south as New Jersey, the gentleman who commanded the out- and get it ready for the new line of work. fit, Brigadier General William Chamber- To these elements were added various laine. I almost snap to rigid salute auto- others until the command numbered matically from merely writing the name, several thousand men. here 22 years later. A West Pointer from Geographically, the place was located the distinguished State of Virginia, suh! in the town of Madly in the province of he was known as the most Prussian officer Aube up in north-central France, approxi- in the United States Army. He's the only mately 50 miles south of where the man I ever saw in France, or anywhere fighting was that last summer. The else, who wore a double Sam Browne belt town was a permanent French ar- —a strap over each shoulder. tillery camp. Russian troops had He was such a stickler for etiquette, previously been garrisoned there y BILL and the rest of it, that he actually toured and had mutinied there. Pock the cook shacks to see that the kitchen marks in the walls of the police wore their blouses with all buttons CUNNINGHAM completely (Continued on page 42)

le Navy's fourteen-inch shell was the blow that killed father. It made the Germans fold in short order Uncle Sam

ONCE again America is catching up with a prophecy of men it once dismissed as visionaries:

"The day is coming when airplanes will be as common as automobiles." In the summer of 1940 we stand on the threshold of such an era, with due allow- ance for the fact that physical standards for flying must always be more stringent than for driving an automobile. Of 35,000 civilian pilots licensed by the Civil Aero- nautics Authority, roughly two-thirds fly for fun. Beyond that already qualified group, in various stages of flight instruction, are an additional 40,000 fledgelings holding approved student permits issued by the same authority. Nor is that 75,000 the sum total in fact and embryo of trained and semi-trained American airmen and airwomen. Thousands of others who have in the past held licenses have failed to renew them by reason of not having flown a required minimum of 15 hours solo during the preceding year, or to have submitted to the rigid flight physical examination which is also an essential to remain on the active list. It has been estimated that during the past ten years probably 100,000 Americans have soloed. Judged by such impressive current marks, coupled with remarkable new stimulants to flying activities non-military in character, the prediction of Chairman Robert H. Hinckley of the C. A. A.—42,000 active civil pilots in 1040, and 100,000 in 1942— may be regarded as conservative. Within a period of one year from last June 15th, the Student Training Program of the C. A. A. promises to train an additional 45,000 new pilots between the ages of 18 and 25. Fifteen thousand will be turned out by September 15th, a similar number through the fall, a third quota of the same size next spring. Concurrently, from the groups certified as private pilots, six thousand will be selected for advanced training, the equivalent of pri-

Cadets at Randolph Field in Texas, "West Point of the Air," soon to man the Army's planes 16 Parachutes and model piancs anywhere from $200 to $joo. The cost both have their place in the of learning to fly was relatively high, airman's training. Below, some however, and a student was considered of the school kids at Albu- to have mastered the art of flight when querque, New Mexico lined up he had soloed, that is, taken off and for trips aloft as part of their landed by himself. CI round schools were education not functioning, cross-country training, navigation, meteorology, safety and traffic rules were unthought of. mary military training, one thousand 1 recall that in those days Casey this summer, two thousand in the Jones gave a flying course of ten hours fall, three thousand next spring. at $50 an hour with the gift of a Jenny The number of licensed complete as a graduation diploma. Of civil aircraft by the end of all Casey's graduates under that plan this year will exceed by exactly one failed to crack up at- several thousand the 14,800 tempting to find his way to a home automobiles which were reg- pasture that would serve as a landing istered in the United States field. The lone exception had been a in 1901. Last year's produc- master mariner before he enrolled. tion and sales of airplanes When the Lindbergh boom dramati- for strictly civil use approxi- cally came along inspiring thousands mated total automobile proof youths to follow the path of the duction in iqoo of 4000 ma- Lone Eagle to fame and fortune, lack- chines. This is not to repre- ing were planes and Hying schools to sent that airplane produc- meet the demand. Not until the year tion ever will equal the before that historic flight had the 30.000,000 motor vehicles in Federal Government created an au- use this year, but a relative thority to supervise, regulate and en- pattern of growth definitely courage civil flying activities. Planes is indicated. rushed through production to meet Lest one be misled by demand generally sold from $5000 up. dominant air transport publicity, it may be emphasized that a mere 218 transport planes carried last year's total of two million air travelers. The vast majority of the 14,000 licensed air- SAMUEL craft are pleasure planes, so- called light craft, and selling TAYLOR substantially below automobile prices of 1010, when MOORE the advertising slogan of the old Autocar was "The rich t Flying instruction cost from $30 to - man's car at a poor man's $40 an hour. That period timed with price—$2000." easy money but it was brief. The Beyond an essential ad- golden days were gone by 1031. vance in the safety of air- Despite some interest in light plane planes and establishment of flying abroad, ten years ago there was air traffic rules, basically this but one popular-priced light plane growth, a one hundred per- being sold in America, the Aeronca. cent increase in the past Among flyers that tiny ship was the three years, depended on subject of almost as many jokes as the getting down the cost of Model-T Ford had been a few years flying to where the average before. But for its horsepower it was a man could afford to fly. sturdy fair-weather flying machine.

Concurrently it was neces- At about that time a young de- sary to have attending nu- signer in a small Pennsylvania town merous new airports provid- also became imbued with the vision ing service facilities just as that before large numbers of people the automobile found new would fly for fun the cost had to be buyers as the "good high- brought within reach of the average ways movement" improved roads, person's pocketbook. Self-educated in and garages sprang up to provide his chosen work, C. G. Taylor also fuel and services for the driver who represented unusual character in that knew litde or nothing of mechanics. he triumphed {Continued on page jS) The latter point is illuminated by the fact that directly after the W orld War you could buy an airplane more Student pilots get final instruc- cheaply than now. War surplus tions before their first cross- training planes, mostly OX Jennys, country navigational flight. much more expensive but also much Above, left, a cadet being put less safe to fly than present light through the rigid eye test Uncle planes, were a drug on the market at Sam insists upon

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Adolf Hitler's Blitz- dom, and have never been improved on. chicanery. In 1740, the father of the WHENkrieg blazed into Scandi- Ruses, spies, and saboteurs were to Blitzkrieg that the ripe saw time was for navia, and later into the Sun Tzu a particularly vital part of any the conquest of Silesia, rich Austrian Low Countries, Europe was combat. "The divine manipulating of the provinces. His plans were complete, his staggered by what it thought to be a new threads" was his typically Chinese army assembled. The Empress Maria kind of war. Feints of vast proportions. euphemism for the art of military deceit. Theresa, having a child, was in no con- Fifth Column ruses, disguised soldiers, His instructions for the choice of secret dition to organize her defences. Never- the kidnaping of one king and an attempt agents, for the kidnaping and murder of theless, Frederick wanted to keep his on another, parachute troops, wholesale enemy commanders, for the undermining move secret to the last moment. He filled treachery and sabotage followed one after of the foe's morale, are detailed and ex- his palace with guests and gave a round the other with breath-taking and stun- plicit. "Supreme excellence," he wrote, of banquets and balls. He himself pre-

ning speed. Dive-bombing Slukas—sirens "consists of breaking the enemy's resist- tended that he was ill. And while the attached to make their descents even ance before fighting." foreign ambassadors were kept socially more terrifying—were new. So was the "The general who wins the battle" busy and exhausted, Frederick streaked frequency-modulat ion radio whichenabled Sun Tzu's wisdom has been so pertinent for the border and was well into Austrian the smallest German sabotage units to during the past months—"makes many territory with his forces before Vienna

communicate with headquarters con- calculations ere it is fought. The general was rudely wakened. His specialty was to tinuously. Parachute troops, too, were a who loses makes but few. When able to decoy opponents into breaking up their novel product of modern warfare. But the attack, we must seem unable; when we main force into two or three columns. fundamentals of stratagem and strategy are near, we must make the enemy be- Then, marching with a speed considered which the Germans used in the greatest lieve that we are far away. If his forces impossible at that time, he attacked and

The Philippine Insurrection fell apart when Aguin- aldo was captured by Lieutenant Fred Funston, at right. Between them, a British Q ship, U-boat trap

FREDERIC SONDERU, JR.

attack of all time are as old as history are united, separate them. The general itself. that harkens to my counsel and acts upon Twenty-four centuries ago, Sun Tzu it," the sage concludes, "will conquer." the military Confucius of China and the History has proved him right. defeated one after the other. The battles father of strategy—wrote that "all war- Napoleon had one method of making of Rossbach, Leuthen, and Kunersdorf, fare is based on deception." His Art of his opponent believe that the French which laid the foundation of Prussia's War is the oldest command handbook in force was where it wasn't. He sent squads predominance in Germany, were won by existence, and still one of the best. It is of buglers around the enemy's flanks to that method. required reading in all General Staff blow fanfares and give the impression In the history of our own continent, the schools, particularly at the German that troops were attacking from the sides military ruse has played a vital part.

Kriegsakademie. and rear. ( leorge Washington owed one of his major for Sun Tzu's terse commandments on Frederick the Great was probably the victories to the trick he played on the the psychology and practice of everyphase most adept at hoodwinking his enemies Hessians at Trenton. On Christmas Eve of war are the essence of military wis- with lightning movements and mass in 1776, the German mercenaries were

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The Q ship, having lured the submarine within range, suddenly unmasks and peppers it

encamped in a strong position on the bank of the Delaware. Washington was on the other side of the river, so they his army, packed in boats like sardine?. began celebrating the holiday with Montcalm reacted just as Wolfe plenty of food and more wine. The thought, deciding that the British troops, hungry, badly equipped soldiers were American campfires burned brightly and now split, could be crushed once and for blocked by a powerful column under loud noise from across the water con- all. He sent his second-in-command, Marshal Bazaine. The rebel leader knew, vinced the Hessians that the Rebels were Bougainville, to chase Wolfe upstream however, that the Marshal was in doubt also enjoying the spirit of Christmas and while he himself marched downstream to about the Mexicans' strength. Diaz had all was well. Meanwhile Washington and take care of Saunders. his men cut large bundles of mesquite and his troops—except a few left to put on Wolfe had studied the ebb and flow of drag them with lariats along the dusty the show—were making the famous the St. Lawrence, which is tidal at Quebec road. The cloud that arose convinced the crossing of the Delaware to strike the and runs at about four knots. He had French that a superior army was moving befuddled Germans by surprise. The timed his expeditions so that when both up. Bazaine stopped to consolidate his Battle of Trenton and the rout of the Montcalm and Bougainville had been lines and Diaz escaped to join other Hessians was a turning point in the War drawn far enough away from the city, Mexican forces, which were finally suc- of Independence. the current would float the major British cessful. A more complicated stratagem de- forces back to Quebec much faster than In the British Gallipoli campaign in- feated Montcalm at Quebec and took Bougainville could follow. Below the dividual ingenuity reached an all-time Canada for Great Britain. General Wolfe Plains of Abraham, Wolfe quickly dis- high. The Anzacs—quick-witted Aus- had tried for months to make the French embarked and scaled the bluff with little tralians and New Zealanders—have commander come out and fight. But resistance from a few French sentries. three of the finest ruses in military his- Montcalm, secure in his impregnable By the time Montcalm heard the news tory to their credit. In April 191 5 a high position on the lofty Plains of Abraham, and rushed back to his stronghold, the command careless of life had ordered refused to budge and easily beat off every British army was already there. "Mon them to storm the precipitous Gallipoli attack of Wolfe's 4,000 men with his own Dieu!" he exclaimed. "There they are heights. The only chance to avoid a mas- 8,000. Finally, the British general had where they have no right to be!" And sacre was to attract the attention of the an inspiration. He sent a small force down that was the end of the French rule in Turks elsewhere, until the leading ranks the St. Lawrence to attack below the city Canada. were within grenade-throwing distance with so much gunfire as to make Mont- Porfirio Diaz—later dictator of Mexico of the Turkish machine-gun emplace- calm think that the British were making —saved his country's war of liberation in ments. It was decided to try a feint a major offensive there. Wolfe himself 1866 by a trick sprung on Emperor Maxi- by sending a platoon to make a land- rowed upstream with the greater part of milian's French troops. Diaz's tired, ing on the Gulf (Continued on page 35)

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[AUTHOR'S NOTE: As a member of The American Legion I have been curious Canst thou not leave that kitchen for years concerning what took place in range at home Forgettest thou what conduct doth Caesar's Roman Legion. History, so far as I have had a go at it, discloses prac- And wear a Legion cap? become tically nothing upon the subject, hi writ- Commander Centurion: (rapping for A Roman Legionnaire? ing the present account, therefore, my full sixty seconds with hilt of his This Post will come to order, and our authority rests not upon that always ques- short sword): Silence! Scribe tionable veracity of even the most authen- tic records, but upon the unimpeachable Shall read what hath been wrote—wrot proposition that human nature does not —I mean writ change.] Anent those goings on and talk we had Last time we met. Time: meeting Regular night of Post No. Member Metellus: I do move thee, One, Legion, latter Roman in the part of gracious sir, the year 45 B. C. That we approve those writings as

Place : Mccting rooms of the Post, Rome. they're wrot. Julius Jones: Ho, as they're rot is (The Post, having been assigned a m rite, or write or right membership quota of one hundred, is WTiate'er thou hast. Get going! commanded by a Centurion. A Sennamosh! trumpet sounds and there is a rattle Centurion: If there be none clank and of armor as the members against, then I command take seats.) Member Marullus: (to another member) Ouch! "Get that thing away from Thy cursed helmet is upon my that fire plug, thou mildewed foot clown!"

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I cannot read, mine eyes are dim with tears. (He weeps.) Member Marillis: Re man thyself. What saith the noble Caesar, gentle sir? Centurion: (desperately trying to control himself) He saith—hold, hold me, hold! —for I grow drowsy:

Great Clrief ! He saith our membership is lousy! Strato Smith: He doth, eh? Well, the big brass-hatted bum! Who in the cock-eyed world's he think he is?

The trouble with this Legion is Horatius Hemingway: Enough! That's treason, vile, vile treason! Sound to arms! Ho! Rally round me, Comrades. Mow him down! S. Smith: Who'll mow who down? (They fight. General melee.) Centurion: (recovering himself when action is required, and slashing fiercely about him) Back, back, dogs, back! What mutiny

is this? Am I a puppet here? Who doth command? (Sergeant-at-Arms hurries up with a big stick.) Sergeant-at-Arms: Come on, come on! Sit down, you bozoes—squat! (Members put up their arms. S. Smith and H. Hemingway glare at each other.) Centurion: Peace, universal peace! No more of this. (Loud knocking without!) Sergeant-at-Arms: (hurrying to rear door) What ho! Who knocks? (Knocking repealed, louder.) Sergeant-at-Arms: Kee-ripes! The way outsiders knock this Post!

(Knocking again, still louder.)

Sergeant-at-Arms: Who, who, I say? Before I open—who? Illustrator Voice from Without: 'Tis I, the Watch. Sergeant-at-Arms: Then watch thy GEORGE SHANKS step. That such shall be the order of If thou wilt keep thy tunic on a while the day. I will unlock to thee. (Conl. on page j6) What hast thou, Scribe, upon thy calendar? Post Scribe: That for the year of B. C. forty-four The judges blind to ex- I do proclaim that dues are due once cellence of that most more. snappy corps (Long silence, broken only by sighs.) Centurion: Strong, silent men, these Legionnaires—sometimes.

7 v I > Do troops proceed on yesterday's advance? What Post can live on last year's membership? (Holds up a letter.) Just that in this epistle we are asked By our most noble National Caesar who Doth sit in state at Indocropolis And grandly bid the great Chief Scribe to send forth Sad, crushing, burning messages like this— (His voice breaks with emotion) I feel the heavens fall about mine ears,

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Paul Revere statue at Boston ex- OLIVER WENDELL ecuted by Cyrus Dallin, fifty-six years in the making and now HOLMES, beloved Autocrat DR.I ready. Top left, the model of the of the Breakfast Table, may statue accepted in the eighties have exaggerated slightly when by the city. Dallin likes it best he promulgated his famous opinion that the golden State House dome on Boston's

Beacon Hill is "the Hub of the Solar New Hampshire wilderness to make the System ;"J}ut one thing about it is more lake spelled twenty-nine ways and called definitely factual now than ever before. Winnipesaukee into "America's first It's the Hub of something that seems summer resort." mighty alluring to everyone under the Now look what's happened. sun—in the summertime. It takes all six New England States Even in those famous days, when the to encompass the "summer resort" that good doctor-philosopher-critic, in person, still holds historic first place in the was to be seen almost daily striding along hearts of our sun-tanned countrymen. the walk across Boston Common to the No less than five new books—just gate that has now been named in his another ripple in the recent literary honor, there was no such "flowering of resurgence of New England—have ap- New England" with famous people as peared in the bookstores of the nation in the visitor on that glamorous eastern the last few months to celebrate this coast will find this summer. little corner of the map, among other It was one of the royal governors for things, as a playland of endless personal the king—in those far-off, colonial days variations in summer satisfaction. Every before Sam Adams's rousing speeches year, now, more than three million The Boston waterfront has every- rocked the Cradle of American Liberty lucky men, women and children go there thing, including that Tea Party who carved a trail and clearing in the to renew by popular vote New England's tradition

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ows or those rocky White Mountain peaks at the top of New Hampshire. Such things as these have' kept New England in undisputed first place among the summer resorts of this hemisphere for so many years that those three million and interesting people, who go there every summer, now create and constitute, by themselves, all manner of additional attractions. Nowhere else will a summer resident live his lazy days among so many famous neighbors. At the heart and Hub of all these stay awhile stimulating things is Boston Boston, — Cambridge, Lexington Battle Green, BY H. LYMAN ARMES Concord Bridge, "Old Ironsides," Plym- outh Rock—and the forty-odd cities and towns whose united park system and Golfing at Bret- 2,800,000 people make Metropolitan ton Woods in Boston one of the three or four largest New Hampshire urban communities in America. in the famous "It's that high general average that White Mountains. marks your real champion," says a Bslow, the lovely famed Boston author, "and this New Public Garden, England of ours is the Joe Louis of all cheek by jowl to contenders for top place in the delights of Boston Common. summer living." At bottom, yacht- To this city, ten years ago, came th? ing scene at Mar- nation-wide concourse of The American blehead on the Legion for their first national convention North Shore of in New England. It was one of the most Massachusetts successful all-America reunions of World War veterans the Legion has ever held. It set prece- dents that have been followed since. Today The

American Legion is on the mandate over what it takes to march again—and for all make three million recipes for these reasons that have gone sheer delight and personal re- before, the destination of creation. Legionnaire families again The reason for this must is Boston. embrace a host of individual By sea, air, rail and high- interests. Close-packed within way this migration will be the familiar outline of, running America's biggest movement east to west, Maine to Connec- of {Continued on page j6) ticut—and not to be found anywhere else in any equal area — iluri there is probably the greatest ever selection of things America's summer sojourners want to see and do and enjoy with all their unleashed vacation vim—with enlivened interest in within a brief daylight journey out the folklore history of their own families of a historic metropolitan city. For and the nation—with keened-up minds over 300 years New England has and all their several senses. been a wellspring of the nation's Somehow, New Englanders are not individuality and character; of its the boastful kind. Summer and winter culture, literature and industry; of they themselves fan out across the map of its pioneer-expansions, research-sci- this broad country to loaf on longer ences and patriotic inspirations. beaches and gaze at loftier mountain In eighty-eight miles New Eng- peaks. They honor the historic shrines land's visitors may motor from At- of Philadelphia, Mount Vernon, St. lantic Ocean bathing beaches to a Augustine and New Orleans. They know mountain-panorama viewpoint 6,000 the way to San Jacinto and the Alamo. feet above sea level. Everywhere, They've seen Mark Twain's bigger river, they travel a storied land that keeps Michigan's bigger "muskie" lakes, Cali- an appreciative stranger alert for fornia's bigger trees, and all the travel- breath-taking beauty in each reveal- halting wonders of this incomparable ing mile. From Connecticut's Man- country's highways from Portland, Maine hattan suburbs it is only a day's to Portland, Oregon. But New England journey to vivid experiences of in- has all such things as these—and only timacy with a fabled wilderness in New England has them all compact Vermont's Green Mountain shad-

AUGUST, ioio /ft VANISHING ATHLETE JIM HURLEY

beginning a few years before the turn of the century. Idolized, publicized, dramatized, pic- turesque members of a fast diminishing aboriginal race, they were the white man's heroes. But the white man's adulations and his indulgences helped write "finis" prematurely on the records of some of them even as his vices quick- ened the racial degeneration of their stock. Sockalexis, Thorpe, Bender, Longboat and Meyers! There were scores of other JIM THORPE notable Indian athletes from '93 to 1015, but the names of those five were house- hold words in the early days of the new COOGAN'S BLUFF has echoed a varied assortment of noises back

to the Polo Grounds below it ever since the New York Giants made their home in its shadows back in 1801, but it is doubtful if any of them were stranger than those that rent the air of uptown Gotham that May afternoon back in 1807. Cleveland, then in the National League, was opposing the Giants. But things were in good hands—as a matter of fact in the mighty hands of the incomparable Amos Rusie, trusted New York pitcher, and local rooters settled back for the proverbial Giant victory with Rusie in the box. Over in one section of the park sat a gaily bedecked and motley group of Indians. They were Algonquins from Old- town, Maine, and they were attracting almost as much attention as the great Rusie out there on the mound. Then up to the plate strode a Cleveland LOUIS SOCKALEXIS player, a man clear-eyed and dark of visage, a fine, broadshouldered, graceful athlete. He tapped the rubber with his century. Sockalexis the Algonquin from bludgeon, inviting the renowned Rusie to Maine, whose father once journeyed to do his worst. The Giant tosser wound up, Washington to plead with President uncoiled and sent the ball toward the Cleveland to help keep his son on the plate. Almost simultaneously there was a reservation rather than allow him to sharp report and New York's next engage in the sport of the white man; glimpse of the great Indian ballplayer, Thorpe the Sac and Fox Redskin claimed Louis Sockalexis, was just a vision as he man's metropolis to a spell of real yelling. by many to this day to be the greatest skirted the bases for a home run before Louis Sockalexis was one of a group of athlete ever born; Bender of the Chip- the ball could be returned to the infield. American Indians who wrote brilliant pewas, for years a pitching mainstay of Then the Redskin contingent among the athletic history into the pages of United the Philadelphia Athletics, Tom Long- fans arose en masse and treated the white States sports over a period of two decades, boat, the Mohawk from Ontario, the

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greatest natural runner who ever drew on White Sox. In a game against Brown, on tured New York, facing Rusie in his first a shoe, and Chief Meyers, who drew April 19, 1805, Sockalexis made it a appearance in the Polo Grounds, the almost as many fans to the Polo Grounds fitting Patriots' Day for the Bay Staters journals of the day waxed poetic about as the immortal Matty himself. by slashing out two homers and two him to the tom-tom meter of an ode by Before the War with Spain and for a doubles and stealing six bases. By this R. K. Munkittrick, some of which went: dozen or more years thereafter Indians time they were calling him the greatest were quite a curiosity for the East. Many college player of all time. This is mighty Sockalexis of our citizens were but recently back Nor was his prowess confined to the Fielder of the mighty Clevelands from the wars of the plains and tall tales baseball diamond. Tommy Conneff, the Like the catapult in action of the depredations of the "savages" were world's champion miler, was then at For the plate he throws the baseball stressed in oral and written story. In lieu Holy Cross and he was often hard Til] the rooters, blithely rooting flesh of the feath- pressed Sockalexis. Bernie of the and blood man by Wefers, top Shout until they shake the bleachers ered headdress, cigar stores had like- notch sprinter of those days, declared nesses of him carved in wood as attention that he would have been surpassed as a arresters out front. Circuses had whole runner by Sockalexis if the Indian had whooping troops of them, while the quack given all his time to track. But baseball medicine man and the itinerant corn was this Maine Indian's first love and he doctor had a redskin, usually in war paint, liked it too well to allow other sports to to pull the yokels into position for the interfere with it. shears. When in 1897 he followed his friend It was little wonder then that there was intense public interest over the Red

CHIEF BENDER

"Sockalexis, Sockalexis,

Sock it to them, Sockalexis."

Such is merry Sockalexis Who can bat and knock the home

Doc Powers from Holy Cross to Notre Who can scalp the blooming umpire Dame University he was as well known as Till the rooters in their glory Knowing no fit terms of praise, all TOM any of the players in professional base- Lift their voices "Sockalexis, LONGBOAT ball. And when he turned pro with Sockalexis, Sockalexis!" Cleveland a few weeks later he was Till the welkin madly splitting clearly the most talked of athlete in the And the purple cave of echo into Man's entry the White Man's sports country with the possible exception of one Sends back all the surging chorus 45 years ago. Here were these untutored, Robert Fitzsimmons, who had defeated "Sockalexis, Sockalexis, half-civilized foemen of only a few years the heavyweight champion Jim Corbett Sock it to them, Sockalexis." before taking up and often excelling in a short while before. the games of the pale face. Certainly he was the baseball hero of Just as the experts were predicting First of them all to gain national at- the hour. Sports writers raved over him that he would rise to new heights he tention and to be a topic for almost in reams of copy. In Cleveland he won a broke dismally. Some of the then current constant discussion for the few short game from the great Rusie on a home run writers said that his downfall dated from years that he was in big time baseball was in the tenth inning and the star Giant his first pay check but that for a while his

Louis Sockalexis. After displaying rare pitcher alibied that it was only because great natural ability carried him along. baseball ability at Houlton Academy in he wasn't strong enough to work his fast The lights of the big cities dazzled him. Maine he first attracted attention at curve at that late stage in the game. He He was coaxed, cajoled and threatened Holy Cross. In his first game there thereupon started the gossip that Socka- all to no effect. Managerial advice meant against Springfield of the Eastern League lexis, like Thorpe after him, was a sucker nothing to him and he refused to recog- he made three two-baggers off the pitch- for a curve ball. nize discipline. ing of Jimmy Callahan, at that time quite But the allegation didn't square with One night, trying to get out a second- a mound artist and later manager of the Sockalexis' performance. After he cap- story window {Continued on page 46)

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Existence security through an investment trust insures this fine home to Spokane (Wash- ington) Post in perpetuity

"OW, comrades, if you adopt we had an indebtedness of $2,000 which riches—Spokane Post got theirs the hard the plan I have proposed rode our shoulders like the Old Man of way. Determination on the part of the our Post will have an estab- the Sea. Then we could have held our officers and members to lift the Post to a N lished income of $250.00 each meetings in a telephone booth, and not position of financial stability, and team- and every month beginning on January 1, so long ago, at that. It can't be true that work by all members to reach that ob- 1945, and extending through i960, ex- our Post is now worth $130,000 and that jective, is responsible for what some of clusive of all other possible sources of we can, right now, set up an investment the Legionnaires call a $130,000 success. revenue." So Commander Allan Johnson trust that will insure a continuing income Nobody in Spokane Post, says Com- spoke to the members of Spokane (Wash- through the years when membership falls mander Johnson, claims special credit or ington) Post who were assembled in their off and revenues dwindle." individual glory. Everybody did his part recently acquired $75,000 home. With facts and figures before them, and today each one of the twelve hun- The members of the "old guard"—the the members of Spokane Post were not dred-odd members of the Post have a kind of men you find in every Legion hard to convince. Now that Post has pro- right to swell their chests as they step Post who wear the fifteen and twenty year vided for full security for the long to- from The American Legion Club, a service stars on their blue uniforms— morrows. The plan is worthy of careful completely remodeled three-story brick listened attentively to the "existence study by other Posts that are interested building in the heart of downtown security" plan, which had been dis- in laying up something for the future Spokane. cussed time and time again, but through which will in whole or in part care for Back in 1933, according to Com- their minds raced this thought: Post operating expenses after the mem- mander Johnson, Spokane Post was

"Us! Certaiidy he isn't talking about bers have passed the peak of earning broke, in fact it was worse than broke Post No. 9. No sir. Why only just a few power. But it is not a Horatio Alger story there was a debt hanging over its head. short years ago we couldn't pay our rent; of sudden jump from poverty to great Notwithstanding this handicap the Post

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asked for, and was given, the privilege of entertaining the Wash- ington Department Convention in 1034 and what a Convention it was, with National Commander Ed Hayes as the guest of honor, (and this chronicler cheering from the side- lines.) The working Le- gionnaires and affiliated bodies had a lot of fun in arranging the finances and staging the affair, but the real cele- bration came when the final accounting showed a profit of about $5,700, plus all bills paid. The Post had, in the meantime, managed to show a cash balance on hand instead of a deficit. The real upswing in the financial life of the Post Commander Allan could use a permanent home. It was a dates from that 1934 Johnson in action at deal, and early payment of the purchase Convention. a Post meeting, price was followed by an improvement To "preserve the flanked by Chap!ain and remodeling program which cost memories and inci- G. M. Bailey and something more than $30,000. The dents" of that accom- Adjutant Elwin Lang Post members swelled with pride, and plishment a trust fund profits from several enterprises again committee was set up Legislature of the State swelled in the trust fund. to care for the Conven- of Washington enacted a What to do? The Trust Fund Com- tion profits—Post No. 9 bill which provided for mittee was just filled with ideas, all re- was determined from the extension of club volving around the controlling thought that time on to stay on privileges to responsible of preserving the fund intact and of the right side of the ledger. That commit- organizations, of which the Legion was building it up to a point that, at some tee, composed of Jack Baldwin, Charles judged to be one. The club was estab- time in the future, the Post would be- Gonser, Lloyd G. Hill, Lew Morin and lished, profits roiled in and within a few come entirely self-supporting from its Paul Kreusel (replaced recently by King months theTrust Fund Committee bowled carefully hoarded reserve. The fund was Reid), was hedged with such restrictions the Post over with a proposition to pur- invested in the Government's "baby as to make the fund almost airsealed and chase the new quarters—the asking price bonds," which now totals $22,500 and watertight—a unanimous agreement of was $50,000, which was a lot of money will be surrendered for a round $30,000 the committee was required on all with- for a Post so recently dead broke. in another ten years. Still the Trust drawals, which must then be confirmed The Legion Club had established itself Fund Committee was not satisfied. The by a two-thirds vote of the members in a three-story brick business block members conferred. Then they talked present at any regular Post meeting. which was owned jointly by the Salva- with bankers and business men. The up- It was in 1935 that Post Commander tion Army and the Hutton Settlement, a shot of it all was the formulation of a

Arthur J. Hutton, who, in this year of child welfare work established by the late plan of a trust agreement made with the grace, is serving as Commander of the L. W. Hutton. Both owners agreed that Old National Bank of Spokane whereby Department of Washington—sold the they could use the money. The Legion ihe bank takes over the nest-egg and Committee on the idea of setting up entered into an agreement to pay to the housekeeping in a new and more com- Post the monthly sum of $250.00 from fortable home. It was then that the care- Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Post January 1, 1945 through to December fully guarded trust fund, which had been gives its message of Americanism 31, 1060. The cost of operation of this invested at a good rate of interest, was on a giant billboard nine feet trust amounts to one-quarter of one per- put to work. At about the same time the high and sixty-five feet long cent per annum. That was the plan Com-

AUGUST, 1940 mander Johnson presented, and that was Each Memorial Day members of the one accepted. historic interest. It is the ''Old French Ezra Barrows Post, Kildeer, North

Easy, isn't it? Any Post can do it. But Fort" of the early pioneer days along the Dakota, pay honor to two soldiers first that Post must lay up a fund big Gulf Coast and has the further distinction killed in the Kildeer battle in 18 64. enough to interest an investment or of being held by the American Historic Below, Old French Fort, home of banking institution, and it need not be as Records Survey as the oldest occupied Jackson County (Mississippi) Post big as that put up by Spokane Post for a house in the entire Mississippi Valley. starter. Just in case any Post or Auxiliary "Built in 1 718 as a place of refuge and

Unit is interested in working out its own defense against the hostile Pascagoula roof, which have never been replaced. existence security, the Step-Keeper is Indians," says Comrade George S. Fly The building boasts two chimneys, solidly certain that Commander Allan Johnson of Biloxi, "the old fort stands on a bluff erect despite their great age, and four or any member of the Trust Fund Com- in the famed 'Singing River' valley and ample fireplaces. mittee will be pleased to send further from the land side has much of the ap- "Jackson County Post is seeking a details. Address them in care of Spokane pearance of a farm house set in a grove Federal grant to restore and maintain Post No. o which, by its works, is suffi- of pecan trees. Today it stands very the 'Old French Fort' as a memorial to ciently well known in its home city to much as it did when it served the early the early settlers of the Gulf Coast. Im- make a street address superfluous. French settlers as a fort, even though provements to date, however, consist The Auxiliary? Well, perhaps too much much of its color has disappeared. The merely of 'a roughly installed electric credit has been given to the Post members walls are constructed of oyster shells, lighting system, and a glass encased in the financial rejuvenation of this Post; moss and mortar masonry and are from meter appears incongruously on the an- the Auxiliary played a big part. Of their fifteen to thirty inches thick. But solid cient wall of mud and oyster shells. The work Commander Johnson says: "Stand- as the walls are they are not stouter than Post holds monthly meetings in the ing out as a beacon in those dark days the heavy wooden timbers bracing the largest of the fort's three gloomy rooms." was the service of our Auxiliary, which we now attempt to repay by annually 1 providing for the' Unit's budget." The new Legion home has not been removed from the tax rolls, as is the privilege of veteran society owned prop- erty in the State of Washington, but is paying its way just like any other prop- erty owner in the community. The street floor of the building returns an annual rental of $2,400—a big boost for the annual Post budget of $22,000, which, of course, is subject to much inflation each year because of public emergencies and community service activities not contemplated at the time the budget is made up.

Old French Fort

THE home of Jackson County Post at Pascagoula, Mississippi, now more than two centuries old, is one of great

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More Iron Lungs County Fire Department and will he bers of Naval Post have not paid special kept ready for instant use. This type of attention to these children.

• QALT LAKE CITY has special reason respirator cost the donors $1,700, funds Just recently, as a special mark c f O to appreciate the Legion because for which were raised through the com- remembrance, the two Scout Troops at of the unusually fine work done by Post bined effort of Logan, Richmond, Smith- the hospital —Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts No. 2 in the fight against infantile paral- field, Hyrum and Wellsville Legion —were presented with a beautiful silk ysis. Two years ago the Post raised funds Posts. flag, staff and standard. When Com- with which to purchase two iron lungs mander Hugh Fanning went into the the only ones in Utah—which have since A Helping Hand recreation room to make the presenta- been the means of saving a number of tion, all but three of the two troops were lives," says a recent editorial in the Salt NAVAL Post of Chicago, Illinois, has unable to arise from their beds —of the Lake City (Utah) Telegram. Salt Lake a great number of programs and three on their feet, one was in a plaster City Post earned this fine editorial tribute activities, writes Past Commander Clar- cast from his neck to his waist; one was and more. Two more iron lungs have ence E. Harper, but none that has on crutches, the third was in a metal been presented to its home city and it a greater heart-tug than the helping frame which held his arms at right angles was instrumental in obtaining the pres- hand the members give to the little to his body. "If you want to spread a little sun- shine around this gloomy old world of ours," says the Sea Bag, the Post's publication, "go out to the hospital and see if there is anything you can do for some of these kids. Doubly handicapped, crip- pled in a pitiful manner, some may never recover the normal use of their limbs." That's good advice to any Legionnaire or any Legion Post in any town.

Those Legion Dads

SO.M F merit n >n w ;h made in I he Keep- ing Step section for April of the Le-

gion Dads affiliated with J. Hurt Pratt Post of Virginia, Minnesota. The piece brought an immediate statement from Past Commander Rawley Dent of Harold R. Andrews Post, Independence, Kansas, that the group affiliated with his Post was eleven years senior to the Min- nesota group. So be it; here's what Le- gionnaire Dent says:

Utah has six iron lungs, five furnished by the Legion. Top, Salt Lake City Legionnaires at presentation of two new ones; at right, mobile unit provided for use in Cache County by Posts

cntation of another one, given by a F'tah capitalist as a memorial to his deceased daughter. The same paper, in another issue, says in its news columns: "With the two lungs, Utah will have six machines—one in Logan and five in Salt Lake City. The

American Legion is responsible for all except one at the St. Mark's Hospital,

\ hich was the gift of the Garfield Work- ers' Benefit Association. Dr. George N. Curtis, Salt Lake General Hospital superintendent, told American Legionnaires at the start of their last iron lung drive that at least twelve lives had been saved by the two respirators that the former service men purchased in their initial campaign. Joining with Salt Lake Post in the patients confined in the Destitute Crip- "A charter dated December t, 1024, purchase and presentation were Jordan, pled Children's Hospital, a section of signed by James A. Drain, National Edith Cavell. L'nion, Murray and Sugar- Billings Memorial Hospital, in their Commander, and Russell Creviston, Na- house Posts." area. In addition to the little things done tional Adjutant, was granted to forty- E. H. Elliott, Adjutant of Logan all during the year to brighten the lives two fathers of local Legionnaires. This (F'tah) Post, tells the Step-Keeper that of the shut-ins, Easter is set apart as a was countersigned by Frank (Chief) the mobile unit bought for use in Cache day of special remembrance, and no Haucke, Department Commander, ; nd County will be housed in the City and Easter has passed since 1927 that mem- Ernest (Red) (Continued on page 6j)

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BOOM towns of yesteryear—ghost towns of today. . . .But, who knows, with the country be- latedly awakening to the importance of national defense, something for which the Legion has fought since its very inception in igiq, those towns may be booming soon again. We refer to the camps and cantonments which sprang up like mushrooms all over the country during those frantic days of igi7 when the nation was rushing to prepare an army for service in foreign lands. And we are sure there are few among us who do not often wonder how those camps of our training days appear now, twenty-odd years later. One of our comrades was for- tunate enough to retrace his steps to the camp wherein he learned his squads right —Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina and came away with a splendid collection of photographs, of which we reproduce two. While his story will be of particular interest to veterans of the 27th, 6th and o6th Divisions, which trained there, we feel that it might contain generally U YESTERDAY the tale of all of the camps and cantonments which were abandoned by the seen for a long time any mention of the marker which was erected at the en- Government after the emergency was good old Sight-Seeing Sixth. Evidently, trance by The American Legion of over. So, with K. C. Moore of 938 Prairie also, no one has come forward with any South Carolina. The marker, which I Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois, member of word or pictures of Camp Wadsworth, am shown reading in one of the pictures,

Des Plaines Post of the Legion, as guide, where we trained, and so I wonder if any lists the 27th Division, the 6th Division let us start on our tour: of the men of Company L or Headquar- and the 06th Division, all of which "Although I read the Legion Maga- ters Company, 53d Infantry, with both trained there, and the periods during zine carefully and watch particularly the of which I served, would be interested v hich each occupied the camp. I learned Then and Now Department, I have not in my visit there in June of last year. that this entrance was new—the one we "Driving four miles used in 1918 having been further inside west out of Spartanburg, the camp on an old highway. South Carolina, on U. S. "Just inside the entrance there are Highway No. 29, I found double paved driveways with space the site of former Camp between them allotted for the erection Wadsworth identified by of memorials to the three Divisions an attractive cast-iron but nothing has been done thus far toward any memorials.

"At the end of the drive is the site of

When a veteran of the colonel's quarters and just beyond is the Sight-Seeing Sixth the old Parade Ground. Last June this visited his old train- copper-colored soil was covered with ing camp last year, cotton plants. Further along I found the he found a scene of former Administration Building with its desolation. At top, sign still in place—and I also got a pic- the former Adminis- ture of this building. All fixtures had tration Building. been removed, the stairs were gone and Left, the sight-seer, one had to be a second-story man to get K. C. Moore, reads a inside. Another building bears the sign marker erected by 'Post Office,' still legible. The former the Legion Medical Building has empty drug bottles

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strewn on its floor and 'Hospital Rules us into town for iced drinks! Plenty of and Regulations' posted on its wall. copper-jacketed slugs are still on the "The only building still in good repair ground. Remember the trees further up and nicely painted is the former Red the side of the back hill that were riddled Cross Headquarters, now occupied by with 'high' shots? Those trees remain the Spartanburg Women's Club. The just as we left them. The old 53d Infan- Chaplain's quarters, back of the Post try may have forgotten Glassy Rock Office, has been remodeled into a home Mountain, but the men of that regiment

The U. S. Transport Rijndam headed up the Hudson River in 1918 with lower New York City in the background. The Woolworth Building, left, and the Singer Building, right center, were then the tallest skyscrapers. Right, Yeoman James F. McKeegan inspects one of the six-inchers aboard

and is occupied. In its backyard I came certainly left their mark in those hills! 1040, edition of the New York Sun, and across an old two-wheeled cart with "How about some of the old gang if perchance you know James F. McKee- 'U. S.' painted on its sides and also a writing to me?" gan—Jim McKeegan, to the gang familiar White truck, with hard rubber you'll understand why. tires and the controls mounted on a post DID any of you hear of the time that Who is this McKeegan? Well, in 1938 just ahead of the steering-wheel. an American coastal city was he served Greenpoint Post, whose club- "The old rifle range is reached on shelled by an American transport? It's house at 145 Greenpoint Avenue in Highway No. 176 out of Spartanburg to hard to believe, but we have it on the Brooklyn, New York, is a real com- Campobello and then into the hills over word of a veteran of the ship involved. munity center, as Commander. More? graveled roads to Glassy Rock Moun- Incidentally, the former crew of that In 1039 he was Commander of the 12th tain. Fortunately, one of the boys in ship really rates! Not many crew re- Legion Division; is now a delegate to Campobello offered to ride with me and unions pull down an announcement the Kings County Organization, chair- direct me, as the range is now overgrown not mentioning a column of yarns of man of the Post Executive Committee, with trees and brush and it would have wartime service—in the ships' news Chairman of Publicity, Chairman of the been difficult to find. I am sure the fel- column of a New York City daily. That Welfare Committee and active on per- lows will recall the range with its hun- happened in Robert Wilder's column, haps a half-dozen additional Post com- dred targets strung out in one unbroken "On the Sun Deck," in the February 22, mittees. He was a gob during the war, row. The road brought us in at about the serving as yeoman on the U. S. Trans- 500-yard position and we had to leave port Rijndam. He called the first re- the car and walk over planted fields to union of his old shipmates during the reach the pits. The pits are now almost Legion National Convention in New completely caved in and only a few York City in 1037 and is still serving as timbers remain to mark their location. President of the crew's veterans asso- "It had been twenty-one years ciation. Some big shots in that asso- L before, during the third week of ciation, too—one, the present Sec-

June, that I had been detailed retary of State of New York, l^E^ to duty in the pits and the Michael F. Walsh; another, °^ my re—visit seemed the first non-commis- ^ just as hot, dry and sioned man to hold the dusty. And in '18 we Legion Commander- had no car to take ship of the De-

Real action! A gun-crew on the U. S. S. O'Brien taking a shot at a submarine during an attack in European waters in 1918

AUGUST, 1940 31 partment of Georgia, Logan Kelley of starboard bunkers, and when wc rushed up on might have been quite a number of fatalities. after the explosion, Buford, Georgia. deck she was almost ob- The former crew of the Rijndam will scured by a heavy cloud of dust and smoke. Past Commander McKeegan supplied be able to live over those service days The President Lincoln sank, but the Coving- the photograph of the U. S. S. Rijndam, when their old shipmates gather in Ion made port." with the skyline of lower New York reunion in Boston during the Legion The Rijndam, McKeegan says, was the it in back- National Convention, September City as appeared 1018, as a only ship to shell an American city, which 23d to drop, and also the snapshot showing of course was an accident. "It happened in 26th. President McKeegan hopes for a himself, off duty, learning something early July, 19 18, on the same voyage as the record-breaking attendance and would like to have the men, whether or not they go to Boston, write to him at 145 Green- point Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

WHILE the Navy has the platform, let's hear from another ex-gob, Karl A. Kormann of 23 Lakeville Road, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, member of Old Dorchester Post of the Legion in Dorchester, who is getting ready to welcome his shipmates also during the Le- gion National Convention. With his letter came the snapshot, on the preceding page, of a gun crew that was in action against a submarine at the time it was taken. Yrou will note in the following yarn that a fairly recent "now" incident recalled "then" to this comrade:

"On March 2, 1940, there was a new U. S. S. O'Brien (destroyer) added to the U. S. Navy. How this will bring back fond memories to the old timers who served aboard the first O'Brien —good Early in 1919, the baseball team about one of the guns which protected old No. 51! A better sea-going ship, for of Troop D, 17th Cavalry, held his ship. Says Jim McKeegan, "I con- rough or smooth seas, was never built. the championship of Schofield tacted the shipmate who took that snap- You gobs who served on her will remem- Barracks, Hawaii shot and he informed me that I was ber that she had a crew that really stuck always about ship so much that when together — and officers, good and bad, but anything was going on, I was a part of it. we pulled through over eighteen months President Lincoln sinking," he said. "We had One day he saw me snooping around one just come through the submarine nets in of overseas service without the loss of a of the guns, with the result shown." New York's lower bay, between two and man. Now, with a bow to Robert Wilder, three in the morning, and, as the naval cus- "Think back to patrol duty off the mentor of ''On the Sun Deck," we pro- tom was, with our guns lifted. We carried Irish coast during those summer nights ceed to lift some extracts from the story four six-inchers. As we got by the nets, the with the glee club banging away at their gun crew was ordered to unload, and as they he got from Jim McKeegan—the latter music, when you'd forget the time until were working on No. 2 gun forward, in the by the way, an ex-purser and now "on you were ordered on watch. Remember darkness, the gunner caused a contact, and a the beach" for the Ward Line that the night the officers' ice-box was six-inch shell flew across the bay into Jersey puts out of the Port of New York for broken open and the captain's nice ham City. We understand it landed on a school- Caribbean voyages. Here are a few house, and knocked down a water tank, was missing along with about every- paragraphs from Mr. Wilder's column: without loss of life. Again the guardian angel thing else? Oh, yes, we ate well some- of the Rijndam exerted his good influence times! The Rijndam of the Holland America Had it been 2 p. m. instead of 2 a. m., there "Maybe you'll recall the great storm Line, together with a number of other neutral ships, was interned in the Hudson River when the United States declared war in 1917. She was taken over by our Navy in 19 18 for transport duty. Mr. McKeegan, a yeoman, first class, was in the first boarding party. The Netherlands crew was disembarked and returned to Holland. The Rijndam was an extremely lucky vessel, which is one reason, undoubtedly, the veterans of the crew love her so. McKeegan told the following story: "On two occasions the Rijndam had narrow escapes in convoy. She was the only ship present at the torpedoings of the U. S. S. President Lincoln and the U. S. S. Covington.

. . . On May 31, 1918, when our convoy, including the President Lincoln, was 428 miles out of Hrest, a submarine was sighted on our port bow. The U-boat fired immediately, the torpedo passing right across our bows, and struck the President Lincoln almost directly under the bridge at the water line. . . . "Thirty-one days later, on July 1st, almost the same thing happened with the Covington, In Datzeroth, Germany, in the Occupied Area, where the 8th Machine which was only 400 yards away from us to Gun Company, 5th Marines, headquartered, a German farmer fills his port. The torpedo struck the Covington in the ox-drawn fertilizer cart. The year was 1919

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in the Bay of Biscay in

August , i o i 7 , when with the U. S. S. Jams we convoyed a cargo ship through the bay. Time after time the old bow would dive into a mountainous sea and dump a few tons of water onto the deck, some to hit the fire and engineroom and the men in after-compart- ments. "Also think back to the morning of June o, 1918, when Commander Martin K. Metcalf risked the ship and the lives of the crew by taking her bow right to the stern of the tor- pedoedBritishship Van- dalia to rescue four men and a Captain Turner of the Royal Navy. What a skipper Martin was! No better man ever wore the uni- Pictures taken at the Tank Center, form of our Navy. I could go on and on near Langres, and in Castillon were telling about the old O'Brien; hers was assembled as a souvenir for the a good record —-'Ever-ready' O'Brien "Treat 'Em Rough" gang. Left, she was known as in them there days! the cook of Company C, 3 3 2d During her service in European waters Battalion, Tank Corps, watches a she covered a total of 102,228.3 miles French blacksmith shoe an ox some record! We had our troubles, and fun and care—that's all behind us. We'll live those days over at our reunion at Schofield Barracks, on Oahu, Hawaii. in Boston in September. "The team was organized by Com- "As for the submarine attack, during rade Norman. It played all the teams which the snap was taken, it was on in our area and won the championship December 15, 1017, when we were doing of the Post. submarine trap duty with the British "Our regiment was sent out to the decoy ship, Arbutus, off Small's Island Islands from Douglas, Arizona, in 1919, near Wales. At 9:29 A. M. we sighted a to replace the Hawaiian National Guard German sub and opened fire on her with troops. We performed guard duty at no hits. While running at full speed to- Schofield until the regiment was dis- wards the sub we dropped one depth American soldiers didn't forget their banded a year or so later. bomb, which missed. For about an hour National Game. Baseball followed the "I would certainly like to hear from we cruised around and suddenly the troops wherever they went and, weather my comrades on this team." Arbutus was torpedoed. We made all and seasons permitting, games would be possible speed in her direction and cooked up at a moment's notice during ALMOST everyone who got across the dropped depth bombs. Oil was seen on leisure periods. And some outfits de- l pond and spent any time in France the surface but whether we got the sub veloped real teams, too. For instance, or Belgium or in the Occupied Area will or not, we never learned. We picked up the properly-uniformed group which we have memories revived by the picture seventy-five British survivors and took show represented Troop D, 17th U. S. of the ox-drawn cart which came to us them into Milford Haven, Wales. Cavalry, of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. from Ex-Leatherneck Charles H. Lee, "Chief Gunner's Mate McMillan can The picture was sent with the following 741 Howard Street, Evanston, Illinois, be seen in the foreground of the snap- letter from Carl Norman of 408 East whose Legion affiliation is with Electric shot picture. Maybe some of my old Prospect Street, La Follette, Tennessee, Post in Chicago. That particular snap- shipmates will be able to recognize others member of Campbell County Post of the shot, opposite, brings particularly poig- of the gun crew." Legion nant memories to Comrade Lee, so "Thought possibly some of our com- suppose we ask him to tell us about it: ON THE other side of the globe rades would like to see the champion- "Enclosed you will find a picture of the where men were being trained for ship baseball team of my outfit, Troop old fertilizer cart that we boys of the eventual assignment to the A. E. F., D, 17th U. S. Cavalry, while stationed 8th Machine Gun {Continued on page 58)

AUGUST, 1940 3.3 The Wisconsin Department's Camp American Legion has what if takes for a hundred percent vacation

TOMAHAWK-

bq WATSON B. MILLER

so long after our war, the Director, National Rehabilitation NOTWisconsin Department of The Committee, The American Legion American Legion sensed the need of human beings lately tional Endowment was raised, the Wis- returned from a rigorous experience and consin Department not only met its own again assuming the exacting responsibili- big quota but took on and collected an ties of normal life, for occasional periods additional hundred thousand dollars to of relief from routine. There were maintain what came to be known as those encountered also who had Camp American Legion. Actually an been under treatment for war in- added one hundred and twenty thousand curred conditions who although dollars was subscribed. The people of discharged from hospital care were Wisconsin, speaking through the State not quite ready to take over the Legislature, provided funds for the job or quite ready to fully assume purchase, improvement, and new con- the role of family head. struction. Other income has been avail- Always in the forefront of all able from one or two other sources and measures toward maximum rehabil- from guests able to pay modestly for itation of World War veterans, their accommodations. These historical the Red Arrow boys summoned data are expressive of the extent of the the men and women of the other physical setup of the camp but not, of outfits together and disclosed course, descriptive of its beauty and

the dream of a rest camp comfort. Let's see if I can sketch the pic- where natural palliative ture. It's perfectly fixed in my mind's therapy of sun, woods, eye because five of us with five of our winds, and waters would own wives and one young son of two of be at hand. At length and us, spent a vacation week there at the not without surmounting end of the last year's Chicago Conven- many perplexities, the tion. Whether I can set it out on paper is dream was realized. During something else again. the year the Legion's Na- The location first, I guess. A smooth two hundred and fifty miles more or less —who cares when (Continued on page 4q)

"Whether you want to fish, hunt, hike, play games, do woodworking, or just re- lax, Tomahawk has the sil answer iff If*!

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35 Fooling the Enemy

(Cow'inued from page ig)

of Saros, but Major General Freyberg past the city's fortifications. The garri- A long time ago, when Helen's fair insisted that he be allowed to do the son showeied a barrage of arrows into face had launched a thousand ships, the job alone. In the middle of the night the barges, where they stuck harmlessly Trojan Horse was born. Ulysses, the he swam ashore, towing a small boat in the straw. With ammunition gratuit- clever Greek, was tired of sitting outside filled with flares and revolvers. And un- ously supplied by the enemy, the attack- the walls of Priam's city, and had an der cover of a barrage from a destroyer, ers continued their siege and took the idea. The wooden horse was built. The he shot off his guns and lit flares along city. parachute troops of that day were put the beach. The Turks thought a strong Perhaps the most famous deceptions inside, and Ulysses spread the necessaiy force had landed and concen- rumors to tempt the Trojans trated their troops there. Frey- to drag the Fifth Column into berg succeeded in escaping. their city. King Priam, like a Although the simultaneous few statesmen of today, attack on the heights was warned against the "Greeks unsuccessful, it caused consid- bearing gifts." But no one be- erable damage. lieved him and Troy fell in a With another trick the Brit- bloody massacre. ish colonials took a strong re- All through the Middle doubt in the Gallipoli foothills Ages and on up to the time without the loss of a man. when castles and battlemented Every night at nine, a British strongholds lost their military destroyer tu rned on her sea rch- meaning, the technique of the light and in its glare raked the Trojan Horse was successful Turkish position with gunfire again and again. Richard the for ten minutes by the clock. Lion Heart, in the Crusades, This was repeated night after invented the most unusual night, until the Turks began variation. The siege of the doing exactly what the Anzacs Saracen citadel of Acre had expected they would. They been going on in Medieval cleared out of the redoubt the style for seven years—until moment the searchlight went the Englishman arrived and on and climbed in again the hurled a thousand beehives moment it went off. Finally, into the city with his cata- one evening, a company of pults. The infuriated bees did Anzacs crept out in the shad- the work of a Fifth Column ow beyond the searchlight's most effectively. TerrUcd glare, slipped into the tempo- Saracens escaped into their rarily evacuated position and cellars, and King Richard's turned the Turkish machine battering rams—undisturbed time guns against their owners. ^ rive me a demonstration some other —smashed down the gates. Two hours later all the sur- I'm too busy now!" Frederick the Great, the rounding entrenchments were methodical German, expanded in British hands. used during the first World War were Ulysses' invention to really great propor- The final Anzac triumph at Gallipoli invented by navies rather than armies. tions. "I have a hundred spies for every was the evacuation of their trenches They were the British Q ships and the cook in my army," he once proudly said. with a mechanical artifice which saved German raiders —direct descendants of And these spies, sowing corruption and thousands of lives. There were 80,000 the pirates and privateers who flew false disruption in the path of his advance, Turks in front of their lines at a distance flags to lure their prey within range. sabotaging enemy supply trains, circu-

from twenty yards to half a mile. Moving Surprising as it may seem, the public lating forged orders, were a vital part of at night with great caution, the British knew nothing of the Q ships until three his military machine. were able to evacuate all but the front years after their introduction in 191 5, so It remained for Wilhelm Stieber trenches. When time came to leave these, well was the secret kept. They accounted Prince Bismarck's Chief of Intelligence hundreds of rifles were set up in a line for over 100 German submarines. to make the Trojan Horse what it ij to- on the parapets. Each trigger was fast- The Q ship looked like an old freighter day. Stieber was the secret service ger.irs ened to a tin into which water dripped, manned by a slovenly crew. Actually the who had almost as much to do with tho so that when the tin was heavy enough men were carefully picked from the crushing defeat of the French in 187 it would pull the trigger. Volleys of shots cream of the Royal Navy. These inno- and the founding of the G*rman Empire came from the empty trenches long after cent-looking ships cruised slowly in sub- as Prince Bismarck and General von the last men had silently been loaded marine-infested waters. The moment a Moltke. Moltke once said that he owed into boats. U-boat was spotted, the Q ship would his victory in large part to Stieber's A C hinese warlord of long ago was be- pretend to run away. Stopped by a "careful preparations." The Franco- sieging a city on the Yangtse, when his shot from the submarine's gun, the Prussian War was planned in detail years supply of arrows ran out and further skipper would heave to and lower a in advance. Stieber planted agents on action was impossible. But he had an "panic party" in their boats. The sub- the French lines of march—farmers, inspiration. A number of battle barges marine then generally drew closer to barmaids at inns and soldiers' canteens, were built, with superstructures of straw sink the "tramp" with shell fire, for tor- domestics in the households of French and dummy soldiers on the decks. pedoes were expensive. At that instant officers and professional men. Retired Manned by a few real soldiers, crouched the Q ship suddenly was transformed into German non-commissioned officers were safely in the bilges beating drums and an inferno of spouting guns hidden be- found jobs in strategic positions all over exploding firecrackers, the boats floated hind fake deck houses and lifeboats. France. And {Continued on page 36)

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36 J^ooling the Enemy

{Continued from page ?j) finally Stieber bought newspapers in French army forced to surrender. That northeastern Luzon. Lieutenant Freder- Paris to sow the seeds of pacifism and was only seventy years ago. ick Funston immediately collected a defeatism. He boasted later that he had The virtual kidnaping of King Chris- small group of reliable native soldiers placed no less than 40,000 spies in France. tian of Denmark a few months ago, already under American command, dis- When Bismarck started the war, and the attempts on Queen Wilhelmina guised them with nondescript clothing Sticber's Fifth Column went into action. and King Haakon by Gestapo agents, and a motley collection of ancient rifles, The French army was badly enough have their parallels in history. The most and with three other American officers organized, but the vast German secret spectacular is the capture of Aguinaldo, set out to kidnap Aguinaldo. service dealt it the death blow. The con- the Filipino chieftain, by American Funston's men were to pretend to be fusicr. and inefficiency of the French army officers in 1901. Seventy thousand the reinforcements which the local chief moLi'.ization have no parallel in history. soldiers under General Arthur Mac- was sending to Aguinaldo. Funston and General Michel sent to Paris a telegram Arthur were having a hard time in the the three other officers were ostensibly unique in army annals: "Can't find my islands which had been ceded to the their prisoners. After narrow scrapes, brigade. Can't find the general of the United States by Spain two years before. "rebels" and "prisoners" reached the division. What shall I do? Don't know Aguinaldo was the brains of the guerilla chieftain's headquarters, dispersed his w here my regiments are." German agents revolt which flared from one end of the guard, and escorted him through the in the War Ministry in Paris had so al- islands to the other, his raiding parties jungle to the coast, where an American tered mobilization plans and orders attacking American outposts with light- cruiser picked them up and took them to that it took weeks to straighten out the ning speed, only to disappear into the Manila. Aguinaldo was persuaded to chaos. In the meantime the German jungles as soon as a relieving force ar- sign a proclamation of surrender and the "farmers," "barmaids," and "commer- rived. The American command realized Philippine Insurrection was over. cial travelers" had created such con- that unless Aguinaldo himself was de- "There is nothing new in war," once fusion cn the routes of march that the stroyed they could make no headway. said Marshal Foch to some of his staff French army was paralyzed. The catas- Finally a message from Aguinaldo to one officers. "The weapons change and de- trophic Battle of Sedan followed, during of his chiefs, asking for reinforcements, struction becomes more terrible. But the w hich Emperor Napoleon III himself was was intercepted. It revealed the position tricks remain the same. And wise is the captured by the Germans and an entire of his headquarters in the mountains of general who studies his history."

(some and Stay Awhile (Continued from page 2j) people to a specific destination on a and attend the Legion's National Con- It's not the 2,500 miles of seacoast national time-schedule in this "Travel vention in Boston, next September." beaches, rocky cliffs and sheltered sail- America Year" of 1040. Probably Commander Whitney never boat harbors— it's the ideal air and Ten years older than they were before gave a thought to the fact that he water temperatures that make New —with their children, their industrial, started on what was Patriot's Day in England's ocean tempting. It's the inns business or family interests in New Eng- Massachusetts. That was the 165th and water sports and people. It's the land matured by a full decade—the anniversary of another patriot's ride new thrill-discoveries every year in salt- Legionnaire folk of all America and its the one who rode "Deacon Larkin's best water game-fishing. It's the urban swank overseas outposts are going back again horse" to warn the Minute Men at Lex- so close to old-clothes comfort and no- to visit New England and re-dedicate ington. But like all other Legionnaires, clothes seclusion! America's most representative organiza- Commander Whitney had heard again It's not alone the famous lakes and tion to the service of "Community, the call of Paul Revere, rallying the streams people have read about all their State and Nation." It is the 22A National patriots of a later war and a wider nation lives. Of all the square-mile territory in Convention of The American Legion. to defend the same stalwart American- all the six New England States, one-six- The Legionnaires are due to arrive ism again in Boston, and to celebrate teenth of the w hole area will be sparkling on Sunday, Sept. 2 2d for a vast outdoor more than twenty-one years of American invitingly any morning when the sun memorial service. Then comes fun and peace in a world again gone mad with slants down upon the countless wood- frolic—and serious convention debate on war. Incidentally, the equestrian statue of land waters of New England. And national problems as weighty as any now the famous Paul by Cyrus Dallin which all these lakes and ponds and streams; before that other and official Congress of the City of Boston ordered fifty-six all the golf greens, parks and villages; the United States. But by all the cer- years ago will be in place on Paul Revere all the mountain lodges and beach resorts tainty of mathematical law, some of the Mall in the North End before the con- have tree-lined modern highways laid Legion family will be coming long before vention opens. Sculptor Dallin had what like lace-work in between them. —because it is summer now and because it took, and eventually finished the job. There is so much of interest for so nowhere else will the long, hot weeks to Probably that early-starling Manila many sorts of people in New England! come be quite like summer in New- Legionnaire was the first man in the Old houses of antique architecture and England. world to get under way for next Septem- inward charm, shrines and colonies de- There was a microscopic news item in ber's Legion carnival, but his Honolulu voted to all the arts, famous colleges and the morning newspaper last spring, Clipper was only a straw-in-the-wind. He summer schools, ancient seaports, coun- dated Manila, P. I., April loth. "Depart- will find comrades on New England lakes try fairs and a network of summer thea- ment Commander Courtney Whitney of and trails and beaches, and will learn ters where tonight's show is apt to be the Philippine American Legion," it said, that they have not days enough to sam- something that will bedazzle Broadway "left today by Honolulu Clipper for the ple all the day-and-night delights of critics six months after New England United States to make an extended stay summer in New England. ''summer folk" have seen it.

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 37 Cape Cod, the right arm of Massa- In contrast, Boston's North Shore cut, the Nutmeg State, clear down to chusetts, crooks out invitingly and drives reveal the "stern and rockbound Long Island Sound. gathers good fishing and fun right out of coast." This way lead the roads to Salem, Yet New England is more. It is what the Gulf Stream. It's a different world. Marblehead, Gloucester, Cape Ann and its thinkers and scholars, its writers and Like weather-beaten old Nantucket and America's No. i highway heading Down artists, its inventors, investors and Martha's Vineyard, it has been island- East to the vaster ranges of Maine's patriot-pioneers have led any newcomer ized by scenery, architecture, vegeta- "Vacationland." to expect it to be. And because it has been

tion, customs and cooking that are new Inland spreads the great Indian-legend a part of our America so long, it is, as one to "off island" people. Its sandy dunes valley of the Connecticut River. This is writer has said, "a land of ancient memo- and endless beaches stretch out from the borderland betwixt Vermont and ries dear to every American, of landscapes Buzzards Bay and Falmouth past Hyan- New Hampshire, the eastern margin of mellowed by three hundred years of nis, Chatham, Orleans to this genera- the Bay State's famous walled province human occupation, of villages grown gray tion's art-colony spot where the Pilgrims of loveliness called the Berkshire Hills. and lovely under immemorial elms, of first landed at Provincetown—and back Further south this valley furnishes houses proud . . . and fields where our again on the inner shores of the Bay. playland, farm and factory for Connecti- fathers fought for freedom."

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(Continued from page ij) at peace. There were only Belgians to And all this costly, herculean effort except for a few troops guarding supplies, shoot at and if one bullet had hit a was to be waste—utter waste. and the local French police—and this Belgian, it would have made an incident Work and drill and life back of the in the rear of the Allied armies in to show it was the Allies and not the fortified lines continued up to the end Flanders. Germans about to invade Belgium. of the long lull before the breaking of the Motorcyclists actually rode ahead of This was a strange enough situation, storm with the German invasion of Bel- the German tanks as freely as French but I pass on to the big surprise. I had gium and Holland. Never was there such motorists on a holiday. The tanks the idea, as had the rest of the world, a lull—never such a storm. Those who rumbled over the roads and spread out that the mighty Maginot Line had been went over the top had a likeness in the over the fields unmolested by any anti- extended from the end of the French lull before the lightning barrage and the tank guns. Low flying planes swept the frontier all the way to the English Chan- shell and machine-gun fire they met in roads with machine-gun fire while others nel along the Belgian frontier. their advance. bombed towns and villages, causing panic But this was not so. The fact that it After the German rush swept over the among the civil population. was not is one feature but not the great Dutch and Belgian frontiers—then what? As this host swept on, what was hap- one which explains what happened. After The British sped with tanks, guns and pening in Flanders? There another Ger- the start of the war last September the trucks across into Belgium, leaving their man host swept through the Belgians' Allies hastened to make a substitute in new defense line behind them. No longer own Maginot Line. The Allies had to fall extension of the Maginot Line. diggers and concrete pourers, they were back among the fear-crazed refugees, Some of us remember how concrete pill eager soldiers off the leash for action at unable to maintain teamwork or to get boxes for machine guns appeared in the last. their anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns into later period of the World War. These effective action. were the forerunners of those being built NOW, let's look the other side of the In using his planes and tanks Hitler along the Belgian frontier during last new defense line away from the fight- made the most of his obsolete planes; winter. ing in Belgium which was to become the they had their part in a new va;iety When the British soldiers were not separate Battle of Flanders. We are at of barrage—a barrage of bombs ahead drilling they became day laborers. The the hinge between the extension and the of the tanks and the artillery barrage only cessation from the grind some had Maginot Line itself, at Montmedy on to cover the advance of the German through the winter was when it was too the Meuse River near Sedan. Here was infantry. cold to pour concrete to make little pill- the objective toward which we Yanks Now I saw train load after train load of boxes for the machine guns and bigger fought our way in 1918 yard by yard, in the same old 40 and 8 cars bearing French pill-boxes for the big guns of the artillery the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. soldiers with their tanks and guns on flat —hundreds and hundreds of pill boxes, We reached the suburbs of Sedan first cars along the coastal railroad as re- many yet unfinished when the blitz- in our pursuit of the broken enemy, but inforcements to stem the tide in Flanders. krieg came. left the honor of the entry to the French, But too late. The German sweep between Other soldiers had a holiday when they since it meant so much to them in mem- the Allied armies in Flanders and Paris got bronchitis, flu, pneumonia, rheuma- ory of the surrender of their army there was more than half way to the sea. Now tism or lumbago in the course of the in the Franco-Prussian War. the 40 and 8 cars were speeding back—as excavations foi tank traps or in timbering In 1940 the Germans had their turn fast as French military trains could speed them. to pay back in kind in the eternal Euro- between passenger trains loaded with These tank traps were not the concrete pean liquidation of racial and national refugees—before the Germans reached pyramids of the German Siegfried Line grudges. the coastal railroad. When it was cut the or the old railroad rails set perpendicu- With the troops Hitler had rushed British army was cut off from its main larly in the earth of the Maginot Line. through the helpless little Duchy of Lux- ports of supply. Its retreat to join the The enemy tank which approached the embourg he struck at the hinge in an main French army to the south was kind of trap the British were building avalanche of force. The French Ninth blocked. went down the timbered slope on one Army cracked in a rout after failing to Being encircled, French and British side of the deep ditch and then against destroy the bridges over the Meuse. regiments in Flanders were fighting des- the perpendicular wall of timbering on This German host had broken the perately, losing as many as half and even the other side which seemed bound to hinge. It poured quickly through the two-thirds of their numbers. The Bel- stop it. There were miles upon miles of breach it had made. What was before it? gians' commissariat had utterly broken these timbered pits. A stretch sixty miles in depth undefended down. The British (Continue I 0:1 page 38)

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too were running extremely short of food. This the French must fight alone south jump. They not only had speed and num- Then King Leopold surrendered and of Paris. They still had immense numbers bers, but they knew how and where to use the weary British sought to fill the of troops in reserve. But could they form the numbers. While the Allies were set for resultant gap under a hurricane of fire. them up in lime? By now the Maginot the defensive waiting for the blow, the For the British only one way out was Line had been flanked. It was becoming Germans chose where they should strike left, and that was to leave their guns and as useless as the extension along the blow on blow with their smashing concen- tanks and equipment as booty for the Belgian frontier. The French faced open trations. They applied the old principles enemy and evacuate all of their surviving warfare when all their plans had been of war with the most modern equipment. soldiers they could back to Britain. made to hold fast in the Maginot Line. Generalissimo Gamelin gave them the Thus two separate battles were raging There on the Somme-Aisne Line, where wide-open opportunity to strike the at the same time, one north and one south they made their first stand, they had no Allied armies in the rear at the same time of the defense line on which the British such trench system as we knew in the as in front. Allied soldiers were sacrificed had labored through the winter. World War. The Germans swinging by a blunder which ranks with that of the The German sweep to the north soon south, after the gap had been cut through general who burned the bridges over a had Arras, the British Army Head- to the coast, were pushing forward their river before his own troops were across. quarters town. G. H. Q. too was on the infantry behind their tanks in processions But what affected me most deeply was move not to be cut off from the army in of German and commandeered Belgian how one by one the German avalanche

I landers. Telephone lines were broken. and Dutch trucks. swept over the battle fields we had won There was chaos. The French had time only to dig shal- and past our cemeteries. First it was Bony.

Any attempt to see the battles was low trenches. They had no barbed wire, Then it was Fere-en-Tardenois and so on handicapped by the raiding tanks and in face of the enemy's lightning barrages. to the last. planes. Hospitals which had few patients They could not get enough reserves up to But that does not lessen, it only makes before the blitzkrieg broke, and were now form or maintain an intact line. There more glowing, the honor we owe our dead overwhelmed with the red Hood, fell into were always gaps or weak points which and our pride in what we did. The mes-

the enemy's hands. Hospital trains, gave an opening for a rush of tanks, sup- sage I bring home is that we have memo- which had rested idle on sidings through ported by planes, to break through. And ries which strengthen us in knowing how the winter, now with every stretcher that was the story for the French army to live and work for our country. The occupied, were stalled. One battle was to the fatal conclusion. Now of today is that we have the greatest hopeless for the Allies. What of the other? From the start the Germans had the part to play since 1917-18.

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{Continued from page ij) over physical handicaps resulting from the early 30's, together with the merchan- shows, Kelly pool, beer, or ball games. the scourge ot infantile paralysis. Fi- dising genius of Piper. Taylor now is the A few organized in groups as flying clubs nanced by W. C. Piper, an oil operator, head of his own factory. Aeronca re- to further reduce the cost but the great Taylor had been building a conventional mained in active competition. An all- majority patronized local airport op- airplane when the stock market collapsed. metal low-priced plane made its bow. erators until they could buy planes of Taylor had discussed with Piper his Other new planes in the same relative their own. ideas on stimulating civil flying by getting price field today find ready markets. With the ' peace" of Munich came a the cost down, before chaos hit the air- Today $1500 will buy fifty percent more sudden awakening to the new importance plane market. Harassed by financial un- airplane than five years ago. Last year of air power. Civil flying is the backbone certainties, it did not appear they could sales of such planes totaled 3000, roughly of military aerial expansion just as the do anything about it, however, when a 85 percent being sold "on time." New merchant marine constitutes the national business acquaintance of Piper's un- mountain peaks on sales charts are reserve of naval power. Indeed, the expectedly repaid a two-thousand-dollar assured in the years to come. President has described civil aviation as loan which had been given up as lost. Just who were the people who sprouted "the backlog of national defense." That modest sum the backer made wings as the cost of flying came within The Civil Aeronautics Authority and available to Taylor to build a safe, range of their incomes? Relatively few its predecessor, the Bureau of Air Com- inexpensive plane, and with it was born a were wealthy, or the sons of wealth. merce, had played an important role in leader in the popular-priced airplane Fewer were college men. They were the fostering civil flying. Recapitulating air field—the Cub. grease-stained garage mechanic, the fac- progress before Munich, while generally Priced under $1500, that plane repre- tory worker, the shipping clerk, the found praiseworthy, it was yet deemed sented what airminded American youth bookkeeper, the soda jerker, small in- insufficient in view of the rise of air had been waiting for. Powered with a come salesmen, white collar youth and power. Also there stood on the records 40-horsepower engine, fuel costs were the artisan earning an average American the depressing story of America's billion- under a dollar an hour, little more than wage. dollar air efforts in the World War. one cent a mile. For the many who could To them the cost of flying is still Failure in plane production was not half not pay cash on the barrel-head a high if you consider that a fourth of a so tragic as the training program. In a financing plan was perfected, one-third $25 pay envelope may represent the year and a half of high-pressure effort down and the balance in monthly install- price of one hour's rental of a plane. But there were turned out not more than 8000 ments over a one-year period, insurance they felt the urge to fly and the cost was pilots beyond the solo stage. The average included. worth it. Yep, one hour of flying, in cost per pilot has been estimated from One may date the rapid growth of civil thirty or even fifteen-minute instalments, $25,000 upwards. Training fatalities fan- flying from the birth of that airplane in was assayed as being worth four nights of tastically exceeded air combat losses. In

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 39 the Texas fields and at Issoudun in $400 against the thousands spent for So many booms to civil flying have

France "one a day" was the byword for training each World War pilot. More evolved from the program it is difficult to the average training toll. than 20,000 students in 453 institutions name them all. New and rigorous stand- Most war pilots were college men. of higher education throughout the ards for the men entrusted with instruct- Technological advances in recent years country volunteered. Nor was this training the fledglings, a program for slow and necessitated advance educational backing a complete gift from the Government. thorough teaching against any tempta- ground for any new crop of war flyers. Each one accepted pledged himself to tion to rush training through. They have The need of wide extension of civil flying pay up to $40 for medical examination, worked with airport operators to clean up to college groups was apparent, but at the insurance, and other incidentals, besides hazards in airport approaches and to same time such expansion must avoid the providing his own transportation between instil military order and cleanliness in flavor of militarism. The program evolved college and the airport. Moreover, en- flight offices. They have cut in half did just that. The training planned for rollment did not serve as an excuse to workmen's compensation insurance rates college groups, while in many respects cut other classes. It represented an added for instructors. They have reduced the much more thorough than World War activity with 72 hours of class-work plus cost of other forms of insurance, as well primary training, is keyed to flying for home study in "ground flying school" in as reducing the standard medical flight fun and commerce. addition to the minimum of 35 hours of examination fee from $10 to $6. All of Any military pilots forth- these things make flying coming as a result of what is cheaper. It is estimated that called the Student Training renewal of a license, requir- Program will be entirely on ing a new flight physical ex- a voluntary basis. One may amination and a minimum judge the truth of this when **"*.. of fifteen hours of solo flying, it is considered that the av- may now be obtained for less erage cost of training a mili- than $100 a year. tary pilot today is $35,000 With the program as a against the S400 per pupil whole two-thirds completed represented in the S. T. P. —and many colleges have Relatively the average grad- reported full quotas certified uate private pilot might be as pilots—the most astound- regarded as one who has ing record is in the field of learned to dog paddle in safety. I have mentioned the shallow water compared to "one a day" fatality record the expert channel swimmer in wartime training centers. represented by the graduate Airplanes have been vastly of the Army "aerial West improved in the two decades Point" at Randolph Fie'd. intervening, yet there was a If that be militarism let all fatality in the experimental Nervous Nellie pacifists program last spring. So, make the most of it. before the current program Meanwhile, something ap- got under way unemotional proaching a miracle in the insurance statisticians sharp- pattern of American go-get- ened their pencils and figured ting is taking place. Before the probabilities of fatal ac- the Civil Aeronautics Au- "If the roast starts to burn, Paw, cidents for 10,000 youngsters thority launched its current just kick it off the stove." who never before had han- program last fall, an experi- dled the controls of a plane. mental project was undertaken. In the flying. It was a stipulation of the pro- They at length announced the proba- spring of 1939, 330 so-called "guinea gram that any student who did not have, bility of thirty deaths, or three-tenths of pigs" volunteered for flying training, from and continue to maintain, high scholastic one percent. As this is written there is various colleges throughout the country. averages, would be dropped. recorded exactly one fatality, in which a With only a single fatality, 313 of the Something over 9300 students between structural failure of the plane played a number were certified as private pilots by the ages of 18 and 25 were duly selected part. There have been mishaps, mostly in summer; in other words, nine out of ten for training, 700 appointments being re- taxiing planes on the ground, but actually students qualified, proving that most served for non-college air aspirants. It is more students have suffered physical in- people can be taught to fly. That having a mark of the extent of interest in civil juries in motor accidents traveling be- once learned to fly most people will con- flying that 10,000 non-college young men tween colleges and airports than in a tinue to improve their technique is estab- and women now are attending ground quarter of a million hours of flying, much lished by a questionnaire recently sent to schools in various parts of the country in of it solo. the graduates and answered by 256, or keen competition for the 700 "flying It is also a point worth emphasizing roughly five-sixths of the class. The scholarships" soon to be awarded. that the program is not enjoyed by Joe answers showed that 224 had continued The smoothness with which the pro- College alone as the activity of a super- flying with an average of 24 hours of air gram has worked has been widely man. You can bet his sister, Betty Co-Ed, work each; 102 intended to buy planes of praised. And it is something for The spoke up for a piece of this glamorous pie. their own, 81 planned careers in com- American Legion's National Employ- Girls students have been allowed ten mercial aviation, an even 100 were apply- ment Committee to note that when ex- percent of the program in coeducational ing for military training. Of that number World War flyer Grove Webster, director institutions. In several girls' colleges 69 actually had applied and 30 had been of the Private Flying Development Sec- naturally the quota is all-feminine. accepted as Army or Navy cadets. tion of the C. A. A., undertook this tre- Several hundred girl pilots stepped forth These interesting consequences of the mendous task, he selected as his lieu- as licensed airwomen this past June. experimental project were not known tenants six other World War veterans You will encounter divergence of when the full program got under way. and scarred survivors of the barnstorming opinion as to whether the girls fly as well With an appropriation of four million era. These "seven old men" as the young as the boys. An instructor of my ac- dollars plans were made for the training pilots call them have been key men in the quaintance insists his ten girl students are of 10,000 civil flyers at an average cost of success of the program. far more skilful [Continued on page 40)

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as an average than five college men he is "guinea pig" class now are undergoing a brand-new private pilot is not a proper leaching. Nor is rivalry confined to that advanced training, with a much more choice to take you on a transcontinental between Joe and Betty. The non-college comprehensive ground school course and flight. It takes many hours of cross-

j, -(Rips I have been mentioning are taking forty to fifty hours advanced flight in- country experience before a pilot be- instruction in greater numbers than struction in planes comparable to an comes a flyer in the sense of a competent ever, in part as a result of the student Army primary trainer. It is announced air traveler. p ogram publicity, and Bill Smith, who that graduates of this course may, if they never went beyond high school, is wish, enter the Army as flying cadets THERE are two aspects to this amazing darned if any college guy can fly better with the same status as cadets who have expansion of civil flying. From the mili- than he can. In this extension into the completed primary training in nine flying tary viewpoint it may be remarked that air of the age-old rivalry between Town schools serving as "prep" schools for America's vast capacity for warplane pro- end Gown is a definite stimulus to Randolph Field. This class will be ex- duction does not mean one single ounce

better and safer flying for everyone con- panded next year. Whether the graduates of greater security if skilled pilots to fly

cerned. elect a period of military service is up to them are not available as the ships roll off Student training will be continued. them. the line. In civil flying is created the Already Congress has appropriated five Should the graduates prefer to remain necessary enthusiasm for this new and million dollars to expand activities next civilian flyers they are unquestionably exciting profession. It cannot fail to bring year. A new phase is now the subject of better qualified for any flying activity volunteers in whatever number needed experiment. Seventy-seven of last Spring's they may elect. There is no denying that for the nation's aerial defense.

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the enemy's strength. Our motors sput- So we drive on, scouting and fighting and with its own units, moves on to win ter, and we speed ahead. Here's a road for fifteen days. After one last strenuous its objective. blocked by mined tree barricades. We march of 300 kilometres, they let us rest simply skirt it and leave the engineers behind a division come up to besiege ENTER and hold the railroad station to clean it up. a town. We sleep in the open, like dead until the infantry arrives." Action comes thick and fast. Our men. The motorized war of movement Those are the orders for our armored armored cars drive the enemy back. is over. train crew. Hidden by a fog, we puff into

Though one of our units is caught in a the station. Bridges we crossed had been wood by artillery fire, we entrench and R\DIO was fairly primitive in the last mined, but we were too quick. A detach- suffer only one minor casualty. One of - war, but in this one it proves its ment climbs off to capture the yards. our tank regiments comes up and plunges worth. We find we cannot depend on Then trouble starts. The enemy blows through. motorcycle couriers. They get spilled up a bridge behind us. He opens up on Laying up by night, we push on by by bad roads or shot by snipers. Radio us with everything he has—machine day, little bothered by enemy planes. must carry the burden. guns, infantry cannon, and anti-tank We fan out over the roads, sending back The mobile stations of our communi- guns. We must shunt the train a little, frequent reports to our advancing col- cations battalion are manned by skilful back over a viaduct. Toward it rush umns and keeping them in touch with operators. They successfully contend enemy troops with demolition charges. each other. We do not only scout, we with interference caused by weather Twice, first with machine guns then with fight. One of our armored cars dashes changes and with jamming by hostile hand grenades, we mow them down. into a town and puts an enemy tank out wireless. Cannon aboard the train thunder. The of action. Close behind comes our infan- If any one of our stations breaks train moves backward and forward so as try, and the town is taken. We find a down or is put out of action, reserve ap- not to be a stationary target for their dynamited bridge but quickly locate paratus is rushed up to take its place. gunners. Even so they have the range. another still intact. Our couriers divert They are constantly shifting the assign- A terrific explosion rends us. The train the column behind, and the advance is ments of our crews and changing the has run onto a mined bridge just as its unhampered. code on us, but not once do we fail to charge is detonated. One car topples Late one afternoon we speed into a keep communication between flanks and from the bridge, a second is off the track. town full of hostile troops. Our advance rear. We uncouple it, order the train forward. patrols let them have it with hand Some of our stations are transferred; Not an inch will it move! A battery grenades and automatic rifles. Anti-tank one is lost in a fog. But all tactical and begins to adjust on us at short range. guns and light grenade projectors com- administrative control of the advancing We tumble out of the train, set up our plete their rout. But our turn for trouble division is through us. Our operators machine guns and let fly. comes later when they get a direct hit bend over their instruments sending and Then—and just in time—our infantry on an ammunition vehicle of our heavy receiving with difficulty while their comes up. What is more, it has support- weapons platoon. vehicles jolt along. Some of them, who ing artillery. Our men close in on the Keeping in touch by radio, we push have been at their sets four days and town, and the foe flees. our reconnaissances and as we do so re- nights without relief, fall asleep, and the pulse attacks, once even putting an commanders of the radio units must get THE enemy had been retreating, but armored train to flight with an ant i- them back on the job and check care- now he is standing and counter-at-

I ank gun. All along we gather in prisoners fully against errors. But all the heavy tacking. German artillery, trench mor- and booty, taken off our hands by the radio traffic is handled. The division, tars, and heavy machine guns blast troops behind. always in touch with higher command away. The attack is momentarily halted

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but threatens to come on again. Ammu- nition for the heavy machine guns is running low. The German battalion commander turns to one of his runners. "Grab a truck," he orders. "Find the combat train and bring up ammunition belts. Fast!" The runner gets a truck and driver. Back they hum over heavily-shelled roads. No sign of the combat train. They never find the combat train but reach the divisional supply point. "Ammunition belts!" shouts the runner. "Have you a permit to receive them?" asked the non com in charge. "Mein Gott!" yells the runner. "Think I'm here on a pleasure trip?" He gets the ammunition. Back speeds the truck with thirty boxes. They are carried up to the front line by rushes—which takes some doing. "Now let 'em come on," they say. They do come on, but the heavy machine guns begin their deadly chatter, and the attack reels back, finished.

ARTILLERY observers are ordered to

- report to the commander of the infantry battalion their battery is supporting in an attack on a fortified position. No telephone wires, so easily shot out, are laid—not this war. The observers take along a portable radio set with two operators.

Here is the infantry, under cover in a sunken road. The chief observer reports, and his field glasses sweep the enemy positions in a search for a target. Nothing at first, nothing worth firing on with his heavy howitzers. But now he sights a large body of hostile infantry. "Get the battery!" A fisherman with The radio set crackles. An operator Velvet is a fisherman reports he is through to the battery just with luck. That as the firing data is computed. Back mellow flash the commands. The shells scream Burley flavor takes the overhead and burst directly on the target. "bite" out of a pipe and Our infantry cheers wildly as it advances makes a cigarette smoke and with it the artillery party. righl. Whether you catch But hostile artillery fire smashes in 'em or whether you from three sides. don't, Velvet smoking's A counter-attack is mustering in the ravines. Quickly the remaining artillery the best to be had! officer estimates and sends back data by radio. Observe and report, he is ordered, and the battery fires. Shellbursts flower in smoke and flame. Short. Increase the range 100 meters.

That does it. Salvos crash into the attacking waves. For twenty minutes they take it and try to keep coming on. Then they are done. Again the German infantry cheers its artillery. Yfelve THUS and so, as illustrated by these bits of action, worked the German Blitzkrieg. Often it was aided by the weakness and unprcparedncss of opponents, by their fatal mistakes, by treachery from with- ^ M/LD °nt/ CO°l in. But its smooth efficiency, its tenacity, fa U Pos/f/ve/y A/O "B/T£ and its marvelous teamwork are not to be gainsaid, and they arc points worth study. Copyright 1940, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.

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(ContinuedJrcm page 15) policed while peeling the spuds and But the mighty 14 inch, fifty-caliber both hands and begged to report in that stirring the slum. Maybe you can imagine rifles and 16-inch howitzers were what third person double-talk, that Barnum what it was like trying to work in his we were waiting for. The French had and Bailey's circus or something had office. That was my portfolio at the time plenty of the smaller stuff, but there just landed in our gun park in the village of this epic, the progression having been were none of the mightiest class that of Haussimont five miles away. There from the ranks to the Third Officers' could be spared by either our Navy or was an enormous gun, he said, and about Training Camp, to Saumur, to Angers, to the coastal defenses, although the Navy 20 different sorts of cars, and the whole the Railway Artillery, where instead of agreed to let the Army have certain of vicinity was overrun with a horde of new getting a gun to shoot after the Govern- both grades they had on order and under Americans wearing a kind of uniform he ment had spent probably $10,000 teach- construction. Railway mounts for 16 couldn't identify. ing me how to pcint her nose up He was immediately detailed and let 'er go, 1 was head office to take Lieutenant Edouard boy, chief errand runner and Boilot, a French lieutenant of principal book fetcher to a gent Engineers, serving us as liaison who recited his general orders in- officer, present the general's com- stead of grace before mess. %f. pliments, find out who the Maybe you think you had a bounders were, and answer any tough war, soldier! sensible questions they might like Those of us close to him got our to ask. share but only our share. The The French lieutenant's ac- general poured it all over every- count of that visitation later was It classic. thing and everybody in camp. jj£ \ was hard to decide if officers or Taking one of the staff cough- men were his favorite victims. An ing bicycles with a sidecar, they officer with a spot on his belt or a jounced along the rutty road, ar- knot in his boot lace would stand r'"ed in due course and started with frozen heels through a half locking for whoever seemed to be hour of stinging oratory, but a "si in command. The enlisted person- corporal sighted on the public nel was all over the place, and strand with his blouse unbut- they were obviously sailors in toned and his shirt-tail out was a olive drab uniforms with their practical cinch for the guard- naval insignia and hash stripes house. sewed onto their sleeves.

Still it belongs in the records They kept walking along until that the hair-splitting and whip- they came to a sort of open-faced "There now, Pop—we're even!" cracking general wasn't just a shed where, in plain view, but all copy-book soldier. He was a prac- alone, a tall elderly man sat in. tical artilleryman of the first muddy rifles were promptly ordered from the his undershirt calmly eating a meal. He water. He brilliantly commanded the Baldwin Locomotive Works and a total seemed convenient, unoccupied and old Second Field Artillery Brigade through of 30 fourteen-inch rifles and 61 sixteen- enough to know most of the answers, so the Champagne-Marne Offensive in the inch howitzers were in process of manu- Champion decided to ask him his burning early summer of '18, and was really pro- facture when the Armistice stopped it all. questions. moted into that big administrative job at In fact, the yellowing records seem to The gentleman looked up pleasantly Mailly le Camp, as it was officially called, say that General Pershing had plans for a as the captain approached. He didn't which may have been why he was so sore. great American offensive completely arise, nor salute nor seem especially in- Maybe he too was itching to fight. worked out for 1919, and if things had terested one way or the other. He merely And although nothing much but gone along, we'd hav; had a grand total asked, "What can I do for you, Bud?" General Chamberlaine was happening to of 300 railway guns from the seven-inch, "I'm looking for the Commanding us over there at the more or less front, 45 calibers, to the mighty 16-inch Officer of this detachment," explained plenty was happening with us in mind howitzers to help blast a path before the Captain Champion. back here at home. As quickly as it could infantry. The way later history has de- "You're looking at him, Bud," said after war was declared, the Ordnance veloped, it's too bad that drive didn't the gentleman. "Have a seat." Department canvassed the country to materialize. The current picture might It was Champion then who snapped see if there were any heavy guns avail- be considerably different. stiffly to salute. He'd just noticed for the able for inland service overseas. They So the Navy was in this busy home- first time, swinging limply from a corner discovered a total of 464 they felt could front picture prominently, but news of the back of the gentleman's chair, the be spared from the seacoast defenses, the travels slowly, or it did in that war, and jacket of a rear admiral of the United Navy, or could be commandeered from to us about the third week in August States Navy. private ordnance plants where they were came the first vague rumor that the Thus it was that the Railway Artillery being manufactured for foreign govern- Navy was bringing or sending some of its Reserve, A.E.F. met Rear Admiral ments. These were 12 seven-inch guns and big guns to France, and that they were Charles Peshall Flunkett. The French 21 fourteen-inch rifles belonging to the to be landed at St. Nazaire; but nobody had been meeting him for a couple of Navy; 96 eight-inchers, 129 ten-inch knew any more than that and no orders weeks—and losing every decision! Tall, guns, 49 twelve-inchers and 150 twelve- concerning them came up to us. sea-goin' and just as plain, friendly and inch mortars of the seacoast defenses and It was on August 27 that a captain common-folksey as a man could con- six twelve-inch, fifty-caliber rifles being named Champion, who had charge of our veniently be, this 54-year-old son of an manufactured for the Chilean govern- garages, came tearing in as if his shirt English-born commissioned officer in the ment. tail were on fire, began saluting with Union forces couldn't see any sense at all

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to all the red tape and palaver that If they don't like it, and I think some of way, that the French tried several times seemed to be characteristic of this army them don't, I guess they'll have to take to lock the switches ahead of his train, business he suddenly found himself in. it up with the Secretary of the Navy. but he'd gravely alight with a cold chisel His job seemed perfectly clear to him. He's the fellow who told us to come and hammer, cut himself loose and call The Navy had got five of those 14-inch, over." "All aboard!" fifty-caliber rifles finally matched up That trip of his across France, it later Chamberlaine and Plunkett jammed with railway mounts and had decided to developed, had been an epic. The weight from the first, which was the funny story send him with enough sailors over to of those trains, of course, was terrific. this started out to be. Chamberlaine did France to try 'em out up in the battle Each gun alone weighed 243 metric tons most of the jamming; Plunkett most of lines. They'd shipped the guns and car- and a metric ton is 2005 pounds. The load the ignoring. The conflict was inevitable. riages over knocked down. He was to at the muzzle end of the gun car was 20 One was a stickler for office detail and assemble them at St. Nazaire, go up, tons per axle, and the flimsy French red tape, the other never bothered with attach himself to the Railway Artillery railroads weren't built to take that either. One insisted that nothing be done Reserve for a place to park and do the weight, nor even the weight of the huge that wasn't covered precisely with an first shooting with these weapons the Baldwin locomotives that pulled the order. The other made his own orders or United States had ever tried on dry land. massive trains. Furthermore, the French even proceeded without any. Chamber- Against the Germans, naturally, when depots, sheds and other railway architec- laine insisted that since he was the Com- and if that could be arranged. ture didn't provide sufficient clearance, manding Officer of the Railway Artillery But you never saw such a course of some of the French officials feared. A.E.F. and since these naval guns were sprouts as he ran into as soon as he "But you've got a war over here, railway artillery, he'd say when, where landed. This one tried to give him orders. haven't you?" the admiral asked. and how they should be used. Plunkett That one said he must do thus and so. "When the enemy's got a piece of your sent him word—I carried it — to go He'd have to wait for this clearance country, what's a spread rail or two?" plumb to hell, that he took his orders and that permission. In the meantime They waved the hands and yelled from the Secretary of the United States he had his men putting his five guns to- "Mais, non!" but he hitched up and Navy and nobody else, and that so far gether. That meant five trains of 13 cars came on. The records merely politely as he could see all the Army was doing each and a gun each, and another train state for posterity that, after tempor- was playing tiddledewinks anyhow. for the staff. arily removing some armor plate and an One main trouble was that neither "The French and Americans were ap- air compressor, he reduced the weight really ranked the other. A brigadier gen- parently holding a sort of town meeting sufficiently and made his way across eral and a rear admiral just about level down there at Chaumont," he said, "to France at a maximum speed of six miles off and each had been promoted to his see whether we could go or not. They per hour, and no damage was done current rank on about the same date. don't seem to know there's a war some- except to some frogs (the railway term) Furthermore, the admiral's idea of an where over here. We were sent over to and guard rails on the Petite Ccinture at army uniform completely outraged the find the war and to do a little shooting Paris. But the truth of the matter is that sartorial sensibilities of the meticulous in it. So we just packed up and came on. he rode in the locomotive most of the general, who had {Continued on page 44) ONE MORE ffiP-ANP ETERMTy/

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(Continued from page 43) his kitchen police practically maintaining about those naval guns. Plunkett was just couple of hundred feet above the up- full dress. The seagoing gentleman re- making sure Chamberlaine didn't take turned muzzle of the fifty-eight-foot, 4- sembled an ambulating scarecrow. him over. Things were really funny be- inch tube. As it chanced, he wasn't in The first time I ever saw him, he came tween them for quite a spell although the path of the projectile, but the force moseying down the main stem of AI illy. they didn't seem highly humorous at the of the blast ripped every feather from him A man named Major Hermann and I time to the human rubber ball they kept until he was as naked as a chicken picked stood conversing upon a corner. bouncing back and forth between them. and singed, and dropped him as dead as "Holy Mother of Moses," the Major But the true majesty of the Plunkett if he'd been hit with a shotgun. Maybe said slowly and fervently, "look, at that picture starts to grow when you realize those aviators knew what they were apparition coming down the street. He what a pioneering job he and his men doing, concussion being almost as dam- must be a new Y.M.C.A. secretary from were up against. He had five of these aging to a plane as a direct hit. the States. If Chamberlaine sees him, great guns staffed by something less than That first shot and three others that he'll court martial him sure, or maybe 1000 sailors. No gun of this description followed it were the only practice shots he'll just shoot him on sight and get it had ever been fired on dry land before the guns ever made. When the first four over with." by any American unit. None had ever shells from Battery No. 1 were de- I looked up to see a tall stranger ap- been fired from map range. He had to posited within a stone's throw of a target proaching. He wore a pair of black— experiment before he took them into some twenty miles away from the prov- said black—shoes beneath some badly action. He received precious little co- ing ground at Nuisement, the French rolled puttees. He didn't have on a operation and no actual help. He wanted general called off the test and sent the blouse, but wore an enlisted man's rub- some army aviators, for instance, to battery to Soissons to bombard the rail- ber slicker open down the front, and serve as observers regulating his fire. road yards at Laon. badly rust-stained around the buckles. None would go up. They wanted no But between the landing at St. Nazaire His battered campaign hat had no cord part of getting in front of those terrific of the miscellaneous material which was of any sort. He was strictly the least mili- guns, nor over any target. They were assembled into the six locomotives and tary object we'd seen in a couple of years afraid the mammoth blasts would tear seventy-two cars of the five batteries and — if ever. the propellers off their machines. He the staff train, and the firing of those He came strolling along as if he didn't likewise had some trouble getting a firing practice shots was concentrated such a have a care, and as he came up, he range. sustained effort of vigorous, intelligent smiled pleasantly and said, "Nice day, But he went. And he fired. They fire and ingenious accomplishment as I ven- isn't it, gentlemen?" those big guns with a magneto after the ture to say has never been equaled any "Very nice," we said, without any fashion of men blasting rock with dyna- time, anywhere. By some sort of mix-up particular warmth. mite. Some of our officers managed to no blue prints were available for putting "By the way," he said, "my name's get over to where he was shooting in time together the vast store of material. ." Plunkett. . . to be in at the baptism. They couldn't When the first box marked "rivets" was

Whack! went our heels, and up came see the target, of course, for it was more broke open it was found to contain stove those hands. than twenty miles away, but they saw bolts. All the boxes of "rivets" held "Never mind that," he said. "I was an unusual incident they always after stove bolts. Thousands of rivets were just wondering if you fellows could tell remembered. Just as the command needed, for the smallest' of the seventy- me where I could find Colonel Gregg's "Fire" was given the first big piece, a eight cars required 500 of them. When office?" crow flew across in the air possibly a French rivets were finally secured it was That was the first time I saw him found that due to metric-system meas- but far from the last, for I was gen- urements they just wouldn't fit. But erally the courier sent over to deliver these Yanks couldn't be stopped! the orders as to what he was to do. they heated and hammered and drew The general was always very positive the damn things until they just had to about it. The admiral was equally ex- fit. The gobs worked from sun-up to plicit about what the general could do sundown and to such good purpose with his orders, the Army and whole that a month and three days after the A.E.F. He was always very calm first material reached St. Nazaire the

?bout it, but he'd been in the Navy a first battery was ready to move to the long time and he knew all the words. front.

Trying to code the messages be- Battery No. 1, Lieutenant James A. tween this embattled pair into that Martin, U.S.N., commanding, was

"Sir, the lieutenant presents the hauled up close to Laon where it fired general's (or the admiral's) compli- 199 rounds on railroads and garages ments and reports that the general (or east and west of the city from Septem- admiral) said ..." business when ber 10th to October 24th, then it was what the general, and especially the hauled out and stationed in the Forest admiral, really said wasn't anything Champenoux, backing up the French even close to what was safe to repeat, Eighth Army for an offensive that called for some fancy translating. never materialized, due to the Armis- I was only an understrapper and tice. had no way of knowing, but I was al- Battery No. 2, Lieutenant* E. D. ways under the impression that he was Duckett commanding, fired 43 rounds just kidding my boss about where his on the railroad yard at Mortiers, and orders came from. Major General E. then on October 24th joined the first

F. McGlachlin, Jr., was the Chief of all "You're in a tough spot now, buddy American Army near Verdun, where it

Artillery. He must have had some say it fell into that hole under that flag!" * Junior grade.

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belted 55 enormous shells into the city of Montmedy. It then pulled out and took position near Luneville in prepara- tion for the contemplated offensive which never came off.

Battery No. 3, Lieutenant William G. Smith commanding, fired 40 rounds on Longuyon and Mangiennes from Oct. 12th to November 3d, then moved over to Charny and whanged 187 rounds into Louppy, Remoiville and the out- skirts of Montmedy, with particular attention to the upper and lower garages and the bridge.

Battery No. 4, Lieutenant J. R. Hayden commanding, fired 11 rounds into Longuyon and Mangiennes, moved over to Charny and whaled 86 rounds into the railroad yards, tunnel and bridge at Montmedy, the cross roads at Louppy and a garage between Louppy and Remoiville. They had some trouble with this gun when the forward edge of the firing platform sank some sixteen inches, tipping the jacks supporting the seat of the mount at a dangerous angle, so it was taken out of action on Novem- ber 3d.

Battery No. 5 fired 112 rounds into Longuyon and Mangiennes between Oct. 13th and the hour of the Armistice. Lieutenant* R. S. Savin and Lieutenant IN RECENT LABORATORY Commander J. L. Rogers were its Bat- tery Commanders through this period. "SMOKING BOWL" TESTS, This terrific strafing of Montmedy PRINCE ALBERT BURNED probably comes as close to being what hung the actual knockout on the whiskers of the kaiser as any one single act that can be named. No less a personage than the ex-Crown Prince himself told me in 06? COOLER Berlin at the Olympics in 1936 that "three terrific cannon shot in succession THAN THE AVERAGE OF hurled into Montmedy really ended the THE 30 OTHER OF THE war." Many more were fired, he said, but LARGEST-SELLING BRANDS the first three were enough. He ought to know. That was his headquarters at the TESTED- COOLEST OFALL f time. The first shot, he said, blew a hole seventy feet wide in the center of the GET IN THE SWIM WITH town and "deep enough to put a church in." The second obliterated his head- COOLER, all MILDER quarters, he said, which was right,

because nobody was in it. But the third was the one that really did the business. SMOKING It scored a direct hit on the Mczieres- Sedan railroad, not only wrecking the track but blowing out a huge piece of

fill. That was the blow that killed father, for that was the last supply line the Ger- mans had. With that gone, there was nothing to do but surrender. The shelling continued, he said, but the rest was superfluous. I didn't know who owned the guns until I began delving into these records.

From this notable testimony, it thus veritably appears that the only unit of the United States Navy that ever fought on dry land is the answer to that time- honored facer, "WHO WON THE WAR?" ! a. pipefuls of fckS 1 fragrant to- And Admiral Plunkett? %Jf\w b a c c o in W ell, exactly {Continued on page 46) every handy pocket Albert * J unior grade. tin of Prince

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eleven days after the Armistice, on No- upon them were truly magnificent. He personal friend and a leader of the sort vember 2 2d, with a great puffing and said in the name of the nation and the men never forget. hulling, his entire five trains rolled Navy, he officially thanked them for as Then from under a blanket, they pro- proudly back from the front to our gun fine and gallant a job as fighting men duced an enormous loving cup inscribed park, dropped anchor and their heroes de- ever did. to Old Cy from his soldiering sailors. barked. Over came the admiral looking "And as for myself," he concluded, He stood there uncertainly for perhaps for our G-i, Major Harry Goodier. "I can only thank you for the privilege a minute. "Major," said he, "we're pulling out of having been associated not as com- His eyes filled. in a week, and I want to give my boys mander, but as shipmate, with the great- He swallowed once or twice and then a blow-out. I need a little music and I'd est group of sailors that ever wore the said, "Boys, we'll christen this God like to hire a hall." Navy Blue. God bless you. That's all." damned thing in Paris. Every man in the Goodier was his man. He arranged "No, it isn't," shouted a young C.P.O. outfit has two days' leave. If any of you for the admiral to rent the local theatre, who leaped upon the stage, "We've got needs money, see me. Dismissed!" and he took over his own regimental something we want to say, too!" The admiral, like the general, was band, which happened to be a corker, to Then, for the men of the command, gathered to his fathers several years ago, play for the sailors. he gave it right back to the admiral, say- but both research and retrospect seem The admiral, at length, got up before ing there wasn't an enlisted man in the to attest that the unique A.E.F. chapter his men. He was all officer now, immacu- entire five batteries who wouldn't re- he wrote with those massive 14-inch lately groomed, serious, dignified and member Old Cy Plunkett affectionately, rifles is not only unparalleled in all our impressive. Carefully he sketched the proudly and respectfully to the end of history of arms, but is the real bravura history of their outfit from the first to the his days, who wasn't richer for having passage of the war we won—only to lose last and the compliments he showered known him, who didn't regard him as a the peace that succeeded it.

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to elude a guard posted downstairs by deeply hurt. Witness the child-like, pa- and his name expunged from the record

his desperate manager, he broke an thetic note in his confession : "I hope to be books. ankle. That was the beginning of the excused because I am simply an Indian Th;:pe signed—the annual salary was end. The leg mended but he never schoolboy and did not know all about reported to be $18,000—to play with the regained the speed for which he was such things." Giants in 1913, but his weakness in the famous and which drew crowds to watch The famous Carlisle graduate played in majors was the fact that he could not hit him. Quickly he drifted to the minor the big league with the Giants and other curve-ball pitching. He could chase fly leagues with Hartford of the Eastern clubs and turned to professional football. balls with any of them and w-as peer of League, Low-ell of the New England loop, But his career in neither of these sports them all in getting around the sacks. He Bangor of the Maine State and Derby of was what one might expect from so great finally went down to the minors again the Connecticut League. Then like hun- an athlete. It is generally felt that his when the most expert coaching was un- dreds of stars before and since he passed efforts to forget the incident dulled his able to prime him against curve balls, and on forever to the great sea of the for- natural ability. wound up his athletic career playing for gotten. A remarkable all-round athlete, Thorpe the New York Professional Football Club. He finally drifted back to the reserva- at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsyl- tion on the Penobscot where he awaited vania was a whiz at reversing his field or THE United States can take no credit his twilight days, a veritable Charon run- skirting an end, and there was bone- for the remarkable performances of ning a small horse-powered ferry, but he crunching power behind his charges into Tom Longboat, Mohawk Indian from died alone and forgotten at the age of 41. the line. He could punt with any of them Ontario, but the angular runner from the

Almost as tragic an experience as that and was a good dropkicker. But it was as North was the chief reason for sending of Sockalexis was that of Jim Thorpe, still a place kicker that he was really tops. He America Marathon-mad 33 years ago. claimed by many to be the greatest foot- rarely missed one. Longboat won every race he set out in ball player of all time and the best all- In 191 1 and 1012 he was on Walter in his native Canada before coming to the round athlete the world has ever seen, Camp's all-America team, the third of his United States and walked away with winner of the decathlon and pentathlon race to achieve the honor of this national honors here with much the same ease. He at the Olympic games in Stockholm in all-star rating. In iqii he led Carlisle to captured the Patriots' Day marathon in 1Q12. The tragedy in Thorpe's life cen- that iS to 15 victory over Harvard at Boston in 1007 to set a record. tered about those phenomenal achieve- Cambridge when his place kick from the Unlike Sockalexis, who was the quin- ments in Stockholm and the stripping of 48-yard line furnished the margin of ad- tessence of grace, Longboat was down- his laurels from him subsequently upon vantage over the Crimson. The next year right ungainly. Tall, exceedingly sparse his confession of professionalism. he gave one of the greatest exhibitions of and flatfooted, he cut anything but an Thorpe, in the opinion of many, would all-round football ever seen on a gridiron attractive picture as he sped along the have gone on to greater track and field, when Carlisle defeated the Army 27 to 6 highways or around a dirt or board track.

football and baseball glory had it not at West Point. But he had a mechanical stride that was

been for that incident. Even though he 1 1 was for a few games played in a very the essence of running perfection. lie maintained the stoicism of his race dur- minor league in North Carolina one sum- would settle into this gait, stay in it, ing all the distasteful hearings and in- mer that he was stripped of the ribbons, wear down his opponent and still be firm

vestigations, his innermost self was cups and medals he won at Stockholm, in it as he finished, the victor.

The AMERICAN LEGION Ua-axmt The name of Tom Longboat was a byword in the United States in 1908. News- papers carried untold columns about him and the metropolitan press reported all of his races, even those in the most obscure sections of the country. Tom never re- sorted to spurts and fits of sprinting. He never had to, his pace being usually so

killing as to make his opponent sprint if he wished to stay in the race. Longboat's greatest victories were over Dorando, the great Italian distance runner who quit to him three times, once in London (it will be recalled that Dorando also quit to the American Johnny Hayes in the Olympics at London in 1908), once in Madison r Square Garden and once in Buffalo, and over Alfred Shrubb, England's best long- 5*5 distance runner. The great Shrubb, then in the twilight of his career, had to give up before his 25-mile duel with Longboat had gone a mile, at the old Madison Square Garden in New York in February, 1909. In complete collapse, the little Englishman had to be taken to a hospital. Longboat went on to fresh triumphs. When the war came on he went overseas with the Canadians. He died about a dozen years ago under pitiable circumstances, firm in the con- viction that Indian witches had put the curse of ill health on him. Chiefs Bender and Meyers were two outstanding members of their race in American professional baseball, Bender having the longer and better record. Born Charles Albert Bender, he was a fullblooded Chippewa from Brainerd, Minne- sota. Like Thorpe he was a product of Carlisle, where he pitched and played first base. Then he attended Dickinson

College, which is in Carlisle, and pitched for Harrisburg in 1902, where he at- „|in FOR BOSTON/ tracted the attention of Connie Mack. MA He was secured for Philadelphia in 1903 and for a dozen years, with Eddie Plank, he was the pitching mainstay of BBW the White Elephants. Mack cast him off P BOUND ro as all washed up, but Bender, a great snvi) student of the game, had a brilliant managerial career in the minors. He re- If you see a streamlined Super-Coach rolling along the highway around convention cently became a scout for Connie. • time (with sound effects like a regimental reunion)— it's a Greyhound bound for Meyers came to the Giants in 1909 and Boston. Better than to see one is to be in one! No other kind of transportation can lasted until 1913. His career was much give Legionnaires: real comfort—adjustable reclining chairs, perfected shorter than that of the average catcher (1) So much air-conditioning in buses. Such convenience—so many through buses daily, of today. He was recently a special police- most (2) with at place choose. Such big savings! fares are man in a West Coast city. stopovers any you (3) Greyhound transportation. your Sockalexis, Bender and Meyers in base- much lower than those of any other kind of Ask nearest Grey- your for extra extra ball, Thorpe in football and as an all- hound agent about chartering a bus for own gang— fun, savings. round athlete and Longboat in distance Mail the coupon to nearest Greyhound office running! These five highspotted a period New York City . . 245 West 60th St. San Fran ci sco . Cal ..Pine&BatterySts. Cleveland. O. . . East 9th & Superior St. Louis. Mo.. Broadway&Delmar Blvd. in which members of a race only recently Philadelphia, Pa. . Broad St. Station Cincinnati, Ohio .... 630 Walnut St. Chicago. Ill 12 th & Wabash Richmond. Va 412 E. Broad St. subdued plunged into the athletics of Boston, Mass 60 Park Square Charleston. W.Va. . . 155 SummersSt. Minneapolis, Minn., 609 Sixth Ave., N. Memphis, Tenn. ... 627 N. Main St. their conquerors and vied with them for Detroit, Mich New Orleans, La. . 400 N. Rampart St. . . . Washington Blvd. at Grand River Lexington, Ky. . . . 801 N. Limestone the glory and the headlines. Washington, D. C Windsor. Ont. . 44 London Street, E. 1110 New York Ave., N. W. Montreal, Can., Provincial Transport Playing an important part in the Ft. Worth, Tex. . . 905 Commerce St. Company, 1188 Dorchester Street, W. Indians' conversion to the white man's sports and his penchant for excelling at Mi —for full facts on Convention trip, World's Fair Booklet them was the United States Indian In- Mail this coupon to nearest Greyhound information office (above) for rate dustrial School, better known as Carlisle and suggested routes from your home city to Boston for the Legion Convention. If you want free World's Fair booklet, put check mark in proper square: Indian School which came into being New York World's Fair , San Francisco Exposition . because of a young Army officer's Name. dilemma on finding himself godfather of a bunch of prisoners (Continued on page 48) Address.

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from the Indian wars back in the seven- call of the Indians returned to Carlisle in jerseys or playing with a whitewashed ties. 1007. Carlisle football stock immediately ball—and they came off. However, this Out at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Lieutenant skyrocketed again. The 1907 team played bit of chicanery, even though nipped in R. H. Pratt was put in charge of almost Pennsylvania, Princeton, Harvard, Min- the bud, got almost as much attention in roo Indian prisoners with orders to take nesota and Chicago—certainly a "sui- the sports pages of the day as the football them to St. Augustine, Florida. There was cide" schedule for a small school like that scores themselves. nothing to do with his charges but to of the Indians' —on successive Saturdays Not at football alone did the Indians watch over them and keep them prison- and trounced all of them but Princeton. at Carlisle excel and the grid game ers. Pratt, become a captain, deemed it a The gridiron world was shocked into wasn't their only vehicle for capturing pity that they couldn't be educated to the amazed attention during the first Warner the fancy of the nation's sports-minded. language and some of the customs of regime at Carlisle principally because of There was that memorable track meet their white captors. Soon followed the the tricks the Indians employed on the between Lafayette and Carlisle at Easton, Government's assignment of the aban- field. Most famous of these was in the Pennsylvania. Warner in agreeing to the doned army post at Carlisle for the pur- Harvard Stadium in the year that it was meet some time before had asked the pose and the founding of the school with dedicated, 1903, when the ball was con- Lafayette coach to start the games early

82 boys and girls on October 5, 1879. cealed under the sweater on the back of so that he could get his charges back to Twenty years later Carlisle had its Charlie Dillon, a pretty good guard, who the Indian school on the train leaving first football player named to Walter galloped 105 yards for a touchdown. In Easton at 4:46.

Camp's All- America, Isaac Seneca, a left those days the playing field was 1 10 yards Advance stories on the Indians, then in halfback who weighed about 175 pounds long, and there were no end zones. their heyday, had all Easton agog on the and stood 5 feet 10 inches. He was of the Those were the days of mass effort after day of the meet and the railroad station Seneca Tribe of Western New York and the ball was snapped, and on the Indians' was jammed when the train from Carlisle still lives on the reservation as a farmer first play they screened their actions while pulled in and unloaded Warner and five near Towanda. stuffing the pigskin under Dillon's jersey. companions. "Where's your team?" in- Chiefly responsible for the gridiron pro- Crimson players were a bewildered lot quired the worried Lafayette coach. ficiency of the redskins at Carlisle, trying to find the ball carrier as Dillon "Here it is," said Pop, motioning toward although he modestly denies it to this pranced goalward. Captain Carl Marshall the five who were with him. day, was Glenn Scobey (Pop) Warner, of the Harvard team gave belated chase Lafayette's squad was forty strong, but famcus American football coach, who to Dillon, but the streaking hump-backed it made no difference to the Indians, one became athletic director at the Indian Indian tore over the goal line standing up. of whom—Jim Thorpe—was a whole school and coach of football, baseball, The next year the Carlisle team re- track team in himself. The Redskins ran basketball and track in 1899. turned to the Stadium, all of them wear- one-two in the half-mile and two-mile Many assumed that it was a natural ing a strip of leather resembling a foot- events. Shenandoah took the high craftiness and trickery in our native ball sewn on the front of their sweaters. hurdles, Johnson ran off with the quarter. Americans that enabled them to perform At a quick glance it looked as though 11 Thorpe was second in the 100-yard dash so well on the gridiron, but Pop W arner men had the ball, especially when the and won the pole vault, high jump, low attributes it to their untiring work and left forearm was artfully carried by the hurdles, shot put and broad jump. Car- their ability to assimilate plays. Indians to add to the deception. There lisle won the meet 71 to 31 —and Warner "I found the Indian boys easier to was nothing in the rules against this, just and his little raiding party caught the teach than the white boys," he told this as no legislation could be found against 4.46 out of Easton. writer recently. "They loved athletics, hiding the ball the year before. But Har- Louis Towanima, Frank Mount Pleas- were hard workers and were quick to vard gave the Redskins the alternative of ant, Guyon, Calac, Dillon, Exendine and learn the correct form of the various removing the leather strips from their Red Water were some of the other Car- fundamentals of football. They delighted in winning from their white rivals because they felt that in athletics they had an even chance, whereas in the early day battles with the soldiers they were always outnumbered and outequipped." Under Warner from 1899 to 1903 Carlisle soared from obscurity to national prominence. It had another all-America player in 1903, James E. Johnson, a quarterback who weighed only 1 pounds, and was rather short in stature. He was a fine leader and field general, a great open-field runner, and was unusually skillful in catching punts and running them back. A member of the Chippewa tribe from Wisconsin, after graduating from Carlisle he went to Northwestern University graduating in dentistry. He located in San Juan,

Puerto Rico, and is still in practice there. Warner went back to Cornell, from The Carlisle Indian football team of 1911, which won eleven of its which he had graduated after a brilliant twelve games. Thorpe, who made the All American team that year and football career in 1894. He remained in 1912, is to the right of the captain, and Glenn Warner, their great there from IM04 to 1906 and, harking the coach, is in back of him

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 49 lisle students who scaled the heights of and the thinning of this basic stock has distance runner, though far from a Long- the White Man's sports and helped build been set as the prime cause of the red boat. There are one or two in football and an almost legendary reputation for ath- man's fall from the pinnacle he once a few in basketball, but generally the letic prowess for their race. Added to enjoyed. modern athlete tagged as an "Indian" Sockalexis, Bender, Thorpe, Longboat There were other contributions, too, to could as well be called a Swede, an Irish- and Meyers, they left a deep impress in this athletic decadence, principally the man or a Scotsman. There are a dozen of the minds of their contemporary fellow abandonment of the Carlisle Indian them in our major baseball leagues, their Americans in an age that was appreci- School in 1918 when the Interior Depart- racial extraction set down as Scotch- ative of solid values. ment gave it back to the Army as a large Indian, Irish-Indian, Norwegian-Indian,

Then almost as quickly as they gained general hospital. With the cradle spot of and so on. Probably if a Ruth, or a Cobb, the athletic ascendancy and held firm to warrior athletic greats out of existence, or a Hornsby bobs up among them the the national imagination Indians began and no Pop Warner to coach them and resultant glamor fabricated by the publi- to fade from the sports scene and from the exploit their rare abilities, Indians in cists and the writers will subjugate every- country's headlines. Many factors were sports became increasingly rare with the thing but their Indian ancestry. Even at responsible for this decline. Although passing years. that it is too much to expect another each successive census showed an increase Sockalexis, or Jim Thorpe, Bender or in Indian population the real, fullblooded, ONE of the few full-blooded Indians of Chief Meyers. native American was rapidly decreasing. athletic note today is Tarzan Brown, Lo, the poor Indian athlete. He has There was an admixture of other races a Red Wing from Rhode Island, anda great almost vanished.

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{Continued from page jj) the road calls—over fine highways from camps of their own on the reaches of Lit- The railroad from North and South is Milwaukee along the shore of Lake tle Tomahawk, a mile or such a matter near enough to hear the whistle when Winnebago past Fond du Lac and Osh- from the guest camp, in what is called Casey Jones pulls the cord, but the dis- kosh if you go that way, but reachable the "Recreation Area." tant sound only serves as a reminder of from all directions. Oneida is the name of I spoke of the Forest Reserve, but I what you have left behind for a while. the county. can't break the trees down into their There must be a thousand lakes, and I scientific classes. There seem to be some SO HERE is a retreat of and by the Le- mean lakes, not ponds, a mashie pitch dozens of varieties and their dignity and gion with all the conveniences one needs apart. They show green on most maps coloring really took us. and in a really glorious sylvan setting. but they glisten with the sun and glow As to the fishing, I am again stopped .All the sport one can absorb, but most of with the moon in every shade of the for names, but there are a lot of different all perfect rest and contentment. Would spectrum. species from little ones to big ones whose you like to awaken to a symphony of

The camp proper is set on a wooded right name I can't spell. Muskies, they tantalizing breakfast odors, tang of the isthmus maybe a hundred yards wide are called. Maybe we were being kidded morning air, a piano reveille by big- sloping on both sides to gorgeous lakes. but they swore those babies feed on dif- handed, bigger-hearted "Baldy" Gewalt On one side Big Carr and on the other ferent days in different lakes and that with a big bong on the crosscut saw Little Tomahawk. The Lodge which is they know all the lakes and every one of hanging outside the kitchen to tell you by way of being headquarters must be the days. just when it's hot and to come and get two hundred feet long and there are I can't guarantee any fish to any fisher- it? enormous fireplaces, a library, the dining man. I know we caught them. If we And when the sport of the day is ov?r hall and a recreation room equipped with could, anybody can. The Camp's got and the contemplative evening pipe time mighty inviting and massive leather club plenty of boats and everything to put comes, wouldn't it be grand after the furniture. Not the skimpy metal tubing on the line for using them. If touring is sun has left the job and the moon has stuff but the real business. This modern wanted for a change, there are some pow- taken over to just sit and wait to see if building in rustic construction has enor- ered boats within call which will come a moose swims over its pathway of gold. mous screened porches and it contains the right to the door for you. These will Oh man, a professional should have kitchens, storage, and mechanical equip- take you for hours through lake after written this piece. ment for the water service, heat, re- lake of those wondrous waters which It's there for you. You can put pounds frigeration and so on. Sleeping rooms finally come to be a part of the impor- on or take them off. We put some on. with the trimmings are located on the tant Wisconsin River. If you want to know how and when, upper floor. There is game, too. And open seasons write to Jim Burns, Department Service and closed seasons. We heard a good Officer, or Gil Stordock, Department Ad- OUTSIDE and meandering down deal about this, but what we saw were jutant at Milwaukee. About all you'll through the trees along Big Carr are deer. Deer all about. Without discreet need is your in and outdoor clothing, the the cabins and plenty of them. All solid and driving the automobile could easily fishing stuff or the guns depending on weatherproof, and many of them new. wreck one or more of them of an evening which way your fancy runs. For the town Each has its own heat when it is needed and on the woods roads but that would not lads who have not had much chance or lockers, cots, and the fixings. Every one be sporting. inclination to fish or hunt, who don't want can take care of a small family and the Did I speak of golf? There is a dandy the majesty of the forest, but who want place has more blankets and what not course seven or eight miles up Highway relief from the hums and the drums, 1 than a hotel. The Rehabilitation Camp fifty-one along Lake Minocqua. Churches, guarantee that at the end of a week as such has seventeen acres and lies with- too, within reach and a telephone to the you'll be trying to rub dry sticks to- in The American Legion Forest Reserve outer world for those who must occa- gether to light the cigarette, saying "ja" of near a hundred thousand acres. The sionally use one though we didn't even with the sons of Scandinavia or walking Legionnaires of Wisconsin like this vaca- hear the bell ring. It must be in the outer like the near-by Flambeau Indians in tion land so well that many of their Posts office so as not to impair the atmosphere case any of these good-looking folks still have built attractive and substantial of remoteness from the workaday world. walk that way.

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(Continued from page g) nice liar. She happened, also, to embody had climbed high into the clear, cloudless "Nice going, Grunow," I muttered. I about all the physical attractions I sky—then simply vanished! couldn't help but admire the manner in

found desirable in a woman. But I wasn't which he'd made good on his mission.

in love with her, yet, I decided; although AFTER calling the Chief, I shut Jim- she made it quite easy to tell her I was. J- A. mie and me in the superintendent's I'M ASKING you to marry me," I The final test of X-VF-7 was scheduled office. told Tula that night in my apart- for ten o'clock. We arrived at the field "Now give me the technical dope ment. I wanted to know at once how I just as Pfann was climbing into the fast," I said. stood with her; how much help she would

cockpit. The sun was bright, the sky "He's got about two hours' fuel sup- be, if any, in tracing the espionage to cloudless. ply," said Jimmie. "Enough to take him Grunow. I'fann had been testing for three days; as far as a thousand miles, depending I got a surprise. determining the ease in handling of the upon the wind." "You'd go that far—even to marrying new ship, its speed at various altitudes, "How about oxygen?" me—rather than fail your Chief," she its fuel consumption and other impor- "He can stay around twenty thousand said slowly. tant factors. about five minues, which would put him Her green eyes were reading my face. For these culminating terminal velocity thirty-five to fifty miles away. Then by "But, darling," she went on, "don't dives he would climb to 20,000 feet then dropping to fifteen thousand, he can use look so surprised. I've know about you turn the nose straight downward for a up his full two hours." for days. Ever since Baron Grunow saw ten-thousand-foot, maximum-speed drop "And still be damned near invisible?" us at that restaurant. You're Lieutenant

before pulling out of the dive. His speed "Call it completely invisible," re- Commander Stephen Dahlgren, of the

earthward was expected to top six hun- plied Jimmie. "Four hundred miles an Naval Intelligence . . . He's even warned

dred miles per hour. hour at fifteen thousand feet . . . You'd me against you." It was a beautiful proceeding to watch. have to know exactly where to look, even "We can drive up to Connecticut and X-VF-7 had passed earlier tests perfectly with binoculars." be married tonight," I said. with a performance far beyond expecta- "Then a general radio alarm won't The green eyes never left mine. tions. Now Pfann swept the little ship be of much help. But we can get the Coast "A husband cannot testify against through a full scope of aerobatics and it Guard and Naval Stations up and down his wife. Is that it? You want to save me responded gracefully and effortlessly, like the coast on the alert. How about land- from myself?" a living creature. ing?" "I love you, Tula," I said steadily; and

Only a few watchers were present. "He'll have to bring it in over a hun- I could not have sworn then that it Some Army officers in addition to our dred miles an hour," said Jimmie. "It'll wasn't true.

Navy party. A handful of designers and take a hell of a long runway, if he's plan- finally, for just a moment, the green engineers, those earthbound workers ning to set down in one piece on some eyes wavered. Then she was in my arms. whose genius had created such a truly lonesome spot." Kisses—quick, passionate—fairly stag- marvelous machine. They had every "The wreckage would be almost as gered me. justification for the congratulatory back- valuable to the Central Power as a com- Suddenly she was crying. Tula the slappings they gave each other as X-VF-7 plete ship," I said. "They'd let Pfann inscrutable, the mysterious, the hardened

flew triumphantly through every test figure a way to save his own neck . . . product of New York's crudest competi- given it. He's been gone roughly ten minutes. By tion was sobbing like a little girl. Finally Pfann started to climb and a this time he could be on a secluded strip "Oh Stephen, I can't ... I can't marry silence fell over those on the ground. of beach fifty to seventy-five miles from you." Higher and higher he circled. here and they could have the ship under I held her shaking body close to me, Twenty thousand feet is no altitude cover." "If it's about Grunow," I said, "don't

record but, nevertheless, it is an unusual worry. Forget it. I know what you've height. With a ship as small and as fast been doing for him."

as X-VF-7, it becomes difficult to follow This was a necessary lie, but I felt its llight with the naked eye much above lower than a dog. Tula with all her de- 10,000 feet. The roar of its powerful en- fenses down tugged strongly at my heart. gine will die away around 15,000. Well "Then you know about the film?" before 20,000 feet is reached, the airplane "Yes," I lied. "Do you have it with will disappear, even on the clearest day. you?" Tense minute followed tense minute "The negatives— are at my apartment after Pfann had climbed X-VF-7 out of . . . My maid sight. All waited anxiously for him to "Is one of Grunow's agents," I guessed. reappear, roaring downward at greater "She has them hidden." than bullet speed. "You stay here," I decided quickly. After three or four minutes had passed "I'll go pick up this maid and the nega- wordlessly, there was a nervous stirring tives." as the watchers realized that Pfann had "But, Stephen . . . You mustn't. I had ample time to make any final ad- shouldn't have told you." justment that might have become neces- "If you're afraid of the publicity, there sary. won't be any."

( )nly the few of us with binoculars saw "It isn't that," she said hesitatingly. that, at an extreme altitude, Pfann had "I've taken money . . . I'm to deliver the headed the most dangerous airplane in "And within an hour he could deliver negatives to the ship for them.'' the world out to sea and faded from sight it to them four or five hundred miles "What ship? Where?" into the distant blue. away," added Jimmie. "Either on the "I can't tell you, Stephen."

To the others it appeared that Pfann coast, or inland." "Of course you can tell me," I said

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impatiently. "When are you to deliver them?" "Tomorrow at noon ... If I tell you more, they'll kill me. Oh, Stephen"—she came into my arms again—"I'm so frightened." "You needn't be." I stroked her soft hair with an assurance I had no reason

to feel. "Tell all you know about it. its* me

I'll take care of the rest." I felt her shudder.

"And I'll be dead," she said. "I know it. Grunow warned me today that I can never escape death if I try to quit now." Nor could I get a particle of further information from her by pleading or bully- ing. Finally it was Tula's turn to plead. "Let them go, Stephen," she said. "They are too clever. Too powerful. If POLIDENT Beauty Bath them, that been to- you stop now we've Keeps Plates Like N ew — Without Brushing gether, they'll blame me and I could never again feel safe—even with you . . . Are you letting dingy false teeth destroy your I'll Let them go and marry you any time smile . . . perhaps your whole charm? Does you say." the very thought of unattractive plates make I made a sudden decision. you self-conscious when you should be well- "I'll with tomorrow. go you For your poised? The thing to do is—get Polident— protection only. I won't interfere. We'll FALSE TEETH WEARERS often worst breath powder that magically dissolves away tar- be married afterwards." offenders A dark film collects on plates and nish, stain, food-deposits from plates, remov- She hesitated. bridges, that soaks up odors and able bridges without brushing, acid or dan- "Your men would follow us," she said. impurities! It gets in crevices where brushing can't even reach! ger! What a difference in the way your plate looks both be killed." "We'd and feels! Polident purifies your plate — it Almost always it results in "den- leaves "None of my men will follow us. I ture breath"—probably the most clean — attractive! Gums look more "alive" too! promise." offensive breath odor. You won't Leading dentists recommend POLIDENT. Only know if you have it but others 30c, store; She accepted the idea, but with visible will! Yet Polident quickly dis- any drug money back if not delighted. solves all film — leaves Hudson Products, Inc., 220 West 10th St., New York, N. Y. reluctance. It was agreed that I should plates absolutely odor- accompany her, leaving New York in free and sweet. Millions call Pol- Tula's small car at seven the next morn- ident a blessing! ing. P0UDCI1T "I can tell you this much," she whisp- Cleans, Purifies Without Brushing! ered. "It's beyond Connecticut. We'll be Do this daily: Add a little Polident powder to Vi married on our way home." glass water. Stir. Then put in plate or bridge for io to 15 minutes. Rinse— and it's ready to use.

THERE was much to do that night, and quickly. Jimmie met me, at my American request, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I The Legion told him what had happened. National Headquarters Indianapolis, "So you're letting the nice little girl Indiana get away with those negatives on the A NEW WAY Financial Statement chance of finding X-YF-7 on board that May 31, 1940 same ship," he said. 'Y'ou're getting too clever for avia- Assets tion," I told him. "You'd better switch TO SHAVE Cash on hand and on deposit ? 623,071.70 to Intelligence . . . Now come on. We've Notes and accounts receivable 44.S13.16 got work to do." Inventories 105,045.68 Invested funds 2,165, 707. OH BIT OF I needed every detail of my plan to Permanent investments: A NOXZEMA

Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund . 207,28'). 19 be thoroughly understood. had a We long Office building, Washington, D. C. less BEFORE YOU LATHER, talk with the officers commanding two depreciation 121,930.97 Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less ' ®/) MAAt-WHATA of our newest destroyers then in the depreciation 33,260.23 Deferred charges Yard; swift craft capable of over forty- 24,896.71 D/FF£RBNC£ five land miles per hour. We conferred S3, 32',014.72 ( briefly with the Captain of the Navy Yard. Barbers find it marvelous for The rest of the night I spent at Head- Liabilities, Deferred Revenue quarters, mostly in the radio room. softening beard — for soothing skin There was just time for a quick shower and Net W orth • If you have a tough beard or sensitive skin, try the new shaving trick used by more and more bar- and change before meeting Tula. If I Current liabilities. . 85, 164.66 bers in better shops! They know the way to soften rounds appeared somewhat bulky about the restricted as to use. . . n), 859.73 beards and protect tender skin! Just apply a little Deferred revenue 44/, 336.33 Medicated Noxzema before lathering — or use waist, I believe it Permanent trust: escaped her notice Noxzema alone as a latherless shave. Notice the

Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund . 207,,289.19 amazing difference. No razor pull! No smarting for I had shifted to loose tweeds for a Net Worth: irritation! And how cool and comfort- Restricted capital 32,156,672.28 definite purpose. able your skin feels. At all Drug Stores. Unrestricted capital 398,692.53 2,555, 364.81 Tula managed a sketchy smile as I helped her into her coupe. 33,326,014.72 "You're not going to get halfway to where we're {Continued on page 52) Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant BALTIMORE, MD.

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going, then tell me you forgot those nega- A steward brought champagne. Brun- deceive us by such a very childish device.'' tives, are you?" ner looked up from his examination. He tossed the apparatus into a corner. " They're in my handbag," she said. "Inform the Captain that we may de- "Now a toast," he said. "Before you Tula was nervous, and showed it. part at once," he said. And to Tula: "A leave us."

I noted the two cars behind us highly successful conclusion, my dear He poured drinks. that pulled out from the curb as young lady, to a very interesting adven- "To the gallant, if somewhat foolish. we did. They swung along through ture. Thanks to the unfortunate Mr. Commander Dahlgren; to the clever early morning traffic close behind the Pfann, poor boy, we have on board the United States Navy and also to its su- coupe. essential parts of the desired airplane"— perb airplanes!" "We're having company," I re- Over her champagne Tula's marked ai ,r a few blocks. "And green eyes watched me smilingly. they're not my doing." My glass was untouched. Through "Grunow's," said Tula. "He the open port I saw that we were wants to be certain that we have heading out to sea. no accidents to delay us." "What happened to Pfann?" I "Thoughtful of him," I said. asked to gain a little time. "Then he'll be on this ship?" "The poor fellow was injured in

"No . . . I'm to deliver the landing your very fast airplane on negatives to a Colonel Brunner." a beach that was not quite suf- Passing through Connecticut ficient. He broke his leg and, like we discussed a likely town for the horse, we had to shoot him." our wedding. Tula drove with- Brunner laughed loudly. out hesitation northeastward into "And the airplane?" Rhode Island. "Do you care for mackerel, "You seem to know the way to Commander?" asked Brunner. this place," I said. "If so, then it's really too bad "I've been well rehearsed." that you are not to enjoy some of We drew up to New Bedford, Massa- unobtrusively the fingers of my right the succulent fish in large tubs in which chusetts, at a quarter to twelve. This hand closed around a —small automatic we salted down, the better to deceive quaint stronghold of whaling days has pistol in my coat pocket "and thanks to your ox-like customs officials, the airplane lost much of its former shipping glory to such a charming girl we may add a com- parts we wished to take with us." larger ports. The harbor was almost plete set of that airplane's drawings." "But you said that Commander Dahl- empty. Tula stopped beside a small Brunner was looking at the film again gren would go, too," this from a smiling freighter tied up to a dock. The ship was through his glass. Tula, showing her first concern for my the Mahaba, under Mexican registry. "Commander Dahlgren," he said con- safety. Our escort cars, which had made no versationally without looking up, "if you "Unfortunately, that will not be pos- secret of their purpose, pulled in beside make the slightest move to withdraw sible," said Brunner. "A non-existent us where the vessel was docked. Two men your right hand you will be shot in the naval officer creates no diplomatic inci- got out of each car and followed us up back instantly from the porthole behind dents . . No, no"—his hand came up from the gangway. you." a drawer —with a pistol which he laid on At its top there waited a brisk and I sat quite still. the table "we shall not shoot the con- smiling individual with as cruel a face Brunner called out sharply: "Koenig!" siderate Commander unless it becomes as I have ever seen, discounting his prop A huskv brute appeared in the door- unavoidable. When we transfer to our smile. He bowed from the waist over way, followed by two more men. waiting submarine fifty miles off thecoast, Tula's hand. "Search this man! I have an idea you Commander Dahlgren will simply be left "I am very glad to see you," he said. may find something." on its deck as we submerge. Perhaps you "Colonel Brunner, this is Lieutenant The bruiser ran experienced hands can swim fifty miles, Commander, with Commander Stephen Dahlgren," Tula over my body; removed the automatic your hands and feet tied?" said. "Wasn't it nice of him to see that from my pocket, another from under my I must have looked as if I were about

I got here safely—and with my little left arm. He patted my waist again. to leap across the table at his throat package." "heels like a bullet proof vest," he said. because he called out again sharply: "Most considerate. May I have it, Brunner came up to me; felt the thick "Koenig!" please." padding. That worthy appeared in the doorway. Tula handed him a small, well-wrapped "Remove it," he told me. "Lock him in the next stateroom. Tie parcel. When I handed it to him, he laid the his hands and feet. Put two men at the

"I suggest that we go to my cabin," vest out on the table and ripped it open. door." Brunner continued. "There we may enjoy Some skillfully designed Hat batteries, Some time after I was thrown roughly some refreshments while I examine the minute tubes and a mass of wiring fell into the room and tied to a chair, there contents . . . You too, Commander." out. were hurried words at the locked door, We went below. "As I thought," Brunner said. "A which opened to admit Tula.

1 had noted the throb of the engines radio transmitter. Y'ou planned to send She came over to me, looking more and the fact that the dock lines were a message for help, perhaps, Comman- alive than I had ever seen her. singled, indicating that the little freighter der?" "I'm very sorry about you, Stephen," was ready to get under way. While Brun- I admitted it. she said. "But isn't it all thrilling!" ner was scanning each tiny negative "Commander Dahlgren," he said scath- "Exceedingly," I murmured. through a magnifying glass, I heard run- ingly. "I am really amazed at the stupid- I caught and held the green eyes. ning feet and shouted commands over- ity of you Americans. But how naive, "Tula . . . About us. All of that meant lie, id. how refreshing that you should hope to nothing?"

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 53 "Dear Stephen. I never mentioned "Explain yourself fully, Commander," plained. "It's a useful gadget perfected love." he said. He looked like sudden death. by the 'clever United States Navy' you "Those kisses?" "Take it easy, Brunner," I told him. were toasting so generously. The fre-

She shrugged. "After all . . . You are "A non-existent naval officer may not quency has been stepped up very high so clean, so strong." She laughed her cause you trouble, but a murdered one and the usual hum removed. Its signal soft laugh. "Poor Stephen." may be received as far as a hundred miles. "You never meant to marry me?" Two destroyers followed us up the coast "I'm to be a Baroness, Stephen." this morning twenty-five miles apart. "I'm very glad." With their radio direction finders tuned "Nice Stephen." She leaned over and to this high frequency each had a direct kissed me lightly. bearing—see, Tula, like two fingers "Now I won't have to keep up that pointing—on us at all times. With these fake love making," I said. bearings Lieutenant Jimmie Dewson on "Fake!" It was as if I'd slapped her. the leading destroyer could plot on his "You were lying to me?" chart my exact position. He's been lying "The play's over, sweetheart," I told back out of sight." her. "And now that you've lost in this Brunner leaped to the door. Tula rose little battle of lies I shan't mind a bit to follow. seeing you in federal court charged with "Wait!" The word stopped her. espionage." "It's too late, Tula," I said. "When I didn't mean every word of this, I Brunner removed that transmitter from knew. But for the sake of face, or some- around my waist, he stopped the trans- thing, I had to say it. mission. That was the signal for Jimmie Tula looked scared. to close in." "What do you mean?" She stood frozen in fear. "This is the end of the last act," I "You're not showing much apprecia- said. "Time for the United States Navy "Get set—I hear someone calling" tion for the Navy's ingenuity," I com- to come galloping to the rescue. And the plained. funny part is, they'll be here any minute The green eyes only stared at me. now." will be hard to explain in a few minutes." There came a far-off "Boom!" as a The door opened with one explosive "Talk fast," he shot at me. shot splashed across the Mahabas bow. sound. It was B runner. "It's that radio transmitter," I ex- "That will be Jimmie now," I told her.

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beyond first papers in the process of The bill provides too that fingerprints done in some of the Departments gives an naturalization. H.R. 9858, introduced by of aliens seeking entry be taken at the insight into this sudden "rediscovery of Congressman Dies on May 22, and report of application and that any alien America" by Congress. ferred to the House Committee on Immi- joining the communist, fascist or nazi New York, national headquarters for gration and Naturalization, provides groupings immediately become subject the Communist Party of the United that "no alien who is a Nazi, a Fascist or to deportation. Registration of all crim- States and for the Kuhn bund organiza- a Communist, or who advises, teaches or inal aliens is also provided. tion, has had one of the toughest prob- advocates nazi-ism, fascism or commu- Another bill, now before the Senate, is lems and has waged one of the toughest nism, or who is associated, directly or the so-caDed Smith Bill. Passed by the fights. And New York has made definite indirectly with any organization or group House last July it was originally an anti- progress. which advises, teaches or advocates sedition Bill, but in the Senate Judiciary The Martin-Devany Bill, passed in nazi-ism, fascism or communism, shall Committee became a full-fledged alien- both Assembly and State Senate and be granted a visa for entry into or be regulation bill. It would require all aliens, signed by Governor Lehman, will prob- admitted into the United States." no matter how long in the country, or ably prove to have the most far-reaching That same bill would give the Secre- whether here on visit or visa to register effect of any purely state legislation now tary of State power to deny a visa to any within 4 months, and be fingerprinted. on the various state law enactments in alien whose presence "as a visitor or for It defines an alien as including all foreign the country. Specifically it: permanent residence, would in any way born who have not completed the 1 —Bars from all state office, county be contrary to public welfare." process of naturalization. Alien advo- office or local office, including teachers, The bill would give the Secretary of cates of overthrow of the Government by any individual who advocates or teaches State power to' revoke a visa obtained other than lawful means are made de- that the Government of the United States under fraudulent representations and portable under this bill. should be overthrown by force or violence to immediately deport the holder. It John Thomas Taylor's Legislative or any other unlawful means; would require too, that applicants for Bulletins from Washington show a dis- 2 —Bars from any public office any visas present proof of good character, tinct Congressional about-face on the person who prints, edits, or sells any that no temporary visitors' visas may be question of Fifth Columnists since the printed matter advocating the overthrow for longer than one year, including exten- European ismites show a definite linking of the Government by force or violence sions, and that, beginning July 1, 1940, of their forces for a world-wide drive to or other unlawful means or which preaches immigration quotas from all countries destroy Democracy. the need or necessity for such an action; shall be cut to one third of the present The Congressional reactions, natur- 3 —Bars from all public office any quota and that only members of the im- ally, spring from sentiment in the home individual who helps organize any group mediate family of citizens be included in districts of the Senators and Congress- for the purpose of effecting overthrow of this limited quota. men—in the States. Just what is being the Government (Continued on page 34)

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(Continued from page jj) or any branch of the Government by un- Fred C. Parks and W. A. Wright, the rights and privileges of American citizen- lawful means. bill went to a 96-31 victory vote in ship. The resolution guaranteed that the And New York, in addition, has April. Then Governor James H. Price evidence gathered by Harper Knowles created a joint legislative committee killed the good work by giving the bill and presented by him to the Dies Com- instructed to investigate the entire edu- a pocket veto. The Virginia Legisla- mittee as the opinion "of an individual" cational system of the State, its text ture meets again, in January. Then will carry the stamp of official Legion books, its methods of selecting teachers, watch. voice in the Bridges citizenship hearings. the expenditure of funds appropriated Pennsylvania managed to pass a law The resolution demanded that Congress for education and even the background requiring aliens to register in that State. take investigation of deportation of radi- and history of key men in the educational In November, 1939, a Division of alien cal aliens from the Department of Labor structure of the State. registration was set up in the state De- and assign such work to the Department partment of Labor and Industry and of Justice. This was later done by Presi- NEW YORK, for years, has had a stat- Legionnaire Tony Serafin of Taylor, and dential executive order. uteby whichany voting block failing Mrs. James H. Beadle, Past Department The California Legion endorsed, too, to poll 50,000 votes in the State at a state- President of the Legion Auxiliary, of a specific bill to deport Bridges, and Con- wide election shall lose its right to party Shamokin, were employed to establish gressman Leland Ford, of California in- designation on the ballot. The Com- registration centers, in many cases troduced H.R. 8310 calling for the de- munist party lost this designation in the through cooperation of Legion Posts in portation of all alien communists, but 1936 Presidential election, when thou- Legion Homes. Then the Federal Court so phrased as to specifically define sands of Communists registered under held the law to be unconstitutional. It's Bridges. In addition Congressman A. various party labels, in an effort to in- now on appeal to the Supreme Court of Leonard Allen, of Louisiana, introduced filtrate Communists into the political the United States. H.R. 0766 which directed the Secretary structure under other than Communist Pennsylvania's Legion sponsored a of Labor "to take into custody and de- labels. bill to make May 1 —long the prime an- port" Bridges. The transfer of deporta- For 3 years New York has carried on a nual festival day of the radicals—Ameri- tion cases from the Labor Department to bitter battle to oust Simon Gerson, for- canism Day. That bill became law and the Department of Justice probably mer political writer— on the official Com- will go into effect next May Day. The abrogates this bill however. munist paper "The Daily Worker" Legion is now driving for a bill to outlaw from his appointed position as confiden- the Communist Party in the Keystone GEORGIA, acting legislatively on Le- tial aide to Stanley M. Isaacs, President State. gion initiative, has passed and now of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Skipping all the way west to the other has in effect a law requiring the finger- five major political and geographical Coast, California has been in a four-year printing and registration of all aliens. It divisions of Greater New York. Twice fight against Fifth Column activities. promises to be widespread in its effect, the Legion efforts failed because of lack Those Legionnaires who have followed not only within the State of Georgia, but of legal ground for removing Gerson. the work of the Dies Committee know of as an example to other States, in which Under the new Martin-Devany Bill a the extensive presentation, under oath, the Georgia plan will be watched in op- new action will be started, not only by Harper Knowles and other Legion- eration, and legislation drawn to cover against Gerson but against literally dozens naires of the infiltration of Communism any defects which may develop during of others in the city, holding tax-paid into West Coast Labor, particularly the operation of the Georgia method. jobs. This action may be under way be- shipping, communication and distribu- Colorado's 126 Posts are pledged by fore this story reaches the Legion Maga- tion fields. As Simon Gerson has been Department resolution to work in close zine readers. the individual challenge of Communism harmony with the F.B.I, "as an example Aside from the legislative drive the in New York, so has Harry Bridges on of the duty of all good Americans to co- New York Legion is working in close the Pacific Coast been a red flag of chal- operate with existing law enforcement cooperation with the F.B.I., maintains a lenge to the bull of patriotism in Cali- agencies rather than in permitting mass "radio patrol" to monitor subversive fornia. hysteria to induce independent action radio programs and is working out a by any non-official body." Colorado's plan for "listening posts" in a state-wide CALIFORNIA'S Legion fight on Legion, in addition, in the Legislature network to detect airplanes, and is per- Bridges, particularly in the Depart- succeeded in obtaining the appointment fecting its state-wide mobilization plans ment of Labor's abortive deportation of a "Little Dies Committee" to investi- for national emergencies. hearings, has become nationally symboli- gate subversive activities, with Verne In contrast to the Legislative victory in cal. The Labor Department's refusal to Cheever, of Colorado Springs, a Legion- New York, Virginia reports a temporary deport made the issue a finish fight, naire, as chairman. This committee set-back—in which a governor's pocket nationally, between the Legion and the has not been given adequate funds, but veto nullified a Legion legislative victory. forces upholding Bridges. the Colorado Legion plans to further im- Hut the Virginians are really mad now, After the Department of Labor's re- plement the committee with working and their fight this fall and winter to fusal to deport Bridges the Australian tools at the next meeting of the Legisla- wipe out that set-back will be something radical announced his intention to apply ture. to watch. for full citizenship by naturalization. Arkansas is working under an act Department Commander E. Ralph The California Departmental Executive passed in 1935 prohibiting election ballot James, Department Adjutant W. Glenn Committee on April 20, at Los Angeles, designation to any party advocating Elliott and Past Department Com- authorized the Department Commander overthrow of the Government by 'force mander John J. Wicker, Jr., evolved and to appoint a representative or representa- and violence or which advocates a "pro- took to the Legislature of the Common- tives to appear as Friends of the Court at gram of treason or sedition by radio, wealth of Virginia a bill which would any and all hearings on the granting of speech or press." No new party designar have barred Communists and other sub- citizenship to Bridges, to present infor- tions are authorized under this bill until versives from tax-paid jobs in the State. mation in the hands of the Legion as to its officers, under oath, swear that it does Sponsored by Senators George E. Heller, why Bridges should not be granted the not advocate overthrow of local, state or

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ss national Government by force or violence and that the new party is not affiliated ELMER'S GOT WINGS! directly with any party or organization which advocates such action. The Arkan- sas Legion is considering strengthening action to this bill when its Legislature meets again in January. Delaware, with little subversive activity in its State boundaries, nevertheless cooperates with the Officers Reserve Corps in tabbing subversive develop- ments, individual and organizational, and Go Direct by Air . . . to the Boston Convention reporting them to the F.B.I. • You'll save hours—even days—of time you straight to Boston. From the Pacific Florida's legislature bars communists going to the convention by Flagship. Coast and the Southwest, it's only over- from any place on an elective ticket in You'll enjoy superb comfort, delicious night—and in a luxurious American Air- the State and bars teaching of subversive meals, courteous Stewardess service. lines Skysleeper! Eleven flights daily You can leave later, arrive sooner—and from Chicago! Make reservations today! doctrines in her schools. But Florida's have more time there! American Air- Call your Travel Agent or nearest legislative action is largely academic lines routes and connecting lines take American Airlines office. there is practically no communist problem in that State. Idaho has a law barring communists or other subversives from placing an elective ticket in the field. Illinois, operating without specific legislation, has been able, generally, to prevent communist or other subversive groups from presenting a ticket of candidates for office by checking the nominat- ing petitions of subversive candidates and ruling out a sufficient number to invalidate the petition. Throughout the State, too, the Posts cooperate in list- ing any organizations of subversive nature, and fighting such groups locally generally blocking any great develop- AMERICAN AIRLINES 9*va. ment of strength by such groups. Indiana's Criminal Syndicalism Act ROUTE OF THE FLAGSHIPS bars parades by any party advocating overthrow of the government by force and violence, or use of banners tending to LEGIONNAIRE WAKE UP YOUR inflame the public toward violence. An AUTO DEALERS effort to repeal this statute, at the recent In April Legionnaire automobile dealers LIVER BILE - session of the Legislature, was snowed graciously aided our Advertising De- Without Calomel And You'll Jump Out under—49 to 2. The Legion also suc- partment by answering a brief question- — of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go ceeded in passing, about 5 years ago, a naire regarding their businesses. The liver should pour out two pints of liquid bill barring subversives from the ballot. The results were extremely useful and bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flow- The Indiana election commission subse- the data collected will help your maga- ing freely, your food may not digest. It may just decay in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. the communists to be zine get a larger share of automobile quently permitted Vou get constipated. You feel sour, sunk and the advertising. replaced on the ballot, however, and the world looks punk. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pill3 Indiana Legion's drive is now under way The Advertising Department is deeply to get these two pints of bile flowing freely to grateful to Legionnaire make you feel "up and up." Amazing in making to remove them, again, at the next session automobile deal- bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills ers for the fine co-operation extended. of the Hoosier lawmakers. by name. 10^ and 25(J at all drug stores. Stubbornly refuse anything else. In Iowa, where there is a Criminal Syndicalism act on the books, the radicals have announced a drive to repeal this law. The Legion is driving to keep YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? it in effect. IS the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was mailed correct Kansas has a law making it illegal to for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. carry or display any banner, flag or other Until further notice, my mailing insignia of any organization or body of address for The American Legion Magazine is NEW ADDRESS persons pledged to bolshevism, anarchy, radical socialism—with imprisonment of Name not less than 18 months or longer than (PLEASE PRINT) three years as the penalty. Street Address Minnesota, emerging from a bitter anti-communist and anti-subversive City . State. drive, has extensive plans for legislative 1940 membership card number action during the coming winter. They are keeping their detailed plans tempor- Post No Dept arily secret. old address Mississippi, without specific anti-fifth Street Address column legislation, operated under the "Mississippi Council for Preparedness City Statf_ and Defense" (Continued on page j6)

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(Continued from page 55) appointed by the Governor, in which the laws governing the American Flag and political registration of any individual

Legion and other statewide organiza- making it illegal to use the llag or emblem to vote to advocate overthrow of the tions cooperate in a border to border of any subversive group. government by force or violence. drive against all subversive activities, The Oklahoma llag laws require its cere- These excerpts from the programs of by individuals or by organizations. monial use in schools andholdsthe teacher various Departments of The American

Montana's anti-Fifth Column program responsible lor 1 arr\ ing out the ritual. Legion, and the legislative acts already

is probably in effect by the time this issue The Oklahoma Legion offered a bill accomplished may not include the activi- of the Legion Magazine reaches its read- at the last legislature which passed the ties in all States. They represent and ers —the result of mandates at the Depart- Senate but failed in the House, providing cover only those Departments reporting. ment Convention in July. for the banning of any political party This survey, however does show one Xew Hampshire plans to revive the advocating illegal government overthrow thing. drive for a bill originally offered in 1935 and holding the governor responsible for The American Legion, always aware to bar the Communist party from the its enforcement. This bill is to be re-in- of the danger of subversive activities, has ballot, with the addition, in a proposed troduced in January. finally roused the country tc that danger.

1 04 1 bill, of excluding all subvdsive Tennessee succeeded in having passed The percentage of States which have groups from party designation. by its last legislature an act barring sub- acted to curb communism, fascism, Xew Jersey has two pending legisla- versive parties or individuals from any nazism and similar isms is still in the tive bills, one to require fingerprinting place on the ballot. Provision is made for minority. But the number of States which and registration of all aliens within thirty prosecution of any "person or persons are seriously considering restrictive action days of their entry to the State, and the who cause such a name to be placed on is on the ascendancy and will probably other barring membership in any labor the ballot in violation of this act." In become a majority before this winter's union to aliens. addition, the Department Executive legislative sessions adjourn.

New Mexico, recently faced with in- Committee memorialized the Legislature It is academic that the great American filtration of Communist aliens from Red- of Tennessee and the Congress of the nation is slow—perhaps too slow —to ridden Mexico, plans legislative action United States to enact legislation defining anger or to act. It is equally academic to curb even migratory subversive indi- as treason any activities by individuals that once aroused, the American nation viduals or organizations in that State. or groups to overthrow the government drives through with indomitable will to Ohio failed to pass a legislative bill of city, state or nation by force or vio- win an announced objective. barring subversives from the ballot at its lence or to advocate such overthrow. In retrospect it may be said that last legislature. However a similar bill is Washington has a criminal syndical- America walked dangerously close to the to be offered at the next session. In addi- ism act, and is prepared for a campaign rim of the chasm into which lenient treat- tion there will be a bill to prohibit sub- for additional legislation at the next ment of such ideologies as communism, versive groups from using public halls, session. The Washington program for the nazism, fascism or other totalitarian a bill to prohibit wearing of the uniform coming legislative session includes a bill forms is certain to push freedom and of a military or semi-military group of a requiring that all employes of the State democracy. foreign country and a bill to bar relief or its subdivisions be American citizens, In confident prophecy it can be said to members of subversive groups. citizenship being defined as com- that American common sense now real-

( tklahoma has a definite anti-subver- pleted citizenship in the case of other izes that danger, in time to protect our sive legislative setup and a program to than native-born Americans. Another freedoms. further strengthen existing legislation. bill requires that all public works employ- THANK GOD, AMERICA IS Oklahoma has extensive and effective es be citizens. A third bill would prevent AWAKE!

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Voice from Without: Who owns a That chocolate covered—I mean Which, swollen by the fever heat of chocolate-colored chariot, colored—thing war, A last year's model, red and yellow Away from that fire plug, thou Are but advantage taken of distress; wheels, mildew'd clown! By-products of our blood; a tax on woe

And bearing license six three five two J. Jones: O. K., 0. K. But do not get so By horrid, heartless, greedy, grasping eight? tough. hands

J. Jones: Who owns it? Why, I do— in (He leaves with the Voice.) Snatched from a body politic which is seven months. Centurion: (continuing the business of So far engrossed with beating off those Voice from Without: In seven minutes the evening) foes

thou shalt own a tag ( >ur Legislative Phalanx sends us word That threaten from without, it hath no Requiring thee next Thursday night at That soon our mighty Senate will de- [lower eight bate To smite these vicious, viler ones To tell it to the Edile why thou hast A most important matter which con- within. Thy damned wagon parked the wrong cerns Scribe: Who is there here who hath not

way right Each citizen of Rome: To make it law heard the scandals Beside a tire plug 'pon the Appian Way. That when this Legion takes again the Anent the graft in sales of army

J. Jones: The wrong way right? What field sandals? meanest thou? What way? To drive the dread barbarian to his lair Centurion: And who hath not the das- Voice from Without: The Appian No profiteer shall fatten up his purse tard armorer curst Way— the Main Drag. Listen, get On prices of all needed goods and wares That fashioned issue leg-mail out of tin,

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So that, when wet, it rusted to his S. Smith: And me, did I not surely calves throw the bull So fast, can-openers could not avail? Far harder, faster, further than the Member Metellus: Ay, something rest? should be done concerning this. Centurion: Tut, tut and tut! It may be Member Marcuixus: But what can we, as thou sayst; ourselves, do to assist? But let us take defeat like men of Scribe: Our National Headquarters Rome. — sends a note Besides, we can do nothing now 'tis To tell us what to do. Here's what they o'er. wrote: S. Smith: Says you we can't do nothing. "Address a letter to your Senator By the gods, gol-darn profit out of war!" But that's the trouble with this rotten To take the Barrows, . O. , , ewis (Members cheer.) Post, TUo Honorable^ ^ ^ Centurion: 'Tis well to shout "Huzzah!" We never don't do nothing at no time. But cheers won't do. H. Hemingway: Go to! The difficulty The Senatorial reasoning runneth thus: with thee is Those voters writing for the law are for, Thou canst not take it, saffron-liver'd MAINE And those against, against; and all the whale. rest S. Smith: Who can't take what? Who Who do not write at all, must be says who can't take what? invites you against, Why, let me tell thee something, saw- Fortier, Stole 11 „ C Or do not give a whoop, which is the dust head: cMLlir: .£ « ; - same. Was you in France—I mean, wert thou Be sure to write! in Gaul? S. Smith: 0. K.—When do we eat? No, sat thee on thy fannie here in Rome l/is scat.) (J. Jones returns and resumes And fought the battle of the S. O. S. Centurion: Feace, peace. What other Didst thou, encased in iron pants, business doth stand out? splash down Member Marcus: Centurion, I've heard Those muddy roads, march mile on by word of mouth mile on mile? Much rumor, chatter, talk and gossip Stop arrows with thy shield or duck the rife spear? That when the gladiators from our Post light hand to hand, or man the cata- Contended with the other Legion hosts pults? Within the Coliseum at the games Eat slum three times each day three The wreath of victory went to Post V, days each week • Governor Barrows and Colonel Which fact, 'tis said by many who were And starve the other four? Hast thou Fortier, State Commander of the Amer- there, e'er had Seemed passing strange, because the To writhe in that exquisite agony ican Legion, invite you to pay a visit to valiant show That busy cooties 'neath a breast-plate the great, friendly State of Maine when Presented by our Gladiator Corps cause you come to New England for your quite the best, and well deserved no to get at 'em? Why, you so Was And way National Convention. September is a the prize. And so and so and so and so and so glorious month in Maine. The days are I would hear what the captain of our H. Hemingway: Retract those words or warm, the nights are crisp. And the fish- team else ing — both in fresh and salt water — is May have to say, if aught, concerning (He jumps to his feel mid draws.) better yet! Plan to in this. Centurion: (very angry) Stop, stop, I spend some time Centurion: We shall be glad to hear say! Maine hefore the Convention, or if that from Brutus Brown, (Sergeant-at-Arms again rushes forward, isn't practical — come down after the Best Gladiator-Major of our town, this lime villi a business-like look in his Convention. Who doth, in most resplendent robes, eye mid his big stick raised for action. Two You'll enjoy the good food and command resounding whacks! And—silence.) the genial hospitality of this great vaca- Our own Post I's most brave and gal- Centurion: (continuing sadly) If some tion State. You'll find all types of ac- lant band. would fight for Rome and principle commodations—and all of them good! (Cheers and applause.) As hard as they do fight among them- hotels, inns, camps, com- Brutus: 'Tis not a band; 'tis a most selves Well-known ; snappy corps. And those who pay their dues but stay fortable overnight stopping places and And, boy, I'll say a mouthful here and at home tourist homes. Don't miss this oppor- now, (Who might be called the Legion's S. 0. S.) tunity to visit the State of Maine! Nor beat about the famed proverbial Would sally forth with sword in hand bush, awhile; MAINE In three short words I say that And those who can belong but do not

J. Jones: We was robbed! join DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION B. Brown: Ay, robbed, twice robbed, Would face about and with us carry on; thrice robbed and four times robbed! The trouble with this Legion then Member Marcus: Oh, Justice, tear the would be MAINE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION blindfold from thine eyes, I do not know: But those who sought Tourist Service. 952 St. John Street, That thou mayst weep at that done in would find. Portland, Maine Please send me the new Maine thy name. Post Commisar: (putting his head in tin- Vacation Guide tor 1940. Member Metellus: Nay, better that doorway) What tripe is this that Name someone had tore the blinds keepeth ye so long, Those judges wore so tightly 'pon their Ye blow-hards, gas bags, air tanks, City_ FREE BOOKLET own. wind machines? (Cont. on page j8)

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Do not the savors from the groaning J. Jones: I sennamosh. To cover up when others go too far. board, Centurion: So be it, then. And thus we (Scribe covers up S. Smith and H. Aromas from roast pig and ox, declare stand adjourned. Hemingway with cloaks, leaving them on The time hath come to put your mouths (Exeunt all l>ut Scribe, who docsnt, and the floor.)

to use S. Smith and H. Hemingway, who can't Sleep on ; Sweet sleep, but what a pain- Far better than mere outlets for your m ike the grade.) ful waking! speech? Scribe: (looking at S. Smith and II. Sore-heads? Perhaps—but sorer in the fWhat ho! Hi miv.wa, lying on the floor, and sigh- making. Lead on! ing deeply.) Poor Hemingway and Smith! I know Members: (smiling) e i T , Let s go The trouble with this Legion really is them well: [Yea, now we eat! The Scribe does all the work; and so They'll fight again next time;—so what Member Marcellus: I move we do ad- 'tis his the hell? journ. Unwritten duty (0, ill-fated star!) The End

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Company, 5th Regiment of Marines, ern France in the Embarkation Area be nothing worse in store for us, and as came to know so well after the Armistice. near Bordeaux, where most of the Tank later events proved, we were right. I Here's how I happen to own that picture: Corps waited some six months to return personally helped with five burials during

"While we were stationed in Datze- home. The small snapshot print shows that passage before I became too ill to roth, Germany, in the Occupied Area, our Company Cook watching a French do anything but hug my hammock down three or four of us boys were out one blacksmith and his helper shoe an ox. in the bottom of the hold. night after Taps, and on our way back Note how the animal's leg is tied up to a "We left about thirty percent of our to quarters we cut through a farmer's crossbar. Safety first! outfit in hospital in Liverpool while the yard. Everyone will remember the im- "Nearly all members of the Tank remainder of us went on to a so-called portance of the fertilizer pits which Corps served their apprenticeship at rest camp at Romsey, England, and occupied prominent positions, usually Camp Colt, located at Gettysburg, Penn- later crossed to Le Havre, France. in front of each farmhouse and, even, sylvania. While there with Company C, "The Tank Center, where most cf the sometimes in front of homes in villages. 33 2d Battalion, I was quartered in a Light Tank outfits trained, was located "That short cut was bad. I fell over barracks only a stone's throw from the some five kilometers from the walled, the shaft of the fertilizer cart and famous Gettysburg Battlefield. I am sure moated city of Langres, noted as the landed in the pit. The sergeant in charge anyone who was stationed there remem- point farthest south which the Germans could easily determine that I was one bers the slogan 'Treat 'Em Rough,' with reached during the Franco-Prussian of the boys who had come in late that the black cat atop it, above one of the War. The Tank Corps was such a new night by the condition and odor of my entrances to camp. branch of the service that the Armistice uniform. And so as a special memento "During the several months we were was signed before more than two or of that occasion, someone took this snap- at Gettysburg our outfit became so well three battalions of our contingent saw shot and presented it to me. You see I acquainted with the various beautiful action. In the small group that did lead still treasure it. Would like to hear from scenes and the historic incidents con- the infantry over the top in several ex-gyrene comrades who may recall nected with each that it became a drives, the casualty rate was exceedingly the incident and other men of the outfit." standing joke to declare that when the high. war ended we would return to Gettys- "After our long wait in Castillon, we ASPECIAL treat for the "Treat 'Em burg and take our places with the official finally drew the transport //. R. (Hell- Rough" gang is made available battlefield guides. As we left Camp Colt Rolling) Mallory and made the trip from through the interest and cooperation of before the flu epidemic struck there, Bordeaux to New York in a little more Adjutant Paul LaTeer of Karl Ross Post Gettysburg has nothing but very pleas- than five days. of the Legion which has its headquarters ant memories for me. "I've forgotten the name of the cook in the Memorial Civic Auditorium in "After a month's sojourn at Camp of Company C, 33 2d Battalion, who ap- Stockton, California. It's one of the Tobyhanna, high in the hills above pears in the snapshot of the blacksmith best collections of A. E. F. views en- Scranton, Pennsylvania, several battal- shop, but I would be very glad to hear compassed in a small space that we have ions of us sailed from New York on the from him or any other members of the ever seen. Take a look at it, on page 33, English tramp steamer Oxfordshire. Also gang who chance to see this contribu- and also at the snapshot of the French on board were several colored Labor tion." blacksmith shoeing an ox, and then read Battalions, fresh from Alabama, and this report from Adjutant LaTeer: when the cold weather and flu overtook THERE were, of course, the Shave- "I am submitting a collection of us en route, it was just too bad, especially tails of hallowed and unhallowed prints (on one card) of scenes which will for the southern boys. My particular memory. But how many of the Gang be familiar to all former members of the buddy, Charlie Singer of near Lima, ever heard of that betwixt-and-between Tank Corps overseas. The three tank Ohio, passed away while we were in the group that gained the nickname of scenes were taken at the Tank Center, harbor of Liverpool, England, waiting "Dovetails?" That sobriquet may have some five kilometers out of Langres, for the quarantine officers to come been common, but just recently it came France. The Castillon scenes, around the aboard. After sixteen days on a flu-rid- to the attention of this department in a border of the card, were taken in South- den ship, most of us felt that there could letter from Legionnaire Saul B. Kramer

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59 of 135 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Dovetails to get together and live over Illinois, in which he reported a new those days in La Valbonne. I am hoping /false alarm/ it's^v veterans' organization. Comrade Kra- that scores of them will write to me and just a motorist mer's story, which follows, should have report that they will be with us at the a wide-spread interest: reunion." who hasn't heard "To any of the more than six thousand about non-coms who were shipped to the In- AMERICAN bills and coins, as we all SAM-FLUSH! fantry Candidates School at La Val- l\. know, were highly valued overseas bonne, France, who wish to revive memo- during the war and many of the bills, ries, pleasant and unpleasant, of the suitably endorsed, have been retained by three months' training received there, veterans. Not so long ago we reported in an opportunity is presented to join an this department the return of a souvenir organization formed last fall during the of this type to its owner in Ohio. Legion National Convention in Chicago. We now have this request from Legion- This organization is the La Valbonne naire L. C. Hines of 3500 14th Street, Veterans Association and its membership North Arlington, Virginia; ex-private card (of which I enclose the 1940 edition) icl, Field Hospital 165, 42d Division: will each year carry a different view of "During the affair above Chateau- the school or of the town. Thierry, I 'found' an American one- "Early in October, 1918, the more than dollar bill. Realizing it would make a six thousand candidates were assembled good souvenir, I endorsed it in ink as follows: 'Found at the Battle of Chateau- Thierry, July 26, 1917 —Alabama Soldier.' "I sold the bill for fifty francs to Bent- (939-40 CANDIDATE CARD HO^^P ley Mulford, another Rainbow man who hailed from Washington, D. C. He took True, Sani-Flush was made originally it with him to Russia in 1920. Upon his to clean toilet bowls. And today you'll return to New York, he had to use the find it in almost every bathroom. Sani- bill in paying his railroad fare back to Flush is also the best way many motor- it 1 *AHfctj Washington. I'll be glad to pay six ists have found to keep a radiator free percent interest for its return." of rust, scale and sludge. While on the subject of money, here is It only costs 10c to clean out a car a good dollar-bill story that came from radiator with Sani-Flush (2.5c for the at La Valbonne. The school was closed Robert J. Cartledge, Jr., of Greenwood, largest truck or tractor). You can do on January 17, 191 9, and then came the South Carolina, who writes on the letter- it yourself in a few minutes (direc- wait for the graduates for eventual head of the Office of Judge of Probate, tions o?i the can). If you prefer, have commissions and assignments. The black Greenwood County: the job done at the service station stripe worn on the blouse sleeve by "In discussing with a friend several insist on Sani-Flush. It cannot injure graduates, in lieu of officers' braid, was days ago various unusual service inci- motor or fittings. Sold by grocery, in reality a mourning stripe. 'Dovetails' dents, I mentioned the fact that I sup- drug, hardware, and 5-and-10c stores. they were called, poor devils—dovetailed pose I am the only World War veteran 10c and 25c sizes. The Hygienic Prod- for a while between a non-com and a who has the distinction of still having in ucts Company, Canton, Ohio. shavetail status. his possession the first dollar paid to him "The training for commissions was as a soldier in the United States Army. strenuous, but there was time for recrea- "The dollar bill which I have has this Sam-Flush tion, too. Sufficient theatrical talent was notation in pencil on it: 'Paid to me on 8 CLEANS OUT RADIATORS X^pT found to provide entertainment for the July 22, 19 1 —the first dollar received idle hours and the quarantined week- by me in the U. S. Army.' ends. Encouraged by Post Commander "In being paid for the first time at INVENTORS Exton, the La Valbonne Stock Company Camp Jackson by Arthur W. ChairseU, \\\\ Take first step to protect your Invention was formed by Russ Leddy, a profes- Capt., Inf., N. A., I asked Captain Chair- —without cost. Get free Record of In- vention form and 48 page Book. "Pat- sional comedian, Art Schneider, erst- sell to please hand me the dollar bill on ent Guii'e for the Inventor" Time counts! Don't delay. Write today. while accompanist for Sophie Tucker, top of the pile. He looked at me and CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN Registered Patent Attorney Gallaher and others. I organized asked why. I told him then that if he Jack Dept. OH45. Adams Bld«.. Woshineton, t>. C. a glee club, the 'S. O. L. Dovetails,' and ever saw me again I would have the first we toured many camps and had a three- dollar ever paid to me by Uncle Sam. He week stand in Paris. complied with my request. KIDNEYS "The 6th Company's Christmas Party "Captain Chairsell said that he hoped in 1918 is another pleasant memory. And we would meet again sometime. I heard MUST REMOVE I recall that enterprising salesmen in later that he was promoted to major, but the camp discovered the Frenchmen have heard nothing from him directly EXCESS ACIDS liked American cigarettes enough to pay since July, 1918. I wonder if he is still a Help 15 Miles of Kidney Tubes high prices for them. Quite a decent busi- major, still alive, and where he is?" Flush Out Poisonous Waste have an excess of acids in your blood, your 15 ness was developed in the La Valbonne If you miles of kidney tubes may be over-worked. These tiny area and on the P. L. & M. trains which NUMBER of months ago—time filters and tubes are working day and night to help A Nature rid your system of excess acids and poisonous ran through our town. A good many of certainly flies—we had a rather waste. When disorder of kidney function permits poison- the candidates volunteered and qualified mysterious visitor call at our offices. ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- for the famous Composite Regiment The young woman who greets callers was ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffinesa which, with Pershing at its head, marched engaged in looking up some data for a under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and burning some- in the Paris Peace Parade. Legionnaire who had dropped in, and times shows there is something wrong with your "Our second national reunion will be when she returned to the reception desk kidneys or bladder. Kidneys may need help the same as bowels, so ask held in Boston in conjunction with the discovered a package which had been your druggist for Uoan's Pills, used successfully by for over 40 years. They give happy relief and Legion National Convention in Septem- left by someone who had arrived when she millions will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poison- ber. Here is an opportunity for the ex- was occupied. (Continued on page 6d) ous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.

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Loughlin, 100 South Bend st., Paw-tucket, I. The package contained a gas mask appear in these columns. When this issue R. Co. C, 302d Inf.— Reunion. Wilford A. Walker, case, complete with shoulder strap, from reaches you it will be too late to include 53 Bow st., Woburn, Mass. which Co. A, 347th Inf.— Reunion. Jas. H. Buckley, the contents had been removed, any additional announcements in the 44 Vernon st., Springfield, Mass. indicating that its former soldier owner September issue, but some publicity may Forestry Engr. Vets. (10th, 20th, 41st & 503d Regts.)— Reunion. Hq. at Boston City Club. Tom had used it as a ditty bag. Also in the still be obtainable if the reunion is re- Halman, treas., 220 1 1th av.. New York City. 14th Engrs. Vets. Assoc. Reunion, Hotel package was this penciled note: "This ported to Twomey, Re- — Jeremiah J. Westminster, Sept. 22-26. H. G. Knapp, chmn., was found. It should be returned to the unions Chairman, Court House, Law- 35 Minnesota av., Somerville, Mass. 15th Engrs.—Reunion. Dinner, Parker House, owner—or heirs. I don't know of any rence, Massachusetts. Boston, Sept. 24. Samuel Sherreck, 4406 Acushnet St., New Bedford, Mass. better organization to do this job than Chairman Twomey and his committee 21st Engrs. L. R. Soc.—20th annual reunion, the Legion." stand ready to assist in arranging for Sept. 22-24. F. G. Webster, secy .-treas., 113 E. 70th St., Chicago, 111. Well, after having had luck in return- reunion headquarters and such enter- 23d Engrs. Assoc.—Annual reunion. Hq. at Hotel ing some dozens of war mementoes, we tainment as each outfit may desire. Brunswick. Dinner-dance, Sept. 25. A. C. Hudson, chmn., 3 Capital St., Concord, N. H. thought this would be a cinch because Special entertainment is being arranged 26th Engrs. — Reunion. Arthur D. Weston, chmn., 15 Blackstone Terrace, Newton, Mass. on the khaki case lettered for all veterans under the chair- was "J. B. women 29th Engrs.— Reunion. Write Herbert S. Rand, Willard, Company C, 106th Infantry, manship of Mrs. Mary Sullivan of Wor- 129 Florence rd., Waltham, Mass. 30th Engrs.— 16th reunion, Hotel Statler, Sept. 27th Division, Army serial No. 1206883." cester, Massachusetts. A brief summary 24. Chas. M. Karl, secy., 11640 Princeton av., Chicago, 111. An appeal to the of activities appears in the following Adjutant General's 56th (Searchlight) Engrs. Assoc.—Reunion. S. J. Lurie, Clarence Office in Washington brought us the in- list. 2636 av., Berwyn, 111. Co. F, 3d Engrs.— Reunion. John S. Buswell, formation that one Bryant Willard lived Boston National Convention reunions, 314 Warren st., Waltham, Mass. Hq. Co., 218th Engrs.—Reunion. Wm. Aitken, at an address in details of which may be obtained from Brooklyn, New York, 199 Condor st.. East Boston, Mass. but our letter came back unclaimed. the Legionnaires listed, follow: 3d F. A. — Reunion of all vets. Fred M. Clouter, 15 Tennyson st., West Roxbury, Mass. Then we enlisted the aid of 301st F. A. Assoc. Reunion, no one Legion Women's Activities— .Sunday after- — Parker House. Jas. F. Moore, 10 Bromfield rd., Somerville, Mass. other noon, Sept. 22, sightseeing trip to Lexington and than Major General John I". 303d F. A. Assoc. Reunion, Concord; Monday, 2 p. M., tea at Isabella Gardner — Hotel Sheraton, Sept. 23. Page Browne, Park Square bldg., Boston. O'Ryan, wartime commander of the 27th Museum; Monday, 7 p. M., annual banquet for all Vets. ex-service women; Wednesday noon, drive along C.A.C. Natl. Assoc.—Reunion-banquet, Division, as we knew of the general's Sept. Vets of Ry. Art., North .Shore with luncheon at New Ocean House, 23. Trench Mortars, Anti- Aircraft, Art. Parks & Ammun. Trns. invited. It. active interest in the Swampscott. Mrs. Molly Grady, secy., Ex-Service 27th Division Asso- Jacobs, 43 Frisbie av.. Battle Women's Committee, 8 Beacon st., Boston. R. Creek, Mich. 57th Art., C.A.C. Reunion, Geo. ciation. No J. B. Willard appeared on Natl. Organization World War Nurses— — E. Donnelly, Annual reunion and breakfast, at Republican Club, 1506 University av., Bronx, New York City. the active roster of that Association. So Art., C.A.C. Regtl. Boston, Sept. 25, 8:30 a. m. Mrs. Mary Sullivan, 58th — reunion-dinner. E. L. Paltenghi, 50 Park av., Manchester, N. H. now we're appealing to the Then and K.N., chmn., 92 Chatham st., Worcester, Mass. The Natl. Yeomen F— Annual reunion and 07th C. A. C. Vets. Assoc.— Reunion. For roster Now Gang in the hope that someone can meeting. Dinner, Hotel Westminster, Boston, Sun. and details, write Gerald D. Nolan, chmn., 372 Bridle Path, Worcester, Mass. eve., Sept. 22. Mrs. Agnes J. Welch, chmn., 24 find Willard or give us his address, so we 71st Regt. C.A.C. Vets. Assoc. Mechanic st., Saxonville, Mass. —Annual reunion. Theo. A. Cote, adjt., 140 Bullard may return his gas case to him. Soc. of 1st Div.—Annual natl. reunion of all 1st st.. New mask Mass. Div. vets. Henry J. Grogan, chmn., 73 Summer St., Bedford, Come on, you New York Division men! Hyde Park, Mass. Btry. C, 64th Art., C. A. C— Reunion. Chas. of Div. Aux. Reunion. Mrs. Gerald Williams, 176 Falcon st., East Boston, Mass. And, along the same line, we give you Soc. 1st — Fitzgerald, pres., 83 Olney St., Dorchester, Mass. Ord. Dept., Camp Hancock & Ord. Schools— this letter from M. D. Fowler of Walter 2d Div. Assoc. —Reunion of all 2d Div. vets. R. Buncheon reunion, Boston City Club, Sept. 21. A. W. Robertson, chmn., 72 Summer st., Boston. O. Shallna, 30.1 Harvard st., Cambridge, Mass. R. Craig Post, whose home is at 232 Soc. of 3d Div.— Reunion. Hq. at Hotel Brad- Co. B, 58th Amm. Trn.— Reunion. Almo Pen- F. Dobbs, secy., 9 Colby st., nucci, 50 Upland rd., Somerville, Mass. North Avon Street, Rockford, Illinois: ford, Boston. Geo. Belmont, Mass. Co. A, 439th M.S.T., M.T.C.—2d natl. reunion. "Upon my return from overseas in 4th Div. Assoc.—Annual natl. reunion, Parker Wm. L. Harvey, 234 Delhi st., Mattapan, Mass. House, Boston, Sept. 23. Ben Pollack, chmn., 100 Camp Devens Q. M. Assoc.—Annual reunion. 1 19 8 I was sent to Camp Grant for dis- Summer St., Boston. Wm. J. Meade, pres., 159 Jackson av., Bridgeport, of 5th Div. Reunion, Touraine Hotel, Conn. charge. Among the articles I placed on Soc. — Sept. 22. Write Thos. Mc.Keon, 77 Cohasset st., 301st Sip. Trn.— Reunion, Hotel Manger. the salvage dump was my mess-kit. On Worcester, Mass. Leroy F. Merritt, 7 Karl pi., Brockton, Mass. (>th Div. Assoc. —Annual natl. reunion. For the 304th Motor Transp. Co. —Reunion. Wm. V. one side of the kit was engraved the Sig- Sightseer, write Clarence A. Anderson, natl. secy.. Begley, chmn., 28 Mayfair St., Lynn. Mass. Box 23, Stockyards Sta., Denver, Colo. Motor Trk. Cos. 391-2 & 401-2—Reunion. Geo. nal Corps device and under it a scroll 10th Div. (espec. 41st Inf.)—2d natl. reunion. Franklin, 24 Sigourney st., Jamaica Plain, Mass. with my outfit, ioSth F. S. Bn., in the Michael Cifelli, personnel adjt., 860 E. 228th st., Base Spare Parts, Depot Units 1-2-3, M.T.C. Bronx, New York City. 327.—Annual reunion, Parker House, Sept. 23. scroll. The cover, as I recall, had en- 12th Div. Assoc.— 1st natl. reunion. H. Gorden- Sandy Somers, pres., 498 Mass. av., Cambridge, natl. adjt., 12 Pearl st., Boston. Mass. graved on it a spread eagle. I am not so stein, Soc. of 20th Div. —Annual reunion. E. Leroy Verneuil and Nevers Vets., LJnits 301-2-3, sure but believe my rank, M. S. E. (Mas- Sweetser, chmn., SI Hancock St., Everett, Mass. M.T.C. — Reunion. John E. Havlin, chmn., 101 Y D (26th) Div.— Reunion and banquet. Copley Milk st,, Boston. ter Signal Electrician) as well as my Plaza Hotel, Sept. 24. H. Guy Watts, secy., 200 Troop L, 11th Cav.— Reunion. Write Thos. Islip, L. I., N. name, M. D. Fowler, was on the cover, Huntington av., Boston. Hart, East Y. 77th Div. Assoc—21st natl. reunion, Sept. 21- Field Remount Sqdrn. 303 Assoc.—Annual while on the bottom of the pan were the 24. Hq. at Hotel Lenox. Reunion-dinner, Sept. 23. reunion-dinner. W". J. Calbert, 527 State Mutual Jos. E. Delaney, exec, secy., 28 E. 39th st.. New bldg.. Worcester, Mass, names of English and French cities I had York City. 104th F. S. Bn. — Reunion. Geo. R. Deecken, Assoc. Reunion, with 78th Div. 173A Baldwin av., Jersey City, N. J. been in. 78th Div. — Post, A. L., of R. I., as host. John P. Riley, 151 317th F. S. Bn.—22d reunion, Parker House, "Of course this mess-kit may have Wendell st., Providence, R. I. Sept. 23. For Review, write Irving C. Austin, treas., 82i> Div. Yets. Assoc. — Reunion, auspices Mass. 180 Prescott st,., Reading, Mass. . . . it is possible been destroyed but some- Chap.

Legion'sTwenty-Second Annual National quet I ,. II. Head, 4 1 Nichols av., Brooklyn, N. Y. 28th Aero Sqdrn. — Reunion. Jack Sullivan, 93 World War Tank Corps Assoc. —2d natl. con- Pitrk st., Springfield, Mass. of scores of outfit reun- Convention and vention-reunion. L. A. Salmon, chmn., 11 Chap- 72i> Aero Sqdrn. — Reunion. Edward J. Duggan, Marblehead, ions. Ample warning has been given in man pi., Lynn, Mass. Martin Terrace, Mass. 301st Inf. Vets. Assoc. — Annual reunion-mili- 96th Aero Sqdrn. —2d reunion. Carl C. Blanch- previous issues that information regard- tary ball, Ritz-Plaza, Boston, Sept. 23. Hq. at Hotel ard, Farmington, N. H., or Earl S. Ray, Nan- Minerva. Spear Demeter, chmn., 214 Huntington tucket, Mass. ing reunions proposed for the convention a v., Boston. 140th Aero Sqdrn. —Reunion. Paschal Morgan, Co., 302o Inf. Reunion. James Burns, 186 14 N. Market, Nanticoke, Pa. period be reported to the Company < !lerk Hq. — W. Brookline st., Boston. 225th Aero Sqdrn. —Annual reunion. Jos. J. promptly if announcements were to M. G. Co., 302d Inf. — Reunion. Jas. S. Mo Pierando, 82 Weldon st., Brooklyn, N. Y. The AMERICAN LEGION Mazarine —

6i 49Sth Aero Sqdrn. — Reunion. Robt. F. Hard- 1'. S. S. Dixit— lieunion. Dr. R. O. Levell, chmn.. ing, 40 Beach St., Marblehead, Mass. Box 103, New Castle, Ind. (>38th Aero Sqdrn. — l{eunion. Willard L. John- U. S. S. Dreadnought & Undaunted— lieunion son, comdr., 4842 Devonshire rd., Detroit, Mich. W. A. Magner, 52 Autumn st., Everett, Mass., or Selfridge Field Vets. Club—Annual reunion. Henry Doherty, 14 Flint av., Somerville, Mass. Jay N. Helm, pres., 940 Hill st., Elgin, 111. U. S. Destroyer Ericsson— Reunion. James Air Serv. Mech., 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th Regts. — M. Cureton, Spring Valley, N. Y. Annual reunion. Hotel Manger, Boston, Sept. 23. U. S. S. Georgia — lieunion. Charles Noble, Navy John L. Cuff;, chmn., 21 Mason st ., Salem, Mass. Post, A. L., Fayette st., Boston. Spruce Prod. Div. Assoc.—2d annual reunion. U. S. S. Hannibal & Leonitlas— Reunion of Wm. N. Edwards, secy., 422 Greenleaf st., Evans- chaser crews. A. E. Levine, yeoman, 075 Tremont ton, 111. st., Boston. Bakery Co. 337— 1st reunion and banquet. L. U. S. S. Henderson — Reunion. Arthur T. Con- E. Bancroft, Box 79, Sudbury, Mass. nolly, 151 Payson rd., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Camp Rochambeau Associates St. Pierre-des- U. S. S. Housatonic—Reunion-banquet, Boston Corps— Reunion-banquet. Elmer F. Forest, secy., City Club, Sept. 23, 0:30 p.m. Ross H. Currier, 10S 9 Arbutus pi., Lynn, Mass. Mass. av., Boston. 7th Army Corps Hq., 3d Army— Reunion. Dr. S. S. Kerwooil Armed Guard— Reunion. M. V L. L. Crites, 1219 River st.., Hyde Park, Boston. Mason, Jr., 0 Barnes av., East Boston, Mass. Base Hosp. 34— Reunion of entire personnel. U. S. S. Lake Elsinore— lieunion. Robert Hardy, Thos. J. Bannon, 13 Worcester sq., Boston. 42 Congress st., Lawrence, Mass. Base Hosp. 44—Annual reunion of women vets. U. S. S. Mount Vernon Assoc. —22d reunion. P. Mrs. Edith L. Mcintosh, 47 Morton rd.. Beach N. Home, shipswriter, 110 State st., Boston. Bluffs, Mass. U. S. S. O'Brien — Reunion. Karl A. Kormann, MR. LEGIONNAIRE! BRING YOUR Evac. Hosp. 4—Reunion-banquet. Write Allan 23 Lake rd., Jamaica Plain, Mass. K. Palm, Bridgewater, Vt. U. S. S. Plattsburg—Annual reunion. Brent B. STAY AWHILE! Evac. Hosp. 14—1th annual reunion. J. Chas. Lowe, chmn., 122 Bowdoin St., Boston. FAMILY AND Meloy, pres., Room 30">0, Grand Central Terminal, U. S. S. Rijndam — 2d reunion-dinner. Jas. F. New York City. McKeegan, 145 Greenpoint av., Brooklyn, New- When you come to the Club Camp Hosp. 52— lieunion, Hotel Kenmore. York. Convention in Massa- Ray S. True, 602 Main st., Hingham, Mass. U. S. S. Sierra—Proposed reunion, Walter Peter- Med. Dept., Base Hosp., Camp Lee—2d re- sen, 18 Revere st., Winthrop, Mass. chusetts this month . . . union-luncheon. Hotel Statler, Sept. 23, 10 a. m. V. U. S. S. Texas— Reunion. E. N. Chalifoux, 1915 plan to bring your fam- I. Trotter, Chrys. Corp. (Plymouth Div.) Detroit. E. 86th St., Chicago, 111. Mich., chmn., or Mrs. Anna Pendergast, secy., 232 U. S. S. Waters— Reunion. T. H. Stolp, 5404 N. ily and take a few extra E. Water St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 5th st., Philadelphia, Pa. days or weeks for a real Camp Sevier Base Hosp. Assoc.—Reunion. U. S. S. Wilhelmina—Annual reunion. Dr. Milo M. R. Callaway, organizer, Box 873, Dayton, < >hio. M. Sorenson, 1601 W. 6th st., Racine, Wise. holiday. Med. Det., St. Elizabeth's Hosp.— Reunion- U. S. S. Yacona— Reunion. Geo. J. Geisser, Pub. In August, Massachusetts really is at its dinner. E. Jackson, 205 W. 80th St., New York Bldgs. Dept., City Hall, Providence, R. I. C. of City, or D. Esbester, 2 Columbia av., Newark, N. J. I*. S. S. Zeelandia — Reunion. Leonard W. Witt- hospitable best. Here, amid a wealth Camp Upton Base Hosp. Assoc.—Annual re- man, 1900 E. Main st., Rochester, N. Y. memories of stirring and historic by- union, Sept. 22. Dr. David Coyne, secy., 600 U. S. S. C. 248— Reunion. Warren C. Burnham, Washington st., Hoboken, N. J. 1395 Commonwealth av., Boston. gone days, you can enjoy broad beach- Marine Corps—General natl. reunion of all ex- Syracuse (N. Y.) Camp Band—Reunion, Sept. es, swim, fish, dance, golf, ride horses, marines, with Mass. Dept. and Theo. Roosevelt 22. Thos. Small, 11a Ashland St., Somerville, Mass. paths, Det., Marine Corps League, as hosts. Robt. W. 2d Bn., U. S. Guards— Reunion. Write to Wm. saunter along sylvan mountain Elder, 09 Riverview av., Waltham, Mass. J. White, City Assessor, Iowa City, Iowa. stay at gala hotels or at modest tourist 82d, 83d, 84th & 97th Cos., 3d Bn. Hq., 6th La Valbonne Vets. Assoc. — Reunion of Inf. will Regt., USMC—Reunions with 2d Div. reunion, Candidate School vets. Write Henry Rappleye, camps, at prices so reasonable you Copley Square Hotel, Sept. 24. R. W. Robertson, Hotel Paris, 752 West End av., New York City. scarcely notice the cost. Massachusetts chmn., 02 Summer St., Boston. For 82d-84th Cos., American Student Detachments— Reunion. D. N. Harding, 110 Appleton st., Cambridge, Mass; Fred M. Clouter, 15 Tennyson st., West Roxbury, extends to you an especial welcome and 83d Co., B. S. Schwebke, 1232 Bellevue av., Los Mass. best wishes for a lot of fun. Angeles, Cal.; 97th Co., W. M. Rasmussen, 2011 American Merchant Marine— Reunion. John Wilson av., Chicago, 111. O'Brien, 14 Salem pi., Maiden, Mass. North Sea Mine Force Assoc. — Reunion-ban- War Vets, of U. S. Civil Service—2d annual WRITE FOR THIS HANDSOME BOOKLET quet, Boston City Club, Sept. 23. Hq. at Copley reunion and convention. Write O. R. Isaacson, 7008 Plaza Hotel. J. Frank Burke, secy., 3 Sherwood rd., S. Peoria st., Chicago, 111. PtllU where America was bom- West Roxbury, Mass. American Sec, Paris (France) Port, A. L.— Nav. Radio Men— Reunion. Mark Feder, yeo- lieunion. Hq. at Hotel Statler. Write Jack Specter, in ITI/iSS/lCHll SETTS man, 132 S. George st., York, Pa. 752 West End av., New York City. Nav. Radio School, Harvard Univ.—Re- MASSACHUSETTS DEVEtOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL union. W. B. Dobbs, 45 Melrose st., Arlington, COMMISSION, State House, Boston, Mass., Dept. L-3 Mass. and activities at times REUNIONS Please send me, free, the above illustrated 6th Co., U.S.N.T.S., Gulfport Reunion-ban- — - and places other than the Legion booklet which gives complete details about quet. Paul Klose, Room 407 Municipal Court vacationing in Massachusetts. House, Pemberton sq., Boston. National Convention in Boston, follow: Check here for specific information about Co., 7th Regt., Newport N.T.S. 8th — Reunion. Cape Cod, North Shore, Berkshires, st., London, Wesley A. Cook, 340 Bank New Conn. 4th Div. Assoc., No. & So. Calif. Chap.— 10th Historic Boston, South Shore, Pioneer Nav. Trng. Sta., Rockland, Me. Reunion, — annual state reunion, San Diego, Calif., Aug. 11. Valley, All New England. Kenmore Hotel, Sept. 24. Andy Liunton, 13 Oak- "Chuck" H. Yohn, dept. pres., 1789 New York Name ridge rd., Atlantic, N. Quincy, Mass. av., Altadena, Calif. Nav. Overseas Transp. Serv. — Reunion of Soc. of 5th Div. —Annual reunion, Hotel New Street crews of cargo ships. F. Hanley, 10 ct., Fordham Yorker, New York City, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Aug. 31 N. City State Albany, Y. is 5th Div. Day at World's Fair. W. E. Aebischer, U. S. Nav. Detention Trng. Camp Crew— chmn., Glenwood Gardens, Yonkers, N. Y. Reunion, Boston City Club, Sept. 25. Jos. F. Red Diamond Round-Up— Reunion 5th Div. O'Brien, secy., Fire Alarm Hq., Boston. vets, Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 111., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Nav. Nav. Mass. Militia (Natl. Vol.)— Re- Frank Barth, 105 W. Madison st., Chicago. union. Edw. J. Hogan, Bunker Hill Post, A. L., 0th Div. Natl. Assoc.— Reunion, Los Angeles, sts., Charlestown, Chestnut & Adams Mass. Calif., Aug. 25-30. C. A Anderson, natl. secy., Box of crew. Relieve U. S. S. Aeolus— Reunion Samuel (Jake) 23, Stockyards Sta., Denver, Colo. Steinberg, 127 Broad St., Elizabeth, N. J. 77th Div., So. Calif Chap. — Reunion-banquet, Itch Fast U. S. Destroyer Burrows— Reunion. Peter E. Hayward Hotel, Los Angeles Calif., Aug. 25-30. orMoneyBack Cocchi, 25 Maiden st., Snringfield, Mass. ^Scratching Claude Armstrong, chmn., 1232 Bellevue av., Los U. S. S. Charleston—Reunion. O. D. Turner, Angeles. For quick relief from itching of eczema, pimples, ath- Vernon, Ala. 29th Div. Assoc.—Annual convention, Norfolk, lete's foot, scales, scabies, rashes and other externally IT. S. S. Covington Assoc. —Reunion-banquet, Va., Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Wm. C. Nickles, natl. adjt., caused skin troubles, use world-famous, cooling, anti- Hotel Lenox, Sept. 23. Geo. E. Cummings, 195 4318 Walther av., Baltimore, Md. septic, liquid D. D. D. Prescription. Greaseless, Bowdoin st., Dorchester, Mass. 32d Div. Vet. Assoc. — Biennial convention-re- stainless. Soothes irritation and quickly stops intense U. S. S. DeKaib— Reunion. Ashley M. Smith, 8 union, flreen Ray Wise, Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Ralph 11. itching. 35c trial bottle proves it, or money back. Ask Pierce st., Revere, Mass. Drum, chmn., Green Bay. {Continued on page 62) your druggist today for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION.

LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Fistula Is A Charles R. Chickerinc, Greenwich Village Post, New York City. Triple Threat Fairfax Downey, Second Division Post, New York City. Loss of bowel control; ills due to pus Kent Hunter, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Post, New York City. poisoning; serious malignant growths are three dangers of neglected Fistula. Frederick Palmer, City Club Post, New York City. Thousands might save themselves from Bill Cunningham, Crosscup-Pishon Boston, Massachusetts. Post, humiliation and serious illness by know- George Shanks, Reville Post, Brooklyn, New York. ing the facts and taking proper treat- William Heaslip, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. ment in time. Actual institutional experi- Samuel Taylor Moore, Aviators Post, New York City. ence has proved that, except in extreme Frank A. Mathews. Jr., Frederick M. Rogers Post, Palmyra, New Jersey. cases, drastic treatment is not advisable. H. Lyman Armes, Crosscup-Pishon Post, Boston, Massachusetts. Get a FREE book offered by McCleary Clinic, CS6G Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Jim Hurley, Advertising Men's Post, New York City. Mo., which explains the conditions; shows Watson B. Miller, Henry C. Spengler Post, Washington, D. C. how thousands have benefited through a Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- mild corrective treatment requiring no naires, are not listed. hospital confinement. Write for book and Patient Reference List mailed in plain envelope FREE.

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American Legion Magazine (Continued from page 61) INDEX of 34th (Sandstorm) Div. — Annual reunion, Sioux wich, Conn., Sept. 1. Frank W. Parrish, V. P., Falls, S. D., Aug. 10-12. Frank K. Cashman, Ken. P. O. Box 315, Torrington, Conn. ADVERTISERS chmn., Sioux Falls. Btry. A, 44th C. A. C.— Proposed reunion. 35th Div. Assoc. —21st annual reunion, St. Harold Hallagan, 26 Main St., Asbury Park, N. J. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 18-20. For roster, report to F. W. Btry. C, 44th C.A.C.—Proposed reunion. John Manchester, secy., P. U. Box 182, Joplin, Mo. List, Gen. Del., East Northport, N. Y. 37th Div. A.E.F. Vets. Assoc. —22d reunion, Co. G, 308th Amn. Trn.— Reunion, Waterworks Airlines, Inc 55 Mansfield, Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Jas. A. Sterner, Park, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Aug. 4. H. L. Zulauf, American 1101 Wyandotte bldg., Columbus, Ohio. secy., 136 S. Roys av., Columbus, Ohio. Lost Battalion Survivors— Reunion-luncheon, 309th Amu. Trn. Assoc.—Annual encampment, New York City, Sept. 2

107th Inf. —22d annual reunion-dinner, Hotel Co. C, 106th F. S. Bn.—2d reunion, Chicago, 111 , Astor, New York City, Sept. 28. Gilbert G. Clark, Sept. 18. Van Holt Garrett, pres., 2750 E. Cedar Emblem Division ....Cover II, III chmn., 118 W. 57th st., New York City. av., Denver, Colo., or Art Park, secy., 809 College 130th Inf. & 4th III. Inf. — 14th reunion, Olney, av., Wheaton, 111. 111., Oct. 5-6. Karl A. Gsffner, pres., Olney, or Joe 10th Engrs. — Biennial reunion, Detroit. Mich., E. Harris, secy.-treas., Paris, 111. Sept. 6-9. Write 16th Engrs. Assoc., 704 E.' Jefferson 138th Inf. — Reunion, Battery A Armory, av., Detroit. Franklin Institute 63 Grand & Hickory St., St. Louis, Mo. Aug. 10. 19th Engrs. Assoc.—Reunion, Altoona, Pa., Harry J. Kierker, secy., 2813 Maurer av., St. Aug. 10. Geo. M. Bailey, adjt., 319 W. 28th St., Louis. Wilmington, Del. Vets. 314th Inf. — Annual reunion, Hotel Phil- 34th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, adelphian, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 27-2(1. Charles Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Geo. Remple, Greyhound Lines, The 47 M. Stimpson, secy., 1670 Sheepshead Bay rd., secy., 2523 N. Main St., Dayton, Ohio. Brooklyn, X. Y. 61st R. R. Engrs. Vets. Assoc. —3d reunion, Ft. 316th Inf. Assoc. —Annual reunion, New York Wayne, Ind., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. E. M. Soboda, secy.- City, Sept. 28. Edwin G. Cleeland, secy., 6125 treas., 932 Roscoe St., Green Bay, Wise. McCallum st., Philadelphia, Pa. 301st Engrs. Assoc. — Reunion, Providence, R. 332d Inf. Assoc. 19th reunion, Youngstown, I. Sept. 14. Vets not receiving notices, report to Liggett & Myers Tobaeco Co. — , Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Henry P. Everitt, secy., 76 Esmond S. Borod, secy., 51 Empire St., Providence. Como av., Struthers, Ohio. 309th Engrs. Assoc.— 17th reunion, Hotel 353d (All-Kansas) Inf. Soc. — Annual reunion, Gary, Gary, Ind., Aug. 9-10. Families invited. Velvet 41 Hutchinson, Kans., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Regtl. history Daniel J. Redding, pres., 504 Broad, Gary. available at $1.60. John C. Hughes, secy., 829 East 314th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, St. B, Hutchinson. Louis, Mo., Nov. 9. Vincent K. Kemp, 5889 Lotus 355th Inf. Assoc. — Annual reunion, Grand Is- av., St. Louis. land, Nebr., Sept. 15-16. Joe Seymour, adjt., 410 319th Engrs. — Reunion, Los Angeles, Calif., McCleary Clinic 61 E. 8th st.. Grand Island. Aug. 10. K. S. Thomson, secy., 218 Central Bank Co. D, 10th Inf. — Reunion, Indianapolis, Ind. bldg., Oakland, Calif. For date and roster, write Alvin E. Gebard, 1204 22d Engrs., Cos. A, B & C—Annual reunion. S. Grant, Bloomington, Ind. Galena, 111., Sept. 1. Julius A. Nelson, adjt., 23 E. Co. B, 134th Inf. — Proposed reunion. Write 137th pi., Riverdale Sta., Chicago, 111. Maine Development Commission 57 Allan R. Holmes, 1105 Garden av., Des Moines, 22d Engrs., Co. E— Reunion, Spring Mill Parle.

I < i : I v\ , Mitchell, Ind., Aug. 25. John Gibson, 1325 ST21st Co. I, 134th Inf. —7th reunion-picnic, Ord., st., New Castle, Ind. Nebr., Sept. 1. C. W. Clark, secy., Ord. 109th Engrs., Co. A—Reunion, Cedar Rapids, Co. I, 140th Inf. —1th reunion, Kennett, Mo., Iowa, this fall. L. Owen Tisdale, Marshalltown, Massachusetts Development & Aug. 31-Sept. 1. L. E. Wilson, 3410 Wayne, Kansas Iowa. City, Mo. 6th Cav.— Reunion, Detroit, Mich., Aug. 19-21. Co. C, 143d Inf. —Annual reunion, Beaumont, O. W. Allen, 616 Poutre av., Schenectady, N. Y. Tex., Nov. 11. M. P. Stewart, secy., 1475 Cart- Base Hosp. 2, Ft. Bliss and Base Hosp. 62, Industrial Coinm 61 wright, Beaumont. A.E.F. —Proposed letter reunion of all former per- Co. L, 145th Inf. — 10th reunion, Conneaut, sonnel. Write to Mrs. Dell (Carrie Roberts) Devore, Ohio, Aug. 11. Frank Marvin, R.D. 1, Conneaut. R. N., Oquawka, 111. Co. G, 168th Inf. — Reunion. Ottumwa, Iowa, Base Hosp. Camp Grant Assoc. —2d reunion, Aug. Urban Dayton, Ottumwa. YMCA, Milwaukee, Wise, Sept. 16. Harold E. National Carbon Co. Co. F, 341st Inf. —Proposed reunion. C. B. Giroux, pres., 841 W. Barry av., Chicago, 111. Jones, Birchwood, Wise. Base Hosp. 22—History available, two dollars. Co. B, 359th Inf. — Annual reunion. Gainsville, V. V. Miller, 2762 N. 53d St., Milwaukee, Wise. Tex., Sept. 8. Fred Hopkins, Jr., Krum, Tex. Base Hosp. 2(i Reunion, Minneapolis, Mum. Eveready 43 313th M. G. Bn. — 21st reunion, Erie, Pa., Sept. Oct. 25. For roster, write R. B. Gile, 514 Second 1. L. E. Welk, 210 Commerce bldg., Erie. av., S., Minneapolis. Co. A, 331st M.G.Bn.— Reunion, Madison, Base Hosp. 48— Reunion, Utica, N. Y., Oct. 12. Wise., Sept. Fred G. Schreiber, 181 Jackson St., Chester W. Owen, chmn., 625 Eagle St., Ctica. Madison. Base Hosp. 68— Letter reunion. "Pick" Furer, Noxema Chemical Co 51 3d Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc.—3d natl. reunion, 1st Natl. Bank bldg., Milwaukee, Wise. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 13. For roster, write Hq., 411 332d Field Hosp. —Reunion of all officers and Essex bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. men, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 1-2. Floyd Stackey, 4th Pioneer Inf. — Proposed reunion. Ben. H. secy., Geneva, Ohio. Giffen, Jones Law bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 118th Amb. Co., 5th San Trn. — Reunion, Can- O'Brien, C. A 59 51st Pioneer Ink.— 17th annual reunion, Hemp- ton, N. C, Aug. 1-2. Guy McCracken, pres., Mrs. stead, L. I., N. Y., Sept. 8. John Mack, gen. chmn., Chas. Mease, secy., Canton. 133 Willow st., Hempstead. 148th Amb. Co. Vets. Assoc. — Reunion. Toledo, 56 rii Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —9th reunion, Reser- Ohio, Aug. 24. Howard J. Good, adjt., 200 Third voir Park, Tyrone, Pa., Aug. 4. Jonas R. Smith, St., Findley, Ohio. Polident 51 secy., 4911 N. Mervine st., Philadelphia, Pa. Air Serv. Reunion—Joint reunion Balloon 59th Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —5th annual reunion. Corps vets and Aviation Post (Chicago), Grier-Lin- Fort Dix, N. J., Sept. 28-29. Howard D. Jester, coln Hotel, Danville, III., Aug. 24-26, with 111. secy., 1917 Washington st., Wilmington, Del. Legion Dept. Convention. Sid R. Rothschild, 2422 11th F. A. Vets. Assoc. — Reunions, Providence, E. 74th st., Chicago. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. R. I., and Portland, Ore., Aug. 31-Sept, 2. R. C. 142d Aero Sqdrn. —6th reunion. Hotel Shelby, Dickieson, secy., 7330 180th St., Flushing, N. Y. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 30-Sept. 1. L. C. Ehlers, 313th F. A.—Reunion, Wheeling, W. Va., with comdr., 127 E. Fort, Baltimore, Md. Legion Dept. Com.. Aug. 31, Sept. 3. Wm. Gompers, 189th Aero Sqdrn. — Proposed reunion. Thos. Camels Cover IV Mutual Savings Bank Bldg.. Market St., Wheeling. C. Hayward, 2009 Zimmerman st., Flint, Mich. Vet. Guard, Old Btry. B, 112th F. A. — 15th 866th Aero Sqdrn.— Reunion, Toledo, Ohio, reunion, Artillery Armory, Camden, N. J., Nov. 9. Aug. 25-27, with Ohio Legion Dept. Convention. M. L. Atkinson, secy., 1020 Linwood av., Collings- Peter Klippel, 4204 Fairview dr., Toledo. Prince Albert 45 wood, N. J. 879th-8S0th Aero Sqdrns. — Proposed reunion. Btry. A Assoc., 305th F. A. — Reunion-dinner, Robt. F. Wright, 1311 W. Butler st., Philadelphia. 77th Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th St., New York Pa. City, Nov. 16. Fred W. Brummer, secy., 373 E. Spruce Prod. Div.—Midwest reunion, Danville,

1 10th st., Bronx, N. Y. 111., Aug. 24-25, with 111. Legion Dept. Convention. - Sani-Flush 59 56th Regt., C.A.C., Assoc. — Reunion, Green- Wm. N. Edwards, 422 Greenleaf St., Evanston, 111

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Co. 5, 1st Regt. Air Serv. Mech.— f>th reunion U. S. S. Pcquot—Proposed reunion of 1919 crew. Connersville, Ind., Sept. 1. S. H. Shaw, 205 S. 4th A. M. Walker, 523 N. B. W., McComb, -Miss. Learn Profitable Profession St., Louisville, Ky. U. S. S. Solace—Annual reunion, Philadelphia, in days 2d Nav. Dist. Assoc.—2d annual reunion, New- Pa., Nov. 2. Dr. R. A. Kern, University Hospital, QP at Home Earnings of Men 1 port, R. I., Aug. 23-24. Chester L. Wood, Office of Philadelphia. Serv. fosiion of Swedish is high H U City Clerk, Newport. Homing Pigeon —Proposed reunion. Louis $711 per week but 1 1st Marine Aviation Force Vets. Assoc.— E. Lohe, 1019 E. 179th st., Bronx, X. V. V ficea. Large TI. hoapitab. Reunion, Detroit, Mich., Nov. 9-11. John B. Mallet Reserve Vets. Assoc.—Meetings, 2d :.llHl». Macauley, chmn., 12800 Oakland av., Detroit. Tues. each month, Hotel Plymouth, 143 W. 49th V . .ff.TM (or utorr Chu and U. S. Nav. Air Sta., Montavk—Proposed re- St., New York City. Jos. Maslon, secy., 123 William booklet—They're FREE. union. Write R. B. Falkiner, Crown Point, Ind. st., New York City. THE College of Swedish Massage St., Dept. Chicago U. S. S. Charleston—Proposed reunion in Sept. North Sea Mine Force Assoc.—Proposed or- 30 E.Adams C7S. L (Succeiior to Salienul College of Mauaet) For place and date, write O. D. Turner, Vernon, Ala. ganization Pacific Coast Chapter. Write Raymond U. S. S. Connecticut Vets. Natl. Assoc.—4th Clapsaddle, 4901 N. Figueroa st., Los Angeles, Calif. reunion, Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 19. Utilities Det., Camp Dodge—Annual reunion, Fay Knight, natl. capt.. Box 487, Closter, N. J. Nov. 9. Ray H. Luther, 5317 Park av., Minne- U. S. S. Florida—Proposed reunion. E. J. apolis, Minn. ("Chief") Starr, Box 37, Neopit, Wise. Amer. Takers of the Shilling—Recently or- U. S. S. Leviathan— Reunion of all vets who ganized for all vets who served with British Forces The made first crossing, 1917, at Hot Springs, Mont., in World War. For membership, write Jas. A. Aug. 31-Sept. 1. A. C. Hanson, Box 50, Kalispell, McGuire, comdr., Tucson, Ariz. Mont Gen. Hq. Bn., A.E.F. — Annual reunion of vets U. S. S. Montana— Reunion, Gary, Ind., Aug. 18- of Chaumont, Bourges, Tours, Langres, etc., De- CONSUMER MOVEMENT 20. R. C. Dixey, 7013 Harrison av., Hammond, Ind. troit Leland Hotel, Detroit, Mich., Oct. 19-20. U. S. S. Narraganse/t— Proposed reunion. Thos. C. A. Maynard, pres., 93 Wenonah dr., Pontiac, D. Phipps, 4587 G St., Philadelphia, Pa. Mich. Natl. Otrnnto-Kashmir Assoc. —2d annual re- The Advertising Department of John J. Noll union, Galesburg, III , Oct. 6. A. H. Telford, 124 E. Simmons st., Galesburg. The Company Clerk The American Legion Magazine

is made up of men who have de- voted their lives to the advertis- Security for Tomorrow ing business. These men have followed the (Continued from page 2q) consumer movement from its be-

Ryan, Department Adjutant, on Decem- the call for service came in 1017 and 1918, ginning and are particularly anx- ber n, 1024. The official title of the and in memory of those who made the ious for the success of that part organization is 'American Legion supreme sacrifice. A gigantic parade, of this interesting program aimed Fathers, Council of Harold R. Andrews participated in by the members of many at giving full and accurate in- Post,' and I, along with other Legion- Posts and numbering more than three naires have always been under the im- thousand marchers, was held immediately formation to the public regard- pression that this was the first organiza- before the ceremonies. Mayor Fiorello ing advertised products. tion of its kind. There have been several H. La Guardia, was the principal speaker deaths in the sixteen years since the and unveiled the tablet. The ceremonies The claims of old and new ad- group was organized, but several of the were attended by New York's Depart- vertisers in The American Legion original members still carry on." ment Commander George Mead, William Magazine are carefully examined May be the oldest at that, but the Green, President of the American Feder- before admittance to its pages. Independence group was the thirtieth ation of Labor, and many other dis- one chartered by National Headquarters tinguished leaders of the Legion, labor, Legionnaires and their families under a resolution adopted at the New and civil life. can products advertised in Orleans Convention in 1922. National buy in recognition of such groups was rescinded Keeping Touch their own magazine with perfect by resolution Omaha Convention in 1925, confidence. of members of Paris (France) and no national charters have since been DOZENS Post have returned to the homeland issued. As a matter of fact, according to We would be grateful for any during the past twenty years, but not all National Adjutant Frank E. Samuel, concerning experiences have severed their connection with the comments who knows everything worth knowing overseas unit. So, in order to keep these of readers with jnoducts or about the Legion and its operation, the Parisian Legionnaires in touch with each services purchased, which are first group to be chartered was the other Comrade Jack Specter has organ- Fathers' Council attached to Harvey advertised in The American Le- ized a group under the name of the (Illinois) Post, issued on March 7, 1924. gion Magazine. American Section of Paris Post. Begin- But, National Adjutant Samuel says, the ning with the National Convention file contains a letter from Post Com- in New York in 1937, the group has met mander Dan A. Work, dated April 1, each month for a dinner at the Hotel 1924, in which he says that the Fathers' Paris, 97th and West End Avenue, New WORK FOR THE Council of Harold R. Andrews Post was York City. A big blowout is planned for organized in September, 1921 —and that, the Boston Convention. at least, gives it a color to claim of sen- iority. Several [such groups continued More Hundred Percenters activity after the withdrawl of national recognition, and still continue as volun- GROUP pictures of Past Post Com- teer bodies sponsored by local Posts. manders in the one hundred percent group continue to pile up faster than the GOVERNMENT To Those Who Served Step-Keeper can use them in the maga- $1260 to $2100 Year zine. A couple of years ago when publica- TO START pictures started it was MICHAEL CIFELLI, Personnel Ad- tion of these was Ex-Service Men , jutant of Electrical Construction believed that but a very few Posts would fret preference / franklin institute G 1 80 Exempt from / „ °fpt, Post, New York City, reports the cere- be able to muster all of their Com- age limits. ' Rochester, N. Y. monies attending the unveiling of a manders from down to the present 11,428 appointed / Rush FREE li

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Legion wheelhorses in western New York. fifty miles from Borger. Lou J. Roberts, nel of the Chicago post office," writes Now, with all that preliminary state- who is serving this year as Commander of Publicity Director James R. Mangan. ment, we introduce the I'ast Command- the Department of Texas, is a member of "This service also includes other Govern- ." — ( ers of South Buffalo (New York) Post 1 lulc limsoii "ounty I'ost ment employes in the main Post Office a live unit which has maintained an Building, and will be extended to em- average membership of 515 since its Shrapnel brace the families of Post members when organization. Reading from left to COMRADE Walter Muller of Bay- such service is required. right, front row, Frank J. Pfeifer, onne (New Jersey) Post, has a "The plan was worked out in all its de- George T. Yander- tails by Post Serv- meulen, Bernard A. ice Officer Chester Brady, Cornelius F. Smith." Reardon, William

( '. ( f rank . leary, J Another O'Brien, Patrick V. O'Connell, and Coincidence James P. Cotter; AL PEARSON second row, Wil- of Lorentz liam J. Birnbach, Post, Mankato, John J. Curtin, Minnesota, writes: Raymond P.Burke, "Speaking of coin- James D. Flynn, cidences, here's one Thomas F. Caul- for the book. While field, John P. Sul- helping our Post livan, Charles M. officers make out Harrigan, Stephen bonus applications O'Connell, Harry for veterans in 1 03 Manning, and I handled the claim JamesT.Mahoney; of Comrade Frank inset, Clifford B. Huggins, then a Gaston. member of ourPost and was knocked Busy Borger flat when I saw that his army ser- FEW Legion ial number and the Posts in the number on his nation can equal Adjusted Compen- South Buffalo (New York) Post joins the Hundred Percent Club with the achievementsof sation Certificate all of its Past Commanders present and voting—they form a group of the fourteen-year- elder statesmen were exactly the old Hutchinson same— 1,429,398." County Post of Comrade Huggins Borger, Texas," writes Past Commander useful hobby," reports Adjutant John B. left Mankato in 1036; Adjutant John H. White. "Here we have World Smith. "Each year when Christmas rolls Wright Tarbell advises that he is now War veterans from every State and it is around Comrade Muller has his cellar and a member in good standing in Codington rare to find two veterans who served in a spare room filled with toys which he has County Post, located at Watertown, the same outfit. It is truly a cosmopolitan gathered and reconditioned. The toys South Dakota. Post. Over two hundred veterans became are distributed to needy children by members in its first year, and within members of Bayonne Auxiliary Unit." More Shrapnel three years the Post was occupying a new . . . Webster Square Post, of Worcester, 820,000 home, which has become the Massachusetts, is a newcomer to the A TOTAL of 6,800 essays were sub- center of Borger's community life. Legion of the Old Bay State, but it is a mitted in the adult division of the "One of the first objectives of Hutchin- peppy youngster. Comrade F. H. Goyette recent Town Hall contest on the assigned son County Post, aside from acquiring a reports that, in its first year, it has one subject "What Does American Democ- home of its own, was to assist every dis- hundred and ninety-nine members, an racy Mean to Me." Thirteen awards were abled veteran in its area and that without Auxiliary Unit with one hundred and made, one of which went to Lincoln H. regard to membership. As a result more forty members and thirty-five Juniors, Lippincott, Chairman of Americanism, than one hundred and twenty veterans and has organized a Squadron of Sons of Winnetka (Illinois) Post . . . Harold C. have been aided in establishing claims the Legion with one hundred and eight Dybdal, Commander of Captain Hoeghs for benefits, and more than three hundred members. The Post is numbered thirteen Post, Assens, Denmark, reports that

Hutchinson County veterans have at e] >a rl ment r< isl er Comrade Carl C. Schultz, 88 years old some time or other been hospitalized and has adopted a black cat as its dis- and a veteran of thirty years in the U. S. through the service agencies of the Post. tinctive insignia . . . Navy, is dean of the Danish Legion-

This fact led members of the Post to be- naires . . . The first telecast of a boxing lieve that a Veterans Administration Hos- „ 7mb it/a nee Service match on the Pacific Coast was relayed pital was needed in their area, and the "TZ? MERGENCY ambulance service recently from The American Legion active workers have not slacked in their J—' sponsored by Van Buren Post, Stadium, owned and operated by Holly- advocacy of such a hospital since 1927. whose membership is mainly drawn from wood Post, through the Los Angeles Now, within a few weeks, a new veterans employes of the Chicago post office, has studios. hospital will be formally opened some been made available for I he entire person- Boyd B. Stutler.

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Most of us, here of late, have had the urge for a home American flag set, to display on patriotic and other holidays. . . . Every Legionnaire should have an American flag and we offer these fine Quality Guar- anteed Flag Display Sets at very moderate prices. . . . You will find just the flag set which you have been wanting—and at a price you can afford to pay. . . . Every Legionnaire home should have an American flag.

STREET SETS — This popular type flag LAWN SETS — Here is a deluxe flag out- set consists of pole, flag and metal pole fit, designed for displaying in your front socket designed to be cemented into the yard. Each set consists of pole, flag and sidewalk at the edge of the curb. Avail- special lawn type socket. able in a number of combinations. No. 1 Lawn Set —This deluxe flag set consists Style BB — 3' x 5' fast color, Reliance brand of a 2 /i'x x 4' Artglo heavy rayon taffeta cotton U. S. flag with dyed stars and sewed silk American flag, with sewed stripes and stripes. The jointed, two-piece wooden pole dyed stars, a two-piece 10' white enameled is 12' x Xyi" in diameter, and is made of pole, 1 '4" in diameter, with a substantial western fir, and is equipped with ball at the metal joint, and a specially designed park top. The complete set, flag, pole with hal- lawn socket with brass screw cap. The com- yards and screw eyes, and one 8" cast iron plete set is boxed in a substantial shipping- Broadway sidewalk holder, with non-rust- storage container, which makes for con- ing brass screw cap, price $2.60, f.o.b. venience and safe care of the flag when not New York City. in use. Price complete, $6.50, f.o.b. New York City. Style B — 3' x 5' fast color, Defiance brand (U. S. Government quality) cotton U. S. No. 2 Lawn Set —This beautiful flag set is flag, with sewed stars and sewed stripes, identical with set No. 1, excepting that the with complete equipment identical with the 2^' x 4' flag is a high-grade, fine quality set Style BB, price $3.40, f.o.b. New York Sterling all-wool bunting, with sewed stripes City. and sewed stars. This set is also packed in a substantial shipping-storage container. Price complete, $5.00, f.o.b. New York City.

hi © The 1940 Emblem Catalogue includes a complete III IS* line of unmounted United States flags, in addition to the complete line of Legion regalia. . . Your copy is ready to mail —free and with no obligation. . . Write for it today.

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EMBLEM DIVISION, National Headquarters, The American Legion, Indianapolis, Ind.

Please rush my free copy of the 1940 SPECIAL ORDER FORM American Legion Emblem Catalog. Please ship the following flag sets, C. O. D.: Name

Style BB Street Sets . . @ $2.60 per set Total $ Street _

Style . B Street Sets. . @ $3.40 per set Total $ No. 1 Lawn Sets @ $6.50 per set Total $ City State No. 2 Lawn Sets @ $5.00 per set Total $

Serial No. of 1940 Membership card is EXTRA SKILL AND EXTRA DARING MADE CLINTON FERGUSON AMERICA'S NO.I OUTBOARD CHAMPION

BOMBSHELL! That's his name for it. Why, it's nothing but a 135 POUNDS of nerve and driving skill. Hunched in that tiny shell with a motor. But when Clinton Ferguson clamps down the pit — he roars across the surface in a frothing skid against time. — throttle of that motor, you've got speed plus plus one man's Turns? He takes them wide open . . . with a daring equaled only uncanny ability to squeeze just a few extra miles per hour out by the extra skill of his steering hand. Boats, drivers — cigarettes — of four cylinders. Yes, it's the extras that win — even in cigarettes. it's the extras that set them apart. ..like the extra mildness of Camels.

THE "EXTRAS" IN CAMELS MADE THEM HIS CIGARETTE

EXTRA MILDNESS EXTRA COOLNESS EXTRA FLAVOR

In recent laboratory tests, Camels burned 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested— A slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a smoking plus equal to THE "EXTRAS" of costlier, slower-burning tobaccos have made Camels the

No. 1 cigarette in the field. And the explanation of these extras in Camels is just as scientific as it is logical. Too-fast burning in a cigarette creates excess 5 EXTRA SMOKES heat. Excess heat ruins the delicate elements of mildness and flavor. Slower burning preserves flavor and aroma ... naturally gives a cooler smoke, free from the irritating qualities of excess heat. Camels, with their costlier tobac- PER PACK! cos, give you extras that you won't find in any other cigarette — even a slower way of burning that means extra smoking per pack (see panel at right). GET THE "EXTRAS" WITH SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS

THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS Copr.. 1f>40. H .1. II Winston-Salem, N. C.