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JUNE 1939 LEGION

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our flag goes by, pride, all of us stand at attention when WHENdoesn't it it passes and render the privileged make a lump rise in your throat or homage of its citizens—the salute? bring a trace of a tear? Given not in fear and dread, not com- It should. There, waving in the pelled to do so by law, but volun- breeze, is your sole assurance of life, tarily, with loving reverence for the liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. living, visible consummation of an Does it not make you feel proud and ideal, born in the slough of despon- confident of the future? Does it not dency, despair and hopelessness, in give you a feeling of security? There a period of time actuated by the ignor- in all its brilliance of color and har- ance, selfishness, and brutality of mony you see the embodiment of man, now justly called the Dark yourself and your neighbor—rulers Ages. of this nation. It is the messenger of PEACE. Behind its waving beauty lurks no Under its wondrous folds a contented, hideous danger of a dictator, for under peace-loving people live in security its rippling glory all men are free and and hope. Yet let anyone dare to

equal. No one person has the power attempt to destroy our flag and it to tell you how to think, what to say, speaks in thundering tones, "Beware! or when and how to worship. Under Beware, lest you arouse the anger of its banner there live no serfs or isms, my people, they be not slaves nor but free men proud in their heritage weaklings! They will fight though of the past, confident and optimistic they abhor it. Fight not in hatred and of the future; who, like kings, can in rage, but in righteous indignation, speak to their God in any language, and if you stir them to war I promise in any creed, without fear of contra- you they shall not lay down their diction. arms except in victory!" Yes, it is truly named OLD Old Glory, truly today on this GLORY. It is the living symbol of the troubled earth you are a beacon of glorious promises on earth of the hope to other lands, a refuge for all Eternal Father. It unites into one people oppressed, and a herald of image all of the Ten Commandments hope. May the sun each dawn kiss that Moses gave to mankind and that your Stars and Stripes with pride and the Christ assured us were the laws delight and at eventide bid you a fond of God Is it anv worder that with goodnight.

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each case being given first: Carnera- THIS is somewhat of a pugilistic CONTENTS Sharkey, Baer-Carnera, Braddock- issue of your magazine, what COVER DESIGN Baer, Louis-Farr, Louis-Mann, Louis- with Richard Matthews Hallet's By Paul Bransom Schmeling (second fight), and Louis- gorgeous fiction story centering on John Henry Lewis. The first fight be- SO PROUDLY WE HAIL 1 the great John L. Sullivan, and By Robert Lee Beveridge tween Joe Louis and Max Schmeling Arthur Donovan's article on the Decoration by William Hcaslip was probably the most dramatic of all the Manly Art of Self Defense, written THE MAN WHO LICKED JOHN L. 5 the bouts Arthur has handled, but from the standpoint of the third man By Richard Matthews Hallet world's championship title was not at Illustrations by Frank Street in the ring. All names except those stake on that occasion. As Legion- of John L. in Mr. Hallet's story are IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION 10 naire Donovan points out, the boxing By Cordell Hull fictitious. Use of a name which is the writers were virtually unanimous in same as that of any living person is MINE EYES HAVE SEEN 12 the belief that Schmeling didn't have accidental. By Starr G. Cooper a chance against Louis. But then the Illustration by E. Pyles V. experts of another day were also EYES SOUTH 14 unanimously wrong when they picked FAIRFAX DOWNEY'S account By Leland Stowe Goliath over David. of how short-wave radio is getting BIVOUAC 18 across to the peoples of totalitarian OF THE DEAD By William Nelson Morell countries a lot of news the censor SECRETARY of State Hull, a vet- would have successfully denied them EXTRA: SHORT WAVE WINS 20 eran himself, though of an earlier By Fairfax Downey otherwise is the story of another kind war than the one that brought the of battle. As the sub-title indicates, BUT CAN YOU TAKE IT? 22 Legion into being, tells in forthright By Akthur Donovan the censor is down for the count of language something of the aims of ten. It is probably because English CAJUN COUNTRY 24 the United States in foreign affairs. By Frederick C. Painton and American radio stations got their Uncle Sam seeks peace and is pur- programs into hundreds of thousands STEADY ALL! 26 suing it. You'd think that nations By Wallgren of German homes that Herr Hitler could settle their differences without called the Reichstag in extraordinary EDITORIAL: on this memorial day 27 resort to arms, but though as these outlook for session to hear his reply to President THE LAST GOODBYE 28 lines are written the isn't half bad, Roosevelt's plea for a non-aggression By Thomas J. Malone peace maybe tomorrow pact. Under conditions prevailing so Illustration by Kenneth F. Camp morning will be another story. One short a time as a year ago the German WATCHTOWERS OF AMERI- thing is certain: We're not going to people would have known of the CANISM 30 let anybody trifle with the Monroe By Boyd B. Stutler Roosevelt proposal in the sketchiest Doctrine. Leland Stowe's article, of outline, and it would have been THE FIRST FIRST CALL 34 "Eyes South," brings that matter into By Noll easy to issue a short statement, John J. focus for you, and there's an account through the foreign office of the FRONT AND CENTER 37 on page 55 of how the Doctrine Reich, deftly side-stepping every- BURSTS AND DUDS 64 came into being, with its text. thing. Short-wave radio balked that. Conducted bv Dan Sowers Through it we are perhaps witnessing NOTE well: Less than four a modern miracle: "The people which months to the Twenty-First An- sat in darkness saw a great light." nual National Convention of The IMPORTANT American Legion. At Chicago, Sep- THE seven championship fights tember 25th through 28th. Is your A form for your convenience if you wish which Legionnaire Donovan has wartime outfit holding a reunion then to have the magazine sent to another ad- refereed are as follows, the winner in and there? 61 62. dress will be found on page 52. See pages and

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JOHN &lj FRANK STREET

RICHARD MATTH EWS HALLET

L. SULLIVAN'S bar was in an JOHNuproar the night they hung the painting of "Venus Born from a Wave." Right and left of the lady were wooden Indians, images of Chief Geronimo, with a hatchet in one hand and a bundle of wooden cigars in the other. These had been snatched from in front of cigar stores by John's henchmen as me- mentoes of John's victories. Over the bar was a plaster cast of the champion's good right arm. That was a fabulous arm, and no mistake; the fist as big as a whale's ear, and power in it like a cider-apple crusher. Some said John's plaster arm should be hung up beside the Sacred Cod in the State House. John himself was on hand, in a double- breasted lion-skin coat, and a plug hat, and a cigar called Fence Post drawn down into the left-hand corner of his mouth. He had an arm round Georgie Droghan's waist.

"Venus, is it?" he growled. "She's the only good thing that ever came from water, and that's the best I'll say for her." "Arrah go on, you're only foolin'," Georgie smiled. She was thin as a harrow in those days, with tawny hair clubbed against her neck, and green eyes flickering like heat lightning on a summer's night. John was like a big brother to her. He had picked her out of Ruby the Shield's haunt in the beginning, and given her into Madame Canada's keeping to make an actress of her. Now she had the lead in "Snow- flake," and it was natural that John L. Sullivan should be her god. She wore a lock of John's hair in the locket on her breast. John with a plug hat and But John hadn't given it to her. She a cigar called Fence Post had paid Billy Hogarty the barber a dol- —and Georgie Droghan lar for it. In those days Billy drove a thriving trade in John's hair. He was champion of the world. The King going

JUNE, 1939 where," Georgie boasted, and pinched John's arm playfully. And then the two of them stood up to the bar, and sang "Stir Your Boot into His Features," and the bar flies crowded back of them, applauding. The bar mirror was French plate, John's lucky glass,

and everything looked prosperous in it. Georgie in her plumes and ruffles, burly "Let you be going your ways," John in his lion skin, and Sport Cam- to open Parliament in a gilded coach she told him, "and I'll be going pani with his shirt open on his chest to didn't make more stir than John L. in a show the arm of John L. Sullivan tat- Boston hack, going to the Old Howard tooed there. The Sullivan Combination to show himself as Hercules Throwing "I've seen her somewhere, but I dis- moved at will in a deferential world. Quoits or Ajax Defying the Lightning. remember where," said John. "Put your props up," John roared to The whole world hung on his least "It's Georgie Droghan," Sport Cam- Georgie, and the girl, laughing, swung move, and Georgie gloried in him. He pani pointed out. at him with the round-arm uppercut drank, yes, but what was a champion if John L. Sullivan turned his black look that he had taught her. it wasn't a man with a bottle in his hand on Georgie. "How's that, John?" and a barrel at his elbow? His fist came "Would it be you posing for the likes of "That's the caper. Flush on the dial," against a man's gizzard like a telegraph Jimmy Considine?" he asked. said the champion, and shot a rib-tic kler pole butt end foremost; and all the train- "Only for the head, John," Georgie of his own to Georgie's whalebone. "You ing he needed for a fight was a haircut giggled. would strip now better than most of and a shave. "The head is all, John," Considine these pugs. That's the blow; and you can Those were glorious times, and every- said. use it on any man that looks disrespect- one in John's neighborhood was pros- He was a young toff from Beacon Hill, ful at you, Georgie." perous. The great man had money stuffed and he looked pale under his shiny hat, He looked hard at Jimmy Considine, in every pocket, and a wad of it in his with the moss rose in the lapel of his and then at Venus, and Georgie laughed, hat, and silver in his purse, and it was all coat. "Any man that looks disrespectful. whirled away from him like leaves from a "It better had be all," said big brother That's any man but John L. Sullivan, tree. John. I'm thinking." "Here's success, John," the bar flies Georgie Droghan made a diversion. "It's Jimmy Considine, for one," says said. "Here's to John L. Sullivan." she John, and down came the flat of his hand And now here he was, fiddling with his cried, "and no man living can get him on Jimmy's hat. black mustaches, and glaring at the new with his feathers down." John never could resist a shiny hat. picture of Venus. "That's right. John's in the pink. He's If he liked you he smashed your hat, and

"It's a good likeness," he said to young the finest man that ever inhabited a suit if he didn't like you he smashed your

Jimmy Considine, who had painted it. of clothes," Sport Campani said. hat. He didn't like Jimmy Considine, "It's a good subject," Jimmy said. "You can't take a pick of him any- and so he smashed his hat. But not from

6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine jealousy. John wasn't a sentimental man. But that was more than John could hanging out, and you with no money to The ring was his only love. He took a swing to. He went the rounds, and found buy a beer," John muttered, and a worse nightly sponge of rock salt, horse radish Jimmy Considine at the bar of the Game fate he couldn't wish an> man. and whisky to keep himself hard. Smash- Chickens' Retreat, with a fancy garter Within ten minutes he was banging ing was John's trade, not mashing. hanging from his ringers. open the door to Georgie's dressing "This is no man for you, with a moss "Georgie Droghan has got the mate to room. Droghan was in brocaded corsets rose in his lapel," he told Georgie, and it," Considine was saying to the barman, and lace edges. Her tawny hair flowed because she owed everything to John, she friendliwise. And then his eye came wild over one shoulder, and the Satan- gave the painter his conge. round to John L. Sullivan. ella look was in her green eyes. John was just Gog and Magog rolled "So Droghan's got the mate to it," "Another time, you knock, will you, into one. It was easier for him to knock says John with a black look. before you enter a lady's dressing-room?" a bloke's block off than reason with it, Actresses' garters were to the young she panted. he always said. It was quicker, too. He blades from Beacon Hill what wooden "Me trying all my life to make a lady could put a man to grass quicker than Indians were to John. out of you, and you jumping sideways hell could scorch a feather. He went up "Why hello, John, how are you?" out of the fills," John bellowed, towering and down the land flattening opposition, Considine said. over her. and Venus with the head of Georgie "Struggling like yourself," John "A lady! How would you go to work to Droghan stayed on the bar-room wall. growled. make a lady, with a pair of hands on Georgie herself drank Dublin Stout, He shook the garter out of Hooker's you like that? It takes a gentleman to and played fatter parts. She was in a box hand. make a lady, and I guess you would when John's admirers presented him with "Easy, John, "says Considine, very pale. easily escape detection as a gentleman a diamond belt, on the stage of the Boston "Ain't nobody stepped on you for a anywhere." Theater. They met back stage. worm yet?" John snarled. That was Georgie, always throwing a "You're getting to be too much of a He smashed Considine's hat flat with line at you from one of her plays, just good thing," Georgie Droghan said. a swipe that made the lad's bone-ends because it was the first thing that came "What's that, now?" growled the telescope in their sockets. handy —like John yanking a leg off a champion. "I'll see you in hell with your tongue billiard-table.

"Your usefulness is getting "Ill warm your jacket for you,' circumscribed by your ampli- John said, with the Simon Legree look tude," says Mistress Georgie that he would use later in "Uncle Tom's archly. Cabin" for lashing on the blood- "What's these word that hounds. crack against the wall? John "You rotter. You— you dog in the roared. manger. Unhand me," Georgie "It's just my way of saying screamed, right out of "Passports to you look like a bale of hay with Hell." the middle hoop busted," she in- "Here's Considine's compliments," formed him. "If you don't stop says John, and he threw the garter on drinking Saw - My - Leg - Offs, the floor. you'll have to wear a buckskin Georgie shrieked, "You've killed corset for the collywobbles, John." him, John," and her knees knocked "You're no lightning rod your- together. self, me lass." "Him? That squirt? I wouldn't use "Chut." him for a rag to swamp a barroom out "It's not the waist of you will with." be going through an alderman's "John, I swear I didn't give it to ring any longer," said the cham- him." pion. "Don't make me laugh; I'll crack me "Is it you telling me?" cried lip." " Georgie. 'Twill not be Jimmy Georgie was half adrift, with her hair Considine. Jimmy's a gentleman, loose, and one of her stockings, that had anyway." been at half mast, "So it's Considine is at the tumbled down bottom of it. I'll put a head on around her ankle. him. I say I'll teach Jimmy Con- "John, is it a sidine to play a harp," John cast-iron woman raged. you think I am? The actress, full-blown in a Let you be going pink taffeta dress- your ways, and ing-gown, stood up I'll go mine." out of her chair. The callboy Jigs "Here's your di- yelled "Cheese cer, John," she said, it, the cops," and handing him his hat. John grabbed his "I'll not be shut hat and scuttled into a room any away like a bat longer with my out of hell. thoughts, and you That night he lushing around broke the iron pil- with the ale hounds lar that held up and doing what you the second story see fit. I'll thank you of the Game Chick- to mind your own If he liked you he smashed your hat, and ens' Retreat. affairs henceforth." if he didn't like you he smashed your hat But this was the

JUNE, 1939 beginning of his not getting his way in twirling his black dragoon mustaches. "John L. Sullivan. What the hell everything. Fights were scarce, and he It was plain to any eye that he had had other John are they?" Jigs was bold could not be slipping hundred-dollar an over-dose of tanglefoot, and Georgie enough to say. bills into the vases in his mother's parlor. didn't want a scene. Once before she had "Let you be keeping a civil tongue in

John I.. Sullivan was on the bone-. He gone past him in an open carriage, with your head, boy, or I shall wash your was like a man who had struggled up a a band of coryphees from "The Black mouth out with soap," she warned him. mountain just to have the fun of sliding Crook" languishing in search of cham- But she was plainly staggered. down the other side. It was all he could pagne suppers and the Babylonish "There's a man at the stage entrance do to Hag the bread cart in its mad pleasures, and John had dragged her says John's knocking everything to flight past his door. bodily over the wheel's rim and sent her stove-wood, ma'am, at the Game Chick- He had his foot on the brass rail oftener packing. than ever, but it was not his own rail. Now she wouldn't meet He had lost his own bar in Washington his eye. She went past Street. The bar-mirror and the "V enus" him like something drift- and the silver-plated dumbbells were put ing and melting in a up at auction, and Georgie had them dream, with the pure, bought in, and stored in the cellar of the proud look to her of a Game Chickens' Retreat. Banished as he woman born but yester- was, he was still her great man, and she day, like Venus from felt that his time would come again. He white foam. Venus with was still champion. He had knocked the the head of Georgie Dro- nose off everything but the Sphinx, and ghan. if he had been born earlier, he would have But out of the corner licked the man that knocked that nose of her eye she had that off. glimpse of John standing "What's this I hear about the fight pegged like an iron man with Corbett?" Georgie asked Sport to the sidewalk. She felt Campani, who had come down to selling the pang again, pinching gum at the stage entrances. John's arm the walls of her heart to- was still on his bare chest, but it had gether. It was John who shrunk a little. had picked her out of "Corbett?" cried the Sport. "That Ruby the Shield's haunt dude from California? What chance has and made an honest he got with John? Corbett drinks milk. woman of her. He had Say, lady, when John L. Sullivan was brought fame and fortune three days old he was sitting down to to her, and now she had steak and onions and a mug of stout." let him go past her on her "He will have his modest quencher," blind side. Georgie sighed. "Where is the diamond The carriage rolled on, belt?" scattering the rose petals "He's hocked the last of it to get on the cobblestones, but money for his training," Sport Campani Georgie Droghan had told her. "He'll be crowing on top of the no ear for the cheering hill in another month." that was all for her, and Georgie Droghan felt a pang striking none of it for John. Im- through her. John had been drinking to agination rolled her back his own success too often. If he was in to the door sill of that good fix, a barrel of horseshoes wouldn't magic moment when she help Jim Corbett, but John's bellows had stood with John's wasn't what it had been. The old weak- arm twined in hers, and ness in back of the champion's knees was the pair of them had sung showing up again, she had heard. He "Corsets for My Col- trained by wrestling with the distillery leen" and seen their re- imps that clustered thick in his path. flections in the lucky Georgie was right at her peak, playing mirror. in a revival of "Passports to Hell," when "It's me that could she saw John in the flesh again. She was have saved him from all in white, with a gold fillet round her himself," she mourned. brows, and standing in an open carriage, The first act of "Pass- the wheels twined with white roses. ports to Hell" was over Droghan the white-souled, men called when Jigs the call boy her now. Once they had called her the plucked her arm. green Venus, but that was in the days She looked down at him from the ens' Retreat!" Jigs cried. "There won't when they had looked right through her shadow of a hat with purple plumes. Her be nobody alive in Boston, the way John's to the clocks on her stockings, which Venus dress of emerald plush was hung taking on." should be known to God alone. to her shoulders with a single row of jet She took his pale face in trembling A bevy of her admirers had forced beads. Half the carmine saucer was on hands. Jigs breathed a waft of the helio- themselves into the shafts in place of her lips, and a tough, black make-up trope powder dusted on her neck. horses, and Jimmy Considine was one under her green eyes. "Is it John's beak dipped in the growl- of these. Georgie's heart was in her throat "John's needing you, Miss Droghan," er again?" she whispered. "Come, have when she saw John L. Sullivan leaning Jigs whimpered. you lost your tongue, boy? Is it drunk he against a lamp post, with his plug hat "John? What John is that, my lad?" is again entirely, bad cess to him?" sloping on his brow. He had a Fence Post The great lady put her fair hand on "He's turned horrid," Jigs quavered. in the comer of his mouth, and he was Jigs' head. "It's on account of them shoving the

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine wooden Indians down into the cellar." the gas-light, she reached up money to ermine of a king. Dead-beats who hung "It's on no such account," Georgie the hackman. onto the champion's coat tails, because murmured. "Wait here, my man," she said. they thought that just John's shadow She sank into a stage chair and put a She and Jigs went in through the Fam- was more potent than the flesh-and- hand over her heart. Jigs heard her ily Entrance. blood of other men.

choking out to the manager that she was Distillery imps had been at work. The "Where's his Nibs?" Georgie put it to taken deathly sick, and they must stop wooden dragons over the bar had their them. the play. Next he was tossing in a hack, tails wrenched off. The billiard table was "He's in the cellar," said the Spider. with Georgie Droghan at his side. upside down. The plaster arm was "He's as low as he can get, then." "I ask him yesterday," Jigs said, "I smashed into a thousand pieces. The oys- "He's sledging out the cellar posts,"

Looking like the devil's own with his hat smashed amid a welter of broken glass the Spicier moaned, his world reeling- "It sounds like two of them down there," Georgie said. ask him, 'Mr. Sullivan, what do you ter-opener's mouth was still open, where "He's took notions, ma'am," Sport drink when you are training?' And he John had tried to ram a billiard-ball Campani said. said, 'Blood. Nothing but blood. I drain down his throat, and hadn't quite suc- "What kind of notions?" a boy your size three times a day.' Do ceeded. "Notional notions, ma'am. He's asking you think he does, Miss Droghan?" And there were smashed hats every- the man in back of him to come out from "Heart's blood," Miss Droghan said where, on the heads of those poor scrap- behind and fight, man to man." with a wild laugh. ings and starvelings who had gone up "Who's the man in back of him?" They stopped at the Game Chickens' with John and come down with him, and "There ain't nary man in back of him. Retreat, and pale and beautiful under were still on hand to hold up the tattered John's digestion {Continued on page 48) JUNE, 1939 American Tradition

of the most illustrious of my Spain. These breaches of the peace else- ONEpredecessors in the office of where have disturbed the peace of this Secretary of State, Elihu Root, CordellHull country perceptibly and substantially: once said, "A democracy which they have created for us political anxi- undertakes to control its own foreign re- eties; they have created for us economic lations ought to know something about difficulties and problems; they have the subject." No statement could be peace that we seek is, however, a peace affected unpleasantly our social life, our more true. Nothing is more vital to the which must be defined and be understood. thinking, our planning, our hopes and existence and the successful maintenance It is not merely that negative status or our efforts to live wholesomely, happily of a democratic state than that its people condition that is the opposite of armed and helpfully. They have created among should understand, should think intelli- conflict, usually designated "war;" it is us feelings of horror, fears, uncertainties, gently, should decide wisely, and should that status or condition in which a misrepresentations and misunderstand- act unitedly in the field of foreign rela- reasonable degree of well being prevails, ings; in some quarters doubts, in some tions. in which the daily activities of human quarters controversies and contention, in In these modern times, as the nations beings can be carried on with reasonable some quarters even the mental paralysis of the world are brought closer and closer comfort, with reasonable certainty, with of "despair" and "defeatist" psychologies. together and as the relations among them reasonable immunity from anxiety and become more and more complicated, apprehension, with reasonable security, there is no field in which it is more diffi- with a reasonable sense that justice is cult to assemble and to evaluate properly being done and will be done. The peace JUDGE HULL, who saw service in the facts necessary to clear thinking and upon which we are intent is peace with effective action than in this field. Toward justice. the Spanish-American War as a enabling our Government and our people Being human, we of course think of captain of Tennessee Volunteers, to understand and to decide intelligently, peace first and foremost for ourselves and had had a distinguished career in it is necessary that our officials and our for our own country. But we know—we public give greater attention than ever feel intuitively and we conclude by that State when he became a Con- before to the tasks of being adequately processes of reasoning—that in ultimate gressman in 1907. Except for a two- informed, of studying problems together, analysis a breach of the peace in any part and of reaching by common effort sound of a community does injury to the whole year interval he served in that conclusions on the basis of which, in turn, community. When in a municipality some capacity until 1931, whenhe became sound decisions may be made. individuals engage in physical violence, a Senator. the acts of violence, the breach of the On March 4, 1933 he WE NEED, first of all, to under- peace, are regarded as an offense against entered upon his present high office stand our own country and our- the whole community, for they disturb of Secretary of State, an office he selves. We need to realize that as a people the community and they affect adversely we have by inheritance a love of liberty, the interests of each and every member of has filled with distinguished ability. that we believe in freedom—of individu- the community. The same is true in and The article herewith was written als and of nations. We need to realize of the world at large. Resort to violence by the Secretary at that our fathers sought, that we are seek- by any nation disturbs the whole family the instance ing, and that our children will seek legiti- of nations and, with its adverse effects, is ofThe American Legion's National mate opportunity. Our forefathers came an offense against every nation. Organization, which asked how the to this land in quest of opportunity. They To make the matter concrete, recall the fought for freedom. Many of them laid ways in which and the degree to which membership of the Legion might down their lives that the independence the war which began in Europe in 1014 be of service to the nation in the which we enjoy might be achieved; many disturbed this country. It threw out of matter of foreign affairs others of them, that the national unity adjustment our economic life, our po- which had been achieved might be pre- litical life, our social life; it affected us so served. You, members of the Legion, and adversely that before it, a "European other millions who were your comrades war," was ended this country was forced in arms, fought in defense of the human to take up arms in self defense. The conse- The foreign policies ol the United "ights, the cherished institutions, the quences adverse to this country of that States do not originate with and are not Ideals and principles, and the national breach of the peace in Europe in 1Q14 are made by the Government; they come ntegrity in which the people of this still being felt in tremendous measure by from and they are made by the whole "ountry always have believed and which the people of the United States. Ask nation. The will of the nation is expressed hey always have been ready to defend. yourselves about the effects upon this through channels and by the functioning Our forefathers sought peace, and we country, adverse effects, of the more of agencies which the nation in its sover- +oday are more intent upon peace than recent armed conflicts in the Far East, in eign capacity has created. These agencies jpon any other single objective. The and around the Mediterranean, and in seek at all times accurately to understand

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine and faithfully to give expression to that dom and efficiency. We do that in private ing of operations—must be entrusted to will. There is in this country no line of business. We must do it —for safety and and be accepted by those whom the cleavage, no mould of class or caste, no for effectiveness—in public business, the people place in office. difference of origin or of interest between business of the whole 130 million of the The men whom you as voters have those of our people who are in official American people. elected to represent you and to represent positions and those who are not. The Whatever may be our diversities of your various States in the Congress of the Government of the United States can- views and of efforts in regard to internal United States are able, conscientious and not—nor would it —at any moment move problems, the conducting of foreign re- hardworking men. They truly represent far in advance of or lag far behind the lations calls for unity of thought, of pur- their constituencies. They are doing their thought and the desire of the American pose and of effort. A house divided best collectively to conserve and promote people. against itself invites destruction by wind your interests, the interests of the elector- Our officials are, however, in an ad- and weather. A nation that would be ate, the interests of the people of the vantageous position to study situations secure and that would avoid being taken United States, the interests of this great which arise, to look ahead, and to judge advantage of should present a common country of ours. The President, placed in what measures and methods may need to front to other nations and be united in office by the majority of the electorate,

be adopted toward best safeguarding our support of policies and measures thought- represents and is responsible to the whole

PHOTO BY CHARLES PHELPS CUSHING The greatest symbol of democ- country's interests. It is therefore highly racy in this hemisphere—the nation. He and his various assistants, desirable that our people, choosing their majestic dome of the Capitol at among whom it is my privilege to be one, officials, give to their officials a reasonable Washington, stately in its beau- are doing everything within their power amount of their confidence and faith. ty against the background of to safeguard and promote the interests Considerations of size and numbers the night of the whole nation. Before, while and caused our nation to adopt for our de- after being in office, we are citizens. If mocracy the principle of responsible our country has peace and is prosperous, "representation." We should expect our fully and conscientiously decided upon the benefits of those conditions are bene- duly chosen representatives to study by its constituted representatives. In this fits to all of its citizens; if it does not problems intensively and, exchanging in- country those authorities are freely have peace, the disadvantages which formation and views, conferring on chosen by the people. Public opinions flow from that fact are disadvantages to courses of action, and envisaging effects must give direction to policies, but all of us. and consequences, to make choices, responsibility for the making and the There is no such thing as a desire, an formulate plans, and carry out operations execution of decisions regarding ways intention or an effort on the part of any with a maximum of possible human wis- and means and timing—for the conduct- American official (Continued on page jS) JUNE, 1939 I I THIRD PRIZE WINNER

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didn't waste much beauty THEYor paint on those Training Camp Y Auditoriums. But what more could you want? They were efficient, and sufficient. Four walls, a roof, and comfortable-enough seats. Nice and warm, too, with plenty of good heat to defy the January winds. And, too, I always found a welcome just as warm, and a welcome that didn't jar your self respect by fussing over you too much. That night the huge, bleak, barren box of an auditorium vibrated with life and color. Four thousand persons packed into its three-thousand capacity and into every square inch permitted by the bored M.I'.'s. People had come to camp from as far away as Richmond, yes, even from the District of Columbia to hear the great opera singer. There were plenty of starched, white shirt-bosoms and black spiketails to make themselves noticeably evident, even in the mob of olive drab. And the biggest number of women, ladies, we'd ever had at a Camp party; for everybody had taken advantage of the occasion to pay off social debts in town, and our townsfolk dressed every bit as well as did the society matrons from Wash- ington. And our Pennsylvania mothers and sisters and sweethearts didn't have to give an inch in clothes or poise to Rich- mond's highest-rated F.F.V.'s. We pack-jammed that Y Auditorium, and maybe we showed off a bit while Mine Eyes waiting for the concert to begin. We stamped and cheered and whistled and officers with guests. Alongside me at the wishywashy for menfolk to show any catcalled, and in general lived up to the left sat a first lieutenant, then an elderly demonstration of affection; but it just did accounts we had written home of the way lady who might be his grandmother—an one's soul good to see the happiness and the audience ran the show at Camp aristocrat if ever there was one! Beyond love fairly beam from dad's squared-back doings. We may have overdone it even, grandma, a couple who you knew at once shoulders, and the way first one boy then to show off, for really we were fairly well were first lieutenant's mother and father the other would twist around in his seat on good behavior, with the other-sex and powerful pleased with the silver bar and put his arm around his dad's back. guests a lot of us had brought. At best on sonny's shoulders. The questions they did ask about the we were a tough audience for any woman The other side of me, two boys, second- folks back in Scranton, or other Scranton singer of classical stuff to handle. She'd lieutenants both of them, sat with their boys at camp! Almost too bad they'd better be good! proud-as-punch dad between them. That's taken out time to come to the concert

I didn't take anybody, but the only something the war has done that's at all. seat I could get was in the section for good for us. We used to think it sort of Pa Scranton liked the way the solid

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spot that your grandfather lost his life in the Petersburg Mine." Pa Scranton's voice boomed out, in one of those odd silences that so frequently spread through a noisy crowd: "It wasn't

with state songs that they fought it out

here fifty years ago. Isn't it a lot more sensible than when my old man went under in the Petersburg Mine?" Grandma caught his words, but a momentary sympathy quickly turned into frigid hostility. The two second lieutenants each squeezed one of their dad's hands. "Smile, smile, smile!" from the whole olive-drab mob. A door opened at the back of the dingy stage. A cheer greeted the sprucely dressed corporal who stepped out. "He used to be her accompanist." I could overhear the explanation on either side of me. "When the draft brought him into service, and he was assigned to Company G, —th Infantry of Pennsylvanians, she adopted the whole Company. She's given them a piano and a phonograph, and that's really how she came to camp to sing here." The cheer dropped to a buzz. The corporal, having left some music on the piano, crossed to the door again and escorted onto the stage the great opera singer. Polite silence. "Hmph!" murmured Grandma. "Shsh!" murmured first lieutenant. "I won't be shushed. She can't amount to much. There never was. there never could be a great singer with her slight build. Worse yet, she isn't even old enough to have had any real training. I am not going to like her." HaveSeen "Good government!" Now it was Pa Scranton's turn. "She isn't a carthorse. olive-drab section of the house carried on. solid olive-drab section a gang agonized She's actually slim and young, and Wanted to join in "K-K-K-Katie" him- in would-be close harmony, "Carry me pretty. I didn't know they'd learned to self, but the boys cut him down. Grand- back to ole Virginny." Grandma looked grow the new crop of opera singers ma F.F. V. thought it undignified, vulgar, pleased. Another gang drowned them out that way." bad taste, when such a great opera singer with "It's a long, long way to Pennsyl- Cheers greeted the singer as she took was to appear—typically Pennsylvanian! vania, since Virginia went dry." Grand- her place by the piano—the cheering of "But grandma," I overheard first ma looked disgusted. men who just wanted to make a noise, lieutenant remonstrate, "there are just "You must remember," grandma had more than any accord to recognized as many Virginians in camp as there are first lieutenant by the arm. He looked artistry. It was a tough audience. Pennsylvanians, and the Virginia men slightly bored, he'd heard it before. "The She sang a light, though unfamiliar, know how to have a good time just as last time Virginians and Pennsylvanians song. Something with tune enough in it much as the Pennsylvanians do." met here, they didn't both wear the same for even the solid olive-drab section to Grandma subsided. From over in the color uniforms. It was almost on this very understand. (Continued on page 40)

JUNE, 1939 13 Eyes JUST as we slid up to Callao's pier wonder her crew seemed to peer across at thriving oasis of a city; the second largest Adolf Hitler socked us straight in us with a certain triumphant cockiness. in Peru. I came in from La Paz with the eye. A collective sock, I mean. She was an eyeful of a liner, and we had General Carlos Quintanilla, commander- All in one wallop it jarred the eye- to admire her ourselves. More than one in-chief of the Bolivian army. When he balls of Secretary of State Cordell Hull of us thought unpleasantly, "So that's found we could speak German together, and former Governor Alf Landon and the how we Americans rate down here?" the general became very friendly. He told whole United States delegation to the A State Department official stood be- me he was on his way to Europe; first, to Pan-American Conference. And before side me. pay a personal visit to Hitler and then to we'd even landed to go up to Lima! "That's what the nazis mean by pres- Mussolini, after which he'd also confer There she was, and what a beauty of a tige," I said. liner. Stream-lined, ultra-modern, swank. "I'm afraid it is," he admitted wrily. Under the Monroe Doctrine we Her rear sun-decks, curved and terraced This was Incident Number One for my like the Normandic's. Air-conditioned and second look at South America in two years. shall tamper with the sovereign- bright as a colonel's shoes at dress parade. After the conference I went up into the publics. But economic and A sight for seamen's eyes she was, and barren, savage hinterlands of the Andes. a-flap with pennants like an Old Home We stopped in Arequipa. Surrounded by another story, the story of Week afloat. And just so we couldn't miss deserts and 19,000-foot peaks, it's a muscled in south of Panama. it, flying a huge red flag with a black swastika. She was the Patria, nazi Ger- many's latest bid for passenger service supremacy along the southern Pacific coast. This was her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Valparaiso. Somebody re- minded me that she'd left New York a day after we had, but had beaten us' into Callao by several hours. And despite her de luxe accommodations, her passengers had paid less than we had for slower transportation on our American liner. If Hitler, Goebbels & Co. wanted to pour salt upon our wounded vanity they had made the most of a rare opportunity. Here was our unpretentious, reliable but old-fashioned Yankee ship coming to dock. And there, directly alongside us, lay the glittering new flagship of Ger- many's Southern Pacific merchant fleet. A few yards of water and a generation of shipbuilding skill was all that separated them. For any American with an ounce of national pride the contrast was pain- ful. Inevitably that swanky, clean-cut nazi craft made Uncle Sam as a maritime competitor look pretty sad. No wonder the Patria' s decks were thronged with Smelter and shops in Oroya, Peru, of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Com- admiring, duly-impressed Peruvians. No pany, founded in the United States. Its stock is largely American-owned

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Valdivia, an important lum- ber-export town in Southern Chile, is overwhelmingly Ger- man in its population. Note name of the hotel. On opposite page, the cosmopolitan skyline of Buenos Aires, cap- South ital of Argentina with General Franco in Spain. The In Arequipa the general insisted I must general was a big, finely-built professional be his guest for tea or what-have-you at cozy bar that would easily match those soldier of fifty, and he came naturally by the German Club. I thought that was of the Elks or Rotarians—or the Legion- his Prussian-like carriage, for he had swell, you bet, because—up there in the naires—at home. taken his commission in the kaiser's im- Peruvian Andes—clubs of any kind are I hadn't seen anything to compare with perial army shortly before the war. scarcer than is a feminine silk ankle. it outside of Lima. And I'll be double-

Hitler, he said, was the greatest man in Besides, I was curious as to what kind of darned if the Germans hadn't built an the world. But he was good-humored and club the nazis would have. So we walked outdoor bowling alley, surely the only friendly and we got along fine. through narrow streets and over a bridge, one within hundreds of miles. And far above a half-dried-up river. We imagine the luxury of sinking into a real turned down one block and came to a armchair once more. Nothing like this insist that no European nation large one-story building. It didn't look in Arequipa's best hotel. In the lounge ty of the South American re- like much until we got inside and then I several Germans were quietly reading or gasped with surprise and pleasure. drinking beer. A handsome radio-phono- commercial penetration—that's Graveled walks, a big garden rampant graph played popular music as we ate and how Germany and Italy have with flowers; spacious, open rooms with drank. For me, after ten days of hard Here it is in broad outline modernistic furnishings; a bright and traveling through bedraggled, dirty In- dian towns at altitudes of 11,000 feet or

more, it was like walking right out of the Albanian mountains into the Players' Club of New York. The general, of course, was as pleased as the only surviving gobbler on a turkey farm. He'd been telling me what smart people the nazis were. Now I could see what splendid hospitality they offered their Latin American friends. "Sehr schoen, nicht wahr?" he said. Yes, I had

to admit it. But I was thinking that you'd never find an "American Club" in an out-of-the-way place like this. No, we Americans were too slow. We still didn't think that clubrooms and informal but well-prepared hospitality had any direct relation to our national prestige and our diplomatic progress in the outposts of South America. Perhaps this explains why you can travel down one coast of the southern continent and up the other, as I have done, and find comparatively few places

where Uncle Sam is unquestionably out in front in local prestige or trade, or in matters of close and confidential relations A busy street in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil which suggests in a subtle with the governing classes of these manner the vast wealth of that nation of magnificent distances countries. You'll find a good many

JUNE, 1939 American residents. But you won't find Why worry about Chile? You'd be sur- thing we ought to remember. For if ever many of them "mixing in" with Latin prised, brother. I know I was. We Ameri- the Panama Canal is blocked, we can Americans in the same easy, ingratiating cans have our third largest foreign' invest- only reunite our fleets through those manner of Hitler's and Mussolini's ment—no less than $483,000,000—in straits and with the Chilean govern- chosen representatives. Least of all will Chile. The only places where we have ment's consent. As for the Canal's next- you find our diplomats and businessmen larger investments are in Canada and door neighbor, Colombia, her importance

playing a common game according to Cuba. And for all our excitement about to American defense is as plain as the highly-coordinated plans, as the nazis and Japan, China and the Philippines, we've bloom on a rum-hound's nose. Any fascists do. actually got a bigger stake in little Chile military strategist will insist that we In most of these countries the boys from the European dictatorships have got the jump on us. They've been out in front in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil for a good while. Now they're using every weapon and ruthlessly pushing us back, in Argentina. In every South American country Germans and Italians are pressing every advantage. They're on their toes all the time, and they fight hard. It is we, the Americans, who are on the de- fensive. The totalitarian governments hold the offensive—and they intend to keep it at all costs!

AT WHAT cost to us? There's the rub. Certainly more unemployment right now. Eventually, perhaps, the loss of countless thousands of lives. In November, 1936, I flew from Chicago to Buenos Aires. For three solid days we sped along the coastline of a single country. I learned that Brazil's one uninterrupted coastline is longer than our own Atlantic and Pacific coastlines com- bined. I gazed down on hundreds of miles of magnificent beaches, totally unin- habited and open to the sea. I saw the yawning mouth of the Amazon, virtually unprotected from entrance by anybody's fleet. And zowie! . . . Why, the Brazilians have hardly any navy at all! Who's to prevent the Germans or Italians or Japanese walking right in? Obviously, nobody but Uncle Sam. Marvelous plains and beaches for the invaders' air-fields, too. Some would be only a few hours' flight from Puerto Rico and Miami.

Brazil is larger than the U. S. A. by a second Texas—the largest nation in the western hemisphere and likewise the most thinly populated in proportion to its area. It also contains two-thirds of all the raw material riches in South America . . . coffee, cotton, rubber . . . fabulous forests

. . . incredible mountains of iron. Just a natural heaven for colony-cravers, like

Hennie and Adolf. But its rubber is absolutely vital to us in the event of war, whereas control of this Eldorado's resources would make the Rome-Berlin dictators masters of the world. Flying for three days across Brazil I realized that if England's frontier today reaches the Rhine, our American frontier stretches as far as Rio de Janeiro. Perhaps we Buildings, traffic markers and light standards of this Americans need Brazil's friendship more street in Lima, Peru, do not suffer by comparison with than any other nation's in the world those of cities in the United States except Canada's. Any nazi-fascist inroads down there must directly menace our than in the entire Far East! (Maybe it's need the cooperation of Brazil, Chile and security at home. time we found out where we put our Colombia just as imperatively as they Then look at Chile. She's just as easy money, anyhow.) In addition, Chile has need ours. to look at as the Chileans are. But that 05 percent of all the world's nitrates, a Back in 1823 President Monroe pro- smiling land is almost twice as far south first essential for the sinews of war. And claimed us the watchdog of the Western of Florida as Paris is from New York. she has the Straits of Magellan, some- World. Under the Inter-American Soli-

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darity declaration of Lima all twenty-one southern Brazil begin clamoring for of Latin America. But to be in a position American nations agree to share the "liberation"? Suppose Mussolini's under- to fight tomorrow, we've also got to fight watch-dogging. Nevertheless, the man's cover boys start a fascist movement in today. We cannot yield the trenches of end of the job is still ours and is justified Argentina, where nearly sixty percent of normal trade and prestige throughout by our own interests. But being the West- the population is Italian by blood? What Latin America to Hitler and Mussolini, ern World's watchdog isn't so simple any about the Italian-trained air and police and hope to keep our hemisphere free. more. Now we don't have declared wars. forces, and the Italian-dominated banks But we've got to get it through our The nazi-fascists have invented the new and newspapers in Peru? heads that we're up against a tough technique of "invasion from within" Without being an alarmist there's no job. My traveling companion, Bolivia's pro-nazi generalissimo, spilled a few neatly-illustrative beans. He told me sixty young Bolivians are in the Italian air force now; and forty more are taking their commissions in Hitler's army. Hereafter the German general staff will send home twenty-five nazified Bolivian army officers per year. To see what this ratio means just discount Bolivia's 3,000,000 population (which is 95 percent Indian and chiefly illiterate.) Just figure what the influence of some 300 rabid young Bolivian "nazi-fascists" will be in a country with less than 50,000 normal voters! In fact, I wonder what

will happen in Bolivia if the general finally comes home loaded down with guns, experts and mazuma, all thought- fully supplied by those gents whom Hugh Johnson has dubbed "Hit and Muss." I just wonder. And Bolivia has the richest tin mines in the world.

BUT this is merely a minor example of common nazi-fascist policy. Thousands of youths from South America are now getting militarized or "educated" in From the docks at Buenos Aires ships take out wheat Germany and Italy. Scholarships, free and beef to all quarters of the world. The Argentine steamship transportation, specially re- Republic swarms with Italian immigrants duced living costs—all on a scale which our Government has never faintly ap- proached. Likewise the dictator lands flood our southern neighbors with hundreds of visiting professors, who preach the glories of totalitarianism and the "putridness" of democracy. High army officers are flattered with invitations to Berlin and Rome. All the Latin Ameri- can ruling classes are courted and feted. And Uncle Sam tries to compete, with outmoded ships and a niggardly purse, with no galvanized press and no awak- ened public opinion. But nazi-fascist agents range throughout the continent. They buy up influential newspapers, ply business leaders with champagne, bribe politicians, spend money like drunken sailors. Prestige, propaganda and anti- democratic poison are all that matters. Heil Hitler! Viva II Ducel By such tactics American automobile sales in Argentina have just been slashed to one-third while Germany's sales have jumped 1,000 percent. That's how the "Hit-and-Muss" boys get their money back. The Germans Where diplomats representing the Pan-American nations predict they'll surpass our trade in Argen- met recently to plan for mutual help—the impressive tina this year, and so usurp our former conference building at Lima leadership in all of the *ABC countries. Moreover, the real nazi-fascist offen- by means of a sub-rosa nazi organization dodging the fact that the idea of "the sive in Latin America has just started. inside Austria, or a Sudeten "autonomy" Americas for the Americans" is being As a result of the disastrous Munich deal party, or an "independence" movement more seriously challenged now than at and the Franco victory in Spain an unin Slovakia. That's how Austria and any time since Monroe nailed the slogan precedented (Continued on page 54) Czechoslovakia disappeared from the to our masthead. We may have to fight map. Suppose the million Germans in tomorrow to keep Europe's dictators out ' Argentina, Brazil, Chile

JUNE, 1939 17 BlVOl Dead

William Nelson Morell

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and daring few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.

verse lives in the memory of THISevery schoolboy who has listened with rapt attention to the orators who held the stage on the occasion of reunions of the Grand Army of the Republic or the United Confederate Veterans. It is equally well known in Minnesota and Mississippi. The sons of the Blue and the Gray have been familiar with its rich intonations. The veterans of the War with Spain claimed it as their own on memorial days, and Colonel Theodore O'Hara even today it is often a part of the peroration in an Armistice Day speech. recitation of these immortal lines occurred beyond the town up the high cliffs of the It is as much a part of our military folk- at the memorial service at the Frankfort Kentucky River to the cemetery. He lore as "In Flanders Fields" or "Roses of cemetery as the soil of the State of Ken- rested himself on the plot of ground Picardy." lucky reverently gathered her gallant which had been selected for the reinter- Many will be surprised to know that sons into her martial bosom, and the echo ment of the veterans of the Battle of there is more than one verse to this poem of these poignant lines marched with Buena Vista, and in the half twilight of a and that the subject of the poem was them to the soldier's Valhalla. It was a somber moon he composed his immortal neither the war of i86i-'65 nor that of noble tribute and a fitting epitaph. poem. 1898, but the Mexican War. While the It is a tradition that the poem took None other than a soldier could have poem is famous the general public is not nebulous form as O'Hara met with some found the words or caught the cadence acquainted with the name of Colonel of his comrades, survivors of the war, in a which immortal*zes this poem; only the

Theodore O'Hara, who composed it. tavern the night before the ceremonies memory, the experiences and the ileeting

The occasion which inspired the elegy incident to the reinterment. The reunion exaltations of a soldier could have done it. was the reinterment at the cemetery in with these comrades, the conviviality and Official records of the War Depart- Frankfort, Kentucky, of his comrades good fellowship stirred him deeply, and ment show that O'Hara was appointed a who fell in the Battle of Buena Vista, the recollections and memory of these captain of Volunteers on June 26, 1846. that sanguinary hand-to-hand conflict in battles brought words, stanzas and meter Based on the report of Major General the Mexican War. into form. He was unable to compose the Gideon J. Pillow, dated at Headquarters, The source of the inspiration was the poem amid the hilarity and conviviality 3d Division, Mixcoac, Mexico, August author's momentary reunion with these of the tavern, so he took leave of his com- 24, 1847, approved by General Winfield departed comrades. The first public rades and walked into the streets and Scott, a General Order bestowed upon

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Captain O'Hara the rank of major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico. O'Hara was honorably discharged from the volunteer service, October 15, 1848. He was again appointed a captain, Co. F, 2d Cavalry,

March 3, 1855, and was honorably discharged on December r, 1856. This official record of military service does not include the adventures of O'Hara on the staff of General Narciso Lopez in the first revolution to liberate Cuba from the Spanish rule in 1850. O'Hara and other kindred spirits clandestinely organized a Kentucky regiment in this revolu- tionary enterprise. This group of daring and gallant youths included names which are a part of Kentucky's tradition of arms—Crittenden, Pickett, Hawkins, Lo- gan, Ellis, Breckenridge and Stanford. Colonel O'Hara was by now a seasoned veteran of the Mexican War.

On May 15, 1850, the Kentucky unit of two hundred "insurrectos," com- manded by Colonel O'Hara, and two other units of equal numbers, including contingents from Louisiana and New York, as well as Cuban, Hungarian and Polish revolutionists, concentrated off the Island of Magerers, near Yucatan. They embarked on the steamer Creole and started for Cuba. Four days later, early in the morning, the Creole glided quietly into the Port of Cardenas and successfully landed the troops, but they were immediately discovered by the Spanish soldiers in the Custom House facing the harbor. General Lopez drew up his troops in military formation and the Spanish troops were quickly arranged in battle Sons of the Legion of Walter M. Gearty Squadron of Phila- order. General Lopez gave Colonel delphia reverently pay tribute to the hero dead of three wars O'Hara the order to fire, and immediately the order was carried out. Both sides fired simultaneously, and when the ing the Spanish troops time to recover, war steamer Pizarro. Thus ended the smoke cleared away about one hundred Colonel O'Hara and his Kentuckians ad- first episode of the Cuban campaigns. Spanish soldiers and twelve revolution- vanced toward the Custom House. They Later expeditions were equally disas- ists were dead or disabled. Without giv- were met with a renewed and terrific fire, trous. Colonel William Logan Crittenden, and O'Hara fell, badly wounded. Major who served with O'Hara in the Mexican Hawkins took command of the Kentucky War, was on the staff of General Lopez in troops. The Spanish soldiers were then the second expedition, and after a gallant subjected to a heavy fire and soon sought fight was captured and faced the Spanish a truce with General Lopez. They sur- firing squad. Told to kneel with his back rendered without further resistance. to the firing squad, according to custom, Lopez and his soldiers marched in tri- Crittenden and his compatriot, Captain umph to the public square, unfurled for Victor Kerr, refused. the first time the free flag of Cuba, "No!" exclaimed Crittenden. "An announced that the Spanish rule was at American kneels only to his God and alan end and took possession of the town ways faces his enemy." in the name of the revolutionists. O'Hara did not settle down after this General Lopez soon found'that the pub- experience. He was appointed a captain lic would not give this small force support. of cavalry in the Regular Army, but find- A part of the troops were returned to ing it too quiet, resigned. Peacetime ser- the steamer destined for another sector, vice did not appeal to him. When Walker but in leaving the harbor the steamer organized a filibustering expedition into struck a reef. In order to lighten the cargo South America, O'Hara joined up. He many of the munitions of war had to be successively practised law, served on a dropped overboard. This disaster and the diplomatic mission, and edited news- lack of popular support, as well as the papers, including the Mobile Register, information of the advance of large bodies Frankfort Yeoman and Louisville Times. of Spanish troops, resulted in an order by He was a hard-hitting journalist and was General Lopez to embark for Key West. often at the center of political contro- The poet's grave in the ceme- They reached Key West in safety, al- versies. tery at Frankfort, Kentucky though closely pursued by the Spanish When the dark {Continued on page 38)

JUNE, 1939 19 IT'S RADIO OVER

ganda to the totalitarians and vice listeners, particularly in certain countries,

versa. But it never yet hurt anybody to are hungry for it. Fa I R.FAX hear both sides of a question. The Columbia Broadcasting System's Down ey The International Division of N.B.C. short-wave stations, W2XE and W^XAU, was established in June, 1937. The job it broadcast eighty-three hours weekly to is doing has commercial aspects— it en- Europe and eighty-six to Latin America, EYES are fixed on the second hands deavors in part to promote the foreign the latter in Spanish and Portuguese. of synchronized watches. The trade of the United States, including the While its European programs are in

whole front is silent, for the sale of radio sets. Over and above that,

attack is to be launched without its broadcasts can fairly be called an in- * artillery preparation. Instead of familiar strument of good will between nations, * h whistle blasts, chimes sound. Speaking in an honest medium of understanding, of English or in French, German, Italian, education and entertainment. It is Spanish or Portuguese, a voice calls, "Up and at 'em! Let's go!" or words to that effect. The Division moves forward to the assault.

Such is an American drive, iqjq model. Its assaulting battalions advance in the short waves of radio and they cover a might}' front which includes Europe, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Greenland, South America clear to its iip, Asia, Alaska, Madagascar, and the islands of the South Pacific. Its ammuni-

tion is news, other information, and music. Considerable gains are being made by the attacking troops, the International Division of the National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting Company's two short-wave stations. The N.B.C. International Division includes a number of veterans of the A. E. F., e ,n, still in there fighting. —_____ "-tbe c. «>, 5 „ Twenty-one years ago we did it with 7 / °" r airplanes dropping leaflets which at- tempted to convince Jerry of the error of his ways. Or where the lines were close,

( ierman-speaking Americans shouted invitations to cut out the shooting and come on over where treatment was gocd and chow plentiful. Probably the most welcome sound from the German trenches was the singing of "Hoi)' Night, Silent Night" on Christmas Eve, 1017. Some- thing of the sort today would make a nice change from a Hitler speech. looked upon with favor in Washington,

Other times, other ways. American for it is performing a valuable and a short-wave broadcasts are a peaceful patriotic service. penetration. They are in the nature of an The N.B.C. short - wave stations

offensive operation only in that 1 hex- W3XL and W3XAL, are daily in heavy accomplish the infiltration of news and action. Recently new antennae for South American ideals and ideas into countries America have been added, greatly in- English, translations into German, Italian where rigid censorship docs its utmost creasing effective range. An average of and French are to be added soon. to shut them out. Also they are counter- more than 1,000 programs a month is The trouble that began with the battery fire laid down in lands where the carried: news, travel, produce, science Tower of Babel has been smoothed out. nazi broadcasts are hot and heavy. As for and industry, literature, national affairs, Considering the array of tongues already the subject matter wafted over the air, personalities, hobbies, women's interests, mentioned as used in the broadcasts, few

its description depends on how it is re- sports, music of all types. News is the fans can complain, "They don't speak

garded. What is viewpoint to us is propa- backbone; it has been determined that our language." They do—and like a

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — %S¥ Wins ! CENSORSHIP BY A KNOCKOUT

native. Everybody in the N.B.C. some talebearer overhears, then comes International Division, even the trouble, concentration camp, and so on. office boys, speaks at least two Yet a man's home is still to some extent

languages. The eighteen men and his castle, at least so far as his radio is women who are the outstanding concerned, and independent, courageous linguists have spent a total of 325 and intelligent Germans a

of eighteen years each. They have The proof of it is in letters received by visited 100 countries and lived the American stations. Some come direct five years or more in eleven of from Germany; others bear the stamps them. They know foreign idioms, of neighboring countries. Some are anony- customs, habits, likes and dislikes. mous, others signed. By no means are all Yet they are predominantly Ameri- of them cautiously phrased. Wrote a can—eleven of them were born Vienna correspondent to N.B.C.: "In here, three are naturalized citizens; contrast to other stations, your news

there is one Swiss, one Chilean, service is objective to our needs, though one Argentinian and one Brazilian, too short, as we are starved for truth.

each with an average residence of For reasons which are obvious to you, I ten years in the United States. cannot express myself any further." A The success of American short- bold spirit in Munich declared: "As I was wave broadcasts depends, of course, obliged to go to the meeting, Friday, upon the presence of short-wave November n, 1938, against the Jews, I receiving sets. Of the nine million could not listen, but a friend of mine or so receiving sets in Germany, heard your call and advised me." more than 50 percent are short There is equally reliable evidence that wave, and that is a big target. Nor American broadcasts are reaching Italy can the remaining sets be counted and Italian possessions and that they are out altogether. Many of them are being welcomed for their lifting of the the cheap models, sold by the Reich dense fog of censorship. But in two other at the bargain price of thirty-five lands where dictatorships hold sway, de- marks, so that one and all may fenses against short-wave news from hearken to the words of Der democracies are nearly perfect. Japan Fuhrer, and as they stand they are prohibits ownership of short-wave receiv- not capable of short-wave recep- ing sets except by special permit, which

tion. However, ingenious Germans is granted to only a few, mainly diplo- have been monkeying with them mats. Private sets are scanty in Russia; after the manner of radio fans those owned by workers' clubs and the everywhere. By adding a coil or like are for the most part clamped solely some such gadget, they have on Moscow. stepped those sets up to a point Now, as in iqi7-'i8, our bombard- where they can tune in on short- ments can be expected to draw reprisals. wave bands. Yet the nazis' short-wave batteries to So they can listen—lots of them. date have done little shooting back. A But do they dare? typical broadcast directed at the U. S. German law, so far, says it's no will be mostly in German and consist of crime to listen to foreign broad- news and music, with a few messages

casts. Legal or not, it might be the specifically addressed to German-Ameri- part of discretion to keep the am- cans who have written in. Still there were plification down or use earphones in April signs of skulduggery in the Ger- and be sure no stormtrooper peeked man comment distorting President Roose- in and saw where the dial was set. velt's speeches. But in such duels we are However, if the broadcast has con- by no means as vulnerable as the vater- tained anything derogatory to the land. Germany has a greater percentage nazi regime, the listener repeats it of short-wave receiving sets than any at his peril. If, aghast and agog, he other country. We have comparatively rushes from his radio, meets a few and we are accustomed to listening friend and demands, "Himmel! to regular American high-frequency pro- Have you, what the radio about grams. Herr Goebbels has said, heard?" In late April, shortly before Hitler's if he is rash enough to do that and speech to the (Continued on page 57)

JUNE, '959 21 canwti

BOXING you come up the hard ancestors didn't do it. It seems to me INway or you don't come up at all. I've heard an old saying that puts it ^By There is no such thing as riding the perfectly, "What's bred in the bone will plush into a world's championship out in the flesh." Your true champion Arthur in any class from flyweight to heavy- has got to have, in addition to that will weight. That's my observation in forty to battle, an experience of privation. By Donovan years' experience as spectator, fighter that I don't mean he has to ride the rods and boxing referee, and I think the record of a freight train or fight in dingy hide- will bear me out that no top-notcher in aways for the price of a meal. I mean duty to God and man that can't be this game of dish-it-out-and-take-it ever simply that he must have been brought laughed off—whether you live in free came from a home of wealth. If he did he up on the idea that you can't get some- America or in one of the countries where had a father far wiser than most of thing for nothing out of this life— that in their foolish presumption they think us poor mortals. when you get a dime or a dollar you earn they've outlawed the Supreme Being.

Within the ropes you're absolutely on it. Build up the boy's morals and courage your own, and the other fighter has just An "allowance" doesn't go with the at the same time. Then if he doesn't one thing in mind— to flatten you. The making of a champion. If you want your make the grade in boxing you'll at least referee is there only to see that no foul boy to scale the heights in the fight game, have a real man. And you'll have your blows are struck or other unfair practice make him learn that. And get into his alibi so far as the fight game goes. It will put across, and his protection begins skull the Ten Commandments—just as be his mother's family that's to blame. only when one of the fighters is so badly soon as he knows his left from his right. I love boxing because it does build off that in the interest of safety the bout A good many boys who would have made courage—and poise and self assurance must be called off. You hear some fighters pugilistic history wound up behind the and a good carriage. You can't be a called killers, but organized boxing eight ball because, when somebody slouch and make the grade inside those couldn't stand death in the ring, any more pointed out an easy way to get what ropes. I was trading punches with gloves than football was able to stand it in the wasn't theirs, they forgot Thou Shalt on my hands as soon as I could walk, be- old five-yards days. Not Steal. cause my father, a veteran of the Union With fundamental ability in boxing, a Push that kid out among the neighbor- Army in the Civil War, was so thoroughly boy has to have the old cave-man will to hood boys and make him stand on his sold on the Manly Art that he became a battle. You can't put that into a lad if his own feet physically, but don't forget the professional fighter a year after Appo-

cj The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Unique ending of an unusual lightweight championship fight, with Referee Donovan pulling back into the ring Mike Belloise, loser, leaving the winner, Joey Archibald, to get back himself. On opposite page, Joe Louis waved to a neutral corner by Donovan after his K. O. of Max Schmeling in the first round of their second fight

mattox. From that time until 1SS0 he was considered the world's foremost middleweight bare knuckle fighter, under the old London Prize Ring rules. In 1880 the New York Athletic Club made him its boxing instructor, and from that year

until 1 914, when he was retired on a pension, he taught hundreds of business men how to box. One of them became Presi- dent of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt had a warm spot in his heart for old Mike Donovan.

In 191 7 my father came out of retire- ment to recruit men for the National Guard, promising a good many of them in return that he'd give them instruction in boxing. He was seventy-four years old at the time, but that didn't stop him from putting on the gloves, and one night when he was battling in an armory exhibition he caught pneumonia. He died, I like to think, in line of duty the same as those of my comrades of the Twenty-Seventh Division who lie beneath crosses in France and Belgium. I was a professional fighter from 1910 to 1916, when I joined the National

Guard for service at the Border. I had been made assistant boxing instructor

at the New York Athletic Club in 191 5. Take It? After the war I went back to my father's old club as instructor. I've been a boxing referee since 1925 and have been lucky enough to handle seven heavyweight championship fights in those fourteen years and many championship battles of lighter weights. Youngsters that I meet never think of me as a boxer, unless they happen to belong to N. Y. A. C. families. So some of them ask me how they can become referees. You know that there are kids that would like to become major league umpires, while most youngsters are interested in becoming a second Babe Ruth or another Carl Hubbell. So they ask me how to become the third man in the ring.

The answer to that is easy. The way

to do it is to become a boxer. The referee has to be familiar with the science of boxing, has got to be able to anticipate the fighters' moves, to see everything

that is going on between them. And by the way, when your loud speaker is carrying to you the action of a fight, the com- mentator hasn't got a chance of recording all the blows that are struck. Not only is boxing lightning fast—the men in the Tony Galento, who will face Joe Louis in ring are constantly moving about and June, scores a knockdown over Nathan Mann hitting as they go (Continued on page 44)

JUNE, 1939 22, BY Frederick Cajun C. Pai nton Country A comfortable suite "you'd better put on your INof officeson St. Charles coat and hat." Street, in the heart of They whetted my curi- romantic, colorful osity, particularly about New Orleans, your roving the inspection service, and correspondent had the mis- the correspondence school fortune to engage in a for Service Officers; be- bang-up argument with cause the chief idea of an two tough-minded Louisi- inquiring reporter going anians named Louis D. into Louisiana, or any McCormick and Roland other Department, is to Cocreham. This McCor- get original, distinctive mick gent is the Depart- ideas of Legion service and ment Commander of the pass them on to other De- Louisiana American Le- partments in these articles.

gion; and he is big and If, also, I could get richer brawny, white-haired and local color than Jean La- genial—but he has a jaw fitte and his pirate gang, like a battleship prow. The then this would be a Cocreham who is Depart- memorable trip. I surren-

ment Adjutant is also big, dered. And it was a mem- also charming, and as set orable trip; and if in in his ways as any man what follows I seem to mix with such a Scotch-Irish history and Legion narra- name can be. I was behind tive in scrambled fashion,

the eight ball at once. it is because the episodes The argument was this: happened in about that Should I be permitted to order. remain quietly in New Or- Anyway, as we sped leans and get a story on the west I inquired further top-flight Louisiana De- about this post inspection partment, or should I per- service. Roland handed me mit them to traipse me an inspection chart that three hundred miles around was a foot and a half long Cajun country on what they and filled with fine type. •called an inspection trip? You can get some idea of Now, on my side were a the number of items when lot of sizeable facts: In I tell you that a perfect New Orleans at the Ca- Post could score 1,250 bildo you can get rich, points with an average of St. interesting information The hundreds-of -years-old Evangeline Oak at 25 points per item. And in about Jean Lafitte and his Martin ville, Louisiana, with a modern Evangeline yet, divided into such pirate gang—grist for the the costume of Longfellow's heroine groups as post organiza- mill of any writing gent. In tion, membership, Ameri- this very St. Charles Street office I could "Besides," concluded Louis with fi- canism, community service, miscella- get illuminating data about Louisiana's nality, "how are you going to interview neous, it covered every activity that a remarkable membership record, some me, Roland and Linden Dalferes, our Post could engage in from proper opening unusual slants on her service work, and Service Officer, if we're gone on this trip?" and closing of meetings to an official finally look into the facts behind the "Also," said Roland, "we've got Le- post visit to a Veterans Facility. Bluntly amazingly large number of school awards gionnaires, and active ones, who can tell I demanded to know what results were the Department has distributed. you more real history than you can dig obtained. Against this the McCormick and the up in the Cabildo. Old Doc Ballowe can "Excellent," said Roland Cocreham. Cocreham put their size, their vocal make your hair curl—what you got left "It keeps the Posts on their toes. They accomplishments, and finally the state- of it—and Judge Simon will tell you want a good inspection report just the ment that, as far as they knew, Louis- facts that ought to be in an encyclo- same as a military company would. You iana was the only Department to inspect pedia." wait and see." Posts and their records and rate them "If you want to hear about my cor- Now, as it happened, I got a glimpse of accordingly, and if I was going to write respondence school for Service Officers," this inspection service at a town called about Louisiana I certainly ought to said Monsieur Dalferes, who up to this Bogalusa. Here was a typical example of write about the post inspection service. time had had no part in the argument, a Post suddenly electrified and put to

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine On active service to all Louisiana, Department Commander Louis D. McCormick, Service Officer Linden Dalferes and Department Adjutant Roland Cocreham hustling by new, energetic leadership receptive audience and he will re- (somebody ought to write a story late some of the Cajun lore he's about the leadership qualities sud- picked up after thirty-five years of denly uncovered in a veteran elected physicking them. to office in his Post.) They had, He told me about the voodoo rites these officers, a dozen things on the among southern Louisiana Negroes, fire, a good post treasury, and were rites which are probably closer to feeding noon-day lunches to some Haitian voodooism than anything four hundred school children. But else in the world. they were opening and closing the "They have a healer, a remedy- post meeting without the ritual. maker," he said, his eyes suddenly Both Louis McCormick and Roland sparkling, his body vibrating with went to bat about that, and I heard the excitement of the true story- plenty about the dignity and beauty teller, "and the rcmedc-maker can and impressiveness of the ritual. But stop the flow of blood. I have seen we left there with the Post Com- it. At a ball game, one afternoon, a mander's promise to begin using it boy was struck across the forehead at the next meeting. by a flying bat. Blood spurted from a Now, to show you how sharply four-inch cut. I sprang from my place matters are contrasted in Louisiana to give first aid, but a rcmedc-maker just imagine a pleasant ten-mile ride was ahead of me. Swiftly he spat on under massive five oaks festooned his thumbs, pressed them firmly with the gray beards of Spanish against the cut. The blood ceased to moss, and at the end of that ride flow even as I watched. the robust, courtly Doctor Hewitt "I said to the rcmedc-maker, 'You Ballowe, known throughout most put spit on your thumbs and now of Louisiana as Ti Docteur, and one the cut will be infected.' of the greatest living authorities on "He gave me a queer, quick look. Cajun lore. Doc comes from down 'Non, non, M'sieur Ti Docteur, there Buras way, and he is a Forty-and- will be no infection.' Eighter (wearing the cap when I "Nor was there any. I sewed up met him) and a member of the Dimi- the cut and it healed perfectly. Not try C. Vdacovich Post. Give him so long ago a friend of mine, Dr. time and he'll relate how he is the Matas, had a dangerous operation to only medical officer who com- perform, and warned the parents of manded and trained troops for serv- the lad that there was peril of a ice in France at Forts Jackson and hemorrhage. The family did not St. Philip. Give him a cigar and a object, asking only that a friend be permitted to look on. This was Dignified and distinctive, the agreed to. state capitol in its beautiful "Now, this friend, mind you, was grounds at Baton Rouge domi- a substitute, a proxy, a stand-in for nates the fertile surrounding a remede-maker who could not him- countryside self be {Continued 011 page 50)

JUNE, 1939 25 STEADY ALL! A Reminder for June Fourteenth By Wallgren * E DITORIAL * ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY

THE United States again celebrates Memorial our beloved land and the sacrifice of precious American Day at peace with all Nations. This though lives was, as it now appears, a necessary first payment there exists a tension in Europe which suggests on that policy and was further necessary to an appre- the threat of another world-wide conflagration; this ciation on the part of America of its real strength. Truly

though the cauldron still seethes in China. It is with our comrades of the World War who made the supreme this age-old background of continuing fear and hatred sacrifice died that we might have life, and that we abroad that we recall formally the sacrifices of those might have it more abundantly. men who gave this nation birth, of those whose lives were sacrificed to make it one nation united and of W 7"HILE the United States and the other nations of 7-' those of our comrades of 191 1 8 who gave the last * V the Western Hemisphere could ignore the old world full measure of devotion that those of us who were and live in a self-contained economy of peace and

privileged to live might live in freedom, and hope to plenty, it is not the desire of the American people to

transmit it to posterity. do so. We want to trade with all nations upon a friend- It has become the custom since the rise of dictator ly basis. We want all peoples to enjoy the freedom, the governments abroad to say that the World War was happiness and the tolerance which have characterized

fought in vain; that the things which prompted us to America and which we believe have made it great. With our great World War endeavor may yet be lost to the a strong defense establishment, we can by the success ideals of the peoples of the Old World. This is of course of our example afford to other peoples the opportunity

a counsel of despair which arises from contemplation to admire the advantages of the American way. Ours is of the successive shocks administered to the lesser a great nation. It has a dignity to maintain. As we see European states by the totalitarian chancellors as their the nations of the old world again threaten the world's answer to the suggestions of "appeasement" and re- peace, we have a right in a friendly spirit toward all quested declarations of "non-aggression." Democratic nations, to call their attention to the advantages of the nations are traditionally loath to fight and the dictator way of reason rather than to encourage, by silence, the leaders, upon whose will there is no check, who decide way to war. their countries' borders, have taken full advantage of As we go that far to keep faith with those who died, the "no more war" revulsion which every European who it need not be implied that we are going farther, for the lived through the last war feels so strongly. The dic- struggle of the conflicting ideas, the fight of the boun- tator, relying upon the existence of that feeling in those dary lines of the Old World, the racial hates and the

nations where it can be expressed freely, has blithely successive waves of intolerance which there exist have taken his pitcher and gone to the well on several occa- been a fertile breeder of war for more than three sions, gambling that each time the trip could be made thousand years. It was to avoid them that our fathers without a smash-up. were prompted to their movement to, and occupation of, the American continents. It was to preserve the free- THROUGHOUT the years that this process has been doms here established that we entered the service in 7- going on, Americans, a homogeneous people, yet a 191 '18, and it was for that primary purpose that our people composed of every racial strain and with every comrades died.

religious concept, have continued to be a democratic Who can say while America lives, while its people people with a representative form of government, en- enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, petition joying domestic peace and at peace with all other and freedom of conscience, that either our effort or the nations of the world. When we contemplate this, we death of our comrades was in vain? know that our comrades did not die in vain. Their Today we are strong. We can survive the shock of

sacrifice made a deep and lasting impression upon the war in the Old World and we can keep out of it, but we whole American people, who resolved that never again want peace not only for ourselves, but for all nations. would the United States fight except for strictly Ameri- We are convinced that war settles nothing. The wran- can interests and principles. They have further resolved gling of a conference table is preferable by far to the that this nation must always be ready for war, if it killing of even one human being. And any move from would stay out of war and preserve its values for the whatever quarter seeking to substitute reason and nego- American people. tiation for a trial at arms will ever be given the heart- The American Legion has taken a leading part in the felt cooperation of the American nation and its people. job of directing American thought, of providing for this Those men who persuade the statesmen of various coun- country a realistic defense, built in the spirit and minds tries to accept such procedure will assure for themselves of free men and supported by adequate materiel. These a place in history. And the people of all lands and even defenses are an insurance policy of continued peace for to remote generations will rise up and call them blessed.

JUNE, 1939 By Thomas J.Malone

Kenneth F.Camp

HAPPILY, a good percentage of all veterans admitted for treatment to Veterans Administra- tion hospitals or given domi- ciliary care recover wholly or in part. They return to their homes and, fully or to a lesser extent, to normal pursuits. Some remain under treatment indefi- nitely. Some die in hospital. For every sixteen persons who were patients at any time in the last fiscal year there was a death, in hospital, within the year. Consideration of the Federal Govern- for contract burials, applications for comment for the veteran—soldier, sailor, pensation and other benefits. She makes marine—who dies in any of its hospitals herself generally useful to bereaved folk continues to the grave, for it offers pro- in need of sympathetic help and direc- vision for his burial. While the general tion, becomes the one on whom they can "When a beneficiary dies in this terms are the same everywhere, the lean. In her small office, shut away from Facility, the ward surgeon or the officer method of carrying them out may differ strange faces and the confusion of many of the day at once notifies the nearest in different institutions. people, a widow, mother, sister can have relative personally or by telegram, asking

In the Veterans Administration Fa- a little cry and be the better for it. for instructions. My duties begin, or- cility in our town, a woman member of In a contract funeral, with which this dinarily, when the death takes place in the staff—informed, experienced, re- manager of burials is chiefly engaged, regular office hours and there is an en- sourceful, sympathetic— fills the singular she oversees every detail of arrange- titled relative or friend present. If the role of a major-domo of burial arrangements. When interment is made here, death takes place at night or on a Sunday ments. In the field peculiarly hers, she and there are no kin or friends present, or holiday, there is other provision for acts as go-between for entitled relatives she attends the services and goes to the urgent service—as when the relative is or friends, when present at a veteran's grave as chief mourner, representing the leaving the city at once—but many such death, in (heir relations with the Facil- manager of the Facility. From all this cases are referred to me the next day. ity. It is part of her duty to assist and you will gather that the Facility in our In office hours I usually learn of a death instruct as to eligibility to benefits under town puts "heart" into its last farewell within a few minutes. the statutes. to the veteran. It does so by having one "In what I do thereafter I have a num- In her are coordinated, centralized, employe devote her whole interest to the ber of 'bosses,' for I act as agent for the the services of various divisions within assignment. supply, adjudication, contact and medi- the Facility having to do with burial Let her explain her duties and the cal divisions. Instead of requiring a rela- allowance, transportation, arrangements procedure in a typical contract burial: tive to go around to those divisions, as

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine government expense in a local cemetery or in the nearest national cemetery.

"If a contract burial is chosen, one to be conducted by a local undertaker who She can have a little cry has a contract with the (iovernment, without a lot of people *9 then my work really begins. If the non- it knowing all about contract burial is preferred, in which the relative deals with a private undertaker, was necessary before the centralized ser- I can't help much but I can do something. vice was set up some few years ago, locally, the entitlement of transportation The contract burial may be a local one, she comes to my office. Or a ward surgeon of the body. It comes as a surprise to or one outside the city and so calling may telephone me that there is a woman many to be told that the Government for shipment. My full service is with the up in his ward crying and at sea; and then will provide an amount—not to exceed local contract burial. Here it is: I go up and get her. I don't stand on Sioo—toward burial expenses of any "The Facility lets a contract each year, ceremony; I try to be helpful. veteran who dies while a patient in a on bids, to an undertaker at a flat sum "I explain to her, first of all, the pro- government hospital and, in addition, for all contract burials from the institu- visions of the government contract will pay transportation cost to his place tion in a twelve-month period. The cost burial and, if burial is not to be made of residence. Burial can be made at may not exceed {Continued on page 42)

JUNE, 1959 29 WATCHTOWERS Citizens of Portland, Oregon, jam- PREPARATION of our young people^ for the duties and obliga- packed the great Auditorium tions of citizenship under our when on Washington's birthday

democratic form of government is the Americanization Council held the first and paramount concern of our its eighteenth annual reception to educational system, beginning with the honor newly naturalized citizens. kindergarten and continuing on through Below, certificate which is given the grades to the colleges and universities. by the Schenectady County Coun- The theory of educating for citizenship cil to new citizens who attend the has nothing of novelty about it; it is a welcome meeting held annually at theory as old as our somewhat compli- Schenectady, New York—a splen- cated system of public education. But in served in iQ2 1 and which, in conjunction did idea for adoption by other recent years more and more stress has with and cooperation with the National Legion Posts. On opposite page, been put upon the privileges and advan- Education Association and the United naturalization ceremony in the tages of our way of life and government States Office of Education has been con- Cumberland County, New Jersey, because of the addled state of world tinued each year. During that week par- court when graduates of the Le- affairs, and peoples increasingly confused ents, teachers and pupils unite in the gion school got their final papers by the false lure of the more glamorous consideration of and dynamic authoritarian and totali- the fundamental tarian ideologies. problems of the

Educating for citizenship is also a vital schools asa build- concern of The American Legion, con- er of citizenship tinuing a program in a practical way. Certificate of Attendance that was inaugur- The 1Q30 obser- ated before the new- vance of Ameri- ly-fledged organiza- can Education 3tl)i6 is to ccrtitp that,

as g newly naturalized citizen of the United Stales of America, rrifitifrrl tion had shed its Week will be No- $6, Annual Program, March 9th, 1939, held at the Nott Terrace High swaddling clothes vember 5th to School, Schenectady welcoming t N. Y., the new dti^ens of Schenectady County, and which has been nth, and it is naturalized during the period of March /. 1938, to March 1, 1939. As an active participant in Iras momentous occasion, you have proved carried on unremit- significant that that you value the rights and privileges bestowed upon you, and are uiHins; to

tingly down through the theme se- share the responsibilities and obligations of American democracy. the years. One of the lected for

day ol Itaieh. outstanding mile- thoughtful dis- y„ i*.*-.. JBttt)»rt Mi 1339

stones in this pro- cussion is "Edu- gram was the estab- cation for the lishment of National American Wav of Education Week, Life." which was first ob- The Legion is

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine concerned not only with the youth, but tioning at Schenectady, New York, which has gone further into the field of adult since 1020 has been under the direction of education, with especial attention to the the Schenectady County Committee of schooling and preparation of aliens who the Legion. "It is considered the duty of have signified their intention to become the Americanism Chairman of the naturalized citizens. These Legion schools, County Committee," writes Chairman dotted here and there like watchtowers Raymond C. Willey, "to initiate this pro- throughout the entire country, have gram each year. The 1030 welcome meet- carried on a most important work during ing had a capacity audience of five hun- an almost full score of years and thou- dred, with approximately one hundred sands of their graduates are today enjoy- and fifty new citizens present, or sixty ing the rights of full citizenship. Many of percent of the total naturalized. A cer- the schools have been carried on singly as tificate of attendance at the welcome the special project of a Post and Unit, meeting was given this year for the first

others have joined with other organiza- time, and it proved an added incentive tions and with schools, but in every case honor 1,247 newly-made citizens, the to attendance. the motivating purpose has been the largest number ever naturalized in Oregon "The committee personnel was di- same—to educate for citizenship and the in any year. These men and women who vided," he continues, "about equally American way of life. assumed full citizenship during 1038 between Legionnaires and members of In contrast to the widely heralded and came from thirty-five countries. other civic groups. The teamwork was of much publicized un-American and anti- The great meeting was held under the the highest order, indicating that The American meetings held in various parts sponsorship of the Portland Americani- American Legion in Schenectady can of the country by groups alien in thought zation Council and was the eighteenth lead the work with other civic-minded and purpose to democracy, and who pay annual reception to new citizens held by groups in the most complete harmony." allegiance—at least in a noisy lip-service that organization. The Council is com- In Boston, Massachusetts, the men and — to theories of government abhorrent to posed of a number of member organiza- women with the foreign accent are no every person who believes in the rights of tions, including every Legion Post and longer to stand without an audience as /AMERICANISM

the individual, attention has been more Auxiliary Unit in the area. Its President they swear to uphold the Constitution of sharply focused on American meetings is Myer C. Rubin, Finance Officer of their new fatherland. Hereafter, as the held in honor of newly naturalized citi- Willamette Heights Post, and the Chair- ceremony ends, there will not be a mel- zens, hundreds of them graduates of man of the reception meeting was General ancholy anticlimax as the new citizens Legion schools. Creed C. Hammond, of Portland Post. turn away to take their steps out of the Portland, Oregon, furnished a striking The Americanization Council work is a court room. Thanks to The American example when on Washington's birthday recognized part of the Legion activity in Legion Auxiliary, there will be more the great City Auditorium was jam- the Portland area. spirit and feeling to the Federal District packed by Oregonians who turned out to A similar organization has been func- Court mill through which the immigrant

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bands move to become American citizens and inheritors of the land of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The Department organization of the Auxiliary believed that the bestowal of citizenship should be made a more dignified occasion, and with the cooperation of Immigration Commissioner Mary Ward arrangements were made to hold a reception for the two hundred and eighty persons who made up the April naturalization class. Department President Susan T. Esler, assisted by Miss Adelaide L. Fitzgerald, Department Secretary, and Miss Grace Murphy, Chairman of the Americanization Committee, directed the first welcome and reception. On the lapel of each new citizen was pinned a little American tlag with a gold ribbon which bore the inscription: "Citizenship Day Welcome, new citizen. Sponsored by The American Legion Auxiliary of Massa- chusetts." Then, there comes a report of a long- continued highly successful naturali- and Community service plus! Members of F. D. and I. S. Clair Post, zation school and reception activity car- Philadelphia, Pa., present two iron lungs to hospitals in their area. ried on by Theodore Roosevelt Post of Now the plan is to provide a respirator for every Philadelphia hospital Yineland, New Jersey, so outstanding that it has received the official commen- dation of both the Court and the Nat- uralization Bureau. Post Commander Roy Heritage writes: "In 1926 Post Commander Robert Mennies appointed a committee to conduct an Americaniza- tion school for aliens in our community. From this endeavor, a naturalization school was organized which has been conducted twice each year, just before the It spring and fall terms of the Cumberland i County Common Pleas Court. The school is held one night each week for a period of ten weeks just before the naturalization court sessions, which usually fall on the third M uiida \ in April and November of each year. "In ten years of operation of this

Above, an oxygen tent also prepares the formal purchased for commu- application and follows nity use by the members through to a successful con- of Lee Graham-How- clusion*. So highly is our land Post, Howland, Post and its school esteemed Maine. At left, another by the court that at each presentation — Harvey naturalization session an out- Seeds Post, Miami, Flor- standing Legion speaker ad- ida, joins the ranks of dresses the successful candi- iron lungers in this pres- dates and presents them entation ceremony with their naturalization papers. Present also at the ceremony are Post members with their colors as shown in the accompanying picture." Just to show that the Atlantic and Pacific seaboard De- partments do not have a monopoly on this very splendid Americanization activity, the Step Keeper calls your attention to some of the inland activities. One of the first is the citizenship school which was put in operation nearly four years ago by Silver Bow Post at Butte, Montana, and in which approximately four hundred students have com- school by Theodore Roosevelt Post considerably more than four pleted the courses leading to the final step in becoming hundred candidates have received their naturalization papers and American citizens. Now, Butte has something of a problem, become good citizens. The work has for the past five years been but a no greater one than that facing any similar school in under the direction of Past Commander Prank Franceschi, John any great industrial area. As a mining center, Butte attracts Lowe, Harry Hoyte and Frank Marino, and this committee and the a large number of foreign-born workers, many of whom were school staff not only instructs the candidates in the class work, but handicapped by lack of education. Sensing a need to give

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 32 Rochester (New Hampshire) Post cele- portant. That is the hospital assistance brates Legion's birth- program. day by burning the Dozens of hospitals throughout the been equipped with mortgage on its fine country have the club home very latest type of life saving appliances, iron lungs, oxygen tents, and other equipment, each piece having the potentialities important in its field and of saving many lives. The Step Keeper is doing a remarkably fine has noted the presentation of an oxygen job, is that at Aberdeen, South Dakota, which was tent to the Community Hospital at Wray, Colorado, by Johnny Hines Post as its organized on July 6, 1938, conducted as a cooperative outstanding community service for 1939. This Post has forty-four members, and the effort by Calvin J. Aisen- brey under the sponsorship necessary financial outlay for the equip- of effort. of Sidney L. Smith Post, ment represents something an The tent will be available to the public its Auxiliary Unit and the Women's Relief Corps, with without charge. the endorsement of Cir- Then there is Lee Graham-Howland Post, of Howland, Maine, which has pur- cuit Judge Van Buren chased an tent for Perry. This school has oxygen community use forty-one students en- rolled, representing nine foreign countries, all ap- real assistance to these new residents. plicants for citizenship, and ranging in Silver Bow Post organized the citizenship ages from twenty-one to eighty. As a school to provide a means of imparting footnote to democracy, among them is a to them basic American truths, and train- man whose sons fought for Germany in ing in reading and writing. the World War. Upon completion of the course, students are given certificates of graduation. Legion Life Savers In addition to class work which is given by competent instructors, another group IT IS just as worthy to save a life by of more advanced students receives les- means of a mechanical appliance as it sons by the correspondence school is to snatch a person from the path of a and placed it in the charge of Dr. Hugh method. The complete follow-through of speeding car, but it is not as heroic and G. McKay, Post Service Officer. It will the Legion effort is indicated by the fact sensational. It does not make the head- service the public in several towns, free that a social club open to graduates has lines. Therefore one phase of the true com- of all charges, where no hospital facilities been organized. Regularly scheduled munity service of Legion Posts and affili- are available. This Post furnishes a con- meetings of the club provide occasions ated bodies goes on week after week with- crete example of what may be accom- for programs that include dances, music out much notice from the general public plished by a small group committed and singing. —and to individuals only in time of whole-heartedly to unselfish service to its A newer school, but one that is no less need; then it becomes tremendously im- community. {Continued on pa^c 55)

A birthday party held in a theater two hundred and fifty feet underground was the unusual privilege of Eveleth (Minnesota) Post. Any one know of a submarine or airplane meet?

JUNE, 1939 33 QJU Fl RST First Call

^HE Secretary of War is hereby When the First Officers Training I authorized to maintain, upon Camp opened at Plattsburg Bar- I military reservations or else- racks, New York, May 15, 1917, -*~ where, camps for the military Bugler Stephen J. Plowkio, right, instruction and training of such citizens blew the very first Reveille. At as may be selected for such instruction top, students of the camp learn and training, upon their application and the fine art of trench construc- under such terms of enlistment and reg- tion. Below, a few of the men of ulations as may be prescribed by the Troop I, 2d Cavalry, Plowkio's

Secretary of War; to use . . . such arms, outfit, on a hike ammunition, accoutrements, equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as he may deem necessary; to furnish . . . uniforms, subsistence, transportation and medical supplies ... to fix the periods during which such camps shall be maintained; and to employ thereat officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army in such numbers and upon such duties as he may designate." That excerpt from a Federal law might at the outset sound like authoriza- tion for the opening of the training camps for officers which followed closely

the declaration of war on April 6, 191 7. It is, however, quoted from Section 54 of the National Defense Act of June 3, iqi6, which provided for the military training of civilians almost a year before we entered the war. It was a preparedness movement that developed from (he students' military training camps held in 1013 and TQ14, and the similar camps for business men conducted during the The AMERICAN LEGION Mr 34 —

I happened to be the bugler on guard west of Verdun with that morning, so blew the first call that the First Army, Sep- started the Camp. tember 26th, when "We also loaned our horses to the the Meuse-Argonne student officers for drill. More Regular Offensive started. outfits came into Plattsburg later, but We participated in during our stay Troop I did guard and all succeeding of- kept the post in order. We left Plattsburg fensives of the First in the fall of 191 7 for Ethan Allen, Ver- Army until the Arm- mont, our regular post and left there for istice. If anyone summer of 1015, which had been in- overseas on the Martha Washington on thinks American spired by Major General Leonard Wood March 17, 1918, arriving at Bordeaux, cavalry didn't see while Chief of Staff and, later, Com- France on April 6, 19 18—just a year action in the war, I mander of the Eastern Department of after we got into the war. can report that our the Army. Because one of the largest "Arriving without horses, we were eager regiment is author- and most successful camps of 1015 had to get mounted again. We boarded trains ized to wear battle been held at Plattsburg Barracks, New and detrained near Verdun on April streamers on its York, the aroused interest in national 15th and remained until the 30th. While lance for participa- defense became known as the Plattsburg there we got horses and were assigned as tion in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Ar- Movement. Under this provision of the divisional cavalry of the 2d Division. gonne actions, and a private of Troop D law were held the great officers' camps of Then we were sent to a remount station was awarded the D. S. C. Troop I is 1917 from which came most of our junior at Selles-sur-Cher, took care of the sta- entitled to five bars on its Victory Medal. line officers for the war. tion most of the summer, and we groomed "We served as advance cavalry for While this department sometimes feels aplenty—but it was all part of our job. the 2d Division, Third Army Corps, like shying away from "first" Third Army (Army of Occupa- claims, we offer one, in connection tion) during the progress across with the foregoing, that seems to Belgium, Luxembourg and into be fully substantiated— in fact, we Germany and were the first troops offer two, and both from the same to reach the Rhine, arriving De-

Legionnaire. He is Stephen J. cember 8, 1918, on the east bank. Plowkio of Crescent Post, Yonkers, We reached Remagen on the 9th New York, where he lives at 897 and because of disorder in the town Nepperhan Avenue and is a mem- due to some young Germans pro- ber of the city's Fire Department. testing the display of the Stars With a splendid collection of snap- and Stripes by a tavern keeper, a shots, he sent this challenge: guard detail was picked to patrol "Never having had the pleasure the town. I was a member of that of sounding off in Then and Now, detail and was on duty until 8 may I take the liberty of chirping o'clock p.m. of the 9th. One of my about my two famous 'firsts' prized souvenirs is the original just to start something. order that our captain, S. H. Sher- "I enlisted in Troop I, 2d U. S. rih, sent to the burgomeister of Cavalry, in 1915, and remained in Remagen regarding the obedience service until 1920. I claim, while a to Army regulations that had been member of that troop, to be the handed him. bugler who sounded the very first "The pictures I enclose show call for the First Officers Training some of the student officers en- Camp held in Plattsburg Barracks, gaged in trench digging at Platts- New York, for the World War. The burg, one of me and my trusty enclosed clipping from a New bugle at the same place during

York City newspaper under date 191 7, and the third is a group of of May 15, 191 7, should be proof men of my troop, including Irby, of my claim. England, Seitz and Hayden, while "The other 'first' I claim is that on a hike. I certainly would like I was the first American soldier to have letters from some of the to do a 'Watch on the Rhine,' old gang of leather-pushers." when the Third Army or, better- The clipping Comrade Plowkio known. Army of Occupation en- submitted follows: tered the American sector of the Rhineland. Awkward Squads Learn A C's "Here is how I happened to B of Soldier's Trade blow the first Reveille for the 5000 Rookie Officers Begin Training in Officers Training Camp: Troop I, Camp at Plattsburg A French cross and an American memorial Forty Sent Failed 2d Cavalry, relieved the 30th In- Men Home; slab marked the dugout in the Rouge to Meet Requirements; Course fantry at Plattsburg Barracks in Bouquet in May End in Two Months 1916. Our troop commander Woods which twenty-one Amer- was Plattsburg, ican soldiers lost their lives on May 15 —Stephen Captain A. Baer. We spent the March 7, 1918 J. Joseph Plowkio, trumpeter, Troop I, winter of 1916 at Plattsburg, alone 2d United States Cavalry, sent the taking care of the post. I was a bugler. "Our troop was then assigned as corps first call for Reveille wailing across the parade "The 0. T. Camp opened on May 15, cavalry of the Third Army Corps at ground at Plattsburg Barracks at 5:30 o'- 191 7, and as a bugler I was doing guard Fismes and on the Vesle, doing mounted clock this morning. Fifteen minutes later he and orderly work at Headquarters. The patrol work at the front from August sounded "assembly" and held the last note distinction of blowing that first call 2d to September 10th, when we were extra long, for the soldier must be out of bed, rested between me and another bugler. again in the Verdun area. Then to north- dressed and in line for roll-call by the time

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the bugle drops from the musician's li?3. marble marker which was Mo, I ainV ap\r 1+i ucov-ser u/irKouf (Xft{\ ! The old bugler's benevolence was lost on a on - placed the sunken 1 Vhreuu mine auocut -teo good many of the 5,000 apprentice soldiers dugout by the late Chap- to whom it was addressed, however, for the lain Francis P. Duffy camp had been astir ever since the sun had the purchase having been first peered over snow-jacketed Mount made possible by contri- Mansfield, across Champlain. The night had been cold and the summer-weight blankets butions from comrades too thin, and the gale from the mountains in the regiment. The brought feathery Hurries of snow. names of the heroes who Not a man was late in ranks to answer were then still lying where "Here," by which simple ceremony the train- they had fallen, are in- the world's great- ing camp for army officers— scribed in gold letters. est—became an officially accomplished fact. Above the names is: 'Ici au champ d'honneur, re- story, "Rouge Bouquet—from THE posent,' which translated, means: 'Here outs in that vicinity, that I am enclosing. the Depths," in the January issue, in on the field of honor, repose.' Some of the "After spending most of the morning which one of the survivors told of the men lived until next day, hence the, date there, I went back to Luneville, about tragic entombment of twenty-one of his March 8th, on the marker. ten miles away, found a florist and even comrades of the 165th Infantry when an "The men who fought in that ghastly with my lack of French made him under- enemy shell collapsed a dugout in the woods can readily understand the task I stand what I wanted. I obtained a wreath wood of that name on March 7, 1018, had set myself— to locate one sunken, if and a small bouquet and again went to brought poignant memories to Legion- not entirely obliterated, spot in a forest the wood, where I placed the wreath on naire Steve Ahearn. Comrade Ahearn, six miles long and four miles wide, bat- the wooden cross and the bouquet at the a member of Wilbert E. Collyer Post of tling obstructions of fallen trees and foot of the marker. The flowers seemed barbed-wire, wading through trenches, to dispel the neglected and gruesome looking into innumerable dugouts. It appearance of the place. I left the sacred seemed a hopeless search. spot, extremely contented in the thought "About three o'clock on the fifth day that I had accomplished my long-de- of my search, in an ever-present down- sired purpose, although I returned each pour of rain, my search ended, for there day for prayer until my leave was up and loomed before me a large, sombre, I was due to go back to my outfit, Evacu- wooden cross and below it, a white marble ation Hospital No. 49, in Coblenz, marker. I gazed upon that grim spec- Germany. tacle in that lonely and silent woods and "Before leaving, however, I visited I knew this was the spot. a small American cemetery in the village "I cleared away the brush, as well as of Croismare, about four miles east of branches of trees and other debris, and Luneville, where some of the men who after spending some time in prayer and had lost their lives in the Rouge Bouquet meditation, I returned to Luneville, dugout had been buried. Unfortunately where I was stopping, but I did not fail I was unable to get more films in Lune- to mark a definite trail to the outskirts of ville and so could take no pictures of the

South Ozone Park, New York, whose

home is at 6701 Forest Avenue, Ridge- wood, New York, is a brother of one of the men who lost their lives in that fatal imprisonment. With the picture of the grave marker that is shown on the pre- ceding page, this letter came from him: "I read with keen interest A. S. Hel- mer's article in the January issue, and in endeavoring to give some further data without any intention of encroaching upon Mr. Helmer's gripping story, I am enclosing some snapshot prints of the fatal though memorable dugout at Rouge Bouquet in the Forest of Parroy in which twenty-one fighting men of Com- pany E and one of Company F, 165th In- Struck in a fog by the British ship Redondo, the crew of the fantry the — old New York 69th—gave U. S. Transport Graf Waldersee take to lifeboats off Fire their lives. Island, New York, in June, 1919 "The pictures were taken in July, tqiq, by me, a brother of Private Michael Ahearn, one of the entombed soldiers. the woods so I could return without get- cemetery. The men from Rouge Bouquet I was determined, from the time I ting lost. I hoped that during the next buried in the Croismare cemetery were:

learned my brother had been killed, that day or so there would be good weather so E. J. Kelly, John LeGaU, Phillip Finn.

before coming home, should I survive the I might take some pictures. The following Arthur Christfully, James B. Kennedy.

war, I would locate that fatal but sacred day there was bright sunshine so I lost George Adkins and Peter Laffey, all of

spot, pay reverence to it, place flowers no time in returning to the woods, and Company E, and Oscar Amnion, the

and, if possible, lake pictures. I succeeded in getting the pictures of the only man of Company F in the group. "In some of the pictures is shown a marker, of some of the trenches and dug- "While the (Continued on page 60)

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — — — fuCNiW Center

Aliens and Jobs try. Without the American flag their pur- I happened to be in Stockholm. Sweden,

pose would be readily noticed; with it last Thanksgiving Day, and . . . well, To the Editor: There are quite a few aliens they fool some Americans, who do not let's start at the beginning. who will not take out citizenship papers realize that deceit and trickery are being I had a dinner engagement that night unless forced to do so. They wish to practised. They say that Germany has with a gentleman with whom I had been gather the fruits of the country but do no unemployed. If our people were forced doing some business, and after a hearty not wish to place themselves in a position to live under their standard of living we meal, and a few Schnapps, at a famous where they will have to give material aid would have no unemployed either. Furth- Stockholm restaurant, "Den Gyldene to the country. I think laws should be ermore, if we were to pass a law deporting Freden" (The Golden Peace), the conver- in passed every State whereby no one all aliens who are not satisfied with our sation got around to war (as it usually may hire an alien as long as there is a system of government we would maintain does in Europe these days.) I was quite citizen to till that particular job. That our high standard of living without un- surprised to learn that my host, Harry would force them to show their hand, and employment. —M. Schwartz, Thomas Forsberg, was a Legionnaire, having I think more of them would apply for R. Summers Post, Orangeburg, South served with an outfit from Oregon, re- papers. I think all veterans' organiza- Carolina. turning to Sweden immediately after tions should sponsor legislation to make being discharged. He was also surprised these people declare themselves. Leslie A Mutual Helpfulness Cover to learn that I was a Legionnaire, the A. Garvin, Post Langhorne, Penn- 148, To the Editor: On the twenty-second an- surprise being caused, according to him sylvania. niversary of our entry into the W orld (many thanks) by my age. It so happened I went in at "Preferred Preference" War, the mail brought me the April 1939 eighteen. issue of our magazine. And WHAT A Mr. Forsberg said Stockholm Post To the Editor: May I add my bit about COVER—when hooked up with the inset was having a Thanksgiving party for civil service and veterans? That run- on Page 25. It illustrated beautifully the Legionnaires and their wives and sweethearts, around is quite familiar to me. I have Preamble section about Mutual Helpful- and would 1 like to attend. I definitely would, so been getting just that since 1930. As it ness. I have only stolen about forty we took a cab.. By takes time, trouble and some cash to minutes from my regular employment the way, one never drives in Sweden get on the eligible list I wish to say that to glance through this issue, but I believe after having even one drink. If you should in there is nothing amusing about the run- it is the best and finest issue we have ever happen to be an accident, even though around to the disabled veteran or his had. I am sure the prize stories are going it was not your fault, but you smelled of alcohol, family. So I would say to all you buddies, to give me many interesting hours. you'd go to jail. No excuses, no as things are now, don't waste your time And the Kiwi story! How many times fines, no alibis. Not a bad idea—and it and cash until you consult with someone I have intended to try to write something works. We certainly were perfect ly all right, who has been through the mill. Getting on this subject, as I for a considerable but my host left his car parked right it on the eligible list doesn't mean that you time was "one of them birds" and finally where was. at hall, it seemed will get an appointment or a job. It only got my wings and took off. The best We arrived the and means that you have spent your time and description of a Kiwi, a description con- to be quite a procedure to get into this money. cocted by flyers and perhaps known only party. All doors were locked, but after I have long been No. 2 on the eligible to them, would not bear printing in our throwing keys and stones we attracted attention were admitted. It a register and have never been appointed. magazine, yet it was a very neat descrip- and was I passed a physical examination for which tion of that bird. perfectly swell party. The comradeship I paid, only to be disqualified by the ap- And then a baseball story, and a race was wonderful, and in a few minutes I pointing officer on the grounds that my horse story, and Front and Center, and felt perfectly at home. Dinner had just physical disabilities unfitted me for the Westbrook Pegler—count 'em, men. been finished, and the program was about arduous duties involved. The fact, sup- Where else could the sum total of your to go on. with the ported by sworn statements, that I was annual dues get you a sheet like we have? I was very much impressed seriousness respect these performing labor much more arduous This April issue alone is worth the francs. and shown by than the civil service job called for didn't But that cover and that inset mean a former American soldiers and sailors to country. It mean a thing. whole book of life to me. Even the Budget a holiday observed by our think great are the things The truth about civil service and pref- for 1939 is good reading, for between made me how erence is that they prefer to have the the lines we can see the expenditure of a represented by our Thanksgiving Day, that it idea if veteran stay out. This is not the wish of big gob of dough for so many worthwhile and might be a good we the American people. They believe the projects and programs. Paul R. Roach, would treat this day with the respect being this of American ex- veteran gets "preference. Frederick G. Service Officer, Rex Strait Post, Rock shown by group Smalley, Dunbar, Pennsylvania. Rapids, Iowa. service men in a far-away country. It seemed a little strange to see this meeting Misuse of the Flag A Swedish Thanksgiving conducted in Swedish, but quite natural after all. To the Editor: I should like to make the To the Editor: I think the title of this The Post is Stockholm Post No. 1. suggestion that all American flags be might well be "A Swedish Thanksgiving." The Commander is Leonard A. Bellander taken away from communists, fascists and the Adjutant is M. O. Ekstiand. And nazis. It is and my personal belief that Because of space demands, letters quoted it was a swell party. —M. A. Ramsey, the use of the American flag in their in this department (responsibility state- for Fort Pierce (Florida) Post. meetings is an insult to American intelli- ments in which is vested in the writers and gence. They use our flag merely to make not in this magazine) are subject to abridge- [EDITOR'S NOTE: For confirmation of ment. Names, addresses and post it appear that they are friendly to the affiliation Mr. Ramsey's statements concerning must be given, though the editors will with- American Government, whereas ths real Stockholm Post's hospitality, see "Skoal hold publication of these if the circumstances purpose is to screen their purpose of Fairfax in warrant. Legion" by Downey the advancing the interests of another coun- December, 1937 issue.] JUNE, 1939 37 —

38 ^Bivouac of the Dead

(Continued from page ig) clouds of the War of 1861 appeared and Murfreesboro and was cited for conspicu- writing his poem as a tribute to his com- the first shot was tired on Fort Sumter he ous bravery in action. He was by the side rades was writing his own epitaph and was in Mobile, Alabama. Immediately he of General Albert Sidney Johnston when singing his own requiem. The monument joined the Twelfth Alabama Volunteers that able soldier fell mortally wounded in above his tomb bears this fitting stanza and was commissioned a captain. The the fateful Battle of Shiloh. General from his famous composition: command of the fort at the entrance to Johnston died in his arms. General Bragg Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone Mobile Bay was given him, and he made named O'Hara a colonel on the field of In deathless song shall tell a gallant defense until ordered to retire battle at Shiloh in recognition of his When many a vanished age hath flown, story his troops. Later, when the Twelfth Ala- gallant service. The how ye fell; Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, bama became inactive, he presented him- Colonel O'Hara died June 6, 1867, near Nor Time's remorseless doom self at the headquarters of his old friend, Gerrytown, Alabama, on his plantation Shall dim one ray of glory's light General Breckenridge, and asked for on the Chattahoochee River, to which he That gilds your deathless tomb. assignment to active duty. General retired after the war. In 1873, the Legis- In all of his many adventures O'Hara Breckenridge granted his request and lature of Kentucky provided for the re- had time to pause and woo the fickle appointed him Acting Adjutant General moval of his remains to his native State mistress of poetry, to catch the spirit of on his staff. and in 1874 the final interment took place the soldier, and interpret it. He was a All this time O'Hara yearned to com- in the historic cemetery at Frankfort near counterpart of a Byron and a D'Artagnan, mand his own regiment in the field and the graves of his comrades of the Battle a mixture of knight errant and wandering endeavored to secure permission to raise of Buena Vista in whose memory he minstrel. He was the essence of the a provisional regiment. It was his greatest dedicated ''The Bivouac of the Dead." American tradition of arms! disappointment that it was not granted, Just as Alan Seeger of the Foreign Their shivered swords are red with rust; and it was a bitter blow to his proud and Legion, before his last adventure, penned Their plumed heads are bowed; sensitive nature. In the meantime, how- his prophetic line "I Have a Rendezvous Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, ever, he participated in the Battle of with Death," so Theodore O'Hara in Is now their martial shroud . . .

In the ^American Tradition

(Continued from page 11) to lead this country into war. We principles which brought our nation into proposals, one of which read as follows: who are in office know only too well existence and which are the only safe what would be the costs and the guides for its decisions and practices. That all the nations of the world should enter into a solemn definite horrors of war. We will leave undone I hear asked: What is this Govern- and pact of non-aggression; that they nothing that we are capable of doing ment's foreign policy? should solemnly reaffirm the obligations they toward keeping this country out of war. The foreign policy of this Government have assumed to limit and reduce their We are directing all of our thought and is the foreign policy of the United States, armaments, and, provided these obliga- all of our energy toward the creation and which in turn is the foreign policy of the tions are faithfully executed by all sig- the maintenance of conditions such that people of the United States—formulated natory powers, individually agree that neither our nation nor any other nation over a period of a century and a half by they will send no armed force of whatso- will prefer war to peace. We desire that the nation. That policy the Government ever nature across their frontiers. there shall not arise even the risk of this of the United States, your Government, On July 16, 1037, I issued a compre- country being dragged or being pushed endeavors to execute. hensive statement, the substantive por- into war. Our efforts are constantly and Over and over President Roosevelt has tion of which reads as follows: unceasingly animated by that desire. stated what are the objectives and what

This country of ours is richly endowed, are the principles of this country's This country constantly and con- but it cannot live alone. Our economy is foreign policy. Over and over I, as Secre- sistently advocates maintenance of not self-contained. Our institutions have tary of State, have done likewise. With- peace. not developed in a vacuum and could not out going over the whole long record, I We advocate national and international self-restraint. survive in a void. This country is a major will cite, for example, four among our We advocate abstinence by all nations power. It has size, weight, resources and many statements. from use of force in pursuit of policy and capacity; it has inlluence. Nothing that On March 4, 1Q33, President Roose- from interference in the internal affairs we might choose to do or refuse to do can velt, in his inaugural address, said: of other nations. alter those facts. The United States can- We advocate adjustment of problems in I n the field of I It is it will be influ- world policy would not be a cipher. and international relations by processes of dedicate this nation to the policy of the ential in world affairs —either toward peaceful negotiation and agreement. good neighbor—the neighbor who reso- great good or toward great evil. By We advocate faithful observance of lutely respects himself and, because he active, constructive, patient and well- international agreements. Upholding the does so, respects the rights of others directed effort its people can make its principle of the sanctity of treaties, we the neighbor who respects his obliga- believe in modification of provisions of inlluence a blessing to all mankind. tions and respects the sanctity of his treaties, when need therefor arises, In- This country can have peace if, united agreement in and with a world of neigh- orderly processes carried out in a spirit in will and in effort, our people work in- bors. of mutual helpfulness and accommo- telligently for and toward peace. can We dation. have peace with justice and without On May 16, 1033, President Roosevelt — We believe in respect by all nations for war. We can have peace by being strong, addressed directly to the heads of all the rights of others and performance by being broad in vision, being united in countries a circular telegram in the course all nations of established obligations. determination, and being true to the of which he made to them a number of (Continued on page 40)

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39 THANKS for the job!

Multiply him by

a million . . .

THE JOBS THAT BEER brought back

Bravery Workers Happy child . . . meeting hisfather, as Farm Workers dad conn s limit/ from his new job... one of the million Jobs that Maltsters beer brought back. Building Trades

Metal Trades One million jobs ... a job for everybody in a city as Glass Workers bin' as Cleveland. That's one way to visu- alize what beer has done in Can Makers six short years. Machinists Lumbermen A MAN WITH A JOB . . .heading home brewers' responsibility to enforce the and head up. Happy man, happy hoy. law. ..you have public officials for Coopers- happy home. It has been going on, that. However, we insist that retail-

all over America . . . beer has helped ing abuses be eliminated, to protect Bailroadmen in this great re-building job. our industry and your privilege for Beer pays huge taxes to help keep the future. Box Makers your taxes low. It also uses the pro- So... in cooperation with enforce- Bestaurant, duce of 3,000,000 acres of farm lands. ment authorities in a number of test Most people regard beer as a whole- communities, the brewers are work- Hotel and Tavern to ing out a program of self-regulation some beverage. The brewers want Workers, etc. , etc. protect your right to continue to en- that is proving successful. In more than a hundred joy beer under proper conditions. This plan is being extended as rap- industries, at h ast 1,000,000 Beer should not be blamed for idly as facilities permit. This is the people are working today abuses that may surround the sale of brewers' program to protect the pub- . . . off the relief rolls or in

alcoholic beverages in a small per- lic's right to enjoy beer, and our better jobs . . . because of

centage of retail outlets. It is not the right to make and market it. beer !

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and discussing tlie brewers' self - regulatory program. Address: United

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We stand for revitalizing and strength- NUMBER 3: We are in complete principles of law and order. Stability can- ening of international law. sympathy with any and every effort not be produced or be possessed by one We advocate steps toward promotion made to reduce or limit armaments. nation alone. For any nation to have it, of economic security and stability the NUMBER 4: As a nation—as Ameri- many nations must have it. Civilization world over. can people—we are sympathetic with the and culture cannot tlourish in a water- We advocate lowering or removing of peaceful maintenance of political, eco- tight compartment. Law, order and excessive barriers in international trade. nomic and social independence of all stability We seek effective equality of com- nations in the world. are the world's alternative, mercial opportunity and we urge upon universally, to violence and "war." all nations application of the principle Your Government—a government "of You, members of the Legion, you and of equality of treatment. the people, by the people and for the those who have been your comrades in believe in limitation and reduction We people"— is conscientiously endeavoring armed service, you, with a perspective of armament. Realizing the necessity for to carry out the will of the people of the which flows from special experience and maintaining armed forces adequate for United States that this country shall re- wide observation, are in a position to feel national security, we are prepared to main at peace, enjoy justice, be prosper- deeply and to think clearly with regard reduce or to increase our own armed ous and be secure. None of our fellow to some of the more difficult and the more forces in proportion to reductions or in- citizens creases made by other countries. desires those things any more perplexing of the problems of foreign We avoid entering into alliances or ardently than do we on whom there rests policy. You all have personal knowledge entangling commitments but we believe special responsibility in relation to the of problems of national security. in cooperative effort by peaceful and problems and tasks involved. You can help your Government enor-

practicable means in support of the This country, yours and mine, can mously by making it your determination principles hereinbefore stated. have lasting peace, justice, prosperity and that you not only will feel deeply but security. It can have peace, justice and shall think clearly, that you will not be On February 1030, President Roose- prosperity, however, only if it has misled by emotional appeals, that you velt made a statement as follows: security; and it can have security only if will get at the facts and put your minds The [foreign] policy has not changed in the conducting of its foreign relations on them, that you will reason, that you it is to If you want and not going change. its Government is given the reasonable will understand, that your conclusions a comparatively simple statement of the confidence and the patriotic backing of a shall be firmly grounded, and that you

policy, I will give it to you . . . thinking people. will advocate and give your support to NUMBER i : We are against any en- Your Government is trying to promote courses of action conscientiously con- tangling alliances, obviously. economic stability. It is trying to en- ceived and faithfully executed in the NUMBER 2: We are in favor of the maintenance of world trade for every- courage social and cultural progress. It light of the best traditions of our country body—all nations—including ourselves. urges upon all nations adherence to on behalf of and for our whole nation.

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("Mmph—she must have brought that Rosary of the monk and his forbidden her that they loved her, now adored her. cold down from Pennsylvania with her!") carnal love. It was the Rosary of the They responded to the familiar songs and Her second song, also light though un- mother and her boy in France. "To Kiss the loveliness of the singer with a kin- familiar, appealed through a final high the Cross!" dredness of feeling that swept over- note. The boys liked her; they didn't Part Two of the singer's program was whelmingly back from the listeners to hesitate to tell her so. The charm of her more substantial, the aria from "Samson the singer. A marvelous thing was hap- personality, even as much as the loveli- and Delilah." Here her skill, her artistry, pening! The artist had completely cast ness of her singing, had begun to soften her glorious voice, found full opportunity her spell over the audience; now the her tough audience. for expression. Grandma recognized it audience was casting its spell over the For the last number in her first group with generous applause. artist. of songs she sang "Tell me that you love The singer raised her head from She had given of herself, her voice, her me," and the audience began to be wild acknowledging the enthusiasm, stepped training, her artistry, her personality, her about her. Cheers and whistles and even to the front of the stage, threw her head charm, herself, to these olive-drab the rebel yell as before, but not now just back with a sudden expression of tri- soldiers. Every man there might be one of to make noise. They liked her. A dele- umph. "Allons, enfants de la Patrie!" her adopted brothers of Company G, as gation from Company G presented her She sang like a goddess inspired. It was every Company G man might be her an armful of long-stemmed American electric. The audience sprang to its feet, flesh-and-blood younger brother. She had

Beauties. She took it, came to the front of and to "Attention!" as one man. given to them the best that was in her; the stage, and announced that she would So far, excepting "Sweetest Story Ever now they were returning to her, from sing "The Rosary." Instant silence. Told," the singer had won her audience auditorium to stage, the best that was in We have all gone tired of "The chiefly through her two encores. I'a them. If the singer had captured her

Rosary." Yes, I have too, usually. This Scranton, wiping the perspiration of audience, now no less the audience held instance was not usual. In her gown of excited enthusiasm from under his collar, the singer under its spell. white satin, which may have been the looked at his program for Part Three. It was a sort of "Frankenstein" situ- palest of green, singing on a stage of un- "This is going to be great! 'From the ation, only the singer's magic was as painted boards, with unpainted boards Land of the Sky Blue Water,' 'Mighty glorious as "Frankenstein's" was horrible. for sides and back also—only the Na- Lak' a Rose,' 'Little Grey Home in the She sang "When the Boys Come " tional Flag on the back wall— the Ameri- West.' Home." It seemed to turn the psycho- can Beauties in her arms. It was not the The audience, which had already told logical current from the fervent nostalgia

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 41 of the "Old Songs" to fervent, living patriotism. Then came one of those occurrences of dramatic intensity such as are given to few people to experience. The audience inspired, fired by the singer; the singer fired, inspired by the audience. It was a career at its climax! Never again, wherever, whatever, however she might sing, could the singer approach the power of those minutes. For even as she had, by her singing, stirred and dominated the emotions of her listeners, now, by the very force of the emotions swelling up and overflowing from the listeners back to the singer, her listeners stirred and dominated her. Their souls sang through her lips. She sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." ("It's an insult, a damned Yankee insult, to try to cram that song down our throats!" "Please, please don't do that, grand-

' ma. It's undignified.") ABOARD THE "MAID OF THE MIST"— VIEW OF THE AMERICAN FALLS Ws . 1 TP- At first she sang as one might imagine the Delphic Oracle to speak—as if the words came through her, not from her.

Mine Eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

Her voice became less impersonal.

He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword, His truth is marching on!

Again it was the Delphic Oracle. It wouldn't seem possible that the "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!" chorus could be impressive, sung by only one person, especially by a woman. But it was! It seemed as if the Oracle were now singing the praises of the God for whom she spoke.

He hath sounded forth the bugle that shall never call Retreat!

The impersonal, detached semblance was gone. There was a stirring, as of troops preparing for the charge! HERE'S TO A LIFETIME H0NEMI00N He is sifting out the hearts of men be- WITH SMOKING JOY fore His Judgment Seat, CoDFriKh R.J. Rev Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him, NO-RISK OFFER be jubilant my feet! Smoke 20 fragrant Our God is marching on! pipefuls of PRINCE ALBERT. If you don't find it the mellowest, stirring The had now turned to tre- tastiest pipe tobacco mendous confidence, and into tremendous you ever smoked, return the pocket tin with exaltation. the rest of the tobacco At the second "Glory, Glory, Hallelu- in it to us at any time jah!" of the chorus, there came from here within a month from this date, and we will and there in the audience the involuntary You'll find Prince Albert refund full purchase response of overwrought emotion. "Glo- the "one and only" for price, plus postage, (Signed) R.J.Reynolds ry!" "Hallelujah!" "Hallelujah!" "Glo- "makin's" smokes too! Tobacco Company, ry!" Before the end of the chorus, half of Rolls fast ... stays lit! Winston-Salem, N. C* us were on our feet singing. Everything changed. pipefuls of fragrant tobacco in In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was every pocket tin born across the sea. of Prince Albert THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE There was a sad- (Continued on page 42) SO MILD • SO TASTY JUNE, 1939 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The AmeriOn Legion Magazine — ! — — —

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(Continued from page 41) ness, which was not so much grief, as A roar! Everybody on his feet, on his poral accompanist stood at one side of tenderness and devotion. chair. Swaying, surging, singing, shout- her, a man from Company G jumped ing. onto the stage to her other side. She With a glory in I lis bosom that trans- crossed her arms, and grasped a hand of figures you and me. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! each man.

The singer seemed verily to be trans- Hallelujah —Glory —Mine eyes have Should auld acquaintance figured by a glory. Xo more sadness. No seen the glory — For amber waves of — We all crossed our arms likewise "be more even of tenderness. But a reverent grain—(dory —Hallelujah — forgot — " Grandma had squeezed in purpose, a determination, and a glory. Grandma, on her feet, held her son front of me; she joined hands with Fa closely in one arm, and her grandson in Scranton. As He died to make men holy, let us die the other. Fa Scranton. frankly weeping, Lang Syne — Glory — His truth is to make men free, hugged both boys to his breast. marching Can you see—Hallelujah! Our God is marching on! — Dixie Tenting Glory, Hallelujah Away Down South in — — , And there welled up from that audi- tonight —There is no North and South ence a roar! A roar of neither cheers, Of my dreams—Sinks in the West today— Fraise God from Whom all yells, catcalls, nor applause. A roar! Hallelujah—Smile blessings flow —Hallelujah! the Glory —Hallelujah — Be jubilant, my First lieutenant, at my left, gripped my The corporal crashed a chord from with him. feet —Halleluiah —Let us die to make hand. Pa Scranton reached in front of piano. The roar fell into time men free Sweet land of liberty Look his boy and gripped other. Grandma — — my Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! moulderin' in away, look away—A the changed places with grandson. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! grave—Hallelujah—Till it's over, over The roar! The singer moved on the Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! there . . . stage, every eye watched her. The cor- As we go marching on!

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$100. Competition among bidders brings employment of experienced personnel, all is given the undertaker to be placed on

out offers of a variety of items of service are among the requirements. This is by the casket. It is so placed when the body in addition to the requirements of the no means a 'pauper burial,' as uninformed lies in state and is not removed until the

Veterans Administration that go to make persons have called it; it is a government volley is fired over the grave. It is then 'a complete and respectable' funeral. burial. given to the widow or next of kin. If no

"I explain to the relative just what is "When the relative has chosen a con- family representative is present, the flag

included in the contract for a local tract burial, I go with her to the under- is handed to me and I return it to the burial. The contractor agrees to procure taker's place of business where she selects Facility to be held for a rightful claimant. a burial permit; to procure a separate a casket and becomes familiar with other "The relatives' wishes are consulted as

single permanent grave in a cemetery contract items displayed. I recall a some- to choice of a clergyman to conduct the she selects 'in a part of the cemetery what worldly-seeming widow who, after funeral service. If they have no choice,

not set aside for the burial of indigents viewing the articles, commented, with as is often the case, the chaplain at the or paupers;' to provide embalming ser- an incredulous shake of head, 'There's a State Soldiers' Home in our city usually vice, clothing, casket and outside case; catch in this somewhere.' It appeared too acts. Fallbearers, when not provided by proper conveyances for body, pallbearers good to be true. She was wrong. We the kin, can always be had from the

and tiring party ; a burial service in church merely get a lot for the money. Home—Spa nish Wa r or World War men

or suitable chapel, with minister and, if "After the body is placed in the casket, and we call upon the neighboring garrison

desired, music; a headboard or metal another inspection is made to pass finally of the Regular Army for tiring squad and marker for the grave. Various other on everything. A burial flag, supplied by bugler. items may enter in. as hotel accommo- the Government for all honorably dis- "In the out-of-town contract burial, dations for a certain number of out-of- charged veterans, except peace-time men, all items are provided that are necessary town relatives who to preparation for

will attend 1 he 1 ibse shipment and. be- quies. sides, a proper con- "This Facility su- veyance to the com- pervises rigidly in mon carrier. The every contract buri- Government will al to insure that pay a certain amount every detail of the for secondary ex-

contract is carried penses at the place out. Solemnity, rev- of interment. erence for the de- "W7 hen the rela- parted, helpfulness tives prefer not to to the bereaved, ar- accept the contract rangement of cere- burial, we are out of

monial details and it, though we're glad

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to give any aid we can to their own under-

taker, if he asks it. This may consist of arranging for a burial flag, or a cemetery lot, or pallbearers, or a firing party. In

many cemeteries a soldiers' rest plot is set apart, and a lot in such a plot will be ARE YOUR given free for any honorably discharged veteran. In a local contract burial, the contractor must buy a lot, in the absence FALSE TEETH of such provision, in the cemetery selected by the kin."

IN THE last four years the number of contract burials at this Facility has grown markedly. The explanation seems to lie in this: That as people understand Jahejriends? better the nature of the contract service

what it comprises, how complete it is

the more it gains favor, though no effort is made at the Facility to influence them against a non-contract burial. Besides re- veteran's family of worry and lieving the THEIR STAINED SHOUT "FALSE"? distress in making arrangements, it pro- DOES LOOK tects against sales insistence and con- DO THEY GIVE YOU "DENTURE BREATH"? serves the veteran's estate. Acting for the chief medical officer, the major-domo prepares a letter of condo- PQLIDENT lence to the nearest relative. In contract PLAY SAFE USE shipment cases, she prepares the form for transportation expense, checks train schedules, and so on. DISSOLVES AWAY STAINS .. .TARNISH .ODORS Her attention is not confined to burial PURIFIES PLATES LIKE NEW -WITHOUT BRUSHING* arrangements, however. When the more pressing needs are attended to, she offers Two things can tell everyone your teeth are false, just as the entitled persons, in both contract and surely as if it stains non-contract cases, expert assistance as you shouted — and "Denture Breath." regards their rights to government bene- Plates and bridges soak up odors and fits and in making out applications for impurities like a sponge! A thin dark those benefits. These may be burial ex- scum collects on them. This scum holds Thousands of happy users penses, either reimbursement of second- germs and decay bacteria. It is so ary expenses in contract shipment cases tough that ordinary brushing seldom praise POLIDENT or payment of full allowance in non- removes it. And it gets into every tiny contract local or shipment cases; any crevice where brushing can't even PLATES FEEL BETTER accrued benefits that may have been due reach. Almost always it results in Polident prevents sore the deceased beneficiary; amount due on "denture breath" — probably the most gums, due to unclean adjusted service certificate (when original offensive of all breath odors. dentures. Plates feel cooler and more comfort- application had never been made Yet there's a perfect way to clean or when able—your mouth fresh- certificate had been applied for but no and purify false teeth without brush- er and sweeter. application for bonds made); proceeds ing, acid or danger. It is Polident, a of converted insurance; death compensa- powder that dissolves away all scum, PLATES LOOK BETTER stains, tarnish and odor. Makes breath tion or pension (for widow, child, father Plates can get a stained sweeter and plates or bridges look or mother.) — "dead" look when better and feel better. cleaned by inefficient This paper work can be done in her methods. Polident bright- Tens of thousands call Polident a office. She keeps all the proper forms and ens them—makes gums blessing for comfort, convenience and look more alive and natural is authorized to take acknowledgements hygiene. Sold at all drug stores 3 oz. for the Government. — can 300 7 oz. can G0£. Approved by — — BREATH IS SWEETER It is her experience that veterans in Good Housekeeping Bureau and den- hospital often, too often, withhold Offensive breath is so need- tists everywhere your and money back } common among denture ful facts about themselves which become if not delighted. Wernet Dental Mfg. wearers that dentists | known only upon their deaths. These Co. Inc., 190 Baldwin Avenue, Jersey call it "denture breath." Polident prevents den- may come out in the course of funeral City, N. J. ture breath. arrangements, as when opposing kin assert a right to direct the burial. They may be drawn from relatives in preparing claims for benefits, or be disclosed in a P0UDCI1T sometimes necessary reading of the veteran's private papers which, with other WORKS LIKE MAGIC- personal effects, the Facility is required NO BRUSHING to inventory and safeguard. was Add a little Polident powder to It has developed at times that a V2 glass water. Stir. Then put in veteran admitted as "single," by his own plate or bridge for 10 to 15 min- statement, had had a living wife with utes. Rinse—and it's ready to use. rights to be (Continued on page 44)

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claimed and assured. Or it may be that a single man, it was explained to the father nor sister had known that he was more than one wife—a missing un- mother, a widow, that she was eligible to in hospital, nor even suspected he was acknowledged, divorced or even bogus death compensation. An application form dangerously ill. In his effects were neatly wife—bobs up and demands considera- was given her. She took it away for con- bundled tax receipts, records of bank tion. Living children have been dis- sideration. A few days later she returned deposits, memoranda of accounts re- covered of whom the veteran had made to the Facility and stated her predica- ceivable and accounts payable; he had no mention. Their rights are to be pro- ment. put his house in order. It was clear that, tected, birth certificates, marriage cer- The veteran had not been her son. She believing his case hopeless, he had sought tificates, death certificates, copies of and her husband had taken him when he to spare the feelings of his people during divorce decrees, all call for checking in the was eight days old, a foundling, and had his remaining days. Sportsmanship! Yet

care exercised in making sure that benefits reared him as their own. He had never it may not have been a kindness. Who go to the rightful persons. known otherwise. At various times he had knows? A veteran on admission to the Facility urged her to apply for apportionment of When a man on entering for treatment had stated he was single and had no the disability compensation being paid to had stated that he belonged to a veterans' relatives. Upon his death his effects dis- him, but she had not done so. The reason organization, as The American Legion, closed that he had a daughter of thirteen lay in the requirement in the application and named his Post, the Facility gives and a son of fourteen. Both proved to be form that she submit with it a certified notice of his death to the Post Com-

in need. The summer before the two copy of the birth or baptismal record of mander, if local, or to a Department

children had earned $1.50 a week pulling the veteran in proof of relationship. To official, if not local. The latter can then weeds, whereas had their father but told do so would have necessitated a reveal- pass the word on, whether the man's

the facts they would have been entitled ing of her want of parentage. An applica- Post is within or outside the State. to benefit of $24 a month for the preced- tion after the death, which she wished to Sometimes the notice of a veteran's ing thirteen months. And why hadn't he submit, would require a copy of a court death comes to the Post from the family told? Heartlessness? Not exactly. It order of adoption—and the boy had never or from newspapers or other sources. seems that he had been a fugitive from been legally adopted. She and her hus- Commanders of Legion Posts in many justice and had kept silent for fear, band had just taken him, kept him and parts of our State make a practice of apparently, of being turned over to the loved him. offering the Post's services upon learning law. An unfounded fear, it is said at the Actual adoption was readily accepted of the death of a veteran, whether a Facility, for nothing of the kind is ever by the Government on the mother's Legion man or not, in their communities. divulged about a patient. A patient's statement of facts and she obtained com- The Post takes part in the burial program

personal history is regarded as privi- pensation. when the family welcomes it. In many leged. Sometimes a veteran bats a long one cities and towns Posts have trained firing "All veterans should tell the whole after his death. A patient had told the squads and buglers. truth about themselves when admitted Facility he had no relatives and no friend A man who has had a part in conduct- to hospital," an official pointed out. to be notified in case of his passing. ing the Legion ritualistic service at the "They stand to lose nothing by doing so, Among his personal effects, gone through grave in scores of veterans' funerals here and only when the full truth is known after the death, were letters from a sister said: can the best be done for them and their in Georgia, dated before his coming to "I think every veteran should have a dependents. An offense of which some the hospital and addressed to him on his military funeral. The Forty and Eight patient may be accused, outside, may bachelor's farm near the Canadian generally conducts the grave service for be a fairly minor one, over which an border. In one she referred to a snapshot the Legion here. It is impressive. Nothing adjustment or a settlement could be he had sent her of himself armed with an else so raises the Legion in the eyes of the effected by his friends if enlisted in his ax and seemingly about to fell a tree; she public as seeing it function at a veteran's behalf. Such outcome by conducing to cemmented on how well he was looking. burial. The Legion has taken part, upon peace of mind might contribute toward The man had been admitted for a family request, in many funerals from recovery in the hospital." severe heart ailment and had died from the Veterans Administration Facility,

Reticence may be of an altogether dif- it. It was learned that his father had died whether contract or non-contract, local ferent kind. After the death of a veteran, after the veteran's admission. But neither or outside."

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—but the fellow telling you about it referee that doesn't occur to everybody is times and yet at the end of the round the would have to be in the ring himself that the spectators who have paid their referee may feel that he can't in fairness swinging about with a portable mike to good money for ringside seats don't give the round to one of the men. But in

get it all. want to have the action blotted out any each of those half dozen separate sections The referee constantly keeps the center more than is absolutely necessary. And of time someone has been winning and

of his vision on the space between the so even if two fighters stand toe to toe someone has been losing. The referee sees two fighters, following their every move and slug it out I keep moving about. it all—and nobody else does, whether the from the knees upward. He keeps con- In a fight somebody is always winning bout is held in a brilliantly lighted arena stantly on the go because he has to main- —it is rare that two men sock on even or under the stars. I hear a tremendous tain a stance that will give him full vision, terms throughout a round. By that I roar go up from the crowd sometimes for no matter how they may shift. Another mean that in the three minutes of a round a blow that to a person ten or a hundred reason for this continual shifting by the the tide may shift half a dozen or more feet away looks staggering, but which in

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine fact the other man has almost completely parried. On the other hand a blow to the body that seems to be just one of twenty that land there in the course of a round may set the stage for the knockout blow that comes several minutes later. In that connection I'd like to speak my mind about a part of our State's boxing law that to me doesn't make sense. The responsibility resting on the shoulders of the referee in a championship fight is tremendous—and I'm not talking now about the amount of money wagered all over the world on one man or the other. I mean the responsibility of seeing that it's a fair fight, that neither of the men is allowed to go on if he has lost the power to protect himself. The New York law and the law of some of our other States provides that in addition to the referee there be two judges posted at the ringside who shall vote after each round as to which contestant won that round, and that the majority vote, the referee also being allowed a choice, decides the winner. To my mind that takes from the referee authority that he ought to have. The judges are stationary throughout a round, and they can't help missing just as much of the action as any other person outside the ring. Yet if their two votes run con- trary to the vote of the man who is as much on top of the action as a plate um- pire is on top of a slide into home, they make the decision. Responsibility and authority ought to ride together in the ring as they do everywhere else in life. I know that every other referee that knows his stuff will agree with me that such a set-up is political rather than efficient. We've got the responsibility of deciding whether a bout shall proceed, and we certainly wouldn't flinch from making the decision on the winner as we saw it, no matter what anybody else thought. And we ought to have that right. Of late years the fight game has been enormously improved by the introduc- tion of a protective gadget that guaran- tees the fighter against injury due to a low blow by the opponent. That protection, in my judgment, saved the game from ruin. The whole set-up of boxing threatened to crash down after the match between Max Schmelrng and Jack Sharkey on June 12, 1030. I didn't handle that light, but I was there. The fight -for MILDNESS wound up in disorder after one of the fine old judges said that Sharkey had landed a , Kentucky Burley low blow toward the close of the fourth aged in wood round, and Schmeling was given the de- -the FLAVOR cision. When the New York State of pure maple Athletic Commission a short time later sugar for extra named Schmeling as world's champion good taste there was a good deal of nasty criticism Velvet packs easy in a pipe of its action, on the ground that a foul Rolls smooth in a cigarette can't make a champion, though it may unmake one. It was at this time that the Better tobacco protective gadget I am talking about was for both demonstrated before the Commission. It proved its worth without question. A Copyright 1939, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Cci man wearing (Continued on page 46)

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{Continued from page 45) one of these cannot be hurt by a low that would give promise of success. So he been knocked down before in his pro- blow, but since a lighter may land a low studied the films of a couple of Louis fessional career, and whether it was be- one unintentionally, the rule is that such fights, over and over and over, watched cause his pride made him refuse to admit a blow automatically loses him the round, Louis in the ring, and set up his campaign. that the blow had hurt him or because he unless later in that round he scores a Louis hits with either hand, but his went through the motions sub-con- knockout. But no fighter can now win a best blow is with his left. Max figured sciously, the fact remains that almost im- fight just because the other fellow has that by turning his left shoulder toward mediately he was back on his feet. landed one low punch, (live the Post- his opponent it would be impossible for My own belief is that he didn't realize master General of the United States Louis to crash him effectively with the what he was doing. Very soon after he credit for that one. Jim Farley as Chair- right except by driving him back and got off the floor, maybe ten to fifteen man of the Commission was re- seconds, the bell sounded for the sponsible for the decision to use the end of the round, a real break for protective device. Louis, as with a longer time remaining Schmeling could have put T)KOPLE keep asking me how over the knockout blow right then. J- long Joe Louis will stay at the In the minute between the fourth top of the heap in boxing. I wish I and fifth rounds Louis's seconds could answer that one. Right now did a fine job of bringing their man there doesn't seem to be anybody around to fighting trim. The two in sight that has a respectable men boxed fairly evenly in that chance of beating him, but after round, and they were both swing- the first Louis-Schmeling fight no- ing hard. Just a fraction of a second body can say with certainty that before the bell sounded for the end Joe can't be taken. A short time of the fifth Schmeling let go ago Louis flattened Jack Roper, another tremendous right smash at who had as much right being in the Louis's chin. The noise of the yell- same ring with him as Georges ing mob was so tremendous that Carpentier had with Jack Demp- the sound of the gong was not sey. And Joe certainly did things to heard by any of us in the ring. But Max Schmeling in their second instinctively I knew that time fight, and to John Henry Lewis. must be running out and when a But sometimes an actual miracle side glance at one of the corners happens in boxing, and when two showed me the seconds were start- big fellows start throwing leather ing to come into the ring, I made a at each other in a ring, the better dive between the tw» fighters. man isn't immune from a lucky punch by forcing him to abandon that stance. At Schmeling's blow had reached its mark, the other fighter, a punch that may blast the same time Max thought he could Louis's jaw, before I made that dive. The him lose from a carefully prepared plan of withstand Joe's stinging left jab enough blow was perfectly legal. More than any campaign and open him up wide for a times so that Joe would get tired of that other thing aside from the actual knock- K. O. line of attack and try a left hook, which out blow that punch won the fight for The instructions a fighter's manager against a fighter holding Schmeling's the German. and other handlers give him will probably stance is practically a swinging blow Joe never did get over that blow in the wash right out of his mind when the rather than one straight from the shoul- remaining seven rounds. He came out pressure is on, and then he goes along der. During the first three rounds Louis gamely for the sixth and tried to carry on. largely on his will to battle, plus instinct. was jabbing with that crushing left. In that and the following rounds Schmel- The fancy stuff goes by the boards, and From the vantage point of the closest ing must have hit him fifty times with his your fighter falls back on one of two kind of observation I would say it was right, every time not more than two or things. Either he wades in, giving every- simply amazing the way Schmeling stood three inches away from the button—the thing he's got, on the theory that the up under the smashing power of the point of the chin. When the eleventh best defense is an offense, or he gives blows delivered by Louis in those first round ended Joe's face had puffed up so ground steadily and hopes he can put three rounds. It took guts. badly that as I stood in my corner in the over a lucky punch himself. But Schmeling absorbed it, kept his minute interval I made up my mind Schmeling's victory over Louis in their feet, and wasn't even groggy. People Louis had given everything he possibly first fight puzzled a lot of people, as it were beginning to wonder if it was true could, physically and mentally, that did Louis himself, but it was the result of after all that Joe had merely to pick the although I had received no sign from his a thorough-going campaign that I be- round for the knockout. And then in the corner it was probable that his jaw was lieve has never been equaled in the his- fourth round came that left hook that fractured, and that in the coming round a tory of pugilism. The boxing writers had Schmeling had been looking for. It was sign of even slight distress would be said that Louis was the perfect fighter, wide and sweeping. Before it could land, enough for me to stop the fight. But the that he didn't have a weakness, and that the German's right, straight from the first blow landed in the twelfth round was it would be plain massacre to pit any- shoulder, exploded on Joe's chin and de- flush on Louis's chin, the place Schmeling body against him. Schmeling knew that posited him on the floor. That upset had been aiming at in the previous seven Louis had been schooled in the art of Louis so completely that, forgetting one rounds. He was counted out, though that lighting by one of the cleverest men in of boxing's most respected maxims, the would not have been necessary to es- pugilism, Jack Blackburne. Hut the one that says a man should not come up tablish the winner.

( lerman convinced himself that there from the floor until at least half of the ten You know how Joe Louis came back to was a chance, and that by careful study seconds have been counted, he got to his knock out Schmeling decisively in the of his man he could map out a campaign feet at once. You see, Louis had never first round of their second fight, last year,

The AMERICAN LEGION Maganne 47 and of how nobody has been able to stand up to him since then. But unless he retires voluntarily Joe to the NewYork World's Fair: will meet somebody some day who will Coming be his master. That's as sure as time and tide. Maybe it's some youngster competing in a Golden Gloves tournament today; maybe the coming champion isn't even fighting yet. The longest record of a championship reign in modern times is John L. Sullivan's ten years, from 1882 to 1892. The next longest is Jack Demp- sey's seven years' reign, from ioiq to

1026. Fighting is a young man's game, and though every bout sharpens a man's mentality it takes its toll physically. As with Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth in baseball, Bobby Jones in golf, and Red Grange in football, there comes a day. But your guess as to when that day will come for Joe Louis is as good as anybody else's. After all, the boxing writers who make their living through their ability to tell what's what in the fight game have been wrong a good many times in the last fifteen years. And they'll be wrong plenty of times in the future, because like any other sport boxing won't survive if the result of championship bouts is certain. Schrafit's Georgian Room, 55<> Fifth Avenue, near 46th St. I am asked a lot of times about the fight in 1924 when Firpo, the Argentine boxer, knocked Jack Dempsey clear out gCrlRAFpT'S WELCOME LEGIONNAIRES, of the ring, only to have Dempsey clamber back in and punch his way to a knockout. A lot of people seem to think THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS TO that Dempsey had no right to come back into the ring, that Firpo should have been AMERICAN COOKING AT ITS FINEST! awarded the decision as soon as the other man left the ring. I tell them that in a case of that sort the man outside the ring Wherever there's life in New York, there's a Schrafft's. Near rights as he has has exactly the same Grand Central and Pennsylvania Stations .. .on Fifth Avenue, when he has been knocked down inside Broadway, Madison... in the heart of Wall Street... all around the ring. In other words he has ten the city. And at each Schrafft's there's a warm welcome await- seconds to get back in, and if he's in there and on his feet within those ten ing you, your family and friends, and fine food... prepared in seconds he loses no rights at all. immaculately clean kitchens... from traditional American reci- Dempsey landed right on top of some pes . . . courteously served. You can be sure of this at every people in the first row, and they did just Schrafft's, whether you stop for a sandwich or a hearty meal what you or anybody else would have ... a cocktail or the town's richest ice cream soda. done—they pushed him up off themselves and their typewriters. And it probably ON YOUR "NOT TO BE MISSED" LIST! wasn't much more than six or seven SCHRAFFT'S COLONIAL HOME DINNER seconds from the time he went sailing The only dinner of its kind in New York. Served in out of the ring before he was back in The Alexandria Room, 556 Fifth Avenue. $2. there. Just remember that ten seconds is Fountain Breakfast .... 30(2 Club Breakfasts 35? to 75? quite some period of time they run a — Fountain Luncheon .... 45? Club Luncheons 55c, 65c, 85c hundred yards in less time than that. I Club Dinner $1.35 A la carte dinner features . from 50c believe Billy I'apke once knocked Stanley Cocktails served at 25 Schrafft's, from 25? Ketchel out of the ring, but it remained for Jack Doyle, who glories in the nick- name of the Irish Thrush (and makes every Irishman in the world wince) to score a knockout on himself a year or so ago. Jack took a swing at his opponent, missed, and fell through the ropes, striking his head oh one of the supports. ScHRAFpT'S He was not entitled to a count of ten, but even if he had been it wouldn't r have done The American Restaurants with a \X orld-Wide Reputation him any good, as he was unconscious for 38 CONVENIENTLY LOCATED IN GREATER NEW YORK nearly a minute. He goes down in ring his- AIR-CONDITIONED tory as the only man who ever knocked himself out. {Continued on page 48)

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You'll hear a lot about Tony Galento everything, and the man has not yet talk about real, scientific boxing give me now that he has been matched with been born who can call the turn on that Jim Corbett. For the best all-around Louis for a fight in June of this year. sort of thing. Naturally Galento has im- fighter my choice will have to be Gans.

I remember a right I handled between proved. If he hadn't shown a great deal I'd like to see The American Legion Galento and the South American Arturo in the past couple of years he wouldn't sponsor an amateur boxing tournament Godoy as one of the wildest exhibitions be getting a shot at the champion. at its National Conventions, with the of pugilism that I ever saw. They My father used to tell me that pound cream of the amateur crop picked as

both poured it on as fast and furious for pound, punch for punch, there had finalists after elimination bouts in the as they could, with no science whatever, never been a greater fighter than Bob various sections of the country, the just like an alley brawl, for ten rounds, Fitzsimmons, and the record shows that finalists doing their stuff before the con- Godoy finally winning on points. Fitz was marvelous—no doubt about vention crowd. The Legion Junior Base- You may gather from what I'm saying that. But if I wanted to pick great ball program is a perfect model for what that Galento seems to me an unimpres- fighters on the basis of the four quali- could be done with boxing, though of sive tighter, but don't think for a minute ties that a man must have in some course the age limits would have to be

that I make snap judgments like that. degree if he wants to get by in the ring, different. But it would be a grand thing When two men inside an eighteen-foot I would rate them this way. For sheer to do. In my opinion there is no sport in ring are battling for championship raw courage I'd pick Joe Gans, the the American calendar that does more to laurels, if you consider what is at stake, colored boy who, though he was suffering build real manhood in a youngster than the ambition and determination on the from tuberculosis at the time, went boxing does. It calls for the perfect part of each of them, when that gong forty-two rounds at Goldfield, Nevada, coordination of brain and muscle, and sounds anything can happen. In the under a hot sun against Battling Nelson. both attack and defense demand in- flash of a second a blow may be landed For endurance I'd pick Nelson. For stantaneous reaction of mind and body. that will change the entire complexion of punching ability I'll string along with my To me it will always be tops among things, confound the experts and settle father and take Fitzsimmons. When you sports. The zMan Who Jacked John

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ain't what it was once, ma'am. He had ing out props, and throwing Indians "Turned against you, is it? And me pigs' knuckles and sauerkraut for dinner around. Some of the Indians were still just after sleeping with a lock of your hair and a quart of chilled champagne." standing, and these had smashed hats under my pillow, that I bought from "It's turned him horrid," Jigs piped crowded down around their ears. Billy Hogarty." up. "How are you, John?" says Georgie, "A hair of the dog that bit ye, haw, "He's calling for stout," Georgie said. showing all her porcelain. haw, haw," said John L. Sullivan.

The Spider moaned, "John'll kill me "Struggling like yourself," says John. "Laugh! I would if I were you! I've if I don't take it down to him, and Phil "It's Georgie Droghan, can't you see, bet my all on Sullivan to win against Casey here'll kill me if I do." come back to you? How's your courage, Corbett. I've already stripped myself "You've got to die either way. Let me John?" entirely." have two mugs of stout," Georgie com- "Finer'n frog-hair," John said. His She showed him her fingers bare of manded. voice was like the quaking mutter of the rings. "Like he is now, nothing bigger than a fattest gold organ pipe, the thirty-two- "Where's the garter I brought youse bug can get near John and live," Spider inch diapason. from Jimmy Considine?" warned her. "You're a little tangled in the reins, I "The garter. Is it that that's still stick-

"Chop it. Give me the mugs." think." ing in your crop? Ah, pity poor ac- Spider Weir shoved two foaming mugs "I'm in good fix." tresses!" Georgie cried, with that upward

across the tilted bar. Georgie Droghan "That's more than your Belt is then. look and the little dramatic catch that went through the cellar arch with a mug Here, I picked it up for you in a junk always hooked her audiences in "The in each white fist, like candles for an shop in Baltimore." Wife's Peril." "Bodies we have, God help altar. At the bottom of the stairs she She slipped it out of her muff. The Belt us, souls we have none, according to our called softly, "Johnnie, here's a hair of had holes now in place of diamonds, but critics. Banned by the church, shunned the dog." you could still make out the name of by the pure, betrayed by the vile, and in "Giver here now," John rumbled, and John L. Sullivan. the end—is it the garter you'll be asking there was never any mortal man with a "I wouldn't use it for a dog-collar," after?" voice on him like John's. "I got a thirst John said. He slapped it out of her hand "The garter is all." on me as big as me two hands." "Not you. Never you again by your "He bribed the wardrobe mistress, That was a giant thirst. Georgie looks," Georgie cried, with a wild laugh. and that's how he got it. I can prove it to Droghan could see two John L. Sullivans "Why, there aren't victories enough to you, and I will, and just a woman's drinking stout. One was himself, and the go round you, Johnnie, do you know pride has kept me from it." She stooped other was his reflection in the old bar- that? You've got too big to get out of and snatched the garter from her leg, mirror from his Washington Street bar, your own way." "There's the article itself, with the name that had gravitated here. They were two John turned his famous black look on 'John' picked out in diamonds that I line-looking men still, in spite of grog her, that he put on when he was moving took out of the Belt. Would I be giving blossoms on the cheeks. They were in up for mischief. that to any mortal man but John L. double-breasted lion-skin coats with "Is this the girl I took from Ruby the Sullivan?"

pearl-buttons, and had Hercules clubs in Shield's haunt? Is it you that's turned "Chop it," says John. What stuck in their hands. They had been busy knock- against me?" his crop was the easy way she had of

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getting at it, through the slit in the side of that Venus dress that showed her leg through, and made him think that Geor- gie Droghan had gone completely to the dogs, against his teachings. How could John know that she was only the bad woman in "Passports to Hell"? He grit- ted his teeth, and you could hear him do that three doors away, when he was righting old battles in his sleep. "Georgie Droghan in a drab's dress," he said. "It's time I took ye acrost me little chequered apron." And he reached out with his foot to trip her heel and land her on his knee upside down.

Georgie's eyes flashed green fire, and turned in the sockets round and firm as bullets. "You gutter-waller," she hissed, and unlatched the old round-arm uppercut flush on John's dial. That was the blow John had taught her, to keep off other mugs, and the first time she ever used it was on John himself. He had only the one leg under him, and he went down like a bottle-pin.

That was a burster, if there ever was one. There was a howl from the stairs, where all those blokes were crowding that were still backing him to put Corbett to grass. "John's down," Sport Campani yelled. But nobody made a move to help John up. Georgie stood over him with her hair wringing wet, as it used to be when she came panting into the wings after her ' devil's dance in "Satanella." She laughed like a mad woman, and hot tears burned Looks like we belong her lashes. That tell-tale heart vein of hers looked bluer than blue under the powder, and her green eyes were just so much flashing artillery. to the same club, Dad! John was on his feet again.

"If he sees the joke of it, maybe that'll save her neck." Sport Campani moaned. MANY a young fellow, still There's a sweet clean flavor And John did see the joke of it. proud of his first smoke, in the rich hill-grown Kentucky "First blood for Droghan," he roared. his He pulled her head back hard enough discovers that favorite brand Burley in Union Leader, that to show the cords in her neck. of tobacco has been his dad's makes it a great favorite among "Spoil my beauty for me, why don't favorite . . . for a third of a both pipe and cigarette smokers. you?" Georgie cried. century! The same appealing Aged for mellowness, specially He shook pins out of her hair.

"You're in the inimy's pay," he said. quality in Union Leader, which processed to remove all bite . . . With all "Am I so? my bets on you, and has held the loyalty of older men Union Leader, at 10^ a tin, is you lushing around with the ale hounds. so many years, today is winning today's best tobacco buy for John L. Sullivan, champion of the world, younger and he's lying down. He's yellow. A yel- men by thousands. son and dad alike! low dog is what he is, and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mister." This was John's big battle scene. The fight on the barge was nothing to it, nor the mill with Corbett at New Orleans. A battle would have to be John's love- UNION making, because he loved a fight better than anything, and if it took the shape of Copyright, 1939. woman, maybe he could love it still. by P. Lorillard Co. "Hell's floor is paved with women's LEADER tongues," he said. FOR PIPE "Is it so? Just the same, Corbett will <- have you with your feathers down, my AND lad." IO CIGARETTE "Corbett, is it? There'll have to be a THE GREAT AMERICA* SMOKE committee to pick (Continued on page 50)

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up the pieces, when I'm through with dians. His hat was down over his ears. Droghan's eyes. That was the image of Corbett." He wrenched it off. There it w as. smashed the mighty John of old, tall and straight "And whose pieces, pray?" Georgie as flat as any common mortal's hat was as a shot tower, the John that was in- taunted, with a bitter sneer, and that ever smashed. tended to be champion rorever, with the blue-green, Under-the-Gas-Light look of "I've smashed his hat for'm," said twin bolts of lightning in his fists, the hers. "Why, you're poke-blowed, and John. hair like black flames curling out from your eyes don't track. You're weak as a "Sure you have, Johnnie," Georgie under his wrist-bands, and showing like woman in the legs. The fix you're in, you Droghan whimpered, and a shiver went a bear's pelt through the bay in his shirt. couldn't be knocking the stuffing out of through her to her heels. "John," said Georgie, twisting on his a ten-cent doll." "I've put a head on him, begorrah." arm. "there's such a thing as the pitcher "Shut your trap, my girl." "You've given him enough, John." going once too often to the well." "Shut it for me, then. The gutter isn't "John's cut himself." Jigs squealed. In "The pitcher?" says John. very far away. I fancy. There's one man fact there was a trickle of blood on the "The well," says Georgie. "And saying that's licked you, and he will again." great man's chin. such a thing should—be, John. Why, even "Lock me in a room with him and see "What's this under foot?" John if Corbett should which one of us comes out alive," John rumbled. "I'll make a case for the coroner out of growled. "It's nothing, Johnnie. Spider here will Corbett," John roared. He threw down "He's in here with you now. Look, I'll sweep it up," Georgie sobbed. his hat. show him to you." "It's glass is what it is . . . The mirror's "Sure you will, Johnnie. Because She faced him round into his own bar- broken," John muttered. He got hold of there'll be three men of you in the ring mirror. the tawny coil of Georgie's hair, and that blessed night." "So that's him," says John L. Sullivan. dragged it round her throat. "Three men?" cried little Jigs. And

There he stood straddled, the finest "Strangle me in my own hair and see if even the gas man was interested. knight of the fives that ever inhabited I care," Georgie murmured, falling close "Three," Georgie said solemnly. She a suit of clothes, the dog-gonedest crittur against him. numbered them on her fingers. "There'll that ever came wrapped up in human "It's in me now to think you're in be John L. Sullivan and—John L. Sulli- hide—and he was glaring at his own im- Jim Corbett's pay, egging me on to break van and James J. Corbett." age in the glass. And not his own image a mirror." "That's two Sullivans then," said only. There was Georgie in the lucky "You're talking through your hat, John L. Sullivan. glass, with her plumes big enough to John." "There's two of any man, at your time choke a dog. and there was the gas-man "Wurrah the day. Me hat. It's of life, Johnnie. And may the better man in his battered hat, and the Spider with smashed." win, is the heart's wish of me." his poor, crooked grin, and the Sport with Sure enough, it was smashed flatter "And where will Mr. Corbett be?" the tattooed arm of John L. shriveled on than a Congressman's purse after elec- asked Jigs. his starved chest. tion. "He'll be there, as big as life and " They had come up with him and they 'Twas you that smashed it. John." twice as natural, my laddybuck," Georgie had come down with him, but John had Georgie gave him a splendid look. Droghan laughed. "But Sullivans will do eyes for nothing but the other John L. "What's all these killing glances?" the business. Sure, Johnnie, if any Sullivan. He put his maulers up. and up says John, with Georgie's hair twined in mither's son was going to lick John L. went the other John's maulers. The two his black-tufted fingers that could bend Sullivan, wouldn't it just have to be of them squared off. They had eyes like silver dollars like tallow. "Here, no snivel- John L. Sullivan to do it?" smoldering charcoal pits. ing." So it was she broke the force of the

"I'll put starch in his night-cap for "Sorrah the day," Georgie sobbed. bitter blow before it fell, and paid him him," John said. "It's a black-hearted girl I am. telling a back for all his tender mercies. Those

"Arrah go on, you're only foolin'," pack of lies. It's no plaster-face like polecats of the press could argue it for Georgie laughed. Gentleman Jim can get you with your twenty years, and still the victor would He wasn't fooling. He ducked his feathers down. Him nor any other man." be Sullivan, in the shape of Barleycorn, head and charged. But he forgot to take "I've only got to hit him once, ain't even when Corbett had him with his his hat off. The two of them butted hat to I?" feathers in the dust. hat. and it was hard to say which was "Just once is all." And John L. Sullivan saw the point. the better man, except that now there "I'm still John L. Sullivan, ain't I?" He tousled Georgie's hair. was only one John L. Sullivan, and he "Sure you are, Johnnie." "Haw, haw, haw!" he bellowed. looking like the devil's own triumph in a The image in the glass was shattered, "Gimme me hat, it's where I keep me welter of broken glass and tip-tilted In- but there was a better image there in brains."

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present. Yet despite being a proxy this a home-made boat, to reach his patients; quivering bloody thing on the boy's silent witness somehow worked on the patient's he told me of the night he lost a boy- chest. conditioned reflex and there was aston- patient through typhoid after, appar- For moments. Doc Ballowe said, the

ishingly little blood lost. Call it auto- ently, the fever had abated; and how the room was as silent as the grave, as men suggestion, hypnotism, call it what you relatives, with drawn dirks, gathered bent their eyes on that chicken's bloody will. These things happened." scowlingly around him, while the father corpse. Suddenly the father turned to He told me of nights spent in a pirogue, ripped open a chicken and la}' the still Doc Ballowe.

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"You go now. Signs say you no kill mv should be sending for my book. If he can correspondence course Linden Dalferes boy." later answer all the questions contained would take care of him. And he will. I "I had been tried for my life," said in that I'll give him the swellest certifi- want to mention one more fact about

Doc, "and if those entrails had given cate of graduation he ever had framed." Linden Dalferes before I get dunked another message I would not be here now I agreed with him, and Linden told again into some Louisiana local color. to tell you of it." me that if any Post Service Officer or We were continuing the talk about serv- This was swell and I was just easing Post Commander anywhere in these ice work and its problems, and I hap- around to what Doc knew of Jean Lafitte United States wanted to send for his pened to mention (Continued on page 52) when McCormick seized my arm and said, "It's time to move on." "But pirates—voodoos," I protested. — " "Hidden or buried treasure— "MY STORE BLEW MW,uutUmzind!" Doc Ballowe laughed. "Buried treasure STORE TAKES OFF IN TORNADO forget it, my boy. If the pirates buried — CARRIES STOREKEEPER 200 FEET any treasure they dug it up and spent it before they died. Jean and Pierre Lafitte O E. D. Cornelius, of died in poverty. So did Dominick You. Daisy, Oklahoma, used to others. If they had buried So did the had run a store near Antlers, treasure think you they would have gone until a tornado blew it hungry and ragged? Oh, I know men who away, tvitb him in it! He go to Grand Isle to look and dig—but E. D. Cornelius writes: they find nothing—nor ever will." And on that I was forcibly dragged "At ten away from this walking story book and © o'clock the night ofJune hurried down the bank of the Bayou la 9th, I was wakened by terrific thun- Fourche; and before I got my mind off der and lightning. I grabbed a flash- blood and pirates Roland was telling me light and started pulling on my that I was now traversing the longest clothes. The howl of the wind be- the world eighty miles from street in — came a scream. The store began to end to end and housewives close enough rock. An avalanche of merchandise to call one to the other. tumbled from the shelves. ..and over "The Cajuns had big families," McCor- she went! mick explained, "and dividing the land among the heirs—by 'arpents' which is slightly less than an acre—the land lots narrowed in front but lengthened out. But rich land—look at the sugar cane! that land will grow anything. And houses for eighty miles rubbing shoulders." Well, as we rode along this lovely bayou beneath an arch of waving Span- ish moss it seemed a good time to ask Linden Dalferes, the Service Officer, what good he was getting out of his correspondence school for service officers. "This year," he told me, "I've got one hundred and ninety-five Post Service and Assistant Post Service Officers registered. And I've got Service Officers from other Departments registered—even as "Something hit me far away as Seattle, Washington. And as and I went out like a for doing good, listen, out of the two light but hundred and nineteen students I've — my flashlight graduated, most of them are or have didn't and I still hung on taken the post graduate course. to it. My store landed 200 "How else can a Post Service Officer feet from its foundations, stay on top of the swiftly changing rules and then went on . . and regulations? And without some such course to give him the proper answers 7 to the problems facing him how can a ". . . but it left me at the first stop. Neighbors who saw Post Service Officer aid the disabled Q my Store was gone started looking for me. veteran in his district?" They found me alive I admitted he had something there. only because the 'Eveready' fresh DATED batteries in my "You know I have," said Linden. "Just flashlight were still working. I lay battered and unconscious have some Post Commander or newly on the bank of a rapidly rising stream. A matter of minutes appointed Service Officer ask himself and I would have drowned. No two ways about it, I owe my this question: 'With procedure changing, life to 'Eveready' batteries, the kind that can take it! and rules and rights changing, are there {.Signed) any veterans in my district who are not getting their rights because I don't know what procedure to follow even to get 'em FRESH BATTERIES LAST LONGER...^^*^ DATE- LI H^* into a hospital?' Any Post Service Officer or Post Commander who can't say he NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY, INC., 30 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. knows the answer to the above question Unit of Union Carbide MHN and Carbon Corporation

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The .22 Hornet bullet streaks 2,650 feet per extremely flat trajectory simplifies estimating night" during which each Legionnaire second at the muzzle ! 1,2 50 feet per second elevation and thrills you with accurate hits at pledged himself to go to hislocalphysician faster . . over 4 times more energy . . than the long range. Now you have a choice of two fastest .22 Long Rifle bullet! it brings you attractive!, priced Savage Rifles chambered for a thorough physical examination. I within effective range of all small animals. Its for this powerful, inexpensive cartridge. remarked that this was a real service because Legionnaires later hospitalized in YeteransAdministration SAVAGE MODEL 219 Facilities,tohave what were now minor ailments repaired, .22 Hornet Single Shot Rifle & * 25 would have many more years of produc- At last! A real low-priced rifle for the .22 Hornet! Light in weight. Modern, streamlined stock and fore-end of 13 tivity in front ofthem.Addingmorewealth selected American walnut. Automatic ejector. to the country and happiness for themselves. SAVAGE MODEL 23-D Dalferes gave me a quick, bright look and whipped out his notebook. "That," .22 Hornet "Sporter", 6-Shot Repeater $ 95 he said softly, "is one swell idea, and I A real fine hunting arm. High speed lock. One-piece 29 can use it, and thanks for telling me." stock and fore-end of selected American walnut. It's always nice to meet a man who

for FREE Catalog !§? knows a good idea and wants to put it to Sand Dept. 7095, Utica, N.Y. Kindly send me, free, your 1939 Catalog. work, and I was thinking about this quite happily when we pulled into a quaint, I Name gentle village called St. Martinville.

SAVAGE I Address I I said, "Is this where get the dope on the Legion school awards?" "Later," said Roland. "Come on over to the co'thouse. I want you to meet Judge Walt Simon, who knows these Cajuns inside out." That brought up the question often Ml Batting Champion and 1 asked: What is the difference between a Creole and a Cajun? District Judge MOSTVAlUABllPlAYfR Walter Simon answered. He is a slim, in /93g.„ urbane, youngish man, carrying himself

. has this to say about the with the erect carriage of the soldier. And bats he uses — Louisville young he is, too, having sat on the Sluggers — I've found from bench since he was twenty-eight years the start of my baseb old, and the ^fourth Simon to hold the career that it pays to use a good bat.

that's why I chose a Louisville Slugger office. in the beginning and why I've never It seems that Judge Simon, the De- used any other make of bat since — partment Judge Advocate, is a story all As big and powerful as Lombardi is— by himself. His great grandfather, coming feet 2 inches tall and weighing 215 Belgium, was the first judge at St. pounds— his bat is a 35 inch Louisville from

Slugger— because as he says— If I tried Martinville and left only to sit on the for the written signa- to use a longer bat my swing would be Louisiana Supreme Court. Then his ture of a famous player slowed down and I'd miss 'em!" assumed the office, which on Ihe end. grandfather HIllERICMBRADSBTC HILLERICH & BRADSBY CO.. inc LOUISVILLE, KY was later filled by his son, Walt Simon's father. At his death the Simon I was ^^vi^^fe^lOUISVILLE SLUGGER BATSI talking to resigned from the Legislature to be judge because, as they told me locally, "It wouldn't be right without a Simon sittin' in the co'thouse." Well, to get back to the difference be- T YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? tween a Cajun and a Creole, Judge Simon IS the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was said, "Three classes of people originally mailed correct for all near future issues.' If not, please fill in this coupon and mail settled Louisiana, the French colonist THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. and emigre, the Spaniard, and the Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine is new address French-Canadians forcibly thrust out of Acadie, or Acadia if you want to An- Name. (PLEASE PRINT) glicize it. The intermarriage of the French and the Spanish produced the Creole; 1939 MEMBERSHIP CARD NO. those who fled from Acadie, the Acadiens, Anon fss became the Cajuns." City Statf We stood chatting and smoking for a Post No. Dfpt moment and then Judge Simon took my OLD ADDRESS arm and said, "Let's go look at the AnnuFss Evangeline Oak. It's over here on the banks of the Bayou Teche." ClTY_ .State. "The one Longfellow wrote about?" I

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53 queried. "Say, I studied that as a kid in one planter, wisning to give a memorable school." wedding, who imported thousands of Try this cooler "You didn't learn all about it," grinned spiders from France and placed them in McCormick. the branches of the live oak so that they My curiosity aroused, I strolled across spun their webs to form a solid gray arch. the pleasant street, so filled with sounds And negro slaves sprinkled this, and the SHAVING of the French tongue as to bring back road beneath the feet of the bride and memories of iqiS. We rounded the the groom, with gold and silver dust charming little Church of St. Martin's until it was, indeed, a walk through that has stood here since the French Fairyland. CREAM owned Louisiana, skirted its solid walls, St. Martinville isn't that rich now, but and stood at length staring at a vast and as McCormick said, "Everyone makes a spreading live oak, hundreds of years old, living and still has time for his friends. at our expense whose polished green foliage dripped with And has time for such work as this, and the gray fleece of Spanish moss. Beyond he pointed to a very modern schoolhouse the massive tree the* still waters of the where was to be this day a speaker from Bayou Teche reflected the dark shadow the district to talk on the Legion school 20 SHAVES of the ancient tree, the bright hue of the award. sky, the meadowlands that rolled pleas- "Organization is what makes it possi- antly from the other shore. It was quiet, ble for us to distribute 550 school awards placid, the only sound the quick flutter of a year," McCormick said. "For one thing wings as a mocking bird fled on our ap- we have the Legionnaire Schoolmasters' proach. Here, I knew, the Acadiens had Club, with more than 200 members, all landed in a search for a new freedom of them Legionnaires teaching in this FREE and had found it. State. That brings cooperation and no "And here," said Judge Simon, quietly, friction, and two meetings a year keep We won't ask you to read a lot of weighty arguments aimed to Lis- "is where Evangeline is buried." everyone informed and pepped up. Then convince you that terine Shaving Cream is superior to others. I turned at his request and looked into we have the State divided into eight We'll rest our case on the cream itself. We the shadow of the church wall. There was districts, each with a vice-president to want you to try it at our expense. the silhouette of a girl in bodice and conduct the elimination contest for win- One little dab of it on the face, whipped pointed colonial cap, restfully bent, as if ners in his district. We had two hundred into a cool, creamy lather, will do more to quietly waiting, a girl in bronze so vividly and fifty boys in the junior and senior convince you of its merit than a whole sculptured she might have been watching classes competing last year. High school page of arguments. the sinking sun. of believe that boys, course, because we If twenty free shaves do not remove all This was the girl whose tragic story you can develop American ideals in doubts of its superiority, nothing will. had inspired Henry Wadsworth Long- youths of high school age more effectively It has been our experience that when a fellow to write his masterpiece. A drift than in younger children. man gives Listerine Shaving Cream a thor- of soft air rustled through the tree and "We get out bulletins as early as No- ough trial, he rarely returns to other brands waved the gray Spanish beard like a fan vember 1st to 375 principals of public and — good as they may be. Possibly you will be to blow aside the day's warmth. We were private schools, and set out just how the an exception. We hope not. It costs you nothing learn secret silent a moment. winner in that school is to be chosen. to the of cooler, quicker shaving. Simply clip the Then Judge Simon said quietly, "Long- That is to say, that the pupils will grade coupon below and put it in the mail. Tear fellow never came here, you know. He got each other, the teachers will grade the it out now before you forget it. In return all his material from my grandfather, pupils, and the adding of the two aver- for it, you will receive a generous trial tube who was a student in the class Longfel- ages, then divided, will give the final of Listerine Shaving Cream— enough for at low taught in Harvard." standing of the pupil on which he wins least twenty shaves. "Really!" I was astonished. "It seems or loses. give award with a real We the When that tube is empty, you will prob- to me Longfellow was supposed to have ceremony, colors, Legion speaker, and ably want the regular size tube. What a gotten the form from Goethe's Hermann other formalities. And that makes an whopper of a tube it is . . . containing at least and Dorothea, and the plot from Na- impression." 130 shaves! Some men get as much as 175. thaniel Hawthorne's notebook." He waved toward the children who What a whale of a bargain at 35^!

"I've got the correspondence between chattered in French as if they had never All drug counters have it, as well as the Longfellow and my grandfather over known English. new Listerine Brushless Cream. at the house," said Judge Simon. "The "Don't fool yourself," said McCor- Lambert Pharmacal Company real Evangeline was, of course, Emme- mick, "they know English, and they St. Louis, Missouri line La Biche, and the actual story my know Americanism. Why the Louisiana grandfather told Longfellow was her State University is starting classes to search for her lover, Louis Arcenaux. The retain the old folk customs and speech correspondence antedates the publication that is gradually being lost. That's part LISTERINE of the poem by a year—Longfellow of their heritage, and they love all of brought it out in 1845. You can see for this country with a fierce, deep affection." SHAVING CREAM yourself the myriad details he obtained." We had turned back toward New Or- It was too bad I couldn't, because here, leans now, and against the sunset was without doubt. I had stumbled on some the loom of the vast live oaks; and the CLIP THIS COUPON NOW 20 SHAVES important literary history, but like the land stretched away, in twilight now, a Lambert Pharmacal Co., rest of this trip, just when I was deep in soft and quiet land, gentle yet rich, dying, Dept. 15, St. Louis, Ma FREE a subject, it was time to go somewhere yet eternal. Please send me free and postpaid your large sam- else. Yet before leaving St. Martinville I McCormick sighed. "A great land and ple tube of Listerine Shaving Cream; Listerine came upon a curious fact worth recording. a fine people, as patriotic as any man can Brushless Cream. (Check whichever is desired.) In those days, as now, St. Martinville be who loves the soil and to make things Name was a great producer of sugar cane and grow from it." the planters were unbelievably wealthy, Under the spell of the twilight we were Address- importing French opera for their amuse- silent, and rode along in the grip of a soft ment in the summer. And thev tell of night. The (Continued on page 54) City .State.

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Mississippi passed under us, we swung went to the leprosarium, nobody ever Bruce about the unemployment cam- through Baton Rouge and headed south took any interest, until the Legion paign —can't have veterans without a job. on the east bank. Presently, on my right, founded a Post of veterans who had And let's see, there's that district meet- a series of lights glowed like illuminated contracted leprosy in the service. You ing. I want to put the membership over pearls. can put it in the book we did that." thirteen thousand this time because the

Louis McCormick waved his hand. I lc leaned bark ag;iin. sighed. "Roland, bigger we are the easier it is to get some- "Carville, where the leprosarium is," he remind me to see Alcee about the dele- thing done. Only," he sighed heavily, explained. "Boy, when I think of what gation to Washington for our new Vet- "golly, what a lot to do and what a

that place was, a fire-trap, no hospital, erans Administration Facility. We've brief little year to get it all done in. I

and malaria raising hell in the summer got to have it. Think of seven hundred figure when my tour of duty is up I'm and pneumonia in the winter I can appre- and sixteen of our Louisiana boys hospi- going to sleep for a solid week." ciate what the Legion did all by itself." talized away from this fine country. A few minutes later Roland nudged "You mean?" I asked. Think of eight to ten disabled veterans me. Louis was catching a nap before he "They've got a million-and-a-half-dol- going to the Charity Hospital in New drove fifty miles more for a district meet- lar appropriation to build a new and Orleans rather than be hospitalized out of ing. Maybe it's that kind of push that's modern leprosarium that will be a model the State by the Veterans Administra- put Louisiana among the Big Ten, and for the world. And I'm throwing no bou- tion." kept her there continuously for ten years. quets when I tell you that nobody ever He sighed again. "And I've got to see It's certainly a great Department,

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barrage of propaganda and political pres- spot" in South America than we've ever pleasant truth into our taxpayers' ears by sure is now being prepared by the dic- been before, and the mortal enemies of radio, week after week. We have not tators to launch against American inter- our own system of government and credo formed a National Council of Latin ests in our own hemisphere. Recently of living have a long lead on us. What are American experts and business men and Field Marshal Goering's newspaper, the we going to do about it? And what can publicity advisers to confer with State Esscncr National-Zeitung, jubilantly an- we do? Department and other government of- nounced that Franco's triumph would ficials and work out a coordinated plan "reduce American hegemony in the TO SAVE Brazil from nazi clutches we the most practical plan available—for a Western Hemisphere to a mass of ruins." closed a series of commercial and fi- defense of all American interests, coupled The mouthpiece of nazi Number 2 nancial agreements with her foreign min- with a defense of democratic institutions, hailed the growth of totalitarianism and ister, Dr. Aranha, in Washington on March throughout the Western Hemisphere. anti-Semitism throughout Latin America. oth. These American credits to Brazil Until now wehave spent a million dollars

With Spain won, it added, these concep- may run up to $120,000,000. The deal while the nazi-fascists were spending ten tions would "overflow and reshape both may not be fool-proof, but it offers us the millions—and, quite as important, an the internal and foreign political structure chance of recapturing our trade position ounce of effort while Hitler's and Musso- of the New World. The pantomime of in that strategically vital country and it lini's agents in Latin America were ex- Good Neighborliness then will have been repulses Germany's inroads in a huge pending a pound of effort to head us off. played in vain. That is why the Jews in territory which is absolutely essential to Maybe you think I'm a Yankee im- the White House have such a burning us. perialist. No, I didn't get up any enthusi- interest in the Spanish civil war ... A In this sense this new departure of the asm for occupying Nicaragua or Haiti decision in Spain will bring American Roosevelt Administration is political with Marines, and I know that some of decisions in its wake. If true Spanish realism of the first order—and without our most exploitive American promoters culture and tradition is lost, the Ameri- realism we'll never repulse the nazi- have made a decidedly bad name for can continent is more or less surrendered fascist offensive in our own western themselves—and for us—in some parts to the influence of the Yankees and hemisphere. of Latin America. But personally I can't

Muscovites who march arm in arm, I don't pretend to know everything see why past mistakes or abuses should be especially in the New World." that we should do to save Latin America any excuse for our surrendering any part Hitler and Mussolini are already using from "Hit and Muss" bubonic plague, of this hemisphere to the intolerable Franco's Spain as a training ground for but I have a few ideas. From my observa- creeds and methods of conduct of Hitler propagandists who will be sent in increas- tions at Lima and contacts with high & Mussolini, Inc. If we want to keep ing numbers from the motherland of Washington officials I know that our America free, we've got to keep all the eighteen Latin American countries to Government sees the size of the problem Americas free! And we can't do it with swing them into the totalitarian line-up, and recognizes clearly the peril. I fear, spit-balls, whether spit-balls of prestige against the United States and our ideal however, that —like all democracies—we or spit-balls of trade relationships, or even of democracy. No wonder Goering's move with dangerous slowness and that of lead. newspaper cries that "a National Spain we're inclined to use rifles while the If we're going to keep our Western means national consciousness for all opposition is already operating with Hemisphere free of totalitarian death, Latin America." And when the nazis say howitzers. I'm convinced we've got to wake up as to "national consciousness" they mean the We do not fight back with a well-organ- how the Hit-and-Muss boys are pushing same kind they have imposed upon ized and formidable program. We do not us around in Good Neighborland. And 88, 000,000 people in Germany and wake up our public opinion to all that is we've got to have a Plan—a BIG PLAN Central Furope. at stake. We don't enlist our press from —and one that everybody in the Lmited It all means that we're more "on the coast to coast. We don't hammer the un- States knows about, understands and

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subscribes to with enthusiasm. If you gary, Poland, Rumania and Jugoslavia think this is being alarmist, just look at today. Give em an inch, buddy, and they what was once Austria and Czecho- take half the map. And for us the map COULD I WRITE A slovakia and Albania—and look at Hun- of all Latin America means Something! BOOK ABOUT WORMS.' THE MONROE DOCTRINE

In his annual message to the Congress, on December 2, 1823, President James Monroe penned the words which for every American have made his fame secure, for those words, guaranteeing the newly-formed governments of South America from interference on tin- part of Europe, have more and more become an insurance policy of peace for this hemisphere. It is interesting to note that this basic statement of the attitude of the United States was not implemented by any action of the Congress. I've whelped five families in my day — and sure as death and taxes, they've all had worms! But Four men who filled the office of President had a part in its promulgation. Monroe sought the Master's a great help on that score. the advice of former Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and his Secretary of State, who is generally given the major credit for the document's birth, was John Quincy Adams, Monroe's successor in the Presidency So was born the Monroe Doctrine. It is as much a part of the American creed as the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. And here it is.

THE citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellow- "Worms!" he says, looking up from the Sergeant's that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European men on DOG BOOK. "That means Sergeant's PUPPY powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any CAPSULES." So we dose the pups and the wo r m part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when scare's over. Those capsules work — just the way our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries SURE-SHOT CAPSULES clean me out! or make preparation for our defense. With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments; and to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their That DOG BOOK and I have taught the Master plenty! The new edition has a swell article by most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unex- Albert Payson Terhune. Get your free copy at felicity, this ampled whole nation is devoted. We owe it, therefore, a drug or pet store — or with this coupon. to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion this hemisphere SerqeanVs of as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the govern- DOG MEDICINES ments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on POLK MILLER PRODUCTS CORP. I Dept. GO-6, Richmond. Va. just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition Please send a free Sergeant's DOG BOOK to:

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(Continued from page jj) Is Your Town Going io Celebrate? Get More Fireworks for Your Money! Members of Harvey Seeds Post, of at least one iron lung to every hospital in Send for beautiful illustrated catalog and fireworks guide. 68 pages in color Miami, Florida, recently added a new their city. "An iron lung for every Phila- benefaction and a new service to their delphia hospital by March, 1040" has |//A\\V(/ already fine record by the presentation of been adopted as the slogan for their an iron lung to Jackson Memorial Hos- drive. pital in their home city. But the out- A story, which may well be emulated standing accomplishment of the month is by other Legion Posts, is told by Meyer reported from Philadelphia, Pennsyl- A. Abrams, Commander of the F. D. and IBERTY vania, where the members of the Fred- I. S. Clair Post. "Day after day and BRILLIANT FIREWORKS erick D. and Irving S. Clair Post pre- week after week our boys," said Com- THE STANDARD OF AMERICA have col- MANUFACTURERS sented two iron lungs to two Philadel- mander Abrams, "worked to make the They greater brilliance, or. flash and noise. Liberty hril- EXHIBITORS phia hospitals as part of their celebration affair a success. We started out with liant fireworks for public and community celebrations. Also parade of the twentieth anniversary of The Ameri- plans to but one respirator. buy Funds I in ches and campaign supplies, can Legion. As a result of this fine public came in slowly. For a while we feared that also for stores and standkeepers. LIBERTY DISPLAY FIREWORKS CO. benefaction the Legionnaires of Philadel- we would barely be able to meet the ex- FRANKLIN PARK, ILL., a suburb West of Chicago. 25th Ave., South of Grand Ave. 1 mile west of River Rd. phia have opened a campaign to present pense. Then, three (Continued on page j6) Telephone Franklin Park 31S

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days before the drive closed, a special serve the twentieth anniversary of the meeting was called, and I pleaded with founding of the Legion and to jubilate our fellows to come across. over the last payment on the rebuilding "Then came the big day. Sam Livings- of their club home. A bit of incendiarism ton, who lived and slept with the vision was one of the events of the evening when of an iron lung always before him, called Commander Forrest Davis and Adjutant me at six in the morning and told me to Edward Joblonski, with due ceremony, have the ~econd iron lung ready by that burned the old mortgage to ashes. night; there was money enough to pay Rochester Post took over the old city for both. That explains why the Northern stables on a one-dollar-a-year, ninety- Liberties and the Women's Homeopathic nine year lease plan, then converted the Hospitals in our city now have their building into an attractive, comfortable respirators right on hand and ready for and fully adequate club home, now instant use. debt free. "It is no use for me to single out any member of the Post to whom praise be- Down in an Iron Mine longs," he continues. "But in all justice I must say that without the efforts of the EYELETH (Minnesota) Post takes Chairman, Judge Theodore Rosen, and top honors for an unusual, not to say Sam Livingston, the iron lung would still unique, birthday party, when one hun- be a dream. Of course we will plunge into dred and forty members of the Legion the city-wide campaign, assuring our and Auxiliary celebrated the twentieth comrades that what Clair Post did once anniversary in an underground theater.

it can and will do again." And underground is meant, with em- In addition to the iron lungs it has been phasis on the under—two hundred and announced that several oxygen tents will fifty feet of it. The setting was the Spruce be purchased and presented to city Mine, near Eveleth, which is reputed to hospitals. have the only underground theater in the world—an old pumphouse approximately Mortgage Burners twenty by seventy-five feet in size which was converted into a theater about IT'S A gr-r-rand and glorious feeling to twelve years ago for the purpose of show- strike off the shackles of debt. That's ing safety pictures to the miners. why the members of Rochester (New The Legionnaires and Auxiliares were Hampshire) Post held a double celebra- lowered in a miner's cage twenty-five at a tion on the Legion's birthday—to ob- time and each party was met by officers

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of the Oliver Mining Company, owners annual Inyo-Mono ski meet, which is of the property, who made them welcome awarded to the winner of the men's and escorted them to the scene of the cross-country ski race. Residents of Inyo festivities. Past Department Commander and Mono Counties are eligible to enter Ben Andreen was the speaker of the this race which is run on a course of three evening. Dr. J. A. Miller, Post Adjutant, and one-half miles over rolling foothill expresses the opinion that the Eveleth country. David R. McCoy, of Bishop, is f Post birthday party holds the record for the 1939 winner . . . Post Commander M'.r# t o eLvj*li surroundings will yield unique and the J. V. Byrne, of Hall and Moriarty Post, ilag only to a Post that held its meeting St. Michael's, Pennsylvania, writes that in a submarine or up in the air in a blimp. Posts of the Twentieth Pennsylvania District observed the fiftieth anniversary Legion Shorts of the Johnstown flood at St. Michael's on May 29th. NYO Post, Bishop, California, has set I up a trophy for competition in the Boyd B. Stutxer

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Reichstag answering President Roose- For instance, we and the Germans are velt's proposal of a non-aggression com- most heavily engaged in Latin America; Rust, scale and sediment accumulate in pact, the Reich short-wave stations began in fact, it was Teuton activity there (the the delicate veins of a car radiator. Water broadcasting programs in Arabic in Italians recently signed off on the ground and circulates poorly. The car overheats. Power first expense) that short- Afrikaans. The named was designed of prompted our is lost. And you may be heading for expen- to make things tougher for Britain in the wave counter-action. sive trouble. Holy Land, where Arabs and Jews clash News is presented on our Latin You can clean out your car radiator frequently, the other to stir up national- American beam in an unbiased, straight- with Sani-Flush for 10c (25c for the larg- istic feelings in the breasts of the Boers forward manner, since it is felt that est trucks and tractors). It's easy to do of South Africa, whom the German Kai- propaganda ultimately would defeat it- yourself. Pour in Sani-Flush. Run the en- ser was wont to encourage, around the self. Music in wide variety is broadcast, gine. Drain, flush and refill with clean turn of the century, in their fight against and talks on American industry and water {directions on the can). Or, if you prefer, have your garage or service British rule. In March the nazis, nettled agriculture, supplemented with practical station use Sani-Flush to do the job. It at the London broadcasts in the German information designed to be of service to cannot injure the motor or fittings. You'll language that were being received in the Latin-American farms and factories. We find Sani-Flush in most bathrooms for Reich, began sending programs in Eng- play ball with the boys down there nowa- cleaning toilets. Sold by grocery, drug, lish, largely news bulletins with nazi days, and it's a wise policy. hardware, and five-and-ten-cent stores. 25c coloring, into the British Isles from sta- German opposition in that quarter and 10c sizes. The Hygienic Products Com- tions in Cologne and Hamburg. In April snorts at the Monroe Doctrine with pro- pany, Canton, Ohio. they added a second news broadcast in grams including the following: Opening English. announcements in German, Spanish, W hat of the full-fledged warfare which and Portuguese; songs in German by a Ssmi'Flmh might break out on the air, with male quartet; press bulletins; dance demo- KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN cratic and totalitarian stations striving music including rumbas; bedtime stories to bracket and blanket and blot each in German for "little and big" children; other out? As to that, you may be sur- market quotations on coffee; citations prised to know that a couple of compacts from U. S. news favorable to the Reich; still are holding. International short wave concert by German army band; talk on TIME COUNTS—don't risk delay in patent- broadcasting is governed by provisions portable kitchens in the Sudeten; humor- ing your invention. Write for new FREE book, "Patent Guide for the Inventor," of the Madrid Treaty of 1932 and the ous sketch in Spanish performed by cast and "Record of Invention" form. No Charge for preliminary informat'on. Treaty of Cairo of 1938 under which fre- of German and Latin-American actors, CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN & HYMAN HERMAN ! quencies are distributed among the and—here comes the dirty work —a talk Registered Patent Attorneys 247-T Adams Building, Washington, D. C nations. What little interference there in Spanish on the Jewish "Purim" feast, has been thus far has been adjusted. describing the "treacherous" slaughter While in the event of a war there un- by the Jews of thousands of innocent doubtedly would be attempts at blank- Persians ages ago. And what should the eting, in broadcasting stations, as in nazi bands end up with but a stirring DANDRUFF Costs navies, the democracies hold the pre- rendition of "Deutschland Uber Alles" ponderance of power over the axis. Peace- and the "Horst Wessel Song." Many Their Hair! time exchanges of radio fire parallel that So the short-wave tide rolls out. Fan Regular use of Glover's Mange quaint custom of the World War when mail ebbs back to our stations from all Medicine with Massage is an effect- our artillery shot at their infantry and over the world. The bulk received by ive aid for relieving dandruff. Also helps check Excessive Falling vice versa, but there was no great amount C.B.S. is from Great Britain and its Hair. Shampoo with Glover's Medicated of counter-battery except in a big attack. dominions. Included are homesick letters Soap — specially compounded Or when bombers of both sides passed from American World War veterans in to blend with the Medicine and thoroughly cleanse. up the other fellow's G.H.Q. and went the British Isles and in India. Germans Ask your Barber about Glover's and laid their eggs on railheads or am- write in appreciation of news broadcasts FREE—New Scalp and Hair munition dumps. in English. Many of the letter writers, Booklet. Write Glover's, Dept. S, 468 Fourth Ave., New York And here is a parallel with the late feeling shaky about their English, say, conflict in Spain. Clashes on the air waves "Please correct my grammar in your today take place largely in neutral lands. reply." {Continued on page j

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N.B.C. garners three thousand letters The N. B. C. International Division, correspondent, he selects the news for a month, from more than eighty coun- mentioned earlier, numbers several broadcast. At times he steps up to the tries, colonies, protectorates, and islands. Americans in its personnel. The Division microphone himself and, since there are One was from a group of six political is headed by Maj. Frank E. Mason, once undoubtedly officers of some nationality exiles in Jugoslavia, who finding many intelligence officer of the Ninth Infantry, in the invisible audience, executes that lands unwilling to accept them, have Second Division, chief censor at ad- celebrated and ultra-snappy salute of his. bought a small boat to sail to Australia vanced Ci.H.Q., and military observer Come television, the image of Boz Haw- and wish to keep in touch by ley, heels clicking and hand radio with world events. A swept up to denuded brow, medical officer in the Belgian will astound and gratify Congo wrote to compliment commissioned personnel Secretary Hull's speech. A from Greenland's icy moun- listener in Central Africa tains to India's coral strand. expressed gratitude for a Chief of the Spanish sec- source of news not stifled by tion is Charles R. Carvajal, censorship. An Alaskan, sev- an American born in the enty-five miles north of the Philippines; he once was an Arctic Circle, praised the officer on an Army transport. clear reception of a program The Division's greatest lin- intended for English-speak- guist is Philip L. Barbour, ing people in Latin America; who, besides a command of others write they received Spanish, Italian, French, that same program in China. Portuguese, and German, The largest school in Cuba can read and understand puts an N.B.C. news pro- Latin, Greek, Dutch, Sans- gram in Spanish on its loud- krit, Hungarian, Czech, and speakers daily for the whole Serbian. Personnel includes student body. An Argen- an explorer, a cowboy, an tinean station rebroadcasts archeologist, and an ex- it every day in the year for Follies girl. Such are the local listeners with high fre- gifted in tonguesAvho trans- quency sets. In the United late and broadcast daily.

States, by the way, the for- Nor should it be forgotten eign language programs of- that many an American ten are picked up in schools news despatch, destined for for study of the several the British Empire, also tongues. needs translation. It may be A curious sidelight is the couched in the best phrase- fact that N.B.C. 's fan mail ology of the Associated or How the wooing of South America by various nations has endowed it with a United Tress; yet there are via is magnificent stamp collec- short wave has affected an old Spanish custom often words which must be in this the tion, air mail and otherwise. shown cartoon by Herb Block of Newspaper shifted from American into Out of this has grown a Enterprise Association, titled "Serenade in the Night" the King's English. The men special broadcast in Spanish and women of the Division on stamps and also the inspiration that a at Berlin. Now he's shooting Berlin not only keep its regular schedule but can fair return in kind should be made. censorship full of holes. Guy C. Hickok, swing into rapid action in an emergency Therefore the company, in acknowledg- director of programs, was a World War such as arose with President Roosevelt's ing its letters from listeners, no longer correspondent and spent fifteen years April speeches and messages. puts envelopes through a machine which abroad as a newspaperman. Major John The Division has registered, as we prints a postal permit on them. Pains H. Marsching was a Second Division used to say in the artillery, and the range are taken to affix postage stamps, par- staff officer and served at Arras, Belleau and other data are correct. But when it ticularly those of special issues. That Wood, and Vaux; later he was senior in- passes into fire for effect, is it getting any practice is held out as an inducement for structor in German at the Army Intelli- —particularly in the German sector fan mail and it works like a charm. Also gence School at Langres. As chief of the where censorship is as tough a proposition stamp collectors, young and old, write in Division's German section, Marsching as the barbed wire and concrete emplace- and make swap-. can be termed the spearhead of the ments of yore? Spanish translators for C.B.S. face attack. tough problems in translating American On the post as news editor of the Divi- THE rise of international broadcast- song titles for South American audiences. sion is a veteran whose figure with its ing impresses the miracle of radio "You Leave Me Breathless" had to be famed gesture is familiar to every reader upon us anew. That "all the world's a rendered, "You Leave Me Without of this magazine—the Saluting Demon stage" is as true now as when Shake- Respiration." Tokens of gratitude sent of the A. E. F., none other than Hudson speare said it, and today we all may sit Columbia by foreign listeners have in- R. Hawley. The rat-tat-tat of news tele- among the audience of its tense dramas. cluded Irish shamrock and Scotch short- type machines clattering at his elbow is Though, pending the further develop- bread. In the latter case the correspond- as nothing to this former machine-gun- ment of television, the players for the ent said he wished he could have sent ner. With discrimination learned as a most part remain unseen, they all but Scotch whiskey instead. So did Co- member of the wartime Stars and Stripes stand before us, so plainly do the tones lumbia. staff and in eighteen years in Europe as a of their voices project their personalities.

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Imagination may vividly paint their reception in all quarters of the globe. stage setting, as crowd noises, band Opportunities for ignorance and misun- Xpett.22's GIVE YOU music, and other sounds are brought to us derstanding to work their harm are vastly thousands of miles through the air. Time lessened. The sudden, secret stroke is differences and the confusion of tongues often known as soon as it has been GREATER accuracy are as negligible as space. A speech in a executed. WESTERN XPERT L.R. .22'saresoaccuratethat foreign language, made at an hour when The curtain's up, the show is on. Is the many of the nation's best it would reach us at 3 a.m. if directly microphone mightier than the sword? shots WIN with them in big rifle matches. Their is in these broadcast, is recorded, translated and re- That a hope to which the world sensational accuracy is broadcast at moments convenient for its parlous times may cling. YOURS for all-around /in- shooting, at no extra cost over ordinary .22's. Clean, non-corrosive priming! Smokeless powder! Greas- ed lead bullets! .2 2 Long AS THE NAZI SHORT WAVE SEES US Rifle,.22Longand.22Short sizes. Mail the Coupon foe FREE useful handbook. The following quotations are from the English-language news broadcast by the Berlin short-wave stations on April 14, iqjq, eight and one-half hours after President Roose- velt had addressed the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union, and five and one- half hours after N.B.C. had broadcast its German translation into Germany by short wave. Note the germ of truth used to reach wholly false conclusions.

. . . While the Fuehrer and the Duce are courageously endeavoring chaos created by the western to replace by a new, just order the , democracies, President Roosevelt tries to support a shattered front with his agitation. . . . President Roosevelt presents the Pan-American Union.

. . . Allegedly peace and concord have always prevailed among the Rifle in foreground: bolt action Winchesters. The other: nations. . . . the head of the state could American One wonders how slide action Winchester 61, re- talk such nonsense, above all, if one recalls that the United States have peater. Both are big values. carried out no fewer than sixty-nine invasions of Latin-American coun- Western Cartridge Company tries in the last forty years alone. . . . Roosevelt has promised Canada Dept. F-68, East Alton, Illinois Mail your 72-page modern shooting military assistance . . . the only country that ever wished to annex guide, the Western Ammunition Canada was the United States itself. . . . He has dramatically promised Handbook, FREE, to: to the American nations the economic protection of the United States Name Address . . . . the control of the usual Jewish financiers of New York. Post Office State President Roosevelt's reference to the Huns and Vandals is an especially impudent outburst . . . the Indians could tell a lot of things.

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comfort —light, durable. Will send it to you without a penny in advance—wear it 10 days— if satisfied pay only $6\6!> single. $9.85 double, or return without obligation. Send today for Sta- The First First Gall Put—give location of rupture, size when out. age. occupation, waist and hip measure. Scott Appliance Company,. 2005 Morris Avenue. Steubenville. Ohio. {Continued from page 36) names inscribed on the marker show and to the Croismare cemetery, and in the picture, I list- buried in an American in fairly distinctly am cemetery Better Built — Lower Prices ing them as they appear: Lieut. John France. The Adjutant General's Office Canoes, Rowboats, Outboard Motor Boats, Olympic, Snipe, Norman, E. Sullivan, M. Ahearn, P. advised me that my brother's remains Comet and Sea Gull Sail Boats CATALOG FREE Britt, W. Drain, W. Ellinger, M. Galvin, were also removed to the American Save Money—Prompt Shipment—Two Factories. A. Hegney, E. Kearney, C. cemetery. Personally I regret the trans- 8» J. Haspel, THOMPSON BROS. BOAT MFG. CO. < 2IS Ann St. / Write to \ 116ElmSt. Lugisland, F. Meagher, W. Moylan, W. fer, especially of the bodies that were in PESHTIGO. WIS. (either elact) CORTLAND. N. V. Sage and R. Snyder. the dugout." "After I arrived home in the States, I In checking the names on the marble visited or wrote to the relatives of the marker with those supplied by Mr. WORK FOR THE boys who had been killed in the dugout Helmer in his account in the January, and sent them copies of the pictures. The 1939, issue, we discovered that he had heartfelt appreciation they expressed, not included in his roster the names some in person and some by letter, will of A. Hegney and E. Kearney. We re- be forever remembered by me and the ferred to "Father Duffy's Story" which letters will be held and cherished for all was written by Chaplain Francis P. time. Duffy and published in 1919, and learned "My efforts to secure authentic facts that immediately before the tragedy that GOVERNMENT covering the disaster extended over a took twenty-one lives, a smaller dugout long of time during which I in- nearby had suffered direct hit $1260 to $2100 Year period a from a TO START terviewed many men of the old regiment, shell and two signal men from Head- Ex-Service Men among them the late Chaplain Duffy quarters Company of the 165th Infantry, get preference / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE You are / Dept. LI 80 and Colonel Anderson. One member, Arthur Hegney and Edward Kearney, Rochester. N. Y. exempt from I age limits. Govern- Gaffney, an old friend, advised me were killed. Lieutenant Norman was in Rush FREE list of IT. S. Tom 6li76 appointed ment hiK pay dependable JOBS. with preference 32-page book describing salaries, by letter on April 7, 1922, that the the dugout with these two men and 1938 Fiscal Year. hours, work. Tell me all about , and Graves Committee of the old 69th Regi- barely extricated himself from the debris. Take advantage of s preference to Ex-Service men your preference how to qualify for one of these jobs. J ment made report that the bodies were While inspecting the larger dugout along- Mail Coupon Name Today j disinterred after my visit to the dugout side, he lost his life. (Continued on page 60) SURE / A 'hit r

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• Never before an EVINRUDING Evinrude so inexpen- (Continued from page 59) sive to own, so handy and economical to operare. The sensa- it isn't sounded calling all the tional new "Mate" WARTIME or no wartime, men on deck. Collision fits your own or rent- a pleasant experience to be forced mats were thrown over the side and sailors ed boats—drives row- stood by with lifeboats. The Redondo boats up to 4'/2 miles to get off a big ship and pile into life- had an hour, canoes up to struck about midships, crashing boats or hang onto rafts, hoping that fate into the 5 miles. Runs all day Graf Waldersee' s port side to a depth of about on a single gallon of might decree that some vessel be close fuel. Amazing start - 4 feet, cutting one hole of about S feet square i n g ease — a fl i c k of enough to pick you up. And such experi- and two about 2 feet square; connected to- the starting cord and ences during the war weren't always ^ you're away! Write gether by an irregular crack in the plating; for catalog today! chargeable to attacks by U-boats—acci- this injury extended from the waterway to dents played their part, too. For instance, the main deck to the turn of the bilge, there is the case of the U. S. Transport through a hole in the coal bunker, the water rushing through the bulkhead into 9 EVINRUDES Graf Waldersee of which we received a the engine TO CHOOSE FROM picture from Legionnaire William Free- room. The holes in the vessel's side were under the Evinrude offers the widest range of man of Edward L. Cossette Post of water line and men were quickly models, from the lightest, handiest, stationed at the steam pumps below to the swiftest, most powerful. All Hurley, Wisconsin, whose address is Lock are famed for exceptional starting The Patricia was the first ship to come to ease, smoothness, Box 472, Montreal, Wisconsin. The pic- reliability. Ail offer the assistance of the Graf Waldersee, arriving advanced Hooded Power construction, ture is reproduced on page 36 and shows Co-Pilot steering, certified horsepower. in about three-quarters of an hour and taking some of the crew in lifeboats, while a tug AN ELTO FOR ONLY $29.50 aboard all the men who had been lowered New Elto Cub weighs only &V2 pounds, stands by the stricken vessel. in lifeboats. The Patricia towed her to a costs only 2c an hour to run. Now, a Comrade Freeman admits his recol- point off complete line of 6 Elto models— built Long Beach (New York), where she byErinrudt—offer outstandingquality lection of this incident is rather vague, was beached to save the vessel. . . . at low cost. Write for free Evinrude and Elto catalogs. Boat Directory, but he gives this story: The Graf Waldersee was floated at 3:45 Boat & Motor Selector. o'clock "The enclosed picture is of the U. S. on the afternoon of the 14th and was towed into New York Harbor by four tugs. EVINRUDE MOTORS Transport Graf Waldersee. AU I can re- 4224 N. 27th St. Milwaukee, Wis. The vessel was promptly repaired and again member is that we were going back to put in service. Brest, France, to get another shipload No lives were lost and no one was injured. of troops. We left Hoboken in the after-

tgion posts am! other promoters of noon of June 20, ioiq, I think it was, r events carry Bain Insurance indem- in this department had the nifying ayaitist loss of income or expense. and got rammed that night the fog WHEN /ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY out of New York. honor and pleasure of interview- INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA ing SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE "Now I would like to know what ship Mrs. James Morris, National Presi- COMPANY dent of The American Legion Auxiliary, Applications must be filed seven days prior to event. rammed us, and I'd like to get a little See Local Agent in your town, or address to obtain material for Mrs. Morris's Rain Department, 209 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, III. more dope on it from some of my old shipmates. I was fireman rcl, Section biography, among otherinteresting things Two, on this ship. The ship was put learned was the fact that while Jim (now CAN YOU USE into commission in Brest, France, after Judge) Morris was in training with the 338th Field Artillery in Camp Dodge, MORE MONEY? the Armistice and if I remember rightly, most of the crew came from the U. S. S. Iowa, Mrs. Morris spent the winter of at the Camp. a special Make up to $1.50 an hour in your spare Carola shore station at Brest. So let's 1917-1918 As time selling American Legion Magazine hear from the old gang. Some said at the privilege, Mrs. Morris, a bride of less subscriptions to folks in your community. permitted to live in time it was the S. S. Redondo, English than a year, was

Legionnaires everywhere are earning this ship, that hit us. I think it was the U. S. S. the Hostess House at Camp Dodge. easy spare-time money. Send us your name Patricia or the Pretoria that took us in Subsequent correspondence with the and address today for full information. tow. Some of our crew were taken aboard National President, before her story ap- this rescue ship, while others got left in peared in the Legion Magazine, devel- THE AMERICAN LEGION oped an incident that we felt made Mrs. the life boats—later returned to the Graf. MAGAZINE "They beached the Graf Waldersee off Morris eligible for membership in our 777 N. Meridian Street New York some place and put the crew Then and Now Gang. She is the first Indianapolis Indiana right back on her. Navy lighters and tug National President admitted to member- boats came alongside and divers went ship. See if you don't agree that her down and patched up the hole in our side. account warrants admittance—and we They pumped out the water and, boy, hope we'll locate the bride referred to: KIDNEYS did we have a job on our hands to clean "In connection with my staying at the up below decks. They then towed us to Camp Dodge Hostess House during the MUST REMOVE the Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs." winter of 1017-1018, I forgot to tell you The Company Clerk did some research so many interesting things. The Judge EXCESS ACIDS in the Legion Magazine library and found suggested that I tell you this story: Help 15 Miles of Kidney Tubes this account in the Annual Report of the "One night while I was living there, a Flush Out Poisonous Waste Chief of Transportation Service to the young girl came to the Hostess House If you have an excess of acid waste in your blood, your 15 miles of kidney tubes may be over-worked. Secretary of War covering the fiscal year with her Dad to tell her sweetheart good- These tiny filters and tubes are working day and night she a hunch he would be leav- to help Nature rid your system of poisonous waste. 1919: bye— had When functional kidney disorder permits poisonous ing soon for France. As a matter of fact, matter to remain in the blood, you won't feel well. transport Waldersee, This may cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, The Army Graf a she discovered he would leave that mid- leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, for chartered German passenger ship bound night, so they decided to be married at swelling, pulfincss under the eyes, headaches and France with eight military passengers, was dizziness. If you have trouble with frequent or scanty once. passages with smarting and burning, there may be rammed by the S. S. Redondo during a fog off something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. "We scurried around, moved all the Lire Island At the time, Kidneys may need help the same as on June 11, 1910. bowels, so ask plants and the piano into a small parlor, your druggist for Doan's Pills, used successfully by she was going at slow speed ahead and whis- millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and homey time to time on ac- got a minister, and had everything will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poison- tles were blowing from ous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. count of the fog. A general alarm was for her wedding. When it was almost

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20th Div. Reunion dinner, Sept. 20. Chicago time for the ceremony, they discovered — YD Club will open Hq. in a Loop hotel. Walter D. TARGET SHOOTING'S the}' had forgotten all about a wedding Crowell, 2400 Hartzell St., Evanston, 111., or Ed- mund D. O'Connell, 7010 S. Union st., Chicago. ring and she was in tears; but there was 38th Div. Vets. Assoc.—Organized at Los loads of fun Reunion in Chicago. Report J. not sufficient time to go in to Des Moines Angeles, 1038. to F. Heim, organ, director, lOolo Croesus av., Los and I always use a to purchase a ring. Angeles, Calif., if interested in organizing local

' I < > I 'lub. "I told her she could be married with 80th Div. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion dinner, Chi- cago. -Mark R. Byrne, natl. secy., 413 Plaza bldg., my ring and give it back to me after the Pittsburgh, Pa. MOSSBERG ceremony. Never shall I forget how horrid 82d Div. Assoc., Western Assoc. —Proposed because Dad says that's the convention reunion, Chicago. Vets residing west of safest the soldier's captain was—stuffed shirt, Mississippi River report to Paul W. Tilley, actg. rifle there is — and

1 it's comdr., 1 122 W. 88th St., Los Angeles, Calif. stream-lined, too. Dad if you ask me— to think I'd take my wed- ^ 85th Div. Assoc. —Permanent organization and has a Mossberg 46B* re- ding ring off my finger; his wife had Chicago reunion. Frank L. Greenya, pres., 2812 W, peater and I have a Moss- Pierce St., Milwaukee, Wise. berg never hers off! Neither had I, but 26B** single shot. had 4 1st Inf. Reunion of all vets. Frank A. Abrams, — He says every boy, for his 7754 S. Halsted St., Chicago. who would quibble at such a time? own good, should know 40th Inf., Cos. A, B, C it D—5th reunion. Lewis "But just the same, the gal was mar- E. Pirkev, Saybrook, 111., or I. G. Gordon Forster, j. how to handle a 1 1 502 Liberty Trust bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. "$13.85 fU^I^. rifle." ried with my ring and I have wondered 4th Inf. C. O. T. S., 1st Co., 2d Bn., Camp ** — safety fea- so often—I lost her name and address in Pike—Proposed reunion and organization. L. C. $5.75 Special Howe, 8044 Bishop st., Chicago. tures — loading port at side the wartime shuffle—if her husband ever 0th F. A.—Proposed reunion. Write W. F. out of range of face — surest type of "stop & go" safety mechanism — trigger returned and what has become of them. Oberlies, 95th & Cottage Grove av., Chicago. Btry. C, 62d C. A. C. (Presidio)—Mannie cannot be fired until bolt is safely locked. There were many funny and tragic things Fisher, 1357 N. Western av., Chicago. Prices slightly higher vest of Rockies (Ft. Winfield Btry. C, 07th C. A. C; 7th Co. SEND FOR COMPLETE FREE MOSSBERG CATALOGUE that occurred during that winter at Camp Scott); 44th & 45th Prov. Cos. (Presidio)— D. Nolan, 372 Bridle Path, Worcester, Mass. Dodge—but it isn't every girl who has G. Btries. C & D, 4th & 5th Regts. F. A. R. D., 0. F. MOSSBERG & SONS, inc. had another couple married with her Camp Taylor— Frank O'Sullivan, Galena, Ks. 8006 Greene Street, New Haven, Conn. Army Art. Park, 1st Army Proposed reunion. ring." — wedding W. H. Kornbeck, 5520 Berenice av., Chicago. Please send me the new 1939 Mossberg catalogue. Co. C, 1st Amm. Trn., 1st Div.— Proposed reunion. Jacob G. Wagner, Box 12, Monterey, Ind. Name ATTENTION! Veterans outfits that Co. E, 4th Amm. Trn.— Reunion. Write Harry K. Fletcher, 720 E. st., Iowa. J- J- Vine Ottumwa, intend to hold reunions in Chicago, Street , World War Vets, of C. A. C.—Permanent 28th, in conjunction organization. Convention reunion. Report to R. R. September 25th to City _State_ Jacobs, comdr., 43 Frisbie av., Battle Creek, Mich. with the Legion National Convention, Btry. A, 2d Trench Mortar Bn.—Proposed My firearms dealer i W. Main St., are hereby advised that Stanley R. reunion. Arthur Robinson, 533 N. Berrien Springs, Mich. McNeill has been appointed Chairman of World War Tank Corps Assoc.— Natl. convention reunion, Chicago. E. J. Price, chmn., 130 the Convention Reunions Committee. N. Wells st., Chicago. Vets interested in organizing Comrade McNeill and his committee local Battalions, wTite Claude J. Harris, organ, dir., REGULATION WAR MEDALS 817 J 2 W. 43d st., Los Angeles, Calif. stand ready to co5perate with all veter- 14th Engrs. Vets. Assoc. —Natl. reunion. Hq. An Agent of the War Department has Mezzanine Floor, Auditorium Hotel, Michigan just compiled a 52-page illustrated book ans groups making preparations for blvd. & Congress St., Chicago. A. G. Grant, chmn., covering all United States medals and reunions by obtaining reservations for 8018 Evens av., Chicago. most Foreign Medals. Complete Regu- 17th Engrs. (Ry.) Assoc. —Reunion. Write lations on medals, ribbons, miniatures, meeting places and furnishing informa- Mark W. Van Sickel, secy.-treas., 1309 Virginia etc., send $.10 in coin or stamps to av., Columbus, Ohio. cover postage. Veterans only. tion as to banquets, luncheons, enter- 23d Engrs. Assoc.—Write H. H. Siddall, pres., GEORGE W. STUDLEY reunion 5440 Ridgewood Court, Chicago, 111., for advance tainments or whatever form the 601 Rochester, Y. reunion news and copy of official publication. Lake Ave. N. may take. Legionnaires in charge of 35th Engrs. —Reunion of car builders. Fred Krahenbuhl, 1310 Hanover st., Hamilton, Ohio. reunions should their meetings to report 30th Engrs. — 15th annual reunion, Atlantic Chairman McNeill, and can address him Hotel, Chicago, Sept. 26. Charles M. Karl, secy., 1H>40 Princeton av., Chicago. Learn Profitable Profession at The American Legion 1939 Conven- 00th Ry. Engrs. and Auxiliary'—Sth annual in QO days at Home reunion. Hq. open Sun., Sept. 24. D. E. & Eula tion Corporation of Chicago headquar- nps of Men and Women in the fascinating pro- Gallagher, secys., 812 E. 21st St., Little Rock, Ark. ion of Sweden Ma.ssu'e run as hitch as $4n t. in 01st Engrs. Vets. Assoc. (57-5S-59 R. T. C.)— per week but many prefer to open theirownof- ters the Morrison Hotel, Madison and s. Large incomes from I toe tors, hospitals, eani- 2d reunion. Edward M. Soboda, secy.-treas., 1617 ums and private patients come to those who alify through our training. Reducing Clark Streets, Chicago, Illinois. W. Hopkins st., Milwaukee, Wise. alone offers rich rewards for specialists. Detailed information of the following 314th F. S. Bn. Assoc.—21st annual reunion, Wr for < 'hurt,-. Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, Sat., Sept. 23. booklet— They're FREE. THE College of Swedish Massage National Convention reunions may be Make early reservation with A. J. Tichy, secy., 2117 30 E. Adams St., Opt. A75, Chicago

S. East av., Berwyn, 111. Smcccmot %• National College of Matsw I obtained from the Legionnaires listed: 415th Sig. Corps Bn. Assoc.—Reunion hq. in Great Northern Hotel, Chicago. James J. Maher, Soc. of 1st Div., A. E. F.— 10th annual reunion 3723 S. Rockwell st., Chicago. and banquet. Hq., Room 107, Hotel Sherman, Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets. — Chicago, Sept. 23-24. Early registration advisable. Three-day reunion, banquet and dance. Hq. at DON'T SUFFER Herman R. Dorf, gen. chmn.. Post Comdr., Canti- Congress Hotel, Chicago. Sidney R. Rothschild, this gny Post, A. L., Room 107, Hotel Sherman, Chicago. gen. reunion chmn., 10505 Hale av., Chicago. NEEDLESSLY. Try 2d Div. Assoc. A. E. F. —Natl, reunion banquet, 31st Balloon Co.—Reunion with Legion and ILES Wonderful Treatment Louis XVI Room, Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Sept. NAABCV. John C. Eidt, 4317 37th st., Long Island for pile suffering FREE! If you are troubled 20. George V. Gordon, Sherman Hotel, Chicago. City, N. Y. I with itching, bleeding or protruding piles, 6th Div. Assoc. Write for Sightseer and details 17th & 148th Aero Sqdrns. — Reunion. Harold — write for a FREE sample of Page's Combination of natl. organization and reunion. Clarence A. E. Young, 2912 Field, Detroit, Mich. Pile Treatment bless you read Anderson, natl. secy.-treas., Box 23, Stockyards 32d Aero Sqdrn. —Proposed organization and and you may the day St a., Denver, Colo. reunion. Geo. M. Haag, 152 E. Main st., Bogota, this. Write todav to the E. R. PAGE COMPANY, Soc. of 20th Div. —Proposed reunion (including N. J. Dept. 471-D4, Marshall, Michigan. previously announced 48th & 80th Inf. vets, re- 120th Aero Sqdrn. — Reunion. Vets write to W. union.) Harry McBride, 1229 26th St., Newport J. Callaghan, 418 Sth av., N., Great Falls, Mont. News, Va. 150th Aero Squ adron. (Continued on page 62) WAKE UP YOUR - LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE LIVER BILE You'll Out Frank Street, Sergeant Clendenon Newell Post, Leonia, New Jersey. Without Calomel — And Jump Starr G. Cooper, St. Petersburg (Florida) Post. of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go V. E. Pyles, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid William Nelson Morell, Lincoln Post. Belhesda. Marykind. bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in Fairfax Downey, Second Division Post, New York City. the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get Frederick C. Painton, William C. Morris Post, Fort Lauderdale. Florida. constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and Arthur Donovan. New York Athletic Club Post, New York City. you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. Thomas J. Malone, Theodor Petersen Post, Minneapolis. Minnesota. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and Conductors of the magazine, all are Legion- of regular departments of whom make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet naires, are not listed. amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. Stubbornly refuse anything else. ©1936. c.p. inc.

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ADVERTISERS —Reunion Rich Field vets. Sept. 27. F. W. Free- all Post Office Legionnaires. Address inquiries to man, 22 Parker av., Cranford., N. J. Onni R. Isaacson, secy., Natl. Conv. Comm., Van 174th Aero Sqdrn. —Proposed reunion. V. E. Buren Post, 7608 S. Peoria st., Chicago. Fesenmeyer, Riceville, Tenn. Stars anil Stripes Assoc.—Annual reunion ban- 185th Aero Sqdrn. —Proposed reunion. Floyd quet, LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Sun., Sept. 24. Perham, Lakeside, Mich. Robert Stack, secy., 859 Diversey, Chicago. Distillers Corp. Calvert 224th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion banquet, Sept. 25. Syracuse (N. Y.) Camp Band Assoc.—Reunion. Old Drum Cover II W. V. Mathews, 2208 Cuming st., Omaha, Nebr. Al Pearson, comdr.. Legion Club. Mankato, Minn. 277th Aero Sqdrn. —Proposed reunion. H. C. Vets. A. E. F. Siberla—Annual convention of Carter Medicine Co 61 Lockwood, .1900 Douglas rd., Downers Grove, 111. men and women vets. Great Northern Hotel, 380th & 828th Aero Sqdrns. —Reunion. Jay N. Chicago. N. Zimmerman, reunion secy., 6207 College of Swedish Massage 61 Helm, 940 Hill st., Elgin, 111. Drexel av., Chicago. 460th Aero Sqdrn. —Proposed reunion. Paul American Vets of Foreign Allied Armies— Barlow, St. Joseph, Mich. Second annual reunion. Vets interested, write to Spruce & Aero Constr. Sqdrns., Vancouver Fred B. Mansfield, adit., Box 385, Atascadero, Doan's Pills 60 Barracks—Proposed reunion. Wm. N. Edwards, Calif. 422 Greenleaf St., Evanston, 111. Vets of Polish Extraction and all Legion- Field Remount Sqdrn. 303 Assoc. —For date naires invited to Memorial Home of Pulaski Post, and plans of convention reunion, write to W. J. A. L., during convention. Walter Zasadski, adjt., Evinrude Motors 60 Calvert, 527 State Mutual bldg., Worcester, Mass., 1558 N. Hoyne av., Chicago. or Frank T. Herbert, 444 West Grand av., Chicago. Last Man's Clubs—Reunion, Congress Hotel, Remount Sqdrn. 342—Proposed reunion. Harry Chicago. Roy W. Swamborg, secy., 1509 Cornelia C. Campbell, 619 Wallace av., Bowling Green, Ohio. av., Chicago. Franklin Institute 59 Amer. R. R. Trans. Corps Vets.—Convention 6th Co., Inf. Candidates School, La Val- reunion. All R. R. vets of A. E. F. or home camps bonne—Proposed reunion. Write to Fred O. Folk, invited to join. Clyde D. Burton, natl. reunion Co Maurice L. Rothschild, State & Jackson, Chi- chmn., 8211 Ellis av., Chicago. cago, or D. J. LaPont, 5923 N. Shoreland av., Glover, H. Clay 57 Base Spare Parts, Depot Units 1-2-3, M. T. C. Milwaukee, Wise. 327—Reunion, Atlantic Hotel, Chicago, Sept. 20. Gore Products, Inc 63 Report to B. C. Peterson, secy., 165 N. Elizabeth st., Chicago. and activities at times M. T. C. 301-2-3 Verneuil—Reunion, Lytton REUNIONS Bldg., State & Jackson sts., Chicago. Henry Hirsch, - and places other than the Legion Hillcrest Laboratories 63 6220 Woodlawn av., Chicago. Cos. 346 & 802, M. T. C.—Proposed reunion. National Convention, follow: Hillerich & Bradsby Co 52 Fred Bushnell, Wisconsin Rapids, Wise. 2d Div. Assoc. A. E. F. —21st natl. annual re- 322d Motorcycle, M. T. C.— Proposed reunion. union, Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, Calif., Walter M. Moore, 318 Decker st., Flint, Mich. July 20-23. July 21 is 2d Div. Day at Golden Gate Chemical Warfare Serv. Vets. Assoc. —Re- International Exposition. David McKell, chmn., Liberty Display Fireworks Co 55 union. Geo. W. Nichols, R. 3, Kingston, N. Y. 65 Post St., San Francisco. C. & R. Branch, Q. M. C, Camp Cody— Re- 2d Div. Assoc. A. E. F., New York Branch— Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. union. H. A. Wahlborg, 106 W. Clay St., Mt. East Coast get-together, Hotel Victoria, New York City, June 15-17. June 16 is 2d Div. Day at N. Y. Velvet 45 Pleasant, Iowa. Base Hosp. No. 136 — Annual reunion. Hq. at World's Fair. Howard Lalor, gen. chmn., 530 W. Stevens Hotel, Chicago. Mrs. Grover C. Potts, 125th St., New York City. Listerine Shaving Cream 53 947 Keswick blvd., Louisville, Ky. Soc of 3d Drv. —Annual reunion, Hotel St. Base Hosp., Camp Reunion. Harold E. George, Brooklyn, N. Y., July 3-8. July 6th is 3d Lorillard, P. Co. Grant— Giroux, 841 W. Barry av., Chicago. Div. Day at N. Y. Worlds Fair. For copy Wateh on Union Leader 49 Base Hosp., Camp Sevier—Reunion, entire the Rhine and details of reunion, WTite F. S. Ragle, staff. Mrs. Mary Callaway, secy., 566 W. Third 130 W. 42d st., New York City. st., Dayton, Ohio. 12th (Plymouth) Div.—Proposed organization Evac. Hosp. No. 14—3d annual reunion. For and reunion. New England 12th Div. vets and all Massachusetts Develop. & Ind. Comm. ..56 details and membership, write J. Charles Meloy, 42d Inf. vets are requested to report to L. Irving pres., lira. 3050, Grand Central Terminal, New Beach, 175 High st., Bristol, Conn.; all other 12th Mossberg & Son>. O. F 61 York City. Div. vets report to Geo. H. Thamer, 31 Thatcher Amb. Co. 129, 108th San. Trn. —Reunion hq. av., Buffalo, N. Y. at Sherman Hotel, Chicago. Frank F. Fabian, pres., 26th (YD) Div—YDVA natl. conv., Hartford, 515 W. Madison st., Chicago. Conn., June 22-25. Write Wallace H. Gladding, National Carbon Co 51 Marines—Reunion of all ex-Marines, Hotel exec, secy., P. O. Box 1776, Hartford. LaSalle, Chicago, Sun., Sept. 24, under auspices Soc. of 28th Div. A. E. F.—Annual convention National Distillers Products Corp. Marine Post, A. L. For details, wTite Henry Wil- and reunion, Williamsport, Pa., June 15-17. For liams, finance offer., 316 W. 60th St., Chicago. roster, WTite to Walt W. Haugherty, secy., 1333 S. Old Overholt 3 13th Co. & 10th Regt., U. S. M. C. —Proposed Vodges St., Philadelphia. reunion. Nate Leibow, 8 N. Cass av., Westmont, Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets.—21st annual re- 111. union, Oklahoma City, Okla., July 13-15. Albert The National Yeomen F Annual reunion and Hoyt, natl. secy., 3792 W. 152d St., Cleveland, O'Brien, C. A. H. Berman 57 — & business meeting. Mrs. Constance G. Strong, chmn., Ohio. 3332 Home av., Berwyn, HI. Ohio Rainbow Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- Navy—Reunion dinner of ex-navy and coast union, New Secor Hotel, Toledo, Ohio, June 9-10. Page, E. R., Co 61 guardsmen, Sun., Sept. 24, Chicago. Report to S. For details, write Irvin C. (Jack) Henry, secy.- M. Wolfred, 2838 W. 25th st., Chicago. treas., 131 N. Main st., Marysville, Ohio. Polident 43 Navy Radiomen—Ex-"sparks" interested in 78th Drv. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Camp proposed convention reunion, write Doty, c o Dix, N. J., Aug. 11-13. For details, write Raymond Polk Miller Products Corp 55 Otto & Doty, Downers Grove, 111. Taylor, secy., Closter, N. J. Navy Aviators—Proposed reunion of vets of 80th Div. Vets. Assoc.—20th annual conven- M. I. T. and Pensaeola Trng. Sta. Write Lauren tion and reunion, Uniontown, Pa., Aug. 3-6. Mark L. Shaw, 155 Glencoe av., Decatur, 111. R. Byrne, secy., 413 Plaza bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 60 Rain & Hail Insurance Bureau Naval Air Sta., Fromentine—Proposed re- 89th Div. Soc.—For details of reunion in St. union. F. H. Normington, 426 Broad St., Beloit, Louis, wTite Chas. S. Stevenson, secy., 2505 Grand Remington Arms Co., Inc 4 Wise. av., Kansas City, Mo. 89th vets in Chicago area Co. S. Navy Yard, Norfolk Proposed interested in organizing local Chapter, WTite to Reynolds Tobacco Co. 120, U. — R. J. reunion of vets of early 1918. Dr. Roy D. Gullett, Rudolph Lurie, 5306 W. 23d st., Cicero, 111. Camels Cover IV Bonneville, Miss. 5th U.S. Inf.—Proposed reunion and permanent U. S. S. Agamemnon—Reunion, Naval Reserve organization of vets of 1915-1920. Write Louis Armory, Chicago. Jim Yellig, P. C, Santa Claus, Siegel, 99-25 62d Drive, Forest Hills, N. Y. Prince Albert 41 Ind., or J. P. Hayes, 570 McKinlev pkwy., Buffalo, 126th Inf. — Reunion, Jackson, Mich., Aug. 4-6. N. Y. Chas. Alexander, Otsego Hotel, Jackson. U. S. Destroyer Batch (.Vo. SO)—Proposed re- 316th Inf. Assoc.—20th annual reunion, Phil- Sani-Flush 57 union. Irwin E. Harris, Granite Falls, Minn. adelphia, Pa., Sept. 23. Edwin G. Cleeland, secy., U. S. S. Castine—Reunion banquet. W. C. Chap- 6125 McCallum st,, Philadelphia. Savage Arms Corp 52 man, 134 Tipton st., Pittsburgh, Pa. Co. M, 113th Inf. —Annual reunion at West U. S. S. Dixie—Reunion. R. O. Levell, Box 163, Hoboken Post, A. L., Union City, N. J., June 17. Schrafft's 47 New Castle, Ind. Edw. II. Braue, 112 Ames av., Leonia, N. J. U. S. S. Kanawha—Proposed reunion. Homer L. Hq. Co., 316th Inf.— 1st reunion at American Scott Appliance Co 59 (Sunshine) Dukes, 1933 Axton av., Union, N. J. Legion Home, Catasauqua, Pa., June 10. Harold U. S. S. Liberator—Proposed reunion. Wm. S. L. Gillespie, 605 Howertown av., Catasauqua. Seagram Distillers Corp Cover III Reed, 7349 S. Damen av., Chicago. Co. K, 316th Inf.—Reunion dinner at Legion U. S. S. Manta—Reunion. Wm. J. Johnson, 9311 Home, Ephrata, Pa., June 10. Walter R. Myers, Studley, George, W 61 Cottage Grove av., Chicago. Ephrata. U. S. S. New Jersey, Constellation and Roxer— 41st Co.'Assoc, Inf. C. O. T. S., Camp Lee, Va. Superior Match ['ants Co 63 Proposed reunion, including vets of Newport show, —20th reunion, Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt av.. New "Jack and the Bean Stalk." Forrest A. W. Nelson, York City, Sat., June 24, [9 p. m. To complete 1813 Warner av., Chicago. roster, report to Burt C. Meighan, secy., 120 Broad- Otranto Survivors Men interested in proposed way, New York City, or Roy J. Wagner, treas., c/o Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co 59 — convention reunion dinner, WTite to A. H. Telford, Manufacturers Trust Co., 93d st. & Columbus av., 124 E. Simmons st., Galesburg, 111. New York City. U. S. S. Qui nnenlmun (North Sea Mine-layer) 56th Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—8th annual reunion, L'nited Brewers Industrial F idation ..39 2d annual reunion. Edward J. Stewart, 870 E. 28th Smithfield, N. C, Aug. 6. O. B. Shelley, secy., st., Brooklyn, N. Y. Monroe, N. C. 219th M. P. Corps, 1st Army Hq.—Proposed re- 159th Depot Brio., Camp Taylor—Proposed union. Andrew I'errier, 1358 X. Clark st., Chicago. reunion. Ace Waters, 218 N. Main st., Rushville, Western Cartridge Co 59 Post Office Posts—Proposed organization of Ind. The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine .

123d M. G. Bn., 3:!d Div. — 15th annti.il reunion, WE Quincy, 111., June 11. Register with Sain E. Israel, 200 N. 27th St.. Quincy. ToAnySuit! 133d M. G. Bn., 30th Div. —2d annual reunion, Marshall, Tex., .lune 18. Jesse J. Childers, 223 S. Double the life of your Covington st., Hillsboro, Tex. coat and vest with correctly 310th G. Bn. Reunion of all vets, Bethle- matched pants. 100,000 patterns. M. — Every pair hand tailored to your measure. hem, Pa., June 10-11. Arthur S. Anders, chirm., 46 Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before W. Sauoon St., Hellertown, Pa. pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece 342d M. G. Bn. — Reunion, Watertown, S. D., of cloth or vest today. 2. Huron, D. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY July I. O. Hagen, S. 209 S. State St. Dept. 715 Chicago 11th F. A. Yets. Assoc. — Reunions, Sept. 2-4, in both Detroit, Mich., and Portland, Ore. For details and latest issue ('aiinniitcr, write R C. Dickie- son, secy., 7330 ISOth st., Flushing, N. Y. 328th F. A. Yets. Assoc. A. K. F. — tilth reunion, Grand Rapids, Mich., June 21-25. L. J. Lynch, adjt., 1747 Madison av., S. K., Grand Rapids. USEFUL and HANDY 332d F. A. Band— Annual reunion, Chicago, 111., June 3. Regimental history available, fifteen cents. G. E. Kaplanek, 1023 N. Lavergne av., Chicago. 40th Art., C. A. C, Btry. A—Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., in July. For details, write Miss Lee, A BINDER suitable for preserv- secy., 3417 Gravois av., St. Louis. copies of 04th C. A. G, Btries. D Ogden av., Toledo, Ohio. 3d Trench Mortar Btry.— Reunion, Brooklyn, N. Y., July 3-8, with 3d Div. Barney Gallitelli, 204 THIS BINDER is strong, artis- 17th st., Brooklyn. 12th Engrs. Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., June 1-3. tic in design, beautifully — em- John J. Barada, secy., 4998 Fairview av., St. Louis. bossed in gold, made of blue Yets. 13th Engrs. (Ry.)—Annual reunion, Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis, June 10-1S. Jas. A. artificial leather and will hold Elliott, secy.-treas., 721 E. 21st St., Little Rock, six copies of The American Ark. 23d Engrs.—State reunion, Oakland, Calif., ATHLETE'S Legion Magazine. Aug. 12-10. "Pop" Bryant, 71."> Collier dr., ( )akland. Yets. 31st Ry. Engrs. — 11th reunion, Oakland Hotel, Oakland, Calif., Aug. 18-20. Rosters still BINDERS CAN BE purchased available. F. E. Love, secy.-treas., 104}£ First st., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. FOOT for volumes I to XXV inclusive. 52d Engrs., R. T. C. —Reunion, New Castle, 30-31. J. A. Bell, 320 Meyer av.. New The current volume is XXVI. Pa., July Send Coupon Castle. Co. C, 104th Engrs. —Proposed reunion, Tren- Don't Pay Until Relieved The price of this hinder is SI. 00 ton, N. J., in June or July. For details, wTite each, postpaid, in the United Stales. Charles Heins, Jr., 40 N. Main st., Lambert ville, N. J., or Leo H. Murphv, Hamilton Square, N. J. According to the Government Health Bulletin at least 50'; In foreign countries, add to remit- Troop I, 1st Cav., N. G. P., and Hq. Troop, No. E-28, of the adult population of the United States are being attacked by the disease tance estimated postage. 2Sth Div—Reunion at Post 44 (Oakhall), A. L., Northumberland, Pa., July 22. D. R. McKinney, known as Athlete's Foot. Sunbury, Pa. Usually the disease starts between the toes. Camp Upton Base Hosp. Assoc. —Reunion, Little watery blisters form and the skin cracks The American Legion Hotel McAlpin New York City, June 9-11. Dr. and peels. After a while the itching becomes in- David Coyne, secy., 000 Washington St., Hoboken, tense and you feel as though you would like to scratch off all Magazine N. J. the skin. Debarkation Hosp. No. 1, Ellis Island Pro- — Beware of It Spreading P. 0. BOX 1357 posed organization and 1939 reunion. Wm. M. Often the disease travels of Purcell, 132-37 83d st., Ozone Park, L. I., N. Y. all over the bottom the feet. The soles of your feet become red and INDIANAPOLIS U. S. S. Canandaigua — (Mine-layer)—Proposed INDIANA swollen. skin reunion of crew in June. For details, write John The also cracks and peels, and the Weller Wood, Manhasset, L. L, N. Y. itching becomes worse and worse. Get relief from this disease as quickly pos- U. S. Army Amb. Corps (USAAC)—20th annual as sible, because it is very natl. conv., Hotel McAlpin, New York City, July contagious and it may go to your hands or 13-15, during World's Fair. Wilbur P. Hunter, 5321 even to the under arm or crotch of the legs. Ludlow st., Philadelphia, Pa., or Hugh King, c/o st., York McGraw-Hill, 330 W. 42d New City. Here's How to Relieve It Vets A. E. F. Siberia—Reunion, Hollywood, The germ that causes the disease is as Calif., June 18. W. M. Crandall, adjt,, 920 Chester- known Tinea Trichophyton. It buries itself the SORIASIS Williams bldg., Los Angeles. deep in When SABETAL vanishes into your skin, it clears up tissues of the skin and is very hard to kill. A test Navy Club of U. S. A.—2d natl. convention, crusts, scales. Inflammat ion- -or your money back. No it Marion, Ohio, June 23-24. Navy Club Conv. made shows takes 15 minutes of boiling to kill bandaging needed. Not oily. A scientific chemical com- the germ, so you can see the ordinary sur- Comm., c/o Chamber of Commerce, Marion. why pound. Send $2. start treatment. Or 10c for sample. face remedies are unsuccessful. 314th Inf.—2d annual outing and clam bake at H I LLCR EST LABORATORIES H. F. was developed solely for the purpose of Dept. 22 Spring Valley, N. Y. Crescent Park, R. I., Sun., July 10. All 314th vets relieving Athlete's Foot. It is a liquid that pene- families and guests invited trates and dries quickly. You just paint the af- M. G. Co. Vets Assoc., 316th Inf.—20th an- SABETAL DOES NOT STAIN fected parts. It peels off the tissue of the skin nual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 23. Paul B. where the germ breeds. Blocher, co. elk., 929 Gist av., Silver Spring, Md. Co. M, 357th Inf. —Annual reunion, Medicine Itching Stops Quickly Park, Okla., July 29-30. Martin G. Kizer, secy.. When you apply H. F. you find Legion may that the The American Apache, Okla. itching is quickly relieved. You should paint the National Headquarters 51st Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —Reunion, State infected parts with H. F. night and morning until Armory, Flushing, N. Y., Sept. 10. Walter Morris, your feet are well. Usually this takes from three Indianapolis, Indiana 139-09 34th rd., Flushing. to ten days, although in severe cases be sure to 59th Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—ith reunion, Re- consult a specialist. Financial Statement hoboth Beach, Del., in Aug. Howard D. Jester, 1913 H. F. usually leaves the skin soft and smooth Washington St., Wilmington, Del. You may marvel at the quick way it brings you

March 31, 1939 313th M. G. Bn. —20th annual reunion, Erie, rel'ef : especially if you are one of those who have Pa., Sun., Aug. 0. L. W. Welk, 210 Commerce bldg., tried for years to get rid of Athlete's Foot with- Erie out success. 322d F. A. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Toledo, Ohio, H. F. Sent On Free Trial Cash on hand and on deposit $ 613.067.76 Sat,, Sept. 9. For details, write Carl Dorsey, re- coupon bot- Notes and accounts receivable 51,037.86 union secy., 1617 Shenandoah rd., Toledo, or L. B. Sign and mail the and a tle of H. F. will be mailed you imme- 99,962.91 Fritsch, hq. secy.. Box 324, Hamilton, Ohio. Inventories diately. Don't send any money and - t Invested funds 1,961,377.70 D Btry . Assoc., 134th F. A.— For roster, report lie don't pay t postman any money, Permanent investments: to Lester S. Grice, secy.-treas., 420 Carlisle av., don't pay anything any time unles Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. 201,427.79 Davton, Ohio. H. F. is helping you. If it does help we know you will lie glad to Office building, Washington, D. C, less 15th Engrs. Wives & Mothers—Annual family / — lnt'iiHI send us $1 for the supply at the I depreciation 124,264.31 reunion, West View Park, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 8. ) /,/,<> end of ten days. That's how much W. /,/,tl Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less \ For details, write Beulah E. McGraw, secy., 1700 faith we have in II F. Bead, sign. IW/H I ii'itl depreciation 31,611.38 E. Bellevue, Pa. and mail the coupon today. I fj /'/' ' Renton av., /Jr 'l Deferred charges 22,557.23 19th Engrs. Assoc. —Annual reunion, Elks County Club, Renovo, Pa., Aug. 5. Write Geo. M. ! GORE PRODUCTS, INC. S3. 105.306.94 Bailey, adjt., 319 W. 28th st., Wilmington. Del. 860 Perdido St., J - New Orleans, La. I I j 23d Engrs. —State reunion, Taunton, Mass., in j Please send me immediately a //• Swa*'-°o / / JLinbilities. Deterred Revenue and Net Worth Aug. For date and copy Hi-Way-Life, write Russel I foot complete supply for trouble I (I , E. Jenkins, 170 Highland st., Taunton. J £SfW as described above. I agree to 72.596.13 23d Engrs.—Central States stag reunion, Vicks- J f-*^*"**^!?* Current liabilities ' use it according to directions. l>^^~~~--~^ \// A.L Funds restricted as to use 23.SOO.io burg, Mich., June 17-18. Write Roy Cowan, 12710 If at the end of 10 days my feet Deferred revenue 500,899.52 Northlawn, Detroit, Mich., for details. are getting better I will send you entirely satisfied I will return I Permanent trust: 319th Engrs. Vets. Assoc. — 0th reunion, Oak- If I am not • the unused portion of the hottle to you within 1j I Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. 201,427.79 land, Calif., Aug 12, with Calif. Legion Conv. days from the time I receive it. Kenneth S. Thomson, secy., 214 Central Bank J Net Worth: bldg., Oakland. Na nic

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NATIONAL Vice Commander colored man at work in his attractive turtles—two large ones and a little one Henry C. Oakey writes us the garden. went to a bar to quench their thirst. Each one about a young attorney "Uncle Abe, that's a mighty fine gar- ordered a mug of sarsaparilla. When it who had been appointed to den you have there," he said. had been placed on the bar, one of the defend a man charged with a serious "Yas, suh!" agreed the old man. large turtles commented that it was rain- public offense. The prisoner recited the "Well, you ought to thank the Al- ing. Whereupon there was a lively dis- facts of the case between sobs, and con- mighty for it." cussion and it was decided they ought to cluded by saying: "Well, I dunno, boss," replied Uncle have their umbrella, and that the little "They are going to hang me for it!" Abe. "Did you ever see this piece of turtle should go home for it. The little The young attorney assured him that ground when the Almightv had it all to turtle demurred to the idea, expressing such was not the case, but the prisoner Hisself?" the fear that if he went for the umbrella, was inconsolable, and kept repeating: the two big turtles would drink his sarsa- "They are going to hang me!" HEN there is the one about a man parilla while he was gone. After much Finally the young lawyer said: "Well, Twho was taking an examination for discussion the big turtles convinced the if they do I'll make it plenty hot little one that they would not for 'em!" drink his sarsaparilla, and he started after the umbrella. ACCORDING to Frank E. Three weeks passed, and finally ii Dalton, of Syracuse, New one of the big turtles said: York, one Fourth of July a man "Let's drink the little guy's was sprawled on his porch fast sarsaparilla." asleep. His wife and seven chil- "I've been thinking the same dren came out of the house thing," said the other, "so that's pounding on pots and pans, and just what we'll do." shouting: From down at the end of the "Hurrah for the Fourth of bar near the door, a shrill voice July!" cried: The man turned over and "If you do, I won't go after mumbled: that umbrella!" "Good gosh, how is a man going to get any sleep around COLONEL Roane Waring, of here if you keep making that Memphis, Tennessee, relates noise every year !" one about the habitual offender who asked the judge to postpone FOR unusual-sign collectors, his trial because his lawyer was Dr. J. A. Hillscher, of Man- ill. kato, Minnesota, submits this "But," the judge said, "what combination heralded on a bill- difference can that make? You board in front of a house on a were caught red-handed. What Wisconsin highway: can your lawyer say in your de- Hogs & Pies for Sale fense?" "I don't know," replied the A VISIT to Arkansas prisoner. "That's why I want it ONNational Commander Chad- — postponed—so we can hear what wick was the guest of honor at a he's got to say for himself." "Oh! Oh! I was afraid Chitterling Dinner. At the end of of something like that!" the festivities someone asked him kURING1 the National Con- how he liked it. D vention in Los Angeles a "Fine!" he replied. "But it takes a lot an auto-driving license, and one of the Legionnaire was getting a special trip of guts to pull a party in Arkansas." questions asked was: around one of the studios. He was even "What would you do if the occupant of taken into the dressing room of one of the DEPARTMENT Adjutant Les Al- a car ahead moved arm up and down?" stars. On the wall was a large photograph bert, of Idaho, tells one about a man "Who is the occupant?" asked the of Tennyson. The Legionnaire remarked: who had to make a train trip on the morn- applicant. "Man or woman?" "I see you are an admirer of Tennyson." ing after a heavy night. Still nursing a "Who is Tennyson?" asked the actor. hangover, he 'phoned the ticket office and COMRADE James F. O'Neil, of Man- "That's his picture," said the Legion- reserved two seats in the chair car. chester, New Hampshire, tells one naire. "That's Tennyson, the poet." "But why two seats?" asked a fellow about a tough mug who was being sworn "Why, is that old file a poet!" ex- sufferer. as a witness in court. claimed the movie star. "I got him for a "Because," he explained, "old Colonel "Do you promise to tell the truth, the study in wrinkles." Remorse will be right there with me, and whole tnith, and nothing but the truth,

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