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Volume 1 NEW YORK, AUGUST 29, 1919 Number 9 Bottling Up the Boche

The IVar Story of the By United States Navy GEORGE S. WHEAT

recent division of Uncle harbor of which lay in a grey mist THESam's great armada into two a few points to starboard of the powerful forces, the Atlantic destroyers Porter, Davis, Conyng- and Pacific fleets, has centered ham, McDougal, Wainwright and public attention on the Navy in a Wadsworth, comprising the first striking fashion. Those who read destroyer flotilla to sail abroad. It with pride of the deeds of the had steamed from Boston on the doughboy at the beginning of the morning of April 24, in great secrecy. war suddenly recall that there were The Mary Rose had been designated as the fighting men of the sea about that "advance recep- tion committee" of the British Ad- time and wonder what they were IB miralty and she guided the destroy- doing. And later, when the Amer- B ers into the harbor. ican soldier at Chateau-Thierry, "When will you be ready to go Belleau Wood, Cantigny, Soissons, ||| to work?" asked Admiral Sir Lewis Montdidier and in the Argonne h Bayly, Commander-in-Chief of the was writing history, where was the « Coasts of Ireland. Later the Ad- gob, and what was he doing, they fjj miral admitted that he expected an are asking. © Underwood & Underwood answer of, "a week or ten days to Before the could brigaded doughboy be The sign of a ship that sank a U-Boat get in shape." Therefore, fancy his with French the and British to learn the amazement when Commander Joseph K. new arts of trench warfare, he had to be the American Navy Taussig, Jr., replied: transported to the has not received Allied trenches. The "We are ready now, sir!" its mead of merit in the public mind. gob did that. More doughboys, and more The reply was typical of the American They don't want it thought that be- and still more doughboys, were taken over navy during its every operation in the cause the German High Seas fleet didn't there before Chateau-Thierry was suit- war, which included patrol come out, because there was no major duty along the able as a title for a chapter in American Irish, French naval engagement, the and American coasts, trans- history. The gob took sailor with the bit them. He con- port service, mine sweeping, mine laying, of gold chevron on his sleeve didn't meet tinued to take them to replace the gaps convoy work, aviation patrol the Hun face to face at home and so that the Battle and hand to hand. of the Argonne and the abroad, communications, intelligence Here are some of the incidents and St. Mihiel push could finish the war. which liason. Added to this long list comes, last prove him to be a first-class, two-fisted, Then, too, the gob fed them and supplied but not least, the American deep-sea, salty, fighting fleet, our line them with ammunition things to man, worthy of and wear, of first defense, which reached even to helped the sturdiest traditions of the sea: and he munition and feed the the British Grand Fleet with a battle Allied troops and Allied peoples as well. squadron. These operations extended from Of course, any one would know these WELCOME to the American col- the Murman coast of Russia and the things, if he stopped to think even for an ors," the little British destroyer North Sea to the Mediterranean and the instant these general, — abstract facts. Mary Rose signaled. Adriatic; from Canadian to South Amer- the But how work was done, by what "Thank you. We are glad of your com- ican waters; from our Pacific coast to means and in what circumstances, therein pany," the U. S. S. destroyer Wadsworth Vladivostok. lies the real story. How American answered. When the first American destroyers destroyers captured a German submarine It was the first time in more than a reached Europe, things were looking black. in the act firing of a torpedo at a convoy; hundred years that American naval war One hundred and fifty-two British mer- how a wounded American destroyer with craft were in European waters on a fight- chant ships had been sunk by German rudder gone and steaming in a circle ing mission, and the time was just two submarines during the seven days previ- managed to fight off a second submarine; days less than a month after the United ous. Obviously, this situation could not these are tales that have yet to be States declared war on autocracy. The continue for long, else Von TirpHz's told in detail. Some people feel that place was just outside of Queenstown, the promise to starve England would be made 6 THE AMERICAN' LEGION WEEKLY

of France. Given the job, the navy had found the ships and four groups of them, sailing six hours apart, slowly meandered past the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, through the Narrows and then out to sea. Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, commanding the Cruiser and Transport Force, on his flagship, the cruiser Seattle, was in command. Just outside the har- bor the first of the now widely known "lifeboat drills" began, and army men were instructed in that most interesting of occupations, "lookout duty." It was known that submarines were in the path of the convoy which began to zigzag the moment it left the nets. All went well until ten o'clock on the night of June 22, when the first group was attacked. A lookout on the Seattle shouted, "Peri-

This is not a sinking ship; it is the U. S. S. Delaware in a rolling sea good. After some few hours of instruc- tion from British officers our destroyers at once "got on the job." They worked and worked hard.

IT didn't take a nautical Solomon to tell American military and naval of- ficers that the coast of France as well as Ireland must be cleared of the pirates if we were to get an army across and then maintain it with stores and ammunition. Therefore, it was determined to establish patrol squadrons along the French coast. On June 4, 1917, the first "U. S. Patrol Squadron Acting in European Waters" set sail under command of Rear Admiral W. B. Fletcher from the New York Navy Yard. Its mission was set forth as "to operate against submarines and to pro- seven survivors of the crew and thirteen scope wake, 315 degrees," or off the port tect shipping adjacent to the coast of of the Naval Armed Guard and brought bow. A few seconds later the DeKalb France." This little squadron consisted them into port. and Havana sighted torpedoes and gun of converted yachts those toys of rich — When they first got into French terri- play began with a vengeance. men built to cruise around Newport and torial waters, a great many of these sea It was the army's first taste of the the coast of Maine when the seas are adventurers recalled that it was here that European war! swept by summer winds and when there the American navy was bom. Here it Two torpedoes passed within a few is music and dancing, laughter and happi- was that John Paul Jones, on the U. S. S. feet of the Havana's bow and one just ness over the face of the earth. Ranger, flying the Stars and Stripes, astern of the DeKalb, but neither was How stern they looked on the morn- received for the United States Navy the struck. The second group sighted a sub- ing of June 4, 1917! Wearing a coat of foreign "battleship gray," with guns mounted first salute from a power. Ad- marine on the morning of the 26th and fore and aft and with luxurious fittings miral LeMotte of the French Navy fired it is believed that the destroyer Cutn- torn out and common bunks for common a salute of fifteen guns to the emblem of mings got "first blood" on convoy duty, seamen installed, each set sail on a mis- the newborn nation. for, after dropping a depth bomb, patches sion foreign to its nature but necessary The Corsair and Aphrodite, owing to of oil and bits of wreckage rose to the to its existence! their greater speed, were the first to ar- surface and the submarine was no more rive in Brest. strange it all The voyage over was far from un- How seemed seen. On June 28, the fourth group as their yito inner eventful. Rough weather during the first they wended way the participated in the excitement when the part and submarines during the latter harbor! The green hills of Brittany on Kanawha fired upon a submarine. The either side, castle gave the crews the first taste of what the quaint old overlook- first three groups arrived in St. Nazaire ing the harbor in which lived the was to be a stomach full of modern war once on June 26, 27, 28 and the fourth on dukes of that name, the shores at sea. The day before entering Brest, where the July 2. The Secretary of the Navy sent English Black Prince landed in medieval July 2, 1917, the Noma sighted a peri- an Independence Day message to the times. scope. "General Quarters" was sounded American people July 3. It told that the and the entire little fleet made ready for first contingent of American troops had battle, but the submarine submerged. A JUNE 14, 1917, is the next red letter arrived without mishap in France. This few hours later, presumably the same day in naval history, for it marked was the start of a movement of troops submarine torpedoed the merchant ship the sailing of the first convoy with Amer- which totaled 2,079,880 when the armis- Orleans and the Sultana picked up thirty- ican troops en route to the battle fields tice was signed. —

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THUS started the work of the Amer- Though Commander Bagley and the navigator, Lieutenant Norman Scott, ican Navy at sea. So began the lieutenant maneuvered the ship promptly, steered by the stars and peeps of the sun seemingly endless days and nights of there was insufficient time to clear her and arrived at St. Mary's the next day waiting, watching and traveling in sub- of the torpedo and she was struck. Real- about one o'clock in the afternoon. marine infested seas. Traveling? The izing that the ship would sink, all efforts average number of miles steamed per were bent towards launching rafts and MEANTIME, those left behind hud- month by various craft in the war zone lifeboats. Most of the men who were dled on the wet rafts and baled the was tabulated recently. The adding ma- not killed by the explosion set about this half-sinking boats. One of the boats had chine itself might well have been one too many men in it and Lieutenant staggered. The destroyers averaged Kalk, the only officer on board, 275,000 miles; miscellaneous patrol promptly dived over the side and craft, 120,000; mine sweepers, 10,- swam in the icy water to a half-sub- 000; mine layers, 10,000; battleships merged raft. This, added to previ- and submarines, 90,000; submarine ous exposure, was too much for him chasers, 121,000. Remember, this is and he died during the night. "He "miles per month." was game to the last," his men said. With the beginnings heretofore By midnight the temperature was mentioned the navy's work grew even almost at zero and Charles Charles- as did that of the A. E. F. New worth, a boatswain's mate, removed destroyers were sent over. The brave parts of his own clothing in a gallant little yachts were superseded in con- voy work for troops and placed on duty convoying coastal ships, such as colliers, from Cardiff to Brest, St. Nazaire and Bordeaux, and incident- endeavor to keep warm men nearer ally they kept up their record of death than himself. Philip J. Burger, "miles per month," took their a seaman, Chief Electrician Kelley, chances with the best of them, and Gibson, a boatswain's mate, and when the real history of the navy's Meier, a water-tender in the engine work is written theirs will be a glow- room, were in the cold waters off and ing chapter. on several hours rescuing men too "Miles per month." What a weak to hold on to the rafts. The gloomy, statistical way of putting it, steamship Catalina and H. M. S. when "miles per month" really ^ Camelia picked up the survivors at means catching submarines, sinking © Underwood & Underwood 8.30 A. M. on the morning of De- them, sunk, nights being days and Gun crew of the Venetia, which cember 7, so when Commander Bag- adrift on winter seas, and acts of self sank the U-39 ley arrived at St. Mary's he discovered sacrifice and unselfishness unequalled in his men had been rescued. One of the any annals of valor! work. They had to hurry. The Jacob new destroyers has been christened the Everyone will remember the alarming Jones was rapidly sinking into the cold Kalk. that report the destroyer Jacob Jones was waters of the North Sea. Some of the Then there is the story of the Cassin, missing. Later, word came that she had boats and rafts were damaged in launch- struck by a torpedo while patrolling off the Irish coast about twenty miles south of Mine Head, and of Osmond K. In- gram, one of her gunner's mates, who gave his life to save his ship and his com- rades. There is a destroyer named for him also, and this is how he died: When the lookout cried, "Torpedo," Ingram saw the wake and knew that it would strike just beneath the "ashcans" that terror of the submarine—the depth bombs. Realizing that if the torpedo ex- ploded one or more of them the Cassin's chances were small, he ran astern and was trying to strip the charges and throw them overboard when the torpedo struck. There was a terrible explosion and then another and still another. The torpedo detonated and so did two of the depth charges and Ingram was blown to bits. The official report reads, "Thus Ingram sacrificed his life in performing a duty which he believed would save his ship and the lives of the officers and men on © Underwood & Underwood board." Continuing, the report says: "Nine The U-Boat submerged and the destroyer dropped a couple of depth members of the crew received wounds. bombs over the spot After the ship was hit, the executive of- ficer and engineer officer inspected the been sunk by a German submarine and ing, others by the explosion of the tor- damaged parts. It was found that the all her crew were missing. Further de- pedo. Men jumped into the icy waters, engine and fire rooms and after magazine tails told of the arrival at the Scilly Isles and among them was Commander Bagley. were intact, and that the engines could be of Commander Bagley, her skipper, in an He and a seaman were picked up by a motor worked, but the ship could not be steered, open boat and then no more details of launch, with its motor hopelessly dam- the rudder having been blown off and the the tragedy were given out beyond the aged. They gave almost all their food entire stern blown to starboard. The casualties. to the men on the rafts and set out to ship continued to turn to starboard in Late in the afternoon of December 6, row to the Scilly Isles for help. All a circle. In an effort to put the ship on 1917, Lieutenant Kalk, officer of the deck navigating instruments went down with a course by means of her engines, some- on the Jacob Jones, sighted a torpedo. the destroyer, so the commander and his (Continued on Page 24) s THE AMERICAN* LEGION' WEEKLY The Souvenir King

MANY a doughboy revised Patrick to buy the overcoat, but I was a little Henry's famous saying of "Give By JOHN A. LEVEL afraid to sell until leaving camp, as the me liberty or give me death" to sergeant always gave me the once over "Give me souvenirs or give me death." The second article of the series, when passing to see if I still had the coat But to be taken prisoner while toting the "Captured by Jerry," as told by and was as proud of it as I ought to be, well-known prizes in considerable quantity an American prisoner of war. under the circumstances—but I sold it to was more than likely to mean "happy a civilian just before we crossed the bor- hunting ground." The two things that king." Thereafter, when I went out, it der into Holland on our way home, for Jerry most detested were a hand grenade was with pocket bulging with articles the border was the dumping ground for and the finding of a German watch, or from the English and French packets, all German clothes in the possession of pistol, or some valuable souvenir on an sent in to them by the Red Cross, which Allied prisoners. The top sergeant was Allied prisoner. When they searched me the bedridden patients had given me to never satisfied with the amount of beef they found both—a hand grenade between peddle. One enterprising German took a I gave him and kept asking for "mehr," train to Dusseldorf returned with the gas mask and blouse and a big Jerry and but as I knew it was a regularly issued nearly pipes, watch in a pocket. The only thing that a hundred long curved knives coat I stopped the supply of beef and of all descriptions, rings, iron crosses, saved me was a Jerry officer who could canned goods after handing out three or speak good English and knew something four tins. Every time this sergeant got a about Kansas City, because he started tin of "willie" he held a banquet at head- asking me about the burg while there was quarters. The non-com was soon smug- transpiring a heated discussion among gling out clothes for the Tommies, at a several Germans as to the best way to can of "willie" per garment. This re- administer the final jazz. During the lieved the pressure on me, but I wai still conversation he walked me toward the in Dutch. rear for forty or fifty yards and then One day I took him a can of sardines, pointed to a near-by shack used as a the while I asked him for a pass for my- dressing station. I hustled right along self and a Tommy into the town of Dul- toward this place and at every step reck- men. Loaded down with articles to sell, oned some Jerry would pull a keystone v:e left the camp early one morning. by dropping a couple into my the Allied prisoners in the immediate rear. But I got to ALL main part of the prison, known the the building where there were as "block," who were still being more friendly enemies. held were allowed to roam about the countryside Back in the big German at will and they were selling and trading prison camp at Dulmen, every conceivable thing to the Germans among Allied prisoners—no along the road. I have seen a Frenchman Yanks— I found the same parley long and with much vehemence spirit, that of getting some- with an old German lady over a spool of thing to take home. But it thread. We went on into t..e town was a mild disease among the to sell our stuff, believing Tommies and Froggies com- that the prices would be better. Dulmen was in r;a!a at- pared to the doughboy. The tire, flags were hanging along the streets Jerries said the English fought watch fobs and trinkets. brought these and arches had been built at the entrances for England, the French for France and He near the wire enclosure one night and I to the town. The arches were covered the Yanks for souvenirs. trailed back and forth from the ward, with branches ar. l flowers and huge signs I met Tommies in the hospital who making numerous trades. of of "Welkommen" for sol- had brought the souvenirs right through A can the German "willie" was for about $3 in marks, diers. Transports and long lines in- the mill with them, despite the fact that good — of but the mark had practically lost none of fantry were pouring back from the front their clothes were searched when they its purchasing value in Westphalia; a and every wagon was decorated, while were first taken prisoner and again after small piece of soap, fat, all the soldiers their reaching the camp. One Tommy was hand $3; $4 a wore wreaths around can; underwear, suit socks hats and flowers in their clothes. caught with a German compass and was $6 a and about It was $2 a pair, and practically any cast-off gar- like a victorious army returning the sent to solitary confinement, despite the down ment could be sold. The French peddled Appian way. Pretty girls ran into the fact that he had no idea of using it as their overcoats, which brought fif- street and handed hot coffee a means of escape. But a compass or map about cups of to bucks. the Heinies the found on a prisoner always meant solitary teen These were dyed by the on vehicles and threw flowers at the or the mines. German civilians. Many guards would moving infantry. It looked let a prisoner piece like "Deutschland liber alles." After the armistice the craze hit the escape for a of soap. Late in December, as the time for clear- were allowed into the stores big prison. As soon as I was out of We or sa- ing the hospital arrived, a greater number loons and purchased goods at the regular bed I started the ball rolling by going to prices, every article the hospital gate and trying to make a of parcels was given out by the English and in the drygoods stores had a price. dicker with a German guard, but he only Red Cross and we had considerable sur- marked The civilians plus stuff to sell, were very friendly and jokingly awarded me with a machine-gun bullet, especially soap and asked us tea. The Germans flocked into the near- to buy pictures of the Kaiser, they which I dropped in the sand as soon as whom limits of the from the surrounding referred to as "Kaput" (done in). once out of his sight. I tried another camp country and bought anything that was One Tommy had given a Jerry in another corner of the lot and up me can of traded some hardtack and a piece of soap for sale and the big prison looked like carrots on which he had cut off the label a fair this of the herring and I sold this in for a Jerry cloth cigarette case with an county on side a store for several pond. marks, although the garden in the back iron cross woven into it. I told the Jerry yard contained a winter's to bring souvenirs, to get them from his One day the German first sergeant told supply of the complexion companions or the town and to ask for me he would get me a German overcoat producers. It got to be a reg- if fit." ular stunt the American when he came to the hos- and trousers I would give him "fiel among the Tommies to cut off pital yard. I couldn't very well refuse, although I the labels on the canned vegetables and didn't need a coat, so he got me an old sell them for meat. Some of the Jerries THE patients in the ward then made gray covering and a pair of black cor- got wise to this and would inquire "Vas me the official souvenir getter and duroy trousers, twin immensities for the iss das?" and shake the cans to see if they the English called me "Sam, the souvenir coots. All the German civilians wanted {Continued on Page 23) August 29, 1919 9

A Letter from Bill to Dismissed! Dere Mable

DERE MABLE, Well Mable I didnt mean to spend a I been out of the army 15 whole letter talkin about these things. minits. Only a lot of those fellos make me sick. I feel like your tung does when you Any fello that wore army underdose lose a tooth. You keep lookin' for (if youll excuse my menshunin them) something that isn't there any more. wasnt in the war for his own comfort. Its been so long since I had to make All I want to do is get back to Philo- up my mind about anything that I polis before the office boy grows expect to spend most of the next few "One was wearin' a set of extra chins" whiskers an buys the place. mornins in bed tryin to decide when Im in good condishun what with my goin I ought to get up. Im to stay in By E. STREETER army life and campanes and it will take town tonight an catch a train for a lot of parties before Im down to ordi- Philopolis tomorrow. Joe Loomis, what nery level and can take things as they I told them all that all we fellos wanted lives here, wants to show me the big come instead of goin after them. It was to get a Mister in front of our names city. He says itll take a good half day aint red Im goin to paint the old town, an a house number after it as quick as we to see the whole thing right. I ought to its something thatll make red look as could. Uncle Charlie sez thered be other be home to dinner tomorrow night. pail as a pair of kaki britches after they things besides house numbers after our Youd better not count on doin anything been washed a coupla times. Tell the names as soon as we got home. He for the next few days. Theyll be the storekeepers to bord up their windos and thought that was a great joke. I didnt busiest you ever spent. the eat shops to lay in emergency rations pay no atenshun tho. What we wanted, I went out to see my Uncle Charlie that because the camels are comin yoho yoho I sez, was to make up for lost time. The lives in the superbs the other night. He and Im the chief camel. only way we was different was that weve had a little dinner for me. There was seen things work. We knew that 4th of Now that thers only a little more than some wimmin there that didnt seem to July speeches dont always come true. a day between me and you and the old know any more about the war than a lot We dont believe the pictures in the re- home it seems like as tho somethin must of generals Ive run a cross. One of them cruitin posters any more. We know that be goin to happen to spoil things. It was wearin a set of extra chins an a pair a lot of great men aint as great as they most usually has in the last coupla years, of eyeglasses with a handle on em. She say they are. altho I aint a pesimist. But you remem- sez one of the most interestin things in ber nice gettin the I sez if lookin for how we was on when the war was what to do with the returnin they was a change war started and they it would find it in fello only used found soldiers. She was on a comite that was theyd the that read the sportin years ago. keep on always onless they ast me to tryin to decide. I sez how the returnin to page two Hed probably read the front page now. end it, and I had to go. An all during soldiers could probably work it out for the war, every time some officer got his themselves. Most of them would do It never used to make much difference to me who they elected. I couldnt see how eye on me an was about to promote me what theyd always done providin it didnt to a higher grade, the free tariff was goin to save me any money. Boshes would get have sargents and horses in it. their eyes on him and promote him en- She seemed to think that was an awful An I knew the open door in China was tirely, to a higher grade. never goin to give me a stiff neck in much queer way to look at it. She sez I Philopolis. of the fellos felt the couldnt have read much or I wouldnt feel Most same way. of us used to vote the just menshunin those things be- that way. A lot of people that knew had Most IM cause itds like what Im scared of now, told her that the soldiers was comin back way old man Smither down at the drug store talked. fello pulled that things will go on happenin so I changed. I agreed with her there. Their After a gets wont get home. The President is like to own mothers wouldnt know most of em around thru the mud for a couple of years tho, apt sit figger ast me personally will I go and fight the in the uniforms they handed us when we hes to up an out Afangistanians, which most likely is left Brest. what its all about. An theres a lot of fighting somewhere tho I aint ever heard She sez no that wasnt what she meant. fellos thats left pieces of them over in of them. If him and Congress was to After the blood shed an what not theyd France. Their not goin to see em left there for nothin. ast me on their knees would I please seen they was goin to demand all sorts of rennlist I would say firm and dignified things. Then when they found they Uncle Charlie ast how we was goin to no thank you gents. I got work to do couldnt get em theyd turn Bullshevikky. help it when things wasnt runnin right. home, in spite of what the dame with She sez lots of em had seen so much I told him I guessed wed find some way the three necks sed to me at Uncle excitment theyd never be willin to work around it even if a lot of old ladies didnt Charlies. agen. I told her that wouldnt be no try to save us. We seemed to act all change for some of them that Id known. right in the Orogon Forest. I guess they So, Mable, I guess you neednt be didnt need to start worryin about us cause scared about my bein a Bullshevikky.

AST her if she had a son in the army. wed quit lacin our pants belo the knees. What worries me more is the number I of doctors that She sez "Yes." When I ast her if has been examinin me in the last few days. I feal sure there she thought he was goin to be a Bullshe- I WAS thinkin about what Uncle Charlie vikky she sez of course not but that was said the next day tho. Then a fello must be something the matter or theyd intirely different. Startin there I began told me about the American Legion. An- have found trouble somewhere. As soon to get sore. I told her if everybodyd quit gus was agenst it right away. He sez as I get back Im goin to have old Doc worryin about what the returnin soldier like as not it would cost us money. Then Hawkins look me over. I never saw was goin to do an worry more about what he was scared it was some skeme backed anybody he couldn't find something the fello that never went was doin theyd by the grape jews trust to get Bryan in wrong with. He must know an awful get a lot farther. as president. The fello that told me tho lot about medicin. As for growin long hair an throwin had just been out at a big nashunal con- Give my love to everybody includin the bums at people just because wed been in tention. He was all for it. He sez they dog an the hired girl. Take everything France a year I couldnt see what that had was goin to get everybody in that had breakabel out of the house and hawl in to do with it. Any more than a trip to been in the army. If they do theres about the servus flag. Niagara Falls would make a fello want as much chance of slippin anything over to grow side whiskers an be a buttler. I that bunch as there used to be for the Cause Im on my way home got so interested lissenin to myself I let cook to put over a bad stew on the mess as ever hastily. seconds go by on the ice cream. line. Bill. 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY THE EDITORIAL PC. POLICIES—NOT POLITICS

The Pirates of '19 military in character. It has no rank, no caste, no obligation of any sort for military duty and THE creeping barrage of verbal criticism no military policy. It is the after-the-war or- is being followed at this hour by the be- ganization of all the lated infantry attack of concerted government who were in service during war. Its voice all action against the entrenched profiteers. Up in matters is the majority voice of its its will their will. It is to the present moment not a single important members, designed objective has been taken. A few supply to serve, through union, the best in- terests of those dumps have been captured in the eastern and who were in service, and above that the middle western sectors but the common enemy best interests of America. appears to be holding fast in the works he con- structed while the attention of the country was "Let's Stick Together" centered upon a foreign front. He battles THAT is the slogan which you will see on hard, apparently being well supplied with the The American Legion posters in every poison gas of subsidized press and supported section of the country. It was selected because by a platoon or more of sympathetic and it epitomizes the story of the Legion. apathetic legislators. Sticking together means a number of things, Yet the outlook for his ultimate sharp defeat all of them wholesome and vital in the sense that is bright. America has set its face at last to The American Legion applies the phrase. It the job of extirpating the most vicious brood means co-operation and help among Legion that Mars was sire to. And be certain that members, one for another, in the readjustment whatever reserves, whatever leadership, the now going on; a constructive helping hand conflict may demand as it wages it course, wherever and whenever the helping hand can those elements will be supplied by an outraged be applied. It means a community of interests people. Profiteering, the twentieth century among the men and women who in service had recurrence of medieval piracy, must end. the most trying common experience in the history of mankind. A community of interest The Legion's Speedometer which can be depended upon to be less selfish THREE thousand posts scattered through than patriotic; that will put country first in the every state and territory in America. A future as it has in the past. It means a leaven- membership of approximately 300,000. That ing that insures the stability of democracy summarizes the present growth of the Ameri- and country. can Legion. (More than 1800 of those posts Sticking together means just those things, are formally chartered. The others are on the and The American Legion means sticking together. Let's stick together! map—and the number is multiplying with each passing day.) Beyond the work of sheer organization is that of cooperation among Mutual Helpfulness service men of the Legion. Posts are active MUCH concrete good is being accomplished in helping returning soldiers secure employ- by posts which are conducting re-em- their allotments, ment, assisting them with ployment campaigns through their members. their final are performing every pay, and man- Lists are secured of unemployed members and of service in their behalf. This important ner men eligible to membership. Each employed phase of is better organized the work becoming member of the post then undertakes to find a daily the spirit of mutual helpfulness is and suitable job for an unemployed comrade. He definite form along lines. taking concrete The canvasses every possible opening at his own and completed organization of 4,800,000 and men adjoining places of employment. In this way women in this one cohesive, mutually helpful, hundreds of men are being placed in jobs. The individually collectively American force and same principle, applied by every Legion member, is no longer remote. ought to go a long way toward supplement- ing the work of the various organized re-em- Militant—Not Military ployment mediums in solving the whole prob- FOR the benefit of several who have made in- lem of employment. Every member of the quiry it may be well to reiterate that The Legion is urged to join in this simple campaign American Legion is neither military nor semi- of mutual helpfulness. August 29, 1919 11

Peaceful Scenes—The Summer Boarders — :

THE AMERICAN" LEGION' WEEKLY

three-year-old orchard on the Minidoka Project, Idaho

The Lane plan—town and community center for each jour-mile-square tract— This was once just every farm on a good highway and a waste land neighbor always across the road. Farms for Soldiers—Deferred Twenty-two Bills and No Agreement in Congress

T'HOUSANDS of Canadian veterans rider for the general public exploitation have already become settlers on By CHARLES D. KELLEY of those natural resources still remaining Dominion public land. in Government owned land, and would In the United States the question of the Dominion; and we will have to con- open the benefits of all projects to all farms for soldiers has not even been sume two or three years reclaiming or cithens, with a preference for the soldier seriously debated on the floors of Con- buying up lands already tillable. of any war or for the soldier widow. gress. The bill already "reported out"—the This embodies the ideas of the Secretary A bill to accomplish Secretary Lane's Mondell measure—which now has the of Labor and is joiuid in the Kelly Bill. reclamation plan has been reported to the most favor in Congress and carries the The third group would give no atten- House, but there is strong opposition to it Lane plan, would not, however, give tion to reclamation, but create a vast even in the Public Lands Committee. lands to anybody. For an equipped farm government machinery for running a This bill would sell reclamation com- the soldier would pay about $1,200 down, national building and loan corporation munity tracts to both men and women and every cent of the rest on easy terms for lending government money to the who wore the uniform in the Great War over 40 years. This bill has the lead soldiers of any war and to their widows, but it is far from becoming a law. now, but Congressmen are divided along and for both town and rural homes. Canada had her policy at work within three lines on what policy to pursue in Into these three groups fall most of two years after going to war. It may the whole matter of farms for veterans. the twenty House and two Senate bills be three year after we entered tlie lists, which have been introduced in this Six- however, before we are ready for the THE three lines reveal roughly three ty-sixth Congress. Most of them—nine same business. Even if Congress enacts groups of the House bills—follow the ideas of this bill at once it will be two or three One group would make the Soldier Secretary Lane. The authors of these years before any doughboys who turn Settlement Act essentially and exclusively nine separate bills are: Mondell, of ploughboys, or yeomanettes who turn a land-reclamation and farm community Wyoming; Johnson, of Mississippi; farmerettes, can plant their first crops. project, exclusively for service men and Raker, of California; Byrnes, of South There is a fair explanation, of course, service women of this war. Secretary of Carolina; Blanton, of Texas; Taylor, of for the unfavorable contrast between the the Interior Lane is the most prominent Colorado; Knutson, of Minnesota; Till- action in Canada and that of the United figure in this group, which is authorita- man, of Arkansas; Hernandez, of New States. Canada still had her fair Al- tively represented in the Mondell Bill. Mexico. bcrtas to give away just as we once had The second group holds to the farm The bills from Kelly, of Pennsylvania, our Ncbraskas. But we have no do- home idea, but would tie onto the recla- and Ferris, of Oklahoma, would allow mains left from which to mark off 320 mation project a provision for financing "infiltration" of soldier settlers upon tillable acres free for each soldier as in single farms anywhere found; attach a widely scattered farms government —

August 29, 1919 13

A regiment of onions from reclaimed land in Colorado financed; but the Lane idea is to keep the settlers together in communities for close supervision and instruction in farm- ing as well as for sociability. The Kelly Bill is alone in its provision for govern- ment development of natural resources. It would organize a United States con- struction service as a means of taking up the slack of non-employment, would run government logging camps, government mines and government water-power plants—this all on any lands which the public owns. But the Mondell-Lane group feels this is getting too far away from the idea of ready-making farm homes for veterans. npHERE are only two bills in that third * group which seeks both town and Once a desert— rural homes. This "wide open" idea for and now look at it $4,000 loans to all soldiers of any war is carried in bills by Morgan, of Oklahoma, Lands Committee. In that body it was between the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth and Evans, of Montana; and one of two endorsed by seventeen of the twenty- Congresses to work on the terms. Di- bills by Hastings, of Oklahoma, would one members. The other four, repre- rector Davis, of the Reclamation Service, open public lands for soldiers without senting a by-partisan minority, have and Elwood Mead, the farm settlement fee and restriction, or grant loans for roundly denounced the Mondell measure expert, two men who know as much buying town homes. There are other as being too narrow in its benefits to ac- about their special line as any men in bills for other purposes—the Ferris reso- complish what its title announces it to America, have aided Mondell in drawing lution to give preference to soldiers un- be—an aid for returned soldiers. But this bill. der the Homestead Act; one by Christo- this minority is not yet united on any pherson to clear homestead patents for other measure. Meanwhile, the Mondell- WHILE there are various plans for soldiers of six months' service, where en- Lane plan is gaining headway. The attaching the soldier to the soil tries were made before the war; two sponsor of this bill, Representative and to homes, there is one point of bills by Smith, of Idaho, to promote Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming—who similarity irr all—there is no intent to reclamations open to all citizens, but lived in a fifty-dollar sod house in make a gift to anybody. One thing is with preference for soldiers; a bill by Nebraska while earning one of his first certain about the terms in all of them: Randall, of California, for a California farms—is the Republican floor leader, It will be a plain business proposition. irrigation project open to all citizens, and that helps some. Representative N. The soldier will be a purchaser and a but with preferential rights for the sol- J. Sinnott, of The Dalles, Oregon, is borrower. diers of any war. chairman of the Lands committee and a "This is not a bounty, a pension or a Three of the House bills, those of main supporter of the bill. gratuity," says Mondell. "We are not Ferris, Raker and Taylor, would turn Secretary Lane has been writing let- holding out the hope that the government over surplus war supplies and material ters to soldiers in trenches and in camp will be giving some favored soldiers powder, tractors, trucks—for reclamation for a year to find out what they think of farms. We have outlined a plan under work. "Already," said Mr. Taylor, "we helping to reclaim land and then buying which the earnest and industrious man have 25,000,000 pounds of T. N. T. one of the community farms on long- may secure a farm and secure it on his stored at Wingate, New Mexico, for term payments. He has received just own effort if he is ordinarily fortunate." blasting work. It's worth forty cents a 112,088 answers— from the doughboys who In full this is the way the terms stand pound and will cost the Reclamation write back "Why, yes, we'd take a in the Mondell Bill and they are similarly Service four cents. We saved this from chance, or a crank at your farm tractor; drawn in the Kelly Bill: The soldier will destruction. The Secretary of War had let's have your terms." go to the project and work from one to three years ordered three times that much T. N. T. Right there—drawing the terms—is on a wage of $3 or $4 a day, thrown into the Atlantic ocean, but we where Congressmen are having their helping to reclaim the domain; or he can prevailed upon him to turn it over to the troubles. The broad principle of farms come to the project when it is ready to Secretary of the Interior." for veterans under government assistance farm. In any event, when the tract is This tells the scope of the so-called has been endorsed under Secretary divided into farms the soldier must step soldier land bills. The one having the Lane's leadership by lodges, churches, forth with a $300 deposit on a $6,000 strongest position in Congress today is regiments and individuals, but the terms place, five per cent. down. When he "Mondell's. It is the only one that has and conditions are still a subject of dis- is ready to build his house, barn and been reported out by the House Public pute. Mondell remained in Washington {Continued on Page 28) 1 —

14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY The September Drive Cranking Up for a Million Legion Members

UNDER the leadership of tempo- August 16, however, the records of the til a large percentage of the remainder rary officers in national and state State Organization Division at National of the 4,800,000 who were in uniform branch headquarters, The Amer- Headquarters showed that 2,941 local grab a fountain pen, sign the blank, and ican Legion as the vehicle for veterans posts had either been chartered or of- say: "There must be something in this of the Great War has traveled an en- ficially reported in process of organiza- organization— it must be O. K. because couraging distance along the road which tion. At this same rate of progress, an any crowd that is not on the level could was charted at the St. Louis caucus four estimate of more than 3,000 posts with never have rounded up such a gang of months ago. Now with the coming of more than 350,000 members by Septem- boosters." September, the month of intensive mem- ber 1 is reasonable showing that the bership drives in all the states, the third step in the fundamental plan is well BY a drive we mean an intensive, all- clutch must be thrown into high and along towards realization. inclusive plan of appeal which, kept there for the remainder of the The fourth step is the enrollment of through the division of cities, towns, and journey which will terminate on Novem- a million members by September 30. districts into areas, precincts, blocks, ber 11, American Legion Day, in front neighborhoods or any other workable of the convention hall in Minneapolis. sub-divisions, assures that every ex- Of course the foregoing statement service man or woman be approached by does not mean that The American personal interview and asked to join Legion is to be parked right after its JVatch The American Legion. Some cities have first national convention representing all already tried this plan— it works. There the former soldiers, sailors and marines, The Legion Grow is no reason why it cannot be made a now home from France and out of the success in any community where there service. It will go on with increased Posts are a few members of The Legion who power. But that is another story. All July 8 1371 are so keen for their organization that who officers, organizers and members July 9 1371 they have no peace of mind until they wear The American Legion button July 10 1371 get their comrades in with them. should not attempt to look beyond July 11 1 371 The September Drive means work for right at Minneapolis. They have a job July 12 1 371 all these veterans who became members the national hand—the boosting of July 14 1 371 prior to August 31st. No other folks membership to 1,000,000 by Septem- July 16 1755 can put the job through. It has been ber 30. July 17 1756 our experience at National Headquarters A big number, that million? Seven July 18 1900 that nine out of every ten national serv- digits and everything. Yes, but con- July 19 1900 ice men want to join as soon as they sider how easily and quickly it might be July 21 1970 know the story of The Legion. They ex-service attained if each of the 350,000 July 22 1 98 actually hustle to get aboard as soon as men and women who are now enrolled July 23 1988 they know where the 'bus is traveling. in The American Legion through more July 25 2382 Tell them the story of some of the big than 3,000 local posts should go out and July 28 2382 things which the American Legion is do- get three new members. More than a July 30 2439 ing in a big way. Tell them that Marshal million man-power would be hooked up Aug. 1 2525 Foch of France, supreme commander of with the Legion 'bus in a few weeks and Aug. 2 2525 all the Allied armies, has been invited the only responsibility left for the steer- Aug. 6 2532 through the French Ambassador to the committee would be to watch the United States to attend the Minneapolis ing Aug. 7 2535 speed limitations on all roads leading Aug. 8 2555 convention, bringing a message of good into Minneapolis. will to the Yank veterans from their Aug. 9 2657 pals for Membership is the watch-word Aug. 11 2759 who are getting back to normal in France, September and "Let's Stick Together" Aug. 12 2798 England, Belgium and Italy. Tell them is the slogan. Aug. 13 2849 that although no formal reply has been re- ceived Aug. 14 2880 from the Allied Generalissimo him- of the best ways to make sure ONE Aug. 15 2935 self at this writing, Ambassador Jusserand that you are heading in the right Aug. 16 2941 has assured the Legion that he will use direction is to pause a minute, turn his best offices to bring about this inter- around, and take a sight down the path national event so earnestly desired and already covered. From the very begin- that it has been reported in the Paris nings at St. Louis, the founders of The offices of American newspapers that Foch drive American Legion took account of transi- Here is where the membership will come unless the military situation one tion in their plans—they mapped out a comes in. By a drive we mean a along the Rhine makes his absence from program for the Temporary National hundred per cent, national enthusiasm Europe unwise. kindled spon- Executive Committee which had five for The American Legion Whenever and wherever you talk Amer- into a warm glow clearly defined steps leading up to the taneously and fanned ican Legion to a prospective member, talk Furthermore in every local post in every community first national convention. as though you mean all that you say. they put a time limit on each step. By in the country. By a drive we mean All service men know that there is some- National Headquarters was to calling attention to The American Legion June 21 a thing about the way a fellow shakes hands be fully organized and in active opera- through words, printed and spoken and something about the light in his eyes tion. It was done. By July 31 there especially spoken from the lips of men which is more convincing than all the was to be an active branch of the Legion who have seen the Legion at work and words he says. Veterans in the Allied in each state. There were forty-eight who believe in it with all their hearts countries remember the Yank for his pep. such branches in operation by that date. and souls—through service rendered to And oceans of good American pep are By August 31 the Legion pioneers hoped discharged soldiers, sailors and marines needed for the September drive of the to have an active local post in each who offer a possibility to render them in county and Congressional district. This real brotherly service embodying a one American Legion. A year ago Septem- different drive. article is written on August 18 and re- hundred per cent, "buddiness," through ber the Yanks started a turns from the state branches are not raid by every means and method that Crank her up, cut out the muffler and un- let's go! ( omplete. At the close of business on 350.000 Legion pioneers can invent August 29, 1919 15

S P O RT—Edited by Walter Trumbull

Wrestling one of the healthiest and most strenuous what has happened. For actual value, the By Ned Brown of all the major sports, is the one most in great ruby isn't in it with the baseball disrepute. The reason for this lies not diamond. WHO is the champion heavyweight in the sport itself, nor even in the hand- More than 130,000 rabid rooters wrestler of the world? ling or promoting of it, but in the minds clicked the turnstiles at the New York Ask that question today of of the blase fan. Polo Grounds in four playing days re- almost any man fairly well informed on Albeit it is the easiest sport in which to cently, and maybe that clicking wasn't general sports, and you can start an argu- "fake," by the same token it is the hard- music to the owners' ears! You could ment. As a matter of fact, the world's est in which to detect a fake. For that pack the Yale bowl seventeen times over champion in this sporadic sport doesn't reason the aforementioned blase fan, with owners to listen to a concert such as really know whether he's the champion knowing in his heart that he cannot tell that. In the winning cities the receipts or not. That is Earl Caddock, naturally whether a match is a fake or not, decides never have been so heavy, but, heavy as of Iowa, more recently of the American that all wrestling matches are fakes, they are, the weakest visiting club treas- Expeditionary Forces abroad. And al- brands them as such, and lets it go at urer never has complained of the weight though he is the king-pin of them all, that. of the share he carried away with him. Caddock is probably the smallest, in In the less blase districts, wrestling is With baseball moving with the speed point of stature and weight, of all the the most popular of all the sports. of the fastest runner in a retreat the man- numerous claimaints of agers are frantically the title. seeking to strengthen Joe Stecher, the their teams for next Nebraskan, W 1 a d e k season. The Boston Zbyszko, the Pole, Ed. Braves have combed the "Strangler" Lewis, of New England league. Kentucky, the trium- Too Polite Connie Mack has enough virate of the wrestling youngsters in line to game, not to mention The good old football days are dead. form a minor league of Marin Plestina, the rank his own. All the scouts Now squeamish umpires rather frown outsider who made pyro- are ducking in and out On kicking in a rival's head technical publicity ef- of the bushes and the forts to "break in"—all The moment that you get him down. tall timber and sweeping claim the title. the prairies and back Caddock does no The cleated clog on prostrate foe lots with their hawk-like claiming. In fact, if re- Is but a happy memory now, glances in search of prom- ports are credited, ising recruits. Players to be And care-free slugging doesn't go. Caddock has renounced that once brought only (Not in the open, anyhow.) the championship. The their weight in ivory now young Iowan quietly are valued at a little Mayhem's discouraged, gouging, too. eased his way into the more than their weight limelight of the sport by We miss the ancient angidshed moan. in gold. defeating Stecher, Today, men play a contest through The only thing which Zbyszko, Lewis and any Without a single broken bone. worries the owner of a others who thought they winning club, at the were entitled to consid- Skill seems in more demand than skull, present time, is his in- eration for the cham- come tax. The difference And speed's preferred to weight and height pionship, then was between owning a winner The undertakers find it dull. drafted into the army, and a cellar champion is refrained from claiming This game is growing too polite. something like the differ- exemption, and as ence between owning a quietly eased his way large yacht and a small out of the limelight. rowboat. The desire for After he had served leading clubs is therefore abroad in the army, re- brisk. The prices now ports reached here that Caddock had an- Abroad, before the war, it was the most paid for players once would have bought nounced his definite retirement from widely popular of all sports. franchises, parks and teams. If any wrestling. Strange that America, the land which bandit wishes to grab a guy that will The scramble for the championship has supplied the greatest number of bring a real ransom he'd do well for him- among Zbyszko, Lewis and Stecher went world's champions in the game, should self and family by kidnapping Ty Cobb. merrily on, the title bobbing about but show so comparatively slight interest in it. And even a good-looking recruit would never resting with any one of them. However, with the imminent return of bring enough to make his captor socially Zbyszko claimed to hold it, Stecher de- Caddock to competition, this interest in and financially prominent. clared he had a couple of legs on it, while the sport is bound to revive. Lewis affirmed that he had a headlock on Although the races in both major it. A Profitable Pastime leagues are pretty well settled there is Then along came Plestina with a corps still a chance for the contenders to over- of press agents to demand recognition. Everyone connected with baseball pre- haul the leaders. It is not any very rosy The wrestlers three ceased their soccer dicted that this would be a big year for chance, but it can be done. Anyhow, game with the championship long enough the game, but no one imagined that it there is enough uncertainty left to keep to look askance at Mr. Plestina, ask him, would be the season that it has been. It the interest up and the vacant pop bottles "Where d'y' get that stuff?" and then was a cinch that people would turn from flying. faded to the outlying districts where the grimness of war to the gaiety of About the best-Jooking youngster that sporadically a match between a combina- amusements, but few imagined that has broken in this season is Frisch, of the tion of two of them would erupt. crowds would pack the baseball parks un- New York Giants. This Fordham boy Strangely enough, wrestling, although til the fences bulged. But this is exactly has all the actions of a great infielder. 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION" WEEKLY

"President Wilson" lost a leg at Verdun

They Winged Their Way Through Skies of Steel

WHEN the history of the war them and that Hannibal carried a cote comes to be written, that section crossing the Alps in order to send word which deals with aviation should back to Carthage of his progress. Com- be divided into two parts—flying men ing down to modern times, it was a and flying birds. For the pigeons pigeon which first announced to an anx- winged through the rolling barrage of ious London the victory at Waterloo! high-explosive shells, they braved burst- At the time of the Mexican crisis an ing shrapnel and gas and made their way attempt was made to add a pigeon section through the rat-tat-tat of machine and to the Signal Corps of our army, but it anti-aircraft guns just as did the men who was not until we actually entered the flew in things of steel and wood and gaso- European conflict that the matter was line. The feathered aviator played his taken seriously in Washington and an part in almost as big and certainly in as efficient pigeon section established. Then brave a way as the man, and in hundreds pigeon fanciers, attached to the army, of instances he died in the same splendid scoured the country for good homing birds manner. to be sent to France. There is the story of Cher Ami, the pigeon which saved the "Lost Battalion" IN common with everything else con- in the Argonne. And the pigeons of Ver- nected with the A. E. F., haste was dun. "They shall not pass," the French- necessary in organizing the pigeon com- men said, and, as though understanding it, panies, but it was done, and the birds of these birds saved Verdun from the hordes the U. S. Army flew fast, straight and of the German Crown Prince. Then there true and were a credit to the country 'is Le Cirq, the pigeon which captured a from which they came. As a basis for German submarine and all its crew, and organizing the pigeon service, our army Babbette, a milk-white pullet, which was had hundreds of instances in its posses- camouflaged as a crow, that the German sion showing how the pigeons with the Prince's "shot-gun squad" might not harm French, British, Russians and Italians had her, flew to French headquarters with a rendered substantial service always and message from a secret observer within invaluable service hundreds of times. Not the German lines and enabled Allied guns infrequently, the barrages which the Ger- to stop a surprise German attack on the mans put over would entirely destroy all Pigeons went to Meuse. In numberless cases, pigeons means of communication between advance the front on the saved hydroaeroplanes damaged at sea. troops and general headquarters, and that backs of soldiers They were the "wireless of the tanks." was when the feathered aviator did his And today they are the pride of all bird bit. It was under such conditions that lovers everywhere. pigeons carried messages at the first battle Pigeons are not new to war. It is on of the Marne, at the Yser in Flanders,

record that the Romans and Greeks used and aided the British in the capture of ©Underwood <£ Underwood :

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pigeons were all wounded while carrying messages

Releasing a pigeon from a seaplane

service. Because more men plied, and the next German "talk" was were in the infantry, more in the shape of high explosive shells. birds were supplied to that With no other method of communica- branch of the service than to tion, the pigeons were called on. One any other. One man in each bird after another was released with a company, usually a lover of message asking for reinforcement, and as birds, was designated as each spiraled aloft to get his bearing he pigeon carrier. He carried was shot down. Finally, the last bird the pigeons in a basket slung over his was taken from the basket. It was Cher back. This basket had attached to it a Ami. Again the message for help was gas protector or cover which rendered penciled and placed in the little aluminum the birds in it immune to a gas attack. container and up went Cher Ami. A breast and minus a The birds were changed at regular in- fusilade of bullets was shot at the bird and, leg, delivered his tervals and none was allowed to remain to the dismay of the beleagured message. in a trench more than four or five days. Americans, the bird paused an instant, They were always released and made to feathers began to fall and to the nerve- fly back to the loft. strained eyes of some of the onlookers Neuve Chapelle. Pigeons died with the the bird appeared to be falling. But not British Tommy at the second battle of PIGEON messages were written on fine Cher Ami. With the "punch leg" dang- Ypres when the Germans in their advance tissue paper and folded into a small ling and a bullet wound in her breast towards the Yser Canal used poison gas leather wad. This wad was inserted in bone she flew on and on. for the first time, after which gas-proof the aluminum holder seared into the leg, baskets and cotes were provided for them. so that it could not come off unless the HERE Captain Carney takes up the The birds at the front were kept in leg did. The messages usually were writ- story movable lofts or cotes built on wheels, ten in code. "We had been informed of the loss of so that they could follow an advancing As a rule, the bird rises straight aloft, Whittlesey's battalion," he said, "and were army. They were kept from eight to pauses an instant to get its sense of direc- told that none knew where it was. Pre- ten miles from the trenches and trainers tion, and then flies toward "home." The sumably, the entire command had been said the birds would get used to a new birds became accustomed to barrage fire wiped out. A crowd of the men were sitting location and know it as "home" in about and flew through it seemingly unmindful. around discussing it when we heard a week or ten days. They had to be After the German army assigned expert the bell in the cote tinkle. Tell-tale stains coached as to where the loft was situated trap shooters with shot guns to the duty were on the entrance to the cote and we and this was done by careful instruction of killing them, they learned not to pause knew a wounded bird had come in. There, and patience. First, the bird would be when they spiraled aloft, because it was inside, we saw Cher Ami. She was in a released a few hundred feet away and then that most of them were killed. state of complete exhaustion. From her permitted to fly back to the loft. Then When the Seventy-seventh Division dangling leg we took the message and the distance would be increased to several went through the Argonne Forest, the despatched it in great haste to headquar- thousand feet and later to three or four 308th Infantry made a rapid and splendid ters. It told the location of the 'Lost miles. Each loft contained about seventy- advance. A battalion of that regiment, Battalion' and it wasn't very long before five birds. A bird was taught to enter under command of Lieutenant-Colonel it was rescued." in this the loft immediately upon its arrival. Whittlesey, got farther afield than the re- Another famous pigeon now None was permitted to loiter on top of mainder of the command. The Germans country is "President Wilson." One of as he the loft because such action would tend cut him off and there he and his troops his legs was shot away at Cauisy help. Despite to delay the message it might be carrying. were, entirely surrounded by superior carried a message asking The entrances were so arranged that when forces, practically without provisions or his wound, he got to his cote and the out- "Presi- the pigeon returned it would ring a bell. water. The Germans demanded sur- fit from which he flew was saved. Pigeons were used in all branches of the render. "Never," Colonel Whittlesey re- dent Wilson" was too good a soldier, too 18 THE AMERICAN' LEGION WEEKLY reliable a bird, to be invalided home just in England. A flying boat encountered a carriers in the vicinity of Verdun. The because of the wound in his leg and after sudden storm and was blown into the birds were mostly dyed black and ap- it healed he went again to the front. He sea. A pigeon was released, but seemingly peared to be crows. was assigned to the tanks and when the could make no headway in the teeth of "Treat 'Em Rough" boys got busy at St. the wind. The bird disappeared and the ALMOST everyone knows the story of Mihiel he was in the tank squad that skipper and crew of the hydroplane saw the fighting about Thiaumont, taken was farthest advanced. Sometimes the nothing ahead of them but death. A sixteen times by the Germans and re- tanks would send back word to the ar- sentry patroling the beach saw a bird fall taken seventeen times by the French. tillery giving the exact location of hidden seemingly out of the clouds. He picked Once the brave little French garrison was machine-gun nests and such a message did it up and saw the message attached to its being shelled to pieces by a German bat- "President Wilson" carry, despite the best leg. Taking the dead bird to the nearest tery. Wireless and telephones to the rear efforts of sharpshooters to bring him naval station, he delivered it to the au- were shattered. The garrison commander down. Immediately after he was released thorities. Several hours later the crew of knew the location of the battery which from the gun turret, he flew straight for the wrecked plane was rescued. was doing the damage, and if only he American headquarters. As a result of could get word back to the French ar- his message, our artillery laid a barrage OUR own navy was quick to recognize tillery! on the machine-gun nests before our in- the value of these birds and assigned He sent up his last pigeon. Like the fantry advanced, and thus this pigeon un- Ensign J. J. McAfee to the task of train- others, the bird was shot down immedi- doubtedly saved the lives of scores of our ing them. From his cote Red Cloud is ately. Then the garrison waited—waited doughboys. Another one-legged veteran said to have come. Red Cloud flew 535 for death. The commandant gazed with of the American bird forces was Big Tom, miles in ten hours and twenty minutes, his glasses longingly towards the French who also had his breast bone carved by a breaking the world's record. Peerless part of France—the French lines. He German rifle bullet. Poilu and Spike Chief was another Navy pigeon which dis- turned pale. He could scarcely believe were two famous friends of Cher Ami, tinguished himself by saving a fallen hy- his eyes. Across a terrain of bursting who also distinguished themselves not droplane. shrapnel, where high-explosive shells deto- once, but a score of times, by deeds of German spies frequently used pigeons nated so rapidly and so thickly that daring and danger. to get their information back to the Ger- their smoke entwined and floated off like man intelligence stations, and one of the fantastic ghostly devil waltzers; there, LE CIRQ was a French bird which was where nothing should live, something was born and reared in Normandy. Dur- living! A black-looking object was mov- ing the great war "his bit" was patrol duty. ing. It would dart across the open fields, That is, he was in a basket strapped on disappear into a shell hole and then re- the back of a beach patrolman—one of appear. It came nearer and those sturdy French peasants, who, fa- nearer, and the whole gar- miliar with every nook and cranny of his rison gazed upon it part of the shore line, kept constant look- in a sort of unbe- out and made thorough search for any lieving horror. The secret submarine bases that the Germans thing was be- may have attempted to establish. Once, else how could it live just before sundown, the peasant sighted and move in such a place. As in a little bay the periscope of a sub- it drew nearer the glasses marine. It rose to the surface and its showed it to be a dog with officers and crew came on deck. The something on his back. Breath- patrolman wrote a hasty message and lessly, the little handful of slipped it in the aluminum basket on Le French poilus watched and prayed, and, Cirq's leg and the bird was released. when the animal dashed into the redoubt, Straight he flew to his "home"—a cote they saw that he carried a small basket. at a nearby naval station—and in half an In it were two pigeons! hour an American destroyer and a British The commander wrote his message gunboat captured the submarine. ©Underwood <£• Underwood twice, telling the location of the death- All naval patrol boats and aircraft car- The message is carried on the leg dealing German guns, and despatched both ried pigeons. Once a British patrol boat pigeons at once. Like tiny white geysers was torpedoed and shelled by a German most spectacular spy captures in France they rose straight upwards, poised an U-boat. One of the first shots put the came about through the sharp eyes and instant and flew. Shells screamed at wireless out of order. The skipper wrote ears of a young girl about thirteen years them, buchshot from choke bore shot- a hasty message giving his position and old. With her mother she was riding on guns whizzed thousands of tiny bullets tied it to a pigeon's leg. The bird was a railroad train. In the same compart- at them; a gas shell whistled its way by released just as the gunboat sank and the ment sat a priest, piously saying his beads. them, but failed to explode at the proper captain and crew jumped into the water. The young girl watched him and noticed time. Again the little garrison prayed and While clinging to the wreckage, they saw that he failed to kiss the cross after his again the god of battles decreed that the the submarine's anti-aircraft gun fire a prayers, and this she thought a very dumb friends of man should prevail over volley at the bird. Feathers flew and the peculiar omission for a priest. Then the battle din which man had made! bird began to fall, but suddenly the feath- she heard a "coo-wah-wah" come from be- Again the living traversed a space where ered avion paused and then started rapidly neath the priest's habit. At the next sta- no thing could live, man thought. Both towards what the skipper knew was the tion she informed a gendarme what she birds reached French artillery headquar- coast line. It arrived at a naval station had seen and heard. The priest was seized ters. The great German batteries were twenty miles away and a destroyer rescued after a fight. Beneath the cassock were silenced and again Verdun was saved. the men in whose behalf it made such a two pigeons, one of which had cooed at Pigeons performed the same service num- splendid flight. This bird's tail feathers the wrong time. The "priest" was exe- berless times at Verdun, and a score of had been shot away and its wing slightly cuted and military "misinformation" was the birds now wear the ribbon of the injured. sent back to Germany by the pigeons. Croix de Guerre. At 7:45 a. m. a British seaplane sent by An American destroyer once captured a two pigeons the following message: "Am German trawler, disguised as a fishing down off Hartlepool, rough seas." Both boat, north of the Orkneys. She was be- THE use of pigeons in the war was not pigeons arrived at home about eight lieved to have been on a spying mission, without its amusing side. Some of o'clock. Half an hour later the aviator for she had on board more than a hun- the birds were "regular comedians," mem- was rescued. In other words, just one dred homing pigeons. bers of the pigeon companies reported. hour and fifteen minutes after the birds The French began to camouflage their For instance, there was "Old Satchelback." were released he and his crew were saved. pigeons after the German Crown Prince He was one of the laziest birds in the Another story showing the gallantry of a assigned a company of trapshooters with A. E. F., and seldom was used as carrier bird is being told today around Ramsgatc, shotguns to the duty of shooting down all {Continued on Page 30) August 29, 1919

Six Miles Up in the Air A Battle with the Spirit of the North JVind

SIX miles in the air and your gasoline By R. WILLIAM RIIS powerfully, was not giving the full num- all gone— if the airplane you were ber of revolutions per minute that it was piloting were in that dilemma it would capable of. Something was wrong with be a red letter day in your life, provided plosions of the motor rose to an ear- the gasoline supply, or with the new kind you got down safely. Yet to the man splitting roar as the airplane gathered of gasoline he was using. He was forced who has actually been there it is nothing speed along the field. In twenty feet the to take to the hand pump to give the unusual. He has done it before and in- wheels began to leave the ground, the laboring cylinders a full supply. That tends to do it again. little plane rose gracefully, surely, steadily helped, and he went on up. Twenty-five On July 30, 1919, Roland Rohlfs, chief and turned in a great arc along the edge thousand, twenty-seven thousand, twenty- test pilot of the Curtiss Engineering Cor- of the field. Up, up, it circled, becoming eight thousand feet, the barograph re- poration, drove his plane to the height smaller and smaller, till the eyes of the corded his steady rise. of 30,700 feet, thereby establishing a new watchers on the ground had to strain to Now the Spirit that lives in the North official world's record. Had his gasoline follow it. Now it ducked into a little Wind determined that this adventurous held out he believes he could have beaten cloud, which seemed to vanish at the little speck of humanity should trespass Adjutant Casale's unofficial height of touch of the whirling propeller. At fifteen no farther. For countless ages the winds 33,176 feet. It is simple in the telling, but thousand feet it was an almost invisible had played alone and unchallenged accomplishing it was quite otherwise. speck, swinging between the horns of a through the vast reaches of space, and The story of his flight reads like the sagas young crescent moon that hung in the here was a mere man daring them in their of Vikings of a bygone day, only it is western sky. home, driving his tiny ship on frail cot- replete with the dangers of the higher "He'll hook himself if he isn't careful," ton wings across their pathless heights. air, dangers with which men of other remarked one of the watchers. The next He must be stopped. With a rush of ages have been totally unfamiliar. instant the drifting speck vanished, and speed, the wind roared down upon him, A sunny, blue sky, flecked with a few the watchers walked back to the hangar bit savagely through his layers of wool feathery cloudlets, seemed to offer an ex- to await the outcome. and fur, and fastened wintry fangs on his cellent opportunity for Rohlfs to make his body. Worse, it laid icy fingers on his long-planned flight. Early in the after- MEANWHILE, Rohlfs kept his con- engine and chilled the very fire that was noon, his chosen machine, a Curtiss Wasp trols heading up, always up. As he carrying him upward. Down went the triplane, originally designed as a two- rose, the north wind, which on the ground mercury, passing twenty below zero, place machine-gun fighter, was wheeled had been a pleasant thirty-mile breeze, twenty-one below, twenty-two below, with well out to the center of Roosevelt Field, increased steadily in velocity till it be- no signs of stopping. The gale was howl- where it was surrounded by a group of came a sixty-mile gale. As he passed the ing at ninety miles an hour through the Rohlfs' friends and by officials. Rohlfs, 20,000-foot level, still climbing, the wind screeching stays, and the engine began to swathed in layers of clothes till he looked reached an eighty-mile rate, while the hesitate uncertainly. Something must be like a mammoth cocoon, climbed stiffly thermometer, under the touch of the blast, done, and quickly. into the tiny cock-pit and fastened the showed a rapidly falling mercury. Be- straps securely about his waist. neath him a matchless panorama opened REACHING out over the cowl, Rohlfs "AH clear?" he asked. out, with Long Island lying, a narrow tried to cut the rubber pipe which "Clear," replied the mechanics who strip of land, between the flashing ocean carried water to the engine, thinking that were turning the propeller. and the sound. On up, always up. if he could stop the functioning of the With a final touch to his helmets he Then came the first hint of trouble. cooling mechanism the motor would throw threw on the full four-hundred horse- The pilot became aware that the engine, off the grasp of the cold. But his thick power of the twelve cylinders. The ex- which had been running smoothly and {Continued on Page 27) — — — — ——

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The unlucky Tom- Mistress (to new servant) : "We have A sergeant-major my in Russia was breakfast about eight o'clock." who was constantly telling his troubles to New Servant: "Well, if I ain't down finding fault was sit- a sympathetic friend. don't you wait for me." ting in his barracks "No leave, no let- one day when he ters, no blinking Soldiers arc no longer permitted to glanced out of the Blighty, no luck at wear wrist watches. The general staff window. He saw a all!" believes they are able to keep time with private in full uni- "Never mind; their feet. form walking past, carrying a bucket. you'll soon be dead." "Where are you going?" hailed the "Yes," said the unlucky one, "and if I City Man: "Is that a real diamond sergeant-major. was dead now, and on my way to Heaven, you have there?" "To fetch some water," replied the I'll bet I'd be brought down by anti- Rube: "Ef it ain't, I been stung for a private. aircraft!" dollar and a quarter." 'What!" yelled the sergeant-major. "In those trousers?" "Say, Algy," said the impecunious bar Captain, angrily: "Button up that "No, sir," came the answer, "in this loafer to the young blood who had just coat." bucket." ordered a whiskey and soda, "I'll bet you Married recruit, absently: "Yes, my twopence I can drink all the whiskey out dear." "Wot do they mean, Jimmy, when they of that gargle without touching the soda." say money talks?" asked Algy, ex- "Can you, by Gad," "I dunno, unless it's the wonderful pecting an unusual exhibition of skill, The American Legion way it says good-bye to yer." London "I'll take you." Tattler. ' will Emitting a deep sigh of relief, the hor- Weekly use jokes and rible example gazed for a moment at the pay for those that are accept- "Cohn, I've lost my pocketbook." sizzling drink and then with one gulp able. For the best printed each "Have you looked by your pockets?" drained the glass. week, not exceeding fifty words, "Sure, all but der left-hand hip "Lost my bet, by Jove," he exclaimed, five dollars will be paid; for pocket." as he departed through the swinging the second best, three dollars; "Veil, vy don't you look in dot?" doors. Tit-Bits. "Because if it ain't dere I'll drop for all jokes accepted, one dol- dead!" "If a man left you a hundred pounds, lar. Manuscripts will not be would you pray for him?" said a lawyer returned. A sergeant was so much given to using to his client. "No, I should pray for The prize winners last week bad language on the parade-ground that another like him." were: John 5. While, Jr., Wash- some of the men complained and the ington, D. C; Charles L. Abel C. O. interviewed him, and told him not A young fellow, who was off on a Camp Sherman, Ohio; R. J to let it happen again. jaunt out West, fell into hard luck and Farquharson, Des Moines, la. The following morning the sergeant had to pawn one of his suits. Just before Ralph E. Field, Cincinnati, Ohio was in charge of a very ragged squad, starting for home he managed to get it P. H. Schaefer, Burlington, la. and after keeping silence for a consid- out again. When he reached home his Grace C. Yeoman, Brooklyn, erable time, he eventually burst out with: mother, while unpacking his trunk, came N. Y.; S. A. Lindsay, Boston, "Bless you, my pretty dears; you across the coat with the pawnbroker's tag Mass. know what I mean." Tit-Bits. on it. "John," she inquired, "what is this tag "Are you the captain of your soul?" on your coat?" "Do people ever take advantage of "Sort of a second lieutenant," ven- John, not wishing to have his mother the invitation to use this church for tured Mr. Henpeck dubiously. Man- know of his temporary embarrassment, meditation and prayer?" a city verger chester Evening Gazette. said: was once asked. "Oh, I was at a dance and checked my — "Yes," he replied, "I catched two of The Pastor "So God has sent you coat." 'em at it the other day!" Blighty. two more little brothers, Dolly?" Soon she came across the trousers with Dolly (brightly) —"Yes, and he knows the same kind of a tag on them. George Washington Jones, colored, where the money's coming from. I heard "John," she demanded, "what kind of a was trying to enlist in Uncle Sam's daddy say so." Tit-Bits. dance was that?" army, and the following conversation en- sued with the recruiting officer: "What's this stuff?" First call had blown and the company "Name?" "Mock-turtle soup, sah." had fallen in for inspection. Shanks, a "George Washington Jones, sah." "Well, tell that chef of yours he has tall, awkward rookie, one of the latest "Age?" carried his mockery too far." Detroit members of the company, came stumbling "Fse twenty-seven years old, sah." Free Press. from the barracks and slid into his usual "Married?" place in the rear rank. "No, sah. Dat scar on mah haid is An awkward rookie was walking sentry. "Shanks," said the first sergeant, call- whar a mule done kicked me." A martinet, expecting him to make some ing him out of ranks, "you are late again. error, crossed his post. Sure enough, the How do you account for your leggins Lady of the house, shivering: "Has rookie challenged, "Who goes there?" being laced on the in- the furnace gone out, Bridget?" while at right-shoulder arms. side of your legs?" Bridget: "No, mum, Oi think not. "B o n e - h e a d!" Shanks looked first Oi've bin standing at the gate all even- snapped the martinet, at the sergeant and ing wid a gintlemin frind, and it never ignoring the challenge. then at his legs. wint by me, mum, Oi'm sure." "Pass, bone-head, . "Why," he stam- and all's well," re "^-?^^o/ mered, "I got my legs "Is your wife a club-woman, Mike?" turned the rookie, re- 4 crossed." "Divil a bit, sor, she uses a flatiron." suming his march. l—„ August 29, 1919 21 BULLETIN BOARD

Thorough investigation of the alleged The German military machine dies The report of the commandant of the abuses in military prisons of the A. E. F., hard. While War Minister Noske is A. E. F. art training center at Bellevue, prompt punishment for the individuals pushing the organization of 500,000 France, shows that the personnel of the responsible for these alleged wrongs, re- home guards and the Prussian govern- student body represented twenty-four gardless of rank, and legislation to pre- ment is trying to establish a big armed grades of enlisted men, and of officers vent their recurrence are demanded in constabulary, the government will urge from the rank of second lieutenant to resolutions unanimously adopted by the the Allies not to insist on the peace major. The greatest number of students National Executive Committee of The treaty terms reducing the regular army at any given time was 268. American Legion. to 200,000 men this year and 100,000 next year. The actual demobilization of the The entire crew of the German sub- American army, insofar as the com- marine Bremen, which disappeared three batant troops are concerned, will be years ago, has arrived at Bremen. Ac- practically completed by the last of cording to a German newspaper, Great October, Secretary of War Baker has an- Britain kept the men prisoners and com- nounced. pletely shut them off from the outside world to keep the whereabouts of the German interests claim to have ac- vessel a secret. quired large grants of land in Mexico, Argentina and Paraguay, which will be Analysis of the final casualty report colonized with German emigrants, received from the Central Records office financed by a semi-official corporation, in France shows that the European war and pledged to work for the Fatherland was the most sanguinary history. above personal interests. The corpora- in Battle deaths among American enlisted tion will pay the emigrants' passage, buy men averaged eight per them farms and machinery and even 1,000, among emergency officers eleven per 1,000, and set them up in a manufacturing busi- among regular army officers fourteen per ness, provided they will sell their prod- 1,000. Of every 1,000 officers landing in ucts only to Germany. France 330 were killed or wounded. Battle deaths were thirty-seven The Great Northern, swiftest of trans- per 1,000 for graduates of West Point and ports, has finished her last trip from eighteen for non-graduates. France as a troop carrier under the Navy, by landing at Hoboken a record number of soldiers' brides, 229, and seventeen children of soldiers. Among The War Department will sell to the public the brides were a few German born, the 2,000,000 surplus all-wool, cotton- HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? and-wool and cotton army blankets first to arrive here. Private Ervy V. Anderson has through Post Office and municipal chan- nels. The price to individual Although no official announcement has been missing since March 18, 1919, purchasers for new wool blankets will be each. been made, it is certain now, according when he escaped from the United $6 to the New York Sun, that Marshal States General Hospital No. 34, Foch will accept the invitation he has East Norfolk, Mass. He was received to come to the United States, later seen at Orleans, N. Y., on Gold ingots to the value of $5,000,000 and will attend the convention of The March 28, but since then nothing have been recovered by salvagers from American Legion at Minneapolis in has been heard from him. His the wreck of the former White Star November. parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Dominion liner Laurentic, which struck Anderson, of Plankington, South a mine off the north coast of Ireland One hundred and sixty miles of mo- Dakota, have written to the Amer- while acting as a British auxiliary tion picture negatives and more than ican Legion Weekly asking for aid cruiser. 47,000 still photographs of army activi- in finding him and will reward any during the war, Sec- information which may residt in ties were produced The Saxon Crown jewels, including a has informed Congress, in restoring their son to them. retary Baker pearl necklace valued at $195,000, were legislation authorizing the War urging dropped in two packages from an air- to sell duplicates of the Department plane near Malmoe and taken in charge negatives. With the permission of the Dutch by the police. The packages also con- government, the former German Crown tained gold heirlooms and securities list of miss- Recent corrections in the Prince spent several days with his wife worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, soldiers have reduced the children at Soden, Prussia, then ing American and and making it the biggest customs haul on compared number to only 127 names, as returned to Holland. record. Two Germans picked up the 121,000 with 264,000 for France and package and claimed the valuables as had for England. To July 1 the army Camp Mills, Mineola, N. Y., has been their own. They were arrested and sol- reported 149,433 cases of disabled virtually closed. Nearly 8,000 men taken to Stockholm. diers to the War Risk Insurance Bureau. were recently sent to camps near their The final total is estimated at close to homes for demobilization under orders 200,000. from Washington to speed up the work Demobilization of the French army is of returning men to civilian life. Over proceeding steadily, and when it is com- All men who have been awarded the 1,000 men from the Quartermaster pleted the organization will be the same Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Corps, the Motor Corps and the 13th as in 1914 before the outbreak of the Service Cross, regardless of rank, will be Infantry are being held for a time, war. It will include the twenty-one elected to honorary membership for life however, to look after the buildings and corps of 1914 and two corps created dur- in the Infantry Association. the stores in the big warehouses. ing the war. 22 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Among the Legion's Local Posts

The Arkansas State Executive Com- Three wards in Minneapolis, the Elev- Huntington, W. Va., Post is planning mittee of the Legion is well on the way enth, Twelfth and Sixth, have united to a big celebration in the fall to which all to fulfil the National Executive Commit- form one of the largest posts in that city. former service men will be invited, tee's program of a post in every county whether or not they are members of the before the end of August. The state Hugh Carlisle Post, of Albuquerque, Legion. convention will be held in October. New Mexico, celebrated the success of its membership drive with a banquet and Somerville Post No. 19, Mass., has "It will be impossible for anyone to dance. Over 400 new members were formed an On-To-Minneapolis committee speak traitorously in California if the added to the Legion. in accordance with the suggestion in the American Legion keeps up its fight for Fourth of July issue of the American pure Americanism," said Governor Ste- The Minnesota state convention will Legion Weekly. phens, of California, addressing a newly probably be held in St. Paul, September organized post at Norman Hill Center. 3 and 4. Dover Post, No. 8, New Hampshire, held an elaborate carnival during the week Legion members of Bridgeport, Conn., A new post has been organized in Ber- of August 4 to 10. have undertaken to raise the sum of lin—not Germany, but Massachusetts. $12,500 to purchase the McElroy home- It has been named the H. Wallace Wood- Victory Post No. 1, Chicago, has stead for their headquarters. ward Post. adopted a resolution calling upon the prin- cipal political parties of Illinois to bring Florida claims to have organized more before the electorate only the very high- posts than any other state in the union est types of zealous, unselfish citizens for The American Legion Weekly in proportion to number of men in the public office. will consider short story manu- service. The state now has more than scripts two thousand to forty posts. of from Members of the Service Club of Stock- five thousand words. The partic- ton, Cal., composed of returned service ular need is high-grade popular The Augusta, Georgia Post has been men, have voted unanimously to enter fiction—clean, sane stories of busi- named in honor of former Captain Louis the American Legion. The club has taken ness, adventure, action, and oc- L. Battey, who was killed in the fierce the name of Karl Ross Post, No. 6. casionally a love story if that fighting in the Argonne, September, 1918. theme is not predominant. Hu- The Fancher Nicoll Post No. 77, of morous fiction is particidarly wel- The Newark, N. Post has formed a Pleasantville, N. Y., which received its J., come. War stories are not taboo, permanent committee to look after re-em- charter on June 10, now has a membership but the war has been over for ployment of former service men. An in- of about 100. The post will march in a some time and it is assumed that tensive membership campaign will be con- body in the Welcome Home celebration to readers are now more interested ducted throughout the state during this be held in Pleasantville on Labor Day. in problems civil Since month. of life. many readers the Weekly are of An active Legion campaign in Tennes- ex-service men, it is believed that see is bringing good results and it is ex- effort to supplement Government In an they will be interested in short pected that at least 100 posts will have agencies in placing former serv- and other stories that deal with problems of been formed by the time the state con- ice men in permanent jobs, Emmet civil life as they affect men re- vention is held in Nashville in September. O'Neal, state employment officer of the cently returned from military life. Legion, has sent out questionnaires to Good verse is also needed. of Louisville, Kentucky, Naval veterans of Cleveland have or- leading employers will be upon Manuscripts passed ganized the Kelly Post, their co-operation. Ingram named asking within a week, and will be paid after the first-class gunner's mate of the on acceptance. for Cassin, lost his life in action Bangor has been chosen as the place U. S. S. who with submarine in for holding the state convention of the a German October, 1917. Legion in Maine. The convention will be held in September. Membership in the Legion in Rhode Argonne Post was organized recently in Island is increasing so rapidly that the Wheeling, W. Va., and has received its The Legion has grown in Maryland be- state expects to have over 10,000 veter- charter from national headquarters. yond the fondest hopes of the State Ex- ans enrolled before the national conven- ecutive Committee. The committee set tion in Minneapolis, November 11. A resolution endorsing the A. F. of L.'s as its goal the modest figure of 1,000 stand against a soviet form of government members before the state convention in The South Dakota state convention was adopted unanimously by the Peoria, September. The membership already has adopted a resolution urging that the pro- 111., Post. passed the 2,500 mark. posed state soldiers' memorial be in the nature of a museum for war trophies and Medina, N. Y., will name its post after A St. Paul man, a former soldier, has depository of records of ex-service men. James P. Clark, who was one of the first donated $1,000 to the state body to assist of Medina's men to give his life in France. in forming posts in Minnesota. Wilkins Post No. 1, of Laconia, N. H,

is planning a celebration of its own in Spokane has been chosen for the fijst Oregon posts will hold their state con- connection with the New Hampshire state state convention in Washington. The vention September 17, 18. Theodore convention at The Weirs, August 26-28. dates announced are September 1 to 6, Roosevelt, Jr., will attend. Gordon-Bissell Post No. 4 will hold its Interstate Fair Week. New clubrooms first celebration on Labor Day. There were formally opened recently in Spo- When all service men have returned, it are now thirty-six posts in New Hamp- kane. is estimated by Legion officers that the shire. Legion will have a membership of 35.000 to 40.000 in Montana. Montana first The state commander of the Legion The Aberdeen Soldiers and Sailors undertook to organize the veterans under in Texas announces that there has been League, Washington, became officially the name of the World War Veterans of no difficulty in finding work for returning Aberdeen Post No. 5 of the American Montana. Later, at a convention in soldiers. The state convention will be Legion, when the charter was received Malta, the organization entered the Amer- held at Dallas, October 10 and 11, during last month. An election of new officers ican Legion cn masse. the State Fair. is to be held soon. August 29, 1919 23 The Souvenir King (Continued from Page 8) contained solids or liquids. Different mande, Francais, Americaner, Englander, an immense bundle with bandages, but shaped cans contained different varieties alles kamerad." We saw that all the got away with it. Some Tommies not of food—an oblong can of vegetables was officers were Germans. Since the war wounded wrapped German belts around always offered by Tommy as sardines. was over they were relieving a few of the their legs and tied them up with band- Allies of surplus change, which many of ages, limping along as if they had been EVERYONE along the streets hailed the prisoners flaunted proudly in the Ger- left cripples for life. Some who were us with "Have you anything to sell?" man shops. It was not so easy to back caught with valuable German war ma- or "Have you any soap or meat?" out of the trap, because we were in a terial, when we were searched before The French always started with a big small back room and with little chance to crossing into Holland, were held up for top price and then gradually came down. make a break if the "good fellows" got several days, but were eventually turned The Russians, too, were clever salesman, too friendly with our kale. The Tommy loose. At Rotterdam we took the British but the Tommies would ask a price and came to the rescue by throwing a fake hospital boat Panama and someone walk on if it was refused. For a mark fit and when he "came to" we alleyed up named it the "Souvenir Special." a good pocket knife could be purchased the crooked street minus considerable Many of the weary hours were whiled or a toothbrush or toothpaste, and many change, but got to another part of the away swapping souvenirs. Those who articles that would cost more in America. town, bought souvenirs and hurried out went broke in poker games offered up For ten pfennigs a little spark lighter of the village. The Germans worked the precious remembrances, and remarks could be bought. Everything but food, among the prisoners in disguise and the like these arose from the gaming tables: clothing and leather goods sold cheaply. saloon was evidently their meeting place. "Raise you an iron cross," "going up a Toilet soap was twenty-five marks a bar We gave it a wide berth on future visits spiked helmet," "top it half a loaf of and women's and men's clothes from one to Dulmen. Jerry punlP" hundred to four hundred marks a suit. In a Yank hospital in England enter- There were no grocery stores whatever, ONCE back in the ward we dumped prising Tommies who had returned or butcher shops; all articles sold in the souvenirs on a bunk and every- wounded and were out of the army these places in peace times were appa- body was happy over the deals transacted. peddled "made in England" souvenirs to rently bought direct from the factories or Among other things we purchased razors, the Yanks. One Tommy had several farms. A little packet of tea was good and thus relieved ourselves of the trying small crucifixes and he would sell one in for ten marks. ordeal of being shaved weekly by an each ward, claiming he had found it in a Stores where articles were kept at cheap English blacksmith who had landed a destroyed church at Ypres, or some other prices were flooded with Allied soldiers, "cushy" job by telling the authorities he town along the Western front. When the all trying to get some little toy to take was a barber. This Tommy shaved us in doughboys started back on the boats the home. Ln one place we met a non-com, bed and between the dressing and the gobs had plenty of coin and grabbed up dressed like a Russian, who appeared to shaves we much preferred the former. I the stuff, and I suppose the gobs in turn be a very friendly fellow and spoke fair was considered the chief tradesman, be- unloaded on the unsuspecting civilians in English. He and the fraulein clerk were cause Europeans have an idea that all America for a big price. Many a crowd great pals and he seemed anxious to help Americans are out for the money and that gathers around the front of some store us dispose of the articles we had and to their chief enjoyment in life is putting looking through a window at a pile of get us cash for them, instead of trading. over big deals. The Germans had me Jerry junk that "never saw action." When we sold out, the two of us had spotted as salesman for the ward and There was at least one Aussie in about two hundred marks and the Rus- were on my trail continuously. Flanders who turned away in disgust sian (really a German) suggested we go in- As the last of the English wounded after taking a peep at a Jerry souvenir to a saloon and have a little "schnapps," were leaving for home, the Red Cross belt which a Tommy had taken from a Ger- which we did. In the little back room of gave each several parcels; we had more man. This was about the time the Yanks a saloon we found two or three German than we could eat and began to horde up were getting into the fray. officers, a French officer, a Roumanian, the souvenirs. One Tommy had fifteen He couldn't dope out what the "Gott to all appearances an officer, and two Rus- razors hidden away in the lining of his mit uns" was and finally confessed his sian officers. We soon realized that one clothes. Helmets, pistols and dozens of ignorance and asked the Tommy. was born every minute, for we were do- other German articles were concealed in The Tommy told him it was German ing all the buying. The Russian got very the packs and clothing of the prisoners. for "God is with us," and the Aussie said, happy after he had introduced us to his A Tommy with only the stump of one leg "Hell, we got the Yanks with us," and companions. "Ach," he said, "Alle- poked a spiked helmet over it, making walked away.

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BOTTLING UP THE BOCHE out. At the peep of the periscope the {Continued from Page 7) second time the Fanning headed dead thine was carried away which put the ahead for it and dropped a depth bomb. starboard engine out of commission. * * * The destroyer Nicholson also closed in Lt.-CoL Immediately after the ship was torpedoed and dropped another charge. The con- " the radio was out of condition ning tower of the U-boat then appeared Suppose another submarine had bobbed on the surface between the Nicholson and up and caught the Cassin in this fix, with the convoy. The Nicholson's guns Roosevelt only one engine, with her stem blown pounded her with three rapid-fire shots away, her after guns gone, leaking badly and the submarine's bow came rapidly and going slowly in a circle when she to the surface. The Fanning then headed tried to make headway? This is pre- for the pirate, opening fire with her for- in a series of articles cisely what did happen. ward guns. After the third shot the Ger- now appearing daily "Periscope port beam," a lookout cried. man crew ran on deck and held up their But that didn't feaze men of Ingram's hands in token of surrender, and this in in the ilk. just eighteen minutes after the periscope "Open fire, gun No. 2," came the per- first was sighted. Keeping her batteries emptory command from the bridge. trained on the submarine, the Fanning ap- "Rat, tat, rat, tat!" spoke gun No. 2. proached the craft. A line was thrown Fifteen hundred yards away there were to the submarine but missed and before New York splashes. Two of them struck very near it could again be thrown it was observed the conning tower of the rising sub- that the U-boat was sinking by the head. mersible. She had been scuttled by her own crew "Submarine submerged and was not As she went down the Germans leaped Herald seen again. Two shots struck very close into the water. to submarine," the report reads in dry, The American sailormen quickly forgot matter-of-fact, navy parlance. Later it the treachery of the prisoners who goes into more details. The miracle by scuttled the submarine and only a few three tells his boyhood recollections which the twenty-odd men in the minutes before had been ready to fire a wrecked after-compartments escaped with deadly torpedo, and lowered boats. A of his father and the lessons to only minor injuries is most striking in chief pharmacist of the navy, Elzer Har- be learned from the the case of F. W. Kruse, fireman, first well, and Coxswain Francis G. Conner, class. He was asleep in his bunk on the formerly in the Naval Militia, jumped port side, only a few feet forward of the overboard and saved a German sailor who torpedo's point of contact into the store- apparently could not keep afloat until rooms. Four frames, eighty-four inches the small boats reached him. He died WORLD WAR of side, were disrupted immediately along- later from exposure. Ten other Germans side his body. He made his way through were so weak from the contact with the each of the three compartments, climbed icy water that lines had to be placed the ladder to the main deck in a dazed under their armpits and they had to be state, and did not fully regain his facul- hoisted on board the Fanning. ties until he had gone forward as far as Once on deck those able to stand were No. 4 stack. His duty was in No. 2 fire- lined up, not to be shot at, nor told to room, towards which it is believed some walk the plank, but to be served with hot Every Soldier, subconscious instinct was urging him. coffee and dry, warm clothing. How Eight hundred and fifty pounds of different from the treatment accorded the Sailor and TNT is estimated to have exploded in sailors of the Belgian Prince by a U-boat Marine and upon the Cassin's fantail; this in- commander. After lifebelts and life- cluding both depth bombs and the charges boats had been destroyed they, too, were of the torpedo. lined on the deck of the submarine. Then OF THE it sank beneath them and they drowned. When the Fanning arrived in port the BUT it was very, very seldom that the U-boat got the destroyer. Most prisoners gave three rousing cheers for Lieutenant Carpenter and their captors! often it was the other way and whenever Incidentally, the a "kill" was officially granted to a de- Hun who died of ex- stroyer, a star was painted on her for- posure was buried at sea with full mili- E. F. tary honors! A. stars the ward stack. Perhaps the on Fanning and Nicholson shimmer with "Are we really humanitarians or just greater luster than all the others, for they plain nuts?" one of the seamen asked were not only responsible for the sink- after telling of their kindness to the Ger- Should read these ing of a U-boat, but actually captured the mans. articles in the entire crew as well. That the boat itself was not made prisoner was due to the "OEE if you can see my wife's picture usual treachery of the German seaman ^ anywhere? I had it in my blouse." who scuttled her with one hand while he These words were the last ever uttered held the other over his head in token of by Lieutenant Clarence C. Thomas, surrender, figuratively speaking. U. S. N., the first officer lost in the war. New York While escorting a convoy, Coxswain He commanded the armed guard on the Loomis of the Fanning, with unusual steamship Vacuum, sunk by a U-pirate. vision, sighted a periscope more than a There was no warning whatever of the mile away. It showed only a few seconds torpedo's approach. It struck amidships. Herald and then submerged. Fritz had to do this Lieutenant Thomas and the after-gun's in order to get himself into position to crew manned the gun, but two minutes fire a torpedo effectively and the chances later the stern plunged, throwing the were he would show his periscope a sec- naval officer and his crew into the water. ond time to make sure he was in the April is bitterly cold in the North Sea EVERY DAY right location to attack. Lieutenant A. and four of the crew were drowned out- S. Carpenter, commanding the Fanning, right or died almost instantly from ex- and Lieutenant G. H. Fort, the executive posure. Lieutenant Thomas was drav/n officer, knew this and kept a sharp look- {Continued on Page 29) August 29, 1919 25

Letters from Readers

Constructive Criticism To the Editor: Your editorial on "Abuse of Soldiers" in the August 8 issue of the Weekly is very good. What is needed more than anything else in the Army and Navy is constructive criticism which will make the Army and Navy a better place for those who wish to serve the government. If more constructive criticism took the place of all the unnecessary military dis- cipline (if it can be called that), the "Hardboilers" would have to go and there would be more of the co-operative dis- cipline so badly needed in every branch of our government. Brooklyn, N. Y. Floyd I. Silk.

This is a department to which readers are invited to offer opin- ions, suggestions and informa- tion on topics of public interest. They are also invited to express their opinion of the American The Great Task of Construction Legion Weekly itself. If it isn't satisfactory say so — and With the coming of peace the the present excess burden of offer some constructive criti- cism. Only by knowing the de- Bell System faced an enormous traffic and provide for future sires of its readers can the weekly fulfill its mission of rep- construction program. Condi- requirements. Extension which resenting them. Only signed tions arising from war resulted cares for immediate demand, communications will be consid- ered, but the name will be in the wiping out of the reserve only, is uneconomical and calls omitted on request. Brevity is equipment normally maintained, for continuous work of such a essential. and necessary to give prompt character as to be frequently

connection to new subscribers. detrimental to the service. An Answer To "A. E. F." To the Editor: I have read your inter- The release of industry and ac- esting magazine of the August 8 issue of population During the war the Bell System with great pleasure. In reply to "A. E. F. cumulated growth Private," I will say that, far from it be- now makes telephone demands devoted all its margin to the ing sacreligious for sightseers and tour- ists to view the scenes of our great Amer- almost overwhelming. needs of the Government. The ican victories, nothing will be more potent in inspiring those who see them to great task of getting back to nor- a greater love and appreciation of Telephone construction, includ- mal pre-war excellence of oper- America. I, too, have fought, hiked and fallen out in the same district that ing buildings, switchboards, con- ation requires the reestablish- "A. E. F." mentions. Let Americans see what difficulties the Yanks had to duits, cables and toll lines, must, ment of an economic operating overcome and we need not fear that those able to travel will return anti- from its inherent nature, be margin capable of taking care of American in their ideals. And let us undertaken in large units. A a larger growth than has ever be- give our support to the proposition by which we will acquire an American battle- metropolitan switchboard, with fore confronted the Bell System. field in France for a new national park, commemorating the Somme, Chateau- its tens of thousands of parts, Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne so Construction is being pushed to that, like the Canadians with their me- may require from two to three morial at Vimy Ridge, we may flaunt in years to construct and install. the limit of men and materials; the faces of those who are only too apt to forget the memories of true North whileeveryeffortisbeingmadeto American valor. great extension can meet provide the best, present service. Houghton, Mich. Fred M. Blair. Only

Congratulates Legion To the Editor: I have just received American Telephone and Telegraph Company copies of the American Legion Weekly, And Associated Companies and want to congratulate you upon your {Continued on Page 26) One Policy One System Universal Service —

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION" WEEKLY LETTERS FROM READERS {Continued from Page 25) efforts in producing such a splendid pub- lication. THE REVIEW I am chairman of the Organization Committee of the American Legion in 15 Cents a Copy $5.00 A Year Bakersfield, and look forward to the com- pletion of a membership which will in-

clude every man who has been in the I service in this vicinity. We also will "Fed Up With make it a part of our business to see that every member of the Legion subscribes for the American Legion Weekly. The French" New York City. T. W. M. Ey Majcr, A. E. F. The New Voice is as human, sane and To the Editor: Enclosed you will find an editorial from the Ogden Examiner 100% American an on your magazine. article as you can find on "Publication of the Stars and Stripes the subject of America in during the war period, as the authorized newspaper of the American Expedition- France. It appeared in ary Forces, was a unique situation in a recent issue of THE journalism, yet its end was even more REVIEW. unique, for it concluded its great success of the war period with the conclusion of Authoritative articles on the A. E. F., which it so ably served. "Not exactly as its successor, but as the problems now be- the new representative of the men who fore the country appear were with the American forces across the weekly in THE RE- seas, or mobilized to go if necessary, has come the American Legion Weekly. VIEW. It, too, is truly the publication of the men who carried through America's part From now on, these in the war/' problems are going to /^LORIOUS play Ogden, Utah. R. M. B. be settled—and settled and the glori- Amend Immigration Laws in the right, American ous fun of thirst- To the Editor: In justice to those good way, — largely by the quenching with American citizens of foreign birth who men and women of the joined the colors and "paid their rent" American Legion. Clicquot Club Gin- for the privilege of being Americans, I ger Ale. It's on ice think our immigration laws should be amended so that any alien who has re- THE REVIEW, absolu- now, waiting till sided in this country for a period of five tely in harmony with years and has made no attempt to be- dry and dusty little the principles of the come a citizen of our country be politely American Legion, is throats clamor for but firmly told to go back to the country refreshment.There from whence he came. looked to by many Any alien who was very willing to members of the Legion in giving have a share in our country's prosperity is noharm articles and benefits by the high wages, privi- for on govern- the kiddies all they leges, etc., enjoyed by our workers, and ment, politics and econ- wantofthissafeand is among the first to create disorders, omics that are riots and break our laws during strikes, pure ginger drink but who claimed foreign citizenship when an incomparable asked to join the colors, should be sent Independent back to his own country. It is up to Constructive blend of purest the American Legion to see to this. juices oflemons and Yonkers, N. Y. Dr. I. Linder. Authoritative and limes, Jamaica gin- Respect for the Flag American ger, cane sugar and To the Editor: Several days ago I witnessed a parade in Pittsburgh. crystal-clearspring I took particular notice that, as the colors passed the spectators, not one man water. Buy by the THE REVIEW, l.'fi Nassau Street, in fifty lifted his hat, and I know there New York case from your were more ex-service men in that crowd grocer or druggist. than the above percentage would indicate. You may send me, free, a copy of "Fed l'p Willi The French", and put I think every former service man wants my tiame down for a tcn-ireek's sidi- Serve whenever just as much to show respect for our flag scription to THE REVIEW, for as when we were in the service, but thirst puts in an wliich I will pay, when billed, the simply forgetful. If every becomes mem- special price of SI.00. appearance. bar of the Legion made it a point always to pay this respect to our flag, it would Name THE CLICQUOT CLUB CO. not be long before all men would involun- tarily lift their hats. Millis, Mass., U. S. A. An Ex-Service Man, Address. 1 A.L. W. Pittsburgh, Pa. August 29, 1919 27

SIX MILES UP IN THE AIR (Continued from Page 10) clothes hindered him, and he was unsuc- cessful. While the plane still climbed slowly, he devised another plan. Slowly and laboriously he began to cut strips from the cushion on which he was A TRANSCRIPT FEATURE sitting. His goggles and helmets inter- fered with his sight, and the two pairs of thick gloves impeded his hands, yet he worked away till he had several pieces of cloth ready. Then came the trial. Dropping the controls he climbed for- ward to the engine and tucked a strip of the cushion across the face of the radiator, so as to shut out the cold. Laughing with THE WAR AS SEEN BY glee, the wind tore away the cloth and whirled it into space. Again he tried, and again the merciless wind snatched away his handiwork. A third time, while the plane flew with no guiding hand on the controls, he attempted to block the foe, Lieut. Col. Theo. Roosevelt but to no avail. Struggling back to his seat as hastily as possible, he strove desperately to think In Advance of Book or Periodical Publication of some other method. The purple ink of the barograph was trailing along the 30,700-foot line, while the mercury, under the Arctic attack of the hundred-mile hur- ricane, was cowering down at twenty-five below. His feet were numb with the 20 INSTALMENTS cold which was creeping over him. Was this paltry height to be the ceiling of his flight? Far beneath him lay the world. Southward and eastward the wide Atlantic reflected the sky's deep blue, with Mon- Published in the tauk Point, one hundred and ten miles away, stretching slim fingers into the sea. North and westward rolled the hills of New England and the Appalachian ranges, Boston Evening Transcript looking low and flat from his altitude. It all seemed so still and tranquil and sunny, it must be easy to go up a mile or two higher. EVERY DAY FOR THREE WEEKS BUT a new element had to be consid- ered now. He had been nearly half an hour at this altitude and his oxygen would not last much longer. In that rari- fied atmosphere he could not survive long without it. In addition the wind was Beginning With Saturday, August 16 steadily bearing him out to sea, and his gasoline was nearly gone. There was nothing for it but to descend. It necessitated a quick descent, which was exactly what he wished to avoid, be- cause of the dangerous effects on the human system of too sudden changes in The millions who loved Theodore atmospheric pressure. However, it had to Roosevelt, Sr., will eagerly follow be done, so it was done. Down he sped, while the earth seemed leaping up to this After-the-War Serial by his son meet him. Down, still down, in sweeping spirals, making skillful allowance for drift, he dropped down out of the strongest wind and the bitterest cold into quieter and more friendly regions. Down, and always down, till with a last spiral he brought the triplane gently to earth, slowed its rush ORDER OF YOUR NEWSDEALER across the field, and stopped. Over- whelmed by the sudden quiet, he dropped his head into his hands. In the group which rushed across the Or have paper sent by mail for the field to him was his wife. series for 80 cents "How high?" she cried. "Thirty thousand, that's all," he an- swered. Then did his wife show the spirit of the eagle's mate. "Oh, what a shame!" she exclaimed. 28 THE AMERICAN LEGION" WEEKLY FARMS FOR SOLDIERS- DEFERRED (Continued from Page 13) fences he must pay about $400, or one- fourth, toward the improvements in order to get a $1,500 loan from the government. When he is ready to buy his team of mules or tractor or what-not, he must come forward with about $500, or between thirty and forty per cent, in order to get a loan of $1,200 from the government. The farm, as a going plant GRAY & WILMERDING worth $Q,000, will require an investment by the soldier of about $1,200 down and Members New York Stock Exchange the rest at four per cent, over forty years' time. The government would not deal with any soldier who already owned a farm. "I began as a pioneer on a homestead in northwestern Iowa," said Mondell, arguing that these terms will give a man a real start. "I have seen homesteaders in every Western state and territory, hundreds and thousands in one-room sod houses. We are not expecting these men to start life that way. We do not want 5 Nassau Street New York them to." The opponents of the Mondell bill array these charges against it: That the half billion dollar appropriation author- ized would finance only 80,000 soldiers; that it does not give the man an indi- vidual choice of farms anywhere; that Telephone Rectc | |g24 J the soldier will have to foot the whole bill for reclamation and administration, in the costs of the farms, and pay back every cent he borrows; that the land Batckeller & Adee would cost as much as present farms in arable regions; that it interests only the farmer boy. 62 BROADWAY Against this, Mondell argues as follows: NEW YORK CITY Fifty-five per cent, of the soldiers who have written to Secretary Lane of their interest in the scheme now live in cities; that the government cannot see its way clear to undertake a vaster farm financ- ing project at this time; that experience STOCKS shows a greater success and economy in keeping the settlers in communities; that AND the bill would reclaim land in practically every state; and that the reclamation project would let the purchaser in on the BONDS ground floor, permitting him to get a farm at actual cost to the government, giving the soldier t^e benefit of the "un- earned increment" later. The "unearned increment" opportunity is really the liveliest thing the govern- ment has to offer the soldier in this Members New York Stock Exchange proposition, outside of a government- guided chance to be independent on his own bit of land. In building the projects on the com- munity plan, it is not intended to follow VICTORY MEDAL BARS 25 CENTS the French plan, with the houses clus- STARS ATTACHED 10 CENTS EACH tered into a town, but rather with a "community center" in the middle of a Attach rLcxiBLr- flCTALLIC C WEVROM3 "Khout tract four miles square and every man's ,, k J Sewl, tLJU. 5 house on his own farm. "And we don't have to go West for

i i Hit lilli this benefit, either," says the man of the " EASE! [ ' immwu iii mi fifty-dollar sod house. "Within twenty- TEN-SHUN! AT ALL CAMPAIGN COMBINATIONS five miles of Boston there is a tract of The best place for your Army Discharge Is In chip of our SIiikIv Bur 25c—Double Bur 60c. -Triple T6c.—Qosdniph »1 00 frames made especially for Discharge Papers Both sides land being considered for one of these of the frame are alike, for a double glass, so tliat elllier Petite Palms, 25 Cents Each Pil- side of the discharge pan be seen. projects where farms of the early BY Beautifully Mulshed In weathered oak or mahogany MANUFACTURED grim Fathers have been abandoned and Shipped f I* without the glass on receipt of a dollar COWARD i* vine which are susceptible of development at bill or money order Speelal sl/.es 50C. extra a reasonable cost for fertilization, clear- IIS Street, Blnahumton, N. Y. H.M.GEBR, Henry 13 MAIN ITflECT HCMPSTCAC Member of The American Liuion ing and levelling." 29 .August 29 , 1919 BOTTLING UP THE BOCHE (Continued from Page 24) aboard a partly submerged lifeboat where eleven of his crew of fifteen had sought safety. One by one they began to die of MILLETT, ROE & HAGEN exposure. Their clothing froze to their bodies, icicles hung from their caps. Members New York. Slock Exchange Eight of them, including Thomas, died before the half wrecked lifeboat was picked up the next day. The remaining three have been permanently crippled by rheumatism, it is said. Armed guard duty was particularly INVESTMENT SECURITIES hazardous, especially in the forepart of the war, before regular sea patrols by cruisers and destroyers could be estab- lished. For four hours the armed guard of the steamer H. J. Luckenbach battled with a German submarine. believe the present offers an un- hundred degrees. Suspicious WE "Two usually favorable opportunity for ship," the lookout sung out. The Luck- enbach changed her course to avoid the increasing incomes without lessening the "suspicious s'.iip," and the latter also integrity of investments. We shall be shifted her rudder so as to cross the Luckenbach's bow. Thereupon, the Luck- pleased to consult with investors as to enbach opened fire and sent out an the most advantageous means to put into S. O. S. A destroyer answered her distress call. effect such a readjustment of their holdings. "How quickly can you get here?" the Luckenbach asked. "Two hours," came the discouraging answer. "Too late, look for boats," the steam- ship said. 52 WILLIAM STREET "Don't surrender," came back the mes- sage as the swift destroyer got under way. NEW YORK While this wireless conversation was going on, the ship's guns and those of the submarine were "talking" with fear- ful rapidity. One submarine shot struck the Luckenbach squarely forward and set her on fire after wounding four of the AN ETCHING EVERY ONE SHOULD gun crew. One gunner's mate was g OWN evmi and of personal struck four times. Another was going up It records an both historic significance a forward ladder carrying ammunition a shell exploded, blind- THE NATIONAL PICTURE when German gas HISTORICAL WARMEMENTO ing him with its fumes. Then a pro- 1*1 jectile crashed into the engine room, wounding two engineers. The gun crew was returning the submarine's fire shot for shot and so effectively that the U- boat didn't dare approach any closer. After several hundred shots had been fired, the lookouts in the crow's-nest sent out a joyful call: ID "Smoke on the horizon, 250 degrees." They saw the approaching destroyer © before the submarine did because of bet- • ter visibility in the foretop. The sub- § marine's fire was growing deadly. The after gun of the Luckenbach was put out Q ? of action and several of the gun crew badly wounded. Then a shot put the % O Luckenbach's engines out of commission. But the destroyer was arriving. She V w fired one shot at the submarine before the latter saw her. The U-boat dived i o immediately, without waiting to house S12E OF PICTURE. 24x34 her deck guns. The destroyer dropped a o * barrage of depth charges and stood by PLATE MARKED ON SPECIAL ANTIQUE PAPER while the Luckenbach made necessary o ® ETCHING IN BLACK, $3.00 - ETCHING HAND-COLORED, $6.00 repairs. Then she proceeded in convoy of her rescuer and reached her port in ARTISTS PROOF SIGNED By F. MATANIA, R. I., $25.00

safety. Send Postal Money Order or Check to "It was nothing," her skipper said * when asked about the engagement. Then R. R. ROWE, Publisher he smiled and said, "We were only two 184-1S6 West 4th Street N'ew York City ® miles from land. Of course, I mean two miles straight down." W ®A # 9 © H H © 30 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY THEY WINGED THEIR FLIGHT THROUGH SKIES OF STEEL {Continued jrom Page 18) of messages, but he was so "genial" that he was invaluable in getting frightened For a birds into a loft. Sometimes when a bird had made its first flight under shell fire, it would return to the loft in a highly delicious nervous condition. This would be mani- fested by the pigeon constantly circling Breakfast^ about the loft and refusing to alight. Not to alight at once meant delay, and delay meant the lives of hundreds of soldiers very often. In such a case "Old Satchel- back" would be released. He would fly high in the air and then circle around the distraught bird, leading it down to the cote. A story is related that "Old Satchel- back" once was returning across a shell- torn area with a message. He got tired and alighted on a road which engineers were repairing. Quite calmly he waited until the road was repaired and then walked majestically past, thus avoiding the trouble of walking on the rough fields on either side. Another pigeon story which made the entire Allied forces laugh was due to the commander of a contingent of troops from one of the smaller Allied countries, ~ who did not realize the uses to which these Toasted Com Flails pigeons were put in war. On his arrival in a certain sector, a French commander with theJ^KB4Z Coin/Iavor~ sent to him a cote of seventy-five birds. The next day the Frenchman received the following amazing note: "Many thanks for the birds. The mess Washington CRISPS thoroughly enjoyed pigeon pie last evening and with it drank to the health of your excellency and to our great common Asl^JlbrtheRed White andBluePackage cause." ° One of the last acts of a pigeon in the ALL GROCERS great war was to bring a message which stirred the hearts of all the men in the Allied Armies at the front. It came from a French battalion which, like Whittle- sey's, had been surrounded by the Ger- mans. The message read: "The Germans are upon us. We are lost, but have done good work. Have artillery open on our positions."

The S-3, America's largest submarine, finished her recent trial run in first- class condition. The boat is 231 feet long and carries 38,000 gallons of oil, which makes its cruising radius 10,000 Packed only miles. On her trial run the S-3 sub- merged to a depth of 210 feet. Her in TIN to Keep speed under water is about thirteen knots and on the surface eighteen knots the Flavor in - an hour. l$dguqys$&lea j|.

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Painted at the front by America's best illustrators, among them Harvey Dunn, Wallace Morgan, Harry Townsend, Ernest Peixotto, George Harding and W. J. Aylward. These men were sent to France by the War Department and their work is part of the official records of the war.

The pictures show tanks in action; mop- ping up parties at their dangerous work; observation balloons falling in flames; aero- planes in combat; lines of wounded and prisoners; the desolation of No Man's Land. The subjects are accurate, graphic and of unusual interest.

The paintings have been loaned to the American Legion Weekly by the War Department as the best medium through which to show how America's fighting men looked and behaved in action.

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Men of the American Legion Are Eligible to Membership

Members of the American Legion are invited to join forces with the 10,000 officers and enlisted men of the permanent services who are now members of this Association. These ten thousand service men and their families have bound themselves together for the purpose of reducing their cost of living—and they are doing it. This reduction in their expenditures is made a certainty through the medium of mem- bership savings bank checks paid to them by the Association for every purchase they make from stores with whom affiliations have been formed. These savings range from 5% to 15%. There are at present 550 such firms. Among them being:

New York, N. Y Franklin Simon & Co. Minneapolis, Minn. M. L. Rothschild & Co. Saks & Co. Newark, N. j Hahne & Co.

Arnold, Constable & Co. Newport News, Va. . Meyer Bros. G. P. Putnam's Sons Petersburg, Va A. Rosenstock & Co. A. G. Spalding & Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa Joseph Home Co. (also all branches) Providence, R. I The Shepard Co.

Albany, N. Y Cotrell & Leonard Richmond, Va J. B. Mosby & Co. Boston, Mass Shepard, Norwell & Co. Savannah, Ga Leopold Adler C. F. Hovey & Co Seattle, Wash MacDougall & Southwick

Des Moines, Iowa. . .The Utica St. Louis, Mo Boyd's Detroit, Mich J. L. Hudson & Co. St. Paul, Minn The Golden Rule Depart- Louisville, Ky Stewart Dry Goods Co. ment Store Crutchcr & Starks, Ins. Tacoma, Wash Peoples' Store Co.

The above represents only a few of the Cities and Stores on our list.

New stores are being added constantly. Members are furnished directories, giving the name, kind of business and address of every store. Many American Legion men who are also members of this Association have urged us to call the existence of this organization to the attention of the American Legion as a whole. Thus this announcement. The method of obtaining membership savings is very simple. No red tape or identification at the store of purchase. Simply secure a cash slip or receipted bill when you buy. Write your name across the face of the voucher and send to the Association Office. Within a few hours a membership savings check will be on its way back to you. A Life Membership is but $5.00. This also entitles the member's dependents to the Association's privileges. There arc absolutely no other dues or assessments. Use the application printed below. It will save writing a letter. Fill it in and mail it —Now. A certi- ficate of membership will go forward to you at once, and you can start right in SAVING MONEY.

CUT OUT THIS APPLICATION Association of Army and Navy Stores, Inc. 505 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Enclosed herewith my check for $5.00 for Life Membership in the Association of Army and Navy Stores, Inc., as per your announcement in the American Legion Weekly. Please send me list of stores where I can purchase at a membership saving, also Certificate of Membership.

Name .„ * , , - Former or Present Military Rank Branch of Service

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Association of Arm^ and /iaVy Stores, inc SOS Fifth ^Venue, near 42. d Street, /SeWyorkCity