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GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER, CONTENTS got warm and couldn't get warm - who gives a truly American COVER DESIGN without running. Congress would ap- valuation of the World War By Edwin Earle propriate money for new types of on the occasion the twenty-fifth ammunition, say, and the blueprints of THE REAL THING 2 anniversary of its start, is a famous By Karl Detzer would be prepared and a model built Philadelphia attorney who was a Illustrations by Frank Street and there would be stories about United States Senator from 1922 to FOR TOMORROW'S AMERICA 6 how fine the new gun was, what it 1927, and is as well an author of By Henry A. Wallace could be expected to do. But the new Illustration by William MacLean note. With Mr. Pepper's searching gun would never get into production. analysis of the greatest struggle the NEVER AGAIN? 8 Things are a bit better now, thanks By George Wharton Pepper wotld has yet known is presented a to Legion persistence. prophecy made in 1914 which proved READY? WE'D BETTER BE 12 By Warren H. Atherton startlingly true. The Getman, Rus- LEE BEVERIDGE'S su- Cartoon by John Cassel ROBERT sian and Austro-Hungarian monarchs . perb essay on Old Glory, So BACK TO THE FRONT : conclusion 1 lost their crowns in the reshuffling of Proudly e Hail, which appeared in By James E. Dar^t W power, and in all of those countries the June issue, was itself proudly Illustrations by J. W . Schlaikjer socialist or communist governments hailed by numerous Legionnaires and M-DAY—WHEN, AS AND IF 18 were set up, at one time or another. By Cabell Phillips and others in letters to the magazine. Un- Jonescu's statement about the leader- J. D. Ratcliff intentionally, Mr. Beveridge's name ship of the United States in world IN THERE FIGHTING 20 was left out of the box in the back affairs also has come to pass. By of the magazine in which Legion affi- BRING THE FAMILY, TOO 22 liation of contributors is noted. Let WARREN H. ATHERTON'S By Colonel A. A. Spracue it here be recorded that he is Amer- Ready? We'd Better Be, and ON, ON TO VICTORY 24 icanism officer of Richland Post, Co- the M-Day article by Cabell Phillips By Joseph J. Gleeson lumbia, South Carolina. Illustration by Harry Townsend and J. D. Ratcliff when put together give a picture of the defense needs EDITORIAL : more than a million 25 FOR those who like plenty of of the nation and what will actually GREW ALL AROUND ... 26 fiction in the summertime there happen // we go to war. Perhaps By Wallgren are two fine short stories, as well as would-be aggressors will stop and THE SAP 27 the concluding installment of James count the cost of attacking when they By Earle C. Jameson E. Darst's two-part serial Back to the

Illustration by V . E. Pyles learn that instead of the sixty-one Front. Karl Detzer's The Real Thing days needed in 1917 to arrange for A MILE OF PENNIES 28 has a California setting; Earle Jame- By Boyd B. Stutler a manhood draft men will actually son's The Sap goes back to the A. E. F. register nine days after war is de- MARY'S LITTLE LAMBS 32 By John Noll clared. Always that // should be kept J. COLONEL SPRAGUE, President in mind. The fact that we're ready BURSTS AND DUDS 64 of the Chicago Convention Cor- Conducted by Dan Sowers for a ruckus almost certainly means poration, enumerates a good many that we're not going to have any things about that city that will prove ruckus. Industrial and to some ex- of interest to the thousands of Legion- tent military preparedness in this naires and their families who will be country were for generations in the IMPORTANT on hand for the 21st National Con- predicament of the Butterscotchmen vention, September 25 th through A form for your convenience if you wish in "Davy and the Goblin," who you 28th. Convention reunions of war- to have the magazine sent to another ad- may remember couldn't until they dress will be found on page 55. time outfits are on pages 61 and 62.

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AUGUST, 1939 1 ! REAL Thing Karl D ETZ E R

looked across the table at Bingo JOECole's hand, holding his Scotch- and-soda. Bingo's hand was steady. The guy had nerve, Joe must admit. Here he sat in the Brown Derby, talking about horses at Santa Anita, lapping up

highballs, one-two-three, as if nothing was going to happen But what was going to happen? Joe shifted uneasily. He was a light, youngish man with pale eye- brows that looked yellow against his brown skin. He fancied that he resembled Jimmy Cagney and so made a habit of hunching one shoulder and speaking fast from the side of his mouth. The difference, he often told himself, was that Cagney just acted. His stuff wasn't the real thing, like this business to- night. Truth sure was stranger than the movies! Why, he'd never even heard of Bingo Cole till last week when Bingo hailed his taxicab on Hollywood Boulevard and they'd started talking, the way guys do. "Listen, kid," Bingo had said as he got out. "I like your style. Maybe we can fix up a deal." "Okay, boss," Joe had answered from the side of his mouth.

That's how it began. Now Joe sat wait- ing. He glanced at the front door, then at his wrist watch. Ten o'clock. Bingo said Katie Joy would be in around ten. Said she usually came in for one drink and a sandwich, then went home to San Fernando Valley. That's where they'd pull the job, just as she reached her door. Provided, of course, she wore the neck- lace. Behind her waddled a fat Bingo had planned everything. Joe man with a shiny bald head didn't even know where Katie Joy lived, never had seen her off the screen. He'd left it all to Bingo. Bingo was an old

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worth a hundred grand, Bingo said. Get fifty for it tomorrow. Fifty, split two ways. Easy. "Fat guy's Looie Gunzler, her pro- ducer," Bingo whispered. "She's goin' to marry him, maybe, after her di- vorce." Joe stared. She certainly didn't look the way Katie Joy did on the screen. Wasn't pretty, like Katie. He said so. "A lot of them aren't," Bingo an- swered. "Besides, it's her dark glasses." "Oh!" Joe's breath caught. She had dropped her wrap and the necklace, looped about her throat, tossed back the lights. "Did you bring the cash?" Bingo asked. "Sure," Joe kept his eyes on Katie. ." "Only I hope we don't have to. . . "So do J. But you can't tell. Some- thing may happen so we got to lam

out. Then we'll need it. How much?" Joe started to say, "One thousand," then remembered Jimmy Cagney, so the border through Pinto Wash, smug- he said, "One grand," the way Cagney gling Chinks and opium, and sometimes would in pictures. guns? "Hey, look, now!" he said. "That'll do," Bingo admitted. "I just A yellow-haired girl was coming into hoped that you'd scrape up a little more the restaurant. She had on dark glasses than that. You never can tell." that hid half her face, and a white summer Joe didn't look at him, answering, wrap, and expensive, crazy-looking "That's all I could get my hands on." hand. He'd been around, knew all the clothes. Behind her waddled a fat man He didn't say anything about the extra answers. with a shiny bald head. He wore a dark hundred hidden in his shoe. Bingo wasn't "Of course," he admitted, "if there's a sport shirt and a white coat. the only smart guy in Hollywood. What slip, we'll have to lam out till things cool. "It's her," Bingo spoke behind his he didn't know didn't hurt him. Joe had Sure you can get into Mexico without glass, pretending to drink. "Watch close. earned his money the hard way, smug- being stopped?" See if she's wearin' 'em." gling across the border. He patted his Joe had to laugh. Hadn't he spent four Joe smiled. Nobody need tell him that! pocket. "I got it here. In one bill." months pulling a half-ton truck across What was he here for? The necklace was A funny look came over Bingo's face.

AUGUST, 1939 3 No water left in the radiator, "In one bill? The whole grand? Well, of so he started to walk ." all the dumb. . . "I ain't so dumb," Joe answered. cash passenger. Once more he went over on his ignition and held his foot ready to "Keep it in one piece and I don't spend their plan. They'd park near Katie's tramp the starter. it foolish. What's more, I can't see why front gate and Joe would stay in the cab. Then a man's voice hollered, "Who're I'm the guy that puts up all the cash Bingo would wait outside the door. When you? What you want?" for a get-away." Katie drove up, Bingo would do his stuff Then Bingo said, "Put 'em up, I tell Bingo lighted a cigarette. "Have it and come running with the stones and you." your way," he said. "I told you the rea- they'd drive straight to Pasadena, fast. Then the girl screeched, "It's one of son. 'Cause I was fresh out of jack at the Bingo sure could figure. Had the pack- them guys from the Derby!" moment. Only reason I cut you in on age stamped and addressed to "William Joe felt a chill. Then somebody fired any of it. Needed get-away cash just in Short, general delivery, El Centro, Cali- three shots. felt another chill. Katie case. If you don't want any of the deal, Joe ." fornia." Just needed to put in the jewels was screeching plenty loud. Then Bingo if you scare easy. . . mail it. Then in a few days, after was climbing into the cab and Joe was "I want in on it," Joe answered fast. and tired hunting, they'd drive driving fast. "I ain't scared, either. Besides, I don't the cops got pick it mile Bingo said, "Had to kill figure we'll have to lam out." down to El Centro and up. After a repeated, two looked him." "You never can tell." Bingo glanced Joe "Them me hands. around the room, then whispered, "Katie's over plenty at the Derby." The wheel wobbled in Joe's or me," Bingo panted. lookin' at us." "Yeh," Bingo answered. "Too bad." "It was him felt funny. thestones, though. Look." Joedidn't After a moment Joe said, "She's still Joe's knees "Got said. look. got to lam out," Bingo lookin'. So's the guy. They're both lookin' "Here's the place," Bingo "Park dare "We pepper tree." said. at me." under that the pack- "That's too bad," Bingo answered and He got out and Joe asked, "Turn on At Glendale, Bingo dropped radio?" age in a mailbox. Joe felt better after took another drink. "Guess maybe we'd my [ | so, but Bingo answered, better be goin'." "Hell, no. Just set." that and said does a little evidence Joe got into his cab, put on his monkey Joe wiped his forehead with his sleeve. "What difference other She recognized us, didn't she?" cap with his hack license pinned to it, Awful lonely neighborhood. No make? couple of blocks. He wiped They drove to a hot-pig-sandwich joint ;ui(] pulled il over his left eve, the way houses in a a Cagney would. He said, "Them two sure his forehead again. Pretty hot night, to near Alhambra, where Bingo knew guy. went in. eyed me. All the way to the door." make a man sweat so. But what if Katie Joe stayed outside while Bingo turned "Yeh, they did." Bingo had an uneasy had stared at him? Maybe it didn't Some cops cruised past and one It turned looked at Joe's cab, and Joe had to tone. He sat behind, so if the law hap- mean . . . here came a car now. and getting out pened to notice them he'd look like a into Katie's driveway and Joe switched grip the wheel to keep from Thr AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "We got to break the anyhow. Nothing important. Just some bill." stuff about Hitler. The cops were keeping "Break it? Who the quiet about Katie's boy friend getting hell would break it now?" killed. Well, let 'em be smart. Bingo was Bingo wanted to know. smarter still, figuring out everything. "I tell you the heat's on Joe was thinking of the cool beer at

us! You got change till Garcia's when suddenly he felt his foot tomorrow. I got to have jam down hard on the . A sign stood ." it. . . in the middle of the road. He spelled it "The whole thing?" out. Joe shook his head. "What "Halt: Inspection Station."

if I need." Joe's stomach turned over. That "It's me that needs," meant border patrol, shaking down cars Bingo said. "And I'll be for aliens and smuggled goods. They had seeing you tomorrow." a way of shifting posts around, so you Joe started to argue, didn't know where to dodge them. Joe "Now, listen, Bingo," didn't like the border patrol. That's why then he saw the gun in he had quit smuggling. Bingo's hand and he re- He stopped and the inspector walked membered those three out, looking him over, asking, "What you shots, back there by doing with 'n L.A. cab 'way down here?" that lonesome house. Joe started to answer from the side of Bingo was saying, his mouth but remembered just in time. "Thanks. I'll keep it That dame had told the cops about him safe for you. See you in being a dead ringer for Cagney. Better El Centro, unless. ..." speak straight out. He said, "Some movie He climbed out, with guy sent for me. Wants a shot of my cab the money, and Joe drove in a picture he's making over toward away. What had got into Yuma. I'm meetin' him at El Centro." Bingo, anyhow, taking The inspector had the door open and in the cushions. last all the cash? It wasn't was poking At he honest. Well, anyhow, said, "Okay, go on." there was the hundred in Garcia's lunch room was a little dump on Main Street and drove up to the his shoe, Joe remem- Joe Garcia bered, that Bingo didn't back door. He used to know pretty well in the old days. But he'd not know about. Good thing been here since he quit smuggling. he didn't. He opened the screen door and walked didn't hurried south on in. Garcia was making coffee. He JOE seem to recognize Joe because he just Highway 99. Couldn't said, "What'll it be?" and went on mak- and running. Mighty hot night, to make get any speed out of the old bus for some ing coffee. (Continued on page 42) a fellow sweat so. reason. Cars kept overhauling him. And Bingo came out at last. He said, sort how could a fellow tell which of them of worried, "That dame sure can talk. might be full of cops? His throat was dry, My friend's got a pipeline to headquar- but he didn't stop for a drink. Lots of ters. Fifty cops are prowling for us right time after he'd put plenty of miles be- now. Got our description down perfect. tween him and Katie Joy's pepper tree. Says you're a dead ringer for Jimmy He wondered which way Bingo had Cagney." gone. He'd have to take a train. Cops

"Yeh?" Joe gulped. watched trains, always. What if . . . here "We split up," Bingo said. "Can't be came another car, hurrying up behind. seen together or we'll get picked up sure. No, just a couple of dames in it. Joe Meet me in El Centro tomorrow. What's tramped the accelerator and turned on the name of this joint where you used his radio. to hang out?" He had left the hot-pig-sandwich joint "Garcia's lunch room. Run by a Mexi- at midnight; at three he was ducking can fellow." around Palm Springs on the main road. "Okay," Bingo said. "Garcia's lunch At four o'clock he bought gas in Indio. room. Provided I'm not picked up." He "Radiator's almost dry,' mister," the

' gave a funny laugh. "If I'm not there, it station fellow said. 'Got to watch it means I'm in jail. If you're not, you're down here." in jail. Hope we both get there. Don't Joe answered, "Fill crave no murder rap." it up. Hot night." "No," Joe agreed. "I don't either. I'll "Yeh, kinda," the watch the papers." fellow said, and gave Bingo said quickly, "Don't trust 'em. Joe a funny look. Joe They hold things out sometimes, to spring got away fast. At five a trap on a guy. And listen. If I ain't o'clock the sun blazed around, lay off the post office. They up behind the black might be watchin' it." teeth of the Chuck- "How come? You're not goin' to talk." walla range, east of "Cops got ways to make a party talk," Salton Sea. The air Bingo replied. "Now about the cash, that got hotter. Joe turned ." thousand bucks. . . off his radio. No news,

AUGUST, 1939 — Tomorrows America

THESE days when armies march In Europe, raw wood sugar is being INas dictators command, America used for both animals and humans. Fer- holds firm for democracy. We will mented with yeast to form ethyl or draw civic and spiritual strength Henry "grain" alcohol, it may be used in place and guidance from the Declaration of of gasoline; or it can be used to grow Independence and the Constitution. For A.Wallace yeast which, mixed with nitrogen com- most material things on which, in peace pounds, serves as cattle food. We in Secretary Agriculture as in war, our strength as a nation is of America may never have to resort to based, we turn to the good earth, its these processes, but they represent addi- minerals, its soils and waters, and to the support the Legion has so whole-heart- tional security that research and abun- plant and animal life they yield. edly offered. dant forests can provide in case of need. Conservation of natural resources The forest was the natural resource to So does a brand new process by which, through wise use is therefore a funda- which the term conservation was first in our own country, plywood may now mental measure of national defense, applied, and it is in connection with for- be moulded to shape and bonded with both against military aggression and ests that most people still think of it. synthetic resin glues to make airplane against the undermining of economic and Perhaps that is why the Legion's resolu- bodies. social institutions within our borders. tion on conservation refers so directly to Wood and wood products are necessi- In the last 150 years we have grown the need for "programs to reduce fire ties of war as well as of peace, but they from a nation of three million people on losses and restore and protect forests on are not the only necessities forest lands 000,000 square miles to one of 130 million such lands as are primarily suited there- provide. Water from forested slopes is " on 3,000,000 square miles. But in this for the lifeblood of irrigated crops in the truly remarkable progress our physical West. Power from water is the backbone frontiers have all but disappeared. Much BUT this emphasis may also be due to of thousands of essential industries. Los of our soil has been abused and impover- the recollections of some 20,000 Angeles and Denver and Salt Lake City ished. Many living resources that spring veterans of the part which wood played from the soil have been depleted. in the World War. These 20,000 men These are danger signals. They threaten served with the 10th and 20th Forestry In the March issue of this maga- freedom and democracy as we know Engineers which the Department of them. As The American Legion has so Agriculture helped recruit and which, up zine "Ding" Darling the car- clearly recognized, they also impair na- to the Armistice, had operated 81 Ameri- toonist, who is President of the tional defense. can sawmills in , and had cut the National Wildlife Association, equivalent of more than 272 million feet prodigal BY A resolution approved at its last of lumber for barracks, storehouses, called attention to the annual convention, The American hospitals, railroad ties, bridges, duck- way in which the United States Legion has pledged its membership to boards, barbed-wire stakes, and the like. its natural re- help make and keep this country worth Whatever the reason may have been has been wasting defending by supporting efforts to con- for the Legion's emphasis on forest re- sources, and called upon the serve and rebuild our natural resources. sources, much has been learned in the Legion and Americans generally This resolution offers the assistance of last twenty years about the many uses the Legion in devising and applying to which forest products may be put. This to do something about it. Some- methods to this end. The full support of is particularly true of things made from thing is being done. Secretary this great organization is thrown behind wood as a base: of movie films and lac- outlines a number of the efforts of the federal and state quers and paper in many forms, of dye- Wallace governments to make sure that soil and stuffs and distillates and rayons. Re- the measures being taken to water and plant and animal life may be searchers and technicians point to gas, keep America a land of plenty used so wisely and well that replenish- alcohol and sugars as useful products of ment and upbuilding, rather than deple- wood; to wood silk and wood wool; to tion and destruction, may go hand in toothpaste tubes and combs and sausage hand with use. skins. Yet they say we have just scratched and more than 400 other cities and towns Since this is a task to which the De- the surface as far as chemical possibilities —depend upon water that comes from partment of Agriculture is also dedicated, of wood are concerned. There still are, National Forest slopes. I hereby express this Department's sin- they say, many secrets in its fibers, its Proper practices in forestry contribute cere appreciation—and mine —for the cellulose, and its lignin. greatly to flood control. Forests cannot

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to protect forests, of course prevent all floods. Neither can Meat, wool, and leather are indispen- So, in pledging its aid perpetuate dams, or reservoirs, or levees. We need sable to national security. Our western The American Legion helps on which, in certain Montana man-made structures of concrete and range produces 75 percent of the national forage the livelihood of more steel and earth to confine and regulate output of wool and mohair, about 55 per- counties alone, safety of a angry waters. But we need also to supple- cent of the sheep and lambs, and nearly than 5,000 people and the 55- large ex- ment these with land management mea- one-third of the cattle and calves. Grass, million-dollar investment to a sures that hold water back from the weeds, and browse grow in the National tent depend. woodlands that rivers by conditioning the soil to absorb Forests in combination with timber and It helps perpetuate fuel, supplemen- more of the rainfall. Forestry ranks high on higher portions of many major water- provide fence posts, and to two and a half million among such measures. Porous forest soils sheds. This forage—another forest-land tal cash incomes each year, and forests that absorb moisture readily and release it resource—helps support each year nearly farmers forest in- slowly. Forestry occupies a high place in a million and a half cattle and horses and through workers employed in forests, in selling a land management program for flood six million sheep and goats. It also pro- dustries, in growing forest products, and as control that seeks to save fine valley vides summer food, and the forest itself and transporting support thirteen mil- farms, prosperous cities, and costly reser- provides shelter for more than a million artisans of wood— (Continued on page voirs from damage by silt-laden floods. and three-quarters big-game animals. lion people. 46)

AUGUST, 1939 7 ci, Vharton never^ — X Pepper the effective service rendered to Cuba, the United States promptly took a posi- many of us had domesticated the idea tion of official neutrality. When, however, that it was part of our business to right invaded Belgium there were DOUBT. Determination. Disillu- the wrongs of other nations even if they many Americans who at once proclaimed sionment. These three words were geographically remote. As a conse- it to be our duty to resent the outrage tell the story of the relation of quence of the acquisition of the Philip- and to go to war to punish the invader. the United States to the pines and other island possessions we had Millions of Americans, especially in the "First World War." The fourth and final gone "imperialistic." Easy inter-com- West and Northwest, were slow to assent word cannot yet be written with cer- munication throughout the world had to this doctrine and there ensued a period tainty. It will, however, be either Wis- made it plausible to assert that all of national doubt respecting the proper dom or Folly. national families had now moved into course for our Government to pursue. Earlier modern wars in Europe and one big apartment house and that the That this national uncertainty was elsewhere had usually been duels. Two day of staying at home was over. This popular with the majority was indicated nations fought while the rest of the assertion was widely accepted as a matter by the reelection of President Wilson on world looked on. Our War of 1812 with of course. Few stopped to reflect that the the strength of the slogan "He kept us Great Britain and later our war with closer the international contacts the out of war." Mexico, our own Civil War, the Franco- greater the importance of restraint in During this period Great Britain upon Prussian, the Russo-Turkish, the Boer criticizing the conduct of others. When, battle cruiser War, our War with and the Russo- therefore, in 1014 the several European The German Bliicher, with her crew scram- Japanese conflict are typical illustra- powers plunged into war the psychology bling off her just before she tions. There was always talk about third- of millions of Americans was such our sank off the Dogger Bank in the party intervention but it seldom came to voluntary participation seemed, even at in engagement pass. When our relations with Spain the outset, to be by no means impossible. North Sea an were strained to the breaking point the As soon as the several European na- with the British, on January diplomatic representatives of six powers tions had exchanged warlike declarations 24, 1915 called at the White House in a vain effort to avert the war that was pending. They were politely but firmly advised to mind their own business. When recently the United States volunteered similar advice to Germany and the response was just as firm but not as polite. Most of these wars were of short dur- ation. They ended either in a draw or in a decisive victory. Peace treaties were signed; some territory changed hands; new boundary lines were drawn; costs were taxed against the losers and the wars passed into history.

When 1 91 4 dawned a large section of the people of the United States had un- dergone a marked psychological change. As one result of the Spanish War and of

A REMARKABLE

In the presence of King Charles of Rumania, his results of the war, every eye was fixed on the min- consort Carmen Sylva, and other members of the ister. At the moment the only declarations of war Rumanian royal family gathered on August 2, 1914, had been made by Germany and against in the summer palace at Sinaia, Take Jonescu, a Serbia and Russia. It was not until the next day, cabinet minister, made a prediction as to the outcome August 3d, that France ranged herself against Ger- of the war just then starting which proved to be many and her ally, and not until August 4th that uncannily correct. A few weeks earlier King Charles Britain joined France and Russia. had informed Jonescu that the German Emperor had Said Jonescu, directly answering the Queen: decided to bring about a European war, but that it "No mortal can have the presumption to claim to was not to break out for three or four years. Charles know or divine all the consequences of such a con- declared to Jonescu that in such a war he would want flict. However, I know four, and these four I can Rumania to range itself on the side of Germany. The state in a few words. First, there will be such a re- royal family was divided in its loyalties, however, vival of hatred among nations as has not been seen and so when Queen Carmen Sylva asked Jonescu point in centuries. This is as inevitable as of day. blank on that August afternoon what would be the Secondly, there will be a lurch to the left, toward

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Again? the high seas so often violated our rights WE AMERICANS TAKE STOCK AS WE LOOK BACK 's graver as a neutral that , bu t for Germany TWENTY-FIVE YEARS TO THE OPENING OF THE WAR violations of international law, the cloud THAT WE CAN NEVER FORGET of an ugly Anglo-American rupture might have darkened the sky. Fortunately the British violations affected property rights only, whereas Germany inflicted irrepara- tofore the war in Europe had seemed ment of fear, in that the Kaiser's military ble loss by taking American lives. As strangely remote. program was popularly believed to in- time passed, public attention was fo- When, however, American lives began clude the ultimate subjugation of South cussed upon the conduct of Germany. to be taken the anger of these millions America as well as the rest of the world. Finally the sinking of the Lusitania flared and they accepted war as a normal In February of 191 7 the German minister marked the end of the period of national mode of expressing it. There was another to Mexico was instructed from Berlin to doubt and made our declaration of war group, relatively small at first, to whom propose an alliance between Germany with Germany only a matter of time. the problem presented itself as a some- and Mexico with the hope that Mexico The question of why we went to war what academic question of political would secure the active cooperation of has been furiously debated. It cannot science—the confrontation of Democracy . The publication of these instruc- be answered satisfactorily without recog- by Autocracy. To this group President tions aroused bitter American resent- nizing that motives were strangely Wilson belonged. To him should be ment and stimulated the House of Rep- mixed. Those who from the outset had given the credit, if it be a credit, of ra- resentatives to an overwhelming vote advocated the participation of the tionalizing national anger by interpreting in favor of arming American ships. United States welcomed the long-de- our participation in the war as a noble Nothing but a minority filibuster pre- layed opportunity to help friends and to attempt to make the world safe for vented similar action by the Senate. chastise the Kaiser. In addition to this Democracy. Though legislative action was thus group there were millions to whom there- There was also in manv minds the ele- blocked, such a German policy, officially declared, had an immense popular effect.

Whether it was all a bluff or whether the program was seriously contemplated is still under debate. Were it not that multitudes of sensible people today attribute similar programs to Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini this apprehension might be regarded in retrospect as a form of hysteria. In October of 10 17 the New York World published in map form a synthetic tabulation of various terri- torial claims advanced from time to time by German writers. "Obviously," wrote Newton D. Baker, "no such com- prehensive plan of world conquest was ever adopted by responsible German statesmen."* Nevertheless, such grandiose claims

•"Why We Went to War," p. 18. PROPHECY

those ideas that are called socialistic. Certainly in the "And lastly, this war will precipitate by at least long run nothing that is absurd can permanently half a century the establishment of America in the triumph, but in every country the drift toward the moral leadership of the white race, an achievement extreme left is certain, once the governing classes inevitable in any case, but which the war will hasten. seem in this event will be not the eyes of the masses—because of the letting . . . As far as I am concerned, loose of this frightful catastrophe—more incapable at all displeasing, as the experiment which the United than they had thought. In the third place, 'Madame, States is making of a new civilization, without prej- there will be what I may call a cascade of thrones. udices, without castes, without monarchical or aristo- Your Majesty, who has so often told me that she is cratic institutions, is the most interesting experiment a republican, will not be surprised at this prophecy. which mankind has ever yet seriously undertaken." Only those monarchies which are in reality only Among those who heard Jonescu make this amazing hereditary presidencies of republics, like the British prediction, so accurate in detail, were the Rumanian monarchy, have a chance of escaping this terrible king, his nephew, who as Ferdinand I succeeded him cascade which will justly issue from a war provoked on the throne a scant three months later, and the by absolute monarchs. latter's consort, who became Queen Marie. AUGUST, 1939 9 7

The goose step reaches the Bel- were taken seriously by so many Ameri- gian capital, Brussels. Time: but after Determination came Disillu- cans that the instinct of national self August 20, 1914. Nearly two sionment. defense must be included in the list of thousand years after Julius The present well-nigh universal recog- reasons why we went to war. Futile at- Caesar called the Belgians the nition of the folly of Versailles makes it tempts have been made to hold muni- bravest of all the tribes he faced hard to realize how near we came to nation- tion makers and bankers responsible for this gallant nation held back al participation in it. The story of the con- our decision to light. The most effective the German horde long enough flict over ratification in the Senate of the demonstration that this theory is base- to save Paris, and perhaps the United States is one of the most interest- less will be found in Secretary Baker's Allied cause ing in the annals of diplomacy. In an book just referred to*. outcome which the writer regards as When the decision to take up arms providential we declined to accept the they are was reached by Congress in April of 191 World War glad that they re- fatal doctrine of "collective security" and national Doubt was at once replaced by sponded to their country's call; but that refused tojoininaguarantyof theartificial national Determination. The well-nigh they never again can be persuaded that status quo which the Versailles treaty so universal acclaim with which the Presi- it is America's duty to police the world unhappily set up. The theory that the dent's War Message had been greeted or to intervene in the quarrels of other consequences of war can by collective nations. naturally made opposition to war in- action be made so terrible that no nation After Doubt, Determination tensely unpopular. The six Senators and had come will dare to risk them is as unworkable a fifty Representatives who voted against the declaration must be recognized in retrospect as brave men. At the time, however, they were accused of cowardice as is apt to be the case when a minority attempts to stem the tide of popular determination. Not every man now live who wore the uniform of the United States in the World War can give a comprehensive account of all our war activities. His own experiences in his training camp and through the 584 days that intervened between April 6, 1917 and November n,

1 91 8 are of course engraved in his mem- ory. For the rest, frantic preparations at home and actual operations abroad were on so vast a scale that perhaps even the historians have not yet been able to tell the whole story. Suffice it here to record the unquestioned fact that American de- termination which was enthusiastic at the outset became more and more grim as reality replaced imagination. The present writer has no certain way of appraising the sentiments of the men of The Zeppelins are coming! London got used to being strafed by The American Legion. His conjecture is both airplanes and lighter-than-air craft. The British defenses that nobody values our American heri- stopped the Zeppelins after October, 1916, but the planes con- tage more highly than they; that if this tinued to bomb the metropolis up to May, 1918. Altogether, more heritage was really endangered by the than 500 people were killed, and property worth ten million "PP. 119 et seq. dollars was destroyed in Greater London

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theory as has ever been boldly asserted ancient history for light on modern still another incident in Germany's in- and plausibly maintained. When the problems. Nevertheless an American ternational policy which will put patience crisis comes collective international ac- citizen in 1939 might find it interesting to a further test. It is just another temp- tion becomes impossible both because to review the record of the relations be- tation to raise the cry "Delenda est opinions differ as to who is wrong-doer tween and Carthage. After Rome Germania." It is to be hoped, however, and because the several parties to the had won the first round in what was in that this incident will not bring a repeti- compact are found to have diverse in- its day a veritable world war, oppressive tion on the part of high United States terests. terms were as usual imposed by the vic- officials of intemperate and abusive ut- Recent events in Europe are neverthe- tors on the vanquished. When the latter terances about German policy. less relied on by some as a compelling had regained a measure of strength they No matter how deeply we regret on the reason for American intervention, even decided to endorse the project of their part of other nations acts of injustice and

if this means war. It is said, as it was in great military leader, , who oppression, denunciation by our govern- iqi4, that Germany's policy is hostile to planned to renew the war and carry it ment officials is out of order unless we the United States. Every weighty con- over the Alps into Italy. This he did. seriously mean again to take up arms to sideration leads to a wholly different Livy's account of what followed two redress the wrong. This we do not intend. conclusion. It is further said to be our thousand years ago reads as if written Disillusionment has opened our eyes to duty to hasten to the support of Great today. "The hatred with which they the futility of an international policy of Britain and France. There can be no fought" says the Roman historian* "was knight-errantry. It may safely be pre- such duty until we know precisely what almost greater than their powers of dicted that as long as The American the issue is and where the vital interests attack; the Romans burning with indig- Legion is a stabilizing force in American of the United States really lie. Certainly nation that the conquered should dare to life the United States will make the most

Even as you and I, the Germans decorated their Forty-and-Eights with chalk legends. The largest bit of writing shown here advertises a free ride to Paris via Liege

we cannot wisely issue even to the most take up arms against their conquerors; of our fortunate geographical position. friendly nations a blanket policy of rein- and the Carthaginians likewise enraged It has become with some the habit to surance. because they believed that the con- apply the word "isolationist" as a term We must first know about and approve quered had been treated with supercili- of reproach to those who insist upon the risks they propose to assume and be ous arrogance and greed." Scipio, per- capitalizing our position of natural ad-

made to recognize that reinsurance is, for haps the best balanced of all history's vantage. It is recorded of James IV of us, a measure of enlightened self-interest. military heroesf, first turned the tide of Scotland that on the eve of the battle It is, for example, far from clear that battle by vanquishing Hannibal at Zama of Flodden he forsook his advantageous Britain and France acted wisely in giving and then vainly sought to commit his position on high and rocky ground be- commitments to Poland in connection countrymen to a policy of generous cause he thought it unfair to subject the with the Polish Corridor and Danzig liberality toward the conquered. English cavalry to the consequences of problems. The re-shuffling of the cards How, opposing him, the vindictive an unequal fight. In the ensuing combat has been going on for centuries in Central Cato insistently clamored for the utter he perished and almost his entire army Europe. This is not to say that this an- destruction of Carthage will be recalled with him. It is to be hoped that in his cient game has always been "on the by many school boys. Echoes of Cato's last moments he had the consolation of level" or to deny that grave injustice has popular slogan "Delenda est Carthago" realizing that at (Continued 011 page 54) often been done. The point is that these Carthage must be blotted out—must successive new deals are not necessarily have rung through the council chamber •Livy, Book XXI, Ch.I. "A Greater Than Napoleon," by Capt. B. H. a justification for intervention are fSee by outside at Versailles. Certainly its echoes I.iddell Hart 1939. The incident referred to powers. ringing still. As this article is being JMemorial Day, was the ejection of an important Roman Catholic It is not the fashion of today to read writtent the newspapers are chronicling prelate from his official residence.

AUGUST, 1 1939 1 2 — Ready? Wed Better Be

HITLER masses troops in Slo- have greatly shortened the conflict, with vakia, Japan blockades Treaty consequent saving of lives and money. Ports, England and France In 150 years neither battleships nor speed armament, Russia fights armies have caused us any fights. Lack border action, reports 856,000 Warren of them looms large among the causes Japanese casualties since the war's be- of five costly struggles. ginning, France strikes foreign spies, the To paraphrase the prophetic thought Axis signs a military pact, the headlines H.Ath erton of Gouverneur Morris, if we are well herald the arming of nation against na- Chairman, National Defense prepared and at the same time pursue tion as never before. Committee, The American Legion a just and liberal conduct, we may well Man has conquered ignorance, time, remain at peace forever; if we do not space, cold, heat, hunger and disease, but Unpreparedness invites attack and in render ourselves respectable, we shall not himself. armed conflict the unprepared are de- continue to be insulted. The hopes of conscientious men and stroyed. When war intrudes its unwelcome nations for peace through treaty have Dictators maintain themselves in office presence, there is no substitute for pre- dimmed. Those who would establish through military power. In democracies paredness. What Legionnaire does not brotherhood on earth by moral suasion the governing administration must attain remember the months lost while bar- have failed—up to now, anyway. or hold office through the popular will. racks were being built; the time wasted It is to be regretted that the struggle Democracies fear military power and re- waiting for uniforms, for arms, for am- to substitute friendship for hatred, peace strict it to minimum strength. True to munition, for transport? What overseas for war, has not succeeded. Let us hope its form of government, the United veteran does not remember that he that these efforts may some day win de- States has never been militaristic. Since defended his life with a British rifle and served success. Let us continue to stand the war which gave this nation birth, bombarded the enemy with a British with those who offer the olive branch. the United States has been engaged in or French cannon? What American But let us not deceive ourselves as to the five major conflicts—the War of 1812, aviator overseas does not remember his fact that today force is the arbiter of the War with Mexico, the Civil War, the French or English crate? What would we national destiny. Spanish War, and the World War. None have used to defend our lives, what would Blind babes of Spain, violated girls of these wars resulted from military we have used to save our cities, had we of China attest that war has not been strength in our country. On the con- not had allies? Who can say that we will outlawed. The strong are taking, the trary, the War of 1812, the Civil War and have an ally in the event of attack? weak are giving. the World War might well have been Six months after declaration of the We have free institutions, great cities, avoided if the nation had possessed a last war, our colonel was showing a dis- fertile plains, vast natural resources strong Army and Navy. tinguished visitor about Camp Lewis. and half the world's gold. The law of the Gouverneur Morris wrote in 1794: "I The visitor gazed in astonishment at a cave man is still in vogue among nations. am tolerably certain that, while the group of men, jumping, twisting, then The only practical protection for our United States of America pursue a just crazily jerking up and down and asked treasures is the ability to defend them. and liberal conduct, with twenty sail of if they were insane. "Oh, no," the C. O. Major Eliot, in The Ramparts We the line at sea, no nation will dare insult replied, "they are soldiers at bayonet Watch, has forcefully recognized the them. The thing I am thoroughly con- practice without bayonets." facts in these words: vinced of, is that if we do not render Soon after the inquisitive visitor ourselves respectable, we shall continue asked: "Colonel, are those men hiding insulted." This sound advice, if a bottle?" "No," he answered sadly, Thus is made clear that those peoples to be who would live at peace, disclaiming all taken, would have saved us from the "they are just serving the piece with no purpose of aggression, must nevertheless War of 181 2. piece." take note of the doings and character of Had the national Government been In 1919 the dominating thought in neighbors perhaps otherwise minded; strongly armed in 1861 there is little the mind of every man who had served that for the time being the policy of peace likelihood that the Civil War would have his country was that our Government, by international agreement has failed; been precipitated. our institutions, our ideals, our homes and and that the nation which would pre- Military and naval strength were the our youth should never again be risked serve its institutions, its dignity and its only kind of "points" which the Kaiser by lack of preparedness to defend them. rights in a world where all too obviously have respected in 7. National Defense Act of 1920 force still rules, must walk amongst its would 191 The fellows "with sword on thigh and brow It is likely that knowledge on the part was drawn by returned veterans of The with purpose knit ;" must, in the trenchant of our adversaries that we were well American Legion in collaboration with phrase of Guibert, "make its arms to be armed would have obviated the other the military authorities. An almost feared, though never its ambition. "- two wars; certainly such strength would unanimous opinion, stimulated by the Legion, secured its* adoption. If the A policy of Pacifism does not mean CARTOON BY minimum provisions of that Act had peace. It means war. JOHN CASSEL been adhered to, the United States would

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 1 not now be unprepared. That Act, how- gress. This legislation was at first re- of protection; each year thousands of ever, was only an authorizing act. Con- ceived with apathy. It was termed social- Legionnaires have gone to schools, to gress, by failure to appropriate sufficient istic and militaristic. The Legion, though, churches, and to public meetings to say money to fulfill even the minimum re- never ceased its efforts to contribute to that in a world of evil we must be pre- quirements of the Act, permitted our the strength of our defense and to the pared to defend against evil, to say that forces on land and sea to become inade- fair distribution of war's burdens. The denouncing war does not. end it, to say quate for protection. Legion still continues to press the adop- that non-aggression will not bring peace In iQ2i The American Legion began tion of a Universal Service Act as a curb unless at the same time we have the the fight for universal service; the pri- to those who would build their greatness strength to repel aggressors. mary purpose of this effort was to pre- upon our country's ruin, and as a Na- For nearly two decades our voices have vent wartime profiteering by equalizing tional Defense measure which would fallen on deaf ears. Our Army dwindled the burdens of war; however, the second- our strength in time of need. to 118,000 men. Our battleships became ary purpose of this program was to make Since its inception The American Le- older, our cruisers and destroyers slower, the entire industrial and military strength gion has fought for adequate National our planes fewer and less modern than of the nation available for immediate Defense. Each year our National Con- those of the navies of other powers. defense in the event of National Emer- vention has prepared and presented a During these same years Ethiopia, gency. Annually, since 1922, the Ameri- program of adequate preparedness. Every China, Spain, Austria, and Czechoslo- can Legion has procured the introduction year a National Defense Committee has vakia have succumbed to the law that of a Universal Service Act before Con- sought to advance the Legion's program might makes right. (Continued on page 54) AUGUST, 1959 13 and hugged it. Once, a shell fragment us to dig in. I think Lieutenant Farrell is struck his tin hat, sending off a metallic in a bad way." clang. A bullet kicked a clod right in "Who's in command on the left? Who his face another time when he was lying has the third platoon?" prone. "Sergeant Waldo sent word he would After two hundred yards or more he take charge." dropped among a group of B Company An idea jolted Joe. "Why, then I'm in men. command of the company!" Walsh Jam es When he could stop panting he asked nodded. "I guess that's right, sir," he them how things were going. They were assented. E.Darst of the second platoon. Sergeant Walsh "Let me have a runner that knows the still survived and commanded, they told way to the third platoon," ordered Joe. him. One of them went and got Sergeant Walsh summoned a man. Alternately Walsh, a quiet and efficient fellow. running fast and falling, the two came to J . W. SCHLAI KJ ER "Both lieutenants have been ," he Waldo's position, where he was precari- said. "The last hour has been very hard. ously dug in with two guns on a reverse Conclusion Many of the men are gone. Before he was slope. Joe learned that almost a third of carried back, Lieutenant Merritt told the platoon were casualties. He told firing became general all THEalong the front. Ahead of them shells were bursting in abun- dance. Orders ran along the line and the men began to dig in, scraping with shovels or mess-kit tops or fingers at the top soil. For an indefinite but hellish length of time they lay and took back^ it. Men screamed as theywerehit,orslumped silently, or writhed. Others rose to their el- bows cautiously and fired quickly. Joe and his companions, after they had burrowed a few inches, edged around the machine gun and very slowly inched it into position. With the utmost painstaking they leveled it, steadied

its feet, scraped dirt in

front of it for an em- placement and little de- pressions behind it for their bodies. It was almost dark. The machine-gun firing had lessened a great deal but the artillery still fell among them. Joe told the gun crew to stay put and fire

only if a target pre- sented. He stooped low and ran to his left. He stumbled over Schultz and a second gun crew, well dug in and em- placed. The other guns hadn't come up, Schultz reported. Joe told him to watch both crews while he made a recon- naissance to locate the rest of the company. Taking advantage of every declivity, dodging among still-digging doughboys, he bore to the left. He ran and, when a chatter or a whine struck his ears, dived for the ground

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Waldo he was in command, ordered him squirmed in his direction; Schultz, eyes find out I visited the company's positions. to stay where he was until further orders, blazing, was just behind the man. An Here I am." took a runner along to learn Joe's com- issue blanket could cozily have covered "The major has been frantic." mand post. It was almost dark when they the three of them. The man was Oakley. "So have we." started back to the right. He spoke: "Very well. I'm going back now to re- Joe paused a moment with Walsh to "Just where in the eternal hell-fire port your position—and to recommend tell him he would establish his command have you been, McCracken?" your removal from command." post with the first platoon. Took one of "What? What! Where have I been? A wolfish growl came from Schultz's Walsh's men along as a runner. Sitting in a side-walk cafe, drinking visage, plastered now six inches behind Dog-tired, jumpy, worried over his champagne." Lieutenant Oakley's right shoulder. Mur- new responsibility, Joe and his party ar- "Be exceedingly careful of the answers der shone in his pale blue eyes. Joe rived back at the first platoon position you give." thought, "Well, why not?" Wholesale and after much prowling found the "I've been out for quite a while on a murder was in the air. Countless Ger- Schultz fox-hole. As he groped toward it reconnaissance." mans, infinitely better fellows than this in the dank dust, whispering plaintively "We've heard nothing from you ever unreasonable basket, were being knocked to Schultz, Joe became aware of a second since you were in command." off just because they were on the other figure stretched beside the sergeant. "You must have known I was in com- side. God knows he and Schultz would As sank to the ground the figure mand long before I did. As soon as I did keep a secret if a grenade went off pre- Joe Front maturely and in the right spot. But no, that couldn't be. "Oakley, it's a balled-up world and probably nothing will ever come out right again. But all I ask the Creator tonight is to live long enough to meet you where I am free to act. Go on back, you superlative son-of-a-bishop, and make any lousy report you want. I'm in command of a company in a war and can't be bothered." "You're hysterical. Inefficient and hysterical." Joe saw Schultz clench a farmer's fist. Frowned at him viciously. Oakley went away through the gloom. "We could of knocked him off as easy as shticking a pig," moaned Schultz.

WHAT a night! Joe dozed with his head pillowed on his tin hat, clods mingling constantly and thoroughly with his hair. Under his back were belt, pistol and other lumps. The gas mask leaned heavily on his chest. Now that the excitement of the day's attack was over he realized how sick he was, how deep- seated was his cold, how high his fever. He knew it would take days to bring his feet to life, once they were unwrapped of puttees, thawed, washed and rubbed. "No officer ever says he is tired or allows his men to say it." He recalled the old corps order. Approximately every ten minutes an explosion wakened him. At irregular intervals Schultz nudged him, or something else disturbed him and he nudged Schultz; or just plain silence brought both of them stark awake, staring into the night. His conscience bothered him. Why should he rest when he was newly in com- mand of a company and hadn't the slightest idea of the next day's plan, objectives, orders or what not? What was happening over on the left? Were they being sur- rounded? And, finally, what was Oakley doing to him?

To him, Joseph J. McCracken, Iowa '15, southpaw pitcher, fairish quarterback and, oh yes, a trombone player par excellence and late soloist in Major Heming- way's band. Joe McCracken, respected of his family and pals, and a hero to a certain kid named Rosemary. But disgraced now forever. And why disgraced? Damned if he knew, but that wouldn't make any difference. Cautiously he drew It was quite light when himself up and he became really conscious. looked through the Schultz was already busy, window deepening the holes back

AUGUST, 1939 15 of the gun. It was a clear day. Chances "Please, Lieutenant Choe, I joost visit "There's one more man I want. of breakfast nil. along der lines. We loose a lot of men." Corporal Big Antelope. He savvies how- Joe decided on an immediate visit to "Well, why the hell not, Schultz? Are to prowl in woods and all that stuff." all his guns. With the faithful Schultz he they throwing bean-bags at us? Some- "I'll git him." dog-trotted the few hundred yards that one's bound to get hurt. It's your cousins Schultz moved out. Oakley said: "I'm had seemed so long the night before, and over there, Schultz, shooting us. Oh, I'm coming, too." under shell-fire, checked personnel and damned sorry. You, the most loyal "The hell you are!" ammunition, dog-trotted back. Then American in the whole U. S. A. and me "Listen, McCracken, we don't seem to sent a runner, with a message descriptive kidding you about being a Dutchman. hit it off. But I like the idea of this patrol, of their position, to battalion headquar- But I was just kidding. I'm half nuts." a little group of us on our own, to get ters—find it however the man might. He "No-one seems to know what to do, some real information or be killed in the dispatched another runner to locate the eggsactly, Lieutenant Choe. Oh, veil, it attempt. Let me come." highest ranking infantry officer in the makes, yet, no difference." Then he saw "I'm surprised that you've got guts vicinity to pick up instructions from him, the silent Oakley. "Dis man. Vat he do enough." if any were forthcoming. here again?" "I have."

Then the storm came down. With no "Inflicted on us. I'm beyond caring." "Very well. But if you make a phony warning a terrific barrage descended on Silence. Pin-wheels in the brain. Vari- move we'll knife you and leave you there. them. It had everything. It was beauti- ous noises. Utter exhaustion. Then Joe All right, Schultz, Antelope. Lieutenant fully planned, and executed with preci- snapped alive, mind steel clear. Oakley's going along. Let's see the map." sion. The enemy had the range taped off "Schultz, we've laid here all day, tak- They bent over it. "Here we are at about to a nicety. A typical second-day barrage, ing it on the chin. The infantry have sent co-ordinates 308-296. We'll strike north- when the attacker has outrun his support out patrols and a lot of good it's done us. east three kilometers or more through and thinned his lines of communication, Well, now I'm going to run a patrol of my Les Forgettes woods. Then open country while the defender has got over his first own and keep going into enemy territory for a kilometer and then more woods. confusion, has brought up his reserves until I get some real information. Then Maybe we'll find something up around and has shortened his lines. I'll come back here with it and hand it to Beauclair. We may go into the town, or Then the aircraft visited. Enemy air- the doughboys on a platter. If we get we can push on toward Beaufort. That's craft. They dipped and dropped bombs knocked off in the attempt it makes no five or six kilometers. We can do it in two and raked with machine guns. All one difference because we'll sure get knocked hours, or a little more. Somewhere around could do was hug the ground, snuggle off tomorrow anyway. Are you with midnight or a little later we'll think about against the sides of a fox-hole, pray. Con- me, Gus?" coming back. We'll walk at a reasonably fusion. Messages failing to get through. "Yah, you could bet on dot, Lieu- fast pace in a pair of files. I want Ante- No knowledge of what was ahead, or on tenant Choe." lope to lead, with me. Schultz, you stick the flanks, or what the purpose was. with Lieutenant Oakley. Don't Twice Joe managed, in lulls, to work anybody fire unless I give the himself along the lines and check casual- order. If we're fired on, we'll ties. He saw medical corps men miracu- scatter and each come back lously getting back some of the wounded, singly. But we're out to learn, a chaplain burying the dead. Once he not shoot. Get me?" sat in a hole with an infantry sergeant They did. They removed the who was sobbing. The man had just led a tin hats that clanked, buttoned patrol forward that had been cut to up slickers. Joe took a compass pieces. bearing and they set off briskly. Later, back at his P. C, someone fell They went through firing at first to the ground beside him. It was Oakley. but in ten minutes they came to "Is this a nightmare?" asked Joe. A the woods, Les Forgettes, and it "Well, let me have it. I'm blooeyed." was quiet. Quiet and, of course, Oakley grunted, "The major sent me deadly dangerous. The woods un- back to stay with you. He seems to think doubtedly were a No Man's Land you need help." for roving patrols of both armies. "Help, yes. Not you." Joe's crew would be shot at with "Major Headley must be losing his equal celerity by either. reason. He needs an adjutant. But he But no mishap, no sound, and sends me up here." still unwinded, they came to the "Not hard to understand. Damned woods' northern edge. Spreading tired of looking at you. He's on to you out ten feet apart and standing in at last, you basket, don't you get it? the shadows they spent five min- But what of your report on me? Am I utes listening with all their to go back and be blooeyed? You don't power; searching the darkness answer. You tried to have me busted but with their eyes; squatting down to he wouldn't believe you. Well, stick put objects against a sky-line. All around if you must but I'm in command, quiet. They came back together the devil take you, and don't you try to and walked rapidly, in their hol- act otherwise." low square formation, over the Then Joe slumped forward and slept. rolling meadows. Again a patch of woods into A CLEAR night, Polaris steadfast in which they slipped quickly, then front, but no moon. Joe shivered paused alert. Voices. Joe's heart awake, looked at his watch, found it nine. ^, skipped. Voices directly ahead of He leaned over suddenly and vomited. He them, and many voices. They was damned sick. He had a raging fever. melted behind trees. A body of Nothing about him was right. men coming closer. The voices Someone touched him. Schultz. were German. Joe held his "What do you want?" breath, stared. Should they fire

[6 Th- AMERICAN LEGION Magazine and run? Not unless discovered. Twenty They were bang up against a building, sentry walked rapidly up and down in of the enemy came within a few paces of a shed. Schultz and Oakley came up to front of a door. Antelope touched Joe's them, passed. A working party, evidently. them. There were no windows, so it must arm. He flashed a knife. The sentry Through the woods again, and now an be the back of the shed. But a glint of walked away from them, completed his open space and a slope running down to a light, through a crack. Very subdued turn, came back. At their corner he road. The road must be the one to voices within. Joe motioned Oakley and wheeled again. Stiffened. Did he hear Beauclair. They crossed it, then followed Schultz to stand fast. He, with Antelope, their breathing? Antelope leaped and

it some fifty feet to the side. Before they knew it they came upon a huge barn and

backed hastily away from it. Men would be quartered there, doubtless. They crept into a cabbage patch. Gathered and silently took counsel. Joe whispered: "We're at the edge of

"Stand back there, men. I'm ready to take him on"

plunged his blade. A gurgle as the man came over backward. Antelope pulled the crept on all fours to the corner of the coat over the man's head. Listened at his building. Stuck noses gingerly around. chest. Stood up. Joe was having a chill. Beauclair. The Germans hold it, of course. No one there. Not a whisper. A patch He bit his tongue to keep from vomiting. We can walk through the streets and see of light lay on the ground, coming from a The two others moved around the op- wha': we see." A silly jest struck him and small window some five feet high. Joe posite corner and the four gathered at the he gave it voice, almost giggling in his inched upward. The pane was dusty, door. Not an instant to lose. Joe felt for excitement: "Of course we may get grimed. He dared—looked in. Three men, the knob, seized it, pushed. The four arrested for street-walking." four, sitting around a table. None ob- lurched into the cabin. Slammed the door "Yes," said Oakley, "or for being out served him. All were deep in attention to behind them. Four startled figures leaped past curfew. But I imagine I can fix it the maps before them. High-ranking erect. One demanded: with the mayor." Germans. Staff officers, a division staff "Wer sind sie?" Why, the guy's human, Joe thought. perhaps. One stirred and Joe snapped his And Sergeant Gus Schultz yelled: Aloud, "Question is, shall we go into head away. He lowered himself, grasped "Vier verdammte gut Amerikanische Beauclair, or keep going deeper?" Antelope's arm. They sneaked back to soldaten, sie shweinhunde! Shtick 'em "Deeper," suggested Schultz. the others. oop!" "Why not?" asked Oakley. Joe drew their heads up against his. Joe whipped his gat forward. Oakley "Very well, deeper it is. It's eleven- "Listen close," his voice was barely alive. leaped up beside him. Schultz and Ante- thirty now. We'll bear for the edge of the "There are four German staff officers in lope ran behind the men and poked guns next woods. Let's go." that hut. They have maps. We'll capture in their backs. Joe swept the maps to- They skirted another road until sud- them and the maps, too. Game? Fine. gether and crammed them in his slicker denly it was full of traffic, trucks and men There will be a sentry or two in front. pocket. moving southwest. They worked back And surely a larger guard must be some- "Bring those four along," he barked. into a ravine and wormed their way where near. We will work fast. Two will They hustled the captives out the dooi through high weeds to the edge of a go around each side of the shed." and around the corner; into the deep woods. The ravine grew deeper. They They dropped to all fours and moved. ravine behind the shed. slipped on its sides. Then Joe, in advance, Joe and the Antelope again turned the "Tie 'em up and gag 'em," Joe husked. gripped the arm of Antelope, beside him. corner, listened; passed under the window He and Oakley held the guns while "Sh-h. For God's sake," he croaked. and peered around the second corner. A Schultz and (Continued on page 48) AUGUST, 1939 17 —

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M-DAY is mobilization day the day America goes to war. As Mr. Henry Putty, Okla- homa City garage mechanic, reads his evening newspaper he is caught by the excitement of the momentous things that happened in Congress that day. Seen it coming a long time, he assures himself. This isn't quite accurate.

He had feared that it might come. But he always thought there would be some way out. In a bar that night he discussed the day's world-shaking drama as he sipped beer. "They've been asking for a good pushing around for a long time now," he announced. Heads nodded assent. Neither the speaker nor the listeners thoroughly realized that they might be elected to do the pushing. Such an attitude might be excused. Up to the actual declaration of war, hostilities had seemed remote and unreal; a distant threat expressed in terms of national anger rather than in terms of mud, blood, and bullets. Henry's concern about being involved was nothing more than a shadowy fear; like the fear of a mother that her children might contract infantile paralysis. With dramatic suddenness Mr. Putty, a peaceful soul at heart, found himself in the Army. Things had happened so rapidly that there was little time to pause and wonder how they happened. Like a great many million others, Henry Putty was totally unaware of the vast machinery set up in advance to take care In September, 1917, five months after the declaration of war, of his life. Brooklyn, New York, sends its first drafted men to Camp Upton. There is of in a group men Washington If war comes to America again 33 3,33 1 of the boys will be in camp today that spends all its time thinking in drilling within four weeks of its beginning terms of M-Day. If the United States were to go to war tomorrow they would be ready. Tucked away in the files of the which could carry recruiting posters. required by various agencies. All this War Department they have an already They have sample registration cards for advance thinking—possibly destined to written law with which they could con- the draft in every state capitol—ready to profoundly influence the lives of millions script ten million men. They have files of go to the printer on a moment's notice of people—has been done by the Joint posters to help sell the war they con- and be ground out in million lots. They Army and Navy Selective Service Com- stantly think of, and thoroughly detailed have maps of locations of the 6400 boards mittee. information on the radio-listening habits required to draft men into the service, Perhaps it would be annoying to Henry of people in all sections of the country. and lists of personnel to man them. Putty if he knew how completely his life Their files contain sample news and Organization extends downward to the has been planned for him. But of course feature stories to be pumped into news- smallest hamlet. Plans are complete even he doesn't know. He has never had access papers, and complete data on billboards to the number of square feet of floor space to that 32-page mimeographed document,

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the Selective Service Law; nor to the but each carries a threatening undertone. the necessary police authority . . . The thousand and one other details of the plan All of them suggest that pretty serious registration must not be obstructed ..." that may mold his life. Only occasionally things will happen to anyone who refuses There are several policemen standing by

has it occurred to him to think what to register but don't pause to say just staring at the protesting man. The regis- ideal material he would make for any what. Henry dutifully reports on regis- tration proceeds.

man's army— 25, unmarried, living with tration day. Henry signs his card and is given a his self-supporting parents. Let's accept Ahead of him in line is an uncombed second card— for purposes of identifica- him as the representative of ten million individual with fierce black eyes. When tion. He must be able to produce it at any American men, and see what happens to this man gets up to the table where men time he is called on to do so. It carries him on M-Day and the days immediately are tilling out the cream-colored Bristol the number 800 which means that he was following. cards—size six inches by four—he begins the 800th man to register in his precinct. When Henry picks up his evening to harangue those in charge. He has From the moment he puts his signature

The easy informality of 1917 paper he passes over the sports page going-away—the Seventh Regi- on that card, he is subject to military law usually his first concern—for the electri- ment, Illinois National Guard, —which is apt to be rather unreasonably fying events on page one. He reads the as it marched through Chicago strict in times of stress. All this, under- President's brief but moving speech on the way to camp stand, by the time the war is eight davs before the joint session of Congress, a old! story about the vote and the bitter little barely started an obviously well-thought- On this same day 12,000,000 other men paragraphs about departing embassy out speech about Constitutional rights have filled out cream-colored Bristol staffs. One story escapes him; a short note and about war being a capitalist enter- cards precisely like the ones Henry saying that Congress unanimously passed prise when he is hushed. The man behind signed. They have filled them out in the the Selective Service Act immediately after the table starts reading from the regu- Ozarks and in the Arizona desert; in voting to go to war. Even Congressmen lations: Boston, Los Angeles, and Omaha; in who voted against entry into the war "If the prospective registrant is sullen Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska. Wardens in voted affirmatively on this legislation. or inclined to falsify, evade or refuse to jails and keepers in insane asylums have The following morning helped their charges with the Henry reads that the Presi- all-inclusive ritual. dent will speak that day over After filling out his card the largest radio hook-up ever Henry will decide that he put together. The newspapers now has time to relax; that have been informed in ad- he has done his part in vance about his subject mat- fighting this war. So he will ter: the President will instruct go back to grinding valves everybody between the ages and cleaning carbon out of of 21 and 30 to report to his clogged automobile engines. regular voting place to register But not for long. Only four for military service. Quick days after the registration, work, Henry decides. The the lottery is announced. The registration date is set one newspaperssaythatthePresi- week ahead. dentwilldrawthefirstcapsule During this intervening and urge everyone to listen period there is an enormous to the radio broadcast. The blast of publicity. Posters go capsules, the papers explain, up: "PATRIOTS WILL each contain a number and REGISTER — OTHERS determine the order in which MUST." Henry, knowing little men will go into the Army. the about the mechanics of lithog- The most famous picture on the home front during If the President draws the raphy, won't pause to wonder war— Secretary Baker taking out the first pellet in the capsule containing number great draft lottery. how these posters were pro- The number was 2 58 346, that means every man duced with such magic speed. with this number on his Nor will he notice the pattern that runs answer, his attention should be called to registration card should prepare to leave

through all the newspaper feature stories. the penal provision of the law ... If he is at once.

are in . . They written a highly patriotic vein still refractory . the case is reported to Since so much (Continued on page 44) AUGUST, 1939 19 AS A YOUNGSTER in the small Einally the , Hughie Duffy, / \ I'ennsj'lvania town of Bryn told me one day that he was going to do / % Mawr I had a burning ambition the best thing he possibly could for me. to play with one of the Phila- "I hope it is sending me home," I delphia teams—to me it didn't matter blurted out, and that was exactly what whether it was the Athletics or the Phils. he had planned to do. I spent the summer Whenever I got the chance I made the Jimmy of '15 playing ball around home. trip to Baker Bowl or to see Then in 1916 I played week-end base- my idols in action. ball for the G. Brill car works until Dykes J. I simply doted over the likes of Eddie mid-season, when I got a chance to go Collins, Stuffy Mclnnis, , down on the Eastern Sho' to play for , "Iron Man" , Seaford, Delaware. and Manager Pat Moran of I didn't even want to go that far away the Phils as well as Grover Cleveland from home, as every time I even thought Alexander and his battery mate, Wade of it that old homesickness bugaboo Killifer. welled up in me. But my dad talked me

Like most every kid, I suppose, I some- into going, saying it might lead to some- times "hooked" school to go to the ball thing, as many big leaguers were coming games. I pulJed this three days in a row, out of the Sho' loop. on one occasion, and I'll never forget my I finally went, and incidentally didn't boyish wonderment when the principal of get homesick. the school sent for me the fourth day I Old Mike Drennan, the Athletics' was planning to be absent. scout, picked me up down in Seaford, and "There's no use asking you where you Mike was famous for hand-picking ball FlGHTI NG were these last three afternoons," said the players, a fact that encouraged me con- "old man," who at the time I thought had siderably. He scouted Pinky Higgins, the detective's sense, "for there's only one Eric McNair, Deb Williams and Cy place you would be—at the ball game. Perkins, to name a few, and had the

If it happens again, you won't gradu- reputation of picking no bloomers. ate in June!" Well, he signed me over to the A's that Since that was in May, I decided it was fall, and in turn they sent me the next best to take his advice, because, much as spring to Gettysburg, in the Blue Ridge I idolized some of those old stars, I League. couldn't have the face to fail to graduate I'll never forget that season of 191 7 up with my class. there in the hill country. Our pay days I should have gone to Ursinus College, were most irregular. That makes a lot of where I had practically won a scholar- difference to a kid out on his own, I can ship, possibly because in my last year at tell you. school I was captain, manager and short- That fall Old Mike came up and asked stop of Haverford High. I would have me how I liked it, and didn't I enjoy the gone to Ursinus, had it not been for my experience? early ability to play baseball. "It's no pleasant experience for any- I haven't regretted my choice, although body not to get paid!" I fired back at him.

I think every youngster who can go to Well, in September he took me down to college should do so. Men and women the Athletics, where I stayed one day, these days require more preparation for before walking out. life, than in any age before this. A boy I sat around on the bench most of the who completes his education before he afternoon, before spotted me takes up baseball will have that training and sent me out to field balls. For half an to fall back on if he fails to make the hour he batted to me from all angles, high grade in . ones, low ones and wide ones. the old Boston One minute he had me leaping into the In 19 1 5 Jack Hayden, Braves and Louisville , picked air for line drives and the next minute he me up and sent me to the Portland, had me digging them out of the dirt, Maine, team in the then New England down there around my shoe laces. In League. I was about the happiest kid in between he'd drag bunts at me, and as I nine counties. recall now, I handled about everything But my elation was not to be long lived. he sent my way. In no time at all I had about the worst Presently he waved me back to the case of homesickness a boy could have. bench with no comment. I pined there the Despite the fact I was in a cool invigorat- rest of the day, pretty unhappy because ing climate and was eating like a horse, I I wasn't in more action. dropped from 172 pounds to 155 in two Well, sir, that evening I went into the weeks. Legionnaire Dykes locker room and turned my uniform over

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to the club-house boy, and told him I'd with possible victory the chance to win three were out we had scored 10 runs and the had enough and that I was through. The the next day and end the series at home. the Cubs made no more the rest of kid tried to convince me I was being It looked like we wouldn't accomplish day. hasty, but I was stubborn, and walked either, because the Cubs took an 8 to o I'll never forget the scene around our right out of the place for what I thought lead on us in seven innings, which meant dugout after that game. Even though we was keeps. that even if we won the following day, had one more game to win before copping That winter called me up we'd still have to go back to Chi. the series, you would have thought the from his Germantown home, and said Well, sir, we went to the bat in our series was already ours. he'd heard I was a pretty fair country Hysteria broke loose. third baseman, and wouldn't I like to go , Jimmy Foxx, Mickey south with the team in the spring. Cochrane, and even Old I would Kid Gleason danced around on the cinder And there was the turn in my budding surface like Fiji Islanders. baseball career! That game stands out as the thriller of The kindly Connie Mack straightened my lifetime, but there was one other me out in no time. He was just the tonic which almost approached it. all-star I needed. Over that telephone he wound I refer to the first mid-summer me around his heart and his little finger inter-league game in 1033- If you recall, at one and the same time. the fans were allowed to vote their The war was on, and the country was players into that game. Every day for asking for strong young boys, so my first weeks before the game, the papers carried year in the majors was broken up in the standing of the ballot, and from no- August 1918, when I joined the Army. I where, there came a stout vote for me. reported at Camp Greenleaf, away down Well, naturally that mademe very proud

Four of Jimmy Dykes's nominations for all-star honors among men he played against. At top, Urban "Red" Faber, pitcher when Jimmy was with the Athletics. The others were with the Yank- ees. Below, , shortstop. Left, , third baseman. Right, , outfielder

in Georgia, and was put in the Medical and as the votes were being finally tabu-

Corps. I was later transferred to U. S. lated and it looked like I might make the General Hospital No. 10 at Parker Hill, grade, I vowed that if I did, I'd play the Boston, whence I was discharged on game of my life. Patriot's Day, of 1010, April 19th. I Came the day and I played the entire went in the Army weighing 169 and came nine innings, getting two hits, one of them out with the last two figures reversed. off Carl Hubbell, a National Leaguer I You talk about soldiering! had never faced before. I thought those In twenty-one years of major-league nine innings and two hits were a pretty baseball, I've played with only two good record for an "old man" 37 years of teams, the Athletics and the White Sox. age. Still think so, in fact. I was in three World's Series, '29, '30 Baseball has plenty of humorous sides, and '31. as well as serious ones. To this day I Of course there will never be but one chuckle over a retort Bill Guthrie, the World's Series in my mind, and that was umpire, made to me one day when I with the Cubs in '29. differed with him on a pitched ball. We had won two games to open the The ball went past me and he called it series in Chicago. Coming to Philadel- seventh and Hades broke loose. The a strike. phia, the Cubs took the first game and whole line-up batted around once and I turned and gave him a dirty look. we needed badly to win the next one several of us batted twice. Hits rattled "What's the matter, kid," he said. before our Philadelphia fans, bringing off our bats at every angle and before "Well, Bill," (Continued on page 40)

JIMMY DYKES is the last World War veteran on base. Maybe Jimmy will do both of those things for the active list in , which his Legion buddies when his team plays Cleveland,

means that he can still, as Manager of the Chicago with its Legion-raised Pitcher Bob Feller, at Comiskey White Sox of the , send himself up Park in Chicago on two days of the National Con- to bat in a pinch, or even take his old place at third vention next September

AUGUST, 1959 21 most rousing welcome of THEAmerican Legion history — a booming good time at which TOO future meetings are invited to aim, is ready now in Chicago for a quarter-million Legionnaires and their families who will register for the 1939 Legion Convention in late September. When National Commander Stephen F. Chadwick suggested that you should bring the family with you this year to the convention, he must have had in mind the fact that Chicago is "the city which has everything." For hilarious fun, for recreation, for historical and educational research pre- sented in attractive style, Chicago is unequaled. Truly, for young and old, Chicago has everything. And so, to Commander Chadwick and to more than 1,000,000 members of The American Legion and the Auxiliary, our salute roars back: "Bring all the family! Chicago wants you, every one!" A handful of special preparations, no more, will polish the 1939 convention site into a source of lasting pleasant memories for all who attend. For Chicago, The famous and familiar Fort metropolis of the resourceful Mississippi some 101,000 persons by September 25 th. Sheridan, Chicago's Army Post, Valley, happens normally to be that sort It is in Soldier Field that the Legion winner of new laurels because of of place. drum and bugle corps contests will be its anti-aircraft demonstrations. Many of you who were with us here held the day and night of September Below, they still turn out salty at the Legion Convention of 1933, a 25th; it is through Soldier Field the color- gobs at Great Lakes, the fresh World's Fair year, will be among the ful parade will wind the following day. water training station north of thousands making a repeat visit in Sep- And it is in Soldier Field the night of the city and just above the fort tember. You will find the same fresh Wednesday, September 27th, that a gor- breezes off Lake Michigan, the same geous Legion pageant will unfold. speedy tempo of the Loop, downtown, When you register for the convention and you will find new improvements you will receive admission to all these jaloppy, will reach Chicago on Sunday, which all the family may enjoy. events, in their unmatchable setting along September 24th. One of the easily-accessible lakefront the shore of Lake Michigan. Mindful of this, that very night a developments of peculiar interest to We anticipate that the average Ameri- huge religious gathering will be held in Legion Convention visitors should be can Legion group, whether arriving by Grant Park, in downtown Chicago, fol- mentioned right here: Soldier Field, special train, boat, air line, bus, hommes lowed by a fireworks display on the ad- rapidly nearing completion, will seat 40 chevaux 8, or en famille in the faithful jacent lake shore. It is the kind of event

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to remain engraved in the mind of young and old. What more fitting introduction than this to our twenty-first, perhaps our most important convention? Initial gatherings of The American Legion Auxiliary also are scheduled for Sunday. The American Legion choruses will contest and Sons of the American Legion will meet in individual drum and individual bugle events. Many of the adults, unoccupied with these pre-convention activities, may pilgrimage to Edward Mines choose a Comiskey Park, home of Legionn aire Jimmy Dykes's White Sox. United States Veterans Hospital at Jr. They'll be entertaining Cleveland on two of the convention days Hines, Illinois. Here in more than a dozen buildings is one of the largest and most famous of veterans' hospitals. Its cancer available by steam and electric railroad. the convention. Troops at Sheridan are clinic has been the talk of the medical For many former sailors Great Lakes will partially equipped with the new army world—Hines was the first hospital to mean homecoming. For others, the appeal uniform, the new rifle. use radium in the treatment and cure of will lie in the novelty of an inland port Back to the other side of Chicago now veterans' ailments. At all times it is a manned and administered by the Navy. in this survey of suggested objectives mecca for those concerned with service Just south of Great Lakes lies Fort for your leisure convention moments. work. Sheridan, where Regular Army troops Rosenwald Industrial Museum, housed Hines is reached by elevated and bus are stationed and where hundreds and in the rebuilt Fine Arts building of r 1S03 W orld's Fair—reputed the finest architecture in the entire country— is being completed as this is written. The outstanding principle of this Jackson Park attraction on Chicago's

South Side is that the spectator is per- mitted to operate the machinery which comprises its exhibits. An actual coal mine will be in "production" for visiting Legionnaires. Within easy walking distance of the Loop are the world-famous Art Institute, Field Museum of Natural History, Adler Planetarium, and the Shedd Aquarium.

Any one of these is complete education and entertainment in itself.

Two miles north is the Chicago His- torical Society, offering particular and outstanding information relative to Abra- ham Lincoln, his early life and his accom- plishments. From Maine to California, from Great Lakes to Gulf, school chil- dren study the life of Lincoln. In the Historical Society's museum these studies will mature into reality. Chicago's great department stores, its Table tennis and golf and other recreational activities are avail- huge libraries, the three outstanding able, some of them free and the rest at modest fees, in Chicago's networks of radio—National Broadcast- 205 parks and playgrounds ing Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, Mutual Broadcasting System,

all of which have seats available for guests in something less than an hour from hundreds of Legionnaires won commis- in their Chicago studios, are other attrac- Chicago's loop. sions in World War days. tions. Veterans, too, will be interested in Fort Sheridan has been showing the Escorted free tours are conducted by visiting the U. S. Naval Station at Great way to other army posts in its anti-air- the largest meat packers of the world at

Lakes, Illinois, a little more than thirty craft demonstrations and it is possible the Chicago Stockyards and visitors miles north of downtown Chicago, that one of these will be put on during there are treated (Continued on page j6)

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Joseph J.Gleeson Victory long, hard their barking guns. THEwinter of prep- Some went west while aration for sleeping. eventualities The birds on the had passed and a none other side of the line too mild spring had disputed every inch. dawned. This found the The old first section of Second Division Artil- the battery received a lery Brigade fully pre- direct hit during the pared for a task of mixup, with most of blasting the way for the crew paying the the heroic oth and 23d price. This helped to Infantry Regiments and make up the total of the Marine Brigade better than 9,000 boys composed of the 5th killed or wounded in and 6th Regiments. that now peaceful sec- The great spring tor. drive of the German The Division was re- flying wedge had been lieved on July qth by stopped by Foch, with more good American the aid of the British, boys of other Divisions who slowed them down and retired to a so- to a walk with a beauti- called reserve position ful tackle at Amiens. where its personnel was The center was the replenished by rookies next point; and with who were given hasty the down fourth and one instructions in the tech- to go, a certain group of nique of hitting and boys from the Second ducking. Several of us Division were rushed stationed with the guns in with orders to "hold then carefully hidden that line." The French in the woods which boys had found the covered the beautiful odds too great and were hills, decided to ride giving ground at an back to the echelon on alarming rate and be- the banks of the Maine fore the world realized with hopes of a swim. how serious the situa- Our dreams were real- tion was, the boys from ized and the Marne, the Rhineland and which had known so points east had swept much horror, provided through center, the us with a few hours of Chemin des Dames, and relief from cootie tor- reached pay dirt at ture. It was a bath long Chateau-Thierry. remembered. Sleeves rolled up, Evening came and every ounce of equip- drive! from a bed under an ment which could be escort wagon with grass spared thrown away, a as a mattress the beau- fight such as the world tiful strains of a popu- had never before seen was being put on. lar Hawaiian tune, marvelously played The guns of Battery D, 12th Field by one of the boys on his treasured har- A Winn er Artillery —as did others in the brigade monica, lulled us off to sleep. In The $1500 barked for 72 consecutive hours. Many Ten-thirty, July 14th, and a shrill of the men dropped exhausted beside whistle.

Prize Contest Illustration by "Joe, get the gang headed back to HARRY TOWNSEND the guns as we're (Continued on page j6)

Magazine -4 The AMERICAN LEGION 'EDITORIAL*— MORE THAN A MILLION

JUNE 30th membership cards received by communism, which, though they profess to be worlds ONthis magazine at its Indianapolis office showed apart in their fundamentals, are so far as the individual a 1939 American Legion membership of 991,- citizen is concerned as alike as peas in a pod. Huge sums

602, or 16,965 more than in the entire year have been spent and are being spent here to make it

1938. Since there is a time lag between the recording appear that these anti-American notions of government of memberships in the 11,552 individual Posts and the are superior to democracy, because "they get things receipt of the membership data at National Headquarters done." The agents of these powers take advantage of our

and at the office of the magazine, it is safe to say that democratic processes of freedom of speech, of press and before July 1st the Legion had attained, for the second of assembly to denounce our way of life in an attempt to time in its history, a membership of more than a million. confuse us into a betrayal of our birthright.

This time, there is every reason to believe, we shall keep our total at or above the million mark for years HP HE Legion of a million-and-more is an effective answer J- to come. For it is increasingly evident that World War to these incitements to clamor from within our borders. veterans are more and more coming to appreciate that The Legion believes in the future of this nation, believes membership in the Legion is a privilege, affording too an passionately that whatever injustices there may be in the unequaled opportunity for peacetime service for God governmental system under which we live are being wiped and Country. out, surely if gradually. The Constitution under which There have never been any attempts, this America of we are proud to live has shown itself to be elastic enough ours being a democracy, to strong-arm eligibles into the to take care of changing conditions in our social and Legion, and while the very obvious benefits of associa- economic life. tion in the greatest ex-service organization in American For the past several years business and economic con- history have been made known in one way or another ditions have been at a low ebb here and in the world at so that he who ran might read, the blunt fact has re- large, and the constant threat of war hanging over the mained that a great number of those who should be in nations has tended to accentuate the depression in our ranks have not taken the trouble to join. The aver- every land. Our fathers knew the grinding despair of eco- age human being does only those things necessity forces on nomic stagnation, and we who have been familiar with our him. Nobody forced the million to join the Legion. They own country for the past forty years remember that when are the self-starters of the ex-service group, the doers. the continental frontiers disappeared it was said gen- erally that there was no more opportunity for American THOSE newcomers who have joined with the Legion- youth. We were that "American youth," and we remem- naires of many years' standing to push the member- ber the way in which the nation came out of financial ship total over a million know that they are now and business distress and despite a bloody and costly members of an organization given a preferred rating by war established a structure of prosperity greater than American opinion generally. A true cross-section of the that any country had ever enjoyed. nation, we Legionnaires represent no single class, no sec- The Legion, believing in America and in the sound- tional group, no race or sect, but America itself. There ness of its institutions, believing as its individual mem-

is not a county in the continental limits of the nation bers believed in 1917 and 1918 that it is a country worth in which the constituted authorities do not feel that the working for and if necessary dying for, looks to the

finest insurance for the proper functioning of government future with confidence. Our democracy is the result of lies in the fact that the Legion membership in that county centuries of struggle, and we are the heirs of gallant souls and in its individual cities and townships may be counted in all the ages who went to their death in that fight upon to serve the public interest in any emergency, dying that their children and their children's Children promptly and intelligently and faithfully, whether the might have a better, a more rounded life. We carry on emergency be a disaster of nature or one brought about in a great tradition. by man in his folly. In a very practical way that million-and-more in The A million-and-more members of the Legion! It's a American Legion means a more vital service to our dis- round, impressive figure, ensuring our being heard when abled comrades, a broadening of our child welfare activ- we talk. A million-and-more who are determined that ities, a solidifying of our national defense endeavors, a the orderly processes of government under the Constitu- quickening of our multifarious Americanism projects, tion shall not be tampered with, that democracy shall not headed by Boys' State and Junior Baseball, an enlargement perish here, that the enemies within our borders, in the of our community service work—a broadening and deepen- homely slang of our national game, "will not get to first ing of our contribution to the welfare of all America. base" in their attempts to make over this nation on the To paraphrase one of George Washington's best known model of one of the authoritarian countries. The Amer- sayings, the Legion when it assumed the duties of the ican, product of three hundred years of ever widening citizen did not lay aside the qualities of the soldier. In horizons of freedom and opportunity, will battle to the peace as in war we serve but one interest, that of the last ditch against introduction here of either fascism or United States of America.

AUGUST, ! 939 25 GREW ALL AROUND.... It Takes a Heap o' Cuttin' to Make a Lawn Look Right By Wallgren

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Earle C. Jameson

Si] V.E.PYLES

N THE day after Company B took over the front line Pri- vate Jenkins was singled out O for special duty. "You got big ears, Jenkins," the lieu- tenant said, "listening post for you to- night, fourth trick, and see if you can gum that up." When the lieutenant had gone the gang in the dugout gave Jenkins three cheers and a groan, the cheers because they liked the gangling farm boy, the groan because they feared the worst, for Jenkins, nicknamed Jinx, always did everything wrong. A clerk's error had sent Jenkins to this strange regiment of East Side New Yorkers when he had been separated from his outfit by a week's hospitaliza- tion and his nickname had come to him soon afterward through a series of mis- fortunes. He had dropped his rifle during a regimental inspection, he had passed the reviewing stand in a brigade parade AWlNNER In The $1500 Prize Contest

with one of his painfully-wrapped puttees trailing in the dust and of course it had to be an immaculate staff major whom he had ruined on a companionvvay of the transport under the stress of violent and sudden—seasickness. And, when other blunders followed, Jenkins had cheerfully admitted that his nickname fitted him—perfectly. "You're in the Army now, you're not behind the plow— The platoon was chanting the song for Jenkins' benefit, but he hardly heard.

He was wondering if his platoon com- It was then he disobeyed orders, mander, in giving {Continued on page 38) by firing the pistol

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Solarium and therapeutic pool given by the Legion and Auxiliary of Bergen County, New Jersey, for the rehabili- tation of suffering and disabled chil- dren. The pool is a part of the Bergen Pines Hospital, specially designed to fit AMlLE the needs of that institution

Pen n 1 es

turned out to witness the dedication 1936 Auxiliary County Convention by ceremonies and the formal presentation. Mrs. Jane Wray, Past County President, The idea was developed from a plan who suggested raising "a mile of pen- conceived by the Auxiliary to install a nies" to complete the work. Less than a wading pool for children at Bergen year later, when that goal had been MILE of pennies sounds like a Pines, the Bergen County hospital, reached, after conferences with Dr. lot of cash money, much more, where many children were under treat- Joseph R. Morrow, Superintendent of A in fact, than the actual total ment and where, for years, members of Bergen Pines Hospital, the plans were in dollars and cents of the the Legion and Auxiliary made an annual expanded to meet one of the greatest number of small copper coins required, pilgrimage. The original plans contem- needs of the institution, a therapeutic if laid down side by side, to stretch out plated a cost of something less than pool with modern equipment and appli- over the full length of the 5,280 feet in $1,000. The project was outlined at the ances. a standard mile. But in Bergen County, The County organization of the Legion, New Jersey, where it all began as a pro- then commanded by Ralph H. Knettle, You believe IK Yek-^TUis is (K ject of the Auxiliary County Organiza- Y\eu) summer joined with the Auxiliary and adopted tion, this mile of pennies now adds up the Auxiliary plans as a joint project. to the means of restoring to health, to A building committee representing the happiness and the chance to lead normal, two groups, headed by Robert A. Becker useful lives by children of today and of and Mrs. Wray, was created and, acting years to come, whose number cannot with Dr. Morrow and other hospital be estimated, who suffer from the devas- authorities, the finest type of solarium tating after-effects of infantile paralysis. and pool was planned. All that remained The mile of pennies also adds up to to do was to raise the necessary funds. the finest piece of humanitarian and When County Commander Moe Katz- community service work the Bergen man was installed in office at the 1937 County Legion and Auxiliary have ever County Convention, he pledged that the accomplished —the construction and pre- funds would be raised. The Posts were sentation of a solarium and therapeutic at work and had contributed from their pool to the county hospital, dedicated own funds. Mrs. Emilie Marie Cosgrove, to the service of suffering children. The Commander of Bergen County Post total cost was in the neighborhood of composed entirely of women veterans, $16,000—many miles of pennies—and the only women's Post in New Jersey as an evidence of the public interest in raised $300 by means of a novel chart, the movement more than 9,000 persons a plan of the proposed pool with stone

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine blocks drawn in. Subscribers bought There is circulation of water, dostvl! Sounds Uke. blocks, each contributor signing the filtration, chlorinization and block purchased. When completed the provision for heating the water « tapped, ove V, all d<*4 chart held more than 500 signatures. to the proper temperature, Other fund-raising ideas were adopted, which is usually ninety degrees many of which could be adopted with Fahrenheit. The water which profit by Posts engaged in community is to be used in this pool can service enterprises, but the one big event be had from the public supply that brought the campaign to a successful or from an artesian well on the finish was a giant bingo party, held at grounds. the Teaneck Armory. The party was Formal presentation of the attended by 20,000 people and something great glass-enclosed pool, cul- more than $10,000 was added to the minating three years of work by pool fund. the Bergen County Legion and Now something about the solarium and Auxiliary was made by County pool, all of which may suggest to some Commander Raymond R. Roe- other Post a similar service and be useful mer and County President

the lives of many children and promising young citizens. Here children will be rehabilitated so that they may lead use- ful, active and independent lives in the communities from which they come." The accolade for public service was given by a local newspaper: "The Legion- naires and their women aides may well be proud of their contribution to the

hospital, which, after all, is a contribu- tion to the health and well-being of the entire community. All the return they

receive for their $16,000 gift is the satis- faction of knowing that they have done something to help the unfortunate, and to the Legion that is ample compensa- tion."

For Distinguished Service

THE Department of Pennsylvania, always active in Americanism work, was the 1938 winner and was awarded the W. R. Hearst Americanism Trophy Voyageurs of Marion County (Oregon) Voiture turn out to move the Salem Y. W. C. A. into new quarters. Not all are there, but the group includes the Chef de Gare and one Past Department Commander of Oregon

in drafting preliminary plans. The build- Caroline Hilbert to Dr. Sam- ing housing the pool is fifty-five by uel Alexander, Institutions twenty-five feet and is of the conserva- Chairman of the Board of tory type of construction with graceful Freeholders, using a four- and artistic lines. As one of the most foot model, who then turned modern of solaria and therapeutic pools, it over to Dr. Morrow, Direc- everything about it is designed for a tor of the Bergen Pines special purpose, and is so constructed Hospital. as to permit recreational bathing as well In his speech of accept- as the bathing of patients in the pre- ance Dr. Morrow termed the scribed routine of hydro-therapy courses. pool one of the most modern The incline and slant of the bottom of examples for the practice of the pool, beginning at one end and attain- hydro-therapy. "You will be ing a depth of four feet at the opposite well rewarded in the years to end, allow patients to walk into the come," he said, "with the water and swim. However, those patients knowledge of having saved who have extensive paralysis of groups of muscles may receive the required massage and treatment. A ramp along The big and little of one side of the pool allows the attend- Arthur H. Evans Post, ants to deliver the patients to the plinth Burlington, Colorado — for treatment. Reuben Pratt, six feet, The entire pool and floor of the ten inches, weight 3 70, solarium are tiled. Sun treatments, either and C. L. Magee, five natural or artificial, are given on the feet, one inch, weighing sun deck at one end of the building. 125 pounds

AUGUST, 1939 ->9 Naturalization services were held in several courts, and welcome meetings for new citizens were sponsored. In the field of Junior Baseball, Posts in the Department put 27,000 boys into play and continued the program for a period of five months. More than two hundred and fifty Posts sponsored junior basketball teams for the Department competition and tournament. Extending, or continuing, the junior musical program the Committee was able to report more than 175 active junior drum and bugle corps and bands at the close of the year.

This program is, of course, closely tied in with the activities of the Sons of The American Legion, to which especial attention is always given. The Depart- ment had 350 Squadrons with a member- ship in excess of 8,500. Special summer activities include camping trips, rifle Past Department Commander Bill Smith and Clinton M. File, competition, and other character- and 193 8 Americanism Chairman, take a good look at the Hearst confidence-building sports. Trophy, won by Pennsylvania for intensive Americanism work During the year, as a contribution to Americanism, the Department and Posts for its notable work and outstanding winners in the Department essay con- sponsored a series of radio broadcasts achievement under the leadership of De- test, in which more than 20,000 students making an appeal for a re-dedication partment Commander William F. Smith, participated. More than 2,000 School to American principles and institutions, and Clinton M. File, Chairman of the Award Medals were given to boys and and a number of Americanism meetings Department Americanism Committee. girls for meritorious work, and codper- were held at various places in the State. Other members of the Committee were ated with the American Legion Auxiliary In an effort to present a united front, Roy Keitzer, of Pittsburgh; Dr. Leon in sponsoring scholarships for boys and contacts were made with forty-five patri- Braunstein, of Scranton; R. P. Brewer, girls in many colleges in the State. For otic organizations, all committed to com- of Kennett Square, and Michael Marko- the third consecutive year the Depart- bat subversive movements and un- witz, of Kingston. ment sponsored the Keystone Boys' American influences. The Pennsylvania program for 1938 State, with 650 boys in attendance and And that, comrades, just highlights was a broad and comprehensive one, with the junior counselors drawn from the Americanism efforts of Pennsyl covering almost every phase of Legion among students at various colleges. The vania's Legion. activity, and as a matter of interest to other Departments, as well as a stimu-

lant, the Step Keeper is pleased to review the seventeen points which were the deciding factors in sending the splendid trophy to the Keystone State: Secured fifty scholarships through State Senators to Penn State College, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh and Temple University. These scholarships were awarded to

Looks just like the real thing. If you're homesick for a bit of the old trench on the Argonne front, Harold A. Taylor Post, Chicago, will make you feel at home

educational work was not confined to A Chicago Dugout those regularly enroled in schools and colleges but was carried on by many CHICAGO Posts are making prepara- Posts, to include adults by means of tion to give the good old welcome to citizenship classes for aliens, and assisted the visiting comrades when they come to them in preparation for naturalization. town to attend the National Convention

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next September 25th to 28th—with, it is tanglements, and stumps of trees. mander Glen Craw- hoped, a few days before and after. Many A large assortment of war relics ford, of Cass County of the Posts have spread the welcome complete the picture which is set off Post, Logansport, In- mat and are all ready to roll down the by two wicked looking machine diana, (no, this is not red carpet when the conventionnaires guns. the Glenn Crawford arrive. And, take it from an old timer, "The entire construction and who handles the check these Chicago lads are experts in the art decoration of the dugout is the work book at National of entertainment. The invitation is gen- of members of the Post. All of the Headquarters), tells eral, but here is a special one. scenes painted are authentic, re- the Step Keeper that Harold A. Taylor Post, whose unusual flecting an experience of the artist. his Post hastheunique and unique club house is located at 1358 We think our dugout is different and distinction of having three sets of twins on

its rolls. And that is not half of the story— these twins have been on the rolls ever since the Post was organ- ized. That, opines Commander Craw- ford, constitutes a real record. "These three sets of twins," says the Commander, "were born in Logansport, and all graduated from Logansport schools. They were all members of the first Boy Scout Troop organized in our city, and all are charter members of Cass County Post. All of them have held offices in the Post and all continue active membership." Three pairs of twins are all-time members of Cass County Post, In the picture, which was taken at Logansport, Indiana the Greenfe Ider, Drompp and Schmidt boys — the twentieth birthday celebration at the Post home, (which the Commander says was the first Legion in In- North Clark Street —remember that we think you'll like it. You're welcome home address, 1358 North Clark Street —sends to visit Taylor Post dugout and make a diana), Legionnaires Melvin and Herbert out word that all visiting Legionnaires stay of it when you come to Chicago Greensfelder, left to right, are in the will be welcomed. And they have some- for the National Convention in Sep- front row; rear row, in the same order, thing to show the old veterans, especially tember." are Legionnaires Dan D. and Albert F. those who have a lingering nostalgia for Drompp and Louis and Dewey Schmidt. the trenches and dugouts of twenty years Twins, Three Pairs ago. Introducing Past Commander Guy Vigo Post's Youth Program Woodson, who bids you come to the I i'ROM time to time we have had Chicago Convention and to Harold A. J- reports of unusual membership com- COLONEL Francis Vigo Post, New Taylor Post binations in various Posts, but here is a York City, which bears the name "The members of Harold A. Taylor ringer from the Hoosier State. Com- of a distinguished {Continued on page j6) Post wondered just how it would feel to get back into the trenches again, so they have constructed a complete network of trenches and dugouts and shelters in the basement of their clubhouse, which is located within a stone's throw of the Convention center and activities. Every- thing appears just as it was at the 'jump- ing-off' place at St. Mihiel or in the Meuse-Argonne. All of the old familiar signs are there in French and English, with the usual array of gas masks, hel- mets and bandoleers scattered about.

This is the Post lounge room and meeting place for thousands of Legionnaires, their families and friends.

"The clubhouse is a three-story stone and brick structure with a nicely fur- nished parlor on the main floor, but it is in the basement dugout that the members gather to read, to visit, and to tell war stories. Perhaps that is a natural reaction —to be able to really get some pleasure out of the trenches at last, instead of just standing, waiting with keyed nerves, for the barrage to lift. On entering the wide main trench one imagines that he k is several feet below ground, with a Colonel Francis Vigo Post, New York City, goes in strong for youth train- short lookout on no-man's land—ruins ing—just a few of its regularly enroled juniors, members of the Drum of a French village, barbed-wire en- and Bugle Corps, Army Cadets, Navy Cadets, and Junior Red Cross

AUGUST, 1939 3i the nickname, "America's of the Hollywood Division of the Los Mary Pickford poses with a cop DOESSweetheart," bring back memo- Angeles Police Department. Comrade and a mailman, both Legion-

ries to you? Does it recall Jacobs, whose home is at 500 North naires, at Legion tree-planting those pre-war days when the Flores, Los Angeles, shares this story exercises in Hollywood, Cali- shadow folk of the moving-picture screen and its supporting snapshot with all of fornia. You'll see Mary at the were gradually emerging from the an- our Then and Now Gang. Let's go: National Convention in Chicago onymity in which they had been en- "As all veterans doubtlessly recall, veloped and we learned to know them the fall of '17 brought on uncounted by name? And does it remind you particu- gridiron battles between various service larly of a tiny person with golden curls units—not the least of these on the West of both squads carried bruises and black who was then and continued for years to Coast being a contest between the 144th eyes too numerous to mention. be the star of stars—both of the silent Field Artillery (the 'California Grizzlies') "Time marches on! The enclosed snap- and of the talking movies? You're right. and its nextdoor neighbor in Camp shot, taken at tree-planting exercises We're talking about Mary Pickford who, Kearney, the 143d conducted by Hollywood if she so willed it, could still take her Field Artillery Post of the Legion last sum- place in the foremost rank with the ('Mary Pick- mer, shows our own Mary players who have since risen to fame. ford's Own,' but Pickford having animated

Mary Pickford 's name may not now more commonly conversation with a police- appear often in lights on the marquees known to us fel- man, who happens to be me, of theaters, but her fame remains with lows of the Grizzly while the bystanders appar- the men who served during the World outfit as 'Mary's ently smile at the dialogue. War. And that's true particularly of the Little Lambs.') On Just before the snapshot soldiers at Camp Kearney, California, the night before was taken, Postmaster Mary who were her fairly-close neighbors the big game, Briggs had asked that one of twenty-odd years ago, and of the Legion- which was played on Decem- 'her boys' be included in the naires who are still her neighbors in ber 8, 1 01 7, it was necessary picture which Miss Pickford Southern California. Because of the high to post a special guard be- had consented to pose with esteem in which she is held, Mary Pick- tween the two regimental me.As the mail carrier, Morris lord will be a distinguished guest of areas, as throwing words had Denton of Milton Kanode The American Legion at its Twentieth finally been discarded in favor Post in Los Angeles, stepped National Convention in Chicago, Sep- of throwing more potent am- up he said to Miss Pickford, tember 25th to 28th. munition—clods and rocks. 'Yes, I should be in this pic- Announcement of Miss Pickford's The game itself was a thing ture as I was one of your acceptance of the Legion's invitation of beauty. Lieutenant Fred boys at Camp Kearney.' brought an interesting incident to the Thompson of the 143d was "Mary replied, 'Oh, you mind of W. K. Jacobs of Police Post of carried off the field with a were with Colonel Baneuf the Legion, who wears shield No. 1976 broken leg and many others and the 143d?' 'Yes,' said

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the real break—being neighbors to one were inseparable during our yeoman of the most ultra de luxe communities schooling at Newport, but since I left in the entire United States—Newport, the school in the fall of 191 7 I have not Rhode Island. The Naval Training Sta- been able to locate either of my good

tion is near that city of historical and friends. I have been through Peoria and social importance. There are Newton and tried to find them, but with-

located the summer "cot- out success. Perhaps if they see their pic- tages"—palatial residences tures, they will write to me. of the wealth} - of New York "That period at Newport was mighty and the East. And close by interesting to us rookies. We were kept Denton, and at that moment I chimed in those estates is the famed in quarantine for the first three weeks with 'Well, isn't that nice. I was with the Bailey's Beach, swimmin' hole there and during that time had the un- 144th and we took Mary's little lamb of the rich, exclusive beyond comfortable job of learning to sleep in away from your fellows during the big words. hammocks. We drilled each morning and football game.' The big laugh came when We're not saying that the in the afternoon attended the Yeoman she whirled around and said to me, 'So, gobs were welcomed into School. One of our most disagreeable you were the one that threw rocks at my these homes, though that may tasks was that of keeping our whites boys!' also be true, but we do know clean. We used salt-water soap and a stiff

"Well, it is a small world after all, from a letter received from scrub-brush to do our washing. and here we are twenty years later Past Commander Roy D. "Each week-end we spent in the city peacefully serving the public, Denton in Housh of Heart of America of Newport and during the summer of 191 7 we mingled with the swells at Bailey's Beach. I have often wondered who the six girls were who posed for me on the beach. They were from Fall River, Massachusetts, and perhaps some fellow Legionnaires in that city may recognize them. "Every Saturday we had Captain's Inspection and had to have our clothes and equipment in tip-top shape. We went through many forms of drills on the grounds at the Training Station, with the old U. S. S. Constitution (or was

it the Constellation) lying at anchor in the harbor."

JOIN the Infantry and See the world —on Foot." That slogan, facetiously adopted by the hike-weary doughboys

The above sextet of feminine pulchritude was snapped on exclusive Bailey's Beach, Newport, Rhode I sland, by a gob snapshooter in 1917. Gobs from the nearby Naval Train- ing Station had freedom of the beach. Right, what the well-dressed sailor wore for an ocean dip at that beach

the Mail Service and I in the Police De- Post of the Legion in Kansas City, whose partment, both Legionnaires of many offices are at 640 Board of Trade Building years standing, and Mary joining her in that Mid-West metropolis, that the 'boys' at the Legion's National Conven- gobs "ashore" were given the freedom tion in September. Possibly some of the of Bailey's Beach. To clinch his story, other survivors of that hectic Friday ex-Yeoman Housh sent along the pic- night and Saturday afternoon in 191 tures showing what the well-dressed gob will get a kick out of this picture as Com- of 191 7 wore in the way of bathing at- rade Denton and I did when the snapped tire on Bailey's Beach, and the sextet of incident happened." 1917 feminine loveliness, that are repro- duced. Want to know what Housh re- THE war was a great leveler of social ported? O. K., read on: barriers, as we all remember, and "A couple of old shipmates of mine at that leveling extended even beyond the Newport Naval Training Station in 191 men in the ranks, to civilians. Many of will probably get the shock of their lives us can recall being not only accepted and also a good laugh if you use the snap- but welcomed into homes which, except shot picture of them that I am enclosing. for the uniform, would never have been And if any of the girls in the other snap should see themselves opened to us. Location of training camps as they were during during the war, certainly fitted the situa- that first of the of and stations had, of course, something year war, the styles tion. And that went for other branches that period to do with the sort of parties and dances should give them a giggle of the service besides the Infantry. But that were staged in nearby towns and also. the fact remains that we did see France, cities, and the nature of the homes in "The two bathing 'beauties' are Earl and some of us England, Belgium, Italy, which enlisted men as well as officers Heaton, formerly of Peoria, Illinois, on Russia, , Luxembourg, the Rhine- were entertained. the left, and a lad named Lewis, who land of Germany and other countries. Leave it to the gobs, though, for getting hailed from Newton, Kansas. We three It's a far cry from those bect'C days

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bourg, crossed the Rhine the next morn- ing and drove through the Black Forest, Heidelburg Mainz, Koblenz, Sinzig, Remagen, Bonn and then into Koln (Cologne.) We visited what was then still Austria, stopped at Innsbruck in the Tyrolian Alps, then through Brenner Pass into Italy— Venice, Florence, Rome, Spezia, Genoa, back to France, through , down to Paris, via our old stamping-grounds, Langres, Rolampont, Humes, Chaumont. To Bologne, across the Channel by boat, three days in Lon- don, thence to Southampton for the ship that brought us home. "The battlefields of France now are mostly beautiful fields of grain, the de- stroyed towns are now new and fresh.

Few scars of the war are now of hikes to the fairly-recent visit to the seen by tourists in France, but old A. E. F. stamping grounds that was the chateau at St. Benoit still made by John Whitaker, Jr., of Camden, stands as it did in September, South Carolina, ex-sergeant in Company 1918, after destruction by the B, 117th Engineers, Rainbow Division. enemy. Above, a rear view; at Thousands of veterans have been lucky right, the main entrance to enough to make the trip back to France what was once a palatial home remember the Second and Third A. E. F.'s that the Legion conducted?—but I warrant comparatively few have done the pictures of the old chateau. This was it in style as Legionnaire Whitaker did. a particularly interesting spot to me. The two views of the war-wrecked cha- During the St. Mihiel Offensive of Sep- teau at St. Benoit which you see in these tember 12th, my platoon was assigned pages came from Whitaker with this to the cutting of barbed wire ahead of the travelogue: infantry advance and the job was prop- "I drove my car all over the old battle- erly taken care of that morning. We con- grounds summer before last —Chateau- tinued with the advance until about the Thierry, Champagne, the Meuse-Ar- third night when we stopped in the woods gonne area, St. Mihiel, Luneville and before St. Benoit. Later we started the way places—and the only thing I saw job of the outlining of a system of that was exactly as we left it in iqi8 was trenches, should they be needed for de- the chateau at St. Benoit. I am enclosing fense, in front of St. Benoit. We worked snapshots showing the rear of at night because of the thf chateau and also the main closeness of the enemy entrance door. lines, but one morning we There are but few old scars on the old "With another couple, Mrs. worked later than usual as front; the old chateau at St. Benoit Whitaker and I left Camden the visibility was poor. A was the outstanding exception—just as on July 15, 1937, drove to New plane with French insignia we left it in 1918." York in my car and sailed on flew over us and circled the Bremen, taking the car so low several times that SOUVENIRS de guerre! Many and along. Arriving in Cherbourg, the pilot or gunner waved varied were the trophies that Ameri- we drove to Paris for a week's to us, which was unusual. can sailors and soldiers and marines visit and then started our tour After a minute, our anti- brought home with them from the war, by driving to Chateau-Thierry, aircraft opened fire on the but we have learned about a trophy that on to Fere-en-Tardenois and plane when the German must be rated among the best of them

Sergy, and stopped at the Oise- artillery started pounding if not the outstanding one of all. It all

Aisne American Cemetery, our lines. No doubt it was started through a letter we received in where quite a number of our a French plane captured March, 1938, from Legionnaire Walter I). Rainbow boys are buried. We and used by the Germans. Kipp of Charlemont, Massachusetts, in went on through the Argonne "Later that morning the which he reported modestly that he and stopped at Exermont, Germans opened fire on had "a souvenir of the World War, a where I had my platoon in the chateau, using their very unusual trophy, one that is prob- October, 1918, for two or three heaviest guns. The first ably the only one of its kind in America." weeks while the advance had shell hit very close to my Unusual was correct. It was the standard stopped but which on November 1st platoon and about the third shell made a of the former Emperor of Austria-Hun- got going again until we ended up to the direct hit on the chateau. They centered gary that had actually flown over his right of Sedan when the Armistice went their shelling on the chateau, which Imperial Highness's head during the war, into effect. We drove then to Montfaucon caught fire and burned for a couple of which Comrade Kipp had brought home where we saw the impressive American days. And the ruins still remain. with him from the surrendered Austro- Meuse-Argonne Memorial just three "Then we visited the American St. Hungarian ship Radetzky, to which Kipp days before its official dedication. Mihiel Memorial on Mont Sec and con- had been attached. Kipp continued: "After spending the night in Metz, tinued along the old front line — Baccarat "Could you give me the names of any we proceeded to St. Benoit, where I took and Luneville. Spent the night in Strass- organizations that have large World

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 3 I War trophy collections, and might be been one of Com- interested in this flag? I have had the rade Kipp's most prized ^AAAAAAAAAAA^ flag for twenty years and it is really possessions until just re- too good for one individual to have in cently when he presented his home." it to the United States We immediately suggested the Mu- Naval Academy at An- seum of the United States Naval Academy napolis where it will hang at Annapolis, Maryland, and after a on the museum walls passage of some months, Comrade Kipp with numerous other tro- generously presented the flag to the phies gathered during the Academy. We show a picture of Walter many and various en- D. Kipp with his prize naval trophy, and gagements of our Navy we want Harold S. Kilgore, ex-ioth since 1812. Engineer, and fellow member with Kipp "In negotiating for the in Charlemont (Massachusetts) Post of flag to be presented to the Legion, to tell the story: the Academy, Comrade "About twenty-two years ago, when Kipp received a number the United States went to the aid of the of letters from navy men Allies in the World War, Walter D. Kipp, of high rank, urging him a young Dart- to make this fine gift graduate, to Annapolis. One from mouth Walter D. Kipp with the trophy he pre- enlisted in the W. C. I. Stiles, Com- sented to the Naval Academy in An- United States mander, U. S. Navy, napolis—an Austrian Imperial Standard Navy with the retired, pointed out taken from a surrendered Austrian bat- parting remark, that few World War tleship in the Ionian Sea during the war 'I'll be back home trophies adorned the just as soon as I walls of the Academy catch the Kaiser!' and that, in reality, very few existed. in Latin script letters, the following: "Comrade Kipp "Rear Admiral Wilson Brown, "Standarte Sr. Majestat des Kaisers und did not bring home Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Konigs," which translated reads "Stand- the Kaiser but he has acknowledged receipt of the flag ard of his Majesty, the Emperor and

' did accomplish a and describes it as follows: 'This King." smaU part of his standard, measuring seven feet, ten "Now principal of the Charlemont, ambitions by inches, by seven feet, seven inches, is Massachusetts, high school, Comrade

gaining one of the very interesting as its emblazonry Kipp entered the Navy in March, 191 7, finest trophies consists of the arms of Austria (double taking a three-months' training course taken by the Navy black eagle, each head surmounted at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- during the entire by the Imperial Crown of Austria; nology. Upon completing training he war. The trophy is the dexter claw holding the orb sur- was appointed an Ensign and was or- the standard of the mounted by the cross of the Teu- dered to active duty as commanding officer of the Submarine Chaser 256 for service in European waters. "The 2j6 was one of the first twelve submarine chasers to make the long and hazardous trip across the Atlantic. Leaving New London, Connecticut, the small craft arrived at Gib- raltar via Bermuda, to join the Otranto mobile barrage that stretched be- tween Fano Island, Greece, and Cape Santa Mariadi Louce, Italy, with the object of bottling German and Austrian submarines in the Adriatic Sea. "As history shows, the incessant vigilance of the subchasers and their allied ships made the barrage a Members of the Siberian Snow Dogs on the transport Logan en route to their homes success, halting in large the numerous in April, 1919. Right center, bare-headed, is Warren C. Grimm, who lost his life measure in the Centralia, Washington, Armistice Day tragedy in 1919. Is the other sinkings that had been bare-headed young officer, upper right, our present National Commander? taking place before. "Soon after the signing of the Armistice the 256 former Emperor of Austria-Hungary tonic order), the eight royal crowns of the was ordered to Cattaro and Spalato that was taken at the time the Austrian arms of the Kingdom of Hungary and the on the Dalmatian coast and it was at flagship Radetzky surrendered to the fourteen arms of the duchies, principali- this time that the Austrian fleet sur- U. S. Naval Forces at Corfu, Greece, on ties, counties and provinces of Austria. rendered to the U. S. Naval Forces by

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royally. A visitors' gallery is open at the Feller in Chicago. Both the St. Louis If you are a golf enthusiast, a public Chicago Board of Trade, overlooking the Browns and the , the course will be nearby, no matter where trading pits of the world's largest grain latter Feller's club, meet Legionnaire you stay for the convention. City courses market. Its building is one of many tow- Jimmy Dykes' White Sox at Comiskey of the Chicago Park District are Lincoln, ering observation posts from which one Park, Chicago, during the convention at Diversey, 2800 North; at Waveland, may inspect this second largest American dates. The Browns are scheduled here 3600 North; Jackson, 6300 South; Mar- city. September 23, 24 and 25. Cleveland will quette, 6700 South, 3200 West; and Col- And now just a moment's diversion, play September 26 and 27. umbus, 5600 West, 200 South. Only solely for the youngsters who will be Chicago's other big league entry, the small fees are charged and these links with us in September. National League Champion Cubs of are open from dawn to dusk. Chicago has 205 parks and play- 1938, launch their final 1939 league series Scores of other fee courses in the Cook grounds, all well-policed. We suggest a with the St. Louis Cardinals on Septem- County (Chicago) Forest Preserves, and brief bus ride to Lincoln Park Zoo, or ber 29, the day after the Legion Conven- adjacent to them, are at their best in an elevated and bus ride to Brookfield tion officially closes. late September. Zoo. The fact that some of the educational Both the city park system and the Besides a well-rounded, highly educa- reasons you will bring the family to the forest preserves have laid out innumerable tive assortment of animal and bird life, convention at Chicago have been men- bridle paths, ready should some former Lincoln Zoo features Bushman, a ten- tioned first, must not be taken to indicate wearer of a cavalryman's hat cord feel year-old gorilla, as its headliner. that adult fun and frolic will be neglected. an urge to demonstrate his horsemanship. At Brookfield, where the outdoor habi- Chicago's theatrical season will be in Mounts and equipment are available. tats of animals have been recreated to a full swing the latter part of September. You supply only the desire. marvelous degree, the children will Current hits will wink in lights of the And so, perhaps somewhat sketchily, anxiously stand in line for a glimpse of marquees on the Rialto, the downtown have we presented some of the reasons Mei Mei, young giant panda, as well amusement section. Night clubs, of this 1939 Annual Convention of The advertised today as the famous Teddy which the leading hotels are the foremost American Legion will be a family affair. Bear. exponents, will be open wide to Legion- Many of you fortunate Legionnaires Twenty-eight miles of shore line, much naires. may plan then to continue on after the of it accessible by bus, are available to Hawthorne track, one of six courses convention to east or west coast and a the children, too. in the Chicago area, will be operating World's Fair. Stopover privileges will of Or perhaps they have read of Bob for those who like to see the bangtails course be granted to all travelers through Feller, Iowa schoolboy pitching sensation run. This big-time horse racing plant is Chicago. of the American League. Maybe Junior at Stickney, Illinois, on Chicago's western It will be our privilege at Chicago, how- would like to see him, huh? And Dad, edge, and is easily accessible. ever, if you come early to the convention too! They should. Feller was discovered A short railroad ride direct to the track, and stay with us long after it has ended. and developed through The American or an elevated train jaunt and bus con- You'll like it, too, for we have not the Legion's junior baseball program. He is nection, transports one to Hawthorne slightest sense of immodesty in repeating the Legion's outstanding gift to baseball. from downtown Chicago in approxi- what we said at the start: "Chicago has Well, they'll have opportunity to see mately a half hour. everything!"

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(Continued from page 24) going to move at once for a hot sector." went on and on until early evening of tanks, infantrymen, artillery and supply It was Mike Mattick. our top-kick, July 1 6th when we pulled into Villers- trains. Every available inch of road space who had again turned into that little Cotterets where we first realized how taken, everybody endeavoring to keep terror. Mike could be a cheerful master tired and hungry one could be and still contact, w'hich was almost impossible. when he was speaking. continue. It was made possible by the threat to A few minutes of scrambling for sad- Villers-Cotterets is a thickly-wooded shoot the first outfit which broke the con- dles, blankets, bridles and the few per- area which at that time seemed to be nection. It was a case of survival of the sonal belongings and we were headed packed solid with every known type of toughest. The night passed without our back to that beautiful patch of woods fighting equipment. We watered and fed destination being known. History tells with the none too welcome word. exhausted horses and hung around the us our Divisional Commander didn't The order to move was soon fulfilled, rolling kitchen for a real feed which was know at that particular time, so how but not without growls and profanity being prepared. As it had been too good could we? of various kinds. How the boys threw to be true, rain started pouring and an- We moved on and on. Horses fell ex- equipment and harness together is beyond other merciless order came through for hausted—new pairs were made up of us, as it was inky dark. the guns to move immediately. those able to stand the punishment, and We moved on the dot, much to our That order was greeted by the most it was brutal, as no food or water was amazement and to that of some French artistic outburst of profanity this soldier available. The guns were finally placed Blue Devils camped in those same woods. ever heard. Not so much that we were with but two horses pulling. The others We took a final look at the then active headed for the line but because a meal still surviving were carrying harness front —a most magnificent fireworks dis- was to be missed. However, within a only. They actually leaned together for play was on. One beautiful sight of a war! few minutes we were again on the move aid in standing. We owe the faithful The weather was beastly hot and the a night of horror as men and beasts were horse a vote of thanks. long, long, man-and-beast-killing hike dead tired, roads jammed with trucks, Men were in the same condition when,

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37 as previously stated, we took position on "Take a look at that parade coming few hundred feet beyond that knoll," the edge of the woods. The trees marked out of those woods to our left," yelled quietly came the order from Lieutenant by shells and machine-gun bullets had at Abel as a battalion of French Cavalry Joe Wood. "Range 1500 and increase by one time been beautiful beeches. trotted along. "Where the hell have they 25's at every signal." Was it a rest? No—haul ammunition. been during the war?" This was quickly carried out, but not This was done in a downpour but in the The Germans were backing up as the without work. meantime some "chow-hounds" had tide could not be stopped. Stopped! Ah, "Look, there goes one of the caissons scouted up some canned beans, tomatoes, yes. Machine guns are blocking the roads off the road near the edge of the woods hardtack and "monkey meat," built a through Vierzy. a direct hit!" shouted one of the crew. fire by magic, everything being drenched, "The guns are to go into position off "My God, another one—they can't and a meal was served get here with ammuni- or grabbed. tion!" yelled Ustich. Late in the afternoon The confusion was of July 17 th we slept caused by lack of defi- and God alone knows nite information — all how, as the rain poured messengers having been down incessantly. Bod- killed. ies of Senegalese, Mo- "It's not war—just roccan and French who suicide," quietly spoke had recently paid the up Ames, our first-aid price in that area didn't man. give the surroundings "Range now at 2200 too pleasant an odor, —hold it there, "was the but one couldn't be order. particular. "Say, there are only It was WAR! two batteries here; the "What the hell is the others can't get through, rush about?" asked so we're in for it." Barney. Action had been so "Me no spy, me justa tak "Pershing wants to fast this fact had not picture of my friend!" get home for the World been noticed by the Series," was the reply crews. from Tom. "Look at that heinie All was quiet around plane dropping smoke the gun pits during the signals; looks tough," night —a few hundred came from Barney, who feet away it was different as the 9th, 23d to the left, directly behind that slope was religiously watching his sights. Our and Marines were hiking and struggling in the wheat field," advised the Captain. air force was evidently on vacation, as we to get into position in time for the then They were put into position as were hadn't seen a plane for two days, and unknown "zero hour." Some double- the other five batteries of the regiment how we'd have welcomed them! timed to make it —to get there on time to and hell broke loose again. "Drop back to 1500," was the next be killed! Where the enemy got all the machine word from "Woodie," who didn't look

"Have the gunners check their guns is a mystery, as there were appar- too cheerful. watches," was the word. ently hundreds left behind. Yes, plenty That was a thrill and as the range It was then 3:50 a.m., July 18th; 3:55 German gunners were still at their posts dropped we knew what was on. A coun- all was quiet, but at 4:00 a.m. hell cut but of no further use as soldiers. They ter-attack, with the Moroccans and loose from every gun as never before, were dead. Algerians not being able to hold. and a battery of 105 mm's directly back Night halted hostilities temporarily "Here comes Stitt with a caisson; of us almost tore our heads off with their but it was bad, due to French tanks taking lamp that kid drive," spoke up McGrath, noise. a short cut and almost demolishing our an Irish-Brazilian. That was a brigade of French artillery, outfit. Threats and more beautifully The kid made it but we unlimbered and could those boys put out! At 4:05 spoken profanity changed their route. on the fly and he was off to safety. Just the move was on—the range was raised; They didn't understand why that was then the plane's corrections were put in again and again as the minutes wore on necessary. Funny guys for sure! use by German artillery and a roar along with the at times wild and blaspheming July iqth, gang; here we go again! And with a shower of dirt told without words crews now carefully checking their sights, another push was on. Objective taken, we were in for hell and more hell. leveling their bubble and coolly loading but the toll was too great for our infantry Again and again at short intervals and firing, as they knew the boys in front to stand. The punishment at Belleau the big ones hit —we would dive for a were depending on every shot. Wood and then this was too much to hole and pray both going in and coming Soon the answer—prisoners, accom- expect from any human. They were re- out. Evidently some were heard, but not panied by smiling wounded, passed and lieved and sent back for rest. all. The fourth section was hit and the gave the word that the "push" was going "Get set, gang; tomorrow is Sunday gun and crew put out of commission. along. Painful as the wounds were, they but a show is on," came the word. One big one hit between the first and smiled through their pain as only a The starting hour was as always an second sections and created a most terri- Yankee could do. early one, so at 4:30 A.M. both battalions ble mess; another and another, with un- "Let's go! We're to move up!" Equip- cut loose with the Second Battalion mov- describable damage and horror. ment was thrown on the pieces; horses ing up first to maintain fire. The range was 1100, with orders to available were hitched and the move "We're off after an hour or better of "lay guns on crest of hill." That again started. barrage. Hell, what's wrong?" "Where told what we already knew as the Col- "Who the hell is left to fight?" to from here?" "Who has gone nuts?" onials had filtered back through us. The roads were again jammed, this were the questions as we shoved and Machine guns were manned and put into time with wounded and prisoners and pulled the guns to help the horses. action and then, with the appearance troops came in the field and woods . . . well, their "After you're clear of the woods, pull of some fresh French who troubles were over. over to your right and go into action a from nowhere {Continued on page j8)

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miraculously, the counter-attack was worse. enemy are being acclaimed in millions " stopped. Our reward—it came from Divisional of American homes tonight.' So terrible was the situation all were Headquarters and read something like We wonder if they remember—we badly confused as it was a case of "going the following: know our gallant buddies of that marvel-

under the top," not "over." Going over "General John J. Pershing visited our ous First Division who were off to our is a thrill; going under, a thriller. area; wants it to be known 'that the left do remember! Those memories will Relief came July 25th—months of achievements of the gallant men of the be with us while we live. hardship were at an end—however, just Second Division in the attacks at Sois- History again tells us these moves won temporarily, as more was to come. Some sons which turned the tide against the the war. The £ap

(Continued from page 27) him his first important assignment, had geant's voice was hushed as Kolinski sent answered the challenge of a vague figure decided to bury the hatchet. He would the detail on its way, to move forward on that he felt rather than saw and received never forget the lieutenant's stinging the oozy duckboards. One by one Jenkins' the post instructions: words when his first-class private's rating companions vanished but he passed a few "She's all quiet. There's a ground was taken from him: "I'm sorry, Jenkins, motionless figures in overcoats, their 'phone but it's haywire. Here's the rocket that you can't be reduced any lower." steel helmets a faint blue against the pistol, two-star for barrage, four-star He found himself singing and stomping gloom. for gas, the cartridges are in a tin box, with the others, then the dugout curtains A tall figure suddenly blocked his down here. Don't shoot off any barrage parted to admit Kolinski, the platoon way, he gave the password, his name and rockets unless you see something and no sergeant and quickly put an end to the his duty. gas rockets unless you know it's gas. horseplay. "Right here she is, suicide alley," the This post is called Cherry. We haven't "Jeez, whaddid I ever do to you, now tall figure said. any patrols out. Repeat." I gotta write my last letter home," He left the front line and crawled into Jinx repeated and the outgoing man Kolinski growled, as he elbowed Jinx to the sap. Stooping, he shuffled ahead, moved off. the far corner of the dugout, where a ankle deep in the foul mud and filthy Feeling about, he found the soggy tar- kerosene lamp burned. water. paulin that covered the hole in the day- "It's No. 2 post and a hell of a hole, Once a lesser darkness and a movement light hours and arranged it on a shelf of Jinx, and you don't get posted, you hafta of cool air told him where the top of the wet earth so he could sit down. A hell of find it," Kolinski said, as he handed him sap had fallen away. The slime gradually a hole is right, Jinx thought, with mud the sector map and told him to dope it became deeper, then the sap widened into for a floor and nothing but a rifle to pro- out if he could. a roofless hole. This was the post, fifty tect a man from the invisible enemy sit- Jinx passed the remainder of the day feet beyond the last barbed wire. He ting in the same kind of mud a few hun- studying the map and dred yards away or at stand-to he checked prowling about to the contour lines he seize unsuspecting had memorized with sentries and pin their the actual appearance ears back. Company of the ground in front. A had lost three men He was delighted to from this post but he find the landmarks decided not to think just where the map of this. Instead, he showed them to be. visualized himself as After stand-down he sitting on the map slept. with which he had Kolinski wakened labored all afternoon. him around midnight He was about two and under his direc- inches left of dead tion he blackened his center! And those face and his bayonet, wavy curves meant removed all gear that hills if close together, might rattle and put and easy ground if far away his cigarettes apart. And the trench- and his rope lighter. es in heavier ink, blue Then he stood in line lines for his side, red with several others for the enemy and and received the pass- little cross marks for word. The dugout was wire. He knew exactly silent, the men not on where he was and the duty were asleep, for distances from his own night on the front is and the enemy lines. grim business. Even "Hey, wait a minute! It just occurred to me we He braced his rifle the hard-boiled ser- got this hitched up wrong!" against the side wall

Tin- AMERICAN LEGION' Magazine and peered into the chill, starless murk. The air had an odor—something like creosote or sheep dip. Fog. It always smelled like that. In a pond that he knew was exactly fifty-five yards to the left oblique frogs were singing a hoarse symphony, without break. Hundreds of them, he told himself, and mostly tenors. It reminded him of home and was a friendly assurance that all was well, yet he would have preferred to hear a bawling calf. A star shell rose gracefully from the enemy front and others, at intervals that seemed timed. He sat rigid until they burned out, his blackened face and hands his protection against their glow. The time dragged wearily. The night began to press heavily on his senses. Shapes that he knew were not there loomed eerily in the black wall that sur- rounded him. This was what the gang had told him. Heebie-jeebies! He set his jaws and regained control of his nerves and the calm that followed made him perspire. But he felt better. He heard a cat bird's call and a rustling of wings close over- head as a crow or a wild dove passed. Some small creature moved between the tin cartridge box and the dirt wall. He put his foot against the box and the movement ceased. A rat, probably. He bent down and felt the rocket cartridges. Two stars on the crimp wad. Red, that meant, for barrage fire. He found the four-star loads, green, for gas alarm. These he put in his overcoat pocket, sniffing the air for signs of chlorine. He heard a sloshing noise behind him and

grasped his rifle, the bayonet point swung round. He forgot to challenge. "Don't get excited, Jenkins," a low voice rasped. The lieutenant slipped into the posi- tion. "Anything to report?" "A few enemy flares, but they've stopped now."

"Don't whisper, mullet head, it carries twice as far." "Yes, sir." The lieutenant was gone. In less than an hour, he would be relieved, he figured. He hadn't gummed up anything—yet. Then his blood seemed to freeze as a seventh sense brought him to his feet, straining his eyes and ears against the blackness. A deadly silence had enveloped the front, as if a dynamo revolving at high speed had ceased to hum in the flicker of a second. He felt his thumping heart move into his throat. His hand gripped -for MILDNESS the butt of the rocket pistol. He knelt fine old and slipped a cartridge into the breech. Kentucky Burley aged in wood Two star. He rose slowly with all his faculties groping for movement or sound. -the FLAVOR There was nothing, the night was stand- of pure maple ing still. It was then that Jenkins dis- sugar for extra good taste obeyed orders. Cocking the pistol and extending his arm he fired. Swiftly re- Velvet packs easy in a pipe loading, he fired again. Rolls smooth in a cigarette

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swaying gently under the tiny parachutes, aged to wash some of the blood and black- tration of barrage and auxiliary fire an alert American battery answered ening from his face and hands and he killed over fifty of the enemy that we Jenkins with a savage roar. Then another stood stiffly at attention as he waited know about and there must have been at blast, followed by a deeper baying as the for the gray haired man on the other side least twice that number put out of the heavies joined in. Ahead and to the of the table to speak. action by wounds. So our thanks to flanks he saw a wall of leaping flame. The "You're Private Jenkins, B Company, you. You will be promoted to the rank shell bursts were checkerboarding the I believe?" of corporal and cited in orders, but if you front. The explosions numbed his ears, "Yes, sir." didn't see anything and heard nothing, the fumes made his eyes water. Showers "Did you send up two barrage rockets will you tell us just why you sent up the of mud, rocks and water pelted his posi- from Outpost Cherry?" rockets?" tion, the air was filled with whining "Yes, sir." The colonel's eyes were rather curi- missiles. He heard machine guns stut- "Did you see an enemy or a body of the ously alight and the room leaned forward, tering and the rhythmic bark of the Chau- enemy approaching?" with him. chats, and hand grenades. Behind him. "No, sir." Private, later Sergeant Jenkins, made The front line. His gang. What a show he "Did you hear anything?" only one public address during his dis- had started. He had blundered again, "Nothing, sir." He licked his lips. Mul- tinguished service in the American Ex-

and how! let head. peditionary Forces. A field clerk took it Something hard knocked off his helmet, "Then you disobeyed orders?" down, as follows: his neck jerked, he pitched forward "Yes, sir." "Well sir, at home on the farm we have heavily and lost consciousness as a gust "Well, we're damned glad you did. several ponds. There's a pond out in front of steel splinters raked the position. You probably saved the First Battalion and to the left of the listening post where Later he found himself facing the from a whale of a licking. It was a sur- I was tonight and it was full of frogs and colonel at regimental headquarters. His prise raid, Jenkins, without artillery prep- they were singing to beat the band. The relief, the hurried hike with a sour- aration and the prisoners tell us it had way I figure it, French frogs are just like faced corporal through a long and wind- been planned for a long time— to use on American frogs, I mean if folks walk near ing communication trench had taken a the stupid Americans. Two battalions their pond, day or night, they'll quit few minutes, or had it been hours? But of shock troops from a Guard division. singing, quick. The frogs in this pond his throbbing head was clearing now and You may stand at ease." quit, all of a sudden. I knew our gang had he saw a brightly lighted room filled with "Yes, sir." Jenkins' face had turned to nobody out there, but I waited, a few officers of rank. His uniform was caked turkey red. seconds I guess, and when the frogs with mud, he was soaked to the skin but "Furthermore," said the colonel, and didn't start up again I sent up the somewhere along the line he had man- the room was smiling now, "our concen- rockets."

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I replied, "I thought that was just a bit season I said to him a short time before ality in the game was "" high!" a game: Frank Baker, of Trappe, Maryland. "That's all right, kid," he spoke, "Luke, is there anything wrong with I never played on the A's when Frank adding, "if your eyesight is failing you, you today; because if there isn't I'll was there, but played against him when there won't anybody know it except me, know you're really sick and will trade he was with the Yanks. He could still you and the catcher!" you!" slough that ball, and was easily the home- There've been a lot of screwball A fellow can't be around as long as I run king of his time, but he never had players in the game, but the A's and Sox have without forming impressions, and the fielding grace of Ruth, albeit he was were never loaded with them in my time. I'm going to drop some of mine in your always in front of the ball and never

The nearest to a "screw-loose" Fve had lap, and also pick a Jimmy Dykes All- failed to at least knock it down. to deal with is this Luke Appling, about American team for you. I'll never forget the arrival of the as sweet an infielder as has come along "Red" Faber, the right-handed spit- lively ball. It had me worried about my- for a long time and one who is holding baller who used to pitch for these very self. It must have been about in 1923 up great. White Sox that I'm managing now, was or 1924 when in the spring I noticed I Luke has one complex that gives every- the toughest pitcher for me to face. wasn't stopping the balls like I was one who knows anything about it a great It was a rare day indeed when I could accustomed to before. big belly laugh, and sometimes a pain in get a hit off the Redhead, and the few I Drives which up to then had been easy the neck. did get I felt like they were achievements. for me, were getting by me and I com- The guy is always imagining he's sick, He was harder for me to hit than either menced to wonder if I was beginning to yet if this were so he couldn't be one of Walter Johnson or Smokey Joe Wood, slow up. My legs still felt all right and I the best shortstops in the league, as neither of them cousins to anybody. was in my usual good shape and still he's been for years. I always liked to bat against Johnson. had all that boyish enthusiasm for the Why, Luke requires more attention Not that I was particularly successful game. from our trainer than the rest of the against him, but that he had such a But were going through me. team, including the pitching staff, com- smooth delivery and masterful control, I didn't say anything to anybody, but bined. At the same time he always goes it was an experience to be up there in I was doing a lot of thinking. out there and puts up a great game, run- front of him. Then, in about mid-year, the league ning his legs off and showing no signs When I started to tag along on the announced it had been experimenting of any sort of ailment. One day last edges of baseball, the greatest person- with a lively, or rabbit ball and I knew

The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-.me 41 of course that Jimmy Dykes wasn't The best looking yearling of the current We have five stations in Chicago broad- slipping—yet. season is the Yankees' Charley Keller, casting every game, and there is no We ball players are often asked if we the Maryland University graduate who question this stimulates attendance. think there ever will be other ball players was in the Newark for his first The foundation of baseball is built on to shine as brightly as the Ruths and year of professional ball last year. the personalities and characters in the Cobbs and Sislers and other greats of He has all the earmarks of a natural game. The radio acquaints those at the game. hitter and fielder. With the Bears Charlie home and in offices with these players I don't believe their exact duplicates lead the in hitting and excites their interest to the point will ever come along, because the history with an average of .365. He set the pace of clicking the turnstiles. of the game proves that the stars of for the loop with 149 runs and 211 hits, Of late years the Legion's Junior Base- each succeeding generation of players while he batted in 1 29 runs. In short, ball program has been a great help to have been outstanding for the national game and to some distinct ability pecu- the kids who have taken liar to them individually. part in it. It isn't just the But we will always have youngsters that come up players to come along who to the big leagues or even will reach a stardom of professional ball that I'm their own making, players thinking about. It's the like Feller, DiMaggio and lessons of sportsmanship this Charley Keller. and the development of To my mind Ty Cobb thenever-say-die spirit that combined more of the ele- are most important. A ments of greatness than youngster that plays Le- any player, because he gion ball is going to keep could do more things and on being a straight shooter do them well, than any when he's forgotten the man the sport has known. technical side of the train- Ty could hit, field and run ing he received. We've got bases with equal facility a couple of fine Legion ball and brilliance. graduates on our ball club Next to Cobb comes right now—Mike Tresh Ruth, great for many and Henry Steinbacher. reasons Cobb wasn't, but I can't complete this re- still not quite so much of cital to my comrades of the an all-around player. Legion, and others under Ruth's home run feats and whose eyes it might fall, general slugging ability, without saying a sincere however, will be legends of and almost devout word of baseball as long as time admiration and respect for endures. the man who has been my Ruth had a splendid greatest friend and inspira- arm, and for a huge man tion in baseball—Connie with egg-shell ankles, he Mack. was remarkable on the "I've played a lot of courses—but An expert tactician, a base paths and in the field never one with rough like this!" kindly leader who under- in view of those mincing stands youth and knows little steps he took when how to get the best out of on the trot. The Babe had a fine head Charley Keller is the answer to any it, Connie Mack personifies in the hearts on his shoulders, I can tell you. He manager's prayer. and minds of all who come beneath his always knew the correct play to make Young Bob Feller, who graduated gentle spell the things which are most and was what we call smart in a base- from American Legion Junior Baseball, worth while in baseball and human ball sense. is the most promising pitcher to come relations. It's too bad that he was taken Ruth's baseball discussion was always into the American League since the sick just before he was to manage our interesting and orthodox in its logic. Athletics picked up Bob Grove from the league's team in the All-Star game this He talked a great game— still does. Orioles at a reputed price of $105,000. year. Now as to that all-star team I promised Feller is just coming into his own, the His fatherly reaction toward some of you; here it is: rough spots having been pretty well the temperamental players we had on First base, George Sisler; second base, ironed out and he having acquired the the Athletics, will always be in my Charley Gehringer; third base, Joe necessary poise and knowledge of the . Dugan; shortstop, Everett Scott; catch- game to make him a genuine diamond. "Let them rave," he would say, "let ers, and Bill Dickey; I believe night baseball has its place them rant and throw their gloves around pitchers, Bob Grove, Lefty Gomez, Urban in the major leagues. It is almost an in exasperation. That's the way they "Red" Faber and Walter Johnson; out- economic necessity to schedule a few relieve the tension of day-in-and-day-out fielders, , Ty Cobb and Boh such games in every major league city to play. They've got to get rid of it some- Meusel. enable day-time workers who can't how!" Remember, in viewing this team, it is leave their work with any feeling of se- I thought then it was perfect psy- made up of players I have actually seen curity—just to see a ball game. chology, but in the last half dozen years and played against. The outstanding Night baseball has saved the minors, since I've been handling players myself, characteristic of the pitching group is and with employment what it is, or I'm sure of it and almost every day I tear

its durability. possibly I should say unemployment a leaf from the book of Connie Mack in Baseball has had any number of mar- being what it is, the majors may find my relations with my men. velous hurlers, but the above quartet night ball the tonic to tide them over That's the sincerest tribute I can pay enjoyed success over a prolonged period until conditions become nearer normal. the greatest, most human leader the of time. They were iron men. Too, radio has its niche in baseball. American League has ever had.

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Joe said, "How's tricks? I'm meetin' a saw a cop come out. The cop had a tooth- At midnight Joe drove west on High- guy here." pick in his hand. He stopped and looked way 80. In the back seat were two tins of Then Garcia stared at him and said, around. Joe stopped, too. The cop looked gasoline, one of water, a sack of food. "Oh, it's you. Where you been?" at him and Joe started to walk away. That storekeeper would sure be surprised "L. A.," Joe told him. "That's my cab After half a block he glanced over his in the morning to find the broken lock. outside." shoulder and the cop was still behind After ten miles Joe left the road for a Garcia looked at it, then at Joe, and him whistling quietly to himself. Joe desert trail. He drove without lights, asked, "On the lam?" hurried. He glanced back again. The cop remembering the border patrol. The high "Yeh," Joe said. "Got in a little jam." saw him and stopped and stared at him. black cone of La Centinela rose from the "Then you best get the hell out of Then something happened to Joe's flat horizon at his left; to the right the here," Garcia answered. "I don't want feet. They were running. Fast. He didn't Superstition Mountains made a soft dark no trouble. Cops and border blur against the sky. patrol, in here all the time, lookin' Ahead lay Pinto Wash, a hot, me over. And like I say, I don't dry river bed, running straight to want no trouble." ,,.<• Mexico. Joe halted, turned off his He went on making coffee. He motor, and sat holding his breath, said, "They was in here a'ready listening. The night held its breath, this mornin', lookin' for somebody. too. A desert rat somewhere in the How do I know? They don't tell darkness made a small, shrill com-

me, they just ask me." r : plaint. Ten miles to the rear a car Joe drove away fast. He'd be was panting up the highway grade here, back later, after Bingo got j to Mountain Springs. There was and collect his thousand, and then no other sound. Joe took a long they'd go to the postoffice. drink of water and started again. He knew a place outside town He had driven five miles when where he hid sometimes when he off to the right a dark bunch of was smuggling, so he drove to it and shadow started moving toward parked his cab beside an irrigation him. It came fast, a car without ditch, screened in the brush and lights. Border patrol! Joe put on eucalyptus trees. He left his speed. His cab bounced over loose monkey cap and put on his hat and rocks. The other car followed, walked back to town. drew closer. Then a stone post In a hot dog joint where he had loomed up and Joe rushed past it. breakfast, nobody paid much at- He was in Mexico now. He looked tention to him, but two fellows back. The other car crossed the at the counter were talking, and he "Th at's to remind me to remind Mr. Walsh boundary, too and still was fol- heard one say, "Never gave the to put a ring on my finger tonight!" lowing. poor guy a chance!" "They got no right in Mexico!" Joe got up and asked for his check. look back any more. Just ran. A little Joe complained. "Ain't legal!" The counterman was a pleasant sort of Mexican kid hollered at him and he ran The pursuers gave up at last and Joe fellow and he said, "I was just saying faster. He knew that the cop was running, slowed down. His motor was knocking. you sure look like Jimmy Cagney." too, so he dodged down alleys and across He stopped and watered his thirsty Joe backed away. He said, "Who, me? back yards till he was at the edge of radiator, then drove on, feeling shaky Oh, no, I don't look like him at all." He town. At last he reached his cab and hid inside. It was the heat, he told himself. got out of there and walked to the depot. in the brush. But no cops came near. There was no road to follow, but he "Bingo'll be on this train," he told him- A fellow's throat sure got dry. It was dark needed none. The flat alkali crust made a self. "Sure, he'll be on this train." before he dared crawl to the ditch for a hard pavement. After two hours he But Bingo wasn't. Well, maybe he'd drink of its warm, muddy water. stopped again to fill his gasoline tank hitched a ride. If the cops hadn't . . . Joe But his plans were made. Mexico was from one of the tins. A coyote started pushed aside the thought trying to form. close at hand. No cops over there, just to yip up in the dark Sierra de Juarez, a Back at Garcia's, Bingo hadn't showed desert and mountains and friendly In- mile to the west, and Joe got away from up, and Garcia still didn't want trouble. dians. And Bingo hadn't come to El there fast. He didn't like coyotes. Made Two big guys were standing in the shade Centre He'd been picked up, that meant. him think of dead people on the desert. by the postoffice, talking. Joe walked Bingo wouldn't squeal. Sure not. He The night got hotter and there was no past, hurried down the side street. was a nice sort of guy. Only he hadn't breeze. Made Joe want to pant. At last Bingo wasn't on the night train, either. been too sure himself what the cops he turned through a notch in the ranges Joe didn't sleep, just sat in his cab and would make him do. They can make you and looked eastward across the desert had ideas. Not very pleasant ideas. He'd do lots of things you don't want to, he'd at the llaming dawn. La Tinaja was picked up an evening paper. The cops said. Well, in that case ... to hell with straight ahead. It once had been a town; still were keeping quiet. But a couple of the package in El Centro postoffice. It now only Indians squatted in its ruins. guys had been hanged that morning in could wait. Twenty-five miles southwest Nice fellows, those Indians. Often had some prison. Joe read all about them. lay Pinto Wash, with safety at its other helped Joe with his smuggling. Nice They ate a hearty breakfast. Joe didn't end, for him at least. But a fellow needed place, too, where mesquite trees made a want anything to eat. food, water, gasoline. Just enough to patch of thin shade on the dry face of the take him to a place called La Tinaja. It land. GARCIA opened his diner at eight was a long way, a hundred miles, but he Joe saw the trees at last. The friendly in the morning and Joe was walking had friends there who'd help him. They smoke of cooking fires rose straight on the toward it at five minutes past when he were smugglers, people you could trust. still hot air. Then, at half a mile, Joe

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move, just stood there, as if waiting. Joe's terror made a plug in his dry I throat. Had the L. A. cops sent word 'way down here? Were these guys waiting to take him back? Bhde "Oh, the dirty devils!" he groaned. illelte He didn't dare turn around. No, the bor- der patrol would get him if he did that. '\^-\ At Price! He slid into gear and headed toward the ^ two men. But before he reached them he speeded in a wild circle around them and roared on southward. He didn't even look at them as he went by. Didn't dare look. What were they doing now? Start- ing after him? His water and gasoline tins bounced in the rear seat. He left the

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policeman. He has two guns. And he can time to ask for water in San Felipe. The to be this hot and not sweat. Funny, not shoot them. cab was a bouncing oven. The steering able to see anything in this hot light. He "Oh," Joe said. "Why do you need a wheel got hot, blistering his hands. At fell down once more and couldn't get up. policeman here?" A big man with a wide last the sun sank and night dropped fast. So he started to crawl. At last he couldn't hat had come out of a brush house across But it stayed hot. Joe halted and sat in crawl and just lay panting. the village and stared at him. the cab and tried to sleep. But he Once he stirred. That sounded like "To put the bad strangers in jail, couldn't. He was too thirsty. Too busy coyotes. He tried to see. Something was senor. Ah, we now are civilized. We have thinking about Bingo. Wondering whether moving, not far away. Moving 'round and a jail. If the bad strangers do not wish to the police ever came to this place, too. 'round him, making hungry yips. remain, the dclegado shoots ..." All night the coyotes yipped and Joe got Couldn't be coyotes. Nobody dead here. Quickly Joe said, "How can I get away thirstier. He lay down again, wondering where

from here?" He began to drive again at dawn to- Bingo was. Maybe Bingo would come . . . "The same road you came, senor. No? ward the tall mountains twenty miles now if Jimmie Cagney were in a spot

One other way only. Between the ahead. At this slow rate it would take like this . . . mountains there. The small road leads to four hours. Could he hold out that long? The coyotes closed in at dark. the desert. It is very hot. I have not been Could the cab do without water, even if there. But I hear that on the other side of he did? There was water in those moun- BINGO sat across the table from the the desert are cool mountains. Ah. there tains ... he tried to hurry. Then a rear yellow-haired girl with the dark stands the delegado. The man with the tire blew out. glasses and the expensive, crazy clothes, hat. He is looking at you." It took a long time to change. The jack who didn't really look very much like Joe even forgot to say, "Gracias, got too hot to touch. Joe's dry tongue Katie Joy, and the fat man with the shiny senor," he was in such a hurry. It took was beginning to swell. He'd have to bald head and dark sport shirt. "Who, the him a long time to reach the arroya that hurry. He thought again of Bingo. Nice taxi driver?" Bingo said. He laughed. led through the first mountains to the fellow. Bingo. He got the spare tire on at "How do I know what happened to him? desert, the ground was so rough. His last and started to drive. But before noon He run out, like I knew he would, poor motor was knocking plenty now. Trying the cab stopped. The radiator was dry. sap. And here's our thousand bucks. No, to kick a piston through its head. But the It wouldn't run again. Joe started to he'll not be back. Scared. But listen. I got delcgado was not following him. Joe walk. The mountains lay ten miles ahead. a new sucker lined up. Tomorrow night. couldn't see him, anyway. He kept look- He couldn't keep his mouth shut. His Same plan. Same place. Same empty ing back again. When he did get to the tongue kept popping out. Something was house. Same three shots. He's got lots desert it was a huge, blistering bowl, with happening to his eyes. After a little while of jack, too." bare rock ranges on three sides, and far to he couldn't see the mountains. He just "Bingo, you're wonderful," the girl the west a higher range, with woods show- kept on walking. said. "It's so easy and so safe. And ing on top. Walking, falling down, getting up. nobody ever gets hurt." He headed toward it, wishing he'd had Hot. yes. But he wasn't sweating. Funny, and If

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depends on this drawing Henry decides apparently forgotten that people like a is informed that he is in Class I, and to turn the garage radio on full blast. dance band occasionally and all they should report to a designated doctor for Announcers gush with excitement and supply is talk, talk, talk. physical examination immediately. Class there is a long wind-up before the first Five days after the lottery broadcast I, he knows, indicates that there is no capsule is fished out of the bowl. It is Henry gets a fat envelope in the mail. In reason why he should not be inducted into number 634. Henry runs the bolts down it is stuffed a long questionnaire which he the military service. If he were in Class on a cylinder head with a slight sigh of is directed to fill out. The questions puzzle II that would signify that he was en- relief. At least he won't be the first to go. him. Does he have a wife? Is she self- gaged in some necessary w-ork—like Other numbers are announced. But why supporting? What crops does he raise? making shells, building airplane engines, do they have to take so long? Henry is And how much of each crop? Did he file or running a combine on a highly mechan- impatient. Why not get it over with? an income tax last year and does he own ized wheat farm. Class III would mean Still, the papers said it would probably his own home? The questions seem sense- that he had a family dependent on him, take thirty-six hours. less to Henry but they all have bearing on and Class IV that he had a glass eye or a The drum rolls again, and the relief his availability for service. Once again cork leg. So Henry reports to the doctor announcer takes a hearty wind-up. He Henry fails to wonder how these ques- and has no difficulty in passing the will have another fateful number in a tionnaires were ready so quickly. He has physical examination. minute—a number which will force had no way of know-ing that months were Nine days later he is ordered to report thousands to do their patriotic duty, a spent on devising questions which would to camp—along with 333,330 other young number which will make soldiers out of extract a maximum amount of informa- American men. A scant 30 days after the is announced. It is tion that copies of the result- declaration of Henry Putty, garage them. The number ; and master war 800—Henry's number. ing questionnaire had been kept in every mechanic, has become Private Henry This moves him a few more feet to- state capital ready to go to the printer's Putty—possessor of an ill-fitting uniform ward the war which still seems terribly whenever M-Day arrived. and a pair of yellow shoes that pinch his remote. Everywhere now he sees war Two days after mailing his question- feet. He can never get it quite straight about him. Three-minute speakers break naire back to the Selective Service Board how these things happened to him so in on the movie program. The radio has which has miraculously sprung up, Henry rapidly. The answer, of course, lies in the

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 45 fact that all preparations had been made supplemented by correspondence courses. in advance to get Henry into the Army A National Guard officer can substitute with the greatest dispatch. home work for drill. Monthly bulletins Today, in a supposedly peaceful keep this skeleton organization constantly

America, there is a large group of men in touch with new problems as they arise. thinking in terms of war; of drafting The adjutant general and his staff millions of men into military service as have astonishingly detailed information painlessly and as quickly as possible. The about even the most remote backwoods Army learned a lesson in the World War counties: the reading habits of the people when a feverish appeal to patriotism and the publicity channels which will netted only 86,000 men in the first reach them. They know the number of month after the declaration. An army of men required for capacity production of 3,500,000 was needed. the West Virginia coal mines, and who The conscription act was the inspira- should therefore be "deferred;" and the tion of a tough young cavalry captain men necessary to keep Detroit machine who, after he had sold the idea to his James T. Brady shops rolling at top speed. They even chiefs in the hectic spring of 1917, shut 1891-1939 have lists of the number of three-minute himself for four days in a room in speakers that required in up The death on June 9th of James T. would be Washington's old Land Grant Building. Brady, Commander of the Department various localities. With a bottle of Scotch at one elbow and of the District of Columbia, removed a The 300-odd men in the permanent and a relay of stenographers at the other, he figure that had long been associated with ever-enlarging selective-service organiza- dictated, revised and re-dictated the The American Legion and with service tion are not blind to the fact that there is Mobilization Act of 1917 and its appur- to the veterans of the World War. Com- a more widespread and articulate anti- Brady's passing was without tenant provisions for conducting the mander war philosophy abroad in the land today warning, and he had continued his serv- draft. His name was Hugh S. Johnson. than there was in 1917. They are aware ice as Department Commander and in Setting up machinery necessary for that many people have read and heard a his official position as Solicitor of the conscription took time. Two months great deal of pacifist propaganda; that United States Veterans Administration elapsed between the declaration of war at the central office in Washington war has been depicted as a nefarious and the first registration. More months almost up to the hour of his death. enterprise; that there is such a thing as passed before green recruits could be Commander Brady was born at Hol- the Oxford Oath and other solemn com- taught the fine points of trench warfare. brook, Massachusetts, on November 18, mitments against bearing arms. More- Such valuable weeks will not be wasted 1891, and during the World War served over, there are thousands and thousands overseas as a corporal in the Coast another time. The Joint Army and Navy of others who, lacking any idealistic con- Artillery. He joined the staff of the War Selective Service Committee has taken victions about war one way or the other, Risk Insurance Bureau, now the United care of that. Once America decides to go are simply wedded to their creature com- States Veterans Administration, in Jan- to war it will go in a hurry. The six-man forts. don't want to live in tents, uary, 1919, and through successive pro- They officers from all board, composed of motion in an unbroken connection with wear uncomfortable uniforms or be shot branches of the military, has but one veteran service work for more than at by total strangers. function: to get all the men army and twenty years became Solicitor on Oc- If a person has ever harbored any navy chiefs say they need. tober 1, 1934, which position he had fugitive questionings about the pro-

From the central authority of the since occupied. priety of warfare, if he fancies himself a Cathe- board itself, organization extends down- He was a member of National pacifist of sorts, every facet of the ex- dral Post, of Washington, which Post ward to every county and hamlet in the pansive and expanding art of ballyhoo he served as Commander during 1937- country. Adjutants general, normally will be turned full force upon him. And 1938. He was elected Department Com- responsible to governors of the States, the likelihood is that by the time his mander on August 13, 1938. His admin- bridge the gap between the War Depart- comes in the draft he will istration, which was marked by great number up ment and the States themselves. In the fidelity and devotion, gave to him recog- have shed his petty idealism. legislature of at least one State a bill has nition as a champion of the cause of The agency which will cause this about- been proposed which makes the adjutant The American Legion, and he had be- face is the publicity organization. Local general answerable only to the War De- come one of its outstanding leaders. and state committees contain names of partment in times of war. If generally advertising and publicity men, publishers adopted, such bills would quickly convert of newspapers and magazines, radio and the country into a tight military dic- motion-picture executives, and well- tatorship whenever a national emergency known free-lances in the art of manipu- arose. taken by him after declaration of war. lating public opinion. These men consti- The efficiency of existing state organi- The men chosen to run the machinery tute a group within a group insofar as the zations depends largely on the activity of of the draft are carefully trained by the Selective Service Committee is con- the adjutant generals. Under them they Army. Each year they attend regional cerned. But with the arrival of M-Day have from four to sixteen highly trained conferences which are held in New they will detach themselves and set up key men, drawn from the National Guard Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago and the third unit in the great war-time and the Army Reserve. They have pre- Washington. For two weeks they discuss triumvirate, the Public Relations Board. pared pin maps of all voting places and ways and means of getting civilians This unit's assignment is to "sell the lists of election officials. They have maps quickly into uniforms. They rehash the country" on the other two, the War of locations and lists of men to sit on problems which will inevitably arise. Resources Board and the Selective Ser- Selective Service Boards. One of these Where are persons on forest reserves to vice Administration, to iron out any boards will be required for each 30,000 register? What punishments are provided obstacles of adverse public opinion to the population—approximately 6400 for the by courts martial? Would a person whose smooth flow of the two war-time essen- whole United States. On them will fall 2 1 st birthday coincided with the declara- tials, materials and man power. the responsibility for classifying regis- tion of war be required to register? Is it It is needless to catalog the multiple trants; for giving them the security of necessary for a declarant enemy alien to devices by which a reluctant citizen can Class IV or the travel orders associated withdraw his intention to become a citi- be "educated" to the point of making with Class I. zen in order to be placed in Class IV? him acquiescent to the demands of mili- "Day" charts in each adjutant gen- Things like that. tary service. George Creel, who essayed eral's office indicate the exact steps to be These four regional conferences are the task in {Continued on page 46)

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1917, must feel as he contemplates time and I've hung my head ever industry than older, better-trained men. the past that he had but crude and since ..." The group between 3r and 45 contains clumsy implements to work with. The purpose of all this is, of course, to 13,000,000 men, of whom only 2,000,000 Not only have the intervening years get men in a humor to go to war; to make will make soldiers. brought greater literacy and understand- it as painless for them as possible. One In the aggregate, the machinery al- ing to the masses, but radio and the im- officer expressed it a little more bluntly. ready set up is geared to produce 330,000 provement in all forms of communication "The job of publicity," he said, "is to men every 30 days; or 4,000,000 every have elevated propaganda to the status make men think they have the responsi- 12 months. of a major force. Take away Goebbels bility to push other men into recruiting All the plans so far drawn are neces- and you wouldn't have Hitler. Proscribe offices." sarily liquid, ready to meet conditions as the radio and Father Coughlin would be A great many people will escape this they change. Every few months new just another parish priest. Modern propa- dragnet because of family responsibilities flourishes are added to the Selective ganda, given a strong emotional objective or because of the need industry or agri- Service Law and changes are made in in which to set its teeth, is capable of culture has for them. If a man is an regulations. As they stand today plans almost any synthesis. A man will have to honest-to-goodness conscientious objector are in much the same condition as chilled be a stern and rugged individualist, (which up to now does not include takers water in a tray in an electric refrigerator: indeed, to resist the high-pressured of pacifist pledges or members of radical still fluid, but ready to freeze instantly appeals of M-l >ay. political parties) he will not be forced to into a rigid pattern. All this preparation The posters already drawn indicate bear arms. He will be placed in non- indicates that there is a strong tide of that the publicity division recognizes a combat service behind the lines. militarism under the normally placid higher level of national intelligence than What to expect in the way of manpower surface of a peaceful America. that which existed in 1917. Today most from all this effort is indicated by "yield" Henry Putty may contemplate, with people would refuse to believe in babies figures. These figures are kept for every whatever reactions are peculiar to him, skewered on bayonets, in breasts ampu- county. When expressed on a national the plans which have been made for him tated in the spirit of vengeance, or in scale they indicate that of the 12,000,000 to defend his homeland—and/or the women crucified on hastily devised men between the ages of 21 and 30 sanctity of American interests abroad. crosses. The posters drawn for the next war approximately 3,000,000 will be available The least he can say is that they are suggest an appeal to reason of the type for immediate service. Although there pretty complete, and that the generals used in the best institutional advertising. are only 3,000,000 boys between the ages don't seem to have forgotten anything Newspaper feature stories, however, have of 18 and 21, some 2,000,000 of them can including his possible feelings in the a familiar emotional ring. One will serve go to war. They are healthy, have fewer matter. to illustrate. It begins: "I didn't go last responsibilities, and are less valuable to

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The American Legion also pledges and that soil fertility be promptly rebuilt? acres of forest land, only 462 million acres help in regulating water essential for irri- In pledging assistance to rebuild as are capable of growing commercial gation, for domestic use, and for power, well as to protect forests, the Legion forests. It also indicates that about 73 and help in checking erosion of our helps this program. It also makes a tre- million of these acres have been so abused basic resource, the soil itself. mendously significant investment in that they are now virtually nonproduc- George Washington recognized that national security. For although the tive; that about 174 million of them, now tobacco was a land-punishing crop. He nation-wide forest inventory indicates bearing trees that are below saw-timber ordered it off the soil at Mt. Vernon. that we probably have enough forest land, sizes, are in general not heavily enough

Thomas Jefferson tried to prevent soil and that if care and forethought are stocked to produce what they can and erosion at Monticello by plowing around used there need be no excuse for a timber should; and that although 215 million instead of up and down the slopes. Today shortage of national proportions, it also acres—including our remaining virgin the open frontier of good, free land is indicates that on lands primarily suited forests—now bear trees big enough for gone. Approximately 55 percent of our to forest growth we need more and better saw-timber, annual drain of species and total land area has been either ruined, forests. And more and better forests will sizes commonly used for that purpose is seriously impoverished, or has had one- help increase the basic wealth of the greater than the annual growth of those fourth or more of its fertile top-soil nation. sizes and species. stripped away by erosion. The purpose of the nation-wide forest But the forest inventory also indicates Considering only our 610 million acres inventory, conducted by the Forest that the 73 million acres just mentioned of crop land, it is estimated that erosion Service, is to find out what forests we are still capable of producing commerci- has ruined or nearly ruined for practical have and where they are; how much ally valuable forests; that annual growth cultivation an acreage that approaches forest depletion there is, and how and can be speeded up on the 174 million the combined areas of Ohio, Illinois, where it takes place; what we need in the acres that now bear trees too small for Maryland, and North Carolina; one that way of forest products; how much forest saw-timber; that this area, and the 215 is equivalent to one and a quarter million growth we have and how much we can million acres that still have saw-timber farms of 80 acres each. And nearly 100 expect under real protection and manage- trees, are capable of producing much million acres more have been severely ment. more than they now do. damaged. Is it any wonder that this na- This inventory is not yet complete. These and related facts seem to point tion has begun to face the facts and to It is, however, far enough along to indi- to a way out for thousands of rural fam- insist that soil exploitation be stopped cate that although we have 630 million ilies suffering now for lack of work. Forest

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restoration and improvement of forest stands could provide work for some of these people. The one could make addi- Order of the Day! tional lands productive again; the other could increase growth, and the propor- tion of the more valuable species in the stand. The extent to which, through construc- tive and worth-while work, forest restora- tion and improvement of forest stands could create new wealth, is hinted at by recent investigations conducted in lob- lolly pine in Arkansas. Briefly, those investigations have determined that with the current average degree of understock- ing, an acre of loblolly pine there will, over a period of years, produce 4.5 times as much cellulose per acre per year ?s the average acre of cotton does. In other words, taking average Arkansas land on

which there is an ordinary stand of lob- lolly pine, selective cutting of the annual growth would produce 4.5 times as much cellulose per year as the same average Arkansas land would produce if it were plowed and put into cotton. It has further been determined that if the average Arkansas acre of loblolly pine land be fully stocked and in full production it will produce eleven times as much cellu- lose per acre per year as is produced on the average Arkansas acre of cotton. In presenting these figures I do not mean to imply that every acre of forest land in this country is capable of produc- The Big Drive is on by ing as much cellulose in as short a time as can be done in the South. That is obviously impossible, for growing condi- tions vary, as do opportunities for re- GREYHOUND turns, between regions and localities. But I do want to point out that commu- nities where forest lands are restored and THERE JUST isn't any excuse for not being improved may look thereafter for more in Chicago when the boys take over the stable and better standards of living town on the 25th of September. Hitch-hike if gained from the harvest of continuous you have to . . . but we'd suggest that a forest crops—if those crops are assured Greyhound trip costs scarcely more than shoe adequate protection and if they are not leather—and it's fast, comfortable, congenial "mined" on a quick liquidation basis.

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If our forests are to be conserved, such counties left desolate and entirely forlorn. to work out better conservation practices methods of cutting must be stopped. The American Legion has pledged itself and develop both natural and cultivated Owners "of forest land are receiving to the program of restoring and pro- land crops without depleting the soil. public aid in the way of fire protec- tecting our resources of soil, water, and And throughout the country land-use tion, help in replanting, and tax re- forests, and of using them so that re- programs are now being initiated by State vision to make easier the financing of plenishment and upbuilding rather than and county planning boards and conser- restoration. In exchange for such public depletion and destruction may go hand vation agencies in cooperation with the

aid as is now given, or may be extended, in hand with use. This is essential to any Federal Government. the owners of forest land should accept sound policy of national defense. Some This fight against fire and erosion, public regulation of cutting practices. rehabilitation work, already under way, against misuse and waste of natural re- If we are honest with ourselves, we is being done by young men enrolled in sources, is a constructive one. The work must admit that in the past America has the Civilian Conservation Corps. Federal will not only strengthen a badly-scarred lived off the fat of its land; that for more agencies like the Forest Service, the nation and provide useful, constructive than 150 years we have abused a heritage Agricultural Adjustment Administration, jobs during periods of economic depres- of soil and water and living things; that the Farm Security Administration, the sion, but will mean assured supplies of we are now paying for that abuse in terms Soil Conservation Service, and the Fed- raw materials for industry, more stable of denuded forests, of erosion and floods eral-State Extension Services, are also communities, and a nation truly prepared of reservoirs, rivers, and harbors choked at work. They are cooperating day by for any emergency whether it be in peace with silt, and of farms, communities, and day with farmers and other land owners or war.

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Antelope tore slickers apart, bound time to go all over them, but these maps willing to take twenty pokes from him wrists. Used dirty handkerchiefs and old seem to give their detailed disposition to get one good one in." machine-gun rags for gags. Tied the gags for defense. Sixteenth German division, He swayed, forcing his exhausted in place. that's the one opposite us all right. muscles to obey. Fought off an envelop- "Ready?" Joe asked. "Let's beat it Hanoverians. These must go right back ing dizziness. Oakley dropped his hands fast." They ran down the ravine. They to our division headquarters. I'll send a negligently to his sides, waiting for the knew the gags and bandages wouldn't detail. Now tell me, how did you gentle- rush he knew was forthcoming. But a hold long. They settled into a steady lope men capture them?" whizz-bang, started by the hand of some and headed what they thought was due Said Oakley, "We organized a patrol Hanoverian gunner, plumped close to south. In ten minutes, winded, they and kept going until— them at that moment and the lights came into a woods. They lay down. Schultz croaked: "Major, he had nud- went out for both.

Joe roused them. Took a compass dings to do with it. My lieutenant here, bearing southwest. They slogged through Choe McCracken, had der idear and led JOE came out from under ether to note the woods. Crossed a short open space. de party. He gits all der credit —all der with mild interest that someone was

Back into Les Forgettes again. Now they medals if any." happily employed at robbing him. This were nearing their own lines with a fine "And I'll sure make the recommenda- individual had just succeeded in slipping chance to be shot by pals. They crept. tion. I suggest you rejoin your outfit for the watch out of the rather tight small- At length a head raised in front of them. the present. Don't want to be optimistic pocket in Joe's pants and was holding it

A bullet cracked past Joe's head. but I understand we'll be relieved some- up by its chain to admire it.

"We're an American patrol!" he yelled. time tomorrow. Glad to know you, "Is it still keeping time?" Joe groggily "Who are you?" McCracken. Splendid piece of work." inquired and the hospital orderly, (for "Six Ninety-Third. Come in slow." The four shambled off in the darkness. that was what the individual was,) They did. Half a dozen doughboys "I've been calling you various names, answered aggrievedly but with a slight covered them. Oakley," remarked Joe at last. "But trace of embarrassment: "Just what I "Lead us to your major," gasped Joe. they've all been wrong. You're merely an was tryin' to find out, Buddy," dropped They took him a few yards to where a opportunist. You reach for the aces as the watch on Joe's chest and went his tall man lay prone. "I'm Major Buffing- every hand is dealt." way. ton," he wheezed. "What do you birds "Correct, McCracken. I'm no idealist. Joe realized then that he was back want?" I grasp. I'll gladly admit I did all I could among friends; in an American hospital "We don't want anything, major. We to beat you to that promotion. I'd have where pals looted cheerily at the same aim to give something. I'm commanding had you busted, too, if I could have put time they administered sedatives and the machine gun company working with it over. Frankly, I don't like you. And soup. He squirmed on his cot, getting a your battalion. McCracken's the name. let me add this: I welcome the chance to sharp jab in the left leg as he did so, and Four of us just visited over in Germany fight it out with you. I rated to be the sized up the scene about him. and brought back the opposing divi- best light heavy-weight in my class at He was in a room with some twenty sion's maps." college. And don't let any silly idea of other men, most of them completely un- "Oh, you did all that, eh? Let's see difference in rank restrain you, for the conscious, others stirring vaguely as was 'em, my boy." major put you in for promotion the other Joe. It seemed to be early in the morning; Joe dragged the papers out. Major night. I didn't get around to telling you." gray light was struggling through a small Buffington ducked under a blanket and "A better chance than this may never window at the far end. It was stuffy and snapped on a flash-light. He emerged. come. Stand back there, Schultz and the odor of anesthetics prevailed. Quiet, "Lad, you've got something! Haven't Antelope. I'm ready to take him on and except for groans and heavy breathing.

The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-.ini 0 49 Past events began to come to Joe. Crespy. Make any difference to you?" very sick. Just cantankerous. Guess he's He had been hit by a shell fragment a "Could you make it Crespy?" a right nice feller when you get to know couple of days ago and, after being out "Do my best." him." for a few minutes, had been able to drag "Don't ever believe that," advised himself into a shell hole and apply first AHOSPITAL train, American, poking Joe. aid out of his own kit, feeling for it in the its way through the French country- Another morning found them pulling darkness. Oh, yes, and a man named side. Joe was placed in about the middle into Crespy-sur-Saone. November fifth, Oakley had been hit at the same time of one of the cars. His was a lower bunk. Joe figured. Gangs of stretcher-bearers and had lain as if dead. Too bad if he was He dozed a good deal, lungs still clogged were waiting and plunged into the cars to and no chance to ever settle scores. with ether fumes, came awake to watch bring forth the wounded and load them Then medical detachment men, the orderly bustle about ministering to into ambulances. A glimpse of the old brought by Schultz, had helped him the various whispered and shouted de- familiar area around the station. A dash back to a station where stretchers mands. A patient orderly, this, calmly over the cobbled village street, then the awaited. German prisoners were doing the receptive of much abuse. open country. Joe's ambulance pulled carrying—contrary to the rules of land He brought Joe a tray—soup, scram- up before a dormitory, men rushed out warfare as Joe recalled. Rules! The shell- bled eggs, tea, jam. It tasted good. Joe to unload it. Joe quickly found himself in ing was brisk and on his painful journey ate slowly, lingering over each bite. a bed, soft, with chintz curtains at the back he expected to be hit again momen- "Where we going?" he asked the man windows, books and magazines piled on tarily. At the field hospital, tables. a great tent city, he had waited for hours as early EXT day Joe felt morning changed to high N'thoroughly at home noon and then the shad- and pleasantly was brought ows lengthened again. to realize that he was in- When he first came the deed back in the old, de- enemy had shared the lightful routine of Camp tent's shelter but as the Number Four. Breakfast hours wore on and more brought him awake, a tray and more wounded arrived being set gently on the the Germans were shoved table by his side, then the outside. Once a doctor aromas that mingled and hustled up to jab Joe's the cheery clatter and arm with a long horse- bustle of cutlery and dishes needle—serum against te- throughout the ward. A tanus. Another time a pri- smiling orderly wiped his vate brought weak and face and hands with a watery chocolate. Staring wash-rag, fluffed up the through the hours, Joe pillows, placed the tray be- noted how some of the fore him on the covers. It figures around him grew was a poem—eggs actually very still, their faces turn- boiled, crunchy bacon, de- ing chalk white. licious butter, biscuits, At length his turn had honey, and the coffee he come to be lifted into an had been dreaming of. ambulance. His leg was In the mid-morning a throbbing now. A jolting, sergeant came solicitously nerve-tearing ride to an- to his bedside, inquiring if other hospital. Midnight. all was well and what could A sudden stop in a court- Quite a character! He's spent years in this vicinity he do. He snapped his yard. Lights. Strong hands fingers and had a man seizing the stretcher and bring smoking supplies, laying him down in a room where scores when finally he came back for the tray. writing materials, magazines, shaving kit. of other men on stretchers already "Crespy, all of you in this car." Luncheon was a vision—a creamed waited. Joe grew excited. Good old Major soup hinting of mushrooms, liver and More hours and then the operating Hemingway, would he still be there? No, onions in proper and pleasing partner- table. A few deep breaths of ether—and busted undoubtedly by this time, by ship, parsley potatoes and buttered now he was here. Just as Major Heming- some meddling inspector. Too good, too beets and stuffed eggplant, the superla- way had predicted, another wound. But efficient, too human. tive coffee again—and then a lemon pie not, it seemed, in his pitching arm or his An arrogant voice, coming from an that began at the top with syrupy trombone fingers. Perhaps he'd get back upper bunk several yards forward, rose splashes and curlycues of brown and to Iowa, after all. above the clatter. worked down through creamy meringue,

A young doctor came up briskly, "This service is outrageous," it rasped. firm yet yielding filling and an ultimate favored him with a smile. "Believe me, I'll take pleasure in report- crust that crackled, broke and melted

"Well, are you all right? Your wound ing this train to the commanding general. as it touched the tongue. Ah, yes, Major is in the left leg, piece of shell fragment What a chuckle-headed orderly! You, Hemingway was still in command and went through just above the knee. Bone fellow, a lighted cigaret instantly or I'll furthermore must have realized his not touched, muscle apparently unin- prefer charges against you!" whilom ambition—snared a pastry ex- jured. They cut away a large area to When the orderly had brought the pert from the New Orleans field of in- prevent infection. We're so crowded cigaret Joe beckoned him over. fluence to add to his culinary all-star here we're going to send you back to a "Does it happen that the owner of that team. convalescent camp at once. You won't charming voice and disposition is down After lunch a light nap, from which do so badly." on your books as one Sedgwick Oakley?" Joe was aroused by a pair of orderlies "Do you know what camp?" asked Joe. bearing steaming basin, soap and towels. "Oh, Allerey perhaps, or Vichy, or "Why, yes, that's his name. He ain't Deftly they {Continued on page 50)

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{Continued from page 40) bathed him, rubbing off the grime and the hall. Should only be a couple more mind you—see where you come in? A erasing the strap-marks, but doing all days, the way your chow is building me stormy scene of denunciation, Madeleine gently. Then they whisked out clean pa- up." in tears. The guests arrive, Winwood jamas and a gayly-figured bathrobe. "Better than ever, isn't it? But Cad- comes late, just released from the guard- After they had gone Joe shaved, working wallader's story concerns —are you quite house under false suspicion of robbing a creamy lather in the hot basin. A douse comfortable?—an American doughboy the company fund— a German spy dis- of toilet -water. A cigaret. A luxurious who falls in love, in billets, with a French guised as the chaplain has brought that sinking-back into the heaped-up pillows demoiselle." about—and Old Anton orders him out. and a lazy reach for a magazine. "1 hope he's kept it clean." Madeleine screams. Guests insist the His attention was attracted by an "As a hound's tooth. Her father is an hero show his stuff—most of them derid- electric buzz of excitement that ran artist, an academician of the old school ing him. But Corporal Winwood breaks through the room. W hispers of "Here he who loves the finer things. Reluctantly out his trombone, asks his pal Moriarity comes!" Craning of necks. The door he accepts Madeleine's estimate of the to accompany him on the spinnet and swung open before the arm of a snappy American soldat, Russell Winwood. The brings them to tears with his rendition sergeant who stepped stiffly over the first act curtain is where the girl shyly of—" threshold, threw back his shoulders and brings Russell into the salon her father "The song you told me about." barked: "Attention!" He was followed maintains, presents him and plays a "Exactly. And Madeleine joins in with immediately by a beaming, portly and ballad for the assembled company." her lyric soprano." unmilitary figure who chirped "At ease, "Please go on, sir." "Who plays Madeleine?" gentlemen," and swept down the aisle. "There are of course numbers of super- "A nurse—good, too. Then the whole Major Hemingway! Major Otis J. numeraries—soldiers, peasants, artists, scene swings to a smashing climax that Hemingway, Medical Corps, commanding. models, village folk. The second act is fair brings you out of your chair." Late of attached service with the British full of bustle and atmosphere and color. "Is it in rehearsal, major?" army where he had learned how to do It is here that old Anton learns that the "No, no, we're just casting. Jennifer one's self well. Now the premier pamperer American, Winwood, is not a great is directing and Shoemaker is conducting and all around swell guy of the A. E. F. musical artist as his daughter has told the orchestra. But picture the coinci- He waved a cheery hand to the others, him but the player of a trombone in an dence—Cadw? allader knowing nothing called out names, but it was to the cot American dance orchestra. A trombone, about you but writing a part that abso- of Joe McCracken that he hurried. He lutely demands you play it. And then grasped Joe's hand off the coverlet, shook you back here, providentially. Joe, it paternally while he sat down at bedside you're elected." on a chair that a ready orderly shoved The major was beaming. Joe felt he forward. hadn't the heart to refuse. After all why "Joe, you're back just in time. Bad not? The rehearsal would while away flesh wound, I hear, but far from danger- many a tedious hour. ous. Oh, I'm delighted you found your "Put me down for the lead, then, major, way to Number Four. Felt sure you to the best of my ability. And ask Jenni- would. Warned you not to leave here, fer to bring me a trombone so I can start you'll remember. We have great plans practicing." afoot and we need you." "Pitching arm's still okeh, major." IT WAS the tenth of .November. Late "Oh yes, that. We'll have a ball club evening. Supper was over—roast all right next spring, good enough for the mutton with capers, chef's salad, pine- . But it's this autumn I'm apple pudding and Stilton cheese—and thinking about. We're doing a play, a the cast of "Love in Flanders" were musical comedy." gathered in a little alcove off the big "Not The Merry Widow, I trust, recreation room, going through their major." lines, learning cues and trying out busi- "Heavens no, Joe. An original. An ness. There had been changes and re- absolute knock-out. It happened like arrangements. Whole pages of dialogue this: just after you insisted on leaving had been rewritten by Cadwallader, and by the way McGuffey flunked out sometimes under extreme pressure, to be miserably at your trombone solos, had sure; entire scenes had been recast and to be dropped from the orchestra, in complete musical numbers excised. But fact I sent him back to Bordeaux—well, it was taking shape, believe Major Hem- a lad was sent here from Toul convales- ingway for that, and seemed to have the cing from mustard. After a night or two earmarks of a hit. in the big hall this man Cadwallader Joe had fitted snugly into the part of dropped in to see me and proposed we Corporal Winwood. Cadwallader ad- put on our own musical comedy. He had mitted fate had cast him for it and Jenni- the plot all sketched out and quite a few fer was happy over the coincidence. The of the lyrics. I called Jennifer in and he Madeleine of the piece was a Miss Edna started on the music. Say, you'll go in- Ellenberg, army nurse, not a chicken by sane over their waltz, 'Till we meet again, any means but petite, trim of figure, im- Madeleine, by the banks of the River pudent of face and fair of voice. In fact,

Seine.' I'll have Jennifer drop in ami sing she could warble a right mean soprano, it for you." Joe decided, and did not mind at all his "I can wait, I think, until I get over to scenes opposite her.

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The bits had been taken care of finally: for the cue, then romped through an Anton (rising): You are then an officer Father Merceau, the good village cure; imaginary door and up to the startled of the Armee Americaine?

Monsieur the Mayor of the town of Papa Anton. They played the scene: W'ixw oon: Xo, sir. nol an officer, I am

Donedon; the village gossip; the matronly Madeleine (suddenly shy) : Papa, afraid. But in our land all are in one proprietor of the boulangerie; the crip- you have wondered what ze Americains great brotherhood, officers and men alike, pled French provincial sitting on the were like. Zis gentleman I have met and I, sir, am proud to say that I am a street corner; the Yank captain; the through ze good cure and he has con- corporal. brusque top kick; the mousy company sented to call. Madeleine: (Continued on page 52) clerk, the spy-chaplain; the old French sculptor, crony of Papa Anton; the models, the artists, the midinettes. Nurses and Y girls had taken the feminine "THEHURTLINGMONSTER parts. But one male part had defied proper filling—Papa Anton himself, dour, crusty, haughty. Two aspirants had been found wanting. ROARED STRAIGHTATME! They were running through the third scene of Act One—where Joe as Winwood is left alone, after the departure of the company for drill, to work out a pay- roll for the captain. Set: village green- sward with ancient elm upstage; table down center; orchestra, off, softly ren- dering a reprise of the theme song. Madeleine trips on, sees Winwood, does startled fawn effect. F. L. Brownell Winwood: (rising) Is there something Licensed Guide I can do for you? Adirondack Forest "One dark night," writes Mr. Brownell, "I had to cross Madeleine: Non, non, monsieur, Preserve Q Fourth Lake in a canoe. The utter silence gave one the nozzing for me, I do not know je ne — feeling of being a million miles from civilization. nais pas—zat anyone is here. Winwood: Only me, madame. Madeleine: Mademoiselle, s'il vous plait. Winwood: Mademoiselle, of course. The others, my good companions, have departed At this point Director Jennifer came into the scene, apologized and asked for a recess.

"That's okeh," he said. "Mind if we skip the rest of it now? Fact is, we've just lined up a new candidate for Old Papa Anton and I'd like to give him a quick try-out. Can we run him in now I "About halfway across, the night was Q "The hurtling monster was roaring and the three of you try the final scene shattered by the roar of a powerful motor. straight for me! The pilot couldn't hear in Act One where Madeleine brings Win- Two specks of light, which rapidly grew my shouts. I made a frantic grab for the wood home for Papa's inspection?" larger, came towards me — a seaplane flashlight beside me. Just in time, the Miss Ellenberg and Joe said no, they which had been anchored on the lake! pilot saw its bright flash. didn't mind at all, and Jennifer went out to bring in the new Papa Anton. It was Sedgwick Oakley. Joe hadn't seen him since the night they started toward each other, only a few days ago although it seemed ages, up at the edge of the Bois des Forgettes. True, he had heard his voice on the hospi- tal train. The etiquette of the occasion seemed to demand some recognition. Joe bowed, although stiffly, and Oakley nodded in return.

"Let's run through it quickly," Jenni- fer suggested. "Lieutenant Oakley here has learned the part and understands the ^) "The plane shot aside as it took the air, missing my canoe by what seemed like inches! I think I can truthfully say that those character. All right, let's start now where 'Eveready* fresh DATED batteries saved my life. I'll tell the Anton is seated before the fire in his world I'll never be without them in my flashlight. It just doesn't quaint old studio. He is busy with his pay to take chances. (Signed) F reveries." LONG L> / Oakley took up the pose. Buried his BATTER' head in his hands. Studied an imaginary blaze on the hearth. No question, he FRESH BATTERIES LAST LONGER...^^^ DATE-MI** looked the part—the lean, aristocratic old Anton, jealous of his daughter's good NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY, INC., 30 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. name. Joe and Miss Ellenberg waited Unit of Union Carbide MHj and Carbon Corporation

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(giggling): Le Petit Caporal, n'est cet the eleventh month, the Armistice will major, asking more details. He climbed pas? begin. That means that twenty millions down from the table and gave them. Men Anton: Petit? Non. Gros. But sit of mothers can breathe a prayer of grati- ran up and asked him, grinning, for leave down, my friend, and tell me about tude instead of supplication. Think of it and he said yes. Knots started off for your home countree. the war ended." the village. Other knots talked it over, Winwood: Very well, sir. I shall. I A rasping cheer came from some one, growing more excited. Some went to send was born an abortive college yell; then desultory cables home. Others to write letters. The But here Captain Jennifer interrupted hand-clapping, then silence again. noise increased. Some were silent in cor- again and asked them to try the scene "I have here the terms of the armistice ners as if thinking—or praying. over. "You've got it all right," he told as announced in the General Order sent Joe, wandering about, dazed by the Oakley, and nodded enthusiastically to out to all unit commanders tonight. news, met Sedgwick Oakley face to face.

Joe. "You've got the right touch. But Several days ago, it seems, Marshal "How bad were you hurt?" he asked

let's do it again, once more, to be sure." Foch and the German envoys met and coldly. An orderly dashed into the room. arranged terms— Foch gave the terms "Splinter through my shin. And you, "Pkase, quick, gentlemen," he gasped. McCracken?" "Major Hemingway's just come into the "Same, left leg. Armistice or not, big hall and has called for complete at- Turning the mid-year with a paid musical comedy or not, I'll never forget tention. He asks that you all come out 193 9 membership of one million the dirty trick you did me." 80,000 ahead of the enrollment of a there at once." "Don't blame you. Suggest we get our year ago—The American Legion has excited, impatient it out." The cast —smiling, definitely made its second highest mem- strength back, then have —trooped after the orderly. The big hall. bership record. When the Twenty-first "It won't take me long." Five hundred men were gathered there National Convention opens in the city "Nor me. Another two weeks, say?" of Chicago on Sept. 2 5 th the delegates the orchestra that occupied the raised "Plenty." will represent a membership topping the inner fringe of de- platform up front; the million mark—and may even exceed voted listeners; the outer fringe of card- the highest record of 1,053,909 rolled THANKSGIVING Day and that players, readers, writers, mere conversa- up in 1931. Chicago, too, is expecting night would see the premiere of to make a new record in convention tionalists. Five hundred American offi- "Love in Flanders." All Camp Number attendance and entertainment of dele- shavetails to lieutenant-colonels, those were in the cers, gates and visitors. The dates are mark Four was agog, who in various stages of recovery from gas, them down—September 2 5th to 2 8th. play and those who would comprise the gun shot wounds, pneumonia; now audience. After all, days were tedious cheerily on the mend, appreciative of the despite the tender ministrations of Ma- egregious hospitality of Major Heming- and they listened. Now they have ac- jor Hemingway, hearts were yearning way. cepted, yielding utterly. Under the armis- more and more for the Old Gal on Bed- They were all attention: waiting. The tice terms the enemy is forced to immedi- loe's Island, and even an amateur musi- musicians were stilled, the card-players ately evacuate all French and Belgian cal comedy was welcome distraction. The quiet, the talkers repressed. They real- soil, free all prisoners, and surrender to cast were letter-perfect and business- ized that something portentous was in the Allies 5000 field guns, 30,000 ma- perfect, the orchestra on a fine edge. the air. It was unusual. Major Heming- chine-guns, 2000 airplanes, 10,000 trucks, In mid-afternoon, Joe McCracken way did not interrupt the after-supper 5000 locomotives—the list is endless. The went to the postoffice and found three hour without grave cause. victory is complete. Tomorrow at eleven letters: one from his folks, one from He stood now on a table in the center in the morning. Think of it —peace at Rosemary and one from his faithful of the room, under the great lamp. He last." platoon sergeant, Gus Schultz. He re- was peering around at them, fixing them The five hundred turned toward each tired to his room to read them. with his eyes, waiting impatiently for other. Men clapped other men on the Adhering to an old boyhood custom complete silence. It came in a sudden back. One or two shouted, then scores. of leaving the frosting to the last, he par- hush of tenseness. Major Hemingway It reminded Joe of a poorly-organized took first of the missive from the family. began to speak: celebration on the field after a football It acknowledged his reassuring cable "Gentlemen, I bring you tidings of the victory. A group gathered at the piano. sent just after he returned to Crespy. most tremendous importance. This mo- Someone got the orchestra to play "Ar- "Papa sends love, too, and he is so proud ment is historical. Never, for my part, mentieres." They changed that to "Long, of you. He says business is unusually will I ever utter words so meaningful Long Trail." Men crowded around the good. Last week, he sold the old Ellis as these. Listen, place to Mr. Car- and do not miss a penter for $12,000 syllable of what I and it looks as if a say. It affects your LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE boom has started lives and futures, Karl Detzer, Leelanue County Post, Leland, Michigan. out in the direction that of your famil- Frank Street, Sergeant Clendenon Newell Post, Leonia, New Jersey. of the Yandover ies, your country, Warren H. Atherton, Karl Ross Post, Stockton, California. Road, Farm land the world. Gentle- James E. Darst, St. Louis (Missouri) Post. is still booming and men, the Great War J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. papa says— has come to its Jimmy Dykes, Russell Goss Post, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Next, Sergeant end." A. A. Sprague, Harold A. Taylor Post, Chicago, Illinois. Gus: "First off, A gargantuan Joseph J. Gleeson, Allied Post, Ford City, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Choe, gasp ran around Harry Townsend, Frank C. Godfrey Post, Norwalk, Connecticut. I want to tell youse the room. Earle C. Jameson, Sawtelle (California) Post. how glad we all ''Tomorrow V. E. Pyles, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. was you wasn't morning, at the Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion killed by that shell naires, are not listed. eleventh hour of but it seemed Oak- the eleventh day of ley wasn't killed,

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53 too, so the boys didn't celebrate too in a short time now to embark for home. impatiently through the mob, elbowed much. Did you hear Major Headley lost Joe took a shower, shaved, strolled to himself a place at a table, called for San- his mind? Yes, real nutty, yes, from the the big hall. The pre-supper crowd was derson. Joe, pulse quickening, walked to exposure they say. Before he goes back excited. Joe asked what was up. the curtain and looked out through the though he puts you in for permotion and "Some of us may be going home. peep-hole. Chairs almost filled. A joshing, the captain—dot's Captain Biggers, yet, Hemingway got some orders today." happy, exuberant crowd. The rumor of you don't know him, he come up after Joe, with Jennifer and Ike Morgan, going home excited them like heady der Armisteece and tells us how our shoes went in for an early supper. Even tastier wine. Ten minutes to curtain time. ought to be better shined—he says your than usual in honor of the occasion: "Joe McCracken!" Someone called permotion ought to stick this him. He turned. Major Hem- time. But who can say in this ingway was waiting. nutty war? Maybe yet they "Joe, I've good news for you. prefer charges against you for Your orders have come getting hit and you'll end up yet through." a private, first class. And, oh, "What orders?"

yess, I got it straight from the "To go home." infantry mess sergeant that the "Do you mean it?" infantry major—Bufhngton, it "Of course. You must leave was—has recommend you for tonight as soon as the play is some kind of medal. For that over. A truck will take you and patrol you take us on. I hope thirty-two others to Chalons

you get it. Hurry and get well where you can make connec- and come join us up in Ger- tions for Bordeaux. You'll catch many. Lots of my cousins here, the Firenze. Back in New ha-ha. They ain't bad fellers. I York in twelve days. In your tell you we sleep and eat better Iowa bailiwick in two more. I since de Armisteece. So hurry hate to see you go, Joe. You're back, join us. Good-bye and the kind makes a war liveable." good-luck. P. S. That rat "You're describing yourself. Oakley he didn't do nothing Major — to a tee." much except prefer charges "I tried to be a human being." against me for insubordination 4* "You sure as hell succeeded." because I wouldn't let him claim "Give 'em a swell performance credit for our rsid. Preferred tonight, Joe. At final curtain, charges before they carried him report at the camp P. C, and back. I guess they take two- "Ahoy, there—man overboard!" pick up the truck. There'll be a thirds my pay, eh?" lot of confusion, then. If I don't Joe put the letter down and see you again—best." boiled. Good old faithful Gus charged roast duck, sage dressing, creamed celery, "Best to you, major. Swellest medico with insubordination because he wouldn't baked tomatoes, apple dumplings, cam- ever felt a pulse." They shook hands. stand for a lie! embert. A cigaret or so and then to don First call. Jennifer dashing about. Well, Joe felt he was about ready for costume. They took a look at the stage. Cadwallader in the wings, pawing over the Oakley. His strength had almost entirely First act set in place. Curtain and foots script. Stage crew in place. Set okeh. returned. His wind was good. Generally working. Already, beyond the curtain, Props okeh. Cue goes to the orchestra. unobserved he had, for the last two weeks, a small crackle of voices, early-comers Music chops. Curtain up. Quick hush in undertaken steady roadwork, had shadow- taking the front-row seats. audience. The swaggering top-kick and boxed. A course of setting-up exercises Joe put on his corporal's uniform the mousy company clerk walk on. "Love had put his muscles on edge. And he had Winwood, the hero. Sanderson, the make- in Flanders" has started. another ace up his sleeve: he had gone to up man, put a healthy flush on his Through the first act. Joe comes on to the other side of the camp to enlist the cheeks, gave him good, beetling eye- a heartening ripple of applause, begins tutelage of a corporal who knew all the brows. Miss Ellenberg hurried in, breath- his business of joshing the company secrets of jab and poke. Joe had studied less, and retired into the girls' alcove. clerk. Gets bawling-out from hard-boiled hard. The bit part players strolled by—village sergeant. Captain asks who can handle He opened Rosemary's letter: "I was cure, mayor, gossip. It was seven-thirty. pay-roll now that company clerk is so thrilled to get a letter from you and to The curtain would rise at eight. quarantined, selects Winwood. Rest of read how you went over the top—is that Now the orchestra. A great bustling as company marches off to drill while our what you call it?—and got shot at and fiddles were lifted from cases, horns un- hero works under elm. Madeleine comes everything. My, how scared you must limbered. Tootlings and scrapings, the on, shyly. Acquaintanceship ripens. In- of been except I guess you soldiers don't running of scales. Thumbing of G- terest. The new-found friends go to call get scared like we—us—back here. My, strings, and tightening of E's. Exodus on Papa Anton. Joe played the scene I do hope they give you a medal, like of musicians, out front, more tuning, with rising distaste for Oakley. you say they promised. Will you let me coming faintly now from behind the cur- Act Two. Papa Anton finds that Cor- look at it, if you do get one, and will you tain, then the crash of the first notes of poral Winwood is not the great artist his tell me all about how you won it? Things the overture. Joe's heart skipped a beat daughter has implied but merely a jazz- pretty quiet here. Mama gave me a party or two in spite of him. It was exciting to band trombone player. The assembled for my eighteenth birthday but there was go on. These tunes that Jennifer, Cad- guests insist on Winwood showing his only a few of us kids and old friends of wallader and others had concocted stuff. He obliges with that heart-search- the family to attend. So glad you liked sounded really thrilling. Tuneful, too. ing ballad, "Till We Meet Again, Made- my sweater and are wearing it. Please He wouldn't go up in his lines. Miss Ellen- leine, By the Banks of the River Seine." write again. I can hardly wait to see you berg was a good trouper, damned good Joe put all he had into the rendition and you are simply marvelous!" for a nurse. Oakley. An ordeal to play made the old trombone moan and giggle It would be good to get back. See the opposite that basket tonight when he'd and cha-cha. Swell stuff. 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(Continued from page jj) minutes before—swell the chorus. Or- thing good old Major Hemingway ever By my side now is one of these excep- chestra up full. Ensemble back against did. Hurrah for the major. Hurrah for tions. I've been spoiling to get a crack at the studio drapes. Slow curtain on a full the author. H'ray for the cast. him for personal reasons, but chances are and high note. The curtain calls started. Joe waited I'd have let it go. But today I learn he Third set. The German spy, disguised in the wings, more excited than he cared dirty-tricked the squarest-shooting man as a chaplain, is arrested and Winwood to admit, for his turn. He and Madeleine I know, my platoon sergeant, Gus cleared of the baseless charge he has em- took a bow. Then he and the tough Schultz. For that I'm socking one Sedg- bezzled company funds. Papa Anton sergeant. Now Madeleine and her father wick Oakley in the nose—right now." melts under Madeleine's tears and per- — Papa Anton—Oakley. Yes, there he Joe socked. Oakley threw up his left. mits her a last rendezvous with the hero. was. The bird who had spiked his pro- Joe closed in. Oakley feinted, swung a But the captain and the tough first-ser- motion, tried to get him blooeyed, tried mean right upper-cut. Man could box. geant have a piece of news and draw up to steal his credit. But, most of all, the Joe called tactics, ducked, closed. Backed the entire company to witness the pres- son-of-a -bishop who had preferred charges away. Led with his left, feinted again, entation to Winwood of the Distin- against good old Gus Schultz. And now came over with his right br.ck of Oakley's guished Service Cross. Papa Anton breaks he would go scot-free. Soon as the show ear. Quick right again, to point of jaw. down. Big scene. Hands-across-the-seas was over, farewell for Joe. No more Oakley crumpled. Joe stepped close. stuff. Blessings on the two young folk. chance to see Oakley again. Sunk his left into the center of Oakley's Reprise. And the mousy corporal breaks Continued applause. Curtain up again. stomach as he went down. in with the information that Winwood is Jennifer beckoning. Joe and Oakley now. They had forgotten to bring down the really the heir to one of the great fortunes From opposite wings they came to the curtain. It drifted down now. Roars of Les Etats Unis. Bring out the wine. center. Spots on them. Bows. Joe, heart from the other side. Joe dashed for the V illage characters in. Cure beaming bene- pounding, held up a hand. dressing room. Stripped off the costume. diction. Old soldat clapping old gossip on "Fellows, the show is over. Major Washed away the make-up. Uniform back. Midinettes dancing. Yanks roaring Hemingway— God bless him— tells me again. Overcoat. A rush through the chorus. Up orchestra again. All lights on. that as soon as this ends, thirty of us crowd, claps on back, yells, waves. A run Every voice in high. Slow, oh very slow, catch a truck to Chalons, make a train for down the street to the camp headquar- curtain. Bordeaux, then home. Just another word: ters. A waiting truck. A quick hoist Then the applause. Deafening. Best most of us met a greater majority of swell aboard. Engine purring. Let's go. Off for show A. E. F. ever saw. Best stunt old fellows in this man's army. But once in a Chalons, Bordeaux, home. Camp Number Four ever pulled. Best thousand times we ran up against a rat. The End D\(eyer ^4gain?

(Continued from page n) any rate he was not a selfish isolationist. who neither intervene in their neighbor's make in this way the greatest possible The truth is that the word "isolation" quarrels nor shout denunciations through contribution to the cause of civilization. clamors for definition. Those who use it the keyhole, then the term is descriptive It is something more than a coincidence should explain clearly just what they mean. of one of the most desirable traits of that the Franklin Penny,* the first coin

If the term is applied to one whose of- civilized man. To talk with owl-like minted under the authority of the United fense is that he does not agree with his solemnity about the futility of "isola- States, carried upon its face this homely critic on some matter of policy, the critic's tion" is neither creditable to the talker and sagacious injunction: "Mind Your argument is not helped by a mere repe- nor convincing to his hearers. Business." It would be reassuring if tition of the word. The true question is, If, as a result of the disillusionment Congress were today to authorize the what is the policy under discussion and which followed the World War we first minting of a new coin bearing the slogan is it right or wrong? If, on the other hand, determine that our proper policy is to "Never Again." the term denotes the decent reserve of a make America strong and to shun war *8ee Resolution of Congress (under the Articles of well-bred family in an apartment house, unless we are attacked, we are likely to Confederation) July 6, 1787. c Ready?^We'd "Better "Be

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prohibitive. Awakened at last to our unprepared- distinct advantage against a hostile force foreign navy would be To to subject it to ness, the people of the United States whose bases must necessarily be 4000 divide our fleet would be superior demand an adequate defense. or more miles away. If at the start of destruction piecemeal by a therefore The American Legion asks for a navy hostilities our Navy were on the Pacific force. The Panama Canal must impregnable so that our fighting "second to none." Naval authorities agree side, it could pass through the Panama be made keep together as one battle that if the Panama Canal is kept open Canal quickly enough to operate against fleet may ever that both the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts any navy threatening attack from the unit. The chance that we would can be defended against any foreseeable East. Operating from a base on the Canal, have to engage foes on the Fast and West with a fleet as attack, by such a navy. No nation can in the West Indies or on the North At- simultaneously, each is slight as to safely move against our Pacific Coast lantic Coast, the Navy would have the powerful as our own, so without first gaining command of the same advantage as in the Pacific engag- be negligible. not dare invade our sea. A navy second to none, with bases ing an enemy separated by long distance An enemy would established nearby in Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, and from its supporting base. The cost of two mainland until he had this without on the Pacific Coast, would operate with navies each equal to the strength of any land bases. He could not do The AMERICAN LEGION Maea-ine —

55 assembly of transport, troops and sup- plies, which would require months. When You Go Conventioning On our Atlantic Coast an attempt at invasion would be flanked by our posi- tions in the West Indies and our fleet based on them. In the Pacific he could not come inside a line from the Aleutians to Hawaii to the Canal, without exposure * to encirclement. A major attack cannot T ^ therefore be made upon our nation until our Navy has been defeated and our off- shore bases captured. Present plans of the War Department call for a Regular Army of 200,000 and a troops this year. Flagships serve the National Guard of 210,000. These r ;No matter how far fort away you live, your trip nation — coast to coast! Giant are to be fully equipped with modern to Chicago by Flagship 21-passenger club planes, lux- weapons and ready for immediate mobili- will be brief, restful, urious Skysleepers. Complimen- stewardess service. zation. These forces are to be augmented stimulating, economical! And it's tary meals, the quickest way home after the Ask your Travel Agent or phone in ninety with 600,000 citizen soldiers big show's over! Travel in com- American's nearest office. days. Reserves of arms, ammunition and supplies sufficient to enable this army to take the field are to be established. One million men should be enough to re- pel any invasion we can visualize right now. Our Army is still equipped with World War rifles. The Garand automatic rifle which would increase the fire power of infantry units five-fold has been ap- proved. To date, however, production has been in small quantities only. Our army artillery is also still using World War weapons. Some of these have been modernized but many more are still horse-drawn equipment. anti-aircraft units and AIRLINES Highly effective AMERICAN fast tanks have been developed experi- ROUTE OF THE FLAGSHIPS mentally but have not yet been produced in any quantity. Better progress has been made in bring- ing our air arm to a high state of effi- AGENTS ciency. Six thousand planes for the Army Free for Asthma and 3000 planes for the Navy have been authorized. Provision has been made for During Summer the training of aviation cadets and re- MONEY MAKING OUTFIT suffer terrible attacks of Asthma when it is serve pilots in sufficient number to man If you with those Prove to yourself the it 103 hot and sultry; if heat, dust and general mugginess make you mom- v -milking possibil of my sure-fire Plan. Com- of personnel as if gasp for breath was the very last; the new ships. Expansion wheeze and choke each plete Outfit. Including if restful sleep is impossible because of the struggle to breathe; large assortment of full implement bases and ground facilities size packages — FREE to if you feel the disease is slowly wearing your life away, don't Over 200 national!; has been authorized. fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial known, guaranteed of a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether home necessities Fast sellers; quiet Our Merchant Marine is being brought you have any faith in any remedy under the Sun, send for this repeaters. Full or free trial. If you have suffered for a life-time and tried every part time. Make out of its comatose condition. No ocean- money at once and all thing you could learn of without relief; even if you are utterly year 'round. Liberal constructed discouraged, do not abandon hope but send today for this free credit. Old reliable going commercial ships were company. Write trial. It will nothing. Address cost you quick for my Free in the United States for 15 years after Offer. E. J. Mills, Frontier Asthma Co. 254-D Frontier Elder. 7902 Monmouth 1922. During this period American ships 462 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y. Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio became outmoded, many were laid up and their crews dispersed. New ships of modern design with skilled, disciplined and loyal personnel were vitally needed YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? in peacetime to serve the public interest Is the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was and to provide reserve strength for our mailed correct for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail nation in time of war. In time of war a THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine is cannot rely upon the ships of nation new address other countries to supply its navy and Name armies and to maintain its commerce. ( PLEASE PRINT) The Maritime Commission has com- 1939 membership card no menced the construction of much needed modern vessels at the rate of fifty per Address year. It has also opened schools to train City State personnel in the fundamentals of sea-

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The War Department has made studies of the Hepburn Board for naval air bases Battleships, arms and munitions will to determine requirements and to fix in Alaska, the Mid-Pacific and the Carib- not alone be enough to insure the safety standards and specifications. Surveys bean, for two super-dreadnoughts, for of democracy; without the support of a have been conducted upon which to cruisers, destroyers, submarines, an air- loyal citizenry the most modern of death- base an orderly allocation of produc- craft carrier and auxiliary vessels, for dealing weapons cannot save our nation. tion; sample orders are being awarded construction work at naval bases, for The American Legion must continue its to familiarize industry with manu- acquiring reserves of manganese, rubber, leadership in developing appreciation for facture of wartime materials and to tin, and other strategic materials not the advantages of American citizenship. bring about the tooling-up necessary obtainable in the United States, for in- Legionnaires mindful of our privileges for production. The creation of re- creasing the personnel of the Army and must ever teach loyalty. Our organiza- serves of critical wartime materials National Guard, for CMTC and ROTC tion must build love of country into an has been authorized and provided for. training and for the general maintenance impregnable moral force in defense of This widespread procurement program of the Army and Navy. liberty. should minimize profiteering and facili- The construction of ships, depots In the language of Lord Baldwin, for- tate maximum production in case of need. and bases has already begun. The manu- mer prime minister of Britain, "The The 76th Congress authorized the facture of armament and ammunition strength of a nation consists in the vitality greatest expenditure for national defense has been commenced. The letting of edu- of her principles. Policy, foreign as well of any peacetime Congress. Authoriza- cational orders and the acquirement of as domestic, is for every nation ulti- tions and appropriations total more than reserves of critical materials has started. mately determined by the character of two and a half billion dollars. Provision The long educational program of The her people and the inspiration of her was made for expanding the Army Air American Legion is bearing fruit. The leaders; by the acceptance in their lives Corps to 6000 planes, for the training of greatest peacetime defense program of and in their policy of honesty, faith, and pilots, for educational orders to give pri- the United States is under way. The year love as the foundations on which a new vate industry experience in manufactur- 1040 will find us sufficiently well pre- world may be built. Without these quali- ing materiel and munitions, for strength- pared to defend our people and our pos- ties, the strongest armaments, the most ening Panama Canal Zone defenses, sessions to cause the brashest of bullies elaborate pacts only postpone the hour for carrying out the recommendations to respect our rights. of reckoning."

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Italian patriot who rendered outstanding first-aid methods by physicians and com- thing ought to be done to immunize service to the cause of American inde- petent instructors. All our groups are Past Commanders against the character- pendence, has set a youth activity pro- fully uniformed. The girls have full Red istic malady which ordinarily strikes gram for itself that is eminently worth Cross uniforms; the boys in the drum and past executives after a term in office. A while. Commander Paul P. Rao writes: bugle corps are dressed in military style two-section ritual was written and re- "Colonel Francis Vigo Post has four with scarlet jackets and hats and royal hearsed—the first section takes the candi- junior divisions—junior drum and bugle blue trousers. The boys in the cadet date, designated as a crab, through an corps, junior army cadet corps, junior corps are dressed in the regular uniform impressive ceremony; he assumes an naval cadet corps, and junior Red Cross of the service. oath to support the Constitution of the division—in all approximately four hun- "Colonel Francis Vigo Post is doing United States, the Constitution of The dred children are enroled in these estab- everything in its power to foster and to American Legion; to attend the meetings lished units. Above all these young people make better citizens for the world of to- of the local Post, and to practice frater- are taught that there is only one flag morrow." nity among all past and future Com- to honor and respect and that the govern- manders. The second section is a dra- ment of our forefathers is the best kind Deloused Order of Duds matic interpretation of the first part, in of government ever devised. which the crab is taken through all the "Our Post is training our boys in the HOMER WHITE POST, Hiawatha, experiences peculiar to a soldier from the various corps to become good American Kansas, has an active bunch of day of enlistment to discharge. citizens, and at the same time is keeping Past Commanders, real workers who "A delousing ceremony was held every them busy and off the city streets. Their attend Post meetings and take an active two weeks until all the Past Commanders minds are kept occupied by details of part in its affairs. Perhaps that is why of Homer White Post were brought into training and instruction. These boys they are called duds. Le Grand Cootie membership. Now, as a practical result meet several times a week either at the Y. S. Beans, Past Department Chaplain of the activity of the Deloused Order clubhouse at 232 East 75th Street, New of Kansas, now guiding the destiny of nearly every Post meeting finds a one

York, or at a convenient gymnasium, Dugout No. r, Deloused Order of Duds, hundred percent attendance of Past where they go through their maneuvers Kansas Sector, tells this department just Commanders— one of the very best or practice on their various musical how and why these Past Commanders records that can be boasted in the De- instruments. are kept keyed up for action partment of Kansas. Membership is "The Red Cross division, headed by "The Deloused Order of Duds was restricted to Past Commanders of Homer Miss Rose Savarese, is a class of seventy conceived in the office of a Hiawatha White Post, the single exception being girls between the ages of ten and eighteen attorney early in the winter of 1938. in the case of Governor Payne Ratner, years. They, too, are brought together Five Past Commanders of Homer White Legionnaire, who was admitted as an several times a week for instruction in Post came to the conclusion that some- honorary member."

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Noon-Hour W orship while at the Convention. We expect to be much in evidence in the heart of the AARON POST, Chicago, sends a cor- Loop every noon-time with good speak- L dial invitation to all Legionnaires ers, good singers and good fellowship." in attendance at the National Conven- tion, September 25th to 28th, to join in a Florida Day Nursery noon-day worship at some convenient meeting place in the center of conven- "EGION homes and clubhouses have tion affairs. This Post has consecrated E been used for a wide variety of itself to the service of God and its work purposes," writes Clifford B. Savage, is non-sectarian; it has done much to Historian of Everglades Post, Belle combat intolerance in its area. Says Glades, Florida, "but ours has the dis- Clarence R. Goddard, Junior Vice Com- tinction of housing a day nursery. This mander: "We intend to provide a central project was operated twenty-four hours FREE location in a loop theater where those who a day and seven days a week during the We are so sure that you will like Listerine wish may get away from the noise and spring vegetable crop season, which ex- Shaving Cream, that we offer this 20-shave hurry of the convention and rest, relax tended from February until May. There tube absolutely "free and postpaid." We and renew their strength by worshiping was need for such an institution in our don't even ask you to share the mailing God with us for a short time every day. town, which is located on the eastern costs. These are strictly non-sectarian meetings, shore of Lake Okeechobee, in the center held through the courtesy of the Christian of a great vegetable producing area. How can we afford to do this? Experi- Business Men's Committee. Well-known About 500 transient workers—typical ence has proved that this offer works to Legionnaires, outstanding as ministers migratory laborers—are required each our advantage. The cream seems to sell and singers, will lead these meetings and year to handle the crop. Fathers, moth- itself. Men who get the sample apparently members of our Post will be on hand to ers and older children work in the packing remain steady customers . . . like it so well make every comrade who attends feel houses, leaving the younger ones 'on their they talk about Listerine Shaving Cream at home." own' from noon until midnight. to others. You can see what happens when Of the Post and its work, Junior Vice "The Legion home, a large structure newly made friends begin working for us Commander Goddard says: "Nearly four with plenty of floor space, was offered that way! years ago, after a number of our charter by the Post as a day nursery and the Send for your sample now. See how much offer members had worked faithfully for more was accepted by the Belle Glade faster it lathers ... in hot water, cold water than a month, Aaron Post was organized Community Center, a civic organization —even ice water. Note that we have a with the minimum requirement of mem- which had been set up to care for the really moisture-laden lather, which stays up bers. Today our membership numbers neglected children. The children cared right to the end of your shave! more than eighty. Each year has seen for range in ages from six months to six The regular tube at 35^ gives between our membership greater than the year years. Before being admitted to the 130 and 175 shaves! Any drug counter has before, most of the new members new- nursery they were given a thorough it —as well as Listerine Brushless Cream. comers into the Legion. Our service work medical examination; they were bathed Or send for the free size, today! is notable and unique; indeed, we believe daily, fed three meals a day and furnished it is without precedent or parallel. We clean, comfortable sleeping quarters. A have given more than 2,000 Bibles to registered nurse was on duty throughout patients at Hines Hospital and other the twenty-four-hour day, assisted by CLIP THE COUPON Veterans' Facilities, and regularly hold several volunteer workers. one or more Sunday services each month "The children were instructed in at Hines. The Post has never lacked for kindergarten and elementary school sub- 20 shaves free funds to supply every demand for this jects, and in directed play under compe- Lambert Pharmacal Co., Dept. 60, St. Louis, Mo. Please send me free and postpaid your large sam- phase of our work, and in obtaining these tent supervision. An expenditure of ap- ple tube of Lisrerine Shaving Cream; Listerine funds we have gone into the churches. proximately $1,000 was necessary to put Brushless Cream. (Check whichever is desired.) There we have made many friends for the Legion home in condition to house Name the Legion and have, we believe, pro- and equip the day nursery, but the re- moted a better understanding of its markable thing about this experiment Address. unselfish aims and program. We invite in social service was its financial success, each Legionnaire to associate with us with all bills paid {Continued on page 58) City .State.

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and a surplus in the bank when the Legion Shorts Post, a square at 102nd Street and As- nursery closed. Parents were charged toria Boulevard has been set apart and $1.75 per week for one child, and COMMANDER Dave L. Wiley, of dedicated as Leif Barclay Memorial Si.00 for each additional child. This Mount Dora (Florida) Post, writes Square, named in honor of Sergeant nominal sum was not adequate to of an unusual award for outstanding ser- Leif Barclay, killed in service with the

meet the expenses and additional sums vice made by his Post. Thomas Ralph E. Lafayette Escadrille in Franee . . . Camp were received from churches and civic Townsend, aged 18, won the Post's Chase Post, Columbus, Ohio, celebrated organizations, packing houses and other school award medal; his sister, La Verne its tenth anniversary with a great jubi- business houses. It is planned to con- Townsend, aged 17, won the citizenship lee. Feature of the celebration, writes

tinue the school and nursery with greatly school award offered by the Auxiliary. Commander Arthur J. Bellar, was a two- increased capacity during the coming The medalists are children of Legion- hour show, free to the public, with a star-

crop-packing season, and keep it open naire Thomas A. Townsend . . . Through studded cast in the West High School for our guests from fall until spring." the efforts of East Elmhurst (New York) auditorium. Boyd B. Stutler

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than surrender to any of the other Allied tributed the picture of a group of of the Legion Post of which Grimm was forces. Aware of the fact that the Armis- officers of the Siberian outfit, in which Commander. tice was soon to be signed, the commander is at least one of our honored comrades "Incidentally, it strikes me that per- of the 15,000-ton Radetzky secretly sent who gave his life while serving as Com- haps the bare-headed chap at the top a message to the commander of the U. S. mander of a Legion Post, and perhaps right, whose head is about even with the Fleet arranging the surrender of the even National Commander Chadwick boat deck, may be none other than our Austrian fleet to the Americans, to the himself. We haven't asked the Com- present National Commander, Steve exclusion of the naval units of other mander if he is in the group, so the pic- Chadwick. This would take official veri- Allied countries that had ships in that ture may be a surprise to him, too. Here fication, but you will find Chadwick's area. When the great day arrived, every- is Comrade Carey's letter that accom- name in the roster of 'Picked Up Curs,' as thing went smoothly according to plan panied the picture, which you will find the members of the Siberian Snow Dogs and the Austro-Hungarian ships were on page 35: were known. The organization's officers turned over to our Navy. "Twenty years ago, during the month bore such titles as Chief Cur, Doorkeeper "Lieutenant Kipp was ordered aboard of April, a portion of the Siberian Snow of the Sacred Kennel, Police Dog, Leader the prize ship Radetzky as Navigating Dogs (as the organization of officers and of the Sanitary Pack, Fang Extractor Officer, an assignment which lasted about others who had spent the winter with the and Keeper of the Bones and Biscuits. six months, after which he was returned Russky brethren were pleased to call Perhaps the National Commander will home and relieved of active duty on June themselves) were on the transport Logan tell us if I'm right in my identification. 23, iqiq. Comrade Kipp later received en route to San Francisco and their "Some of the men in the roster have the Navy Cross with the following cita- homes. Looking through my war archives, gone places: Lester K. Ade, who was our tion: 'For distinguished service in the I found the enclosed picture and booklet. Base Censor, is at present in the Pennsyl- line of his profession as commanding "The officer without headgear whose vania Governor's Cabinet, in charge of officer of the U. S. S. C. 256 engaged in blonde features appear in the right center Public Instruction. Major Sidney Graves, important, exacting and hazardous duty of the group was Warren C. Grimm, I think, was the son of Major General of patroling the waters of the war zone victim of the Centralia, Washington, William S. Graves, the Expedition Com- and operating against enemy submarines. Armistice Day tragedy back in 1919 mander. A number of others of that For the President— (signed) Josephus when I. W. W.'s fired upon the parade group must be active in various impor- Daniels, Secretary of the Navy.' tant affairs of our country and I would be interested in hear- THEY'RE not unknown to ing from them." the Then and Now Gang the Siberian Snow Dogs—because HAVING seen lately in Then we've had pictures and stories and Now a reproduction of of then, m this department and, a portrait of Jane A. Delano that no doubt, you read George T. was presented to the Smith- Armitage's prize-winner, "Ah, sonian Institution, and a story of Those Americanskies," in the her career," writes Henry W. July issue. We refer, of course, to Potts, who although a member those men who served in the of Youngstown (Ohio) Post of A. E. F. Siberia, among whom the Legion, lives at 21 Lansing was a young 1st Lieutenant from Avenue, Troy, New York, "I Seattle, Washington, who this was reminded that I have a year has been serving the Legion photograph of her funeral. The as National Commander- enclosed picture shows the De- Stephen F. Chadwick. lano funeral procession leaving We're glad, though, that Le- the Savenay, France, hospital gionnaire Harry H. Carey of "Be careful where you put your paper grounds. Plymouth, Pennsylvania, con- next time!' "At the left is seen an honor

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine The military funeral cortege for Jane A. Delano, for whom a number of Women's Posts of the Legion are named, as it You see radiators boiling everywhere you passed through the streets of Savenay, France, in April, 1919 go. Don't let this happen to you. Keep rust and scale flushed out of your cooling system. Do it yourself with Sani-Flush. It costs only 10c (25c for the largest trucks guard, a detachment from my outfit, I'm going to act like a nut.' Curious, we and tractors). Do it regularly — at least Company G, 2d Pioneer Infantry, then watched him. twice a year. the caisson bearing Miss Delano's body, "He would approach a soldier and say: Just pour Sani-Flush in the radiator (directions on the can). Drain. Flush. escorted by staff officers of the hospital, 'Hello, Bud! Where ya from?' 'Pitts- Refill with clean water. That's all there in of the caisson, companies of burgh,' the 'Pittsburgh? and back came answer. is to it! Water circulates freely. Your car nurses. Medical units followed the My home town. How's Wiley Avenue? runs cooler. More power. Better mileage. nurses, and the firing squad in overseas Say, pal, would you let me have a franc?' And no unnecessary repair bills. Maybe you'd rather ask your garage or service caps (not shown in picture) preceded "Then another soldier would hear, station to do the job for you. Insist on the guard. 'Hello, from?' 'Cleve- Bud! Where ya Sani-Flush. It cannot injure motor or fit- "The funeral took place about the land,' would be the answer. 'Cleveland? tings. You'll find Sani-Flush in most bath- middle of April, 1910, and burial was in My home town. How's Euclid Avenue? rooms for cleaning toilets. Sold by gro- cery, drug, hardware, and five-and-ten-cent the Savenay cemetery. This was the Say, pal, would you let me have a franc?' stores. 25c and 10c sizes. The Hygienic largest funeral for one individual that I A New Yorker would be greeted with the Products Company, Canton, Ohio. saw while stationed in Savenay. same, 'My home town' and then 'How's "My company, G of the 2d Pioneer Broadway?' and a request for a franc. Infantry, had the center guard of Save- And so he carried on and on. Before the Sani-Flush nay, alternating on twenty-four-hour all passed, he had claimed crowd had KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN shifts with a company of the 13 th Mar- towns all over the United States as his ines. Eddie Mahan, All-American Har- home-town. Quite some racket!" vard halfback, was a lieutenant in the 13th Marines. Shortly after we arrived, REMEMBER the picture in the Janu- he left Savenay to play on a Divisional - ary issue of the two French apple football team. the American soldier guard EdSVlWTHIS WRY women and AUXILIARIES ond ORGANIZATIONS "Jerry Murphy, a featherweight boxer, that Legionnaire John Krieger of La Sell Handy Products. Hundred! of Auxiliaries already successful. You fought several times at the big Amuse- Jolla, California, reported he snapped at do nor compere svirh local merchants. No comperrrion. Sold only by or. ment Hall there and at one time toured Bassens, France, without learning the pnizalioni and agenrs. Two NEW household necessiries. (1) Palcnted part of France. Corporal Biscan often identity of the soldier or what the ap- Handy Hanger loser space. (2) Handy Clos Dryci ere. Send 2x foi jlc. 50t lor both. Coin only—NO stamps. FREE illus- sang in the Amusement Hall and the Red parent hilarity was about? Upon his sug- uarcd liter \\ rire now. APPUANCI PRODUCTS CO., HUDISON. WIS. Cross Hut. gestion, we asked fellow Legionnaires to "Our barracks stood on the main road come forward and tell us who the Ameri- leading to the baseball field and I remem- can was and just what was occurring at ber one afternoon several of us were the time—and we're pleased to report WAKE UP YOUR seated on the bench in front watching that the mystery has been solved. the crowd pass by on its way to see a Henry E. Baier of 2461 Seneca Street, LIVER BILE- team from Montoir play a team from Buffalo, New York, member of West Nantes for the S. O. S. championship. Seneca Post, Vice Commander of the Without Calomel— And You'll Jump Out There were officers, enlisted men, casuals, Erie County Organization of the Legion, of Bed in the Morning Rat-in' to Go The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid glad to be out, and nurses— the latter and ex-chief electrician, U. S. N., re- bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing were keen about baseball and became ported first to the Company Clerk. freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get ardent fans. While on detached service with the 23d constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and "On the other side of the road we saw Field Signal Battalion and the iSth En- you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. a soldier who was stopping and question- gineers (Railway) during the summer of It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and ing members of the passing throng. We 19 18, he said for a time they were based make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet asked him what he was doing and he at Bassens and continued: "There was amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. said: 'They in a put me nut ward and so also a detail from {Continued on page 60) Stubbornly refuse anything else. © 193a. c.p. inc.

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the M. T. C. there, one of whose drivers "I was sure surprised to find my pic- was assigned to us and I am sure this is ture in the Legion Magazine and will say

the man pictured. I can only remember I was not the one to find it. Mrs. Smith

There is no question about his nickname of 'Shorty,' but he always always looks over the incoming mail. it good, well-groomed — a wore a leather jacket, as pictured, and Only my willingness to help others, as head of hair counts in one's favor. Don't neglect YOUR could parley vous, so was able to con- displayed in the picture, is what has kept hair! If your trouble is Dandruff, Itching Scalp, verse with the femmes." me out of the dog house. As for the pic- Excessive Falling Hair, Oili- Comrade Krieger received letters from ture, I was doing provost guard. We had ness or Dryness — use Glover's Mange Medicine with systematic massage. For the shampoo use the following former shipmates on the relieved the Marines at guard and it fell Glover's Medicated Soap — specially compounded to blend with the Medicine, cleanse thoroughly and Siboney: John M. Carcoe, a policeman my lot to be on duty at the busy corner, help remove its "piney" odor. on the New York City force, who lives one corner up from the docks, where the See what Glover's System can do for you and why at Street in metropolis; spilled it enjoys its wonderful reputation. 17 Elizabeth the woman her apples. They were FREE booklet on Glover's System for the Scalp and M. B. Klein, who had charge of the Si- promptly wiped off and what caused the Hair. Address GLOVER'S, Dept. S, 468 4th Ave.,N.Y. boncy's post office, a member of Teaneck laugh is that I suggested she was rubbing (New Jersey) Post of the Legion, and now them so strenuously on her blouse, that GLOVERS MEDICINE in the insurance business with his father she'd be lopsided. in New York City, while his home is in "I have given you a great deal of West Englewood, New Jersey; and Willis thought as the sailors used to post my INVENTORS H. Geissinger, 116 East Howard Street, letters in New York and it runs in my TIME COUNTS—don't risk delay in paten Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, ex-fireman icl mind that one of the boys on the Siboney ing your invention. Write for new FRE book, '-Patent Guide for the Inventor," and "Record of Invention" form. No and acting water-tender on the Siboney. mailed a silk shawl for me—and later I charge for preliminary information. CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN Ivan L. Nelson of 1003 North 12th had to pay $17.50 duty on it. Anyway, & HYMAN HERMAN Street, Boise, Idaho, member of John it's a swell shawl. Registered Patent Attorneys 247-W Adams Building, Washington, D. C 9l Regan Post, reported that while with the "I will be glad to get the original pic- 320th Field Signal Battalion, 8th Divi- ture. I belonged to the 113th Supply The American Legion sion, his outfit made the trip from Hobo- Train stationed at Bassens. That was National Headquarters Indianapolis, Indiana ken, New Jersey, to Newport News, Vir- a tough Battle of Bordeaux we fellows ginia, on that ship, and LeRoy McEwan, fought!" Financial Statement city mail carrier of Iowa Falls, Iowa, And so another wartime "whoosit" May 31, 1939 Assets also reported having been a passenger. picture is identified. But none of them could tell anything Cash on hand and on deposit $ 585,328.01 Notes and accounts receivable 48,305.12 about the picture under discussion. THOUGHT that over the years Inventories 111,349.06 WE Invested funds 1,972,360.05 A faint clew was offered in a letter from we had run the entire gamut of Permanent investments: Jim Daly of 180 Seward Avenue, Mineola, mascots of service outfits—mules, horses, Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund . 201,555.22 Office building, Washington, D. C, less New York, wherein he said in part: "The dogs, bears, goats, monkeys, parrots, depreciation 123,930.97 Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less picture in the January Legion Magazine roosters and so on and on—but here's a depreciation 31,541.93 gave me a good laugh and a few minutes new one. Nothing other than a coyote Deferred charges 19,806.41 pleasant reminiscence. Looking closely and we're introduced to the animal by S3.094.I76.77 at the uniform you can faintly distinguish A. M. Erickson of 104 North 15th Street, Liabilities, Deferred Revenue and Net Worth on the cap, the globe, anchor and eagle Omaha, Nebraska, who submitted the pic- Current liabilities 69,297.43 Funds restricted as to use 25,669.22 insignia of the Marine Corps. I was a ture we display on the opposite page. All Deferred revenue 429,596.31 of B, 1st Battalion, right, Comrade, tell us about your Permanent trust: member Company Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund.. 201,555.22 13th Regiment of Marines, commanded mascot: Net Worth: Restricted capital 31,916,390.18 by the then-Colonel Smedley D. Butler "Noticing a bit of a revival of the sub- Unrestricted capital 451,668.41 2,368,058.59 (now major general, retired), which spent ject of service mascots, I am sending a 33,094,176.77 some months doing M. P. work and guard picture of one that is out of the ordinary. duty around Bassens, including the time This animal, a coyote, became mascot Profitable Profession Learn the picture was taken. I think he was one of the 2 2 2d Field Signal Battalion and the in QO days at Home of us. picture shows it with a cook of our outfit, f 8* is telling the ladies whose name I cannot recall. I was supply ek bu ny prefe to open th« of- "What our comrade Large incomes from Doctors, hospitals, e d private patients come to those who I do not know but I can make three sergeant. ify through our training. Reducing me offers rich rewards for specialists. have been telling them "This coyote was seen to crawl into a Write for Anatomv Charts and guesses: He may booklet— They're FREE. story about hole in of the Disciplinary Barracks THE College of Swedish Massage the veree, veree, fonnee how back 30 E. Adams St., Dpt. C7S, Chicago ucctstor i« Natfnal Coll** „f Mmwr pretty they are, in order to get himself a at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where we free apple. He may be asking them, 'Who were stationed, was dug out and after HOME-STUDY won the war, anyway?' and receiving capture became tame and given the name the standard horse-laugh in reply. Per- of Alice. It was not unusual to see this BUSINESS TRAINING haps he's telling them that old, old story coyote play with a dog that would wan- Your opportunity can never be bigger than your about his father: 'Oh, you know, my der into camp. preparation. Prepare now and reap the rewards in earlier and larger success. Free 48-Page Books Tell father, the mayor of New York or Chi- "On our trip from Fort Leavenworth How. Write now for book you want, or mail coupon cago or Frisco, or points.' You never to Camp Meade, Alice was placed in the with your name and address in margin today. way Higher Accountancy D Business told that one? Aw, g'wan!" baggage car and always created a great Modern Salesmanship Correspondence Traffic Management Credit and Collection But all of that didn't solve the prob- deal of interest whenever a stop was

Law: Degree of I L. U. Correspondence Commercial Law Modern Foremanship lem. And it wasn't solved until this letter made and she was given a little exercise. Industrial Mgm't Expert Bookkeeping Business C. P. A. Coaching came to Krieger from Romeo D. Smith Any attention given Alice seemed to Management Business English Stenotypy Effective Speaking of Weston (West Virginia) Post: please her very much, which is of course LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY "For reasons I cannot explain, from characteristic of femininity. Alice finally I put off writing so succumbed from eating too much canned A Correspondence Institution day to day have you, DEPT. 8361-R CHICAGO here 'tis. corned beef." The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine a

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31st (Dixie) Div.—2d reunion and banquet. C. Convention is LEGION National F. Negele, 169 W. Bonita av., San Dimas, Calif. A 32d Div.—Reunion banquet, Sept. 26, with Red basically, of course, one vast re- Arrow Club of Chicago as sponsor. Frank J. Schnel- I GUESS YOU NEVER union of veterans, but an added pleasure ler, pres., 2000 Lincoln Park West, Chicago. 33d Div.—For details 33d Div. Hq. and reunion, at a convention when a can be gained write to Wm. M. Engel, secy., 127 N. Dearborn St., definite reunion of your own old gang is Chicago. FLEAS 38th Div. Vets. Assoc. J. F. HAD 38th Drv.—Reunion scheduled—a place set where you will be Heim, natl. comdr., 10515 Croesus av., Los Angeles, old buddies. That's why Calif. sure to find the 80th Drv.—Reunion dinner. Mark R. Byrne, this department has been stressing the natl. secy., 413 Plaza bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 81st (Wildcat) Vets.—Reunion dinner. Hq. at scores of outfit reunions that will be held Hotel Knickerbocker. For details, vets write Wild- Knickerbocker, Chicago. September 25th to 28th, in cats Vets. Comm., Hotel in Chicago, 82d Div.—Convention reunion, Paul W. Tilley, Angeles, Calif. conjunction with the National Conven- 1122 J-^ W. 88th St., Los 85th Drv. —Reunion. tion of The Amer- Frank L. Greenya, pres. W. Pierce St., ican Legion. 2812 Milwaukee Wise. itch that's everywhere at once. Your There is still one 89th Drv.—Natl. re- Imagine an union luncheon, Mon., skin gets sore and you wake up scratching. Maybe slight chance and your hair falls last Sept. 25. For details of you get a skin disease out! of getting an an- luncheon and of re- union hq., write to nouncement of a Leonard M. Rice, gen. S. Dearborn reunion published chmn., 7 St., Chicago. in these columns 92d Div.—Reunion, 92d Div. World War in the September Vets. Assoc. Jesse B. issue—an air-mail Gunn, pres., 6510 Evans av., Chicago. letter or a tele- 34th Inf. Band, 7th Drv. — Proposed re- gram sent immedi- union. L. E. Benedict, I had 'em till the master brought home some Sergeant's Improved SKIP-FLEA POWDER. He ately after you read Sherburne, N. Y. 4 1st Inf.—Reunion dusts it into my coat, and . . . boy! does it kill this will probably of all vets. Frank A 'em dead! And it soothes the old itches too! Abrams, 7754 S. Hal- get your notice in sted st., Chicago. before the dead- 46th Inf., Cos._ A, B, C & D—5th reunion. line. When you no- Lewis E. Pirkey, Say- brook, 111. tify this office of 131st Inf., Co. H— your reunion, be Reunion. Leonard A. Borgeson, 4231 N. sure at the same Lawndale av., Chicago. 4th Inf., C.O.T.S., to report it to time 1st Co., 2d Bn., Camp Pike Reunion. L. C. Stanley R. Mc- — There's nothing like it - except SKIP-FLEA SOAP Howe, 8944 Bishop St., that does the same job and cleans too. Take it Neill, Morrison unusual kind of mascot— Chicago. An from me, SKIP-FLEA'S a treat for any dog. Get it 6th Co., Inf. Cand. Hotel, Chicago, Il- coyote—served the 2 2 2d Field at drug and pet stores. Ask them for your free School, LaValbonne— copy of the new Sergeant's DOG BOOK (or write Fred Folk, linois, who is Chair- Signal Battalion at Fort Leaven- Reunion. O. Sergeant's, Dept. GO-8, Richmond, Va.) c/o M. L. Rothschild, man of Convention worth, Kansas, during the war State & Jackson, Chi- Reunions. Mr. Mc- cago. 1st Btry., 3d O.T.C., Neill and his com- Camp Grant—Lunch- eon reunion. Lee M Thurston, 140 N. Mayfield help in arranging for reunion mittee will av., Chicago. SerqeaftYs headquarters, for banquets, dinners, 326th M. G. Bn., Co. D—Annual reunion. Wal- ter M. Wood, Drawer 29, Portsmouth, Ohio. luncheons or whatever form you want 9th F. A.—Reunion. Write W. F. Oberlies, 95th & Cottage Grove av., Chicago, for details. DOG MEDICINES your reunion to take. 80th F. A., Btry. F—Reunion, Taylor Post, Mrs. Nell W. Halstead, 8136 Ingleside Schiller & N. Clark St., Chicago. Nick Pernicar, c/o Post Hq. Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, is General 62d C. A. C, Btry. C—Reunion. Mannie Fisher, 1357 N. Western av., Chicago. activities Chairman of Legion Women's 67th C.A.C., Btry. C; 7th Co. (Ft. Winfield during the convention and our women Scott); 44th & 45th Prov. Cos. (Presidio)—G. D. Nolan, 372 Bridle Path, Worcester, Mass. comrades should report to her. Btries. C & D, 4th & 5th Regts., F.A.R.D., Camp Taylor Frank O'Sullivan, Galena, lis. of the following — Detailed information Co. C, 1st Ammun. Trn.—Reunion. Jacob G. National Convention reunions may be Wagner, Box 12, Monterey, Ind. Co. E, 4th Ammun. Trn.—Reunion. Harry K. obtained from the Legionnaires listed: Fletcher, 720 E. Vine st., Ottumwa, Iowa. 105th Ordn. Depot, Camp Lee—Reunion. Legion Women's Activities—Official dinner, Write Alexander H. Kuhn, 111 W. Washington st., Red Lacquer Room, Palmer House, Sept. 25, 6:30 Chicago. open house and tea, Nurses Club, 8 S. Michi- p. m. ; World War Vets, of C. A. C.—Reunion. R. R. gan av., Sept. 24 & 25; tour of Chicago Historical Jacobs, comdr., 43 Frisbie av., Battle Creek, Mich. Society and tea, afternoon, Sept. 27. Mrs. Nell 2d Trench Mortar Bn., Btry'. A—A. W. Robin- W. Halstead, Gen. Chmn., 8136 Ingleside av., son, 533 N. Main St., Berrien Springs, Mich. Chicago. World War Tank Corps Assoc.—Reunion. Natl. Org. World War Nurses—Annual con- E. J. Price, chmn., 130 N. Wells St., Chicago. To vention and reunion. Natl. Hq., Stevens Hotel. organize local Bns., write Claude J. Harris, organ, Hotel, Wed., Annual breakfast-meeting, Blackstone dir., 817)4 W. 43d St., Los Angeles, Calif. HELP Sept. 27, 8 a.m., Miss Mabel B. Madden, chmn., 700 Co. A, 302d Bn., Tank Corps—22d annual re- Fullerton Pkwy., Chicago. union, Sept. 25. Write L. M. Lewis, LaSalle Hotel, Natl. Yeomen F—Annual reunion and meeting. Chicago. Breakfast-reunion, Tropical Room, Medinah Club, 13th Engrs. —Hq in Hotel Sherman, sponsored Wed., Sept. 27, 8 a.m. Mrs. Constance H. Strong, Post, L. KIDNEYS by 13th Engrs. A. Geo. H. Beyer, adjt., 217 PASS chmn., 3232 Home av., Berwyn, 111. W. Calendar av., La Grange, 111. 1st Drv.—19th annual reunion and banquet, 14th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Natl. reunion. Hq. Soc. of 1st Div., Hotel Sherman, Sept. 23-24. Her- Auditorium Hotel. A. G. Grant, chmn., 8018 Evens man R. Dorf, chmn., 6765 Sheridan rd., Chicago, av., Chicago. 3 LBS. A DAY or Room 107, Hotel Sherman, Chicago. 17th Engrs. (Ry.) Assoc.—Reunion. Mark W. Doctors say your kidneys contain 15 miles of tiny banquet, 2d Div. Assoc. 2d Div.—Natl, reunion Van Sickel, secy.-treas., 1399 Virginia av., Colum- tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and A. E. F., Louis XVI Room, Hotel Sherman, Sept. bus, Ohio. keep you healthy. Most people pass about 3 pints a 26. Geo. V. Gordon, chmn., 5814 Winthrop av., 21st Engrs. L. R. Soc.— 19th annual reunion. day or about 3 pounds of waste. Chicago. F. G. Webster, secy.-treas., 113 E. 70th st., Chicago. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and 4th Drv.—Reunion and banquet, Hotel Sherman, 23d Engrs. Assoc. —Write H. H. Siddall, pres., burning shows there may be something wrong with Sun. eve, Sept. 24. Make reservations with W. T. 5440 Ridgewood ct., Chicago, for advance reunion your kidneys or bladder. Evans, 320 W. Grand St., Chicago, 111. news and copy of official publication. An excess of acids or poisons in your blood, when 6th Div.—Write for Sightseer and details 6th 26th Engrs.—Reunion, with Hq. and banquet at due to functional kidney disorders, may be the cause Div. Assoc. reunion. C. A. Anderson, secy.-treas.. Morrison Hotel. Banquet on Sept. 25. Write Dr. of nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, Box 23, Stockyards Sta., Denver, Colo. A. A. Fricke, secy.-treas., 1136 W. 6th St., Los loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, 20th Drv.—Proposed reunion. Harry McBride, Angeles, Calif. puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. 1229 26th St., Newport News, Va. 35th Engrs. —Reunion of car builders. Fred Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, 26th Div. —Reunion dinner, Sept. 26. Chicago Krahenbuhl, 1310 Hanover St., Hamilton, Ohio. used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They YD Club will open Hq. in Loop. Walter D. Crowell, 39th Engrs.— 15th annual reunion, Atlantic give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney 2400 Hartzell St., Evanston, 111., or Edmund D. Hotel, Chicago, Sept. 26. Chas. M. Karl, secy., tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. O'Connell, 7919 S. Union St., Chicago. 11640 Princeton av., Chicago. (Continued on page62) Get Doan's Pills.

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American Legion Magazine {Continued from page 61) INDEX of OOth Ry. Engrs. and Arx.—Sth annual reunion O. & T. C. No. 2 and T. A., Limoges—Reunion. Hq. open Sept. 24. D. E. & Eula Gallagher, secys., Newton Rogers, Room 441, Sherman Hotel, Chicago. ADVERTISERS 812 E. 21st St., Little Rock, Ark. 11th Cav., Hq., A, B, C, D & M. G. Troops, Ft. 61st Ry. Engrs. —2d annual reunion. Hq at St Myers—Reunion. Write Geo. J. Sherrard, 4906 N. Clair Hotel, Chicago. Write Edw. W. Soboda, Talman av., Chicago. secy.-treas., 1606a W. Chambers St., Milwaukee, Base Hosp. 101— Reunion, Morrison Hotel, Wise. Chicago. Edw. H. Porath, 14461 Faust, Detroit, 218th Engrs., Hq. Co.—Reunion. Arthur Mich. 136 Thompson, 2104 W. Cermak rd , Chicago. Base Hosp. —Annual reunion, Stevens Hotel. American Airlines, Inc 55 509th Engrs. —(Proposed reunion. Write C. G. Mrs. Grover C. Potts, 947 Keswick blvd., Louis- Riggenbach, 8014 Perry av., Chicago. ville, Ky. Appliance Products Co 59 308th Field Bn., Sig. Corps—Vets interested in Base Hosp., Camp Grant—Reunion-luncheon, convention reunion, write Herb Hale, 417 Ravine Lincoln-Belmont YMCA, Sept. 26. Harold E. av., or Jim Hill, 527 Frye av., Peoria, 111. Giroux, 841 W. Barry av., Chicago. 314th F. S. Bn. Assoc. —21st annual reunion, Base Hosp., Camp Sevier— Reunion. Mrs. Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, Sat. Sept. 23. Mary Callaway, secy., 566 W. 3d St., Dayton, Ohio A. J. Tichy, secy., 2117 S. East av., Berw^n, 111. Med. Dept., Base Hosp., Camp Lee— Reunion Carter Medicine Co 59 41.5th Sig. Corps Bn. Assoc.—Reunion, Great dinner. Vergil I. Trotter, Chrysler Corp., (Ply- Northern Hotel, Chicago. James J. Maher, 3723 mouth Div.), Detroit, Mich. Club Camp Hosp. College of Swedish Massage 60 S. Rockwell St., Chicago. 52, Le.Mans—Annual reunion 52d Tel. Bn., S. C. —Reunion. Mike Loftus, Dinner, Auditorium Hotel, Tues., Sept. 26, 6.30 6955 W. George St., Chicago, and Geo. C. Rost, p. m. Miss Marie O. Skyrud, 1900 W. Polk st., Convention City Special 63 0916 Cambridge, Cincinnati, Ohio. Chicago. Co. C, 106th F. S. Bn.—Reunion. Art Park, 809 Evac. Hosp. No. 14—3d annual reunion. Write College av., Wheaton, 111. J. Charles Meloy, pres.. Room 3050, Grand Centra! Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets.— Terminal, New York City. Reunion, banquet and dance. Hq. and Balloon Bar Amb. Co. 129, 108th San Trn. —Reunion hq. at in Congress Hotel, overlooking parade route. Sherman Hotel. Frank F. Fabian, pres., 515 W. D. D. D. Corporation 63 Banquet in Gold Room. Sidney R. Rothschild, gen. Madison st., Chicago. reunion chmn., 10565 Hale av., Chicago. 322d Motorcycle, M. T. C. —Reunion. W'alter M. St., Flint, Doan's Pills 61 31st Balloon Co.—Reunion with NAABCV. Moore, 318 Decker Mich. John C. Eidt, 4317 37th St., Long Island City, N. Y. Marines—Reunion of all ex-Marines, Hotel 17th & 148th Aero Sqdrns.—Reunion. Harold LaSalle, Sept. 24, under auspices Marine Post, E. Young, 2912 Field, Detroit, Mich. A. L. Henry Williams, 316 W. 60th St., Chicago. 32d Aero Sqdrn.— Reunion and organization. 13th Co. & 10th Regt., USMC—Reunion. Nate Geo. M. Haag, 152 E. Main St., Bogota, N. J. Leibow, 8 N. Cass av., Westmont, 111. Emblem Division. .. .Cover II, III 120th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion Wm. J. Calla- Navy—Reunion-dinner, Sept. 24, for all ex- ghan, 418 5th av. N., Great Falls, Mont. sailors and coastguardsmen. S. M. Wolfred, 2838 139th Aero Sqdrn. and vets of Victory Loan W. 25th st., Chicago. Flying Circus (Eastern Sec.)—Reunion-dinner, Navy Radiomen—Reunion. Write Doty, c/o Tues., Sept. 26, x p. in-, at Bismarck Hotel, Chicago. Otto & Doty, Downers Grove, 111. C. Baetz, Box Appleton, Wise, or Robt. Naval Aviators Reunion of M. I. T. Institute 63 O. 51, — and Franklin Duncan, 2712 Wisconsin av., N. W., Washington, Pensacola vets. Lauren L. Shaw, 155 Glencoe av., D. C. Decatur, 111. Frontier Asthma Co 55 150th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion Rich Field vets. Naval Air Sta., Fromentine—Reunion. F. H. F. W. Freeman, 22 Parker av., Cranford N. J. Normington, 426 Broad St., Beloit, Wise. r 161st Aero Sqdrn.—Proposed reunion. H. W . Naval Air Sta., Killingholme— Reunion Tawson, 4015 Xerxes av., 8., Minneapolis, Minn. Dave O. Gran, 4532 Deming pi., Chicago. 174th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion and revised roster. Naval Air Sta., Paimboeuf—Reunion. H. Write V. E. (Vic) Fesenmeyer, Riceville, Iowa. Halverson, Granite Falls, Minn. Gillette Safety Razor Co 43 185th Aero Sqdrn.— Reunion. Floyd Perham, Co. 120, Navy Yd., Norfolk—Reunion of 1918 Lake Side, Mich. vets. Dr. Roy D. Gullett, Booneville, Miss. 224th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion banquet, Sept. 25. U. S. S. Agamemnon— Reunion, Nav. Res. Glover, H. Clay 60 W. V. Mathews, 2208 Cuming st., Omaha, Nebr. Armory, Chicago. Jim Yellig, Santa Claus, Ind., or 225th Aero Sqdrn. —Reunion. John B. Lamb, J. P. Hayes, 570 McKinley pkwy., Buffalo, N. Y. Greyhound Lines, The 47 1532 Pallister st., Detroit, Mich. U. S. Destroyer Batch (No. 50}—Reunion. 277th Aero Sqdrn.— Reunion. H. C. Lockwood, Irwin E. Harris, Granite Falls, Minn. 3906 Douglas rd., Downers Grove, 111. U. S. S. Castine—Reunion banquet. W. C. Chap- 380th & 828th Aero Sqdrns.—Reunion. Jay N. man, 134 Tipton St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Helm, 940 Hill st., Elgin, 111. U. S. S. Dixie—Reunion. R. O. Level), Box 163, 463d Aero Sqdrn.—Annual reunion, Palmer New Castle, Ind. Kant Slam Co 61 House, Chicago. For details, write Earle W. Moss, U. S. S. Galatea, Tonopnh & Dreadnought and aetg. secy., 1010 Lake av., Ft. Wayne, Ind. Subchaser No. c?4—Reunion of all crews. Ed 466th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion, Morrison Hotel, LaViolette, 4301 Potomac av., Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 24-27. Paul Barlow, 105 Main St., U. S. S. Gopher—Reunion. Carl H. Yollmer, 1112 St. Joseph, Mich. S. Central av., Burlington, Iowa. 7 634th Aero Supply Sqdrn. —Reunion. W m. T. U. S. S. Kanawha—Reunion. Homer L. (Sun- LaSalle Extension University... 60 Ford, 447 N. Clark st., Chicago. shine) Dukes, 1933 Axton av., Union, N. J. Spruce & Aero Constr. Sqdrns., Vancouver U. S. S. Liberator— Reunion. Wm. S. Reed, 7349 Manufacturing Co 63 Rarracks—Reunion and organization. Gen. Brice S. Damen av., Chicago. Lewis P. Disque will attend. Wm. N. Edwards, (C. O. U. S. S. Mania—Reunion. Wm. J. Johnson, 9311 24th Sqdrn.), 422 Greenleaf st., Evanston, 111. Cottage Grove av., Chicago. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. 11th Constr. Co., Air Serv.—2d reunion, at U. S. S. New Jersey, Constellation & Boxer — Harold A. Taylor Post (A. L.) Hq., 1358 N. Clark Reunion. Forrest A. W. Nelson, 1813 Warner av., Velvet 39 st., Chicago. Theo. J. Herzog, 3616 N. Paulina St., Chicago. Chicago. U. S. S. New Mexico—Reunion of crew. Write Field Remount Sqdrn. 303 Assoc.— For date F. J. Egerer, 125 S. Grant st., Westmont, 111. Listerine Shaving Cream 57 and plans of reunion, write Frank T. Herbert, 444 U. S. S. Quinnebaug—3d annual reunion. Edward W. Grand av., Chicago. J. Stewart, 870 E. 28th st., Brooklyn, N. Y. 313th Field Remount Sqdrn. —Reunion. Write U. S. S. Vermont—Reunion of crew. Gene to Chester C. Sellens, 544 E. 2d St., Russell, Kans., Ferrier, ex-elec. Icl., C947 Wolfram st., Chicago. for details. U. S. S. Wilhelmina—Proposed reunion, Bismarck Remount Sqdrn. 342 Reunion. Harry C. Hotel, Sept. 20, 8 m. Dr. M. M. Sorenson, Mills, 55 — p. 2010 E.J Campbell, 619 Wallace av., Green, Ohio. Spring st., Racine, Wise. Amer. R. R. Trans. Corps Vets. —Convention U. S. S. Lake Ypsilanti—Reunion. Abraham reunion. All R. R. vets of home camps or A. E. F. W'eisbaum, 5434 N. Winthrop av., Chicago. invited to join. Clyde D. Burton, natl. reunion Coco Solo—Reunion of Hupe's Coco Solo band' chmn., 8211 Ellis av., Chicago. Al Wahlen, Homewood, 111., or Dr. Jack Fuqua, National Carbon Co., Inc 51 Base Spare Parts, Depot Units 1-2-3, M. T. C. Elgin, 111 327— Annual reunion, Atlantic Hotel, Sept. 25. Stars and Stripes Assoc.—Annual reunion banquet, B. C. Peterson, secy., 165 N. Elizabeth st., Chicago. LaSalle Hotel, Sun., Sept. 24. Robert Stack, secy., Nurito Co 63 M. T. C. Verneuil 301-2-3, Base Spare Parts— 859 Diversey, Chicago. Reunion Hq., Lytton bldg., State & Jackson, Henry Syracuse (N. Y.) Camp Band— Reunion. Al Hirsch, 6220 Woodlawn av., Chicago. Pearson, Legion Club, Mankato, Minn. 1st Regt. Motor Mech. Co. 20, S. C. — Reunion. Vets. A. E. F. Siberia—Annual convention Write Frank D. Lauer, Whiting, Ind., or B. G. Great Northern Hotel. N. Zimmerman, reunion O'Brien, C. A. & H. Herman. ... 60 Gwartney, Van Nuys, Calif. secy., 6207 Drexel av., Chicago. Cob. 346 & 802, M. T. C—Reunion. Fred Bush- American Vets of Foreign Allied Armies— nell, Wisconsin Rapids, Wise. 2d annual reunion. Fred B. Mansfield, adjt., Box M. T. C. 411— Reunion dinner. Hotel Sherman, 385, Atascadero, Calif. Tues., Sept. 20. Leroy C. Hanby, Connersville, Ind. Post Office Posts—Conference re proposed Chemical Warfare Serv.—Reunion dinner, natl. assoc.; big free get-together party; special hq. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Hotel Hamilton, Sept. 26, 8 p. m. Geo. W. Nichols, Onni R. Isaacson, secy., Van Buren Post natl. conv. R. 3, Kingston, N. Y. comm., 7608 S. Peoria St., Chicago. Camels Cover IV C. & R. Branch, Q. M., Camp Cody-— Reunion. Vets of Polish Extraction and all Legion- H. A. Wahlborg, 106 W. Clay St., Mt. Pleasant, naires invited to Memorial Home of Pulaski Post, Iowa. A. L. during convention. Walter Zasadski, adjt., 318th Sup. Co.—Reunion, Sept. 23-27. Hq., 1558 N. Hoyne av., Chicago. Room 102, Sherman Hotel. Syd Carne, chmn., 109 Last Man's Clubs— Reunion, Congress Hotel. Sani-Flush 59 S. Elmwood av., Oak Park, 111. Roy W. Swamborg 1.509 Cornelia av., Chicago. R. R. & C, Base Sec. 2, A. E. F. — Reunion Soc. of Crossed Quills of America— Reunion Sergeant's Dog Medicines 61 Write R. R. BrinkerhofT, Utica, Ohio. of ex-field clerks of Army, Q. M. and Marine Corps. Graves Regis. Serv., Units 302-3-4— Reunion. Soc. organized in 1935. Wm. Helnie, chmn., 122 S. C. A. Morehouse, Homer, 111. Michigan av., Room 535, Chicago.

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Adv ertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 63 1st Gas & Flame Regt., C. W. S.—Proposed re- Aug. 27. Write Ed Rasters, Box 1947, Beaumont, union. Write Walter J. Meinhardt, 111 W.Wash- Tex. Scranton, Pa., Sept. ington st., Chicago, for details. 108th M. G. Bn.—Reunion, 16-17. Vets write Russell Parry, secy., 1108 Allen St., Allentown, Pa. 51st Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —Annual reunion, REUNIONS and activities at times and State Armory, Flushing, N. Y., Sept. 10. Walter chmn., 139-09 34th rd., Flushing. - places other than the Legion Na- Morris, gen. 52d Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —Annual reunion- Shipped tional Convention, follow: dinner, Park Central Hotel, New York City, Nov. 11. N. J. Brooks, 40 W. 48th st., New York City. Direct 56th Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Soc. 1st Div. (N. E. Branch)—Proposed re- Smithfield, N. C, Aug. 6. O. B. Shelley, secy., from Our union, Boston, Mass., in Aug. For details, write Monroe, N. C. Mill Henry J. Grogan, secy., 73 Summer St., Hyde Park, 59th Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —1th reunion, Fort Mass. Dix, N. J., Aug. 19-20. For details, write Howard 4th Div. Assoc. (Dept of Calif.)—State re- D. Jester, 1913 Washington st., Wilmington, Del. union, Oakland, Aug. 13-16, with 159th Depot Brig., Camp Tay- Legion Dept. conv. Reunion dinner, lor—Vets interested in proposed W3O°/o/0 4o7o 31')") Club, San Francisco, Aug. 13; reunion, write Ace Waters, 218 reiki? on your 'Ylew Home. 4th Div Day at Treasure Island, cevtvuf N. Main st., Rushville, Ind. Don't pay several hundred dollars more than necessary Aug. 13. C. H. Potts, chmn., 438 313th M. G. Bn. —20th reunion, qora biq opinion when you build a home! Buy It direct from our mill at our Erie, Pa. Aug. 6. L. E. Welk. 34th av., San Francisco. Sun. low factory price. We ship you the materials —lumber 4th Drv. Assoc. (N. Y. Chap.)— 210 Commerce bldg., Erie. cut-to-fit. ready to erect. Paint, glass, hardware, nails, Regular meetings, 2d Wed. each 327th M. G. Bn. —Reunion, etc., all included in the price —no extra charges. We pav month, Columbia Univ. Cub. 4 W. rVcvrt rUese uwAies Covington, Ky., Sept. 2-3. Jas. H. the freight. Plans furnished— also complete building in- structions. No wonder our customers write us that we saved 43d st.. New York City. .Ml 4th Joyner, secy., 715 W. Southern H\e4 s« to with builders' prices. Easy Covington. them 30% 40%, compared vets invited. W. J. Mascey, secy., av., terms — monthly payments. 259 W. 14th St., New York City. 11th F. A. Vets. Assoc. —Re- 1th Div. Assoc.—-Reunion, Ho- unions, Sept. 2-4, in both Detroit, Handsome Big tel Lenox, Boston, Mass., Aug. 29. Mich., and Portland, Ore. For de- CATALOGUE pj^J? Pollock, secy., 100 Summers st., tails and copy Cannoneer, write R. Ben money -saving prices. Designs to suit Boston. C. Dickieson, secy., 7330 180th St., everyone. Soc. of 5th Div. —Annual natl. Flushing, N. Y. Write for your catalogue today reunion. Canton, Ohio, Sept. 2-4. 139th F. A. Reunion Assoc. LEWIS MANUFACTURING CO. Write E. R. Corbett, 1037 Roslyn (4th Ind. Inf., N. G., and Troop Dept. 369$ Bay City, Michigan av., S. W., Canton, or Wm. Barton B)— 18th reunion, Marion, Ind., Bruce, pres., 48 Ayrault st., Provi- Sept. 30-Oct. 1. Frank Behers, pres., dence, R. I. Some div. histories Marion, Ind. left at five dollars. 322d F. A. Assoc. —Reunion, 35th Div. Assoc.— Annual re- Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 9. L. B. Fritsch, Relieve Pain union, Kansas City, Kans., Oct. Box 321, Hamilton, Ohio, or Carl 19-21. Leo A. Swoboda, secy.. Law Dorsey, reunion secy., 1017 Shenan- in Few Minutes bldg., Kansas City, Kans., or doah rd., Toledo. orllfo/reyffsck Weed, chmn., Kansas 327th F. A. Assoc. — 13th re- NEURITIS Mahlon S. City Kansan, Kansas City. union, Manners Park, Taylorville, To relieve the torturing pain of Neuritis, Rheu- Neuralgia in few minutes, 37th Div. A. E. F. Vets. Assoc. 111., Sept. 10. Basket dinner for matism, or Lumbago thousands. —21st annual reunion, Dayton, members and families. Write C. get NURITO, the fine formula, used by quickly relieve Ohio, Sept. 2-4. Jas. A. Sterner, C. May, secy., 1924 N. 5th St., No opiates. Does the work —must pain to satisfaction in few minutes or 1101 Wyandotte Bldg., Columbus, Springfield, 111. cruel your druggist Ohio. 32 1th F. A.— 17th reunion, your money back. Don't suffer. Ask your Lost Bn., 77th Div.—Reunion- Hotel Warden, Newark, Ohio, Aug. today for trustworthy NURITO on this guarantee. luncheon, preceding memorial ser- 5-6. W. W. Rouch, secy., R. R. 1, vices, V7th Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. New Carlisle, Ohio. 39th st.. New York City, Sun., Sept. 22d Engrs. — Reunion, Spring- 24. Maj. McMurty as honor guest. Write Walter J. field, 111., Sept. 3. Julius A. Nelson, adjt., 23 E. Baldwin secy., 1859 Victor St., Bronx, New York. 137th pi., Riverdale Sta., Chicago, 111. 77th Div. Assoc. extends facilities of its Club- 31th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.— 10th reunion, Hotel New York World's Fair house, 28 E. 39th St., New York City, to vets of all Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 2-4. Geo. After the Chicago National Convention outfits who visit N. Y. World's Fair. Jos. E. De- Remple, secy., 2423 N. Main st., Dayton, Ohio. Everybody laney, secy., 28 E. 39th St., N. Y. C. 113th Engrs. —To learn time and place of re- Invifcd^^^^^ag^j^^^j 78th Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Camp union, write P. T. Ulman, Noblesville, Ind. Dix, N. J., Aug. 11-13. For details, write Raymond 30Sth Engrs. Vets. Assoc.— 19th reunion, Taylor, secy., Closter, N. J., or John Kennedy, Zanesville, Ohio, Aug. 5-6. Write Lee W. Staffier, pres., Hope, Pa. secy., 1406 Campbell st., Sandusky, Ohio. New Travel by Special Train 10 Clorioui reunion — Dayi 80th Div. Vets. Assoc. —20th annual 309th Engrs. Assoc. — 16th reunion. Hotel 2S00 Miles of Scenic Grandeur and convention, Uniontown, Pa., Aug. 3-6. Mark Harding, Marion, Ohio, Aug. 25-20. Claude L. Orr, F S V a e Cleveland, Washington, °J j" e ' D.C., Me. Yorkv„?F~City, Boat Trip, Albany, R. Byrne, secy., 413 Plaza bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa., secy., 678 S. Remington rd., Columbus, Ohio. Montreal, Niagara Falls, etc. or Dr. S A. Baltz, chmn., Uniontown. 319th Engrs. Vets. Assoc. —Reunion, Oakland, Wildcat (81st) Div. Vets. Assoc. —Natl, re- Calif., Aug. 12, with Calif. Legion Conv. K. S union. World's Fair Grounds, New York City, Thomson, secy., 211 Central Bank bldg., Oakland. RAILROAD, BOAT * 2. Jas. E. Cahall, natl. adjt., Citron- No. 2 Reunion, Bos- Sept. 30-Oct. Aircraft Accept. Park — O T E L and I elle, Ala. ton, Mass., Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Oscar B. Lee, 119 SIGHTSEEING 89th Div. Soc. —Official annual reunion and Sumner rd., Brookline, Mass. IHWrite for full details: dinner, St. Louis, Mo., Sat., Sept. 23. Date will 142d Aero Sqdrn. —5th reunion, Paterson, N. J., permit vets en route to Legion Natl. Conv. in Sept. 1-3. S. W. Falconbery, pres., 773 Sarcee av., CONVENTION CITY SPECIAL

v *• ' Chicago to stop over for the day. For details, write Akron, Ohio. Conducted by Legionnaires - Charles S. Stevenson, natl. secy., 2505 Grand av., 496-7 Aero Sqdrns. (formerly 200-1 Sqdrns.) Morrison Hotel - Kansas City, Mo. Beaumont Overseas Club, Inc. —Annual reunion, 5th Inf. —Proposed reunion. Write to Louis New York World's Fair, Sept. 30. Write Wm. F. Siegl, 9925 62d drive, Forest Hills, N. Y. Mussig, secy., 2114 Haviland av., New York City. 00th Inf.—Reunion, Canton, Ohio. Sept. 2-4. 225th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion, New York City, Write Wm. Barton Bruce, 48 Ayrault St., Provi- Aug. 19-20. Write Jos. Pierando, 20 Weldon st., dence, R. I. Brooklyn, N. Y. Relieve 126th Inf.—Reunion, Jackson, Mich., Aug. 4-6. 801st & 35th Aero Sqdrns.—Reunion, Hotel Itch Fast Chas. Alexander, Otsego Hotel, Jackson. Lincoln, Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 2-4. Write F. C. 130th Inf. & 4th III. — 13th reunion, Sept. 29- Erhardt, 1256 E. LaSalle av., South Bend, Ind. ^Scratching or Money Back Oct. 1, Champaign, 111. Joe E. Harris, secy.-treas., 840th Aero Sqdrn. lflth reunion, Pittsburgh, — For quick relief from itching of eczema, pimples, ath- Paris, Ul. Pa., Sept. 2-4. Write D. L. Sampson, 225 E. lete's foot, scales, scabies, rashes and other externally 138th Inf.—8th annual reunion, Btry. A Ar- Springfield, Ohio, or Lony C. Thomp- Northern av., caused skin troubles, use world-fpmous, cooling, anti- mory, 1221 S. Grand av., St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 12. son, 1510 Gulf bldg., Pittsburgh. septic, liquid D.D.D. Prescription. Greaseless, Frank P. Zeisler, chmn., 5021 Wells av., St. Louis. 13 19th annual reunion, Evac. Hosp. No. — stainless. Soothes irritation and quickly stops intense 308th Inf. —Reunion dance, McAlpin Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 2-4. Write Norm Kuneman, itching. 35c trial bottle proves it, or money back. Ask 34th st. & 6th av., New York City, Sat., Oct. 14, 1272 Hinkel dr., Cincinnati. your druggist today for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. under auspices 308th Inf. Post and Aux. Unit. 5th San. Trn., 118th Amb. Co. Assoc.—10th Proceeds for welfare fund. L. C. Barrett, 157 reunion, Canton, N. C, Aug. 3-4. Write Mrs. Chas. Beechwood av., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Mease, secy., Canton. 313th Inf. Vets.—Annual reunion, Montfaucon 350th Amb. Co. — Reunion, Lincoln, Nebr., Aug, Post Clubhouse, Baltimore, Md., Oct. 7. Bartus E. 27-29. Write Mark Logsdon, 2562 Taylor st., Wigley, adjt., 924 St. Paul St., Baltimore. Omaha, Nebr. 314th Inf. Vets.—Annual reunion, Lancaster, 106th San. Trn.—8th reunion, Opelika, Ala., Pa., Sept. 22-24. Chas M. Stimpson, secy., 2239 Aug. 20. Send addresses to C. E. Brooks, secy., Benson av., Brooklyn, N. Y. 2908 27th st. N., Birmingham, Ala. 316th Int. Assoc. —20th annual reunion, Phila- U. S. S. Connecticut Vets.—3d annual reunion delphia, Pa., Sept. 23. Edwin G. Cleeland, secy., Caruso Restaurant, 130 W. 42d st.. New York City, 6125 McCallum st., Philadelphia. jobs Sat., Sept. 2, 6 p. m. Write Fayette N. Knight, 332d Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Steubenville, Jane St., Closter, N. J. Ohio, Sept. 2-3. Frank A. Conn, secy., 1534 Oregon Navy—All Navy vets interested in reunion din- START av., Steubenville. ner or dance at N. Y. Legion Dept. Conv., Albany, 353d Inf. Soc.—Annual reunion, Broadview N. Y., Sept. 7-9. F. Hanley, Post Office, Albany. preceding $1260 to $2100 Year Hotel, Wichita, Kans., Sept. 2-3, just Second Naval Dist. —Proposed reunion late in Kans. Legion Conv. Dr. Leland Spencer, chmn.. Ex-Service Men Aug. and permanent organization for vets of 2d Get Preference. . FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Hillside & Douglas, Wichita. Nav. Dist. and its various ships, sections and ready ' Dept. NI80, Rochester. N. Y. 355th Inf. Assoc. Annual convention and re- Get — stations. For details, write Chester L. Wood, City Immediately. / Sirs: Hush to me without charge, (II union, Fremont, Nebr., Sept. 10-11. Phil A. Nelson, hook list of many U. S. Hall, Newport, R. I. ^ 32-page with "Kolonel," Fremont. Over 6.600 P Government Big Pay Dependable Jobs Reserve Mallet—Reunion Michigan vets—all Ex-Service Men 112th Inf., Co. A—Reunion, York, Pa., Aug. obtainable. (2) Tell me about prefer- others welcome, at Grandville (Mich.) Legion Home, appointed 1938 enro to Ex-Service Men and how to 11-12 Warren L. Hake, 468 W. Chester pi., York. cj Aug. 6. Write Paul C. Maroney, Chelsea, Mich. Government O qualify for one of these jobs. 140th Inf., Co. I—3d reunion. Kansas City, Mo., Year. Sept. 3-4. L. E. Wilson, 5908 Park av., Kansas City. John J. Noll Thousands • Name 6th Inf. Co., 2d O. T. C, Leon Springs, Tex.— appointed 2d reunion, Roosevelt Hotel, Waco, Tex., Sun., The Company Clerk each year. / Address

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CHARLES KELLY, of Flint, "He dozed off and merely murmured A PAINFUL scene was being enacted, Michigan, sends us the one about now and then, 'Yes, my dear; you're with Willie, his father and a paddle " two strangers drifting into a perfectly right.' in the leading roles. The father gave voice church as the congregation was to the ancient platitude: "This hurts me, reciting with the minister: THEN, there's the one about a Swede son, far more than it does you." "We have left undone those things on the witness stand. The defendant Willie gritted his teeth. "Okey doke," which we ought to have done and we was accused of breaking a window with he said, "keep it up. I can stand it!" have done those things which we ought a large stone. The witness was being not to have done." pressed to tell how big the stone was, but FROM Gail W. Cunningham of New As the men settled into a pew, one with he could not establish exactly what was York City comes this piece of copy an evident sigh of relief on hearing those its size. from a sign in a lunch room which has words, whispered to the other: "Was it as big as my fist?" asked the tall tables at which people can stand and "Thank goodness, we've found our judge, who had taken over the examina- eat as well as tables of conventional crowd at last." height with chairs: "The chairs are for ladies; gentlemen will please re- A CAR that was almost falling frain from using them until ladies are apart drove up to the toll seated." bridge, as Ralph R. Richmond of Blanford, Massachusetts, tells it. AND there is the one about a cop "Fifty cents!" said the cashier. xl. stopping a wavering man. "Have "Sold!" replied the driver. you any explanation for wandering around drunk at this time of night?" IN WESTON, West Virginia, Dr. he asked. Plate is a dentist and Dr. Cure is a "Say," replied the rounder, "if I physician. had an explanation, I'd have faced my wife hours ago." ACCORDING to Legionnaire Ros- il coe L. Parkinson, of Chicago, a THE girl was telling her father breach of promise case was being about her latest conquest. "I'm tried and the rustic defendant was sure you'll like Charlie, dad; he's a under the cross examination of a fine young man." precise lawyer. "Has he any money?" "Now tell me, please," said the law- "Oh, dad—you men are all alike yer, sternly, "on the 16th of May so inquisitive. That's exactly what when you bade her goodby, did the Charlie asked me about you." plaintiff suffer you to kiss her?" "Well," replied the witness slowly, I WANT one of you," said the "I reckon I did give her a kiss or two, teacher, "to give me a definition but there wasn't much sufferin' about of the word widow." it as I could see." "A widow," said one of the children, "is a woman who lived with her hus- FOR the unusual-sign-collectors band so long that he died." club, Rev. John K. Borneman, of LaSalle Post, Niagara Falls, writes TN OKLAHOMA a man arrested on that a tourist home in his community X a felony charge was assigned a "Have you seen a blonde go by has this startling information on its lawyer whose crude appearance caused sign board: here on roller skates?" the prisoner to ask the judge: Tourists Air Conditioned. "Your Honor, is this my lawyer?" "Yes." TWO men were discussing the literary tion from the lawyers in the hope of get- "Is he going to defend me?" abilities of a friend, according to ting some results. "Yes." George Hubach of Russell, Massachu- "It bane bigger," the Swede replied. "If he should die, would I get another setts, when one remarked: "Was it as big as my two fists?" lawver?" "I understand he has just completed a "It bane bigger." "Yes." historical novel." "Was it as big as my head?" "Then, can I see him alone in the back "That so?" asked the other. "Who is "It bane about as long, but not so room for a few minutes?" the hero of the book?" thick." "The man who's going to publish it." AND there is one about a young woman STRANGER stood on the station l. who does a bit in the line of verse. GLENN D. CRAWFORD, National A platform in a small town and after She recently received the following note Comptroller, tells one about the sadly watching the train depart, asked from a magazine editor: police chief who asked the sergeant : "Did the station agent if he could direct him "Dear Madam: The verses entitled you give this man the third degree?" to the best hotel in town. 'The Kiss' are extremely clever. Can you "Yes, sir. We browbeat and badgered "Ican,"repliedtheagent,"butIhateto." assure me they are original?" him with every question we could think "Why?" Whereupon the young lady answered: of." "Because you will think, after you've "Dear Sir: Not quite. 'The Kiss' was a "What did he do?" seen it, that I'm a liar." job of collaboration."

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