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BRAND DAD The Message Center CONTENTS COVER DESIGN B\ W. Schlaikjer 36 COLONEL Edwin H. Randle of the J. 47th Infantry, Fort Bragg, North SO YOU'RE GOING TO JAPAN 4 Cartoons Bill Pause Carolina, appeals to us to get him by some trumpets. Priorities prevent his MAMMA CHIBOUT'S YANK 6 band buying new instruments, and with By H. Fredric Young Illustrations by Charles LaSalle competitions at the na- to Old all musical a fragrance THIRD FRONT 8 THERE'S tional convention in Kansas City hav- OCR Grand-Dad as tantalizing as By Ralph Robf.y ing been called off, maybe Legion a rare perfume, and a taste as Cartoons by John Cassel bands will be able to help out the gentle as Indian summer. Here NOT ALWAYS IN UNIFORM, BUT— 10 colonel. He'd like to buy or borrow the Thomas M. Johnson indeed is liquid delight, which By 20 G-D soprano or tenor Drawings by I. It. Hazelton men have held so high in affec- following: trumpets and ten G-D baritone trum- ISLAND'S A CINCH TO HOLD 12 tion that this venerable whiskey AN address By Irving Wallace of pets. Just write him at the has come by the title, Head Illustrations by Courtney Allen given if you can help out. the Bourbon Family. One taste WE'RE SMASHING RLCORDS 14 will tell you how well that title By K VTE Smith American Legion Magazine is is deserved. THE Cartoons by Sam Herman to reproduce as its cover privileged SCADS OF SOLDIER MAIL 16 for this issue a striking painting by By Rosn L. Hoi man Legionnaire Jes Schlaikjer which the War THE MAN WHO CONQUERED among Department has prepared as a poster for THE WORLD 18 bottled in bond general distribution. By Edwin Muller kentucky 20 straight bourbon The statement is often heard these AIRCRAFT SPOTTING By Wallcren whiskies days that the American Military Police- 21 man of the present war is not the "head- EDITORIAL cracking tough guy of the last war." It THE TURNING POINT 22 By Frederick Palmer should be made plain that the head- Illustrations by V. E. Pyles cracking tough guy. except as an isolated KEEP THE SOLDIER ON HIS TOES 24 did exist. The new military case, never By A. Owen Penney brother policeman differs from his elder SHREVE: HE BUCKED THE of World War number one chiefly in that CURRENT 26 he is receiving the benefit of training, the By Garnett Laidlaw Eskew elemental principlesof which were learned ANY JUNK TODAY? 28 in the first war. By Boyd B. Stutler The Corps of Military Police has been SMILIN' THROUGH 32 Noll organized early and designed to grow By John J. with the American Army and to meet its IT'S KANSAS CITY AGAIN 35 (Continued on page 46) BURSTS AND DUDS 56
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AUGUST, 1942 3 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Lfgion Magazine soldier, sailor and leather- YOU,neck in Uncle Sam's uniform, have a date with destiny on the main street of Tokyo. Up to the time you watch the race which Bill Pause depicts in the large cartoon on this page, that street on which the rickshaws, drawn by Jap generals, are coursing, will be known as the Ginza.
But if we know you fellows, within half an hour of the time you take over, signs will go up proclaiming it to be Doolittle Avenue. The Japs remember Jimmy and his boys. r When you get ashore you'll want to understand something of the language that the conquered Nipponese use. If you don't know it how are you going to have them step lively, get out of the way, carry your gun or police up when you've thrown your cigarette butts and what-have-you on the steps of the city hall? Early in June Chester A. Gile of Min- neapolis sent us a manuscript which gave a phonetic representation of the language the Japanese use in some of their every- day dealings with one another. It oc- curred to us that the only language an American would want to try out on a Jap would be the tough kind a mule- skinner uses in dealing with a jughead. But we get out a family magazine, and besides the Japs have only one word of profanity, (elsewhere on this page we let you in on it.) Anyway, we sent Mr. Gile a list of expressions Americans in uniform might be wanting to use when they got Note: The Japs don't use hard-boiled expressions in their language. And they have to Yokohama or Tokyo. only one swear word, bakka, which runs the gamut from You damn fool up and down Mr. Gile in due course sent some of the line. You can't talk about the emperor, one Hirohito, or the empress, but if you say Charlie and Emma genki? they will understand that you want the answer to this:
How are the Emperor and Empress feeling today? As if anybody cares! Here are some of the things our boys might start learning:
When do we eat? Tabaru nan gee deska? Take me to the war office Sombo hombu wah. Take me to the telephone exchange Chew oh denwa key yo ku. Where is the hotel? Ho-tai-ru wa doko deska? Hurry up Hiyaku. Go slow Sorrow sorrow. Take me to the custom house Za Zay kan wa doko deska. Where do we eat? Ree yor ree ya doko deska? Take me to the river How wa doko deska. You are too slow Anahta wa amri no roy. I have no money Connie wah eema motay e mah sen. Put that in writing Cho toe ki ee tay koo da say. Hat Bo-shee. Coat Guy-toe. Shoes Koot-sue. Clothes Yo-fu-ku. Be on time Gee kahn dori ni. Wait a minute Choto mati ku da sai. Forget it Scatter ga nigh. Turn out the light Denki kesh-tay. Dog Enu. "I'm taking over your bed, Togo, Cat Necco. Uma. and you and your family are out" Horse Bird Cotori.
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the words on our list back to us in Jap Jap would never have the effrontery to phonetics, and to check on its accuracy claim that he was anybody a-tall. we sent the script to Lawrence G. Bloch- It was there that Bill Pause came into man of the Office of War Information. the picture, so to say. Shortly after the Mr. Blochman told us that while Mr. bombing of Tokyo by Doolittle & Co., Gile's phonetics were pretty good they it will be remembered, President Roose- needed some changes and that something velt told a young woman who wanted to should be done about explaining to our know where the bombers came from that boys in uniform the Jap soldier's funda- they had been based on Shangri-La. He mental ways of thinking. He suggested let it go at that, but the Nazis and the that the best person available for that Japs got busy and looked for Shangri-La job was Marjorie Young, wife of James through all the atlases they could dig up. R. Young, the International News Serv- Actually, of course, Shangri-La was born "Oh boy, if Betty Smith ice Correspondent the Japs imprisoned in the fertile brain of James Hilton and could see me now!" for sixty-one days because he wouldn't made its bow in his "Lost Horizon." Bill "play ball" with the Japanese army in Pause made a drawing of various ficti- its press campaign. tious places mentioned in the literature So we got in touch with Mrs. Young. of all ages, all with very proper bound- She said it was all too true that our sol- aries, and placed Shangri-La smack in diers, once they had landed and had the the center. It was such a delicious mor- situation in hand (oh, yes, with the help sel that Bill's bosses on the New York of the Marines and of the Navy) would World-Telegram put it on page one of have to remember that the Japs are their paper, where it was greeted with indeed a funny race. While it would be grins, chuckles, guffaws and belly-laughs. all right to tell a German or an Italian The original of that drawing is now a that he'd be drilled with a bullet if he prized possession of the President of the didn't obey you, it wouldn't work with United States, but you may see a repro- a Jap, who figures that being killed that duction of it on page 51. way is the surest way for him to get a So we asked Bill to illustrate what- grand welcome in heaven from his "hon- ever we might want to use of the Jap orable" ancestors. The way to deal with phonetics. The result you may see here- a Jap, Mrs. Young went on, was to de- with. grade him before others by making him Every one of Bill's pictures will cause perform unwillingly some very menial those so-screwy Japs to bite nails, if they "Hey, Toyama, you'll look swell task. Once handled in that manner, the ( Continued on page 50) doin' that at Broadway and 42nd"
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hard glinting wall of bayo- explosion at the power plant a mile out pied France; he was trapped by the ele- THATnets grimly promised that the of town wrecked all the machinery. The ment of time and the cruelty of preci- American could not escape alive foraging group of American Commandos sion. At best, he faced starvation. Be-
it was just a matter of time, of had escaped save the one they had shot cause the colonel with the stiff Prussian starving him out of his hole. through the leg. It was daylight next face, who had arrived to assume per- The tall, lean-faced and snappish -eyed morning before the drops of blood, and sonal charge of the hunt, had devised a young man had been swallowed, some- the signs of a dragging foot, could be very clever plan. It was as cold as the how, in the little village of Lille. For traced into town, and the search gray channel water lapping against the twenty-four hours a day the search localized. bloody shores of Dunkerque. pressed hard. German soldiers and Ges- Brawny German patrols rubbed their It loaded Mamma Chibout's already tapo agents in plain clothes are a hard- hands briskly. They had shivered down burdened shoulders with worry. headed lot, and do not easily admit de- inside, where it wouldn't show, when The first four days of the search were feat in a village filled with tottering old first news of arriving Americans broke; ceaseless hours of terror. Heavy-booted men and women with suckling babies cra- but they had one at their mercy. The men examined every niche in town, leav- dled beneath their black shawls. Around Yankee pig could not now escape occu- ing their prints in the forgotten dust of the town the beautiful forest was made unsightly by a solid ring of bayonets, and booted feet ravished the dew-fresh pods of wild flowers that speckled the friendly terrain. Chi It took place on the night that the big Mamma bouts
The silent wince of pain from M'sieur Yank, and the labored breathing of Mamma Chibout
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garrets and on the damp sod floors of 1 91 8. . . . And now again those ustrations by
cellars. Steel-hooded faces drew stark pic- dreaded Boches. . . . CHARLES tures against lamp-lighted window panes. The fact that M'sieur Yank LA SALLE There was dull apprehension in every was in hiding—though you might true Frenchman's heart, but there was say in tissue paper—caused a silence on his lips, where it counted. hard silence to undermine the The people of Lille tried not to pause pleasant smiles and nods when in their daily routine of life. They dared the sun would burst upon the not stand and whisper because, as morning and greetings of the day Mamma Chibout had often cautioned, were in order. the walls have ears. And if anyone should There would be threats—aye know, it was the old wrinkled woman, and perhaps some of the old men because she remembered 1915, 1917, would be beaten. But there would be silence, above all, and the lean-faced American, who had braved death to rescue fallen France, would not be found. He would not be found alive, hissed the stiff
Prussian face. . . . After the initial search, when the yellow placards were pasted all over town, villagers of Lille obligingly paused to read of the hundred thousand-franc reward for information that would lead to M'sieur Yank's ap- prehension. They read, but none claimed the reward, though more than a hundred might have done so. "M'sieur Yank saved us in 191 7," they said, low. "He has returned—we will save him this time." And it made them feel
good, saying that in the darkness; it filled their hearts with something rich and buoyant and responsive. The coming of the khaki-clad daredevils had been Heavy-booted men a dream. . . . examined every "It is useless for the German goats to niche in town offer us money," Mamma Chibout quietly confided to a next-door neigh- bor, Marie Cadet. "If for nothing else, cap, smiling and shrugging her thin the sake of your baby. And anyway shoulders. "One must work with a far ." inspiration," her lean lips said . . . Silence was the way of all French- vision for men to imply "there will always be a again and again. Because Mamma Chi- ." masses of France . . Marie nodded. bout remembered when Everywhere in town were the yellow M'sieur Yanks raced down gangplanks posters, but none read them twice. Once, of many huge ships more than twenty only, to oblige. You must oblige to live. years ago. And soon after that the church And you live only to listen to that voice bells were again ringing. ... As old as of hope that trickles across the Atlantic she was, Mamma Chibout hadn't much waters. You have lived through terror, else to do but remember. and threats become only the promise of It was her age, now, that counted. She more terror, more scars, therefore the evoked no glances of particular suspicion
effect is not strong, but weak. The cling- from the machine eyes of the guards. ing hope of a future mocks fear. Today And the last great war had taught the you nod to your neighbor, tomorrow you old woman that one's stomach can en- dure far greater hardships than the mind. may help bury him ; but the next day der is the old woman could share Fiihrer might be buried. That is hope. . . . That why without suffering her meagre ration of MAMMA CHIBOUT was an old black bread and potatoes with the Amer- woman. She had an inoffensive ican. For it was Mamma Chibout who way of smiling beneath her white frilled was hiding M'sieur Yank. The night that the explosion had trembled every sliver of her house, Mamma Chibout had devoutly crossed herself and muttered, "That the brave ." men escape. . . Last week it was a train wreck; the H. FREDRIC week before a German munitions dump had thrown a weird, thundering sheet of white flame skyward. This week the YOUNG {Continued on page jp)
AUGUST, 1942 In destroying the German and Jap Cartoons by gangsters we must make certain JOHN CASSEL OUR the collectivists don't take us over THIRD FRONT?
SUPPOSE someone turned to you at luncheon tomorrow and said that RALPH ROBEY the real purpose of this war—the By reason we are in it and the reason we must win—is to get rid of our present have opinions that they are willing to I asked him what he thought we were political and business system. express and defend in public. fighting for. Or let me state the case as it was put Finally, one of the men—a distinguished His answer was, it seemed to me, one up to me a few weeks ago. scholar whose books you may well have of the most shocking things I have ever I was lunching with six or eight men read—turned to me in answer to some heard from a responsible person. who are interested in and rather un- rather offhand comment I had made and He started out by explaining that there usually well informed on current events said: is no question whatever as to our tradi- —writers, teachers and lecturers. Discus- "Robey, you don't really believe, do tional and present system of government sion naturally turned to the war. We re- you, that we are fighting this war to and business being gone forever—that hashed its origin, how serious its outcome save 'the American way of life'?" we are moving something basically dif- is to our future, how we are getting What would your answer be to such a ferent during the war and that the old along, where the weak spots appear to be, question? system just doesn't have a chance of whether there is a possibility of its being Mine was that I knew damn well that being re-established at the end of the a short war, and all the other questions is what the American public thinks it's war. In place of that we will have a that arise in such a free-for-all conver- fighting for—and I spelled it out with system which may best be termed "Amer- sation among persons whose job it is to as much vigor as I could command. Then ican fascism."
Paying lip service to President Roosevelt and the cause of the United Nations, extreme radicals in the U.S.A. are using the war effort as a screen to their efforts to make a col-
lectivist system of government here inevitable, once the war is won. We asked Dr. Robey, Columbia University economist and writer on current events, to analyze for Legionnaires this
under-cover effort to kill the constitutional democracy under which this country has grown great
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"We are fighting the war, therefore," tention to it in thinking of the future. in complete disagreement—that they are he said, "not to determine what kind of It was just so much intellectual pap, playing right into the hands of those system we are going to have in the future such as has to be put out from time to who are primarily interested in bringing —we already know that-—but to de- time to keep the public satisfied." our present economic and political sys- termine whether our particular brand of That conversation, as I say, was some tem to an end. weeks ago. Since then I have spent a So much for that side of the picture. good bit of time comparing ideas with Let us now look at the broad pattern. As friends and studying developments for I see it, five elements are involved. These the purpose of enabling me to make up are as follows: my mind as to whether there is any pos- 1 —A constant and ever-lasting reach- sible basis for taking the ideas of this ing for power by Washington. Now ob- ^ person seriously. Necessarily one can viously, in order to conduct the war effort Hot successfully . / never have more than an opinion on Washington needs far more such a question—or at least not until power than in peace times. But that is it is too late to do anything about it not the kind of concentration of power but I have come to the definite convic- that I am talking about. I mean the tion that such views do need to be taken reaching for power that goes clear beyond seriously—that, as one of my friends that need. Let me put it in the form of frankly states it, "something is going on a question: Do you think the guiding
in this country that goes far beyond principle in Washington is to impose just just trying to lick the Nazis and the as few restrictions upon business and Japs." upon us as individuals as possible, or do To put the case bluntly: We have a you think the guiding principle is to battle front in Europe; we have a battle bring the economic system under as com- front in the Far East; and we have a plete control as possible? I think that it battle front right here at home. It is is the latter—and I think the record sup- our third front and it is no less a war, ports my conclusion. and no less a threat to our future, than 2—Withhold all information possible those in Europe and the Far East. about what is being accomplished by our
Can I cite evidence that this is true present economic system in the way of that there is this third front within our production. Again, much of this is neces- own borders? Yes, I can cite evidence. sary in the interest of the war effort. But And what is more important, so can you, again, much more is being done in this if you will think for a moment. All you direction than is required by any possible need is the broad pattern. logical interpretation of "giving aid and Before turning to that, however, I comfort to the enemy." Do you think it
want to emphasize one thing. This is would be a comfort to Hitler to know we
that I do not believe that there is a can turn out a bomber in a little more "plan" which has been consciously de- than an hour? I should think the only veloped for the destruction of our eco- persons who could get comfort out of nomic and political system—that there such a fact as that is the American pub- is a group, either in or out of Washing- lic and our Allies. But long after this
ton, which is working together as a unit schedule was in operation the American with a view to bringing about such a people were unaware of it. And the same change. In other words, I am not talking is true of many other industrial miracles. (Continued on page fascism will be run by ourselves or by about some "plot," but simply about a 44) Germany." state of mind and a trend of develop- That was his first point. He then went ments. ahead: "Now it is certain that we will Necessarily this state of mind and this
win the war. That is only a matter of trend of developments are the work of time. We may be sure, thus, that the individuals. In many instances, too, these control of our political and economic individuals are working with the delib- system will remain in our own hands. But erate purpose of bringing about a that is only half the story—half the fundamental change in our economic fight that we have in front of us. The and political system. But they are other half is the fight to decide who working as individuals, not as mem- what class among us— is going to come bers of an organized group. out on top—whether our government Further, many other persons—by and economic system is to continue to far the majority, I should think—who be run by big business or along 'demo- are directly involved in furthering this " cratic lines' —and by "democratic lines" state of mind and this trend of de- he made clear that he meant having velopments, are as loyal and patriotic everything decided by Washington as anyone in the country'. They are wages, prices, production, everything. merely trying to get a job done and "If that is all true," I interrupted, because of their concentration on this "what of the so-called Atlantic Charter they fail to see the picture which was drawn up by President Roose- as a whole—they fail to see velt and Prime Minister Churchill last how their actions fit into summer? That was a pledge of liberalism the general pattern. In con- in the old sense of the term—just the sequence, they do not realize opposite of what you have outlined." that they are making a sub- "Oh, that," he replied, "was a hundred stantial contribution toward They'll try to put across totalitarian- percent fraud. You mustn't pay any at- an end with which they are ism here after we've achieved victory
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We know enemy agents are reach- ing our shores in rubber boats
SECRET service should be sons, and because they are in danger secret." enough already, more danger than any A That maxim of war has been troops save those actually fighting. Dur- THOMAS M. observed from time immem- ing the bombings of Pearl Harbor and orial. But this war has been hell on im- Manila they were out rounding up long- JOHNSON memorial maxims. In this public-rela- spotted Japanese agents. They were in tions-conscious year 1942, the ancient the foxholes of Bataan. In Northern secrecy is largely out—even from "se- Ireland they are crossing up the anti- set a fire on an army pier. He was not cret" service. De Valera I. R. A. propagandists trying German, Jap or Italian but "American" Wherefore the announcement has to weaken morale in our new A. E. F. and there are all too many like him, lately been authorized, that the Army And when American troops land in which helps explain why the C. I. C. has what used to be called a "secret France, among the first will be the un- needs cooperation from the patriotic
service," now termed the Counter-intel- recognized men of the C. I. C. They are majority, especially Legionnaires. ligence Corps. That is news to most a frontline Corps and risk bomb and bul- Spy hunting is different today from
Americans, even Legionnaires, who have let as well as a knife in the back. what it was in 191 8. In our war, the heard only of the excellent F. B. I., An operative searching for saboteurs spies and subverts were German, plus which is as secret as a swing band on a on an army construction job saw a some Hungarians, a few Irish who ad- nation-wide hookup. shadow whizzing toward him, turned, and hered to the Jeremiah O'Leary formula The Army's C. I. C. now ceases to be ducked a heavy Stillson wrench dropped of hating England more than Germany, a secret corps in the old sense, which from above. "Thank God the sun was and communists. Native Americans were meant that its very existence, certainly shining!" he exclaimed. But he had been more than 99 percent loyal, and natural- its methods, were secret. Nevertheless, it spotted, so was replaced by three other ized Americans almost 99 percent. The is trained in the tricks and ruses of spy- men. They got the saboteur. The C. I. A. E. F. had its Corps of Intelligence hunting, from shadowing, through secret C. is like that—dangerous but thorough. Police, which was secret in the old-time inks, even to lie-detectors. It is catch- Its cases range from sinister to ridicu- sense—but it was far smaller than its ing numerous foreign agents, saboteurs lous. It detects fake heroes, including 1942 successor, the C. I. C. And it had and propagandists who are working one 24-year-old private who wore the an easier time. against our rapidly growing Army, and "Purple Heart," and a "General" who Only twelve members of the A. E. F. some disloyal soldiers and government rode War Department cars around Wash- were shipped home for disloyalty, only employes. Wherever they are, in camp ington. The C. I. C. may spend weary 79 civilians interned, 102 expelled from or field, there is the C. I. C. hours in a flat eavesdropping on low that large area, the S. 0. S., in nearly
Those facts can be told—but not the jokes in Low German ; or tense moments two years; only 26 enemy agents were identity of its undercover agents. That in a Brooklyn jail watching a miserable encountered. Now, although the Army remains deeply secret, for obvious rea- pro-Nazi crumble and confess he had has no such group as the I. P., about
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that many are turned up in this country sensational murder case. They are the on some single days, including many pick of the Army, chosen for guts and trained professional agents. Then the few brains plus imagination, but dominated German spies here under the famous Von by dogged determination. They are rare Papen were mostly amateurs and could birds, part hawk, part woodpecker. be detected by their accents or their One secret of secret service that can names like Hasenpfeffer. Today there now be revealed is that it's not what it's are myriad subversive organizations with cracked up to be; all dramatic intrigues, democratic labels, and leaders named picturesque disguises, and beautiful Smith and Pelley. The years since 1918, women spies. Mostly, it's details and first of jazz, then of depression, have drudgery; asking questions, keeping hardened some Americans in a mold that vigils, watching, waiting, "looking only greater hardness can crack. dumb," as one C. I. C. man said. Many It takes men who are tough under a successful spy-hunter follows a formula stress, physical and moral. The no more involved than this: "I asked C. I. C. wants no softies—not nice myself what I'd have done if I'd been boys, just well-educated—but men the guy—and I did—and he had." who can stand long hours, danger, But often, too, he hasn't. Many spy violence. "The enemy," applicants are investigations end in a blank wall. Yet told, "does not recognize 'pull' as a sub- the spy-hunter can't be a Humpty- Note to HER: "Don't ask HIM" stitute for guts and ability. Neither do Dumpty. He must jump up enthusiastic
we." The Corps prefers experienced in- for the next case. Spy-catching is not vestigators—district attorneys, police, Once chosen, a C. I. C. is a sergeant, like bull-fighting, all color and action, detectives, but not divorce-framers. Still although you might not guess it from his but like working out a jigsaw puzzle, pa- it includes former actors, ballplayers, appearance. He may wear uniform or tiently fitting bits of information into embalmers, even a seismograph operator. civilian clothes. Although he does not go the right places, until lo! there appears One operative speaks thirteen languages; in for movie disguises, he may look like the whole picture of the enemy's effort many speak two. They comprise all rich man, poor man, beggar man, per- and better, of the organization, the men, tie colors, creeds and ages. But there is no haps even thief. One favors white the women, and the means whereby he is back door, and civilians can't just walk and tails, for night clubs are his beat; making that effort. This is hard, for his in at the front, n candidate must enter another former socialite is "having won- agents are many, professionals and ama- the Army as an enlisted man, get the derful time" as a species of shoplifter; teurs, usually unknown to one another, physical and moral hardening of its thir- head of one detachment is a former de- Germans, Italians, Japanese, and some teen weeks' basic training in camp, be tective officer famed for "breaking" a of their slave-races—Rumanians, Ukrain- investigated "from first tooth to latest ians, Hungarians, Spaniards, Croats filling." Is his record for loyalty clear? and crack-pot American Fascists, and Can he carry out a difficult assignment plain crooks and racketeers with their in dive or drawing room, keep his head, hands out. get his man? Some of them are in the Army, some
The C. I. C. is the most highly se- on its fringes. Wherever they are, it lective of all army units. Nine out of takes several thousand C. I. C.'s ten of its applicants can't stand the the number is growing steadily gaff. And those who can are on their to keep tabs on them. The work way to a valuable, highly-confidential piles up—fifteen or twenty cases service, but not to riches. Their pay in / to a man—and gets heavier rather ,) the field is $78 a month plus the usual than lighter as the Army increases "board'n keep;" or in cities may with in numbers. allowances equal $150 to $200 a month. On the fringes are civilian em- The C. I. C. operative is a sergeant, but ployes in offices, forts and other may seldom wear chevrons. When he army reservations, and factories joins the "Legion that never was working for the Army. Recently, "listed," his record goes blank. In actual several thousand of these were un- fact, he goes to a secluded school that der investigation for loyalty. Luck- trains him in the versatile art of being ily, the C. I. C. need not worry a secret agent. He learns pistol marks- about crime and immorality, which manship and judo; how to finger- concern the Military Police under print and how to "tail"—all the the Provost Marshal General. The tricks of spy and saboteur, but M. P. has its own crime detective "there isn't a false whisker in the force, just as the A. E. F. had the place." This secret corps are not D. C. I. whose true tales were pulp paper nor celluloid, but all made famous by Karl Detzer in wool. this magazine. The C. I. C. checks They are trained to take care of civilian employes through a system of themselves in circumstances as per- questionnaires and passes and photo-
ilous as faced the A. E. F.'s I. P. graphs. Even office waste-baskets are They are told how its operatives watched against the old spy trick of countered enemy spies, penetrated bribing charwomen to deliver their Germany, and brought back infor- contents. Another spy-trick is to get mation; how Sergeant Peter De employes into their clutches through Pasqua worked into a Spanish sabo- loan sharks. These dangers are es- teur gang at Selles-sur-Cher, swore pecially great in Washington. a blood-oath, "Death to the Amer- There the C. I. C. has cooperated icans!" Just in time to duck away from it {Continued on page 37)
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YEAR ago, when he'd first come few seamen, rowed to the lit- A to his tiny South Sea island, tle island and deposited Rog- Roger Wembly had felled the er's monthly cargo. Canned ~ palm tree. For a man who was food. Periodicals. Gossip. an artist, and not a tree-cutter, it had Painting supplies. been a good job. The tree now leaned Today, however, was a cri- against the huge rusting warehouse, and sis. Food low. Very low. the notches in the tree made it a perfect Painting equipment low. Rog- ladder. er wondered, as he set down Today, easel and paints under an arm, his easel and paints, what binoculars dangling from his neck, Roger would happen if the boat Wembly once again, with nervous anxi- didn't ... He looked down ety, made his way up the tree onto the and about, at his tiny island. roof of the old tin warehouse. It was a lush little island, one Roger Wembly was worried. Already of a million scattered among the freighter was two weeks overdue. the hot Philippines, but it wasn't larger
Always, before, it had arrived precisely than an eighteen hole golf course, with it a policy to talk aloud as often as pos- on time, once each month out of Manila no other humans and no wild life. There sible each day. It was a good thing to on its way South to Cebu and then on were berries, of course, and fresh water do, especially when you were alone so to Australia. Always, before, the freight- "I wish they still kept things in this much. When he'd first found the island, er stopped, and Captain Peters, with a warehouse," Roger said aloud. He made in his travels through the East, he
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"But there may be no more boats. I'm heading for Aus- tralia—" Roger Wembly interrupted. "You said American bombers
may come here. I'll stay with
the warehouse, and I'll paint, and think. When the bombers come, maybe they'll take me back." They were coming low, very The two army men re- low, these light bombers turned, clucking their tongues with sat- with the Rising Sun emblem isfaction. They thought it was a swell warehouse. Good tin. Only mildly warm inside. He listened with half "Only thing," said one mind. The other half played army officer. "It must stick out like a sore thumb, with its own thoughts. War. that warehouse. The Japs might spot it." He knew it would come. But so soon "No," answered Roger. "This island is and—so close. He had been far away, on out of the way. They'll never find this this island, far from the war. When it island." started at Munich, he left San Francisco He told them, then, that he'd like to to come away and be alone. The first stay and go back with the war had been his individual investment bombers. The army men looked at him queerly, in mankind. He'd fought two years in and there was a big discussion, and France. Enough to pay the world for his they said the bombers might not come for a month little space. He didn't want to pay rent or more, and maybe, might not twice, with his body and mind, so he'd come at all. He said he'd risk it. come away, with his little money, to For three hours after, the freighter's paint. And now, Captain Peters was say- boats carried mighty tins of gasoline and ing, it had come to the islands. oil to the shore, and then Roger helped He met the two men in uniform. the ship's men carry the fuel into the United States army officers from Manila. dark innards of the warehouse. Already they were leaving him and walk- Later, after this was done, Captain ing toward the warehouse. Peters de- livered Roger a boatload of food, and IRVING Captain Peters, talking. "I told them also his painting supplies. "I brought the about this island. The Japs would never painting stuff, Roger. Thought you'd WALLACE even see it. Such a small island. And want it on the boat to Australia." the warehouse— Before sundown, they left. The learned it had been used by trading "The warehouse?" freighter left. Roger Wembly was alone schooners as a storehouse. Thus, the tre- Captain Peters, talking. "The Army again. mendous warehouse, sitting like an out- needs a place like this—hundreds and (Continued on page 48) sized matchbox on a little plate. hundreds of gallons of gasoline and oil
Roger Wembly took up his binoculars we have on board . . . They want to
and looked to the Northeast. He saw it store the gasoline and oil . . . American on the first look. Just like that. The boat. planes are already basing in Australia. It was plowing along toward the island. Roger, and the Army needs a little island,
"Captain Peters!" he exclaimed. "My a filling station, to tuck stuff away . . . cargo!" he shrieked. The Philippines are going to the Japs He put down his glasses, and stood, and the Army needs
tingling. Twenty years peeled off him a hideaway, a fill- from that moment. He felt like sixteen. ing station nearby, He riveted the glasses to his eyes for its bombers, again. It was the boat, all right. Grow- when they come ing fatter in the glasses. from Australia Quickly, he covered his easel and against the Japs, paints with a piece of canvas, then hur- and need fuel to ried down the palm, kicked off his dirty return home— sneakers, and ran along the vast expanse "Where are my of hard white sand to the beach. supplies?" asked Presently, the freighter put to anchor. Roger. Soon they were rowing toward him. He "Why— you're squinted through the glasses. Captain coming with us Peters. Two seamen, bareback, pulling. to Australia," said And two others, in uniform. He stood Captain Peters. puzzled. Then strode up the beach, hum- "No." Roger
ming happily, but puzzled. Wembly 's decision He went into the water to help them was positive. "I've in. And then Captain Peters, in stum- got to think. I need bling words, was telling him. The Japs. time. I can't just The dirty Japs. Pearl Harbor. Luzon. — just get up and No, he told the officers. He Wake. The dirty Japs. leave." just couldn't get up and leave
AUGUST, 1942 13 Fighting men of the United Nations like their music, just as you did back then. And isn't that humming sailor's facial expression a honey?
KATE SMITH
or worn out or just old—it adds to the tinuous series of new pile of scrap we're salvaging, so that releases going out to the we can raise at least $500,000 to obtain boys at regular intervals new records and phonographs players for the duration. HELLO, everybody: for the men of the armed service. And To raise the money By the time this issue of when I say new records, I mean a con- necessary to keep these the Legion Magazine reaches records going out to the you, you will have been work- boys, we need 37,500,000 ing with us on Records For Our Fight- old records. That's not ing Men for some time. The formal many, especially when dates for the nation-wide campaign are you and I know what music means to July 17th to August 2d. I don't have to men in the camps, forts, hospitals, ships tell you how exhilarating it is to be and marine bases. You can turn them marching arm-in-arm with the Legion in to your Post or to collection agencies and the Legion Auxiliary in this cam- whose whereabouts will be announced paign to provide the best in recorded by your local newspaper. You know be- music for our boys in all the training cause you're veteran fighting men. You camps and bases and battle stations of remember how the most inspiring songs the world. born during the last war swept the You know, of course, that you've world, and inspired you to new efforts, taken on a hard job. It's not easy to new courage, and new achievement. For go from door to door picking up old my part, I know what music means to phonograph records. But it is surely fighting men, because I've been in vari- worth the effort. For every time you ous camps with other artists and have collect an old record—it makes no been seeing the heartening response of difference whether it's cracked or broken Cartoons by SAM BERMAN the men to good entertainment. And
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Scour the attic, ransack the clothes closet and the music cabinet for old phonograph records and turn them in to your Post. Shape, size and condition don't matter, because they'll be broken up and made into new records for our fighting men. The goal is 37,500,000. With 200 million old records cluttering up households that shouldn't be too hard. And the boys will be awfully grateful
this response has made me feel how Crooks, Edwin Franko Goldman, Guy wonderful it would be if those of us Lombardo, Rudolf Serkin, Yehudi Menu- who make, play and sing music could hin, Danny Kaye, Tommy Tucker, Helen visit all the fronts and bases every- Traubel, Charlie Spivak, Eddie Duchin, where. Phil Spitalny, Artur Rodzinski, Claude But we can't. So the next best thing Thomhill, Gene Krupa, Igor Gorin, June 7th, I was in Washington taking is to send recorded music. Horace Heidt, Dick Jurgens, Edward part with Ted Collins in the mass in- A group of us have banded together Kilenyi, Suzanne Sten, Robert Casadesus, duction of more than 12,000 volunteers to work out the best possible way to Bruna Castagna, John Carter, Marek for the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast acquire these records. We aren't asking Weber, Astrid Varnay, Frankie Masters, Guard. The men were sworn in at 2:23 for money. After all, there are an es- Leonard Warren—to name only a few. p. m., Eastern War Time, six months timated 200,000.000 old records in Amer- Once we've acquired 37,500,000 old to the minute after the infamous Jap ican attics and basements. These old discs, we're going to sell them to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. From records are simply accumulating dust phonograph record companies. They'll coast to coast, in hundreds of villages, they're junk to the owners. But to you mash 'em up and extract the materials towns and cities, volunteers were tak- and me they're a means of reaching our needed in the making of new records. ing the oath of allegiance and vowing goal. Then they'll provide us—at manufactur- to avenge the men who died in that To do this we incorporated a non- ers' cost—with whatever records we sneak attack. Then and there I resolved profit agency, Records For Our Fight- want. Furthermore, we're picking a spe- that these boys who were being sworn ing Men, Inc., with Kay Kyser, Fritz cial committee to decide on what records in would have every assurance that Reiner, Gene Autry, Sigmund Spaeth the boys in the armed services will re- we're all behind them. and myself as incorporators. In addition we have the pledged support of nearly fifty of the most celebrated names in the musical world. But the musical world couldn't do this job on a nation- wide basis, without the patriotic coopera- tion of The American Legion. I know that the more than a million Legionnaires in your twelve thousand Posts and the half-million Auxiliary women in more than nine thousand Units throughout our great country will pitch into this job with the will they have shown in many other efforts in sup- port of our nation at war. Your Legion National Commander, Lynn U. Stam- baugh, and your Auxiliary National President, Mrs. Mark W. Murrill. are supporting this activity to the utmost. Both of those national officers will serve on our board of directors and as members of our executive committee. Legion members who, as veterans, are particularly qualified to know the type of music that is enjoyed by men in uni- form, will be on the board of judges that will select recordings of popular and classical music for distribution to Does Kate rate with service men! In personal appearances she wows our troops. them, and in this records-collection job she's batting a thousand Already pledging their full support is a group of musicians running the entire scale from grand opera to boogie-woogie. ceive. And you can bet your shirt that I'm an entertainer and you're veterans. This group comprises a Who's Who in the committee will be the best qualified We can work together to carry out a American Music—Lily Pons, Nino Mar- for picking the best music. There'll be wonderful responsibility. Lei's put this tini, Andre Kostelanetz, Cab Calloway, every kind of music—ballads, swing campaign over with a bang, and let the Glenn Miller, Count Basie, John Barbi- music, sweet music, hillbilly and west- fruits of our work mean comfort and rolli, Morton Gould, Adolf Busch, Lotte ern songs, semi-classical, classical, and recreation and warm remembrance to Lehmann, Lauritz Melchior, Benny novelty numbers. our fighting men, wherever they may be. Goodman, Joseph Szigeti, Richard On a warm Sunday afternoon last God bless America!
AUGUST. 1942 15 — & ROSS L. HOLMAN OF SOLDIER LETTERS and none of them get lost
that our Government has opes and dispatched through the NOWinstalled, with improvements regular mails for delivery. In time, developed through many it is expected to make V-Mail Serv- months of study and prepara- ice available to the folks at home tion by the War, Navy and Post Office through a great number of post of- Departments, the airgraph service en- fices, for their correspondence with joyed by the British Tommies in the their men in the armed forces sta- Middle East, you won't have to wait four tioned outside of continental United or five weeks for a letter from your boy States. in North Ireland or in England. This Microfilm is a comparatively re- expeditious postal service is known as cent development in the field of re- V-Mail (the V for victory—some people production and is used to make film also call it Airgraph Service) and pos- copies of all kinds of printed or writ- sibly by the time you read these lines, it ten material. It is extensively used will be extended to our forces in Australia in filming books. A public library, and in other distant parts of the world, for instance, is crowded for shelf and a proportionate saving in delivery room. It can start photographing time will be effected. You won't receive the pages of the oldest books on a the original letter just as the boy wrote roll of film—the size of those used it, but a picture of it. It will be photo- for moving pictures. When the graphed on a roll of film containing books are reduced to film they take snapshots of other letters 1700 AEF FORCE. , tASi,, sT from the same place, and the reel will MIDDLE- reach the U. S. in five to ten days by plane. The "Dear Pop" communica- Queen Elizabeth wrote the first tions you and hundreds of airgraph message to troops in other dads read will be en- Egypt. At left, quite evidently larged prints from the film the news from home is good negatives after they reach this country. It will be a great satis- up only five percent of the shelf faction to parents, wives space occupied by the original vol- and sweethearts to know umes. A library patron can insert the that letters from their AEF roll in a reading machine on the li- boys won't be ancient his- brary table and reproduce the tiny tory when they get them. negative copy on the reader screen
This is the latest stream- to full page size. Excerpts of a book lined method of conveying or magazine article can be photo- information that microfilm graphed and made available in pho- has built. Special station- tostat form. Patrons who need them ery will be supplied to our for reference pay a nominal charge troops in far-off places to have them made. providing space for the Many business offices and banks name and address of the have reduced their office records to addressee and also of the microfilm copy because they then take sender, together with the up only one percent of the space. It is date and a place for the so adjusted that a film record of a let- censor's stamp. Thus, after ter or document can be brought to the microfilm rolls are re- visibility on the office reading ma- ceived in this country and chine much more quickly than the have been developed and original can be fingered out of a file. photostatic copies made on It was this saving in bulk, weight special forms, these re- and time that inspired the first air- produced letters will be graph service in the world now oper- sealed in window envel- ating between Britain and the Middle
16 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine million letters sent home the ordinary way would stack up to 35 tons of cargo. Reduced to celluloid they weigh 500 pounds and can be carried as a small part of the load of a freight plane. The post- age cost per letter is six cents as com- pared with 36 cents a half ounce by sea. Airgraph solves another problem. Dad, Mother and the girl he left behind him can read about the soldier boy's activ- ities while the emotions resulting from them are still surging in his breast. Things happen so swiftly in blitzkrieg war that a two months' old letter from a navy recruit on a Far Eastern front may tell of battle experiences that are as ob- solete as last year's newspaper. An epistle from Sonny Boy when Singa- pore was about to fall would make queer reading if it reached Dad's hand after Coral Sea. A gloomy let- ter from a besieged Tommy in Ger- man-invaded Egypt should not have to be spilled on the home folks after Rommel has been chased back to Bengasi—or vice versa. As far as the Middle East is concerned his
Oh, yes, it's a machine opera- tion. At right, Yanks in Aus- tralia getting mail. Airgraph now supplements this
East. The mail deliverer in Egypt or Palestine doesn't have to drive up to an army post with a truck of pouches. He digs two or three spools of celluloid out of his pocket and announces that the mail has arrived. Airgraph service between Britain and the Middle East has now been in operation since May, 1941. Plans were later made to extend it to Cape Town and other outposts. Its technique is startling in its sim- plicity and one w onders why no one ever thought of it before. It works this way: A boy in Auchinleck's forces wants to write home. He pens his message on a plain by 11 sheet of paper. After being censored by the proper authorities it is sent to the airgraph recording office in Cairo. By high speed photography this communication now reaches home is turned into a thumb-nail nega- quickly enough for the family to rejoice tive Yi by 5^-inch size. The letters can are dried at the rate of forty a minute, when he rejoices and weep when he be photographed at the rate of 2,000 an cut, sorted and mailed out to addressees weeps. hour, and 4,500 of them can be snapped in special envelopes. Besides all the other advantages on a roll of film weighing only one As compared with slow ocean-going named, microfilm letters provide a perm- pound. In their original letter form they mail, airgraph service not only saves anent record of war time correspondence. would weigh 150 pounds. After being weight and cargo space but annihilates If a mail-carrying plane is blitzed out photographed they are packed for mail- distance like nobody's business. Mail of the sky the originals are still intact. ing, 1,700 to a six-ounce spool. These from the Middle East can be delivered The letters can all be processed again spools are then flown to a central point in Britain in five to ten days as com- and sent out by another plane. The serv- in Britain. Here the films are fed into pared with a month to five weeks by sea. ice simplifies the censor's task of check- a special developing machine that spins The service works both ways and British ing espionage mail sent out under the out the letter reproductions at the rate home folks can reply to their soldier guise of "letters back home," or "letters of 3,600 an hour and enlarges the boys with the same speed. And—just to to the front." In scanning millions of prints to 4 by 5 inches—large enough show what a tremendous burden it takes communications crowding the postal for anyone to read. The letter prints off Britannia's vital war shipping—two {Continued on page 46)
AUGUST, 1942 17 "~T"T" f ERE the accounts of % I all battles, save only ^/ ^/ those of Genghis Khan, effaced from the pages of history . . . the soldier would still possess a mine of un- told wealth from which to extract nuggets of knowledge useful in mold- ing an army." That was said by General Douglas MacArthur. The soldier, he explains, cannot learn his profession solely by practice. He must go to the past to acquire the art of war. Not the changing techniques and weapons but the unchanging fundamentals. Nowhere can he find them better exemplified than in the career of the great Emperor of the Mongols seven hundred years ago.
It is impossible to write of Gen- ghis Khan without superlatives. He won by conquest the greatest land empire that the world has ever seen. Neither the empire of Alex- ander nor that of Rome compared with it. It extended from the Pacific to mid-Europe. It included the greater part of the known world and more than half of its population. He defeated successively the three other military forces of the globe— China, Islam, Christendom. His city of Karakorum became the chief capital of the world. London, Paris, Rome were of minor importance. As General MacArthur says, the triumphs of other commanders "pale into insignificance beside those of Genghis Khan." Napoleon ended in defeat. Temujin, the Great Khan, never lost a decisive battle. He died an old man, at the peak of his vic- tories and with his empire still vigorously expanding. Caesar and Alexander owed much to their pre- decessors, who had perfected the Roman Legion and the Macedonian Phalanx. The Mongol Emperor de- veloped his own military machine. His armies were nearly always greatly outnumbered. Probably he could never put more than 200,000 men in the field, but with that small force he pulverized empires of many millions. On the record he was the most other chieftains, determined to get rid looking for him. Later he crept out and successful soldier in all history. of this young rival, hunted Temujin persuaded a roaming hunter to release across the steppes like an animal. him from the yoke. WHEN Temujin was thirteen years They caught him at last. They put a The chronicle of those early years is old his father was poisoned by heavy wooden yoke on his neck, and a record of hairbreadth escapes from his enemies. pinioned his wrists to it as in a stock. pursuit and from treachery; but he was Temujin already had the strength and One night he struck down his guard with never merely a fugitive trying to escape stature of a man. He could stay in the the yoke and ran through the sleeping with his life. He kept to his fixed pur- saddle all day, and could shoot a power- camp. He hid in a stream while the pose of fighting his way to leadership. companions something ful arrow. And he was strong in spirit. horsemen rode up and down the bank He sought out ; He was resolved to succeed his father about him won their devoted loyalty. as chieftain of the tough tribe of nomads Once Temujin lay helpless on the frozen winning a meager subsistence on the ground close to the enemy's camp with harsh steppes of high Asia, constantly y a deep arrow wound in his neck. A com- fighting with other tribes for the sparse panion sucked the blood and dirt from pasturage. EDWIN the wound, took off his clothing and But the tribesmen would have none of covered Temujin, crept into the enemy's him, drifting away to older leaders. The MULLER camp to find milk for him to drink—at 18 —
last got him to safety. He won other be trusted more than others. capital of Samarkand, and the Sultan loyal followers. His father's men began He was a sturdy figure, clad in sheep- was fleeing for his life. to shift back to him. Before he was skins and hardened leather, with the In the years that followed, the armies twenty he was a chieftain. unwieldy gait of a man who had lived in of the Khan pushed down into the plains That did not content him. He began the saddle. His face, deeply lined, of India, overran the Middle East, went to intrigue and fight to bring other tribes leathery, had a coating of grease against on through Russia into Central Europe. into confederation with his own. Always the cold and the biting wind. It is likely Everywhere they were victorious. Why? in the end he was the leader. .hat he never washed from one year's Genghis Khan had an indomitable will, Invariably he killed anyone who sought end to the next. His eyes, set far apart a violent energy of body and mind, an to share power with him. No ties of af- under a sloping forehead, red-rimmed utter ruthlessness in his quest for power. fection, no considerations whatever, from the blowing sand and dust, glowed But his greatness lay in something more stood in the way. with a fierce intensity. He spoke little than that. Jamuga was his cousin. In the lean and then after long meditation. He could You don't find the key in the story of days they had slept under the same neither read nor write. his life, for his biographers were chiefly blanket, had shared their last scraps of At the age of fifty Temujin had his enemies. But his enemies also set food, had hunted field mice together welded the tribes of Central Asia into down in detail a description of his mili- when there was nothing else to eat. But one united force of which he was the tary machine and how it operated. And Jamuga was not content to be a sub- sole leader. He was the Genghis Kahn that reveals his secret. ordinate. He gathered his own followers. —the "Mightiest Ruler." His name Genghis Khan had the ability to look The two clashed in battle. In the end spread far across the steppes. with a fresh eye, to brush away all Jamuga stood before his cousin, a prisoner. Temujin calmly ordered him strangled to death. Togrul had been the friend of Te- mujin's father. He helped the boy at a critical period of his struggle. But when the older chief was not willing to submit to the youth, Temujin had him hunted down and killed. On the other hand, he lavishly re- warded leaders willing to serve under him. Wealth meant nothing to Temu- jin save as a way to power. He never sought to acquire fine clothes or luxurious pavilions. His followers, when they had the chance, drank deep and ate gluttonously, but he was always sober. He had a violent temper, though he could always control it. The years went by. He made his headquarters in Karakorum, the City of the Black Sands—a city of tents. It was on the great East-West caravan route. Temujin did not molest the artist's of caravans; they had a place in his An conception architecture in the Khan's kingdom schemes for the future. Temujin had wives and growing sons now. To him And yet if at that time an enemy's traditions, to go straight at a problem the sons were military lieutenants, fit to arrow had found the right spot in his with a completely new approach. He armor, history would scarcely have heard could take all the available methods, of him. The mighty deeds of his life techniques, weapons and mold them to were crowded into his last sixteen years. his purpose. He could do that in infinite He had built a military machine to detail.
conquer the world. Now he set out to It is the rarest of gifts. It's called
use it. genius. To the east was China, the oldest Genghis Khan was the first man in civilization in the world. It was divided history to organize a nation for the ex- then into two empires, the Kin and the clusive purpose of waging war. He had Sung. To the west was Islam, the sepa- 700 years ago the supposedly modern rate nations that had grown from the concept of "total war." conquests of the great Mohammed. In the Mongol horse and rider he had Farther west was Russia, then a mass of magnificent raw material. The horse was petty states, and middle Europe, a tireless. It could get along if watered jumble of large and small powers. once in three days. It could find fodder First the Khan attacked China. He under any conditions, pawing down forced his way through the Great Wall through snow and ice for remnants of and hurled his columns across the vast dry grass. The rider could stay in the spaces of the Kin, or northern empire. saddle a day and a night, could sleep in The capital, Yanking, was taken, the the snow, keep going on little or no emperor put to flight. It was a complete food. He was a fighter by instinct rout. brought up on hand-to-hand combat, Three years later Genghis Khan moved taught to shoot as soon as he learned Interior of a Chinese palace west. Within a few months the Mongol to talk. in the time of Genghis Khan troopers were plundering the lovely (Continued on page 36)
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,ouus ate aw • "DumiYiu- I lite -Hie jo Xvv\ tfoiW 4o be^ -the Su*d«/ listen. Gwf -to 12 p.m.U)a+ch- X do a double kifc/l Wyoe"MlM No- vie- haven't" Yet- But nris a Svj&ix i pea tor. -iMese fvsr pays . 20 AMERICAN LEGION Magazine EDITORIAL heard the expression "a nation in arms." That represented Your Job in the War a desirable but unattainable goal twenty-four years ago. Today it represents a condition which is absolutely neces- AS THESE lines are written, early in July, the for- sary if we and our allies are to come out on top in this /A tunes of war have taken a sudden turn for the global struggle. In the months to come we shall all be J- worse for the United Nations, in Africa and in called upon to step up our contributions of various sorts Southern Europe, with the Germans driving a spearhead to the war effort. Let us resolve that until the day of vic- into the British lines reaching within 65 miles of the great tory comes nothing except the war effort is important. naval base of Alexandria, while in the Crimea the fortress If that happens we cannot fail. of Sevastopol has fallen, after exacting a tremendous toll of German men and machines. The outlook as the United States celebrated on July 4th the 166th anniversary of its Spotting Those Planes independence was indeed grim. As a high ranking officer of our Army reminded his THIS issue Wally shows you something about the countrymen, the United States "has lost everything but INtrials of those men and women, boys and girls, num- i;s complacency" in the months since Pearl Harbor. Of bering hundreds of thousands, who watch the skies course there have been characteristically brilliant exploits around the clock, seven days in every week, for hostile by elements of our land, sea and air forces, but the net of planes that may never come. Wally, in common with thou- our months of operations as a belligerent is that we and sands of members of the great Legion family, is an airplane our allies have been driven out of all the islands between spotter for the Army's Aircraft Warning Service, and he Australia and the Asiastic mainland, as well as from knows, as the other spotters know, how important it is Guam and Wake Islands, while on that Continent, Hong that every Obervation Post in the land report to the Army Kong, Malaya with its great naval base of Singapore, and the presence of all planes in its vicinity. Burma with its famous route to China's hard pressed Far at sea the professionals of our armed forces are armies all have fallen to the enemy. In addition, the Jap watching for the first sign of enemy planes bound for forces have occupied two or three islands in the western these shores. If a "suicide squadron" gets past these Aleutian chain over which we have held sovereignty, and guardians of our outer defenses and reaches the Con- sinkings of our merchant ships by U-boats in the western tinental United States the appropriate Air Force Inter- Atlantic have averaged some two a day. ceptor Command will quickly receive the information Against this somber background of continual gains by necessary to annihilate the raiders. The number and type the enemy we have thus far shown only an increase in nf planes will be known, the direction they are taking will production and a start on the job of placing our armed be plotted through successive reports from the Observa- forces in position to lash out in offensive actions. Possibly tion Posts, and if the force fans out in an attempt to bomb by the time you read these lines those offensives will have a number of objectives the fighter planes of the Air gotten under way. Certainly the time is ripe for them, Force will set about destroying them in detail. either in conjunction with our allies or through separate The spotters engaged on this important service know action. Up to now the enemy has made all the decisions that no matter how terrible the weather may be they must as to where and when blows would be struck. remain on the alert. A hostile plane reported will almost The part the civilian must play in the all-out war we certainly be a dead duck before it can do any damage, if it are carrying on is fairly simple. He should submit cheer- but gets through. . . . And so every plane that comes fully to any rationing which the Government deems neces- within sight or sound must be noted and the information sary, leaving to his Congressmen and Senators the matter concerning it sent in quickly. As Past National Com- of investigating the circumstances under which the ration- mander Ray Murphy said last May, discussing in this ings are ordered; he should stick to his job, giving the magazine the duties of civilians in connection with air very best that is in him toward sustaining the war effort raids, "While the call may never come, we would deserve through purchase of war bonds and stamps; he should everything we got if when it came we were not ready to refuse to retail gossip concerning failures on the part of cope with whatever the enemy might throw at us." our own forces or those of our allies; he should be on the The civilians who have a part in the A. W. S. have this alert to notify the proper town, state or federal agent con- in mind. They are making a highly important contribution cerning suspicious actions on the part of anyone. to the safety of this nation, and rate a salute from the In the war which ended on November 11, 1918, we rest of us. c9"or Qod and (S?ouniry, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes- To upho Id and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War.- to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devoiion to mutual helpfulness. — Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion AUGL'ST, 1942 You Can't Always Sense I THE TURIMIIMG B$ I FREDERICK PALMER The most famous of all Washington's crossings of the Delaware and the victories that followed it gave the Continentals a great thrill, but Valley Forge was the real turning point of the Revolution fighters did not know it at Valley Forge. Let's figure out why. THEthe time. Their glazed eyes were King George III had sent over Lord on the ball. Nothing else counted Howe with a big army of British regulars but to go on enduring, marching and hired Hessians to finish in one fell or fighting. They were making history, swoop the job of wiping out "the rebel not writing it. mob." But in our wars from the Revolution Washington would keep his little army to the Rhine, as it will be in this war, together and not get trapped. He had one more ounce of strength behind an- to fall back from Long Island and then other blow, the quick decision of a leader, from the Hudson into New Jersey. But ting back—taking toll from Howe. In the ability to stand fast, or a favoring there was no catching him. swift movements of surprise he crossed break of which the most was made, And that Washington was not the the Delaware to capture a thousand marked the turning point. elderly statesman with false teeth which Hessians and then messed up two British We got the jump as the result. The did not fit that we see on the postage regiments and a company of cavalry. enemy never got it again. From then on stamp. He was the agile giant, in his In that winter of 1777-78 of record- we had him going. forty-fourth year, nature's own teeth breaking cold, Howe's army was com- The turning point of the Revolution firm set in his jaw. fortably housed in Philadelphia. If he was in the unconquerable endurance at His was no panic retreat. He was hit- could not get Washington by fighting he 22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Sketches by V. E. PYLES How they nursed their Pennsylvania Erie I see the turning point in the flash rifles! of the eye of Captain "Tom" Mac- This was the rifle which was the pride donough, who also had what it takes in of the frontiersman in keeping his scalp- his head and backbone. Outgunned and lock safe and bringing home the venison outnumbered in ships in that hot, un- with a single shot. Its finely tempered relenting battle to the finish, he decisively POINT barrel, grooved by hand with what is walloped the British fleet on Lake Cham- now micromatic precision to a thousandth plain. This checked the British invasion of an inch, had range and accuracy ex- of New York and Vermont. ceeding that of the clumsy old Brown It was the way our ships closed in Bess musket of the British regulars, as with skill of seamanship, broadsides and Howe had learned. It was one reason boarding in the Paul Jones tradition why Howe could never catch Washing- when they had anything like even terms ton's army. which won security for the rights for And the Americanized Ger- which we had fought that war. Andrew man armsmiths w*ho had Jackson had not heard that the peace settled in the backwoods of treaty had been signed when he won his Pennsylvania, and their sons, brilliant victory at New Orleans. and the apprentices they had When I think of the War with Mexico, taught, were making more 1846-48, "Remember the Alamo" rings and more Pennsylvania rifles. in my ears as paradoxically the turning Not only that, but out of the point before the war began. That ever iron of Pennsylvania mines memorable heroic, last ditch defense, in they were making more and further proof of all the outrages our more cannon through that settlers in Texas were bravely and in- tough winter. domitably enduring, stirred our indigna- In the spring Washington's tion in pioneer fellowship. men, feeling closer to him We gradually got mad all through, than ever before, were a real as we can on occasion. We decided we Holding Little Round army plus, lean hounds eager had a job to do in cleaning up the Santa for Top won Gettysburg to be off the leash when they Anna despotism, which meant the job the Union forces. It put Valley Forge behind them, would be done. This brought Texas, the was the turning point and on their way to the final Southwest and California would get him by starvation and cold in knockout at Yorktown. into our fold, which is cer- his camp in the snowdrifts of Valley If not in the winning of tainly not to be regretted Forge. the war for the independence now that we are at war with Washington's soldiers would lose in- of what had been Thirteen Japan. terest in their independence cry when Colonies there were two other Next we come to the Civil they knew the British had their Inde- turning points of mighty in- War, in which brother fought pendence Hall. The rebel mob would fluence for our future in the brother in all the strength disintegrate by desertion. Any remnants fighting which made the of their common qualities. Washington had left in the spring would nation. Lee's army, invading Penn- be short of rifles, cannon and ammuni- Paul Jones had "not yet sylvania, had slipped past tion, since Howe had captured many begun to fight" when his own ship was Meade's, which was rushing to get in American arms foundries. in a sinking condition, its decks strewn front of it. A L • men did go A.W.O.L., some to with wreckage. He lost his own, but got Should Lee win the ensuing battle the become deserters. They were the kind one to replace it by boarding the enemy's. Confederacy might be recognized by the who were not up to the immortal test of That established the American naval {Continued on page 44) keeping a stiff backbone when it is glued tradition. to a lean, famished belly. Others had The other turning point we furloughs for a brief visit home, when owe to George Rogers Clark. their homes were not in enemy posses- After taking Kaskaskia, Illinois, sion, but they came back from mother's with his little band of frontiers- flapjacks and smoked hams, and a seat men, they did the do-or-die act before the fire, to take it at Valley Forge. in utter audacity and surprise, The few deserters may not have liked over frozen ground, fording icy the methods of drillmaster General von waters, day after day, and cap- Steuben, an Americanized German vet- tured the outnumbering British eran of European wars. He was the man garrison of Vincennes, Indiana. we needed when our weakness was lack This gave us all the Northwest of training, in our military inexperience. from the Ohio and Allegheny We could lick the enemy man to man in Rivers to the Great Lakes, the small forces, but we had not the drilled Mississippi and the Minnesota teamwork for battle of army against border. army—the kind Pershing insisted upon We know how utterly unpre- in France. pared and unequipped we were And old Von Steuben was the one for the War of 1812-14, and to give it to us. He was in a military how when they got ashore the seventh heaven. It was a cinch for him British regulars, generally speak- to make all around soldiers in an in- ing, pushed our untrained troops In the counter-stroke toward Soissons fol- tegrated army of men of such spirit who about, even capturing Washing- lowing the break-down of the fifth Ger- left blood stains from unclad feet on ton. With all respect to Com- man offensive the Allies won superiority. the icy drill grounds. modore Perry's victory on Lake Less than four months later came victory AUGUST, 1942 23 » ; THERE was never a war in which hours, the discipline, the food and cloth- the United States took part that ing, all are different. The change affects the American mother was not both mind and body. And to no part of deeply concerned about her sol- the body does it bring a greater or more dier boy's welfare—physical, mental and trying change than to the feet. moral. She wants him to be well clothed, Previous to his induction the soldier well housed, well fed and well cared for boy has been wearing all sorts of shoes, in sickness. with crepe soles, rubber soles, leather Uncle Sam has done a good job along soles, light uppers, perforated uppers, most of these lines. The camps that I wing tips, moccasin toes, pointed toes have seen are clean and well built. Sani- and what have you? The army shoe, tation is good. Food is O. K. Medical even though it is made on good lines, care is of the best—with one important is different. It changes the posture, al- exception. There is an old saying, usually ters the position of the bones, makes attributed to Napoleon,* that an army travels on its stomach. But what Napo- leon really said was that an army marches on its stomach and its feet. Many a sol- dier has tramped or fought all day on an empty stomach without grousing over- much, but when it comes to marching 20 or 30 miles on a sore foot—did you go to the World's Fair? Mrs. B was in my office the other day. Her boy is at Panama. "How is he getting along?" I asked. "I had a letter this morning," she re- plied. "He was getting ready for a prac- tice march of 20 miles up into the hills. He said he hoped his feet would hold out." "I hope so, too," I said, "because there are no chiropodists in the Army." My tone must have been a little dark, for Mrs. B exclaimed quickly, "Oh, my goodness, what will the poor boys do when their feet hurt?" Going into the Army is a vast change from the routines of civilian life. No matter how carefully the transition is made it is tough on the recruit. The * break Editor's Note: Actually, Frederick the Great S^**",g<* *a *fo* » tt said it, but Napoleon doubtless repeated it. soldier "fee end asH to ^ By A. OWEN muscles work that did not work before. Moreover, a goodly proportion of the young fellows are unaccustomed to being on their feet. Many of them have been sitting at a desk, or at least working indoors on smooth, often carpeted floors. Now the whole design of their lives has been redrawn and no matter in what easy stages the hardening process is ap- plied it plays hob with their feet. To be sure, the physical exam- inations are supposedly very strict and no one with defective feet is admitted (more about this later) but regardless of how good a man's feet may be when he is inducted, they are not going to stay that way, not at 20 miles a day with 50 pounds of equipment on his back. Not after days and days of sloshing through mud, snow and water in shoes and socks foul with British soldiers give their feet an dirt and perspiration, with never a airing as they catch up on sleep chance for a bath and a change 24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine , tions encountered in actual battle. When much hcllfire. He will go as far as he the men finish this drill, sometimes with can with it and then when he is utterly water-soaked shoes and clothing, many unable' to take another step he will Limp of them can hardly drag one foot after out of line to the side of the road. If SOLDIER the other. You can imagine what the the blister becomes infected, it means effect will be under real wartime condi- hospitalization, the loss of the man's tions lasting for days on end. services for a number of days and in- What are some of the ailments that creased expense to Uncle Sam. afflict the soldier's feet? And how im- Scalding, or maceration between the portant are they? Are we making too toes, often leading to trench foot, is an- much fuss about this matter? other danger. It is due to wet feet, per- First, there is the common blister. An spiration and the friction engendered by insignificant thing, isn't it? But to a shoes that do not fit as they ought. soldier on the march a blister is just so Corns develop, too. Nails grow too long before they can be properly trimmed, break off or are mishandled by the soldier himself and become ingrown. Leg muscles get pulled on long hikes, ankles are twisted, ligaments torn when jumping from trucks, landing from para- chutes, scrambling over rough terrain. "March foot" develops after prolonged walking. This is a condition which affects the second toe; makes it so intensely painful that the sufferer has to drop out, wtih his foot swollen and inflamed. Sometimes the long, slender metatarsal bone leading to that toe actually breaks under the continued strain, just as you break a wire by bending it back and forth. This means hospitalization and three or four weeks in a cast, during which time the man can't fight. Though classed as minor ailments, foot ills often lead to major consequences. But, because of the attitude of the medical staff, the soldier soon gets the idea that if he complains he will be suspected of malingering. Hence, in many instances, he goes on suffering in silence, his morale and endurance gradually be- S eant stuff at %f t/ineP «, coming undermined until the condition, • e ^flat's fn *trem « so slight and so easily remediable in its S v {Continued on page 38) '"s nem PENNEY into clean, dry footwear. Tough going! As this is being written I have at my hand pictures and news stories describing the training of selectees at one of the camps for engineers. A course has been devised 500 yards long, most of it uphill. At the start there is a log barrier three feet high, then a water jump six feet wide. A short run of a few yards brings the trainees to a ten-foot solid plank fence which has to be scaled. Then there is a regulation trench which some of the men can take in a jump but which for others means sliding down one side and scrambling up the other. Before they can draw a full breath there is another water jump eight feet wide and, after crossing it, they have to turn back, recross it on a ladderlike foot bridge and then dodge back and forth among vari- ous obstacles intended to simulate Foot inspection isn't just a routine the natural or artificial obstruc- thing, as these Tommies well know AUGUST, 1942 25 — It took all sorts of ingenuity to overcome the obstacles the early day here in America we are steamboats faced on western SOMEgoing to grasp an important truth, rivers. Here a boat is warped namely, that the complete story through a particularly difficult of the makings of this nation is stretch on the Tennessee not to be found between the covers of our school histories. Not yet, at least. The time may arrive when there will Then Shreve appeared on the scenes— appear in our midst an astute historian brawny young mid-Westerner, whose who will set about straightening out the great arm and shoulder muscles came kinks of our national epic, according from years of flatboating and barge honor where honor rightly belongs. Com- treacherous, desolate channel, with a operation on the rivers. Scion of a ing to the name of Henry Shreve, such cargo of much-needed supplies for Jack- pioneer family, son of a colonel in Wash- an historian would likely ponder, "Shreve son's army. . . . ington's Revolutionary Army, merchant- —now where have I heard that name?" Those were anxious days in old New navigator and "waterway enthusiast," Well, an up-and-coming city in Louisiana Orleans. The British invaders were ham- Shreve had built up a pretty sizable for- bears his name. More than that mering almost at the city's gates and tune for a young man recently turned At the Battle of New Orleans, in Janu- the harassed Jackson was alternately thirty, by carrying pelts from the Upper ary 1815, there was a young volunteer swearing and praying the Tarnal to send Mississippi, lead from the Galena mines, officer in Colonel Humphrey's artillery him reinforcements and munitions. He whiskey and general cargo between St. battalion who had won General Andrew had placed the city under martial law Louis and Pittsburgh. Often he and his Jackson's high regard, although he had and every able-bodied man under arms. men had brought barges all the way down never known a day's military service in And there was reason! Along the shore, to the Crescent City. Then, loaded again, his life. But for all that Captain Henry reaching from town nine miles down the they had poled them painfully and Shreve was entitled to his rank. He had flood-swollen Mississippi to important laboriously back to the Ohio ports— a six won it as master of a wheezing, experi- Fort St. Philip, a parade of British months' job of unbelievable hardship. mental little paddle-wheel steamer named cannon glowered out over the channel. Yet barges and flatboats were the sole the Enterprise which he had brought all Every other avenue to the fort was cut means of getting about over the water the way from the shores of the upper off, and food was running short and roads in those days. Ohio River down thousands of miles of powder running lew. . . . On this trip, however, Shreve, having 26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magaiine something far more important than the casual accomplishments indicated above. For it was this same Henry Shreve who was able to demonstrate to a questioning citizenry and a doubting Congress that Jefferson's sinking of that fifteen million dollars in the Louisiana Purchase was a fine investment after all. How? By pro- faith that steam could push a boat against viding the American South and Midlands the river currents, came down with his with a workable steamboat—a depend- primitive little tub to prove it. And he able means of transportation (which he came despite the failure of Robert Ful- did as a direct result of his trip north ton, who three years earlier had built with the Enterprise following the battle), abortive steamships (similar to his Hud- and by securing to future generations son River Clermo?it) and tried to run the incontestable free right to navigate them on the uncertain Western rivers. And with what disastrous results! The boats he built in the West could go down- stream all right having weak engines and ; a deep draft they were helpless bucking the currents. In beleaguered New Orleans, Jackson had work for Shreve and his ship. Im- portant work! First off, there were some bargeloads of additional supplies which had set out from Pittsburgh months be- fore and had somehow got lost on the way down. "Go back up the river and see if you can find them," Jackson said to Shreve. The young captain got his boat under way, ran her up the river, corralled the missing cargoes and within eight days brought them down safely to the batture in front of New Orleans. They laughed, did the good people of Wheeling, when the keel of "Well, Captain!" spoke up Jackson the Washington was laid, for its design was something brand new. admiringly, "you seem to be a man who But Captain Henry Shreve (inset) made them back water. Below, a does what he sets out to do. Can you steamboat has a little difficulty getting up the creek Down South take that steamship of yours, run past the enemy's batteries and take a load of with the general's thanks and goodbyes the waters of the Mississippi system those supplies to Fort St. Philip?" in his ears. Captain Shreve turned the whenever and however they pleased. Shreve said he could, given twenty- Enterprise's nose upstream once more on We hear a great deal these days about four hours. Again he went down to the a nerve-wracking trip to the Ohio. monopolies, and a too close tie-up be- batture in front of the levee where the And thus the name of Henry Shreve tween Government and business. Out Enterprise lay anchored off shore—her passes from the military history of the there on the Mississippi—the "West" of great draft kept her from coming close United States. Mighty few Americans those days—even at the time Shreve was into bank. He loaded her up with food apparently know anything more (if they bringing the Enterprise up through b'g and other supplies for the fort. Then, know even that) about him. Yet this bends of the cotton coast, a huge and for armor, he placed a tier or two of country owes him a big debt. And for (Continued on page 40) cotton bales along her side, forward and abaft her wheel houses—the first time that the tough, spongy cotton fibres were used for ship-armor. Something like a half century later both Confederate and Union navies were to employ "cotton- clad" gunboats on these same mighty waters. Fog and night dropped over the Mis- sissippi. The Enterprise stole away down- stream, hugging the far shore closely. The watchful enemy sighted her and fired; a few spent balls buried them- selves in the cotton bales. But the in- trepid captain kept on, reached the fort, re-reprovisioned it, and brought his ship back to New Orleans. This accomplishment won Old Hick- ory's warmest commendation and re- sulted in Shreve's brief but satisfactory term as an army officer. For some weeks after the battle Jackson kept him and his ship constantly at work as a trans- port, exchanging prisoners of war. Then, AUGUST, 1942 27 'OW much junk do you have? Surprise yourself by taking an in- ventory to find out just how much rubber and met- als—now so vital to our war effort—is rotting and rusting away in odd cor- ners of your home, farm or plant. Junk? No such thing. These odds and ends are the materials of vic- tory and a lot of the pro- duction program depends upon just how efficiently the so-called junk is col- Moscarella Post of and fed into the lected Spring Valley, New mills for reprocessing. York, makes a scrap Then, the next step in harvest finance a fine the program is to get the patriotic program Post's salvage committee organized on a systematic basis and a regular round ANY TODAY? of collection started. The salvage campaigns are nat- urals for the Legion with its Posts in hose, metal signs, various hinges and nearly every community and its affil- locks, newspapers, cardboard, scrap iated bodies and other groups with which metal, and a lot of other assorted items it works in a common cause, ready to that were of no use to him. He knew furnish the manpower. What a magnifi- Post of St. Louis. Missouri, who was sur- what to do with part of this material, cent response there was to National prised when he completed an inventory where to take it for disposition, but some Commander Stambaugh's call for Le- of scrap stuff around his place. The as- of the stuff stumped him. gion cooperation in the rubber salvage sortment included two victrolas, 50 rec- Legionnaire Muehling's problem is one campaign. ords, 112 music rolls, 100 books, 50 that has bothered a lot of people who There was no time for build-up or ad- magazines, a steel safe door, 1,200 used have essential metals and scrap to dis- vance publicity. The President called for razor blades, auto jack and rack, two flat pose of and do not know where to take a clean-up of all available rubber begin- irons, flashlights, hose nozzles, rubber it. That is another job for the Post's ning on June 15th. Rubber is America's Number One essential scrap, and some hundreds of thousands of tons are needed to feed into the nation's yawning war industries to keep production up to the peak. The National Commander on June 13th sent a telegraphic appeal to each Department calling for the utmost effort in the collection drive. The open- ing date found the Legion ready—even though there was no time for planning a campaign—to take up the work of gath- ering in the "scrap harvest." Though it is too early to give a report of exact ac- complishment, and no complete report can ever be made because in many places the Legion joined its forces with those cf the community at large, the campaign will not be called closed until the need has passed or every available piece of scrap rubber has been sent to the mill. But to get back to the question, how much junk do you have? At least one The Legion, ladies and Boy Scouts assembled at Albany, California, to Legionnaire knows. He is Leslie R. open a drive for aluminum. Mayor Hays and Judge Hardie led in pledge Muehling, a member of Jerome Goldman to the flag 28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — ' — salvage committee. Find out and have Voh" Arts 1 V per week. Collection of the srrap ;s readily available information about the ^Utiles - Crrrr ^f / made by Legionnaires, Boy Scouts and disposal of every form of scrap and »>2 members of the Brigade, under the super- junk. If that information cannot be had vision of Legionnaire James List, handi- locally, get in touch with the nearest of- capped by blindness, who not only super- fice of the Bureau of Industrial Conser- vises the business but who. with his own vation, the scrap and salvage section of hands, bales a goodly portion of the the War Production Board. There's an forty-five percent of the estimate had paper brought in. Every collection cam- office in every State. been realized in the nationwide collec- paign must be fitted to the section from Now that we are in a total war, if we tion. But that was before war came and which the "scrap harvest'' is to be gar- are to survive the onslaughts of Axis then there was no immediate urge or nered, but Tony Milewsky. Chairman cf barbarism every ounce of human energy pressure to cause expenditure of energy the Post's Honor Roll Committee, wiil —and even of scrap materials—must be in digging up discarded pots and pans. be glad to give further information about directed towards winning that war. We Now. with the importance of each call the plans which have succeeded so well must revise our values, and we must re- impressed upon the mind of John Citi- at Spring Valley. Just write him in care member that there can be no waste zen, there can and must be no lagging. of the Post. that every piece of material must be put Legion shock troops, and their allies, the Another campaign that seems to be a to work in its proper place and proper Sons of the Legion, Boy Scouts and natural for the Legion, its Auxiliary and element. Under the circumstances, when other associated groups, must see to it affiliated and associated groups is that the freedom of the peoples of the world that there is a complete and immediate now being carried on for the salvage of depends to a great extent upon Amer- response to every call. old phonograph records. The purpose is ican production of planes, tanks, and One Post can be cited, materials and munitions of every sort perhaps not as a model and character, it seems little short of but as an example of a criminal to withhold any part of this well organized unit for wealth of wartime scrap treasure, which salvage of vital mater- amounts to millions of tons of potential ials. That is Moscarella military might. Post of Spring Valley, The pinch of raw materials has, with New York. That Post, only a little more than half a year of at the first threat of our total war behind us. affected our indus- involvement in Hitler's tries in a way that would have been war. organized a brigade called unbelievable and incredible a year of civilians and gave ago. We have always had plenty of military and civilian everything. Our mines, quarries, oil fields service training under and other sources of our everyday essen- skilled and competent tials drawn from a lavish source of nat- leaders. At last report ural resources, have always produced 87 members of this vol- more than a growing population could unteer brigade were in use. In fact we have been wasteful of the armed services; our natural resources. Now comes the three are in officers' pinch, and we must turn to the despised training schools, twelve scrap pile and draw from it the resources have been made ser- that will bring victory. geants, and others have The waste paper campaign is an earn- won promotion trace- est of what can be done, though it able to their early train- might with justice be argued that waste ing in the Spring Valley paper is the easiest of all scrap to col- Brigade. The brigade lect. Paper waste came in such tidal continues, replacements waves that warehouses in the industrial come to take the place centers were soon filled and, in some of the men called into Woodrow Wilson Post, East Pittsburgh, Pa., places, some dealers burned part of the service, to receive train- sends its old cannon into the salvage pile with stock. Even though there is a surplus ing and. while waiting blessing of the Borough Council. Legionnaire this summer, the time may come when for military service, to Thomas E. Morris and son, Private Robert all this paper waste will be needed and function in the various Morris, pose with Adjutant Henry G. Beamer. needed badly to make new paperboard phases of civilian de- first member of the Post to be called to active for food containers, for the fabrication fense activities. military service of airplane and tank parts, for Now what ammunition and for perhaps has that to do -iVe Japs wont be hundreds of other articles not with the collection of scrap? to turn in the old ones to make new ro rmore oice u)e now included in wartime produc- Just this. Scrap has played a ones, and many of America's most dis- Start qivirtq iVewt tion. Our people are learning the ifae ole &anq- big part in financing the pro- tinguished musical artists have volun- lesson of conservation the hard gram of training, and it con- teered their time and talent to make way—but learn it we must. tinues to provide revenue. First the new platters. Again it is the short- The first big salvage campaign it was waste paper. Moscarella age of essential materials—shellac, which of just a year ago when volun- Post organized its Salvage Com- is practically unobtainable, and other teer units were mustered to mittee, bought a salvage truck elements that go into the making of the gather aluminum scrap did not and went into the business on records can be recovered from the old pan out (no pun, though most of a big scale. All scrap is grist to ones. The Legion and Auxiliary, working the pans were aluminum) as well its mill, but at first the Com- together, have undertaken to dig up 37.- as had been hoped. In fact, mittee specialized on waste 500.000 of these discarded records nearly a year later figures were paper, which brought in an there are some few in nearly every home. released showing that only about average of approximately $40 Attics and closets throughout the coun AUGUST, 194s try will be searched to minute portion of the provide the materials for entertainment was later canned music for our broadcast over radio sta- fighting men. Kate Smith tion KFWB, Hollywood. has something to say The program was ar- about this program, on ranged by Mrs. E. B. page 14 of this issue. Hershberger, who is !" "Just a lot of junk shown standing at the ex- Take a line out of the treme right of the picture philosophy of an old chap on the next page. Others this department once standing, left to right, knew who insisted that are : Chevronette Lila there was no such thing Deane of Victory House; as dirt or waste. The E. B. Hershberger, Cub despised article was just Chairman, BSA, West something out of its nor- Wilshire Division, and mal place. Junk is not Harold W. Nash, Com- junk — the scrap heap mander Wilshire Post. contains the rubber, the Cub Tommy Jack metals and the greases Richords, 11, shown at that will help to bring us the extreme left in the victory. And it is the Le- rear row, was presented gion's job, and patriotic with a Boy Scout citation duty, to see that these for heroism in recogni- materials get to the tion of h's bravery in res- places where they will do cuing his little sister from the most good. the second story of their burning home. Cub Most Useful Bugler Stephen Snow, Citizen seated in front row, cen- ter, opened the program "For his untiring, un- Richard B. Ott, Commander, Department of Washington, with the call "To The selfish service to his com- presents first Americanism citation to Paul J. Sevenich Colors." munity, development of The large United pro- citizenship and in So you.ee Everett, Washington, his home. States Flag in the background was made junior taf motion of (be a Commission the of the 7 by boys Cub Pack out of activities and Amer- too, eh Hoa) uxtf Cub Glee Club i^our Pi 531021/ Pack crepe paper flowers. The Glee Club has Paul icanism," J. entertained a number of veterans' or- Wilshire Post of Los Angeles, Sevenich of Everett, ganizations, the California State Guard, California, has a Cub Glee Club Washington, was hon- and soldiers in several Army camps. made up of members of the Post- ored by the first sponsored Boy Scout Cub Pack award of the Ameri- It's A Natural canism Citation which was recently featured in a two-hour program at Victory An air raid shelter large enough granted by the De- to House in Pershing Square, Los provide temporary refuge to the people I artment of Washing- Angeles. The meeting was held in of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, is the boast ton. furtherance of the sale of War of Commander I. A. Lavik and Air Raid Authorized in 1939, Bonds and Stamps. A thirty- Warden Raymond Bakken of the town's the Americanism award is presented an outstanding resident of the State each year, but it was not until 1 94 1 that the plans were fully com- pleted and the selection made of the first person to be honored. The several Posts of the Department present the names of their candidates for the honor and these nominations are considered by a board composed of the immediate Past Department Commander and four other active Legionnaires. The first board is composed of James M. Green, Cashmere, Chairman of the Department American- ism Committee; Dr. Fred M. Lash, Buckley. Department Education Chair- man; Rudy I. Nichols, Monroe and Ev- erett, Junior Past Department Com- mander; Harvey Leach, Seattle, and John Hedberg, Everett, members of the Department Americanism Commis- sion. Presentation was made to Mr. Seven- ich, who is not eligible to Legion mem- Commander Teresa Berlin of Edith Work Ayers Post, Cleveland, Ohio, bership, by Department Commander presented a flag to Miss Olga Benderhoff, Chief Nurse of the Lakeside Richard B. Ott, at a public meeting held Unit, at the Union Station when the Unit was leaving for overseas duty 30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Frank E. Malone Post. The shelter, a natural cave known as the Cave of the Mounds, was discovered only three years ago during blasting operations for road rock. The cave is well suited for a shelter since there is thirty -five feet of solid limestone above the roof of the highest rooms, some of which are thirty feet high. It is lighted with electricity and has natural ventilation throughout its i. ooo feet of explored length. The Wish- ing Well, into which visitors toss coins with hopes and prayers, gave up $792.75 for the Red Cross, British War Orphans Fund and Wisconsin Bomber Fund last year. On May 14th, at the invitation of Legionnaire Carl Brechler and his asso- ciate, Fred Hanneman, Frank E. Malone Post and Auxiliary held a joint meeting at the cave and after the meeting were taken on a tour of inspection. Seventy- seven Legionnaires and one hundred and eleven members of the Auxiliary tramped the full length of this air raid shelter created by nature. A Cub Pack Glee Club, sponsored by Wiltshire Post of Saq 1 tfouVfe Sos rry whole '4// Ce'+vty a "all ftlYlbl^ -100 Los Angeles, was featured in a War Bond sales program oa*"'Ciwliaii Mas doin? 1?ed~ Symphonic Orchestra Crass uxyk-th' Missus is a Isf after Japan hurled its made by Cuyahoga County Council to- Aide^-aid Ore. representative A group of j\ Kids is bicyle first attack on Pearl Har- ward America's war effort, speakers re- messenger's- American citizens of a half dozen bor and ended in early called that at the first broadcast national origins with a common June with a special half- National Commander Lynn Stambaugh's interest—a love for music—have hour radio show, at which stirring appeal at the beginning of the banded together to form the the Council presented war was put on the air; meetings were Stelton Symphonic Orchestra Station WHK with a organized for the completion of civilian under the sponsorship of Steel- testimonial scroll and a defense plans; volunteers were enrolled ton (Pennsylvania) Post of The silk American flag. The for defense tasks; financial, moral ana American Legion. There are more presentation was made by physical support were enlisted for the than two dozen of them—men, County Commander sale of War Bonds and Stamps; aid was women and children—and they Richard L. (Dick) Kroe- solicited for the American Red Cross in come from all walks of life; they sen and Radio Chairman its appeals for funds, workers and blood range in ages from fourteen to seventy Herman P. Scharf. The acceptance was donors; speakers were enlisted and much and all live in the Harrisburg and Steel- made by General Manager H. K. Car- radio time was devoted to the local ton areas. penter on behalf of the United Broad- drives for scrap metal and other mater- Steel workers, an oil company sales- casting Company, operators of Stations ials. All this was in addition to radio man, a barber, several school children WHK and WCLE. promotion of the Legion's own projects. and a county official are among the Reviewing the many contributions {Continued on page 40) group of musicians who gather at the , Post headquarters each Sunday after- noon for rehearsal. The orchestra gave its first concert on June 19, 1941, just five months after its first rehearsal, and has continued since that time. It is also giving concerts in U.S.O. centers and other institutions. The group works un- der the direction of Dennis Zala and the management of E. R. Howels. Radio Program In a studio filled with prominent Le- gionnaires, Cuyahoga County Council, which includes the city of Cleveland, Ohio, with fitting ceremonies concluded twenty-six weeks of radio broadcasting in support of the country's war effort. The Council's fifty-four Posts, as well as the general public, were greatly strength- ened and quickened in war work as a result of the weekly broadcast. The series of programs titled "The Legionnaires and Auxiliaries of Frank E. Malone Post, Mt. Horeb, Wis- - American Legion Speaks ' began five days consin, inspect a newly discovered cave. What an air raid shelter! AUGUST, 194 a 3i —a Crutch cases home- ward-bound on the U.S.S. DeKalb in 1919 showed that the old American spirit was still there THERE'S no question about it. ber of our Post, who served his hitch as They can give it —and how! a fireman on the U. S. S. DeKalb, asked and when the fortunes of war so me to send the enclosed picture which demand, they can take it and he thought you might like to use in Then still come up smiling! No use in telling and Now. With casualties of the present you that we're talking about American war being brought home from fighting fighting men and women, those soldiers fronts, the picture seems to be timely. and sailors and marines and nurses of our "The doughboys were members of a vintage of 191 7-18 and those men of our 'crutch company' aboard the present Army who follow in our foot- example of American grit K 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine for home that nothing could dampen church services and the box- printed the pictures and gave one to each their spirits and crew members al- ing bout aboard his old ship of the soldier prisoners, as they said they ways referred to them as the hap- the U. S. S. Mongolia. would like to have it to remember their piest group it carried. This long a period after experience if they ever got back to the "The DeKalb was the former our war ended, we think it good old U. S. A. German raider Prim Eitel Fried- safe to pass on to the Then "I then forgot all about the matter, erich, which reputedly sank forty and Now Gang a yarn of an but only for a short time. A few days Allied ships before coming into the unusual circumstance in the later an orderly came down to the car- Norfolk Navy Yards at Portsmouth, Navy back in 191 9, and per- penter shop and said the captain wanted Virginia, where she was interned in haps Comrade Schwarz may to see me. I didn't think this unusual, as 1915 or 1916 until our country en- obtain the picture to which in my position as carpenter's mate, I was tered the war. She was then con- he refers: often called by him in the line of my ditioned and commissioned in our "Due to the fact that there work. transport service as the U. S. S. were not enough transports to "He proceeded to show me a print of DeKalb and made eight round trips accommodate the thousands the picture of the prisoners and asked if to Europe after the Armistice as an of soldiers who were awaiting I had taken it. I answered that I had not army transport. Of the 8,949 men wno shipment to the States in 1919, many —and on being asked who had, I said the returned on her from the A. E. F., 3,868 of the men stowed away. This became so chief radio operator, so he sent for the were sick or wounded, and in all, she car- common that our ship, the Mongolia, latter and for my photographing partner, ried 20,332 men to and from Europe. She had a brig, in the form of an iron cage, Harlow, chief commissary steward. The was placed out of commission on Sep- made at the shipyard and the stowaways three of us could see he was provoked tember 6, 1919. were courtmartialed and sent back to about something, but did not know just "On one of her trips, a short way out the A. E. F. in it. what. of Brest, while hostilities were still going "On one of the return trips to France, "The picture was then shown to us on, a torpedo went directly under her the chief 'sparks' took pictures of the three and he said that if the newspapers stern and hit the Covington, alongside, out-of-luck soldiers with my kodak, as I should ever get it and publish it, it would causing the Covington to sink. This hap- was busy at my work. I developed and give the ship a bad name. pened on July 1, 1 91 8, and six Navy en- listed men lost their lives. "On one of the early trips, the original log books of the Eitel Friederich kept by her German officers were all dumped into the fire holds and some members of the crew who could read German learned from them about the various raids she had made on Allied and American ship- ping and it was in these logs that the claim of forty sinkings was made. "Comrade Wenner hopes that some of the disabled men shown in his photo- graph will recognize themselves or that some buddies might identify men in the group. The photograph was taken by the paymaster of the ship and copies of it were sold to the troops and members of the crew. Wenner would like to get let- ters from former shipmates and also from some of those smiling crutch sol- diers who sailed with him on one of the DeKalb's trips—just what date he fails Returning doughboys participated, above, in divine services to remember." and, below, enjoyed an Army-Navy boxing bout aboard the U. S. S. Mongolia in 1919 STIRRED no doubt by the gallant role being played by the Navy, with the aid of its air arm and the air forces of the Army, in this present war, ex-gobs have been more generous than usual in submitting pictures and stories for The Company Clerk's consideration. So, making it two in a row in this issue, we present another representative of that branch of the service, ex-Chief Carpenter's Mate W. J. Schwarz of 644 2d Street, Kent, Washington, from whom came the pictures of the AUGUST, 1942 33 : Was the 1st Battalion, 47th Infantry, distinctive in having both Y and K. of C. girls assigned to their outfit? At left, two Y girls with officers at Diimpelfeld; at right, K. of C. girls and again officers, at Coblenz-Liitzel—both places in the Occupied Area of Germany "I couldn't see anything wrong in tell- claims. But as long as members of the "One picture shows the Y girls in front ing the truth or showing a picture of an Gang want to stick their necks out, we're of ist Battalion Headquarters Officers' actual happening, but the captain didn't willing to go along with them. Saying Mess in Diimpelfeld, Germany. It was see it that way. He said for the toss of which, we introduce, along with the two taken one Sunday after dinner by a a coin he would disrate pictures showing fair wel- traveling German photographer. In the us—but instead he took fare workers, with a sup- group is also a K. C. man secretary who the prints, films and the porting cast of 'officers dropped in for dinner that day, along keys to our developing only,' Past Post Com- with a visiting officer from some other studio and announced mander M. Frank Egan unit. The two Y girls, after much plot- there would be no more of Olkosky-Jessop Post, ting on the part of several officers of photographing while he Emporium, Pennsylvania, our Battalion, were able to follow the was captain of the ship. who sets forth his boast Battalion on each of its successive moves But luck being with us, "Perhaps I can stir up —to Remagen, Neuenahr, GUIs, Ben- he was transferred when another argument. What dorf, and I think, Vallendar, all in the we got into New York. combat units were lucky Occupied Area. "If any of the unwill- enough to have had both "Then while the ist Battalion Head- ing soldier passengers on Knights of Columbus girl quarters were in Vallendar, Germany, we the outbound trip of the workers and Y. M. C. A. also had with us three Knights of Col- Mongolia still has one of the pictures in girl workers with their outfits? I believe umbus girl workers, as shown in the his possession I would like to hear from perhaps the ist Battalion, 47th Infantry, other picture, a camera shot taken at him. 4th Division, may alone rate that honor, Coblenz-Liitzel, Germany, just a few "The pictures I am enclosing—uncen- and I am sending herewith two pictures minutes before our train pulled out with sored—show divine services being con- to prove my point. {Continued on page 51) ducted on deck by the ship's chaplain, Father McFadin, for returning doughboys, and a boxing bout be- tween the Army and Navy, a doughboy and a gob, on one of our trips. I took the pic- tures myself, but failed to record the dates or trips. Won- der if any vets will recognize themselves in either group?" CLAIMS of "firsts" in service, claimsof "lasts" in service and claims of various and sundry kinds have often been broadcast in these columns—and for what purpose? Quite often merely to Officers of the 24th Aero Squadron at Vavincourt, France, November 12, 1918. A be knocked cold by French Salmson plane in background. These ex-flyers may have a copy of the picture better and bigger by reporting to Fred P. Kirschner, who served in the Squadron 34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine its Kansas City Where the bulk of the delegates will arrive for the convention: Union Station at Kansas City, with the Memorial Plaza, dedicated dur- ing the 1921 convention, in the foreground. At right, the magnificent Municipal Audito- rium, where convention sessions will be held 1 921 Kansas City was host to one of the great- INest National Conventions The American Legion has ever held. It was a memorable meeting, great in attendance, great in the presence of the leaders of the armed forces of the Allied Powers in the World War, and great in accomplishment. Now, in 1942, twenty-one years later, The American Legion is going back to Kansas City for perhaps the most Legion. Gracefully, New Orleans relinquished all claims and, important meeting the organization will hold within the at a special meeting of the National Executive Committee, lifetime of the men who organized it. There will be brought the Convention was moved to Kansas City where, it is be- together an official, working body whose sole purpose will lieved, the inland location and network of railroads thread- be to review the progress made in the prosecution of the ing that immediate area will permit the gathering of a war and to take such action as will best serve to bring that limited number of official representatives without seriously war to a quick and victorious finish. The Legion, through hampering the flow of transportation of men, materiel and its representatives, will speak in a tone of thunder. Let munitions to the camps and ports. there be no doubt about that. Under the resolution adopted by the National Executive The dates are September 19, 20 and 21, and Kansas City, Committee the Convention will be streamlined to meet the the "Heart of America" is the place. war situation; there will be no parades, no contests, no When the exigencies of our war effort halted the facilities social functions. It will be a working convention composed of for general travel, one of the first to realize the situation elected delegates only from each of the fifty-eight Depart- was the Convention Corporation of the city of New Orleans, ments and a limited number of members of the Standing under whose direction elaborate plans had been made for Committees. Curtailment is likewise made in the meetings of a meeting there worthy of the Crescent City and of the the Auxiliary, the Forty and Eight (Continued on Page 42) THE LEGION'S NATIONAL CONVENTION, SEPT. 19-21 AUGUST, 1942 35 The Man Who Conquered the World {Continued from page ig) panic before the Mongol shock troops each country that he planned to attack. In equipping this natural soldier Gen- charged. His fifth column was the caravan mer- ghis Khan showed his genius for planning Genghis Khan was also a great strate- chants. Through them he hired agents and detail. The Mongol's armor was of gist. Although his armies were outnum- in the enemy country. He studied the rawhide leather, hardened and lacquered. bered, he usually had the most troops on foe's geography, his people and politics. Each man had two bows, one for use hand at the actual point of battle. He He sought out disaffected elements and on horseback, one for greater precision knew how to divide the enemy's forces set one group against another. on foot. He had three types of arrows: and concentrate his own. He was a mas- His spies reported that the Sultan's for long, medium and close range. The ter of deception, turning up in one place mother, jealous of her son's power, had heavy, steel-tipped short-range arrows when the foe expected him in another. gathered a group of noble followers. were designed to pierce armor. Each He won by flanking movements rather Genghis Khan dictated a letter to her. trooper carried an emergency ration of than by costly direct attacks. He was It pretended to be in answer to one of dried milk curd; half a pound would always cutting the enemy's line of sup- hers, thanked her for her offer to help. nourish him for a day's fighting. He had plies. He saw to it that the messenger carry- spare bowstrings, and wax and needle His campaigns were based on speed, ing the letter was captured by the Sultan. for repair work. He carried his equip- on his ability to outmarch the enemy Then Genghis Khan marched, and when ment in a leather bag which could be two to one. His swift columns would his armies crossed the frontier thev inflated for crossing streams. There was penetrate the opposing armies, cut them found the country not far short of civil frequent inspection, and if a trooper had into segments, methodically annihilate war. lost any of his outfit he was severely them. He moved past the strongly-held The Khan had his Quislings in many punished. fortesses, leaving them to fall later. lands. He bribed dishonest politicians. The army was built in units of io's, There was no brilliant improvising in His agents discovered that the Chinese ioo's, iooo's, and io,ooo's. Beside the the course of a war. The plan of a cam- war minister had been embezzling funds. fighters there were the auxiliary troops: paign was thought out and decided to When the news was spread it caused a the engineers and specialists who oper- the last detail months before the enemy disruptive political crisis in China just ated stone-throwing catapults and other knew there was going to be a war. His as the Mongols were marching to the siege machinery, the quartermaster's plans were so thorough that he could attack. corps, a remount service, arsenal keepers, send three or four separate armies into He also used propaganda as a weapon a lost and found department. And back a country, to operate hundreds of miles of terror. It was his regular practice to of the army was the nation, all working apart, with little or no communication, remind the country he planned to invade to produce food and equipment for the yet have all of them work in smooth of the dreadful things that had happened army and themselves living on as little coordination to converge at the central to others who had resisted the Great as possible. objective. Khan. Submit or be annihilated, he of Genghis Khan's wars warned. It didn't matter what the answer The tactics developed by Genghis Some were If his foes submitted Khan were a marvel of precision ac- half won by propaganda before he put was. he marched in the field. the of in and annihilated them anyway. quired by intensive training. The battle an army In use words as weapons of war no commander has He used propaganda skilfully at formation was in five ranks, the squad- home surpassed this barbarian couldn't to build morale. extolled rons separated by wide intervals. In who up He the sol- write. dier's profession, it seem front were the shock troops. Heavily read, or made natural intelligence service operated that all others in the nation should armored, they used sabers, lances and His in slave maces. At the rear were the mounted bowmen. The bowmen advanced at a gallop through the intervals between shock troop squadrons, and opened fire while riding at full tilt. At close range the archers would dismount, shift to their heavier bows and put in volleys of the heavy arrows. The essence of the attack was an in- tensity and concentration of fire thitherto unknown. When the enemy was disorganized the shock troops charged to complete the rout. It was a smooth-working combina- tion, perfectly coordinated. There were no shouted commands. Orders were com- municated by waving black and white flags. The Mongol attack won by superiority in weapons, speed in bringing those weapons into contact with the enemy, and then rapidity and accuracy of fire. The armies of China, the dashing war- riors of Islam, the knights and men-at- arms of Christendom, all broke before the Mongol hail of arrows. They were like troops with muskets trying to face machine guns. Usually the enemy was in 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine and toil to keep the soldier in the field. corpses were cut off to prevent any of nomad tribes. Karakorum has van- He taught his people that the Mongols from feigning death. In one city alone ished under the drifting sands of the were a race apart, superior to all others. 500,000 civilians were slaughtered. His- Gobi. Its very name is almost forgotten. It was a phony theory, of course. The tory can only guess at how many scores But the name of Genghis Khan is not races, then as now, were of mixed of millions died because of Genghis forgotten by soldiers. So General Mac- descent. Khan. Arthur suggests a closer study of the With him terrorism was a cold and great Mongol's conceptions of "the un- passionless policy. As he marched out of SUCH was the military machine with varying necessities of war," separated conquered China he carried with him which Genghis Khan conquered the from "the ghastly practices of his butch- scores of thousands of captives. He world. He died on a campaign in 1227, eries, his barbarism and his ruthlessness." worked them hard on the road. When aged 66, at the height of his power. "They stand revealed as kernels of he was beyond the wall and needed them After his death the machine went roll- eternal truth, as applicable today in our no longer he killed them all in one day. ing on. His successors finished the con- effort to produce an efficient army as If a city resisted him he burned the quest of China, north and south. They they were . . . seven centuries ago." place and slaughtered men, women and penetrated into India. They were the Others have been reading the history children. It was a thorough process. lords of all Asia. They drove deeper into of Genghis Khan for those "kernels of When his army marched away he left a Europe, beat the Hungarians, Poles, eternal truth''—and without separating few of his men and a handful of cap- Germans. None could stand against them from the butcheries and the bar- tives concealed in the ruins. Later the them. The Mongol power was still su- barism. In German there are five full- captives were forced to go about the preme under Kubli Khan, grandson of length technical studies of the military city shouting that the Mongols had Genghis. system of the great Mongol. There is gone. When the few inhabitants who had It fell apart at last in the hands of none in English. escaped emerged from hiding, the Mon- degenerate descendants. Today the Mon- It is obvious how much the Germans gols killed them, too. The heads of gols, once again, are only a weak group have learned from that study. Not Always in Uniform, But— (Continued from page 11) pro-Japanese, Filipino, Spanish and Ne- to tell the world is God's gift to spies in spoiling many efforts by enemy agents gro groups of fanatical trouble-makers. —but for one thing. A key secret of or American subverts at spying and Reliable information about such groups secret service is to have plenty of good propaganda. One started with abusive is always welcome. informants, such as intelligent, inquisi- postcards to President Roosevelt, writ- The biggest spy -hunting grounds, after tive and communicative Americans. ten apparently by several anonymous sol- Hawaii, are the Pacific and Atlantic Their free-will letters to "the Govern- diers who claimed they had been coasts. Of our 127,000 Japanese, 93,000 ment" about spies and subversives are "double-crossed." The postmark was a are in California, while many of the found to assay a surprisingly low per- civilian post office near three military 695,000 Italians and 315,000 Germans centage of hysterical nonsense, and a camps, and hoping to detect the same unnaturalized are in the East. Prominent surprisingly high percentage of valuable writing, C. I. C.'s checked 32,000 differ- Japanese business men and priests have tips. This is the main reason why the ent pieces of mail. They even sent all been detected in military espionage, Army is now taking outmoded secrecy soldiers in the district an official "ques- while one Donay, a German in our Army, out of secret service. It wants more such tionnaire" carefully framed to require was the first alleged spy caught since letters. So it tells the Legion how it can the writing in of words used in the post- Pearl Harbor and now faces trial for help. cards. Still no soap. his life. Rene Froelich, a German-born First, it says, watch your own selves. So the C. I. C. began asking Senators trainee, was detected sending military Don't be too inquisitive about army and Congressmen: "Have you received information from First Army head- matters that don't r?ally concern you any cards like this?" Sure enough, one quarters at Governors Island. personally. Patriotic interest is ap- produced from his "skunk file" of the All military spies, though prosecuted preciated, but it will save a lot of trouble crack-pot mail every public man gets, a by the F. B. I., are turned up largely for you and the C. I. C. if you don't, violently disloyal card with the same by the C. I. C. Its sergeants are un- for instance, question a sentry about his writing, signed by a "mothers" ap- recognized by those who try to send duties or periods of duty. That will peaser organization with headquarters in abroad information of our increasingly cause instant suspicion, start a time- Detroit. One "mother" in Pennsylvania formidable Army. Their grapevine may wasteful investigation. had been faking the cards to look as if be short-wave radio, if only to sub- Then, help the Army tighten up the they came from several soldiers, and marines. The Army believes the sub- loose-mouths, or report them. People in sending them to a German-American sol- marines may land spies to collect reports, Government offices, factories, trains, dier, who in turn mailed them from a which may also be sent to Germany via buses and taverns who broadcast in- town near his camp. sailors on Dutch, Norwegian or other formation valuable to the enemy are Since Pearl Harbor, propaganda to ships. The domestic mail, still uncen- killing American soldiers. The War De- weaken soldiers' morale shows despera- sored, may transmit information sent by partment calls them "Blabboteurs" and tion. "You are fighting for the Jews!" many who are ignorant of just what lately issued a series of posters on the it screams. And the soldiers reply, such information is. Here is the C. I. theme "Loose Talk Can Cost Lives." "Nertz!" Hitler's attack on Russia C.'s warning: Legionnaires can explain what loose turned the Communists' "this is an im- "Don't repeat information about: talk means; that if you tell the world perialist war" propaganda to a violently "1. Our war plans, or the name, —if only the boys at the club or some patriotic helpfulness. But a few frenzied strength, location, movements, morale good friend—that brother Bill in the Fascists, like Herbert Schmuederrich, a and equipment of any body of our Steenth Infantry in the South wants naturalized citizen, kept sending soldiers troops." heavy wool socks "in an awful hurry" pamphlets urging revolt for Hitler until "2. The design, performance and pro- then the Steenth is probably headed for the C. I. C. caught him. His "Grey duction of that equipment." Iceland. Legionnaires might tell their Shirts" were one of many subversive Such "intelligence" is God's gift to telephone operator friends to stop listen- organizations it knows about, including the enemy, and the American tendency ing in on telephone calls to Washington, AUGUST, 1942 37 — and talking about them. And tell their who toured the country with a girl friend, If it is urgent, ask your telephone In- daughters with soldier boy-friends that spotting aircraft factories, ascertaining formation how to reach the Army's one poster says: "To Men Only—Don't their output, even photographing them. Counter-intelligence Corps. Or ask the Tell Her I" There might be a companion- Soldiers know both were "nice-looking local army recruiting office. If you write piece for the girls: "Don't Ask Him]" people." Soldiers may report you—or a letter, address it to the Counter- To one who asked: "How do you like even sock you. intelligence Corps, War Department, this movie?" the soldier replied: "Swell! And don't repeat rumors. A rumor- Washington, D. C. That is, of course, Wonder when I'll see another! I sail monger sticks a knife in the back of if it's about soldiers or Army. If sailors tomorrow for North Ireland on the the nation's morale. If you spot one, or Navy, address The Office of Naval transport So-and-so." Yes, that really keep an eye on him; also on anyone Intelligence, Navy Department, Wash- happened. who seems too inquisitive. But keep that ington, D. C. Other war matters to the And a Legionnaire might tell his eye a calm eye; don't act suspicious F. B. I., Department of Justice, Wash- friends: "Sure, if you've got the gas, be suspicious, then act accordingly by ington, D. C. All work together. give a soldier a ride, but don't ask him reporting your suspicions and reasons Then forget it. Don't tell others you questions. No, you don't look like a also calmly. The C. I. C. especially have telephoned or vritten. You won't spy—but neither does a spy. At least, values the help of Legionnaires because get a letter in -eply—not because the not the ones in that racket. They don't they will not scribble and scrawl about C. I. C. is ungrateful or too busy, but wear false whiskers and talk with ac- "lights flashing." ("Ihey must be signal- because someone else might see the let- cents. They're nice-looking people, and ing.") It wants reliable informants who ter—and there is still some secrecy left speak good English—as our soldiers have will answer accurately who, what, where, in secret service. But you'll get your been warned." when and why? And add names and answer—and your thanks—whenever a They have heard of several spies addresses, including additional sources of transport crosses the ocean safely, or a working that one, notably Kurt Ludwig, information. battle is won—and a war. Keep the Soldier on His Toes (Continued jrom page 25) matter of multiplication. Work it out cause. The highest number, naturally, first stages, becomes severe enough to in- and you will find that it totals up pretty was during the first World War. In 191 8, capacitate him, perhaps for only a day close to Mann and Folsom's figures, when the Army was at its peak with a or two, possibly for the rest of the war. above. mean strength of 2,518,497 men, there That Uncle Sam is not ignorant of Serious as this loss in manpower might were 9,135 discharges for foot ailments. these conditions is amply evidenced by be in an emergency, it is not the whole This cause was the second highest reason the writings of medical officers and by story. Uncle Sam is also losing plenty in for discharges in that year and only once the annual reports of the Surgeon Gen- hard cash, for when a soldier is on the has it dropped under fourth place. Most eral of the Army himself. Shortly after sick list for any cause whatever the of the time it has been the second or the last war an excellent manual ap- Army is not only deprived of his services, third highest cause and in 1937 it ranked peared under the title, "A Manual on perhaps at a critical time, but they are first. Foot Care and Shoe Fitting For Officers paying his salary just the same as when Of the first two million men drafted of the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine he is on active duty. If he is sick enough in 191 7, 25,426 were rejected by the Corps." It was written by W. L. Mann, to be in hospital, that adds even more local examining boards on account of M. D., lieutenant-commander in the to the expense. Then, if he has to be their feet. Then 19,516 more were Marine Corps, and S. A. Folsom, M.D., discharged for disability because he is no weeded out in the camps, either because lieutenant in the same service. In that longer fit for service, the Government they were missed in the first going over volume the statement was made that, must figure on a pension or disability or developed trouble under drill and "The European authorities allow, when compensation. marching. The total number of rejectees unseasoned troops take the field, for 10 The report for 1939, quoted above, was thus 45,000 men, or three full Di- percent of incapacitation through pre- discloses that in that year there were visions, who did not see any service at ventable foot injuries. More emphatical- 117 discharges for foot conditions. Over all because of their feet. ly expressed, should a million citizens the period from 191 6 to 1939 inclusive To chiropodists this means that many spring to arms overnight, there is every there were 16,643 discharges for this men were taken into the service who reason to expect 100,000 of them to be should have been rejected at the very on the sick-list because of foot dis- start. On the other hand, many were orders." rejected who could have rendered That book was written 20 years ago effective service in non-combatant and here is what happened just last branches if proper procedures for summer at Camp Fort Bragg. Two hun- strengthening their feet had been in- dred of the boys set out on a short march stituted. Still others were let out for of eight miles. Before they got back be- so-called flat foot whose pedal extremi- tween 50 and 60 of them (25 percent of ties, from a functional standpoint, were the total) were riding in trucks. Their perfectly sound. feet had given out. Take the case of young Bob Fletcher The Surgeon General's reports are full (that is not his name). When Bob of informing figures. In 1939, in a peace- stepped into a wet place on the floor time army of 191,000 men and officers, and then walked across a dry section, trained and seasoned, the loss in man- the imprint looked as if he had no arches days because of foot troubles was 16,096, at all, so the doctor thumbed him out. not including many thousands of cases of Yet Bob was a football player, a basket- so-called "athlete's foot," which the ball player, a baseball player, and he Art*. /fap4*i*4. chiropodist is well qualified to treat. To hiked four, six, ten miles at a clip for learn what this will amount to in an "Awright, I made a mistake—go the fun of it. He was flat footed, yes, army of 1,000,000 men is merely a ahead and fire me." but not weak footed and, believe me, 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine there is a difference. Many people are say nothing of months of grueling train- about the dentist. But when the tooth bom flat footed or with very low arches ing, yet Joe was fearful of rejection. doctors were finally admitted to the (there is no norm for the height of an It has been argued by the higher ups medical service they were driven to dis- arch: an arch is an arch, high or low) in the War Department and Army Med- traction by the demands made upon but when it comes to an all day march ical Corps that the Army doctor himself them by the military doctors, almost they are right up in front. When Joe can take care of all foot conditions; that every one of whom were afflicted with Louis recently went up for his army he must be able to treat everything that tooth decay and jaw trouble. And so physical, he was afraid his flat feet would ails the soldier because the Army can't great was the demand that the common keep him out. Imagine ! Those feet have afford a lot of specialists. Significantly soldier didn't have a chance until after stood up under dozens of tough fights, to enough, they once felt the same way his superiors had been cared for! Mamma Chibout's Yank ." (Continued from page 7) A moment. A thud of something out- must hurry. And stand. . . Her glance power plant. New violence caused the side. Silence. Mamma Chibout wrung a shot nervously toward the street. ." flame of hope to kindle ever brighter. chicken's neck in her kitchen. "I'm not "As France shall again stand. . . And as a day passed it was soon forgot- afraid." ten. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow "Just a bandage. Then I must go. HARDLY had the clank of metal .... When you are an old woman of There is more work." silenced in the room before seven seventy you cannot thrust with a dagger. "Hush!" Germans thrust open the door and You merely pray, and are careful who Deft fingers working in half dark. crowded through. Electric torch beams hears you. Starshine filtering like wrinkled lace knifed around and finally focused on the Even as the village was throbbing with through a window against white gauze. bent figure of Mamma Chibout. The motor lorries crammed with gray- The silent wince of pain from M'sieur slightest sound from the corner. . . . helmeted faces, even as Mamma Chibout Yank, and the labored breath of Mamma "You rouse an old woman at a late was muttering her simple words of Chibout. He lay perfectly still. hour," she said indignantly. prayer, the scraping sound came at her Soon there would be sounds. It was "We saw a man enter your house," back door. the element of time again ; the Germans one accused. She knew at once it was not the used time like a sharp fragment of The old woman shrugged wearily. "I machine-flesh dressed in the gray-green precision. have been dozing in my chair, gentle- of the Boche. For those wreckers of mind "They will search your house." men." She turned and spat on the floor. and body enter without knocking. "Hush! Of course they will." That she "If a man has entered my house, no First, Mamma Chibout peeked warily was not afraid, as though the entire per- doubt he is still here." She waved at her from the front door, and then, seeing no formance was ordinary, illuminated her aged body and cackled. "Though I find searching vanguard nearby, she pattered character. no reason why a man should want to through the silent rooms to her back She squinted at the youth on the floor. enter my house. I am old and ugly." door. Her cheeks were wrinkled pits. It was "Shut up!" snapped the officer. "We Monsieur Yank reeled inside, and the very much as if she were turning pages will search the house." He waved sharply old woman encircled his waist with her in a book she'd once abandoned. But it at his men. They scattered through the stout, stubby arms. was a book she had not forgotten, and house. "If we find him here you will be "M'sieur Yank," she gasped. "You are when her mind read on as if in fancy, shot for lying. Come ... he is here?" shot. ..." She could feel warm blood she was glancing into a familiar face. A But they did not find M'sieur Yank. ." penetrating her dress. face that smiled one time before in the "As France shall again stand. . . "Do not be excited. Mom," whispered face of danger, and a face that, now, Mamma Chibout kept praying. M'sieur Yank in plausible French. "They was smiling again. just nicked me. But I must hide for a few The youth pulled himself to his feet. AFTER the yellow placards began fad- minutes at least." He grinned in the half "I will stand by the door. When they L J- ing in the sun, they were replaced ." light and the old woman could not resist come near. . . He breathed hard. by red ones. "The Gestapo knows that squeezing him just a little. "Do you trust me?" she whispered. someone in Lille is hiding an enemy. The trust all true listen, ." "You will live, M'sieur Yank; come "I Frenchmen. But death penalty will be imposed. . . inside." Mom . . . you hear? They are coming Once the red placards were read, to "No, no," he replied quickly. "I near. Go to the front of the house. When oblige. Then, as happened to the yellow simply wait inside your door for a mo- they knock, detain them as long as pos- ones, the red ones faded. More than ever, ." ment's rest. I cannot stay. . . sible. I will escape as I came. My leg silence was the password for safety. All "Why cannot you stay?" the old feels fine." night long Mamma Chibout would stand woman demanded. "Liar!" thought the old woman petu- rigidly by the front door watching, while "It is our purpose to help the people of lantly. She could see his figure reeling M'sieur Yank slept on the floor near the France. If I am found here, terrible as he tried to stand erect. Finally her corner. At the first sign of an approach- things will happen to you and yours." eyes opened wide, and she nodded ing patrol, she'd wake the youth and he'd She laughed softly, and in the dusk her vaguely. "You've lost too much blood. crawl inside the suit of armor. And eyes were bitter. "You and yours," she You must trust an old woman. Come." through the day, as the old woman dozed repeated, and her lips hung open a little. "Where?" fitfully in a chair, the American would "All of that is just me. I am an old "A place to hide. Right under their take his place by the window, glancing woman. I am alone. Mine . . . are all noses." She laughed silently and half around the drape to watch the street. It dead. But this is no time for tears. hysterically. was hide-and-seek with death. Come." She pulled him inside the room. The American soldier wondered. . . . But when the officer with the stiff The tall, lean-faced youth's protests fell She put one arm about his waist and Prussian face came to take command of silent upon her ears. There was a tinc- pulled him to the front room. "But you the search, Mamma Chibout turned ture of tremor in her voice. must stand," she cautioned. "Stand as grave. Because the stiff Prussian face "Lie down on the floor." never before. There ... in yon corner. had evoked an order. . . . ." "There will be blood. . . That old suit of armor. Inside . . . you "All food in town will be taken over AUGUST, 1942 39 by the Gestapo. Citizens will come to a and in the order we now have there is AND the six weeks passed, and for designated place for their food and eat little for us to do." lA. good measure another two. Motor it there." One of the officers smiled and glanced lorries again began to churn the streets, So no longer could Mamma Chibout sharply at some of the young mothers. but this time they were leaving. The stiff share her meagre food ration with "I could suggest a very pleasant pas- Prussian face, waxed with a triumphant M'sieur Yank. time." smile, vanished in a low-slung official "What will we do?" she asked him. "That is within your power but car. Whoever had been hiding the enemy "I'll have to chance slipping through against our wishes," curtly snapped now had a corpse on his hands. the night guard." Mamma Chibout. "What is your pas- Though M'sieur Yank was not a "No! You haven't a chance. We must time is our misery." She chewed her corpse, he had lost many pounds. do something." What? An old woman underlip a moment. "We merely meet "You are yet too weak to make your pitting wits against keen - minded here to discuss a sewing circle." escape," cautioned the old woman late Boches. . . . The three Germans grunted. "We one night. "Stay another week." She felt the weight of something don't allow meetings in private. It is "Thanks, Mom," smiled the young crowding back beyond eons of time. contrary to Our Leader's wishes." Commando. "I have plenty of strength." Pierre, her husband, had died by the Mamma Chibout laughed. "Is my He had a bundle of black bread and cold hand of the Boche in 191 6; Henry and house private, sirs? Do you knock when boiled potatoes under one arm. He Carl, her sons, had died in Belgium last you enter? Pah! You come and go as tapped the bundle. "This will take me to year. And, as before when the hand of you please." She wiped her face to quiet the coast. There it will be easy. I know France was curling and drying away, a nervous twitching. where our men land." the laughter of many daredevil boys in The Gestapo men huddled in a corner Mamma Chibout fondled something O. D. had come to ring the bells in the and discussed the old woman. "All in her fingers; a glass object with a rub- mossy old church tower out on the edge right," one finally grunted. "But remem- ber bulb on one end. "That brave men of town. ber there are tortures for people who might escape. . . ." she prayed. She The food line formed—black-shawled try treachery against the new order of watched M'sieur Yank standing in the women waiting for the food that enabled Europe." doorway squinting into the darkness. them to nurse their babies. And some- "We shall remember." From a distance there was a sound of an thing, then, became exciting inside the The afternoon gathering of the sewing explosion. The echo of it rolled over the old woman's head. Of course, she circle became quite as common as the forest. The young man stiffened. ." thought, and her gloom vanished under public bread line. Mamma Chibout was "Tell the women of Lille . . a fresh eagerness. Babies for the France really too old to do much sewing, so she "The women of France," corrected of tomorrow. They, too, must join in chose to amuse the babies in another the old woman softly. sacrifice! room while the mothers foregathered "Tell the women of France . . . that to sew and chat . . . and serve the cause the milk they have given me is food for THAT day Mamma Chibout called of a future France. the candle at the Altar of God." several women to her home. "We But the hunt was never for a mo- Mamma Chibout patted the delicate must occupy our minds," she told them. ment relaxed. Day and night the sound little glass pump. They looked at her face, and they could of heavy boots thumped about town. "The milk from the breasts of the understand that something momentous And as darkness would come, a triple women of France has ever served for the was going on behind that face. guard of bayonets would encircle Lille. good of France. God was kind that it The door opened and three Gestapo No man could escape. It was only a was enough to keep you alive." agents entered. "It is against the Mas- matter of waiting until slow starvation "There were many of you," whispered ter's orders to hold meetings," Mamma killed the American soldier. Thirty days, M'sieur Yank. He stood very tense a Chibout was warned. six weeks to make certain. Every morsel moment, and there was a dull, faraway "This is no meeting," snapped the old of food was in German hands. It was the boom. "Good-bye, Mom." woman. "We are accustomed to work, element of time, now. . . . In a moment he was gone. Shreve: He Bucked the Current (Continued from page 27) river trade moved, funnel-wise, south- and a dragging keel. Had not the river sinister combine had a death grip on the ward to New Orleans for export to the been in flood, she most likely could not trade of the great Valley. Fulton and Atlantic Seaboard, or abroad, Fulton and have made it over the sand bars and Livingston, his financial backer, had Livingston were in a fair way to smother crossings, the shifting reefs, the snags and taken a long-time lease on the Father of the potential free trade of the entire "sawyers" waiting to snatch the living Waters. On that part of it, anyhow, that Mississippi Valley, which waited only a daylights out of unwary boats. flows through the State of Louisiana, the successful medium of carriage to spring By the end of that voyage, having Governor of that State having given them into full being. brought the Enterprise safely back to the a patent to the exclusive navigation of But the Easterners had reckoned with- Ohio, Shreve had come to a far-reaching the Mississippi for a period of years. out Captain Henry Shreve, bargeman, conclusion: A totally new type of craft The combine had tried unsuccessfully to artillery officer, river captain, just now would have to be developed if the west- wangle similar patents from all the other bucking the fierce current with his crude ern rivers were to become highways along river States; patents which would give sidepaddler, headed north from the delta. which settlement and civilization could them, in return for running their faulty The captain, as it turned out, had some advance and build up the great Mis- steamships on the western rivers, the sole pretty decided ideas on steamboat con- sissippi Valley. right to the enjoyment of that privilege. struction and the rights of American But Shreve was a realist. He knew Now what did that mean? Simply this: citizens. that Fulton had tried it and failed. Nor Possessed of such a patent, the Easterners What a nightmarish experience that had Daniel French, part owner in the could slap a heavy tribute upon any other return trip from the deep South was for Enterprise, been able to design a steam persons who had the temerity to venture Shreve, we can only surmise. The Enter- vessel that could, save in high water, go with steam vessels into waters controlled prise was built on a ship's model. She had both up and down stream. Something by them. And since practically all the a deep hull containing her machinery, else was needed—something that ship- 40 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — — builders had failed to apprehend but which Shreve felt he could supply. And for a very definite reason! Long years spent in navigating the rivers with barges had taught him that a barge hull—flat-bottomed but with a "model bow"—could go in shallow places, over sandbars and reefs, where the ordi- nary ship's hull could never go. Gliding along almost on the surface of the water, like a sled, it offered a very slight re- sistance to the stiff current. "If," Shreve reasoned, "I can build a steam vessel on a barge hull, with ma- chinery light enough not to pull her down in the water and still powerful enough to propel her in the face of this five-mile current, I believe I can solve this matter of a means of transportation. A craft like that would be able to sail on the water instead of in the water; she'd be a steamboat, not a steamship." THE good people of Wheeling, Vir- ginia, and environs laughed uproar- iously when Shreve laid down the keel of his new boat on the Ohio's shore that fall morning in 1816. Surely a stranger tember, 181 6. From that keel he ran out engines were unconnected so that her contraption never the eyes of any met his hull timbers, curved up so as to form engineer could come ahead on one, and river community! say they were To a hold less than six feet deep. The plank- back on the other, and thus turn her whether she could even skeptical as to ing nailed on, he decked the hold over around on her own length. No steamship as one well say, is turn a wheel, may and placed his machinery on deck, in a that ever floated before this one could understate the case. there rather to And horizontal position, instead of upright have done that! Moreover, her draft was reason for that. was and in the hold as any common-sense so shallow that a steamship builder would Had not the great Robert Fulton from shipbuilder would do! have thrown up his hands in despair. tried success to the East without run In the machinery itself Shreve made Completed, the Washington slid down steam vessels on their rivers? some sweeping changes, using French's the Wheeling Ways to the water's sur- Fulton's And now—on top of failure engine, which had an oscillating cylinder. face in June, 181 7. The Ohio River re- came this presumptuous bargeman, Henry This was the type of engine which had, ceived her on its smooth bosom and bore Shreve, who was building a steamboat with infinite difficulty, brought the En- her along as lightly as a duck on a mill on a barge hull—a flat-bottomed, shallow terprise back from the South. But for his race. As she waddled away with a load draft thing which he had the crazy notion new boat's particular engine he intro- of freight and a number of courageous would run on top of the water! For all duced some startling improvements which and curious passengers, and as the people willing, that, they were these Wheeling made it practically an entirely new on shore, no longer deriding, shouted people, to be shown! So they waited, mechanism. He maintained French's oscil- their hails and good wishes, no one pres- fascinated, watching through the winter lating principle, all right, but he made ent could have realized that he was wit- and the following spring—watched him the pitman oscillate and held the cylinder nessing the beginning of a new era in as he violated every known principle of stationary. And there were other changes. American history, the awakening of the shipbuilding. David Prentiss had recently invented West. So much depended on his success ! The cam wheels. To these Shreve added his Shreve built far better then he knew. Wheeling folk knew that if he could in- own idea of the cam cut-off, with flues Standing on the Washington's forward deed build a boat to master their rivers, to the boiler—something which resulted deck as she got under way for the South, he would have provided the one essential in a great saving of fuel. he had no way of foreseeing a number of to a happy homeland which the Mis- In answer to his friends' questions amazing future events: sissippi Valley lacked. Valley farms and Shreve announced that he was going to That, for example, this first Mississippi plantations were producing a surplus and name her the Washington after his steamboat which he had built (a type as there was no way to ship it out save by father's old General-in-Chief, and would purely American as Andy Jackson's slow, unsatisfactory barges and flatboats. soon make an initial trip to New Orleans. squirrel rifle or Abe Lincoln's broadaxe) Valley mills and factories daily turned They asked him: would completely revolutionize river out a diversified array of manufactured "With your deck room taken up with steam navigation. That she would beget goods which a waiting world needed—if that machinery, where are you going to thousands of descendants (that is, boats consumer and goods could only be put your cargo and passengers?" For built along the same general model). brought together. Could Shreve supply answer, Shreve added another deck to That, within thirty years of her first up- that need? Fulton and French had not his boat, making her the first two-decker stream trip, a mighty inland merchant been able to. in history. marine would be afloat on these same Meanwhile Shreve went on with his Long after Shreve's time, Mark Twain, waters — light and airy, graceful and work. out of the fullness of his piloting ex- swift, sidewheelers and sternwheelers For his material he selected some sea- perience, opined: "Build your river serving the West as no other type of soned beams from Wheeling's demolished steamboat so she will run on an early craft could. Nor that such renowned old Indian fortification, Fort Henry. It morning dew and turn around on a steamboats as the /. M. White, the was about a year after he had returned dime." Some of these qualifications Robert E. Lee, the Jacob Strader, the from the South that he laid down the Henry Shreve had indeed embodied in Kate Adams, the Natchez, or a hun- new boat's keel, on the 10th day of Sep- the Washington. For instance, her double dred others—wonders of their time and AUGUST, 1 Q42 4i 9 surpassing in beauty, size, and speed all contemporary deep-sea tonnage—would be numbered among the Washington's progeny. A few statistics speak volumes. In the new shipyards that at once sprang up in the various expanding river cities, sixty boats were built and launched within two years of Shreve's demonstration. By 1830 there were 250 boats afloat plying over 15,000 miles of navigable rivers. From then on, the number increased with each passing year until by the time war clouds darkened over the nation in i860, the fleet had grown to number 2,000 boats. Boats built during the last decade before the Civil War reached the high rate of one every week. And every one of them, mark you, built on the model of Shreve's little Washington, which he brought up safely from New Orleans in something over twenty days! From that trip rivermen in the "West" date the beginning of tained A. L. Duncan, a prominent law- veloped a successful type of snagboat Mississippi steamboating; and from that yer, to fight it out for him to the bitter (still in use) operated by steam on twin date also Jefferson's investment began end. It was a test case, and Shreve made hulls, which went cruising about the to pay undreamed-of dividends. the most of it. rivers, from headwaters to delta, "pull- The combine were running their clumsy ing the- river's teeth" and making the TRAGEDY beset the Washington's ships now between New Orleans and channels harmless highways for the boats. first voyage. She exploded her boilers Natchez, where the water was deep and He ran his tooth-pullers up into the two days out, near Marietta. Ohio. "The the currents sluggish. But they were impassable reach of Red River and disarrangement of the safety valve," says doing a big local business and they re- laboriously snagged out, piece by piece, an old account in Niles' Register, "which sented this young Westerner and his new the great raft which for centuries had had become immovable in consequence boat, and his claims that he was goinj clogged it. thus opening the stream to of the accidental slipping of the weight to free western commerce from the death navigation. It was for his work on Red to the extremity of the lever," caused grip of their monopoly. In the face of River that he is memorialized in the the trouble. Eight people died in that seductive overtures from "the enemy," name of that stream's largest metropolis explosion and Shreve had to tie up the which would have given him a good slice —Shreveport. Washington while he buried the dead and of their profits in return for leaving them "I hope to live to see the day when a repaired the machinery. But in two weeks alone, Shreve stood his ground. In 181 steamboat can make the run up from he was under way again, and towards the the courts vindicated him. The Missis- New Orleans in ten days," Shreve had middle of October brought her safely sippi system, they declared, belonged to declared in a fit of optimism when the into New Orleans. all the people. Regardless of any State citizens of Louisville tendered him a And there in the Crescent City where patent, no one organization could claim banquet in 181 7. He lived to see (in he had fought the British a new conflict the sole right to navigate it, and from 1851) the fast Bostona make it in less' of a different sort awaited him. For he that day to this any man has been free than four days! . . . And in that same ran smack up against the Fulton-Living- to run a row boat, a power boat or a year he died, full of honors. ston interests, which at once had the 300-foot steamboat on the Mississippi, law on him for bringing a steam vessel free and unmolested. SOME day when you are in Cincinnati, into waters to which they claimed an That out of the way, Shreve made his notice a tablet in a public park ac- exclusive patent. return trip as indicated and settled in cording to Robert Fulton the credit for But after the perils he had known of Louisville. As Superintendent of Western inaugurating steamboating on the Mis- the lonely river and facing the British River Affairs, a few years later Captain sissippi system. Then remember Captain guns on Chalmette Field, a little legal Shreve had his hands full trying to im- Henry Shreve. and what he did for the scrap gave Shreve no terrors. He wel- prove the channel of Ole Miss and her South and Midlands, and form your comed it, nay, he anticipated it, and re- tributaries. Among other things he de- own conclusions. It's Kansas City Again {Continued from page 35) after round of thunderous cheers. Hall, and other rooms will be assigned and Eight and Forty. It was suggested Plans for holding the convention are to the Forty and Eight and Eight and that, so far as possible, delegates be being made by a committee of Kansas Forty. Once again all meetings will be selected who are qualified to serve the City Legionnaires under the chairman- under the same roof. The Muehlebach Legion and Forty and Eight, the Auxilary ship of James A. Young. This general Hotel has been designated as the Na- and Eight and Forty. committee will be divided into twelve sub- tional Headquarters hotel. There will be a limited number of committees, with definite assignments. It's Kansas City again in 1942 for a guests. Remember the historic gathering Convention totally different from that 92 1. Then we met to celebrate vic- in Kansas City in 1921 when Pershing, THE sessions will be held in the mag- of 1 Foch, Beatty, Jacques and Diaz stepped nificent Municipal Auditorium, part tory—now we meet to plan for victory the out on the platform and stood in a of which is already in use for war work and to rededicate the Legion to group, while the men whom they had —the Legion will hold its meetings in highest purpose in the service of God led to victory in 1918 sent up round the Arena, the Auxiliary in the Music and country. 42 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jm . Keep Faith with Them President Roosevelt says . "There is nothing finer than to build up this fund for the Navy Relief Society. I urge you to do your utmost, and do it now!" Join the work of the Navy Relief Society and BACK UP THE NAVY'S FIGHTING MEN! HELP THE NAVY MAN and his dependents, generously and help protect the families of the Navy's TOhis widow, his orphaned child, his mother and fighting men. By your assistance, those in the Service may that at will look after those they left other dependent members of his family, is the pur- know we home be- hind . . . and the men who are doing the fighting need pose of the Navy Relief Society. not worry about the folks back home. Organized forty years ago by the Navy, to look after the Navy's own, it gives immediate financial aid Back them up! ENROLL TODAY! to Navy men and their families when necessary . . . No amount is too small— $1 . . . $2 . . . $5 . . . $10. None assists in emergency operations . . . cares for the Navy too large— $100 . . . $500 . . . $1000. Every contribution man's dependents . . . makes possible the education making up the $5,000,000 fund will promise protection of dependent young. at home, and freedom from worry, to more than 500,000 For the first time in its history, the Navy Relief Society, men in our Navy, Marine and Coast Guard* Services. through its Citizens' Committee, asks you to contribute ^through Coast Guard Welfare CLIP THIS ENROLLMENT COUPON. Send it to the Navy Relief Society. Give all you can — and give today! =. | Checks should be made payable to Navy Relief Society and sent to National Citizens' Committee, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York City. I want to help the Navy men and their families. Enclosed please find my contribution of $ _Statt. AUGUST. 1942 43 Our Third Front {Continued from page g) About the same purpose is served, there- power; hide the facts as to what business The censors will have none of it. Their fore, as if the accusations were true. is doing; carry on a campaign against the reasoning, to them, is perfectly sound. 4—Try to prevent all criticism of any- management of business; charge that But the result is that the American pub- thing that is done by any of our bureau- everyone who lifts his voice in protest is lic is getting only the vaguest sort of crats. Of course they say they welcome a Nazi; undermine the confidence of the general statements-—no hard, clear facts "constructive criticism," but that is eye- public in Congress. about which it may feel proud and which wash. The only thing they think is "con- Again, let me repeat that I do not be- would cause it to rise up and cheer at structive criticism" is praise for what lieve that this is a "plot." But in the final the job being done by private enterprise. they are doing. Anyone who goes oeyond analysis that is of minor importance. The 3—Carry on a smear campaign against this is immediately labeled as unpatriotic, significant fact is that we have a state of business management. Think back over and probably a fifth columnist. mind and a trend of developments in this the past few months and you will recall 5 —Undermine the confidence of the country which are a serious threat to the that one company after another has been public in the ability of Congress. Un- America we have known. attacked by government spokesmen. fortunately that is much easier to do than As stated above, this is our third front. Sometimes the charge has been that they one wishes were the case. This is because In one respect, too, it is our most danger- would not "accept" war orders, some- Congress has been guilty of some ex- ous front. We know that life will not be times that they insisted upon continuing tremely unwise and shortsighted action. worth living unless we win in Europe and with "business as usual," sometimes that But Congress is not composed of a bunch the Far East. But we are not so con- they have refused to obey orders, and in of nincompoops. And certainly we don't scious of this battle at home. a few instances that they were guilty of want to get rid of it or have its powers That is why the man at the luncheon carrying on relations with our enemy, taken away. For remember, the inde- referred to above, and those who go along which, if true, would come dangerously pendence of Congress is the final line of with his line of thinking, are so confident. close to being treason. Now this would protection between us and the concen- They don't believe that the American be all to the good if the charges were tration of all power in the hands of the public will wake up. They don't believe true. But so far those making the charges bureaucrats. What we must do, therefore, that we will realize, until it is too late, haven't been able to make them stick. is strengthen Congress through improv- that if we are to save "the American way The rank and file of the public, however, ing the calibre of those we elect, not de- of life" we must defeat the enemies on does not find this out. The charges make stroy it by charges of incompetence. our third front just as truly as we must the headlines on the front pages; the re- That is the broad pattern. To get its defeat the Nazis and the Japs. plies and the subsequent court action are full force it needs to be thought of as a And whether they prove to be right, condensed and buried in the back pages. unit: Constantly expand government depends on you. The Turning Point {Continued from page 21) With the purchase the Confederates forced march. They were hurried into European powers and receive arms through had on Culp's hill on the other flank, the demoniac struggle, to be met with a the Federal blockade, arms which the Meade would have to go—and go under blaze of fire and then with the bayonet South so sorely needed to carry on the a cross fire, possibly unable to withdraw as pell mell they reached the crest. war. He would have Washington and all his troops. Not only would Lee win Their commander, young Colonel Baltimore in his rear and at his complete Gettysburg, but Meade's army would O'Rorke, was killed. Then Vincent, rally- mercy. face something approaching irretrievable ing a weak part in the line, fell with a disaster. sharpshooter's bullet through his head. PHILADELPHIA, practically without The glance was enough to send Warren But the sum of it was that there were home defense, knew such an alarm as on the run toward Barnes's Division, all too many Federals for the Johnnies. The it has not since known—that of the pos- but the last of Meade's reserves, which Federals kept Little Round Top, and had sibility of Confederate soldiers soon was about to charge in support of the Gettysburg as good as won. marching through her streets. Federal center in a deadly wrestle to hold Silently the next day, the final day of On the second day of the three-day its ground. the battle, Lee nodded his head in assent decisive Battle of Gettysburg, when it When minutes, even seconds counted, to the last chance of Pickett's immortal was at its raging height General Warren as they do in air warfare today, Warren charge. Lee, that great soldier, had had of Meade's staff went up to the crest of did not wait to consult Meade, but as his nerve with him when, with slightly the Little Round Top hill for a look-see. an order from Meade detached Vincent's inferior numbers and considerably fewer He got an eyeful in a single glance. brigade on a sprint for Little Round Top. guns, he tried to envelope Meade's army, That little hill of rocks and brambles, So near were the Johnnies to their and he had almost done it. a No Man's Land in a rich farming goal that Vincent's men as they came to With the fall of Vicksburg to Grant country, had become the critical strate- the crest had not time to fire their rifles. on July 4th this became the turning gic point in the very crisis of the battle. The first clash was with the bayonet. point of the war. The Johnnies were uttering no "rebel These veterans were not concerned with yell," nor talking above a whisper, as being pricked with brambles or skinning AS FOR the Spanish War of 1898, it with lynx-like speed they worked their their shins on rocks but with the thrust jTx. might be said that the precedent of way under the cover of a ravine to take of cold steel. "Remember the Alamo" applied in "Re- Little Round Top. It was touch and go, one side gaining a member the Maine." Public anger at the Once they had it, they would loose little advantage, and then the other. Vin- outrage, after the blowing up of our new that yell in triumph. They would have cent's men were not enough. Sweat-sod- battleship Maine in Havana harbor, de- a downhill sweep on Meade's trains in den with dust, a new New York regiment manded that we put an end to the plague the rear of his center, with few Federal of recruits who had never been under spot off our shores in Cuba under Spanish reserves left. fire before had just arrived after a long, tyranny. 44 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazint But the turning point 1 visualize in vivid reality starts with the exhausted men in the disease-infested jungle off the Santiago shore. They had only obso- lete smoke powder cannon, outranged by modern guns pounding at them. It looked as though the jungle had them down for defeat. Caution counseled delay. But they would not have it so. They were there to fight, not to die of disease, founder- ing in the mud. It was in the common impulse, brother beside brother now in the offensive spirit, that they charged in a race to see who could get there first, and took San Juan Hill. IN THE First World War, which is no historical quiz ground, but a living memory to all of us, there is bound to be some difference of opinion among those who were over there as to what was the turning point. Chateau-Thierry? When we stopped them on the Paris Road? I offer my own view out of an indelible personal impression. As our two Divisions swept on, taking objective after objec- tive in the counterstroke toward Sois- sons after the fifth German offensive, I was struck with wonder at the number of prisoners taken in bunches with their officers. I knew we were good. But, how come? Whole battalions with their commanders did not surrender back in 1 914-16 when I was also on the western front as a correspondent. You had to kill and wound more before they quit. They still had a spirit for battle. Then I was with the British, on August 8, when the tough veteran Cana- dian Corps was getting the same results. Something had happened to that German army as a whole. That July 18-August 8th was the turning point was confirmed by Marshal Ludendorff in his memoirs when he said that it was at that time that the sword broke in his hand. The German soldiers had been told that we would arrive too late, and we could not fight, anyhow; but there we were and they had had a taste of how we could fight. From then on we had Heinie going, driving him from the center of the ring against the ropes for the knock out in November. Lest I be misunderstood, I would make it clear that each turning point to which I have referred made the most of op- portunity which had been provided by the fighting of the whole. This had to be followed up in faith with the traditions as we followed it up in the Meuse-Ar- gonne fighting, when in desperate re- sistance the Germans kept throwing in picked Divisions, which fought with vet- eran fatalism. The turning point is never fully evi- dent at the time it comes, but it will come in this war as it has come before. We'll be there taking a part in faith and courage as we swing ahead to victory. AUGUST, 1942 45 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine Scads of Soldier Letters (Continued from page if) noblest impulses could show for the sons This inquiry suggested a bright idea service in war time, it is naturally im- separated from parents—husbands from that started the postal authorities in- possible under ordinary conditions to wives. vestigating. There were thousands of give every letter the close scrutiny it Although the microfilm letters be- wives and sweethearts who would like to should have. The censors can now re- tween home and front are not the orig- cheer their boys at the front with famil- duce to microfilm all suspicious letters inals, they are photographic facsimiles iar scenes from home, such as the latest with possible code messages and study of the words just as the writer himself picture of Junior whom the young dad them at their leisure on their own read- penned them. hasn't seen for so long, or of the babe ing machines. As the result of a romantic war mar- whom Papa has never seen. There The first airgraph letter ever des- riage another important feature will couldn't be a greater lift to his morale, or patched from British Headquarters at probably be added to airgraph service. A a more stimulating reminder of the home Cairo was a communication on April British soldier back on leave from Egypt he is defending. So—it is entirely likely 1 6, 1941, from General Wavell. It was wedded the girl he had left behind him that photographs, as well as letters, will a message expressing appreciation for when he went away to defend the home soon be a feature of British airgraph. the new service to the Chief of the Im- in which she was to be the queen. Im- Plans are perfected to provide this perial Staff in London. It was a chummy mediately after the wedding he had to service to Uncle Sam's boys on distant letter such as might have been sent by return to his post in Egypt. A number fronts. From details now available it any private of the Libyan forces to a of photographs were taken of the cere- is certain that it will be established friend back home. It began with "My mony but the young groom had to leave when AEF forces are sufficiently numer- dear Jack," and was signed "Archie before they could be developed. The ous at given fronts to justify it. Al- Wavell." bride, knowing how anxious her new though Great Britain was the first coun- The first airgraph letter from home mate was to see the reproductions of the try to use it successfully, practically all back to the Middle East was written by wedding scene inquired at the Post Of- microfilm equipment in which British Queen Elizabeth in her own hand to fice if they, too, could be reduced to letters are processed are American-made. General Auchinleck. It expressed a heart- microfilm and developed in enlarged size The service has lately been adopted by felt sympathy that only a woman of the at destination. Canada with the same equipment. The Message Center {Continued from page 2) a story by Harry Van Demark under the action against Bridges would tend to expanding and newly discovered require- the title A Jap-Slap of 1863. It recounted slow down the American war effort, ments. The MP of today is a professional the amazing exploit of Captain David Legionnaire Hamilton Hicks of Chappa- soldier, and like all other professional McDougal, U.S.N., and the U.S.S. qua, New York, speaking on Memorial soldiers, he is a specialist. He is being Wyoming in sinking a number of Japa- Day. dealt in direct fashion with this trained along standard, modern lines by nese naval vessels in the Straits of Shi- claim. officers who have studied the needs as monoseki and silencing shore batteries Said Judge Hicks: "Only yesterday a revealed by the past and indicated by which had joined in the fight. One of the newspaper denounced the Attorney Gen- plans for the future. pictures which we used with the story eral of the United States for ordering His officers are equipped with the best showed the battle at its height. Our cap- deportation of an alien agitator who had specialized knowledge available and re- tion identified it as the work of a Chinese paved the way for the slaughter of our ceive their instruction in a highly de- artist. As he looked at the illustration troops in Bataan by weakening our de- veloped and well-equipped institution. and noticed the odd initials of the artist fense against Hitlerism until his foreign The Provost Marshal General's School down in the left hand corner Dr. Hodges masters, once Hitler's friends, became at Chickamauga Park, Georgia. The Staff realized that he had seen that signature Hitler's enemies. and Faculty of this School have been somewhere before. Looking through "Now. said that newspaper, this agita- hand-picked to select the best qualified bound copies of magazines in his library tor, having changed his coat, is helping officers obtainable. This is no hit or miss he found illustrations carrying the signa- our war effort and we should keep him, job. ture in the St. Nicholas magazine, which not deport him. This man, who trampled The military policeman knows he has delighted many another boy of the on our flag yesterday is needed to defend a highly responsible task but approaches nineties as it did Master Hodges. With the flag today, said the newspaper. it with confidence because he has been the help of Wilbur D. Peat, Curator of "When the day comes that our flag trained to meet just such problems as the Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis needs the support of such people, its will confront him. It is a well-established the artist was identified as Harry Fenn, proud glory will have vanished forever." fact as far as military police work is con- who had a distinguished career as an cerned that brawn is no substitute for artist and illustrator. He died in Mont- AMESSAGE to members of The Amer- brains, and a good mind is a first requi- clair, New Jersey, in 191 1. ican Legion from the National site for a good military policeman. But Nursing Council for War Service, stress- make no mistake about this—he is first THE Legion's long fight to have the ing the fact that nurses are urgently of all a soldier. The Corps of Military Australian agitator Harry Bridges needed for both military and civilian Police is a very definite part of the sent back where he came from has, as agencies, asks Legionnaires to help in American Army, "of the troops and for you know, succeeded to the extent that this way: the troops.'' Attorney General Biddle has ordered him 1. Encourage eligible nurses to volun- deported. However, "the law's delays" teer for the Red Cross First Reserve, the DR. FLETCHER HODGES, mem- that Hamlet complained about are still reservoir for the Nurse Corps of the ber of Paul Coble Post of Indian- so much a part of our procedure that it Army and Navy. apolis, rates a salute for the nicest bit will be a year or more before Bridges 2. Try to get back into active sen-ice of detective work we've heard of in actually leaves these shores. A news- every inactive or retired nurse for full or many a day. In the June issue we carried paper in the East having complained that part-time work. 46 The AMERICAN LEGION Megazin* — America's Secret Weapon You won't find it on the production he and his friends can go for a few hours' What can you do to sharpen this lines at Rock Island or Willow Run. rest and relaxation. weapon? Give to the USO. This great national service organization that over- It's of laughter and music It isn't guarded at the Brooklyn Navy made rides race and creed has been entrusted Turner visits Yard, or tested at Aberdeen. when Bob Hope or Lana by your government with responsibility his camp with a show. USO for the service man's leisure needs. With But it's the toughest weapon these men maintaining clubhouses and providing you are looking at will ever take into It's made of his invitations to the camp shows, with a hundred thoughtful battle. It's the stuff with which all our homes of pleasant strangers. and abroad. wars are won. services to our men at home It's made of a cup of coffee and a The needs of USO have grown as enor- The boy in the uniform doesn't call it Yankee smile—at some lone outpost in mously as our armed forces themselves. morale. That's a cold potatoes word for Alaska or in the Caribbean. something John American feels deep and This Spring we must have $32,000,000. warm inside. Maybe it's just a feeling of kinship Give all you can—whether it's a lot with this land of a hundred million gen- Perhaps he can't give it a name. But or a little. erous people. Maybe it's just the under- he can tell you what it's made of. standing that this whole country cares; Send your contribution to your local It's made of the thrill he gets when his that the soldier is bone of our bone; that chairman or to USO, Empire State troop train stops at a junction point and he and we are one. Building, New York City. fifty good-looking girls are at the station Name it if you can. But it's the secret with cigarettes. weapon of a democratic army—a weapon It's made of the appreciation he feels that can never be ersatzed in Germany for a bright new USO clubhouse where or Japan. USO- AUGUST, 19+2 47 3. Inquire into the circumstances be- some college work in addition; in good with the advances of medical science. fore hiring for a non-nursing job any health, 18 years of age or over, and fitted Government funds have been provided nurse who is eligible for military service. in character and disposition to become to enlarge schools of nursing and in some 4. Back up all efforts to recruit student nurses. instances to provide free tuition to quali- nurses, so that there will be more students Many changes have taken place in fied young women. helping in the hospitals as they learn, nursing since the last war. Of the 1300 Every Legionnaire father, relative, or releasing more experienced nurses for accredited schools, about 100 require one friend of a potential nurse, is urged to military duty, and fitting themselves for or more years of college work as a pre- encourage her to think seriously about useful post-war careers. requisite, and two of them accept only this career. Classes are opening in Sep- The Government has set a quota of college graduates. New opportunities tember. Tell her to inquire of the State 55,000 students to begin the basic 3-year have been opening up, even before the Nursing Council for War Service, or program in accredited schools of nursing war, in administrative and supervisory write for information to the National during the coming school year, and 65,- positions, in public health and industrial Nursing Council for War Services, 1790 000 the following year. Recruits should nursing, in the numerous specialties such Broadway, New York, N. Y. be high school graduates, preferably with as psychiatric nursing which keep pace The Editors An Island's a Cinch to Hold (Continued from page jj) door was ajar. He knew now, at once, He knew that would happen. He had He worked hard the next days. He that they knew. The oil and gas in been stupid, in many ways. Now he was would go up on the flat tin warehouse American containers. They knew! He excited. He must do something. You roof and paint the scenery that stretched was really confused now. They were un- couldn't be an expatriate forever. If you below, and think. At sundown, he would armed. He was unarmed. But they didn't owe it to your country, you owed look inside the warehouse, and see the knew! It was growing dark. He decided it to your morality to aid the side that tins of oil, and lately when he saw them, to sit against the doorway of the ware- was right in the regular flare-up between he would smile, and once he said aloud, house until he could think of something. right and wrong. Roger Wembly went "We'll get those Japs." He dozed off. up on the warehouse roof and painted. For two weeks he was alone. And In the morning, he was alone. They He tried hard to think. He soon had three weeks. And then, one day, he were gone, as they had come, swiftly, several ideas. He might move the tins wasn't. in their little rubber boat. They had of oil. But they were much too heavy They came suddenly. He was on the taken some of his food, and pieces of for his strength. He might camouflage roof, and he heard the motor far away, his canvas. the warehouse. Make it look like a hill heard it coughing closer, then didn't "God!" he said. "They'll be on Luzon or foliage. But it would still be the big- hear the motor but saw the small slim in three or four days. They'll tell the gest thing on the island and the Japs plane, with the red ball on each wing. other Japs about this warehouse, about wouldn't be fooled, and besides, there It was gliding toward the island. He the oil and gas. And the Japs will come wasn't time. Each succeeding idea, after watched it, fascinated. Suddenly it stuck —no, the Japs'll send bombers, in a that, became more fantastic and ridic- its nose upward, fell bottomwise down- hurry, and blow the warehouse up!" ulous, until one passed through his mind, ward, pancaked on the water. There was an awful splash. Roger ran down his palm tree, and when he got to the water's edge the two of them were paddling in on a small rubber craft. When they were closer, one was paddling, the other lay back. As they reached the beach, their plane, in the water, went down with a gulp. One Japanese, with a beefy face and horn-rimmed adhesive goggles, was hurt. A leg and shoulder fractured. The other was a skinny one, and bald. Roger helped them ashore. They weren't surprised to see him. He'd been some time in Japan, and now he tried to remember words to speak to them. But the skinny bald one said to him, "You are an American? I am from the Imperial Japanese Navy flying. We are from Manila. We are on patrol. The accident is unfortunate, I suppose. My friend is hurt." Roger didn't talk to them much. He gave them food, and then, when the skinny one worked on the other's shoul- der and leg, Roger went up on the ware- house to paint his landscape—and think. He was there an hour when he heard the tin door of the warehouse open be- low. He jumped to his feet, clambored down the tree. The skinny one sat, phelg- matic, in his mussed ill-fitting khaki suit, beside his companion. Roger went to the warehouse. The 48 — " returned, stayed. He thought about it, landed on the beach; the navy planes and planned it, and painted. on the water. They fueled up. Roger was For three days, working out the idea, ready. They took him with them. he sat on the roof and painted. He won- The big Air Corps man said, as they dered when the American bombers were taking off, "Mr. Wembly, we know God, how he prayed for them ! —would the Japs were here. We got word of it. come, and he wondered when the Japs We expected to find our fuel aflame and would come, and he thought and painted. gone. Why didn't they bomb the ware- On the fourth morning, with the sun house? Maybe they thought we had out bright, he was below eating break- more here than an unarmed civilian— fast, when they came. The motors were "I'm a painter, and a very ineffectual a quick sudden roar out of nowhere. He civilian," said Roger with a disarming ran out on the beach and looked up. smile. "Oh, they came in very, very low. They were coming low, very low, five But you know, those Japs are damn light Jap bombers, flaunting the Rising funny. I understand them. They're Sun. He saw their egg-loads. He prayed. fighting, taking risks, killing and being They fell into a string, and came killed, for only one thing. Emperor swinging down on the warehouse, motors Hirohito. Their Emperor God. They are screaming. And then one, two, three, taught to worship him. I mean, really. four, five—all five planes were over it His very being is holy. An American and away. No bombs. They were coming magazine once published Emperor Hiro- around in a huge semi-circle, and now, hito on the cover, and Tokyo protested, again, they dropped low, until he could because magazines would have to be see the distorted heads of the flyers. piled on one another, meaning each Over the warehouse, only a couple hun- magazine would cover Hirohito's face— dred yards over it, one, two, three, four, "Yes, yes," said the big air corp man, 'Rust killed it! I forgot to clean five—all five planes passed over. No "but what has that got to do with what? bombs. Why didn't they bomb the warehouse?" out my radiator with Sani-Flush" They went away. Flew away. Disap- The bomber was in the air now and A clogged radiator can lay up an auto- peared. over the little island. Roger Wembly mobile — cause dangerous overheating Roger felt silly happy. He grinned. looked down. and expensive damage. Don't take He said, "They went away." He jumped He smiled and nodded. "Look down at chances when it's so easy to keep the free Sani- in the air and kicked his heels. He went the warehouse roof, Colonel!" cooling system clean and with Flush. Costs only a few cents. to his breakfast thinking, They'll come There, on the roof, in broad strokes of Don't take chances on just flushing back, maybe with boats, but our bombers red and blue and green, was the largest with water. Sani-Flush is thorough. Use will be here first. portrait in the world of Emperor Hiro- it yourself, or ask your service station. Thirty-six hours later the American hito. His face covered the whole tin roof, Sani-Flush is absolutely safe in auto cooling systems, when used accord- bombers came, three relays of ten. and with solemn dignity he stared up at ing to directions on can. It's in most They'd come the long way from Aus- the sky. bathrooms for cleaning toilets. Sold in tralia, bombed Jap transports, munition "Took me three days," said Roger grocery, drug, hardware and 10c stores. dumps, barracks, cruisers. They were Wembly with a smile. He knew he was The Hygienic Products Co., Canton, O. down on fuel. They needed fuel. Some going to enjoy this war! Any Junk Today? CLEANS OUT RADIATORS {Continued from page ji) Hugh T. Gregory Post was organized Fifth Termer in 1920 with Commander Burch as one of the charter members. He also served W. Bemette Burch, Commander of five years as Adjutant before being ele- Hugh T. Gregory Post of Winter Gar- vated to the post of command. The CHECKED In A Jiffy Relieve itching caused by eczema, den, Florida, is serving his fifth consecu- Post has a membership of fifty; owns its athlete's foot, scabies, pimples and tive term in that office and is the present own home, built in 1926, and, in addi- other skin troubles. Use pure, cooling medicated D.D.D. Prescription. Grease- tion to other services, operates an air- Florida record holder, according to De- less, stainless. Soothes, comforts and fast. 35c trial bottle partment Adjutant C. Howard Rowton. craft warning service station with the checks itching proves it—or money back. Ask your "The only competition you have," says Legion home serving as headquarters. druggist today for D.O.D. Prescription. Adjutant Rowton, '"is the Fort Ogden emorial Service Post where George Russell organized the M AreEligible Display Post and was elected Commander and is "For eight years Glenside (Pennsyl- You To A still Commander . . . but the Post hasn't vania Post has been holding memorial ) SERVICE been in good standing for two years." services that have attracted more than FLAG r if a member of your family is in the Army, Navy or Air Corps of the United States. It can LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE also be displayed by Churches. Lodges. Schools and Business J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. Houses in Honor of Members Charles LaSalle, Rochelle in the Armed Forces. Includes New (New York) Post. Nurses. Courtney Allen, New Rochelle York) Post. (New A Blue Star on a White panel in a held of Red. One Star Frederick Palmer, City Club Post, New York City. for each member in the Service. Satin with yellow fringe. V. E. Pyles, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. No. 21 Size 7x11*, ea 50c No. 24 Size 12x18*. ea. .$1.00 No. 23 Size lOx 15". ea.... 75c No. 25 Size 15x24", ea....$1.50 Conductors regular departments the of of magazine, all of whom are Legion- Prices include 1 to 5 stars—also gold stars if required naires, are not listed. Order Direct from This Ad. Money Refunded It Not Satisfied Service Ptagi to' Lodge Mailt, QwrdiCt, lie made to order Send *o* pnce litt REGALIA MFG. CO., Dept. A.Rock Island, III. AUGUST, 1942 43 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine local notice," writes J. Stephen Gold, General Chairman. "For the first few years the annual service was held in front of the Memorial Building in a pub- lic park. But in 1934 the service was moved to a cemetery on the edge of the city where, under the shade of a fine grove of trees, an ideal spot was found to memorialize the dead. The service lasts half an hour and is broadcast over the facilities of Station WIBG. It is al- ways preceded by a parade in which marchers are drawn from other veteran organizations, patriotic societies and civic groups. More than 900 people were present at the ceremonies this year." New Community Building Through the efforts of Montgomery Post, Troy, North Carolina, has a beau- tiful as well as convenient community building. The need for such a building had been long felt but it was not until 1937 that the first steps were made to- ward filling the need. Montgomery Post had some money, but its funds were Formal presentation of the oil painting of General MacArthur (our limited. In making the start, Post Com- cover for May) was made at an open meeting of York (Pa.) Post to mander L. L. Moffit named a committee Mrs. Frank E. Sheffer, whose slogan "MacArthur Is Giving His All . . . composed of E. A. Pipkin, Finance Of- Are You?" was selected from 10,000 submitted in a nation-wide con- ficer, N. T. Parker, Herman Beaman test. Dr. Edward A. Glatfelter, Post Americanism Officer, made the and Dan Stuart to make a survey of the presentation. Post Commander Dallas E. Minnich stands at left situation. Their report was favorable and a building, constructed of native stone, County for military service. Members of old T. Andrews Post of Portland, Maine, was agreed upon. After the Post had the committee meet the trains and buses reports an unusual tribute to the dead of expended its funds contributions were and see to the needs of the young men our Navy, initiated in his Post but car- secured from the County Board of Com- coming from other towns. More than ried out by a ship of the United States missioners and interested citizens, and three thousand have attended some of Navy at sea. A wreath was provided by further aid was had in WPA labor sup- the farewell parties, music for which is Harold T. Andrews Post in advance of plied by the County. furnished by Casper City Band and the Memorial Day and was entrusted to the It was not completed last fall when High School Band. . . . Chatham (Mass- care of Navy personnel then at Port- the general army maneuvers were held in achusetts) Post, says Adjutant Paul W. land. Days later Commander Hight re- North Carolina, but the unfinished build- Karr, ordered the erection of an honor ceived a report from Ensign T. A. Un- ing became a center for soldiers from all roll in November, 1940, to bear the derwood, himself the son of a Legion- over the area, and there they were en- names of the young men from that com- naire, that the wreath had been cast tertained by volunteer groups. The build- munity who entered the armed services. upon the waters on Memorial Day with ing now houses the town library; rooms The memorial was erected in a public appropriate services and ceremonies. En- are set apart for the Boy Scouts and place and now bears nearly one hundred sign Underwood was assisted in the serv- other community enterprises center names—with only one Gold Star to mark ice by Legionnaire William H. Johnson, there, as well as the headquarters and the name of one of the town's young men C. B. M. . . . A report received from Le- meeting place of Montgomery Post. who died at Pearl Harbor during the first gionnaire William 0. Jaconetti says that attack. ... In order to keep the boys in on Memorial Day Daniel M. O'Connell Shorts and Overs camp and on shipboard advised of what Post of Rockaway Beach, New York, is going on at home, Helmer Reyelt Post presented a medal to Mrs. Rose Amron George W. Vroman Post of Casper, of Harlan, Iowa, writes F. D. Curttright, in memory of her son, Lieutenant Ar- Wyoming, has organized an Aloha Com- sends one of the local newspapers to each thur Amron, the first of local sons to mittee for the purpose of providing a man who goes into the armed services. fall in action. . . . farewell party for leaving men Natrona . . . Ellis F. Hight, Commander of Har- Boyd B. Stutler So You're Going to Japan (Continued from page 5) dies he will sag forward in a bow to his self off. Looking fixedly at this picture, can find any in Nipponland, or at least ancestors. To fall to the left or the the subject carefully inserts a two-edged gnash their too prominent teeth. If the right or backward would be fatal, you blade deep into his abdomen and carves generals have time to dispose themselves might say, to his chances at paradise. a Z pattern. The rest is silence. properly for hara-kiri they won't draw He faces a picture of a tiger smashing But maybe the generals won't get the any rickshaws for grinning doughboys, his way through a stout bamboo barri- twenty minutes needed to set the stage but the gentle art of suicide the Japs cade, thi symbolism of which is that it for a planned departure from this too practice requires twenty minutes or more is possible to break through the troubles troubled existence, and if they don't get of preparation. The subject sits himself of this world and get into paradise if you the time they'll certainly draw the rick- on the floor in such a way that when he observe the proprieties in taking your- shaws. 50 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Snc : So learn those phonetics, boys, and self, big boy! These are vernacular Japa- IN THE SERVICE OF write us if you'd like some more. Then nese sayings translated into the common OUR COUNTRY you'll have a smattering of the language language we ourselves used back in 191 8." and won't have to use gestures alone. One of these days our doughboys, We have taken great pains to make the sailors and leathernecks are going to talk pronunciations authentic, but to the turkey to those damn Japs. Turkey? purist (who wouldn't under any circum- Well, you can't translate that into Nip- stances be satisfied) we say, "Be your- ponese. But they will learn who's boss. ii 99 Smilin' PAS MASTER Through 1 22 K. GOLD ENGRAVED BILLFOLD .™ss£ARD 1 With Branch of Service * _ . _ IDENTIFICATION , „ „ . (Continued from page 34) "In the snapshot print, taken at Cob- Emblem, Name & Company Number case Here is a gift which anyone will appreciate now . . . the Battalion for the port of Brest and lenz-Liitzel, in which we have the and treasure as a memento for years to come. The four window envelopes will hold and keep safe photos home. The girls came down to the rail- K. of C. girl workers, we find, reading of the boy's loved ones and are ideal for quick refer- road to see us off. from the left: K. of C. girl, name for- ence of identification. Why not make it a family gift —chip in and get that boy a Pas Master today. Made "In the Dumpelfeld group, from left gotten; Lieutenant John C. Hughes; of high-grade black, genuine calfskin, specially tanned. Durable, beautiful soft texture. Wears in- to right are; front row, Elizabeth K. of C. girl, name forgotten; Lieuten- definitely. Real quality. Silk stitched. 1/10-14 K Gold Filled corners. Size x 5 closed. Your Prindle, YMCA; Major J. Frank Burke, ant Martin Frank Egan (myself), and money back within 2 weeks trial if you are not per- 1st Battalion; Emily Benton, YMCA, Miss Julia Egan, K. of Although of fectly C. satisfied. Send thecoupon today. MONEY-BACK and a chaplain of the 3d Battalion, 47th the same name, Miss Egan was no rela- LEGIONNAIRES!^°.:Ktn GUARANTEE „ DIRECT Infantry, whose name I do not remem- tive of mine. Legion Emblem and your name TO YOU and address gold engraved. Same ber. Rear row : Visiting lieutenant, name "Where are those K. of C. girls now? price—same quality. unknown; myself, Lieutenant Martin Perhaps someone can jog my memory, *A95 TUX CORPORATION I POST 168 N. Michigan Ave.. Dept. P6. PAID Frank Egan; Lieutenant Walter H. so I may be able to recall the names of |— ——————Chicago,——U.S.A.— * Tux , Chapman; a K. of C. secretary (think two of them—although even a search Corporation, Dept. P6, 168 N. Michigan Ave.. Chicago, III. I Send me a Pas Master engraved as per instructions. I 1 his name was Driscoll); a lieutenant, through numerous old papers fails to dis- It is agreed if not entirely satisfactory I may return I | Pas Master within 2 weeks for full cash refund. i name forgotten, and Lieutenant John close them. I Enclosed. Send Pas Master S4.95 POSTPAID, j $1.00 Enclosed. Send balance C.O.D. plus postage. . C. Hughes. "I would be glad to hear from any or | Name ' "All of the officers were from the 47th all of either group at my old home-town I * Company No Infantry, excepting the visiting lieuten- address, 332 East Alleghany Avenue, | I Branch of Service .. ant. What has become of this group? Emporium, Pennsylvania—or, better j j My Name Where are the Y girls and the K. of C. still, to have them visit me." | Address secretary? Who are the forgotten offi- | City ..Stale cers? I have extra copies of the picture WE DON'T know just what advan- which members of the group may have tage has been taken of them, but if they write to me. recently there have been several gener- PULVEX FLEA POWDER -also kills Lice and Ticks 25c AND S0< The American Legion National Headquarters Indianapolis, Indiana Financial Statement May 31, 1942 Assets Cash on hand and on deposit $ 572,075.59 Accounts receivable 55,201.75 Inventories 127,463.95 Invested funds 2,683,448.43 Permanent investment: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 2 14,077.50 Office building. Washington, D. C, less depreciation 124,970. 9S Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation 44,390.03 Deferred charges 30,662.95 $3,852,291.09 Liabilities, Deferred Revenue and Net Worth NEW YORK WORLD—TELEGRAM Current liabilities $ 72.393 16 Bill on the front Funds restricted as to use 39.593.52 Here's the Shangri-La map by Pause which was used Deferred revenue 477,767.63 page of the World-Telegram last May 21st. President Roosevelt had Permanent trust: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 2 14,077.50 told the story of how he nominated Shangri-La when a young woman Net Worth specifically about the location of the base from which Jimmy Restricted capital $2,648,872.46 asked him Unrestricted capital .. 399,586.82 $3,048,459.28 Doolittle and his men bombed Tokyo last spring. The original of this $3,852,291.0 ' drawing is now owned by the President. Bill Pause did the pictures with which we illustrate So You're Going to Japan, on page four of this issue Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant AUGUST, 1942 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine ! ous offers made by Then and Nowers to "We arrived in Vavincourt at three to re-establish liaison with the old furnish copies of now-treasured pictures o'clock in the morning and found the squadron members, writing to them at to veterans who write to our contribu- village filled with American infantrymen. addresses that appear in a twenty-five- tors. First directing your attention to I got hold of the major-de-cantonment year-old roster, and I think I was lucky the picture at the bottom of page 34, and told him I had about ten men for to get thirteen responses. Perhaps after we present another such offer that came whom I wanted quarters for the night, we win this present war, the old 24th from Fred P. Kirschner, member of as the weather was anything but warm. Squadron men might be able to stage a North Shore Post of the Legion since My French was not so good and his reunion. In the meantime, we can carry 1 91 9, a realtor and builder of 1505 West English was worse, and with many on a letter reunion." Morse Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, who shrugs and gestures he told me that in- was a 1 st Lieutenant, Ordnance Corps, asmuch as the town was already full of IOST and Found items every so often Americans he could not squeeze in any J get a chance to appear in this more. We finally salvaged some stoves crowded bulletin board of The Company and the men slept in the hangars the Clerk, and we're glad to pass on a few rest of the night. more cases which we hope will result in "I told him I had no desire to sit up the original owners of wartime memen- all night, and asked if he could find any toes being located, so their prized souve- place for me. He finally located what nirs may be returned to them. was supposed to be a room—with the Attention! cows, chickens, pigs, geese, etc. Being Item No. 1 —A letter from Harold A. all in, I did not argue. You can imagine Atkinson, care of the Division of For- how I felt toward that billeting officer estry, Box X, Felton, California: next morning when I awakened and "I have in my possession an army found that where the army underwear canteen that was used while I was work- is wont to part in the middle, was as ing with the Blister Rust Control. I beautiful a belt of bedbug bites on my opened up the case one day—that is, body as you can picture. I was glad to took off the canvas cover—and found the say good-bye to that particular billet. following carved on the canteen: 'Pvt. "I also recall that Captain Holland Joe Masse,. #1897749, Grand Pre, St. "Sharpen your spurs, General?'* (now Florida's Governor) was and is Juvin, Oct. 27, 1918.' On the back of a great hunter and sportsman. After the the canteen is engraved a cross with the Armistice he went to Paris and bought word 'March' above it, and the serving as Armament Officer of the 24th name beautiful shotgun and as I was arma- Aero Squadron, during our World War: a 'Masse' below. ment officer, he suggested we go out "Maybe this is still "I am pleased to submit a photograph soldier on the ac- quail hunting. Not being able to find a tive list and would like of the officers of the 24th Aero Squad- to know what shotgun in the squadron armament, I happened to ron, 1st Army Observation Group, taken his canteen. If he would armed myself with a service auto- at Vavincourt, France, on November .45 like to recover it, he can write to me." matic. The captain brought back several Item No. 2 R. Ashenhurst 12, 1918—the day after the Armistice. — C. of 54 quail, but you can imagine how much That significant time possibly accounts Diamond Street, Little Falls, New York, game fell to the uncertain aim of my has this for the many absentees from the group. to report: trusty "The plane in the background was a .45 "For some time past I have noticed "Trust that publication of the picture French Salmson, the front gun of which in the Then and Now Department that will bring me many letters. I have tried various individuals was a British Vickers for the pilot's use. seek to reunite vet- Twin Lewis (American) guns were in the rear for the observers. "It was my honor and privilege to serve as armament officer of this squad- ron and should any of the men in the photograph write to me, I shall be pleased to send a copy of this picture, together with a roster and history of the squadron. "In the group we find at the extreme left, rear row, Captain Spessard L. Hol- land, now Governor of Florida. "Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, Texas, is named after 1st Lieutenant John J. Goodfellow, a pilot of the 24th Squad- ron, killed in action September 14, 191 8. "We airmen had our trials and tribu- lations, too. At the conclusion of the St. Mihiel Offensive, our commanding offi- cer, Captain Maury Hill, directed me to take five trucks and all of the aerial armament from the aerodrome at Gon- dreville, our base for that drive, over to Vavincourt, south of Verdun, where we based for the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. We set out about six oclock in the eve- ning and during our trip one of the FWD trucks in which were my personal belongings, broke down, and some of my stuff is still in France. 52 — — . erans with war souvenirs owned by those asks the interest of fellow Legionnaires: veterans at one time. "After these many years, I want again "For a long time I have had such a to express my appreciation for the many souvenir which I should like to restore responses that came to my letter that to its owner—if he is still in the land was published in Then and Now. I was of the living. It is a small, curved-stem a gob in our World War, having served briar pipe which some, at present un- at the U. S. Naval Training Station at known, veteran spent a long time in Great Lakes, Illinois—in Camp Paul carving—and neat carving, at that. Jones, Company A, 12th Regiment "On the front of the bowl appears: from February 28, 191 8, until October Liffol-le-Grande. 6, 1919. "On the bottom: n-n-ii 1918. "While on duty on March 3, 191 9, I REEVES FABRICS "On the side, where stem fits in: AEF contracted a severe case of the flu. I L R A S 555346 (soldier's army serial entered the hospital, remained on the make strong, sturdy number, evidently). sick list for 167 days, and then received UNIFORMS. ..WORK AND SPORT CLOTHES "Also: USA a medical discharge. From the effects "I assume L R A S to be the carver's of the flu, I contracted arthritis and lung initials. Should this item be seen in your trouble, and was a patient in veterans' Specify Reeves Army columns by L R A S, I should be very hospitals from 1920 to 1925. I am still Twill of which the U. S. glad to restore the pipe to him. I have totally disabled with arthritis of the Army has already sixty million had this article in my war relic collec- hips, knee joints and back, and am con- bought yards. Also demand tion some eight or nine years now, hav- fined to a wheel chair. I spend my time V— * See your Glengarrie Poplin tor dealer for uniforms, work ing bought it from an old here reading, writing and building up col- man who my & sport clothes made from matching shirts. Both was very vague as to where he got it. lection of medals and stamps. ReevesFabrics, orwrireto: fabrics are Sanforized* He was not a veteran himself. "To my hobby of collecting stamps, * fabric shrinkage not more than \% (U. S. Government lest CCC-T- 191-0 "I was not a soldier in the other World I have added that of collecting Legion REEVES BROS., INC. •us 9Sr War, either, having been under age for convention badges or medals—Depart- 54 Worth Street, New York City o? <£> service in 191 7-18, but I have collected ment or National—and if some of the souvenirs of all the major wars of the boys would send me some, I'd be mighty United States for many years. I hope happy. DEFENSE SERVICE and Army Cood that through your I "Perhaps some of former gob Department can my com- Conduct ribbons now available. reunite L R A S with his pipe." rades could also tell me where I can All ribbon bars $.30 ea. with soilproof cov- ers. $.35 ea. Before placing order send $.10 secure back issues of Our Navy, The in coin or stamps for our 56 page illustrated years ago, the Then and Now Fleet Review, and other Navy publica- book, with ribbon chart in full colors. Send SOME the boys in Service their ribbon bars. Gang responded with a will to sev- tions." GEORGE W. STUDLEY eral requests from disabled comrades BOX 396 AVON, N. Y. Authorized by that we broadcast in these men in the present armed forces columns. THE the United States War Department These men were still total permanent seem to feel the same urge to get disability cases, and they appreciated married that men of our time did—and deeply the interest that their more active no doubt many unusual weddings are fellow members of the Legion showed in occurring, just as the one reported by FREE BOOK—On Health them. One of those requests, published Legionnaire Stanley G. Hawk of 322 Do you suffer pain, torture and broken in Parke Street, Pittston, March, 1935, more than seven years Pennsylvania, in health of neglected Piles, Fistula or re- ago, came from William Cohn, member the following letter we received: lated rectal and colon ailments? Write of Memphis (Tennessee) Post, whose "Reading of the many service mar- today for 122-page FREE BOOK. Learn home is at 63 South Cox Street in that riages that are taking place today, re- facts. The McCleary Clinic, C866 Elms city. He was interested particularly in called to me a wedding during our war- Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Missouri. getting magazines to read. time that rates high in novelty. During Now we again hear from Comrade the summer of 191 8, a girl appeared Cohn and regretfully must report that before a Baptist minister in Petersburg, his condition is no better, and he again Virginia, which was about four miles CALLOUSES m PAIN, BURNING or TENDERNESS YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? Wm on BOTTOM of your FEET? Is the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was DOCTOR'S NEW mailed correct for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail to QUICKER RELIEF! THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. Stop foot misery! For painful callouses, burning or tender- Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine is ness on the bottom of your NEW ADDRESS feet, get the New Super-Soft Dr. Scholl's Zino-pads. These thin, cushioning, Namb soothing pads instantly lift (PLEASE PRINT) pressureoffthe sensitive spot: give you speedy relief. Street Address New in design and texture. 630^ softer than before. Heart shape. Thin Scal- City. .State. loped Edge. Do not come off in bath. Sep- arate Medications in- 1942 membership card number. cluded for removing callouses. Costs buta few cents a treatment. Post No .Dept.. Sold everywhere. OLD ADDRESS Insist on Dr. Scholl's! Street Address. r City .State. D- Scho//s lino pads AUGUST, 53 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine — from Camp Lee, where I was then sta- graceful raising of an arm he had ever FIR'S I NATIONAL tioned. seen. And it developed that the bride's BANK "The girl was armed with a marriage response was equally peculiar. She said, license but informed the Reverend F. H. 'Certainly!' Moore that the prospective bridegroom, "And now I'll ask what probably a soldier, was in overseas' quarantine and everyone who reads this account is ask- that she was not permitted to visit him. ing: Did that soldier come back from Reverend Moore accompanied the girl the war?" back to camp and found the situation exactly as she had first reported it to AGAIN, we have to stress the fact him. /l that the Legion National Conven- "At this point a lieutenant came along tion to be held in Kansas City, Missouri. and turned out to be, of all the hundreds September igth to 21st, will be a strictly of officers in camp, one with whom the business meeting, that none of the usual minister was acquainted. The lieutenant entertainment will be in order—and. was asked to see what could be done particularly of interest to readers of this in the case. Outfit Notices column, that reunions of After some inquiry he reported that the veterans outfit organizations for the first officer who issued the original quarantine time since the Legion's first convention order had gone away and no one would are being discouraged entirely. There take the responsibility of changing it. will be no Reunions Chairman this year The minister then told the lieutenant and no provision will be made for the when this is read, came this note: "From that he would have to help to get the holding of reunions. Such action is one a vote of the Executive Committee, the couple married and after some objec- of the Legion's numerous contributions Balloon Reunion for 1942 has been called tions, the officer agreed. to the all-important job of winning the off and no reunions will be held for the "Reverend Moore told the lieutenant war. duration. Too bad, but it just had to be that he should arrange to get the soldier The National Association of American done. Let's hope that the Association out where the couple could see each Balloon Corps Veterans, one of the most can enjoy a grand Victory Reunion in, other—although at a distance. The lieu- active and one of the strongest, based let us ' hope, 1943." And H. S. (Red) tenant was instructed what to say to the upon potential members, was literally Resing. National Finance Officer, wrote Foldier and at the point in the ceremony born during the National Convention this: "As much as we hate it, the Asso- where the groom was to say T do!', the in Portland, Oregon, in 1932, and has ciation will have no reunion this year- soldier was to raise his arm to indicate never missed meeting with the Legion our contribution to the 100% winning- his acceptance. since. But following in line with other the-war program. Our official publication, "The minister and the girl stood out in veterans societies, the Balloonatics have Haul Down and Ease Off, will be con- the dirt road some distance from the announced cancellation of their 1942 tinued, however, and will have to serve barracks, as the former read the mar- reunion. From Craig S. Herbert of 2,335 as our connecting link for the dura- riage ritual. At the proper moment, the 1 8th Street, Philadelphia, Penn- North tion." soldier raised his arm a gesture which sylvania, one of the daddies of the — Cancellations of reunions which were the Reverend Moore said was the most who may be back in uniform NAABCV, to have been held distinct from the Legion National Convention have also been announced. F. E. Love, secretary- r treasurer, Veterans 31st Railway En- gineers, wrote: "On account of the war, we cancelled our reunion which was to have been held in Denver in June. A number of our members are again serv- ing their country in the armed services. At the completion of this war, we hope to hold a Victory Reunion." Following are announcements of re- unions which will be held, along with a few announcements of cancellations. Details may be obtained from the Legionnaires listed: 2d Div. Assoc. —Reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio. Aug. 30. Vivian D. Corbly, natl. secy., P. O. Box 65, Sta. D, Cincinnati. Soc. of 5th Div. —Silver Jubilee reunion, Akron, Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Elmer Taylor, secy.- treas., 2124 18th St., S. W., Akron, will furnish details and copy regimental roster. 29th (Blue & Gray) Div. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Baltimore, Md., Sept. 5-7. Write Wm. C. Nicklas, 4318 Walther Av., Baltimore. 31st (Dixie) Div.—Reunion dinner during Illinois Legion Conv., Peoria, Aug. 21-24. Walter A. Anderson, secy.-treas., 4913 Hermitage Av., Chicago, 111. 32d Div. Vet. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Mor- rison Hotel, Chicago, 111., Sept. 5-6. Lester Benston, chmn., 205 Wacker Dr. Chicago. 34th (Sandstorm) Div.—Annual reunion, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Oct. 10-11. Henry Hanson, pres., 667 Varden Apts., Fort Dodge. Rainbow Div. Vets., Pittsburgh Chap.—Re- union-dinner. Keystone Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., Sat., Aug. 22, during Legion Dept. Conv. V. D. Fleckenstein, chmn., 1119 Warrington Av., Pittsburgh (10). 80th Div. Vets. Assoc.—25th reunion, Pitts- 54 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — burgh, Pa., Auk. 6-9. Mark R. Uyrne, natl. secy., Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Geo. Remple, secy.-treas., 2523 212 Plaza Bids;., Pittsburgh. N. Main St., Dayton. 88th (Clover Leaf) "tv. —Reunion-dinner, 37th Engrs., San Fhan. -Oakland Chap.— Legion Dept. NEVER 11. MANY Waterloo, Iowa, Auk. during Banquet-reunion, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. Conv. Carl Messmer, secy.. Bankers Trust Co., 11. G. J. Verities, Room 347, Blake Block, 1121 Des Moines, Iowa. Washington St., Oakland. 8!ITH Uiv. SOC. —Reunion, Wichita, (Cans., 302D Engks. —Memorial plaiiue to departed SUSPECT CAUSE Sept. 5. Write Herman N. Wallis, pres., 3402 comrades to be dedicated at 77th Div. Club- East Elm, Wichita. house, 28 E. 39th St., New York City, Tues, 89TH Div. Soi'., So. Calif. BRANCH —Annual Aug. 18. Former officers and men of regt., and reunion, I.os Angeles, Calif., Aug. 17-19, during especially relatives of deceased comrades are OF BACKACHES Legion Dept. Conv. Write Comdr. Sidney M. invited. Fred A. Rupp, adjt., 28 E. 39th St., This Old Treatment Often Schallman, 1106 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. New York ( ity. 60th Inf.—Annual reunion. AUron, Ohio, 308th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—22d reunion, Brings Happy Relief Sept. 5-7. A. L. Bradbury, 478 E. Exchange St.. Newark. Ohio, Aug. 1-2. Lee W. Staffler, secy., Many sufferers relieve nageing backache quickly, Akron, or Wm. Barton Bruce, 48 Ayrault St., Sandusky, Ohio. oncu they discover that the real cause of their trouble Providence, R. I. 314th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, may be tired kidneys. 1:58th Inf.—Reunion, Battery A. Armory, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 7. Bob Walker, secy., 2720 The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking the Grand & Hickory St., St. Louis, Mo.. Aug. 8. Ann Av., St. Louis. excess acids and waste out of the blood. They help Harry J. Dierker, secy, 2813 Maurer, St. Louis. 319th Engrs. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Los most people pass about 3 pints a day. 314th Inf. Vets. AEF—Annual convention, Anseles, Calif., in Aug. For date and for entry When disorder of kidney function permits poison- Scranton, Pa.. Sept. 25-27. G. E. Hentschel, of name in 1942 roster, write Kenneth Thom- ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- secy., 1845 Champlost Av., Philadelphia. Also son, 218 Central Bank Bldg., Oakland, Calif. ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep annual Summer Family Picnic, Palisades Inter- Cos. A, B & C. 320th F. S. Bn.—Reunion, and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness State Park, in Aug. Chas M. Stimpson, secy., San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 14. A. W. Ward, under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or 1670 Sheepshead Bay Rd.. Brooklyn, N. Y. Rm. 312, 564 Market St., San Francisco. scanty passages with smarting and burning some- with 332D Inf. Assoc. (inch 331st F. H.)—21st 322d F. S. Bn.— For roster, write J. Merkel- times shows there is something wrong your kidneys or bladder. annual reunion, Canton, Ohio, Sept. 5-6. A. A. bach, 1530 44th Av., San Francisco, Calif. ; No. druggist for Doan'9 Pills, Grable, secy., Canton. Calif, reunion, San Francisco, Nov. 7, Dr. John Don't wait! Ask your 353d (All Kansas) Inf. Soc.—25th anni- P. O'Brien, Flood Bldg., San Francisco; So. used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney versary reunion, Wichita, Kans.. Sept. 5-6. For Calif, reunion, Los Angeles, Nov. 11, David C. give happy waste your blood. Get details, write John C. Hughes, secy., 829 East Levenson, Arcade Bldg., Los Angeles. tubes flush out poisonous from Avenue B, Hutchinson, Kans. 113th Motor Sup. Trn., AEF—Reunion, Dunn's Pills. Co. F, 311th Inf.—Reunion announced for Noblesville, Ind.. Oct. 4. Virgil H. Smith, 58 Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 19, postponed for duration. Chicago St., Valparaiso, Ind. H. W. Fickenscher, 57 Cambridge Av., Buffalo. AEF Siberia Vets., So. Calif.—Reunion, Los Co. A, 356th Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Angeles, Aug. 17-19. with Legion Dept. Conv. * * U.S. A. * * I Wanger home, 504 N. Noyes Blvd., St. Joseph, L. A. McQuiddy, natl. adjt., 1112% Menlo Av., WORLD WAR VETERANS! Mo., Nov. 11. C. R. Byland, pres., Bellevue, la. Los Angeles. 3d Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- Base Hosp. 1 (Bellevue), Vichy—Illus- Send today for your WORLD WAR SERVICE BAR union, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 6. Joel T. John- trated history recently published. $2.50. Dr. FOR THE CIVILIAN LAPEL. IT's a miniature son, secy., 411 Essex Bldg., Minneapolis. Anna Tjomsland, 821 Bergen A v., Jersey City, replica in real silk of Victory Medal Bar, reg- 51st Pioneer Inf. Assoc.— 19th reunion, N. J. ulation rainbow ribbon—size 5/8" by 3/16". Buckley, Base Hosp. 116 24th Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 13. John Y. — annual reunion, Mc- Postpaid: 3 for $1.00—40 cents each . . . Min- Vassar Road, Wappingers Falls, N. Y. Alpin Hotel, New York City, Sat., Nov. 14. Dr. iature bars in combinations of two: Mexican 52d Pioneer Inf., AEF—Annual reunion, Frederick C. Freed, 59 E. 54th St.. New York. Border Bar—World War Bar—State Medals Bar H-jtel Governor Clinton, New York City, Nov. Med. Dept., Base Hosp. Trng. Center, Camp and others. 50 cents each. Lee Annual reunion. 14. Edw. J. Pollak, 331 Tecumseh Av., Mount — Fort Pitt Hotel, Pitts- U. S. INSIGNIA COMPANY Vernon, N. Y. burgh. Pa.. Aug. 9. H. W. Colston, secy., 1357 509 5TH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY 56th Pioneer Inf. Assoc.— 11th reunion, New York Av., N. E., Washington, D. C. Smithfield. N. C, Aug. 1-2 James K. Dunn, 118th Amb. Co. —Reunion, Canton, N. C, secy., 723 Eleventh St., New Brighton, Pa. Aug. 6-7. Mrs. Chas. Mease, secy., Canton. 139th F. A.—21st reunion, Funkhauser Post Navy Club of Missouri—3d annual reunion- (A. L.) Home, Evansville, Ind., Oct. 3-4. Floyd breakfast, St. Louis, Sept. 7. Neal Capaldo, Anderson, secy., Elizabethtown, Ind. skipper, 5641 Clemens Av., St. Louis. Hq. Co., 334th F. A.—Reunion in Minne- North Sea Mine Force Assoc.—Annual re- apolis this summer has been cancelled. Write union, Hotel New Yorker, New York City, Oct. Frank Suddock, chmn., Emporia, Kans. 9-11. Write J. Frank Burke, natl. secy., 3 Btry. B, 3d F. A.—Reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., Bangor Rd., West Roxbury, Mass. For mem- Aug. 20-21, with Legion Dept. Conv. Paul K. bership Pacific Coast Chap., write Jimmie Gee, Fuhrman, 525 E. Walnut St., Hanover, Pa. 1626 Illinois St., Vallejo, Calif. 56th Reot., C.A.C.—Reunion, Milford, Conn., U. S. S. Burrovs W. W. Assoc.—Reunion- Sept. 6. Fred M. Piatt, 64 Daytona Av., Devon, dinner, New York City, Oct. 11. P. E. Cocchi, Conn. secy., 25 Maiden St., Springfield, Mass. Natl. Amer. R.R. Transp. Corps,' AEF—Re- Natl. Otranto-Kashmir Assoc.—Annual re- union, Detroit. Mich., Sept. 1-3. G. J. Murray, union, Davenport, Iowa, Oct. 4. A. H. Telford, natl. adjt.. 1123% W. Locust St., Scranton, Pa. secy., 124 E. Simmons St., Galesburg, III. 19th Engrs. (Ry). Assoc.—Annual reunion. U. S. S. Utah —Proposed reunion of crew. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 12. Write Francis P. Chas. W. Emery. 76 Elm St., Waterville, Maine. Conway, 4414 Sanson) St., Philadelphia. Copy of Military Medals and Insignia of the Cos. A, B & C, 22d Engrs.—Reunion, Peoria. U. S. may be obtained from J. McDowell 111., Sept. 6. Julius A. Nelson, adjt., 23 E. 137th Morgan, 723 M> Porter St., Glendale, Calif. PI., Riverdale Sta., Chicago, 111. Utilities Det., Camp Dodge—Annual re- 26th Engrs., So. Calif. Branch—Reunion, union, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 10. Ray H. Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 15. For date, write Luther, comdr., 5317 Park Av., Minneapolis. Pres. Alvah B. Dean, 2022 W. 82d St., Los John J. Noll Angeles, Calif. 34TH Engrs.—14th annual reunion, Dayton, The Company Clerk MacArthur is giving HIS ALL . . .are ijou? MacARTHUR POSTERS Available in full color with brilliant red, white and blue border and letter- ing "MacArthur is giving his all . . . are you?" This beautiful inspirational poster 21" x 32", is an enlargement of a painting by Jes Schlaikjer which appeared on the cover of our May issue. Excellent for use in plants handling war orders, in railroad stations, on Defense Council bulletin boards or any public place. You will be proud to display this poster anywhere. Price 25c each, $15.00 per hundred The American Legion Magazine 1 Park Avenue New York, N. Y. 'Quick, Marge—the net!" AUGUST, 104a SS When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Lrcios M\g^zine " COMMANDER John L. Padgett ot The youngster punched his mother in Honolulu Post writes: "I believe the ribs. "Say," he complained in a the entire population of Hawaii is in rather hurt tone, "that man forgot Bob better health and getting more sleep than Burns!" ever before, but I have never eaten so had been wounded in the First much rabbit food in all my life. I made MOSE War. Though apparently my secretary a bouquet of vegetables World recovered, he still complained of a and she sat right down and ate it up." "I really am well fed," P. S.'s the "misery" in his back. Believing that the secretary, "but the vegetables were irre- disability was being used as a convenient sistible." excuse to get out of heavy work, his em- ployer said: "Mose, why don't HERMANN A. WENIGE, you forget your misery? Don't Service Officer at Law- you know that pain is mostly rence Capehart Post, Jeffer- in the mind?" sonville, Indiana, reports that "Yas, suh, 1 know dat well a corporal sped through traffic enough," agreed Mose, "but in a small town near Fort that there shrapnel didn't hit Knox. He kept looking from me in the mind. It hit me in side to side and back of him. de back!" Finally a local cop waved him to the curb. UNCLE JAKE," says a "All right, soldier," he Luther, Michigan, barked. "Where's the Japs?" burst and dudder, "is so darn- "Japs my eye!" howled the blasted lazy he won't even corporal. "What I want to bother to make regular coffee. sprinkles coffee into know is, where's that sergeant He just and sidecar I started out his moustache and drinks hot with!" water." EGIONNAIREE Joseph A. JOHNSON of George JING Lombardi of Philadel- A. Amole Post, Pottstown, L phia, Pennsylvania, says that Pennsylvania, tells one about once while taking a Sunday the bird who wouldn't join up walk with a party of friends with the auxiliary police be- they crossed a farm well cause he wouldn't be mixed stocked with poultry. The up in any outfit that women party stopped to admire the belonged to. and began to ask "How's my meal ticket this chickens about them. After discussing "Do you want this court to morning?" questions JUDGE: required to mature, market- understand that you refuse to renew strain, time and other pertinent points your dog license?" ing, .aying age — way, "until my dad dies—then I'll get of nenology. one of the party asked how Defendant : 'Yassah, but Ah an orchestra." distinguish a young hen from Judge: "We want no buts or any other me one could excuse. You either renew that license or an old one. REMINDER chalked up on the "By the teeth," came the farmer's pay a fine. You knew it expired on the A daily suggestion board at the Rilcv reply. first day of January." quick Indianapolis: had a little Reuben," snorted the Defendant: "Yassah, an' so did mah Cafe, "Mary "Don't kid me, dog!" lamb. What'll you have?" questioner. "Hens don't have teeth." "I know that, wise guy," said the Joseph A. Stegner of "But I do!" LEGIONNAIRE John Barry of Petros, LEGIONNAIRE farmer. j Mobile, Alabama, says that recent- j Tennessee, got a chuckle out of the it necessary to take his seven- interest you to know," story about the soldier who went into a ly became MIGHT son to a meeting of the Red IT Legionnaire John L. Ward barber shop to get a haircut. While the year-old writes first-aid class. The instructor be- Nebraska, that this town has barber was snipping away a dog sat by Cross of Ord. Spanish-American War vet- the chair watching the proceedings with gan with treatment of burns. just two will classify burns in three their names are Kit Carson an intent, hungry expression on his "We erans, and "First, heat burns; homely face. classes," he said. and Jesse James." second, electrical burns, and third, chem- "Your dog likes to watch you work," ical burns." minister had just said the words commented the soldier. THE that a blushing young damsel "No, 'taint that, exactly," explained made husband and the barber. "But once in a while I snip and a not so young man began to fill out a off a piece of ear!" wife. He sat down and marriage certificate. "While you're writ- the bridegroom, "you might YOUNG Billy Schwartz of Charles- ing," said paper. It's will. ton, South Carolina, eleven-year-old just as well sign this my I'm going to an army camp tomorrow son of William D. Schwartz, Jr., long- believe time member of the National American- and I want to fix up my affairs. I in taking care of people, so I'm leav- ism Commission, is torn between nis love my ing the most to my wife all my prop- of music and filial loyalty. He discussed — and all debts to the matter with his father, who advised erty to my mother my him to continue music as an avocation, mv wife." but to take his place in the father's in- surance office as a means of livelihood. The American Legion Magazine will pay "Billy," asked a visitor, "what are you one dollar for each joke accepted for going to do when you grow up?" Bursts and Duds. Address Bursts and "Work," was the laconic response. Duds, The American Legion Magazine, "Yes, course," the of visitor agreed. 15 West 48th Street, New York City. "But what kind of work?" Don't send postage, as no jokes will be "I'll go into the insurance business," returned. Billy explained in a confidential sort of "Ah! Good morning, Nero! 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine INC, PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY THE CUNEO PRESS . 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