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AMERICAN LEGION DIRECTORY FOR 1923 NATIONAL OFFICERS Alvin Owsley, Denton, Texas, National Commander Edward J. Barrett, Sheboygan, Wis., Nail. Vice-Comdr. Lemuel Bolles, Seattle, Wash., Natl. Adjutant Dr. Robert 0. Blood, Concord. N. H., Natl. Vice-Conidr. Robert H. Tyndall, Indianapolis, Ind., Natl. Treasurer E. Erle Cocke, Macon, Ga., Nail. Vice-Comdr. Rev. William B. O'Connor, Cincinnati, O., Natl. Chaplain Watson B. Miller, Washington, D. C, Nail. Vice-Comdr. Eben Putnam, Wellesley Farms, Mass., Natl. Historian Chiles P. Pltjmmer, Casper, Wyo., Natl. Vice-Comdr. Robert A. Adams, Indianapolis, Ind., Natl. Judge Advocate

Milton J. Foreman, Chicago. 111., Past Natl. Comdr. Franklin D'Olier, Philadelphia, Pa., Past Natl. Comdr. Henry D. Lindsley, Dallas, Tex.. Past Natl' Comdr. John G. Emery, Grand Rapids, Mich., Past Natl. Comdr. Hanford MacNider, Mason City, la-, Past Natl. Comdr.

NOTE : National Officers may be addressed at National Headquarters, , Indianapolis, Indiana.^ Department Officers may be addressed at their Department Head- quarters, care of the Department Adjutant, whose address is in each instance given below. DEPARTMENT OFFICERS Alabama—Comdr., Robert E. Steiner, Mont- Louisiana—Comdr., Michel Provosty, 721 Ca- North Carolina—Comdr., James A. Lockhart,

gomery ; Adjt.. James T. Laurie, 303 S. rondelet bldg., New Orleans ; Adjt., A. R. Denny, Greens- Charlotte ; Adjt., Robert E.

Lawrence st., Montgomery ; Ex. Comm., Wal- Christovich, Royal and Conti sts.. New Or- boro ; Ex. Comm., Cale K. Burgess, Raleigh.

ter E. Bare, Birmingham. igins ; Ex. Comm., C. J. Bourg, Thibodaux. North Dakota—Comdr., Mack V. Traynor, Williams, 315 — — Devils Lake : Adjt., Jack Alaska Comdr., A. C. Fisher, Juneau ; Adjt., Maine Comdr., Perley Ford, Sanford ; Adjt., Broadway, Fargo ; Ex. Comm., Philip R. George E. Mann, Juneau ; Ex. Comm., N. R. James L. Boyle, 108 Main st., Waterville Walker, Ketchikan. Ex. Comm., Albert Greenlaw, Public Utili- Bangs, Grand Forks. Ohio—Comdr., Gilbert Bettman, Union Trust Arizona— Celora ties Commission, Augusta. Comdr., M. Stoddard, Phoenix ; Martin, bldg., Cincinnati ; Adjt., Hugh K. Adjt., Neri Osborne, Jr.," Rm. 408, Capitol MAr.Yi.<\ Nn Comdr., Arthur Renouf. 211 W. 335 S. High st., Columbus ; Ex. Comm., John st., T. bldg., Phoenix; Ex. Comm., Duane Bird, MadiSon Baltimore; Adjt., Alfred R. McQuigg, 14142 Euclid av., Cleveland. ' Baltimore; Nogales. TruKt, Howard Street Armory, Oklahoma—Comdr., Dudley C. Monk, Ok- Arkansas— Comdr., L. Bodenhamer. EI Do- Ex. Comm., H. Findley French. 1404 Munsey Adjt., Brown, 544 State O. mulgee ; Leon H. bldg., Baltimore. rado : Adjt., Claude A. Brown, War Memo- Capitol, Oklahoma City ; Ex. Comm., Wm. S. rial — bldg., Little Rock ; Ex. Comm., Dr. L. J. Comdr., Wm. H. Doyle. Rm. Keys,—Wewoka. Kosminsky, Texarkana. 160. State House, Boston; Adjt., Leo A. Oregon Comdr., Geo. R. Wilbur, Hood River ;

Spillane, 160, Boston ; Ex. st., California—Comdr,. Seth Millington, Jr., Rm. State House, Adjt., Harry N. Nelson, 269 Washington Comm., 160, Wm. H. Doyle, Rm. State Portland ; Ex. Comm., Chas. W. Erskine, Bend. Calusa : Adjt., Morgan Keaton, 270 City House, Boston, Panama—Comdr., Elmer Stetler. Cristobal, C. Hall, San Francisco; Ex. Comm., John R. — Mexico Corner., John L. Gill, Apartado 62, Cristobal, Z. ; Ex. Quinn, Richgrove. Z. ; Adjt., E. J. Daly, C. Tampico, Tamps, Adjt., — Mexico ; Harry W. Comm., Fred DeV Sill, Balboa, C. Z. Colorado Comdr., Leo P. Kelly, 744 First Na- Berdie, Apartado 1356, Tampico, Tamps, —Comdr., Wm. B. Healey, tional Bank bldg., Pueblo ; Adjt., Morton M. Comm., Mexico; Ex. Leigh H. Rovzar, P. O. Wilkes-Barre ; Adjt., Gilbert Jacobosky, 931 David, 410 Interstate Trust bldg., Denver Box 1911, Mexico, D. F., Mexico; (Code ad- Chestnut St., Philadelphia; Ex. Comm., Wm. Ex. Wilkie Las Comm., Ham, Animas. dress: Capuchinas 7, Mexico, D. F., Mexico.) B. Healey, Wilkes Barre. Connecticut—Comdr., Edward L. Kelly, 886 —Comdr., Robert B. Harkness, Philippine Islands—Comdr., Roy L. Lewis,

Main st., Bridgeport; Adjt., Clarence' J. Houghton : Adjt.. Lyle D. Tabor, 211 Lin- Chaplain U. S. N., U. S. Naval Station, bldg., £.r. Comm., Guinan, 171 Church st., New Haven ; Ex. coln : Paul A. Cavite, P. I. (Code address: Phillegion) ; Com m . Justus J. Fennel], 169 North st., Martin, —The Evenincr News, Battle Creek. Adjt., A. E. Tatton (envelopes to be ad- Star vd. Minnesota Comdr., Gerald V. Barron, Clo- dressed : The American Legion, Dept. of — Adjt., Cont. Eiirope Comdr., Arthur Kipling, 42 Rue nuet; Stafford King, Old Capitol P. I., Box 2244, Manila, P. I.) ; Ex. Comm., Ampere, Paris XVlIe, ; Adjt., bldg.. St. Paul; Ex. Comm., 7,. L. Begin, Whipple S. Hall, Box 610, Manila. Francis Jaitues, OH Rue du Cherche Midi. 505 New York Life bids., Minneapolis. Porto Rico—Comdr., Wm. F. Lippitt, P. O. Paris Vie, Fiance (Code: Paris) — Oconorco ; Mississippi Comdr., Kenneth G. Price, Mc- Box 277, San Juan ; Adjt., A. J. Perrone,

Ex. Cumin., R. Emmett Condon, American Tel. Comb ; Adjt., John B. Hudson, Jackson ; Ex. P. O. Box 1502, San Ju.in. and Tel. Co., 195 Broadway, New York City. Comm., Winfred Cv Adams. Corinth. Rhode Island—Comdr., T. J. H. Pierce, 31 Delaware— Cihndr., Wm. C. Speakman, 1201 Missouri—Comdr., James E. Kinkead. Forn- Market sq.. Providence; Adjt., John P.

Delaware av., Wilmington : Adjt., John J. felt; Adjt., J. K. Noonan. 215 Hall bldg., Hartigan, 918 Turks Head bldg., Providence;

Dugan, P. 0. Box 632, Wilmington ; Ex. 9th and Walnut sts.. Kansas City : Ex. £.r. Comm., T. J. H. Pierce, 31 Market sq., Comm., Thos. W. Miller, 009 N. Broome st., Comm., Bennett C. Clark, Third National Providence. Wilmington. Bank. St. Louis. South Carolina—Comdr., Luther K. Rrice, District of Couimbu—Comdr., — Molumby, Great 5 and 7 Cleveland Range, Spartanburg John Lewis l4( ntana Comdr., Loy J. Law ;

; ; Ex. Smith, Southern hidg., Washington j Adjt..i Falls ; Adit,, O. C. Lamport, Helena Ex. Aajt., Miller C. Foster, Spartanburg Lew S. Mohler. Rm. 102, 1123 New York Comm., —C. Thomas Busha, Jr., Helena. Comm., Thos. R. Spratt, Fort Mill. av., N. W., Washington ; Ex. Comm.. John Nebraska Comdr., J. Ed. C. Fisher, Beatrice; — C, mdr., J. H. Williams, Get- So.ilhm'n 314 Riehards tysburg Adjt., Stokes Lewis—Smith, bldg., Washington. Adit,, Frank B. O'Connell, ; Douglas Sheldon, Fiobida Comdr., Jerome jg. Wideman, West block, Lincoln; Ex. Comm., Earl M. Cline, bldg., Watertown ; Ex. („mm., J. H. Wil- Palm Beach; Ail it.. Thomas H. Davis, 703 First— Natl. Bank bldg.. Lincoln. liams, Gettysburg.— Vt Tampa Board of Trade, Tampa; fir Nevada Comdr., Harold Bellinger, Fallon ; Tennessee Comdr., Granville S. Ridley. Mur- Comm., J. Y. Cheney, 12 W. Pine st., Or- Adjt., Dr. M. C. Horning, Las Vegas; Ex. freesboro; Adjt., Guy H. May, 310 Holston

lando, Fla. Comm., George W. Malone. Reno. Bank bldg., Knoxville ; Ex. Comm., L. Jerc,

— : Georgia Comdr., Rodney S. Cohen, Augusta Nfiv 'Hampshire—Comdr., Dr. Charles S. Cooper,— Dyersburg- Adjt., Spencer L. Hart, 805 Marion Bid-., Walker, Keene ; Adjt., George W. Morrill, Texas Comdr., John C. Townes, Houston; Augusta; Ex. Comm., Asa W. Candler, Concord: Es. Comm., Dr. Charles S. Walker, Adjt., G. L. Folbre, Criminal Courts bldg.,

Candler bldg., Atlanta. Koene. Dallas : Ex. Comm., Charles Ingram, Wharton. Hawaii—Comdr., Phillip L. Rice, Lihue, Kauai. Ne v Jersey —Comdr., Alan B. Conlin, 509 UTAH—Comdr., Dr. B. W. Black, 514 Boston '' , Salt Hawaii; Adjt., Valentine B. Libbey. City Colonial av., Westfield ; Adjt., George F. bldg., Lake City; Adit., Kirke M.

and County Engineers, Kapoilani bldg., Fleming, 203 E. State st., Trenton ; Ex. Decker, 133 State Capitol bldg.. Salt Lake

Honolulu, T. H. (Code: Amleg) ; Ex Comm., Comm., Harry Kramer, 503 Market st., City; Ex. Comm., John E. Booth, Spanish Walter F. Dillingham, R. & L. Co., Hono- Camden. Fork. lulu, T. H. New Mexico—Comdr., Jefferson D. Atwood, Vermont—Comdr., Allen Fletcher, 127 St. Paul — St., Idaho Comdr., James Harris, Weiser ; Adjt., Roswell ; Adit,, Herman G. Baca, Santa Fe Burlington : Adjt., John J. Cocklin, 127 Lester F. Albert. Boise; Ex. Comm., E. W. Ex. Comm., Jos. C. Wallch, Fort Bayard. St. Paul st., Burlington: Ex. Comm., John Sinclair, Shoshone. New /ork—Comdr., Albert S. Callan, Chat- F. Sullivan, Edwards st., St. Albans. Illinois—Comdr., Charles W. Schick. Bloom- Virginia—Comdr., E. E. Goodwvn, ham ; Adjt., John R. Schwartz, Rm. 302, Emporia;

ington ; Adjt., Wm. Q. Setliffe, Blooming- Hall of Records, New York City (send all Adjt., W. B. Crush. 1030 Mutual bldg., Rich-

ton ; Ex. Comm., Horatio D. Hackett, Hola- mail pertaining to Adjt's office to Joseph A. mond ; Ex. Comm., Dr. J. F. Lynch. Norfolk. bldg., Chicago. Washington—Comdr., Lev/is B. Schwellen- bird &—Roche, Monroe Burns, Asst. Adjt.) ; Ex. Comm., Ralph K. Indiana Comdr., Perry Faulkner, Shelbyville ; Robertson, 411 D. S. Morgan bldg., Buffalo. back, 315 University st.. Seattle: Adjt., Adjt., Frank H. Henley, Chalfant bldg., In- Henry A. Wise, 315 University St., Seattle;

dianapolis ; Ex. Comm., Bowman Elder, 801 Ex. Comm., (Judge) Dewitt M. Evans, Ta- Hume-Mansur bldg., Indianapolis. coma. —Comdr., C. B. Robbins. —Comdr.. Spiller Hicks. Blue- Cedar Rapids ;

Adjt., James F. Barton, 1003 Register and 40 HOMMES, 8 CHEVAUX fieid ; Adjt., Bernard Kaiser, Rm. 28, McLain

Tribune bldg., Des Moines ; Ex. Comm., bldg.. Wheeling; Ex. Comm., Andrew Ed- Concsptiitdtilil John H. Kelly, Sioux City. H. E. MacDoNALD, miston, Jr., Weston. Kansas—Comdr., W. P. MacLean, Topeka National, 3124 Arcade Building, Wisconsin—Comdr., F. Ryan Duffy, Fond du Adjt., Frank E. Samuel, Memorial bldg., Seattle, Washington. Lac; Adjt., Austin A. Petersen, Fond du Topeka ; Ex. Comm., Wilder S. Metcalf Lac ; Ex. Comm., F. Ryan Duffy, Fond du Lawrence. E. J. Eivers, Chef de Chemin de Fer, Lac. —Comdr., W. C. Wilson, Wyoming—Comdr., A. B. Tonkin, Cheyenne Kentucky Lexington ; The Pacific Legion, 281 12th St., Adjt., Brent G. Nunnelley, 707 Louisville Adjt., W. J. Wehrli, 211 O. & S. bldg., Cas- Portland, Oregon. Trust bldg., Louisville; Ex. Comm., Emmet per; Ex. Comm., Will G. Metz, Sheridan, O'Neal, Kenyon bldg., Louisville. Wyo. s

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First in a New Series of True Stories: "Tales of the D. C. I." The Viaduct Gang

Division of Crim- His 45 automatic was out of its holster and pointed in my deserters and men absent THEinal Investigation, direction. "Let go of him," he ordered quietly without leave from the A.E.F., was organ- American forces in France. ized after the Armistice, with coast. Instead of wearing brassards They were existing by their wits. For headquarters at Chaumont. It was in like the M.P.'s, we had the privilege of most of them, who did not understand no way connected with the Intelligence civilian clothes. French, it was a hard living. Department, and with the military po- Remember, it was after the Armistice. As might be expected, they delayed lice only through the office of the Pro- The troops were on their way home. as long as possible their return to face vost Marshal General. It comprised One hundred thousand restless Ameri- punishment. -They found the Le Mar.s eight companies of from forty to one cans lay billeted, for the most part area, with its hundred thousand men, hundred and fifty men each, and each uncomfortably, in the Le Mans area. perhaps forty thousand of them casuals, company was responsible for its own Their discipline was not as exact as it an ideal place to escape detection. sector. One of these was in Paris, its had been, and their eyes were on the Crimes by Americans, real or imagi- duties extending only to the city limits. ports of embarkation. nary, were reported by the hundreds Bordeaux, St. Nazaire and Brest each At that time, official accounts show, from the villages and cities in the had one company operating through the there were approximately ten thousand region. The French police wrung their port base zones. One group hands, drew their swords, covered the British Isles, and wondered what to do another the Advance Zone OF the two million Americans who made up the A. E. F., next. and occupied territory; an- a few—nowhere near so many as in a city of same pop- My office in Le Mans had other worked between ulation—went wrong. "The Viaduct Gang" is the first of a just been established. It Marseille, and Lyons and series of true "Tales of the D. C. I." in which Mr. Detzer was located in a quiet street the eighth, my own, had off Avenue Leon Bollee, a tells of his post-Armistice experiences in rounding up the headquarters in Le Mans central situation, but far trouble-makers, some of whom were skilled criminals with and responsibility from enough from the main traf- long police in civil life their Paris to the edge of the records whose cleverness made fic arteries to attract little base zone of Brest and capture unusually difficult. Mr. Detzer adheres strictly to attention. It was in an old from Tours to the north fact, except that in most instances real names are not used. house set back in a garden —

PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY surrounded by a high stone wall. In through the dark streets of the quiet We looked at his prisoners. They conveniences and equipment it was far old town. Several corners to the left were surly fellows, both apparently from a modern detective bureau of the Cafe du Viaduct we turned into drunk. Their clothing and their faces without electric lights and with only the Rue de la Gare, and moved along were dir.ty, with all the marks of men makeshift cell accommodations. It was the muddy thoroughfare rather slowly. long absent without leave. We had damp, old, crumbling. Its chief virtue Madden swung his motorcycle left learned to spot those marks. was privacy. and right, so that the beam of its head- "Madden," I directed, "take this fel- One night early in February, 1919, light zigzagged across the street and low"——I pointed to the shorter of the I had completed about ten o'clock my against blank house-fronts. As we two "put him in the sidecar and ride work on a difficult case that had kept approached the cafe which my first him around to the assistant provost my men and myself on the job for sergeant had been watching, a dark marshal's office. The M.P. here and I thirty-six hours. First Sergeant Ulysses spot against the wall near the door at- will bring the other one." S. Madden, one of I was unarmed the best operatives except for my rid- who ever worked ing crop. Until that in Europe — so the night I had consid- French police told ered it unnecessary me many times—had to carry a revolver. come in from a tour Madden, who ' like of inspection. For myself was in uni- five months, nightly, form, wore a pistol some one gang, or in his belt. The two many gangs, had weapons which we been robbing cars in found on the prison- all the railroad ers Madden tossed yards. Merchandise into the pocket of worth a hundred his motorcycle. Then thousand dollars had he bundled the pris- disappeared from oner I had indicated freight trains. The into my seat. French had arrested I gripped the big a few sneak thieves; fellow by his arm we had made sev- (he was taller than eral unimportant ar- I, and I am six rests. Madden had feet). With the been slaving on the M.P. walking on the case determinedly. outside we started "Captain," he said to the office of the abruptly that night A.P.M., which was as I met him in the nearer by half a door, "I believe I mile than my own. have a line-up on The prisoner said those car robbers. nothing after a few Down by the rail- unintelligible grunts. • road there's a little We had turned into hotel and cafe called one of those dark, the Restaurant du narrow cross streets Viaduct. A lot of which run up from pretty bum-looking the lower town to Americans and the hill. My man French are hanging was stalking along around the place. obediently when sud- There's too much denly he jerked his money being spent arm away from my for such a mean lit- hand. I lunged for tle cafe." him, caught him and "Where is it?" I pulled him back. asked. As I did so, I "That's it," Mad- turned my face to- den explained. "It's ward the military on the Rue de la policeman. His .45 Gare, right across automatic was out the street from the of its holster and freight yards. It's pointed in my direc- mighty dark there. tion. The old man and woman who were the proprietors shrugged their A high board fence "Let go of him," shoulders and denied that they had ever seen an American in their place runs around the he ordered quietly. railroad yards. Any "What's this?" I number of men could jump through the tracted our attention. The spot moved demanded in amazement. holes in that fence, cross the street and separated into figures. Several "You're in the wrong gang, captain," with their stolen stuff, and get into men stood half hidden in a shadow cast he answered, laughing. "Now you beat that cafe. Out behind it is a stable, by a jutting wall. it—see?" always kept double-padlocked." We stopped our machine and climbed He jabbed the pistol at me. I hesi- "That might be a tip," I replied. out. As we approached the group we tated, then started to speak. "Suppose you put a couple of men on flashed our pocket lights. They dis- "Beat it!" he interrupted. "Run! it. Have them watch the place, and closed one American military policeman Run like hell!" tomorrow we'll get the French police tugging at the sleeves of two other "What will you do?" I asked him. to help us. Meantime, I'm going after American soldiers. "I'll put holes in you." I remember some sleep." "What's up, M.P.?" I asked. how calmly he replied. Madden walked to the gate with me. "I just picked up these fellows in the I walked out hurriedly into the road- "I'll take you home in a sidecar," he freight yard over there," he replied, way. The man in the M.P. uniform suggested. "It's only a block or two "and I can't get them to go to the stood on the curb, still pointing his out of your way and we'll ride past this station with me." gun. The man who he had said was Restaurant du Viaduct." "How long have you been on M.P. his prisoner stood with him. I agreed. Madden cranked the motor- duty?" I demanded. I crossed over to the other side at a cycle on which he covered most of his "This is my third night," he ex- dog trot. In the same instant I tugged cases. In a moment we were chugging plained. (Continued on page 20) APRIL 27, 1923 PAGE 5

" A Sequel to 'Who Got the Money?" The Profiteer Hunt

VI. The Case of the Motor Car Company By Marquis James

Packard Motor Car partment of Justice in case the THECompany made Liberty contractor declines to make a motors for the Govern- settlement out of court. One of ment during the war and these audits concerns the transac- from an engineering point of view tions of the Packard Motor Car did an excellent job. Very few Company, which, judging by the contractors performed their work contractor's reception of the Gov- as well. Jesse G. Vincent, a vice- ernment's figures, will go to the president of the Packard com- courts for settlement. pany, was one of the designers of The Packard contract was the Liberty engine, and for some changed three times. The original time prior to the war he had been cost-plus and bonus provisions in charge of the Packard's experi- were eliminated in favor of fixed- mental forces then at work on an price stipulations. This sounded airplane engine in the manufac- pretty good at the time. "Cost- ture of which that company had plus" and "bonus" were words intended to engage on a commer- that earned bad reputations early cial basis. When we entered the in the war, and, by popular rea- war Mr. Vincent was commis- soning, to dispense with them was sioned a major—later he became to dispense with an expensive evil. a lieutenant-colonel—and was di- Now, then, let us see how rected to proceed with his studies the government auditors say it looking toward the design of a worked out in the case of the new engine for the Army's fight- Packard Motor Car Company, ing planes. which made Liberty motors. The Packard experiments along The Packard company's war en- this line had reached an advanced terprises were extensive, and a stage, and the company immedi- force of government auditors, ac- ately turned over to the Govern- countants and contract lawyers ment the results of its labors. spent several months in investi- With this flying start the Air gations before rendering a report. Service technicians, under the di- The company's books and all gov- rection of Colonel Vincent, went ernment records and memoranda ahead and produced the twelve- © Underwood bearing on the dealings under cylinder engine called the Liberty. Colonel Jesse G. Vincent, who served scrutiny were examined. These Throughout the war Colonel Vin- through the war as an army officer, at findings were considered and re- cent continued in the service of the same time retaining, as a stock- vised, item by item, by a special the Government as an officer and holder, a pecuniary interest in the board of the Air Service consist- also retained, as a stockholder, a Packard company. Colonel Vincent ing of one officer and four civilian pecuniary interest in the Packard headed the group of technicians who experts. Then they were sub- Motor Car Company. As an of- produced the Liberty motor mitted, last December, to the Sec- ficer of the Army he acted in retary of War. They set up that behalf of the Government in con- the Packard company under the nection with its transactions with cost-plus arrangement with the the Packard company, which, under war This surprising contention did not Government would have realized these contracts, became the chief manufac- come casually to light. It was ferreted net profits: turer of Liberty motors. out by the present War Department, Charles E. Hughes, now Secretary which after much delay and opposition Profits on motors $4,062,500 of State, in his investigation of war is systematically prying into the se- Bonus on motors 4,012,450 contracts, pointed out that this was in crets and half-told tales of who got the Profits on spare parts.. 359,564 violation of the criminal statutes. The money Uncle Sam spent to win the war. Inventory allowance . . 353,504 War Department declared it to have The discovery of the device of altering been merely a technical violation, contracts ostensibly for the protection Total $8,788,018 however, and declined to act against of the public's interest, but with the Colonel Vincent, who presently was actual result that the contractor gained The cost-plus contracts under which personally "pardoned" by President more millions at the public's expense, the War Department asserts the Pack- Wilson. is only an incident in the present pro- ard company would have collected the In an earlier article we spoke of war gram of the profiteer hunt, but it is foregoing were not allowed to stand, contracts in the abstract and told how an important incident, and one worthy however. In Septembei of 1918 the haste and unpreparedness let the Gov- of further examination before we pass contracts were changed to a fixed-price ernment in for the cost-plus form of on. basis and bonuses were discontinued. contract, which former Assistant Sec- Despite efforts to fetter its activities This took place just as Mr. Hughes retary of War called and discredit and belittle the results was concluding his investigations of "vicious" and strove to modify, throw- of those activities, the reaudit of war the aircraft production failure. Wash- ing the entire machinery of the War contracts continues, and in the first ington was agog with leaks and rumors Department into the effort. We spoke and so far only case to reach the courts concerning what Mr. Hughes would of the indifferent success that attended based on these efforts the Government have to say in his report. Speculation these efforts and said that for some was awarded $1,550,000. This was the had it that he intended to dwell on reason changes in the form of contract, case of the Lincoln Motors Corpora- the generous nature of contracts and instead of diminishing the profits of tion, also a manufacturer of Liberty the huge profits of contractors, and that contractors frequentlv had the effect of motors. A good many more audits are the Packard company would be cited increasing those profits. about ready for submission to the De- as a case in point. As a matter of fact. : : ;

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oretical cost figure of $5,000 was re- this is precisely what Mr. Hughes did. ness relations with the Packard com- profits were declared to be He went into the Packard dealings in pany will show the manipulation by tained, and uniformly per engine. The strik- detail and estimated the ultimate profits which the War Department, having ex- $625 disparity between theory and fact on the basis of the old contracts to be ecuted what the Air Service calls an ing is well illustrated in this case. The $8,000,000. "unconscionable" contract in the first manufacturing cost per engine The attempts made in official quar- place, futilely strove to extricate itself, actual profit was not $5,000, but $2,530.79, say the ters to suppress publicity of the Hughes but succeeded merely in adding This the average, not the report are well known. It is also well to profit for the contractor's benefit. auditors. was motor ; as pro- known that many efforts were made to The case is typical of many others. highest or lowest cost per minimize the importance of that report. On September 4, 1917, the War De- duction progressed the unit cost went The circumstances are such as to lend partment contracted With the Packard lower and lower. While "profits" were figured the fictitious basis of $5,000 color to the assumption that the hasty company for the construction of 6,000 on calculated alteration of the Packard and other Liberty engines at cost plus fifteen per- a motor, bonuses were on contracts may have cent, which was fig- actual cost figure, in this fashion been inspired, in ured to produce a $5,000 minus $2,530.79 equals $2,- part, by an effort to profit of $913.05 per 469.21, twenty-five percent of which is beat Mr, Hughes to engine, the assump- $617.30, or the bonus allowed on each that the engine. This brought the total profits it and parry the tion being criticism anticipated manufacturing cost per engine up to $1,242.30. By this from him. of an engine would simple process a cost-plus I2V2 percent After a lengthy be in the neighbor- contract was made to yield the contrac- discussion of the hood of $6,087, not- tor cost-plus fifty percent. Packard's cost - plus withstanding the The and the Packard contracts the Hughes fact that the Air company transacted business on these report records in a Service at the time terms for a year, and then, on Sep- few lines the change " had expert opinion tember 2, 1918, the Government made to fixed-price, con- to the effect that the a second attempt to retrench. On the cluding with the fol- cost would not be in first trial it had gained nothing, it lowing interesting excess of $2,400, ex- is true, but still it had not lost much. observation cluding overhead. This time it was not so fortunate. It "Upon the new Furthermore, the lost $2,569,071—this figure, say the fixed-price contracts, Packard company auditors, being the increased profits to the contractor's was to be paid a the contractor under the provisions of profits, though re- bonus of twenty-five the new contract made in September, duced, still remain percent on manufac- 1918. The new agreement annulled all very liberal." turing cost savings previous contracts and pledged the Gov- The interesting under $6,08?. The ernment to pay a flat rate of $4,000 thing about this ob- contract also in-- for each motor delivered. This con- servation from the eluded spare parts tract was made retroactive to the be- Hughes report is on a cost plus fifteen ginning of the Packard company's war that it was not borne percent basis, activities. out by subsequent It soon became ap- Where both the War Department and developments. parent that a bad Mr. Hughes seem to have erred in cal- The War Depart- bargain had been culating this contract to be benficial to made by the Govern- the United States is in their compu- ment's efforts and © Harris and Ewing Mr. Hughes' predic- ment; that a bogey tation of manufacturing costs. The Charles E. Hughes declared tion alike went or estimated cost of Government's figures for that date are Colonel Vincent's simultane- amiss, it appears. $6,087 per engine not available, but Mr. Hughes calcu- ous connection with the The Air Service now was absurdly high. lated from such data as he could gather Army and the Packard com- submits that under Consequently on De- that the cost would be about $3,000 a pany a violation of the crim- the new contracts cember 12, 1917, the motor, thus leaving the contractor inal statutes. The War De- following profits Government amend- $1,000, or a 33 1-3 percent profit. Gov- the partment, however, called the actually were paid ed the agreement. ernment cost accountants after their violation merely technical the Packard Motor Bogey was reduced recent exhaustive search in which they Car Company: to $5,000 and profits say every item of direct and indirect to I2V2 percent or expense was figured in report the av- Profits on motors $9,549,865 $625 per engine. The bonus clause was erage Cost per motor to have been Profits on spare parts.. 1,329,905 retained. Accountants figure that if the $2,530.79, which would have yielded a Inventory allowance.... 353,504 contract had ended there the Govern- profit of $1,469.21, or 58 percent, as Final settlement allow- ment would have saved $3,640,325. But compared with $1,242.30, or fifty per- ance 122,815 the contract did not end there. It con- cent) under the old contract. To these tinued, and a few paragraphs later dimensions, the Government contends, $11,356,089 on it grew spontaneously generous, did one cost-plus 12V2 percent contract and handed the $3,640,325 all back, grow. When these figures were placed be- plus $488.36. Of course this $488.36 The Air Service has presented the fore him Mr. Weeks formally approved did not mean much to the Packard Mo- Packard Motor Car Company with an the Air Service recommendation that tor Car Company, but it is the pay of a itemized bill for $6,580,521 and is pre- claim be made against the Packard private soldier for a year and a quar- pared to go to court to obtain a settle- company for $6,580,521. The War De- ter. This loss was incurred by the in- ment. The bill is too long to reproduce partment contends that the contract troduction of a clause whereby the here in detail, but the principal items of September, 1918, is wholly illegal Government engaged to furnish the con- follow on the Government tractor with certain inspection and and not binding (a) Bonus $4,012,450 features of the orig- heat-treating facilities. As it worked and that certain (b) Additional profits not without stand- out these facilities cost $4,470*369.36, inal contracts also are provided for under cost- has and after the Armistice they were pur- ing in law. The Packard company plus contracts 926,280 served with notice of the chased, including buildings, by the been formally (c) Loss to Government on as this is Packard company for $849,556. The net Government's claim, and freight and machinery negotiations are in loss to the United States was thus written informal installations 725,039 be made $3,640,813.36, which sum, minus $3,- progress. A compromise may (d) Overpayment, special and delay inci- 640,325, leaves $488.36 as the con- whereby the expense tools allowance ...... 539,689 legal proceedings will be tractor's gain. dent to fe) Bookkeeping errors ... 125,000 unless the company shows As the manufacture of motors pro- avoided, but (f) Duplicate payments, disposition to make what the War De- gressed the twenty-five percent bonus tools 1 14,319' partment deems an equitable settle- clause became a regular gold mine. It ment the case will be referred to the was very nearly the most profitable The Government demands reimburse- Department of Justice with recom- feature of the contract. For the pur- ment for item (b) because the Secre- mendation that suit be instituted. pose of figuring regular profits on the tary of War declines to recognize the An outline of the Government's busi- cost plus 12 y2 percent basis the the- (Continued on page 27) — —

Where a monument is to be placed is as important a consideration as what the monument shall be. One great American work of art—the Adams Memorial, by Augustus Saint Gaudens, in Rock Creek Ceme- tery, Washington, D. C.—is, as Mr. Aitken says, "so situated that one needs a guide to find it," but, having found it, "one is so impressed by its setting, its great simplicity, its utter lack of ostentation, that the memory is indelibly impressed." At left, the Adams Memorial; at right, the sheltering circle of evergreens that screens the monument from view even when the searcher can almost toach it Choosing a War Memorial Site A Sculptor and Veteran Presents His Views

there a war memorial in your By Robert Aitken a rule committees were given sites for IStown which you pass daily but the asking; hence one frequently gets hardly ever see? Member of the National Academy and the an impression that the memorials were Royal Formerly Captain, Ma- If that is true, perhaps you will Academy. dropped from the skies to remain wher- explain your apparent blindness by chine Gun Company, 306th Infantry ever they happened to land. saying that you know the memorial is There is a fine equestrian statue of there, and anyway, you have looked at siderations which affect both site and Washington at the southeast corner of it once or twice. monument. Union Square, placed there years ago But wait—don't blame yourself en- Our elders made many errors in their because Washington had once stood on tirely. It may be the fault of the haste or lack of appreciation of beauty. the spot. Have you ever seen it and memorial committee. Some of the fin- From them we may learn by example realized what a splendid thing it is? est monuments and memorials in our that the center of a place, be it park Well, it's practically impossible to do country have been spoiled for us be- or street or grass plot, is not neces- that, anyway. The site is not, and cause they have been erected where we sarily the best location for a memorial. never could have been suitable for a can't appreciate them. We can say the same of the corner or memorial of that character. Now the The location of a memorial is first in of the crossroads. Again, we can see heart of the city has moved uptown importance. The type of memorial de- that by placing our memorial directly and Washington sits on his horse in the pends on the nature of the site that has in front of a bank or library or city hall center of a kind of automobile speed- been chosen. A poorly chosen site can we may occasionally achieve a balanc- way. One does not approach him for ruin the best features of a good monu- ing note, but more often we sacrifice fear of losing one's life. One is forced ment and, perhaps, make a bad one the memorial to a general effect that to look at him from distant sidewalks, worse. has nothing to do with its purposes. over the tops of trucks and rattling- Monuments and memorials should Any or all of the above sites may or cars, against a background of huge, un- not be bought by the yard, pound or may not be appropriate. It is impos- sightly signboards in screaming colors. cube to be fitted into any available sible to lay down hard and fast rules, Now, if it were necessary to mark the space. They should be designed espe- except that the study of all available site where Washington is supposed to cially for the site chosen. sites by the artist or advisor will bring have stood, a simple tablet would have The selection of a site is a matter about a happy solution in every in- been sufficient, placed upon an isle of which demands serious consideration stance. safety. A monument of the scale and beyond the desire to commemorate men, In order to show by illustration how design of this noble equestrian should deeds or events. Vision is necessary certain memorials are affected by their be placed in a quiet, open ^pg.ce that the vision of a mind trained to seek and sites, I want to make some comments would permit of planting. It should be find, or to create, if need be, the set- on a few of our best known works seen from many angles, for it is, as all ting best suited for the memorial. to make clear a few definite errors that, good memorials should be, a splendid The memorial fund necessarily con- to my thinking, can be avoided in the sight from many sides. Roads or paths trols, in a way, the .vision. Too often future. I trust that it will be under- should lead up to it, so that people a small structure is placed in sur- stood that in so doing I am not actuated might receive its message on their roundings to which it is all out of scale. by a desire to criticize or condemn. gradual approach. The present, as well as the future, de- Before New York City had an art In Madison Square stands a beauti- velopment of the locality must be con- commission, the city received many ful statue of Admiral Farragut, placed sidered along with a dozen other con- monumental gifts from its people. As {Continued on page 18) — —

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Every Cent Contributed Brings the Goal that Much Nearer It's Only a Month to May 30 WHERE THE GRAVES FUND STANDS

HS and fathers of the quite so much pleasure. It is fine to April 7th . $11,127.96 MOTH.men who lie in American To think that I have helped to make cer- cemeteries in Europe were Week ending tain the annual decoration of the among the first to respond to graves of Maury county heroes like

the call of the Graves Endowment April 14th . . 2,658.69 Mitchell and Gilbreath and Goodwin Fund. From all sections of the country who sleep forever on foreign fields they have sent in—are still sending Total to April where they died for me and mine." in—their contributions, telling of the The Indianapolis News is one of the graves in Romagne, Fere-en-Tardenois, 14th .... $13,786.65 many newspapers which at this writing Suresnes and tyse other permanent God's have announced the Graves Endowment acres overseas,' where rest those who Fund to the public. In co-operation will always be dear to them in memory. with the Legion posts of Indianapolis, They think not only of their own sons, the News is receiving and acknowledg- but also of the 32,000 other Americans ing by publication all contributions re- who lie buried in those cemeteries, ceived during one week. The publisher grateful at the privilege of helping of this newspaper is the father of one honor on every Memorial Day to come of the men who did not come back. all those who sleep beneath the rows Hilton U. Brown, Jr., Post of Indian- of white crosses. apolis perpetuates the name and As Memorial Day approaches the memory of his son. number of contributions received The Chicago Voiture of La Societe reaches new heights daily. Posts and des Hommes 40 et Chevaux 8 has f jr- Auxiliary units everywhere are sending warded an initial contribution of $105 in the contributions of their own mem- to the graves fund and announces it bers and those whole-heartedly given will send additional sums later. Henry by the citizens of their towns and cities H. Houston, 2d, Post of Germantown, who wish to have a share in fulfilling Pennsylvania, which subscribed $100 in a national duty. The fact that the the first week of the campaign, has $100,000 sought for the endowment sent in an additional contribution of fund is to remain intact year after $200 given by the parents of the man year, only the interest being used for for whom the post is named. Woman's the decoration of the graves on each Post of Norfolk, Virginia, has given Memorial Day, and the fact that this $25 to the fund. From North East, appeal is the last that will ever be made "It's Not Too Early to Think of These." Pennsylvania, the Women's Relief to Americans for this purpose, have The opening-gun cartoon of the Indianapolis Corps, Auxiliary to the G. A. R., sends drive for the graves fund. Drawn non-Legionnaires greatly. News by a contribution of Units impressed Charles Kuhn, the News cartoonist, member $5. of The Carl A. Johnson Post of Grand of Hilton U. Brown, Jr., Post. American Legion Auxiliary are main- Rapids, Michigan, still heads the honor taining the wonderful showing made in roll of contributions. Following its first the earlier weeks, and when the final contribution of $1,000, subscribed by totals are figured the Auxiliary may American Legion Graves the people of Grand Rapids, including THE En- have surpassed the Legion on the basis the Lions Club, the Rotary Club, the dowment Fund will be invested of contributions in proportion to mem- Exchange Club and other organizations, in perpetuity and the income used bership. the post has sent forward to the Na- annually to provide decorations for Pocatello (Idaho) Post, in sending in tional Treasurer $250 additional. The the graves of 32,000 American soldiers initial contributions totalling $54.50, list of contributors contains more than and sailors whose bodies will forever promised that a great deal more would 600 names of individuals. The Grand be forthcoming. E. J. Therkildsen, lie overseas. At least $100,000 is Rapids Herald enabled Johnson Post to finance officer, writes: "This amount needed—$200,000 can well be used— make this conspicuous showing. It pub- was raised within five minutes after to increase the principal of this fund lished a full page announcement of the the fund was mentioned for the first Graves Endowment Fund in a Sunday the nucleus of which is a million time." issue and in succeeding issues listed the francs now on deposit in France. Following are some inspiring ex- names of those who contributed. The Weekly publishes in every amples of letters accompanying contri- Other newspapers throughout the issue a list of contributors who" have butions to the fund: country are volunteering their assist- given one dollar or more to the Graves to the Legion posts in their com- I am inclosing my check for ten dollars ance Endowment Fund. Owing to the munities. Typical of the spirit of the in memory of my son, Charles A. Moffett, necessity for re-checking this list to editors and owners of these newspapers 147.li Ambulance Co., 112th Sanitary Train, insure accuracy and prevent omis- is a letter received from J. I. Finney, 37th Division, who is buried in Grave No. editor of the Daily Herald of Columbia, sions, it is a few days behind the 25, American Flanders Field, Waereghem, Tennessee. Mr. Finney writes: total as given in the figures above. Belgium. God bless you Legionnaires and "Please find enclosed New York ex- Names of contributing Legion posts your cause in every way. Mrs. Jean change for $52 for the Overseas Graves and Auxiliary units are printed Moffett, Alderson, W. Va. Endowment Fund. In co-operation with in boldface type. Will you please permit me to add this Herbert Griffin Post of The American check to the Graves Endowment Fund? Legion, the Herald raised this sum by CONTRIBUTIONS Remembering the inadequate funeral bou- opening its columns to its readers. It The following contributions are quets I made for the dead of Beau Desert started the subscription with $5 and acknowledged: [the largest American hospital center in most of the donations came in sums of Arizona. Prescott : J. E. Peak, $1. France] it is a comfort to know that in $1. About forty contributed to the Arkansas. Hot Springs: C. B. Caldwell. $5. their permanent resting places they will California. Banning: fund, a large number not ex-service Banning Post, #5; not be forgotten. Harriet Root, American Big Creek: John P. Morton, $2; Dinuba- Mrs for the post at Red Cross, Elyria, O. men. It set the goal Lucy B. MeCoikle, $5 ; Palo Alto : Florence $50 and raised $52. Mills, $2.50; Mrs. W. G. Soldate, $2.50. Please accept this contribution from a Colorado. Colorado Springs: would do the Charles E. Ger- gold star mother of Ardonio, N. Y. "If other newspapers lach, Durango: Henry My $2; C. Hamilton, $1 ; same thing, you would soon have the John R. Nelson, $1; Eaton: Norman Hutch- own son's body is lying in our own ceme- $100,000. I never .gave to a cause with (Continued on page 25) tery at home.—A Mother, Ardonio, N. Y. APRIL 27. 1923 PAGE 9

JED. C. FISHER, depart- ALBERT B. TONKIN, • ment commander of Ne- department commander braska, was born on the Isle of Wyoming, is a physician. of Wight, England, in 1873. He was born in Nevada in His first public schooling 1879, but spent his youth in was at Neuchatel, Switzer- Butte, Montana. While a land, and he completed his senior in Butte High School education at Malvern Col- in 1898 he enlisted in the lege in England. In 1891 First Montana Infantry. and 1892 he taught English Later he was transferred to to students at the Military Hospital Troops, U. S. A., Institute in Wetzlar, Ger- and went to the Philippines, many, after which he trav- where he >articipated in eled for two years through twenty - (toe engagements Spain and France. In 1895 during the insurrection. He he came to the United was graduated from the Uni- States, making his home in versity of Colorado medical Beatrice, Nebraska. Enlist- department in 1904, after ing in the First Machine making a brilliant athletic Gun Company of the Ne- record. He practiced medi- braska National Guard in cine at Riverton, Wyoming, 1909, he served four and one until 1917. In this period half years. In 1917, being he was m; vor of Riverton over the age limit for train- one year and held other pub- ing camp, Mr. Fisher was lic offices. Dr. Tonkin be- recommissioned in the Fifth came chairman of the med- Nebraska Infantry. He com- ical advisory board when pleted a course at the War Col- the Selective Service Law was lege in Washington in July, 1917, put into effect and later was and was in active training with the Who's Who commissioned lieutenant and 134th Infantry at Camp Cody, New promoted to captain in the Med- Mexico, until ordered to France ical Corps. He served at Camp in December, 1917. Mr. Fisher Greenleaf until his discharge. served as zone major at Tonnerre, among Dr. Tonkin was state service of- Yonne, and as liaison officer in the ficer of the Legion during 1921 Troop Movements Section of and 1922. He has served as state French Headquarters at Bar-le- health officer of Wyoming since Duc. He has a son at West Point. Department 1921. Commanders

JOHN LEWIS SMITH is living J proof of the fact that being born in America's political No Man's Land, where the vote is not a birthright, is no handicap. Mr. Smith entered life and the District of Columbia simul- taneously in 1877. Today, as com- mander of the District of Columbia Department of The American Legion, he may look back upon many years of conspicuous service to his fighting comrades of two wars. He was a buck private in the First District of Colum- bia Infantry at the siege and surrender of Santiago in 1898, and was Com- mander-in-Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans in 1913-14. During the World War he was a captain in the JH. WILLIAMS, leatherneck, law- Military Intelligence Division. Mr. ROBERT E. STEINER, command- • yer and land salesman, is the Le- Smith is Commander of George Wash- er of the Department of Alabama, gion's skipper in South Dakota and ington Post. He is a lawyer. was born in a stirring year— 1862. Mr. his department's National Executive Steiner acquired two degrees from the Committee man. Mr. Williams studied University of Alabama, was graduated at the University of Wisconsin and from Harvard Law School with his was graduated from the law school of bachelor's degree in 1884 and began the University of South Dakota in practicing law in his native town of 1913, being admitted to the bar in the Greenville, Alabama. Since 1892 Mr. same year. On New Year's day of Steiner has lived in Montgomery, 1914 Mr. Williams was married in his where his law practice and business in- native town of Gettysburg, South Da- terests have brought him national note. kota. Along came the World War and In 1916, when the portents of America's Mr. Williams obtained a detached- future duty were arousing the country, duty status maritally and enlisted in Mr. Steiner, although not a member of the Marine Corps. He was overseas, the National Guard, raised the First starting for the front as a replacement Alabama Cavalry, a complete regiment, in the Sixth Marines, when the Ar- which was accepted for Federal serv- mistice came. Mr. Williams turned ice and sent to Texas. In March of from law to land after his return to 1917 Mr. Steiner was made brigadier South Dakota. Two husky young re- general of the Alabama Brigade and cruits are now attached to the Wil- subsequently given command of the liams' family for rations, quarters and 62nd Infantry Brigade, 31st Division, training. A. E. F. PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

is a part of the basic law of our land. I also remember the scornful words which were uttered against them when they spoke in favor of woman suffrage; but that, too, has become a part of EDITORIAL our Constitution. All this we have accomplished within a generation with- out the necessity of running an obstinate monarch off a A Sound Piece of Machinery throne. Let every American, therefore, be hopeful. In a world of rapid change, we shall neither be immovable from a man were to attempt to drive IF a racing automobile timidity nor stampeded into rash national experimentations without brakes through a crowded city street, prob- he by the urgings of untried leadership. But, firm in our faith ably would come to a smashing stop before he had gone a of the Constitution, including that clause which permits its block, and his car would be reduced to useless wreckage. amendment when necessary, we face each tomorrow with mighty engine A coupled to high gears—designed only for the spirit of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. high speed—manifestly is ill-fitted for the open highway, no matter how inspiring its triumphs on a ramparted cir- Free Speech Works Both Ways cular racing track. The serviceable automobile is one which has power in reserve to meet any requirement, so flexible ANTI-MILITARIST organizations have aroused the re- that it can travel seventy miles an hour if necessary but sentment of Secretary of War Weeks by protesting able to slow down to less than walking speed as a part of against speeches delivered by army officers, especially Brig. its ordinary performance, and equipped with tires that will Gen. Amos A. Fries, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service! always sustain it and brakes which can bring it to a stop Press dispatches do not relate precisely wherein General in an instant. Fries has given offense; presumably he has urged some The difference between a racing motor car and a good measure of preparedness and explained the activities of his every-day automobile may illustrate by comparison the dif- section. Chemical warfare is unpleasant, and an exposition ference between the fundamental conceptions of vanishing of its terrible possibilities is not likely to arouse in the monarchies and the Constitution of the United States. The average audience a passion to go forth and give battle. road of history is strewn with the wreckage of high-powered But what General Fries is going about saying has noth- governments which ran wild and finally crashed because ing to do with the question. The question of free speech their fundamental law was unmanageable, unadapted equally is not specifically involved, because Secretary Weeks cer- to the slow, easy pace of progress, fast driving and the tainly has some shadow of right to keep generals off public hard-grinding emergencies. The United States, on the other platforms if he deems it in the best interests of the service hand, finds itself still going strong with its century-old to do so. Broadly, however, the question of free speech is engine. True, the carburetor has been remodeled now and involved. then, the brand of spark plugs has been changed periodically Free speech means much more than permitting the and worn brake linings have been replaced. But although radical to say what he wants to say provided he keeps the old eighteenth-century model has been altered a good within certain limitations. It also means permitting the deal, its fundamental structure remains sound and true. rabid reactionary to have his say. A speaker may urge a The explanation for our comparative political success monarchical form of government, with a House of Lords has been the adaptability of our fundamental law to chang- replacing the Senate and the establishment of an American ing conditions. Whenever the people of the United States peerage, if he is willing to have the change come about by have shown by majority action their wishes for a new law constitutional methods. It is the same with that spirit of to meet new conditions, the legislative adjustment has been free religious worship of which we are justly proud—not forthcoming—not always smoothly, it is true, for we have only may Protestant and Catholic and Hebrew worship their seemed dangerously near to the scrap pile on one or two God as their conscience directs them, but anyone may go occasions in our national life, and it took a four-year civil out and establish a brand-new religion if he chooses. war to make one change effective. But always our system The anti-militarist, supposedly representing the liberal of checks and balances has succeeded at each test. Progress element in American thought, should be the last to object to has never been too fast, but progress as a principle has an army officer's saying what he wants to. never failed long. It is this flexibility of our political sys- tem which has been the best guarantee for unity and against A Pro-Boxing Mayor revolutions. And the safeguards of that flexibility, the Honor Comrade John J. Donovan, mayor of Lowell, provisions of the Constitution and the functions of the HIS Massachusetts, is nearly fifty-eight years old, but he operated as they were designed to. Supreme Court, have ever can put on the gloves with the best of them, and he wants Today we are facing new changes in our constitutional the rising generation to be able to do the same. He is law. President and a large section of our national The trying to persuade the school board to make lessons in constitutional amendment to law-making body advocate a boxing a part of the curriculum of the public schools of securities. Other changes check the issuance of tax-exempt Lowell. Mayor Donovan's suggestion has been opposed by change will be considered thor- are also proposed. Each some on the theory that it will make the boys brutal. decisions arrived at will probably be oughly and the when Maybe it will. And maybe proficiency in chemistry tends will be supported by the sentiment of just. At least, they to make safe-blowers. Maybe—but probably not. Mayor that sentiment makes laws and the American people—for Donovan points out that boxing will do for the physique all keeps them. that tennis, baseball and football will do, and, in addition, It was a World War Veteran, Smith W. Brookhart of it will cultivate confidence, courage and self-reliance to an Iowa, who recalled in the United States Senate not long extent not to be acquired from any other ordinary sport. ago just how our fundamental law does change responsive He is right. Boxing, more than anything else, tends to to the will of the people. In a speech before the Senate, cultivate individual courage, as distinguished from mass Senator Brookhart said: courage. The Germans were good fighters—collectively. Then I can remember farther back when we talked of the They had mass courage. But the Germans were not noted power of Congress to levy an income tax. The proposal was con- for individual exploits of distinguished gallantry. And how sidered as radical, and Watson and Weaver and others of the old many German boxers of reputation can you recall? pioneer leaders were derided for the radical views which they ex- Mayor Donovan says all his life. pressed; and yet that has gone into the Constitution of the United he has boxed He was also States. I remember when the election of United States senators a professional ball player in his young days, but at by direct vote of the people was advocated by them, and that view the age of fifty-two he wasn't so old that he couldn't pass met with derision and rebuke on the part of the wise statesmen for forty-five and enlist in the Fourteenth Engineers. He of the generation; but now that is likewise a part of the Con- took part in five major operations, was twice wounded stitution of our country. I can remember when they also advo- and cated prohibition and were described as belonging to the class of discharged as a sergeant. Any kid should be willing to long-haired men and short-haired women, and yet today prohibition take a chance on the advice of the man who did that. —

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Why Join IfPf the Legion?

MEMBERSHIP in any organiza- By Major General Hunter Liggett tion, participation in any ac- tion under the sun, from mobilization to matrimony, /GENERAL LIGGETT knows why involves responsibility. You give some- \-JT he joined the Legion—in spite thing yourself and receive something in of his retirement from the Army he return. When a man joins The Amer- wanted to continue in the active service ican Legion he enters an entangling of his country. Today his work for alliance. He gives of his personality the Legion has taken the highly prac- to the common cause and he takes on tical form of the chairmanship of the some of the characteristics of the San Francisco Convention Committee crowd. that is making arrangements for the If he and several hundred thousand Fifth National Convention of the Le- of his comrades believe in, say, ade- gion next October. Hunter Liggett was quate military preparedness, the or- born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1857 ganization borrows that belief and and was graduated from West Point in makes it its own. On the other hand, 1879. A list of the grades he has held, if the Legion commits itself to a fin- the outfits he has been with, and the ish fight for the disabled, every single campaigns in which he has participated Legion man becomes, in the public mind, would fill most of this page—suffice it a champion of that cause. to say that after thirty-eight years of This responsibility of partnership honorable service the World War saw cannot be dodged. Every member real- him put in command of the 41st Divi- izes its existence when he pins the but- sion, then of the First Corps, and sub- ton on his coat lapel. Is it worth while? sequently, as lieutenant-general of the Is there an incentive for the veteran Fh'st Army in the days of its hardest of the World War to give of himself and most effective fighting. From May to this aggregate personality and to re- 1 to July 2, 1919, General Liggett ceive back from it certain prerogatives commanded the Third Army on the and duties, a certain added reputation? Rhine. Returning to the States, he Personally, I believe it is very much became commander of the Western worth while to contribute my one more Department of the Army, with head- voice to this composite voice of Ameri- quarters at San Francisco, and on ca's militant youth. I am proud and March 21, 1921, was retired with the glad to accept, as part of my own repu- rank of major general. tation, the reputation of the Legion. Yet I can understand, I think, why only one eligible man in five belongs. It is force derives from every single one of the same reason that compels a cer- the members. Boys of twenty-five are tain chewing-gum manufacturer to taking a keen interest in civic and na- keep spending a million dollars a year tional affairs, are thinking their own on advertising, the same reason that thoughts and saying what they think, people fail to pay on time their makes who a generation ago would have been insurance premiums and income tax content to leave the thinking and the returns, the reason that licked Na- Denim instead of O. D. serge, a doing to their elders. poleon at Waterloo and licks thousands hammer instead of a riding crop The sense of responsibility is per- of young men in business every year. that is General Liggett's uniform sonal. The war taught that. Our Plain old mental inertia. when he enlists in a carpenters' American strategy, the Allied strategy, How many times have you read an detail to help put San Francisco was based on the initiative of the in- alluring advertisement that fairly Post's clubrooms in shape dividual. We taught discipline, but we forced you to buy? were inter- You left each man self-reliant. We told ested in the article, you needed it and him, "Do this; but it is up to you how you could afford it and all you had to the average age of your Legionnaire is it is to be done." We gave orders but do was clip a coupon off the corner of still under thirty—to take part in not directions. We mapped out army a page, stick it in an envelope and mail world affairs as no young man ever objectives but left the details of the it. Yet you procrastinated. before in history has been able to do. assault to the squad leader. It was a Perhaps ten percent of ex-service This is the age of youth. Up to ten sergeant's and a corporal's war. We men, estimating liberally, who stay out years ago middle age and senescence excelled in open fighting, where each for of the Legion do so some positive ruled with a rod of iron. In mid-Vic- doughboy had to use his own brains. reason dislike of post officers, dissatis- — torian times the statesman ripened How often all of us have read, in faction at some policy, inability to pay slowly. The business man served a citations for conspicuous gallantry, the dues. The other ninety percent of long apprenticeship. The young man how one man, colonel or corporal, found the absentees are not Legion members kept quiet, listened and obeyed. Civil- an attack held up, divined the reason, simply because they cannot bring ization had been built on this founda- solved the problem himself and there- themselves to the point of actually de- tion and few questioned its solidity. by assured the success of the regiment voting a certain minute to filling out Then came the greatest of all wars, and the division and the corps. It an application blank, to writing a and statesmen floundered and were wasn't shoulder-to-shoulder stuff, such money order check. or a dismayed to find that their rules were as the German soldier counted on. It I can think of a hundred positive only theories. Youth, the soldier, had wasn't mob bravery. It was each man reasons that move me past the inertia to come to their rescue. Youth paid contributing all of himself, by himself, point, that prompt me to send in my with its blood for the mistakes of its for the common cause—the man in the Legion dues. Some of the reasons are elders, and youth knew it was paying assault trench, the man on watch on purely personal : I like the men in my and resolved to remedy things after the patrol boat, the man unloading post; I value the feeling of association the war. beef at Bordeaux. with other in members all parts of the The young men of all nations are to- The Lost Battalion held out because world; I am proud that the sun never day taking a hand in affairs. Their each man of that outfit had an indi- sets on the emblem. But there are cer- war service makes up for their lack of vidual will to hold out. There was tain fundamental reasons that should years. The elder statesmen must nothing to prevent single men from be to all common ex-service men. listen. giving themselves up, but the indi- Chief of these, I think, is opportun- The young men of the Legion are a viduals willed themselves to endure ity; the chance for the young man—for positive force in American life, and the (Continued on page 29) —

PAGE 12 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY A. E. F. Flasjibacks—The Rendezvous By Wallgren

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APRIL 27, 1923 PAGE 13 Keeping Step with the Legion

Address all communications to this department to The Step Keeper, National Headquarters Bureau, The American Legion Weekly, Indianapolis, Indiana

Post are convinced that The American Legion needs publicity; but only publicity Getting Them which will convince all classes that The Attendance Ahoy! American Legion is in reality a community building organization. Roosevelt Post is DELINQUENTS still exist. The ALBERT YOGG of Rochester, New always active in constructive measures and Legion is still scurrying after York, must be a former gob. At the resulting publicity is not based on mere 1922 members who haven't renewed for least he belongs to a gob outfit—Milton talk but on real action. 1923. And while the chase is on, per- L. Lewis Post of Rochester—and he Hand in hand with the member-getting haps it will be worth while to talk advanced an idea for stimulating at- stunts, member-holding stunts con- about some methods of getting them must be tendance at navy posts. After reading sidered and not overlooked. The safest in, old members and eligibles who never Sailor Yogg's letter it occurred to the member-holding stunt is controlled by the have been members. That's the gist of Step Keeper that sailors in all posts post officers. It is necessary to conduct all a letter from Edward 0. Harrs, first might be able to give the soldiers a meetings- promptly in accordance with vice-commander of Quentin Roosevelt and good time by trying one of the Lewis rules and regulations. Roosevelt Post Post of St. Louis, Missouri, who at- Post ideas on them. Hence, if the gobs tached a statement telling how Roose- meetings are convened promptly at 8:15. around your headquarters begin shout- All business is dispatched according to the velt Post does it: ing for action, maybe they'll consent to regulations and by-laws. The American put on something like the following, as Bronze and silver discharge buttons mean Legion Ritual is followed in due form. told by Yogg: eligibles for membership in The American Good speakers are invited, a variety of en- Legion. This thought inspired Adjutant tertainment is planned and eats are sup- Our post had its troubles with non-at- Albert F. Kammann to plan novel informa- plied by our Auxiliary. Those who wish tendance at meetings, until one grizzled old tion cards which have corralled many new may trip the light fantastic to the tuneful tar got up on his feet and suggested some members for Quentin Roosevelt Post. The strains of our post orchestra. form of stunt for every meeting along the ex-service men generally have again be- lines of an initiation. After many argu- come inoculated with the work bug. Ev- ments for and against it, they decided on an old naval tradition, namely, "crossing eryone is too busy to stop, look or listen to Stolen Jewels any long-winded discourses on The Amer- the line." Every meeting night ten mem- ican Legion. The knockout blow to apathy bers were issued subpoenas which read as and the Eureka for getting new members GLANCING over at a desk on which follows: was found in the "Hello, Buddy" cards, was located a pile of copy marked "Report of the Board of Inspection con- which give a brief resume of The American "Hats Off," the Step Keeper's eye cerning Milton L. Lewis Post, The Ameri- Legion—its organization, its principles and lighted on a letter from James P. Law- can Legion, Rochester, N. Y. purposes. ler, acting commander of Robert W. "Subpoena: This is how the cards are used and made Bracken Post of Bristol, Pennsylvania. "Whereas, It having been brought to the effective. Roosevelt Post members when on The letter said that Bracken Post attention of his most exalted Majesty, Nep- the street, on a car, in the theater or at a thought the Weekly ought to take its tunus Rex, that the membership of the ball game, upon seeing a discharge button hat off to Bracken Post "for making above-named post of The American Legion in the lapel of a coat, quietly slip a card the installation of its officers the occa- is made up of worthy gobs who served to the proud wearer. The card is pre- sion for a community rally and mem- faithfully during the late World War, the sented with this statement, "Read it during bership drive. Peppy patriotic speeches Mighty King of the Deep has decided to your leisure time." The startled veteran's by department Legion officials, a high- journey to the above named city and to frown invariably changes to a smile of class entertainment by professionals establish his Court at the headquarters of acknowledgment when he reads the saluta- and the serving of chow all followed said post. tion of comradeship, "Hello, Buddy." The the installation." The item was con- "In looking over the High Royal Roster, card goes into the veteran's pocket, but for fiscated. The Step Keeper's hat is off we have come to the conclusion that it is only a few moments. Out comes the card. to Bracken Post. And it will go off time for the wonderful nautical soul of It is read carefully and with thought. An again for further ideas to make instal- JOHN SAILOR attached post-card is filled in and signed. lations and such Legion events popular. to appear before the High Tribunal of Thus a new member is added to the roll Neptune. of The American Legion. "Resolved, That we demand the presence of the above in body, mind and soul at Another successful member-getting stunt A Stopping-off Place was recently originated. It is a 7x11 the next regular meeting of Milton L. poster with the picture of a doughboy Lewis Post and then and there to give an pointing his finger to the reader with the IF you take the southern route to the account of his life and render unto the following inscription Fifth National Convention at San High Court and Royal Sign of Neptune everlasting that is them. "A reminder—to all Legionnaires. A Francisco this fall, maybe you'll want the respect due warning—to U. S. foes within. An invita- to stop off at Las Vegas, New Mexico. FAIL NOT. tion—to eligible veterans." At least, the Las Vegas Chamber of "SCRUBANDWASHCLOTHES, The bold headline is followed by the Pre- Commerce has written in asking who "Lord High Executioner. amble of The American Legion Constitu- would be going to San Francisco and "HOLYSTONEDECKS, tion, below which is printed an invitation who would like to stop off. Which re- "Chief Clerk." to become a member of Quentin Roosevelt minded the Step Keeper that he asked, Post, the first post organized in The Amer- some time ago, for information about On the night of the meeting the ten men ican Legion. The statement, "You Are Al- plans of Legionnaires on getting to would appear and the degree team took ways Welcome at Our Meetings" also the convention. The Step Keeper still them across the line after many hair-raising serves its purpose in attracting many visi- wants to know that, and now he wants escapes from the ferocious sea-lion, wild tors to our meetings. The posters are to know also if your post plans special sea-horses, mermaids, sharks and the court placed in all public places, downtown, up- entertainment for stop-overs from the barber. Needless to say, these ten men town and in the offices of members. The East who may drop in at your town on would attend the following meeting to officers and members of Quentin Roosevelt the way out or back. {Continued on page 21) — —

PAGE 14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Things That They Won't Forget

Three O'Clock and All's Well Some people may have adopted An Unfinished Smoke a forget-the-war attitude, but the rpHERE were AT about three Weekly can assure veterans of an in- o'clock on terested and sympathetic audience. 1 126 of us at Pontane- the morning of Tell the Thrill Editor, 627 West JtSd Camp zen anxiously July 4, 1918, Street, New York City, your un- waiting while I was do- forgettable experience. Unavail- for a transport. ing sentry duty able letters cannot be returned. We at Camp Grant, were going through appar- I got the great- visitor had a rifle pressed to his shoul- e n 1 1 endless est shock of my der. For one fleeting moment my nerve- y 1 i f e — and, of inspections and ends tingled—and then I guessed the delousings. course, my truth. I was on the verge of slaughter- greatest thrill. ing my own shadow. Ernest T. Throm Among many other rumors I was walk- (Co. D, 311 Engrs., 86th Div.), Win- we 7% heard of all ing post for the ger, Minn. had first time. sorts of dire Around me lay some warehouses, located Face to Face things that had in the 341st Infantry area. I had re- happened to companies or individuals lieved the sentry of the first watch at I WAS in the old American Field Serv- who were unfortunate enough to over- two o'clock, from which time I did my ice attached to the French Army step some of the regulations of the best to walk my post in a military man- in 1917. We were operating with the M.P.'s. Not the least of these penal- ner. The sergeant of the guard had 46eme division of Chasseurs Alpin, and ties, according to rumor, was six months tipped us off that the 0. D. would cer- were up on the Chemin des Dames at with a labor battalion. tainly pay us at least one visit, and I Craonne. As any Frenchman can tell I think it happened on the first trip wanted to be ready for him. you, this was a warm spot on the map. to the delousing plant. We were com- An hour went by and no officer of the But as far as a close first hand view of ing from a side street on to the main day appeared on the scene. Then came the Boches was concerned, I hadn't had drag. On the corner was a mounted the thrill. I had just come to the end any. officer with a blue armband. When I of one warehouse and started along the One day I fell in with a French artil- came opposite him he called loudly to north side of the other three. The moon lery officer who offered to take me on a some one. Not thinking he meant me, was in the sky, but I was in a deep tour of the front lines. We reached a I kept on. Then he called again and shadow. As I stepped out into the light point where the trenches were only pointed his finger at me. I immediately a figure standing beside a water barrel thirty yards apart, and there wasn't any fell out and came to attention. And began walking away from me. He was gentleman's agreement about anything. these words were flung at me: "Throw distinctly visible. I executed a snappy When we got safely into the obser- that cigarette away. Didn't that cap- port arms and challenged according to vation post, and were squatting in the tain call this detail to attention? the I. D. R. The stranger didn't answer. bottom waiting for his battery to open, Double-time to the head of the column Then I started toward him. He re- I asked him how far we were from the and inform the captain to call this Boches. He said I'd better look and detail to attention when on the main "Halt! Who's there?" I yelled two see. So I pulled my casque well down street." or three times. Still no reply. So I over my eyes and peeped over the edge. I never stopped to answer his ques- began to run. The figure ran too. There And say, not ten feet away was a Boche tion, but double-timed to the head of was but one thing to do, and I did it. doing what I was doing, and we looked the column as fast as my legs would I slipped a few cartridges into my rifle, each other right in the eye. I ducked carry me. All I could think of was six took careful aim and prepared to fire. and so did he. I shortly found reason months more in France, and what my Strange to relate, the mysterious to get out of that place, for I felt as lot would be should I be the innocent stranger had halted, too, and was ap- though he might toss a grenade over to cause of the entire company's having parently waiting for me. I did not show his friendly feeling. It was a real to put in half a year with a labor bat- shoot but took one step forward. The thrill, and although afterward I had talion. I was not fully relieved till we figure, too, moved away one step. I many others, it was the one that left had safely left the harbor of Brest ten took another. So did the figure. Then, the most crinkles in my backbone. days later. — F. C. Kreig, Billings, to my horror, I saw that the nocturnal Carl C. Magee, Jr., Quay, Okla. Mont.

The Private Who Knew How to Salute

\/f Y greatest war thrill? 'Tis hard to decide from wires leading to the front, and efforts to establish among so many as befell a division commander communications with the front line by orderly officers during the exciting days of the Meuse-Argonne. The and runners proved unavailing. And thus the morn- green division, containing sixty percent of men with ing hours wore away under intense anxiety amid but six weeks' training, had gone over the top in the recurring downpours of rain and to the accompani- gray dawn of September 26th against the frowning ment of a Boche high- shell which burst with and sinister height of Montfaucon, which so strongly great regularity on the Malancourt cross-road. dominated the line of advance between the valleys of Shortly after noon a khaki-clad, mud-bespattered the Meuse and the Aire. Struggling valiantly for- and breathless little private emerged from the ruins ward over kilometers of terrain literally honeycombed of Malancourt on a dog trot. Halting before the with shell craters accumulated during four years of division commander with as snappy a salute as was war, the front line of the division reached the glacis- ever witnessed on a parade ground, he handed over like slopes leading to the summit, to be checked at a slip of paper. It was a message from the colonel nightfall by a bristling array of Boche machine guns. of the 313th Infantry reporting the capture of Mont- Dawn of September 27th found the division com- faucon and the forward movement of his regiment to mander at his advanced command post on the road- the next objective. Was it a thrill? You may well side in Malancourt. All roads were jammed with the believe it was! Joseph E. Kuhn, Brig. Gen., U.S.A. artillery and trains of several divisions seeking to (former commanding general, 79th Division), Sco- advance. Tanks and enemy shell-fire had cut all field Barracks, T. H. APRIL 27, 1923 PAGE IS Tour Home Town Cleaning Up and Keeping Clean

T is an encouraging indication of in- By Harold S. Buttenheim tent general and a well-selected staff. I creased pride in the appearance of Volunteer recruits were used, with the F.ditor, The American City Magazine his city and also of his own grounds on able assistance of auxiliary troops from the part of the average citizen that over the Boy Scouts. The city was divided 7,000 communities in the United States into five districts, each assigned to a disposal of all garbage and refuse, (4) the held clean-up campaigns in 1922. Some division commander. Each division com- promotion of cleanliness, (5) furthering of these campaigns were spasmodic at- mander selected five aids. Several pho- fire prevention, (6) stimulating civic pride, tempts with little effort at follow-up tograph copies were made of the city (7) making the home city beautiful. work, but many cities and towns are map, each division commander retain- NOW therefore be it known that in keep- making the clean-up campaign an es- ing one for his personal use and cutting ing with the above plan, this proclamation tablished part of their municipal pro- up another into divisions for his aids. is issued for a thorough clean-up cam- gram. A good example is Boston, where The aids enlisted the Boy Scouts and paign at Sapulpa, Oklahoma, beginning on the clean-up is an annual affair with other necessary help. Wednesday, May 10, ending on Wednes- two weeks of publicity and two weeks Instructions and a questionnaire day, May 17, the above dates to mark the of actual clean-up. Great interest is were left in every house by the Boy beginning of persistent and constructive ef- shown throughout the whole State of Scouts, who also saw that the question- forts in this worthy movement; that the Massachusetts, and indeed throughout naire was filled out and promptly re- city officers will lend every possible support, all New England. The New England turned. Approximately 2,000 of these and we urge each citizen to do his part in Clean-up and Paint-up Campaign Com- reached the Chamber of Commerce this all-important campaign. Special at- mittee offers a $500 silver loving cup within the week. The first set of ques- tention is called to the ordinances regard- an annual prize to the cleanest tions had to do with the elimination of as ing health and sanitary conditions, which town in New England. Boston won the flies. Here is a selection: must in all events be complied with. five years ago; since then the Is there a stable? For horses? For cup (Signed) H. A. M'Cauley, Mayor. cows? smaller cities have captured the prize. How is manure cared for? J. C. Manning, City Manager. St. Louis, also, has a well-organized Is garbage kept in a covered receptacle? spring clean-up campaign, and as in The committee arranged for a "Fly How often disposed of? every case where the work is success- and Mosquito Edition," a "Garbage Is there a toilet not connected with the ful, plenty of time is given to effective Edition" and one aptly called an "Ap- sewer ? publicity before the actual clean-up peal to Reason." The double spread Is the same properly closed or screened? work begins. It is useless for a town was given by the newspaper at halt How often cleaned ? expect good results from a hasty, rate; the ads were sold at full rate, to The questions which follow were di- poorly organized effort. "A 'day' is which yielded enough money to provide rected against the mosquito: merely pathetic, and a 'week' is hardly for hire to load trucks and haul gar- Is there any place where water is stand- long enough to make even a fair start," bage. The trucks and drivers were fur- ing or might stand ? says the editor of the 1923 spring "ex- nished by firms voluntarily. Does water stand in street or alley? tra" of Spotless Town News, published This same publicity committee also Do they agree to smash or punch holes the National Clean-Up and Paint-Up arranged for clean-up display in win- by in empty cans? Campaign Bureau of St. Louis. dows in the business district, clean- Are there open rain barrels or other very good, example of how to or- films in the theaters, and clean-up A up water receptacles? ganize a campaign in a small city is pamphlets, cartoons and speakers in all Do they agree to prevent mosquitoes from furnished by what was done in 1922 in the schools. Wherever Sapulpans went propagating in them? Sapulpa, Oklahoma. A strong publicity that week of May 10th they were fol- Is there a basement or cellar which committee was appointed which in- lowed by clean-up suggestions. is damp or contains water? cluded the manager and editor of the As to organization, to begin with, the local paper. This committee adopted Chamber of Commerce was selected as The replies to these questions gave the plan of using two-page spreads in headquarters, and the first important the general and his staff valuable in- the newspaper in advance of e'ean-up step was the appointment of a compe- formation for use in conducting the week for which they campaign and were collected advertising. also preserved as a An example of their record for future refer- work is the following ence. "proclamation" which The instructions were appeared one May printed under five head- morning in large type ings: Premises, build- in their local paper and ings, garbage, stables, startled the Sapulpans miscellaneous. Under out of any civic sleep "Premises" the citizens they might have fallen were instructed to into. (1) Remove all rubbish Why Die Before Thy from cellar and back yard. Time? Clean Up, Burn (2) Provide for ade- Up, Haul Out, Paint Up, quate drainage for yards Keep It Up. Know All and alleys. Good Citizens by These (3) Fill up all holes Presents: and low places. THAT WHEREAS an an- (4) Whitewash or paint nual city clean-up cam- all board fences. paign has contributed (5) Cut, rake and burn material benefits to every weeds on vacant lots. city, and (6) Cut grass from all De Queen, Arkansas, declared war on mosquitoes. Charles E. sidewalks. WHEREAS the Sapulpa Brown Post of the Legion, hearing the war was on, shipped (7) Clean vacant lots Chamber of Commerce over. Hostilities lasted two days. The picture shows De of decaying and refuse has instituted a clean-up Legionnaires the sitting tire is Queen — party on the Post material. campaign for the purpose Commander Gordon Carlton—returning from enemy territory of (1) safe-guarding with a load of captured material. Brown Post conducted the Under "Garbage" were health, (2) elimination of war by cleaning the rubbish out of town, thereby depriving the the following: flies and mosquitoes, (3) mosquitoes of food and lodging (Cont'd on page 24) •

PAGE 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY A Post That Gave Its Own Auto Show

By Vere J. Banks Commander, George N. Kemp Post, The American Legion, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

A NEW garage had been built in our l\ town. Its shiny plate-glass win- dows, its red brick and white mortar freshness, simply clamored for atten- Dealers drew lots for space positions in Stroudsburg's first auto show— tion. That garage fascinated George a Legion-inspired and Legion-managed affair N. Kemp Post of Stroudsburg, always looking for the right kind of way to cars and accessory spaces alike. Fifteen husky Legionnaires attacked make money. Without hesitation the local chamber the new garage the evening before the Someone said "auto show." of commerce, board of trade, mer- show opened and within a few hours Auto Show it was from that moment. chants' association and other organiza- transformed it from a rough, newly- The idea fired the post's imagination tions endorsed the show and prepared completed structure into a colorful and the whole town blazed into spirit to assist in every way they could. bower of flags and bunting. The next behind us. Stroudsburg had never had Local newspapers fell right into the morning every car was placed in its an auto show. There had never been scheme. They had the show before space between 7 a. m. and noon, as re- one in our county. Everybody wanted every reader in the county several quired by the schedule furnished each one, we found out. We gave it to them. weeks before it took place. Each of dealer. The afternoon was spent in The way we did it, incidentally clearing the two live little papers put out special arranging displays, and the show more than a thousand dollars for our Legion Auto Show editions on the open- opened in the evening with a fifty-piece post treasury and adding more than ing day of the show. Considerable Elks' band hitting it up to suit the can be measured by dollars to our com- money was to be made through this occasion. Of course there was a formal munity's good will toward us, may in- auto advertising. At first the post opening—speaking and all that. spire other posts whose problems are planned to take over the special show A small door admission was charged like our own. We found a need. We editions, but later the plan was aban- to keep children from overrunning the supplied it. There must be other doned and the papers developed it. showrooms. Men of the post conducted towns, no larger than ours, where an Their excellent co-operation and pre- a canteen which sold smokes, ice cream American Legion Auto Show is needed. liminary writeups sprinkled liberally and miscellaneous tidbits that crowds The auto show season has now passed, throughout the papers for three weeks always buy while treating their eyes. but this is not too late to begin plan- helped tremendously. So the newspa- With the thermometer registering ning a show for next year—January, pers received good pay for their trouble zero the show was visited by over fif- February and March are the usual and were more than satisfied. teen hundred persons. When the visitor months. I shall tell in detail how we walked into this show he was permitted put on our show. to feast his admiring eyes to a once- We sent letters to each automobile over of $81,534 worth of high-grade and accessory dealer in the county, cars and accessories arranged in a telling him that the Legion Auto Show manner that brought forth surprised would be held in the new garage Feb- smiles and expressions of commenda- ruary 14th to 17th. We sent him a tion. schedule of the show's rules and invited A survey of the dealers after the him to make an exhibit. We followed show proved that every car exhibitor up our letters with a personal visit. had sold at least one car. The average The dealers signed contracts for the was from one to six immediate sales, space they required and each deposited with from ten to fifteen promising ten dollars to bind his agreement. All prospective sales in view. One dealer but two dealers in the county came in. made six sales outright and listed fifty- The owner of the garage signed an seven excellent prospects. On the clos- agreement of rental, thus placing our ing evening this dealer sold a big Cadil- arrangements beyond outside interfer- lac sedan, which brought about the end ence. On the third night before the of a perfect day for him. Every ex- show opened the dealers assembled at hibitor was certain the show had proved the garage and drew for exhibition to be the best advertising medium he position. Accessory dealers were not had ever struck. entitled to this drawing privilege, but Total receipts for the post were were satisfied to take what was left $1,801.37. Expenditures were $784.74, after the auto dealers had selected their and the net profit $1,016.63. Besides ' spaces. this the post gained thirty-six brand T'he three floors, ninety-six by forty- new members, won the praise of the eight feet each, were marked off into entire community and placed itself in sixteen and one-half by eight foot the ring for conducting the county's spaces. A rental of twenty-five dollars The sign at the entrance told what annual auto show of the future. Ar- for one space and twenty dollars for was going on inside and who was rangements are already completed for each additional space was charged, for behind it the Legion Auto Show of next season. APRIL 27, 1923 PAGE 17 Making the Legion a Social Asset

Dancing isn't the only activity at Bowman's parties

MOTHER, may I got out to dance?" Post of the Legion, realizing these con- by the youngsters themselves were actu- "No, my darling daughter. The ditions, saw an opportunity to be of ally far more strict than any the Le- dance hall's filled with rowdy boys and service. The post offered the use of the gionnaires had in mind. That this code I don't think you oughter." Legion building to high-school students was drawn up in good faith and that it Such used to be the parlous state of for their dances and parties. It was was effectively enforced by the public affairs in Bowman, North Dakota. Bow- provided that the dances were to be held spirit among the students is evidenced man is one of the many agricultural not oftener than twice a month, from by the fact that there has been only one towns of the West in which the prin- eight to eleven p. m., that they were to instance of an infraction of the rules, cipal social activity of the young people be conducted by a committee of high- and that a slight one. is dancing, and in which this recreation school students under rules made and The committee representing the post is provided only by the public dance. enforced by themselves and that they kept in the background as much as pos- Unfortunately there used to be a few were to be supervised and chaperoned sible. The 'Legionnaires felt that their individuals who liked to bring moon- by members of the Legion post, the job was not to act as M.P.'s but rather shine to the dances. Rowdyism fol- school faculty and parents. The re- to offer their moral support to the lowed, in spite of the vigilance of dance striction as to hours and frequency of youngsters. Parents and teachers were managers. dances was designed to forestall any urged to attend, and when they came Formerly the high-school students criticism as to interference with school were made to feel welcome. The chap- were compelled to hold their dances in work and to permit even the younger erones included at least one married the public dance hall, this being the members of the school to attend. Par- couple at each dance, in many cases only place available. Many attended ties restricted to special groups and parents of the dancers. who were not connected with the school. cliques were not approved. The post members feel that the re- This made adequate chaperonage and A committee of five students appoint- sults attained have more than compen- supervision impossible, with the result ed by the school superintendent, includ- sated them for the work and trouble that many parents hesitated to permit ing both boys and girls, drew up a set involved. The increased regard of the their sons and daughters to attend the of rules to govern the dances, which boys and girls for the post and its in- high-school dances. were submitted to the Legion committee dividual members is a pleasant fea- The members of Frank Gordhamer for approval. The rules thus prepared ture.

A Fifteen-Acre Memorial Playground

FLUSHING, Long Island, is part of Flushing men and women who gave their pleted—it is now ready for baseball New York City. Once a rural lives in the war testifies to the post's and football games—will be one of the town, it looks forward to the time when efforts, and a large flagpole presented most notable memorials in America. It it will become an indistinguishable part by the post stands at the entrance to consists of two main sections, one a of the metropolis. Flushing several the field. The field itself, when com- five-acre athletic field with track, base- years ago began ball and football wondering what it grounds and would do for its grandstand, in- play and sports closed within a when that day ar- concrete wall, the rived. As a result, other a public play- this fifteen - acre ground. A mem- memorial field has bership corporation been created out of has been formed one of the few re- to take title to the in a i n i n g large field, and control tracts of land. Wil- has been vested liam A. Leonard in the hands of Post of the Legion fifteen directors, assured the success of whom five are of this project by members of Leon- conducting a can- ard Post. The sec- vass to raise a retary of the cor- large part of the poration is Henry funds necessary B. Oatley, past and obtained $25,- commander of the 000 within a month. post. The post has A bronze tablet organized a base- bearing the names ball team to play of the sixty-eight How the Flushing memorial will look when completed every Saturday. PAGE 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

Choosing a War Memorial Site

(Continued from page 7)

squarely on the sidewalk, I suppose, The best memorial in the world, the racy, and that is the only message because the committee wanted a con- best work of Michael Angelo, could not which it is necessary to send down the spicuous site on Fifth Avenue. But the stand repetition forty-five times. The years. The addition of your name and fact is, it is not particularly conspicu- program smacks more of politics than mine and a thousand others will not

ous ; one has to cross the avenue to of art. strengthen it a bit; in fact, they will view it over the tops of buses. In The pamphlet on war memorials is- mar the monument, and by so much will shoving it close to the sidewalk the sued by the Commission of Fine Arts they weaken the message. committee succeeded chiefly in placing it at Washington says: "If attempt is There is a beautiful memorial by St. where boys could clamber over it and made to secure novelty, striking effect, Gaudens in Washington which, while it steal the saber chains, which they did. and what is popularly called 'original- bears no name to identify it, is known Such a monument as this does not ity,' the result will not be permanently the world over as the Adams Memo- have to be placed on a street or a pleasing. The next generation will rial. No man can view it and not be corner. People would go to see it, wher- find the thing a burden and vexatious, moved, and no man can view it and ever its site. and will seek to rid themselves of the not carry away a lasting impression. incubus. Individuality and distinction It is so situated that one needs a. guide How Washington Has Suffered are to be sought, and these are the to find it, even when within a hundred THE city of Washington suffered as elements that the artist alone can fur- feet of it, yet few leave Washington did New York before the Federal nish." without seeing it, and many have gone Art Commission was appointed to watch A printed announcement of the state to the capital for that sole purpose. over it. Any state or committee had but plan I have just referred to says that A Great Work of Art to ask for a certain site and it was each county is getting a $10,000 figure granted regardless of the design. So for $3,250. It boasts of this job-lot PERHAPS you ask the reason for we find monuments all out of scale to method as being a means of making the this. First, the Adams Memorial is their surroundings, towering above us State's contribution to art "the most r great work of art. Next, it is a in almost every open space. The worst unique and complete memorial of any shrine. Finally, one is so impressed by example of overloading a small place State honoring their men in service." its setting, its' great simplicity, its utter with memorial art is to be found in Again, this pamphlet says that "rightly lack of ostentation, that the memory is Lafayette Park, the little square di- the boys who saw service are leaving indelibly impressed. The entire effect rectly in front of the White House. It the erection of a memorial to a grate- was brought about by the highly devel- contains five husky monuments—the ful public." I hope the "boys" won't oped powers and gifts of the sculptor, center and all four corners filled. Can leave this plan entirely to the minds not only as a craftsman but as an artist. you imagine the French permitting that conceived it and seem bent on car- The same figure, beautiful as it is, anything like that? rying it out. It is an atrocious project, would be entirely lost if placed, like Paris, by the way, has few misplaced and somehow it should be thwarted. Admiral Farragut, in the center of monuments. As a rule her public art New York's hurly-burly. Many would Are We in the What-Not Stage? seems not to have been placed at all; it pass it by unseeing, and none would be looks as though it just naturally grew a people we are intensely senti- moved as they are moved in that quiet there in all its beauty and fitness. The ASmental and have a passionate love spot near Washington. one exception that comes to my mind of nature and all her marvels. Artistic- The artist possesses a strong though was, I think, prompted by some senti- ally we are but slightly removed from latent talent along all the lines of the mental Americans who wanted the the days of the what-not in the corner, kindred arts; that is, in the case of the statue of Lafayette which was pre- littered with natural oddities, clam sculptor, he is able to create an atmos- sented to France by our school children shells, coral branches and the wax flow- phere around his figure, as well as give placed in front of the Louvre. There ers under glass. We still manifest that it a soul and seeming life. it stands, with the Gambetta monument primitive desire to place all our treas- Edwin A. Abbey has in his illustra- directly in front of it. Both are good ures on the mantel, that all visitors tions of Shakespeare and in his decora- monuments, but neither can give its full may see them. tive panels of the legend of the Holy measure of beauty because of the near- We pile our monuments along our Grail in Boston accomplished all that ness of the other ; the scale of each is busiest streets, at our most conspicu- the actor Could do and more. He is in conflict in every detail with the other. ous corners; we strew them around our stage manager, actor in all the parts, It must be remembered that it is com- public buildings as Philadelphia has from star to mob. He is scenic artist, paratively easy to obtain a site; and strewn so many around her city hall. property man and electrician, all rolled once your memorial is up, future gen- Related to this practice is our pres- into one. erations must accept it as you placed ent custom of carving our memorials There are hundreds of instances that it. It is a much more difficult problem with names. I want to say just a word would demonstrate how the artist has to move a monument because it is an about it before passing on to the 'sub- studied his site, as he has the deed or expensive undertaking, and usually, the ject of site. event that his conception is to repre-^ spirit is lacking. When you came home from service, sent, and made them all inseparable There is, as I have said before, no very likely you saw that a roll of honor that we get the wonderful result of hard and fast rule to follow in the mat- had been erected near the post office or magnificent art. Go back in the past ter of selecting a site; except that the the city hall or in the assembly hall of as far as you will and you will find that matter should be placed entirely in the your old school. On it were the names the artist has not only written history hands of a competent advisor or ad- of all the men that had put on olive in imperishable beauty, but has given visors. drab and blue. Your name was among life and soul to the faiths, aspirations, The cities and states which now have them, and you felt a little proud when legions and personalities of the world. art commissions are safe for the fu- you saw it spelled out. Which was a In every instance where his achieve- ture, but many artistic blunders are perfectly proper emotion, just as the ment has become surpassingly beauti- about to be committed, I fear, by those honor roll was a proper memorial as a ful you will find that he, the artist, coo proud to accept advice. temporary affair. chose the site, and then through his Could anything be more absurd than It is not proper, it is not good art, trained fingers on canvas or stone the action taken by one State Legisla- to carry the honor roll over into per- flowed that spark which moves the be- ture, one which passed a law "provid- manent memorials. In a hundred years holder through the centuries. He it is ing that the memorials of all counties no one is going to remember you and that makes memory immortaL For shall be alike in character"? They me; but that generation will remember remember that "what shall be done is claim that "it is a patriotic service for whether an otherwise beautiful memo- less important than the manner in each county to help realize this unique rial is, in effect, hacked to pieces by which it is done." and excellent program for adequate the carving of a thousand unknown commemoration of the achievements of words. What that memorial says to (In a third article in a succeeding is-' their boys in the World War." There the future is that the men of a certain sue Mr. Aitken will discuss several suit- are forty-five counties in this State. locality offered their lives for«democ- able types of World War memorials.) ! — —

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The Viaduct Gang

(Continued from page 4)

at my whistle. I blew—the signal of and woman who were the proprietors in the street at the front. Drawing the military police, D.C.I., and Intelli- shrugged their shoulders and denied their pistols, the Frenchmen ordered gence Department when help was want- that they had ever seen an American all the guests to line up. One man ed. A bullet cut past me and I heard in their place. remained to guard them. The rest of running steps. They were after me. We examined the cafe. In the cellar us hurried upstairs. I pounded along the street to the first we came upon boxes of American tinned We reached a barred door at the intersection and into it. It was scarcely beef and, by digging in the haymow top. Just as we touched its knob more than an alley, tilted up nearly to of the stable discovered a quantity of glass crashed, seemingly from within the moon. But I ran, blowing the other foods and several barrels of the room. whistle repeatedly. I had gone prob- sugar. But here was only a scant We went on confidently. Our guards ably a hundred yards when another shot three hundred dollars' worth of stolen in the street, in front and back, would sounded from the end of the street. I property—the losses had totaled a hun- head off any escape. When we did hugged the wall. In the shadow a dred thousand. get the door open we found the place French officer had halted at the sound We were on the right trail, but far deserted except for several grinning of the firing. from the end of it. That night we sat wenches who denied that any man had He turned on his heel when I called up with our prisoners. We did not been there all evening. him, and fled. On I ran, till another sleep, neither did they. I talked to A store room stretched across the figure, a man in uniform, rushed up, Kelly all night. My men needed the rear of the building. Here we found offering help. He showed his creden- sleep as much as he did, however, and much of the booty that we had been tials. He was First Sergeant Reilly my stenographer nodded over his pad. searching for—several thousand dol- of the Intelligence Department, a lad Over and over again Kelly told the lars' worth of shoes, sugar, chocolate, from Niagara Falls, New York, who same story. One night, he claimed, harness, tobacco. In the ceiling was made an excellent record in the service. he had slept in the railroad yard; a broken skylight. Our thieves had I explained what had happened and the night before under a bridge; the escaped through it! we hurried to telephones. Intelligence night before that v/ith some casual While our men had watched zeal- operators came immediately, military troops in the forwarding camp. His ously at front and rear, these fel- police, and a car full of my own men regiment had gone away and left him, lows again had outwitted us. Run- with Sergeant Madden. We prowled he told us, three days before. The ning over roofs, they had dropped to back along the street, searching for truth of the matter was he had been safety on a distant side street and three hours. But the bogus M. P. and sent to France a prisoner following slipped away. But in the mass of his accomplice had got away. his regiment, had escaped immediately, booty which we collected, after the I returned, chagrined, to my office. and had been living by his wits for French police had placed the pro- The night went on with other duties. months. prietor under arrest, we came upon About four o'clock Corporal Oscar Ja- At last, in a sleepy moment, Kelly three pairs of shoes which were to cob, a former member of the Detroit replied to one of my questions inad- lead us to further discoveries.

police force, and Sergeant Carse, a vertently : They were a woman's pumps with Canadian who had served for a time "I got a drink yesterday morning at patent leather tips and silver buckles. with Villa's army, both then attached a hotel on Rue Nationale." We recognized them. A month be- to my company, brought in the two "Where on Rue Nationale?" I fore they had been looted from a men who had escaped from me. They flashed back at him. French consignment in a freight car. had discovered them not a hundred "I don't know." So every man on my own force and yards from the Restaurant du Viaduct But he had mentioned sleeping un- in the French secret police was or- crawling through the dark in an effort der a bridge. We knew that there dered to examine those shoes and to to reach an outbound freight. was a hotel of bad repute very near report if he saw any others like them In the meantime we had the third the bridge on that street. So the anywhere. member of the gang under lock and next night we raided it. About this time there arose a great key in the office of the assistant pro- It was the Hotel Agriculture. When furore in the A. E. F. over bad prison vost marshal. He said his name was we mentioned its name M. Legal at conditions. It is true that sleeping Marcello Garcia and his home Browns- first refused to send any of his own quarters for prisoners in my office ville, Texas. But that was all he men—it was the hangout for Apaches; were not good. There was not enough would say. When my two operators it would be too dangerous. But we space. But the prison room was brought in the other two prisoners we convinced him, and at last he bravely warm. Officers, operators and pris- learned that the impersonator of the brought five of his plain clothes men oners ate the same kind of food and police was Fred B. Burns, a deserter, and joined us at nine o'clock. the same amount. But the prisoners last heard from in Leavenworth, and We approached the place silently, had to spread their blankets over that his pretended prisoner was Clar- in pairs, for we did not wish to arouse straw on a wooden floor, and the re- ence Kelly, an habitual criminal and suspicions by appearing in a group. formers were shocked. They forgot one of the worst men with whom we One of my men, a young Armenian that these floor beds were for de- had to deal in the A. E. F. Kelly had who had lived most of his life in serters who had been sleeping between twice served prison sentences in the Paris and who looked like an Apache, sheets while the troops were in the States before going overseas, and twice went ahead of us. He sat in the din- trenches. had escaped while on the way to serve ing room, drinking, getting the lay of As a result of the criticism, I was other sentences. He had tried to shoot the land. At nine o'clock he paid his ordered to deliver prisoners to the gen- the captain of a river steamer at Cin- bill and joined us on the corner. eral prison. Our department objected cinnati, had assaulted a woman, and He reported that there were then and was overruled. We sent Kelly, had served three years at Columbus probably ten Frenchmen and five or Burns and Garcia to the post guard and done further time in Kansas. six Americans in the building. The house, together with other mere de- Piecing together the stories the three latter, who were rough-looking, had serters whom I held while awaiting word men told, discovering the few truth- come in by a back way and passed from their organization commanders. ful words dropped inadvertently among up a stair at the rear. Our forces We warned the authorities that the their thousand lies, we began to patch numbered eleven—five French opera- trio we held were dangerous. That up a case. At eight in the morning tors, four men from my own office, night Kelly went over the wall and we called in M. Legal, French super- M. Legal and myself. Legal and I We did not see him for five days. intendent of police, who was a quick approached first. Four men guarded At that time in my organization detective and also a polished gentle- the door at the rear. There were two was a man named Jean Dubac, a for- man. front entrances, opening on connect- mer French farmer who is now a citi- With M. Legal we raided the Res- ing eating rooms. zen of the United States. When he taurant du Viaduct. We met disap- At a signal Legal opened one door wished to he could look like the dirt- pointment. The stable in the rear was and I the other. Our men were at iest, drunkenest peasant in the Depart- in great disorder. But the old man our heels, except two who remained (Continued on page 24) —

APRIL 27, 1923 PAGE 21

Keeping Step With the Legion

(Continued from page 13) watch the next ten victims go through their stuff. After initiation certificates would be given to each man that had crossed the line.

Everybody's Birthday

WHILE we have been talking about Memorial Day in these columns for about six weeks, we have not yet begun to discuss the next great holi- day—Fourth of July. Lyman K. Swasey Post of Dixiefield, Maine, stole a march on everybody on that; the post sent the Step Keeper a letter telling it celebrated the Fourth in 1921 how cool, keen, level-headed and in 1922. Here is the letter printed THE — follow the partly because of the ideas it offers, men who world of partly because it may bring out some sport and lead the world in com- other good ideas for observing the fort — they know the Unvarying day: Quality, Long Wear and Famous In 1921 Lyman K. Swasey Post inaugu- Fit of "B.V-D." Underwear, and rated what is hoped will become an annual make it a part of their formula for event—that is, a Fourth of July celebra- getting the most out tion. The public was invited to join with of life. the Legion. The streets were gay with flags of all nations, and each pole was topped with Old Glory. There was a parade fol- From raw material to finished product we practice ceaseless care so lowed by ball games, boxing bouts, and that every "B.V. D." garment is of the quality that has brought world- dancing. Everybody had a good time and ' wide preference for our product. the Legion was richer by $800. The 1922 celebration was along similar The cool, durable nainsook of "B.V. D." is woven in our own mills finished in our bleachery. lines. This time many tradesmen and from selected cotton and manufacturers in nearby towns joined the In our factories vigilant inspection guards every process of skillful cut- local forces and entered floats in the pa- ting, sturdy stitching, well sewn buttons and accurate finish. rade, and the other attractions were on a larger scale. Thanks to the patronage of our own citizens and of those from the There is only one"B. V. D." Underwear profits were $1,000. neighboring towns It is always identified by this Red Woven Label There will be another celebration the coming Fourth of July. Entries for the parade already exceed one hundred and MADE FOR THE engaged Suits several automobile dealers have Union Undershirts and space on the grounds to exhibit their latest CPat. U.S.A.) Drawers Men's $1.50 and upward B.VD. models. These entries come from territory 85c and upward the suit BEST RETAIL TRADE within a radius of seventy-five miles. Three j the garment Youths' 85c the'suit bands have been engaged. There will be an enlarged and improved The B.V.D. COMPANY, Inc., New York midway with many new attractions and ©1923 as usual there will be baseball, and lots Sole Makers of "B. V-D." Underwear TheB.V.D.Co.,Inc of it. NEXT TO MYSELF ' B. V. D.' BEST

Stick Up Your Ears Spartanaires I Everywhere HAVE you a little rabbit in the back are organizing their own baseball clubs and businesses. Young yard? If so, how about hunting America has caught the Spartanaire spirit. him to his lair? George Gowin, ad- jutant of Oscar Jacobson Post of Lit- Your boy—any boy tle Sauk, Minnesota, contributes the can organize a Spartanaire Club. He wilFbe story of a competitive rabbit hunt assured a business of his own and a cash staged by his post and non-members. profit for his work plus a dividend for his Jacobson Post formed one team, the club. He will get a valuable training in non-members another. Jacobson Post business management and salesmanship by killed the most rabbits and the non- carrying the message of The American Legion members had to give a banquet. into every home. The rabbit hunt idea is not wholly new, we know, as some other posts YOUR COMMUNITY have made them annual events. But NEEDS THE SPARTANAIRES! also, how about duck hunting? And Start your boy immediately. Have him write hunting in general? And fishing? Re- full particulars. Here is his opportunity! quest No. 9876543 from the Step for Keeper. What has your post been do- The Spartanaire Clubs and Companies ing in the hunting and fishing line? Ato hunting and. fishing practicable 627 West 43d Street New York post activities? :

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Circumstantial Proof This is blamed on a board of medical examiners. A certain subject had been suspected of being half-witted, or something of the sort, and the M.D.'s were putting him over a series of mental hazards. One hypothetical question meandered along this way: "Now, if you, were passing a house where the curtains were lowered, and you saw a man you knew to be a doctor go in rather hurriedly, and a little while later a preacher entered, and a few minutes after him an undertaker drove up to the door, what would you surmise had happened in that "I consider that house?" complete equip- Perkins grinned sheepishly, scraped his ment of Conn in- toe thoughtfully across the floor and finally struments enhances the musical value answered of any band at least fifty per cent." a still in Lt. Com. John Philip Sousa. "Well, sir, I'd think they had there." "The man's perfectly sane," snapped the head examiner. Let Conn Help First Sailor: What's that wriggling The Makings of a Mess Sarge object on the horizon? Form Your Band Second Sailor: Looks like a nervous "Is Harris stingy?" Greebie: wreck to me. half-century experience in Armstrong: "Stingy! Why, when he OUR was in the sardine packing business the building the finest band instru- toy dealers used to buy the boxes contain- A Bray-ny Boy ments it is possible to produce and ing his products for babies' rattles." Teacher: "Can anyone tell me what assisting in the organization of states are noted for their mules ?" Simplified thousands of bands and orchestras, Bright Willie: "Yes, teacher, the Bal- Daughter: "Dad, how do you spell kan states." of all legion posts is at the service sophisticated ?" without obligation. Dad: "S-o-f-p—oh, just tell him he's too Salesmanship flip." The world's greatest bandmasters and The Boss: "Did you do as I told you and put up the sign outside, 'Two orchestra conductors join Relish for Him symphony No Tires $50, One Tire Free'?" Sousa in proclaiming the supremacy "What kind of a fellow is that efficiency The New Salesman: "Sure, and I've ?" of Conn instruments, praising their expert had pretty fair luck. I haven't sold any "Well, he never enjoys an ocean voyage of the $25 ones yet, but I've managed beautiful tone, perfect scale, reliable because there is so much salt going to to give all the free ones away." action, their flexibility and easy blow- waste." Making It Easier ing qualities which make it possible Of Course A couple of gay young blades were difficult music quickly to master discussing the feminine The Man : "I love the green and shady newest acqui- Complete equipment of Conn instruments trees, the soft grass, the quiet country." sition to their social set. insures rapid progress and unusually fine The Maid: "What are you—a poet?" "Rather sophisticated little thing," re- hired one patronizingly. musical results. Remember the Conn The Man (proudly) : "No. A marked "But she didn't have on prizes for the test bands and drum corps hand." anything Mae." "Oh, I don't know," said the other, at the San Francisco convention. Begin Scientific Note coming to the defense of the lady. "She for the big contest. Write for now to prepare jolly well flavors her lip rouge with details about prizes and further information Little drops of water, strawberry, you know." about our band service. Little grains of sand; "Out of date," murmured Mae's friend. concrete Conn drums and bugles Mix them into "Mae uses luminous paint so you can find And they beat the solid land. will make your outfit the them in the dark." snappiest possible. Conn Needs a Tonic saxophones are recog- You Can't Blame Him son has decided nized the finest in the "I hear, Josh, that your "Jones says he doesn't believe in signs world; possess valuable to become a minister." any more." "Yep. First he wanted to be a pro- exclusive features. And "Well, you see he followed the advice on fessor, then it was an artist, and now it's quality one of those 'Keep Smiling' cards and be- remember Conn like that boy ain't got a minister. Seems cause he kept smiling all the time, folks costs no more. Send no appetite a-tall." started a story that he was losing his of for details FREE mind." TRIAL,- EASY PAY- Impossible MENT plan, mention- Heads Up! "You should always look on the bright ing instrument. 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Pour off the water and stir in several carried away by his eloquence while pro- pounds of raisin seeds and some sandy posing ?" prunes. Add the holes of a dozen dough- Bella: "There was little danger of that. nuts and tie the pudding in an old dishrag. I happened to be sitting on his lap." Boil for one hour in the hot water in which APRIL 27, 1923 PAGE 23 the cooks continually find themselves. Re- move before the rice has had an opportunity to soften sufficiently to be edible, and serve GIwo Sports stone cold. This pudding is also called the Great Devil's Own Dish because of the destination generally assigned to it by those who at- tempt to eat it. "CISHING and motorcycling - what Money - making A Sharp Rebuff sales opportunities better sport combination is there? in open territory. placed Desk — The young salesman his sample Write A -a. Pick out your pet lake or stream case on the porch and began genially: "How do you do ? 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PAGE 24 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY TYPEWRITER Your Home Town SPECIAL (Continued from page 15) (1) Burn all rubbish which can be tions and with every other effort of the burned. Health Department will help to make SALE (2) Collect all old wire, tin cans, buckets, your city a more healthful one in which A sensational sale by etc., and pile all garbage at the end of to live. You should be glad to do it." one of the world's largest distributors. your alley next to the street. This will So great was the interest and the Thousands of these expedite the collection and hauling away. volunteer service that this clean-up standard make, guar- SSa anteed, high grade, (3) Smash all cans so they will not col- campaign, which resulted in the haul- perfect typewriters lect water. have already been ing away of over two hundred loads of sold. The rest won't (4) Keep a barrel or retainer for all junk, cost the Chamber of Commerce last long our won- at garbage. only LOWEST derful bargain price. $27.50, which was paid out of the Each machine goes (5) Have all garbage ready for collection budget. By the time, the out on 5 days free campaign was PRICES trial in your own by the 17th of May. All garbage will be over the town was not only cleaned home. If you arc hauled away free of charge on that day. up, but every citizen in it had been edu- EVER convinced it is the greatest typewriter cated in the relation of cleanliness to OFFERED you ever saw, you then start easy The instructions ended with the fol- health and beauty, and had had his civic monthly payments. No red tape. lowing reminder: "And remember that pride and his sense of personal respon- The supply at this price is limited. ACT QUICK cheerful compliance with these sugges- sibility to his town greatly stimulated. Send for Free Booklet of Valuable Typewriter in- formation and Special Sale Bulletin. The Viaduct Gang Smith Typewriter Sales Company (Continued from page 20) 400. 360 E. Grand Ave., Chicago ment of the Sarthe. He was the first was long experienced and knew the to bring in a report of Kelly. wiles of the gigoulette, as the female In a small, mean cafe a drunken Apache is called. • woman had talked. An American sol- "There is no time to be funny," dier had given her money. She de- he snapped. "Will you work for us scribed him as Kelly. Dubac lis- tonight, or do you want to go back tened. He followed her home. We to prison?" put an unseen guard on her door. For "What do you want me to do?" several nights we heard no more of "Go to the house of Germaine, get her. in, and let us in after you." Then in another cafe there broke "Germaine would kill me," she re- out a near riot. An American with a plied carelessly. revolver drove out the management, "No—Germaine will be an old looted the cash drawers and departed woman when she gets out of prison. BRDMZr TABtlT SROCHUftt S£*T UPON ITIQlOT FR£E DESIGNS COUNSEL hastily. By the time we arrived all Unless you want to go instead." LET OUR. MEMORIAL ART DEPARTMENT that remained was another good de- "I'll get you in," she replied, and SOLVE TOUR. MEMORIAL PROBLEM - SEND scription of Kelly. It annoyed us. we started through the night. PLANS «* PHOTO OF CONTEMPLATED LOCATION All other work stopped for twenty- With me were several of my best THE FLOURiCITY ORNAMENTAL IRON CO. — ESTABLISHED ]89.J— four hours and I ordered my men to men; reckless adventurers they were, MINNEAPOLIS - MINNESOTA. bring him in. too. Legal took six of his tried op- And then one of my operators—it erators and two great police dogs that Gold Filled was Jacob, I believe—saw a woman walked properly with their chains ' on the street wearing shoes like those taut. CHAIN Given we had found at the Hotel Agricul- At the corner where I knew my own Row ture. He trailed her. She entered sentinels were watching I went ahead. ) Agents 1 $6.25 profit od ever? sale! watcbea can Bell a day at f 15? _! many?25 yoa house to which Dubac had One of them stepped out of the dark. 'Just show your watch and eolleet yoor prof' the same "It. Weehlp C.O.D. for balance $8. 75,post- followed the woman who described "Two more men just went in," he aerfl paid, direct to your customer! SI J9WOI R.R. Watch* Manufac- Kelly. whispered. rturer's guarantee stamped on ease and move- adjusted 8 positions, | moot. 21 JEWELS, We consulted the French police. M. "That makes how many in there?" dial, nlck«*l-bridge "works." t railroad ' AGENTS WANTED! Legal twisted his moustache. "Three that I'm sure of, and two "Took 2ordera In 16 min- Reduced from utes which paid for $25.00 "You have gone to the worst house women." F2-.sample and $3 "* >/yS over." Y< in the city," he explained. "It is the M. Legal sent Alice ahead, with a house with the tunnel, where it is al- police dog tugging at her dress and most impossible to capture anyone. growling in its throat. The French- Underground passages run to a dozen man followed, slipping along the wall. other houses. If we make a sound I trailed at his heels; the rest of our END NO MONET! } when we enter, out they go the other men hid under the shadows, out of -^^m^ Paj only $8.75 \ mwholesale price when watch t way, and we find empty rooms for our the range of overhanging windows. rive9. We pay poataffe. Beautiful feold-filled veator coat chain FREEfl pains." Alice knocked, at the same time 'this month only— state which. Mo ' ey back if you want It! grizzled plain-clothes birdlike note. Immediately GOLD WATCH CO. One of his whistling a D«t.l01,3S13 Mlchtia. Av.CMoaged men, stooping over a proces verbal at the chains rattled and the door swung a desk in a corner, turned around. back. "Let's use Alice," he suggested. "Come in." It was a woman's voice. "Ah!" M. Legal clapped his hands. But before Alice could move the two "Send for her—get her at once!" police dogs had leaped through the AND It was nearly midnight when they opening into the dark. Legal jumped CAMP SUPPLIES appeared with Alice. She was a forward. Our men closed in. Flash- Before you buy—see our new Catalog f pretty child with crafty eyes. I don't lights streaked the black passage. So

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1 Ing, Cooking Outfits, Army Goods, etc. 1 believe she was more than sixteen, but silently did it all happen that the Lowest Prices In America.! she admitted she had seen a world of conversation in a rear room had not Hundreds of Bargains a ] wickedness. The gendarmes who tugged stopped. price. Send your name a the leJMIE-MjjME CO.. Dept. 651, Kansas City, Mo. her into the room had been rough, The woman who had opened and she examined the white marks of door, and Alice, we pushed into the their fingers on her wrists. street, turning them over to one of s "Hello, policemen." She turned to our waiting men. The first police i 9ilADAY me. "I know you a long time. I dog, meantime had run to the rear, W*3Setting S/iirts always keep away from you." and was sniffing at a door. His mate rgre shirt manufacturer wants agents "Alice," said M. Legal, "we have turned to the right and plunged down sell complete line of shirts, pajamas, you for that robbery by the old church stone steps into the basement. The "In and nightshirts direct to wearer. Ad- Tertlsed brand—exclusive patterns—easy —we know all about it. Do you want one had been trained to search cel- to sell. No experience or capital re- us to prosecute?" lars, the other to hunt above stairs. quired, 'Entirely new proposition. / Write for free samples. "Oh, Monsieur!" She pouted, try- We burst through the inner door. Madison Shirt Co., S03 Broadway, N.Y.C. ing to appeal prettily. But M. Legal In a lamplighted room, thick with :

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the fumes of liquor and cigarettes, we found Kelly, sprawled drunkenly at a table. Three other Americans SIMMONS TRADE MARK and a Frenchman were in sleepy con- versation with a girl who looked so If You much like Alice that she startled me. CHAINS Kelly, the one Frenchman, and the three other Americans—all deserters who had been on their own for six Need months or more—were lined up, searched and cuffed together. In the basement was a treasure of stolen goods. We carted it back to the French and American owners—hun- More dreds of pairs of shoes, sugar, to- bacco, chocolate and bolts of cloth, altogether eighteen thousand dollars' worth of property. Money Kelly escaped within a week over the barbed wire of a venereal deten- James Murdock, a loyal Le- tion camp, taking with him Harper, one of his companions caught that gionnaire from Iowa, will go night. But the Viaduct gang had been to France this summer on the broken up. Burns got five years, money he earned as a repre- others from thirty days to a year. sentative of The American When we left the house of Ger- Legion Weekly. maine, our man on duty in the street brought Alice back into the light. She Another live comrade, E. D. looked at the girl we had captured with Kelly. Jones of Nebraska, is making "Hello, Germaine," she said pleas- a daily average of $6.50 extra. antly. Comrade Jones represents the "If it takes a thousand years, I'll Weekly in his spare time only. kill you," answered Germaine. Alice turned up her short nose at ALegion brother inCalifornia, the girl she had betrayed. Mark Brown, is giving his en- "A nice sister I have," she said. gentille!" tire time in acting as our rep- "So resentative in his community (Another "Tale of the D.C.I."— WATCH CHAIN must Sharley"—will appear in an A and nearby cities. This man's "M'seer be more than beautiful, early issue.) for beauty is sometimes weekly income is never less temporary. It must serve you than $100. faithfully through the years continually worn, All of these loyal Legionnaires Catching Up — much handled, yet never playing and hundreds of others like The week ending April 11th in the false to its duty of securing them answered The American Weekly subscription card race finds Ar- the watch. kansas up with the big ten. A month for Legion Weekly's call local before she was in twenty-fifth place. Wear a Simmons Chain to Representatives. Each of How about your own department? The secure the maximum of watch departments on April 11th these men today have to thank standing of chain value! It is made by proportion 1923 cards received to in of a special process of drawing for their good fortune, a cou- total 1922 membership, with the stand- gold, Platinumgold or green pon like the one below which ing on the same date last year, based on the previous year's total, follows: gold over a less expensive gave them their opportunity. base metal. Thus it becomes 1921 1922 1923 1922 all the more durable and beau- Not only are these men 1 Georgia 16 25 Washington . . 47 Idaho 3B 26 Colorado 42 tiful and surprisingly reason- highly respected by their fel- 2 3 Arizona 45 27 Wisconsin ... 14 able in price—$4 to $15. low citizens as Representa- 4 S. Dakota 22 28 Connecticut . . 43 6 N. Hampshire 24 29 Texas >s There are many styles of tives of the fourth largest 6 Nebraska 30 Ohio 13 Simmons Chains to meet your weekly magazine in the United 7 S. Carolina .. 33 31 Tennessee .... 25 8 Arkansas ... 2 32 Alabama 32 requirements at work, dress States, but each one of them 9 Iowa 8 33 Oklahoma .... 3 and play. Each is made with York ... 38 34 10 New Massachusetts 41 finished craftsmanship. See has the satisfaction that goes 11 Illinois 34 35 Delaware 48 them at your with a bulging purse and a 12 Maine 23 36 Kentucky 19 jeweler's. 13 Rhode Island. . 12 37 Montana 36 fat bank account. 14 Kansas 26 38 Mississippi ... 20 R. F. SIMMONS COMPANY Indiana 18 39 Virginia 15 37 Attleboro Massachusetts Join the ranks of these big 16 New Jersey . . 46 40 Maryland .... 27 17 Nevada 49 41 Michigan .... 81 R. F. Simmons Co. or Canada, Ltd. money earners. If you are a 18 Minnesota .... 11 42 Wyoming .... 10 Toronto Ontario 19 Utah 4 43 Oregon 21 loyal Legionnaire, we will be ... 20 N. Dakota 15 44 N. Carolina . . 9 "For fifty years unrur- glad to appoint you our rep- 21 W. Virginia . 40 45 Florida 1 passed in watch chain 22 California 46 D. C 30 value." resentative in your city. 23 Vermont 29 47 Missouri 7

24 Penna 17 48 New Mexico . 5 49 Louisiana 1 T^^COUPON 44 _—H !. _ The AMERICAN LEGION Weekly 627 West 43d Street, New York City Gentlemen: I'm interested, so please tell A Month to May 30 me without obligation, all about your plan. {Continued from page 8)

Name inson Post, $5; Ft. Collins: Vocational Train- ing students, $27.25. Connecticut. Danbury: Banbury Post, $5; New Haven : George H. Address Gray, $2 ; Suffield Nuffield Post, $S. Cuba. Havana: Havana Post, $50. City State District of Columbia. Washington: Charles Beach, $1. Florida. Daytona: Auxiliary to Russell Legion Po3t C. Warner Post, $7..'>0; Jacksonville: C. C. The panel above shows Bettes, $5; Orlando: J. Y. Cheney, $10. the popular Boston Georgia. Valdosta: Miss Myitis J. Tarte. $1. Links twice enlarged. Ipaho. Boise: W. A. McKennie, $1; Poca- They never kink. 1 ; ;

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tello: Pocatello Post. $20; J. B. Bacon, $5; McCarthy, $3; Fred W. Rosenkrans, $1; Earl

Jean Bistline, $1 ; George Strong, $2 ; Charles C. Gowdy, $1; Waverly: Charles A. Belles, $10.

Sprague, $3 ; Drew W. Stanrod, Jr., $5 ; Edward North Dakota. Park River: Paul Farup

L. Mochel, $1 ; Hay Holman, $1 ; Carl Kiddle, Post, $10.

$1 ; W. E. Brazelton, ; Robert Carter, Ohio. Calvin SentMJp $1 $1 ; Bluffton: Kempf, $1; Bryan: Lee Treseder, $1 ; Oscar Garrett, $1 ; E. W. Auxiliary to Charles E. Arnold Post, $18;

Winkle, $1 ; Virgil McHan, $1 ; Barney Gold- Continental: A. V. Kerstnig, $1; Cuyahoga berg, $2; E. T. Lillebridge, $2.50; E. Therkild- Falls: A. M. Cross, Freeport: 7-Diamond Solitaire $5; E. H. Learned, sen, Clusterset in Platinum, $2. $1 ; Fremont: Arthur Newman, $1; Lorain: Illinois. resembles a two ct. Chicago: John M. Eberwein, $1 ; Harriet Rott, $5 ; New Richmond: Truman J.

Single Stone. Shank of Charles Shepherd, ; W. $1 M. A. Wieczorek, $2 ; Miles, $1; North Rigdeville: J. H. Getz, $1 Green Gold, artistically Milton J. Foreman, $25; Marion: Williamson Toledo: Arthur Daly Post, $10. hand -carved and en- County Post, $1; Robinson: Lueila Oklahoma. Collinsville : B. graved. Only $57.50. Kinney, G. Middleton, $2; SI; East St. E. OnlySl.no down and J,ows; R. Kenneth, $1: Clinton: Nowata: Gladys Arnold, $15; Oklahoma City: M. H. Sherman, $2; Glcnroc : Milton Lewinsohn, • 7 cents n day! On Mary J. Barber, $10; Sayre: Glen Russell these amazirply easy terms S10; Mary C. Barber, $10; Molina: Paul A. Martin Post, $11.50; Texhorn: llock- ymi can buy this beautiful Gullberg, Diamond Rinp. Shipment is $5. McAdams Post, $2.50: Tulsa: Fred F. Rob- made the moment dol- Indiana. your Anderson: Auxiliary to George erts, $1 ; John E. Swain, $1 ; Yale: V. O. lar reaches as- then if you' re H. satisfied, pay the balance in Diamond Boolt FREE Beckett Post, $10; Covington: Mrs. Min- Davis, $5. ten months. Otherwise, re- Contains nearly 3,900 illustrations nie S. Lusader, Fowler: Oregon. Morton, $50; Fowler Post. Dufur: R. D. $1 ; Klamath turn. No risb-no delay- of exquisite Diamonds. Watches $28; Indianapolis : James H. Wilson, Falls: Klamath Post, $22. transactions strictly confi- and Jewelry—r.ll on ten months' $1 ; dential. credit. Write for copy No. 1093-J Skidmore Dean Post, $25; National Military Pennsylvania. Beech Creek: Russell J. Linn, Home: Hubert Stilwell, $2; Logansport: Cass $5; Erie: Harry B. Boyd, $2; Allentown: Gus- County Post, $1. tav H. Kaemmerling, $5: Forest City: Post

Iowa. Burt: D. F. Schurster, $1; Ft. Madi- No. 524, $5; Louis Skubic, $5 ; Michael Skubic,

son: Mr. Fintleman, $1 ; Guthrie Center: Anna $5; Glen Rock: Austin L. Grove Post, $10;

Shearer, $5; Hawarden: Roy H. Searle. $1 ; Lewistown: Dr. F. A. Rupp, $2; North East: Lost Nation: H. B. Hansen, $1; Marengo: Woman's Relief Corps, $5; Philadelphia: Ken- 1650 -1660 BROADWAY, NEW YORK VV. A. Wandlinjr Post, $25. sington Post, $10; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Kansas. Kanopolis: Fort Harker Post, Houston, $200 ; J. Russell Patton, $5 ; Mrs. F. C.

$9; New Ulysses: Charles B. Hart Post. Feichter, Sr., $25 ; Lt. Jos. S. Ferguson Post, $0.80; Russell: Auxiliary to William Roe $15; Sunbury: Milton Jarrett Norman Post, Mother and Babe Post, $5. $25; Towanda: University Post, $1: West Kentucky. Louisville: Allen Benedict, $2.50. Pittston: Mrs. Mabel D. Stark, $5;- Williams- EVERY MOTHER SHOULD HAVE THIS BOOK Maine. Dexter: Edward J. Poulliot Post, port: Garrett Cochran Post. $5; Wilmer- $10. ding: George Westinghouse Post, $10. Tells just what to do the instant baby is sick, Maryland. Cumberland: Thomas L. Pierce, Rhode Island. Providence: In memory of before the doctor ar- $1 ; Silver Spring: Hugh R. Brickert, $1. Pvt. Wallace J. Brymner, $5. rives. Take no chances Massachusetts. Charlestown: Revere W. South Dakota. Lennox: Brethorst-Burma losing baby. Every Bangs, $10 ; Lawrence : Lawrence Post, $1 Post, $7.50; Gann Valley: Aberuathy Post, year thousands of little Medfield: Auxiliary to Beckwith Post, $5. $0.45; Rapid City: Joseph Barr, $1; Seneca: children suffer or die Mexico. Tampico: Robert S. Mundy, $4. Whitney Post. $0. Detroit: Peter Daily Herald, because the mother Michigan. C. Sweeney, $1 : Tennessee. Columbia: $52; Robert J. Baskerville, $1 : John Roehl, $1 ; Nor- McKcnzie: Auxiliary to McKcnzie Post, didn't know what to bert Barry, $1 ; Robert E. Kilgore, $1 ; Anthony $5. do. 500 pages. Fully Detloff, $2; John Waraas, $2; Kalamazoo: Texas. Gonzales: Gonzales Post, $1; Elgin: illustrated, beautifully Joseph B. Westnedge Post, $5; Grand Henry A. Liuidgrcn Post, $10; Houston: bound. Only $1.00. Rapids: Carl A. Johnson Post, $250; Com- Roy C. Ritcb, $2; Stamford: Vernon D. Hart Entirely new. Advice pany F., 16th U. S. Infantry (by Charles E. Post, $13; Texarkana: Hal Greene, $1. Sipes), Virginia. Norfolk: Woman's Post, $25. for expectant mothers and midwives. Send for $5. Minnesota. Dugdale: L. G. Mitson, $1; Glen- Washington. Garfield: G. Raymond Me- it to-day. Money back if not satisfied. Agents coe: Auxiliary to Otto B. listen Post, $5; Cown Post, $5; Spokane: W. R. McCall, $5. wanted. World's Medical Press, No. 664 Isabelle Zrust, $2; Greaney : Oscar Hansen, $1. West Virginia. Alderson: Mrs. Jean Moffett, Washington Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Mississippi. Laurel: W. H. Lehr, $2. $10; PhUippi: Barbour County Post, $15. Missouri. Joplin: George C. Shekels, $3. Wisconsin. Adams: Adams County Post, Montana. Denton: Denton Post, $5. $8.25; Fond Du Lac: F. Ryan Duffy, $10: TSflS 3 ft. Telescope Nebraska. Cambridge: Cambridge Post, Austin A. Peterson, $10; Gilmanton: Eileen L. aSee people and objects miles away $1; Gordon: Sturdevant Post, $1; Palmer: Forrest Post, $0.00; Hartford: Carl J. astlike pi they were close, see Moon Burton-Beyer Post, $5. Rhodes, $1 ; Salem : H. M. Robinson, $10 ; Two

. ..tare as yon never did be- New Hampshire. Wolfeboro : Harry Harri- Rivers: Clarence Cope, $1; Washburn: B. Chat- Brass booed, useful andenter- fore. man Post, $10. kin, $5; Milwaukee: Charles D. Boyd, $10; lainicR. "Could tell .color of 01 aeroplane 4 miles away - '—Mra^^Kt^tfennSfiSS**^ uoad New Jersey. Burlington: Cant. James Waukeska: George H. Barton, $2; Alfred J. Yubrongh. " Watch mj -^n^^a ViimPtfl' 1 n arabera oa MacFarland Post, $15: West Hoboken: Barton, $2 ; Mrs. Mary E. Barton, $2. boy arrive at school JgP^aflKSiv^ freight cars m i S miles oway "^^UMII» "« »,wa».BB»rooniitaliisonmooi. West Hoboken Post, $10. Wyoming. Afton: Star Valley Post, $15; —Mrs. "•"Hornu ^a^fSBKHP^—A. C. Palra^r Thousands pi eased. ^!BC*Av^-~- SPECIAL OFFEfc - send only 26c with New York. Ardonia: A Gold Star Mother, Laramie: Mrs. Mary Freeman, $1 order. On arrival deposit J1.75 with postman. $1 : Babylon: Babylon Post, $30.45: Brook- Orlf youprefer, Bend$1.85wjthorderInlallDaymeot. Sentpostpaid. Satisfacdonsuaraoteed or moaey returned lyn: Sgt. Joyce Kilmer Post, $1; Governors Checks for the; Graves Endowment Fund payable to the National FERRY & CO. 76 W. Van Buren, Dept. 2254, Chicago Island: Paul L. Rodgers, $2; Irvington: should be made Spencer Kelly Post, $2; New York City: Treasurer, The American Legion, and ad- at National Headquarters, The Ernest K. Coulter, $10 ; Noble Callahan, $1 ; dressed to him Murray Hill Post, Syracuse: Charles American Legion, Indianapolis, Ind. Your Outfit's Photograph $5; In '17, '18 or '19 your organization was photo- graphed. It's the only photograph of the "bunch" as you and they were then. It can never be taken Records of the World War again. Get a copy now. while you can, for your children and their children's children. If your out- SET of books entitled "The Un- ments and to National Headquarters of fit was photographed we can supply it. Give full A censored Official Source Records of the Legion. name—camp and date. Price 83.00. the Great Events of the Great War" The primary purpose in endorsing the CO., Asbury Park, N. J. COLE & has been placed on the market with the volumes, however, was to lend Legion endorsement and supervision of a com- support to the authenticity of the books Can You mittee appointed by the National Ex- as records of the World War. Winsor ecutive Committee of The American B. Williams has been appointed special BOYS Organize ? Legion. A certain percentage of the representative of The American Legion gross profits from the sale of the books Records Fund at the office of the pub- Can you get four other friends be- accrues to the Legion. These profits lishers, 30 Church Street, New York tween the ages of 10 and 18 to start will be distributed to posts, depart- City. a Spartanaire Club? All of You— Outfit Reunions and Notices Will earn money Contributions for this column must be received three weeks Learn business in advance of the events with which they are concerned. Have a Club of your own Ordnance Club op America.—Fifth annual re- quested to write H. M. Cass, Huron, S. D. Win Spalding Baseball Equip- union and banquet, Hotel La Salle, Chicago, 353d Infantry.—Fourth annual - reunion, Sept. 1G, 17, 18. Advance May 5. All men formerly in Ordnance Corps are Hutchinson, Kans., ment Holdren, eligible and invited to membership. Address notice. For particulars address Frank Put money in your Club Earnshaw, Roem 504, 333 S. Dearborn St., Citizens Bank, Hutchinson, Kans. A. G. and Treasury Chicago. Base Hospital No. 10—Second reunion Hotel, Philadel- Represent a National Magazine Second Division.—Annual reunion, Second dinner dance, Bellevue-Stratford E. Wagner, Division Association, New York City, June G, 7, phia, May 19. Address Florence Carry The Legion Message Hospital, 8th and Spruce sts., 8. Address J. A. Hughes, Room 802, 40 Rector Pennsylvania staunch business friends! Philadelphia. Make st., New York City. annual reunion at 42d Division. —State convention of Rainbow Co. M, 145th Ink.—First Earl O. Moser, If so, tell four friends about it and Veterans of Ohio will be held in Cincinnati June Painesville, O., May 6. Address Hearld Block, Painesville. then write us. Just say, "I want to 1, 2, 3, 1923, under auspices Rainbow Post, The American Legion. Address Convention Commit- Co. M, 137th Inf.—Annual reunion at Salina, be a Spartanaire." 7. Address Thomas A. Oliver, 129% tee, Rainbow Veterans, Burnet House, Cincin- Kans., May S. Santa Fe av., Salina. O. . nati, 104th Inf. Former The Spartanaire Clubs and Companies Bordeaux Emrarkation Camp.—Former offi- Medical Detachment, — are requested to write Victor A. Gag- Street New York cers and enlisted men of permanent personnel members 627 West 43d st, Springfield, Mass. stationed at Camp Genecart, Bordeaux, are re- non, 304 Worthington f

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The Profiteer Hunt 'ffjieumatismj) (Continued from page 6) legality of the fixed-price contract of needed . . . Yet . . . this contractor, September 2, 1918, on the ground that even though of gigantic size and perhaps the terms of that contract were extor- in control of enormous capital, did not tionate, and that they increased the overlook a single opportunity to construe obligations of the Government with- the contract in its entirety from a tech- U Sloan's out vouchsafing any return therefor, nical viewpoint and claim every possible Legal experts of the Air Service point allowance. to an abundance of precedent including The foregoing is a greaUy comlensed Supreme Court decisions, which they sta t e nient of the Government's con- say sustains the Department s conten- tention m itg case inst the Packard contend that the courts ftion. They M otor £ ar Company Slave held that the Government cannot Now let ug lobk at ^ he Packard Motor bound to a bargain which is extor- be Car Company's side of the story. The tionate by accepted standards of fixed information here presented comes from known values or percentages. In and a statement to which Alvan Macauley, this view the Government support of president of the com pany, has signed has cited in a court action already irt- his name_a statement made not to the stituted against another contractor the bH but to the stockholders of the anishing pain case of a man who sold to the United companyJ . It begins as follows: by reducing congestion ' ° States for $1,200 a ton of corn shucks . ™e tab ' e f° llows show the net "actually not worth more than $^5." * Millions are now using this sim- , u Pack "d com ir The court held the contract void, and P«"y °™ ple treatment to stop pain. to 192 '"^sive; the years marked withJ£6 the Government recovered the money ° Sloan' applied without rubbing, an ^tenskt are those during which we s, it had paid. "Such a contract," said penetrates andproduces a warm- manufactured Ll °erty motors: the court, "whether founded on fraud, ing sensation. It stimulates new, accident, mistake, folly or ignorance, 1916 $6,206,419.61 fresh blood to and through the is void at common law. It is not neces- *1917 5,400,691.00 aching part. This breaks up the sary to invoke the aid of a court of *1918 5,616,701.57 congestion, and since congestion equity to reform it." *1919 5,433,634.13 has caused the pain — quick, The Government, therefore, is deal- 1920 6,276,863.26 grateful relief follows. ing with the Packard company under The statement goes on to say that The world over, Sloan's stops of the original cost-plus con- the terms these figures are «« a complete answer rheumatic twinges and muscular tracts It does not however, recog- , „ that our fita were undul aches. It eases aching backs and nize the validity of all features of these continuing- sharp neuralgic pains. Good,too, contracts, particularly the bonus fea- , . for colds in chest. ™e Packard company was one of s.x ture. The special board which re- well-known and reputable companies en- viewed the auditors' findings touched At all drug stores aged ,n manufacturing Liberty motors, on this point in its report to the Sec- f™ e we ' e a11 P™ducing the same motor. retary of War, saying: Sloan's Lmiment-kilkpaint Ihe other companies were: , It is the opinion of the board that the Buick, Nordyke & Marmon, Lincoln, Ford, profit gained or allowed under the orig- We received no preferential treatment 2 SPLENDID SHiRTS$77D^, inal contract was so large that in law over the others, SILK KNITTED TIES it was extortionate, and therefore t+iat 2 pjjMB the contract in relation to fixing the Whecher the Packard company re- GPEAT BARGAIN. Shirts, neat reived colored atripea, hicheat quality price was void on the theory that the preferential treatment' over madras and poplin Soft Cuffs. the above-named Finished beautifully. Sizea from contract was so unfair and unjust to companies is of no 14 to 17. Ties of finest SILK KNIT. Fastcolors. full length. the Government that no agent or officer importance. The courts have sustained SEND NO MONEY t] e Government in the Lincoln case and Just name and size "f shirts. Pay post- of the Government had any authority to } man $3.79 on arrival. We pay post- obliged that age. Satisfaction Guaranteed. execute any such contract. ... So it corporation to pay back of snap on Cuff Buttons FREE, if you $1,550,000 of profits wrongfully col- COCeC.C * dandy pair seems to the board beyond legitimate sen(j ca9n with order. RUSH ORDERS NO W Send J or FREE Catalogue of Bargains argument that to permit the contractor lected. Audit of the Nordyke & Mar- PUBLIC TRADING CO., 404 Fourth «ve., Depl.142, Mew rork to retain S4,012,450 under this so-called mom transactions has been completed "savings" clause would simply be adding »n d claim will shortly be made against concern that much profit under another name tnat for the return of a large GROW YOUR OWN POPPIES sum. The Ford audit is • in progress, and that the clause providing for this Your garden won't be complete without the vicious and and officials say a claim will result, payment was in the beginning official Legion flower. Grown most anywhere Tr| e Packard statement goes on to therefore constructively fraudulent. and easily cared for. Send 10c for packet of relate that for two years before the genuine Flanders Poppy Seeds. Special prices The board goes on to say that un- war ;t s engineers were working on an within a pe- on quantity lots fcr Posts and Auxiliaries. disputed facts show that a i rplane motor "which became the basis 634 riod of a year and a half" the Packard f the Liberty motor" and continues: CAPTAIN MAXSON POST, No. ' Cambridge, New York company's profits exceeded $11,000,000 , Shortly after our entry into the war and that "this profit does not take into , t Packard consideration other great monetary he company turned over to the Government, free and without benefits received by the contractor." restric- t,0 " s ° f an k,nd this motor together These additional benefits were largely y > > Muskrats and other w > th the company s patents covering air- _ m Eels, Mink. in the form of special tools, equipment, I ,51 1 1< lSfl fur-bearing animals, in large plane motors; its models; all its drawings, ^<*IA/II * M°"J numbers, with our new, Fold- : etc. The Packard contracts actually It catches them and the benefit of its experience— repre- ing. Galvanized Steel Wire Trap. . cost the Government $40,775,568, of like a fly-trap catches flies. Made in all sizes. Strong and sentin S two e"s work and durable. Write for Descriptive Price List, and our Free which sum the auditors represent $18,- y of hsh. , Booklet on best bait known for attracting all kinds an actual pend b5 h mpany f 846,644 as manufacturing costs, $10,- '™ « «\ ° Dept. 44, Lebanon, Mo. L , J. F. GREGORY, approx.mately^ $400,000. The Packard com- 071,077 for special tools, and facilities an received no compensation bought by the Government, and $11,- P V whatever. $1400 to $1800 Year y 356,089 as net profit to the contractor. The italics are Mr. Macauley's. We Be City Mail Carriers If the claim is allowed Ei-Serviee Men Gel First Preference Government's do not believe the Packard company's Steady— Common education suf- • nt. Oyer 7.500 Ex-Sery- FRANKLIN in full the contractor will have $4,775,- fine-spirited action in this matter was Men were appointed lliomuir.INSTITIITF 568 in profits left, which the board be- carriers and ^ entirely unrewarded, though its ag- lerkalast Dep't S329 ;lieves liberal." ^- Rochester, N. Y. would be "extremely gregate profits for the war years and year. I The senior auditor in charge of the 1919 may have been only $16,441,020, \ which f may j?et a pos tion as xamination of the companv's books as set forth above in Mr. Macauley's Mail Carrier- Tell Alt tiov the position, and (ell me rei rarding (Concludes with this paragraph: statement. The Government paid out preference to Ex-Servtre Men.

m The Packard company no doubt con- $40,775,568 on the Liberty contracts today 'tributed largely to the greatest produc- held by the Packard company. There sure ^ Name. Ition in the historv of America at a time must have been some little profit some- R — '

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pany spent on work that began two The Macauley statement goes on to years before the war. The statement say that during the progress of the proceeds to tell of the changes in the work at the plant the Government had form of contract. We have given the an average of forty men there at all Government's version in some detail. times "auditing, checking and reporting This is all the company has to say: costs"; that during the war two com- In September, 1917, this company was plete audits were made. One was by a requested by the Government to com- commission of manufacturers which re- mence the manufacture of Liberty motors nted to the President. "We under- under a cost-plus contract. This was con- stand their report was extremely fa- tract No. 1. Within three months the vorable," Mr. Macauley notes. Then Packard company was notified that its there was the Hughes report, which Mr. contract was to be modified. The com- Macauley says is "available to all who pany consented, and contract No. 2 was may be interested." As a matter of DRI-KAMP fact the report is entered into, involving a large reduction Hughes out of print Most practical outfit for tourists and campers. Can be and copies are not in the price as originally . fixed by the so available as Mr. set up or taken down in five minutes. Guaranteed rain-proof. Outfit includes comfortable full sized Government. This new and lower price in Macauley may think. They are hard bed for two people. (Extra bed furnished if desired.) contract No. 2 was also determined by to get; but boiled down to a word, Mr. Most compact outfit on market. Rolls up 48 inches the Government. Hughes' opinion of the Packard profits long, 8 inches in diameter. Light in weight. Satisfac- tion guaranteed to every customer. About seven months after executing appears elsewhere in this article. The Write today for catalog and prices contract No. 2, and about ten months Packard statement proceeds to tell of DRI-CAMP CO., CHICAGO after beginning manufacturing operations, the final settlement of its transactions Dept. 4, 218 S. Wabash Ave. the company was notified that contract with the Government in May, 1919, Agents or dealers wanted in all parts of the country. No. 2 was to be done away with, and a continuing: Every auto owner should have one. They pay for them- new contract, No. 3, substituted upon If our dealings selvesinafewnightsofuse, saving expensive hotel bills. — had been with any an entirely new basis and specifying a business house in the world, this would flat price of $4,000 per motor. We were have been the end of it. A good job notified that this contract would super- was well done and fairly paid for. 0. D. Wool n r- sede the other contracts, and would date But now a committee has been ap- Blouse DDC back to the beginning of the manufacture pointed by the War Department to con- New—like cut. Turn- of airplane motors for the Government. sider audits of war contracts, and the down collar, 4 pockets. We had then been making the motors for Packard company has been notified that Sizes 34 to 38 breast. ten months. The Government had at all the various contracts made by the Gov- For parade, work, coun- times a large force of auditors and in- ernment for the producing of Liberty try, sport, etc. Also new spectors at our plants, and knew as much motors are to be repudiated. A prelim- wool breeches $2 .00 pair. about our costs as we did. The motors inary finding of this committee would Parcel Post Prepaid. were costing at the time about $3,800, indicate that the Packard company may Get our new interesting so our margin of profit then was showing be asked to return to the Government Catalogue, it's FREE. at about five percent on the turnover a sum of approximately six million dol- W. STOKES KIRK a dangerously small margin, especially lars, on the ground that tinder the con- 1627-E. Norlh 10th St., Phila., Pa. when it is recalled that the Government's tracts, which the Government itself contract was cancelable on a moment's prepared and which have in all respects notice. been fully performed and terminated three and a half years ago, this com- In the foregoing we have the first B^SEBAJLL pany made too large a profit. No account difference between the Packard and is taken of the fact that nearly seventy the War Department accounts that is percent of the profit derived from the CURVE actually expressed in figures, and this Fits the hand, cannot be seen, manufacture of these engines was im- with it you can throw Big Wide difference may not he so great as it mediately paid back to the Government curves. Boys, get this Base Ball seems. The Packard statement says curver and you can Fan 'Em as as income and profits taxes. fast as they come to Bat. By mail that "at the time" of the third con- , Our net profit as shown by our books, 1 lOc, 3 for 25c -with catalog of novelties. tract September 2, 1918—manufactur- — for all our Liberty motor work extending "UNIVERSAL DISTRIBUTORS, Dept, 1001, Stamford Com. ing costs per motor were $3,800, the over a period of practically two years, was inference being, of course, that profits actually less than the amount the Govern- were small $200 per motor on a $4,000 — ment would ask us to return. fixed price basis per unit. Now the The claim, if it is ever pressed, would Hughes report, which Mr. Macauley not in a financial way be so serious as commends to his stockholders, takes it sounds at first consideration, since the considerable pains to go into this sub- taxes that have already been paid would ject of cost per motor. Naturally, in have to be refunded to us, thereby re- the early period of production the cost ducing the amount tinder consideration was highest. Mr. Hughes says it cost from six million to approximately two $3,873 each to make the first six hun- million. dred motors. But after 1,200 motors had been made he says costs had Again the italics are Mr. Macauley's. dropped to $3,442 per motor. Mr. Again we have a conflict, reduceable Hughes predicted a further drop, say- to figures, between the Packard and ing that on the completion of 6,000 mo- the Government contentions. The Gov- tors the average cost would be "some- ernment says the company's profits what under $3,200 per engine." The were $11,356,000 and asks that $6,580,- CASH-SAVERS 000 be returned. The Packard com- When you know your Legion Post or Auxiliary Hughes report bears date of October is entitled to a substantial profit on the sale of 25, 1918. The government auditors, pany denies that its profits equalled these attractive magazine combinations, you will acting after all costs were known, put the latter figure. As to taxes, if it is be more anxious than ever to take advantage of true that the Government in its recent them. Your Post Adjutant will gladly take the average cost for the whole job at care of your orders. $2,530.79. audit did fail to take into considera- tion that the company paid out seventy 1. Pictorial Review The difference in these figures may [ AH for $4.75 percent of its war profits in that man- Woman's Home Companion < Single Copy be accounted for in several ways. to constitute a Val,le $6 -60 all figures are right. Maybe it ner, that would seem The American Magazine ... I Maybe to make motors on Sep- serious flaw in the Government's case. Post Commanders! did cost $3,800 tember 3, 1918, after which costs took Any such sum, certainly, as the com- The Legion Subscription Service is owned levels mentioned by Mr. pany says would be deductible from and operated by The American Legion to provide a tumble to revenue for The American Legion and Auxiliary Hughes and the government auditors. any judgment that might be obtained. by the simple method of allowing to the Posts Or maybe Mr. Hughes and the audi- The statement concludes saying the and Units the agent's commission on all maga- into these costs items of company will oppose an attempt at a zine subscriptions renewed or ordered by mem- tors figured contracts: It is bers. Many Posts are being provided with expense which the Packard company "repudiation" of the ample funds for all expenses by this method. did not figure in—items such as depre- rather bitter toward the recent activity Lose no time in writing for further information to: ciation, etc. Questions like this are the of the War Department, and terms the The LEGIONSUBSCRIPTIONSERV1CE threshed out Air Service board which was created 627 West 43d Street, New York City sort that often have to be in court. in 1921 as "a newly-appointed commit- —

APRIL 27, 1923 PAGE 29 tee" which has taken "the arbitrary merits of either side to this particular stand at this late date that the Gov- controversy, the tax-paying public has 3 E OfT^J-T^e can repudiate its contracts." a great deal at stake on the issue on S © ernment This is rather misleading, in view of which the claim against the Packard Big AIL facts stated earlier in this article and company will probably turn. Should which anyone can verify. The Packard the courts reaffirm that the Govern- Around statement makes other assertions which ment is not legally bound by the terms Bertha are incomplete, to say the least; but of contracts which are found to say VXollar we have no space to give them here. On one thing but can be construed to the whole Mr. Macauley's is a straight- mean another, which declare for a 12% Paisley $ forward presentation of his company's percent profit but can be interpreted Flowered case which may be well summed up and stretched to yield a 58 percent Blouse in one of his concluding sentences: profit, which proclaim to decrease ONLY profits but in reality enlarge them Is a contract with the United States No description, no pic should the courts reaffirm that such ture, can fully do jus- Government binding on both parties, or tice to this beautiful agreements as applicable to war trans- two-tone PAISLEY is it a mere memorandum that can be actions are void in law, the United CREPE dress. You repudiated by a department of the Gov- must Bee it, try it States Treasury stands to recover hun- on right in your ernment at will? own home, to fully dreds of millions of dollars, because realize its beauty, And that, in substance, is also the the Packard case is by no means an its charm and qual- ity. Beautiful all- government's contention, as we have exceptional or an isolated example of around ruffled Ber- this tha Collar of fairy- seen. Regardless of the merits or de- character of claim. like Voile Crepe adds to its lovely lines be- sides the exquisite two 'tone Oriental colored blouse of Paisley Flowered Why Join the Legion? Crepe. Newest long- wai Bted style. De- (Continued from page 11) signed in straightone- piece fashion; bell shaped sleeves and Hades. True, they were inspired by in peace. We, America and France, beautiful long flowing Fainley sash, which ties | the personality of an indomitable had gone far on diverging roads since at the front. leader, but it must also be true that the Soissons and the victory parade in SENT ON leader drew strength from the mettle Paris. Our public opinion seemed to APPROVAL Get this wonderful bar- of his men. condemn this move of France to col- frain on approval. Rueb n your order and we will Well, they brought that sense of indi- lect from Germany. Then one Legion- ship immediately. Send no money under our Mon- vidual responsibility home with them. naire, whose memory could bridge five ey-BackGuarantaeof sat- isfaction. They have taken it into the Legion. years, wired to his representative on We read in the Weekly stories of its the Legion's executive committee and Remember! expression. Here is a post in a small asked him to introduce into the next Your Name Only town that builds a needed concrete meeting of the committee a resolution Brines this beautiful dree youatonce. Suitableforevenino; ' road, each man taking part. Here's favorable to France. The executive and street wear. Gracea any figure. Of the newast material of the season another post that patrols the streets committee, the Legion's ruling body be- — and for less money. This value not to be confused with cheaper dresses at night because of an outbreak of law- tween conventions, voted unanimously advertised at the same price. Give your name, address, size and col- lessness. Members of another post for the expression of confidence. It only our bargain or. Pay postman J price of $3.98, plus a few cental visit the sick and disabled in a nearby brought American public opinion up postage. Money hack at once ifi&i hospital. The instances are multi- short. People paused to realize that not delighted. Slzaa: 32 to 46 inch bust. Misses^ Sizes: 14 to 22 years. Colors: Copenhagen Blue, _ Rose, Lavender. Tan gerlne with Paisley blouse, sleeves, sash, plied by ten thousand, and then again France was acting entirely within her INTERNATIONAL MAIL ORDER COMPANY by every Legion man. The Legion man rights. Public men endorsed the Dept. P 1 05 B Chicago, Illinois is happiest when he is doing something. Legion's stand. Here you find one He wants to throw his own grenade, Legionnaire definitely swaying national ,21 JEWEL ADJUSTED^ rifle, not read about others thought, even definitely influencing in- fire his own ' GUA RANTEED MOV EM ENT J^il doing so. ternational relations. YEAR GOLD CASE^H/' The doughboy also learned single- I said that allies don't stick together ness of purpose, discipline, and brought in peace. History shows this. We» that knowledge to his Legion. That is loved the French in 1787 and hated why its voice is powerful in national them in 1799. We raved over Japan in affairs. An organized minority? Per- 1904 and against her in 1914. England haps. Only minorities have the faculty has alternately fought with and against for cohesion. But a minority, never- France and Russia and Germany. But theless, that pretty well represents the surely, if ideals are not supine, this majority of American opinion—that war was different from the others. It speaks, as well as anyone may speak, was very truly democracy against carry always for the average of our citizens. autocracy—right against might, if lMf"En\Jt A watch you'll 1TA JCj1\I • at a price you can pay NOW. This is an age of blocs. The anony- these words stand for anything. This high grade, full 21-jewel adjusted Cold Filled mous author of "The Mirrors of Wash- Does this mean that the Legion must Watch is greatest value ever offered. A perfect time- keep hatred alive? keeper, heat and cold adjustment, and other features. ington," evidently a close student of Relied on by railroad men and others for accuracy. government, predicts that our Congress No. Yet I read today less than five OPEN FACE GOLD ENGRAVED CASE- beautifully enK.. latest style and design, screw back and bezel. 25-year guarantee— soon will take on the complexion of years after Chateau-Thierry, that Ger- a real $30 value while tbey last only $8. 45. European parliaments one group rep- many, having convicted and mildly pupil BEAUTIFUL LEATHER FOB with Silver Fin. Medal- — alf fa Hon. JUST NAME AND ADDRESS brings this bar- resenting labor, another the wets, an- sentenced six offenders against the I lllalaj gain. Fay postman on arrival. Send $8.45 with or- der-we pay postage. Money back if not please \ ORDER NOW. other the soldiers, another the farmers, laws of civilized warfare and having CHARLES & CO., Dept. 51, 1440 S. Michigan flv„ Chicago and so on. Well, the Legion's principles honorably discharged sixty-three, was forbid the soldier influence ever being now prepared to drop the cases against Be a Reporter patriotic. the remaining seven anything but fundamentally hundred and Write News, whole or part time. Big pay— fascinating work brilliant future. Reporters Because the soldier is representative eighty-one. — earn 540 to S100 weekly ; sports editors, feature, writers earn as high as 5200 to 5300 weekly of all kinds and classes of our citizenry. These were the men, you will remem- We fit you for this work—at home in your spare time. We had banker-soldiers and farmer- ber, who pillaged and burned and out- Course includes Reporting. News Writing, Special Cor- respondence, Sports, Publicity, etc. All students re- soldiers and labor-soldiers. Each man raged, and whose trial by just and im- ceive individual instruction from Experts Now on the Staffs of New York Daily Papers. Free booklet explains in the Legion now lends his ideals to partial court was demanded of Berlin in full. Write today. make up the common ideals. The pic- by the Allies. They were Eitel Fritz Metropolitan School of Journalism ture is composite. It is also complete. Hohenzollern, Tirpitz, Mackensen, Ca- Dept. 20-A 276 Fifth Ave., New York. N. Y. The influence is healthy and it pelle, and Schroeder, who sank the grows stronger. It shapes, at first Lusitania. Who cares, who remem- HOTEL ST. JAMES - hand, community affairs, then state, bers? TIMES SQUARE :: NEW YORK CITY then national. Each man, young American public opinion swings like Just off Broadway at 109-113 West 45th Street it though he may be, can have part in it. a pendulum, seems. A little while An hotel of quiet dignity, having the at- The recent occupation by the French ago crying for a march to Berlin and mosphere and appointments of a well con- ditioned home. 40 of the Ruhr furnishes an example. resolutely changing the name of Ger- theatres, all principal shops and churches, 3 to 5 minutes' walk. Our first national reaction was un- man fried potatoes, today shaking Send Postal for Rates ami Booklet favorable. Allies don't stick together heads over French militarism. Is there W. JOHNSON QUINN. President . —

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a middle ground in this welter? I think there is, and I think the Legion MEMORIAL DAY is taking it. DIAMONDS Allies in such a war as we fought are independence c\!jlauDai/ approaching can stick together in peace, and must. /Here at 60% Which doesn't mean, on the one hand, OUR STEEL violent espousal of every French or of Market Price This snappy perfectly cat dia- British move, or, on the other hand, mond 7-8 — 3-32 ct. at $52.50 among FLAGPOLES bargains we list. Many other do. big sullen distrust of everything they values in our lists. Bay HERE. Loan values everlasting as the The great inspiring purpose of the last the price basis, not market K values. This 75 year old diamond Flag you fought war was to end all wars forever. To banking firm has thousands unpaid this principle every Legion man can loans and other bargains must sell NOW. for, are ideal, mod- still subscribe. This is his opportunity Why Pay Full Prices Any diamond sent for absolutely free examina- tion at our erately-priced for service to a weary world, his chance risk . No obligation. No cost to yoa. to band with his fellows here and be- Send lotLatest List yond the Atlantic to make war impos- Diamond Bargains described in detail. Tells of WAR guaranteed loan values, unlimited exchange sible. The elder statesmen are tangled Privilege, details of free examination. Sendnow JOS. DeROY & SONS 9097 OeRoy Bide in their own web. The young men of Only Opposite Post Office. Pittsburgh, Pa. MEMORIALS today can cut the knots—not by be- Let us mail you coming pacifists, not by abandoning descriptive common sense, but by bringing to the Sell TIRES literature problem something of the high cour- DIRECT FROM FACTORY We want one auto owner in each locality age and invincible energy that once to use and advertise Armour Cords. You before turned disaster into victory. can make bigmoney andgetyourowntiresFree The Pole and Tube^Woeks, Inc. by simply sending us orders from friends and This, as I see it, is the reason why neighbors. No Capital or Experience atenubd&mubray stheet,new,ikk,l?.j needed* I belong to the Legion and why the we deliver and collect direct. Pay you daily. Most Liberal Tire Guarantee Ever average ex-service man should belong Written Armour Cords are Bonded against Accidental —this chance to do something, to take Damage,ra Wear and Tear, Tread Separation, Blis- active in the biggest tasks tering, Blow-Outs and Rim-Cutting for part our 10,000 miles. We are actual manufactur- Why Burn Coal country has ever had and that the ers. Write today for Great Special Offer to Agents and low Factory Prices. 1 When you get twice the beat world has ever had. We got in the I at half the cost, by installing ARMOUR TIRE & RUBBER CO., PgjjgB, DAYTON. minutei game once before, and I. 0. j on free trial, in five you Think I time, Uni-Hete Oil-Gas Bar of our disappointment now if we had jner in your range or heati

I Uni-Hete generates gas f i been on the sidelines then. We resented kerosene — cheap* ! common the mud and weariness and danger at ; fuel known. Bed hot fire ins Song Parodies 25c glycnlyas long as needed. the time, but we are proud now that Be a parlor entertainer. Make a hit I Perfect valve control* with the crowd. 25 parodies including I Keep yoor kitchen cool we went through. Today we may hesi- I this summer. Cooks and tate before we pin our Legion button "Georgette," "HotLips,""The Sheik," I bakes in any stove. FREE! "Three O'clock in the Morning," TRIAL. Saves its small cost fn 30 days. Lasts years. on, for it means work and thought and all the big hits Made by factory making beating devices for 83 years. "Tomorrow," and service. In the tomorrows we shall be mailed on receipt of 25c in stamps- Agents—Special Oiler—Act Quick | glad that we came in, glad that we special get -acquainted price. The Uni-Hete comfort and money-saving features makes it a quick seller. Big profit. Write at once. have been active, not passive. We shall Acorn Bldg,, Chicago, in. I Acorn Brass Mfg. Co;, 424 agree with Mark Twain that the man who doesn't do his bit "is better off under ground, inspiring the cabbages." Your Post Printing Send for our circular showing how we can help you put some snap into your posters, programs and notices. We furnish cuts of all descriptions, make A Sailor's Query drawings, layouts and do printing and multigraph- The announcements in recent issues of ing. Write now for price list. the Weekly about the Legion's Overseas Post Printing Service Graves Endowment Fund set me to think- Operated by The American Legion Weekly ing about some comrades of mine who were 627 West 43rd St., Mew York buried over there. Can you tell me what disposition was made of our shipmates Secured. Trade- who died while attached to U. S. Naval marks and Copy- Base No. 25, Submarine Chaser Detach- PATENTS ment Squadrons Four and Five and U. S. S. rights registered who derive larg- Registered Patent Attorney profits know Leonidas, who were buried on the Island QTFVFWQ If est EC. C. OlCVmO, jr. and heed certain of Corfu, Greece, between June and No- Lateor IheUSlhU. S. Infly. INVENTORS simple but vital vember, 1918? Everett E. Magill, Ex- LEGIONNAIRE OF MARYLAND Patents. book1 Patent-Sense facts before applying for Our Solicits aa a member of the old established firm of M1LO B. STEVENS gives those facts; free. Write Lacey & Lacey, 643 Ph. M., U. S. N., Magill, Okla. & CO., the business of his fellow Legionnaires and of their friends. F St., Washington, D. C. ESTABLISHED 1869. We offer a strictly professional service at moderate fees. Preliminary advice without charge. Send sketch <>r model for examination. Offices. THE bodies of the twelve Navy men Barrister Bids., Washington, D.C.;338MonadnockBlock. Chicago, Ills. who died while attached to U. S. Naval Base No. 25, Bay of Gorvino, You can easily earn TRAVELING SALESMEN Corfu, Greece, were returned to this , money for the small payments. Parents often ad- Fastest selling made to measure line, suits, country in March, 1920, on the U. S. S. vance first payment to help buy a RANGi£R. 44 Styles, colors and sizes. Factory to Rider prices. overcoats, $29.50—one price, all wool, every- West Point. Four of these bodies were Delivered FREE, express prepaid. fo^30DAYS , TRIAL. Terms to suit—cash or easy payments. advance, steady of thing guaranteed. Profits in buried in national cemeteries—those ' am P9j wheels, horns, repairs and T«*«AC:S.Tt?. e

Tlever mmd-rllget WHAT Got 3 copy o£ Gosh!yd haven't got it down the street- HE (JOT AT The American, it yet / OTHER I trade with the THE Legion Weekly say, 1 can't NEWS TAND dealers who keep Joe wait here all day The Weekly out

"How's that?" Buddy asks. the little old space that's helping the Coupon skirmishers find out how to get a b'gger anc^ Joe Knows Better Now "Well, you can bet your life that Mr. Dink who better magazine." runs Dink's Monthly is going to give his personal business to the dealer that boosts his magazine." And that's what I did.— Newsstand At. Buddy was so busy counting coupons from last week that he had to holler for help. "Sure." Buddy says, "but their ain't but one Mr. Dink." "Hey, there, Al," he says to me, "how's news- IF YOU'RE ON, SHOOT THIS IN stand sales?" "No." I says, "but there's a million reader-

"Full of pep," I says, "got seventy-five distribu- owners of the Weekly." tors in forty-nine states and a whole Hock of direct Newsstand Al, independent accounts, all betting on the Weekly "Gee," Buddy says, "we could have a pippin and raring to go." of a magazine if that bunch would get behind and American Legion Weekly, push to keep the Weekly displayed. Betcha we'd 627 West 43d Street. New York. "It ain't enough," says Buddy, stamping last get a lot of fellers in the Legion that way, too." week's coupons down in the barrel. You can bet your boots I'll see that MY dealer "Sure, an' that ain't all." I says, "there's all the keeps OUR Weekly out front. "How come you can't bend the efforts of The Auxiliary, the bankers and lawyers, the dentists MY— Comrades of Coupon Clippers toward getting and doctors, and the leading citizens of every town more?" I asks. that wouldn't know they could get it unless they saw it out front." "You know bettern I do," he says, "you tell

"Well, suppose a dealer don't carry it at all* what then?" "Ain't nothin* to tell," I says, "it's everybody's own book. All they got to do is stick up for it. "That's simple. He can get it from any branch Just tell their dealer to keep it out front, then boost of All the dealer the dealer that does." The American News Company. has got to do is just order it from where he gets his A -dress "TK^n tell 'em that," Buddie says. other magazines. There's a bunch of independent distributors that can supply it, too." "I betcha that if every dealer would keep the Weekly out front that he'd get a lot of business for "Well, I tell you," says Buddie. "You just other magazines,'' I says. scribble down what you said, and we'll run it in Post No City and State.

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"Will Yoi* Give Me a Chance to PayYou* 10 ©"Week? I want to make an offer whereby you can first month's spare time he earned Maybe You Are Worth earn from #100 to #1,000 a month, cash. #2-!3. Inside of six months he was $1,000 a Month You can be your own boss. You can making between #600 and #1,200 a month. Well, here is your chance to find out, for this work just as many hours a day as you is the same proposition that enabled George Garon to make a clear profit please. You can start when you want \V. J. McCrary is another^man I want of $40.00 in his first day's work—the same proposition that to and quit when you want to. You to tell you about . His regular job paid gave R. W. Kriegcr $20.00 net profit in a half don't need experience and you get your him #2.00 a day, but this wonderful hour. It is the same opportunity that gave money in cash every day when you new work has enabled him to make A. B. Spencer $625 cash for one month's spare time. earn it. #9,000 a year. I need 500 men and women and I need them Yes, and right this very minute you are These Are Facts right away. If you mail the coupon at the being offered the same proposition that bottom of this ad I will show you the easiest, quickest, simplest plan for making Does that sound too good to be true? has made these men so successful. Do money that you ever heard of. I will send you a If it does, then let me tell you what J. you want it? Do you want to earn complete outfit. I will send you a beautiful R. Head did in a small town in Kansas. #40.00 a day? style book and samples of cloth. I will tell to go, Head lives in a town of 63 1 people. He you where what to say, and how to succeed. Inside of thirty days you can have was sick, broke, out of a job. He ac- AClean,High=Grade hundreds of dollars in rash. All you need do cepted my offer. I gave him the same today is write your name down below,', cut chance I am now offering you. At this Dignified Business out the coupon and mail it to me at once. You take no risk, you invest no money, and new work he has made as high as All- Have you ever heard of Comer this may be the one outstanding opportunity #69.50 for one day's work. Weather Coats? They are advertised of your life to earn more money than you ever thought possible. If that isn't enough, then let me tell you in all the leading magazines. Think of about E. A. Sweet of Michigan. He a single coat that can be worn all year Find Out Now! round. A good-looking, stylish coat was an electrical engineer and didn't Remember, it doesn't cost .you a "penny. You know anything about selling. In his that's good for summer or winter—that don't agree to anything, and you will have a keeps out wind, rain or snow, a coat chance without waiting—without delay and without investment to go right out and that everybody should have, made of — IMPORTANT NOTICE make big money. Do it. Don't wait. Mail fine materials for men, women and the coupon now.

The Comer Manufacturing Company ' children, and sells for less than the is the largest business of , its kind in C. E,. the world. Any man who becomes a price of an ordinary, coat. COMER representative is assured of fair, THE. COMER. MFG. CO. square, honest treatment and will Now, Comer Coats are not sold in Dept. SF=435 Dayton, Ohio have reason to be proud of his connec- stores. All our orders come through tion with the company. our own representatives. Within the next few months we will pay represen- tatives more than three hundred thou- sand dollars for sending us orders. And now- 1 am offering you the chance

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You can see how simple it is. We fur- nish you with a complete outfit and tell you how to get the business in your ter- o\o ritory. We help you to get started. If you only send us three average orders a day, which you can get in an hour or 'so in the evening you will make # 100 a week. #1