The American Legion Monthly [Volume 19, No. 5 (November 1935)]

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P^irst instalment rize winning Big Moments "Camels dont get yourWild" FAMOUS ATHLETES AGREE

Some of the famous M Ora] athletes who approve

of Camel's mildness W... ^

BASEBALL Mark the words of George Lott, the tennis champion, Dizzy Dean Lou Gehrig and the 7-goal polo star, Cyril Harrison: "Camels," MelvinOtt CarlHubbell says Mr. Harrison, "are so mild they don't upset the Harold Schumacher

nerves or affect the wind. And when I'm tired I get TENNIS a 'lift' with a Camel." Lott adds: "Naturally the ciga- Ellsworth Vines, Jr.

rette blended from more expensive tobaccos is going George M. Lott, Jr. to be easy and gentle on the throat. And Camels William T. Tilden, 2nd never get my wind. "I'd walk a mile for a Camel!'" GOLF Gene Sarazen, Craig Wood, Tommy Armour, Willie Macfarlane, Helen Hicks YOU CAN SMOKE ALL YOU WANT TRACK AND FIELD Jim Bausch Leo Sexton SWIMMING Helene Madison, Josephine McKim, Stubby Kruger

DIVING Harold ("Dutch") Smith Pete Desjardins Georgia Coleman

• Camels are made from finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS —Turkish and Domestic — than any other popular brand.

(Signed) R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N.C.

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A Union Soldier with the A.E.F N.GVanSant

getting MY eighty-nine years I have had two Doughboys doughnuts from ex-Private Van Sant's Sal- INgreat experiences. Either alone would have marked the high point in a lifetime. vation Army lassies at Varennes Together, they have not been duplicated, —they served 6,000 doughnuts a so far as I have been able to learn, by any day there for ten days. At left, man. I was a Union soldier in the Civil War Mr. Van Sant, from a recent and I was privileged to serve men of the A.E. photograph F. directly at the fighting front. Perhaps some of my readers will recall Dad Van Sant As chief cook and bottle washer as well as who worked in the Salvation Army hut in a sweeper-up, counter-sales clerk and all-round wine cellar at Mandres, in the Toul sector, worker in a number of huts close to the front that summer of 191 8. A modest service and often under enemy fire, I felt that I had enough, turning flapjacks, frying doughnuts never had a more worth-while job in my life. and making coffee, but the men seemed to It was a great experience. I wouldn't have approve it. missed it for anything. We had a fine army, In the Civil War, I enlisted at seventeen in and to be permitted to serve some of its mem- the Ninth Illinois Cavalry, in 1864, and saw bers was an opportunity and a distinction. it through. I joined up for the work in France at. seventy-two. Much of my assignment was in the village of Mandres, south- When the Spanish-American War broke out, I hurried back from east of St. Mihiel and not far from Montsec. Our quarters— a world tour to my home in Sterling, Illinois, and tried to get in, had a helper most of the time—were in an abandoned wine cellar. but the ranks were full. However, in the next war I was able to The building above had been demolished but the cellar was shell find a place at the front, though not in the fighting ranks. and bomb proof, and hence about the most popular place in the After America's entrance into the World War, besides making town. It was said that there was only one house in it not dam- some public addresses in Sterling for our cause, I had helped aged by shell fire. The cellar was some forty feet long by twenty several boys fill out their questionnaires. I had advised them wide, with stone walls, earth floor and ceiling high enough for not to claim exemption, so that in years to come they could say standing upright in the middle but not near the sides. It had a they were in that mighty struggle. It came to me that I should stove, a canteen counter, tables and so on. At the entrance was practise my own preaching. I was alone, in good health and free a hogshead or big wine cask, filled with rocks, which one had to to do a bit where the fighting was. The Salvation Army accepted squeeze past in coming or going. At night I slept in a dugout me and I went over in June, the second year. I returned in not far from the wine cellar. September. At one of the earlier stations in the (Continued on page 42)

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Cforffodandcountry, we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: Qo upholdand defend the Constitution w/ ofthe UnitedStates of&merica; to maintain law andorder; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredpercent {Americanism ; topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theffreatTVar; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obligation io the community, state andnation; to comhat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; topromote peace andgoodwillon earth; to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjusticejreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual hdpfdness.— Preamble to the Constitution, ofThe American Legion.

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A Union Soldier with the A. E. F. by N. G. Van Sant

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Armistice? Not on This Front by The Company Clerk 34 Bursts and Duds Conducted by Dan Sowers 48 The Forty and Eight 64

Sign Them Up—Now! NOW is the time for all good posts to come to their own aid and help their Depart- ments get an early start in the race for pre-eminence in membership. Everything points to a big Legion year in 1936, and the bigger the membership the easier it will be for the organization to achieve "the objectives which the National Convention in St. Louis determined upon. No man who saw service in the World War should be outside the Legion ranks, for its record of peacetime service is a challenge to greater deeds for America. But he's got to be told, in many cases. Don't let George do it—make yourself a committee with power to sign up these men who ought to be one of ours. The command is forward — for God and Country, more than a million strong.

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NOVEMBER, 1935 3 BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR

It's the Best American Tradition

There was a time, not so long ago, when being a good help the other fellow frame and raise his house, or to neighbor was a real factor in getting America going—and fight shoulder to shoulder with him against a common keeping us on our way. foe. But it is your responsibility to support, as you are able, institutions that minister In that day a man and his sons might cut and hew to his welfare and the welfare of his family as definitely the timbers for a new dwelling and frame them stoutly as a pioneer ever helped his neighbors. Hospitals, clinics, on the ground. But before the walls could be raised, day nurseries need and before the roof could go on, these builders needed and deserve your help. ... So do homes for the aged, the blind, received the help of their neighbors. It was given gener- the incurable. ... So the build ously in the old Colonial "house raising." do agencies that the youth of your community. The same necessity for being a good neighbor, for It's still necessary to be a helping the other fellow whenever he needed help, was good neighbor. And it's still recognized in all departments of early American life. possible. Support your Com- Days of labor and the use of teams were exchanged as munity Chest. Answer local conditions of the crops demanded. And in time of sick- welfare appeals. You will ness, fire, drought, attack, each man was in truth his be the best possible neighbor brother's keeper. in your own neighborhood! In spite of the specialization of modern times, the

speed and the scope of business and social life, there is,

more than ever, the need for the good old American vir- Chairman, All facilities for this advertisement tue of being a neighbor. No longer are you called upon to National Citizens' Committee furnished the committee without cost MOBILIZATION FOR HUMAN NEEDS-1935 4 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly No Cause But /a* Legion's

World War has the necessity for a Universal Service law been more clearly The National demonstrated than the

world is demonstrating it Commander at present. Only along this road lies the hope of World Peace. IS my good fortune ITto have been selected During the year ahead as your National the Legion will not forget Commander backed its obligation to the wid- by the most clear cut and ows and orphans of the definite program that has World War. We shall press ever been adopted by the for the enactment of suit- assembled voice of The able legislation for the American Legion. protection of these most Never before, since the innocent and least vocal question was first brought of the war's victims—of before the organization at any war's victims. its Minneapolis National I shall have more to say Convention in 19 19, has later regarding the full an adjusted compensation breadth and scope of the resolution been unani- program that the organi- mously endorsed by The zation will seek to write

American Legion . My man- into the history of The date is unequivocal, and I American Legion during shall support it to the let- 1936. But I do not want ter. I am heartened by to close this brief pro- the fact that the bonus nouncement without resolution adopted at St. stressing the fact that all Louis just a month ago Ray Murphy, National Commander the efforts of the National specifically divorced that Organization will go for issue from every other that might confuse the naught unless the full strength of an alert, powerful simple question of justice to the ex-service man and numerous body is behind them. The main ob- and woman. jective, at the moment, is membership. Great •More closely allied to the bonus issue than membership and great achievement go hand in might appear on the surface is the problem of the hand. I have never seen a weak post with a strong universal draft. membership—or a strong post with a weak member- The American Legion has been hammering at ship. Many hands may not make light work, but this goal for ten years; despite the obstacles that they make accomplishment certain. Moving for- have been put in the path of its enactment, the ward, as we must, like a mighty peacetime army, we Legion has persevered, and will continue to persevere, cannot fail to take our objectives. To the accom- to have it written on the statute books. Your plishment of our endeavors I shall give all my heart, National Organization will have more to say on this all my mind, all my strength. In return I ask from matter during the coming session of Congress. It you, the individual Legionnaire, your full and loyal need only be said here that at no time since the support as we go forward for God and country.

NOVEMBER, 1935 5 A TALE OF SAILORMEN, CRAFT AND LOVE

friend, Hamil- MYton Reedy, is a chief boatswain's mate, retired, of the United States Navy, and he lives in a little bungalow down on the shore of San Diego Bay, where he can talk with other old retired men and keep more or less in touch with the fleet. One morning I found him fondling a model of a double-ended boat, and asked him what it was. "Model of a Navy racing barge," he replied. "Ad- miral Bayliss sent it to me. He retired as chief of naval operations last week, and his last official act was to send up to the Philadelphia Navy Yard and swipe this model for me, as a sort of keepsake." Ham Reedy smiled the reminiscent smile of one who sees things not given to other mortal eyes. "Why this particular model?" I queried. "I thought all Navy racing barges were built to standard specifications." "So they are, so they are," he replied patiently, "but this one had her lines 'The sweetened a little, which MAN secret is known only to the admiral and me. And those sweet lines were drawn off from a hand," he began. "The old White Squadron had just given way barge built by a Kanaka fisherman who didn't know any more to the gray battle-wagons. I studied hard and kept my nose clean about naval architecture than a pig does of Polaris, although to and at twenty-two I was a chief boatswain's mate. Never a the best of his ability he built it as close to Navy barge specifi- payday that I didn't tuck some of it away with the paymaster at cations as possible, in the matter ol draft, beam, length on water- interest, for I liked the service and had made up my mind to do line and length from stem to stern. Then he put a crew of Kan- my time and retire without a worry in life. The thought of getting akas in it and walloped the crew of the U. S. S. Chesapeake by six married never occurred to me; I'd always felt sorry for Navy lengths. And we were the champion crew of the Pacific Fleet in widows—until I met Minnie McAndrews. Minnie was always those days. The brown rascals took all the money in our ship, too good for a sailor. A missionary's daughter she was and cripes, except what the paymaster had in his safe. After the race, they how that horse-faced father of hers hated Navy men! Com- hauled her up on the beach and went off to a luaua and Lieu- missioned or enlisted personnel, he had a grudge against us all, tenant (junior grade) Monk Bayliss and I went ashore and drew holding us a sinful lot ashore and no better than we'd ought to off her lines. Monk had taken the course in naval construction be at sea. He didn't want Minnie to marry me. In fact, he didn't at the Academy." want her to marry anybody; had it planned for Minnie to dedi- Mr. Reedy got out his pipe, cut a segment from his black navy cate her life to the Lord and spend it herding Chinamen into a plug and loaded and lighted his pipe—infallible preliminary in a Hebrew's idea of heaven. With the help of Monk Bayliss I sailor man to the spinning of a yarn. changed all that. "I was sixteen and out of high school when I first held up my "Well, I was chief boatswain's mate on the old Chesapeake

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As the stern cleared the bow of the other boat a mighty cheer went up from both banks

'You'll do for coxswain. You've got your crew with you always. Leader- ship. You 've got an even beat, you know the limitations of your men and you've trained them well. What you need is better men. Not heavyweights, but men averaging around a hundred and seventy; men with great chests, long backs and thin legs, men without much meat on them; men with heart. Four of

your present crew will do. I'll pull stroke and we'll get rid of the others. Find me about thirty candidates to

fill the vacancies.' "So I found him thirty and he picked fifteen; then the doctors went over the fifteen and weeded them down to seven and Monk Bayliss went at them and, in two months, out of the seven he filled up the barge crew, and in Singa- pore we walked away from a good crew of a British cruiser and won a lot of money. Then a German challenged us and we beat them by four boat lengths and our own best time by twelve seconds. Our old man was delighted and Monk was proud of us. The next year we again won the championship of the Pa- cific Fleet—and then the doctors told Monk he'd developed a little heart murmur and the old man wouldn't let him pull stroke any more. However, we'd developed a /6r MINNIE when Monk Bayliss, at twenty-two and just out of Bif PeterB. Kt/ne Annapolis, was assigned to her. He'd been the honor man of his class and champion light heavyweight, not only of the Academy, but of the entire Atlantic Coast. And he'd good substitute for Monk and we were still a hard crew to beat. pulled stroke on the Navy crew that had won all the inter- "The years passed and I served in many ships, but my reputa- collegiate regattas for three years. He'd a walk like a cat and tion as a coxswain was always ahead of me and wherever they was so full of mischief they called him Monkey Bayliss—Monk assigned me the Old Man would hand over his barge crew to me for short. He had the old Navy tradition, though. Hard as lignum to train and manage. I'd learned much from Monk Bayliss and vitae and soft as a boiled egg—kept an enlisted man away from had the ability to apply it, so wherever I went I had a barge crew him and yet held him close. Our old man was glad to get him and that had to be reckoned with. Monk Bayliss did duty on land the first thing he did was to order Monk Bayliss to organize a and sea, but after he left the Chesapeake it was ten years before I barge crew. We had one on the Chesapeake but the old man saw him again. He was a lieutenant, senior grade, then and I met didn't think so after the Kanakas beat us. I was coxswain and him one night at the boat landing on the Bund in Shanghai trainer. So right off I met Monk Bayliss. and I was through with barge racing forever, having at my own " 'Reedy,' he says, T hear you and your crew are terrible, but request, when re-enlisting, been assigned to a little flat-bottomed I do not believe all I hear. Get the barge overside and I'll pull gunboat on the Yang-tse Patrol. I'd been in battle cruisers and stroke and see what you have.' battle wagons so Jong I wanted a change. Life on the Yang-tse "When we got the barge back on the superstructure, he says: was more interesting. We got a bit of shooting.

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"We were in Shanghai for docking Illustrations by two-striper stretched the other six. But neither and there'd been a barge race at slack him nor me was nice to look upon when the job water on the Whang-poo late that Herbert M. Stoops was done. morning, between an old Russian " 'That's the barge crew of the Russian cruiser, and the British cruiser Power- cruiser, bo'sun,' he says, spittin' blood and ful. I hadn't bothered to hang around to watch it because I feeling to see if his ribs were all there. 'They row a damned sight could pick the winner before the race. I'd given odds of three to better than they fight.'

one and had won upwards of a hundred pounds from the opti- " 'They're the champions of the Asiatic Station, sir,' I replied, mists on the Powerful, and had gone ashore to blow some of it. 'but if I had the crew I called the beat for in the old Chesapeake, "Because they'd won their race the crew from the Russian had I'd strip those Ivans down to their socks.' twenty-four hours' liberty and their old man had sent them ashore " 'I've both eyes damaged so I cannot see you clearly,' says my in his own gig. About eleven o'clock that night I came down to comrade in fists, 'but if you called the beat for the crew I stroked the boat landing on the Bund, planning to pick up a sampan and on the old Chesapeake you must be all that is mortal of Chief

go out to my ship. The barge crew of the Russians', having cele- Boatswain's Mate Hamilton J. Reedy.' brated with a big dinner at the Astor House, were coming down " 'Mr. Bayliss!' I yelled—and I forgot discipline and respect the Bund, singing operas and giving other evidences of the wine to rank and made a dive for him. He put his arms around me and they had in them, and a U. S. naval officer—a two-striper—was we hung there together and steadied ourselves, for the world was standing at the entrance watching them. turning on its axis faster than usual. 'Old Ham Reedy,' he kept "A launch coughed into the float and a young lady got out and saying. 'Good old Ham! We're not the men we used to be but came up the ramp to the street, just as the Russian crew started we'll do.' down, and what does one of these lads do but chuck this young " 'Indeed you will, gentlemen,' says a lady's voice beside us. woman under the chin and make a remark of sorts. She handed 'The ruffians were too many for me and I am grateful for your him two grand slaps for his pains—one on each cheek—and he assistance. I wonder if those people can assimilate a lesson in slapped her back. chivalry.' "Now, I was never what you might call a big man. I weighed " 'Bosun's Mate Reedy, what does she look like?' says Monk. about a hundred and forty-five at the time and I'd boxed a lot 'My optic nerves have been short-circuited and I can see three of and could take care of myself with the average man of my weight. her but faintly. Which is she? The middle one?' I had one real advantage in a fight. When I hit 'em they stayed " 'She's a lady, sir,' says I, 'and lovely, whichever one you hit for a while—and I hit that bird—an uppercut from the hip look at.' right under his chin. Then one of his friends hit me and when I " 'I'm Miss Minerva McAndrews,' says the young lady, 'and turned to hit the friend, the friend wasn't there. That two- my father is in charge of the mission at Liu-ho.' " striper had helped me out. 'That would be the Presbyterian mission—with a Mac in it,' "That was a fight. Those Russians couldn't box but they could says Monk Bayliss, and introduces himself and me. 'And what kick—and they did, because they resented our interference in the devil,' he continued, 'does a missionary's daughter mean by their innocent pastime. I accounted for three of the nine and the lallygagging around the Bund at this hour of the night?' " T was down river to the steamer that sails tonight with the tide, carrying my father and mother back to the United States. Mother has to have medical treatment not available in China and father has to make a report of his stewardship to those higher up and paint it so brightly he'll get more money to carry on.'

" 'And who,' says I, having had one good look at her now that the fog had left my

brain, 'is left in charge of the mission?' " T am.' " 'And how far is this town of Liu-ho from here?' " 'Sixteen miles.' " 'And might a Chief Boatswain's Mate of the United States Navy venture to make a social call upon Miss Minerva McAndrews?' " 'Certainly,' says Minerva, 'although my father thinks Navy men are terrible. But I'll trade 'em for coolies any day. Do come. My father will faint when he learns of it and the staff will be scandalized, but what I say, Mr. Reedy, is: To hell with them.' "We both shook hands with Minerva. We had to. There was no resisting her. And it's been that way with Minnie ever since. " 'Chief Bosun's Mate Reedy,' says Monk Bayliss, 'you're black and blue but not very bloody, so put Miss Minerva in a ricksha, climb into one yourself and escort her safely to wherever she's going. The launch from my ship will be here in a jiffy and I'll go aboard before these barbarians come to and tackle me again.' "So I escorted Minnie up to the Astor House and went back to my ship, and, because she was the only other U. S. ship in the river at the time, Monk Bayliss came over "I'm Miss Minerva McAndrews," says the young lady, to see me next day. "and my father is in charge of the mission at Liu-ho" " 'Reedy,' says Monk, 'you have three The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly That was a fight. Those Russians couldn't box but they could kick, and they did

duties to perform before you're much older. Number one—save your pay and get married, so you'll have somebody to love you and take care of you when you're an old shell-back, on the beach. For that dubious duty I nominate Miss Minerva McAndrews, which I would not do if I were not now a married man. I'd marry her myself. Number two—marry that grand girl, because she wagon coming into the Whangpoo can escape them, because it's has good looks, high courage and a broad and humorous mind. in the nature of the naval service not to dodge a challenge; it's in Did you mark that the Russian fellow didn't frighten her? She the blood of bluejackets to back their own crews. Reedy, the situ- swung on him. Number three—get a barge crew together and ation is simply hellish and it's got to stop. On the other hand, it's ruin that Russian outfit, so you'll win money enough to marry a situation that's been twelve years in the making for you. Those Minerva. How much longer have you got to serve in this river sure-thing champions and their shipmates will bet their last pig?' kopek so it's only a question of getting together all the money you "I told him I had three months. 'Good,' says Monk, 'and can beg, borrow or steal, then get together a crew like we had on never let me catch you on the Yang-tse Patrol again. You belong the old Chesapeake—and live happy ever afterward. You're a in a battle wagon. Now then, let me tell you about the Russian grand trainer, a grand judge of oarsmen and the best coxswain vessel. European nations do not change their capital ships on the that ever cried a beat. Do it. It's an order. Incidentally, I could Asiatic Station; every three years they change the crews. The use a few thousands extra and I want you to make it for me— for United States changes capital ships and crews every two years. old sake's sake.' Now that Russian cruiser has been lying up there in the river for " 'We haven't got the men on the Asiatic Station, sir,' I warned twelve years and four crews have come and gone but that barge him. 'They've already beaten the best we have.' crew never goes. When one gets too old or crippled or dies, they " 'These Russian pirates have grown fat and careless with have another just as good to step into his place. Make no mistake. victory too 'ong continued. They've gro,vn contemptuous and a Those are good men and the Russians have always been a mari- bit of age has descended on them, Reedy. They'll not trainaswell time race and they've always produced first-class oarsmen. It's now as they used to. Give them a hard run for the first two miles their dish, for some reason or other, and this Russian crew has and you'll get them anxious and excited—and when a Russky gets beaten the barge crews of every nation that has had ships on the excited he blows up. You organize and train the crew and I'll Asiatic Station. For twelve long years they've been doing it. plot the course for you. I'll be out here two years longer.' I've looked them up. They challenge for a purse of three hundred " 'But, sir, I'd have to go to the Atlantic Fleet to get the men dollars gold per oar and they take all the side bets their oppon- and how do I know that when I re-enlist, I'll be ordered back to ents offer. They've made the money, like all Russians they've the Asiatic Station with my crew.' " saved it and so they have it to bet. Never a big cruiser or battle 'That can be fixed, Reedy. Do you {Continued on page 46)

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PAWNBROKER FAILS X* TWO SUSPECTS HELD BANDrrs hold up 6 in SENATORS EAGER \ IN SHERIFFS' MURDER TO IDENTIFY HIM SALOON AND GET {60 T0 STUDY PACT BETWEEN the Atlantic and the Pa- -*» a~~« »f "* ' Man Who Issued Ticket cific, as if the architect of this conti- -vV."" Mo~y «nd D.«mon/ Treatment of EoeroT, For Revolver View» "** Reparations and Eco- nent had placed it so by design, ^Efuoner in East St. "." o o m i c Conditions In- there is a city which is surrounded terest Officials. by the United States. Nature made St. Louis inevitable when, after she reared the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians, she scoured out in the vast trough of inland and laid the groundwork for an American Legion ^si: America between them the Mississippi. She made the river a which they hoped would become mighty in the X boundary line within a nation, a natural division of the country's years that lay ahead. ^ halves. Their hopes and dreams had come true impressively when in The river was the goal for America's pioneers as they broke September of this year 1935 The American Legion came home through the wilderness, step by step, from the eastern seaboard. again to the city of its birth and celebrated the homecoming It was the fresh starting point for those same pioneers as they assembled in a hall which held 15,000 persons, marched in a pressed onward, still step by step, for the conquest of the parade, almost 100,000 strong, for eight solid hours. The Amer- Rockies and the Pacific Coast. ican Legion of May, 1919, was a whisper compared with the After the French founded St. Louis, no later men on the Legion of September, 1935—the amplified composite voice of Mississippi could find a better site for a metropolis. The St. almost one million service men. Louis of the French explorers became the natural crossing point Among the scores of thousands of present-day Legionnaires for eastern men bound west and western men bound east, the who rolled into St. Louis this last September were many of those center of webs of railways and paved highways. It is now a pioneers of 1919. They paused for a moment on one of the spot which stands out on the map as the bull's-eye of Mid- city's boulevards to read the inscription on a memorial tablet America. erected on the building in which the Legion was born. Once a It was a St. Louis grown great which sixteen years ago saw theater, that building is now the home of a business corpora- the first humble beginnings of The American Legion. Just as tion. Show windows look out upon the passing crowds where it was natural that such a metropolis should arise on the Mis- sixteen years ago the pioneers gathered in informal caucuses in sissippi, so was it fitting that when The American Legion sprang the theater lobby. spontaneously from the hearts of America's veterans of the World War they should select that typical American city as its IT WAS only sixteen years ago. The roll call of that Caucus birthplace. of 1919 showed only a scattering of delegates from each State. On May 8th, 9th and 10th of that year 1910 a regiment of The Legion of 1935 brought to St. Louis 1,207 delegates repre- young men and more oldish comrades, all wearing the new senting 850,000 members. The organization which was only a suits they had bought for the most part with that sixty-dollar hope and a dream in 1919 had exceeded a round million in 1930, discharge bonus, made a rendezvous in a St. Louis theater. the year which marked the beginning of the depression.

Somewhat uncomfortable in their recently-donned high, stiff There is the temptation to keep on drawing these comparisons collars, they resolutely got down to oratory and the passage of between the Legion of the yesterday of sixteen years ago and resolutions, considered the troubled state of the world and nation the Legion of today. But first, there should be told in sketchy

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — Louis Von Blon A19^/ ^/3 S WELCOME LEGIONNAIRES SPECIAL • UGION HOMELATE ST. LOUIS STAR-TIMES EDITION

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fashion the most important things the national convention of U I. 000 to accomplished. 125.000 Throng St. 1935 Louij, 9.000 at Au- ditorium Get Fir»t Session Under Way. IN THAT 1935 St. Louis national convention, The American Legion took these actions: Elected Ray Murphy of Ida Grove, Iowa, as National Com- mander, to succeed Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., of California. Mme. Sch.' Elected as National Vice-Commanders: Dr. W. E. Whit- lock, High Springs, Florida; Lou R. Probst, Laramie, Wyoming; Oscar W. Worthwine, Boise, Idaho; Dr. Whitney Godwin, Suf- folk, Virginia, and Raymond F. Gates, Willimantic, Connecticut. Elected as National Chaplain, Reverend Father Thomas D. Outlined a program of aggressive opposition to communistic Kennedy of St. Louis, Missouri. and other subversive activities. Selected Cleveland for the 1936 national convention. Directed the appointment of a special committee to investigate Reaffirmed the request for the immediate payment of adjusted the Florida hurricane disaster of September, 1935, and report service certificates in full, with refund of interest paid and can- to the National Executive Committee. cellation of interest accrued, approved unreservedly efforts of Directed the National Commander to appoint a Committee National Commander Belgrano to bring this result about. on Veterans' Employment charged with the duty of carrying out a broad program to insure justice to veterans in all govern- mental relief activities such as the C. C. C, the W. P. A. and AT A Glorious Homecoming, The the Veterans Conservation Corps. x\. American Legion in Seventeenth Reaffirmed the Legion's support of the Federal Child Labor National Convention Assembled Reviews Amendment. Approved the dissolution of the Legion Publishing Corpora- a Record of High Accomplishment and tion and its replacement by a division of the national organiza- Plots a Course for Greater Achievement tion subject to the direction and control of the National Execu- tive Committee. Directed the publication and distribution to all members of Recommended that the national defense legislation obtained a news periodical The National Legionnaire—by the National in 1935 be "retained, consolidated and expanded to its logical Publicity Division. and reasonable conclusions." Adopted a large number of resolutions designed to protect Called for the speedy enactment of the Universal Service Act. the interests of disabled service men and assist in their rehabili- Directed that Americanism be continued as the major pro- tation. gram of The American Legion in 1935-1936. Directed relentless activity to make effective veterans' pref- Reaffirmed urgently its request for the rescinding of the rec- erence in Federal Civil Service. ognition of Soviet Russia. Urged preference for United States citizens in employment Indorsed American Legion participation in a Crime Confer- under government relief agencies. ence in Washington, D. C, as an annual event. Commended the Neutrality Resolution adopted by Congress THOSE are the high spots of the 1935 national convention and pledged the Legion's support to the maintenance of abso- actions. Later in this article they will be amplified and the lute neutrality by the United States Government. other actions of the convention will be covered in some detail. Approved the United States Government's continued efforts But first, in honor of the homecoming nature of this year's con- to collect war debts owed to it by European nations. vention, we may again drop back to that caucus of 1919.

NOVEMBER, 1935 II The retiring National Commander, Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., of California, greets the new, Ray Murphy of Iowa, immediately following his election, while department identification placards are waved in triumph overhead

That 1919 Caucus of The American Legion in St. Louis was Those forefathers of The American Legion were animated by held in an atmosphere of patriotic exaltation. It was a zeal to deepen the grooves of American character, to make for gathering of men just out of uniform, gripped by the power of all time a mould of Americanism into which the nation's citizen- wartime emotions, flushed with the spirit of victory, seeking ship should be poured. They debated lustily, they made a new channels for scarcely diminished energy. Representing St. Louis theater ring with denunciations of baser national creeds, almost all the divisions freshly returned from overseas and those they viewed with alarm certain stirrings which seemed to threat- from the camps at home, coming from every State, they were en a challenge to things as they were, and they proceeded infall- animated by common purposes and common determinations. ibly to lay the structural groundwork for the greatest organiza- It was an intensely nationalistic demonstration—a phenomenon tion of American war veterans. They declared their purposes of the sort which was to be witnessed in every country which in a Preamble which has not been changed in sixteen years and came through the war, victor or vanquished. they adopted a Constitution which made The American Legion a model of democracy. There were many old heads among those delegates to the St. Louis Caucus. They had been seasoned in public affairs before the war, more than a few of them, and some of them were outstanding in public life and industry. There were, however, a scattering of youngsters —boys about to take up afresh the tasks of fitting themselves for vocations and careers

The new National Vice-Commanders: Dr. W. E . Whitlock of Florida, Dr. which had been inter- Whitney Godwin of Virginia, Oscar W. Worthwine of Idaho, Raymond F. Gates rupted by the war. It of Connecticut, Lou R. Probst of Wyoming is interesting today to

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly As the National Chaplain delivered the invocation that opened the Seven- teenth National Con- vention in St. Louis's magnificent new Auditorium

study the roll of the delegates of ioio and note how many of them have added to the laur- els which were theirs even in that year and how many others have progressed to achievements of which they were only dreaming then. It was this combination of seasoned maturity and ambitious youth which laid the groundwork for The American Legion in St. Louis sixteen years ago. St. Louis and the United States did not realize during their deliberations the full portent of their actions. As conventions go, it was not an overwhelmingly large gathering. The newspapers viewed the Caucus interestedly, made pleasant editorial predictions as to the future of The American Legion but saw no reason to give great space to the deliberations and actions taken. The country was in the midst of the great transformation which came immediately after the war. There was a railroad problem. The Government was about to turn the roads back to their owners. There was a problem in almost every branch of industry. Strikes were threatening. The high cost of living was in every housewife's mind. A great national political battle was in the making. It was nice that the war veterans were organizing, but other things were making the big headlines and claiming the acres of newspaper type on the nation's front pages. In place of the little group which made no great dent in the con- sciousness of the Mississippi River metropolis sixteen years ago there came to St. Louis in 1035 an invading friendly army which dominated the entire city for four days. This Legion of ours returned in 1935 in a homecoming pilgrimage, and staged the largest national convention in its history. In trains and buses, in steamboats and airplanes, in myriads of automobiles, almost 150,000 Legionnaires and Auxiliares poured into St. Louis

The retiring Na- tional Chaplain, Reverend Park W. Huntington of Dela- ware, pins his badge of office on the breast of his successor, Reverend Father Thomas D. Kennedy of Missouri

One of the scores of musical units in the Big Parade — the drum corps of Curtis G. Redden Post of Danville, Illinois

NOVEMBER, 1935 13 Never greater precision in a Legion parade, never finer bands and drum corps and other uniformed organizations, never pret- tier girl drum majors. For the first time, The Sons of The American Legion marched in imposing strength, stirring the crowds of spectators to cheers as the boys' drum corps and bands kept pace with their fathers. Every State sent its host to St. Louis to record in that national convention parade its strength and enthusiasm, and more than a half-million spectators were enthralled by its pageantry and novelty. Not until the thousands of marching men from Mis- souri, with their many floats, passed the National Commander's reviewing stand at dusk did the spectators leave the dozens of stands in which they had taken seats at 10 o'clock in the morning. Accustomed to great halls for its meeting places, the Legion found in the St. Louis Municipal Auditorium the largest and

finest in which it has ever assembled. The opening session was held in a vast hall with seats for 11,095 persons on the floor and in the tiers of galleries. On a ninety-foot stage, against wings and back- Courthouse, where Grundy County John J. drop of black, the that sent Pershing took the examination him speaker's platform and Point, as reproduced to West by Trenton the rows of distinguished Legionnaires. At right, Mary Helen (Missouri ) guests stood out bril- of Cheyenne, Warren Wyoming — General liantly under the flood is just Uncle to her Pershing John lights. Colorful decorations of the hall and the in that week in September. With them came crowds of non- harmonious lighting Legionnaires by special trains and automobiles, so that on Tues- system contributed to a day, September 24th, the day of the national convention parade, magnificence which was it was estimated a half-million guests were within the city. in strong contrast to Only the Middle West—the country's center—could have the time-worn theater produced such a tremendous outpouring of the Legion's hosts. of that Caucus of six- It was the convention not only of St. Louis and Missouri, but teen years ago. The business sessions of Wednesday and Thursday were held in the gorgeously-decorat- ed Opera House, under the same roof as the auditorium. In this were seats for 5,000 delegates and visitors. Committee meetings were held in halls of the Municipal Auditorium, so that all the affairs of the convention were transacted in a single building. In the same building were restaurants and a vast bar. There was a longer bar, in fact, a 900-foot bar, in the grounds of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company where open house was held for Legionnaires, with free beer.

in the role of hosts also it seemed were such States as Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Nebraska. The Chicago national convention of 1933, when a tremendous Legion crowd flocked to see the World's Fair and hear President Roosevelt as well as to sit in a convention hall and watch a parade, set a high water mark for national convention attendance. The convention crowd in St. Louis was as large as the crowd which filled Chicago. St. Louis gave to its visitors an unrivaled stage for such a celebration. There were broad, new boulevards upon which the merry-making crowds promenaded day and night from Monday until Thursday. There was the city's recently-finished Memorial Plaza dominated by the $5,000,000 Municipal Auditorium, in which all the sessions of the convention were held, and flanked by other imposing public buildings. The national convention parade passed before reviewing stands which had been erected on the Memorial Plaza surrounding the Municipal Auditorium, and National Commander Belgrano stood for eight solid hours in a stand which held a host of distinguished guests, including the Legionnaire Governors of eight The tall corn of Iowa waved as it has waved at every States, while the parade flowed by with scarcely a pause. National Convention

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The drum and bugle vice for Vilas H. Whaley. Dan Sow- corps of the Sons of ers, former director of the National The American Legion Americanism Commission, nominat- Squadron of Murphys- ed Mr. Rash, and the nominating boro, Illinois. There speech for Mr. Devine was given by has never been a son- John L. Sullivan of New Hamp- nier convention shire. On the first ballot, Ray Murphy lacked thirty-eight votes of the necessary majority. The tally showed: Murphy, 566; Colmery, 414; Cliff, 99; Whaley, 49; Devine, 49; Rash 22. There were 1207 delegates to the convention and a majority required 604. Before the second ballot was taken, Mr. Devine announced his withdrawal, remarking in good spirit that apparently the

THE election of Ray Murphy of Ida Grove, Iowa, as National Commander came on the final afternoon of the convention, in a spirited contest which saw the nomination of five other candidates. The campaigning on behalf of these six and other candidates had proceeded vigorously from the moment delegates began assembling in St. Louis before the convention opened, and when National Commander Belgrano announced that the hour was at hand for voting the convention buzzed with interest. Campaign managers were still circulating among state delegations, and these delegations in many sections of the auditorium were still conducting canvasses to make certain the way in

And, as usual, the Regulars (this time from Jefferson Barracks), to show any Legionnaires who have forgotten how to march

convention was not going to make its selection on good looks. An interesting Hurry came on the first ballot when a Texas delegate challenged the vote of his Department, which had been cast solidly for Colmery. In conformity with the rules, National Commander Belgrano directed that the Texas delegation be polled individually. When this was done, the State cast twenty votes for Colmery and nine for Murphy. During the poll there was much excitement on the convention floor, and the final result was awaited with deep interest. Mr. Murphy's election came on the second ballot, in a dra- matic manner. The roll call had proceeded with Murphy attracting fresh strength from some of the New England Departments which had voted for Devine on the first ballot. It was not until after

Wyoming cast seven of its nine votes for Murphy , that his election was assured. As Wyoming cast its vote, Vilas H. Whaley arose and an- different in the vivid Something always Forty nounced that Wisconsin's Eight parade — the almost floatable float and thirty-three votes, which of Clinton Post of Waterman, Illinois. At only a moment before had right, Fred Fuecker of Seattle, Washington, M. been cast for himself, were new Chef de Chemin de Fer of the organization changed in favor of Ray Murphy. This action gave which they should vote. All the candidates had appeared the following totals for the before caucuses of the delegations in hotel rooms. second ballot: Murphy, The five men nominated besides Ray Murphy were Harry 632; Colmery, 455; Cliff, W. Colmery of Topeka, Kansas; Vilas H. Whaley of Racine, 84; Rash, 20; Whaley, 7. Wisconsin; Earl V. (Pat) Cliff of Ortonville, Minnesota; Frank It was apparent that Rash of Louisville, Kentucky, and Maurice F. Devine of Man- Mr. Murphy had twenty- chester, New Hampshire. Mr. Murphy was nominated by eight more votes than the Robert Colflesh, Past Commander of the Iowa Department. necessary majority when

Mr. Colmery was nominated by J. Ernest Isherwood, Past Com- Mr. Whaley stood up and mander of the Pennsylvania Department. Gerald Barron, Na- moved that the election of tional Executive Committeeman for Minnesota, nominated Mr. Mr. Murphy be made Cliff, and Richard Evans of Wisconsin performed the same ser- unanimous. This motion

NOVEMBER, 1935 —

Drums, drums, drums Before the parade these are from McLean started — the drum and County, Illinois. Be- bugle corps of Andrews low, the massed flags Post of Portland, Maine, of Indiana passing the rests on its oars, so to Auditorium speak

was seconded by Mr. Cliff and ings that are not altogether the convention adopted it unmixed. But, on the other with a roar, as members of all hand, I hope that I may con- the delegations fell in behind tinue to lead this Legion along their department standards the right path, along the path for a parade to the platform. which you have chosen for \\"hile photographers' lamps me. I want to pledge to you flashed and cameras clicked, without reservation, without the new National Commander mental or moral equivocation, took the rostrum, as the pla- that I am a free man to do cards of all the States were grouped behind him by the delegates for this Legion that which I think according to my best who held them. Mr. Murphy immediately spoke. judgment and conscience ought to be done; that no man "My comrades of The American Legion," he said, "in view controls me; that I am not committed to any person or any of what has just taken place on this floor, in view of what has particular cause except the cause of The American Legion. been going on during the past week in the various campaign "I cannot chart the course for this organization. That is in headquarters, in view of the diversity of opinion in this conven- your hands, and to you, my comrades, leaders of your Depart- tion, I am sure that my comrades will have pardoned me by ments, I want to express the hope that we go forth from this this time for not having ready a fine acceptance speech. convention friends as always, determined to carry on the work "On Missouri soil in 1021 at the Kansas City convention, Iowa offered to The American Legion its greatest Legionnaire, Jack MacNider. Now again, on Missouri soil, it is my tremen- Up and dcuM sonv\e o+Uev dous responsibility to follow his leadership and the leadership ^atle^? I'd like-to^ef- of the great Commanders who have preceded me. „S?ow\e sleep!" "I know the tremendous responsibility that is mine. If you men like your daily work, as I know you do; if you love your native State, and I am sure you do; if you love your home, your family and your close friends, and I know you do, then you will know that I accept this great responsibility with feel-

of The American Legion, to make it stronger and finer and better from now on." The National Vice-Commanders elected were: Lou R. Probst, Laramie, Wyoming; Oscar W. Worthwine, Boise, Idaho; Dr. Whitney Godwin, Suffolk, Virginia; Dr. W. E. Whitlock, High Springs, Florida, and Raymond F. Gates, Willimantic, Connecticut. Others nominated for this office were Leonard Sisk of Tennessee, James R. Mahaffey of Hawaii, James R. Turner of South Carolina and John F. McNulty of Maryland. The Reverend Father Thomas D. Kennedy of St. Louis, Mis- souri, was unanimously elected National Chaplain. He is the pastor of St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church and was Four-year-old Dawn Porter, mascot of chaplain of the Thirty-fifth Division during the World War. Antler Post of Detroit. She has attended every convention since before she could THE convention adopted a ringing resolution reaffirming remember The American Legion's request for the immediate payment

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 17 NOVEMBER, 1935 — Their Big ^T^HE first instalment prize-winning Big THREE CHEERS FOR THE MAJOR! of -*~ $100 Prize Moment stories, announcement regarding which was made in the September issue, is eight years under my belt in the armed forces of WITH printed herewith. Another instalment will Uncle Sam, I received my biggest thrill when I attended the annual reunion of the 317th Field Signal Battalion in Boston at Young's Hotel. As the clock struck the hour of ten, I saw our former top kick arise and beckon. Fifteen of us fol- THE SAVING TOURNIQUET lowed him to of the door a telephone booth and I saw one after $j0 Prize another step to the telephone and heard each say just a word of good cheer to a man lying in a hospital in far Cali- away OCTOBER 11, 1925, while employed as a brakeman we fornia, stricken with a critical illness heroically fighting it. ON and left Chicago with Naperville as our first stop. While getting As each of the buddies the took 'phone he pronounced his own off the lower step of the engine cab, my legs struck a switch name distinctly then delivered and a short message of affection stand with enough force to throw me under the train. While the and remembrance. Then all together joined in "Three cheers for wheels passed over my limbs my whole life flashed before me like Major Murphy!" the sick miles man 3000 away, and finally the a motion picture recalling various incidents from the time I was major gave Sergeant Horn at our end one message for all of us. about six years old. My body was parallel to the rail and one of Our messages and the big cheer, he said, had touched his very the journal boxes struck my head, almost knocking me out. soul and had given strength to his spirit. NATHANIEL A. — Upon raising my head another journal box struck it and cleared it. JASLOW, Brooklyn, New York. The train had come to a stop and as I sat up I realized that

my left leg was completely severed, the overalls just holding it together. The blood was gushing out like water from a faucet. Face and head were covered with blood. Was I equal to the task? My thoughts were of my wife and five weeks' old daughter. With the aid of that unseen power which people pray for, I tied a tourniquet just above the knee. Good luck in getting medical attention, although both legs had to be amputated. Had a re- amputation at Hines last fall. Is life still worth living with two wooden legs? YES. I support my family and still work for the Burlington, but as a rate clerk. My wife, daughter and I are all of the Legion all for one and one for all just one happy family. — ; W. E. KARVATT, Downers Grove, Illinois. SAVED—WITH NO TIME TO SPARE $30 Prize

DURING the 78th Division operations at Grand Pre I was a runner on detached service from Co. M, 312th Infantry, and connected to Battalion Headquarters under Major Butler. One day my C. O., Lieut. French, called me hurriedly into Major Butler's headquarters, who quickly informed me of an important message to be carried to Captain Keating, Co. K. Major Butler informed me he could not take time to write this message because time was too short and consequently he told me to rush to Captain Keating, informing him of a late change in the barrage which was to be laid down for him. It so happened that I had eleven minutes to reach Captain Keat-

ing, and if I failed, the barrage through the change just made would fall on our men. I hurriedly left Battalion Headquarters and instead of taking my usual route to the citadel where Keating was located, in some manner (possibly my excitement about the eleven

From the hotel in Boston where they were holding their reunion each man said a word of good cheer into the telephone to the

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Moments appear in the December issue. Rules govern- DEAD OR ALIVE? contest, ing the in which jive hundred $25 Prize dollars a month is awarded, are given at WAS pitch dark when I woke up and my side was hurting the conclusion of this month's instalment. IT to beat the band . I tried to sit up and my face struck against something hard. I reached out with my right hand and it struck something hard, like a wall. I kicked out with my right foot minutes) I took the lower road by mistake and suddenly found (my whole left side was useless) and it hit against that wall. I myself at the rear of this high citadel. I could not retrace my kicked upward and it hit a wall. I tried to get up again and I steps because of lack of time so I proceeded to make the climb couldn't. I was in a box. up the steep embankment which had very little growth of any By that time my mind was clear and I was sure they had nature to grasp hold of. I was scared stiff and the perspiration buried me alive. I became desperate and I tried to get up again poured off me as I often slipped backward, but somehow I man- but it was no use. I hit against that wall every time. aged to top the wall built across the top, and so I hurriedly I can't begin to tell how I felt. I was crazy with fear. I had located Captain Keating, whom I found in a hole with a machine heard and read about people being buried alive and the thing gun operating on each side of him. He was just saying to his had always worried me. My side wasn't hurting me any more, men, "All ready, boys," when I leaped into the hole and gave that was nothing compared to being buried alive and I was sure him the necessary instructions, which of course saved him and they had buried me. his men from getting caught in their own barrage. My time from Then with one desperate attempt to escape, I rolled over on to Battalion Headquarters to Captain Keating was exactly eleven my crippled side to get my back against the top of that box and minutes. The major never knew I got lost on my way. —E. R. WELSHOF, Jamestown, New York.

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WHILE proceeding to Suchan mines via the Trans-Siberian railway the train with us of Company D, 31st Infantry aboard was subjected to harassing rifle fire from two high points on opposite sides of the roadbed. Directly between these points a trestle some three hundred feet in length spanned a deep, dry gorge. The train halted, and on investigation it was disclosed that the pilings of the trestle had been cut and any working party attempting repair would be exposed to deadly cross fire from the points above. From our side of the gorge it was impossible to take those points without heavy losses due to lack of cover ot any kind. From the other side our machine gun and automatic rifle squads could rake the enemy positions. The engine and two cars were cut loose from the train. Into these cars wen machine gun section and automatic rifle squads. Our Russian engine crew quit us cold, so a buck named Catherman and Ser- geant Costello took over the cab. Bullets whistled and sang all around us as we roared out on that trestle. Sergeant Costello managed to tie the whistle chain down, Catherman held the throttle full back with one hand and the sand dome wide open with the other. The rest of us shut our eyes and prayed. We shot across and onto solid footing. Behind us the tracks swayed, buckled and slowly let go. But we were over, and safe. —BERT R. FERRIS, Chappell, Nebraska.

officer dangerously ill in the California hospital. Then all together they called out, "Three cheers for Major Murphy!"

ID NOVEMBER, 1935 break through, when my hand struck something soft and I heard a groan. It all came to me in a flash. I wasn't buried alive; I was in an ambulance headed for a hospital. Believe me, boys, that was a big moment.—A. J. MacKIE, Belhaven, North Carolina.

AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS $25 Prize

THRILLS don't all occur to men, or in wartime. A girl of twenty-two, I had a twenty-month-old son and a wee baby daughter five weeks old. It was my first day without any help. My husband had gone off to work. I had bathed and nursed my baby and left her to sleep in her crib upstairs, and still rather weak and tired, I went downstairs and wearily began to pick up the breakfast dishes, while my little son played on the floor nearby. Suddenly, missing him, and stabbed with a sense of disaster, overwhelming and terrifying, I dashed upstairs without even drying the dish water from my hands, to look for him and to see that no harm came to the new baby. Sure enough, sonny boy was bringing little sister downstairs. Already the front wheels of the crib were on the top step, as he stood braced, his fat baby hands and sturdy little body holding back the crib, as he stumbling- ly, baby-fashion, began to feel his way backwards downstairs. One minute more, and both babies would have lain crippled or fatally injured at the foot of the steep old stairway. Was it "He was just saying to his men, 'All ready, to their God who sent me hurrying aid? Are little lives saved boys!' when I leaped into the hole and gave "big moments" as well as big lives saved in wartime? I him the instructions" think so—MRS. WESLEY MOULTON, Mitchell, South Dakota. NO PLACE FOR A NERVOUS MAN SAVED—ONE LIFE $10 Prize $25 Prize ABIG moment isn't always joyous. I saw and learned that in IT HAPPENED in the Argonne Woods. An American dough- . France, where your life wasn't worth much after you went boy was thrown against a stone wall by a shell blast. His leg over the top. was broken and he was unconscious for several hours. Gas came Take Private Hewins for instance. I ordered him to advance over. When he became conscious he was barely able to crawl to and immediately a shell tore his leg away. With shrapnel whining a shallow dugout for protection from the shells that were still all around him, groaning, with his blood ebbing fast, Private shrieking overhead and exploding in his vicinity. Westling and myself took just another one of those chances and A French military automobile stopped near his dugout. An succeeded in dragging him into our shell hole. A tourniquet had exploding shell left it a mass of wreckage. The occupant, a French to be made with cord from our gas masks; from our grenade sacks major, lay on the ground with one arm completely severed from we cut the straps and tied them across our rifles for an improvised his body, bleeding to death. The doughboy painfully and labori- stretcher. ously crawled out to his assistance, dragged the officer into his We started back in short rushes with shells bursting all about dugout and gave him first aid, letting his own wounds go unat- us. The enemy artillery whanged one in close and Westling fell tended. Later when the stretcher bearers came the doughboy with a piece of shell casing sticking out from his chest. I ordered instructed them to take the officer first, while he waited hours him to the dressing-station and never saw him again. Dragging for their return to take him to a dressing station, although the Hewins into a shell hole quickly, my eyes popped as a shell came laws of the Army permit the first wounded to receive first treat- crazily swishing along the ground, right at us and careened side- ment. ways. Luckily it was a dud. The French officer, a son of General Petain, recovered and Picking up the unconscious Hewins, I half carried and dragged several weeks later pinned with his one hand the French him through the main street of Dampvitoux only to be cursed by Croix de Guerre upon the soldiers laying communication wires. They dived into cellars as Illustrations breast of the American dough- the shells whizzed in after us. At the dressing station the ambu- by boy, the writer of this ar- lance driver said "That boy's dead," but in spite of this, Hewins ticle.-WILLIAM E. SWIT- grunted. It was my big moment. The Armistice came the next Frank Street ZER, Halstcad, Kansas. day.—JOSEPH F. ANSELMINI, Long Island City, New York. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A CORPORAL IN CHARGE immediately replaced with fresh ones. Three days after the drive $10 Prize starts you will receive one thousand wounded men and each day thereafter you will receive another thousand until the war is "T HOPE she does get hit and every damn one of you drowned," ended." That is exactly what happened. On November 13th J- cried a young Wisconsin lad pestered by his comrades so he every ward, nurses' quarters, Red Cross hut, and available place could not sleep. They were his last words, for shortly after this was full to twice our regular capacity. the Moldavia was hit. My big moment was the realization of the horrid necessity of The next thing I knew there was a crash and I was thrown deliberately sending men to their doom when they knew the from my hammock—stunned, scared and rattled. I could not number to be sacrificed.—FRED CALLAWAY, M.D., Marys- find my clothes. I knew I should do something and do it quick ville, Ohio. but I was lost and dared not move. P.S. Any legislator or high official knowing the above to be Then I heard some one giving orders in a tone of voice I had true who does not support the Universal Draft Bill should be often used with frightened colts—a corporal had taken charge, subject to official condemnation by The American Legion.—F. C. one that knew what to do and was doing it. The stairs were gone but a table had been placed under the hole in the deck above and AT THE MINE FIELD there he stood helping everyone in turn with a firm "Steady boys $10 Prize —take it easy—one at a time." My turn came at last. The water had reached my knees, the table had broken down, but WHAT was to me the biggest moment of the war happened the corporal was still there and with a scramble and boost I was early in the spring of 1918. I was at that time on board the soon out of that death trap and ready to take my place in the U.S.S.C. 289, doing patrol duty five miles off the Pacific Coast boats. end of the Panama Canal. We were cruising along at the extreme The corporal stayed as long as anyone came and at last was north limit of our assigned route, when we sighted a large steamer helped out by some of the boys above. headed directly toward the opening of the breakwater. There The Wisconsin boy had his wish, all were lost that did not find was a large mine field which extended out to the edge of our patrol our corporal.—FRED J. BROOKS, Walhalla, North Dakota. limits, and this steamer was heading directly into it. We started toward her, flying the international signals for her to heave to. THE OPERATION THAT SUCCEEDED Instead of stopping she went on. Then the skipper directed a $10 Prize shot be fired across her bow. The steamer hove to at once, almost two miles from us. She was right on the edge of the mine I HAD thought that my big moment was when the news came field then. When we got up to the ship {Continued on page j8) of the Armistice ending the World War, and months later when I was discharged from the Army. Also a few days later when I married the girl that waited for me. But then I came home from the veterans hospital a year ago, to find my wife in a very serious condition, her system poisoned by a kidney complication which caused total blindness, her face and body swollen to twice normal size, an operation necessary to deliver her seven-months' baby. A bunch of doctors told me that five out of six in her condition fail to recover, and that if she did recover she would never see again. Hours and days of waiting with our three little boys for we knew not what, and then, thank God, she opened her eyes and could see us. We brought her home from the hospital and she got well again. That was my big moment.—J. MARVIN CALDWELL, ChUlicothe, Illinois.

THOSE STATISTICS $10 Prize

ABOUT the twentieth of October, iqi8, at x~A-Mesves Hospital Center, A. E. F., all of the officers of the fourteen base hospitals were ordered to headquarters. A brigadier general from the First Army was there to give us some instructions. Speaking as nonchalantly as if he were describing some surgical operation he told us the end of the war was near. "Day after tomorrow we start a drive that will not stop until the enemy is conquered. On that day we will throw into battle on all fronts a certain number of men. A specified number of men will be killed that day and a certain number [I forget the figures but he named them all] will be wounded. The drive will continue until the men are used up and

"While getting off the cab, my legs struck a switch stand with enough force to throw me under the train"

NOVEMBER, 1935 -'I Womans Work

NEARLY a Half Million Strong, The American Legion Auxiliary Again Moves

Forward Toward Its Objectives of Loyalty and Service By John J. Noll

'ELCOME HOME" read every official Wibanner suspended among the colorful decorations in the streets of St. Louis when !that city late in September played host to The American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary. While that greeting held special significance for the Legion due to the fact that its first caucus was held there in May, iqiq, it also had meaning for the women of the Auxiliary, because in that same State of Missouri, in Kansas City, the Auxiliary was officially born in 192 1. During the fourteen-year period that had elapsed, the membership of the Auxiliary had grown from 131,000 women to more than 400,000; the number of units from 3,653 to 8,600. In the same pro- portion, the splendid accomplishments of this largest of women's patriotic organiza- The new National President, Mrs. Mel- tions had continued to in- ville Mucklestone of Illinois, acknowl- crease. The work that these edges the greetings of the Legion after women began when their being presented by the retiring National men first went forth to fight President, Mrs. Albin Charles Carlson. for their country will never At left, Mrs. Mucklestone immediately be completed until the last after her election of them is no more. The colorful pageantry, tion of the Auxiliary opened in Moolah Temple with the music and flags and flow- an impressive processional of the national officers who ers of a national convention were escorted to the platform by official pages, rep- of the Auxiliary would give resenting each of the fifty-two Departments, bearing the to a casual visitor at an national colors and Department banners of their respective opening session small indi- States and territorial Departments. Music was furnished cation of the great program by the official drum and bugle corps of National President that these women are carry- Mrs. Albin Charles Carlson—the championship corps of ing forward from year to Crookston Unit of her own Department of Minnesota. year, of the care with which Following the call to order by Mrs. Carlson, the assembly the delegates consider prob- joined in the pledge to the flag, led by Mrs. Benjamin F. lems that are placed before Adams, Americanism chairman. The National Chaplain, them, of the untiring work Mrs. J. J. Doyle, gave the invocation, which was followed that is done every day be- by the singing of the National Anthem. Governor Guy tween these annual meetings. B. Park and Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann extended greet- The initial session of the ings from the host State and city and welcoming speeches Fifteenth Annual Conven- were made by Clifford W. Gaylord, President of the St.

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Louis Convention Corporation, by Department Commander after her introduction to the convention by Mrs. Myron Miller William A. Kitchen and Department President Mrs. C. W. of Kansas, Vice-President for the Central Division, who occu- Drakesmith of Missouri. pied the chair. After reporting the work of the international Mrs. Clark Hudson, National Chairman of the Auxiliary organization of patriotic women of the Allied countries, she Convention, through whose splendid direction the huge task of bestowed a medal upon Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley, Past preparing for the meeting was so successfully completed, intro- National President and former International President of the duced the St. Louis Auxiliary women who had worked with her. Fidac Auxiliary, on behalf of the latter organization, for out- While Mrs. Agnes W. Smith, Vice-President of the North- standing efforts in promoting international friendship and western Division occupied the chair, the National President understanding. presented her report to the convention. Her address, sum- Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, who was elected National President

marized the accomplishments of her year of service, stressing at the first convention of the Auxiliary in 192 1, made a brief the success of the Auxiliary's program of child welfare, rehabili- talk, following which each of the Past National Presidents was tation, Americanism and national defense. In connection with introduced by Mrs. Carlson and extended her greetings to the the latter subject, Mrs. Carlson said: "Our concern for security delegates and visitors. The National Historian, Mrs. 0. W. from future wars has been heightened by our constant contact Hahn, in her report announced the completion of a history of with the victims of the last war—the disabled veterans, their the Auxiliary covering a ten-year period since publication of families and the families of the dead. Every day, Auxiliary an earlier history, and this book has now been made available. women visiting hospitals and homes see the bitter human cost In bringing the greetings of the Legion, National Commander of war as it is being paid by these unfortunates. This year we Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., extended praise to the Auxiliary and to have carried on the program for the welfare of the disabled, its National President for the whole-hearted support that had the widows and fatherless children, so well developed in previous been given to the Legion in its program during the year. Addi-

years, improving and expanding it to meet the current needs." tional speeches were made by the National Chaplain, Reverend The reports of the National Secretary, Mrs. Gwendolyn Wig- Park W. Huntington, and National Adjutant Frank E. Samuel. gin MacDowell, and of the National Treasurer, Mrs. Cecilia Reports of the Committee on Permanent Organization, sub- Wenz, were presented and accepted. They recorded the advance mitted by its chairman, Mrs. Harry Thomas, the Committee made by the organization and its sound financial condition. on Credentials, accrediting 732 delegates to the convention, An interesting presentation was made by Mrs. Joseph H. presented by Mrs. T. K. Rinaker, and of the Rules Committee Thompson, American V ice-President for the Fidac Auxiliary, of which Mrs. Carrie T. Baade was chairman, were adopted.

A view of the platform of the Auxiliary National Convention while Mayor Bernard Dickmann of St. Louis extends the greetings of the host city. Past and present national officers occupy places of honor

NOVEMBER, 1935 23 The new divisional National Vice Presidents: Mrs. J. B. Dunn, Central; Mrs. Whit Y. MacHugh, Eastern; Mrs. Frank H. Carpenter, Southern; Mrs. James E. Paulson, Northwestern, and Mrs. John Wayne Chapman, Western

the Vincennes, Indiana, Unit, that of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, being second and Lima, Ohio, third. The sextet from the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Unit, was the only entry in this event. An impressive memorial service to the late Dr. Helen Hughes Hielscher of Mankato, Minnesota, who presided at the organizing convention of the Auxiliary in Kansas City, Mis-

souri, in 192 1, opened the second ses- 'sion of the convention. Past National Numerous patriotic organizations extended their good wishes President Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley of Wisconsin made the to the convention through their officers and many telegrams of memorial address, while the glee club of the Fergus Falls, Minne- greetings were read by the National Secretary. sota, Unit, provided appropriate music. With so much serious business at hand, there would seem to Mrs. Benjamin F. Adams, chairman of the Americanism have been little time for social affairs, but these women of the Committee, presented her report, which was accepted. The Auxiliary somehow managed to engage in both. At noon on better citizenship and counter-radical activities will be con- Sunday, the day before the convention began, Mrs. Joseph H. tinued as the result of resolutions which were approved. Thompson presided over the Fidac Breakfast. That evening was held the Past Presidents' Parley Supper of which Mrs. Eliza London Shepard, Past National President, was chairman. The reception to the National President, Mrs. Carlson, later that evening, brought scores of Legionnaires and Auxiliares to pay their respects to her and to national officers, past and present. The Department Secretaries Dinner was held that same evening with Mrs. C. R. Anderson, Department Secretary of Missouri, as chairman. On Monday afternoon, the Gold Star Tea was held. Early on Tuesday, parade day, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart presided over the Aloha Breakfast. The Music Contest, under the direction of Mrs. William Horsfall, chairman of the National Music Committee, took quite a number of visitors and some of the delegates from the opening session. The number of trios, quartets and glee clubs was greater than in any previous year and competition was so keen that the judges had difficulty in making their decisions. The trio of the Downers Grove, A colorful and tuneful note was added to the Legion Illinois, Unit, placed first, with those from Greenville, Ohio, and parade by the official drum and bugle corps of the Hot Springs, Arkansas, second and third, respectively. First place Auxiliary units of Indianapolis in the quartet contest went to the Unit of Keyser, West Virginia, Hosston, Louisiana, Post, with that of Toledo, Ohio, second, and The resolutions recommended by the committee, which were third. In the glee club contest, first honors were carried off by approved, included one opposing the appointment of any teacher who is a member of the Third International; another urging a vigorous fight against Communism, Fascism and all other £>uf, 1*4 dear -T0»\ bed}' From time to time during the three sessions, the National Vice-Presidents, including Mrs. Thomas G. Gammie, Southern Division, Mrs. Jonathan E. Wheatley, Eastern Division, and Mrs. Charles V. K. Saxton, Western Division, were called upon by the National President to preside over the convention. In the report of the Membership Committee, presented by Mrs. Florence Snodgrass, it was recommended that a two percent increase in quotas for membership be assigned each Depart- ment for the coming year. A substantial increase in members over 1934 was reported. The increased quota recommendation was adopted in the form of a resolution. Winners of the national poppy poster contest were announced as follows in the report

-4 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly of the Poppy Committee pre- MacHugh, Afton, York, MoHvev, ujIm^ d»d Daddq drop *W^Nav,v\ouj,m\ bou- New sented by Mrs. Whit Y. Mac- Eastern Division. OuVo^ tt\e Parade ? \*a, -Hvak far MaU\e^ Hugh: Grade school class: ist, Mrs. Joseph H. Thompson of V/Jtaeve is We a*vd aS—i/^ ~^ m4 Dorothy A. Bogue, Marion, il Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, "Uv\cle" Joe t\ouJ J - A Indiana, 2d, Helen Krumpel- who assisted in the organiza- beck, Cincinnati, Ohio; High tion of the Fidac Auxiliary in school class: ist, Julian Wagner, Rome in 1925, and who had Amsterdam, New York, 2d, Sin- served as American Vice-Presi- clair Locke, Needham, Massa- dent of the organization during chusetts. 1935, was nominated for re- While committee meetings election by Past National Presi- and other duties may at times dent, Mrs. William H. Biester, take some of the delegates from Jr. The Department of New the convention floor, one can be assured that every seat in the Jersey seconded the nomination. There was no opposing candi- hall will be occupied when nominations for national officers are date for the office. in order, and when, on the following day, according to Auxiliary Only one amendment was offered for consideration in the procedure, the election is held. On the roll call, Alabama report of Miss Maud McLure Kelly, Chairman of the National yielded to Oklahoma and Mrs. Jennie Stewart, Past Depart- Committee on Constitution and By-Laws. This amendment to ment President of that State, placed in nomination for National the National By-Laws which changed the term of office of the President, Mrs. Thomas G. Gammie of Ponca City, Oklahoma, National Finance Committee to the period from November ist who had served during the past year as National Vice-President to October 31st was adopted on second reading during the final for the Southern Division. day's session. Alaska yielded to Illinois. Mrs. Melville Mucklestone of Chi- Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, Chairman of the National Finance Com- cago was placed in nomination by Mrs. T. K. Rinaker, Past mittee, reported to the convention that the finances of the President of her Department. As the roll call proceeded, Florida Auxiliary were in excellent condition. Investments were sound, and Maine seconded the nomination of Mrs. Gammie, while the budget which had been adopted had been faithfully adhered Indiana and New York seconded that of Mrs. Mucklestone. to, expenditures of the National Headquarters were handled On the night of the first session, each of the five Divisions of efficiently, practically all Departments had met fully their con- the national organization selected, in caucuses, its nominee for tributions to the national Rehabilitation and Child Welfare National Vice-President. Nomination of these women is equiva- funds and half of the Departments had contributed to the fund lent to election, as during the election on the final day, the entire for carrying on the National Defense program. Special tribute ballot of the convention is cast for them. The National Vice- was paid by Mrs. Hoffman to Past National President Mrs. S. Presidents nominated were: Mrs. James E. Paulson of Summit, Alford Blackburn and Mrs. Katherine Bartling of her committee, South Dakota, Northwestern Division; Mrs. Frank H. Carpen- for their aid. ter, Sour Lake, Texas, Southern Division; Mrs. John Wayne The convention accepted and approved fully the report of chair- Chapman, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Western Division; Mrs. J. B. the National Defense Committee which was read by its Dunn, Bad Axe, Michigan, Central Division, and Mrs. Whit Y. man, Mrs. Calvin D. Winne. Thirty {Continued 011 page 55)

Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, distinguished and beloved singer, with Mrs. Frank N. Auxiliary Belgrano, Jr., wife of the retiring National Commander, receives the championship quartet of Keyser, West Virginia, Unit. Nick Barth of their Department made the presentation

NOVEMBER, 1935 25 WATCH tk

playing a team we ought to beat thirty WE'REpoints but we can't move and we don't know what's the matter. When we try to buck the line the defensive Lou Little, master strat- backs close in and our fullback is stopped in his tracks. egist who is football coach When we try to run off tackle the defensive end dumps our at Columbia University, interferers and the halfbacks come up as if there wasn't such in his uniform as a cap- a thing in the world as a forward pass. tain in the A. E. F. Aha! We'll cross 'em. We'll call a pass down the middle alley. This time the end, who has smashed on the previous piay, fades back to cover the flat zone. A guard drops out of the line to cover the short middle zone and the backs who had

A breach at the center of Cornell's line and a plunging Pennsylvania back goes over for a touchdown. To find a potential weakness like that is the scout's job, to ex- ploit it is the coach's and the quarterback's

come up like cyclones on the previous play, hold their ground. We decide to hold a dummy scrimmage that afternoon. We As a result our pass- receivers are covered as if they were in bed. see nothing. We don't want to have a real scrimmage. Our team Our passer, seeing no one open, holds the ball too long and is is down pretty fine, but we've got to do it. dumped for a ten-yard loss. On Wednesday we line up the first team on the offense against We finally win, by the grace of heaven, when our quarterback the best scrub outfit we can muster. Fortunately we have a catches a punt and runs sixty yards for a touchdown. This saves tough bunch of second-stringers and the first team has a hard our skin, but, needless to say, fails to satisfy us. time gaining ground. When the pressure begins to be felt the ex- We can't figure out what stopped our offense. Our boys carried planation of Saturday's difficulties is unfolded. Here are some of out their assignments as well as anyone could expect. They the things we see: blotted out ends and tackles and they opened holes in the line. 1. Our threat man looks up quickly at the hole when he's But extra defensive men always were there to reinforce a threat- going to run off tackle and wets his fingers when he's going to ened point, men who had no business in the picture. Apparently pass. they were guided by a sixth sense, or else—and this is probably the 2. Our bucker looks straight ahead when he's going to block answer—we unconsciously supplied them with information they and turns his eyes toward the ball when he's going to carry. had no business to have. 3. Our inside tackle looks sideways at his man when he is We puzzle over it in our coaches' meeting Monday morning. called on to cross-block. We recall that our Saturday opponent had sent a keen, experi- 4. Our blocking back lines up half a step wider than usual enced scout to look us over in two earlier games. Now what did when he wants to take the end. he see that enabled his team to stop us? That's something we 5. Our running guard throws his weight on his hands when must find out at once. the play calls for a charge and shifts it back to his feet when he

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fHE Little Mannerisms of a Single By TPlayer May Lose an Important Football Gamefor His Team, Ifan Alert Scoutfor an Lou Little Opponent Has Spotted Them. Here's What as told to You've Wanted to Know About Scouting Stanley is required to pull out to run interference. He also leans slightly in the direction he's going. Woodward Well, no wonder they stopped us. A smart scout with a good pair of field glasses would pick up "give-aways" like ours without the slightest difficulty. Let's see if there's anything else the mat- The reason we couldn't move on Saturday is pretty obvious ter with us. now. We telegraphed our plays just as Battling Siki used to tele- Yes sir, there is. We never realized it before but our quarter- graph his punches. Our opponents, forewarned by their scout, back is in a rut. His sequence of plays has no variation. Besides never were at a loss to know what we were going to do. that he has what the psychologists might call "conditioned For the rest of the season we try to break our boys of their reflexes." When he gets into certain situations he always does small bad habits. We know we're under the microscope every the same thing. Saturday and that all good scouts are looking for give-aways. A If he has first down on the opponent's 30-yard line, he'll always fleeting giance to one side or the other, a slight variation in po- call the tackle play and if he doesn't gain with it, he'll call a sition or a nervous habit that is all but unnoticeable, may cost running pass on second down. us a ball game. (Continued on page 52)

Carter, Purdue back, gains six yards at Fordham's left end. At extreme right, a Purdue player goes down the field to take out the Fordham safety man. Long runs when they come are based on that sort of thoroughness

NOVEMBER, 1935 Rendezvous wi:th Death

By OEVENTEEN years after Chd- ^ teau - Thierry, 228 American Fred CPainton soldiers die side by side as if in battle—casualties of misfortune

SOUTH of the tip of the Florida peninsula where tiny islands years since 19 19, he had never obtained a toe-hold on life- make green stepping stones through shallow sub-tropic Bill Brown was only twenty years old in 191 7 when the Army waters to Key West an orderly village of khaki tents and called him to the colors. Just a kid briefly out of high school, wooden barracks grew sodden under the s' ashing downpour eager, ambitious —snatched by his patriotism from his first job of a heavy rain that drove in from the east on the shoulders of a before he had learned a trade or had set his course for his future. gusty, moaning wind. The time was September 2, 1935, Labor Bill made a good soldier. He felt the lash of German Maxims Day, and the eight hundred men who occupied this camp and on the Marne where shrapnel bullets whipped his flesh; but he other barracks to the north and south of Islamorada, were taking was back with his outfit in time to storm Stenay in the last phase a holiday from the task they had been sent here ten months of the Meuse-Argonne push. He kept the watch on the Rhine before to do—build bridges on the coastal highway from Miami under frowning Ehrenbreitstein but with the war over Bill had to Key West. time to wonder what would happen after he was issued the red They loafed, slept, read; played rummy, poker or considered chevron of discharge. the possibilities of getting in a little fishing later if the rain let up. Bill came home in 1919; twenty-two years old now, and very They were all veterans of the World War and casualties of the ambitious. He found it tough getting a job; he had no trade. depression, and they had been sent here, some said, to be far But finally in 1920 he obtained employment running a drill press. away from Washington where their demands for payment of He worked a year and was thinking about marriage when the their Adjusted Compensation Certificates would be less audible. depression of 192 1 hit him. Last taken on. first laid off. For two In one corner of the mess shack three of the veterans played jaw- bone blackjack. One of them we'll call Bill Brown because that isn't his right name, and he merely typifies the history and appearance of these eight hundred. Bill was thin and shabby, and his hair was gray—he was thirty-nine—and occasionally he looked away from the cards with a queer, curious expression as if he were pondering over a puzzling thought. And he was puzzled. Curious to know why, in all those

Not at midnight in some flaming battle town did their comrades die, but in a night of horror on the Florida keys when a hurricane and tidal wave destroyed three FERA veterans' camps

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly After the hurricane as after a battle, the sur- jack under the frown of a growing storm, he wondered again vivors sleep. of their For 228 comrades, the why he hadn't obtained that toe-hold on life. He was nearly hurricane marked the end of the depression. forty and—the fact puzzled him—in the past nineteen years he Matecumbe Key joins Belleau Wood in history had worked at a job steadily only seven. Twelve years a casual. "Somebody said a hurricane coming around Cuba," Scotty years, almost three, he fought unemployment; odd jobs here and observed. "I wonder if they're going to send that train for us. there, longer periods ot idleness when he wanted to work. Bill They told us to stand by this afternoon, but here we are." stuck it out, just as he had endured fatigue and hunger, and "Too far away to hit us, according to the weather reports," bullets and shells during the war. But he was anxious and puz- said Mike. zled. He was getting older and not getting any place. But Bill suddenly noticed then an electric tension in the air. Bill was twenty-six when he went back steadily on the drill The wind howled louder, tore at the quivering mess shack. The press. Everything seemed swell now. Wages were good, the shallow, milky waters, usually so calm, were running in huge country was prosperous, and at last it appeared that Bill was waves. These Florida Keys protruded less than six feet above permanently settled. He could think of marriage. He could sea level at their highest point. A quick sense of unease gripped plan to be a foreman. the denim-dressed veterans. The crash of 1920 smashed him in the ruins. Suddenly the mess shack door flung open. The gale screamed He tried to find work, but when skilled labor and white collar furiously. A man thrust his head in. men couldn't get work what chance had Bill, who, because of the "Everybody outside!" he yelled above the wind's roar. war and the 1021 depression, had never really learned a trade? "A train's coming to take us to Miami. Hurry to the The years dragged on with Bill eternally trying and getting tracks." nowhere. Finally, desperate, he hitch-hiked to Washington. The words might have been a signal. As Bill and the others Washington did things for you, people said. In Washington the stood up, a howling roar worse than the arrival of a terrific Transient Bureau of the Federal Emergency Relief Administra- barrage deafened them. Bill felt himself picked up, hurled to the tion offered him thirty dollars a month, his keep and medical ground, rolled like a ball. The mess shack was dissolving before attention for labor which he could do—swing a pick and shovel. his eyes. A howling wind almost sucked the air from his lungs. Bill was glad to get it. Along with others he was shipped to "Scotty," he yelled. "Red! Mike!" Florida. He couldn't see; the fine sand hurled by a hundred and fifty He liked it down here on the Keys; the monastic barrack life mile wind whipped him until he stung and bled. He groped for reminded him of old army days. In free time there was fishing Scotty's hand. He tried to get up, but the screaming wind and swimming; and occasional trips to Miami, where he visited knocked him down. Somehow he caught hold of Scotty's hand. the Harvey Seeds Post of the Legion and watched the boxing Scotty was small and needed help. matches. Time slipped past softly, leisurely as time can under Foolishly Bill got to his knees to crawl. The wind, yelling in balmy tropical skies. his ears, seized him, rolled him head over heels and twisted his But as he sat here, this Labor Day afternoon, playing black- grip from Scotty's. He landed belly (Continued on page 44)

NOVEMBER, 1935 29 After the serious business of winning a turkey, three big shots attending St. Charles (Mis- souri) Post's annual shoot lay down a barrage on a single clay- Qhoot bird to settle something or other and&at EVERY day, we take it, was Thanksgiving Day for your him, your fellow citizen wants tur- great grandpapa in Daniel Boone's time, all when one key. . And if not turkey a goose. needed was a sharp right eye and a long-barreled rifle And in the absence of turkey or to acquire a wild turkey in any convenient bit of forest. goose, a duck. Any ordinarily energetic pioneer could stroll out to the timber Whenever enough fellow citizens and come home with a gobbler over his shoulder. If this wasn't want something there is a post of a seven-days-a-week custom, it was because human appetites in the Legion which will see that they

Uncle Daniel Boone's days were very much like those get it. St. Charles (Missouri) Post of World War days when even such delicacies as corned of The American Legion isn't the willie and baked beans failed to stir enthusiasm in only post which has undertaken to hungry doughboys for more than a few days in a row. spread around its community at For variety your great grandpaw who shot his own Thanksgiving and Christmas time food would eat squirrel and rabbit, venison or an oc- turkeys, geese and ducks, of not- casional bear. History does not record what the women able numbers and quality. St. folks of the pioneers did besides rear a dozen children, Charles Post, though, happens to turn the spinning wheel and cook, but your patriarch have learned in many years how of the American wilderness usually was buried in the best to do this, according to Legion- midst of the graves of four or five wives who naire H. A. Insinger. had gone before. Those were the good old The St. Charles Legionnaires days of real shooting and real eating. A have capitalized the fact that trifle hard on the women folks, perhaps. Daniel Boone The muzzle-loading squirrel rifle is now in isn't dead. He the museums and all the wild turkeys are lives in spirit in gone. The can opener is the symbol of their town, along cookery's decline and the world is filling up the Missouri Riv- with widows. Only on Thanksgiving Day er, just a running and at Christmas does your sturdy American, jump from St. true to the traditions of his Louis. It is good ancestors, demand a feast hunting country that is more than some- If you can't get a turkey, thereabouts and thing knocked together as a duck will do, but Roy most of the citizenry have in per page 38 in the latest Hoffmann, regular attender their homes shotguns which copy of the Ladies Home of Legion shoots at St. are not allowed to get rusty. Companion. On those two Charles, apparently was Rabbits and quail and wild days, unless the depression stocking up for more than fowl may be shot in season has completely flattened Thanksgiving Day within easy driving distance.

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly But when all St. Charles calendars show vJ(\c| i(- Sat(6 n^h*- a very fair arrangement because a man who November, when the leaves have left all the Itere c*\ +te hcUfet- shoots badly in the opening round has a chance " R^^m^ oreesb."" trees and there is frost in the air, when the 'J? t0 get bis shooting eye back and win. And by hunting season is over or nearly over, then it the time the three geese have been won, an- is that St. Charles Post mobilizes all the shot- other team is usually ready to step on the gun-minded male citizens of its community firing line. Each man on the ten-man team for the post's annual Thanksgiving turkey pays one dollar." shoot. It is held a few days before the holiday. There is something about these trapshoot- Another shoot is held a few days before ing contests which stirs every man who has Christmas. ever handled a gun. Lots of spectators are It isn't a turkey shoot, strictly speaking, surprised to find themselves on the firing line any more. The post has learned that geese with double barreled shotguns. The boys of are more popular prizes than turkeys, and so the town are thick on the sidelines, fascinated are ducks. The post follows good business by the spectacle and eager to get as many principles all the way through. It starts its empty cartridges as possible. Incidentally, buying arrangements several months before the post makes a profit on the shells. It sells Thanksgiving Day. According to Mr. In- them to the shooters, and most of them buy singer, the chairman of the supply committee the post shells, although anybody is privileged visits a St. Charles poultry dealer in September and says: to bring his own if he wants to. "Bill, we'll want a lot of birds, as usual, on November 24th. What St. Charles Post has done, hundreds of other posts have Make the order seventy geese—the ten pounders, of course. And also done—with variations. It is still a shooting Legion. an even dozen turkeys, all around fourteen pounds. Forty ducks, too—twenty six-pound white Pekins and twenty three-pound Come and Get It—IQSS ^fy^e Mallards." The poultry dealer then begins looking over the countryside EVERY Legionnaire knows the answer to the slogan on the for likely flocks. He arranges to buy them when the time comes. Army's recruiting posters, "Things the Army Does Besides The post pays a premium of a cent a pound. The same dealer has Fight!" The Army eats. Every veteran includes among his

At the beginning of each year, Brooks-Flick Post of Troy, Pennsylvania, throws a roast pig dinner, Each member brings a prospective member. The chefs get better each year, prospects scarcer supplied the birds—best in the market— for the last ten years. favorite war tales stories of the time when Old George Whoosis, Last year the post used 220 turkeys, geese and ducks in its the mess sergeant, served the boys strawberry pie, beef steak Thanksgiving and Christmas shoots. On each shoot the outfit with truffles or pate de fois gras. Husband John X. Doughboy netted a profit of about $100. Profit isn't the mainspring of the has been known to remind his Auxiliare wife that the griddle shoot, though, for first of all the post tries to give everybody a cakes and coffee aren't quite up to the standard set by the olive good time. drab cooks of the old umpty-umpth. St. Charles Post has found out that the most popular match is Nowadays these same veterans are coming home from Legion a team of ten men shooting for three geese. This is a great time meetings smacking their lips over something the post mess saver. The usual plan is to have three or four men shoot for one sergeant served the gang after the business session. Wives of goose, but this requires a lot of scouting, coaxing and cajoling to Legionnaires in Troy, Pennsylvania, know what to expect after get the shooting teams together. With ten men, however, the each annual membership banquet of Brooks-Flick Post. When team is quickly chosen and the shooting is done expeditiously. husbands return home from this affair, they relate to sleepy Mr. Insinger says: mates who have wakened to hear that the roast pig was better "After three rounds have been shot off, the men who never than ever before. At the beginning of each new membership missed a bird shoot among themselves until one finally outshoots year the post gives this dinner to which each member invites the others. He wins the first goose. The winner of the goose is a membership prospect. A special detail has handled the selec- out, and the remaining nine men shoot in the same fashion for the tion and roasting of the pig each year. No job to be done second goose. Then eight men shoot for the third goose. This is lightly, that, reports Post Adjutant {Continued on page §2)

NOVEMBER, 1935 .31 — champion/

Gardner, first baseman for Sacramento, scores By the first run for his team in the final game of the Legion's Junior World Series. Umpire Dan Barry of the American League, Catcher Queen Alexander of Gastonia, and part of the crowd of 13,000 Gardiner which saw the game Nearly thirty thousand people attended the three games in the Governor of North Carolina said to the Gastonia, setting a record for Little World Series competition WHAT it Governor of South Carolina on this historic oc- that looks as if might stand for a while. That's in a town with casion was, "It's a long time between things like a population as per the 1930 census of 17,093, with a total of this, buddy—do your stuff." 28,250 persons in what the sanguine and genial Grady Gaston, And so Governor and Legionnaire Olin D. Johnston unleashed Executive Secretary of the local Chamber of Commerce, calls a fast one, but Acting Governor and Legionnaire "Sandy" Greater Gastonia. A good part of that outpouring of fans came

Graham of the Old North State didn't get a chance to catch it, to the games because one of the teams was a home town product, for Homer Chaillaux, National Americanism Director, fouled the but your Gastonian eats, drinks and sleeps baseball, and with ball into the bleachers while thousands—literally ten thousands appetites whetted by two previous Junior Baseball sectional cheered. That was how the greatest series in the history of Legion series, in 1932 and 1934, the fans would no doubt have smashed Junior Baseball opened, late in August. It closed three days later the previously existing records to smithereens even if teams of with the home team, Gastonia, North Carolina, representative of perfect strangers had been competing. For if there is a place in the East, world champions of Junior Baseball by virtue of three the world where the baseball spirit is higher than in this muni- straight victories. Those youngsters had what it takes, and cipality of Western North Carolina ("The City of Spindles" and though the lads from Sacramento, California, nearly pulled the "The Combed Cotton Yarn Manufacturing Center of America") third game out of the fire in the eighth inning, they were out- I'd like to hear of it. As the cigarette ad might put it: In In- classed—in everything but courage. dianapolis it's basketball; in Pendleton it's bucking bronchoes; Through one of those once-in-a-lifetime circumstances that in Toronto it's hockey; in Gastonia it's baseball. Doc Newton, nobody can foresee, Gastonia, which had been selected as the site coach of the champions, and Gaston Post's Commander, the for the Little World Series long before the eliminations began, transplanted New Bedford, Massachusetts, Yankee Adam J. produced a baseball team that walked right through other junior Melvin, may well be proud of their boys, who hit and fielded and teams in its State, won its spurs in the regional play-offs at in general comported themselves like a bunch of veteran ball- Spartanburg, South Carolina, and emerged from the sectional players. at Charlotte in its own State as the East's standard bearer, while The National and American Leagues contributed $20,000 to Sacramento was rising to the top in a similar series involving the the Legion's Junior Baseball program, which allowed it to bal- West played at Stockton, California. ance its books after the series and have enough left to take the

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly CHAMPIONS said Grady Gaston doing a most excellent selling job for both the town and his fellow Legionnaires. So when that first game in the s^ASTONIA, North Carolina, Is the series got under way virtually every store in town was closed and whatever business simply couldn't wait was transacted by skele- Tops in Legion Junior Baseball, After vJ tonized staffs that between sales hung over the radio as the play- a Strenuous Competition Involving Teams -by-play account was broadcast by Stations WSOC and WBT. from Every State in the Union. Through the Everybody who couldn't see certainly heard. Four thousand people had gathered at the station the day before the series Legion's Americanism Commission, Which opened to welcome Homer Chaillaux and the team representing Conducted the Program, the 400, 000 Young- George W. Manhart Post of Sacramento as they got off the train after four days en route from their sectional triumph at Stockton. sters Who Took Part Learned the Lessons of If none of the topnotchers in the professional baseball world Sportsmanship, Courage, Honor, Patriotism were present at the series the two big leagues were not without representation, for Dan Barry of the American League and Bill Byron for the National League showed the crowd umpiring of a youngsters on the winning team to the opening games of the big quality that was strictly up to the standard of major competi- world series. The cost of transporting the state winners to the tion. The social success of the two umpires in the other battles of regional centers, sectional and final series was $19,500. To feed Gastonia, involving speaking engagements before the Rotary, and house these contenders the cost was $0,000. Incidental ex- Kiwanis, Civitan and Lions Clubs and other activities off the penses throughout the year and up to the tournament cost an playing field established them as orators of no mean parts and additional $10,000. All thirty of the lads who had a part in the raconteurs extraordinary, in addition to which they successfully final series fittingly represented the 400,000 who took part in the sustained the reputation with which they arrived in Gastonia of program conducted by the Americanism Commission, and some being gentlemen unafraid. The Legion notables who came to of them will be making news on sports pages of more than local adorn the series arranged by National Americanism Director reputation a few years from now. Chaillaux and Chuck Wilson, his assistant, included the Gov- Gastonia put on a show and no mistake about it! Somehow or ernor of South Carolina and Lieutenant Governor Graham of other Judge Landis, arbiter of professional baseball, who comes North Carolina, serving as Governor in the absence of J. C. B. as near being the Grand Patron of Legion Junior Baseball as Ehringhaus, who was out of the State. Also Josephus Daniels, anyone I can think of, was for once unable to attend the games, Jr., beginning his term as Commander of the North Carolina and what was the series going to be without the judge there to Department, Miller Foster, National Executive Committee- contribute that effervescent enthusiasm of his that lends color to man from South Carolina, Bryce P. Beard, National Chairman whatever gathering he happens to adorn? The presidents of the of the Sons of the Legion Committee of The American Legion, and National and American Leagues sent their regrets also. But did numerous other dignitaries who were sunk in temporary obscurity that feaze Gastonia? Not on your Tarheel! The Legion itself while two squads of fifteen nimble youngsters apiece battled it rates pretty high in Gastonia, with a Legionnaire as Mayor, an- out for supremacy in the stadium back of Gastonia High School. other as President of the Chamber of Commerce, and the afore- That stadium, by the way, is something to write home about, which is just about true of everything in this amazing little town which among other things boasts of the largest Legion Post in its State and a Legion home and Memorial Hall any city ten times its size might be proud to own. The stadium fence skirts the edge of hills overlooking a natural bowl that provides a perfectly level field, ideal for baseball and football. The fence in late August is hardly visible from the inside of the park through a privet hedge that runs from right field foul line all the way around the field to meet that same foul line extended through home plate to the fence again. Behind home plate is a grandstand, on the first base line a tier of bleacher seats reaching up the hill and capable of ac- commodating something like five thous- pf^jM^^^WHWI and people a nd along third base a series

Gastonia respected Red Wakefield's ability to pick players off the bases. This time Armstrong got back before the Sacramento first baseman could put the ball on him

NOVEMBER, 1935 33 ; Armistice? Not on THISfront

WAS a day of great "The picture shows the ITrejoicing— that Novem- crew of the American ar- ber nth of 19 1 8 when mored train. These soldiers the Armistice which was are Privates Kaiser and to end the World War went Manders, Corporal Minard, into effect. It meant the Private icl S. Parusynski, cessation of the fighting for Private J. B. Sutters, Ser- the more than two million geant Fred Howard and Americans in the A. E. F. Private F. L. Dolmot. and to the additional two "When we reached Russia millions in home camps in the spring of 1919, the awaiting their call to the only armored train of the Western Front. Allies was manned by the But November nth of French. When they left in 1918 meant exactly nothing June, 1919, this train was as- to two groups of American signed to the Americans with troops stationed in widely First Lieutenant C. B. separated parts of what had Tuttle in command. It con- been the Russian Empire. sisted of four engine tenders, These men composed the each with an inner jacket A. E. F. in North Russia, and a filling of sand with based on the White Sea port false floor, and machine-gun of Archangel, and the A. E. positions on top. These were F. in Siberia, based on mounted with twenty-two Vladivostok at the other end Vickers machine guns. In of the huge country, six thou- addition to these, there were sand miles away. For them two gondolas with armor, the fighting continued, al- each carrying a three-inch though our country had Vickers naval gun. Attached never declared war on to the train were two coaches Russia. with quarters for the crew, a

In March, 191 7, the Czar, kitchen car with rations and Nicholas, abdicated; on two ammunition cars.

November 7, 191 7, came the "Our train moved down revolution of the Bolsheviks. to the fronton June 11, 1919, In February, 19 18, the and fired its first shot on Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 27th, when barrage Eight months after the war ended, these Americans June a signed with Germany elimi- of 200 rounds was sent into were still battling. The naval gun crew of the Ameri- nated Russia as one of the the enemy position. The can armored train which saw action in the Murmansk Allies against the Central train rendered valuable as- sector of the North Russian campaign, in June, 1919 Powers. Then came the ex- sistance in the attacks on

peditions of "friendly inter- Siding 9, and also took an vention" to North Russia and to Siberia, conceived by the British active part in the battle of Kyapeselya, when the artillery attack High Command. And even now, American veterans who were was supplemented by machine-gun crews sent into the line. It part of those expeditions are wondering why they were sent to was an effective fighting machine whenever it could get near those far-off places. Stories of the Siberian Expedition have ap- enough to the scene of action. The crew was made up of picked peared in this department, and now we have a picture and story men who had previously made good in their military and rail- from a veteran of our North Russian Expedition, Commander road work. William D. Parker of Watts Post of the Legion, who lives at "Our crew consisted of the following: Lieutenant C. B. Tuttle, 9505 Beach Street, Los Angeles, California. Here is Parker's C. A. C.j in command; Sergeants Schmitz, C. W. Mitchell, Fred

story of the picture of the armored train that is shown: Howard, C. T. Barner, Wills, and C. J. Donnelly; Corporals "The enclosed snapshot was taken in the Murmansk Sector in Minnard and William D. Parker (I served as a machine gunner) North Russia by Lieutenant John E. Wilson who was chaplain Privates Dotson, Parusynski, L. A. Brown, Cushing, F. C. of the battalion in which I served. It is one of over three thou- Dolmot, William Martin, Robert MacGough, M. M. Manners,

sand pictures that he took. I was attached to the 168th Company, J. B. Sutters and Olsen; Cook J. P. Whalen. The engine crew Section B, Railway Transportation Corps, of the American ex- was composed of Corporal T. F. Hughes, engineer, Private Harry pedition and I would certainly like to hear from some of the com- Blazy, fireman, Private Anthony Varst, wood passer, Corporal rades with whom I served. We reached Russia in April, 1919, Roy Johnson, conductor and Corporal C. A. Cretsinger, and were the last Americans to leave— in July. brakeman."

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We extract from a book en- is contemplated for an early issue titled] "Archangel, The American of the Monthly. War with Russia," written by "A Chronicler," some facts re- YOU'LL agree with me that garding this outlying American mention of the Air Service force, which we think will be of usually brings to mind a picture of interest not only to those veterans an immaculately uniformed officer, who weren't there, but also to men SCALP proudly wearing his distinctive who participated. MANAGE badge of wings on his left breast. On May 27, iqi8, the Allied That goes for the war period and military attaches of Italy, France, also for the present. Probably England and our country meeting in Moscow agreed that those that's because we ordinary vets have never seen fliers in dun nations should take a hand in the Russian situation. Shortly garees working on their ships. afterward, the Supreme War Council at Versailles favored inter- Catastrophes, however, alter matters. It would be hard to vention and our country consented. On August 3, iqi8, the believe that the group pictured on this page is composed of men American advance party landed at Archangel, although in April of the Air Service, until we learn that they were survivors of one of that year, a party of Royal Marines of England landed and a ot the major transport casualties while our troops were being few weeks later more British Marines and a landing party of shipped over to the A. E. F. Their outfit, the 158th Aero Squad- French sailors. On June 10, 1918, a hundred American sailors ron, was among the 2,179 soldiers aboard the British ship Tus- disembarked from the U. S. S. Olympic at Murmansk. can ia which was being used to transport American troops when

The 339th Infantry, detached from the 85th Division (Michi- she was torpedoed on February 5, 1918. Through the timely gan and Wisconsin men) which was en route to the A. E. F., was and heroic action of the officers and crews of three British de- sent from England to Archangel, reaching that port on September stroyers, the loss of life was restricted to 230 men.

4, 1918. With this infantry regiment were the 337th Field Hospi- The snapshot we reproduce was loaned to us by Legionnaire tal Company, the 337th Ambulance Company and a battalion Elmer E. Holmes of Lansford, Pennsylvania, with this letter: of the 310th Engineers. In all, the American force totaled about "The picture I am sending was taken in Camp Morn Hi'l, just 4500 men—about five hundred additional replacements from the outside of Winchester, England, in March, 1918, and shows a 85th Division following a month later. bunch of men of the 158th Aero Squadron, survivors of the S. S.

England was represented by a brigade of infantry, about equal Tuscania torpedoed February 5, 1918, off the coast of Ireland. in strength to the American force, while France sent 849 men and "We set sail for France on January 23d on the Tuscania in a 22 officers, a battalion of the 21st Colonial Infantry, two machine convoy of seventeen ships. Our squadron of 150 men lost 18. gun sections and two sections of artillery with 75's. Early in the The survivors landed in Ireland, Scotland and England. This campaign, the 67th and 68th Batteries of the 16th Canadian happy-looking gang had just been reunited at Camp Morn Hill.

Lacking the usual natty appearance of Air Corps men, these men are neverthe-

less of the 1 58th Aero Squadron. Here we see them at Camp Morn Hill, England, in the makeshift military-civilian garments they donned after their transport, the Tuscania, was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland on February 5, 1918

Field Artillery, equipped with twelve eighteen-pounders, joined "You will note there is a varied assortment of uniforms forces. All of the American forces, with the exception of the Rail- English sailor suits supplied by the sailors of the sub-chasers way Transportation Corps men, of which Commander Parker was that picked us up, mixed with English civilian clothes and Ameri- one, were withdrawn in the spring of 1919, sailing from Archangel can uniforms. I have lost contact with these men and would on June 10th. An account of some of the experiences of our North certainly like to hear from those fellows still answering Russian expedition, written by an officer who served with it, roll call."

NOVEMBER, 1935 35 For the information of Holmes and other survivors of this recovered two days later after the ship had been put in drydock transport, we want to report that the National Tuscania Survi- at Brest. One man died of burns a few hours after the explosion vors Association was organized some years ago and each year on and another several days later, in the hospital at Brest, making

the anniversary of the torpedoing of the ship, February 5 th, a a loss of thirty-seven, all of the Navy, out of a total of 1450 on reunion and memorial service are held. Paul L. Stewart of 132 board, including 350 Army passengers, 100 of whom were sick or Third Street, Baraboo, Wisconsin, is secretary. wounded. Eleven others who were seriously injured, recovered." There is nothing to indicate that the submarine was sunk. WHILE on the subject of torpedoed vessels, we want to Perhaps some Legionnaire can answer Johnson's other questions. give Errol P. Johnson of Old Kentucky Home Post, New Haven, Kentucky, a chance THERE oughta bin a law to ask several questions in —or at least a General connection with the attack Order during the war making on the transport Mount it compulsory tor the Army Vernon. Here is Johnson's authorities-that-were to fur- letter: nish free haircuts to the "This is an inquiry that soldiers. At least that's the some of your readers will way we felt about it when perhaps answer to my satis- one of those frequent hair- faction. I have had my curi- not-longer-than-an-inch-and osity unsatisfied for the past a-half orders were broadcast seventeen years on these by the officers. Or else a pair points of the occurrence I of clippers should have been will report: Was the enemy added to Equipment C. submarine sunk? Were 35 They furnished us safety- of the Black Gang killed? razors, didn't they? And Did the Navy count this an even though our company engagement? barbers only asked a franc

"On September 4, 1018, a or two for haircuts, that sum casual company composed of was hard to raise sometimes officers and non-commis- after allotments, Liberty sioned officers from the 26th, Loan payments and other 3 2d, 33d and 35th Divisions, deductions had been made boarded the Mount Vernon from our meager pay—and at Brest, France, for duty left us nothing to lose at with new divisions in the craps or black jack. States. There were also But those barber guys aboard a lot of wounded were all right—so we'll let being returned home. The one of them, Legionnaire Ira Mount Vernon sailed the W. Dunn of Mullens, West same evening, accompanied by the Agamemnon and five destroyers. Some of us were assigned to stations with the sailors to stand 'Sub

The classy barber shop of Watch' a lookout for submarines. the 43d Balloon Company at "The following morning, Sep- Ville-sur-Cousances, France, tember 5th, about 6:45 o'clock, we with barber Ira W. Dunn were struck by a torpedo about and his assistant, Han- amidships, starboard side. One de- son, holding up the shack stroyer turned and came back between the two transports, drop- ping depth bombs. Oil came to the Virginia, show a picture of his shop surface and we thought the sub- in the A. E. F. and have his say: marine was hit. We were also "Some months ago I read in the told that 35 firemen had been Monthly the letter from William H. St. Clair, ex-A. E. F. barber, killed. in which he reported that he got $17.50 for one shave. Having "The Mount Vernon limped back been a company barber myself, I'll say that if that customer was into Brest and we casuals were as tough as some of mine it was worth it. Fine fellows—but transferred to the Wilhelmina, tough whiskers. landing in New York on September 17th. "Enclosed is a snapshot of the 'tonsorial parlor' which I "Some of the 400 soldiers who helped form a bucket brigade operated near the French village of Ville-sur-Cousances, showing and passed water from the dining room to help out the pumps, me, at the left, and my assistant, Hanson, who hailed from besides the crews of the Agamemnon, the Mount Vernon and the Minnesota. five destroyers, would like to have their curiosity satisfied as to "I would like to know how many—if any—of the boys of the whether the sub was sunk, if the 35 firemen were killed, if the 43d Balloon Company remember the fire that started in the shop Navy counted this an engagement, and if, after the war, it was on New Year's Day, 1919, from an overdose of gasoline, and the discovered what German submarine made the attack." name of the fellow that operated the fire extinguisher. I'd also We answer at least one of the queries by quoting from "A like to hear from the soldier who jumped into the chair for a History of the Transport Service" by Vice-Admiral Albert shave and hair cut before the embers quit falling. Gleaves, Commander of Convoy Operations, 191 7-19: "I have barbered in this town of Mullens eleven years and

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43d Balloon Company happen to be in this vicinity drop in and have a shave on the house. But leave your hard tack and pup tent at home." If ANNOUNCEMENTS of conventions, Ix. reunions and other activities of outfit organizations appear each month in this column of the Monthly. Since occasionally advice comes to us too late for an announcement to appear, we want to state again that information must be received in this office at least five weeks prior to the first of the month in which the activities are scheduled. Details of the following reunions and activities may be obtained from the Legionnaires whose names and addresses are given:

3d Drv.—Send name and address to George Dobbs, 9 Colby St., Belmont, Mass., for free copy of The Watch on the Rhine. 4th Div. Assoc. of N. Y.—Annual Armistice dinner, New York City, Nov. 9. Clarence Ludlum, secy., 1271 Broadway, New York City, will send details of prize story contest. 4th Div. Assoc. of Pa. —Reunion. Dates and place to be announced later. C. Koland Gelatt, 4807 Chester av., Philadelphia, Pa. Society of 5th Div. has a number of divisional histories on hand. Wm. Barton Bruce, 48 Ayrault St., Providence, R. I. 30th and 81st Divs. —Send name, address and outfit to Warren A. Fair, editor, Charlotte, N. C, for free copy of The Message Center. 42d (Rainbow) Div. Vets. —Annual national convention-reunion, Kansas City, Mo July 13-15, , 1936. The Rainbow Reveille is your paper; write for free copy, stating your outfit. Harold B. Rodier, editor, 717 Sixth St., N. W„ Washington, D. C. 77th Div. Assoc.— Membership entitles holder to privileges of clubhouse, 28 E. 39th st., New York City. Send name and address to Jack Simonson, care of clubhouse, for free copy of The Libert 11 Light. 30th Inf.—The Original 30th Inf. Assoc. invites veterans of regiment organized in Manila in 1901, to report to Geo. W. Mathews, secy.-treas., 11414 East Broadway, Gushing, Okla. 310th Inf., 78th Div. — Reunion in Providence, R. I., 1930— 300th anniversary of city. John P. Riley, 151 Wendell st., Providence. Bth Inf., Co. M—For roster, report to Leo J. Bailey, Canastota, N. Y. Proposed reunion, Syracuse, N. Y., Aug., 1930, with Legion Dept. convention. 319th Inf., Co. C— First annual reunion, Mill- vale, Pa., Nov. 10. Report to A. L. Ferrar, 610 Patrick st., Millvale. 330th Inf., Co. H—Sixth annual reunion, Glouster, Ohio, Sat., Nov. 9. H. H. Sands, adjt., Logan, Ohio. 322d F. A. Assoc. —17th annual reunion, Hamil- ton, Ohio, 1936; date to be announced. To complete roster, report to L. B. Fritsch, secy., P. O. Box 324, Hamilton. 328th Inf., M. G. Co. —Reunion by Mail. Send your letter to Joe M. Carr, Monticello, Fla. 52d Pioneer Inf. (formerly 12th Regt., N. Y N. G.)—Armistice celebration get-together, New York City, Nov. 10. N. J. Brooks, 2 West 45th St., New York City. 148th F. A.— Annual reunion, Albany Hotel, Denver, Colo., Nov. 9. T. T. Houghton, secy.. Room 140 State House, Denver. 37th Engks. — Pittsburgh Chapter annual banquet, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 9. C. W. Reynolds, secy., 3047 Texas av., South Hills P. O., Pittsburgh. HENNESSY 107th Enurs.—Annual reunion, Milwaukee, Wise, Nov. 9. Joe Hrdlick secy., 2209 N. 41st st., Milwaukee. COGNAC BRANDY Co. A, 302d Bn. Tank Corps—18th annual reunion, Chicago, 111., Nov. 30. Are you on the mailing list? Write to Walter R. Titzel, Jr., 30 N. La- Life rolls along today in the Cognac region of France Salle St., Chicago. 267th Aero Sqdrn. —Annual reunion, Indian- apolis, Ind., May 31, 1936. Lloyd Hessey, secy.- much as it did one hundred and seventy years ago. treas., 3557 Kenwood av., Indianapolis. U. S. A. Army Amb. Serv. Assoc.—Annual Arm- istice Day pilgrimage at Allentown, Pa., Sun., Nov. Today, as then, accepted vinegrowers trundle their 10. Men who trained at Allentown, write to R. P. ' Patterson, 526 2 Race St., Catasauqua, Pa. choice crtis to the Hennessy warehouses, where they U. S. S. Solace—Annual reunion of shipmates, Philadelphia, Pa., Sat. Nov. 2. Dr. R. A. Kern, University Hospital, Philadelphia. are skillfully blended and stored to await the magic U. S. S. Yale—Crew reunion and dinner, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 9. C. Leonhardt, 3053-24th time. today, then, the St., San Francisco. mellowing of And as bouquet and U. S. S. Zeelandia— First reunion held in Roches- ter, N. Y., in Aug. For plans of 1936 reunion write "clean" taste of Hennessy make it the preferred liqueur to L. W. Wittman, 415 ParselLs av., Rochester. Base Hosp. No. 116— 17th annual reunion. Hotel McAlpin, New York City, Nov. 9. Dr. Torr everywhere . . . Distilled and bottled at Cognac, France. W. Harmer, 415 Marlborough st., Boston, Mass. 9 Evac. Hosp. No. —Annual reunion, Hotel Mc- SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES Alpin, New York City, Oct. 26. Herman C. Idler, secy., Gaul and E. Susquehanna av., Philadelphia, Pa. (Continued on page o4) Schieffelin & Co., New York City. Importers since 1794

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the skipper hailed her, asking who she transport Agamemnon, May, 1910, for what's the stuff that's in 'em, you see." was and where bound. It was a Chink home. Demobilized at Camp Merritt. "Yeah, but—lissen, y'know those ship from Hong Kong to Philadelphia, Having enlisted at Los Angeles, I was things go off when they're bumped and here is where the thrill comes in assigned to Presidio, San Francisco, to around, dontcha? Doesn't one ever go loaded with a cargo of Trinitrotoluol and be discharged. off with you fellers?" gun cotton. If that ship had hit a mine Traveling by train and nearing Ash- "Oh, yes," he drawled as he let me it would have wiped us out and perhaps land, Nebraska, midnight May 31, 1010, out, "occasionally, but they've got lots ." created a tidal wave that would have asleep. In my subconscious mind, heard more Cadillacs. . . Charles M. cost the lives of hundreds on the shore. a rumbling noise, next instant to be Dodge, Brookline, Massachusscts. You should have seen her back out of submerged in water, learned later to be there when the skipper told her captain the Platte River, swollen by a cloudburst A BROKEN FIELD RUN he was at the edge of the mine field. — and a washout, dumping five coaches and $10 Prize Vernon I. Clow, Colfax, Washington. locomotive into the river. My first thought was that we were still IT WAS around noon on a Sunday near A BANK IS ROBBED in the transport and had hit a mine. La Belle Tour Farm when a statistical $10 Prize My next, as I began to collect myself, non-commissioned officer named Driscoll that our train had plunged off a bridge. of the Fifth Marines was returning from

"O TICK 'cm up, you!". . . and right then I naturally felt it was only a matter of regimental headquarters after making O the biggest moment of my life began! seconds until the end, and being recon- his report. The company to which he It was on June 24, 1930, when the ciled to my fate, turned my mind to was attached had moved up farther and First National Bank of Noble, Illinois, prayer, repeating, "God have mercy on he had to inquire from one of the men was held up and robbed. us." All at once (my big moment) up from the support unit where the regiment At the time of the robbery, George popped my head over the surface, bed- had advanced. They told him as best Martin (a fellow employe) and I were in clothes and all wrapped around me, to they could the destination of the Ma- the bank, as was also a customer. Back find some of my buddies still submerged, rines. He hurried to rejoin his company behind our counters two of the robbers others smashing the glass of the windows but somehow he had hurried past his came, "cannons" at the ready, pushing with their fists to escape from what own (the American) front line and passed the customer in front of them. A third seemed sure death by drowning. unseen the Boche lines and did not dis-

hoodlum guarded the front door. James J. Cremin, Hollywood, Cali- cover the predicament he was in until I not only "held my hands up"— fornia. only twenty or thirty feet from an old, tried my darnedest to touch the ceiling partly demolished cathedral where the and I still argue that I did, especially THERE ON THE BACK SEAT Boches in the rear position had just after they hit Martin on the head with $10 Prize finished morning church services. The the butt end of a gun, for moving too first of the Boches that emerged from the slowly FIFTEEN kilometers to hike, all cathedral started hot footing after him, As the order to lie on the floor was alone. Just because a dumb lieutenant yelling in their native tongue. He had given (with much descriptive language) lost his horse. Had to ride mine up for crossed the support and front positions the looting began. Before the alarm was him and walk back. Hell of a note. of the Boche before they discovered and sounded they had managed to "scoop A car jounced slowly along the shell- fired after him. Alert Marines, seeing a up" thirty thousand dollars in negotiable holed road. Nice clean car, with a nice helmetless man heading in their direction,

bonds and about one thousand dollars clean young lieutenant driving it. An- took up the fire until they noticed he was in cash. other cluck trained for ninety days and one of their own. It was because of the Knowing that the property taken was rushed over to mop up the war as an broken field running that he had been

not fully insured, I, with most of the officer, if you please. taught at high school that saved the day town, gave chase amid what sounded like But fifteen kilos is a long way, and I for him when he was under twin fire.

an Armistice Day celebration. Believe took his offer of a lift. I made several William F. Driscoll, Philadelphia, me when I say it was some chase! cracks going back about ninety-day Pennsylvania. That night I identified one of the rob- lieutenants. I was still sore about the bers, shortly before he died from gun- dumb one who— JIMMY GOES UP shot wounds, in a Toledo, Illinois, hospi- This feller turned and looked at me. $10 Prize tal. The rest of the "mob" are now I noticed his cold, gray eyes. Funny serving prison terms for the part they collar devices, too, couldn't dope 'em IT HAPPENED at the Naval Air Sta- took in the robbery. out. Like a coupla crossed calabash tion, Warrington (near Pensacola),

We recovered our stolen property!— pipes, upside down. Just a youngster Florida, late in 191 7. Probably world's Charles Coan, Olney, Illinois. driving round the front without knowing record balloon ascension and descent.

what it was all about . . . Jimmy, hardboiled, seagoing petty officer SUBMERGED Then I glanced back, and—"Cripes, with crew of student balloonists, inflated $10 Prize loot," I hollers, "lemme outa here." a free balloon and we were walking it to "Smatter, sergeant," he says very the balloon hangar. It had to be passed I SERVED with Co. C, 25th Engineers, slow and cool. over railroad track and telephone wires in France, and participated in the "Gawd, man, d'you know what's on alongside. Jimmy had two ropes tied to big push of the Meuse-Argonne, Sept. 26 the back seat!" the rail, other ropes were thrown over

to Nov. 11, 11 a.m., had all its thrills, "Oh, that? Yeah, I put it there." the wires, one of which Jimmy immedi- bitter and sweet, but none the worse for "You put—what outfit d'you belong ately grabbed. At that instant the tied it. to, the Insanitary Corpse?" ropes cracked—broke, carrying Jimmy, Returned to Brest in December to "Chemical Warfare Service, sergeant. partially tangled in the ropes, into the clean the muddy streets and walks at We collect those big gas duds, take 'em heavens, jerking him up at more than a Pontanazen barracks. Embarked on the back for analysis. We want to know thousand feet per minute. Though awe-

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stricken, a crew member rushed into a nearby building, telephoning emergency sea-sled crews. They immediately started in pursuit, staying along under Jimmy, who was now several thousand feet up. Jimmy's steel nerve and grip stayed with him—hand over hand he climbed until he reached the rip-panel cord. Yanking this he began to descend, landing feet first in the bay with a terrific splash near sea sled, which rushed to his side and pulled him in. Apparently uninjured but excited, Jimmy stood, smiling, and asked for a cigarette. Puffing away, he was whisked to the hospital. Examination disclosed no injuries and much against his will he was forced to spend a quiet night there to settle his nerves. Jimmy, the hero of a most thrilling experience, came out the following morning, smiling and happy. Foster D. Finch, Zcbulon, North Caro- lina. THE MESSAGE WENT THROUGH $10 Prize

WHILE taking over the front line on the morning of October 15, 1918, we were greeted with heavy shelling and sniping. Towards the afternoon the shelling became terrific. Lieutenant Holm, in order to prevent us from being wiped out, decided to change our position. I was to take the message to the company holding the line on our left. Shortly after I left our line a sniper got me straight through my head, the bullet going in back of the right ear and out through my left eye. In my exposed position in the middle of a road I dared not move too much, as I knew that I was being watched by the sniper, but I had fj WHAT \£ee tfacnuf^Sfeef? to get away somehow in order to get my message through and to save myself from bleeding to death. By slowly drag- IMPOSSIBLE,YOULL SAY_BUT... ging myself forward, inch by inch, I challenges belief— but every fort that never varies. Millions of finally managed to get off the road. IT the Gillette factory tbe dollars have been spent in perfect- Crawling through the woods, as by this day at amazing electro-magnetic tester ing advanced manufacturing and time I was too weak from loss of blood to "sees" deep beneath the surface of inspection equipment. Apparatus I managed to get in contact stand up, Gillette "Blue Blade"steel. A sample usually found only in finely equip- I sent one for- with some of our men. from every coil of steel—the finest ped scientific laboratories is in daily ward with my orders and another I sent the world market affords— is sub- use at the Gillette factory on a reg- back to notify my commander that I mitted to this scientific instrument. ular production basis. was badly wounded. Irregularities occur in all steel. If you want a razor blade that Lieutenant Holm, Sergeant Roberts, Even microscopic inspection can- never varies in quality ... a blade Corporal O'Hara and the man I sent not detect them. But as clearly as that gives you one comfortable back, came out and picked me up and the X-ray reveals broken bones, the shave after another day in and out, tester instantly dis- try the Gillette "Blue with the information I gave them they electro-magnetic Blade." See closes the slightest hidden imper- how easily it removes even stub- were able to wipe out the snipers' fection, flashes the story to the op- born bristles —how swiftly it skims nest.—George C. Gustafson, Chicago, erator, a trained metallurgist, and over tender spots Illinois. the steel is rejected. This is but one with feather-like of the many precautions taken by touch. Ask for Gil- THE BOLO THAT MISSED Gillette to insure you shaving com- lette "Blue Blades." $10 Prize Reputable merchants give you what you ask for. In stores where substitution is practised—INSIST ON MIDNIGHT and moonlight, back in March, 1907, found me stationed on Leyte, Philippines, in the heart of the hostile Pulajane country, in charge of an outpost on the bloody Gin- GILLETTE BLUE BLADES roonhea Trail connecting Dagami and • semi- U 25* IO 4®* district headquarters. Being a MOW 5 A permanent (Continued on page 40)

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outpost, the sergeant in charge was "How did it happen?" I asked the ping my vin blanc, I waved the train furnished with an "A" tent, cot, sailor. good-bye. Some time later, while pass- table, and candle. Stretched on the "Dis shib—dis Cap'n, no goot!" he ing the time with the inevitable group cot, enjoying these luxuries, candle cried. "Starve—no water—sickness of French children who had congregated sputtering and spitting its protest against bugs, rats—hell! I—I know sea law. about me, I was attracted by a sudden scores of mosquitoes who insisted on You can't send wounded sailor to sea. I and violent commotion about the station, singeing their wings in its flame, I was go to hospital now—I cut off my hand!" which soon affected the group about me. trying to read a Spanish novel describing —Jack Mitchell, Veterans' Facility, "Wait a minute, sis," I said, grabbing the conquest of the Philippines. No use, San Fernando, California. one who could speak good English, had to extinguish candle and fight mos- "What's the excitement about, Germans quitoes by the light of the moon as its THE DELIVERY breaking through the line?" A firm grip soft, tropical rays filtered through the $10 Prize and a five franc note finally elicited the ancient tent roof. Probably ten minutes information that the train which I had later I decided to gather grass for a WHILE at Christmas dinner, De- deliberately missed was in a collision in smudge, after which—if I survived the cember 25, 1918, Monroe, Wash- the center of a glove-tight tunnel a smoke—I might get a little sleep. Sitting ington, telephone call, "Dr. Overmeyer, short distance away, and that "every- up on the cot, tightening belt and shift- come at once, without fail, bring in- body burned up." A little exaggerated, ing Colt to its proper position, I suddenly struments!" Thirty miles up the Sky- as I learned later, but all in the first-class saw a man's shadow on the tent, and then kornish River—lives of both mother and coach upon which I had passage were —swish, as a bolo cut through the roof child were in jeopardy. The weather killed. —D. Elvin Rosenberger, Upper wall, and into a folded poncho which a had been bad for several days, the night Darby, Pennsylvania. moment before had served as my pillow. was black, windstorm raging—rain, sleet, I fired at the point where the bolo had hail, and snow blew in strange fitful BUT NOT ONE CASUALTY entered, then ran outside, only to see blasts. The rivers and mountain streams $10 Prize a red jacket and pair of white shorts were raging torrents, washing out roads disappear in the bamboo thicket. Soon and bridges. I got the best driver in THE first shell slightly to the right after, a sentry's rifle cracked and next town. We sped away in the storm and missed the dump by feet. The morning Mr. Pulajane was found in the darkness. Within a few miles of the second overshot its mark but in a direct bush, killed by a Krag thirty and not place we saw a waving light across the line. 'Twas just a question of moments even scratched by my thirty-eight.— road. The watchman informed us bridge before La Fouine No. 4, the largest am- Major Elmer Kemp, U. S. A., Retired, was about to go tumbling. I got out, munition dump in the Toul Sector, would Augusta, Georgia. took one look, rushed across the bridge to be a raging hell. A direct hit on a pile solid footing as the bridge gave away, of 75's and the fun started. The men DESPERATE REMEDY also the railroad bridge below. I moved had been scattered in groups all over the $10 Prize on rapidly to the bedside of the patient, place and in the din and excitement that who was in a critical condition from pain, followed it was everyone for himself. IT HAPPENED in Honolulu Harbor shock, loss of blood and protracted labor. Giving orders was out of the question. late in July, 1917. My outfit, the One arm of child protruding with head Some made for the dugouts directly First Infantry, was doing guard and en- flexed backward. We prepared the pa- underneath, others sped in all directions. camped at Fort Kamehameha. I was tient as rapidly as possible in the emer- In quick succession additional "hits" detailed to a rendezvous tour (with two gency. When everything was ready, Dr. and the dump took on the semblance of recruits whose names I have forgotten) Voss administered an anaesthetic. With an eruptive volcano and earthquake aboard the Peruvian four-masted steel difficulty I replaced the arm, then ad- combined. There was no telling who es- sailing ship, Belfast. justed the head, then applied the forceps caped and how many were trapped. My special orders were that there were and delivered the child, which in due That night from the town of Menil- two German sailors aboard ship, and time we resuscitated. The mother re- la-Tour, I watched Boche planes finish that under no circumstances were we to sponded to treatment and both mother their job of destruction and with each let them leave the vessel—we were to and child were saved and restored to explosion my blood turned cold at the keep close, careful and alert watch over health. George W. Overmeyer, M. D., thought of the poor devils by now them at all times. These two men were Retsil, Washington. trapped in the underground. Towards the only ones aboard. daylight the noise subsided. Enemy There were three of us in the detail, I, A TRAIN MISSED fire, apparently satisfied that destruction being oldest, in charge. $10 Prize was complete, had ceased. I returned to Arrived, I posted a sentry in the fore- the scene with dread in my heart at castle with the two Germans. About THE creaky French train gradually what I would find. Others came drifting twenty minutes later I heard a shout jerked itself to a stop before the back in small groups throughout the day, a scream, and rushed forward, my rifle station, on another unscheduled stop, and in a final check-up, "believe it or at thrust. The sentry, though standing, and all passengers piled out to the station not," the casualties numbered exactly was pale and covered with blood. I platform. Although I had finished a one great big zero. Millions in smoke but thought him wounded. heavy meal less than an hour previously, not one ounce in blood. One of the Germans stood white-faced odors from the station restaurant soon My big moment? Yes, thank God! in the dim light. I leaped at him, but caused me to succumb to my favorite Louis (Red) Sapper, Miami, Florida. He was holding his left wrist from "oeufs and pommes de terre." Just as which the hand was dangling! On a the order was placed before me, the train IT DIDN'T STRIKE bunk lay a fire ax. Blood was every- whistle summoned all aboard. I wasn't $10 Prize where. I stopped the bleeding with my hungry, but I then and there decided to first-aid pack, and called the corporal of take my time—by and by there would be I LIVE in Southern Alabama, where the guard. another train along. And so, calmly sip- fruit is scarce and snakes are plentiful.

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Early this summer I found a thicket of blackberry bushes loaded with huge berries, and I determined to overcome my Whence Bugler Blows Assembly.. great fear of snakes and other crawling things and get those berries, the first of the season. My young son, John, soon joined me, and being barefoot, stayed on the outer side of the thick bushes, but I became brave as the picking improved and plunged through to the inner side. Ber- ries and briars soon occupied our attention so thoroughly that we quite forgot the necessary warning to "watch where you step." My boy was chattering incessantly when suddenly we both realized that we had subconsciously been hearing an ominous "rattle" close by. John looked down and there, close by his bare foot, coiled ready to strike, was a rattlesnake giving its warning. John jumped out of its reach and ran. I tried to follow but I was imprisoned by the thick briars. Imagine my horror when that snake crawled toward me where I stood, half paralyzed with fear—it crawled over my foot and disappeared rapidly among the bushes. Needless to say we picked no more berries. The jelly I made was promptly named "rattlesnake jelly." Lilian M. Thomas, Bay Minette, Alabama. DOWN THE MOUNTAIN ROAD $10 Prize

DRIVING a big tractor, hauling cement from the railroad twenty- four miles across the Mojave Desert to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, I sat on a Report Equipped/ spring seat six feet above the ground, with the huge motor at my left, and the controls before me. A steering wheel When the signal sounds for a get- controled the single central road wheel together, watch your bottle-equipment. far to the front. Six levers controled a Don't fall in with a "dud." Or with a master clutch, a reverse clutch, and in- new recruit that won't get along with dividual clutch for each side driving track, and an individual brake for each the gang. Dress right with a full pack of track. that old seasoned veteran — Seagram's Where the road lay close to the edge of Crown. the mountain, the side clutches began to From the fattest colonel to the thin- pop out of engagement. The tractor, nest K. P. you'll hear nothing but praise swinging wildly right and left, was over

the edge before I realized it. The two for Crown Whiskey. For it's blended huge trailers, loaded with many tons for taste the Seagram way. So warm, so of cement, followed the tractor without heartening ... so smooth a taste that upsetting. Seagram's is the big favorite in Legion My oiler (helper) jumped to safety. The posts from Coast to Coast. tractor started down the steep mountain- side, pushed by the load behind. I dared not jump, for if the tractor swerved even slightly it would have upset, and tons of sacked cement would have hurtled down on me. Jerking out all clutches and grabbing the brake levers, I heldastraight course by touching one brake or the z^73/eni/ed t/ie of^a^ram ^Mizy other. After a wild ride of half a mile, I stopped on a small area of fairly level ground. Nothing was broken and no cement lost. After reconnoitering, I drove the tractor Seagram Distillers Corp.— Distillery : Lawrenceburg, Ind.—Executive Offices: New York and load up a {Continued on page 42)

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long draw, striking the road a mile and a see where my chair went and where I the hell ordered you to blow that call?" half from where I went over the edge. would also be, if they had not seen me he roared at me. "No one, sir!" I Jack Waite, Veterans' Home, Bay Pines, just when they had—for they had lifted stammered. Someone touched me on the Florida. me clear as the chair took its plunge in shoulder. I whirled about as General the boiling and roaring ocean!—Miss Brett broke through that mob and faced JUST IN TIME Lucy Walters, Fort Bayard, New me. "Bugler, I want to commend you $10 Prize Mexico. on your alertness. Good work! We'll win this war in no time if we keep C-A-R-P-A-T-H-I-A," signaled the HIGHER AUTHORITY our eyes open that way!" Edward man on the crow's nest of the $10 Prize L. Workmaster, Pittsburgh, Pcnnsy'- Megantic. vania. The Carpathia and the Megantic were SQUADS right and left, then submarine being used for convoy ships to transport attacks, "Lookout" in the "Crow's Rules of Contest: The American soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses Nest" of an old water-logged transport. Legion Monthly will pay $§00 monthly: across the Atlantic during the World "Boo Coo" action as a runner with a A first prize of $100 for what, in the opin- War. I was a nurse, aboard the Megantic. machine gun company. Yep, served time ion of the editors, is the best story submitted, I was sitting on a steamer chair where in the guardhouse and in the "brig" too. $jo each for the next two, $25 each for I had a good view of the Signal Corps Plenty thrills, soldier, and still I feel my the next four, and $10 each for the next man on the crow's nest. one big moment happened right here in twenty. Contributions submitted will be He was wig-wagging a message which the States. Just another damn "Wind- judged not by their literary finish or lack when deciphered, read: jammer." That was me. of it, but by the quality and interest of "Carpathia struck by submarine shell This particular day I was bugler of the their contents. No contributions will be which injured engines. Battleship stand guard. Mess call would soon be sounded. returned, nor can the editors of the Monthly by! All other ships zig-zag in circles My watch showed about twenty seconds (whose decision will in all cases be final) keeping out of sight of each other." to noon when I was attracted by smoke enter into a correspondence about them. As the Megantic gave a lurch to zig- and flames coming from Co. E Barracks. Contributions need not be typewritten, zag, the deck was brought to a steep The officer of the day and his N.C.O.'s though typewriting is preferred. Don't incline, and I realized that my chair was had gone for mess. Those on duty were scud pictures! Address Big Moment slipping! It gained momentum until, as all "bucks" so yours truly let go with Contest, The American Legion Monthly, the ship righted herself, I found myself fire call! Mess kits flew in all directions. 521 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Sub- at once in a corner of the deck where I Rookies or not, they sure knew their mit as many stories as you like, but do not knew a lower rail was missing! The chair fire call. Buddy, that fire was out in no enclose more than one story in a single

was half off the edge of the ship ! Scream- time. Then I nearly passed out! Before envelope. Write on one side of the sheet ing, I was clinging to the upper rail! you could say Black Jack I was sur- only, and put name and address in upper Nor could I bring myself to let go until rounded like the Lost Battalion. right-hand corner of each sheet. Addi- two kindly doctors who had seen my I'd swear that officer of the day was tional instalments will appear in succeed- plight insisted that I look down and actually frothing at the mouth. "Who ing numbers until further notice.

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region I had mixed the dough for and make the boys comfortable and cheerful. grandsons of men who had fought with fried more than a thousand doughnuts My daily routine there was about like me in '64 and '65. in one day to go to the trenches that this: Get up around 8 a. m., go to the It has been suggested to me that night, so I was ready for anything. 1 wine cellar and start the day's work, help members of The American Legion might cooked those doughnuts over a charcoal build the fire, get the coffee ready for the be interested in a comparison of the fire in a kettle that would hold only boys, wash the soiled dishes, clear the Civil War and A. E. F. soldiers by one twelve at a time. table of nut-shells, orange peelings and who had seen both in actual service. Things were pretty busy around Man- jam cans, put the counter in order, open There was much difference between them dres, with the Boche shelling the place up new goods, show the boys how to because of the conditions under which twice a day quite regularly and our fry eggs, listen to their accounts of the they fought, but no difference in courage artillery replying with gusto. The village past night wherever they may have been and valor. was the last station from which fighting stationed, cook my own breakfast, some- Your Civil War soldier knew nothing lines advanced to the actual front or last where about nine or ten o'clock—oatmeal of trench warfare, of dugouts, of gas and line of defense dugouts. I never stuck and a couple of eggs perhaps, with coffee. gas masks, of machine guns, of aircraft, my head out of the cellar, or my dugout, Then no time to eat again until about of motor transport. He often slept with- without a steel helmet on it, and the gas four o'clock, when something easily out shelter, thinking himself lucky to mask was always close at hand. On prepared, like hardtack and a box of sar- have a blanket to cover him on the rainy days the cellar would be packed, dines, made a dinner. ground. His fighting was done in the as it was dry and safe, which could not I was often introduced to gatherings open, on the surface, and he usually be said for many of the soldiers' billets. of soldiers as the only Civil War veteran, saw his enemy. Often his work was at We kept the checker games going and the so far as known, in war service in France. close quarters. He wore mustache and coffee hot, encouraged singing, led a gos- The boys called me Dad, which gave me beard, as a rule, because, being very pel meeting now and then when no chap- license to talk to them as a real dad often a mere boy, he thought they made lain was present and, all in all, tried to would. It was a pleasure to cheer up the him look older, manlier and maybe fiercer

42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly and also because convenient shaving tools weren't available to him. His fighting was more spectacular. In several months close to an active front in France I never saw a flag or a banner. That was a night war, with all movements made in the dark and nothing displayed that / might attract the enemy's notice. I saw the Civil War soldier in action in units of various size over a wide area for long periods and the A. E. F. soldier I could walk fifty only when off duty and as an individual. My impression is that the Civil War si soldier was a better disciplined one and in loes as that there was more fellowship then between men and officers than in the A. E. F. I think there was less bitterness of personal feeling, of enmity, between the opposing sides in the Civil War than in the World War. Then, too, the Civil War soldier as I knew him and recall him was, with exceptions, not a fault- finder, whereas the A. E. F. man was much of a grumbler, though a good-na- tured one; his seeming disapproval of things as they were was on the surface —at bottom he was all to the good. What of a comparison between the Grand Army of the Republic and The American Legion? In one sense, it is rather hard to compare them because the Grand Army for many decades has been made up of old men, while the Legion is a young organization. But they have certain basic features in common. The Grand Army's fundamental practice of making membership open to enlisted men and officers is also one of the Legion's, and the latter's democracy is further expressed in treating home and overseas service alike. The Legion grows more stable with age. When it shall have achieved its immediate objectives, such as those affecting disabled veterans and dependents of veterans, it will have many years ahead for devotion to community, state and national interests of the whole people. Its activities in schools and elsewhere in teaching patriotism are well known, conducted often in conjunction with the Grand Army. The influence of the Grand Army in promotion of good causes has been largely in local communities and within state lines. I observe with satisfaction the interest of the Legion in national objectives and especially its growing tendency to regard the support and promotion of education as a Swing along in Bostonians with the Flexmore* Process. vital and permanent activity. An exclusive construction insures ease in every springy I am now the only Civil War veteran stride without a single sacrifice to looks. Rugged, hand- in Sterling, Illinois, the last survivor of some, built for active men in Luggage Calf— Bostonians' Will Robinson Post, G.A.R. Members new, smart leather for Fall. At leading men's apparel and shoe of Sterling Post of the Legion have made shops, $6.50 to $8.50. Bostonian Foot Savers, $10.00. me feel that I am one of them. We speak together in the schools, to- march 'Registered U. S. Pate gether in Memorial Day parades. There are two boys here, one in Sterling and f

the other in Rock Falls adjacent to it, who served under fire from Montsec. The three of us chummed together over there and ran for cover when the guns shogs for men began to shoot. I, T WITH THE FLEXMORE PROCE

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Due to the untiring zeal of Legionnaire eight to one. It was a pretty grim set of Gastonians, combining three hits with Brown Wilson of Gastonia those who boys who rode back to their quarters at two errors, produced four runs and salted held tickets were able to see everything the Armington Hotel and wrote letters away the game and the championship of there was to see, without anyone crowd- and postal cards to their relatives and the world. That meant acquiring the ing in front of them. In deep left and left friends back home. They figured that Howard P. Savage Junior Baseball center fields the slope from the fence to they had got all the tough breaks and Trophy, as well as a trip to the big World the level surface is at perhaps a four to they were pretty sore at fate and at Series opening games. The Schumann- six degree angle, and a ball hit on to themselves. Heink Trophy, emblematic of outstand- this slope will go for either a double or a The third game, scheduled for Thurs- ing sportsmanship, went to Red Wake- triple. In the final game, with some day, was washed out by rain, and when field, the Sacramento pitcher. On its thirteen thousand people in attendance, the next day dawned clear Legionnaire way home the Sacramento squad had the this hill was almost filled with spectators, Edgar (Scotty) Feran, manager of the opportunity of seeing the St. Louis causing a ground rule to be adopted Sacramento boys, and Coach William Cardinals play the Cincinnati Reds at limiting to two bases any safe hit drop- Avila decided that since it was a case of the home field of the Ohio team. To ping on the hill. Beyond the fence, from do or die they'd pitch Red Wakefield these boys of less than seventeen this porches of houses, from a knoll and from again. It seemed as if fortune was at last trip to the East and its experiences will groaning limbs of trees half a thousand smiling on Sacramento, for they picked up be something to talk about for many non-paying devotees watched each game. three runs in the first two innings to sur- years to come. It's safe to say that they would have been prise the overflow crowd of 13,000, while On its way up to the finals Gastonia's inside if they'd had the price. the home team was getting only one run. opponents in the Eastern Sectional at For six innings the first game was a But in the third inning Gastonia turned Charlotte were East Lynn (Massachu- closely contested battle, with the home on the heat with five hits and three runs, setts), Bridgeport (Connecticut), Plains team showing only a bit of an edge in and followed it up with another run in the (Pennsylvania), Royal Oak (Michigan), offensive strength. But in the seventh fourth and three in the seventh. With and Carrollton (Georgia). In the final and eighth the combination of five hits, the game apparently salted away to the game there the Gastonia lads beat Car- four bases on balls and an error sent in tune of 8-3 the fans in the outfield reaches rollton by a score of 19-6 before a crowd six runs and Gastonia finished the game started making for the gates. of nearly 10,000 people. on the long end of a 10-4 score. Sacramen- But the game was far from over. Be- The Sacramento team's rivals in the to was a bit unsteady in the field in this fore Gastonia was able to get a man out Western Sectional at Stockton were game, and when its fine shortstop, Cole, in the eighth the Sacramento youths had Sunnyside (Washington), Denver (Colo- was accidentally spiked and its star poled out four hits, and when after one rado), St. Paul (Minnesota), Chicago pitcher, Red Wakefield, was unable to man had gone out Bertolini, the catcher, (Illinois), and Tulsa (Oklahoma). In the locate the plate in the final stages of the slammed out a three bagger and came final match of the sectional the youngs- contest, the eastern lads, displaying some home on Dutra's single, the score was ters from the California capital whipped marvelous fielding ability to go with their tied and now Gastonia was in hot water. Tulsa, 14 to 4, before 3,500 people. By hitting and a star pitcher in Sokie Sokie Dellinger had been replaced on the taking this game the Sacramento boys Bellinger, would not be denied. mound by his brother Marion, captain of won a silver trophy given by Joe E. The next day, when overcast skies held the team and regular center fielder, be- Brown, the movie star and baseball fan. the attendance to 6000, the Californians fore anyone was out and now after giving As a spectacle this year's Junior World fared even worse, for with Cole out of the a base on balls and making a wild pitch Series was superb. As a practical lesson game the Westerners played raggedly in Marion was facing men on third and in sportsmanship, in developing the kind the field and were able to pick up but four second and only one out. But those two of citizenship that will make America a hits off Bobby Hamilton, second string didn't see home, for the relief pitcher greater nation in the years to come, the pitcher for Gastonia, while the home- struck out one man and made the other entire program, involving 400,000 boys town boys nicked Red Wakefield and hoist to the second baseman for the third and thousands of Legion sponsors it Keenan for twelve, and won the game, out. In their half of the eighth the was also a conspicuous success.

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{Continued from page 2q) down, face into the wind. The gale's water. Picked up by the suction of the "Oh, God, I'm hurt. Somebody help strength kept his eyelids peeled back. terrific circular wind, the sea rushed at me!" "Scotty!" he yelled. The wind swept him, a fifteen-foot wall of white, seething A lightning flash revealed two men be- away his call. He half straightened and foam. Frantically he clutched at the tree, ing swept swiftly past the tree. the gale's impact picked him up, hurled wrapped legs around it. The surging One yelled, "If I don't see you again, him with stunning force against a pal- wave hit him with the impact of a bullet. Shorty, so long." metto. He clung to the bole with all his Flooded over him, choking him. Desper- Bill understood now. The tidal wave strength. ately he worked up the palmetto to get was receding. He was being washed out A bolt of lightning fit the blackness. In above the surface. He found then that to sea. He cast loose, swam frantically. that flash he saw Mike. A two-by-four had the palmetto was no longer vertical, but And over him the hurricane screamed, pierced Mike through the chest. Scotty horizontal. It had been uprooted and he and the lash of the waters was in his was gone and a thousand objects hurtled was floating swiftly he knew not where. ears. . . . past, riding the wind of destruction. The wind brought him yells and Bill clung to the palmetto. Another screams. "Give me a hand, Bud, I'm THE pale sun of Tuesday's dawn lightning flash. He saw it coming, the drowning." touched with gold the orange caps of

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly a half hundred American Legionnaires of Dade County who had gathered on the edge of raging Snake Creek which separated them from the veterans' camps on the Keys where the hurricane had wrought its will. Mobilized by the swift action of Leonard Thompson, chairman of disaster relief, with no other agency yet working, they were watching now four Legionnaires risk their lives in trying to swim, one tied to the other, to carry a line across the swirling torrent whose bridge had been swept away by the tidal wave. Twice they tried, only to be drawn back, choking and half-drowned. Louis T. McCarthy, acting commander of Harvey Seeds Post, was sending orders for equipment. Small boats and outboard motors were needed; food and water (no water on these keys) medical supplies, stretchers, ambulances, trucks, ropes, lanterns. "Hurry!" he said, "the poor devils are cut off from help until we can get across Snake Creek. Many will die unless we get there quickly." The job was strictly up to the Legion disaster organization. The National Guard was not called out until noon. And five hundred Legionnaires were mo- In that ifear it urnsfirst breived in Milwaukee bilized by then. S. S. McCahill, past commander of Harvey Seeds Post, con- voyed the loaded trucks south and by Pioneers who made the long trek to California's gold fields in seven o'clock that night seven outboard 1849 opened up a new America. In that year a little brewery boats were plying across Snake Creek, tvas started in Milwaukee, making beer for the neighbors. The getting out the injured and bringing Schlitz Brewery which, in years, has grown so and cheer and food to the survivors. The 86 famous Legionnaires worked the faster for know- so vast that its beer is shipped to the far corners of the world. ing there were buddies over there. Every Legion post within a hundred miles sent working parties — Hollywood Post, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Homestead, Many people tell us that Schlitz is America's North Miami, Coconut Grove, Hialeah, and other Dade County Posts. finest beer. It stimulates pleasantly, and leaves Bonfires of leaves sent palmetto swirl- no after-effect. It is easily digested, and health- ing clouds of smoke into the sky, their sullen orange flames lighting the frantic ful. It is made from choicest grains, hops, malt, work of maintaining a ferry service in yeast. Beneficial vitamins are retained, in its brewing. And flat-bottomed boats across the treacher- ous currents. every drop of Schlitz is brewed by a secret Ten Legionnaires of Harvey Seeds and precise process of Enzyme Control, which Post constituted the first rescuing party to cross Snake Creek. Armed with gas gives you perfection every time. For new lanterns they began to search the ruins of FERA Camp Number One. Like pleasure in beer drinking try Schlitz, the dancing fireflies their lanterns moved beer whose superiority has stood the test of through the smashed desolation of absolute ruin. 86 long years. Order Schlitz — on draught Dead everywhere! A veteran, naked or in the brown bottles. Jos. Schlitz save for belt and sox, and battered by the missiles the shrieking wind had carried. Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Strange sights they saw. A squealing monkey, tied fast, quite mad, biting the hand that tried to free him. And a Ford coupe, half-buried in debris, its windows rolled up, and inside a frantic wire-haired terrier, quite insane and near to death. Coming to the spot where the camp had been, the advance party saw the first survivors, grouped around a small fire. 1935, S. B. Co. They jumped at the sight of help. They © J. had been quiet, starry-eyed at their mem- THE B K ories. But at sight of the orange caps the THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS natives burst (Continued on page 46)

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into hysterical tears. The few veterans party reached Whale Harbor, and had ing out of the silt and debris the arms, too few—lifted their shoulders as they here to wait for boats to ferry them to legs and torsos of veterans who had sur- might have done nineteen years ago when Upper Matecumba. It was sickening to vived machine guns and shells and battles they were being relieved at the front. wait there, knowing wartime buddies to die here trapped beyond escape. They were evacuated north to the were on that green islet, many dead, no First-aid parties pushed closely behind boats and trucked to Miami hospitals. doubt, but many more hurt and already the advance party, and scores of injured Meanwhile Harvey Seeds Post's club- trapped thirty-six hours in the debris, men and women were released from house was filled with women and children who could be saved. ruined homes or fallen trees who other- who had survived the hurricane. The party struggled back over impas- wise might have died. The dead were The Legion party worked south, finger- sable roads, finally to get a boat and moving back, too, by now; thirty-nine printing the dead before the sun had its reach Islamorada. Here the full fury of bodies of the eventual 228 known dead will of them, tagging them where found, the circular wind had vented itself, and were neatly aligned at Snake Creek's making the work easier for the other even the vegetation had been torn up and edge, waiting until the living had been Legionnaires who followed. The Legion- swept away. In the warm light of an- evacuated. naires came in relays bringing water and other dawn the place was desolate as if The Legionnaires pushed on south food, bringing stretchers for bodies twist- swept by a barrage. The dead were thick bringing water to survivors who had not ed by the fury of the wind—making first- upon the ground. tasted a drop in forty-eight hours. aid bandages as they once did during the Here, too, the rescuing party came up- At length toward nightfall, still work- war, rescuing men and women from be- on the wreckage of the eight-coach train ing toward Camp Three, the advance neath the ruins of once-whole buildings. that had been sent—too late by hours party of Legionnaires came upon the Scores of refugees that night owed their to evacuate the veterans and civilians naked body of a man stretched out as if lives to the speed and precision of the from the death trap. Weighing hundreds still groping futilely for something that Legion disaster relief. By midnight a of tons, these heavy steel coaches had had eluded him for a lifetime. steady stream of boats was carrying sur- been tumbled from the track by the hur- "He's a veteran," one said. "Look at vivors across Snake Creek. Here the ricane as if they were matchsticks, blown those shrapnel scars." Auxiliares, mobilized during the day, hundreds of feet away, and arrayed in The advance party stared at the scarred served food and hot coffee. Never had wild confusion. torso, sensing the irony of those healed the Legion been called upon to function The advance party searched the coach- wounds and this journey's end. One of under such strange conditions, relieving es and found five dead veterans, drowned the Legionnaires bent down to take finger- men trapped on islands barely protruding by the tidal wave that overwhelmed prints, another to affix a tag by a string above water. But the men of the nine them even when safety seemed at hand. around the neck. A silence fell. Dade County Posts and the volunteers Here beyond the ruins of the Islamorada Presently: "Funny," muttered one, from Ft. Lauderdale and Hollywood met station the party came upon survivors "he's got a sort of puzzled look on his the emergency as they had met another who knew not why they lived. A veteran face. Close his eyes." in 1026. with a broken back. Another with a pole But nothing puzzled Bill Brown any Toward dawn the advance Legion crushing his leg. And everywhere, stick- more. The hurricane had seen to that.

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recall our Old Man in the Chesapeake? " 'Hah,' says I. 'So you still have that every last man jack you want out of the He was fond of us and proud of us, was Kanaka boat in the back of your mind, Atlantic Fleet and order you out to the he not? He was. Well, he's a full admiral Mr. Bayliss?' Pittsburgh on the Asiatic Station. In- now and what's more, he's Chief of Naval " T have. She was built as close to a cidentally, I'm on the Pittsburgh. The Operations. He's high, low and jack-in- regulation Naval barge as her coffee- rest will happen.' the-game. Where did you enlist last?' colored genius of a designer and builder " 'Have those Russian bandits chal- " 'New York Navy Yard, sir.' could make her, but—she had something lenged the Pittsburgh, sir?' " " 'God is with us, Reedy. In three different. We took off her lines one night 'They have—and as athletic officer of months you'll be discharged and given and that was a long time ago. I still have the ship, I declined the challenge, telling transportation back to the New York them. Take them and see to it that you them we had an indifferent barge crew Navy Yard. 'Tis but a hop, skip and a get a good man who knows how to use but that when I was ready to take a jump to Washington, where you'll pay a them. The shop will be yours when the reasonable chance, the race would be ar- visit to the Chief of Naval Operations Chief of Naval Operations gives the word. ranged.' and unload on him the sad tale of these Try out a standard model in the tank, "In eleven months I joined the Pitts- murdering Russians. He'll be interested. then try out our model—and be sure ours burgh at Hong Kong, with twelve of the He's a human old villain and he'll give is faster. Then have the Chief of Naval best oarsmen in the Atlantic Fleet. And you his promise to co-operate. The Operations send you from one battleship I had the new barge with me. Everything promise given, what do you do? You ask to the other in the Atlantic Fleet and had turned out exactly as Monk Bayliss him to assign you a naval constructor there, for six months, you will watch and had foretold. He had the new men strip and give you carte blanche at the New study and when you see an outstanding and the doctors went over them. 'Perfect, York Navy Yard or Portsmouth or crew find out the best man in that crew all of them,' was the verdict and I saw wherever you can get a new barge built. and mark him down. Pick a few extra to Monk Bayliss' eyes glisten with pride, In length, beam, draught and displace- fill in, in case of accident. When you're as he looked at my broad-shouldered, ment she must be the standard Navy ready, tell the Chief of Naval Operations, long-backed men with rangy bodies and barge, but you must sweeten her lines.' and he'll pluck you and your barge and thin legs and arms like lengths of steel

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cable. The next day, at slack water, with the harbor as smooth as a table, he put the Pittsburgh's old barge and crew overside and my crew and the new barge followed. I'd kept my crew in light training

all the way out and they'd been in the pink when we started for China, so I knew

they were fit for a mile and a half trial race. It was good to find myself at a tiller again and beating time. I was born with a judgment of pace and you could measure the time between beats with a stop watch and never vary a fifth of a second. "Well, we walked away from the regular crew, and Monk Bayliss smacked his lips. 'We have a superior crew, Ham,' says he—once in a while—he'd forget discipline and call me that 'and tomorrow we'll see if you've brought the superior It isn't the hourly or daily wage that counts — it's the barge I sent you after, although as God is my judge I dare any man to tell, with amount earned at the end of the year. The same with his naked eye, that she differs a hair's shoes. It isn't the amount you pay for them — it's the breadth from the regulation model.' "So the next night we put the old crew cost per day of wear. Florsheims will cost you less by in the new barge and the new crew raced the year. The Dart, S-ffj, in Black Calf. Also in them in the old barge. Where we'd easily beat the old crew in the old barge eight Brown Calf, S-514. Both are made the Ped-Flex way. lengths before, we were hard put to it to beat them by two lengths in the new MOST STYLES SOME STYLES f barge. And again Monk Bayliss smacked ^^^^ JQ his lips. 'We've got the Russians now, Ham,' says he. 'We've got the lucky devils—and the faintest sweetening of the lines of the underbody, the faintest hard- The FLORSHEIM Shoe ening of the bilges to keep her stiff, has placed the laurel wreath of victory where it belongs.' "We loafed up to Shanghai and anchored off the Bund; within half an hour the Russian barge came down river, AMAZING NEW circled around our bows and up-ended their oars in a challenge. 'Be off with you,' Monk Bayliss called to them. 'I'm ANTIFREEZE trying out some new men and until we The Things know we have a fighting chance against Defeats extreme heat and That Only Money you champions, 'tis futile to ask us to cold in 10,000-Mile Test — Can Buy F hand over our pay day to you. We'll be back in a month or six weeks; come down Medicine Hat to Mexico City then and maybe we'll talk it over.' TRY this new chemical triumph in your car. N«.-fe "I felt now that I could afford to con- how perfectly it fits in with the cool-running sider Miss Minerva McAndrews so I took characteristics of the modern motor. Note how a forty-eight-hour leave next morning stubbornly it "stays -put" — regardless of driv- You will need and rode a ricksha eight miles out to the ing conditions. them as much — perhaps more edge of Shanghai, dismissed the man, — when your earning power is THERMO ROYAL is safe, dependable, economical. hired another and arrived in the village It contains no harmful ingredients to attack motor less than it is today. of Liu-Ho about noon. There was the red metals, rubber or gaskets. Guaranteed not to turn The John Hancock Annuity gummy or rancid. Prevents formation of rust. brick mission standing off to one side of is one way of sending ahead town, the usual filthy stinking Chinese THERMO ROYAL is offered on its honest merits. If the money that you will need is not claimed in normally and the American flag floating over it, to "live forever." But a in later life. It provides an efficient cooling system it stays-put longer and and there was a tall, liverish, sad-faced income that is both guaranteed mj,leJ»UBLICKER, civilian standing by the pillared gate as thus costs less per Philadelphia, Pa. and permanent. I hopped out. 'Good-day, sir,' I greeted him. 'I'm Chief Bosun's Mate Hamilton

J. Reedy of the U. S. S. Pittsburgh and I am calling on Miss Minerva McAndrews.' " Life Insurance Company 'At whose invitation?' says the sad- of Boston. Massachusetts faced man. " 'Not giving you a short answer, mis- John Hancock Inquiry Bureau 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. ter, but it's none of your business. Miss Please send me your booklet on annuities. McAndrews invited me.' " 'I'm her father,' says he, 'and I veto Street and No that invitation.' He seemed to think that City State From 54° belo#&§psr1o 702° above . . was all there was to it. Because he was Yet radiator did not Freeze or Boil her father, I {Continued on page 40)

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DISTRICT Com- "Money," the little girl answered. FRED CONDICT, mander Lee Terry "Your salary." former National Williams, of Amite, "That's correct," said the teacher. Publicity Director, Louisiana, writes about "Now, do any of you wish to ask a gives us a yarn about a a colored man who was question?" young St. Louis editor arrested on the charge "Please, Miss Penelope," said a boy who was having his of having in his pos- who had been studying the envelope in first visit to Hollywood. session a twenty-gallon liquor still. At silence, "where do you work?" He was invited out to a party and de- the examining trial before the U. S. Com- cided to shed his usual reserve. He missioner, he was asked: devoted his attentions throughout the "Is this the first time you've been DR. F. R. HENSHAW, Legionnaire evening to a young actress. caught?" and Dean of the Indiana University "I will be wild and rowdy," he told "No, sir, Mr. Commissioner," was the School of Dentistry, tells a story about a himself. "I will behave with all the aban- grinning reply. "This is the last time." colored woman who had been having don for which Hollywood is noted." trouble with an ulcerated tooth. It was He did his darnedest, playing the role some time before she got up enough of a rowdy to the limit of his capacity. THE World War aviator had his courage to go to a dentist. Finally, when Finally the young woman with him began young son with him to see the she did go for treatment, and the dentist to weep. National Air Show in Cleveland. The touched the tooth, she let out a loud The young editor asked the cause of line between the field and spectators was scream. her distress, and through the tears she patroled by mounted police. "Now, just be quiet," said the doctor. said: At a moment when all necks were bent "You know I'm a painless dentist." "I've been here nearly a year, and backward and a hundred thousand pairs "Yes, suh!" replied the patient, "May- you're the first fellow that's behaved to of eyes were strained on a thrilling de- be you-all is painless, but I ain't." me like a gentleman." layed parachute jump the young hopeful yanked his father's coat tail and cried: "Gee, daddy! Ain't that policeman THE transport was COMRADE Harry Moses writes us got a swell horse?" shoving off for the about a boy who could not pro- Orient, relates former nounce the letter "r" correctly. His Marine John Dervin, teacher, trying to improve the lad's 'ROM New England, we learn that Past Department Treas- speech, asked him to repeat after him: certain traffic posts carrv the sign: urer of Pennsylvania. "Robert gave Richard a rap in the ribs DRIVE CAREFULLY Two little flappers for roasting the rabbit so rare." DEATH IS PERMANENT were waving good-byes from the dock. After a moment's thought, the boy "I think it's a shame," said one, "to said: "Bobby gave Dick a poke in the send all those nice Marines to China. side for not cooking the bunny enough." COMRADE Ellis Van der Pyle tells What will they do there?" about a boy returning from the ocu- "What'll they do!" replied the other. list's and showing an admiring little sister "Ain't you ever been out with a Marine?" THE townsfolk were entertaining the his first spectacles. visiting Congressman at a banquet. "You know," he said. "I don't have Seated next to him was a rather strong- to wear them always—just for close ALL the pupils were ready to begin minded woman, who had badgered him work." l\. with the written test. beyond human endurance with a con- "What is close work?" "Where's your pencil, Wally?" asked tinual barrage of political questions. "Oh—er-er—eatin' and so on." the teacher. Finally she remarked: "And there is the "I ain't got one, teacher." question of water conservation. Why "How many times have I told you not doesn't the Congress adopt a far more THE marble tournament was on in full to say that? Listen—I haven't one, you vigorous policy? What, for example, are fury. One little boy had missed an easy haven't one, we haven't one, they you waiting for now?" " shot, and let slip a real man-sized oath. haven't "At the present moment," replied the "Edward!" called a preacher from the "Well," said Wally, "where are all the Congressman, "I'm waiting for the salad." spectators' bench. "What do little boys pencils?" who swear when they are playing marbles turn into?" THE waterpipe had "Golfers," was the reply. AND Dr. J. E. Offner, Superintendent sprungs a leak in the l\oi the Western State Hospital, in bathroom. The head of West Virginia, tells about a man calling the house dispatched FROM Helen Ber- on a doctor and being given an examina- his young son for the nard, we get one tion and directions as to what he should plumber, and attempt- about the teacher giving do. The man abruptly started to leave ed to stem the leaking a general knowledge the office. flow with his hands. Suddenly his wife test. She had just re- "Just a minute," called the doctor. burst into the bathroom and said: ceived her pay envel- "You haven't paid me." "You can take your hand off that leak m ope, and after removing for now!" "Pay you what?" the money, held it up for the class to see. "For my advice," said the doctor. "Thank heavens!" he exclaimed. "Has "What is this?" she asked. "Oh, no, I'm not going to pay for the plumber arrived?" "A pay envelope," said a little girl. that!" replied the man. "I'm not going "No," was the answer. "The house is "And what did it contain?" to take it." on fire!"

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(Continued from page 47) FATAL/^FUMES hesitated to tell him things, while he the Bund. Why conceal the fact? I'd FOILED looked me over and murmured, 'Reedy, never been in love before and I doubt if

Reedy? Weren't you coxswain of the old I'll ever be in love again. I'm not cut out Chesapeake's barge? I was chaplain on for a missionary; mother's dead and some- her but resigned.' times I think my father is a little bit " 'I never knew your name in those balmy on religion. His is a militant brand days, Mr. McAndrews, but I remember of faith. Now then, angel, give me the we all cheered when you left.' answer to this problem. If a chief bosun's " 'You were a godless young wretch mate can knock out three husky, fighting, then and I have a feeling you're a godless biting, kicking Russian bluejackets in wretch now, although old enough to know five minutes, how many coolies can he better. Clear out.' knock out in one minute.' "I tried to tell him I hadn't rolled my " 'A thousand,' says I, for my blood lee rail under since my first enlistment, was up. I felt like swimming a bloody that I'd saved my money and had eight river for Minnie. thousand with the paymaster drawing in- " 'Well, here come a dozen or more.' terest, but he waved me off. 'Navy men " 'Only a sample, sweetheart,' says I are the devil's spawn,' he yelled. 'En- and made for them as they came boiling listed men or officers, they're the devil's out. While I was assaulting their center, spawn.' various and sundry young men got round " 'I've been three years up river with my flanks, and while in the end I shook some other devil's spawn and have helped the pack off, my face was scratched and save quite a number of missionaries from bloody and my new suit of whites hung bandits, mister.' on me in festoons. I wished I had a cut- " 'You shall not see my daughter,' says lass. the Reverend, 'and there's an end to it. " 'Quick,' says Minnie. 'Follow me,' I've dedicated her to The Word.' and she led me outside the compound and MADAME, if your husband's " 'So she told me a year ago, but I have around to a barn. A Mongolian pony was surly pipe reminds you ot a notion it didn't take,' and I brushed by standing saddled at the hitchrack. burning rubber, won t you please him into the compound. From over in the 'Mount him—he's mine,' says Minnie. veranda Minnie rose up and waved at 'You could never escape in a ricksha remind Him to get a pack ol pipe me. 'Hello, sailor, you've been a long hauled by a coolie that's trotted all the cleaners and a tin ol Sir Walter time coming.' the Shanghai city limits.' way out from Raleigh Smoking Tobacco? Yes, " 'And he'll be a shorter time going,' She kissed me again and gave me a leg it's that milder blend of Kentucky her old man piped up like a mean old up. admired in other horse, and commenced howling in Chi- " 'Sailor on horseback and hell to pay,' Burleys you've nese. Eight young Chinese men came says I, and away I went. I'd never ridden men's pipes. Well-aged, slow- boiling out and Minnie called to them a horse before and I clung to everything burning, cool on the tongue, fra- in Chinese and told them things, for they he had. Two miles down the road, what grant on the nose. It's so much stood still and looked at me, while Minnie with weakness and aches and pains all milder to smoke and better to smell came over and put out her hand. 'Give a over, I fell off, and the pony turned and that you 11 both be happier he feller a kiss, Minnie,' I whispered. 'For galloped back to the mission. Fighting when two reasons. I've thought of nothing else a coolie gang is one thing but a Mon- tries it. Buy him a tin this very day I much for a year and besides it'll be emery golian pony is something else. I was abed dust in your old man's bearings.' for three days and the old man had me at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation " T think we had better not do that, the mast and made me explain my con- Louisville, Kentucky. Dept. A-511 Mr. Reedy,' she says, 'although I do not dition and admonished me and but for a

it give a sinful from Monk Bayliss I'd deny that to do would me few kind words BOOKLET pleasure. I'll never get over your keeping have lost my rating for coming aboard 7/ I your promise and calling, but perhaps drunk and battered and my uniform in you'd better go now. Father is going to ribbons. sic the dogs on you.' "Well, we went up to Chinkiang and "I turned to her old man. 'Eight coolies trained the crew and our chief medical aren't enough, Reverend. Better call up officer superintended their diet. After the reserves.' the sou'west monsoon broke and the hot "Reverend McAndrews said 'Sow-si, north China summer was over we put the sowey-hun-gay' and the eight closed in. barge overside every day at slack water I grabbed the leader around the waist, and at the end of six weeks Monk Bayliss lifted him and threw him into the push and I knew our crew was fit, that the behind him. Three went down, so I kept Russian crew had never before rowed picking up Chinamen and setting them against such men and would not do so down and after they had all been down again, and when Monk so reported to the and up the third time they retreated in old man, we dropped down to Shanghai

disorder, and I made a dive for Minnie's and anchored off the Bund. While we old man. Somehow, I'd acquired a dislike had been away, the Russian outfit had for him. He ran into the mission and I put cleaned up an Italian crew, two French my arm around Minnie and kissed her. crews and one British, winning from the It's 1 ^i— AND IT'S MILDER " 'Darling,' says Minnie, T fell in love Briton by half a length in the hardest with you that night at the boat landing on race they'd ever {Continued on page 50)

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(Continued from page 49) rowed. This was the Orlando and up at ness, and I told Monk BaykVs so. little Malay drum was plunk, plunk, Hangchow we'd beaten that crew a 'Never mind, Ham,' says he, 'before this plunking fear and wild excitement into a length, with the Pittsburgh's original crew race is over that drum will be plunking people that can't stand sudden unex- and the old barge. So we knew our fav- on the very souls of them; they'll be pected reverses without blowing up. A orite dish was caviar. thinking it the drum of death.' quarter of a mile from the finish and "The hook wasn't down an hour when "At the half mile the pace was un- leading by four lengths at a beat of the Russian crew came down tne river, changed and the Russ crew led by three thirty-eight, I took my foot off the drum crossed our bows and up-ended their oars. lengths. At the mile, they led by four and beat time with my hand—thirty- A gig with officers was with them. So lengths and I knew now they had to four—and the Russian men came up on we had them aboard and the challenge settle to the job and decrease their beat. us fast; their coxswain thought we were was accepted—three miles for three They did—and I slid up to thirty-eight done in and his crew took heart of hope hundred dollars gold per oar. and was two lengths behind them at the when he stepped the beat up to forty. As "The civilians expected the Russians two-mile marker. In the next half mile, they came abreast of us, I saw their to win handily, and so it was no job at with the Russians on a thirty-eight beat stroke oar topple over on his face. all for me, working through Monk Bay- and wishing to high heaven it was thirty- " 'Good night! Good night!' I yelled liss, to get down the eight thousand dol- four, I dropped back to thirty-six—and at them in Russian, stepped up to thirty- lars gold that represented my savings of held my position. And they could hear eight and slid home winner by three- twelve years—every cent I had in the the drum plunk, plunk, plunking and quarters of a length when, if I'd cared to, world. Monk got it down in sections, knew what my beat was—and it worried I could have won by six lengths. But and at various odds, but they averaged them . . . They must have envied the that was some more of Monk Bayliss' three for my one. Pittsburgh's crew sitting tight while they psychology. "There was plenty of excitement Sat- half stood and then fell back to get more "We pulled over to our ship and as we urday afternoon at four o'clock as the beef on the stroke. came up the gangway the Old Man shook two crews got ready for the race. Every- "With a half mile to go I stepped up hands with each of us and slapped our body in Shanghai had a bet down on one to thirty-eight and the bow of our barge bare, sweaty backs and, by God, it was or the other crew, and it seemed they came even with the stern of theirs. They good to be alive and healthy and the were all on hand to see that there was stepped up to forty and I followed suit champions of the Asiatic Station. Monk no dirty work. and crept up on them. And then their Bayliss forgot he was an officer and a "We came up to the line, slowly, as weary stroke oar fumbled; on the return gentleman and hugged me and I saw he'd even as could be and at the crack of the stroke Number Eight fouled the stroke been crying with excitement. Well, after gun the Russian crew dipped, stood half oar and we slipped past. all, he might have done worse than hug a up, pulled and sat down again; with the "Monk Bayliss had taught me one chief petty officer with an honorable weight of their big bodies, plus the Russian expression—and I yelled across record. He danced me off to one side. strength of their arms, they had a length to them—'Good Night' in Russian. " 'Ham, you old devil,' he says, T have on us while you'd be spitting to leeward. "And the Slav temperament cooked a surprise for you. I knew you'd be And a beat of forty! I wasn't worried. I their goose! Those thrifty lads thought taking that barge crew of yours out to knew they couldn't keep it up, that they of the odds their shipmates had given us, Liu-ho with you tomorrow, because His were up to their old trick of sprinting at of the terrible money loss, of the disgrace Reverend Nibs licked you the last time the start, then slowing the beat, letting that they might be to their sovereign, of and you're not such a fool as to call again the competitor crawl up, and sprinting the howls and curses with which they'd without adequate reinforcements. So I again. be received by their shipmates—and induced our chaplain to engage in dirty "I let them sprint and the Pittsburgh their smooth rhythm broke into short work. His wife's living in Shanghai while crew settled to their long, powerful stroke chops, their coxswain howling at them he's on station, so when I told him about at a beat of thirty-six. Monk Bayliss had and the stroke oar slowing up because his you and Minnie, that grand human being forbidden me calling the beat. Instead heart was like to burst. They couldn't drove out to the mission the day before he'd fastened a little Malay drum to the maintain their beat and as our stern yesterday with his missus and called on bottom of the barge, with an arrangement cleared their bow and a mighty cheer Reverend McAndrews. Of course Min- whereby I could tap it with my foot. went up from both banks, I knew that nie's pa received our chaplain with a Plunk! Plunk! Plunk! it went—and ad- Monk Bayliss had won the race with his total lack of suspicion and the courtesy vertised the beat to the enemy, which, on infernal psychology. due the cloth, and our chaplain's missus the face of it, didn't look like good busi- "Our rhythm never faltered—and my fell in love with Minnie and just raised

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50 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly hell until McAndrews consented to let the money to make Minnie a happy them bring her back to Shanghai with woman and I'll not risk Minnie for the them to see the great international barge glory of the Navy.' nice " KleanborE race. Minnie got some new clothes 'I'm going to bet every dollar I have in a hurry and she's aboard—had to see at even money,' he warned me, 'and if you polish off the champions, of course. you let me down you'll ruin me. Tell the Are you going to let Minnie go back to men they're rowing for the private profit N/TRO EXPRESS teaching Chinese kids the Ten Command- of the man that told you how to win the ments, when she knows damned well it's first race.' SHELIS all water over the dam? Are you going "If Minnie hadn't been in the petty to let her crack-pot father—our chaplain officers' mess, I wouldn't have had any says he's a sort of mad dog of Christianity appetite for my tea. However, I re- —ruin her life?' covered from the shock long enough to • crimp " LOOK.. 'Not with me the possessor of thirty- ask Minnie, in a whisper, would she and top wad moisture odd thousand dollars, sir.' marry me. And when she said she would sealed. " T thought so. Well, take a shower and gladly, I stood up and announced our and get into your whites because the engagement to my shipmates. And the LOOK . . . com., gated body — stiffer, chaplain and his lady and Minnie are following Monday, at high noon, we were tougher. going to have tea with you in the petty married on deck under the forward tur- officers' mess.' ret, with our chaplain tying knot, the and LOOK.. . double "When I came on deck again, Monk I put Minnie up at the Astor House and wetproof. Bayliss grabbed me. 'The Russian chaps got back on my job next morning. But can't believe it, Ham,' he says. T thought before I left her, Minnie told me things. LOOK.. • correct number of perfectly they wouldn't—-if our crew appeared to " 'Ham, angel,' she says, 'if I thought rounded pellets. weaken at the finish and only won by I'd married a cautious man or a faint- half a length. They claim our barge isn't hearted one I think my love would grow U LOOK... superior the regulation navy barge. That's be- coid. You can beat those Russian men wadding — lubricated to prevent leading. cause they see we have two barges. Usual next Saturday and you'll accept all the exhibition of Slav sportsmanship, al- bets that they offer you at even money. extra though I don't blame them, because they Tell your crew they're rowing for a wed- LOOK... high solid brass head- haven't known defeat in thirteen years. ding present for the coxswain's bride and They want to take off the lines of our see what they do.' LOOK . . . recog- barge before they pay their bets.' "So, sore against my will, but to please nized Standard Brands "I almost fainted. 'Who told them Minnie, I bet five thousand among the of progressive burning powder. about that new barge, sir?' Russian crew (the civilians had had " 'Nobody. They haven't the slightest enough of me) and on the following Sat-

LOOK. 1 patented inkling about it, but they've built up an urday at slack water, we raced them. Kleanbore primer excuse to save their faces with their ship- And that was a barge race. No psychol- that won't rust or pit the mates on the Russian ship. They're ogy. Just brawn and stamina. It was barrel. afraid to go home!' nip and tuck for three miles, with youth " 'But you and I are the only two men and superior condition and cool tempera- SEE WHY THESE SHELLS GIVE in the world who know that our barge ment bringing us to victory by half a differs an inch here and there.' barge length and my crew rowed out to " 'Unfortunately, yes. When you such an extent that a launch had to tow arrived with the new barge, a letter us over to the Pittsburgh and their ship- arrived from the Chief of Naval Opera- mates had to help my lads up the gang- tions, saying he was sending an extra so way. So our Old Man gave me a month's IT'S no accident that Nitro Express Shot our No. i crew could train by racing leave and I gave the family bank-roll to Shells bag more game. They're built to give a balanced pattern a against our No. 2 crew. So because I Minnie and we went up to Japan on our — uniform spread that holds true for 40, 50, 60 yards or knew our innocent Old Man would tell honeymoon. The only money I've had more. No holes or fringed edges for your the Russians to take off her lines and be since is money I've earned. Minnie has bird to get through. to them, I did a desperate thing. nose for real estate; she smells a boom damned a Equally important to water-fowl As athletic officer I butted in on the Old and buys ahead of it and unloads before shooters is the downright reliability of Man in a way that would, I knew, rejoice it busts. We'll leave our boys fifty thou- Nitro Express Shells under all shooting his heart. I challenged those Russians sand each when we shove off." conditions. In tests they've been soaked in to another race next Saturday, they to From the Reedy domicile on the upper tubs of water, frozen and kept in ice for use our barge and we to use theirs. And deck came the sound of a drum. "That's days—yet they came through with their full long-range smash when the firing pin the fools have accepted and our bets are the same little old Malay drum," said hit their non-corrosive Kleanbore primers. to paid at once. they have a Reedy. "Whenever my Minnie be Maybe Ham SHOOT NITRO EXPRESS SHELLS smart officer aboard who can tell with his gets thinking about how happy and in- this season. See if they don't pattern better naked eye that our barge is faintly differ- dependent we are, with no rent and only than anything you've ever fed your gun. ent, although I doubt it. So we race them eighty dollars a year taxes, and our two See how they reach out at extreme ranges. again next Saturday. Personally, I think boys in the Naval Academy and doing See if their field performance isn't the best it's a grand idea.' well, and her flower garden in bloom, reason of all for you to continue shooting " 'Personally, I do not, Mr. Bayb'ss,' and a hundred thousand dollars to leave them. Remington Ammunition Division, Remington Arms Company, Inc., 178 Helen says I. our boys when we shove off, and how Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut. " 'They get the drum,' he warned me. healthy we are and the old-timers coming 'They must have a psychologist among in to visit us, why—when Minnie gets to them.' thinking about all those things she plays " 'I'll beat time with the wooden end a little tattoo on that drum and it means Remington, of my tiller rope, sir, but I'll be shot if that her heart's beating for me. Suppose I'll bet a dime on the outcome. Not that we go up and visit Minnie. The sun's I don't think we can beat them, but just about over the yard-arm and I want because the risk is too great. I've got you to try one of her Singapore slinghs."

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William C. McNinch. A post meeting versary. The tablet proclaims that the terials for the cement base. One con- without something good to eat afterward flagpole was dedicated by the post "to cern welded the pipe sections into a is mighty rare nowadays. Post mess foster and perpetuate patriotism and love fifty-three foot pole and another moulded sergeants are learning more and more of country." In keeping with this senti- a hollow ball for the top. Still another how to hand out chow which will keep ment, 2,000 Dorchester school children nickel-plated and polished that ball. the boys in their seats until the colors are repeated in unison the oath of allegiance Legionnaires constructed the base and retired. They're serving such things as as the flag was raised for the first time. set in it a bronze plate bearing the post's oyster stew, venison, rabbit, steak sand- Post Commander Louis F. Capelle, in an name as donor. Hauling the fifty-three- wiches, turtle soup—mighty good eating. address to the children and 10,000 citi- foot pipe by truck was an important de- zens, called attention to the fact that the tail, and most important of all was the Pies By The Auxiliary flagpole was the tallest in the city and actual erection by a group of post mem- was surrounded by historic buildings. bers. An engineer-Legionnaire, forty- EACH year Sterling (Colorado) Post five years old, bossed the work and ac- gives a banquet for its own members Just a Flagpole, but— complished the hazardous job of climbing and the leading citizens of its community. to the top and loosening the numerous Getting bigger each year, the 1935 dinner THE flagpole in front of Washington ropes that had held up the pole. was one which would have delighted Paul School in Harvey, Illinois, wasn't al- "Today we see more than a flagpole. Bunyan. Seven hundred guests were ways there. It stands there today be- To us it is a symbol of Legion duty per- served and the piece de resistance was cause the school children appealed to formed." buffalo meat. Eight hundred pounds of Harvey Post of The American Legion to this was cooked and served by the post's build it. And, according to Legionnaire Roll Call mess detail. The Auxiliary did its part Ralph T. Patterson, the post learned as usual by baking 175 pies for the about all there is to be known about flag- HERBERT M. STOOPS, who drew dinner—the perfect pies such as only poles when it built it. the cover for this issue, is a member the Auxiliary can make. "We first learned that a pole must be of Feigl Post of Jeff New York City . . higher than the school building," writes Peter B. Kyne, was the first historian of Patterson, "and that it must be cor- Dorchester s HO-Foot Figure Mr. the California Department . . . Philip rectly proportioned for windage and other Von Blon is a member of Wyandot Post

hundred and ten feet above Ed- elements. To get proper design, we en- of Upper Sandusky, Ohio . . . ONE John J. ward Everett Square in the Dor- listed the architectural department of the Noll belongs to Capitol Post, Topeka,

chester section of Boston rises a shining Whiting Corporation, and we'll gladly Kansas . . . Fred C. Painton is a member white flagpole, the American flag at its pass the details along to any post which of William C. Morris Post of Fort

-peak, a bronze tablet near its base. sends a request to our post. Lauderdale, Florida . . . Alexander Dorchester citizens passing it proudly re- "The next problem was materials. Gardiner belongs to George Alfred Smith the wreckage of Chicago's World's Fairfield, call that All-Dorchester Post of The From Post, Connecticut . . . Dan American Legion dedicated it, with a Fair we got just the right kind of heavy Sowers 's membership is in Greenville it parade and exercises, on June 1, 193 5, pipe. A local concern hauled to us free, (Kentucky) Post. when the city celebrated its 305 th anni- and another concern gave us the ma- Philip Von Blon

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Most modern scouts spend little time sure, I told our team about it. "The first not have been able to break him of it diagramming opponents' plays. They time he moves his feet," I said, "play it anyway, for football players cling tena- know that all plays are much alike and straight, but if he bucks that time, gang ciously to those habits even when they they watch for the little things that tell him whenever he does it afterward. For- want to break them. them what is coming. If they come back get everything else and get up there to Coaches always seem to be more aware with a single significant detail, they will meet him." of the other team's flaws than of their have done a more valuable job than if The only time Manning gained a yard own and the same goes for individual they turn in a whole sheaf of diagrams. that afternoon was the first time he car- players. They often will pick up an op- When I was coaching Georgetown in ried, when we were playing our normal ponent's mannerisms during a game, 1925 I assigned Frank Murray to watch defense. After that our defensive backs things a scout didn't catch. Fordham. He reported that Manning, got up to the line before he did and we I remember a classic instance in the the Fordham line-bucker, always shuffled overpowered him. We upset the Ford- Georgetown-West Virginia game of 1928. his feet to get a new grip on the ground ham attack completely and won the game They had a very good back who was when his signal was called. If true, this by quite a score. It was the only game giving us plenty of trouble and Harold was a valuable tip, for Manning had been Fordham lost that year. Wynkoop, our center, furnished the key running over every line he had met and But you say to me, "What if they had to the problem of stopping him. we were much concerned about what he thrown a pass when all your backs were Wynkoop became fascinated by this was going to do to us. Accordingly I sent reinforcing the line?" back's prominent Adam's apple. When Herb Kopf, my present assistant at Co- My answer is that they weren't going he swallowed it bobbed up and down and lumbia, to check on Murray's report. to throw a pass because they didn't Wynkoop finally decided that these He spent an entire afternoon watching know about Manning's unfortunate man- tremors were significant. He called time Manning's feet and decided that the nerism. If he'd been my man I probably out, pulled the Georgetown team into a give-away was infallible. Having made wouldn't have noticed it either. I might huddle and unfolded his theory.

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Pointing out the man with the Adam's with football for a couple of years was apple, he said, "When that guy swallows coaching the company team. he's going to carry the ball. Now let's After it was over I went back to the watch his throat and gang him the next University of Pennsylvania and played time he does it." on the team along with numerous others Sure enough, Wynkoop was right. who had been to war. We had a very The West Virginia back had the nervous good season but the only thing that saved habit of swallowing every time his signal us from defeat by Pittsburgh was a little was called. The physical conformation thing one of our scouts picked up. which heaven had given him made it Davies played wing-back for Pitt and easy for our players to tell when he I have never seen a better man in the swallowed. position. Fortunately, however, our Two of the best football players I have scout noticed that he always rose on his had in the six years I have coached at toes when he was going to run the reverse Columbia had mannerisms that were al- play. We were therefore set for him, but most as obvious and one of them I didn't even so we had a terrible time stopping know about until the coach of an op- him. If we had known nothing about his posing team told me. peculiarity he might have run all over Right here let me say that I am much us. As it was we held him down well obliged to Fritz Crisler of Princeton for enough to come out of it with a 3 to 3 tie. the tip. You often have to shift your whole It seems that Red Matal, our right end defensive scheme to meet one dangerous in 1933, was giving away our pass plays. individual or combination. That's what When he heard the pass signal he became Navy did against Michigan in 1926. The tense in his anxiety to get away from the previous year Michigan had run up a big tackle and get on down the field. Con- score on the midshipmen and there sequently he set himself for an extra fast seemed to be a strong probability of a start. Princeton spotted it and made the repetition. Michigan had another great most of it. It may have helped them to team and the wonderful passing combina- beat us. At any rate we got a very hand- tion of Friedman and Oosterbaan. Fried- some licking. man could drop a football in a bucket at Cliff Montgomery, quarterback of the thirty yards and Oosterbaan could run same team, which later made a come- like a deer and catch anything he could back from the Princeton defeat and won reach. over Stanford in the Rose Bowl, also had Navy, however, didn't give up in ad- So a pipe tobacco needs give-away in his early career. When he vance. Michigan was scouted carefully a mildness was going to pass he invariably wiped his and it was decided that the only hope was BOTH and flavor throwing hand across the front of his to break up this pass combination. Navy are a lot of one-armed pipe to- jersey. We never broke him of the habit had only one man, Lloyd, who was both THERE baccos on the market. One gives you entirely but we destroyed its usefulness tall enough and fast enough to cover the tobacco flavor you want— but it's to the enemy by training him to wipe his Oosterbaan, and he was an end. He was strong. Another gives you mildness that hand occasionally when he was going to pulled back to the secondary defense and lets you smoke as much as you want run or spin. Finally the scouts decided drilled carefully in his all-important as- but it's tasteless. that the gesture had no significance. signment. Michigan liked to cross its Buy a can of Edgeworth today and find A great many other good players have ends, the scouts said. Lloyd was in- out for yourself that there is one pipe had similar nervous and unconscious structed in detail on where Oosterbaan tobacco that has BOTH mildness habits. Benny Friedman used to wet his would go. He carried out instructions AND flavor. It's Edgeworth. How do we do it? fingers when he was going to pass. Tiny perfectly in the game, sticking to Ooster- Hewitt, of Pittsburgh and the Army, baan for sixty minutes. Michigan was This way: First, we use the best pipe that's used to take a higher stance when he was unable to complete its favorite pass and tobacco grown. That gives the rich tobacco flavor every pipe wants. going to buck the line, and Eddie Tryon its offense became so upset that Navy smoker of Colgate, one of the greatest running ultimately won 10 to o, thus astounding Next, we use only tender leaves. That gives mildness. backs of all time, would assume an air of the experts. supreme indifference when he heard his In preparing a defense against a good Buy Edgeworth today and enjoy mild- signal. football team, you must first of all get ness plus flavor! It is made and guaran- He'd stand back in punt formation with ready to meet its strength. If your scout teed by Larus & Brother Co., Richmond, every muscle relaxed and his eyes would can tell you its habits as a team or the Va. Tobacconists since 1877. wander all over the field until it was time habits of its individuals you have a good to move. Then he'd be off like a whippet. start. It's often necessary to leave your- In the beginning bis apparent indifference self weak in one sector so that you can be used to lull the defensive men into a sense particularly strong in another, hoping of false security. Finally, however, the that your opponent won't put his finger scouts began to notice that he was most on the flaw. likely to carry the ball when he showed In plotting our defenses at Columbia the greatest unconcern. John yan Arnam we have frequently made no provision of Syracuse, I think, was the first to pick for covering one of our opponent's backs

it up. on passes. We've done this when our And then there was Tom Davies, scouts have told us that this back Pittsburgh's great back, and that's more habitually stayed in to block, in order or less of a personal reminiscence. to do a more thorough job of covering the My own undergraduate career was in- men who have been dangerous receivers. EDGEWORTH HAS BOTH terrupted like a good many others by the Occasionally we have "buried" our war. I served in France with the 54th shortside defensive tackle, playing him in MILDNESS AND FLAVOR Infantry and the only connection I had opposite the {Continued on page 54)

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{Continued from page 53) other team's guard so that we could meet The scout thought it was a little too on their tackle play? They're probably with greater strength the long-side run- obvious to be real. He told his coach the same as my own. ning plays which the opponent had been about it and the two of them decided not Here are some of the questions I want using lor most of his gains. to mention it to the players. All would my scout to answer for me: In both cases we have counted on the have been well except that an end, who Who are the running linemen and who compelling force of habit. If a team has was a little too smart for his team's good, are the cross-blockers? been doing certain things against all its picked it up himself in the early part of What style of defensive line-play do other opponents, the chances are 10 to i the big game. they use and what linemen can be fooled that it will do them against us, for it's During the first quarter the opponent by spinners and mouse-traps? very hard to change the habits of football kicked every time the signal "30" was What is their spacing on defense and players in a week. At any rate we have to called. The bright end told his tackle and how do they cover on passes? Do they take the chance, because, first of all, we fullback about it and the three of them use an end or a guard to cover zones? must oppose strength to strength. evolved a plan to block the next punt. Who can punt, who can pass, who can Now perhaps Michigan could have The fullback was to jump up on the run and who is the best blocking back? beaten Navy in 1926 by running Ooster- line the next time "30" was called. All Do they have variations in lineup baan as a decoy and sending a less well- three of them were to tear straight in, which mean they will run certain plays? known receiver into the middle zone, but concentrating on smothering the ball. On what downs do they pass? Do they Michigan had been doing very well with All would have been well except that wait until fourth down to kick? Does the that long cross-over pass and probably the kicker didn't kick. Instead he faked, quarterback call certain plays in certain saw no reason for changing tactics. Navy, ducked around the open flank, picked up parts of the field? on the other hand, was doomed to defeat two linemen who had sifted through for Do all the backs run on passes? If not

if it didn't do something radical and so interference and ran for a touchdown. which one stays in to block? had to take the chance involved. Needless to say the scout and the coach Do they protect their passer well? Are Very rarely an opponent will make a sat paralyzed with chagrin on the bench. they weak handling kicks? What is their conscious effort to delude your scout by That was one case where intelligent ap- most vulnerable point? consistently doing something against plication of information brought in by Last and most important: Have the earlier opponents which he doesn't in- a scout went wrong. But good scouting players any mannerisms which indicate tend to do against you. I know ot one has won many a game and good scouting, what they are going to do? team which used an obvious punt signal as I have said, is not merely a matter of The answers to questions like these are throughout the early season with the bringing back a ream of inanimate dia- worth nine bales of play diagrams. Plays idea of impressing it on a single scout. grams. mean nothing. I'll sell you all you want The signal was "30" and it stuck out I don't care if a scout doesn't bring me for a nickel apiece. Execution is every- like a sore thumb in a series of three- back a single play. If he brings me the thing and individuals do the executing. syllable numbers, like this: "forty-eight, formation I can tell what is possible from What are their abilities and weak-

twenty-six, thirty (pause) forty-four." it. What do I care about the assignments nesses? Watch the whites of their eyes!

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Siberian- Vets. — Proposed formation of Wolf- Ford, Moorman A., colored, ex-pvt., 801st tery in advanced shell hole, Oct. 14, 1918; also 1st hound Society, also reunion dinner. St. Sgt. Her- Pioneer Inf., brown eyes, black hair, 5 ft. ti in., 40 Lt. Christopher Ford, Air Serv., who was in German bert E. Smith, Thr Rtrruitinii Sews, Governors yrs. old. After discharge, lived in Ky., Nashville, Prison Camp with Walker. Island, N. Y. Tenn., Indianapolis, and Columbus and Akron, 423d Tel. Bn., Sig. Corps, Co. D— 1st Lt. John Ohi6. Last heard from in Akron, July, 1927. In- C. Van Etten, the bn. medical officer, and others formation parents. who recall disability of G. E. Williams. we are unable to conduct a needed by aged WHILE 109th M. G. Bn., Co. C, 29th Div.—Max Katz 96th Co., U. S. M. C.— 1st Lt. Lockhart and general missing persons column, and other men who recall Lewis Hazard, mechanic, others of first platoon who remember shell explod- acting as company runner in Fismes sector, Aug. ing near Cpl. Stanley Reuben Williams, burying we stand ready to assist in locating men 10, 1918, locating enemy trench mortar and seeking him to waist and riddling his equipment, June 2, missing under heavy shell fire. 1918. whose statements are required in support man 36th Serv. Co.— 1st Sgt. Winfield C. Daughen- 8th Co., C. A. C, Ft. Corregidor, P. I.—Chas. of various claims. Queries and responses bauch, Cpls. Henry Silverstein and Raymond M. Hofmeister, Raish E. Denver, Mark L. Wall and Willcox, Pvt. lcl Watson T. Strickland and others to assist Joseph Zralek. should be directed to the Legion's Na- others who recall W. O. Hettel suffering from U. S. S Osceold —shipmates on ship or at Nav. tional Rehabilitation Committee, 1608 stomach trouble and varicose veins, Dec, 1918, to Sta., 1916-18, who recall injury and shock sustained Sept., 1919. by John M. Greenwood while working over side KStreet, N. W., Washington, D. C. The 312th Engrs., Co. E—Mess sgt. of this company of the ship. at Camp Pike, Ark., Oct. and Nov., 1917, to assist 115th Engrs., Co. B—Comrades whoserved with committee wants information from vet- B. B. Mack. Mack used towel of mess sgt. and John Ronchi, Jan., 1918, to July, 1919; served in erans who know of the following cases: later contracted trachoma from which he is now Second Army offensive, Nov. 9-11, 1918, also Pou- almost totally blind. venelle and Marbach defensive sectors, Oct. 4-11, Air Serv., Kelly Field, Tex. Former com- 1918. U. S. S. Zeelandia—Johnnie J. Bauer, fireman, — and others of crew to assist Andrew L. Barry, rades who remember 1st Lt. Leonorr L. Park suf- S. S. Caronia—Men who recall August W. blacksmith on ship. fering with bronchitis and severe heart and kidney Buerger of Intelligence Sec, Sig. Corps, Spec ailments hospital at Personnel Det., falling from hammock to steel deck, Navy Ord. Dept., Norfolk, Va.—Lt. Love and for which he was confined to to other men, and doctor on Granby St., Norfolk, who Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., for seven weeks during while en route to France, Oct. 1, 1918. Removed in F. for flu, but recall Russell J. Bhittian being treated for throat period from Dec, 1917, to Aug., 1918. Base Hosp. No. 42 A. E. supposed disorder during flu epidemic. Brittian stationed at 319th M. G. Bn., Co. B—Address of former Lt. claims illness due to back injury on ship. recall Pier 4, Pinner Pt„ Portsmouth, and fireman on 30- Victor B. Salisbury wanted by A. S. Wilson. M. G. S., Camp Hancock, Ga.—Men who S. deceased) being ft. steamer with Lt. Love. 158th Dep. Brgde., 30th Co., 8th Bn.—Com- 1st Lt. Audrey Kaylor (now July, 1917. To 552d M. T. C, Camp Humphreys, Va.—C. O., rades who remember Kenneth Joe Schaeffer, bar- thrown from horse and hospitalized, company doctor and comrades who recall Bertil B. ber, suffering with nervous fever and chronic arthri- assist widow. Hhosvik sustaining injury on parade grounds, late tis, and treated at infirmary, Camp Sherman, Ohio, 35th Div. and Co. B, 364th Inf. —Men of both 364th Oct., 1918, being confined to quarters, later ad- Aug., 1918. outfits who may recall Arthur Day of Co. B, shell mitted to infirmary and then confined to quarters Uehlinger, William J., enlisted Marine Corps, Inf., who states while acting as platoon scout, until Mar., 1919. Mare Island, Sept., 1915; honorably discharged exploded and next he knew he was with a One- left of 91st Div. Co. 5, Sec. 2, Nav. Trng. Sta., Charleston, at Mare Island, Nov., 1919. Last heard from at pounder section of 35th Div. on S. C.—Comrades who recall Arthur N. Clahk sus- Henderson and Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept., 1931. Sept. 26, 1918. taining rupture while clearing timber for drill Two minor children need his aid. John J. Noll ground, Sept., 1917. Also men of Mine Force at 325th Inf. —Officers and men who recall Lt. T. Nav. Base 18, Inverness, Scotland. W. Walker suffering with severe attack of dysen- The Company Clerk 54 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

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Departments held defense confer- Legion's National Rehabilitation Com- ences during the year, while innumerable mittee. Units conducted similar meetings in their Mrs. H. E. McClung, La Chapeau localities. In furtherance of the work, National of the Eight and Forty brought fourteen Departments held essay con- the greetings of her organization and pre- tests, although this activity had not been sented its report. During the following required by the national organization. session, the newly-elected Chapeau Na- Thirty-five of the fifty-two Depart- tional, Mrs. Mary Macafee of Wheaton, ments of the Auxiliary reported that Illinois, was presented and introduced they had conducted radio programs dur- her secretary, Mrs. Margaret Delles. ing the year, with the impressive total Because of the society's special interest of 47,100 minutes on the air. The slogan in child welfare work, two cups were pre- AMERICA ANSWERS of "fewer but bigger and better pro- sented to Auxiliary Departments for grams" was carried out and brought re- work accomplished in this field. Louisi- THE QUESTION .... sults. Outstanding programs were those ana received the trophy for the most the fine on Armistice Day of 1934, at the National outstanding accomplishments in child ... by appreciating Defense Conference in Washington last welfare, while the Department of Rhode flavour of Teacher's Scotch Whisky January and the American Legion Birth- Island received the other cup because . . . known as "Highland Cream." day Program on March 16, 1935, in all every unit in the Department had sub- of which Mrs. Carlson, the National mitted a report of its work. Bottled in bond in the United President, was a principal speaker. In The question of the title for the an- Kingdom under government super- all, the National President broadcast nual essay contest conducted by the twenty-nine times in twenty-two of the Fidac Committee had been delayed for vision by WM. TEACHER & SONS, Departments. These were the high points further consideration and the title was LTD., GLASGOW and LONDON. of a report of progress rendered by Mrs. later announced by Mrs. Joseph H. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: William Glenn Suthers, Chairman of the Thompson, chairman, as "How Can the Schieffelin & Co., NEW YORK CITY. National Radio Committee. American Youth Co-operate with Fidac IMPORTERS SINCE 1794 Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, Direc- to Prevent Propaganda of International tor of the Good Citizenship Bureau of Hostility? " This subject was approved. 100% SCOTCH WHISKY the Woman's Home Companion and The social highlight of the convention, Legionnaire Stafford King, Auditor of as usual, was the States Dinner which the State of Minnesota, who wrote the was held the night preceding adjourn- biography of the National President for ment. Then it is that delegates and The American Legion Monthly, made visitors place in the background all addresses to the convention. Another thought of caucuses, of committee meet- distinguished guest of the Auxiliary was ings, of reports, of furthering their work Mrs. Harold G. Hoffman, wife of the for favorite candidates. The dinner was Governor of New Jersey. unusually brilliant and entertaining A comprehensive survey of the work the 1250 guests taxing both the Gold accomplished under the direction of the Room and Crystal Room in the Auxiliary National Rehabilitation Committee was headquarters hotel. Here were gathered contained in the report of its Chairman, prominent members of both the Legion Mrs. Halsey D. Cory. She informed the and the Auxiliary—it was the women's convention that all of the mandates of big party of the year. Tables bedecked the Miami convention including the with flowers and agleam with candles Christmas program, whereby every vet- were surrounded by guests of the Na-

eran in hospitals is remembered with a tional President and guests of the De- gift, the Family Contact Service of hos- partments. While contrary to custom, no pitalized men, and the assistance given prizes were offered for decorations, tables by National Headquarters to those De- of many of the Departments gave indi- partments not able to meet the expenses cation of the States of the guests. A coal of the Christmas program had been car- mine in miniature on the West Virginia ried out. These programs are to con- table, huge cheeses on that of Wiscon- tinue in effect. More than $30,000 was rin, cornucopias overflowing with prod- contributed to the National Rehabilita- ucts of the farm showed that Iowa was tion Fund of the Auxiliary, of which present, a reproduction of the Lincoln amount $25,000 was given to The Amer- Memorial and its reflecting pool indi- icanLegion to assist it in its rehabilitation cated the Department of the District of

program. It is estimated that almost Columbia. Music was in the air, State nine dollars was obtained for veterans songs played by a splendid orchestra and their dependents for every dollar of were sung by the various groups and the fund that was contributed by the cheered to the echo. TEACHERS women of the Auxiliary. During the The guests of honor, including pres- "HIGHLAND CREAM" past year the active work of securing ad- ent and past national officers of the mission of veterans to hospitals and of Auxiliary and Legion formed an escort securing compensation for them was for the Governor of Missouri, the Mayor added to the Auxiliary's program— the of St. Louis and their wives, members of (Continued on page first definite joint program with the the local con- 56) SCOTCH WHISKY

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"Director Belt reduced my waistline I 42 to 34 inches. I {eel 10 years younge Constipation gone—no tired, bloated ft after meals." G. — Newton, Troy, N. vention corporation and National Pres- man, Mrs. J. Allison Hardy. The library Director Belt instantly improves y( appearance, puts snap in your step, re- ident Mrs. Carlson and National extension program was carried forward lieves "shortness of breath," restores , Commander Belgrano. Here was a notwithstanding economic handicaps. YOUR VIGOR as fat vanishes. Loose, fallen abdominal muscles go chance to find friends from all over The campaign for better moving pictures, back where they belong. Gentle mas* ' sage-like action increases elimination the country, conveniently grouped by particularly for children, was actively and regularity inanormal way without

use of harsh, irritating cathartics. You I States, and visits from table to table supported by 2,663 units through co- look and feel years younger. were in order throughout the evening. operation with local exhibitors and edu- And, happy to state, it was a strictly cation not only of the children but of "speechless" dinner. Entertainment was the public in general.

LAN00N& WARNER Dept. T-49, Chicago, I furnished by the splendid Legion glee The report of the National Legislative club from Wichita, Kansas, which re- Committee, submitted by Mrs. Lorena CHEAP OIL BURNER INVENTED ceived an ovation. Good, chairman, covered in detail the Cooks A Meal For Less Mrs. Carlson introduced her distin- program the Legion and Auxiliary had Slips Into Your Stove, Range or Furnace; Hotter and Cheaper Than Coal or Wood; No Dirt or Ashes; undertaken HALF THE COST. guished guests, and as each Past Na- for 1935, which included the An amazing new type oil burner which experts and tional President presented, an appro- payment of the Adjusted oil was Compensation »r. (mo umts sav beats any ever gotten out. burns cheap a new way, without pre-generating or clogging up; gives priate song was rendered by the 1934 Certificates, the assistance for widows quick intense heat at HALF COST by turn of valve. One free to one person in caeh locality who will di-iiMm-trate Championship Auxiliary quartet from and orphans, Universal Service, Na- and act as agent. Write quick, be first to learn how to spare end drudgery of coal and wood and make big money, Iowa. Thus, as example, for Mrs. Louise tional Defense and other subjects and or full time— mail lc postcard today to United Factories, N-101 Factory Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Williams was sung "I Love Louisa;" for the excellent efforts made by the Auxili- Mrs. S. Afford Blackburn, "Did You ary in support of this program. While Ever See A Dream Walking?"—for Mrs. some of this legislation failed of passage, „ u. s. William H. Biester, Jr., "The Sunshine great progress was made toward securing Government of Your Smile." legislation desired. On Thursday, the final session included The National Bulletin Committee, * JOBS' + the presentation of additional committee through its chairman, Mrs. Virginia T reports, and the election of national offi- Bedell, reported great advances in its cers. Mrs. Ralph C. Risch of Wisconsin efforts to place the official Auxiliary $1260 to $2100 Year in her report as chairman of the National publication in the hands of members Ex-Service Men r — ______throughout the country. Get Preference / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Child Welfare Committee was in a posi- With the slo- Dept. C 183, Rochester, N. Y. / tion to report that a one hundred per- gan, "Know Your Auxiliary," it suc- 3? Sirs: Rush to me without charge Qualify at <1> 32 page book with list of U. S. cent response had been received from ceeded in increasing the paid subscrip- Jobs. Tell me how 0n B ;> Government (2) © to get one of these jobs and about the 52 Departments. She stressed the tions from 2,080 to 15,916, which num- *> preference to Ex- Service Men. Mail Coupon ' Name success of the program of "Making ber in addition to the 10,000 copies dis- today sure t Address Motherhood Safe for Mothers" which tributed each month by National Head- had been accepted by both the Legion quarters to Unit Presidents and other The American Legion officers has brought the national headquarters and Auxiliary during the year. Forty total circulation States, largely through Auxiliary effort, to 26,000. Improvement in the editorial indianapolis, indiana have passed legislation providing care for content and increase in the size of the statement of financial condition children. The Eight and Forty was com- publication were also accomplished under August 31, 1935 mended for its work in connection with the guidance of Mrs. Lucy R. D. Ficklen, Assets the Tuberculin test and the supplying of Past National President, who had been X-ray treatments. selected by the committee as Director. Cash on hand and on deposit 57,512.17 The report of Mrs. B. Dunn, chair- With the completion of the committee Notes and accounts receivable. 17,713.06 J. Inventory of emblem merchandise 33,291 .33 man of the Education of World War reports, the National President an- funds Invested 595, 146. 55 Orphans Committee contained the en- nounced as the next order of business Permanent investments: Legion Publishing couraging news that ten more Depart- the election of national officers for 1936. Corporation £678,043.02 ments announced that their States had Interest was intense, as spirited cam- Overseas Graves Decoration aid paigns had been conducted for the Trust Fund 184,214.71 862,257.73 provided for the education of war two orphans, thus reaching a total of thirty- women who had been placed in nomina- Improved real estate, office five States and the District of tion, Mrs. Melville Mucklestone of Illi- building, Washington, D. C 131,220.98 Columbia Furniture and fixtures, less depreciation 32,349.54 that are caring for these children. Addi- nois, and Mrs. Thomas G. Gammie of Deferred charges 2 3 >57°-55 tional Departments will present bills at Oklahoma, both of whom have long been

£1,762,061.91 the next legislative assemblies in their prominent in Auxiliary work in their own Departments and nationally. Liabilities States. Elec- An exceptionally wide range of com- tion came on the first ballot with Mrs. Current Liabilities 31,978.68 munity projects undertaken by Auxiliary Mucklestone receiving 429 votes to 303 Funds restricted as to use 25,554.61 Permanent trust: units, including co-operation with govern- for her opponent, Mrs. Gammie. The Overseas Graves Decoration ment relief agencies, many beautifica- defeated candidate moved that the elec- Trust Fund 184,214.71 tion campaigns, emergency aid, the pur- tion of Mrs. Mucklestone be made Reserve for investment valuation. . . . 63,538.34 chase of hundreds of band instruments, unanimous. £305,286.34 sponsoring of Amid a great ovation, the new Na- Net worth: the Boy Scout and Girl Restricted capital £725,145.55 Scout troops, the organization of school tional President was escorted to the Unrestricted capital: safety patrols, sewing classes and the platform by her Department's pages and Capital surplus £167,125 34 establishment of playgrounds and swim- a color guard from Woodlawn, Illinois, Investment valuation surplus ming pools, was covered in the report of Post of The American Legion of whose 564,504.68 £731,630.02 £1,456,775.57 the National Community Service and Unit she is a member. She was greeted £1,762,061.91 Unit Activities Committee which was by the retiring President, Mrs. Carlson, brought to the convention by its chair- who bestowed upon her the ribbon badge Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly : —

of her new office. A trio from Mrs. Orleans was elected National Historian, Mucklestone's home State sang the succeeding Mrs. O. W. Hahn, and Mrs.

Illinois Auxiliary song, and Past Depart- J. R. Mahaffey of Honolulu, Hawaii, ment Commander Karl C. Kapschull of National Chaplain, to succeed Mrs. J. J. STOP ALL MEN PUTTING Illinois told the convention of the out- Doyle. ANTI- FREEZE IN DIRTY j standing service which their new Presi- RADIATORS-,^,// I dent had rendered to the Legion and ON the evening of the first day of the Auxiliary of her State. convention, La Boutique des Huit Mrs. Mucklestone accepted the great Chapeaux et Quarante Femmes, the 8 and honor given her in a brief but effective 40—fun-making organization of Auxili- speech, pledging her every effort toward ary members—held its annual Pouvoir the fulfillment of the duties of her office. National. Mrs. Mary Ellen Macafee of Upon motion, the vote of the entire Wheaton, Illinois, was elected La Cha- convention was cast by Mrs. Gwendolyn peau National, succeeding Mrs. H. E. Wiggin MacDowell, National Secretary, McClung of Alabama. The other na- for the five National Vice-Presidents who tional officers elected were: Mrs. Theresa had been selected by their respective Schmidt of Toledo, Ohio, LArchiviste Divisions, and for Mrs. Joseph H. Nationale; Mrs. Margaret Morrow of Thompson, re-elected American Vice- St. Louis, LAumonier Nationale, and President of the Fidac Auxiliary. These Mrs. Anna Slattery of St. Clair, Pennsyl- women were escorted to the platform vania, La Concierge Nationale. The and presented to the convention. new Les Demi Chapeau Nationaux are: The installation of the new national Mrs. Florence Kelly, Fresno, California, officers was conducted by Past National Western Division; Mrs. Grace Porter, President Mrs. Eliza London Shepard, Geraldine, Montana, Northwestern; Mrs. Clean out tne radiator of your car, before after which, in a charming speech, Past Thelma Bailey, Detroit, Central; Mrs. you add an anti-freeze. Remove the particles of rust and sediment that stop the circu- National President Mrs. Louise Werle Ellen Taylor, Baltimore, Maryland, up lation. Don't let a clogged radiator sap Williams, presented to the retiring Na- Eastern, and Mrs. Corrine Craig, Okla- power, waste anti-freeze or cause expensive tional President, Mrs. Carlson, the colors homa City, Southern. Mrs. Margaret engine trouble. under which she had served the Auxili- Defies, Chicago, was elected La Secre- You can do this job yourself. Sani-Flush ary. With the singing of The Star taire-Cassiere Nationale. makes it easy and inexpensive. Just pour ton cents'' worth into the radiator. (Direc- Spangled Banner, the Fifteenth Annual An increase of more than 500 members tions are on the can.) Run the engine, drain, in the society reported Convention was adjourned. was for 1935. For flush, and refill with anti-freeze solution. At a meeting of the National Execu- the first time, silver trophies were Sani-Flush is thorough. It is safe. Cannot tive Committee called shortly after ad- awarded for outstanding work. Missouri harm radiator, rubber fittings or aluminum cylinder head. Sani-Flush is used in most journment, Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin won the trophy for the best child welfare bathrooms to keep toilets sparkling. You of City, re- while MacDowell Story Iowa, was work Pennsylvania was awarded can buy it at any grocery, drug, or hardware elected National Secretary and Mrs. the trophy for enrolling the largest num- store — 10 and 25 cent sizes. The Hygienic Cecilia Wenz of Indianapolis, National ber of members in the Auxiliary, regis- Products Company, Canton, Ohio. Treasurer. Mrs. Robert Ramos of New tering 3,000. KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN NON-CAUSTIC igig^^^aint J^ouis — 1935 {Continued from page Ij) ITCHING ^ and immediate cash payment without re- integrity of this organization and to see M^^H STOPPED IN ONE MINUTE ducing interest after October i, 1931. to it that it is not delivered over by any For quick relief from the itching of pimples, blotches, The method of payment is secondary." one for a personal political purpose." eczema, rashes and other skin eruptions, apply Dr. Dennis* cooling, antiseptic, liquid D. _D. D. Pre- Department Commander Allen of Next Congressman McFarlane of scription. Ita gentle oils soothe the irritated and Georgia followed Mr. Patman. He was Texas, an ally of Mr. Patman in the effort inflamed skin. Clear, greaseless and stainless—dries fast. Stops the most intense itching instantly. A 35o cheered as he praised National Com- to pass an inflationary adjusted compen- trial bottle, at drug stores, proves it—or money back. mander Belgrano's course in declining to sation bill at the last session, took the let The American Legion's own adjusted floor with a plea that the convention D.D.D. PAcAcAZ&tlcni* compensation measure be sacrificed to the adopt only the first clause of the resolu- demands of the group led by Congress- tion presented. man Patman. Another Congressman then spoke. He John Dwight Sullivan, Commander of was Charles Halleck of Indiana. He JUNIOR the New York Department in 1935, spoke declared DRUM CORPS next. He recalled of the meeting of the "The matter the payment of the EASY TO ORGANIZE legislative committee of the Miami bonus today is a popular proposition in National Convention, on which he served the United States with all the people. New movement is sweeping the along with Congressman Patman. He It is a lot more popular issue than the country. Many Legion Posts have declared that Mr. Patman had character- expansion of the currency. If you want proved Junior Drum Corps big success in stirring up new inter- ized at that time the Miami convention the bonus paid, adopt this resolution, est. Easy to organize and get quick action. Can be ready for resolution as "the finest resolution that divorce the matter of the bonus from any parade in few weeks' time. could come to the floor of the convention." other controversial issue. If they want WRITE FOR FREE BOOK "And throughout the year," Mr. Sulli- inflation or expansion of the currency, van went on, "I have read and heard a bring that in on its own base and on its ON NEW PLANg&&5££S where. We wil I gladly show you and tell you just how vilification of the National Commander, own bottom. Don't tie that thing around to insure success. Completeliterature tells everything reflecting not only upon him individually the neck of the bonus." you want to know. It's free. No obligation. Write now. but upon the entire American Legion. I The unanimous adoption of the reso- LEEDY MFG. CO., 1101 LEEDY BLDG. ELKHART, INDIANA am more concerned with preserving the lution as pre- {Continued on page 58)

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{Continued from page 57) sented was followed by prolonged cheer- AMERICANISM canism were adopted. Some of the more ing and handclapping. important: THE Convention voted that Ameri- That the American Legion co-operate FOUR American cities competed for canism be continued as the major with such agencies and organizations as the honor of holding the 1936 national program of The American Legion for the the Parent-Teacher Association and the convention and Cleveland won the honor year 1935-1936. National Education Association in form- after four ballots had been taken. On the A resolution was adopted urging that ulating policies of mutual interest, and first ballot the vote was: Cleveland, 517; each post be encouraged to form a Post also by furnishing speakers to present the Los Angeles, 340; Denver, 179, and Education Committee. Legion point of view at meetings or con- Atlantic City, 165. On the fourth ballot, Thirty-six resolutions dealing with ventions. Denver having withdrawn, the vote was: radical and subversive activities were That the federal Government be Cleveland, 612; Los Angeles, 475; At- submitted to the convention's committee encouraged to make such financial con- lantic City, 113. Past National Com- on Americanism which drew up this tributions to the States that adequate mander John R. Quinn of California single resolution on that subject: educational advantages may be afforded moved on behalf of Los to all children. Angeles that Cleveland's sel- That schools and colleges) be ection be made unanimous. encouraged to improve their The balloting on Cleveland, curriculaandmethodsof teach- Los Angeles, Denver and ing to the end that studies Atlantic City followed the may be made more effective presentation of the report in developing better citizens. of the Committee on Time That all Departments be and Place which stated that urged to establish bodies all four cities had qualified for composed of Legion educators, the honor of holding the 1936 teachers and others interested conventionbyestablishing con- in education, similar to such a vention corporations, present- body which has been estab- ing certified checks as guar- lished by the Kansas De- antees, as required by the partment. Legion's rules, and by demon- That school officials be more strating the adequacy of hotel careful in loaning school build- accommodations. ings to organizations, in order t=T THE. Four Governors addressed -rU£ ^ALUTIK^ PEMON OF ~TH& A E. VISITS that school property shall not the convention on behalf of W5" CONVjescTiOM AND MEET:? AN IMPERSONATOR. be used for the propagation the cities in the contest. of subversive doctrines. Martin L. Davey, Governor of Ohio, "Whereas, radical activities having the That the National Director of Ameri- spoke for Cleveland. Harold G. Hoffman, destruction of constitutional government canism distribute a monthly bulletin in Legionnaire Governor of New Jersey, and all of its privileges as their ultimate regard to communistic and radical move- presented the case for Atlantic City. objective are increasingly common ments, for transmission through each

Frank F . Merriam , Governor of California, throughout the nation; and State Superintendent of Public Instruc- spoke on behalf of Los Angeles. Denver "Whereas radical agitators and their tion to all high school principals. was championed by the Legionnaire agents strive most diligently to corrupt That The American Legion shall Governor of Colorado, Edward C. the moral and social belief of the youth actively combat communism and that the Johnson. of our nation, and National Commander shall instruct and Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Legionnaire "Whereas these activities are super- order all posts to oppose all organizations Mayor of New York City, and Mayor vised, directed and financed by subjects whose purposes are "to undermine, sap, Houde of Montreal each sought for his of another nation and find alien residents overthrow or otherwise destroy the city the honor of being host to the 1937 easy converts and enthusiastic supporters principles of American government." convention. The District of Columbia of violent revolutionary doctrines; there- That The American Legion continue on behalf of Washington, the Depart- fore be it its active opposition to the advocacy in ment of France on behalf of Paris and "Resolved, that the National Legis- America of Nazism, Fascism, Commu- the Department of Italy on behalf of lative Committee be directed to adopt nism or any other isms that are contrary Rome also asked for the 1937 National the following platform as a major part of to the fundamental principles of democ- Convention. its legislative program: racy. "1. The closing of all immigration for That The American Legion urge IN ADDITION to tne important ac- ten years. immediate rescission of the recognition of tions listed earlier in this article, the "2. The immediate deportation of all Soviet Russia. convention adopted a series of resolutions alien-born persons who are members of That the National Americanism Com- dealing with all the leading activities and any society, group or organization that mission continue its study of the proposal interests of the Legion. These resolutions, proposes to change or overthrow this for Legion-sponsored national high school relating to such subjects as Americanism, Government by force or violence. oratorical contests on patriotic subjects. national defense, child welfare, foreign "3. The immediate deportation of all That the American Legion-MacFadden relations, rehabilitation, legislation and destitute aliens. Youth Movement developed by the finance, form a part of the Legion's work- "4. The immediate deportation of all Department of Alabama be studied with ing program for the year ahead. The aliens of illegal entry. a view to its possible extension to all most significant of the resolutions that "5. That finger printing of all persons other Departments. were prese ted and approved are sum- be made compulsory. That The American Legion extend for marised hereafter. Many other resolutions on Ameri- another year its national highway safety

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and the accident prevention program. ance with the specific requirements of That the National Crime Conference the Navy, with a minimum naval, FOR in be held annually marine and merchant marine reserve of HELP Washington, D. C, with American Legion participation, and 92,000 enlisted men and 17,000 officers. that it be followed each year by a 3. Forty-eight paid drills and fifteen HUNTERS national crime prevention week to be days' training each year for Naval and In This Booklet FREE/ observed by all communities. Marine Corps Reserves. That the Legion continue its efforts 4. New Reserve training ships to to have Armistice Day made a national replace obsolete ones. legal holiday. 5. Adequate government support for the Merchant Marine. NATIONAL DEFENSE The Air Force recommendations were:

1. Sufficient funds to carry on the pre- convention adopted a series of THE existing services of the Bureau of Air recommendations relating to the Air Forces, Commerce. Army, Navy and prefaced by BRUSH V\l 2. Opposing the consolidation of the the following statement: AND TREES Air Service of the and "The American Legion has repeatedly Army, Navy Marine Corps within a single department advocated a national defense adequate to for national defense. enable us to be strong enough to stay at •TEA5E&* DUCK SET Adequate air defense of the coasts peace and simultaneously give us a 3. Mail the Coupon for 40-page and possessions of the United States. reasonable chance to protect ourselves in FREE Booklet full of valuable Congressional appropriations to pro- suggestions for hunters. Practi» case others force war upon us. 4. cal, proved methods of setting out duck and vide adequate flying hours for air officers "After many years of continued and goose decoys. No guesswork. Hints on of all reserve components. dangerous neglect, legislation has finally blinds, etc. "Days with Super-X" also con- Continuance of the work of estab- tains fascinating actual experiences with been obtained during the past few months 5. game, from quail to geese. Act lishing blind landing fields and other Super-X on which goes far toward achieving this NOW, for your free copy! tactical bases. objective. This legislation carries out 6. Provision for concentration and substantially every major national de- Western Cartridge Company, operating base facilities. Dept. K68 East Alton, Illinois. fense recommendation made by The Send Free copy of your valuable booklet, "DAYS 7. Continuance of training of Navy American Legion at its last national With Super-X"'. aviation cadets. convention. The Legion notes with satis- 8. Development of a balanced force of faction that the soundness of its recom- Address . . military planes by annual procure- mendations has finally been realized in a 2,500 Post Office. ment of 800 completely- equipped military practical way and it expresses its com- planes. mendation and appreciation to that vast SAVES HAIR! Adequate program for training a number of our fellow-citizens, official and 9. Use Glover's Mange Medicine and Civilian Air Reserve. Glover's Medicated Soap regularly. non-official, who have been instrumental Famous for results it gives in cases 10. Every reasonable assistance to com- of excessive Falling Hair and Dan- in obtaining by far the most successful druff. Get it at yout dealer's 1 mercial aviation. national defense legislation since The your barber give you this t American Legion was founded. It FINANCE recommends that this splendid recent progress be retained, consolidated and THE convention adopted the recom- expanded to its reasonable and logical mendation that all post officers conclusions." handling post funds be bonded. BEAN'S CANOE SHOE the The following recommendations were It adopted recommendation that Made of high grade elk leather with double oil tanned moc- " casin si.le. rubber heel ami Tallin Fastener. made in relation to the Army: the general offices of the Legion Pub- nation "Slipper Shoe," used for many purpos< and cottage. Colors, brown 1. A Regular Army of 165,000 enlisted lishing Corporation in Indianapolis be and black. Sizes 3 to 12. men, 14,000 officers and enlisted reserves transferred to the National Head- Writefor Fall Catalog Mfd. by as recommended by the quarters Building at North Meridian General Staff. 777 LL.BEAN,lnc 2. National Guard of Street in Indianapolis. 210,000 men, Mfrs. Hunting with proportionate officers; forty-eight Approving the action of the National and Camping Specialties. paid weekly drills and fifteen days' Executive Committee, the convention annual field training. directed the dissolution of the Legion 3. Reserve Corps of 120,000 officers, Publishing Corporation and the creation with two weeks' annual training for of a national standing committee for the MINSTRELS Unique first parts for complete: 30,000. editing and publishing of all national with special songs and cho; BLu k-la< •• i»laj v. Jokes, Gags, 4. R. 0. T. C. in each qualified school Legion periodicals. This new standing ke-up Goods, Wigs, Bon or college desiring it, with six weeks' committee is to be a division of the

summer camps for higher students. national organization subject to the direc- yplays prodiued every- L-> X where. 60 years of hita.^^l ^ 5. C. M. T. C. for one month for tion and control of the National Execu- Free Catalog \ ' I T. S. DENISON A CO. 50,000 youths yearly. tive Committee. S. Wabash. Dept. 89. Chic ago 6. Continuation of National Rifle The convention approved the publi- Matches. cation and distribution to all members in i k.ilJL.iiiillllLninllllCiiiiiiliSl 7. Adequate peacetime supplies and of the news periodical known as The E Ex-Sbbvioe Men Get Preference planning for procurement in time of National Legionnaire, "containing only Ry. Mail Clerk emergency. current, important information con- P. O. Laborer ) Seamstress R. F. D. Carrier 5 Auditor 8. Modernization of our entire military cerning the activities, program and Special Agent ) Stenographer Customs Inspector ) U.S. Border Patrol establishment with appropriate motori- progress of the national organization and City Mail Carrier ) Telephone Opr. P. O. Clerk i ) Watchman zation and mechanization. all of its divisions, and other matters Matron ) Meat Inspector pec'I Investigator ) Secret Servioe Opr. The recommendations for the Navy of immediate veteran interest." The Typist ) File Clerk INSTRUCTION BUREAU.DepLiio.St Louis, were: National Publicity Division will have Mo.

1. A Treaty Navy and men to man it. charge of its publication and distribu- 2. Adequate naval reserve in accord- tion. {Continued on page 60)

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INTERNAL ORGANIZATION employing only trained and experienced persons for national child welfare work be THE convention directed that when continued, and that the National Child a Legionnaire moves from his local Welfare Division assist Departments community to another, it shall be the in making adequate assistance available duty of the Adjutant of his post to forth- as such assistance shall be necessary. with notify the Adjutant of the post in The allocation of funds for special the community to which he has moved. service to Departments in advancing the It was recommended that space be pro- child welfare program of the Departments vided on the national membership card was approved for continuance in the for a notation showing the former post to budget of the National Child Welfare which a member belonged, in cases where Division. membership has been transferred. The convention urged that Mother's Instructions were given that the veteran Day be celebrated by joint meetings of population of the several States as shown all American Legion posts and their by the 1930 Federal Census be ascer- Auxiliary units. tained and used as the basis for determ- The convention reaffirmed the 1934 ination of national convention priority of national convention action in supporting the Departments. the Federal Child Labor Amendment and The convention directed the compila- urged Departments to secure ratification tion in book form of all copies of the in the States which have not already Siwye MECHANICAL EYE Legion-Heir already issued by the Na- ratified it. tional Americanism copies of LOCAL MANAGER WANTED Commission, sets fire in its early stages. Sounds the book to be made available to squad- FOREIGN RELATIONS d, piercing alarm that eaves hu- ives and property. Easy to install, rons of the Sons of The American Legion. itteries or wires needed. Every public building, hospital, factory, store. Continuance of publication of the Legion- IN SESSION at a moment when Italy lock farm a live prospect. Ma Heir was directed, copies to be mailed to .tin- 30-speond demonstration. 12 to 48 seemed certain to open active war on ts possible for full equipment large buildings. 2 to 4 units for homes. An oppor- all members of the Sons of The American Ethiopia, with possible widening of the tunity^^ large earnings for ambitious Legion. National dues of the Sons of conflict to include other countries, the for frer- (]<-t:nls explaining how to get up in the higher earning class. The American Legion were set at twenty- convention adopted the following neu- FIRE-CRY COMPANY, Dept. 30-B five cents for the new year. trality resolution: 1300 E. First St., Dayton, Ohio All Departments were requested to "Whereas, The American Legion wishes distribute to all squadrons of the Sons of that the United States remain at peace The American Legion copies of a question- with all nations of the world; therefore You Can't Make naire for the examination of the members be it of the sons' organization in the principles "Resolved, that we commend the neu- Them upon which the society is based. Members trality resolution passed by the Congress successfully passing the examination of the United States and pledge our sup- Honorary Members shall receive the Five Star Medal Award. port to the maintenance of absolute The convention directed that special neutrality by the United States Govern- you can attest your regard BUT cards shall be provided to certify five- ment." for the leading citizens of your year periods of consecutive membership The convention also adopted this reso- community who aren't Legionnaires in The American Legion, to be awarded lution: by making it possible for them to to those members entitled to receive "Deeply conscious as we are of the read regularly The American them. In connection with the award of disturbing elements which say that war Legion Monthly. these cards, the National Emblem Di- must come and that there is no hope for Outside the Legion in every town vision was instructed to stock silk stars peace, we stand confident and unafraid are leaders of public thought who which members may purchase and wear in The American Legion in our belief that

are Legionnaires in spirit—men on the Legion cap or the lower left sleeve peace is possible and we offer all our who, but for the accident of age of the Legion shirt or blouse. efforts to its practical accomplishment. or other circumstance, would be "Reaffirming, as we do, our belief in Legionnaires. They cannot join the CHILD WELFARE the duty of the individual in time of war; Legion, much as they should wish reaffirming, as we do, our belief in the to. Your post can not make them THE convention directed that at least Universal Draft, we stretch out our hand Honorary Members, because that is half of the income from The American and pledge our honor and all our efforts contrary to the Legion's national Legion Endowment Fund shall be allo- to all nations on earth to bring about the constitution. But you can do some- cated to the use of American Legion child practical realization of the ideal, 'Glory thing for them— welfare work, and that, as in the past, to God, and peace on earth to men of The subscription price of The at least $10,000 be allocated out of rev- good will'." American Legion Monthly to enues from other than endowment fund On the subject of war debts, the con- non-members is $1.50 a year. Ad- income for the administrative expenses vention passed a resolution asserting that dress subscriptions to of the National Child Welfare Division. the failure of European countries to pay It was directed that the Area Child their war debts to the United States has, Circulation Manager, Welfare Conferences be continued an- by adding to the financial burden of our The American Legion Monthly, nually and that provision for them be nation, worked an undue hardship upon P. O. Box 13 57, included in the budget of the National the American people. The resolution Child Welfare Division. concluded: Indianapolis, Indiana. It was directed that the policy of "The American Legion records its ap-

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proval of the efforts by our Government REHABILITATION to collect said war debts without further YOUR NAME FREE extension or reduction." THE convention committee on Re- habilitation considered 349 resolu- LEGISLATION tions and recommended to the convention for adoption a score of them. The most THE principal resolution on legislation important action was the adoption by the adopted by the convention calling convention of the entire program form- for the full and immediate payment of ulated by the Area Rehabilitation Con- adjusted compensation certificates, has ferences during 1935. This was as fol- been quoted in full earlier in this article. lows: Among other legislative resolutions was A. Clarification and codification of all PflSMflSTER Pass Case. Card Case, Bill Fold, Check Cover this one on the subject of Civil Service: Veterans Administration issues, and the "Whereas, the merit system of Civil issuance of such interpretations as may man needs. Made of high-grade black, genuine calfskin, specially tanned. Tough, durable. Has beautiful Service selection and promotion in the be necessary to insure uniform procedure. soft texture, shows real quality. Silk stitched, 14-karat gold corners. Size 3!-j x6 closed. You simply can't wear out this Government service, without discrim- B. Decentralization of all veterans' quality product. 22-karat gold name, address, lodge emblem free. Tills engraving ordinarily costs $1.50 extra. ination or preference except as to service claims, including payment of benefits to the country in its armed forces in time after the death of a veteran. Direct-To-You ONLY $3^ Enclose $3.95 Order or Check. Sent C. O. D. of war, has earned and justifies a prefer- C. Enlargement and decentralization Money if you prefer. State lodge emblem wanted. All arti- ence for veterans and the widows of of the Board of Veterans' Appeals, with cles fully guaranteed. Your money cheerfully refunded if not thoroughly satisfied, two weeks' trial. Write for card cata- veterans and has heretofore been ap- changes in procedure to increase its effi- /\ m n FREE proved and affirmed by The American ciency in expediting cases. 3dem Gift*, insurance men, tailors—with preferred customers—profit by Legion D. Continuance without curtailment our quantity discounts on personalized gift good- willbuilders. 360 N. MICHIGAN AVE- "Resolved, that the National Legisla- of the field services of the Veterans LANDON & WARNER tive Committee be directed relentlessly Administration and of the Legion's to pursue to a favorable and definite ac- National Rehabilitation Committee. complishment, legislation making it E. The removal of any time limit for the filing of claims for burial allowance, that death compen-

Rvbber •statj "(jua^ f*"um door nappies, 1 each. g& -11^ sation benefits be fmndred h/V payable from the date of death or for FREE and remitting as i-< r n. [.r> -v: i WE ARB FAIR AND Mill MJF .-i.irt n-w i.y evmliM; l..r «i» D NO MONEY - We tram you. BE FIRST. I C^s' one year prior to fil- • loo.A Tyrone, Pa. ing claims in the event the claim is filed more than one year after death, and that the marriage date for World War veterans be extended POST YOURSELF! II pay mandatory that all departments and further to July 2, 1941. I paid $400.00 to Mrs. Dow ofTexas.foronellalf llnlla.,

independent establishments of the Federal F. The inclusion in Section of Pub- I J.D.Martinof Virginia$200.00 31 , for a single Copper Cent. Mr. Government observe and enforce vet- lic Law No. 141 of cases where the dis- Manning of New York, $2,600.00 for / oneSilverDollar. Mrs.G.F.Adams.OhkO erans' preference in election, retention ability may have resulted from a physi- received $740.00 for afewold coins. I will pay big prices for all kinds of old coins, medals, bills and stamps. and promotion in Civil Service, presenting cal examination, and a liberalization of I WILL PAY $100.00 FOR A DIME! 1894 S. Mint : J60.00 for 1913 1 .iberty Head Nickel (not Buffalo) [ such acts to the Congress as will prevent precedents and instructions relating to and hundreds of other amazing price* iur coins. Send 4< Large Illustrated Coin Folder and further particulars. It r the inclusion of other than duly-ac- Section 31, Public Law 141.

credited veterans of war service, or their G. That service connection granted (Largest Rare Coin Establishment in U. S.) widows, or wives of disabled veterans who during the veteran's life be not seveied themselves are not qualified but whose after his death except for fraud. //ewAddingMach wives are qualified, in the provisions of H. That claimants and their represen- Fits Vest Pocket the act, and giving credit as time served tatives be fully informed as to any

for promotion to the period which a war administrative appeal and of their right workmanship. Perfectly accurate, ning fast. Sells on sight to bus veteran served in the armed forces during to make such an appeal. men, storekeepers, homes—all whc figures. the actual period of war emergency, I. That authority to make special ap- Write at once for Free AftCUTC which as to World War veterans is the pointments of compensa on be de- SampleOfferand Mon-AUfcH I d ey-Making Plan. 100% Profit! period April 6, 191 7, to November 11, centralized. C. M. Cletry, Dept. 41, 303 w. Monroe St., Ct

1918, and that in all other respects the J. That each Regional Office rating merit system of Civil Service be strictly board be composed of at least three quali- followed." fied members. A resolution was adopted reciting that K. That where a social service report the Legion has consistently urged for made by a social service worker in the more than a decade the passage of a employ of the Veterans Administration —Paying from $1200 to $2700 a Yean Universal Service Act, reaffirming the discloses the possibility of developing Railway Postal Clerks may earn S155 first month. Customs Inspectors as high a3 Legion's position on this and urging that evidence that might lead to the granting S3000 a year! No experience needed. Excellent opportunities for citizens 18 the subject be made a part of the major of service connection, the Veterans Ad- Increased salaries, .steady work. »>• L.'t me lr« NOW for „ legislative program. ministration should fully develop those , Recommended that the standing com- leads either by correspondence or inves- »u„„i, TOU.U mittee on World Peace and Foreign tigation. PATTERSON, Civil Service Expert, Patterson School.

Relations publish for distribution within L. That where there is a change in . Case Bide.. Rochester, N. V. send me your free book. "How to Secure a Government Position. the Departments a program to promote diagnosis from a psychosis or psycho- a better understanding of Fidac. neurosis to con- (Continued on page 62)

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{Continued from page 61) stitutional psychopath or mental defi- who are permanently and totally disabled Commander of a special committee of cient there should be a complete social because of paresis, paralysis or blindness, three to conduct a further investigation service report available before the diag- or who are helpless or bedridden because of the facts surrounding the hurricane nosis is confirmed. of misconduct disease. catastrophe on the Florida Keys in Sep- M. That when there is to be an investi- tember, the committee to report its gation of questioned testimony, the SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS findings to the National Executive Com- claimant or his representative should be mittee at the next meeting in November. notified and that testimony taken by an BY ADOPTING resolutions submit- The adoption of this resolution followed investigator should be in the form of ted by its committee on resolutions, the preparation of unusually complete questions and answers, and that a copy the convention expressed its sentiments reports on the disaster by Watson B. of the deposition be given to the witness. and desires on a number of subjects not Miller, chairman of the National Re- N. Consideration of the advantages included in the foregoing summaries. habilitation Committee, and Howard P. and disadvantages of the new Form 526 Among these were the following: MacFarlane of Tampa, Florida, who for all disability benefits. A resolution urging that preference be visited the scene immediately following O. Continued interest in instructions given in public works projects of the the disaster at the direction of National issued under Veterans Regulation 2 (d) Federal Government to those who are Commander Frank N. Belgrano, Jr. so as to permit consideration of new and citizens of the United States. Both reports agreed that the primary material evidence by rating boards or A resolution "vigorously opposing any reason more than 225 veterans lost their original jurisdiction with right lives was a defect in the system of appeal. of the Weather Bureau. P. The inclusion in the pres- A special resolution was a- H\aV beevA (r\oldmq Caucusses, M -to fcow, pt*(- ent list of "Constitutional Dis- dopted in memory of these Corel ^4wes,awi woV v\of \w M4 j( bufuou'll find +Ue eases" the following conditions: prominent Legionnaires who Foow evje^ smce cue ^^^^ K Jj£*j Sft^ Hun<^ Chronic bronchitis, bronchiec- qoV Uc^e ov °* died in the past year: Wilder ". I'm ^ ^SSp^ ^ ^ tasis, bronchial asthma, chronic tWe-a\li{ S. Metcalf of Kansas, James D. di\\w\ for ck /r^z, : r $^y^(C ^y( pulmonary emphysema, and Sory, Jr., of Kentucky, John A. qooA maUVs ) V amoebic dysentery; and a sur- Elden of Ohio, James H. Mc- sleep V. C- vey of other chronic constitu- Millan of Wisconsin, Bronson tional diseases which mightwar- M. Cutting of New Mexico, rant inclusion in this list and Frank A. Warner of Nebraska, action toward their inclusion. James J. Deighan of Pennsyl- Q. A deliberate and detailed vania, James Q. Lackey of Ken- review of all claims disallowed or rated at executive clemency for Grover C. Berg- tucky, and W. W. Atterbury of Penn- less than 10 per cent disabling under doll or any other draft evader." sylvania. Public Laws 2 and 78, specifying that a A resolution which authorized the current physical examination be availa- National Commander to create a Com- MORE than 125 bands and drum ble in the less-than-10-percent cases, and mittee on Veterans Employment, to corps took part in the national that rating agencies be authorized to use carry out the following program: convention parade and other events of as a guiding principle the"Special Board" 1. That veterans are entitled to em- the convention, and observers were im- instructions in reviewing the disallowed ployment commensurate with educa- pressed by the great progress made by claims. tional ability and physical condition these organizations in 1935. In costum- R. That those cases on the compensa- regardless of age. ing, in musical excellence and marching, tion rolls on March 19, 1933, whose 2. That no veteran shall be required the bands and drum corps attained new service connection was severed under to obtain political endorsement for em- Legion heights. Public Law No. 2 and reinstated under ployment in any Federal, state, county Board of Trade Post of Chicago won Public Law No. 141 be considered as or municipal project. first place in the band competition. having been in continuous prosecution, 3. That no disabled veteran shall be Second was the band of Franklin Post even though no appeal was filed, so as to prevented from obtaining or retaining of Columbus, Ohio. Omaha Post's out- fully protect their rights. public employment unless it is estab- fit was third, and Mineral Wells (Texas) S. A total disability rating for all lished by adequate medical testimony Post fourth. classes of active pulmonary tubercu- that such veteran is physically unfit. In the drum corps competition, San losis, both service connected and non- 4. That no veteran in public employ- Gabriel (California) Post won a spec- service connected, and that those cases ment shall be discriminated against as tacular victory after triumphing over suffering from B or C symptoms be not to salary, retention in service or pro- obstacles to travel the long distance to called for physical examination until the motion. the convention. Henry H. Houston 2d

Veterans Administration has determined 5. That existing instructions concern- Post of Germantown, Pennsylvania, was whether or not the beneficiary is in con- ing eligibility for selection of employ- second. Commonwealth Edison Post of dition to travel without jeopardizing his ment through any relief agency shall be Chicago was third, and Morristown (New health. waived in the case of veterans seeking Jersey) Post was fourth. T. An increase in the amount of com- such employment. Beverly Hills Post of Chicago won the pensation payable to dependents of 6. That in positions where existing drill team contest, in which Electric Post deceased veterans. rules require university or college de- of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was second. U. A careful study by the standing grees, veterans shall, where their prac- First prize in the post history contest committee of the estates of incompetent tical experience is sufficient, be allowed was awarded on the convention plat- dependents. to offer such practical training in lieu of form to Dorsey-Liberty Post of Law V. Recommending that in no event university or collegiate training. rence, Kansas, for the history prepared shall compensation in directly service- A resolution was also adopted calling by its Post Historian, Archibald Oliver. incurred cases be denied those individuals for the appointment by the National The second prize was won by Niles Huff

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No obligation. Confidential. Write McConnon & Co., "The House of Friendly for its history submitted by Historian in an atmosphere of solemnity and patri- Service", Desk 130 LA Winona, Minnesota. Fred A. Smith. otic fervor, Madame Schumann-Heink The following posts were awarded sang "The Star Spangled Banner," her 400 Percent Club Citations for having voice trembling at times from her deep ADVENTURES attained in 1935 four hundred percent emotion, and followed it with "There Is Spell-binding—but true stories of man's latest con- quests. Read about them in Popular Mechanics. of their preceding year's membership: No Death." Every month this big 200- page magazine is crammed pictures (many in full Alma Martin Post, Alabama; Nathaniel Tears were in the eyes of the aged full of fascinating accounts and color) of daring adventures,^ astounding scientific McBride Post, Colorado; Nagel-Rehms singer and she almost collapsed when discoveries, new achievements in aviation, electricity, engineering, chemistry, physics, radio, etc. Special Post, Colorado; New Smyrna Post, Flor- National Commander Belgrano pre- departments for home craftsmen and practical shop Don't miss this month's ida; Pete Thurston Post, Georgia; 13th sented to her a citation for her loyal men—easy to follow plans. issue — a thrilling and entertaining record of the Engineers Post, Illinois; Hays-Hickerson and distinguished service to The Amer- world's newest wonders—25c at all newsstands. Post, Missouri; Postal Service Post, Mis- ican Legion. She struggled with her i']i']T.v,a:,m:M:iK« souri; Lester Conboy Post, Missouri; emotions as she pledged herself to keep • BRANCH • • King City Post, Missouri; Burke County on serving the Legion and "our beloved MANUFACTURERS Post, North Carolina; Varner-Rhinehart United States—America." WANTED m Post, North Carolina; Charles T. Nor- Thirteen Governors of States attended 1 or large scale, by old established firm, to istmas Goods. 5 and lflc Novelties, Toy Autos, wood Post, North Carolina; Highland various functions of the convention, in- , etc. No special place or experience neces- ue furrMi full imtrui-tions with moulds and Park Post, Virginia. cluding the formal dinner of National tlay starts you. A rare opportunity for these devc Commander Belgrano to distinguished supply American Legion's national con- guests. General John J. Pershing sent THE CAST METAL CO., Dept. 9 vention in any year deserves the from France a message, read from the 1G96 Boston Road New York, N. Y. title of America's greatest national pag- platform, in which he said: eant. The St. Louis convention, like "As the years go by, and they are those which went before it, covered the passing with astonishing rapidity, I feel ranges of all the emotions, from comedy an ever-increasing affection for the men ToAnySui Double the life of your to tragedy and pathos. There was the who fought the nation's battles in the coat and vest with correctly matched pants. 100,000 patterns horseplay of the reveling crowds, the World War. Our ranks are growing Every pair hand tailored to your measu Our match Bent FREE for your O. K. before throwing of water from hotel windows thinner, but our hearts beat as strongly pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send pleca and the cavorting in streets and the in the cause of freedom as in those try- building of bonfires at intersections. ing days when facing the enemy on Drum corps and bands marched and foreign soil. The loyal men of that force countermarched endlessly in and out of are becoming more and more the bul- SUCTION MOP hotel lobbies, and in the upper halls of wark of the nation. No body of citi- those hotels fun-seeking convention- zens is truer to the principles for which The NetvestThinq! naires roamed succeeding BIGGEST SELLER IN YEARS! Amazing 3-ln-l from room to room. In generations of Americans L ou3ehold Invention—Brush, Broom, Mop ell in one. Makes the deep courts of the hotels, opened have fought." ousework play. Incredibly Ilk'ht — easy to handle — : LEANS LIKE MAGIC! Sweep* carpets, ruga without raising dust; Brush*-* upholstered furniture. waTle. Scrubs windows revealed to all who cared to The stranger to the Legion, pondering Honrs, linoleum without scratching. Endorsed by thou- i! Approved t>j/ Good Housekeeping Institute! Houee- see the little comedies of those who for over the revelry and trying to find the 3 wild about it—buy on eight. Agents cleaning up* days of the year are staid citizens secret of that SAMPLE OFFER »=r^ ffMSS 361 power which makes men locality who writes. No obligation. Get details. Bo first-send in your name TODA YI serve the Legion with fervent loyalty KRISTEE MFG. CO., 341 Bar St., Akron, 0. year after year, might profitably have The majority of the photographs accom- observed the drama of the retirement of panying the accounts of the Legion and J. Monroe Johnson of South Carolina A uxiliary conventions were UkADoq Soap taken by Wilson after serving his Department as National Todd, Chairman, American Legion Official Executive Committeeman since its earli- ™ Photographers. Inquiries concerning these at last^w est days. Relinquishing his Legion post photographs and scores of others depicting THE only soap of its kind! • Oils because of his recent appointment as Stops itching, stimulates convention activities should be addressed to hair growth, gives coat a "dog • Tones Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Mr. show" sheen, destroys "doggie" Legionnaire Todd at Drawer 27, St. Louis • Grooms Johnson was given an affectionate ova- odors, kills fleas and lice, cleans perfectly. Outlasts two ordi- • Kills Fleas tion when he appeared on the conven- nary bars. At drug and pet or write William • Deodorizes in stores, 50c, America's home towns. Forty and tion platform and spoke with the deepest Cooper Nephews, Inc., 1928 & • Cleans Eight locomotives rumbled through every emotion. Clifton Avenue, Chicago, 111. All In One crowd-filled street with whistles shriek- "An individual cannot come into ex- Pu LVEX Operation! ing, bells ringing. istence in this world without leaving 6 S°0°A P A casual stranger might have seen his influence {Continued on page 64)

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WAKE UP YOUR igig^(§aint J^ouis 1935 LIVER BILE- (Continued from page 63) Without Calomel —And You'll Jump Out forever behind him," Air. Johnson said. organization I have reached my place of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go "Except for those men of unlimited in immortality, and it is another proof, The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid ability and unlimited opportunity, their physical proof, not requiring faith. The bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just influence does not remain identified with immortality is a fact and you are re- decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. an individual. It is not so with organ- sponsible for You get constipated. Your whole system is poi- the reputation, immortal soned and you feel sour, sunk and the world izations. reputation, of this American looks punk. Legion Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere bowel "If I have contributed anything in of ours. movement doesn't get at the cause. It those takes these seventeen years to this reputation "My heart goes with good, old Carter's Little Liver Pilh to get these you and I know two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you that is to live forever in the name of this it will never be broken." feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. Stubbornly refuse anything else. 25c at all drug stores. © 1931, CM. Co. The Forty and Eight Your home in Philadelphia Making hospitality a very THE Forty and Eight, holding its Chemin de Fer, Dr. Eugene C. Fogg, personal consideration has convention in another part of the Portland, Maine; Fred G. Fraser, Wash- made the Bellevue one of the Municipal Auditorium, heard re- ington, D. C; Robert R. Roberts, World's best known hotels. ports of continued progress in the work Youngstown, Ohio; Rex G. Whittemore, Rates Begin at $3.50 of La Societe. An innovation in arrange- Pomona, California; James C. Casserly, ments for the boxcar society's conven- New Orleans, Louisiana; L. G. Miller, BELLEVUE tion was the limiting of its deliberations Crookston, Minnesota; Commissaire In- STRATFORD to three days, thus bringing the election tendant National, N. Carl Nielsen, Gig of officers a day ahead of the Legion's Harbor, Washington. CLAUDE H. BENNETT, General Mgr. elections instead of following them by a Correspondant National, Charles W. few hours. The Society's annual parade, Ardery, Indianapolis; Avocat National, through the downtown streets of St. D wight C. Dale, Syracuse, New York; Louis on the night before the big Legion Historien National, Paul McGahan, High School Course J. parade, drew a crowd of approximately Washington, D. C; Aumonier National, in 2 Years r 350,000 people, who laughed and thrilled Rev. E. A. Blackman, Kansas City; meets reqnirementsforentran. •• to college hu^inrss, to the scores of fun-provoking entries Gardes de la Porte IkM.Conrpeand industry; prrpareg f..r Mate examinations. Standard lliirh Nationale, R. E. School toits supplied. Diploma awarded. Full credit lor II S. subjects already completed. Don't be satisfied with anything spaced between the conventional box- Redfield, Gulfport, Mississippi, and Earl lesa than a complete High Scl I education. Then-whether you go to college, or s*-ck suc-esj in t ii-unr-s or industry, or take cars R. Wiseman, Little .... and locomotives. Rock, Arkansas; state examination -v.. ii for Free Bulletin TODAY. No obligation. American School, Dept. H816, Drexel at 58th, Chicago For its new Chef de Chemin de Fer, Drapeau National, L. E. Clift, Terre succeeding John D. Crowley of Cam- Haute, Indiana. bridge, Massachusetts, the Forty and The Child Welfare Committee of La

Eight chose Fred M. Fuecker of Seattle, Societe reported that in the past year it Washington, who has had wide experi- had supervised immunization against ence in both Legion and Forty and Eight diphtheria for 250,000 children. Other CATALOGm-FREE service. The new Chef enlisted in the child welfare activities stressed in the Over 200 Styles and Sizes of Regular in until work of the Forty and Eight included Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces at Army 1910 and served Factory Prices and Easy 1916 in Hawaii, the Philippines and maintenance of health camps, dental Terms—as little as 18c a day. More Bargains Texas. April the before and infantile paralysis clinics, providing than in 20 Big Stores. On 5, 191 7, day New styles, new features, United States into the care and facilities for tonsilectomies, sup- w colors. Year to Pay the got war, he 30 days free trial— 360 first lieutenant plying artificial eyes, and vaccination to s approval test — was commissioned a and aur shipments. The prevent smallpox and scarlet fever. oo Stove Co., Mfrs. had ten months' overseas service with 2066 Rochester Avenue. Yoiture Over 950,000 Kalamazoo, Michigan. the 151st Field Artillery of the 42d The Nationale Trophy, for Satisfied Users Division. His Legion membership is in bringing in the largest number of new 55 Years in Business "AKalamazoa t memberships, Wit, for FREE Catalan kjam Direct toYbu" University Post at Seattle, and he has Legion was awarded the just completed two years' service as Grande Voiture of New York, which Adjutant of the Department of Wash- accounted for 9,018. The individual Be a ington. membership trophy went to William Other officers of the Forty and Eight E. Richards of New York, who brought Uklless Man for the coming year are: Sous Chefs de in 460 new Legion members. No Like Time J145V a U/rVsfO"! Now to Get in Make up to $75 a week +00 I t's no trick to make up to$12 a day when you useyourcarasaMcNesg "Store on Wheels. " Farmers are buying everything thev can from McNcss men. Attractive business-getting prizes, also money-saving deals to customers make selling McNcss daily necessities a snap. Tins business is depression- proof. We Supply Capital— Start Now! There's no better work anywhere — pays well, permanent, need

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64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Not yesterday's service . . . nor only today's ... but TOMORROW'S, too tells the story of The American Legion forcefully, completely, quickly.

"A" That is the foundation of The American Legion. •jf See this poster on display at your department convention. It for thirty thousand outdoor panels the first of Certainly that boy ... or girl, too ... is glad you belong. will be ready November, through the co-operation of the Outdoor Advertising More than glad — Proud is the word. Proud you faced Association of America, Inc., if your Post does its part and orders death to serve . . . Proud you are still serving, in peace the required number early. Take this order blank to your next as in war. Prouder still they will be when they look Post meeting and get action on it. The National Organization of The American Legion has officially adopted the above design tomorrow upon the America you are building today! and has authorized the Morgan Lithograph Company, Cleveland, This is the message the 1936 American Legion Poster Ohio, to make, sell and distribute all Legion posters, display Brings You and All Citizens. Lithographed in colors, it cards and windshield stickers bearing such design.

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