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Folks who risk their lives as a matter of course are careful in their choice of a cigarette. They say:

MAN THROWS LION! Mel Koontz, noted lion and tiger tamer, CAMELS schools " big " cats for Hollywood films. Sketch (left) shows Mel meet ing the lunge of a savage 4 50- pound NEVER GET ON beast. That's where nerve -power tells — as Mel knows! He says this: "Camels don't jangle my nerves —

my mind is at rest as to that ! Camels YOUR NERVES' are milder— the natural mildness that's grown right in the tobacco. We animal tamers stick to Camels!"

(Above) THREE TIMES Lou Meyer won the Indian- apolis auto-racing classic — only driver in history to achieve this amazing triple- test ofnerve control. He says:

( Right) CRASHING A PLANE "My nerves must be every bit through a house is the spectacu- as sound as the motor in my lar specialty of Stunt Pilot Frank racer. That's why I go for Frakes. And, at this writing, he's Camels. They never get on my done it 53 times — on movie loca- nerves a bit. Camels take first tions, at exhibitions. Time after place with me for mildness!" time, with his life actually in his hands, it's easy to understand why Pilot Frakes says: "I take every precaution to keep my nerves steady as a rock. Natu- (Left) THRILLING STUNTS rally, I'm particular about the for the movies! lone Reed cigarette I smoke. And you can needs healthy nerves ! Naturally, bet my choice is Camel. I can Miss Reed chooses her ciga- smoke as many as I want and feel rette with care. "My nerves," fresh;never a bit jittery or upset." she says, "must be right — and no mistake! So I stick to Camels. Even smoking Camels steadily doesn't bother my nerves. Infact, Camels giveme a grand sense of comfort. And Camels are they taste so good! Stunt men a matchless blend and women favor Camels." of finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS PEOPLE DO APPRECIATE THE COSTLIER TOBACCOS IN CAMELS — Turkish and Domestic THEY ARE THE LARGEST-SELLING CIGARETTE IN AMERICA

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" Most tobacco Planter David "I ought to know planters I know E. Wells knows finer tobaccos Meet these men who preferCamels," every phase of make finer ciga- says grower tobacco culture rettes," says live with tobacco from mm Tony Strick- . . . the "inside" grower John T. planting to marketing— land, "because Camel buys story of tobacco quality. "At Caraway. "I've been smok- the fine grades of tobacco — sale after sale," he says, ing Camels for 23 years. and note the cigarette my own and those of other "Camel buys up my finest Camel pays more to get my growers. And Camel bids grades at top prices. It's finest tobacco — many 's the they smoke high to get these finer lots. natural for most planters year. Camels are the big fa- It's Camels for me !" like me to smoke Camels." vorite with planters here." ;

C for(godandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: £7o uphold and defend the Constitution. ofthe'ZfnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order,- tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent &rnericanism to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the Cjreat'~War; to inculcate asense of"individual obligation to the com- munity,staie andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood will on earth ; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles ofjusticejreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution, ofThe American Legion. The Jlmerican

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AND so to bed, to begin to catch CONTENTS dog was his own dog tag, with his h\ up on lost sleep and to dream COVER DESIGN own name and serial number. Wag- of the Twenty-First National By Herbert M. Stoops ner took the tag and the police took HOMECOMING 3 Convention of The American Legion, the dog, and at last accounts hadn't By R. C. Worthington to be held in CHICAGO, September THE LAST PRISONER 5 found out who it belonged to or 25-28, 1939. By Clarence C. Conklin where it had picked up the tag. You WE'RE NOT ASHAMED OF IT 6 figure it out. By Frederick Palmer DR. GEORGE T. MAHAN of BEFORE THE ARMISTICE—AND St. Louis is one Legionnaire BEHIND IT 8 THEY gave Wally a party down in who will be a long time forgetting By Thomas M. Johnson Philadelphia the other night as a DUCKS the Los Angeles jamboree. He was 10 send-off for his daily strip, which will By James A. Drain on one of the trains which figured be initiated in many newspapers up Illustrations bv Forrest C. Crooks in the collision near Niland, Cali- WHAT MANNER OF MEN? 12 and down the land on October 10th. fornia, in which eleven persons were By John G. Emery Give a look—maybe it'll be in your Illustration bv V. E. killed. The crash aroused Dr. Mahan Pyles home-town paper. The Philadelphia NOW SHOWING: LEGION 14 in its account of the party, along with everybody else. He soon By Alexander Gardiner and Boyd Record, had the dining car converted into a B. Stutler quotes Wally as reminiscing in this temporary hospital which treated be- ONE ISM, AND ONE ALONE 23 vein regarding his Stars and Stripes By National Commander Stephen tween sixty and seventy of the in- days: "I arrived in Paris right in the F. Chadwick jured. Then he went on to Los THE WOMAN WHO COULDN'T middle of an air-raid. The streets Angeles. During the war Dr. Mahan COME HOME 24 were dark and I spent hours hunting commanded the 15th Ambulance By Jerome Beatty for a Y. M. C. A. hotel. I never "A RIGHTEOUS MAN WELL Company, so it was all in the day's did find it—but I had one swell time ARMED" 27 work. By Admiral William D. Leahy trying." YOURS TO COMMAND 28 By John Noil ALSO among those present at Los J. ALREADY manuscripts are being EDITORIAL: What Was at Stake 31 Angeles were Mr. and Mrs. submitted in this Magazine's CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT 31 Lisle O. Wagner of Ossining, New TWENTY YEARS AFTER 32 $1500 Prize Contest for Legionnaires, York. Wagner is Grand Commissaire By Wallgren which moves us to point out once Intendant of the Grand Voiture de BURSTS AND DUDS 33 again that there is no point at all Conducted bv Dan Sowers New York, 40 and 8. And the Mys- in submitting material so early. The ARMISTICE ETERNAL 34 tery of the Dog Tag is still unsolved. By The Step-Keeper contest closes January 16, 1939, and About a year ago a stray dog walked THIS WAY TO WAR'S END 38 you might almost say that it begins into a filling station in Wagner's By The Company Clerk on that date as well. If you've com- TWENTY YEARS AGO 41 home town on the shores of the Hud- pleted your story or article, set it son River bearing on its collar not a aside to jell and then look it over a regulation license tag but the regular month from now. You'll probably old-fashioned dog-tag of war days. find important changes you want to The tag was inscribed: "L. O. Wag- IMPORTANT make. Make them and see that the ner, U.S.A., 1061188." The filling manuscript reaches the Magazine's A form for your convenience if you wish station attendant knew L. O. Wagner to have the magazine sent to another ad- New York office not later than Jan- and called him up. Wagner declared dress will be found on page 74. In noti- uary 16, 1939- It goes without saying fying the Indianapolis address be sure to he had never owned a dog and went (but we're saying it anyway) that include the old address as well as the new it all about. There only original and previously unpub- to see what was and don't forget the number of your on the neck of a perfectly strange Post and name of Department. lished material can be considered.

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the order was re- The bodies themselves were carefully remained a moment to kneel and pray.

WHENceived in 92 1 at the Head- searched and prepared specially the morning of the following day, 1 by On quarters of the Graves trained gioups of men, each group under October 25th, the officials who were to Registration Service in the supervision of a commissioned officer. take part in the ceremony of selecting Paris to select, prepare, and return to Each body was then wrapped in a blanket the one body to return to the United the United States the body of an Un- and placed in a metal casket which in States gathered in the room in which re- known American Soldier, there were turn was placed in a shipping box, but posed the four bodies. Among them were about 1500 A. E. F. dead who were still only after the box had been planed white Major General Harry H. Rogers, Quar- listed as unidentified. This list was care- to insure that no private identifying termaster General, U. S. A.; Major Gen- fully gone through and checked for any marks had been made on it. eral Henry T. Allen, Commanding Gen- possible means of identification. At the On Monday, October 24, 1921, the eral of the American Forces in Germany; final check-up, four bodies were selected, bodies were sent to Chalons-sur-Marne, Colonel Frank Rethers, Head of the one each from four widely separate where they were carried from the trucks Graves Registration Service in Europe, cemeteries—Bony, Romagne, Thiaucourt to the hotel de ville by French soldiers. and many others both French and and Belleau. This checking was done I was a first lieutenant on duty at Ro- American. from forms which were made out for magne, the largest A. E. F. cemetery, and After a brief prayer, everyone left the every soldier buried in France whether accompanied the Romagne body to room with the exception of one officer the body was identified or not ; there was Chalons. At the hotel de ville the bodies and a civilian worker. The windows were also a tooth chart for each body, because were placed in a room which was decor- carefully covered so that no one might many bodies were still being identified ated with the flags of the Allies. A guard see into the room, and the caskets were from dental work which had been done of American non-commissioned officers opened and the blanket-wrapped bodies at home. was placed over the bodies, with a guard laid on top of the caskets. The civilian The four bodies which were selected of French soldiers in the outer room. The worker then left the room, leaving only were shown by the forms to have had people of Chalons brought flowers which the officer. The door was locked and the their faces blown away so that it was not were heaped at the foot of the coffins, bodies were changed and interchanged possible to make even a tooth chart. and as they placed their flowers they also by the single {Continued on page 48)

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condition of the roads it took us several hours to arrive at a canal over which there remained a very rickety pontoon bridge. We had until now seen very few troops but could hear incessant gunfire. Several times we had to stop and seek cover in ditches. At Bar-le-Duc Frank and I had bought several bottles of that well-known Clarence French juice of the vine of which the A. E. F. quaffed so copiously, namely c. conklin cognac, and it was while we were in a ditch having a nip that we encountered ^Ls-to&e-tcr an officer who wore the insignia of a chaplain. He was a Catholic padre and had been in the A. E. F. but a short time. George Philip He told us he had been assigned to Head- quarters Company of the Ninetieth Divi- Wrench sion and was trying to locate this unit. He had obtained several lifts from the IITTLE did I realize as I boarded the railhead but was making the final effort Carpathia in New York harbor on foot. He further told us that he had

j one evening in the early summer left his bedding roll and "mess kit" in

of ioi 7, bound for France, that an abandoned concrete pill box a mile or it was to fall to my lot to be the last sol- so back down the road, and was very dier of the United States Army to be Corporal Conklin (as of 1918 desirous that we take him in our small captured by the Germans. Our transport and 1938 respectively), who truck to this spot and retrieve the "mess was the famous rescue ship in the catas- with Private Frank Beddor was kit." The roll and equipment he insisted trophe of the ill-fated Titanic. Our jour- captured by the Germans near were of little importance, but he would ney to Liverpool was uneventful. No sub- Stenay on Armistice morning like, above all, to get that "mess kit." marines were sighted and our destroyer and released soon after firing escort delivered us safely on the first leg ceased BOTH Beddor and I wondered at the of our big adventure. time why he did not salvage a per- My outfit, the Eleventh Engineers fectly good mess kit from the equipment (Railway), was one of the first units to ber 11, 1918. Private Beddor and myself of one of the many dead bodies lying sail for foreign parts, and, indeed, the had reached the railhead, the town of around and within reach, and we finally first troops to engage in battle with the Bar-le-Duc, in our delapidated and war- asked him why didn't he do so. We then enemy. Although a non-combat unit, on scratched Ford truck and had secured and not until then discovered that he pioneer work in preparing gun emplace- the two large sacks of newspapers shipped meant his "mass kit", without which he ments, rifles were thrust into our hands in down from Paris. We pushed off to the could not celebrate mass. So we retraced front of Cambrai, and we found ourselves routine task of distributing them to a our tracks and retrieved the equipment, facing the Germans until we were relieved fighting outfit. Up the line we newsboys but found that some irreligious doughboy by the British later on that night, after of the A. E. F. rushed, up through the war or doughboys had consumed his entire suffering casualties in dead and wounded. swept towns of Cierges, Nantillois, supply of sacramental wine. We offered In August, 1918, I was detached from Montfaucon, Dun-sur-Meuse and finally him a minimum supply of our cognac. my regiment and ordered to report to the into the smaller town of Halles. The Upon reaching the rickety pontoon commanding officer of The Stars and place was under heavy shellfire when we bridge once more we found no infantry Stripes, the official A. E. F. newspaper. arrived and nearly everyone was under- there, but there remained a battery or My duties were those of a field agent ground or huddled in holes burrowed into two of 155's who were firing. It was at attached to the Ninetieth Division. My the side of a sunken road on the outskirts. this point that I learned from the artil- buddy in the duties of distributing the The day was drizzly and foggy. lerymen that the war was to be over at weekly issues to the troops of this divi- We finally learned that the Ninetieth 11 A.M. An armistice was to be signed. sion was Private Frank Beddor, a worthy Division troops were in line directly in We spent nearly two hours with the soldier hailing from Minneapolis. front of Stenay, about eighteen kilo- batteries and disposed of some of our It was early on the morning of Novem- meters up the road, so we set out once Stars and Stripes {Continued on page 64)

NOVEMBER, 1938 5 ! / a Were Not For God By Frederick

of all I heard said in jest proceeding along the Paris-Chateau- to pepper us if they were already on the OUTand tragedy, in dry throated Thierry road in an army car with a ser- ridge above us. We were in a trough laughter and rallying profanity geant chauffeur. The glazed eyes of refu- between the two armies parallel to their as we hit 'em again, the re- gees and French soldiers, as they stag- fronts. Our own men, if they were up on mark of the man beside me in the Meuse- gered to the rear in numb fatigue, lighted the opposite ridge, might readily con- Argonne at n A.M. on November n, with hope at the sight of our infantry, clude that our slewing, speeding car was

' 1918, will remain longest with me. .; guns and machine-guns moving to the German. We might get a burst of plung- Only seven words as the sudden, vast front. ing fire from both sides. silence succeeded the lashing, crashing Somewhere ahead our advance bat- I judged that the road led down to a tumult of death. Seven were enough on talions—the goal of our errand—were part of the north bank of the River Marne the background of that 'lorn landscape deploying to come to grips with the Ger- which the Germans already held. The with soldiers no longer in the mortal mans, who were getting their steam up only thing was to keep going. The car thrust and counter-thrust and the grim for more laps in their triumphant, thus could not swim the Marne, but we might v drubbing and vicious gouging of battle. far unbroken drive. There were no try. Thus we should at least escape the They told all from drill-ground to the trenches. The undefined No Man's land humiliation of being "pinched without

front. If I become senile ia my old age was in open country for a catch-as some action. • my toothless gums will still be mumbling B^€an. ^*>w^B Then appeared another dirt road— them on Armistice Day: This and the speed of thecar foorar\ peasant cart road. If it had been only a "That's that, Buddy. The job is me. Surprise slapped me in the face with cowpath we should still have taken it,

.finished." { a benji in the road as along a straight Since it led to the right-ana toward the Finished in victory stretch, two or three hundred yards 'American -lines. But twenty years afterward soj away, I saw figures in German green and Up a little rise out of the valley—just strange talk is abroad. It is that we did German helmets. .We had passed our as Heinie began shooting at u$—and the not win—we lost—ours was a fool front and were charging the enemy at so|d|ers we saw were not in German

mission. I thirty miles an hour. helmets and German ' green. We were Little Boy Blue, then of service age One of the Germans raised his hand in back: among heme folks again. The two but not in uniform in 1017-18, has a n|ew an evident gesture to hold fire. At the or three minutes we had been out of alibi. He poses as the wise guy. All we rate we were going Heinie had to wait touch with them seemed as many months

have to do to keep out of another war is less than a minute to have us bagged. / I The greeting of amazement we received to follow his example. It was time for split -split-second think- was in the home tongue and accent—the In a superior manner he asks if we ing for us. To turn our car about would same that spoke "That's that" on the 'didn't fight that war in order to end war. require the delay of a cut. Then Hefnie field of the Meuse-Argonne after firing And in a still more superior manner he would -see that we realized our mistake ceased. 1 / jf jw bids us look at the blood-spattered map and be on us with everything he had in "For God's sake, where did you come of the world today. To satisfy him and reach. We would not even get the break from? And how did you get that way?" certain pacifist elements we should con- of time enough to get out of the car, hold "We started for Berlin, but decided fess our error by removing our Legion up our hands, and, cry "Kamerad!" we preferred to wait and go along with buttons and forgetting our war experi- If we kept on, it was a German prison the gang." ¥ ence as something stupid, futile and camp for us. And the following is only "1'leased to meet you"—with a grin. bloodthirsty of which we ought to be a faint translation of the remarks from "Hope you had a pleasant trip"—with ashamed. on high on our side when we were re- a broader grin.

The truth is that if all the nations of ported missing: Never had, Americans looked so good Europe and Asia go to war tomorrow it "What idiot ever let into our Army to me. There were halos over their tin will not diminish our pride one whit in two such jackasses who couldn't tell it hats. what the four millions of us did on the from the German army? The Germans I felt my insignificance as a "tin ma- job and to finish the job. are welcome to them. All we mind is the ^or" to any one of them. And let me re- Those seven words in pungent Ameri- loss of the car." mind you, Little Boy Blue, who says we can twang, so far from home, taken with In the batting- of an eyelash, as I lost the war, that I had a good alibi, that certain advantages I had and the memory looked around after I had seen the wait- of age. When we entered the World War of a personal incident, make me want to ing German reception committee, I I was too old to be admitted to any train- have my say on the twentieth anniver- noted a dirt road on our right. With the ing camp. But it was thought that my sary of the Armistice. instinct that clutches at a tree branch experience of two years on the Western That incident happened in the most overhanging a falls we took it, and on two Front as correspondent might be useful. desperate hour of the Chateau-Thierry wheels. Remember that on that afternoon the crisis when the Germans were nearer It ran at the bottom of a little valley. people were leaving Paris and the French Paris than they had been since Septem- Now that the Germans saw we had government packing up its papers to go. hasty ber, 1914, and were still coming. I was recognized our mistake they would begin Black alarm overshadowed the

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Ashamed Of It — COU NTRY Palmer

gathering of Allied statesmen and gener- I could look beyond the limited horizon Some women qualify. And did they earn als in council. Washington was worried, of that patch of rolling French farming the right? our own people astounded as the German country and see them coming on the 40 What nurse regrets that she was in drive day after day swept all opposition and 8 cars from Brest and Bordeaux, her country's uniform instead of being in before it. across the seas and drilling in the dis- one of the welfare services? Should she There was a glint in Pershing's eyes tances of our land where oranges, cactus, be ashamed that she worked sixteen set in a face of flint. Now his soldiers wheat, cotton and corn grow and where hours a day in a heme hospital in the were going in against the drive when there are dark canyons between sky- influenza epidemic? Or in France washing Heinie saw victory within his grasp after scrapers or you can see the length of helpless wounded soldiers free of trench four years of figuring. Among them were Main Street. filth anoV clotted blood, renewing stale the lot who had welcomed me back to our Was anyone ashamed of being in the with fresh bandages, giving unstintedly lines. front line at Chateau-Thierry or on the of her strength, skill and tenderness to They had the Pershing glint in their way or being trained to go over there? make him well again or to solace him in eyes. He could smile on occasion, and Or I of being in such company? We must his dying moments? they would give him reason to smile keep on going until there were enough of I saw her, too, on the job. But the very happily and set all the Allies re- us and all well armed enough to say nurses were not the only wemen who joicing. On that ridge, where they were "That's that." qualified to be members of the Legion. taking position, they were about to set And where was Little Boy Blue, who I saw the yecmenettes of the Navy, too, up a sign which said: now says we went on a fool mission and on the job. They too took the oath, went "Here is the place where you stop, lost the war? You may be sure he missed where they were told to go, did what they Heinie. This is near enough Paris for no chance to do his share of the cheering were told to do, in the whole of the four you." at the march-out of the men in O.D. who millions. They were not thinking as members were to be the wall of security between After Chateau-Thierry I saw all but of any political party, creed, social group him and Heinie. No one shouted louder two of our combat divisions when they or race. In the war their politics and re- on Armistice Day over our victory, were in action. Yes, yours was the best ligion were simple—for God and Country. which he regarded as his victory, too. division and your battalion the best in They had a job their country had as- The only way for him to apply his your division. That was the spirit—the signed them, and that was to lick Heinie. method of keeping out of war is to run winning spirit. But I like to think of the

So it was with all of us of the four mil- if another war comes. Then what would big family on the big job in common lions, each in his part—all who were in happen to him as an unarmed and un- purpose. the Army and Navy. Already I knew the trained man if an armed and trained And those of us who were past ccmbat whole through having seen the hammer- enemy overtook him? age? strokes as the cantonments rose and the Let us say that he has a bad memory "I knew that when he put on the uni- flow of the recruits to the barracks; and we have not. He forgets that when form the war would finish him," said a through having been with Pershing when his country is at war he and certain paci- professional colleague abcut a middle- he crossed to France, having seen our fists want somebody else to wear the aged expert in transport. His health was first contingent arrive at Saint Nazaire uniform. After the war he finds that permanently broken by the strain of get- and the first entry of our troops into the those who wore it and were shot at did ting supplies forward for our rapidly- trenches. not do so much after all. growing host in those terrific final two-

I felt the whole with a deeper thrill Is it that the gobs who rode the buck- hundred days from the time we stopped and understanding after that adventure ing, corkscrewing destroyers in the dan- the Germans until we said "That's with the car. It was the whole American ger zone should be ashamed of their part? that." Army I had rejoined. I was back in the Or those in aviation, on battleships or He returned, as hundreds of thousands United States. Not to mention that I cruisers, or mine sweeping or laying mine of others did, to find he had lost his job. have reason to conclude when I hear a barrages? Or soldiers packed on the Should he be ashamed of having given all story of how anybody won that war sin- transports— 12,000 on the Leviathan there was in him to the limit? Above all, gle-handed that the Army and Navy (former German Vatcrland) which the should the wives and mothers of the dead must have helped him a little. German staff estimated should carry be ashamed? Or the crippled and per- For I did not think of the men forming only 8,000? Or of pounding the hard manently disabled by fire? Or th' se who that front line on either side of the dirt roads of France? Or of trenches and bat- bear the scars of invisible wounds? The road of escape as belonging to any par- tle? Or getting a dollar a day when muni- answer is in the twitches of pain which ticular battalion or division. They were tions workers were getting ten? they still suffer and which you escaped,

the early arrivals over there, the first to It is having been under orders in uni- Little Boy Blue, when they were fighting be on that front, trench-hardened to be form, doing as you were bid in the service, for you. as tough and skilful as veteran Heinie— which makes the four millions kin. That is Sometimes I hear a man say, "I was the advance samples of the hosts on the the qualification for membership in the in the service, but not much to boast way to France. Legion, which has no honorary members. about. I did {Continued on page 40)

NOVEMBER, 1938 7 — Before ^

Troops loyal to the newly-pro- 'VE searched all your baggage my- tions of the Central Powers, helping to claimed German republic ready self," said the head of the British lay there the deadliest explosive charge to repel a revolutionist attack secret service, casually. "Also I've cf all—Revolution. i along Berlin's Unter den Lin- read every letter you've received In that delicate work the American den. American secret service or written. And really, my dear fellow, secret service joined until in late October efforts played a big part in you're quite all right. Ah—soda?" and early November, 1018, the charge precipitating the revolt which The American leaped from his chair. exploded and blew away the last obstacle aided in the collapse of German "Why, dammit!" he exclaimed, with a to the Armistice. arms at the front rich Scandinavian accent, "The United But the smoke-screen of secrecy was so States Government sends me across the dense that it has not yet fully settled. ocean to Copenhagen to work with you, Even Hitler, who, as he strangled the neutral country bordering Germany, in and for a month I try to do it. But to my feeble German Republic, called it a one of which one branch of the service face you high-hat me, and behind my bastard with foreign blood in its veins, alone listed thirty-five sources of informa- back you spy on me, search my bag- did not explain just what he meant. There tion and ten teams or groups of secret gage ..." is a hint in the admission cf Colonel agents working astride the German "But my dear fellow," expostulated the Walther Nicholai, the wartime secret border defying its barriers of barbed or Englishman, "this game we're in is spy- service chief, that Germany "felt the electrified wire. For those barriers could ing! And one searches first, and trusts efforts of the Allied secret services to be shot over by crossbows or dug under afterward. But now, afterward means to- bring about revolution," especially after by spades or cut through by wirecutters morrow, when we start working together. the' United States entered the war. Yet and rubber gloves—as was proved by Then you'll understand. Ah—soda?" those efforts are little known here, where spies, smugglers and deserters. Colonel Tryggve A. Siqueland of many veterans still doubt we really had A good ripe deserter was a prize Chicago understood the secrecy next day much if any secret service. But we had. eagerly sought by Allied secret services. when he had his first lesson in "this game Having written a red-ink Finis to his war we're in"—and found it astounding. For IN APRIL, 191 7, that un-ballyhooed record and gone over the hill, he had true there in neutral Denmark the Allied organization numbered two and a half: tales to tell of conditions in the army and secret services were not merely gathering two officers and a part-time clerk. In at home. To collect those tales, the Allied information of what went on in bordering November, 1918, in Europe alone it secret services set in border villages a Germany. While on the front the visible numbered some 50,000, of whom the watch not unconnected with bribed armies of the Allies attacked her, on Ger- elite were remarkable persons: cosmop- frontier guards, and their trained cross- many's flanks the invisible armies of G-2 olites, linguists, college professors, pri- examiners would send in reports some- were conducting a great sapping and vate detectives, newspapermen—pegs for what like this: mining operation. They were boring be- even the oddest-shaped holes. A special "My next deserter is Werner Horst- neath the frontier, into the very founda- school trained men for posts in every mann, private in the Fourth Footguard

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Regiment, First Guard Division, which They were travelling south, and some of serter, passing him from one to another at he recently joined as a replacement from them said they too expected to take part time-intervals sufficient to help him for- the Ersatz Battalion at Potsdam. Having in the offensive. Their morale was lower get whatever lies he had been telling. been wounded and returned to duty three than that of his own regiment they com- These tricks the American secret ; times, and not trusting the inexperienced plained of hunger and depression at home service had time to learn before the young officers, he decided to desert when and said they wished the war would end doughboys began sending them de- he heard the Division was to be sent from soon. serters in droves. For the tide not alone Belgium to participate in an offensive on "This deserter is intelligent and of German military success but of the Chemin des Dames. Knows no details apparently honest." German morale turned with the counter- of plans for this supposed offensive, but So he got a fair price for his informa- offensive beginning Jul}' 18, 1918. By rumors of it have still further lowered tion. But the really slick deserter wanted showing the Germans that their last morale in his regiment, which suffered not one price, but several. He would chance to win was gone, they gave the heavily in the offensive near Amiens; peddle his story to one Ally after another, Independent Socialists their opening. companies down to 100, sometimes then offer to tell the German secret That opening they had awaited eagerly fewer, and quality not what it was in this service what the Allies had wanted to since January, when they had tied up formerly elite unit. know—for a price. From the Germans he industry with a general strike and the "W hile the regiment was in rest billets would pick up some bit of information to government, with magnificent stupidity, near Liege about two weeks ago it was sell to the Allies. As a grand slam he had sent the leaders to the trenches of the bombed by Allied airplanes, which also might threaten to expose them all to the Western Front. There, sleeping in the interfered with railroad transportation local police for neutrality violation! And same dugouts, standing in the same chow- and delayed rations. Enroute to the as if real deserters were not crooked lines and crouching in the same foxholes, frontier, the deserter passed Saxon enough, the Germans sent the .Allies these agitators whispered words of revo- troops of regiments in the 200 series faked ones with faked stories. So the .Allies lution in Heinie Feldgrau's ear, without (53d Reserve Division?) near Ghent. checked and double-checked each de- much success so long as Heinie thought he could win the war. But once he found he couldn't, his hearing became excellent. The first symptom was a tremendous up- turn in the deserter business, especially in Holland.

"TET'S install turnstiles on the fron- 1—4 tier," one American suggested. That was hardly practical, but the Americans did form "the Maatschappy," Dutch for "company," legally incor- porated to conduct a transport business on the canals of Holland. That was its story, to which its ostentatiously Dutch officers stuck as only Dutchmen can. But actually "the Maatschappy's" sluggish canal-boats were flying Dutchmen, phan- tom warships helping to win a naval battle hitherto unhonored and unjung. For their crews, that sat placidly fishing over the side, puffing great china pipes and wearing Dutch clothing, might be overheard exchanging occasional furtive words in German. In fact, they were Germans, Independent Socialist deserters who had proved so valuable that the American secret service had fixed them up like college football players, with scholarships and jobs, "working" for this dummy canal-boat company whose dum- my officers were pro-Ally Dutchmen, but whose working capital was, like its un- A group of republican soldiers prepares to make a pillbox obtrusive board of directors, distinctly out of the entrance to the former Royal Palace in Berlin American. (The {Continued on page 42)

NOVEMBER, 1938 9 — ducks

fay James A.Drain

way it began was thus: The my impending host, "you will have to THEthree of us were talking com- suit yourself, but I should say as long as fortably one evening over our you have to shoot with one hand, you cigars, only mine was a pipe, just come over next year and I'll show ought to bring two automatic shotguns. when the question of duck-shooting arose. you." You will find three or four hundred shots Now I used to be duck daffy. That is "Well, Chief," I answered him, "I'm a day from a twelve-gauge with a good to say, I would and did go almost any going to try to take you up on that offer. heavy load a little trying, I imagine, if distance to get a crack at some good high- An experience of the kind you suggest you fire them from a double gun. I'll look flying ducks. Not a few well-separated would round out my duck shooting out for ammunition and furnish a loader points on this old globe have echoed to career in grand style. So far as numbers for you and all that. All you need to the "come-and-get-it" voice of my shot- are concerned, it would make anything bring is two automatic shotguns, your gun and resounded to the thwack of a I've ever done before this look like a shooting clothes, and, of course, whatever hard-struck duck hitting the water penny-ante poker game alongside Wall rifle you prefer to use on the deer." sometimes. There were other times when Street. the duck went on to the place it had "I gather, of course, that these ducks I CAN confirm that opinion on the started for before I shot. will be your own property and that by lesser shoulder shock of the auto- The subject of ducks arose, I say, and shooting any number of them we shan't matic. With a duck load, a seven and one- the Chief, a Scotchman born, said to me: be depriving other sportsmen of an half pound double gun sets back quite "What you want to do, old man, is to opportunity for their own good times. some, as a blackened left shoulder and a come to Scotland and shoot ducks with Wherever I have shot I had always lived second finger bruised by the trigger me. I'll give you five hundred shots in a up to the bag limit and I never have killed guard have evidenced for me often and day at good, swift, high-flying mallards over twenty-five ducks in a day, though often. coming to you over a forest and from a if I had hit all I have shot at I would have But an auto-loader of the same weight, hill. Come next year, why don't you? killed a few more than that on some bore and loading never treated me so. (This was in the fall of ioio.) I will occasions, I'll acknowledge. Come to The reason? Quite simple, when you

guarantee you a chance to kill your share think of it I shall have business in the come to think of it. The recoil is the same of a thousand ducks." British Isles next year, and the longer I in actual force, but the effect is quite Naturally I sat up at the invitation. consider the case the more convinced I different, for one is a push and the other "Why," I gasped, "there is no place in an that that business is of such impera- is a blow. The big coil spring around the Scotland where you can find ducks in tive character that I shall be compelled magazine of the auto accounts for that. such quantities as that! Of course, it's to go abroad about—about—what time The muzzle velocity of the shot load is good of you to ask me to shoot with you, did you say the ducks would be ripe?" equal in the auto or double gun, for there but when you talk about ducks in such is no opening of the breech until the load numbers as that you must be dreaming." ELL, from the middle to the has left the barrel. I proved these things "Not at all," laughed the Chief, his latter part of October. But if you by measuring the recoil and velocity with eyes twinkling compassionately upon me. are coming you ought to get there earlier instruments of precision made for the "I expected to get a rise out of you on so you can have some deer stalking, and purpose. My preference is for the double that, so I'm not surprised. You just come take a try at the grouse, black-cock, gun, but on ducks, for me, definitely the over, my boy, and I'll deliver the goods." pheasants and partridges." auto is indicated. The Colonel, who had been an inter- "You're raising the limit," I said. "I I may as well confess in passing that ested but silent member of the party, wouldn't give a hang to shoot a deer. while the Scotch duck shooting experi- spoke up at this point, as if he felt some I haven't shot one for a long time, though ence I am about to tell you of had good of the incredulity which was still in my I used to be rather gone on it. I haven't points, yet I have gotten more real sport mind and was desirous, as he always was, pointed a rifle at a deer since I lost my in some of our places at home, tramping, of making easy the way to good sport for right hand ten years ago and I wouldn't wading, waiting, shivering, during the those who love it: "No, Jim, the Chief is whole of a stormy day, which brought at not stringing you. He'll do what he says. its end no more than a half-dozen hard- He raises 'em by hand, and they're won birds. counted before as well as after shooting." Forrest C. Crooks And how many good shots I have had, "What! Tame ducks!" I gasped. lucky guy that I am! When I was no "Not on your life," responded the walk across the street to kill a deer. (I more than six, my father began to teach Scotchman. "If you find any ducks any- quite changed my mind about the deer me that a gun was always loaded and where that take any more killing than later on and with good cause, but let that never to point either end at myself or mine, I shall be glad to hear of them. pass.) But the birds—and especially those anyone else. Dad was a keen sportsman These are wild mallards and they will ducks—call to me. By the way, what and he wished me, his eldest son, to dodge shot as frequently as do their thick- guns ought I to bring?" know and to share the joys which come feathered brethren the world over. You "On that score, of course," returned from outwitting the beasts, the birds and

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the fish of the far-flung kingdom of game. Shooting over a rest, with a gun much Shooting ducks in the Gulf of Mexico, too heavy for me, I killed my first and in sunshine and shirtsleeves— (I wonder almost my last sitting rabbit, for the if I ever told you of the time my auto- word was that you never shot anything loading shotgun made so much of a not afoot or awing unless you had to. muchness to George, the jet-black boy?) How early my profound conviction Speaking of George, did I ever happen came that ducks were the most worth- to mention my Uncle George and Betsy, while game to shoot I do not know, but his made-over Zulu shotgun, once a Civil that was my notion then and it still is. War musket? But it is none too gay, Let us hurriedly, but fondly, touch But no, that has to do with wild geese, that sink box shooting. I some of the high points of my days with and having begun with ducks, let's stick call it the hardest, because the ducks. Shooting ducks in eastern to them. the coldest and most muscle- Nebraska, in the Palouse country in Shooting ducks in Chesapeake Bay, racking, as you lie for hours, eastern Washington (remind me to tell canvasback and redhead, from a sink so like the corpse your posture and your you of a corking prairie-chicken shoot I box, above the wild celery beds, in the cover suggest. had in the Palouse, when— choppy, icy water. You all know the sink Or pass-shooting at high-flying mal- Shooting ducks in the Wall Lake box, of course. Looks like a coffin, with lards, widgeon and teal, between the country of central Washington—walls wide canvas wings, doesn't it? Lying on lakes, sand-hill hidden, in northwestern three hundred feet sheer, of brown your back, a cloth-covered five-inch log Nebraska. Will I ever forget one great volcanic rock, or in the Nisqually Flats for a pillow, your eyes should let you greenhead drake (Continued on page 44) of Puget Sound (Oh, boy! were there look out over the wide gray Bay, where some great shoots between and in the the string of birds may be winging to swings of that twelve-foot Puget Sound your set of two hundred false wooden The tops of the willows tide?). ducks, bobbing and curtseying all around. were just high enough to conceal the gunner as he sat

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NOVEMBER, 1938 1 2 What Mann

John G. Em e fly

Herewith is the second and concluding install- ment of extracts from the war memoirs of Past National Com- mander John G. Emery, D.S.C.

Souvenir Hound SERGEANT PODOLNIK was a Bohemian-American, a good sol- dier and a souvenir hound par excellence. On the morning of July 18th, we were moving up on the Germans through the wheat fields below Soissons. Leaving Couvres-et-Valsery, one steps out onto a broad plateau, and here was set the scene for our part of that great battle which turned out to be the beginning of the end. We had been going only an hour that day when Podolnik had a Lueger pistol, captured or souvenired from a German officer. A little later as we progressed through the wheat the Sergeant stopped suddenly and gazed with longing eyes at a very fine pair of broadcloth breeches on a dead German captain, and I heard him say as I came up, "Golly, there's a wonderful pair of breeches!" And I, while I admitted the truth of his state- ment, rudely advised him that he wasn't going to have the pleasure of souveniring them. That's all that prevented him from doing so. The next day the Supreme Comman- der souvenired him. Gavallerie Francaise THEY had waited more than three years for that day, those French He was bearing a platter with cavalrymen who appeared in the rear of a veritable mountain of cream our lines on the first night of the Chateau- sleep we might have snatched as they puffs it Thierry offensive. In the early days of chattered like magpies of the opportu- on the war, with open fighting the order of nity which would come on the morrow. the day, they had been allowed their It was probably the thought of the skyward—a line of them at ten yard in- place in battles. When the thing settled High Command that the enemy would tervals as far as the eye could reach in down to trench warfare they were out of be more than ever terrorized by the sight either direction. Their horses' hoofs were it, and this lasted three years. The hard- of cavalry bearing down upon him, and shined, their equipment spick and span est thing a soldier is asked to do is to the effect would be a real rout. So, on and their spirits at the top. The sight of wait, and they had been doing it patiently. the morning of July 19th, we saw them them would thrill the deadest heart in All night long they kept us out of what go through our lines, their lances pointing the world.

1 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine oAMen ? V. E.Pyles and, of course, threat- ened Paris. Forty-four miles is not a very long distance, and the Ameri- can First Division was one of those placed

where it might help block the way. You know how the billeting was done, and this time the officers of F Com- pany were lucky in- deed. The town major had assigned my three lieutenants and me to a fine two-story brick house, the residence of an old chef who had re- tired in Paris a few years before and had settled in this village and built a really nice home in which to spend the rest of his days. Obviously when our Italian cook, Sobrato, and his bus boy, Do- menico, took complete possession of his kitchen with all the appurten- ances thereunto belong- ing, the chef didn't ex-

actly like it, though he had to take it. We were there to help hold the Boche, and perhaps save his house from enemy shells, but one's home is one's home after all. Came that beautiful quiet Sunday afternoon, the 15th, which found us enjoying real repose. A runner from Battalion H.Q. said tersely: "Ma- jor wants 200 rounds of ammunition and two days' reserve rations issued to each of your men, and the company formed on the road in one hour to entruck." This meant battle and I don't mean maybe. In an hour and twenty

It wasn't long, however, until their Each of them portrayed it in its worst minutes we were in trucks en route for spirits fell, not because they were de- form. They were the saddest soldiers I've somewhere. The next dawn found us feated, but because the High Command ever seen. bivouacked in the Forest of Compiegne, had changed its plans. The infantry was and on the 18th we attacked at dawn. driving the enemy fast enough and it was Circumstances Alter History records how the Germans were useless to sacrifice horses as well as men Cases driven completely out of the Chateau- against machine guns, so the cavalry THE tenth of July had found us bil- Thierry salient, and it also records the were ordered to retire. leted at a little village midvv j be- cost to America in men. When we came That one time, at least, in my life I was tween Chateau-Thierry and Paris. The back to the chef's house at noon on the doomed to look upon utter dejection. German lines were at the former point, 23d, after five {Continued on page 73)

NOVEMBER, 1938 13 plied the keynote for the convention. At the great opening session on Septem- ber ioth in the spacious Shrine Audi- torium the orator of the day, United

States Senator David I. Walsh of Massa- chusetts, calling for a Navy "of such size that it may single-handed be a match at sea against any foreign power or combina- tion of powers," was warmly applauded when he declared that "the American people will never tolerate an involvement in any war to settle European troubles," and that "we must courageously and tenaciously cling to the Washingtonian policy of minding our own business,

III 4 Alexander Gardiner They turned Sixth and Broad- a unanimity and sin- way into a grand jollification WITHgleness of purpose that was center. The city, Los Angeles. noted and applauded in The occasion, the Twentieth B. every section of the United National Convention of The Boyd States, The American Legion, meeting at American Legion Los Angeles, California, the latter part Stutler of September in its Twentieth Annual Convention, told the world that the of this great bulwark of America's free- United States was determined not to be dom be implemented with realistic mili- drawn into a foreign war. tary and naval measures, the United Meeting at a moment when a series States is today prepared to defend its of European crises threatened to reach shores against any enemy. A further step a climax in a repetition, on a larger and in that preparedness was demanded by far more deadly scale, of the horrors of the convention in a resolution that set tending to our own affairs and letting all ioi4-'i8, the Legion, reaffirming its forth: other nations do likewise." faith in the historic principles of American "If an emergency threatening the terri- Speaker after speaker in the conven- democracy, invoked the spirit of Wash- tory of the United States arises we want tion sessions and in the gatherings sup- ington's immortal Farewell Address to to be so prepared on sea and land that plementing them repeated this deter- counsel keeping free of the jealousies battles for defense be fought as far from mination of the American people to steer and intrigues of Europe, apparently American shores as possible, so that our clear of foreign wars, and two resolutions once more hell-bent for the decision of civilians be not subjected to bombard- unanimously adopted by the 134I dele- battle. ments from foreigners." gates gave direction to this impulse. Thanks to the National Defense Act This eminently sound principle, that It was a great convention from every and the Legion's insistence during the American lives be sacrificed only in de- standpoint, this Los Angeles gathering, past nineteen years that the principles fense of vital American interests, sup- and when, near its end, it elected by

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine acclamation Stephen F. Chadwick of Seattle, Washington, a wheelhorse of Legion accomplishment these many years, to succeed Daniel J. Doherty as National Commander, the delegates could look back upon a four-day session of solid accomplishment that had clearly set out the objectives of the organization for a year that gives promise of being the best in the history of the Legion. One of its important actions was to decide upon Chicago as the 1939 convention city and to fix the dates for that gathering as September 25th through 28th. It was a harmonious gathering, this convention of 1341 men and women representing nearly a million veterans in 58 Departments and seven foreign Posts, the largest membership but one in the Legion's history. There was but one resolution offered to the convention that brought out a marked difference of opin- ion—that dealing with the organization's stand on Universal Service, a Legion- born and Legion-fostered proposal that has been part of our program every year The opening session in the Shrine Auditorium. Left, Na- tional Commander Stephen F. Chadwick, Retiring National Commander Daniel J. Doherty, and Assistant Secretary James F. O'Neil surrounded by the display of state standards that follows every election of a new Legion leader

since 1922 and which will yet become the law of the land, whether in 1939 or later. By a convincing vote of 1139 to 184 the convention refused to tie up Universal Service with a "draft the wealth" scheme, choosing rather to support the Sheppard-May Bill, a measure drafted by the Legion itself and representing the fruit of seventeen years' study and effort to put into effect the principle of "equal service for all, special profits and privi- leges for none." All other resolutions adopted by the convention were passed unanimously or virtually so.

NOVEMBER, 1938 IS Retiring National Vice Mayor and Mrs. Edward J. Commander Phil Conley Kelly arrive in Los Angeles with MM. Paul Boe and prepared to take the next Georges Rivollet, offici- convention to Chicago. ally representing the Alongside them stand Le- veterans of France, at gionnaires Phil Collins, the Warner Brothers' president of the 193 3 Chi- luncheon in Hollywood cago Convention Corpora- tion, and Philip L. Sulli- van. At the extreme left One hundred and fifty thou- is Past Department Com- sand Legionnaires and their mander Matt Murphy of families, curious to know if it Illinois was true, what Past National Commander John R. Quinn and his buddies have been saying impressive man-made monu- about their city and its mar- ment of Boulder Dam and the site of next year's San Francisco The Warners in person, H. M. Fair swarmed with Legion uni- forms and caps in the latter and J. L., with Retiring Na- tional Commander Doherty and part of September, and the Governor Frank F. Merriam of amount of money the Legion California host left behind at the various stopping places must have made a contribution toward a better- by bus and by private auto- ment of business conditions in the West. mobile, by motorcycle and by Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and ship—and a goodly percentage the entire State of California joined to of the number were the missus make the Legion visitors' stay a happy and the kids, thanks probably one. The majority of them had jour- to the allure of Hollywood neyed from two to three thousand miles and its celebrities. The kids to take in the meetings in the convention had the time of their lives, city and at every place in California and in the game of autograph where the travelers might be expected collecting led their elders a to pause the local Legionnaires kept open lively chase as they garnered house and with cordial hospitality made the signatures of Shirley Temple and Jack Benny, Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, Eddie Cantor and Bob Burns, to men- tion but a few of the hundred or more film celebrities who made the entertainment features of Maxine Conrad, left, and Judith Lee, giving the convention . memor- a final polish to the display gold and silver of able occasions. various trophies which were awarded in The conventionnaires convention events spent during their stay velous climate, made the trek to the in Los Angeles some ten millions of metropolis of Southern California, and dollars, according to Drew A. Ber- after visits ranging from a couple of days nard, Executive Vice President of the their visitors feel at home. The third to a couple of weeks, left for home con- Convention Corporation. What they time the Legion has held its annual con-

vinced that it was all just as it had been spent en route to the convention and vention in a Pacific Coast State, this Los

pictured. No, it didn't rain at all during homeward bound is anybody's guess, but Angeles meeting outdid in every way the the four days of the convention. the great scenic wonderland of the Grand gatherings at San Francisco in 1923 and The hundred and fifty thousand came Canyon and other National Parks and Portland, Oregon, in 1932, and chal- into Los Angeles by train and by plane, National Monuments, the tremendously lenged comparison with those of New

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"There's a lot- YeW. a*l York last mously chose the o' people Hva-e's a. year and following Vice kWi puck's Cleveland the Commanders: in uv\'\fcvm in SiusU year before. James T. Craw- V/af VeVs In one import- ley of Kosciusko, ant respect it Mississippi ; outdid even Charles W these last, for Crush of Chris- its record of tiansburg, Vir-

300 outfit re- ginia; Edward J. unions, some- Quinn of Port- how sand- land, Maine; wiched into Henry C. Oakey the crowded of Osceola, Wis-

four-day pro- consin ; Earl T. gram was a Ross of Las Ve- hundred bet- gas, Nevada. ter than New York could show. Nice Rev. Dr. Jer- going, Los Angeles! ome L. Fritsche Immediately after his election as of Kearney, Ne- National Commander, with the charac- braska, was teristic back- Drum and Bugle Corps of ground of De- Herbert F. Akroyd Post of partment pla- Marlboro, Massachusetts, Na- cards, and tional Champions in 1933 and wearing the in- tops again now evitable lei which the Ha- waiian Depart- Bernard, and the Convention Corporation. ment always manages to IT IS not likely that any succeeding drape around National Convention will be able to the neck of the match that of Los Angeles in the sheer winner, Steve entertainment value provided for visiting Chadwick told Legionnaires and their families. While the delegates the delegates and convention committee- the mandates of men were busy with the details of the the convention Legion program the other convention would be his visitors took advantage of the occasion orders for the to meet old buddies and make new friend- coming year. ships, to march in the parade and then He continued: watch the unfolding of this greatest of all "The world American pageants, to see the drum corps has had its eyes finals (plus those amazing close-order le winniing Color Guard—East Orange, New Jersey on this conven- movements and the fort-storming of the vention of ours; Legion Zouaves from Jackson, Michigan). not alone the people of our great, free elected National Chaplain, succeeding This year there was in addition to all this republic, but the suppressed, the regi- Rev. Father Frank J. Lawler. a marvelous outdoor religious-patriotic mented, the driven peoples of other lands President Roosevelt and General Persh- service in the famous Hollywood Bowl, want to know the thought of the Legion ing sent messages of greeting to the con- a review of the United States fleet at upon the problem which exists in the vention. The convention passed a resolu- nearby San Pedro that gave a tremendous peace of the world. tion instructing the National Commander thrill to those fortunate enough to witness

"From its inception The American to cable the General, who is in France, it, the parade of movie stars, community Legion has pledged itself to promote the Legion's "most sincere and warmest singing and vaudeville acts put on during peace and good will on earth. As we look greetings, with the best wishes of the Wednesday evening in the flood-lighted upon a world of strife about us, we renew convention for his health and happiness." Coliseum, scene of the 1932 Olympic that pledge. General Pierre Vincensini, who was to Games and one of the great stadia of "We believe that a strong man, well have represented the French government America, at which Bob Hope and Eddie armed, keepeth the peace, and for that at the convention, was unable to make Cantor served as masters of ceremonies. reason we pledge anew the strength of the the trip because of the troubled European Legion to maintain the national defense situation, and the greetings of France of our country. were extended by Georges Rivollet, a "We believe that our country can be former Cabinet Minister who is Sec- kept from involvement in other peoples' retary General of the National Con- strife and we propose out of our experi- federation of Veterans and Victims of ence to counsel and advise the citizenry the War. of America to the end that America will While final figures were not available keep the peace, and by example afford as this account was written, it appeared to the other nations of the earth the hope that the 1938 American Legion National that through democracy and democratic Convention Corporation of Los Angeles institutions the world may some day would wind up its affairs out of the red, a reach the goal of peace." great tribute to the fine job performed by To serve with Commander Chadwick its president, John R. Quinn, and its in the coming year the convention unani- Executive Vice President, Drew A.

NOVEMBER, 1938 17 ventions have their work cut out for them if they expect to approach Los Angeles in the matter of entertainment for convention visitors. Los Angeles, long accustomed to regard Seventh and Broad- way as its busiest spot, found that Pershing Square, opposite the convention headquarters in the Biltmore Hotel and hard by the Philharmonic Auditorium where the convention assem- bled for its sessions after the first day, had become for Conven- tion week the hub of the city's busy wheel. In the park the Salvation Army set up a large tent with numerous tables and chairs, and with the cooperation of numerous business firms served free doughnuts and coffee to convention visitors for the duration. The Sally grub got a great play, as may be

gathered from the fact that in the five days in which it oper- ated 85,000 doughnuts were served. The visitors didn't confine their activities to the vicinity of Pershing Square, however. Some twenty hotels held the vari- ous Department delegations, and down at the new Union Station were trainloads of other conventionnaires. Los Angeles prides itself on the all-inclusiveness of its population, which comprises folks from all the other States as a leavening to the The Drum and Bugle Corps of Biddeford, Maine, was the senior musical organization traveling the greatest distance

Hope was pinch hitting for Joe E. Brown, who got a great hand when, telephoning from his hospital bed, he praised the Legion as "American soldiers fighting for peace," and contrasted conditions in this country and abroad. Among the movie stars and starlets presented to the gath- ering were Shirley Temple, Barbara Stanwyck, Warner Baxter, Eleanor Powell, Freddie Bartholomew, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Burns, Don Ameche, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Hersholt, Slim Summerville, Patsy Kelly, Pat O'Brien, Warren William, Melvyn Douglas, Edgar Bergen, Charles Ruggles, Rosemary and Priscilla Lane, Marie Wilson, Francis Lederer, Margo, Adolphe Menjou, Bobby Breen and Mickey Rooney. Tie that for an array of talent! The Convention Corporation had had 45,000 badges manufactured and was hoping that too many of them would not be left on its hands. It turned out that the supply was exhausted on Friday morning before the convention opened The best drill team in the Legion—habitat, Newton, and that an additional ten thousand could have been dis- Massachusetts. They were last year, too posed of. The badges were part of the equipment of the package available to convention registrants on the payment of a two-dollar fee. A booklet listing twenty-two attractions, many of them free and the others offering a discount from usual box office prices, was an important part of the package. Probably with an eye to the post-convention trade the two great universities in Los Angeles had arranged intersectional football games of mid-season calibre. On the night following the close of the convention the University of California at Los Angeles defeated the University of Iowa under the arc lights of the Coliseum, 27 to 3. And next day, with Legion caps and uniforms prominent in the crowd of 70,000 specta- tors present, the University of Alabama lowered the colors of Southern California by a score of 19 to 7. Chicago and the other cities that are to be hosts to the future National Con-

Baldwin Patterson Squadron of Des Moines, Iowa, again provided the best Sons of the Legion drum corps

native-son increment. They're a likeable people, these Angelenos, solicitous of the welfare of their guests, courteous as all get-out, and they showed they were glad to have the veterans in their midst.

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Always a colorful and impressive spectacle, and never more so than in 1938: the drum and bugle corps competition in the Los Angeles Coliseum

One may doubt if any visitor bands and drum corps ga- whose cap proclaimed him a lore, and floats displaying stranger escaped being asked that infinite variety of nat- concerning the whereabouts ural resources and industrial of somebody back in the old products that marks the home town. various States and sections The convention visitors of the nation and provides of course flocked to Holly- the theme of America on wood and other centers of parade. Legion luck held motion-picture production. again in the matter of weath- But there were other things er (Los Angeles had told you that vied for .neir interest you wouldn't have to worry as well. Some got a thrill out about rain) and the march- of attending Aimee Semple ers set out from the vicinity McPherson's Angelus Tem- of 23d Street and Figueroa ple, some journeyed out to for the two-mile hike to the Pomona to see the county Coliseum with the thermo- fair, some went deep-sea meter at 8q degrees. A couple fishing. There were those of hours later the day's high who visited the marvelous of 93 degrees was reached. Henry E. Huntington Li- Despite the glare in the brary and Art Gallery in ad- btadium National Com- Four misses from Mississippi, and every one a drum joining San Marino, and not major: Brownie Burton, Anne Ruth Green, Elaine mander Doherty stuck it out a few who went up Mt. Wil- on the reviewing stand Russell, Annie Laurie Bishop. They led the para de son to inspect the Carnegie throughout, quitting his Observatory. The San Ga- place only to march with the briel Mission, the Busch Gardens in ment and the outlying Posts. There were Massachusetts delegation as it camealong. Pasadena, and somewhat farther afield A long, colorful stream, the parade the charming communities of San Diego, VJotfe H\is about- filed through densely banked streets at Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Luis quite a distance away from the business

Obispo, Carmel and San Francisco saw Caucus afr district. Because the Legion host doesn't much of the Legion cap and uniform. Not like to march more than two miles and all of California's Legionnaires were able the Convention Corporation needed the to get to Los Angeles, of course, but revenue that was provided by the sale of it was a happy idea to hold the Depart- seats in the Coliseum it was not possible ment Convention in nearby Santa Monica to route the parade through downtown a few days ahead of the National Con- streets. Doubtless some of the folks vention and thus make a fine showing. downtown were disappointed, and of course the usual shower of confetti, THE convention parade, held as usual ticker tape and the like from tall build- on Tuesday, brought out 45,000 ings was missing, but police estimated marchers representing every Depart- that 500,000 people along the line of

NOVEMBER, 1938 19 Mayor of Los Angeles. The New- York mayor told his Legion- naire buddy the way to make democracy work in a big city was to take control of city commissions away from the politicians and to keep gam- bling rings and other forces of evil on the run through fre- quent raids. The final session of the con- vention was saddened by news of the death of Major General Oscar Westover, chief of the nation's Army Air Corps, who with his sergeant-observer was burned to death when their plane crashed at Burbank, Cali- fornia, a few hours after the General had directed a mass flight of army planes as a part of the convention parade. The Legion adopted resolutions of condolence on General West- over's death and on that of Addison L. Spenny, Depart- ment Adjutant of Wyoming, who passed away while in at- tendance at the convention.

Climaxing the great memorial service in the Holly- wood bowl was this dramatically moving spectacle

march viewed the proceedings and inside Other Departments the Coliseum, where each delegation followed on the same ended its march, there were at times basis, California as between sixty and seventy thousand the guest Depart- spectators. As the head of each Depart- ment being the only ment delegation passed the reviewing exception—following stand its Commander came back to an old Legion cus- stand with the National Commander tom it marched last while his buddies marched past. Mrs. in the parade. The Malcolm Douglas, National President of crowd all along the The American Legion Auxiliary, also re- line had a hand for viewed the parade, standing with the the celebrities, es- National Commander. pecially for Legion- Legionnaire Ellis C. Vander Pyl of naire Mayor La- Cleveland, whose illuminating comment Guardia of New on the Cleveland and New York parades York, who seemed helped spectators understand what it was to be enjoying him- The fleet held open house—Legionnaires under the all about, used the Coliseum's public self despite the big guns of the battle cruiser New Orleans in Los address system to acquaint the people strenuous round of Angeles Harbor inside with the outstanding personalities speaking engage- in the various Department sections as ments to which he they filed past. As in previous years he had been subjected in the preceding Taking cognizance of newspaper re- did a great job. days. The Mayor had received the Le- ports that the German government is Mississippi was again the first of the gion's plaque on behalf of his city at the registering its citizens in foreign countries large Departments in the parade, on hands of John Quinn the day before, at German consulates in those countries, the basis of membership attainments. again in conformance with a pleasant the convention passed a resolution, amid Legion custom of honoring the great applause, petitioning Congress "to host city of the preceding con- take appropriate action to procure for the r oU'SUe-inq"? €ut>V- boards vention, and had taken in good records of the United States Govern- the witty of '»¥ part shafts Jack ment copies of all such consulate regis-

CouNrry !! self called upon to give some ad- registered and placed in the public regis- •SUN-BAKED vice to Judge Fletcher Bowron, try in their respective communities." SNOU) CAPPED who through the workings of a Other important convention resolu- recall election held the Friday tions: 6gAC« Roees. ==-' <5uN-aAsses-Gve2- before the convention opened Called for an increase in the size of found he had been elected the Regular Army, a Navy second to

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Reaffirmed "bitter opposition to Com- the Dies Congressional investigation T Cide Irt munism, Fascism, Nazism and any or all into un-American movements and asked oiw'4o-e> 111? like forces and organizations that seek Congress for an appropriation so that to destroy our form of government." the committee's work may be continued. Pledged the organization to combat more forcibly all un-American propa- AS USUAL, the drum corps contests ganda, activities and influences in the l took up an entire day, the first of nation. the Convention's four. Early Monday Asked that preference in employment morning, before ever the convention had be given citizens over aliens by industry been called to order, the various corps and by governmental agencies—local, were going through a seven-minute work- state and Federal. out to determine which twelve of the Called for increase in quota of World thirty-seven competing should move War veterans in the Civilian Conserva- into the finals, which got under way tion Corps from 35,000 to 50,000. under the arc lights of the Coliseum at Expressed opposition to the proposed 7:30 that evening. Ludlow amendment to the Constitution Herbert F. Akroyd Post of Marlboro, or "any change in the present method as Massachusetts, National Champions in none, establishment and improvement of the Alaska-Hawaii line of defense, and the putting into effect of the Protective Mobilization Plan. Reaffirmed 1935 and 1936 Convention resolutions providing for keeping the United States free from any alliance that might draw this country into war. Asked amendment of immigration laws so that admission to the United States be denied nationals of any country that refuses to accept undesirables of that nation when deported from the United States. Sought passage of a law which would totally restrict immigration on all our borders for a period of at least ten years. Called for deportation of all aliens who do not apply for United States citizenship within one year of the time they become eligible to that privilege. Just a bit of the best Legion band Zane Irwin Post's, San Francisco

provided in 1933, took first place, receiving the Rus- the Constitu- sell G. Creviston Trophy, the Miami tion of the Trophy and a cash prize of $1250, with a United States score of 96.25. In second place came relative to the Commonwealth Edison Post's corps, the declaration of Chicagoans scoring 95.65 and taking war." home a cash prize of $700. Morristown, Asked re- New Jersey, placed third with 95.55, vision of the good for $3 50 in cash. Two corps divided immigration fourth-place prize of $100 in cash; East laws so that Orange, New Jersey, and Anderson- any alien who Dunn-Kochiss Post's corps of Stratford, shall be con- Connecticut, each scoring 95.45. Behind victed of a these in order came Henry Houston, 2d, felony in any Post of Philadelphia, 95.35; Harvey court in the Seeds Post, Miami, 95.25; Manhattan United States Post, New York City, 95.15; Police Post, shall be im- of Chicago, 94.30; Massillon, Ohio, 93.80; mediately de- Philip Tighe Post, Biddeford, Maine, ported. 93-4°, and Riverside, California, 91.50. Demanded Under the convention competition immediate rules, the colorful San Gabriel corps, Na- trial and de- tional Champions in the 1935 ar>d 1937 portation of competitions, was unable to defend its Harry Bridges, laurels, since San Gabriel is within the West Coast borders of Los Angeles County, the host communist, to the convention. Next year San Gabriel "and like un- will be back in competition, and this desirable ali- year's second place outfit will be ineligible The thermometer went to 93 (most unusual!) ens." if the present rules remain in force. but the parade marched on and on and on Commended The Lemuel Bolles Trophy, annually 21 NOVEMBER, 1938 —

movement. Wave upon wave of convention-bound men, women and young- sters flowed into and around Los Angeles a full week be- fore the annual national meeting was scheduled to open, shattering all records for early registration. In fact, as has been mentioned, this advance guard so beset the registration sections that by Friday morning three full days before the official opening—the regis- tration desks folded up. There were no more con- vention badges, no more books of tickets to dozens of headliner events. It was a complete box-office sell-out.

The new National Vice Commanders: James T. Crawley of Mississippi, Earl T. Ross of Nevada,

Charles W. Crush of Virginia, Edward J. Quinn of Maine, Henry C. Oakey of Wisconsin awarded to the band adjudged best in FROM all the competition at the convention, was four corners won by Zane Irwin Post of San Francisco. of America, from Canton, Ohio, was second, New Orleans all the country third, Alameda, California, fourth. First in between, and prize in the Color Guard competition for from the far-flung the Glen R. Hillis Trophy went to the outposts of the East Orange, New Jersey, guard, and the Legion in lands Cleveland National Convention Trophy, beyond the seas for the best Sons of the Legion drum —in both direc- corps, was again won by Baldwin Patter- tions — Legion- son Squadron of Des Moines, Iowa. naires heard the Other prizes awarded during the con- call of sunny Cali- vention were: fornia. Never be- Membership: Franklin D'Olier Trophy, fore in any Na- Arizona; Hanford MacNider Trophy, Old greets as another Forty Wisconsin; Alvin M. Owsley Trophy new and Eight year begins: Retiring Wisconsin; John G. Emery Trophy, Chef Fred Wisconsin; General Henri Gouraud Tro- de Chemin de Fer G. Fraser of phy, Wisconsin; North Carolina Trophy, Washington, D. C, and his successor, Puerto Rico; O. L. Bodenhamer Trophy, James O. Sheppard of South Carolina Mississippi; Henry L. Stevens, Jr., Tro- phy, Wisconsin.

Milton J. Foreman Trophy for Boys' Even on Friday the entire city boiled and Girls' Work, California. and bubbled with Legionnaires of all Howard P. Savage Trophy for Junior sizes and ages, ranking from generals Baseball, California (San Diego Post, down to acting file-closers. Smartly whose team members are the 1938 uniformed bands and drum and bugle World's Junior Champions.) corps paraded the streets. Weird vehicles, Dan Sowers Junior Baseball Trophy, 4o-and-8 locomotives, clown bands and New Mexico. impromptu parades of one kind or Ralph T. O'Neil Education Trophy, another assembled in the downtown areas Pennsylvania. and with the aid of volunteer traffic cops, Paul V. McNutt National Postal Rifle so completely tied up the streets that the Match Trophy, Akron (Ohio) Post. police abandoned all efforts to regulate

Milton J. Foreman Rifle Trophy, Cali- the flow. Thousands of Angelenos entered fornia. into the spirit of the occasion, cheered Sons of The American Legion Rifle the invading army of Legionnaires and Team Trophy, Hill Emery Squadron, lent assistance in the occupation of Quincy, Illinois. (in square miles) the largest city in the Frederick W. Galbraith Trophy for world. greatest aggregate travel mileage to The National Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Much water has laved the shores of the National Convention, Massachusetts Jerome L. Fritsche of Nebraska Los Angeles River since that day in (8,700,000 miles). September, 1781, when the fourth Span-

Frank N. Belgrano Trophy for service tional Convention city, it can be safely ish Governor of California officially took to Boy Scouts, California. said, was there such a great advance over a little {Continued on page 50)

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WENTY years after seek to overthrow our demo- those days which pre- cratic form of government and ceded the Armistice of set up some form of dictator- T 1918, one hundred thou- ship spawned on foreign soil. sand veterans of the World We have reaffirmed our posi- War gathered at Los Angeles tion that we will not tell any in and around our American citizen how he should think, Legion convention. The her- but we want him to think and aided California ~-un outdid it- to the end that at least our self. Bugles blared, the bands children may think; we will played and The American Le- exert our energies that each gion, a body of men in the child shall have the benefit of prime of life, through its duly an American education, uncon- accredited delegates, adopted a taminated by instructors who program for the ensuing year. fail to realize or appreciate the No major policy of the Le- genius of our government. gion was changed. Mandates The Legion would in no sense were adopted which are my abridge free speech or indepen- orders as your National Com- dence of thought, but in this mander to carry out during the convention we have declared Legion year. limits beyond which freedom Let us first appraise our- of speech should not go. No in- selves. Who are we? We are dividual and no group of indi- an army of a million men and viduals have the right in a women, serving in peace as we democracy to counsel strife and served in war. Whatever our The National Commander violence as a means of settling education might have been, we our public problems. have been the beneficiaries of a great experience- -service Toward those beyond our shores, we have redeclared in what we hoped might have been the last war. our desire to see a world at peace, but until they can see We met in Los Angeles at a time when strife was all the way of life as we see it, we have redeclared that about us, and yet soberly and sincerely we declared our America shall have a national defense capable of meeting great American purposes. any enemy or any emergency. We hope that our country First we reaffirmed our position that our disabled com- can be kept from involvement in the strife and war that rades of the World War will continue to be our first con- today beset some of the nations of earth and, like an un- cern. Nor will we neglect the dependents of those of our controlled fire, promise to spread to others. comrades who have gone before, nor overlook their chil- We are men of experience in the way of war, and we dren who seek and are entitled to an education and the propose to counsel and advise the citizenry of America preservation of a land of equal opportunity. to the end that America shall keep the honorable peace We expressed ourselves upon the "isms" which beset and by example afford to the other nations of earth the our land, believing as we do that the time has come when hope that through democracy and democratic injtitu- as Americans we should abandon the thought of a defen- tions the world may some day reach the goal of per- sive course with reference to those who would establish a manent and enduring peace. totalitarian state or a class government within our coun- The Legion marches on. This should be a year of try, and step out with an offensive which will make the service to America and American ideals. Let us be sure privilege of being an American citizen the most highly first that we understand them, and then preach and teach respected privilege that can be obtained by a free man. them to the people of America with a militant faith. The Our objective is to have America know itself and to have command is "forward" to this objective. Americans be jealous of the liberties which they enjoy. There are too many in our land who have never caught the true spirit of Americanism, venal fomenters of class hatred and destruction. They are the enemies not alone Stephen F. Chadwick of the people of today, but of the heritage of our chil- dren. As to them the Legion has accepted the challenge National Commander and will pull no punches in exposing and bringing to The American Legion public notice those individuals and organizations which 23 NOVEMBER, 1938 9&iWoman Who Could nt Come (By ()&urtn& (%€£tty~~ |~| ^) £

WHEN the steamer Finland Types of the Greek and Arme- of Asia Minor, refugees streamed into sailed for France with a nian refugees who started Nurse Greece in hundreds of thousands. Athens cargo of soldiers in 1917, Alice G. Carr of Ohio on a job was a helpless mass of sick and hungry young and dimpled Alice that has kept her across the people, living in doorways, theaters, G. Carr of Yellow Springs, Ohio, was one ocean since 1917 churches, barns. The poverty, disease of 65 spick, span and spunky nurses on and lack of housing were appalling. board. On that day there was no reason country to escape the Turks and flaming Aided by the League of Nations, Greece for her to suppose that her job would Smyrna. She has been helping those refu- slowly began to provide. But her re- last beyond the duration of the war; gees ever since. sources were limited; even today she is when Our Side won she would, of course, It would be hard to estimate the "suc- stretching to spend $11,000,000 a year come home. That was 21 years ago. Miss cess" of Miss Carr's incredible career. on public health. Were it not for Greeks Carr has not come home yet. True, Ohio State University and Antioch in the United States, who last year sent After the war the jobs to be done were College, her alma mater, have awarded $25,000,000, the country would be in more pressing than ever before. They her honorary degrees because she is one terrific want. Slowly the work went ahead kept her busy for 2 1 years—helping peo- of Ohio's first citizens; the Greek govern- —but it needed somebody to be the ple crushed by conflict, nursing the sick, ment has given her the Order of the "spark plug." stopping epidemics, feeding and clothing Commander of St. George because she is Miss Carr rolled up her sleeves. She the paupers. She has worked in France, the most amazing woman they ever saw. demonstrated that except in emergency Poland, Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Smyrna, But her achievements cannot be esti- the best thing you can give the unfortu- Mesopotamia and Syria, under the aus- mated in degrees or medals; they are nate Greek is not money, but knowledge pices of the American Red Cross, the recorded in terms of lives saved, diseases —teach him how to keep well, and how to Near East Relief and Near East Founda- conquered, plague spots permanently earn a better living. The keynote of her tion. She was one of four American nurses abolished. work, and that of the Near East Founda- sent to Greece in 1922, when 1,400,000 After the war, when the Turks drove tion which has financed some of her starving refugees staggered into that little more than a million Greek settlers out crusades, is: {Continued on page 46)

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To the two star drummers of Paul Whiteman's world-famed orchestra, Rollo Laylan (left) and Tom Richley (at vibra- harp), go this month's min- iature Gold Drum Awards. Their brilliant, distinctive rhythms set the pace for the music of the "Master of Modern Swing."

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26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine: When Purchasing Products Please Mfntion Thf American Legion Magazine 5 A Righteous Man Well Armed (Bu Admiral William D.Leahy UNITED STATES NAVY

United States Navy, peace. We seem to have shown THEthroughout its history, by throughout an attitude of generos- supporting the national ity that has so far produced no policies and protecting the good result. shores of our country, has contrib- America does not want again uted much toward the growth of to pay the appalling human cost the United States and to its present of war, nor does it want to chance high position in the world of na- the economic breakdown and poli- tions. tical upheaval that is possible in The Navy commenced in 191 the process of a major war in this to prepare for the eventuality of machine age. We desire only se- entry into the World W ar. A pol- curity —a positive adequate de- icy was announced by our Govern- fense which will cause any other ment to the effect that the United nation or nations to think seriously States should possess a Navy before attacking. equal to that of any other power. Our daily papers and magazines Since that time international agree- are full of reports of wars and near ments among the principal naval wars. The destruction by bombing powers have accorded world recog- of innocent civilian men, women, nition to the right of the United and children, is of so frequent oc- States to primary strength in naval currence as to hold but scant atten- force. Through various changes of tion. The specter of hunger, disease political administrations since that and wholesale destruction strides time, the Government, with the over great areas of the earth. This backing of the people, has strictly plague of death must not cross the adhered to the doctrine of naval frontiers of America. parity, although funds to carry out There are also our fundamental this principle were not always pro- commercial and national policies vided. which need protection. Among With the "second to none" these is the maintenance of the naval policy, the United States Monroe Doctrine. We have trade commenced to build during the policies upon which much of the war years, and by 1922 we had the profit of American industry and strongest navy in the world, a agriculture depend. We have cur force of 433 combatant ships built system of government, a free press, and building. Then in the greatest religious liberty, and American gesture ever made by a nation to ideals for which our forefathers the cause of peace, we agreed to prayed, worked, fought, and which scrap 755,380 tons of ships. In ADMIRAL LEAHY they firmly established. These we 1930, as a result of the London must preserve, and only adequate Treaty, we lost 173,400 tons by agreeing in order to provide against the possibility defense will preserve them. to a further reduction, thereby making of attack by aliens professing what seem Congress has authorized this year a a total loss of 928,780 tons. to us strange philosophies of government. twenty percent increase in the size of the Our primary reason for this sacrifice We have tried disarmament by treat}', Navy previously authorized. This, of of superior naval strength was to secure by not building up to treaty strength, course, dees not mean that appropri- agreement in the formulation of treaties and by what may be termed "disarma- ations have all been made, but the intended to prevent war. All of this sacri- ment by example." We took the lead in authorized increase wdl start us on the fice had no useful result. At the present the initiation of the Kellogg Pact, based way to a Navy that may be reasonably time, with the world in a condition of on the renunciation of war as a national capable of insuring national integrity, chaos, some foreign nations have disre- policy. We have scrupulously observed guarding the continental United States garded all the principles of limitation of our treaty agreements and have kept the and overseas possessions, and providing armaments, and are engaged in an extra- protection to our citizens abrcad, at ordinary program of production of war least to the extent of providing safe and material both naval and military. OCTOBER 27th speedy evacuation to places of safety. America is forced to meet these foreign NAVY DAY To expect that modern diplomacy will increases ship for ship and gun for gun safeguard the {Continued on page 64)

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John J.Noll WITH a membership that had soared to unprece- Washington, the official musical organi- dented figures, with a re- zation of the National President, for the sultant increase in prestige several thousand delegates and visitors, and power and with an advancement in including a few mere Legionnaires, who the scope of its vast program for veterans packed the auditorium, the National offi- and their dependents and for its country, cers of the Auxiliary were escorted to the The American Legion Auxiliary, under platform by pages of the 52 Departments the leadership of National President Mrs. proudly hearing aloft the Star-Spangled Malcolm Douglas of Seattle, Washington, Banner and Department colors of their assembled in Los Angeles in late Septem- respective Departments on the opening ber for its Eighteenth Annual National day. The processional served as an honor Convention. Gathered in the interest escort to the National President, who of carrying to ever greater heights the throughout the proceedings of the three largest patriotic organization of women in the world, almost 800 delegates and a Mrs. James Morris of Bismarck, like number of alternates, representing North Dakota, new National the 52 Departments of the Auxiliary, met President of The American Le- in Trinity Auditorium in the City of the gion Auxiliary. Below, the Na- Angels, while thousands of their fellow tional Vice-Presidents: Mrs. T. members came to watch the proceedings K. Rinaker of Illinois, Mrs. Wil- and to enjoy the varied program of enter- liam H. Detweiler of Idaho, tainment which had been provided by the Mrs. A. G. Porter of North host city. Dakota, Mrs. George F. Barn- Following a concert by the Alfred ford of Maryland, Mrs. P. I. William Leach Post Band of Olympia, Dickson of Georgia

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official sessions presided with a grace and of business and social activities for the Appreciating the unsettled conditions charm that brought expressions of ad- women of the Auxiliary. As early as in many parts of the world, peace was the miration from all who were privileged Saturday, standing national committees theme of the speeches of the distinguished to attend. Not even the too-refulgent and convention committees—some six- guests who addressed the 700 Auxiliaries sun of Sunny California—the intense heat teen in all—had held preliminary meet- and Legionnaires who were present, as was most unusual, I was told—slackened ings to outline programs and make recom- indeed it proved to be the motif in most the pace with which the business of the mendations for the consideration of the of the deliberations of the Legion and convention was conducted. convention. A meeting of the retiring Auxiliary. Mrs. Blackburn introduced The opening session on Monday after- National Executive Committee and a Mrs. Douglas, National President, Mrs. Joseph H. Thompson, Past International President of Fidac Auxiliary, National Commander Doherty of the Legion and M. Raoul Duval, Vice-Consul of France, all of whose pleas were that the Legion and the Auxiliary exert the might of their combined membership of a million and a half toward the maintenance of peace. The meeting rose to patriotic heights during the singing of "La Marseillaise" by Joseph Costamagno and of "The Star- Spangled Banner" by Miss Virginia Card. Following additional committee meet- ings on Sunday afternoon, thousands of the Auxiliary officials and guests journeyed to Hollywood Bowl to partici- pate with the Legion in impressive mem- orial services held under the stars. But even that ceremony did not spell day's end for some of these energetic women. Late in the evening the Department Secretaries repaired to the Trocadero Club, gathering place of movie notables, for their annual supper, of which Mrs. Ethel M. Flynn of California was chair- man and hostess, while the Past Presi- dent's Parley meeting and supper was being held simultaneously under the chairmanship of Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., Past National President, in the Floren-

The new National Commander of the Legion, Stephen F. Chadwick, and the new National President of the Auxiliary, bojoS Catt US Mrs. James Morris, exchange congratulations and greetings on the Legion convention platform

noon followed the joint opening session conference of Department Presi- of the Legion and the Auxiliary in Shrine dents took place on Sunday morn- Auditorium where Mrs. Douglas voiced ing, followed closely by the Fidac a plea for faith in the nation's democratic Breakfast, presided over by Mrs. institutions and pledged the continued S. Alford Blackburn, Past National co-operation of the almost half-million President, who was completing her women program second consecutive term as Ameri- of the Auxiliary in the Such a Nice of the Legion. The opening session can Vice President of Fidac Aux- NINE, hoar Lout, PAftwe.- actually represented the third full day iliary. 29 NOVEMBER, 1938 100 percent record of their Unit histories on file while other Departments are show- ing an increasing interest in compiling historical records. The serious deliberations at the several sessions were interrupted from time to time by music contributed by the cham- pionship musical organizations of the Auxiliary. In the Annual National Music Contest, presided over by Mrs. Charles Tucker of Kansas, National Chairman, the trio of Hot Springs (Arkansas) Unit won the championship for the third con- secutive year, while the Glee Club of the Alameda (California) Unit placed first in that classification and the quartette of the same Unit won the top honor among the quartettes.

With Mrs. Louis J. Lemstra, Vice- President of the Central Division, in the chair, Mrs. Douglas submitted her report, reviewing in a concise manner the work of the 461,000 women of the Auxiliary during the past year under her leadership. She said: "As never before, such an or- ganization as ours is needed by America Division Don E. Gilman, Vice President in charge of the Western today. Our task is to direct the great of NBC, accepts from Mrs. William H. Corwith, National Radio strength of the Auxiliary toward the most Chairman, the Auxiliary's annual Radio Award for the year's best effective service to our country. . . . program, America's Town Meeting of the Air Through the devotion of its members, through their enthusiastic energy, and tine Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in the absences. She applauded the fact that often through their personal sacrifices, film capital. the Auxiliary continued its progress and the Auxiliary has reached inspiring suc-

On Monday, following the processional expansion notwithstanding the general cess in all of its undertakings . . . To these at the Auxiliary's opening session, the National President, Mrs. Douglas, called the convention to order, the National Colors were advanced, Mrs. Ernest G. Rarey, National Americanism Chairman, led the pledge of allegiance to the Flag, Mario Chamlee, World War veteran and grand opera star, sang "The Star-Span- gled Banner," and the invocation was said by Mrs. Allan S. Hathaway, Na- tional Chaplain. Greetings were extended on behalf of California by Mrs. Max Ellison, Department President of that State, and then the woman upon whose shoulders lay the burden of making the convention the complete success it proved to be, Mrs. Charles Decker, in- troduced the numerous chairmen of her National Convention Committee. Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin MacDowell, National Secretary, submitted her report outlining the multifarious duties of the National Headquarters over which she presides during the National President's 1?

Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, retiring National President, bestows upon her successor, Mrs. James Morris, the badge of the highest office in The American Legion Auxiliary

business and industrial recession during members, the wives, mothers, sisters the past year. The report of the National and daughters of World War veterans, Treasurer, Mrs. Cecelia Wenz, indicated and women who themselves were enlisted that the finances of the national organi- in war service, serving faithfully in their zation were in their customary splendid local Units, belongs the credit for the condition. That Department organiza- truly great achievements of the organi- tions are becoming history conscious was zation this year." The report was broad- reported by Mrs. Eva M. Sherburne, cast throughout the nation. National Historian, who advised the Presented to the convention by the convention that four Departments have a National Presi- {Continued on page 65)

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Ma%a%m * E D I T © RIAL* WHAT WAS AT STAKE

THERE is an old story of a towerman who was A few statements in that article are highly pertinent a key witness in a wreck involving two trains in this era of doubt and turmoil. Said Mr. Baker: in head-on collision. "What," he was asked, We could permit ourselves to be blockaded by a threat "went through your mind when you saw No. 81 and terrorized into a surrender of our national rights or and No. 74 dashing toward each other on the same we could defend them. There was no propaganda about track?" this. Nobody debated whether the French and the British needed our help or ought to have it. Not a moment's con- "Well," said the towerman. "I just looked and sideration was given to the rescuing or anybody else's thought to myself, 'What a hell of a way to run a rail- cause. The situation, though tragic, had at least the merit road!'" of simplicity. A nation with which we were at peace had blockaded our ports and ordered us, at the peril of the There are millions of men the world over, and par- lives of our people, to give up a right so elemental and so ticularly in America, who will say to themselves this unquestioned that, with it surrendered, nothing in principle November Eleventh they as gaze on the now too familiar remained to save us from vassalage to a foreign power. spectacle of a world in torment: "What a hell of a time In these great matters, the implications are more impor- to celebrate an armistice!" tant than the facts. All that America means to us and has meant since 1776 was at stake in this denial of our rights, And the now too familiar questions will again be de- and it was for this reason that the country responded with bated, "Did we do right to get into the World War? enthusiasm to the call of Congress and the President. the Could world have been any worse off if we had These principles were the articles of the great faith stayed out?" And there will be many a No in answer. which sustained us. Those who sacrificed their time, strength and substance, perhaps, did not argue it all out. With those dolefully negative answers this magazine Those who gave their lives may have had but an inexplicit cannot agree. consciousness of the thing at stake. Yet in the last anal- The No-men make the issue too complicated. They ysis, those who died in France died for the same great ignore the fundamental reason for our entry into the cause as those who fell at Braridywine. Spiritually it was the guns of Bunker Hill and Yorktown that answered and war. We went in to save our country, and we saved it. overcame the torpedo of the submarine. Our enthusiasm was not only great, but pure. The catch- that in going in we did not achieve the GRANTED words and slogans which were on our lips told of a great high ideal of making the world safe for democ- desire to make America "the servant in the house" to the racy. We at least made America safe for democracy. peoples of the world. The slowness with which the fruits How petty our own little family differences of today of great sacrifice sometimes mature may lead us to ques- seem and are alongside the woes of an embattled and tions, in these unripe days, whether after all we did ac- embittered world! complish what we set out to do. Only time can answer that question fully, but we deserved to succeed. And to this Eleven years ago, when the tenth anniversary of extent we have succeeded. The institutions which our America's entry into the war fell, this magazine asked fathers left us are still in our hands and we are without the late Newton D. Baker, wartime Secretary of War, a guardian and without a master. And there are no wedges to prepare an article on "Why We Went to War." Secre- of gold to be found under the floors of our tent. tary Baker graciously did so—and the result remains an important document in the record of America's war THAT clear statement answered the doubters of participation. eleven years ago. It answers the doubters of today.

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IEGIONNAIRE Richard S. Jones, of DAN 0. ROOT, of Ross Neilon Post, young clerk who said to his boss: Washington, D. C, tells about a Yreka, California, recalls a story "May I use your phone? My wife told

, colored man who was resting in current in the days when changing auto- me to ask for a raise and I forgot how jail under sentence of capital mobile tires was a speculative perform- much she told me to ask you for." punishment. A friend in the next cell ance depending more or less on acci- "Certainly," said the boss, "and when advised him that his former employer dentally using the right touch. A motorist you have finished I'll call my wife to see had been elected governor of the State was having more than the usual trouble if she will allow me to give it to you." and might listen to an appeal for commu- in getting a tire off. He pulled and hauled tation of sentence. The doomed man and sweated and swore. A passing PAST COMMANDER Charlie Seay of cogitated a while about whether or not minister hearing the profanity stopped Lynchburg (Virginia) Post tells of a

it would be proper for him to disturb his and said: man who having entered his compensa- old boss about a purely personal matter, "My friend, I believe if I were you I tion claim against the State, reported and delayed indicting his plea. As time wouldn't do that cursing. People for weekly at the local office for benefits. advanced relentlessly his friend Recently Charlie asked him: renewed the suggestion. Finally "Have you done work of any he took pen in hand and com- kind or made any money during posed the following: the past week?" "Dear Boss: I hates to bother "Nossuh, boss," the man re- you all about this, but they's plied, "but I's efforting to do fixin' to hang me on Friday, and such. In fact, I has my reputation here 'tis Tuesday." right here in my pocket now going after a job." NEAR the entrance of a hotel at the Los Angeles National COMMANDER Harry W. Convention a newsboy and a Christy of Lewis-Clark Post, Legionnaire stood watching Lewiston, Idaho, writes that another Legionnaire go around while helping a woman make and around in a revolving door. application for a widow's pension Finally the newsboy asked: he found some old blanks her "What's the matter? Do you husband had completed, and in reckon he's cuckoo?" copying his discharge the veteran "No, sonny," replied the Le- had written the word "excellent" gionnaire, "that's our absent- after the word "Character." The minded Department Adjutant widow, recognizing her husband's and he has forgotten whether he handwriting, said: wants to go in or come out." "My gosh! He would say that about himself." IEGIONNAIRE Robbin Kir- u by, of Charlotte, North AFTER a week of highbrow Carolina, is telling one about a Ix. production the theatre man- colored little girl who didn't want to go ager consulted the door- to bed at the scheduled hour and man. was exercising her wits to be "Well, Ben, how is it going?" allowed to remain up. "Better and better, sah! Fewer of folks "Grandmother, please tell me and fewer the what comes another story," she asked. in is leaving the theatre before And how is my little patient this morning: "No, darling, not another one the end of the show." tonight." don't old salts who had spent most of "Well then, Grandmother, if you won't blocks around can hear you. Why TWO their lives on fishing smacks were tell me another story just tell me about you try prayer? Whenever in trouble, their respective prowess in your operation." first always try prayer to help you out." arguing about The worn-out motorist offered no mathematics. THE Lions Club of Grand Forks, argument and knelt by the tire and rim Finally the captain of the ship pro- North Dakota, entertained members and prayed for help. When he had posed a problem. "If you sold 1 26 pounds of the Nebraska State Champion Legion finished, he put his hand over the tire to of codfish at six cents a pound," he said, Junior Baseball Team, which had just assist himself in getting to his feet, and "how much would you make?" a while with pencils won the regional title from Wyoming and the tire fell from the lim. The minister, Both men worked South Dakota. After the luncheon had evidently as surprised as the motorist, and paper, but neither seemed to get Deen served and the speech-making part exchim?d: very far. last one, seized with an idea, turned of the program came around, the Presi- "Well, I'll be damned!" At dent of the club introduced Team to the captain: it codfish they caught, was you Captain Bob Williams for a talk. Bob HENDRICKSON, a former "Is BOB captain?" captured his audience with the following Legion Junior ballplayer of Puyallup, saying, speech Washington, and 1038 long distance "Yep," replied the captain. "Hang it all!" exclaimed Bill in dis- "Gentlemen: I took a course in public junior baseball fan—having followed the gust. "No wonder I couldn't get an speaking at Lincoln High School, and I San Diego team all the way to Spartan- it win the answer. I've been figuring on shad all think it is a darn good course. I thank burg, South Carolina, to see you, gentlemen." Little World Series— tells one about a the time." 33 NOVEMBER, 1938 — ——

Arm istice Members of Captain Hoegh's JUST twenty years ago on November artillery and the rattle of machine gun Post, Assens, Denmark, at the the most rifle fire din of battle it nth— important date in and —the as grave of the officer for whom the lives of millions of Americans raged up and down that long line from their Post was named. Right, the guns on the western front were Switzerland to the sea—can ever, or will Legionnaire Wells pays tribute silenced. The war to end all wars, ever, forget that hour. The civilian popu- as we to unknown dead in cemetery then vainly deluded into think- lation at and abroad rejoiced in ourselves home at Mexico City ing, had fought itself out. Through rose- wild demonstrations to see the beams of colored glasses we saw the dawning of a peace. The war was over. The soldiers new era; the promise of an epoch that would come home. But to the men who a brief period of rest came a release from was to be one of peace among all the na- were on the lines manning the instru- the tension, but the feeling of physical tions of the world. Though actual hostili- ments of destruction, and those who exhaustion remained. Even in that hour ties had ceased at the eleventh hour of served the gunners and riflemen, the reac- of victory many who had stood for days that memorable day, that hour and its tion came in a different form. There were on the most exposed parts of the line and significance to civilization and the cheers and exultation in a national vic- had not shrunk from the greatest hazard civilized world did not erase, with the tory, of course, and other demonstra- were depressed with a sense of frustration silencing of the guns, the old jealousies, tions of joy. But as the pall of silence and defeat. After all, the slaughter, hates and bitterness that had vexed more settled down and there came a full realiza- waste and destruction seemed pointless than a score of nations into the greatest tion that the long days and longer nights and futile. Now, after twenty years, armed conflict the world had ever known. of shooting and killing had at last come years of turmoil and of strife, of social and Fortunate it was for the hour and to an end, tired men whose nerves economic upheavals all stemming from time that human comprehension could had for days been keyed almost to the the conflict which arose from the spark at not pierce the veil of the future to foresee point of snapping sought rest. And with Sarajevo,—we still scan the horizon with the developments that the years immedi- the hope that springs eternal in the ately ahead had in store; for the peace human breast, looking, hoping, praying that followed was but an extension of the for the dawn of that new era which will armistice, —permitting a time to gather bring everlasting peace and amity be- new strength to renew old grudges. The tween nations. end of the World War did not herald The memories of men who served in the end of armed conflict between na- the World War will roll back to that day tions, for which the peoples of the world in November, 19 18, while they are ob- had hoped and prayed and for which serving this twentieth anniversary millions of young men had laid down their still hoping, still striving to keep their lives. children and their grandchildren safe Few there are, either allied or enemy, from the experiences that were theirs so who were within hearing of the crash of many years ago. And this year for the

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine first time since the cessation of hostilities, set aside the week for special observance and in all the years to come, Armistice and each one of its 11,457 Posts has Day will be celebrated as a national been requested to take the lead, or to holiday; its peculiar significance as a day participate, in the arrangement for of peace has been enlarged by official Armistice Day programs in each com- action as a day set apart and dedicated munity. This leadership in a nation- to the cause of world peace. wide movement designed to present to For many years The American Legion the general public The American Le- has insisted upon official recognition of gion's plan for enduring peace has been More than thirty thousand of these Armistice Day. Forty-seven States had cited as "a wonderful opportunity to soldiers of the World War, men who fell enacted legislation making the day a help bring back to the entire citizenship in action or died during the period of hos- state holiday. Then, in the final hours that same spirit of patriotism, community tilities, still rest overseas in the soil hal- of the 75th Congress last June, a bill service, and unselfishness, which was lowed by their blood and sacrifice. In sponsored by Legionnaire Congressman theirs back in 1918, in a manner that will France, Belgium and England they have B. W. (Bud) Gearhart, Past Depart- demonstrate The American Legion's been brought together in great cemeter- ment Commander of California, was interest in the welfare of the community, ies; of the ninety- three national ceme- enacted providing that "the nth day state and nation." teries, ten are located in foreign countries. in November of each year, a day to be In its inception Memorial Day was Others who have passed on since that day dedicated to the cause of world peace and designed as a day of remembrance of the in 1918 lie buried in neutral countries to be hereafter celebrated and known as soldier dead of the Civil War, and during in soil that is forever American. The Armistice Day, is hereby made a legal the first few years was most generally Legion has sought to care for the graves public holiday to all intents and pur- observed by the veterans of the Federal of these comrades and to that purpose, poses." With the signature of approval armies, their families and friends. The many years ago, set up an Overseas affixed by the President, Armistice Day day and its custom soon became part cf Graves Decoration Trust Fund of ap- takes rank with Memorial Day and Inde- the national tradition, almost universally proximately $200,000, the income from pendence Day as a day for national ob- observed in our own country for soldier which is used to purchase and place a servance. and civilian alike and, to a lesser de- flower on the overseas grave of each Armistice Day will this year be more gree, in many other countries. Since American soldier of the World War on generally observed. The entire nation, November n, 1918, Armistice Day has Memorial Day. Necessarily the actual decoration must be car- ried on by the wide flung outposts of the Legion, and by individual Leg- ionnaires. One strik- L ing example of this ser- vice of remembrance comes to us from the two Eterna Posts in Denmark, though routed to this more or less been looked upon Magazine by way of California. as a day set apart for most Comrade Albert L. Pedersen, of Mo- general observance by veter- desto (California) Post, writes: "In ans of the World War, inter- November of last year, after having par- national in its significance. Its ticipated in the Third A. E. F., my wife purport, now broadened by and I continued our travels through the act of our National Con- Belgium and Germany into Denmark. gress, has been made clearer At the Danish border, while changing to that rising generation of cars, I heard good American talk. Upon young Americans to whom the introducing myself to the little group World War seems almost ?s of ten or twelve persons, I was surprised remote as the battle of Water- to find that they were Legionnaires, now loo. resident in Denmark, who had made the Memorial Day will ever Legion pilgrimage to France and were remain a day of remembrance; returning to their homes at Odense and Armistice Day a day of peace Assens. At their invitation I remained —there can be no conflict in in Odense a few days to attend a meeting the purposes of the two great of Captain Hoegh's Post, whose head- national holidays which had quarters are at Assens, when the new their origin in the greatest Post colors were dedicated by Past Na- of wars. Neither is a day tional Commander Alvin Owsley, now dedicated to the glories of United States Minister to Denmark. At war, but rather the last one to this meeting two members received the the great principle of militant decoration of the Purple Heart. pacificism. We honor and "Correspondence with these new found revere our soldier dead, we friends has been kept up since my return. of the World War—they were A letter from Comrade Richard Pedersen the lads who marched by our of Odense, (veteran of Battery F, 121st sides, who shared with us Field Artillery), tells me of the memorial their last bit of food and their services conducted by the Legion Posts last cigarette; our friends, our in Denmark last Memorial Day, when the

for the first time, will have a part in the comrades. We honor their memory by grave of every soldier who served in the

observance celebrating, as it does, the the consecration of their day to the fur- American army was sought out and deco- twentieth anniversary of the end of the therance of peace among men and rated. The members of Captain Hoegh's World War. The American Legion has nations. Post visited every grave in the provinces

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of Jutland and Fyn, while the members stream about a mile, cross over of Copenhagen Post visited every known to the south and climb the grave in the island Province of Sjaelland. peak by the west face, but A short memorial service was held at on closer inspection it seemed each grave, a wreath placed and the too difficult to attempt. In colors dipped in salute. Members of the end we found it necessary Captain Hoegh's Post traveled r~ore to approach the peak by than three hundred kilometers to leach first climbing a small un- the places of burial of their comrades, named peak which lies on the one of which held the remains of the man northeastern side of American for whom the Post was named." Legion Peak, then make the While these Legionnaires were going ascent of the main peak by about their pilgrimage in neutral Den- the north face. mark, almost half the world away an- "I was handicapped by a other wreath was laid in loving memory broken arm carried in a sling. of American soldiers of another genera- The climb proved to be a very tion and of an almost forgotten war—in difficult one, but we finally the National Cemetery at Mexico City, made it. The descent was where rests the bones of about fifteen made by the west face, which hundred Americans who fell in that offered fairly easy going. The brief war with Mexico in 1846-48, nearly total time consumed from the half of whom are unknown. Allan Wells, hour of leaving camp until a member of Bay Cities Post, Santa our return was ten hours, but Monica, California, placed a wreath on when the trail, now under the monument to the unknown in the construction, is completed it name of his comrades of the Legion. will be possible to camp about Then, for the first time in history, the two miles to the west of American Legion Peak towers President of the Mexican high in the Wind River Range Republic took part in an in western Wyoming, given American Memorial Day ser- name by Pinedale Post. At left, vice, when President Car- view of Legion Glacier from denas spoke over an interna- the north face of Legion Peak, tional radio network in com- about 800 feet below summit memoration of the valor of American soldiery and our hero dead. An Ambulance Idea

American Legion Peak HERE'S a community service idea developed by Captain Harry B. of the Keeping READERS Doremus Post of Hackensack, New Jer- - Step department will re- sey, worthy of careful consideration by member that several months all Posts, wherever located, which have ago, May, 1937, to be exact, invested in a truck to pull a trailer Legionnaire C. C. Feltner of equipment car. At small cost the truck Phillips-Edwards Post, of can be converted into a community ser- Pinedale, Wyoming, told of vice ambulance without losing its value the naming of Legion Lake — as the means of transporting the Post's beauty spot high in the fast- drum and bugle corps equipment. Take a nesses of the Wind River look at the picture of the combined Range, in western Wyoming, facility worked out by these community about thirty miles west of service minded Legionnaires, then see Pinedale. The lake was lo- what can be done about putting the old cated and named by Comrade truck into double duty. Feltner in 1920, and it is iden- Captain Harry B. Doremus Post tified by that name on the sponsors one of the most colorful of the official maps of the area. At that time announcement was made of the American Legion Peak, from which V/of plan to select one of the highest of the un- point the climb should be made in about happened YeU- I a( most- to your neio it named peaks in the same general region four hours, in comparative safety and mine d a\r Urtitxywt? It the Picnic - to be designated American Legion Peak without special mountain climbing equip- looks Ukfe qou but the State as a permanent memorial to the organi- ment. been -H\»-a tiV OoweKfton zation and its members. Now we have a "A small glacier lies to the north and 4(1 (Ynieked iH' report of the selection of the mountain. west of the peak which I have named Comrade Feltner, now Commander Legion Glacier." of Phillips-Edwards Post, writes: "On Application has been made to the September 16, 1937, I started out in United States Geographical Board, at company with Ranger H. A. Shannon, of Washington, asking that the names given the Wyoming National Forest, and be officially registered, as both have been reached the end of the trail at Peak Lake given local acceptance. on the evening of the 17th. Bill Clem- Who 'can say but that in a few years mon, foreman of a trail crew, joined us as organized Legion mountain-climbing guide and on the morning of the 18th we parties will be tackling the Peak in started to climb the peak I had selected. droves? Or had we better leave that "It was our intention to follow the to the Sons?

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corps for which the of drum Department truck? If Doremus Post can do it, why cess to^ei* New Jersey is noted. The corps has seen active service for several years, gradually Hundred Percenters >U\ dice \Vs climbing up through the grades and each year acquiring so much new equipment FROM time to time the Step Keeper that it became burdensome to transport has mentioned one hundred percent from place to place. Then some one had a Legion families living in widely separated bright idea. A trailer was fitted up as an sections of the country. Now comes W. equipment car. Then some months ago H. Lancaster, Adjutant of William the Post purchased a Ford truck to haul Boulton Dixon Post, Fort Washington, the trailer. Another bright idea—con- Pennsylvania, to place in nomination the version from a truck, undistinguished choice of his Post for that honor. His from thousands just like it, into a service nominee is none other than the Post car; that truck was worked over and soon Commander, Thomas M. Tressler, his made its appearance as an ambulance. Auxiliare wife, Junior Auxiliare daughter The exterior of the converted car and two Sons of the Legion sons, all ac- was painted blue, and equipped with a tive in their organizations. It's a combi- blinking red light over the driver's cab, nation hard to beat. a siren and a rear step. The interior, re- Commander Tressler has served Wil- designed by Corps Quartermaster Bob liam Boulton Dixon Post in several Duck Calling Contest Bicher, the work executed by Comrades capacities before election to the post of Nunnermaker, Thompson and Rapp, command; Mrs. Tressler is Secretary of FOR many years the annual duck din- conforms to ambulance design and is for the Auxiliary Unit. Ella, the daughter, ner given by Daniel Harder Post at the hardest service. The interior walls aged n, is Historian of the Junior Auxil- Stuttgart, Arkansas, was one of the and ceiling are a combination of white iary and a member of the Girls' Har- biggest Legion affairs in that Depart- leather and enamel, while the floor is monica Band. Both of the boys, Thomas, ment. The event was nationally known laid with black linoleum, bound off with Jr., 15, and John, 14, are Past Captains and discontinuance a few years back was white metal strips. A combination seat of their Squadron, both have served as genuinely regretted by Arkansas Legion- and storage cabinet extends along one Adjutant, and both are members of the naires and many from the adjoining De- side, the seat upholstered in white leather. Boys' Drum and Bugle Corps. All five partments. But Daniel Harder Post has adopted another unique annual event to take its place. Here's what Comrade H. V. Glenn has to say: "Twenty-six contestants from all over the Mississippi Valley answered roll call for last year's National Duck Calling Contest, held annually at Stuttgart, Arkansas, by Daniel Harder Post. These twenty-six contestants thrilled several thousand spectators gathered in Stutt- gart's main street, and uncounted thou- sands of interested radio listeners. When the shouting and the tumult died away, Harry Wieman, Stuttgart Legionnaire, emerged as World Champion Duck Caller, victor over the defending cham- pion, Thomas E. Walsh, of Greenville, Mississippi. "Time was (Continued on page 72)

Combined facility devised by members of the Captain Harry B. Doremus family marched Post, New Jersey—an ambu- up Fifth Avenue lance for community service in the Big Pa- and trailer equipment car rade at the 1937 National Con- An electric fan has been installed, and, vention. How is equipped with stretchers and a first aid that for a real kit, it is ready to roll. It has a capacity record? of three stretcher patients and one sit- ting patient, or two stretcher patients and a number of sitting. Post Com- The ambulance has been placed in mander

public service and is kept at the head- Thomas quarters garage of the Bergen County Tressler and family, all police department, where it is available for use except on those occasions when it uniformed,

is serving the Doremus Corps to haul are nomi- their equipment car. It has also been nated for placed at the service, for emergency use, honors in the of the citizens of Hackensack and Bergen Legion's County at any time, day or night, gallery of through the police headquarters. hundred per- It's a good idea. Why not try it on your centers 37 NOVEMBER. 1938 —

Official signs such as the one shown above were the products of American doughboy painters. The sign backs up men of the 149th Field Artillery, 42nd Division, near Chatel-Chehery, stacking 155-mm. shells

the signing of the peace treaty seven tain) George Trumble of the 14th En- months later. gineers had charge of our shop. A buddy Doughboys literally painted the signs by the name of Williams from Brooklyn, that pointed to victory. We have it on New York, and I were the two sign paint- the word of Robert Miller of Ira Owen ers, although we had three extra soldiers Kreager Post of Hoopeston, Illinois, who as helpers. These signs were about four probably will be better remembered by feet long and two feet wide and were the men of his outfit as "Dad." And made of black roofing paper set in a ALL signs pointed quite defi- strangely enough, those artists or near- wooden frame. During my time with the /\ nitely to an Allied victory, artists that every outfit, even down to outfit I made over a thousand of them. / % once American troops were companies, boasted have been exceed- We also made signs that practically called upon to take their ingly modest about their war work. Dad everyone in the A. E. F. will remember places along the Western Front. We say Miller is the first one to step forth, send- the name of a town and an arrow point- that with all due modesty because history ing us the picture you see and telling this ing the direction. records that when the Americans helped story: "As fast as the doughboys captured to stem the tide of the farthest German "Not long ago while looking through a new territory, we would follow in a truck advance in June, 1918, and then joined file of old newspapers belonging in the counter-offensive from the line of to a friend, I ran across the en- piKV H\ the Marne, the general war situation closed picture in which you will If iV was too Small Zasu.lJisr a+uck H) Could fces+reteKed back, so « fite' t(e^head brightened considerably for those nations note the sign 'Keep to the buV, WouoVe i|a — and [e^r Hi' opposing the Central Powers. Right.' Surely got a kick out of extev Uwnk Just what qpm iviate a. form eventual victory would take re- seeing a wartime sign that I too-biq WiV stick our far a ait'- mained to be seen—whether complete made over twenty years ago UW&r !!? capitulation of the enemy or a truce. while working in the First Army The latter proved true in the Armistice Sign Shop at Souilly, France. Some of as are on November 11, 191 8, followed by "1st Lieutenant (later Cap- ST(LU C0IN6 IT

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine I Sfarted 'fe Ml yon >fca, stautd'ci said & Maine Railroad before the As has been stated many times, some

' 'MetiaWants 'uws ftutS ^rte Vafeme. and war." years ago the Navy wasn't as well repre-

. au4 - but Vatstws £iqs : £iq&. {Vst,Stupi4? Recognizing Comrade Miller's sented in these columns as it might have U)ouUM\V 4ou vuait- picture as an official Signal been, but that was due to failure of the Corps photograph, we did some gobs to send pictures and stories to the sleuthing in our reference files. Company Clerk. During the past twelve- Before any of our fellow Legion- month, however, there have been at naires who are not Rainbow Vets least a dozen pictures and stories in get excited and write to tell us Then and Now having to do with the that they recognize men in the Navy, so why the continued bellyaching group, we give this official state- such as this plaint in a letter that Com-

ment regarding the outfit shown: rade Edward J. Stewart wrote to us? "Members of the One Hundred "We have read and re-read in the and Forty-Ninth Field Artillery Legion Magazine how the Army won and stick up direction signs as 3 guides to the newly acquired cities and villages. "We not only made highway signs but also did other signs for the big shots over there. I made the signs for Lieutenant General * Liggett's automobile—the three * * stars on red and blue background. I don't know where General Pershing got signs for his car but I think they came from some French shop in Paris. "The reason for my nickname of 'Dad' in service is that I was thirty-nine years old in 1018. I certainly hope that I hear from some of the old bunch in the First Army Sign Shop. You see I was the only one who did not live in New York or New Jersey, my home being in the West. Our old captain, George Trumble, had been in the service of the Boston MS-"

Above, the mine-layer the war," he said. "We have also seen U. S. S. Quinnebaug pictures in the same publication of the proudly displays a Army doing this and the Army doing plaque listing the that. But how about the Navy? Sailors trips made and mines are a modest lot, so to speak, but the time laid, and a star for has arrived when we can't stand it any each enemy subma- longer and must break out with informa- rine sunk; left, a tion and pictures on what United States mine being hoisted Minelaying Squadron No. 1 of the North from a barge to the Atlantic Fleet accomplished." deck of the ship Well, that's another one on Stewart, because pictures and stories of that

particular - job of the Navy have ap- (formerly First Regiment peared more than once in Then and Now. Field Artillery, Illinois But all is forgiven, because Stewart did National Guard), piling submit some good pictures—two of up 155-mm. shells for a which you see—and an interesting yarn. bombardment of the Here is Stewart's service and Legion Boche lines. Forty-Sec- pedigree: National chairman of the U. S. ond Division. On the S. Quinnebaug Association; Past Com- Varennes-Grandpre road, mander of Sergeant Joyce Kilmer Post, near Chatel-Chehery, Ar- The American Legion, Brooklyn, New dennes, France, October, York; seaman-gunner on the U. S. S. 30, 1918." Quinnebaug. All right, Shipmate Stewart, shoot: THIS department isn't "Many Navy veterans who served on going to pick a fight board the ten ships in the Minelaying with the ex-gobs because Squadron which operated out of In-

it has too many friends verness and Invergordon, Scotland, and among them, but it does assisted in the planting of what was want to go on record in known as the 'Northern Barrage' in stating that some ex- the North Sea from the coast of Norway gobs evidently have to the Orkney Islands attended the Le- mighty poor memories. gion National Convention in New York

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City last year. Many reunions of officers was the salutation that greeted me— son and was owned by the Old Dominion and men were held, including one of my gob fresh from the Brooklyn Navy Yard Line, running between Norfolk and New old shipmates of the U. S. S. Quinnebaug. and a born Brooklynite—as I stepped York. After being converted into a mine- It was the consensus of opinion at that from a motor boat and climbed the gang- layer by the Government shortly after time that very little was known of how way of the U. S. S. Quinnebaug lying at we entered the war, she was assigned a the Minelaying Squadron won the war anchor about a mile off the shores of crew of 460 officers and men. up in the North Sea. Invergordon, Scotland, in August, 1918. "Is it any wonder then that a gob who "The Northern Barrage, carried out "It happened that of the twenty sailors had left home in May was anxious to by establishing a barrage of nets, an- in our gang of new men, I was the only greet someone from his home town who chored mines and floating mines, ex- one from Brooklyn. We had sailed out of had left several months later? After stow- tended from Norwegian territorial waters New York on the old U. S. S. St. Louis, a ing away our hammocks and bags, ques- to within ten miles of the Orkney Islands, transport, two weeks prior as 'passengers,' tions were fired at us from all sides.

Planes, airmen and infantry- north of Scotland, a distance of 240 'What's the news in the States?' 'Any men lined up for one of the miles across the North Sea and twenty- talk of the war ending?' 'Where are you early A. E. F. decoration cere- five miles wide. This 'barrage' restricted from?' 'At what station did you train?' monies. Fliers were decorated the operations of enemy submarines to the And just then I discovered fellow by the French on the American my North Sea and prevented them from get- Brooklynite, together with about ten airfield near Toul, France, ting into the Atlantic and interfering with others from the old home town. Seaman April 27, 1918 the lines of communication between the Gunner Hunter, the one that first greeted United States, Great Britain and France. us, and I became firm friends. I was "In all, more than 70,000 mines but we soon found there was work to do assigned to his gun's crew and we were were laid—over 56,000 by the United —scraping paint and standing watches inseparable until our discharge in 1010. States Minelaying Squadron and the as we crossed the ocean. A few hours in I wonder where he is today?" balance by the British Navy. It was officially reported by the Ger- ALTHOUGH American troops man government after the war +V ole Froq q '& xi. did not become generally en- Safe He did* that seventeen of their submarines S gaged in action until the summer of t\a&u sleep were either lost or badly damaged 1018, decoration ceremonies for riqW- over ir by this barrage. - like. (*<;!! some American soldiers were held "In addition to the many thou- several months earlier. We show a sand officers and men who served photograph of a ceremony held at on the United States minelayers, the American air field just outside several thousand more were at- of Toul, France, in April, 1918. The tached to the assembly bases in picture came to us from R. E. Invergordon and Inverness, Scot- Hartz, Past Commander of Palmyra land. In other words, we bottled- (Pennsylvania) Post of the Legion, up the entire German Navy. Then Supervising Principal of the Pal- came the end of the war!" myra Borough School District, who Of the half-dozen pictures Com- served as a corporal with the 94th rade Stewart submitted we selected Aero Squadron during the war. the two shown and this is what he Reports Past Commander Hartz: tells of them: One shows a mine be- "The picture I am enclosing shows ing hoisted aboard the Quinnebaug from a Liverpool, thence by train to Inverness a decoration ceremony at the airdrome barge; the other displays a plaque that and on to Invergordon. at Toul, France, where the 94th and 95 th was aboard his ship showing the trips "We were a weary lot when we reported Aero Squadrons began operations as the made, the number of mines laid and a aboard our new ship, but not too tired or First Pursuit Group—the first American star for each German submarine sunk. weary for me to find the sailor who had air outfit to serve at the front. The cere- Once a Brooklynite, always a Brook- greeted us. The Quinnebaug had sailed mony took place on April 27, 1918, and lynite, appears to be Stewart's slogan, from the States back in May, 1018, and in the picture may be seen American in- according to this additional yarn we had already made several mine-laying fantry troops from a neighboring Divi- extracted from him: trips into the North Sea. Before the war sion marching across the airdrome. " 'Who's from Brooklyn, New York?' the Quinnebaug was known as the Jejfer- "The Toul air- (Continued on page 75)

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NOVEMBER 1, 1918 ation is continuing to develop satisfactorily. Beaumont-Stenay road is in our possession Evening: The ist American Army continued and our troops are on the heights overlooking Morning: On the Verdun front the night was its successful attack today, capturing in its Beaumont. On the left our line has advanced, marked by artillery fire on both sides of the advance the following villages: Boult-aux-Bois, in spite of heavy machine-gun and artillery Meuse. From the other sectors held by our Aulruche, Belleville-sur-Bar Harricourt, Gor- opposition, to Grandes Armoises. The enemy troops there is nothing of importance to report. , mont, Bar, Authe, Fosse, Sommauthe, Belval, again today threw in fresh troops in an effort Evening: The ist American Army continued Nouart, St. Pierremont, Barricourt, Tailly, to arrest the penetration of his lines by our vic- its attack on the west bank of the Meuse in con- Halles, Montigny, Sassy, Chatillon-sur-Bar torious attack. Our vigorous advance compelled junction with the 4th French Army on its left. and Brieulles-sur-Bar. Heavy losses have been the enemy to abandon large stores of undamaged The perfect co-operation of all arms—infantry, inflicted on the enemy, due to the continuous munitions, food and engineer material. In artillery, airplanes and tanks—succeeded in blows during the past month and by the surprise the course of the day improving weather condi- overcoming and disorganizing the enemy's de- and force of the renewed attack of November 1. tions permitted our planes to carry out very termined resistance, and in breaking up his Statements of prisoners show that his organiza- successfidly their missions of reconnaissance counter-attacks. Enemy divisions, rapidly tions have been thrown into great confusion. and infantry liaison. A raid with a force con- brought up, were intermingled with units al- Several complete batteries and whole battalions sisting of day bombardment and 100 pur- ready in line in a vain attempt to stop our ad- 45 have been captured by our troops. The number suit planes was made against Montmedy and vance. Our victorious troops have already taken of prisoners now exceeds §,000 and the number obtained excellent results on the crowded enemy a>ul passed beyond St. Georges, Landres-et- of guns more than 100. During the past three traffic at that place. Over five tons of bombs were Sl. Georges, Imecourt, Landreville, Chennery, days we have already penetrated to a depth of 12 dropped. Determined attacks by enemy planes Bayonville, Remonville, Andevanne and Clery- miles on an 18 mile front, and gained control gave us added opportunities to destroy his air- le-Grand. Up to the present 3,602 prisoners of dominating heights which enables us to planes. During the day's fighting 30 enemy have been counted, of whom 151 are officers. bring the fire of our heavy artillery on the im- planes were destroyed or driven down out of (The official American communique, printed portant railroad lines at Monlmedy, Longuyon control, and three balloons were burned. Seven in italics, regularly introduces each daily and Conflans. Since November 1, 77 German of our planes are missing. summary in this calendar.) divisions have been identified on the front of the Thirty-Seventh and Ninety-First Divisions Seventy-Ninth Division relieves Twenty- attack, nine of which were in line on that morn- relieved by French on Belgian front; French Ninth and portion of Twenty-Sixth; Eigh- ing; and eight additional divisions have rein- relieve Eighty- Eighth Division in Center tieth relieves units of Eighty- Second; ele- forced the line since the beginning of the attack Sector, Alsace. ments of Seventy- Seventh reenter line, re- in a futile effort to stop our progress. In addi- lieving other units of Eighty- Second; Sixth tion to regulars, there were in this attack divi- NOVEMBER 5 Division, in corps reserve, moves north sions composed of National Army troops from through Foret D'Argonne, all in Meuse- Morning: This morning the ist Army re- Texas and Oklahoma; from Kansas, Missouri, Argonne area. sumed the attack. In spite of desperate opposi- Colorado and New Mexico; from New York; Republic of German Austria is proclaimed tion our troops have forced a crossing of the from New Jersey, Maryland and W est Vir- in Vienna and Hungarian Republic in Buda- Meuse at Brieulles and at Clery-le-Petit. They ginia; and from Maryland, the District of Col- pest. are now developing a new line in the heavily umbia and Virginia. New York City subway accident kills 122, wooded and very difficult terrain on the heights Twenty-Sixth Division completes relief injures 200. east of the river between these points. On the en- of French 26th and assumes command of tire front the enemy is opposing our advance NOVEMBER 2 with heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, Morning: The ist Army continued its at- notwithstanding which we are making excellent tack west of the Meuse this morning. The oper- progress. The west bank of the Meuse as far ation is progressing favorably. north as opposite Pouilly lies in our hands. In Evening: A series of raids skillfully carried November the course of several successful raids in the out by troops of the 2d Army in the Woevre Woevre, detachments of the 2d Army have pene- resulted in the capture of two officers and 63 11, 1918 trated the enemy's trenches, destroying material, men. The ist Army today continued its success- dugouts a>id emplacements, and capturing ful advance, overcoming all resistance. Among OFFICIAL prisoners. the most important towns taken are Cham- AMERICAN COMMUNIQUE Evening: The ist Army under Lieutenant pigneidles, Beffu-et-M orthomme, Verpel, Sivry- General Liggett has continued its success. Cross- lez-Buzancy, Thenorgues, Briquenay, Buzancy, In accordance with the terms of ing the river south of Dun-sur-Meuse under Villers-devant-Dun and Clcry-le-Petit. In the Armistice, hostilities on the a heavy artillery fire which frequently wrecked spite of bad weather coriditions, our aviators fronts of the American Armies the newly constructed bridges, the troops of flying at extremely low altitudes, carried out were suspended at eleven o'clock Major General Hines' Corps fought their way important missions over the Meuse Valley and this morning. up the slopes of the east bank. Breaking the along the whole front of attack. The number of enemy's strong resistance, they captured Hill prisoners has risen to more than 4,000 men and 2Q2, Hill 260, Liny-devant-Dun and drove him IQ2 officers, among whom are four battalion from the Bois de Chatillon. During the after- gains in commanders with their staffs. The enemy was noon our this sector were extended forced to abandon large quantities of material Neptune Sector, Meuse-Argonne operation. northward; Dun-sur-Meuse was captured and pushed beyond lha' of all kinds. An official count shows that 63 Austria-Hungary signs Armistice. our line forward a mile the guns of medium and light calibers, and hun- town, as far as village of Milly. The troops 4 General reached dreds of machine-guns, have been captured. NOVEMBER of Major Summerall's Corps A Bavarian battalion of artillery was taken Morning: Carrying our attack further into the river at Cesse and Luzy and mopped up the with its personnel, horses and material com- the enemy's territory today, our troops have forest of Jaulnay. The important road center Beaumont before our victorious forces, plete. In the course of the operations of the past passed through the Bois de Belval and the Bois of fell pushed on to Bois de I'Hospice, two two days south of the river Lys, our troops, du Port Gerache, and are on the heights two who the north that town, capturing in their ad- acting under the command of the King of the kilometers south of Beaumont. Further to the miles of Belgians, advanced nearly ten miles, reaching west we are approaching Verrieres. All of the vance the village of Loianne. At Beaumont we French citizens, welcomed the western bank of the Scheldt and capturing towns situated on the west bank of the Meuse liberated 500 who several hundred prisoners. south of Halles are now in our hands. This our soldiers as deliverers. The advance of the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty- Ninth Divisions, morning our attack was extended to the east past two days has carried our line to points with- less special units, move to St. Aignan-Noyers bank of the Meuse, where it is progressing in five miles of the Sedan-Metz railroad, one of for skeletonization. favorably. the main lines of communication of the German British capture Valenciennes; Italians Evening: On the entire front from the Meuse Armies. Between Beaumont and the Bar, take Trent and Trieste; Serbians reoccupy to the Bar the ist Army continued its advance. Major General Dickman's Corps, in close Belgrade. On the extreme right, breaking down the last liaison with the French 4th Army on the left, King Boris of Bulgaria abdicates. efforts of the enemy to hold the high ground, our pushed forward under heavy artillery and ma- troops drove him into the valley of the Meuse, chine-gun fire through the rugged forest areas NOVEMBER 3 and forcing their way through the forest of beyond Stonne. The villages of Yoncq, la taken. ha~

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42 Before the ?ArmistIceland Behind It

(Continued from page p) source of information here is not Holly- Now, returned to New York, where he W'hereupon, in Germany, Bernstorff wood but certain officers and official was a successful business man and leader received this cable: records.) in the Czech National Alliance, he had "If Milada dies, so do you. We can They were interested in business on the gathered together the others. There were do it." River Rhine, especially at the frontier his right-hand man, Tvirdy; a woman; The message was signed "Emmanual where it connects Holland with Ger- an Englishman, and Kopecky, who later Voska." many. Queer business. Not merely pick- became the first Czech consul in New After the Armistice, Milada returned ing up such deserters as were coming from York because of experience gained in the from prison safe to Prague. Germany hidden in other craft, but Austro-Hungarian Consulate there Not one of the eight Czech-Americans encouraging more to come. Beneath a partly in stealing official documents for in Voska's secret service turned traitor, canal-boat's floorboards may be con- photographing in that inner room of the although for long salaries were none; cealed a deserter, a spy or propaganda Pneumograph Company's office. expenses were paid from Voska's own leaflets, cleverly printed in excellent There the five did other things equally pocket until it went empty. It was re- German, telling how the A. E. F. now illegal—listened to tapped telephone filled by the British secret service, which numbers nearly two million and increases wires connecting with the Austrian Con- owed much of its success to the Czechs. by 300,000 a month. Distributed among sulate and the residences of prominent But when his adopted country, America, a people war-weary and underfed, they Austrians, and directed the operations entered the war, Voska offered it the were bombshells deadly as any 75 of one of the most astonishing secret finest secret service within its borders especially when to them were added services ever to operate on American with results almost tragic. For his Slav descriptions of how well that American soil. All over the country it stretched, eloquence had an effect somewhat mixed Army would treat German soldiers who covering the Austrian Embassy and upon Brigadier General Marlborough sauntered over to its side of the line. consulates from the inside through Czech Churchill, then Chief of Military In- employes who looked, talked and acted telligence. THEY helped bring "the Maatschap- Austrian—or German. And in the office "This Voska," he opined, "is a very py" more business; more deserters, of Dr. Heinrich Albert, openly German hot sketch." more news from inside beleaguered Ger- propaganda chief and secretly spy chief But when the fiery Czech delivered the many—news too good to be true! At last, in America, there worked as clerk in goods General Churchill was prompt to after four years, morale on the front and charge of mail—-three guesses—Yoska's admit it, and to make him a captain in the behind it was showing real cracks. At last, daughter! United States Army attached to Military the Allied secret services might realize What wonder the Czech-American Intelligence on a mission unique in our their dream of a complete collapse of the secret service deserves but has not re- history. He was to help build up an army German Empire. One step toward it was ceived credit for many of the most for a nation that had not existed for the organization in Holland of an sensational revelations of German and centuries and was now held by the enemy, association of German deserters that Austrian spy activities in this country, while tearing down the army of that stretched a hand across the frontier to that helped force us into the war: The enemy which for centuries had been a comrades yet in the army, with results bombing of munitions factories; the great power. This secret war he and three that presently became remarkable. poisoning of horses; the faking of pass- or four other Czech-Americans, includ- But before that, in the summer of 1018, ports. Our Department of Justice got ing relatives, and all in the American consequences truly astounding came from information of these things from Yoska's Army, were to wage from a base near similar though more extensive operations men, and they deserve considerable Padua whence they were to tunnel under against the Austro-Hungarian army and credit for the dismissal for complicity of the front and into the vitals of the Dual Empire. These had begun the previous Austro-Hungarian Ambassador Dumba Monarchy. It was autumn, 191 7. autumn, almost a year to the day before and even of the then German Military the Armistice, under the flashing eye of a Attache Captain Von Papen, who re- WITHIN a year they did both. To short, broad, dark man who may be cently helped deliver Austria into Hitler's build up the Czech army they tore called without exaggeration the American hand. But when Von Papen's master, down the Austrian, luring away its Czech Master Spy of the World War. Emmanuel Ambassador Von Bernstorff, was finally conscripts. Already thousands had de- Voska wore the uniform of a captain, sent home, one of the Czechs' most daring serted to the Russians and formed those U. S. Army, when he was not wearing one coups was made by a woman. Czech Legions that later crossed Siberia. of sundry disguises, including the gray of Now G-2's Czech-Americans got them to the Austrian army that he hated. For SHE was Milada Janaschek, handsome, join the Italian army. Prisoners ajready though an American citizen, he was a loyal Czech-American but able to pass captured, they were enthusiastic with Czech born, devoting every waking for a loyal German. Posing as a maid- the eloquent pamphlets or speeches cf moment to the fight for Czech inde- servant, she got work in the suite of Von Voska, but for more converts they went pendence. That fight started, again not Bernstorff. From such a peephole, such wherever Czech, Croat or other Slav in Hollywood, but in an inner room of an a spy could and did turn in reports so troops were in front line. To them by day office suite in the Hudson Terminal valuable that when passed to the De- they sent by airplane leaflets promising Building in New York, whose outer door partment of Justice they helped hasten good treatment if they surrendered; by bore the title "The Pneumograph Com- the Ambassador's exit. Wonderful—but night they followed up, crawling across pany." goodbye to a fine pipeline to German No Man's Land, playing on graphophones Just another "Maatschappy," for in plans. So, weeping, the woman spy threw folk songs of the Slav races, then talking that inner room was transacted business herself at Bernstorff's feet, begging him to the men opposite, questioning them so very queer that but five persons were to take her with him. The Ambassador about food, discipline and morale, urging ever in on it. First was Voska, enthusi- consented, and the woman spy's reports them to desert. astic at the chance to win freedom for his became even more valuable. Then "Come over and join your Slav native land that he had seen on his first suddenly they stopped, and a cablegram brothers!" they pleaded. "We'll give you visit to Czechoslovakia since he fled came* "The Germans have caught her. good food and clothing, and a chance to twenty years earlier, a political refugee. They're going to shoot her." fight for freedom!"

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the German censorship printed in red ; or help end the war. Then to the Allied Vle ftxed it So MOU - of ttO- speeches of German Socialists attacking secret services in Denmark came an tedlH else - will evev hawe te qo uxn° a^ain S the Kaiser's government. emissary who was to shape world history By early spring of 1918, 100,000 such in manner hitherto untold. He might be leaflets were being sent monthly over the called the Unknown Sailor, for he was a German lines in trench-mortar bombs or deserter from the German Fleet at Kiel. shells, or by balloons that could drop 500 "They are tired of the war," he said. to 1000 leaflets 600 miles in the interior. "The submarine crews have too much We developed a new type that scattered service; the rest of the 80,000 sailors, too 10,000 sheets singly. With that machine little. Morale is rotting. Many revo- gun in a week we could spray three lutionary comrades are at work, and I million verbal bullets: a circular showing have come for Allied help." the mounting German losses, another " A stool pigeon or a nut," thought the showing the mounting Allied gains in the Allied secret service chiefs; but not the growing A. E. F. Such bullets found American, Colonel Siqueland. billets, and Hindenburg issued an order "What's your idea?" he asked. calling them "leaflets intended to kill the The German's idea was not postage They came—though they knew if they soul," and warning that "the enemy is stamps, but bread tickets—counterfeit were captured, they would be hanged. ingenious. He knows how to mix the little ones. The sailor would risk smuggling And behind them the Slav spirit wasburn- powder for everyone." Soldiers must turn them to his comrades in Kiel. With them, ing like acid into the fabric of the mon- them in or be severely punished. In July they could recruit more comrades, for archy. Voska's men knew that, as they 300,000 were turned in, but more were rations were short and waverers many. crawled or flew across, dressed as peas- kept, especially our translation of General Just tell them that if they joined up, ants or Austrian soldiers, delivering sup- Pershing's order that Germans who sur- they ate . . . plies, chocolate, propaganda, words of rendered should get the same food as Siqueland sold his British friend on the good cheer: "The Americans are coming! American doughboys : white bread, bacon, idea. Fast as British presses ground out Don't give up!" And delivering more condensed milk, sugar, real coffee. They tickets, lusty German revolutionaries ate bombs that blew up so many ammunition saved that one to present to the Ameri- up the bread. As their number grew, so dumps that the Austrians postponed cans as a meal ticket. shrank the • supply of bread for non- their spring offensive in 1918 from April Whereat Captain Sanford Griffith, revolutionaries. Result, a riot, and arrests to June—when it failed. chief prisoner-questioner of the First by German police. One, it is said, was a "They will never attack again," Voska Army, asked them to sign another ticket. woman revolutionary who was shot, but predicted in his reports to G-2. "Now . . . This copy of their own Feldpostkarte her name and details are lacking. one good blow!" described that food and said: The Unknown Sailor suggested a more That blow, in late October, 1918, "This is what the American Army gives daring stroke. This time the presses pro- crushed Austria-Hungary like an egg- its prisoners. Don't worry about me." duced German marks, counterfeited so shell, thanks partly to 24,000 Czechs who Those postcards G-2 mailed in Switzer- cleverly that they were not detected, went over the top with the Italians to land for delivery to thousands of German and, Hindenburg said in his memoirs, victory at Vittorio Veneto—and on to families. And did they help desertions? hastened Germany's fall. The revo- Prague. There today the Czech Guard So did the work from Switzerland of Dr. lutionaries used them, not in Kiel alone, wears uniforms Italian, Russian f and Frank E. Bohn of the Friends of German but also elsewhere in Germany, in the French, for their three Legions that Democracy, an organization of German- myriad ways in which revolutionaries helped bring their independence, and Americans who helped a colony of Ger- can use money. At many points Allied Armistice, November 4, 1918. Voska was man exiles work for revolution. Their and American secret and propaganda welcomed to Prague by a now obsolete newspaper, Die Freie Zeitung, that told services were now working in cahoots Austrian police circular describing him how Germany was losing the war and had with them, helping them to realize their and urging that he be "suppressed." He better lose the Kaiser, was mailed to hope for a revolution that should not is there today, representing an American thousands of sympathizers within Ger- only end the war but free Germany from corporation, active in Czech-American many, with German postage stamps the military dictatorship of Hindenburg- affairs, and doubtless, on the Nazi counterfeited in England. Today they Ludendorff. Gestapo's list—for "suppression." are a collector's item. A similar news- Dangerous work, but North Germany Soon after Voska went to Italy, the paper in Holland had to suspend when was netted by an underground railway success of propaganda against rickety the German secret service kidnapped its with stations in obscure inns in Ham- Austria became evident, and the Allies editor across the frontier, where his fate is united for a real try at tough old Ger- unknown. many. In Britain energetic Lord North- They needed the strong arm by late cliff e took charge; in France the Deux- summer, 1918, for Germany was nearing ieme Bureau had German Socialist utter collapse. That news came during collaborators; and we joined in, like our August from Allied spies all over the embattled ancestors at Bunker Hill who country: lured British Grenadiers to desert by "German soldiers sell the clothes of circulars promising "fresh provisions, $7 their own dead comrades. They cut the a month, and a good farm." leather saddles and harness to pieces to G-2, A. E. F., set up a propaganda sell as re-soles for shoes. The wounded strategy board, Ambassador Hugh Gib- sell their shoes to the unwounded." son, Walter Page and Captain Walter "In five places troops have refused to Lippmann, to decide what the Germans go to the front." other cities. In these should be told; and to tell them, a field "The working classes speak secretly of burg, Bremen and the section headed by Captain Heber Blank- deliverance by the Americans and hope stations sought refuge members of enborn and Lieutenants Charles Mertz that militarism will be overwhelmed." deserters' club from Holland, who were and Ludlow Griscom. They decided that The American victory of St. Mihiel darting back into Germany on quick campaigns of revolt and de- in this war of words, faking was out; the strengthened that hope, also the Allies' whispering burning best bullets were the truth: President conviction that American aid for German feat, distributing leaflets, even Wilson's speeches with portions cut by democracy was the best propaganda to munition plants {Continued on page 44)

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or wrecking trains. The ticket to the in a railroad station one case should fall, From Kiel it exploded like firecrackers underground railroad was a password break open and disgorge its telltale load. along the underground railroad. Novem- which the revolutionaries imparted to the Then Ambassador Joffe was expelled, ber 6th, Hamburg, Bremen; November American secret service on condition but not until November 4th, after he had 7th, Munich; November oth, Berlin. At that Allied spies should use it to gain supplied the German revolutionaries Foch's railroad-car headquarters the shelter only if they were in great danger. Cohn and Barth with ten million marks, German Armistice Delegation begged for What wonder the Allied and American 1500 pistols and 27,000 cartridges. And machine guns enough to save something secret services predicted the German hands willing to use them had been freed of the old Germany, of which now well- revolution as confidently as a radio by the Liberal but timid Chancellor Max nigh the only relic was the Kaiser. announcer introduces a program? Word of Baden who, crying "The Americans But the Kaiser was at G. H. Q. with of it was coming from Captain Griffith, will break through and devastate the the telephone off the hook to escape cleverly pumping prisoners taken in the country!" released from prison thousands Chancellor Max's incessant appeals that Meuse-Argonne, and from secret services of -political prisoners. They promptly he abdicate. At last, on November 10th, in the neutral countries. One such spread over the country, devastating it the Kaiser announced: branch of the American service told quite another way. "I abdicate as Emperor of Germany, Chaumont and Washington in late As the doughboys thundered at the gates but not as King of Prussia." October that it would break out any day, of Sedan, at Kiel a German sailor climbed "Kings are out, too!" retorted a rudely for agents had just returned from Berlin, the stack of the Moltkc and started to revolutionary Berlin. "Already the Re- where they had talked with the leaders. paint it red. On all the ships the engine- public is proclaimed!" The Red Embassy at Berlin had been room crews drew their fires and joined the So the front pages screamed that a center of intrigue. It had imported and crowds forming ashore, among whom morning of November nth, twenty distributed in Germany revolutionary glowed red armbands—the first. Perhaps years ago. But not even a whisper about propaganda by the packing case—until the Unknown Sailor was there, grinning. the secret services, both Allied and the German secret service arranged that The revolution! American.

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(Continued from page 11) flying toward me, high up, with the bright disturbed him. I wondered at the sim- caution. The water, shallow for the most sun bringing out the green of his breast, plicity of his garb, not then being fa- part, two or three feet, with an occasional as he hurried from one Nebraska lake to miliar with the local system of gathering deeper channel, seemed only to inspire another, or his instant crumpling as the up dead ducks. him. He took it all in his stride or stroke. dear little 20-gauge that my pals called As George rowed me to the blinds, not When he came back with the goose I the popgun spoke its high staccato? too far away, I spoke what were meant could see that he had decided to let me I suppose one reason ducks are my to be a few pleasant words, intended to live a little longer, at least. favorite game is that they are hard to make us acquainted and to put him at Soon two more geese came. I downed hurt and not easy to kill. They are shy his ease, but only a few words, for the them. Later ducks sauntered by and and wise and can they carry away shot? boy was sullen, and you know what a another goose, so that when we picked That waterproof suit they wear is almost sullen black boy can be like. Silently, up at dusk there were four geese and as hard to pierce as armor of a tank. then, he began to put out the decoys and eight ducks. Wait, now, why not hark back to black afterward thrust the boat bow first George was almost cheery as he rowed George and his first startled glimpse of through the easily-bent willow wands. over to the launch, which already had what might be done by an auto gun? We had not been waiting ten minutes taken on my two companions. Once in My two friends and I went from San when a lone sprig came along, about the power-boat and after a few words Antone to the Gulf, where the old market forty yards up. He flew straight over us. with the other retriever boys George hunter had a shelter. There one could eat I rose, he spiraled in the fashion of that was positively gay, to the point of laugh- and sleep. Flat-bottomed power-boat, peculiar duck, I fired three quick shots, ing out loud. I learned that the boys skiffs, decoys and here and there blinds missed each. The sprig went on. gambled and often risked their all on the were ready. These blinds were simply George looked darker and darker. kill of their respective gunners. George but effectively designed. Nothing but A few minutes later, practically the had not been too joyous to draw me in willows stuck into the bottom of the identical performance occurred, and the first place, but now things looked Gulf, in the shape of a boat, their tops again, after three misses, the duck different. Geese, it seems, count three, so just high enough to conceal the gunner passed out of our lives. that our bag equalled twenty ducks. as he sat. When the birds came and he As I looked at George, I saw that he That happened to be high for the after- rose, his head and arms were above the was as one having a divided mind. I am noon and made George the "winnah." blind. sure that he felt he ought either to burst The next morning, the same party In the power-boat, we three, with a into tears or to kill me and then commit started about nine o'clock. I had wanted colored man at the helm, and three black suicide. There was no speech between to get up earlier and be in the blind by boys, made from shore, towing three us—no words would answer. daybreak, but was told there were plenty skiffs. Not far along, George and I took Then came a lone Canada goose, of birds. a small boat with decoys, gun and rather far out and not stopping. I In a little while, there were George and ammunition. George was a prototype of knocked him down with a broken wing. I back in the same blind, but what a a Greek god in ebony. That was not hard Now I saw George as a substitute for a change in him. He was as chirpy as a to see, for all he wore was a tattered pair Chesapeake Bay retriever. The way he robin. of faded overalls. No hat, shirt or shoes went after that wounded bird was a We hadn't long to wait. Three widgeon

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 45 were our first visitors. They came close enough, my eye was right, and George, having just gathered up the last of them, was seating himself when I saw five red- heads heading our way. As you know, canvasbacks and red- heads are alike in that they do very little trifling with decoys. They come in or they pass by, without much hesitation. These five were about to pass by, some thirty yards off. They were flying twenty feet above the water, in a string, equally spaced—say ten feet apart, following the leader. As they came almost abreast, I rose and gave them 1-2-3-4-5. Each fell in his place as if forming up for aquatic drill. It was one of those lucky flukes that any man who shoots a great deal will have happen to him once out of a thousand times. The ducks all being in the water, I looked at George, to see if he might be starting to pick them up. There he sat, jaw dropping, eyes popping. "Well! What's the matter? Go get them!" He shook his head and drew a deep breath. Then, in a voice that trembled and was full of awe, he quavered: "Fo' de Lawd, boss, dat gun uh yourn she certny do jest squirt shot!" The ducks kept coming. I got no more s's that morning, of course, but in twenty-five minutes I had our twenty- five ducks and George was taking up ready to go in, and again he won, for though the others got the limit we were in first and he took the pot. Oh, yes, you are right. I did say some- thing of shooting ducks in Scotland. Will you forgive me? I am sure you know how it is, with old sportsmen, old soldiers or any other old men whose lives have been full. They love to hark back. I suppose that is because they have seen and done and felt so much. At any rate, now that you have forgiven me, let us return to that talk between my two friends and my- self when the Colonel and the Chief were spending the evening with me. You might have expected me to forget the conversation with its attendant invi- tation almost immediately— if you are crazy—otherwise you may be quite sure that sleeping or waking the thought of that suggested expedition was never quite out of my mind. I planned and I hoped and I worked for it as a boy struggles to save his first money to get Fourth-of-July fireworks. I almost came to the point of feeling sure I would die before the time came around, much as I used to feel when I was a little shaver and counted the long months between me and Christmas. But nothing happened except good things. My busi- went along well, two or three new ness YES! YOUR MONEY BACK clients with reasonable retainers in their IF NOT DELIGHTED! hands appeared as it were out of a clear Smoke 20 fragrant pipef uls of Prince f v HI MP sky, and by midsummer of 191 1 dalliance Copr., 1938. R. J. Reynolds Tob. Co, Albert. If you don't find it the with the ducks began to loom large in the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you smoked, return the pocket tin fall foreground. ever with the rest of the tobacco in it I crossed on the Olympic. Many of you to us at any time within a month we will refund will remember her. So do I—in peace and from this date, and full purchase price, plus postage. in war happily and horribly—but, if — (Signed) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE you don't mind, {Continued 011 page 46) Company, Winston - Salem, N. C.

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(Continued from page 45) let us get to the ducks in Scotland. Some who was number four, climbing and fifty. A few more were picked up later. other day, if we feel like it, we may talk twisting to get away. I took the wounded And now you will want to know how together about that great ship. one and another. One hit the water, the all this was possible. You will be wonder- The setup for the Scotch ducks was other the shore. ing where the ducks came from and how this! There were five of us to shoot, Scarcely had the five been disposed of it was that just when we wanted them numbered one to five. We were the when here came three. They met the fate they were coming to us. This is the way "guns." Each had two shotguns and a of their brethren and were followed in of it: The Chief bought mallard eggs to man to do the loading. We gathered at turn by four. Then a lone duck. Then add to the store he acquired from the the lake. I found it a body of water about five again, and five and four. So on for setting of his own ducks. These eggs were five hundred yards long and not over fifteen minutes. Then Albert's horn blew, put under hens, and the ducklings two hundred yards across at the widest calling forth its answer from the hill. The hatched out were placed in one of three point. Pine and fir trees stood upon the flight ceased and the guns changed po- different lakes upon the estate. north end and the east side of it. The sition, number one becoming number They were fed night and morning, at a other shores were broken ground, show two—that is, all giving way from right point distant about half a mile from the ing only an occasional tree. To the north to left one down. home waters. As little fellows, they were, of us the hill rose up to an approximate What happened during the first period of course, fed fully. As they grew old height of two hundred feet, attaining this was repeated in the second, and done enough to walk well and fly they were level at a distance of a half-mile or so over in the third. All of the glamour and gradually coaxed further and further up from the water's edge. charm and seductive allure of pass shoot- the hill until at last they reached the full Albert, who accompanied the Chief, ing was present in this form of sport. I distance. raised a small brass trumpet he carried could not shake off the feeling that the Here, after a time, they quickly and sounded a shrill, unmusical note. ducks would stop coming, that every one learned to fly back, after the morning This was answered from over the crest to I saw headed toward the lake was the and evening meal. This became habit the northeast by three short blasts from last one. But they kept on and on and on with them, and a flight always followed a a similar horn. In direct response to the and on until we stopped for luncheon. feeding. Sometimes several wide circuits, signal and its answer I caught a move- Allen, the butler from the castle, but always a return to the home waters. ment on the part of my loader as he said and his troop of footman satellites had When the time came to shoot, the large in excited accents: "There they come! set up trestles and laid a damask-draped wire-netting partial enclosure in which There they come!" table in the open ground, roofed only by the birds had been feeding was com- Over the tops of the trees, from the the gray sky. Here the five hungry sports- pleted while they were within. Then they place where I had heard the answering men sat down to a piping hot array of were released at the signal in lots of from horn, swiftly hurtling to their home lake, luscious viands, which, completed by one to five. There you have a description came five big mallards. Flying high, they some rare old port and an exceptional of the machinery which guaranteed to were, and though unconscious of danger, quality Havana, left us in almost too the sportsman a shot, or as many shots apparently disposed to settle in the lower good humor to care for more shooting. as he liked, when and where he desired. part of the lake, while the guns were dis- However, I did not notice anybody All the birds were in prime condition. posed around the upper. In fact, two of flunking a shot when we were back on the Those not used at the Castle or given to the guns were on the upper right hand lake and the ducks had recommenced friends were sent to Edinburgh or Lon- side, one in a boat in the middle of the their descent upon us. don and sold. None was wasted. They lake, while the last two, numbers four At four o'clock the horn blew from the were their own birds, to be sure, but I and five, were opposite one and two on hilltop a prolonged blast as a token that confess I squirmed a little inside to see so the left upper side of the lake as you the last duck had taken wing. There were many dead at once. looked up it. a few cripples to pick up, but only a few, Remember what I told you earlier The mallards came straight on for the because fifteen or twenty gillies haa been about the real sport of getting a few center of the lake, about forty yards about the lake all day, gathering from birds at home, with much hard work? above the water. They passed a little to shore and boat the dead and wounded Nonetheless, the shooting in Scotland— one side of number three in the boat, to ducks. When the bag was laid out upon ducks, deer and all—was something to receive his salute. He killed one and the shore for counting in lines of twenty- have done, and I am glad the chance wounded another. They swung over me, five we found an even six hundred and came my way.

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"Start it well; and let the natives carry was no place to move the children. Huge get around fast enough, so she spent $500 on by themselves." doses of quinine were not stopping the of her own to buy a second-hand automo- It is in accomplishing great deeds with epidemic. Men had been draining swamps bile to carry the oil. When the job was small means that Miss Carr is at her best. to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes, but done she sold the car at a $75 loss—that's The job she performed at Corinth from their work was not thorough. the only automobile she ever owned. She ig24 to 1926 was one of her best. The Miss Carr organized the Greek women made sure that all wells were covered, in Near East Relief had moved 3000 or- from the best families in Corinth and many cases going into back yards and phans from Smyrna and put them in an turned them into inspectors. She took 93 doing it herself. She saw that every hoof- old army barracks at Corinth, a city of of the older orphan boys and put them to print that held water, every puddle was io.ooo. Instantly the staff and children work digging ditches. She toured the city drained or oiled. A hundred miles of were attacked by malaria. After two with a horse and wagon and helper, pour- drainage ditches were dug. Until she weeks more than 2000 were sick. There ing oil on every wet spot. She couldn't reached them, mosquitoes and larvae

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine could be dipped out of some irrigating tanks like moss. Several thousand natives had to be educated to the battle. When A she finished her three-year job there was "WHAT only one patient in the hospital—a boy MHO? who had cut his finger with a knife. How many lives she saved nobody ever took the trouble to find out. She was once called upon to fight a typhus epidemic several hundred miles up the coast from Athens. To stop the typhus she'd have to kill the lice, and to do that she'd need a delouser. Officials at Athens told her they had none, but she poked around and found one they'd used in the war. It weighed about a ton, and the regular boat up the coast

couldn't carry it. She rented a barge, had

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that the owner of the boat tow it. He protested that the waves would sink the

barge. She argued till he gave up, and for days and nights she sat in the stern of the barge as it crawled along the coast. They reached the town in the middle of the third night, unloaded the delouser on a rickety pier—and wham!—the pier gave way. Miss Carr woke up the mayor, demanded men and horses, and got the delouser safely to shore. She stopped the typhus. On another occasion she was fighting tuberculosis in a section of Athens. The police, in their attempt to force food sellers to observe sanitary regulations, were stumped. Unless a policeman stood in front of each shop all day long, the in- different merchants broke the laws con- tinuously. And there weren't enough police to do that. It made Miss Carr mighty mad. She had been teaching several thousand refu- gee women how to care for tuberculous patients; showing them how flies carry germs, how the slovenly merchant was the enemy of every person who wanted to keep well. Now she incited her women GRANT RICE to know what's BALANCED PATTERNS . . . Nitro Express to active revolt She had huge pictures TRUST what in sports. Tops among sports shells have balanced patterns at all ranges, made, showing how sidewalks must be scribes, he fishes and hunts with sports with no fringed edges and no holes for kept clean, shops whitewashed, food kept figures whose names make news. And game to slip through. under screens and glass. When the women what shell does Grant tuck in his Rem- Take a tip from Rice and other in-the- discovered a lawbreaker they would gang ington pump gun? Nitro Express, of know sportsmen. Shoot Nitro Express or up in front of his shop, wave their fists, course. But let Grant tell you: Arrow Express (with lacquered body and shout that he was trying to murder "When I shoot, I want a load that goes and extra-high head). Both have stand- their children. That ended the lawbreak- places and packs plenty of wallop when ard brands of progressive burning pow- it gets there. That's why I shoot Nitro ders and gas-tight wadding to keep every ing. Express. ounce of super-power behind the shot. Time and again she has seen the work DOUBLE "WET-PROOF" . . . "Nitro Express Grant's gun, you'll notice, is the famo is she has started taken up and carried on is double Wet-Proof . . . take it from a Remington Model 31AP pump action by the people themselves; filthy seen fellow who's hunted in everything from shotgun. And don't forget—if it's Rem- plague spots turned into tidy and healthy, a drizzle to a downpour. ington, it's right! Remington Arms Com- if poor, communities. NO BARREL CLEANING . . . "And Kleanbore pany, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. One of her most important jobs was at priming in Nitro Express keeps my gun cleaning!" Kaisariani, a city of 40,000 refugees on bore bright, even without Member of the American Wildlife Institute the edge of Athens, the worst plague "For a more abundant game supply" spot in Greece. Beginning in 1030, she worked for four years in a section housing 10,000 men, women and children in the Remington. most unbelievable extremes of poverty. Families were crowded into barracks hastily built of boards and tin and paper. The gutter was the sewage system. Ver- min was everywhere. Water was so scarce that bathing was a rare rite. A survey of Nitro Expreea, Arrow Express , Wet- Proof and Kleaobor* a thousand families (Continued on page 48) are Rejr. U. S. Pat. Off. by the Remington Arms Co., Ino.

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in one section showed 430 cases of tuber- dition of so many thousands of people. the mountains were full of bandits culosis—and it was increasing. To forget, she goes to dances and movies thirsty for loot. But she insisted. It wasn't Then Miss Carr, enlisting a little and to the beach. Sometimes she can't that she was brave. She was so tired she government aid, went to work to show stand it and goes on a bust. In 1922, after honestly hoped a bandit would end her Greece what could be done. Three years months of work in Poland, Serbia and troubles. She saw no bandits. later, in the same section, only 33 cases Czechoslovakia, in snow and rain, with But at the end of the trip she gave up. of tuberculosis could be found in 1332 starving children and crippled soldiers, Having heard of a man who had toured families. she quit. She was through with relief Egypt and the Nile in a private caravan, Examine any week in Miss Carr's life work forever. She and another nurse, she decided to do that. Her caravan con- since she sailed for France on the Finland with the same idea, had saved $1500 sisted of nine Arabs, four camels and a and you find excitement and drama. each, and went on a three months' tear. donkey. Then, every cent gone but feeling Relief work is always dangerous. You They toured Europe and Egypt and spent swell, she went back to Greece and to can't help everybody, and those who are everything except passage money back work. "Mister," she says with deep feel- left out often go berserk. to America. When Miss Carr arrived in ing, "that was some trip!"

Though Miss Carr is intensely practi- New York, dead broke, she was sure she In Miss Carr's desk at home is a little cal, her work has taken her to the thresh- would never, never—and then the Red leather-bound diary she bought when she old of scientific discoveries. She never Cross asked her if she wouldn't go to went to France. The entries to date are as follows them up; she holds herself rigidly Greece. follows: "June 9, 1917. Boarded Finland. to the question: How much good can Three years later she again felt she June 10. In harbor. June n. In harbor. J it do the people I am trying to help now! could stand it no longer. It was after a June 12. In harbor. June 13. Sailed. Very But with all her vitality, Miss Carr is five-day trip on a donkey through West- rough. Very busy." Life has been so very only human, and the strain tells. Often ern Greece, to see that the refugees were rough, ever since, and she has been so she goes home and becomes almost hys- getting their supplies and that the camps very busy, that Miss Carr has never had terical over the seemingly hopeless con- were in order. She was warned not to go; time to make another entry.

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{Continued from page j) officer from one casket to another. The the Unknown lay in state at the hotel procession is led by a car containing officer then left the room and another deville of Chalons. The train left for Paris President Warren G. Harding, followed officer entered and performed the same and remained in the Paris yards over- in turn by a car which bears the shrunken duties, and then a third officer, so that night under heavy guard. On the morning and wasted form of former President by the time the three officers had of the 26th the journey was continued Wilson. The procession soon arrives at finished their work any possible means to Le Havre. The solemn procession Arlington Cemetery, and the casket is of identifying the body or the cemetery was headed by French soldiers, fol- carried from the caisson to the awaiting from which it came had been destroyed. lowed by a detachment of French tomb. This was done so that any chance of Marines. Then came one hunderd repre- Present at the services centering around identifying the cemetery and then tracing sentatives of the French veteran organiza- the tomb are members ~f the Cabinet what troops may have fought in that tions bearing flowers and wreaths. Be- and of the Supreme Court, Senators and locality and the States from which they hind came twenty-four American soldiers Representatives, together with many came might be in vain. without sidearms, and then the caisson generals and admirals and other officers. The bodies were now placed in the drawn by six horses. General Allen Also to be seen among the throng are caskets on which they rested and the walked with M. Maginot, representing ex-President Taft and Vice President caskets closed. The doors were then the French Government, on his right, Coolidge, while nearby is the General opened, and Sergeant Edward S. Younger, and Admiral Barthes on his left. of the Armies, John J. Pershing. Repre- Headquarters of the Second Bat- As the solemn parade started on its senting Allied nations are Marshal Foch, talion, 59th Infantry, who had been march to the pier, all the church bells Premier Briand of France, Lord Balfour selected for the duty due to his excellent in the city started tolling, and they of England, Admiral Lord Beatty of the war record, was handed a spray of white tolled all during the march and until British Navy, Generalissimo Diaz of the roses by General Allen. Passing the four the Unknown had left the shores of Italian armies, General Baron Jacques coffins, Sergeant Younger turned and France. The procession wound its way of Belgium, General the Earl of Cowan, passed again. Twice he made the turn through the city streets to the dock and Tokugewa, Prince of Japan. more slowly, then, pausing, he gently where the Olympia, former flagship of After the invocation and the singing of raised his hand and amid an intense and Admiral Dewey, awaited its solemn a hymn, President Harding advances and impressive silence placed the roses on the burden. with deep reverence places upon the casket furthest to the right looking from casket a simple spray of flowers. Marshal the door. The body was then removed IN THE gray dawn of November 11, Foch comes forward and removing the to another room and there placed in a 1921, the city of Washington is astir star of the Legion of Honor from his

special casket on which was engraved: early. The third anniversary of the sign- breast, bestows it upon the Unknown AN UNKNOWN AMERICAN SOL- ing of the Armistice has been selected in the name of the Republic of France. DIER WHO GAVE HIS LIFE IN THE for the entombment in Arlington Ceme- He is followed by many others who de- GREAT WAR. An American Flag was tery of the American Unknown Soldier. posit upon the simple casket the orders placed over the casket, and the body was A glittering cortege leaves the capitol and decorations of the Allied nations. ready for the journey home. and winds its way through the streets of So was laid to rest the Unknown From one to five o'clock the body of Washington across the Potomac. This American Soldier.

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not get overseas." He was drilling to go, or drilling others to go, to make sure there would be enough. Heinie, as he met our arriving divisions, found they were up to the early samples. More and more were coming—more and more with the same glint in their eyes. It turned out that two millions of us in France were enough—enough because of the way those at the front were fighting because of the two millions coming up from behind—because all the four mil- lions had kept on driving so hard in that mighty, immortal effort. Never had there been its like under a merciless military regime, its like in American speed in mastering the profes- sional game of war through intensive labor and industry, and in attack with- out respite on the battle line. Suppose there had not been such un- conquerable spirit and energy, Army and Navy, by land and sea, backed by quick American adaptability and intelligence. We might not have finished the war in 1918. It might have gone on through 1919. What then? Envision that, pacifist and Little Boy Blue who now think we lost the war.

In 1 91 9, as our weary Allies marked time and waited on our offensives, we should have had to bear the great brunt of the fighting and the losses. There would be more and far larger fields of American white crosses in France, scores of more veteran hospitals at home, and hosts of more men broken physically and mentally as the cruel price on top of twice as large a war debt. From this, for God and Country, we saved America by finishing the job in 1918 instead of 19 19, the while we saved Europe from more prolonged misery, agony and bloodletting in that war.

For it was that war it was our job to end. Is that something to be ashamed of? Or that, eighteen months after we en- tered the war unprepared, we overcame the greatest military machine of all time across three thousand miles of ocean, and set our flag on the Rhine, without malice toward any nation or people? Are we ashamed of patriotism? Of striking the blows when the country called for blows? Of a job cleanly carried through from start to finish? That when it was over we kept the faith of our bar- gain by returning quietly to civil life and our country kept the faith with its bar- gain by asking no indemnity or territory as the reward of victory?

There is imperishable glory in this if not in war as war, which we have a practical while Little Boy Blue has Rolls smooth in a cigarette only a theoretical reason to abhor. It is a Copyright 1938, reminder to be stressed on Armistice Day. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. Draws right in both

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Indian village and gave it the sonorous Ned and Aunt Sally in their home. Other visitors, who make up the official con- name of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora, hundreds remembered that old school- vention and carry on the serious work of La Reina de Los Angeles—the City of mates were doing things in Hollywood the organization, map its program and our Lady, the Queen of the Angels. With and getting their names on the flickers; enunciate its policies. They were the ones the passing years and increasing im- well, there'll be a lot of prideful "I knew who applied themselves to their assigned portance of the pueblo, town and city, it him whens" from this time on. tasks while merrymaking thousands has shed forty of the original forty-two The serious work of the convention elbowed and jostled ,along the crowded letters of its name and is now irreverently began on Friday when the Resolution streets and made a picnic ground of Sixth referred to as L. A.—the movie capital of Assignment Committee, saddened by the Street, flowing out and eddying around the world. But whether in all the feeders from Figu- Spanish mission, Mexican eroa down to Main. Pueblo, or great American Nearly all day Sunday the city, it has never before been National Executive Com- called upon to entertain such mittee sat in session, closing a host as that which made up the work of the past year, up the attendance at the catching up loose ends, hear- National Convention of The ing reports of special com- American Legion during the mittees, and listening to week of September 18, 1938. occasional bursts of ora- Well did the citizens of the torical fireworks. Appoint- City of Our Lady, The ments were made to fill Queen of the Angels acquit vacancies in the national themselves. Reluctantly the organization caused by death tired but happy convention- or resignation, and the work aires turned away from the of the year completed inso- hospitable city at the end of far as that body was able to the meeting, though it will accomplish such an end. be weeks before the last Other committees met and Legion cap worn by a con- went about their work; men vention visitor disappears who give their time and from the scene. energy to the Legion through- California poppy girls greet the 40-and-8 equipment of City of a thousand sights, out the year, voluntarily and Kokomo (Indiana) Voiture on its arrival in Los Angeles. over an area of without thought of reward, spread out The blossoms are not the crimson French variety, but square miles, the fifth also gave their time at that 450.75 the yellow native to the Golden State largest city in the United moment when the holiday States; center of the moving spirit was rife. picture industry and home of the great recent death of its Chairman and long- The first official event opening the great movie stars, where celebrities whose time member, Dr. W. T. Dunning of Convention of 1938 was an impressive names are household words throughout Gonzales, Texas, took up its task of succession of song, martial music, recita- the world can be seen at work and at routing to the various convention com- tive and colorful pageantry recounting play; beaches and recreation centers, all mittees the 658 resolutions submitted by the glory of the fallen when, under a star- set in a most interesting section in a genial the fifty-eight Departments oi the Legion. spangled sky, an overflow audience of clime, combined to make Los Angeles an Each resolution submitted was studied more than 30,000 persons honored ideal convention center for the Legion (or and classified by subject, then sent to the America's silent legion of World War any other organization—no charge to the proper committee to insure careful con- dead at Hollywood Bowl on Sunday City Convention Bureau). The appeal sideration and recommendation to the night. It was a dramatic fusing of rever- was irresistible, the hospitality bound- convention as a whole for final dispo- ence and patriotism, reaching a moving less. And, though assured the Legion sition. This is the serious work of the climax in an illuminated mountainside week weather was a bit unusual, on the Legion that goes on while carnival reigns spectacle, with The American Legion up side, the Legion still likes it and votes in the streets—it is the side of a Legion emblem, a gold star and an American Los Angeles a Queen of Hosts. convention that the man in the street Flag standing out in relief high above a Aside from the regularly-scheduled does not see, and to which perhaps little field of white crosses sown with scarlet reunions of war-time buddies, and en- thought is given by non-Legionnaires poppies. tirely apart from the convention routine, while observing the merrymaking and The great audience packed every inch it is a safe bet that there were more family festivities that attend upon the great of space in the Bowl and overflowed on gatherings and reunions of old friends in national meetings. While attendance at the ramps outside. Tier upon tier of

Los Angeles than in any city in which the Los Angeles ran well up toward 1 50,000 reverent faces looked down as a river of national meeting has been held. Census (any guess is good after passing the standards—nearly eight hundred Ameri- figures say (and there is a note of finality hundred thousand mark—no official can Flags and Legion banners—streamed in the official statement of a census figures can ever be given) the actual into the Bowl for the ceremony which statistician) that one out of every three working body of Legionnaires in attend- officially ushered in the 1938 convention. people who have settled west of the Rocky ance numbered but 1,341 officially- National Commander Doherty called Mountains during the past ten years has elected delegates, plus a few hun- the service to attention and when honor settled inLosAngelesCounty. Therewere dred others—Past National Commanders, had been paid to the colors introduced few visitors who did not, casually and members of the National Executive Com- Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin of Los Angeles without prearrangement, into bump some mittee, chairmen and members of work- and Father Frank J. Lawler, National one from the old home town, or take an ing committees. It is always this small Chaplain, who pronounced invocations. evening out to have dinner with Uncle group, a fraction of the total body of Joe Colling (Continued on page 53)

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51 A Money-Making Opportunity for Men of Character EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE FOR An Invention Expected to Replace A Multi-Million-Dollar Industry Costly Work Formerly EARNINGS "Sent Out" by Business Men One man in California earned over $1,600 per month for three months—close —to $5,000 in 90 days' time. Another writes Now Done by Themselves from Delaware "Since I have been operating (just a little less than a month of actual selling) and not the full day at that, because I have been getting organized and had to spend at a Fraction of the Expense at least half the day in the office; counting what I have sold outright and on trial, I have made just a little in excess of one This is a call for men everywhere to handle thousand dollars profit for one month." A man working small exclusive agency for one of the most city in N. Y. State made $10,805 in 9 months. Texas man unique business inventions of the day. nets over $300 in less than a week's time. Space does not per- mit mentioning here more than these few random cases. How- Forty years ago the horse and buggy business was supreme—today ever, they are sufficient to indicate that the worthwhile future the almost extinct. Twenty years ago phonograph industry ran into in this business is coupled with immediate earnings for the many millions—today practically a relic. Only a comparatively few right kind of man. One man with us has already made over foresighted men saw the fortunes ahead in the automobile and the a thousand sales on which his earnings ran from $5 to $60 radio. Yet irresistible waves of public buying swept these men to per sale and more. A great deal of this business was repeat fortune, and sent the buggy and the phonograph into the discard. So business. Yet he had never done anything like this before are great successes made by men able to detect the shift in public favor coming with us. That is the kind of opportunity this business from one industry to another. offers. The fact that this business has attracted to it such Now another change is taking place. An old established industry—an integral business men as former bankers, executives of businesses and important part of the nation's structure—in which millions of dollars change hands men who demand only the highest type of opportunity and every year is in thousands of cases being replaced by a truly astonishing, simple inven- — income gives a fairly good picture of the kind of business this tion which does the work better—more reliably—AND AT A COST OFTEN AS LOW — is. door is open, however, to the young for AS 2% OF WHAT IS ORDINARILY PAID! It has not required very long for men Our man looking who have taken over the rights to this valuable invention to do a remarkable business, the right field inwhichto make his start and develophis future. and show earnings which in these times are almost unheard of for the average man.

Not a "Gadget"— — Profits Typical of No Money Need Be Risked Not a " Knick- Knack" the Young, Growing Industry in trying this business out. You can measure the possi» bilities and not be out a dollar. If you are looking for a but a valuable, proved device which business is like selling something Going into this not business that is not overcrowded—a business that is just has been sold successfully by busi- or department store. For offered in every grocery, drug coming into its own—on the upgrade, instead of the ness novices as well as seasoned can your instance, when you take a $7.50 order, $5.83 be downgrade—a business that offers the buyer relief from veterans. share. On $1,500 worth of business, your share can be a burdensome, but unavoidable expense—a business that $1,167.00. The very least you get as your part of every has a prospect practically in every office, store, or factory Make no mistake— this is no novelty—no flimsy creation dollar's worth of business you do is 67 cents—on ten into which you can set foot regardless of size that is a which the inventor hopes to put on the market. You — dollars' worth $6.70, on a hundred dollars' worth $67.00 necessity but does not have any price cutting to contend probably have seen nothing like it yet perhaps never — —in other words two thirds of every order you get is with as other necessities do that because you control dreamed of the existence of such a device yet it has already — — repeat orders yours. Not only on the first order—but on the sales in exclusive territory is your own business been used by corporations of outstanding prominence—by —and you have the opportunity of earning an even larger that pays more on some individual sales than many men make dealers of great corporations—by their branches—by doc- percentage. in a week and sometimes in a month's time—if such a business tors, newspapers, publishers—schools—hospitals, etc., etc., looks as if it is worth investigating, get in touch with us and by thousands of small business men. You don't have to at once for the rights in your territory—don't delay convince a man that he should use an electric bulb to light This Business Has because the chances are that if you do wait, someone else his office instead of a gas lamp. Nor do you have to sell Nothing to will have written to us in the meantime and if it turns the same business man the idea that some day he may need Do With — out that you were the better man—we'd both be sorry. something like this invention. The need is already there House to House Canvassing So for convenience, use the coupon below—but send it right the money is usually being spent right at that very away or wire if you wish. But do it now. Address moment — and the desirability of saving the greatest Nor do you have to know anything about high-pressure —

part of this expense is obvious immediately. selling. "Selling" is unnecessary in the ordinary sense of the word. Instead of hammering away at the customer F. E. ARMSTRONG, President and trying to "force" a sale, you make a dignified, Dept. 4020-M, Mobile. Ala. Some of the Savings business-like call, leave the installation—whatever size Can Show the customer says he will accept—at our risk, let the You customer sell himself after the device is in and working. | You walk into an office and put down before your prospect This does away with the need for pressure on the cus- 1 * letter from a sales organization showing that they did tomer—it eliminates the handicap of trying to get the F0R EXCLUSIVE . DIICU work in their own office for $11 which formerly could have money before the customer has really convinced himself I ItUOn TERRITORY PROPOSITION > cost them over $200. A building supply corporation pays 100%. You simply tell what you offer, showing pro^f of been for $1,600! success in that customer's particular line of business. our man $70, whereas the bill could have | F. E. ARMSTRONG. Pres., Dept. 4020 M. Mobile. Ala. I leave without a dollar down. It An automobile dealer pays our representative $15, whereas Then the invention Without obligation to me, send me full infor- _ the expense could have been over $1,000. A department starts working at once. In a few short days, the installa- mation on your proposition. store has expense of $88.60, possible cost if done outside tion should actually produce enough cash money to pay could profits above the investment coming in Name _ the business being well over $2,000. And so on. We for the deal, with j call back, collect your money. not possibly list all cases here. These arc just a few of at the same time. You then Street or Route the many actual cases which we place in your hands to Nothing is so convincing as our offer to let results speak Box I work with. Practically every line of business and every for themselves without risk to the customer! While others I No our arc making sales section of the country is represented by these field reports fail to get even a hearing, men Cl the atten- which hammer across dazzling, convincing money-saying running into the hundreds. They have received i " Opportunities which hardly any business man can fail to tion of the largest firms in the country, and sold to the State the thousands. understand. smallest businesses by I I

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conducted the Hollywood Post Band in a a twelve-gun salute and the clear notes of hear and read in these days makes me medley of Allied national airs, then Taps sounded by Bugler Aime Reinwald, glad I am an American," he said. "So massed groups of choristers loosed a echoing from the mountains and finally let's all sing." Then he lifted his baritone flood of tuneful memories with the songs losing themselves in the distance. The voice in leading the throng in singing "In Flanders Field" and "The Long, opening service—colorful, spectacular, "The Star-Spangled Banner." Long Trail." reverential—in which the Legion made The first official greetings were spoken The snap and precision of San Gabriel obeisance to the Almighty and rededi- by Governor Frank F. Merriam, of Cali- Drum and Bugle Corps, National Cham- cated itself to patriotism in its homeland fornia. "It is a happy thing to have you pions of 1936 and 1938, drew an ovation gave the keynote and the theme motif to here," said the Governor. "We admire from the crowd. Trim in brilliant yellow the convention sessions which followed. you for what you were. We admire you silk shirts and Old California costumes, The opening session of the Convention, for the things you have done. We admire San Gabriel brisked through a rapid suc- scheduled to start at 9 o'clock, was held you for what you are at the present time. cession of intricate musical maneuvers. in the great Shrine Auditorium on Mon- California perhaps as greatly as any State They were followed by the Chanters day morning. The delegates and visitors in the entire nation appreciates the

Post, of Los Angeles, singing a musical had passed a noisy and exhausting night, Legion and the things for which it stands. version of Rudyard Kipling's imposing but long before the hour set for the official We have everything in California that "Hymn Before Action" and "Dear Land opening streams of arrivals indicated a you have in all the other States put of Home." capacity crowd. Crescent City Post Band together—that is, everything that is A fanfare of bugles announced the first of New Orleans reached the immense good. We are made up of people from the pageant, and Herbert Marshall, British- stage at 8:45 to play the opening concert, other States. It is said that if you remain born actor, gave a running commentary taking the place of Musicians Post Band here in California for ten years you will as the production developed. Marshall of St. Louis, National Champions, which meet every person you ever knew." spoke briefly, introducing himself as an had been unable to attend. Then at 9:05 Commissioner Otto J. Emme, Legion- "English comrade in arms." A revolving the National Champion San Gabriel naire, represented Mayor Frank L. Shaw globe representing the world rotated as (California) Drum and Bugle Corps got a in delivering the greetings of the City of Marshall reviewed the beginning of the big hand when it came on the stage play- Los Angeles, and told visitors that the World War and the nations involved, and ing "Something About a Soldier." traditions of old pueblo hospitality held finally the birth of The American Legion. National Commander Daniel J. Do- good, a heritage from the Franciscan Bobby Breen, youthful screen and herty called the convention to order at Fathers who built the early missions and radio star, sang "Danny Boy" so sweetly exactly 9:35 when he rapped smartly on laid the foundations for the California that the crowd demanded an encore be- the miniature Liberty Bell. The first of today. fore the program could proceed. A second session, as is customary, was for the most Past National Commander John R. fanfare of bugles introduced the pageant part devoted to greetings from the host Quinn, an Angeleno and President of the "Golden Lady," played by Fay Holden State, City and Department, the formal 1938 American Legion Convention Cor- as a Gold Star mother, John Howard, organization of the convention and the poration, received an ovation when he Robert Preston, and Leard Davis. The delivery of the report of the National was introduced by National Commander entire service was directed by Bruce Commander. Doherty as "a true friend, a bulwark of Herman. When this Twentieth National Con- the Legion, and one of the finest ex- The climax of the dramatically moving vention of The American Legion was emplifications of American manhood." program came when "The Vision of the called to order the very air was charged "In this city," said Past National Com- Hills" was revealed to the thousands who with tenseness. It was a moment of grave mander Quinn, "you can stray farther sat or stood hushed within the Bowl. The concern, and there were questions of and see more without stepping outside the shell of the stage moved aside, and on the serious import to be considered. Dele- city limits than in any other city in the mountain slope, hidden from the audience gates and members of the convention world. The lights by which you read find by the shell and the darkness, powerful were determined that, insofar as it lay the source of energy in mountain streams floodlights revealed a green field studded within the power of the Legion, we, as a hundreds of miles away. The water you with white crosses and bedded down with nation, would preserve our freedom and drink is piped from mountain lakes as far 75,000 hospital-made memorial poppies. independence from European entangle- away from here as New York is from Standing at the end, as a guard of honor ments and, in the event of a European Boston. Los Angeles waited a long spell and a pledge of remembrance, were the war, would seek to preserve strict to get you out here. But once you decided eight hundred flags which had streamed neutrality. At the same time it was to come the boys out here pitched in with through the Bowl at the opening of the recognized that our only hope of main- a will that made my task as President of ceremony. Then, as Richard Stanley taining a status of independence and the Corporation an easy one. I want to raised his voice in the poignant strains of neutrality was in the strength of our thank them sincerely. "My Buddy," hundreds of white pigeons national defense, and in building a home "The people of Los Angeles," he con- were released from cotes under the flags defense through a program of American- tinued, "know that there are really two and fluttered up through the blinding ism, patriotic education, a constant fight conventions in progress here. One is for glare of the lights, circling around and against subversive influences and the the discussion and determination of a around over the field of crosses—then borers-from-within. The audience roared program vastly significant to our country. losing themselves in the darkness. Above its approval as speaker after speaker The other is a reunion of comrades who the field, one after another, appeared an echoed that sentiment. gather to renew acquaintances and raise roof. will illumined American Legion emblem, then Father Frank J. Lawler, National the The people of Los Angeles above it a Gold Star, and finally a huge Chaplain, in his invocation asked the enter into the spirit of this roof-raising. American flag was unfurled. Almighty to "give us wisdom for the The more fun you have the better Los Stirring chords of "The Star-Spangled future." The colors were advanced and Angeles will like it." Banner" played by Hollywood Post Band John Boles, distinguished screen star who Joseph S. 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He referred to the social life in the early vein, Mayor LaGuardia said: "Whatever The guest speaker on the morning days of California, and to the hospitable position our Government may take in program who sounded the keynote of the communities centered around the haci- regard to foreign affairs is the position of convention was David I. Walsh, United endas of the great ranchos, when above the American people. While we may dis- States Senator from Massachusetts and the door of the adobe houses a sign-board agree among ourselves in local and Chairman of the powerful Senate Naval invited the weary and worn travelers: domestic matters, I know that it is the Affairs Committee—a speech that was "Come in, friend, this is your house." spirit of The American Legion, and every interrupted again and again with ap- "California has changed considerably service man, to stand by our Govern- plause and cheers. The audience heard since then," he said. "The pueblos and ment one hundred percent strong." him urge that we "shun war as we would presidios are great and thriving cities. Greetings from The American Legion a poisonous reptile," and stamped agree- The great ranchos have been developed Auxiliary was delivered by Mrs. Malcolm ment when he said: "We must be pre- into flowering gardens, beau- pared to protect and defend tiful groves and vineyards. our shores, our people, our Yet that spirit of early Cali- property and our homes fornia still lives on. The against invasion or foreign Legion bids you welcome aggression." Thunderous ap- with open arms and says to plause greeted his demand you; 'Come in, friend, this is that we have "an American " your house.' Navy of such size that it The response to the ad- may single-handed be a dresses of welcome, most match at sea against any appropriately, was made by foreign power or combina- Past National Commander tion of powers." And his

Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., of hearers gave full assent San Francisco—a native son when he let loose a verbal of the Golden State who bombardment of Commun- served the Legion as its ism, Fascism, Nazism and leader in 1934-1935. Address- other alien philosophies. ing himself to Governor Reminding the veterans Merriam, Past National that in 1917 and 1918 they Commander Belgrano said: fought to save the ideals of "We expected you to say democracy, he declared: most of the things that you "Today, at home and abroad, Legionna ire visitors see again a bit of sunny France in did this morning, because we behold the very negation a set on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank we know that in speaking for of those ideals. In some of all of the people of this State our former Allied countries you spoke for a people who respect the Douglas, National President. Cheers and their adversaries of 191 7, democracy emblem of The American Legion." greeted her declaration that "if the nation has been cast into scorn and contempt.

Past National Commander John R. is to have peace it must be strong and Force and tyranny have replaced moral Quinn returned to the speakers' stand, well armed," and more applause when she suasion and individual freedom as the and beside him stood Legionnaire and urged that "before worrying about the most modern instruments of government. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of the City fate of democracy in other parts of the Coercive dictatorships, suppressing most of New York, to receive from the Legion world, let us first safeguard democracy of the principles we have cherished, in the medallion presented in recognition of here at home." some cases contrived by tyrants more New York's hospitality to the 1937 "Where the Legion marches, we ruthless than Nero, more merciless than National Convention. march," Mrs. Douglas continued, "What the primitive savage, are the order of "The Legion left only pleasant memo- the Legion orders, we execute; the charge today. ries in New York," Mayor LaGuardia the Legion gives us we assume." "Insolent aggressors in control of said in accepting the medallion on behalf Chef de Chemin de Fer Fred G. Fraser millions of enslaved subjects, who recog- of his city. "That convention established spoke for the Forty and Eight when he nize the laws of neither God nor man, are a record for size of the parade and set a reviewed the great work of that organiza- planning and pursuing policies in com- record for attendance at the parade. New tion during the past year in the enlarge- plete disregard of the lessons of the World York City does not want these records to ment of its child welfare program and its War. In the midst of a darkness and be permanent. We hope all the records renewed efforts on behalf of the disabled. despair that hangs over the world, with established in New York will be sur- "You are aware that some of the time I human beings crying out everywhere for passed and exceeded by this and other spent abroad," he said, "was used to peace, I plead with this powerful and conventions. But we serve notice that as make hospital visitations. I was shocked patriotic organization to accept the soon as that record is broken we ask for at what I saw in the way of treatment challenge to preserve peace and order the turn next." He injected a bit of hu- accorded ex-service men in foreign here and in our own America." mor when he borrowed a bit of Holly- countries. Joy came into my sorrowing Three outstanding elements of the wood phraseology to invite Legionnaires heart when I compared the conditions in challenge—neutrality, national defense to attend the 1939 New York World's foreign lands with those in my own and radicalism—drew ringing words from Fair. Throwing his arms upward and country. Here in America we give to the the distinguished Massachusetts stales- almost screaming, he promised; "You'll disabled ex-service men efficient hospitali- man. Declaring that he could in no see the— most colossal, the most stupen- zation in modern structures. This great measure agree with those who believe dous " but his words were lost in a wave hospitalization and care has been brought that American participation in the next of shrieking, laughing applause. about by the constant surveillance and war is inevitable, he said: Continuing the address in a serious cart of The American Legion." "I urge a policy of unquestioned and

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 55 affirmative neutrality. We must strain every effort, employ every means of vigilance, exhaust every alternative short of mischievous meddling to prevent perfect6letu/- another world conflict. A We must cour- ageously and tenaciously cling to the Washingtonian policy of minding our own business, tending to our own affairs and letting all other nations do likewise. /Iperfectfa'etut As a nation, we have no preordained mandate to police the rest of the world. To meddle with the explosive rivalries of Europe—rivalries, jealousies, animosities and enmities which antedate our own origin as a free, independent govern- ment—is to invite disaster." Senator Walsh urged complete cessa- tion of trade and commerce with all belligerents in event of war, pointing out that the present neutrality act, leaving the impositions of embargoes to the dis- cretion of Government officials, "permits a variable and changing attitude by our Government instead of a positive, in- flexible, fixed position requiring com- plete detachment." Against subversive influences, Senator IN 1913 . ."About the time Walsh warned: "We must exert our ut- most influence in thought, speech and of this picture I was doin' my action against the apostles of foreign darnedest to like pipe smoking philosophies, alien to American ideals, but it wasn't until I came across who would, if they had their way, topple Union Leader, that I found how our most precious institutions about us sweet and mellow a pipe tobacco and erect on the ruins the superstructure of destructive authoritarian govern- could be. And Union Leader and ment." me are even better pals today From France came M. Georges Rivol- than 25 years ago." let, General Secretary of the National Confederation of ex-Service Men and

War Victims and a former cabinet TODAY . . . «I'm 65 now and bring the fraternal greetings minister, to looking back at a long life, I can of four million French comrades of the truthfully say Union Leader has World War who are grouped in the done a lot to make the hard times National Confederation. "The sincere friendship which always unites the ex- easier and the good times better. service men of France and the United I never expect to find kindlier States permits them to face unflinchingly tobacco I like so well at any price." whatever events may happen," he said. Mr. E. G. Ross, Newport, Minn. A message was read from William Green, President of the American Fed- eration of Labor, regretting his inability to attend the convention because of official duties attendant upon the opening of the annual meeting of the American Federation of Labor at Houston, Texas. (/n/wleacfci He commended the Legion for its stand on the child labor amendment and on its unwavering policy of strict neutrality, ALWAYS . . . Day in and day out, and promised continued support and for more than a third of a century, cooperation in the Legion's drive against UNION LEADER has brought thou- "Communism, Fascism, Nazism as auto- cratic, destructive and dictatorial. We sands of men deep smoking content- are uncompromisingly opposed to the ment. This choice hill-grown Burley sort of philosophy which all those forms from Kentucky is aged in oak and of government control represent." specially processed to remove all burn An interesting sidelight of the opening and bite. You'll find it mellowest, session was the appearance of Mayor the flavorful a Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, who, for the most tobacco dime ever since great fourth consecutive time the bought! Try a tin . today! Chicago National Convention of 1933, came before the delegates to urge their Copyright, 1938. byP Lorillard Co.. Inc. return for the 1939 annual meeting. FOR PIPE AND Mayor Kelly spoke so convincingly of the CIGARETTE THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKE desire of Chicago {Continued on page 56)

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{Continued from page 55) again to entertain the Legion that at the military and civil life, many of which will Legionnaires will be pointing out to conclusion of his address there was little remain for all time in American history. friends in their home town just where doubt that America's second city would There were military leaders, governors, they stood when a certain scene was shot. get the call. United States Senators, mayors of Anyway, it was a great experience for "Chicago is Legion conscious," said America's largest cities. most of the 35,000 visitors. Mayor Kelly. "Chicago has learned to Two hours of music and entertainment Ranking national officers of the Legion love The American Legion; we are asking by Hollywood's finest comedians and and their guests were entertained at a you to come back, to the people who vocal artists preceded the address of the luncheon held on one of the sound stages really appreciate people who feel you evening Hoover, Director of during the visiting you ; by J. Edgar hours, with Harry M. did the city a lot of good. Chicago wants the Federal Bureau of Investigation. and Jack L. Warner, executive heads of you." (Certain columnists please copy.) Jack Benny, as master of ceremonies, the corporation, as hosts. Buttressing the invitation so cordially laid 'em in the aisles with his humorous The official sessions were resumed on extended by the Mayor, Phil Collins, quips and wisecracks, introducing Gene Wednesday morning at the Philharmonic President of the Chicago 1933 Conven- Austin with Candy and Coco, Bob Burns Auditorium, after a recess of one day for tion Corporation, stepped to the rostrum and his bazooka, and Nelson Eddy, who the gigantic nine-hour parade—the great- and handed National Commander Do- stopped the show and was forced to re- est and most colorful the Pacific Coast herty a certified check for $27,050 as a spond to an encore. Maurice Menge's ever saw—and reunions and meetings testimonial of good faith. He stated that orchestra played the songs of the forty- arranged by generous hosts who were additional funds and pledges amounting eight States, interspersed with frequent determined to account for almost every to $100,000 had been raised by the impromptu acts by Legionnaire mu- hour spent in Los Angeles. It was a Citizen Committee and $50,000 in an sicians and vocalists—including "Home rather worn body of delegates and con- appropriation made by the State of On the Range" by popular Fred Young, ventioneers who were in their seats on Illinois, thus guaranteeing adequate Department Adjutant of Texas. Wednesday morning. financial capacity. At the Wednesday Director Hoover hailed The American President Roosevelt, who had been in- morning session James P. Ringley, Chair- Legion as a mighty fortress safeguarding vited to attend the convention, found that man of the Convention Liaison Com- American ideals and institutions. "It is the pressure of public affairs would not mittee, told the convention in his official to such groups as The American Legion," permit his acceptance. His message was report that Chicago was the unanimous he said, "that our citizens may well look read at the opening session. "I regret choice of his Committee, a conclusion for the fullest development of the prin- exceedingly," said the message, "that I that seemed to coincide with the unani- ciples of Americanism." shall be unable to be present in person. mous thought of the delegates. The 1939 The twin evils of the unholy union of I recall with pleasure the warmth of the National Convention will be held at politics and crime and of the abuse of the welcome you accorded me when I

Chicago, Illinois, on September 25th, parole system must be ended if the grow- attended the convention in Chicago five 26th, 27th and 28th, 1939. ing lawlessness is to be checked, he years ago." "Boston wants the Convention in asserted. "I firmly believe that first "Each of you today," the message con- 1940," announced National Commander offenders, in many instances, should be tinued, "is in a position to promote re- Doherty when he presented Mayor given parole consideration," he said, "and sponsible American citizenship. In many

Maurice J. Tobin of Boston. The youth- I am equally of firm belief that hardened communities there is a need of such ful executive of the Hub City, tall, clean- habitual criminals are best behind the education in citizenship. How better can cut, clear voiced and looking little older bars. I am a friend of parole, but I cannot you now serve than as missionaries in than a college student, made an eloquent justify the senseless, super-sentimental American democracy? Happily, we are appeal for his city for the 1940 meeting. application of misguided sympathy for now at peace, but there is work to be Later, Department Commander Fred A. depraved and unreformed criminals. done. The American Legion will assist, as Bottger of Missouri invited the Legion to Mollycoddling of prisoners must be it has always done, in maintaining and return to Kansas City for its 1941 Con- stopped. Sternness and justice must be defending those true American principles vention, and Department Commander tempered with wisdom." He stated as his of freedom, tolerance, justice and hu- Henry O. Regner of Wisconsin presented belief that the solution of the crime manity, which are a part of our priceless the invitation of Milwaukee for the same problem is one of education. heritage." year. A most welcome break in the exhaust- At this and a later session of the conven- A number of distinguished guests were ing routine of the official sessions was that tion addresses were heard from W. Frank presented to the convention. One of these afforded on Monday afternoon when one Persons, Director of the United States was a white haired man who walked of the great motion-pictures studios Employment Service; Past National slowly to the front of the stage to receive capitulated to an assaulting force of Commander James A. Drain, who spoke an ovation lasting several minutes. He 35,000 Legionnaires and their friends. on the social security act and the intimate was Dr. Overton H. Mennett, immediate For five hours a procession of visitors, by relationship of Legion ideals and activi- Past Commander-in-Chief of the Grand invitation, streamed through the Warner ties to that subject; Brigadier General Army of the Republic. Brothers lot in Burbank, and at the con- Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veter- A custom almost as old as the Legion clusion screen luminaries filled a studio ans' Affairs; Reuben T. Shaw, President itself is that of dining the distinguished grandstand to give the Legionnaires a of the National Education Association; guests on the evening of the first day of rousing cheer. Owen A. Galvin, National Commander of the annual get-together. When National Exterior scenes from a war-time picture the Disabled American War Veterans; Commander Doherty arrived at the Bilt- and a western thriller were directed by the Rice W. Means, Past Department Com- more Bowl on Monday evening to take kibitzing Legionnaires as they passed mander of the Legion of the District of his place as the host at the annual dinner through the studio back lot where com- Columbia and Past Commander-in-Chief he greeted an array of guests seldom if panies were attempting to film sequences of the United Spanish-American War ever equaled at a National Convention. in forthcoming productions. It's safe to Veterans; General Charles P. Summerall; At the head table were men whose names lay a dime to a doughnut that for many Major General Frank Parker; L. A. are famous throughout the world in months to come many of these same Basler, representing the Dominion Presi-

The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne 57 dent of the Canadian Legion, and Past Department Commander B. W. Gear- hart of California, now a member of THE VOICE WITH Congress, who presented to the Legion the pen with which President Roosevelt signed the Act of Congress making Armistice Day a legal holiday. Greetings were read from General

John J. Pershing, war-time commander of the A. E. F., who was in France; also messages from Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, a Past Department Com- mander of Kansas, and Past National Commander Paul V. McNutt, now High Commissioner to the Philippines. The reports of the several committees —the delegates who had wrestled with NORTH the 658 separate resolutions sent up from the Department conventions for con- sideration—approved one after another, with little debate or opposition from the floor. A little flurry was created when a It may carry the salty twang of delegate from the District of Columbia New England or the soft ac- gained the floor to urge action on a reso- cents of the South. lution with reference to the service of It be swift and clipped Negroes in the Army which had been re- may jected by the Committee on National in the New York manner or Defense. The report of the committee was full of the rolling r's in the adopted as read, after a bit of parlia- style of the West. mentary maneuvering. It was not until But wherever you hear it, it the report of the Legislative Committee will be friendly, courteous, and was presented Chairman Frank L. by efficient. Pinola that the fireworks started. It's the all-American voice In the closing session the debate on the of the Bell Telephone operator committee-recommended resolution on — Voice with a Smile." universal service in time of war was sharp "The and heated. The battle was fought by The entire Bell System seeks Senators, Representatives, Past National to serve you quickly, capably Commanders and buck privates—all and in the spirit of a friend. Legionnaires—and though it lasted only BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM ninety minutes the decision of the assembled delegates, on roll call, was most decisive. The resolution which precipitated the debate read as follows: "We demand of Congress the immediate passage of legis- lation enacting that principle (universal service) into law providing, inter alia, for the approval by Congress of regulations promulgated by the President of the draft of manpower of the nation, con- taining an adequate taxing feature which will recover the profits arising from war, and providing for the draft of wealth by means of mandatory loans at low interest rates and graduated in proportion to the WEST net wealth of each individual, increasing the amount of the required loan in each case in a ratio similar to the graduated income tax." The proposed resolution embodied a ENRICHES THE FLAVOR radical departure from long-established Legion policy in urging the enactment of legislation designed to provide for uni- OF ANY TOBACCO Yello-Bole has real honey versal service and to take the profit out in the bowl. The honey seeps into the briar wood as you of war. That the provision of the resolu- smoke, and keeps on blending HONEY IN its flavor with the pipe. Result: tion calling for conscription of wealth and THE BOWL Yello-Bole starts sweet, stays property did not strike a responsive chord sweet. You spend $20 or more YOUR a year for tobacco, and $1 was at once apparent. Delegates shifted spent on Yello-Bole will make NEXT PIPE tobacco much more enjoyable. uneasily in their seats. Immediately, Legionnaire Tom Miller of Nevada claimed the floor to present a substitute resolution, which reaffirmed the position 1 YELLO-BOLE REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. taken by former (Continued on page 58)

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National Conventions. His substitute of leadership had actively prosecuted name of Past Department Commander provided: their campaigns earlier in the week, one Charles W. Crush of Virginia; National "That the Twentieth National Conven- by one they withdrew from the field leav- Committeeman Maurice F. Devine of ing but one of their to before tion of The American Legion demands number go New Hampshire presented Edward J. that the principle of universal service be the convention. Even as Department Quinn of Maine, and Past Department again presented to the forthcoming Commander Harry R. Lawton of Wash- Commander Adrian Boyd named Past session of the Congress as a major point ington strode to the platform to give to Department Commander James Crawley in the legislative program of this organi- the Legion the name of Stephen F. of Mississippi. The roll call was carried to zation to the end that immediate action Chadwick, of Seattle, as the next Na- the end of the list of Departments, but may be had thereon, so that the principle tional Commander, delegates started tak- no other nominations being heard, the of 'equal service for all, special profits and ing down the Department banners and five Legionnaires named were elected by privileges for none' may be enacted by acclamation. the Congress and approved by the The last regular order of business was -these uxxxjew-lvwvile President in advance of any national ^ the election of a National Chaplain. UuVvqs ouqW--to bum emergency or war. We reiterate our Past National Committeeman Sam W. QpoA - cU, Cookie!!?" approval of the Sheppard-May Bill Reynolds in an eloquent address pre- now before the Congress." sented the name of Rev. Jerome L. The presentation of the Miller sub- Fritsche of Kearney, Nebraska, and stitute precipitated a heated debate, Department Commander Herbert L. participated in by Department Com- Rhodes placed Rev. Raymond W. mander Herbert L. Rhodes of Mary- Cook, of Baltimore, Maryland, in land; Legionnaire Josh Lee, United nomination. A roll call of Departments States Senator from Oklahoma; Past had been carried far down the list

Department Commander James Mc- when it was seen that the majority of Cann of France; Past Department the delegates favored the election of Commander Frank Mathews, Jr., of Legionnaire Fritsche, and Commander New Jersey; Past Department Com- Rhodes asked that the roll call be dis- mander Jerry Cross of New York; continued and that Rev. Mr. Fritsche's Past National Commander Harry W. election be made unanimous. Colmery; Legionnaire H. C. Nami of The official session, with the com- Texas, and other delegates. At one stage began to edge their way toward the stage, pletion of the election, drew near a close. in the debate the feeling became so tense each one wanting to be first to reach the Past National Commander Ralph T. that a thin chorus of boos was hurled at stage in the great ovation and demonstra- O'Neil formally installed National Com- the speaker. This brought a sharp rebuke tion that is accorded a newly-elected mander Chadwick when he presented to from National Commander Doherty, who National Commander of The American him the stand of colors—the silken interrupted the speaker long enough to Legion. So certain were these delegates American flag and the banner of the admonish the convention "You are all that Steve Chadwick, after long years of National Commander. "This may be a Legionnaires and fundamentally gentle- valiant Legion service, was to be elected tough year," said O'Neil, "due to chaotic men. There should never be boos to a that the demonstration started before conditions in the world and 'isms' within. Legionnaire in a Legion meeting." Commander Lawton had finished his The new Commander knows his way The debate promised to go on and on, nominating speech, and the Assistant around and he can meet the challenges. but Past National Commander Ralph T. Sergeants-at-Arms had some difficulty in He knows how to lead, and I am glad to

O'Neil of Kansas cut it short when he maintaining order until the formalities present him these colors." moved the previous question. could be effected and the unanimous ^he concluding ceremony was the pre- Demand for a roll-call by Departments election of the new National Commander sentation of the colors carried during the on the substitute resolution was made by announced. In fact they were almost past year to Past National Commander Oklahoma, Maine, Nevada and Illinois. overwhelmed by the surge for the plat- Doherty by Past National Commander So that the delegates might have a clear form. Cameramen bombarded the center Ray Murphy. "You, Past Commander understanding of the question at issue of the stage and for a time the flash of Dan," said Murphy, "now join the ranks the two resolutions were again read. The bulbs gave the effect of a miniature of the 'elder statesmen'. Your comrades roll call was started by National Adjutant Fourth of July fireworks display. The recognize your loyalty, your clarity of Frank E. Samuel and continued on down band struck up "Bow Down to Washing- vision with which you have led the Legion until each of the fifty-eight Departments ton." The ovation continued for several to high accomplishment. This moment and the several out-lying Posts had re- minutes, with a drum and bugle corps comes to a retiring Commander charged corded its vote. The result, as announced from the new Commander's home De- with emotion and filled with an almost at the conclusion of the poll, was over- partment bugling and drumming, but sacred significance. His year lies behind whelmingly in favor of the Miller sub- scarcely being heard above the din. him, his home before, and for him all the stitute, 1,130 votes for it to 184 against, Order restored, the election of five days of his life there will be memories of which reaffirmed the stand of the organi- National Vice Commanders to serve with the great heart and sublime soul of zation taken at the Cleveland and New National Commander Chadwick was the patriotic America." York Conventions. next order of business. On a roll call of Nerves of the delegates, strung to con- Departments, Past Department Com- SUMMARY OF OFFICIAL ACTIONS siderable tenseness during the debate on mander Lawrence Smith nominated Past In addition to the highly important the universal service resolution, relaxed Department Commander Henry Oakey convention actions mentioned earlier in 1 almost visibly as National Commander of Wisconsin; Past National Committee- this summary, the convention adopted Dohsrty announced the next order of man I. A. Lougaris nominated Earl T. a series of resolutions dealing with all of business—election of National officers. Ross of Nevada; National Committee- the leading activities and interests of the While several candidates for the place man Wilmer L.'-O'Flaherty offered the Legion. These resolutions, relating to such

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59 subjects as Americanism, national de- to avoid undue specialization where such from the National Child Welfare Division. fense, child welfare, foreign relations, would tend to exclude other essentials of A clear definition of the term "crippled rehabilitation, legislation and finance, the broad program. That the Committee child" was offered by the Committee to form the Legion's working program for and Division at National Headquarters the Federal and State governments. The the year ahead. The most significant of urge and assist the Departments to use Legion's definition is "any person under these resolutions presented and approved every effort to protect existing construc- the age of twenty-one years, who by are here summarized: tive provisions and to secure improve- reason of congenital or acquired handi-

ment in laws affecting children during the cap is deprived of a normal state of life, REHABILITATION coming legislative year. That there be a happiness and opportunity, by reason of The Rehabilitation Committee had be- closer coordination in the child welfare defect and handicaps of sight, hearing, fore it for consideration 297 separate committees of The American Legion and speech and articulation, facial defects and resolutions, many of which, however, its affiliated bodies. That the child wel- deformities, scars and burns, posture, were duplicates adopted by two or more fare area school-conferences be con- locomotion, use of arms, hands and Departments or related to a single sub- tinued. That special services to Depart- fingers, disabling heart conditions, de- ject. The Committee sat long hours dur- ments be rendered on a temporary basis ficiencies in the (Continued on page 66) ing the first days of the convention study- ing the resolutions and formulating a report. Many of the resolutions had to do with purely local matters or were of such technical character as to require more complete study and attention than could OFFER TO YOUNG MEN be given in the limited time. These reso- lutions were referred to the National Who Hanker to Smoke a Pipe Rehabilitation Committee for action and report to the sponsoring Department. High spots in the report were: Reaffirmed Legion policy: That all cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis be granted a permanent and total rating when hospitalized. That service-con- nected cases now rated at less than ten percent be reviewed and rerated. That the minimum rating for service-incurred gun- shot wounds be fixed at ten percent. That burial flags be available at all post offices in localities where there is a Post of a veterans' organization. That hearings should be permitted on all administrative reviews or appeals. That the board of original jurisdiction should have com- plete authority to allow a claim on the with- basis of new and material evidence MEN: Complete smoking pleasure steak price. We gladly pay premium out reference to the central office. That comes only from smoking fine tobacco, prices to give you a finer smoke. This full credence be always given lay evi- and starting under ideal conditions. costly leaf is then manufactured to the Through this unusual offer we are intro- high Edgeworth standard — better tobac- dence, although it be based upon mem- ducing to you pipe smoking at its best. co, made to smoke cooler, means no ory alone, unless rebutted or conflicting tongue bite and permits you to enjoy in nature. That the compensation pay- Here's Our Offer fully its enhanced flavor, greater mild- able for the presumptively service-con- ness and richer aroma. Trial Packets of each of the three Second: handsome nected cases be not less than that paid to First: A Signature styles of world-famous Edgeworth, wrap- Pipe (made by Linkman) that has directly service-connected cases. That ped in heavy foil. Edgeworth, famous for been mechanically pre-smoked (already there should be no time limit for making more than 35 years, has always contained "Broken-In") with genuine Edgeworth. application for burial allowance. only the finest tobacco leaf on the mar- It's sweet and gentle from the start. that you cannot make good Then to give you an added interest in Also asked that the Veterans' Adminis- ket. We know tobacco from cheap tobacco leaf any this pipe, we engrave your own per- independent agency. tration remain an more than you can get the pleasure of sonal signature in gold color on the That the fourth point of the 1933 four- choicest porterhouse steak for a rump stem. No pipe so personal. point program relating to widows and Edgeworth always carries a written guarantee of satisfaction, or money orphans be pressed. That the so-called refunded. Edgeworth is on sale everywhere in convenient pocket tins at 15c. "misconduct clause" be eliminated in legislation relating to World War veter- EDGEWORTH SmoJu*? TOBACCO ans. That constitutional psychopathic inferiority be considered as a disease for TO GET YOUR EDGEWORTH SAMPLER KIT— JUST MAIL COUPON WITH $1.00 compensation purposes. That hospital- LARUS & BRO. Co., Dept. K. SIGNATURE A.L. ized veterans be allowed artificial limbs Richmond, Va. or other prosthetics which may be needed. That insurance payments awarded by Enclosed please find $1.00 for your Edgeworth Sampler Kit . . . judgment be not discontinued except Opposite is my signature to en- grave on the stem of the pipe. upon decree of court. That compromise (Please print clearly your name Please write your normal signature clearly and address below.) within exact space allotted of government (converted) insurance j „ ^, suits be permitted. Name Address City Srafe CHILD WELFARE PLEASE SEND US YOUR DEALER S NAME AND ADDRESS The convention directed that the Child Dealer's Name Address Welfare Committee continue its program City State. to meet the needs of the whole child and

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use of body or limbs, excluding serious 4. To maintain the reserve officer meet the emergency war needs of the fleet. mental abnormalities unless found in personnel at 120,000, graduate officers 2. Recommended the establishment ol conjunction with physical crippling." must be held at 9,000 annually. Asked air bases on the Panama-Hawaiian- The 40 and 8 was commended for its that a uniform allowance of $100 be Alaskan line of defense, and commercial far-reaching preventive and protective granted reserve officers at time of first air bases on Midway and Wake Islands, service through the diphtheria immuni- tour of duty after receiving commission. also the establishment of adequate nava! zation program and for its acceptance of 5. A Citizens' Military Training Camp supply and repair bases in the Westerr the now-termed "Indiana Plan." The con- with 50,000 youths training annually. Pacific and Caribbean. vention also asked that the Federal Social 6. Recommended a study of a plan to 3. That privately owned shipyards b< Security Act be amended and extended create an enlisted reserve of specialists. rehabilitated, particularly on the Pacific to include dependent children by the allocation of new tonnage being maintained by public or and that this construction be { private agencies in selected and continuous program over a perio( supervised foster family homes of years. with non-relatives, and that the 4. Adequate Naval and Marim provisions of this act be extended Corps Reserve, with provision to include dependent children in to insure two weeks' active dut; Puerto Rico. afloat and forty-eight paid armor drills each year.

FINANCE 5. New naval training ships h The convention adopted the replace the obsolete ships no\ recommendation of the Finance being used by the Naval Re Committee that the annual per serves on the Great Lakes. capita dues of The American 6. Endorsed the completion c

Legion, for national purposes, be the contemplated highway t 1 fixed at one dollar for the 1939 Alaska. year, to be allocated by the 7. Commended the Unite . National Finance Committee, States Maritime Commission fc with the provision that not to its definite program of trainin "The best man won!" ; exceed seventy-five cents of the officers and seamen for th i whole be used for the national American Merchant Marine sei • publications. It was also mandated that 7. Improvement of coast defen se and vice, and recommended that essenti. 1 the Publishing Commission provide space sufficient appropriation for coi tinued legislation be enacted to restore, preserv i in the publications for a comprehensive modernization of arms and equiprr ent for and maintain discipline in that servic<

statement of the national budget, and for all branches, with special attention to air- and also recommended that a mediatio 1] a complete report of the salaries and ex- craft, anti-tank, and anti-aircraft, nd the board be established. penses of the employes of the national increase of mechanized and mo 8. That intercoastal ships be subs organization. equipment. dized, and that new Naval ROTC unil >

8. Gradual accumulation of combat be established in colleges requesting then .

NATIONAL DEFENSE munitions in essential calibres to meet the The recommendations for Aviatio 1 The National Defense Committee pre- needs of a balanced force of approxi- were as follows: sented a report that embodies in full the mately 1,100,000 in active operation until 1. Acquisition of 1,500 planes annuall

Legion's national defense program. This production can supply reasonable needs. over a period of five years, to the end tha : program is divided into three sections, 0. Readjustment in pay and allowances the ultimate objective of 8,000 serviceabl Army, Navy and Aviation. to the end that members of the National planes may be obtained, and the establisl flyin 1. A Regular Army of 15,000 com- Guard and reserve components shall ment of at least one well-equipped ; missioned and 180,000 enlisted personnel be entitled to the same benefits for sick- field in each strategic area. to meet the needs of armament already ness and injuries sustained in line of duty 2. Urged continued support of con legislated, an increase of 2,240 commis- while on active duty as are extended to mercial aviation.

sioned and 15,000 enlisted. An enlisted the members of the regular establish- 3. Recommended appropriation of t Regular Army Reserve of 150,000, of ment. $10,000,000 special reserve fund for d< - which the past Congress authorized 10. Establishment of a $440,000,000 velopment or purchase of outstandin

75,000 and provided for the first incre- war reserve to meet the needs of the designs or inventions of aircraft engine > ment. mobilization of the first one-million-man or accessories.

2. A National Guard of 210,000 with contingent, and of a $150,000,000 reserve 4. Asked the grant of Federal aid fc proportionate officers. The present au- to meet the needs of the Regular Army the construction, improvement, develot - thorized strength of the Guard is 205,000 and National Guard. ment and maintenance of municipal ail 1 officers and men. 11. Support of the War Department ports in areas where such fields ai

3. Fourteen days' annual training for industrial mobilization plan, and recom- necessary or advisable in the plan < f every combat reserve officer, with a mini- mendation of further appropriations for national defense.

mum training of 30,000 annually. Asked placing "educational orders" with private 5. Recommended the creation of 1 that i ,000 air reserve officers be placed on companies for the production of vital war standing committee on aeronautics in tr ; extended active duty; that 1,000 young equipment and munitions. United States House of Representativi 3 reserve officers be trained annually, of The following Navy recommendations and Senate. whom ten percent be commissioned in the were made: 6. Urged the adoption of an airshi Regular Army, and that 300 reserve 1. Reaffirmed the Legion policy of a building program under either the Arm / officers attend the general and special Navy second to none, supported by a or Navy supervision; aid in the develo] service schools. merchant marine auxiliary sufficient to ment of a commercial program, and tl s

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7. Recommended that not one cubic foot of helium gas be permitted to be NOTHING exported to any country at any time for any use. HAS BEEN CHANGED

FOREIGN RELATIONS BUT THE PRICE! In session at a moment when unde- clared wars were raging in Europe and m Asia, in an atmosphere tense with fear and dread of an imminent rupture in the relations of great European powers, the Committee on Foreign Relations re- ported briefly recommending a reaffir- mation of long-established Legion policy of non-intervention in the quarrels of other nations, and strict adherence to the Monroe Doctrine. It also reaffirmed the position taken at previous conventions insisting upon payment of the European war debts to the United States. Long famous for extra wear that

EDUCATION OF WAR ORPHANS . . makes them cost less in the end . The Convention Committee reported a Florsheims now also cost less at the start. year of constant watchfulness over the interests of the war orphans who have The Florsheim price has been lowered. come under the supervision and receive the benefits provided by the Legion or Style illustrated above, The Garfield, through Legion efforts. Two recommen- S-509, in black calf; also brown calf, S-510. dations were made, both of which were adopted 1. The allowance of $15 per month paid to orphans over the age of 18 who The seek higher education is not adequate, FLORSHEIMS

therefore it was recommended that the amount payable under the present pen- sion law be increased to $25 per month until the child reaches the age of 2 1 "IT TAUGHT THE 2. That the war orphans' education program be extended to include post- war orphans. This class was defined as OLD DOG A "children of a parent who has died since the end of the World War by reason of NEW TRICK" war service, that is, by reason of service- connected disability."

INTERNAL ORGANIZATION The Convention adopted the report of the Committee of Internal Organization which, among other things, provided that all programs mandated by the Na- tional Convention be co-ordinated through National Headquarters; continuance of "Junior showed us your ad.," writes W. "Your 'Free Home Trial' sounded "Immediately Junior started doing the annual conference of Department W. B. "Said he had to have a Royal good to us. So we sent in the coupon homework easier and faster. And that very night." that gave ." Commanders and Department Adju- Portable for homework." me an idea . . tants at the Indianapolis offices; that the You Can Get This BIG FAMILY HELP annual membership quotas be deter- ON FREE HOME TRIAL mined on the basis of the average mem- See a Royal Portable . . . try it in your

own home ! Know all about it before you bership for the four previous years as of risk a penny. See exactly how a Royal will help you whatever your job— help December 31st, not counting the current everyone in your family write faster, think faster—do more, year. This method was made retroactive be more. Then—own it on your

own terms—cash or . . . for the iqsq quotas. ONLY A FEW CENTS A DAY. The easy, modern way The Committee recommended the es- to own a Royal. Your choice of five xiels— 11 fa tablishment of a Department of Greece son. bly pri red. to be composed of the Posts at Athens, "Typing's a cinch—With a Royal, Now I work out ideas on it. Already I've gotten Tripolis and Patras. This recommenda- one raise." ROYAL PORTABLE £M2L tion, after some debate, was rejected by a Mail coupon today 8 ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY," Inc. ACT NOW! dl details of viva voce vote. ' Dept. Park Ave., Ycrk, N. Royal's offer —all about models, prices, C-893, 2 New Y. terms—everything. No obligation. Tell me how I can own—for only a few cents a day—a latest model Royal Portable—with FREE HOME TRIAL. AMERICANISM Chart shows you how tc type RIGHT. NAME- -STREET- Age limit of boys competing in th? with srery Royal INCLUDED Port; junior baseball extended to in- CITY— STATE program cost—a handsome, a clude boys who (Continued on page 62) Case.

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will not attain their seventeenth birthday eliminates the necessity for any educa- before January ist of the year in which tional requirements, and does not require they compete. the alien to sign his name or to be able Pledged continued effort in support to speak the English language. of Federal and State governments in con- Reaffirmed the traditional opposition servation of natural resources. of the Legion to Communism, Facism, Urged support of a campaign to curb Nazism and all like forces and organiza- the illicit and dangerous use of marijuana tions; commended Congress for the work by means of an educational program and of the Dies Investigating Committee, legislation. and pledged the organization to combat Recommended that Legion Posts and more forcibly all un-American propa- Departments redouble their efforts to ganda, activity and influences. complete the enactment in every State Defined the right of free speech as of the four-model crime-control acts essential to keep a people free. But a drafted by the Interstate Commission right granted by the people for their own on Crime. protection creates no right to destroy the Approved revision of the Uniform State people; hence, free speech must not incite Firearms Act looking to the control of to violence and crime, or to corrupt the sale and possession of firearms, but with public morale. due regard to the needs of national de- fense and the sportsmen. RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE YOU d-r-a-g in the mornings when you get out of bed. Your step Reaffirmed the previously-expressed Favored the retention of the United

has lost its "spring". . . your hand its policy of finger-printing all persons in States Employment Service and Veter- cunning, at work or games. Your shoul- the United States. ans' Placement Service as now consti- ders sag— and then your waistline. No Asked that Congress take appropriate tuted. wonder "they" begin to watch you — action to secure for the records of the Urged that employers give preference ask if you're the man you used to be. Government copies of consulate registra- to citizens, naturalized citizens and such Yet life can begin at Life in this CAN 40! You're smarter tions of all aliens now country, aliens as manifest their desire to assume Begin at 40! more experienced than particularly those of German and Aus- the duties and obligations of citizenship. you ever were before. trian nationality required to register by Asked that veterans drawing disability All you need is to get that body of yours tuned up till it begins to hum again—till order of their government. compensation be paid a sum at least you feel the power inside you raring to go Favored the deportation of any alien equal to the prevailing security wages — till your nerves are something to laugh at. who at any time shall be convicted of a paid by the WPA and other govern- \a/i „ A sudden decline in Whatt Sciencec_:„ felony in any court, and demanded the mental relief agencies. Many veterans health at 40 is often tells You! due to vitamin de- immediate trial and deportation of Harry are denied employment because of ficiency. Bridges and like undesirable aliens. receipt of such disability compensation. "Oh," but you say, "I've taken vita- mins. They didn't seem to help me." Demanded Congressional investigation The Postmaster General was requested All too often that's the experience of of certain officials of the Department of to issue a commemorative postage stamp

people over 40 . . . because weaker diges- Labor have allegedly failed in the on the occasion of the twentieth anniver- tion at middle age may prevent you from who getting full benefit from vitamins you do enforcement of laws relative to immigra- sary of the signing of the Armistice. consume. tion and deportation and who have There is a food that can help correct these "after-40" troubles—Fleischmann's consistently blocked the passage of new LEGISLATION fresh Yeast. Eat it regularly, and we and much- needed laws to regulate immi- Reaffirmed the Legion's demand for promise, not a miracle of rejuvenation, but a steady improvement of that run- gration and deportation. the immediate enactment of the universal down feeling due to lack of certain vita- Recommended that immigration laws service principle into law, to the end that mins and slow digestion. be amended to deny nationals of any in time of war, there shall be equal service For Fleisch- which refuses to accept for all, special profits and privileges for Especially country the un- mann's Yeast is desirables of that nation when deported none. Helpful after 40 rich i n Iour vita- mins that many from the United States. Asked that the Adjusted Compensation people particularly need at middle age. Urged that immigration to the United Act be amended to provide that provi- And in addition this fresh yeast acts like a vitamin "booster" for people with a States be totally restricted for a period of sional officers of the Army, Navy and weak digestion. It provides vitamins in a at least ten years, or until such time as we Marine Corps be eligible to receive the helpful form and aids in their assimilation benefits officers holding tempor- by stimulating slow digestion. In this way can take up the slack and find jobs for same as it also helps you to get more nourishment citizens of the United States. ary commissions during the World War.

from other foods . . . helps to give you Favored the enactment of a law pro- Urged that the "causative factor" better elimination, helps keep your system free of toxic intestinal wastes. viding that all aliens, upon entry to the clause be stricken from the act of 1933, States, be issued forms of declara- with reference to retirement privileges of Ever grocer United It'* Un to You y has ItS Up to TOU Fleischmann's Yeast. tion of intention to become citizens, emergency officers, and the restoration Eat it regularly one-half hour before meals which declarations shall remain valid to the rolls of those emergency officers —plain or dissolved in water. and permit aliens to remain in the United who were disabled in line of duty, regard-

"A few years ago my di- States five years from date of issuance. less of the "causative factor."

gestion went back on me. I If no application to citizenship is made Requested that the quota for World noticed a gradual effect on within five years and six months, such War veterans in the Civilian Conserva-

my work. Then I tried Fleisch- alien shall be classed as an undesirable tion Corps be increased from 25,000 to mann's Yeast. It stimulated my digestion and helped me and deported to his native land. 50,000. a lot. Now— at 44 — I'm get- Opposed the Lanzetta Bill, now before Declared that an honorable discharge ting new business, and my Congress, which would permit the use of from the United States Army, Navy chances for promotion seem a declaration of intention without regard or Marine Corps for service during the good." ALBERT P. SMITH Copyright, 1938, Standard Brands Incorporated to the present seven-year limitation, period of any war in which this country

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has participated, should be accepted in ville, Okla.; Dr. Laban A. Steeves, Salem, lieu of a birth certificate when required Ore.; Commissaire Intendant National, on WPA projects. Many veterans, be- N. Carl Nielsen, Gig Harbor, Wash.; cause no records were kept, cannot fur- Correspondent National, Charles W. SCIENCE BARES nish official certificates of birth. Ardery, Indianapolis; Historien National, Condemned discrimination on WPA P. E. Clements, Indianapolis; Avocat AMAZING FACTS projects against veterans who receive National, Albert J. Flynn, Lincoln Park, compensation for partial disability. Mich.; Drapeau National, Clifton L. SHAVING Recommended legislation making vet- Baker, East Orange, N. J.; Aumonier ABOUT erans of the World War eligible to ap- National, Rev. Father Charles F. Gwyer, pointment as post office inspectors, re- Monessen, Pa.; Conducteur National, gardless of age. William Schlupp, Chicago; Gardes de la Opposed any change in the present Porte Nationale, Lee Judy, Kansas City, method as provided in the Constitution Mo., and Harry W. Berdie, Long Beach, of the United States relative to the de- California. claration of war. This resolution is in Edgar Bergen and his dummy, the specific opposition to the Ludlow Amend- famed Charlie McCarthy, were guests ment, before Congress during the past of honor at the annual inaugural ban- session, which provided for a referendum quet of La Societe in the Fiesta Room of on the question of a declaration of war. the Ambassador Hotel on Wednesday Instructed the Legislative Committee evening, and were the headliners in the immediately to contact the House Com- merrymaking. mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisher- John (Chick) Conmy, Chairman of the ies and insist upon the introduction and Forty and Eight Trophy and Awards enactment of a law that will preserve our Committee, announced the following Alaskan fisheries for the citizens of the awards: United States. Voiture National Trophy, for having Lie Detector Proves Vital obtained the greatest number of Ameri- Importance of Using a Gillette Forty and Eight, celebrating can Legion members Grande Voiture — Blade in Your Gillette Razor THEthe most successful year in its of Illinois, which enrolled 20,656 members a Lie Detector to disclose history, held its convention in the for the Legion. EMPLOYING the naked truth about razor blades, auditorium of the Pacific Electric Voiture Nationale Individual Member- Dr. Wm. M. Marston, eminent psycholo- Employes' Building, a good hop, skip ship Trophy—James J. Quinn, Voiture gist, is conducting an amazing series of shaving tests. Strapped to the Lie Detec- and jump from the Legion Convention 7, New York City, who signed up 546 tor, men from all walks of life shave one headquarters at the Biltmore. Fred G. members for the Legion. side of the face with a Gillette Blade — Fraser, Chef de Chemin de Fer, reported Pelham St. George Bissell Trophy the other side with a competitive blade. that the boxcar organization was re- Grande Voiture of the District of Colum- Comparative quality ... as revealed by sponsible for signing up at least 160,000 bia, for obtaining the greatest percentage their involuntary emotions ... is automati- cally recorded on charts. Legion members in 1938. La Societe con- of new American Legion members in Gillette tributed $18,000 to the Legion's Child proportion to its membership. Blades Vastly Superior! Welfare work, while grand voitures of John (Chick) Conmy Trophy, for the The results prove the superiority of the Gillette Blade. Also the subjects, naming the organization expended thousands of greatest increase in voyageur membership their preferences blindly by number, select dollars within their respective States Island, with —Grande Voiture of Rhode Gillette more than 9 times out of 10! "The and locally. Chef Fraser visited 40 of the a percentage of 145.6. quality of a man's shave may affect his mood 52 grand voitures during his term of office, E. Snapper Ingram Trophy, for mem- for hours," says Dr. Marston. "This shows the vital importance of using the best blade and traveled 164,000 miles. bership in excess of 1,000 as compared to obtainable." See the chart below . . . study The colorful Forty and Eight parade its previous yearly enrollment—Grand the evidence . . . and make a comparative on Monday evening swept through the Voiture of Texas; a percentage of 121. test yourself. You'll prefer Gillette, too! downtown business section of Los Angeles Charles A. Mills Trophy, to the voiture Prepare your beard for a perfect shave with Gillette to the accompaniment of red fire, cannon locale performing the greatest service Brushless Shaving Cream. It softens wiry whiskers salutes, sirens and the hoarse shrieks of to The American Legion—Voiture 45 of double quick, speeds shaving, soothes and tones the skin. A big tube costs only 2 5c You'll like it! locomotive horns. It was the biggest Minneapolis. show of the convention week for the Robert John Murphy Memorial Tro- downtown section, as the Legion parade phy, for the best record in the exemplifi- was routed through the outlying sections. cation of the American Legion ritual In the Forty and Eight Drum Corps Voiture 174, District of Columbia. competition the corps of Voiture 146, Charles Walker Ardery, Jr., Trophy, Aberdeen, South Dakota, won the W. P. for the greatest service in child welfare Story Trophy and a $100 cash award. Grande Voiture of Texas. Hood Above. (1) Norma, P«!™^"ut«KS Second prize, $50, went to the corps Merritt Jones Cooper Trophy beard. Blade glides through representing the Grande Voiture of awarded for the second consecutive year "rTal as GMette Arizona, and third prize, $25, to the corps to the Grand Voiture of Delaware for the of Voiture sq6, Merced, California. greatest work in Americanism. f "MILUON-DOUAK" SHAVES FOR LESS THAN La Societe chose James O. Sheppard of The Grand Voiture of Michigan won A PINNY A DAY Edgefield, South Carolina, by acclama- the honor of having the most voyageurs tion as the Chef de Chemin de Fer for in line of march. The Grande Voiture of 1939. He is a former lieutenant governor Minnesota received a trophy for the of his State. best musical organization. Voiture 34 of Other officers elected were: Sous Chefs Montgomery County, Ohio, was first in de Chemin de Fer, Fred L. Chapman, the annual engine and box car contest, Minneapolis; William Sayer, Man- Voiture of Rockingham J. 70 County, N. Gillette chester, N. H; John H. Penland, Knox- H., for traveling the greatest distance. ville, Tennessee; Edward A. Mulrooney, The band of Voiture 151, Olympia, BLADES

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property of a nation is to expect too Congress the needs of our national de- much. To believe in the efficiency of fense. pacts and treaties to protect us against We know that there are in this country international brigandage is a dream of of ours subversive influences directed visionaries. toward the substitution of alien philoso- To think at all seriously that there phies for the principles of Americanism is any hope of a limitation of arms within for which The American Legion so the lifetime of any man now living shows staunchly stands.

a lack of information in regard to the We know that eternal vigilance is the forces that have been unleashed by im- price of liberty. perialistic states in their fight for world We know that "a righteous man well supremacy. A record of tragic failure to armed and guarded sleepeth in peace." prevent wars by collective action lies The Navy and the Army and the open for inspection. Legion share equally in a whole-hearted World War veterans are particularly vigilant devotion to the cause of Ameri- fitted and competent to express an canism. opinion on national defense. They learned I am convinced that for so long a time from cruel experience a realistic approach as the lofty principles of the Legion are to this problem. The American Legion, professed by a large group of citizens, speaking for the war veterans, is neither alien philosophies will not prevail against militaristic nor pacifistic. It advocates a the ideals of America. military preparedness adequate to the May we always remember that a de- world situation as it is. This is in exact fense adequate to the world situation agreement with the policy of those of us demands an American Navy as strong as who are charged with recommending to that of any other nation.

The new fashion is to make an The J^ast Prisoner Old-Fashioned with Three-Star (Continued jrom_page 5) Hennessy. What a difference! The flavour and bouquet of issues. It was then about 8 o'clock in the they were all somewhat bitter against morning. the American troops for doing Hennessy give this old favorite so much The redlegs told us the infantry were shooting when surely they must know a delicious mellowness. on the other side of the canal, so we that the Armistice was to be effective HENNESSY OLD-FASHIONED: crossed the wobbly bridge and pushed at eleven o'clock and that no good could on. We noticed that the shell fire was come from a few more casualties. He 1 lump sugar; 2 dashes bitters; 1 jigger getting more and more spasmodic. We bore out his argument by telling us that Three-Star Hennessy. Crush sugar and encountered no one. The fog was raising at five o'clock that morning the Ameri- bitters together, add lump of ice, decorate a little by this time. We could see a clump can infantry had attacked their position. with twist of lemon peel and slice of orange T of woods ahead and figured that surely W e saw this for ourselves, for in front of using medium size glass, and stir well. some of our boys would be in there among their embankment there lay, where they the trees and from them we could get our had fallen, a number of American dead. exact bearings. We drove up to the edge Some young Germans, mere boys, of the wood and stopped to look around. came up with huge G. I. cans. It was It was now after 10 a.m. We could hear kraut, sausage, and the terrible mixture

very little firing. they used for bread. They shared it with We were on the point of stepping down us. We mentioned to the lieutenant that from our truck when to our utter amaze- we had several big loaves of white bread ment a group of German soldiers swept in our rations aboard the Ford truck, and out of the woods and surrounded us. also some crackers. They had left our They did not appear very aggressive, truck untouched. Did they go for these however—they seemed more curious rations in a big way? It seemed odd to us than anything else. A young lieutenant that these men, our enemies, our captors, was in charge, and fortunately he spoke actually asked us if they could have it. good English. We were requested to dis- They also asked us for some old rubber mount, which command we obeyed in- tires we had in the truck. I cannot believe stantly. We were then escorted to the any prisoners in any war ever had such 84 PROOF cover of an embankment which they had gracious hosts. They seemed to want to hastily for protec- convey the impression that were just INSIST ON HENNESSY in a Brandy- evidently thrown up we the American gunfire. This paying them a friendly visit in advance and-Soda • Brandy Cocktail • Mint Julep • tion from group of Germans, immedi- of the other troops. SideCar • Stinger Cocktail Brandy Sour particular we ately noticed, were machine gunners and It was now very close to eleven o'clock. Distilled and bottled at Cognac, France were covering the retreat of their main The fog had lifted and by looking JA? HENNESSY* CP • Established 1765 body. They were doing no firing them- through the roughly made slits in the selves at the time. parapets we could plainly see the posi- sole u.s. agents: Schieffelin & Co., The lieutenant informed us the war tions of our American infantry about 300 NEW YORK CITY • IMPORTERS SINCE 1794 was to be over soon and he also told us yards distant across the field at the edge

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65 of some undergrowth. Firing had practi- In the distance now we could hear WMSTUNE cally ceased except for an occasional odd nothing. We crouched down in our shelter DO/friETA shot from some of our own fellows. The for fully five minutes more. Then gingerly APPEAKANCE Germans had not fired a shot since we we all arose to our feet, stretched our legs SPMWuK had come into their hands. One of the and looked around. We felt scared, but a Germans told us he had lived in Brooklyn feeling of safety gradually came over us and had run a saloon there for five years, until we were no longer afraid. Across but following a fight with his wife he ran the field we could see our fellows doing away to his Fatherland to be promptly the same as we were—standing up and conscripted for war service and put into crawling out of all kinds of little holes a real fight. and up out of the ditches alongside the At about five minutes to eleven the road. ^ETTHATRIM ATHLETICLOOK troops seemed very nervous. It was quiet At this point, when Beddor and I were with the all along the front. No one dared put his wondering what the next move would be head over the top of the embankment. and becoming a little uneasy, an orderly Beddor wanted to, but the ex-Brooklyn reported to our lieutenant in charge of the BRACER German told him not to be a damn fool, detachment. The lieutenant turned to us as some of his own buddies would indulge and explained that he was ordered to fall Ln some fancy target practice. It must back immediately, and that we could go have been but a minute to eleven o'clock and rejoin our own army. He shook hands when a single big shell from the American with us and wished us good luck. We left side burst right in front of our position, on foot to rejoin our own men. One can showering us with dirt and sticks. The imagine the questions our fellows put to last shot. We cursed the man who had us when we detached ourselves from the pulled the lanyard sending that unneces- Germans and came towards them. sary last shell over No Man's Land, After reporting to the nearest officer which had it landed a few yards further we went back and took possession of our would have obliterated our shelter and truck and papers. All was as we had left ourselves with it. it. The war was over—for all of us.

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{Continued from page jo) dent, the Divisional Vice Presidents, Reports of the Committee on Perman- Mrs. Benjamin F. Adams, Eastern Divi- ent Organization, presented by Mrs. A. sion; Mrs. Louis J. Lemstra, Central; A. Pantellis, and of the Committee on Bracer's NO RIP. The Mrs. Andrew Lawo, Southern; Mrs. Rules, read by Mrs. Fred R. Morrow, Teams are l»P«*££ bb with live " Bracer in position. Halsey D. Cory, Northwestern; and Mrs. were adopted. Expression of the Legion's pullVnutout. not loosen or NO BOTHER. The ex- |1>» " . ii„ iromfront means George A. Cole, Western, extended greet- thanks for the splendid, continuing help NO BULGE. elusive fly " kni««ea from of given in talk Srlcer ings. From time to time during the ses- the Auxiliary was a by lwo -vvay yarn to >" No buttons or of the Vice Presidents occupied retiring National Commander Daniel "Lastex" Jin.6 N sions each J. support bother wi,h._ sure complete ^°,r ,o the chair upon invitation of Mrs. Doherty. at all times. Douglas. Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, first The report of the Credentials Com- National President of the Auxiliary, who Amazing new-type supporter belt mittee, presented by its chairman, Mrs. had met at the Aloha Breakfast with but makes you look better- feel better, too Ethel K. Barnett, accredited 70s dele- six of the other pioneer women of the your waistline begins to bulge don't following WHEN gates to the convention. Upon action of organization, spoke briefly, worry. Try The Bracer. You'll look years the convention, the report was referred which the other Past National Presidents younger—feel better, too! For this amazing back to the committee for further con- in attendance, Mrs. Franklin Lee Bishop, new-type supporter belt is scientifically de- signed to give healthful support with the sideration of the seating of the delegation Mrs. O. D. Oliphant, Mrs. Robert greatest protection and comfort. from the Department of the District of Walbridge, Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., Mrs. A Bauer & Black product, The Bracer is Columbia. A supplementary report re- Robert Lincoln Hoyal, Mrs. Frederick C. made from the finest materials, under condi- commending that no delegates of that Williams, Mrs. S. Alford Blackburn, Mrs. tions of strict cleanliness. No detail is over- Department be seated was adopted by the Albin Charles Carlson, Mrs. Melville looked to insure the highest quality. So don't worry about that bulge. Get The Bracer convention after discussion and the vot- Mucklestone and Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn only The Bracer assures you—no roll, no rip, ing strength of the convention was thus wereintroduced. Fourof thePast National no bulge, no bother. At department, drug, reduced to 788. Presidents were not present, Mrs. Eliza haberdashery and sporting goods stores. In a ringing speech on Democracy, London Shepard, Mrs. Adalyn Wright THE Mrs. Florence Kahn, former member of Macauley, Mrs. Mary Virginia Macrae Congress from California, said: "Never and Mrs. William H. Biester, Jr. Upon before in the history of your organization the National President's announcement If your dealer cannot supply you with The Bracer, simply been confronted by such mo- that Mrs. Shepard and Mrs. Macrae fill out and mail this coupon with a check or money order. have you Price $2.00 (Canada $2.75). mentous issues, issues with which you were seriously ill, the convention voted & BLACK, Division of The Kendall Co., J BAUER of all women are most vitally concerned, to dispatch to them messages of affection | Dept. A-71, 2500 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. (In Canada, Station K, Toronto.) for you are the women who made the and wishes for speedy recovery. The re- | I am enclosing check or money order for- sacrifice before—-sent your fathers port of the Constitution and By-Laws great Please send me Bracers and brothers, husbands and sons to pre- Committee was submitted by its chair- My waist measurement is- serve the principles we see threatened to- man, Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, for action at Name Address- day from within and without." Greet- a later session. City- ings from numerous patriotic organi- Except for necessary committee meet- My dealer's1 name | and address is- zations were presented to the convention. ings, business of {Continued on page 66)

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(Continued from page 65) the Auxiliary was suspended on Tues- been named in this account of the con- More than 11,200,000 poppies, an in- day so that the women of the Auxiliary vention. crease of 425,000 over the previous year, might join the half-million Angelenos in Mrs. Nels O. Langseth in presenting were sold by Units throughout the cheering the Legion on parade—that her report of Emblem, Trophies and country. The Poppy Poster Contest and most colorful of America's annual pa- Awards listed numerous novel contests radio were given credit for the increased geants. National President Mrs. Douglas held by Departments to stimulate mem- interest in this activity. Mrs. Snodgrass shared the re- bership and general interest in the Aux- presented to Richard Hillegas, North viewing stand iliary. Trophies in ever-increasing num- Hollywood, California, the prize of $25 with the Legion ber were awarded to various Departments for the winning poster in the senior high

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Fox , Mrs. vention and of the National Executive Ohio; Madonna Hennessy, Grand Forks, Douglas and Committee by the National Finance North Dakota. several hundred Committee was reported by its chairman, Although illness prevented the grand guests were en- Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn, Past National old lady of the screen, Miss May Robson, tertained at a President. Safe investment of funds has from addressing the convention, as had luncheon at the Vendome in Hollywood also been carefully considered, insuring been intended, a message was brought on Tuesday afternoon. The well-known the stability of the Auxiliary's finances. from the film colony by Miss Louella dancer, Bill Robinson, entertained the The Eight and Forty, subsidiary or- Parsons, member of Hollywood (Cali- guests, and Jean Hersholt reported most ganization of the Auxiliary, which de- fornia) Unit and well-known screen interestingly about the Actors' Relief votes its energies to serious work as well commentator. She assured the convention Fund, of which he is head. as to play, will extend its program of that the film producers of Hollywood Following the formal opening cere- child welfare, according to the report "have pledged themselves to combat monies, the second session on Wednesday given to the convention by Mrs. Mary C. with every resource at their command took up in quick succession reports of Haws, Chapeau Nationale. At its Pou- the introduction of communism and additional committees. "Conscious Liv- voir National, the first new project dis- atheism on the motion-picture screen" ing for America" was the theme of the cussed was the establishment of a four- and that "no group of citizens anywhere

Americanism Committee report submit- bed solarium at a San Francisco chil- is more loyal to America and true Ameri- ted by its national chairman, Mrs. dren's hospital. An appropriation of canism than the people of Hollywood." Ernest G. Rarey. After commending the $1000 was voted for an eighth and final When Mrs. Douglas announced that splendid continuing work being done in bed in the ward it already supports in the the next order of business was the each Department, Mrs. Rarey stated, Jewish National Hospital for tuberculosis nominations for national officers, there "The work we have begun with our in Denver. Five scholarships for children was a stir among the delegates, all of American youth and with the foreign of World War veterans were also pro- whom were in their places, and the visi- born must go on. We are now established posed. tors, because the on solid ground in these fields." Officers elected for the ensuing year contest for Na- The projects which come within the are: Mrs. Thelma Bailey of Birmingham, tional President scope of the Community Service Commit- Michigan, Chapeau Nationale; Ellen gave indication of tee of the Auxiliary are, according to the Louise Warren, Washington, D. C, being close. Mrs. report of its national chairman, Mrs. 1' Archivist; Eva Coleman, Exeter, New James Morris of Lawrence H. Smith, too many to enu- Hampshire, l'Aumonier, and Laura Orth, Bismarck, North merate, but outstanding in the work done Phoenix, Arizona, La Concierge Na- Dakota, was placed by the organization are numbered such tionale. Mrs. Pauline Rairdon of Indian- in nomination for activities as safety campaigns which in- apolis was reappointed National Secre- the highest office clude the passage of automobile drivers' tary. The five divisional Demi-Chapeaux in the Auxiliary license laws, protection of bicycle riders are: Rose Baker of San Francisco, West- by Mrs. H. W. and the establishment of school safety ern Division; Marion de Bosche, Cam- Rosenthal of her patrols; the library program, which pro- den, New Jersey, Eastern; Irene Blum, Department, while vides books as educational aids; health Ohio, Central; Clara Detwiler, Nebraska, Iowa's choice, Mrs. clinics, and general civic beautification Northwestern, and Verlie Konig, Texas, A. H. Hoffman, projects. Combat of the marijuana evil Southern. was presented for is also included. Mrs. Charles Tucker, Through the Auxiliary's Poppy Pro- the consideration of the delegates by Music Chairman, reported a tremendous gram, approximately $120,000 was paid Mrs. Grace King of that State. No growth in the interest in music in Units during the past year to non-compen- further candidates being offered, nomi- and Departments. Music, she said, was sated disabled veterans who are em- nations were declared closed and in ac- "no longer considered a frill but rather ployed each year in making the poppies cordance with the Auxiliary's constitu- a major necessity in the organization." that are sold by the organization to raise tion and by-laws, twenty-four hours had The musical organizations which won funds for rehabilitation, Mrs. Glenn A. to elapse before a ballot could be taken. the 1938 championships have already Snodgrass, National Chairman, reported. The names of the five women nomi-

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67 nated for National Vice-Presidents— mittee, of which she was the chairman. their selection by their respective Divi- Based on the theme of a Bridge of Ser- "STALLING ALL CARS/ sional caucuses being tantamount to vice, the rehabilitation work of the Aux- election by the convention at large iliary was reviewed by Mrs. James DON'T USE ANTI- FREEZE were presented by the retiring National Morris, national chairman. More than Vice-Presidents of their respective Divi- 60,000 veterans were aided, 107,000 TILL YOU CLEAN OUT sions. They were: Mrs. George F. Bam- visits made to hospitals, 28,000 veterans' ford, Sparrows Point, Maryland, Eastern families contacted during the year. c* SANI-FLUSH!" Division; Mrs. P. I. Dickson, Thomas- Again the Auxiliary will contribute ville, Georgia, Southern; Mrs. T. K. $25,000 to the Legion for its rehabilita- Rinaker, Carlinville, Illinois, Central; tion program. Greatly increased interest Mrs. A. G. Porter, La Moure, North in and support of the National Defense Dakota, Northwestern; Mrs. Willian program was reported by Mrs. Eben P. H. Detweiler, Hazelton, Idaho, Western. Keen, National Chairman, who stated The first National President, Mrs. that during the past year Congress had Lowell Fletcher Hobart of Ohio, was authorized sums of money which will honored by being nominated American provide our nation's nearest approach to Vice-President of Fidac Auxiliary. an adequate national defense. Again the National Convention was on Transformed into a California patio of

>a nation-wide radio hook-up when the an older day, the Biltmore Bowl in the Auxiliary's annual National Radio Award Biltmore Hotel was the scene of the larg- was made to the National Broadcasting est and one of the most colorful of the Company by Mrs. William H. Corwith States Dinners, which are always the of New York, National Radio Chairman. social highlight of a National Convention The Awards Committee of the Women's for both the Legion and the Auxiliary. Old Man Winter has two strikes on you, National Radio Committee selected Two thousand notables, delegates and if you put anti-freeze in a dirty radiator. Rust and scale choke the cooling system. NBC'S "America's Town Meeting of the visitors from all over the country were Your motor overheats. You waste anti- Air" as the program most acceptable and in attendance. Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, freeze. You waste power. And you risk worthwhile to the general family audience who served as hostess, greeted the guests, costly engine repairs. Sani-Flush makes it and as best exemplifying one of the tenets introduced the distinguished people who easy and inexpensive to keep radiators clean. to the Auxiliary's con- shared the honor table with her, and then of the preamble— Just pour 10c worth of Sani-Flush in the stitution "to safeguard and transmit turned the party over to Leo Carillo, radiator. (25c for the largest trucks and to posterity the principles of justice, who acted as master of ceremonies and tractors.) Follow directions printed on the freedom and democracy." Official ac- presented a number of stars of radio and can. Run the motor. Drain. Flush. Refill ceptance of the award was made by Dr. films. with water and anti-freeze. Then you're all James Rowland Angell, educational di- When the final session was called to set for the winter. The delicate veins that water are free and open. Motors rector of NBC, speaking from the head- order on Thursday morning there was circulate run efficiently. Sani-Flush can't injure quarters in New York City. A handsome still much work to be done before the motor or fittings. You'll find Sani-Flush placque, representing the award, was election of national officers. In rapid in most bathrooms for cleaning toilets. Sold given to Don E. Oilman, Vice President order, the reports of the National Fidac by grocery, drug, hardware, and five-and- Division of in charge of the Western Committee was presented by Mrs. S. ten-cent stores. 25c and 10c sizes. The Hygi- NBC, by Mrs. Corwith, for transmittal Alford Blackburn, American Vice-Presi- enic Products Company, Canton, Ohio. to the New York offices. dent of Fidac Auxiliary and National The convention was stirred by an ad- Chairman; of the Child Welfare Commit- dress on "Juvenile Behavior" delivered tee by Mrs. Ruth Mathebat; Education Sani-Flush by Judge Camille Kelly of Memphis, of War Orphans Committee by Mrs. KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN Tennessee. Increased interest in and a Albert M. Greenlaw; Junior Activities saving in the operation of National News, Committee, of which Mrs. Willis C. official publication of the Auxiliary, was Reed was chairman; Legislative Commit- New Adding rVJach reported by Mrs. Wendell Denton Villars, tee by Mrs. Myron Miller, and the Radio Fits Vest Pocket Publication its National Chairman of the Committee, by chairman, Mrs. Wil- Adds, subtracts, and multiplies, up to Committee. Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, liam H. Corwith. Mrs. Charles B. Gilbert billion—yet it costs only $2.95. Weigh only 4 ounces. Not- a toy—guaranteed Past National President, submitted the submitted the Resolutions Committee's workmanship. Perfectly accurate, very fast. Sells to business men, store- report of the National Employment Com- report. All of {Continued on page 68) keepers, homes—wherever figures are used. Grab this opportunity. Write at once for FREE |ftruTA Sample Offer ami Money- AUClI I O MakingPlan. 100%Proflt! VE-PO-AD, Dept. 133 303 W. MONROE ST., CHICAGO LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

Herbert M. Stoops, First Division Lt. Jefferson Feigl Post, New York City. R. C. Worthincton, Elmer J. Wallace Post, Phoebus, Virginia. WAKE UP YOUR Frederick Palmer, City Club Post, New York City. James A. Drain, Past National Commander of The American Legion. - John G. Emery, Carl A. Johnson Post, Grand Rapids, Michigan. LIVER BILE V. E. Pyles, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. Without Calomel — And You'll Jump Out Alexander Gardiner, George Alfred Smith Post, Fairfield, Connecticut. of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go Boyd B. Stutler, John Brawley Post, Charleston, West Virginia. The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing Stephen F. Chadwick, Seattle (Washington) Post. freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in get John J. Noll, Capitol Post, Topeka, Kansas. the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and Amico J. Barone, Springfield (Massachusetts) Post. you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. the cause. J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. A mere bowel movement doesn't get at It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet naires, are not listed. make amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. Stubbornly refuse anything else. ©isaa. c.p. inc.

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(Continued from page 6f) these reports were accepted and approved. After a roll call of States in the vote intangible gold of your confidence in me. Details are available in the Reports to for National President disclosed the Your continued confidence will be my " the Eighteenth Annual National Con- fact that Mrs. James Morris of North strength. vention which are distributed to Units. Dakota had been given 451 votes to the To Past National President Mrs. Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., who suc- 337 votes obtained by Mrs. A. H. Hoff- Oscar W. Hahn went the honor of install- ceeded Mrs. Wilma Hoyal as chairman man of Iowa, the latter Department ing the new national officers. In a cere- of the Past President's Parley, reported moved that the election be made unani- mony rife with emotion, Past National that her distinctive group had selected mous. Confirmation of the election of the President Mrs. S. Alford Blackburn pre- as its contribution to the Auxiliary's five National Vice-Presidents followed, sented to Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, the re- work a youth program which will consist and the vote of the convention for Mrs. tiring National President, the flags under of an essay contest for girls between the Lowell Fletcher Hobart as American which she had served during the past year. ages of 15 and 18 on the subject "Why I Vice-President of Fidac was cast. At a meeting of the National Executive Am Proud To Be an American." This Mrs. Morris was escorted to the plat- Committee called by Mrs. Morris, Mrs. will include junior members of the Aux- form by her husband, Judge James Mor- Gwendolyn Wiggin MacDowell of Iowa iliary and daughters of Auxiliary mem- ris, and a group of North Dakota Depart- was elected to another term as National bers who are not eligible to membership ment officers of both the Auxiliary and Secretary and Mrs. Cecilia Wenz to in the organization. The contest will be the Legion. Mrs. Thomas Street, Depart- succeed herself as National Treasurer. determined upon a Department and ment President, presented Mrs. Morris Mrs. J. Allison Hardie of Columbus, Divisional basis—five winners to be given to the convention. In her speech of accept- Mississippi, was appointed National a trip to Washington, to attend the an- ance, Mrs. Morris said, in part: "I jour- Historian and Mrs. Charles Decker of nual National Defense Conference. neyed to California in search of the Los Angeles, National Chaplain.

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(Continued from page 41) the Mease 57 additional guns, making a Evening: The 1st American Army has made communication between the fortress of Metz atui total of more than 750 since November I. further important gains on both sides of the his troops in northern France and Belgium is, Thirty of our bombing planes executed a suc- Meuse. East of the Meuse our troops advanced by the success of the American Army, no longer cessful raid on Mouzon and Rancour! this to a depth of more than four kilometers. Neither open to him. All French territory west of the morning, dropping over two tons of bombs tlie extremely difficult nature of the terrain nor Meuse within the zone of action of the American with good effect. Reconnaissance and pur- the two fresh divisions hurriedly brought up Army has now been cleared of the enemy by the suit squadrons carried out many successful by the enemy greatly delayed our progress. On gallant and dashing advance of our troops. missions, machine-gunning enemy troops and the Cote St. Germain, however, the enemy de- Since November 1, we have advanced 40 kilo- greatly assisting the advance of our infantry. fended his positions with particular obstinacy, meters, broken down all enemy resistance, 77 enemy airplanes were shot down and two and we were able to secure them only as a result freed 700 square kilometers of France, liberated enemy balloons burned. Seven of our planes of a bitter struggle. Near Murvax, Hill 284 2,000 civilians who joyfully hailed our soldiers arc missing. and Fontaines fell into our hands. The battle as deliverers, captured nearly 6,000 prisoners, Forty-Second Division passes through still continues, with the enemy making desper- including an unusually large proportion of Seventy-Eighth and pursues retreating ene- ate efforts to maintain a last foothold on the officers, and great quantities of arms, muni- my; Eighty-First begins relief of Thirty- heights of the Meuse which he has held since tions, stores and supplies. Fifth, Meuse-Argonne operation. 1914. West of the Meuse the enemy again failed Evening: The 1st American Army continued German forces in northern France and to clieck our rapid progress. Along the river its offensive starting with a precarious footing Flanders retreat on 75-mile front from the bank we took Villemontry and Mont de Brune on the east bank of the Meuse, in a region of Scheldt to the Aisne. and reached the western outskirts of Mouzon. unusual natural difficulties and defended by German Armistice delegation reaches To the west our line passes through A utrccourt an enemy rendered desperate by the knowledge .Allied lines. and Beau Menil Farm to Connage. We have that the heights north of Verdun were vital to Republicans capture United States Senate, also taken Bidson, Haroucourl and the impor- his plan. The 5th Division, and National 49-47, as nation goes to polls; Democrats tant town, Raucourt. Since the beginning of our Guard troops from Wisconsin and Michigan, retain control of House of Representatives; attack on November 7, 22 enemy divisions employed in this operation, have slowly but Henry Ford, Democrat, defeated for Michi- have appeared on our front between the Meuse steadily fought their way throughout these gan Senatorship by Lieutenant Commander and the Argonne. Our pursuit planes dropped days of continuous battle. In this region we now Truman H. Newberry, Republican; Alfred a ton of explosives on several important road hold Lion-dcvant-Dun, the heights overlooking E. Smith, Democrat, wins New York gover- centers which were being used by the enemy to Brandeville, Brandeville, three kilometers east norship from Republican, Charles S.Whitman. make his escape. Seven enemy airplanes were of Haraumont, Sillon-Fonlaine Farm, and shot down during the day. Two of our machines thence southeast to the old line. The Rainbow NOVEMBER 6 are missing. Division and units of the 1st Division seized Morning: Between the Bar and Meuse the First Division passes through Eightieth the heights south and southeast of Sedan and 1st American Army continued its advance in direction of Mouzon and pursues enemy to the suburbs of that city, lying on the xoest bank strong resistance. northward, opposed by Our heights of the Meuse ; units of Sixth move into of the Meuse. The entire region between the troops are in the Bois du Fond de Limon, line, Meuse-Argonne operation; Thirty- Meuse and the Bar has now been liberated whence the line extends through Flaba, Maison- Fourth Division moves to Le Mans and cert- by the 1st American Army in close co-operation vclle and Chemery. On the line of the Meuse, tain of its units are transferred to Second with the 4th French Army. In the Woevre the which we now hold from the Boise de VHospice, Depot Division. troops of our 2nd Army have executed a inclusive, to Sassey, and the heights to the east number of highly successful raids, entering the of Milly, and thence to Dun-sur-Meuse, there NOVEMBER 7 enemy's lines and returning with 50 prisoners. was severe artillery and machine-gun fighting Morning: At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon The number of guns of all calibers taken by the during the night. Franco-American units, advance troops of the isl American Army took 1st American Army since November 1 now ex- operating in the difficult terrain east of the that part of the city of Sedan which lies on the ceeds 2so. A partial count of captured muni- Meuse against positions long held by the enemy west bank of the Meuse. The bridge leading tions and material shmvs more than 2,000 ma- on the front Sivry to the Bois de la Grande across the Meuse into the remainder of the citv, chine guns, over 5,000 rifles, 75 trench mortars, Montague, are heavily engaged. During suc- which is filled with Ike retreating enemy, has many anti-tank guns, several hundred thou- cessful air combats yesterday afternoon, three been destroyed and the valley of the river sand rounds of artillery ammunition, nearly additional enemy planes were brought down. flooded: the railroad bridges have also been de- 2,ooo,ooo rounds of small arms ammunition All of our machines returned. stroyed. The enemy's principal lateral line of and much other material. A regiment of Ameri-

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 6o can infantry particularly distinguished itself entire corps front; Sixth Division moves to THAT LOOKS GOOD • victories in Italy. area; Eighth Division headquarters in the final Verdun I WISH I COULD EAT IT- Eighty-First Division relieves Thirty- arrives at Brest. BUT ACID INDIGESTION J Fifth, latter moving to St. Mihiel area. Kaiser and Crown Prince abdicate anc GETS ME. American G. H. Q. issues order forming the Prince Maximilian is named regent of the DON'T LET THAT Third American Army (later to become the German Empire; general strike declared in WORRY YOU -JUST Army of Occupation) under Major General Berlin. .CHEW A FEW TUMS., Joseph T. Dickman. NOVEMBER 10 YES—TUMS bring amazing quick relief from indi- Firing ceases at one point along the French gestion, heartburn, sour stomach, gas caused by ex- front to permit passage of German armistice Morning: Along the front of the 1st Army on cess acid. For TUMS work on the true basic principle. Act unbelievably fast to neutralize excess acid con- delegates. the west bank of the Meuse and from Mouzay ditions. Acid pains are relieved almost at once. TUMS fleet in revolt; Soldiers' Council to Fresnes-en-Woevre, the night was marked are guaranteed to contain no moda. Are not laxative. German Contain no harmful drugs. Over 2 billion TUMS seizes Kiel. by heavy artillery fire and by sharp machine- already used—proving their amazing benefit. Get TUMS today. Only 10c for 12 TUMS at all druggists. United Press dispatch from Paris an- gun fighting. nouncing signing of an armistice with Ger- Evening: A series of local operations by the You never know when many sets off wild celebrations throughout 1st and 2d American Armies resulted in con- or where America; official denials fail to halt cele- siderable gains, today, at many points along ALWAYS/^ brants. the line between the Meuse and the Moselle. CARRY Troops of the 1st Army, with whom French NOVEMBER 8 units are operating, reached the southern out- skirts of Stenay and occupied Bois de Chenois, Morning: On both sides of the Meuse the south of Baalon. Beyond the eastern slopes of night was marked by heavy machine-gun fight- the heights of the Meuse, the villages of Gibercy, ore anti-acid—not laxative. When you need a laxative get - ing and sniping. There was heavy artillery fire Abaucourt and Grimaucourt were taken. In This all vegetable laxative brings in the region Sedan and east of the Meuse. each gentle, dependable relief for of Ike Woevre, despite stubborn resistance from Evening: This afternoon, French and conditions due to constipation. machine guns and heavy artillery, troops of American units operating under the command the 2d Army penetrated the enemy's lines and the i st American Army wrested from the of drove him from several well-organized and enemy his last hold on the heights east of the WANTED—MEN- strongly held positions. The towns of Marche- to cast Christmas Goods, 5 and 10c Novel- Meuse, memorable as the scene of the great ville and St. Hilaire were taken and the Bois ties, Toy Autos, Ashtrays, etc. Can be done battle of Verdun in iqi6, and drove him back in any spare room, basement or garage and Dommarlin was cleared of the enemy. into the lowlands of the Woevre. On a front of no experience necessary. A rare opportunity Thirty-Seventh and Ninety-First Divisions to devote spare or full time to profitable 14 kilometers we advanced to a depth of six resume participation in Ypres-Lys operation. work. Write Dept. 9. kilometers, taking Lissey, Ecurey, Brekeville, Kaiser and Crown Prince flee to Holland; METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO. Peuvillers, Damvillers, Flabas, and other Berlin in hands of revolutionists. Boston Road York City towns and villages. Along the line of the Meuse 1696 New from Villefranche to Wadelincourt, lively artil- NOVEMBER 11 lery and machine-gun combats have taken Morning: In accordance with the terms tlie place during the day. Six additional guns of of heavy caliber, many more machine guns, 2,000 armistice, hostilities on the fronts of tlie Ameri- can Armies were suspended at 11 o'clock this rifles, and a large airplane workshop, captured during our advance west of the Meuse, have morning. (No further American communiques were been reported. In the Woevre, on the front of the issued until November 17th.) 2d American Army, our patrols were very SALE CATALOG—FREE prisoners in the Total A. E. F. troops transported in active, capturing course of Nearly 200 Styles and Sizes of the total several successful enterprises near Lake La November to nth, 30,201; grand Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces at Easy Despite adverse from America's entry into war, 2,079,880. FACTORY PRICES. Chaussee. weather conditions, Terma. Write todayforFREE President Wilson, appearing before Con- our aviators, flying at a height of 100 meters, CATALOG. New styles, new reads to Senators features, new colors. 30 daya carried out a number of reconnaissance mis- gress at one p.m., assembled 24-hour ship- and Representatives terms of the Armistice. FREE trial— sions. They bombed and machine-gunned con- i ments. The Kalimnoo centrations of enemy troops in the region Stove A. Furnace Company, of 2066 Rochester Avenue Baalon and Remoiville and blew up an ammu- NOVEMRER 12 Kalamazoo, Michigan Coal-Wood Ranges. nition dump at Gibercy. Four enemy balloons Republic is proclaimed in Berlin; National Combination Gas, Coal. Ranges, Gas destroyed and three enemy airplanes Wood were were Council of Women of Germany appeals to Stoves, Coal - Wood A Kalamazoo Heaters, Oil Heaters, shot down during the day. One of our planes is Mrs. Woodrow Wilson protesting against Furnaces. * r- ; Direct toYou" missing. Armistice stipulation that large part of rolling German plenipotentiaries in conference Stock of German railways be surrendered, at Allied headquarters. claiming that as a result many German Relieve Prince Maximilian of Baden resigns as women and children must die of hunger. Pain In Few German chancellor, but resignation is not Soldiers and sailors on Fifth Avenue, New Minutes accepted; revolutionists now in control of break parade of Socialists on NEURITIS York, up 5,000 To relieve the torturing pain of Neuritis. Rheu- many large German centers. to mass meeting. way matism, Neuralgia or Lumbago in few minutes, Navy Department announces that censor- get NURITO, the Doctor's formula. No opiates, ship of news concerning movements of no narcotics. Does the work quickly—must relieve NOVEMBER 9 worst pain to your satisfaction in few minutes or merchant vessels is off. money back at Druggist's. Don't suffer. Get Morning: East of the Meuse, in the region trustworthy NURITO today on this guarantee. north and south of Damvillers, our advance NOVEMBER 13 successfully continues, meeting strong resistance British admiralty for the first time admits from machine-gun fire. Along the line of the sinking of battleship Audacious, which went Meuse, from Sassey to Wadelincourt, the down after striking a mine off the north Irish night was marked by artillery and machine- coast October 1914; photographs of the gun fighting. 27, sinking had appeared in many American Evening: Opposed by machine-gun fire from newspapers late in 1914. retreating hostile rear-guards, troops of the 1st Deferred building projects American Army, in co-operation with French amounting to more than $20,000,000 are released units serving under the same command, gained by War Industries Board, which will cancel all in- additional important areas east of the Meuse dustrial restrictions as quickly as feasible. today. Crossing the river south of Slenay, our First start troops captured Mouzay. Pushing rapidly New York war manufactory to preparing for peace conditions is Defense through the Foret de Woevre from the west and Gas Plant, Long Island City, which lays off southwest, they converged on Jamelz, 13 kilo- 400 of its employes. meters east of the Meuse, which, with Louppy- 12,500 sur-Loison and Remoiville, was taken. On the NOVEMRER 14 front south of Damvillers, Moirey, Chaumont $1260 to $2100 Year and Manheulles, though vigorously defended, Socialists make Herr Ebert virtual dictator Ex-Service Men FRAN KLIN INSTITUTE fell before our advance. Despite heavy rains and of new German republic. get preference / / Dept. CI80. Rochester, N. Y. mists, our aviators executed reconnaissance News reaches United States that 2,532 Many 1939 * Gentlemen: Rush FREE list of appointments U. S. Government big pay pOBi- missions, and successfully bombed and ma- American prisoners of war in Germany have ^ expected. ^5 lions. Send FREE 32-page book chine-gunned enemy troops in the vicinity of been released, some reaching their own lines Influence © describing salaries, hours, work and ^ telling about preference to Ex-Service Montmedy. today. unnecessary. / men. Mail Coupon Seventy-Seventh Division relieves Forty- Chairman Baruch of Industries / Name War today Second in Meuse-Argonne area, occupying Board calls for a (Continued on page 70) SURE. / Address

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E. paid-up in 20 years; double indemnity without F. home at rate of 300,000 men a month, Direct cost of war to all belligerent nations extra cost; with liberal cash and loan values. beginning shortly. was 200 billion dollars, it is estimated; They will mail you this policy for 10 DAYS' FREE INSPECTION, without doctor's examina- Machinery of army demobilization starts pre-war debts of principal belligerents did tion, if you are in good health, and under the age when Secretary of War Baker orders dis- not exceed 25 billion, with one billion in in- of 55. SEND NO MONEY! No agent will call! Just write, sending your full name, date of birth, race, charge of 50,000 men who are in develop- terest and other annual charges supporting height, weight, duties of occupation, name and ment battalions in United States camps. it; annual burden will be not less than 10 relationship of your beneficiary, and condition of your health. Your policy will be mailed at once. Secretary of State Lansing, replying to billions hereafter and probably much more. plea of Foreign Minister Solf of Germany Representatives of 100 leading automobile that America mediate between Germany and manufacturing concerns meeting in Washing- IN STR ELS the Allies, declares that appeal must be ton decide to forego automobile shows in Unique first parts for complete Ghow, with special songs and directed to the Allies themselves. New York and Chicago this winter. choruses. Black-face plays, Jokes, Gags, Posters, Make-uf Goods, Wigs, Bones, Tambou rines. Lively, up-to-the minute NOVEMBER 16 NOVEMRER 19 plays for dramati and lodges . Den War Department announces it expects to plays produced On the front of the 3d Army the day passed everywhere, 60 discharge 30,000 men a day when machinery without incident, our troops occupying the gen- years of hits. Free Catalog being set up starts operating; 200,000 will eral line Etalle—St. Leger-Longwy-Audun le T. S. DEN! SON & CO. X ^ be discharged within the next two weeks. Roman-Briey. 203 N Wabash. Dept. 89, Chicago JUlR^NP Belgian troops enter Brussels, capital of General Petain enters Metz at the head of their nation; Germans had been in possession the French Tenth Army; at the same time of the city since August 20, 19 14. the Cabinet, meeting in Paris, name him a Pains In Back, Samuel Gompers, President of the Ameri- Marshal of France, an honor he shares with can Federation of Labor, attending Pan- Joffre and Foch. American labor conference at Laredo, British land at Gallipoli, where thousands Texas, serves warning that no general reduc- of their comrades went to their death in 1915, Nervous, Rheumatic? tion of wages or increase of working hours as Turks turn over to them the forts of the overwork and Wrong foods and drinks, worry, will be accepted by labor without a bitter lower Dardanelles. frequent colds often put a strain on the Kidneys and functional kidney disorders may be the true fight. Died today: Joseph F. Smith, 80, President Nights, Burn- cause of Excess Acidity, Getting Up Largest airplane in the world, a Handley- of the Mormon Church and nephew of Joseph ing Passages, Leg Pains. Nervousness, Dizziness, Swollen Ankles, Rheumatic Pains, Puffy Eyelids, Page, carries forty passengers, nine of them Smith, founder of the church; Dr. Charles R. and feeling old before your time. Help your kid- women, in flight over London; pilot is Clif- Van Hise, President of the University of purify your blood with Cystex. Usually the neys ford B. Prodger, American aviator with the very first dose starts helping your kidneys clean Wisconsin. out excess acids and this may quickly make you British Royal Flying Corps. Massacre of Jews in Warsaw and in five feel like new. Under the money-back guarantee Cystex must satisfy completely or cost nothing. towns of Galicia is reported to the Zionist Get Cystex (Siss-tex) today. It costs only 3c a NOVEMBER 17 organization in the United States. dose at druggists and the guarantee protects you. This morning the 3rd American Army under the command of Major General Dickman NOVEMRER 20 began its march into the territory evacuated by "KWIK-SHAVE In the course of its advance today the 3d the enemy in accordance with the terms of the crossed the German frontier ELECTRIC SHAVER Army of 191 4, armistice. nighlfall advance At elements had entered the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg and he dry ihover thot li reached the line Ecouviez-Sorbey-Gourain- progressed further into southern Belgium. Our *ing into every home. Tour. (Divisions court-Mars la constituting columns passed through the towns of Esch and First, >rice! Self itorring.Cle Third Army were: Second, Third, Aden, and by evening had reached the general -hove. One yeor gu< Fourth, Fifth, Thirty-Second, Forty-Second, line: Gandringen-Wollmeringen-Dudelange- ELGIN LABORATORIES Eighty-Ninth, Ninetieth.) Mondercange-A utelbas-Grendel. French forces are in Sedan and Alsace, and King Albert of the Belgians gets enthusias- the forts south of man Metz, Munster and tic welcome as he enters Antwerp; Cardinal Moroccan Division, The American Lecion Altkirch; the including Mercier celebrates "Te Deum" in cathedral the famous Foreign Legion, led the way to- makes touching address. National Headquarters and day across the old frontier into the "Lot City of Versailles, preparing for coming Indianapolis, Indiana Provinces;" 200,000 march in victory parade peace conference, begins work of restoring in Paris. gardens of the palace and removal of camou- of Financial Statement Le Matin Paris estimates German debt flage coverings over statues and fountains. to France at 68 billion dollars, including August 31, 1938 Twenty German submarines are turned interest to date on Franco-Prussian war over to Rear Admiral Tyrwhitt of the British idemnity paid by France. navy about thirty miles out of the port of A ssets Polish officers from Warsaw have taken Harwich. Cash on hand and on deposit ? 465.17S.26 possession of the government of Posen, Notes and accounts receivable 50,869.46 capital of German Poland, according to ad- NOVEMRER 21 Inventories 91,938.64 vices from Basle, Switzerland. Invested funds 1,734,655.94 Continuing its advance, the 3d Army reached Permanent investments: this evening the general line: Vichten-Mersch-

Graves Decoration Trust Fund . . 199,544.02 Overseas NOVEMBER 18 Schuttrange-Renlgen-Kaffenhofen. During the Office building, Washington, D. C, less depreciation 125,430.96 The 3d Army continued its advance into the afternoon our troops passed through the city of Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less territory evacuated by the enemy. On the left, Luxemburg, where they were welcomed as de- depreciation 31,999.58 crossing the Belgian frontier, our troops occu- liverers by the civilian population, who showered Deferred charges 27,893.63 pied Virton and by evening had reached Etalle them with flowers and accompanied them in ?2,727,510.49 and St. Leger. Between the Chiers and the their march through the flag-decked streets. Moselle they passed through Spincourt and the President Wilson signs the emergency important railroad centers of Longuyon and agricultural appropriation bill which makes Liabilities, Deferred Revenue and Net Worth Conflans. At the close of the day they entered the nation bone dry from next July 1st to Current liabilities $ 72,956.90 the historic French fortress of Longwy. situated end of mobilization. Funds restricted as to use 40,828.54 at the junction of the boundaries of France, British soldiers on their way to Germany Deferred revenue 250,119.75 Belgium and Luxemburg. Further south they rode over the historic battlefield of Waterloo. Permanent trust: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust 199,544.02 have occupied Audun-le- Roman and the town United States Air Force destroyed 929 of Briey, the center of the great iron district enemy planes and 73 balloons during the war, Net Worth: of Lorraine. while 265 American planes and 38 balloons Restricted capital . . . .31,714,713.39 President Wilson Unrestricted capital. . 449,349.89 2,164,061.28 announces he will leave were destroyed by the enemy, according to for London, Paris and Rome to discuss peace Associated Press dispatch from American $2,727,510.49 problems with Allied premiers soon after G. H. Q. in France.

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German high seas fleet surrenders to Ad- to 85 big ships—liners, transports and cargo miral Sir David Beatty of the British fleet vessels—now under British registry. -Andnow it's the and other Allied commanders off the Firth of Law officers of the British crown, in con- Forth. junction with French, seek method of secur- Former Crown Prince of Germany is to be ing extradition of the former German Em- American Legion interned on the island of Wieringen, Hol- peror from Holland. land; he was hooted today by a crowd in the Seventy-Sixth Division (New England JUNIOR fishing village of Enkhuyzen when he passed National Army troops), reduced by replace- DRUM CORPS • Supreme pride of the A. L. Post NOW through there. ment drafts to 61 officers and 1,000 men, is its JUNIOR Drum Corps. And what l4(fi4*} arrives at St. Nazaire on way home. a thrill when the snappy youngsters / : 5^fi$ march out on their first parade, with NOVEMBER 22 the pep and stirring music of bugles and drums. The 3d Army continued today its progress NOVEMBEB 27 You can organize and train a Junior through the Grand Duchy Luxemburg to the drum corps, ready for public appear- of War Department issues orders calling for ance, in six weeks* time. Our plan, reduced to "Five Easy Steps", is line Ingeldorf-Betzdorf-Remich-Schengen. / demobilization of Students' Army Training outlined in detail in this new book, | King .Albert and Queen Elizabeth, at the Corps; the 160,000 men in more than 600 sent free on request. Gives full in- 1 formation, tells you exactly how to m head of 15,000 Belgian and Allied troops, institutions will be discharged not later than proceed. Only slight knowledge M of music required. Success as- enter Brussels; General Pershing is one of a Ji| January 1, 1919. ured. Write NOW for this beau- ft tiful free book with its many group of Allied generals who accompany the million half prisoners held J| A and a by the pictures. No obligation. A drum Jji King. corps will bring back all the old Germans have been released, says dispatch enthusiasm. Start now. Send William G. McAdoo resigns as Secretary from Berlin. postal today sure. 2331 of the Treasury and Director General of strikes LUDWIG & LUDWIG, Inc. Unorganized have broken out in 1123 Ludwig Bldg. Railroads; John D. Ryan gives up posts of many Berlin factories, with workers demand- 161 1 N. Wolcott Ave. (formerly Lincoln St.), Chicago, Illinois Assistant Secretary of War and Director of ing maintenance of wartime scale of prices the Air Service. and hours. Dutch legation in Paris issues note declar- Bishop William A. Quayle of the Metho- ing that former German emperor entered dist Episcopal Church in speech at St. Louis citizen and is entitled to Holland as a private calls for execution of the former Kaiser and ^Scratching Dutch refuge; he has not left Amerongen payment of reparations by the German peo- III RED EVE ITCHING SKIN Quickly Castle since his arrival there. ' ple to the uttermost farthing." Even the most stubborn itching of eczema, blotches, Belgian sources declare that the 1918 pimples, athlete's foot, rashes and other externally Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to NOVEMBEB 28 caused skin eruptions, quickly yields to cooling, anti- President Wilson, probably on his forthcom- septic, liquid D. D. D. Prescription. Easy to use. King George V of Great Britain, accom- Dries fast. Clear, greaseless and stainless. Soothes the trip to Europe. ing panied by his sons, the Prince of Wales and irritation and quickly stops the most intense itching. A 35c trial bottle, at all drug stores, proves it or Prince Albert, is given ovation as he arrives — NOVEMBER 23 your money back. Ask for D. D.O. PRESCRIPTION. in Paris. Tlte 3d Army, advancing through Luxem- Nine American and British aviation officials burg, has now reached the German frontier take their Thanksgiving dinner in a Handley- EAT AND DRINK Wallendorf to Schengen. (No further from Page bombing machine half a mile above YOUR WAY TO HEALTH ! American communiques were issued until the earth, at Elizabeth, New Jersey. The J 2 December ist. Thereafter, through Decem- Send today for Free 3 -page A. E. F. gets generous {Continued on page 72) hook givincr diet lists and the ber 13th, the daily communiques reported amazing story of the world- renowned progress of the Third Army through mineral water treat- the ment that has brought blessed Germany. The final American communique, relief to thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, neuritis, kid- December 13th, read: The 3d No. 217, for 2* ney, liver and stomach disor- American Army crossed the Rhine today and AMAZlNGOfTfR $4 ders eaused by constipation and poor digestion. Kind health Nature's occupied the Coblenz bridgehead.) SWEDISH BLUE STEEL way—write today for your free copy! General Pershing receives War Department return a million members of the authority to m itit. ii i A. E. 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Rebuilt dollar to this advertisement (money orders, NOVEMBER 24 checks, and stamps also accepted) and we will send you postpaid, attractively packaged, 100 War Labor Policies Board and Federal WOODSTOCK Builder fine, Swedish blue steel, double edged blades Employment Service decide that in stimula- that will fit both old and new type razors. Used to win most Inter- tion of building of all sorts lies the best op- Try five and if you are not satisfied we will national Commercial portunity of absorbing labor set free by clos- cheerfully return your money. These blades School Contests ing of munition shops and by discharge of are manufactured in the United States. EASY TERMS-FREE TRIAL soldiers and sailors. WRITE FOR LITERATURE DEPT. 8-15 H. WEISER, 24 Stone St., New York City naval officers surrender 28 more German Dept. 2AL WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER CO., WOODSTOCK, III. 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when Daniel Harder Post was known all celebrate the opening of the hunting over the country for its annual duck season in this duck hunters' paradise, suppers, and long held the distinction of members of the Post conceived the idea for Arthritis, Rheumatism having entertained more National Com- of establishing an annual duck calling Soothing relief from arthritis, rheumatism, neuritis, nervous manders than any other small town Post contest. and organic diseases with the new, ELECTRO-HEALTH ACTIVATOR right in your home in the world. In those days the Post en- "Following the usual custom of holding without drugs. Safe. Easy to use. __ parts healing electricity. Recommended by joyed the unique distinction of increasing the contest on the eve of the duck hunt- doctors. 10 DAYS' TRIAL without risking one penny. Tree Booklet. Write todayl its was thus ing season in the Unico Products, Inc., 3932 Field Av., Dept. 109, Detroit, Mich. membership every year and Southern zone, the 1938 able to entice the various National Com- contest will be held in Stuttgart on Mon- Learn Profitable Profession manders off the beaten path. Be it said, day, November 14th, at an hour that will in QO days at Home in all modesty, that none of them ever accord with broadcasting arrangements. Sal f Men and Women In the fascinating pro- left hungry for the want of plenty of fat Daniel Harder Post is preparing a pro- f Swedish Massage run as high as $40 to 570 per week but many prefer to open their own of- of interest fices. Large incomes from Doctors, hospitals, sani- mallard duck. [And what suppers they gram to sportsmen, which tariums and private patients come to those who qualify through our training. Reducing were, as this Step Keeper can testify, assures that Stuttgart will again be the alone offers rich rewards for specialists. Write for Anatomy Charts and quality of hunters booklet -They're FREE. after having sampled the —and mecca duck from all over the THE College of Swedish Massage United States." ' the 1601 Blvd.. quantity—of Stuttgart duck at ^« Warren Dept. 875. Chicago (Suceeator to National College of Manage) annual dinners in 1932, 1933 and 1934.] "The dinners were discontinued be- A Legion Forum cause of a combination of circumstances —increased attendance, requiring more TWO years ago a few active members of and more ducks; the effect of the drought Scarsdale (New York) Post came to which depleted the annual duck hatch, the conclusion that the Post could render and increasingly stringent regulations a fine piece of community service work by governing the taking of wild ducks, sponsoring a discussion group open to caused the suppers to be abandoned after men both within and without the Legion. the one held in 1934. After a couple of When the plan for such an organization WE years floundering about, with no way to was presented by Legionnaire John B. Brittain, whose idea was to form an im- ToAnySuitT partial, non-partisan, non-sectarian group Double the life of your We a4i katie a ScoeU Amiishce coat and vest with correctly whose only aim was to make a definite Da.4 Parade —/Aliuosf ewe*^ wan matched pants. 100,000 patterns. Every pair band tailored to your measure tveve tomt-e promised^ contribution to informed public opinion, Our match sent FREE for your 0. before K. tx> +u*M ouV pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece the Post said to go ahead—on your own. of cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY So the Scarsdale Men's Forum was 209 S. State SU Dept. 70S Chicago organized, and has carried on for two seasons of seven monthly meetings each. n^ru BEAUTIFUL Legionnaire Brittain says: "The Scars- ITT Natural -Looking dale Men's Forum is starting its third FALSE TEETH season, with monthly meetings scheduled LOWEST PRICES ^ from October to April. It is sponsored by SEND NO \ Scarsdale Post, in conjunction with New =^J' MONEY i we make — BY MAIL — the World's York University, and is a self-supporting 60 No. 1 FIT-RITE Dental Plates for men nave ••it?— — and women — from impressions taken in group of men with membership open to UttYa your home. Thousands of pleased patrons. MONEY* TRIAL BACK GUARANTEE YOU'LL BE SATISFIED. all who are interested. Actually something Monthly payments possible. FREE mouth-forms.easy directions and catalog. WRITE TODAY! T. Johnson, Pres. UNITED STATES DENTALC. COMPANY over half its members are men from Dept. HA75 155S Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, III. Wot say, aiem 8? without the Post.

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What ^Manner of *Men! ASTHMA? {Continued from page ij) "If you are sick and tired of gasping and strug- gling for breath— tired of sitting up night after night losing much needed rest and sleep, write me at once for a FREE trial of the medicine that first aid crew dress the if, days of bloody battle, there was only one the to wound gave me relief. I suffered agony for nearly six of the lieutenants with me and only 70 as and when they came along. years. Now I have no more spells of choking, gasp- ing and wheezing and sleep sound all night long. had left the village one is wounded in the front lines of the 246 men who When Write today for a FREE trial. Your name and on the 15th. there is, of course, always the possibility address on a post card will bring it by return mail." O. W. Dean, President, Free Breath Products Needless to say, the chef knew that his that the enemy may counter-attack and Company, Dept. 1600-B, Benton Harbor, Michigan. precious house was now safe again, and take one prisoner, or else. So when our he sensed the price paid by the Americans battalion came over the hill into his view

it safe. difference was in open order, nearly a thousand strong, in making What a AMAZING Pass Cases Far MEN! registered in his countenance and atti- and placed themselves between him and tude! He would probably have kissed us the enemy and possible capture or death, on both cheeks had we let him. Instead, it was a grand and glorious feeling to he asked very humbly what he, being a him. He lay on his stomach, with his chef, could prepare to tickle our palates. hands under his chin, and a beatific ex- POSTPAID (They could stand tickling after five days pression on his face which I shall never Stamps Card of being scratched by corned willie and forget. Have you ever seen the look on Patented Pocket Loose LeafPass - hardtack.) The first thing I thought of the face of a live American kid the first Section 4 Passes GENUINE STEERHiDE "Talon "Zipper— S3. 90 Postpaid was cream puffs, and that was my sug- time he sees a circus parade? The ma- Also with zipper keycase, $5.90 —Deluxe gift set Lodge fellows, business and railroad men all say HALVORFOLD gestion as I dismissed the matter from chine gunner had that kind of a look. is the only one worth while for passes, money and cards. Must be right—more than 1.000.000 now in use. my mind. If your dealer—luggage or department etore or jewelry Htore can- not supply you. order direct from us and give dealer'B name. If That evening as we were finishing din- The Overworked Guns >king for just an ordinary billfold, don't bothe: Dept. E-3 CHICAGO 1 ner in his dining room, my one lieutenant THERE were four of them—Russian HALVORFOLD waSoh ILL. and me, in came our old chef, dressed in guns—but only one was required to his snow white cap and apron, and with keep us of the infantry awake that night a benign look upon his face. He was of the fourth of October near the south New York Doctor Lowers bearing a platter about twenty inches in end of the Argonne Wood. Infantrymen BLOOD PRESSURE diameter with a veritable mountain of don't often get a chance to observe an HIGH in out of cream puffs on it, made only as an artist artillery piece in action—-they're gener- 22 26 cases A well-known New- York physician lowered blood in French pastries can make them. What ally a few miles up ahead with the artil- pressure in 22 out of 26 cases, and in most cases re- lieved the accompanying symptoms of dizziness and them? I'll give lery firing over per custom and did we do to and with them headaches with ALLIMIN Essence of Garlic-Parsley you two guesses. necessity. So we went out to look at the Tablets used according to directions on the package. Thousands of high blood pressure sufferers the country guns the next morning after having spent over report the same gratifying relief. If you don't know the cause of your high blood pressure, see your doctor. The Gunner a more or less restless night wondering if ALLIMIN must definitely help you or your druggist will refund your money. For free sample and valuable book- THE fight south of Soissons was in its the bursts we heard were from arrivals let write VAN PATTEN CO., 54 W. Illinois, Dept. 51, Chicago third day and the going had been or departures. heavy. We of the reserve battalion were The guns bore a Russian inscription Is Your Rupture getting nearer to the tight place into and they looked old-fashioned and which we were destined to go. The front funny. They had iron-tired, wooden line of the battle was a few hundred wheels and long barrels of about four- HERE? yards ahead down near the Soissons- inch caliber. Their inscriptions told the Why delay proper palliative If you suffer from Chateau-Thierry road. story of their birth and voyages. Made at treatment? rupture —and your doctor ad- He lay alone on the brow of a hill, the Bethlehem Steel Company plant in vises the use of a proper-fitting support—send for the factsabout this wounded gunner. A direct hit by a America (and, by the way, doesn't it our perfected truss invention the Brooks Appliance for reduci- I shell had killed his two mates, and their strike you as funny as it does me, that ble rupture—with the Automatic | mutilated bodies lay nearby. It had "Bethlehem" is an incongruous name for AIR-CUSHION support. Thou- sands bought by doctors for themselves and patients. demolished his machine gun and had the home of armament factories?) and individual fitting for Sent on Trial— Made-to-measnre, No wounded him in the shoulder and leg. sold and shipped to Russia. man, woman or child. Low-priced, sanitary, durable obnoxious springs or hard pads; no metal girdle to rust, sale through He knew his stuff and had stripped him- First they were used by the Russians and comfortable. Helps Nature get results. Not sold stores-beware of imitations. Write today for full information self to the waist, for clothes in a wound against the Germans in 1914, only to sent free in plain sealed envelope. don't help it any, and he was ready for be captured by (Continued on page 74) BROOKS APPLIANCE C0.«i°,S.1«

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BACKACHE the Germans and dragged across France a bewhiskered poilu who knew no Eng- Caused by Tired Kidneys to be used by them against the British lish. He didn't seem to want to lose any Many of those gnawing, nagging, painful backaches people blame on colds or strains are often caused by and French on the Western Front, there time either and got a lot of good Ameri- tired kidneys—and may be relieved when treated in the right way. to be captured by the Yanks on the open- can cussing and injunctions to drive more Nature s chief way of taking ex- The kidneys are ing day of the Argonne. And here carefully. Of this he understood and ap- cess acids and poisonous waste out of the blood. Most people pass about 3 pints a day or about 3 pounds they were on that night in early parently cared nothing. of waste. If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't October, at least one of them, being The hospitals were full then, and it poisonous waste matter stays in the blood. work well, used by the Yanks against the fleeing took some hours for him to find one These poisons may start nagging backaches, rheu- matic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting Germans. It seemed to me that they had which could accommodate his four pas- up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, head- aches and dizziness. earned a place of repose in some quiet sengers. He would stop, and someone Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, Don't wait! museum. would ask: "Malade ou blesse?" Upon used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney his saying that we were "blesse," he tubes flush out poisonous waste from the blood. Evacuated Get Doan's Pills. would drive on to the next one. At about MANY times people ask about just six p.m.—it was then dark—we arrived how a wounded man is gotten back at the Base Hospital at Fleury and were GUARANTEED to the hospitals. Here's my case, if you'll unloaded. A medical major whom I, of ELECTRIC DRY SHAVER please pardon the personalities. course, had never seen before came No better Shaver mac at any prfcol ONLY Mine came along at about ten a.m. on through the receiving room buttcning his The Elgin Kwik Sh- »r haa every - — latest improvement Self-ShnrperuoE. Guar .HS'srss $1.98 October oth—a piece of high explosive tunic, which he had just donned after a year. 110 volt. 60 cvcli Won't pull or SEN „ N „ irritate. Complete wit! shell through elbow which full day at the operating table. SEND NO MONEY Pay poatmun MONEY the severed He was $1.08 plus post ace on t ivul. or aond Muncy Order for M.98 and receive Sha r prepaid, (let vonra while the the "external condile," as the medicos going out to his dinner, but on seeing me Ippl lasts! ABBOTT BALE8 CO.. (NOT IMC.'.. E-l. 30 so. CI IN'TON ST., CHICAGO, U.S.A. afterwards told me, and left the arm feel- he asked what was the nature of my

ing as if it was off. This happened on the wound, and with a smile said he would side of Hill 240 near Exermont, and my go back and take care of me personally. orderly, who was five paces ahead, and Back he went, and while he was getting FAL5E TEETH my adjutant, who was five paces back into his surgery garb, I was prepared for the X-ray LOWEST 90 DAYS' TRIAL of me when it happened, helped me over machine. He saw what was PRICE If you need teeth, but the hill to the advance dressing station. needed, they shot me the ether, and in do not care to spend much money, my pleasant eco- This had no resemblance to any station an hour I awoke in a clean bed, with an nomical method is what you want. My guarantee plan gives you 3 months trial to see we know of in civil life, but was merely a Army nurse trying to give me something how they fit and look Your money back if not the hillside the to settle unruly stomach, perfectly satisfied any time during 90 days' trial. place on where battalion my which never I have thousands of satisfied wearing customers surgeon and his first-aid men waited for did like ether. That bed felt heavenly, it my dental plates made by mail. My Special Meth- od is founded on 30 YEARS' EXPERIENCE. cases. being the first one I'd used since Septem- SEND NO MONEY Write TODAY for FREE booklet and material. ber 24th. DR. CLEVELAND DENTAL LABORATORY Here a wire splint, with the arm Dept. 30 R 503 05 Missouri Ave., E. St. Louis, III. akimbo, as it were, was applied and I was loaded upon a stretcher carried by four The Armistice German prisoners, and guarded by an THE coming of the Armistice was American soldier with a pistol on his welcomed by different men in differ- CHANGE OF ADDRESS? hip. We were headed for the regimental ent manners. To all of us in France it station on the lee side of a hill about a meant much, cf course. My own experi- UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, MY mile back. En route some gas shells ence was unique, and although it lacked mailing address for The American landed near us, and the Boches set me the glamour that those in the frcnt line

Legion Magazine is down and applied their gas masks. My found, it at least had romance. own had to be applied with the one hand On the night of November 10th, the NEW ADDRESS available, and I lost my glasses in the surgeon in the hospital at Savenay, near process (which, by the way, I went with- St. Nazaire, told me to report at the oper- Name- out for four weeks before getting my ating room next morning at eight o'clock (PLKASE PRINT) spares). without having had breakfast. This I 1938 Membership No At the regimental station I was loaded knew meant ether. into a three-stretcher Ford ambulance My arm had been held straight in a Address- to be whisked away to the field hospital Thomas splint for thirty days. In about six miles back, and when I say those thirty days, the bones had become ClTY- whisked I mean just that. The road had ankylosed, and Uncle Sam didn't want been and was then being shelled. If one me to go around with a straight stiff arm State. wants to get a fed-up feeling about war, for the rest of my life, so it had to be a good place to get it is in an ambulance, rebroken and placed at an angle in a cast Post No.. helpless and hors de combat, with the for another thirty days. enemy still throwing shells in one's I came out of the ether at about ten- Dept vicinity. thirty a.m., and as I was being wheeled At the field hospital, which was merely back to my ward, I heard what sounded OLD ADDRESS a large shack, we were unloaded and put like distant cheering and jubilation. At

inside while the Ford went back for more. first it seemed like the roaring in the ears Address- Here we got a shot in the arm to allay the that ether sometimes brings, but when I pain, an anti-tetanus serum injection in asked the orderly who was chauffeuring ClTY the tummy, a cup of coffee and a cigar- me what it was all about, he informed ine ette. Then, in an hour or so, we were that the Armistice had been signed and State. loaded into another and bigger ambu- the war was over. The noise was the lance, this time a French one, driven by townspeople and soldiers thereabouts

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making merry. So came to me the fini de St. Nazaire being prepared to come home, la guerre. and I sailed from Brest on the 18th, ar- riving at Newport News on the 29th. Official On December 4th a transfer was made to THE Army made a serious effort to West Baden, Indiana, and on December keep up to date in the matter of nth, I pulled into the Union Station in notifying the next of kin in the United my home town of Grand Rapids, Michi- States regarding casualties. Notices of gan, with a leave of absence. deaths were taken care of first, and One day just before Christmas I my- wounds afterwards. Obviously in the fall, self answered the door to receive from Cleans plates and bridges easier, during the height of the Argonne, cables the hands of a Western Union messenger belter than messy brushing! Daily use of Stera-Kleen soaks false teeth were clogged and notices were delayed. boy a telegram bringing to my family the free of film and stains overnight or while dressing. Write tor My wound came on October 9th. astounding news that I had been wounded FREE SAMPLE Armistice found at Savenay near 9th. they surprised? The Phillips & Benja- Day me on October Were min Company, Dept.

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This Way to War's 8nd DEFROSTS WINDSHIELDS 1 WithoutHeat {Continued from page 46) New .'-Sells Like Wild '• Clears off Frost. Mist. Sleet. Snow. Ice NEW WAY. Self feedinff. Uses no heat — no electricity. Absolutely no wires drome had been used as a cavalry post two American pilots into the air with — no tubes: no installation. Saves battery. Fits auto pocket. Gives all around vision. Defrosts by the French for a period of forty years amazing swiftness. BOTH ! :s of glass. Works instantaneously. Ends danfferous"hlind Low priced. Autoists wild about it. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Hustlers cleaning up big money. prior to the war. When we arrived there, "In less time than it will require you

real job our hands in cleaning to read this account, planes details. first—send in we had a on two Boche Be ] THE KRISTEE PRODUCTS CO. the accumulated debris of all those years. were brought down on this very field by After a thorough policing, however, the Lieutenants Winslow and Campbell, the Boy.. What a Profit! NEW Toul Airdrome beamed in the noonday first American air victories of the war. Get in quick. Install self altaching electric sun for the decorations ceremony. Me- One of the German pilots was injured outlets in a second. Fits anywhere; base- boards, walls, glass, etc. No screws, nails or tools. Snap chanics substituted O. D. for denim, seriously, the other unharmed. Those on and collect. Each outfit adds 2 standard wall sockets to room. Buildings, schools, homes, stores, all prospects. presenting a more formal setting as they two enemy fliers had worked in the Toul Carry in your pocket. Cost amazingly low. Best of all it is BRAND NEW. Big discount to AGENTS. Should sell lined up with their respective pilots in region prior to the war and were now fly- like wildfire. Andy sold 7 dozen one dav. Be the first in your locality to handle this Ql lCK PROFIT item. Write flank position in respect to their planes. ing on this front because of their knowl- or wire for terms. WOODY Martial music by the infantry band and edge of the territory." MFG. CO., Dept. 817, 5659 N. Ashland. Chicago of soldiers of the line netted a That reference of Comrade the tramp Hartz to $1.15 facing the 'birds' both the first enemy planes brought formal array — down by Postpa ground and air. American pilots after our own Air Service "The review was held by General went into operation—there had been Gerard of the Third French Army and plenty of Americans with the Escadrille

participating in it were Major General Lafayette before we entered the war Liggett, commanding our First Army reminded us of a "whoozit" picture that Corps; Major General Edwards, Com- was reproduced in Then and Now just manding Officer of the 26th Division; nine years ago, in the issue for November, Bean's Cold-Proof Colonel William Mitchell, Chief of Air 1929. It showed an American aviator Arched Innersole

Service, First Army Corps, with his staff; posing against an enemy plane, and was Takes away that flat-footed feeli l so as to make your Leather Top Ruliliers and Moccasii feel the samo as your Major Atkinson, Commanding Officer, sent to us by Legionnaire Fred Postel everyday shoes. Made of hlgh-grac lambskin and pigskin with adjustable steel arch. Send ft Fall Catalog. First Pursuit Group, and staff, and one of San Francisco, who reported that it L. L. Bean, Inc., 268 Main St., Freeport, Maine of American infantry. The had been given to him by a French sol- company MJrs. Hunting and Camping Specialti s aviators decorated were Captain James dier in Toul while Postel was with the Norman Hall, Captain David McK. 135th Aero Squadron in that city. All Peterson, First Lieutenant Edward V. that Postel learned was that the picture type CHEAP OIL BURNER WHY COOK OR HEAT With COAL or WOOD Rickenbacker, First Lieutenant James A. had been taken in the spring of 1918 Quick heat at turn of valve— hot- Slips into Any STOVE, tor. no dirt, ashes or Drudgery. RANGE or FURNACE. Meissner and Second Lieutenant Charles just after two German planes had been Chapman. brought down by Americans. "Official pomp brought the dignitaries The question "Who was this flier and between the groups and the awards were what were the circumstances?" brought UNITED FACTORIES, N-lul Factory Buii^ding. Kansas City, Mo. on. Pilots broke away in bashful glee about forty letters to us and to Postel to hurry to their 'crates' to show their from air service men, from infantry and stuff, for had they not been subjected hospital men and even from a few nurses Free for Asthma to Frog whiskers in receiving the official —and we soon learned that the flier was smack? The field cleared, off go the avions Lieutenant Alan F. Winslow, that the in formations and solo. Side slips that plane was in fact the first German plane During Winter missed the fatal fall and all the trim- captured after the American Air Service If you suffer with those terrible attacks of mings. Congratulations—and all is in- got into action on its own, that the air Asthma when it is cold and damp ; if raw, choke as if each gasp formal as the curtain falls on first decora- fight occurred on April 14, 1918, and that Wintry winds make you for breath was the very last; if restful sleep

tions in our outfit. a second plane was brought down at the is impossible because of the struggle to breathe : disease is slowly wearing your weeks before the aforementioned same time by Lieutenant Douglas Camp- if you feel the "Two life away, don't fail to send at once to the ceremony, on Sunday morning, April bell. And now, nine years later, Comrade Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial of a remarkable method. No matter where you live 14th, while we were outside the old stone Hartz again reports the same American or whether you have any faith in any remedy under the Sun, send for this free trial. If you in our clean-up job, air victory to us. barracks engaged have suffered for a lifetime and tried every- relief even if we were surprised to hear the sound of thing you could learn of without ; you are utterly discouraged, do not abandon motors at the hangars because visibility NOW that the recent National Con- hope but send today for this free trial. It will you nothing. Address was extremely poor due to a dense fog. vention has decided that Chicago cost Frontier Asthma Co. 52-D Frontier Bldg. Those nine-cylinder rotary motors took will again be {Continued on page j6) 462 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y.

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Miss Sally R. Wolf, chmn , 3400 Tryon av., Bronx, Kalamazoo Stove Company 69 90th Div. Assoc. —Annual reunion Ft. Worth, Tex., Nov. 11-13, under sponsorship of 90th Div. N. Y. 20th anniversary Armis- Knox Company 70 Clubs of Dallas and Ft. Worth. Hq. at Hotel Texas. Ex-Service Women— tice reunion, New York City, Sat., Nov. 12, of for- Kristee Mfg. Company 75 Armistice Night celebration, memorial service, nurses, Yeomen F, Marine F busineas session and jamboree. Roy T. Kline, pres., mer Army and Navy and Signal Corps women. Miss Sally R. Wolf, 3400 Bro. Co. c/o Stafford Engraving Co., Ft. Worth. Lams & Tryon av., Bronx, N. Y. 116th (2d Va.) Inf , Co. F—3d annual reunion Edgeworth 59 A, 302d Battalion, Tank Corps Annual in Roanoke, November 11th. H. Irvin Stultz, secy., Co. — reunion Nov. 20, Chicago. Address Walter R. Lewis-Howe Company Tunis 69 R. F. D. 2, Box 157 B, Roanoke, Va. Titzel, Jr., 7953 S. Bennett av., Chicago. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company 141st Inf., Co. L (including old Co. H)—Annual reunion, Gonzales, Tex., Nov. 10-12, under auspices 108th Inf., Hdqrs. Co. and Co. F—Annual Re- Velvet 49 union, Hotel Rochester. Nov. 5 at 6 p. m. Frank Legion Posts. J. M. "Tex" Wilson, secy., Gonzales, Lorillard, P. Company Texas E. Donnelly, 2 East Avenue, Rochester, New York. Union Leader 55 328th Infantry Association—19th annual re- John J. Noll union dinner, November 20th, at Rosoff's, 147 Ludwig & Ludwig 71 West 43d Street, New York City. Dr. Wm Blum- The Company Clerk Metal Cast Products Company 69 Mobile Adjustment Service 51 Morgan Lithograph Company 4

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