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STERFIELD

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Try them yourself .. .you'll find Chesterfields

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Tasting, too.

WHERE A CIGARETTE COUNTS MOST Kh Chesterfield

Copynjjhi 1943, Liggett & Miers Tonncco Co Buy U. S. War Bonds—$52.00 ivill buy 1 bombardier kit All in the Same Boat

By C f. CREEVES'CARPENTER

llustrated by MONTE CREWS

Crews of merchantmen nowadays are drawn from every one of the United Nations

AM an Englishman—a "Limey" as you Legionnaires like to I call us. In the past eighteen months I have had many ex- periences in the course of my duty as a radio officer on various ships carrying cargo from your country to mine. From its personnel factor one voyage epitomized for me not only the spirit of the men who man these vessels but also the spirit of the entire allied effort. There are, perhaps, few people outside the merchant ser\'ice who know how definitely the United Nations are personally represented on most of the vessels carrying lend-lease victory cargoes to the advance bases of war; it's something about which little has been written. On American-flag ships, of course, the crews are almost entirely made up of Americans, but on the ships operated by the U. S. Maritime Commission under the Panamanian flag, any efficient, friendly alien whose papers are in order is employed. Not so long ago I, as a Britisher legally resident here, was assigned to duty on board just such a vessel, but instead of going to England I soon found she was headed toward Iceland. When I got aboard I was elected to do most of the clerical work as well as my own job as "Sparks;" that additional work furnished some interesting human-interest, bi-tri-and-sign language material, for I had to make up the crew list. I was surprised to find no less than eighteen dif- ferent nationahties of the United Nations formed the crew. Besides American, English and Canadian sailors, there were sea- men from Greece, Cuba, Ecuador, Finland, Holland and Denmark. The captain, chief and second officers were Norwegians, the third mate was from Brooklyn. The chief engineer was an Estonian, his first assistant a Swede. The chief steward was another Limey and, strange as it may seem in this hodge-podge of humanity, from my own home town. His entire staff was composed of Chinese, none of whom had heard any news of wives, children or parents since the sacking of Hong Kong. There were Brazilians, and even little Latvia was represented, while the peoples of Yugoslavia—Croatians, Montenegrans, Slovenes, boundary differences sidetracked for the duration—had adopted sailing as another method of beating the Axis, while their brothers-in-arms in the old country carry on their effective guerilla warfare. Preparing crew lists involved obtaining names, ages, birthplaces, beneficiaries in the event of death, numerous other items of a personal nature, and it seems superfluous to mention that acquisition of such knowledge of one's shipmates under conditions that simu- lated those of the Tower of Babel is something of a task. How- ever most of the men had acquired a few words or phrases in some language other than their own and with my own small accumulation of bits of Spanish, French, German, Russian and by the aid of sign language—sometimes the latter would be unique and startling in the exigency of the moment—we managed to understand each other and the crew list was completed. Imagine the various customs, habits and temperaments confined in the limited space of a small cargo vessel! Yet such was the caliber of the men that racial prejudices were laid aside, but it was only natural that with such a mixed crowd there was bound to be both comedy and tragedy. For {Co7itiniied on page 50)

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• It's 4 p.m. on a quiet street. America than anywhere else in the world. Industry is working today with strange new A slip of a girl, with a suitcase a little too heavy for her, climbs the brownstone materials, toward grimmer goals—but work- ing ingevuity skill, steps and rings the bell. with the same and orgamza- tion and experiefice, initiative and resourceful- Her heart is beating fast, but it's not ness. For these things are as much a part of from the weight of the suitcase. American industry as they are of Amer- it will like, in a She's wondering what be icans. furnished room, so far from home. And because they are, we have not found She's hoping she'll make good at her new today's production task, big as it is, too job. big. Because they are, we shall not find she under- She's thinking that maybe now tomorrow's challenge, great as it will be, stands a little bit of what Tom must have too great. With new materials like plas- left felt when he said goodbye and for tics, new sciences like electronics, offering camp. hope and fuller opportunity; but with the But she's not going back till it's over. old American ingenuity and courage and enterprise — we shall face the task of build- Millions of men and women today are ing a better world. General Electric Co., finding themselves in strange surroundings Schenectady, N. Y. in situations they couldn't have imagined a few years ago. They are giving up their pleasures and comforts—and often much The volume of General Electric war production is so high and the degree secrecy required is so great that we can tell more—to bring future good to the whole of you little about it now. When it can he told completely we world. they don't mind too much— And — believe that the story of industry's developments during the because it will be worth it. war years will make one of the most fascinating chapters the history human progress. Industry, too, has put aside for the dura- in of tion its never-ending job of supplying those pleasures and comforts which have GENERAL ELECTRIC life # helped to make fuller and better in 962-465U-i;H The Substitute Bugler

By lectee told him he couldn't use a wheel- barrow because he didn't understand ma- JOHN A. BALLARD chinery! Old Pop Flaherty just walked off the job. He'll be back. He done the company headquarters or New Army today. They let some punk same thing when I was servin' with him THEorderly tent of most organiza- tell you he's somethin' and knows all out at old Fort Missoula, Montana in

tions enjoys the privilege of about it and then you find he ain't and 1 910. He was Sergeant-of-the-Guard. having a shaded light burning don't. Now take the Division Comman- Soldiers didn't have no fancy wrist- after Taps, in cases where there is some der," he continued. "He knows his stuff watches then and when the Guardhouse special worlc to be finished. In a certain and now he's a Major General. But he clock stopped in the middle of the night, Infantry Division headquarters com- was a bugler once, in the Spanish-Amer- one of his Corporals-of-the-Guard took pany on a recent night, the Company ican War ... for the Rough Riders, I a lantern to go out to look at the sun-

Clerk, Corporal Swope, was taking ad- heard. At fifteen years of age . . . musta dial to see what time it was! Pop fin- vantage of this. Although at the mo- lied about that to git in. I'll bet you a ished his guard tour and then took dis- ment he was reading a copy of Yank, mile of skirmish line he learned it the tance for town, just like he done today." the soldier's periodical, he had some hard way. On his way to his own tent Corporal payroll sheets handy with which to "Lots of practice after drill on his own Swope made a visit to the guard tent to cover it in case the Officer-of-the-Day time and a thorough check made on all inform Bugler Benner of the change in or an inspector dropped in. Taps was his calls by a troop officer before he his military fortunes and to give him just being blown and the corporal ever was permitted to march on guard. timely notice of the forthcoming kitchen winced as he heard the occasional sour An' here you and a new shavetail put police tour two days later. notes and hesitant pauses that recurred a guy on a7id promote him to lance cor- When the clerk had departed, Benner throughout what is normally the most poral, who makes Taps sound like a threw himself on a bunk, his face buried impressive of all bugle calls. combination of Chow-call and Call-to- in his pillow. His thoughts raced wildly. The tent's screen-door creaked and ." arms! Why, in the Old Army . . If only he hadn't written that special the Company Clerk reached for some His voice trailed off in disgust. He delivery letter home today. A nice kettle of the payroll sheets. He desisted when picked up the corporal's garrison cap of fish this was! His mother and father, that it was the First Sergeant he saw from his desk and flung it across the bringing his girl, coming to see him this pass in town that eve- returning from tent. "Anyway," he added, "you bust him week-end. Pa had saved gas for the trip. ning. right back to a buck private and give Ma had written, and couldn't come any Sergeant Black hesitated in the door- him this week-end K.P. I'll tell the other time. Instead of the proud first way. "Swope," he demanded, "which Skipper about it tomorrow and rustle up class private polishing his bugle, they'd of them lousy windjammers of ours one a new bugler." find a lowly K. P. in fatigue clothes in that call?" just murdered "Speaking of the Old Army, Sarge," the kitchen polishing greasy pans! He'd new guy. Sergeant,"' replied the "A said the grinning clerk as he retrieved been pretty good in the high school drum corporal. "Olsen was due to go on but his cap," did you hear about old Ser- and bugle corps, he recalled, but thirteen the pill-rollers put him in the hospital geant Flaherty of the Engineers goin' weeks of basic military training had in- today at sick-call, account of his teeth over the hill?" tervened since then. or something, and while you was in "Yeah, I know,'' said the other." Saw This thought brought him abruptly town this afternoon Sweeney was him in a saloon in town today. A se- {Continued 07i page 52) shipped out in a hurry with a cadre for some new Division. We checked the classification cards and found a bird named Benner who claimed he'd bugled in some school band somewhere. The cap'n was away but that new executive looey told me to replace Olsen with Benner on the guard roster for bugler. He give him Sweeney's first class pri- vate's stripes too. I made a note of it for a company order and the payroll. Pretty good for a kid who just finished basic training, eh? He had the tailor sew on his stripes right away." The first sergeant's name described his countenance as he heard this. He strode into the tent. "Git away from that desk," he growled. "How many times have I gotta tell you that only me or a company officer ever uses the first sergeant's desk in any outfit I'm top-kick of?" He settled himself in his chair, hurriedly vacated by the clerk. He pushed his cap back on his bald head and put his feet on the desk. "You see, Swope," he began, "that's After the appropriate interval the remain- the main thing wrong with this man's ing calls for Reveille were blown perfectly

MARCH, 1943 — sNo.1Pal By FRANKLIN P. ADAMS

F. P. A. of Infotmatlon Please,

a captain in the 1918 A. E. F.,

here tells the story, and a heart-

warming one it is, of what Army

Emergency Relief is doing to

protect the soldier's folks at home

Allotment. Of course, we could go di- rectly to the American Red Cross, the Y.M.C.A., or the Salvation Army. But now, the AER will give cash, cash on the line. If the soldier needs some and expects money later—dice and poker don't come under the head of expectations—he gets the money from AER, and pays it back in installments. And in cooperation with the Red Cross, the AER will arrange for medical or surgical care, food, fuel, clothing, and countless other needs that come up out of a soldier's clear sky.

Now, this is not one of those patron-

izing welfare organizations, though it has the welfare of the soldier's family —that usually being his main worry at heart. When there is delay in getting pay—and transfers of soldiers occasion- ally disrupt bookkeeping—the AER takes care of that family. When a man —the family wage earner—is inducted, and the family budget goes haywire, again the AER steps in, as it does when rent, medical problems, and un- foreseen expenses arise at home. The

greatest of these is childbirth. WTien the

father is in the Army, far from the hospitals, the AER does some vicarious They arrange for hospitalization, and without obstetrics, if only by letting the prospec- red tape, if the soldier's family needs help tive mother know that her worry won't be financial. What things come up? The other A MONG the songs written by the is an elastic word. It doesn't mean that day a pale, worried little woman, 24, ZA late George M. Cohan was "I the soldier's folks are starving or freez- came to one of the AER offices. Her Guess I'll / \ Have to Telegraph ing. Relief is an easement from trouble husband had been inducted into the My Baby." The second line was and real worr>'—one of the Four Free- Army two months previously. She owed "I need the money bad. indeed I do." doms—freedom from want. one month's rent and the electric light Which might well be the slogan of I may as well come clean. What I bill, and was being legally dunned for the many who apply—and successfully, knew about Army Emergency Relief was instalments on the furniture. The AER without tape—red, adhesive, or any that it is something that sports events got the furniture company to drop the other variety — to Army Emergency and theater performances were given lor action and let the wife pay off in easier Relief. the benefit of. Something that the stages after she began getting her hus- You're in the Army. Your son, your soldier show, "This Is The Army"' will band's allotment. But the AER gave husband, your brother is in the Army, give about $5,000,000 to. I was vague her—no strings to it—enough dough to Mr., Miss or Mrs. Jones. Now Army about it, for I don't recall that we had tide her over. You can multiply that Emergency Relief—something tells me an AER in the 1917-1918 A.E.F. I by hundreds of thousands, for it is the that I am about to refer to it as AER do remember that I was the relief of people's Army, and most of us civilian's takes — care of the pressing needs of the the home emergency, and that half my of all ages haven't got a month's supply soldier and his dependents. Emergency pay was deducted for what was called of money to take care of the chief 6 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jn; —

to agree to turn on my gas and electricity Illustrated by CARL PFEUFER on payment of something on account on the bills in arrears. AER gave me civilian workers. Xo deductions of any a cash grant with which to provide my sort for administrative or other purposes. food needs for some weeks. In addition, Few indeed are the organizations that

they helped me with my allotment ap- such a thing is true of. Most soldiers plication and contracted one of the apply at the post or camp station, or social agencies who are continuing to of course, direct to the AER, Washing-

give me financial assistance until such ton, D.C. Even if you write or telegraph time as my allotment check comes Washington, you needn't fear that the through. application will get lost between desks. "Through their Employment Bureau, It goes with almost incredible celerity. they opened up some job opportunities Bis dat qui cito dat, which means when for me, of which I trust to avail myself a guy needs dough, he needs it now. just as soon as I feel strong enough to Next week may be too late. return to work. I read through the Army Emergency "I have shared all this with my son, Relief Hand Book—42 single-spaced

and I know that it has given him peace pages of it. . . . It says Yes. of mind, which I suppose a soldier It doesn't read like the average lease, should have. I never thought of part of tells requisites, things that most of us have have the solid agate which you for in any part can't at present, in var\'ing degrees: food, what AER has done me that the party of the second lodging, and raiment. other way than the good deeds of a do this or that and keep out of jail; good friend. I am sure that they are or the fine print clauses of insurance doing this same serv'ice for all soldiers' policies, which always imply to me that I'LL tell you another—right off the families who are contacting them, and I fox and a crook, whose sole record. A woman of 55 came to an am a who may be in need of temporary aid. purpose is to cheat a benevolent institu- AER office. She was much frightened, because her husband suddenly had been The treatment given me is the treatment tion. The Army Emergency Relief makes that one would expect in a Democracy. no bones about its decency. It is out taken ill and had to go to a hospital I understand better now, than I ever to help, nothing else. It assumes for an operation. He is still there. Her and son, Charlie, now in the Army, always did before what it is that we are fight- —I'm that way myself, though there is ing for and worthwhile that I hope, fries in hell had taken care of them—as the father how much one man who, had been able to work only off and fight is." that people are honest. on as a helper on a van. The hospital "In determining dependency," says YES, before I forget. Xo over- the Hand Book, prepared by Major indicated that there might be need for OH, a blood transfusion, and asked Charlie's head, no salaries for "executive General Irving J. Phillipson, U.S. Army, mother to get her friends to contribute; secretar>'," no postage, no item listed "no hard and fast rules of relationship, she had no such friends. Could the AER as "sundry expenses." For the AER is or degrees of affection can be applied, help her? Yes, a free blood transfusion administered by officers and men of the nor will the fact that other sources of was arranged for, and they also gave Army of the United States, by War support may be available always bar her $15 which she said was plenty, as Department employes, and by volunteer (Cotitinued on page 48) the landlord said he'd wait.

This verbatim is a letter from a woman in the Bronx, New York City —I have these names and addresses too:

'T suppose my stor>' is no different from milhons of others whose lives have been upset because the source of income has suddenly been reduced. "Up until six months ago, my family, consisting of my son and I, were fairly comfortable. I had a nice job and my son was working his way through the university on a scholarship. Overnight, I lost my job, and he was called to serve his country. Troubles began to pile up. Before long I was deep in debt on my rent; my gas and electricity were shut off, and I had a dispossess. In addition, I was in need of money for food. AER came to my assistance. They did a lot of things for me that you might call 'personal service.' I felt that their work came from the heart. "Through the Legal Aid Society, AER got the court to postpone action on my dispossess so that I was able to find cheaper quarters in line with my reduced income. AER got the utility company

The service-flag home Is a responsi- bility of AER when things go wrong

MARCH, 1943 —

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next time that Americans among the Parisians, and in ail France, Tuileries, the Sainte Chapelle, the In- THEin numbers see Paris will be too, there will be spiritual sores slow valides, Notre Dame, the Luxembourg, upon a "day of glory that is to heal, internecine bitternesses beyond the Place de I'Qpera, the Bois de as certain as tomorrow's sun," easy control; but even if French troops Boulogne, the Place Vendome—will all and the first of our compatriots who shall first have occupied Paris in order look familiarly "much as usual;" and enter the City of Light will probably to restore the peace rather than to newcomers will brightly discover as of be soldiers or sailors or marines or all celebrate it, nevertheless I think the yore that the Cafe de la Paix is the three. It is our belief that they will people will cheer ours when they appear center of the world and that if you arrive to march under triumphant ban- once more upon the Champs Elysees in sit there half an hour someone will ners in a great Peace Parade and that marching order and that "Le jour du pass whom you knew at home long ago. they will be greeted by a cheering popu- gloire est arrive" will be sung by liber- The historically curious will again in- lace almost incredulous to be aware ated multitudes. vestigate the Carnavalet, Cluny, the once more that nightmares end with Afterward, the rest of us who have Conciergerie, Robespierre's house on the sunrise. It is more than possible that always had a warm heart for Paris Rue St. Honore, the Place des Vosges, Legionnaires, travelers, tourists, old so- the Garden of the Carmelites, sunny now journers and former dwellers by the but bloodied in the September Massacres Seine—will begin to return. What sort in 1792, and the turreted stone gateway of Paris shall we find? out of which rode the young Due de What sort of Paris did we know afore- Guise to begin the St. Bartholomew by time, and what will be the dif- killing Admiral Coligny. More lively- ference between that Paris and minded travelers may seek and find, the Paris of after the New surviving and perhaps revived for the Peace? We're neither bland new trade, old restaurants, cafes and enough nor rash enough to "night spots." Well cleaned of Nazis, prophesy. We dare only to Montmartre externally may seem to be speculate. its old self once more. Unbombed stone, We know, of course—or at brick, tile and stucco will not show least at this present writing we much alteration; but, after all, Paris think we know— that the out- has always been inhabited by the Pari- ward Paris will still be there sians, an ancient race highly distinctive,

looking much as it did, for in- one that through centuries has at in- stance, when the Legion held tervals endured great sufferings and festal and fraternal reunion changes, without itself changing its es-

there in 1927. The Paris of the sential quality. Will it be vitally changed ''Three hundred tourists — the Grand Boule- now after the severest of all its scourged thousand cigarettes vards, the Place de la Con- endurances? in that trunk!" corde, the Madeleine, the Rue The ghost of Francois Villon could gasped the customs de Rivoli, the Arc de official. "Impossi- Triomphe, chat understandingly and upon easy ble!" the Louvre, the Gardens of the terms with the ghost of Paul Verlaine;

T/u AMERICAN LEGION Masa-Jrie "This too shall pass awoy. A distinguished American envisages

the day when the City of Light, yet again delivered from the bar-

barian, will fling open wide its gates to let the victors in

what might be called practical purposes. Illustrated by WALLACE MORGAN Now, having crossed from London, I had to clear my trunk at the Gare du intended to say three hundred thousand Nord. A middle-aged customs officer, —I'd meant three hundred only—but who spoke nothing but French, stood the accursed "mille" intruded itself re- ready, chalk in hand, to mark the trunk peatedly; I was helpless to exclude it

for clearance and asked me if I had and this is a close translation of what anything to declare: Did my baggage I said: "I regret but I have studied contain any tobacco or liquor? French for five years but this moment I understood him readily, and, being here is the first time in all my life an anxiously honest youth—at least in when I have essayed to speak in that such a matter—replied "Qui." tongue. I have erred when I said the Upon this, he looked fatigued. Plainly trunk contained three hundred thousand he thought life would be simpler if I'd cigarettes; I intended to say that it said "Non." He waited and I tried to contained only three hundred thousand. tell him in French that my trunk con- Now I have said it again; but it is an tained three hundred cigarettes pur- error. I have no alcohol but I wish chased in London; but for a reason to declare that in my trunk are three I can't yet explain I didn't say that —three hundred thousand cigarettes." my trunk contained three hundred cig- "No." He had become grave. "No arettes. I said it contained three hun- trunk will hold three hundred thousand dred thousand cigarettes. cigarettes. No trunk in all the world He stared at me. "Trois cent mille?" will hold three hundred thousand cig- he said. "Impossible!" arettes." Zarkington "Qui,'' I responded. "Je sais bien que "That is true," I said, "I know it c'est impossible. Monsieur." Then nerv- well. This is the first time I have ever ously and laboriously I tried to explain essayed to speak French and I have that I had added the word "mille" out some nerves." Then I did it again. "1 but would either of these wraiths, of mere inadvertence and that I was wished not to say three hundred thou- eavesdropping about old haunts, find nervous because this was the first time sand; I wished to say only three—three itself a stranger among Parisians who've I had ever attempted to use the French hundred thousand cigarettes." had to live actual years in a German language in conversation. "Ceci est la "Go away!" he said, and made ges- Paris? Even the words "a German Paris" premiere fois de toute roa vie et je suis tures of expulsion. "Go away from me, are shocking. What must be the shock un peu confuse," I said, and continued, if you please. Immediately! I am a of the fact itself to the minds and souls becoming laborious and nerv- good citizen and I have an excellent of the Parisians! more more ous with every word I uttered. mind; but I shall have none at all if Americans of my generation who went I tried to tell him that I had not you continue talking to me." He chalked to live a while among the Parisians, the trunk decisively. "Take it away with something like a half century ago, had a you, only go!" he said. "If I listen to great delight in their discoveries of the you any more I shall be removed to quality of the native race, and I think the Hospital for the Insane at Charen- the characteristic that gave us most pleas- ton. It is better for ure was what we Hked to call ''typical the government that Parisian humor," It was new to us, of a it should lose what- kind we hadn't known at home or else- ever you would pay where, and, though we recognized it clear- on your cigarettes ly as an existent fact, we were unable to than that it should find a general definition that covered lose me, I no longer it; we could only express it by illustra- {Continued on tion—that is, by samples of page it. It's possible to say that in 44) Parisian wit there's almost al- ways something satiric; but we found Parisian humor to be too wide and varied a field for such a generalization. My own first sample of it was somewhat thrust upon me during the first few moments of my first arrival. I'd had five years of school and college French, which didn't include "conversation classes" but concentrated up- on Gallic literature, and never Such elegance !n squalor before had I attempted to was just too much. "Mon- speak a word of French for seigneur!" he said, bowing

MARCH, 1943 "What are these little letters stamped in the steel? Yours?"

coroner got up from his twenty minutes early. You'll find it THEknees and wiped his hands, then on the time clock. Frank went straight his trousers, with his handker- to your office, Chief." chief. "What for?" Johnson demanded. "He's been dead about an hour," he "Something happened on way here, I offered. guess. We ride same bus from Royal Detective Sergeant Jim Casey, Mich- Oak, stop every night to Charley the RIGHT igan State Police, turned off his flash- Greek's for coffee." The guard nodded light and ducked his head deeper into toward the neon sign. "After we leave the collar of his year-before-last civil- there tonight, something strikes Frank's ian overcoat. Rain, mixed with snow, mind and he wants to see you right blurred the neon sign at the all-night away." .38 barbecue on Woodward Avenue Ex- The coroner interrupted, "I've got tended, a quarter-mile across the muddy to run. Inquest will be tomorrow. Better bi| KARL DETZ E R field. call in undertaker, officer." The body lay in a puddle outside Casey and the plant chief both an- the wire fence of the Wolverine Pre- swered, "Yeh." But it was two o'clock Casey asked Binski to repeat his story. cision plant north of Ferndale. It before the body was taken away. In "I go past Frank's house at eleven, sprawled on its back with arms flung that time Casey determined that no like usual. I whistle and out he comes. outward, wet face turned to weeping one had heard the shot. About ten min- No, we don't talk much. Neither of sky, an old gray civilian coat half cov- utes after twelve, a noisy squall had us is a hand for talking much. No ering a blue police uniform. struck, bringing rain. At its height even sir, he don't talk to nobody on the Casey glanced around the huddle of a man with good ears might not hear bus, either. We get off at the Greek's ." men . . . Gregory, night superintendent a pistol shot at a hundred yards. Casey for our java . . at Wolverine Precision, big John John- took the dead man's revolver out of his "Who was there? Anybody you son, chief of plant police, Mertons, the hip holster. It was an S. & W. .38-cal- knew?" Casey asked mildly. timekeeper, Binski, the guard who had iber police model and had not been "Why, yes, quite a few. Mr. Blake- ." found the body. fired. But a slug of similar caliber had house . . "Who is this party?" Casey demanded. landed behind the fellow's right ear. "I was picking up some sherbet for Chief Johnson said, "Holmes. Frank The office of Chief Johnson was warm my wife," Blakehouse broke in, twirl- Holmes. Yah, plant guard. Good man. and dry and Casey backed against the ing his glasses faster. "You can ask ." Been here four, five months, midnight radiator and looked at the others. The the proprietor . . to eight A.M. Yeh, this was his beat, sheriff had arrived, also Blakehouse, the "Okay," Casey said. "Who else?" outside the wire along this side." plant's general manager, swinging his "I must have been, sir," the Navy Casey turned the light on his watch. rimless glasses nervously, letting his lieutenant volunteered. "I'd been in my It was ten minutes of one. voice pitch up like a kid's. Lieutenant office and needed coffee. It must have "You mean he just came to work Arthur, the Navy inspector, dripped in been about then." at midnight?" and stood now next to Casey, with one Binski agreed, "You sure was there. Binski interrupted: "Twenty minutes wet leg up against the radiator. Binski You set acrost from us. Somebody of. I was with him." was there, looking sick, and Gregory, else in uniform, too, soldier or marine "Who're you?" Casey wanted to know. the night superintendent, and Johnson's or something, with a dame. But I re- "I patrol next beat north." The man secretary, a fat woman named Kinder, member you. You spilled your coffee." pointed through the rain. "We come in with a head cold. "That's right." The Ueutenant smiled.

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine He brushed a bit of mud from a "So he remembers something." Casey Illustrated by L. R. GUSTAVSON mended spot on his trouser leg. "It looked at the faces. "How many of was hot." you was at the Greek's? You, Mr. Blake- and this guard says okay, tell him to

Casey persisted, "Anybody else?" house. You, Mertons. You, lieutenant come to Post 5 quick. So when I tell ." "Why, Mr. Mertons, the timekeeper. ... I didn't get your name , . Mr. Johnson he says okay and starts." He was eatin' a steak smothered. I tell "Arthur, sir." "What time was that?" Casey jogged poor Frank, now ain't that quite a "That's right, Arthur. And some her. steak. Must take up a whole week's workers. Have to look them up. Mean- "Twenty minutes of one." voluntary ration." time, we'll talk to you first, Miss," he "Plot," Casey repeated after she was Mertons, a fat man with a red face, indicated the office woman. "And you, gone. "Binski, that fits. Think again eyed Binski distastefully. Binski. You stay, too, Chief. Rest of now." "Who else?" Casey demanded. "Quite you wait outside." But the guard insisted: Holmes had a family party." Juanita Kinder, Chief Johnson's night said nothing more, not even after they "Some guys from the plant. Don't secretary, talked more about her head started patrol. His post, Number 4, ad- know their name." cold than about the crime. She did joined Holmes's on the north. They "Did your partner. Holmes, say any- establish, however, that Guard Holmes each walked some hundred yards of thing? About anyone?" appeared, agitated, at ten minutes of fence. Ending his beat, Binski always "No, sir. Tell you we don't never twelve, as Binski said, and demanded waited for Holmes. Holmes walked talk much." Chief Johnson. When she told him it slower then he did. He'd no idea how

"Anything startle him?" was the boss's evening off but he might many trips they'd made tonight . . .

"Dunno, sergeant," Binski finally de- drop in at twelve-thirty, Holmes said: Six maybe . . . when Holmes didn't cided. "Didn't watch close. Only out- "Tell him I got to see him. It's turn up. Binski waited briefly then went ." side he says sudden, 'Why, now I re- important. There's a plot . . to investigate. Fifty yards away, he member,' and starts to walk fast. I "Plot?" Casey repeated. "Sure he used found the body in the mud. ask what and he says never mind, he that word?" "So I holler and run for the gate wants the chief. I leave him inside "Would I say so if he didn't?'' the when a flashlight pokes at me and it's the gate." woman flared. "I said I'd tell the boss {Continued on page 32)

MARCH, 1943 11 Fustest with Hie Mostest

The number of men and the amount of material that can be set down by these giant planes is almost fantastic

By CAPTAIN STERLING PATTERSON Air Corps, Troop Carrier Command

until the new A.E.F. op- Carrier Wing; and the quality of the delegated the duty of Training Troop NOTened its surprise African front Troop-Carrier effort is further attested Carrier units whose primary mission is and changed the complexion by a War Department announcement to provide for the air movement of air of the world struggle, had on December 21, 1942, of the award of landing troops, glider-borne troops, par- anything been known by the public of decorations to 43 Troop-Carrier person- achute troops and their equipment, and airborne warfare as it might be waged nel. Conceived in the offensive spirit the air evacuation of wounded; and it by Americans. With a spectacular 1,500- epitomized by its motto, "He conquers is further charged with the responsibility mile non-stop flight, hauling parachute who gets there first," a more elegant for making such units available to meet troops from England to engage in the version of General Forrest's "git thar established requirements in the theaters assault upon Oran, American troop car- fustest with the mostest men," the of war. riers moved into the limelight. This was Troop Carrier Command represents a If it is necessary to take an airfield the longest airborne invasion on record. vital, striking force. in order to land troops, Troop Carrier

And it aroused general interest in the To the Troop Carrier Command is squadrons pour in the parachute troops Troop Carrier Command, its his- and follow with airborne infantry tory and its mission. when the paratroopers have done Youngest of Army Air Forces their job. If troops must be landed branches, the Troop Carrier Com- deep in enemy territory to cut hos- mand was organized in May, 1942, tile communications or capture an was made a separate command important installation, Troop Car- and given its present name a rier squadrons haul them, either month later, and was formally by planes alone or by planes and announced by Lieutenant General gliders, and put them down where Henry H. Arnold, Commanding they will do the most good. General of the Army Air Forces, Ground forces isolated by enemy on July 17, 1942. Yet today units action are supplied from the air of the Troop Carrier Command by these squadrons. Wounded are are to be found scattered all over cared for and evacuated by air- the world, wherever United States trained medical personnel carried military forces are engaged. Al- by Troop Carriers. ready General Eisenhower has of- A squad of glider-borne infan- During maneuvers held in Oc- ficially commended one Troop try prepares to board its ship tober deep in the heart of Texas,

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine The Army's Troop Carrier Command "Gits Thar" in the best General Forrest Manner

all these various functions were practiced under simulated battle conditions. The field exercises, participated in by the Airborne Command, the Second Infantry Division—a part of Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger's Third Army—and the Troop Carrier Command, were the first of the sort ever to be held in the United States. Witnessed by high officers representing varied branches of the service, they made a profound impression. From the Troop Carrier Command were dispatched two Groups and a glider-equipped Squadron under the command of Colonel Maurice M. Beach. In Texas, these air units joined with an airborne infantry task-force composed of combat teams of the Second Infantr>' Division and selected units of parachute troops, all under the command of Major General Walter M. Robertson, CO., of the Second Division. For more than a month, troop carriers hauled paratroopers to strategic airports, dropped them, and thus paved the way for the arrival of scores of sister ships loaded with airborne soldiers and cars and field guns and ammunition. The maneuvers called for operations at three points which form a triangle along the Mexican border—Brackettville, Eagle Pass and Del Rio. At each point where a problem was worked out, a design of simulated warfare fell into four phases. First came the seizure of the airports by the paratroopers. Once landed, the "umbrella men"' theoretically captured the enemy installation, set up radio communication and by this means, together with pyrotechnics and ground panels, directed the in- coming transports to their landings. The second phase was the deplaning of the airborne infantr}% the unloading of their jeeps and field pieces, ammunition and supplies. As soon as they were empty, the planes took off again and brought in more men, more jeeps, more field pieces, more supplies. Over and over again this procedure was repeated, even after daylight had given place to dark. Resupply on the second day, consisting of flying in additional troops and equipment as well as the dropping of food and ammunition by gaily colored parachutes, formed the third phase. The big carriers flew a veritable Round Robin, with parapacks plopping to earth in a steady rain. To supply-hungry soldiers, these packs, floating down like bright silken bubbles, were as manna from heaven. Other camouflaged carriers roared to the airports with huge gliders in tow. Quickly, the gliders were cut loose, landed and parked at the unloading area. As the silent, motorless craft ended their brief (Continued on page 48)

1. A simulated casualty is placed in a ship for the trip back. 2. A jeep goes up under Its own power into the capacious Curtiss Commando. 3. Safely stowed, the Ford jeep rides aloft with the air-borne infantrymen. 4. A gun-carrying car swings quickly into action as support for parachutists. 5. The troops go aboard for their trip to the battle area

MARCH, 19+3 a

Victory: On From Tliere

By O. GLENN SAXON

Professor of Economics, Yale University

EVERY real American has but one for future world peace and for preserva- lllusfrated by HERB STOOPS immediate objective in the war tion of nations of free men and women now ravaging the world lies in making world-wide the Constitu- offers opportunity to develop one's in- , — prompt and conclusive victory. tional Democracy which has made Amer- born abilities to the maximum, earn in But in attainment of that victory we ica the inspiration of the world. If proportion to one's contribution, ac- must be alert that we do not lose the dictatorship survives in any substantial cumulate property and pass it on to liberties which have made America great portion of the globe in the post-war one's loved ones. It maintains economic and kept her free. Of equal importance world, there can be no peace. For the freedom in all walks of life, regulated to winning the war is the preservation present struggle is more than war be- by an impartial government to prevent within America of Constitutional De- tween nations. It is in essence, war be- abuse of the rights of others and the mocracy—a pattern for the rest of tween the totalitarianism of slave states public interest. the world in the soul-testing years of and the constitutional democracies of Constitutional Democracy provides a reconstruction ahead. For if we defeat free men and women. There can be no government to regulate economic life the enemy abroad only to lose our lib- compromise. One or the other must subject only to constitutional limitations erties at home, victory will be sterile. perish. set up by the people themselves. It is Last November the free voters of a Just what is Constitutional Democ- government without bias, fear, or preju- free nation registered vigorous protest racy? dice, government acting as an umpire, against prevailing confusion and inef- To us accustomed to the form and one which does not call the signals or ficiency in Washington, against politics spirit of freedom as a part of our daily run with the ball. For government which in the prosecution of the war, and quite lives, a mere definition seems trite and interferes with economic freedom, other emphatically demanded a moratorium meaningless. Herein lies our greatest than to prevent abuse or to protect the on attempts to revolutionize our Con- domestic danger. There are those among public interest, substitutes management stitutional Democracy under the guise us who, while preserving the form, are for regulation and becomes a dictator- of war emergency. actively destroying the basic principles ship with its subjects surrendering their In due course, the voters of this which underlie the substance of our liberties for an illusory security. country will speak just as effectively way of life. They trade on words, pre- Economic freedom is the basis of all on what kind of peace they are fighting serving old slogans and time-honored freedoms, none of which can long sur- for and the kind of America they want phrases, while imputing to them strange vive its destruction. Without it, the after the war. At the ballot box the and dire meanings. Constitutional De- four freedoms of the Atlantic Charter people, voting as Americans and not as mocracy becomes "democracy," bare- are empty phrases. Without economic

Democrats or Republicans seeking par- faced demagoguery, the unrestrained rule freedom. Constitutional Democracy is tisan advantages, will determine whether of the majority without individual or impossible. When the state dominates the American dream has ended or minority rights. This means dictatorship all factors of production, capital, land, whether, after the war, it will continue with all its totalitarian controls, whether and labor, under the guise of economic to guide our destinies to even higher they be communist, fascist, or some pop- security, freedom is gone forever. For accomplishments and lead other nations ularized American brand. the death of individual ingenuity and out of chaos into the democratic way enterprise marks the birth of dictator- of life. CONSTITUTIONAL Democracy ship of one kind or another. For ten years before Pearl Harbor pledges, first of all, protection of Constitutional Democracy demands the United States had been engaged in the individual in his life, liberty and representative government directly re- a bloodless but corrosive revolution, property from action (either individual sponsible to the people through the a struggle between so-called old and or governmental) contrary to the due polls. It requires the determination of new deals—cutting across all party lines. process of law guaranteed by the Con- the complex problems of government by Pressure groups were relentlessly forcing stitution. It means rule of law upheld representatives elected for their ability their special interests upon the country by fearless, impartial courts, and change- to understand and resolve issues too with total contempt for the public in- able only by amendment processes pro- complicated for solution by Gallup terest. Strange doctrines, stemming from vided in the Constitution. It assures Polls or the ballot-box. socialist, fascist, and communist ide- protection for minorities—sectional, ra- Constitutional Democracy can exist ologies of Europe, were pitting class cial, economic, and religious—from a only under a two-party system, each against class, undermining the funda- ruthless majority on those issues where accepting the verdict of the polls, con- mentals of self-government, and destroy- there can never be a consensus. It guar- fident that minority rights will be rig- ing the economic and social concepts antees freedom of speech and press, orously respected by the majority. The upon which America was founded and regulated so as to prevent abuse of the minority party is the watch-dog of the has prospered as no other nation in rights of others. rights of the whole people, a constant history. It permits freedom of the individual warning to the majority of the tempo- Under guise of war necessity, the rev- to choose his own occupation, freedom rary nature of its power. Destruction olution against our heritage is being to work, freedom to strike and to bar- of the two-party system spells the end pushed more vigorously than ever, in gain collectively. It enforces freedom of of constitutional freedom. In Russia we many quarters. Yet, it should be clear enterprise, of contract, of competition; see communism ; in Italy, fascism ; in to everyone from the history of Europe freedom from monopoly from any source Germany, hitlerism; in Japan, military and Asia since 1932 that the only hope —industry, labor, or government. It {Continued on page 42)

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Our vklory will he a hollow one if government hy decree stands over us. Dr.

Saxon points out: "IVhen the state dominates all factors oj production, capital, land and lahor, under the 0ise oj economic security, freedom is gone forever." See You in Manila!"

By FRANC SHOR

SERGEANT EUSTACIO CORPUZ of the Philippine Army swore as the tiny S. S. Mactan tossed through the Pacific. His legs encased in a plaster cast as the result of shrapnel wounds, he half raised himself from his cot and shook a clenched fist toward the receding Philip- pines. "I'll be back," he vowed. "I'll be back with thousands more Filipinos. And when we're through there won't be a live Jap in our islands." Today, a year later, Sergeant Eustacio Corpuz of the Army of the United States is close to making good that pledge. With other Filipinos who escaped the Japs in those terrible days, he is helping train one of the most amazing outfits in Uncle Sam's army, the Filipino Infantry. Selective Service classified Filipinos as aliens. Filipino com- munities all over the United States exploded with indignation; 50 of them telegraphed formal protest. They wanted to fight. Accordingly, last summer a Filipino regiment was organized under the command of Col. Robert H. Offley, a West Pointer who grew up in the Philippines and speaks Tagalog. When he arrived in California, he found the First Filipino Infantry con- sisted of three officers and eight enlisted men. In half a year the command grew to 7000 men—two regiments—and eager volunteers still swarm into Fort Ord.

It is one of the most remarkable units in the Army. "Their enthusiasm and disciphne are far superior to anything else I have seen in my Army career," says Colonel Offley. "The min-

I. A poster and a nnap furnish background -for the job of cleaning the Garand rifle. 2. Sergeant Johnson finds his pupils eager to perfect their bayonet technique. 3. March- ing along the shore in California, they rennember that one day they'll be landing on a Philippine beach to engage the enemy 16 ute you put one of these boys in uni- form he wants a rifle. The minute he gets a rifle he wants on a boat. He can't understand why we don't ship him out right away, so he can start shooting Japs." They have adequate incentive. "My

daughter is in Manila," said one soldier

when it was explained to him that, be- ing over 38, he could apply for dis- charge. "She is young and pretty. I

do not like to think about what is hap- pening to her. And both my sons died fighting in the Philippine Army."

"My mother is starving in a concen- tration camp," says a lieutenant. Ninety percent of the personnel have close rel- atives living under the heel of the Japs. To these pint-size soldiers this war is a personal grudge-fight. This leads to phenomena that make old Army men blink. For instance, it is common practice in most outfits to make Sunday duty a penalty for little mistakes. When the Filipinos discov- ered how they could get seven days' training instead of six, they all began Tribesmen of the Philippines, kinsmen of the men in to show up for inspection with a muddy the regiment, registering for training at Manila in shoe or a button unfastened. So Sun- the Philippine Commonwealth's forces back in 1940 day drill as a form of punishment had to be abolished. In most army units the soft jobs in ably keeping the whole platoon awake." training and hold informal seminars in the offices are "gravy." Filipinos who The sergeant spoke up. "It's all right, their barracks. can do office work won't reveal the fact. sir. The rest of us listen. We practice Lift the lid of the average soldier's "We assign a man to a typewriter," like this an hour or two each night." locker and you'll find his "pin-up girl" says a regimental adjutant, "and he —a picture of Ginny Sims or Dorothy brings his rifle with him. When he isn't SOLDIERS in training are given a ten- Lamour. There's no glamour in the aver- typing he's taking the rifle apart or minute rest period in every hour, age Filipino "pin-up;" often as not it's studying his Soldier's Handbook." usually devoted to smoking and casual a rule he wants to burn into his mind, An officer passing a Filipino barracks conversation. The Pinoys turn it into a like "Always zig-zag through tall grass; after taps was puzzled by a steady rap- question period, bombarding their in- a straight path is easily spotted by the ping inside. He investigated. Two sol- structors with rapid-fire queries, giving enemy." The only picture he ever tacks diers were practicing Morse code by commands to one another and correct- up is one of General MacArthur. knocking on the floor. "Better wait until ing the other fellow's mistakes. They There have been only two Filipinos tomorrow," he suggested. "You're prob- buy textbooks on all phases of military {Contmued on page jo)

Well Be Back By PFC MANUEL BUAKEN

Company I, Isf Filipino Infantry, U.S.A.l

THE insignia of the First Filipino Infantry, United States Army, is a pictorial summary of the oath of the modern Katipunan—a Filipino oath of vengeance, written in the heart's blood of every man of this legion of the Free Filipinos. This insignia is a brilliant yellow disk upon which is represented Mount Mayon emitting black smoke. This black eruption symbolizes the fury of the Filipinos, the gold represents the golden opportunity of restoring the country to its rightful owners. The three stars above the volcano are sym- bols taken from the Philippine flag, and represent Luzon, the Visayas, and Min- danao, principal islands of the Philip- pines. Adrlano KImayong in ceremonial headhunter dress a good many years (Continued on page 54) ago, and as a sergeant of the First Filipino Infantry, United States Army

MARCH, 1943 17 —

Cottvoyrof Courage

By FRANK NEILL

"Bombed last night, bombed the night before," they get the goods through to our fighting men

DIVING out of the sun, the seaward, trailing a thick black smoke- enemy planes roared down plume. . . . over our ship, strafing the That's the way it was. Your baptism gun crews and dropping of fire left you weak and sweat-dripped. feeling you got the first time a torpedo deadly eggs. Solid curtains of steel Your mouth seemed filled with cotton. slithered through blue swells toward went up between the vessels in the You felt wobbly, and there was nothing your ship. convoy as our guns spit never-ending you could do about it. You were strictly a landlubber, but antiaircraft fire. Off to the portside a rusty tanker the combined total of endless days and The leading enemy plane, screaming listed heavily. Your own ship got nights you spent in a Mae West life- straight toward us, suddenly seemed to through the concentrated hell okay. But jacket seems funny now. It all was a falter in mid-air. Its wings waggled a couple of gun crew members had been very great and privileged experience crazily and then it plunged into the killed and others were wounded. You mainly because you came through with- smooth sea. had been safe, somehow, standing up out personal trouble. And it makes you

Black bursts of antiaircraft shells hung on the bridge. . . . a "veteran" for your next assignment like a dotted canopy over the convoy. Since the war began you have ridden with the fleet, which you hope is soon. Tracer bullets streaked through the hell- two convoys, and once you made a Since this Second World War began ish sky and in the crossfire they formed 2,000-mile trip aboard an unescorted you have seen and talked to scores of dizzy patterns. All about you guns stut- cruiser through enemy waters. survivors of ship-sinkings. Many of tered and rattled above the frightening So you know the tenseness of black- those seamen are good pals of yours. scream of bombs and the rumbling- out nights at sea. You remember well Some of them had their ships blasted roar of plane motors. your first sight of enemy planes and while making the perilous run to Mur- Far to the starboard, gunfire from a the sound of gunfire and bombs. And mansk. Others felt the sting of enemy freighter ripped into another plane. The sometimes at night back here you awake shells en route to Honolulu, and points enemy bird exploded and then it tore from vivid dreams that duplicated the southwest, including the Solomons. You even know a couple of guys who had

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine From the lifeboat he saw the Nazis mow down the occupants of another boat

three different ships go down under them in the Atlantic and the Caribbean. Every man who goes to war comes out of it with a different story. But some of the most amazing tales you've a grinding roar. The entire side of the Illustrated by HAMILTON GREENE run across since Pearl Harbor came ship seemed to cave in. The walls of from merchant seamen. Put together the the messroom were crumbling like a them into lifeboats. The deck around stories of a half dozen men of the type cardboard box as we dashed toward the them was covered with blood which of Joe M. Salamon, 27, of Chicago, topside. had dripped from their loose bandages and you get a fairly accurate and com- "A man on deck had been standing and newly-opened wounds. plete account of convoys in World beside a big plate-glass window when the "Most of the passengers actsd like War II. tin fish struck. Concussion splintered they were going nuts. All of them tried How is this for a ship-sinking story? the glass. It ripped every stitch of to pile into lifeboats at the same time. "We got it one night in the Gulf of clothing off that fellow, and it took One boat, originally assigned to 35 Mexico, during our final mess of a most of his skin along with it. persons, was damn near swamped when long voyage," Salamon said. "We were "There were a flock of refugees aboard, 78 of those refugees crowded into it. less than 100 miles from our destination, in addition to survivors from 38 other "It was so packed that I kicked off so the trip was practically over. ships. Many of them had been wounded my shoes and dived overboard to give "Our ears suddenly were shattered by previously. It was tough trying to put them more room. We were out of danger when our ship took her death plunge. There was a violent concussion as the boilers exploded. "Something nuzzled me in the water. It was a big, gray shark. I swung my

fist at him. Then I started swimming away as fast as possible. I kept splash- ing and kicking to keep other sharks awaj'. About two hours later I banged my head into another lifeboat. "Some of the boys wanted to go back to the scene of the ship-sinking and look for survivors.

"When we reached it we saw scores of bodies in the black, oily water. All the bodies were slick and shiny from

the oil. There must have been 50 sharks picnicking among the bodies. The sharks were having a helluva feast!" (Continued on page 50)

Diving out of the sun the enemy planes strafed the gun crews and dropped their eggs as the antiaircraft guns roared

MARCH. 1943 19 — The West Coast Presents

By JOHN J, NOLL

That woman was found in Mrs.

Alfred J. Mathebat. Appropriately she hailed from California—from the West Coast, that most vulnerable section of our country whose citizens have been fully cognizant of the seriousness of our war problems and of the ever- present threat to our shores. Born and reared in the great open spaces of the

West, Ruth Mathebat is in no sense a tenderfoot, literally, or when consid- ered from the viewpoint of undertaking and carrying to success whatever tasks may be given to her. A strange admixture is compounded in Ruth Mathebat's heritage—from her Mrs. Alfred J. Mathebat, National President, American Legion Auxiliary maternal side, the calm, cool delibera- tion of the British, from her paternal forebears, the fiery, ebullient self-as- WAS a transformed America Wake and Midway, from B^ataan and sertion of the Latin races. In Ruth ITan America again engaged in war, Corregidor. The innumerable other tasks that challenged the delegates to the that the war effort demanded were added American Legion Auxiliary's Na- to an already comprehensive program. tional Convention in Kansas City last The older stateswomen of the Aux- September. During the twelve months iliary who had given their husbands since the previous convention, the and sons and fathers and brothers to tragedy of Pearl Harbor had struck and the armed services in World War I America had thrown its military might were augmented by the junior mem- fully with the United Nations in the fight bers who, in turn, were now making to maintain a free world. similar sacrifices of their husbands and The 535,000 women of the Auxiliary brothers. were prepared to meet that challenge. An all-out program of war aid adopt- Almost a quarter-century of unselfish, ed, the convention delegates were con- devoted and successful service to lighten fronted with the equally important the burdens of our veterans, their de- problem of selecting from among their pendents and survivors, of the First membership the woman best qualified World War had well fitted them to as- to direct and guide them in fulfilling sume the additional great task. Immedi- the pledges made. The position of Na- ately following Pearl Harbor, the Auxil- tional President demanded a woman of iary had rapidly expanded its program of outstanding executive ability, of breadth National Defense to include the vast re- of understanding and vision, a co- quirements of our nation's Civilian De- ordinator of the work of the nine thou- fense program, it had extended its re- sand Auxiliary Units, a leader who habilitation and hospitalization work to could inspire this organization of over provide prompt aid to the casualties that a half-million women and girls to carry Little Ruth Vargas and her brother, were already being brought home from through in our national emergency. John, look pretty for the birdie

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Mathebat, however, these contradica- with one or another tory traits offset each other—impulsive- of those four brothers ness is curbed by considered, straight ever ready to lend a thinking. willing, but none-too- helpful hand. In fact, 1ET us trace the widely divergent paths she frankly admits i converging at the Army outpost of that she became a Fort McDermott in northern Nevada, tomboy—in self-de-

that led to the establishment of Ruth's fense ! family. John Vargas was descended But at school, it from a long line of Californians—his was another matter. mother's family, the Castros, were among She attended the the Spaniards who, moving northward grade school in the from Mexico, had helped to settle "Up- town of Winnemucca per" California, which was ceded to and was a good stu- our country at the conclusion of the dent. After entering War with Mexico. John 'Vargas was her high school interested in mining, and learning of courses, she began the the rich deposits of gold and silver development of the that had been discovered in Nevada, art of public speak- as a young man went into that neigh- ing and was soon the boring State and based his operations only girl member of at Fort McDermott. the high-school de- Some years before. Harriet and Alfred bating team, more Wilkinson had left their native England than holding her ow'n and had emigrated to America. Shortly with the two boy after their arrival, while living in Ithaca, members of the team. New York, a daughter, who was named That accounts for Margaret, was born to them. Wilkin- Ruth Mathebat's pro- son, being interested in cattle, early ficiency in addressing crossed the continent and located at and holding the at- Past Commander Alfred J. Mathebat, Alameda Post,

Fort McDermott, where for a brief tention of the many veteran of the I 3th Field Artillery, Fourth Division time he engaged in sheep raising. Ap- large audiences be- preciating the unlimited grazing land fore which she has so often appeared. their setting-up exercises, and enjoy an available, he soon transferred his busi- While she was in high school, America hour or so of relaxation and recreation. ness to the raising of cattle. Members entered the First World War. And there- The townspeople, necessarily including of his family are still cattlemen. by hangs a tale. As a debater, Ruth was the high school students and particularly Here at Fort McDermott, the young tops, but as a forecaster she proved a the girls, were prepared to take good minmg engineer, John Vargas, and Mar- failure. She found herself on the nega- care of their transient guests. garet Wilkinson met and were married. tive side of a debate on the question of Military secrecy, of course, permitted Within a short time afterward, the whether the United States would enter {Contimied on page 40) young couple returned to John Vargas's the World War. With the aid of the native State of California, where two two boy fellow-members of her team, sons, Chester, now engaged in business she won that debate. The subject was in New York City, and Virgil, who in 191 again debated in the finals for the State was to don an 0. D. uniform, were born. high-school championship in Reno and Mining, however, was still John Var- again her team held forth on the nega- gas's dominant interest and he took tive side of the same controversial ques- his family back to Nevada, establish- tion—and again her team won and ing a home in the small trading-post carried off State honors. Then the anti- town of Winnemucca. A third son, John, climax: On the trip home to Winne- came to them, and then a daughter mucca the news came that the United who was given the name of Ruth Har- States had declared war! riet. Later, another son, George, com- Ruth's memories of the World War pleted the family. are vivid. Her brother Virgil enlisted Ruth Vargas Mathebat admits that and was sent to Vancouver Barracks, growing up with four brothers neces- Washington, for assignment. He had sarily had a great influence upon her the distinction of being advanced from life. She not alone participated in their the enlisted ranks to a commission as escapades, but often she led them. She 2d lieutenant without benefit of a course was as much at home in the saddle as in an Officers' Training Camp. most girls her age would be in a dancing Winnemucca, small as it was in popu- class, she spent her summer vacations lation, and isolated as it is geographi- on the range, helped with the chores, cally, lacked nothing in patriotic fervor and learned the art of wrangling cattle. during the war. Located on one of the Those many days out in the open gave great transcontinental railroad lines, her ample time for study and con- hundreds of troop trains carrying soldiers templation, which proved good train- from the West Coast to ports of em- ing for her present ability to think out barkation for the A. E. F. passed over difficult problems calmly. those rails. And Winnemucca was so She mastered the arts of riding a situated that it was a logical rest stop A brother, Virgil Vargas, at Van- bicycle, of ice skating and roller skat- for most of those trains—where the men couver Barracks, Washington, before ing, and of swimming, the hard way in 0. D. might stretch their legs, take he won his lieutenant's bars in 1918

MARCH. 1943 21 •

Ali Altar Builded High

The Cathedral of the Air, a national shrine dedicated to the heroes of the air service, built by the New Jersey Le- gion at the Lake- hurst Navy Air Training Station

cathedral dedicated to HOUSE of prayer for all people erect a national service who fought within whose walls all men may the men of the air A and fell. He talked the idea over with meet to offer their common de- Jersey's "votion to the heroes of the past, Herbert H. Blizzard, then New with to renew their hopes for the future, to Department Commander, and Edel, U. S. pledge their unswerving consecration to pose the Cathedral of the Air is a Chaplain William W. Lakehurst. the principles for which our country national shrine. Thousands visit the Navy, then stationed at The enthusiasm. stands, and to worship, each in his own memorial each year, drawn thither by plan was accepted with Blizzard and way, the Almighty Maker of the Uni- a spirit of reverence and devotion. Department Commander forces one to verse. That is the Cathedral of the Air It was during the summer of 1928 Chaplain Edel joined — of his at Lakehurst, New Jersey, a memorial that Gill Robb Wilson of Trenton, New sell the idea to the members of simple grandeur conceived, erected Jersey, then serving as National Chap- Department and the Legion at large and dedicated by The American Legion lain of The American Legion, conceived and the other to work out a definite of the Department of New Jersey, "for the thought that the great organization program and plan of action. Though God and Country," in fulfillment of of veterans of the World War should Chaplain Wilson did not step out of the first clause of the picture, he mod- the Preamble to the estly gives all the Legion's Constitu- credit to Herbert tion. Blizzard and Chap- lain Edel for the It is not alone a complete realization memorial to the men of his dream cathe- who fell out of the draL skies in combat dur- The Department ing the First World — War, but memorial- of New Jersey Legion and Auxiliary izes all who have the had to do with the combined—took development of avi- responsibility of ation in peace as raising the necessary well as in war. Lo- funds—no light job, cated at Lakehurst, even in the booming center of the United days of the late States Navy's avia- 1920's — and after tion activities on the the Lakehurst Naval middle Atlantic sea- Air Station, where board and the home lighter - than - air station of the great training and opera- dirigibles, the chapel tions were carried on, serves locally to care was decided upon as for the spiritual Breaking ground for the Cathedral on June 26, 1929. Left to right, the most desirable needs of the officers in the front, are Chaplain William W, Edel, U. S. N.; National site, representatives and men attached Chaplain Gill Robb Wilson, Department Commander Herbert H. of the Department Con- to that station. But Bliziard (with shovel); Dr. Samuel A. Loveman, President of the petitioned the in its general pur- Chapel Association, and Deparment Adjutant Roland F. Cowan gress for permission

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine to erect there a forming in general cathedral memorial appearance with of approved design. the great cathe- It was not until drals of that sec- the session was tion of France about to come to through which the a close that the American troops enabling act passed fought in the First its last hurdle in World War. Vet- the Congress and erans of overseas was signed by service who visit President Calvin this national shrine Coolidge, on frequently call at- March 2, 1929, as tention to the sim- one of his last of- ilarity in design, ficial acts before and to almost retiring from the every one the Presidency of the sight of the cathe- United States. Act- dral itself brings ing under that au- up a flood of mem- thority, the De- ories. Many re- partment of New mark that it was Jersey created The by just such a big American Legion church that such Memorial Chapel and such action Association, with took place; that Dr. Samuel A. the outfit marched Beverly Hills Post of Chicago trains a class In swimnning as a part Loveman as Presi- by this church and of Its training program. Watching the swimmers are (center, left to dent, and with a took refuge behind right) Wlllard A. Connors, Ralph G. Hafner, Post Commander, Ralph membership com- its protecting walls W. Gruenwald, Ray A. Hafner and Wlllard Barry, swimming Instructor posed of a number during an advance. of Legionnaires and Others recall that members of the American Legion Aux- Floyd Bennett, and Commander Zach- it was in the nave of just such a church iliary. The burden of raising the funds ary Lansdowne. Another section is in that they received first treatment in and erecting the memorial chapel was memory of the men who were lost on the an emergency hospital. And some are placed on this group. The plan so ap- Shenandoah and in other lighter-than- reminded of the ruined churches over pealed to Morgan F. Larson, then Gov- air catastrophes. Other portions of the which they flew in their daily air patrols. ernor of the State, that he named a building are reserved for memorials to The structure itself is one of unusual committee of citizens, with himself as men and women who lost their lives in beauty, blending harmoniously into its Chairman and Edward D. Duffield as other branches of the military service surroundings and even now, after only Vice Chairman, to assist the Legion in the First World War. This structure, ten years of service, is beginning to take group. it is said, was the first great memorial on the appearance of weathered age. As contributions began to come in to the heroes of the air and in many It was designed and the construction almost immediately—Posts and Legion- respects it is one of the most significant supervised by Paul Philippe Cret of naires, from all save three Departments war memorials now standing at any Philadelphia, one of America's most contributing, with the major sums com- place in the United States. distinguished architects, for forty years ing from the Legion in New Jersey- The design is a modified Gothic, con- Professor of Design at the University no time was lost after authority to proceed with the structure had been granted. Ground for the cathedral was broken on Sunday, June 26, 1929, and the cornerstone was laid with appropri- ate ceremonies on the following Novem- ber 6th. It was not, however, until February, 1933, that the building was completed and formally dedicated. It was then presented to the Navy De- partment to be cared for in perpetuity by the Government of the United States, open for use at all times by the general public as a non-sectarian house of prayer for all people, and as an enduring mem- orial to the self-sacrifice and patriotic devotion of the men who conquered the airlanes in the development of avi- ation and in battle in defense of our country. One section of the chapel—the tower —is dedicated to the memory of those killed in actual air combat with the enemy. Another section, the nave, is Finance Officer Jones Cox (right) of Alexandria (Va.) Post, writing a dedicated to such notable heroes of check for $800 to Boys Club. Watching, left to right, are Dave C. Book aviation as Orville and Wilbur Wright, of the Boys Club, and Past Commanders Sidney Well and Albert May

MARCH, 1943 23 statement of the training and High School Victory Corps. total cost of the That Post, according to Ray A. Hafner, structure has been started out with the idea of recruiting submitted, but a naval air squadron in the "Fly for $124,705.05 was the Navy" campaign. Invitations were expended on the sent out to boys 18 through 26 years old memorials in- who had qualifications to become Navy stalled and the Air Cadets. Ninety youngsters responded interior finish of and most of them passed the examina- the building. tion with unusually high marks. But The charter of that was just a starter. incorpora tion Some of the lads had been out of granted to The high school for a few years and were American Legion rusty in mathematics and physics, so Memorial Associ- a series of review classes was organized. ation requires The Post offered the facilities of the that the chapel classes to others and within a short shall be non-sec- while had 300 enrolled, with an average Beals Unit 32, American Legion Auxiliary of tarian, and that attendance of 132 each evening. Then Plymouth, Michigan, presented its community provision has special attention was given to classes with resuscitator a for use whenever needed been most scrup- in international code and swimming, ulously adhered under the direction of Director Willard to. The chapel is Barry and James N. Armstrong, a Past at all times avail- Commander of Peoria Post, now en- able for worship rolled with the Beverly Hills outfit. by men of every "These youngsters," says Chairman creed and faith, Hafner, "are constantly praising the and the interior Legion fer the opportunities we have appointments are afforded them. This alone has amply so arranged as to repaid us for the long hours spent in be adaptable for this work." the services of an>- religious Community Service group. Department IN A fine gesture of service and good Historian Edgar will for its community, Alexandria N. Danielson (Virginia) Post at a recent meeting Dennis-Anderson Post of Gainesville, Texas, says: "The Mem- made a distribution of $1,700 as gifts put a big sign on the courthouse square—then orial Chapel As- to various service and community wel- watched the scrap pile grow. Result, sale of sociation planned fare groups, including a check for $800 scrap gave $1,121.99 for Army and Navy relief this beautiful made to the Boys Club. "This money," chapel to serve says Publicity Chairman Ross E. Amos, of Pennsylvania, designer of many. of not only as a perpetual memorial to "was raised at a festival—$2,700—and the best known buildings and memorials the valiant deeds of heroes, but as an every cent of it was expended for civic in this country, including the battle- eternal shrine and house of worship purposes. Not a dollar of this money field memorials at Chateau-Thierry, for all people. Generations yet unborn went into the Post's treasury." Bony, Waereghem and Gibraltar for the will offer their devotions within these Other organizations shared in the dis- American Battle Monuments Commis- walls and here will receive inspiration tribution as follows: Legion School sion. Mr. Cret is also a veteran of the for a more profound patriotism, and Fund, $200, and the Girls Club, Red World War, serving from 1914 to IQ19 will have kindled in their hearts aspira- Cross, Anna Lee Memorial for Old with the French armies and with the tions for a more devoted service." Ladies, U. S. 0., Community Chest and ist American Division, A.E.F. Hopkins House, $100 each. Another The building of the church was Training Our Defenders $100 was set aside as the nucleus of financed by contributions from Legion a fund for the purchase of an iron Posts and Aux- THOUSANDS of Legion Posts were lung for community use. iliary Units, and setting out on an active Navy re- with some outside cruiting program and were delivering the In Canada help, in sums rang- goods—good, clean, wholesome Amer- ing from $2,000 ican boys for Naval service—when the EVERY Legion from Ocean Coun- voluntary enlistment plan was summarily- Post in the ty, New Jersey, to stopped. All those Posts rendered good Department of two cents given by work and are to be highly commended, Canada, including a school child. A but the finish of the recruiting campaign three Defense considerable sum does not spell the end of the same kind Posts in New- was raised by spon- of help in training the young men for foundland, joined soring an All East- service. The men will be called as their in pooling a fund ern States Air Race numbers come up. Many will be glad for the purchase meet at Mercer to enroll in classes for preliminary train- of an army ambu- Airport on October ing in specialized presen- subjects. lance for ^ 18 and 19, 1930, The work of Beverly Hills Post of tation to the Cana-

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jn,- — — when Department Commander E. G. Fortune made formal transfer to Lieu- tenant Colonel G. M. Parker, RC.A.S.C, acting for the Army. The American Legion in Canada, says National Executive Committeeman Clary Simpson, has given every pos- sible aid in support of the Canadian war effort. Just recently all spare De- partment funds were invested in Cana- dian War Bonds. The individual members are making their own contributions by purchase of War Bonds, helping in scrap drives, in civilian defense activi- ties, and in other war work.

Synthetic Shells

The Legion in Canada gave an ambulance for use by the Cona- CUMBERLAND POST of FORT dian Army. Left to right ore Commander John Finucane, Mon- Cumberland, Maryland, has one of treal Post; C. J. Duquette, Department Commander E. G. the finest club homes in its area. The Fortune; J. Pierpont Moffat, U. S. Minister to Canada; entrance to the club has for many Louis LaPlante, and Lieut. Col. G. M. Parker, Canadian Army years been flanked by two large pro- jectiles of World War vintage. The projectiles are still there, but they're trosky and Blake furnished trucks. We could be used for ambulance purposes synthetic marble, inscription, —of with cost 'Zeke' a repair job on one of but as a canteen it will serve a most made to take the place of the old his trucks, but he wouldn't allow us useful purpose. pile timers contributed to the scrap to pay for it, and he worked like a "Members of Hamilton Township some time ago. horse on our Sunday drive to bring Post of Hamilton Square, New Jersey, The Post, with 569 members, has in a lot of scrap. There were many remember gratefully the unselfish serv- worked its way up to second in the others who helped us, but I can't go ices rendered by the Salvation Army Department of Maryland. Commander into it without missing someone." in 191 7 and 1918," writes Knute C. G. Ray Lippold is looking for No. i Bencke, Publicity Chairman. "When the place and is confident of setting a outfit's need of a mobile canteen unit record this year. became known the Post members set out to supply the want. After a month Letter to Members of campaigning the Post was able to present to Major McMahon of the WHEN Frederick C. Heney was Salvation Army not only the motorized installed as Commander of Tor- canteen but with it a check for $1,000 rington (Connecticut) Post last October for its upkeep. he had some ideas about attendance at "Our Post has reached the 200 mark meetings and constant contact with in membership," continues Publitician Post members. So, instead of issuing a Bencke. "Under Post Commander Pat- monthly bulletin, a monthly letter is rick Bush we have purchased $10,000 sent to each one of the 225 members (maturity value) worth of War Bonds, letters that read like letters, telling and nine of our members are in the about the Post and its activities—and uniformed services." this, in the opinion of District Adjutant New Bedford (Massachusetts) Post

Florence G. Rodgers (Yeoman (f), I has put a new ambulance in service U.S.N.R.F. in the old World' War) is for the transportation of war veterans bound to get results by raising the in- outside of the city and for use in any terest of the average Post member. case of emergency, writes Post Com- Here's a paragraph from a letter sent mander Cornelius Connors. The funds out by Post Ad- for purchase were raised as a joint Fort Cumberland Post at Cumber- jutant Homer A. project by the Legion Post and Aux- land, Maryland, gave steel war Woodard: "From iliary Unit under relics at club entrance, replac- the labors of the direction of vyalkmq '(Srv'!'^ ing them with marble substitutes so twid orce some 30 mem- Chairman Daniel v/ou c|ef used bers in the scrap Goldrick. J. TC» 'if aaa'm 1 drive we received Just a chatty sort of person-to-person The third new a net profit of letter. It's a good idea, and worth trying member of the $647, which was by any set of Post officers who feel that club is not a turned over to the interest of their membership is Post — it is a the Observation lagging. whole flock of Post. Comrades them. County Walter Krause, Ambulance Donors Commander John Al Smith and B. Connelly of Sten Berquist THREE new members of the ambu- the Orange used their trucks lance donors club are reported this County (New continuously for month, though the first one does not York) American two weeks and quite rate as an ambulance. It's a {Continued Comrades Os- mobile canteen which in an emergency on page 56)

MARCH, 1943 1917-18 Dix ? It's

MAYBE we're sticking out our chin—statistics aren't immediately available—but we feel safe in stating that Camp Dix, New Jersey, became known to more soldiers of our earlier World War than did any other camp or canton- ment in our country. When you consider that four Divisions received all or part of their training at Camp Dix and that at least eight Divisions cleared through Dix after the war, before demobilization, you find a total of almost 360,000 troops who used the facilities at Dix in west-central New Jersey. The "then" and "now" pictures of Dix which border these pages should be of interest to a larger group of Legionnaires The soldiers-to-be who reported at Camp than any other contributions we have been privileged to dis-

Dix in 1917 appeared more staid than the . . . play on our bulletin board. First let us relieve our minds of that change of designation from "Camp" to "Fort" Dix. You'll remember, besides Dix, there were Camps Devens and Lewis and McClellan and a number of others that weren't abandoned entirely after our earlier Army had finished with them. Those that survived and were reactivated as "permanent Army stations" now bear the designation of Fort. Other new training centers to be used for the duration, still crop up as Camps. For this opportunity for all of us to indulge in these par- ticular reminiscences we are grateful to Legionnaire Mrs. H. AUman Smith, who as Louise Walter served as an Army nurse with Base Hospital No. 22 at Beau Desert, France. The pictures at the left were selected by us from copies of an army-post pictorial review which Louise Walter Smith sent some months ago from her home at 866 North 5th Street, San Jose, California, with this letter: Morale-building has always been important in the "Selling our old home in St. Louis brought to light four Army. A boxing bout in 1918 as compared with . . . copies of the Camp Dix Pictorial Review covering a period

from November, 191 7, to April, 1918. Entirely forgotten, they had been packed away in the attic. Now that Dix has been revived as a large reception and training center, I am sure many Legionnaires will find the pictures as interesting as I have. When my group of ten nurses, members of U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 22, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

arrived there early in February, 191 8, Dix was a field of mud, with barracks springing up everywhere almost over- night. I am sending the four copies of the Pictorial Review to you under separate cover, so you may choose some of the pictures for the Then and Now Department, if you wish. "Our group of ten arrived at Camp Dix just as influenza was starting in the home camps—though not to the extent of the epidemic later in 191 8—and we were kept busy from Fire protection of Army camps? Tclce a look at the ultra- early until late, having little time for anything but duty. One modern equipment of 1917-19! 8 at Dix and then . . . thing I shall always remember and that is the mud in which the boys had to work while getting the camp in readiness. "In April, we joined the remainder of our unit of 100 nurses at Lakewood, New Jersey, for mobilization. From there we went on to New York where we met our doctors and medical corpsmen, sailing for France on June 4th in the Transport Baltic, a former White Star liner. [We happened to sail in the same convoy in H. M. S. Pyrrhus.—The Com- pany Clerk.] "Landing at Liverpool, we entrained for Southampton and crossed the Channel in an ambulance transport ship for LeHavre. There we boarded a special train for Beau Desert, where Red Cross ambulances took us to Base Hospital No. 6, a Boston unit, at Faience. We remained there until quarters at Beau Desert were ready for us, and eventually we took over the buildings prepared for Base No. 22. Early in August our hospital received its first convoy trains, direct from the A Y hut In Dix twenty-five years ago was fighting north of Chateau-Thierry. From

home to these boys in O. D., but see . . . our original 1,000 beds, the unit expanded

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — ff Fort Now 1941

to the number of 5,100, High tribute was paid to Base No. 22, it being rated as the third largest and best in the A. E. F. "In January, 1919, Base No. 22 turned over its duties and functions to Evacuation Hospital No. 20, which relieved the officers and men, but the nurses remained. After this transfer, we were able to go on leaves. During the summer we were reheved from duty and sailed for the U. S. A. in June, 1919."

WE SEEM to have traveled far afield with Legionnaire Louise Walter Smith and her hospital unit, so let us return and take a look at the Fort Dix of the present war, which we are enabled to do through the splendid co- operation of Major George B. Paul, Public Relations Officer Care-free youth who are assennbling at Dix, Captain Twitchell, his Assistant. of Fort and Carl A. Fori- Dix to make up our present Army We wrote to the Public Relations Officer of that Post, telling him about the pictures we had selected from the vast collec- tion in the issues of the Camp Dix Pictorial Review which Mrs. Smith had sent to us and suggested that possibly he could supply us with some comparative pictures. That he and his Assistant did more than their share in making this memory-arouser of Dix possible is shown by the fine photo- graphs which they permitted us to reproduce at the right border of this account. These "then" and "now" pictures scarcely need comment but starting at the top left, we glimpse a bunch of inductees who had just arrived in camp during the fall of 191 7—later to become members of the 78th (Lightning) Division, com- posed principally of men from New Jersey, New York and Delaware, with a few additional men from Pennsylvania. We'd like to bet that the two soldiers who stole the spot- light were "oldtimers" of at least ten days' or two weeks' standing. And get the guy in the hard hat next to the sol- An informal volley-ball game indulged in by diers! Wonder if any of our Legion buddies will recognize slacks-uniformed 1942 rookies at Fort Dix themselves and tell us about their reception at Camp Dix. It may be the clothes that make the difference—but com- pare those rookies of our war with the carefree-looking youth of the present day, checking into that same Army Post for processing, classifying, outfitting, etc., before being sent to Replacement Centers for their basic training. The group shown consists only of a few hundred of the thousands and thousands of inductees who have been and who are clearing through Fort Dix. Keeping up the new soldiers' morale, through programs of sports, entertainments, dances, movies and other activities, was a problem in 1917 also, but not stressed as much as in the present Army. So, at the left, we see a couple of soldiers mixing it in the squared circle with a goodly audi- ence of soldiers in their now quaint uniforms and Stetson- The modern stream-lined fire-fighting apparatus and style service hats. Directly opposite are some of our modern the crews as we find them today in the same camp youth, informally clad, indulging in a game of volley ball. Those slacks instead of the old britches give an impression that they are just a gang of civilians indulging in exercise in some neighboring playground. Next under, left, we find what a caption written in Novem- ber, 191 7, assures us is "one of the three latest type motor engines" used for fire protection at Camp Dix. Army fire departments in those early days were composed largely of civilians, as the picture shows, although later men in 0. D. assumed full charge of fire-fighting. How does that fire house and equipment compare with the stream -lined outfit of 1942 that we show on the right? And last, but by no means least, our then-and-now gallery of pictures concludes with, at left, a group of First World War soldiers enjoying the home-like comforts of a Y. M. C. A. hut—one of the nu- NOW merous huts provided and conducted by the Y, A present-day Service Club, where bucks the K. of C, the Jewish Welfare Board and the enjoy former "Officers-Only" privileges

MARCH, I94S 27 American Library Association and scat- the Camp might The Girls In Blue , American Army Nurses, stage the tered throughout the area of our earlier like to know that first parade of women of mercy in Paris in 1918 camps and cantonments. These huts it was named for compare in a way with the "Day one Major Gen- Rooms " which are now provided for al- eral John Adams Dix, U. S. Volunteers, Camp Dix, but following November 11, most every regiment or comparable unit born in New Hampshire, U. S. Senator 1918, this Division was the first to be in the present Army. from New York State, 1845-49, Secre- discharged. Across the way, on page 27, take a tary of the Treasury under President The 34th Division, unfortunately was gander at the super-super de luxe Serv- Buchanan, Minister to France, 1866-69, occupant of Dix when the nation-wide ice Club now provided for our enlisted and Governor of the State of New York, influenza epidemic struck and during men. Ultra-streamlined, modern metal 1873-1875. the month's quarantine, 900 soldiers furniture, a double-decker open fire- The original area of Camp Dix con- died of the disease and 12,000 cases of place, a dance floor, a library, a cafe- sisted of 7474.37 acres on which were influenza and pneumonia were treated. teria, a beer-bar, a piano, indoor 1656 buildings. The present Fort Dix Camp Dix's tour of duty did not end games—almost anything desired is avail- spreads out over an additional 17,000 with the Armistice. Home-coming able. Even officers knew nothing like acres, acquired for infantry maneuvers, troops by the tens of thousands came to this in 1Q17-1918. and some 70.000 acres were secured for know that Post, after being disem-

If more than a tone of envy has crept trespass rights. Then add another 2500 . barked from transports. Veterans of tht into this account, not only our old- acres on which the Tilton General Hos- 8th, 26th, 29th, 41st, 42d, 78th, 79th timers of World War I, but the soldiers pital has been constructed. and 87th Divisions will no doubt recall who are preparing to fight our victorious As stated, the 78th (Lightning) Di- with not-too-fond memory the delouser battles of today and who before too vision received its full training at Dix building, complete with steamroom, long will be fellow-members of ours in before its service in the A. E. F. It con- showers and other facilities for delous- The American Legion, will understand sisted of men from New Jersey, Dela- ing both men and clothing. At Dix the ramblings of a has-been "Company ware, parts of New York and Penn- these Divisions were either demobilized, Clerk.'' sylvania. Then came along the 87th or stopped over for distribution to Army (Acorn) Division—drafted men from Posts nearer their homes for final dis- THE limited IN space allotted by the Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and charge. Editor to Then and Now, we will Alabama, who had received preliminary Demobilization over, the ist Division try briefly to continue our report of training at Camp Pike, Arkansas. After was stationed at Dix until the Division the then-Camp Dix, the now-Fort Dix. the 87th Division left for overseas, the was broken up in 1922 and units dis- Camp Dix entered formally into our 34th Division—National Guard troops tributed throughout the country. There war-training program for World War I from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North followed a long span of lean years for on i, June 191 7, as one of the sixteen Dakota and South Dakota—originally Camp Dix, when at times the jjerma- great training cantonments established in training at Camp Cody, New Mexico, nent detachment to supervise the de- for the Army. Former "residents" of took over, before embarkation for the caying buildings consisted of a small A. E. F. Dur- guard and a few Quartermaster troops. ing the last few During the summers, however, the Post weeks before the was used by Regulars, National Guards- Armistice, the men and O. R. C. and C. M. T. C. i02d Division of units for training. Then came the de- inductees was pression, and in 1933 Dix was used as

m ob i 1 i z ed at (Continued on page j8)

Coast Guardsmen on the U. S. S. Onondaga indulge in target practice off the New England Coast in 1918 28 flu- AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "Mommy ... who was Hitler?"

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(Continued from page 17) the heavier work, officers were frankly where this is permitted. As a result, in the guardhouse since the outfit was worried. many men whose parents lived in vir- formed—and they were in for speeding "We weren't sure the men would be tual peonage in the Philippines share while off the post. The job of Prison able to take it," says Colonel Offley. bachelor officers' quarters with the sons Officer has been abolished. "Many of them are in their 40's—the of some of Manila's oldest and proud- Still, there are problems. Many of average is 34." est families. There is not a suspicion of these small men can hardly reach the But the Filipinos, wiry and agile, class distinction. The Filipino Infantry trigger of a Springfield, and this affects regiments are living examples of democ- their marksmanship. Now most units racy at work. have Garands, with a shorter stock. Lorenzo Sevilla, son of a prominent Some officers, however, recommend that Manila family, dropped his banking and all Filipinos be armed with the new finance classes at New York University carbine—accurate as a rifle up to 300 to enlist in the Pinoys. Vincent Singian, yards and much easier for the Pinoys with a Ph.D. and a career in foreign to handle. "That's range enough for the service, became a private. Marcos Roces, jungle fighting these boys are fitted for." son of the Manila publishing family, The troops themselves have expressed left the staff of the Philippine Commis- just one grievance; they don't think sioner in Washington and won a lieu- they have enough bolo knives. The two- tenancy. foot bolo, or machete, which the army From the army itself came veteran issues sparingly. Curved slightly and soldiers—all Filipinos. Master Sergeant razor sharp, it is used mostly for cut- Isodoro Dacquel, with 20 years of serv- ting through underbrush. But as a ice, arrived with Technical Sergeant weapon the Pinoy would gladly trade Francisco Morales, in his 30th year of his bayonet for it. service, and~ would prefer to finish his "If they ignore us, ignore Greatest stumbling block was lan- them hitch in Tokyo. Half a dozen Filipino right guage. Many of the men have difficulty bock!" graduates of West Point transferred to understanding English. They especially the new regiment. can't understand sergeantese. proved to be the physical equal of The army is proud of its Filipino "The Filipino soldier," says Colonel most men ten years younger. troops—but it has had its troubles with Offley, "hates to admit that he doesn't "Part of it," Colonel Offley explains, them. The Quartermaster Department understand, for that would reflect on "is due to the fact that most of them is convinced that Filipinos were born the officer. As a result, he says that he have worked hard all their lives. But for the particular purpose of driving understands when he doesn't." But now the real reason is their eagerness." supply sergeants mad. One man wears 40 percent of their commissioned of- On all long marches army trucks fol- a size shoe; size 3>^ is common ficers are Pinoys, so that lately it has low to pick up men who are unable to among them. Nearly all must have their become possible to give class instruc- stand the grind. Only once has a Fili- blouses and slacks tailored to order, be- tion in native dialects. Commands, how- pino fallen out. He was a man who had cause of their size. And the Filipino ever, are always in English. given his age as 45. His company com- soldier wants his clothes to fit well, for The highly sensitive Pinoys must mander noticed he was tiring and finally he is proud of his appearance. never be "bawled out" in old army ordered him to fall out. The soldier re- Many Pinoys take even their denims fashion. The dressing down which might luctantly climbed into the truck. Five to civilian tailors to be fitted. And they spur an ordinary soldier to greater en- minutes later he died of a heart attack. have their fatigues cleaned and pressed deavor would probably bring tears to Investigation revealed that he was 62 instead of washed. "The laundry makes the eyes of a Filipino private. When a years old. 'em look like bags," said a dapper little Pinoy makes a mistake, the officer points When soldiers from the Pinoy regi- sergeant. "Even when I'm working I it out gently. That is all that is neces- ments graduate from OCS—as an un- want to look like a soldier." sary. usually large number have—they return From army standard food, the Pinoy When the First Filipino Infantry fin- to their own outfits as officers. These mess sergeants have become expert at ished its early training and prepared for are the only regiments in the army {Continued on page $4)

THE RIGHT .38

{Continued from page 11) Johnson half-smiled. "A .38 poHce Binski. Please send in that man Mer- the chief and he orders me back to model, same as all the guards." He tons." post. I yell Frank's killed and he puts stopped smiling. "What you carry your- The timekeeper was fanning himself ." his gun back in his pocket and . . self, sergeant?" with his hat, red face sweating, eyes

"He what?" the sheriff broke in. "Thirty-eight. Only I wasn't waving sticking out as if he were choking. "I

"Puts his gun back and blows for it where a guy's just been killed, if want it understood," he began, "my the sergeant. That turns out the off- you get what I mean." trouble with Holmes had nothing to duty guards and he rushes 'em off to "Examine it." Johnson dropped his do with this." see if somebody's cut the wire, which gun on the table. Casey's face set into blankness. The they hadn't." "I may later. Why'd you have it out?" sheriff, however, demanded sharply,

Johnson said, "I'd got Holmes's mes- "Guess I was uneasy . . . after what "What trouble?" cage and was looking for him." the office girl said . . . then I heard "Nothing to do with this . . . this ." "Yeh," Casey nodded slowly, "with Binski holler, so I . . murder. My God, I wouldn't kill a your gun out. What sort of iron you "Okay," Casey said. "That's all now, man for not punching the clock. Even carry, chief?" Chief. Take your gun along. Thanks, {Continued on page jj)

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NOTED COMMENTATOR H.V Kaltenborn AND JOURNALIST

IN RECENT MONTHS I have received a to the government one year before number of letters from my radio and Pearl Harbor. movie audience asking me this question Here's another interesting point. While ..."Will our distilleries continue to pro- distillers have substantial stocks on

duce alcoholic beverages during the war?" hand, made during peacetime .. .enough Frankly, I did not know the answer. to last three years... they have, in fair- I investigated and here is what I found ness to all, self-imposed a system of out. No distiller is making whiskey to- rationing. This will assure .anyone inter- day. The beverage distilling industry is ested in purchasing these products that I: engaged 100% in producing war alcohol a reasonable amount will be available for the government. over a period of time. As a matter of fact, I discovered that During my investigation I also learned individually and collectively the bever- the answers to several other questions. age distilling industry offered its facilities I am telling you about them below.

1 Alcohol Is vital to war production 2 The industry's facilities for the pro- 3 This use of grain will not deplete the because it is a basic ingredient used in duction of grain alcohol make it possible stores needed for food as there is a tre- the manufacture of smokeless powder, to include 200,000 tons of rubber from mendous surplus on hand. The distilling chemical warfare materials, medical sup- grain in the government's 870,000-ton industry is transforming 100,000,000 plies, and synthetic rubber. The govern- synthetic rubber program. In producing bushels of it into vital war material, en- ment's 1943 quota calls for 530,000,000 war alcohol the industry uses grain ex- abling farmers to contribute even more gallons, half of which is supplied by the clusively (no sugar). Sugar is never used directly to the war effort and freeing beverage distilling industry. in making whiskey, either. much needed granary space.

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3 This alcohol is necessary for smokeless powder, chemical warfare materials, medical supplies, and synthetic rubber. The supply of alcoholic beverages in stor- 5 The fact that, when war came, we had 4 age must be made to last longer than a full-fledged beverage distilling industry originally planned. in existence made this contribution pos- 5 Therefore— in fairness to all—rationing sible. Otherwise, it is easy to understand has been self-imposed to assure a reason- 4 Although 100% converted for war how the government would have been able supply over a period of time. alcohol, the industry will still be able to forced to spend months of time and mil- supply alcoholic beverages to the public lions of dollars in building and reno- from reserve stocks made during peace- vating distilleries and training personnel. Distilled Spirits Institute. lac. time and thus continue to account for more than a billion dollars in taxes every Washington,D. G year for the federal and state governments. if I did say things, I didn't mean ." them . . Casey asked, "when'd you have this trouble?"

' Tonight when he come in, mister. Told him I'd have him docked." "And what did he say?" Casey kept his face bland.

"Might as well tell, enough men heard us. He said, come out on his beat and he'd kick hell out of me."

" "And 3'ou promised you'd come out? "Sure, I did, mister. Only I was just ." talking . . "A bad habit," Casey remarked. "What size gun do you carry?" Mertons eyed him wildly. "Mister, none usually. Only today, going to the bank for the payroll, I borrowed one ." from a guard . . "An S. & W. .38?" ." "Guess that's it. But I tell you . .

"You had it tonight at the restau- rant?" "That's right. Only I hardly noticed Holmes there. I was busy eating." "Where's that naval officer?" Casey said, dismissing him. Mertons hurried out, calling: "Mister officer! You're next!" Lieutenant Arthur tried to be co- operative. "I've only been here five days. Sent from Washington to relieve Lieutenant Commander Anderson He was the inspector here ahead of me, sir, ordered away suddenly. I arrived the day he left. So I'm just getting my bearings." "This new gadget you make here," the sheriff prompted. "It's something the Nazis would like to know about?" The lieutenant, thin and youngish with light wavy hair, smiled. "To be sure, sir. The Japanese, also. A fire con- trol unit, most secret. But I doubt it's ." connected with this . . . this . . "Holmes," Casey said. "Perhaps he had woman trouble. Some husband, perhaps. No one tried to cut the fence. Germans or Japanese wouldn't just shoot a guard. They'd attempt entry." "Right," the sheriff said. "Better look up Holmes's record." "W'hat good in that?" Arthur asked. "Investigate his companions here in Michigan." "I'll do that." Casey wrote in his notebook. "What sort of gun do you carry, lieutenant?" Arthur laughed. "You suspect even me, sir?" He unbuttoned his blue jacket.

"Navy issued it to me just before I left Washington." The sheriff smiled and asked: "An- other .38?"

"Yeah," Casey admitted and held it close to his eyes. "What are these letters stamped in the steel? Can't quite see. J. A. Yours?" "Yes, sir. John Arthur. I had those put there. Always wise to mark a gun, {Continued on page 57)

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1EGI0NNAIRE Mary C. McHale, of friend who called him a "retread." J Edith Work Ayers Post of Cleveland, "I'm not only a re-tread," agreed the Ohio, had heard much about boomtown Judge, "but am also re-tired." Washington, but didn't believe all she had been told until a friend recounted THE old slogan was "Join the Navy his experience in dining at a dog wagon and see the world" has been changed in the capital city. The hungry visitor to "Join the Navy and see what's left looked over the fly-specked menu, hesi- of it," wisecracks Joseph G. Lang of tating between the $2.50 and $3 din- Brooklyn (New York) Edison Post. ner. Making up his mind, he beckoned the counter man. "I'll have this $3 din- OLD Major Hygiene says that the ner," he said rather airily. odor of the average disinfectant PRIVATE Swingle was not stepping "Yes," agreed the counter man, does a lot to reconcile one to the pros- very lively during the morning drill. "What'll you have it on-^white or rye?" pect of taking the disease it's meant to He had a slight halt in one foot. "Hey, prevent. you!" bellowed the drill sergeant, "pick IEGIONNAIRE May D. Collins, now Mose had been to the in- up them dogs! Have you got an onion jof Chicago—in 1919 her address was PRIVATE in your shoe?" firmary for relief from the discom- Evacuation Hospital 3, Trier, Ger- forts of a chest cold. The next day "Naw," wearily replied Private Swin- many—declares she saw and read an he showed up on the sick report. "Didn't gle, "but I've got a bunion that is seri- amazing sign in a tailor shop at Trier. ously retarding this pilgrim's progress." "Uniforms cleaned and pressed in the rear" was the service offered. LEGIONNAIRE Albert D. Akin, Jr., A of Los Angeles, California, got a bit of the really good stories of of a chuckle out of an argument put up ONE this Second World War comes in by an old friend of his away up in the a letter from Colonel William C. Mc- Ozarks. The old gentleman gave his Cally of Cleveland, Ohio, who com- views on the war situation and what he mands a hospital unit in Australia: "In would do to stop it. "Why," he said, one of the forward air outfits one of the "if the Japs ever get to this side of the outstanding fighter pilots was a young water this here town will be the first fellow who was quite religious—didn't one that will be bombed!" swear, smoke or drink. Came a dog fight. "Hardly," objected Legionnaire Akin, He ran out of ammunition, dived on "This town is a long way from the the Zero, cut off a wing, bailed out and coast." got a nasty jolt in landing. "Sure it'll be bombed," persisted the "When the medical officer turned him old gentleman, "Hit's the county seat, "Another shot, boys! I like my over, his first question was, 'Did I get hain't hit?" the yellow *** ?' And he bacon crisp!" still doesn't swear." PFC GEORGE S. FLY of Mississippi, an old contributor to this magazine, that mustard plaster we gave you do now in service at Fort Leonard Wood, MIDDLE-AGED broker of Chi- A any good?" asked the medical officer. Missouri, solemnly avers (and we're in . cage's North Shore was recently "Yas suh, hit was purty fair," responded no position to argue with given a commission in the Navy, chor- him) that he the patient, "but, suh, hit sholy did bite read a want ad in a western paper: tles Emil Cederborg of Continental W. my tongue when ah et it!" "Owner of 1940 Ford would like to Illinois Post. The new officer frankly correspond with widow who owns two looks his age, and he is not as slender CAPTAIN C. L. TiUinghast, now of tires, object matrimony. Send photo as used to be. Since he was ordered of he Ellington Field, Texas, chuckles tires." on duty away from home and family, over the demand of a fresh recruit back he thought he would surprise the folks in the early days of the draft. A new lot W. W. Sutton, III, by the gift of a picture of himself in LEGIONHEIR of of draftees came down upon the camp jFreeport, New York, reports the sol- uniform. He flashed the photograph a new one—and some had to be detailed dier who thought a jeep was upon the household at the dinner table a female for guard duty. First tour at midnight from hand to hand with- Jap. and it passed the headquarters phone rang. "Hullo," out comment un- came a voice soft and full-throated that til it came to the bespoke the Southerner, "is this the youngest member 0. D.? This is the sentry at the main of the family. gate and I'm powerful hongry out heah. She looked at Won't somebody run me out a little the picture care- lunch?" .< fully then turned ' her gaze in a IEGIONNAIRE John McMorris of thoughtful manner jCorinth, New York, says that a full on the head youngster of his acquaintance chided his of the household. cat for purring. "All right, you dumb- "Well, dad," she bell," scolded the boy, "if you're goin' remarked with a to park there, turn off your engine. sigh, gusty "you're Don't you know that gas is rationed?" good, anyway!" MAC, the old gyrene, says that the JUDGE Frank A. Marines of today are the same Mathews, Jr., old chow-hounds they were back in the Past Department old World War. For instance: "The Commander of break for breakfast, the lunge for lunch, New Jersey and and the din at dinner all remind me of until recently, when the lads of 1918." released for physi- cal reasons, a lieu- NICK SCUTTI of Atlantic City tenant colonel in (New Jersey) Post says he saw "The best I can get out of it is, the Army, was be- this sign in a barber shop: Army Hair- 1" 'You are now entering Los Angeles' ing kidded by a cuts Repaired.

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine that you carry, don't you think, sir?" "Usually." Casey handed it back. "Sheriff, get Blakehouse." The general manager sat down stiffly

as if the chair were a witness box. He had little to offer. The plant was mak- ing a secret fire control gadget. He wouldn't tell his own wife what. Yes, he'd taken unusual precautions. No, he didn't know Holmes or Binski. "I don't spend much time among watchmen," he added and put on his glasses and stared at Casey. Casey stared back. "Spend much time at the Greek's?" "You have no authority to question me, but I'll submit. No, I seldom go there. Tonight I 'phoned my wife at eleven. She was waiting to play cribbage, asked me to bring some sherbet. That was the nearest restaurant. "Speak to Holmes there?" "This guard? Wouldn't have noticed him. I did see the navy man . . . he's new, can't think of his name. I nodded to him and got my sherbet. We had started cribbage when the 'phone rang." "What kind of gun were you carry- ing?" The man's eyes widened. "Who told you that? I have a permit." "Let's see the gun." Awkwardly Blakehouse laid an S. & W. .38 on the table. The sheriff laughed this time instead of smiling. me. oh my. it Oh "That makes unanimous," Casey said. "The timekeeper, guard, Johnson, Lieutenant Arthur, now you, all with .38s." ." Oh I . . MA! "You're not suggesting that "Hell, I suggest nothing. The night superintendent, please." How long ago did fhis happen to you? Youngsfer or oldster, the price of too much

Gregory was a bald, sober citizen of a good thing is likely to be stomach distress, a sour, sickish feeling, simple diarrhea. with a hurried air cf too much un- Be gentle with such upsets.. . take soothing PEPTO-BISMOL ! finished business. He carried a pile of loose-leaf notebooks. "I brought the em- ployes' files, Sergeant," he began. "Knew NEVER UPSET AN UPSET STOMACH! Don't pile more troubh you'd want Holmes's background." on a troubled stomach with overdoses of arjtacids or harsh physics! "Good," Casey approved. "But first Take soothing pepto-bismol! This pleasant-tasting preparation . . . what make gun you carry?" "Never carried a gun in my life." is neither antacid nor laxative. Its action is dijferent. It spreads "Then it ain't unanimous," the sher- a soothing, protective coating on irritated stomach and in- iff chuckled. testinal walls, thus helping to calm and quiet common The superintendent looked at him digestive upsets. Get a bottle today! blankly and opened a book. "Here's Holmes's record. Clean slate from the Recommended for children as well as adults. Three sizes F.B.I. All our men are checked. He at your druggist's—or by the dose at drug store jountains. served in the other war, never got over- seas. Had been here five months. Came Take soothing PEPTO-BISMOL . . .to relieve sour, sick- ish, upset stomach; distress after over-indulgence; nervous from New Jersey. Employed there by indigestion; heartburn . . . And to retard intestinal fermen- Ajax Optical." tation; gas formation; simple diarrhea. If you do not get prompt relief, consult your physician. "Hum," Casey said. "I know," Gregory agreed. "That's the concern was in the papers. Owned by Nazi Farben - something - or - other. Holmes left them nearly a year ago. Did odd jobs, then came to Detroit. ." Lives at . . Casey wrote down the address and PEPTO-BISMOL added: "I'd like everj-body's home ad- dress. Blakehouse's . . . . Yours . . FOR ^/pSE> STOMACH ." Thanks . . . Lieutenant Arthur's . . "Not entered yet. Too new. Fellow •ReB. U. S. This formula is known and sold in Canada as P. B. Pat. OSa MARCH, 1943 37 When Answering .n- vertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ." worked here ahead of him, though . . to the plant and with the lieutenant and "Did you know him before?" Casey Casey read aloud: "Lieutenant Com- Chief Johnson, re-examined the em- asked. mander Joseph Anderson, 2130 Grove ployes' records. He finally asked: "No, sir."

Place, Birmingham. Thanks. Now the "This navy inspector, the one ahead "That's all, gentlemen." Casey closed ." timekeeper's. And Binski's. Need his of you, Arthur . . his notebook. "He probably couldn't tell complete record." He scanned it twice. "Anderson, sir," the lieutenant much, anyway. Suppose I'd better run It offered little. Binski was 48, born in prompted. out and look over his diggings, though." the next county; he had worked as a "Did he mention any trouble when "Any other questions here?" Manager prison guard for twelve years, leaving you took over?" Blakehouse asked nervously. the State's employ for higher wages. "None, sir." The young fellow smiled, "I guess," Casey said, "I have as "Think you can locate the workers and Casey demanded: much as I'm going to get." who were over at the Greek's tonight?" "What's funny?" He sat in his car at noon and watched Casey asked Gregory. "Nothing, sir, of course. The com- employes return from lunch. Blakehouse "Easily." Casey picked up his overcoat. "See you all at the inquest," he told the men in the outer room.

IT was nearly five o'clock when Casey found the home of the dead guard in Royal Oak. The small house was lighted at every window and neighbors were consoling the widow. "Hate to horn in, ma'm," Casey said, "only I need to know. How'd your hus- band happen to quit his job in Jersey?" "He got fired." Mrs. Holmes wiped her eyes. "Five years he worked there ." and if it wasn't for Kestenburg . . "Who's that?" Casey demanded. "The young one. Son of the boss. A dirty Nazi. The old man, the Manager Kestenburg, the Government's locked him up now. The young one got away to Germany. It was him had my man fired." "How come?" Casey asked. "It was account the radio. Frank was night watch in the optical works. He found the radio and the son sending mander only said they might be making exceeded the thirty-five-mile limit hurry- something. Kestenburg claims it's just hairpins here, for all the excitement." ing in and Jehnson, who had been stand- experiments, but he gets Frank fired." "Nobody even once tried any monkey ing in the winter sun, turned immediately "When was that?" business?" Casey persisted. through the gate. Timekeeper Mertons "One year ago now." Chief Johnson interrupted: "Never at trod heavily from the Greek's, as if "Why'd you come to Michigan, the plant." the size of his meal were bearing him ma'm?" "Where?" down. Lieutenant Arthur overtook him "My two sisters, they live here. Their "It wasn't anything. Sergeant. Ander- and they entered together, Arthur talk- men had good jobs." She talked will- son found somebody snooping outside ing, Mertons listening. Casey drove ingly. Holmes and she were both Ver- his window. Chased 'em. Told me next north at once, fitting together the jig- monters, celebrated their silver wedding day." saw of ideas and suspicions. Some parts anniversery recently; yes, he was in the "You mean a window where he lived?" joined neatly, others gaped.

Army last time; about six months and "That's it. He had a room some- At two o'clock he stopped by a fell off a truck. Was a year in the wheres." small green house on the edge of Birm- hospital. Casey consulted his notebook. "Birm- ingham. . . . Not very pretentious "Yes, sir," she said, "he draws a ingham." lodgings for a naval lieutenant com- pension, twenty-eight a month." "He heard somebody in the night." mander, but, Casey reflected, you took "Thanks," Casey said at length. The "When?" what you could get these days. When sheriff was waiting in the car. "Want "Week, ten days ago. All Anderson no one answered at the front, he tried to send some telegrams," Casey told him. did was tear his new blue pants, cut the kitchen. "Think I've got something. Have to his leg. He had the dispensary tie it "I want to buy nothing," an old sleep on it." up. Guy got away. Just a prowler." woman said and started to shut the The inquest next day brought out no Lieutenant Arthur offered: "He was door. But Casey put in his foot and new facts. Lieutenant Arthur, Binski, limping, sir, when I took over." showed his badge. even Blakehouse and Miss Kinder, were "We kidded him," Johnson added. "Police?" the woman exclaimed, and all good witnesses. Mertons alone got Casey asked, "Where'd they transfer then: "I'm deef. You got to holler mixed; remembered only after Gregory's him?" loud." prodding that he'd reprimanded Holmes "Didn't tell me," Johnson said. "Just Casey hollered. Yes, the woman a week earlier for another neglect of didn't turn up one morning." agreed, Anderson lived here. He rented the clock. Casey sat through the session "He was called back to Washington, the front room and bath, downstairs. silently, now and then putting evidence sir," Arthur volunteered. "Verbal orders. He was the only one who used the in his notebook, now and then fingering On. the 'phone, I believe. I'd been or- front door. Her husband and the other the bunch of yellow telegrams in his dered out to take his place. Arrived the roomer, a war worker on night shift, pocket. After the inquest, he went back night he left." came and went by the kitchen.

38 Ty AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "How long has Anderson been gone?" Casey asked. "Gone?" Casey could not tell whether she was surprised.

"I don't know if he's gone," she said, but she seemed anxious. "He's paid up. We never see him. I don't spy. He makes his own bed. That's the bargain. I only go in on Saturday." She objected, how- ever, when Casey asked to see the room. Her husband had its only other key, would not return till after four from the tank arsenal. One block up a side street, Casey parked his car and walked back to a small, steamy restaurant on the corner. A dry cleaning and tailoring establish- ment stood next to it. Casey looked at the clothes in the window and then, entering, talked for five minutes to the office girl; at length went into the res- taurant and ordered a sandwich. From a seat by the window he could see the Clock high I front door of Anderson's rooming house. He ordered another sandwich and waited. you COULQ TAKE A FE(?R(S-WHEEL RIPB ON THE MINUTE It was a long wait. He reviewed his HAND OF THE WORLDS LARGBST CLOCK, BECAUSE ITS facts. At five minutes of four he had ALMOST 40 FEET LONO! WHICH REMiNDS US IT'S HIGH almost given up hope when he saw TIME YOU DISCOVERED THE AMAZING SMOOTHNESS OF a figure mounting the opposite steps. TEN HIGH, THE WHISKEY with'NO ROUGH BDGBS" Casey left money on the table and ran. As he crossed the curb, his hand was on the grip of his pistol inside his pocket. The door had closed as he reached the porch. He snatched the knob. Lieutenant Arthur faced him, aston- ishment in his eyes. "Hello," Casey said affably, "what are you doing here?"

Arthur said, "'Why . . . you said ." you were coming out, sir. . .

"So you decided to come along? I see. You took this room over, too, as well as Anderson's job?" "Why, yes, sir, I did. He recommended it. I thought I told you, sir." "Didn't hear you." Casey waited for Arthur to open the door to the bed- room.

"Step in, sir," the other finally said. It was a neat room, thinly furnished, Aquaplane high! with two windows on the street. Casey saw them out of the edge of his eye. AQUAPLANING IS ROUGH GOING, BUT ONE MAN MANAGED TO With the other edge he saw Arthur's STAY ON THE BUCKING BOARD FOR A RECORP OF 10 HOURSi quick motion. So Casey said, "I've got you covered, Kestenburg. Through my FOR THE EASIEST KINP OF GOING, WE REFER YOU TO THE pocket. No need reaching for your gun." SMOOTH, ALL-BOURBON FLAVOR OFTODAy's TEN HIGh! "What's that, sir?"

Casey cried, "Don't 'sir' me! It's one reason I spotted you. Hands up. The Gestapo ain't the only smart cops in the world. They ought to teach you how naval officers don't ever 'sir' police and Ten Higft! sergeants." He was pushing his pocket toward the other man, watching his A new h'igh in whiskey smoothness i hands rise slowly, his mouth sag. It took only a moment to remove the .38 from its holster. Please be patient. If your store or taverrt is temporarily out of TEN HIGH there are two rea- sons: (1) Since all distilleries are now making war alcohol instead of whiskey, the available "Lift your leg now," Casey said. supply of Ten High is on quota "for the duration." (2) Railways must give war materials "Right one. Let me look. Still wearing and food the right of way, so your dealer's shipment of Ten High may sometimes be delayed. Anderson's pants, are you? Yeh, I saw Straight is old. proof. Hiram Walker Sons Inc., Peoria, III. the mend there on the leg first night This Bourbon Whisl

MARCH, 1943 39 When Answering Advertisements Piease Mention the American Legion Magazine I saw you, in Johnson's office. They're rid of once at his dad's plant, back in little things, but even the best of crooks Anderson's new pants that he had sewed Jersey! The guard couldn't quite figure make that mistake. in the shop across the street, after he it. But soon's he got out in the air he Kestenberg stiffened and his handcuffs tore 'em chasing you off, first time. You remembered . . . that was his ex-boss's rattled. "I gave nothing!'' got in, next try. Landlady didn't hear Nazi son, dressed up in an American "Tipped me off that you'd known the well, there guard before saying, 'Investigate his the row because she was deef! And uniform . . . he knew was by Anderson left, on verbal orders. Yeh, a plot, all right." companions here in Michigan.' Showed yours. Leastways Washington says it Chief Johnson brought his fist down you knew he'd come from somewhere ain't sent him any. Here, put out your on the table. else. And you saw no use in looking up arms now." "Yeh, he had to wait for you, John- his record. " Casey fastened the handcuffs. son," Casey said. "But that wasn't your 'Navy issued you a gun,' you said. "And now, Herr Kestenberg, our jur- fault. Only, this so-and-so didn't wait. Well, I happen to know, if you didn't, ies ain't foolin' with Nazi spies these He figured, if he could spot Holmes, Navy never issues guns to officers days. Especially ones that are American then Holmes certainly had spotted him. ashore. You get 'em from the armorer, citizens. If you want to save your neck, So he shot him, from behind. Same way aboard ship. And it never issues .38's, you'd better talk." he'd fixed Commander Anderson after afloat or on the beach. Only .4s's. If a fight. You tell 'em, sheriff." a guy ashore wants a gun, he buys any THERE were two murders," Casey "We found Anderson's body in a kind anywhere, the way Anderson did." explained a few hours later to the culvert over near Orchard Lake just as He picked up the weapon Kesten-

. . . . ." sheriff group assembled in Chief Johnson's this . this the jerked berg had carried. office. "The guard was just unlucky. He his thumb at young Kestenberg . . . "These initials are worn, too, not fresh. happened to recognize Arthur, or Kes- "this creature told us we would. Ander- Anderson had it a long time. He was son was in civvies. This man's, I reckon. saving kind of guy. I checked. Lived tenberg . . . which way you want it a now, fellow? Arthur or Kestenberg?" He'd been dead five days." in a cheap room, wore mended pants." Young Kestenberg stared defiantly "Dead!" Blakehouse exclaimed. He swung on Kestenberg. "Got anything and Casey said: "He called himself John Casey said, "Remember, it's a naval more to say for yourself, Nazi?" Arthur so his initials would match An- secret, not hairpins, you've got here. "The government in Berlin will help derson's. Well, poor Holmes saw him This young Nazi came out to kill Ander- me." there at the Greek's, and he saw Holmes, son and take his place as inspector. A "Oh, it will? Well, save your breath too, and got rattled and spilled his big idea. Only," he waved his notebook asking for it," Casey said. "You'll need coffee. Here was the old fellow he'd got at Kestenberg, "you gave it away in all you got. Won't have any very long."

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{Continued from page 21) she could sit in a dark moving-picture ter regiment as a member of its no advance information about the move- theater and enjoy the film while her telephone detail. His services were of ment of troops, but it so happened that needles clicked industriously. As recog- exceptional worth because of his com- the high school where Ruth was a stu- nition of her early-acquired proficiency plete knowledge of the French language. dent, was conveniently situated on a as a speaker on the school debating Al Mathebat was a first-generation high hill above the town, from which team, Ruth Vargas was selected as one American—his parents, Antoine and approaching trains could be easily of the "Minute Men" and appeared be- Marie Mathebat, having emigrated from spotted. There was no waiting for per- fore many local clubs lodges and other their Pyrenees home in France to Amer- mission from the faculty when a troop groups to further the sale of Liberty ica shortly after their marriage. With train appeared—the students rushed out Bonds. no knowledge of English, they had met en masse to the depot and were on hand Her high-school course completed, the usual difficulties that beset new- to greet the soldiers and offer them true Ruth went to Oakland, California, to comers to a strange land, but notwith- hospitality and entertainment during visit a brother, hoping to enter the standing the handicap they bravely set their brief stop-overs. University of California. It was her out across the continent and located in Larders were well-stocked for always- ambition to take a pre-legal course, Alameda, California. Here Antoine hungry soldiers, impromptu dances were eventually win her LL.B. and practice Mathebat engaged in the laundry busi- staged, tours of the vicinity in the com- law. Serious difficulties with her eyes ness with marked success, and here two paratively few automobiles then avail- interrupted her university work as well sons and a daughter were born. able were provided. During the winter as a special course she was taking at During the winter of 1919 while in months, all available ice skates were kept an Oakland business college. Suffering Oakland, Al Mathebat and Ruth Var- on hand in the high school and skating this disappointment, she returned home gas, again on a visit to her brother, were parties on the Winnemucca River, at and eventually entered the University introduced at a dinner dance. Their the edge of town, were enjoyed, although of Nevada at Reno, but again was mutual attraction led to romance and the local youths, who had practically thwarted in her ambitions by a recur- to their marriage in August, 1920. grown up on skates, were surprised at rence of the faulty eyesight. We can take Ruth Mathebat's word the number of soldiers who had not Came the end of the war, and our for it—she had never been a "joiner" mastered them. A great deal of inter- soldiers were returning home from and had never become associated with esting correspondence developed from France, from the Occupied Area in Ger- any of the numerous women's clubs and the many letters of thanks that came many, and other foreign posts. Among associations in Alameda. Her interest back from the soldiers who had been them, during the summer of 191 9, was w'as in her home. Al Mathebat has no their guests. Alfred J. Mathebat, of Alameda, Cali- one but himself to blame when he com- But entertaining troops wasn't young fornia, who after enlisting in the 144th plains that during many years past his Miss Vargas's only war effort. Active in Field Artillery, 40th Division, and as- principal occupation seems to have con- the Junior Red Cross, she helped to roll signed to Battery B, was later trans- sisted of putting Ruth onto trains, or bandages and to make dressings, and ferred to Headquarters, 13th Field of meeting her at the station when she with no previous knowledge, she became Artillery, Fourth Division, and per- returned from her journeys. You see it so proficient in the art of knitting that formed noteworthy service with the lat- was Al Mathebat who convinced Ruth 40 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine of the important position in our national life that both the Legion and its then newly-formed Auxiliary were rapidly at- HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR taining. Upon his request, RuthMathebat became an early member of Alameda Post's Auxiliary Unit, one of the first organized in California. Little did Al GUNS AND AMMUNITION Mathcbat realize that he had started his wife on the road that led to the National guns What to do with Presidency of the largest patriotic or- by Old Hank ganization of women in the world.

Al Mathebat is a twenty-five-year member of the Legion, having signed gun. tridges left in my the charter of Alameda Post. During the Remington am- »-ru»« sincecince I use year 1927 he served his Post as Com- "Then, 1 bore* non- n,unmonv.uh thatK mander and since his retirement from ^.^^ and put a that office has been continuously active, ^°"off"ith an oily rag. rpl^wo^foilintheacaon. and for the past five years has been the cun has been out Post Service Officer. The central loca- if the tion of his business office in Alameda has caused it to become a Mecca not only of Legionnaires a cleaning but of all veterans' who and action need seek advice and aid. When his other numerous activities permit, he is en- spring. gaged in the real estate and insurance on the main business. Those other, outside duties? Well, he is a member of the Alameda rarrsTetrleUo; inVur selective service board, the rationing services em. that sells and board, a member of the Rotary Club, ommunltion >Whot to do with the Elks and other organizations, and some folks talk "FromZ \ the way ^^.^^ when a special local campaign is under -bout stus'tuffthathadtobe way, you will generally find Al Mathebat was some-""XTedelicate as a member of the committee or, more coddled. I ^""^"fjjisel .Many's care of " myse\ take the best likely, as its chairman. hung up a wet the time I've Ruth, early convinced of the splendid bordered' ou^t right work the Auxiliary was accomplishing, Itrv^ ammun^^^^^^^^^^^^ has been devoting most of her time to -:it^a> later, all right " ^^^^nition its activities since she first became a been member. Her career of ^/'ff pockets. The i'"^''"^"' service has been out of the £« IS to continuous and is too well-known to thing to remember in a cool, ary y report in detail. Her enthusiastic sup- munition port of its program soon gained her Department and eventually National recognition. Her year of service as Unit President Factory stocks of sporting arms and ammunition are in '26 was followed by re-election for a second term. In 1927, she filled the of- exhausted. So, for the present, conserve what you have! fice of County Council President, in 1928 as Department Executive Committee- HOUGH modern firearms and am- Remington Aids for Gun Care — Ask your woman, T the following two years as De- munition are made to withstand a local Remington dealer for Remington partment Rehabilitation Chairman. Then reasonable amount of severe treatment, Oil, Grease, Rust Remover or Powder came her election to the office of Area they can be ruined by neglect. Solvent. Remington Oil contains President, followed by a term as De- So with "make it last" a more im- Du Pont Extreme Pressure Lubricant partment Vice President, during which portant habit today than ever before, for lasting adhesiveness and film she served also as Department Mem- offering advice strength. Remington Gun Grease gives bership Chairman, and later as Depart- "Old Hank" is some on an effective protective coating when ment Legislative Chairman. In 1936 she the care of guns and ammunition which laying a gun away for time. received the honor of election to the you may find helpful. some Presidency of the Department Use Remington Rust Remover to of Wor Salvage Notes — Save your empty California. clean off rust spots before applying oil shot shell heads and cartridge cases, In 1937 began a long term of service or grease. Remington Powder Solvent and turn them in to your local scrap in National appointments. While serving removes powder residue from the bore collection agencies. They con- as National Child Welfare metal Chairman, or action of rifles, shotguns or pistols. tain salvageable brass. Save waterfowl she also represented California on the Remington Arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. National Executive Committee, followed feathers (up to iVz inches), and the by a year as National Vice Chairman of down, for use in servicemen's cold- Child Welfare. At the National Conven- resistant coats. Save excess animal fats tion in Chicago in she was elected for use in making explosives. And save Remington. 1939, National Vice President for the Western hides, too. Contribute them to the war Division. During the year 1940-1941, she effort through local channels They're was National Chairman of National De- useful in making certain types of serv- fense and for the year immediately *Reg. U. S. Pal. Off. bv Remington Arms icemen's clothing. Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. preceding her election as National Presi-

MARCH, IQ43 41 When Answering Advertisements Ple/se Mention The American Legion Magazine dent, served as Chairman of the National city's Social Service Board on a six-year war program she will direct this year. RehabiHtation Committee. appointment. So, well may her adopted State of That record of service apparently In spare moments, evidently, she de- California. would occupy any woman's full time, so voted much time to the Chairmanship There is no lack of humility in Ruth this reporter was amazed when he of Alameda's Hospitality House for men Mathebat's nature. In thanking the con- learned of the numerous other duties in service, for which she obtained the vention for the honor bestowed upon her, Ruth Mathebat has so successfully ful- use of the clubhouse of the Adelphian she voiced these words: "Never have I filled for her community and for her Club, the women's club of her city, of contemplated this moment without awe. State. which she is an active member; also as To be National President, leading more Only a partial recital of these activities a director of the Little Theater Group; than 9,000 Units scattered over the will be attempted. She served as Di- an active member of the Church Guild; length and breadth of this great country rector of the Alameda Red Cross Chap- a director of the Community Council of of ours and overflowing into the terri- ter and chairman of the Red Cross Alameda, and was appointed a delegate tories, is a rare privilege to come to War Fund Drive, which was greatly to the California Conference of Social any American woman. I fully realize the oversubscribed; was a member of the Workers for a six-year term. responsibility and the challenge pre- Defense Committee of the Chamber of Those high ranges and plateaus of sented today, and I am sure that with Commerce, a member of the San Fran- Nevada in our mountainous West can Divine guidance and with the undivided cisco World's Fair Advisory Committee; well be proud of this remarkable woman, cooperation of every member of the chairman of the Alameda Aluminum Ruth Mathebat, who will prove an in- American Legion Auxiliary, there isn't Drive, which broke all comparative rec- spiration to the tens of thousands of any task that is too great, any challenge ords in the State; a member of her patriotic women in the Auxiliary whose we cannot meet."

VICTORY: ON FROM THERE

(Continued from page 14) tection for the individual through trial Secondly, the peace treaty must pro- feudalism, all based on a single ruthless, by one's peers in open court as guar- vide economic international stability uncontrolled party, a vampire feeding anteed by the Constitution, rather than free of government domination. There on the blood of slaves. through secret hearings or under ad- must be a revival and healthy expansion ministrative edicts promulgated by bu- of international trade and finance with IN FRANCE when the two-party reaucrats without legislative or con- security of contracts and investments system fell victim to pressure groups stitutional authority. guaranteed and enforced by the inter- (of the type now so active in the United Finally, Constitutional Democracy national Court of Justice. There must be States), each clique completely protag- holds an attribute of the spirit—toler- a return to sanity among the nations onistic and contemptuous of the general ance for the rights and opinions of with respect to restrictions on interna- welfare, her doom was at hand. The con- others. It aims to eliminate rather than tional trade, embargoes, tariffs, import sequence of pressure groups is inevitable to foment discriminations and class or quotas, competitive subsidies, etc. These —a weak coalition of governments with- racial hatreds. It assures recognition of in recent years have reduced world trade in government, compromising national the innate dignity of all individuals as to the lowest level of the past century, issues without regard to principle and masters rather than slaves of the state. each nation seeking to become self- leading ultimately to anarchy and self- Within the framework of Constitu- sufficient at the expense of most of destruction. tional Democracy, the post-war era can the others. Constitutional Democracy requires a become the greatest period of prosperity All trade discriminations and pref- finely-balanced division of powers be- ever conceived. Properly organized, it erences must be eliminated. Access to tween legislative, executive and judicial can mean economic security for the raw materials must be on equal terms branches of government, each perform- individual as well as a permanent world to all nations. Gold must be re-estab- ing its constitutional duties and rigor- peace. lished as a basis for international ex- ously respecting the functions of the The first requisite is an international change and payments to replace barter others. When Congress becomes a rubber organization, not a world state, which which, though resorted to on a large stamp for the executive, whether a would be impractical. This organization, scale in recent years, is merely a clumsy Lenin, a Mussolini, or a Hitler, under as agent of the victorious United Na- device of primitive societies. The vari- the guise of popular demand or war tions, would be limited in its functions ous currencies of the world must again

necessity, representative government is to the preservation of world peace be based upon gold if there is to be gone. through an international police force any degree of stability in the internal Constitutional Democracy necessitates and the establishment of an international economics of the nations and if govern- an independent judiciary led by a cour- court of arbitration. Those agencies, by ments are to be prevented from peri- ageous, uncompromising Supreme Court, policing the air and sea lanes, enforcing odically defrauding their peoples and uninfluenced by legislative, executive, rigid limitations on national military, their creditors through currency manipu- or popular pressures. It means a court naval, and air forces and production of lations. pledged to measure every Act of war materiel, supported financially by Governments, as such, must be elimi- Congress or the executive branch of all the nations, could prevent war even nated from all international trade and government against the Constitution if it should mean an enforced peace for finance. If they continue their present and to nullify those actions contraven- many years. monopolies and domination of inter- ing that yardstick of freedom. Once a Adequate provision must of course be national trade they will merely be couri yields its independence, dictator- made for the ultimate re-admission of working for bigger and better wars.

ship is only a question of time. the Axis powers into the family of na- Commercial disputes can be settled be- The essence of Constitutional Democ- tions. Such a program would greatly tween private corporations or individuals racy is rule of law, rather than arbi- reduce the huge expenditures of the by agreement, at law, or by arbitration, trary discretion with one standard for past for armaments, thereby releasing but differences between governments one man or group and another for untold billions of dollars for rehabili- can too readily move directly into armed others. It signifies equality of each tation, debt and tax reduction, and for conflict. Furthermore, no government citizen before the law. It provides pro- the greater social security of all peoples. can control the foreign trade of its

42 Tlu- AMERICAN LEGION Magazine people without likewise dominating its revision of our attitude toward imports. democratic processes; scrapping of ail internal trade. No nation can func- Exports can be paid for in the long dictatorial war controls; unshackling of tion for long half totalitarian, half free run only in goods and services. We capital, management, land, and labor; in its economy. Nor can governments must, therefore, be prepared to pur- a return to unity of purpose and team- be allowed to monopolize or dominate chase from the rest of the world as work between management and labor; international finance for the same rea- much in dollar value as we sell abroad. re-establishment of free competitive sons. The function of government Also, if we lend money abroad, we markets; restoration of freedom of should be to regulate, not control, the can be repaid only by excess of im- production and investment. Problems flow of loans and investments between ports over our exports. Consequently, ahead will be tremendous even under nations. Governments should guarantee one of the greatest issues in our post- a free economy regulated to prevent free movement of goods and money, war economics will be whether labor, abuse. But without the return of eco- sanctity of contracts and investments, agriculture, and capital are prepared to nomic freedom, the dead hand of dic- free from repudiation, confiscation, dis- accept imports as payment for our own tatorship will destroy both our liberties crimination, and exploitation. exports and for our present or future and the foundation of economic progress. The huge savings of the United States investments or loans abroad. In the Properly organized under a free econ- and the bulk of the world's gold supply, past no one of them has been willing. omy, we in the United States, with now stored in this country, both of Ultimately, it will be far better for or without the unlimited pcssibilities which have been sterilized for the past us and the world if we will take from of foreign trade, can by the proper decade, can then be safely put to work abroad those things which other coun- attitudes of government, use our greatly rehabilitating the world, developing the tries can produce more cheaply while expanded production capacity and our resources of the undeveloped areas, and we concentrate on products which we magnificent labor force to assure full raising the living standards of other can produce more efficiently. The in- employment for everyone. The huge peoples to that of the United States. terim period of adjustment here will backlog of purchasing power, the tre-

This can be done, however, only by in- be difficult and it is far from certain mendous accumulation of war-stifled creasing the productivity of such areas. that the three great pressure groups will demand for consumer goods, lower costs

Thus their purchasing power for our permit it. and lower prices based thereon result- own exports will be increased, thereby Nevertheless, the United States can ing from expanded plant capacity and assuring us of foreign markets on a look forward to undreamed of pros- new technological processes arising out scale never before contemplated and perity, if properly organized to take of the war emergency, will provide full employing millions of our working men advantage of its tremendous resources, employment, good wages, reasonable and women. Without such international its billions of idle savings, and its mag- hours, and a higher living standard. outlets, the United States will be nificent and highly skilled working New industries will arise, producing largely limited to its own internal de- force. new products and better qualities of velopment. To make this possible there must be old products at lower prices. For ex- Such expanded trade will require a a prompt and complete return to ample, we can expect a better car.

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cheaper in maintenance, at half the well over $100 billion. When the $300 national income to approach the $200 price of 1939. We can look forward billion mark is reached, our national billion figure. to every family owning a plane at a debt will nearly equal our entire national Two principles are vital, however— cost of $1,000 or less. wealth. the return to sound fiscal policy and By lower prices based on constantly National debts can be repudiated, in- re-acceptance of the doctrine that only lowering costs, as technology functions, flated out, or taxed away. Germany, through increased production can there we shall be constantly tapping the pur- Russia, and Italy, following the last be more to distribute among all the chasing power of lower-income groups war, took the course of inflation and people. The concept that government at home and abroad, raising their repudiation, thereby destroying the sav- can spend without regard to the size standards of living and guaranteeing ings of the middle class. Communism, of the national debt is suicide. If that by their purchases steady and full em- naziism, and fascism were the direct doctrine be sound, why did Russia and ployment for all. Imagine the effect on consequences. Germany suffer financial bankruptcy, the employment here if the Southern Negro, Repudiation or inflation in the United forerunner of communism and fascism? the Chinese coolie, or the Indian peasant States would destroy our own middle Redistribution of existing wealth merely could buy a Ford car at $250, or if they class. Both are cowardly expedients reduces all to a pauper level. could buy three nightshirts per year which every government knoWs spell By cooperation between labor and instead of one! On the other hand, with totalitarianism. management, farmer and consumer, by each rise in price some income group The United States can redeem a $300 government encouraging production must reduce its purchases with resulting billion debt if it has the moral fibre and rather than restricting it, by returning reduced employment and lower living integrity to do so. If it does not, fascism government to its proper function of standards. Those who say America has or communism are inevitable. What is regulator and umpire, we can be sure reached her maturity, lost her frontiers, required is to inspire private initiative, that our tremendous savings, resources, and has become a static nation are instill public confidence in the integrity and manpower, with individual initiative sheer defeatists. America's frontiers are of purpose of the Government to redeem stimulated by proper incentives, will unlimited — the frontiers of Science. the debt over a period of 50 or 100 create a future America greater by far Technology, under the competitive sys- years, and maintain a national income than the dream of our forefathers. tem of individual initiative, will in above the $100 billion level annually. What great obligation today rests time assure every man and woman in In the past ten years, government upon us the people of these United the United States a decent living stand- in the United States—town, state and States! To preserve our great heritage ard and adequate social security against federal—has taken 25 percent of the and transmit it, unblemished and secure, unemployment and old age under a work national income in taxes. If that rate to future generations is our responsibility week of thirty to twenty hours. is applied to a national income of $100 and ours alone. No court, no Congress, The greatest danger to this vision billion or more in the future, we can no President, nor all of them can or lies in potential bankruptcy rising out service the interest on this huge debt, will save our fundamental liberties un- of our gigantic national debt estimated reduce it annually by $5 billion, con- less every one of us is eternally watch- at $300 billion if the war continues tinue all the other proper functions of ful and prepared to sacrifice all to another two years. No solvent nation government and be free of it in 60 to retain them. has ever gone totalitarian. 100 years. The job can be done without It is only by keeping freedom alive Let us look at facts: In 1914 our too heavy a tax burden. and vigorous within America that we debt was $1 billion. The First World From 1914 to 1929, a mere 15 years, can be sure of winning the war and War raised it to $22 billion. By 1929 a free economy in the United States maintaining that proud, high place it was reduced to $17 billion. The de- raised the national income from $38 America has set for herself—the hope pression years of relief and deficit spend- billion to $85 billion. Over the next 50 and guide for free men and women ing raised it to $45 billion. It is now years we can reasonably expect the throughout the world.

THE NEXT TIME WE SEE PARIS

(Continued from page g) striking. The horse was lamentably old, charm of lacking malice. One evening care what is in your trunk; I know meager and feeble, and so was the I sat at an outdoor table of a cafe on only that if you say another word to tatterdemalion cabman in his dented the Boul' Miche and watched a fat me I am insane! Quick! Take it away. glazed hat, patched blue coat with some old woman close up her sidewalk news- Quick! Quick! And for the love of God of the brass buttons gone and his stained paper stand for the night. The stand don't speak!" red waistcoat. The faded upholstery was only a small sort of clotheshorse A few afternoons later I had another upon which I leaned was torn, exposing upon which hung the papers; she folded sample, still well remembered. I'd been the stuffing, and shreds of moth-eaten the whole thing up, carried it under to a Tea, polyglot but of high fashion, cloth hung desolately toward the pave- one arm, and under the other tucked and probably in all Paris there was no ment. the folding camp-stool upon which she'd more dressed-up young man than I As we crossed the Place de la Con- sat. As she waddled away, enormous, silk hat, London frock coat, white waist- corde we passed close to a group of grossly triple-chinned, bushy-browed and coat, striped trousers, spats, pale suede workmen returning from their day's toil, plainly ill-tempered, she was seized by gloves, gold-topped cane, pearl scarf- and at sight of us they all brightened a fit of sneezings, coughings, chokings pin embedded in satin. I walked a block up visibly. The foremost of them, as and snortings, all so sonorous that she before I could find a public vehicle and we slowly came abreast of them, halted, had the attention of everybody in sight. then unobservantly stepped into what bowed low, humbly swept the ground One of the passers-by, a shabby man was surely the most disreputable one in with his cap and in a voice of burlesqued with a large wet moustache and a France. awe saluted me with one magnificent bulbous nose, immediately turned back !" It was of a type now almost completely word: " Monseigneiir and knelt on the sidewalk before her, disappeared, a one-horse open carriage Perhaps in most of the Parisian humor extended his right arm and offered her like a Victoria and with the top down that we then knew there was likely to an unbelievably dirty handkerchief. so that I, in my fineries, sat fully ex- be mockery; but nearly always the fun "Madame! Madame!" he said. "I beg hibited; the contrast must have been was for fun's sake only and had the to assist you with my own scented

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mouchoir of the finest cambric. Do me the great honor to employ it to blow your— Furiously, she struck at him with her camp-stool, and the exertion increased the explosiveness of her sneezings and chokings. He ducked backward, leaped up, retired ten feet, knelt again, and again proffered the handkerchief. "Dear Grandmother of my soul!" he begged. "Do not excite yourself. Be calm! Tranquillity is a treasure. I offer my handkerchief in amity; yes, for It takes power to attack . . . love alone. Accept it; let it help you. all- I entreat — out, co-ordinated striking power She advanced upon him, swinging at of thoroughly trained fighting men him with her camp-stool, and he, evad- and dependably powered war ing, again retreated, only to fall once machines. For over forty years more upon his knees and beseech her to Continental has specialized in the use his unspeakable handkerchief. This production of power. Today the time as she W&ddlingly charged upon all-out facilities him, the flailing camp-stool missed his of the expanding nose by less than an inch; he sprang up, Continental plants and the zealous kissed his hand to her ardently, ran teamwork of Continental workers down the Boul' Miche and disappeared are co-ordinated in the produc- in the pedestrian crowd. tion of Continental Red Seal Out of sheer altruism he had made Engines fti^t a''^ in action on every his little comedy for the entertainment front . . . including our farms, oil of cafe patrons who have never set fields, and industry. eyes upon him again. He was that sort of man, one delighting to exert himself Your Dollars Power, too — for an audience of strangers and deriving are d. profound inner satisfaction from his Boy War thought that perhaps he had a little brightened for them a passing moment. We who "settled down" in Paris from time to time, for longer or shorter in- tervals, collected such vignettes by the dozen; they seemed to be the spicy seasoning that made the exterior life of the city so gayly fascinating that one could watch it hour after hour and never tire. So did the Parisians them- selves watch their own manifestations, hoping always, I thought, that they could somewhere find a joke in almost anything — even when the thing was grim. Once from a balcony of an apart- ment I had close by the Luxembourg I watched a Parisian mob. This was a tremendous riot and the newspapers said that two hundred thousand people took part in it. I didn't count them; but I thought there must be at least that many in the streets leading to the Pantheon, as Zola's body was borne by to his great catafalque there. Within easy sight of my balcony was a police station whither gendarmes, agents de ville and plainclothes men conducted a steady stream of rioters—people in contortions of passion screeching "Con- spuez Zola!" or "Conspuez I'armee!" I descended, mixed with the crowds and discovered that of the two hundred thousand people supposedly rioting, at least one hundred and ninety-nine thou- sand were present in order to laugh. Perhaps about a thousand were making all the trouble; but the instant that rontinenfal Motors rorporation one of these uttered the word "Con- spuez!" loudly enough to be heard by MUSKEGON. MICHIGAN a policeman he was arrested and hustled

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The Chairman Comments on Some Candid

Questions About Your Red Cross . .

At the head of the greatest humanitarian organization that the world has ever seen is Norman Davis, lawyer, industrialist and statesman. Appointed by the President of the United States to meet the tremendous problems of world-wide war relief, he works with quiet energy to raise and spend the millions that the public gives each year.

1. Yes, the sums that we ask of the public are large in spite of the fact that 95% of the labor involved is volunteered. But the necessities of world relief and our Con- gressionally authorized obligations to the Armed Services justify every dollar of expense. 3. No, it's not a complex or top-heavy Over forty million dollars spent since organization. In Washington, eighteen of last January for services to the Army and us through the Central Committee are the Navy, increasing as the armed forces in- plan board. The Chairman, and five repre- crease, and the war fronts multiply. And sentatives of Government Departments are the increase is just as rapid in the require- appointed by The President. The others ments of Foreign Relief and Home Service. 2. Perhaps it's your fault if you haven't are elected and Chapters have full repre- "seen the figures." We publish them as fast sentation. The Central Committee creates as the War Department auditors can give policies and plans the adoption and opera- them to us, and if you haven't happened to tion of which is entirely in the hands of

see them as published, your local Chapter the Chapters. There is every safeguard to ha^ them for your inspection. keep the Red Cross democratic.

A Peoples^ Partnership

i^o many of us are in it, all over the trucking, car-loading and shipping. Of country in little towns and big cities. tons and tons of food and clothing and Business men working shoulder-to- medical supplies, and of personnel and shoulder on Chapter operations. organization to get it all to where it is Housewives taking hours from home needed in time to be of the greatest good. in the production rooms. Women who "Big business" in the best meaning volunteer for Nurse's Aide or Motor of the term and it is such business and

Corps or Canteen Work. the man power that goes with it that 4. All the questions that you can think of And a reserve coming up of millions has nearly absorbed the millions that about Red Cross get answered very quickly of school children in the Junior Red you gave to the Red Cross War Fund when you're in the work itself. You com- Cross. a year ago— every penny of it went to mence to realize what a tremendous army And that is just the home front. Out the needs of war. of good will the Red Cross is and what a over the world stretches the "big busi- ness" of Cross relief. big part it is playing in making this poor administering Red And now another War Fund must be old world a little better place to live in. It is still the people's business, made collected. The President of the United There are many ways for you to help. possible with their money, and their States has designated March as the Red Your chapter welcomes volunteers. good will. A business of warehousing. Cross month. Your Chapter needs your help.

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46 The AMERICAN LEGION Magaiint away to the high delight of onlookers if Paris must see any harsh revenges The departed Nazis, and perhaps sub- admirably and almost unanimously im- at all these will be done upon the enemy. sequent political ulcers, will long leave partial. The citizens will not recover instantly scars; but scars are the signs of wounds However, a multitudinous agitation from the pressure of Teutonic rule. Gay- that after all have healed. Neither Hitler was presently observable about the great heartedness cannot be expected as nor internal politics will have been fatal building of the Pantheon where there customary immediately after the first to Paris or to the Parisians. Time in a had just been an attempt to assassinate joy of liberation has subsided. When the conquered city seems endless; but Paris the historic Dreyfus as he stood beside celebration's over we shall look for a has never stayed conquered. The Axis the catafalque of Zola! In the midst time upon a saddened city. Here was creaks—sounds preliminary to a vast of the ceremonies he'd been shot by the "shopping center" of the world, cracking—and all that is best and (praise a retired Colonel, and a heavily guarded especially for women, and what will the God ! ) strongest in this world has sworn ambulance galloped him away to a Germans leave in the shops? Unhappy that the captive's chains shall be broken. hospital. Were the hundred and ninety- thought, what will the Germans leave in The hour of freedom is almost at hand; nine thousand sobered? They were not. the hearts of their former captives? the day of glory shall arrive! The retired Colonel had shot Dreyfus on the wrist with a wax bullet, causing a slight burn. The retired Colonel ex- plained that he did it as a gesture. Laughter shook that whole quarter of the city. We who saw and heard this mob began to understand better what propor- tion of the populace made the French Revolution and also to comprehend why Soldier the Parisians cheered the Czar Alexander when he entered the city as Napoleon fell in 1 814. They knew that Alexander brought them peace. These people some- of Service times produce a violent disturber, though more often such a person has foisted himself upon them; but characteristi- "The Voice with the Smile" cally they are amiable, not bloody. This has always been a part of the is true in spite of the fact that Paris has been a place where French have telephone business and we slain French, and we recall Victor Hugo's want to keep it that way. word upon Ney in the last moments of Even under the stress of Waterloo, how the hero shouted, "Come war, the and women of and see how a Marshal of France dies men on the field of battle!" He didn't die the Bell System are as anxious there but was imprisoned in the Lux- as ever to see that you get embourg and led out to a firing squad. friendly, courteous service.

"Unhappy man ! Thou wast reserved And they are anxious, too, to for French bullets!" give the fastest possible ser- To-day in this year of culminations, 1943, we hope fervently that no French vice — especially to those who are reserved for French bullets and that need speed to help win the war.

You can help them by not For God and Country, roe asso- using Long Distance to war- ciate ourselves together for the busy centers unless it is joUowing purposes: To uphold abso- and defend the Constitution of lutely necessary. For all your the United States of America; to patience and understanding so maintain law and order; to foster far, many thanks. and perpetuate a one hxnidred percent Americanism; to pre- seme the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War: to inculcate a sense of in- dividual obligation to the com- munity, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses: to make right the master of ynight: to promote peace arid good luill on earth: to safeguard and trans- mit to posterity the principles of WAR CAM. I, S ff ^ justice, freedo7n and democracy: COME FIRST to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM mutual helpfulness. — Preamble TO THE Constitution of The American Legion.

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DOUBLE DANGER SOLDIER'S No. 1 PAL

(Continued from page 7) if it cannot be performed because of TO FALSE TEETH the right to assistance. An elderly aunt an undissolved prior marriage. A woman may be a more deserving recipient of in the position of a common-law wife aid in one case than is a soldier's may be aided even though the State IN BRUSHING mother in another. A soldier may worry where the dependent resides does not WITH MAKESHIFT CLEANERS about a married daughter who is in recognize common-law marriages. Il- need even though the primary burden legitimate children are entitled to as-

of supporting her rests upon her husband. sistance if (a) recog- ^ed by the soldier Each case rests upon its own facts, and as such, or (b) paternity can otherwise each deserving applicant should receive be established." assistance if either dependency or in- As I recall the travel orders that I

timate family relationship is estab- received in 191 7 and 191 8, No. 2 said: lished." "The travel directed is necessary in the I hereby give the General a citation military service." I asked a traveling for decency, and special ribbon for this: soldier the other day whether that still "Many cases will be encountered in prevailed. "Nope," he said, "Everything " which soldiers are estranged, separated, is abbreviated. It'r now 'T.N.M.' or divorced from their wives. Such per- And in the AER, the red tape is

sons, if deserving, should receive as- not merely abbreviated. It just ain't sistance regardless of the wishes of the there at all. The Army Emergency soldier. Many factors such as ability Relief is founded on common sense, one to be self-supporting, alimony limita- of whose principles is that emotion is a BREAKING tions, and remarriage, will affect the sounder guide than reason. amount of assistance to be extended Why enlarge on it here? Ask, and it The more you handle your dental plate'while such persons. with given. That's all is brushing it, the greater the danger of dropping to ... A woman shall be there to it. and breaking it. Millions of experienced den- whom the soldier has lived and who has Editor's Note—Applicants for Army ture wearers have changed from dangerous, been treated by him as a wife is en- Emergency Relief services should ap- old-fashioned brushing methods to the modern titled to assistance although no marriage Way of soaking the plate in Polident. ply at the Army Camp nearest their ceremony has been performed or even home. ^ WEARING DOWN / / Toothpastes, toothpowders, soap and household cleaners are onjy "make- shifts" when it comes to cleaning dental FUSTEST WITH THE MOSTEST plates—which are much softer than natural teeth. Brushing with "makeshifts" may scratch and wear down dental plates. Also, these scratch- {Continued from page 13) were transported as well as some 1,400 es cause stains to collect faster, cling tighter. runs, from each one rolled a jeep under tons of supplies, equipment and ammu- its own power, rapidly followed by armed nition. men. The tug ships disgorged more It was a long, tough grind. Loadings supplies, picked up their empty trailers and take-offs were scheduled far in ad- and were gone as suddenly as they had vance of sun-up. The day's work of appeared. flying did not end until long after sun- Fourth and final phase was the evacu- down. Load, take-off, fly more than 100 ation of casualties—stretcher cases and miles at almost tree-level; unload, take- walking patients alike—and, ultimately, off, fly back—the dizzy, squirrel-cage the complete evacuation of remaining pattern was repeated day in and day personnel and equipment. out. Men and machines were taxed to Three main problems were carried the limit. Both stood up incredibly well. out. Each time the execution showed The stamina of the young pilots who marked improvement. It was a new, rug- did the job commands respect. Flying DO THIS ged assignment—a potentially powerful was carried on under varying weather EVERY DAY! threat to the enemy and utterly con- conditions, including winds up to 35 suming in the interest it held. The par- and 40 miles per hour, at low altitudes Put one level teaspoonful of POLIDENT in ticipants in this drama of warfare-to-be over rough terrain, and frequently in y-2, glass of lukewarm water. Stir briskly. Place plate or bridge in solution for 15 min.or longer little dreamed that within a fortnight of darkness. Yet not a pound of equipment —overnight if convenient. Rinse well—and use. the conclusion of their maneuvers, the was lost, not a man was injured! PREVENTS "DENTURE BREATH" lessons learned so well in the mesquite Luck played a part, admittedly. But You won't know you have it hut others will! of Texas were to be applied by partners the coolness of the pilots and the sturdi- POLIDENT, used regularly, dissolves film in in grim actuality on the sands ness of the big "tin geese" they flew leaves plates odor-free, sweet. arms Daily use of Polident maintains the original of Africa. was demonstrated time after time. There natural appearance of your denture. Polident The box score of the Texas exercises is the case, for instance, of the ship is recommended by many leading dentists. Af)- proved by leading mfrs. of denture material. is something with which to reckon. In with a badly damaged wing. Dawn had LESS THAN A PENNY A DAY terms of actual flying, only seven days not broken when the pilot radioed: were consumed during the three prob- "Forced landing" and set down his Generous 3 oz. size—30^, Economy size, 7 oz. —60^. At all drug, department, variety stores. lems. Yet these time-tried and proved heavily laden craft in a strange field. Less than Iji a day for safe cleaning of dentures. airline-type planes made 1,100 round Again, there was the airplane which trips from departure fields to objective got out of control when caught in a airports. In the process they sped more cross wind on a take-off. The pilot did POLIDCnT than 337,000 miles—a distance equal a sweet job of skidding it across a The Safe, Modern Way to almost 14 laps around the earth at couple of ditches, through a shack and to Clean Plates and Bridges the Equator. Upward of 14,000 men stopping it upright three-quarters of a

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mile from the field. Pilot, co-pilot, crew- mand. At the present time, airfields in Ofiicer, Weather Ofiicer, Chaplain, Medi- men and airborne troops immediately this country operated by the Troop cal Ofiker, Adjutant General, Staff Judge requested another ship. When it was Carriers are situated in ten States: Advocate, Inspector Generai, Finance produced they flew off as though noth- Georgia. Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Officer, Fiscal Officer, Special Services ing had happened. They made their Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Officer, Quartermaster, Engineering Offi- objective, too, even if they were a little Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. cer, Signal Officer. Each Wing comman- off schedule. der has a general staff similar to the Yes, there were close calls. Nobody Command Staff and a more limited spe- can make i,ioo round trips without a cial staff. few uncomfortable minutes. But not a Each of the group commanders like- soul was hurt; and therein is a flying wise has a staff similar to a Wing Staff story for the history book. except that the special staff is limited to Chaplain, Medical, Communications, UNDER the leadership of Brigadier and Transportation. Each Squadron General Fred S. Borum, the First Commander has a small staff. Troop Carrier Command—charged with Squadrons are the basic tactical units. the responsibility of transporting by On their rosters are to be found the air fighting men and their weapons and pilots, ground officers, and especially supplies in the theaters of operations trained enlisted men required by combat quietly has gone about its business of units. To each tactical squadron are training units and making them avail- assigned thirteen Douglas D-3 type able to overseas commanders. Basically, aircraft, very similar to the large twin the Command is composed of a com- engine ships employed on commercial mand headquarters and headquarters airlines in the United States. Two types squadron; wings, normally containing are used by the Troop Carrier Command, four groups; and squadrons, approx- designated by the Army as C-47 aircraft imately four to each group. and C-53 aircraft. Structural differences The chain of command is from Com- The First Troop Carrier Command between them are slight, although the mand to Wing to Group to Squadron. has its headquarters at Stout Field, In- C-47 is designed to haul both troops and In addition, each base assigned to the dianapolis, Indiana. The Commanding equipment whereas the C-53 is intended

Troop Carrier Command is operated by General is advised by his General Staff for the transportation of troops only. a base headquarters and headquarters A-i Personnel, A-2 Intelligence, A-3 In addition to the aircraft, 39 gliders squadron, which are part of the Troop Operations and Training, A-4 Supply for the transport of both troops and Carrier Command so long as the air- and by his Special Staff: Chemical Of- equipment, are standard for the squad- fields operated are used by the Com- ficer, Communications Officer, Ordnance rons.

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YOURS FOR TASTE (^Continued jrom page i) occupied countries wonder about those

instance, when a Greek wanted, say, they left behind . . , wonder if death,

some razor blades, he'd go to the British carnage, rape, homelessness or what it SATISFACTION steward who looked after the "slop may be that Fate has dealt them. Yet chest" and make signs. On another oc- courageously these men carry on, but casion, in an Icelandic fjord, a Brazilian there must be deep-rooted hate against was with the solitary Finn on a raft the aggressor nations in the hearts of insecurely fastened to the side of the most of them. Occasionally word seeps vessel during painting operations. Neither through kindly Red Cross channels and knew a word of the other's language. a deep content pervades the recipient One of the sudden and violent windy of good news—though it may be six storms typical of the area came up and months old for it takes time to get any the raft started to drift away from the message through—and soon again there ship. The chief officer chanced to see is the unspoken question in their eyes. what was happening. Knowing neither Men under such tension are apt to be Brazilian nor Finnish, he gesticulated and jumpy, irrespective of their nationality, bellowed at them in Norwegian-English. and with the various groups confined in The dismay and wonder passed from a small space for days or weeks on end their faces almost immediately for they, anything can happen. National customs too, realized what was amiss and between are strongly implanted in us and once the three nationalities the difficulty was in a while there is a flare up—but it's

soon overcome . . . but not without all in the day's work. No matter what

its thrilling moments . . . and the the dangers, and they are very real, overcoming of difficulties seems almost there is an esprit de corps among them miraculous among such extremely cosmo- all that typifies the same spirit that politan crowds as are found on these knits your own American Legionnaires vessels. together into one whole body, with one Perhaps the greatest tragedies go on purpose in view. U-boats, dive-bombing, Enjoy Life with in the minds of those on lonely watch mines, the hazards of the sea, or personal in the still, small hours. Going up on grievances all give place to the effort

the bridge and into the chart room at of the United Nations . . . the cargoes 3 A.M. I often surprised a faraway look viust go through. Such is the personal in the second mate's eyes, would see a courage and tenacity of most of these tightening of the throat muscles, and I men of the United Nations who go knew he was thinking of his home that down to the sea in ships that the Cause

had been, wondering if his family had is bigger than themselves, bigger than fallen prey to the Nazis or had been anything else. We nmst win. We will HIGH LIFE killed. All of those who come from win. DRAFT BEER CONVOYS OF COURAGE THE SAME CONSISTENT (Continued from page ig) .50-caliber machinegun. A moment later HIGH LIFE QUALITY A veteran of the First World War he knew the thrill of knocking a Nazi told me how he took another crack at plane out of the sky. the Germans in this war' "The Hun started giving off smoke,"' If any living man can tell you about he said, "and then it went flaming over

bombings at sea it is Carl Kirstein, 53, our ship into the drink. But before it of Billings, Montana. During a run to crashed the pilot had dropped an egg Archangel his ship was pounded under near my gun position." 192 concentrated bombings in less than Blown by the concussion, Kirstein eight days. That attack began in typical regained consciousness 60 feet away, fashion. where he was jammed under a lifeboat. First, a big observation plane spotted Limping back to his gun position, he the convoy. Some of the boys call those managed to bag four more Nazi planes planes "vultures," because when they in the next 48 hours. once find a convoy they never leave He had little love for the Germans

it. Out of firing range, the plane hovers in the last war, and this is how much overhead, counting the number of ships he loves them now: !"' and sending locations back to bases. "The Huns are lousy • And when the bombing is over the big he told your reporter, who has seen only "vulture"' is still there to count the toll. Japs. "A ship near ours sank. About "We were about 175 miles off the 20 of her crew huddled in a lifeboat coast of Norway," Kirstein said. "The waiting for a rescue ship to come along. 'vulture' appeared about 8 a.m., and I saw a Messerschmitt, its guns blast- exactly 50 minutes later all hell broke ing away, come in low and mow down loose. German planes came in." all 20 of those helpless seamen. And I Kirstein, a weather-beaten carpenter's saw the same thing happen to many MILLER BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE mate, jumped on the giving-end of a other lifeboats and rafts."

The AMERICAN LEGION Masa-Jne When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine The Germans and Japs must have "We tried to stand up and obey. But His name is Jens Lauritz. The 55- gone to the same school, I told Kirstein. we were too weak. Most of us fell down. year-old engineer was wounded twice in The Nips in the Pacific area are famous Evidently the Germans took pity on the First World War, and those wounds for machinegunning American flyers while us, because they tossed us some food indirectly caused his present condition. they are parachuting from a plane. Lauritz's story is the same pattern, Anyway, Kirstein's ship finally made only the locale was changed; A German Archangel. It was laid up there for about torpedo blasted his ship during the run three months. During that period, he to Murmansk. Lauritz volunteered to said, they were bombed 422 times. stay below in the fireroom—to keep the The ex-doughboy said that he had vessel belching heavy smoke to make the not slept a wink since the night before Nazis think she was afire. that first bombing off Norway. While his shipmates stood off from "But as soon as I get over this bad the ship in lifeboats, Lauritz success- case of 'shakes' I'm going back again," fully worked his ruse two times. But he declared. finally another torpedo crashed into the side. Managing to escape, the World THEN there is a 22-year-old kid from War I veteran was picked up by his Beaumont, Texas, named Sam Beard. mates some time later. On his first convoy, an Italian sub sank The freezing climate aggravated the his ship in the South Atlantic, a few leg wounds he had received in the last hundred miles off Dakar. war. Since the torpedoing Lauritz has Beard found himself, eventually, in and water, and the captain gave us a been in hospitals in Russia, England a lifeboat with 19 other surviving ship- course for land. The next day—the and now he is in California, probably mates. They had little food, and only twenty-third—we were picked up by a never to get well. four ounces of water between them. In British ship." Only recently he was presented with three days they were too weak to row. a Victory Medal by Rear Admiral John So they simply sailed, and guessed SURE, there are as many stories as W. Greenslade, commandant of the directions in the bad weather. there are service men and merchant Twelfth Naval District. . . .

The morning of their twenty-second seamen and war nurses. Some day, if So that's the way it goes, mate. And day afloat, a German sub suddenly sur- you are lucky and have a couple of very soon, now, you'll be going out on faced behind the boat. grandkids, you'll tell them all about another convoy. You've become restless "The dirty so-and-so's trained a deck the heroes you knew in 1943. the few weeks you've been back in the gun on us," Beard related. They came And one man you'll never forget lies States. If you come back from the next alongside, and the sub captain shouted on his back in a Navy hospital at San jaunt maybe you'll have some more 'Attention!" Diego, probably a cripple for life. stories to tell. You can bet on that!

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MARCH, 1Q43 SI Whfn Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine THE LEGION'S BUDGET FOR 1943 SEE FAR AWAY! COMPLIANCE with Convention ican Legion for the year 1943, as pre- Ili^lit now everyone needs a telescope, to identify high fly- IN intr airplanes, foruseat ball games, races, to see people action, the National Finance Com- sented to and adopted by the National far aw ay. And now you can own a really fine 5-power precision made telescope, thanks to this amazing mittee hereby publishes the budget for Executive Committee at its November, close-out offer. Made with genuine ground, pol- led glass lenses, this 5-power telescope brings the National Organization of The Amer- 1942, meeting: airplanes, animals, games, birds, signs and people, which may be beyond the range of the naked eye. into sharp, clear vi- sion. 13 ins. long when extended, collapses to 9 ins. Convenient to REVENUE carry. Special $1.00. Supply Generah is limited. Get yours now. MONEY Dues 0} $1.00 per member $1,100,000.00 $10 Dues prior years TEST 10 DAYS NOT S. A. L. Dues (

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Total Expenditures $1,562,289.57 FALSE TEETH Reserve against Membership 67,410.43 $1,629,700.00 KLUTCH holds them tighter holds dental KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion ; NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE plates so much firmer and snugger that one can eat and talk with greater comfort and security ; in Sam W. Reynolds, Nebraska, Chairman with natural teeth. many cases almost as well as Edgar B. Klutch lessens the constant fear of a dropping, Dunlap, Georgia roeking, chafing plate. 25c and 50c at druggists . John Lewis Smith, District of Columbia If your druggist hasn't it, don*« waste money on substitutes, but send us 10c and we will mail you a generous trial box. © i. p inc KLUTCH CO., Box 30S2-C, ELMIRA. N. Y. New.' VITAMIN Discovery THE SUBSTITUTE BUGLER Re-Colors GRAY HAIR (Continued front page 5) He lay down to a fretful sleep dom- If Your Gray Hair Is Due To Lack of "Anfi-Gray Hair'* Vitamins, Make This Amazing Easy Test back to his present situation. The next inated by a nightmarish dream in which Science now offers a simple, easy natural way that, while too calls to be blown would be First Call First Sergeant Black, the Company new to guarantee 100% results, may restore gray hair (due Com- to vitamin lack) to its original color and beauty sheen, of- for Reveille, Reveille and Assembly. He mander and what appeared to be Stokow- ten seen first at roots, temples and parting. Safe, actually healthful. NOT A DYE. Panates Anti-Gran Hair Vitamins and tried to recall them but ski and his entire Philharmonic are based on research by world-famous scientists. You've hummed Orches- seen anti-gray hair vitamins publicity, especially article without success. If he only had one more tra chased him the length breadth in a leading national magazine about tests on men and and women 20 to 60 years of age. day to practice back there in the ravine of the camp. He was being rapidly over- For All Shades Black, Brown, Auburn, Blonde Different from others, Panates otTers you Anti-Gray Hair at the edge of the reservation. He taken when a member of the Guard Vitamins with Wheat Germ Oil Vitamin E supplement. Panates works internally. Color is literally fed into hair sighed. A few minutes later he arose, shook him to inform him that it was roots in nature's own way. Test for yourself on this SPECIAL TUIALi OKFP:it. Semi pmny postcard secured permission from the Corporal- time to blow First Call for Reveille. He totlay. Ask for either the $1.70 UO-day) FREE supply, the $4.7'J (90-day) supply, or of-the-Guard and went up the company added a gruff reminder that it better be siniiily ii.sk fur free bool

fully. "Well I'll be damned," he mut- tered and rose to dress. The remaining two calls for Reveille were marvelously clear and loud, without a wrong note being sounded in either of them. Better GOOD FOR YOU. than any bugler we've ever had, thought LEMON and WATER IS a m. d Black as he commanded, "Fall in" at the on arising, it has Taken first thing last note of Assembly. for most people effect sufficient With roll-call completed and his re- Lxative suppl.es heoUhful-aids digestion, port made to the company Officer-of-the- And it's bu.Jds res.stance. Day, the First Sergeant sought out Cor- need-^d^ins, poral Swope. "Forget what I said about Benner," he told him, "leave those stripes on him, call off that K. P. detail source They're the only known and look up what technician rating for this simple, Whv not take {citrin) and supply increased pay can be given to a bugler. lemon of Vitamin? natural health drink- of They That guy's good!" valuable amounts place of the Mil- and water-in alkalinize-aid digestion. laxatives? water just usual lions take lemon and the little bugler reached the the WHEN people find that health builder. megaphone he was shaking like Most as a glass ot 1 lemon in a regular with dry leaves on the nearby trees, stir- juice of not keep the on arts- Why taken first thing morning drmk cool winter breeze sweeping water, this refreshing ring in the to insure is all they need health too? Drink the Southern camp. The deep blackness inz, that builds normal elimination- lemon in a glass of early morning at this time of the prompt, the juice of 1 thing on arising- year, added to his apprehension—he gently. of vf^tet first if you don t it 10 days-see hadn't been able to remember even the lemons Build Health! Try start of First Call. He was using his benefit! water \sgood lemon and • Some prefer flashlight now and he felt reassuringly And P S -LEMON & SODA among the half glass water Lemons are 1 lemon in in which he would find the for you. juice of for his book vitamin C, richest sources of with 'A to V2 ««P°°" printed notes of the calls. He withdrew added. Dr.nk as foam restores energy, helps (bicarbonate) shirt front. would be which it from his Now infection ing quiets. resist colds and the test of his plan. He pushed the you catch on his flashlight for a continuous light and secured it in his left sleeve. Opening the book to the page of bugle and WATER calls, he adjusted it in his left hand so LEMON that it was illuminated by the light. All arising ...first thin9 on seemed to be going well. Although his hand felt cramped and awkward he was Fridays determined to hold on until he completed _ Mondays, Wednesdoys, CBS, 6:15 P.M., E,,T. the Duncans the call. He was still trembling, however, "Today at and as he placed the bugle in the mega- phone with his right hand, the book and flashlight slipped from his left and fell Black's. The guy was certainly good. MAJOR GENERAL McDARL, the on the concrete base of the megaphone At the conclusion of Assembly, Ben- division commander, in heavy support. The crash and tinkle of glass ner's benefactor returned the bugle to brown dressing gown, shaving at the rear told its own story—when he recovered him and departed without further re- of his tent, chuckled to himself. "Not the light he found it useless. Tears welled mark. As he did so the bugler received bad, not bad," he said, half aloud. "I'm in his eyes and he suppressed what was the impression that the stranger was not sorry Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard almost a sob. in uniform but in a sort of bathrobe, but Wood aren't alive to hear of this. The At that moment he was aware of he could not be sure in the total dark- kid bugler of the Riders they were al- someone standing beside him and a deep ness. Anyway, this was too fantastic to ways threatening to send home for being but kindly voice said, "Let me have that assume and he was too relieved to dwell under-age. Ha !" He grimaced and rubbed trumpet, lad." A strong hand relieved on the matter. It was probably some a little shaving cream on his sore lips. him of the bugle at the same time. bugler from another outfit sneaking back "But boy, oh boy," he ejaculated, "it's Without hesitation the stranger to camp from an overstayed pass who lucky for me that I've been teaching that sounded and repeated First Call. After didn't want to be identified. Well, he kid grandson of mine to be trumpeter the appropriate interval, the remaining sure had saved the day, and maybe the for the Boy Scouts! I never could have calls for Reveille were blown perfectly. future, thought Benner, and returned to helped that bugler out of his dilemma Benner's reaction to the excellence of the guard tent. without some recent practice. I'd have the calls was the same as Sergeant been worse than he was last night!"

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(Continued from page jo) greeting for all of you, from Captain don't WORRY improvising native dishes such as spiced Jesus Villamor." Whyputupwithyearsof pork or casseroled shrimp. Captain Villamor is the great Fili- needless discomfort and Rice is a mainstay of the Filipino pino hero of this war. He was awarded worry? Try a Brooks Automatic Air Cushion. diet. Since it isn't too popular with the the Congressional Medal of Honor for This marvelous appli- rest of the army, Filipino mess ser- his bravery in the skies over the Philip- ance permits theopening geants spend a good deal of their time pines, and is fighting to close, yet holds reduc- he now with Mac- ible rupture securely, trading potatoes and spaghetti for rice. Arthur in the southwest Pacific. The comfortably—day and The Filipinos boast that theirs is the mention of his name brought a cheer. night. Thousands report amazing results. Light, neat-fitting. No hard pads or stiff springs to chafe best mess in the army. It's quite pos- The colonel held the card high over or gouge. Made for men, women and children. sible they're' right. The former personal his head, and fhe men in the front row Durable, cheap. Sent on trial to prove it. Never Bold in stores. Beware of imitations. Write for chefs of Henry Ford, Leopold Stokow- read it aloucf. The four words of the Free Book on Rupture, no-risk trial order plan ski. General George Marshall and Mae greeting swept back across the rows of and proof of results. Correspondence confidential. West are among the men now turning bareheaded Filipino troops gained mo- BROOKS COMPANY 105-D State St, Marshall. Mich. — out meals for the Pinoys. mentum as it traveled—ended in a TOMBSTONES triumphal shout: DIRECT THE First Filipino Infantry on "See You in Manila!" TO YOU $995 Christmas day asked Colonel Offley That's the slogan of the Filipino in- beautiful • Genuine ROCK- up for a speech. DALE Monuments, Markers. fantry regiments now. Men sign their Satisfaction or Money Back. EASY "Haven't anything to say for myself," letters with it, greet their friends with Free lettering. Free catalog. TERMS he replied, "but here is a Christmas it. It is their hope and their pledge. Freight paid. COMPARE OUR PRICES.

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Need Not Embarrass (Continued from page ig) Company I at the cooks, who either Many wearers of false teeth have suffered One of the 'proudest wearers of Mt. didn't kuQw or had forgotten that Colo- real embarrassment bet-ause their plate Mayon's' insignia is Sergeant Adriano nel Offley has a school in Tagalog for dropped, slipped or wabbled at just the wrong time. Do not live in fear of this hap- Kimayong. He is a Ifugao, member of the officers. Captain Lennon is the pening to you. Just sprinkle a little the Igorot group whose terraced moun- "Inspectingest" man alive, and the com- PASTEETH, the alkaline (non-acid) pow- der, on your plates. Holds false teeth more tain rice fields are a world's engineering pany knows this, all right. Even the firmly, so they feel more comfortable. Does wonder. "Organizer it not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture genius," we Pinoys cooks know now. When Captain Len- breath). Get FASTEEIH at any drug store. call him, as a recognition of his ability non took his papers and other book in taking barombados (greenhorns) and work to the kitchen, got a chair and a teaching them the basic routines of mili- table and spent the day there, the cooks jl^Scratchinq tary life. He sparks up his learning expressed themselves in dialect about It May Cause Infection process with Igorot war psychology, the character of a man who would make Relieve itching caused by eczema, such as substituting for calisthenics drill such a nuisance of himself. Captain Len- € athlete's foot, pimples—other itch- ing troubles. Use cooling, medicated the routine of the bayonet itself, to the non let them go on awhile, then agreed D. D. D. Prescription.Greaseless, stain- less.Calmsitchingfast.35c trial bottle accompaniment of Ifugayo war chants. with them in the dialect! However, proves it—or money back. Ask your Thus he reminds his men that this mili- Company I's record for efficiency, clean- druggist for D. 0. P. Prescription. tary business is only the old game of liness and health tops the regiment, so ^WEATHER head-hunter, made scientific. He has a everybody agrees that Captain Lennon FORECASTER staccato dialect humor that keeps his deserves a special dish of rice. This "tiwiss" Weather House, made in the U.S.A. PREDICTS the WEATHER IN men in stitches. Just five feet two. Ser- As the training of the regiment prog- ADVANCE. Guaranteed to work. When the witch comes out watch for bad weather, geant Kimayong ranks big as a morale resses. Sergeant Kimayong shares the eirl and boy indicate nice weather. Act with amazing accuracy. Has thermometer builder in the First Filipino Infantry. satisfaction of all of us in our increas- on front. Shipped complete ready to use. 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THE MESSAGE instructor right away, and the hikes and can thank The American Legion for standing at attention so long came easy what they did for me, as it comes back to me. I have six bars—expert rifle- to me many times while 1 am resting CENTER man, sharpshooter, pistol, bayonet, hand in these foxholes on Guadalcanal. Plenty (Continued from page 2) grenade, and an extra one for being ist of action and lots of stories to tell you, " gunner on 37 mm. anti-aircraft. They and we will win this war.' Wilson WRITES Comrade M. G. never had a bar for that before. I sure The Editors of the Spokane (Washington) Post: "I thought that story entitled That's My Flag by James O'Shaughnessy (January, 1943, issue) was very sweet. It recalls some incidents in my life How to get into Aviation-Now while on that great adventure answering the Call of Lafayette. My outfit of

• hard-boiled volunteer West Coast con- > by C. S. (Casey) Jones struction and railroad men, Colonel NO. 4 in a series of advertisements describing the free training and opportuni' Cavanaugh's i8th Engineers (Railway) ties now available in aviation. Addressed to the tlwusands of men and women aboard the good old Saxonia encircled who wish to prepare themselves for war service in this key industry. the large harbor at Halifax. At a school- house up on a hill we could see them One of the most in- craft Engines, waving a large American flag. Then as teresting opportuni- After completing the training period suc- ties in aviation, and cessfully, you are employed at a United our convoy passed a little three-master, which provides im- States Air Depot, at base pay of $125 per the Dennis H. Murphy of Mobile, she mediateemployment, month for 40-hour week, with 50% in- dipped her colors and it was a wonder- is offered by the War creased rate for overtime. You are em- ful sight. While w-e were digging and Training Program of ployed by the Department of War, but not shoveling and sweating down at Bassens the Civil Service in the Army. Commission. After taking up your duties, you will find along came the Dennis H. Murphy up If you are 17 or ample opportunities for advancement and the Garonne River, and did we blow over, a U. S. Citizen, increased pay in your trade, depending whistles, yell, cheer and dip our colors C. S. JONES are physically able upon your experience and abilities. to that brave little ship and her skip- to work, and have two years' high school or For further information, write or call at per. equivalent, you may apply for one of the the U. S. Air Depot, Rome, N. Y., or N. Y. civilians as State Education Dept., War Training Pro- "And when I spent a whole day try- many jobs now open to em- ployees of the War Department, in aviation. gram, 20 West 44th Street, New York City. ing to buy an American flag in Southern Under a continuing program, the Civil France for the good tug Yvette which applica- Service Commission Is accepting -tf -S. we were to use at Bassens, I didn't crab tions from both men and women who meet last above requirements. Men classified 1-A, or when what they charged took my President buck to get a miniature Stars and persons now employed at their highest skills in defense industries, are not eligible. Stripes. . . . And when a French lady, ACADEMY OF AERONAUTICS, La Guard'ia aptitude tests, you are Upon passing the Field, New York (Awarded Efficiency Banner of who married one of my buddies, told given three months' special training in an First District Army Air Forces) • CASEY JONES me with tears in her eyes what 'my accredited aeronautics school, and receive SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS, Newark, N, /. flag' means to her own people and other pay for this period of $100 per month. You Engineering and Design courses still open for pri- are assigned to one of five courses: Aircraft Europeans it makes me stiffen up and vate enrollment to qualified applicants. Mechanics Instruments, Aircraft Electrical Installa- courses devoted exclusively to military and gov- square my shoulders, and very proudly ernment contract training. tions, Aircraft Sheet Metal Fabrication, say to myself, "Chin up, soldier-Legion- Aircraft Propellers and Hydraulics or Air- Training the Key Men of Tomorrow in Aviation naire. Remember our motto, 'For God and Country' we serve. Dig in and work harder. Buy bonds, remember 'That's " My Flag!' HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS?

If your address has been changed since paying your 1943 dues, notice of such is an inspiring letter HERE from change should be sent at once to the Circulation Department, The American Legionnaire Herbert Low, a mem- Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana. The one mailing list ber of Baisley Park Post in Queens, covers both The American Legion Magazine and The National Legionnaire only one notice required. Also notify your Post of your change for future refer- Long Island, New York. Comrade Low, ence in making out membership cards. as will be seen, was at the time under- Notice of change should reach us by the 25th of second month preceding date going treatment in one hospital, while of issue on which it is to take effect. So many thousands are received each month his wife was in another. The letter: "My that they must be handled in a methodical manner. son is a Marine and a member of the Sons of The American Legion. He was BE SURE TO GIVE ALL INFORMATION LISTED BELOW on Guadalcanal from August 7th of last NEW ADDRESS year, but probably was relieved around the end of the year. Name When we heard (Please Print) from him, though, he was still there. Street Address etc He wanted me to know that the Legion and C. M. T. C. training he got helped City .State him a great deal in his basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and afterward. 1943 Membership Card No I myself can't get to a meeting because Post No State Dept. I'm in the Hospital for Ruptured and

Crippled in New York; my wife is in OLD ADDRESS Jamaica Hospital. The boy said: 'The Street Address etc. C. M. T. C. sure taught me a lot. The needles I did not mind at all, when I City State got to Parris Island. I was made drill

MARCH, 1943 55 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine MOTORISTS Wmkdl AN ALTAR BUILDED HIGH TO MAKE THIS UNtQUE (Continued from page 25) cannon, which had been taken from SAVING TEST Legion Organization reports the presen- the place on Legion Plaza it had occu- m at onr risk tation of a crash ambulance to the pied for years and parked in the middle Will you permit as to send you the Vacu-matic, a device which autoowners everywhere are praisine? Install it on your air force at Stewart Field, located of a main street. car Test it at our risk Unless it trims dollars off yourp'as bills by gavinpopto30T( on (gasoline con- just outside the city of Newburgh, Nick Colo, Commander of Taylor sumption, Kivea more power, quicker pickup and faster acceleration, the test will cost you nothing where the Point are (Pennsylvania) AutomBiic Supercharge Principle West Cadets Post, sends a picture Vacti-matic is entirdv difcrentt It operates on trained. of a the Gonercharge principle by automatically add- six-inch German field gun given jntra ct arce of e^ctraoxypen, drawn free from the FITS ALL CARS outer air into the heart of the pas mixture. It is The formal presentation was made in to it by the War Department in 1922, CoTiatrartedofefxpartB andcioptne B9 r*qoir«d. Sbti iu»«dintoaMni;IPunlt. riUi better motor perfon the name of the citizens of Orange which was recently started on its way yioFtalleiih AGENTS ^>^i2^ County, and was made possible by back to Germany via the scrap pile FOR INTRODUCING. Here's a splendid opportunity for onasual aales funds in and profits. Every car, truck, tractor owner a prospect. Send name and raised a campaign put on by and furnace. Commander Colo says the address now for bip money makinso*Ter and bow you can pet yours Free. Th* Vacu-matic Co,» 7617< 780 W.Stato Stmt. Wauwato»s.WI», the County Legion organization under gun weighed a full sixteen tons—one of the direction of Monroe Gullberg, Com- the largest field pieces made. WE mander of Middletown Post. Colonel "East Pasadena (California) Post ToAnySuit! John M. Weikert, commandant of Stew- parted with its most cherished memento Double the life your of art Field, accepted the ambulance for of the World War," writes Jack Phil- coat and vest with correctly ^ matched pants. 100,000 patterns."' the field. lips, Publicity Chairman. "No sentiment Every pair hand tailored to your measure. Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before could operate against the dire need for pants are made. Fit (^ruaranteed. Send piece of cloth or vest today. scrap metal, so we turned in this old SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY Gun Donors 209 S. State bt. Dept. 425 Chicago veteran as our contribution to the com- HUNDREDS of captured German munity drive. cannon have been turned over to Pride of the Post, the old tank had HimsamcH the scrap collectors in almost as many been kept in order and was one of the communities for use in forging new arms few in the country that could still op- ITCHING SKIN and armament," writes Claude M. Gray crate under its own motive power. It DoThis for Quick Relief of Walter C. Lee Post, Walla Walla, required two working days to tear it Washington, editor of The Legion down to the point where its parts could Does the almost unbearable ^1 itching of externally-caused ec- Record, "but few communities have be hauled to the scrap yard." zema make you want to scratch. Scratch, SCRATCH? Would been privileged to contribute French There, we've run out of space for you like to see that fiery redness cannon which were used by American the scrap department, and those cited subside quickly and the scaly skin be- some soft and smooth? Then get a 25c soldiers during the First World War. are only a few reports taken from the jar of Sayman Salve and apply this medicated ointment to the affected areas "Walla Walla did just that. It gave folder. Every one had a picture or two tonight. Let it help quickly ease the two 155mm. G.P.F. field guns, veterans with the report—sorry there isn't space tormenting itching and painful soreness. of five major engagements in France in enough to print all of them. sayman salve 1918, as part of the equipment of the 146th Field Artillery. Two of the guns Out of Debt Try this Wonderful go to scrap; two companion pieces were r^llI ^ Treatment for presented to the Walla Walla High /^LEY H. COOK POST of Oshkosh, ^ I !W Pile Suffering FREE School for use in instructing the school Wisconsin, has cleared the final If you are troubled with itching, bleed- cadets." pa>Tnent on its fine club home, an event ing or protruding piles, write for a Harry Wiles Post celebrated by a big party attended by FREE sample of Page's Combination E. of Abingdon, Treatment and you may bless the day you Illinois, staged a great Armistice Day about 600 Legionnaires, Auxiliaries and read this. Don't wait, WRITE TODAY. celebration when its Honor Roll, bear- friends, including nearly all of the 340 E. R. PAGE CO., Dept. 471A6 Marshall, Mich. ing the names of the men in service m,embers of the Post. Now, debt free, The American Legion from that community, was dedicated the $40,000 club home will become National Headquarters and its prize German howitzer sent to more of a community center than it the scrap pile. has been. Indianapolis, Indiana The Armistice observance, writes Post Earl Fuller, Past Commander, was Financial Statement Adjutant Earl Johnson, was made the master of ceremonies at the mortgage- December 31, 1942 occasion of a scrap drive. The Legion burning party, which was attended by had asked that every person attending Department Commander Val Ove, De- Assets bring as much usable scrap as possible. partment Adjutant Gil Stordock, and Cash on hand and on deposit | 765,291.67 Presi- Accounts receivable 66,170.47 At the end of the day, metal scrap of Mrs. Helen Beck, Department Inventories 131,148.67 all kinds was piled high about the old dent of the Auxiliary. Post Commander Invested funds 2,696,157.39 Permanent investment: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 220,009.46 Oflice building, Washington, D. C, less depreciation 123,804.31 Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation 43,502.69 Deferred charges 22,557.66 LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

$4,068,642.32 JOHN A. BALLARD, Jachonville (Florida) Post Liabilities, Deferred Revenue WILL GRAVEN. Adyerflsing Mens Posf, New York City. and Net W orth KARL DETZER, Leelanau County Post, Leiand, Michigan. Current liabilities § 67,776.37 Funds restricted as to use 37,141.29 HERBERT First Post. City. Deferred revenue 716.186.80 M. STOOPS, Division Lieut. Jefferson Feigl New York Permanent trust: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 220,009.46 JOHN J. NOLL, Cop;7o/ Post. Topeka. Kansas. Net worth: Restricted capita! 12,669,945.75 Unrestricted capital.. 357,582.65 $3,027,528.40 Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legionnaires, are not listed. 54.068,642.32

Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant

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Five Beautiful Designs, picturing our emotions "I understand that gentleman with hinn is and Victory spirit of today. IncludGs "Our Flag." "America, Land of the Free," "God Bless America," his writer." ghost •'Proud 1 Am An American" and "Lib- erty Bell." Postage stamp size.

Service Flag Stamps fSr^ishe'^'' ^ 1. 2, 3, 4. 5 and 6 star stamps. Tells all you have one or more dear ones in service. 48 stamps in a book. R. W. Frazier and Past Commander and week out and take special pride in For your examination and approval we win send postpaid S Patriotic Stamp Books and 1 Service Flag Stamp Book, cere- is P. C. Carver had charge of the coming out when the weather un- STICK ON all 6 books, for only 2Sc. stamps or B coin. Money back if not delighted. mony of burning the old plaster. usually bad." LETTERS Low wholesale prices for Organization ENVELOPES Fund-Raising purposes and for resale. The building and grounds, formerly The observation post, too, is the pride PACKAGES WILLENS& COMPANYJnc. corps. the Oshkosh Yacht Club, were acquired of the A sagging WPA structure 2130 to 2136 Gladys Av., Chicago in 1932. The property is located on has been transformed into a model air- the shores of Lake Winnebago in a craft spotter's post, neatly finished and beautiful setting and is large enough painted, with a warm, well-equipped to care for all the Post's business and office on the ground floor and an upper social activities. A screened-in porch deck for the spotters. This deck is sur- WHEN THE BOTH COME overlooks the lake and protected har- rounded by a solid railing three and bor, which is used by yachtsmen as a one-half feet high which serves as an basin, and in the winter this porch effective windbreak, with telephone affords a grandstand for the iceboating booth, equipped with hot-air register, events. The basement and two floors placed in the center of the observation are used by the Legion Post and its platform. WE WILL HAVE Auxiliary. All material and equipment were con- OPENINGS FOR MANY we obtained tributed by business men and organiza- After the last war, many of our successful distributors Observation tions. from the ranks of the veterans of Post 1917. When Victory II is won we expect to hove even greater op- portunities for many of the boys QUIETL^JIETLY and efficiently, 192 men Christmas Rose who are now serving in World War II. Keep our name in mind v'omen of and wc Norristown, Penn- You may do some returning soldier a syh'ania and vicinity are contributing Post of Penn great favor by mentioning it to him. JOHNSON-COSTELLO Right now we are busy hitting two hours each week as a part of their Van, New York, repeated its annual Axis with all the Fyr-Fyter Extinguishers we con produce, there none avail- share toward aiding the so ore United States custom, established several years ago, of oble for civilian use. However, when Army in its vast program. presenting a rose on Chrismas morning total Victory is won we will hove a finer and enlarged I ine of Fyr-Fyters. If you ore looking for on opening ot that time, "This is the volunteer force of the to every patient in the hospital and to we may also have a distributorship to Aircraft Warning Service which mans the every person in the village classed as offer you. Clip this article a "shut-in" by local physicians. In addi- and save, observation post sponsored by George ^ N. Althouse Post of the Legion, and tion, a bouquet of roses was presented they form the most loyal and faithful to every Gold Star Mother of both group of volunteers in the community." World Wars. writes Legionnaire William S. Robinson, To each of the latter, a silk serv- Chief Observer, ice flag with gold star accompanied the "AH of the workers report for their roses. two-hour assignment faithfully week in Boyd B. Stutler

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IT'S FORT A SfRVICE FLAG DiX? A NOW {^Continued from page 28) Paris, which I enclose. I thought some conditioning camp for the men en- of those in this picture would be inter- for YOUR FAMILY a listed in the Civilian Conservation ested in seeing it in your Then and Now Honor YOUR Service Man with this beautiful Service Flag" in Corps. From March, 1933, until July, department." your window or home. Satin.vath arrived liked the photograph and knew yellow fringe—blue star in field 1936, 115,000 CCC enrolees at We we of red for each man in service. Dix, and more than 43,000 men were re- that the late Legionnaire Minnie Mims' ORDER FROM THIS AD turned to that camp and mustered out. former comrades would enjoy seeing it, ' :o. 21 — Slie 7x11' each . . SOc ro, 23 io«ir>'' . — size each . 7SC designated a perma- so we asked Past Commander Cabral to ;o, 24 Slr.e 12xlt*' ' each. .«l.OO In 1939, Dix was ro. 25— size 15x24* ' each. .$1.50 nent station its changed ascertain and report to us more about Includes 1 to 5 stars: gold stars also Army and name Special siiea for Legion Posts. Lodse Halls. Churches, etc. >rder today. Mon. to Fort Dix. With war declared in it—with this result: Send for free catalogue. Europe, our Government became de- "The picture which I sent you was of U.S. FLAGS—Send for free catalogue. fense-conscious and Dix was recognized the first parade of American Army REGALIA MFG. CO., Dept. A, Rock Island, III. as an important training camp. The Nurses which was held in Paris on following summer, plans for the develop- July 4, 191 8. The French people strewed Old? Get Pep, Vim ment of Fort Dix were completed and flowers in the path of these women with iron, Calcium, Vitamin building began. The 44th Division, a nurses. Miss Mims' outfit was the Tu- lane Hospital Unit of New Orleans. PM lUnMPM of 40. no. 60. Don-t be old. weak. New Jersey National Guard unit, was Mbni nUlllbll woni-imt. exluiusted. Take Os- lll trex. Coutaias tonics, slimiilants oflcu needed after the first to occupy the Fort as a train- The Unit left for France during the 40—by bodies lacking Iron, Calcium, Vilaraiii Bj. Thou- fall of 7 and stationed sands now feel peppj'. years younger. Get Ostrex Tonic ing base. The CCC was eliminated 191 was at Limo- Tablets TODAY. Trial size 35c. Or SAVE MOXKY ges until the Armistice get regular SI. size (4 times as many tablets). Also ask from the area. New buildings to the and thereafter about money-saving "Kconomy" size. At all druggists. number of 850 were erected for the 44th stationed at Base Hospital 21 in Paris. "Some of the nurses in this unit were: MAKES FALSE TEETH FIT Division, and other facilities were re- newed, improved or begun. Miss Minnie H. Mims, assistant chief nurse, Miss Maude F. Mims, Miss Since 1940—and figures since our ac- Mary P. Little, Miss Carrie Godwin, Miss A denture wearing chemist, tive participation in the war on Decem- who suffered loose from ber are not available build- Charlotte -Hill, Miss Mary Pargo, Miss plates, and sore gums, decided 7, 1 94 1, — Ida Mallory, Miss to do something about it. The re- ings erected at Fort Dix include 531 J. B. Ott, Miss suit, after long research and experi- Genella Lancing, Miss May Kauffman ment, is DENTYTE, a revolutionary barracks, 173 day rooms, 178 mess halls, resilient rubberlike substance that perfectly buildings for storage and company and Miss Ella Wall. All of these women shapes to the mouth even the poorest fitting 172 were from plates, giving undreamed of comfort. It is odor- administration, 35 recreation buildings, New Orleans. The following less, tasteless, and may safely be used on any nurses in the same Unit were from type plate. One application lasts for months. 41 administration buildings, 13 chapels, Instantly removable without solvents or scrap- infirmaries, hospital barracks, 18 Birmingham; Miss Verna Glazner and ing. Full size jar—a year s supply for one plate, 14 23 (6 months for two) postpaid, only $1.00. If not hospital quarters, 26 motor repair shops, Miss Lottie Glazner. Miss Pascal was satisfied after 30 days trial, return unused por- Florida. tion, for full refund. 28 warehouses, 10 fire stations, 12 gaso- from Miss Julia Stimson— Corp., Dept. AL-73. Manheim, Pa. think she The Dental Products line stations, 6 theaters, 17 igloos (what then held the Army rank of Major was in command of the parade." Denii|ie CUSHION DENTURE LINER are they.?) and 2 morgues. Many more — buildings are in the blue-print stage. The Company Clerk would like to Learn Profitable Profession For the new inductees, of whom we re- hear from the nurses who served with in QO days at Home ported literally thousands and thousands our late comrade, Minnie Mims,

pr'tife'J^foD of Swedish MaB9;iEe run as high as $40 to are being received, four Service Clubs, $70 per week but many prefer to open their own officeg. Large inromea from Doctors, hospitala, four cafeterias and four libraries are of us vets know, we take it for Bnnitnriume sind private patienta come to thune who ALL qujihfy through our training. The Army and Navy need hundreds trained in mas- also available, as well as a Guest House, - granted, that the Coast Guard sage. Write for An;itoray Charts uod i.o.AUt—They're FltEE. where overnight visitors of the soldiers which formerly was under direction of THE College of Swedish Massage 100 E. Ohio St., Dept. 375, Chicago at the Fort may stay. A large Sports the Treasury Department is now where Arena, a golf course, seven tennis courts it should always have been—under com- and several baseball fields are also pro- mand of the U. S. Navy, revenue patrol FREE the vided for the rookies, not mentioning a and former rum-running combat to TO RHEUI\AATIC—ARTHRITIC swimming pool and other swimming fa- contrary notwithstanding. We're almost sure that the Coast PAIN SUFFERERS cilities at nearby lakes. Guard has been represented in these Tf you are tortured by those pains usually associated with columns before but listen to the lament Rheumatism, Arthritis, Sciatica. Neuralgia, Neuritis, THIS contribution, if our memory rush name and address today for FREE Trial Package, of the famous Case Combination Method. It has brought serves us right, is the first post- of Legionnaire Howard G. Renwick, wonderful relief to thousands who used it as directed. If you are sufferinji', don't delay. Send name and address humous one that has come to The Rural Route i, Blanchard, Michigan, right now— a penny post card will do. Rememher there's nothing to pay for this FREE trial Tackage. Write me. Company Clerk. We refer to the photo- with which he submitted the picture BROCTON. MASS. PAUL CASE. DEPT. B-66. graph of the first parade of American on page 28: Army Nurses in Paris, France, which "Let's hear from the Coast Guard! is shown on page 28. "I have been reading in Then and Good News For The photograph Now of every branch of the service but came to us with this interesting letter from Past Commander cannot recall seeing anything about the Harry R. Cabral of New Orleans Post, Coast Guard, and they were important Asthma Sufferers The American Legion, New Orleans, in our earlier World War and rate head- If you suffer from choking, gasping, wheezing, recurring attacks of Bronchial Asthma, here is Louisiana, a member of the firm of lines in this one. good news for you. A prescription called Mendaco perfected by a physician in his private practice Cabral, Courtin, MuUer & Herman, At- "I enlisted at Grand Haven, Michigan, contains ingredients which start circulating thru torneys and Counselors the was the blood within a very short time after the first at Law, 1605-06 on June 11, 1918, and on 14th dose, thus reaching the congested Bronchial tubes Masonic Temple, in that southern city: sent to the Barge Office at New York where it usually quickly helps liquefy, loosen and thick remove strangling mucus (phlegm) , thereby "I am executor of the Estate of the City. I stayed there only long enough promoting freer breathing and more restful sleep. Fortunately Mendaco has now been made avail- late Miss Minnie H. Mims, who was a to get breakfast and with two other able to sufferers from recurring spasms of Bron- United States chial Asthma thru all drug stores and has proved Army Nurse in World men was sent up to New London, so helpful to so many thousands it Is offered un- War I. Connecticut. After training there about der a guarantee of money back unless completely satisfactory. You have everything to gain, so get "Among Miss Mims' effects I found a month, I went aboard the U. S. S. Mendaco from your druggist today for only 60c. The guaranteed trial offer protects you. the very interesting picture taken in Onondaga and made several trips up

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and down the coast—from as far north World War I for which announcements as Maine. have been published in this Outfit Good News for "My job included almost everything Notices column for many years. All Many Sufferers while on board, from quartermaster organizations are making special efforts watch to gun-pointer. to hold their membership intact—await- FREE BOOK — On Colon And "One day all seamen were called on ing the time for those "Victory Re- Chronic Ailments deck and told they wanted volunteers to unions" to which we are all looking The McCleary Clinic, C1566 Elms Blvd., across the other side of the At- forward. go to Excelsior Springs, Mo., is putting out an lantic. About a dozen of us said we Official organization publications — up-to-the-minute, illustrated 122-page book on Pile.s, Fistula, Stomach and would go. We were told to be ready from modest mimeographed bulletins to Colon disorders, and associated ailments by noon, were shipped again down to good-sized magazines—are being used as shown in the chart below. for this purpose, as well as letters to NERVOUSNESS members. Dozens of these publications | reach The Company Clerk's desk and he would like to see more of them. "Letter Reunions" are also being con- ducted. Keep up the good work, fellows,

and . . . Hold that Line! ARTHRITIS For details of the following reunions RHEUMATISM and other activities, write to the Legion- anemia] naires whose names are listed; I

PROSTATIC SYMPTOMS | T ' Soc. OP 28th Div. All ex-Keystoners invited — You have copy of this book to join, and contact old comrades. Lambert J. may now a by a.sking for it with postcard or letter Sullenberger, natl. v. p., 535 S. Lime St., Lan- a caster, Pa. -sent to the above address. No obligation, so write today and learn the facts. 33d Div. War Vets. Assoc.—Former mem- bers not receiving the 33d Div. Assoc. paper, please send names and addresses to Geo. D. Radcliflfe, secy.. Hotel Morrison, Room 508, Chicago, 111. Vets, op 314th Inf., AEF—25th annual con- Clean out car radiators thoroughly vention-reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 24-26. Geo. E. Hentschel, natl. secy., 1845 Champlost after draining anti-freeze. Use Av., Philadelphia. Co. B, 3d Oregon and 1G2d Inp.—43d annual lOc and 2Se sixes reunion-banquet, Portland, Ore., Mar. G. R. E. Directions on can the Barge Office in New York City, McEnany, 1101 NW Hoyt St., Portland. Co. M, 307th Inp. Annual dinner and re- staying over night, and then to Balti- — union, 77th Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th St.. New more, Maryland. A truck met us at the York City, Sat. night. Mar. 13. Henry H. Ringen, 85 Vermilyea Av., New York City. railroad depot and we were taken to Co. I, 308th Inf., AEF—Annual reunion- Cirundell Cove in South Baltimore. The dinner, Augrick's Restaurant, 257 William St., Free New York City, Sat., April 10. J. Steinhardt, next day being Labor Day, we went chmn., 105 E. 177th St., New York City. out to look over our new surroundings Co. K, 308th Inp.—Reunion dinner, 77th Div. Catalog Clubhouse. 28 E. 39th St., New York City, Sat. and we found they built surf boats evening. May 1. Simon Reiss, 200 Haven Av., Ready March I and did repair work on the cutters. New York City. Fully illustrated, showing special foot- Co. I, 314th Inf., AEF—Annual reunion, "I did guard duty down there until wear and clothing for American Legion Home, Catasauqua, Pa., Apr. tishermen and camp- 24. Slogan: on Memorial Tablet for 1943. they found out I was a farmer and I 100% ers, also special fisli- Write Chas. M. Stimpson, 1670 Sheepshead Bay ing tackle. got the job of helping to harvest a big Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y. L. L Bean, Inc. 56th Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—12th annual re- field of corn. Nice job for a Coast 16 Main Street union, Smithfield. N. C, Aug. 7-8. Write Jas. S. Freeport Maine Guardsman ! We were berthed on the Davenport, secy.-treas., Columbia, N. C. 13th Ry. Engrs.— 14th annual reunion, Au- old S. U. S. Colfax which had all its rora, 111., June 18-20. A. E. Ward. actg. secy.- machinery removed and was tied along- treas., 6147 W. Patterson Av., Chicago, 111. (The association regretfully announces the death on side the dock. December 27, 1942, of its long-time secretary- treasurer, James A. Elliott of Little Rock, WANTED Drums, Bugles/ "I then worked in the boat factory Arkansas. Overseas Det., Ry. until my discharge in March. 1st Engrs., Ft. Benj. We pay cash for your idle or surplus Harrison, Ind.—Proposed vets organization "The enclosed is a snapshot taken and reunion. Write to M. D. Melchi, 307 State drum corps equipment, new or used. Av., Alamosa, Colo. Write us today and get our offer. during target practice off the New 656th Aero Sqdrn.—For "Letter Reunion." yourself comrades Hollis England Coast. I am the man behind write news of and to The FRED. GRETSCH MFG. CO. L. Townsend, Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. l%^^^^^t

MARCH, 1943 59 When Ansvcering Advi RTisnMi NTs Please Mention The American Legion Magazine HOW BIG AN ARMY? THE EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT

big an Army do we need to lick the need it at Panama to protect the canal, in Pearl HowAxis? Harbor to prevent another December 7th. We need We have had a hundred answers from anti-aircraft regiments wherever there is danger. a hundred self-appointed "experts." But How many of these 5,500,000 men will be thus en- only one man is qualified to give the correct answer gaged is a military secret, but it is a sizable number.

. . . and he has given it. ^Ve need soldiers to man the base ports and the The President of the United States, Commander staging areas, "housekeeping" troops scattered in Chief of the armed forces, after consultation across the nation to manage camps and posts, to with die generals and admirals w ho do the fighting, run military transportation, to act as police, to places the figure at 7,500,000 men. operate hospitals and storage depots and proving He didn't just pull that ninnber out of a hat. grounds. They are the "service troops." In a city He arrived at it after painstaking research, after of 5,500,000, think of the thousands of firemen, consideration of every eventuality, not by drug- policemen, mail carriers, street cleaners, nurses, store strategists, but by men who kno^v. motormen, judges, power-plant operators, the men and Avomen who maintain public services—this IET'S break do^vn the figure 7,500,000 and see Army force corresponds to them and numerous how it's arrived at, of what it consists. hundreds of other thousands. To beoin with, if we could be sure the war would We already have a million men overseas. We end promptly at midnight, December 31, 1943, we have scores of regiments in training, almost ready might get by with fewer men. But what military to go over. We have new regiments forming, and leader is rash enough to predict the exact day of each new regiment needs a cadre of ten percent of surrender? Certainly not Admiral Leahy, General old men . . . men ^vith a year's training. Marshall or Admiral King! They Avill tell you You can't skimp anywhere along the line with- frankly that they don't know ^vhen the Avar ^vill out throwing the system out of balance, without end. endangering the lives of men on the front by break- They'll also tell you that they don't intend to ing down supply and administration at home. send untried troops into battle. Today's mechan- ized soldier needs a full year of training. So the OPPONENTS of the President's plan for 7,500,- figure 7,500,000 includes all the new men who will 000 men contend that production will col- just be starting their training on Januaiy 1, 1944. lapse if that number is taken into the Army. It includes those with only six months' training. Germany, on the other hand, with only 80,000,000 It doesn't mean 7,500,000 soldiers on the fighting people, now supports an army of 8,000,000. With front. an extra 50,000,000 on the home front, America at Break down the number further. Of the total, the same rate could support a fighting force of some 2,000,000 or more will be in Air Forces. Is 13,500,000 men. We hope we'll not need that many. anyone foolish enough to state that we don't need But this much is certain. The President and Gen- all the trained flying men and all the trained eral Marshall are better qualified than any layman ground crews we can get? to tell us how many ^ve do need. The American That leaves some 5,500,000 for the rest of the Legion, through National Commander Waring, Army. Let's see how the) are to be used. has declared its Avholehearted support of the Gov- First, there's coast defense. We need coast artil- ernment in this decision to leave the size of our lery not only in New York and San Francisco har- armed forces to men who have spent their lives bors, but all up and down all our shorelines. We preparing for this job.

THE AMERICAN LEGION, FOUNDED, PARIS, FRANCE, MARCH 15, 1919

Twenty-four Years of Service "for God and Country"

60 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

PRINTED IN THE U. S.A. BY THE CUNEO PRESS, INC. . —

How American it is... to want something better!

UNTIL AFTER THE WAR not too many of us will be able

to get something better" in washing machines, ne\v re-

frigerators and the like. But this doesn't keep us from

wanting. It doesn't keep us from thinking, in this land of something better, of the better things — large and small

we are going after when the victory is won.

And even in the middle of war we can be thankful that

many of the good things of life are still ours.

AMONG THE BETTER THINGS which many Americans

have discovered is a moderate beverage — an ale. Its famous 3-ring trade mark — a ring for "Purity," one for "Body," one for "Flavor" — has become the sym-

bol for something better in ale to so many people that

Ballantine has become . .

Americas largest selling Ale

To speed the day when we can have more "better things" buy war bonds and stamps

p. Ballantine & Sons, Newark, N.J. ''Id walk many a mile Just to handAim these Camels/"

It's the most welcome gift you can

send him... a carton of Camels

—the soldiers' favorite

SURE, you'd rather hand them to him . . . but you don't have to see him to know that he'll appreciate a carton of Camels. For with men in all the services, cigarettes are the gift they want most from home. And when you send him Camels—the mild, slow-burning cigarette — you're sending the brand men in the service prefer. Army, Navy,

Marines, Coast Guard—the favorite is Camel.* Send him a carton today. Send him R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Cnni [);it slon-SalcMi.N.C. Camels First in the Service

*The favorite cigarette with men in the MAYBE HE WEARS the O.D. of the Army- Army, Navy, Marines, and the Coast maybe the blue of the Navy and Coast Guard — is Guard Camel. (Based on actual sales or the forest green of the Marines — it's all the records in Post Exchanges, Sales same: Camels, with that "I'd walk a mile for—" Commissaries, Ship's Service Stores, flavor, will be welcome as often as you send them. So — send him a carton of Camels today. Ship's Stores, and Canteens.)