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Lieuten- WHENant McCune, 29th Trench Mortar Bat- tery, A. E. F., entered his observation post shortly before dawn, he bent a small flashlight around its interior to see if the trench periscope and the field telephone he He hid his face in his hands and had left when knocking off sounded off a small coronach work the evening previous were still there. He was gratified to observe that they were, but not a little surprised to man, for look you, O child of cunning, since I conduct the artil- find lying on top of the field telephone box a large brown en- lery fire against you, it is, specifically, my job to locate the target! velope addressed: "Well, in the quaint patois of the Americans, 'Lafayette, I am here.' I thought I saw a head sticking up out of this hole to the officer conducting the fire of the trench yesterday afternoon, so I took a compass bearing on the spot and, Mortar Battery in this sector. after dark, crawled over. And lo, I discovered your observa- Realizing this communication was meant for him, Mr. McCune tion post. By the extremely simple expedient of following your opened the envelope and read: telephone wire I have located your trench mortars. Is a wink as "Friend Enemy: good as a nod to a blind horse, or must I destroy you and your "This billet doux is left here by the German officer conducting gun crews in the morning? Ah, it is attention to little details the fire of the Austrian 88 gun that has been annoying you so that makes for greatness. I know it is a highly nerve-wracking extensively the past week. For reasons of privacy, as you, task to string that wire from your O.P. to your guns before day- of course, must realize after reading this letter, I was forced to light every morning, because of the Very lights in No Man's the unpleasant job of delivering it myself. If my return journey Land, but you should have risked it. Instead, you decided not back across No Man's Land should not be attended with luck, to haul in your wire, and trust to God not to have it cut by stray you will be aware of it because the artillery fire directed against shell. Were I your commanding officer I'd court-martial you. you tomorrow morning will not be nearly so accurate. "You will wonder why, having secured this valuable informa- "I'm tired feeling around for your trench mortars. We've tion after so much trouble and danger, I apprise you of it. The sent planes over and taken photographs, but you must have done answer is simple but most unmilitary. I have not as yet found a splendid job of camouflage because we are unable to locate you. an enemy I admire so much as I admire you, even though I Evidently the mauling I gave you three days ago resulted in criticize your lack of attention to detail. your taking some excellent preventive measures. "A more persistent man than your gallant self would be hard "Naturally, since I was unable to locate you through my trench to find. After I had decided I had located your O. P., late yes- periscope from my observation post, I had to come over for a terday afternoon I put a fast destructive fire down on it until you closer inspection. It wasn't a job one could leave to an enlisted ceased firing for the day. My visit here tonight confirms my

MARCH, 1936 3 suspicion that I did everything but drop a shell directly on top of you and your detail, which is not my fault but that of the flat-trajectory gun I'm using. Oh for a gun with a high angle of fire. No, I do not mean that, for I should sincerely re- gret eliminating a man who has the guts to continue to direct the fire of his trench mortars while the air around him is filled with dirt and metal. "Well, here I sit snug in your O. P., inditing this windy letter by the light of a small flashlight. I almost feel that I am writing to an old and treasured friend. Such, however, is not my object. "I suggest that we organize our joint task in such a manner as to afford each of us the maximum of comfort. Just because of you I have to be on this job from dawn till dark. My commanding officer will not relieve me because I'm his very best one-gun sniper. Consequently my eyes grow red, weary and watery gazing through an eight-power glass all day. I have no opportunity for exercise; I must sleep with the infantry, which is very filthy and lousy, and eat infantry food, which is not so good as that at my battery mess. Back with my battery I am in no such danger, but up front here annoying you I haven't much of a chance for my life. There are much too many wild shells dropping around my O. P., and rifle and machine gun bullets make me very ner- vous. "Now, I suggest that you commence work sharply at seven o'clock. I will let you work half an hour undisturbed, to save your face with your C. O. "At 7:30 a.m., I will open on you although I'll not be able to locate you or your guns immediately if you're as smart Away they went, with O'Shaughnessey in the and resourceful as I think you are. But don't think I'll not try. lead, McCune covering them from the rear Well, we'll both knock off at noon sharp, for luncheon. I like to take time at my meals and masticate thoroughly when I have anything to masticate. And I like a good smoke afterward. handle showing about a foot over the top and his white handker-

Besides, we should rest our eyes! chief tied to it.

"At one o'clock we will go to it until three; then you knock off Promptly at seven o'clock his guns went into action under the half an hour, and go to it again until five. Also I'll lay off your curtain of smoke shells supplied at intervals by the field artillery infantry trench if you will lay off ours. Our line bends toward in his rear, and the enemy wire commenced disintegrating. At the yours about midway of your sector and you can reach about a tick of seven-thirty, four shells landed in quick succession near hundred yards of it at your extreme range. Let us not kill his white flag; the fifth shell blew it to glory, thus demonstrating infantrymen, but confine ourselves to our own particular jobs. that Mr. McCune's recent light-hearted visitor had gotten home Let us make this a sporting job, and may the best man win. intact and was very much on the job again. He wasted neither "If this proposition strikes a responsive chord in your heart, time nor ammunition trying to get on the old gun positions, stick up a little white flag on the top of this O. P., tomorrow however, for apparently he had sufficient confidence in Mr. morning. And don't occupy it, because I'm going to knock your McCune's sagacity to realize that the latter had moved them. flag down just to show you what a good shot I am. That is, So he commenced feeling around for them with commendable if I get home alive. ,. „ industry but no luck until twelve o'clock, when he ceased firing. Cordially yours, Instantly Mr. McCune telephoned his gun crews to cease firing "The Enemy." also and partake of the food they had brought out with them. It lacked an hour of daylight, but Mr. McCune was equal to his During the noon hour Mr. McCune re-read the German's opportunities. While his telephone corporal and the latter's letter; for the first time he now had opportunity to give that re- assistant spliced in more wire and crawled back to the infantry markable communication the astute consideration it merited. trench with it, the field telephone and the trench periscope, Mr. As a result he came to the following conclusions: McCune staggered his trench mortars in deep shell holes some (A) No German had written that letter. McCune knew Ger- thirty to forty yards in front of their old positions. Very lights man script. After graduating from Harvard he had taken a post- went up over the terrain from the German trenches at intervals graduate course at Heidelberg. of about three minutes; at the request of Mr. McCune none went (B) The psychology of his visitor was, decidedly, not German, up from the American trench, so, between flares Mr. McCune nor was his style of expression. War, with a German, is serious got his guns in their new positions. As he crawled back to his business, with no room in it for frivolity, gayety or sportsman new observation post in the infantry trench he had a doleful ship. premonition that he was going to lose some gun crews that day. (C) An Englishman might have written that letter; certainly Incidentally, he had set up a spade in his old O. P., with the the handwriting was very English, but then no Englishman

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly would be in the German field artillery and, even if one fell low jobs, three square meals per diem and decent houses to live in, enough to be a traitor, he would not be silly enough to risk cap- in addition to the liberty they craved. ture by crawling through No Man's Land to inflict his sense of It did not occur to Mr. McCune that his enemy, not being an humor and his impertinence on the enemy. American citizen, and never having even so much as pretended (D) Having decided, definitely, that the writer was neither loyalty to the British crown, had a perfect right to join the Ger- German nor English, Mr. McCune suddenly had a grave suspi- man army if he chose, and fight the traditional enemy. Mr. cion that the action of his recent visitor and the psychology McCune should have realized that in 1914 occurred the first which inspired it was distinctly Celtic. opportunity in the lives of that generation of Irish to catch even (E) Peasant Irish do not speak German nor would one such for the indignities inflicted on countless generations of their be likely to secure a commission in the German field artillery. deceased compatriots and, like the resolute fellows they were,

Plainly, therefore, this fellow was an Irish gentleman, for his they had smothered the opportunity. Was it their fault that letter proved him to be a well-educated man. Dublin University three years later they found themselves shooting at American or Trinity College, doubtless, and hence the English style of troops? It was too late to choose a new side then and McCune chirography. Yes, the man was a Celt, with all a Celt's perver- should have realized that. sity, non-understandable psychology and the racial instinct for He did not. He murmured: "The scut! The traitor! And self-dramatization. Only an Irishman can hate Englishmen as a the A. E. F. filled with his own kind! If there was a speck of race and love them and respect them as individuals. decency in the vagabond he'd come crawling into our lines at Now, Mr. McCune was an American—the third generation night and have done with the war forever. I'll get that fellow in the United States of America, albeit his blood was pure Celtic. if it kills me." Celtic blood will react very nicely, indeed, to any environment, Now, had Mr. McCune, personally, not been the target of that but no environment can react to destroy Celtic characteristics. renegade's gun he would have dismissed the man from his mind Consequently, when Mr. McCune read that letter from a brother very promptly. But the knowledge that a brilliant Irishman Celt, he flew into an ungovernable rage, in which state of emotion was conducting fire against him made him extremely jumpy. he was no longer an American, but an Irishman bent on destroy- No matter how good an artillerist a German might be, McCune would have had a large contempt for his prowess, simply because the shooter was a German, and, hence, a member of an inferior race. But unfortunately McCune, being of pure Celtic descent, had the customary reverence of the Celt for his own people; bad as they might be he ever held that there was some good in them; he knew them to be very competent at whatever they attempted seriously and even when they showed no championship qualities he would make excuses for their failures. The fact, therefore, that he had been shot at by an Irishman, that for perhaps three days more he would have to stand for the fire of an Irishman, made him very pessimistic. The dirty murderer would kill him if he didn't mind his step. Promptly at one o'clock the renegade (it is worthy of note here that by that appellation Mr. McCune now referred to the enemy in his frequent silent soliloquies) commenced ranging up and down the sector again. Inasmuch as his trench mortars were short of ammunition, Mr. McCune telephoned them to refrain from firing; his irritation at the renegade took the form of a childish enjoyment in making the latter search aim- lessly around, wasting ammunition. Suddenly and apparently in sheer obeisance to his mercurial nature, the renegade shifted his fire and planted a shell at the base of the parado of the infantry He threw it in the air and hit it trench at the spot where Mr. four times before it hit the ground McCune was gazing through his periscope, appraising the damage his mortars had done to the German wire. A piece of shell ripped along the top of his tin hat, inflicting upon him instantly ing another Irishman whom he hated. He felt that this cheerful a frightful headache; showers of dirt and mud engulfed him, and enemy had let the race down. In particular he had let down the the infantry major promptly cursed him and accused him of United States of America, traditional friend of the Irish, the being careless and bringing fire down upon the backbone of the land that had received millions of them and given them good service.

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It is doubtful if Mr. McCune heard him. "The filthy rene-

gade!" he raved. "He said he'd lay off our trench if I'd lay off his—and I've played the game with him. Now he's double- crossed me! I might have known he would! That proves he's Irish! Lord, how I hate the race!" Quickly he figured the firing data from his forward mortar to the bend in the German trench and dropped a projectile

neatly into it. "Tit for tat," he snarled, and waited to note the effect of his reprisal. For five minutes the renegade was silent; when he resumed his fire it was to range up and down No Man's Land, seeking the trench mortars. "Hah," Mr. McCune murmured. "The German infantry commander didn't like that. This is a quiet sector and he wants to keep it quiet. So he telephoned the artillery commander and begged him to order that renegade with the pirate gun to lay off our trench or we'd start working on his. You foul scut! Let that be a lesson to you." Evidently it was, for the renegade confined himself strictly to the trench mortars thereafter. Nevertheless, McCune did not forgive him and spent the afternoon, until four forty-five o'clock, meditating reprisal. At five o'clock he expended the last of his ammunition on the wire and knocked off for the day. The renegade did likewise. That night the infantry major said to Mr. McCune, "I think that Heinie has a notion your O. P. is in my trench and from time to time tomorrow he'll reach for you. He may even get a notion that you have your mortars here and order a battalion of 88's to work on us. I don't like the idea and I wish you'd get the hell out of here." A little later the artillery brigade commander called up and rawhided Mr. McCune unmercifully. "Young man, you're making very slow progress in your job of rolling up and breaching that strip of enemy wire in your sector. In three days we're going to put over a local assault and straighten out the salient in front of us, and you've got to get that wire knocked out so the infantry can walk through." "I'm doing my best," Mr. McCune protested shrilly. "For a week I've been chased from pillar to post by the finest artillerist The officer knew his visitor was in the whole German army. He's run me out of half a dozen fingering a hand grenade, O. P.'s. He's smashed guns and gun crews. He's a devil. I but he didn't turn around can operate against any enemy artillerist except that fellow and I'd like permission from the brigade commander to suggest a very necessary change in our plan of operation, if that wire is to He was up at dawn and, immediately after breakfast, com- be down when the infantry goes through." menced a study of the aerial maps of the terrain. It was flat "The other trench mortar batteries on this front are getting or gently rolling and had been thoroughly churned by shell-fire. forward with their jobs. They'll finish in time— It had been well demonstrated to Mr. McCune that for the rene- "They wouldn't if they had a devil told off to stop them. He gade the visibility was excellent except when obscured by the has a pirate gun close up and I'm sure his observation post isn't brown smoke from smoke bombs and the trench mortar projec- four hundred yards from me. If I can locate it I'll make short tiles. The German could see the big sixty-pound spherical pro- work of him, but I require time out for that sort of espionage. jectiles arching slowly across into the wire but to locate the Please send somebody else up to shoot my battery tomorrow and mortars was not easy. Nevertheless, the renegade had managed leave me free to make a battle plan, sir." to locate several of them during the past week and, unless elimin- "Briefly, what is your plan?" ated, would undoubtedly locate several more. Mr. McCune "I'd like the best aerial photographs of this sector and a had a strong suspicion that the renegade, like himself, had an magnifying glass. I want two more trench mortar batteries on observation post out in No Man's Land. So he paid particular

my front but I don't want to command them. I'll be busy else- attention to hiding places toward the middle and the southern where." end of the sector—and presently he thought he might have "Where, McCune?" located one. "If I can locate that devil's O. P. tomorrow I'm going over A short hair-line, so faint he missed it for upward of an hour, tomorrow night and capture him. He paid my O. P. a visit and showed on the aerial photograph, so Mr. McCune bent his left an insulting note, so common courtesy compels me to return trench periscope in that direction and presently decided he had the visit. If I capture or kill that man he will not readily be found an old, half-ruined sap that had been projected through replaced—and while his gun is silent our trench mortars can the wire one night to within a hundred yards of the American finish the job. Once I capture that man's O. P. I'll stay there trenches to provide a rallying point for a raiding party. The and defend it against all comers; if I do not come back that's raid had not got across and the next day the sap had been shelled, all right, too." but enough of it still remained to provide a very decent 0. P. for "Your request is granted. You appear to be a ferocious man any man bold enough to risk death crawling out to it. The with ideas. If you do the job you contemplate and get back I'll renegade (Mr. McCune concluded) would be just the man to recommend you for a captaincy." take that risk cheerfully. "It's worth a colonelcy, sir, but I'll compromise with you for a He watched all day until his eyes ached with the strain, but captaincy. Thank you, sir." not until about 5 p. m. did he see anything that seemed to justify By midnight he had his two extra batteries in position, turned his suspicions. The lowering sun was in back of him and suddenly over to his subordinate the task of getting plenty of ammunition he caught the tiniest flash of light on something bright; then it in and retired to his cubby hole in the infantry trench. disappeared.

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After dark the lieutenant who was to shoot the battery next tormentor heartened him; an hour before daylight he came to the day reported and McCune turned in for a little bunk fatigue. old sap and slid down into it. At 2 a. m. Corporal Perkins, his telephone corporal, awakened He unshipped his cargo, produced a tiny electric torch and him, so Mr. McCune, with a bag of Mills hand grenades firmly explored the sap as he made his way cautiously up it, until he lashed on his back, a pistol at each hip, and six hundred yards came to a point where it had been dug out in a semi-circle and a of light telephone wire in a coil on his arm, prepared to pay his camouflage net set over it. Under the camouflage he found a duty call on the renegade. The telephone corporal cut one end collapsible wood-and-canvas cot, and a charcoal brazier. of the wire Mr. McCune carried in on a German field telephone "Hah," murmured Mr. McCune. "The lazy devil likes to and McCune gave his final instructions. stretch out and take a snooze after his lunch —like a noble Roman "You or your assistant will sit by this box until I return. If I Charcoal is not productive of smoke, so they warm themselves at am not back by eight o'clock tomorrow night, it is probable I the brazier and doubtless cook their sausage soup over it. The never will return; however, stand by all of tomorrow night just fellow likes to do himself well." to make certain; sure you understand this German field telephone When he heard voices, then footsteps coming from the direction box I've given you?" of the German trench, he shrank back out of sight around the "Yes, sir." bend in the sap. He waited until he judged the field telephone "I may be telephoning you from another portable German from the observation post to the gun had been connected and the field telephone, so it's best not to have our telephone nationalities trench periscope set up. From the silence he judged the renegade mixed. Well, goodbye to you now, corporal. Keep your head was studying the terrain or figuring his firing data; so he stepped down." out into view, his right hand holding threateningly a Mills hand He slid over the parado of the trench, glanced at the luminous grenade, and said: face on his compass, as he shielded it with his tin hat and com- "The top o' the morning to you—you big Irish baboon!" menced crawling in his pre-determined direction. For a few His enemy did not condescend to turn his face from the trench minutes he would crawl rapidly through the inky darkness; then periscope into which he was gazing; plainly it was his mood to lie flat or slide into a shell-hole when the Very light went up. treat McCune with contempt. "And the rest of the day to your- He bumped into stale corpses and from time to time was very self, you monkey-faced Far Down," he returned the greeting. ill at his stomach and forced to be silent about it; he told himself He moved the optometric center on the eyepiece an infinitesimal that soldiering was a dog's life and recalled a classical line to bit and bent to look through the periscope again. He knew very the effect that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. How- well his visitor was fingering a hand grenade lovingly, but he was ever, the prospect of a personal and private interview with his much too contrary to appear aware of {Continued on page 44)

MARCH, 1936 7 YOU «s Crime

By of problem typified by Machine Gun Kelly. Then here is a college lad who has been out at a fashionable party. He's not dead drunk but he is pretty high. On his way home in his powerful HerbertFGoodrich car he has hit a milk truck. The milkman is seriously hurt. This is bad business, too, and something has got to be done about University Pennsylvania Dean, of it. But don't over-simplify your problem. It will take more than School Law a good crew of G men to decide what is best to do. Finally, here's a group of twelve-year-olds who have been caught throwing Cartoon hy stones through windows in vacant houses in their neighborhood. It isn't much of a neighborhood and the Joan Cassel houses aren't so good either. But the houses mean something to the property WHENEVER I hear or read one of the current dis- owners and, regardless of that, mali- cussions on the age old problem of crime there cious mischief should not go unchecked. comes back to me the old fable about the four It is clear, isn't it, that even without blind men and the elephant. The tale was prob- getting any further than the personali- ably in your reader in the fifth grade, but you may have forgotten ties of those who are criminals in the it since then. These four blind gentlemen were confronted by sense that they are law violators, our crime problem has shifted an elephant and sought by digital examination to learn what from a straightforward question of addition or multiplication manner of thing he was. One examiner grabbed the elephant's capable of exact and provable answer to one of those miserably tail, another embraced the trunk, the third caught hold of the complicated things with several unknown quantities— the kind floppy ears, while the fourth ran his hands up and down the which hopelessly mired most of us in high-school algebra and now animal's side. To each of the examiners came a different concept leaves us the more confused when the unknown quantities are of the term elephant and each was ready to defend his concept human beings instead of ab- with words and force. The moral is too easy. Obviously, the stract symbols. elephant had all the qualities separately attributed to him by Another thing which clouds \ the blind men and many more besides, and, equally obviously, our understanding when we persons acquainted with only one part of a large thing are in no try to figure out a question position to generalize about all of it. Just to call crime a problem is to over-simplify; it is not one problem but a whole complicated web of them. Few of us, whether our interest is casual or en- grossing, see more than one piece at a

time. J. Edgar Hoover, able head of that very efficient organization, about crime and punishment is the the Federal Bureau large number of objectives which of Investigation of we seek to obtain by using the of the Department criminal law. There is still some- Justice, was quoted thing left of the public show in the climax of a capital case. We as saying at a recent conference: "Here at this meeting, a crim- no longer put the condemned criminal in the arena to fight with inal is understood to be a criminal, with a gun in his hand and a starved lion while thousands watch and yell Nor do we, as in murder in his heart." the England of Pepys' day, make his beheading an occasion for There is one side of your crime question, and Mr. Hoover's general entertainment. Remember the description of these func- description of the elephant. What is a criminal? He is a man tions by this seventeenth century Walter Winchell? He attended of violence killer, kidnapper, — bank robber. What to do with many of them. A quotation from his diary: him? Catch him, dead or alive, and if alive, remove him from Up, and after sending my wife to my aunt Wight's to get a place to the society he preys upon with all possible speed. A fine piece see Turner hanged, I to the office, and at noon to the 'Change;' and of work Mr. Hoover and his bureau do, and all good citizens are seeing people flock in the City, I enquired, and found that Turner was grateful. But there are many other types of social offenders than not yet hanged. And so I went among them to Leadenhall Street, at killers. What of this thin-faced young bank clerk whose routine the end of Lyme Street, near where the robbery was done; and to St. Mary Axe, where he lived. And there I got for a shilling to stand upon task is to handle other people's money and who has "borrowed" the wheel of a cart, in great pain, above an houre before the execution just a few hundred dollars to make a margin purchase of stock was done; he delaying the time by long discourses and prayers one after which will make him rich without working? Or again, here is a another, in hopes of a reprieve; but none came, and at last was flung off pretty young miss in her teens, defiant, restless, discontented the ladder in his cloake. A comely-looked man he was, and kept his with her meager home, ashamed of her parents, now classified countenance to the end: I was sorry to see him. It was believed there as "delinquent." She is a problem, no doubt, but not the kind were at least twelve or fourteen thousand people in the street.

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Solve the problem of the petty offender and the job of stopping the big shot will become simpler scope of offenses against the King's peace. Crimes of violence of course are included now as then— homicide, robbery, arson, rape, assault and battery. Also offenses against property— larceny, Other forms of amusement have taken the place of the public embezzlement, forgery. Since we never had a system of church execution. But enough of us still want details about the last courts in this country comparable to the ecclesiastical courts in mile to make the account a front-page story in every notorious England, we h.ive put into our law books penalties punishing case. many acts which under earlier English law were cared for as a

There is a great deal left of the vengeance notion, too. If a matter of church discipline— adultery, fornication and the like. condemned wretch has appendicitis, modern medical science But the widening sweep of the criminal law has not stopped with must be called in to prevent a natural death and the patient be these. We use the criminal code to forbid innkeepers from provid- nursed back to health to pay his penalty at the appointed time. ing sheets of less than a specified length, to punish the sale of A watch is put over him so that he cannot cheat the law by misbranded foods, and to regulate such divergent acts as parking suicide. a car near a fire hydrant and selling goods on the street without a Reinforced perhaps by a chicken dinner, the shivering license. Our governments use criminal statutes to aid in the im- culprit is forcibly put to death by electric chair or hangman's portant business of tax collection. Remember that Al Capone noose. Did not the Greeks do it better when they let Socrates went to prison not as a killer but as a tax dodger. We even use drink his cup criminal sanctions against what seems pretty much a matter of of hemlock? private concern with morals— lotteries, Sunday transactions, If we decide sales of cigarettes, possession of intoxicating liquor. Our elephant that a man grows to be a many-sided creature. Small wonder that no one

is not fit to of us can describe him.

live, isn't it Wilber M. Brucker, of Michigan, when Attorney General of better to permit him to that State, compiled a list of the different explanations he had co-operate with society found for the cause of crime. They were nineteen in number and without the bloodthirsty they ranged from lack of education, economic pressure, the break- process of killing him? down of the old-fashioned home at one end, to drugs, foreign- Our problem has taken on another com- born population, and the reluctant attitude toward the church at plication because we have extended the or- the other. Our many-sided elephant appears also to be a crea- bit of criminal acts far beyond its ancient ture of very doubtful parentage. Whose {Continued on page 52)

MARCH, 1936 9 Reds, The By Th e Army, Frederick. Palmer Th e Navy

1AKE American patriotism . . . Doping the people with condemned. With the open pressure of a body of public opinion

talk of National Defense . . . The Stars and Stripes is the behind Mooney, able lawyers with ample sums at their disposal symbol of imperialist greed and cruelty ... In a war have carried his appeal to the highest court in the land. between the United States and Japan let not American A champion of revolution, he gives out interviews from jail soldiers and sailors ask which they will support . . . There is no and the campaign in his behalf publicly proceeds. A convinced choice. Both are robbers." red, he cabled his congratulations from jail to Comrade Stalin What would happen to anyone who encouraged mutiny in on the anniversary of the Russian revolution which was won at this fashion in Italy, Germany or Bolshevik Russia against such bloody cost in the suppression of all critical opposition to the dictatorship of Mussolini, Hitler or Stalin, respectively? the dictatorship of the proletariat. Action would be prompt and swift. The real purge—a Nazi type of purge—such a purge as the Included in the "purge" would be the bookshops which Soviet conducted after the assassination of Kirov, Secretary of purveyed such subversive stuff against the home government as the Communist Party, with condemnation without a trial—would is sold by the Communists' Workers' bookshops in the United not have stopped with the bookshops. It would have proceeded States. In approved Soviet style, these stores would be wrecked. upstairs in the headquarters building to the offices of the Com- Most of the books, pam- munist Party. phlets and journals on their It would have spread out into the shelves would be destroyed ip/n ates Union Square region in New York at the and further editions sup- same time it was equally thorough and pressed. Dealers, authors and VOICE busy in other cities in cleaning up all publishers who escaped with critics and opponents. For centering only a jail sentence would not around the Communist headquarters are be allowed to pose behind the WAR ON THE the headquarters of the Left Wing So- HORIZON OUR NAVY DECEIVES MEN bars as martyrs. There would Kowtowg to Congreis cialists and many other societies and be no glory, no sport, no fun, groups of varying shades of red. no exhibitionism in their in- Recently, when Stalin honored the carceration. leaders of the OGPU (secret police) with Through all this array of promotions and higher titles, the Ameri- print runs the complaint can Communist press saw this as an im- against American suppression portant item for the American faithful. of the freedom of speech and the press. It would seem that Americans are under a harsh Communism's bait to censorship, which keeps truth the men of our Navy and justice from the light, and the civilian em- while in Russia anybody may ployes of the Navy De- say or publish anything he partment. Similar un- pleases. dercover organs seek to To any sane person the make red converts in obvious answer to that is in the Army what is offered to the reader in the bookshops, which may also be trumpeted at public meetings while the police look on and preserve order. Another answer, a personal instance, is Tom Mooney. He is the great hero of the American reds and pinks, the supreme martyr exhibit. If he had been convicted—whether innocent or not—of the same kind of bombing outrage in Russia, precedents show that his execution would have been a matter of course. Or, granting that he got a life sentence, he would be breaking rocks in Siberia to help double track the Trans-Siberian railroad But there is never any kind word for any American policeman. in preparation for war with Japan; and he would have known He is the hired enemy of personal freedom. Veterans of the World what was coming to him from the gang boss if he so much as War, in the Communist view, are subservient allies of the police whispered that there was no choice between robber Japan and in the persecution of all who seek freedom of speech. robber Soviet Russia. If it happens that in any community citizens deplorably take

For nobody knows better than the reds that nothing so stirs the law into their own hands, if a red or some undesirable citizen

American emotion as the charge that an innocent man has been is hazed or told to move on to the next town, it would appear,

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The mailed fist in a red set- ting—part of the Army of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics reviewed by Stalin and other leaders on the six- teenth anniversary of the Bol- shevik revolution

Agitprop sees no hope for the Legion- naires. They are set in their unregenerate, blind prejudice. They are so used to slavery that they can see nothing better. But the regular armed forces may yet be saved. Moreover, they have the arms with which to make the red revolution. Agit- prop would bring the light into the darkness of their misery— the light of the hap- piness of the armed forces of Russia. Compare the joyous, free comrades of the Russian army (1,300,000 strong) with the gloomy, oppressed dog-robbers of the American army! The quotations at the head of this article are in line with the general teaching of Communist propaganda. They are taken from special publications for circulation among soldiers and sailors. In each instance the reference to workers, or working class, should be understood as referring to their triumph through sovietism in class warfare. Here we have The Soldiers' Voice, said to be "issued by and for enlisted men." Place of publication is not given. Letters, news and criticism are to be passed "to our representative from whom you receive this

copy." It is described as the only paper that "truly exposes intolerable conditions in the Army. It is the only paper that shows soldiers they must fight together with their class brothers, the workers, and not against them." General Douglas MacArthur, the late Chief of Staff, is called "the baby killer." And "what a bunch of saps we [the Regu- lars] all are!" Mutinies in foreign armies are played up to show the way to our soldiers. The harsh routine enforced by the War Department has been responsible, the propaganda asserts, for many suicides. Our National Guard is trained to act as "strikebreakers and scabs—to pump tear gas into women and children." It is being limbered up for greater battles against the American people and to shoot workers on strike." by Communist opinion, that members of the local Legion post, Now for the personal boring-in which accompanies this agit- though not one had any part in the affair, are cast for the part prop. The present Communist plan is to enlist one man in each of the offenders. The Legionnaires are seen as snooping, bullying company. He is to avoid calling attention to himself; he doesn't vigilantes. In fact they are deemed to be our unofficial OGPU. distribute propaganda or indulge in subversive talk. He is a All men who were in the American uniform in the World War good fellow who adroitly fans any spark of disaffection and in- were boobs, according to the reds. Only conscientious objectors subordination in others. That is, he is not himself a trouble- were noble. They now rank as heroes with the veterans of the maker but encourages others to make trouble, and meanwhile is Russian revolution. a red in good standing with some professional red chief. But the depths of present abysmal servitude are reserved by I turn to Shipmates' Voice, published for circulation in our red agitprop (agitation-propaganda) for the men of our Regular Navy. It advises our sailors to get further material from the Army and Navy and our National Guard and Naval Reserve. Workers' bookshops. The quotations at the head of the article They were formerly the mercenary servants of the American are from the Shipmates' Voice. It says further: dictatorship of Herbert Hoover and are at present of that of "We must organize groups on the ships and in the shore sta- Franklin Roosevelt, and will be of future Presidents who, for tions and elect leaders who represent our interests and those of selfish ends, will ruthlessly train them for slaughter until they our folks at home. Only by working class organization can we are delivered by the revolution which liberates them for service stop oppression at home, stop imperialist war, and defend the under the Soviet type of dictatorship. Soviet Union." {Continued on page 40)

MARCH, 1936 1 I Country By John M. Oskison

THAT combat officers' replacement camp on a plateau above Gondrecourt, in the winter following the Armistice, was one of the bleakest, wind-and-snow-swept spots in France. If there were eight hundred of us homesick officers there, waiting to be sent home, I felt certain that seven hundred and ninety-nine fretted over the unavoidable delay, and cursed the weather. The exception was First Lieutenant Benjamin Whatley of the Medical Corps. Quartered in the long shed-like barrack building to which I had been assigned, his cot was about as far north of

the red-bellied stove as mine was south of it. Not near enough for me, except when I was in bed! At the beginning of my first day in camp, I moved my chair to join the circle of fire worship- pers, and held my place against crowding flyers, signal corps loots, and infantry and artillery officers so fed up with war that,

as they pictured it, you would have thought it less exciting than hunting rabbits. Only Whatley stuck to his chair beside his bed; seemingly immune to the cold. With plentiful heaps of note paper and envelopes from the Y hut beside him, he wrote letters. Hour after hour, beginning as soon as the barracks had been policed early in the morning and continuing until lights out,

with interruptions only for marches to the mess hall, Whatley went on writing letters. He seemed oblivious of us, undisturbed by our loud talk, the cub-bear scufflings of youngsters, our songs —ribald or sentimental. He might have gone over to the Y for greater quiet, but that had evidently not occurred to him. On the third day of my stay, after we had tramped back from the noon meal through sleet and slush and, again ringed about the stove, tried vainly to settle upon a date for visiting the birth-

place of Jeanne d'Arc, an extended silence fell. At length, a self- confident, voluble young flyer named Ross, who had been shot down across the line and but lately returned from a German prison camp, looked toward Whatley and questioned loudly, "Doc, don't you ever do anything but write letters?"

The medical officer looked up slowly, as if reluctant to stop his pen, and answered, "It's a good time to write, don't you think?" "But," Ross leaped at the opportunity to draw him out, "you home—are you writing to tell them all that the war's over?" must have written a thousand!" At that, Doc laid aside lap-board, paper, and fountain pen, "No, only about three hundred so far." picked up his chair, and came slowly to join us. "Can you tie that! Say, you must know a lot of people back He walked like a solid, big-footed farmer. His worn, ill-fitting

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"JT/yAR took him far from the Oklahoma "Fifty-eight. Oh," he Illustrations ff town where he had long been making looked around at us as though to discover whether by the things they didn't they folks do know or not we were interested, ought to do, andfrom France he kept writing or merely seeking to amuse Forrest C. Crooks ourselves by kidding him, them letters telling them to keep on doing them "I reckon you're wondering how come I got into the Army?" "That was in my mind, yes," the young— flyer said soberly, "but I know it's none of my business, and uniform was wrinkled but spotless. His stiff, grayish-roan hair Smiling then, Whatley interrupted, "I've wondered myself, was matched by a thick, ragged mustache of the same hue. His since I came over, why they let me in! It's not much of a story, broad, homely face was illuminated by clear blue eyes, as reveal- though. When we got into the war, I thought a lot about the ing as the eyes of a blooded bull terrier. He moved out of courtesy, rights and wrongs of it, talked it over with the folks, and decided coming close in order to answer Ross' questions without shouting. the United States was justified. Then I wrote to Mr. Baker, Sitting down, he passed a friendly glance over us. telling him my age and what I'd been doing, and offering my "Where are you from, Doc?" Ross asked. services. I got a note from him, thanking me and saying my Whatley named a little town in Oklahoma about which I had letter had been turned over to someone in the Medical Corps, a heard, and, surprised, I said, "Are you, really?" right friendly note. I went up for examination; they passed me; A drab, God-forsaken huddle of shacks in the center of the and I came across with the Division, and served with my bat- most poverty stricken county in the State, the jumping off place talion until I was detached and sent here a week ago." the sore thumb of creation, Cobra, Oklahoma, had been described "Baker answered himself, personally!" Ross exclaimed. to me as a reproach to a country that pretends to be civilized. "Yes. I wrote to him." I probably implied something of this in my three-word comment, Ross laughed, a loud ha! ha! then, "Excuse me, Doc, that's not for Whatley nodded as he shifted his eyes from me to Ross and funny; I apologize. What did you tell the Secretary of War?" back to me and said, "I know; and that's why I'm telling my "I wrote him quite a long letter, tried to tell him the whole friends there I'm coming home." story." Whatley paused, to look slowly around the circle.

"Do you practice in Cobra?" Ross questioned. "Would you tell it to us?" Ross asked. "No kidding, Doc, I'd "Yes. You don't know the place, of course?" love to hear it—I'll tell you why afterwards."

"No, I'm from Providence, Rhode Island." "Of course; I like —to talk about myself," Whatley grinned. "Well," Whatley explained, somewhat defiantly it seemed, "No kiddin'? Well " the flyer looked around at us as though "they need me, and I want 'em to know I haven't forgotten them. to warn. "If you birds don't want to listen, get out!" No of.e I'm trying to tell 'em what they ought to do before I get back." moved.

"Are you the mayor?" Ross grinned at him. "It goes back a long way," the doctor began . . . "No; just a country doctor." He was the oldest child, and the only boy, of a big family in "Have you been up to the front?" Tennessee. His father, a farmer on poor, washed-out land, had "Yes; with the battalion; this is the first chance I've had a hard time scrabbling a living out of the soil. As soon as the to write many letters." boy could handle a hoe, he was put to work. He wanted to go to "What are you telling your patients, Doc?" school, and his father said he might when he could be spared. Whatley laughed, an impulsive, genial burst, showing the Year after year, he said the same thing, "Ben, I'm figurin' on gold crown on one of his strong incisors, and said, "They're not sendin' you next term," and year after year he would have to strictly patients, they're my friends and neighbors. I've been repeat, "Cain't spare you yet." Sisters arrived regularly, and working out with them various ideas—terracing, in order to save they all had to eat! the soil, for one thing. I was—after 'em to do that when I left, and In Whatley's dad was a trace of Indian blood; he had a "right" I want 'em to go ahead and in one of the tribes living in Indian Territory—that is, a right "Excuse me for getting personal, Doc," Ross moved his chair to share equally with the rest of the Indians in their land—and slightly nearer, "but would you mind telling me how old you when Ben was eighteen years of age, he decided to move out are?" there. He sold the farm for four hundred dollars, loaded what

MARCH, 1936 13 It was hard at first ; the old folks were as scared of his implements as were the youngsters. But, in Doc's words, "It got around that I was helping those I worked on, and after that I sure had my hands full!" Some of the men paid him, and in five years he had money saved up. He wanted it then for another venture. He had become convinced that he must learn to doctor their bodies as well as their teeth. The people had been poor, shiftless, hah starved, dirty, and careless in their personal habits so long that they had become degenerate. Literally, they were dying out! "The community's bad enough now!" As he said this, Doc looked at me. "Yes," I said, "I've heard it's pretty bad."

"Well, it's a paradise compared to what it was!" He shut up his dental office to go to a medical school. It was tough, a long, hard struggle with the lectures, the highly technical reading, the dissections that baffled his thick fingers—remember, he was past thirty years of age at the time. He did yard work and house chores to earn his keep; and before the course was finished he was in rags. "I believe," he confessed, "I'd have quit

at Christmas of my last year if dad hadn't sent me a twenty- dollar bill, and a scrawl of a letter that said, 'It's all I kin spare,

Ben, try an' make it do.' I stuck it out, and got my diploma." He returned to Cobra as Doctor Ben Whatley, probably the palest, thinnest, and shabbiest M.D. in the United States. His father kept him at home for a time, to rest, eat a great deal, and two horses could pull, into his old wagon and, with the kids plod- build up his strength. Then he borrowed money to buy a new ding alongside, drove west to join a relative who was farming suit, and another horse and buggy. near Cobra. He was the only licensed doctor in Cobra, or for twenty-five At first, the Whatleys rented a farm. Ben's father hired a man miles around. He had competition, though, from "yarb doctors" to work for him—paid him fifteen dollars a month—and Ben at and "conjur-cure" quacks. He fought them openly, told their last started to school. He started at the bottom, with the little victims the truth about them, and offered his services. It was kids, and he was bigger than the 170-pound teacher! But he was tough going, not as easy as it had been to get at their teeth. The starving for book learning, and didn't care if his seat-mate was a quacks fought back. He was threatened, then shot at from the boy of six who looked at him as though he were a circus freak. roadside; his mare was killed; and his father became so anxious He went ahead fast. When he was twenty, he passed the ex- that he advised Ben to go back to the practice of dentistry. But amination for a teacher's certificate, and got a school. Thirty- he was spunky enough to stick to his guns; and after he had five dollars a month, and it was near enough so that he could pulled a woman through when a "yarb doctor" quit, it wasn't so walk to his job from home. hard. Ross broke into the slow narrative to ask, "How far away was At this point in his story, Whatley stopped talking, and looked your school, Doc?" around at us, moving his eyes slowly from face to face; and then, "A little better than six miles. I wore out shoe leather," he as though to make an end, he said, "Well, that's how it was; you grinned, "but the walking was good for me, and I could turn in know, one thing led to another." twenty-five dollars a month to dad." Ross expressed our disappointment, "Go on, Doc! What The school house was a log building, and the pupils mostly from mixed-blood Indian families. The rest were white children whose parents were leasers; the whites were beginning to come into the Indian Territory. They were nearly all underfed, and ragged—a good deal like the Whatley children, except that Ben's sisters never actually went hungry. They were slow to learn, and that worried the teacher. Nobody talked then about mal- nutrition, or the underprivileged child! "I tried to work it out myself," Doc said, "find out why they were slow. I'd get a boy up close, so's to talk to him, and his breath would nearly knock me over! The kids' teeth were terrible, their gums sore, laughed at the their mouths dirty, their bodies filthy. Same They idea of Doc's prize roos- way with the girls, except my sisters; our ter and pedigreed stock mother saw to it that they kept themselves clean. "I just couldn't stand it! I told dad I'd have to learn enough about dentistry to do something about their teeth. And do you know," Whatley sat forward on his chair and tapped Ross' knee delightedly, "he had saved all the money I'd given him, and said, " 'That's a right good notion, Ben.' So Whatley went off to a dental school at St. Louis, worked for his board and room, and stuck it until he could come back to Cobra and put out his sign. He didn't wait for patients, but bought an old buggy and a horse, paying for them on time, and drove out to argue and plead with those children's parents to let him work on their mouths.

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When Doc pulled her through after a medicine man had given up they began to believe him

things led to what? We want to know about it." they would have cursed him and run "Well, I don't want— to tire you boys out gassing him off their farms. But they took the about myself, but if hint, some of them, and he would find He began to talk about a country doctor's work. them oftener in clean shirts and under- He said, "It's mighty interesting to a doctor that is wear, and not smelling like tramps. interested. You get close to people, and I like to do He would smack his lips over milk that. At the front, when a boy was brought back to me not too and vegetables and stewed fruit and rabbit and squirrel meat badly wounded to talk I'd find out while I was working on him wherever he was asked to sit down to a meal that included these where he was from, and about his family and his girl, and all like items. It got around that Doc was a crank in his eating; and as that. They wanted to talk about home, it did 'em good, and I he was always on the go, he would be apt to stop in anywhere al- ." was interested . . most any time. But to get back to Cobra: It wasn't long before he needed two They began to like him, liked to see him pull in; he could pass horses, to spell one another, and was on the go so much that, as the neighborhood news around. He would talk a great deal about he told us, "I got more sleep driving home from calls than I did the families that were living better than before, and whose chil- in my bed." His sisters knitted thick woolen socks, mittens, and dren were doing better in school. He couldn't make any direct sweaters for him to wear in winter; and one of them, Carrie, came attack on their ways, however. "You know," he told us, "it to keep house for him in Cobra. She was his partner! would make me mad if one of you spoke up right now and called "Excuse me for getting personal again, Doc," Ross broke in. me a darn fool!" "Are you married?" We laughed, and Ross blurted, "You're dead right, Doc, and "No. I've wanted to get married, thought about it many I'd— ." His look challenged us needlessly. times, but decided I oughtn't to. The way I look at it, a wife Whatley 's fight, of course, was hard and long; it was ten years, ought to mean a lot to a man; he ought to give her a lot of at- or more, before he felt sure that his method would succeed; and tention, and a great deal of himself—and I just couldn't." all that time he had to watch his step, think before he said any- Of course, after a long time, a country doctor's practice be- thing. "If any of you," he swept us slowly with a glance, "should comes easier, more routine. Doc Whatley got to know absolutely come to Cobra, after we get home, and drive out to the country every human being in his county, and most of his patients he with me in my car, you might say I haven't done much to brag could treat with his eyes shut! about. I'm not bragging, but when I say there has been a hun- He began to think about the way they were living. "Did you dred percent improvement in health and sanitation in the last ever," he turned his eyes on me to ask, "try to make anybody thirty years I'm not exaggerating. wash his feet, and switch from a salt pork, molasses and corn "I'm a slow-minded man, one thing at a time. I tinkered at bread diet to vegetables, milk, and fresh meat—I mean, outside their teeth until I saw I had to do more; and while I was getting the Army—and keep his friendship?" my medical practice established, I got a dentist to come to "I shouldn't care to try," I admitted. Cobra. I helped him to get started, helped him to collect bills

"Well, I had to! No two ways about it. I could have gone on for a while, then left the problem to him. When I saw I was mak- doctoring in that neighborhood a thousand years, if I should ing headway in matters of personal hygiene and diet, I got in- last so long, and the general level of health would not rise unless terested in another idea." the folks changed their way of living." He made progress; he reached the point in time, when he was THE people were wretched farmers, even less progressive than out on a call, where he would take the kids into the kitchen, make Whatley 's father. Their stock and poultry were degenerate, them strip, and help to wash them if necessary. He went about too; ten-dollar horses, scrub mules, three-pint cows, long-legged with the odor of carbolic soap clinging to his clothes. He said and slab-sided hogs, and scrawny chickens and turkeys. Doc nothing about personal cleanliness to the older people; if he had, knew that better stock would pay, but (Continued on page 51)

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J TEREWITH the fifth series of stories in which the narrator participated either as $100 Prize THE GENERAL WEPT principal or as observer. They have been ap-

SEPT. 27, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne, the 364th ONInfantry, 91st Division, was engaged at Eclisfontaine $?o Prize in one of its fiercest battles of the drive, in which it LOYALTY encountered a very stubborn resistance. I was doing first aid duty on the front line and our casualties were heavy.* WHILE serving as detachment commander at General Presently there was an insistent cry, "First Aid, First Aid," and Hospital 14, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in the late spring I found a man with both legs badly shattered by high explosives. of 1918, I had the misfortune to have $435 stolen from my desk. Bandages were applied and he awaited the stretcher bearers. I had inadvertently left the money drawer unlocked from 3 p.m. On filling his diagnosis tag he told me he was Capt. Charles H. until 9 a.m. next day. There was no clue, as the office in the Abercrombie, 363d Infantry. He seemed to disregard his own administration building was open all night. The money was in serious wounds, was concerned that wounded men of his com- envelopes of the paymaster and belonged to men of my detach- mand be promptly taken care of. I later learned that he died. ment who were temporarily absent. Although I could ill afford I happened to be in Portland, Oregon, Jan. 18, 1920, and at- to lose this much money, I felt that it should be my loss, and the tended a public reception given at the civic auditorium to honor men were reimbursed.

Gen. John J. Pershing. Before the 8500 people present, Mayor A few days after the robbery the hospital staff officers made up George Baker presented to the American Army Commander a purse to cover a part of the loss, which I donated to the Red little six-year-old Jean Abercrombie, who came forward with an Cross. The following morning the first sergeant of my detach- armful of roses for the general. "Her father, sir, Capt. Charles H. Abercrombie, was killed on the second day in the Argonne," the mayor told the general. Taking the roses, Pershing saw something in the win- some upturned face of the little miss that touched his heart cords. He sat down slowly, and then drew the girl to his breast, while the tears coursed down his cheeks and the audience thundered its cheers. John F. Conrad, Burlington, Washington.

$50 Prize HE MADE IT

DURING the World War I participated as one of four motorcycle dispatch riders "of the Sixth Infantry Brigade Headquarters, Third Division. We had advanced our headquarters to Charteves, across the Marne from Chateau-Thierry. Firing had ceased, practically, at early dawn. At about 2:15 p.m. I was summoned to the brigadier general's office and given a dispatch to deliver to Colonel McAlexander, commanding the 38th Infantry, in Jaulgonne, four miles up front. I rode my motorcycle up to within about 200 yards of the town, which was being heavily bombarded, and crawled on mv hands and knees in the ditch along the road. At the edge of town, a sentry told me he didn't think I could reach regimental headquarters as the enemy had been laying down a merciless barrage all day. I ignored his statement, reached the center of the town and located headquarters in the cellar of a house. Upon presenting the dispatch to Colonel McAlex- ander, he said, "How in hell did you get in here?" He then said he had been trying since early morning to get a runner to our headquarters, and handed me a message with instructions to rush it through. I started back by the same ment reported that my men had voted unanimously to pay fifty tortuous route and upon reaching my motorcycle turned it cents each to reimburse me in full. The action of the staff officers around and started back with it wide open. Shells bursting on made me feel mighty good, but I shall never have a bigger mo- all sides of me, I could see very little chance of escape, but I ment than when I found the 850 men of my detachment offering to arrived at brigade headquarters and presented this message to share with me in my loss. While I could not accept their gener- Brigadier General Crawford: "Our artillery fire failing short; ous offer, knowledge of their loyalty more than repaid me. 250 of our men already casualties. Raise range at once." It would give me pleasure to hear from any of them.— Dr. William D. Rossiter, Veterans Facility, Batavia, New York. Newton G. Wilson, Madison, North Carolina.

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Moments pearing in the Monthly regularly since last November. The sixth andfinal instalment will I only remembered when I caught the cable each time to hand be carried in the April issue of the Monthly over hand and try to keep the canoe above it. I hardly know how I reached the home bank. The children had been quiet as mice.— Mrs. Jennie W. Davis, Emory, Va. $25 Prize THREE LIVES AT STAKE $25 Prize THE OLD GANG, THE OLD FLAG MY FATHER'S farm was bounded on one side by New River, across which was operated a ferry owned by my I LEFT my home to join the Canadian Army in 191 5. After father. I was sixteen years of age. With my two younger sisters a short training in Canada we went overseas, a longer I went to Sunday School about a mile from home across this same training period in England, thence to France and Belgium—at ferry. A farm hand ferried us over in the large boat. He told us last the western front! to call when we returned and he would come for us. It was March Rain and mud, mud and rain, day in and day out, tea, corned and when we returned to the river a terrific wind was blowing. beef and jam; jam, corned beef and tea. Messines, St. Eloi, We called and waited but got no response. We were getting un- Kemmel, Armienticres and the whole Ypres salient. comfortably cold and very hungry. Suddenly I spied the canoe. I felt homesick at times. But in the summer of 1918, one day I placed the two small children in the back of it, untied it and I was sitting in my supply truck in the town of Wormoudt, started hand over hand on the cable. The canoe shot out on the Belgium, and lazily dreaming in the warm sunshine. My water like an arrow. I had presence of mind enough to let go the thoughts drifted back to home. Would I ever see my people rope or I should have been left dangling and the children set again, my mother and family and the "old gang" on the corner?

An irresistible current was pulling the Would this war ever stop? Nothing but strange faces all the canoe downstream time. I was very blue and felt deep in the dumps. Tramping feet, tramping feet. I looked up casually and right in front of my eyes adrift. Fortunately, the boat was headed upstream and as it the "old gang" from home! drifted down I again grasped the cable. I found an irresistible Sure enough, Co. B, 105th Infantry, 27th Division, was current drawing the boat down and once more I gave up for lost; marching past! We are, most of us, now members of the same but a terrific blast of wind sent it whirling up the river above the post. I have been a Vice-Commander and president of our drum

cable and threatened to overturn our craft. corps.— William J. Fremont, Cohoes, New York.

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$25 Prize knowing whether he died, AND STILL LIVING whether help came or what. I did know that he I WAS last in the single file cavalcade winding down the breath- was still alive then because taking trail along the wall of the Grand Canyon. The mule he feebly motioned for me on which I rode paused intermittently to project its head over to go on. Every time I got the precipice and stare down into the yawning gorge. a chance after that I in- Once his body suspended dangerously over the cliff. Already quired of everyone return- giddy, sudden fear struck at my heart. Disregarding the guide's ing to the Army if they previous instructions, I slipped off his back and hugged the had heard anything of him canyon wall. My heart was in my mouth. but no one knew anything The mule stared bewilderedly at my action. He then wedged about him. his nose between me and the wall, evidently to inform me to My big moment came return to his back, when suddenly I found myself forced from the some months later after wall and clinging to his neck. My feet dangled over the cliff. the war was all over and He jerked his head and I lost hold, falling almost twenty feet to a we had been moved up jutting crag. I clung to it for several minutes, my hands lacerated into Germany as the Army and bleeding, and again lost my grip and fell another fifteen feet of Occupation. to about a 65-degree incline on which I tried to grasp at some One day while eating sparse brush. The plants pulled loose and I rolled over and over, dinner a comrade brought finally landing at the edge of the winding trail which doubled a newspaper, The Stars and back nearly 200 feet below. Had I gone another foot I would Stripes, containing an ad- have dropped over its brink and into oblivion. vertisement asking my The first of the cavalcade came upon me shortly afterwards. whereabouts, stating that Several bones were broken and I was covered with blood, but my brother was alive and happy to be still living.— David Holland, Veterans Facility, in a base hospital in Tucson, Arizona. France. Glen C. Alber, Big Rapids, Michigan. $25 Prize CHER AMI, HERO $10 Prize A LUCKY LOOK IT WAS during the afternoon of the fourth of October, 1918, on a little brush-covered hillside in the Argonne Forest. ABOUT one week before The First Battalion of the 308th Infantry, later known as the /l Christmas, iqiS, my Lost Battalion, under the command of Major Charles W. outfit landed in Coblenz, Whittlesey, was caught in their own barrage, surrounded by Germany. We were bil- Germans, had no food and ammunition and had been called upon leted in old Fort Bernstine to withstand a bayonet attack by a force that outnumbered them overlooking the city. Be- approximately five to one. Their wounded were in terrible con- low us was the Rhine rail- dition and there seemed to be small chance of anyone coming to head; across the river was their relief as their position was apparently unknown to head- historic Ehrenbreitstein. quarters. The rugged stone build- Major Whittlesey wrote an appeal for help and watched it as ings of our picturesque old it was tied on to the leg of the last of the carrier pigeons. This fort had been used both as bird, known as Cher Ami, was released as its four brothers had classrooms for infantry- been. It soared into the air, circled to get its bearings and like men and as barracks. its brothers was shot down by the expert German ritlemen. It Numerous maps, detailed fell, too far away from our position for us to reach it although drawings of machine guns; close enough for us to see. One man was heard to remark, "My also hand grenades, rifles, God, our last hope is gone!" when suddenly Cher Ami again rose and various other supplies in the air and in spite of his wounded condition made a direct were stored there. flight across the valley and over the hill toward the American The buildings were cold. Headquarters. Stoves and briquettes of When our food was all gone, many of our buddies slowly coke nearly as big as a bleeding to death, and no water to be had to even moisten the man's fist were found and fevered lips of the wounded, is it any wonder that I got the pressed into service. The greatest thrill of the war when Cher Ami made good in his second first night no lights were attempt to return to headquarters with our plea for help?— available. It came my Arthur R. Looker, Wayland, Michigan. time to go to one of the innumerable basement $10 Prize rooms for fuel. Having THE COMMAND WAS FORWARD been away on special duty until dark, I was given instructions as to where I might find I WAS just eighteen in 1917 when the call came for volunteers the coke. to go across the "Big Pond" so I enlisted in the 126th Infan- Feeling my wayalong the wall down the steps in pitch darkness, try of the 3 2d Division. I entered what I thought was the third door on my left and raked I had a brother in this Division who had previously been in around with my hobnails until I found what appeared to be coal, service so we kept together even after we were in France. kicked in all I could, then stooped down with hands incased in On Oct. 9, 1918, when we were on the Meuse-Argonne front, heavy leather mittens and filled the small scuttle. When I got an order came to attack and we moved forward. back to the squad room I opened the hot stove door with the My brother was in the line ahead of me and when I went over, coal hod aimed at the opening, and looked down. Cold chills went there he lay in a shell hole, his entire face covered with blood. up my spine and clammy perspiration broke out all over me. The Our orders had been never to stop to help the wounded and coal hod was nearly full—not of coke, but of hand grenades. it was hard to step over him and go on letting him lie there not J. C. Barnett, Weatherford, Oklahoma. 18 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

won the fight. Then after two years of hard work in 193 1 that music died away when they told me I was again active. "Not so easy the second time," said the doctors. On Dec. 10, 1935, I landed here for routine exams and as I lay on my bunk a few minutes ago reading of Big Moments to others, my big moment came to me as my doctor approached my bed smiling and said, "Good work, my boy, for the second time you have beat the rap. What is your formula?" "Keep the old chin up, Doc," I said as I breathed a silent prayer to my Maker. Teller C. Broshears, Veterans Facility, Ruscbarg, Oregon.

$10 Prize PROUD OF THE LEGION

AFTER discharge from the American Army, I married in Chicago, jLx. a young woman from Korea, my native country. She had come here as a student under the immigration law. Soon after, a girl was born; we moved out to San Francisco. A year later another child was coming, and my wife was compelled to leave her school. The authorities in Washington wanted to know the reason why. I explained the whole situation, begging them to excuse her for a while as the wife of a veteran. But insisting that she had violated the law, the authorities had ordered her deportation and she was scheduled to leave, of all days, on Armistice Day of 1932. She was given only three days' time to get ready. Was I worried to death! To think of my wife with a baby boy of six weeks and a girl two years old to be taken away from me

was something really unbearable. Believe it or not, my black hair actually turned gray over night! I was a member of Cathay Post, and my only hope was in the Legion, which pledged "to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness." And I had sent out my urgent appeals to prominent Legionnaires and Auxiliares. In the meantime, through the kind efforts of Department Adjutant Jim Fisk a stay of sixty days was obtained. At last the glad tidings came to me that my wife was permitted to stay!

Was I happy! And is it any wonder that I am proud of the Legion and proud to be a Legionnaire?—E. Emsen Charr, San Francisco, California.

$10 Prize AT THE STEEPLE TOP

PRIOR to my World War Navy service I followed stack and steeplejack work. In May, 1913, my partner and I had a con- tract to paint and gild the steeple on the First Presbyterian Church, Lebanon, Ohio. The height of this steeple was one hundred and ten feet from the roof of the church, there being no means of ascending to the top except by using poles to force a loop and slip knot of which one end, at the bottom, was stayed fast to the base of the spire. In order to get my tackle and bo'sn chair to the top of the spire I had to overhand rope to the pinnacle. Most of the afternoon being taken up, I decided to wait until the morning to start painting.

During the night it rained, and early the next morning the sun

' : came out very hot. I lost hold, falling almost twenty feet My partner helped hoist me to the top of the steeple, and I was to a jutting crag" ready to start gilding the pinnacle, which I had to stand up in the chair to do. $10 Prize He remained on the ground to hoist up the material. "KEEP THE OLD CHIN UP" I had just sat down in the chair, and lowered myself down about eight feet from the top, when all at once I dropped about SHORTLY after discharge from service in France in 1919, five feet down the side. I cried out to him on the ground that the my old doctor said on the completion of his exams, "Too lower end of the rope must have come untied. It seemed an bad, buddy, but it's active T. B. Well advanced." "What is my eternity before he reached the place and called up to me that the chance, Doc?" I asked. "Slim," he said, "but keep the old chin rope was safely tied. The reason for my falling the five feet down up." the side of the spire was my weight and the sun causing the slack For ten years I did, and what a fight! But it was music in my to come out. I had forgotten that peculiarity of wet manila rope. ears in 1929 when the Veterans Bureau doctors told me I had —Ralph W. Ci.yborn, Greenfield, Ohio. (Continued on page 56)

MARCH, 1936 19 By Toe Lid Charles Rentrop am/AlRPLANE Spin

AY-DEEZ and gent'mun! In this corner, weighing two hunnert pounds, from Memphis, we have Whitey Hewitt!" e It's the announcer starting another wrestling match, and we old wrestlers never hear it without a thrill. Another wrestling contest, in which all the strength, speed, skill and cun-

ning of an ancient sport can be displayed— if the wrestlers really know anything about it —is ready to begin. I've been in the game, as wrestler, referee and promoter, for thirty-six years. I've seen wrestling come up from the barnstorming status it occupied so long to its present secure and recognized standing. Wrestling today plays to more people than all other sports combined, except baseball. Does that statement sound dizzy? Well, that's official, from the fellows who compile the statistics. The sport had a long, hard pull up to popular favor, but it packs 'em in now. It was not always so. Oh no! Gather round, you fans of the mat, and I'll tell you of former days. When I came to this land of athletic opportunity in 1910 the sport had little or no organization. A few top-notch wrestlers made good money, but the majority made matches when and where they thought enough

cash could be pulled in from admissions or bets to make it worth the effort. Promoters were for the most part elusive gentry who had to be beaten or wrestled into giving an athlete his share of the income. Arenas were make-shift places where a mat could be spread and customers seated. All of which has changed for the better. And honestly—don't the fans get a good show for their money?

WITH the modesty becoming an old wrestling champ, I don't mean to brag. But in the interest of historical accuracy, let me record that I became middleweight champion in my native country, Germany, in 1904. I went to the Olym- pics at Athens in 1906 and won the world's amateur middleweight title. Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt, the German lads were encouraged to wrestle when I was coming greatest wrestlers in the world a quarter cen- up. They eagerly joined the gymnasium clubs for wrestling in- tury ago. Gotch's famous toe hold was too struction, and matches and tournaments were a part of their much for his rival the two times they met regular routine. Allied troops in the World War opposed many a young athlete with splendid physique built up by years of wrestling—before the food shortage in Germany got in its dev- wrestling. Then to London, India, the Orient and Australia, astating work. mastering the tricks of the ancient and manly art in each of these I turned professional and won the European middleweight precincts. Checking up a little, I find I have wrestled in every championship, at a tournament in London against sixty-seven country of the world except Alaska. of Europe's crack wrestlers. Lord Lonsdale presented me with When I came to America, Gotch and Hackenschmidt were the the belt. I went back to Athens to studv the Greek method of big names of the arena. I had wrestled Hackenschmidt in the

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Twenty-eight paid admissions and a side-bet of $10,000—the match at Foraker, Oklahoma, wrestler of modern times. Unhesitatingly I name Hacken- between Charley Rentrop and Bob Williams, a schmidt. He was an all-round athlete—fast, rugged, with the local boy who had his shoulders pinned in seven stamina of an engine. He knew wrestling as few have ever minutes, four seconds. Below, Jim Londos dem- mastered it. onstrates the Japanese leg-breaker hold with W hen Frank Gotch defeated Jennings with his famous toe which he won the world's championship from hold he was generally recognized as heavyweight champion, at Dick Shikat at Philadelphia in 1930 least in America. Gotch's toe hold was deadly, and he could ruin the best of them with it. I should add that the Old Master Music Hall in London, when he was on a sort of exhibition tour. knew all the styles of wrestling and could pull any number of Hack, outweighed me sixty pounds, but I was supposed to stay tricks out of the bag when hard pressed. with him fifteen minutes. He pinned my shoulders in nine. Gotch discovered great possibilities in a young surgeon from I am frequently asked my opinion as to who was the greatest Seattle—Dr. B. F. Roller. The Doc was a Jim Corbett sort of athlete and a thoroughbred sportsman. Under Gotch's urging he went to Europe to have a try at Champion Hackenschmidt. Hack threw him without difficulty but had to admit he had the stuff. Then Hack came to the United States and the big battle of 1907 took place—Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt, in the Chicago Coliseum. Gotch was given the decision after two hours of sensational wrestling. A long match? Well, the type of work a wrestler had to do in the old days was plenty hard. I might cite a couple of my early matches. While in Australia I took on Emil Klute, the undefeated heavyweight champion of that dominion. He was bad medicine, and no mistaking that. He outweighed me fifty- five pounds, and because he was undefeated I was anxious to pin him to the mat. We wrestled for five hours and twenty-one minutes and I can assure you we weren't loafing. Some meddle- some officers of the Humane Society stepped in then and stopped the match. Shortly after reaching this country, while I was batting around trying to find opponents, a backer conceived the bright idea of matching me with Pat Brown of Houston, Texas, middleweight champion of America, for a $5,000 side-bet. I found Pat plenty tough. The match lasted two hours and forty-five minutes, and he threw me. That defeat worried me. I was restless for another chance at Brown. The return was arranged for Temple, Texas, and there we had it for three hours and fourteen minutes, with $5,000 again the side-bet stake. Pat took all I had. I finally got a leg hold on him and unfortunately splintered a bone. Pat never wrestled again. The big match of 1910, a revival of the Gotch-Hackenschmidt classic of three years before, was arranged for Labor Day at the White Sox ball park. I was proud to (Continued on page 48)

MARCH, 1936 21 CAMP By Jerru Owen

lar capitalized affliction permitted, and pin this bit of color to the coat. "Help a disabled veteran?" would be the plea, accompanied by a pitiful air of helplessness. The price? It depended on the obvious gullibility of the sucker. Sometimes—•" Anything you care to give, lady." But what a dirty look accompanied the acceptance of anything less than a quarter. Service committees at national conventions of The American Every bettor grabbed his Legion are prepared to deal with this gentry and the various entry and rushed out other racketeers who gravitate toward these great gatherings. But their work is not made easier by the fact that altogether too

sweet-faced little old lady looked up at her tall son THEwith a bird-like tilt of her head and smiled brightly. He was pointing at a tiny rosette of red, white and blue ribbon which had been pinned on the lapel of her rather shabby black coat. "Oh, that? I felt so sorry for the poor fellow. He had his arm in a sling and an old dirty uniform on—like that one of yours in that trunk in the attic. 'Course fifty cents was kinda high-priced for jes' a little ribbon but 1 was ashamed to ask him to take it off after he had pinned it on me. An' he said the money went to help your convention and other disabled men—'buddies,' he called 'em—like himself." "That's all I wanted to know," nodded the son, with a grim smile. A few hours later an even dozen of the petty grafters known to the initiate as "pin-on" men were behind the bars in this particular national convention city. By morning they were joined by 36 more of their ilk. They were professionals, the type of hawker that follows every convention of service men, state or national, D. A. V., V. F. W. or American Legion. Their props were wheelchairs, crutches, slings, braces and cigarboxes full of rosettes and butterfly flags—you know the kind, looking something like a miniature bow tie of red, white and blue. The stickers read "Made in Japan" Women, elderly in particular, were their meat, and men who obviously were not service men. Up they would go to their vic- of these actually are veterans, with tim, propelled by whatever means of locomotion their particu- many men armed membership credentials in every ex-service organization to which they are eligible, such credentials usually being more bona fide than The foot powder, she their purported disabilities. figured, would be in Picked up for peddling without a license and thrown in the great demand on the hoosegow, these comrades holler long and loudly for their state day of the parade commander. He never knows them personally but they are boys from his home State with membership cards in posts with which he is familiar, so he usually goes to bat for them. Bail furnished, back they go to work until another round-up. Frequently such birds are accompanied by good-looking femmes who do the "pinning" while their male friends hobble up on crutches and "put the bee" on. Who could brave the scorn of a fair lady and unfortunate disabled veteran combined? The halcyon days of the convention grafter are gone. Better organization, an acquaintance with the wiles of the chiseler by forewarned convention committees are responsible. Passing out this information is one of the many ways in which our national convention liaison officer, Vic MacKenzie, earns his daily bread and occasional cake.

The great trouble with many convention entrepreneurs is that they do not appreciate the psychology of an American Legion gathering. They appear to think that a lot of young fellows are

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly FOLLOWERS getting away from their mothers' apron strings for the first time and will be attracted by the street carnival type of entertainment. They don't realize that the boys of '17 have outgrown diapers— though not all have been weaned from the bottle—and that they need no outside help to enjoy themselves at a national convention. Outside the serious business of these great convocations of veterans there is plenty of time for amusement, but Legion- naires do not look for that amusement in theaters or at carnival attractions. These may attract local yokels and high school punks who are out for a wild time, who have left all inhibitions behind a nd are making L their business to "help the Legion cele- brate." But for the Legionnaire, the camaraderie of his buddies, the reunion with old friends, the nonsensical diversions that occur to a mature man who is temporarily relieved from all demands on his dignity, are quite sufficient. I seem to recall that the Saint Louis newspapers heralded a special convention engagement of Sophie Tucker, "last of the red hot mommas," at a night club reopened for the occasion. This was supposed to make a great appeal to visiting Legion- naires. The home town folk did not turn out for Sophie, the Legionnaires had other diversions to occupy their attention and she might have had to hitch-hike back to New York had she not Women fall for the tear-jerking f thoughtfully provided herself with a round-trip ticket—according antics of the pin-on" gentry to the local press. Movies and legitimate theaters report their poorest business sold $50 worth of confetti. The convention committee gave them during Legion conventions. Their only percentage of the crowds back their money. They proved one thing— the Legion doesn't overflowing the streets is that portion which can no longer "take go in for confetti. it" and slump gratefully into upholstered seats to rest. Conventions of The American Legion attract many strange One would have thought that the crucial series between the persons who hope to gather in a portion of the millions of dollars Cardinals and Cubs, with a league pennant and crack at the reputedly left behind by the veteran hordes. Many have been world championship at stake, would have jam-packed the the unusual schemes which flourished in the good old days. If

Saint Louis grandstands. Yet those baseball bugs among us who you will permit an old codger his reminiscences, I'll recall a few. ditched convention sessions and a part of the big parade had no Did you ever hear of the great turtle race? Portland was the difficulty obtaining seats, scene of this particular bust. Such a novelty had wowed them in and noted vast vacant areas Los Angeles during the Olympiad and some of the gambling aces in the towering tiers. in the Rose City decided to back a similar feature during the big There are all sorts of convention and rake in some nice, clean, but easy money. Ac- precedents as warnings to cordingly a race syndicate was organized in convention concessionaires record time, negotiations for a Turtle Cave who try to figure out mathe- concession were opened with the convention matically how many gadgets commission and 1400 turtles were ordered or whatnot a Leg- shipped from Los Angeles by air express. ion convention Turtles sold outright for $1.50. An entry crowd of a given fee of $1 was charged for each race. Winner size will absorb. take all, less house percentages. In theory

There is, for ex- there was money in the racket. Turtles had ample, the historic been sold over and over again in Los Angeles. case of the two But they reckoned without ex-service men, gentlemen who who crave action in their sports. eagerly sought The idea was to line up the turtles at the (and got) the right edge of a large, felt-covered circular table and to sell confetti to head them toward a small water tank situated He wanted to be official the tremendous in the exact center. Then start the betting. tattooer of the convention crowds which came Came opening day. Quite a crowd of veterans to the Boston Na- had been lured inside by the ballyhoo. Turtles tional Convention to greet President Herbert Hoover and Calvin were purchased and the "race" started. Coolidge and other celebrities. They paid $500 for the confetti Irritation of one spectator reached its zenith when the turtle rights. Apparently, they figured that New England would grow he was urging to bursts of speed went into reverse, then squatted enthusiastic in the fashion of downtown New York welcoming in his tracks, drawing his head into his shell with every apparent Lindbergh back home after his trans-Atlantic flight. They intention of grabbing off a few winks. The purchaser seized the must have visualized Washington Street knee-deep in con- offending mammal—am I correct, professor?—by the tail and ^ fetti after the tumult and shout- started away from there. ed *Zr/725* bU ing had died. But the parade "Hey! Come back wid dat dere toitle. De race ain't finished Yj ~ jy * avoided Washington and other yet!" Horrified protest followed the absconder. Tievb IXOtrl narrow streets. The promoters "B'loney. Ain't I paid fer this lizard? I {Continued on page j8)

MARCH, 1936 23 THE DOG WATCH Introducing Hoosegow Herman, the No Good Recruit By Wallgren

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24 7Vif AMERICAN LEGION Monthly EDITORIAL A Tour of the Late Battlefield

nn^HEH| Battle of the Bonus is won. It has justed compensation is, in the opinion of this een half a generation in the waging, magazine, an eminently satisfactory solution 1 Sr has been marked by minor skirm- of the problem. The veteran can have the face ishes, temporary checks, clashing advances, by value of his certificate as soon as the essential as much sniping, digging in, inching along as paper-work can be completed, or he can retain any first-class military campaign that was ever his compensation in the form of the most brought ultimately to a victorious conclusion. readily cashable security in the world, ac- As in the case of all modern wars (and most cumulating three percent interest on it an- ancient), it was paralleled by a running fight of nually up to 1945, or converting it into cash, propaganda that often outdid the actual front- in whole or in part, at any time before that line ruckus in noise and bluster. date, and with the principal guaranteed at Now that the smoke has settled, The Ameri- one-hundred cents on the dollar. There is can Legion can disclose an important military much loose capital in this country whose secret. The bitterest, the loudest denunci- owners would be delighted to have their funds, ations wrung from the opponents of the bonus even to the tune of many millions, invested were the most important of all contributions in a security as safe and paying such a liberal to the enactment of the measure. The Legion's dividend. But they can't come in. Member- enemies were the Legion's be^t friends. ship in the Adjusted Compensation Bond Club Why? Well, for one thing, they overdid it. is as exclusive as membership in The American The average American, whether below or Legion—and for the same reason. above war age, knows that the American ex- r service man is not the grasping thug that the T*HE wisdom of the veteran's retaining his

opposition chose to represent him in editorial adjusted compensation in bond form if his comment, in cartoon, and, be it said with personal situation will permit him to do so is shame, in too many "news" stories by "spe- obvious. It is hardly necessary to point out cial correspondents." This same average that by holding on to his bonds he will be able American got a little tired of seeing a decent to free other funds at his disposal for immedi- next-door neighbor pictured as a hungry go- ate needs and even for luxuries. Previously de- rilla that had somehow got out of its cage. posited savings drawing less than three percent And for another thing, the opposition at- will be available, if he has them. He can be tributed to the organized American veteran freer with his weekly earnings than he has been far more power than the American veteran has in the past, thanks to having this bonus anchor ever asserted for himself. No one, it has been to windward. remarked, should mind what a competitor says This magazine does not check along with of him so long as the competitor talks. This those who foresee with the distribution of the theory may partake too much of the quality of bonus a wild and insane orgy of spending. It hard-boiledness to suit most of us in our com- is amusing to note that certain newspapers mercial or any other relations, but there is which were shrillest in their invective against more than a grain of truth in it. There was the "treasury raiders" have recently turned certainly a whole carload of truth in it so far highly paternalistic; they are patting the as the bonus was concerned. The opposition "boys" on the back and urging them nicely frothed at the mouth, slandered, vilified, tore (and in words of one syllable) not to spend its hair, but in the very act and by the very their money all in one place. fact of raising these ructions it presented the When is this section of the press going to Legion and the bonus issue with a volume of learn that it is now nearly eighteen years since advertising that the Legion could not have November 11, 191 8, that the average Ameri- bought in the open market. They constructed can World War veteran is some forty-two an ogre, a Jupiter equipped with two handfuls years old, that he is a responsible and reputable of thunderbolts, and they wound up by con- citizen, that he may have some slight concep- vincing themselves that the ogre actually ex- tion of how best to conduct his own affairs, isted. It worked. and that he is just as mindful of the welfare of Good generals don't get aboard fence-rails his country and of his fellow-men as are his de- and crow about their victories. They consoli- tractors—perhaps, considering his background date their gains. The final adjustment of ad- of service, even a little more so?

MARCH, 19,6 Sheriff Colt ' Edited V v , hy MARQUIMarquisS JAMESJames from the Diary ofthe Late Henry W Daly

Of all the soldiers, prospectors, ranchmen and stage coach passengers buried in the Bowie graveyard I venture to say that not one in three died in a bed. The Apaches were responsible Illustrations for the largest contribution but they did not do it all. The camp by followers never struck their tents without leaving a few people in Bowie for good. Herbert M. Stoops This time the crowd had not been there long before mules began to disappear from the corral. Rustlers were often a part of such gatherings. As a matter of fact I had recognized one IKE many other people the demi-monde of the Old West I lived a roving life. It went where the money was, i moving out from such fixed bases as San Antonio, Kansas City, Omaha and San Francisco to follow the railroad and mining camps, to meet cattle drives at the rail heads and to make the rounds of army posts, sending military expeditions on their way with a touch of high life and welcoming them back when the troops would have three or four months' pay coming. At Fort Bowie in the summer of 1885 General Crook was fitting out an expedi- tion to go after Geronimo. Bowie was a more-or-less typical frontier station, consisting of a square of squat, sun- blistered buildings nestling in a pass of the Chiricahua Range in southeastern Arizona a few miles south of the lately- built Southern Pacific railroad line. In ordinary times De Long's store, which contained a bar and some card tables, sufficed for purposes of recreation. Now a regular little mushroom town had sprung up where the contractors, horse and mule dealers, whisky merchants and dance hall girls pitched their tents as close to the post as the authorities would allow. Scouts, guides, teamsters and packers, all of them veterans of previous campaigns and expeditions, drifted in to seek employment. Old friends met and swapped experiences and no one who could arrange to sleep in the daytime went to bed before dawn. A more permanent feature of Fort Bowie was the cemetery. Most of the grave markers were of wood. The bio- graphical data on them, though differing We planned to crawl somewhat from that in settled communi- up on the store and ties, usually was as complete as we could cover the front make it. For instance: TONY door with our rifles Mexican Teamster Killed by Apaches horse thief about the post and, in view of our past relations, was June, 1884 a little surprised that he stayed around after knowing that I was In Texas I assisted at the obsequies of a cowboy whose epitaph there. was: This fellow was known as Curly Bill. Our last meeting had CUT-NOSE PETE taken place near old Fort Cummings, New Mexico. Stock had Died With His Boots On been missing and I was sent out to bring it in. To bring it in,

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meaning the stock. We didn't usually bring in horse thieves. I explained that settlers, We left them where we found them. Such was the part that though sometimes murdered, horses and mules played in the scheme of frontier existence that never met death at the end the theft of either was punishable by death under the regularly of a rope. "Those are enacted laws of all western States and communities. It was not horse thieves," I added, always convenient to trouble the constituted authorities with calling attention to their the execution of these laws, especially when such authorities high-heeled boots and spurs, might be two hundred miles away, But Sheriff Colt and Judge "and though you may think Lynch were always handy and they could put the fear of God it hard it's the best way we into horse thieves better than anybody else. have of keeping them down." Some years before while driving a stage on the Ben Ficklin Later I heard that these line between Jacksboro and Fort Concho, in Texas, I slowed up particular outlaws had been for the Brazos River crossing and there, hanging from the limbs assisted out of their troubles of a single tree, were the bodies of four men. by an army lieutenant and his Arapahoe scouts, stationed at One of my passengers was an easterner. "What a lawless Fort Sill. country!" he exclaimed. "Some settlers murdered in cold blood." On another occasion, in W yoming, a major of cavalry as distinguished for his Christian virtues as for his bravery, brought a similar end to the leader of a gang that had been preying on the stock of settlers and of the Army for years. On the Staked Plains I saw a horse thief strung up to a wagon tongue held up- right, no tree being available. The time I was sent out, with two other men, to bring in some stolen army stock to Fort Cummings- we got the drop on Curly Bill and his partner and disarmed them without firing a shot. I told Bill that although he deserved

it I wasn't going to hang

him, but if I ever ran into him again under like circumstances he would find himself standing on nothing looking up a rope. So we left the two of them, without arms, ammunition, mounts or grub thirty miles from nowhere. One night at Bowie I saw Bill in a tent barroom and reminded him of how matters stood between us. "Oh," he said, "that's all right, Hank. I'm in a different line of business now." He offered to buy me a drink. I refused, thinking that whatever Bill's new business was it couldn't be panning out very well, for his boots were scuffed and worn and his hat was an old one. Although pos- sessed of no other attractive qualities that I knew (Continued on page 54)

MARCH, 1936 27 nhe Muzzled By WYTHE WILLIAMS

Cartoons hi/ C/eorye Shanks See nothing, type nothing, send nothing

EUROPE again is at the boiling point of war. The reason and dictatorship, takes as cannot be assigned solely to the document frequently its fundamental maxim, pronounced iniquitous, entitled the Treaty of Versailles, "The public be damned," that indeed has helped stir the Old World to fever pitch. or when it does not go Nor does the blame lie alone upon the statesmen or politicians, quite that far, at least, the large and small, who at least keep long working hours trying to public be duped. Today in guide the destinies of nations. Most of the fault belongs to the these three nations nearly vicious institution known as political censorship of news, fostered two hundred million human and permitted by governments, which collectively therefore must beings are deprived of their share the dire responsibility. right to know by the few po- America won the first decisive victory in the age-long struggle litical higher-ups who com- for free speech and free press when in the Constitution of the new pletely dominate their nation, the press was the only institution specifically mentioned as existence. In the other inviolate. During wars between nations military censorships are twenty-one nations, an oc- established, naturally, that correspondents may not inadvert- cult or invisible censorship ently send out information giving aid and comfort to the enemy. exists which while not so openly annoying is almost as dangerous. But everywhere, except in autocracies, during the nineteenth At the outbreak of the World War, I was the Paris correspond- century, political censorship gradually languished and the public ent for an American newspaper. Nightly a messenger boy went to generally knew and understood how the planet progressed. the cable office with my dispatches indicating how Europe sud- With the World War political censorship again came into denly had gone mad, and what the French nation in particular its own and ever since has flourished like a garden weed. Today proposed to do about it. twenty-four European nations are stifling under a news control Hundreds of Americans, on vacation or business in Europe, more hampering to friendly international understanding than caught in the rapid swirl of events, were trying wildly to book passage home. The banks imposed a moratorium and travelers' checks could not be cashed. Ships were scarce and filled to over-capacity. The plight of these refugees became news, almost as important to America as the onrush of war. My editor cabled for a list, complete as possible, of those in Paris, that their friends and relatives at home might know they were outside the area of immediate danger. The second night after the army mobilization, I wrote a cable made up of several thousand names. The messenger returned from the cable office a short while later, the list still in his hand, and laconically gave the reason therefor. "Nothing doing," he said. "The censor is on the job." In response to my heated observation that the dispatch contained nothing but names, he said: "I told the guy that, but he said it was code." That was my first contact with His All-Mightiness, the Censor. I had considered that news from the battle zone would be controled by a military censor, but the idea of a political censor sitting in the main telegraph office of the capital had not occurred to me. Determined that the In the years that have passed, I have had many experi- worst will come ences with the censor, military and political, and never have I known his acumen to register much higher above the zero mark

the censorship, both military and political, that existed during than it did on that initial meeting. I make this bald assertion be- the struggle of the nations. cause after my long experience I cannot accept what always In three great European powers, Germany, Italy, Russia, this seems the basic and frequently the only idea of the censor, namely news muzzle is official and iron-clad. Scores of journalists are that the person whose work he judges knows either little or incommunicado, in prisons and concentration camps of their own nothing of his subject, while the censor knows everything. It countries, their only offense being honest portrayal of often un- was entirely useless on that summer night in 1014 to argue with pleasant truths. Foreign correspondents, for the same crime of the super nitwit enthroned at the cable office that the names in honesty and accuracy, have been subjected to humiliating im- my dispatch were not code words, or even so, that they did not prisonment followed by ignominious expulsion. in any way harm the cause of France, and might even be bene- Official political censorship, inevitable correlation to tyranny ficial in a land where France then needed friends. The names

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were code, he said, and he knew, he said also. And he treated me as if I were a public enemy. The censor himself is of course only the living symbol of the institution. He has his rules, which apparently leave common sense out of account, and he must stick to them. Of the two brands, the army censor in the field has, I admit, more reason for existence. Battle plans may be prematurely exposed. Things happen at the front that it is perhaps better the public does not know. But even there, writing from the experience of several wars, my considered opinion is that the chief censor should have at least the authority of a major general rather than the customary understrapper whose knowledge counts for little. The doughboy who tried to express his thoughts to his parents or his girl back home fumed just as much over the censor's blue pencil as the superior war correspondent who, as a sop to his irritation, later may have been invited to the general's mess. Shortly after the first battle of the Marne, during the race north to the sea that culminated in the battle of the Yser, a distinguished-looking, bemedaled colonel in British uniform, accompanied by an also bemedaled major, sat in a village telegraph office far back of the lines, where war correspondents were instructed to file their news. The stack of telegrams on the table before them got higher and higher. The correspondent for a

London paper asked the colonel when might it be expected that his dispatch would arrive at destination. The colonel heaved a vast sigh and said he didn't think it would ever get there. The France, Holland and Bel- Catch 'em young, correspondent sought enlightenment and the colonel said: "You gium, semi-official only, teach 'em rough see, it's this way. We were sent here to take charge of all this and carefully concealed stuff, and to send on only what we think is all right. But frankly in operation, but where we do not know, and so we have decided that our best course is overnight it is privileged to transform itself into a news muzzle just not to send anything." as rigid as in those nations where news not only is controled but This censor, in addition to his ignorance, at least was honest, where every source of independence or opposition is obliterated. but England, feverishly waiting for news of events on the Western In the remaining states of Europe this invisible censorship is even Front, and with every right to know, was kept in the dark. more hidden and while less disturbing is nevertheless dangerous Scores of incidents could be cited to prove my assertions con- should trouble spread in those localities. cerning the institu- In the British Parliament the press has been characterized as tion of censorship, *y' the Fourth Estate powerful, necessary and forming the key- .•, — both military and 4 S*iL stone of democratic government. Great Britain does not figure political, that it is in the fist of European nations to which I have referred, but with vicious, poisonous to the United States is distinguished by a press that is independent the intellectual well- and unafraid. The honesty of the British press never has been springs of the human questioned. This assertion cannot be race, and a direct made of the press of several con- threat to world tinental powers in which it is so peace. But this arti- palpably venal as to cause distrust cle is not anecdotal, if not disgust even among its readers. except to illustrate Occult censorship as practised in the situation today. France, for example, is a remote con- Direct censorship trol affair that is rather stiflingly today, besides that in effective. Correspondents may file the three great pow- what they please. A dispatch is sent ers, also rules defi- as it is written. BUT the mo- nitely over Austria. ment that it is filed at the telegraph More than occasion- or cable office it is scrutinized by ally it clamps down Ready with those in authority who hold the in Spain, Portugal, hatred and power of life or death so far as the Greece and the other a sword in- writer's job is concerned. Therefore Balkan states, like- stead of un- he lives always under the shadow of wise in Poland and derstanding a possible mistake In brief he must the little nations watch his step, and never offend or bordering the Baltic, even criticize too freely. where troubles constantly break out In its own press France permits which the authorities want to conceal not freedom of opinion, and especially only from the outer world but as much as invective, to a degree unknown else- possible from their own people. where. For instance Leon Daudet, The occult censorship exists notably in editor of the (Continued on page 61)

MARCH, 1936 29 Above, a typical blood transfusion operation. Below, Myron Gillette, 9, of Closter, New Jersey, Finance Of- ficer of his Squadron of S. A. L., with seven members of LeRoy S. Mead Post who gave their blood to Blood save his life Brothers by one medical science is unlocking the ancient for a blood squad ready for any call. Dr. Snow, at a meeting in ONEmysteries having to do with life and death. Wizards July, 1928, proposed a plan which was adopted. The post's and alchemists experimented in the Middle Ages in an blood squad then began the official existence which it still pre- effort to save dying men by transferring to their veins serves. Edward A. Butler, its captain, reports that twenty-four and arteries blood from animals and healthy human beings, but men have supplied blood in fifty-eight transfusion operations and now in 1936 physicians and surgeons are doing as a matter of course the life-saving operations which save thousands who in any earlier age would have bled to death. The American Legion in hundreds of communities has made itself the ally of physicians and surgeons who are performing operations which once would have passed for miracles. In almost every State are American Legion blood squads, composed of post members ready to give blood of tested quality whenever called upon. Newburyport (Massachusetts) Post claims the honor of having the pioneer American Legion free blood squad. On November 11, 1927, just as the post was preparing to hold its annual Armistice Day Ball, a call came from a hospital for Dr. Frank W. Snow, the post's first Commander. Dr. Snow found at the hospital a young man, victim of a hunting accident, his right arm and shoulder shot away. The young man was sinking rapidly. Dr. Snow appealed to the post members who were assemb- ling for the ball. A transfusion operation was performed. The man's life was saved. In the following spring a motorcycle police officer, a member of the post, died after an accident, although post members answered the call for a volunteer. Time had been lost in procur- ing a donor of the right type. This occurrence proved the need

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly have stood by after an equal number of calls when blood was not the boy's father. Myron recovered and is today as active as any required. Many of the calls followed automobile accidents. other member of the post's squadron of Sons of The American "Newburyport, with its harbor on the Atlantic Ocean, is at Legion, of which he is Finance Officer. the end of a highway which extends thirty-eight miles north- Commander Louis R. Benner of Morgan-Ranck Post of Ocean ward out of Boston," writes Mr. Butler. "The highway is wide, City, New Jersey, nominates Frank Spencer, a member of his with three traffic lanes, and a high rate of accidents goes with its outfit, as champion donor. Spencer has given blood in fourteen high rate of speed. When calls have come in the middle of the transfusion operations, always without compensation. The night for donors, after accidents on the turnpike, the captain young son of a Legionnaire suffering from double pneumonia has had men at the hospital in fifteen minutes. rallied immediately after an operation and made a rapid re- "The men are divided into groups. Thirteen men belong to covery. Another patient saved was an aged woman who had the universal donor group, six to Group 2, four to Group 3 and lost a leg under a train. one to Group 4. They are divided under the Jansky classifica- "The most remarkable case, though," writes Commander tion, and each man is physically examined periodically and yearly Benner, "came when a member of our post who hadn't attended receives the Wassermann Test from the state laboratory. many meetings was in a critical condition at a hospital following "Newburyport Post is gratified by the large number of other hemorrhages of the stomach. An operation was performed, but post blood squads which have been organized. It is appropriate the bleeding continued. It was determined that only a transfu-

Members of Wenatchee (Washington) Post formed this free blood transfusion squad in 1933 and have sion could keep him alive. Informed of this, I drove Spencer helped save many lives. Legion blood squads now fourteen miles to the hospital in my car. His blood matched that serve communities in almost every State of the patient and the transfusion was carried out. To the surprise of everybody, the patient recovered. He is extremely that the Legion should take an active part in a service which grateful to Spencer. The most surprising thing about it is that really owes its development to the knowledge gained by our neither man knew the other at the time they met in the hospital. medical men in the A. E. F." Now the former patient is full of new appreciation for the Legion Reports of the service of other Legion blood squads have been and calls Spencer his blood brother." published in this sector from time to time. Wenatchee (Washing- In larger cities associations have been formed so that profes- ton) Post organized a squad of eight sional donors may be registered men in 1933 and has rendered notable You. -\foew\ Card pla^ews ttoaf ifh -ti\eci and answer calls promptly. service to its town. From Closter, New U)ai/\+ aw^ move vefV>esbY\ercr.s -Vo ccme iVv Outstanding is the Blood Trans- Jersey, comes one of the latest of many awd<^eV if -rWeiVselves W, and twina, back fusion Betterment Association, similar reports. Post Commander J. B. 39 East 78th Street, New York Pearman writes that when Myron Gil- City. Dr. E. H. L. Corwin, lette, the nine-year-old son of Past secretary, estimates that as Commander George M. Gillette, was many as 11,000 transfusion stricken with a serious infection which operations are performed in a caused a great loss of weight and kept single year in New York City. him confined to a bed in a hospital for Dr. Corwin calls attention to two months, every member of LeRoy S. the fact that three distinct Mead Post volunteered to donate blood designations exist for the classi- to save the boy's life. Seven were found fication of the four blood to have blood of Type 2, matching that groups. These are the Jansky, of the patient. Eleven transfusions were the Moss and the Interna- performed by Dr. C. D. Cochrane, in tional. The three distinct des- three of which blood was furnished by ignations lead to confusion

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and may sometimes have disas- Sa^l! Uouj abook eas\v< off a Legion posts in all parts of the country which trous consequences. are trying to make things easy for the patients bit* to left -Hveve rVi^poll? "Scientists agree that the In- , in the veterans' hospitals of their locahaes." ternational classification, or the O, A, B and AB designation, is P. C.'s Last Man Club the most practical and should be universally adopted for safe- L\ST Man Clubs have bloomed like dandelions ty's sake, if for no other reason," * in The American Legion since Stillwater Dr. Corwin writes. (Minnesota) Post several years ago started its Dr. Corwin records in an ad- club on the pattern of the original Last Man's dress the fact that references to Club composed of Stillwater Civil War veterans blood transfusions are found in But where is another Last Man's Club like the the writings of the ancient one started last year by Pike Post of Tyndall. Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. South Dakota? It is composed entirely of Past Jean Baptiste Denys, physician Commanders of the post, according to Legion- to Louis XIV, is usually credited naire M. F. Schmitt. Each new Commander wil* with the performance of the first be admitted to membership until one of che pres- successful blood transfusion, ent members of the club dies, whereupon the which occurred on June 15, 1667, membership roll will be closed and the grim when he transfused nine ounces march will officially start. Each year thereafter of arterial blood from a sheep to the club will hold a banquet. a sufferer from repeated bleed- "There are some other novel aspects to our ings and both survived it. Prior club," says Mr. Schmitt. "For example, there to 1900 it was believed that blood of each species was uniform. is the club's annual luncheon, held on the day of the In that year Karl Landsteiner, a Viennese doctor, made the dis- annual post banquet. Past Commanders attend with thei covery of four types of human blood. From this discovery pro- wives. Of the seventeen Commanders, fifteen are married and ceeded the modern science of blood transfusion, at first with the their wives are all living. Even though some of the Commanders use of defibrinated blood and later with citrates. About the time have left town and live as far away as 500 miles, there was a full the World War broke, scientists perfected the method of trans- attendance for the luncheon and banquet last Novembe?." fusion of unmodified blood as it is known today. The Last Man Dies Playing Cards and Pencils FOLLOWING the death of Captain Charles M. L-x-kwood ADVERTISING POST of Chicago had the happy idea a year or last survivor of the Last Man's Club of Company B, First l\. so ago of asking all its members to collect in their own homes Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Stillwater (Minnesota) Pose 01 and from their friends decks of used playing cards which were The American Legion last autumn conducted a ceremony tc still serviceable. Its request brought in a mountain of playing symbolize the end of the club. cards, and thousands of decks of the cards were taken by the The Last Man's Club was formed in 1885 at a reunion of thirtv- post to patients in the wards of Edward Hines Hospital and other four men who had marched away to war together in 1861. The Veterans Administration hospitals near Chicago. Now comes men agreed to hold annual reunions until only one man was left, Thomas A. Lyons, writing from the Veterans Administration this last man to drink a toast to the departed from a bottle of Facility at San Fer- nando, California, with another idea. "The patients in this hospital are constantly asking for pencils," writes Mr. Lyons. "It is known that stenographers never use pencils to the end. We would consider it a favor if a large number of these discarded pencils were sent to this hospital. Incidentally, there is an idea in this for

Here, in the order of their service since 1919, are sixteen Past Com- manders and the present Command- er (at right) of Pike Post, Tyn- dall, South Dakota. They compose a Last Man's Club whose membership roll will be closed when a Past Com- mander dies

32 AMERICAN LEGION Monthly deeded by George III to Thomas Jefferson two years before the Declaration of Independence, it is 215 feet high and ninety wide. Cedar River runs be- neath it and across its top is Federal Highway 11. With an eye to the spectacular, the thirteen posts of the Eleventh District of Virginia made the Natural Bridge the scene of the joint installation of their officers for 1936. While the great arch, illuminated by lights installed in 1927, served as a backdrop, Department Commander Frank F. Rennie, Jr., conducted the ceremony. The Com- manders represented the posts in Covington, Staunton, Clifton Forge, Hot Springs, Buchanan, Lexington, Buena Vista, Waynesboro, Livingston and Monterey. "Nobody who participated got a greater kick out of the ceremony than G. D. Fletcher, Com- mander of Rockbridge Post of Lexington," writes Department Adjutant W. Glenn Elliott. "It recalled to Mr. Fletcher the day in 1900 when, as attorney for the owners of the bridge, he welcomed as a visitor President William McKinley, returning to cross again the Natural Bridge which he had first crossed as an officer of the Union Army."

Fingerprints for Everybody

MEMBERS of Harding-Olk-Craidge Post in Bay City, Michigan, recalled the days when they joined the Army and Navy, as Bay City police took their fingerprints in the same fashion as in

ig 1 7 and 1918. The fingerprinting of the Legion- naires was a part of a campaign of community personal protection and the post's war on crime, begun when Frank W. Anderson, city superintendent of police, and Joseph M. Kearney, a commanding officer of the Michigan state police, attended a fish fry given by the post and explained how citizens could help authorities.

Hungry Childreyi

OHANNON POST of Livingston, Tennessee, B' observ ed American Education Week in the schools of its county in November by renewing its acquaintance with the boys and The Natural Bridge of Virginia, 215 feet girls it got to know last year. high and ninety feet wide, provided a pic- Its interest in its county's schools Ad turesque night background when Department mee^ wt| sot\- wasn't academic then. It stepped Commander Frank F. Rennie, Jr., inducted jusVa block off forward with a helping hand into office the thirteen Commanders of the -Ute old cUip !' when school teachers and princi- Eleventh District of Virginia pals reported that children were coming to school long distances, Burgundy wine set aside for the final ceremony. Club members breakfastless and carrying no died year after year until in 1930 Captain Lockwood carried out lunches. At a conference with his pledge as the last man. In the banquet room of the Lowell community leaders, county offi- Inn he sat down alone, facing thirty-three chairs draped in mourn- cials, Red Cross and federal relief ing, as he recited a toast and pronounced the words which ended officials and others it was de- the club. In the same room, on the day after Mr. Lockwood's termined that the Legion could death, Stillwater Legionnaires assembled to give to him final help by supplying cups and honors. spoons and other utensils for "The chairs were all arranged as they were when Mr. Lock- the preparation and serving of wood sat down in 1930," writes L. B. Kolliner. "All chairs were food, while food supplies were draped except that of Mr. Lockwood. While Frank Collopy, obtained from relief sources. Past Commander of the V. F. W. post, and Past Commander E. "There are eighty-five schools W. Linner of the Legion post acted as color bearers, I draped Mr. in the county and more than Lockwood's chair and completed the circle." 5,000 school children," writes Dr. C. H. Dowell, Post Com- Under Natural Bridge mander. "We sent Legionnaires to meet with teachers who were FOURTEEN miles south of Lexington and thirty-nine miles called together in groups by the north of Roanoke stands one of America's greatest wonders county superintendent. We ex- of nature, the Natural Bridge of Virginia. Discovered by the plained our plan. Forty schools pioneers, surveyed by George Washington for Lord Fairfax, adopted (Continued on page 62)

MARCH, 1936 33 Two mademoiselles of Vouge- court and some doughboy clients in their open-air laundry

AS has been suggested, a man's helpfulness around the IF,house tends towards the continuance of happy homes, then the percentage of divorces among war veterans should be comparatively low. Why? Well, the exigencies of service demanded that doughboys and gobs and gyrenes develop quite a few housewifely arts. Cleanliness and orderliness, you will recall, were stressed as soon as you reached camp. Assignment as room orderly offered experience in wielding a broom. K. P. brought mastery of many of the culinary arts and many a man who had never boiled water before, often found himself on the job as cook. Remember the "housewife"—that khaki-colored roll with tape ties in which were contained needles and thread—issued to every man in service? And remember seeing hardboiled guys sitting around sewing on buttons, or, greatest thrill of all, stitching onto the sleeves of blouses their first N. C. 0. chevrons? And those washing bees out in the bath houses in back of barracks or tents! Underwear and sox showed some signs of cleanness after being mauled around by would-be launderers. And yet, not so long ago, some enthusiastic objector to the payment of our adjusted compensation certificates contended that the pampered service men even had their laundry done free by a benevolent Government! Not so! Of course, those plutocrats who had a couple of dollars left after allotments, insurance premiums, Liberty Bond payments, and various and sundry other deductions had been made from their meager pay, could afford the luxury of paying the camp laundry. Too bad that objector wasn't in service himself, and particularly overseas where he could have seen soldiers doing their own washing in the village lavoir or in the nearby creek—when an opportunity to wash clothes at all was presented. We won't When We Washed

elaborate on the many times when perforce underwear and sox went unchanged for weeks at a time. Again, though, the plutocrats in the outfit urn were able to have this work done for them while in training areas or in the back areas between hitches in the line. That invasion of American soldiers into Dipoalo ('Wopolo'), Harry 'Nigger' Paul, Frank 'Dad' Ligon, France proved a windfall for the hand laundry business, as well and William Jennings Bryan Payton (yes, he was born in 1896 as all the other businesses in the sleepy, backward French villages. and his father was a Democrat); front row, Charlotte, Frank Almost every madame and mademoiselle took in washing and Christiano, Marie (the village paper girl and laundress) and my- did a land-office business. Remember how quickly they learned self—properly and affectionately called by my comrades 'Squads- to charge, say, 3 francs, 25 centimes, for a job not worth more than Left Foot.' three francs, knowing well that the generous American doughboy "It is not clear whose undershirt Marie was paddling at the wouldn't wait for the change and they would gain that much time of the photographic interruption but its state of cleanliness thereby? indicates that it could not have belonged to any member of Com- pany A. The photographer, I believe, was Private Moore, the most THIS month, through the interest of Walter E. Cooper of innocent member of the company but who, nevertheless, smuggled Cranford (New Jersey) Post, a counselor at law at 20 Ex- a vest pocket camera all through the 29th Division campaigns. change Place, New York City, we show a picture of a comely "We had a Blue and Gray quartet in Vougecourt. It consisted young French blanchisseuse—laundress, to you—and some of of Dick McCarthy from Maryland, Hardy Fewell from Tennes- her doughboy clients. Cooper, formerly a corporal in Company see, 'Dad' Ligon from Virginia and me, from New Jersey. This A, 104th Motor Supply Train, 29th Division, has this to say: quartet was one of the horrors of war overlooked by Floyd "The enclosed snapshot, taken in Vougecourt, Haute Saone, Gibbons. I would like to hear from all of my fellow singers and during the spring of 1919, shows from left to right, rear row, other boys of old Company A."

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Cooper will probably be surprised at tions to the central citadel crowning the big response he gets. the 4So-foot rock. Strangely enough, the striking pic- MOMENTS? We all had them ture of Fort Ehrenbreitstein which we BIG ^ou V\ad s-sowe during the war and they weren't all show was sent to us by an ex-gob, k-kaV wafer concerned with narrow escape from P Legionnaire C. M. Hiatt of 2120 Pecan death, with the sense of relief at the Street, Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas, Armistice, or when we steamed into one who failed to do any touring when his of the home ports. ship put in on the other side. He tells One of our biggest moments occurred us that it is one of a number of photo- in the Occupied Area in Germany and graphs given to him by an army we know it was experienced by thou- officer returning home in 1910 on his sands of doughboys. It was during a ship, the U. S. S. Pocahontas, and so is leave trip to Coblenz, headquarters of unable to tell us just what ceremony the American Third Army and of the was taking place when the airplane Interallied Rhineland High Commis- view was taken. We hope, therefore, sion. The city, at the conflux of the that some veterans of the 17th Field Rhine and the Moselle, with its palaces Artillery, the 7th Machine Gun Bat- and parks, its Festhalle, its hotels and talion or the 5th Field Artillery, which cafes, was a thrill in itself after months at various times occupied the Fort in small, smelly villages or in the lines. during the days of the Army of Occu- Every visitor's first thought was to pation or of the American Forces in see the famous Rhine. Coming out onto Germany (which took the place of the the Kaiserin- Victoria Anlagen, the ter- Third Army early in July, 1919), can raced and parked promenade along that tell us what the occasion was. We river, noted in history and legend, think that the 17th Field Artillery across the stream one saw a command- must have been the outfit pictured, as ing hill on which a fort stood, and float- that regiment moved to the Fort on ing majestically from the flag staff was February 5, 1919, and Hiatt suggests a huge American flag. Big moment? Well, it sent a tingle down that the picture was taken on the morning of May 28, 1919. the spine and brought a lump into the throat. Hiatt reports that after entering the Navy on April 6, 1917, There above Fort Ehrenbreitstein, the so-called "Gibraltar of and training at Great Lakes, he was one of the small crew as-

Germany," was your flag. That then became your next objective signed in August, 191 7, to the interned German liner Pnuzcss

Where the Stars and Stripes commanded the American Occupied Area. A review or decoration ceremony of American troops in the main citadel of Fort Ehrenbreitstein, opposite Coblenz, Germany. In upper right, a glimpse of the Rhine, four hundred and fifty feet below the fort

—reached by walking across the bridge of boats to Ehrenbreit- Irene, which was commissioned the U. S. S. Pocahontas. Sailing

stein, the village on the eastern bank, and then by following up on its first voyage on September 7, 191 7, with 3600 soldiers the winding approach that led through several tiers of fortifica- aboard, he continued in service on the same ship during its

MARCH, 1936 35 Fort Benning, Geor- gia, in 1918, sported this gate to the Tank Corps area. It was decorative and at the same time a challenge to neighboring outfits

twenty-six trips across the Atlantic, plying between America and no value and perhaps no various French, English, Belgian and Dutch ports. sentimental significance for any Allied state that might - and. iv\ks ^"o^e ROUNDED up this information about Fort Ehren- have dreamed of its future WE and So's we Pmc^evs!! breitstein: The Romans, at the time of the Emperor holding. There were al- Julian, are supposed to have built a fort on this site. During the ready too many ruins on eleventh century, a noble named Erembert (from whom its pres- the Rhine attesting the ent name was probably derived) held the castle. It suffered hatred of men, and it did numerous sieges during the centuries and in 1799 was taken by not seem in the interest the French. It became Prussian in 1815. The present fortress of any worthy end to add was built in 1816-26. another. Jestingly the From "The Rhineland Occupation," written by Major General commander of the Ameri- Henry T. Allen, who commanded the Americar Forces in Ger- can Forces informed the many from July 8, 1919, until January 24, 1923, when American Board that some day his troops were withdrawn from the Rhineland, we extract the own Government might following: want that superb site with "At noon, January 24, 1923, the American flag was lowered the its historical buildings. In last time at Ehrenbreitstein, thus marking the end of the occu- truth such a thought is no pation of that part of the Rhine Province held by the American less probable of realization troops. The French flag was then hoisted. The British and than would have seemed an Belgian Commissioners, in a most delicate remonstrance against ante-bellum expressed in- the departure of the American Forces, declined to be present at tention of holding with a this flag ceremony ..." From one of the appendices to the book military force a given sec- we get this interesting, and to us, heretofore unknown sidelight: tion of Central Europe over a period of four years. It was only "Along with the other the determined attitude of th e American Commanding General fortification elements of the that saved Ehrenbreitstein." defense of Coblenz, the Interallied Board of Con- APPROPRIATELY enough, "Treat 'Em Rough," was the trol was determined that il slogan of the Tank Corps, that branch of our service whose Ehrenbreitstein should be men saw plenty of tough action. One of its veterans, William S. destroyed as soon as our Browning, ex-sergeant, now lined up with the Legion post in

forces could vacate it. The Falls Church, Virginia, let us have the snapshot of the entrance several assaults made to gate to the camp of his outfit, shown above, and this story: that end were finally re- "Herewith a snapshot of the 'Treat 'Em Rough' gate erected pulsed when it became defi- by Detachment No. 1 of the Tank Corps which I feel will bring nitely known that the Amer- many smiles and pleasant memories to a widely-scattered bunch ican Commanding General of men who spent the winter of 'i8-'i9 at Camp Benning, Georgia. would not consent to its The snarling black cat above the gateway faced other outfits destruction. The Board across the street who seemed to take it as a challenge and threat-

knew quite as well as he ened to try to take it down. that this monument had no "This T. C. outfit was composed of men mostly from the North- military value. Primarily, west. Very few had seen the land of growing cotton, so when we stone works have become left Camp Dix in the afternoon of December 22, 1918, for the obsolete, and secondarily, Sunny South everybody was highly delighted. No doubt they in the hands of the Allies, all remember how we were showered with apples, chocolate and it could be dominated easi- cigarettes at Danville, Virginia, and with cookies of every ly by reason of the terrain description, served by dozens of attractive girls at Greensboro, by long-range guns coming North Carolina. from the East. "After we got into the Carolinas and began to see cotton fields, "This fortress could have the boys got permission to leave the train at various stops and

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pick some for souvenirs until at least a hundred of our travelers, had bolls tucked away in the old kit bags. We reached Columbus, Georgia, just before midnight on Christmas Eve, then several miles by motor transport out to camp where tents had been put up just before our arrival. The next morning we soon found we were surrounded with cotton even our company street was filled with cotton stalks not cleanly picked. This was the basis for a joke on the souvenir hounds, especially when details were called out to help clean cotton off the drill field! "From among my tent buddies, my guess is that Dennison is a prominent physician in Michigan; Charlie, a certified accountant out of Purdue; Buchanan, handling an auto agency in Oregon; Hughes, ranching in Alberta; Thomas still keeping the grizzlies subdued in Alaska, and Michenor, after giving me a green-stick fracture of two ribs in a sparring bout, has returned to his boots and saddle in Montana—although none of these men has been heard from since we were mustered out. "Shortly after we started soldiering at Benning, a fine-looking Newfoundland dog attached himself to our part of camp. He became very popular with the boys and on the quiet they started calling him by the name of the highest ranking officer of the outfit. One day when a long mess-line was waiting for the mess-hall to open, the stately solemn-faced pup approached the gang, and from the opposite direction Major Newland (phoney I've just seen name) came up in back of them on his way to headquarters. 'Big Shot' called out, 'Here comes old Newland for his bone.' The major smiled and evidently 25* Century Magic understood the situation. Several years later when passing through Washington, by Graham McNamee, Ace Radio and Sports Commentator D. C, I saw this same officer at a busy transfer point. There he was—dignified, have SEEN amazing feats of skill in But there are more wonders—more 25th- calm, vigorous-looking, with those fea- I my years as a radio reporter and sports Century instruments—designed to make tures and expression that demand justice announcer—but I've just witnessed the the finest razor blade that modern and fairness head and shoulders above — most remarkable demonstration of skill science and superlative skill can produce. the crowd and still in uniform. and accuracy I ever laid eyes on! Can you Imagine a hardening furnace "Wonder if guesses about the my The other day I made an inspection trip room as cool and immaculate as an office gang's present occupations are correct? through the Gillette factory in Boston . . . four-ton blade sharpeners adjustable

Wish those I mentioned and others would where Gillette blades are produced. Here to 1/10,000 of an inch . . . microscopes make report." is a house of magic if there ever was one! that magnify an object 3,000 times . . . The equipment there is as amazing—as hardness testers that use diamonds, real IF YOUR wartime outfit contemplates bewildering—as the mechanical wonders square cut diamonds ... an X-ray-like holding its 1936 reunion in conjunc- you'd expect to see 500 years from now. machine that "sees" through steel tion with the Legion national conven- These Gillette machines are so accu- . . . abrasives as fine as cake flour! tion in Cleveland, September 21st to rate, so finely adjusted that they With all this amazing scien-

out shaving edges which are tfCp- tific . . . this pains- 24th—and the idea seems to gain in favor turn >9rn /$*&^_ could possibly be equalled for Lakewood Heights Boulevard, 14907 And that's why they use an ex- vSvyi BV-^*9 downright sharing comfort. In Lakewood, Cleveland, Ohio. He will elusive "magical" device called fac t. au could see what \^ jgj ^ * ffl ^ men *' assist you in making reservations for re- the" photo-electric eye' ' in which v0 ust seen I f(>e' sure they'd '^JbSSS f< jMi j > union headquarters, dinners, banquets a beam of light gauges sharpness v^jfin g^tTM always say "Gillette" when or whatever you request. At the same with amazing accuracy. ^^•^ they ask for razor blades. time, report the reunion to the Company With facts like these before you, why lef anyone deprive you of shaving comfort Clerk of the Monthly so announcements by selling you a substitute! Ask for Gillette Blades and be sure to get them. may be published in this columi . Detailed information regarding the GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS. following {Continued on page 6j)

MARCH, 1936 37 "I see ye're na' sae (samp followers relooctant, Jaimie, (Continued from page 23) tvhen it's Teacher's."

gotta better use fer him." Nonchalantly this idea. Tomato juice is a darned popu- heading for the nearest restaurant. lar beverage at conventions and who It was an unfortunate precedent. In wouldn't be pleased to have an attractive two minutes, the scene of the turtle derby glass canteen, reminiscent of service days was deserted, each bettor having de- and bearing the inscription "My Buddy" parted with his late entry. blown in the glass? Even today the mention of turtle soup So he arranged for the manufacture to those members of the Portland racing and distribution, sinking a young for- fraternity—turtle syndicate chapter- tune in the project. The product was brings an expression of acute pain and a ready when the convention rolled around torrent of very unnice language. and there was not a restaurant or hotel

Then there is always the home town in the city that was not prepared to sell boy, a member of a local post, who has an "My Buddy" tomato juice, ice-cold, in idea. Sometimes it's good; usually not so the handy glass canteen, which fitted the hot. Seldom does he accumulate the hip and when empty could be utilized for anticipated fortune. other beverages— milk, orange juice and There was "Scotty" from central the like. Oregon, where juniper trees are plentiful. Unfortunately, the canteen held ap- From a strictly utilitarian point of view proximately a full pint of tomato juice, the wood has but little value. Now, the which was just a little bit too much to- berries, in prohibition days—but that's mato juice for most addicts to consume another story. Gnarled, grainy, difficult in one sitting. Accordingly, the purchaser to handle, still juniper wood could be would drink what he could, put the fashioned into rather attractive ash- stopper on the glass canteen and slip the trays. container in his hip pocket to be taken up As an Oregon souvenir of the Legion under the head of new business at a later GOOD TASTE convention, Scotty thought the novelty hour. would appeal to many visitors. He ob- Not long after the half-empty canteen tained permission to place official con- had been stowed away, a muffled pop The popularity of Scotch Whisky is determined in the final analysis by vention stickers on his trays, rounded up would ensue in the general vicinity of the the answer to this question: what a force of workers and put them on day right rear hip pocket, immediately after of its flavour ? and night shift to get his product ready. which a viscous fluid resembling blood Teacher's "Highland Cream" Thousands of them were fabricated. in color but not consistency would spread Then came the convention. No one around the affected area, drip on expen- Scotch Whisky is distilled and bottled by the largest indepen- saw Scotty. The booth assigned him was sive hotel carpets and detract not a little dent distilling house in all unoccupied. Two days after the shouting from the appearance of Legion uniform Great Britain, continuously and tumult died, Scotty put in an ap- or civilian habiliment. operated by the same family pearance at convention headquarters. Fabricators of the bottles had not ex- for more than a century His hair was disheveled; his suit obvious- perimented enough with glass in canteen . . but what has carried ly had been slept in for several nights; shape to discover its weaknesses. Once its name and fame to his eyes were shadowed by puffy rings; air is admitted to a container half full of every corner of the the hand in which he held out a check tomato juice it appears that quite a world is its flavour. WM. TEACHER trembled slightly. powerful gas is formed—with the disas- vm*r:^ £ \ & SONS, LTD., "I wanna pay for those official seals," trous results above chronicled. ^TkO^ GLASGOW and he explained, bashful-like. Then I recall the enterprising gentle- LONDON. Estab- "Okay," rejoined Ben Dorris, general man who gave birth to the idea of a visor bp *m m\fe0 i isoed 1830< chairman. "How many trays did you goggle of cardboard and green celluloid, sell?" to protect comrades from the sun while "Sh-sh-sh," warned Scotty, glancing wearing their Legion chapeaux. The de- about him apprehensively. No central vice was peddled in a packet on which Oregon comrades were in the offing. were drawn a few sketches of local scenic "Confidentially, 1 met a bird from my attractions and printed messages of wel- ol' outfit the day I hit town an' when we come from public officials. "The greatest finished our celebration the convention publicity medium ever conceived," mod- was over!" estly claimed the inventor of this silly Then there was the national convention gadget, as he put up $350 in cash to ob- TEACHER'S at which a very good friend of mine lost tain a distributor's license from the con- his shirt through ignorance of certain vention commission. 'HIGHLAND CREAM" fundamental laws of physics, engineering He got the permission, manufactured stresses as applied to the fabrication of 350,000 goggles, sold 6,000 of them and glass containers, etc. He had a great lost about $12,000. idea, almost. Again there was the convention a He was certain that a convention couple of years ago where local Legion- novelty for which every Legionnaire naires manufactured a blue and gold con- SCOTCH WHISKY would feel a yen was a replica of the old vention necktie and were given permis- army canteen—hip pocket size and made sion to use the Legion insignia on same. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: of glass. In the canteen he would peddle It sold for 50 cents. Just before the con- Schieffelin & Co., new york city — of all things—tomato juice. Well, you vention opened, some slickers drifted IMPORTERS SINCE 1794 have to admit there was something in into town, sold all merchants a flock of

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly cheaper ties which bore not only the Legion emblem but "We Want Our Bonus" in big, yellow letters. They re- tailed for 25 cents and ran the local man- OK ufacturers out of business in 24 hours. Memory recalls a few other minor convention rackets which— if I'm not boring you— may as well be mentioned here. HIS PIPE COLLECTION ^ There is a group which frequently ap- SHOWS pears at a convention in pseudo-drum corps uniforms and seeks permission to sell a couple of hundred canes they have youve heard of the calumet — the indian but there was brought with them "to help defray the pipe op peace a pipe of war, too — and here's a expenses of their trip." With 4,000 or beautiful. example bowl and axe- more canes shipped in their care to the blade made of dark stone, rodely local express office, in the event they get engraved on the right and left their story across! are two bears the wood stem Speaking of canes, there have been i is carved in a floral pattern several conventions where some of us more or less patriotic Legionnaires received rude shocks when we noted "Made in Japan" stickers on our newly-purchased walking sticks. Not to mention the occasional States' Dinners where "Made in Germany" has been stamped on the little American flags marking each place. Now and then you find enterprising gentlemen arranging for a camouflaged lottery under the auspices of some very official committee, on which prominent and here's an1 odd pipe a THIS PREHISTORIC MEXICAN PIPE OF TERRA to Legionnaires have been persuaded capital example of the skill COTTA IS FULL OF CHARACTER NOTICE serve. There are many facets to this and humor of the eskimos THE EXPRESSION OF THE FULL FACE dodge but invariably it is the promoter it's made of whaleoone, and LOOKING AT US OUT OF THE AGES! IT

the animals . who gleans whatever profits may accrue. on the stem are SEEMS TO BE ASKING A QUESTION carved in one piece with the IF IT'S A QUESTION OF TOBACCO, Bands and drum corps are particularly WE pipe pipes like these were CAN SURE ANSWER I susceptible to this sort of promotion. also made by the ancient IT, LAD, CANT WE ? Always you will find a national con- YOU 'RE RlGHT- vention city invaded by a dozen or more PRIMCE "official publications" of purported vet- ALBERT eran groups, soliciting advertising on the plea that the money received is being used primarily "to help bring our disabled comrades to the convention," "to finance the convention," etc., ad in- finitum. They sail under various banners and indeterminate sponsorships, live brief and futile lives. A gentleman in Seattle claiming much publication experience has written several American Legion national convention MEN, SHAKE HANDS WITH SMOKIN' AT ITS BEST! commissions for official sanction for a the golden-brown, fragrant P. A. par- magazine to be published in honor of the Tamp occasion "put up exactly the same as the ticles into your pipe—and play a match across Saturday Evening Post, with the excep- the bowl! That's solid comfort! For you're tion that it has 32 pages and the cover — smoking mild, choice tobacco "crimp-cut" and is put up more attractive and exclusive, omitting cheap cuts." George for cool smoking — its natural mellowness

H. Lorimer, please note. enhanced by the special P. A. "anti-bite" His first letter to one convention com- process. Note the offer below. Prince Albert mission being ignored, he attributed this to lack of understanding of his meritori- is great for roll-your-own cigarettes too! ous proposal. In a spirit of gracious tolerance, he wrote again: "I signed over one thousand letters in the last month, so OUR OFFER TO PIPE SMOKERS naturally with the rest of my work I Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don't could not read them as I must confess I find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever tin tobacco do not write them myself, but merely tell smoked, return the pocket with the rest of the in it to us at any time within a month from this date, and the stenographer what I want her to we will refund full purchase price, plus postage. (Signed) write and do not bother with the dicta- Z. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. tion, but am trying to write this one 50 pipefuls of myself so you see it is more personal and fragrant tobacco Prince Albert 2-oz. tin I think I can make myself more clearer." in every In prohibition (Continued on page 40) of Prince Albert.

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{Continued from page 39) days, there were the usual under-cover letter from the seller announcing that he functioning of a convention. The Ameri- proposals from bootleggers. None of had lost $348.50 on the deal and demand- can Legion has no quarrel with them. which, of course, were ever considered for ing "Where do I get off at?" But ever} - convention of magnitude, state a moment. Some were quite generous. At A seafaring man rolled into the office or national, attracts slickers. Some of Detroit, there was a big shot who offered, of Robert M. Mount, manager of the them are quite harmless; many are petty in return for an official concession to dis- Better Business Bureau and concession grafters; others play for big stakes; all pose of hard drinks, to cut the convention committee chairman in Portland, with an are an infernal nuisance. Almost as commission in for a generous slice of the idea. He wished recognition as the much so as the juveniles who wear profits and also to tip off all rival con- official tattooer for the national conven- colored paper or cotton caps with "Wel- cerns to police and federal officers. tion, in return for which he would guaran- come, Buddy!" or "Hello, Legionnaires" The convention commission in one tee 15 per cent of the gross to the com- imprinted thereon and proceed to get Legion host city leaned over backward in mission. Lots of ex-gobs coming to sloppy drunk and vulgarly insulting to the matter of refreshments. It turned the convention would want to change women. down flat an offer of $5,000 by a re- their decorations, he averred. There are those in our own ranks who sponsible and respectable bottling house Then there was a charming old lady use their membership— rightfully ob- for the exclusive ginger ale concession, whose heart bled at the thought of the tained in many instances— as passports merely because some members of the thousands of men, once the flower of to an easy living. Not easy, perhaps, as commission held the archaic idea that young American manhood, trudging you and 1 look at things, but far better some of the purchasers in consummating weary miles during the Big Parade with than honest work to them. They believe sales might have in mind the mixing of feet that burned and blistered. She had the sacred association implied in the such a concoction with beverages having invented a foot-powder and wished the word "comrade" or "buddy" is an open what was then an illegal alcoholic con- privilege of establishing official foot- sesame to your interest and your poc- tent. powdering stands at the beginning and ketbook. But most of us are not deceived An enterprising young man who ob- end of the line of march to minister to the by their glib self-assurance and over- tained permission of a convention city to needs of the hoofers. cordial camaraderie. sell a novelty ash-tray featuring a bronze, There are always song-writing pests But why get serious? It's all part of miniature doughboy, er— , a miniature with "official songs" they wish to peddle the old army game. There's an engaging bronze doughboy—well, anyway, a small —on the back of their four-page sheets rascal living in San Francisco now who statue of an infantryman, specified that advertisements of pimple and blackhead stole all but my shirt one time—and the he would offer it for sale by a group of removers or lost manhood restoratives. only reason he left that was that I was lively girls. Possibly the girls were not I would not wish to leave the impres- sleeping in it —but I'm hanged if .1 have sufficiently animated. In any event, the sion that there are not many legitimate ever been able to get mad at him. He clean-up detail of the convention had a concessions, indispensable to the proper was such a likeable cuss.

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Ever the suggestion is that the flag an hairy-chested, beetle-browed brute lutionary hero. The American Legion, American bluejacket ought to be fighting coxswain of a whaleboat, lashing the men the red-baiters and the professional pa- for is the red flag and not the Stars and at the oars with a blacksnake. One funny triots are the heirs of the Tories and slave Stripes. Meanwhile American student shows two seamen manhandling a naval owners." strikes against war and all extreme Amer- commander whom they have at their The Shipmates' Voice and other Com- ican pacifist movements are hailed as of mercy in his swivel chair. munist leaflets are left on board ship on good omen for the red cause. "Geez!" one says. "Wha' ja do to the visitor days where sailors may pick them "The answer is the same inside or out- old fossil, Lefty?" up. Ashore they are dropped on reading side the service. To better their condi- "All I says," the other replies, "is no, tables or writing desks of welfare organ- tions workers must organize and fight." sir, instead of aye, aye, sir. He passes out izations or other places sailors frequent. There is a reference to what is reputed cold." And there is also the Yard Voice, which to have been an order in France in the And among the wisecracks: is openly issued by the Communist Party World War: "Save the mules and use the "Officer: Don't you know what we do and the Young Communist League. men. They are easier to get." So save with sailors who tell lies? Copies are thrown over the wall of the the ships and use the men, is the order "Gob: Yes, sir. When they get good Brooklyn Navy Yard and distributed by (says Shipmates' Voice) issued by our enough you send them on recruit duty." girls at the gates. In the yard the Gov- Navy Department. A jingle reads: ernment is building cruisers and de- And the Marines? We learn that one "But should you be forced into service stroyers to expand our Navy to the treaty was courtmartialed for failing to be cheer- As gangster for Wall Street, I say limit under the Roosevelt program. ful. The oppressed Marines, on bad food Don't fight for their capitalist robberv There are many civilians employed and under the whip of brutal discipline, But fight for a U. S. S. A." in the construction at prevailing max- which forces them to menial tasks, must U. S. S. A. not being the United States imum wages and minimum hours. So keep smiling—or it's the jug for them. of America, but the Union of Soviet the red appeal of the Yard Voice is di- There are cartoons and also funnies by States of America. That is, mutiny and rected to them rather than to the service the same artists who appear in red pub- raise the red flag, and it is suggested that men. Here are some quotations: lications in the bookshops. In one car- if this is not practicable in peace you can "Funny, ain't it, that after all these toon Wall Street is pictured as the real be ready for it when war comes. years of Communist Propaganda around boss of the American Navy, a huge, "Every real American hero is a revo- the yards, Mr. Swanson and other au-

40 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly thorities are just waking up to the fact that yard workmen can also be Com- munists?" "You may fire one hundred Commu- nists, but as long as conditions exist as they are . . . you'll have to fire all your workmen to root out Communism." "Communist interests are the interests SVmertcttV 3Wo rites of the unions and the men in them. We stand for militant rank and file action." Stalin is quoted as saying, "I think the moment is not far off when a revolutionary crisis will develop in America." We learn that the full object of our Navy is an imperialist war in which we shall fight for Hitler, Mussolini, and apparently Japan, too, against Russia. It is at San Pedro, where our fleet is concentrated, that the real drive is made to disaffect our sailors. The personal boring-in process seeks to place canny tacticians on board ships in the same way as in the Army. These are in touch with shore workers. Two sailors on leave may be accosted by an agreeable stranger who falls into talk with them and then offers to buy them a drink. He says he knows they do not get much pay, and buys another round, and then another. He asks them if they would not like to come along with him to a little party where there will be some girls and dancing.

It is a pleasant party. Present are other sailors who had met an agreeable fellow who gave them drinks and an in- vitation. The hosts further sympathize with the hard life and poor pay of their guests from the Navy, and finally, if the guests prove sufficiently responsive, say something like this: "Why don't you sailors get together and take over the ships and run them yourselves as the Russian sailors took over their ships and the Russian soldiers

Millions . . . generations took over their army?" of gallons of rare whiskies more than three the In both Army and the Navy our of distilling and blending skill . . . Treasure and Tradition. officers are pictured as snobs who are That is the happy combination that makes Seagram's Crown agents of imperialism to enslave the men and who get big pay and graft on the side. Whiskies "America's Favorites". .. that gives "V. O." the distinc- But in the Russian armed services, we are tive taste that has made it America's fastest-selling bonded whiskey. told, command is in a council, with The Seagram Treasure, the Seagram Tradition assure for years to everybody on the same footing and all getting big pay. come the continuing, unvarying quality of these finer whiskies. This harks back to the orgy of murder and loot in the chaos of the Russian revolution when mutinous soldiers' and sailors' committees had charge. Today all military observers agree that discipline is severe in the Russian services. There is no quarter for insubordination of any kind. Russian officers get much higher pay than the men, who receive o2oi%kd-j7i-(S3c7id about as much in a year as the American in a month. The red standing army at and cS/ended (~Wi2sAce6 present consists of 1,300,000 men and their officers' school has a five-year term. SEAGRAM'S "V. O." SEAGRAM'S 7 CROWN While you may read in American Com- Bottled in Bond under Matchlessly blended munist propaganda that a man steps from Canadian Govern- the Seagram way. Full high school or from behind the counter ment supervision. 90 proof, rich — yet 6 years old. 90 proof. mild in taste. or the ranks of manual labor into a commission, the truth is that every Russian officer must go through a course of training in military (Continued on page 42) Seagram-Distillers Corp. — Executive Offices: New York

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schools as stiff as at Annapolis and West prop, they should be commanded by con- Point. Under our system any young man scientious objectors and sectional chiefs who excels his rivals in a competitive ex- of the American Communist Party who amination can enter West Point. Young would begin drilling them at once for the

John J. Pershing worked as a farmhand. red revolution under the red flag. We do not have to look behind the Here is the close of a letter from a sup- news photographs which Russian censor- posed CCC boy as published in Reveille: ship approves to get many realities. Be- "No more CCC for me, and I know whom fore me is a likeness of a Russian officer I am going to shoot at in the next war." NO USE FOOLING ONCE A DAY WITH on a prancing horse who looks an in- And under its Kamp-Kut-Ups Reveille MYSELF... MY SKIN COLGATE RAPID- carnation of militaristic aplomb and ar- has a song to the tune of "Home on the IS TOO TENDER TO SHAVE CREAM rogance in the march past of rigid lines Range," which has this pacific suggestion SHAVE AGAIN BE- IS PLENTY FOR FORE THAT PARTY ME... WHY DON'T of infantry. How all our reds and pinks in relation to the oppressors who have the YOU TRY IT? would resent such strutting if he were an United States under their iron heel:

American officer! And here is dictator "Some preachers say still, 'Thou shalt Stalin, himself, in uniform on the re- not kill'— viewing stand. The nearest our President Ain't it time we decided we should?" can come to a uniform as Commander- The propaganda of Reveille singularly in-chief of our Army and Navy is to wear reproduces that of a pamphlet, Shovels a silk hat. and Guns, which mentions the publica- Thus dictator Stalin of that Utopian tion of Reveille, with a first edition of Russian democracy of pacifism has it all 25,000, as of gratifying promise. It over the dictator of our cruel American asserts that the Army captured the con- imperialism. Moreover, Stalin has no trol of the CCC camps to make them boss over him and our President has the breeding grounds of aggressive militar-

American people as his boss. ism. In fact, we are told again that all Russia is in truth a highly militarized the camps are hell-holes, their subtle ob- country. A bayonet is behind every order ject to train cannon-fodder and to bring issued in carrying out its government on another war. policies. No method is overlooked in The red publications frequently an- blooding its armed forces with the fight- swer this question: ing spirit. But that is all right to our "If you dislike this country so much home Communists, for the Russian army and like Russia so much, why don't you is their army, and all wrong in the United go to Russia?" States, since our Army is a "foreign" The reds protest that they love this Army. country, which is their country, and they Having by this time classified myself want to make it free. Theirs is the spirit as a red-baiter and the press-agent of of the forefathers of 1776. They would American tyranny, I turn to another deliver us from our present oppression piece of agitprop. It is Reveille, called just as Washington's soldiers delivered us "The Fighting Paper of the CCC," for from that of King George III. Therefore, secret distribution in CCC camps. the Washington of our time is Earl Veterans of the World War, because Browder, chief of the American branch they had to accept something similar in of the Communist International. BUBBLE PICTURES SHOW WHY! routine in camp only a little harder, not But the truth is that Russia does not to mention the drill—and this without want American Communists in Russia to strikes or mutiny—may not think that it stay, in spite of the room there is in that is wicked persecution which requires the vast land. Undeveloped Russia fails to CCC boys to get up at a certain hour in follow the American example of opening the morning and report at a certain hour its arms to those who would escape

in the evening. However, it will not be foreign tyranny. The American Com-

if all in the are too undisciplined, MOST LATHERS are COLGATE RAPID- for want of incitation the boys munists too used made of bubbles too SHAVE CREAM makes CCC camps do not strike before they are to free speech, to be welcome. Finland, big to get to the tiny bubbles that "poisoned by the stinking food." for example, slips her Communists across base of the beard! get clear down to Air pockets keep the skin-line. Its It is high time they know that in the the Russian border, where they are jailed. the soap film from rich soap film soaks Russian paradise all workers, all soldiers, A canny country, Finland. Also, it pays reaching the whis- your beard soft at kers. So the beard the base. Makes your all sailors get up and go to bed when they its debts. is only ^//-wilted. shaves last longer. please and stay AWOL as much as they It occurs to me that, just as a little con- please. Why mention that in Russia the cession to fair play, American Commun- COLGATE "SKIN-LINE" whole population is regimented, that ists might admit there is a little good in SHAVES LAST there is universal conscription of labor as the American system and also that there HOURS LONGER well as of youth into an army which has is a censorship in Russia. However, Boss a reserve of ten millions? Stalin would not like that. That might dim agitprop's sense of The New York Times classed itself as outrage over the merciless regimentation a red-baiting, imperialistic sheet when it LARGE TUBE 2 C<: of the CCC camps. Aren't these camps told how two minstrels in Russia who D 100 SHAVES under the Army? Don't their gang bosses drew from their guitars music "about the GIANT TUBE include veterans of the World War and downfall of the Soviet Union" were shot 200 SHAVES members of the Legion? To satisfy agit- as counter-revolutionaries. One Pir

42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Ishan, a Mohammedan, was being tried on a similar charge for asserting that "Allah is opposed to cotton growing on Where to get a collective farms." We shall have indeed forfeited freedom of speech and press in America when there is any interference with criticism of our USED CAR WITH BONUS VALUE own institutions or of public study of the Russian system. But trying secretly and subtly as well as openly to implant se- dition in our armed forces is another WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT matter. USED CARS, BILL? I'M GOING By this I do not mean to imply that TO BUY ONE there is any cause for concern about their loyalty. More than one soldier or sailor, after drawing out a communist propa- gandist, has vented his contempt if he has not emphasized it by a sock in the KNOW THE ANSWER jaw. But individuals of a certain type TO THAT - REMEMBER may be affected. THOSE DODGE CARS Our CCC boys in general cannot be WE DROVE OVERSEAS ? responsive to the seditious appeal in word or print, if they hear or see it. But a susceptible, pliant youth may have his attitude toward life affected in a period of discouragement. He may be started on a false road instead of a useful career. - SURE.' I KNOW WE Just as it is established in law that an COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON individual has the right to protect him- DODGE DEPENDABILITY self —answering blow with blow when he ^ IN THOSE DAYS/ is struck and in violent action against a burglar entering his home—so it is established that a government has the right to protect itself. Just as local pro- YES - AND YOU CAN COUNT tection is in the police, national protec- ON THE DEPENDABILITY tion from enemies within and without is OF A DODGE DEALER in our national armed forces. WHETHER YOU BUY Uruguay, one of the few South Ameri- A NEW CAR OR A can governments which have recognized ^ CAR / the Soviet Union, recently exercised the USED right by expelling the Soviet Minister on the ground that the Soviet legation was the center for seditious propaganda not SAY- LETS DROP IN ON THE only in Uruguay, but in neighboring NEAREST DODGE DEALER countries which had not recognized the RIGHT NOW.' I'LL BET HE'S Soviet Union. The legation was charged GOT ALL SORTS OF GOOD with responsibility for the mutiny in the USED CAR VALUES Brazilian army. The outbreak of this mutiny was hailed as a triumph by the American communist press without di- YOU CAN BANK ON rectly urging our soldiers and sailors to THAT-ALL MAKES AND do likewise. At the cost of many lives the MODELS - AT JUST THE mutiny was suppressed. PRICE YOU WANT TO v In time of peace our Army or Navy PAY .'-REAL BARGAINS.' may employ espionage of no kind to meet the red problem by tracing red agitprop to its civil lair. There is no use of either service laying information before our YOU'RE in the market for a used car? Want to know where to go? Department of of its Justice. The G-men There's only one answer! See your Dodge dealer first! Here's why secret service have no authority to in- —for 22 years the words Dodge and "Dependability" have been syn- vestigate activities. only communist The onymous. It was inevitable that Dodge should attract business men authority there is police exists for the who know their finest asset is the steady patronage of the "buyer under state or municipal laws, aside from who comes back" because of honest merchandise, honestly priced. the fact that directly seditious stuff may No matter what kind of car you want — you can depend on your not be sent through the mails. Dodge dealer. See him today. Values at $50 — $150— $300 or what- Aside from watchfulness in the ranks, ever you want to pay! the safeguard is the investigation of the ASK ABOUT THE OFFICIAL CHRYSLER MOTORS COMMERCIAL character and associations of any candi- CREDIT COMPANY TIME PAYMENT PLAN date for enlistment. This is very thorough owing to the increasing skill and cunning of the reds with their boring process. Reds gather to boo and vilify groups of recruits who leave a recruiting DODGE depot for a post, {Continued on page 44) DIVISION OF CHRYSLER CORPORATION

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{Continued from page 43) and that is all in the game, a matter for tion to realize the effect of sabotage in the the reduction of our Navy to a coast the local police to deal with. magazines or complicated machinery of guard cutter, the Army to a thousand If a few soldiers out of a company a great battleship. There may be objec- men, and dismissing the National Guard, should turn mutinous the majority would tion that the mention of this possibility or paying the private ten times the wage deal with them swiftly in an infantry post. advertises it. It certainly does not, con- of a general, or that the President of the But there are other places and other considering the number of expert chemists United States shall always appear in ditions where, especially in war time, and mechanics who may be touched by public wearing a cocked hat fringed with vital damage might be done. red fanatacism or be in alien pay. bangles and a dress sword with streamers. For the Army it would be in the In our oppressed America anyone may artillery and in ammunition depots. In advocate the adoption of the soviet sys- This is second in a series of articles by the Navy a few men might cause dis- tem through the ballot. He may advo- Frederick Palmer on radical activities in astrous damage. It takes no imagina- cate the scrapping of our battleships and the United States.

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(Continued from page 7) this fact. "My people," Mr. McCune calling you a big Irish baboon and a foul you keep that up you'll not comb gray announced, stung to the quick, "were bog-trotter." hairs." never Far Downs. They came from Gal- "I accept the apology, on condition "Let us dispense with personalities, way. Back away from that periscope that you forgive my own incivility in O'Shaughnessey," McCune protested, and let me look at your ugly face, you calling you a monkey-faced Far Down. and immediately proceeded to indulge foul bog-trotter." But that was before I looked. Be kind in them. "What in the hell are you, The German signalers had their hands enough to ascribe my actions to nerves an Irishman, doing in the German up and were murmuring "Kamerad." and irritation." army?" To them their officer said in German: "We start from scratch," Mr. Mc- "A damned good job—not that it's "Put your hands down and quit that Cune assured him gallantly. "Would any of your business, McCune. What mewing. You're in no danger from this you regard me as unduly insistent if I in the hell are you, an Irishman, doing fellow. He's a man of words, not suggest that you remove your belt with in the British army? That is, your kind deeds." the Luger pistol in it and toss it over here of Irish. The Anglo-Irish belong there, "For two cents I'd let you have it," to me? Also, if you would be good enough but the Celtic Irish —never." McCune cried passionately. to order your men to remove their side- "I'm not in the British army. I'm in His prisoner turned, looked his captor arms and lay them with yours." the Army of the United States of up and down humorously and smiled. "Nothing could be fairer or more sensi- America." He was a big man, with the wavy jet ble, under the circumstances." O'Shaughnessey's handsome face puck- black hair, the reddish brown complexion, His request having been complied ered with horror. "Good God, lad," the blue black eyes, short nose and square with, Mr. McCune returned his grenade he murmured, "I might have slain you. chin that bespoke his origin. He spoke to the bag and loosened the flap on the But how was I to know that the British English perfectly, with only the very holster of his .45 caliber revolver. His had borrowed you?" faintest burr; in fact, scarcely a burr courteous prisoner kicked over an empty "They didn't. We relieved the British but rather an accenting of certain words. biscuit box. "Pray be seated," he urged, a week ago. Those are United States Mr. McCune thought he had never heard "and tell me who you are and how the troops in the trenches yonder." a softer or more harmonious voice, or devil you got here? As for myself, I "Glory be to God," O'Shaughnessey seen a more casually graceful man, when am Terence P. O'Shaughnessey and, as almost moaned. "I never knew it. As his prisoner bowed and said: you can see for yourself, I am an ober- God is my judge they never told me." "Pardon me, sir, if I appear irrelevant, lieutnant in the German field artillery." "You threw a shell into the base of the but you're quite a tall man. In the ex- "I realized you were either a Mac or an parado of that trench after you'd agreed citement of the moment you are stand- 0 the moment I read your letter. I am not to," Mr. McCune reminded him ing erect and your head shows over the First Lieutenant John Joseph McCune severely. top of this sap. The light isn't anything and when not socially engaged I com- "No fault of mine. A jackass of a to brag of, but there are snipers in the mand that trench mortar battery you've gunner got the range wrong. I knew it German trench who have had consider- been trying to obliterate the past week. the minute you tossed a trench mortar able experience shooting at heads wear- With the utmost respect I inform you projectile into our trench. Our infantry ing your sort of helmet." that in my opinion you're a devil on commander called my battery comman- "Thank you kindly," Mr. McCune wheels. As for how I got here, I crawled der up and gave him hell, so he in turn murmured politely and ducked. There over, and it was a most unpleasant jour- called me up and gave me hell." was a sharp "ping-gong" and a Mauser ney. Naturally, I had to return your "I only tossed one to let you know bullet ripped along the crown of his tin call, but, unlike you, I chose a time when that two could play a dirty game." hat. "I have to thank you for my life," 1 felt certain I would find my prospective "One was enough. You smeared he added. host at home." eight men." "In the circumstances, then, might I "The next time you make that journey, "I could have tossed more, but you suggest that you be careful of my life Mr. McCune, make it on an empty didn't so I wouldn't. I had faith in and those of my men?" stomach and tie a little sponge soaked you—after I'd returned your compli- "Right. I wouldn't spatter you except with perfume over your nose. As I ment! You're a scholar and a gentle- for wilful disobedience of orders in time wrote you, you are too impulsive. You man." of war. Furthermore, I apologize for neglect important little details, and if "I graduated from Trinity College and

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took a post-graduate course at Heidel- berg. When the war broke out I joined up. The English hanged my great- great grandfather to a tree and shot him full of holes—for treason. Treason, for- sooth, and never an O'Shaughnessey in six hundred years that knew loyalty to the Crown. 'Twas the first chance I had to even the score so I— "I understand. I'm three generations removed so the old hate has died out in my clan, but still I do not like them myself. Their Colonial troops are grand felJows, but the men from the Tight Little Isle look down their noses at a Yank. "Are there any of our own kind in your trenches yonder, McCune?" "Only about three thousand. The 165th* Infantry—the old Sixty-Ninth New York, that was—the backbone of Meagher's brigade in the Civil War. What with casualty replacements they've had to take in a few Jews and wops and bohunks, but in the beginning a man had to be Irish or Irish-American to get into that regiment." O'Shaughnessey hid his face in his hands and sounded off a small coronach. "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. O-o-o-o dear, oh dear, oh dear— "This is no time for the coeneen, O'- Shaughnessey. Get on your job, other- wise your battery commander will be telephoning the infantry commander yonder to send a man down here to see what's happened to you. But first, dis- Mme repea/s connect the wire from your field telephone and cut in this wire I dragged over with me. I desire speech with my telephone corporal." a SranJy'spedigree O'Shaughnessey 's men cut in the wire and, while Mr. McCune covered him with his .45 the man set the telephone at his As with a man, Time gives to a brandy feet and turned the bell crank before mellowness and fullness of character, retiring. McCune picked up the receiver and heard Corporal Perkins answer. but birth and upbringing determine the "Lieutenant McCune speaking, Perk- character. It is because Hennessy is of ins. I'm in the German O. P. and I've captured the lot. The German officer flawless quality when first laid away in who conducts the fire of that pirate gun oaken casks that the matured product is going to take orders from me—or else. He will commence firing in two minutes, has that "clean" taste and delightful but instead of searching for the mortars bouquet that make it the preferred his shells are going to fall in that belt of German wire and help us roll it up. after-dinner liqueur of the entire world. If lie double crosses me—I can't keep tab Distilled and bottled at Cognac, France, on his fire and him and his men at the same time—and starts reaching for the by JAS Hennessy & C9 Established 1765. mortars, have the infantry major lay a little machine-gun fire down on the lip of this old sap and I'll know he's up to dirty work and act accordingly. That wire should be rolled up by five o'clock.

I'll call you then and if the job's done I'll come right home—yes, my son, in broad daylight—with my prisoners. Tell the major to keep his men off me and E my patty. Goodbye." N*NE SSY He turned to Terence P. O'Shaugh- nessey. "You (Continued on page 46) COGNAC BRANDY

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(I Erin Qo ^Bragh 3 Lave REDUCED (Continued from page 45) mv WAIST 8 INCHES heard what I said, O'Shaughnessey, O'Shaughnessey answered passionately: is bit stale man's insane. What the hell wUk tke WEIL BELT!" but if your English a "The after four years in the German army, does he know about it? He can't -tell writes George Bailey I'll repeat my orders in German. I whether my shells are bursting there or had a hack at Heidelberg myself. Fly the enemy trench mortar projectiles.

at it, you mercurial son of a cock-eyed If you think I do not know my job and leprechaun, and remember that, while am incapable of doing it well, send some I'm peaceful by nature, I'm resolute as other officer down here to conduct the hell in an emergency. I'd hate to kill fire. I'm sick of the job anyhow."

you, but I will if I must. Have a good O'Shaughnessey hung up and grinned. American cigar, right out of our commis- "He's a mild little man, McCune, and sary," and he tossed one to O'Shaugh- not a very good field artillerist. Used to nessey. be my professor of chemistry at Heidel- O'Shaughnessey caught it deftly. berg. He has to trust me. The other "I suddenly realized that In a bathing suit ... I was "Thanks," he murmured. "I've been officers in the battery are green as Ire- immense. The I I had become a (at man". day heard some children The boys kidded me about laugh at smoking cigars made from cabbage leaves land." me I decided to get my bis "paunch". turned to one of his At o'clock the trench mortars Weil Belt. and cow-dung." He 5 men and said in German: "Schultz, ceased firing. So did O'Shaughnessey. there's a bottle of old French cognac in One of his men cut McCune's wire in on my haversack. Open it and give the the field telephone and McCune held guest a drink. But take one yourself, speech with Corporal Perkins, who an- first. He's a suspicious man and might nounced that the job was done, and thank think there's strychnine in it." God for it, because he, McCune, had He cut Mr. McCune's wire out of the been double-crossed and for the past field telephone, cut his own in, called up hour an entire battery of German guns his gun and gave his firing data. Then had been shelling the position. Some of he turned a troubled face toward Mc- the shells had fallen in the wire, some of

I looked Whatachangel I have a new feeling of Cune. "We'll have a machine-gun fire them had fallen among the trench mor- 3 inches slimmer at once energy and pep . . . work with six casualties and soon I had actually on the lip of the sap," he announced. tars and a dozen had better, eat better, play taken EIGHT INCHES "Since I can understand why, being knocked the sandbags off the American better ... I didn't realize off my waist . . . and 20 it. pounds off my weight! how much I was missingl a field artillery man myself, I can forgive trench. Most of them had gone over you, O'Shaughnessey. Starting with a McCune explained the situation to REDUCE YOUR WAIST cold gun you have to lengthen your range, O'Shaughnessey. "The professor, it because a cold gun shoots short and, seems," was O'Shaughnessey's reply, THREE INCHES in TEN DAYS naturally, you do not wish your own "is not, apparently, as stupid as I be-

. or it ... won't cost you a penny! shells to fall in the German trench. It is lieved him to be. He kept getting com- BECAUSE we have done this for thousands conceivable, therefore, that the first four plaints from the German infantry com- of others... because we know we can do fall among my mortars or even in the mander and decided to use the firing as much for you ... we dare to make the uncondi- may tional offer outlined above American trench. However, four shots data for my gun on all the guns of the The M usage-Like Action Does It will and thereafter battery, without consulting me. he You will be completely warm the gun up And comfortable and entirely una- there will be no excuse for inaccuracy. lengthened out the range and began ware that its gentle pressure is working constantly while you I can understand somebody else being searching." walk, work or sit.. .its massage- we'll give like action persistently elimi- inaccurate but not you." "Well, that complaining nating fat with every move True to O'Shaughnessey's prophecy, a infantry commander something to think you make! Many enthusiastic wearers machine gun barrage came over promptly about," Mr. McCune replied sweetly, write that the Weil Belt not and held for half a minute, then ceased. and immediately called Corporal Perkins only reduces fat butthat it also supports the abdominal walls O'Shaughnessey sighed: "God grant I again. "Are they still at it?" he de- and keeps the digestive organs in place. ..that they are no haven't hit any of our own. For green manded. longer fatigued... and that it greatly increases their troops your people are marvelously "You bet," Perkins wailed. k endurance and vigor 1 efficient." "Call up the artillery commander and I Greatly Improves I Your Appearance He continued his fire and thereafter the say to him that Lieutenant McCune re- MSI The Weil Reducing Belt machine gun fire ceased, so McCune quests a five-minute barrage on the Ger- will make you appear many inches slimmer at once, knew O'Shaughnessey was keeping the man trench in our sector." and in 10 short days your waistline will actually be faith. At 1 1 :3o one of the signalers made "For God's sake, no," O'Shaughnessey 3 inches smaller. ..3 inches gone. ..or it won't of fat a charcoal fire in the brazier and cooked yelled. "I'll call up my C. O. and tell cost you one cent 1 up a mess of sausage soup. At twelve all him everything. I'll tell him to lay off Don't Wait . . Fat Is Dangerous hands had a shot from the cognac bottle his foul practice of firing without proper 0 Fat is not only unbecoming, but it also endangers your and lunched on black bread and the soup fire control or the enemy artillery will health. Insurance companies know the danger of fat accu- and McCune gave O'Shaughnessey an- smear our infantry. By the Great Gun mulations. The best medical authorities warn against obe- other cigar. To the enlisted men he dis- of Athlone, I'm sick of this killing." sity, so don't wait any longerl tributed American cigarettes. Never, "Lay off the barrage, Perkins," Mr. TRIAL OFFER SEND FOR FREE 10 DAY for an instant, however, did his watchful- McCune ordered. "They're going to THE WEIL COMPANY, INC. ness relax. Shortly thereafter O'Shaugh- behave now." HILL ST., NEW HAVEN, CONN. 553 nessey's battery commander called up to O'Shaughnessey's men cut the battery Gentlemen: Send me FREE your illustrated folder describing The Weil Belt and full details of your 10 Day FREE Trial Offer. announce that the infantry commander wire in on the field telephone again and Name in the German trench had telephoned him O'Shaughnessey talked to his battery that O'Shaughnessey's shells were falling commander and told him the sad tale of Address Use Coupon or Send Name and Address on Penny Post Card in the German wire instead of among the his capture, how he had been forced to enemv trench mortars. To all which fire into the wire instead of the trench

46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ! — mortars; he stated that the wire had been rolled up, that his job was done and that any further German artillery fire in the sector would bring about terrific reprisals on the German trenches. CAR OWNERS SAVE 507. He turned to McCune, receiver in hand. "He's a reasonable man, McCune. He says he'll quit. Wait ten ticks." After waiting ten ticks, Mr. McCune said dryly: "I hear he's quit. Well, tell ON OVERHAUL COSTS! GET him to telephone his infantry commander to send word all up and down his trench that your captor is going to walk you to the American trenches in broad daylight and that you must not be fired upon, because at the first shot I'll lay NEW CAR PEP 0 UP! an egg on you and your men. 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captaincy and the Medal of Honor as enemy must always be expected to act Class, and pinned it on the general. well. I'll see to it that the French, with discretion. After he took our arms "I thank you, Mr. O'Shaughnessey," British, Belgians, Italians and Portu- from us he neglected to frisk us for con- said the general. "A detail will take guese hear about this, so they can hang cealed weapons. I could have killed your enlisted men to the rear and put hardware on you. You're guilty of him seven times with this after he'd them in the birdcage, where I think conspicuous gallantry in action over and captured us, had I felt so inclined." He they'll be happier than they've been for above the call of duty, if ever a man was." jerked Mr. McCune's helmet off his head, a long time. At least they'll get plenty Mr. McCune ignored the generous threw it in the air and hit it four times to eat and a few cigarettes. You, Mr. outburst. "A word with the general in before it splashed down into the trench. McCune, accompany me with Mr. private," he begged, and they moved "By Judas, he is a grand big Mick," O'Shaughnessey back to brigade head- down the trench. "See that German said the brigade commander proudly. quarters. I pride myself on my brigade officer, sir," McCune whispered. "Well, "I'd love to have the likes of him in my mess—and between drinks we'll figure he isn't German at all. He's a grand big command." out what to do with The O'Shaugh- Mick and his name is O'Shaughnessey. "Permit me to introduce him, sir. nessey." I do not—wish him treated like a common General O'Grady, this is Ober-lieutnant Mr. McCune had an idea. "I know prisoner Terence P. O'Shaughnessey, late of the what to do with him, sir. Parole him O'Shaughnessey strolled up to them, German field artillery." take his word of honor as an officer and a reached inside the belt of his trousers, They shook hands. "Why didn't you gentleman he will behave himself and not under his tunic, and pulled out a small kill Mr. McCune?" the general asked. engage in dirty work, and then send him calibered, short-barreled automatic pis- "It was your plain duty to do so." down to the Intelligence School at tol. "Here's a souvenir for you, Mac," "Kill one of my own? Huh? Is it a Langres and make him professor of the he announced, "in addition to the Luger savage you think I am, sir?" German language." you took from me." He saluted the General O'Grady scratched his ear. "McCune, that idea is worthy of a brigade commander. "Your Mr. Mc- "That's right," he admitted. "Only a young man of your initiative and re- Cune, sir," he said, "is what we call in very dirty bird will foul his own nest. sourcefulness. I'll telephone G. H. Q. Ireland, a broth of a bhoy. He's magnifi- I wish it lay in my power to decorate Hennessey, the assistant chief of staff, cent. But, whilst reciting his military you." was a classmate of mine at West Point. virtues, sir, I must recite his military O'Shaughnessey's dark, handsome face We chased Moros together in Mindanao. deficiencies. He takes too much for lighted with mirth. "Faith," he said, "I He'll arrange matters." He winked granted. He forgets the great cardi- have the power to decorate you, General," slyly. "God forbid," he said piously, nal principle of war, to wit, that the and he removed his Iron Cross, First "that we should go back on our own."

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be selected for one of the preliminary squeezed him into submission in seven- Bob had some strength and a few side matches on that card. Both champs had teen minutes. holds of merit, but he was far from being plenty of supporters, and the event drew In my anxiety to gain whatever meager a wrestler. I pinned him in seven min- the biggest crowd of fans ever to see a recognition awaited a champion in Ameri- utes, four seconds. And were the twenty- wrestling match up to that time. Old ca I almost begged for matches and sailed eight fans surprised? They began spread- Hack was trying to stage a return after into them with a youthful relish. For ing an angry rumor that my opponent three years' retirement, but all his grim several years I never lost a fall in the hadn't exerted himself. I can still assure courage and desperate efforts could not middleweight class. Some fans at For- them that he did his best. stave off defeat at Gotch's hands. aker, Oklahoma, heard about me, and All the glories of early wrestling may decided I should be humbled by their be found in my next bout, with Fred CHARLEY CUTLER, one of Gotch's local champ and marvel, Bob Williams. "Demon" Bartel, at Tulsa. The Demon earnest pupils, began winning his This boy Bob had beaten everybody hailed from Rochester, New York. The matches with persistent regularity. He who ventured out of the brush to tackle match, two best out of three falls, was was a huge combination of good wres- him. There was considerable money arranged for the ball park. No platform tling sense and 230 pounds of brawn. rattling around loose in the pockets of —just a canvas spread over some sawdust When Gotch decided to retire along about the sportsmen thereabouts, and Bob's for the ring. A typical Oklahoma wind 191 2 he generously passed the champion- admirers were willing to bet not only their was blowing that night, and sent waves ship over to Cutler. money but their oil wells on this sure of tumbleweed rolling over us as we But there was another rising star, out thing. wrestled. Sawdust whipped into our from a wheat farm in Nebraska. It was That was too good to lose. I agreed eyes and teeth. Under such inspiration Joe Stecher, and he had been practising to wrestle their champ, betting even I hurried the first fall through in eleven bursting sacks of wheat with the pressure money. I scraped up $10,000 and they minutes. Bartel claimed he was hurt of his legs. With little ado this boy Joe covered it and called for more. They and wouldn't continue. defeated such fellows as Doc Roller, solemnly decided to charge one dollar A gambler of some renown in western Westergaard, Ordemann and Gus " Ameri- admission to pay for the dingy hall and points undertook to arrange some bouts cus" Shoenlein. Cutler announced he twenty-eight customers showed up for for me after that. He'd go into Wichita, would attend to this Stecher, and Lin- the grand match. A wagon-sheet over for instance, get together the sportsmen coln, Nebraska, acted as host to the affair. a layer of cottonseed hulls formed the who had been waiting for something to Stecher got his legs around Charley and mat. turn up, and inform them their moment

48 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — — had arrived. Opportunity, he pointed out, was practically knocking the door down in the form of a wrestler who thought he was good. If they were interested, he'd bring this wrestler around.

They were interested, of course, if he was quite sure they could make some money out of it. When it came my cue to meet the native wise men, I'd appear dressed in overalls and other insignia of a rube. We usually arranged the meeting for outdoors, so I could keep my cap down over my caulirlowered ears. Thus a match would be set for the old race track, fairgrounds, or what have you, at which I'd give both my luckless opponent and his backers the shock of their lives.

WHEN the World Fair opened in San Francisco I signed up to give exhibition matches, and to take on all comers, bar none, as an entertainment Economy can't be written onto a price tag feature. That meant I had to be ready it must be built right into the shoes! Wear for anybody of any size, weight, description or disposition. I came through un- Florsheim's for the best proof in the world defeated. As I look back now upon those that quality makes for the greatest shoe econ- raw days I realize how I needed the training I had picked up in the far corners of omy . . . for the least cost per day of wear. the world and how much depended upon AND my knowledge of every type of leverage Style illustrated above, The Milburn, S-j6o. known to the mat. It is hard to make clear to the uninitiated just how important leverage is in wrestling. A hold is The FLORSHEIM Shoe obtained on an arm, leg or head, for example. The purpose of the hold is to bring the opponent down and maneuver his shoulders to the mat. Pressure is applied in a hold, or twisting, or pulling, in such a way as to cause the opponent to yield, or else to suffer considerable pain. Here came a splendidly built young Complete Course fellow to have a try at me. His name was Chris Theophilis Jim Londos, to — In R i f le Shoo t i n ! you—and I had some difficulty throwing g him. Chris was seventeen years old and weighed a hundred and sixty-eight pounds. I became interested. Here might be one of those rare finds, a wrestling diamond in the rough, needing only the polishing of training and experience. AMERICA'S MOST I took Londos under my wing and POPULAR OUTBOARD started training him. He was strong, 1936 Sportsman offers fast, well built, perfectly muscled. He seven advanced new fea- had stamina, and—wonder of wonders tures that make it an even intelligence and quick thinking. more amazing value than last the makings of years record-breaking model. "Jim, you have a helpful Attaches instantly to any boat; I\Xost complete and booklet on champion," I told him. I soon discov- small-bore shooting ever published! 76 drives rowboats, canoes, skiffs, pages covering rifles, ammunition, aim- ered that reaching the top of the wrest- fishing boats up to 7 miles an ing, breathing, trigger squeeze, wind ling pack was the very idea this Greek hour. Runs 3 hours on gallon of allowance, field shooting. How to ad- fuel. So simple to operate that just sights. How to build indoor and was carrying around in that Adonis-like outdoor ranges! Also learn about Wes- a child can easily start and run 2 head. For several years I was dean and tern 2 's for game, pest and target shoot- it. Note the handy light weight ing! Super-X high velocity! Western coach in the University of Hard Knocks — only 241/2 lbs. Extremely Standard velocity .22's! Super-Match from which Londos was graduated with quiet — underwater silenced. target cartridges! Mail the COUPON! Write today for new honors. catalog describing Sportsman and 7 "Now, Jimmie, today we work on other Evinrude models, COUPON BRINGS BOOKLET FREE! including the Hooded such-and-such a hold," I'd say, as Power we Sportwin, only Western Cartridge Company, $77. Address Evinrude, met on the mat of some obscure gym- Dept. C68 East Alton, Illinois. 4658 N. 27th Street, Send leaflets fully describing the advantages Western nasium wherever we happened to be. Milwaukee, Wisconsin of .ii's, also the NEW "SMALL-BORE RIFLE HAND- For hours we'd struggle, sweat and grunt, BOOK", Free! me giving him some bad moments and Name Address Jim taking it all as part of the day's a Post Office State instruction. (Continued on page 50)

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We hit the trail together hither and A certain shopkeeper seemed to be the KARL W. DETZER yon over the country. We'd blow into one man in town everybody could trust, a town, insert an ad in the newspaper, so he was made stakeholder, taking five H. LEONARD NASON and await results. The ad was a chal- percent for his services. His shop did a PETER B. KYNE lenge that we'd meet all comers, on cer- land-office business before the match. tain terms. That usually smoked out We called all money in sight—even R. G. KIRK the local champs, who'd come snorting terms. HUGH WILEY and tearing to find out who might be Came the match, and Jim threw the the presumptive idiots who dared to hefty strong boy in seven minutes. wrestle them. When no wrestlers could That one fall was enough. The local be found, we'd challenge any ten of the marvel quit the contest cold. No provi- And Articles by biggest men in town to come on in, try sions had been made for only one fall, their prowess at wrestling and at least so the honest stakeholder decided the put on some good entertainment. Usu- Three Forks sportsmen didn't owe us FREDERICK PALMER ally the local blacksmith, remembering anything—not even our own money! RUPERT HUGHES a few years back when he could throw That town netted us what might gently any two men—at once— in town; the be called a loss. WYTHE WILLIAMS piano mover, who in sweet innocence Londos was steadily accumulating IRVING BACHELLER thought brute strength would make him the technique and experience that made the hero of the hour; and the town bully, him champion. Along in 191 7 the big whose efforts at wrestling were so pitiful matchmakers began bidding for him. I

it was a shame to take the money, decided he was ready for fast company For Only $1.00 showed up. Each met the same fate and encouraged him to accept the pro- from Jim or myself. I do not recall that moters' offers. YOU may have some of the outstand- we had any difficulty throwing any of ing stories by these popular au- these over-confident gentry. It was a WRESTLING began to get better good stunt. recognition, to bigger gates, thors at a remarkably low cost . . . draw the price of a beautifully embossed Sometimes when the pickings were and to take in money enough to pay its blue and gold binder for your copies lean I'd go have an earnest talk with the promoters and athletes, with the period football coach at the local college. He following the World War. Out of the of the American Legion Monthly. wanted to buy new uniforms for his team, camps in this country and overseas were Moreover, it will give you a per- let us say. All right, one of us would pouring crowds of fine young fellows who manent record of Legion activities as wrestle his boys, one by one, and throw had taken advantage of the training in well as fascinating stories of the most each in a certain time. With proper boxing and wrestling the service afforded. ballyhoo and rousing of local pride the I was in Camp Pike during the war days, important American achievements . . . a record that will grow more valuable citizens would come in and pay to see doing my stuff as athletic director, and the slaughter. I can testify that wrestling picked up with the passage of time, a colorful "Please be careful and don't cripple at least temporarily several score of picture of contemporary American — any of the boys," I'd admonish Jim. promising mat men and several thousand progress. For the Monthly is keyed We usually followed the strategy of wild-eyed fans in that one camp. to the tempo of our modern America lining up the boys with the biggest and Any wrestling fan will tell you the an America that is above all achieve- — toughest of the lot as the first victim. sport has made vast progress since 1920 ing, growing, purposeful. In its The others stood in the wings and in at least three respects: Business pages is mirrored the life of our time. watched with bulging eyes and perspiring management and proper regulation from brows while this biggest hero was given within, sanction and control by official These binders, priced at only $1.00 a sound lacing. That was sufficient to athletic commissions, and tremendously each and available for Volumes I to cause some of the smaller ones quietly but increased appreciation on the part of XX, will hold six copies of The Ameri- suddenly to disappear. the fans. can Legion Monthly. Why not fill I am sorry to report that on these For that matter, there have been some out and mail the coupon now . . . barnstorming tours our efforts to secure darn good wrestlers present themselves while you think of it? honest referees were all too often futile. in the past decade and a half. Joe The local boys would bet heavily on Stecher beat Earl Caddock for the heavy- The American Lecion Monthly, themselves, and the idea of keeping good weight title in Madison Square Garden money at home, along with any that in 1920. Joe lost the next year to Stan P. 0. Box 1357, Indianapolis, Indiana might be added from arrogant strangers, Zbyszko. The Big Polander fell before

Gentlemen: Enclosed is $ (Insert is not at all new. When you pinned an Strangler Lewis in Wichita in 1924. proper amount computed at $1.00 for each opponent to the mat, the referee was Wayne Munn defeated Lewis, Zibby binder.) Please send, postpaid, the new likely to yell "Break!" and you had to do came back to trounce Munn, and then binder for \olumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, it all over again. It was a temptation Stecher took Zibby. John Pesek swung VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII. XIV, XV, XVI, to cripple your victim a little, so the into top form in 1926 and defeated XVII, XVIII. XIX. XX, of The American of Legion Monthly. (Check or circle binder or match could end sometime. Stecher in Los Angeles. Just samples binders desired.) Our efforts took us to Three Forks, the big fellows who stalked across the Montana, where a strong man reigned wrestling horizon until Londos took the as wrestling champ. He had never been title from Dick Shikat in Philadelphia Name defeated, and thought he never would be. in 1930. Londos was matched with him, agreeing Then, don't forget the influence of the Address to throw him three times in an hour. The college boys. I confess we old wrestlers promoters shook their heads and felt used to think of college men as being fit City State sorry for Jim. It would just be too bad. for some mild form of lawn tennis.

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But that was before we learned the power Strangler in 1927, when I was barging of organized education. Don George, along in the latter years of my wrestling Why Can't Gus Sonnenberg and Jim McMillen led career, as result of that paralyzing hold!) the charge of flying tackles from the Yes, the fans know that Joe Stecher's football fields of dear old Alma Mater. scissors brought in leg wrestling, and They began picking up their opponents that Paul Jones and Jim Browning are You Write? and slamming them down on the mat good at it. They stud}' Everette Mar- at a spot marked X. Wrestling began to shall's "airplane spin," Pesek's new draw unheard of gates. twist on an arm hold, George Zaharias' It's much Simpler I left the contests on the mat for pro- or Dick Daviscourt's nice new rough moting and refereeing along in 1929. As tactics. They are responsive to the than you think! a frequent official in the ring I have specialties or any new wrinkles brought watched with interest an increased appre- forth by Ray Steele, Rudy Dusek, Irish SO many people with the "germ" of writing ciation on the part of the fans for the O'Mahoney and all the others. What- in them simply can't get started. They suffer from inertia. Or they set up imaginary holds and technique of the game. They ever they may think of it, they know barriers to taking the first step. understand something of those punish- they'll see action in a grand old sport. Many are convinced the field is confined to genius for writing. ing headlocks of Strangler Lewis. (Some Let the bell sound and the match persons gifted with a Few realize that the great bulk of commer- of them may have seen me lose to the begin cial writing is done by so-called "unknowns." Not only do these thousands of men and women produce most of the fiction published, but countless articles on business affairs, social matters, domestic science, etc., as well. Such material is in constant demand. Every (Country 'Doctor week thousands of checks for $25, $50 and $100 go out to writers whose latent ability was perhaps no greater than yours. (Continued from page ij) "I am able to live on the

money I earn by writing,

and it is not yet ten months knew also that he could not convince his stand of alfalfa in a twenty-acre field. since I began the course! people of it just by telling them. He said, He undertook a slow barn, outhouses, Until a few months after "I figured I'd have to show the way. So and chicken house building program, beginning study with you

Carrie and I bought a farm near town, kept up the fences, and spent money on I had never had a line published in any commercial and began stocking it slowly. I remember paint and whitewash. He said, "It got publication. What more when I sent off for a prize Rhode Island so that some of the farmers would drive can I say for a course Red rooster, and admitted I'd paid ten out of their way to stop in, with their which has enabled me to dollars for it, the story got around and wives, and visit with Carrie, and go over earn a livelihood by the most congenial work if everybody laughed; any one that paid the place with me I was at home. We'd I have ever done?"—John N. Ottum, Jr., Box more than a dollar for a rooster must be ask 'em to stay for supper, and the next 95, Lisbon, N. D. crazy! But they already knew that I was time I had a meal with one of them I'd The Practical Method odd." When, however, he began to tell find some of my favorite dishes on the Newspaper work demonstrates that the way the women of the friers Carrie was raising, table . . . to learn to write is by writing! Newspaper and the harvest of eggs she was gathering, "In the early spring," Whatley re- copy-desk editors waste no time on t heories or they didn't laugh. It was much the same called with a reminiscent smack of the ancient classics. The story is the thing. Every copy "cub" goes through the course of practi- story when he acquired a pedigreed white- lips, "the country women send their kids cal criticism—a training that turns out more face bull, and a blooded boar. His calves to the low land near the creeks to root up successful authors than any other experience. That is why Newspaper Institute of America and pigs outsold theirs two to one and wild onions; they're slender, delicate — bases its writing instruction on the Copy-Desk that was an argument they couldn't plants; chopped up, fried, and mixed with Method. It starts and keeps you writing in your own home, on your own time. And upon Laugh off! scrambled eggs, they're mighty good! I the very same kind of actual assignments given He never told a farmer he ought to do was crazy about 'em, and Carrie and I daily to metropolitan reporters. Thus you this or that, but helped him whenever he began to figure out other combinations of learn by doing, not by studying the individual styles of model authors. asked advice about how to breed better green things with eggs; and I'd pass along Each week your work is analyzed construc- stuff. the recipe for anything we likeo. real tively by practical newspaper men. Gradually they help to clarify your own distinctive style. Of course, he himself had to learn. He well . . . Writing soon becomes easy, absorbing. Prof- sent off to the State Agricultural College "You see how it worked?" Whatley itable, too, as you gain the "professional" touch that gets your material accepted by for bulletins, and read them on his paused to question. editors. Above all, you can see constant prog- rounds. He wrote for help to the United "Say, Doc," Ross broke in, "I want ress week by week as your faults are corrected States Department of Agriculture, de- you to come with me and some other and your writing ability grows. scribing the land as well as he could. He fellows and have lunch tomorrow at Have You Natural Ability? was the first in the county to prac- Franchot's, in the village. They're cook- man Our Writing Aptitude Test will reveal tice crop rotation, or to use fertilizers ing a wild boar for us, and God knows whether or not you have natural talent for writing. It will analyze your powers of ob- recommended by experts. His was the what else that'll be delectable; and we'll servation, your imagination and dramatic first silo. He made some mistakes, and have champagne! ... Of course, that's instinct. You'll enjoy taking this test. There talked about them as freely as about his how the French got to be such good cooks is no cost or obligation. Simply mail the coupon below today. successes. For a long time, the country — I mean the way you said, passing folks magnified his mistakes, told one an- around what they found out by experi- Newspaper Institute of America other that as a farmer Whatley was a menting." One Park Avenue, New York, N. Y. durn good doctor! "Wild boar?" Whatley's eyes lighted.

He began keeping books on his farm "Sure, I'll be glad to join you! It must be Newspaper Institute of America One Park Ave., New York, N. Y. and stock— that is, Carrie did after they something like our razorbacks at home, Writing Apti- system informa- mast fed. I'd like to find out how they Send me, without cost or obligation, your had worked out a from tude Test and further information about writing for prolit. as promised In American Legion Monthly, March. tion received from Washington. So, in prepare it. Can you speak French?" time, able to in exact figures "Oui, un peu; enough," Ross laughed, Miss / he was show Mrs. > just how much he made or lost on his "to get 'em to show you. But— excuse Mr. \ crops and stock. me, Doc, go on." Address fine "If you'll (Continued on page (All correspondence confidential. No salesman will call He started an orchard, and got a come 52) on you.) S9CS96

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out and visit me at Cobra about the I'd brought i:i to help me twelve years and, boy, have I looked forward to seeing middle of March I'll promise to have ago— folks would talk. Then Carrie sur- the folks, and my girl, again! But I'm a big platter of what the Indians used to prised me by saying she and Jenkins going to ask my old man at G. H. Q. to call 'wild eggs and onions'." wanted to get married. I suppose I'd put Doc Whatley in my place."

"I might at that!" Ross said . . . ought to have known about that, and "Your father," I asked, "who is he?" To get back to the farm: Doc began to said so, and Carrie said she never meant "Just one of Pershing's pet brigadier clear a patch of scrub timber, and re- to marry while I needed her, but since I generals; he's helping at G. H. Q. to send " plant; he figured that a sound walnut, was going off to leave ho— Doc smiled the boys home . . . I'll try to get him on hickory, or oak tree ought to be worth around at us, recalling the happy so- the telephone, give him my spiel; I may more to someone, some day, than a lution. have to wangle the use of the Camp C. stunted hackberry, or soft maple, or "Did they stay on your farm?" Ross O.'s phone— want to wait for me here?" knotty elm. He and Carrie had grand asked. We were in the Y hut, and I saw, at the wood fires in winter while he was gradu- "Yes. It's to belong to them. Jenkins farther end, Carol McComas and her ally reforesting the wood lot. For a long is a good man. I'll stay with them until little troupe of entertainers rehearsing for time, the farmers couldn't understand I get through with these terracing experi- the evening show. "Sure, I'll wait," I why he should want to chop down any ments I spoke about, and then— said, and went on to listen to the lovely tree just to plant another! But they talk "But I may get interested in working Carol's marvelous whistling. to one another now about his grove of out some other ideas. I'm no hand to An hour later, Ross and I walked back young hardwood, set out in rows and look ahead, only I've got to keep busy!" to our quarters. I asked, "What did you kept clear of underbrush and weeds; "I'll say you have kept busy!" Ross mean to tell Doc after he'd spilled his "Doc's wild orchard," they call it. exclaimed. story?" "Slow work, wasn't it!" Ross ex- We were silent for a time, then the "Oh, I forgot; this other idea got into claimed. young flyer asked, "Do you have any my head as he talked and crowded it out. "Yes, it was," Whatley said, "but I idea when you'll get to go home, Doc?" Did you ever read Balzac's story called never thought of the years that passed "No. I reckon it'll be a long time; I'll 'A Country Doctor'?" except when something happened to call have to wait my turn. Of course, that's "No, but I certainly will now." my attention to them. Dad died three why I'm writing letters." "Yeh, do. You'll like it. That's what years ago, and I could hardly realize that "I wish— " but Ross did not go on. I meant to ask him; but, of course, he's he had lived eighty years, and that I was Instead, he rose, put out his hand to never heard of it ... By the way, my old fifty-five! My sisters, except Carrie, had Whatley, and said, "Thanks, Doc, I'm man said he could fix it; Doc Whatley married and were raising families. The glad I heard your story!" He turned to will be ordered to Brest day after to- old Indian Territory had passed away, me, "Want to walk over to the Y?" morrow— and don't you ever say any- and the State of Oklahoma had two Outside, he gripped my arm hard, and thing, fellow! . . . Say," Ross laughed in million whites. said, "Fellow, I intend to try something, a way to make one forget the weather, "When I was accepted for the Army, hope it works! I haven't told any of you, "we'll make that wild boar feast a party I had to think of Carrie. I couldn't leave but I've got my travel order, booked for tomorrow! What I mean, a proper fare- her on the farm with Jenkins, the man the good old Leviathan's next trip home; well party for old Doc!"

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(Continued from page g) baby is this particular Jumbo anyhow? incarceration or discharge is the lawyer's in criticism of the lawyer's part of the Laymen ordinarily think about crime side of the elephant. For the proper business of preventing and punishing and punishment as primarily a lawyer's handling of this legal machinery the pub- crime. Chief Justice Taft publicly called problem. Enough has already been said lic may readily expect the lawyers to be the administration of the criminal law in to show that this is much too narrow a largely responsible. It may blame America a disgrace. The defects, real view of the matter. Just a little analysis lawyers and judges if legal procedure is and supposed, have been so well publi- will show that lawyers, in their profes- unduly slow, if it provides too many cized that their recital is not news, hence sional capacity, have to do with only one loopholes for the guilty to escape, if no need to particularize again. It may part of the general subject. There are trials are turned into circuses instead of be admitted that on the debit side the other parts probably more important dignified and sober proceedings. The account is a heavy one. where other people with other profes- public can blame lawyers if shysters or On the credit side, however, there is sional knowledge and skill have more to "lawyer criminals" are permitted to de- something to be written down, too. A contribute than the lawyers. The most feat the purpose of the law. But the great deal of good work is being done important parts of all are the concern of public may not blame the lawyers if at which will eventually result in improve- the whole body of citizens and not any the conclusion of a trial a jury lets a pris- ment. The American Law Institute, for one professional group. oner off when public sentiment demands instance, has drafted a Model Code of

It is not hard to isolate the part that his conviction. In that part of the legal Criminal Procedure, and parts of that has to do strictly with law and lawyers. machinery laymen, represented by the Code have been adopted in many States. Except for the minor function of furnish- jury, have final authority and respon- In other States many of the best features ing a warrant for arrest, the legal ma- sibility. You will note that the miserable of the code are already on the statute chinery starts working after a man has questions will not stay simple and direct, books. State commissions in many been apprehended, and only then. The even in this small subdivision of the places have given thoughtful attention prisoner's progress from the first presenta- whole field. to reforms in both substantive criminal tion in a magistrate's court to his final There is a great deal which can be said law and matters of criminal procedure.

52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Representatives from more than forty voice in it. He can help put the policy States have just established an Inter- to work after it is formulated. But he state Commission on Crime which will has no divine revelation, just because he work in co-operation with a group of men is a lawyer, which tells him the wise from the faculties of our law schools. answer to this wide question of policy. Their object is reciprocal legislation or Then there is the question of the test interstate compacts to cover the problems for responsibility for acts done. Courts which arise because gentlemen engaged have formulated certain rules about the in law-breaking activities find it conve- subject. They had to, for they were nient to move back and forth across the confronted with the cases before there lines which make up the checker board was any body of psychiatric knowledge of these United States, turning efforts for to rely upon. They said, for instance, their apprehension into something like that a child under seven was not to be the childhood game of prisoner's base. held responsible for crime. When it Bar association committees are con- came to the problem of mental disease stantly active to eject from the ranks of they floundered badly. Why shouldn't the legal profession members who have they? No one knew much of anything misconducted themselves in defense of about it —even today the psychiatrist criminals. All these things are good, will be the first to tell you how little he but there is a great deal more to do. The has yet learned. This is one of the many most that can be said is that the subject places where you cannot get the right is one which is alive and receives con- rule of law until you can base it upon es- stant attention from that large portion tablished fact; hear the facts about the of the lawyers who feel a sense of pro- working of the human brain. The fessional responsibility about it. lawyer's knowledge of contingent re- Rust and sediment collect in automobile if everything crime But even about mainders, the doctrine of last clear radiators through the winter. Now it's time which is a lawyer's responsibility was chance, the rights of a holder in due to clean out the cooling system of your car. perfect in plan and worked with the maxi- course, or the provisions of the Securities Remove anti-freeze and get ready for summer driving. Unclog the delicate veins that mum of efficiency possible in any man- Exchange Act won't help here. Nor will keep the motor from overheating. You can run enterprise, the most important of the his experience as advocate in prosecuting do it yourself in a few minutes—with Sani- difficult problems would still be un- or defending criminal cases. The facts Flush. It costs only ten cents. (follow touched. One of these is the question of must come from other fields of learning. Pour Sani-Flush in the radiator directions on the can). Run the motor. the kind of conduct for which you want to The lawyer can then help put the facts Drain. Flush. Refdl with clean water. Sani- provide penalties. It is certainly clear to work. Flush is perfectly safe. Cannot injure alumi- that if you pass a law making an act a Another non-legal phase of crime is num cylinder head, water-jackets or fittings. crime whenever someone does something that of finding the guilty person after a You'll find Sani-Flush in most bathrooms for cleaning toilet bowls. Sold by grocery, of which you disapprove, you cannot crime has been committed. This is a drug, hardware, and five-and-ten-cent stores like strict possibly hope to have anything fascinating subject and provides an —25c and 10c sizes. The Hygienic Products law observance by all of the community immense amount of current reading mat- Company, Canton, Ohio. all of the time. If the police force is ter for those who like detective fiction. spending all of its efforts in punishing It also provides good reading matter violators of the motor-vehicle law, or for those who like to read of accomplish- Sani-Flush catching vendors of slot machines or ments in scientific work, for almost any KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN lottery tickets, it has less attention to quarterly list of new books will contain give to bank robbers and burglars. volumes on this subject just as interesting Rules we must have in a civilization as as any piece of detective fiction. While Heddons RIVER-RUNT complex as ours. People who talk ab- it did not make a whole book but only <&rei t£e stractly of "liberty" sometimes give us a magazine article, the kind of thing 1 STUNT" n.* to believe that regulation by public au- mean is the description of the patient Unbeatable for Bass, Wall Eyes, thority is only to provide activities for and ingenious piece of investigation of the Jack Salmon, Pickerel and politicians who want to keep themselves wood ladder in the Hauptmann case. Lake Trou t. "Skore- A\so Salt- t BSwnow water fish. in power. That is another explanation Then this whole question of catching p inish which is too easy to be right. Just com- criminals reaches over into the field of River- Runt- SPOOK pare society with a game and the point police administration, and that, in turn, Each 1 Sinking is clearer. If the game is the simple form reaches over into the field of politics in "Jointed". New Ishes

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law. It is a question of much wider Mr. Hoover describes, we could get a law and into the whole field of social public policy. We have enough infor- practical solution by removing them science. We have, in fact, jumped even mation to know that our prisons are from society either by execution or per- further, for the end of our thought is full of repeaters, men and women who manent confinement. That solution that if you can start the human being have been sentenced for one offense would not take account of the factors in a decent environment, give him ade- and are soon back, after being dis- which made a John Dillinger. It would quate food, clothing and shelter, provide charged, because they have commit- simply say of him and his kind: "What- a wholesome outlet for his activity in his ted another. We know that life in ever has made you what you are, you are growing years, then, unless he is acci- prison is a pretty thorough and efficient too dangerous ever to turn loose." But dentally born a "second" he will probably training school for teaching a relatively the Dillingers, as already indicated, are be a useful, law abiding citizen and not a innocent youngster all the tricks in the only a small part of the human stream criminal. If you are honest with your- trade of hardened criminals. We know which flows past the judge in the criminal self, your thought about this thing will that our prisons are unsanitary and court. Where and how to direct the land you just there. Now you are far overcrowded and unwholesome for both stream is a terribly hard question, and past the technique of a profession, law- mind and body. One need not be a for its solution neither hard boiled invec- yers' or any other; you are past a simple sentimentalist to wish we could find some tive nor sloppy sentimentality is helpful. problem of the front page kidnapper; more intelligent as well as some more Nor is a profound knowledge of the exist- you are in that age old quest for making humane way to deal with those who have ing law, civil or criminal. this a world where everyone may have,

committed an offense against society. Finally, and perhaps most important if not the luxuries, the decencies of life. Scientists can tell us at least some cases of all, is the social question of helping When you get that you've got something

when an individual is a congenital crim- create the kind of environment which big enough to pick up the problem of

inal and who, if confined for a given term, will not make criminals. Some people crime in its stride. will soon be on our hands again after are probably born with inherent quali- Obviously, this discussion hasn't pur- having committed further offenses. That ties which make them anti-social. Vari- ported to say all that there is to be said kind of man truly ought never be turned ous estimates are made as to the percen- on any one of these points. It could not.

loose once he is caught. Indeed, if we tage of the offenders in this class. I have Any one of them is a subject of volumes find that kind of man, cmd catch him seen it estimated at a fourth of the and many volumes have already been before he kills somebody, is there any total. written. I hope I have proved that when reason why we should wait until the Regardless of the exact figure we can we think about crime we should not think killing occurs before we put him out of take it that there are some people who of it as a technical question of law or

the way of doing other people harm? probably never can fit into an ordered lawyers or even the police. I hope it is It seems pretty clear that for such people society. But a lot of others get into crim- clear, too, that we should back away there should be no period of freedom be- inal activities because they don't have from any doctrinaire who says he has one tween offenses. Permanent retirement useful ways to direct their efforts. There formula that will solve the whole prob-

from society is absolutely necessary. are enough instances of the good effect lem. Probably we shall never solve it;

With regard to other offenders it cer- of a well organized boys' club in a neigh- at least the experience of mankind thus

tainly is not too much to ask that we find borhood to show the salutary effect which far gives little promise of so doing. But a way to treat them after conviction so the activities of that club have had on to go back to our elephant again, our that they won't come out of jail more the crime rate. We may be sure that inability to understand the full nature dangerous to the rest of us than when money spent in the promotion of enter- of his elephantine structure need not they went in. That is much easier to prises of this kind is a mighty good invest- prevent our making our best efforts to say than to do. If the only group we had ment for the public to make. understand and improve the separate to deal with were gunmen of the type Now we have jumped clear away from portions thereof.

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of, Curly Bill was a handsome fellow and always did. Following the wagon road range, the trail pointed down the valley dressed as well as he could afford. north toward Bowie Station for about in the direction of Richmond Crossing One morning an orderly asked me to four miles we halted to "cut sign." of the Gila. A small trading post stood

report to headquarters and J was ushered Rowdy trotted out to the right of the on our side of the crossing. When day- into the presence of General Crook him- road, John Daisy to the left. When break came on I figured that we were less self. Some more mules had been taken about a quarter of a mile away Rowdy than twelve hours behind the rustlers. that night, under the nose of the guard. raised his hand and sat down, indicating The remains of the camp were found, The general asked me to bring them in. that he had found the trail. well concealed by boulders, about two I selected for my party Bill Riley, a This showed the tracks of five mules miles short of the crossing. We pushed packer with whom I had served off and led by three ponies, heading in a north- on without rest, knowing that the rustlers on for ten years, and Rowdy and John westerly direction for the Stein's Peak could not be more than an hour ahead Daisy, Tonto Apaches from the scout Range. The moon was full, enabling of us unless they had started before dawn. company that was being recruited by us to follow the trail at a trot. Crossing Knowing they would halt at the store Captain Emmet Crawford. the railroad well out of sight of Bowie near the crossing I intended to try to About sundown we left the post. Station it made straight for the range. surprise them there. Riley and I were mounted, Riley leading As I judged by their trail we were travel- The Indians returned from a recon- a pack mule as a blind. John Daisy ing about twice as fast as our quarry. naissance with word that five mules and and Rowdy traveled on foot as scouts Descending the yonder slope of the three ponies were tied to the snubbing

54 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly rail in front of the store. Making our ducing myself I described the nature of saddle mules and the pack mule fast, our business. One Year From Today Riley and I crept up to where we could "By the great horned toad!" exclaimed get a view of the store and formed our the ranchman as he laid eyes on Curly What Will You Be Earning ? plan. The scouts and I would circle Bill and his men. "Daly, you've saved This may be the most important year in your life! Your whole future is apt to de- around, get in the rear of the store and me a sight of trouble. Those are the boys pend on how you take advantage of present crawl up to where we could cover the we're after. Where shall we string 'em business changes. The "New Deal" is opening up new jobs, front door with our rifles. Riley, whom up?" creating unusual opportunities, bringing back Curly Bill did not know, was to saunter "I was fixing to string Curly Bill to prosperity. But that does not insure prosperity for you. Only you can insure that. the middle of the road. rustlers up The that tree by the crossing," said I, "and For months—maybe years—employers will be choose out of the millions now would be bound to see him and come out then turn the other two loose to hoof it able to pick and unemployed or dissatisfied with their work and to investigate. As they stepped from back to Deming and tell — what pay. Naturally they will pick the men with most preparation and ability. the door the scouts and I would have our happened." mentioned a The man was Youshould—you must—make yourself quickly guns on them. saloon and dance hall proprietor in more valuable—to protect what you have and to insure getting your share of the promotions and With his rifle slung at a careless angle Deming, New Mexico, whom I suspected pay raises. It is being done by OTHERS— it can be done by YOU1 Riley came up the road whistling "The of being a silent partner of the thieves. Ask us to send you full details about our new Texas Rangers." As he approached the With considerable warmth the ranch- spare time training, and to explain how it pre- pares you to meet today's demands and oppor- store a figure appeared in the doorway. man said that wouldn't do; that by God tunities, also about our salary-increasing plan. "Howdy, old timer. Where from?" he'd started out to get these sons of guns If you really are in earnest, you should investigate at oner. Check your field below, write "Outfit camped up beyond the cross- and now that he had them he'd see that j our name and address, and mail. ing," answered Riley. "Pardner, any justice was done all three. LaSalle Extension University bug-juice in this she-bang?" "Pardon me, sir," I interrupted, "but Dept.336l-R Chicago "Kill at a hundred yards," observed these men are my prisoners. I told you Send me, free, the facts about the demands and opportunities in the business field I have checked the horse thief, giving a critical estimate what I was going to do to Bill because —and about your training for that field. of the potentialities of the whiskey. he deserves hanging and my word is Higher Accountancy Industrial Management Eipert Bookkeeping Modern Foremanship "What outfit is that camped up there?" out. But I never saw these other fellows Business Management Business English "Cavalry troop and a pack train," before. If you had caught them what Traffic Management Law— LL. B. Degree C. P. A. Coaching Commercial Law said Riley. you did would be your affair, but I caught Personnel Management Stenotvpy Modern Salesmanship Effective Speaking The man turned to address someone them and I'll take them back to Bowie inside the store. In another moment before I turn them over to you to hang." Curly Bill and his remaining companion The rancher did not see it that way stepped briskly outside. and we had considerable of a wrangle. Present Position, "Put up your hands!" 1 yelled. Finally he said: Riley lifted the outlaws' pistols from "Daly, I'll agree to this. You turn Bill their holsters and tossed them over near over to me and keep the others. Take REGULATION WAR MEDALS Under the Provisions of the Act of feet. Then he unbuckled the prison- them to Bowie or any place else. But my Congress approved April 21, 1928. I ers' cartridge belts and carried guns and since you feel so tender toward them ad- am authorized to sell articles of Mili- tary Insignia. Replace lost Medals ammunition to where the rustlers' vise them to get out of this part of the and Ribbons. My new book WAR MEDALS has 144 illustrations and the horses were tied and hung them from the country, for if I ever see them again this complete history of all Medals. SEND $.10 in coin or stamps. saddle horns. side of hell I'll shoot first and explain GEORGE W. STUDLEY "Reckon you boys want them mules," afterwards." 115 Maryland St. Rochester. N. Y. Past Commander American Letjion Post 474. one of the rustlers said, addressing me. After some more talk I said I would Curly Bill did not say anything and I accept the proposition, but I was going did not say anything; but we never took to turn Bill's two friends loose where they ITCHING 7^ our eyes off each other. I knew what he were, unarmed and on foot. I knew the STOPPED IN ONE MINUTE was thinking and I think he knew what I ranchman would not kill an unarmed For quick relief from the itching of eczema, blotches, pimples, athlete's foot, rashes aud other skin erup- was thinking. I had half expected him man, even a horse thief. tions, apply Dr. Dennis' cooling, antiseptic, liquid to make a break when Riley went up to When we cut the ropes those rustlers D. D. D. Prescription. Its gentle oils soothe the irritated skin. Clear, greaseless and stainless—dries disarm him, but he didn't. I gave him and lit out down the road like jumped up fast. Stops the most intense itching instantly. A 35o credit for having sense enough to figure jack rabbits. trial bottle, at drug stores, proves it—or money back. that a better chance for life would be to "Now, Daly," said the cattle man, D.D.D. PA£AcAZ&£L&yi, try to talk me out of hanging him. "let's bring this other one down to the I did not intend to be talked out of it. river and get it over with." — ," I had never hanged or helped to hang a "Mr. — said I, looking at his man, and this from no lack of oppor- followers, "you seem well fixed for help. Send the coupon below tunity. But my word was out to hang I have five mules to take back to Bowie Curly Bill and in that part of the country and think I'd better hit the trail before for a facsimile of the Dec- a man kept his word or he was done for. the sun gets any higher." laration of Independence, A big tree grew on the river bank by the crossing, about a quarter of a mile From time to time up to his death in Sep- suitable for framing. from the store. After sending an Indian tember, iqji, at the age of 81 Major Henry

to get a lasso from one of the rustlers' W . Daly, Legionnaire and veteran of nu- saddles I placed the outlaws in front merous campaigns against the Indians, and and the march along the dusty road of the Spanish-American and World Wars, began. Soon, about a half mile away, we dipped into the rich storehouse of his ex- IPANY OF Boston. Massachusetts saw a party of five or six horsemen periences to write for the Monthly chron- coming. icles of his adventures which were widely John Hancock Inquiry Bureau I had the outlaws tied hand and foot, quoted. Marquis James has taken from the 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. send facsimile Declaration of after which the rest of us made our prep- diary left by M ajor Daly material for the Please me of Independence. arations receive visitors, hostile or foregoing article, and a second, touching to for Name friendly as the case might be. on the romantic days of the Southwest after Street and No They were friendly, the leader being the Civil War, which will appear in a forth- Cily Slate a ranch owner near Silver City, New coming issue. Maj. Daly's Legion member- A. L. M. 36 Mexico, whom I knew by sight. Intro- ship was in Jasper Post, Washington, D. C.

MARCH, 1936 55 ; — — — US GOVTJOBS Their Big (^foments SHORT HOURS- GOOD PAY (Continued from page ig) RAILWAY POSTAL CLERK 'VACATIONS- PENSIONS $18SO to $2700 stop worrying about strikes. layoffs, a Year the kid hard times ! Get on the government pay- $10 Prize a chance! What's his dad's name, roll. Pay as high as $00 a week ! Short CUSTOM HOUSE hours: steady work; vacations. Open to POSITIONS SHE SAVED HIS LIFE and where's he from?" men and women 18 to 50. Let me help $1100, $1680 to you. I train you at home in spare time. $3000 a Year The youngster completed my second I was Government Civil Service Ex- RURAL MAIL this thirty- pilgrimage, aminer for 8 years. Ex-service men get CARRIER ALTHOUGH occurred some and gave me my big moment preference. Start at $2100 L odd years ago, when I was seven when he replied, Yavelot, SEND FOR FREE BOOK a Year "I am Gaston It tells all about POST OFFICE years of age, it is as vivid to me as though a French war orphan. I was adopted by splendid opportunities CLERK now opening up ; what to $1700 to it were yesterday. Corporal Frank E. Crippen!" Frank do to get job you want $2100 a Year how I help to qualify you We were attending a rural school a E. Crippen, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. for government job. Write POSTMASTER NOW to Arthur R. Pat- $1200 to quarter of a mile from a railroad track-. terson. PATTERSON SCHOOL, $2500 a Year 633 Case Bldg., Rochester, N. V. We would go down there during the noon $10 Prize Learn Profitable Profession hour to gather wild flowers. At that time CASUALS OF THE STORM in QO days at Home there were so many beautiful tiger-lilies,

: Sal; and Women in the fascinating pro- blue bells and many others, my brother, a member of the F. E. R. A. fe: WHILE iish Massage run as hiph as $40 to ?70 per week bat many pref er to open their own of- nine years old, tried to cross the cattle Lower Matecumbe, I was fices. Large incomes from Doctors, hospitals, sani- Camp 3, tariums, clubs and private patients come to those whoqaalify through our training'. Reduc- guard but his foot caught. We all, about in charge of the canteen. It had been ing alone offers rich rewards for special- ists. Anatomy charts and supplies are thirty of us, worked frantically to release raining for the last two days and on the | given withour course. Writefor details National College of Massage & him as we knew the train was about due; second of September, I was told Physio - Therapy, 20 N. Ashland 1935, Avenue. Oept. 375 Chicago, III. our teacher was ringing the school bell to close the canteen on account of the hur- but no one left. The train came whistling ricane coming our way from the Gulf of

MpC* FACTORY for us to move on; it looked so big and Mexico and also to get ready for the train PRICES/ was getting bigger and bigger. Imagine that was to take us out of the storm area, our horrible thoughts— it seemed his life at 5 :30 p.m. The train never came. Our ^SALE CATALOG - FREE would be only a minute more. I clung to shacks were being blown all over the key. Styles and Sizes of Over 200 closed that first sergeant, told us to Stoves, Ranges. Furnaces at him and my eyes; at moment, Our Paul Pugh, Factory Prices and Easy Agnes Gardner, a beautiful little girl with try and make the tank car that was on Terms—as little as ISc a day. More Bargains long curls, unlaced his high top shoes and the siding of the railroad. I was one of than in 20 Big Stores. New styles, new features, released him, just in time as the big train the lucky ones to make it. I was hanging new colors. Year to Pay —30 free trial— 360 days whizzed for life. long after I hit days approval test — by. on dear Not was 2 4- hour shipments. The If this is published, I hope it may be the tidal wave, which carried about Kalamazoo Stove Co., Mfrs, by me 2066 Rochester Avenue, the Gardner, to feet, time in the Over 1,000,000 Kalamazoo. Michigan. means of locating Agnes 200 half of the water and Satisfied Users whom we owe his life. Mrs. Lillian the rest in the air; as the wind was

36 Years in Business I Write for FREE Catalog! Coyour, Fairmont, Minnesota. traveling at the rate of 150 miles per hour I was stunned for a time. The next $10 Prize I knew I was caught between two HE REMEMBERED branches of a tree. It being so dark, I didn't know where I was but my biggest TEA AND COFFEE ROUTES PAYING UP TO 46O 0° A WEEK 1 REMEMBER as though it were yes- moment was at daybreak. After being National company needs more men at once to *\ make regular calls mi local routes. No experience terday when The Stars and Stripes in the tree all night I was able to look --jeded. Operate on our capital. I send everything: givff you brand new Ford inspired F. to in its terra firma once again. SI) car as bonus. Rush name onpoBtcard the A. E. go down down and see old _for FREE Facts . . . ALBERT MILLS .1624 Monmouth, Cincinnati, Ohio "jeans" and adopt 12,000 French children The heartbreaks were to see my buddies who were orphaned, whose parents were lying all around the woods dead. CHEAP OIL BURNER INVENTED too crippled to care for them, or refugees Harry Cushman, Mountain Home Hos- COOKS A MEAL FOR LESS Slips Into Your Stove. Range or Furnace; Hotter and from the invaded districts. pital, Tennessee. Cheaper Than Coal or Wood; No Dirt or Ashes. uncertain ever before An amazing new type oil burner which burns cheap oil With tomorrow a new way. without pre-generating or clogging up; gives me, it was a great thrill to have francs $10 Prize quick intense heat at HALF COST by turn of valve. One 500 free to one person in each locality who will demonstrate to lay quietly "on the line" to give some CLEAN SWEEP FOR OLD GLORY and act as agent. Write quick, be first to learn how to end drudgery of coal and wood and make big money, spare kid a year's new start in a war-torn or full time—mail lc postcard today to United Factories,

1 1 1 Fart..r\ KM).'., Kansas City. Mo. country, and a bigger kick to receive from AT STOCKHOLM, Sweden, in iqi 2 the Red Cross a postcard showing a the Olympic Games were being con- FREE FOR ASTHMA quaintly dressed boy, named Gaston tested. Flags and pennants of many na- If you suffer with attacks of Asthma Yavelot, with wide, staring eyes of tions were flying gaily over the stadium. so terrible you choke arid gasp for tragedy silently thanking me for adopting As over two score nations were compet- breath, if restful sleep is impossible him. ing just a few Old Glories were to be seen. because of the struggle to breathe, But the thrill faded with the stark After each contest the flag of the win- if you feel the disease is slowly wear- realities of war; grateful, boyish letters ning country was placed on a tall pole ing your life away, don't fail to send grew rare, then ceased entirely with the at the end of the stadium, and those of at once to the Frontier Co. Asthma days of homecoming. the nations getting second and third on for a free trial of a remarkable Came September, 1927 . . . Paris again smaller ones to the right and left of the method. No matter where you live . . . Memories rushing back . . . Drinking winner. Quite often an American flag or whether you have any faith in any a toast to each reawakened recollection the center pole or to the right or remedy under the Sun, send for this was on free trial. If you have suffered a at the rail of Harry's Bar with a group of left. This, of course, brought prolonged lifetime and tried everything you hilarious Legionnaires I heard at my el- cheers from our group. Still, one glance could learn of without relief; even bow a voice in halting English inquiring, was enough to show we were far from if you are utterly discouraged, do not "Please, where may I find the New York home with foreign flags on both sides. abandon hope but send today for this Legion? I am coming many miles to see And even in those days the competition free trial. It will cost you nothing. my father!" for top world honors in track and field Address There was an exchange of typical events was so keen that any event might Frontier Asthma Co., 201-A Frontier doughboy humor, but someone finally see three foreign flags on the poles of Bldg., 462 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y. said, "Wait a minute, you birds! Give honor.

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The ioo-meter dash was being con- $10 Prize tested through the preliminary, semi-finals A LAMP WITH A HISTORY and then the final for world honors. This is a race where inches often decide cham- WHEN I was with the Army of Oc- pions, and in which there are so many, cupation I picked up two one- especially throughout the English-speak- pound shells, one shrapnel, the other an ing world, who have done 10 seconds or anti-tank shell, apparently solid. I re- better for the 100 yards (about nine moved the powder from the cartridges, yards short of the Olympics 100 meters). unscrewed the detonator from the But to have reached such a fast pace on shrapnel and poured out the powder. one day and to do it again in a big con- When I returned to civilian life I made a test is always another matter. So there table lamp out of the shrapnel shell, in- was a tenseness and uncertainty as the tending at a later date to do likewise with men went to their marks. We hoped and the anti-tank shell. expected to get one and maybe two flags A few days ago I decided to carry out on the honor poles. But when the final my plans. I ground off the nose of the dash was decided there were three projectile and tried to drill the hole for

American flags on the three poles! Our the socket and cord; it was steel and case athletes had placed one, two, three! hardened. I set the projectile on a can What a thrill! It was just like being back and played a blow torch on it to soften home to see the Stars and Stripes and no it so it could be drilled, and went about other flags in that place. Clarence H. my work. There were two other men in DeMar, Keene, New Hampshire. the room at the time. I was at the emery wheel sharpening a drill for mak- $10 Prize ing the hole, the second was at my side THE COUNT OF THREE repairing some clearance lights, the third at the cash register. the kindness of a THROUGH young All at once there was a terrific ex- engineer that had we met many times plosion. There was a hidden detonator in when we served as call boys on the Great the projectile. The heat softened the Northern, another youngster and myself steel, allowing it to expand enough to re- were able to ride in the cab of an east lease the bottom, which tore the can it Sweet Toned bound freight one bitter cold night in was resting on all to pieces, making a VIOLIN November. It was 1915 and we had be- large dent in the sheet-iron top of the ^Handsomefinish.bighlypolished. > Set of strings and bow included. SEND come pretty sick of riding the rods and -__..A°. MONEY. Just name and address WE bench. The top went through the ceiling TRUST YOU with 24 packs of Garden Seeds to »t 10c a packet. and _-n . J?" When sold send S2.4U collected were homeward bound. The fast west we will send Violin Outfit and Instruction Book. Kearn to play and out through the roof, landing about nu is - No more "jpney to pay EXTRA- 1 lni7i?i v' . . . - s 00 in BIG bound freight was overdue, and at the LANCASTERli'iritTCD StfiSK; JtyJ?£?T '"J" today. A Post Card will do. fifty yards away. COUNTY SEED CO., Station 330, PARADISE. PA. next station the fireman caught the orders Aside from a scratch made by the blow ~FREE on the fly which read "Make Minot ahead torch landing on the leg of the man work- 27." of ing on his clearance lights no one was CATALOG The engine was one of the ancient hurt. I might also add, the lamp was READY MARCH 1 1 100 type and about the roughest thing completed. Gilbert G. Martenson, Fully illustrated, on wheels. Coming down what is known Las Anurias, Colorado. showing special foot- as Tioga hill the old wreck went com- wear and clothing for fisherman and pletely out of control. We were going $10 Prize camper, also special down the hill like a streak, with the A SUCCESS STORY fishing tackle. engine rocking from side to side, when L. L. BEAN, Inc. suddenly ahead of us loomed a bright WAS Supply Officer of the Third 163 Main Street I Freeport Maine headlight. The engineer thought sure Trench Mortar Battalion, stationed that the orders had been jumbled and at Montigny-les-Cherlieu during the fall that we were running head on into num- of 1918. I needed a cobbler to repair the ber 27. He ordered the fireman down on battalion hobnails. The only man avail- TIME COUNTS the left side steps and us on the right side able for the job was Dwight A. Sloane, applyingliving forti pa risk delay protecting your ideas, sketch or write for FREE BOOK. "Patent Guide for Record of Invention" form. steps and when he counted three we were private first class. No charge on how CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN to jump. I called Sloane in and said, "Sloane, AND HYMAN BERMAN Iltqxtlered Patent Attorney! Not to jump meant certain death you are the cobbler for the Third Trench 247-L Adams Building Washington, D. C. and to jump meant broken bones and Mortar Battalion." I knew that he hated possibly death. The engineer was going me for it but, being a good soldier, he to stick with his engine. The man was tackled the job and soon was the best Be a like mad. He started counting and just cobbler in the A. E. F. as he counted two the lights of the other When the war was over and Sloane re- HhTlm Man engine went out and we tore on by. In- turned to Muskogee, Oklahoma, to claim stead of number 27 it was a freight that his old job and the girl that he had left No Time Like the dispatcher had failed to mention in behind, you can imagine his surprise Now to Get in — 1 his orders. When one train takes siding when he found that another man had his Make up to $75 a week It's no trick to make up to $12 and is in the clear it turns out its head- job and some other fellow his girl. a day when you use your car as a McNess "Store on Wheels." Farmers are buying light, and the west bound engineer had Out of a job, Sloane decided to journey every thing thev can from McNesa men. Attractive business-getting prizes, also been slow in doing this. to Oxford, Ohio, to pay his father and money-saving deals to customers make selling McNess daily necessities a snap. This is something that I will never for- mother a visit. Walking down High This business is depression-proof. get, the feeling that I had waiting for the Street one morning he saw a sign in a We Supply Capital — Start Now! There's no better work anywhere — re- engineer to count three, and the great window, "Shoe Shop For Sale." He went pays well, permanent, need no experience to start and we supply capital to help get inside the you started quick. You lief when the lights went out, and we and purchased business. In a start making money first day. Write at once for Mc- Ness Dealer Book— tells all—no obligation. (92-A) passed safely by. Walter J. Irving, few short years he had made a financial FURST& THOMAS, 261 Adams St., Freeport, III. Mason City, Iowa. success of the (Continued on page 59)

MARCH, 1936 57 1 " BurstsjslD lids

THE teacher of a COMRADE EARL H. CROMAS, of ' OSE and Andy class of small boys Redlands, California, sends us a M' met for the first in Sunday school was yarn about political prejudices. During time in several months. also the village doctor. a campaign two pillars of the same "Where you been, "Winsor, will you church, but of opposite political faiths, Mose?" asked Andy. tell me what we must were attending a prayer-meeting. "In jail, boy." first do in order that "O Lord," prayed the Demublican, "What foh?" we may go to Heaven?" he asked one of "I ask Thee that— the Demublicans may "Borrowin' some money." the class. hang together "Aw, go on, Mose; they don't put "We got to die." "Amen!" intoned the Repocrat. people in jail foh borrowin' money, do "Yes," said the doctor. "But what "But not, O Lord," continued the they?" must we do before we die?" Demublican, "in the sense my Repro- "Dey do in some cases. You see, in "Get sick," replied Winsor, "and send cratic brother has in mind, but in the my case I had to knock the gennelmun for you, sir." sense of concord and accord." down foh 'r five times 'foh he would lend "Any cord will do, Lord!" ejaculated it to me." the Repocrat. "Any cord will do!" HERE'S one that seems to be in wide circulation again, having reached COLONEL HUGH SCOTT, manager this department from three different of the Veterans Facility at Hines, WILLIAM NUGENT of sources. COMRADE Illinois, tells us of a patient who was the old 69th Infantry tells of the The town Shylock lost his purse with undergoing a mental test by a neuropsy- death wealthy philanthropist. quite a sum of money. It was found by of a chiatric examiner. Many beneficiaries crowded the church an honest man, who advertised for the "Do you know General Hines?" the funeral. in shabby loser. In time, the advertisement was at the One old man patient was asked. attire was sobbing pitifully. answered, and the finder being satisfied "Do I know General Hines?" replied "Was the deceased a relative of yours?" that it belonged to the usurer, cheerfully the patient with a knowing smile. he was asked. returned it to him. The contents of the "Sure—I've been eating his beans and "No," replied the man as he wept purse were counted several times to the pickles for the past twenty years." disgust of the finder. loudly. "Isn't it all there?" he indignantly "Then why do you cry?" Williamson, West Virginia, asked. "Because he wasn't." FROM Comrade A. E. Blake writes about "Yes, but you should remember you — two boys who came down to the moun- had it over a month." tain metropolis for the first time. The 'ITH an impres- most imposing structure in the town was sive gesture, the AND now comes Past Department a church. The boys looked at it with x\_ Commander Herb Blizzard of New long-haired visitor faced admiration for some time. Finally one Jersey with one about a company of the manager of the said: colored recruits who had received an radio station. "It beats the devil, don't it?" announcement they would be drilled "I would like to se- "Sure," replied his friend. "That's on the morrow on how to attack a fortifi- cure a place on your what it was built for." cation. dramatic staff," he announced impres- When the company had been dis- sively. town's most disreputable citizen missed, a big, awkward private ap- "Are you an actor?" asked the radio THE had passed on. charitable preacher, proached the corporal in charge of his manager. A squad and asked: "Yes." who was conducting the funeral services and trying to say something of "What am a fortification?" "Had any experience acting without by way consolation to the family, launched into The corporal seemed to swell with an audience?" a glowing eulogy contempt at such ignorance. Tears came to the actor's eyes as he of the deceased. As the preacher reached great heights of praise, "Don't you know no 'rithmetic at all? said: "Acting without audiences is the widow could restrain herself no Everybody knows dat a fortification why I am here, sir." longer. She nudged her son said: ain't nuthin' more'n two twentifications." and "Harold, you'd better go vp and take a look in that coffin. I'm sure it can't HE merry old WAS court day in a country town, T IT be your pappy." 1 knight of the road and two colored boys from the farm stood at the kitchen were seated on the curb of the court DOCTOR had pre- door with his battered house lawn. They watched the lawyers, A hat in his hand. litigants, and onlookers going into the scribed for a pa- "Come in," said the court house. Finally they observed a tient and was disap- kind-hearted lady, "and very fat man, with a big protruding bay pointed to see no I'll give you some food." window, come striding along with an air improvement in his con- In a few minutes the tramp was up to of proud superiority. dition when he called his elbows in a hefty meal. As he ate, "Who's de man what carry hisself so the next day. the old lady remarked: perturbrunt?" one of the boys asked. "Did you follow my prescription?" "I suppose your life has been full of "Man, dat's a assistant common- "No," replied the patient. trials." wealth's attorney." "Why not?" asked the doctor. "Yessum," he sighed. "And the worst "Well, suh, he sho' do present hisself, "If I had I'd have broken my neck. of it is that I was always convicted." don't he?" The darn thing blew out the window." 58 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — —

Their "Big ^htomerits SMUCCO SPRAYING ifASONRY SURFACES (Continued from page 57) OFFERS BlU EARNINGS business and was one of Oxford's sub- trestle a mass of kindling wood on the stantial business men. He married a outside of the curve. young lady who was teaching in the I counted seven children under nine public schools of Oxford and has two years of age in the back car but their of the finest kiddies I ever saw. I mothers never found out that had the air visited them and had my big moment brakes been applied while we were on the when he said, "All I have I owe to the trestle, nothing could have prevented fact that you made me cobble shoes in both cars and probably the engine from France." Bismarck, North going into the rocky chasm below. G. —W. H. Payne, — This new machine and process completely solves the problem of permanently surfacing new or resurfacing old Dakota. T. 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Another baby strange land, with a wife and little daugh- ators report costs of 2c or 3c per BQ. ft. and sell at from 4c to 7c. Some have paid for their equipment from due in a month. Rent due. And appetites ter—hungry, cold and out of luck at first couple of jobs. Machine capacity over 300 sq. ft. per hour. still with us. The depression was just landing a job. I had been hunting for a Equip yourself now to cash in on this big waiting market and the big getting a good start and we were among job for several days. I was on the verge government modernization campaign opening up still greater possi- the first casualties. Then my husband of giving up for the day but decided to bilities for you. Get the facts. The new Colorcrete found a gas station which, due to local try two more places. In the first of them books tell the whole story. Write today. It may mean business independence for you. price war conditions and its undesirable I was told there was nothing for me. I location, could be leased for exactly one lingered a little while to warm my mit- hundred dollars! tenless hands. Suddenly like a rifle crack The day he signed the lease and turned rang out, "Get out of here, can't you read WANTED MANUFACTURERS over our last precious bonus money will that sign?" Looking up at the sign re- On small or large scale, by old established firm to cast always be the biggest day of my life. That ferred to I read, "No Loafing." There 5 & 10c Novelties, Ashtrays, Toy Autos, etc. No special place or experience necessary as we furnish full $100 has made our living for the last was just one more place, The American instructions with moulds. A rare opportunity for these 4^ times so if you are over 21 and want to devote your years with every prospect of weathering Brass Works. There I was met by a spare or full time to profitable work write AT ONCE for full details. the depression. pleasant-faced, heavy-set fellow who said, But my husband says his biggest mo- "Sorry, wish there was work for all but METAL CAST PRODUCTS 1696 Boston Road, Dept. 9, New York, N. Y. ment was when he plunked down sixty there isn't." Here too I unbuttoned dollars on the cashier's desk at the hos- my coat to absorb a little heat. pital for the baby that a month before A fellow sat at a typewriter a short dis- TRAVEL WITH R TRDTUUDOD TRRILER had been headed for the county hospital. tance away busy at work. All at once he FREE 24-page catalogue tells all about trailer coach homes. Illustrated with 50 photos and diagrams Oh, yes, the baby repaid us by coming on turned to me. "Are you a Legionnaire?" of many attractive designs and comfortable, convenient the Fourth of July! Mrs. Thomas N. he asked. The words made me feel for my interiors. Here's trailer satisfaction at low cost; a price for every purse. Write today for free book. Pritchard, Glendale, California. button which I always wear, and which Trofwood Trailers, Inc., 57 Main St., Trotwood, O. was exposed as I opened my coat to get $10 Prize warm. I told him I helped organize the NOBODY WAS HURT Simonson Hanson Post of Red Top, Minnesota, in the fall of 1919. He said, THE trestle was wooden and without "You're a long way from home with your HANDLE BIG -PAY ROUTE Good pay right from start. Place guard rails, curving over a rock family and without work or money." He famous line 6c -10c Counter Card Goods with steady store customers. fifty hun- him chasm feet deep and about two turned to the heavy-set man and told AMAZING NEW 200 fast -selling products including Razor Blades. Aspirin, Chocolated Laxative, dred wide. The Oregon Short Line had to give me a number. I was told to report BUSINESS on Bales-making counter displays. Up to 140$ profit for you and merchant. No expe- but one track at this particular point in for work in the morning. As I was leav- rience needed. Big catalog. Samples FREE. Sell to Stores World's Products Co., Dept. 3813 Spencer, Ind. 1914. ing the office the man in charge glanced Traffic was light so the two-a-day train back over his shoulder from his type- consisted of an engine, combination car writing and said, "Take good care of that NEW ORIENTAL INTRODUCTION—Delicious, and passenger car. I was in the first or button, buddy." I held that job for two healthful, vegetable "greens". All season plant. Ready to use in 25 days. Flourishes in hot combination car when we hit the trestle years, but never got a chance to get back weather when other greens are gone. To introduce this healthful vegetable and our Superior on a left curve at about twenty-five miles around to the employment division to Pure Bred Seeds and Plants we will mail yoa Mpp 125 seeds with planting instructions and an hour. thank my Legionnaire friend but if he l> If Y r °ur Bi g ISO-page illustrated 1936 Catalog. lEtaEta Writetoday. Send Sestamv to cover postage. The conductor was taking my ticket as sees this I want him to know that he was CONDON BROS-, SEEDSMEN Box 26 Rockford, Illinois the forward pony truck broke, left the responsible for my big moment. Ken- rails, and slewed to the right. As we all neth A. Sundeen, Wantoma, Wisconsin. grabbed hold of the nearest support I D could see through the window that we $10 Prize SALARY Village Carrier POSTMASTER were hanging over the chasm and buck- DEATH ON THE LOOSE ) P. O. Laborer Seamstress TO START J,) R. F. D. Carrier Auditor jumping the ties. Special Agent Stenographer $90 to Customs Inspector U.S. Border Patrol Fortunately for the other forty pas- "TT THERE does the anchor chain go City Mail Carrier Telephone Opr. $ 175 P. O. Clerk Watchman sengers and myself, the conductor was VV when the anchor is pulled up?" MONTHLY Matron [ > Meat Inspector { ) Special Investigator ) Secret Service Opr: Typist unable to reach the emergency cord (al- many a landlubber has wondered. Well, <) . ) File Clerk INSTRUCTION BUREAU, Dept. 1l0,$t. Louis, Mo. though he grabbed at each jump) until we I know where it is supposed to go. Send me FREE particulars "How to Qualify for Government Positions" marked "X". Salaries, were safely across. The engineer felt the Through the anchor engine on the foc'sle, locations, opportunities, etc. ALL SENT FREE. drag but didn't know what had happened down into a steel-walled locker, where Name until we walked back and found the two half-naked, (Continued on page 60) Address , ••*•••

MARCH, 1936 59 6 — — Doq Worm Their "Big ^hComents 2 Capsules {Continued from page 50) NOW you can be sure of mud-coated, sweating men must coil it when I was doing duty as a nurse at the worming your dog cor- in rows and tiers, lest it tangle. It's a Naval Hospital, Washington, D. rectly. The new "can't-go- NOW C. wrong" Pulvex Capsules back-breaking job, dangerous—and one A call had come from Dr. Carey T. expel Tape AND Round AND Hook Worms, all in morning in the harbor at Oran it nearly Grayson, White House physician and the same closing. No chance in to guess wrong and use finished me. close friend of President Wilson, for wrong type capsule. No With the mud-hook about half way in, nurses to go at once to the White House gassing, gagging or harm- ONE ful effects. Guaranteed. At we had the locker half filled with the to nurse Mrs. Ellen Wilson, wife of the pet shops, slimy chain, leaving about four feet clear- President. Expels 3 Kinds drug and de- pa r t me n t of Worms ance. On came the chain, my partner When my Chief Nurse told me I had stores 75c. and I tugging, pushing, using hands, feet been chosen as one of the nurses to go, it \g C W GmiUfudum. and dripping backs. Suddenly something almost took my breath, for I never P|||W tmW CSV WORM CAPSULES snapped overhead—and the heavy chain dreamed that such a privilege and honor SPORT WATCH started back up the chute fast, uncoiling as nursing our First Lady would be con- under our feet, whipping madly. ferred upon me. Long ton- My , Perfect time keeper. 'neau shape, chrome finish engraved companion was near the ladder, and up Needless to say, my excitement ran case. Newest linked wrist band. It's ,'a Dandy. Send for two 24 packet col- he went, but I was blocked by the writh- high, but I did not have much time to lections of Garden Seeds. Sell at 10c a pack. Remit money collected, then watch ing coils of the monster. I spent a terrify- stop and speculate, as I was to get my is yours. Positively No Extra Money to "Pau SEND NO MONEY NOW. Just name ing few seconds, and just as I had re- bag packed immediately and be ready "andaHdfesB Extra--$10O in BIG PRIZES. You may win. Wrfte fofseerfs " ay A Post Card will

' er ' perfected '"^ *fifl Learn about our Bettingham, Washington. After meeting the President, his daugh- fiM invention for all forms of reducible rupture. Automatic air ters, Dr. Grayson and Miss Bones, a an agent to cushion acting as $10 Prize niece of the President, then Mrs. Wilson, assist Nature has brought hap- piness to thousands. Permits THEY THOUGHT HE WAS GONE who was to be my patient, I was fully naturalstrengthening ofthe weak- C. E. Brooks ened muscles. Weighs but a few convinced that by being associated with Inventor ounces, is inconspicuous and BIG moment meant life. Nov. 8, such charming, gracious and hospitable sanitary. No obnoxious springs or hard pads. MY No salves or plasters. Durable, cheap. SENT 1 91 8, we were ordered to join an folks, I was in for a wonderfully pleasant ON TRIAL to prove it. Beware of imitations. Never sold in stores or by agents. Write today offensive of the Second Army. Our ob- experience. for full information sent free in plain envelope. jective was Mon-Plaiser farm one of the And was Mrs. Wilson a nice patient? All correspondence confidential. — BROOKS COMPANY. 150 State St., Marshall. Mich. most strongly fortified positions of the I should say she was! She could not be Germans—near Metz. Incidentally, it surpassed for her sweet patience, gentle- The American Legion was attacked by all American Divisions ness and consideration for all those about National Headquarters and was still in the hands of the Germans her. Now when I go over my past experi- Indianapolis, Indiana when the Armistice was signed. Midday ences, this one lingers as does a beautiful Statement of Financial Condition of November 10th we put over the at- dream. Lily E. White Vail, R. N., tack, my platoon of the 64th Infantry Norfolk, Virginia. December 31, 1935 bearing the frontal attack. I was se- Assets verely wounded, my left arm being shat- $10 Prize

Cash on hand and on deposit $ 314,024.70 tered by a burst of shell. I was thrown HE SPOKE THEIR LANGUAGE Notes and accounts receivable 28,807.84 several feet in the air. When I came to, Inventories 81,549.31 Sergeant Grahl was helping me back to a HAPPENED in Belgium with the Investments 1,387,343.44 IT Permanent investments: first aid station. My arm was so badly 91st Division. Audenarde was our Overseas Graves Decoration shattered I took from pocket a pearl objective. After driving the Germans out Trust Fund 186,993.88 my Washington Office Building less handled knife and begged him to cut off of a small village, we paused for an hour depreciation 130,554.30 my arm. He refused (later returning the to rest and eat. Furniture and fixtures less depreciation 34,772.46 knife to me in the hospital). Early teaching at my grandmother's Pollard Ailing Equipment less de- We finally reached the first aid station. knee enabled me to listen in on F'lemish preciation 474.03 I was so badly wounded, after look at words of welcome and I also heard Deferred charges 1 a — 1 9,533. me the doctors in charge decided I did something else—an old man muttering $2,1 84,053.1a not have a chance—they pushed me aside to a group of cronies and young boys. Liabilities, Deferred Income to die. Others who did have a chance "Let's cut their hair now," he said. and Net Worth were operated on. All through with the Shouts of approval, a rush for the door of others, one of the doctors looked my way the estaminet, and they were gone. Current liabilities $ 1:6,698.21 and exclaimed, "This fellow is still alive, My exploring steps led me to a corner Funds restricted as to use 23>7'3-93 Deferred income 451,262.98 he looks like he isn't going to die! We of the town. Suddenly out of an alley Permanent trust: had better do something for him." They rushed a woman, wild-eyed, pale as death, Overseas Graves Decoration delivered a Trust Fund 186,993.88 did, and that was my big moment. I am panting, praying to be from

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60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —- — willingly bestowed her charms on German me. Three weeks. The nurse told me he lovers while her husband has been away would never leave his bed. He couldn't fighting his heart out for his country." possibly recover. Then one night the If Ruptured "Yes, and that isn't all," said another. O. D. told me to be sure and summon him

"There are girls whose hair we are bob- if Ward 17 called. He expected Joe would bing as a symbol of disgraceful conduct die that night. By every law of medicine with enemy soldiers." he couldn't last till morning. I was tense Cut This Out "Well, they certainly deserve a hair- all evening. Nothing happened. Days and mail it with name and address to W. cut," I agreed, "but I hate to see you passed. Then one afternoon someone S. Rice, 28 Main St., Adams, N. Y. You will receive absolutely free and no obliga- kill a woman." stopped at the window. It was Joe— tion a genuine test and full particulars of They compromised on a haircut. dressed in a new suit and looking fine. I his amazing Method for reducible Rupture control that is bringing a new ease, comfort Edward te Veltrup, Sioux Center, Iowa. looked my astonishment. and freedom to thousands who have suf- "I know," he said. "They thought I fered for years. $10 Prize would take the count but—well, I had too No matter how bad the rupture, how long ." you have had it, or how hard to hold; no A BATTLE WON much work to do so— He didn't admit matter how many kinds of trusses you have using faith but in the moment I could worn, let nothing prevent you from getting this FREE TRIAL. Whether you are tall WAS an overseas veteran limping understand how he was clinging to the HE and thin, short and stout or have a large about the grounds of a Government torch his buddies had tossed to him when rupture, this marvelous Appliance will so control the ruptured parts that you will be I the telephone the in France. Hospital where was they went over top As he as free to work at any occupation as operator. Day by day I watched him went to catch the bus to look for a job I though you had never been ruptured. Test this guaranteed Method for reduc- getting a little slower face whiter— thrilled because he came out victorious — ible rupture without any risk. Simply send more drawn. I thought how he must have in the biggest fight of his life. Helen for FREE TRIAL to W. S. Rice, 28 Main St., Adams, N. Y. looked going to war—young, fine looking, C. Willsey, Boise, Idaho. laughing. Now twelve years later he was just—waiting. The last instalment of prize-winning Big Once he came on in and asked to speak Moment stories will be printed in the April ToAnySuitT Double the life of your to the M. 0. C. I noticed then a certain issue of the Monthly. It is now too late coat and vest with correctly matched pants. his after- entries, the 100,000 patterns.' gallant look about eyes. One to submit final day for their Every pair hand tailored to your measure. Our match sent his receipt FREE for your O. K. before noon he didn't come on walk with the at the Monthly's New York office pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send pieco Of cloth or vest today. other white-robed patients. A fear struck having been February 1st of this year. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY 209 S. State St, Dept. 312 Chicago

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Plans tell how to build a paying bus- Action Franqaise, in lampooning his po- immediate downfall of the government iness right in your own basement. S30 to $50 monthly litical adversaries, starts in with "hell- and his own ascension to power. in spare time alone. Experience un- France necessary. Big descriptive catalog hound" and "assassin" and from that in those days was of course under direct and complete pla MAIL POST CARD • • level works down into the very sewers of censorship, as were all nations engaged THE FATE-ROOT-HEATH CO. 1 Bell St. Plymouth, Ohio. personal diatribe, without danger either in the war. of arrest or of being challenged to a duel. The wartime censorship even in Great Recently Henri Beraud, distinguished Britain and the United States is a sorry French author, occupied the entire front story. The public constantly was fed ECZEMA page of the weekly, "Gringoire" with a propaganda that reeked with falsehood TORMENTS hymn of hate against England so scurril- and time after time deluded with ghastly quickly pacifi'ed by ous that the British Embassy at once de- distortions of the actual facts. Today in efficient help of manded, and secured, the suppression of the great powers governed by dictators the entire edition. the situation is even worse.

Even so, if the paper too greatly In Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and offends the government it may overnight Soviet Russia almost the entire popula- A CONCENTRATED OINTMENT be eliminated altogether. Clemenceau at tion is under the complete domination of the outbreak of the World War edited the Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, while the MINSTRELS "Free Man." He offended and was sup- remaining minority is powerless and in- Unique first parts forcompleteshow, with special songs and choruses- pressed. But the cunning Tiger at once articulate. These despots have wiped out Black-face plays. Jokes, Gags, Post- ers. Make-up Goods, Wigs, Bones, turned tables on his adversaries, by next every vestige of intellectual freedom. The Tambourines. Lively, up-to-the minute plays for dramatic morning bringing out the same paper un- new generation is taught to believe not club? and lodges. Denison plays produced every- der the new title of the Man in Chains. only that they must not read that, but where. 60 years of hits. Free Catalog This riposte caused such laughter at the they must read, and believe only this. T. S. DENISON & CO. 623 S. Wabash. Dept. 89. Chicago government's expense that it did not Editors must bow to the regime, or they again interfere for several years. Late in are no longer editors. In Germany over- Boost Your Pay 191 7 his front page editorial column on night the best press in Europe was wiped We establish sincere men in OWN several mornings appeared entirely blank out, hundreds of papers with generations business—guaranteed moth-proof- inu and furniture cleaning. Easy to his signature at the bottom. of tradition disappeared, and in their learn. We help you get cuBtomer- except for and advertise for YOU. Colore return. Nap revives. Dirt, grease, spots He was then a member of the Senate but stead the political propaganda of the disappear. Upholstery, rugs, furs, clothing, piano-felts, auto-interiors the third morning of Nazis floods the nation, poisoning a made non-eatable by mothB or car- seldom attended. On pub- pet-beetles. No Bhop needed. Work done in home*, offices, nchuola hotels, the censor's persecution, he announced lic already mentally warped as a result etc. Carter's first job wo- $79.60 from circulars. Pollard, in village of 30f). his state what had been proof the war. The peoples of these nations writes "Am very much aitiafied with intention to way buaincsnjs growing each month." hibited in his newspaper, from the Tribune therefore are made irresponsible politi- Earned $90 one day, thn eh foldci result of his terrible cally by this unceasing tripe. " of the Senate. The They know nd repeat order-. write* Andei As lit 11.- u 177 null ion inOWNbusineiw- , balance arraignment that followed, the most nothing beyond what they are told, per- from profits. We furnish electr circulars, store-card-, demonstrators, and ma-

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being the overlordship that forces them war, I had portrayed Hindenburg smokin the matter. It appeared under a full to absorb anything that is politically ex- ing a pipe. He did not smoke a pipe, page heading, date-lined Washington in- pedient, no matter how untrue. And declared almost the entire outraged press stead of Paris, which saved me from what the outer world thinks about them, of the Reich. The Marshal-President getting an expulsion order, and was they have not the slightest notion. In smoked only cigarettes. Later this sin ahead of the official communique by Russia this is somewhat understandable, was pardoned and I resided in Berlin for seven days. But everyone knew it in inasmuch as for years, the illiterate over a year, unfettered in the slightest Paris, I presumed the Germans were well peasant ten miles from the railroad did degree. But once again, after leaving the aware of it, so for the life of me, I could not know that Czarism had given way country, I learned that my name was on see no reason why this really important to Communism, but in enlightened the famous "black list" of journalistic information should be held secret from states like Germany and Italy it seems undesirables—almost headed it, in fact, the United States. incredible. and for what reason never have I been An eminent Minister of State, during From the foregoing it is quite easy to able to learn. Only a short while ago I the war, gave me a personal interview, understand how circumspect a foreign wanted to go from Paris to Vienna by written by his own hand. At the censor's correspondent must be when stationed airplane. The trip necessitated a ten office it was thought advisable that it re- in Rome, Moscow or Berlin. He tries his minutes' stop and change of planes at ceive the ministerial visa before being best to present the facts, but always the Nuremburg. I asked for a German tran- placed on the wire. This was accom- handicap is heavy. sit visa and the curt reply was, "Not for plished, also in the statesman's own hand- During twenty-five years as foreign you." writing. Another censor was on the job representative for American publications, It is not difficult to get the best of the when the missive came back, and he was while I never have been "handed my censor if one is fairly adroit and willing still not quite sure whether it was passports" so to speak, and summarily to take chances of what may happen proper, although it was all about how the invited to leave my post, it has been my afterwards, any more so than it was for United States, then just entering the distinction on several occasions to have me to get to Vienna, on time, by another war, might best serve the cause of the official barriers raised against my return, route. I have beaten him time and again, Allies. So it went back for a second time and always for a reason either utterly when the game seemed worth the candle. to the ministerial sanctum and again it ludicrous or entirely unknown. The removal of Joffre as Commander-in- was returned, this time with a scrawl al- Some years ago Soviet Russia decided Chief of the French armies was an out- so in the same handwriting across the to do without my presence, not for any standing "scoop" of the war, credited to top that under no circumstances was it to personal reason but merely because I me because after my dispatch had been be published. This document, written, then represented a publication too utterly suppressed four times at the censor's approved and rejected for publication by upper bourgeoisie to suit Communist office, I forgot all about the censor, sent it the same hand, I have carefully preserved literary taste. Afterwards when I worked to the private address of my editor as an as evidence of stupidity on the part of for a newspaper of lesser caste, I was for- ordinary full-rate instead of press tele- the censor. given. gram. It was hazily worded, but my Citations against censorship are with- Again, I was warned to keep away editor, who was a great journalist, under- out end. Meanwhile the institution from Germany for at least a year because stood it. I pictured Joffre as the local thrives lustily, as specters of disease, de- in an article where I had highly praised manager of our French office, insisting struction and death that march hand-in- the German economic recovery after the also that I be relieved of all responsibility hand with war, draw near.

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(Continued from page jj) the plan and found it very successful. Blank, a member of your post, attended "Thus." writes James E. Foote, "there Partial help was given in eight schools. our regular post meeting last evening. is a triple guarantee that the neces- The whole effort enabled hundreds of When he returns to your city he will tell sary copy of the discharge certificate boys and girls to keep on going to school." you all about the Legion activities in our will always be available on short notice. city. A hearty welcome awaits you here." The veteran keeps his original certificate, Follow-up the Adjutant of his post has a certified An Idea for Any Post copy of it and it is on record in the County ST. PETERSBURG (Florida) Post, Recorder's office. The recording and in its home city which has thousands WHEN a member of The American certification of discharges is done with- of winter visitors, has had as many as Legion in Harrison County, Iowa, out charge by the County Recorder, thirty-five Legionnaires from other States requires hospitalization urgently or an under Iowa law. Most other States have attend a single meeting, reports Post emergency surgical operation, the Ser- laws permitting the recording of certifi-

Adjutant Ray E. Lee. And St. Peters- vice Officer of his post is always able to cates without charge or for a small fee." burg Post tries to make sure that when expedite assistance by producing im- its visitors return to their home posts mediately a certified copy of the Legion- Memphis vs. Omaha they won't forget to teL those posts naire's army discharge. Through a sys- what they saw and heard while they tem devised by County Commander H. AN INTERESTING post membership were Legion guests in Florida. The post D. Bauerle of Woodbine, each Post Ad- F\- race for 1936 was forecast when sends a specially-printed post card, bear- jutant has prepared certified copies of final figures for 1935 showed that Mem- ing a picture of the post clubhouse and the discharges of all members of his post phis (Tennessee) Post had won from a message, to the home post of each and has had them officially recorded at Omaha (Nebraska) Post the title of the visitor. The message says: "Comrade the County Court House. world's largest Legion post by a margin

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of only ten members. Memphis had 2,067, plete a check-up of the years in which all Omaha 2,057. The figures showed that its members had been on the rolls, and twenty other posts had more than 1,000 as a result Post Adjutant H. D. Cory FLUSH OUT members in 1935, and indicated that recommended to Department Adjutant some of these would have a chance in C. A. Zweiner 46 men for the three-star 15 MILES OF 1936 to top both Memphis and Omaha. 15-year membership award, 52 for the Toward the top last year were Leyden- two-star 10-year award and 52 for the Chiles-Wickersham Post of Denver, with one-star five-year award. KIDNEY TUBES Post, 1,693; Portland (Oregon) 1,469; The post, organized in 1919, had no Medical authorities agree that your kidneys Dan Tallon (post office) Post, New York membership cards for years prior to 1923, contain 15 Miles of tiny tubes or niters which heip to purify the blood and keep you healthy. City, 1,440; Fresno (California) Post, but old-timers sat around a table and If you have trouble with too frequent bladder passages with scanty amount causing burning Oklahoma City Post, 1,209; New helped in the compilation of the rolls for 1,313; and discomfort, the 15 Miles of kidney tubes York City Police Post, 1,196; M. M. the earliest years. Then the cards for may need flushing out. This danger signal may be the beginning of nagging backache, leg pains, Eberts Post, Little Rock, Arkansas, each year were checked by those at the loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swell- ing, pufnness under the eyes and dizziness. 1,184, and Chicago Police Post, 1,151. round table. If kidneys don't empty 3 pints a day and Five posts climbed into the 1,000- After the lists for all seventeen years so get rid of more than 3 pounds of waste, poisonous matter may develop, causing serious member class for the first time in 1935; had been checked, Post Adjutant Cory trouble. Don't wait. Ask your druggist for Argonne Post, Des Moines, Iowa; Frank- sent to each current member a post card Doan's Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will lin Post, Columbus, Ohio; Harvey W. bearing across the bottom a list of all the help to flush out the 15 Miles of kidney tubes. Get Doan's Pills. Seeds Post, Miami, Florida; Nashville years. Red check marks on each card (Tennessee) Post, and Becker-Chapman showed the years in which the member cf—JUNIOR GUITAR Post, Waterloo, Iowa. receiving it was known to have held his handsome Instra- ""JJ^^H^ were: Post, Cedar ment NOW. Here's ''/J^ Others Hanford membership. How. Just Bend your name * end address (SEND NO MONEY) Rapids, Iowa; Koch-Conley Post, Scran- "The sending out of the post cards was WE TRUST YOU with 24 packs Garden Seeds to s<-ll at 10c a packet. ton, Pennsylvania; Jefferson Post, Louis- followed by one of the most successful When sold send $2.40 collected and WE WILL SEND this mahogany finish tjuitar and Five Minute InstruetioL ville, Kentucky; Karl Ross Post, Stock- meetings we have had in years," reports Book absolutely FREE. Write for Reeds NOW. A post card will do. Address: ton, California; Lincoln (Nebraska) Post; Mr. Cory. LANCASTER COUNTY SEED CO MPA Station (67, Paradise, Pennsylvania Henry H. Houston, 2d, Post, Philadel- phia, and Peoria (Illinois) Post. Roll Call Oeavr... MIDWEST 1EADS Up and Up PETER B. KYNE, who wrote "Erin Go Bragh," was the first Historian THE Delaware Department won high of the California Department . . . Fred- I4TUBEi honors when it was announced by erick Palmer and Marquis James are WORLD-WIDE RADIO National Headquarters on January 20th members of S. Rankin Drew Post of (9>°2400 Meters) that Delaware was the first Department New York City . . . John Oskison belongs to equal or exceed its 1936 membership to Dale Peace Post of Vinita, Oklahoma 50 S«« Ihil biggar, batter. m< quota. With a quota of 1164, it had 11 . . . Jerry Owen is a member of Port- 73 powerful, tupa'r lalscliv with "concart" tona radio, f. paid-up membership cards at Indian- land (Oregon) Post . . . The late Henry *39 Hew AUDITORIUM TYPE tory-to-you-plai apolis on January 20th, a month earlier W. Daly was a member of Jasper Post of 50 adv than the first Department attained its Washington, D. C. . . . Wythe Williams quota in 1935. For its showing, Delaware is a member of Paris (France) Post. MIDWEST RADIO CORPORATION Dept. 18L (16 Years of Radio Leadership) Cincinnati, Ohio wins the Gouraud Trophy. In the Le- YV. J. Aylward, who made the cover gion as a whole, paid-up membership design, is a Vice Commander of Port for 1936 stood at an even 500,000 on Washington (New York) Post . . . Herb OTHER MEN have read and January 20th, a big lead over previous Roth belongs to Larchmont (New York) PATENTS profited by our free books records. Post . . . Herbert Morton Stoops is a 'Patent Pro- HAVE YOU AN IDEA ? tection" and member of Jefferson Feigl First Division "Selling an Invention." Fully explain many Interesting points to inventors and illustrate important mechanical principles. With books we also send Post of New York City . . . George Shanks Star- Award Members free "Evidence of Invention" form. Prompt service, belongs to Reville Post of Brooklyn, New reasonable fees, deferred payments. Write Immediately to: Victor J. Evans & Co., Registered Patent At- torneys, 736-C, Victor Building, Washington, D. C. EON J. WETZEL Post of Winona, York. E Minnesota, invented a game to com- Philip Von Blon -1

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Cleveland national convention reunions reunion. Russell [. Prentiss, South Lincoln, Mass. Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets. — may be obtained from the Legionnaires Annual reunion. Carl D. McCarthy, comdg. offer., Kempton, Ind.; Craig S. Herbert, personnel whose names appear: offer., 3333 N. 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 326th Inf., Co. I and M. G. Co. —Proposed re- 4th Div. Assoc. —National and Ohio State Chap- union by mail and plans for national convention ter reunions. Roy L. Hiller, chmn., 418 Burleigh reunion. Jack Steinlen, Clinton Corners, Dutchess av., Dayton, Ohio. Co., N. Y. 14th Engrs.—Convention reunion. Send name 221th Aero Scjdrn.—Proposed reunion. M. V. and address to Carroll E. Scott, 54 College av., Matthews, 2208 Cuming st., Omaha, Nebr. Medford, Mass., for monthly paper, the News. 23d Engrs. Assoc. —Convention reunion. Henry $1900 Railway Postal Clerks W. St., 111. Here is a new veterans' organization for J. Sterk, secy.-treas., 3938 (>2d Chicago. First year Also write to Bonny H. Benson, editor, for official the record: The Society of Crossed / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE paper, The Engineer Along the Highway of Life. regular / Dept. G181, Rochester, N. Y. 29th Engrs. —Members interested in reunion at Quills of America. Larry Deutzman, Sirs: Rush Legion national convention, write to H. J. Richard- Common J> without charge. (1) 32-page »° book describing many U. S. Govern- son, care Times Press, Akron, Ohio, or II. E. Seifert, editor of the Smithtown Messenger, Smith- Education Sufficient ment jobs. (2) Send list of Government 4 Tonkin ct., Kent, Ohio. town Branch, L. I., N. Y., reports that jobs. (3) Tell all about preference to Amer. R. R. Trans. Corps A. E. F. Vets.— Ex-Service v Ex -Service Men. Reunion. Cerald J. Murray, natl. adjt., 1210 Wat- "it is the name of the new Field Clerk Men Get / Name son av., Scranton, Pa. Prefer- / Evac. Hosp. No. 6 Vets. Assoc. —Convention organization, (Continued on page 64) ence ' Address.

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{Continued from page 63) "Director Belt reduced my waistline from 42 to 34 inches. I feel 10 years younger Constipation gone—no tired, bloated feelir started in St. Louis with the co-operation 78th Div. Assoc.—Mid-summer reunion, Camp after meals."—G. Newton, Troy, N.Y. Dix, N. J., July 24-26. John Kennedy, secy., New Director Belt instantly improves your of Sam R. Heller of Norfolk, Virginia, Hope, Pa. appearance, puts snap in your step, re- 308th Inf.—Reunion dinner, Roger Smith Rest- William Mueller of St. Louis, and lieves "shortness of breath," restores J. aurant, 40 E. 41st st., New York City, Feb. 29. YOUR VIGOR as fat vanishes. myself. Treasurer, 28 E. 39th st., New York City. Loose, fallen abdominal muscles go M 310th Inf.—Reunion, Providence, R. I., date back where they belong. Gentle mas- M "The idea of the Field Clerks is to get to be announced. John P. Riley, 151 Wendell St., sage-like action increases elimination £|| Providence. and regularity in a normal way without together socially informally, fH and revive 9th Inf., Co. Proposed reunion, use of harsh, irritating cathartics. You NO DRUGS M— Syracuse, Eg|| N. Y., look and feel years younger. old memories and talk over future plans. with New York Dept. Legion convention NO DIET in Aug. Leo. J. Bailey, Canastota, N. Y. Let It surprise J us prove our claims. may many to learn that Field 108th Inf., M. G. Co.—13th reunion dinner, No obligation. Write to- Powers Hotel, Rochester, N. Y., Mar. 28. Wm. H. day for trial offer. Clerks have won Purple Heart decora- Becker, 583 Garson av., Rochester. 109th Inf., Co. K For revision of list, LANDON WARNER M h&~- tions and have had other citations, be- — mailing & g&.fc70% v.. i(!r report to Marcus S. DeWolf, secy., 128 S. Florida sides those for the Battles of Yin Rouge, av., Atlantic City, N. J. CONDON'S GIANT 112th Inf., M. G. Co. TAU ATA Vin Blanc and Paris. That many of —Letter reunion. Write to ..EVERBEARING IUMAIU H. L. Millward, secy., 24 Commerce st., Highspire, QUEEN OF THE MARKET. "Big Money Maker. them went into the battle lines with Pa. Large, solid fruit; excellent canner. To 308th Inf., Co. K—Reunion dinner, 77th Div. ntroduce to you oar Northern Grown Live their outfits is also not generally known. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th st.. 2. Seeds and Plants, wewill mail yon 125 seeds New York City, May of Condon's Giant Eve rbea ring "Among the members already signed S. Reiss, 105 Bennett av., New York City. Tomato and our big 1936Cata1ogl 313th M. G. Bn.—Photographs, diaries and all of Seeds, Plants, Shrubs. Over^IFREE up are Harry G. Taylor of Florida, records are wanted by L. E. Welk, 310 Commerce 600 illustrations. 100 in Datura! color. Write bldg., Erie, Pa., for battalion history. Dow for big Helpful Catalog and Free Seeds. H. E. Fryxell of Illinois, B. Morenz Send 8c Stamp to Cover Po&taae* M. 59th Pioneer Inf. —Proposed reunion. Those interested write John of Maryland, and E. A. to J. Dugan, P. O. Box 607, CONDON BROS., SEEDSMEN Rocklord, Illinois J. W. Mason Wilmington, Del. Batkins of Virginia, T. R. Lowden and 322d F. A. Assoc.— 17th reunion, Hamilton, Ohio, date to be announced. L. B. Fritsch, secy., Now YOU can have a H. M. Lewin of Massachusetts. P. O. Box 324, Hamilton. "Ex-Field Clerks are asked to send 313th F. S. Bn.—To complete roster and obtain information about reunion, report to Dr. Chas. L. Jones, City, STEADY CASH their names and addresses to W. J. Gilmore Iowa. 308th M. P., 83d Div.—Reunion, Elks Club, Mueller, secretary, 3316 North Ninth Canton, Ohio, Apr. 18. Harry Heidenfelter, 1439 Orchard Grove av., Lakewood, Ohio. INCOME, Street, St. Louis, Missouri." Vets, of 13th Engrs., Ry.—7th reunion, Des of activities Moines, Iowa, June 20-21. James A. Elliott, secy.- Right now you should take Announcements of other treas., 721 E. 21st St., Little Rock, Ark. advantage of a wonderful veterans' organizations follow: 15th Engrs., Co. D Reunion, Fort Pitt Hotel, opportunity for a good steady cash income for the — Pittsburgh, Pa., Apr. 25. R. L. Knight, 224 X. rest of your life. You can have steady work at Aiken av., Pittsburgh (6), Pa. good pay with extra money to save. 3d Drv.—Send name and address to George 31st Ry. Engrs.—8th annual reunion, Denver, An old established manufacturer will furnish you Dobbs, 9 Colby st., Belmont, Mass., for free copy Colo., in Aug. F. E. Love, secy.-treas., 104^ First with complete stock of Finest Guaranteed Food of The Watch on the Rhine. 2 St., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Products, Farm and Household Necessities on 4th Div. — Natl. 4th Div. Assoc. wants to contact 62d Engrs.—Vets, are requested to contribute either Cash or Credit Plans whichever you prefer— men interested in organizing 4th Div. Chapters in Washington, Wyoming, North pictures, stories, etc., to H. Work, 521 Riverside av., each has its advantages. Premiums, Dealer Helps Oregon, Montana, Ivy Covington, Va., for history. and fast-selling specials for quick sales and profits. and South Dakota. Copy of Leaves and applica- for Chateau-Thierry Medal sent free to 109th Engrs., 34th Div.—For new roster, write Anderson of Utah sold $402.70, Karel of Mich- tion men address outfit, with to L. Owen Risdale, 1718 Park av., Cedar Rapids, igan $347.48, McMillen of Pennsylvania $314.15 who send name, and stamped return envelope to Carlton E. Dunn, 8514-160 St., Iowa. in one week. Work pleasant and profitable. Per- 85th Aero Sqdrn. Proposed letter Jamaica, L. I., N. Y. — reunion. manent, too. Without obligation, write McConnon Carl T. Felker, 730 Greeley av., Webster Groves, & Company, Desk 128CT, Winona, Minnesota. 4th Div., N. J. Chapter—Reunion and dinner. Sat. eve.. Mar. 21, Hotel Douglas, Hill & Broad Mo. 2 10th Aero Sqdrn. Reunion, Champaign, 111., sts., Newark. Harry E. Phillips, secy., 510 Walnut — in H. S. Lewis, 107 W. White st., st., Elizabeth, N. J. Aug. Champaign. 5th Div. Society—Annual national reunion. 267th Aero Sqdrn. —Reunion, Indianapolis, 31. Lloyd Hessey, 3557 Kenwood, Indian- Providence, R. I., Sept. 5-7, in conjunction with May KUviation? 300th anniversary celebration of founding of Provi- apolis. F. Cos., Spectacular improvements and conquests in aviation dence. Walter P. Pears, gen. chmn., 62 Louis av., 305-6-7-8th H. and Amu. 77th Div.— constantly happening. them in Popu- in May. Dr. Samuel A. Laitin, 45-15 are Read about Providence and Wm. Barton Bruce, 48 Ayrault St., Reunion lar Mechanics. Besides, every month this big 200-page Providence. Parsons blvd., Flushing, N. Y. magazine is crammed full of fascinating pictures and Yankee (26th) Drv. Vets. Assoc.—National Gen. Hosp. No. 1, Gun Hill Road, N. Y.—Vets, accounts of astounding scientific discoveries, new convention, Worcester, Mass., June 26-28. Edwin in N. Y.-New England area, report to Dr. Ben achievements in electricity, chemistry, engineering, Luntz, 197 Asylum St., Hartford, Conn. J. Noyes, gen. secy., Bancroft Hotel, Worcester. physics, radio. Special departments for home crafts- Air Serv., Essington, Pa., and Lake Charles, _ Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets.—Annual national men and practical shop men—easy to follow plans- convention-reunion, Kansas City, Mo., July 13-15. La.—17th annual reunion, Essington, Pa., in May. get real fun of things. Don't miss this Paul, 520 E. Gravers Lane, Chestnut Hill, out making The Rainbow Reveille is your paper; write for free S. H. month's issue—a thrilling, copy, stating your outfit, to Harold B. Rodier, Philadelphia, Pa. entertaining record of the 160th Inf., Co. I (formerly Co. E, Inf., Calif. POPULAR editor, 717 Sixth st., N. W., Washington, D. C world's newest wonders. N. 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