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Black Death by Samuel Scoville, Jr. Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull

America—From the Outside In by Hugh Walpole 10

"The Camels Are Coming!" by Robert Ginsburgh I 2 Illustration by Rico Tomaso

Jim Finn, Disabled Emergency Officer by Rupert Hughes 14 O Lady, Have You Any Wine? by Charles Divine 16 Illustrations by Harry Townsend

Here's Luck! second Episode-. "Heave Ho!" by HughWilev 20 Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops Editorial Wl tli cartoon by John Cassel 24

The Stranger at the Ford by a Yankee Schoolma'am 26 Illustration by Walter Jardine

The Green Mountain Boy by Philip Von Blon 28

A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 31 Therefore Be It Resolved— by Wallgren 32 Bursts and Duds Wlt h cartoons by A. B. Walker 33 An Embassy of Good Will by Frederick C. Painton 34 Keeping Step hy Right Guide 36 Then and Now hy The Company Clerk 43 The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG

Delaware: One of the thirteen original colonies. Dela- Rank among States, 47th in population, 47th in area, 9th ware has the honor of being the first State to enter the in density. Capital, Dover (1926 U. S. est.), 4,042. Three present United States of America, having ratified largest cities (1926 U. S. est.): Wilmington, 124,- the Constitution December 7, 1787. In 1638 Swedes 000; Dover, Newcastle, 3,854. Estimated wealth, settled the region, calling it New Sweden, but in (1923 U. S. Census), $625,765,000. Principal 1655 the Dutch conquered it and made it a part of sources of wealth (U. S. 1923), manufactures, val- New Netherlands. The colony fell into the hands ued at 1128,951,304, with leather goods, iron and of the English in 1664, and was united to Penn- steel, and explosives leading. Natural products sylvania when the Duke of York deeded the lower (1920): The 10,140 farms, covering seven-eighths counties of his territory to William Perm. In 1703 of the area of the State, yielded crops valued at it became a separate colony, but had the same $23,058,906, including corn, wheat, peaches and governor as Pennsylvania until 1776. Population, tomatoes. Delaware had 9,892 men in service dur- 1790, 59,006; 1026 (U. S. est.), 240,274. Per- ing the World War. State motto: Liberty and centage of urban population (communities of 2,500 and Independence. The State was named for Lord De La Ware, over), iqoo, 46.4; 1010, 48; 1020, 54.2. Area, 2.370 sq. the English governor of Virginia who entered the Delaware miles. Density of population (1925 est.), 99.8 per sq. mile. Bay in 1610. Nicknames: Diamond State, Blue Hen State.

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SEVEN MOUNTAINS the still, dry air m \t m burned like cold fire. Carven by the wind I J the snow lay in strange shapes, silver- white with deep blue shadows in the hol- lows. As the sun sank in a sea of molten gold, the western sky changed from aquamarine to a burning orange and then to a liquid robin's-egg blue, fading at last into the black-violet of a winter night. In the mid-sky above the highest peak the Great Bear prowled all night long about the Pole watched by Orion the Huntsman, girt about with his jew- elled belt, and flanked on either With a lightning- side by rose-red Betelgeuse and like dab one his flame-white Rigel, with of of Saiph the Sword Star paws the black swinging low. u easel brought the Suddenly the silence of bird down that winter night was broken by the call of an- other mighty hunter whose presence on Seven Mountains was a threat against the life of every creature, great or small, who dwelt leaped a good five feet above the snow and with a lightning-like there. Yet the voice of that death incarnate sounded like the dab of one of his armed paws, brought the bird down and the next wail of some little, lost child. moment was feasting upon its plump body. A few minutes later A moment later from a hollow near the summit of a white pine, and he was back again in his warm eyrie freed from the necessity a round black head was thrust, grizzled here and there with white of any further hunting that night by this windfall. hairs. The muzzle of the killer was blunt and his short ears, set By noon the next day the woods were a blaze of diamonds and far back on his head, gave him a doggy, benevolent appearance. pearls set in silver, while the pines and spruces showed like green Only the fatal, green-shadowed eyes gave warning of the nature tourmalines against the snow. In the south the sun burned low, which was masked by that mild exterior. a mass of soft white fire, while the frost-mists made bands of Then the dark beast slipped out of the hole like a snake and peach-blossom and dove-color against the horizon. clamping his enormous white claws deep into the bark, proceeded Suddenly the silence was broken by a whining, guttural noise to walk down seventy-five feet of perpendicular tree-trunk, head- which at times broke into falsetto notes. Clinging to the side of foremost, a feat which no other tree-climber of his weight in a huge beech tree, a big gray squirrel filled the forest with his North America could have accomplished. As he came down he scolding, beating time to his complaints with his fluffy tail, which looked like a huge black cat with a bushy tail, a fact which ac- arched like a plume above his sleek back. That fit of ill-temper counted for one of his names—blackcat. Trappers call him proved to be his undoing. Attracted by the querulous notes, a fisher, although he never fishes and the wood Indians have named lithe golden-brown animal who had been picking his way daintily him "pekan" which in their tongue means "killer." through the snow down one of the forest aisles started toward the By whatever name he is known, the dark weasel is death incar- squirrel's tree. As he moved forward in a series of little bounds, he nate. His relative, that black devil, the wolverine, surpasses him looked much like a huge, dark squirrel himself with white ears in strength and malignity but the pekan can run down a fox on and an irregular orange patch on his throat, the hall-mark of the the ground or a squirrel in the trees and, if he were as much at pine-marten, the deadliest of all the tree-folk for squirrels. That home in the water as that other great weasel, the otter, would be one was within thirty feet of the scolder before the latter caught the best equipped killer in the world. As it is he is the most sight of him. Cutting off a particularly fine squall right in the deadly of all his fatal family. middle, the squirrel rushed up the tree, sprang from the end of a On the ground that night the one who had just left his tree swaying bough, caught a twig ten feet away, scrambled up a limb traveled through the snow in a succession of swift bounds, leaving and flashed into the midst of a great hemlock beyond. behind him a zigzag trail of square tracks. Suddenly, as he hunted Swift as a hunting snake the marten followed on the ground the back and forth, he stopped and sniffed at a ridge which showed flight of the squirrel and silently circled the hemlock. Eor an in- just above the level whiteness. As he touched the hummock it stant there was a swishing and cracking among the green boughs burst like a bomb, scattering a spray of snow on all sides and out and then all was silent. A minute passed and another and there into the starlight flashed a magnificent cock grouse who, when was no sign from the animal concealed above. Still the marten night fell, had plunged beneath the drift for shelter and warmth. below patroled the tree, waiting with terrible patience for the Swift as was the whirring flight of the bird, the spring of the fugitive to make the next move. At last there was a sudden rustic black weasel was swifter. Even as the grouse left the ground he among the boughs overhead and a pair of bright black eyes peered

JANUARY. 1928 out among the green needles as the squirrel, unable to stand the umber body stretched out in the sunlight and scandalized by the strain of suspense any longer, looked out to see what had become sight gave the splintering alarm, "D'jay, d'jay, d'jay," which has of his enemy. At the sight the marten dashed up the trunk, given his clan their name. In a moment half a dozen other silver made a tremendous scratching with his claws against the rough and blue pirates of the air joined him, swooping down upon the bark and instantly leaped back to the ground. marten and making futile dabs and pecks from mid-air toward The stratagem succeeded perfectly. Thinking that the brown him. For a moment the sleek weasel paid them no attention. weasel was rushing up the tree toward him, the squirrel leaped Then, as the tumult continued, he suddenly thrust out his head frantically out from the thick foliage of the hemlock, in which he and arching his back hissed up at his tormentors like an enraged might have been safe, into the bare boughs of a beech beyond cat. That display of ill-temper was one of the last and most un- where his every movement was easily visible to his tierce pursuer. fortunate actions of that marten's life. That was the moment for which the marten had waited. Mov- Aroused by the clamor of the birds, a round ing across the snow like a streak of dark gold, hp flashed up the black head had been thrust from a hole in the pine gray, smooth trunk. The squirrel scurried back and forth among tree next to the beech and as the golden weasel the branches trying desperately to double back into the tree which finished his gesture of defiance he caught sight of a he had just left, but every movement was anticipated by the pair of deep-set eyes marten until little by little the hunted animal was driven up and regarding him fixedly up until he clung to the topmost twigs of the beech nearly a hun- not thirty feet away. dred feet above the ground. With the speed of The long pointed head of the marten mounted steadily toward light he dropped back him until the grinning teeth in the fatal half-open jaws were only into the concealment a scant yard away. At the sight the squirrel, with a little wail of of the nest, but it mortal terror, let go his hold and fell like a stone. Thirty feet was too late. There from the ground his body shot through a fringe of the outer twigs was a flash of black of the tree. Once, twice, the little animal clutched desperately down the pine, fol- at them as he fell but each time his grip was broken until as he lowed by a gleam of crashed through the last branch he caught a twig with his bent forepaws, and swinging like a pendulum in mid-air, finally suc- ceeded in pulling himself up to a tiny fork where he clung swaying in the breeze. In a moment the marten located him and flowed through the tree like a flame until he reached the branch to whose farthest twigs the squirrel was cling- ing desperately. Out that limb the fierce hunter moved relentlessly nearer and nearer to the trembling chatterer until his flaming eyes looked down at the cowering squirrel not a yard away. There, however, the yellow death stopped. By one of those saving miracles which come to humans and their lesser brethren alike, the squirrel had fallen to safety. His weight bent the steel-strong beech twigs to which he clung at almost right angles to the branch along which the marten was moving. Not even that expert climber could move down so slen- der a support. After trying it once the marten evidently decided that no squirrel was worth the risk of a fifty foot fall to the hard ground below and that if he waited long enough the little animal would have to climb back to firmer footing or else risk the long He suddenly thrust out his head drop, and in either case be at his mercy. Accordingly he moved and arching his back hissed up swiftly up the tree and climbed into an old crow's nest near the tormentors with all the top, which had long been one of his favorite basking places. From at his that eyrie he could wait luxuriously for the squirrel's next move. jury of an enraged cat As he lay there a wandering blue jay caught sight of his long

Monthly 6 The AMERICAN LEGION brown through the beech. The marten is the fastest animal two sets of glittering teeth snicked together like steel. For a mo- among the tree tops in the world—bar one. Unfortunately for ment the flaming gold of the marten's eyes met the green glare of him that one was now on his trail. those of the pekan. Then with a lightning-like slash of his great Not until the crackling of the branches bent by the fleeing mar- claws the black killer drew the lighter marten irresistibly toward ten had died away did the squirrel slowly and stiffly hoist himself him and with that fatal stroke of the weasel-folk drove his long up the twig to which he had been clinging and hurry to his most secure hiding-place, keeping a sharp look-out all the way for that yellow death which had so nearly overtaken him. He might have spared himself the trouble. His late pursuer, now running for his own life, had forgotten that the squirrel ever existed. Here and there, back and forth ilashed the umber-gold of the marten's lithe slim body against the green of pine and hemlock and the gray boughs of oak and beech. Yet run and double and zigzag as he would, always at his heels came the dark body of the pekan, the two running like a tree-top tandem of black and gold. It was in vain that the marten doubled and turned and twisted on his trail. Before the branches had stopped quivering under his weight they sagged and bent beneath that of the fisher, and al- ways the leaps of the black body were a little longer than those of the gold. Slowly the same agony of despair came upon the hunted marten which the squirrel had felt as he saw death approaching, relentless and inevitable. The end came quickly. Circling here and there through the woods, not daring to leave the sky-ways with which he was familiar, the marten at last took to the ground, hoping to find there the safety which he had sought in vain among the trees. At the base of a great yellow birch the blackcat overtook him. A squirrel or a rabbit would have met his fate cowering and crying but the yellow weasel came of a grimmer breed. With his back to the tree he stood there in the winter sunlight with bared teeth and flaming eyes, the very em- bodiment of desperate rage. As the fisher leaped tow ard him, like the flash of a striking snake the marten lunged at the other's throat. He had to do, however, with one quite as quick as himself and immeasurably more powerful. With a bob of his head the fisher met the attack head-on and With a last desperate bound that meant safety or death in the roaring stream he shot into the air above the current fangs deep into his victim's brain. A moment later and he had stumpy tail ringed with black and tipped with white and wore a hidden the umber-gold body in a thicket and returned to his frill of long soft hair about his throat. home in the pine to wait until the call of hunger should pull him At the sight of the sooty body approaching him across the out into the cold. snow, the great cat promptly postponed his meal. Although a That evening a gale came howling down from the north bearing monster of his kind, he would ordinarily have evaded a' meeting snow on its wings. For a night and a day the wind shrieked and with the black weasel. The fact, however, that he had not made a the sleet hissed through the forest nor was there any animal kill for two days gave him the raging courage of hunger, and he abroad who could find shelter. By the end of the second day the stood above the carcass prepared to fight to the death for the food storm had blown itself out and the black weasel sallied down from which he had stolen. his tree-top, driven forth by a hunger which gnawed like a rat and As he crouched with tufted ears erect, his fierce claws thrust forced him into action. out like hooks of black steel, he snarled deep in his throat at his As he reached the bush beneath which he had cached the nemesis. carcass he stopped and growled with a sound like the grating of To any human spectator the advantage would have seemed to iron bars. The marten was gone. A long line of what looked be entirely with the lynx, who was far the heavier of the two. like the paw-prints of some huge cat flattened by pads of hair Yet it is not always weight that wins. like snow-shoes, showed that the thief was a bay lynx, or wildcat Then under the seven flaming stars of the Bear began a battle to give him his common name. great and grim, with a half-eaten carcass for the purse and death The sight of those tracks would have given most of the dwellers the loser's share. It was the pekan who led first. Slipping on Seven Mountains pause, for the wildcat is a willing and well- through the snow like a black snake, his round head darted for the armed fighter. The blackcat, however, did not hesitate for an in- wildcat's throat almost too quickly for the eye to follow. Yet stant but flashed along the lynx' trail at full speed. For a quarter with a lightning leap the lynx avoided him by a hairsbreadth and of a mile the tracks ran through a dry brook-bed and then showed countered with a slash of one of his armed paws that laced the where with a tremendous bound the wildcat had landed on the fisher's sleek coat with red. bank above with his booty. Once again the weasel darted toward the cat like a shadow Beyond the bank the weasel found the bold robber crouched in flickering across the snow. Once again, perfectly balanced on his a level space about to make a meal of the stolen carcass. His fur padded paws, the lynx slipped the other's lead and for the second was a tawny buff, peppered with round dark spots and he had a time landed without a return. If the fight had been held on bare

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ground not even the speed of the wildcat could have evaded the tracks, each one made up of four holes in the snow, two wide apart black killer's attack for only the lunge of one of the great snakes and two close together behind the former, the trail of the varying is more instantaneously swift than the dart of the weasel-folk. hare or snowshoe rabbit, who, although brown in summer, changes Six inches of snow, however, slowed the pekan's movements and to a coat of spotless white in winter, save for the black tips of his gave the lynx, with his snow-shoes, an advantage so long as he long ears, and puts on a pair of hairy snow-shoes with the coming was content to out-fight the black battler. of cold weather. The far-apart tracks were made by the rabbit's Then for an instant beneath the star-shine the weasel and the wide-spread hind-legs, which with every hop came ahead of the cat stood motionless watching each other with terrible intentness. short forelegs and marked the direction in which he was travelling. The face of the great cat was a wrinkled mask of rage. His grin- By their clear-cut impressions in the snow, the pekan knew that ning jaws showed the four long fighting teeth of his kind like the tracks were fresh and he followed them, soundless as a shadow, white stilettos, while above them his eyes were pools of flame. In hoping to take the rabbit unawares. Even his stealth, however, contrast the broad face of the pekan seemed almost absurdly was of no avail against the wariness of Wabasso, as the Cree In- mild. Yet there was a depth of malignity and utter hate in the dians have named the varying hare. green glare of the black weasel's eyes which was the very essence That one was a wise old buck who had lived through the dan- of fury. gers and difficulties of six summers and winters, a long life for a A moment later and the fight was on again with the weasel ever rabbit. Just as he stood up high on his sturdy hind-legs to nibble trying for a throat-hold and the lynx continually avoiding his at the sweet bark of a birch sapling, his eyes, placed like those of a rushes. Then, as the battle in the snow lengthened, the charac- woodcock so that he saw both backwards and forwards, caught teristics of the combatants showed more and more clearly. When sight of the black death that was approaching him so silently. the pekan also began to use his claws, the pain of their tearing With a tremendous bound the snow-white hare departed and in a gashes drove the lynx almost to madness and he began to show moment was out of sight among the trees. that hysterical, unbalanced rage which is often the undoing of his His speed in no wise discomposed the pekan. He had long ago clan in a long battle. The fisher fought with equal fury yet with learned that unlimited endurance was an effectual answer to any a control which yielded no advantage and overlooked no oppor- amount of speed. Defeated in his cat-like stalk, he turned to the tunity. Realizing that in a fight at long range he was at a disad- dog-side of his strange, dual nature and settled down to run the vantage owing to the snow and the longer reach of the lynx, he stars out of the sky and the sun behind the world if necessary to manoeuvered to force his antagonist into a clinch. overtake the fugitive. His own gait was by no means slow, save Instead of darting directly at the wildcat he started to circle only as compared with such a speed-king as the snow-shoe rabbit. around him forcing the bay lynx to pivot on his haunches so as to Driven by tremendous muscles, his black body flashed along the meet his enemy's attack. At last, tired of whirling around and hare's trail at a rate which would have soon overtaken any slower around to meet a foe who never attacked, the wildcat yielded to animal. the unreasoning fury which possessed him and with a screech of For a time the irregularly shaped tracks of the hunted rabbit rage suddenly sprang upon his baffling antagonist. The pekan ran straight away for a mile or so and then began to swing out in never even attempted to retreat but doubling upon himself a long curve, ending in a confusion of deep prints in the snow as avoided the lynx' talons and even as the great cat landed, two the wise old buck doubled and crouched in the lee of a spice bush sets of white claws clinched in his neck. Even then the lynx where he could watch his back-trail and determine whether the might have torn himself away but he preferred to rely upon his blackcat really intended to hunt him to the death or had given up own fierce armament of fangs and talons. It was a dangerous the chase after his first unsuccessful rush. Before long, however, choice, for in-fighting is the fisher's long suit, and it is very long his bulging eyes caught sight of a black figure looping its way indeed. In an instant the steel-strong muscles of the weasel's bent through the forest like some gigantic inch-worm and once again forepaws dragged the cat's fierce head down to a level with his the white hare shot away in a spray of snow. own until the flaming, golden eyes ofJ:he Dropping his nose to the tracks lynx glared into the incandescent green like a hunting hound, the pekan depths of those of the great weasel. Like followed the snow-shoe rabbit un- the teeth of a cross-cut saw the fangs of erringly through every loop and the fisher cut through fur and skin and double and always unravelled the flesh while the bay lynx slashed and trail no matter how much the snarled and tried to bring into play the hunted animal tangled it. Once terrible eviscerating claws of his hind- the rabbit crossed a huge fallen paws. Twisting his body across the tree, ran on for fully a mile and other's back the lithe weasel avoided this then doubled back to it at full last attack and drove his fangs deeper and speed. From the trunk as a take- deeper until they met in the other's off, he leaped far out, landing in the throat and with a gurgling screech the very heart of a dense thicket and fierce life of the lynx passed out. There- started off at right angles to his after the black killer devoured the spoil: previous course. With a dogged of battle and returned to his sky-scraper swiftness the fisher ran in ever where he stayed in retreat until widening circles from the point wounds had healed. where the trail stopped until he Then came an evening when the had picked it up again. west was all wind-blown flame, dim When the hare had reached the gold and dull violet. Above the limit of his range he began to circle, sunset, in a pale green sky, floated unwilling to venture into unex- the newest of new moons. Tenu- plored territory with such a grim ous as a cobweb, a faint, frost- pursuer behind him. This was the white crescent drifting down to- moment for which the pekan had ward the dark tree, it seemed as if a waited. Cutting across the course breath of air would blow it away. of the fugitive, he picked up the Again the black hunter was abroad trail farther on, following the and began the fifteen-mile circle diameter of the circle of which the which he would cover before dawn snow-shoe rabbit was always de- unless he made his kill earlier. scribing the circumference. Again A light snow had fallen the day and again this occurred until at before, covering the firm crust last in spite of the hare's superior which had formed throughout the speed the pekan had so cut down forest, showing plainly every mark his lead that once more the hunted and track upon its surface. As the animal caught sight of the dark pekan bounded lightly here and beast approaching him. It is this there among the trees he came to a relentless pursuit and inevitable stood each other with terrible sudden stop and stood like a black They watching approach of the weasel-folk which shadow in the snow while he stud- intentness. The face of the great cat was a at the last drives their victims into ied carefully a line of trapezoid wrinkled mask of rage such a frenzy (Continuedonpage64)

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AM going to try American hospitality but, to do something By HUGH WALPOLE on the other hand, is very dangerous; spoken to too brusquely I have at last, by one or two American after ten years' persistent refusals, agreed to say exactly what I journalists, returns to England and delivers his judgment on think about America. That is a somewhat portentous opening America, it cannot possibly be interesting to us because in the as though I implied that what I think of America is important first place we know so little about America. But if Mr. Gals- and valuable. I think it is important in a certain degree, that is, worthy or Mr. Masefield or Mr. Drinkwater, who have been in 1 think that the opinion of any foreigner who is honest and America again and again, whose personalities we know very well friendly is important; but that honesty and that friendliness are through their work and through their lives, who have always re- the very things that are hard to acquire, and there I mean that frained from snap judgments and casual utterances, if they have in judging a country that isn't your own, when the honesty comes something to say about America it will be interesting even though the friendliness is apt to go. It is so, as we are all well aware, we don't agree with it. when one of our friends begins to speak of us honestly; we know That is my only excuse for writing now. For ten years I have at once that he is going to do us less than justice. been going to and fro between England and America; on one That is why I waited for more than ten years before saying occasion I spent an uninterrupted year there; I have lectured in what I think. It is the general American complaint that foreign- every State in the Union and I have a number of very close and ers are given to saying too frequently what they think and this intimate friends who are Americans. But beyond that I have applies not only to America but to any and every country. I can, waited until I could be sure of certain individual experiences. for example, recall at the moment no single book on England by a These are my own experiences and are the outcome very largely foreigner that has pleased with the one exception of a little work of my own temperament, so that I hope that I will be forgiven if by Capek which was more in the nature of a jest than anything these two articles have a great deal of the personal in them; I else. The trouble is with ourselves individually just as with coun- don't see how it is to be avoided. These opinions of America have tries, the picture that we form of ourselves may be less flattering no value at all except that they are personal opinions, never dog- or more than that formed by others, but it will certainly be differ- matic, and swayed by all the characteristics that are mine, char- ent. Because it is different we resent the judgment of someone acteristics that I cannot change however much I might wish to. who has only known us for a very short time; how can they tell In the first place then my view of America has been partially when we, who have lived with ourselves for years, are so aware of determined by the fact that I spent several years in New York every detail? On the other hand when someone has known us for as a child. When you are very young the most trivial thing that a long time, has accepted hospitality from us and has told every- you do stays with you for the remainder of your days; it has an body how nice we are, it seems a gross impertinence if he criti- importance for you in retrospect that nothing that happens to cizes us at all: and then suppose that we are in a stage of most in- you after you are thirty can ever acquire. The things that come teresting growth, growth so interesting indeed that the whole to you as a child are permanent things because as a child you be- world is watching us, so interesting to ourselves that we are com- lieve them to be utterly true. I was unhappy in New York, but pelled almost against our will to ask other people how they find us! the unhappiness was romantic and this romance I have never since All criticism of course depends upon personality. We hear only been able to dissociate from America. It was a romance built too often nowadays of our subconscious selves, our actions and up of tiny things, of days before Christmas when we were taken reactions that have nothing to do with our wishes or our intentions to see revolving pictures in the windows of some great store; these but belong to some subterranean world over which, it seems, we scenes showed the landing of Columbus and one scene after another have very little control. There are, for instance, certain writers, on some kind of revolving stage passed before the eyes of the painters, individuals about whom it is unfair for me to say a single gazers in the streets. Nothing in my childhood was more real word because there are certain elements in their work or their to me; it was nonsense to tell me that Columbus and his soldiers, characters which are so antipathetic to me that from the very the Indians with their paint and feathers, the background of sea start I am bound to be unsympathetic to them. Only last night and sand and palm trees were a show—they remain to me today as a man famous as an art critic said out loud in a crowded room realities far greater than most of my mature experiences. Then that he thought that Muirhead Bone was a terrible etcher. Now we were taken into the country in the autumn and the colors of I know well how impossible it is to find any artist or writer wjio the woods exceeded in brilliance anything that I have ever seen appeals to everybody, but I had always believed that Muirhead since, and behind much that is ugly in America I always see those Bone was sacrosanct. After a little talk I discovered that it was flaming woods, not brief and evanescent as they are in reality, not really Bone that this man was criticizing but the whole school but eternal and never dying. of meticulous architectural etching. In exactly the same way There was also the element of terror. The American children, you will find that many of the critics of America are not criticizing the sons and daughters of the other professors at the college America but certain elements in modern life—speed, commerce, where my father was, disliked me cordially, found that I burst rapid change. Obversely, too, a wild admirer of America will into tears at the earliest opportunity and, being cruel as all chil- often be someone who hates the old ways, finds Europe slow and dren are, enjoyed to persecute me. I don't blame them for this; stagnating, who believes that no progress is to be made unless we I am indeed grateful because America always has for me an air cut ourselves off altogether from tradition. Between these judg- of danger, not great enough to be unpleasant but uncertain ments, which have really nothing to do with America, lies the real enough to be adventurous. New York itself had for a child's subject, and no one, not the Americans themselves, can see the imagination a limitless size and power; I know now through real America unless they watch it as though they were inhabitants mature experience how powerful New York is, but it is quite an- of another planet with no prejudices and no personal instincts. other power from that early imagination of it; I shall never quite But then, of course, the trouble is that no one can rid himself of be sure that American cities are not filled with magic. his personal instincts, and this is a thing that a critic so often There was a further thing that I got from those early years, a forgets, that we cannot be really interested in his judgments un- conviction of American fidelity. I shall speak of this at greater less we know something of the kind of man he is. What makes, for length soon; it is indeed one of the most important and one of the instance, Charles Lamb's estimates of the old English dramatists most disputed elements in American life, but certain Americans so fascinating is that we know so much about Lamb himself; this became friends of my father and mother and these friendships is true again of Hazlitt, of Joshua Reynolds, of Max Beerbohm, of now have been tested for nearly forty years and they are marvel- Macaulay, of Carlyle, of Henry James or of his brother William. ous things. If Mr. Smith, promising young English poet, comes to America As a further result of this early experience that when at about to lecture, stays there several months, is feted with all the famous the age of ten I came to live in England for some seven or eight

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years I had of necessity wider horizons than children who had cooking is the best in the world, I feel, however much I may deny never left their own country; when anyone mentioned America I it, that French cooking and French manners are definitely altered thought to myself, "Ah, I know more about it than you do." by my view of them. This doesn't come from any conceit, but When I came to read newspapers and books any mention of Amer- rather France exists for my use of it, it gives me a pleasant holiday ica aroused a kind of intimacy in me; it was not intimacy that or offers me beautiful pictures or shows me some fine acting; it ever led me to imagine that I was myself American: I have always exists for me when it is doing these things and, however much I been more English than the English, not, I hope, through any may cheat myself, it doesn't exist when it is not. There is a fur- false patriotism or blindness to my country's failings but simply ther difficulty, that when you have spent some of your childish because that with every breath I breathe I am English as the years in a foreign country it seems to depend on you for your trees and the rivers and hills of England are English. But it loyalty; when anyone attacks it your honor is called into ques- meant that from the very earliest years I was aware that America tion. In later years your personality is so far developed that you had a life of her own that was much more important and inde- carry it with you, and it is more important and resolute than any- pendent than any view that I could ever have of it would be. thing that it encounters, but in those early days you are mutable About other countries I have never quite felt that; when I say, and fluid like water and everything that happens to you becomes for instance, "Oh, but the French are so mean," or that French part of yourself. I remember that after {Continued on page 64)

JANUARY, 1928 1 Major Wayne, told by a self- appointed inter- preter that the price asked for the camel was twenty dollars, raised his arm and nodded his head. Never before in the mem- ory of those pres- ent had an animal been sold on the first quotation

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7»->HE camels are coming." No transcontinental A lone sentry guarding the entrance to Camp Verde, railways or highways Texas, gave the alarm and all Bedlam broke loose. existed then, and hun- By Robert Horses bolted on the picket line. Mules reared and dreds of thousands of kicked the slats out of their stalls. Wild-eyed cavalrymen square miles of the Illustration by whooped. Toughened muleteers swore and most of the dough- Southwest were totally boys took to the tall cactus. unknown. What few trails had been cut across the continent Of all the animals ever introduced to an armed force, the were constantly harassed by hostile Indians. It was commonly bumped creatures of the East that Secretary of War Jefferson supposed that beyond the Mississippi extended a vast Sahara Davis tried to foist upon the American soldier of the late 50's, which could not be traversed by mules, horses or oxen. Congress was probably the least welcome. The camel did not like Texas believed that communication would be greatly facilitated by and Texas had no love for the camel. Both looked with sus- the use of camels and in 1854 appropriated the money for their picion upon the soldier cameleer and he, in turn, spent most of importation. his time tormenting his pet aversion, the Oriental instructor, Six years earlier Colonel George H. Crossman, Deputy Quarter- who had been imported from Smyrna and Cairo to teach him master General of the Army, had first conceived the idea and "the ways of the dromedary." assigned his subordinate, Major Henry C. Wayne, the job of in- Soldiers in the mounted service have a great affection for their vestigating the practicability of introducing camels into the animals, and when many of them had to give up their favorite United States. Why Wayne was selected for this extraordinary horses and mules for the strange Oriental beast of burden, a feud assignment he never knew himself. He was the chief of the developed instantly. Some soldiers intentionally opened the clothing bureau when Colonel Crossman relieved him from his corral gates and politely but firmly urged the desert animals to duties to devote his attention to camels. seek a home elsewhere. Others went "over the hill" and walked Wayne at first regarded the project lightly, but to satisfy his miles to keep away from a camel. superior, he began a serious study of camels. He found no reliable Hut a Camel Corps, U. S. A. there had to be. Congress ordered treatises on the subject, and the leading public libraries offered camels and an obedient War Department tried to carry out the little help. Few Americans had ever seen the animal. Barnum will of the people as expressed by their representatives duly and Bailey, Ringling Brothers and other circuses had not yet elected. appeared in American life. Camels had not even entered the

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American zoological mission. It required an international diplomat, an accomplished Ginsburah gardens. Fortunately auctioneer, and an obedient soldier and most of all the patience for Wayne, the French of a Job. minister at Washington Wayne was ordered to go first to England to consult some Rico Tomaso had formerly served in "learned professors," then to Paris to the famous Jardin des Persia, where camels Plantes, and finally to the French army headquarters to meet were used, and he assisted he American in gathering data on General Monge and Colonel Carbuccia, who had conducted suc- the Oriental beast. cessful experiments in northern Africa. After leaving France he The more Major Wayne learned about the animal, the more was directed to make a study of the Rarbary camel which was enthusiastic he became. Colonel Crossman, won over, prevailed being used successfully in Tuscany. When his studies were com- upon Secretary of War C. M. Conrad to ask for an appropriation pleted, he was to go to Spezia, Italy, on the Mediterranean where to import a few camels for experimental purposes. Congress the American ship Supply, commanded by Lieutenant D. D. ridiculed the bill and it was laughed out of the House of Repre- Porter, later the admiral, would take him to the Levant to buy sentatives three times before Jefferson Davis, the new secretary camels for the United States Government. His itinerary in- of war, was able to get the necessary legislation. The appropria- cluded Smyrna, Salonica, Constantinople, Palmyra, Damascus tion act passed in 1854, authorizing $30,000 for the "importa- and Persia. tion of dromedaries to be employed for military purposes." Wayne arrived in Southampton, June, 1855, and went to The next step was to get the dromedaries. Jefferson Davis had London to begin his studies. In the company of a London pro- learned by this time that many breeds and types of camels, fessor, Richard Owen, F. R. S., Royal College of Surgeons, he single-humped and double-humped, served on the African and made daily visits to the zoological garden and tried to establish Asiatic deserts, but he had ^sufficient data to warrant any par- a greater intimacy with the humped creatures, and a better under- ticular choice. He therefore turned to the man he regarded as standing of their ways. The docile animals did tricks for him the greatest American authority on the "dromedary," the same under the direction of their English attendants. They walked, Major Henry C. Wayne of the United States Army, and de- knelt, paced and rose while their keepers gave various com- tailed him to get the animals. mands. No harshness was shown and the animals responded The history of the Army abounds with unusual duties per- immediately. Wayne was assured that the "intelligent, humane, formed by its officers, but few compare with Major Wayne's patient, Anglo-Saxon could get much (Continued on page 68)

JANUARY, 19:8 13 disabled Timerqencu JIM FINN, Utticer y ^HAT brings home battalion had formerly been. It V* m A / to me particularly Btf Rupert Hughes sailed away to France under a *#/ 1/ the matter of the new name—the 165th—but with f Disabled Emer- the same old spirit. gency Officers Bill is the fact that I myself came so near to being It had been part of my duty in Texas after the tropical hikes one of them. I feel the interest in it that a man who just to inspect the feet of the men. They thrust their weary soles missed the boat would take in the tragedy of the Lusitania. I out of their pup tents and I hunched along on my knees, more or was disabled in advance of the emergency. I missed the boat less like an apostle. Only, instead of washing those terrible feet, entirely. I picked the blisters on them, or rather thrust a needle through If I had been a little luckier I should have been one of the un- the adjoining hide, drained off the fluid, and put on an antiseptic luckiest men on earth. The wound that I should have received dressing. fell on another man who won a record for suffering. It was like mending circus tents. I joined the National Guard, the old Seventh of New York, In France the regiment had one march worse than the worst soon after I came to town as a young man. Some years later I in Texas. It was in midwinter in the Yosges mountains. They went to the Sixty-ninth as a battalion adjutant, later a line plodded one day through snow and rain and made a bivouac at lieutenant, eventually a captain, with James G. Finn as my first night. The next morning few of ihem appeared at roll-call. lieutenant. We went to the Mexican Border together in 1916, Their shoes were so shrunk and shriveled and frozen that they by which time my hearing became so impaired that I had to could not be put on. sneak past the examining board to go along at all. Some genius suggested filling them with straw and lighting When it came to the examinations for the World War, I could the straw. This did the trick perfectly. The shoes softened and not get past anybody. I pleaded that, since I heard far better in slipped on the feet without a struggle. a noise than the normal hearer, I would be a godsend in a battle. The only trouble was that, as soon as the regiment marched But the books made no provisions for such freaks, and I was away, the soles of the shoes fell off, leaving the soles of the feet coldly thrust aside and compelled to do swivel chair work, wear- naked. ing my wound stripes where they do not show. So that regiment of men from New York City left bloody foot- I might have gone over as a writer or as a welfare worker or as prints on the snows of the far-off French mountains, as the a member of the ladies' auxiliary of almost anything. But I troops at Trenton and Valley Forge had made a red pathway preferred to sulk at home and cling to a desk with my spurs. through the snows of their own time and country. I envied Jim Finn, who became captain in my place, and I The Sixty-ninth men had trouble enough in securing new felt that, after all my years of really hard work, it was tough for shoes. They took P'rench, Irish, English or any other footwear me to be left behind, not to mention the terrible risk the Army they could find, and they plodded on, taking whatever orders took in going to a foreign country without me. they received, facing everything from snow to gas. The Sixty-ninth, as is well known, went over early in the The old regiment was pretty well shot to pieces during the game with the Rainbow Division. It was almost unbearable battles that followed. If I remember the figures rightly, of the when I heard of old friends being grievously wounded or killed, 3,600 men that went over, only 600 came home with the regiment. and when I met some of the first to be invalided home I was The rest were killed, wounded, promoted, invalided home. frantic. But now and then I have a poltroonish feeling that my deaf- THE Sixty-ninth went to France Irish and came back cosmo- ness was the most fortunate affliction, the most blessed curse that politan with replacement men of all sorts from everywhere. anyone ever had. It may have saved me from what happened to The regiment's beloved and revered chaplain, Father Duffy, Captain Finn. has written a fine history about its achievements and sufferings. Of course, if I had gone I might have died in camp of the in- My story deals with Jim Finn, the captain of Company H. fluenza or the dysentery. I might have turned myself inside out He was a graduate of Bowdoin College and of the Brooklyn with seasickness on the transport. I might have been run over Law School, and an attorney practicing his profession. He had by a truck in France. I might have proved a hopeless coward and served in the Sixty-ninth for many years before he reached his run over a whole regiment in my sprint to the rear, or died of lieutenancy. In June, 1916, he was called out, remained at the fright at the first thump of a dud. Border till March, 1917, and entered the new army in . July, On the other hand, I might have been so afraid to be afraid 191 7, with practically no interval. He went abroad at the head that I would have kept up with the crowd. And then my story of his company, and endured all the hard times and bloody might have been Jim Finn's. battles with perfect courage and efficiency. He was a real soldier—six feet two—just George Washington's On the 29th of July, 1918, at something like a score of miles height—and strong as an ox. I am more of the build of Napoleon north of Chateau-Thierry, as the regiment was forcing the Ourcq —in his later, fatter period. River, a shell came along and made a sound like the name of the I always remember Jim Finn as I saw him once down near the river magnified a thousand times. Rio Grande on a frightful test-march in which nearly half of that It struck behind Captain Finn and sprayed shrapnel in all huskiest of regiments fell by the wayside with sunstroke and heat directions. Incidentally it tore away from Captain Finn's right prostration. The alkali dust most of the way was so thick that leg three inches of bone below the knee. you could hardly see the back of the man whose heel you trod on. After first aid was rendered he was shifted to a hospital at Toward the end, I was so exhausted that I was holding the Chateau-Thierry, then to another at Mars-sur-Allier, then to thin strap of my field glasses off my chest since the weight of it another at Savenay. He was taken aboard a transport feet first impeded my breath. Wondering if I could make the last hundred and taken off it feet first. yards to my tent before I fell over, I looked back and saw First He made a grand tour of hospitals: Colonia, New Jersey; Fort Lieutenant Finn striding along magnificently and earn ing two McHenry, Maryland; Fox Hills, Staten Island; Walter Reed, at rilles for soldiers who could not have made the camp otherwise. Washington. After three months of border idleness broken by the most Every expert tried to repair that shattered leg so that he might gruelling marches, I resigned and came north to earn my living. walk on it. But splendid as his physique was, the bone would not Finn did not have to live, so he stayed on. grow those three inches, and efforts to patch it were never We had been called to the armory June 16, 1916, 1 think it was; successful. shipped to Camp Whitman the next day, and sent to the Border He submitted to eight major operations and was finally turned six weeks later. It was March, 191 7, when Finn came north with out December 1, 1923, wearing a brace of steel and leather run- the regiment. He was kept busy for months recruiting his com- ning from the sole of the right foot to the right hip. pany to the new tables of organization and in July he went into He was one of the last of the officers wounded in France dis- camp with the World War Army. charged from the hospitals. He had spent five years and four I went out to see my old company. It was now bigger than a months under treatment. And that is longer than a sinner is The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

expected to stay- the regular fees in Purgatory since he could a prolonged hell for guarantee victory! as good and kind and It is hard to say brave a man as Captain whether this Congress- Finn. man paid a higher tribute to This then is his record as a the intelligence and justice of soldier: After several years of jurymen or to his own intelligence voluntary service in the National and justice. Guard and well-earned promotion The battlefields are back to normal again, as this As Captain Finn says, the Con- to a first lieutenancy, he entered photograph, taken last summer in the Aisne-Marne gressman would probably rate the the service of his country as a volun- country, not far from where Jim Finn was wounded, absent arm or leg as "concealed teer in June, 1916, and left it demonstrates. But Jim Finn isn't back to normal, assets." The next thing would be to December 1, 1923. make the wounded man pay an in- nor are the host of other "emergency officers" whose He gave more than seven years come tax on his wounds. plight is like his. "The nation has broken its of the best of his life to the nation, " No small part of the affliction is word, its written and enacted promises to him. and spent five of those years in the amount of time lost in fitting grievous torment and helplessness as and repairing artificial limbs, braces a result of his heroism in a battle in which he was so seriously and other apparatus; also the frequent examinations and treat- wounded as to be among the last of the wounded officers in the ment required, to say nothing of the unending distress, incon- World War to be released from the hospital. venience and risk of further injury. For a time he received a rating of 67 percent disability, but Furthermore, in these days when employers are liable for a year ago was reduced to 33 percent and his disability pay cut injuries to their employes, there is a great reluctance to taking to $33 a month. This was done under a regulation of the Veter- partially disabled men on the payroll, lest they become per- ans Bureau which gives men who were lawyers, doctors and manent liabilities. accountants before the war only one-half the advantage of men Two of the greatest scandals and follies of American history who earned their living otherwise. have been our national attitudes toward war, before and after. Consequently, as most of the men who served as officers came First, there has always been the most miserly economy of from the professions, they feel that the discrimination is an preparation for war, with an unfailing and ghastly waste of lives, effort to deprive as many officers as possible of the privilege of reputations and opportunities. Second, after each needlessly receiving retirement pay. prolonged war was over, there has been an orgy of pension- Remembering the extraordinary experience that Jim Finn extravagance and corruption. went through, there is something nauseating in the speech made When this republic was a-borning, George Washington wore by one Congressman who opposed full relief for wounded lawyers. out dozens of quills pleading for a regular establishment as the He said that a missing arm or leg would be a great asset to a only means of securing victory and by far the cheapest means. lawyer pleading before a jury! He wrote again and again that the salvation of the cause was In other words, juries, with such a lawyer before them, would due entirely to the enemy's neglect to take full advantage of his pay no heed to the merits of the cases but would invariably re- victories. turn such verdicts that the lawyer would be able to charge double If Sir William Howe had crossed the {Continued on page 50)

JANUARY, 1928 15 — o Have By Charles >IIE first time Sergeant Phil Forkey, M. P., set foot in the little yard w here the Cafe

bony face, enormous blue eyes, and a wide, congenial mouth. "Yes, after a fashion, "admitted Phil, thinking friendlily of ( lap- "My God," she said, "but you are funny!" tain Tatham, a quiet, studious medical man who left all the "It's my face," said Phil. "I was born that way." vigorous details of office to him. He was glad because it gave "Oh, your poor mother!" commiserated Oiane. him a feeling of wielding authority beyond the three chevrons on "She didn't mind," explained Phil. "She was part French. his arm, of being in a position where he could do no evil and be So why should you?" caught at it. True, his idea of evil consisted chiefly of drinking "It doesn't inconvenience me," replied Diane, her words in the mild quantities of wine while on duty in Moiry, Magny-Cours, or French being "II ne me gene pas," pronounced with such a sweet St. Parize-Ie-Chatel, the three villages just outside camp, each at inflection of her voice and with such a look of her long lashed eyes the corner of its triangle of hill. But now, after he and Diane be-

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Diane feel as if she and her mother were living on the edge of an earth- quake always coming to- morrow. She wished she could take life as lightly as the sergeant who had just been here and had promised to return. But would he? Would he ride so far out of his way to favor them with his patronage? Probably not. But he did return, the next day and the next and the next, always sing- ing his "O, Lady" chan- oon in the same jerky rhythm as he entered the bar. "I'm a fixture here now," he declared. He sat in the cafe evenings near the open door and talked to Diane and her mother. Sometimes they would both look so mournfid that he would ask them what the matter was, but at first they didn't tell him about the Count; they only shook their The scene at the Cafe du Commerce ivas heads. When he was alone with Diane in the empty bar, while memorable, with crowds of soldiers her mother was busy in the kitchen in back or else clattering seated under the sycamores at tables slowly up and down the stairs to the bedrooms, he noticed how soft Diane's voice was; it met some thirst in him unquenchable by ii'hich previously had been empty wine. When he looked at her, at her dark eyes mirroring some mood in their depths, he had a feeling that something like poetry came well acquainted, he acknowledged the superior charm of this was going through his mind. Nothing had ever warmed him like inn over all others he had ever entered. this. "Cafe du Commerce," he repeated with a glance around. "I Sometimes Diane would sit smiling off into space, and Phil see the cafe. But where's the commerce?" wondered if she were thinking of some man. Diane smiled wanly. The cafe's failure to live up to its name "Diane," he said one afternoon, "your father's dead and your was one of the reasons for the wistful expression which some- two brothers," to which she replied, "Yes. It is the war," with times touched her lips and eyes. her eyes clouding. "Only your mother and you," he went on. Its aspect was so uncommercial in fact, as Phil noted, that this "No other relatives?" cafe room, but for the zinc bar and the few placid bottles behind "I have cousins. There is Edouard in Moulins, and here in this it, might have been some nice old lady's sitting-room, with these neighborhood are Emile and Henri and Robert and Alexis and " framed prints on the wall and the flowered paper. Raymond and Paul and Charles and Louis and "From now on you'll get all my trade," Phil promised, in spite He stopped her. Cousins, he discovered, were as thick as of the two kilometers between there and camp. Dubonnet signs in France. T "Then we will be poor no longer, my mother and I?" "W hy do you ask?" she demanded. Phil surveyed her admiringly. "I was just thinking that you ought to have a man here to help "What a little mocker you are!" you. The work is too much for you and your mother." "With Americans it is necessary." When Phil turned to go "Poof! It is nothing." Diane sighed sincerely and said: "We don't get many soldiers "But it might be something," he urged, and when she asked: here." "How? We cannot even buy enough liqueurs to stock the bar," Phil paused at the door to deliver himself of his idea of an he advised: "Borrow some money from one of your superfluous epigram. squads of cousins." "Thirst has no conscience. It will stop at the first bar it comes "All are too poor, like us. It is the war. There is Henri, he is to." fifty and only a gardener working at the chateau of Monsieur the "Droll fellow!" said Diane and followed him with her eyes as he Count. There is Emile, who has lost a leg and gives violin lessons " climbed onto his motorcycle and started explosively along the to the sons of Monsieur the Count road which would take him past Count d'Autremont's chateau on "Was that Emile I heard the other night scraping something the way to Moiry. in the kitchen?" Diane's eyes grew troubled at the thought of the Count. Into "But yes! Emile loves music." his hands, since the war, had passed the remnant of the Ganders' "Then why does he play the violin?" little fortune in the form of insufficient interest, and now the Diane bridled and said: "It was 'Mon Cceur S'Ouvre a Ta Count threatened to take the inn away from them. It made Yoix,' " which meant so little to him that she cried: "Zut! You

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never heard of the opera by the French composer—oh, but these who would let him kiss her. Diane would laugh merrily and say: " Americans are not intelligent! They are "There are all sorts . . . Is this one so blind?" "Never mind. Will you marry me, Diane?" But when Phil took his departure it was always so late that he She gazed at him, astonished; he looked so serious. rode directly back to camp and went to his barracks. Some- "Droll fellow," she said at length. times he returned in such a fit of despondency that nothing "It's not a joke," he insisted. "I know I'd never have won the seemed to amuse him, not even the mimic fist-fight with which croix de guerre on my looks. But I love you. I'll make you a two of the M. P. privates, Peanut Nixon and Joe Egley, were ac- good husband. Be Madame Forkey!" customed to entertain the roomful of men. "That ugly name?" Diane was a picture and a memory which made Phil thrill to After a moment of silence he asked: "Do you know many nothing else. One Saturday evening he went to the Cafe du soldiers from camp?" With a sidelong glance she replied : "There Commerce and found her in —tears. are some handsomer," and mentioned one who, Phil knew, had a "Oh, my sergeant, oh, Phil " She pronounced it "Feel" with long record as a successful ladies' man. "He tried to kiss me one a soft, agonized vehemence that went straight to his heart—"we evening. He has a mustache." "Anybody," retorted Phil, "can are ruined!" grow a paintbrush on their upper lip." Diane shook her head. "Ruined!" Phil stared at her, stunned. "Why?" "You couldn't. You are too blond." "Count d'Autremont has given us a week to pay him his "Listen! For you I'd grow a vegetable garden there." money." "Droll fellow." "A week! Is that all?" " "You don't love me?" "Yes, it's all. And then this home will be his. Not ours "You march too fast." Diane's voice caught on a half-sob and she was silent a moment, "Then perhaps you could love me later? Eh, Diane?" an interval in which Phil's brain swirled with a dozen swift im- "Anything is possible. But when the war is over you will go pressions—how dark the mood of Diane's eyes now, how he marching back home to America just as fast." yearned to comfort her, and know her love, and feel her arms "No, no!" he insisted. "There's nothing there for me. My around his neck tenderly, and how he'd like to drive up to the mother is dead and my father has taken a step-mother who Count's chateau and bust him in the nose! doesn't take to me. I'm off their list. When I get to be twenty- In the kitchen, whither Phil follow-ed Diane in her distress, he one I'll receive some money my mother left. I'll put it in the was confronted by Madame Garnier's despairing gesticulations, business here and we'll build it up together. See, Diane?" he her assurance that "Life is hard, life is hard," her appeal with begged earnestly. "See?" piteous outspread hands, "But what can we do?" "Castles in Spain!" Diane sighed. "Besides, it will be too late Phil scratched his head. He didn't know. then. The Count will have it back. He is like that. Once we "How much does the Count want?" thought, my mother and I, that our money would be enough to "Twenty-five thousand francs," returned Diane, and Phil let meet the Count's lien. But the war came along . . . and now his breathout in a whistle of astonishment. "He knows we haven't nothing is sure." that much," continued Diane, her lips "With one exception," retorted Phil. "Me!" trembling. "We have barely a thou- When they walked out into the garden Diane questioned him sand ... It is the end!" She about the flowers, and Phil looked perplexed, whereupon she didn't hesitate to look up at Phil with criticized him devastatingly for his ignorance of white phlox. the tears running down her face. "You are only an animal who knows nothing about the finer "Don't cry, Diane! Crvingdoesno things in life. And yet you expect me to marry you. It's good." fantastic!" Though he urged her not to be mis- He nodded his head and grinned sheep- erable about it, he knew that his own ishly and then looked adoringly at her out of financial resources, which he would his enormous blue eyes. gladly lay at her feet, wouldn't total He stayed for supper that evening, and to more than 200 fraiics, even after afterwards in the cafe Diane sat watching next week's pay day. It made him his great, rugged length sprawled out in a mad to think of Count d'Autremont chair, his thumbs caught in his belt as he let taking the very roof from over the his hand lift and fall across his stomach, heads of Diane and her mother. The thumping it regularly between pauses in the picture of the Count, a stern figure in conversation. The lamplight fell on the side the villages but an obsequious one in of his face, on one cheek-bone that glowed camp, recurred to his mind. He remem- healthily like a rose. Diane, trying to think bered the Count's loose and shriveled up something to tease him, ex- face, like a pumpkin pie gone stale, and the pressed her determination to pasty brow he disclosed when he removed fall in love with some officer his hat at the Motor Transport garage and who was handsome and could bowed and begged for gasoline for his car. talk to her about art and lit- Other Frenchmen paid for gasoline; but erature. Thereupon Phil's not the Count ; he fell back upon his friend- other cheek glowed, even in ship for Colonel O'Neil as sufficient excuse, the dim light, but he replied and repaid the colonel and the American laconically: "You're all the Government — and anybody else who art I need to know." would listen—with garrulous sight-seeing "How droll you arc!" tours of his chateau, the wide lawns and Phil squirmed in his chair. tlower beds, and the artificial pond where It pained him to think that he a black swan always rested. wasn't half as funny as "Where will you live, what will you do?" she thought he was . . asked Phil of Diane. Or was he? Without "We can live with our cousin Edouard in knowing it? The Moulins," she said, naming a city so far thought tortured him. away that Phil knew he would never see Even so, he con- her again, "and we can become laundresses, tinued to sit there eve- my mother and I." nings, being happy and "No, no, no," said Phil. "Don't do miserable by turn, and that!" sometimes he would But what else was there to do, Diane jump up in a sudden wanted desperately to know, and Phil said excess of excitement he would see, and Diane retorted that and say he was going what he would see was only misfortune for Monsieur Gervais beheld the encounter back up the road to the fistic tin in. whereupon Phil put his arm around village of Moiry, where between the two soldiers with horror. "Cease! Diane's shoulder and patted her arm to he knew a French girl Cease'. Not here.'" he betted them comfort her, and Diane's mother, touched

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly He sat in the cafe evenings near the open door and talked to Diane, ichile her mother stood behind the bar by the gesture, told him: "Well, you haveagood heart, my friend." streams of olive drab trickle back and forth across the square, "It's because I love Diane," he replied quietly. crowding the doors of the Lion d'Or and the Cafe de France, "It isn't the hour to joke," remarked Diane, smiling for the spending what was left of last month's pay. The Cafe Nivernais first time, but rather wanly. "He is always the droll type, would have been packed, too, he reflected, if the proprietor hadn't mother." permitted a fight to occur there last week, with the result that "All the same I thank him, Diane. There are men in t*he the place had therefore been declared temporarily "out of world less sympathetic than he." bounds" for soldiers, with an M. P. posted at the door to keep Phil leaned against the kitchen cupboard while Madame Gar- them out. What a shame that Diane's cafe couldn't do the thriv- nier and Diane discussed him impersonally, as if he were some ing business of the Lion d'Or or the Cafe de France! For these figure passing outside on the road and they were surveying him men, who wanted their thirst slaked with the minimum of energy through the window, casually. Their behavior stirred a feeling of expended on the hard roads, the Cafe du Commerce wasn't on misery in his heart. Wouldn't Diane ever see that he was more the map! than a passerby? That he loved her so much that it hurt him? Phil rode into the village of Moiry and saw the same popu- A determination came to him to convince her of this, to prove it, larity filling the Cheval Blanc and the Cafe de Paris with anima- if he could, by saving the inn for her. But how? tion and franc notes. Later he sped out along the Saincaize road He went away that night racking his brain over the problem. to the Cafe du Commerce, and found it deserted as usual, except If only he now had the money his mother had left him! for two soldiers who had lost their way. Diane had little to say to The next day, Sunday, was a day of leave for hundreds of sol- him; she was distraught and frequently gazed off into space. diers in camp, and Phil was busy patrolling the roads in a side- Phil returned to his barracks at taps troubled in mind and so car, noting that the M. P.'s were at their proper stations enforc- little in tune with the world that he put a stop to the nightly ing law and order. It was an unusually quiet day with no fights; fistic encounter between Peanut Nixon and Joe Egley, and when most of the men were broke. Phil had plenty of time to think the men protested he cut them short with a growl: about Diane. "Pipe down, and go to sleep!" Stopping in the village of Magny-Cours, he watched the When silence settled over the barracks {Continued on page 54)

JANUARY, 1928 19 " HERE'S LUCK! By Second Episode Hugh Wiley "HEAVE HO!"

ers' fondest hopes in a last will and testament ren- dered in a sulphuric tremolo which affected the per- Illustrations by fect adjutant about like an ounce of salt affects a snail. HerbertM.Stoops The adjutant dissolved into his boots; and his boots, with their spurs tinkling merrily, walked awav with their wilted cargo. "Lord gosh, that colonel of ours is sure human," s w \A\V.\ and the deep blue sea. The rolling Rags gasped at Spike from where he hung with one m \ Starvonia lurched into a green groove of arm over the ship's rail. K^^f the Atlantic seemingly bent on getting an "Human! Say, boy—help me remember that last acquaintance with Davy Jones's locker, burst of language. That was the most ornate bunch and a struggling bugler abandoned his solo and of speech that's been put out since Paul Bunyan tried devoted himself to a convulsive attempt to turn him- to stick the brandin' iron on the Babe Ox." self inside out. It was just another day. "This all started when them doctors taught us to Half awake and feeling middling rotten. Jimmy turn our stummicks inside out and say 'Ah,' " a the Ink came back to reality with the first notes of the bugle. He groaning soldier observed. lifted somebody's feet off his neck and sat up in the narrow bunk. "I'll tell the cock-eyed world we don't need nobody to tell us All about him men were groaning salutations to the dawn, but he what the next word after 'ah' is," a feeble listener observed, and focused his attention on the advertising bugler. then, into a comparative calm came another covey of bugle "Whuff! Lemme out of here!" Jimmy began a forced march to notes interspaced with gargling misfires. a stairway which led to air and daylight. "Breakfast! Come and get it." He was followed by all of the able-bodied members of the crew "Don't crave me no breakfast. Don't even say that break- about him. fast word to me!" The speaker gagged and returned disgustedly "Choke that belching bugler bird to death!" somebody called, to his morning's work. but by this time the disabled bugler, striving to eradicate a form- Spike Randall, needing his morning coffee, began the long fitting attack of seasickness, was choking himself to death in a descent to where Breakfast at Sea was being served. Three manner calculated to satisfy the most insistent advocates of decks down, in a wide compartment reeking with complex odors, violence. There is a gratifying command, "Fire at will," and two or three hundred good sailors of the Regiment had gathered. before Jimmy the Ink had gained the stairway of escape the men Gentlemanly guides, clinging to stanchions, half of them with behind him were obeying that command. their eyes tightly shut against the scene before them, were On deck, the cool morning air served to revive some of the bawling directions to the breakfast seekers. "B Company this outfit, but it seemed as if the physical distress of the convales- way!" A hearty hiccup. cents had been transferred to the less fortunate victims of the Following directions, Spike and thirty or forty members of shuddering Starvonia. Company B rallied at two long tables whereon, slithering abou< in Spike Randall, as yet able-bodied but facing a poisonous green a ghastly gravy, a half-submerged mass of cows' livers provided future, draped Rags and Jimmy the Ink over the ship's rail, a background for clicking conoids of hard-boiled hen eggs, some which was already thickly festooned with casualties. Then, be- of which, freshly out of their tortures in the steam kettles, fore example and suggestion could begin their work, he turned popped viciously at their hesitating attackers. to seek some happier sight, but all about him lay grief in assorted "Liver! Holy jo-heeveley! And me gagged already. Lemme sizes. out! Goodbye, Lootenant— A group of officers, headed by the colonel of the Regiment, The victim of his own imagination sped past a company officer came clicking down the deck, and with some satisfaction Spike trying to escort his men through the perils of breakfast. noted that their military manner was all gummed up. "Urrgh—ik! Look at the purple edge on that liver—lemme A medico, explaining something to the colonel, used a gangren- out of here!" ous technical term, and the colonel, falling out, retired precipi- "That damned quivering liver looks like a cable car accident tately to the rail. I seen once." The colonel having set the example, to say nothing of a mark -Pssst-tk! An egg with a slow fuse began to unfold a panorama to shoot at, he was followed by six or seven assorted gentlemen of all that an egg should not be, bang in the faces of three physical in whom the President of the United States, over his signature, culture enthusiasts who at once forgot their breakfast ambitions had reposed special confidence. and sought the open air. Well, roughly translated the word "Essayons" embossed on "Java! Where at is the coffee? Come a-runnin' with that the brass buttons adorning the Engineer officer's uniform means Jamokus juice!" "Keep Striving." This they did, led by a corpulent major who " 'Arf a mo'! " One of the ship's galley crew, sloshing about put on a fair imitation of Old Faithful after that geyser has been in the moving mosaic of the floor, smirked and displayed a full annoyed with a cake of soap administered internally. set of brown and busted teeth. He ducked away and returned When some of the gushers had gone to gas, in the parlance of to one of the B Company tables a moment later, bearing an the oil fields, and when others had sanded up, into the picture, immense coffee pot. wearing spurs, came the regimental adjutant. He clicked his " 'Ere you are, steamin' 'ot." Into a dozen waiting cups heels in the approved manner and came to attention smartly on splashed a lukewarm liquid. the port side of the gasping commander of the Regiment. S| like tasted the decoction. Tea! A tea of boots and chicken Saluting with a most disgusting perfection, "Does the colonel feathers, of tanbark and garlic. "Whuff!" wish to proceed with the inspection?" he inquired. Another victim of the coffee habit swallowed a mouthful of Spike Randall listened attentively for the colonel's reply, the liquid, and when his facial contortions had quieted, to the hoping for the best. In this he was not disappointed. Rising galley man, "Where do you come from that you call this coffee?" figuratively from his bed of pain, the colonel justified his listen- he asked.

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Half an hour later, staggering along under ponderous boxes of borrowed rations, the chow detail passed the field kitchens which a little while before had held out their invitations of assorted delicacies

— "I comes from Liverpool, sir "the steward began, and then fectly appointed medico drifted into view. He looked about him before he could explain why he retreated in the face of an im- with a cold, dispassionate eye. "Filthy," he remarked, and then, promptu riot whose principal manifestation was a shower of turning to the regimental adjutant, who accompanied him, "It liver. "Here's your liverpool!" might be a good plan to have men detailed from each company The second volley was explosive eggs. to clean up this mess after each meal, Captain," he suggested. The third volley, delivered quietly, ended the riot. It con- "Look at the bread on the floor there, and the gravy spilled over sisted of a few sympathetic words from the Loot, along with a everything. Look at those fragments of liver sloshing about. cast-iron admonition in which the Gang discovered some quality See those stew-pans spilling over their contents on the table— that meant business. "Can the rough stuff, you birds," the Loot and the egg shells everywhere—those broken eggs strewn all over advised. "One more outburst of joy and gladness and there'll the floor." be another mess of agitated livers hit the ceiling. Live through Evidently hypnotized, but still capable of independent action, it, Gang. Get that tea down vour neck some way. It'll do vou the adjutant brought his right hand up in the first theatrical good." gesture of a salute, but he stopped the hand with his fingertips Experimenting with the eggs, Spike managed to find a com- tightly pressed over his twitching mouth. The adjutant, obeying paratively modern trio. "Load 'em heavy with pepper and the medico's suggestion, had let his attention drift over various you can eat 'em," he advised the man to his left. "Fish out points of interest until, coming to an especially luscious segment some with the yellow shells and— of liver, he surrendered to some influence stronger than his mili- The advice was interrupted by another bugle call, and a per- tary training and, with his new spurs twinkling through the 21 JANUARY, i 9 :S Spike Randall draped Rags and Jimmy the Ink over the ship's rail. A group of officers, headed by the colonel of the ?nent, came clicking doivn the deck, their military manner all gummed up

steamy vapors of the banquet hall, he trotted up the stairway to where the bright blue sky might form a canopy over what- ever earthly remains should be left after an oversized set of sea- sickness had been subtracted from what had once been an Officer and a Gentleman, half and half. "The captains and the kings depart," Spike Randall reflected, returning to his third and last egg.

T"\ARKNESS before dawn. By noon on their first day ' out, Jimmy and Rags had recovered from their seasickness, He held out his hand to Spike, and then and there an un- and the Regiment as a whole included less than fifty victims of written compact which was to endure through all the stresses the malady. Good men, they rapidly became good sailors. of the coming months was signed, sealed and delivered. True enough, Corporal Badger was missing with the adjutant's "What does a sergeant have to do, Loot?" Spike inquired. dog, and the man with the smallpox seemed to be stubborn "I've had mighty little chance to size things up, and this army about having his measles cured, but a general inspection early game is all new stuff to me." in the afternoon justified the colonel's faith in the Regiment. "Your main job is to get hard when you have to—and to bear Prowling around and getting acquainted, Spike and Jimmy down heavy now and then. You've got to be blind and deaf and and Rags encountered numerous old timers whom they had dumb the rest of the time," the Loot returned. "The army stuff is known in the construction world. They found Slim and Shorty as new to me as it is to you—don't let it worry you. As a matter and Chuck, Red Walker and Old Top Sibley, Riff Swenson, of fact, to hell with it. We hired on as workin' stiffs, didn't we?" Blackie, Jugger, Isadog and Mike and the singing trio from "I get you. Fair enough." Skikomish —Tex, Rex and Mex. "Forty ways! Keep your eye on the wild men for a while Recurrent reunions marked the hour, and it was filled with after we land. In spite of all their carefree girlish laughter, the news of companions who had drifted here and there across the outfit is still a little bit keyed up about that last sub. They're Wegl following up the various industries and enterprises of that mighty apt to take on an overdose of likker if the}' get a chance. wide domain. Watch the cut when we land. Nothing teetotal, Spike, but don't Out of the mass the Rabble formed, and the Rabble crew were let 'em overplay the hooch hand." all old timers. In contrast with the glittering brass, the polished leather, the Forming a second subdivision came the Gang, and almost serge and the whipcord which adorned their hosts of the hour, before the sun had set on their first day at sea, the Gang, num- the Regiment's sartorial equipment looked like something from bering twenty-five or thirty members, had formed about some the top shelf, but the Britishers were good guessers and nothing undefined nucleus of mutual interests and friendships which, was lacking in the warmth of the greeting which they gave the through the long months to come, were to bind them into one of new arrivals. the most exclusive organizations of wild men in the A. E. F. A Scotch band played the Engineers off the Starvonia and thrilled them with the wild music of the pipes while hot blood FOLLOWING two or three sub scares—England. surged with each recurrent bamming of the battering drums. An hour before the Starvonia landed, the Loot sought Spike "These birds are good guys," the Regiment decided, and this Randall. "Cap has made you a sergeant," the Loot announced. first judgment found confirmation in every event of their later "I'm glad of it." associations. 22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly " )

He sauntered over to one of these groups to get the lay of it. " ' renshun, nu-n!" A military member of the Gang, laden with a clouded conscience, spoke a warning to his fellows. "Lend me that cup when you finish," the Loot asked one of the Gang. He took the cup and dipped deeply into one of the water buckets. He lifted the cup to his lips and it was brimming full of rich dark beer, cold and clear. The Loot drank and re- turned the cup to its owner. "W huff! The water in England has a mighty grand taste to it," he remarked, so that half the Gang might hear him. Quick smiles, bespeaking the end of sudden doubts, fol- lowed thc-Loot's comment. "Hit 'er again, Loot. We got a artesian well of it back of the barn." The Loot shook his head and smiled. "Don't let the sheepherders poison your well," he advised, walking away. Thereafter the odds were better than ten to one against any member of the Gang who sought to absorb an overload of alcohol. "Play the game," the majority advised, seeing to it that the thirst-bearer played the game. "The temperate habits of your men are most remarkable," a British officer observed to the colonel of the Regiment sometime later. Before the colonel could voice his formal acceptance of the compliment, "I'm glad you observed that, sir," the regimental adjutant returned. "It speaks well for the ready acceptance of the discipline we imposed by a regimental order forbidding indulgence in alcoholic drinks." "Oh God," groaned the British officer to himself, and then aloud, pleasantly, "Oh rully! I say—rully!" From the distant barracks wherein, for the night, the Gang was quartered, came the echoes of a slightly discordant chorus: "One keg of beer for the four of us!"

THE Rest Camp. "Hell, them ain't bedbugs. Get away from me, boy—don't you know personal insects when you see 'em? Them's cooties." "I never saw any before." "Git a lookin'-glass and ramble over your own geography and you'll see plenty. They never come single. That's a mighty queer thing about cooties." "Naw sir," another comforter explained, "they travel in tribes just like Indians." "W hat do you do for 'em?" Itching now over half of his anatomy, the embryo naturalist wriggled here and there under- neath his heavy issue underwear. "They respond quick to gentle treatment. Three meals a day, bed the herd down at night and you'd be surprised how they flourish. They're mighty easy to raise." "Hell—I don't want to raise none! I mean, what do you do to get rid of 'em?" "That's different. About the only thing you can do is to hunt In the long pier shed where the outfit rested pending some act up somebody that's equipped with another tribe that's enemies of Parliament which would afford them a bath some two weeks to the ones you got. Like I knew a man once on the Columbia overdue, a new flock of regimental orders were promulgated to River canal job that raised himself a tribe of Flathead cooties. while away the time. Along came an orderly dealing out un- They was gentle enough and slept quiet all night, but after a reasonable demands. He faced the Loot, who had stuck with while they got to holdin' family reunions and you'd be surprised the company while his various brother officers had gone uptown how many relatives come to the gatherin's. to see about something or other. The Loot signed for the tissue "Finally the fella got tired of it. He cussed a lot and used copies of half a dozen orders. He looked at the messenger with force and everything but did they leave him? Naw sir. There critical eye. was the grandfather and the grandmother, thirty-eight families ''You better steady those hind legs, boy," he advised. "Keep and half a pint of uncles and aunts and children enough runnin' walking before you fall down." around at them family reunions to keep half a dozen men from "Lieutenant, I didn't have but one drink." gettin' lonely. Couldn't get rid of 'em any more than he could "You must have breathed mighty deep before you took it. outrun his shadow on a moonlight night. On your way before it begins steaming." "Finally asked me what to do. 'Hunt up a savage tribe that The Loot glanced down at the top order: "To be read to all are enemies to yours,' I told him, so he prowled around until he men of the company: Indulgence— in alcoholic beverages is abso- run into a fella from Canada that had a lot of them Saskatchewan lutely forbidden during cooties, and boy, you ought to see them two tribes go to it ! When The Loot called Spike Randall over to him and handed him the battle ended they wasn't a cootie left except one old Flathead the order. "First issue of the comic supplement on foreign grandfather, and them two owners laid him on a anvil and took shores," he said. "Bear it in mind and do the best you can with a sledge hammer and hit him a crack and there they was, lone- the outfit." some as could be and with no more company in their shirts than " The second order covered gambling. The third, inspired by a fish has feathers— one of the regimental surgeons, sought to erect a protective bul- "Ain't there any easier way of gettin' rid of 'em?" the cootie wark between Mars and Venus. "Ever striving for the good, the owner asked, writhing with increased enthusiasm and vaguely true, the beautiful." the Loot reflected, and then his attention wondering if he was being kidded. was suddenly drawn to the unwarranted popularity of three or Answering the question with another question, "Boy, how four members of a water detail about whose brimming buckets many years of age are you?" the older man inquired. the Gang had clustered with some unusual alacrity. "I'm a little over twenty-one—you (Coniinued on page 61

JANUARY. 1928 23 — ; -EDITORIAL

CjorQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (Jo uphold and defend the Constitution ^Jofthe'ZlnitedStates of%mericaj to maintain law and order; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredpercent tTlmericanism r to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreat War; to inculcate a sense ofindiindual obligation to the com-

munity, stateandnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight ; to promote peace andgood willon earth ; to safeguardand transmit io posterity the principles ofjusticefreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfdness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion

This May Not Mean You The end came. America's share in hastening it was demonstrable and great. This is not to say JANUARY 1, 1928, is the final day on which that America, single-handed, "won the war." Too applications for adjusted service certificates can many factors were involved in the whole titanic be filed by eligible x\merican veterans of the World enterprise for such unequivocal credit to be be- War. has not already The man who applied has stowed; it would be like attempting to determine suffered somewhat for his delinquency, but it is which egg makes the dozen. The important fact not too late for him to mend his ways. If the in- is that the war ended—ended with two million surance policy which the Government was ready to American soldiers in France and two million trained hand him free for the asking three years ago had a men in reserve at home. face value of, say, fifteen hundred dollars, he could November 11, 1918, was one of the great days obtain a loan of some hundred and eighty dollars on of all time. Men now living will hardly look upon it this New Year's. its like again; men yet to live will have to engineer If he hasn't got the policy—well, there are a few a greater cataclysm to terminate it with a greater days left. And if the eligible veteran isn't interested day, and that greater day might well be not an for himself, he can be unselfish enough to give a occasion for celebration and thanksgiving, but a thought to his dependents. moment wherein to chant a requiem for civilization. The man who has not yet applied should remem- The tenth anniversary of that day will occur this certificate in ber that the adjusted compensation is year. It is not too early to take that fact into effect a fully paid-up endowment insurance policy. account. In not quite half the States Armistice Day If die end the holder of the policy should before the is already a legal holiday; in still others it becomes of twenty years his beneficiary would receive the full a holiday by proclamation of the governors; since sum in cash which the policyholder himself would such populous commonwealths as Illinois, Iowa, have received had he lived. Minnesota, Missouri and Pennsylvania take formal In case a veteran dies without having made an note of the anniversary, it is safe to say that at application, his beneficiaries may apply, but they least half the population of the United States of- can receive only about one-third of the amount to ficially recognizes November 11th as a moment of which they would have been entitled had the veteran celebration, of thanksgiving for the blessings of himself applied. peace, of reverent homage to America's war dead. There is no better time to act than today. Nearly every State Legislature will be in session in January, and measures calling for the establish- 1918-1928 ment of Armistice Day as a legal holiday will be before many of them. Certainly if the importance IN 1918 the World War, which had been rather of the anniversary is not apparent to legislators more than a simmering affair during the pre- in this tenth year since the end of the war, it is ceding four years, seethed into a furious boil. Na- not likely to seem any more important to them in tions that had been putting forth their grimmest, the future. Now is the best time to impress upon doggedest, most desperate efforts found that there them the fact that the day merits official cognizance was no real limit to the superlatives of combat, and —a place in our calendar of patriotic observances somehow struggled the more grimly, the more along with Independence Day and Memorial Day. doggedly, the more desperately yet to bring the It need hardly be said that this year the anniver- business to a crisis that would strike one of the sary of Armistice Day will be celebrated as never contending forces from the lists, if it did not actually before, and that The American Legion will be at engulf both in a common disaster. the forefront in planning for the occasion and in Before the end of that year the crisis was over. carrying its plans through. The whole year will, Should the world suddenly spin back a decade to of course, be a running succession of anniversaries. the nerve-wracking watch days of the winter of Cantigny, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, the Argonne since these names 1917-'18 and to the furious spring that followed — it will be exactly ten years spin back and still permit mankind to remember that entered into American history. Since man began has the end was only a few months away—it would still to use his fingers for counters the number ten seem incredible that peace was actually so near at had more of sentiment and finality about it than eleven. hand. It is always darkest before the dawn, but its equally important neighbors nine and the darkness of that March, April and May was And to the man who spent certain days in October, recollection lit by lurid flashes of doom that bore no presage that 1918, in a frosty foxhole at the front the it was the pallid sun of victory would ever be able to of it will be stronger in October, 1928, than penetrate them. last year or is likely to be the year after.

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The added ardor of that recollection will be ceiving the greatest majority ever given a mayoralty supremely manifest next November 11th. Quite a candidate. And a four-line paragraph at the end of way off still? Not such a long way, if the occasion the dispatch said: is to be celebrated in the spirit of pride and thanks- "Overton is the youngest man ever elected mayor

giving and reverence that it deserves as the Great of Memphis. He is thirty-four years old and is a Day of Our Time. veteran of the World War." Just another proof that youth of the World War Any Day, Any Place period is coming into its heritage. In public life as in business, on the farms and in the factories, the THE Associated Press carried the story under march is on—youth advancing to leadership and the dateline of Memphis, Tennessee, November responsibility. The four million of ten years ago eleventh. It was typical of a thousand stories which are alert today in the quickened consciousness of might be broadcast from other towns and cities on the duty to serve. Problems of government and other days. It recorded the fact that S. Watkins peacetime call to qualified leadership today as duty Overton had been elected mayor of Memphis, re- and battle called ten years ago.

JANUARY, 192S -'5 The strange:

of the brightest boys in the Brush rWOCreek School were Joe and Isaac Hern- don, the sons of a Baptist circuit rider who lived two miles south of the school house. They were very poor and wore the coats of their Confederate uniforms. Joe must have been all of twenty- two, but he had been in the Army for four years, which set him back in his studies. Isaac was nineteen or thereabouts. I think he had been away with the Army only a year or two, but he had seen five years of war, like everyone else on the Missouri border, think there was a boy or girl in the room, including the teacher, where the war was not over until the spring of 1866. who had not had a member of his household in the war, and This was in the fall of 1867, and my school was the first one in several had lost a brother or father in battle, some on one side, the Brush Creek district since 1861. It was called a mixed school, some the other. All had lost property. and that describes it very well. I had forty pupils in one room I remember very well my father's advice to me about clothes that could not possibly have afforded bench space for another when I left home for Osceola to open the town school there the student. The pupils ranged in age from five to twenty-three and year before. This was Osceola's first school after the war. Father the instruction from the a b c's to the completion of the common told me to be careful not to dress any better than the girls who studies. Sometimes I stayed after hours voluntarily to help the went to school to me. Some of these girls were young ladies of more ambitious with advanced subjects. John P. Smith was nineteen or twenty from old slave-owning families and had never one of these ambitious boys—or rather, men. I remember him dressed themselves before the war. Ordinarily they would have because he had no shoes. When he finished at Brush Creek he finished boarding school by now. I was prepared to find them in worked his way through college and became a physician, as did reduced circumstances, but I was not prepared to find their Joe Uerndon. circumstances as mean as they were. My nicest frocks were Our poverty-ridden little school was a fair reflection of the never worn. aftermath of war at its worst—border war, with families and I was the principal, as they grandly called it, of the two-room neighbors divided and the country overrun by marauding town school at Osceola and not a little proud of my responsibil- irregulars of both sides. ities. It was understood that I should be engaged for another The Widow Calvert's grown sons were back at their lessons term when my brother, who was practicing medicine in Osceola, where they had left off six years before to go in the Southern learned that the school was also sought by a Mrs. Scoby. Mrs. Army. Before the war the Calverts had been very well-to-do. Scoby was a widow with two daughters who had gone to school Now they had nothing. Charlie and Michael Calvert recited to me during the year just ended. Their family had lost servants exercises from the same books with John and Emmanuel Cook, and everything during the war. My brother told me that Mrs. who along with their father had left a neighboring plantation in Scoby needed the school whereas I did not and that I should the hands of the women folks and servants and joined the Unir>n withdraw my application. Accordingly, from the choices re- Army. maining I took the Brush Creek School in the country. It was As nearly as I can recall, Captain Cook's boys were the only the spirit of adventure at work on a girl of eighteen in a day and pupils who had actually been Northern soldiers, but there were environment when young ladies led more sheltered lives than six or eight beardless veterans of the Confederacy. Six or eight they do now. (o two represented a fairly accurate division of the sentiment of I have read and heard of border communities in which ill- the Brush Creek community between the Southern and Northern feeling engendered by the war smouldered for a generation. Such causes during the war. We had all been partisans. I do not communities may be, but with the war hardly over in this part

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between raids Jesse and Frank were hiding among the family's former slaves. As a matter of fact these rumors were sometimes true, although it was not The gentleman removed his hat and until years later that the authorities thought, or dared, to look for them there. When they did John Younger asked if I were contemplating a was killed in a fight in which Ed Daniels of Osceola, a fording. He was rather good-look- member of the posse, also was shot to death and a de- ing and splendidly mounted tective from the North wounded so badly that he died. I knew some of the Youngers. They were of a very fine of Missouri differences were being forgotten. Men and boys Kentucky family. I have a feeling that the Jameses, who were who had fought on opposing sides met socially and on business Kentuckians also, and the Youngers were related, but I am. not and talked of their experiences in a vein of friendly reminiscence. sure of this. Mr. Frank Younger, an uncle of the outlaws, was I have heard many such conversations in my own home. The our representative in the Legislature, and my family knew him men who had fought on either side respected each other more well. Rather curiously, this law-giver was also an uncle of the than they respected those who had not fought. I remember a four Dalton brothers, whose exploits enlivened later years of my family that had packed off, bag and baggage, to Canada when the life as the wife of an attorney in the criminal practice on a frontier first shot was fired. They returned to face rather cool counten- farther southwest. ances. The bushwhackers who prolonged the war a year were On the opening day at Brush Creek I told the school that despised by both sides, who made common cause against them. political questions would not be discussed in the class room. I On the way to my classes in Osceola one morning I saw a bush- do not know whether this admonition was necessary or not. I whacker dangling at the end of a rope from a doorway of the taught that school for eleven months without the least difficulty tannery. arising from the recent differences over secession. True, my Thus Missouri found work and diversion for young and old. pupils referred to me—out of my hearing—as "the Yankee Of course we young ones saw with different eyes from our elders. schoolma'am," but they were good-natured about it. This was One of our heroes—yes, and mine, and I a school mistress and the an allusion to the fact that my father had stood with the North, daughter of a man who occasionally Med a Methodist pulpit and with my two brothers fought in Grant's Army. I can close was Jesse James. But no one among our elders could deny that my eyes yet and see our three men folks—all there were at home Jesse James, irrespective of his attitude toward the reconstruc- except hired help and free Negroes—get on their horses and ride tion, — was of good famih "good family" meaning what it did in away to war. My father, a bearded country surgeon, was fifty- that day and place. The father of the James brothers was a seven. My youngest brother, Birney, my favorite and playmate, clergyman and planter, and their stepfather, Dr. Samuel, a well had just turned seventeen. Letters from Virginia described known physician of Clay County. similar scenes in which our cousins had gone to take up arms for The bank-robbing depredations of the James and Younger the South. boys in the counties to the north of us formed a topic of particular I recall also, as if yesterday, a period in the latter days of the interest along Brush Creek because some of the James—or per- war when we had been without word from father for a long time. haps more accurately, Samuel—darkies had settled in the bottoms Every horseman who turned in at the gate was eagerly met as a not more than three miles from the school house. Now and possible bearer of news. One evening a fine looking man in the again we youngsters were delightfully terrified by a report that uniform of a Federal captain presented {Continued on page 52) JANUARY, 1928 27 %e GREEN MOUNTAIN Bt/ Philip BOY

VonBlon biography would give. It is not enough to know that he was graduated from the Connecticut United States Naval Acad- r'HERiver valley be- emy in Spanish-American tokened peace and War days, that he served plenty to the de- conspicuously in the Navy scendants of the Puritans until 1914 and made a who found themselves lack- notable record with Amer- ing food and fuel and el- ica's naval forces in the bow room in the original Mediterranean during the settlements of New England World War, that he gained and set forth to find unclaimed national leadership in the lands and uncrowded life far Legion after commanding the from the seacoast. New York Department and Peace and plenty have re- serving it with distinguished mained in the Connecticut River faithfulness, that he individually valley for three centuries while gen had an important share in the eration after generation, sprung frc Legion's victory in the passage of the the stern and shrewd pioneers, has de- Adjusted Compensation Law. The real veloped the genius of its forefathers. Here, Spafford will not stand out if you know only at the very dawn of the mechanical age, lanky these facts. To know the real Spafford, you Springfield, Vermont, on the sons of farmers and shop-keepers began tinker- must glimpse him often along the pathway of Black River, birthplace and ing with wheels and pulleys, rods and bolts, their his life and hear more about those from whom eyes agleam with dreams—the inventors who in boyhood home of Edward he sprang and the place from which he came. a thousand machine shops were laying the foun- Elwell Spafford Grover Cleveland was President—it was his dations of America's factories. Here trading first term. The town of Springfield among the ability flowered likewise, and, in the lower reaches of the valley, Vermont hills lived in dreamy solitude, detached from the the cult of the wooden nutmeg flourished as a symbol of match- boisterous world. Its old colonial houses and taverns and stores, less business skill. white-painted and many-windowed, spread about a public square Independence and aggressiveness marked those who came and lined the streets that sloped along the broken hills. Fences first to the Connecticut River valley. The same way of looking and old-fashioned gardens surrounded the homes. A waterfall at things which impelled them to dissent from an uncomfortable splashed in the gorge of the Black River, which flowed through conformity in old England and led them to a new world persisted the town, and an iron bridge, forty feet above the current, united as they labored restlessly to create a civilization in a wilderness. the two shores. Above the low roar of the waterfall sounded the There was an extraordinary community spirit in their new clangor and hum of the mills and machine shops in Cab Hollow. settlements—a spirit that expressed itself in town meetings, in Springfield, apart from the world, was just beginning to strive the early establishment of good school systems and libraries, in a to become a part of it. The world began at the Connecticut River constant striving for better things. valley ten miles away. No railroad had yet branched from the big North of Massachusetts, the Connecticut River is the bound- river valley to spin tracks along the swift-flowing Black River to ary between two States: Vermont on the west, New Hampshire on the little mill town. Every day a stagecoach drove out of the east; Vermont with the Green Mountains as its backbone. Charlestown, New Hampshire, on the Connecticut's east shore, New Hampshire's hills culminating in Mount Washington and rumbled to Vermont over a long bridge and bumped its way up a the Presidential Range. Between the river and the mountains on valley road to the public square of Springfield. One day in either side are intervening foothills. The hills roll down to meet Springfield was much like 1 nother. the valley floor. Smaller streams rush out from gaps in the hills The stagecoach from Charlestown lumbered up out of the to mingle with the Connecticut. Black River valley, its four horses straining on the hill, and The early settlers found that the Valley of the Connecticut was stopped in front of the Springfield tavern. Sim Long, six feet tall, a broad highway for unimpeded travel, but between the river and lanky, red of cheek, gave a final pull at his long mustache, the mountains there were no easy north and south routes. When dropped his whips, lit his pipe and uncoiled from the driver's the main valley filled up, the unending tide of settlement began seat—the hero of all Springfield boys was the stagecoach driver. to rise in the valleys of the side streams and then among the hills. Six passengers clambered from their seats on the coach top and a Cities grew up along the Connecticut River and in time towns half dozen others unfolded out of the interior. Followed the un- took form along the side streams, while here and there, higher up, loading of the bags and chests of the passengers. picturesque villages began to appear at crossroads on the slopes. A light-haired boy with wondering eyes watched the ceremony Plymouth, the birthplace of President Coolidge, was founded of the stagecoach's arrival. He stood with his playmates of the on the Vermont hills. Scarcely twenty miles distant, across the square beside one of the huge wheels and gazed appraisingly at hills, straddling the Black River a dozen miles above its juncture the travelers wearing the clothes of the cities. Certainly some of with the Connecticut, is the town of Springfield, the birthplace them had come from Boston, and perhaps the one with the biggest and boyhood home of Edward Elwell Spafford. leather bag had come from New York. Mill owners came to Mr. Spafford was elected National Commander of The Ameri- meet the strangers, and there were conversations that fired boy- can Legion at the national convention in Paris. He is by birth and ish longings and imaginations. inheritance a Vermonter. To know him, you want to keep in The travelers disappeared through the doorway of the tavern, mind all those facts about the settlement and development of the but the boys still stood beside the stagecoach. The afternoon sun- region out of which he came to begin the career which has brought light was reflected from its yellow-painted sides. It was a marvel- him leadership of The American Legion. To know and under- ous conveyance, a Concord coach of the type that had served stand Spafford, you must hear more than the facts that a hasty New England in an earlier century. Its fifteen-foot boatlike body

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly National Commander Spafford, from a portrait made in America follow- ing his return from the national convention of Th e American Legion in Paris. In oval, the future chief of Legiondom at the age of four

vo- hunfe suspended from powerful leather thongs that took the place Apparently the of springs. Symbol of the outside world, the stagecoach inspired cabulary of the visions and dreams in the boys of Springfield. Rowley Puritan The light-haired boy wondered if some day he would pass on was what it should that stagecoach to the great, busy world. Determination took the have been, for John place of conjecture. Edward Spafford resolved he would some Spofford spoke words day go to the world outside. Perhaps at that moment he felt the of brimstone, volubly, urge of his destiny that was to lead him to the auditorium of the feelingly. His opinion corn Trocadero in Paris on September 23, 1927, where he was elected of a certain Salem National Commander of The American Legion. owner, proclaimed freely, within Eight generations before, another Spafford, the first in America, caused the pious had settled in Massachusetts. With his wife he had followed hearing to hold their ea the Reverend Ezekiel Rogers to Rowley in 1638. Children were There was a rush for the town arrested. He was charged with born and John Spofford—that was the way his name was spelled watch and John Spofford was profane swearing. The pillory and the stocks were the usual —found that life in the wilderness was not easy. Indians menaced held, Spofford spoke in the settlement. Each winter was a battle for existence. Then punishment. When the trial was John been blasphemous, he declared; came the year of the big drouth and food ran short. John Spofford his own defense. He had not the injunction of the Scriptures. While set out for Salem to get corn for his family and his neighbors' he had merely followed gasped, he quoted from Proverbs: families. the elders of the town withholds corn from the hungry, the people shall Older Salem felt no fear of famine. But among the Puritans of "He that Salem John Spofford found no Samaritan anxious to share the curse him." returned to Rowley with a load of corn and the hoard of his granary. The most likely owner of corn didn't want John Spofford applause of the non-corn-owning inhabitants of Salem to give to sell any of it. He intimated that eventually he might be per- suaded, but not just then perhaps when prices got right. John him c omfort. — Edward E. Spafford, as Commander of the Spofford got tired arguing and pleading and then got angry. On January 5, 1924, 29 JANUARY, 1928 :

Department of New York, debated United States Senator a versatility in the school affairs that forecast his later career. William E. Borah before the National Republican Club in New "Ed Spafford was one of the school's best football players," Dr. York City on the question of adjusted compensation for World Dressel relates, "but it was in public speaking that he showed War service men. His irrefutable arguments in that debate won his exceptional ability. Of course, in Springfield, all the boys had for the Legion's viewpoint the support of many influential men the example of fathers to inspire them to take an interest in public who had hitherto opposed the bill then pending in Congress. questions and to talk on them. The town meetings of Springfield Someone once wrote that a man who has left his home town were like the town meetings of all New England. No community can only return with honor in a hearse. Edward E. Spafford left concern was too trivial to escape critical interest and open debate Springfield, Vermont, to enter the United States Naval Academy in the town meeting. Ed Spafford's father, a veteran of the Civil when he was eighteen years old, in 1806, the year he War and a mem- was graduated from Springfield's high school. When ber of Jarvis Post the news of his election as National Commander of of the G. A. R., The American Legion was published in the newspapers owned a store in of the United States, the announcement stirred to Springfield and memory and reminiscence those who had been his took a leading teachers in Springfield schools. What they said part in the town proves that the prophet is not always without honor in meetings. So did his own country. his great uncle, National Commander Spafford, reaching New York Henry Harrison from Paris, found awaiting him letters from some of Spafford, who those old teachers. These letters recalled the days lived in a big when he was a pupil of the school on Seminary Hill house on a hill where Sophia Wright was his teacher—Sophia Wright, above the town famed through several Springfield generations for her and for years was ability to inspire her boys and girls with a love of one of the fore- learning. There was a letter from Mrs. G. H. Pond of most citizens, al- New Haven, Connecticut, who was May Barney ways a student of thirty-five years ago when she taught Edward E. public affairs and Spafford and forty other boys and girls in Springfield. a shrewd analyst "Among all my old pupils a few stand out as clearly and debater in as if it were today," wrote Mrs. Pond. "I can re- town meetings. member the exact location of their seats in the school- He was the donor room in an old stone building on of Springfield's the top of a long Vermont hill. In present public li- the back row on the right side of brary building. this room sat a boy with light hair Incidentally, a and large eyes, a boy who was al- glance at the ways just a little bit better in his photograph of studies and apt to do the fair thing Henry Harrison in deportment. You were that boy." Spafford, now And National Commander Spaf- long since dead, ford, replying to that letter, was shows a striking reminded of the day when he resemblance to fought his way through a blizzard the Ed Spafford to the schoolhouse on the hilltop, of today. only to find the door closed, the "It was wonder- building empty and cold. With ful training for a his fingers and nose growing numb boy to listen in at from the zero temperature he had the Springfield battled through snowdrifts to the town meetings. I teacher's home to make sure there can picture one of would be no school—he didn't them clearly. The want to miss a single day—and town hall, a long Miss Barney had used cold water low building fac- to thaw out his half frozen hands ing the public and face before permitting him to Mrs. Edward E. Spafford and, square. Across one fight his way back to his own home. at left, Miss Lucille Spafford, end of the meet- And Commander Spafford re- the Commander' s daughter. Both ing hall, a balcony membered something else. He attended the Paris Convention. where the boys of wrote the town liked to "The funny thing about that sit and listen to memory of yours is that you failed the discussions of town affairs. Notice of questions to be dis- to mention a little blond-haired cussed was always posted on the town hall, and any question of girl who used to sit next to me. I more than ordinary interest attracted a crowd that filled the hall remember one morning that 1 ran to the doorway. I remember the discussion over the proposal to across the aisle and kissed her after vote money for a fire engine. Almost everybody was for this, you had read something to the but a real debate occurred when the question of buying extra fire effect that a kiss should be re- hose came up. The classics were invoked by speakers for and turned for a blow. It seems, as I against the buying of the extra hose. I think the main point at remember, Edith Ellison had hit issue was whether the stock of fire hose used in the mills of the me just before we went into school. town wouldn't be sufficient to supplement that owned by the Of course Edith married Will town. Putnam and I believe they are "Springfield now, of course, is a little city of 8,000 persons, very living in Birmingham, Alabama." prosperous, its mills and shops of thirty years ago grown to big Among whose who rejoiced when industries. It has adopted the town manager form of govern- Edward E. Spafford became ment—the first town in New England to adopt it, a fact in keep- National Commander was Ur. ing with the traditional spirit of the town, which in Ed Spafford's Herman Dressel, Superintendent of Schools at Kearny, New day was known for the excellence of its school system and its Jersey. Eor Spafford had been a pupil in Springfield high school unusual library." when Dr. Dressel was principal of the school. Dr. Dressel re- Perhaps it was this background of the town meetings which membered that most of the eighteen members of the class of 1896 influenced Spafford to become the boy orator of his school. Dr. had been exceptional students and that Ed Spafford had shown Dressel recalls the big event of one school (Continued on page 57)

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 4 A PERSONAL VIEW I

History Repeats Itself as the flag is hauled down on When Lives are offered, no favorites and no profiteering. merchant ship after ship. In 1830, in the days of Yankee The women, who remain behind fearfully scanning the clipper sailing ships, American bottoms casualty lists, know the injustice of the Hauling Down carried 89.9 percent of our foreign The Women old system. They can prevent a repeti- trade. in die the Flag Down to 66.5 1860, age Can Do It t ' on °f a dollar a day at the front and of steam. A big slump in the Civil ten a day in munitions works. Soli- War. Down to 35.6 in 70; to 17.4, in '80; and 8.7 in 1910. darity of women back of the Auxiliary can pass the Na- Then the World War rise. In '20 it was up to 47.7. In tional Draft Act. '26 it was down to 32.2. How long before we shall be back to the 8.7 of '10? There are the figures and the

question. It's Great, all that he dreamed that it was. His old eyes sparkle at the feast before him. Immigrant from Russia, cobbler, big family to support. Now, Do You Know what is the work of a tackspitter, gagman, Louis children through school, some married, puppeter, schakitz, smutter, gigolo, jig runner or periodon- Gets It grandchildren doing well, Louis tist? These are some of the 5,000 oc- Abramovitz is having his turn to go to

Jobs For cupations listed in the new "Book of school. At seventy-seven he is hard at it in an elementary j^ll Opportunities" by Rutherford Piatt grade in New York. and illustrated by Wally. Anyone not at present suited will find a wide choice. "What do the Class of men who will take a private-of- regulars pay in time of peace expect? Many must have What a Lion of a man! What a founder for a navy! In been bums." Those who utter this pig- Phillips Russell's new biography of him I have realized As Tramps or gish argument for economy cheer these afresh John Paul Jones, his super- Soldiers same bums and heroes in war where Greatest of energy, his splendid youth, his faith they have never failed. See them at All the Joneses against all obstacles in making a lion's drill, making ready, think of all they stand for, and then brood of an unpaid crew of pick-ups. see some of the quarters in which they live and decency Never before so clear and vivid to me the picture of him, would end the shame of their poor housing. lashing his little Bon Homme Richard, a shambles of a wreck from superior gunfire, to the big Serapis and boarding her. Manned by his crew, her crew prisoners, he mailed Never a Truer saying than that money is a poor master her into port while his own ship sank. Incredible Jones! and a good servant. I tire of hearing a man rated by how Incredible victory! much money he is worth. How does Money Mad or he use his money? What does he get Money Wise out of it? In Washington, close under the political guns, I found Never has it been easier than today much secret business in Presidential candidacies. The gum- to be money mad; never harder to be money wise. It is shoer for delegates advises his candi- said that money has never before been such a power in the Why Be So date to be mum and sphinx-like, thus world because never has it been able to buy so many of Timid? encouraging all to think that he agrees the things we want, while our wants keep expanding. with their views. The big ones of the Money, the servant, buys the home, keeps the home fires past had courage. As candidates come into the open we burning, pays for food, clothes, education, doctor's bills, shall want to know where they stand on all vital public and all our luxuries. Without money you cannot get a issues. square meal except as a hand-out or by splitting wood.

Money makes for independence; lack of it for depen-

dence. Husbanded for old age it is so much reward of Student Finley of Lafayette College bet a cigar with labor set aside instead of being immediately expended. doubting Professor Steever he could get a job at manual Money, fairly, cleanly earned, succoring distress or bringing

labor in twenty-four hours. He got sparkle to eyes with gifts and favors and the security it

But That Is it, and did his work well. But he buys, is a blessed thing. Not All had physique, intelligence, education. But money, the master, can be foul. It is foul when These things many lack. To train, taken by trickery, at the cost of another's blood or misery, educate and discipline children so they will have all these in return for bad as weil as stolen goods, foul in all the is the real problem for a job for everybody in a land where knavery that would get something for nothing. Unreckon- there are always a million or more unemployed. ing greed makes it foul when it (Continued on page 67)

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32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Bursts — -4^Dudy

The Land of the Free Haven These Old Habits "How do you want me to vote in the "Q)uick!" panted a fleeing crook. "The "What caused the trouble at the election, sir?" asked the office worm. clicks are on my trail! Where can I christening of the "My dear boy," replied his boss ex- hide?" Van Bibbers' baby pansively, "I want you to vote as you see "Get in the back seat of that auto by yesterday?" fit. And if you see fit to get fired I want the curb," directed the second crook. "The young you to vote for Richards." "They'll never look in there — I just stole minister forgot it." himself and broke a bottle of cham- Question of Angles pagne Van Bibber "But what practical use do you ex- Post-War Perfection had bought years ago over the baby's head." pect to get from "Is this stuff reliable?" asked a dubious ^—I customer. "Reliable!" cried the bootlegger. "Say, Inexplicable M ^^^^B quired the pro- I've been selling from this consignment caused fit ^fl|9 since early this morning, and I haven't Mrs. Barnum: "What your ^B heard of anybody dying from it yet." husband to leave home?" the student, "it Mrs. Bailey: "I haven't the least idea. He just picked up and left the morning handy in parking after my mother and two sisters came to a car during the Saturday night shopping The Silver Spoon spend the winter with us." rush." "Now, James," said the teacher, "can you tell me what George Washington was famous for?" Old College Days Those Dear Girls! James pondered the problem deeply. "Now here's a little skit about the "Nell told me she was seventeen," "Well," he finally answered, "I guess Republic of Plato that ought to be just remarked George. it must've just come natural to him." the thing for Campus Gags" announced a "She's always been like that," re- humorist. torted Georgette. "Why, when she was "Say, lay off that highbrow stuff," born she talked the doctor into issuing snapped the editor. "We want some- It Grows Difficult a post-dated birth certificate." thing our readers can savvy." "You say you are a law-abiding citizen," stated the judge. "In other Perseverance words you obey all the laws of your No Point country." "1 if going to faint!" The confirmed sheik was boasting of his feel as I were "Certainly," declared the defendant. girl. prowess and his auditors were becoming gasped a lovely Then he amended hastily: "Well, that is, don't faint I wouldn't bored. "Great Scott, — all that were on the books up to five cried the fellow in "Go on," one scoffed. "You don't know what to do!" o'clock last night." consternation. know a pretty girl when you see one!" "Oh, well," said the girl disgustedly, « The sheik considered this accusation. there's no use fainting." "Well," he said at last mildly, "I al- "then ways try, don't I?" No Such Animal "Tell fairy story, daddy, The Piping Times of Peace One Never Knows please!" pleaded "Is this pre-war stuff?" little Doris. "Yes. I bought it before I was Spiwins was attending his first opera "Very well, dear. married." and was puzzled. Once upon a time "Is she singing in English?" he there was a beau- whispered to his neighbor. tiful lady who Efficiency "How do you expect me to tell?" de- had long golden "How does Blinks trim down office manded the oldtimer. "She's a soprano." " I hair expenses?" -xJ "Now you're "He puts the postage stamps on the lying, daddy, and you know it!" window ledge when it rains, so as to The Point of View save the time licking them." "What's this place called?" asked a passing motorist, leaning from his car. The native shifted his quid. "All de- Non Co-operation Freak of Nature pends." he answered. "Do you mean by The publicity man for Everybody's Reporters and photographers were them that has to live in the dad-blamed, Happy, Inc., was disgruntled. battling to get into moth-eaten, dust-coated, one-hoss "This is the cheapest, most low-down Room 23 of the dump, or by them that's merely enjoyin' concern I ever worked for!" he snorted. hospital when the its quaint an' picturesque rustic charms "Why, what's the matter?" demanded head nurse hap- fer a short spell?" a sympathetic friend. pened by. "Matter? Good heavens! You work "What was there and sweat and swear over an article tell- so extraordinaiy Ask Dad—He Knows ing the world how generous the company about that accident "Your wife has been delirious all day," is and how it maintains a policy of abso- that made it of said the nurse in a worried tone, "calling lute fairness and how only the most such interest?" she inquired. for you and crying for money." harmonious relations exist between it and "Why, hadn't you heard?" exclaimed clown "Hah!" snorted friend husband. its employes—and then you don't get the ward nurse. "He was knocked "Delirious, hell!" any raise, after all!" and run over by a horse-drawn vehicle!"

JANUARY. 192S 33 "Heroes of Belgium, your American comrades salute you" was the tribute of Past National Commander Howard P. Savage after he had laid a gigantic wreath in the name of The American Legion on the tomb of Belgium' s Unknown Soldier at Brussels. The incident was one of the impressive moments in the Good Will Tour that followed the Paris Convention Jin EMBASSY of Btf Frederick C. Paintoru GOODWILL -'HE Gare de Lyon in Paris on the afternoon of a day The grand march from the railroad station to the Municipal late in September was a rendezvous of Americans. Casino was a momentous affair. 7Teary excitement was at its height as Legionnaires "Vive l'Americain Legion!" shouted a grateful people. 243 and Auxiliares assembled to bid au revoir to understand- The acclaim thundered along the line of march, the hand- ing Paris and take departure aboard two shiny trains of solid clapping drowning the beating of drums and the squeal of fifes. sleeping cars, the de luxe conveyances of the International These folks of southern France liked The American Legion and Wagons-Lits Company of Europe. The departing Legionnaires expressed their feelings not only by word of mouth, but with and Auxiliares, from every State in the Union, headed by retiring pleasant smiles, happy eyes and a myriad of flowers that cas- National Commander Howard P. Savage, were heralded to caded into the path of the marchers. the world as The American Legion's ambassadors of peace and The camaraderie reached a pinnacle at the Casino, where a good will. This pilgrimage, designated as "The Commander's sumptuous lunch was served. A spontaneous gayety persisted in Tour," was to carry to southern France, Italy, Switzerland, expressing itself in war songs, "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Belgium and Great Britain that spirit of friendliness which was "La Marseillaise." so perfectly exemplified at the historic convention of The A magnificent auto journey over the Grand Corniche Drive American Legion held in Paris. brought the delegation to Monte Carlo toward nightfall. Monte Thus a cross-section of America was to get a close-up of Carlo, that fascinating town of the Riviera, is not physically Europe. And Europe was to meet a group of Americans whose large, but its heart is big and its hospitality bigger. sole desire was to acquire a sympathetic understanding and At the Casino in Monte Carlo, some won, some lost—que knowledge of the countries to be visited, and to carry to each voulez-vous? Many a Legionnaire will say: "Well, I only lost a message of friendship. ten bucks. But, brother, I had four thousand francs once. The charming city of Nice, situated on the blue Mediterranean Looked like I was going to break the bank." in southern France, was the first host. The hour of arrival was Genoa, the greatest seaport of Italy, flanked by the Mediter- early on a beautiful Sunday morning. It seemed as if every man, ranean on one side and the seaboard Alps on the other, is built in woman and child in Nice formed that tremendous crowd which relays, one on the other, like a Pueblo apartment house. It was sounded a welcome as Commander Savage and his delegation here, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, that the Legion- entered the city, which was gayly decorated with American flags naires first met their friends the Italians. and the French tricolor. Moreover, there was a specially con- Benito Mussolini, premier, ardent leader of a new era of enter- structed arch, bearing the inscription: "Welcome American prise and development in Italy, intent that the pilgrimage to his Legion." country should be a memorial event, had the gcvernment assist

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An electric silence broken only by the solemn boom- tions, decorations which he had ing of Big Ben in Parlia- earned leading his troops. ment Tower reigned when, He conversed steadily with the Commander, showing a surprising at high noon, the Com- knowledge of The American Legion. mander and his party Then: "If your majesty please, stood before the Cenotaph, would you walk this way so that in Whitehall, London, our people can see you?" after placing a wreath in The King acquiesced. Some- memory of Britain' s Un- body shouted: "Gangway!" And known Soldier. At Com- a pathway opened in the group of mander Savage's left Americans. As Commander Savage stands Colonel George and the King approached John Crowley, New England regional Crosfield, former Presi- chairman of The American Legion's dent who came of FIDAC, Child Welfare Committee, but at to the States United as a that moment color-bearer for the guest of The American national colors, the Commander Legion during his term said: of office "Let me present one of our Legionnaires from Massachusetts, the Associazione Xazionale Com- your majesty. John Crowley." battenti in entertaining the dele- The King murmured a greeting. gation. Crowley said: "I am pleased to In this ancient city of Genoa, know you, sir," and gave the ex- the necropolis of Staglieno, one of tended royal hand a hearty grip. the most famous cemeteries of Thus the delegation drew its first Europe (where many American king, later to be augmented by veterans were buried until re- two more kings and two queens, a cently), the statue of Christopher full house in any man's language. Columbus, the house where the dis- Here, too, in Pisa the visitors coverer of America was born, and felt the warmth of greeting which the St. George Palace, the oldest can only come from the heart. bank in the world, were the places The pilgrimage for Mrs. William of interest. H. Schoneld of Peterboro, New A warm, lazy day with the tur- Hampshire, was more than a bid waters of the historic Arno at peace and good will tour. It their feet found the Legionnaires offered her the first opportunity to and Auxiliares in Pisa, home of the visit the grave of her son, William leaning tower, and summer resi- H. Cheney, an aviator who fell to The Stars and Stripes and the Legion standard dence of King Victor Emmanuel his death at Foggia in 1918. And precede the Good Will delegates as they leave the IIL The King, a short, rather bald- beyond that, it gave her the chance memorial to King Victor Emmanuel I. headed, pleasant-faced man, who magnificent to pay honor to other American endeared himself to his people Beneath the statue in the background Italy's aviators who died at the training when he turned a king's duties Unknown Soldier is buried school. over to another when Italy entered With several friends she left the war and went to the front with received the members of the official party in his palazzo. the Commander's Tour at Pisa his troops—and remained there He wore a green militarv uniform with several decora- and went (Continued on page 76)

JANUARY, :92s 35 KEEPING In the Spirit of Netc Year's Day He has an idea a lot of posts haven't yet kicked in with reports of worthwhile things they ought to be anxious to tell the rest HPHE matter of fact, matter of course things every American of the Legion about. He is finding out about many of these Legion post is doing today will be glamorous and important things through newspaper clippings and writing to posts to get ten years from now, fifty years from now, when the scroll of complete facts and photographs. He wishes more posts would performance is unrolled. In the droning post meeting of the stand up voluntarily without waiting to be called on. moment which seems so ordinary may be born unrecognized Every contributor may apply his own test to his contribu- a great future achievement, for achievements grow from ideas. tion. Ask himself: "How many Legionnaires will find this The back-row post member of tonight may be the great leader interesting—the whole Legion or just my own post? Is what of the whole Legion a score of years hence—inspiration and I am writing genuinely new or unusual or has it some other vision often transform a man overnight. Every post, every definite recommendation to win and repay the reader who individual Legionnaire, has a future. What that future will be belongs to a post a thousand miles from my own?" depends much on what will be done in 1928. As this is written, in mid-November, the paid-up 1928 mem- They Saw Vesuvius and Sansanelli bership of The American Legion is four times greater than ad- vance membership in any corresponding period in the Legion's TJT L NDREDS of Legionnaires going to the Legion's conven- history. Everywhere there is new realization of the Legion's *• * tion in Paris stepped ashore at Naples. Their ships entered opportunities and the great privileges which it holds. The Paris a blue bay dreamily calm under a blue sky. They saw an convention made a profound impression on the nation. The ancient city rising from promenades and boulevards to lofty dignity and the assurance with which The American Legion heights crowned with churches and museums and palaces. Be- displayed to Europe our true national qualities have yond the city, toward Rome, loomed the dark moun- confirmed what friendly observers have been point- tain of Vesuvius, with its perpetual beacon of ing out all along—the Legion has the capacity vapor pouring silently into the sky. Before both to serve and to lead. their trains bore them on to Rome or they National Commander Edward E. Spaf- returned to their steamers to cruise on- ford has already spoken of things to be ward up the Adriatic to Venice, the done. It is important that war must be Legionnaires saw a city at work, a tropi- made less likely—the passage of the cal city with all the rush and clamor Universal Draff Act would be one of a cooler city in the northern zone. means to that end—and that the na- They saw a city that was being trans- tional defenses of the country must formed, new buildings rising, new- be put in order to meet the conditions boulevards replacing ancient narrow- of an unstabilized world. It is equally ways. They saw all this as guests of important that in 1928 the Legion shall Naples Post of The American Legion continue to do what it can for public and the Naples association of Italian betterment in every town and city. The service men. The cordiality and hospi- Paris convention called on every post to tality were magnificent to men long on render some one outstanding service to its shipboard. They were met by official bands community. Each post knows best what it and by the ranks of Naples' hosts. They were may do. January is a month for planning. carried through the city in automobiles. They were given a dinner. And now and again they Wanted: More Step Keepers IIDAC's new President, heard the name of Nicola Sansanelli. Nicola Sansanelli, they learned, was the Nicola Sansanelli of Italy, HTHIS department of the Monthly is a sort leader of the new Italy in Naples. Young, with L. R. Gignilliat, Vice of open meeting, a forum in which the his vigorous body scarred by seven wounds of President, and Henry hinds- spokesmen of posts which have done notable the World War, his mind as keen as a shining ley, retiring Vice President things may stand up and tell the rest of the bayonet, a national hero of Italy's reconstruc- Legion about them. The Step Keeper is only tion, Sansanelli represented in Naples the a part of the scenery, along with the water pitcher and the central authority of Rome. He had been one of the three gavel. He is principally concerned in getting to the platform leaders of the historic march on Rome in 1022 which marked Legionnaires who have something to say that will interest the the beginning of Mussolini's power. As one of the founders of whole Legion and he is grateful when they say it entertainingly. Fascism at Naples, he had been named Secretary General of

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly the party by Mussolini himself. He became the representative of the Basilicata in the Italian Parliament. He became also Director of the National Association of Ex-Service Men. Italy's problems are her own. No American on a first visit to Italy could hope to acquire a rounded understanding of was held in Luxembourg last summer. Another conference will what is being attempted and accomplished. Seeing Sansanelli be held this year for the discussion of common interests. and hearing him (he does not speak English, incidentally), The American Legion will learn much about FIDAC this the traveling Legionnaire had the impression that youth was year. Nicola Sansanelli is coming to the United States in May. capable of doing in Italy all that it was attempting. He was invited to come by National Commander Spafford. He has often expressed his admiration, of The American Le- He Is Coming to Call on the Legion gion's ideals and he welcomed the opportunity of studying the Legion. Colonel Crosfield, of the British Legion, visited the HP HE name of Nicola Sansanelli was heralded to the whole United States as President of FIDAC in 1926. * world before many of the Legionnaires who had seen him in Naples arrived back at their homes in the United States. "Those Days We'll Ne'er Forget" At London in October Sansanelli was elected President of the FIDAC—La Federation Interalliee des Anciens Combattants, 1C"IVE steins were raised above a tabletop in a Heidelberg the international society composed of the allied societies of garden and Frank J. Schneller, Commander of the Depart- World War veterans. The American delegates to the London ment of Wisconsin, offered a toast to pleasant memories and a congress of FIDAC, along with the delegates of eight other safe voyage home. Outside the garden a Buick brougham countries, manifested their confidence in Sansanelli by stood with empty seats. Besides Mr. Schneller, those voting to entrust him with the post of leadership who had transferred from the cushions of the for 1928. At the congress L. R. Gignilliat, Su- American-built automobile to the non-uphol- perintendent of Culver Military Academy of stered chairs around the table in the garden

Culver, Indiana, was elected American Vice were Commander Schneller's son, Frank J. President of FIDAC, succeeding in that Schneller, Jr., of Neenah, Wisconsin; F. position Past National Commander Hen- Ryan Duffy, Past National Vice Com- ry D. Lindsley. Each country in FIDAC mander; Austin A. Petersen, Adjutant is represented by a vice president. of the Department of Wisconsin, and Unusual interest attaches to San- Legionnaire Gilbert E. Carpenter of sanelli's election because of the frank Omaha, Nebraska. curiosity of Americans toward the Heidelberg was just one stop during trend of events in Italy and the rest the five thousand miles the Buick of Europe. Conflicting information on brougham traveled between the time those events has puzzled the average it left Menasha, Wisconsin, in Septem- American and the average Legionnaire ber and arrived back in Menasha in Oc- who wish Italy well. An intense drama is tober. On its course of five thousand miles being enacted in Italy as the world watches covered much of France, including the As head of FIDAC, Sansanelli this year will battlefields and cemeteries, encircled Switzer- carry forward the work of promoting inter- land and crisscrossed Germany. Holland and national understanding and friendship. The Belgium. During the week of The American organization has this as its principal aim. The Department Commander Legion's national convention in Paris, the Wis- President of FIDAC each year makes a visit consin car covered hundreds of miles of Paris Scbneller of Wisconsin and to the countries of all the societies. San- boulevards and rues. his motor party stop at a sanelli therefore may be expected to visit nine Back home again, at his desk as Secretary filling station in Heidelberg countries. Portugal was admitted to the fra- and Vice President of the Gilbert Paper Com- on the way home from Paris ternal band of FIDAC at the London con- pany in Menasha, Wisconsin. Commander gress as the newest member. One of the Schneller may remember the Heidelberg— gar- important tasks in 1928 will be the perfecting of a plan of den scene and the refrain of the Heidelberg song "Those days co-operation with the ex-service men's organizations of the we'll ne'er forget." Certainly it had been an unforgettable ex-enemy countries. A conference between FIDAC represen- motor trip, crowded with memorable days. There was the day tatives and committees of the societies of Germany and Austria at Zurich, for instance, when Schneller and his son engaged in

JANUARY, 1928 37 KEEPING STEP a championship rifle match with a father and son who repre- "I wish to express to you and to all your countrymen my sented Switzerland. The Wisconsin pair won the slow fire best thanks for the so active help you all gave me during your match but were vanquished by the Swiss in rapid fire, so the sojourn in Paris," Monsieur Chiappe has written to James F. match was a tie. Swiss sportsmanship impressed the visitors. Barton, National Adjutant of The American Legion. ''Our task was greatly facilitated by the courtesy and perfect conduct of 1/ You Have the Car and the Money our visitors. The Legionnaires conquered the hearts of all Parisians by their cordial attitude and by their frank and (jpOMMAXDER SCHNELLER recommends automobile tour- spontaneous friendship." ing to Legionnaires who may be planning to go to Europe To Mr. Barton also has come a letter from a French mother next year to follow the trails of the first and second A. E. F.'s. who regretted she could not be in Paris to help welcome The He reports he did not find a bad road. He gives some informa- American Legion. tion which may help other Legionnaire motorists. "My comrades and fellow workers of the Simon laboratories "The Automobile Club of America took care of all the details in Lyon entrusted me with the care of greeting you," wrote for us." he relates. "It cost $100 to transport the car to Europe Madame Adeline Ravet. "We have not had the good fortune and $200 to bring it back. The car was put on the boat and to be along your way to receive you and acclaim you, but if lifted off in large hammocks. It came through unscarred. A this simple letter from a modest working woman reaches you, total of $80 covered all costs of the Automobile Club's service please find in it the humble but sincere homage of gratitude." in procuring driver's licenses throughout Europe, license plates ;md payment of all customs charges. A $200 deposit made The S. O. S. of the Second A. E. R when the car landed in Europe was returned to us when we left. The insurance on the high seas and in Europe cost $67, IF THE American Legion goes to Paris again in 1937, some- with unlimited liability protection. Fees at borders were small, body will know just how many barrels of coffee the Third from twenty-five cents to two dollars. Gasoline cost from A. E. F. will drink, how much soap it will use. how many post- twenty-three to thirty cents a gallon. Everywhere hotels had cards it will mail home and how many of its pilgrims will need good garages with the right kind of mechanics if we had physicians and nurses and hospital care. The adding machines needed them. There were no speed limits anywhere." have been busy since the Second A. E. F. left Paris and a lot of interesting figures have been given by the American Red Monsieur Chiappe Lays a Wreath Cross, the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation Army, the American Library Association and the Second A. E. F.'s official "OTHEN The American Legion's national convention parade bank, the Equitable Trust Company. was starting in Paris, a quiet man in uniform, wearing a Typically American was the Second A. E. F.'s headquarters red-braided cap, stood at the head of the Champs Elysees with in Paris, a temporary barracks a quarter of a mile long located the Arc de Triomphe behind him and gazed at the huge on the Cours la Reine, on the right bank of the Seine not far crowds of convention spectators stretching toward the Place from the Trocadero and the Place de la Concorde. Here in de la Concorde. He was Jean Chiappe, Prefet de Police of huge wooden-floored rooms, the co-operating organizations ex- Paris. The same man might have been seen often during con- tended their help to Legionnaires for several weeks. vention week on the crowded boulevards. Anything may hap- The American Red Cross had the assistance of the French pen when a huge crowd is assembled for any purpose. There Red Cross and the French Army medical service in providing was no untoward happening while The American Legion was an unusually complete first aid and hospital service. In the in Paris. Even traffic accidents were fewer than usual. barracks was a hospital with twenty-five beds. More than

The big sign aroused both thirst and hope at an American Legion carnival in West Palm Beach, Florida. Hope died but thirst didn't when anybody eager for a taste of thunderbolts got inside — unless one could be satisfied by orange juice instead of corn juice

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly KEEPING STEP fourteen hundred Legionnaires were given medical attention. one's capacity to go sight-seeing and shopping and see shows. Three French doctors and .five nurses, with interpreters, gave Many a pilgrim found new energy for the next day while service twenty-four hours a day. Three Army ambulances were reading a book in bed at his hotel. on constant duty. Fifty American women, residents of Paris, served as volunteer aides, interviewing patients and advising Lemonade Bids Against Vin Blanc and comforting them. A visiting nursing corps of six American Red Cross nurses met the needs of Legionnaires who fell ill HP HE Knights of Columbus spent SSo.ooo to add to the in hotels or found their way into French hospitals. comfort and pleasure of Legionnaires in Paris. At the main Of the 1,400 patients listed, 160 were referred to specialists Legion center K. of C. secretaries handed out free 606.000 and thirty-eight were evacuated to the American hospital. cigarettes and 16.000 bottles of lemonade, gingerale and similar Fifty percent of the cases were colds or infected throats, twen- drinks. The organization maintained rest rooms, furnished ty percent bron- postcards and stationery and stamped and posted all cards chitis, fifteen per- and letters without any charge. In this free service 430.000 cent sore feet from postcards and 53.000 letters were stamped and mailed. All mail marching in the pa- bore the special American Legion postage stamps which the rade and the re- mainder skin infec- tions, cuts, bruises, broken bones and No lipsticks carried dur- fatigue. Veterans ing the girls' relay race Bureau cases were handled in co-oper- at Eagle Rock Post's ation with the Le- track meet in Los Ange- gion's National Re- les, but (tn oval) Jenny habilitation Com- Weller produced a lemon mittee workers. for Fern Leinart when Twenty-one first the going got bard in a aid stations were distance event established by the French Red Cross along the route of the Legion's parade. These posts were each attended by six nurses and a troop of Boy Scouts. Sixty cases were handled during the parade, only one requiring ambulance service and central hospi- tal care and treat- ment. The American volunteers followed up the hospital cases, visiting twenty-one patients and presenting them with French Government is- flowers, cigarettes and books. At the first-aid stations, the sued to commemorate American women volunteers did everything from sewing on the convention. Not only buttons to procuring prescriptions for patients. One patient in Paris but also in the enlisted the help of a worker in writing postcard messages to battlefields and cemeteries, the nurses of a hospital in Missouri, the messages identical. the free mail service was ex- tended to Legionnaires. Banking, Umbrellas and Doughnuts Knights of Columbus secretaries had charge of deck sports and showing

"OAYMASTERS i n the A. E. F. learned how to hand out of motion pictures aboard official Legion ships. The overseas francs nonchalantly in the rain, but the bankers of the special service began at the piers in France. Pilgrims received Second A. E. F., doing business under thin canvas in the Le- as they landed cigarettes and smoking tobacco and stamped gion's barracks, raised umbrellas when water began sieving cards to be mailed to the folks back home. The Knights also through the roof on the one really rainy day of the convention distributed 327.000 individual cakes of soap, a necessity not period. The little bank established in the barracks by the provided for guests in French hotels. Equitable Trust Company of New York was the financial sal- In Rome after the Paris convention, the Knights of Colum- vation of a good percentage of the pilgrims who were shopping bus provided free guides for Legion tourists and arranged for in Paris stores. The bank had three windows and kept open audiences with the Pope. day and night, including all day Saturday and Sunday. The The Salvation Army won the Legion's gratitude by provid- bankers' biggest problem was keeping French messenger gar- ing the only place in Paris where one could get coffee brewed cons in sight, the doughnut counter of the Salvation Army to suit American taste. So popular was the Army's coffee that proving a lure more powerful even than French versions of hundreds were always in the lines in front of the counters. The Diamond Dick. Tellers had difficulty in figuring exchange Salvation Army women served 100.000 cups of coffee during whenever Marshal Foch or some other celebrity appeared in convention week, and 10.000 cups of tea. They also served the barracks followed by cheering crowds. 50.000 of the famous Salvation Army doughnuts and 100.000 Just as the Second A. E. F. had to have its own bank, so sandwiches. To feed the Americans possessed of a taste for also it had to have its own library. The American Library something American it took 2.000 jars of jam. 1,000 quarts of Association handed out many thousands of books and maga- cream and 600 of milk. 500 pounds of butter and 2,000 pounds zines during the convention, proving that there is a limit to of sugar. Just 12.000 pieces of Petits Suisse 'cheese, the

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doughboy's favorite, were handed out, and an even ton of ham Mr. Westrum gives the most powerful reason for the quick was used in making sandwiches. It was the same food served cutting of forests—possibly the most powerful reason operating by the same Sallies to the same customers as in wartime. to deprive the United States of its future timber supply. That reason, he says, is the present policy of taxation, under which Carrying On the Legion Travelog lumber is the only crop which is heavily taxed each and every year. The tax on standing timber becomes ruinous when \ PRODUCING as the author of this month's installment forests J of are permitted to keep on growing. One hundred years the Legion travelog, John L. Westrum of Theodore Petersen is required for a pine tree to grow to lumber size. Post of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who wishes to report a few But the most unusual thing Mr. Westrum learned in West- things about the marvels of Westwood, California, and the wood was the fact that the town of seven thousand hasn't a clubhouse of McKea Post of the Legion in that city. Mr. policeman, sheriff or other law-enforcement officer. Westrum, good Gopher Legionnaire that he is, had some sur- prises when he landed in the forest town of Westwood in The Second A. E. F.'s Death Toll northern California, the legendary home of the mythical giant, Paul Bunyan, known to all loggers and lumbermen. SORROW entered five Legion homes during the period of The first thing Mr. Westrum saw was the beautiful club- the Paris convention when cables and radio bore to waiting house of McKea Post, a long, many-windowed, two-storied relatives messages of the deaths of Wayne B. Schwennecker of building of country club architecture. He saw the halls of this Des Moines, Iowa, Dr. Herbert H. Cornforth of De Kalb, $35,000 building. They were paneled with huge sections of Illinois, George Ray Carson of Charlotte, North Carolina, polished pine. They had mirrory hardwood floors. They were Harry John French of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and James H. furnished with massive tables and leather-upholstered easy Furlong of Utica, New York. chairs and lounges. All in all it was a clubhouse which would Mr. Schwennecker had been suffering from diabetes and inspire pride in any city. And then Mr. Westrum heard from physicians had advised him not to make the trip overseas. His the lips of Westwood Legionnaires praLe for the man whose illness became acute at the beginning of convention week and thought fulness and foresight had provided this building for the he died soon after becoming unconscious. Legion. That man was Thomas B. Walker of Minneapolis, Mr. Carson had also been a sufferer from chronic diabetes. lumberman, art connoisseur and philanthropist, president of the He became critically ill after boarding the S. S. Pennland on Red River Lumber Company, which founded the town of West- his way back home, and died at sea. Aboard his ship was the wood scarcely more than ten years ago. drum and bugle corps of his post, Hornets Nest Post of Mr. Walker's action in providing the Legion with the club- Charlotte, North Carolina. The post's adjutant, Ben E. Doug- house at Westwood only added new proof of his interest in las, an undertaker, prepared the body for burial and accom- civic affairs which had previously been demonstrated when he panied it to the home of Mr. Carson's aged father and mother. founded the public library in Minneapolis and helped establish The drum and bugle corps acted as pallbearers and guard of the Minneapolis Art Institute. honor at the funeral. The body was buried in a "perpetual Westwood was founded when the Minneapolis lumber com- care'' plot provided by the post. The Legionnaires aboard the pany foresaw several years before the World War that Minne- Pennland contributed to a fund of more than $500 to meet sota forests eventually would all be cut down and decided to expenses of burial and provide for Mr. Carson's parents. establish a model lumbering town in the heart of the timber- Dr. Cornforth died suddenly in his hotel in Paris on October lands of northern California. In establishing this new town a 14th. The cause of his death was embolism. His body was definite policy of reforestation was decided upon, so that the brought back to the United States on the ship on which he mills would be able to have a timber supply indefinitely. had planned to return. The funeral took place at Ridgewood, 40 The AMERICAN LEGIOX Monthly KEEPING STEP

New Jersey, with Ridgewood Post taking part in the cere- One of the biggest difficulties encountered by the post in mony. Dr. Cornforth is survived by his widow, his mother and Albuquerque. Mr. Simon writes, arises from the fact that many a brother. men from other States arrive in Albuquerque under the im- Mr. French died of pneumonia on board the official Legion pression that a hospital of the Veterans Bureau is located ship Lancastria while returning home from the convention. He there, whereas the nearest Bureau hospital is at Fort Bayard, is survived by his widow and a son. Officials of the Depart- ^50 miles from Albuquerque. It is true that the New Mexico ment of Pennsylvania helped arrange the funeral which was Regional Office of the Bureau is located at Albuquerque, but attended by Mr. French's post in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. many men reach Albuquerque without means and without travel orders, so that the Bureau office is unable to provide No Bull Fights in Washington transportation to hospitals immediately. As a result, these men are stranded and the Legion does what it can 10 help them. T N AN antiquated code of Civil War days there' is a law which "The Bureau office must take anywhere from 3 day to a week *• prohibits in the District of Columbia "prize-fighting, con- to ascertain whether an applicant is entitled to further hos- tests between man and man, contests between man and beast, pitalization," Mr. Simon states. "This is because men may be bull fights, dog fights and cock fights." Wherefore there are no A. W. O. L. from a hospital in another State, or do not have boxing matches in the District of Columbia and American Legion with them their discharges to prove service connection. posts of the city of Washington which conduct boxing matches "In this area are two Army hospitals, one at El Paso and have to stage them in what is more or less humorously referred the other at Denver. It would cost a man no more to go from to as the Free State of Maryland. Chicago to EI Paso than from Chicago to Albuquerque. If he Harvey L. Miller, a former Army-Navy, All-Navy and Far takes his discharge with him. he can at least get into a hos- Eastern boxing champion of the old twenty-round days, ran for pital without delay. It will help everybody if word is given the office of Commander of the District of Columbia Depart- that each man seeking hospitalization should ascertain through ment of The American Legion. His platform was very simple. the Bureau just where the hospitals are located before starting It was: "Make boxing legal in the District." Miller was de- off in a general direction to reach one. Men should also be

feated, but one of the first acts of J. Miller Kenyon. the newly- cautioned to carry with them at all times sufficient proof of elected Department Commander, was to appoint Miller chair- identity to qualify for admission to a Government hospital. man of a committee to carry the fight for legalized boxing to Every man should submit his problem to the Bureau before he Congress. leaves home, to spare himself unnecessary travel and exertion." "District of Columbia Legionnaires cannot vote," Miller has written in an appeal to Legionnaires of other States. "It will The Ways of the Motor Qypsy help a lot if posts in the States will urge Representatives and Senators to vote for the Legion's clean-boxing bill, introduced S Commander of the post in Albuquerque. Mr. Simon brings k at this session of Congress." to the problem of helping transient sufferers an unusually sympathetic viewpoint because he himself is an "arrested case." Neic Mexico Has a Problem Too He arrived in New Mexico from Colorado. The other officials of his post are from different sections of the country. T. Wal- 'ARQLTS JAMES' article, "Prospectors," in the November lace Snider, Post Adjutant, is from Ohio. W. H. McMains, issue of the Monthly, which told of the problems of the Post Finance Officer, is from Indiana. Vice Commander E. N. Arizona Department in helping service men suffering from Lilleback came from Massachusetts. More than sixty percent tuberculosis who come to Arizona with insufficient means to of the members of the post were living outside New Mexico look after themselves, was read with more than ordinary inter- when they entered service during the war. est by Legionnaires of New Mexico. For. as Matt N. Simon, "It is hard to handle equitably appeals for help from ex- Commander of Hugh A. Carlisle Post of Albuquerque. New soldier motorists." Mr. Simon says, "especially from the man Mexico, expresses it, the Legion's problem in New Mexico is who tells us: 'It's too hot in California this summer, so I as real as the one in Arizona. " Ninety percent of the men thought I'd bum my way to Colorado.' And the man who helped by our post come from other States," Mr. Simon adds says: 'It's too cold in Kansas—I'm trying to get a lift to in a letter to James F. Barton, National Adjutant. California.' And another man who puts it this way: T got

When the last surviving Civil War veteran of its community died, Edward A. Broberg Post of Aneta, North Dakota, provided a military funeral under the direction of Ex-Marine Elmer Smith, once of the Second Division. A farm wagon made a very acceptable caisson. Brass-trimmed harness set off the beauty of the black horses

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tired of my job in Legionnaire F. Nebraska. Califor- Trubee Davison, As- nia is the life.' sistant Secretary of "Perhaps that War for Aviation, sounds a bit cynical, flew from Washing- but I have had to lis- ton to attend the ten to this stuff eight convention. Many or ten times a week. noted pilots of the The prize appeal was Army and the Navy Twenty seaplanes and a flotilla of speedboats gave 10,000 spectators assorted from a man who rep- and private air in- thrills at the Second Annual Seaplane Convention held by Hughson Post of resented himself as terests guided planes West Haven, Connecticut, in Neiv Haven Harbor a Junior Vice Com- during the exhibition. mander of a Middle The convention, re- West department, produced a membership card for 1927 and garded as one of the most notable flying events of the year, got to us for So to carry him to Gallup. He showed me a attracted general attention to the Legion's national program in little book in which he was keeping a list of the posts that support of aviation as drawn up by national conventions. had helped him. It was a considerable list. After securing help he phoned to a garage here and on the strength of my Pershing Tells the World at Cleveland name had some repairs made to his car—leaving town soon thereafter. lORACTICALLY every town and city in the United States "I honestly believe we in New Mexico are entitled to help observed Armistice Day and everywhere the posts of The from outside departments for taking care of their own cases American Legion led in the celebrations. If the eyes of the Hut we are members of the Legion. When other members whole country were lifted away from the local celebrations come to us for help, we do all that we can, until our money they caught a vision of what was perhaps the most impressive gives out. Then we can do no more until somebody helps us." observance of all, in the Public Auditorium at Cleveland, Ohio,

where General John J. Pershing sat at a luncheon with :.;oo When Races Are Held in the Sky other guests who were gathered about a whole acre of tables. The tables filled the huge hall from orchestra pit to the doors. TJTIGH pressure civilization demands new thrills constantly It was the largest luncheon gathering ever held in Cleveland, ^^ to stir the interest of jaded sport enthusiasts. Mr. Average a city where community spirit often brings citizens together. Citizen began to get bored by automobile races about a decade All Cleveland took part in this observance under the leader- ago. It was certain that exciting races eventually would be ship of The American Legion. The principal organizations of transferred to the skies. Hughson Post of West Haven, Con- the city gave up their own weekly luncheons and meetings to necticut, gave ten thousand persons an idea of what the races attend the luncheon in the Public Auditorium. The Civitan of the future will be like when it conducted its Second Annual Club, Cleveland Advertising Club, Cleveland Chamber of Com- Seaplane Convention in New Haven Harbor. The spectators merce, Exchange Club, Gyro Club, Kiwanis Club, Optimists saw twenty giant seaplanes zoom in pairs and flocks, as agile Club and Rotary Club all assembled with the members of as swallows, while pilots strove for advantage in position with Cleveland's posts of The American Legion . the earnestness of jockeys in a Kentucky Derby. They saw City Manager William R. Hopkins sat on General Pershing's fliers leap from planes in full flight and come gently to the right. Samuel G. Mather, steel manufacturer and one of the ocean on billowing parachutes. And. just to add noise and foremost figures in American industry, sat on his left. Close interest to the air races, a flotilla of speedboats roared through by were Past National Commander John R. McQuigg, C. C. other races, skimming the waves in close dashes toward buoys Bultman, Commander of the Cuyahoga County Council of The that marked the finish lines. American Legion, and Harold H. (Continued on page 75/ 42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly :

x tiks* yf\A\ Kickless Artillery Mounts — Another Veteran ^W*f WJ/>< v ^(™ "* Unofficially Alive — The Training Camps of Ten Years Ago — Citation for an Ex-Officer — Unlocated War Dead

f W ^REELY we grant that the columns of Then and Now at Camp Sherman has a picture of the band available, the do not lend themselves readily to editorials. But the Company Clerk would like to have it to use in these columns. m ' horrible example pictured on this page has the weight Of particular interest to the vets who learned squads right ^/ of a dozen editorials in decrying the efforts of the at Camp Pike. Ar kansas. is the fact that Legionnaire Sheridan ultra-pacifists and non-preparedness fanatics. Most was "city planner" at Camp Pike before entering the service, of us who were in training during the winter of 1917-1S re- in charge of the design of that cantonment. After his wooden member well the wooden rifles, the make-shift field pieces, the horse experience, he later went overseas and spent some time trench mortars constructed from sections of pipe, but Legion- at the Saumur Artillery School, where he received his com- naire Lawrence V. Sheridan of Indianapolis, introduces us to mission. From there he was sent to the Anti-Aircraft Artillery the last word in unpreparedness. The Trojans had nothing on School at Arnouville-les-Gonesse. ending up as an instructor the U. S. Army artillery schools, according to Sheridan, and he in that school. assures us that the picture and the following account are authentic: A WAY back in the infant days of the old Weekly—in the "All during January, 1918, rumors circulated among the issue of October 24, 1910, to be exact — there was pub- members of the Third Officers Training School, Artillery Sec- lished a letter from Mrs. E. Slater Northrup of New Haven, tion, located in Barracks K14 and K15 at Camp Sherman, Connecticut, in which she requested information regarding the Ohio, and that great source of all army rumors—need I name fate of her son. Gerald Kingsley Northrup, Company D, Eighth it?—confidently predicted that before long we would ascend Machine Gun Battalion. She stated that conflicting reports from the slippery ice and snow of the surrounding terrain to had twice placed Northrup on the list as killed, once as wounded the backs of trusty artillery steeds. Novices looked forward and once as missing in action. The latest report then received with fear and trembling and speculation was rife as to the was that he had been reported missing in action since July 15, relative hardness of ordinary turf and that same turf covered 1918, when he was wounded. In May. iqio. the Government with several inches of ice. Old heads, some from Regular Army classified him as killed and the body that was buried as his outfits, related experiences designed to establish their prowess was identified only by laundry tags on the clothing, although the as horsemen and to frighten the prospective equestrians. identification tags of another soldier were found in the pocket. "Stealthily during the early hours of a cold February morn- On June 20th of last year. Legionnaire Edward D. Suter ing the valiant chargers of Elliott, North Dakota, stole into the areaway be- wrote to the Company tween the barracks and. so Clerk as follows: far as any one knew, lined "It's a long time since up in proper formation the morning of the 15th of under their own initiative. July. 1018. when Private "These nags were of a Edward D. Suter. Company hitherto unknown and un- D. Eighth Machine Gun heard-of breed. They were Battalion (serial number perfectly matched. The 554255). was reported heads all came from the killed in action. It's better same jigsaw. The under- late than never, though. It pinning, effectively hob- was a mistake of identifi- bled, was reproduced ex- cation, as I am still very actly for e^ch horse. The much alive. In 1919 there body of each doubtless was published in The produced many a rough American Legion Weekly ride in its active days be- an article that a private of fore becoming an element Company D. Eighth Ma- of a training horse. chine Gun Battalion, was "The members of the missing. I cannot recall battery thought they were Add to the wooden rifles and water pipe mortars of the train- his name but he was the being kidded, but before ing days the above horrible example, snapped at the Third man killed instead of long sections were marched Officers Training Camp at Camp Sherman, Ohio. Legion- 554255-" to the men- corral and put naire Lawrence V. Sheridan of Indianapolis reports that the The man Suter through the Kingsley intricacies of Artillery Section actually used these beer-keg steeds tions was Gerald mounting, dismounting and Northrup, referred to other still maneuvers, and above. A report just re- so far as reported no casualties, aside from splinter thrusts, ceived from the Cemeterial Division of the Office of the Quar- resulted. No need of a picket line with these staid steeds. termaster General in Washington states that the remains of "The rumor persists that these mounts of the pre-Volstead this former soldier are now interred in the Aisne-Marne artillery sprang from the same progenitors as the famous American Cemetery at Belleau. Aisne. France. We asked Com- horse which daily exercises President Coolidge. rade Suter how this error happened and he gave us the fol- "Incidentally, this same training battery produced a famous lowing interesting account improvised band which included everything from a guitar to "It came about that I was reported missing in place of the a whole squad of tissue paper covered combs, and which per- man really missing in this way : Three of us fellows were formed at several burlesque guard mounts. It would probably together on the night of July 14, iqi8. when we were awakened interest many if some pictures of this band would be forth- about two o'clock in the morning with a heavy barrage on us. coming, particularly snapshots of the band at guard mount." We all three started for the P. C. when I dropped out to cross If any other candidate at the Third Officers Training School the road to a big dugout. Missing the dugout. I kept on and

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The glory that ivas once Cam]) Upton's! "It's gone — grown to little pines and colorful asters and goldenrod." Mrs. Arthur B. Tuttle of East Setauket, Long Island, was our photographer. Above, the road in front of the camp chapel with the chimneys of the Cooks and Bakers' School. Left, the bridge that led to the general' s home on Headquarters Hill

the fore with information about old Yaphank—Camp Upton, through which thousands of men cleared either going overseas or upon their return. Mrs. Tuttle was kind enough to send us some snapshots of Upton, two of which appear on this page, was shot in the hand. This injury, of course, did not prevent with this report: me from getting out of the shelled area. "I went back to Camp Upton for the first time since I was "On the morning of the 15th, I helped take a soldier on a discharged at the Base Hospital there in July, 1019. I had wheeled stretcher to the first-aid station and did not report been admitted to the Medical Department as a Reconstruction back to my company. From there I went to the hospital where Aide when I was under age and naturally the associations of I met a private from my company who told me I had been that time made a large impression upon me. reported killed in action. He said the fellows who were with "As I say, I went back to Upton this past September, eight me on the night of the 14th had come back and had found a years afterwards, and I am at a loss to tell any of you folks soldier pretty well shot up and with one dog tag around his who lived there, even for a little while, what it looks like now. neck and a different one in his pocket, which they identified It doesn't look like anything! It's gone—grown to little pines before the captain as mine. Our captain's name was Switzer. and colorful asters and goldenrod. The man they found had wavy hair and was but a little taller "The roads still run through it; here and there you take than I, which is probably one reason for the wrong identifica- your life in your hands when you meet what looks like a good- tion. My mother received forms from the Government to be sized shell hole in the middle of an otherwise passable highway. filled out in regard to having my body shipped back to this What must have been corrals still stand, rather burned looking. country, so he must have been buried under my name." "The Base Hospital, first home port of so many wounded, Some months ago, we told in these columns of an airplane is gone—burned down a number of years ago. All the barracks crash in the vicinity of Trier, Germany, after the Armistice, are gone. Concrete floors remain in some places. The Liberty in which Sergeant William T. Carson was so seriously injured Theatre consists now of a few brick foundation pillars. Beside that he was officially reported dead. It developed, however, the fireplace of the Officers' Club House grows a lovely clump that Carson survived his terrifying experience, as he wrote to of goldenrod. It grows in the place that someone considered us recently from his home in Moundsville, West Virginia, was his own private dream corner. And the big 'Y' is no more; reporting that he was still among the living, although hanging so with the little chapel that must have been the house of on the wall of his office is the Government certificate listing memories for many a couple married at the last minute. him "Killed in action, April 2, 1910." Are there any more of "But the labors of the men who lived in them remain here these "unofficially alive" veterans among our ranks? We would and there. Tame flowers, now grown wild, over on Fifth Ave- like to hear from them. nue; big Lombardy poplar trees on Headquarters Hill—some- one liked them well enough to plant them in a war camp. QUITE often the Company Clerk receives letters from Then Willows, luxuriantly growing near the general's lawn; a clump and Nowers asking what has become of some particular of lilies where the sunset gun used to boom. All these are there. camp or cantonment in which the strenuous winter days of "Even a rather funny touch is to be seen. Each barracks 1017-18 were spent in preparing for the big show on the other outline is marked by its small peach and apple trees. Did you side of the pond. Several times we have asked those of the throw the seed and pits out of the windows, boys? Or were the gang who live near the old camps or the sites of the old camps K. P.'s neglectful? to give us a close-up of what the camps look like now. Only "At the intersection of the hospital and station roads have one or two of the gang responded to this request. We are glad been erected the eight or ten small buildings used each summer to report now that an Auxiliary member, Mrs. Arthur B. Tuttle by an Anti-Aircraft outfit. This is called Camp Hamilton. of East Setauket. Long Island, New York, has nobly come to Maybe it looks noble when occupied. It doesn't now. Nearby

1 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly stands it used to look the old outpost, pretty much as when 1,777.109 American soldiers who passed through Hoboken en some sentry looked under the flivver's rear seat to see if you route to the Big Parade, or, better still, on their way home. were toting bombs into camp. That is the only thing left intact The book tells in a most friendly, readable way in its 351 of the old Camp Upton! pages, of the trials and tribulations, of the joys and sorrows, "And there you are. That page in our lives is read and we of the amusing incidents which accompanied the big job of turn to the present. 'Then and Now' with a vengeance!" getting our Army started in the right direction. The General starts cut by telling why he wrote his story, how his job was article in wished THAT in Then and Now the September issue about onto him, and then tells about the job. Camp Merritt the A. E. F. in Siberia," writes P. former- and J. Van Overmcer, Camp Mills come into the account, which is well illus- ly of the Transportation Corps. Engineers Corps, A. E. F., and trated. Copies at three dollars each may be obtained from now a member of Greenwich Village Post of the Legion in The Carey Publishing Company. Evening Star Building, Wash- New York City, "was certainly interesting and here's hoping ington, D. C. Some of the gang may remember the General's that shall have the pleasure of reading about we more these "Management of the American Soldier," published in 1918. orphaned units of which so little is generally known. "Comrade Harold M. Metzger of Tampa. Florida, who told I^KXT in line we have a product of the American 1 Battle us about the cold of Siberia, probably many times, between ~ Monuments Commission, which has the big assignment of shivers, wished it could have been his lot to serve in Sunny settling discussions as to which outfit took which town and of inconsiderately, properly France. Unfortunately, or when Fate picked marking all of the American battlefields in Europe, that part of France for the war and its pertinent activities, it besides supervising the work in the American cemeteries over- left out about 99.44 percent of the 'sunny' part, as any dough- seas. The volume is more than "A Guide to the American boy to get one of his dogs free from the sticky Battle Fields who has tugged in Europe," which is its title. It is in truth a terrain northern France will testify. Slipping off the duck- condensed of history of our part in the war—giving credit to the tanglefoot various boards at Camp Pontanezan at Brest into the 'terra- divisions and other outfits which saw combat service. not-so-firma' was a predicament that always brought forth The first distribution of the Guide was made in Paris during cussin'. the some plain and fancy Legion convention where several thousand copies were sold, "And then there are some several thousand A. E. F.-ers who and tucked away into luggage together with the stores of other valuable ten years ago awarded the well-known and justly famous fur- souvenirs which were being toted back to the folks lined mess kit as first prize to the St. Aignan Replacement at home. for plain, unadulterated, oozy and ultra-adhesive goat- In addition Camp to being very well illustrated, it contains probably ideas that. the best getting mud. Others may have their own pet on set of maps that we have been fortunate enough to "Of course, mud is only a distant cousin of ice but there find thus far in any book on the War. The book has been wouldn't if the have been much of either sun had published by the U. S. Government Printing Office in done its stuff in the war zone of France only half Washington, D. C. and copies may be obtained as well as people generally thought it did. "rom the Superintendent of Documents of The picture enclosed is not an interior that office at the nominal cost of seventy- view of the Luray Caverns in Virginia or five cents. of Mammoth Cave. Kentucky, but an Another book which should be valuable authentic snapshot taken at one of to Legion posts for ready reference the embarkation camps at St. Na- is a volume entitled, "Officers and zaire, France, during the winter Enlisted Men of the United States of 1918-19. Naval Service Who Died During "Many thousand Legionnaires the World War." O. G. Murfin, who passed through or tarried Acting Chief of the Bureau of in St. Nazaire during that Navigation. Navy Department, winter or at other most any Washington, D. C, tells us for that matter, time probably that the Bureau will be glad noticed that the sun was A. to furnish a copy of the book 0. L. habitually. W. A good to any Legion post upon re- many of them will probably quest, within the limit of the recognize these very icicles. available supply. "The only thing sunny about the picture is the disposition "CWEN though reference to of the colored soldier in the -—'the Sam-Browned members foreground — not then, but of the Army during the War about six months later when he as "those dirty blankety-blank got back to Florida where the so-and-so's" was not as gen- sun really does some honest-to- eral as some disgruntled members goodness shining. That's right, of the forces would lead one not isn't it, Comrade Metzger?" n the know to believe, still it is Comrade Van Overmeer's photo- refreshing to get occasionally a real graphic interpretation of "Sunn testimonial of the esteem in which France" appears \\ on this page. some of the leaders were held by the ever coined that phrase had a pow men they led. That's why we're glad to imagination an enthusiastic nativ — let you read the letter which we received a while ago from Arnold H. Meier of YfTHILE we don't profess to Edwin Anderson Post, Bangor. Wiscon- book reviewer, one or two books sin, formerly a sergeant in Company A, have recently been added to our refer- A son of the sunny South enjoying the 341st Infantry. 86th Division: ence library in which we think the gang "In Step in the winter of '18-19 ™ "Sunny France." Keeping July Monthly might be interested. So we'll tell about P. Van Overmeer I noted the gain made by the Illinois them in our J. of New York City particular columns. Department under the guidance of Com- There have reports that the picture was taken in St. been stories and histories mander Ferre C. Watkins. Mr. Watkins without number published about Nazaire at one of the embarkation camps activi- was a first looey in my company at ties in training camps, in the A. E. F.. Camp Grant. Illinois. Here are two in- in occupied Germany, but now we have one about what might cidents which put him in good standing with the men of the well be called the Gateway to the A. E. F. We all remember company and he probably handles the Department of Illinois the old slogan. "Heaven. Hell or Hoboken." Well, the keeper in the same way: of the gateway at Hoboken. Major General David C. Shanks, "Shortly after his assignment to Company A. Lieutenant now retired, has produced a most interesting volume called Watkins was given a 'once over' by the men and the universal "As They Passed Through the Port." It is dedicated to the opinion was: 'He's some soldier but he's too damned cocky JANUARY, 1928 45 What's wrong tvith this picture! The semblance of a sidewalk and curb seems unreal in a small French village. Legionnaire William J. Curry of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, the photographer, reports that it is the main street in Noncourt, France. It is probably a safe guess that it s also the only street

and strict.' About that time the mother of one of the privates the street with a wicker basket strapped to her back, probably died and a collection was taken to send him home to the rilled with something precious to her, and her apron similarly funeral. Lieutenant Watkins was in the barracks at the time filled. I don't recall now just what it was she was carrying, and without any soliciting inquired what it was all about. One but she gives one an idea of the real thrift of the French of the collectors told him. 'Well,' said Watkins, 'here's my peasants. Another touch in the picture which is typical is the share,' and a five-dollar bill dropped into the hat. That raised tree flattened out against the house, giving the appearance of his batting average with the company considerably. a vine. "Then during the winter of 1917-18, we were required to "When our company arrived in this town, we were billeted keep the company streets open for the fire trucks. We were for the night in the nooks and haylofts especially. We were on called out one night about 10:30 to shovel snow to keep our our way to a port for the joyous trip home. After a five-day street clear. We worked in shifts but one of the men had been hike we were comfortably installed in the wooden barracks on two shifts straight and he was peeved, so he turned around which had been part of Base Hospitals Nos. 58 and 238." and said to the man next to him, 'Here, you blankety-blank- blank, you've stood around long enough; take this shovel and l^T INE years have gone by since the morning in late Septem- shovel awhile.' The man took the shovel and shoveled. The ^ ber when the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which was to man who did the talking was a private and the man who took prove to be the last big drive of the World War, was begun. the shovel as his relief was Lieutenant Watkins, and although Along this greatest of all fronts occupied by American troops the private shook in his boots for a few days, he was not were lined up the 77th, 28th, 35th, 91st, 37th, 79th, 4th. brought up for getting fresh with an officer. and 33d Divisions. Across the front of the 79th Division "The other night I was talking to the same private and I rose the eminence on which stood the town of Montfaucon. told him that Ferre Watkins was Department Commander of famed as the location of the concrete observation post built the Illinois Legion and he said, 'The son-of-a-gun! I wonder inside a chateau and used by the former Crown Prince of if he remembers all the names I called him that night? But Germany to observe the fighting about Verdun. he was a good sport, a good officer and he was human.' And During all these years the work of the American Graves I believe when a man still gets compliments from one of his Registration Service in France has continued; the concentra- men ten years after the War, he has proven himself." tion of the bodies of all American dead left in France into the six permanent American cemeteries, the endless search for THE Company Clerk welcomes to his list of contributors of unlocated bodies and the identification of bodies which are art for Then and Now, William J. Curry of Ardmore, Penn- discovered from time to time in isolated battlefield burial sylvania, who tells us that he is a member of Bullock-Sander- places. In the latter part of July of last year, the bodies of son Post and that during the big fight he served as a sergeant seven former members of the 315th Infantry of the 79th in Supply Company, 315th Infantry. 70th Division. He writes: Division were found in what had been a shell hole on the bat- "I am sending to you a few pictures selected from a number tlefield in the vicinity of Montfaucon. These men had been which I took while across the water in Uncle Sam's Army. listed as killed in action September 29. 1918. Their units had I feel they will have a common point of interest to many of been withdrawn before burial could be made. Indications are the readers of the Monthly." that the bodies were buried by German troops, as two identi- This is what Comrade Curry has to say about the picture fication tags were found on each body. which we chose for reproduction on this page: The bodies of the following former members of the 315th "This picture might be labeled 'A typical rural street scene Infantry were thus recovered: Lieutenant William A. Sheehan in France,' but to identify it, I want to say that it was taken and Privates Irving S. Roffis. August H. Rittmiller. Edward in Noncourt, France, a town about 25 kilometers north of C. Moran and Jesse E. Schall, all of Company F; Private Rimaucourt. Rimaucourt will no doubt be remembered by Ellis Eskowitz of Company C and Private Henry Faller of thousands of men as the railhead for the training center north- Company H. Newspapers throughout the country carried ac- east of Chaumont, where G. H. Q. was located. counts of these recoveries and Legionnaires Earl Sechrest of "I was interested particularly in the old lady trudging down Washington, D. C. and E. S. Vannier of Toledo, Ohio, sent

46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly TEACHING A NATION TO AVOID SEVERE COLDS the Company Clerk clippings from the newspapers in their home towns.

THROUGH the co-operation of the Then and Now gang, we have been able to render quite a good deal of assistance to the Graves Registration Service in this highly important work of recovering unlocated bodies and in identifying bodies which have been found. Notices in this department have brought unusually fine responses. Lieu-

tenant Colonel K. J. Hampton. Assist- ant to the Quartermaster General, who is in charge of the Cemeterial Division, has called to our attention two cases in which investigation is now being con- ducted and we hope that readers of the Monthly will be able to furnish perti- nent information in connection with these cases. The body of an unknown sergeant has been located 75 meters south of the Vesle River in the Commune of Ville Savoye, Aisne, along a row of cottonwood trees running north and south of the river. There was found on the body a gold Waltham seventeen jewel watch, case No. 6710849, works No. 11040699. The village of Ville Savoye was on the line dividing the sectors of the Fourth and 32nd Divisions 1*1 in the fighting just south of the Vesle all Colds on or about August 4, 1918. for An investigation is being conducted in an effort to locate the bodies of former members of Company G, i32d External ^^/JOST Infantry, 33d Division, in the Depart- the delicate membrane lining the air passages. ment of the Somme near Hamel. It is Treatment Unless checked this inflammation may spread and desired to get information regarding the death and burial of Private icl Philip Is Best sometimes may lead to serious complications, such as Conduti, Private icl Edward Harris. sinus trouble, mastoiditis, or chronic bronchitis. Private John Sobanski and Private icl In checking a cold, medicines taken internally are roundabout, and Lee A. Taylor, from former comrades of these men who know of their deaths slow. Besides, constant "dosing" is apt to upset the stomach. in action, or from men or officers who Today mothers avoid both dangers by using the external remedy, may have assisted in the burial of their Vicks VapoRub. bodies. Just Rub It On FROM a letter Legionnaire N. DeMun of Toledo. Ohio, wrote, the American You just rub it on the throat and chest at bedtime. It acts in two ways soldiers were not the only engaged men in bringing prompt relief: in the war who indulged in taking photo- It is vaporized by the body heat and inhaled all night long direct graphs unofficially. An example of the (1) efforts of our former enemy in this di- to the inflamed air passages, loosening the phlegm and easing the difficult rection appears on the following page, breathing. and DeMun has this to say about the At the same time, it is absorbed through and stimulates the skin picture and several other samples which (2) he sent to us: like a poultice or plaster. "The enclosed views of the Germans entrenched in the Argonne Forest were Relief Overnight picked up by me in one of the dugouts pictured, to the west of Montfaucon. It is a stubborn cold indeed that can resist this double action. Treated "There was one dugout that I recall in particular. It went down into the at the start, most colds are checked by morning. Actual use in millions ground to a fair depth, but at the bot- of homes for over 20 years has proved Vicks equally good for adults tom was a trap door which when lifted and children. showed a ladder leading still farther down. We estimated the depth around ways seventy-five feet by counting the rungs at once on the ladder. "At the bottom of the ladder was a tunnel with a narrow-gauge railroad leading to the main railroad, some dis- tance back. Shells and supplies unloaded from the main line could be sent under- ground through most of this sector." Those men ( Continued on page 48) NOW OVER 4-7- MILLION JARS USED YEARLY JANUARY, 1928 47 )

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of the A. E. F. who helped chase the vate, 05th Company, Sixth Regiment, U. enemy out of the St. Mihiel and Meuse- S. Marines, missing since July 19, 1918, Argonne sectors where they had been during the drive toward Soissons. firmly entrenched for almost four years Fourth Division. Frank Meconi, will recall the artistic rustic bungalows, Company L, 58th Infantry, killed in ac-

porches and fences which were con- tion October 5, 1918, during the Meuse- structed in their camps. Argonne Offensive. While the group pictured seem con- 28th Division. Everett C. Foreman, tented enough, the name of this particu- private, Company I, 110th Infantry,

lar home, appearing on the board in the killed in action September 5, 1918. center, is "Villa Kriegsmiide" which, 29TH Division. Carlos Costales, cor- translated, means '"tired of war." poral, Company F, 113th Infantry, re- ported killed in action October 16, 1918, REQUESTS are still being received while attacking enemy machine gun in from relatives of comrades who lost vicinity of Molleville Farm. Mother their lives in service for detailed infor- would like also to recover his ring bear- ©id mation regarding the death and burial of ing initials C. R. C. and inscribed "From mm these men. Splendid co-operation has his friends in the S. D. Co." TOBACCO been given by Then and Nowers in this 78TH Division. William V. Cerino, most important service and attention is corporal, Company H, 309th Infantry, "The Best Pipe Smoke directed to the cases below. Reports killed in action November 3, 1918, dur- Ever Made!" may be made to the Company Clerk. ing the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. First Division. Walter G. Gray, 83RD Division. Albert S. Ross, first private, Company G, 16th Infantry, re- lieutenant, Company C, 329th Infantry, -a Smoke ported seriously wounded in action in reported as missing in action, November July, 1018, again in August, 1918, and in 10-11, 1918. In February, 1919, report March, 1919, official notice of his death stated he was killed in action. Last let- proves it! in action was received by his mother. ter received from him was dated Oc- Later notice stated that previous reports tober 31, 1918, postmarked A. P. O. 762. That's where Old Briar Tobacco were in error but that no record of his proves up—in the smoke! . . . That's where you convince yourself, as thou- whereabouts was available. Late War EXCEPT in the larger cities, it is sands of pipe smokers have done, Department records show him as killed almost impossible to gather together that you've found all of the genuine in action July 10, 1918, buried July 22nd enough men for some one particular out- pleasure of tobacco, at last . . . in isolated grave No. 10, Commune of fit to form a going veterans organization. Light up your pipe filled with Old Ploisy, Aisne. Body not found. What with losses and replacements, most Briar Tobacco. Draw in the fra- First Division. Fred W. Sharpe, regiments and other units had repre- grance of its slow burning, flavory Ambulance Company No. 3, mortally sentatives in their ranks from almost leaf. Enjoy its solid comfort and wounded in action near Exermont and every section of the country and nec- satisfying taste. Smoke it awhile. 1018. Treated in after their Then notice how cool and how extra died October 8, Field essarily these men scattered smooth Old Briar is. Hospital No. 12 and Hospital No. 6. discharge from service. instance, has Years of scientific knowledge in Father desires information from nurse New York City, for a the art of mellowing and blending who treated him, from chaplain who number of Legion posts which are and generations of tobacco culture buried him, and also would like to re- formed of men all from one outfit and have gone into the development of cover his late son's watch, chain and bear the outfit's designation as the Old Briar Tobacco. Step by step Knights Templar charm. name of the post. This, however, isn't Old Briar has been perfected! And Second Division. John Cooney, pri- true in many localities. H. Mc- the application of quantity produc- J. tion—the same as with the finest food products — is what makes it possible for you to enjoy Old Briar at such a reasonable price.

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Namee, a member of Herbert Warriner Post of Philadelphia, tells us that former members of the 312th Field Artillery have organized a permanent association which meets regularly each third Thursday of the month at the Free Trial Army and Navy Club, 313 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. There's a case of

' outfit reunions" with a vengeance. Comrade McNamee reports that the association-is interested in obtaining the names and addresses of all former mem- bers of the 312th, whether they live in Grows Philadelphia, San Francisco or way stops. It is proposed also to publish a history of what he calls the "hard luck outfit with 21 months service and no action," and it is requested that men send to McNamee all available pictures Hair or stories of members of the regiment, reports of historical interest and the like. McNamee may be addressed at Amazing New 2330 South Third Street, Philadelphia. Other announcements of interest to members of the Then and Now Gang Electrical follow Fifth Div.—All residents of California who served with any unit of the Fifth are requested Discovery! to send names and addresses to the Society of the Fifth Division, Memorial Hall. City Hall. Oakland, Calif. Ninth F. S. Bn.— All men who served with Now at last—through the electric magic requested to send names and this outfit are of Infra-red Rays Science has found a Infra-Red Rays addresses to the Ninth Field Signal Bn., Sig- — nal Corps Society, Memorial Hall, City Hall, startling way to grow new hair quickly. Reach the Roots Oakland. Calif. Base Hosp. No. 3. —Celebration of tenth an- No matter how fast your hair is falling France In 9 out of 10 so-called cases of bald- niversary of departure of this unit for out. No matter how much of it is gone will be held at the Hotel Astor, New York ness the hair roots are not dead. They —this is our guarantee: This amazing City, Feb. 6. All former members are re- are only dormant. But when you try quested report to Howard Lilienthal, M. D., new electrical discovery will end your to to reach them with hair-tonics, oils, chairman, 52 East 82d st.. New York City. dandruff—stop falling hair—and grow Engr. Dept. at Large for Foreign Serv.— massages and salves, you are obviously thick, luxuriant new hair in 4 weeks All former members interested in forming a wasting both time and money. For you legisla- or you pay nothing ! You risk nothing. veterans association and in furthering treat only the surface skin — never get tion for their benefit are requested to report You are the judge your own mirror Engineer Repro- — to the roots. to Guy H. Rowdybush, c/o will furnish the astounding evidence. duction Plant, Washington Barracks, Wash- ington, D. C. Your own physician will tell you that Squad. 8, Adjt.'s Course, School of Mil. the warm, soothing Infra-red Ray pene- members of Aero., Ohio State U.—Former Famous Surgeon's trates more deeply through human tis- squadron will hold a reunion at Syracuse this sue than any other harmless heat-ray and Manlius. N. Y., Apr. 7. tenth anniversary Discovery of graduation. Address Harry C. Durston. known to science. It reaches the hair- The Manlius School. Manlius, or Lewis Par- root and electrically, almost magically, menter, 315 E. Washington St., Syracuse. Two years ago a noted surgeon, seeking revitalizes it. Hair literally "sprouts" to bring back his own hair—applying all as a result. his scientific knowledge to the problem WHILE we are unable to conduct a —made a remarkable discovery. It is general missing persons column in the first time a scientific man of his Send this department, stand ready to No Money we standing has ever entered this field of assist in locating service men whose helpfulness. You can use DERMO-RAY in any statements are required in support of home with electricity. The warm, sooth- He discovered a simple way in which claims for compensation, hospitaliza- ing, Infra-red Rays vitalize your scalp to use life-giving, invisible heat rays while you rest or tion, insurance and similar matters. read—a few minutes known to all scientists to restore health — each day is all the time required. Queries and responses in these cases and normal conditions to the scalp tis- should be directed to the Legion's Na- sues, and so RESTORE HAIR in all In four weeks you will be free forever tional Rehabilitation Committee. 417 but certain rare instances. It ended his from the social and business embarrass- ment of baldness or Bond Building, Washington. D. C. and own baldness. Today his hair is un- — you pay nothing. usually thick luxuriant. not to this department. The committee and Complete facts about this astounding wants information in the following new scientific discovery, opinions of cases authorities, incontrovertible evidence, and Called Dermo-Ray details of special trial offer, will be Belen, Stephen (also carried as Bielan, sent free, if you mail the coupon below. Stephen) formerly pvt., 43rd Co., 11th Bn., Because of his scientific conservatism, 160th D. B. At enlistment he resided at 475 To forever end your scalp and hair and his standing in his profession, the Hastings st.. Detroit, Mich. troubles, act at once. Print your name Burgess, Charles H.. formerly pvt.. Inf., discoverer of Dermo-Ray made no gen- and address plainly—and mail the cou- Reg. Army Reserve, Co. K, 49th Infantry. eral announcement of his startling dis- Disappeared from home at Cliffside, New pon NOW covery. But, as the head of his own Jersey, in May, 1926. Quartermaster Corps No. 359. Former com- hospital, his own case-records — with FREE TRIAL OFFER- rades of 1st Lt. Claude Haisten. hundreds of men and women — proved Pollack, Joseph, formerly a member of THE LARSON INSTITUTE. scientifically, conclusively, that ibis new Co. E. Fifth Engineers, Camp Humphreys, 216 N. Wabash Ave. Dept. 162, Va. Disappeared from home, 56 Prescott discovery grows hair when nothing else Chicago. 111. ave.. Garfield. N. J., July 13. 1919. Has will — grows hair, ends dandruff, in Send me at once, without obligation, full brown hair, blue eyes, is about 6' tall and NINE OUT OF TEN CASES. Now particulars — in plain envelope — of your has a two-inch scar on left arm. 30-day Free Trial of DERMO-RAY. Rajisdell, Henry F. Served during World that the amazing power of Infra-red War on U. S. S. Mt. Vernon and U. S. S. Rays is known to the entire scientific Utah. Age 28: height, 5' 11", weight, 195 world — and DERMO-RAY has been Name pounds ; blue eyes, light complexion and proved to be one of the most startling slightly bald. Walks with a slight limp. Dis- Address.. appeared from East Hartford. Conn., June scientific discoveries of recent years 25. 1927. now, for the first time, has he permitted City The Company Clerk. public announcement of his discovery to be made. State

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Delaware and pursued Washington as Point or otherwise prepares himself for everybody expected him to, in Decem- a commission. ber, 1776, Washington expected to flee But the National Guard has also its to the Alleghanies and spend his life importance. The conscientious patriots there as an outlaw, for his army of who devote their leisure at their own Brought Him 3,000 was to disintegrate entirely on expense to fitting themselves for war January 1, 1777. He made the wonder- and who promptly enter the combat ful stroke at Trenton, and saved the have also their rights. 1129 Cool Shaves day, but he and other officers actually When a man gives years and years to had to borrow money on their own per- training himself as Jim Finn did. goes ./iww 0/*e Si>i£/e Bladef sonal credit to persuade the soldiers to once a week to drill, once a week to Another Triumph for KKISS-KROSS, serve a few weeks longer. Congress had headquarters night, makes all the re- thr Most Shaving Invention Amazing fled from the capital. views, inspections, parades, goes Ever Patented! Mr. T. Liddle, of Illi- to nois, Wrote Recently, "I Have ISeen The War of 18 12 was a complete de- camp, goes out on all strike duty or Using One of Your Stroiu>eis Since feat for us on land and sea in spite of other emergency calls, adjusts Slav, 1924. I Shave Every Morning and his and I AM STILL ON MY FIRST all the lies the textbooks can concoct. life and his profession to such hazards, BLADE!" Head Astonishing Details, Then Act at Once for Real Shaving Joy! Our only real land victory was at New he limits his earning-power and curtails

XT > wonder KRISS-KROSS marks such a radical ad- Orleans after the humiliating treaty had his personal ambitions for patriotic 1^1 vance in shaving comfort and economy! For now at last it has captured a secret that has haffled scien- been signed, and the capitol at Washing- reasons, and if he is disabled, the coun- tists for years! It actually reproduces mechanically the diagonal flip-flop master-harber's stroke that gives razor ton had been abandoned and burned. try owes him its grateful protection. blades the keenest cutting edge that steel can take! In the last year we had not one ship at Jim Finn spent seven years and five Pressure decreases automatically. And in just 11 seconds you are ready for the coolest, slickest shave you ever had sea. months of unbroken service in the Get Free Offer The Civil War found the same hideous Army, five years of it in pain and im- And now—to introduce this sensational device that makes old blades keener than new—we are giving free unreadiness, and the Battle of Bull Run mobility. He was subject to all the an amazing new kind of razor. Instantly adjustable to any angle. Comes with 5 new-process blades. Find out was an ineradicable disgrace. At some rules and regulations of a regular officer. all about this astonishing offer. No obligation. Just till out and mall the coupon ab of the greatest crises of that war the Other regular officers who were simi- RHODES MFG. CO.. armies were suddenly disabled by the larly disabled were discharged with Dept. A 412 14 18 Pendleton Ave., departure of thousands of short-term- seventy-five percent of the pay of their SI. Louis, Mo. enlistment men. rank for life. They deserved it. It was When the Spanish War broke, the na- none too much to do for them. Without tion was all but paralyzed in the pres- such provision it would be impossible to ence of the decrepit Spanish power. keep up even the little Regular Army we Governors of some of the States were maintain. declaring that the central government But the country is not so poor that had no right to call on the National it must rob Peter to pay Paul. There is leave their States. money enough for both, and if Paul did easy. KK1SS- Guard to KRIISS sells at sight. Check bottom hoe of The number of lives lost through in- the same work and paid the same penal- coupon above and get full .it-tails. efficiency and unpreparedness was great- ty for his patriotism, he should be er far than the loss in battle. equally rewarded. For two years we watched the World Yet there has been the most astound- DIAMONDS War and the few who realized that we ing reluctance on the part of a small DIAMOND I IMPORTERS must inevitably be drawn into it were but all-powerful minority in Congress helpless to awaken any spirit of pre- to grant this bit of justice.

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_ STERLING DIAMOND & WATCH CO. equipment. of a majority that may be only tem- ^Siilrl"°U 1540 Broadway. Dept. 2422, N.V. "1 There was some wisdom shown, how- porary. This has saved us from many || || ever, in the decision to gather the Na- mistakes and injustices. But it has also tional Guard and the National Army prevented many wisdoms and justices. into one general army under one set of When we entered the World War we regulations. did not have as many as ten thousand This The shame of the Spanish War had officers. We needed twenty times as caused some improvement in the train- many. Where were they to come from? (Shoe has ing of the militia, and the National How were the men of education and Guard was subjected as far as possible ability enough for command to be in- fEveiything to the administration and education of duced to leave their opportunities and the Regular Army. responsibilities and enter the long course Shaw's Trade Builder shoe lias good ap pearance, style, long wear and comfort. It This fact is vital to the discussion of of training? has an arch support that not only relieves aching feet but corrects the basic cause of the Emergency Officers Retirement Bill. They were promised certain things troubles. And the foot Since the National Guardsmen were de- and warned of certain things. Most of price of this good shoe is not ten dollars as you prived of all their old advantages as them knew that their pay would be less might expect, hut live dollara. Where can you beat soldiers for the separate States, and than they were earning. They put aside thrown into the melting pot, they de- ambition, profit, home, love, safety, served all the advantages of the merger. everything, to risk death and worse, and Nobody has more respect than I for to return crippled in body and energy the Regular Army and its marvelous to take up their battles anew after years achievements in spite of the most out- of absence. rageous neglect and ill-treatment. No- On May 18, iqi8, the Selective Serv- body has more eagerness for the welfare ice Act stated in so many words: of the man who devotes his life to the "All officers and enlisted men of the ARCH SUPPORT regular establishment and goes to West forces herein provided for other than

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the Regular Army shall be in all re- spects on the same footing as to pay, allowances, and pensions as officers and enlisted men of the corresponding grades and length of service in the Regular Army." General Orders No. 75, War Depart- ment, August 17, 1018, declared elo- quently: "This country has but one Army, the United States Army. These forces, how- ever raised, lose their identity in that of the United States Army." If this does not mean that Jim Finn was a Regular Army officer when he was so cruelly wounded, it means noth- ing. The threat is clear: "National Guardsmen and all others, you're in the Army now!" They made a song of it that ran something like this: "You'll never get rich, you son-of-a-witch, you're Retail List in the Army now!" Completely But the disabled officers found that Assembled the promise ended with the war. They MAGNIFICENT TONE-SUPER SELECTIVE-POWERFUL DISTANCE GETTER were not Regular Army officers when it came to retirement pay. Bs^^orBattervSet///. old, reliable Radio users—users whoboughtafterthoroufthwhobouf-htafterthorough t **0 effort begun to make Uncle America's big, — L#V t/^»«f\J IMSts' An was CorporationCorDoration (8th successful year) comparisons — enjoy programs Sam's promise as good as his threat. In guarantees in its big, powerful, Coast to Coast, Canada to Mexico, latest 6, 7 and 8 tube Miraco sets loud and clear—with the magnifi- 1910 a bill was introduced giving dis- "the finest, most enjoyable per- centcathedral tone quality of cost- formancoubtainabli'inhighgrade liest sets. Don't confuse Miraco's 'US abled "Emergency Army officers" the radios.'' Unless30days'usein your with cheap, "squawky" radios. home fully satisfies you a Miraco Miraco's have finest parts, latest same retirement pay as—Regular Army shielding, metal chassis, is unbeatable at any price for approved officers. beautiful, clear cathedral tone etc. — as used in many $200 sets. powerful razor-edge selectivity, DEAL DIRECT WITH "Powerplus easy operation, MIRACO That was nine years ago. The same distance reception, BIG FACTORY eeta—8 and 7 tube mod- one dial, etc. —don't buy it! Your verdict Your Miraco reaches you com- els—have magnificently i METAL SHIELDED / effort has been repeated in every Con- final. Save or make lots of money pletely assembled, rigidly tested, beautiful, clear cathedral sets equipment write for tone quality. Turn one dia! on and — fully guaranteed. Easy to connect for Btations everywhere. I , CHASSIS / gress. It has never come to a vote testimony of nearby users and and operate. 30 days trial free. Ultra-selective. Latest air Amazing Special Factory Offer. S year guarantee if you buy. You metal shielded chassis. Il- in the Senate without a great majority. take no risk, you insure satisfac- luminated dial. Fully guar Miraco's work equally fine on anteed. Try one tion, you enjoy rock -bottom money- free for current days! selection Yet, owing to the necessity of getting "AC" electric house saving prices by dealing direct with 30 Big beautiful cabinets. RETAIL LISTJ or with batteries. Take your one of radio's oldest, ninat su<-<< ssf ul of it past both houses, and into the crowd- choice. Many thousands of Miraco builders of fine sets. 8th successful year. Write! »* Make big profits showing Miraco Electrify^Any Radio ed program, it has never yet been made Dealers to friends. Get Our Special Wholesale Prices! MID-WEST RADIO CORPORATION. Cincinnati. O. a law. Sometimes it has been defeated BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOG MIDWEST^NO-BATTERY| by jugglery that would be more clever AND AMAZING light Socket SPECIAL OFFER f in a less heartless cause. . f Power Units SEND NO MONEY—30 All these years, as is right and prop- 'reef DAYS' TRIAL, Special Wholesale Price Offer to User-Agents, Hank [lOWlT er, disabled regular officers have been direct fro —References, testimony of nearby Miraco users out batterleal Write for Mid- retired seventy-five all the proof you want— sent with catalog. west prices and discounts. Un- with percent of their its are highest grade— lastingly ' deMiidtble, qtuet In operation, pay for life. I believe we should have mail coupon right now: fully guaranteed. Mail coupon? a far bigger Regular Army and a far ANOTHER BIG BARGAIN! Famous powerful big Miraco better paid. This poor pen has written Super »"». 1928 model— ultra se- THIS lective! Thousands find it out- MIDWEST RADIO CORP'N COUPON incessantly for preparedness and for jus- performs sets of much higher Pioneer Builders of Sets IS NOT price. 30 Days' Trial Free. f Fully Guaranteed. + 464-C Miraco BIdg., Cincinnati, Ohio. | AN ORDER tice and generosity to the Regular Army, ^WITHOUT OBLIGATION, nend me free literature. AMAZING SPECIAL and for endowment enough to enable its WHOLESALE PRICE OFFER, testimony of nearby uaern. etc. General Staff to keep it abreast or ahead of the world in progress, invention and fitness for emergency. In pleading for justice to the emer- gency officers. I ask for no abatement of

jree^/ugqestions in i the Regular Army's scanty enough re- wards. ) BRONZE TABLETS C All I know is that a man whom I love Earn $20 to $50 a week RETOUCH- MEMORIAL FLAGPOLES. GATEWAYS. ETC. and admire has given himself to his ING photos—men or women. No sell- ing or canvassing. We teach you at Jhe Jloiir City Ornamental Iron Co. country as devotedly and as disastrous- >' home, furnish WORKING OUTFIT ' i6ST.rE7WAVt.SO. MINNEAPOLIS. MfNN.- and employment service. Write today. ly as any Regular Army officer, that he Jrtcrall Studios. Oepl. I. 3900 Sheridan Rd.. Chicago was a Regular Army officer when he was crippled for life, and yet. for nearly ten years after his wound, he has been de- Want Some Money? nied the compensation guaranteed by Here's a tvonderfid ivay to get it the Government. Our beautifully illustrated book tells how. It tells all It is all very well for Senators and about our new methods of art decoration, art treatment and how anybody can learn without previous training or experience. Congressmen who have their post offices It contains pape after pate of handsome color illustrations of and bridges and dams to build to fili- what you can make and All supplies are sent by sell. You can make good us with the instructions buster and postpone and shunt inter- XV Ji JK money and this book is and many have made fering bills over to another session. Our system is amazingly easy to $25 the first week. Some society learn and the profits are larger than women have taken up this work What is another session to a Con- in almost any other business. You for their own amusement.— Either finished art can produce beautiful way, pleasure or profit, it's the gressman ? objects almost from the beginning. most delightful home work you can You don't have to know how to draw imagine. Write Now for your copy it is But a long time between sessions of this valuable book; it's FREE. Begin making; money t to men like Jim Finn. After years of close attention to Na- tional Guard ( Continued on page 52 ADRIAN. MICH.

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duty, he left his career and his home in requirements all its own. It preys on a June, 1916. That was eleven and a half man's mind. It deprives him of number- years ago. On July 29, 1918, he was less privileges, pastimes and abilities. carried to a hospital with a shrapnel- I have confined this story to Captain bitten leg. That was nine and a half James G. Finn because his is the case years ago. I know best. He put himself in my On December r, 1923, he was turned place and I try to put myself in his. out of the Army and the hospital to There are great numbers of other of- take up his law work. ficers whose plight is like his. The na- That was four years ago. tion has broken its word, its written WouldYou Like Many of the Senators and Congress- and enacted promises to him. It has men have been lawyers. They know ordered patriotic men to assume certain To Earn More how slowly a practice builds up, how responsibilities and perils and surrender quickly it melts away, how hard it is to certain liberties and opportunities and Money-inWork get it back again. it has not paid them what it promised Take seven years out of a lawyer's to pay. That's Almost younger years, give them up to camp, While the Emergency Officers Retire- battlefield and hospital, and then throw ment Bill remains unpassed, there is a Romance? him back to begin all over again, with blot on the honor of our country, and seven years gone, and with them his every Senator or Congressman who ob- agility, and one of his four limbs. structs its passage is guilty of perpetu- Jhen &>#RADIO The worst of a lost leg is that it is ating a cruel injustice to faithful sol- not merely missing. It is very much diers who were shattered in the service EXPERT/ present, with pains and annoyances and of the nation.

If you're earning a penny less than $50 a week, clip coupon below. Get my big Free Book telling about op- portunities for big money in Radio, Television, trans-At- The granger at the ffird J. E. SMITH, President lantic Radio telephony, many other wonderful inventions (Continued from page 27) and developments constantly creating big new Radio opportunities. Here's work that's al- himself. bore a letter from father, River and urged me to abandon my most romance, a NEW, speedy, growing, live- He wire profession. introducing Captain Ray. trip. He said I must not attempt the men! Salaries from And Radio needs trained Father had been attending the wound- fording alone, as the river would swim $50 all the way up to $250 a week are not unusual. You can easily learn Radio for big- ed in a field hospital. a horse and I was riding a young and ger pay by tested, practical methods. Hun- my "Captain Ray," he said, "your in- spirited little mare that was afraid of dreds of men have already done it. You learn quickly in your spare hours AT HOME— it's juries are doing well, but I shall recom- water. I assured him I had no inten- all so interesting to you that It's easy! mend a furlough at home to recruit tion of attempting the fording alone Extra Dollars For You your strength." but that I would ride down the road and The captain received this usually joy- fall in with someone who would see Almost At Once ous news with a grave countenance. me over. said, "I have no home I I reached the river without meeting Think of making $15, $20, $30 extra every week "on "Doctor," he the side," without interfering with your regular job! can go to. I am a Virginian. Alone of anyone, however, and found the ford I'll teach you to do it almost at once after you start your Radio training with me, by using spare time that you're my family I rejected the cause of the worse than I had expected. There was a wasting now. And all the convalescence must great current, dangerous with driftwood, while you'll be getting ready Confederacy. My for the bigger Radio jobs take place in camp." and a precipitous bank to climb on the Six Big Outfits ahead of Practice Ma- You can easily pay for Captain Ray remained with us a yonder side. I should never have at- terial Given Free your course and put money in of Extra Cost the bank w bile learning, month and returned to the Army. tempted it alone, and after waiting quite when you learn my prac- With your training by My parents were Virginians, too, but a while for someone to come along was you get free of ex- tical methods. And you don't tra cost 6 great need to leave home, or inter- I had been born in Indiana and con- about to turn back when I heard a outfits of real fere with the job you have Radio practice ma- now, while you're doing it! sidered myself as Free Soil as any Green horse approaching by the side road Fill out and mail the coupon terial. With these Mountain Stater. At Brush Creek I which joined the main road at the ford. 6 outfits you can below for the big book of build 100 real Facts and Proof. rather enjoyed "the Yankee school- The side road was little more than a Radio circuits. This is the prac- 64- Page Book Sent Free ma'am." bridle path through the timber. of tical kind home- When I receive your coupon off- lie Our home was on a farm near Eldo- A young gentleman reined up. He linlil n joh not on paper I'll mail you my big 64-page -ON THE PAYROLL. Book Immediately. It's filled rado Springs, in Cedar County, twenty- was rather good-looking and splendidly Send cupon below for with photos and facts detail* of this offer. about the opportunities in five miles from the Brush Creek School. mounted. He wore a planter's broad, Radio, and tells how you can prepare, quickly I tried to go back and forth every other gray hat, a genteel suit of the familiar and easily in your spare the early spring of 1868 butternut brown and, of course, boots. time at home, to be an week-end, but expert in this field. opened with such bad weather that for His horse was a black one, adorned with No previous Radio ex- perience needed to take six or eight weeks I had not been home. silver martingales and a toney saddle. advantage of this offer. pistol either side of the No special schooling Finally one Saturday morning I had my A hung from coupon required. Mall horse brought out and said I was going horn, but that was nothing. My father now— address J. E. Smith, President. home whether or no. My brother from and brother carried arms on the rounds Osceola was to ride the first six miles of their professional visits. The gentle- J. E. SMITH, President, see over the Sac River man removed his hat and asked if I were National Radio Institute, with me and me Dept. I-A5, Washington, D. C. ford. From there on I could make it contemplating a fording. Dear Mr. Smith: Kindly send me your 64-page Free quite well alone, regardless of roads or I said I was on the point of turning Book which tells about learning Radio for bigger pay. Also send information on your offer of 6 outfits of weather. back, it looked so perilous. material free of extra cost. I understand this places me under no obligation. I rode over to my brother's but found "I know this fording perfectly, miss," Name him ready to start on an emergency said the civil stranger. "Trust me to Address call. He could not go with me to Sac see you safely across." Town State 52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ) :

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pleasantly enough and it seemed like no might have made some real money with wmsout distance to Roscoe. but small effort." "I am sorry that we must part here," "How, father?" ixi Jbx^siness the gentleman said, "but I must get my "The reward. Jesse James had his Do yorj want a better position and a higher salary? You can horse have these if you can do the work. LaSalle experts will show shod." horse shod there but no one knew who you how, guide you Btep by step to success and help solve The blacksmith's shop was off the was until the officers came up, and your personal business problems through the time-saving he LaSullo Problem Method. Our salary-increasing plan en- main road. The stranger lifted his hat. then he was gone." ables you to prepare during your spare hours, without inter- ference with your present duties. Simply mark on the coupon I thanked him again for his service. He I asked what Jesse James and his the fit- Id in which you desire success, and we will mail you a valuable book describing the opportunities in that field, to- uttered an amenity about a hope of a horse looked like. When he told me I gether with an outline of out salary-increasing plan. Also copy of "Ten Years' Promotion in One." There is no cost or future meeting and rode off. told him about the fording of the Sac. obligation. Find out how the salary-increasing plan starts average men and women on the high road to success and A few hours after I had reached home In those days every substantial citi- financial independence. Check and mail the coupon NOW. my father went out on a call. I did not zen was more or less an unofficial peace "™ ~~ ""Find Yourself Through LaSalle~ "~ ~ LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY see him again until next morning when officer. I had often heard my father The World's Largest Business Training Institution I came down to breakfast. Father was speak of Jesse James—but not as a Dept. 1361-R Chicago ~ f=frrlr called a stern man, but he and I always suitable riding companion for one of his Tell me about your salary - increasing plan KgaH^^fi^ for my advancement in the business field n.... §&{:('" ft bantered a good deal together. daughters. Father was silent for several checked. Send also ' ' . 1 copy of T'-n Wars' n Promotion in One," all without obligation. / 'Oot/o/l / "Well, sis." he said. "You insist on minutes. Finally he said: business Management Person- Hi Of]< nel Man- teaching school for forty dollars a "Under the circumstances, sis, you Modern Salesmanship . agenn nt ' Higher Accountancy month. If you had passed through Ros- were as safe with Jesse James as with Traffic Management Expert & ^°" k coe at the right time yesterday you any man in these parts." Railway Station - rt Management ? * ^Businessn« Englishtt . DLaw-Degree of LL.B. merc ' al sP»n»h Commercial Law 2£?™ . SpC S Industrial Management SJ? * DC. P. A . Coaching no . , ^. ^ Banking and F.nance Dstenotypy Modern Business Corre- Telegraphy spondence DCredit and Collection & J^ady, J£ave Tou zAny Wine! Modern For em an ship Correspondence Name ( Continued from page ig)

Position. Present , Phil lay in the darkness thinking until travagance would bring it to 25,000, Address.. _ his head ached of how twenty-five thou- just the amount Diane needed to retain sand francs could be found to come to the Cafe du Commerce. the rescue of Diane's cafe. A moment later, his mind made up, The problem was still agitating his he jumped excitedly into the side-car thoughts two days later—and only two again and told Private Toan to drive to save^fai days before the Count would claim the the Cafe du Commerce. At once he con- inn—when he passed through camp and ferred with Diane, rather breathlessly, New FREE book quotes Reduced ^ heard familiar bugle calls and cries of and instructed her what she should do Factory Prices. 5-Year Guarantee Bond on Stoves^ glee, and saw men running to form in today in preparation for an enormous Ranges. Furnaces. 200 styles and sizes. Beautiful porcelain enamel line to receive their pay. He stopped trade at six o'clock. She laughed at ranges and combination gas and coal ranges. Mahogany porcelain first enamel heating stoves. and watched Peanut Nixon trying to him at and called him droll, to Cash or easy terms. 24-hr. shipments. 30-day free beat Joe Egley to the head of the line, think that this pay-day would be any trial. 360-day test. Satis- faction guaranteed. 26 and, when the race was finished, pre- different, as far as the Cafe du Com- years in busine.sa. GSo.ooi) customers. Write today over the con- merce was concerned, for FREE book. tending to come to blows from any other. Kalamazoo Stove Co. But Phil insistent finally Manufacturers test. was and won 2066 Rochester Avenue Suddenly Phil's brow cleared. An idea her over. Kalamazoo. Mich. A Kalamazoo, had come to him that might save Diane. "You have confidence in me, n'est-ce- "SSS£ Direct to You" His attention concentrated on the pas, Diane?" he demanded so vigorously pay-roll line, studying the men who that she hastened to assure him, sharing

would flock to the village cafes this his excitement : "Yes, yes, yes. What is of the Legion Paris Convention complete evening to scatter their pink and blue it that you wish me to do?" Pershing, Savage ar- rival parade. Recep- tions, Convention bills over the bars before the creases "Those cousins of yours are going meeting complete in

every detail . Wonder- had a chance to set. All through camp, to be some good after all. Get Henri ful record. Movies all through this American town of hasty and Robert and Louis and any others rooftops, electric light poles, and square- who aren't too feeble to bend their el- 100 Ft. 15 mm Print $10 00 3M> Ft. 18 mm Print-. $28.00 cut roads, the radiance of pay-day was bows, and have them here at six o'clock. Also standard prinU theatre size $65.00 DE BIEN FILMS dawning. At least five thousand men Roll up their sleeves and make waiters 20 East Jackson Blvd. CHICAGO would be the richer for 200 francs of them. Then Emile, the one who plays apiece and by night -fall five hundred of the violin, put him in a corner and tell them would be exchanging the square- him to scrape it till it wears out, even IWant700Agents cut roads for the winding roads beneath if it's too intelligent. You and your red-tiled village roofs where able-bodied mother can keep behind the bar and drinkers, including hospital orderlies, handle the change. But there ought to engineers, and the convalescent soldiers be more tables outdoors under the trees, MenandWomeniWritemetodayandby called "walking cases," would fill the and some planks, say, laid across empty this time next week I can place you In a position to cafes to overflowing, as soon as six kegs, anything will do, in the back yard make $2.00 to $5.00 an hour In your spare time, up to ' 1 $15 a day full time. Thousands of our repre- o'clock came, in a soldier's saturnalia, near the vegetable garden. For tonight. sentattves are making that and more with our 1 ' NewPlans. Simply introduce and takeorders g with wine and women (in imagination) Diane, business is going to overflow all famous World's Star Hosiery, Under- I f , for wear and Rayon Lingerie sold direct / / and song. Now, ran the thought with over the place!" from Mill to HomeHome—a complete line fortor w J/ whole family, Permanent customers and P )J dizzying intensity in Phil's mind, if each "Oh, how I wish it!" cried Diane. repeat orders. No Investment needed. /oiT Complete sellinglllng equipmentecjuipmer furnished tr^ of these men spent 25 francs tonight "But how can we do it?"

' rree. NoC.O.D. Nodeposlt. Write. Hllir-l* it to thou- «• lUJUUIUIl a modest estimate—a total of 12,500 "Leave to me. You'll see." It's a chance make tands of dollars. Exi luslve territory. Kxtra Serv- would pass from American pockets to "But we have not enough liqueurs or ice Awards. Cash Bonus. Promotion No expe-

. today rlence needed. Write for all particulars. French tills. Two nights of such ex- wines on hand for a crowd." LV» WORLD'S STAR KNITTING COMPANY 8 1 1 Lake Street Bay City, Mich.

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"Then get them! Use some of that thousand francs you have, and use your credit, and stock up completely." "Monsieur Duprez, who has the vine- yard on the next farm, has plenty of wine." she considered. "Tell him to hitch up and bring you Free one of those hogsheads as big as a rail- road station." 1 Regular "You're sure we will have a crowd 25c Vial tonight?" asked Diane as he was about (of which more than 1,000,000 take his departure. to have been sold) "Crowd," he returned, "will be no So positive are word for it. There will be a parade we that you coming down this road tonight that will will find Merke take three hours to pass a given point!" Derma Vials of Phil drove back to the M. T. O. wonderful help garage, transferred himself and Private in ending dan- Toan to a small, covered truck, picked drull' and fall- ing hair that up Privates Peanut Nixon and Joe Eg- we offer you ley, and proceeded back clown the hill PROOF without to the village of stopping Moiry, outside obligation. Sim- the Cheval Blanc. It was three o'clock ply mail coupon and the hot sun blazed on the road. The for one regular Cheval Blanc was deserted except for a 25c Vial AB- few flies making the rounds of a buzzing SOLUTELY circle in the doorway, and the figure of FREE the proprietor leaning on the bar in Hermetically languid conversation with a friend, wait- Sealed ing the hour of six when the soldiers could come. From the truck Phil's glance traveled to the door and back to the perplexed faces of Privates Nixon DANDRUFF? FALLING HAIR? and Egley. "You two can climb out," he directed, "and go into the Cheval Blanc." NewKind Liquid-in Mais What for?" asked Joe Egley, sur- of prised. "It's out of hours to drink now. The old bird won't sell us anything. And you an M. P.! How do you get Kills Germs that Cause Them like that?" thousands can say good-bye to supplies the dormant hair roots with the vital, NOW hair-growing nourishment they need. hair troubles to dandruff, "Go in," continued Phil, ignoring the worrisome — Extensive laboratory tests by one of the world's with a protest, "and get in an argument with thin, falling hair, approaching baldness. foremost research laboratories concluded "The results indi- For modern science has developed a re- report from which we quote: each other at the bar. Right there I cate that the tonic killed the test organism (bac- markable remedy—a new kind of liquid, teria) in less than three minutes. The results want you to stage that dandy little ex- is pene- hermetically scaled in ylass vials, that is also indicate that the tonic capable of hibition of pugilism you do so well. trating and preventing the growth of the test positively guaranteed to end dandruff and organism (bacteria)." After you've been slamming each other hair or costs nothing. stop falling — FREE—One Regular 25-Cent Vial around the cafe I'll a couple minutes treatment is the result of countless This new our expense prove how experiments by the famous Allied Merke Insti- Now at —you can come in and arrest you." quickly the Merke Derma Vial Treatment ends tutes. Inc., Fifth Avenue, New York. These ex- "Arrest us!" echoed Peanut. periments prove that most cases of hair troubles dandruff and stops falling hair. Simply read the Free Offer explained in the panel above. Mail are caused by tiny parasitical germs. coupon TODAY for your Free Vial. Allied Merke "Oh, I see," said Joe, "you just want into the scalp, By burrowing their way down Institutes, Dept. D-221, 512 Fifth Avenue. N. Y.C. us to give our show." these germs which are unseen by the naked eye. finally infect the hair roots, causing them to be- "That's it. Give it as if you were come dormant—inactive. Result? With the roots no longer able to supply their vital nourishment, Allied Merke Institutes, Inc., Dept. D-221, full of cognac. The proprietor never dandruff soon forms, and the hair becomes dry, 512 Fifth Avenue, New York City. had a chance to see you two perform." brittle and falls out. Ordinary tonics and dandruff remedies fail to Please send me, without obligation, one of the Not only had Monsieur Gervais, the bring results because these merely treat the sur- regular 25c Merke Derma Vials absolutely FREE, effect on and tell me how to use it. swarthy little patron of the Cheval face of the scalp, and have little or no the harmful bacteria embedded below the surface. Blanc, never witnessed the fistic en- this treatment, called Merke Derma But new Name -. counter of Privates Nixon and Egley Vials, is a highly concentrated liquid which ac- tually penetrates beneath the surface to the roots before, but even now, while it took place themselves. It KILLS the infecting bacteria, Address carries off the unhealthy scaly substances which in front of him, he gave every indica- cause dandruff and falling hair, and at the same which City State. tion of failing to take it at its entertain- time, acts to promote a healthy circulation ment value. His eyes beheld it with horror. He saw the two Americans careening lustily among his tables and chairs, crying out and dealing each other Ill Your Bills terrific blows. This was murder! He ran my out from behind the bar waving his and give you a steady in- Lowest prices. Big permanent repeat busi- hands at them and begging them to stop. come for the rest of your ness. Quality guaranteed by $25,000.00 bond. "Cease! Cease! Not here!" Then he life, if you'll take care of my Get Food Products business in your locality. No products. 30 retreated hastily from the orbit of their I'll send big case of highest quality experience needed. Full or full size packages of home necessities. ferocious swings, and stood looking on spare time. You don't invest Write at Once wringing his hands. A moment later he one cent, just be my local Write quick for full information. With person I saw Sergeant Forkey, the big non-com- partner. Make $15.00 a day select as my partner. I go 50-50. Get my amazing offer for your locality. missioned officer in charge of all the M. easy. Ride in a Chrysler Sedan I furnish Write or Wire P.'s, enter the room, part the combat- and distribute teas, coffee, spices, extracts, ants, and place ( Continued on page 56 things people eat. 1 furnish everything in- C. W. VAN DE MARK cluding world's finest super sales outfit. Dept. 902-AA 117 Duane St., Cincinnati, O.

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A $10 BILL Protects for a Whole Year & J^ady, Jfave Tou zAny Wine? under a new and improved policy issued by a reliable old line Insurance Company. (Continued from page 55) Pays up to

them under arrest. Before he knew A La Grappe d'Or in St. Parize-le-Chatel. $10,000 what had happened the men had all dis- the third village near camp. appeared in the car, vanishing up the At a quarter to six, when the French Financial Safeguard in case of road toward the camp. summer sun was still high in the sky, A few minutes later the car stopped groups of soldiers began straggling down ACCIDENT outside the A. P. M. office, and Phil the hill from camp towards the village AND went inside to have a wioxd with Cap- of Moiry (as other groups did the same tain Tatham. The captain's tempera- towards Magny-Cours and St. Parize) ment being of an academic tranquillity to be on the spot when the hour of six SICKNESS little suited to police activities, readi- permitted he entrance into the cafes. To NO MEDICAL EXAMINATION ly accepted Phil's report and his advice. their surprise they found that admit- Men- Women 16 to 70 Years Accepted "By all means, Sergeant, if that kind tance would be denied them, that the No Dues or Assessments of a disgraceful fight took "place in the haunts fondly looked forward to for this $10,000 Principal Sum Cheval Blanc today, put it 'out of pay-day night were "out of bonds." J10.000 Loss of Hands. Feet or Eyesight $25 Weekly Benefit for Stated bounds' and station an M. P. at the door The news traveled fast and met other Accidents and Sicknesses to enforce the order. The proprietor approaching groups before they arrived Doctor's Bills. Hospital Benefit, Emer- gency Benefit and other new and lib- probably sold liquor to the men before at the doors in question. eral features to help In time of need all clearly shown In policy. hours. You know how the colonel feels "They're all out of bounds. . . . They LOOK OUT! Serious automobile about these things. Go ahead, Sergeant, ain't a lousy cafe near camp you can and many other kinds of accidents hap- and do whatever you think best . . . get into. . . . What's the idea?" pen every minute—few escape them— suppose you meet with an accident to- at any time. I trust to your judgment The particular M. P. at whom they night . . . would your income continue? in these matters. The colonel doesn't stared resentfully in each case, cursing Pneumonia, appendicitis and many other ills in the policy, which are pre- want a lot of rowing going on continu- as they stared, had been instructed to valent now, can cause serious financial ally in these cafes. By the way, Ser- give them certain information of a sol- loss to you . . . prepare Now. — geant " Captain Tatham glanced out acing nature, whereupon cries of sudden Don't wait for misfortoae to overtake too the window with soft expectancy—"I'm encouragement echoed in the streets be- I MAIL THE COUPON NOW North American Accident Insurance Co. going in to the city of Nevers in a few tween the red-tiled roofs. 1042 Bonnell Bldg., Newark, Jersey New minutes. I probably won't be back till "Hey, guys! The Cafe du Commerce Gentlemen: late." is open." At no cost to me, send details of the "NEW $10 PREMIER $10,000 POLICY' "Yes, sir," said Phil, delighted. He "Where's that? Never heard of it." Name knew where the captain's footsteps "Down the road towards Saincaize." Address would take him. There were some old "Lead us to it!" City State book stalls in one of Nevers' streets where Captain Tatham loved to browse Phil predicted that the AGENTS WANTED for Local Territory WHEN de- and read and select with great care an mand on the Cafe du Commerce armful of curious volumes. Meanwhile would be a parade down the road, he Phil would have the M. P. control of did not exaggerate. He knew mascu- JUPafYOU the three villages outside camp com- line psychology, that when soldiers had pletely in his hands. money and wanted to spend it, and a Returning to Moiry, Phil informed thirst and wanted to quench it, love *100aWeek the proprietor of the Cheval Blanc that would find a way. Sell tailored-to-measure all his cafe was "out of bounds" to all The scene at the Cafe du Commerce suits and overcoats at wool soldiers, and stationed an M. P. at its was memorable, not only because of the $23.50 and $31.50. Liberal commissions paid in advance. They sell on sight door. In vain did Monsieur Gervais irrefutable mathematical formula that repeat orders — steady income from expostulate. "They did not have a drink, ";oo men times francs made 12,500 extra bonus money. Complete sales 25 outfit FREE including big- cloth sam- not a single drink in my cafe, those two francs, but also because it involved All deliver and ples. you do is sell. We soldiers so ferocious! Am I to blame crowding. Sweating, exclaiming, hurry- collect. Great opportunity—write NOW. that they fight close door?" ing with trays and bottles, five fairly W. Z. GIBSON, Inc., SOOThroopSt.. Dept. N-405, Chicago and you my Phil regretfully explained: "It is feeble cousins of Diane were exhausted tOSo^Hal]' the order," and, making the typical ges- at half-past eight but kept struggling ture of Frenchmen when expressing ig- through the press of soldiers, outside at The Nation's fireat Poultry Manual. 132 Pages. Beautiful Pictures. Mrs. Berry's norance, proved that he could shrug his tables under the sycamores, outside sit- success with Hatchery. Blood-Tested. Pure-Bred Poultry and pullets that lay at shoulders with the best of them. ting on the ground under the sycamores, 4 months; feeding, housinR. culIinR, dis- outside ease and remedy information. Makes LOW "And now," he said to Privates Nixon near the vegetable garden, at PRICES on Pure Quality Fowls. Errs. Chicks, and Egley in the back of the truck, planks laid over make-shift supports, Brooders, Supplies, etc. Send only 0 cents to help mail. "there is the Cafe de Paris down the and in the vegetable garden itself, seat- BERRY'S POULTRY FARM, Box 52, Clarinda, Iowa street, where the next fight will take ed on hills of beans. On the steps of Travel for "Uncle Sa place. I hate to do this, boys, but it's the cafe, in the doorway, and in the big all for a worthy cause." room itself, a milling crowd pushed and "Don't hesitate on our account," said struggled to get a hand on a bottle. In Peanut. "We kind of enjoy it. The one corner Cousin Emile, whose violin Frcnchies' eyes pop out like corks." caught the crowd's fancy, was swamped "Then out and at 'em!" directed with encouragement, liquid and other- Phil. wise, and when the gentle strains of a WANT A few minutes later the Cafe de Paris classic piece weren't being drowned in was also officially denominated "out of the tumult of voices, he was being urged - Railway Postal Clerks $2700 bounds" as the result of a shameful to be a good fellow and play "If You / «-»A YEAR'' . / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. fight between two soldiers unknown to Could Care for Me" or "Katie." / Dept. T186. Rochester. N. V. Sirs: Rush tome withoutehariro. (!) 32 paire the proprietor. The same soldiers, pro- Behind the bar Diane and her mother F¥t* btKVICtCTDUlpr Ml u ^ MEN o l,o„i, doarrihinir Government Jobs, <2i list of GETui 1-ncrcntni.CPRFFFRFNTF U.S.GovernmentjobsnowopentoEx-Service ceeding in the truck with Phil, visited were busy raking in the franc notes of Men. (31 tell me how to itet a position. the Lion d'Or and the Cafe de France five, ten, 50, and 100 denominations. Moil Coupon §-Home Toduy.Sure / in Magny-Cours. and the cafe called Phil and two other M. P.'s stood at the

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side keeping order and seeing that the a regular epidemic, but that they had money obligations were duly met by all been punished enough; and thereupon, the customers. Only the mounting having brought relief to Captain Tat- hoards of this unheard-of good fortune ham, he next addressed the owners in kept Madame Gamier from collapsing French and expressed his regret for what in the excitement. Twice, with her apron had happened and promised that the ban full, she made trips upstairs to a secret on their places would be lifted at once. cache in her bedroom to stow the bills A fair-sized crowd, however, con- away. As for Diane, she laughed and tinued to patronize the Cafe du Com- shouted and talked hysterically with her merce that evening, even preferring it clients, and kept both hands busy ac- to its competitors nearer camp. cepting their money. Phil received the thanks of Diane At nine o'clock Phil announced, with when they were alone together after the the aid of his men: "All out! It's after last customer had been guided out into hours." but it took nearly half an hour a singing, starlit night. Diane's heart more to clear the crowd away obedient was singing, too. They had more than to the M. P. regulations, by which time enough money now to save the inn an additional pile of bank notes had and it was all due, she said with tears been thrust at Diane in exchange for trembling on her long lashes, to "her goods received. sergeant who must love her very much." Shoulder The next night the same thing hap- pened again, for another quota of 500 THAT was eight years ago. The men, with fresh pay in their pockets, other day one of Phil's old buddies had had to wait twenty-four hours be- received a letter from him saying that blades . . . fore getting leave. They. too. parted a lot of things can happen in eight with their money joyously at the Cafe years, including offspring. Phil had du Commerce, the only spot where they heard, he said, that his buddy was THAT'S what some indignant could accomplish it within walking dis- planning to visit France again, and he authority has called this tance of hoped he would look him up. camp. modern sedentary life of ours. Meanwhile, as Phil had expected, the "We own more than the old Cafe du It's true. But we weren't built other cafe proprietors began to make Commerce now,"' he wrote. "I got the for it — and so sluggish intestinal vigorous protests, and on the morning money mv mother left me and put some muscles have become a universal of the third day they appeared in an of it into another inn. Between farm- problem. aggrieved body at the office of the A. ing and the hotel business and raising P. M. Captain f over- two kids trying to keep their Uncle Ta ham was and That is why millions of men whelmed by their feelings. violin lessons. hurt Emile from giving them and women have hailed a de-

"Why did you put them 'out of I'm very busy. Diane is well and as I licious little mint flavored tablet bounds.' Sergeant?" he asked Phil, be- pretty as ever. Do you remember the as one of the greatest triumphs wildered. "They say they're losing thou- chateau that used to belong to Count of the modern laboratory. sands of francs a day." d'Autremont 2 Well, that's our home

' I'll smooth it out. Captain," Phil as- now. We bought it. You'll see how nice Feen-a-mint is apparently just sured him, and it will explained that the cafes looks when you visit us. There a bit of chewing gum. You chew had been closed as a result of an unusual be a room for you and all the wine you it two or three minutes at bed- series of brawls breaking out in them, want to drink." time, until the flavor is gone.

That is all. Yet notice how you feel next morning. Fresh The Qreen ^hCountain ^Boy — buoyant — clear-eyed, for the deadening poisons of constipa- (Continued from page 30) tion are gone. And gone with no violent "flushing" of the year when Springfield high school and ing him that the cattle have strayed system— with no injury to the the high schools of a number of sur- again she to bring them and has gone digestion— with none of the un- rounding towns took part in a prize back. The storm breaks, the forest is pleasant after-effects ordinary speaking contest held in the Opera torn by the winds and the husband is laxatives may have for you. House at White River Junction. Dr. overwhelmed by remorse. The wife re- Dressel had chosen Spafford as the best turns, with the missing herd, but dies Feen-a-mint, the originator of speaker in the school and they se- had as she enters the cabin. There were a new laxative principle, is made lected as the composition Spafford was tears in as young Spafford many eyes under laboratory conditions in a to render Will Carleton's long poem, put into his words the full pathos of spotless, sanitary plant. Its qual- • The First Settler's Story." the story. Dr. Dressel remembers es- ity has never been duplicated. Seven hundred persons sat in the pecially those lines which are so force- Opera House when the speakers of ful an appeal for human sympathy and Made only by Health Products Woodstock. Bethel. Randolph. White charity: Corporation, Newark, N.J. Branches River Junction and other towns com- in Toronto, Canada — London — peted for the prize. Spafford spoke for "Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged Frankfort, Germany and representa- a half hour and his dramatic rendition birds countries. can't do that way when you're flying tives in all principal of the poem, with its beautiful passages, You words. held the audience as in a spell. The 'Careful with fire,' is good advice, we know; poem is the recital of a settler in the 'Careful with words,' is ten times doubly so. wilderness who, absorbed in the harsh Thoughts unexpressed may fall back dead, struggle with nature, failed to appreciate But God himself can't kill them when the effect of hardships upon his young they're said." wife and thoughtlessly reprimanded her for allowing the cattle to stray. On the The honor Ed Spafford won from the day following the reprimand he returns judges in that contest at White River home as a fierce storm is approaching Junction had an important effect on his and finds his wife gone, a note inform- later life. For (Continued on page 58)

JANUARY, 19^8 57 Avoid the The Qreen ^hCountain "Boy

Invisible Death! (Continued from page 57)

one thing, is was the beginning of a gave most of the credit to the gun INVISIBLE, odorless, and fatal — that friendship with Ernest Gibson, Congress- pointers of his batteries. Every 1 is carbon monoxide gas, a poison man of which lurks in your automobile, in your man from Vermont, which has lasted them under his training had attained gas range, and other appliances. through the intervening years. Mr. Gib- the grade of "qualified pointer." son, of the The danger is so real that the Motor one judges of the contest, It is easy to pass lightly over those Vehicle Departments of various states told the young Springfield orator he years of service on shipboard, the kind plan now to furnish motorists (with would some day win wider fame as a of service which naval officers give their registration plates) a warning speaker. Certainly the oratorical contest quietly year after year in peacetime against this gas. was a testing of fledgling wings, and with no recognition except from brother For the past few years we, and other Edward E. Spafford learned the joy that officers thrown into close contact with insurance companies, have been bring- comes with striving and winning. them. It is only when the test of ing this danger to public attention. war It was not long after the White River comes And we offer you—FREE—a booklet that the officers and men who Junction oratorical contest that Con- on the subject, designed to save lives. have been advancing inconspicuously for gressman W. W. Grout, of the Vermont years reveal their real worth and the district which included Spafford's home country awakens to appreciation. town, let it be known that he was seek- ing a boy with the personality and the 'T* HERE was a day on board the scholarship needed to complete the hard -- Washington when Edward Spafford course in the United States Naval faced a test of bravery as trying as any Academy. Spafford had had West Point that could come to a naval officer dur- in the back of his mind during his high ing battle. The Washington was off school years, but there was a sporting Cape Hatteras, heading into a storm appeal in Congressman Grout's search. Use that raised mountainous waves. The Congressman Grout had said: "I've Coupon waves broke over the bow and swept Below been trying for eighteen years to get the decks. Spray drenched the officers some boy from my district to go to on the bridge. The wind howled through Annapolis and stick. I hope you are the the mast supports and tore at funnels man I've been looking for." and hatches. The ship pitched and So Edward E. Spafford went to An- rolled. Life Insurance. Compahy* napolis. He delighted the heart of good Of Boston. Massachusetts Boatswain's Mate Faraday ventured old Congressman Grout by emerging out of the forecastle to see that every- INQUIRY BUREAU from that school four years later with thing was secure. A green sea broke 197 Clarendon St., Boston, Mass. the graduating class of 1001. He hadn't over the ship and Faraday was swept set any new scholarship records in that Please send me your free booklet on overboard. difficult school, but he came through in Carbon Monoxide Gas. "Man overboard!" was the cry. The the middle of his class, which is a com- engines were stopped and life buoys let fortable position to hold. He had shown go. There was a rush for a lifeboat. especial aptitude in mathematics and Spafford was below when the alarm history—a fact to be remembered. was shouted, but he was the first officer While still in the Academy, Spafford to reach the lifeboat. made training cruises on the last of the Harry F. Hutty, Vice Commander of BECOME AN EXPERT old-line sailing ships, the Monongahela the County York) and the Chesapeake. He learned as cap- Nassau (New or- ganization of the Legion, on the tain of the main top the science of was Washington that day. tells the handling the huge spreading sails of He Executive Accountants story: and C. P. A'a earn $3,000 to $10,000 a year. craft left Tt. ariflH i ( which have the oceans. of .1 now hrniR m th.-m. inly 't.niin ( Vr tilled 1'uUir Account- ants in the United States. We train yoa thoroly at home in epstre time "With others of the crew I went aft fior CP. A. examinations or executive accounting positions. Previous Upon graduation he was given duty c*jieri.-nct- unne< eaHary. Training under the personal Bupervmion of William Ua.-.tenho!z. and saw Spafford in the lifeboat waiting B. A. M . C. P. A., and a large staff of C. P. aboard the Alabama, then the very latest A s.. inctii.liriK rrM-rnbern ..f the American Inatitutw of Accountantfl. Write for free book, "Accountancy, the Profession that Pays." of Uncle battleships, em- for the order to lower," Hutty relates. LaSalle H Sam's new Extension University , Dept. 1 361 Chicago storm severe that until The World's Largest Business Trainine institution bodying all the lessons of construction "The was so the which had been learned in the Spanish- captain arrived on deck and gave per- American War. mission no one dared give the order to For the next five years Spafford lower that boat. If one thing went served on the staff of Rear Admiral wrong Spafford and every other man in that boat would be lost. The captain f/0f Market Charles Henry Davis. Then he served in J something. f° Prices succession as the watch officer on the said Spafford answered. Tennessee and as gunnery officer of the "There was Faraday in the buoy, A 3/4 CENTURY HOUSE offere th.3 3/4 less 1/16 carat, snappy, soli- Washington, since renamed the Seattle. now to windward of the ship; attempts taire just $b9.60. Try to match at $116.00. A reason you rarely think of, makes pos- gunnery officer Spafford showed to bring the ship alongside the buoy sible RADICALLY U>W PRICES, even As for FINEST QUALITY DIAMONDS. had failed, Faraday being Offers backed by thoroughly responsible that he had learned well all that the and was Kuaranteea. Examination Free. Send now, use blank below. Naval Academy could teach in mathe- slowly drowned by the spume whipped Why Pay Full Prices? matics. His New England practicality off the waves I have never seen a more World's oldest, largest diamond bank- ing institution of 75 yearn, rated over also counted heavily. The combination angry sea. SI. nun null "II, must nr.ll the DIAMONDS on WHICH MONEY wan LOANED BUT NOT helped produce a world's gunnery record. "The boat was lowered safely, and REPAID. Diamonds, too, from DIG CASH EUROPEAN DEALS. Send NOW. Lifts sight at some of the men told me they saw the limited. Free-all details,- Exart descrln- Firing at bar range a moving tiona,—Guaranterd amounts you ran borrow. keel Examine Diamonds free, at our risk. target 16,000 yards away, the ten-inch of the ship. Skillfully handled, but guns of the Washington registered one often lost to the sight of those on the 'Send for Free List. Use Blank Below. hit per turret per minute. To make this ship, that little boat worked its way Name ._ possible three shells from each gun had to the buoy. Faraday by this time un-

Address - to be in the air at the same time. The conscious and unable to help himself, speed and accuracy of this fire would was dragged into the boat by Spafford. have to the "The boat returned and was eventual- For latest list Free in plain envelope and /or Special List won any war up World Diamonds $60 to $200 Qi Diamonds $200 to $500 O; fill in naval officers ly hoisted safely. taken and mail to War, concede. Spafford Faraday was Jos. DeRoy & Sons, Oust, P.O. 6764 DeKoy Bldg., Pittsburg. Pa.

58 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Gordon -Van Tine out of the boat on a stretcher. He was Home No. 633 5 rooms, bath. wearing Spafford's life belt. There Sendfori C\ Ci HOME Materials Plan-Cut. belts to go round hadn't been enough $1860 so Spafford, the gunnery officer of the m ±yJ yJ plans ! Washington, had taken his off and

placed it on his half-drowned shipmate. What a cheer burst from the throats of those on board!"

IN 191 2 Spafford was put in charge of the work of constructing the first sixteen-inch guns ever made for the Navy. Later he began a tour of duty at a Canal Zone naval station, but the tropical climate affected his health. After a series of medical examinations and a period in naval hospitals he re- signed his commission in 1914. In that same year Mr. Spafford's wife died, leaving in his care a daughter, Lucille, a year and a half old. Mrs. Spafford was the daughter of John Rhinelander BuyDirect from Mill—Wholesale Prices! j Stevens, until his death a leading figure Get our low wholesale prices before you build. We furnish com- in New York City. plete architects' plans, with lumber and mill-work cut to plan M^j&JTW IMf With the problem of rearing his at mill. Saves you 30% labor cost and 18% lumber waste. BMpWmi^&l W fust mncrs say they save 1!', daughter confronting him, Spafford up to $2,000 on house. One guaran- mSTr "l' j moved to New York City and entered teed price covers all—no extras. Write or send coupon, j Gordon-Van Tine Co. the school of law at Columbia Uni- Garages $83 Up Highest Quality This 140 Page I FREE Book 1023 Case St., Davenport, Iowa sersity. He had just completed his law Build yourself. Materials We fumhh onlv highest qu«1- • Sati aetion Guaranteed r Montv Back- !T8S5ES?vfS&5 * ° course when the United States entered 0 SSWSf : rooms ; write for prices. JSatomer" 1>lease <*nd me Catalogs. from'- mill ! the World War. With most other offi- p^es 100 PLAN- . . . J , , , : I am interested In cers on the reserve list Spafford stepped „ A _ . \ / T. _ CUT HOMES. 1 = back into active service in 191 7. Gono rd o n -Va n 1 n e saass^ K ( Established 186S) mcr Cottaccs. JJvame _ Immediately he found an assignment 1 1 ; : PLAN-CUT Homes ; ; suited to his specialized talents. With the Address rank of lieutenant commander, he was put in charge of the work of equipping and preparing for service the fleet of submarine chasers which Uncle Sam $250 was to send across the ocean as soon as possible ships of a new type. — n*=> he fifteen best photographs submitted between September 25, 1927, At the New London naval base, Lieu- \S) and April 15, 1928, for publication in the Keeping Step Department tenant Commander Spafford supervised of The American Legion Monthly, will be awarded cash prizes. the installation of the special devices which modern science had devised for The prizes are: $100, first prize; $50, second prize; $25, third prize; $15, fourth prize; combating enemy submarines. Each $10, fifth prize; and $5 each for the next ten best photographs. In addition, the Monthly will pay $3 for each picture submitted in the Competition 110-foot submarine chaser was fitted which does not win a prize, but is considered good enough to publish. with microphones, hydrophones and All prizes and payments will be awarded on April 16, 1928. wireless telephones. Particularly im- Every Post in The American Legion has a chance to win the big prize. A Post Pho- portant were the direction finders, the tographer is as necessary as a Post Historian—in fact, the two jobs go together. Get your hydrophones, which enabled listeners Post Photographer on the job, try to win for your Post a prize in the Monthly's Photo- graph Competition. aboard the chaser to tell accurately the Every individual Legionnaire who knows how to use a camera effectively has a chance location of a submerged submarine from to win a prize for himself. If his Post isn't participating in the Competition, he can make the sound of its propellers. Spafford a bid for a prize on his own account. helped equip another group of chasers Photographs will be judged on the degree of interest to Legionnaires and on their at the naval base at Charleston. South photographic excellence. There are no restrictions on the choice of subject—any picture Carolina. In March, 1918, both groups with an American Legion interest, direct or indirect, is worth submitting if it is sharp of submarine chasers put out to sea and and clear. Photographs should be mailed flat not rolled or folded. Postage should be sent if concentrated at Horta in the Azores. — return of photographs is desired. Each picture should bear on back the name and address They were assembled at this Allied base of the sender, whether a Post or an individual Legionnaire. Each photograph must also without the loss of a single ship. be accompanied by adequate caption or explanatory data. At the station in the Azores the sub- marine chasers were divided. One group was sent to the North Sea. Another Editor, Prize Photograph Competition, group of thirty-six proceeded to the The American Legion Monthly Mediterranean to help the British. Indianapolis, Indiana. French and Italian naval forces bottle .192- Please enter the attached photograph in the Monthly's Prize up Austria's submarines in the Adriatic. (or photographs) This group was commanded by Captain Photograph Competition. C. P. Nelson. My Post is Name Number Spafford became chief of staff of the United States forces in the Adriatic Town State under Nelson. In this position once If this entry wins a prize f me personally, more he faced unusual problems calling or is accepted, please make award or payment to \ my Post. for initiative and ingenuity. Largely be- My name is cause of the work of the United States Street or R. F. D chasers, the Mediterranean was freed of the menace of (Continued on page 60) Town .State.

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New Self-Massaging Belt REDUCES WAIST The Qreen ^Mountain ^Boy

-Easily! ( Continued from page 59 Substitutes good submarines. The American ships with of an American squadron acted as tissue for bulky, usel their sound-ranging and direction-finding policeman and conciliator in a Dalma- disfiguring fat, yet doe so gently you hardly k devices kept vigil across the narrow tian port. Spafford's diplomacy pre- it is there. Strait of Otranto which separates the vailed. No open break resulted, and Formerly those Mediterranean from the long and narrow the top-hat diplomats found the Aus- wished to reduce without dieting or strenuous exer- Adriatic. trian fleet intact when they got round cise had to ko to a pro- fessional masseur. His Spafford witnessed the triumph of the to the job of disposing of it. method brought about the devices he had installed when a group Lieutenant Commander S p a ff o r d desired reduction. But it was expensive and tim< of his craft closed in on an Austrian sailed for home, took up law practice few cou consuming, and submarine attempting to creep through in connection with a New York firm and take advantage of it. Remarkable New the straits, located it with the direc- became a pioneer in the activities of Invention tion-finding devices and dropped a bar- the newly-formed New York Depart- At last a wonderful new in- vention brings this same rage of depth bombs. A patch of oil ment of The American Legion. effective method within the that spread over the surface of the reach of all. The Well Scien- tific Reducing Belt by means water for a half mile told of the sub- Legion service up to of specially prepared and SPAFFORD'S scientifically fitted rubber is marine's fate. Thereafter the Austrian the time he was elected National so constructed that as you wearitevery breath you take submarines stayed at their bases on the Commander is well known. National and every movement you make imparts a constant mas- east coast of the Adriatic. There were Commander Frederick W. Galbraith, Jr.. sage to every inch of the ab domen. Working for you eve no more sinkings of transports, in the named him Chairman of the Legion's second, it reduces much more Mediterranean. But the watch continued. Naval Affairs Committee and he held rapidly than ordinary massage, sa ing both time and money. Then came the Allied bombardment that post for three years, until his Actually Removes F< and destruction of the election as Command- It does not merely draw in you and make you appear thinne Austrian base of Du- er of the Department actually takes off the fat. Within weeks many people find 4 to ft razzo, the only naval of New York in 1923. gone from the waistline and loo feel 10 to 15 years younger. engagement of the As Chairman of the The Weil Method of reduction is used by athletes and jockeys because it reduces quickly and preserves their strength. Highly United States Navy Naval Affairs Com- endorsed by physicians. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. with land batteries and mittee he marshaled SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER enemy ships during the Legion's influence Write todav for full description and Special 10- Day Trial Offer. The Weil Company, f)81 Hill Street, New Haven, Conn. the World War. In and prevented the that engagement Spaf- scrapping of the Navy THE WEIL COMPANY, 581 Hill St.. New Haven. Conn. j Gentlemen: — Please send nie, without obligation, complete ford's squadron of by advocates of pre- description of the Weil Scientific Reducing Belt and your | fought close mature disarmament special 10- Day Trial Offer. chasers in to shore while the in 1923. As Com- Name __ Italian high seas fleet, mander of the De- Address British light cruisers partment of New York City State. and British destroyers he built up his State's kept firing over them Legion membership to at the shore batteries the largest enroll- and the trapped enemy battle craft. ment that department has ever held. In November of 1918, before the Following his year as Department Armistice was signed, Austria collapsed Commander, he took over the hard and Yon can easily i itiri OllfCb [Ana earn $15 adaj in the Adriatic. Dissension broke out largely thankless job of Chairman of or more taking orders from your the friends and neighbors for our fine in her fleet and the Slavs seized the Department Membership Committee tailoring. OrderB come easy wbenyou adherents of the and again became Chairman of the show our swell samples and smart ships, subduing the Na- styles. Wo Show You How— Hapsburgs. From Pola and Fiume the tional Naval Affairs Committee. He you don't need to know anything about tailoring— simply follow our Austrian high fleet put out to sea under personally guided the establishment of directions— we make it easy. YOUR SUIT FREE the mutineers and sent a wireless mes- his department's welfare activities, par- Oar new plan enables you to get one sage offering to surrender to the United ticularly the Veterans Mountain Camp. of our fine made-to-order suits, in any tFle you want, without one penny cost toyou. States forces under certain guaranties. He put his whole energy into the cam- ITDrr Newstylecon r W% C. Samol* lent carrying- Lieutenant Commander Spafford, paign for adjusted compensation and OUTFIT outfit, large wool samples— all supplies necessary to start his at once-furnished FREE. Write at one*. aboard the the U. S. S. C. 248, com- work in this cause won for the Le-

Progress Tailoring Co., Dept N- 105 , Chicago manded the squadron of fifteen chasers gion the support of large numbers of which braved hidden mine fields and leaders of New York's financial affairs The Old Dept. H 36 cruised into the Adriatic to meet the at a time when a well-organized opposi- Reliable 108 Austrian fleet and accept delivery of tion was trying to crush the Legion's Credit N. State St. Ch go T the ships Spalato in Dalmatia. Dip- program ruthlessly with the power of Jewelers IBR0S.&C0..IsS ir.f at Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back lomatic problems then replaced naval wealth. His debate with Senator Borah problems. Spafford found himself trus- on adjusted compensation was a turn- DIAMONDS tee of the entire Austrian fleet, pledged ing point in the Legion's national cam- claims paign. On that occasion he held Genuine Diamonds Guaranteed to preserve it against Allied up to whatever eventual disposition national notice the truthful economics >» For lower prices and a better selection—order your pending gifts from Loftisl See these three great specials of it under the terms of tax reduction and overwhelmed his your choice at $43.75 each — tremendous values! might be made Rings and watches are 18K solid white gold set with of the peace treaty. This arrangement opponents who were trying to defeat dazzling blue whitcDiamonds! Terms:S4. 3 down, bal- ance pay able weekly,sem.•monthlyormont lily. Snip- was not satisfactory to the Italians. the adjusted compensation bill by their pet! NG MONEY DOWN subject to your free exam- ination, on request. SEND FOR FREE CATALOG! For many anxious days in November contention that if the bill passed no re- and December Lieutenant Commander duction in taxes could be made for Spafford found himself busy keeping the years. H3I§ late enemies, the Italians and the Aus- When Mr. Spafford was elected Na- ^l.ooaAWEEK trians, from starting the war over. The tional Commander at Paris, his pride controversy of Fiume was just be- was shared by his wife. In 1922 he had ginning. London, Rome, Paris and married Lillian Mercier Pierce of Phila- Washington were painfully working out delphia. At Paris also was his daughter. Lucille, schoolgirl of thirteen nd Watch No. 870 details while a harassed chief of staff now a

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years, who found in the spectacular Post, his own post, and after he had American Legion parade and the activi- been honored at many other Legion ties of convention week more marvels events, Commander Spafford boarded a than textbooks ever described. train that took him to Saranac and Tup- One of his first official acts in the per Lake, New York, where he visited United States as National Commander the hospitals in which hundreds of serv- showed one of the interests nearest to ice men suffering from tuberculosis are Commander Spafford's heart. After an battling for health. To these men he extraordinary welcoming reception in gave the renewed pledge of the Legion's New York City by Lexington Avenue help and watchfulness.

Jferfs Xjick! THE UTMOST ( Continued from page 23) KINDNESS

can see it on those service papers that rest camp," somebody announced. was filled out." "Boy. I'm mighty shy of these rest THERE is no person, how- "If you've turned eighteen I'm old camps." ever unfeeling, who is not Methusalum. Trouble is you're too "I'm mighty shy of breakfast. I don't moved to kindness in the presence of the passing of an- green to burn, or I'd advise you to care when it happens." other. We are so willing, so start a forest fire along in the under- Breakfast consisted of tea and boiled eager to be kind. But how? brush and when them cooties come out potatoes, with a side order of bread. Today, the first obligation of in the open you could pop 'em off with "Bread if you can call it bread. More protecting the precious re- a slingshot. Failin' that, about all I like rubber. Bite it off square or it'll mains is being easily fulfilled know of is soap and water and a good fly back at you." in thousands of families by se- hot bath. The soap gets in their eyes At ten o'clock the regimental sur- curing the Clark Grave Vault. and the water makes ? em think there's geons made a third and last inspection This vault is absolutely posi- a flood and they start runnin' for high of the smallpox patient. "All you had tive in its protection because tromple prickly heat," the regimental sur- ground and each other to death was it is designed according to an account they can't see good. You better geon announced. immutable law of Nature. hurry up and try it." "That first doctor said I had measles." And it is permanent because The cootie bearer left in search of the "He was mistaken. So was the second made of Armco Ingot Iron, or hot bath, but long before he had at- one who told you you had smallpox." Keystone copper steel, 12 gauge thickness and of special tained his object a bugle halted him The prickly heat patient joined his quality, which are in them- and he noticed that the Regiment had company in time to stand at attention selves highly rust-resisting. awakened to a new activity. Assembly for an hour and a half preparing for a On the higher priced Clark blew, and when the companies had regimental muster. Grave Vaults there is also a formed word came down the line that After the first thirty minutes of this plating of pure cadmium (the the Regiment was to move. endurance contest. Rags the railroader greatest resistance to rust known to science) applied by "Hell, I thought they said this was a whispered to the sergeant behind him. the Udylite process. This rest camp where we was goin' to stay "Holy crust, Spike, how long is this process is exclusive on Clark five days!" gonna last?" Vaults. "You're so far north that the days is "I'm damned if I know." All over the nation the Clark only an hour long. . . . Lemme help An hour more, and word came down Grave Vault is becoming as you empty that old bottle. There's the line that the field desks containing essential a feature of burial mighty likely to be a damn inspection." the regimental records, together with equipment as the casket. Within the hour the Regiment had all of the company records, had been left Leading funeral directors resumed its journey, and late that night, in England, due to an oversight on the recommend it and give with packed tightly into a ship which had part of the regimental adjutant. each one a 50-year guaranty. been used as a horse transport, the chalk "Dis-missed ! Less than Clark complete protection cliffs of England, white in the moon- "Three cheers for the adjutant!" is no protection at alii light, faded astern and France lay up The Assembly. "Fall in with packs." The Clark Grave Vault Co. ahead. There came a four-mile march, and then Columbus, Ohio At dawn, off the jetty at Le Havre, a another rumor relative to a rest camp Western Office and Warehouse frazzled soldier poked his head which presently materialized. packs up over The Kansas City, Mo. a hatch combing, only to encounter an were unslung. "We got three days here agitated sentry. instead of them three days we missed "Halt!" barked the sentry who had over in England." been prompted to assume his discarded "Roll in, big boy. Hit the hay!" military manner by a glimpse of the "You're doggone right I will. Didn't (lark land where the Big Game was being get me no sleep a-tall last night."

played. Here it was that the youthful cootie "Where do you get that 'Halt' stuff? pioneer found lots of misery to keep him Say 'Whoa!' to me when you want me company. It seemed as if the parasite to stop. Boy.—I'm a horse! Smell me world had made of this place a concen- and see if I ain't." tration camp. "All the bugs in the world "Gee-haw, brother—back to your stall are right here in this little old corner of before I unhitch you from the army." France." The horse backed into his stall ac- "Shut up. Get to sleep. For the love cording to orders, but he emerged pres- of tripe what's a few indoor grasshop- GRAVE VAULT ently along with his companions to en- pers? G'wan to sleep and forget it." joy his first view of Sunny France, Thirty-five minutes after the Gang which was just then lying soggy under got settled a bugle call promoted by the This trade-mark is on every genuine 1 1 is meansof iden- a delayed cloudburst. regimental surgeons Clark Grave-Vault. a awakened one man tifying the vault instantly. Unless you The Regiment went ashore in the rain. out of every thirty. "Roll out, you see this mark, the vault is not a Clark. "We get breakfast up ahead at a British birds! Come (Continued on page 62)

JANUARY, 1028 6t The Best Yet* Jfere s J^uck! (Continued from page 61) right! Eyes left! WW Zetn Eyes boU rsv Pictured — as they are a-runnin'!" It appeared that one of the medicos had discovered that the last — the new complete series shot in the arm, instead of being the of Post Pep Postals by third of the typhoid series, was a hay fever serum. The awakened Gang, yawn- CanV Xxj hold vdur end up? ing and grumbling, stumbled down the *u CWr Wally > >Ouq_ line to where the needle workers did Hew up. wf get Xw« a Tuy«v ir »u l>o >OUt M£AD UP » KM H*Y£*rpAID SoN£fl"H6 Ooin* EVjtftT their stuff, but neither the constant rain -fvenc. WR Tost t) 0BC ver. NiNUH -AMO WOVM. IW r*H. TO This series of Post Pep Or KJu -m* ID act >CUR ENK nor sore arms nor interrupted sleep nor EVE**. «E ort "PECK AW MElP l>i H»w* A Ico% pyu. fk« u%> mcm6*>rsh.c. -tie rw ******* prospecting parasites could offset the Postals, Government - 4 JfL cheering gossip concerning the hearty stamped, humorously meal which was being prepared. "Boy, there's a hundred cooks around written, well illustrated, them kitchens. Big joints of beef and will bring 'em out for all the jam in the world and I must of seen a thousand pies." meetings, parades, enter- "Say, old timer, I can use it. Sure

tainments, and what not, S DC~r LET AKT»I"» relish some rations! I ain't had me no nutriment or nuthin' else since that tea if anything will. All they R»-tM- and potatoes we had for breakfast." „ u»,»x«. TAU.OW require is the Adjutant's Bis Tahai* Systematic prowling revealed a basis of truth underlying the rumor concern- signature— a flip into the ing the luscious qualities of the forth- mail box—a record atten- coming supper. A little apart from the rest camp, busy about sizzling field dance—a smile on every- stoves, sure enough there were forty or body's face! Is it worth fifty cooks. "How come them boys is English it? you realize When cooks? What are our cooks doin'?" the amount of trouble "Helpin' lug in the wines, likkers and cigars for our big banquet, probably. save, you'll agree TOU they .»>t> *ts *u cum. sw» The way my stummick feels it'd take all

tf* the cooks got a lot of help gp* fte «tP with hundreds of other we and from the British to round up enough grub to Post officers, that they fill it. Wonder what's delayin' that Mess are "Great!" Call? Look at that roast beef! If I »=?=« ever saw anything done to a turn, that beef is!" Post Pep Postals are Govern- The speaker was distracted from the roast beef by the arrival of a missing ment cards, ready for mailing, member of the Gang.

and therefore require no ad- Ifooare". unlesr y«i aHenial "Old Corporal Badger! Well, I'm a rbtft trussing* ff}«l»r. slicker dimnd, ditional postage. wei^nl "fc son-of-a-gun!"

t of iffi[S-l»nr« hJU Youf b«lp is rwled jujt aff much "I be damned if the old prodigal son today K it- uiAff nv 1917. Nect m«Knjj himself isn't back!"

W 11 b* Uokin^ Sen" "Where'd you come from, you army Fill out coupon — attach $3.00 deserter?" get an assortment of ioocards — When appropriate greetings had been and new catalog. exchanged, "I got detailed to take the dun adjutant's dog out for a walk in civilian clothes there in New York, so the first thing I know that dog led me on board 100 Cards $3.00 a ferry boat and kept a-pullin' on his

*" string after landed and the next thing Special Bargain Offer Saves T IT tW SOMB we $5.00 If You Order 1000 Cards I saw was Broadway loomin' up right »»«1«,- in my face. That dog led me up and & Naj CtoMt AOS*, 01 WW Meeting, Price $25.00 down Broadway, in and out of more saloons than you could count on a cash No CO. D. Shipments Made register. "You never saw a dog talk as plain as he did. 'It's about time we was get- The American Legion Monthly tin' back to the boat,' I said to him P. O. Box 1357, Indianapolis, Indiana along around three o'clock. 'Never mind the boat,' he spoke back. 'Take me into Enclosed $ Please send- -Post Pep Postals and catalog a couple of more good saloons where as advertised Send only catalog d they have that nice cold beer. I like to see you drink it.' Name- "So I took him into a couple of more Street. saloons or so, and the next thing I know I meet a fella I was on a steamshovel Citv job with when we was double-trackin' Post Name or Post Organ the S. P. He was damn near as bad as

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the dog—kept leadin' me in and out of In the darkness, after the first heavy saloons till my head got numb. Soon cases of tinned edibles had been deliv- as that numb feelin' kind of left me, I ered to each carload of voracious vic- looked at the calendar and I be a son- tims of "rest camp" regime, there came of-a-gun if four days hadn't drifted by! numerous smaller boxes, and these were Well, I figgered the army couldn't move not as heavy as the ones which con- no faster than a single unmarried man, tained the goldfish and the bully beef. and so I caught me a steamboat for "Handle this mighty easy." France, trailin' you boys up." "What you got?" "How'd you know where we was, with "Listen, boy—it's vinegar to go onto nobody allowed to put nothing in his your alligator pears." letters by the censors?" To the Loot, riding for congenial com- Censors didn't say anything about pany in the cattle car with Rags and newspapers, did they?—all I did was Blackie and the rest of the Gang, Shorty read the papers till I saw where the Reg- Goodrich, the company cook, delivered iment had landed in England and was one of the cases of vinegar. "Try this gonna sail for the French town of Lar- vinegar on that salmon, Lieutenant. I vey in a couple of days." got sixty cases of it out of that supply "What become of the adjutant's depot. They tell me it's plenty good pooch—you bring him with you all the vinegar." way?" Something in Shorty's tone impelled "Boy, the last thing that dog said to the Loot to investigate the vinegar. me when I met Jim Crane there on The cover of the case came off just Broadway was, 'Go along into war-torn as the long train started for Somewhere France if you got to. Little old Broad- in France. The Loot lifted out a straw- way is good enough for me.' Last I see padded bottle of the "vinegar." of him he was headed for Fifth Ave- By the light of his lantern he read nue." under the larger type of the label, "Very "You tell the adjutant about that Old Vatted Scotch." He turned to Shorty dog yet?" the cook, who stood watching him. "What do the army regulations say "How many cases of vinegar did you about trivial conversation between en- get?" listed men and ossifers?—not me. That Smiling faintly at the hard-boiled tone adjutant's got enough to take care of. of the Loot's voice, "Sixty cases alto- losing regiment records according to gether, Lieutenant—ten for each com- what I hear and everything, without be- pany." ing pestered by a ordinary corporal. The cork was out of the lieutenant's . . . How they been feedin'— you boys?" very old bottle of vatted Scotch by this To break a cold harmlessly and in a hurry "They been feedin' us time. In the darkness Shorty heard sev- try a Bayer Aspirin tablet. And for headache. A bugle interrupted the speaker. en gratifying gurgles coming from some- The action of Aspirin is very efficient, too, "There's the chow call! Come along and where around the lieutenant's vocal or- in cases of neuralgia, neuritis, even rheumatism we'll show you how grand they feeds gans, and then, "You must have made a and lumbago! And there's no after effect; us in this man's army. Roast beef and mistake, Shorty," the Loot said. "That doctors give Aspirin to children—often infants. pie and—doggone it. that ain't no Mess isn't vinegar. It tastes more like maple Whenever there's pain, think of Aspirin. The Call! That's Assembly! I'm gettin' so I syrup." genuine Bayer Aspirin has Bayer on the can tell 'em apart." "Lieutenant, yes sir. That's the way box and on every tablet. All druggists The companies fell in. Five minutes that malt vinegar tastes." with proven directions. later a covey of orderlies delivered The Loot took another crack at the Physicians emergency orders to each company com- vinegar. "Here's luck! . . . I'm mighty prescribe Bayer Aspirin; mander, covering the latest phase of one glad you made that mistake, Shorty," he it does NOT affect the heart of the minor horrors of war. said. "So is everybody else from the "We entrain immediately," the Loot way they sound. Listen ..." Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid announced after a brief consultation Up and down the train, rising high with his superior officer. Then, to Spike. above the clanking fabric of the cars, "Grab Rags and Jugger and Fat and sounded various voices raised in song. two or three more of the Gang and beat "One keg of beer for the four of us!" it over to that supply depot. We take Hearing these songbirds, back in his on an issue of emergency rations to eat car the colonel smiled at his adjutant. on the train. Report to Shorty the cook." "The morale of the Regiment appears to Presently the Rabble and all of the be all that one could desire, Captain," rest of the Regiment were climbing into the colonel observed. the dark interior of a train of cars "Yes indeed, Colonel—there were some built to accommodate eight horses, forty welfare workers in camp, distributing men. chocolates and cigarettes just before we In the crowded darkness. "Move over, entrained. ... It takes so little to you elephant! You'd think them eight make our soldier boys happy." horses was in here with us forty men." At this the colonel frowned slightly. "When do we eat?" "I wonder where the hell I can find a "Kill them cooties before you throw good adjutant," he mused. Buyutrect 'em away! 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of fear that they cower in the snow and would inevitably be dragged down to give up all further attempts to escape. death by the pitiless current. The old hare was made of sterner For an instant the snowy hare hesi- stuff. Failing to shake off his pursuer tated, as well he might. To leap fifteen by any of his turns and twists and times his own length from a slippery doubles, he headed for that last refuge take-off with certain death the penalty of all hunted animals—water. for failure to make the distance was Far across the hills Swift River enough to give any animal pause. A showed like a silver ribbon covered with blacker and more terrible death, how- POWERFUL,MAGNEH€ ice a foot thick, except at the center ever, was at his heels and as the pekan where the rapid current was only rushed toward him for the last time, the sharpens allrwvbladfa skimmed over. With his strength still big rabbit eyed the river and started unexhausted, the white rabbit went into toward it in a series of leaps becoming 20 years ahead in shaving comfort, satisfac- carried tion, economy and convenience. No fuss a final burst of speed that him quicker and quicker until taking off from muss or cranks to turn. Just insert your far ahead of the fatal figure which came the edge of the firm ice with a last des- razor blade and the powerful magnetic force gliding toward him, back against the perate bound he shot out into the air of SuperKeen does the rest. snow. In that, his last race for life, above the current. For a second as the Whirlwind Seller! there was no circling or doubling. white body hung above the river it Straight as a hiving bee the great hare seemed as if the distance were too great Startling Demonstration sped away across the snow in ten-foot and that the fugitive would land just With our clever Visible Closer can convince you bounds through woods and along bare outside the white line of safety which (he most skeptical, instantly, that SuperKeen will keep razor blades everlastingly sharp. What a slopes until he reached the bank of that lay far beyond his hurtling body. man sees he believes. It shows how your razor mountain river two miles away. The Then in mid-air, with the roaring blade is aSected — marvelously — positively — SENSATIONALLY. fisher, too, called upon his last reserves water beneath him, the old hare changed This is a call for action on your part. Don't delay of speed and running with a swiftness his feet like the crack broad-jumper and lose out. Send us your name and address and we'll rush you complete information. If you which he had not shown before, man- that he was. The falling body seemed want to move faster than that send $2.50 and we'll aged to keep within sight of his quarry. to snap forward with an added impetus send a SuperKeen and a Visible Closer (demon- strator.) If you want your money back you'll get it When at last the snow-shoe rabbit and barely cleared the danger line, strik- instantly. Let's go. Time flies. QUICK. reached the river he followed its bank ing the ice a few inches beyond. For an inc. The SUPERKEEN Co., some distance until he reached a spot instant the white body slid along the ice Dept. S-25 SALISBURY, N. C. where the ice was covered with hard for a few inches, while the fisher raced Manufacturers of Precision Instruments snow to the very edge of the swift cur- back and forth along the river on the rent in the middle. The distance across opposite side, trying in vain to find some the rushing waters was a good thirty way to cross the roaring water. Then, mm SINGER feet, filmed over with new ice then and recovering his balance, the white hare silk. this frag- hopped leisurely By RIGHT FEEDING black as watered Beneath away. ile covering the river roared among the For once that Black Death which had JSinging canaries need a balanced " feed to preserve their voices. rocks swift as a mill-race. Any living bested a wildcat in fair fight was baffled Keep your bird healthy, happy thing breaking through that scum of ice by the courage of a rabbit. and singing, with Max Geisler's Roller Seed and Maizena Biscuit Mrs. J. Mealy, Popular, Wis., Bays: "To prove whtlher it was your seed I changed to a erent kind and he stopped singing." Sold 38 years. At drugstores or direct Send for full packs*.- Roller Seed and sample ? zena Biscuit. Free bird book for Dame of America the Outside In ler ' MAX GEISLER BIRD CO. 113 GeislerBldq. .Omaha, Neb. or 53 Cooper Sq.Newlfork ( Continued from page n) Ex-Service Men my return to England I was frantically ing table. This means on the one hand Work excited by the Spanish-American War. that there is much more intelligent real- FOR I followed it every day in the papers, ization of hard fact than ever before; "Uncle drew colored maps of the campaign and there is less nonsense talked about the even wrote a private history of it. It human race, I should imagine, than at Sam was as though it had been my own per- any other time of the world's history: sonal war. on the other hand there is much more Enough then of early influences. I impatience with international ignorances pass to the question, and a very im- than ever before. Once upon a time in portant one it is, of the sort of educa- the days of Gray and Horace Walpole tion any Englishman normally trained to be a citizen of the world all that was receives with regard to foreign coun- needed was to make the Grand Tour; tries. This is to my mind so urgent a now, if you have not some real inside matter in the present state of civiliza- knowledge of foreign countries, you are tion that I am astonished that more so obviously neglecting your easy op- $1140 to $3300 Year attention is not paid to it. We have portunities that it is almost an imper- reached a stage in the development of tinence. We all know that the only way Ex-Service , is not to Mpn Pol ' Franklin Institute the world when countries, because of to continue to hate your enemy men uei . , | Dep r 95 H 0Ct, es , cr , N .r. inventions, becoming so see him, and with regard to internation- Preference , «• connection with u.s. modern are / Government) closely inter-related that their concep- al relationships ignorance has been bliss Mail ("minim / RuSn t0 32 » aB0 tions of one another are of vital im- for quite long enough. ' c?idc ' Government big paid do- bUHE i i ions i now obtainable. portance. The peoples of the world, Here the traditional educations in Advise me also regarding / the salaries, hours, work, whether they like it or no, are being England about America and in America varatlnn and full particu- boarding house, and about England must, pray God, at last / lars regarding preference to flung into the same Si-Service men. I / although each is still allowed a room to break down. One heard plenty of peo- appol eight dayj / Name- ple saying the other it alter 10 was placed himself there is already a common din- day that was uuri'h'ifter." / David W. Tucker. ' Ad dress . 64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly )

ridiculous to make so heady a fuss enough left to me not to write about about Lindbergh's exploit, but to me these things but, at the end of that first that was one of the truly significant trip, I came away with less knowledge symbolic things in our modern life. It of real America than I had had before was as though the Almighty Powers had I went there. Two things especially re- said, "To show that this new era has mained with me, first that there was arrived we must have a little celebra- something in the American character ir- tion," and as the Duchess of Pompom resistibly attractive to me, and this too breaks a bottle of champagne against I will in a moment try to explain. And the side of a giant ship to signify her the principal question at this stage that release, so the Powers chose a boy who I think I asked myself was: Why does was an athlete and young and modest the American character as I seem to see to blaze across the sky and declare the it make for itself this particular Ameri- new era open. can life as I seem to see it? This ques- Chas. Gussikoff Not that I suppose that there is going tion I am still asking myself; it is the FirMt Trombone, to be, immediately at least, any more principal theme of these two articles, Goldman's Famous Band, uses a Hotton. peace and good will in the world than but I think now that after ten years I before; human nature is not noticeably have arrived at at any rate a personal changing, but we are now given our answer. has yet chance and it will be to our personal THE Holton A ND here in this and individual scandal if we neglect it. comes impertinence. to be built that will ^*-"Why should you question," I What hitherto has an English boy or can not withstand any girl been led to believe about America hear some American friends saying, as he or she grows up? First that "our life and habits at all? That is comparison, that what you are America is young and cheeky, secondly forever doing in England; won't command one that she is vulgar and ignorant, and why not state the situation as it is and thirdly that she is cursedly rich. Be- avoid giving us either your patronage price from all, that or your hind this there is the general emphasis criticism?" I am being, I hope, needs to be given on America's newness. If a child has any neither patronizing nor critical, but I to secure the culture or love of beautiful things it is regard this conflict between American away directed naturally enough from the very character and American life (and there testimonial of a na- start to the beauties and glories of the is a conflict, Americans themselves are tionally known artist. old world. Italy is only a day away always insisting on it) as one of the and every step in English history is in- most important features of the progress Our catalog will intra- termixed with events, tragic, comic, of modern civilization. It is a conflict duceyou to many Holton users whose names are poetic, that have been shared by us al- that is occurring over the whole world household words. together; but America, since she broke today, but more perceptibly in America than anywhere else. Frank Holton 8c Company away from the old world, has had a vs. 1329 CHURCH ST. ELKHORN, WIS. history apart and separate. First let me describe three experi- This remoteness of America to the ences during that first tour. When I European mind is the first great ele- first arrived on this occasion in America ment in the difficulty of the Anglo- I had a host and hostess, two of the American situation, and the second ele- kindest and warmest-hearted human be- ment is that the things that the Euro- ings alive today. In their generosity of America's oP|b (Creates! pean traveller to America superficially heart they provided me with rooms in ®*nb first discovers exactly confirm his super- their magnificent house in New York JJnatrum*"** stitions. Take any book on American life where, although they were forced to be written by a European who has only absent, I was to make myself entirely been in America for a short time and at home. This was a huge house filled you will find again and again the same with elevators and servants; once you is the title of a beau- things recurring with irritating fre- were inside it it was as though you were tiful book on the cul- quency—the Statue of Liberty, the ap- on a desert island surrounded by a roar- ture of roses and other ROSES plants; gives expert proach to ing and angry sea. The natives New York, skyscrapers, of the NewCastle experience of a life- of Ex- Fifth Avenue, prohibition, Washington island ministered to me in every pos- time. quisitely illustrated in natural colors; politics, sible way. the likeness of Boston and some passing ships were always sig- offers and tells how to grow our famous „ plants. Write for your copy. It's free. , _ towns in the South to the European nalling friendly messages, but I was HELLER BROTHERS CO. world, the wildness of Chicago (gun- aware while I was there of a sort of ter- Box 102 New Castle, Ind. men, blizzards, meat factories), the un- ror of life never known to me since I couthness of the Middle West, and then, was a small boy at my private school.

if the traveller gets far enough, the hills This terror resembles that ! I was help- of San Francisco, the large scentless less against powers that were not hu- FOREST RANGERS flowers of California, the lure of Holly- man. I had been lonely and even fright- Do you enjoy outdoor life close to Nature? Get Forest wood. ened in different parts of Europe, but Ranger job; salary J125-S200 month and home fur- nished; make as much more fishing, hunting, trapping What did I myself find during my the loneliness emphasized the impor- on the side; permanent, no strikes or shut-downs; Tor further particulars. vrlte first lecture tour ten years ago? I found, tance of my reliance on myself; here I vacations on full pay. in spite of the advantage that my child- seemed to have no personality, I was ish years in America had given me. ex- a little doll at the absolute mercy of NORTON "iZsthZr actly the superficial things that everyone something inhuman and entirely callous. else finds. The skyscrapers were aston- My second memory was an illness ishing, the beauty of Fifth Avenue had that I had in New Orleans. My illness Sexual Knowledge 320 PAGES. ILLUSTRATED. CLOTH not been exaggerated, pigs in Chicago was very short. I was cared for with By Winfield Scotl Hall. M. D . Ph. D. were cut up with a dexterity that left the greatest kindness, but I had a sense SEX FACTS MADE PLAIN one breathless, the sleeping arrange- for the first time in my life of remote What every young man and Every young woman should know ments in the trains were most certainly foreign influences that I had never en- What every young husband and inadequate, the flowers in California countered before. I had never realized, SI. 00 Every young wife should know POSTPAID What every parent should know were large and the hospitality every- and I think that most English people do Hailed In Table nttnta <£ commendations on request plain wrappo where was astonishing. I had just sense not realize, ( Continued on page 66 Philadelphia AMERICAN PUB. CO 189 Winston Bldg .

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I'd choose a companion that how strangely remote and mysterious had at least a conviction that the things would serve as a faithful some of the South is to a European. by which I had been mainly preoccu- All his days he has heard of the re- pied were none of them the real things. bodyguard — a good flash- semblance that the South bears to Eng- After the Grand Canyon, after the it grip light. I'd pack in the land: "Well, at any rate," he is told, strange ghostly woods of Florida, after for every trip, and park it "you will like the South, you will be the wild, stormy lakeside of Chicago, all entirely at home there, the towns are that you know is that the things alongside my bed at the hotel. that like your own, the atmosphere will make you have been told about America or To make sure that it would you feel at home at once." And so for have read about her are not enough to deliver the goods when I a while it is: cities like Richmond and let you into her secret. Charlotte (one of my favorite towns in I remember that on second visit pressed the button, I'd see my the whole of America) and Charleston I went back eagerly expecting that now that it loaded with gen- was give the European a sense of slowness I would feel thoroughly at home. I knew uine Eveready Batteries and old world beauty and kindness that that I was going back to certain indi- the kind that gives the are charming if it isn't America in the viduals who were my friends, I knew making that he is searching for. And that the superficial elements of Ameri- brightest light for the long- then suddenly you are transferred to can life, the restaurants, the hotels, the est time. Because they're another world, a world that, for myself trains, the newspapers, would be fa- built to do just that! at least, never seems to belong to miliar to me, and I had already, through America but to be a half-way house to the extent of my first lecture tour, a the flashlight habit. Get somewhere or something that will always geographical sense of America more ex- It's good travel-insurance. be beyond your actual grasp. I have tensive than that of most Americans. been suddenly frightened in side streets On this second occasion I spent a year in New Orleans for no reason whatever; in the country, I lectured in every State Florida I cannot judge fairly because in the Union, a number of things had I am always at once ill when I go there become truly familiar to me; I was ac- PIN A DOLLAR BILL TO THIS and illness gives you a kind of haze of customed, for instance, this time to the indefinite vague impressions that are friendly gibe that Englishmen only went and get this flno 5 card case. Genuine worth nothing to a man in health, that to America to lecture because of the leather. Masonic or Shrine Emblem illusion of distress and danger conveyed money that they would get there and I stamped on in gold free. (No other em- so wonderfully in Joseph Hergesheimer's would answer easily that the money blem supplied on this "Tampico." But for me danger is there wasn't so great anyway and that also case. ) Your name or1 other stamping 3 5c ex in the southern extremity of the States one was losing a year of one's own tra per line. (Cash must accompany order. ) unanalyzed and unwarranted, contribut- creative work, it might be of value to We carry ing always a romantic color to my that same creation but wasn't very com- EVERYTHING MASONIC American picture. forting to one's pocket, and that jug- Sendforfree cntalonup 2Vb. 10 A glers. of Bookx. Monitors, Jetrehy ; N> Channel swimmers and acrobats 11 AL Lodge Supjrfies. of THE third transforming experience on were paid for their public performances that first tour was my sight of the so that I couldn't see why lecturers REDDING & COMPANY Grand Canyon. Don't be afraid, I am should not be also. Dept. A. L. 200 Fifth. Ave. New York not going to attempt to describe it, no I might indeed have become arrogant one has ever yet succeeded in that and I and I did find myself at one stage de- WE suspect that no one ever will. But when livering those swift, easy summaries of I walked out of the hotel on that snowy, American life and character that are so To Any Suit! sunshiny morning and the glittering justly irritating to all Americans, but 1 Double the life of your color and proud strength of that vast after a while I became uncertain again coat and vest with perfectly matched pants.100,000 patterns. panorama burst upon me I realized in a I met an American in California, one Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no "readymades." Our match sent FREE for your flash that no one was ever going even of the penny-plain Americans and a O. K. before pants are made. Kit guaranteed. Send piece of cloth or vest today. dimly to realize America who did not very intelligent man; we went out one ©•27 SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY IIS So. Dearborn Street, Dept. 91 Chicago realize as the strongest of the elements afternoon in San Francisco to watch the that composed her character the force sea lions sporting on their rock; a thin of nature. That may seem to many sea mist enveloped the whole of San Americans a platitude, but it is not a Francisco and I felt that I was at the platitude for most Europeans. The size end of the world. I said something to and almost scornful strength of the ele- him, because I suppose I thought he mental forces in the American back- would like it, about the splendor of ground at once dim the human figure American business and the marvels of and emphasize his heroic effort. American progress (I was sincere at the On that morning when I saw the moment, I meant what I said); he Grand Canyon for the first time flaunt- looked at me with great kindliness and ing all its temples and palaces and shook his head; I think he replied sim- UNeORLOCAL| castles in a blaze of dazzling color I said ply that "American business will seem 1 10 TO $250 MONTH U.S.G0VT$?r you've ltailway Mail Clerk ] Meat Inspector to an American who was standing beside less important to you when Special Agent P. O. Clerk J burst of Forest Ranger (investigator] me watching it, "That's the most gor- stayed here longer." In a Stenographer Filo Clerk -Typist frankness I came out with "Yes, the Matron Immigrant Inspector geous sight I have ever seen." "Gee. General Clerk City Mail Carrier some ditch," he answered, spitting over longer I am in America the less I kn^v 1 Chauffeur-Carrier U.S. Border Patrol Skilled Laborer Typist the parapet, and beneath the apparent about it." and he replied. "You'll never Watchman Sr:nnstresa Postmaster St en o -Secretary contempt I felt his deep admiration and know anything about it, the things that RFD carrier Auditor aren't important are so many, so in- INSTRUCTION BUREAU, Dept.llO-A, St. Louis, Mo. a sort of tremor of apprehension. "It's particulars about positions marked "x"; often that no one Send mo [ dangerous," I said to him, but he didn't sistent and change so salaries, locutions "How to Qualify" opportuaiti etc. understand me at all. has any time to go beyond them." Name At the end of my first visit, then I Then after the third visit, which last-

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ed for el^ht months. I became definitely when I returned to England I should be 00 CLEARED assured o* tbree things: first, that no asked why it was that I liked America, IN ONE DAY one was going to arrive at any true con- that it would be hinted to me that 1 So writes W. H. Adams of Ohio. Letter ception of America who didn't recog- liked it largely because I made half my from V. A. Marini of California reports nize that the elements of Nature in her income there, that I should have to face $11275 sales in three months. Jacob Gordon of Jersey "$4000 led one much nearer to her secret than all the old criticisms of America that New profits in 2 months." Alexander of Penna. "$3000 the elements of Man; secondly, that I have been current in Europe for so profits in four months." Ira Shook $365 sales in one was not an American and would never many years, that they would irritate and day. Brara bought one outfit April 5 and 7 more by August 28. Iwata, bought one outfit and 10 more that probably I be able to see America as Americans exasperate me but within a year. Mrs. Lane of Pennsylvania says "sold must, however deeply my American should be unable to give any reply that 8000 packages in one day." J. R. Bert says "only thing I ever bought that equaled advertisement." friends might wish me to do so, and would be concrete enough in its defense. John Culp says: "Everything going lovely. Crispette wrappers thirdly, that something very important So on my return I have tried to go be- scattered all over town. It's good old i in the American spirit had entered hind my superficial experiences and ana- World after all." Keilog, ahead through these visits of mine into my lyze my deeper and inner feeling. $700 end of sec ond week. nature, that it would always be there In my second article I want to state now and that therefore I was bound to exactly my consciousness of what Amer- America for the rest of my life. I was ica is to me without fear of abuse or bound. I discovered, by none of the criticism or a dislike for patronage. superficial things, not by desire for What it comes to, so far as I am con- money, not by craving after popularity, cerned, is that I have had in these ten not by a love of progress and move- years a deep spiritual experience, an ex- ment, not essentially by admiration of perience made up of a thousand differ- American constitutions and customs, not ent reactions, and that behind these re- even by my love for certain American actions there are for myself certain individuals and places; these were the definite truths. I will try and say in my things I was not bound by. I knew that next article what these truths are. WE START YOU IN BUSINESS Furnish secret formulas, raw material and equip- ment. Littlecapital required; no experience needed. Build A Business of Your Own No limit to the sale of Crispettes. Everybody likes Personal Uiew them. It's a delicious food confection. Write for facts about a business that will make you independ- ent. Start now, in your own town. ( Continued from page 31) Profits $1000 a Month Easily Possible Bend postal it betrays a public trust; foul when it Manhood counted ten years ago. The for illustrated book of facts. It contains enthusiastic letters from others—shows their places is to officials; foul thing is used bribe when to make it count in peace. of business, tells how and when to start, and all in- formation taken by officials as bribes; foul when Recently I read of two one-time im- needed. Free. Write now used to defeat honest government by migrant boys to whom, indeed, America LONG-EAKINS COMPANY 143 High Street Springfield. money-mad exploiters and grafters who had been opportunity. One had sold his Ohio want to pile up more and more millions. business holdings for $30,000,000 and People who may be honest in private the other had paid $12,000,000 for a life, but pass over flagrant sums and New York skyscraper. Old Money swag in black bags endanger losing What are they getting out of their something that all the money in the money? Is it their master or their serv- im WANTED world will never replace. The richer the ant? Will they try to pay back Ameri- posT yourself! It pays! I paid offender the more deserving of punish- ca for what America has done for them? J. D. Martin, Virginia, $200 for ment. He sets an example of how graft Then I read of Dr. Drucker, another a single copper cent. Mr. Manning, New York, $2,500 for one silver dollar. pays, infecting the weaker with money immigrant, who came as a poor boy Mrs. G. F. Adams $740 for a few old coins. madness and undermining public morals. from Russia. He began in a sweatshop. 1 want all kinds of old coins, medals, bills

and stamps. I pay big premiums. Offer He is buying and selling national hon- He worked his way through college and $100 for 1894 Dime.S. Mint; $50 for 1913 or, putting his soul in pawn, guilty of became a professor in Colorado College. Liberty Head Nickel (not Buffalo) and hundreds of other amazing prices for an insidious treason in peace. Flimsiest Now, as he says, in return for what coins. Get in touch with me. Send 4c for of all excuses is "I need the money. If America did for him he is going to give Large Illustrated Coin Folder. It may 27 mean much profit to you. Write today to I don't take it somebody else will." his services for a year free to Common- Most malign of tendencies is admiration wealth College in Arkansas, which is not Numismatic Company of Texas .500 FORT WORTH. TEXAS for "getting away with it" no matter rich, and which offers free education to Dept. how shameless the method if the grafter any boy who will work a certain num- keeps the swag and beats the law. ber of hours a day on its farms. The money mad. making money their Then came to my notice Lieut. Com- HUNTING Hunting & Fishing „ 52-page monthly magazine Robbins, officer FISHING master and their god, as ;he source of mander J. H. Medical cramme

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1. If you pay your dues (Continued from page 67) promptly, you will avoid naire tells us that the income of the In a year the Red Cross helped in 97 the possibility of missing a average Legionnaire is $3,031 a year, an disasters, cared for 050,000 people, single number of The increase since 1920 of 56.7 percent. I spent twenty million dollars, twelve on am glad this average is not made up of the Mississippi flood. American Legion very high and very low incomes, it is a The Ready The Red Cross is al- level average. I know those who earn it ways on war footing Monthly. Redn j Crosssi have had an experience not to be reck- against disaster. And oned in money that should keep them ready, too, in each 2. If your American Le' money wise. widespread or local emergency, the local gion Monthly Record Legion post—the first-aid troops. Old '27 was a great year. The Paris Card is received by us be- convention made those too old to be In case of war our Army would be fore the eleventh of the in the War, and those who have grown using the deteriorated ammunition left month, you will get the issue up since the War. over from 1918. There is no use of guns y-t r. realize as they had unless they have for the next month. C otne On, , , c , not before, the mean- something to shoot. Toungv /<¥os Nothing to ing o{ the Iegion As, in case of war. 3. If or your Post Ad' Shoot With you The New Year's it might take a year jutant fail to mail your Resolution for '28 is obvious. It has a to make an ade- American Legion Month- great start. Let us follow it up. quate fresh supply it is high time we had some ammunition in hand. ly Record Card, you will Increase of empty seats worries the not get your copy of the motion picture capitalists. There is Mussolini says that his successor is talk of reducing salaries and produc- not born yet. As that successor must Monthly. tion costs and more be a super Mussolini if he is to take ntensive rgi ni a- the job before he is What Ails ° ? ; , 4. If your American Le- tl0n as StapIe " it is m m f\ tt/i twenty-one, the MoviesMovies?f une Who - dustries. But movies dear hat Mussolini gion Monthly Record Does C noose are an entertain- chooses to stay as does not contain your Card ment, not a necessity. People do not dictator for some correct mailing address, you have to go to pictures. They go if time yet. If any Italian would choose they like them. The way to decrease otherwise he is warned that Mussolini will undoubtedly fail to get empty seats is better movies. does all the choosing in Italy. your copy of the magazine. The American Legion Monthly The Qamels ^Are Qoming!" Indianapolis, Indiana ( Continued from page 13)

more out of a dromedary than the ig- their military figures. A swarm of small norant, cruel, impetuous Arab." children followed at their heels and every Encouraged by what he had learned Oriental with an eye for business of- in London, Wayne proceeded to Paris fered them all the bargains in the city's only to find that General Monge had trading center. been transferred to a distant station and Camels were selling cheap that day could not be reached, while Colonel Car- but no sooner did Wayne seek a quota- All Standard Makes Your choice of the World's beet buccia had died of cholera in Gallipoli. tion when the prices jumped miracu- typewrite™ Uadsrwood. Hem. Ington, Oliver— full Hist), 1st The "gentlemen of science" of Paris lously. The Arab auctioneer muttered model, completely rebuilt am refmie-hed brand new. Prices were not as enthusiastic about the cam- something unintelligible, but a kindly, emaehed dowD to half. Act Quick. el as their neighbors across the channel. self-appointed interpreter, with the aid *2 it's Trial and yours They advised specifically against Afri- of his hands and feet, explained to Just send your name and address and we will mail you oar complete FREE CATALOG prepaid, fully deHcribinn and shuuinar can breeds. Incidentally the Jardin des Wayne that the price asked was the .Actual (.hotoKrui.hu <>f e«ch beautiful machine in full colors. Telia every detail of our direct-to-you timiiH-payment plan. Write now for tremendous saving. No obligation whatever. Still time if you act now. Plantes had but one camel and the equivalent of twenty dollars. International Typewriter Exchange French keeper was not on friendly terms "Sold. I'll take one." 184 West Lake Street Department 110 Chicago, Illinois with the beast. Wayne raised his arm and nodded his With this conflicting evidence before head. As he began to fumble in his Match Your Coat and Vest him Wayne decided to get a camel of pockets for the necessary cash, a cheer With New Trousers. Free Sample his own and learn at first hand about broke forth in the market place. Never DON'T DISCARD YOUR OLD SUIT. Wear the coat I its manners and habits. He went to before in the memory of those who I and vest another vear by getting new trousers to match. Tailored to your measure. With Naples where he joined Porter and sailed gathered daily on the "Camel Exchange" 110.000 patterns to select from we can match almost any pattern. Send vest or sample of for Tunis aboard the Supply. had an animal been sold on the first cloth today, and we will submit FREE best match obtainable. The vessel dropped anchor off the quotation. The surprised auctioneer of- AMERICAN MATCH PANTS CO., Geoletta, port of Tunis, August 4. 1855, fered to escort the beast to the Ameri- Ospt. O. E., 6 W. Randolph St. Chicago, III. on a market day and Wayne and Porter can's lodging, and as he started, flanked " went ashore. The natives eyed the on one side by the camel and on the TrMount Birds American Army and Navy representa- other by representatives of the Ameri- We teach you At Home by Mail to mount /Virus. Ani- tives with mingled feelings of curiosity can Army and Navy, the motley crowd mals. Ilradt Tan rum „nrl Itakt liuo*. Be a taxider- my artist. Easily, quickly learned by men, women and and suspicion as they marched through followed. The triumphal procession boys. Tremendously interesting and fsscinsting'. Decorate home and den with beautiful art. Make Hio Profit* fron, the crooked lanes leading to the market marched to the water's edge and stopped Spare Time Selling .Specimens and Mounting for Others, r.aei-ree Rnnk_ Y" absolutely Free-beautiful b. place. Veiled Mohammedan women while the camel was invited to get book— ,,,„,„,. ,„ „ lmu , i,„ wt„ i clirn t „ dermy. Send Today. Yon will be delighted. Oon'tOeb risked the curse of Allah to peer at aboard a Tunesian craft. 1 Northwestern School ofTaxidermy "SmahTneb.' '',

68 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The beast refused. He was coaxed, laid the foundations for the future cam- Most Amazing cajoled and finally whipped, but he held el corps of the United States Army. his ground successfully. Several enter- The port of Tunis had hardly disap- prising sailors of the Supply had rigged peared on the horizon when Porter dis- INVENTION up a block and tackle and were about covered that the camel bought in the to hoist him aboard when a Tunesian market place had developed the itch and custom official arrived and stopped the had to be separated from the others. An proceedings. isolation ward jn25> years was improvised and the

Camels could not be taken out of afflicted camel given the necessary at- l Tunis without a permit. Wayne and tention to bring about his cure. Ckaiu Qgenk Porter had overlooked the little formali- W hen the Supply arrived in Malta the Upfoi ty. While they debated as to their next camel had completely recovered and FREE MACHINE step, the disinterested camel sat down Wayne and Porter went ashore to seek FOR AGENTS in its tracks and blinked at the entire more companions for the corps. They performance. found to their surprise that the natives The American Consul-General, W. P. had already become acquainted with Chandler, was appealed to but even he their mission through other channels. could not get the embargo lifted without "News of my coming," Wayne wrote the special permission of the Bey of in one of his reports, "flew before me WEEKLY IN SPARE TIME! Tunis. An interview was arranged with on the wind and every sore-backed and h Mohammed Pasha, the Bey. and after superannuated camel in Asia Minor was Men, here is a wonder—the most sen- sational the usual diplomatic formalities were ex- doctored up and hurried to the coast to invention of the ag-e! If you're looking for a rapid fire seller an Item that nets you changed the Americans informed the be generously offered upon the United inO'/o profit— an item that sells Itself to 7 out of 10 men on demonstration I've not it In Ve-Po-Ad, Uio ruler of their mission. He listened at- States at a grievous sacrifice of ten amazing new vest noeket adding machine! tentively and volunteered to go down to times its value." Sells for $2.95—You Make $1.65 This must remarkable invention does all the work of the docks in person to expedite the im- The expedition proceeded to Smyrna a {300 adding machine, yet fits the vest pocket and sells for only mediate shipment of the camel. As soon Turks, one $2,951 It sells on sight to storekeepers, busi- where Wayne hired two who ness men. and everyone who uses figures --and makes you as saw the beast oyer 100% profit on every sale! Ve-Po-Ad does any he which required his called himself a camel doctor and the ot kind figuring in a jiffy, yet weighs but 4 oz. Counts up to personal intervention, a broad grin broke other just a "camel attendant." To the a billion. .Shows total visible at all times. Per- fectly accurate, lightning fast. Never makes a mistake over his bronzed countenance. He cast crew they became known as "Hi Jolly," or gets out of order. Over 100,000 in daily use! a knowing glance at his subjects who an adaptation of his correct name, Hadji Get Your Machine FREE T.ivo wire salesmen are dropping everything else and were still assembled in large numbers Ali, and "Greek George," whose real Hocking to Ae-Po-Ad. Ve-Po-Ad brines them quick money and lots of It. Shapiro at the water"s edge, and formally au- spellable out in California made name was neither nor pro- J4i5 In one week! You can "clean up" too! Onlv 10 sales a day in spare time thorized the exportation of one camel nounceable. will bring YOU over $!ir> 00 a week! Yqu need no previous sales experience—Ve- in Ad sells Itself! If you beyond the continental limits of the continued its itinerary are really Interested In earn- The ship ing a. steady, substantial income, write at once for full realm of Tunis. details ol my MONEY-MAKING PLAN and around the seaports of the Levant and PO-AD FREE VE- Riven to new Agents. Do it NOW TODAY' ''Now that I know what you want," finally arrived at Constantinople where C. M. CLEARY, Dept. 731 he is reported to have said, "I'll give two of the camels which were taken 184 W. WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO, ILL. you a real, fine camel,'' or words to that ashore for exercise developed the itch effect. again. It was their third offense and ^ree By this time the patient camel, unac- military discipline required that definite 1 AlAf customed to such formalities, had grown steps be taken to prevent a recurrence. LAV? Book restless and it required a number of na- After weighing the matter carefully. Write today for FREE 128-page book , "THE LAW-TRAINED MAN", which shows how to learn law in spun- time through the MO prominent legal tives to control him. With the entire sell Iilack.st.one home-study course prepared by Wayne and Porter decided to them authorities, including law school deans, lawyers, and U. S. Su- Ereme Court justices. Combination text and case method of crew of the Supply and a number of in the open market. As soon as Wayne's lBtroction used. All material necessary furnished with the course, including elaborate 25-Totuma law library, which is de- Tunesian volunteers, the first of Uncle role changed from buyer to seller the livered immediately upon enrollment. Many nieCMflfql attorneys degree conferred. Moderate 3 among our graduates. LL.B. Sam's publicly owned camels was finally market became completely upset and tuition, low monthly terms. Money-Back Agreement. Write for free book today placed on the native craft, rowed along- the bottom dropped out of camels. The side the Supply and hoisted aboard. He previous day the animals were being was stowed in a stall below decks. offered Wayne at $250 apiece and the Wayne and Porter wanted to leave best he could get for both was $44. $100aWeek Selling Shirts Tunis at once. Much had to be learned Porter remonstrated at selling them, SAMPLE LINE— FREE about the behavior of the desert nevertheless, accepted the animal but Wayne, firs Pocket- Send for It! on the high seas, they felt, before they offer. Sell Carlton'e custom quality lirts. Pajamas and Underwear. could buy any more of them. Diplo- Porter and Wayne looked at hun- Biggest commissions, l^xtra bonuses. Profit bhuring. Write today, matic courtesy dictated, that however, dreds of camels practically every day, Carlton Mills, Inc. Dept. if'/antou?'

they remain in the harbor until they but beyond their first purchase in Tunis 1 you I 114 Filth Ave . N Y C. 308-F heard from His Highness, the Bey of they refused to venture. They were both Tunis. still enthusiastic about the value of the One morning while Wayne was im- camel, particularly Porter. IsYourHairDyinqy patiently pacing the deck, waiting to They left Constantinople, however, hear from the Bey of Tunis, he was sur- without making further additions to r% ofStarvation* prised to see not one but two camels their cargo. f YOUR SCALP IS THE SOIL from headed toward the docks. They were The Supply then sailed for Alexandria I whicwhich your hair grows, just as led by a dragoman, who bore the fol- and upon arrival the purchasing of cam- plants grow from the earth. If it V. becomes under-nourished, the cxist- lowing note: els in earnest. Wayne many began made i is . it n ff hair cannot survive, nor new possible until your scalp is purchases but in each group that he On, oi rrof Rrowth Beholder'* manv made fertile again — just as the o, "Marsa, August 1855. brought to the Supply there developed lamout patients farmer must fertilize the bare, worn- "My Dear Major: an itchy quota which he had to sell back out soil before the crop can grow. "I have just received two camels from His Falling hair, dandruff and itching scalp are symp- to the wily Arabs—usually at a loss. At toms of an unhealthy, under-nourished condition Highness. One is of the finest quality and one time he had as many as twenty of the scalp. If you have any of these ailments, full-grown. The other is a young one. I write for information about Professor Scholder's usually dwindled send them both with my dragoman. You camels but the number Home Treatment for the hair and scalp. must do the best you it down to about seven. can with them as FREE ANALYSIS COUPON: will ever raised in the be impossible to refuse. No objections were Mail today, enclosing samples of your hair to "W. P. Chandler." market place to the presence of Wayne PROFESSOR MAURICE SCHOLDER. D.G. The Professor Seholdcr Institute, Inc. and Porter, and it was quite obvious 101 West 42nd St., New York, N. Y. i.L.-l Both camels were hoisted aboard, and that they were planning to take the Name Age the Supply sailed for Malta. Thus were camels out of (Continued on page 71) Address

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The Qamels zAre Qoming!" EASY! ( Continued from page 6g) } You Can Learn Evenings Egypt, but when they tried to raise Gourmal. Perequada and Amisa, and as anchor they met the same obstacles as their names indicated there were both ThisWinter at Tunis. There was a war and no males and females present. The Ameri- Three lessons FREE sent on request — will camels could be exported. can crew did not find the names of their give you a start. Thou- They appealed to the viceroy of charges to their liking and so "Bill," sands of boys and young men — also girls — have Egypt and he reluctantly lifted the "Joe," "Tom" and others were sub- quickly learned to play embargo. When he learned later that stituted at random. The young camel this easiest of all instru- ments—the the United States planned a camel was dubbed "Uncle Sam." corps and would be in the market for The Supply had hardly sailed out of thousands of animals he became quite the harbor of Smyrna when it was hit crrue ctone enthusiastic. He took the occasion to by a storm. The first to feel the ef- impress upon Wayne the superior fects were the Arab attendants. They SAXOPHONE* Helps you quality of Egyptian camels to all others had been of no value while the ship to bepopularsocially.to earn extra money "on the side," being besides affording great and urged him to make all his pur- was loaded and became a nuisance pleasure throughout life. Any Saxophone sent chases in the markets of Cairo and when the vessel got under way. on trial and easy payments arranged. Alexandria. As a concrete expression The Orientals never did get over their FREE Sax Book of his interest, he finally offered to pre- sea-sickness and the Americans had to Contains first lesson chart and sent the Americans with six of attend the camels. Porter, the best the sea- pictures of full line of Buescher blooded beasts in the East. going pilot of the Supply, assumed the Saxophones. Sent FREE — lust 402 send a post card. Knowing that the Eastern potentates official duties of camel veterinarian, and Buescher Band Instrument Co. took great pride in their presents, the animals began to improve in man- and 2206 Buescher Block, Elkhart, Ind. with the splendid specimen presented ners and appearance. by the Bey of Tunis in his possession, The camels did not take kindly to Wayne expected to get "Oman drom- the rolling waves. They had to be BOW LEGS? THIS GARTER (Pat'd) edaries" or others of equal breed, but secured to their stalls in a kneeling Makes Trousers Hang Straight instead, he complained, he got "six, position when the ship rocked excessive- // Legs Bend In or Out wretched in appearance, rotten in ly, which was most of the time. Free Booklet—Plain Sealed Envelope disease, not dromedaries at all but com- The expedition finally arrived in mon street camels of Alexandria, the Indianola. Texas, with thirty-four cam- THE T. GARTER CO. Dept. 9 most ill-used and wretched looking els, but not all left who Smyrna were 1121 Belmont Ave. South Bend. Ind. beasts in the world." present. There had been six births and Two of them Wayne recognized as four deaths. Two Bactrians, the most those he had previously purchased in highly prized camels in the cargo whose Alexandria and sold in Cairo after they presence necessitated the raising of the developed the itch, and these he called, Supply's decks to accommodate them, STEADY NO

1 (PERIENCE NEEDED "the best of the lot presented." Porter had died en route. With the exception EMPLOYMENT Help us handle orders for JifFykake— new prepared Cftke (lour. Con- looked upon the present as a studied of a few boils and swollen legs the other tains eggs, milk, su^ar, shortening, hakinji powder, flavoring. Just add water and bake. Makes delicious cakes, easy — quick. Not Bold insult and refused to accept the animals. camels were apparently in good health. in stores. Evervbody orders. Hufre repeat business and profits. Only one of 350 fist sell in* ZANOI. Products that are hrintfini? $10 1., £20 day to RmbitaOTZfl men and Women. Write f.,r details ofProfit- When the pasha was informed, he sent Texans turned out in great numbers bharing Plan. American Products Co.. 49 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio. down five better camels, still Mount to watch the unloading of the camels. Sinais of an inferior breed to the Omans, The animals, led by their American and

but the Americans accepted them. Oriental guides, marched down the TOTAL 1 AMAZING NEW [SHOWS here. I When the Supply left Alexandria for gang-plank in a most docile manner. Smyrna, there were ten camels in the As soon as they hit the solid earth, how- ADDJ- pencil combined. cargo including the presents from the ever, their demeanor suddenly changed MULTIPLIED Abeautiful, valuable, .SUBTRACTS lifelong companion that potentates. Wayne had also added to They became excited and uncontrollable. DIVIDE. J- |9 ever ready to do your writing and adding. his force three Arabs, who promised to They reared, kicked, cried, broke their "'Jmonev lust ehowinj? Vie anduWatnrenon serve with the American camels for a halters, tore up the picket lines and HQU K AD DI NG PENCIL C O.. Dept. 48. St. Louis. Mo. „ year, and four Americans whom he had engaged in other fantastic tricks such picked up at various ports. as pawing and biting each other. The Smyrna proved a splendid market, Texans, at first amused at these antics, and Wayne was leading camels aboard became panic-stricken and fled. A Clean the Supply every day. The crew Their pranks seemed to have no ef- had become proficient in loading and fect on their Oriental guides, who in a TOOTHBRUSH unloading after its experiences in cool and deliberate manner assembled You wouldn't hang your knife Alexandria, and fork upon the bathroom and Porter had devised a them after they had had "their little wall and expect to use them system which always landed the camel fun." as Hi Jolly called it. to eat with the next morning. Keep your toothbrush clean in his "stall." None of the American soldiers de- and free from germs. This When the Supply left Smyrna for the tailed from the infantry, cavalry and container kills germs. United States. February 15, 1856, it had quartermaster corps knew anything No Disease thirty-three camels aboard: twenty about packing camels so they had to The Stcral toothbrush comes camels of burden, corresponding to the get their instructions from the Orien- out of its container clean and free. Helps prevent draft-type horse, nine dromedaries or tals. They did not understand the germ spread of colds, pyorrhea and speed camels to be tried in the role of Oriental and he did not understand contagious disease. I f you be- lieve in individual towel and cavalry, three, simply classified as them. Some of the recruits were afraid sanitary drinking cup you will "camels'" and a twenty-four-day-old of the beasts, much to the amusement want this. Write for special "calf" whose type was undetermined. of the dark-skinned Arabs. When the introductory offer. AGENTS — We have some The breeds represented were Tunis, soldier made a mistake in packing, the territory open. Write for details. This is one Senaar. Muscat. Siout. Mount Sinai, foreigner either laughed at him or cor- of the fastest sellers ever offered. Once a cus- tomer buys, you have them for life. Bactrian, Booghdee and Arab. The rected his error in a tactless manner. DR. THOMPSON'S STERAL animals responded to such names as The American soldiers never like to TOOTHBRUSH CO. take instruc- (Continued on Adela. Mahommet. Ibrim, Massenda, page 72) 760 South St. Clair St. Toledo, Ohio

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WANTED] "The Qamels ^4re Qoming!"

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500 worthy tions from any foreigners and they six-mule teams and their wagons and minced no words in telling the Orientals six camels to bring back a load of oats. MEN and WOMEN just how they felt about them and the In going toward San Antonio, the to stop working long hours for poor pay outlandish beasts they had brought with camels were moving at a much faster and begin retailing Kawleigh's Good them. The soldiers swore at the camels gait than the mules but had to be held Health Products to your neighbors. Easy and swung their fists at their instructors. back. After the animals were loaded to sell monthly $2j0-$500 worth of fla- vors, spices, food products, toilet prepa- When the camel was finally packed, the up in the city each column was allowed rations, medicines, soaps, veterinary and frightened Oriental, rather than arouse to set its own pace. The camels re- poultry products. Over 150 different the soldier to a frenzy, would allow his turned in two and one-half days while daily necessities used by yourself and your friends. No selling experience need- mistakes to go unnoticed. As a result it took the mules almost five. ed— show you just how to succeed. the camels developed sore backs, be- As for the load, the camels brought Low prices. Good values. Complete serv- at their Ameri- back of ice. For free particulars came unruly and nipped 3,648 pounds oats, while the can keepers. The animals began to dis- mules and wagons returned with 5.400. tyjend this coupon! m *m « m appear and a number were found dead The camels usually behaved on their in their stalls with fractured skulls and trips, but all other animals fought shy W.T. RAWLEIGH CO. no amount of investigating could dis- of them. Their appearance frequently

Please tel! me how I can make more money close the cause. Many an unmanageable was a signal for a stampede. The Tex- Name animal carried on the morning report as ans considered them a nuisance. The A. W. O. L. was said to have had a spe- city council of Brownsville, for in- Address cial pass from his American attendant. stance, passed an ordinance after one City State. There were also a number of desertions of these disturbances forbidding camels among the attendants. in the streets of the city. Training the dromedaries or the speed » RAILWAY AS the camels and the American sol- camels to become the "cavalry of the -diers became better acquainted an desert" was even a more difficult task called camel wagons ( POSTAL armistice was and than breaking in the draft animals. became a common sight in Texas. Major Wayne had expected a great \ CLERK Wayne frequently brought the animals deal from their ability to cover ground from Camp Verde, where they were rapidly and their moral value as a to $1700 year located, to Indianola and San Antonio lightning charge against unsuspecting $1900 a to haul supplies and forage back to the Indians, but the dromedaries seldom Long vacations with pa.,. Work easy. Travel on fast trains with all expenses military reservation. The teams usually moved at a gait faster than a walk. hotel. No worries about paid, including attracted as much attention as a circus. The fault was not the dromedary's the future. Ex-service men get preference. MY FREE BOOK TELLS HOW Whenever the camels arrived, the however. As long as he walked the sol- Get my bilr free bonk about the Civil Service which tells all about the Railway !'..fttal Service, and other town wits would gather at the market dier stayed on his back. When he in- positions, and how I can help you. Write today. PATTERSON SCHOOL place and ridicule the animals as well creased his gait he usually paced by Arthur R. Patterson, Civil Service Expert as their keepers. Major Wayne dis- himself, with the soldier stretched out 631 Wisner Bldg. Rochester, N.Jf. regarded their scoffings and continued on the ground. When he galloped, only Ml!RAISE BELGIAN HARES to train the camels for draft purposes. Hi Jolly and Greek George could — — Flemish Giants Vl£tfL NewZealandReds Chinchillas When he became convinced that the stay on. The poorer riders tumbled fcjfl^^^ MAKE BIG MONEY- We Supply Stock animals could prove their ability, he off while the most expert ex-cavalrymen .vou Belgian Hares $2 each J^f^^^m raise: gave several exhibitions of their powers. were fortunate enough to be able Jm SUtKm. New Zealands %3 each — Chinchillas %i who each—Flemish Giants $r> each. 32-page illustrated hook, One day he brought one of his cam- tc hang on became "seasick" and had catalog and contract, also copy of Fur Farming magazine, tells how to raise skunk, mink, fox, etc., for big els to the marketplace and ordered the to be taken down. profits, all for 10c. Address animal to kneel. He placed on it two The army, therefore, never learned OUTDOOR ENTERPRISE CO., Box 4.1, H olmes Par k, Missouri bales of hay. each weighing 314 pounds. what moral effect a charge of drome- "How're ye goin' to git him up daries would have on hostile redskins. restRwgers now?" askect one of the skeptics. In sp te of these obstacles the camel Men, get Forest Ranger job; $125- "The camel is gettin' ready to die. experiment showed sufficient promise to $200 mo. and home furnished; perma- He can't stand up with that load," sug- warrant further tests. Porter proposed gested another. taking of the camels to Washington nent; hunt, fish, trap. For details, write one 2040 Temple Court Major Wayne nonchalantly ordered to give Congress a better conception NORTON Denver, Colorado two more bales, of equal weight and of the animal's capabilities, firm in the volume, placed on the camel's back. belief that a large appropriation would When the additional load was packed, immediately follow. To enlist the he gave the signal. The camel stood support of President Franklin Pierce, a Kunderd and walked off, after his master. pair of camel's-hair socks was knit for up On another occasion, when the roads him by Mrs. Mary A. Shirkey of Vic- Gladiolus Book Free were too wet and slippery even for the toria, Texas. Tells how to grow the finest gladioli sure-footed mules to venture over a Wayne had spent but $10,000 of the successfully—Kunderd's own directions relatively flat detour to the city, Wayne $30,000 allotted for the "importation and methods. Also describes hundreds of Kunderd Gladioli—-Ruffled, Laciniated. ordered the camels to take the direct of dromedaries" by Congress, and Plain Petaled, Primulinus Hybrids and route over rugged hills and they arrived turned the unexpended balance over to the two new types, Snapdragon and single mishap. Lieutenant Porter for another trip to Recurvii Gladioli. 68 illustrated in color. without a 100 new varieties introduced. Use the Wayne found that the camel needed Smyrna in 1856. This time 44 camels coupon. less food and no more attention than were obtained, six of them presents of a mule, besides proving a more ef- the Turkish Sultan which had been A. E. KUNDERD, 478 Lincoln West Way | Goshen, Ind., U. S. A. ficient draft animal. At one time he promised to Major Wayne the year be- Dear Sir: I fore. caravan arrived in Please send me your free Gladiolus Book. moved his camp to Green Valley, sixty The second [ miles from San Antonio, and tested the Indianola, February 10, 1857, minus Name I relative draft ability of the mules and three camels which had been lost on the St. or B. F. D. camels. He sent into the city three voyage. Cltv

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The camels were multiplying in num- As late as May, 1903, the San An- bers and experimentation continued in tonio Express speaks of having observed trying to test their value. One expedi- in one of the midway shows, exhibited tion crossed Texas, New Mexico and in that city, a camel with a U. S. brand Arizona to the Colorado River and the and the counterbrand of a successive successful performance was highly com- purchaser. the uncrowdedprofession mended by the officer in charge, Lieu- The pack camels in Nevada fell into tenant Edward Fitzgerald Beale, later disrepute at the same time. As long as THE DEMAND for Accountants has enormously in the last few brigadier general and ambassador to they remained on the private trails and increased years. The opportunities for advancement Austria under President Grant. came into contact with no other animals, in Accounting are limitless. Dozens of corporations rose By i860, the United States Army they proved satisfactory, but as soon presidents of great through the Accounting Department. It had establshed a caravan system in the as they came face to face with horses is through Accounting that you make yourself indispensable to your employers. Southwest, comparable to the most ef- and mules on the public highways, the FREE BOOK ABOUT ACCOUNTING ficient chain of communications in the familiar scenes ot the Texas plains were The I. A. S. is rraining thousands of men Oriental deserts. Between Texas and duplicated. Horses ran away, mules in their spare time at home. An 80 page California, every military post of any turned over their wagons and the dock- book, "How to Learn Accounting," will be sent you absolutely free if you simply significance on the main highway had ets of the courts of Nevada became mail the coupon below. Tells all about what it leads to— the money been supplied with camels. Lieutenant crowded with damage cases resulting Accounting— thatisinit. Do not delay. Mail the coupon. Beale, who was in charge of their dis- from the presence of camels in its International Accountants twenty-eight of midst. legislature finally tribution, had taken The passed a Society, Inc. them as far as Drum Barracks, near law prohibiting their appearance on the // To A Division of the Los Angeles, to become the western public highways. ALEXANDER HAMILTON ' terminus of the Texas-California Camel Most of the Nevada camels were INSTITUTE Route. taken later to Arizona and turned loose. To the International Accountants Society, Inc. 341 1 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. of the army officers to whose One pair was reported to have been Most Send me, free, "How to Learn Accounting,*' care the camels were entrusted failed placed on a ranch in Carson Valley and and tell me how 1 can increase my income. to show any enthusiasm for the ex- its prolific fecundity became a familiar Name periment. Many of the beasts were topic of conversation in the seventies. Street

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Burton, Past Commander of the Council. and the parade conducted by Turner- Just Rub It On General Pershing was not in uniform. Brandon Post of Clearwater. They saw When winds blow In his address, carried to the whole the unveiling of two bronze statues, one raw and chill and country by a chain of radio stations, he of a doughboy, the other of a sailor, at rheumatism tingles declared that "The American Legion's the entrance to the bridge. They saw a in your joints and national convention in Paris was a pil- spectacular procession of decorated muscles, rub on good grimage of peace, the like of which has floats that proved how fully the whole old Musterole. never been before." And he added: community took part in the celebration. As Musterole pene- "Through the comradeship of veter- In addition to Mr. Bissell's address, they trates the skin and ans, peoples were brought closer togeth- heard Dr. Percy G. Cross, Chaplain of goes down to the seat er in mutual confidence and common the Florida Department, read an Armis- of trouble, you feel understanding. There is no reason why tice Day poem. a gentle, healing the sentiments which govern the rela- warmth; then comes cooling, welcome relief. tions between America and France The Camera Laughs at Zero For croupy colds, sore throat, rheumatism, should not extend to all peoples. Inter- aches and pains in back and joints, rub on national friendship is a plant that must Musterole. Don't wait for trouble; keep a WINTER is as good a time as the be carefully cultivated." milder seasons for taking photo- jar or tube handy. Former K. P.'s and mess sergeants graphs, a fact that is proved by the large To Mothers: Musterole is also made in at the luncheon were edified by the pro- number of pictures being submitted in milder form for babies and small chil- gram announcement that the chow for the Monthly's $250 Prize Photograph dren. Ask for Children's Musterole. 2.700 guests included 1,000 of pounds Competition. The rest of the country, Jar« & Tubes lake trout. 2,250 pounds of spring chick- however, always will have a hard time ens, 360 lemons, 120 gallons of coffee, keeping up with the Legionnaire camera and 85 gallons of ice cream. users of California and Florida. The Step Keeper just wants to pass Legion Leadership in Florida a friendly word along to the Legion- naire cameramen of the States in which BETTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTER

ARMISTICE Day in Florida marked the winter sun doesn't help as it does who derive the realization of the hopes of years in Florida and California. He has an largest profits in two heed of the State's most rapidly de- idea that Ohio and Iowa and Illinois INVENTORS know and certain simple veloping sections. As a tribute to its can submit a lot more good pictures in but vital facts before applying for Patents. Our sent free. civic spirit and particularly in recogni- the Monthly's contest, and so can Col- book Patent-Sense gives these facts ; Write. tion of the part it played in enlisting orado, Nebraska and Kansas, and New D. C. public support for two great improve- York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Lacey & Lacey, 643 F St., Wash., Estab. 1869 ment projects which mean much to the Remember that everybody who knows Numerous Legionnaire References future of Florida. The American Legion how to take a picture has a chance to had charge of the dedication of two win for himself or his post the main million-dollar bridges on November nth. prize of S100 or one of the other four- LUCKY One bridge, at Palatka, high up on the teen prizes in the contest. Read the Lindy Ring east coast, provides a broad highway announcement of the contest which is Don't miss this great over the offer. Be LUCKY— beautiful St. Johns River. repeated on page 59 of this issue. And Courageous and Popular Stretching a whole mile across the river remember that April 15th is the final SI.OO BRINGS IT POSTPAID Beautiful silver finish. Spirit of St. Louis in enamel with New

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JANUARY, 1928 75 10 Inches Off Waistline In ^An Embassy of Qood Wilt 35 Days, (Continued jrom page 35) by motor to Foggia. There she was met Jr., of Wyncote, Pennsylvania, who was "I reduced from 48 inches to 3S^*5l inches in 35 days," says R. E. by official representatives of the Italian blinded in the battle of the Argonne Johnson, of Akron, O., "just by government. The inhabitants of the a few days before the Armistice, was wearing a Director Belt. Stom- little city enthusiastically greeted the singularly blessed. The Pontiff, placing ach now firm, doesn't sag and I feel fine." gold-star mother and members of her his hand upon Schoble's blond hair, The Director Belt gets at party. With appropriate ceremony a said: "May the Lord bless you, dear cause of fat and quickly re bronze plaque was dedicated, commemo- boy, for what you have done and for moves it by its gentle, kneading, massaging action on the abdo- rating the gallant services of the Ameri- what you have suffered. We are sure men, which causes the fat to be dissolved and absorbed. Thou- can aviators who served in Italy and He will give you strength to undergo sands have proved it and doctors recommend it as the natural way died there. The governmental officials deprivation." to reduce. Stop drugs, exercises and dieting. Try this easy way. and friends then accompanied Mrs. In a brief address, delivered in Ital- Sent on Trial Schofield to the grave of her son and ian, the Pontiff expressed his willingness with her placed a wreath on it. Lieu- to review the assembled Legionnaires Let us prove our claims. "We'll send a Director for trial. tenant Cheney was the first American "not as a military review but a paternal If you don't get results you owe nothing. You don't risk apenny. aviator to lose his life on Italian soil. review.'' Then he added with a smile: Write for trial offer, doctors' en- "Thus dorsements and letters from making the personal acquaint- users. Mail the coupon NOW I welcome accorded Commander ance of each one LANOON & WARNER THE of you representing 332 S. La Salle St., Chicago, Ml. Savage and members of hjs party in millions of Americans dear to my heart."

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"The Star-Spangled A tumultuous farewell reception fa- factor at Conventions, Banner" was played and then the dele- miliarized everyone with the Fascist Parades, etc., with your drum corps! gation which had assembled knelt. A song. It thundered from ten thousand Write for FREE 32- hush followed that seemed to hold the tongues, and the "vivas" came to Legion page book that tells Eternal City in a silent grasp. At that ears even after the trains had begun the you how easy it is. moment the pledge of remembrance was long journey to Lucerne. Switzerland. Ludwig & Ludwig laid, and the Italians knew America had reaffirmed its bond of friendship. was the sight which greet- 1611 N. Lincoln St. Chicago, 111. UNUSUAL STUDY AT HOME The reception at the Vatican was im- ed the delegation when it descended Become a lawyer Legally trained pressive and picturesque. The delega- from the trains at dusk. 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Use the coupon time, the weather, the moon's location, was the reception at the home of the r , PALMER INSTITUTE OF AUTHORSHIP and has a set of Biblical statues that National Federation of Belgian War Dept. 111-A, Palmer Building, Hollywood, Cal. parade dramatically at noon every day. Invalids. Men and women alike wept, Please send me, without obligation, details " about the course I have checked. At the hotel de ville. the Prefect and as M. LeClerq, president of the Belgian | Short Story Writing Photoplay Writing i Andre Tardieu. of the French Ministry, disabled organization, wheeled himself Knglish and Self-Expression I extended cordial felicitations. After a forward—he is blind, and lost both legs Name I splendid luncheon in the Palais des and an arm—and said: "War is horrible Fetes given by the Anciens and those who rule the world must not Combattants All correspondence strictly confidential d'Alsace the party departed for Metz. let it happen again." No salesman will call on you I Prime Minister Henri Jaspar presided |"T was at Metz that Commander Sav- at an imposing dinner tendered by the Learn to write short stories * age laid a wreath on the statue of the Belgian government. A dance at Hotel Poilu Liberator, dedicated by the lib- de Ville where Burgomaster Max. hero erated regions. As the ceremony pro- of wartime Belgium, personally received gressed a French the delegation, was a brilliant affair. 75 beyond the Moselle s thundered a minute requiem. The roar The Belgo-Amerique Society alone was 50 *MOO weekly plan it easy. We of the gun echoing responsible for the performance of New makes among the hills start you in business and help brought back vividly the time, nine "Samson and Delilah" at the Brussels you succeed. Sell At a d i s o n "Better-Made" Sbirt& for lar«e years ago. Opera House, the Theater la when the Americans drove de Mon- manufacturer direct to wearer. forward through the German lines and naie, one of the most famous in Europe. Spare or full time. No capital or experience needed. stopped within sight of Metz itself. Antwerp, which the party visited for for More than fifteen thousand a brief stay prior to getting aboard the Write Free Samples cheering MADISON SHIRT MILLS, 564 Broadway, New York men. women and children in Metz lined Harwich boat bound for England, gave the streets to greet the American serv- further evidence of the real feeling LEARN to be a WATCHMAKER ice men and their women folks. It Belgians have for American World War Fine trade commanding a good aalary. Positions was here also that Commander Savage veterans. -y graduate. Largest and beat school fn America. We teach watch work, jewelry, engraving, placed a wreath on another statue clock work, optica, aviation and other fine Inatrument repair. that of Lafayette. The expressions of SOLEMNITY had played its part on Tuition reasonable. A $3, endowed school. enthusiasm in the liberated region had many occasions during the Com- FREE CATALOG a friendly fervor that could not be mander's Tour but no ceremony was BRADLEY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE mistaken. more grand than the tribute to Great Peoria Dept. 6 Illinois Overnight and into Belgium, the cock- Britain's dead in laying a wreath at the Big in pit of Europe, where memory of Ameri- Cenotaph, Whitehall. London. Even Money Poultry Get into the poultry business for health, ca's aid ten years ago in feeding the weather and time lent their bit to the )•] profit. Small Investment, sure ncreasin^ demand for cues and starving population of the little country occasion. A typical London fog swirled poultry. America's greatest poul- try magazine shows you how was strong and vivid. its yellow coils as the Legionnaires just and to proceed. Sueeessful poultrymen Though the hour of arrival in Brus- Auxiliares paraded to the site of the tell you how they manage their flock and mnkf hig money. You'd be sels was early eight Cenotaph. the procession, in surprized, 50 Cents a year, 0 monthx — o'clock a troop Leading trial 2.7 s, or — for onty cen coin stamps. of hussars, high military and civilian their red coats and high bearskins, was POULTRY TRIBUNE BOX 13. MOUNT MORRIS. ILL. officers, and thousands of citizens were the band of His Majesty's Scots Guard. Secured. Trademarks and assembled to welcome the delegation Dimly, softly, the column of American Copyrights registered. and shout PATENTS "Vive 1'Americain Legion." men and women, each accompanied by Attorney at Law The first official act of the Legion- its quota of British men and women, EC CTCl/rMC Registered Patent Attorney naires and Auxiliares was to proceed passed in review between massed Lon- . t. OlLVfclNO, Uteof the USlhU. S. Infty. LEGIONNAIRE between masses of people to the tomb doners who voiced their greeting in OF MARYLAND Solicit! m a member of the old established firm ofMILO R STKVKNS of Belgium's Unknown Soldier and hearty British hurrahs. it CO.. the business of his fellow Legionnaires and of their friends. We offer a strictly professional service at moderate fees Preliminary place upon it homage to the heroic Shortly before twelve the marchers advice without charge. Send sketch or model for examination Ofllces (' W I. AT Rids. .Washington. I) 1 338 Monadnork Rln"k. Chicago. Ill dead who had delayed the German ad- reached the Cenotaph. Almost at the vance in 10 14 and contributed so stroke of noon Commander Savage ad- BE A RAILWAY TRAFFIC INSPECTOR heavily to ultimate victory. vanced before the stately monument. [L For nine yearn, our irraduatea have hp? I^l offered positions an Traffic Innpecturs at The battlefield of Waterloo was in- Beside him stood Colonel George R. I^L definite salaries, plus expenses, a few IBP days after completing tbeir studies. teresting. A discussion of the famous Crosfield of the British Legion. Around TraHir Inspector* start at $120 or more per month and rise rapidly to $175, $200 battle from the Mound of the Belgian them the smoky fog swept in long — « or $250 per month. AtWH ^ B a Kai' w»y Traffic Inspector, you aro Lion i— practically your own bonn, wee new faces exploded the fictional recital of swirls. All traffic was suspended and a and places each minute, report only to hiph officials, -ire rapidly advanced. It's Victor Hugo's sunken road. The Coun- strange hush prevailed. Men and wom- healthful, outdoor work, with regular hours -especially appealing to ex-wervice men. tess Cornet Ways-Ruart. formerly Miss en came to attention. Then Big Ben Hundreds of Satisfied Graduates Write today for free booklet (riving follde- Gladys MacMillan of the tailH an ( contract ; tn-cein* to refund vour Colorado, enter- from Parliament House struck noon money >f position i» not r.crnr-,-,1 afler trrad- uation STANDARD BUSINESS TRAIN- tained the party at a reception after hour. In measured strokes, as if beat- >NG INST.. Olv. 24. Buffalo. N. V. the trip to Waterloo. ing a requiem (Continued on page 78) ? pe EARN UPT0 250mo,U$AlARY

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for the dead, the massive clock gonged Stratford-on-Avon which won the warm its tribute, each musical, sonorous sound appreciation of the delegation. The clanging through a silence that op- special trains provided comfort and pressed. Thus stood the delegation, service of the highest standard. Break- heads bowed in silent prayer for the fast, lunch and tea were served en route, hundreds of thousands of British sol- and a day's program was executed with diers who had fought the fight for the greatest of efficiency. victory. Historic Oxford, a city of old gray As the last stroke of the clock died walls and beautiful gardens, of colleges away Commander Savage placed a beau- and ancient churches, is sublime. Too tiful wreath on the Cenotaph and said: few hours were available to get more "Men of Britain, heroes all, we of The than a cursory glimpse of the many American Legion salute you." historical settings which may be seen A moment more of silence and then everywhere. the red-coated buglers of the Scots This Binder Guard advanced and sounded the Last A VISIT to Stratford-on-Avon, that PRESERVE YOUR Call. beautiful town whose history dates WILL As one flag the British Legion flags from the Saxon period, will explain to MAGAZINE bowed, as did The American Legion col- any traveler the reason William Shakes- ors; only the Stars and Stripes and the peare wished to live and die in the Union Jack remained upright, as homage place of his birth. Shakespeare's house was laid at the monument to Britain's in which the illustrious poet was born. heroes, of whom Commander Savage Anne Hathaway's cottage in which he said: "They knew not how to retreat, did his wooing, and Holy Trinity only how to die like men." Church in which his bones rest, were As the last bugle note echoed, the the principal places visited by the dele- Brings It to Your Home colors again came to attention and the gation. solemn in- or Office marchers proceeded to West- In Stratford-on-Avon a refreshing minster Abbey, where tribute was paid cident added to the memories of a to Great Britain's Unknown Warrior, pleasant day. At the railroad station Begin New Year by who symbolizes the dead on land, sea as the Lord Mayor of the city con- and in the air. cluded his address of welcome, a small binding a year's issue but stalwart old man forced his way of The American Legion THE spell of London, romantic and to the front of the crowd and stood, beautiful in its shroud of opaque listening attentively. Dressed in a blue Monthly for ready ref- mist, was still on the members of the coat with brass buttons, he wore on his erence. party as they took their places in the head at a rakish angle the black felt huge dining room of the Hotel Cecil for and gold cord of the G. A. R. Strong and durably bound luncheon provided by the British Le- When the mayor had finished, a Le- gion and the British Empire Service gionnaire, espying him, cried: "Here's in red cloth with attractive League. A salvo of cheers greeted the a comrade from the States! Speech! gold-lettered title. This Prince of Wales as he entered to pre- Speech!" side as toastmaster. A cheerful wel- The veteran, who was Jabez Grayell binder contains a Special come was given Lord Haig, under whom of Ohio, mounted the box serving as a Locking Device which— many of those present had served in rostrum and his first words were: "Has Flanders. The Prince of Wales in ad- anybody got a good Yankee cigar?" laughter greeted this dressing the gathering said : "We of the A chorus of Requires no hole punching British Legion will never forget the opening and in another second the oc- Does not mutilate your links which those days of war forged togenarian had cigars of the Yankee copies between our brethren of the United variety in plenty. States and ourselves." He explained that he had gone to Is easy to operate No less brilliant, and in a way America as a boy, volunteered in an be quickly detached Can epochal, was the dinner offered by His Ohio Regiment during the Civil War And has a bull-dog grip! Britannic Majesty's Government in the and had seen it through. gallery of the House of Lords. Prime "I'm here to spend the remainder of Minister Baldwin, attended by a cortege my days," he said, but added quickly, Fill in and mail coupon of distinguished British citizens, sounded "if I can get good Yankee tobacco." with cash, check or money a keynote of welcome and during a Brookwood Cemetery, where hundreds masterly and historic address declared of American soldiers and sailors sleep, for and get order $1.50 that "war between two such forces as was visited by National Commander your binder NOW! the British Empire and the United Savage and the members of his Tour. States is unthinkable because it would Touching and appropriate services were destroy once and for all the whole of held and a wreath was laid to com- civilization worth preserving that exists memorate the occasion. In this same Thi: American Legion Monthly in the world today." cemetery are buried a number of Ca- Book Department. P. O. Box 1357. Cordiality, efficiency and wholesome nadian veterans. As a tribute to the Indianapolis. Indiana. desire animated the British veteran, valor of these men of our peaceful Gfntlbmen — Enclosed $1.50. Please send, citizen official to of neighbor to the north. Commander Sav- postpaid, the new binder for The American and make The Legion Monthly. American Legion's visit to England an age and the delegation held services at event to be long remembered. The their graves and placed a wreath to Name . London Midland and Scottish and mark the event. ^Address Great Western Railway Companies Windsor Castle was the scene of a City .State_ jointly prepared a trip to Oxford and gorgeous reception for the ladies of the

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party. The Lord Bishop of London ad- the affirmative, the King added: "A What Will You Be dressed the visitors at a special service fine-looking lot!" in St. Margaret's, Westminster—the of- Frank Schoble, Jr., the blinded Penn- Doing One Year ficial church of the House of Commons. sylvania veteran, approached. The King Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Beatty, with a sympathetic movement reached From Today? and Countess Beatty received the mem- forward to grasp the groping hand of oers of the party at The Priory, Reigate. the blond-haired young man. JANUARY imitHARl MARCH Schoble paused a few moments to converse with the King. Then as he $25 AWeek AND so the days in London came too advanced hesitating foot, Queen Mary APRIL MAY JUNE - quickly to an end. The epochal pres- a stepped from her place and reached for entation to their Majesties, The King $3t eekr and Queen of England at Buckingham the hand which sought hers. remark: JULY AUGUST SI I'llMWR Palace, was a majestic event. Never A quick pressure and the "It is pitiful it happened—with the war before had the reigning house of Great $5t AWbek Britain received personally such a large so close to an end." Thus did the delegation visit its last oi iiiiii k NOVTMBf R DIX'tMBER delegation, but their desire to meet the J Americans brought the entire member- king and queen. mc)AWpek ship of the tour into the throne room at A luncheon offered to the men of the delegation by the Lord Mayor of Lon- the proper hour. Three hundred and sixty-five days from now— the Guildhall in its historic ? Dressed in a cutaway, King George don at was what setting a ceremony which profoundly Will you still be struggling along in the same entered first, and seeing Ambassador old job at the same old salary—worried about the impressed visitors, Alanson B. Houghton, said with a cheer- the American accus- future—never quite able to make both ends meet —standing still while other men go ahead? ful smile: typical fog we have for tomed to ceremonies by this time. "A One year from today will you still be putting them today." An afternoon at the Tcwer of Lon- off your start toward success—thrilled with am- don was a pleasant experience to those bition one moment and then cold the next Ambassador Houghton smiled, made delaying, waiting, fiddling away the precious a response and then presented National of the party interested in the history hours that will never come again? of Great Britain. Don't do it, man—don't do it. There is no Commander Savage. greater tragedy in the world than that of a man Nicola Sansanelli, the newly elected "We are glad to have you here in Eng- who stays in the rut all his life, when with just President of FIDAC, delivered the a little effort he could bring large success within land with us," said the King, after his grasp. shaking hands. His hearty voice was principal address at the Bon Voyage Make up your mind today that you're going banquet held in the Hotel Cecil the to train yourself to do some one thing well audible to the waiting Legionnaires and Choose the work you like best in the list below, Auxiliares. night before the delegation disbanded. mark an X beside it, mail the coupon to Scran- ton, and we will send you, without cost or obli- Mr. Sansanelli, a former Governor of "I'm sorry we're having foggy weath- gation, the full story of what the I. C. S. can er, but I hope you're enjoying your- Naples, Italy, was elected in London a do for you. Right now you can decide where you will be before the selves just the same." few days by FIDAC Congress this time next year. Commander Savage assured the King to lead La Federation Interalliee des Common sense will tell you that it is far bet- ter to send in this Success Coupon today than the delegation was having a wonderful Anciens Combattants, an international to wait another precious year and then wish time. organization of ex-service men, of which you had! The American Legion is a member. "I don't suppose you have much free INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS time." the monarch observed. John J. Wicker, Jr., National Travel *'The Universal University" Box 757C-B, Seranton, Penna. minute is filled," Director, who conceived the idea of the "Every Commander Without cost or obligation, please send mc a copy of and Why," and full particulars Savage returned. "But we're liking it tour and personally directed it, on the your booklet, "Who Wins about the subject before which 1 have marked X: eve of departure homeward bound from immensely." Industrial Management Business Correspondence Queen Mary entered at this moment, London was acclaimed with warm trib- Personnel Management Q Show Card and Sign Traffic Management Lettering a tall, graceful woman. Then began the ute by the members of the delegation. Business Law Stenography and Typing Accounting and CP. A. Civil Service presentation, Commander Savage intro- Aboard the Leviathan, westward Coaching Railway Mail Clerk Cost Accounting Common School Subjects ducing each of the party, who shook bound, there were any number of Bookkeeping French High School Subjects hands with the King and Queen. This thoughtful men and women to whom Secretarial Work O Magazine and Book Spanish Salesmanship Illustrator unprecedented action of the royal house each succeeding day will bring further Advertising Cartooning TECHNICAL AND NDUSTRIAL COURSES of Windsor drew comment from the realization of the historic significance Electrical Engineer 8 Architect London papers. Even those presented of the tour. B Electric Lighting ArArchitects' Blueprints Mechanical Engineer Contractor and Builder at court are not usually accorded this One Legionnaire summing up in Amer- Mechanical Draftsman Architectural Draftsman Machine Shop Practice Concrete Builder privilege. ican fashion the impression of all, said Itailroad Positions Structural Engineer King George inquired further: "Are "There'll be no with any Gas Engine Operating Chemistry Pharmacy war of those Civil Engineer Automobile W >rk these all ex-service men?" countries while we're alive you can Surveying and Mapping Airplane Engines — Metallurgy Mining Agriculture and Poultry As Commander Savage answered in bet on that." Steam Engineering Hadlo Mathematics Name

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fornia, United Spanish War Veterans: cline and Fall' and when about half-way Kentucky, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma . . . "On the front page of your October issue through gave it up and read Macaulay's Charles Divine was a reporter on the a Spanish-American War scene of the 'England' instead. Some months later, New York Sun at the outbreak of the block-house attack at San Juan Hill ap- struck by the similarities and differences war. He went to his home town, Bing- peared, and it was unanimously voted in the two histories, the writer reborrowed hamton, New York, to enlist in the old by the members of our Camp that I write Gibbon and read it through from begin- First Regiment (Infantry), N. Y. N. G. a letter of appreciation and voice the ning to end." Mr. Henderson writes: When the regiment was broken up in sentiment of the members. A spirit of "I was born on a lonely farm in the Cat- the organization of the Twenty-seventh true comradeship is shown here and skill Mountains of New York and as I Division, he was transferred to the Sani- proves that a willingness for co-operation grew up was always searching for some- tary Train. While at Camp Wadsworth between the veteran organizations thing to read that was new. When I he was one of the editors of the division exists." was about sixteen years of age I became paper, the Gas Attack, and while he was acquainted with a young minister in that a private overseas his first book of poems, vicinity and he loaned me several books, "City Ways and Company Streets," was article which appears in this mostly histories. Among them was the published. In France he served a year THE Fall.' I in hospital issue under the title "The Stranger full set of the 'Decline and read the center at Mars-sur-Allier, the from start to finish and as I Nevers, where he was commissioned at the Ford" and is signed "by a Yankee books near recall enjoyed the reading. That is second lieutenant. Since the war he has schoolma'am" is from the personal memoirs of a member of The American quite a long time ago and I should prob- published two more books of verse and a ably not able to pass a very good war novel, "Cognac Hill," which has just Legion Auxiliary who is in her eightieth be year. For fifteen years the "Yankee examination on their contents at the appeared . . . Rupert Hughes and schoolma'am" of reconstruction days on present time, but I am sure they helped Samuel Scoville, Jr., are frequent con- the Missouri border has been setting pass many a long winter evening in an tributors to The American Legion

. . . Philip of is down at the request of her children and enjoyable manner." Monthly Yon Blon Ohio grandchildren recollections of her long managing editor of The American Legion Monthly and Frederick C. Painton of life which includes a view of three fron- New York is director of The American tiers. This is the first installment of them HUGH WALPOLE was born in 1884, Legion Service. Both served on to be published—and according to the the son of the Rev. George Henry News Stripes during the war. reminiscer the only one that ever will be. Somerset Walpole, present Bishop of The Stars and It is reproduced here with the promise Edinburgh. From 1889 to 1896 Mr. that the anonymity of the first person Walpole 's father was professor of dog- number will be pub- singular will be preserved. matic theology in the General Theo- IN THE February logical Seminary, New York City, so lished the first in a series of represen- that the son spent the highly important tative short stories by American authors, with introductions by John Erskine. For THE Society of Legionnaires Who formative period from his fifth to his Have Read Gibbon's "Decline and twelfth year as a resident of the United his opening story Dr. Erskine has selected Irving's "The Legend of Fall of the Roman Empire" Entire, in States. Mr. Walpole's first novel, "The Washington will be a short which Gene Tunney holds Card Number Wooden Horse," was published in 1909, Sleepy Hollow." There story of the French Foreign Legion, "An One, ends the year with nothing in the when he was twenty-five years old. Since Debt," by the late Perceval treasury, no unpaid bills, and twenty-six then he has written nearly a score of Enemy Robert Chambers will con- names on the membership roster. The novels in addition to much critical writ- Gibbon. W. timely article on the problem four members who have joined since the ing. His better known novels are prob- tribute a of reforestation, and Mr. Walpole will last report was made (in the November ably "Fortitude," "The Duchess of Wrexe," "The Young Enchanted," "The conclude the thoughtful discussion of Message Center) are R. J. Henderson, an Englishman's point of Historian of Newton (Massachusetts) Cathedral," "The Old Ladies," and America from "Portrait of a Man with Red Hair." Dur- view which begins in this number. The Post; Dr. V. J. O'Connor of Little Rock portrait of Lincoln (Arkansas) Post; Lambert Fairchild, ing the war Mr. Walpole was with the cover design will be a Chandler Christy. Past Commander of Captain Belvidere Russian Red Cross, and was decorated by Howard Brooks Post of New York City, and for his services. In 1918 he was made Frank C. Fortner of Big Sandy (Mon- a Commander of the Order of the British spealing of Mr. tana) Post. (You can't do much better Empire. "Who's Who" lists his recre- ONE moment: In than that for geographical distribution.) ations as "walking, talking." Walpole, we mentioned the fact Mr. Fairchild —who says he has "no war that he was born in 1884, but neglected place. It was Auckland, record to speak of —just arrived at the to name the Zealand. Join a family where you'll I. C. O. T. S., Camp Pike, Arkansas, ROBERT GINSBURGH is a first lieu- New you'll when the Germans learned of my enlist- tenant of Field Artillery who is just have a minister for a father and ment and capitulated"—announces that now stationed at Governors Island, New see the world. he has also "waded through Prescott and York, where he edits the Recruiting News. Carlyle and Baruch Spinoza." Dr. He was graduated from Harvard in 1917 O'Connor rates two votes at all national into a second lieutenancy. He served in conventions of the S. L. W. H. R. G. D. home camps during the war, attaining F. R. E. E. He "read the 'Decline and the rank of captain. Remaining in ser- 80 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly

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