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HEAVY-SET man with a deep tan By HENRY LEVERAGE "It's a beastly long story. The jewel A covering the ruddy glow of his is mine, however. They can't get it. skin stared at a name on a ground- jewels except the Amber Bead. That They've tried. They may try tonight. glass door and then turned the knob. must be returned to the vaults." That's why I want protection of the He strode over a thick rug and tapped "And what is the Amber Bead?" highest order." the shoulder of the detective he had come "Brown diamond, weighing: one hun- "Have you had any threats—warn- to see. ings?" "Triggy Drew?" he asked. Gadkins drew out his watch. The detective swiveled in a chair "Yes! Yes!" he said testily. and stared upward. "Rajah Brooke of Benares cabled "My name is Drew," e said. yesterday. The natives already are The heavy-set man tapped the toe celebrating the return of the Amber of a shoe with a snake-wood stick. Bead. It's a Sepoy talisman." He removed one glove and extracted "This dinner?" said Drew. "Who a card from a flat case. is going to be at your house tonight?" "I am Ivor Gadkins—of Hunting- "Sir Redaver MacKenzie — an ton, Long Island. I want two or old friend of my wife's. He's over three of your best men to act as in the States on matters pertaining guards at a dinner tonight." to Foreign Office affairs. His secre- Drew fingered the card offered to tary, Roland Goodwin, will be him, then tossed it to his desk. with him. A Mrs. Langley of He did not rise from the chair. Rosyth, and Frederick Alexander, The visitor glanced around the office. the explorer, are invited." "Have you three good men?" he Drew reached for his hat. asked brusquely. "I'll go down to the safety de- "My operatives are all expe- posit vaults with you," he said. "I'll rienced. I can send out three. It phone my men from there and have will cost you ten dollars a day and them meet us at Huntington. What expenses for each man assigned to time is the dinner scheduled?" you." "At eight, exactly. We've just "Damn the money!" twelve minutes to get to the bank. Drew raised his glossy-black My car is at the curb." brows. He remained silent. "After you," said Drew, nodding "Damn expenses! What I want toward the door. is protection of the highest order. They descended the elevator and " We've just time now hurried to a green and black limou- Gadkins drew out a watch and sine upon the driver's seat of which slanted his eyes at the dial. sat two alert chauffeurs. "Just time," he continued, "to "Nickelson Trust Company!" said get to the safety-deposit vault and Gadkins decisively to the nearest take out my wife's jewels—and driver. "You've ten minutes to the Amber Bead." Drew rose from make it." the swivel chair and leaned over the Drew stepped into the limousine. desk. He pressed a button. He waited until Gadkins had lounged "I'll assign three good men," he back and pulled up the knees of his said. "They will be out presently. trousers. Suppose you meet them in the hall?" She lift- "This Amber Bead?" he asked "No! No! I want to see them! I ed her then. "It was taken from a Ben- want to instruct them!" hands and ares idol or temple or native chief?" "As to what? They know then- set the Am- "No! Damn it, no! I bought it business. ber Bead in from a dealer in Bombay. The "They don't know my business!" the crown of her hair dealer was killed soon afterwards. Drew stepped swiftly toward an inner They learned I had the jewel. They door and slammed it shut. tried to stab me in Cockspur Street, "Now see here," he said, wheeling dred and three carats. Drilled through London—of all places. I was saved by and striding toward the man with the the center. Came from Benares." a faithful servant—Singh Mohamet straight nose. "See here, sir, we must "Are you from Benares?" a Sikh." understand each other." "I spent twelve years in India. My " Did you have the Amber Bead with Gadkins flushed and sat down sud- wife wants to wear the Amber Bead you then?" denly. He swung his cane. tonight. I've warned her." "No!" "This matter is very important," "Against whom?" "Where was it?" he said. "It's too risky to trust in ordi- Gadkins rose stiffly from the chair he "In Cobb's Bank. The assassins nary hands. I don't fear for any of the had been sitting on. should have known that." ©1919, by Legion Publishing Corporation 8

They were silent until Gadkins sprang to the curb in front of the Nickelson Trust Company, hurried past a nod- ding doorman, and returned with a bulge showing beneath the left breastpocket of his tweed suit. "I'll do some telephoning," Drew said. "Stay right here in sight of the bank's guard. I'm going over to that cigar store. I can watch you from the booth. Sit back in the seat and close the door." "I've decided to go out to Hunting- ton with you," the detective told Gadkins as a chauffeur opened the door, then closed it. "Three men will meet us there. You mentioned Fredrick Alexander among those to be present at the dinner."

GADKINS leaned back in the seat and stared at the walls of the buildings of lower New York along which the fast motor-car was flashing. "You know him?" "Yes," said Drew. "He is a great connoisseur of jewels. His collection is famous." "Yes, he is interested in Eastern gems —everybody is." The detective tested both latches of the limousine. He rubbed the rear glass and stared down at the trunk-rack. He chuckled and pulled out his watch. "I'll be the man from Blankley's," he said. "I'm going to invite myself to your dinner. You can fix me up with a dinner-coat and linen. We are not dissimilar in size." "I should say that would be a rather clever move. You see, the Amber Bead should not be out of your sight. My wife can put it on in your presence. You can sit across the table from her. You can take it as soon as Sir Redaver Mac- Kenzie and his secretary depart. They will leave about eleven." "This cable you received from Ben- ares?" Gadkins flushed. " Rajah Brooke says the natives have as much as promised the Amber Bead to the priests. They'll not get it. I pur- The switch clicked and bathed the room in a Hare of light. chased it in a fair deal. I shall keep it. This is the first time it has been out of the vault in five months. It doesn't seem was there on a commission from the "My chambers," Gar'kins explained, as possible we can lose it after all the pro- Foreign Office." he stopped. Try on f '.e clothes the valet tection you can offer. They'll not get it!" Drew buttoned his coat when the car will bring. The dinner will not be ready Drew lost himself in a study of the case. swung into a driveway which wound up for an hour. In that time you can make Gadkins was suffering from fear—deep- through the velvet lawn of a vast, showy your preparations." driven and soul-clutching. The great estate. He said, as Gadkins moved to "Which way is the railroad station?" jewel from India, although purchased in the edge of the seat and stared out: asked Drew, as he stared around the good faith, was a millstone. Back of it "Whatever happens tonight, you must room and then fastened his eyes upon two were the traditions and the reaching hands trust me. Your guests are too well half-opened windows. of the East. It had come out of some known. The danger lies from within Gadkins pointed toward a wall. temple of worship. It was holy in the and not from without." Drew dressed with fastidious care. eyes of the natives of Benares. It would Gadkins opened the door of the limou- Then, passing from the room, he scrutin- go back to its former locality if cunning sine and stepped out to a stone curbing ized each servant until he reached the and subtle chicanery could prevail. beneath a port~-coch('re. porch and pulled down a plaid cap. The "The trouble," said Drew, as the "This way, Mr. Drew," he said, as a butler, the valet and three housemen were great car neared Huntington, "is that butler hurried out from the lighted English of the English. Each man had those who have promised to return the house. "Raker, this gentleman will also the ruddy skin and watery eyes of a jewel to Benares have made their plans. be at dinner tonight. Lay out some of my well-fed and contented servitor. Drew They are so sure of themselves that they clothes for him. Fortunately, I met him glanced back as he hurried down the have advertised their intentions. Why at the Plaza." graveled driveway. The house loomed does your wife want to wear the Amber impressive and shade-lighted. It was Bead tonight?" T"\REW followed the millionaire into three-storied with quaint gaoles in the "Sir Redaver MacKenzie requested it." -'—'the house. His eyes darted to left and manner of an English mansion. The "He is above suspicion?" right as they passed over a rug-isled mews and stables were at the back and "More so than you or I." hallway and mounted a modern, winding to one side. A box-wood hedge bordered "Has he been to India recently?" staircase whir-h was lighted hv inverted the estate. "He left India a fortnieht aeo Ho TVip detective reached the railroad stu November 14, 1919 9

will fit you. Stay here until I give the word for you to come downstairs. I want you to stand in the hallway leading to the dining room. There's an alcove there where you can hide." "What's coming off, chief?" " Nobody knows. The dinner looks like a frame-up. Three men from India have almost forced Gadkins to drag the Amber Bead out of his vault—where it was safe. They've played on his wife's vanity." Drew hurried downstairs and stood at one side of the newel-post as the guests arrived. "Mr. Frederick Alexander," said the butler. "Mrs. Langley and Sir Redaver MacKenzie and Mr. Robert Goodwin," he added pompously, in the manner of a long tenure of office in the Gadkins household. Drew was introduced to the three men in the smoking room. Frederick Alex- ander was tall, pale and keen-faced. Sir Redaver had the darting eyes and the sideburns of a banker or a man of com- merce. His secretary, Robert Goodwin, was Scotch and silent. Voices on the stairs and the sweep of silk and portieres announced that Mrs. Langley and Mrs. Gadkins were descending to the hall. The butler parted the curtains leading to the dining room. Drew followed at the rear of the diners. He turned and touched Raker's arm. "Hurry upstairs as soon as you have finished seating the guests and tell the man in the master's rooms to come down. He knows where to go." The butler bowed and held the tap- estries of the dining-room entrance open for the detective. Drew was introduced as Mr. Drew of Atlanta before he felt his chair press against the inner parts of his knees. He glanced inquiringly toward Gadkins. The millionaire shook his head slightly. He nodded toward his wife. Drew watched her and lifted his stare to her hair. She had no jewels showing. Mrs. Gadkins was plump and pretty. She turned from Frederick Alexander to The jewel was missing. Mrs. Gadkins' cheeks were white. Sir Redaver. Her gaze passed to Mrs. Langley, whose bosom blazed with tion and rounded the platform. Three station over there by that summer-house. diamonds. men, in dark clothes, sat on a baggage- Get in it and make a hole through the "My dear," she said, rising and track. They rose and hurried to his vines so that you can see out. I want you addressing her husband, "you must side. to watch this side of the house and the din- give the jewels to me now. I'm positively "Good," said Drew. "On time, I ing-room windows. You, Flynn, take cast in the shade at this dinner. Sir see. Find out anything while you were the other side. Lie down somewhere and Redaver has inquired about the Amber waiting, Delaney?" watch the entrance and the servants' Bead." "Only that there's just one Indian quarters. They're near the stables. "Just thought of them," said Gadkins, servant at The Abbey," a florid faced You've got my permission to stop any- drawing a case from his inner pocket. man answered. "Is his name Mohamet, thing moving that seems suspicious. "Here they are—the Amber Bead and or something like that?" Don't use your gun under any circum- the pearls. Put them on. There's a "Something like that." stances." glass by the butler's table." "This Amber Bead thing—" asked Two men disappeared in the gloom. Delaney. Drew and Delaney walked up the drive- DREW leaned back from the polished "A big diamond with a hole in it. way and into the mansion. array of silver and white damask. Came from an idol or a temple. Gad- Gadkins, in dinner-coat, was talking He watched Mrs. Gadkins arranging the kins bought it knowing that it was shady to the butler. He turned from the ser- pearls about her neck. She lifted her stuff, I guess. There's no law to make vant and hurried to Drew's side. hands and set the Amber Bead in the him send it back." "Bring your man upstairs," he said, crown of her hair. She moved it forward "There ought to be a law for them frowning. "He looks like a sleuth." and, bending to the light, snapped it millionaires," said Delaney. Delaney gulped and immediately hated upon a coil which was drawn over her They walked to the estate. Gadkins. He followed Drew and the right ear. Englishman up the stairs and into the She turned and flashed the diners a DELANEY," Drew said, as they master's chambers. pretty smile of triumph. reached a hawthorn clump close "Get this, Delaney," Drew said when "By Jove!" exclaimed Sir Redaver. to the porch. "You are to come in the Gadkins had left. "Clean up—shave. "That is a diamond!" house with me Floor], von take a Put on another rollar Gadkins' shirts (Continued ov page 22) 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Back on the Front Page

With the War News No Longer Crowding Them Out the Animals Are Performing in the Newspapers By ROGER WILLIAM RIIS

Four long years our old favorites Ragtime Music, Ragtime Milk; waited patiently for the date of their Ballad Music, Ballad Milk. resurrection, and it came not. Then at It is a well-known fact that music last they went on strike. Witness the affects cows very intimately. A cow Victory Arch. Rain two horses on the will give a pint of milk while "Ja-Da" is would never have affected them against played on the barn phonograph, the their will. As a matter of fact, they newspaper brings out, yet the same cow were sick and tired of standing up there will produce fifteen quarts during the r.s symbols of the very days which had rendition of Handel's "Largo." Slow, other day two of the plaster driven them and theirs into the back- draggy music is the best. The cow that THEhorses on the Victory Arch in New ground. And, being sensible animals, broke the world's record for quantity York collapsed. Superficial and they served notice of their rebellion and production did so to the tune of Chopin's short-sighted newspaper reporters said lay down on the job. Their action famous funeral march. I know one cow it was due to the steady rains of the late evidently was part of a prearranged whose owner was about to slay her for summer, but those who look below the program in the animal world, for the beef, when a modern farmer came along, surface of the day's news instantly were next day there appeared in the daily bought her for a few bucks, and took her aware of its true significance. It meant press the first sign of the return of man- to the city. With some difficulty, due the war was over. Congresses and par- kind to normal interests-. Since then, the to prejudice on the part of the building's liaments may go ahead affording an an- tendency has been marked. The animals owners, he managed to hire a stall in the swer to the little boy's question of where are coming back. They didn't desert grand tier row at the Metropolitan Opera. all the wind comes from, but the real us; we deserted them, rudely. Being milked during rehearsals and per- authorities have told those who know that Guaranteeing the truth of all the fol- formances of the Symphony Orchestra, peace is here. lowing stories is a good deal of responsi- this cow increased her flow of milk from In ordinary, normal, sane times, the bility for one man. Yet there can be two quarts to thirty. But alas! She pages of the newspapers contain many nothing to worry about; the stories must became too dependent on only the purest little items hidden away in corners, or be true. Didn't they all appear in the art; one day a substitute violinist struck filling out uneven columns of advertising. papers of the country? Then there can a discord that gave Bossie acute indiges- They relate current history, as made by be no doubt of their veracity. Freedom tion; her milk turned sour, and she died our friends the animals. of the press is a great thing. Here's a during the rendition of a great German A day rarely passes in times of peace recent headline: opera. and quietude on which some wild boar or ant-eater is not disturbing that peace and quiet ade by flying an airplane or swallowing an alarm clock which rings inside him. The presence of such menagerie notes in the press is a sure sign that people's minds are healthy and engaged in proper pursuits. Their absence is as sure a sign of reverse conditions. For the last five years the latter sign has shown plainly. Now the tide has turned and the ani- mals, birds, insects, reptiles and fish are coming back into their own. The trouble with mankind is that we take Shakespeare too literally when he says the world is just a stage and we the players. There are others in the cast. There are voices that speak with more authority than ours on this little flying speck in the universe; there are plenty of threads in the great cord of life that are as essential to its continuity as the flimsy and self-im- portant thread of man's doings. Which is to say: Recently mankind indulged in a war, of which you have heard. It caused considerable derangement in our daily life and interests, so much so that the topics of the day's news, which, in ordi- nary times, we followed with keen interest and enjoyment, were pushed out Mr. Darano had not of the pages of the press by tales of armies donned his hat to have and war. it converted into breakfast food by a short-tempered sea lion. :

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Then there are John Whitman's cows, A cow will produce fifteen quarts if milked during out in Poplar Bluffs, Mo. John noticed the rendition of Handel's "Largo." that his cows always were dry when they returned to the corral at night. He set out to find the reason. One day he fol- lowed the cows down to the banks of the Marais des Cygnes River. It was a hot day, and the cows waded into the stream up to their haunches, whereat a flock of enormous catfish formed company front and proceeded to milk the cows dry.

WHICH brings to mind the fish world. Fish, as a rule, are con- servative and shun publicity, which habit is strengthened by their natural surroundings. Last week a country paper carried an item which gives much food for thought. It ran: "The other evening a peculiar animal, evidently able to travel both on the ground and in water, fell into the goldfish pond of Alvin Long at Vinecroft. It is about eight inches long, black and yellow spotted, has fins and a tail like a fish and four legs." Get the note of mystery? Fish just simply don't like publicity, that's all. and will go to any disguise to avoid it. Now sumed a sitting posture on the floor of Snakes are so rarely argumentative and then they are even moved to commit the tank. Prince flapped the water with that one wonders what might have been violence on the rash human who invades his tail, called Mr. Darano a name that the cause of the brawl between a snake their precincts. This is especially true lacked poetic warmth, and sibilantly and a hen over in York, Pa., last month. of sea-lions. One of these animals, with moved for a change of venue. Mr. According to the report, it was a hotly a temper like the outer edge of a buzz-saw, Darano rose and cautiously, yet none contested fight, but the snake, which was is in the Central Park the less firmly, only 8 inches long, came out a poor Zoo in New York. Here is backed toward the second, being eaten completely by the the story of something wall of the en- Amazonian chick. And just in passing, that he did a few weeks closure. His atti- it is worthy of mention that a snake has ago: tude showed that lately appeared in the Blue Ridge Moun- "His name is Prince, he was perfectly tains with "two well-formed legs 3f£ and although he has sincere in what he inches in length located about 6 inches not been long a mem- was doing, and from the tip of the tail." The exactness ber of the park's ex- W that, while his of the measurements taken by the ob- clusive animal colony heart may have server precludes any thought of the most he has made a hit been in his mouth, famous product of the southern moun- with Head Keeper it nevertheless was taineers.

Jim C o y 1 e . altogether in his Public opinion notwithstanding, hen's Prince never work. lives are not all beds of silk and satin. talks about him- "Prince allowed Now and then one goes bolshevik and self, and since his nether lip to eats her own eggs and feathers. The his advent has curl and presented first step toward such cannibalism, says a displayed a for Mr. Darano's con- country paper, is taken when an egg is. willingness • to peculiar animal with fins, a tail templation the west end broken accidentally and the hen absent- plug along at and four legs. of a sea-lion going east. mindedly takes a sip. She thereby ac- the same old sal- Then with a movement quires the taste and becomes addicted ary, never asking the boss for a raise. quick as thought he swung around and bit to it. It's the same way about eating, Things like this endear a sea-lion to a a large irregular portion out of Mr. Dar- feathers, an uncomfortable diet for a. head keeper. ano's gambrel joint. Mr. Darano scram- human being. But hens sometimes eat "One day Antonio Darano leaned bled up the side of the tub, followed themselves quite naked. The only thing across the railing in front of Prince's by Prince loudly calling for an encore." to do then, says the correspondent, is to combination bathroom, boudoir, and Mr. Darano and his hat were cauter- catch the immodest hen and anoint her dining room, nonchalantly puffing a ized at the nearest hospital. with carbolated vaseline. cigarette and thanking heaven he had not Hens also are afflicted with bald head. been born a sea-lion. As he stood there QJNAKES again are in fashion. Just at To quote from the same newspaper, a zephyr lifted his sombrero and deposited ^ present they are cheap, too, because "bald-headed hens are caused by sand- it in the sea-lion's tank. Resenting what there is no duty on them. Of course, fleas getting on the head and other hens he considered an infringement of one of if you are an American, you need Euro- pecking them off." We disagree with the his most sacred prerogatives, Prince pean snakes, and if you are a European, writer of that sentence to the extent that uttered a low, Wagnerian growl, followed you need American snakes. They make in our opinion bald-headed hens, like any by a noise that sounded like a cross uncomplaining pets, and their slimness other hens, are caused by eggs. As to between a squirt of vichy and a fat and savoir faire make them attractive the cause of their baldness, however, there woman falling downstairs. Then he and undeniably stylish. The demand for is no argument. leaped at the hat and bit his initials in them has sprung up tenfold since the war. The insect world also is staging its the rim. Down in New Orleans a paper advertises peace-time tricks for the benefit of the "Mr. Darano had not donned his hat thus reading public. The city editor of New for the purpose of having it converted "Lizard Catchers Wanted: Many men York's biggest morning daily needed a into breakfast food by a short-tempered are needed to go into the swamps and few inches of copy the other day and filled sea-lion. Whereupon he crawled through collect snakes and lizards. The only in with the discovery of Prof. Lecaillon the bars of Prince's cage and reached in to skill necessary is more agility than the of Paris regarding the effect of music on recover his lid. He lost his balance and as- lizard." {Continued on page 31) I Hfc, AMh-KKJAJN LbUlUJN WEEKLY THE EDITORIAL PC. POLICIES—NOT POLITICS

The Course Is Charted is perhaps the most important new legislation before Congress. The Senate should act at once. Before go- official birth of The American Legion oc- THE ing ahead with reconstruction let us have some way curred this week at Minneapolis. Its per- of knowing not only what the government cost us the manent constitution has been written, its course and past year but what it is going to cost us next year. character shaped for the ensuing year. This by a majority expression of its million members. Give Them a Sea Voyage It is not possible in the current issue of The season of the year one recalls the voyage of American Legion Weekly to report the result and THIS the which brought seekers of free- details of the convention since this issue necessarily Mayflower, dom to these shores. It is time for a return trip, went to press as the convention was being called to bearing enemies of freedom from the shores. order. The story of the convention will be reported same Emma Goldman, Alexander and others in the issue of next week. Berkman of the breed have received their discharges and are The united men and women who were in service out of uniform. They served "duration" terms in have laid their ideas and ideals before the public and safe places, safe for them and safe for us, and the have charted their course for the future. With uniform they wore was not O. D. or Navy Blue. this majority expression for guidance the Weekly's The Government speaks of deporting the Reds it problems will be greatly simplified since its policy locked up during the war. What we want to see is will have been fixed by the pronouncements of the the names of these undesirables on an early sailing Legion's members. We will know definitely what schedule. the veterans want done and want to do. The The Goldman-Berkman firm will need company Legion, while still growing, has definitely passed the when it goes. It was unduly deprived of congenial organization stage and entered the life of the coun- association in jail. Thousands of their ilk ran try, as a positive and outspoken force. around loose during the war, and while 4,800,000 The American Language Americans were in the fighting forces and the vision of the nation was fixed on the war, they were sowing WHEN the United States starts its American- their seeds of destruction and anarchy and laying the ization school for foreigners why not inform fires which they hope may make a Russia of the these aliens that they are about to be taught the United States. They are not much of a menace in American language? Why not drop a stale tradi- view of the new Americanism. But they are a tion, throw polemics overboard, refute the straight- beastly nuisance. laced sticklers for grammatical precedent and an- Blast the crop. Stamp out the fires which already nounce to the world that there is a new language ? are being lighted. Run the Reds out from the land We will not argue the hair-splitting details. We whose flag they sully. Cleanse the country of the claim on accepted words coined will merely base our skulkers whose insane ambition is to wreck it. in America, to differences in accent and usage and to the fact that we can do as we please anyway in Keep Your Insurance choosing a designation for the language we speak. detailed investigation into War Risk In- Why, even in Mexico they do not stand for calling THE surance which has been completed their language the Spanish language. They insist by The American Legion Weekly leads to the .conclusion it is the Mexican language. Even at the expense of that the government insurance is having a few score learned professors die of despair the best insurance that had. Its why not quit press-agenting John Bull and have can be sins are those of faulty ad- ministration. These our own language—the American language. can and must be remedied. A few changes in the law to meet the wishes of the Time to Know the Cost policyholders and bring the terms and conditions of policies from a warto a peace-time basis are before CONGRESS, we understand, is set to spend four Congress with every assurance of early passage. or five billions a year for the next few years. These minor ailments corrected, as we believe will nearer five billion Whether the sum next year be they will be corrected, War Risk Insurance is a than four billion cannot be foreseen. In its con- boon to those who were in service. They alone are of the cost of government a billion appar- sideration eligible to hold it. It costs something less than Congressional ently is the smallest sum that the any other form of insurance because all operating mind cares to reckon with under the present finan- and overhead expenses are paid by the Govern- cial system of conducting the government. ment without charge against the policyholders. the It is high time that conduct of the greatest War Risk Insurance is too valuable to be dis- business in the world—the United States Govern- carded as a majority of those who were in service brought to a business basis. should ment—be There have discarded it. If you have allowed your in- be enough foresight and enough system provided to surance to lapse, and desire .insurance of any kind, annual cost of forecast the government and reduce arrange for its renewal at once. It is also urgent the estimates to a definite budget. A budget sys- that you write your senator urging the passage of millions tem would save of dollars without curtailing the Sweet bill, which provides necessary changes in any of the necessary functions of government. the War Risk Act. As to the future competent con- The House has passed a budget bill providing duct of the War Risk Insurance Bureau, that is merely expert estimates as well as independent audits. This a detail the adjustment of which can be assured. The veterans find a way to foil the rent boosters. 14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY The Gobs Were There with Guns

Denied Battle at Sea, They Dropped Tons of Heav> Stuff on the Hun Along the Western Front

THE soldiers of the sea were there, The reassembling of the first locomotive and they let the world know it. By WENDELL W. HANMEK and car, for the battery embraced not only But what does the same world know the gun but its equipment, for transpor- of the sailors of the land who fought on The Navy's new dragon of war emitted tation to the front, began at St. Nazaire, the western front? its first roar on April 30. It was at the July 20. On August 11 the first train The mind pictures of the Navy's Sandy Hook proving grounds. The gun was ready for the front. participation in the Great War are the discharged from a safe distance, a wire Over more than 350 miles of French thrilling chase of the submarine, the of considerable length being connected railroads it went to Helles-Mouchy. stealthy dash of Its six-miles-an-hour hordes of fighting speed enabled it to men across an ocean pass many a troop under the cloak of train, though dough- camouflage and the boys gazed with alert patrol of busy interest from their coastal stretches. huit-chevcaux, de luxe The war did not coaches at the long have its Trafalgar or train of the railway its Manila Bay or battery, and their Santiago. The Hun interest changed to hid from it all. Bat- envy when they saw tle would not come the comfortable to the Navy so the berthing cars with Navy went to battle. their uppers and But even now, nearly lowers. a year after the Hun "How far do it threw his hands high shoot?" one dusky in the air, the aver- infantryman asked age American has another of his outfit. little conception of "Man, it shoots a how the Navy went thousand miles and to the battlefields of then throws rocks at France and what it yuh," his sophisti- did when it got there. cated brother-in-arms replied. War's finale found the American blue- The French knew of its coming. News jacket at the front. The last shot of the had traveled faster than six miles an American naval railway batteries exca- hour. Cheering ttirongs greeted the

vated enough of the yard of the Longuyor bluejackets at every station as Battery 1 railway junction for the basement of a sped on to war. Flowers were showered skyscraper should the French ever care upon them. Old salts wore blossoms in to build one there. It was fired from improvised button-holes in their greasy the greatest mobile land instrument of dungarees, and so did young salts, or destruction yet devised, the fourteen- "boots," as the Navy calls its recruits. inch railway battery, the success of The French found a new awe and a which the Navy had proved. new joy sweeping them when it was dis- Short as was the period of their activity covered that the wreaths they had made in the struggle, the history of the five to bedeck the guns were not big enough to fourteen-inch railway batteries is one of encircle the gigantic muzzles brilliant achievement. The design, manu- facture and shipment of guns, mounts, BUT with the arrival of Battery 1 at carriages, cars, locomotives and other Helles-Mouchy, August 23, and Bat- necessary equipment represented a stu- tery 2 a day later, the Navy found on pendous task which was accomplished Tin helmets weren't made to wear land just what it had found at sea. The in record time. with the blue but when the Navy takes Hun ran from the answer to his own chal- Plans and drawings were completed to land they fit in very well. lenge. The two batteries had come to by the Naval Gun Factory, January 25, fire upon the long-range gun which had 1918. In less than a month, February startled the world with the shells it had 23, arrangements had been made for dropped on Paris. Before they could material and manufacture, and the to the firing circuit, but the precaution get into position the Germans had moved monster guns were in the making. was unnecessary. The sixty-foot weapon their prize. As soon as actual work on construction threw forth its 1,400-pound projectile, Parisians still wonder what caused the was started, America's sailors of the propelled by 484 pounds of smokeless cessation of the shower of shells it received land were selected, 500 men and thirty powder, recoiled the prescribed forty-four at such a tremendous range. The firing officers. Their training was a period the inches like a crouching animal, and then stopped as suddenly and as mysteriously intensity of which they will not forget. returned to battery gracefully and safely. as it started. They have the naval Ninety per cent of the men were training The test was a success that gave navy guns to thank, although those guns did station recruits, land sailors, but of a officials the thrill that is born cf ac- not fire a shot at the cause of the dis- different sort. Their knowledge of na\ ui complishment. turbance. Big Bertha beat it before guns was limited to rifles with which they The gun came apart in far less time they had a chance. had drilled at Great Lakes or Norfolk or than it was put together and soon was When he ran he left Batteries 1 and 2 Bremerton. They knew practically noth- on its way, with four more, across the with nothing in particular at which to ing of weapons of large caliber. ocean in quest of more vital targets. throw 1,400-pound projectiles. With November 14, 1919 15 no immediate mission to perform Battery official report says. Parisians have the naval guns to I was sent to the French proving ground Another move thank for the cessation of long- to give demonstrations for French stu- sent Battery 2 to range fire on their city. "Big dents of artillery. Flavy-le-Martel, Bertha" beat it when they arrived. Battery 2 went on another search for near St. Quenten, battle. At Rethondes, in the forest of and it gave Mor- Compeigne, it took another stand, to fire tiers a shelling from upon the ammunition dump at Tergnier. October 1 1 through Again the thrill of action evaded the October 13. Bat- Navy. Only one shot had been fired teries 3, 4 and 5 when Tergnier fell. chugged away to But action did not evade for long. Thierville, on the Battery 1 moved to Soissons and took a outskirts of Ver- position near St. Christophe Cemetery on dun, to fire upon September 11. Battery 2 moved to Longuyon and Fontenoy-Ambley. And they were other points of joined by the other three batteries, strategic impor- which arrived at the artillery base at tance. But soon Haussimont, Marne, on September 26. Battery 4 was When the Germans started their retreat moved to Charny, from Laon, September 28, the speed at where it was which Hun legs scurried over the terrain joined by Battery 2. circuits of the guns and for the many was increased by the frequency with From the forest of Velaine Battery 1 electrical appliances in the battery trains. which the fourteen-inch guns dropped began Tiring on Bensdorf, November 6. Even an artist was found among the enormous and amazingly destructive Three days later Battery 2 moved up to a crews who was able to turn his hand to shells on objectives near the town. point twenty miles east and was given that mechanical form of artistic creation, About 200 shots were fired by the big Saarburg as an objective. The two lettering names on the sides of the train guns before the German retreat left the points were minor objectives on the path units. targets in the hands of the French Tenth to Metz, and it is evident that the huge Each battery train consisted of a loco- Army. guns would have taken an important motive, gun car, construction car, con- It was real action, too. The Germans part in the big drive of November 14, struction car with cranes, sand and log found the range of Battery 1 on October but again the Hun ran—this time holding car, fuel car, battery kitchen car, two 5 and opened a spunky retaliatory fire. aloft a white flag of surrender. The guns ammunition cars, three berthing cars, A shell burst directly over the big gun were blazing away at the finish. J. A. one battery headquarters car, battery with no casualties. Shells fell on both Koffla, shipfitter, second class, fired the headquarters kitchen car, and workshop sides of the train, but only one direct hit last shot at 10:57.30 the morning of car. was scored. It sent a bucketful of November 11. The complement of each battery train 'scrub and wash" clothes scattering The operations in which the five embraced a commanding officer, con- over the landscape. The casualty list batteries engaged were not many. They struction officer, orientation officer, med- contained nothing closer to humanity fired only 782 shells, Battery 3 leading ical officer, chief turret captain, two gun- than navy underwear. with 236 and Battery 5 trailing with ner's mates, first class; gunner's mate, 112. They were fired on only twenty- second class; two machinist's mates, sec- THERE was excitement of another five different days. But their fire was ond class; boatswain's mate, first class; sort, too. There were many French effective. Examination of the targets two coxswains; electrician, first class; and American nurses at a hospital at proved it, and German prisoners admitted electrician, second class; chief machin- Ville-Cotterets, near by. Can you imag- it. Their ranges of fire at the front were ist's mate; eight ship fitters, first class; ine artillerymen in France surrounded by from 30,000 to 40,000 yards. eight ship fitters, second class; eight so many girls that they were forced to put The batteries suffered only five cas- carpenter's mates, first class; twenty- a rope fence around the fourteen-inch ualties—one dead, four wounded, all of three seamen; ship's cook, first class, gun of Battery 1! And you can't tell Battery 4. baker, first class; ship's cook, second the members of that crew the nurses They fired only from prepared posi- class, and four ship's cooks, fourth gathered there only to express gratitude tions, although fire from the trucks on class. for the retaliation for the bombing of which they were transported was possible. It wasn't the first time the sea fighter their hospital, although that's what the had become land fighter. In the Mexi- LIFE was not easy for can War General Winfield Scott had the the sailors of the assistance of six naval guns, manned by land. They were on the navy crews in the siege of Vera Cruz. go from the moment In the Boer War British naval guns, they landed in France. operated by navy crews, were used at There was a demand Ladysmith, Colenso and Spion Kop. for them everywhere. Naval guns were taken far into the inte- They changed positions rior of China and effectively operated by often. When they navy crews against the Boxers during changed they dug their their little rebellion. So the American own gun-pits and pre- seaman ashore with his batteries was not pared their own founda- like a fish out of water. The sailor is a tions and laid their own peculiarly adaptable person. His life track. They had no afloat embraces many phases of life assistance. ashore. He had his land legs every min- They were men from ute, and his shooting eye all the time he everywhere that life served the guns on the western front. walks. Their types were Numerically he was a minor factor. In as diverse as their names the great sea of olive drab he was only a and addresses. Every speck of navy blue. What he lacked trade, every profession in numbers, however, he quite largely was there. Expert engi- equalized by his armament. His sixty- The shell craters made by the naval guns might neers and firemen op- foot weapon and its 1,400-pound projectile have served for excavations for skyscrapers. erated the locomotives, aided him materially in becoming an skilled electricians cared important element in the fighting that for the electric firing finally satisfied the Hun. fHE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Scenes of Yesterday

Morning mess. Beavmont , Toul sector. Painted by George Harding.

Rounding up Boche prisoners in a recaptured village on Piinied by George Harding, the Marne. —

November 14, 1919 17 Chart a Course and Steer for Success

The Big Cargo Isn't Found by Drifters on the Sea of Life By ROGER W. BABSON

BOYS in Gloucester used success must be bought—and must WEto watch the ships put out be paid for. You can't get some- to sea. We watched several thing for nothing. There is no such thousand set sail, but I do not thing as luck. Instead there is the remember a single skipper who great basic law of action-reaction started out without a definite des- which governs business and social, tination. In fact, he had to regis- as well as the scientific world—a >aw ter a definite destination with the as inevitable in its operation as the authorities before he was allowed to law of gravitation itself. Every leave port. In spite of the fact that hour you spend in useful work counts a skipper who set sail without a for you. Every hour not so used is destination would be suspected of chalked up igainst you. insanity, hundreds of men are setting While progress results only from sail in life without a port in mind. work, the rate of progress depends It is not at all surprising that they entirely upon the quality and not fail. Since they have no port, they upon the quantity of that work. If run about in rings, wearing them- you do your work well, you succeed; selves out and wasting their time in if not, you fail. Now you can't do useless ways. the little things in haphazard fashion If you would succeed, set a port and expect to do the important a definite destination—that you may things well. The quality of your consider success, and lay out a work is more dependent upon your straight course toward it. Then habit of work than upon conscious stick to that one course until you get effort. there. You will never get anywhere If you train yourself to do the small if you sail half-way to one destina- things well, you will naturally do the tion, then, because you run into a important things well. You must little rough water, turn about and make a constant and continuous stand off on another trip that looks effort to cut down the margin of error, as though it might be smoother sail- which, after all, is the object of all ing. Every sea has its storms and education. Study and go to school every business has its grief. If you as much as you possibly can, but re- think you can find a job that has no Roger W. Dab son. member that all the knowledge in all drawbacks whatever, you are chas- the books is worthless until it is put ing rainbows. Twenty years hence into -action. You can only improve you will realize these things. First, that cess you can achieve in any line. If your work by working. every job has its disadvantages; second, there is a line of business in which it is If you would gain any goal you may set that there is a subtle connection between impossible to make a million dollars for yourself, lay out your course. Produce rainbows and hoboes. Once your course or achieve any other measure of success, all you possibly can every day, striving to is laid out there is but one thing to do, I have never seen it. It is not what you do each thing a little better than anyone and that is to turn on every ounce of do, but how you do it that counts. else would do it, leaving the rest to the steam you have and produce just as I say Work. Produce all you pos- great principle of action-reaction. You get much as you possibly can every single sibly can—for two reasons. First, everything you pay for, and pay for every- day. You need not change your work, for you can only find real happiness thing you get—deferred payments, the there are no limitations on the suc- in useful work, well done. Second, while, draw compound interest.

Once more I heard the stultifying sound And after that long day, by Bellicourt, Of hobnails wearing down the roads of Where in the angle of two walls there France, slants And close behind me, as I walked in ranks, The wreckage of a roof, I found his corpse I heard him say, "Old son, I'll take my His Chance Above a German gun. He took his chance! chance. • Sure! some shell may dent my hat, I see him now; his dying hand Or Jerry pot me in the next advance, Hurls the grenade; the companies ad- But what's the use of getting flu on that? "Glory in the cannon's mouth!" and vet vance, Buddy, I'll take my chance!" (Oh, ye who stayed at home, look act The gun is silenced, and his work is done; askance!) He dies. He took his chance. I never knew his name. He died for us, And still, save for the fact he took his chance, We knew him not. All honor then, The more because in history your glance, In idle mood, will never find his deed. His cross Reads thus: "He took his chance!"

— Lieut. Robert Wilson McKnight. 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Soldiers and Fighting Men Does the Canadian Army's Experience Point Out the Danger of Autocracy in the Military System?

BY FREDERIC L. WALTERS

world war Germany came the nearest to realizing that ideal. It was not difficult in a nation of people trained in obedience to author-

? /j ity from the cradle. England probably came second, at any rate her Imperial army was much closer to it than her colonials. The Australian army was raised on a distinctively Australian plan, but Canada adopted the English system throughout, to such an extent that the majority of Canadian soldiers in the field even wore the British uniform, and the Can- adian military leaders were forever trying to a Canadian camp in England, vective, but it was utterly wasted. The rival British standards of discipline. ATon a fall day in the first year of squad stonily ignored him. They But, with the exception of a few units, the war, an English drill sergeant chatted easily among themselves. He they were not successful. was putting a squad of Canadian re- apparently did not exist. Whenever the Canadian officers wished cruits through their paces. He was an A Canadian sergeant major strolled up to illustrate their idea of first class drill, old soldier, the sergeant, a veteran of and, addressing the sergeant, inquired it was invariably a British squad which the British regular army, and for years what was the trouble. With consider- was brought to camp to "show off" he had been whipping awkward squads able emotion, the sergeant explained. before the recruits. The Canadians into shape. An old-timer himself, his "Why, I get along all right with these recognized their inferiority in this respect, methods also belonged to the old-time fellows," said the sergeant major. "You but, instead of being humiliated, rather regular army, the professional army of just want to humor them a little, coax boasted of it. "We're not soldiers," peace times, whose personnel naturally them along." they used to shout on the march; "we're differed widely from the civilian army "Coax be damned," spluttered the only colonials." But they made plain which Canada and Australia were send- sergeant. "That ain't the way we do the inference that, although they might ing across the seas and England herself it in the British army." be poor parade ground soldiers, as was then raising. fighting men they considered themselves "At the halt, on the left, form squc d," THIS was the first of many clashes second to none.

: he barked, in his strident, piercing voice. between the men of the Old I World The question naturally arises Is the The squad started the maneuver with and the New—the Old World with its perfect soldier according to military some uncertainty, which was instantly deeply rooted traditions of classes and ideals the best fighting man? Discus- detected by the drill sergeant. masses, and the New World with its sions on whether the British, French, "As you were, you blighters," he aversion to all distinctions of rank and Germans, Americans, Canadians, Aus- shrieked. "Where d'you think you are, the consequent difficulty in subjecting tralians, Russians or Italians were the in bathin'? There's a man thinks 'e's its sons to the discipline necessary in an most formidable fighters will be endless, in the cavalry. We'll get him a 'orse. army. As a matter of fact, Canadian and only the opinion of an outsider on What're you grinnin' at, you bandy- officers were soon made to realize that the merits of any army is worth consider- legged lubber? Double across the parade Old World methods could not be applied ing. As an American serving with the ground and back; we'll see if that'll without some modification to New Canadian infantry solely because rejected wipe that silly grin off yer face. 'Op World men, with the result that Canadian by the American army, my judgment to it, now. Squad! Every man properly drill sergeants were substituted for of the Canadians would not be biased, at at ease. Squad! Shun! Quick march! British regulars. The Canadian in- least so far as nationality is concerned. Left, right, left, right, pick it up. Swing structors obtained better discipline by I met fewer Americans in France than those arms. Squad! At the halt, on totally different methods. It was not any other troops on the western front, the left, form squad!" by "coaxing," but, in a sense, by putting and so any opinion I formed of their Again the movement was muddled and the men on their honor. An appeal to fighting qualities would be based on again the sergeant poured forth a torrent "play the game" to a mass of men on what I know of the Canadians, since the of abuse on h!s now sullen-faced recruits. the verge of insubordination invariably national characteristics are so nearly the Suddenly in the midst of his oration, as succeeded where threats or bullying same. if by a prearranged signal, every man failed. When I first went to England I believed in the squad suddenly sat down on the Armies have long been trained on the that most of the high praise bestowed on ground. "Some drew forth cigarettes and theory that the perfect soldier is almost, the Canadian troops in the British press began to smoke. The sergeant gasped. if not quite, a perfect automaton. In- could be attributed to English courtesy When he found his voice he surpassed stinctive, automatic obedience to all and gratitude to the colonials, and that, all his previous efforts in profane in- orders is the ideal sought, and in the while the Canadians were no doubt good November 14, 1919 19

in an attack, it was the traditional civilian army fresh from the most But not even war time could overcome British bulldog grit that was holding the democratic hemisphere of the globe. all the English class prejudices. line through the long months of dead- The Australians, at the outset, flung It must not be supposed that the locked trench warfare. After I went overboard most of the traditions of the English Tommies felt no resentment at to France I had occasion to revise this English army—which, incidentally, was these things, for the war did much to opinion bit by bit. modelled on the Prussian army—and the broaden the English conception of Canadians were forced to modify the democracy, and contact with Canadians,

system considerably, but enough re- Americans < WHEN George Patullo, the American Australians and was one f war correspondent, visited the mained to cause a great deal of un- the leading factors. 1 have heard English Canadian troops at the front preparatory necessary aggravation and bitterness soldiers compare, somewhat bitterly, to writing an article for an American between officers and men. relations between their officers and magazine, he was told by a British staff themselves to such relations in the officer of high rank: |_IAD Canada adoped the democratic French army, where officers mingled

1 "There is absolutely no question about * * methods of the French army there freely with their men and chatted with it; Currie (the Canadian Commander-in- would have been a much better spirit them without restraint. Eut the English Chief) has the corps d 'elite of all the between her officers and men. Nothing soldier, accustomed to the traditions of Allied forces." irked the men of the ranks so much as class distinctions from birth, was more or This is one instance of the opinion of the sharply drawn class distinctions less resigned to them, while the Canadians an outsider. Another comes from an between themselves and the officers. were not. English major of engineers who had These distinctions were enforced by An English officer commanded a risen from the ranks and who had been the British to ridiculous extremes. An certain amount of respect and awe from connected for some time with the English officer, meeting his brother, his men by virtue of the fact that he was Australian infantry. He made the state- a private, in London for the first time a "gentleman" and educated. He was ment that if there were a million colonials in two years, was warned by an M. P. to them, in a sense, a superior being, a at the front the war would soon be over. that he could not "fraternize" with a creature of a different mould, and the Asked to explain, he said he believed private. The two men went into a men were flattered if he showed them any that the colonials were superior to his nearby bar, but the M. P. followed and attention off duty. On the other hand, own troops because they were not sub- separated them. Then they tried to nearly every Canadian private enter- jected to so much repressive discipline, enter a motion-picture house, but the tained a secret conviction that the as a result of which there was better vigilant M. P. was still on their trail. brigadier had been guilty of a serious cooperation between the officers and the Eventually the brothers had to engage blunder in not placing him in his colonel's men and, moreover, that the men were a room in a hotel before they could get shoes. By three things only could an of the sort to go forward on their own together for a chat. officer win his respect—courage, skillful after their officers had been shot down. A private or a N. C. O. could not ride leadership, and consideration of his men, Oddly enough, a German officer, cap- in a first class compartment on an and the first of these was courage. tured by the Canadians at Amiens, made English train, even if he paid the -extra the same statement in almost the same fare out of his own pocket. And in many AN incident which will illustrate the words, though he did not offer the same cases even the tradespeople made these ** difference in temper of the Canadians reasons. And Captain Finckle, of distinctions. Certain public houses and and their English cousins occurred at a Ludendorff's staff, at Bonn, said that restaurants kept a man at the door to railway station in France. A Canadian Ludendorff had remarked after the warn privates that the place was for battery of field artillery and a number of battle of Amiens that the war would be "officers only." A slacker who had English soldiers were waiting for a lost when the Canadians broke the managed to remain in civilian clothes train to take them up the line. A dis- Hindenburg line. could enter where a soldier could not. agreeable, drizzly rain was falling, and Field Marshal Haig told General Currie As Kipling wrote: (Continued on page 33) that in the darkest days of the Allies' retreat in the spring of 1918 he always had been comforted by the thought of the Canadian corps intact, ready to strike the blow at the crucial moment. Marshal Foch's opinion of the Canadians is best shown by the fact that he placed almost the entire corps in reserve for two months in the summer of 1918, holding them in readiness to be used as the pivot of the British attack when the Allies' push began. That which chiefly distinguished the Canadians, and this is equally true of Australians and Americans, from Euro- pean troops, was initiative. It was the Canadian corps, it may be remembered, which originated the thrilling pastime of trench raiding at night. Coupled with initiative was a greater aggressiveness than was generally displayed by Euro- pean troops, but back of both initiative and aggressiveness, and the source of both, was that keen sense of personal independence that is characteristic of the men of all classes of the New World and has never been developed to the same extent in the old countries. It was this, more than anything else, which rendered the Canadians less amenable to discipline and vastly more restive under it than the British. The case of the Canadians was aggravated particularly by the saddling of the auto- cratic English army system upon a ? ; I'HE AMERICAN LEG1UN WEEKLY BURSTS and DUDS Nell: "I stopped The colored in at a bargain sale The American Legion Weekly will use jokes soldier was toting and pay for those that are acceptable. For the today." best received before Friday each week, not ex- around half a dozen Belle: "Did you ceeding fifty words, five dollars will be paid; for loaded grenades after the second best, three dollars; for all jokes ac- see anything that cepted, one dollar. Manuscripts will not bere- his arrival in this looked cheap : ' iurned. This offer is limited to those eligible to country. membership in the Legion. Nell: "Yes. sev- "What's the big The prize-winners last week were: E. C. eral men waiting for Johnson, South Hamilton, Alass.; Irene Stevens, idea, Jim?" asked a their wives." Newport, K. I.; Charles W. Johnson, Harris- white friend. burg, Pa.; Alger Salliotte, Wyandotte, Mich.; Milford W. Hale, Osborne, Kans. ; Nan Moultons, "They're fo' mah Once again the Winnipeg, Canada; Charles Crayhon, Parsons, gal." Kans.; Anna Clarke, Brooklyn, N. Y.; E. R, husband came stag- Hayes, New Brighton, Pa.; T. A. Pomeroy, "Your gal?" gering home late. Woodland, Me.; E. S. C. May, New York City; "Uh-uh.| I'm goin' to see her tonight, L. W. Thayer, Jackson, Mich.; O. N. Snyder, "Oh, John, have Lincoln, Neb.; one unsigned. and I don't know how she'll receive me. you been drinking First I'll throw mah helmet in the front again?" sobbed his wife as she caught a door; if that stays jn, I goes in. But if whiff of alcohol. "Say, Jim, what happened at your that comes out, then these grenades goes " No, dearie; you wrong me. I've been house yesterday? I went past there and in." eatin' frogsh' legsh, and you shmell the your wife was singing, ' Nearer, My God, hops." to Thee.'" One day an important looking civilian "Yes, that's the song she cooks eggs made his appearance at a British rest A private in the British army who by. Two stanzas for soft boiled, three camp, where there were also some tbnught he had been ill used took great stanzas for hard boiled." Americans. delight, upon his discharge, "That's Sir John Har- in writing to his colonel: rington, M. P.," explained "Sir: It gives me pleas- a Tommy. ure to tell you and the army "Huh! Why don't your to go to hell." M. P.'s wear uniforms?" In due course he received queried a Yank. this official reply: "In answer to your let- Coming back from ter, it is necessary to state France, some eighteen hun- that all orders for move- dred men spent sixteen days ments of troops must be on on a small liner that had no Form 2142, a copy of which mess hall for the soldiers. I enclose." Ordinarily, they got their chow and went on deck to A huge, burly soldier was eat it, but when it rained arrested for drunkenness they were not even allowed and confined to the guard- above decks. They were house. His constant at- never certain just where tendant for the next few they could go, because days was a little, timid guards kept popping up pattered around everywhere with the guard, who "/ esk you, Jakie, how comes it you always say 'The re- after him like a child. One mark, "You can't sit Yanks brought home the bacon?' Ain't you know it morning they were late to ain't right you should be always mentioning this pork there," or "You can't stand mess, whereat the cook as- stuff?" here." sailed the guard. One day a doughboy "Can't you come on who had gone on deck with time? This ain't no hotel!" he shouted. his mess only to be sent below again The guard shrank away, and the cook, 01' Nose O' Mine slipped on the non-skid ladder. Beans, emboldened, struck him. Instantly the prunes, goat meat and coffee flew in big prisoner intervened with a well- Good ol' nose, you faithful horn, every direction and the soldier landed aimed blow at the cook. You've blown for me since I was born. at the botcum in a sitting position. As "Hey, you!" he roared, "you leave You fed me air without a whine, he sat thare collecting his faculties, a my guard alone! I ain't going to have You've been c pal, ol' nose o' mine. guard huruad up. anyone at all abusing him." In all the scraps 1 've been with you, "You can't eat there, buddy," he I've seen you pink and sometimes blue. announced. An enterprising dealer in electric wares You've never blown retreat for me, hangs out the sign: "Don't kill your wife Although my eyes could scarcely see. with hard work. Let our washing Good ol' beezer, game ol' geezer; "Where's Sam Johnson now?" the machine do the dirty work." You never was an awful sneezer. captain asked the colored orderly. You've taken many a hefty clout, "Done been ar- In a recent flood in the Mississippi a And stayed with me, game ol' snout. rested foh high man was seen rid- Knocked out of place, but still on my face; treason, suh." ing down the river Hammered and bent, yet trying to scent "WTiat did they on a big bass violin. Snorting and blowing, blood often flow- do with him?" When he was ing, "Throwed him in rescued from this You weathered the storm, however warm. jail foh two weeks, precarious perch Now, I solemnly pledge you my vow, suh." he was asked if No matter what happens, starting from "He's a lucky boy, his wife escaped. now, Sam." "Yes," he an- You'll never again stop another mitt. "Yas, lucky foh swered, "she ac- Nose O' Mine—you've done your bit. two weeks. Den dey companied me on —Freddie Welsh {ex-Lightweight took him out and the piano." Champion of the World.) shot him, suh." —

November 14, 1919 21 The Bombers An Incident of the Night FROM the top of the old east By E. B. GREENE A sudden dazzling burst of light over embankment at Calais we looked the town made it bright as a stage. It down on the basin, stretching away "There must be two or three," said burned much longer than I could hold in the soft moonlight—a silver streak the Scot. "And ye may believe they my breath. More tracers followed, their of moonbeam daintily reflected on its are high too." curves upward. ripples. Beyond it lay the sand dunes, From the edge of the town many more "That flare won't go out, and the next and a rhythmic murmuring patch of shafts of light flashed into being and Boche will be down on us in a minute," ocean, restlessly rolling and swishing on converged toward the noises in the air. said the Scotchman. the shore. The broad canal at our feet A flash no bigger than a spark shone for Another moan increased into a roaring reached its grey, glistening arms around a moment way up above the crossways ZUM-ZUM-A-ZUM-ZUM. the ancient fortification to where the of light, followed by a sharp crack from "Another one below the Archie, but city breathed softly in the grey light. the artillery on the shore. A boom of here's hoping the machine guns will get The roof of the ancient church showed the bursting shrapnel came from far above. him." darker than the rest. The somber spars "The north battery must have sighted The flare had just gone out when a and stacks of the shipping lay quiet like something. They've got good eyes, that great toadstool of red and yellow flame a dark fringe. To the south a thousand north battery. The whole city is awake burst over the houses, leaped higher grey conical tents stood in silent rows. now; just hear them run for the 'abris.' like a full-grown tree, and collapsed. The lapping of the water, a throb of Ah, look; he's in the light now." Then a terrifying sound of gigantic steam from the yards, a distant patter Every battery around, and there were thunder deafened us. and hum—all blended upward into the many, cracked and boomed. A whole "Did you feel that wall tremble? quietness above. The nightly song of spattf." of flashes outshone the stars for He did not miss the hospital by much, the city, never asleep, rose to the clear an instant. The zum-zum-a-zum of the but he's a quarter mile away now." starry spaces of the sky. motors ceased. Whiz, plop. "That must be a dud from The Scotchman looked at his watch. "They're diving," whispered the Scot. your artillery. What did they ever hit "Twelve-twenty a. m.," he said. "Where, where? I can't see a thing anyway? Look, another flare, but he has "They will be here in twenty minutes." too many lights." not found the station yet." The fresh air blew in from the sea. "Ping, ping," the bits of shrapnel Two more giant toadstools rose out A shaft of light far to the east pointed whined in the darkness. from the houses and sank back in tons of steadily upward, narrow and bright near Right above us a deep crescendo moan falling debris and smoke. The thunder the earth, broader and fainter above, ended abruptly in the slurring zum-zum- crumpled the air till everything seemed until it was lost among the stars. a-zum, so loud that we backed against a-tremble. "They're coming." the wall. A machine gun began madly "He's dropping heavy stuff tonight. More shafts sprang up nearer to us, firing tracers, streams of swift, red hot I wonder who caught it then. I'll bet crossing and pointing away again. The sparks vanishing in the night. Between my next check they're blown to bifcj. steady song of the night was quickened the bursts I heard a little pop like a He put two ''Ke that into camp last week by a stir, a rustle below in the city, rocket. and twenty -six weie done in." while above came the far off zum-zum-a- "The beggars have dropped a flare to Zum-zum-a-zum-zum— they moved out zum-zum of the nightly visitors. blind us." (Continued on page 34)

Mow the epidemic started 22 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY The Amber Bead

(Continued from page 9)

"Only one like it in the world," said silverware was overturned. A chair "I am willing to be searched before I Gadkins. "Beastly awkward thing—in swished through the air and struck the leave this room," Frederick Alexander a way. Have to keep it locked up. detective on his shoulder and neck. He said coolly. "I think everybody should You heard of it in India?" went down from the force of the blow. be searched." Sir Redaver nodded and rose with the He climbed swiftly to his feet and "So do I," said Drew. "Suppose we company as Mrs. Gadkins came back shouted: let Mr. Delaney in the doorway do the and took the chair the butler held for her. "Delaney! Watch that door! Strike searching. I would like to know who Drew breathed freer as Raker stepped a light!" snapped the switch and snatched the back. He roamed the room with his Drew heard Alexander and Sir Redaver jewel!" eyes. There was a huge cluster of drop glasses and cocktail shaker and "It may have snapped itself," Sir electrics overhead. These brought out call loudly for matches. He strained his Redaver exclaimed. "See, it's a little the details of two long windows, one- glance and began to make out objects. loose." half open at the top, a radiator beneath It seemed to him that a shadow crossed Drew shook his head as Sir Redaver each window, a heavy mahogany wain- one of the two windows. reached toward the wall. scoting and a serving sideboard which "It was turned off," he said, directing was heaped with silverware and cut- A MOMENTARY calm was broken his glance at Frederick Alexander. "You glass. by Mrs. Gadkins' shrill screams. two gentlemen were nearest to it." The only entrance to the dining saloon She groped and clutched Drew about the "See here!" Gadkins cried. "We'll was guarded by Delaney. Drew had waist. settle matters without accusing anybody. caught a glimpse of his huge form "The Amber Bead is gone! Is this We'll all be searched and then you may through the curtains. This passage was you, Ivor? Ivor—is this you?" search the room. There's no use mincing also used by the butlers in serving the Drew disengaged her arms as Gadkins things." dinner. The kitchen was in the extreme called in the gloom: "Be still, Milly! Frederick Alexander moved toward back of the mansion. Be still!" Delaney. Gadkins rose from his chair at the end A light appeared between the curtains "My motor's waiting for me," he said, of the table as the fourth course was of the doorway. Delaney stood framed raising his voice. "Mrs. Langley and I being removed by two staid servants. in the opening. His great red hands will remain in the hall, however, until "We will now have an Indian dish," cupped a yellow flame from a match. we have your permission to leave. Make he said. "Singh Mohamet will serve " Don't move from there! " cried Drew. a good search of us both." it., I promised him that honor." "Everybody stay, still," he added. Drew removed his glance from the A rush of under-butlers sounded coming DELANEY shook his head as he crusted gold clasp and the tawny gleam in the direction of the room. Alexander's - finished with the explorer and allowed of the Amber Bead in Mrs. Gadkins' voice called upon Sir Redaver to assist him to stalk out through the hallway. The hair and turned his head toward the him in finding the wall-switch. It clicked same shake followed the searching of Sir door through which there presently and bathed the room in a flare of light. Redaver and Mrs. Langley. They were appeared an Eastern figure as out of All eyes swung and fastened upon the detained in a nearby room. place in the modern setting as a fellah golden aura of their hostess' coiffure. A " Now we'll all examine Mohamet. He at a banquet. deranged loop over her ear showed signs won't mind. A man who saved my life Singh Mohamet was tall, turbaned, of a rude hand. The jewel was missing. once hasn't got the jewel." tanned almost black and robed in a Mrs. Gadkins' cheeks were white. Drew glanced toward Delaney. flowing gown of brocaded silk. His feet Drew turned his glance from face to "Search the room," he said. "Start were bare. The dish he carried was face. He stepped back from the over- with the sideboard. The Amber Bead is covered by a silver mangrove leaf. turned table and chairs. He mentally hidden somewhere." Drew caught the inscrutable flash of flashed the picture. "You'd better leave," he said to Mrs. beady eyes as the native glided to Delaney barred the single doorway. Gadkins. "We'll make a thorough inves- Gadkins' left side and set the dish upon "Hold everybody back," said Drew tigation. I've my own opinion the affaii the table. The cover was lifted from clearly. He flashed an inquiring look at is going to be very unpleasant for a few the dish. Gadkins. The host turned toward Sir of your friends. That switch was turned "A curry and rice," said Gadkins. Redaver and Frederick Alexander, who off. I heard it snap." 'Prepared as only my servant know show. stood with their elbows against the "So did I," said Mrs. Gadkins, as she Eh, Singh?" butler's table. He studied Robert Good- left the dining saloon. "Yes, Sahib," the servant said win and Mrs. Langley. He finished his Drew's scrutiny of the native's cos- deliberately. glance by stepping up to Singh Mohamet. tume and probable hiding places of the Drew took the place offered by the Drew eyed the servant through slitted jewel was a thorough one. silent native. He waited until all the lids. Of all the company the native "Clean as can be," he said. " Mohamet guests were served. He saw a butler seemed the most composed. He remained hasn't got it on him. Nobody has. It's appear with wine in rattan-wound with folded arms and chin held high. His in this room". It was too big to swallow. flasks. An incense filled the room. eyes were fixed and glassy. I noticed it was set in crusted prongs, " Vapors floated—from the curry and "Damn it!" said Gadkins. "Singh with a back pin rice. The spices on the edge of the dish Mohamet looks innocent!" "Shall Mohamet go?" asked Gadkins. sent forth their fragrant odors. Mrs. Gadkins started to sob. Drew "Yes," said Drew. " Let him go to his The Sikh glided from chair to chair. glided to the millionaire's side and whis- room, wherever it is, and stay there until

Cigarettes were lighted. Sir Redaver pered : I send for him." and Frederick Alexander rose and started "To avoid a scandal I'll accuse the ser- The native glided across the dining mixing highballs on the butler's long, vant, and then suggest that everybody be salon. He passed through the portieres. silver-stacked table. searched before they leave the room. Drew watched him disappear, then A plate slipped from the native's hand It's possible that Mohamet may have turned to the millionaire. as he was serving Robert Goodwin. secreted the Amber Bead in somebody's "I'd suggest that you go out to your The crash attracted all eyes, including pocket." guests," he said. "Hold them together Drew's. He had half turned in his Gadkins nodded after hurried thought. until Mr. Delaney and I finish search- chair when the lights went out and "You take charge," he said aloud. " I ing this room. Have the big butler plunged the room into inky blackness. might as well admit, everybody, that this stand guard at the door. We won't A lady screamed nervously. A man gentleman is a detective whom I brought take long." cursed. It sounded to Drew like Gad- out from New York for the purpose of Gadkins shot a spiteful glance at the kins' voice. The table with its load of guarding the Amber Bead." {Continued on page 26) :

November 14, 1919 BULLETIN BOARD23 big Some business man, we forget The question of a national flower is up The Federal Board for Vocational whom, said that the best training for in_ Congress again. One Congressman Training has a defender in the Veterans' a young man who would succeed in thinks the mountain laurel would meet Rehabilitation Club of Louisville, Ky. business is of two months house canvas- all requirements. So it would, except for This club is composed entirely of disabled sing. The authority business on success the people of the states where there are no soldiers, all of whom have had dealings said he learned more about human mountain laurels. One gentleman from with the Federal Board. At a meeting nature during two months in which he Oklahoma says he has never seen such a of the club a resolution was unanimously sold books from house to house than dur- tree. passed referring to the articles recently ing any years of his life two thereafter. published in the Weekly and reading in Samuel L. Rogers, director of the part as follows: decennial census for 1920, would have "Whereas, in our experience and to the all ex-service men who are out of jobs best of our knowledge the Seventh Dis- next study nature January human by trict of the Federal Board is not guilty of counting noses for the census record. the charges contained in these articles, Instead of paying for the course, the and whereas the Seventh District has census-taking student of human nature proven to us that that office is most con- will be paid two cents a nose for all scientious in its methods, its personnel is noses counted in populous districts, and of the finest and most capable, and its four cents nose a where noses are more services to disabled veterans both efficient scarce. In all congressional districts and sympathetic, be it census supervisors have been appointed. "Resolved, that the charges in these They will appoint takers, 90,000 census articles be denounced as unjust to the will be for who employed two weeks, Seventh District, and that the Seventh beginning 1. January District Office be commended for the In addition to the census takers, 2,000 excellent services which it has performed clerks are to be civil engaged through for the disabled soldiers of the District." service examination to compile and The articles in the Weekly did not arrange the data collected. will They be specifically mention that district, but employed at for period Washington a of not a few complaints have come in from two years, beginning next March. Under that region. The House Committee on the present civil service law, veterans of Rules has been going into this question of the war will be given preference for the late, and has substantiated not only all clerical positions. examination is No the charges made in Mr. James' articles required for census takers. ©Underwood & Underwood. but several new ones as well.

Secretary Baker asked the Senate Miss Grace D. Banker, Military Committee to report unfavor- the first girl to enlist for Thomas W. Miller, chairman ©f the ably the bills proposing that all sentences telephone work in France, Legislative Committee of the Legion, imposed on soldiers during the war be came back with a D. S. M. went before the House Committee on remitted except where offenses would be She won it for "untiring Rules in October during the appointment punishable under federal statutes. He devotion under trying cir- of a committee for the investigation of opposed on the ground that such legis- cumstances in the First the Federal Board for Vocational Train- lation would have a bad effect on army Army battle area, St. morale. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne ing. He explained that the Legion is not out to "get" anybody, but that it only offensives." Her home is wanted justice for disabled veterans. Decrease in the power of the general in Passaic, N. J. He said in part staff of the Army, creation of a permanent "We believe that the Federal Board is standing army of 250,000, establishment The National Military Sisterhood of not wholly to blame. think that the of universal military training, and a America, composed of women relatives of We original act passed by the Sixty-fifth Con- large reserve of officers were advocated war veterans, has been recognized by the gress had its faults, namely, the divided before the Military Committee of the Kansas and Missouri departments of the authority between the Risk Burc^'j House by Major General William L. Legion as the women's auxiliary of those War and the Federal Board. the inter- Sibert, chief of the Chemical Warfare states. Mrs. Charles Irving * Martin, By pretations put upon the law by the Division. Henry L. Stimson, before the 1307 Tyler Street, Topeka, Kans., is Federal Board, it has more or less tied Military Committee of the Senate, the president. the tirged compulsory military training. thing up with red tape. The Legion thinks that a separate special committee Another cable across the Pacific is could go into this condition quickly. At A Congressman is authority for the apparently about to be realized. •Officials the same time, that will quickly help the statement that something like 192 gener- of the War Department told the Senate want help." als were killed in the war. And we won, Commerce Committee that a cable over men who because of or in spite of this general the northern route, from Cape Flattery, slaughter? The Congressman mentioned Wash., by way of Alaska and the Phil- this fact in connection with a resolution ippines to Asia, is quite practicable. An I. W. W. was arrested out in Sacra- to find out why General Pershing was There is only one commercial cable there mento not long ago because, when he delivering campaign addresses in Bor- now. passed a red flag where some repair work deaux during the American drives. was in progress, he shouted, "There's "Campaign addresses" isn't so bad. The Military Committee of the Senate the flag that will be flying rver the has approved a bill to provide $15,000,000 universe shortly." If he was referring to Exemption of war veterans from pay- for the purchase of 600 additional air- the flag's connection with repair work, he ment of the income tax on incomes up to planes for the Army. is behind the times. Such a flag has been $5,000 has been proposed in H. R. 3732, flapping since 1914. introduced by Mr. Strong, of Kansas. Legislation to refund to American soldiers loss in pay due to the difference "Interesting if true," remarks the in French exchange during the war was Many soldiers of the Seventy-seventh New York Herald, on the statement of a recommended to the House Military Division make use of the big Division correspondent that "a truck marked Committee by Brigadier General H. M. Club House in the old Astor Library chocolate went through Pennington, Lord, director of War Department Building at Lafayette Street near Astor N. J., yesterday." finance. Place, New York. fHE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY LETTERS FROM READERS

Looks Forward to It Met His Demand To the Editor: I have received several To the Editor: You may or may not copies of The American Legion Weekly remember that two or three months ago and, like everyone who has received I made some complaint .about The copies, I am very much pleased with it. American Legion Weekly, on the I look forward to receiving it with a ground that it did not contain enough great deal of pleasure and have several of general interest to the public. The friends who were not in the service who publication has been showing a wonderful enjoy it very much. improvement all the time and I wish to add William J. Griffin. my word of praise to that of thou- Shclton, Conn. sands of other readers. It is a magazine for all the people, whether former service men or not. Aided a Post The last issue contains articles of interest to every man. The To the Editor: The American Legion editorials are to the point, snappy, and Weekly is a wonderful little magazine, Immense at the same time dignified. The criticisms and it has done more in the way of To the Editor: The members of the are constructive and proceed from knowl- organizing and holding our post together Earl F. Howe Post are receiving The edge of conditions. You have hit your than anything I know of. Best wishes American Legion Weekly regularly and stride and we know you will keep it up. for its success. think it is immense. As post historian I Pocatello, Idaho. C. M. Booth. James A. Dunn, would like to have a complete set. D. Wilson Post. Russell Here's success to the Weekly. v Not a Dull Moment Eureka Springs, Ark. Ware, Mass. Emile F. St. Onge To the Editor: Good luck and success to The American Legion Weekly. It's Great A Demand for Weeklies It towers above them all. There is

To the Editor: Keep it up. It's great. To the Editor: The call for copies of never a dull moment while reading it. for Watch your advertisements, the The American Legion Weekly has As an organ for the promotion of 1 00 per boys will take anything they see in the been so great here that we have run out cent Americanism it is without a peer. Weekly as O. K. Please get my name of certain numbers. A large number of New York, N. Y. Al Schlomberg. on the subscription list and let me know men are asking for some back numbers, back issues. as they evidently are saving them. how I can get the An Inspiration Buffalo, N. Y. R. 0. Frost. They have been a wonderful help in recruiting members for The American ^To the Editor: Please enter my name as Legion in this vicinity. Can you a subscriber to our valuable Weekly. To A Post's Endorsement furnish me with fifty copies of Numbers read it is an inspiration to do better, officially To the Editor: Our post has 1, 3, 5 and 6? and it awakens within one the passion Legion Weekly endorsed The American Percy J. Cantwell, to cast out the undesirable elements of as the only publication that looks out Providence Post No. 1. our heterogeneous race makeup. for the interests of the ex-service man. Providence, R. I. Sergt. Emil H. Zingg. Personally I think it is great and hope it Camp Lewis, Wash. Legion will. will live as long as the No Stronger Single Force Wishing you all kinds of success. Fine Reading Alejandro De Castro. To the Editor: The Weekly is certainly a wonderful paper and it is doing a Key West, Fla. To the Editor: I have been reading great deal for The American Legion. We the official magazine of The American could have no stronger single force than Legion for several weeks, and I want to Enjoys It Every Week this official organ. congratulate you on the fine copy and To the Editor: I just want to say that Marion, Ind. Neal Banter. reading it contains. The members of I think The American Legion Weekly General M. C. M. Gregg Post No. 12 is one of the best magazines for the new Agrees It's Getting Better thoroughly appreciate the Weekly. civilian that is published today. Every To the Editor: I quite agree with the Reading, Pa. John W. Kendall. week I enjoy reading this wonderful Legion readers when they say the paper magazine. Good luck to you. is growing better each issue. Likes Make-up and News John J. McGrenra, Jr. Harry T. Schermer. Editor: I want to congratulate Philadelphia, Pa. Youngstown, Ohio. To the the editors of The American Legion Weekly on the splendid make-up and A Compliment Passes it Along news content of the magazine. I receive To the Editor: I have just looked over To the Editor: I am enclosing a check my copy just after press day, and I never a number of your publications and as a for one dollar for a year's subscription miss the pleasure of looking through it. member of the Legion from Arizona, I to The American Legion Weekly. I Richmond, Mo. W. Earle Dye. wish to congratulate you on your have enjoyed reading the magazine every passing it to friends have national weekly. week and by my Its Future Is Certain Yuma, Ariz. Harry C. Westover. converted several to the cause. The Weekly is full of pep and, recall- To the Editor: Allow me to congratu- ing the old A. E. F. days, "I'm on it for late you on your wonderful little publica- Admires It life." Every page is full of life and it's tion. Its future is as certain as that day nothing but praise is To the Editor: I :ma member of The the most realistic magazine that I have follows night, and the American Legion and a reader of The ever read. I sincerely trust you will con- heard on all sides. Keep up good printed American Legion Weekly. I admire tinue the color pages, as I think they add work and the clean class of the magazine very much. spice and flavor. matter as it now is. Lawrence M. Fyler. Claude S. Ramsey. Conrad S. Arnkens. Hutchinson. Kins Beech. N. C. Frankfort. Tnd November 14, 191V 15 WHAT THE LOCAL POSTS ARE DOING

News has been received from the first of The oldest and youngest members of Lehigh County (Pa.) Committee has the Legion posts outside of the United the Legion—who are they? Bergen gone on record as favoring women's States. Hitherto the Legion has known Post No. 17, New York, believes it has auxiliaries to posts and has recommended that there were Hawaiian and Alaskan them both in Charles Griffith; who en- that the various county posts take up and West Indian posts, but at last real listed at the age of fifteen, and Charles the matter at the earliest opportunity. news is at hand from Havana Post T. Green, seventy-five years old and a Posts are also instructed to report to the No. 1, in Cuba. About two months veteran of the Civil War. County Committee on their attitude ago the many veterans of the war who toward compulsory military training. live throughout the Indies felt the need of a means of sticking together, and under the guidance of Walter Hyams 105 of them Convention News There is great rivalry now as to which formed this outpost of the Legion. Now is the biggest and livest post. Naval A report of the first national it has 150 members, including many Post No. 197 in Philadelphia asserts that convention of The American Le- r Marines from Guantanamo, all most it has good claim to this hono . with enthusiastic over the prospects. They gion at Minneapolis will be 2,i00 paid-up members This post is ncc meet every Tuesday in the Hotel Plaza, published in The American Le- much mc. s than *"wo months old. Thoo^ whose management has set aside a big gion Weekly for November 21 little words, "paid up," may strengthen room for them. Mr. Hyams says that and November 28. As the its assertion considerably. the post is of incalculable benefit m main- Weekly goes to press for the taining a spirit of Americanism among issue of November 21 on the these foreign citizens. Student nurses are wanted to increase last day of the convention, the the membership of Dorothy Ciosby Post report in that issue will of neces- George G. Luckey Post, of Vinton, in New York. The women who are now sity be a running account of the Iowa, held its first get-together the last organizing this post are veterans of tlit, week in October and listened to some deliberations. In the issue of Army School of Nursing. Miss Natal: ; significant words on the responsibility November 28 it will be possible K. Robert, 906 Park Avenue, New York, incurred by a post in naming itself after a to view the proceedings in ret- is in charge of the organization work. man who had given his life for America rospect and interpret the actions in the war. Twenty new members came and decisions of the veteran Cleveland veterans of the 112th Engi- in, making a total of nearly two hundred. delegates in a leisurely and com- neers have started the Marcellus Tenney prehensive manner. Post No. 71. Jerry Sanders,, post com- The W. R. C. of George Strong Post mander, wants the names and addresses No. 31, of Fairfield, Iowa, has entertained of all former members of this unit, in the local G. A. R. Post and the Allen particular of these four: "Snine" Mor- First hand information regarding its Jewett Post No. 47 of the Legion. The rison and "Red "McConlough of Cali- Relief members is being collected by Wellesley Corps presented the Legion with a fornia, "Mack" MacHune of Mont- (Mass.) Post No. 72, on neat forms handsome flag. gomery, Alabama, John Spaulding of printed for the purpose. They carry the Saskatchewan, and Sparrowhawk, of full service record and personal history Old Glory Naval Post No. 48, New Kansas. York, has amended its laws to admit for- of each man. When all the members mer marines to membership, and cordially have been listed the records will be Sixty convalescents under treatment invites all ex-devil dogs to join up. This bound and preserved for future reference. tn the U. S. Public Health Service Hos- post has gone strongly on record against Other posts which are planning the same pital near Palo Alto, Cal joined Fre- German opera. thing will do well to consult the Wellesley , method. mont Post in a body in October. Here are some more posts which cele- brated Armistice Day with dances and Investigation of the serious charges All up-to-date newspapers are now giv- general rejoicing: Burke Kelly Post No. against General Pershing, made by Con- ing a regular department to the Leg'on. 172, Brooklyn, N. Y.; all the Los Angeles gressman Schall of Minnesota, has been Witness the Miami Daily Metropolis, posts; Harlem Post, New York; and Old demanded by Harry F. Best Post of Jer- which has inaugurated a Saturday fea- Glory Naval Post, New York. sey City, N. J. ture on Legion doings.

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overturned table and the wreckage upon thrust his head through the opening and the floor. breathed the soft night air. He searched "The Amber Bead may be mixed up the stone of the window's casement and with the silver and food," he said bitterly. the sides of the house. There was no Drew shook his head. sign of the jewel. "It was torn from your wife's hair by Delaney appeared as he was puzzling either the servant or one of your guests," over the problem. The big operative he said. "However, I believe it is still brought two kinds of French powder and in this room. Alexander or Sir Redaver a tube of turpentine which had been snapped off the light. That was clumsy. part of a child's paint-set. There was no occasion for them to mix Drew stepped back from the radiator highballs when wine was being served." and measured the distance up to the Gadkins' straight nose and thick neck window's sill. He advanced, then were the color of old port as he strode backed for a second time. through the curtains and let them drop. "It's barely possible," he said, "that the diamond was hooked on a rubber DREW was forced to admit more band, the band was released and it than failure after an hour's search, snapped upward to some position on which included sounding the floor, the stone side of the house. Go out to examining the chandeliers, taking the Flood and get a ladder and search for a cover off the wall switch and sorting rubber band, Delaney." everything portable through his hands. "Them people's waiting in the parlor, A Precaution He rose finally and dusted his palms. chief." His eyes swung to the windows. One of "Let them wait! I'm going to finger- Against Infection these was open several inches at the top. print them all—particularly Alexander, It was within the range of possibility Sir Redaver and Mohamet." that the Amber Bead had been thrown Whenever there is a through the opening by someone who T^REW pulled a serving table and a ' break in the skin there had climbed from a radiator to the sill chair to the window, climbed up and then reached upward. and struck a match. He studied the is danger. "Go out to Flood," he said. "Ask five prints. He picked up the turpentine him if he saw anybody near the dining- and face powder which Delaney had left, room windows. Help him search below then started dusting and fixing the prints risk is from micro- The the windows. Get a lantern from the so that they would be permanent. He scopic microbes. stables. See if you can find tracks. memorized whorls and loops and one There's a garden of some kind right delta on the larger print. under the sills." He reviewed the "I'd know that in a million," he said, New-Skin has the situation until Delaney returned. as he finished his scrutiny. "Somebody's power of destroying "Well?" asked Drew. thumb is going to match it." "Flood says nobody went near the Delaney called from the outskirts of the these little germs. windows," he reported. "He remembers house. The operative and Flood had the light going out and coming on again. placed a ladder between the two windows. He and I searched under the window. Their search had proven useless. "Never Neglect a Break in the Skin" There's a garden bed there and some "Come in!" ordered Drew, motioning. close-cut grass. No sign of the jewel." "Hurry in! "Delaney," said Drew, "give me a Delaney appeared at the curtains after boost up to the sill of that half-opened the detective had climbed down and called window. I want to look out without the butler. disturbing anything." "Raker," said Drew, "let me see your The big operative crossed the room and hands." held his hands for a stirrup-lift. Drew The operative watched Drew turning THE "QUARTER-INCH" OVER-SEAS COAT EMBLEMS mounted and stepped on the radiator. the butler's fingers toward the light. With Service Stripes and Number Combinalion He reached upward and caught the sill. Dropping them, the detective shook his The Coat Emblem every "Buddy" has been look ing for. Infantry, Machine Gun, Artillery, Engi The dust came away as he threw over head. Marines. neers or Patented one knee and straightened. He glanced "Get some blank paper," he said to down at Delaney. His eyes swept the Delaney. "Get an ink pad from the sill, then stopped. library, if there is one. Tell Gadkins we "We've got the man! " he said eagerly. want the finger-prints of all his guests "There are finger-prints on the sill. See, and all his servants. You bring them to

Exact size of emblems they're alongside mine. Hurry out to me with the name of the man or woman

1 Stripe INF., M.G., ART., Engineers or Marines, Gadkins and borrow some of his wife's who made them. I think we'll settle Any Outfit No., $1.75; 2 Stripes $2.00; 3 stripes face let me see. Yes, get the problem of the Amber Bead right $2.25; 4 stripes $2.50. U.S. Navy Emblems, 1 stripe powder and— ! *' " c B *•>"" $1 50- " — " — $2.00. the face powder and collodium or a away. light varnish which we can spray through "Raker, get all the servants into the an atomizer. I want those five prints pantry and hold them there—every one. as evidence. They're indistinct and I want their finger-prints. Delaney hur- just the tips are printed, but they're a ried in as Drew waited. Exact size of emblems "Here's five sets of prints," e said. SERVICE, positive clue. MEDICAL, SIGNAL, AIR TANK, Goodwin's, QUARTER-MASTER or ORDNANCE Emblems, "Who made them, chief?" "Alexander's, Sir Redaver's, Without Outfit Numbers. 1 stripe $1.60; 2 slripes "The man who stole the Amber Bead. Mrs. Langley's and Mohamet's. I went $1.85; 3 stripes $2. 10; 4 stripes $2.35. Made only either threw it up to his room and got it." in 14 K Solid Gold with screw back attachment. He climbed up here and on receipt of price. Write Sent by first class insured mail out the window or hung it upon a hook Drew hardly heard the operative's plainly, state branch of service. No of siripes and Outfit No Special lot prices to American Legif-n Posts. outside. We'll get him!" statement. He rapidly fingered the VAUTHRIN & KELLY, Agents prints held them to the light. He 243 Pearsall Avenue Jersey City, New Jersey Delaney hurried out from the room. and American Legion Members. American LegionWeekly Advertisers Drew pulled down the upper sash. He shuffled them as a player shuffles cards. November 14. 1010 27

He bent his head and followed out the lines. His face changed degree by degree. "No go!" he exclaimed, springing down to the floor. ' "No one of these five sets of prints resembles the set on the sill. Mohamet's is furthest away from it. Go get the prints of Mr. and Mrs. Gad- kins, Delaney. When Delaney returned a glance told the detective the prints he brought did not match the prints in the thick dust on the window-sill. "Print all the servants' fingers!" he ordered. "Delaney, did you allow any- body past you when the light went out?" "Not even a fly," said Delaney.

' Drew waited impatiently for the smears, which had beeTi made clumsily enough to suit a village constable. He found no thumb-prints of either left or right hand which resembled the print on the. sill.

PILING the papers upon the others which Delaney had brought, he faced the big operative and breathed heavily. " Looks as if we were up against it," he said. "You better tell Mr. Gadkins to allow his guests to depart. We can find them if we ever want them." "I'd pinch the whole bunch on sus- picion, chief." "I don't think so. It was a frame-up in a noble cause, I suppose. The Amber Bead had to go back to India to prevent an uprising of some kind. I'm not con- cerned with ethics, however. We're here to find out how the jewel was stolen." "It took wings, chief, and flew out the window." Drew did not smile. "There were seven of us at dinner," he said. "There was a native serving us. You were in the doorway where nobody could pass you. Yet the jewel was stolen, and whoever stole it climbed to the sill, threw it out or otherwise disposed of it and left his finger-prints on the lust. It's weird." Copper, iron, tin, lead, Delaney tiptoed over the rugs and vanished through the portieres. Drew nickel, aluminum—and now MONEL fished a broken cigar from the upper pocket of his dinner vest and chewed upon MONEL is a metal comparatively new to the commercial field, yet with uses as wide and varied as steel itself. It is as strong as steel, non- it savagely. He paced the floor. De- corrodible as copper, bright as nickel. Equal advantages are not laney returned silently and watched his * obtainable with any other metal or alloy. chief. "Any idea?" he asked. MONEL Metal is a white alloy—a natural combination of 67 percent "None! Tell Gadkins to come here." nickel, 28 percent copper, and 5 percent other metals, chiefly iron and Gadkins hurried in and glanced at manganese. It contains no zinc. The nickel and copper bear the same metal Drew. relation to each other in the ingot of refined as in the ore when taken from the mine. "Well?" he asked. "I've let them go home. I suppose they have got the MONEL Metal withstands acids, alkalies, high temperatures, and Amber Bead?" erosive action of hot gases and superheated steam. Can be cast, "No, they haven't, yet." forged, rolled, drawn, machined, brazed, soldered, and welded by "What d'you mean?" electric or oxy-acetylene method. Takes and retains a perfect nickel finish. they are going it "I mean to get despite MONEL Metal is manufactured in the form of rods, castings, forgings, our efforts. I think it is just as well that wire, sheets, strip stock, etc. Some of its common uses are valve trim, you let them have it." pump rods and liners, turbine blading, mine screens, filter cloth, gaso- "I will not!" line still plugs, spark plug electrodes, propellers, ornamental trim, roof- "But you'll have to. The diamond ing, golf club heads, table cutlery, and window screens. will go back to some temple in India. I suppose it was from a temple. Rajah Twelve years' experience in will cable when it arrives, The International Brooke you or MONEL Metal is at your service soon afterwards." through our Sales or Technical Nickel Company Department. Write us as to Gadkins leaned against an overturned whether MONEL Metal could 43 Exchange Place leg of the dining table. replace with economy and great- er satisfaction the material you New York, N. Y. "I'll not stand for it!" he declared. are now using. Drew shifted his position on the chair. He eyed the millionaire. Their glances clashed like two rapiers meeting. THE INTERNATIONAL NICKEL COMPANY —

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"A LASTING MEMORIAL" "Your servant, Mohamet," said the "I 'ave not, sir." detective, "got that jewel." Delaney came through the portieres at "How?" that moment.

"Easy enough to explain how. He . "The bird has flown, chief," he said. saved your life from supposed assassins "What do you m°an? Be clear!" in order to work into your good graces. "The man trcm India has beat it You were framed-up—in the parlance of away from his room. There's an open New York. You employed him and he window and a rope leadin' aewn between waited five years for the chance. It came two wings of the house. He went down ' tonight, after elaborate preparations. He that, chief, in a big hurry was the chief actor. Your guests were "Where were Flood or Flynn? his support." "They couldn't very well see him slide

' " But where is the Amber Bead, if your down. It's at the back of the house. supposition is correct?" Gadkins glared from Delaney to Drew. "I don't know." "A fine set of detectives! " he said. " I "And who made the finger-prints?" employed you to watch the Amber "I don't know." Bead. It's gone. You had men outside "Well, what do you know?" and they let my servant go." Drew flushed beneath his olive skin and Drew folded his arms. A beautiful hand made Art Leather Banner, 30x24 inches. Divisional Emblem, Arm of Ser- rose from his chair. He had started to speak when Delaney vice, Legion, Post, or any lettering you desire. "I'm going to satisfy my own curios- reached into his pocket and carefully Made to your order, $5.50 postpaid. A HANDSOME XMAS GIFT ity," he said, "and then resign from a pulled out a fine gold chain with a Designs made for Special Post Banners position I don't care to be in. It struck lizard dangling from its end. The big

; FULTON ART CO., 477 Bergen Si., BROOKLYN, N. Y. me that men like Goodwin, Sir Redaver operative held the animal n the palm of and Alexander wouldn't take the criminal his hand. It raised its head and un- side of an enterprise. You might!" sheathed its beady eyes. "See here!" "Where did you get that?" asked Badges and Campaign Ribbons Drew stepped up to Gadkins and seized Drew. his shoulder. "It crawled out of the fireplace, chief, FLEXIBLE" METALLIC CHEVRONS while I was looking around Singh's "TTHE Amber Bead is stolen property. room. I don't like these things, but this * You have no right to it. It belongs one came right up to me; it's a pet. r~ u:i\M. 1.1 mm to the priests of Benares." He had to leave it, I guess." ALL CAMPAIGN COMBINATIONS "I bought it in Bombay." Drew dropped his hands to his sides Single Bar 25c—Double Bar 50c. -Triple 75c—Quadruple $1.00 " From a thief or a receiver. A thing and stared at the lizard and then at the Victory Medal Bars, 25c. Bronze and Silver Stars attached, 10c. each can pass through fifty hands, but that opening above the window.

Expert Rifleman Badges, 75c. Sharpshooter Ba jes, 75c. doesn't clean it. It is always the prop- "Jump up there," he said, "and see

Edward i» vine- Hempstead, L I., N. ¥., P.O. Box 71 erty of the original owners, unless they ifiit will crawl out. I venture it will go sell it, or barter it, or present it to over the side of the house and right back somebody." to Singh Mohamet's rcom." "I'm damned if I agree with you!" "It's a crawler, all right, chief. It World War Rings. "That's the law, Gadkins." Drew re- crawled up my sleeve and came out by American Legion Rings. moved his hand from the millionaire's my ear." Commemoration tablets of the shoulder and turned to Delaney. "Try the window." World War for the home. upstairs and get Mohamet!" he Delaney climbed clumsily to the sill. Send for Circulars "Go CHARLES T. CROSSMAN said. "Bring him down here. I think He stood in the frame and laid the 85 Park Street Attleboro, Mass. he'll talk. He will, if the jewel is on its reptile on top of the sill. It disappeared way to India." through the opening. "How? How did it get on its way?" exclaimed Gadkins. "TYELANEY leaned out of the window Drew pointed to the opening above the and glanced upward. Indoor ToM window. "There it goes, chief," he said. "I Convenient — Sanitary The Comfoxt Closet for Homes, "I've come to one conclusion," he see it. It's huggin' the stone. It's over Summer Cottages and Camps. Bead was either the water-spout. It's headin' for Singh's Entirely odorless. Scientifically ven- said. "The Amber tilated. String chemicals dissolve clamped upon the leg of a pigeon or to room." contents; kills all germs. Easily installed. Convenient to move. Con- the body of some crawler. If it were a "Trained to do that," Drew explained tents disposed of easily as garbage. Prevents fly breedingand water pigeon it could have flown to Alexander's to Gadkins. "That's the route the contamination Provides sanitary, odorless toilet in home protected from house or Mrs. Langley's dovecote or Amber Bead took. Mohamet had the cold and stormy weather. Only closet lizard with him when the light went out. with porcelain container. Easily anybody else from whom they might cleaned. Approved bv U. S. Health have borrowed the bird." He hooked the jewel's setting to the gold Bureau. 30 days' Free Trial. Agent* make $6 weekly. Exclusive territory. Ask for book! "A wild theory." chain around the lizard's neck. He ComfortCheraicalClosetCo., 1J91 Factories Bldg. "It wasn't a pigeon," Drew mused. sprang up to the window and let it go. "There would have been feathers some- knowing he could nnd it in his room where, but what was to prevent a crawler where we sent him." of some kind being used to carry the Gadkins strode savagely to the por- Don't Wear jewel out of the room? Mohamet might tieres. have a pet snake or a mongoose or any- "Take these men upstairs and let thing that could climb a wall." them change their clothes," he said to a Truss "Raker," said Gadkins, "have you the butler. "I'll have the police on Brooks' Appliance, the ever seen Singh with a mongoose or a Singh's trail. I'm done with private modern scientific invention, crawler, or a toad, or a bat or a pet of any operatives!" the wonderful new discovery kind?" Drew smiled broadly. that relieves rupture, will be sent on trial. No obnoxious "I 'ave not, sir." "Oh, Delaney!" he exclaimed. "Look springs or pads. MR. C. E. BROOXS "Wait!" Drew exclaimed. "Did out! You're stepping on the finger- Brooks' Rupture Appliance Has Automatic Air Cushions. Binds and Mohamet ever take milk or meat up to prints. You've destroyed all the draws the broken parts together as you would a his room?" evidence." broken limb. No salves. No lies. Durable, sir, big detective's face was a study cheap. Se it on trial to prove it. Protected by "I think 'e did, quite often, since The U. S. patents. Catalog and measure blanks you mention it. 'E 'ad a little saucer of as he leaned down and peered at the mailed free. Send name and address today. milk for a cat." sill. BrMkt Appliance Co., 336 B Stata Street, Marshall, Mich. "Did you ever see the cat?" (Continued, on page 31) November 14, 1919 29 INFORMATION The American Legion Weekly will undertake to answer in this column practical questions asked by readers affecting the interests of men who were in the service. Questions will be answered in the order of their receipt, except that precedence may be given now and then to questions of a wide general interest.

Official Photographs NC-4 Flight To the Editor: I have been informed To the Editor: Will you please publish that the War Department will sell in the Information Columns the record of official copies of photographs taken in the NC-4 trans-Atlantic flight? France. Do you know where I can Pensacola, Fla. J. R. Norman. obtain any information regarding the The record of the NC-4 trans-Atlantic procedure? flight follows: Philadelphia, Pa. David J. Duffin. May 8—Far Rockaway to Chatham Light. Start: War photographs may be obtained 10.04 a.m. Arrived: 1.47 p.m. Air line in nautical FROM UNIFORM TO "CITS" from Photographic Section, Signal Corps, miles: 190. Time in air: 3 hrs. 43 min. Knots don't forget "In U. S. Army, Eighteenth Street and per hour: 51. But that Virginia Avenue, Washington, D. C, by May 14—Chatham to Halifax. Start: 9.05 a. m. All Walks of Life" Air-Peds Arrived: 1.15 p. m. Air line in nautical miles: 340. sending fifteen cents for each picture Time in air: 4 hrs. 10 min. Knots per hour: 85. will save energy and absorb desired and the number of the picture. May 15—Halifax to Trepassey. Start 9.52 a. m. the jolts jars If you do not know the number you may and of hard Arrived: 5.37 p. m. Air line in nautical miles: 461. picture give the date and place the was Time in air: 6 hrs. 20 min. Knots per hour: 58. walking. taken and an effort will be made to find May 16-17—Trepassey to Horta. Start: 6.07 it. The Photographic Section will fur- p. m. Arrived 9.25 a. m. Air line in nautical If during service abroad nish a list of the best pictures upon miles: 1,200. Time in air: 15 hrs. 18 min. Knots you wore attached rubber request. per hour: 81.7. May 20—Horta to Ponta Delgada. Start: 8.40 heels and soles, you know a. m. Arrived: 10.24 a. m. Air line in nautical what great relief the soft, Lost Barrack Bag miles: 150. Time in air: 1. hr. 44 min. Knots per resilient rubber affords. To the Editor: Organizations of the hour: 88. Eightieth Division, of which I was a May 27—Ponta Delgada to Lisbon. Start: 6.18 a. m. Arrived 4.01 p. m. Air line in nautical miles: member, carried barrack bags to France. 800. Time in air: 9 hrs. 43 min. Knots per hour: A week after arrival they were turned in 81.3. for storage at Calais. were informed We May 30—Lisbon to Mondego River. Start: 1.24 they would be available upon our return a. m. Arrived: 2.44 a. m. Air line in nautical to the States. bag contained articles 100. My miles: Time in air: 1 hr. 20 min. Knots per AirWffPeds of value to me. I would like to recover hour: 75. them. How might one proceed to ac- May 30—Mondego River to Ferrol. Start: 9.38 TRADE MARK complish this end? a. m. Arrived: 12.45 p. m. Air line in nautical miles: 220. Time in air: 3 hrs. 7 min. Knots per Apply the rubber heel prin- Richmond, Va. P. E. S. hour: 66. ciple to the whole shoe, and Communicate with Lost Baggage May 21—Ferrol to Plymouth. Start 2.27 a. m. Arrived: 9.26 a. m. Air line in nautical miles: give relief to your entire Branch, Pier 2, Hoboken, N. J., describ- ing bag and contents as completely as 475. Time in air: 6 hrs. 59 min. Knots per hour: system. possible. 72. Total air line distance: 3,936 nautical miles. If your shoe repairman can Time in air from Rockaway to Plymouth: 52 hours Steel Contract and 31 minutes. not supply you, send $2.00 T the Editor: What American steel and size of shoe, and we will Sign Your Name company has the contract for rebuilding mail you a set postpaid. the city of Nancy, France? What is the The information desired by "A Boston add. ess of their foreign office? Comrade" concerning the bonus paid by ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR C. R. LUNGTON. Massachusetts will not be furnished Mechanics Street Car Men Policemen Chaiillon sur Seine, through this column, in keeping with the Clerks Firemen Salesmen Cote d'Or, France. rule of the Weekly not to reply to anony- Pos men Factory Workers mous communications. The contract is held by the Vulcan Railroad Employees And all those who enjoy Steel Products Company. Their foreign outdoor life office is at No. 86 Rue Amsterdam, Paris. Sixth Corps PIONEER PRODUCTS, Inc. No definite date has yet been set for To the Editor: What divisions were in SUITE 309B, 30 EAST 42ND ST. beginning the work. the Sixth Corps, November 11, 1918? NEW YORK CITY The Sixth was on the Pont-a-mussori or Army Firearms Toul sector. Sioux Pass, Mont. G. S. Martin. Learn Autos and To the Editor: Can a discharged soldier Tractors The divisions constituting the Sixth purchase from the Government the Colt's Wonderful opportunities constantly Corps were the Seventh, Twenty-eighth, offered trained men; we trnin you automatic .45 cal. pistol he used in thoroughly to start your own business and Ninety-second. or make good money as motor expert, France, by giving the number? Can driver, shop foreman, etc. if any army pistol be purchased, and so, 6000 graduates making good. where? Uniforms on Sale Catalog Free S E P. R. Shepherd. To the Editor: Where may discharged T Cleveland Automobile School, c^: Lano, oh ,o San Bernardino, Cal. soldiers purchase O. D. and khaki uni- Guns cannot be issued by the War forms? A. Kitchen. Department except on specific authority J. PATENT SENSE from Congress. There is no authority Sentinel Butte, N. Dak. : "She Book for Inventors 6" Mfrs? at law for the sale of the Colt automatic From any number of department and By Return Mail FREE . Write pistol referred to. The sale of army men's furnishing stores in most of the Lac ey a Lace y. Dept. i. Wa»runston.D,& firearms is limited to commissioned cities and towns of the country; from anv officers still in thp sprviVp of the large mail nrrler houses — ; 30 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY jDIAMONDStttlWATCHESl FIND YOUR BUDDY TEN PAYMENT PLAN Another False Claim have lived from day to day, hoping there I THE War Department recently has been some mistake. Should some of gathered several editorial bouquets his old comrades read this, I hope they 3 VA% Yearly Increase Guaranteed from will come and see me or write to me, SPECIAL TERMS §§ the uninformed when it gave as —Ten months out the news that of the entire A. to hear from one of my dear boy's buddies r d 't oa any article selected E. F. £ f from the SWhhT catalog. No mone> in advance. only two men remain unaccounted for. would be a great consolation to a broken- Shipment made for your examination. I irst Any reader of this department recog- hearted mother." payment to be made only after you have convinced yourself nizes the baselessness of this claim. that SWEET values Missing: Every week there is published here infor- Herman K. Rethwisch, H. cannot be equalled. !f not what you wish mation of missing soldiers, based usually Company, 26th Infantry. Re- return at our expense. Any diamond on a mother's letter. Some have van- ported missing bought of us may ished apparently without trace, and no in the Argonne be returned for ex- report, not even of drive, and re- change at an in- "missing in action," creased value of has been rendered to the parents. ported "sup- more than posed " to have you paid. The War Department cannot be criti- cised because such men are unaccounted been buried on No Red Tape— No Delay for. has in October 4. His Every transaction Anyone who been action PEOM— CONFIDENTIAL. knows that. Men disappear and are mother would be ' ^ You don't do justice to llfr^yiPir l W ^ of it is grateful for any yourself and your dollars never heard again, and humanly unless you inspect our un- impossible to trace them. The Graves information iVAEtJE usual values in Diamonds, Sweet's Cluster; Watches. Jewelry. Silver- Registration Bureau in France has done from anyone ware ph™°Sraphs, etc. 7 Fine Diamonds, set ' excellent work in compiling its records, who has defin- S in Platinum. Looks Send TODAY for SWEET ite knowledge 5 like$350J)0 Solitaire. De Luxe Catalogue. Write and notifying relatives of the location of of =» Price $77.50. NOW to Dept. 903S. the last resting places of their fallen sol- the fate of her dier kin. It has performed a difficult son. Address THE HOUSE OF OUAU"ry"> - y v task in a creditable manner. Mrs. H. Reth- What the War Department can be criti- wisch, 1518 Christy LW-SWEET&C©. cised for is sending out a report that Street, only two are unaccounted for Louisville, Ky. ZWftKXVWWE , NEW YORK men when the most superficial examination of the situation should convince it that such a K Company, report not only is untrue, but serves to 126th Infan- try. — Thomas damage the faith in the Government of Herman K. Rethwisch Bya, Salem, the thousands of persons who know it to 111., be untrue. wants to hear from anyone who knew Corporal Luther Esley, K. Company, 126th Infantry, Missing: Private Albert Baxter Squires, who was killed in the Marne to Medical Detachment, 318th Infantry, Vesle drive in August. Eightieth Divi- sion. The only in- Missing: Philip Palmer, serial No. formation the 26200, 469th Aero Squadron, an electri- War Depart- cian by trade, ment can vouch- disappeared s a f e in the from his mo- case of Private ther's home at Squires is that Cos Cob, Conn., he was reported on August 26. FOX'S missing in ac- He is twenty- F%P PUTTEES tion on October two years old NEW NON-FRAY SPIRAL P.iu nt.J > 8. On that day five feet six in- For hunting, walking, cycling, golf, riding, etc., wear medical ches tall Fox's Spiral Puttees. They are smart, comfortable^ the de- ; blue convenient and a great protection in winter. They tachment of the eyes; dark hair; will not fray at the edges, like ordinary puttees. 318th fair complexion. They are made of the finest English wool, woven in was ad- a curve, and fit the leg in flat, neat spirals. vancing with F Address, Mrs. The genuine Fox's —the puttees of the world have — Albert Baxter Squires Company. Mrs. W. L. Palmer. a small brass lag with the name and the letter It or L, for right or left, on each puttee. If you cannot Lottie M. obtain them at. your dealer, write us and we'll supply Squires, them at the regular retail price-*, as follows: 600 West Washington Street, A R M A N D Regulalion Heavy Weight $•! 00 Corrv, Pa., would like to hear from any- Bringham, or- Extra l ine Light Weight $4.50 one who has any information concerning Philip Palmer ganization Extra Fine Light Shade $5. 00 not THE MANLEY-JOHNSON CORPORATION the fate of her son. given, who 260 W. Broadway Dept. 1 New York City "knew not what fear was " and was handy 144th Company, Marine Corps.— at rustling food when food was scarce, is 310 Infantry Co. "F" Mrs. Zinnel, 2321 North Third Street, asked to write Captain Bell, Noxen, Pa. Philadelphia, writes: "My son, Walter Former Co. " F," 310th Infantry men J. Zinnel, was killed in action June 25, 1918. Lawrence Burrows, formerly of E will want a copy of He was in the 144th Company, U. S. Company, 133rd Infantry, or anyone who THE HISTORY Marines. I received word he was miss- knows where he is, is asked to write Mrs. of the organization they served in dur- ing, but I long to know the manner in H. H. Belding, Waucoma, la. ing the war— August 29, 1917, to June which my dear boy died. I am in hopes 5, 1919. Only fifty copies more avail- some of his comrades, possibly Leon Schwab, former mess corporal, able. Price $2.50 post-paid. someone GORDON HOGE who was near him when he fell, or was Second Pioneer Infantry, Dijon, France, 23 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK CITY with him when he passed away, will write N. C. Walton of the M. T. C, 1252 write to me. For fifteen long months I East Seventy-fifth Street, Chicago. — ! !

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"You told me to get over to the left." Drew raised his hand. he said. "We're "Jump down," and Yi ordered from the house. I'm going Pound Package as soon as I can change these clothes." The millionaire and his wife were standing in the tasseled opening to the drawing-room when the big operative, followed by Drew, came down the stair- case and started for the door leading to the porte-cochere. "I've notified the police!" said Gad- kins. "I'll get the Amber Bead if it costs me ten thousand pounds!" "I wish you luck," Drew said. "I'm ready to swear that the prints I found on the window-sill do not match the impressions of Singh's hands or any of Rich in your guests' ' hands, or even your servants'." Food Value "They may have matched yours!" snarled the millionaire. Drew lifted his hat and bowed to Mrs. Gadkins. The platform of the station at Hunt- Established A3 ington was deserted when the four detectives stepped out of the gloom and "Used by Uncle Sam's SOLDIER'S hurried across the road in time to board Expert Riflemen" THE RECORD A beautiful picture for framing, printed in six a local which had whistled at a crossing. HOPPE'S colors, size 19x25 inches. A place for the soldier's Drew stood on the rear end of the train NITRO POWDER own picture to go on the Record and space for his SOLVENT NO. 9 military history. Portraits of leading generals, and stared at the yellow lights of Gadkins' battle scenes, showing art llery, infantry and cav- [Trade Mark Registered] alry, together with tanks and aeroplanes in action; mansion. Power For Cleaning High a picture that will be appreciated and admired in (Springfield) Rifles, Shot "Them finger-prints?" asked Delaney. every will valued in to Guns, Revolvers and Machine home and be greatly time " I understand everything but them finger- Guns. come. Price 50 cents. Send to No. 9 ist he only Rifle Clean H. H. STRATTON, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. sill. ?" prints on the Were they ing Solvent that will: emove "They were made by the man who metal fouling and leading. For cleaning t he. 22 Cal. BOOK ON stole the Amber Bead. The jewel is on Rifles and Revolvers and keeping them in good con- its way to Benares. Singh Mohamet DOG DISEASES dition it has no equal. made them when he climbed to the sill. Removes and Prevents Rust. And How to Feed For Sale by Dealers in Hard- He had taken off his sandals after he ware and Sporting Goods. Mailed free to any address AMERICA'S snatched the Amber Bead from Mrs. FRANK A. HOPPE, ManTr. by the author PIONEER H. Gadkins' hair. He had ample time before 2314 North 8th St. CLAY GLOVER CO., Inc. Philadelphia, Pa. DOG MEDICINES 118 W. 31st Street, New York you struck that match in the doorway.' "But chief, I don't understand ?" Drew smiled. "They were toe-prints—not finger- BE prints—Singh's bare toe-prints." ft BACK ON THE FRONT PAGE POPULAR! {Continued from page 11)

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of the opposing wagon is true, this adventurous equine the relative strength must have had a novel coat. Then artilleries, to what extent the tanks and cooperate, there is that hen that has heard the call aircraft were expected to and of her country and is laying three-ply finally were shown maps of the territory eggs to help bring down the cost of food. they were to cross. This was an instance Would that Congress would make as of thorough cooperation between men Earn $10.00 a day and up and officers, which was generally not by simply showing our big an effort. wonderful cataloKt your Indeed, peace is here. Man is turning considered possible because of the neces- friends and taking their the world's back to his old friends, who sity of secrecy, but in this case worked orders for his attention finest Tailored to Meas- never have gone back on him, but merely out to great advantage. The attack ure clothes. Get your own suits FREE — as obscured by what man is began in a dense fog, so thick that all have been many as you want — a pleased to consider more important. The units became hopelessly mixed up and new suit every month in part of are but one act of the separated from their officers and most of return for just a tricks enumerated your spare time. could not tell where their front play that is always on the stage, always the men Let us show you what others interesting. was. The more intelligent, however, who are doing by our plan. You are new, always changing, always sure to succeed. The special will for you gets is weary of the occupations of the had made a careful study of the maps, suit we make Man the orders. You will be the best past five years. They didn't pay. But were able to pick their way forward and dressed man in town. Don't delay, but send — quick — for now? What chance does a league of lead the others, saving a great deal of our Style Book and Sample reducing the confusion. Outfit with oloth samples from nations stand against a bald-headed hen? time and which to select your sample suit. Yes, man is going back to play with his AMERICAN WOOLEN MILLS CO. old friends, and, truth to tell, he will find CANADIAN staff officers were proud Oopl* 1484 Chicago them much safer playmates than rifles, of their men's initiative and de- gas. pended much upon it. Yet, without grenades, and mustard All Division Buttons AE F chevron pin> SO^ach,

paradox, they were forever ,: , the l realizing "1 ' llIIBiHMJf" IB ''Tl"iilS .MUft trying to emulate British standards of dis- cipline and to cultivate in their men the th SOLDIERS AND FIGHTING MEN 42 nd 88 same degree of submission to authority Authorized Mtlory Bar 35«ea Bronze s Silver Slar 5«ea: Hats «0-7.50 that characterized the British. They U S Army Shoes 1695-795, Campaign , (Continued from page 19) Wool shirtitM-HO Hakordi ( silk) 35«eaf failed because the men came from Army Supplies of all discriplion Write foi what you require when a train of open box-cars pulled into different conditions of civilian life, and ArmysNci\y Srpp/v Stores. 3o So.4"' St. Minneapolis Minn. the station the Canadians drew back it was no doubt fortunate that they could and flatly refused to get aboard. An not succeed. Reduce a man to blind English transport officer who was in obedience and it is only to be expected charge found them immovable to com- that, unless he has orders, he will not Get BiggerPay mands and threats. Finally he called act at all. The helplessness of the out: German rank and file when their officers nEcrracny "Are there any Imperials here?" N. C. O.s had become casualties You will find in HAWK T N S and GUIDEo just what you need to All the English soldiers took two paces has cften been commented upon; the know aboutelectncity In simple everyday language — complete, forward. officer formed British, whiio not lacking in courage and The them up concise, to the point. In ques- and marched them aboard without a never so helpless as the Germans without tions andanswers, A complete standard course in Electrical Half later certainly did not show the murmur. an hour a train of leadership, Engineering. Send for your passenger coaches pulled into the station same powei ol. initiative as the colonials. set today to look over. and the Canadian artillerymen rode uo The principal means employed by the HAWKINS the line in comfort, staff to tighten up discipline was the ELECTRICAL salute, that outward form of respect for GUIDES T REMEMBER a hard night march in one's officers which somehow was always * France, made by a new draft of men more distasteful to the troops than the ]ust over from England, replacement mere obedience to commands. At one troops, to use the' American expression. time orders were issued in the Canadian On the last lap the officer in charge corps that saluting must be carried on made the mistake of going too long in the line as well as in the back areas. without a rest, and the men pulled into The indignation of the troops was camp cursing and shouting at the top unbounded, and most of the men solemnly of their voices, completely out of control. announced they would not pay the 3500 PAGES The officers quieted them with some slightest attention to the orders. Hereto- 4700 PICTURES POCKET SIZE difficulty, but their wrath broke out fore the men had regarded the trenches FLEXIBLE COVERS afresh when they found that the roll as the one place in which they attained $1 A NUMBER was to be called before they could go the full measure of their self-respect; 1 A MONTH Experiments—Dynamos — their billets. Magnetism— Induction— to During the roll call, there men and officers were on almost Electric Machinery — Motors — Armatures—Arma- whenever a man answered his footing, ture Windings— Installing of Dynamos— Electrical name an equal shared the same food instrument Testing— Practical Management of Dy- with an abrupt "Here," the sergeant and the same discomforts and addressed namos and Motors—Distribution Systems— Wiring- Wiring Diagrams— Sign Flashers— Storage Batter- major would call out rharply, "Say sir." each other without formality or re- ies— Principles of Alternating Currents and Alter- nators— Alternating Current Motors -Transformers Long after they were in their billets, the straint. Now even that consolation was —Converters— Rectifiers— Alternating Current Sys- tems—Circuit Breakers— Measuring Instruments- still men were shouting to each other to be taken from them. As a matter of Switch Boards— Power Stations— Installing—Tele- — Wireless— Bells — Lighting — with mocking bitterness, sir." phone —Telegraph "Say fact, however, the order never was Railways Alsomanymodern Practical Applications That rankled in their minds long after enforced. The officers knew well how of Electricity and Ready Reference Index of .the 10 numbers. the hardships of the march had been unpopular it was and, for that matter, Shipped to you FREE. Not a cent to pay until you see the books. No obligation to buyunlessvou're satisfied. forgotten. These outbreaks -- — this great help were fre- were themselves een

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only logical that men whose proud THE BOMBERS natures submit most reluctantly to army discipline should prove the most formi- {Continued from page 21) dable fighters in the field. A thousand LEARN over the channel, climbing. The artillery on the very verge of revolt are men broke out again with fierce popping, worth double their number of autom- eager to kill him red-handed. The atons, held in subjection and driven by strong shafts climbed up among the stars, fear of their officers. always searching, restless. * The Canadians were constantly in a "There he is in the light," the Scotch- state bordering on revolt. They might man yelled in my ear. be likened to a boiler under a full head IOOtd A tiny speck cast a shadow upward in of steam with someone sitting on the lid. p the crossing of two great beams. Pop, 4QD Jf During the war the lid was held down by pop, pop, pop—the shrapnel sparks the men's own realization that any MONTH burst out all around him. insubordination on their part would YOU can now quickly qualify for a good paying "Crucify him in that cross of light, I job and a bright future in the Auto and Tractor benefit the enemy and by a common tell raised field. At our great school you learn how to oper- you." The Scot his fist in a desire generally to "play the game." ate, adjust and repair all makes of AUTOS, TRAC- frenzy of hatred. "I believe he's TRUCKS AND GAS ENGINES at a tuition hit. TORS, But the armistice removed this moral easily within your reach. Write for facts today. Look how he staggers; that's not diving. pressure and the lid blew off there were Endorsed by Auto Factories, — He's on fire; he's blazing now; just like riots in nearly every Canadian camp in Graduates and Students a falling torch. The shafts follow him Thousands of our satisfied graduates have made England, a serious one at Rhyl, Wales, good and are now earning big salaries. You can do down, down, brighter and faster—falling, it too. Our method of instruction is thorough and in which firearms were used, five men complete. You work with the actual tools and falling, falling. I wonder if he is still machines at this school under expert instructors. killed a wounded. If Canada and number alive. It's out. He's fallen Every detail is included and made simple and clear. into the sea. had adopted an army system of her own Write for full particulars right away He's gone now." so you can start earning good money during the instead of accepting England's, a demo- winter in the city or be ready for a spring 30b on A zum-zum-a-zum-zum sounded farther the farm. Hundredsof other men are making good cratic system suited to the character of on the help The Milwaukee Motor cchoolgave them. away, turning eastward rapidly. The her men, all this might have been Don't let your opportunity slip! shafts of light were among the stars UDCC A fine Kit of 29 tools worth $17.60 ia avoided, for it was the perpetual heckling f j\r.J\ given to everyone who enrolls now. again, trying to "see" a humming sound. They are yours to take home with you. over trifles, trifles that hurt the men's In the distance Send for our new Free Book—"Making You Mas- the zum-a -7um-zum-zum self-respect, which, more than anything ter of the Auto." No obligation. Get full infor- told us that one went back mation. A letter or a postcard will do, but write at once. without the else, resulted in so much antagonism MILWAUKEE MOTOR SCHOOL other. The nightly song rose again to Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. between officers and men. Deptl221 555 the open sky, but a sad wail of mourning came from far across the bleeding city. WHAT has been said of the character of the Canadian soldier is equally " For " Every Wear " " Everywhere true of the American. Yet the American A complete band and orchestra have been formed from the THE PUTTEE OF ALL NATIONS soldier is also trained under an army members of Wor- cester Post Originated in India system that is exotic, obsolete and ill- (Mass.) No. 5. This post's Worn at the North Pole to the national character, for membership is already 3,000 and is grow- Adopted by Armies adapted the ing at rate of of the World and known the American army was modeled upon the about thirty-two men to every member of the the plan of the Prussian and English a day. A. E. F. Spirals are Smart and armies. The sytem was, perhaps, some- Serviceable—A perfect leg what modified during the war, as was the When it comes to members of the same covering for every sport. still family all enrolling in Write for name of nearest English, but the leading features one post, Frank I. dealer. remain, Donnelly Post No. 9, of Plainfield, N. Lockhart Spiral Service J., Leggings Inc. During the war the two greatest puts forward its claims for distinction. 244 Broadway armies in the field were founded on F. Otto, George H., Julian P., and Ger- Brooklyn New York diametrically ald D. Linke are all Mfrs. to Domestic and For- principles opposed. They members of this eign Governments, Military were the Prussian, in which the men stand post. Schools, Organizations and American Legion Posts in fear of their officers, and the French, whose officers mingle with the men, act Forrest Glenn, who was officially the part of a parent in looking after their reported dead by the War Department, wants and, in fact, generally are referred was the most active worker in enrolling to as "the father" by their men. The new members in Yakima, Washington, WAR PHOTOGRAPHS American army wavered between the recently. Manifestly, as Mark Twain We have secured exclusive publication rights two, the old regular army traditions would put it, the report of his death was photographs taken for a wonderful collection of working toward the former, while the greatly exaggerated. "Over There" before, during, and since the war. instincts of the men naturally inclined Verdun Chateau Thierry Paris Reims The Argonne Nice toward the French system. Our future Spokane Post of The American Legion Varennes Toul Sector Biarritz army probably will adhere much more wants 2,000 members before the Min- find many olhers, finished in black and white, closely to one of these two ideals, for a sepia and colors. Action photos in the lines, the neapolis convention. More than 1,200 middle ground is dangerous. Which one ruined towns, and picturesque country. Beauti- have joined already. ful photographs taken in England, Belgium, Italy will be adopted finally remains to be seen and Switzerland. We have them all. There is no question but that the Specimen set of photos and complete catalogue sent postpaid on receipt of one dollar. Prussian system produces better parade- Demanding that all Red Cross nurses soldiers, but can it and telephone girls who served overseas FRANCO-AMERICAN ART COMPANY ground produce as formidable a body of fighting men? be given their positions back, the members P. O. BOX 2338 BOSTON, MASS. of John Regan Post of Boise, Idaho, Having fostered the idea of establishing have declared their intention of publish- a football league of teams made up of ing the names of individuals and firms ex-service men in large cities in the cen- that refuse to reinstate service girls. AMERIKARDS tral west, the Robert E. Bentley Post, of The Playing Cards With a Personality Cincinnati, now suggests a Central States Members of The American Legion in No change in index, just in the emblems. In these Athletic League from Cincinnati, Cleve- Aberdeen, Washington, are cooperating the King gives place to the soldier of the A. E. F., the Queen to the nurse, the Jack to the sailor; land, Chicago, St. Louis and several with the city health commission in agitat- other branches of the service featured in the aces. other of the larger cities in the Ohio and ing for a cleaner and more beautiful city. Made of the finest double Cnnar niialitv is super-^uaiity . roated pastedstockin thc Mississippi valleys. It suggested to satin finish, makes handling in play a delight. include football, basket ball, baseball and A bill permitting The American Legion If your dealer cannot supply you send his name track teams. indoor track meet, in of St. Paul, Minn., to have an office in and SOc in stamps for sample deck. An which only ex-service men will partici- the State Capitol, has been passed by Root Playing Card Co., Dept. E, Chicago, 111. pate, is being planned in Cincinnati. both House and Senate. ^ :

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By R. S. Thompson

THOUSANDS of people who suf- hours, by following Christian's sugges- I know of several instances where rich fered for years with all sorts of tions as to food, his constipation was re- men and women have been so pleased stomach trouble are walking around lieved, although he had formerly been in with what he has done for them that they today with entirely remade stomachs the habit of taking large daily doses of a have sent him a check for $500 or $1,000 stomachs which have been remade in from strong cathartic. In five weeks every ab- in addition to the amount of the bill when 48 to 72 hours! They enjoy their meals normal symptom had disappeared—his paying him. and never have a thought of indigestion, weight having increased 6 pounds. In There have been so many inquiries from constipation or any of the serious ill- addition to this, acquired store he a of all parts of the United States from people nesses with which they formerly suffered physical and mental energy so great in seeking the benefit of Eugene Christian's and which are directly traceable to the comparison with his former self as to al- advice and whose cases he is unable to stomach. most belie the fact that it was the same handle personally that he has written a man. And these surprising results have been little course of lessons which tells you ex- produced not by drugs or medicines of Another instance of what proper food actly what to eat for health, strength and any kind, not by foregoing substantial combinations can do almost overnight was efficiency. This course is published by The foods, not by eating specially prepared that of a man 100 pounds overweight Corrective Eating Society of New York. or patented foods of any kind, but by whose only other discomfort was rheum- These lessons, there are 24 of them, eating the plainest, simplest foods atism. This man's greatest pleasure in life contain actual menus for breakfast, correctly combined was eating. Though convinced of the luncheon, and dinner, covering every con- necessity, he hesitated for months to go These facts were forcibly brought to dition of health and sickness from infancy under treatment, believing he would be my mind by Eugene Christian, the emi- to old age and for all occupations, cli- deprived of the pleasures of the table. He nent Food Scientist, who is said to have mates, and seasons. successfully treated over 23,000 people finally, however, decided to try it out. Reasons are given for every with foods alone! Not only did he begin losing weight within recom- a few hours, regaining his normal figure mendation based upon actual results se- As Christian says, man is what he eats. in a matter of weeks, but all signs of cured in the author's many years of prac- What we take into our stomachs today, rheumatism disappearing, and he found tice although technical terms have been we are tomorrow. Food is the source of the new diet far more delicious to the avoided. Every point is explained so all power, yet not one person in a hundred clearly that taste, and afforded a much keener quality there can be no possible mis- knows the chemistry of foods as related of enjoyment than his old method of understanding. to the chemistry of the body. The result eating, and wrote Christian a letter to With these lessons at hand it is just as is we are a nation of "stomach sufferers." that effect. though you were in personal contact with Christian has proved that to eat good, But perhaps the most interesting case the great food specialist, because every simple, nourishing food is not necessarily that Christian told possible point is so thoroughly covered to eat correctly. In the first place, many me of was that of a that you can scarcely think of a question of the foods which we have come to re- multi-millionaire—a man of 70 years old, which isn't answered. You can start eat- gard as good are in reality about the worst who had been traveling with his doctor for ing the very things that will produce the things we can eat, while others that we several years in a search for health. He increased physical and mental energy you regard as harmful have the most food was extremely emaciated, had chronic are seeking the day you receive the les- value. constipation, lumbago, and rheumatism. sons, and you will find that you secure re- But perhaps the greatest harm which For over twenty years he had suffered with sults with the first meal. This, of course, comes from eating blindly is the fact that stomach and intestinal trouble which does not mean that complicated illnesses very often two perfectly good foods, when in reality was superaciduous secretions in can be removed at one meal, but it does eaten at the same meal form a chemical the stomach. The first menus given him mean that real results can nearly always reaction in the stomach and literally ex- were designed to remove the causes of be seen in 48 hours or less. plode, liberating dangerous toxic poisons acidity, which was accomplished almost If would like to which are absorbed by the blood and cir- overnight. And after this was done he you examine these 24 culate throughout the system, forming the seemed to undergo a complete rejuvena- little Lessons in Corrective Eating, sim- tion. ply write Corrective root of all or nearly all sickness, the first His eyesight, hearing, taste, and all The Eating Society, indications of which are acidity, fermenta- of his mental faculties became keener and Department 17711, 443 Fourth Avenue, tion, gas, constipation and many other more alert. He had had no organic trou- New York City. It is not necessary to en- close sympathetic ills leading to most serious ble—but he was starving to death from any money with your request. consequences. malnutrition and decomposition— all caused Merely ask them to send the lessons on the five days' trial, with the And yet just as wrong food selections by wrong selection and combination of understanding that you will either return and combinations will destroy our health foods. Almost immediately after follow- them within that time or remit the small fee asked. and efficiency, so will the right foods ing Christian's advice this man could see $3, results, and after six months he as quickly create and maintain bodily vigor was The reasons that the Society is willing well and mental energy. In my talk with and strong as he had ever been in to send the lessons on free examination his life. Eugene Christian, he told me of some of without money in advance is because they his experiences in the treatment of dis- These instances of the efficacy of right want to remove every obstacle to putting ease through food—just a few instances eating I have simply chosen at random this knowledge in the hands of the many out of the more than 23,000 cases he has from perhaps a dozen Eugene Christian interested people as soon as possible, on record. told me of, every one of which was fully knowing full well that a test of some of One case which interested me greatly as interesting, and they applied to as the menus in the lessons themselves is was that of a young business man whose many different ailments. Surely this man more convincing than anything that can efficiency had been practically wrecked Christian is doing a great work. possibly be said about 'them. through stomach acidity, fermentation and Please clip out and mall the following orm instead of writing a letter, as this constipation, resulting in physical slug- f is a copy the blank adopted by the Society, and zvill be honored at once. gishness which was naturally reflected in of his ability to use his mind. He was twenty pounds underweight when he first went CORRECTIVE EATING SOCIETY, nervous to see Christian and was so he j Dept. 17711, 443 Fourth Ave., New York City couldn't sleep. Stomach and intestinal You may send me prepaid a copy of Corrective Eating in 24 Lessons. I will gases were so severe that they caused either remail them to you within five days or send you $3. irregular heart action and often fits of great mental depression. As Christian de- Name Address scribes it, he was not 50 per cent efficient either mentally or physically. Yet in 24 City State