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January, 1927 AMERICAN Vol. 2, No. 1 rEGION (Monthly Contents Cover Design: an incident of 1621 by The Message Center by the Editor What Is Freedom? by Harry Emerson Fosdick The Lady Killer by Charles Hanson Towne Illustrations by T. D. Skidmore Presidents and Others by Chauncey M. Depew 12

The Two Generals : part one by Leonard H. Nason Illustrations by Kenneth Camp Johnny, My Old Friend John by Peter B. Kyne 18 Jordan's Banks by Marquis James 20 Illustration by William Heaslip The Socialists—and the Future by Will Irwin 22 The Illusion of Change by Meredith Nicholson 26 Decoration by F. E. Warren Editorial with cartoon by C. LeRoy Baldridge 28 In the Wake of the Storm by George Whipple Dobbs 30 What Makes A Good Poker Player? by R. F. Foster 34 Hf/s Been Working On the Railroad by Philip Von Blon 36 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 39 Dangerous Ways: conclusion by Arthur Somers Roche 40 Illustrations by Grattan Condon Meet Mister— 44 Be Careful by Wallgren 46 Bursts and Duds with cartoon by Dale Beronius 47 Ici On Parle Francais by Meigs O. Frost 48 Keeping Step by Right Guide 52 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 60 A PATRIOTIC CALENDAR FOR JANUARY

1st: Emancipation Proclamation becomes effective, 1863 2d: Georgia ratifies the Constitution, 1788 3d: Battle of Princeton, 1777 4th: Columbus sails on return journey to Spain from New World, 1493 5th; Henry Ford establishes minimum wage of five dollars a day, 1914 6th: , twenty-sixth President of the , dies, 1919 yth: Compulsory military service upheld by Supreme Court, 1918 8th: President Wilson declares the Fourteen Points, 1918 gth: First balloon ascension in America witnessed by President Washington, 1793 10th: Ethan Allen born, 1737 nth: Michigan Territory organized, 1805 12th: Paris Peace Conference opens, 1919 13th: Congress increased the stripes and stars in the flag to fifteen for the fifteen States then forming the Union, 1794 14th: First capitol buildings at Washington destroyed by accidental fire, 1801 15th: Vermont declares itself a free State, 1777 16th: Civil Service Reform Act becomes effective, 1863 iyth: Benjamin Franklin born at Boston, 1706 18th: World War Peace Conference moves to Versailles, 1919 igth: Robert E. Lee born, 1807- 20th: England recognizes American independence, 1783 21st: Spanish explorers discover the potato, 1521 22d: President Wilson delivers "peace without victory" speech at Philadelphia, 191 —23d: Congress fixes first Tuesday after first Monday in November as national election day, 1845 24th: Gold discovered in California, 1848 25th: San Francisco and New York connected by telephone, 1915 26th: Wheatless and meatless days begin, 1918 27th: Congress rejects proposal for a six-year Presidential term without privilege of re-election, 1875 28th: Americans open Panama Railroad across Isthmus, 1855 2gth: William McKinley, twenty-fifth President, born at Niles, Ohio. 1843 30th: South Dakota repeals the death penalty, 1915 31st: John Marshall commissioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1800.

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CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW is the only Player?" R. F. Foster, who writes the trying to figure out whether he would American we can think of who has poker article, is the world's best-known have saved money by going around the enjoyed the honor of having a statue of authority on cards. As editor of the most other way. In 1921 he returned to France himself unveiled during his lifetime. complete edition of Hoyle's "Games" and then went to Italy. Returning to

(Are we wrong? If not, tell others ; if yes, that is published today (it even includes America, he once again set out for China tell us.) That statue stands in Peekskill, Old Maid) , Mr. Foster is probably called in 1924, this time in the company of his New York, where Mr. Depew was born upon to interpret more knotty points wife, Caroline Singer, who had been a in 1834. That was in a day when a rail- than the Supreme Court of the United Red Cross worker with the A. E. F. Last road train was as much a thing to wonder States. Born in Scotland in 1853, and summer, in a second- (or sixty-second-) at as an automobile was in 1902. Mr. beginning his career as an architect and hand car they traveled from the Atlantic Depew's career pretty nearly parallels the civil engineer, Mr. .Foster began in 1893 to the Pacific Coast and back, thus defi- history of American railroading; just now to devote his whole time to cards—writ- nitely winning for Mr. Baldridge the cup he is chairman of the board of the New ing about them, studying them, giving as the World's Most Restless Ex-Soldier. York Central and director of many others. instruction. Perhaps his greatest claim The memory of the two China pilgrim- From 1899 to 191 1 Mr. Depew served his to card fame is the fact that he is the man ages has just crystallized in "Turn to the State in the United States Senate, but who introduced auction bridge to Amer- East," the most sumptuous book yet pub- his public career actually dates back to ica. He is also joint author of the Pel- lished by an ex-A. E. F. private, with

1 86 1, when he became a member of the man-Foster system of mind training. drawings by Mr. Baldridge and text by New York Assembly. He has been a his wife. delegate at-large to every Republican National Convention beginning with WILL IRWIN'S series on "How Red 1888. At that convention he placed Is America?" concludes in this num- WITH this issue of The American Benjamin Harrison of Indiana in nomi- ber after a successful season. We say Legion Monthly, Howard Chandler nation for the Presidency, later declining successful because the series has been Christy begins a series of covers de- appointment as Secretary of State in his attacked from both sides. One group of picting famous incidents in American cabinet—Mr. Depew himself received critics thinks the Monthly has fallen for a history and American tradition. While ninety-nine votes for the nomination. particularly subtle brand of red propa- he now devotes most of his activities to ganda. Certain reds, near-reds, and pinks portrait painting—he has painted Presi- have also taken Mr. Irwin severely to dent and Mrs. Coolidge, and his portrait SOMETHING was just said about un- task; one critic quoted Karl Marx at of the late President Harding adorns the veiling statues. Mr. Depew was length and, when told space didn't permit steamship Leviathan—Mr. Christy has orator on the occasion of the unveiling of use of his arguments, wrote: "It is easy to heretofore been best known as a graphic the statue shown on page six of this issue. understand your disinclination to print interpreter of American history, part of That was in 1885. It was one of the many anything that would be likely to detract which he saw himself in the making. He formal occasions at which Senator Depew from the force of Mr. Irwin's articles. In was in with the , and has been the speaker of the day, but he is view of the purpose which is plainly evi his letters and illustrations from the front even better known as a speaker at informal dent in publishing them I am not sur were among the most important contri- occasions—or at least as a speaker in in- prised." These were precisely the reac- butions to public knowledge of what was formal vein. He is, in fact, easily the tions we looked for in publishing the series. going on in the Spanish-American War. most famous after-dinner speaker and Could there be any better testimonial to His cover designs for the Monthly will story-teller that a nation of story-tellers the value of Mr. Irwin's articles as a fair, reflect the spirit of America through has yet produced. He can not only tell cold-blooded analysis of the red situation? forceful interpretation of incidents that stories himself, but he is an excellent are firmly established in American judge of another man's story-telling tradition. ability. In "Presidents and Others" he CHARLES HANSON TOWNE, a gives his opinions of great American native of Kentucky, is editor of story-tellers of three generations month's issue will inaugurate Harper's Bazar . . . Leonard H. NEXT Nason, author of "Chevrons" and many a new serial by Peter B. Kyne— other war stories, is a regular contributor "They Also Serve," a war story in which

. . the hero is neither private nor general, REV. DR. HARRY EMERSON to The American Legion Monthly . - FOSDICK has been professor of Peter B. Kyne, another regular contribu- second-class seaman nor admiral, nor practical theology in Union Theological tor, is a Californian and, like Mr. Nason, anywhere between. Keep guessing

Seminary in New York City since 191 5. an ex-artilleryman . . . Meredith there's only a month to wait . . . Dr. He is also pastor of the Park Avenue Nicholson of Indiana wrote "The Savor William E. Barton, a life -long student Baptist Church in that city. Award of of Nationality" in the August, 1926. issue. of the life and career of Lincoln, will tell the degree of doctor of divinity from five "The Illusion of Change" is the first of about "Captain Abraham Lincoln" . . . universities, and of other honorary degrees several thoughtful papers on present-day Rupert Hughes, who has devoted many from three other universities, attests the America which will appear from time to years to a study of George Washington high esteem in which Dr. Fosdick is held. time in this magazine . . . George from every angle, particularly the human,

He is probably the best-known interpreter Whipple Dobbs is on the staff of the will write of Washington . . . Earl will of practical religion in America. Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville . . . Derr Biggers describe his first post- Philip Von Blon of Ohio is managing war contact with European tourists in editor of The American Legion Monthly. "Lafayette, We Are All Here Now." ALTHOUGH Dr. Fosdick appears frequently in magazines, this is probably the only occasion on which he CLEROY BALDRIDGE returned has appeared in the same issue with an • from the war in 1919 and took the article on "What Makes a Good Poker next train to China. He has since been

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WHAT IS FREEDOM ?

/*0 word is dom is interpreted to CK jBj/ com- Marrtf Emerson Fosdich^ mean only release € y\[ more ^^monly heard from the disliked re- upon the lips of youth than freedom, straint, it is likely to turn out to be anything but but as the New Year begins youth freedom when the wind blows. Freedom is not might pause long enough to inquire primarily escape from restraint but the positive what freedom means. achievement of roots of your own. Substitute Whatever it is, the new genera- your own stout rootage for external props—that is tion evidently proposes to have it. freedom, and lacking it nothing on When one lies awake at night one earth can make anything free. can hear old conventions crash and This is just as true of nations as time-honored traditions of custom it is of men. Egypt wishes to be and opinion come collapsing down. free. Egypt ought to be free. But It is useless to bewail this. Youth any one who knows Egypt knows has always appeared wild to the that the real problem of Egypt's elders. Even Increase Mather, the freedom is internal. Between doughty Puritan, said about the grand- ninety and ninety-five percent of children of the first settlers in Massa- her people can neither read nor chusetts that they "hanker after new and write, and, until that situation loose wayes." changes and capacity for intelli-

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Your application for reinstatement should be filed at once, because under the law no insurance can be reinstated after July 2, 1927.

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C^^T WAS one of those rare men who M M can wear a derby hat without looking _ m m ridiculous. And when he removed it, -A. he was seen to be almost bald; yet baldness was becoming to him—-quite as becoming as the derby—as it is, oddly enough, to a certain type of young man. Clean-shaven, blond, with a twinkle in his light blue eyes, and carrying his lithe body well, he could dangle his stick, strut a bit, and attract the ladies. He knew his power, and exulted in it. He came to take it for granted. Conquests were so easy. He oozed conceit; and we who knew him well at one time—nobody with brains ever knew him long—hoped, subconsciously, for his downfall. He had a way with him when he entered a club. Servants liked him—no slight compliment, after all; for servants, I have long since discovered, are pene- trating beings. The saying that no man can long remain a hero to his valet is based on fundamental truth. We all wear spiritual wigs, and the servants have a mean way of surprising us when we do not have them on. After a while, if we are wise, we give up trying to fool them; and then life holds a little peace. Mark Gardenhire Tubbs was his name; and it was symbolic of the man. For it began seriously, with dignity, running into a note of beauty, and finally ended in complete disaster. An anti- false alarm. is felt it. climax. A A sham. That how we about The girl' s left hand I think we were right. And rested on the division He was not liked by men, as a rule, even at a bar, where he was meal, when I heard a of the seats. given to holding up his end rather nobly. I remember once how step approaching my Tubbs' s hand ivorked he made a great to-do over a certain literary celebrity who had table. A voice said, its way over to it come into our little club as a guest. Tubbs followed him about "Why, who in the world as a dog might have done; he fawned upon him; he whispered do I see?" and Tubbs absurd flatteries into his ear. Finally, he dared to say, in a was upon me, with that maddeningly friendly grip of the complete sycophantic tone, "I'd like to open some champagne for you." bore. The great man, weary of his unsolicited attentions, looked down Now, there are moments when any of us are glad to see any- upon him from his intellectual and physical heights, and said body. If you have been in London on Bank Holiday you will calmly and brutally, "All right —but I don't like you yet." understand my willingness to have even Mark Gardenhire Tubbs has never lived that insult down. It all but undid him Tubbs share my luncheon with me. I even was glad to pay for but not quite. For he was to live for other undoings. We thought his ale and chop. I pressed a sweet upon him, and a liqueur, and

that he must have been the original of that famous remark, "You the best cigar came from my case. I all but embraced him . He can't insult me—I've been insulted by experts." It was pitiful must have been quite as surprised then, as I was afterwards, at the way he grinned in the face of some answer which would have my effusion; though when I come to think of it, he probably at- floored you or me. tributed it to his innate charm. There being no women about One summer I found myself loafing in England. I was quite to fall victims to his blandishments, he of course considered that alone, and on Bank Holiday, which I had spent miserably in a club acquaintance from America was a natural and easy con- London, I chanced to go into Simpson's for a bit of luncheon. quest in the circumstances. The place was all but deserted—-you know how the Englishman He was dressed to kill. I recall his lavender tie, his loud waist- escapes from the city at every opportunity—-and I took a seat coat, the flower in his buttonhole, and when he crossed his legs at one of those long tables which usually hold about a dozen and dangled them, the gaily colored socks which encased his men. An ancient waiter served me in almost solitary state, and ankles. His shirt was of a gaudy pattern which suited his char- the roast beef, under its canopy of silver, was pushed my way acter—or shall I say lack of it?—and I was overwhelmed by his by the solemn chef. Mechanically I ordered a lonely portion watch-fob which he fondled and caressed, as he rattled on about I did not care what I ate—and was about to proceed with my nothing.

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"Why are you here—alone?" he smiled. I might have asked the same question of him, for he was one of those young men whom one never thinks of except in the society of the ladies he is forever discussing. At the club, he was always saying hurried adieus in order to keep some mysterious and wicked rendezvous. He would say "Ta-ta!" wink knowingly, put his derby rakishly on the side of his head, twirl his cane, and vanish into the night. I was a little flattered to think he should be interested in my solitude. "Anybody up your sleeve?" he wanted to know. "Couldn't find two little birdies for us, could you, in this dreary desert waste?" He added that he was sure I knew everybody, even over here; and when I told him that I was strangely unacquainted with the kind of company he desired, he fell upon his chop with disgusted energy, and had the sense to change the topic. "I'm running over to gay Paree. Like it better than this sleepy old town." I don't know why I said it; but perhaps it was the loneliness in me speaking. Two minutes after he had joined me I had made a vow with myself that I would get rid of him somehow, anyhow; yet uncannily I heard myself saying, "So am I." "Gosh! that's jolly!" he cried, as our waiter moved on oiled heels behind our chairs. Tubbs was the sort who, the moment they reach London, use the word "jolly" constantly. "Maybe we're taking the same boat-train." "I'm leaving this afternoon," I answered. "So am I!" he cried quickly. "What luck!" Of course there was but the one train, and I realized it the moment I had spoken. I wished to God I had never come to Simpson's. To make a long, sad story short, he clung to me like a locust in time of pestilence. I could not shake him. He went out into They were having trouble the Strand with me, and for the first time in life I my was glad with their baggage. that that teeming street was deserted. I hated being seen with Tubbs gallantly Mark Gardenhire Tubbs. offered his assistance He sat opposite me in the compartment, and calmly placed his ornate ankles only a few inches from my coat. He talked glibly, chattered like a fool, though I told him I had some letters Tubbs here that his method of attack was remarkably deft. He to write, and wished to make use of this journey to do so. I had could have caused anyone to believe that he was the courteous my pad on my knee; but he was not to be stilled. I cursed the gentleman, the cavalier par excellence, wishing, for no purpose fate which had thrown us together. save that of friendliness, to help a fellow mortal out of a difficulty. Somehow, we reached Dover. At every station, he ogled at I could not but admire his technique. I suddenly understood his any girls who chanced to be about. He even lifted his hat— well-known amour propre. The mother fell at once for his polite- girl it ! always as the train moved out. He spoke of conquests up and ness ; the merely smiled—and what a winning smile was down the line which he had made in years past—those light loves, and left to her mother the explanation of their trouble. those sweet flirtations which are the stock in trade of traveling Tubbs tipped the official grandly, saw that the luggage was salesmen. He was that debonair, devil of a fellow who will wave safely put aboard, and was reveling, I knew, in my quiet admira- from vanishing trains and consider, because some forlorn female tion of his efficiency. returns the salute, that he has achieved another love affair. I During the crossing, he never left the side of the couple he had am sure he thought of Bluebeard as a hermit compared to himself. succored in distress. He had told them who he was, of course; He was a spectacular lover, I discovered. He wanted—and and they had given him their cards. Then he had introduced me indeed needed—an audience for his amours. If I happened to be as a fellow voyager—I was one of his best friends, he assured the looking in the opposite direction, he would nudge me (once he ladies, and we had run down from London together. He gave a had the effrontery to do so with his ankle) so that I might not picture of an intimacy between us which I was far from recog- miss the damsel who was smiling back into his eyes. nizing, I assure you; yet now I was vastly amused, and I fell into At Dover, we encountered a charming lady who was accom- the spirit of the mild adventure. For frankly I wanted to see to panied by a girl obviously her daughter. Obviously, too, they what lengths Tubbs would go. These gentlefolk were so gentle were Americans, and they were having a little trouble with their that they had no idea they were being "picked up"; I was certain luggage. The mother, with her prematurely white hair and coal- they had never heard of such an indelicate expression. black eyes fringed with heavy lashes, her ashen skin, looked as a The Channel was like glass that day. I noticed that the duchess should, and seldom does. The girl was patrician too beautiful Miss Glendenning said little, and moved about not at almost the prettiest creature my eyes had ever fallen upon: all. Her lack of animation was an asset, rather than a detriment. slender, delicate of feature, with hair that wound in golden tor- We have all known the kind of girl who, at a party, says never rents down the base of her lovely neck. One could not help a word; yet when she has gone the men gather in groups to ask admiring the pair—they would have stood out in any crowd; but who was the quiet angel in the corner. Yet one must be beautiful here, with only a handful of us awaiting the boat, they drew us thus to attract attention. Certainly Miss Glendenning was that. like magnets. At Calais, Tubbs gathered the ladies into a first-class coach, It was a wonderful opportunity for Tubbs. He got to them in and again saw to their luggage. He was so attentive, such a no time, and gallantly offered his assistance. They were charmed, monopolist of attentiveness, that there was little for me to do. evidently, at his solicitude. He told them that as he was a fellow I chatted idly with the mother, while he devoted himself to the American, he would like more than he could say to give them any daughter. I felt, as the journey proceeded, that there were secret aid he could. They were the helpless kind who evidently need glances at his clothes—glances in which I sensed a tinge of dis- masculine support in the slightest emergency. I must say for dain. But Tubbs saw none of this. He was too intent upon Miss

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I JW a prudish with- f drawal, which after all would do no x . good and might cause the two wo- men to misconstrue my motives. But you may well believe that it was highly embarrassing to me, and I again cursed my silliness in allowing Tubbs to inveigle me into accepting him as a travel- ing companion. Better to be a veritable Crusoe in teeming London, lonesome and without the opportunity to improve one's situation, than shown up before gentle folk

? , like this girl and her mother. They would think H , certainly that Tubbs was more than ii** just an acquaintance, no matter what I said or did. Tubbs chattered incessantly, and then began to whisper to the girl, seeing that Mrs. Glendenning and I were absorbed in conversation. I looked up once, and saw that the girl's left hand, which was near Tubbs, rested on the division of the seats; and I could not help seeing the hand of Tubbs gradually work its way toward that delicate wrist, which was beautifully gloved. I was sure, once, that he pressed the fingers; and I know that his shoulders certainly touched hers. She did not move. She paid not the slightest attention to his obvious advances. She would glance out of the window now and then, utterly indifferent to him. I wondered, in a wild moment, if she might not suddenly make a Glendenning's eyes and scene; for surely what Tubbs had done for them did not warrant hair. Yet he cast a few this obnoxious familiarity. • But she was adamant, almost like looks at me, as though to say, "You see—I am a lady-killer! Now a glacier. Certainly the girl was carrying off a difficult situation will you believe in me, you fool!" like a thoroughbred, I thought. He reveled in this proximity to refinement. Even aristocrats As we drew into the Gare du Nord, Tubbs said quickly: fell for his charms, he seemed to be saying to himself, and almost "Where are you going, Mrs. Glendenning? Can't I take you aloud to me. And he seemed actually to have proved his point, somewhere?" unarticulated as yet, that when it came to women, here was a And he slyly looked my way as he uttered the words, as though devil that would make Cazenova and Don Juan fade from the to say, "I own these damned aristocrats now." picture. It was all very disgusting to me. The train had come to a halt, and I had opened the door of our I sat beside Mrs. Glendenning, and found that we had a mutual compartment. friend or two back in the States. I was greatly amused that "Oh, thank you, Mr. Tubbs, but don't bother. We are going Tubbs had chosen the seat, of course, next to the daughter, op- to a hospital," Mrs. Glendenning answered. "You see, we are posite us. A few miles from Calais, and he had snuggled just a consulting a great specialist in Paris, for my daughter's left arm fraction closer to the beautiful girl, and once his foot touched is paralyzed." mine, to call attention to his complete triumph of propinquity. I have never seen anything like the amazed expression on the I began to loathe him. But Miss Glendenning seemed entirely face of Mark Gardenhire Tubbs. He seemed literally to wither capable of taking care of herself. She would smile, and answer in before my eyes. For your professional lady-killer, like the rest monosyllables; and, after all, her mother was with her, and my of frail humanity, likes to have you witness his triumphs, but obviously respectable self. Tubbs had been so decent all along, never his failures.

JANUARY, 1927 I I " PRESIDENTS and OTHERS sf S a humorist strictly genuine, or not at all. Mark Twain ^By Chauncey M.Depew Well, the dinner was a f M was a disap- failure. I do not think Mark M. - pointment in conversation. He was not so good said a word beyond "Yes" and "No." a story teller as a number of friends of mine who are now living— Finally the cigars were passed. When they were offered to the Irvin S. Cobb, for instance, or Will Rogers. Which is not to Prince he took a case from his pocket, saying he would smoke his imply, of course, that Mark was not a great humorist. We have own brand. He passed the case to Mark. had no greater exponent of true humor—which has depth and "No, thank you," said Mark. "I don't smoke." philosophy and understanding of life. Now all who knew him knew Mark Twain to be an inveterate But there are those who can write and those who can talk. smoker, pleading, however, that he never used tobacco to excess Mark could do both, but first and foremost he was a writer. He because he made it an inflexible rule not to smoke two cigars at was not a dull talker, of course, but most people seemed to expect one time. him to talk as he wrote, and he could not do that. He paid the "No, thank you," said Mark. "I don't smoke. When I left penalty of genius. He was expected to be at his best all the time. home in Hartford I gave a farewell reception. The Governor of People failed to consider that he wrote as inspiration prompted Connecticut was there, the Mayor and a great many of my him, and that he was a painstaking revisionist. Yet he was neighbors and literary friends. In the afternoon before the expected to talk on any and all occasions, whether he reception my butler, who is a nigger, came and said to " had anything to say or not, and to talk as well as he me, 'Mr. Clemens, we ain't got no cigars.' wrote. That was impossible, naturally. Only second The company was leaning forward in eagerness. raters, with a memorized store of anecdotes, can appear Mark Twain had begun a story. Better late than never. at their "best" on every occasion. Like any true humor- "Just then," pursued Mark, "a Yankee peddler's ist Mark Twain relied not on a memorized store, but wagon stopped at my gate. I went out and asked the upon the inspiration of occasion, to suggest a story. peddler what he had. 'Well,' he said, T have some old When there was no inspiration he kept silent, no matter masters, some rare Japanese and Chinese prints and what the occasion. some valuable tapestry.' I said, 'I don't want any of I recall the time I introduced him to those things, but have you any cigars?' the Prince of Wales, who became King 'Yes,' he said, T have some cigars.' Edward VII. It was in the late nine- 'Good ones?' I asked. He said they were ties and I was summering at Homburg, I good ones. 'How much are they?' The where the Prince also went every year. peddler said they were seventeen cents a His annual stays there were responsible barrel. I told him to roll a barrel in. for the presence of quite an English "Well the reception was a great success, colony in Homburg. Mark Twain was but I noticed that all of the men left im- at Nauheim, and it occurred to me that mediately after supper. Finally I re- the Prince might like to meet him. marked about this to the butler, who said, Edward was not a great story teller, 'Yassa, I handed the cigars around, and but he had a sharp sense of humor, and after he had taken a few puffs one gentle- he was a good listener. He could bring man asked for his hat and cane and left, out the best there was in a story teller. and pretty soon they all left.' He had read a good deal of Mark's "It is about a hundred yards from my writings, and when I broached the sub- front porch to the street. The next ject he said he would relish meeting the morning I went out and discovered my author of "Huckleberry Finn." walk to be covered with a solid mass of I wrote to Mark to come over, which cigars." he did, accompanied by his great friend, That was Mark's story. That was his the Reverend Joe Twichell, of Hart- sole contribution to the evening. It was a better ford, with whom I had been associated in the story than it sounds as I have told it here, because corporation of Yale University. of Mark's gestures, his drawling accent and his The news that I was bringing the Prince of mannerisms, but it did not enhance my friend's Wales and Mark Twain together at a dinner reputation as a raconteur. created quite a stir among the English at Another time I was present at a supper in Lon- Homburg, and I received more than a hun- don given to Mark Twain by Sir Henry Irving. A dred requests for invitations. Originally I brilliant gathering was present—mostly literary. had planned a small and informal affair, but Mark did not say a word all evening, except I kept enlarging the dinner until the manage- toward the end when he told a story about a dog. ment of the Kursal, where it was to be held, I will not repeat it. It seemed quite pointless to told me they could not accommodate any many, but it was subtly conceived and made more at one table. I wanted to confine the amusing because of the acting of the narrator. gathering to one table, so as not to lose the Mark could have made his living on the stage, he intimate touch. was such a good actor. Twenty-five persons were present. I But as a give-and-take story teller Mark Twain placed Mark between the Prince and Lady was not a success. That was not his forte. He Cork, a brilliant wit and conversationalist. could not hold a candle to Cobb. I believe Irvin It was really quite sparkling company, and S. Cobb contributes to our national fund of one which I imagined calculated to set Mark ©l>y U.&- U. anecdote more stories, each with a point, and all going. humorous, than any man living. He is what I But it did not. The dinner opened, and would call a natural give-and-take story swapper. "7 never knew a good story- nothing moved Mark. He sat there in I think I have met all of our best story tellers silence. In such a company a lesser man teller ivho could prepare in during the past seventy years, and I never knew would have endeavored to force a story or advance a story to cover a given a good one who had a ready made and memorized two, but not Mark Twain. His humor was occasion stock upon which to draw, or who could prepare

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Chauncey M. Depeiv exemplifying the height of assurance—doing a cross-word puzzle with a pen in advance a story to cover a given occasion. I know there are fifty years ago. That faculty has not abandoned me yet. such story tellers, and more of them now than there used to be. I have been telling stories for more than eighty years, yet if you But they are not good ones. They go about the business back- were to ask me at this moment, as I have been asked many times, wards. They endeavor to warp the occasion to fit the story. which is the best story I ever heard, or the best one I think I ever That is not the way. The story must fit the occasion. To be a told, or the best story told me by Artemus Ward or General perfect fit it should be spontaneous, growing out of the occasion, Grant or Will Rogers or Henry Watterson or Theodore Roose- and with the occasion dissolving. velt or Booker T. Washington or anyone else I might recall, I How many orators and after-dinner speakers laboriously pre- should be unable to answer you. This is because I do not and pare their humor in advance, and serve it cold along with their never have carried in mind a roster of stories, catalogued under prepared speech? Their opening words—who does not recall the the name of their author or any other way. I do not carry any — ." formula? "I am reminded on this happy occasion of . . of my own stories about in a conscious mental reservoir, which so-and-so—the two Irishmen, perhaps. And they go on and on may be tapped at will, like a cider barrel. Some occasion is re- methodically to crack a joke in about the same spirit as the quired, some incident, some association, some play of words or legendary citizen of the State of Maine, who, when asked where thought, to bring them out. I have never sat down in cold he was going, replied, "To Bangor to get drunk, and gosh how I blood to tell or write a funny story, and in my ninety-third year dread it!" I find it rather late to begin. I have often been asked how I select my stories for a given The best story teller I ever met was Mr. Lincoln. His humor occasion. I never select the stories beforehand—never definitely. I was one of the qualities which made him great. Mr. Lincoln's sometimes prepare my addresses in advance and study them care- stories served most useful public purposes. In the most difficult fully, but I leave gaps for the seasoning of humor, which I rely on four years which ever a resident of the White House experienced, the occasion to inspire. The late President Garfield told me that Mr. Lincoln never found it necessary to resort to long arguments this extemporaneous faculty would desert me sometime and I to enforce a point. He met those who disagreed with him with would ruin the reputation of a lifetime. That was more than some anecdote, which fitted in on every {Continued on page jd)

JANUARY, 1927 13 O'Re TWO GENERALS

huge black shape rum- 'Part One bled slowly along in the shadow of the poplars. It was night, midsummer in Northern France, and rain fell in sheets. Lightning flashed, a glaring white burst, outlining the trees, distant fields, and a house or two, that seemed to leap from the ground in fright and then disappear again in the doubly dark blackness that followed the lightning. The lightning showed some- thing else, it discovered the nature of the mysterious black shape. The shape was a limousine, probably belonging to some general officer, and the driver, running without lights, was forced to move with ex- treme care, not only to avoid breaking a spring in a shell- hole, but to keep from going off the road and into the ditch altogether. The flash of "The hell we ain't!" lightning, however, had shown said the chauffeur. him that the road ran straight "We're National and true for some distance, Guard." and he thereupon increased "Well, what's the difference?" the speed of the motor. "The difference," said the chauf- "Hey!" protested the chauf- feur, "is that milishy is milishy, feur's companion, "where yuh and National Guard is soldiers." rushin' to? A man can get his A minute or two later the limou- neck broke easy enough with- sine made a sharp swing to one side, out looking for it." whereat one of the men on the seat "Watch the road, kid," re- cried out in horror, but there was plied the chauffeur, "I'm here to run this car no crunching of broken fenders nor an' you're here to learn the roads. Donchuh sickening drop into space. Hence think I got my own neck on this seat, or yuh there must be a road there, or an think I parked it somewhere?" entrance to a farm. The car "Well I don't know," remarked the other. stopped, and a voice demanded "Some guys thinks more of their necks than from the darkness the whereabouts others. You break up a limmysine, an' you of the fire. can get another without much trouble, but necks ain't issued but "Gwan," said the chauffeur, "it's rainin' like hell. Get down the once, an' I ain't through usin' mine." the chain an' let's in out the wet." Another flash of lightning showed a turn in the road, and an "What motor is that?" asked a cold voice. undecipherable sign on a tree. It was made of white board in the "General Bridges' car, Boots Bookstaver drivin'. General's shape of an arrow, and the driver called attention to it. aboard. Also one milishy general comin' up to relieve the brigade, "That there sign," said he, "yuh can see even of a night if it's an' one milishy chauffeur for said general trailin' with me to learn blacker than it is now. It saves you from knockin' down any o' the roads." them popular trees, an' it shows that the division P. C. where There was the rattle and clank of a chain being let down, and we're goin' to ain't more than two minutes more." men's voices muttering. "That's good," said the man who was not driving. "I'll be glad "What's that general's name?" demanded someone. to get down outta this seat. My nerves ain't what they used to be "What's his name?" asked Bookstaver of his companion. when I was younger." "Rheingold, Three Hundred and Fourth Field Artillyurry "A little excitement will do 'em good," said the chauffeur. Brigade, an' chauffeur, Hurry Holm." "You milishy birds need a little wartime experience." "Boots Bookstaver an' Hurry Holm. Sounds like a vaudeville "Milishy," cried the other, "where d'yuh get that stuff? What troop," said the voice in the darkness. "Let 'em come in." do you guys call yourself? Regular Army I suppose! Shock The limousine rolled on into darkness as black as a wolf's troops an' all that Milishy! You ain't nothin' but milishy mouth. It rolled and pitched like a ship at sea, and the wheels yourselves!" made a great sucking noise. The journey was only a few yards,

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly mand post of a division that held the sector, and from the fact £y LEONARD H.NASON that no lights were shown, it might be inferred that the sector was lively. Lights would betray inhabited farms to night flying airplanes, and the next day the inhabitants of the farm in which the light had been seen would very probably be totally ruined. Illustrations hy Kenneth Camp The two men with the roll, slipping and plunging through the foot deep swamp of mud, rotten straw and stable refuse that covered the courtyard, arrived at the wall of the house, and feel- ing about, Boots found a pile of sandbags for which he had been searching. Further effort disclosed a blanket which, lifted aside, allowed the two with the roll to enter a sort of vestibule. The blanket at the entrance was then carefully let down, and a door opened. This was also cur- tained by a blanket on the far side, but light showed. The second blanket was lifted aside, the two grunted their way through, and entered a candle-lit room, where a fog of smoke hung low over two long tables. "Shut the door carefully," said someone, the instant the men entered. "Shut the door! Shut the door!" echoed from all sides. Boots and his assistant at once put down the bedding roll and closed the door as quickly as they could. Hurry Holm, the newcomer, looked about him with interest, waiting for his eyes to grow accustomed to the light. The room was long and low raftered, once the living-room, kitchen and dining-room of the farm. Maps were tacked to the walls, the two long tables were covered with orders, untidy piles of blank paper, typewriters, pencils of all colors, and innumerable tele- phones. At the head of the room, near the fireplace, was a smaller table, and from the beam above it hung the sign, "Executive Officer." This table was unoccupied. The room was for the most part de- serted, perhaps because it was sup- per hour, and only a staff sergeant "/i general don t seem to here and there or a subordinate command a whole lot of officer looked up as Boots and respect at this here front, Hurry entered, then, seeing the whispered Hurry door had been closed, bent to work again. Half way down the room however, for the car again stopped and its stood the two generals who had occupants got down. The reason for the come in the limousine. No one pitching progress was then apparent, and seemed to be paying them any also the reason for the adhesive sound of attention. the wheels. The ground was ankle deep in a "A general don't seem to com- thick glue -like substance, that might be mud, but yet had not the mand a whole lot o' respect at this honest slippery feeling of good honest mud. here front," whispered Hurry, put- "Here, corporal," said a sharp voice. "Corporal Bookstaver! ting down his end of the roll. Just get down and help General Rheingold's striker with his roll "They leave 'em stand like a replacement comin' into a rest and things. Carry them into the farm with us and then we'll tell camp." you where to put them." "Nah," said Boots, although his tone carried no conviction. "Cm on," said Boots, and began to climb down from his seat. "These birds is all at their chow. Somebody musta gone lookin' "Let's get this roll out on your side. Hurry up now, striker, the for the executive officer. Generals is generals, even in the quicker we get this done the quicker we get to bed." milishy." "I ain't no striker," said the other bitterly. "I'm a corporal. "I suppose I might sit down," remarked Hurry's general, Holm's my name, Corporal Holm. Where's he get that striker looking about him dubiously. He found a straw bottomed chair stuff at? Strikers don't drive no limmysines!" and sat in it wearily. He was old, and his hair was almost white. "Well maybe he thought they did in the milishy," answered His hands shook a little with fatigue and the strain of knowing Boots. "Grab hold the other end o' that roll!" that he was personally responsible for the arrival on the front "Well, when a guy's got Horace Holm, Corporal Headquarters lines in fighting condition of some five thousand men, of whose Troop, writ on his gas mask yuh'd think anyone would know he whereabouts he had not had the slightest knowledge for forty- wasn't no striker! Maybe they can't read in your jawbone eight hours. An all-day ride in a pitching limousine over roads outfit!" pitted with shell holes and torn by the wheels of thousands of "Come on with the roll," urged Boots, "an' don't talk so much trucks is a trying experience for any man, but when the man is old or you'll have some jasper soundin' the gas alarm. Careful o' the and weary with strange anxieties, it becomes doubly terrible. paint now!" "My Old Man is kinda all in," remarked Hurry, observing the The roll was finally carefully guided out of the car, with no general's condition. damage to door or paint, and the two men started struggling "Well, mine ain't in no condition to go to a dance tonight," across the muddy yard with it toward where a faint murmur of answered Boots. This was true. General Bridges, to whom voices indicated human life. No streak of light showed, not the Boots owed allegiance, though a younger man than General faintest glimmer, but the sound of the men wading through the Rheingold, showed nevertheless as much sign of exhaustion as the mud, echoed as it was from near at hand, showed that they other. His clothing was soiled with candle-grease and mud, and were in an enclosure. It was the courtyard of a farm, the com- creased from sleeping without even removing his trench coat.

JANUARY, 1927 15 His eyes were tired, and his face grey and drawn. He had been on the lines with his brigade, firing here, firing there, shifting position, helping harassed infantry to take well de- fended hills, keeping the ammunition coming in, the wounded going out, and the horses of three regiments of field artillery and an ammunition train on their feet and able to haul the carriages. And all this, for three weeks, sleeping where he could, 'phones clamped to his ears and eating at the tail of a chow wagon like any buck. However, his brigade was being re- lieved by General Rhein- gold's, and his labors would soon be over. There was a sudden slam of a door, then the clumping of boots on the stone floor, and an officer appeared at the upper end of the room, wiping his mouth on a napkin. It was obvious that this officer had been disturbed at his supper, and his temper did not seem to have improved because of it. He was a spare, thin man, his uniform neatly pressed. A white collar showed and prob- ably white cuffs accom- panied it. His belt, boots and nickel work glittered, and his em- broidered silver eagles twinkled in the candle light. "General'sundershirt," whispered Boots behind his hand. "Executive officer of the division." "Well, gentlemen?" said the executive in a very inhospitable tone of voice. "This is General Rhein- gold, Colonel Baker," said General Bridges. They lay doivn, one on each fender, and holding on as best "Commanding the Three Hundred and Fourth Brigade," as General Rheingold stood up a little stiffly. How are my men going to be fed? We haven't drawn any am- "Relieving yours, General?" snapped the executive. "Yes, munition, not even for our pistols. You wouldn't want us to go _ yes, General is to accompany you on a tour of the positions, is in without even pistol ammunition." that correct?" "You understood the order, did you not?" interrupted the "It is." executive. "And the relief will be completed by daylight?" "Yes, of course I did," said General Rheingold, trying to gather "By daylight!" gasped General Rheingold. "Why, my orders himself and make some kind of dignified protest. "Of course I _ did not read that way and it wasn't my understanding." understood. I think I understand English as well as anyone. "You realize, of course," said the executive officer coldly, But what I'm trying to do is to make you understand that my "that unfortunately we are engaged in a war, and it becomes men have been marching all day. We detrained at eight o'clock necessary, in order to respond to enemy manifestations, to this morning, and for all I know they haven't had a meal since. change orders on rather sudden notice. You are now ordered It's not human to order tired, hungry men into battle." to effect this relief— by daybreak. Do I make myself understood?" "And your brigade?" asked the executive, turning suddenly to "Why—why " stammered the general, "why, this is impossi- General Bridges. "Your brigade is able to carry out such orders ble. I want to think this over. Why, I haven't seen some of my as it may receive?" regiments for two or three days. I don't know if they have food "Oh, yes," said General Bridges. He lighted a cigarette with or not, or if they're even off the train. We haven't made any as little attention to the executive officer of the division as he reconnaissance of the sector at all. I ought to sit down here with would have accorded a social worker or a correspondent asking a General—er—Bridges, you know, we ought to sit down and try to similar question. This the executive saw, and it maddened him work out some kind of a march order. Don't you think so, Gen- like a blow. eral? Why, I don't even know where the supply centers are. "Then," roared the executive, waving his fist in the air,

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "Shshsh!" whispered Boots. Once outside, how- ever, and plowing again through the soup in the courtyard, Boots explained. "That there bird with the eagles is executive officer of the division," said Boots, "and when he sounds off they all stand to heel—because he's sup- posed to be the division commander's mouthpiece. It ain't him talkin', it's the division commander, but if he ever gets re- lieved an' loses his job as undershirt, God help him. My Old Man would gnaw the ear off him. Boy, that there colonel is layin' himself up an awful debt against pay-day." "If it was me, an' I was a general," said Hurry, "I'd hang one on that guy's nose." "Yes, that's what you think now, 'cause you ain't nothin' but a milishy corporal getting thirty- five dollars a month an' tips, but if you was a gereral ratin' a car an' real money the first o' the month you wouldn't be so free to throw- it away. Listen, kid, you truck around with a general as long as I have and you'll see that there's lots more fun being a corporal." "Maybe so," agreed Hurry, "but corporals don't rate no roll like this full o' clothes an' cough medicine, an' ef they did they wouldn't rate no one to carry it for 'em." "Yeh," agreed Boots, "corporals lead a hard life. Why don't yuh soldier in a real outfit?" The wind, rushing around the corner of the farm, blew the rain into they might, strained their eyes into the darkness ahead their faces and prevented further conversation. "General Rheingold, if you can't give the order to your brigade to The roll was shoved into the limousine, and the two corporals advance, by God, I can!" He brought his fist down on the table began to scrape the accumulations of mud from their hobnails on with a crash, so that the table jumped off the floor and the papers the running board. on it fluttered. The men at the other tables bent over their "Where could a guy light a cigarette?" muttered Boots. work and wrote furiously. The executive's eye, roving about in "Man, don't it rain! Sniff strong, there, milishy, an' see can you search of prey, discovered the two corporal-chauffeurs, standing smell chow! There ain't no enlisted man's mess in this P. C. above the bedding roll with open mouths. There's a kitchen for orderlies out back somewhere, but it's "What do you men want?" roared the executive. across a field as I remember, an' I don't dare leave the machine." "I ordered them to bring in General Rheingold's bedding roll," "Man, you mean to say we ain't goin' to get supper?" gasped said General Bridges. "I understood he was to be quartered here." Hurry. "Well, have them take it out of here again," barked the execu- "The chances is slim!" replied Boots. tive. "Kinross, get me Placer on the phone, and we'll see if we Again the rain swished, and someone, probably the guard at can't get this relief started. Have my supper brought in. I'm the gate, coughed gaspingly. The lightning flashed, but it was not going to lose a meal on account of someone else's inefficiency." masked by the house, and none of its illumination entered the The executive's eye again lighting on Boots and Hurry, they yard. The wind blew, and the two chauffeurs felt the water quickly bent down, picked up the bedding roll and hurried out soaking through their puttees. with it. "Here comes someone," muttered Boots. Feet squished in the "Too damn bad about him losing so many meals," muttered darkness, and a mysterious figure took shape. Hurry. "He never give a thought to us losin' a few. How come "You drivin' this wagon?" demanded the newcomer. he chucks his weight like that? He ain't but a colonel, but he had "Yuh." them two generals with their tails down." "Well, climb in it, the generals are {Continued on page 71)

JANUARY, 1927 17 my old friend JOHNNY. JOHN

F ALL the Amer- we did business, although ican citizens who when I got as far as the ever donned a By Peter B. Kyne table where I was to hold soldier's uniform, up my hand, the officer e luckiest. I am the I am a who was to administer the veteran of three wars and all the memories I have of them are oath looked at my army birthday.and then at me. "Son," he delightful ones, because out of the three wars I only had to make said, "you're a little liar. Do you know the penalty for a fraudu- a personal appearance in one, so to speak, and that one was lent enlistment?'' enough for me. I was highly insulted, but still insisted I was twenty-one years When I was about seventeen and a half years old I saw that I old. He tried to argue me out of it, but that was my story and I had to take some action regarding my future. I had a good job, stuck to it, so, since business was brisk and he had a number of but I wasn't satisfied. I was making twenty dollars a month other youthful liars awaiting his attention, I outgamed him and "and found" as a general factotum in a country merchandise store got my five dollars' worth. I never saw him again and did not re- down in San Mateo County, California, and only had to work gret it. That man had a mean eye. from six a. m. till nine p. m. on week-days and until six p. m. on Well, I had bought a membership in the Fourteenth United Sundays and holidays. My boss trusted me and liked me, and in States Infantry, and when I got out to Camp Merritt they as- order to handle the job right I only had to learn to do business in signed me to Company L. Most of the company was still in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. The only worry I had was that mufti, although many of them had been in the service three weeks. I couldn't quit without a legitimate reason; if I had, my boss We had one blue blanket each and we slept on the sand. What would have been pained and amazed and talked me back into the we didn't sleep on we ate when the wind blew—and the wind job again. So I laid for a reason that would flabbergast him and blows almost every afternoon during the summer in San the Spanish War supplied it. Francisco. When I told the boss I could hear my county calling he laughed Up until the time I joined that outfit I was what you might call and said: "I know what ails you, Peter. You want a vacation. a good boy. I didn't smoke or drink or swear or tell lies, and if I Well, take a couple of weeks off and when you're tired of helling failed to keep holy the Sabbath day it worried me no little. So I around, come back. Twenty dollars a month and found is better commenced smoking immediately—and in that far-off day boys than thirteen dollars a month and found, because I don't shoot at who smoked cigarettes were regarded as brands ripe for the burn- you. Besides, they want men in the Army, not boys." ing. Before I had been in camp a week, a soldier who had put in I had only juggled about five hundred bags of wheat into his thirteen years in the British army, in the Sudan and India and warehouse that day, and the bags weighed about a hundred and who had a campaign medal with five bars, for five general engage- fifty pounds each and had to be piled eight high. And only a few ments, and a silver star from the Khedive of Egypt, discovered nights before I had put a rough customer to sleep with one poke on that a kind relative bad given me a civilian blanket. So he in- the button because he thought he could run a sandy on a boy—so duced me to believe that the weather would soon be warm and I thought I was a man. Also, since my eighth birthday it had been pleasant and that I could exhibit no finer evidence of true com- no trick at all for me to shoot the head off a squirrel with a rifle at radeship than by selling that blanket for six bottles of lager beer. a hundred yards, so I just knew a large caliber Spaniard would be He warned me also that since it wasn't a regulation blanket I'd plain pie for me! Not that I had the slightest resentment against probably be court-martialed for having it in my possession. the Spaniards, or seethed with patriotism, or thought Cuba This excellent fellow had caught my boyish fancy with his couldn't be liberated without the aid of old man Kyne's second military moustache and his medals and his tales of derringdo, so I boy! All I wanted was to escape from that somnolent little back- did business with a saloon-keeper hard by. In these decadent water of a community, where nothing ever happened except days of malt brew and ginger ale and near beer, I bleed internally morning, noon and night, and where the standard of pep and am- when I recall that of the six bottles I drank but one. Ah, what an bition was represented by a squad of easy-going Spanish-Cali- old soldier that fellow was! As a weather prophet, however, he fornians who sat on a bench in front of the livery stable and rolled was a total loss, for right after I sold my extra blanket we had cold brown paper cigarettes. Of course, if I remained in my environ- raw fog every night and I was in a fair way of freezing to death ment that would be playing safe, and of course, too, I dared not when we were ordered to the Philippines. leave it unless assured of a job elsewhere. So, with me it was a Even while I lay, wakeful and shivering, it never occurred to me case of to dislike this man. He kidded me and teased me in a jocose way and spent all my money with magnificent prodigality, but—he Good-bye, ma, also thrashed a big recruit who jeered at me and threw a shoe at Good-bye, pa, me one night when I knelt down to say my prayers. That prompt Good-bye, mule, with your old he-ha, action of his saved me from being known in the company as "The I don't know what this war's about, Bishop." But I bet, by heck, I'll soon find out. So Jack became my bunkie. They called them buddies in the late war, but in '98 they were bunkies. Jack had never known Darned if I ever did! Moreover, I have never met anybody ennui. He was a wild Irishman who at the age of sixteen had who had any very coherent ideas on the subject. I think now that engaged in a riot with the constabulary at an eviction. With the we tackled Spain because Theodore Roosevelt was a strenuous customary consistency of his breed he had got himself a constable. man. However, be that as it may, I'm obliged to him and would He told me he never knew whether the man died or not, but he be the last man in the world to kid the Rough Riders about the looked dead enough when Jack saw him last, so my bunkie battle of Las Guasimas, notwithstanding the fact that once in our thought he had better leave Ireland in a hurry. country a gang of hill-billies got into a ruckus at an election for He did. He went down to Queenstown and took the queen's school trustee and when the smoke cleared away there were more shilling in the 21st Hussars which had just been ordered to Egypt. casualties than at Las Guasimas. They staked him to a bugle and he blew it for his troop in the I had some difficulty joining the . I had maiden charge of the 21st against the Mahdi's troops at Omdur- always been an omnivorous reader and the old kerosene lamp with man. He had fought at Tel-el-Kebir and Suakim and had been the red rag in the bowl to keep it from exploding hadn't done my punctured with a lance. Then he went to Burmah and was always eyes any good. However, I was always a resourceful youth, so busy, in street riots, hunting dacoits, and in Border wars that the when I discovered that a corporal was to give me the eye -sight world has forgotten. I remember him best standing at the end of test, I decided to test his eye-sight first. I held up a five dollar the bar in the canteen, just working up a snootful, and slamming gold piece and asked him if he could see it. He said he could, so the bar with the empty bottle, the while he yelled: "I've been

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Johnny' s bunkie Peter — they actually called 'em that instead of buddy when Cuba and the Philippines were page one stuff

to ances- thirteen years a soger an' divil a day of it featherbed sogerin'." bade me remember what Oliver Cromwell had done my When properly corned Jack would wait until some volunteer tors and sang the old hymn of hate. soldier (or militiamen, as we sneeringly referred to them in those The day we sailed from San Francisco I came down with days) entered the canteen. Then he would say: "Three cigars measles. We had twelve hundred troops on a dinky little steamer for three hussars—and a chew of tobacco for a militiaman!" It with room for six hundred uncomfortably. The smoking room would then become my duty to placate the militiaman and tell was the hospital—room for a dozen patients, and we had one doc- him old Jack wasn't a half bad chap when sober, and why argue tor and two hospital corps men, neither of whom knew enough to with a drunken man. Then I would drag Jack back to barracks, pound sand in a rat hole. The refrigeration was terrible and our but not until we had hoisted one to his hero and Jack had rev- fresh meat rotted and we ate it. I have never asked a dog of mine erently given a toast: "Here's to Lord Frederick Roberts, of to eat the sort of food they fed us on that transport, but I didn't Waterford and Khandahar!" dare complain because Jack said a soldier never complained. the fan Yes, Jack was a peculiar man. Like all of his kind of Irish he When my measles were discovered, I was parked back on hated England and in proof of his animosity had, in all proba- tail of the transport and a canvas fence was put up around me. I bility, slain a constable at an eviction. Then he had fought thir- was in quarantine. I had no bed, so I slept on the wet stern-lines teen years under the banner of St. George and had brought him- and when spray came over the stern I got the full benefit of it. self to the attention of the Khedive of Egypt. Yet, when on ship- Consequently I got bronchial pneumonia. Also, I think they^for- board bound for the Islands our chaplain, an Anglican clergyman, got where thev parked me—at any rate, they wouldn't come near distributed to the troops a little religious book entitled "Oliver me, nor could I go to them, so I lay there three days and starved Cromwell's Text Book," Jack boxed my ears for taking one, be- and froze and thirsted. cause I was descended from the sort of Irish that shouldn't! He One day I saw a merry eye at a hole {Continued on page 64)

JANUARY, 1927 19 — JORDAN'S An Banks EPISODE 63

7-£HE night was so very dark and still that the glow of their camp-fires a mile away made the Yankees seem nearer than they really were. A horseman ap- proached watchfully up the driveway, and behind the large rock which stood in the yard and was as tall as a horse. There he dis- mounted, crept across the lawn and stepped noiselessly up on the square-columned por- tico of the big farmhouse. His rap was answered by a stout gentleman in a night- shirt. "Father." "Sam!" The boy explained that he owed the Yanks the pleasure of this unexpected call. They were crowding him pretty close. He had left his last hiding place without his boots. Mother bustled after General Dodge something to eat. Father sketched to the young soldier the went for a pair of boots. predicament he was in. A more Sam ate, and throwing complete definition of a spy was himself on a couch, was not contained in the manuals asleep in a minute. Mother picked up the mud-stained overcoat he had flung aside. A Union Army coat ! She took it to Coleman and break up his scouts. Dodge set out with the Six- the kitchen and dyed it gray—only gray does not "take" on blue. teenth Army Corps—about ten thousand men. Then she sat down beside her husband and for the rest of the Captain Coleman and a few of his men were in Nashville at the night watched the face of her sleeping boy. Before daybreak time. Nashville was in Federal hands. One night the spies met they called him. He put on the boots. Mother held up the coat. and put the finishing touches to their labors. They possessed Sam kissed her and glided into the dark. plans of the Nashville fortifications and other items of vast What if mother had forgotten to change the buttons? If interest to General Bragg. captured with the papers he carried the style of his coat would A custom of the scouts was for one man to carry all dangerous have little influence upon the fate of Private Sam Davis, of papers so that in the event of capture there would be no evidence Captain Coleman's scouts. against his comrades. This time Captain Coleman handed the Captain Coleman was General Braxton Bragg's intelligence papers to Private Davis. Sam Davis had just passed his twenty- officer, and he was a good one. The accuracy with which he kept first birthday—a quiet young fellow, very boyish-looking, with his chief posted on the plans of the Federals had won him a light hair, comprehending gray eyes, and a winning smile whether reputation in both armies. He was a tall man with piercing blue fortune went well or adverse. Two years as an infantry private in eyes, a short, chestnut-colored beard and a cavalier air. Before continuous campaign and six months as a Coleman scout had the war he had been a doctor. His real namejwas Shaw, Dr. H. B. little altered the school boy who had enlisted during the first Shaw, but the captain's work was such that he thought it advis- week of the war to perform any task which fell to his lot, without able to conceal his identity even in the Confederate lines. previous promise or later boast. In October of 1863 Grant told General Grenville M. Dodge, Sam tucked the papers in his boots, and after shaking hands who was in Mississippi, to start north, comb the country, capture around, the little band scattered to meet at Bragg's headquarters

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had been delivered to him in a boot. Sam recognized the papers and also the boot, both of which had been taken from him by the Kansas cavalrymen. General Dodge raised his eyes to the boy who stood before him — "a fine, soldierly-looking young man"— these are the Gen- eral's words—"dressed in a faded Federal coat and an army soft hat. He had a fresh, open face, which was inclined to brightness. In all things a true soldier." General Dodge re- ceived Sam amiably and asked him how he had come in possession of these papers. Sam courteously re- plied that that was something he could not tell. General Dodge sketched to Sam the predicament he was in. A Con- federate soldier, one of Coleman's scouts, taken within the Federal lines in Federal uniform with dis- patches to General Bragg. A more complete definition of a spy was not contained in the manuals. Yet the general said he was prepared to offer Sam a chance for life. Captain Cole- man was the wanted man. Possibly Sam knew where his captain could be found. If so, and if he would assist the general's men to find him, the general could promise that Sam's life would be spared. Sam thanked General Dodge for his interest, and then by his silence signified that the interview could terminate at the general's pleasure. The general signed to the guard to take the prisoner away. Sam was escorted back to the jail and turned in with the other people Dodge's men had gathered up—including the tall man with the brown beard who was detained simply on general outside of Chattanooga where a Federal army was bottled up. suspicion. The route to Chattanooga lay, by air line, through one hundred Three days later Sam stood before General Dodge again. miles of hostile territory and directly in the path of Dodge's Motives of policy solely had prompted the corps commander's broomsweep. That explains Sam's unscheduled visit to his home, first offer of clemency, but this was no longer true. The fact re- in Rutherford County, a couple of evenings later. mained, of course, that the capture of Coleman was more im- A few days after that a young man rode down the Lambs Ferry portant than the death of his subordinate, But the Federal Pike. Sam had quit slinking about at night and had taken to the authorities now desired Sam to speak, not so much on account of highways in daytime. It seemed to work. The washed-out ap- the information he could give, but to enable his captors to save pearance of his overcoat had caused no embarrassing investiga- the life of a boy who had won their hearts. All of the officers who tion of the wearer's casual story of a Federal soldier looking for had been sent to talk to Sam—Chaplain James Young, Eighty- his regiment. It was November 17, 1863. Sam ma)' have been first Ohio Infantry, Provost Marshal Armstrong, Captain reflecting that in another day or so, with luck, he should be at Chickasaw, chief of Dodge's scouts, and others—were so taken Bragg's headquarters, when a troop of cavalry galloped into view. with his manner that they instinctively desired to save him, and These Yanks seemed very intent and business-like—different made extra efforts to persuade Sam to provide them with an from the other easy-going Federals Sam had given a friendly hail admissible military excuse for doing so. and passed by. "Davis met me modestly," said General Dodge. "He was a They were Dodge's men—Seventh Kansas Cavalry. The story most admirable young fellow, with the highest character and the of the lost outfit was received with cold and questioning stares. strictest integrity. I tried to impress on him the danger he was The jig was up. in. I made a direct appeal to him to give me the information I Sam was locked in the county jail at Pulaski with twenty or knew he had. I pleaded with him with all the power I possessed thirty other suspicious characters Dodge had rounded up. to give me some chance to save his life. He replied, 'General, I Among these was a tall man with a short, brown beard. His will not tell. You are doing your duty as a soldier, and if I have " sharp blue eyes met those of the new prisoner, but not a shadow to die, I shall be doing my duty.' of recognition passed the countenance of Sam Davis—or of his It was useless. A court-martial sentenced Private Samuel Davis, captain. First Tennessee Infantry, to suffer death by hanging on Friday, Presently a guard came and conducted Sam to the corps head- November 27, 1863. quarters, where an officer sat studying some documents which The 26th was Thanksgiving day. That {Continued on page jq) JANUARY, 1927 21 THE SOCIALISTS story of the lay open; when depression T->HESocialist party in brought unemployment or America has for its and the FUTURE wages stood to fall, the excess background the phe- supply simply hiked west- nomenon which modern ward. Hard times in the East, economists term absolute as much as Marshall's gold wage. Before can under- Will Irwin discovery, caused the rush we By of stand what has happened to '49 to California. But by our Socialists, we must discuss that somewhat formidable term. 1890 there was virtually no more frontier. All the good land had The absolute wage, then, is the workman's pay in relation to the been taken up, all the mineral-bearing districts charted and cost of living'. It is not a question of how much money he re- plotted. Native workmen stayed at home now, while European ceives for his day's work, but how much bread and meat and competitors both skilled and unskilled streamed across the rent he can buy for it—how many necessities and luxuries. Atlantic. The supply began to exceed the demand. Labor was During the fourteen years between in process of becoming the cheapest the beginning of the century and the goods in the market. World War, the absolute wage of As one reviews the economic his- American labor declined steadily. In tory of that period he must endorse iqoq, the average workman had for the slogan spouted forth by many an his pay less bread and meat, fewer orator from many a soap-box and clothes, fewer luxuries, than in 1899. rostrum: "The rich are getting richer In that same period our national and the poor are getting poorer." wealth and productiveness increased Dim recognition of this fact governed steadily. And not only did the man all political movements of the time. at the throttle, the lever or the fur- Roosevelt and Wilson, the two most nace-door fail to collect on that in- famous statesmen of the period, stood crease, but he lost ground. pre-eminently for curbing the undue To give perfect and complete power of wealth, preventing centrali- reasons for this phenomenon would zation of capital. National magazines take an economist more skilled and based their circulation upon "muck- learned than the mere reporter who raking." The public of 1906 or 1908 is writing these lines. But the main grabbed as eagerly at exposes of this reasons are plain enough to anyone or that rich exploiter or corrupter as who observed American life in this does the public of 1926 at popular period. First of all, probably, stands fiction or personal confessions. And the condition and attitude of our finally, in this soil Socialism took root corporations. What Roosevelt or and flourished. some other reformer of his time called The history of radicalism and radi-

' predatory finance" Etalked abroad. cal parties is a tale of squabbles, splits As soon as any great business enter- and schisms. The existing Socialist prise began to return excess dividends, party affords no exception to the rule, someone stepped in and watered the and the story in detail would only stock. Thereafter it became nec- bore the reader. From the day of essary to .^et from the same output Karl Marx we always had some So- paying div 'ends on a larger capi- cialism among us. Marx himself was talization, i.nd the most immediate a correspondent for Horace Greeley's way, as the management of those days New York Tribune, and the short- saw things, was to "hold down labor lived First International, initial at- costs." tempt to organize Socialism on a Further, ownership and control of world-wide scale, was actually founded the corporations which dispensed most in Philadelphia. In its moderate form of our basic necessities rested still in the movement made the most con- the hands of a very few men. Wide sistent progress among the Teu- distribution of capital-ownership has tonic peoples, and the heavy German marked the past decade in America. immigration of the later nineteenth But of that new and astonishing century imported modern Socialism phenomenon no one dreamed in 1905 into America. Milwaukee became or 1 9 10. We thought of our great the party citadel. Later came the corporations in terms of men—Frick Russian wave, bringing a more ex- The late Eugene V. Debs— "even those who would and Carnegie for steel, the Rocke- treme and revolutionary form. These have burned him for his convictions did not fellers for oil, Harriman and Hunting- refugees from Czarism were mostly his sincerity honesty'' ton for railroads, the Armours for impugn and Ghetto Jews who had suffered atro- meat packing. Wealth, in modern cious persecution. The bolder spirits society, means not only the satisfaction of personal wants, among them had conspired to make the only protest possible but power. The human desire for power drove these men under a tyrannical absolute monarchy—assassination. To the as a class to seek inordinate profits, either through swollen divi- rank and file, any capitalist government was the same thing as dends won at the expense of their employees, or through stock- Czarist government. manipulation—-which amounted in the end to the same thing. In a period when the absolute wage was falling, when labor If they realized that liberal wages may pay a corporation better was becoming restless, when every year witnessed its violent over the long pull than niggardly wages, they had no motive to strike, this element gave new fire and purpose to American act on that knowledge. Characteristically, they were not out for Socialism. However, the movement remained by no means the long pull. "Clean up big and clean up quick" might have foreign. It gathered considerable following among Americans of stood for their motto. the old blood, especially the so-called "intellectuals." During its Unrestricted immigration tended to deliver labor into their most successful period, the majority of its leaders were 'native- hands. Up to the nineties of the last century, the alien influx born. In artistic circles the doctrine became almost fashionable. had little effect on the wages of native labor. The frontier still Holding together for once, the Socialist party created a tight

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A group of immigrants just off the ship in the pre-war era of the wide-open gates. "Up to the nineties the alien ' influx had little effect on the wages of native labor

party organization. Most Americans call themselves either Re- ward into American life, the foreign-born element of the party publicans or Democrats. But we are not "members" of the flourished in the rear, languished in the van. Between 1904 and party in the Socialist sense; we have taken no solemn obligations. iqo6 I served as a newspaper reporter on the East Side of New But he who entered this inner ring of the movement gave up York. There, in election time, the Socialists used to hold out-of- his liberty of political action. On his initiation he signed a pledge doors rallies. A window in the office of Abraham Cahan's which obliged him to vote only the un- Vorwarts or a convenient fire-escape scratched Socialist ticket, to pay dues, served for a rostrum. The crowd filled in other ways to take part in a program. not only the space between corners of Wherever any town or city had ten or the streets, but extended for blocks in a dozen party members, they formed a all four directions. Though not one-tenth "local"—a kind of a lodge which met of them could hear the speaker's voice, every week for discussion of general they cheered his gestures madly, waved Socialist principles and of immediate their red flags frantically. It looked tactics. like a popular uprising, a revolution. When election day is past, all mere Then would come election day—and voters of the established parties, and Tammany would return its normal most politicians, rest from their labors Democratic majority. Not for years and their neighbors. Not so the So- did any of these districts so much as cialists. On the second Wednesday in send a Socialist assemblyman to the November their soap-box orators har- State Legislature. For these demon- ried the capitalist system as enthusi- strators were unnaturalized newcomers. astically as on the first Monday. Week By the time Isadore or Stanislaus or in and week out, their colporteurs dis- Fritz applied for his final papers, he tributed Socialist books, pamphlets, had invested in a push cart or mounted manifestoes, among the workers of our up a savings bank account, and he had industrial centres. Sternly opposed to begun to see something in the theory of the capitalist system, nevertheless the private property. "We know just how party accumulated capital. A rich much rope to give 'em," said a Tam- widow endowed the Rand School in many leader. Tammany merely watched New York as a center for education and and waited until they were ripe; and, as research. There followed in time the they walked out of the court-room Garland fund, to be applied for the American citizens, picked and boxed cause as needed. Socialistic journalism them. flourished. Besides a dozen dailies But still the Socialist party retained printed in foreign tongues, the party enough of the foreign born, accumu- had at command three fairly strong lated enough of the native-born, to English-language dailies—the Chicago make consistent progress. Early in Daily Socialist, the New York Call, and the century it had the fortune to find the Milwaukee Leader. In New York a leader. The late Eugene Debs, owing group of the younger intellectuals Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, first Socialist to his activity in the great railroad founded the Masses, a magazine strike of the nineties, already passed much elected to Congress, and still a member of that more clever technically than the with labor as a hero. A lovable and body. He is also editor of the MilivaukeeLeader, country realized at the time. Its car- steadfast man was this Debs, and even the world's only Socialist daily newspaper toons by Bellows, Sloan, Robinson, those who would have burned him for Young and others have given its early his convictions did not impugn his files a premium value among book collectors in this country sincerity and honesty. Especially was he a pleasing and force ul As new waves of immigration pushed the earlier arrivals for speaker. Allan L. Benson was the candidate for President in

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1916; in other national campaigns Debs headed the ticket. And applied, it might have lost the war for the Allies. Now much of the popular vote showed the steady progress of the movement. the membership and more of the leadership was German by In 1900 it was 94,000; it advanced in 1904 to 402,000, held its birth. The strong Irish element hated England to the marrow of own in 1908 at 420,000, jumped again in 191 2 to 897,000. Further, the bone. The Russian and Polish Jews looked on Czarist Russia in the year last-named the independent Socialist Labor Party as the very symbol of murderous tyranny. As time went on, these polled 29,000 votes. elements invented a reason for the faith that was in them. That year saw the high tide of the movement. One voter in Kaiserism, they -said, had created in Germany the machinery of fifteen had gone Socialist, and under somewhat adverse circum- Socialism. Already the state owned most public utilities, in- stances. For the country was prosperous; hard times cut no cluding the railroads, regulated all industry to an extent and with figure in the result. From 1900 to 1908 the Socialists had always an intelligence elsewhere unknown. The German Social Demo- counted on a scattering support from progressive elements dis- crat party had a membership so large that only the law of the gusted with the old parties—a vote of protest. But in this very plural franchise prevented them from taking over the govern- year of 191 2 Roosevelt conducted a powerful Progressive cam- ment. Once let the people rule Germany—and Socialism had paign which even drew some of the waverers away from Debs. virtually arrived. German victory, therefore, rather than Allied Already the Socialist party had seated members in Congress, victory, would best serve the cause of international Socialism. including the perennial Berger of Wisconsin. Socialist assem- A strong and intelligent minority dissented with this view. blymen began to appear in the legislatures of all our industrial Political liberty, they held, was the cornerstone of Socialism. States. Several cities, like Milwaukee and Schenectady, had Germany stood for restricted franchise, control by a consecrated elected Socialist mayors. When Roosevelt Progressivism faded governing class, monarchy, extreme nationalism—the whole back into the Republican party, it seemed that organized Social- reactionary program. The true interests of democracy and there- ism had a future in this country. At intervals all through our fore of Socialism lay in the hands of the Allies. Before the lines history we have known radical minority parties—like the Popu- had locked on the Western Front, several leading Socialists, in- list—which raged for an election or so and faded out. But here cluding John Spargo, William Ghent and William English Wall- was a minority party which had held together and grown mightily ing, had signed a manifesto to this effect. Though these men and during four consecutive national elections. It seemed to many their followers did not at once withdraw from the party, they judicious radicals that as we expanded toward tight industrial held themselves apart from its active operations. conditions, European political history must repeat itself among With its pro-Ally and pro-war faction quiescent, the party be- us. The party might form a permanent minority. Conceivably came at once more pacifist, and in practical effect more pro- it might in time modify its platform when it approached power German. The social program which it had been dinning into the just as the European Socialist factions have done—and absorb or ears of America for twenty years became subservient to its anti- displace one of the older parties. State elections in 1913 showed war propaganda. Prevailingly, the country favored the Allies, that it was still making progress. and during the two years of our neutrality we were lashing our- The Great War shattered that dream. selves up to war-fever. Time was when the average citizen re- Pure Socialism implies the international spirit. The somewhat garded with interest or at worst with amused tolerance the hazy party platforms had been definite on one point—denunci- Socialist orator on the soap box. Now the apostles of the party ation of capitalist wars. With the first guns of Liege, American began to encounter hard words and bricks. The half-hearted fell Socialists were calling on the United States to remain neutral in away, but at this touch of persecution the leaders and enthusi- thought, word and deed; the convention of 1914 adopted strong asts grew even more zealous. The convention of 19 16 branded as resolutions against this "war of predatory governments." Though traitors those European Socialist parties which supported their our Socialists were internationalists in theory, in practice na- own nations in the war. However, the national election of that tionalism colored their emotions. Strict neutrality, as they in- autumn showed that the party was hard hit. Allan L. Benson, terpreted the term, meant an embargo on munitions shipments for once relieving Debs as presidential candidate, polled only to Europe. Such a policy, of course, favored Germany. Strictly 685,000 votes. While many Socialists scratched the ticket for

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly W ilson "because he has kept us out of the war," the with- drawal of pro-Ally Socialists^ the prosperity of the American workman, and popular distaste for any extreme pacifist pro- gram furnish the main causes for this decline. We declared war on Germany. At once, the pro-Ally mem- bers broke with the party. Allan Benson, but six months be- fore Socialist candidate for President, led out of the fold another element which believed that the best morals or the best policy dictated support of the Government even in a declaration of war. But the men and women who had been shouting down the war, denouncing European Socialists as traitors to the cause, could not with decency and self-respect withdraw from their position. By a mail referendum, the party voted to oppose the war. Orators of the movement such as Debs and Rose Pastor Stokes continued to attack from the platform "this capitalist orgy of murder." For a time nothing happened except a few riots. Then in the autumn of 1917 the Government, spurred to action mainly by the I. W. W. activities on the Pacific Coast, awoke to stern action against all radicals. Secret Service operatives raided Socialist headquarters in the big cities, and the Rand School in New York. Debs, Berger, Mrs. Stokes, a dozen other party leaders were arrested and indicted, charged with obstructing the draft. A few months later the Government struck again. Exercising its arbitrary power of censorship, the Post Office Department stopped the mailing of all radical publications. For the two or three years during which this order lasted, a Socialist editor could not receive a letter, could not send his publication out of town, could not, practically, solicit "foreign" advertising. Until the end of the war American Socialism dropped into a mood of sullen quiescence. Meantime, as we all know, Russia had changed the face of our modern world. A form of Socialism extreme in doctrine and violent in method had succeeded Czarism. I have told already in this series what happened after the war. The party had been driving a mixed team of out-and-out revolutionaries and con- stitutional Socialists, of men who stood for barricades and bullets as a means of transforming the world and men who would stick to political action. For years the leaders had been forced to wobble between the two factions, the con- stitutionalists in their speeches and pronouncements throwing crumbs of comfort to the revolution- aries, and vice versa. But Bolshevik Russia and the Third International had behind them the pres- Rose Pastor Stokes, who, like Debs, tige of success, and they tolerated no continued to attack the war after one compromise. Whoever stopped short wing the Socialist -party had be- of violent, armed revolution, the of dictatorship of the proletariat, the in- come pro-Ally ternational Communist state, stood ranged with the capitalist enemy. Debs. He received 919,000 votes. study of the resolutions intro- A And on the surface it seemed as duced and adopted by the con- though Socialism had suffered but vention of ioio might lead the little from the strokes of its ad- reader to suppose that American versaries during the war. A total Socialism compromised. It did, of 919,000 votes under woman on the surface. But as often suffrage is not so good, of course, happens, the real decision was as one of 897,000 under strictly taken in the lobbies. The party male suffrage. Yet notoriously remained constitutional. The ex- the Socialist ticket attracted very tremists and revolutionaries, even- few woman voters, and further the tually henceforth to be called Com- Farmer-Labor party, with a pass- munists, withdrew from the party ably radical platform, drew away or were expelled from the party. many Westerners who had hitherto However, the crack did not become voted Socialist. On the other hand, a definite split until after the election many non-Socialist citizens, especially of 1920. In that year the party nomi- among the German element, Voted for nated Eugene V. Debs, then a prisoner in Debs the prisoner as a protest against the Atlanta Penitentiary, for President. An war prosecutions. incomparable leader for such a movement, Then Debs declared himself. He would both factions wanted him. With many other have no dealings with Russia; he stood for a Socialists of the moderate faction, he had Socialist party purged of Communism, and been swept temporarily off his feet by the John Spargo, who with several other for political methods. This completed the apparent success of the violent revolution split. The Communists formed the Workers' American Socialists signed a mani- in Russia. In the orations which had pre- Party, and to this day they hate a Socialist festo declaring that the true interests of ceded his arrest he had endorsed the Bolshe- far worse than a capitalist. Two years ago democracy and therefore Socialism viki. There were signs, however, that he had of the Grand Duchess Cyril invaded the lay in the taken second thought and swung back to- hands of the Allies United States, presumably to advance her ward the constitutional faction. His mouth husband's intrigue for the Russian throne. was sealed by his imprisonment; none knew whether he would go A general in her suite made a rapid tour of the country, address- Bolshevik or remain merely Socialist. The Communists stood ing both native and Russian-born audiences on the horrors of by in hopes of capturing so rich a prize, and campaigned for Communism and the blessings of (Continued on page 83) JANUARY, 1927 25 93ic ILLUSION ^/CHANGE

/** X^OW do we mean tyy Meredith Nicholsonu Changes ! Changes of enormous M m change? What are importance were giving new di- m ~t the changes com- Decoration by F.E.Warren rection to American thought and

CLx . M plained of nowadays aspiration. Even while the civil and who are responsible for them? conflict had pursued its melancholy It is forced upon the attention of the men and women 01 America course in America, across the seas new influences of immeasurable that the changes are serious and threaten the very foundations consequence were taking wing. Knowledge had thrust aside old of the Republic. Press and pulpit contribute their share to the beliefs that had for centuries been accepted as truth. Charles agitation; persons whose motives are unquestionably the highest Darwin's "The Origin of Species," published in 1859, was chang- utter in public places denunciations of conditions and tendencies ing the old currents of philosophy. Thousands of books long held which, they no doubt honestly believe, presage disaster. The in reverence were thrown to the discard or retained only because pile of pessimistic literature that has accumulated on our shores of their quaintness. The significance of the new names that were since the Great War begins to cast a long shadow. Now and extending the frontiers of knowledge reached across the Atlantic then some optimist gathers courage to deny these utterances of —Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, Tyndall—many foreboding and despair. Even our youth have a friend here and and insistent were the voices. Art and literature, after their own there who rally to their defense and propose three cheers for the fashion, were yielding to the spirit of change. Tennyson sang of

boys and girls of America ; but these manifestations hardly drown "one increasing purpose" apparent through the ages. He the rising tide of pessimism. All the forces for good are, it would heralded the new woman in "The Princess." The new woman seem, crippled by sinister powers. We hear daily that things are herself became manifest in the person of "George Eliot. " Brown- not what they used to be; therefore things must be bad. ing, William Morris, John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle opened Here are matters that invite discussion. If America is headed new vistas of truth and beauty. for the bottomless pit, those of us who feel our chests expand at the playing of the national anthem should take note of the wail- ing in the market-place and get busy. Let's sit by the fire and TT IS the fashion nowadays to speak contemptuously of the consider a few of the phenomena that are said to be so significant -- Victorian period, but it was verily a time of tremendous ad- of a jazzy recessional of our .people toward perdition. vances—of breaking chains and the prying open of sealed doors. First of all, change in itself is not a bad thing. It is a stupid Through their thick spectacles German scholars dissecting the commonplace to say that without change the human race would Bible narratives had caused a stirring in England. Nothing could still be living in caves. We all brag of our Progress—a great be more absurd than a pretension that the war for world-mastery word that! Where the pessimist's voice grows strident is at begun by the Kaiser precipitated these recent rather foolish and points where the motion isn't in directions that please his own profitless discussions between Modernists and Fundamentalists. ideas. I had a friend who preferred to read by candle-light. He Dogmatism was receiving hard and telling blows in the '8o's. maintained in his library a candelabrum with twenty branches Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Robert Elsmere," appearing in 1888, and, attired impeccably in evening clothes, he read the classics gave popular form to the new questions of religious doubt. Few with serene delight. He was unable to see that there was any- novels have ever created so widespread a storm as that novel, thing amusing in the fact that a considerable portion of the in- now all but forgotten. It wasn't that the Bible was to be dis- come that made it possible for him to indulge his whims was de- carded but that it was to be viewed in the light of reason. Or, as rived from an electric power company. Most of us accept grate- Matthew Arnold, one of the most provocative of those who fully all the services of electricity. The horse -lover who declared participated in the discussion, indicated in the sub-title of his his readiness to die before he would use an automobile soon "Literature and Dogma," the purpose was to assist "toward a wearied of his pose. Resistance to progress is rather foolish better apprehension of the Bible." The trial of the school-teacher unless one covets the distinction of eccentricity. at Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 for teaching Evolution marked only a feeble lapping on the shore of the wave that had flung itself across the sea forty years earlier. The fact is that barring I DECLINE to subscribe to the assertion so constantly made the uncovering of some long-lost tablet by archaeologists, we that the shock and disturbance of the greatest of wars precipi- probably know now all that we shall ever know as to Christian tated conditions which many sincerely believe threaten the whole origins. Those who find delight in controversy will no doubt con- fabric of civilization. But as it seems necessary to fix a time tinue their battles; but such matters serve no purpose beyond from which to date the beginning of some of these changes so many giving the participants a show at the first pages of the newspapers. deplore I will move it back to April 9, 1865, when Grant and My point is that the World War had nothing whatever to do Lee met at Appomattox and ended the War between the States. with what is complained of as a growing coldness toward the After the first bewilderment over the coming of a peace so long churches. The greatest changes in thought and aspiration the despaired of America struck off with a new and bolder stride. world has ever known began indeed back yonder when Evolution Within an amazingly short time industry revived with fiery was first capitalized in the literature of discovery and speculation. energy. The movement of population westward was resumed. To the contentious who enjoy warring over questions of faith it So highly exhilarated was business that the boom suffered a might be whispered that what Jesus himself declared to be es- serious check in the panic of 1873, but the interruption to devel- sential to the winning of eternal life is quite simple, and even the opment and expansion was only temporary. The minds of men pecking and hammering of the most erudite and creditable concentrated as never before upon money-making. American critics has not changed it. There is nothing in the life or the genius showed its hand in many startling inventions, and these teachings of Jesus to justify the belief that He would be gratified in turn precipitated a series of social and economic revolutions. to find His preaching and His sublime example fought over or Labor became a factor which received serious consideration. made an excuse for hatred and oppression. A new vocabulary was necessary to express the pride in size, If preaching were my business I should not be trapped into numbers and wealth. Bigness began to take form as a gospel. defending Christianity, or obscuring its beauty and value to The concentration of wealth in great fortunes began to arouse mankind in senseless discussions of non-essentials. I should, apprehension and hostility. That something finely spiritual that I think, seek the higher ground that a spirit of incomprehensible had characterized the North's years of protest against slavery power, patient and benignant, is really laboring to make the and its extension, flowering in the sacrifice of war, began to lose world a better place; using man as an instrumentality; guiding its vitality. The malevolence with which many political leaders him toward the truth in which alone there is freedom and peace. sought to add to the humiliation of the impoverished South was Amid all the momentous changes that we are witnessing there an insult to the memory of the dead Lincoln. Those of us whose is one in which the pessimist might find much comfort if he would fathers fought for the Union may not read the history of the cease from troubling himself about petty things. We are, it reconstruction period without shame. The men and women who would seem, escaping from the thraldom of hypocrisy. In poli- had pitched their opposition to slavery in so high a key— Phillips, tics, religion, morals—in everything that touches the common Emerson, Lowell, Whittier, Julia Ward Howe—were lost sight of life, we are emerging into the sunlight. I remember very well of in the struggle for political and dollar power. hiding under a chair a novel I was reading one afternoon in my

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bolder stride . . . American genius shoived its han I in many startling inventions, and these in turn precipitated a series of soci, (I and economic revolutions boyhood when the minister was announced, from a sense that the ship was governed by fear. On an occasion I visited some rela- reading of novels was immoral. To be caught reading a novel! tives in the country and heard the women of the household By a minister! A damning circumstance that threw my young whispering to my grandmother about a girl in the neighborhood soul into a panic. I recall the shudder that ran through Indian- who had sinned grievously. The tone was one of furious moral apolis when the "Black Crook" shamelessly announced its com- repulsion, and the dismissal into everlasting darkness of the ing on the bill boards. It was a leg show—in tights—of course. sinner. Leg was a forbidden word, used only by the vulgar. Always it Religion in my early years meant gloom. Everybody was must be a limb that was sprained or broken, even at the risk of going to die; there was great "merit in death, for only through ambiguity. We were easily shocked in those days because in death could one attain the highest happiness. Sunday school being shocked—blushing, appearing self-conscious—there was was rather jolly, for I saw there such of my boy comrades as supposed to lie a virtue. The concealment from the young of the were enjoying a Christian upbringing; but I went to church per- truth about sex resulted in vast mischief. The parental relation- force and often to prayer meeting and {Continued on page 82

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| topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreatfWar; to inculcate asense ofindividual obligation to the com-

| munity,state andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; topromote

1 peace andgood willon earth; to safeguardand iransmit io posterity the principles ofjustice,Jreedom and democracy; to conse- \ | crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion.

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I A Creed for 1921 Mr. Nakamura, according to press accounts, "said California I r~*~\r\ /stu-p i i r i that the hearty welcome given his party in HPO GIVE honest work for an honest wage; to had d a s ise even to himself There was m Ur S debtS 5 may h a CW Pay incident, and, although of the boys had I u t u t j no many before hardf feelings7 are Iborn and,\hard^ wordsft^follow; been doubtful about their reception in America, they 1 to measure every man on his merits regardless of had aU returned irnp reSsed with the friendliness of 1 the church he goes to or the emblem he votes under Americans . Twenty-five homes in Berkeley were a (bu respecting him a little less if he does not vote d tQ the b who had an opportunity t0 view 1 at all); to unleash anger only when oppression and American home life. Some boys who lost their way injustice and public or private dishonesty cry out were much leased when an Amer i Can, unable to that it be let loose; to believe in America, as the make them understand his directions, took them all 1 forefathers believed in it, as the noblest experiment the home Xhe t had at least two invita. ever undertaken by man, and to labor to keep it as 1 tions tQ dinners and luncheons every day they spent they would have it kept; to accept the Golden Rule " 1 m tbe xjnited States as a principle that works both ways— A few weeks of si ghtseeing by one hundred and J Happy New Year. [ H twenty eager-eyed students may not go far toward ( 3 1 solving the Japanese problem, but no great harm is t

I E PlurtbttS Unutn done the cause of international amity when they fin d that kindness courtesy and good will are virtues 1 7-HATEVER and whoever inspired the Penn- \\ nott unknown in the United States. 1 W sylvania Department of The American Legion 1 to mass one hundred and thirty-six American flags at I the head of its delegation in the parade at the Phila- Are You Air-Minded?

1 delphia National Convention last October matters „ . , , , , r ^ TT T7 , * *u • * • iu t iu tu- j rp | HE story is told of the Yankee farmer who \

! . . . ,. m not—the point is that the thing was done, lo say * r , ^ c , , , •, Es 1 inted t0 French-Canadian farm-hand busily 1 that the display was the most effective spectacle that P°, \ p at work in a otato patch and remarked See that 1 ever marked a Legion oarade—and everv Leeion P ' i - - / u feller there? Well, he calls a hat a chapeau, the 1 parade is a surpassing spectacle—is not enough. Ider n f 1'" ' ! There was a touch of genius in the idea. One ^°^, • i i u v u * t . *u i • • That there should exist on the earth a language 1 a a v *-x i * u i 66 1 American flag is beautiful, two are more beautiful, . , • , , , t ' • 1 , , ;P , , .,. . • „ , ' his a language in which the common "other than own— 6 1 and one hundred and thirty-six3 are—well, the mathe- . , ,., „ , \ ., 1 . , , things of life were called by other names than those to hich h W ^customed-seemed fantastic and 1 ^AnyVay^lmS past history. What about Paris? , ^ H ^ ff oudandish to the Yankee farmer. g 3 1 Paris is not userj to American-plan parades. Paris There are X of Sood citizens who still think 1 is certain to be dazzled and delighted-just as were , ? he airplane is f\fantastic and outlandish. A brilliant 1 Philadelphia, Omaha, St. Paul, San Francisco, New * mstance of the operation of human ingenuity, yes- 1 Orleans, Kansas City, Cleveland, Minneapolis-all but a practical method of transportation anything 1 of them cities which ought to be familiar with pro- 1 A „ > „ more than an interesting6 and rather delicate toy?3 1 cessions a 1 americame. TT T , , . „ , „ . , , Hardly- Land and water w.ll do very well to travel 1 Why not give Paris something extra next Septem- ove thank to breathe. 1 ber? Why not five hundred Stars and Stripes in /> V™-™ » Supporters of aviation—men who, speaking in 1 one great colorful mass? Why not a thousand? terms of transportation, think it perfectly permissible j j . , ^. . „ , to call a hat a chapeau—will tell you that such I A Gooa Lime Was tiaa persons are not air-minded. A generation or two [ /^NE hundred and twenty Japanese students ago, as Meredith Nicholson points out elsewhere in j V_y came to the United States a few weeks ago on this issue, these same citizens were not electrically- j j 1 a visit. From published accounts of their impres- minded, not gasoline-minded. Eventually they

swung around. Eventually they will be air-minded. i j sions of America and American hospitality one 1 gathers that war between Japan and the United Until they are, the cause of aviation will suffer more | this psychological handicap than all 1 States is not likely to break out within the next two from from the p 3 1 or three days. physical hazards that air can hold. 1 The students—youths in their late teens—were Every airplane flying prosaically about its busi- 1 piloted by Kaju Nakamura, a member of the lower ness is a missionary in the cause of the new trans- % house of the Diet, who now wants a reciprocal plan portation. Keep them flying! The more they are 1 perfected whereby American youths can visit Japan in the air, the greater will become public familiarity I during their summer vacation. with them. And while familiarity may breed

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THE ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION

contempt, it also breeds a highly comfortable and, in cern with the continuing events of the War of the this case, beneficial feeling of being used to things Revolution when that war had settled down to a of accepting the airplane as one of the great factors death struggle. America entered another supreme of common life. struggle for liberty on April 6, 1917, and the tenth anniversary of that occasion will merit—and receive —nation-wide attention. That Debt to Lafayette In 1777 as in 1917, the eyes of America were on THE era of anniversaries is still with us. While France. The Battle of Saratoga must always rank, 1927 will not witness the sesqui-centennial of along with Waterloo and Gettysburg and the Marne, anything so important as the signing of the Declara- as one of the decisive battles of the world. Its out- tion of Independence, it will celebrate the birthday come—an unquestioned American victory—brought of at least one event without which the Declaration French intervention, made the name of Lafayette of Independence might have come down to us as a almost as familiar as that of Washington. noble pronouncement which never had a chance to Did France win the Revolution for America? Did be put into practice. That event was the Battle of America win the World War for France? Saratoga. Does it matter? Is it not enough that, in a And just as 1925 and 1926 ushered in a whole supreme crisis, each came to the aid of the other to series of great anniversary events, so will 1927 in- strike a telling blow in the ages-old war for human augurate its own special cycle, apart from its con- freedom?

JANUARY, 1927 29 In thtfWAKE By George Whipple Dobbs

FIFTY-mile-an-hour wind y § sang through the stanchions f m of the roof garden of the S JL clubhouse of Harvey W. Seeds Post of The American Legion in Miami, Florida. It was eleven o'clock at night, and several hundred Legionnaires and members of the Auxiliary were dancing in Miami's first Mardi Gras, an entertain- men t given on the roof garden by the post to raise funds with which to send the post's drum and bugle corps to the Legion's National Convention at Philadelphia. At first nobody had minded the wind. But gradually it had become stronger. When the wind swept in from Biscayne Bay so fiercely that dancers had to use yachting maneuvers to get about in it everybody concluded it was time to stop dancing. Somebody telephoned to the weather bureau. The bureau reported that a tropical storm, a hurricane, was booming Miami bore the brunt of the great storm of September 18th, the story of over the the city ocean toward and would ivhich is familiar throughout America. It is not so widely known that strike it before daylight. Hurricanes come Harvey W . Seeds Tost of the Legion was immediately on the job, sweeping now and then to Florida. There was noth- three inches of water out of its clubhouse to it for a hospital ing particularly alarming in the news the fit weather bureau gave. It was a good idea to be safe at home when a hurricane broke, and nobody ordinarily cared for in the post hospital before sundown of Saturday. Two would wish to travel about when one was raging. There is thcusand other refugees, most of them persons whose homes had always the danger of being struck by flying signs and other hzzn blown down or rendered uninhabitable by the storm, were things dislodged by the storm. Other- given warm meals in the assembly hall of the clubhouse which wise, hurricanes are just storms had been turned into a mess hall. Members of the Auxiliary that are taken very much as a helped Legionnaires prepare these meals. matter of course. Harvey W. Seeds Post's clubhouse was the first and the So the members of most important relief center opened in Miami immediately Harvey W. Seeds Post, after the storm, and the Legionnaires of Miami, rallying their wives and in the first hours after the hurricane, added another mothers and daugh- exalted example to the Legion's record of relief in ters and friends, time of disaster. went home. They And just as Harvey W. Seeds Post at Miami, told one another the storm's center, exemplified the Legion's finest they would come traditions, so did every post in Florida, in greater back to the roof or less degree, perform swiftly after the hurricane garden the next the duties belonging to it under the laws of evening, the final humanity and the code of the Legion. evening of the The full story of the hurricane has been told carnival. The and retold so often that it is not necessary to clubhouse lights describe again what happened when the storm were turned out. burst upon a hundred-mile stretch of the coast of The doors were East Florida. The newspapers, the pictorial maga- locked. zines, the topical reviews of the motion picture It was not much theaters all have portrayed the disaster in its general after midnight when the aspects. The death list of more than five hundred, the clubhouse stood dark and property damage of more than a hundred million dollars silent. Incidentally it was tell of the storm's fury. Tales of suffering and hardship and the midnight that separated heroism emphasize the extent of the disaster. Friday, September 17, from While Miami was the center of destruction on the seacoast, the Saturday, September 18, Resurrecting a sedan that took storm, sweeping inland, raged with full force over Lake Okee- 1926. refuge under extreme -pressure chobee and utterly destroyed the town of Moore Haven on the of were doing Twelve hours later the in a cellar shore of the lake. While the Legionnaires Miami clubhouse of Harvey W. what they could to help their fellow citizens and in their efforts Seeds Post was a hospital. In its big rooms were row after row were receiving help from relief expeditions of Legionnaires from of cots on which lay the cut and bruised and bone-shattered sur- dozens of other posts, at Moore Haven other Legion relief ex- vivors of the worst hurricane the United States has ever known. peditions were advancing over flooded roads and railroad tracks More than four hundred patients, victims of the storm, were to save the inhabitants who had not drowned when the waters of

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house as hospital and relief station. Luckily, the post had in storage several hundred cots which it had used in equip- ping the tent city it established last year to care for visiting Legionnaires and other service men who were unable to find suit- able shelter in Miami during the winter boom period. These cots, with blankets and other equipment, were brought forth and set up in the halls of the clubhouse. The police department and the under- takers who operated ambulances brought patients to the Legion hospital wards as fast as cots could be made ready. More than one hundred members of Harvey W. Seeds Post's unit of The American Legion Auxiliary appeared as volunteers to serve- as nurses and to help prepare meals for the refugees. With the physicians and regis- tered nurses who were members of the post and those who volunteered to serve although not Legionnaires, enough workers were enlisted to permit division into two shifts of twelve hours each. This, the second day after the storm. The first day after the storm everybody worked twenty-four hours without sleep- ing. For five days and five nights new cases were brought to the Legion's The Miami waterfront after the big blow. Miami clubhouse hospital. As Legionnaires treated more than two thousand sufferers rapidly as possible pa- in their clubhouse hospital. In oval, Mrs. G. M. tients whose injuries Duncan, President the local unit The of of American had been attended to Legion Auxiliary, holding a three-day-old baby were transferred to that was born in the Legion hospital private homes or hotels, which hr.d Lake Okeechobee were overwhelming the town. been equipped to Department Commander William Steitz, of Lake- receive them, so land, headed the department efforts about Moore that the Legion Haven and Lake Okeechobee, while Department clubhouse in the Adjutant C. Howard Rowton, of Palatka, placed later period of its himself at the disposal of the post of Miami, after operation was con- sending out a call for help to all the posts in the State. ducted much as a The mobilization of Harvey W. Seeds Post after the casualty clearing sta- hurricane provides an example which any Legion post, tion. confronted by a similar emergency, could follow. No The hospital was con- Legionnaire in Miami needed to be called upon for service ducted until October 2d. when the storm ceased. Every post member knew that if he It gave bed care to more were able-bodied and if his own family did not need his im than one thousand persons mediate help his place was at the clubhouse. and medical and surgical The clubhouse, a two-story building of brick, distinctive be- treatment to one thousand ad- cause of its facades of arched windows, had not been damaged ditional patients. It also gave much by the hurricane. But, like practically all other buildings first aid to two thousand and admin- along the bay and the ocean, it had been invaded by the flood istered serum for the prevention of typhoid to seven thousand. waters. In its hospital work, as in its other relief activities, Harvey W. While the wind blew, efforts for rescue or relief were hopeless. Seeds Post worked in conjunction with the American Red Cross. Miamians stayed all Saturday morning in whatever shelter they An example of the co-operation was in the distribution of food. had been able to find while the tempest raged unabated—with The serving of hot meals to refugees on the day the storm ended the sound of a thousand locomotives thundering in unison along was followed by the distribution of food to some 1,395 families invisible tracks. Metal fragments of roofs, jagged pieces of the first week after the storm. The post received from the Red window glass, shattered timbers filled the air—deadly missiles Cross ten cars of canned goods, sugar and coffee, five cars of bread, hurtled by a wind blowing one hundred and forty miles an hour. ten cars of potatoes, onions, cabbages and crackers and one boat- Being under cover in Miami on that Saturday morning was like load of assorted groceries from northern ports. Through the sub- being in a trench or dugout in battle with machine-gun and rifle stations it established the post distributed more than 40,000 fire sweeping over the tops of the sandbags. Hours of cringing loaves of bread, 10,000 pounds of potatoes, 14,000 cans of coffee, in wrecked houses or behind fallen trunks of trees brought 10,000 pounds of sugar, 500 cases of canned fruits and 5,000 cases shattered nerves to thousands. When the wind died down many of canned meats. Past Post Commander C. H. Reeder had of the nerve-shattered came forth trembling and pitiful, inca- charge of tne post's distribution of food. pable of helping themselves. The operation of the hospital and the distribution of food did The Legionnaires who gathered at the clubhouse when the wind not attract as much public attention, possibly, as the service of abated—many of them wearing bathing suits—first swept three Miami Legionnaires as special guards. Chief of Police H. Leslie inches of water from the floors, then began equipping the club- Quigg accepted the offer of the post to provide men needed for

JANUARY, 1927 3i A corner of the clubhouse of Harvey W. Seeds Post, converted overnight from a dance hall to a hospital. The hospital was conducted until October zd—two tueeks after the storm. More than one hundred members of the post' s Auxiliary unit helped the Legionnaires

".entry duty. Five o'clock on the day the storm ended found knows of the splendid record that the Miami corps made there. ixty-five members of the Department of Florida Drum and Commander R. V. Waters and Adjutant Joe Frank naturally Bugle Corps—a Miami outfit primarily—on patrol. They wore had to do a tremendous lot of work personally in getting Harvey their blue uniforms, with Sam Browne belts, and white enameled W. Seeds Post's relief program started. Other Legionnaires got trench helmets. They served under Police Lieuten- important assignments in the organization of the ant William J. McCarthy, himself a Legion Citizens Relief Committee. This committee, naire. Most of them served continuously for authorized by the mayor of Miami, em- seventy-two hours. Legion automobiles braced twenty-five sub-committees, each carried coffee and sandwiches to the of which was charged with the re- guards. In many cases Legionnaires sponsibility of administering a were paired with members of the branch of the relief work. Ninety regular police force. percent of the chairmen of the Conspicuous in their special sub-committees were Legion- uniforms, the Legionnaires won naires. Pierre Robineau, Past praise by the tact and skill Post Commander of Harvey with which they handled W. Seeds Post, was made crowds. It is recorded that General Chairman. Later, not a single Legionnaire had when the work of the com- to fire a shot in performance mittees was taken over by of his duty—this despite the the Red Cross, a number of fact that a great many per- the Legionnaire chairmen sons acting suspiciously were continued their work for that escorted outside the limits of organization. Past Com- the guarded zone. mander A. J. Cleary, for ex- Sixteen uniformed members ample, headed the committee of the drum and bugle corps which issued requisitions for served as a mounted patrol for a building material. week after the storm, riding through Harvey W. Seeds Post supplied the streets of outlying districts from clothing to more than five thousand sundown to sunrise. The horses for tl storm refugees. Merchants of Miami patrol were supplied without charge donated much of the clothing from their Legionnaire James F. Vaughan, who con- stocks which had been damaged by water. ducts a riding academy. Other clothing came from Legion posts and The drum and bugle corps immediately Auxiliary units in all parts of Florida. The Legion supply depot after the storm turned into the post's relief The at Fort clothing, collected in Florida communities fund the entire sum it had accumulated for Lauderdale, ready with food for outside the storm zone, was rushed not only the payment of its expenses in attending the needy humans and roofsfor distressed to Miami but also to the other hurricane- Legion's National Convention at Philadelphia. houses stricken cities. A week later, however, the post's executive Florida posts outside the storm belt sent committee voted that the post as a whole should send the corps money as well as clothing to help the stricken cities. Although to Philadelphia. Everybody who attended the convention most posts added their own contributions to other funds raised in

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Miami Legionnaires trans-porting a hurricane victim from a damaged building to their hospital, hi addition to the two thousand patients who received medical and surgical aid from the Legion, two thousand others were given first-aid treatment and seven thousand anti-typhoid serum treatment their communities, principally under the auspices of the Red which answered inquiries from all parts of the United States. Cross, more than $7,000 in cash was forwarded to Department Legionnaires of Leslie Collier Post of Sebring carried the first Headquarters of the Legion within the week after the storm. relief from the outside world to the lake-flooded town of Moore The money was sent in response to a telegraphic appeal by Haven. "Moore Haven is flooded and a hundred people have Department Commander Steitz and Department Adju- been drowned. Turn out the Legion!" This was the tant Rowton. word that went through Sebring at midnight after Contributions also came from many pc a courier had brought word of the Moore outside Florida. Hollywood (California ~aven disaster. Within thirty minutes Post sent $500 immediately after the of the first call, thirty Sebring Legion- storm. In sending a check for $100, naires had assembled ready to board Adjutant Joseph C.Rogers of Paul relief train for Moore Haven. The Stout Post, Murphysboro, Illinois, hurricane was still blowing, heavy commented: "I lost my sister in rain was falling, trees were down the tornado of 1925." Every- all over their own town, all body remembers how the post in lights were out, but the Legion- Murphysboro furnished an in- naires boarded the train. With spiring example to the Legion them they carried boats and for all time by its rescue and provisions. The train started relief work after the tornado in for Moore Haven. March of 1Q25 had destroyed After traveling twenty miles a large section of its city. the relief train encountered a At storm-swept Hollywood, washout. It was forced to re- Florida, Legionnaires dupli- turn to Sebring, where the cated much of the work done by boats and provisions were trans- Miami Legionnaires. They ferred to motor trucks which formed working parties on the transported them to a point on morning of the storm, helped bring the railroad beyond the washout. in the dead and injured to im- Meanwhile, six Legionnaires at the provised morgues and hospitals, and scene of the washout succeeded in led in the organization of a community taking a crossing, loaded three boats relief committee. motor-driven railroad car and a trailer When Major Leonard G. Coop, a director and proceeded on toward Moore Haven. of Red Cross activities, arrived in Hollywood The six Legionnaires of the advance party to take charge of relief work, he was met by had to wade through water, removing ob- Legion officials who presented to him a com- What chance had mere man when structions from the track, as their car ap- plete survev of the city. This survey listed things like this happened! A stretch proached Moore Haven. They reached the every dwelling left standing and furnished the of Atlantic Coast Line track near flooded town while the water was still breast names of the occupants and such information ' Moore Haven deep on the main street. about them as their physical condition and The first work the Sebring Legionnaires did whether they had sufficient food and clothing and money. was to salvage as many as possible of the wrecked boats among Hollywood Post also established a missing persons bureau the debris in Moore Haven. As fast as {Continued on page 76)

JANUARY. 1927 33 What Makes a Good/

f w %OKER was first played with only twenty cards, all saw one of them had a hand and was willing to play it, and an- >* ; it m^J dealt to four players then with the full pack ; then other was willing to dispute with him, he had a nasty habit of m with the draw to improve the hand; and finally with producing four-of-a-kind from somewhere and making a killing. the forced ante, all jack pots, sometimes with the joker It took him three days to establish his reputation as a liberal added, and deuces wild. player at the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga in the early seven- Before the draw to improve the hand the best players were the ties. It took only two days more to win about sixty thousand good judges of human nature, with the courage to put up a big dollars. bluff at the psychological moment. On the introduction of the Draw poker, with the age, the blind and the ante is now so draw the bluffers had to give way to the players who had mastered seldom played that we need not discuss it, but assume the game the theory of probabilities and would not come in except on good is all jacks, with an average of six players. With regards to hands. The forced ante, making the game all jacks, killed this limits, Blackbridge recommends players to divide the amount system, compelling them to come in, good hands or bad. This they can afford to lose in a year's play by the number of times game demands a combination of both elements: a knowledge of they usually play in a year, and then make one-fourth of that the probabilities and good judgment of opposing players. This has betting limit of the game they play in. Suppose you can afford led to the formulation of the double axiom for jack pots: to lose $50, divided by playing once a week, say 50 times, that is All the money lost at poker is lost before the draw. one dollar. One-fourth of this is twenty-five cents, which is All the money won at poker is won after the draw. about your size for a limit game. For a truly scientific, intel- These axioms are based on two simple principles. Before the lectual pastime, the limit should be big enough to hurt, and draw you are betting against the chips in the pool. After the should always be ten or twenty times the ante in jack pots. For draw you are betting against the players the sake of uniformity in what follows we in the pool. The knowledge of probabilities shall assume the ante is a chip; the limit fits any game. The knowledge of the ^ ten chips. players must be learned in the game of The first indication of a good poker which you find yourself a part at the time. player is that he always spreads his cards Most poker parties know one another's j and counts them face down before lifting habits pretty well. If seats are drawn for, them. He does the same with the cards as they should be once every hour, the best he draws. seat is at the left of a liberal player, espe- Sitting just to the left of the dealer, cially one who calls everything. The which is called "under the gun," good worst seat is at his right. It is always players will not open a jack with six or difficult to play with strangers, especially seven playing with less than kings; be- if they are not strangers to one another. cause the chances are in favor of some They can all watch you much better than other player being able to open. The you can watch all of them. farther from the dealer the opener sits, As a rule, an established poker game, the better chance he has with jacks only. the same players meeting often, will settle The question of how much to open for de- down into a close game, a liberal game, or pends on what you have and whether you about an equal mixture. No one can be want to allow others to draw against you considered a good player who persists in a or not. liberal game against close play- The greater the number of players that ers, because they will not raise come in and draw against an average hand, him unless they think they can the greater the chance that it will be beat him. They have no curi- beaten. With a pair of aces it is eleven to osity. On his best one that it is the best hand at the table hands he will per- before the draw. To keep as many as haps win a five- possible from drawing against aces, good players chip bet. On his bet them as they would two pairs. It is probably fairly good hands well known that all the betting on two pairs should he will lose any- be done before the draw, because the chance of where from ten improvement is so small. It is thirty-four to one to fifty. that they are the best hand before the draw; but On the other if four players draw to small pairs, they will beat hand, the close aces-up eleven times out of twenty-three. It is player who gets a common remark of gamblers that aces-up is into a liberal game the most deceptive hand in the game. is equally lost. He antes himself away waiting for good hands. If the opener has a strong hand, such as triplets, it is now con- The moment he comes into a pot, or raises the ante, he is a marked sidered a mistake to let others in cheaply, so as to win a few man and the others would sooner give him the pot while it is small antes, and at the same time run the risk of letting some one lucky than fatten it for him, if they have only average hands. But draw beat you. If you open for a chip and four come in but do when they have a big hand against him, it will cost him more not improve they will not call you, and you win four chips. If you than he can get back on three or four of his own. open for ten, and only one comes in, you win ten if he does not Eat-'em-up-Jake understood this perfectly. He loved these call you. Three court cards should win five times out of six close players and advertised himself as a liberal. As soon as he against any improvement. If you have the courage to refuse to

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open, holding threes, and draw two cards after some one else the opener would take down the pot without opposition more opens, you will usually make a killing. By playing triplets as you than half the time. What all these writers overlook is the bonus would play two pairs you will get many calls from players who offered by the abandoned antes. draw a third to a small pair. This is because, for some reason Some make it a rule to come in on a pair as good as eights or or other, poker players usually regard such a hand, made by tens. But if you are coining in on a pair that must be improved drawing, as a great deal stronger than if they had held it before before it will beat openers, deuces are just as good as eights or the draw. tens. One of the surest marks of a good player is consistency in A good poker player never looks at the five cards dealt him coming in. If you come in against openers with less than openers until it is his turn to come in or drop out, but pays close attention any time, do it all the time, or you lose your percentage. Your to the mannerisms of the others as they pick up their cards and position with regard to the opener or a raised ante may change sort them. When he picks up his own hand he never sorts it, the conditions, but what you would do in one case under given but makes up his mind just how he is going to play that hand, if conditions you should do all the time under the same conditions, he comes in, and adjusts his ante or raises accordingly. Whether or you are not a good poker player. he comes in or not, he pays close attention to the number of An experiment was tried some twenty years ago by three cards drawn by others who have come in and compares it with players going in against the opener with any pair, and two others their antes or raises, if any. He learns just as much this way as refusing to go in unless they could beat openers, limit ante, if he were in the pot against them. Being in himself, he never limit bets. The average loss by each of the three who went in separates his discard until it is his turn to draw, so that no player was only seventeen times the limit in 100 deals. Those who did shall have advance information on what he holds in his hand. not go in at all of course lost 100 limits in their abandoned Coming in against openers must be de- antes, in the 100 deals they could not beat cided by the style of game one is up against. openers. If it is penny ante, ten-cent limit, the good When it comes to deciding whether or player is the one with a rabbit's foot in not to go in on broken hands, such as four- each pocket, an expert in walking round card flushes and straights, the chips in the chairs while keeping his eye on the dealer, pot must decide. If the pot will bet you watchful that no one puts a foot on the five to one or better, draw to four-card rungs while he is betting up a hand, careful flushes, open-end straights, four cards to to select his lucky days and wear his lucky an ace, or three to an ace and king; but un- tie, avoiding ladders and black cats. All less it offers you more than eleven to one, such matters as knowledge of probabilities, which is hardly possible unless it is a judgment of human nature, skill in varying double header and only two in, never draw one's methods, are absolutely worthless in to inside straights, three-card straights or a ten-cent-limit game. The good player is flushes. The player who puts up four the one that goes into every pot; draws to chips against fourteen to draw to an in- anything; calls everything, and gets out of side straight 100 times is paying 400 to the game as soon as he finds others outluck win 126. If it is bad play when persisted him. in for 100 times, it is bad play every time, In a sensible game, for a good stiff limit, and the person who does it is a bad player. at least ten times the ante, even if only That you are "playing in luck" has ten cents and a dollar; or twenty-five, two- nothing to do with it. You and-a-half, the good player is the one that cannot rely on your luck to always knows the exact number of chips overcome odds of 400 to 126. in the pool when it is his turn to come in or If you find you are in a table stay in. With six playing, chip ante, of close players, opened for two chips, there are eight in the any who come in pot. The odds against any improvement by draw- will usually be ing to a pair of any size are only two and a half to found to hold at one. The pot is offering you four to one, as you least a pair of are asked to put up two against eight. Again. kings. In a liberal The opener puts up ten, making sixteen in the pot. game, players will It is offering only about one and a half to one, and come in on eights, you would be foolish to back a small pair at those or lower. So odds, because you know that if you did it all the many may come time you would inevitably come out a loser in the into a pool that long run, and any play that is not sound all the its value is large time is never sound any time. But if one or two others should enough to be worth trying for on what players call "the percent- come in ahead of you for ten each, making twenty-six or thirty- age"; but no good player will stand a raise just because he six in the pot, the pot would then be offering you two and a half already has money in the pool. That is throwing good money or three and a half to one. after bad. All the writers on poker except myself insist that to come in To raise the opener, good players usually require a hand that against openers one should have as good as openers. I have is above average, but which could easily be beaten if three or four never seen a game in which this advice is followed, because if no players were allowed to come in and draw against it. If you raise one came in against openers unless they had jacks or better, on aces and can drive out all but the (Continued on page 87)

JANUARY, 1927 35 He's Been WORKING vn EVERYBODY 1 C SS." -* By Philip Chicago and V f Northwestern Rail- road between Chicago and Omaha knew Tom Savage. He was Number One Engineer for his road, which means everything to anybody who knows how loco- motive engineers are graded and regarded. He had started railroading with the Northwestern in its pioneering days, long before the road had been ex- tended as far as Omaha, in the days when first one Iowa city and then another had been the North- western's terminal, in the days when locomotives burned wood and had wide, flaring smokestacks, and in the days when unfriendly Indians still gave a thrill occasionally to timid passengers. He had fought in the Civil War, which was an interruption in his early railroad career. Tom Savage lived in Boone, Iowa. Boone is forty miles north of Des Moines, and the Des Moines River winds and twists its way between the two cities through a hilly region of farmlands and coal mines. Along its course in places the sides of the river valley are sheer rock ledges more than a hun- dred feet high. At Boone, when Tom Savage was Number One Engineer, which was before this present century began, his railroad did not leap from bluff- top to bluff-top across the valley of the Des Moines River: the high level bridge over which the limited trains today dash with unslackening speed had not been built. The Northwestern's bridge at Boone then was a lower structure, just out of the usual reach of the river's flood waters. The railroad, then as now, furnished Boone with much of its life's blood. Great railroad yards clung to the city's edges. Locomotives puffed in and out of the roundhouses and there was always the jar and clamor of shifting freight cars. The boys growing up in Boone felt the call of the railroad constantly. The sulphur-laden coal smoke that blew across the freight yards, the cinder-filled air, the mellow whistles and the clanging bells —all these helped cast a spell upon the boys of Boone. It was quite the thing to do in Boone when boyish hands and feet had grown big, when the grown-up feeling came surging into muscles and heart—it was quite the thing to do to saunter up to the railroad yards and ask the superintendent, the yardmaster, or somebody else for a job. Old Tom Savage had four sons growing up in Boone, and Tom Savage knew that his boys had smelled the smoke of the railroad yards. But, like most fathers, Tom Savage had long concluded that his own calling was exactly the one which offered the fewest rewards and the most hardships for his sons. In addition to his instinctive feeling against having any one of his sons follow in his footsteps, Tom Savage cherished some scarred memories of his rail- roading in pioneer days. Any boy, hearing what Tom Savage could tell, should have been convinced that railroading was a pretty undesirable occupation and that some safe and profitable calling such as deep sea diving, or shooting, or steeple-jacking offered better allurements. Tom Savage told his sons over and over again the story of the day when his train might have gone into Howard P. Savage the Des Moines river at Boone, and that story is also the story of Kate Shelley's heroism. raging up in flood after days of National Commander of The American Legion The river had come LEGION Monthly 36 The AMERICAN —

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There is irony also in the fact that another of Tom Savage's sons, Thomas C. Savage, also went into railroading and is today a traffic man for the New York Central railroad. The other two brothers didn't take up railroading. One is Dr. Robert Garfield Savage, a physician, of Oak Park, Illinois. The other is Louis heavy rains. With mighty force it Savage of La Porte, Indiana, a druggist. And railroading not swept higher and higher into the being in the usual range of women's vocations, Howard Savage's Von Blon bridge structure until it reached the sister, Miss Sadie Savage, has won recognition as a musician and level of the tracks. Then in a as an instructor in a Chicago business school. tremendous burst of power it swept Before Tom Savage died at the age of sixty-eight, after fifty ties and rails from their fastenings, leaving but a bare framework years of railroading with the Northwestern, he agreed that, of steel. Toward that skeleton bridge a limited train had been despite the family hardships of a railroader, he had had more than rushing. On the side of the river away from the train Kate average luck with his children. Shelley discovered that the track had vanished. She crawled An even share of the credit for rearing the Savage family goes across the bridge on her hands and knees, pulling herself along on to Howard P. Savage's mother. The mother, Mrs. Anna E. the steel stringers, fighting constantly against the water which Savage, came West to Iowa in a covered wagon when she was a pushed and tugged to break her hold. She won her race child. Her parents made their home for a time in Chicago, but nagged the limited just in time to keep it from plunging into the that city, in advance of the coming of the railroad, didn't look river. Poets have sung of her deed. Every schoolboy in Boone very good, so the family resumed its migration and reached Iowa. knew all the details of that deed. Tom Savage's train was close Rearing five children in Boone was a task that called for pioneer behind the one which Kate Shelley saved. hardihood. Boone in that day was a city which demanded But the actual danger of railroading wasn't so bad as its in- sturdiness and courage in boys. A railroad town and a coal conveniences. Tom Savage heartily disliked a job mining town, with a population of less than ten thousand, that would keep a man away from his home for a Boone was turbulent and noisy at times, on paydays whole week at a time. So, while he drove his locomo- particularly. The boys of the town, emulating the tive, pulling passenger and mail trains into terminal qualities which enabled their elders to mine coal and cities on schedule, he kept building up his farm near bring trains through on schedule, developed a thorough- Boone and planning for the day when he would call going aggressiveness. it quits with railroading. Howard P. Savage recalls that the old railroad One day one of Tom Savage's four sons, Howard, reservoir at Boone was the traditional battleground for casually mentioned to his father that he had decided to the rival boyhood gangs of the Boone he knew. An get a job at firing. Firing, of course, meant shovel- elevated track crossed the reservoir and this ing coal into the furnaces of speeding locomo- track was the boundary line between the territory tives, the preliminary training for hands that of the North Side gang and the East Side gang. would hold the throttle. No North Sider dared swim or skate beyond the Old Tom Savage was wise with the wisdom of track into the territory of the rival gang. Rarely fathers. Had he then and there summoned all of did peace prevail between the two camps. The the objections to railroading which he cherished slightest excuse was good enough for a pitched in his mind, had he pronounced a warning battle, and once started the battle raged fero- against railroading in his most solemn manner, ciously. It was a day to be remembered when one he would have solidified unalterably his son's of the Savage boys returned home without youthful decision—youthful decision which bearing the marks of the latest conflict at the loves to triumph over obstacles. reservoir. Instead, Tom Savage said: "Well, son, I But if there was much fighting, it was fair guess if you've made up your mind, we'll see fighting. It was fighting with fists and sticks, and what we can do about it." there was a definite code of chivalry which all Whereupon the elder Mr. Savage hastened combatants observed. No one ever was seriously to the road foreman, the man who does the hurt. It was as if fighting was officially recog- picking and hiring of new firemen, and said: nized as the supreme sport of boyhood. One vir- "My boy, Howard, is coming around here to tue of these habitual combats, bloody noses and ask you for a job at firing. Don't give it to black eyes notwithstanding, was that it kept him." occupied boys who might have been tempted to When a Number One Engineer speaks, he is try other recreations not quite so beneficial in the obeyed in the roundhouse and thereabouts. development of character. For instance, fighting History does not record the exact reasons prevented the boy gangsters from haunting pool which the road foreman gave to young Howard rooms and associating with older youths who had Savage when he told him he couldn't give him a acquired undesirable knowledge of the world's job. But history does record that when darker ways. And a check-up of the later careers Howard Savage lost his chance to shovel his of the boys who fought honorably on the Boone way into the pilot's seat of a locomotive, he reservoir reveals that most of them became good was saved for the career which was to make citizens. him National Commander of The American Aside from the frequency of the boy gang Legion. fights, Howard Savage had much the same boy- For the Howard P. Savage who was elected hood in Boone as any other normal boy has in the National Commander of The American Legion usual American town. He remembers the day at Philadelphia in October, is the same Howard when his shot gun exploded while he was hunting Savage who failed to land the firing job at rabbits. The barrel had been choked by snow and Boone, Iowa, more than twenty-five years ago. sand as he thrust the gun through a fence. When But the vision of Howard Savage's father, al- he pulled the trigger after sighting a rabbit, the though it kept his son from a locomotive cab, rabbit never knew it had been fired at, but young did not keep him from railroading. It was in Mr. Savage found himself flat on the ground, railroading that he won the distinction which gripping the stock and shattered barrel of his gun marked him as a man who could lead The and wondering how bad the earthquake had been. American Legion with honor. There is some- She married Tom Savage 's Mr. Savage also remembers the day Garry Noble thing of irony in that fact. boy Howard drowned. The Des Moines River was a treacherous

JANUARY, 1927 37 stream, with shifting sand beds. He remembers also how Pearl magnitude and the wide range of accomplishments the members Archer, the son of the minister of the Methodist Church in represent. Boone, enlisted the help of the whole gang, Howard Savage in- In his first year at Wisconsin, Savage played football, but the cluded, to pump the church organ. three cracked ribs—mementoes of his football career at Lewis It was in 1900 when the parents of Howard Savage concluded Institute—forced him out of the game. When the baseball sea- that Boone did not offer sufficient educational advantages for the son came along the ribs were still only partly healed. Then to the three boys and the girl who still remained in the Savage home. student of the University of Wisconsin opportunity called in the They decided that Mrs. Savage should take her four children to person of the Manager of the Chicago Cubs. This powerful Chicago, while Mr. Savage temporarily remained in Boone so that baseball personage informed Savage that Hank O'Day, the major he could continue with his work on the railroad. league umpire, had watched what he could do in a baseball box Howard Savage had won some recognition as guard on the and had expressed the opinion that Savage would be a good man Boone High School football team. He weighed 160 pounds at the for the Cubs. age of sixteen and was just beginning to pile weight on to his big Savage signed up with the Cubs. He pitched several exhibition frame. So when Howard Savage enrolled in Lewis Institute in games for the team. Then, in response to an S. O. S. call from the Chicago, that school's football team gained a new star. And Colorado Springs team of the Western League, he was sent to Savage kept getting heavier—and faster. He became not only finish the season as a pitcher for this outfit, which was dead set on one of the football team's star backfield men, but also one winning the Western League pennant. With Savage's help, the of the mainstays of every other team in the school. He Colorado Springs team did win the pennant. ran the fifty yard hurdles in seven seconds flat. He ran the But in the meantime, developments had convinced Savage he hundred yard dash in something—not much—over ten seconds. would never become one of baseball's deathless heroes. For one Even more important, he became the recognized leader of his thing, he couldn't chew tobacco. And a third basemen, an old school in athletics. He was captain of five teams—football, timer, had told him confidentially, after giving him a chew of baseball, indoor baseball, basketball and track. That is tobacco to cure an incipient case of stage fright in his first game at versatility. Denver, that a pitcher who didn't chew tobacco wasn't worth While at Lewis Institute, Savage showed that he also possessed saving. Savage took that chew and won that game but he another quality besides leadership. The motherly solicitude of couldn't join the school of tobacco-chewing geniuses of baseball. Mrs. Anna Savage detected that something That, of course, was before baseball had been shorn of most of had happened to her son. One morning its old numerous, if harmless, vices. Savage about this time she entered his room and discovered him acquired a glass arm and the conviction that he shouldn't sleeping in a remarkably strange posture. try to make baseball a profession. He was sitting on the rounded top of an Much to the delight of his father and mother, Howard re- old-fashioned trunk, his back curved for- turned to Chicago in 1906 and started to work for the South ward, his head tilted toward his chest. Side Elevated Company. Roadman at first, he quickly became Motherly amazement brought an explana- assistant engineer. He helped build the railroad's third track tion. Savage upon which express trains now are running to Chicago suburbs. hadn't been able In 1908 and 1909, Savage enlarged his engineering ex- to sleep well after perience by working in the a recent football rock tunnel, built four miles game. Something out underneath Lake Michi- in his chest gan to assure Chicago's water pained him so supply, and the clay tunnel, that he couldn't a part of the underground go to sleep when freight railway system of he lay on the Chicago. Days of trying mattress of his work in the darkness tem- bed. He could pered the personality of Sav- only sleep com- age, gave him an understand- fortably when he ing of and sympathy with sat on the trunk, men which one who has his back to the worked all his life above wall, his body ground can never have. Those hunched up. In- were character-forming days, dignantly Mrs. hundreds of feet below the sur- Savage demanded that he see a doctor. face of Lake Michigan and far The doctor, after looking at an X-ray below the surface of Chicago plate, reported that three or four of streets in the Loop District. Savage's ribs had been broken. Working under compressed At Lewis Institute, Savage worked his air is in itself a test of a man's way by sweeping out the gymnasium. It philosophy, his lasting quali- was an immense building, as he remembers ties and a lot of other things. it. In his summer vacations, he worked in It is a hard life, but one who the Chicago plant of the Western Electric can come through it unscathed Company. His specialized job was the wir- is the better for having lived ing of the back-boards of the old-fashioned it. It is a wonderful way in which to will telephone instruments—the kind on develop one's capacity for sympathy which you had to turn a crank before you with one's fellow men. could talk with central. If they have sur- From 1909 to 191 2, Savage worked in vived this long, there are thousands of the engineering department of his father's those instruments scattered around the old line, the Chicago and Northwestern world which are examples of Savage's Railroad, helping extend a new branch handiwork. line into Iowa. Savage finished, his course at Lewis In engineering each new day adds to Institute in 1904. In the autumn of that the technical worker's knowledge and year he entered the University of Wis- his capacity for solving problems. Only consin to round out his engineering educa- by actual work on the job can the tion. Here he enrolled in the society whose technician acquire that breadth of knowl- members so far are unlisted—the society edge, that sureness of decision and pro- of those who have worked their way cedure which comes from long experience. "High Poiver" is the nickname that the through college by waiting on table and The prize graduate from the country's tending furnaces. If ever somebody pre- Department of Illinois has given to the best engineering school must serve a pares the honor list of the members of that new chief of organised American World period under actual working conditions society, the world will be surprised at its War veterandom before he will be {Continued on page 68)

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly i A PERSONAL VIEW }

The Tenth Year, 1927, since our entry into the War. for and has stood for in human progress. They speak One year is not much in the history of this hoary-seamed not only of poilus, as we knew them, on the march and

old globe; but it is one-seventieth of in the trenches, but of their ancestors who were the torch- Enter, the allotted span of human life. The bearers of freedom defending their young republic when Young Man average ex-service man is now nearer our republic was young. A tribute more human than a forty than thirty. At this age one banker's formal congratulations is due. Old comrades of year means little change; but what a change it brings from heroic days will take that tribute abroad next autumn. ages one to fifteen! The children of veterans are growing up. The future great service is to them in the maturing Interest years of their parents which will bring the Legion's all All Would be taken out of the new year if we could look into a crystal is round test of usefulness. and see what going to happen. Uncertainty gives the gamble of life A Slant at the its zest. The old year saw new cham- Every Parent Is in command of a training camp under Old Year pions take the place of the old; new the inspection of sharp young eyes from barracks and champions voted in and old voted out; drill ground. And you share command America grew richer; Europe felt better; the North Pole Your New with the school teacher, if your chil- was crossed by plane and dirigible; there was more bobbed Training Camp dren are of school age. Are the schools hair; skirts grew shorter. The new champions think that keeping faith with the great simple it was a great year. Old champions disagree. On the whole lessons you learned in the service? If not, why not? Is it gave us a pretty good time. it want of sufficient pay for the teachers? Too much faddism? The home cannot do it all. The school cannot. To have good schools the parents must keep watch This Year Will not be a good year if the crop map of through results in their children. 1926, which is before me, is repeated. It tells a mighty story. White for where the crops were A Slant at the bad; black for where they were good. There Are Certain people whom I would like to have New Year White for the grain States from Kansas take a New Year's pledge of abstention, namely: the fellow north; black for the cotton States. keeps postponing joining the who Grain growers without enough grain to sell; cotton growers Talking About Legion anyone who cannot realize that ; with so much cotton that prices will not pay for the grow- is bigger than his Pledges the United States ing. The curse of too poor and too abundant yields. Men own county; anyone who appeals to and women who worked hard on the land without reward, prejudice; thinks that talk race and religious anyone who scrimped, unable to meet their obligations, in a common not fighting won the War; anyone who thinks that the and misfortune which is a national misfortune. next person to sit down does not prefer his own to the chewing gum parked on a car seat; correspondents who do not send me their name and address, and all readers Have You Missed this item? Everyone should have it. who do not realize that this Personal View is personal to When Mrs. Ella Raub died in Youngstown, Ohio, she left encourage thought and keep the ball in play. $9,000 of her $30,000 estate to the She Knew, Bradford (New York) Legion post. She Remembered Her son, Brewer Passmore, who fell in reparations, foreign Without Waiting Longer on German France, had lived in Bradford. She loans or cancellations others they debt and to do what knew what the Legion would have meant to him. She would not or could not do, France is thought of him enjoying its comradeship. In the way it France Herself doing it for herself. Her aroused spends the money the Bradford Post may think of him people in a Shall Not Pass" Again "They as present in spirit. spirit have been applying Marianne's individual thrift to the whole in an economic patriotism to balance the national budget and put the financial house After You Have had a war, and leaders of that war are in order. The nation which was a steel wall at Verdun still living, then a proved fighting leader should direct the to save democracy did not have to call in a dictator as her Army. Major-General Charles P. savior. A Fighter Summerall is now Chief of Staff. France is still the great Mother European republic, still Takes Command Purely the soldier, thinking straight as the land of free opinion and a free press. Memories rise soldier to the point, he drove hard. in a practical world which foresaw that France must do it He never failed of victory. He drove himself hard; he for herself: memories which remind us what France stands was often at the front, facing the {Continued on page 78)

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Chapter XIX and figure, Greve walked up to the man and knocked him down. He glowered at the others.

| ELL, we start all over again," said Mike. His "The next man that even looks at this lady will go overboard," voice was depressed, as though he was awed by he announced. Then he turned back tz us. the swift horror of the past few moments. Not "Too bad you couldn't make your threats stick with Kinsella," that he was any more affected than myself. For, I told him. while I had seen vastly greater slaughters than this, they had been Greve looked me up and down. I felt, rather than saw, Mike in legalized warfare. So strangely constituted is the human edge close to me. He had followed me aboard the yacht holding mind, so molded by the conventions of a thousand years, that the painter of the motor boat. Now he had given the rope to one accidental death seems more tragic than the decimation of a one of the crew. I knew that if trouble broke out Mike would battalion. be on my side, hopeless though my side must be. "And God knows where we'll finish," I said. Congress had seized both of Rose's hands, and my blood "I hope you folks will forget anything I've said." Mike looked grew hot with instant jealousy. Oh, I knew that she belonged doubtfully from Rose to me. "Those birds aboard the Alida to me, but jealousy cannot be reasoned away. wouldn't be very much pleased if they knew I'd wanted to step "I guess there's plenty you want to tell us," suggested Greve. out." "Certainly there's plenty I want to hear." "Do we seem the kind to go back on a pal?" asked Rose. He led the way aft. I noticed that none of the crew followed.

There was no more time for conversation ; the yacht was along- I saw Tom Relland. He had kept himself in the background, side now and from its rail Greve hailed us. Congress, that and inwardly I applauded his discretion. His eyes questioned swarthy Latin, was beside him. And grouped on the deck were me, but I merely nodded. a score of unfamiliar faces. If I had any half-thought-out plan Out of earshot of the crew, Greve stopped. "No use my ask- of resistance to the schemes of Greve and Congress, I abandoned ing questions," he said. "You people are out in a boat. That them now. Our triumph over Kinsella and the rest might have smells like trouble. Which one of you wants to tell the story?" caused me to think that, with Tom Relland added to our scanty "Suppose we let the lady speak first," I suggested. "Rose, forces, we might achieve another victory. But the augmented tell him what happened." crew made such an idea untenable. "Rose, eh?" said Congress. "You two have become that Whatever else may be said of Greve, I can safely assert that friendly?" he was an excellent commander, who exercised a sure authority Greve turned on him. "Let me do the talking. Go ahead," over his followers. Had he remained aboard the island, I am he ordered Rose. convinced that there would have been no drinking, no plotting Where I have taken thousands of words to tell the tale of what of murder. But it is a peculiar thing about criminality: its happened on the island and in the motor boat, Rose took only professors are loyal only to force. People in civil life will obey scores. And at its conclusion, Greve's face was like a thunder- the shadow of authority ; the mere fact that there are policemen cloud. and courts keeps people law-abiding. "We'll land just long enough to bury Merino and the other But those who live a life of crime will disobey their leaders two," he said. the moment that their leaders turn their backs Greve would "Without hearing their side of it?" demanded Congress. have made a successful executive in business, but he was a For Congress' attitude was easily read. Over his face a dozen successful executive in crime only when he was on the spot. expressions had chased each other during Rose's recital. The But he was on the spot now and when, as Rose stepped aboard Latins do not disguise their emotions as well as we northerners the Alida, some new recruit openly voiced admiration of her face do. Congress was jealous. Perhaps he had intuition enough to

40 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly dozen destroyers out looking for us within six hours after their rescue." He shook his head. "I know that kind. They wouldn't have sense enough to keep quiet. They'd want revenge. So we can't leave them. No more can we take them with us. There's only one thing to do, and I'm going to do it." "And I insist upon a fair trial," said Con- gress. Anger against the men who would have maltreated the girl he loved was submerged by his jealousy of me. Because Rose had giv- en me praise, Congress insisted on fair play. No motive of decency animated him. Greve refused to argue the matter. Au- thority he certainly possessed, but he pre- ferred not to strain its quality by an open rup- ture with the Latin- American. For Con- gress was not a mem- ber of the crew, but was, as I learned later, Rose smiled up at me. in certain ways more important than Greve. "Don't hesitate on So Greve yielded to my account, Jack, ''she him. said I have heard the phrase "thieves' jus- tice," but I am. sure that it is not half as swift or merciless as the summary justice of the pirates. For these were pirates. People are wont to look incredulous at the word "piracy." read into They are so prone to believe that civilization has changed men's Rose's words a natures. They do not understand that piracy became' un- meaning that fashionable not because morality improved, but because the was hidden profession became more difficult of practice when the nations from Greve. banded together, a century and a half ago, and decided to stamp Perhaps she it out. Later on, the invention of steam vessels and the conse- dwelt a little quent necessity of stopping at coaling stations made the profession too, strongly seem impractical. on my actions. For unquestionably Congress was in love with But the desperate qualities of men have endured through the Rose, and love makes us quick to ascertain unuttered things. ages, and I see no justification for any assumption that they I know that I could read Congress because I loved Rose. will not endure forever. Here were men who decided on whole- "Do you doubt Miss Blaney's statement, or do you want it sale robbery and murder, and the fact that this sort of criminality corroborated by Mike and Jack?" asked Greve. "I gave orders had not been ventured upon the high seas in several generations about Miss Blaney. Kinsella threw me down, and Jack went was no deterrent to these men. into action like a white man. I'm the skipper of this outfit, Highwaymen thrive today as never in history. The old days and what I say goes." when portly citizens refused to rely upon the watch, and carried "But you must consider the rest of the crew," said Congress. their own retinues of armed protectors, were no more dangerous "If you kill those men on the island without a trial, the men will than today. The modern criminal has used modern invention begin to wonder what chance they have of fair play." for his -own bloody purposes. That I happened to be present "There's been enough killing," said Rose. at the renaissance of piracy was merely an accident. I wonder "What do you want me to do? Take them aboard the boat that its rebirth had been so long postponed, for never were the and treat them as though nothing had happened?" asked Greve. seas more richly burdened than today. And if the risk, because "Why not sail away and leave them?" I suggested. of wireless, because of swift fleets, is greater, so is the possible Greve pointed to the island. There, running towards gain. the beach, were the three men whose fate was under Blackbeard and Lollonois have their descendants today ex- discussion. actly as have Dick Turpin and Jonathan Wild. And here, on a "Those birds have got plenty of food and water," said Greve. Bahaman key, where possibly a similar scene had been enacted "They can live indefinitely on that island. They've seen the two hundred years ago, I saw a pirate trial, was witness at one. Aliia. They've seen us pick up you three. They aren't idiots; At least, I would have been witness had my testimony been they know that by this time you've told us all that happened. required. And if it be charged that I had no right to sit in judg- If we sail away they'll know we're through with them. Sooner ment upon these men, actively or passively, it must be re- or later some boat will stop here and pick them up. If I could membered in my behalf that they had tried to kill me, and that be sure that they would be marooned for a couple of months, any defense which I might have made for them would have re- I'd take a chance on them. But suppose they're picked up to- sulted in my own death. morrow? They'll turn state's evidence. There'll be half a Greve took a dozen of us, including Rose, ashore in the motor

JANUARY, 1927 41 boat which had taken the girl and Mike and myself away from been seeking cs does much to mitigate my regret at his fate the island. Merino and Dick and Alston must have recognized and that of his men. the motor boat, may even have recognized us three who had Greve didn't hesitate one minute when he saw the yacht. fought miniature warfare with them. They must have known Less than a quarter of a mile away, those aboard the Bonita the fate ahead of them, yet realized the hopelessness of trying to could not have failed to see the summary executions on the fight against such numbers, and preferred to brazen it out. beach. Perhaps already her wireless operator was sending forth Poor devils! It was so swift, so inexorable, this pirates' news that would shock and horrify the world, I thought. I justice, that it would remain graven deeply upon my memory if I was not aware that few yachts of this class carry sending ap- lived to be a thousand years old. The Great War becomes a blur, paratus.

in which on widely separated occasions things are distinct ; but the Greve gave hoarse commands. We piled into the motor boat. events of these pirate days will always re- main clear. Perhaps this is because these later events seemed to revolve about myself and the girl I loved, be- cause I was a leading char- acter, whereas in the War I was merely an extra, as the movies have it. At a word from Greve the three mu- tineers were disarmed. The captain of the Alida briefly stated the case against them as Rose had told it to him. "What you got to say for yourselves?" he finished. I turned away , and Rose followed me. We knew what the end would be, and I was glad that Rose did not witness the scene. For over my shoul- der I saw rifles leveled, saw about him that we puffsof smoke, Out of the ivelter came Greve. There was something so awesome and beheld three figures pitch forward lifelessly upon the sand. I shall In five minutes we were aboard the Alida, and in pursuit of the never see a beach again but that it will conjure a vision of men Bonita. being shot to death. That craft did not linger in the neighborhood. It went away Rose's shoulders were shaking, but no sob came from her at a pace faster than ever before it had traveled, I imagine. lips. She had gone through too much to break now. And, indeed, Piracy may have been a ridiculous anachronism, but the Bonita what happened on the beach was nothing as compared to the recognized it instantly. merciless slaughter that began almost instantly. But Cavendish's yacht was a pleasure craft, designed "for com- For at least there was a certain justice in the fate of the three fort, whereas the Alida was engined as powerfully as a destroyer. mutineers. They had laid themselves open to such a fate when We were within range in five minutes. they joined the pirate crew. Greve himself had given them ample And once again Greve showed that he possessed that authority, warning when he left us all upon the island. that quick decision, which would have made him a great success But Cavendish was no pirate, nor were his crew aboard the in any peaceful pursuit. As he risked and sacrificed lives in behalf Bonita bloody-handed murderers. And yet Cavendish was of his criminal career, so he would have risked and sacrificed guilty, I feel, of more despicable offenses than murder, and his businesses in behalf of a commercial career. I can see the man crew aided and abetted him. I can summon no profound pity dismantling a factory, moving an industry across a thousand for the fate of Cavendish, nor for his crew, who would not have miles, willing to risk everything on one great gamble. protested against the abduction of Rose. He might have lost a dozen times and yet begun again, had he And if I had any doubts of the merciless lengths to which the followed the path of decency. But the criminal can only lose pirates would proceed, they were dissipated in ten minutes after once; he may never begin again. the Bonita appeared around the headland. The Bonita never had a chance. We overhauled her almost I sometimes wonder if Cavendish was in pursuit of our little instantly, sailing two feet to her one. And not until the rapid- motor boat. I doubt it, but the possibility that he might have firer in our bow spoke, did I really believe Greve's dread intent.

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We know that things are going to happen, yet because we wish "But what's the sense?" I argued. otherwise we refuse to believe. And so I, who had stayed near "They saw what we were doing on the beach. That's a private Greve since we re-boarded the yacht, touched his arm. yacht. The people on it may stand for the abduction of a girl, He turned upon me the blazing eyes of a madman. but they won't stand for what they've just seen. Why, you "What the hell are you doing here?" he cried. "Why aren't blasted idiot, they'll warn the world. Every craft afloat will get you in the galley with Alf? By God, before I get through with our description by wireless. And when we cross the Bolivar's this cruise, a lot of you swine are going to learn things! I'll run bow sometime tomorrow, she'll have dug up guns from the hold this bloody hooker like a warship, the way it ought to be run." don't worry; no matter what the manifests say, every merchant- I disregarded his abuse. As a matter of fact I knew that he man has carried them for years—and blow us out of the water." didn't mean it, that he regarded me rather highly because of And now I knew definitely the object of this cruise. The Bolivar! The pride of the South Atlan- tic; the flag- ship of the Two Americas Line. This was to be the prey of the Alida. What use further to ar- gue with a homicidal ma- niac who had revived the bloody tradi- tions of the Spanish Main? The brain that could conceive such a mon- strous plot as this could not be dissuaded by argument or pleading from the per- formance of any minor act that seemed to it essential to the successful achievement of the major act. Ievenshrank away from

h i m not through fear but through sheer incred- ulous horror. Cold-eyed, I watched the Bonita reel from shell af- ter shell, saw were helpless with a sort paralysis. His gun was lifted as he started toward us of her catch fire, blow up and my defense of Rose, so I didn't hesitate to speak right up. disappear as had the cutter hardly a short hour before that. "Is this necessary?" I asked him. God knew this was bad enough, but the Bolivar carried a His lips curled in a grin. thousand souls, men, women and children. The mere prospect "Can't you read the name of the boat? The Bonita, isn't it? was appalling. And there was no possible way in which I could You told—Miss Blaney told me—about the—way the owner stop it. Even though I cheerfully gave up my life to frustrate tried to kidnap her. You—don't like Congress " the man took Greve's plan, I could not alter it. The rest of the crew—certain in everything, it seemed "but you ought to hate this fellow leaders among them, anyway—knew the object of the cruise. Cavendish. You're a swift worker, Jack. She's fallen for you Even Greve's death, and the death of Congress, would not deter as hard as you've fallen for her. But I don't care. Women mean these desperadoes from an attempt at the accomplishment of nothing to me. After we've finished this cruise I'll be tickled to their incredible design. death to referee a scrap between you and Congress." I walked hopelessly away from him. From a companionway His gaiety was the staccato thing of excitement that bordered Tom Relland beckoned to me and I approached him. Perhaps on madness. He could take swift decisive measures, but the his sanity would discover some way out of this terrible dilemma. horror of them loosened his tongue, aroused him to a point of hysteria. Chapter XX The bow gun spoke again. "But you can't murder a boatload of people," I cried in THE crew, with the exception of Alf and the youth who had protest. taken my place as galley helper, and of the engine force, "Who says I can't?" he countered. His out-thrust chin was were all on deck. No one noticed us as we proceeded to the close to my eyes. For one wild moment 1 thought of smashing forecastle. For a minute or two after we arrived there Tom him, of rallying Mike and Tom to my side. Then I abandoned said nothing. He tried thrice to light a cigarette, but his shaken the suicidal thought. nerves made the task impossible. Match {Continued on page 8g)

JANUARY, 1927 43 MEET

Everybody knows them— but every- Look them over, and see if you rec- panamas, soft collars, giddy neckties, give up, turn

Would you recognize this dapper little individual, stepping out into sassiety with the missus, as the soldier who bossed more soldiers 7 than any other man in history .

Does any ex-gob recall whether this salty buddy wore his sea- in chapeau at the same tilt while running the United States Naval Forces in France?

He and Legionnaire Gene Tunney belong to the same outfit

He established the greatest lottery in the history of the world—here he' s looking over Not even on a duck hunt does the card at the opening of the winter racing this fellow citizen snap out of season in Havana. Put anything down, Gen? hts military bearing

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Mister body knows them best in uniform, ognize them in top hats, derbies, no neckties at all. If you have to to page 95

1 He was on that duck-hunting expedition with the party in the lower outside corner on the op- posite page. A trick costume, but the pipe spills the beans even though it may hold M the tobacco

Well, well, well.' One of our snappiest wartime and peace- time dressers, and here he got caught without even a necktie. Reason: Tunafishing

This ex-sailor could have originated the saying: "Let me write the marches of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws"

That paper under his arm is the Wall Street Journal. Nine years ago he was Once commander of a hard-hitting division, a regular reader of the Stars and Stripes, he let the photographer catch him acting as and kept a diary mess sergeant

JANUARY, 1927 45 BE CAREFUL

Sometimes Your Resolutions Are Taken Seriously By Wallgfen

Sweet woman: "Oh, John! I'm so happy! I found this — "And as I see you are going to give up smoking, I got copy of your New Year Resolutions in your desk today— rid of all your old pipes, cigars, tobacco and cigarettes by burning them in the heater!—

— to help you keep "And your resolution not to experiment —"And I also threw all your playing cards and chips with home-brew any more, I gave all your bottles and — and Senegambian dominoes into the heater so you wouldn't things to the iunk man! be tempted to gamble again!—

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— "And, as you've decided to devote more time to business by "Why, John!!!!? I thought you weren't going to swear giving up golf, I gave your clubs and all to Cousin August! any more?!!" John: "I'm not! But I've still got a few good swearing hours left in 1926, and I'll need every one of them!!!!**!?*!!"

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Wisdom of Infancy When Love Grows Cold Huh! "And what, little girl," asked the lady "I don't believe you love me any Little Buck, of Blue Fire, Montana, visitor, "are you going to be when you more," sobbed the sheba. attended a children's cantata when his grow up?" "Why do you say that, dearie?" asked parents took him for a trip to Boston, "I's donna be a blonde secretary," re- the sheik anxiously. and was introduced to Little Boy Blue. plied the innocent babe, "so's my daddy "Well, for the last week you've left Instead of mitting the young thespian will go out with me sometimes." every night before father threatened he looked him over carefully and said: to throw you out." "So you're the hombre that made such a hell of a reputation as a sheep herder!" Consolation 'Well, Mrs. Johnsing," a colored A Long Time Yet physician announced, after taking her "How do you like my daughter's Sticky Fingers husband's temperature, "Ah has knocked playing?" asked the proud Mrs. Simper. Customer: "What's become of your de fever outen him." "You know she enrolled with a professor old clerk?" "Sho' 'miff?" was the excited reply. who guarantees to teach anyone the Grocer: "He declared a profit-sharing "Am he gwine git well, den?" piano in ten lessons." system, so I fired him." "No'm," answered the doctor. "Dey's "Indeed?" retorted Mrs. Catt. "And Customer: "What's wrong with that?" no hope fo' him, but you has de sal- when is she going to take the first one?" Grocer: "He forgot to tell me about isfraction ob knowin' dat he died cured." it."

Pa Knows All The Younger Generation "Pop, what's a philosopher?" In Training "Where is your doll, dear?" asked the "A chap who's too hard up to worry Nuwedd was throwing matches and family visitor. about it, son." silverware on the floor at intervals and "Oh," said the infant calmly, "the boy stopping to pick up the scrambled assort- next door has the custody of the doll and ment. I'm awarded three lollipops a week Some Baby! "What on earth's the matter with alimony." "So you were at Rome and Venice, you?" asked a neighbor. too?" enthused a tourist. "Remember "Practising," said Nuwedd. "The how Florence looked in the moonlight?" ah—stork is coming, you know." Broken Continuity "I'll say!" equally enthused his ship- The Visitor: "Have you lived here mate. "An' wasn't she the loving kid Paging Mr. Lincoln your entire life?" though?" The Native: "No, not exactly. I "You're fired!" stormed the hard spent a couple of weeks with my Uncle boiled boss. Abner in Minnesota back in the fall "Fired? How you talk!" sneered of ninety-eight." thestenog. "I supposed they sold slaves!"

Primitive Passions A Job The circus acrobat found the clown Lora: "This is a clever little con- in tears. fession story you've written, but why "What in the world are you crying did you name the man Adam?" about?" he asked. Dora: "The editor wanted it written "The elephant d-d-died," sobbed the in the first person." clown. "What of it? You didn't own him." "N-no, b-but the b-boss says I've Literal g-got to d-dig his g-g-grave." "You're looking fine," announced the doctor to his patient. "Have you fol- lowed my dieting instructions and eaten He'd Better Be One! only what a three-year-old child would?" "All men are liars," announced the "Yes, doctor," was the sad reply. disillusioned Mrs. Jones. "For dinner I had a handful of mud, "If I thought my husband wasn't one of coal dust, a button hook and a I'd get a divorce," stated Mrs. Smith. box of safety matches." "You mean— "Just what I said. He writes stories for those confessional magazines." Try It on a Pugilist Mr. and Mrs. Pelbam Manor call to see bow "What do you do to make a fish bite?" their new house is getting along "I kick him three or four times and Mistaken Identification if he doesn't bite me after that I Liza was on the witness stand. twist his tail and slap him in the face." Out of Season "Are you positive," inquired the "Sorry, Jewel," said her father, "but prosecutor, "that you know where you can't have a new dress right now. your husband was on the night this Honest Waiter I'm hard pressed for money, but cheer crime was committed?" "Bring me some chicken salad," or- up, your little brother's operation will "Ef Ah didn'," replied the witness dered a diner. be over by next week." firmly, "den Ah busted a good rollin' "Yes, sir," replied the servitor. "Veal "But, papa," protested the girl, "I pin ovah an innercent man's haid, dat's or pork chicken?" can't wear Willie's adenoids!" all!"

JANUARY, 1927 47 — — — ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS

ONE little group of Btf Meigs O. Frost with flint-lock and home-made snare. T^OAmericans it is given to live Progress has penetrated the Evan- amid an atmosphere of ro- geline country. But curiously the mantic history unequalled in hearts of the people are unchanged. any spot over which the flag of the United States flies today. That All about them are monuments of the old days—court houses privilege belongs to those whose home is in the land of the bayous shadowed by giant trees and fronted with the stately dignity of —the Evangeline country of Louisiana. Greek-pillared porticoes reared by the hands of slaves; ancient Here they have lived, and their fathers and fathers' fathers be- plantation homes that once were scenes of the most brilliant social fore them, on soil over which has fluttered the flag of France with life America has ever known; simple houses, too, that were the its royal fleur-de-lis and the tri-color of the republic, the flag of birthplaces of men whose names have become known around the

Spain with its red and gold, the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy, world ; vistas of sheer beauty, of ancient oaks hung with the gray and the Stars and Stripes. Generation by generation the men of beards of Spanish moss, of sleepy bayou starred with the purple Louisiana have fought under every one of those five flags. In the flowers of the floating hyacinth, of level fields covered by the rich Teche country, the Lafourche country, the Terrebonne country green ribbons of the sugar cane; peaceful villages nestling behind named by the natives for the great bayous, or rivers, that are its the levees that guard the bayou bank. The longest village street waterways—and on the Attakapas prairies (you pronounce that in the world is there—eighty miles long as it follows the meander- A-tack-a-paw, with the accent on the tack) battle and romance ing banks of Bayou Lafourche with its steady succession of ram- have gone side by side since the first French settlers reared their bling, rose-bowered houses in which live three generations of outposts there amid tribes of Indians. folk loath to die and exchange the paradise they know for the Here came the blood of France. It came from the Canadian Paradise of which the village priest tells them. posts to the north, down the Mississippi River. It came direct Huge families are the rule. Eighteen and. twenty children from France. It came under British guard from the ravished sometimes—seldom less than eight or ten. Fields of cane and settlements of Nova Scotia in the great exile of the Acadians. corn and rice and cotton greet their eyes on every hand. Fruits French these folk were in the beginning—French of blood and and flowers spring from the rich black soil. Crabs and fish and tongue, of heart and courage. And so fiercely in them burned shrimp are at their doorways just across the bayou levee. There the fire of their heritage that French they are today after more are wild duck and snipe by millions in the marshes close at hand, than two centuries in which the influences of other races and of deer in the cypress swamp that looms against the skyline as a another speech have beat against their thresholds. French, but misty blue rampart, bear in the cane-brakes, figs and oranges loyal Americans. that you pluck from your door-step It was a land of breath-taking beauty to which the Acadians That is the setting in which you find the Legion's posts in the came. The beauty still is there. Longfellow's words have im- Evangeline country. You find them from' New Orleans west- mortalized it in "Evangeline. " And as you pass through ward through Thibodaux, Houma, St. Martinville, Jeaner- that country today you find its beauty unchanged ette, New Iberia, Abbeville, Lockport, Napoleon- from the days when Longfellow wrote of it. ville, Morgan City, Lafayette, Crowley. And Not all the progress of modern life has to most of the Legionnaires of this section, been able to strip from the Evangeline going to France with the A.E.F. was like country the charm it has known since going home for a visit. They had the beginning—a charm that settles heard of France and the heroes of upon it like the visible purple haze France from their childhood—and of the New England Indian sum- the tale had been told them in mer. A lazy charm. A sleepy French. , They were going back charm, if you will. But a charm to the land where their ances- that survives side by side with tors had fought under Charle- the development of America magne and Bertrand du in 1926. Guesclin, had followed j Today through the bayou Jeanne d'Arc and Napoleon. j country smooth roads lure They were going back through thousands of automobiles seaports from which their an- where once sword-girded cestors had sailed two cen- chevaliers galloped horse- turies before to the conquest back, where patient ox- of the New World. teams plodded. Today gaso- If you would get the full line launches dart up the flavor of the difference between bayous where once the cypress the surroundings of these South dugout pirogue paddled and the Louisiana posts of the Legion and red-sailed lugger lazed. Tractors the posts of their northern buddies, and modern farm machinery culti- drop in at St. Martinville in the vate the great cane fields that once parish of St. Martin, the home of were worked by the hands of slave bat- Stanley Barras Post. Once St. Martin- talions. Modern trawlers off the marshy ville was down on the French Colonial coast now drag from the deep the rich hauls of records as Poste des Attakapas. There are sev- shrimp that once were caught by picturesque eral "Evangeline Oaks," but the weight of au- swarthy Cajun crews with huge hand seines The plantation home in Thibodaux, thority favors one on the banks of the Teche at local corruption of the St. Martinville. that tree stood the Cajun being a name Louisiana, that was the birthplace Beneath Acadian. Hunters go forth into swamp and heroine of Longfellow's poem, gazing down the of the late Chief Justice Edward prairie, into duck-blind and over trap lines, Teche, the waters of which were still ruffled with modern arms and modern traps where Douglas White of the Supreme with the passing of the boat that bore away in olden times their great grandfathers went Court of the United States from her Gabriel, her lover, whom she had

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly It is a region of stately homes in stately settings, this land of the bayous over which five flags have flown—a region whose romantic history has no counterpart anywhere else in America missed at this spot by the fatal mischance of a few minutes. Evan- geline's real name was Emmeline Labiche. She sleeps today in the old cemetery at St. Martinville. And though Longfellow brought the lovers together, in life they never met from the day more than one hundred and seventy years ago in Nova Scotia when British soldiers tore them apart. On the streets of St. Martinville you can hear spoken today the old French tongue that Evangeline herself spoke. Small black pic- kaninnies will answer your questions in that strange speech which is rather different from the French of modern France. There in the court house square, with the hoary, moss-covered live oak close to its walls, stands the stately white courthouse reared nearly one hundred years ago by the hands of slaves. Four gigantic cast-iron Ionic columns fifty feet high support its portico. They are made of the wonderful old charcoal-process iron, smooth as silk, thatstands rustless through centuries. In that courthouse the early records

JANUARY, 1927 The Evangeline Oak, on Bayou Teche, St. Martinville, marks the spot where the Acadians landed following their expulsion from Nova Scotia. The sextette here shown are all good Americans and Legionnaires, but their French heritage is apparent

are all in French. To this day interpreters are as integral a part plantation folk. Here is the home of Lennox Hotard Post of of the courtroom staff as the judge himself. The American Legion—one of Houma's most active organiza- At St. Martinville still stands the ancient wooden house built as tions. Since the war the Legionnaires of Houma have taken in a home at the Poste des Attakapas by the Chevalier de la Hous- a revenue of more than $20,000 through their annual Fourth of saye, councillor to Louis XIV of France, long before George Wash- July festival and the weekly dances given in their own pavilion. ington took the field against King George III of England. There, The post today has more than $15,000 in its treasury. It has too, is the Catholic church, just as it was built in 1765 by the Rev- helped every constructive civic enterprise in Houma with man- erend Father Jean Francois, missionary-priest of the Capuchins. power and cash. Recently it gave the Houma Hospital a check Amid all these monuments and relics of the years before there for $1500. It is working now to create a $50,000 city park. was a United States of America the Legionnaires of Stanley Cut back across the Cajun country now, from Bayou Terre- Barras Post are building a large community hall for the use of any bonne to Bayou Lafourche. You find yourself at Thibodaux. civic enterprise as well as for their own meetings. That hall Here is the home of Ferdinand Lefort Post, in one of the most rises within a stone's throw of the Evangeline oak. On the typically French parts of Louisiana. Here too the courthouse banks of the Teche that Gabriel and Evangeline sailed, Stanley records were all kept in French up to the Civil War. Here too Barras Post is building bathhouses for the use of the public as witnesses still testify in French through an interpreter. And well as of its own members. here in the little bayou town is the shrine of an imperishable Step from St. Martinville to Houma—from the banks of Bayou tradition. Still stands on its outskirts the ancient wooden Teche to the banks of Bayou Terrebonne. Houma gets its name plantation home, set amid great trees, with its deep galleries from the tribe of Houma Indians that built, where the town and its battery of three quaint dormer windows jutting from its stands today, a huge temple of adobe and willow for the worship roof, that was the birthplace of the Thibodaux boy whose name of the Sun God. In the temple enclosure that tribe welcomed was Edward Douglas White and who became the Chief Justice of the earliest French explorers. The Indian capital has become a the Supreme Court of the United States. On that wide gallery French town. Great sugar plantations surround it. Among only a few short years ago Chief Justice White, leaving behind them is Southdown Plantation, with its own refinery so great him in Washington his robes of office and the dignity of the that frequently cargoes of Cuban raw sugar are brought up to greatest judicial post in the world, loved to sit, collarless, shirt- keep the plant operating when all the Terrebonne supply has sleeves rolled high, baggy trousers held up by comfortable sag- been refined. From the courthouse square in Houma, where the ging suspenders, and smoke his favorite five-cent cigar while he old red brick courthouse is set amid great trees, only a few steps gossiped with Jean Baptiste and Pierre and Raoul and all his away are the banks of Bayou Terrebonne. Thirty miles down other humble friends from Acadia. through the plantations it runs to the . Up from Never a mile of the bayou country but has its traditions. The the Gulf come thousands of lugger loads of oysters for Houma's very names have stories all their own. The Teche itself was canneries. Swarthy coastal Cajuns mingle with the town and named from an ancient Indian word that means snake. One

So The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly tradition has it that the winding course of the bayou gave birth rushing up through the pipe. That salt water had to be confined, to the name. Yet another tradition handed down from lip to lip lest it get into the irrigation system of the miles of rice fields and since pioneer days is that in remote ages by the banks of that kill the crop. So McHugh conceived the idea of building bath- stream a tribe of Indians fought and slew a gigantic serpent that houses and a great swimming pool. With the Legion backing it, crawled up— the bayou bank and attacked their villages. The the job was done. Lafourche "the fork"—was so christened because the French Crowley today has that swimming pool, open to all citizens explorers followed it up to its source at the spot where Donald- as a monument to Acadia Post of The American Legion. The sonville now stands, and found water is of a greater density it was one of the forks of the even than that of Great Salt Mississippi River. And the Lake in Utah. No human being Terrebonne, as its French name can sink in it. Those who can- indicates, was the bayou that not swim a stroke play about flowed through the "good land." fearlessly in fifteen and twenty In New Iberia is head- feet of salt water in which they quarters of Iberia Post of The cannot drop below their shoul- American Legion. In a grove ders, even when they stand of ancient oaks stands the upright in it. stately old courthouse, scene Volumes could be filled with of barricade, skirmish and the legends of romance and ad- pitched battle when the white venture that have their home in men after the Civil War, gun this land of bayou and prairie in hand, wrested the control from New Orleans to the west- of their government from car- ward. Those legends go back pet-baggers and the Negro to the days of LaSalle, Bien- politicians that were their tools. ville and Iberville, the earliest Some of the most beautiful French explorers and settlers. plantation homes in Louisiana They take in the landing at stand in this stretch along the New Orleans, over the levee at Teche around New Iberia and what is now Jackson Square Jeanerette. One of them, and was then the Place Sh clow Lawn, more than a dArmes, of the Filles a la Cas- hundred years old, has been re- sette—a shipload of girls of stored to its ante-bellum glory good family sent by King by Weeks Hall, the owner, and Louis XIV as brides for his was the spot where David colonists, every bride with the Wark Griffith filmed "The royal gift of a dowry in a little White Rose." brass-bound casket. But the bayou country is There is even a German tra- only part of this South Louisi- dition in this land of the ana land of romance. Out be- French. The west bank of the yond the bayou towns stretch Mississippi some miles above to the west the prairies of the New Orleans is still known to Attakapas. Here, at Crowley, the old-timers as the German America's World War veterans Coast. The little village of Des have founded Acadia Post, and, Allemands still stands. John at Lafayette, Stajdey Martin Law, the Scotch financier, the Post. Here is the center of Ponzi of his time, who ran wild the rice-growing industry of w in Paris under a French king's America. On every hand patronage and blew spread the wide prairies with the Mississippi their huge rice crops. Bubble that nearly Lafayette needed a new court- wrecked France, house. Attempts to float a brought over ship- bond issue throughout the loads of German parish failed. Those backing colonists to settle the issue called in the leaders here. The French of the Legion at Lafayette. peacefully sub- They promised the Legion- merged them. To naires a memorial hall for their this day you can exclusive use in the new court- find in South Loui- house if the bond issue could siana blonde and be put through. The Legion- blue-eyed families naires went to work. The re- of German ances- sult of their campaign was an try speaking one of overwhelming vote for the the several Louisiana splendid new courthouse that is French dialects. now rising in Lafayette. Here In New Orleans it- too the old French tradition self old France and still lives—to such a degree The American Legion that the meetings of Stanley are linked indissolubly, Martin Post can be, and some- apart from the men of times are, conducted in French. French blood who are Farther out over the prairies Miss Mildred Dessens members of New Or- to the west rises Crowley, home of St. Martinville, a de- leans Post and Crescent of Acadia Post—and of Com- scendant of the Acadians, City Post. For the mander Joseph McHugh. Mc- as Evangeline Legion Club, head- Hugh's gift to Crowley in the quarters for the Louisi- name of The American Legion ana Depart- is one of the most remarkable swimming pools in the -C. ment, at the world. Commander McHugh, general manager of the corner of Royal Coastal Oil Company at Crowley, was drilling for oil. and {Continued He struck inexhaustible salt-water springs that came on page 73)

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EOTEAROA Tangatahaero Pah Ko- seating equipment and projecting apparatus. This /§ tahi," wrote Marshall I. Mays. At theater the post has operated so successfully for f~i first we thought he was giving us a two years—giving three shows weekly—that profits «^ JL bright saying by Antiphlogistine, or have wiped out half of the debt remaining when the some other old Greek, for the Bursts and Duds page, building was completed. Incidentally, the theater but then we noticed a New Zealand postage stamp is not primarily a money-making enterprise, as the on his letter. It turned out that Mr. Mays was simply giving post's main effort is to bring to its town first-run pictures and us the title of The American Legion Post at Wellington, New exceptional films which might not come to it through usual Zealand, of which he is Commander. Mr. Mays, a veteran of motion picture channels. the 35th Division, is an American Vice Consul at Wellington. The town council made construction of the building possible "We have proved," he added, "that Legionnaires scattered over by authorizing a bond issue of $10,000 after arranging with a foreign coun- the post to obtain offices in the struc- try can carry on ture for all town officials. An addi- very well by cor- tional sum of $10,000 was subscribed respondence, as by citizens. When the building was long as a central finished, at a cost of $30,000, the agency is avail- post began its work of reducing an able. Not more indebtedness of $10,000. than two or three members can get together TLT ERE is some good news from - Washington. Brigadier at a time ; but in General 1026 we found Lutz Wahl, the Assistant Adjutant nine jobs for un- General of the War Department, is employed Ameri- compiling a list of the names of the cans, and three sons of deceased World War veterans for other service who are eligible to appointment to the Military Academy at West Point. General Wahl will appreciate help Legion posts give him in making his PERHAPS the list of eligibles complete. He is ob- fact that she taining from the Veterans Bureau the was born in Tex- names of all Fritz Blumenthal (left), former Adjutant of Oklahoma as explains why male dependents City Post, snapped in the act of signing up his 650th new Miss Harriet M. of World War Legion member making a total of 2,765 names Kuemin, chief for 1926, service men who Mr. Blumenthal had got on the Legion's dotted line nurse of the Bos- were killed in ac- since 1919. Below, Miss Harriet M. Kuemin, Com- ton office of the tion or who died, mander South End Post of Boston. Two hundred Veterans Bureau, of as the result of men and only one other woman belong to the post can ride a horse wounds or dis- ease, so well. But it prior to was leadership which caused South End Post, of Boston, com- July 2, 1921. posed of two hundred men, to elect Miss Kuemin Post Com- The boys old enough now to mander. She is one of the two women members of the post. qualify for West During the World War Miss Kuemin served as chief surgical Point appoint- nurse in the base hospital at Dijon, France. ments will be no- tified of their

opportunity a t A ' I this on your adding machine," Harry Markham, Com- RY once. Others mander of Alton (Kansas) Post might have suggested in will be notified submitting a report of the barbecue given by his post as the as they approach leading feature of Legion Day in its community. "We fed the age of eligi- 1,800 persons," reported Commander Markham. "It took 900 bility, which is pounds of beef, fifteen bushels of potatoes, pounds of 150 seventeen. beans, 100 pounds of sugar, ten gallons of cream, ten boilers of coffee and 4,000 buns. This was a free dinner, given by a post of fifteen members without financial assistance from any- CERTAINLY one. We have given this free dinner each year this year's — it should be dinner our sixth." was no great task for any post to make a census of the GOING into partnership with its town was the method by boys in its com- which Smith Post of Alta, Iowa, provided for itself an munity who may unusual type of post clubhouse and at the same time gave to eventually quali- the citizens of Alta an amusement center which the commun- fy for appoint- ity long had needed. ments to West Point or Annapolis under the new law. In The most distinctive feature of the post's clubhouse is its sending in lists to General Wahl, give full names of sons and motion picture theater, a large auditorium with modern stage, their dates of birth, full names of fathers and organizations in 52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly STEP

which fathers served, and time and place and cause trucks every day between Vernal and the railroad. of deaths of fathers. Before your post loses sight of Practically every article, big and little, sent into or this opportunity for service, somebody ought to out of Vernal is carried by Uncle Sam's parcel post. stand up in post meeting and offer a resolution re- A bank building in Vernal was built entirely of ma- questing the Post Commander to appoint a commit- terial—bricks and all—shipped in by parcel post. tee to take the census of sons of deceased service Vernal has two thousand inhabitants, of whom men. Later we'll try to find out from General Wahl how more than fifty are members of Witbeck Post and seventy-five many posts have sent him lists of names. are members of the Auxiliary. "Although we may be buried out of sight, we're not dead," reports H. A. Tyzack, Past Post Commander. IF ANYONE started handing out citations to Legion posts for triumphing over difficulties, he wouldn't want to over- look Witbeck Post of Vernal, Utah, and its unit of the Ameri- PARIS Unit of the Auxiliary » st by death recently its old- can Legion Auxiliary. A symbol of the spirit of this post and est member, Mrs. Emily Heing, who Jied at the age of 87. its Auxiliary unit stands on Vernal's main street. It is a monu- She was the mother of Sterling Hei!ig \o American newspaper ; ment, a shaft surmounted by a bronze figure of a doughboy. correspondent in Paris. Her brothe;, Rear Admiral George Other posts have erected monuments in other towns. Nothing Kutz of the , won distinction in the World unusual about the erection of a monument. But there is some- War by leaving the retired list and re-enterin', active service thing unusual about the monument in Vernal. Venrl happens at the Mare Island Navy Yard in San Frarif'jco, despite his to be located just one hundred and twenty-five miles from the age of eighty years. Mrs. Heilig made surreal dressings in nearest railroad, as distance is measured by the road through an American hospital in Paris during the World War, re- canyons and over mountains. It was a real adventure when calling the fact that she had made surgical dressings for the Legionnaires transported the heroic figure of bronze for their Union forces in the Civil War in the United States more than monument over one hundred and twenty-five miles of mountain fifty years earlier. roads. Incidentally, the post and unit raised almost $4,000 to pay for the monument, school children giving much of this money. WHEN Jo E. Gaitskill was elected Commander of the Kansas Department last autumn, he didn't have to waste any time getting acquainted with his Department Adjutant. VERNAL'S transportation problem makes it unique among And Department Adjutant Ernest A. Ryan wasn't at all curious the communities of the United States. Uncle Sam keeps about the new skipper. For Gaitskill and Ryan have been as it in touch with the outer world. He not only maintains the fraternal as the two Smith Brothers for twenty-five years. highway, but he also operates a fleet of fourteen motor mail Both Gaitskill and Ryan were born and reared at Girard, a

// you want to catch this train, it can't get away from you. It happens to be the old Pullman car which Pennsylvania Railroad Post of Philadelphia uses as its country clubhouse

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town of 3,000 persons in the coal mining section of southeast TWENTY-EIGHT ocean liners will carry the Legion pil- Kansas. They lived within a block of each other for twenty- grims0 to France. The Leviathan will be the flagship of this five years, attended the same grade school and high school, armada. The ships will sail from seven official ports in the played on the same football and baseball teams, and were room United States and one in Canada. These ports are: Boston, mates at the University of Kansas. They served in different New York City, Hampton Roads, Virginia; Charleston, South outfits in the World War, but, returning to Girard, both became Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida; New Orleans, Galveston, and organizers and charter members of George C. Brown Post. Montreal. The steamship lines used will be The United States Gaitskill was the post's second Commander; Ryan was its sec- Lines, Canadian Pacific Line, Cunard-Anchor Lines, French ond Adjutant. Ryan became Department Adjutant in 1924. Line, Holland-America Line, the International Mercantile Ma- Gaitskill just naturally came along later. rine Company and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. For the convenience of Legionnaires wishing to go to France in advance of the main movement, official advance sailings have been arranged for a number of ships. ARE you going to Paris with The American Legion in Sep- These will be from tember? Have you sent your Paris Convention applica- New York City, Boston and Montreal. tion to your Department France Convention" Officer? Have you received from the France Convention Committee at National Headquarters in Indianapolis an official receipt showing that YOU won't have to guess about the kind of steamship ac- your application has been approved and your reservation commodations you will have. The France Convention granted ? Committee has had prepared for each State a two-color "On If you can answer ;/es co these questions, you are one of To Paris" folder, which not only gives all necessary general in- the many Legionnaires who are all set for the France Conven- formation about the France Convention arrangements, but also tion pilgrimage. The cnly additional thing you will have to contains a photograph of the steamship on which the delegation do will be to get together your money for final payment of the from the State will sail. Large-scale deck plans of the steam- cost of your tri ship are also before May 1st. shown. If you The committee haven't received is doing all the a copy of the work for you special folder for and it is saving your State, apply you from both- to your Post Ad- ering about an jutant or your awful lot of de- Department tails. France Conven- tion Officer.

IF you haven't made your THE official reservation yet, application this is a remind- for the France er that the time Convention pil- to make it is grimage is an right now. The First to sign up for the Second A. E. F.— impressive look- France Conven- General John J. Pershing, Honorary Com- i n g four-page tion Committee, mander The American Legion, and document d e - of \ through the De- Howard P. Savage, National Command- signed to insure

1 partment France er, gave their checks as deposits on that accommo- Convention Of- Paris Convention reservations dations shall go ficers, in to Legion- one on the first day applica- lp only - each State, be- tions were received naires, m e m gan receiving ap- A bers of the plications for Auxiliary or reservations for others elig- steamship and y i b 1 e to ' hotel accommo- < . • make the dations No- trip. on , , The

vember 15th. It • .. application has is a vast task, \ "' -' space for all the in-

handling the reser- «| . formation the national vations for the thirty / ,^ committee will need in assign- thousand Legionnaires ing steamship space and hotel ac- expected to make the commodations, making reservations for pilgrimage in September. tours to the cemeteries and battlefields, and in There are many reasons issuing the Legion Identification Certificate that why it is wise to get ap- takes the place of the customary passport. plications in early. Every Legionnaire planning to make IBi the trip—even if he doubts ROUND trip steamship prices range on most of the ships whether to he will be able to get \ from $145.80 to de luxe accommodations at from $300 away when the time comes— V $370. On the Leviathan, round trip rates range from $157-5° ought to send in an application on up to the premier suites at $1,680. In the group of ac- now. If you have to cancel your reservation later, all your commodations priced at from $i45-8o to $190 are 7,790 berths. money will be refunded if your cancellation is sent in before In a better grade of accommodation, at prices from $200 to June 1st. Even if you cancel your reservation after June ist, $230 for the round trip, are 1,911 berths. In the group with most of your money would be returned to you. prices ranging from $250 to $290, 6,682 berths are available. 54 The AMERICAN LEGIOT'J Monthly KEEPING STEP

De luxe accommodations, priced at from $315 to $370 for the you should send your official application blank after you have round trip, include 785 berths. filled it out. Before sending it to him, however, have it en- The main movement, exclusive of the Leviathan, will provide dorsed by the France Convention Officer of your post. Be sure accommodations for 20,148 passengers. The Leviathan will to send with it two copies of your photograph for your Legion carry 2,000 passengers, including quotas from all the States, Identification Certificate. Finally, send with the application During the war, she carried as many as 10,000 men on a single a post office money order, certified check, cashier's check or trip. Advance travel transfer sailings sched- certificate for (Following must be filled in on typewriter, or printed in ink) uled would pro- $50, payable to vide accommo- Color the National dations for 5,290 France Conven- Height- feet. .^.inches persons. There tion Committee. will be no crowd- Weight /.^jjTl.. Lbs. This amount is ing on the Le- the deposit re- gion's steam- Han 32kjL&ro*n_-

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DENTAL calisthenics went over big in the schools of Cory- NATIONAL Historian Eben Putnam came mighty near don, Iowa, when the Corydon Unit of the American Le- adding the prefix "Past" to his title at Philadelphia. He gion Auxiliary conducted a two-day free clinic for the school had decided to resign, to give some other Legionnaire a chance children. Brushing teeth "by the numbers" was one feature of but National Commander Savage appealed to him to stay on, the program, designed to teach children that up and down particularly since several important Legion efforts, originated brushing, and not lateral brushing, is the proper method. As by the National Historian, still remain to be carried out. The other features of the clinic, dentists examined the teeth of Legion's victory in getting Congress to appropriate $6.,qoj>;ooo for the erection of -National' Ar^iives^-Btiildirig, children under school age, and in-, the lower-grades gave -talks -on »a 'won after a four fight, the care of teeth. years was due largely to Mr. Putnam's work. Now Historian Putnam wants a check-up by Department Historians in all the States to ascertain whether state records of the World War are being properly safeguarded. Mr. Putnam will five day week hasn't got out of the talking stage yet, THE also request all posts to learn whether the World War records but somebody might help it along by the slogan: "Golf of their communities are being suitably preserved. for everybody." Some such slogan might also have been used by Marshalltown (Iowa) Post, which has been working on plans for a community golf course. The post expects to sell two hundred coupon books at ten dollars each to meet the THE name of Forges Woods, which rings in the memory of coupon first expense of laying out its course. Those not having World War veterans, will have an added significance to books will pay a fee of fifty cents a game. citizens of Chicago. A two-hundred acre tract in Palos Park Forest Preserve—a part of Chicago's metropolitan park system —was recently christened Forges Woods and dedicated to the hundred and fifty children of Legionnaires and Auxil- memory of the fallen members of the 132nd Infantry and to TWO old- the iary members were to play and sing under a good continuing use of Forges Post of The American Legion. fashioned American Christmas tree in Paris on Christmas As most service men know, Forges Woods was a supposedly Day, according to advance word sent by Mrs. A. W. impregnable German stronghold on the Meuse River. Kipling, President of Paris Unit of the American It was captured on September 26, 1918, by the Legion Auxiliary. Children who couldn" d Infantry, a Chicago outfit. Five mem- come to the party were to receive parcels ;rs of the regiment were awarded the of presents, Mrs. Kipling said. Paris Congressional Medal of Honor for Unit has just been through a busy bravery in the Battle of Forges Woods. Forges Woods Post is com- year in its welfare work. The unit helped twenty-seven families, giv posed of veterans of the regiment. ing clothing to forty-seven chil- The post will use a memorial cabin in the its dren. The unit is helping not new woods as only distressed families of summer headquarters. American service men, but also twenty-two French orphaned children, who are beneficiaries BOSTON has one of the many of the Orphans Fund established Legion posts composed en- by the Stars and Stripes, official tirely of former Army nurses newspaper of the A. E. F. An and girls who served as yeomen example of the unit's work for in the Navy. This post is Bessie P. the orphans is the sending of a named in honor of boy to a school in the United Edwards, the daughter of Ma- States on a scholarship provided jor-General Clarence R. Ed- by private funds. wards. While an Army nurse, Miss Edwards died in a south- ern hospital during the influenza epidemic in 1918. A hillside in the highest ONsection of Northwood Cemetery in Hartford, Connec- a man is trying to ticut, fifteen graded and shrub- WHEN ornamented plots mark The break even, living frugally American Legion Cemetery re- on the compensation the Gov- cently established through the ernment gives him and supple- this with the money he efforts of Rau-Locke Post. The menting Legion cemetery has space for can earn despite the handicaps imposed on him by wounds or 1,314 graves and will be con- ducted under regulations similar disease, four or five dollars may like sum. Merritt to those governing Arlington look a big National Cemetery. Divisions Lamb Post of Muskegon, Michi- gan, recognized this fact two are set aside for the graves of years ago when it voted that veterans of all wars, and wives dues for disabled of veterans will be given graves membership paid out of the beside those of their husbands. men should be general fund. Last year All graves will be marked with post's twenty-four of the forty dis- uniform headstones—a marble post availed stone supplied for veterans' This stone, bearing a reproduction of the Victory abled men in the of the free-member- graves by the State of Connecti- Medal of John Lamson, who served in the A. E. F. themselves ship privilege. "Some of these cut. "Our efforts may inspire with the Q5th Aero Squadron, was erected on Mr. are live members of the similar ones by other posts," Lamson's grave through efforts of Raleigh (North men fact that they suggests Charles B. Yerrington, Carolina) Post after an attempt to find relatives of post despite the totally disabled," chairman of the post's ceme- Mr. Lamson had failed and his estate was about to are rated as Merlin Paine, Post tery committee. revert to the State as unclaimed writes M. AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 56 The K E E P I N G STEP

The world's biggest moment—meeting Santa Claus close-up. It happened at a Christmas party given by Cuyahoga County Council of the Legion in Cleveland, Ohio

Adjutant. "Many of them have written heart-warming letters GIANTVALLEY Post's prize-winning record is largely the of appreciation. The reaction on the post in good will has story of what it has done to help the children of its com- more than balanced the expense of the membership." munity, South Minneapolis. During the year it conducted basket ball, hockey, diamond ball and baseball leagues in which hundreds of boys have played. It obtained the erection of a FEW posts in the Legion can present a record of activities traffic signal light at a busy street intersection which had be- and accomplishments as varied and comprehensive as that come dangerous to school children. It gives each year in the of Vincent L. Giantvalley Post of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Christmas season a children's party attended by boys and girls which was declared the winner of a 1926 contest among Min- of a large number of schools. It has taken the lead in pro- nesota Department city posts because of that record. O. W. viding a suitable building for the use of children using the Johnson, Post Adjutant, proud of his post's athletic fields in one of the city's biggest parks. The post's general record, believes that the single ac- Boy Scout troop won eleven first place awards out of a possible tivity which his post would wish most to twelve in its district Scout contests. The post provides annual- recommend to other posts is the giving of ly four scholarship medals for presentation in high schools. baskets of food und other things to needy families at Christmas time. "Our post last Christmas distributed THE flag that is displayed proudly as a fifty-two baskets having an approximate symbol of national honor, that floats above value of nine dollars each," writes Mr. soldiers' graves on Memorial Day as Johnson. "They did not consist of a symbol of remembrance, ought not fancy, high-priced delicacies, but of be cheapened by use as a lot marker good substantial foods which would in new real estate allotments. So serve a family of three or four per- reasoned Post sons for perhaps a week. We have of St. Louis. The post com- no desire to capitalize for pub- municated its thought to the St. licity purposes, what we did and Louis Real Estate Exchange. we have tried to avoid any The Exchange, thereupon, adopt- semblance to charity in the ed a resolution expressing its op- giving of the baskets. We real- position to the improper use of ize that many other posts have the flag as lot markers and asked given baskets at Christmas all its members to help end the time, and our principal inter- practice. "An idea here est is in trying to induce posts worth taking up by other which have never done it to posts," comments F. H. consider doing what we do. The Fletcher, Adjutant of Quen- posts which have not rendered tin Roosevelt Post. Inci- a service of this kind cannot For him every boy's dream has come true—he leads the dentally, how many posts are appreciate the genuine pleasure band. He is Drum Major Smith, age six years, of displaying copies of the Le- which comes from it." Warwick, New York gion's code of flag etiquette?

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JUST to let you know that seldom in its history has Spencer John R. Lechner. Many of the 200 members of the post are Ely Post of Buenos Aires, Argentine, had greater pleasure motion picture stars. than it found in the banquet it gave for Lieutenant James H. Doolittle, an American aviator," bulletins E. A. McAuliffe, Commander of the Buenos Aires Post. "Lieutenant Doolittle REPEATEDLY it has been emphasized that almost every gave a sublime exhibition of Yankee pluck by making a non- Legion post is a cross section of its community. The flight Santiago, Chile, on the West Coast, to Buenos stop from photograph on Page 50, illustrating Mr. Frost's article on the Aires, on the East Coast, despite the fact that he had broken Legion posts of the old French section of Louisiana, supports both his ankles in an accident a few days before he made his this claim. Not only do the Legionnaires shown in the photo- - with flight. He had to use crutches to get about while he was graph, which was taken under the Evangeline Oak at St. us. About two hundred members of our post and guests at- Martinville, bear names recalling the origin of the pioneers in held just tended a dinner in his honor at the American Club, Louisiana but also they prove how importantly members of to States." before he returned the the St. Martinville Post rank in the affairs of their town. Those appearing in the photograph, from left to right, are:

Lawrence J. Bonin, Postmaster and Executive Committeeman members of Albert J. Hamilton Post of Bellingham, SIXTY for the Third Louisiana District of the Legion; L. J. Montegut, Washington, are veterans of the Navy and the Marine Parish Superintendent of Schools and Past Post Commander; Corps. They have formed a Navy Club to carry on specialized Z. H. Bienvenu, Post Commander, a merchant; James D. post activities. "One of the objects of the club," reports its Simon, District Judge and delegate to the Legion's National skipper, Ralph C. Nye, "was to bring to the attention of the Convention at Philadelphia; P. H. Fleming, Mayor and Chair- post the fact that sailors were very seldom mentioned on the man of Post Entertainment Committee, and D. A. Bienvenu, floor. We hold our meetings once a month, a banquet at 6:30 Agent for the Pierce Corporation and Post Adjutant. p. m., after which we go in a body to the post meeting. Im- promptu debates have provided much amusement at post meet- ings. Army men and Air Service men like to razz the Navy Club, and we come back at them, of course." THERE was an idea for many a post in A. B. Bernd's article in the November issue on the way Shanklin-Attaway Post of Rome, Georgia, has conducted the annual fair in its BEVERLY HILLS (California) Post, organized less than a community. The experience of the Rome post is not excep- year ago in the California city of 15,000 persons which ad- tional. Many other posts have demonstrated that Legion ag- joins Hollywood, the motion picture center, is trying to set a gressiveness and Legion system can bring back to prosperity a new Legion record. It hopes to be living in a clubhouse it has county fair which is in danger of abandonment and bring new built for itself when the first anniversary of its founding ar- success to a fair which has been only moderately successful. rives. "Do you know of any other post which has built a club- In Lawrenceburg, Indiana, for example, David McAllister house within a year after it was established?" asks Legionnaire Post took over the county fairground in 1922 after it had K EE PING STEP

The railbirds got a real kick out of it when Cam- bridge ( Ohio ) Post showed what to do vnth a county fairground. The relic display which Celina ( Ohio) Post conducted at the county fair in its town (below) outgrew the space assigned it in an exhibit hall and had to be given a place of honor in a tent

suffered from ten years of neglect. The City Council gave the post a lease on the fairground for ten years. Since 1922 the fairs conducted by the Legion post have been uniformly suc- cessful and the obsolete buildings have been reconstructed. In Parkersburg, West Virginia, when it became known in 1925 that the Wood County Fair might be abandoned, Park- ersburg Post of the Legion stepped forward and assumed full responsibility for putting the fair across. Seventy-five mem- bers of the post formed working details and put the fair- ground in condition. The fair went over big despite bad weather on several days.

ANOTHER Minnesota post which has set for the whole - Legion an example of what a post can do for its com- munity is William T. McCoy Post, the winner of its Depart- ment post activities contest open to posts outside the larger THE park project might have seemed a big enough task for cities. Located in Rochester, the town which is nationally any post, but it didn't prevent McCoy Post from taking known as the seat of the Mayo Brothers clinic, to which thou- on another big job—the rehabilitation of the Olmsted County sands of patients come annually for surgical care, McCoy Post fair. There had been talk of abandoning the fair because of has hitherto won recognition in the Legion by the way it has mounting expenses, but the Legionnaires agreed to perform assisted service men who are among the patients. It employs without compensation practically all the work which had hither- a full-time welfare worker to keep in touch with these men to been carried on by paid employes of the fair association. and to give them all possible help. This year the post widened Another example of the post's community spirit is the fact its field of activities. It undertook a number of enterprises, that it has purchased a motion picture camera. It makes several of them quite large. films of all important events in its county and presents them The most conspicuous of the post's new enterprises is the to the Olmsted County Historical Society to be preserved for community golf course it has established. It purchased 160 future generations. Isn't this an idea that many other posts acres of land within four blocks of the heart of its town, agree- might follow? Sounds a bit costly, but it certainly ought to ing to pay $24,000 for the tract. It has prepared plans for the be worth while. development of the tract which will require ten years of work. The post gave away one thousand Easter eggs and three In addition to the golf course, the post will lay out a children's hundred chocolate Easter bunnies to the crowds of children playground, a bathing beach, tennis courts, bridle paths, foot- who took part in its Easter Egg and Rabbit Hunt. Then just ball gridiron, baseball diamond and a picnic grounds. The to make sure the post would keep busy during the spring it tract will .be a playground for everybody. organized a sweet pea contest among ( Continued on page 81)

JANUARY, 1927 59 Individual War Debt Commission Convenes — Did Alex the Great Do His Stuff in the A. E. F. — Christmas Carols Overseas — Veterans Seek Service Mementos

are some debts, we have found in our present due some money from me—a small sum, but nevertheless I'd T'HEREcapacity, that are not affected by the statute of limita- like for him to have it." With a bit of sleuthing and the as- tions. The eight years which have passed since the sistance of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, war came to a close would outlaw any debts incurred Washington, we found Nonnenmacher in Yakima, Washington, when most of the young men of our country were either in and another war debt was wiped off the slate. uniform or ready to get in. The debts we are speaking of are Now let's see what we can do for Comrade Vincent Petrovski debts of honor in which the contracting parties were fellow of Chicago, Illinois, who has a special reason for wanting to fighters. find an army acquaintance who did him a good turn. Petrovski Take for instance a letter which the Company Clerk re- was one of the small army of American soldats who took unto ceived from Legionnaire Philip N. King of Elkton, Maryland. themselves French mademoiselles as wives. When time came King asked that we include a notice in this department in the to sail home from Brest, he had three months pay due him, was broke, following words: "Will Harry , who was and found himself in the embarrassing mess sergeant of the M. P. Company located position of not having enough funds to pay in St. Malo, France, after the armistice his newly-acquired wife's passage to and who hailed from Philadelphia America. One McKay, who was also Pennsylvania, kindly send his name among the overseas benedicts but and address to the Company who obtained his discharge in Clerk?" When we wrote King France, with the intention of to ascertain why he wanted to farming, advanced a sum of locate this man he informed money to Petrovski to cov- us that he "knew this er the fare. The money buddy for a long enough was to be repaid to Mc- time to borrow a few Kay's sister, who lived in francs from him but for Chicago, but the sister too short a time to even had married and left no remember his last name." address. Now Petrov- And now Comrade King ski would like to locate would like to locate either McKay (who Harry and pay back the he advises is of Lithu- money. If Harry will anian descent but was tell us where he is, he born in this country with can collect this old debt. the adopted name of Mc« When Private John Al- Kay) or his sister. fred Lundberg of Com- pany B, 114th Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Division, BASEBALL out of sea- intercepted a piece of shrapnel son? Well, just a little while his outfit was engaged in more than a month from now battle near Bellicourt, France, the bats will be cracking in the on September 24, 1918, and re southern training camps, so the ceived his ticket for a hospital, he for- following letter from Comrade 0. H. got all about a note which he had turned Willard of Holloway, Ohio, will serve over to his company commander, Cap- as a pre-season appetizer: tain D. N. McMillin, for safekeeping. "During the World War I served with This note covered some money which A view of the S. 0. S. sector at Le Mans Headquarters Company, 21st Division, taken in Lundberg had loaned to some civilian iqiq by Louis Myer, ex-First Ser- 35th Engineers, as master engineer, sen- geant, M. C. Unsullied I. cans await- before he entered the service. Captain Q. G. ior grade. We were to sail from Bor- ing shipment to their ultimate fate as cof- McMillin had no opportunity to return deaux, France, on May 18, 1019, on the containers gear the note while he was still overseas and fee and mess washers transport Santa Clara. Just the day upon his return home addressed Lund- prior to sailing, Captain Blair and Lieu- berg at his home town, Fullerton, North Dakota, only to have tenant Offut, who were in command, instructed me to get a his letter returned unclaimed. Legionnaire McMillin of Nash- ball team together, as they had arranged for us to play the ville, Tennessee, kept up his search, however, and then asked best baseball team in France. our help. Lundberg was located in St. James, Minnesota, and "The team that we played that afternoon was supposed to the note, out of his hands for almost eight years, was returned be composed of professional baseball players who traveled to him with an affidavit from his former captain explaining why from place to place in the A. E. F. and crossed bats with any he (Lundberg) didn't have the note available for collection. team that their manager thought was good enough. The man- ager was a captain. Our team defeated this crack team by the score of 2 to 0—a shut-out—a team-mate by the name of HpO SHOW that doughboys are not the only ones who want Frye making the first run in the eighth inning and the writer 1 to conclude wartime loans after all these years, we can cite getting a home run in the ninth off of Alexander, the opposing the case of ex-gob C. A. Newman of Athens, Tennessee, who pitcher. asked our help in locating a former buddy, L. L. Nonnenmacher, "What I would like to know is the position and name of who served with him on the Italian troop transport Dante each player who was in that game and also if the Alexander Alighieri during 1018 and 1919. Legionnaire Newman advised who pitched for our opponents was Alexander the Great, who that "the reason I want to locate this comrade is that he is pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to victory in the las.t World's 60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

Series. The only names I can recall are Frye, right field, and never been told. It served to bind books as well as wounds, Fleming, pitcher, for our team, and Alexander, pitcher for the to mend dilapidated French money, to stop unexpected holes opponents. Fleming was announced as "Lefty" Fleming from in hot-water bags, or as address labels for souvenir helmets opposing pitcher as Grover Alexander. W. & J. College and the bound for home—for a thousand things of which its inventor The attendance at the game, which was played at Gondecourt had never dreamed. " [Genicart?], an embarkation camp just outside of Bordeaux, 'Merry Christmas' appeared as if by magic on the wall of was very large and I am sure that someone can help give me the ward—a double adhesive tape bound to the wall which held the information wanted." fluffy absorbent cotton made into the letters on a scarlet back- ground. At my suggestion, just over the door was hung a big piece of mistletoe. We, the ill ones, felt much better after the JUST when the holiday season was approaching we received decorations were completed, and when the boys carefully an- a letter from Mrs. Katharine Paul of Crestwood, New York, chored the miniature evergreen tree in a bucket of coal, we who, while not a member of the Legion because of ineligibility felt quite recovered. None of us was able to go out to skirm- to join, assured the Company Clerk that she was a regular and ish for gifts for the tree, but we induced Johnson, the big col- ardent reader of the Monthly. Mrs. Paul, or "Mother" Paul ored orderly at our Red Cross hut, to manage' a couple of Red as she was better known to the hundreds of patients and to the Cross kits for us. From them we selected a choice array of men of Base Hospital No. 15, located near G. H. Q. at Chau- gifts. I had received a box from home and its contents were mont, where she conducted the Red Cross hut, sent us an ac- hung on the trees for the nurses. To each of the four soldiers count of how Christmas was observed in 1918 in one of the who were orderlies in our ward we gave a five-franc note, with wards of the hospital. This flash-back will probably recall which I suppose they properly celebrated New Year's Day. many similar impromptu Christmas celebrations held in France "The mistletoe did its work. Not a man escaped. They and in the occupied area in Germany: didn't try to. For a full half hour they forgot they were digni- "It had snowed all day until the bare ground of the parade fied medical officers, and most of them being young, enjoyed was a white, ghostly sheet. Sick nurses, sick officers and a the spree immensely. It was timed so as to avoid the night sick Red Cross worker, myself, filled the observation pavilion nurse, who unfortunately had been born old and had never o'clock, just settling into to its capacity. The small ward where I was located, with a grown young. About nine as we were half-dozen nurses who were ill from their devotion to the the night's routine, there was a sound below of much scraping wounded boys, was bare and unattractive. Rumors of the gay of hob-nailed boots, gay voices, a musical note or two. Then 'Hark, trimmings in all the other wards had reached us, but ours from the big hall came the notes of the Herald Angels seemed neglected, until two Marines breezed in to see 'Moth- Sing.' Those of us who had clambered into our narrow cots again, and hastily slipping into our bath er,' as they affectionately called me. Ostensibly they came to clambered out warm see me, as visits of enlisted men to Red Cross workers who robes, crept into the upper hall. One by one the doors of the were patients had not been forbidden. But I knew that in officers' rooms opened, and more figures, similarly arrayed, the bed next to mine was a young, pretty nurse, threatened stole toward the head of the stairs to listen to the familiar and with pleurisy, and of course, no one could find f.ult if a good- all too homelike strains of our own Christmas carols. looking Marine spent most of his visit to me in chatting with "There were fifty enlisted men who had been rounded up by his nurse. the sergeant, all with good voices, and they sang as they never "As the Marines halted in the doorway, they glanced at each sang before, with visions of their own Christmas firesides. One other. One, a big fellow whose olive skin betrayed his nation- by one we all joined in and when the last strains of 'Silent ality, turned to his buddy and said, 'This looks like hell Night, Holy Night' stole out, we quietly went back to our for the night's rest. we've got to fix it up.' After a half hour's visit they departed rooms and finished our preparations Taps with many mysterious looks and chuckles. Late that afternoon floated out over the parade ground." both returned, bearing a small evergreen tree, rolls of colored paper and a big armful of greens. I had learned never to ask a soldier where he got things. Within an hour they had trans- AN INCOMPLETED manuscript of historical value to formed the cheerless ward with gay paper decorations, plastered former members of the First Reserve Aero Squadron is on the walls with adhesive. The many uses of adhesive have the most important item of some missing property reported by George H. Starr, formerly sergeant, 23d Aero Squadron, and A third Testament was picked up by Durnell E. Matthews now living in Buffalo, New York. Comrade Starr advises that sometime during the first week in October, 1918, after the in April, 1919, he was en route home with Air Service Casual Meuse-Argonne offensive had started. Matthews writes: "My

Company No. 1, but while passing through Camp No. 2 at division, the 3 2d, had relieved the 37th on September 30th. Genicart, France, he was ordered to report for duty in Bor- During one of my trips as a runner I stopped northwest of deaux. He had with him at the time a home-made barracks Montfaucon near a small tank which had been put out of locker, similar to the regulation lockers, and it was marked commission. Near it were several packs that had been de- with his name and outfit. This locker, which in addition to stroyed and among the remains of one was the Testament. his clothing contained the incomplete manuscript history of Being without a Testament, I picked it up and still have it. the First Reserve Aero Squadron, together with a great It is a small morocco-bound book and on the outside front many pictures which cannot be duplicated, was lost in Genicart, cover appears the inscription 'Frank W. Kurtz from Mother' in which was located just outside of the city of Bordeaux. gold letters. Inside on the fly leaf there is written in ink There was also in the locker an autographed letter from the 'William P. Kurtz from Mother, March 21, 1918.' I doubt if late President Roosevelt acknowledging a letter of condolence Kurtz was a member of the 32d Division. It is possible that over the loss of his son, Quentin, which was signed by every he was with either the 37th or 79th Division because the place man of the First Reserve, of which Lieutenant Quentin Roose- where I found the book was near the boundary of the two di- velt had been a member. While Starr is not interested in the visional sectors." We want to find the owners. return of his clothing, We are going to he would like very make another effort much to recover the to locate one Thomas incompleted history, J. O'Shaughnessy the photographs, and who at one time the letter from the served with the 5th late President. Battery, F. A. R. R., Legionnaire E 1 a m A. P. O. 778, A. E. F., Shaffstall of Luray, —at least that is the Kansas, who was also address which ap- connected with the pears on a letter in- Air Service during tended for this par- the war, is anxious to ticular O'Shaughnes- recover some prop- sy. F. A. R. R. pos- erty from a barracks sibly should be F. A. bag which he lost R. D—First Artillery - while crossing the Replacement D i v i English Channel from sion. This letter, Southampton to Le which contains a Havre. He says the money order, is post- bag bore the inscrip- marked New York, tion "E. S. nth Aero N. Y., November 29, Sqdn No. 19264" and 1918, and was sent by in it was a leather this man's mother. flying helmet of dark The letter was deliv- tan leather with ered in error to Some members of the igth, 20th and 21st Photographic Sections, Air brown fur lining. The Thomas J. H. Service, indulge in a game of galloping dominoes between snapshots number 19264 ap- Shaughnessy, a mem- of the A. E. F. The picture was taken by G. I. Hightower at St. Max- peared inside the hel- ber of John H. Col- ient, France, late in December iqi8, and judging from the bull being met near each ear lins Post of the Le- ante-ed instead of francs, it must have been shortly before payday vent. The bag also gion of Derby, Con- contained a pair of necticut, while he was dark leather leggins, labelled with his initials and number! He serving as a hospital sergeant with Base Hospital No. 26, is particularly eager to recover the helmet. Camp Covington, Marseille. Sometimes service souvenirs come to light in strange ways. For instance, little did the members of Christopher (Illinois) TF SERGEANT COLLINS, formerly with the Sixth En- Post think, when they decided to give a dinner, army style, to •J- gineer Regiment, sees this or any buddy can tell us where the Rotary Club, that they would unearth a piece of equipment prize. let he is now located, an interesting war souvenir is awaiting de- which some former service man might We'll Post livery to him. Neal B. Kelley of Coldwater, New York, for- Adjutant M. L. Baker tell about it: "Last week, this post Auxiliary merly wagoner with Battery B, 57th Artillery, C. A. C, tells bought a bunch of mess gear for a feed which our us that he has in his possession one-half of a leather saddle-bag unit and our post gave last night to the Rotary Club. Slum, on the back of which is penned the name of Sergeant Collins beans, bread and coffee were on the menu, but contrary to all pie. gear, found together with his outfit number. This is followed by a list of regulations, we had In the bunch of mess we the various places where Collins had been overseas, with the a canteen cup bearing the inscription, 'C. H. Finn, Company A, dates of the visits. Kelley says that Collins gave him the 129th F. A., A. E. F.' If comrade Finn wants his cup, just saddle-bag while they were in a hospital together—probably let us know and it will be forwarded with our compliments." Base Hospital No. 59. Among the other found property of which we have advice are three Testaments. Irwin A. Allen of Jeffersonville, Indi- OUR invitation in the July issue to A. E. F. troupers to ana, formerly corporal, 165th Infantry, 42d Division, reports put forth claims for recognition of their shows brought a that he has a New Testament he found along the Meuse-Ar- letter from Bill Netch, who although a member of Bay Ridge gonne front. The name Hubert W. Sanders is written in the Post of Brooklyn, New York, is now sojourning in Los Angeles. back. The name D. L. Clay also appears in the book. Legion- Shall we let Bill file his claim? All right, here's what he has naire H. S. Dyar of Marietta, Ohio, informs us that he has a to say: small Bible which was found by Lloyd Preston, formerly of "In your much welcome reappearance in the first issue of Marietta, on October 23, 1918, near Rupt-en-Woevre, which the new and fine Monthly, in commenting on the Mo-Kan Min- during the St. Mihiel offensive was headquarters of the strels you invite other troupers to boast. I think you have 26th Division. Comrade Preston died in France and the Bible started something, for you can't keep a trouper quiet, be he was returned to his father, who in turn gave it to Dyar with a professional or otherwise. So before you have a chance to request that its owner be found. On the inside of its cover is change your mind I want to lay before you the case of the written "Fred Reinhard from Aunt Nell." 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the hospital unit at Rimaucourt, France. I wonder how many remember this ster- ling aggregation. While Captain Beas- ley had the title of C. 0. of this outfit, I really had full charge of it. [Is that an outcropping of professional modesty, Bill?—C. C.] The captain's real duty was to see that while we were en tour our three squares a day did not con- stantly consist of jelly sandwiches and hot chocolate. "In addition to being C. 0. pro tern, I was stage director, interlocutor in the minstrel, pantomimist de luxe in the pos- ing act and chief pacifier of the tem- peramental artists. The Rimaucourt Detail Dodgers put on for the edifica- tion of the boys a minstrel first part and a vaudeville second part. Our troupe consisted of four end men, an interloc- utor, a quartette, a violinist and pianist (our orchestra), two Hercules, and a combination stage-carpenter-scene-shift- er-electrician-property man, not forget- ting Dodger, our dog mascot. Our cos- tumes were makeshift, the end men wearing blue denims embellished with colored ribbons secured here and there, FRANCE CONVENTION and, as interlocutor I wore an Uncle Sam's outfit—forget where we scared and CONVENTION TOURS that up—and with it an O. D. shirt. The minstrel circle was dolled up in There's a Long, Long Trail over which we have often white uniforms intended for male nurses dreamed of sailing toward the realization of an abiding wish. in Red Cross hospitals, and our make- In trench and dugout such dreams prevailed in the Long up kits were nothing but burnt cork. Watches of the Night. American soldiers saw something of the We were a classy outfit! casts "But we did entertain the boys and Old World in the days of their gallant strife. Now Peace that was the big idea—pleased some of its benediction upon a new-made world. them better than some of the big units The Great Privilege of Peace is the freedom to travel over the with their fancy costumes and big or- chestras. Our vaudeville included acts pocked and pitted face of the world to the Ports o' Heart's Desire. by all of the gang, featuring the two Legion Hercules, who put on a real strong-man The France Convention of the American act, finishing with some classic poses. will convene in the beautiful City of Paris on September 19th, Art! Then the posing act, a burlesque 1927; the heart of the Legionnaire will thrill as he marches of the aforementioned, was staged by from the Tuilleries, through the noble Arc de Triomphe, on to two other fellows and myself. Our that white and tranquil Field of Honor—the Long Trail's End. tights were army underwear highly shrunken and camouflaged. We played But before and after the Convention, which closes in theatres, auditoriums, warehouses, on September 26th, legionnaires who have and who have not Red Cross huts and mess halls. It was seen something of France, will wish to see the historic world real work but at the same time a lot of fun. And we admit that we were darned around it — England, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Spain, the good." Scandinavian countries, Germany, Austria, Italy and beyond— panorama of color and life beyond one's most avid dreams.

Y\/"E HAVE had quite a number of Whatever you legionnaires may have seen during the War is as * » interesting and favorable com- nothing compared with what our world-wide organization ments regarding the informal and unof- the world's largest and foremost Travel Service ficial service snapshots which have ap- —can show you before and after the France Convention. peared in this department. Soon we We will be able to disclose the identity of have plans of a legion of round-trip tours in all directions, the American soldiers taken prisoner by occupying from two to six weeks and costing from the enemy, who appeared in one of the pictures in the August issue. This pic- $175— ture, as you may remember, was found up in an enemy headquarters town after the to cover all expenses, transportation, hotels and excursions. St. Mihiel advance. There are liter- for illustrated ally thousands of these unofficial snap- Send our book of American Legion Tours and you will avail yourself of the greatest opportunity to explore Europe at its best season in shots in the personal war archives of leisure and comfort. the Then and Nowers and we would like to have samples of them for use in these We invite you cordially to consult us freely columns. Be sure that you give the dope about the pictures you send when and where taken, and a little story THOS. COOK SON about the particular subjects. Let us 585 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK 253 Broadway have your favorite snaps. Philadelphia Boston Chicago St. Louis San Francisco Los Angeles The Company Clerk. Toronto Montreal Vancouver

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in the canvas fence and Jack said: where was this bird's esprit de corps? Fate, however, has always been kind "F'r the love o' God, bhoy, aren't you "This is terrible. It's got to stop. We to me. Presently we were paid and of dead yet?" I said: "No, but I'm dy- can't have the regiment scandalized by course, like good soldiers, we promptly ing, Jack," and then he broke down the this Bible thumper," said Jack, and spent our pay day in our own canteen canvas fence and his face was filled forthwith invaded the pulpit and that is, we spent what we had left after with grave concern. He brought me his knocked that soldier exhorter to a pa- the canteen officer had deducted what own mattress and blankets, and got a rade rest. So we had to retreat from we owed for canteen checks drawn the rawhiding for breaking into quarantine, that position presently. previous month. We had nothing for and he didn't care and said so. Also Well, finally we got to the Philippines our creditors, a horde of whom, fright- he warned the hospital corps steward and there Jack discovered, to his great ened and apprehensive, nay suspicious, (he was a Prussian) joy, that his little bunkie, clamored at the gate and kept No. 1 that if I died that Prus- having been raised in busy repelling them. Thank God, they sian would die, too. So, a California community couldn't get in, and we didn't hanker to save Jack from being where Spanish was al- particularly to get out and mingle with tried for murder I had most the mother tongue, them. Presently, I feared we might be to get well. could interpret for him. stabbed. In the midst of our predica- We laid over twelve Jack had a number of ment, a private, who had been running days in Honolulu and things to say to the na- a crap game, got cleaned out, and came the first night I was able tives, principally with to me to borrow a few dollars—all I to totter around, marked regard to purchasing had, in fact. However, I stipulated that "quarters," Jack in- liquor and cigars on if I was to back the game I must share duced me to go ashore jawbone, for alas, we in the profits fifty-fifty, and he agreed with him to a big party had landed too late to that if I would shoulder all of the losses that was being thrown take a hand in the he'd go me if it killed him. I gave him by the Hawaiian Na- wretched little shooting eight American dollars. It lasted eight tional Guard up at their barracks. There scrape that is known as the Battle of seconds. Then I sold the best razor I were oceans of beer and sandwiches and Manila and which resulted in the sur- have ever owned for seventy-five cents the party was in honor of my regiment. render, with beaucoup thanks, of a American money and a blue shirt for a Jack was getting nicely potted and, hay- starved and terrified lot of Spanish con- dollar, told Tom to restrict the bets to ing been called upon for a song, was in scripts. Jack said we could have stood a dime and sat back to await results. the midst of his favorite ballad, which up under this bludgeoning of fate if the At retreat we declared a dividend and to approximately went like this: doggoned government would only pay my share amounted us, but as matters stood we hadn't the three hundred dollars, gold. O'Shaughnessy, "Me name it is price of a beer and of course we had to Jack's eyes glistened, for of course The truth I will relate to ye, have beer. what was mine was mostly his, he being Of how these troubles came to me, I believe in those days I was eloquent. my bunkie. He began laying plans to An' nearly wrecked me brain." I think that when I became a writer a spend it, but I told him firmly I was when a bunch of Montana volunteers crackerjack salesman was lost to the going to pay our debts. My probity horned in, uninvited, and one of them world, because Jack and I established a scandalized him. He said we had been made opprobrious remarks touching the line of credit with the little brown grossly overcharged by the natives and quality of Jack's minstrelsy. So Jack brothers that was the envy of our com- besides, they kept the books. He sug- threw a mug at him, then grabbed me rades. Very early in the game, however, gested that I settle for fifty cents on the and thrust me under the bar out of I discovered that our bills weren't going dollar. Failing to sell me that idea, he harm's way. Then he went back into to worry Jack at all, and this bothered wanted to borrow a hundred. It broke the fray and a notable battle waged me, because I intended to pay, and Jack my heart to refuse him but I did, so around me. Of course, I stuck my was buying for the regiment and charg- then he begged me to hold out enough to young head up to have a look-see and ing it up to our joint account. And of buy and back a certain fighting cock he got a slap from Jack and a command to course, on $15.60 a had in mind. Cock keep my head out of it. Finally the po- month, such a course fighting was all the lice came and Jack grabbed me, threw was ruinous, and I re- rage with us at that me over his shoulder and ran a couple proved Jack, who time and Jack felt out of blocks with me. All in all, I cannot said: "T'el wid 'em," of it without a chicken. recall ever having spent a pleasanter just like that. I gath- So I went out to the evening. ered that he had gate and paid our bills Leaving the scene of the riot, Jack worked this game on and had about fifty and I prowled around until attracted by the Hindoos while sol- dollars left. Perhaps all the sound of religious singing. So we diering in India and of our creditors were horned into a church, thinking we might and considered it a not present, but Jack see the Kanakas at worship. Instead matter of small mo- said if they were not, we found a revival meeting going on ment to impose on the then it was their own and a soldier of our regiment was on confidence of inferior fault, and they'd have the platform, talking. It seems he had peoples. to wait until next pay been saved and was confessing what a I used to lie awake nights and worry day. He felt quite cheered to think sinner he had been ten minutes before. over our bills while from the adjacent how greatly we had stiffened our credit And he told how shocked and horrified bunk came the deep, ofttimes stertorous by paying up and I knew he was plan- he had been since joining the army to breathing of the genial Jack, indicating ning greater inroads on the Filipino hear the vile language of his comrades, that he had been working our credit credulity than before. the name of the Lord taken in vain, overtime. He owed hundreds of 'dobe After retreat we went out and bought drunkenness, lechery—ah, what an dollars and I had visions of being forced the fighting chicken he had set his heart abandoned crew his regiment was. to remain in Luzon for years after my upon. I remember we gave three dol- Jack and I agreed with him, but what enlistment should expire, doing nothing lars gold for the brute and he wasn't was the use advertising it, and anyhow, but burying dead horses. worth three cents. Jack was a chicken

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manager par excellence, however. Be- fore making any professional engage- ments for our champion we waited until one Olson, owner of the regimental went on guard whereupon we champion, ; fought our chicken with Ole's and were heart-sick to note what a wretched specimen he was. So Jack wrung his neck and we ate him for supper. It ap- peared that the native had given us a duplicate, in color and size, of the bird he had contracted to sell; at least, Jack said he was going to charge him with the crime on general principles, so after dinner we called on our native friend and I made the charge and specifications in Spanish, the native pleaded not guilty and Jack cuffed him until he changed his plea and produced the original copy. Then he clamored for the carbon copy back, but I said we had eaten that for exemplary damages, and we returned to barracks and had another private try-out on Ole's bird. The result was so grati- fying that next day when Ole came off guard we challenged him and gave him and his friends long odds. Our bird slew Ole's at the second jump and we were rich. The following night we went to the La Libertad Theater in Manila, and the play was in Spanish and not very good anyhow. Jack was bored and so was I, because the actors spoke GOOD Held back by—what? Spanish and I spoke the Mexican patois, —consequently, I missed a lot of it. Some native youths were peddling green — perhaps it's comedones* oranges up and down the aisles, so we bought a basket each and threw them at the actors. For this we were mobbed "COR five years he had watched men a healthy circulation, keeps the pores by a dozen indignant officers of the late come and go — up to better jobs. open, and gives you a clean, ruddy Spanish army, but fought our way out He knew he was not stupid. Some- complexion. and enjoyed it very much. thing kept him back. Something Try this treatment Well, we made so much money with made them promote other men that fancy chicken of ours that we got After you shave, spread Pompeian Mas- sage Cream generously over your face — and in the habit of paying cash and reserv- younger men. What could it be? rub. Continue to rub until the cream rolls ing our undoubted credit against an evil * * * out. Note how dark the cream looks. That's First day. We cleaned up big in the It is unfortunate that many men the dirt that was in your pores. North Dakota Volunteers and the First suffer from comedones — the scientific Don't let comedones Idaho, who were neighbors of ours. name for blackheads. These disfigur- form. Use Pompeian Then we wandered into the Fourth Cav- Massage Cream every ing blemishes keep you from being alry and got some more easy jack. We day— especially when took what was left of the pay day of a clean-cut and attractive. social or business en- gagements demand that battalion of engineers and while sighing They are often responsible for lack you look your best. It for new worlds to conquer we had the of business success. For while you means a healthy, whole- misfortune to meet up in a saloon with yourselfmay not be conscious ofthem, some skin. It means two privates of the Astor Battery. I more joy in living. others notice them. You may have shall never forget those two hombres. wondered why success never comes. *WHAT ARE The Astor Battery was composed of COMEDONES? Use at Home millionaires and the socially elect, but I Perhaps it's comedones. (pronounced com'e-dones after Shaving To get full pleasure never noticed that in khaki they differed Pompeian Massage Cream helps Dictionary definition : A small plug or mass occluding the and benefit, use from low-brows like Jack and me. Any- you overcome comedones. It gets in excretory duct of a sebaceous Pompeian Massage how, Jack and I got pie-eyed with Dan gland, occurring frequently Cream regularly at where comedones form, rolls out all upon the face, especially the home after shaving. Bolster. Wright Wright and Jerry Dan nose. It is often called biack- Your face will feel dirt and oily secretions. It stimulates and look like a mil- and Jerry Bolster, if you're still living head. lion dollars. 6ociars and see this, write. One of you was a at all drug stores. Congressman from Delaware, but so SEND FOR TEAR OFF NOW! YOU MAY FORGET much water has flowed under the bridges since we introduced ourselves that I've 10-DAY TRIAL TUBE The Pompeian Laboratories, got you mixed. For 10c we will send Dept. 40, Cleveland, Ohio. We got talking chicken and Jack a special trial tube Gentlemen: I enclose 10c (a dime, coin preferred) bragged about our bird. That was a containing sufficient for a special trial tube of Pompeian Massage Cream. weakness of his. So Dan and Jerrv said cream for many de- the Astor Battery had a bird they lightful massages. Name thought right well of and arranged a Positively only one

match. We went there to luncheon the trial tube to a family Street next day and not wishing to appear on this exceptional Address pikers in a (Continued on page 66) offer. Use this cou-

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bunch of millionaires we bet our en- base, and that day I got enough war to leg or a wooden overcoat for us this tire roll on our bird, who, by the way, last me all the remainder of my days. day." answered to the name of Ferdinand. Now, by a curious coincidence, an E We had a long hike one day without The Astor Battery chicken made one Company man whose number was 92 water. We both fainted at eight o'clock adroit hop at Ferdinand and Ferdi- was killed. I was L Company, No. 92, in the morning, following a brisk little nand belonged to the ages. Jack and I and our numbers were stenciled on our skirmish and a long run up a hill. We had arrived in a carometta, but we haversacks and canteens. The two up- kept toppling over all day and Jack got walked home and ate Ferdinand. How- per forks of the E on the dead man's delirious and thought he was back in ever, we still had our bonny credit with haversack had been blurred and it looked Burmah. He talked Hindustanee until the natives, so that night Jack went out like an L, and as the man was unrecog- his tongue got too thick. I wanted to alone and tried to forget Ferdinand in nizable, word had come in to my com- quit and call it a day, but on that sub- lethal waters. In his peregrinations he pany that an L company man had been ject he was sane. He drove me for- met up with one of ours, a droll devil killed. Who was No. 92 in L Company? ward. We dropped thirty-two hundred by name Benjamin Bennett. Benny Jack knew I was! And then that old men out of a reinforced brigade of helped him to forget and en route home warrior, who had waded through eight thousand on that hike, but that they put their shoulders under a native slaughter, who had charged with his wasn't one of my privileges, even when bamboo shack (it stood on stilts) and troop across fields of dead at Suakim, the company commander ordered both shoved it over. Naturally, the family who had soldiered thirteen years and of us to fall out and make our way to asleep inside was scrambled consider- "divil a day of it featherbed sogerin'," the rear under cover and the inevitable ably. Benny and Jack fled, but they sat down on a crate of spuds in the rain. Jack glared at that good man had been seen and Jack was recognized, kitchen and wept as if his heart must with glassy eyes. "Sir," he said, "when so the next day the corporal of the break. They told me he was inconsol- I drop out I shtay out." The company guard came to our squad room and es- commander turned to me and said: corted Jack to the hooze-gow. The "Kyne, you drop uut. You're too young summary court handed him a week and for this tough work." And because I a ten dollar blind and when I saw him could not be a lesser soldier than my walking around with his orderly at his bunkie I said I'd prefer to stick with heels, I wept at his dishonor, for I was him. So we stuck and hung on and at very young and brittle. five o'clock in the afternoon we found I could not have done anything that a lone mango tree on a hot plain and lay hurt my bunkie more. He was absolute- down under it to die. Jack was done in ly flabbergasted; he flushed and looked and agreed with me that dying was a ill, and I think that for the first time in pretty nice thing to be able to do. his life he was heartily ashamed of him- But, being Irish, he was contrary; pres- self. I know now that I was silly, but ently he began thinking of the disgrace then I was an amazingly innocent boy to the honorable profession of arms if and Jack was my hero, but from that we fell out, so somehow he got me on moment on the amazing fellow began to my feet and buckled my belt around me develop an affection for me that time able. He sobbed out paeans of praise and took my rifle and said: "Come and the years never dimmed. When his for my virtues, berated himself for lead- along, kid. We'll make another try at it." sentence was up he was released just ing me astray, swore horrible oaths to And I wept and quit and he wouldn't after guard-mount and I was waiting for kill a hundred natives before the score listen to me. I wanted to die and he him. He said nothing; just put his arm should be even. And then, shortly after wouldn't stand for it. So we staggered across my shoulder and together we dark I breezed in, scared to death, but along together like a pair of Saturday went to Fat Flora's saloon and hoisted hungry. I made for the kitchen and night drunks en route home, and pres- a few in silence. It was a Big Moment. the first man I met was the broken- ently we came to a white horse, freshly Well, from August 21, 1898, until hearted old bunkie. killed. I knew that horse. He belonged February 4, 1899, we drilled and slept He glared at me. Then he said some- to one of Lawton's staff. We sat down and did outpost and watched the army thing, and any old soldier who doesn't on the carcass to rest and as we pre- of Aguinaldo and got set for the ruckus know what Jack said to me—and it was sented a beautiful mark on that white we all knew was coming. And through- no compliment, either—shouldn't be al- horse we drew the attention of a couple out those months the bonds of affection lowed in The American Legion. So I of hundred of the enemv. After I'd between old Jack and me tightened. He knew Jack loved me like a brother and heard about forty bullets plunk into was on K. P. for a week when the Fili- everything was jake. that dead horse I suggested that we had pino Insurrection started about eight We were in the same squad, always better go away from there, but Jack was o'clock on the night of February 4, and on the same outposts. We built a bam- tired and didn't give a damn and said our company was on guard. So we boo house together and lived in it one so. Then he enunciated a grand phil- didn't have much to do except keep un- rainy season; we stole chickens and osophy for soldiers. "Sure, we're as der shelter, because we were only a mile sweet corn together, we drank together safe somewhere as we'd be anywhere. back of the firing line and the overs and smoked together and suffered to- Those gugus never could hit anything were dropping all over our village. gether; he taught me how to soldier and and 'tis not dignified to give them the Early next morning I went out to the not complain. I can see him yet, in notion that they can." Jack hadn't a firing line with an ammunition detail, skirmish line, his anxious eyes on me, great deal of imagination in matters of and after delivering the ammunition I >>is voice rising above the rattle of rifle warfare, and I was cursed with too much decided that since I had come this far fire, cursing me, exhorting me to fan of it. So I had to sit there and suffer. to see a fight I had better take time by out and lave plinty av room for the We didn't have any artillery or ma- the forelock and get into it, for, in com- bullets to go bechune us. Through the chine guns opposed to us in those days, mon with all of my comrades, I firmly years his voice comes back to me, as but there were about ten Filipinos to believed that we were only going to have the wind-jammer blows a charge and each one of us and they all had rifles one fight, but that one would be a cork- my old phantom outfit starts jogging and never husbanded their ammunition. er and end the war. So I fell in with across a rice-field at a line of trenches. They shot at us early and often and E Company, instead of returning to my "Come along, Petie, lad. 'Tis a wooden ran our legs off, and managed to whittle

66 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly our outfit down considerably. They picked off about twenty-eight percent of us in our first fight, which is a pitiful record in view of the late war, but it wasn't a half bad record for untrained riflemen. But Jack and I got through all right and managed to have a highly enjoyable time. Finally we were discharged in Manila under General Order No. 40 and new men took our places. Jack re-enlisted in the Suicide Club, the nth U. S. Vol- unteer Cavalry, recruited from the sur- vival of the fittest in all arms of the old Eighth Army Corps. I was wild to take on in it, too, but strangely, Jack vetoed my bid. He told me I'd had my fling at soldiering and that I'd better go home and get my spleen down to normal size again; he was sure my liver was a private scandal, I'd had amoebic dy- sentery and malarial fever and I only weighed twenty-seven pounds less than I had the day I enlisted. Moreover, Jack said I mustn't become a profes- sional soldier like him and that if I stayed, I'd get to like it and never be

able to give it up. He said I had a The table above is " future—and marvel of marvels, he told the "Junior Grand me with utmost solemnity that God Almighty had just naturally created me Combine Sane Exercise for a writer and that I'd better go home and follow my destiny. With Fascinating Recreation So I went home, and Jack accom- Exercise, to be beneficial, must be cool head and SPORTSMANSHIP! panied me on the tug out to the old thoroughly enjoyed. And for this rea- The game is not expensive. You can install transport lying beyond the breakwater. son Billiards is ideal. For there is no one of the new Brunswick HomeTables such more fascinating sport in the world as the "Playmate" in your home for as little And when the parting came old Jack as $26.50 in cash. The balance on convenient —nothing that offers more entertain- held me to his dear, kind, worthless terms. No extra space or special room needed. ment and recreation. It develops poise, gallant old heart and couldn't speak. The coupon below brings full details and good judgment, clear thinking — a prices. Mail it today. Well, I helped him spend six hundred THE BRUNSW1CK-BALKE-COLLENDER COMPANY dollars in the three weeks before we Established 1845. Branches in All Principal Cities of United States and Canada parted. Two years later he came home, a squadron sergeant-major, recommend- .Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Dept. H-136. 623 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. 111. Gentlemen: Please send full descriptions, sizes, prices, and easy ed for the Congressional Medal of Hon- 9laa terms on Brunswick Home Billiard Tables or. He had five hundred dollars on his Name finals, so I took a week off from the business office where I was in prison and we went high, wide and handsome. The only thing that bothered me was Jack in civilian clothes. He looked like the devil. He took on in the Fifth Cavalry and went back to the Islands and saw some more service. When his regiment re- Be Sure You turned I had a lot of jack, so I took an- other week off and we celebrated. Then Get the he went down to an Arizona post and deserted and for fourteen years I neith- er saw nor heard from him. Original and One day in the summer of 1016 my door bell rang and the maid answered Genuine ' Look for the name Feen-a- it. From my study I could hear a col- mint in orange on the loquy and then the maid shut the door white oval with the blue polka-dot For Constipation border. Beware of substitutes. abruptly. I stuck my inquisitive head out and said: "Was that somebody to this delicious mint-flavored chewing gum tablet see me?" She replied: "Yes, sir, but he isn't anybody you would care to see." Now, all of my life I have insisted on selecting my own peculiar friends and I have a code of social procedure all Feenammt my own. What did this maid know about people who wanted to see me? Why, the man might be an old friend. 'The Chewing LAXATIVE So I popped out and opened the door and there, standing on the steps was an old, shabby man, noticeably drunk and Chew It Like Gum smelling slightly of having passed the previous night ( Continued on page 68)

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in a stable. He was wearing a cam- to his funny little comrade of the days I could have had a hack at that one paign hat, vintage of 1890, and he had of the Empire. He might panhandle to side by side with the friend of my lost no front teeth. "Hello, Petie," he said. strangers but never to me. He had to youth, and it hurt me to think that he "You haven't changed much." pay me what he owed me. So I wrote had gotten his honorable discharge be- And then, through the ruin of the him an affectionate letter and told him fore he knew I was coming over. He years, I recognized my bunkie. I that if he should ever be arrested and expected that of me, of course. Many brought him in and we talked of the have to jump his bail, a telegram to me a time, as I sat sipping my grog in a

old days until he had sobered a little, collect would bring him the money French cafe, I'd say to myself : "If old and then he felt he had made a social double-time. Jack could only drop by now and pin error in calling upon me. He was glad A month later he wired—collect. Just a couple on with me, for old sake's to see me and to know that I had done for ten dollars. I was away and my sake." But Jack was down in Brook- rather well and justified his prediction wife wired it to him. In December he field Cemetery, in Sussex, asleep in a that I would become a writer. But— wrote me from the British front and land he thought (dear, inconsistent man) was up and Jack was down, and though apologized for not having repaid the he hated! I felt no change and tried to put our loan, but said he knew I'd understand. When I came home the Canadian relations on the old plane of democracy Still soldiering and divil a day of it Government sent me his medals, and I and affection, we just couldn't get by. featherbed soldiering! My heart was put them away with mine and thought I even brought my wife in and intro- very full as I read: "Of course, Peter, of the brave old days and whether there duced her and that made him more dis- I'm an old man now and I haven't any- is really a hereafter and if in it there trait than ever. He wouldn't eat lunch- thing to live for. It just isn't possible is an old soldier waiting to greet a fat eon with me in the dining room, but he for me to survive this war. But I can't and aging author. If there is, I shall did lunch with me off a tray in my help wishing that before I go west my know he is there before I see him, be- study. And then he had to be moving old eyes would rest on the bloody Four- cause from out some celestial barroom on. About all I learned was that he teenth coming down the road. We ought I shall hear his loyal toast: "Here's to had been with Pancho Villa as an artil- to be in this war and please God we'll Lord Frederick Roberts, of Waterford lerist three years. be in it soon. I couldn't wait, so I'm and Khandahar! Three cigars for three Three months later came a money here with the Canadians. Send me a hussars and a chew of tobacco—" no, order for ten dollars I had loaned him box of Bull Durham and some maga- no, not that. He learned to put aside and an apology for having appeared at zines with your stories in them, your the ancient prejudice of the regular for my home in the condition in which he last novel, if you will. I've made my the volunteer, the heritage from Gaines was that day. Among other things he will and I couldn't think of anybody to Mills, where the Fourteenth stood fast said: "What will your nice wife think leave my pay to but you. There will and hurled back Stonewall Jackson while of the bum you had for a bunkie in the be a few hundred dollars. Pay yourself the untried troops fled in panic. He Fourteenth Infantry?" the ten I owe you and as for the rest, knows now what manner of men they Well, Jack could never have been a keep it in your pocket and when you were, and I know too and am glad, from bum to me. Had I met him in a con- meet some poor devil who has suffered the bottom of my heart, that once I trod vict's garb the stripes would have fal- in this war, slip him five with my com- the path of glory with militiamen and len away, and all I could have visual- pliments." thrilled to the magic of the drums. ized was a slim, goodlooking Irishman In the spring of 191 7 I received an The British Government sent me a in khaki and the middle thirties. He official envelope from the Minister of blank and requested that I fill in on it would still have been my bunkie. Read- Munitions and Defense at Ottawa, who the epitaph I desired on Jack's grave. ing between the lines of his letter I saw desired very politely to inform me that They said they had room for thirteen that there was something golden still my friend had died gloriously for king letters, counting the spaces as letters. left in him, something that drink and and country and congratulated me on So just to show them I was game, I the devil could never take away, and having such a friend. gave it to them in twelve: that was his friendship and his loyalty Well, I'm fed up on wars, but I wish He Was A Man.

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trusted as the key man on important As another example of the problems posite tracks. Obviously when the two works. In 1913, as the result of his faced, one may consider what happened lines employing the two systems were record, Savage was appointed assistant when a number of Chicago elevated consolidated it became necessary to engineer in the track department of the lines were consolidated and it became unify them by rebuilding the tracks, Chicago Elevated Railways. necessary to install overnight a uniform siding facilities, station platforms and From 1913 until the years of the operating system to replace the two op- other physical features. World War, Savage enlarged his experi- posing systems which had prevailed un- The consolidation of the four lines ence in handling the peculiar problems til the consolidation. with scarcely any interruption of traffic of the line for which he worked, a line One of the most difficult problems was one of the most noteworthy feats unlike any other in the world. Operat- Savage helped solve was that resulting in the history of Chicago's elevated sys- ing 196 miles of elevated railway tracks from the consolidation of the Lake tem. For his share in this feat Savage and fifty-eight miles of surface tracks, Street and Northwestern Railroad won promotion. the company demanded engineering skill tracks, both operating on what is known From track engineer, Savage rose step of absolutely dependable quality. As an as "left-hand operation," and the Metro- by step in the management of Chicago's example of the problems faced, at a politan and South Side systems, operat- elevated lines until he became General single intersection, sixty-eight six-car ing under so-called "right-hand opera- Superintendent of Maintenance of Way, trains pass each hour, an average of tion." The terms right and left hand the position which he held when elected more than one a minute. refer to the train directions of the op- National Commander of the Legion.

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At Philadelphia he received word that he had been promoted to the post of Assistant General Manager of the North Shore Electric Lines of Chicago. The World War interrupted Savage's service with the Chicago Elevated Com- pany. He volunteered for service and was assigned as a lieutenant to the 55th Regiment of Engineers, training at Camp Custer. He accompanied his reg- iment overseas in July of 1918. The engineering regiment after its ar- rival in France built the trackage of the huge Intermediate Depot of the A. E. F. at Gievres, 150 miles of rails. All through the crucial days of the summer of 1918 the regiment helped keep the SAY "BAYER ASPIRIN" and INSIST! road to the front open by building new railways and repairing old ones. The Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets you are miracle of American railway engineering not getting in the World War is one of the most the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe important details in the story of how by millions and prescribed by physicians for 25 years. the final victory was won. After the Armistice, Savage's regi- ment built and repaired French high- DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART ways. In this work, American methods pained and shocked French officials, but

it was noticed that the highways re- mained good always, despite the fears of Accept only " Bayer" package the civilian officials, who thought the which contains proven directions. Americans were ruining the roads which Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets had existed since the time of Julius Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. Caesar. As a side-line the regiment Aspirin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicaeid built the Pershing Stadium in Paris in which the Inter-Allied games of 1919 were played. After marking time in Brest for a whole month, the 55th Engineers re- turned to the United States, and Savage, under the policy observed by the com- pany which had empleyed him, returned LET'S in to his old position. GO!- Again 1927 Since 1919, whatever time Savage Why not plan now for your trip "on from Paris" next September? Why not? has had at his disposal after doing his work for his company he has given to The expense? For only $78 you can travel in three countries. For $90 you can The American Legion. As an engineer tour by motor-coach through the Chateaux Country, Brittany and Normandy. There he had not been trained to speak pub- are thirty-two itineraries in eleven countries to choose from and independent trips realizing the need for ex- licly, but, will be arranged, if desired, for the individual or for groups. pressing himself, he learned by self-dis- Motor travel? The finest fleet of private cars in Europe, fully equipped for cipline to speak with force and facility. extensive touring and with trained chauffeur-couriers speaking English, is available. The first time he made a public speech was at a meeting held to consider a Sight-seeing, hotels, special tour managers for parties of eight and ten persons project which would have committed or more—everything is arranged for on the basis of a maximum of enjoyment and Chicago Legion posts to a huge indebt- value at a minimum of expense. Another point: we are an American "outfit" and edness, with doubtful prospects of wip- we operated official tours for the U. S. Army in Europe. Man to man, isn't this ing it out. Without oratory, but fired in our favor? by his convictions, which also repre- sented the views of his own Chicago Just fill in and mail the coupon. Let's go! Elevated Post, Savage delivered a speech which demolished the whole case CO. LTD. of those who had been arguing for the FRANCO-BELGIQUE TOURS An American Organization project. ( ) About this time Savage began the 1446 Broadway New York study of law—study which has been in- terrupted by the demands of his profes- Approved Legion Tours sion, but which he hopes to complete eventually. Officially Approved by France Convention Committee Commander Savage had extraordinary success in developing Chicago Elevated ~1 r.Franco-Belgrique Tours Co., Post. organizer and later in two As 1446 Broadway, New York, N. Y. terms as Post Commander, he increased the post's membership from 49 to 412. Gentlemen Please send me, without obligation, a copy of your booklet "On From Paris." In 1922 he was elected President of the Cook County Council of The American Name Legion. In this position, one of his im- portant accomplishments was the rais- Address ing of a fund of $9,000 to enable the Legion's Cook (Continued on page 70) L State- JANUARY, 1927 69 — )

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County service bureau to continue oper- that prospects still didn't seem any bet- ating. As Vice-Commander of the Illi- ter. But on Thursday night, the night nois Department in 1923-24, Savage in- before the election, a change had come creased the membership of Cook County —he wired Mrs. Savage saying that it 3,500, and organized a mass meeting in looked as if he had a chance to win. Chicago which turned the tide of public Then came the moment of victory. sentiment in favor of the Adjusted "I'm going out now to send my wife Compensation Bill. a telegram saying: 'Last telegram was Savage's year as Commander of the best guess; I won'," Savage said as his Department of Illinois was marked by friends crowded about him on the stage membership gains and by the placing of to congratulate him. the department's affairs on a firm basis In Illinois they would tell you that financially. In his term as Department this incident is typical of Howard Sav- Vapors Commander, Savage also showed remark- age's consideration for others. able capacity for enlisting the loyalty of You understand something of the feel- all the posts in his State. It was How- ing Illinois Legionnaires have for How- ard P. Savage, the personality, the man, ard P. Savage when you see Savage. He Relieve Colds who gave confidence to the posts of all has simple, natural dignity, unimpaired the counties in Illinois. "High Power" by any touch of swank or pretense. His was the nickname they gave him, but massive, rough face tells the story of his <-> of vastly greater outdoor life—and Quicker significance was not for the world the regard for him would he wish to manifested by all appear other than "Without Dosing" the Legionnaires what he is. His of Illinois. Per- voice is sonorous who want the son a 1 magnetism —o n e of those MEN is an overworked voices which, with- quickest relief from term, but it is the out effort, rumble colds, without upset- only term which and roll back adequately ting the stomach, have ex- from the walls of plains why the Le- any room and stopped dosing and now treat gionnaires of Illi- from the farthest them externally with Vicks nois looked as they corners of any au- VapoRub. did upon the man ditorium. He ad- they gave to the mits he can't ad- Vicks carries medication to rest of the Legion as National Com- dress a large audience and feel wholly mander. The belief in Savage, the faith at ease; but hearing address the infected area as quick as him such in him, is deep-seated in Illinois—so an audience, you do not sense any diffi- a breath. You simply rub it much so that Legionnaires actually wept culty he is having after he has made a on the throat and chest and when he said good-bye to them in his beginning. He wears shaggy clothes medicated vapors, released last meeting as Department Com- that fit, but he has to watch himself or mander. they won't always be well-pressed. by the heat of the body, are Something of the warmth of Savage's There is the story they tell in Illinois inhaled direct to the inflamed nature was revealed in the first few of his election as Department Com- moments after his election as National mander at the convention held in Spring- air passages, loosening the Commander. While the bands were field several years ago. phlegm and easing the diffi- playing and the delegates were cheering It is related that Savage's opponents cult breathing. and parading, while the Kleig lights started a "whispering campaign" against were dazzling him and the motion pic- him. "He will never do," they said. At the same time Vicks stimulates ture photographers were turning their "Look at his trousers—they're baggy. the skin like poultice, "drawing a cameras upon him, Howard Savage was Look at his shoes—not a sign of a re- out" the soreness and thus helping thinking of the telegram he was going cent shine on them." the vapors inhaled to break up the to send to his wife back in Chicago The man who nominated Savage, congestion. his helpmate for sixteen years. Savage's aware of these whispers, said in his This twofold action usually checks marriage to May Elizabeth Kelly had nominating speech: most colds by morning. Equally taken place in 1010, and Mrs. Savage "This morning on my way to this had proved her capacity for helpfulness convention I passed by the statue of good for children and adults. in the role of adviser and confidant. Abraham Lincoln. I stopped a moment Make This Test Savage knew that Mrs. Savage prob- and looked at Lincoln's baggy trousers ably would receive the flashed news of and his homely unkempt features. I If you have never tried Vicks VapoRub his election, but he wanted to tell her thought to myself, 'Abe Lincoln, it is a for yourself, take a moment to test it. in his own way. He had told her before good thing that you are not in Spring- Melt some in a bowl of hot water and for Philadelphia that he had field as a candidate for Depart- inhale the vapors. You can feel the im- he started today in the little hope that he would be elected. ment Commander of The American Le- mediate effect of the medication " air passages and lungs. If you haven't The first night in Philadelphia he wired gion, for you could not be elected.'

Vicks in your home your druggist can her that he had decided not to let his Then he added : "I nominate Howard supply you. name go before the convention. On the P. Savage of Chicago, to be Department following night, in another wire, he told Commander." Mrs. Savage that he was hopelessly in The convention roared its apprecia- PICKS the rear rank of candidates. On the tion and elected Savage on the first bal- Vez VAPOR UB third night, he sent another wire, saying lot. Over f* Million'Jars Used Yearly J 70 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ASK . . . ANY . . . RADIO . . . ENGINEER The Two Qenerals

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comin' out. We're goin' up the lines." est idea whether your men have any am- "Not in a limmasine," scoffed Boots. munition or not?" "You're talkin' to the wrong guy. This "No sir, I haven't. If they have they here's the guy that just come on the got it after they got off the train. We front, not me." thought we might get what you people "Get in an' start her up," said the would leave. I never dreamed we'd have stranger. "I'm goin' up with yuh." to go right into the lines. I was going "No kiddin'!" cried Boots. to get a good night's sleep and then sit "No kiddin'," said the other sternly. down and work out my march order to- "There's been a order for an advance, morrow. Why, I didn't even bring my an' this new bunch has got be in place aide up here. I don't know what I'm to back it up. So them generals is go- ever going to do. What a night! Do With the ?" in' up to see that it does." you suppose. . . ,>:S "What's the matter with leavin' this "No!" barked General Bridges, "I ^Trouble-Shooters outfit that's in now, in there for another don't suppose anything. The order was day?" asked Hurry. "I ain't been hear- sent by phone and courier to catch your of the in' a thing but how good it was. If it's regiments and start them for the ad- such a rootin', tootin' bunch 0' blood vanced positions. It's presumed that North Atlantic drinkers as I've been hearin' tell, it they'll get the order and start. We'll STCE- BERGS— towering, pon- ought see what's to be to be able to stick it out another meet them there and *-y derous, deadly mountains of hour or so." done. I've got a brigade of my own t-' ice drift southward from the "Ain't the point!" snapped Boots, ty- that's got to be alerted. That's the im- ice fields of the Arctic into the traf- ing a handkerchief around his neck to portant thing now. Back to my posi- fic lane of trans-Atlantic steamers. Locating and destroying is keep the rain from running down under tions, arouse the brigade,- and get my them the perilous and never-ending the collar of his end of the relief duty of the United States Coast slicker. "It's your started. Corporal Guard Cutters. infantry that's Bookstaver, the Shell fire and high explosives, doin' the advance, guide will show you however, often fail to blow the because ourn come the road up. We bergs from the sea, and warnings out yesterday, and won't go by way of are then broadcasted by radio to every ship whose course lies so why should we the brigade post of through the danger zone. stick around doin' command, but right Smooth power, unfailing de- your work?" straight to the for- pendability over long periods and "You're both ward positions. under all conditions of service are off," said the new- There's a good road qualities demanded in the radio comer, "it's in the through Essomes batteries used in this dangerous naval order that the re- and Bouresches." service. The fact that Burgess Batteries lief takes effect, The generals meet those requirements recom- an' that the new climbed into the mends them to you for your own outfit backs up the rear of the limou- receiving set. advance, an' that's sine, and the three cAsk oAny 'Radio Engineer how it's gonna be. enlisted men got on The generals is goin' up to help. the front seat. The motor roared, the Burgess Battery They'll be right out. I heard 'em talkin' mud flew and the car finally rolled out it over." of the courtyard, followed by the curses Company "Golly," muttered Boots, "I don't of the man at the gate, called from his General Sales Office: Chicago

know them roads up there. I never shelter into the blinding rain to let down Canadian Factories and Offices: went up beyond here." the chain. Niagara Falls and Winnipeg "That's what I'm here for," said the "Turn right!" said the guide, "and other, "I'm gonna guide yuh." folly the river till we come to the first A distant door slammed, faint voices, town. After that bear left. I'll be then feet coming through the mud. watchin'. An' don't play fire-engine, "Is the guide here?" asked someone. neither. There's shell holes in these "Yes, sir." roads'll take a spring out by the roots." "Very well, let's get out of here. Again the limousine began its eerie We'll catch Dunbar's regiment by phone passage along the black roads. The at Montreuil aux Lions, and the Seven- wind howled down the valley, blowing ty-first at Vaux. I don't know what the rain directly into the faces of the we'll do about my heavies, I really don't. men on the seat. It was impossible to Don't you think I ought to sit down see even the radiator cap, and the prog- even now and write a march order?" ress of the car became slower and slow- By the tones of the voice the last er. There came an impatient tapping speaker had been General Rheingold, on the sliding pane. and now the listeners heard General "Nah," muttered Boots, "the Old

Bridges, whose voice sounded as though Man '11 be hermantile in a minute or two. he spoke through his teeth. Listen, Milishy, get out on the runnin' "I could go back, for a Dijon franc board, an' see can you see the curves and a package of French cigarettes and in the road, or shell holes or anything." knock that man into the finest ruin that "Listen, you," protested Hurry, BURGESS ever needed burial. I would, by God, and "where d'yuh get this milishy stuff at? take my chance on any court. Now, You ain't anything but a damn milishy- RADIO BATTERIES General Rheingold, have you the slight- man yourself. ( Continued on page 72 )

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This here National Guard stuff don't "Forty-Ninth," came back faintly to mean a thing. I won't put it past yuh him from the column. to joined it so yuh wouldn't be drafted, "Don't know 'em," he muttered. anyways." "Go slow," yelled the guide, after a "Get on the runnin' board," urged time, "take it easy now. I know this Boots. "Don't make me talk so much. bridge, we're comin' into Vaux. Look When I open my mouth the wind blows out crossin' the Paris-Metz road, she's the rain down my throat an' near drowns full o' traffic!" me! You guide, git on the other side. "Slow hell!" replied Boots, "you guys " You won't get no wetter there than you on them mudguards holler, an I'll blow I had his job will here." the whistle. If any one gets in front of "I ain't no searchlight," protested the us they'll get knocked over." He could "He hasn't been here nearly as guide. "I'm here to tell yuh where to tell then, from the sound of the motor long as I have, but he's earning go. I don't care whether yuh ever get that they were running between horses. three times as much. Seems to there or not. I should climb out on a The front end of the car rose suddenly me he's the first man the firm running board an' maybe get swiped off slam went the rear end, and a hot thinks of whenever there is a — good position open. Always by a tree or made into a meat sandwich breath fanned his face. Then they were this makes good too. I wish I had between here wagon an' some gar- on the level again, running smoothly started studying with the I. C. S. den wall!" northward, faint shouts of rage dying when he did. I'd be farther along "Man, if you two ain't a help to a out behind them. today." guy!" cried Boots. "You, Hurry Holm, "You goddam lunatic!" shrieked the I only wish when you get guide. "You run us right Are you just wishing for a better job too? Are other men getting the promotions you'd like to have? drivin' your own limma- under a big Quad truck. Are you letting the precious, priceless hours slip by sine you strike a night I could feel the heat off unimproved? like this an' a drive like I the radiator!" You know as well as we do that you've got to learn more in order to earn more. And you know, gotta make an' a couple "Sit tight, kid," an- too, that the best way to learn more is to take up a o' camouflagin' course with the International Correspondence Schools goldbricks swered Boots, "you're and study in the spare time that most men waste. like you an' this guide. ridin' with a driver now! Isn't it better to start today than to wait a year By God! If..." How far up are them or five years and then wish you had? The sooner you start, the sooner you're going to get ahead. The speaking tube at guns? I never was across Mail the Coupon for Free Booklet Boots' ear suddenly erupt- that road before." ed into clear and unmis- " 'Bout a mile," said INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS takable language. A voice the guide. "Run her a Box • Scranton. 7578 Penna. condemned those on the little slower, will yuh? Without cost or obligation, please send me one of your booklets and tell me how I can quality for the position or seat to perpetual flames We don't want to over- in the subject before which I have marked an X: and torment, and then slip or anything." BUSINESS TRAINING COURSES Business Management Salesmanship threatened to send them "They'll have gas Industrial Management Advertising Personnel Organization Better Letters there at once, and un- guards out along the road, Traffic Management Show Card Lettering Business Law Stenography and Typing pleasantly, unless the won't they?" asked Boots. Banking and Banking Law Business English speed of the car im- "If hear anyone hol- Accountancylincludlng C.P.A.)DCivil Service was you Nicholson Cost Accounting Railway Mail Clerk mediately increased to ler, lemme know an' we'll Bookkeeping OCommon School Subjects Private Secretary DHigh School Subjects forty miles an hour. Hur- ask where we're at." Spanish Cllllustrating French Cartooning ry at once got out on one "Never mind that," ob- TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL COURSES running board, in fact he went before jected the guide, "I know where we're Electrical Engineering Architect Electric Lighting Architects' Blueprints the oration from the speaking tube had at, just run her kinda slow." Mechanical Engineer Contractor and Builder Mechanical Draftsman Architectural Draftsman ended, and the guide got out on Five, ten, perhaps fifteen minutes Machine Shop Practice Concrete Builder Railroad Positions Structural Engineer the other. They lay down, one on passed. Gas Engine Operating Chemistry Pharmacy Civil Engineer Automobile Work each fender, and holding on as best they "Shut her down!" cried the guide, Surveying and Mapping Airplane Engines might, strained their eyes into the dark- "shut her down!" Boots closed the Metallurgy Mining Agriculture and Poultry Steam Engineering Kadio Mathematics ness ahead. Boots strained his likewise, throttle and cautiously applied the Name and gritting his teeth, pushed down on brakes. The car came to a stop, and Street roared as for a Address.. the accelerator. The motor moment there was no sound but the wheels spun on the wet, slippery clay the drumming of the rain on the roof City ..State.. of the road, but finally took hold, and of the car, and the hissing of the cold Occupation the car shot down the road. Into Es- drops falling on the hot radiator. Then // you reside in Canada, send this oouvon to the International Cnrresnondenre Schools Canadian. Limited. Montreal somes they tore, slowed down, picked a they heard a new sound, as of a man hole in the blackness a shade blacker splitting wood. Chock! Chock! The PIN A DOLLAR BILL TO THIS than the spectral shattered houses about distant man picked up an armful of

and get this fine 5 card case. Genuine leather. Masonic it, swung to the left, and went away with kindlings and hurled them into a box or Shrine Emblem stamped on gold free. in (No other with clatter. emblem supplied on this case.) Tour name or other their hearts in their mouths toward a tremendous stamping35c extra per line. {Cash must accompany order.) Bouresches. They scraped once, and "They're shellin' over there," mut- the guide cried out, but as he cried out tered the guide. again, and continued to curse freely and "I c'n hear it, can't I?" demanded vigorously, Boots judged that he had not Boots. "I ain't deaf. Let's fade 'fore been hurt, and so did not slacken speed. one of 'em drops on us." Later a shout from Hurry warned him "Wait a min'," began the guide. to take the left, and blowing his whistle "Wait, hell!" said Boots. "Cm on

We carry EVERYTHING MASONIC he went down a long rattling column, we go! Hang on!" horse drawn by the smell, probably an The car gathered way once more, Send for free catalogue No. 2Q of Books, Monitors t Jewelery; No. so of Lodge Supplies. ammunition train. there was a sudden shriek from Hurry, We Have Been in Business €7 Years! REDDING & COMPANY "What outfit?" called Boots. "Hey, a cry of alarm from the guide, and 200 Fifth Ave. or 9 West 23d St., New York gang, what outfit yuh out of?" Boots felt the car slowed under him.

72 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly From under the radiator came a terrible the guide from the road. "There's wire twanging and scraping. The motor strung across the road from these trees! stalled. We're all snarled up in it. I told that ." "What the hell have I hit?" cried there bonehead to run slow an' look. . Boots. The two men on the mudguard "Hey!" shrieked Hurry, suddenly, vociferated, but finally became coherent. "hey, hey! There's a stiff here! Hey!" "Wire!" they cried. "Wire!" His voice was drowned in sudden clat- ustoms The sliding pane opened behind Boots. ter like the buzzing of innumerable rat- "What's the matter?" asked the gen- tlesnakes. A battery of machine guns eral, putting through his head. had opened fire. "We've run into wire, sir!" answered (To be concluded) Change

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so many years the Conti Streets, is housed in a building came to Louisiana more than two hun- NOT ago adorned with marvelous old French iron dred years ago. The town he founded is use of a burial vault was confined largely to the rich. work that in the early days of New Or- older than New Orleans. But Lawrence leans history was one of the first banks Bonin, his descendant, was accepted as Yet there was always in the human heart the desire for in the Mississippi Valley. It would not a member of the Louisiana Society, Sons permanent and positive pro- look out of place on a street in old of the American Revolution, on the rec- tection for its loved ones who Paris. And across the street from it still ord of yet another ancestor—Louis had passed on. stands the building that was the town Charles de Blanc de St. Denis. This And this desire has grown, un- home of Etienne de Bore, the first gentleman, originally a French officer, til today, with the resources planter in Louisiana to crystallize transferred to Spanish allegiance French was of a great industrial Nation, his sold Louisiana to sugar from the juice of the sugar-cane when monarch it has been gratified. and to launch Louisiana's sugar industry. Spain. He served as captain of infan- Now every family, regardless Orleans ca- of the Poste des The French of New are not try and commander of its means, may provide ab- juns, but Creoles—a different type from Attakapas for His Catholic Majesty, the solute protection against the their brethren of the bayous and prairie, Spanish King. Later he served as cap- elements in the ground.

and speaking a different dialect. tain at the conquest of the English fort Such protection is found in the These French-descended Legionnaires at Baton Rouge, and distinguished him- Clark Grave Vault, the high- of Louisiana come of a fighting race. self in the assault on the British at Fort est standard of burial protec- And in a nation where few persons Manchac. tion ever attained in practical, economical form. bother to recall the names of their Paul Legendre is Commander at Thi- great-grandfathers, these Louisiana men bodaux. Ira Hebert is Commander at This vault, being made of metal, is not porous. Keystone know their ancestors as they know the Jeanerette; W. J. de Gravelle is Adju- 12 gauge copper steel, or Arm- parish in which they were born. Let tant. At Abbeville you find J. E. Cade, 9 co Iron, highly rust-resisting, two brief biogra- Commander, R. J. is used throughout. phies suffice as Vallee, Adjutant, And on the higher priced vaults typical of thou- and M. J. Lege, is applied a plating of pure sands : Treasurer. F. F. cadmium (by the Udylite Proc- Bourg, is Adjutant C. J. De- Bourg ess, exclusive to this vault) - partment A d j u at Houma. Fer- which gives a measure of rust- tant of the Legion nand H. Gouaux resistance heretofore unknown. in Louisiana, re- is Commander at Not in a quarter of a century sides at Thibo- Lafayette; Louis has this vault failed. It has deaux, though his Crouchet is Adju- satisfied the great universal desire of office is in New tant. L. J. Mon- the human heart in such that Orleans. He is a tegunt is Com- a way its use has native of Lafour- mander at St. increased nearly five hundred

per cent in the past few years. , che Parish, which Martinville, where Your funeral director will rec- * is ninety-five per- Lawrence Bonin is ommend and supply the Clark cent populated by Adjutant. Sidney A Grave Vault. \ those of French M. Comeaux i s blood. On his Commander at Less than Clark complete protection father's side he is descended from the Lockport. C. A. Landry is Commander is no protection at all! Acadians whom the British banished at Napoleonville. THE CLARK GRAVE VAULT from Nova Scotia; from his mother he They are of the blood that has been COMPANY, Columbus, Ohio is descended from a family of Alsatian Louisiana since there was a Louisiana. pioneers. He has spoken French from They have been reared in the cradle of Western Office and Warehouse, Kansas City, childhood. Political campaigners in his romance. Yet with all their heritage of Mo. town who speak French have an over- the glory of old France, these warriors whelming advantage over their op- who fought shoulder to shoulder with ponents. their Northern comrades in the Great CLARK Lawrence Bonin is Adjutant of Stan- War, are today pre-eminently Americans. ley Barras Post of St. Martinville. He Today, amid bayou and prairie, in the is a direct descendant of Louis Juche- heart of a paradise of dreamy charm, reau de St. Denis, who founded Natchi- they are the live wires of their com- toches on the Cane River—that land munities—towns that yet cling to the that was so rich men called it the Cote romantic traditions of days that are Joyeuse, the Joyous Coast. Louis Juch- dead, that cherish the monuments and CRAVE VAULT ereau de St. Denis was a young captain memories of those days while they This trade-mark is on every genuine in the French army, a Knight of the march with the vigorous stride of the Clark Grave Vault. It is a means of identifying the vault instantly. Royal Military Order of St. Louis, who progress that is America. Unless you see this mark, the vault is not a Clark. JANUARY, IQ27 !

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side, and sometimes positively crushed real narrative ability, but there was not an opponent. much humor. Wit or humor in public men is some- Of Mr. Garfield I have spoken al- what rare. Lincoln was a master of ready. He was succeeded in office by humor, and he could make it serve his Chester A. Arthur, whose life had been ends, but public men fear a sense of spent in a great city. His predecessors humor. They seem to think that it will were of the country in training, environ- make them appear ridiculous and de- ment and character. Arthur was a typ- tract from the dignity which they con- ical New Yorker of his day. He was a Shave NewWay ceive their constituents to think should man of the clubs, the activities, the cul- go with public office. For that reason ture and refinement of the metropolis. a number of public men I have known His intimates were a remarkable com- •No More Blades have deliberately suppressed their sense pany of brilliant, ambitious, successful THINK of getting the keenest, quickest shaves of your life, 365 days a year—and never of humor. young men. He rigidly maintained the spending another penny for blades again ! That's Mr. Garfield and I were talking about dignity and formality of the White what the amazing new invention of a St. Louis man is doing for men all over the U. S. A. Tom Corwin, of Ohio, who was the most House, but his recreations, leisure and KRISS-KROSS—the super stropper and blade re- popular of his with close asso- juvenator is really sensational. Strops on diag- speaker day. Mr. Gar- social enjoyment were onal just like master barber. Automatic—de- field said Corwin could have been Presi- ciates. He had a keen sense of humor creasing pressure. Notifies you the exact second blade has keenest edge steel can take. Prolongs dent if he had not been such a good and was an admirable story teller, but even life of any make blade for months and story teller. The people, he said, will these qualities were not known to the years ! Simply startling ! Now—to introduce KRISS-KROSS—the inventor not trust a funny man with serious mat- public after he became President. But offers you a new kind of mystery razor—FREE. ters. When he was a young Mr. his friends he continued to be Really 3 razors in one. Adjustable feature cuts man among beard resistance 45%. Nothing like it ever before! Garfield said he was quite a wit and his the life of a party. Find out about these remarkable inventions today. Get details of Free 3-way razor. No obligation. early utterances on the stump in west- Rutherford B. Hayes was an all-round Send coupon today ? ern Ohio were liberally spiced with cultivated man, who reminded me more AGENTS: $150 Week and Up sprightly public Make big money as KRISS-KROSS representa- sayings, but presently he came of a college president than a tive—$75—$200 a week. Generous profits. J. C. to feel that while people would come man. He was an affable and entertain- Kellogg made $200 in 7 days. H. King made $66 one day. We show you how. Send coupon for out and listen to such a man they would ing talker, a good raconteur and pos- details. Check bottom line. Mail at once be chary about voting for him. So by sessed of a scholarly and subtle sense MFG. CO., Dept. A-411 punnCC painful, consistent effort Cleveland was able, courage- RIIUL/LJ 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. James A. Gar- of humor. field eradicated his sense of humor. He and remarkable for his solidarity. | 1 ous " Rhodes Mfg. Co., Dept. A-411 I I 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis, Missouri did such a thorough job of it that event- He was a most logical talker, who never please send detailB of your amazing KRISS- 1 I Without obligation ually either in a KROSS Stropper and FREE mystery razor. I he not only could not tell a story, failed to hold his listeners I

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entertainer. He has a considerable fund have humor, which is a general quality, of humor and he enjoys humor in oth- and in its true aspect a philosophy, ers. Mr. Wilson I never understood which pervades and enriches an entire very well, though we have spoken from discourse. Mr. Lincoln was a perfect the same platform several times, but example of humorist. Some men have the limericks he used to compose show wit, which is a flash of lightning from him to have been appreciative of a good the blue. Marse Henry had both. gentle, jest. Mr. Harding was a mighty good There was Cardinal Gibbons— fellow, who liked to hear a good story amiable and subtle. And Booker T. and to tell one. Washington—a most cultured and culti- Ne- A great light beats upon the presi- vated scholar. He told wonderful dency, and we are wont to search out gro stories, all of which had a point and fine shades of character in Presidents a purpose, showing the native shrewd- which in lesser mortals ness of the Negro, and might escape notice. his instinctive groping In this discussion of for advancement. humor I have tried to There was Artemus confine myself to my Ward, who could set a subject, even when room full of people He Was Good as an mentioning the names laughing without say- After DinnerSpeaker of Presidents. I have ing a word. endeavored not to ex- Check off the last ^but at his best / few names I have aggerate, as one is apt after an OysterDinnerl to do in such cases, as, mentioned, just as they for instance, after hav- have come to mind: Off hand you wouldn't say there is any Henry Watterson, Car- ing heard a President connection between oysters and oratory. Gibbons, r crack a single joke, to dinal D But look at old Cicero! conclude at once that Washington, Artemus Of his day he had no peer on the plat- he must make a habit Ward. Four more dis- form. His eloquence was flawless. His of it. Of all the Presi- similar men scarcely irony matchless. He was followed by dents since i860 only could be embraced in some and feared by others. Naturally his time was in great demand. two have been remem- the compass of a single Naturally he found it desirable to keep bered as story tellers sentence. Yet they himself fit. those who knew them, even if they have naturally associated themselves by Naturally, too, he was quick to discover Those were in as connoisseurs of hu- had not been President. my memory that his remarks after an average Roman Mr. Lincoln and . mor. What more striking testimonial of banquet, heaped high with the choicest I think, as Mr. Garfield so plainly the intrinsic value of humor in the hu- viands of an entire world, were some- stilted. put it, that a public man's jealous re- man race? Think of the artificial bar- times laborious or a trifle But when oysters as happily happened gard for the wishes or fancied wishes of riers which keep one man from his fel- — often—were the feature of the feast—his the electorate may partly be responsible low, which humor levels and in its own tongue was free and easy; his language to mind. for this. Mr. Bryan comes domain makes all the world akin. sparkled like crystal; his voice was rich Mr. Bryan's supposed deficiency in hu- I have spoken of General Grant, and like music and his hearers were wrapped mor has been commented upon by sev- his ability as a narrator when in com- as in magic. Just why oysters were so good and so good eral writers. But those writers could pany which would overcome his natural for him, perhaps Cicero couldn't tell. It re- not have known the great Nebraskan modesty. I shall never forget a dinner mained for the scientific skill of a later day to disclose and catalog their digestible qualities, very well. Mr. Bryan had a lively sense in Washington, given by Senator Mor- their nutritious values, their vitamine Cs, and their heavy content of iodine. it was reserved for pri- of humor, but gan of New York, shortly before Grant All he knew was that he liked them—and vate conversations with friends, and became President. We were three hours that they likewise liked him. Through experi- ence alone he found that it paid—to Order Oj/s-> never allowed to obtrude itself upon getting to the coffee, during which time ters Often. public or official occasions. General Grant had said nothing, except NOW/'OystersCome I found the same conditions prevail- such brief remarks as his neighbor could * ing in the United States Senate when I draw out. But presently Mrs. McCul- toYou Citified was there. Some of my colleagues used loch, the wife of the Secretary of the The packing, production and shipping of Oysters I9 to be horrified at my ability to see a Treasury told a story. It was apropos now carefully safeguarded by rigid Federal and Ktate Regulations. Wherever you live, you can light side to some of the ponderous dis- of the occult. Someone had asked if enjoy them with the same assurance of safety that permit you to enjoy your meat, vegetables and milk. cussions which came before that body. any present believed in the occult and Sometimes I used to have to go over to Mrs. McCulloch said she did, and told the cloakroom of my friends on the this story. Democratic side in order to find some- She was living in Plattsburg, New one to share a good laugh with. There York, and her brother was in New Mex- was Bob Taylor of Tennessee, Senator ico, where it took three months to get Daniels of Virginia and the erudite but word back or forth. One afternoon Mrs. whimsical John Sharp Williams of Miss- McCulloch fell asleep on the lawn of issippi. We laughed together, even if her home, and had a dream. In this Oysters we did not vote together, and as I look dream she saw her brother talking with a back upon it, there were times when the girl and a man. Presently her brother laugh was as important as the vote. One left the piazza upon which the three Thtlasttttord inSeaFood of the last things in this world I should were standing. The two men went off U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, H2-D.) care to part with is my recollection of and fought a duel, in which her brother Washington, D. C. later McCul- Oyster Growers and Dealers Assn.. the good laughs I have had, and my fell. Three months Mrs. »I5 Conn. Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C. ability to enjoy a good laugh now. loch received word from New Mexico Send me your free booklet called slain in duel, My recollections of good laughs and that her brother had been a "98 Ways to Prepare Oysters." good fellowship! What a gallery of which had taken place exactly as had Name shadow-pictures those memories present been represented to her in the pro-

to view. Henry Watterson, the great phetic dream. Address . .... Kentucky editor—there was a genius at General Grant listened intently to this City State story telling and repartee! Some men story. It ( Continued on page 76)

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This new self-massaging Presidents and Others belt not only makes you look thinner INSTANTLY ( Continued from page —but quickly takes off 75) rolls of excess fat. seemed to impress him deeply. When Negress pored over palm, said TVET is weakening — my and ^drugs are dangerous Mrs. McCulloch finished the General she could see my future as clearly as strenuous reducing exer- began to speak. cises are liable to strain the daylight." your heart. The only safe "I will tell you what happened to me The earnest, deliberate tone of Gen- method of reducing is mas- sage. This method sets up one time," he said. "This was some eral Grant held his hearers almost circulation that a vigorous years ago, shortly before the war. breathless. seems to melt away the sur- He had placed before us a plus fat. The Weil Reducing Things had been going badly on the vivid picture. Here was a misfit farmer, Belt, made of special re- ducing rubber, produces ex- farm near St. Louis, and I was discour- oppressed by debt, selling a load of actly the same results as aged. One day I drove into town with stove wood on the streets of St. Louis, a skilled masseur, on" quicker and cheaper. a load of cord wood to sell. After I and so apprehensive of the future that Every move you make had disposed of it, I was passing through the sign of causes the Weil Belt to a Negro fortune teller beck- gently massage your the Negro quarter, and happened to see oned as an oracle of possible encour- abdomen. Results are in rapid because this the window of a tumble-down tene- agement. In ten years this obscure man belt works for you ment a sign which read, 'Fortunes Told had risen to lead to victory the greatest every second. Here.' army that ever had marched the globe, Fat Replaced by Normal Tissue "If anyone needed light on his fu- and now he stood on the threshold of From 4 to 6 inches of ture, or a change of fortune, I did. I the presidency. What, if anything, of flabby fat usually van- tied the team outside and presented my- this miraculous change of fortune had ishes in just a few weeks. Only solid, normi self at the door. A Negro woman who this illiterate, old Negress shadowed tissue remains. The Weil looked as if she might have been a hun- forth? Reducing Belt is endorsed by physicians because it not dred years old answered my knock. She "What that old woman told me would only takes off fat, but said told helps correct stomach dis- she fortunes, and charged fifty happen, has happened," concluded Gen- orders, constipation, back- cents. Fifty cents was a good deal of eral Grant. ache, shortness of breath, and puts sagging internal organs back into place. money to me then, but something There was a long silence. But the Special 10-Day Trial Offer prompted me to step inside. The old General had finished his story. Send no money. Write for detailed description and testimonials from delighted users. Write at once. Special 10-day trial offer. The Weil Company, 581 Hill Street, New Haven, Conn. THE WEIL COMPANY 581 Hill Street, New Haven, Conn. I complete de- I Gentlemen : Please send me In the Wake the ^torm scription of the Weil Scientific Reducing ' of Belt, and also your Special 10-Day Trial Offer. | (Continued from page 33) Name I boats could be made trustworthy they post able to suc- Address The Sebring was work would be sent forth among the water- cessfully because it received contribu- State- City- surrounded houses. Boatload after boat- tions of food and clothing from almost load of half-famished survivors were every post in Florida and from many rescued. The Sebring Legionnaires as- posts outside the State. sisted nine hundred persons from the Lakeland Post, Avon Park Post and INCREASE town on Sunday and helped bring the Dykeman-Pinkston Post of Lake Wales other surviving citizens to safety on the each sent sizable details of Legionnaires following day. into the Moore Haven district to aid in BankAccount While the rescue work was proceed- relief work. Reverend G. I. Hiller was ^/r^ ing, Legionnaires were in charge of the Lake- J Juxhev o&i° Shoes searching for the dead. land Red Cross relief Scores of persons train to Moore Haven. You can earn more money with thia original lino of remarkable made-to-order shoes. 86$ of drowned in the Moore He is chairman of the women need them and buy eagerly because Archer Shoes are expertly mode to Choir order, of Haven area. Miles of Lakeland chapter of the finest leathers, at prices no higher than fine ready- were searched Red Cross and Chaplain made shoes. marshes HIGHEST COMMISSION ON EVERY PAIR for the dead. The whole of Lakeland Post. De- in Direct Selling field, collected by you in advance. No capital or experience needed. We guide be- surrounding country partment Commander ginners. Perfect fit guaranteed or money back. was under several feet Steitz is secretary of Large repeat business increases earnings Im- mensely. Write for free details. of water. Moore Hav- the Lakeland chapter en had been built on of the Red Cross and The €. W. Archer Shoe Company Dept. X-17 ground several feet be- formerly was its chair- Cincinnati, Ohio low the level of Lake man. Okeechobee and the The co-operation of breaking of the dikes the Legion and the Red had caused an inrush of Cross, not only around waters that had washed Moore Haven but else- 'Heretohow tobe many houses of the where in the storm r low-lying town from their foundations. zone, demonstrated anew the advantage ^POPULAR. Refugees from Moore Haven were of co-ordinated relief work. In Florida, carried to Sebring, the Legion handling as in other American disasters in the * a Conn saxophone in a few short weeks. transportation and service of supply. past few years, it was the Legion which Entertain yourself and your friends. Its zest- ful, cheering music makes you the life of the The Sebring Legionnaires conducted led in the very earliest rescue and relief party; you're welcome everywhere. Free Trial, Easy Payments on any Conn their work night and day for two weeks, work; it was the Red Cross which, with instrument for band or orchestra. Exclusive, until took over the ac- its vast resources and its permanent na- easy-playing features, yet Conns cost no more the Red Cross than others. Write today for free literature. tivities. tional relief organization, quickly came

C. G. CONN, £td. t 103 Conn Bldg. Elkhart, Ind, Sebring Legionnaires also carried out into action and took over much of the rescue and relief work in Lakeport, an- work which the Legion had begun. other village in the Lake Okeechobee At Coconut Grove Legionnaires used district which was practically destroyed. wrenches to repair damage to the city's

76 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly water supply system and thus avert a possible epidemic due to contamination Legion also patrolled their Tours to of the water. They France town to prevent looting or the starting PRE CONVENTION TOURS of a fire. The Auxiliary unit established Tours "A" and "B" sail from New York on August 26, from Boston next day, first aid medical stations. The post and on the Cunard SS. "Lancastria." unit jointly fed three thousand persons "A" includes Ireland, England, Holland, Belgium, Germany and the Rhine and and supplied clothing to more than two France. Cost $165. hundred. "B" includes England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and France. Cost $160. These rates are inclusive except Legionnaires of Boynton, congratulat- steamer and housing in Paris. ing themselves because their own town POST CONVENTION TOURS was but slightly damaged, rendered out- "1" to Switzerland and the Alps. 8 days. $95. standing help by sending eight tons of "2" includes Switzerland, Italy, Monte Carlo and the Riviera. 22 days. $260. detail ice to Miami by motor truck. A These prices include all expenses, drives, hotels, meals, tips, etc. of 142 Boynton Legionnaires helped All parties are limited and selective in character. Special atten- Hollywood Post members in their relief tion to ladies. work. Write for descriptive booklets and full information, address: West Palm Beach proved a clearing H. house for storm refugees. The post in WALTER WOODS COMPANY 80 Boylston Street Little Building Boston, Mass. that city established relief headquarters in the city's railroad station and fed many hundreds of persons and provided them with clothing. Particularly effective was the assist- ance rendered to the stricken Florida communities by the Legion posts in LEGIONNAIRES! Florida's largest cities untouched by the storm. St. Petersburg Post, for ex- ample, sent a complete medical unit to Miami. It consisted of ten physicians, When YOU Get Old eight nurses, two embalmers and four- teen Legionnaires, including electricians, plumbers and other trade experts. In addition to giving medical attention to hundreds of injured refugees, the St. EVERYTHING Petersburg delegation operated a kitchen which supplied food for sixteen thou- seems sand persons in four days. Meanwhile, St. Petersburg Post had collected an extraordinary quantity of clothing for SAD and GLOOMY the storm survivors. Six separate car- loads were started for the Red Cross relief station at West Palm Beach, and Including the a Legionnaire accompanied each car to see that it reached its destination quickly. A special meeting of Edward C. De WAR Saussure Post of Jacksonville, Florida, was attended by two hundred and fifty —That's when you'll be sorry that you didn't take this opportunity post members on Monday following the to secure your new Binder for The American Legion Monthly. storm. At this meeting the post voted This new binder, which will hold a year's issues, is now ready! to provision and equip one hundred Strong and durably bound in red cloth with attractive gold-lettered men for ten days duty in the storm zone. title. This binder contains a Special Locking Device. It also voted a cash contribution of new $1,100, alloting it to the various strick- en communities. The Jacksonville post Price, Postpaid $1.50 also had a prominent part in the Jack- sonville Chamber of Commerce relief THE LEGION BOOK SERVICE efforts, and helped get a relief train started for Miami on Sunday morning. The American Legion Monthly, Indianapolis, Ind. This train carried a large number of doctors and nurses and seven baggage cars loaded with food and medical sup- plies. Orlando Memorial Post sent many truck-loads of food, clothing and med- ical supplies to the storm-swept sections Be a Railway Postal Clerk immediately after the storm and con- tributed $600 to the relief funds. Get $ 1900 to $2700 a Year \ What the Florida posts, large and E asy Work Long Vacations small, did ; what the units of the Florida Why work hard for small pay ? Uncle Sam offers you a fine position as J Department of the American Legion Railway Postal Clerk. Travel on fast trains sorting mail. Travel expenses paid. $1900 a year TO START. $100 RAISE EVERY YEAR until you ^ ** Auxiliary did; what the Florida voitures reach TOP PAY. unburn. -* Pittenon. Principal of the Forty and Eight did; all these FREE Information About This Fine Job , Let Arthur R. Patterson help you qualify for this wonderful position. He trained thousands _ The Plllereon School, Dept. 631. ' Winser Buildinj. Rochester, ». ». efforts combine to give new proof to i Civil Service. Write for FREE BOOK. Tells how Mr. Patterson coaches you to »»» s exams. Also read his agreement that in one year after rating you Sir: Send me without charge your the world that the Legion is any com- nil be offered a position—or your money back. Mall coupon now. - catalog describing Railway Mail Clerk ARTHUR R. PATTERSON, PRINCIPAL «» and other Civil Service positions. munity's first line of defense in time of The Patterson School, Dept. 63 1 , Wisner Bldg. *r Chester, N. Y. — •» Name Age disaster. idress City State

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fire he asked others to face. With whose next New Year will be the Summerall, and Davis and MacNider at 5688th—of whom 4,400,000 are in the the War Department all is well if Con- United States. Poland is next with gress supports them. 4,000,000. I's there any race with more power and influence for its numbers? Busier Than Any Post Adjutant. What It was interesting that private talk at does Mussolini do with his spare time? this wealthy gathering was that the He now holds seven out of thirteen greatest Jew in America was not one of cabinet positions. the Jewish multi-millionaires, but Louis Bunte Cough Drops soothe the „ „ He is premier, com- Brandeis, Justice of the United States throat and relieve the annoying Busy, Busy, mander-in-chief of Supreme Court, who is not rich. tickle. Made of pure cane sugar, Busy Benito menthol and horehound. The the army and navy menthol heals — the horehound and lord of finances. All Observers Agree that not much soothes. He gives out interviews right and left; will be done by Congress this winter; MENTHOL* HOREHOUND writes articles; tells the Italian newspa- that either party is quite willing that pers what to say; instructs the colleges the other shall have what to teach; makes it a crime to dis- a majority in the COUGH Toot MuchTi/t 1 J agree with his opinions; writes decrees Senate _ ^his iyes Party Politics DROPS with both hands; and tells Italian par- the other fellow BUNTE BROTHERS, CHICAGO ents the names they should give their the responsibility Makers of World Famous Candies children. It may be safely said that he while the fellow on the outside, with believes in himself. Any dictator must. no responsibility, has an open season A lazy man who would like to be dic- for shooting. From either party what s MEN *10 15*20 aDay tator had better think twice. we want is that the nation's work should be done; we want men and parties who imssions Daily will Com Paid _ "Doesn't Bother Me any; I cut it take responsibility. Forthrightness If Profitable new field for men who are conscien-t out," said a friend to me recently. "Nor which takes responsibility and acts may I tious and dependable. NO EXPERIENCE NEC- biggest commissions in bother me," I replied. If everybody be better than pussy-footing which hides I ESSARY. My plan pays | this line in advance, with extra bonus || f^^. I practised this view its opinions and does nothing in order II for producers. Full or Part Time fi££|pra Act! $45.00 to $100.00 weekly. ,' NOW je jkj , 1 there would be no to win the next election. Let the pussy- If Nobody Wet and D issue footers look up history and they will Sell Better QualityAD Took a Drink But many peopie find that it is the men who take respon- wool Tailoring sibility \ still do drink. who win out with the people in Our astonishing values in tailored- to- "We're wrong!" I told my friend after- the end. order, all wool euits and overcoats

positively sel 1 on sight. Wewant earn- ward, "It is our bother and the bother est men who are anxious to Make of the nation." Cutting it out is not For Generations have been want- Money and willhelpthem reestablish We asteady, big-payingrepeatbusiness, enough. While bootlegging still flour- ing the Indians to become active citi- No capital required. We furnish handsome largeewatch aamvlen" ishes we can at least try to teach the zens. In Buffalo County, South Da- ana complete instructions, FREE. Write younger generation to resist the vile stuff kota, they have tak- W. Z. GIBSON, Inc., 1 61 W. Harrison Street, Dept. A-405 Chicago*! J that finds its way into hip pocket flasks. j , ,7 en us at our word. UnderT the M the county offi _ LEGION MEMBERS S'wS DOGS Big 1 ent Factional c j aj s are infjians. and Disputes Over the prohibi- 1^17170 Y\t^\r^ f*™*-*'y , want EV r.r. T J_ylflj hair smooth tion of gas warfare waylay the prepara- Leopold Auer can " natured to good tions for now vote, too, and his vote counts just START NEW YEAR RIGHT—MAKE DOG A PRESENT another arms conference ORDER ONE OF THESE COMBINATION BOXES abroad. That is, as much as any member of what is really BOSTON TERRIER SPECIAL contains two gas is roducin the oldest American family, the redskins. brushes. Price ONE DOLLAR a box. Add uGamineassing P g thirteen cents West Mississippi River. more gas in tdk It A master violinist, teacher of many great POINTER AND SHORT HAIR DOG SPECIAL Peace flans contains two brushes. Price ONE DOLLAR a is a smoke screen violinists, Auer came from Russia in box. Add thirteen cents West Mississippi River. AIREDALE, CHOW, COLLIE, SHEPHERD, that national inter- '17, and has just taken out his final pa- SETTER and LONG HAIR SPECIAL contains est can throw up to delay action. You pers at the age of eighty-two. Lo and two brushes. TWO DOLLARS. Add twenty- three cents West Mississippi River. can limit battleships; it takes years to Leopold have both shown the spirit that Money refunded if brushes are not satisfactory. build one. Poisonous gas can be imme- makes them at home under the big Mention THE AMERICAN LEGION when ordering. L. S.WATSON MFG. CO., Leicester, Mass. diately produced in any dye works. A American tent. nation pressed in war will use it; then NoJoketobeBald the enemy will use it. Arguing about Just as Strong and sound as the local gas warfare seems to injure good rela- Legion Post is the respect for service in tions among peoples. War is hell, and the community. In the sections of the all hell's weapons will be applied when country where the war comes. The first thought is to pre- Strong Legion, Legion is strongest vent war. „ j%7 • there are the most Strong Nation war memorials to Eddie Cantor, the actor, at a dinner impress the people to start another multi-million drive for with past service given and present a Jewish philanthropic fund, said that service required. I thought of this as as a poor boy, he I saw in the Pacific Legion the plan of Let Me PROVE It To You FREE his start in the magnificent proposed memorial arch What I accomplished on my own head, pictured above, I T , , j owed I can do tor you, provided you are under 45 years The Jews and believe . at Camp Lewis to the 91st, ever to keep of age and loss of hair was not caused by burns or scars. Hfe tQ such benefi succeed or you pay nothing. No appara- Anyhow , Imust Their Own cence xhe Jews the members' memory of the camp tus—my home treatment is simple, quick, inexpensive. O J XT M Just your name and address and work hard they where they trained fresh and the mem- Send NO Money I will mail you full information ; with PHOTOGRAPHS, NAMES and addresses of men study hard in school; they care for ory of their service fresh to younger who have successfully used my treatment and women in the for dandruff, falling hair and particularly for baldness. their own. In all the world there are generations. Then I read Yankee Write Now. A postal will do. only 18,000,000 of that ancient race Division Journal of a project to rebuild

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the village church at Belleau with me- and ignorance in supporting an act of morial windows to the Division's units. justice saw further than he, and were right in their view that it was also a Stalin, the New Boss of the Russian measure of economic wisdom. Soviet, is reported as saying that the United States is now the great imperial- Less Than a Dollar, to be exact istic state whose ninety-eight cents, a scientist estimates desire to dominate is the value of the physical matter of Terriblet> -ii Oldr\i j the world means a • a human being. As Uncle Sam repetition of the ca- a piece of raw ma " /±uouar,/±A Dollar A lamity 'i4-'i8. terial man is hardly of uman Being Yes, of course. We freed Cuba in '98; H worth enough t0 buy we took no territory in '18; we agreed him one square to naval reduction; we have not inter- meal. The ready comment is that vened in Mexico. Uncle Sam, with his brain, spirit, education, skill make him little defense army, is a regular devil of supreme. His the greatest power of an imperialist licking his chops for prey. any living thing; and the more he makes Stalin, I believe, wears a cap; but you of his faculties the further he is away can also talk through a cap. from the ninety-eight cents worth. Can You Fix It? Again a National surplus! Again "It's Time for the early birds to go Repair any auto fault, learn how NOW. You can do it easily in statesmen talking of tax reduction! out and catch the 1927 worms," says this new simple way. These FIVE Big Boohs are up to the dire prophets of Legion Councillor of Ohio. minute on Automobile Among these are the the "Some engineering subjects; chock full of little known facta about con- struction, operation and repairs. yesteryear. Still I of our best posts a Electric wiring treated in complete detail — illustrations and diagrams make everything clear and easily understood by anybody. The most interesting jjt, »t . wait on just one of » few years ago are r B and most practical set of books we have ever written on modern W** Now to > automobile them to admit that nQW com ple tely engineering. Whether you want to fit yourself for Admit It r C arry on garage owner, repair expert or merely wish to know more about jj e was wrong j n dormant," says the your own car, you will realize the value of these splendidly bound volumes. This is the new 1926 Edition with 70 new and up-to-date saying that the pass- Iowa Legionnaire. wiring diagrams. age of the Adjusted Compensation Act "Some that were dormant are extreme- "NO MONEY" OFFER meant no tax reduction and even eco- ly active." The editor adds, "Ameri- An amazing new plan of distribution brings these books to you nomic ruin. He might go further and cans are extremists." Not sky flights for examination without one cent of payment to us. We don't ask a penny of you, but shin the books to you FREE. Look them admit that some others knew some- and then swift descents, not big urges over—read them as much as you want to; note the splendid photo- graphs and drawings and then if you decide you want them, send thing about economics, too; that those and then lassitude. In '27, make healthy us §2.00. and then only $3.00 a month until only $24.80 is paid. That is all ; nothing more to pay us. If you send NOW we will include who were then abused for their greed and permanent the growth of '26. Consulting Membership—FREE Yes. we actually give you a certificate of membership in the AMERICAN TECHNICAL SOCIETY, which entitles you to free consultation on any subject related to Automobile Engineering. Eighteen specialized experts are at your disposal— ready at any time to help you. With this library and this membership you ought to be able soon to know all there is to be known about autos. "Banks Note:—In Jordan* s addition to all this, those who send now will be en- titled to the services of our EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT without charge. We are in daily contact with firms all over the (Continued from page 21) country who need good men and are willing to pay big. This serv- ice costs you nothing. Don't miss this special offer. Send now. night Chaplain Young and Sam prayed streaming down his face Captain Arm- together and sang "On Jordan's Stormy strong approached the doomed boy. American Technical Society, Automobile Division A-l 103, Chicago, Illinois Banks I Stand." "Sam, I swear to God I'd rather die You may send me your new complete Automobile Engineering In the morning the chaplain was on myself—" library (1926 edition) 5 big volumes bound in flexo covers for ten days' Free Examination. If satisfied, I will send you $2.00 then and $3.00 per month until hand early to renew his plea to Sam to "Never mind, Captain," was the the special low price of only $24.80 la paid, otherwise I will return them and owe you nothing. Include talk. Captain Armstrong came at ten gentle reply, "you are doing your duty. membership certificate and employment offer. o'clock to lead the prisoner to the gal- I thank you for all your kindness." lows. The chaplain asked Sam for a A shout from the ranked soldiery sus- Name

keepsake and the boy took off the blue- pended proceedings. A horseman gal- Address gray overcoat. Mr. Young kept that loped up and leaped from his saddle. It City coat for forty years and then, after cut- was Captain Chickasaw. The Federal State . ting off button, presented it to Con- scout leader hastened to where sat a a Sam References federate museum. and crouched beside him, speaking earn- Sam walked out of the jail between estly in a low tone. Ten thousand men the files of the execution guard. A looked on and wondered. Sam listened wagon with a coffin in it was waiting. for a few moments and then rose to his Sam got in and sat on the coffin, and feet, and in a tone which carried a touch hunting©! Hunting & Fishing was driven, between lines of soldiers, to of rebuke, exclaimed: pfCT II Kir** * 3 ft 52-page monthly magazine crammed full of hunting, fishing, the scaffold, which stood beside a large "I cannot. Do you suppose I would camping and trapping stories and pictures. valuable i nformation tree on a conspicuous ridge, about which betray a friend?" about guns, rifles, fishing tackle, game law changes, best places to get nearly the entire Sixteenth Army Corps Captain Chickasaw took out his fish and game, etc. Biggest value was drawn up. Sam got out of the watch. He said he had come with the ever offered ina sportingmagazine. And here's the wagon and sat down under the tree. final proposals of General Dodge, and Remington Sportsman's Knife long have I to live, Captain was authorized to give the prisoner five "How with stag handle and two long Armstrong?" minutes in whic' to reconsider his an- slender blades especially designed to meet the exacting requirements "About fifteen minutes, Sam," said swer. of skinning and cleaning fish, game, birds and fur-bearing ani- the Captain. Without speaking Sam took a note- mals. Blades are of superior quality steel with strong, durable, keen-cutting edges. The points are shaped just right for a good ami skinning. "What is the news from the front?" book from his pocket and began to clean job of slitting The name SPECIAL OFFER. We will send you Hunting & Captain Armstrong said Bragg had write. When he finished he tore out the "Rem- w Fishing Magazine for awhole year, 12 big issues, tWff/ora"^K&j&^ and tn ' s ftem been defeated at Lookout Mountain. leaf and handed it to Chaplain Young. on the ^^^a§5&**w —^^^^r in ^ton Sports hh,. I,- ,\ Hi Jin's Knife "I am sorry to hear it," said Sam. The Chaplain glanced at the paper. The The preparations went forward fumb- others crowded around. They read: lingly. The soldier detailed to spring "Dear Mother the trap was trying to beg off. He of- I have five minutes to live and will fered all the money he had to hire a spend them writing to you. I don't want substitute. There were no takers, and you to grieve after me. I don't only feel Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Mail your order lo-day to finally everything was ready. With tears that I am ( Continued on page 81 HUNTING & FISHING MAGAZINE 264 Newbury St. Boston, Mass.

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Distinguished Service

Since the beginning of time, distinguished service among fighting men has been rewarded with highly coveted medals and decorations. Hundreds of Americans were decorated for distinguished service during the Great War, not as an obliga- tion, but as a privilege.

The past year your Commander and Adjutant have given

j freely of their time in unselfish service to your Post. Surely theirs has been a distinguished service which your Post should deem a privilege to recognize.

A unique line of Past Officers' insignia has been provided for the ever increasing number of Posts which annually dec- THE AMERICAN LEGION orate their retiring Commander and Adj utant. The wide price Emblem Division INDIANAPOLIS, IND. range and great variety—rings, watches, badges and charms Gentlemen: Please send me a free copy of the Emblem Cata- —makes selection easy. log which describes the complete line of past officers' regalia as well as scores of other unusual emblem combinations. It is understood that this will in no way obligate me. Your copy of the Emblem Catalog, which not only describes Name. the complete line of Past Officers' insignia but scores of other

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doing my country's bidding but that all "I am ready, Captain," he said. heaven is sanctioning the act I am about to take. I have asked the Chaplain to AFTER Sam Davis had been decent- sing - ly buried a file of prisoners was marched from the Pulaski jail and put Jordan's stormy banks I stand On aboard a train bound for an internment And cast a wistful eye camp in Chicago. One prisoner was a To Canaan's fair and happy land ." tall man with a chestnut-colored beard Where my possessions lie. . . who gave the name of H. B. Shaw, by Captain Chickasaw said the five min- profession a physician. But when the utes were up, and turned away. Sam train reached its destination Shaw was Davis faced the provost marshal. missing, having escaped en route.

£tep Keeping Give Me 15 Minutes (Continued from page 59) the school children. The post supplied ANOTHER big membership gain in a Day for 30 Days seeds to all children who entered the • 1927! It is in the cards, accord- contest. The whole town became a ing to National Adjutant James F. Bar- and III give sweet pea garden while the contest ton and Frank E. Samuel, Assistant Na- you was on. tional Adjutant in charge of membership new hair orno cost Naturally the post had to have quite efforts. After talking over prospects T DON'T care whether your hair has been a bit of outside help in its undertakings. with National Commander Howard P. * falling out for a year or 10 years—whether To show its appreciation of that help Savage early in November, both Barton you've tried one remedy or a hundred reme- dies. Give me 15 minutes a day and I guar- it gave a banquet in compliment to the and Samuel said they expected the Le- antee to give you a new growth of hair in 30 or I won't charge a penny. business men of the town. Dr. Will J. gion to have fully 200,000 members paid days you At the Merke Institute, 5th Avenue, New Mayo was one of the speakers. The up for 1927 on New Year's Day. York, which I founded, many people have paid Reverend Billy Sunday, the evangelist, as high as $100 for results secured through personal treatments. Now through my Home was another. Treatment I offer these same results at a cost And McCoy Post isn't resting now YEAR'S DAY, incidentally, of only a few cents a day or money instantly NEW refunded. things. at to see all the departments after doing all these Just ought In most cases of baldness the hair roots are present it is rounding out its efforts to off to a flying start in the Legion's great not dead but dormant—asleep. Ordinary ton- ics fail because they treat only the surface complete its clubhouse which will be a membership derby, the Henry D. Linds- skin. My treatment goes beneath the surface community center. ley cup race. This race ends at mid- —brings nourishment direct to dormant roots and stimulates them to new activity. night of February 28th. The winner is' the department enrolling before that Free Book Explains Treatment the Illinois-New York hour the highest percentage of the mem- "The New Way to Make Hair Grow" is the WATCH title of a 32-page illustrated book which ex- Illinois membership race in 1927. bership it had for the entire preceding plains the Merke Treatment—tells what it has came to the Philadelphia national con- year. Idaho won the Lindsley trophy done for thousands—contains valuable infor- mation on care of hair and scalp. This book extraordinary for after eye-lash fin- vention with an member- 1926, but only an is yours Free—to keep. Mail coupon TODAY! ship record for 1926. It had enrolled ish with West Virginia, The Florida Allied Merke Institute, Inc., Dept. 221, 512 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C. exactly 57,296, a gain of 10,000 over its Department won the cup in two succes- enrollment in 1925, and it had almost sive years, 1924 and 1925. Last year ALLIED MERKE INSTITUTE, Inc., Dept. 221 reached the enrollment of New York, many departments had a good show for 512 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Please send me—without cost or obligation which was Now, with an Illi- the cup until the final days of the race. 59,977. —a copy of your book, "The New Way to nois Legionnaire as National Command- This year the race ought to be just as Make Hair Grow," describing the Merke Sys- tem. er, Illinois is doubly set on going to the close. head of the parade. It is frankly out Name - (State whether Mr. Mrs. or Miss) to beat New York. Incidentally, the Department Commander of Illinois in FOR the benefit of listeners who may Address ... its effort-to-break-the-record year is have tuned in late," as the radio an- City — State Ferre C. Watkins, the man who nomi- nouncers put it, we'll introduce here and €» Wt off "gPtraining. Law-trained men earn whole department is going to say it with most of us, because their writings have $5,000 to SIO.OOO Annually We frnlde yon step by step. You can train at home dur- members in 1927. appeared in earlier numbers. Lest it be .'ing spare time. Degree of LL.B. conferred. LaSalle Students found among practicing attorneys of every forgotten—Peter B. Kyne was the first state. We furnish all text material, including fourteen-volume Law Library. Low cost, easy terms. Get our valuable 108-page Law Historian of the California Department Guide" and "Evidence" bookB free. Send for them NOW. 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let it be recorded once more that Mr. Drew Post of New York City. Philip Nason was a delegate from Vermont to Von Blon is a member of Wyandot Post the Legion's St. Louis caucus in 1919 of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Abian A. and helped found Moses Taylor Post Wallgren is on the roll of Marine Post at Norwich University, Northfield, Ver- of Philadelphia. mont. Mr. Nason's story, "The Two Among the new contributors is George Learn to Draw Generals," is in two parts; the second Whipple Dobbs, author of the article part will appear in the issue for Feb- on the rescue and relief work done by ruary. Florida posts following the hurricane in Marquis James, whose writings on his- September. Mr. Dobbs is Historian of at Home torical subjects have been features of the Florida Department of the Forty each issue of the Monthly, is a member and Eight and belongs to Edward Simple Method Makes It Amazingly Easy C. of Pleasantville (New York) Post. De Saussure Post of Jacksonville. Trained artists earn from #50 to over £250 a week. Frederick Tremendous demand right now for good art work. Palmer belongs to S. Rankin Right Guide. Magazines, newspapers, advertisers, printing houses, etc. Become an artist through this quick, easy method—right at home in spare time. Learn Illustrating, Designing and Cartoon- ing. Actual fun learning this way. Personal correction by successful commercial art instructors. Learn to draw and earn big money. Send for FREE BOOK The Illusion of Qhange Just printed—a new book which describes the latest develop- ments and wonderful opportunities in Commercial Art, and gives full details of this quick, easy method of learning to draw. Tells (Continued from page 27) all about our students—their successes—what they say—actual reproductions of their work—and how many earned big money even while learning. Write for this Free Book and details of our heard between times many evangelists. which is just now a part of America's Attractive Offer. Mail postcard or letter now. The peroration—oft repeated—of one daily entertainment. WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF ART of these evangelists that described the (Here the timid reader may skip Room 531-E, 1 1 16-16th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. coming of the Pale Rider, Death, thirty-four lines.) stamped itself indelibly upon my mem- I am going to say that our flirtation ory. As I was an anaemic, nervous, im- with prohibition has proved a disastrous MEN WANTED aginative youngster I marvel to this day experiment and that the sooner we draw To sell Koch Products. Part or that I did not die of fright or become the question into broad daylight, pluck Country or city work. full time. insane from my broodings over death. off its robes of hypocrisy and deal with auto team required. For country work, or America is indulging in a grand joy- it in a spirit of sanity the better it will Begin at once or later, but secure territory ride, and if it is not in all ways conduct- be for the coming generations. 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The episode at Indianapolis, change. And the trend of the curve is where a large amount of confiscated liq- upward and onward. The critics of the uor was sold by government employes times are greatly given to magnifying right out of the Federal Building, af- what appear to be serious destructive fords a noteworthy illustration of the tendencies and give too little applause to weakness of a law that is unsupported the great achievements. No thing is by honest public sentiment. There is quite hopeless—not even the dismaying hardly a place in America where liquor spectacle of widely prevalent banditry! cannot be bought—easiest of all, it is TRAVELING FOR "UNCLE SAM" The phenomena presented by an epi- said, in Washington, the capital of the demic of lawlessness such as we are wit- nation! "Yes, fellows — I am again working for 'Uncle Sam.' Here is my appointment. nessing are in no way indicative of a Such "changes" as this are not evolu- "Tomorrow, I go out on my first Railway Mail run to Washing- moral slump. Once the people tionary, not part of the great movement ton, D.C. 1 will travel on pass and see my country. While away general from home I get hotel expenses. cease to be mildly amused by the antics of life, but sporadic, hardly more than "I (ret S1900 the first year and expect to raise to 52700 with possibly later advancement to positions paying $4000 or $5000 of the hold-up men they will bestir fly-specks on the wheel of time. But a year. I have a summer vacation with full pay and very pleasant themselves and find a way to* stop them. they must be dealt with nevertheless, work. Franklin Institute did it for me. Because of being an Ex- yervice man 1 got special preference," While the newspapers are so filled with honestly and fearlessly, if we would Many U. S. Government Jobs are open to Ex-Service men. of political corruption and we keep the vision clear for the great on- Mail the coupon TODAY SURE. You may then soon find yourself stories in a well-paid U. S. GOVERNMENT JOB. have presented constantly to the eyes ward urge of Things. — — — — — - CUT HERE - — — — FRANKLIN INSTITUTE of youth the scandalous delays of the "Courage, comrade, the devil's dead!" Dept. E 186, Rochester, N. Y. law, accompanied by a growing impres- America's great need is courage. The RuBh to me at once, free of charge, 32-page book with, (1) List of U. S. Government Jobs obtainable. (2) Full information regard- sion that immunity from punishment spectacle of the average representative ing salaries, hours, duties, etc. (3) Send particulars regarding preference to Ex-Service men. can be bought for a price, we need not in Congress cowering before this or that Name be surprised at the carnival of crime group or bloc is not edifying. 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who founded America were not cowards. ple need and deserve our best thought. The men who have fought in all our They are not helped by abuse or de- Agoodcldyriend standard of valor. spairing sighs that they are inferior to wars lifted high the Remember the old-fashioned pioneers who redeemed the wilder- their grandparents. With the young The mustard plaster Grandma were not afraid. Pestilence, fam- who are obliged to meet and deal with ness pinned around your neck when ine, the lurking savage, in nowise de- all these changes so constantly com- terred them from building homes and plained of the very permanence of our youhad a cold or a sore throat? It worked, but how it burned establishing States. institutions rests. Our responsibility is my and blistered If those who bewail the changing to them. They should be inspired with Musterole breaks up colds and offer a constructive pro- zeal to take a hand in the discussion of times would does its work more gently. Rubbed their their gram, sane, reasonable and possible all problems; opinions and over the throat or chest, it pene- of realization, we should soon be ar- experience should be invited to aid in trates the skin with a tingling riving somewhere as to many things determining ways and means of meeting warmth that brings relief at once. which now seem difficult. There is far the charge that aspiration and faith are Made from pure oil of mustard, it is a clean, white ointment good for all too much pettiness, a languid meddling dying in our people. They know ! They the little household ills. with matters of no real importance. If know a vast deal which their elders Keep Musterole handy and use at women prefer to bob their hair or short- smugly pretend to know. the first sign of tonsillitis, croup, neu- en their skirts nothing is proved by Of course there are changes! The ritis, rheumatism or a cold. such preferences that is detrimental to changes will not cease while America To Mothers: Musterole is also made the nobility of American womanhood. continues to function as a going con- in milder form for babies and small chil- If drink is undermining the morals of cern. Democracy has yet to prove it- dren. Ask for Children's Musterole. passing from one ex- the boys and girls of America the ques- self ; we are only The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio tion arises immediately as to how they periment to another. With the rights Jars & Tubes may be protected. If prohibition in- and needs of so many millions to con- creases their danger then it is a bad sider, so many accommodations and ad- thing, and a remedy must be sought by justments to make, courage, patience enlightened men and women free of fa- and tolerance are the great requisites. natical taint. Our American young peo- And the greatest of these is courage

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The Socialists and the Jniture Our repesentatives are making $75 to $150 a week ( Continued from page 25) Selling all-wool, made-to- measure CLOTHES at czarism. To him the Communists paid election returns. In 1922, the state Retail no attention whatever. But when a year tickets all drew a diminished vote. The *25 Socialist the later, a Socialist who had supported Chicago Daily and New f~\VR guarantee of eatis- ^ faction to the customer ' in our Russian col- York Call died of malnutrition; leaving Kerensky appeared is bonded by the United onies, the Communists broke up his Victor Berger's Milwaukee Leader the States Fidelity and Guar- anty Company. Represen- meetings with bricks and riotous inter- one English-language Socialist daily. tative makes $4 to $6 on each sale. Six day delivery. ruptions. A leader of the Workers' During the next two years, every sign Free sample outfit with leather case and exclusive Party told me last y ar exactly what he indicated further decline. The conven-. territory. Experience un-

necessary . Write at once thought of the parent body. "Spies tion of 1924 faced the facts. For the to Homeland Tailoring Co., and outposts of capitalism in the ranks first time in nearly thirty years, the Inc. 218-220 labor," Hillquit, shrank from nominating a national E. Lexington St. of he said, "Berger, party Dept. S21, Baltimore, Md. Norman Thomas, those labor leaders ticket. It endorsed La Follette, whose who are starting banks—all of them. platform more nearly approximated to I'll except Debs. He was a good old Socialism than those of the older parties. fighter in his time, but died a back num- And without question, the past two Don't Let Any- ber. They'll never live to see the revo- years have witnessed further diminu- Body BullyYou lution, unfortunately. That's— too far tion of spirit and following. away yet. But if they did " His ab- How large is the socialist element to- rupt lapse into a grim silence hinted at day? No one can say exactly. It comes 81 Learn Scientific Tricks an awful fate for Berger, Hillquit, down at worst to a guess; and at best M of Physical Mastery Thomas and the labor bankers. to intelligent estimates. With a strictly By a few simple tricks you can have any assailant at your mercy From the moment of this definite political faction like this, the number of quick as a flash. The astounding secrets of self-defense, used by the New York Police, are revealed in the marvelous, officially re- break, both factions sickened and lan- ballots cast at an election is the test. cognized system— guished. ''Those Communists did less I asked the best authority on radical Capt. Wallander's Course than nothing for themselves when they parties whom I know to estimate the AH Complete in forced us to throw probable Socialist vote if a national elec - them out," said Vic- TRAINING tor Berger, "and they nearly ruined us." tion were held today. "From 150,000 PHYSICAL MANUAL By Capt. A. W. WALLANDER, Previously I have traced the decline of to 400,000," he replied. The next best Commander Physical Training, New York Police Communist party membership authority more definite. "About A complete course in physical culture. Scores of gripping ac- from was tion photos showing just how to throw a bigger man and over- about 50,000 in ioiq to 16,000 in 1926. 200,000," he answered. That last figure power him—disarm a holdup thug—build up muscle— keep in fighting trim. Hundreds of health hints, too: care of the feet, The Socialist faction fared even worse. would be my guess. This does not in- prevention of colds, correct posture, walk without fatigue. This is the genuine book used by the New York Police, now available In 191 2, the high tide of the movement, clude the Socialists among our perma- TO YOU. r.._. f_ I Afk%tw% Let Capt. Wallander give you his great there were 138,000 members pledged to nent alien residents. It leaves out of CaSy IO Leam secrets and detective tricks. You'll hardly believe that such valuable knowledge cnuld he learned so easilv. pay dues, to vote only the party ticket, calculation, also, that old orthodox fac- ALL YOURS IN WORLD'S MOST AMAZING COURSE to follow party commands as regarded tion, the Socialist Labor party. Alien In Physical Culture and Police circles this tffl Q7 volume is world-famous Send immediately «I> I • */ # their political acts. By 1920 in spite of Socialists and Socialist Laborites to- for your copy. DON'T SEND MONEY B — NOW. Send coupon today. When volume ar- the large vote, it had lost about half of gether would number from 100,000 to rives, pay postman $1.97. plus a few cents post- age. If you are not satisfied return volume and get money back. its enrollment. And in 1926, the official 200,000. That, taking the extreme fig- figure had shrunk to 15,000. "Padded ure, would with the conjectural vote of ^""siEBEL PRESS, 36-C W. 20th St., New York. Send me Capt. Wallander's Physical Mastery Course as con- at that," say the Communists, "to meet the Socialist Party make the total no I tained in the Physical Training Manual."

our figures. In reality, they had only more than 400,000 adults. Name - J | 9,000 dues-payers in the spring of 1926." In a previous article, I have estimated I Address — . As went the membership, so went the the numbers of (Continued 071 page 84) ! City State I ($2.25 U. S. Cash with order outside the U . S. A.)

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00 CLEARED IN ONE HAY So writes W. H. Adams of Ohio. Letter from The Socialists and the future V. A. Marini of California reports $11275 sales in three months. Jacob Gordon of New Jersey { Continued from page $4000 profits in two months." Alexander of Penn- 8j sylvania "$3000 profits in four months." Ira Shook $365 sales in one day. Bram bought one outfit April 5 and 7 mora by August 28. Iwata, bought one outfit and 10 more within the adult revolutionary radicals in this Socialist meetings or read up on eco- e year. Mrs. Lane of Pittsburg says "sold 8000 packages in one day. J. R. Bert says "only thing I ever bought that* country; shown that the Communists, nomics. Just. now the country will get equaled advertisement." John Culp says: _ ~ "Everything going lovely. I the Anarchists and the Syndicalists to- excited over only three issues—rum, 1 Crispette wrappers scattered I all over town. It's good old P gether number at the most generous race and religion." grid after all." Kellog,S700f ahead end of sec- guess not more than 95,000 or one-sixth So much for superficial reasons. Now ond week. of one per cent of our adult population. to go deeper. Add the liberal estimate of 400,000 for Since 1920, the absolute wage of the Socialists, and we reach a total just American labor has risen. Not only short of a half million. We have in this does it stand higher than in the decade country perhaps 58,000,000 adults. The preceding the war; it exceeds that of whole "red" element, revolutionary and the '8o's and the '90's. Measured by constitutional alike, equals therefore this yardstick, the American working- little more than three-fourths of one per man seems in comparison with his Euro- cent of the population. If we take the pean comrade like a landed proprietor. highest guess at the Socialist vote, it is The check on European immigration has WE START YOU IN BUSINESS about one per cent. done something to produce this result; Furnish secret formulas, raw material, and equipment. Little) Now in the presidential election of but not everything by any manner of capital required; no experience needed. 191 2, the Socialist Party alone cast six means. Build a Business off Your Own However, there are yet deeper causes. No limit to the sale of Crispettes. Everybody likes them. It'a per cent of the total vote; and the num- e delicious food confection. Write for facts about a business that will make you independent. Start now, in your own town. ber of aliens Socialist was enormously We Americans have entered an eco- Profits $1000 a Month Easily Possible greater than now. We had besides, in nomic era without precedent in history. Send postal for illustrated book of facts. contains It enthusi- that year, the perennial Socialist Labor It all stands symbolized for me by a astic letters from others—shows their places of business, tells how and when to start, and all information needed. Free. Write now! party with 29,000 votes and the militant card which I saw last winter in a Broad- LONG-EAKINS COMPANY I. W. W., most of whose members stayed way salesroom: "Owing to the wide de- 143 High Street Springfield, jOhlo away from the polls. What has hap- mand for our new four-door sedan, we pened in these fourteen years to Social- have been able to reduce prices." Now Order gladioli early ism? What has happened to the whole that, to one brought up on old-fashioned radical is like saying that things Glorious colors and big flowers movement? economics, delight everyone who plants Kun- Let us take first the more obvious equal to the same thing are not equal to derd Gladioli. This year my cata- log lists many new varieties as causes. each other, or that two and two make well as my famous Ruffled, Lacin- As Berger says, the Communists in five. Adam Smith, father of economics, iated and Primulinus Hybrids. Write for my free catalog now cleaving to Moscow and forcing their laid down the law of supply and de- and order early. The book is expulsion, did nothing for themselves. mand. When the demand rose, prices full of interesting garden lore, is illustrated in colors and contains But they did draw away from the parent went up; when the supply rose, prices full cultural directions. party its fighting youth and therefore went down. Karl Marx, in common A. E. KUNDERD most of its energy. Before the election with our conservative college econ- 376 Lincoln Way West, of 1924, Debs had come out of, Atlanta omists, accepted this axiom as gospel. Goshen, Ind., U. S. A. are: owing to the wide The originator of the Ruffled Penitentiary on a commutation of sen- Yet here you and the Laciniated Gladioli tence. He remained ineligible to vote demand, we are reducing prices. And or to hold office. this stands not only Kunderd The Socialists nomi- for automobiles. nated him in 1920 The chain of ex-

as a protest ; but this planation begins with could not go on for- the wide distribution ever. Further, he of American capital. was nearing his al- The war made us lotted time; and pri- an investing nation. Learn at home to mount birds, ani- = r mals, game heads; tan furs, make rugs - son and fifty years Liberty bonds started and robes. Complete lessons. Easily and quickly - learned by men, boys and women. of fighting had us off. The patri- V9f| Write for Free Taxidermy 2 B* KWr.r. Book. Tells all about it. I otic purchasers real- •^^^^^ ~ dimmed his fires. He Every sportsman , trapper and Nature lover should know this wonder- 5 ized for the first ful fascinating art. Save your trophies. Bis I passed as a leader; - profits. Success guaranteed. 100,000 gTad- in- uatea. Investigate. Write for Free Book. 1 and no one rose to time with their take his place. As stincts and emotions regards political is- what merely their A Lifetime Watch/ sues, the United brains had told them Sent for States settled into before—that an in- a strange apathy vestment of a thou- the reaction from sand dollars does our debauch of ideal- really bring in forty ism and political in- or fifty or sixty dol- during the war. After the tem- lars a year of sheer velvet. With the 21 terest STUDEBAKER of we swung close of the war we had to put our 9he Insured Watery Jewels porary depression 1920, into such an era of prosperity as no industries on a peace basis, and largely Only $1.00 down t Balance in easy monthly payments. So good we insure it for your other great nation has ever known. to finance impoverished Europe. There lifetime. 21 Ruby and Sapphire Jewels. 8 adjustments including heat, cold, iso- The appeal of discontent had passed. came an unprecedented demand for chronism positions. Amazingly Magnificent and 5 reducing accurate. Sold direct from factory at Into the hands of the working class capital. High sur-taxes were Watch Chain lowest prices. You save at least 80%. surplus of the rich. Perforce, the FREE! Over 100,000 sold. Investigate! dropped new, entertaining playthings. the For a limited time we are Write for FREE CATALOG "A man has only so much energy after investment bankers must appeal to the offering an ex- Send at once for our £1.00 down offer and quisite watcb beautiful stx color catalog showing 60 new- is done," says one of the man of moderate income. And they chain FREE. est Art Beauty cases. Latest designs in yel- his day's work Write Btonce- low gold, green gold and white gold effects. did, as most of us know. When before while this offer Men's strap watches and Ladies' bracelet Socialist party managers. "And what lasts. watches also. Special sale now on. Write/ with his flivver, his radio or the movies, the war I received a stock-circular by STUDEBAKER WATCH CO., Dcpt E-718South Bend, Indiana WATCHES ' DIAMONDS • JEWELRY a workman doesn't find time to attend post, I felt complimented. Now such Canadian Addreo*— Windsor. Ontario

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letters make up at least half of my lightened method. Much of our enor- Get Rid of That mail; and any stranger who calls may mous capital accumulation since the war be a bond salesman. Before the war, has poured into labor-saving machinery. only a half a millioH Americans held British and French investigators, report- "Excess securities. By 1922, the number had ing on car methods of production, note risen to 5,000,000; and the last I heard with a kind of despair that we have gone Baggage! it was crowding 10,000,000. mad over machines. I say despair, be- Perhaps our great corporations grew cause the Europeans, with their finances THAT unsightly, uncomfortable too big for any small group of men to wrecked by the war, have little surplus bulge of fatty tissue over the abdomen is an unnecessary bur- swing; for their capitalization spread capital to meet this super-efficient com- den. Here's the way to get rid of it, without fasting, hot baths back through the population like ink poured petition. By virtue of machinery, we or breaking exercises. The "Little I into a brook. Concerns which in 1900 are crowding them hard in the world Corporal" belt will lay in the hands of a very few, were markets. Take for example export au- Reduce Your Waist owned now by hundreds of thousands tomobiles. Before the war, less than 4 to 6 inches Quickly! stabil- five per cent of the motor cars which of plain citizens. As a means of This re- izing labor and of getting the money, came out from behind tariff walls and markable belt not great companies like General Electric, fought in the open were made in Amer- only re- American Tele- ica. Now, the pro- duces your girth at phone and Tele- portion is eighty- Without once, but "Little Corporal" graph and United five per cent. And keeps 'your w a istline en- the who States Steel workmen down. It fits as perfectly as a dress couraged purchase make these cars glove. No clasps! No buckles! No straps! No stiff supports! of stock by their receive four or It's built for comfort. employees. I n five times as much Young Man If your waistline is beginning to bulge, now some cases, these as those who made is the time to stop its growth and to retain enterprises have the competing your youthful figure. Guarantee Offer! drawn near the European cars. Send coupon today for free descriptive literature. If you prefer, give us your point when their Finally, mere waist measure (snug) over underwear, enclose Sfl.50 and get the belt, or pay employees will own human vanity en- postman on delivery. If not entirely a majority of the ters into the cal- satisfied, your money will be promptly and cheerfully refunded. Price is $6.50 no matter where you live. Patrons calling stock. Then the culation. The man- With 1 in person will receive our usual prompt at- labor unions them- ager, being a hu- 'Little Corporal' tention.

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would readily if of A Remarkable Method That Has Come call they thought you the situation from the mannerisms to the Rescue of Asthmatics and still had an unimproved pair and kicker. the opposing players, their systems, and Send Checks the Worst Attack:,— If you raise the ante, intending to the number of cards they have drawn. Today for Free Trial draw only one card to threes, the ob- But one thing is certain. More money If you suffer with those terrible attacks ject is to get players to bet against is lost at poker through curiosity than of Asthma when it is cold and damp; if you you, choke as if each gasp for breath was the as it is 20 to 1 that you will have the in any other way. very last, don't fail to send at once to the best at table. for what Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial of their hand the If you play If every hand were shown remarkable method. 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Bluffing is absolutely useless what progress is doing for you in spite of all your past disappointments in your search Drawing only one card to a pair of aces in a ten-cent limit game, or in any game for freedom from Asthma. So send for this or kings and getting called induces them if one of those players who calls every- free trial. Do it now. This notice is pub- lished that every sufferer may participate in to call you on four-card straights and thing is in the pool. Bluffing is equally this progressive method and first try the flushes that you have filled. futile unless the ground is properly pre- treatment free that is now known to thou- sands as the greatest boon that ever came into It is remarkable how few players stop pared for it. The average player always lives. Send coupon today. 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The (which he was per- four-fours hand fectly aware of) so drew one card and he raised it the lim- Yes, right Into your own home, in the Pathfinder. Tom Is alive again with all his impishness, his hair-raising experiences, his es- did not improve. it, stood pat, raised capades, his thrilling rescues, his quest foradventure—the very same Tom Sawyer who made Mark Twain famous—and The other stood pat. the opener the lim- he's coming to you in the Pathfinder. The Pathfinder editor is spending a lot of money so that everybody may have a chance to The opener bet it and took the pot read this most popular of all American stories. The only way to secure this story except in costly book form is to read twenty-five dollars, without a pair even. the Pathfinder. Every week the Pathfinder is loaded down with In another could just the things you want to read—world news and pictures, brilliant and the four-fours dropped out. 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He had discarded other hand he was the last one to say PATHFINDER, 402 Langdon Sta., WASHINGTON. D. C. two small cards in the hope of getting when the player on his right opened for BECOME AN EXPERT something better and had drawn a queen a chip. He raised it the limit on noth- and trey. ing at all and at once asked for three I knew a man in one of the depart- cards, out of turn, of course. The ments in Washington who made it a rule opener showed a pair of queens as his Executive Accountants and C. P. A 'a. earn 153,000 to $10,000 a year. to the Thousands of firms need them. Only 9,000 Certified Public Account- never to call a bet after the draw. If qualification and refused meet ants in the United States. We train yon thoroly at home in spare time for CP. A. examinations or executive accounting positions. Previous he judged he had the best hand he would raise. "Suppose you had aces?" he re- experience unnecessary. Training under the personal supervision of

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Opportunity Every man you know is a prospect for made- ^Dangerous. Ways to - measure clothes at $29.50 and $34.50, offer- ing something in quality ( Continued from page 43) and style that cheaper lines cannot equal. after match went out in the wind cre- shoot it out with them right on the deck Sell Strand -tailored clothes make S6 to S8 on each sale ated by his trembling hand. With an of the Alida." $6 to $8 as soon as you the cigarette down. "With Rose and Mike beside us," I oath he threw make the sale. —that's where "We used to hear plenty about the told him. the opportunity for money- making lies. "She's on the square? in Boche, old timer," he said, "but they But what Write for details. shouldve taken lessons from this gang." blazes is she doing with this gang?" he STRAND TAILORING CO. "They haven't started yet," was my asked. Dept. S14 Baltimore, Md. cold comfort. "The Bolivar comes I shrugged. "I haven't got that far." next." "But I noticed that she sent many a He nodded. "Sure; I found that out sweet look your way," he commented. in Cuba." "A blind man could tell, just from He read a quick question in my eyes, watching you two together on the deck, ADDING MACHINE and answered it. from the way you helped her out of the Fits Vest Pocket I send no "No, I didn't have a chance to tip motor boat, that you two don't exactly A marvelous calculator. Does the work accurately and quickly as a $300 machine. In- MONEY Don't send money, anyone off. Fact is, I never got ashore. hate each other." valuable to anyone who uses figures. Don't carry pad and pencil. This startling invention just name and ad- boat. don't," I admitted. to will solve all problems in a minute. Business dress. Fay post- Only Greve and Congress left the "We "But as men, students, professional people, all need man only $2.96 plus — this HANDY HELPER. few cents postage. But the newcomers—and what a sweet- why she's here Try it for 10 days. Counts Your money back scented bunch they are—are loose talk- "Gosh, it seems to me you might have To I Billion if not satisfied. found time to ask her a few questions," Results in plain sight PRICE ers. I've heard that the water front of all the time -- clears ^ instantly. Made of 9 Havana is the sewer of the world, and he said. steel and braas, in handsome 95 case, fits vest pocket; weight after looking this crowd over I be- "I suppose I should have. But, you onlySoz. Send for yours now -you'll save time and money. lieve it." see, I didn't want her to know, at first, 1 Reliable 2 AddingMachrne Corp., Dept. 731 184 W. Washington St., Chicago, III. I sighed hopelessly. When said that I wasn't a criminal like the rest of Tom Here's a dandy chance to make money. against this crew. And then, things happened AGENTS Everybody wants one. Fine profit. Write for that he had known of the plot new offer. the Bolivar, I had held a fleeting hope so fast—Tom, I don't care if she is that he had been able to send a warning here; she doesn't belong here." to either the Cuban or American au- "I'll take your word for that," he thorities. smiled grimly. "When you get right NEW AMAZING INVENTION "We can't let them go through with down to cases, neither do we belong 1 One device makes window it," I said. here. But we're here, young-feller-me- ^washing 75 percent easier. IWashes, drys, polishes windows "Of course we can't," he agreed. "But lad. And the point is that we won't be rT ina jiffy. Every housewifewanta how on earth are going to stop here so damned long. Jack, we just it. No more ladders to climb, no musay we frags nor sponges to wring.Handsnevertouch water. them? One yip out of us and it's can't stand by when they tackle the Make $90^ a Week l&Vt Katie-lock-the-door. Don't get me Bolivar." Sells fast. Simply show it and take orders. Make 100 per cent Profit. No experience needed. it talking in circles, arriving wrong," he added hastily. "When We were We show you how. Send for Catalog of this and 47 Rubber Products. Direct from Akron, the last minute, and I will nowhere, so I (Continued on page go) other Quality comes to the you Rubber City. FREE Outfit to hustlers. Write quick. Kristee Mfg. Co., 161 Bar St., Akron, Ohio

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Become a Part-Owner "Dangerous Ways in only ( Continued from page 8g Large Cattle postponed further discussion of our fu- He followed behind us, so that we RANCH ture course of action. Briefly I told him had no opportunity for further speech. left in Northwest of the events of the island, and then And on deck we found the whole crew Here in "For the laseoa will be asked him what his adventures had been. assembled. Even gangling Alf had left the great t northwest there is And tke kosaea ravin' "Sleeping and eating and wondering," the galley to be present at what I be- only one large high. ranch And the punchers will be left. 94,000 acres of sinpin' he replied. "We got to Havana the lieved to be a gathering unique in mod- the choicest grazing Ab in the roarin' days gone by." next day after left you. were ern history. land. 35 miles long. we We Plenty of water. Extends over 8 townships. The just a yacht on a pleasure cruise, and Leaning against the rail, Congress at present peculiar situation in the land market authorities to no one side and Rose at the other, Greve together with unusual local conditions makes the port seemed have this tremendous tract available at the low orig- suspicions of us. Greve and Congress addressed us all. inal government price of pioneer days. went ashore and brought off recruits, two "There may be one or two of you who POWDER RIVER RANCH or three at a time, doing the business don't understand the exact purpose of assures generous profits. Cattle increase 85% every year quietly. Also, at night, our guns were this cruise," he began. "Well, I'll put and sheep 100%. Furthermore all oil and mineral rights go with the land. THE ENTIRE TRACT IS UNDER- Drought aboard. The it to you in a few LAID WITH COAL and is close toboth theWyomingand Montana Oil Fields. This is an opportunity of elite time. new members of the words. The Bolivar, Help preserve this heritage of the American People. freely. I of the Two Americas Nothing expresses the Real American Spirit like the crew talked West. Remember it was the West that produced suchmen made up my mind to Line, will pass within as Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Tex Austin, etc. No more trustworthy, devoted and faithful men can be take a chance and swim a hundred miles of found than the "wild and woolly" cowboy or puncher. These men will work for you and help the properties for the shore, but this here tomorrow after- of your company produce real profits. Real Americans is cagy. noon, on her way from are made in this country. Come out and see it for your- bird Greve too self. Spend your vacation here on your own ranch. I don't think that he Buenos Aires to New You can be a part owner for as little as $25 entire pay- ment. Write for details and illustrated folder. Act quick. actually distrusted me, York. Aboard of her POWDER RIVER RANCH CO. but he issued orders are ten million dollars MILES CITY, MONT. that no one was to go consigned to a New ashore, and I noticed York banking house. that whenever I loafed Our plan is to fly dis- along the deck some- tress signals, get body loafed near me. aboard her, capture— If I'd gone overboard her, get the money a boat would have been lowered, and Alf, the last man I would have ex- an oar would have accidentally hit me pected to interrupt, broke in on Greve's

World's over the head. speech. His great bass voice, so sur- Biggest bargain, direct "I've tried to learn all that I could, prising in that- cadaverous body, rang from factory. Coast toGoast range. out loudly. Powerful, selective; ctear, sweet tone.^ but I don't know any more now, except Don't bay unless 30 days trial proves Miraco Compact " outper* for the fact that they're pirates and "How're we going to load ten million Si] forms costly 6 and 7 tube set ^ J Fully eruarauteed. Write quick fc that they plan to capture the Bolivar, dollars on this hooker?" he demanded. I AMAZING SPECIAL OFFER. User-Agents Wanted. than I did when I joined you at Miami. "English banknotes," said Greve. I MIDWEST RADIO CORPORATION T Pioneer Builders of Sets | as gold the world. 464 -Z Miraco Bldg. .Clncinnati.O. I'll say this for us: when we set out "Good anywheres in looking for action, we sure found plenty The South Americans bought them when they were four shillings under par; now who derive of it." bills them. largest profits "I should never have telephoned you, they're paying their with know and heed INVENTORS should never have let you join me," I Don't ask any more foolish questions. certain simple I'll of but vital facts before applying for Patents. Our said remorsefully. anticipate them. Some you may sent free. book Patent-Sense gives these facts ; the fat," he brusquely be worried about the wireless aboard Write. "Quit chewing told me. "Suppose we come to a fin- the Bolivar. Quit worrying. It will be Lacey & Lacey, 643 F St., Wash., D. C. wrecked at noon sharp tomorrow. As Estab. 1869 ish? It will be all the same a hundred years from now, won't it? And at least for the Bolivar's passengers or crew ever Numerous Legionnaire References I won't die from inhaling gas fumes in bothering us afterwards—forget it. By a Vermont filling station. But listen to the time we're two cable lengths away she'll blow TYPEWRITER! a little secret, kid. One-tenth of a sec- up." OWN A that ond before I go out, Congress is going Vainly I searched the faces of out." crew to find some trace of horror, of his I shook my head. "Let me have resentment at the appalling threat in him," I said. words. But these were survivors of the Tom Relland grinned. "Nice favors slums of the earth. These were men so we're asking of each other. Another inured to crime that they were past any few days and we'll be as bloody minded ordinary normal reactions. murderers as any on this hooker. What I am convinced that murder can be- a fine pair of New England hicks we've come a habit exactly as any other ab- turned out to be. If we'd had any normality can become. The man who kill again for sense—I mean if I'd had any—old Sile kills once for profit will 1QQP Keenan would be out looking for us the same reason. In proof of this amaz- right this minute." ing statement I offer the dozens of met- Our conversation was cut abruptly ropolitan gangsters who in the past few short by the entrance of Greve. He years have been discovered to practice eyed us with a sullen suspicion. The murder almost as a sideline. NUINE UN ID!! man's character was changing under I shot a glance at Rose. She stood I Clip and mail this. If you want a real rebuilt UNDERWOOD— I character was Congress, and there was something ace of all typewriters. Remanufactured and guaranteed FIVE I stress, or perhaps his true by I years. Price and ternja you'll NEVER Bee equaled. a now. protective in his attitude that inde- _ riMS.CDrC Rfi(lK wlth tn's BARGAIN and other models I showing I DWI% |„ FULL COLORS! Typist's Manual. I face was I touch typewriting course offer, etc. Write at ONCE to "What are you two sea-lawyers jab- scribably enraged me. Her Shlpman-Ward Mfg. Co., 2511 Sbipman Bldg., Chicago. t demanded. "Get on pale, and I thought that she trembled Name bering about?" he I j slightly. was the time for ex- j^^ddress deck." Now '^^J 90 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly )

planation. I knew, of course, that she ing helplessly in the Gulf Stream. Dis- had explanation to offer me. tress signals fly from our mast, and For while love is blind, it may also crouched behind our rail are thirty-odd be clairvoyant. I knew that while Rose of the most desperate ruffians that ever not world. the was with this pirate crew she could warred against a Behold Read and Heed the I wanted the spoken Bolivar shifting her course; the proud be of them. But lycos word to corroborate what my heart told record-breaking northern progress yields Fever Thermometer me. to the mercies of the seas. On land the The advance warning But how get explanation from her crippled may be ignored, the weak of a change of temper- applause scorned, and the helpless flouted; but now? As a murmur of fierce ature should never be it is different. It does not mat- greeted the close of Greve's dreadful at sea neglected. A Tycos speech, I moved towards the girl. Con- ter that cargoes may be perishable, that Fever Thermometer should available in gress, glancing my way, seemed to read great matters wait upon the landing of be instantly every home, ready to tell my intentions. He thrust her arm the liner. It is the immutable law of whether the "hot" feel- com- through his and walked forward. The the seas that the strong must succor ing which little Jane plains of is just a cold or very set of his shoulders told me that the weak, no matter what the risk. something more serious. if I tried to speak to her, trouble with Here, of course, was no obvious risk. TyccOS the Latin-American would swiftly en- Indeed, a looker-on who knew nothing FEVER THERMOMETERS sue. And I was not ready for trouble of armament, would have scoffed at the are the same reliable with him yet. idea of the tiny Alida subduing the thermometers carried by everywhere But the prospect of Rose being pres- great Bolivar. So might one who knew physicians For sale at the druggists. dismiss as ab- ent at more scenes of carnage, of her nothing of wild beasts Send for free booklet, being involved in them, was enough to surd the possibility that the little wild- "Childhood, Youth and Old Age." sicken me. I almost went mad during cat could rend and destroy the larger TaylorInstrument Companies the next twenty-four hours. deer. Rochester, N. V., U. S. A. I do not know that Greve doubted And now, as the Bolivar came near- my fidelity to the pirate cause. Heaven er, smoke arose from the Alida. We Manufacturing Distributors knows I had been circumspect enough were on fire, supposedly, and the Boli- in Great Britain Short& Mason. Ltd.. London in every word to him. It may have var increased her pace. Then, as she been accident that he ordered me to the slowed down and began putting out galley to assist Alf; it may have been boats to our rescue, and as a ladder pure chance that caused him to assign was slung over her side, the drifting Mike and Tom to duties which kept Alida leaped into sudden life. The RLACKHEADS them apart from me, and to night- staccato roar of our unmuffled engines \J cannot be hidden* Get rid of them watches which kept them on deck dur- shattered the calm. Like an arrow from regular treatments with ing the night while I slept. the bow we went straight for the Boli- now by I was almost insane from desire to var's broad beam, deftly turned as we speak with Rose; I wanted to discuss gained her side, and grappling irons were matters again with Tom Relland; I be- tossed aboard her. Up ropes and up the lieve that I would have blurted out the ladder swinging from her side our crew Resinol truth about myself to Mike had there stormed. been opportunity to exchange a word And then my revolver was out. At with him. least I was going to die, even though The Nation's Great Poultry Man- Pages. Yet I could do nothing that would vainly. ual. 132 Beautiful Pictures. Mrs. Berry's success with Hatch- arouse the slightest suspicion that I was I had been summoned on deck half an ery, Blood-Tested, Pure-Bred Poul- try and pullets that lay at 4 not what I professed to be, a fugitive hour ago, and been assigned to a place months; feeding, housing, culling, disease criminal ripe for any bloody adventure. on deck by the starboard rail just aft and remedy information. Makes LOW PRICES on Pure Quality Fowls. Eggs. Chicks, Brooders, Sup- I'd seen enough of the calibre of these of the main cabin. I could not see Rose plies, etc. Send only 5 cents to help mail. BERRY'S POULTRY FARM, Box Clarlnda, Iowa men to know that my life would not be anywhere on deck, but across the ship 62, worth a moment's purchase if any ink- I saw Tom, and he gave me a signal ling as to my real that might have meant GET ON identity and purpose anything at all. As became known. And for Mike, he was with I didn't want to die a group up forward, "UNCLE just yet; not, at any and though I saw him rate, while Rose lived. twist his head and SAM'S" But if time dragged peer along the deck, I for twenty-four hours, was not sure that he time made up for its saw me. Nor was I PAYROLL lagging pace in the at all sure, when the moments that fol- moment came, that lowed our sighting the Mike would choose to Bolivar. die with me, rather No motion picture than live with the pi- director could have chosen a more per- rates. After all, Mike's alliance with fect setting than the scene of this, the me had been due to his resentment at $1700 to $3300 a Year final act of the last great drama of the Rose's danger; I could not hope that Ex-Service Men Get Preference sea. The bluest ocean ever furrowed by that alliance would endure when I went Common / Franklin Institute Education ' Dept. EI96. Rochester. N. 1. the keel of a ship; the bluest sky above into action Sufficient against his own chosen as- /Gentlemen: Rush to me. 32- and in the West a brilliant sun; air sociates. page book with list of U. S. Mail Coupon / Government big paid posi- lonav — / (r scented and balmy; and in the distance As I say, as the tjons now opeB jo x .Service two ships touched, SURE • men. Advise me also regard- first a smudge of smoke, then the fun- my revolver was out. Its muzzle / ing the salaries, hours, work, cov- vacation and tell me about pre- nels, and then the shining black hulk of ered Congress. I intended giving him ference to Ex-Servico men. the Bolivar, with her white super-struc- no warning. To show chivalry towards / ture, and the banner of Brazil flying in any of these murderers was criminal / Name. the breeze. folly. Congress, first, then Greve; after I Behold us apparently crippled, drift- them, I'd get as ( Continued on page Q2 I Address, JANUARY, 1927 91 1 — ——

Fine Chance Dangerous Ways ^Veterans (Continued from page qi) many as I could before they got me. I some about him that we were helpless rode only hoped that Rose would remain be- with a sort of paralysis. Then through Who a low until the end had come. the mist of blood and approaching And then a hand gripped my wrist. death that filled his eyes, he recognized Motorcycle I turned, snarling, to look into the eyes Rose. If you rode a motorcycle of Rose. No fear was in them; instead, "By God," he cried, "you're chums during the war you have a light of excited triumph shone in their with these rats. Double-crossed Con- the kind of experience and cool depths. She drew me farther aft, gress for Jack. Always did think Con- knowledge which places to the companionway that led to the gress was a sucker to declare you in." you in line for a splendid saloon. There, crouched behind a shel- His gun was lifted. I started for- opportunity to make some ter, were Mike and Tom. ward. So did Tom, like myself freed real money. If you are in- terested in learning further "I had a chance to speak to them," from the coma that had gripped us. details about an opportunity to become iden- she whispered. "Wait." But Mike was quicker than either of tified with the motorcycle business, simply "What for?" I asked. us. He shot forward, his arms wide, write a postcard or letter now to I never heard her reply. It wasn't and he took Greve's bullet, the bullet necessary. For suddenly I understood intended for Rose, in the breast. And Indian eMofocycfe C&. something that had been mysterious, then as Tom and I reached the skipper Dept. L-l, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. the absence of any neck-craning pas- of the Alida, Greve slid to his knees. sengers. One would have thought that The last of the pirates had died as a the Bolivar's rail would have been pirate should. !lMade$123FirstWee] crowded with curious men and women I bent over Mike. Through the

*I made $123 first week selling Stay - Preat and children. Now the mystery was ex- bloody froth on his mouth he whispered Trouser Pressors,'' saysVarnerof Iowa, ou ?et your bier cash profit—no wait- plained. to me. IN ADVANCE jail, makes perfect crease in pants— I For from the Bolivar's decks came a "Better this way than in a Jack," takes out wrinkles and baggy, knees. No competition—great- 1 hail of shot. Rifles and revolvers spoke he said. "No good anyway. Only de- est selling sensation of today. I from every porthole. Those of the cent thing I ever did. Girl like that —SENSATIONAL i Your sales guaranteed. Orders onKsight, t * Alida's crew who had gained the Boli- man like you got a hunch you're on 'FRFFrntt Selling Outfit fs yours If you write — quick. Just give name, address | amazingly profits. . var's stood for a moment outlined the square, Jack feel sorry for guy like I and territory wanted. You can make big deck — THE GETGEY-JUNG CO.. A74 G J Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio I there before they pitched into the sea me—not your kind—never could be." CUT ME OUT or crashed sickeningly He raised himself I planks. up with the convulsive \ and mail me with name and address to The Getgey- upon our Ohio. I Jung Co.. Dept. A74 G-J Bid?., Cincinnati. had met effort of the soon-to- II will bring you details how to make S123 a week or mora 1 Surprise and get big selling outfit FREE. Don't forget-Send me NOW I I surprise. I had antici- die. "Love her—same pated stubborn resist- as you." ance and unrelenting And that was the slaughter. Instead, the gallant end of as fine action lasted less than a gentleman as I have three minutes. At the ever known. Criminal end of that time a he might have been,

Making crowns, bridges, huddled group stood but- when the test plates, etc.. for dentists. VOU CAN LEARN on the forward deck came, he forgot his Mechanical Dentistry be- Inafew months. Practical training. 5 Schools, dayor night. of the Alida, shriek- criminality and No books. Uncrowded field. earn big money, Graduates ing their surrender to came a man. I am not r^pn D D FafA to Phila., Boston. Cleveland, Detroit n CC lla He ral C 0p Chicago. We help you secure spare the men above them. ashamed of the tears time job. Write for FREE BOOK on Mechanical Dentistry. McCARRIE SCHOOLS OF MECHANICAL DENTISTRY Congress lay dead, and I shed for Mike. 1338 S. Michigan Ave.. Dept. 56 Chicago. 111. I shall never cease to thank God that mine CHAPTER XXI was not the hand to Old Money Wanted kill him. For more In the saloon of the Do you know that Coin Collectors pay up than justice would Bolivar was as porten- to $100.00 for certain U. S. Cents? And have been behind my tous a gathering as high premiums for all rare coins ? buy We aim; jealousy, silly and needless, would ever it has been my lot to face. Be- all kinds. Send 4c for large Coin Folder. have directed my shot. It would have hind us, headed, I assumed, towards May mean much profit to you. been murder, though no jury in the some Florida port, was the Alida, NUMISMATIC CO., Dept. 452, Ft. Worth, Tax. world would have said so. manned by a crew from the Bolivar. But out of the welter came Greve. If The bodies of the dead pirates had been BIG POULTRY BOOK and them New POULTRY BULLETIN FREE I had thought him mad yesterday, he consigned to the waves. I pictured in the depths, fit Worth hundreds of dollars. Shows was surely demented now. His gran- floating somewhere how big men in poultry grew rich diose plans had come to nought. The prey for the sharks whose characteristics How many started small, now worth for they had tried to emulate. thousands. You can do same if you fol- best he could hope was a hangman's low methods outlined in FREE BOOK. noose. And unerringly, despite a gaping The few survivors—I must say for Now is the time to make money with poul- majority of try. FREE BOOK and New Bulletin tells what to do each month. wound in his throat, he came towards Greve's men that the great Mention variety of poultry you like. Write today without fail. me. them preferred death to surrender p mo. AMERICAN POULTRY SCHOOL kansaI city, "Don't know how you did it," he mut- were locked in cabins, heavily ironed, tered thickly. "But you and your pal and guarded by armed men. But when are the only ones who could have blown men had clambered from the Bolivar's LEARN to be a WATCHMAKER deck to the Alida, Rose had confronted Fine trade commanding a good salary. Positions the show." ready for every graduate. Largest and beet exchanged words with a man school in America. We teach Any of us could have shot him as he them, had watch work, jewelry, engraving, to ex- clock work, optica, aviation and stood there, but there was, in this mo- who wore no uniform but seemed other fine Instrument repair. Tuition reasonable. A $3,000,000 as ercise authority, and Tom and I had endowed school. ment of retribution—the man was FREE CATALOG surely dead as though he had been in- been conducted together to a cabin. We guard BRADLEY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE terred a week ago—something so awe- had not been shackled, and while a Peoria Dept. 6 Illinois

92 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly had forbidden us to talk, we had not ly be satisfactory to the man who loved been molested. And now we had been her, but to these uniformed men who Auto Owners led here, where, I gathered, our imme- would not be swayed too easily by a diate fates were to be determined. pretty girl in a matter of such gravity At the head of a long table sat a man as this. WANTED- whom I correctly assumed to be the As directly as I could I told them, captain of the Bolivar. A flashing beginning with the incident on Pine To Introduce teethed, squat litt'.e Spaniard, he would Island, the tale of my exploits. Smiles & Use HYDRO have been mirth-provoking on any other were exchanged by these romantically Insured TIRES occasion. But just now when even our inclined Southerners, and at the end of Hydro Agents make money sell inpr the only Tires in the World Insured portly little captain arose lives might be at stake, his conceited my tale the for One Year against all road hazards regardless of self-importance aroused no risibility in and embraced me violently. mileage. HYDRO TIRES sell fast because me. Beside him sat the man to whom "Mother of God," he cried, "I have they have nocompetition in price; no rival in quality; no imitation in Rose had spoken. He was obviously heard no such tale since Don Quixote appearance and no equal in the Insured Protection to the user. American. Other men, in uniform, to laughed chivalry out of existence. Insurance Policy with every tire. the number of eight or ten, sat at the Senorita," he turned to Rose, "have you table. And at the captain's left hand the heart of stone? Or is it that there ttYDRO was Rose. was another first in your affections? Dios, this has de- From some stewardess, or woman pas- Sangre de but man The Most Beaut ifa f Tire in America' senger, perhaps, she had ac- served your love a hundred are made by the only tire factory in America selling its own product quired a wardrobe. To me, times over." through authorized Salesmen-Agents, offer opportunity of lifetime to who had seen her in nothing He looked accusingly at establish profitable tire busi- ness of your own. No capital but masculine garb, since we her. With his funny little required. Sales kit and adver- tising helps furnished . Exclu- glisten- sive territory granted. Write had left Miami, she seemed side-whiskers and the today for catalog and complete information about the Hydro more deliciously feminine ing buttons of his uniform, Agency Plan. than ever I had imagined. he was as comical a cupid as She had had recourse to her I could imagine. make-up box after many days "Mr. Dorrance has not without, and while I do not told all the story," said Rose. Hydro -United Tire Corp. think that her natural beauty "Otherwise you would know Address Dept. 49 POTTSTOWN, PA. could be improved, it was that whether my heart be possibly intensified by cos- stone or not, it is his." fft tff ftf fVtftttftt metics. Certainly she didn't The captain—his name was I POSITIVELY GUARANTEE lack admiration from these ardent-eyed Sebastien Pedro Cordova y Escallorito that you can produce wonderful, South Americans. —pounded on the table. He shrieked sweet music in three days quickly play popular and clas- The guard who had ushered us to the for champagne. What was the end of a e;^f selections. saloon withdrew and closed the door be- pirate cruise, to what amounted blood- notes read. hind him. The American spoke. shed and death when love was in the No dreary practice* offing? Just three "Your names," he curtly demanded. short, simple They toasted Rose, myself, the lessons revealing "Tom Relland," said my friend. Tom, _ sry secret of my 12 years* success as * Bolivar, and I verily believe they would professional saw musi- "John Dorrance/' said I. cian. Amaze your friends have toasted the Alida 1th this sensation of radio, The American nodded. "Miss Rose had anyone vaudeville, orchestra and lodge entertainment. Send 10c for Blaney states that you're guilty thought of it. What had begun as a onograph record of two beautiful not Musical Saw solos which also entitles grave and formal examination swiftly ou to complete information about mr of the crimes committed by the rest of ' special introductory offer of Saw. Bow. Resin, FREE with Course of degenerated into a jubilation. were Hammer, and the crew of the Alida. She has further We Instruction. ^ told us of the services, Dorrance, that cheered as we left the saloon; passen- MUSSEHL'K WESTPHAL 127 West Water St. Fort Atkinson, Wis. you performed in her behalf. These gers, who had somehow gathered a hint " AAAAAA services add weight to her statements in of Romance, cheered us as we came up- lift""" your behalf. Will you be good enough on the deck. It was not until late that to explain, if you can, how you hap- evening that Rose and I were given a LEGION Motor l ours 1 wk. Chateau Country $65 pened to be aboard the Alida?" moment to ourselves, and then I re- 3 wks. Italy & France $195 His manner was perfectly civil, was, ceived the long-waited explanation. 3wks.France&Switz$195 indeed, encouraging. Booklt 50 Pre. & Post Con- But I was con- "My brother," she began, "was shell- vection Tours, 30% saving fronted with a difficult situation. shocked in the war. While apparently ALLEN TOURS. Inc. Boston . 915 Little Building, Whatever I might say in my own ex- he completely recovered, he lost all tenuation, would incriminate Rose. And sense of values. He sold the business then she smiled at me, and I knew once which we had inherited from my father forever, and that I need never be jeal- in Syracuse, New York, for less than ous again. There was that in her smile half its actual worth. There was still which told so. me sufficient for us both, but he began in- full of newest ideas, 164 pages of latest hook-ups. "Don't hesitate Saves you as much as half on a set. Shows stand- on my account, Jack," vesting his share in wild goose schemes. ard radio parts, kits, sets at big savings. Be she said. "These gentlemen understand sure to get this thrifty book before you buy. Two years ago he lost what was left of Also please include name of radio fan. Write today—NOW! things which you took on faith." his fortune, and began appealing to me OBSU BARAWIK CO. %*„%*£0 No accolade from any monarch ever to aid him. I love him very dearly, T». gave greater joy to its recipient than and would not have minded losing this tribute of hers to the faith that everything that I had in any venture I'd had in her. I colored. I didn't that had the faintest hope of success. deserve the tribute; my faith had not Finally, I rebelled against his reckless- $35 TO $75 WEEKLY Railway Mail Clerk Meat Inspector been instant, which after all ^ may have ness. P. O. Clerk ^ Special Agent Forest Ranger (investigator) been one of the reasons it more why was "Last summer he told me that some File Clerk Stenographer-Typist enduring. For I had come to faith in Matron Immigrant Inspector friends of his were organizing an expedi- General Clerk City Mail Carrier her only after crossing the hills of doubt Chauffeur-Carrier U. S. Border Patrol tion to salvage two steamers that had Skilled Laborer Typist and the valleys of suspicion. sunk several years in a off Watchman Seamstress ago hurricane Postmaster Steno-Secretary I took her at her word. For now I the Bahamas. He was so insistent that RFD Carrier Auditor knew that no matter how black might Mr. Ozment, Dept. 110 St. Louis, Mo. I finally agreed to meet his friends, and Send me particulars about positions marked "X seem the evidence against her, she must see the yacht from which they proposed —salaries, locations, opportunities, etc.

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You can stage your own show with gon, stating that he would persuade me pursued me, but lost me in the dark- our books. Full line of plays, stage songs, to change my mind." ness. crossfire, monologues, afterpieces, vaudeville "And your brother stood for this?" "They told me that it was my brother acts and make-up. CATALOGUE FREE. I asked incredulously. who had assaulted Saragon, enraged by "He didn't know about it. They had Saragon 's treatment of me, as he imag- T. S. Denison & Co., 623 So. Wabash, Dept. 89, Chicago sent him ashore on some errand or ined it to have been. They said that other. I was terribly in fear of Saragon, friends of theirs had my brother hid- high School Course and when he approached me I screamed. den, but would deliver him to the po- You came along and, know- lice unless I surrendered the can complete in 2 Years ing that I safe, and not balance of my fortune to this simplified High was School Coarse at home in- lo anything them. side of two rears. Meets alt requirements for entrance to college wishing say and the leading professions. This and thirty-six other practical courseaare described in our Free Bulletin, Send for it TODAY. that would in any way in- "It didn't take much wit AMERICAN SCHOOL. criminate my brother, I lied for me to realize that after DIM. H-13, Ore«olA».. ASethSt . ©AS 1923 CHICAGO to you. I thought that I I gave them the money was competent to handle they wanted, they would rid DO YOU WANT TO EARN own and my brother's themselves of me in some YOUR EXPENSES TO THE my CONVENTION IN PARIS? affairs by myself. way or other, and also that If you do, send us your name, and ad- "That night in Firport, they would murder my particularly dress. Sparetime proposition Saragon, who had had no brother. However, these suited to Legionnaires and Auxiliares. facts would not have caused Paris Convention Department chance to speak to me on INTERNATIONAL. TRAVELERS SERVICE the island—you had arrived me to throw in my lot with 1117 Republic Bldg.. 209 So. State St.. Chicago, 111. almost immediately after them. For, in a drunken the boat that had left us mood, Congress told me there departed—insisted on where my brother was con- speaking to me. He con- fined. This was after Sara- A RECORD vinced me that he was a government gon had been taken from the Bangor agent, who had insinuated himself into hospital and killed, when it was obvious BREAKER! the good graces of Congress and Greve that my brother could not have taken because of suspicions aroused by their part in this second assault. A one reel motion picture his- activities. He told me a truly incred- "I managed to get ashore and tele- of the Philadelphia Nation- tory ible tale. He said that piracy was phone to a secret service agent in Bos- Convention has just been al being planned on a huge scale, that ton whose name Saragon had given me. completed. Many Posts will agents of what he termed the new crim- He told me that if I would pretend to break all previous attendance inality, existed all over Central and stand in with Greve and Congress, I records through the exhibition South America. He said that my could render services of incalculable of this absorbing picture. Your brother in no way involved in these value to the government. He said that Post can set a new attendance was the government needed to find out all record by booking the picture affairs, but that the government needed ramifications of the plot. told for exhibition at your next Post operatives to help in the thwarting of the He meeting. the plot. me that the smuggling and murder of The Eighth Annual Conven- "I believed in his good faith, but countless aliens who waited in Havana tion picture is crammed full of could not credit his story. That night for opportunities to get across to Flor- interest for not only Legion- I heard a noise in his room and, alarmed, ida could be laid at the doors of this naires but the general public. to go ahead. peered into it. I saw that he was dying. gang. He pleaded with me Local theatres everywhere will I knew that I would be instantly sus- "I agreed to do so. It was easy for be glad to co-operate for public pected. I wished to make sure that my me to pretend a change of heart for showings. Only a limited num- in brother was out of all possible danger Congress professed to have fallen ber of prints are available for that love with me. Had his been decent rental purposes. Play safe of incrimination. So I fled from honorably offered, I would have telegraph YOUR order. The Firport hotel, stole your motor boat, love, at playing the part demanded, rental charge is only $5.00 per and went looking for the Lark, believing hesitated you day. that my brother must have returned to but you have seen Congress and love would offer a woman. it by now. know the he aban- American Legion Film Service "In the darkness I couldn't find the "I was with them when they cove Indianapolis, Indiana' yacht, and ran aground on Pine Island. doned the Lark in a wild deserted

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in New Brunswick. The government being on the Alida when the battle oc- furnished me secretly with funds which curred. Otherwise, Cavendish and his I pretended to raise by the sale of my crew might never have been killed." own securities. And little by little I "You? Afraid?" I jeered at her; pretended to fall in with their ideas, to she had been through too much to bur- be no longer a woman driven by fear den her conscience with what had hap- for her brother, but to be a woman who pened to the Bonita. "You're the brav- dreamed of being a pirate's mistress. est girl that ever lived," I assured her. "And always I was in touch with the "I don't want to be brave; I want government. Always I was spurred on to be loved," she replied. rounding the wicked by the hope of up Well, I think she is. She thinks she "Well Brushed men, who. not content with the crimes is, too. And if we two are satisfied, Hair is Healthy Hair" that they had already committed, were why should anyone else bother about it. dreaming of even greater atrocities. Down here in Florida, watching the On military brushes, as on handled "Their trust in grew greater with me State climb slowly out of the morass hair brushes, the name every passing day, until at last they caused by the deflation of the boom in looked upon me as one of themselves. real estate, a climb that may take time, WHITING-ADAMS I learned of the plot against the Bolivar, but that will surely succeed, my wife — but until the crime was actually com- and I are leading a life that seems ex- is the mark of a better brush mitted, or attempted, evidence was lack- traordinarily peaceful contrasted with the same now as for over a ing to round up all the gang. The gov- those days when we trod dangerous ways. hundred years. ernment wanted the men who sold the brother has joined the firm of Her A dainty size for the ladies. machine guns, wanted everybody. Keenan, Dorrance and Relland. Can we "I refused to go to Cuba, because the sell you any acreage? . government did not wish to be me Oh, yes. One thing more. One of WHITING-ADAMS aboard the Alida when any violence took the boys at the post down here showed BO STON

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