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November, 1929 Vol. 7, No. 5 Ivf ERICAN EGION Contents Cover Design: armistice by Harvey Dunn Billie and Several Others by Orland Kay Armstrong 4 The Story of the Armistice by Major General Charles D. Rhodes, U. S. A. 7 Decoration: Mourning Victory by Daniel Chester French Courtesy oj the Metropolitan Museum of Art

God Have Mercy on Us : Part Four by William T. Scanlon 1 Illustrations by Raytnond Sisley In the Seats of the Mighty by Ared White 18 Cartoon by C. LeRoy Baldridge Balangiga by Marquis James 20 Illustration by Frank Street Everybody Up! by Alexander Gardiner 22 Editorial with cartoon by JOHN CaSSEL 24 No Place to Stay Sick by Clara Ingram Judson 26 A Swell Affair by Wallgren 30 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 31 Keeping Step by Right Guide 32 As We Never Were by Herbert B. Mayer 40 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 41 The Unfinished Battle 45 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 46 Cartoons by Charles 0. Naef The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG

Iowa: The 29th State, admitted to the Union Dec. 28, 1846. (1920 U. S. Census), 43.2 per sq. mile. Rank among States The land passed into possession of the United States in 1803 (1920 U. S. Census), 10th in population, 24th in area, 24th in as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The first settler was Julien density. Capital, Des Moines (1928 U. S. est.), 151,900. Three Dubuque, a Frenchman, in 1788, after whom the city of Du- largest cities, Des Moines, Sioux City, 80,000; Cedar Rapids, buque is named. His was an isolated post. Indians 58,200. Estimated wealth (1923 U. S. Census), on trapping and hunting expeditions, especially on $10,511,682,000. Principal sources of wealth (1923 the trail of the buffalo, ranged over the prairies and U. S. Census), slaughtering and meat products, dominated the region until the i830*s. The United $152,631,045 ; butter, $67,972,113 ; corn sirup, corn States after the Black Hawk War of 1832 bought oil and starch, $20,208,049; all farm products the vast hunting ground from the Indians, and (1920 U. S. Census), $890,391,299, corn, oats, American settlers came in by covered wagon to barley, wheat, live stock ; mineral products (1925), take up their homes on government lands. Before $38,420,203, lead, coal, quarry products. Iowa Congress established Iowa Territory in 1838 the had 113,719 men and women in service during the land had been made in 181 2 a part of Missouri Ter- World War. State motto, adopted 1847, "Our ritory, then in 1834 a part of Michigan Territory, Liberties We Prize, and Our Rights We Will Main- and in 1836 a unit in Wisconsin Territory. Population, 1840, tain." Origin of name: Named for a tribe of Sioux Indians S. est.), 43,112 ; 1928 (U. 2,428,000. Percentage of urban pop- whom the French called Aiaouez or Aiaouas and the early- ulation (communities of 2,500 and over), 1900, 25.6; 1910, American settlers the Ioways. Nickname: Hawkeye State. 30.611920,36.4. Area, 56,147 sq. miles. Density of population Its "Tall Corn" state song has country-wide fame.

Robert F. Smith, General Manager B. L. Dombrowski, Advertising Manager Richard E. Brann, Business Manager John T. Winterich, Editor Philip Von Blon, Managing Editor William MacLean, Art Editor

Alexander Gardiner and John J. Noll, Associate Editors

American Legion is Tub Monthly the official publication of The American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary and is owned exclusively by The Legion. Copyright, American 1929, by The Legion Publishing Corporation. Published monthly at Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second class matter January 5, 1925, .it the Postoffice at Indianapolis. Ind., under th- Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October authorized 3, 1917, January 5, 1925. Price, single copy 25 cents; yearly subscription, in the United States and possessions of the United States $1.50, in Canada $2, in other countries $2.50. In reporting change of address, be sure to include the old address as well as the new. Publication Office, Indianapolis, Ind.; Eastern Advertising Office, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Western Advertising Office, 410 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

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<5 and Others

1 H E Y By Orland Kay Armstrong assist medical skill look quite in doing the work. hopeless The climate is fav- rwhen they orable to outdoor come in," explained play the year round, Miss Gladys Hen- and a part of the derson, superinten- routine of the day dent of The Ameri- comprises several can Legion Hospital rounds of play in for Crippled Chil- the sunshine for dren at St. Peters- those who can use burg, Florida. "But their legs and sun- here's an example baths for those in of how they look the chairs, unen- when they go out. cumbered with any- Come here, Billie!" thing but a mini- A sturdy young- mum of clothing. ster of four who was The hospital's playing on the lawn financial report dropped his sand shows that the chil- shovel and started dren are being in a steady walk treated at an aver- toward the nurse. age per capita cost Unless one observed of $66.67 permonth, closely he would not which is considered see that the boy put low. Something down his feet care- near $40,000 has fully and precisely. been expended on "This is Little the project. Two Billie," the nurse charity balls have smiled down at him averaged receipts of proudly. Little A group of patients pose with Mrs. Edith Tadd Little, secretary of the board of direc- about $3,000 each. Billie smiled back, tors of The American Legion Hospital for Crippled Children at St. Petersburg, All the American cheeks Legion of his round Florida, Charles L. Snyder, president of the board, and Misses Grace Valdanair and posts the the picture of sturdy Department of Maude Burkart of the nursing staff health. Then, at a Florida have re- wave of her hand, sponded gene rously he turned back to his play, oblivious of everything but that sand Some have given benefits that have netted substantial amounts. and shovel. With the St. Petersburg hospital as a guiding incentive, the "This boy," Miss Henderson continued, "was picked up an whole Department of Florida has been busy with the work of aid- abandoned waif by members of a Legion post near here and ing crippled children along fines suggested by The American brought to the hospital. He was a forlorn specimen of under- Legion program. After nearly four years of preliminary activity nourishment, and his two club-feet completed the sad picture. It the program became a reality when on May 30, 1929, Governor is remarkable that a child born with such misshapen extremities Doyle E. Carlton, in the presence of American Legion officials and could ever walk as you saw him walking. But marvelous modern sponsors of the program in the Legislature, signed a bill which surgical skill, plus scientific hospital handling, does it. We are appropriates $50,000 annually to carry on the work. corresponding with a family who plan to adopt him." Much had to be done before the State was ready Little Billie belongs to the second largest class of to give official recognition and this liberal appropri- orthopedic cases with which The American Legion ation to the aid of crippled children. The movement Hospital deals, that of club-foot. He is typical of the took definite shape four years ago when C. Howard eighty-nine children that have been admitted for Rowton, Department Adjutant, recommended a com- treatment there since the institution was founded mittee to study the need of such public welfare service and sponsored by St. Petersburg Post early in 1927. in his annual report. This committee was appointed Seventy of this number have been discharged as cured. with Judge W. S. Criswell of Jacksonville, Depart- The hospital report shows that eighty-nine crippled ment Chairman of the Child Welfare Committee, as children have been admitted for treatment, and an head. At the convention in Coral Gables in March, additional one hundred and one have been admitted 1928, Judge Criswell made a report recommending to the hospital clinic. Some of the eighty-nine have that the Department undertake an intensive survey of gone out in a few weeks. Others have had to remain the crippled children situation in Florida. The idea for six to nine months while the slow process of cor- was enthusiastically adopted. The survey got under rection to bones and tissues took place. Seventy of way, with the co-operation and support of the national the number have been discharged as cured or as hav- organization. ing had everything possible done for them. Four- That Florida Legionnaires got behind this survey with teen patients are now at the hospital, ranging in ages a will is proved by the fact that every post but four es- from a squirming little fellow of fourteen months who tablished a survey committee and aided in collecting occupies a place of honor in his kiddie-coop in the the data. "orderly room" to a girl of twelve. Forty percent of The survey showed that there were in the State the number have been treated for infantile paralysis; about two thousand crippled children under the age of twenty percent for congenital club-foot, a few for sixteen. Crippled adults were included in the survey paralysis and tuberculosis of the bone, and the re- at the request of the State's vocational rehabilitation mainder for osteomyelitis and rickets. XGrateful for Legion department, and the blind were included on behalf of Sunshine, plenty of milk and other nourishing food help the State School for the Blind (Continued on page 48)

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6 The AMERICAN" LEGION Monthly ,

THE' ST R Y O F THE

BY MAJOR C 7 it AIL CHAiRJLES B. RHODES, U.SA.

narrative pre Meuse-Argonne the signing of rHIStends to be nothing the Armistice came as a dis- more than an un- tinct surprise. Perhaps the adorned tale of ad- fighting men were too busy venture: An American general, even to dream of peace over- bearing credentials from Mar- tures. Certainly most think- shal Foch and instructions ing men on the firing-line were from General Pershing, incredulous that Germany pushed through the retiring would agree to a permanent German columns after the peace, or that, having made Armistice of 1918 and became and accepted certain pro- the American High Com- posals, she intended her action missioner on the Permanent to be more than a gesture to International Armistice Com- gain time. Most officers of mission at Spa, Belgium. The experience realized that if experience was exciting and Germany could place the illuminating. If its story Rhine defenses between her points any moral at all, it is enemies and herself the war that the armistice agreement might be prolonged to Ger- was so promptly and inexor- many's distinct advantage. ably carried out during the The writer had been pro- first month of the Commis- moted to a major-generalcy in sion's existence that it would the Argonne and assigned to have been well-nigh impos- command the veteran and sible for Germany to have re- brilliant Rainbow Division tired behind her Rhine effective at such time as the defenses, snapped her nimble great major offensive per- fingers at new as well as old mitted. I was daily familiar- conventions, and begun a new izing myself with every de- war for better terms. tail of my new command, Armistice Day, with the spending much time in the swiftly passing years, is be- trenches and getting ac- coming more and more a day quainted with officers and of commemoration and of men. The division was in the thanksgiving rather than the midst of the drive on Sedan, anniversary celebration of a and at our command-post at great victory. And as Novem- Maisoncelles my diary of ber Eleventh succeeds No- November 7, 1918, records vember Eleventh, few of our the following unexpected mes- people probably realize what sage intercepted from the grave concern, not to say Eiffel Tower wireless: "To distrust, followed the signing German High Command: If of the Armistice. Those were it is desired to discuss terms anxious days at the end of of Armistice, German pleni- 1918, while the severe terms potentiaries should enter the of the convention were being J French front at Guise, Le rigorously and fearlessly car- Cadeau (Le Cateau), or (un- ried out. Who knows but that intelligible). FOCH." At that prompt and relentless MOURNING VICTORY the same time an unofficial policy, carried out under the report reached me from our discerning eye of Foch, did (Bt/ (Daniel 6?/iedter ^)rench^ First Army that German not, after all, forestall new COURTESY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART plenipotentiaries were already military operations by the in conference with Marshal Central Powers? For the Foch. agreement of November 11, And still the combatants

1 918, was to exist for but fought on as if no armistice- thirty days, with the option were contemplated. It was of extension. Extensions were as if the Allies were driving granted, of course (on Decem- home the conviction that per- ber 13, 1918, and on January 16 and February 16, 1919), but no manent peace could only be attained by waging relentless and one could foresee that at the time. And in the universal joy over implacable war. Our Rainbow Division was moving forward the coming of peace few were aware of the disquieting spectre daily over ground littered with abandoned German artillery, dead which hovered on the horizon—Germany reconsidering her agree- horses by the hundred, thousands of castaway helmets, and ment of November nth as ill-advised, hasty, unnecessary, and many other tangible evidences of a not altogether orderly retire- unwise, and determined to hold out for better terms. ment by the Germans. The roads were becoming worse every To most of us who were fighting America's battles in the hour. Overloaded trucks wore great ruts in long-suffering

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s to Villa sous Bois at Spa, Von Hindenburg' wartime headquarters , assigned the American members of the Armistice Commission

macadam and a sticky mud was in evidence everywhere. French i^and. Stories of war-prisoners and intercepted radiograms ac- peasants followed on the heels of the Division, all smiles for the counted for much of this, of course, but did not explain all. American soldiers whom they termed liberators. One old fellow On the morning of the historic eleventh of November I assumed leaned into my Cadillac and asked quite anxiously if I thought command of the Forty-second Division, and at eleven, the the Armistice had yet been signed. The very air seemed sur- Armistice went into effect. On our front all hostilities ceased charged with rumors of a cessation of hostilities, which most of us at this hour, but our neighboring Seventy-seventh Division re- discounted as improbable. ported some hostile artillery fire as late as 1 :30 p.m.—probably The fighting went grimly on. German artillery fiercely shelled shells from an isolated German battery which was without news our advance, and my note-book records that on the of the signing of the Armistice. During the war night of November 9th I fell asleep in the midst several amusing instances had occurred where of an especially heavy hostile bombardment itinerant doughboys had found an abandoned comforting myself with the homely German gun in some out-of-the-way spot losophy of the trenches: "Unless a sh with unlimited ammunition near by has your name and number, you an and, pointing the piece in the general safe. But when it spots your identi- direction of Berlin, had fired away fication-tag, you'll never know to their heart's content. In all what hit you." It took many probability German troops had months of campaigning under similar experiences. fire to find comfort in such The day following the Armis- soldier logic. tice orders reached me from On this same date, wild re- General Pershing to report ports reached our front lines back at American General that the German navy was in Headquarters, and regretfully the hands of mutineers, that turning over my division to Bavaria had elected to be- the senior brigadier, I started come a republic, that the for Chaumont by way of Les Kaiser had been asked to ab- Islettes and St. Didier. dicate within twenty-four On November 14th General hours, that the Crown Prince Pershing informed me at Chau- had been intercepted and shot as mont that I was to represent he fled into Holland. On No- our country on the Permanent vember 10th, a well-authenti- International Armistice Commis- cated story reached us that the sion. The latter was already assem- First, Second, Forty-second bling at Spa, Belgium; my presence Eighty-ninth Divisions were to there was required without delay; and I a so-called pursuit corps to be must needs organize my staff and push .Austria at once. Later reports hac through the German army to my destination. Kaiser had actually abdicated and that the A penciled note and telephone call received at Crown Prince had renounced succession to the a muddy dugout at the extreme front had The steel door that gave en- throne. Indeed it is still one of the unsolved hitherto been my only information as to a new trance to the Kaiser's private mysteries of the war how such information job. I had never heard of an armistice com- dugout at Spa. Looks as a from the enemy's lines—much of it false, to if mission, much less knew its purpose and organ- be sure, but many items founded on fact Yankee officer were considering ization. But at Chaumont a memorandum could pass swiftly across a tire swept No Man's its possibilities as a souvenir from Marshal Foch himself apprised me in

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Spa, Belgium, German General Headquarters during the war, later the scene of the meetings of the Permanent International Armistice Commission

some detail of the wishes of the Commander of the Allied Armies. chap who got me into all that hot water! Why, every municipal In brief, the Armistice Commission was to consist of a com- park, every court-house square and public playground in my missioner and an adequate staff from each of the Allied Armies. district has been pestering me to death for one of those German It was to assemble without delay at Spa, Belgium, prepared to war- relics! And the awful tragedy is that there are not half enforce the clauses of the armistice agreement, more especially enough to go round!" those pertaining to repatriation of prisoners of war, prompt trans- The Armistice Commission was already assembling at Spa, fer to the Allies of surrendered war material, and disposal of in- and I was told by the High Command that haste must be made terned soldiers and civilians and of military transport and supplies. in organizing my staff and assembling my transportation and General McAndrew, Chief of Staff of the A.E.F., necessary equipment for a hurried journey through seemed to feel that our country would not care No Man's Land and the retiring German army. to receive its share of the enormous amount The war was supposedly over, and our G.H. of war supplies which Germany was t< terally gave me over a million officers over, and that our share might well id men from whom to select the staff. given to our Allies. I argued strongl The trouble was to find suitable for its retention by the United specialists within a few hurried States. My memory went back to hours, and, with their necessary boyish impressions of Trophy baggage, get the entire mission Point at West Point, with its over the almost impassable souvenirs of Burgoyne's sur- roads and demolished bridges render and of Scott's campaign of the great battle area to the in Mexico; and I felt that with little Belgian town which was the return of peace the pos- to be our headquarters. session of German artillery, Eventually, after many in- machine guns, trench mor- quiries and much telephon- tars, and airplanes, memen- ing, part of the American toes of the greatest war in Mission was assembled at history, would be a constant Chaumont and started for Spa inspiration to the citizens of November 15th. There were the future and a reminder of eight officers, two of whom what their forefathers had fought were interpreters, six field clerks for in far-away France. and twenty orderlies and chauf- The American Commander-in- feurs, all in some six automobiles Chief heard us patiently to the end, and a light truck. It was impracti- and then directed me in no uncertain cable to wait for the entire staff, terms to secure from Germany all of t which ultimately consisted of some so-called booty of war to which the twenty-five officers taken from the entire United States was entitled under the armis- American Army. Most of them were experts tice agreement. in their line of work. Among them I like to A somewhat amusing aftermath occurred in remember the services of Major David A. German drivers turning over Washington some two years later when I was Reed, Field Artillery, now Senator from Penn- trucks to enlisted representa- describing this Chaumont conference to a Con- sylvania, who was specially charged with tives the A.E.F. in accor- gressman. The latter listened with marked of checking up on surrendered German artillery, dance attention, and then, with a pretense of right- with the Armistice terms. and Colonel Van Rensselaer King, a railroad hard eous indignation, excb 'med : "So you're the No feelings are apparent man of ability and experience, whom General

NOVEMBER, 1929 9 Major General Charles D. Rhodes (wearing light trench coat), American High Com- missioner on the Permanent International Armistice Com- mission, about to leave American G.H.Q. at Chau- mont for the Spa conferences

An American member of the Armistice Commission staff about to enter the Hotel Brt- tannique at Spa, where the sessions were held. The German sentry seems about to present him with a highball

This exchange of radiograms between the High Commands taEMMAL ' Tk of the German and Allied armies had an interesting personal ARMISTICE f angle for me. The message announcing my appointment r l ,f v as High Commissioner and departure for Spa was picked up in * Commission 1 K England, cabled by our Associated Press to the United States and on November 16th given to our people through the press. In a little Kansas community, my own family and friends thus learned for the first time in months of my whereabouts and movements. It was, even a decade ago, an impressive illustration of the scope of the radio. The route to our destination lay through Chalons-sur- Marne, Rheims, with its pathetic but still lovely cathedral, Dinant, Givet, and Liege. It was a roundabout trip, but was selected for me by Marshal Foch as the least shot to pieces. 1 'hii As it was our progress was very slow, requiring many detours around shell-holes and broken bridges, and we stopped for the night with General Humbert and staff of the French Third Army near Laon. The day following, November 16th, we passed the most ad- vanced French outposts over the miry Chimey-Marle road and traversed much of No Man's Land. In the early afternoon we entered Belgium, and the people met us with great enthusiasm, cheering and waving their hats to the first Allies they had seen Atterbury kindly loaned me to supervise the German turnover in four long years. Thousands of French and Belgian boys of of locomotives and railroad cars. military age were trudging the highways homeward bound, One of the petty but amusing annoyances of our hurried start after summary release by the Germans, eager to reduce the for Belgium was lack of decent or even clean clothing. Most of number of mouths to feed. The young fellows carried their few us had practically come direct from the trenches. Our battle belongings on their backs; a few hauled small wagons. They ap- uniforms were covered with mud and grime and were somewhat peared to be in good physical condition, and their faces wore a lacking in buttons. A few of the staff had no head-covering perpetual smile at sight of the American uniform and flag. except trench helmets. Nearly all reported to me with gas-masks About dusk we rolled into a tiny Belgian town where news of slung over shoulders ready for immediate use. I myself had un- our coming had not preceded us. An old peasant woman, catch- comfortable forebodings of sitting as a member of a formal and ing sight of us, raised her withered hands above her bent shoul- punctilious tribunal to settle weighty affairs of state clad in the ders and uttered a cry which was taken up by the entire village. orthodox habiliments of a not over-clean Argonne dugout. A "You are Allies! You are Allies!" Immediately we were sur- wag at General Pershing's headquarters, a cheerful soul with rounded by every ablebodied person in the hamlet, and the old much imagination, even started a story which went the rounds of woman, in almost hysterical delight, insisted that we alight for the messes that the execution of the Armistice agreement, on a moment. Soon her tiny kitchen was packed with happy faces, which the fate of great nations was resting, was being held up and it was pathetic to see her take from a secret hole-in-the-wall because the American High Commissioner was unable to find her hoard of American Red Cross coffee, milk, and sugar which a suitable pair of pants. But the broken-down army truck with she insisted on our sharing with her. The German soldiers, its supply of needed clothing and equipment reached us in the we were told, had left them that very day, and they took it as a nick of time, and the situation was saved. happy omen that the Americans, whose beneficence they had The Allied High Command had radioed the German High learned to love, were entering their village on the very heels of Command of our start from Chaumont, and had received reply their oppressors. that our progress through their battle lines would be facilitated. We passed the night with his honor the mayor of Givet, France, We had no trouble whatever in passing German troops, and did who, rather against his will, had been required to act as civic not once have to show our credentials. The entire German army executive during most of the four years of German occupation. seemed to know that the Armistice Commission was meeting at After such a long period of coercion and restraint, it was natural Spa, and our late opponents gazed on my leading car, with its that he should pour out his troubles to us—repeated requisitions double stars, G.H.Q. insignia and tiny American flag, with con- on the impoverished town for money and supplies, restrictions siderable interest and curiositv. on trade, alleged indignities to women and children, and cruelties

10 Tht AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Part of the price of losing a war—hundreds of German trucks delivered to the A.E.F. at Coblenz in accordance „,i*U (fa Armistice terms

Two American members of the Commission, with a representative of the German Army, about to leave Spa for Coblenz to arrange for the taking over of material

to prisoners. What was of more immediate interest and im- portance to me, however, were his statements as to recent rioting by German soldiers in which they had killed certain of their officers. If true, this was a most significant state of affairs in the hitherto iron-disciplined German army. If German soldiers dared to do this the Fatherland must be in a bad way. Early next morning, November 17th, after petit dejeuner with the good mayor, our party almost immediately re-entered Belgium. Everywhere we were enthusiastically greeted. The Belgians seemed to have no possible doubt that the war was over for good. Near Dinant, we began to run into the retiring columns of German troops, and all day long we pushed through the trans- port of swiftly marching German soldiers. They made a fine appearance and were undoubtedly veteran first-line regiments. One soldier told me happily that they looked forward to spending Christmas at home. The officers were courteously responsive to our calls and signals for road space, but many soldiers regarded us with sullen ill-will. One German private shook his fist at us, but a facetious member of my staff suggested that perhaps he took us for a group of his own officers. We were much impressed with the high morale of these troops; their transport was deco- rated with flags and greens, and with high spirits the soldiers was the Belgian Mission that of the Crown Prince. The British sang in unison as they marched. were making themselves comfortable in General von Luden- Soon we passed into the war-famed city of Liege. Although dorff's late home, while I found myself inheriting the delightful the German army was still holding the city, vast crowds of Bel- Villa sous Bois from his Excellency Field Marshal von Hinden- gians gave vent to their feelings and frantically cheered us, burg, who, it seems, had rather hurriedly departed some days while Allied flags waved everywhere. German soldiers looked before. impassively on, probably quite as glad as the Belgians that the We took immediate possession of our future home, which was long war was over at last. We had the belief, afterwards con- picturesquely located on the hills overlooking Spa, assigned living firmed, that these Germans had been kept in ignorance of the quarters and office space to our staff, and started a mess which exacting terms of the Armistice, and that most of them were re- ultimately cared for many itinerant visitors from many corners turning home with the happy conviction that the Fatherland had of Europe. The night of November 17th thus found me sleeping come out of the war with many material advantages as well as the sleep of the just in a luxurious brass bed presumably recently with glory to German traditions. used by the Commander-in-Chief of the German armies. I The town of Spa, which we reached in mid-afternoon—a place mentioned this the following morning to my British friend and of about six thousand people, and one of the oldest watering colleague, Lieutenant General Haking, who exclaimed with places in Europe— is about twenty-five miles from Liege and a feigned concern, " 'Pon my word, old chap, I'd have thought you much shorter distance from the German frontier. In addition to would have had a frightful nightmare!" Haking's sense of humor its casino, it was famous in pre-war days for the medicinal prop- cropped out often—a fortnight later, when I invited him and his erties of its mineral springs. Here, early in the year 1918, the staff to eat Thanksgiving dinner with us, he said, "Thanksgiving! Kaiser had established the General Headquarters of his armies, Thanksgiving! What's that for? Is it to give thanks for shaking and here the German High Command made itself comfortable poor old England off your hands a hundred and fifty years ago?" while the war raged at the front. The Kaiser spent much time Villa sous Bois was spacious, comfortable, and most attractive here, and, according to our Belgian informants, had signed his to officers who had spent months in the mud of the front lines. abdication in Spa a short time before our arrival. A few days after our occupancy of the Villa began one of my aides We found that four lovely villas, originally built for and occu- told me that after exploring every nook and corner of our palatial pied by wealthy Belgians and more recently commandeered by home there remained one mysterious room on the second floor, the German General Staff, had now been reassigned to the four its doors barred and locked, which was as yet unexplained. members of the Armistice Commission. The French Mission With hushed voice he told me he had visions of Bluebeard and a was already occupying the villa just vacated by the Kaiser, as chamber filled with the bodies of murdered (Continued 011 page 48)

NOVEMBER. 1929 God Have By William T. Scanton

Illustrations by Raymond Sisley

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/GOT my men together and we started north along the trench. The men were all excited and talking it over. It was their first real hand-to-hand fight. I met a bunch of Signal Corps men and asked them if they had seen any- thing of the Sixth Marines. They pointed up to the northeast and said all the outfits were somewhere up in those trees. They also said there was a long communication trench half a mile over on the right that led di- rectly up there. We got out of the trench we were in and started across country for the other trench. I split the platoon up into groups, because the Germans were dropping shells again. We found the trench all right and made good time. We ran across lots of dead and wounded Germans but none of our own men. Nearing the woods we met Big Tex of the Third Platoon coming our way. He had his hand "/ bandaged up. beat it over to his dugout and I said, "How did it happen, Tex?" ." It wasn't and he answered me, "Oh, it's nothing but a little nick . . dugout that had formerly been used by the Germans. Somebody said, "Bon blesse, Tex." a very deep one. I told him the Fourth Platoon was now in po- I said, "Is our outfit up ahead!" sition with the rest of the company. I don't believe he knew they

Tex said, "Yes, follow the trench to the end . . . They are off had been missing. on your left in the woods." He said, "We will have to have a guard out tonight. You had We did and as soon as we got to the woods we sat down for a better take charge of them yourself." rest. Lieutenant Meredith of the Battalion Scouts came along. "Just a company guard?" I asked. if want He used to be in charge of this Fourth Platoon before he was put "Yes . . . The captain is down a ways in a dugout you in charge of the Battalion Scouts. The old timers used to call to see him." him Hardboiled Meredith. Still they used to like him pretty well. The captain and some of the lieutenants were down in a forty- He talked to Weed and a few of the others of the old bunch. foot dugout, so I took Howell's squad and posted them close by Then coming to me he said, "What's the idea of being back here?" it. It was getting dark, so I sat down at the mouth of the dugout ." I said, "We got separated from the company . . to wait. "Well, the company's up ahead—you better join them." Pretty soon the German artillery got busy dropping shells in He passed on and as soon as we were rested we started on the valley below us—in the rear. Now and then a shell landed up again. After a while we came to the place where the company close to where we were. Hits were made and I could hear the was dug in so I told the fellows they had better dig in along the wounded call out. Some of the shells passing overhead had a same general line. slushy, wobbly sound. They were full of gas. It was hard to tell Then 1 went to look for Lieutenant Marco. I found him in a how close they were landing, as they exploded with a muffled

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I finally made my way back to where the woods ended. Once in a while I could catch the faint odor of mustard but not enough to hurt anybody. I stood at the edge of the woods for some time sniffing the air. The wind was blow- ing from the west. Sud-

denly I head a />/;/// sound as though some- body had dropped a bag of water. There was also a light explosion. Then another landed. The gas shells were dropping in a cleared space about fifty feet away. I saw the grayish vapor rise and gently float away to the east. I was glad the wind was in the west. It was a clear Octo- ber night. No moon, but millions of bright stars. I walked along the edge of the woods for quite a distance to-

ward the west until I came to the western boundary of the woods. There was another wide open space across which I could see another dark woods. Gas shells were dropping out in this open space also, so I started back through the wood toward our camp, sniffing the air as I went along. It seemed bad in spots but clear in others. A machine gun sud- denly opened up in the found him huddled up in a comer half dead" west, shooting toward the south. Soon the sound. I was company gas non-com and it was up to me to be on bullets swept over my head and then the sound died away to the lookout for gas. the north. I crouched down. Soon I heard it coming back from The dugout the captain was in was a deep U-shaped affair with the north ratatatatat, then crack crack CRACK over my head two big mouths which opened toward the German lines. I had and then crack crack, ratatatatatat as it swept away to the south. a picture of a shell dropping into one of the mouths or entrances Just some German machine gunner who was sweeping back and to the dugout. It would make a horrible mess, as there were quite forth with his gun. He sprinkled things around for about ten a few men at the bottom. minutes and then turned in. The gas shells kept coming over and I got uneasy so I climbed I got to the dugout and reported to the captain that the shells down to the bottom of the dugout and told the captain the Ger- were hitting close but so far with the wind in the west we were mans were dropping gas shells close by and that the gas would all right. finally settle down in these dugouts. But not long after this I heard the soft explosions nearby in the Captain McDevitt said, "See if you can find out how close they trees and soon I got a strong odor of gas. are dropping and let me know." I hollered down the dugout, "Gas!" I climbed up again. You couldn't pay me to stay in that dug- Someone answered, "All right." out. I would rather take my chances on the topside. I put the clippers on my nose and held the mouthpiece to my I posted one of Howell's men at the dugout as gas sentry and mouth but did not put on the mask proper. I passed down the ." rear to find . then started back through the trees in our out where line waking up the men and shouting, "Gas! . . . Gas! . the gas shells were landing. It was pitch dark and there was a The shells were hitting around us thick now. When I got back heavy undergrowth among the trees. to the captain's dugout the man on guard told me the lieutenant

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wanted to see me. I beat it over to his dugout and found him huddled in a corner half dead. They were dragging out a couple of fellows and I heard that a shell had hit in the opening of the dugout, wounding two fellows, Mowry and Quinn. (This Mowry was no relation to Spud Mowry. We had three Mowrys in the original outfit and this was the last of them.) i The lieutenant was the only one that was not actually hit, but the concussion had knocked him out. "That you, Sergeant?" he said. I said, "Yes." ." "Stay with me! . . He put his mask on. This day he had seen his first battle. Somebody had told him back at Gondrecourt where they held a school for officers that the practice trenches and the hardships they had to endure while training were a lot worse than they would find under actual fight- ing conditions, but he had found out that there is a lot of difference between a shell screaming over your head at a training camp simply looking for a place to land and one screaming toward your head looking for you to land on. I stuck around in the hole for awhile but I didn't like being in any of those German dugouts. Finally I said, "You better move over to the captain's dugout. It's forty feet deep. Only a direct hit can get it." I got him up and helped him across to the deep dugout and down the steps of the first entrance. The holes joined at the bottom. A blanket had been hung across the middle of the dugout and the cap- tain and his crew were on one side and just a bunch of men on the other side. They also had a blanket over the opening leading in from the entrance. I pushed the blanket aside and told the lieu- tenant to cross over to the other side where the cap- tain was. But he said it w? as all right here with the men and sat down. The other fellows in the hole were sitting around a short piece of lighted candle playing black jack for cigarettes. They all had their gas masks on so they couldn talk and they would tap with their fingers, meaning, "Hit me, and then hold out their hand when they had enough. It was nice quiet game—no cursing or arguments. XXXII

1LEFT the lieutenant there and went up to the topside again. I tested the air to see if the gas was clearing away but it was still strong so I kept my mask on. SoonI heard the/>«/-/>M/ofachauchatonourleft. I listened, then again it went put-put-put—a longer string this time. Our whole "What's the matter?" I said. left flank was open for ten kilometers or more. It was up to each "Blub-blub," pointing to some woods across in front of him. company to protect its own flank. The chauchat opened up again. He was trying to talk with the mouthpiece in his mouth. Some I went over to Howell and said, "Five men," pointing to the fellows never w? ould learn how to talk with a mask on. This fel- left. (You don't say much when you've got a gas mask on.) low would have the whole rubber tube leading from the canister I wanted five men to go with me to see what was happening. full of spit in no time. I could tell from the way he was slobbering Howell got the men together. Men with gas masks on are a around that it would not do to have him talk much. dopey lot. They bump into each other, hold their breath and I said, "Don't try to talk . . . Are they there now?" point- than blah-h-h it out the flutter valve. They are not so bad when ing across the way. He nodded his head. ." sitting quietly but just as soon as they have to move they get "Shoot a burst across . . to adjusting the masks and helmets drop off. It's hard to hold He opened up. I wanted to see what spot he had in mind. ." your helmet on when you've got the gas mask on your face. I said, "I'm going across . . But finally we got started. I left my rifle with the gas sentry He nodded. near the deep dugout but I had an automatic and a good trench Just then a voice on my right said, "That you, Nap?" knife—one of those three-edged triangular daggers with the saw- There were only three men left in the company that knew me tooth handle guard. A rifle and bayonet is an awkward thing in as Nap. They were Brown, Goff and Bendow of the original first a thick woods. If you hold it at trail it catches in the underbrush. platoon. If you hold it at port or any position in front of you it keeps bump- I remembered now that the captain had mentioned that the ing against trees. Still they are handy to have along if anything first platoon was on the left flank. The man that spoke was about breaks. But I figured that if we were going to have a hard time three feet away but it was hard to recognize a voice through a gas getting through these trees so would the Germans. They could mask. not see any better in the dark than we could, and so long as there I shifted over and said, "Brown?" was gas they would have to wear gas masks, so things sort of "Yes." evened themselves up. Brown and I had w-orked together in the dark before so I de- We stumbled along through the trees stepping in on top of a cided to take him across in the other woods with me rather than man now and then. He may have cursed us out but he did it to pick out a new man, so I said to him, "Come on across with me." himself — the gas masks are good that way. Brown got up and I led the way to the left where the woods We reached the man who had been firing the chauchat—he was ended. I told Howell to place his men along this left edge of the the last man on the left —and I knelt down beside him and slipped woods so they could cover our movements and to shoot fairly back the cloth part of my mask so I could talk better. high if he heard me holler. Naturally I would be lying down.

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly hand, it is not hard to move through a woods at night without making a noise. I was getting nearer to the edge when I heard a whisper. I stopped and took a good look ahead. The eye pieces of my gas mask blurred my vision so I slipped the mask part off. Then I remembered that I had not tested the air in these woods for gas so I removed the nose clippers and took a short sniff. The air seemed clear, so I took the mask off altogether. With it off I felt freer to move. "It was a nice quiet game Just then I saw a pot-shaped head rise up in the opening ' — between two trees. Then it lowered again. There was no no cursing or arguments ' Jf mistaking a German helmet for an American helmet even in the dark. To shoot over the heads of the Germans had a tendency to con- I lay flat and got my automatic out, then raising on my elbows fuse them, especially at night. with my left hand supporting my right wrist, I took aim on the Brown and I got clear of the trees and brambles and then we spot where I had seen the head. It came up and I fired. The got down and started to snake across the open place on our bellies. head dropped. I knew I hit. I crept closer and could hear a mut- It was only about twenty-five yards over to the other woods. tering of voices. They couldn't tell very well which way the Reaching the woods, we crept in. All woods at night look alike. shot came from. I aimed to the left of the last shot and fired In fact, there is no look. About fifteen or twenty feet in I stopped again. Just then a rifle cracked and I heard a bullet whizz over to listen but could hear no sound. We moved down about twenty- my head. It was Brown firing. five feet and I was about to give it up as a dud when I heard a I crawled toward the left as I figured the Germans would run twig crack. It came from the edge of the woods nearest our lines. that way in leaving. A form arose ahead of me and at the same The open space we had come across was east of these woods. time Brown's rifle cracked again. The man stumbled forward This open space was light compared to the darkness of the wood, and nearly fell over me. He was carrying something because I and by looking through the trees towards the lighter place I heard it thump against a tree. He was lying a foot or so ahead could detect any movement that might take place between me of me. I couldn't tell whether he was dead or not so I eased for- and the space. It was like being in a dark room looking out into ward on my belly with my head raised. There was a flash a lighter room. just ahead of me and I heard a ting from my helmet. My right I was sure I saw a bush move. I placed my hand against hand was in front of me holding the automatic. It was not more Brown's shoulder as a caution. We listened. There was a than a foot from the man lying down. I fired. I heard a sort of slight rustle ahead. ugh. Still holding the automatic trained on the man, I squirmed

I whispered to Brown, "Cover that spot . . . Shoot fairly forward. My left hand came in contact with his hand holding a ." his high . . revolver. He made no move. His head was lying between Then I started forward toward the spot on my hands and outstretched arms. I pushed the head. It rocked kind of limply knees. By placing one hand carefully ahead and removing any so I knew he was dead. Lying beside his body was a light German sticks, then bringing the knee up to the spot occupied by the machine gun. He must have been carrying it.

NOVEMBER, 1929 'We're in our own barrage!'

I remained quiet for a few moments. It was always a question their masks on. I couldn't smell any gas on this side either so I how many Germans were used to form a machine gun post. It told them to take off their masks. might be anywhere from three to six. I couldn't hear any move- There wasn't anything else to do around there so I told Howell ment so I called to Brown in a fairly loud voice, "Brown, take to get his men up and we would go back to the dugout. I said off your mask. There isn't any gas here . . . But keep down." good-bye to Brown and told him if he wanted a machine gun to Soon I heard Brown's voice, "Shall I come ahead?" pick up the one across the way in the morning. "Yes, crawl over." Howell and I went on a little ahead of his men to see that there I heard him coming and kept saying, "Over here," in a low was no gas. The air was practically clear. I kept saying to the voice until he finally reached me. men who had holes along where we were traveling, "No gas . . . He said, "What's that beside you?" no gas." Some of them took their masks off. The others made

"A dead German . . . There must be one or two more over no move. They were either asleep or dead. there on the right . . . This one was making away with the Reaching the deep dugout I sniffed around, but the air seemed machine gun. You nipped him first, I think." clear. I didn't know how it was at the bottom of the dugout. We crawled over to the spot at the edge of the woods and there Usually the gas settled in such places and remained there for were two more Germans lying there. I shook them to see if they some time. I was figuring on whether to go down or not because were dead and they were. The small tripod was still up in its I was tired and the climb up and down those steps—there must place and two cans of ammunition lay alongside of it. have been seventy-five or a hundred of them—was a goat-getter. I said, "Let's go back to the outfit. I don't believe there are Just then somebody climbed out of the dugout. It was Ben any more Germans around here." Dawson and he was a sick man. He vomited for a while and then We crawled down to the spot where we had first entered the asked me if there was any gas. I said no. woods. I called across to make sure before starting, "Coming Dawson said, "That damn hole is full of it." across, Howell." It was past midnight, so I called Corporal Benson to relieve Then we ran across in a crouching position." The men still had Howell. Things had quieted down somewhat, though there were

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly still shells, so I went over to the shallow dugout the lieutenant As I came to a dugout I would holler "Look out below!" and then had been in and told the fellow on guard to tell Lieutenant Marco heave in a grenade. where I was. The potato mashers had quite a kick. I couldn't hear them Pretty soon somebody else came crawling into the hole. It was strike bottom but I could hear the report. I was the only one the lieutenant. He couldn't stand the other dugout either. around that knew the trick of pulling the potato masher's string, I dozed off. It had been a long day—no food, no water. so I had the fun of bombing out all the dugouts. This was the first chance I had to put to use the training I had received at the XXXIII bombers' school. At the next dugout, just as the grenade left my hand a face EARLY the next morning I was awakened by somebody appeared coming out of the gloom below. Too late. The grenade calling: smacked him full in the face. He threw up his hands and fell "Where s the 97th Company's Headquarters?" backward into the darkness. That was one German that hesi- I looked up and saw a Third Battalion runner. I knew him by tated too long. sight but not by name. Coming around the corner of the last dugout I ran into Goff I pointed to the deep dugout, "Captain McDevitt is down in of the First Platoon. I hadn't seen him since Soissons. that dugout. Watch out for gas at the bottom." "Hello, Goff." He went down and I waited until he came up again. "Hello, Nap." I asked, "Anything doing this morning?" "Where did you get all the corporal stripes?" "Yes, the Third Battalion is to advance at seven o'clock." Goff: "They hung them on me just before St. Mihiel." It was six then so I started down the line waking the men up. "Stick around long enough and they'll make you a sergeant."

It was still pretty hazy and the men were dopey. Some still had "It gets harder and harder to stick around . . . We just car- ." their gas masks on from the night before. I had to prod some of ried Brown and Sergeant Seton away . . them with the butt end of my rifle to wake them up. I placed the "Brown! . . . When did he get hit?" butt on their combat packs and then jiggled them up and down, Goff: "Just a few minutes ago when that last bunch of whiz- saying, "Stand by! . . . We are moving forward." bangs landed around here . . . They were both hit at the same

Some of the fellows were burrowed in along a bank. time . . . Seton's leg was smashed up . . . Their feet were sticking out. I called them and if they Brown is in pretty bad shape ..." did not answer I kicked the soles of their feet until they did answer or got up. One fellow I called and called, XXXIV "Hey, wake up—wake up!" No answer. I kicked him on the feet but no move. I kicked a little harder. Still I WENT over to where our fellows were no move. I got down and crawled part way in and standing around the deep dugouts watch- grabbed him by the seat of his breeches and started to ing to see if anybody came out. Some of yank him out, saying, "What the hell is the matter with them were firing their rifles into the holes. you?" He did not answer. He was dead. "Now what the hell are you doing?" I At seven o'clock the company was moving forward. said. When we cleared the woods we faced "We were just shooting down in there to a long stretch of open country. The hear the echo." area we now occupied was the southern Then another one of the new men said, ." portion of the summit of Mont Blanc. "Let's go down and see what's there . . The northeastern portion of the sum- I said, "No, you don't! There might be mit was still in the hands of the Germans. trip cords stretched across the steps that ." The artillery hadn't caught up with would set off mines . . us yet—I guess they didn't know where "Aw, that's just talk . . . we were—so we had to advance without the Germans don't really do any artillery support. The Germans that, do they?" were meeting our advance with severe "The hell they don't! . . . machine-gun fire which poured in on "\ I saw one case of it, near us from the front and left. The men Haudimont, and that's all I would rise to rush forward and would ever want to see! . . . Eight drop in their tracks. men were shot from the I realized that the old rush and floo mouth of a dugout like so system was not working quite right so I much scrap! . . . The best passed the word down to my men, way to explore a dug-out is "Crawl forward and keep down low." with grenades." The ground we were crawling over had a Another bunch of the men thick layer of slate-covered dust. The ma- were fooling around with a chine-gun bullets whipped it up into a regu- German machine gun trying lar cloud which screened our movements to get it to work but the Germans but which also shut out our view. had put it out of commission before We kept firing blindly ahead and advanc- leaving. ing steadily. Finally we crawled out of the I finally gathered together what dust onto harder ground and got a glimpse of was left of the platoon,—three cor- what was ahead of us. We saw a row of porals, Howell, Benson and Weed, peculiar mound-shaped objects rising from and twenty-two privates. We the ground to the height of eight or nine feet. crossed over and took up positions The machine-gun fire was coming from their along the edge of the woods, facing direction and we could also see men moving west. Our platoon was on the ex- around them. We opened up with our rifles. treme right of the company but The men disappeared and the machine-gun another bunch of the Sixth Marines fire slackened down. was on our right around the curve of On reaching these mounds we discovered the woods. Out in front of us was that they were the backs of deep dugouts. an open space that ran north and The entrance was on the other side, facing south for a ways. A short distance '•Gas! north. The mud that had been taken out of to the right of where our platoon the dugouts had been piled up in back. You was located, the trees that bordered could not see to the bottom of these the space angled off to the northwest. dugouts. Across from us, a distance of a hun- Outside of one dugout was a stack dred yards, was another woods held of German grenades, the potato by the Germans. We could see their masher type. I called over Breen and built-up positions for machine guns Frenchy and gave them four each. and riflemen. {Continued on page 58)

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I HEN the hardy upon themselves to run for public volunteers who (By Ared'"White office locally, were they invariably gave us America beaten at the polls in those first had completed elections after the Armistice? their job and the selection of a chief executive for the new country Finally, what is the future of the World War veteran in the was the order of popular business, the people turned naturally politics of the country? Will the ex-service men finally get to- for leadership to a great veteran. General George Washington gether politically and make their force felt by united action in was elected first President without serious opposition, after he taking over the important elective and appointive positions? had rejected the idea of a king's crown. The final question lends itself to ready and simple answer. Following the scrimmage with Mexico back in the 40's the The World War will give the country more Presidents than any men who brought victory to their country again were honored other two wars combined have done. And more cabinet mem- by their countrymen in the selection of their battle leader for bers, more jurists, more Senators, governors and Congressmen. the Presidency—General Zachary Taylor. No, not because the veterans get together politically. They Popular enthusiasm again centered upon a war leader in its never will become a mere obnoxious political bloc. There is a quest of a President following the Civil War. General Ulysses greater force than that behind their forward movement, the irre- Simpson Grant had an easy victory at the polls although he was sistible force of a rising generation over which the fittest exercise entirely without political background. a natural, indisputable leadership. And the fittest of the genera- Even the War with Spain, a small rumpus as wars are reckoned, tion now surging to the front are the men who served in the was followed by still another veteran in the White House in the armed forces in defense of their country. Some idea of the rising person of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. might of this generation may be gained by a survey of the present It seems to have been more or less of a universal habit through Congress. Sixteen Senators 61 Congressmen. And the tide is many ages that when a people turned from war, whether one of rising with every election, as well as conquest, revolt or of defense, they gave the reins of leadership the power of the ex-service men al- to some outstanding veteran, some leader whose name and ready in the national Congress. achievements symbolized the valor and sacrifice of the men of the Back in those red days when the fighting forces who had preserved or expanded the national World War raged in the Argonne and domain. popular enthusiasm was burning at What, then, went awry wi h that habit of thought following white heat for the men who wore the

The uneasy politicians looked forward to the day when Johnnie would come marching home looking for new worlds to conquer

the greatest of all wars in which the United uniform in trench and training camp, heavier and heavier grew the States took part? hearts of uneasy politicians at home. All such looked forward Why was not some great leader of the in a gloomy impotence toward that day when Johnnie would World War elected President of the United come marching home with the wreck of the Kaiser's war machine States immediately following hostilities? dangling from his bayonet and cast about for new worlds to Why were not some of our outstanding war heroes given place conquer. in the cabinet or vested with other high responsibility in govern- Inexperienced in the craft of politics those men in olive drab, ment as vacancies occurred? to be sure. What did they know of the complicated technique And why, in the instances wherein qualified veterans took it of political organizations? But would not the high tide of popu-

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victim to poison-gas bar- rages, to every trick and wile of practical politics at its worst. But behind that was the larger fact of popular at- titude. If the passionate enthusiasm that followed the service men through the fires of the Aisne- Marne and the Argonne had burned on after they returned home, the ex- service men would have swept everything in those first elections—which prob- ably would have been the worst possible thing that could have happened to the country, and particularly to the mass of ex-service men themselves. No, it was not lack of gratitude that cooled public ardor. Rather it was what might be termed a form of nervous exhaustion. It must be remembered that the strain of war was upon the lar favor carry masses of the people at home as well as upon the men in service. them into power The normal world was upset and the demands of war superseded regardless of polit- every other demand upon the country's energies. After all, the ical manipula- men in service only represented the popular will for victory, for tion? Need the sacrifice without limit to gain that end. Except for a selfish and returning heroes avaricious few, the war was one of test and strain upon the mil- do more than ask lions not in uniform. And perhaps it was natural enough that what they wanted the moment the war was ended they should want to forget the —only to have a war in all its ramifications as quickly as decency would permit grateful republic and get back toward normalcy as rapidly as possible. respond to their And no one was quite so fed up on war as the returned veteran even' wish? There himself, the man who had borne the brunt of it and whose mind was history to give was now occupied with thoughts of his interrupted future success the answer to all and happiness. Being a very young man with his life mostly in that, and your the making, he had more serious things to occupy his attention if V , X Jj Jjn < S politician, being a than the political ambitions of some of his buddies. practical crea- So it is not difficult to understand why a war record, no matter ture, consulted how fine, was not a thing to fan voting enthusiasm in those hec- history with a tic days. In fact, there is reason enough to believe that a war groan. For did not history reveal that a great war meant a record was a liability rather than an asset right after the war war-made President of these United States, as well as governors, and still is to some extent. Why? Because your ex-soldier had Senators, postmasters, Congressmen, constables, whatnot? the instinctive and instant secret opposition of every slacker in Nevertheless the entrenched politicians of the land girded for his voting district—and that element shouldn't be minimized. battle. Hopeless as the fray might appear in advance, they They may not ever speak out in meeting, and they are not or- would not abandon office without a struggle. Perhaps, added to ganized. But they vote. Against that handicap the veteran- the close organization of their defensive sectors, some miracle candidate could not depend upon the offset of a united veteran might intervene to turn aside the olive-drab dragon of their fears. support. Small wonder the politically-minded veteran was Then, needless to relate, a miracle did occur. History failed doomed to defeat even before he cast his hat in the ring. to repeat itself. Popular enthusiasm for war and war heroes It has been argued many times that the type of veteran who began to wane with the Armistice. It cooled thereafter as quickly ran for office in those days was not calculated, oftentimes, to as a bar of metal from which the stimulus of flame and bellows inspire popular confidence. The young law clerk, for example, has been withdrawn. And instead of coming home in a spirit of who thought a few months in uniform seasoned him for a place on wanting to rule the country, the men of the service returned the supreme bench of his State; the gangling youth who sought to eagerly to the old job, or uncomplainingly went out to look for exchange an Army discharge for a seat in Congress; the ex-M. P. another job when the old one was rilled by some stay-at-home, who thought he ought to be made sheriff—you remember the as too often was the case. Instead of forcing high honors upon kind. the returning veterans, the public had cooled to the point where But a soldier with a countrywide reputation for wisdom, cour- it took only a quiescent interest in seeing that they got back those age and wide administrative capacity, General Leonard Wood, old jobs which they had abandoned for war service. So it was a was hopelessly defeated for party nomination for President by a great hour for the entrenched politicians of the country. publisher-Senator of whom the country at large had never heard There are, among the coldly analytical minds of the war- before the election. The same result occurred in the case of horses of practical politics, those who credit the whole thing to many splendidly equipped veterans running for lesser offices in their own superior strategy. They will remind you frankly many parts of the country. It was simply that the practical enough today that the returning veterans were mostly very young politicians then in power made the most of existing popular indif- men who had little enthusiasm for their higher officers and no ference. With an apathetic electorate to deal with, it was a sim- training in political technique. Therefore it was a very simple ple matter for trained workers to outpoint a set of political matter to create and foster divisions and defeat the veteran- amateurs who were without cohesive organization. candidates in detail. It would have been different, disappointed observers often re- There's considerable truth in that claim. The exacting disci- mark, if The American Legion had only stepped boldly into the pline of the American Army in the war was not conducive to a field of politics, or if the ex-service men had effected political cordial camaraderie between men who gave orders and men who organization through some other medium—a ridiculous claim. executed them. It is also true that the average veteran was an One of the hardest things The American Legion had to fight in infant in arms when it came to practical politics. He was a ready its formative days was the mere {Continued on page 68)

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BALANGIGA look played out," The other sort of penetra- rOUsaid Captain Book- tion had not been signally suc- miller, commanding B if Marquis James cessful in Samar. To rout the the post at Basey. Spanish at Manila and there- "Better lay over and start Illustration by Frank, Street abouts had proved no great back fresh in the morning." undertaking. During the eigh- No, Lieutenant Bumpus replied. He'd be shoving off. With teen months since the archipelago had passed to United States favorable winds and a calm sea he could make Balangiga before rule the native insurrections on the islands of Luzon and Min- nightfall and C Company would have its mail a day earlier. danao had been pretty well smothered. But a different race of The lieutenant's detail of six men loaded their supplies in the men dwelt on Samar. For centuries their only trade had been barota, and with the precious bag of mail, paddled out from the that of arms, practiced in the perpetual wars with the neigh- sea-wall at Basey, on the island of Samar, in the Philippines. boring Moros and Sidus. It was a considerate act. Lieutenant Bumpus was tired, and his The Spanish respected them for this. In advance of her men were tired, from their three-day journey from Balangiga soldiers Spain had sent Franciscan friars to the island—wise and across the strait to Tacoban on the island of Leyte, and thence tactful men who set up chapels and made a few nominal converts to Basey on Samar. But C Company, Ninth Infantry, had been to the Catholic faith. Then eight soldiers, in charge of a ser- four months without word from home. Mail sent to China had geant, appeared in each of the four coast villages with instruc- missed it there, when, having done more than its share to stamp tions to marry immediately into the most influential local out the Boxer Rebellion, the Ninth was withdrawn to Manila. families. This was the occupation of Samar by Spain. Not even Before the mail caught up C Company was shunted to the most the Franciscans ventured into the mountainous jungle of the in- remote outpost on Samar. terior, which was designated on their maps as "terra incognita." For eight weeks it had garrisoned the village of Balangiga Few natives were aware that they had ever been a subject race. seventy-eight white men in the perfect isolation of the steaming This fact was impressed upon them, however, by the Forty- tropical jungle, testing Manila's new policy of "peaceful pene- third and Twenty-ninth United States Infantry regiments, which tration." occupied the villages and made forays into the interior for more

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The fight betiveen the Bolomen and the Americans was raging furiously about the ladder of the hut

than a year. There was a fight every day, and one bloody defeat the enemy. . . . We have agreed to have a fictitious policy for the Americans at Katubig. But generally the fights were with them, doing whatever they like and when the occasion small affairs. On occasions the masterly Lucban, war leader of comes will strategically rise up against them. . . . the natives, would be content to send a lone boloman to slink "May God preserve you many years. alongside an American column threading single file a jungle "Balangiga, 30th of May, 1901. trail. His work would be quickly done. A powerful brown arm "P. ABAYAN, Presidente." parted the wall of foliage, a swish of the bolo, and a soldier Senor Abayan had continued his attitude of helpfulness to dropped with head split from crown to jaw. The arm vanished, Captain Connell. Balangiga was the home of about a thousand the jungle wall closed. Pursuit? With the same prospects of people who dwelt in nipa huts elevated on piles six feet above success one could pursue a fish in the sea. the ground. About the traditional Spanish plaza were a few These regiments departed, with laurels dearly bought, and in more substantial structures. The spaces beneath the floors of the the fulness of time fresh troops appeared at the four villages, huts were used for the disposal of garbage. Captain Connell guided by fresh inspiration from Manila. We would disarm promulgated a simple sanitary code which called for the removal these natives by acquainting their uncultivated but keen minds of this filth. Thrice the order was posted, but not one heap was with the advantages of enlightened rule. Consequently C Com- disturbed. The captain then rounded up all able-bodied citizens pany had arrived at Balangiga with instructions 'o remain on and selected eighty of the number as a sanitary force, which the alert, but to make no hostile move. worked under guard. This policy seemed to succeed. The villagers had swarmed out A few days of this activity brought a change in the aspect of in their barotas to help the soldiers unload their equipment, and Balangiga in which none seemed to take more pride than the the moment that Captain Connell stepped on shore, Abayan, the presidente. With his chief of police he called to suggest that the local presidente, greeted him with those flowery words of welcome arrangement be made permanent. It would be unnecessary, that can be expressed in Spanish as in no other tongue. however, to continue to work unoffending citizens. In the jungle Some time after C Company's arrival at Balangiga the head- dwelt certain tax evaders and other malefactors whom the police quarters of Vicente Lucban, director of military operations of the constabulary would bring in. Agreed, said Captain Connell, and insurgents of Samar, were captured on another island and his in three days' time all of the townsmen had been superseded. papers seized. The papers were in bad Spanish and Visayan. The last replacement was effected on September 27, 1901, but They were sent to Manila for translation, which proved slow Abayan told the captain that a number of citizens, appreciative work. As Lieutenant Bumpus and his men paddled their barota of what los Americanos had done for their village, would con- toward Balangiga it was still in progress, and this communication tinue to work as volunteers. to General Lucban had not been examined: That night, after dark, Lieutenant Bumpus arrived with the "I have the honor to let you know, after having conferred with mail. the principals of this town, about the policy to be pursued with The letters were distributed amid {Continued on page 74)

NOVEMBER, 1929 21 Harvey White, Department Commander of Kentucky, presenting Dan Sowers, National Americanism Director of the Legion, and Graham MacNamee, who broadcast the Junior World' s Series at Louis- ville, with commissions as colonels on the staff of Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky

Everybody Up ! (Bt/ Alexander Cfardiner

>^yRAHAM MACNAMEE (perhaps you've heard the work of both teams. The major league scouts that were with us ." # name) leaned just a trifle nearer the microphone as the today saw plenty . . \^Jf noise about him increased to a howl of boyish enthu- And he went on to give the details of the play, while the crowd siasm on the loose. Maybe the thousands of people of youngsters increased and milled about him. It gave them a listening in on the other end had lost a few words, and thrill to realize that they were actually watching the most noted so MacNamee raised his voice just a little, a smile playing over radio announcer in the Western World do his stuff. It gave his face the while. "Just about a million kids," it came over MacNamee a thrill too, as he readily admitted afterward. the air, "are gathered about me and we're having just the finest Perhaps the Legion tournament, which popped the junior time we ever had. And they're all going to be back here with baseball championship of the world into the eager, outstretched me tomorrow, aren't you, kids?" gloves of the Buffalo team two days later after three games The roar that burst forth in answer to the invitation was that were packed full of all kinds of baseball thrills, had none what your modern slang expert would denominate Nobody's greater for the hundreds of thousand listeners-in than the voice Business, and MacNamee, still smiling broadly, told those lis- of MacNamee coming to them over the air with the play-by-play tening in on thirty-eight stations of the National Broadcasting story of the games—that chatty, informal, breezy, all-inclusive Company in every corner of the United States that the first running account that has become a familiar to radio listeners game in the Little World's Series of baseball games sponsored wherever a great sporting event has been in progress these last by The American Legion had been won by the Burkes of Buffalo several years. The Louisville kids had the edge on the young- over the White Sox of New Orleans by a score of 6 to 4. sters and grown-ups who couldn't see it all, for they could watch "They're coming back here to Parkway Field in Louisville, the games and see MacNamee. Kentucky, again tomorrow for the second of the three-game Yes, Buffalo won the third and deciding game of the series series," the announcer continued, "and I wish you could all be after New Orleans had tied it up on the second day. We're here to see the way these boys play, particularly the infield coming to that after a while. But first of all let's tell something

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly An exciting moment for the spectators. Federico sliding over home plate for New Orleans's first run

in the opening game of the series, beating out the throiv from left field on a short sacrifice fly. The umpire is Legionnaire Red Ormsby of the American heague about who was there, aside from the players and MacNamee. country hold the Legion's games for boys. The two major There was Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high commissioner leagues again appropriated fifty thousand dollars for the expenses of professional baseball in this country, friend of the Legion, of the regional, sectional and final series, and further showed friend of the Legion's youthful players, and baseball fan extraor- their belief in the Legion's project by sending two of their regular dinary. The Judge was in New England vacationing and had staff of umpires to handle the Louisville games, Legionnaire just addressed four Department Conventions of the Legion, E. T. (Red) Ormsby, who calls them in the American League, but he remembered that he had promised Dan Sowers, National and Edward McLaughlin of the National League. Director of Americanism and high commissioner of the Legion's Louisville had had a team in the sectional championships at Little World's Series, that he would be on hand. So by train Washington, and when the boys returned home they had de- and plane he made the trip, saw the second game, dined with clared their intention of rooting for the Buffalo team. By a freaky the two teams, thrilled the boys with a speech and—well, it geographical twist, however, they found their loyalty to the was time for business again, and the Judge had to go. But he eastern team overshadowed by the fact that while New Orleans left John A. Heydler, President of the National League, to was nominally the representative of the West, it was in reality throw out the baseball for the start of the third game, and once a Southern team, like Louisville. And so they and most of the again the Louisville youngsters had something to talk about. crowd rooted for the White Sox. The weather during the three For the American League, Thomas S. Shibe, owner of the days of the tournament was very hot (as it was, indeed, over Philadelphia Athletics, took the trip to Louisville and saw two the entire portion of the country east of the Rockies) and this games of the Legion's series despite the fact that his team too bothered the Buffalo boys more than it did their opponents. had not as yet clinched the league championship. He brought But the prize was worth while, and the two teams fought val- Mrs. Shibe with him, and this gracious act endeared him to iantly throughout the series. By their victory the Buffalo boys, Louisville and to the Legion officials who were conducting the in addition to becoming Junior World's Champions, won the games. It is safe to say that when the Athletics and Cubs met right to attendance at the World's Series baseball games in in the big World's Series, a good portion of Louisville was rooting Chicago and Philadelphia with all expenses paid, and each of for the success of the American Leaguers, despite the fact that the twelve boys received a gold watch. The fourteen New Joe McCarthy, the Cubs' manager, was manager of the Louis- Orleans players were awarded gold watch charms. ville team of the American Association before he took the Chicago Louisville opened its arms to the Legion and its youthful job, and gave the Kentucky metropolis a couple of champion- ball players and showed by its deeds that its reputation for ships in succession. hospitality really means something. Col. William F. Knebel- Major John L. Griffith, who besides being executive officer of kamp, owner of the Louisville baseball team of the American the Big Ten, that marvelous intercollegiate organization of the Association, placed his park and his employes at the disposal Middle West, is a power in amateur athletics generally, saw of the Legion. Thomas H. Hayden, Jr., Department Adjutant the games, with numerous others whose presence testified to of the Kentucky Legion, took charge of all the details of ticket the regard in which both amateur and professional sport in this distribution and sales. Harvey White, (Continued on pay 71)

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C~~Ior(Jod'and'country ,we associate ourselves together/or thefollowing purposes: Oo uphold and defend the Constitution oftheUnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent Americanism to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreat'War; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obligation to the com- classes to right the master might ; to promote munity, state and nation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the andthe masses; make of to peace andgood willon earth ; to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjudicefreedom and democracy ; conse~ Legion. crate andsanciiff our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution of TKe American

The "World J^ooks Up

ITH the approach of the eleventh anni- would have shared had it been in the same situation), versary of the Armistice the world is joined with the rest of the world in acclaiming the permitted to read many satisfactory world cruise of the Graf Zeppelin, two of whose pas- portents of growing international good- sengers, indeed, were members of the British nobility. will in the skies. Literally in the skies. Long before Lindbergh's feat, America hailed the A few weeks ago, in a single issue of flight of Brown and Alcock, even as the NC-4 crew any American newspaper, appeared ac- were welcomed in England. Brock and Schlee, Miss counts of the Graf Zeppelin safely housed at Tokio Earhart and Wilmer Stultz, were accorded most cor- after a memorable seven thousand mile flight from dial receptions in England. Our own greeting to Friedrichshafen, the completion of a non-stop airplane the German air sailors who brought the Los Angeles to flight from Spokane to New York and return, the ad- Lakehurst, and to the crew of the Graf Zeppelin, was ventures of fifteen women pilots flying in competition no less hearty than our rousing welcome to the pioneer from Santa Monica to Cleveland, and the announce- trans-Atlantic dirigible crew of the British R-34. ment that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh would soon The delirious acclaim accorded the late Baron von pilot the first plane over a new extension of mail and Huenefeld and Captain Koehl of Germany, who with passenger airways that are binding Central and South Colonel Fitzmaurice of the Irish Free State accom- America closer to the United States and Canada. plished the first east to west crossing of the North Colonel Lindbergh is secure to immortality as our Atlantic, even exceeded the warmth of America's flying ambassador of good will. The thrilling glory of welcome to the Italian, Major de Pinedo, and the his flight to Paris was timed—perhaps by Providence Frenchmen Coste and Le Brix. to dissipate ugly clouds of ill-feeling that attended a South America did not differentiate in the hearti- crisis in Franco-American relations. With Am- ness of its greeting to Ramon Franco, the representa- bassador Morrow he shares the credit for our present tive of the mother country, Spain, and to the other happy relations with Mexico. Certainly understand- South Atlantic flyers — Portuguese, Italian, French. ing of and friendship with the republic to the south Chamberlin and Levine enjoyed the same demon- have never been more satisfactory than since the Lone strations in Berlin that Williams and Yancey ex- Eagle glided down into the Mexican capital two years perienced in Rome. ago. The late Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian, shared the How amazingly and whole-heartedly do the peoples honors of his North Pole flights first with an American, of the world rejoice at the prowess of the flying pioneers Lincoln Ellsworth, then with Italians, the crew of the as they knit nations and individuals in better under- Nobile semi-rigid airship. Bernt Balchen, the Swede, standing with the threads of their invisible air trails! is with Byrd at the South Pole. Eielson, the American, When America remained dubious as to the practical piloted Wilkins, the Briton, over the North Pole. value of human flight in the face of the demonstrated The memorable flight of Captain Charles Kings-

successes of Orville and Wilbur Wright, it was France ford-Smith, the Australian, across the Pacific, was that welcomed and gave material recognition and as- financed by an American, and an American was his sistance to the Dayton inventors. In the light of in- navigator. The race against time of the late Captain ternational good will it may not be a bad thing that the Charles B. D. Collyer and John Henry Mears around airplane in which Orville Wright made the first heavier- the world succeeded because of the sincere co-operation than-air flight rests in the British Museum rather than of Frenchmen, Germans, Russians, Chinese and Jap- in our own Smithsonian Institution. anese. Count Zeppelin's interest in lighter-than-air naviga- Thus it goes. South America received our army tion dated from a visit to this country during the good-will flyers with Latin warmth, and we in turn Civil War, when he saw his first balloon flight. have hurrahed brave aviators from the other side of It was an American, Dr. Jeffries of Boston, and a the equator. Our army and navy schools are teaching Frenchman, Pierre Blanchard, who first crossed the scores of Latin-Americans to fly. The good will English Channel by air before the close of the eight- created by the army round-the-world flight still has eenth century. happy repercussions in a score of countries around the But it is post-war aviation that has developed the globe. full fruit of international good will, inspired by the The recent multiplicity of refueling endurance flights universal admiration of human courage. England and had its origin in the mind of a Russian, Alexander de France, which fifteen years ago gazed skyward in dread Severesky, now a major in the Army Air Corps Re- at sight of a rigid airship (a dread which America serve, who first conceived of the refueling idea while

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serving with the Russian Air Service in the Baltic Similarly, the trade mark Sikorsky, which represents during the war. He devised the plan in 191 7 to the most popular model of the amphibian airplane, lengthen the cruising radius of pursuit aviation, but is the sign manual of the brain-child of a former Rus- he did not perfect the refueling apparatus until he sian. No small number of our best commercial pilots was employed by the United States Army as a con- are natives of countries other than the United States. sulting engineer in 1923. Nor is the brotherhood of races and countries con- American motors are serving the cause of aviation fined to the male sex—there is a sisterhood as well. the world over. British and German planes vie with There is Thea Rasche of Germany, there is Lady our own for popularity with civilian flyers. Foreign Heath of Great Britain, there are our own Elinor designers and engineers are well represented on the Smith, Amelia Earhart and Ruth Elder. payrolls of American aircraft factories and in patent Aviation today is a panorama of the mingling of peo- grants at Washington—German, British, Dutch, Rus- ples and ideas. The fraternity of the air is not an sian, French, Italian. The fresh interest in the sport affair of flyers alone. Because of the world interest of glider flying depends on the designs and teaching in all phases of flying, mundane folk soar in spirit with skill of a group of young Germans. The name of the valiant air pioneers. Irrespective of race or creed Fokker, which was a warning of an enemy plane of they applaud and rejoice with each individual whose high performance to Allied aviators on the Western deed adds a chapter to the story of flying and to his- Front, now designates one of our best types of trans- tory. There may be significance in the fact that the port airplanes. The designer is the same man. symbol of peace is invariably a winged figure.

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Cermak Cottage, latest addition to the Forty and Eight Convalescent Camp on the outskirts of Chicago No Place to

/^^T /QOW long is ten years? ^* m § It depends. If you are well and prospering, if days By Clara Lncjram ~l m j are full of interesting work and recreation, you can V—S glance back over a decade and say, "It seems no time at all!" But if you are sick, in a hospital, or if you are not put color into his face while strengthening muscles and bones. The really sick or really well, just too far below par to find life worth camp was no place for staying sick—I could see that in a minute. living, then a year might seem a lifetime, and as for ten years Before making the trip out, I had learned some bits of the probably none but the men who have been in the hospitals all the history of the camp. After dinner, Mr. Roth, Chef de Gare of years since the war can guess how immeasurably long the decade Voiture 220 of the Forty and Eight in Chicago, who was my host has been. for the journey, Superintendent Love and I went on a com- This question of time in its relation to human health and hap- prehensive tour of the place and while looking and exploring piness was brought sharply to my mind the day I visited the learned the whole story. Forty and Eight Camp for convalescents in the The inception of the camp was in the winter of beautiful forest preserve near Chicago. The 1927-1928 and includes a train of incidents too re- project was undertaken by a few loyal men in the markable to be fiction—they wouldn't seem possible hope of shortening for some the wearisome ten if a person made them up, yet they are facts, years' struggle back to health and to provide a m James C. Russell was then Chef de Gare of Voi- place where veterans could win back health and ture 220. One day he proposed to Anton J. Cermak, vigor after any illness. president of the Cook County Board of Commis- On a sunny day in spring I visited the camp sioners, that the Forty and Eight would enjoy a to see for myself the setting for this sort of work cabin in the forest preserve. The idea appealed to and to inquire into the history and management Mr. Cermak and he and his colleagues authorized of such a unique and inspiring type of service. We the erection of a rustic cabin for the use of the organ- arrived at noon and were at once invited to din- ization. Four officials were designated to select the ner and told that "inspection could wait till after \ site and very soon a sizable chalet on Maple Hill in mess," a welcome suggestion, as the drive out the Southwest Forest Preserve at Ninety-fifth had made us hungry. Nearly a score sat down at Street and Archer Avenue was being built. the big table, and as the roast and gravy, mashed „, On the day the site was chosen R. R. Ken- potatoes and vegetables disappeared as if by nicott, Chief Forester for the county, an ex- magic we began to get acquainted. pert woodsman whose son was in the 33d "Where do you keep the invalids?" I asked, Division, remarked to Mr. Russell, "You when I had satisfied myself by careful glances fellows are going to have a fine time out here, that there were no sick men present. 1 aren't you?" "We don't keep them," laughed Mr. Roth; "We are that!" was the enthusiastic reply. "they get well too fast out here! Some of these "Well, did you ever stop to think that life fellows have been here only a week or two al- in the forest might help some of the sick and ready, yet look at them! Once in a while we get wounded? Did you know that we had six men a case that needs months, but even then he picks from the Speedway Hospital working for us up enough that he doesn't look sick for long. last summer and that life in the open did That's what out-of-door living does for a man." them a world of good? Why don't you people I could understand that, for the combination do something for fellows like them?" of fresh air, good food and pleasant fellowship Mr. Russell, quite taken aback, said he would soon set up any man and sunshine would Next of kin wished they could. The thought seemed ex-

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The main building of the Forty and Eight colony. Everything is shipshape, thanks largely to the enthusiastic efforts of the STAY SICK patients themselves

cellent, but he hadn't an hundred or more feet back from the road, was an old farm house, idea what to do about it, almost tumbling down, but reclaimable, and the first task was to nor how to do it. put it in order. Floors were renewed, plumbing installed, screens Six hours after that con- fitted and the whole place painted, inside and out. Guided by versation, Mr. Russell (he's an ex-newspaper man) happened the advice of county engineers, a well one hundred and seventy- to call upon Robert Lee, city editor of the Chicago Tribune. five feet deep was put in and an engine large enough to allow a While he was in the Tribune office waiting for Mr. Lee, Don capacity of one hundred and fifty gallons per minute was in- Maxwell, the sporting editor, came by. stalled. The committeemen were no pikers, you see; they planned "Jim," he remarked to Mr. Russell, "Walter Eckersall and I for the future when the camp should care for a large group of men. are arranging an amateur boxing tournament on the west side. A septic tank, properly located, was put in and swamps on the You know Mr. McCormick (co-editor of the Tribune with J. M. tract were drained. Patterson) is deeply interested in the sick and disabled veterans. The Cook County Council of The American Legion Auxiliary He wishes to give the proceeds to some service organization that sent details for making curtains and later for canning surplus will put it to good use. What do you suggest?" fruit from the orchard. That was a real help. But from what I "Give it to the Forty and Eight," was the answer. saw of the men's skill in homemaking out there, I am quite cer- "All right, what for?" tain that they could have provided even curtains if there had not "A convalescent camp in the forest preserve." been a generous feeling of wanting to let the Auxiliary in on the "Fine! Name a member of your organization to act as trustee." fun. Aside from those two particular pieces of work the entire job "A. A. Sprague." of establishing and running the camp has been done by men. It rolled out as snappily as that. If he had planned it for weeks Early in 1928 the camp was a going concern—the flag was fly- Mr. Russell could not have replied more promptly or made wiser ing from the sixty-foot pole erected by the Public Service Com- decisions. Evidently his guardian angel or sub-conscious mind or pany of Northern Illinois; the electric refrigerator in the dining something had been busy since the idea was suggested to him room was stocked with food for twenty-five people; the cellars, six hours before. white with new whitewash, were piled with good staples and Three weeks later Walter Eckersall, for the Tribune, turned everything was ready for business. over to Trustee A. A. Sprague nine thousand dollars—and the And how about the sick veterans? Whence would come enough camp became an assured fact, and was named "Tribune—Forty convalescent men to use such a place, you ask? and Eight Convalescent Camp." They came mostly from the Speedway and Great Lakes In the meantime, Mr. Russell had not been idle. He had ap- Hospitals where, even though there are hundreds of beds, so proached Mr. Cermak with such good arguments for a convales- many men are constantly waiting to get in that many a man has cent camp for veterans that the president of the county board not to leave long before he is really well. Often as soon as a man is only allotted to the camp a tract of seven hundred and fifty acres able to be up he must go because there is a sicker man who needs in a most beautiful section of the Southwest Forest Preserve, but his bed. Sometimes without money or job or even the energy to also gave a thousand dollars, a gas engine, five pigs and some hunt one a veteran is given carfare to the city and discharged. sheep and arranged for a generous free food supply. These two "Even the penitentiary gives them ten dollars and a suit of large gifts, from the Tribune and from Mr. Cermak, were supple- clothes," said Mr. Roth in his vigorous fashion as he told me about mented by some forty-five hundred dollars raised by Voiture 220 it, "and we of the Forty and Eight aim to go the penitentiary one of the Forty and Eight through various sources, and things at the better. If the men come to the Legion office we bring them out camp began to hum. here in our own cars or send for the camp truck if none of us can The site chosen is near the town of Orland Park, Illinois, at the leave our work. We keep them here till they are really well, find intersection of Kean Avenue and One Hundred and Forty-third them a suitable job and keep track of them till they are actually Street. (Note the location, for if you ever drive near there, you rehabilitated." will want to drop in and see the place.) On the tract, some four No one recovering from a contagious disease is accepted nor

NOVEMBER, 1929 27 A good time is had by all—thai s part of the cure any patient with an infectious or mental disease. This ruling was camp, the flower garden and walks, and he worked out the camp made to insure a healthy camp, mentally and physically, for the name in cement in an interesting way. By late winter he was well men who can suitably be admitted. Most of the patients thus enough to begin drawing and he spent hours each day at house far have been those who are recovering from pneumonia or in- designing. So excellent were his designs that he was able to in- fluenza, from stomach troubles, from broken arms or legs, from terest some Italian friends in his sketches and secured a contract operations or accidents, and heart cases. The camp is especially for a thirty-thousand-dollar residence. The last month in camp well adapted for the care of the latter as light work encourages he made all the plans and drawings, and when he left was well and some activity, while the downstairs sleeping quarters and careful ready for work. He now has a job in an architect's office and is medical supervision prevent overwork. There is a fast turnover, doing splendidly. some patients staying only a week, and the longest stay is not Another veteran was pressman on one of the city papers. He usually more than two or three months. developed a severe stomach trouble and was in the hospital so There are men like Barnes of the First Division. He received a long that his spirits and his pocket-book were equally deflated. war disability which eventually developed into acute stomach He was taken out to the camp, and as he was interested in gar- trouble and melancholia. He was in a government hospital for dening he soon began puttering around with the spring planting. eight years—speaking of time, I wonder how long that eight years This week he has put in a thousand gladioli bulbs, among other seemed? Friends in the Forty and Eight urged him to come to things, and the sunshine and warmth have just about completed the camp for a while and he was finally sent out. Somehow the his cure. His wife and two fine children have been out to see him stir of normal activity about him and the cheerfulness of the men often and have been thrilled with his progress. brought about a psychological change that went along with the "But we started to explore the camp," I reminded Mr. Roth, improvement in his physical condition, and in two months he had as I suddenly realized that we had just been standing on the hill- found himself. He decided he would try to get a job. He applied side while I had been hearing these stories. "Let's start at the at one of the larger industrial concerns in Chicago and not only front and go all over the place. I want to see everything." got the job but is holding it and making good. Two months in The old farm house stands on a hill overlooking the town of camp did the trick —two months and there was a new man. Orland Park and the paved highway some twenty-one miles or Then there is the brown-eyed Italian who is nicknamed "the more southwest of Chicago. You'd never guess that the place Irish Wop" because he was born on St. Patrick's Day. He was was an institution. There is no high fence, nor great gate. It finishing his vocational training in architecture and was just doesn't look imposing. It looks like a home—a comfortable, ready to begin work when he was stricken with an acute illness, well-run rural home. That's why it is so peculiarly adapted to its after which he could not seem to get back his health. He came to use. There is only one strange thing you will notice if you are of the camp last fall and soon was able to do a little light work. He an observing turn of mind. As you look, a man comes out to feed also began interesting himself in designing things around the the chickens, a man hangs up the freshly washed dish towels, a

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man throws open an upstairs window to shake a duster and a he comes out twice a week and we find the plan works most satis- man greets you as you knock. It's a man household, down to the factorily. last detail. "One experience of last summer was nearly disastrous," con- Wide porches, glassed in during the winter and screened in the tinued Mr. Roth, "and taught us many things. There was a fine summer, surround the house on two sides. On the porch were chap here then—just out of the hospital, of course; delighted with trays of seedlings almost ready to be set out in the well-spaded the camp and feeling very happy and grateful. Last year we had flower beds by the perennial garden back of the house. And here some fifteen acres in truck garden so there was plenty to do—we and there were comfortable beach chairs where patients might had planned it on purpose to afford out-of-door work for the men. lounge while getting the sun. Well, this chap got to feeling very peppy and he worked all day The living room is heated by a modern coal burner stove and is in the garden—voluntarily, you understand, and a fine lot of well lighted. In a corner is a gaily painted book case containing work he did, too. But it nearly put him under. The next morn- about a hundred volumes and as Mr. Roth brought two boxes of ing he had a heart attack and only prompt medical attention and books out with him that day, I judge there will ere long be a the devoted nursing of the men pulled him through. Fortunately sizable library. There is a fine radio, comfortable furniture, gay it did him no permanent harm, but we learned our lesson. This curtains and a colorful rug. Altogether it is a cheery room year we shall put in only five acres of garden; the rest we'll sow homelike and pleasant either in winter or summer, with an atmos- in alfalfa. And we have the doctor check up on every new man to phere of well-being. make sure that no patient does a bit more work than is good for To the right is the medical room, a recent innovation. This him. We find it works better to have the doctor come here regu- room used to be the superintendent's, but as the need for a suit- larly and see every man than to attempt to take to him the pa- able place for examinations and treatments became apparent, tients we might decide needed his attention." this room is being made over into a first-class surgical and medi- Back of the medical room is a hallway which leads to a large cal room with proper equipment and supplies. bathroom and the showers. All these have been newly installed "But I thought it was not intended to give treatments or hos- and are of excellent quality. There is a tub and the two showers pital service!" I exclaimed, when I saw how carefully the room are in a separate room where more can be added as needed. Off was being planned. the dining room is another porch used as sleeping quarters for the "You're right—we had no idea of going into such work," men who cannot go up and down stairs. Two beds were set up there agreed Mr. Roth. "But experience showed us that we should. this particular day, but there is room for more if the need should Many a man needs attention even though he is well on the road arise. to recovery. His heart may need to be watched or his diet pre- The kitchen is large and sunny—a typical farm kitchen. It is scribed, and there are often emergencies. So we employ a phy- equipped with a coal range and a fine kerosene stove for summer sician who is an ex-army officer and who understands our work; use and to supplement the range when (Continued on page 56) NOVEMBER, 1029 29 A SWELL AFFAIR

Or, The Scrub Who Was All Wet By Wallgren

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Vigan! Jim Parker and Vigan! Again I was seeing that again. All the while he said never a word about navigation limber blade of a man in that desperate charmed fight or any other subject, but he chuckled. against odds in an old Spanish plaza. The Ring of So he had written a book. I hardly Not much time for drills. The soldiers were always kept HoneU Steel dared open it lest I should find that busy building roads and houses. The Government at another fighter could not tell his story. Washington had forgotten it had an But, glory be, Parker is one who can, one who knows how to Soldier, Will army, but remembered the fact when let the story tell itself. Not often is this View given to remi- You Work? Indian bucks went on the warpath niscence. This month it is all given to Parker's. killing settlers. Then the Regulars licked the Indians again, and there was peace for a while. that Great to me! "The Old Army" in big letters; and then A private's pay was $13 a month. Once did not arrive "Memories" in small letters underneath. Memories of the for a year. The post trader, mighty man of the frontier, Army that always carries on—the staked the garrison in the meantime. When the Indians sold lands to Uncle for settlement they wanted their It Is a Regulars—the Army that is as old as Sam pay in coin, heavy, chinking, shiny and bright. So soldiers Great Title the nation! Without it and the National Guard carrying on in peace we convoyed wagons loaded with silver dollars across the should have nobody to drill us and show us how to fight plains. when war comes. And the "Old Army" to Major General James Parker, retired, is that of the old frontier posts of Indoor sports of the lonely posts were billiards and poker. Indian fighting when Denver was a young mining camp and Outdoor sports, aside from keeping the Indians on their cow town. His is no imaginative or second-hand picture of reservations, were coursing after wolves those romantic days but that of first-hand experience. Sports and with greyhounds, treeing mountain Eats lions, and shooting all the kinds of game. Simultaneous discharge of two It was fifty-three years ago, in 1876, that young Parker, guns killed twenty wild duck. Eats were not lacking in just out of West Point, reported to the 4th Cavalry at Fort the flocks of wild turkeys, herds of buffalo and deer. Game Sill, then in Indian Territory (now broiled over the coals on the march, and succulent roasts They Had Oklahoma) "on the edge of the Ameri- from the Dutch oven when in garrison! Not only Call can desert." Every officer in the 4th The seconds but thirds and fourths—"chuck" until your but- above the rank of second lieutenant tons burst—chuck the Indian name for eats! had served in the Civil War, which was then just as far away, eleven years, as the World War is today. When Parker arrived in '76 vast herds of buffalo still roamed from Montana to Texas. On horses, trained not to the officers veteran Civil officers but Not only were War be buffalo shy, the sporting way of so were some of the privates in that proud regiment which Clouds of hunting was to ride alongside a bull at had had such names on its roster as Buffalo full gallop and shoot him through the Very High Robert E. Lee, Sedgwick, John Joseph lungs. In a buffalo feast the Indian E. Johnston and George B. McClellan. Privates chose as his delicacy the liver, which he ate raw. He would Former Captain Kimball of the Con- not eat wild turkey. It was "bad medicine." In '77 the federate Service was a bugler; former Lieutenant Colonel of professional hunters began their slaughter of buffalo for Federal Volunteers Wettstein was a private, and former their hides. A million were estimated to have been killed Federal Major Harley a first sergeant. The spell of army in a year. By '79 their moving clouds had vanished forever life held them in the the old Army. and the plains Army— from the plains.

The Civil War veterans said they had seen war. They Those young Parker knew were not the Indians in regalia didn't need to study books. Youngsters saw them as out- picture costumes—very rare such parades—but Indians in of-date in their ideas just as youngsters gee-strings, moccasins and blankets, Hazing Young see World War veterans today. Cap- The Real their faces often painted. And they "Looies" tain Heyl invited two fashion-plate Indians liked umbrellas, especially bright arrivals from West Point to a ride on his colored ones. "On some occasions, after buckboard behind his rat-tail horse Nigger. He drove them a distribution of supplies, you could see hundreds of across Cache Creek with the muddy water up to their necks, Indians riding along the road in solemn silence, carry- as they held on for dear life, and then drove them back ing their gaudy umbrellas." (Continued on page 73)

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"EVERYBODY in Beloit, Wisconsin, knows when the sports. Four hundred skaters signed entry forms for the ice -fc> clock and calendar have reached the eleventh hour of derby last winter and 258 of them actually took part in the / the eleventh day of the eleventh month of each year. ice races. Twenty thousand spectators crowded the sidelines As the minute hands of Beloit clocks tick off the swift to watch the races. seconds between 10:59 and n:oo a. m., twelve rifles are slanted skyward in the arms of twelve uniformed Legionnaires lined up Funeral Insurance at the corner of State Street and Grand Avenue, in the center of Beloit 's business district. At the exact instant when the AN EXPERIMENT in insurance, begun by Wheeling (West fifty-ninth second after the fifty-ninth minute merges into the Virginia) Post and supported by eight other posts of West first second of the first minute of the new hour, twelve triggers Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, is being studied in other States are gripped and twelve rifle shots ring in a sharp volley. The and may lead to a proposal for a national beneficial provision sound of that volley reminds all Beloit that another year has as a standard feature of membership in The American Legion. passed since the first Armistice Day of ioiq. "Under the Wheeling plan," bulletins Legionnaire E. F. Hoh- "Three volleys are fired," adds Legionnaire Maurice C. Aus- mann, "the Ohio Valley Council's funeral insurance association tin. "Buglers stationed on other principal corners sound taps will pay upon the death of a member the sum of $100 to his after the salute. The police very kindly help us by holding up widow or other beneficiary. Payment will be made by the sec- traffic for the brief period of our ceremony. Citizens invariably retary immediately after notice of death has been received. show great respect, removing their hats in the presence of our Legionnaires may join the association for an initial fee of $2. colors displayed by the The new association post color guard. The adopted a constitution whole ceremony is in June at a meeting simple and dignified held in St. Clairsville, and could well be car- Ohio, at which Arnold ried out in any other H. Falck, Commander community." of Wheeling Post and father of the plan, presided. Besides Snow and Ice Wheeling Post the out- EDGAR M. BOYD fits which helped launch Post doesn't think the experiment were Bellaire, that November is too Ohio posts in early to start planning Bridgeport. St. Clairs- for its dog derby to be ville and Flushing, and held later in the win- West Virginia posts at ter when nature has Benwood. Cameron provided just the right and McMechen and T amount of snow for the post in W est Alex- the streets of Willis- ander. Pennsylvania." ton, North Dakota. The post is going to Twins Six do a lot of advance When Main Street becomes a midwinter speedivay. A glimpse of the dog work this winter be- MAY be true derby is sporting event in Williston, IT cause last winter when which an annual American Legion that the storks that the post held its first North Dakota, where boys are boys and dogs pull sleds visit Holdrege, Ne- dog derby, it had a braska, are two-pas- lot of trouble keeping the spectators from cluttering up the senger models, and certainly Martin-Horn Post of Holdrege has Main Street race course. At that, last year's races went off in a right to be chesty about its record in having among its 161 fine shape. Dozens of boys drove dogs hitched to sleds in an members fathers of five sets of twins. All very well, according assortment of races. to Fred Lambdin, Adjutant of St. Joseph (Illinois) Post, ex- And now that winter is here again, Hyde Park Post is plan- cept that Martin-Horn Post never would have claimed the ning to put on something this year that will surpass its ice championship in the twins contest if it had heard of the St. derby that was held last winter on the lagoon of Jackson Park Joseph Post's record. in the middle of Chicago. Just because its home happens to be "Our post has only twenty-five (get that, twenty-five) mem- in the second largest city of the United States doesn't keep bers, and among them are six fathers of twins," writes Mr. Hyde Park Post from making a name for itself in outdoor Lambdin. "It's a gift! If we can ever get all the twins together

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and keep them quiet long enough, we'll send a photograph of non-musical back-slapper or hand-shaker in the post. Every them. In the meantime, we modestly hang up the gonfalon we member— there are fifteen of them—belongs to the drum corps. have captured from Holdrege, Nebraska." The post goes to department conventions and such like with a banner heralding the claim that it is "the world's smallest post Desert Rider with a drum corps." Well, the world isn't so little, even with Graf Zeppelins shoot- THINGS hadn't gone so well for J. R. Haptonstall and his ing around it like comets, so somewhere—perhaps in China, family after Mr. Haptonstall moved from his home in Hawaii or Japan—there may be a smaller post that is also con- Highland Park, New Jersey, to a service men's settlement on vertible at will into a drum corps. the Harqua Hala Desert near Salome, Arizona. Mr. Hapton- stall had been fighting off illness, and regularly he visited the American Education Week Prescott hospital of the Veterans Bureau for treatment. Aside from his illness, which he managed to lick most of the time, AMERICAN Legion posts everywhere have been urged to his principal source of woe was the Haptonstall automobile. It co-operate with the schools in the observance of American had been a good car in New Jersey in its day, but it was sadly Education Week, which opens on November nth, Armistice out of place in its old age on the scorching sands of Arizona. Day. A special Armistice Day program for use in all schools Every trip to Prescott in the old bus was an adventure. The has been outlined by the National Education Association. The wheezing vehicle was vulnerable from tread to top and from National Americanism Commission of The American Legion front bumper to tail- has distributed to posts light — it did every- a bulletin suggesting thing a mule could do suitable ways in which except lie down. Legion posts may help This summer Hap- the schools of their tonstall drove his old communities observe car into the garage of the week. Legionnaire Sam Hay- dis in Salome. F/<*g of '73 "Got to drive the old wreck to Prescott IN 1873 four daugh- again," he told the ters of Civil War garage proprietor. veterans in the town " 1 "Think it'll make it"- of Sorento in Illinois Haydis said there sewed the last stitches wasn't a chance. More- that held together thir- over, he declined to teen parallel bars of touch a bolt on the car. alternate red and white "It's gone," he said. and adjusted the final "You'd better drive star upon a field of this new car here blue. Their labor over, the one with the doggy they presented to the trailer outfit." Hap- new post of the G. A. Speaking of the Legion's winter sports, here is Hyde Park Post Chicago tonstall said the joke of R. in Sorento their was a good one. in the midst of its annual skating tournament. Who said the big city handiwork — a large "But it isn't a joke," post couldn't find many things to do in winter! American flag. declared the garage That was fifty-six proprietor. "The new car's yours. It is a present to you from years ago. And in the fifty-six years that have passed since the the Legionnaires of Highland Park Post in New Jersey." young girls of Sorento finished their sewing task the flag they made has been carried often through Sorento's streets. In the Nobody Sits in the Grand Stand earlier years it was borne proudly in parades, when the vet- erans marched on the Fourth of July and other holidays. There THE nearest thing to a mutual admiration society is the was strength in their footsteps then and their ranks were full. drum corps of Fred Heath Post of Garden City, South As years passed and the ranks began to thin, the occasions upon Dakota. The reason is that if the drum beaters and bugle which the flag was carried in procession to the town's burial blowers of the corps won't praise one another's musical skill on places became more frequent. Then came the period of fewer meeting nights there is nobody else to do it. There isn't a single funerals. The flag of 1873 had been carried to the gravesides

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of most of the town's Civil War veterans. When 1020 arrived ington. D. C. still holds the title of first and oldest post. It got there was only a single member of the G. A. R. left in Sorento its temporary charter May 19. 1919. How many of the first hun- as the flag's custodian. He is Dr. W. W. Duncan. dred posts to get permanent charters know of their distinction? This year Dr. Duncan stood in the presence of the members of Kessinger Post of The American Legion and told them how Umpqua Post Takes the Floor much the old flag of his G. A. R. post meant to him. "Take it, boys, and preserve it." he said simply, while many UMPQUA Post hereby claims a record for itself," bulletins of his listeners found tears in their eyes. "Let it be carried but Roy 0. Young, former Post Adjutant and chairman of the once more—when the last man of the G. A. R. has answered the post's 1929 membership committee. "We claim that our post last call. Then hang it upon the wall of your post clubhouse as is the largest post in a town of approximately 5,000 population. a reminder of the old graves which, like your new graves, you As I write, our membership roll includes 553 names. The 1920 have promised to care for until you come to the end of your own census gave our town of Roseburg, Oregon, 4.381 persons and. march many years from now." due to a large number of railroad men leaving town in 1927. our population today wouldn't show any great increase over the The First Hundred 1920 figure. Is there another post of the Legion in a town of 5.000 which has more than 500 members? WHILE we're organizing different societies of one sort "Our record is helped by the fact that we have members liv- and another, why not a society for the very earliest posts ing all over Douglas County, some of them as far away from in the Legion? Theodore Chisholm. Commander of Leo Leyden Roseburg as fifty miles. We also make a practice of signing up Post of Denver, Colorado, writes that his outfit has long been traveling salesmen who visit our town and tourists who do not

under the impression that it was the first post to receive a happen to be affiliated with posts in the cities from which they permanent charter. come. We have members whose homes are in Pennsylvania. "Our temporary charter is dated June 16, 1919," reports Arizona, Nevada, Illinois, Iowa, California, British Columbia Commander Chisholm. "Our permanent charter is dated Au- and Washington. gust 10. 1920. Both are signed by Henry D. Lindsley." "Each Armistice Day we give a big feed for everybody, a "It is pretty hard for any post to nail down the title of being fact which in itself makes every service man who lives here the first post to get a permanent charter," comments Frank E. want to be counted among us. We also hold an annual com- Samuel, Assistant National Adjutant. "On August 13, 1920, munity smoker. When one of our members moves to another one hundred charters were issued simultaneously, the first to be State, we don't count him lost. We follow him up with a letter given out to posts. The records here do not indicate which one telling him we should like to keep him on our rolls if he hasn't of the hundred could claim precedence over the other ninety- an opportunity to make a happy Legion association in his new nine." home. In our letter we give him some local news and do our Well, anyway, there are one hundred posts which have the best to let him know we are genuinely desirous of keeping in distinction of receiving permanent charters dated the first day touch with him. they were issued. Let's hear from adjutants of these "August "Our ordinary membership-getting methods aren't much dif- 13 1920." posts! Of course, George Washington Post of Wash- ferent from the usual ones used by other posts. Each year we

Harvey Seeds Post of Miami, Florida, ivill observe Armistice Day this year with a special ceremony at the American Legion Memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery, shown in this photograph as it appeared when it ivas dedicated by the post some months ago

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lakes supplies the annual bathing beauty picture, and Minnesota, the State of ten thousand , Monthly's rather than wait until next summer, we are presenting it now, even if it is a bit chilly up toward the Cana-

dian border . These girls, representing different towns, took, part in a contest which featured the Minnesota

Department' s annual convention at Winona. Miss Rosel/a Dressen (^center•) won the title of Miss Minnesota have one big drive, with two teams competing, each team made communication with 800 alumni of Camp Bartlett. At Christ- up of from twenty to twenty-five members. The teams are mas remembrance cards come to her with postmarks of all the always named. One year it was the Shavetails against the Buck forty-eight States." Privates. "Our Auxiliary unit deserves much of the credit for our suc- Footwork Pins Headwork cess. It has 263 members—the largest unit in Oregon. The post and unit hold several joint meetings each year. IOGROLLING in Washington, D. C, may be a profession; "Of course we do plenty of things to keep all members busy. -> in Cloquet, Minnesota, it is a sport. It is a sport novel One of our recent accomplishments was procuring the establish- enough to attract 25,000 persons to the shores of a lake when ment of an airport for Roseburg. The post got behind a bond Carl Anderson Post of Cloquet conducts its annual logrolling issue of $25,000 and put it over. Just now the post is establish- tournament for the championship of the world, according to ing a camping ground for Legionnaires and others in the heart Gerald V*. Barron, Past Commander of the Department of of the Umpqua National Forest. Minnesota. "I have probably spoken longer than the time limit allowed "It is appropriate that Cloquet should be the recognized world speakers in Keeping Step, but I want to warn everybody we center of the sport of logrolling," writes Mr. Barron. "Our have another record up our sleeve. I have just lined up a pros- town of 8,000 is located on the St. Louis River, 27 miles south- pective member, a veteran who weighs 337 pounds. More west of Duluth. In ioi8 when most of the present members details later. He'll be the heaviest Legionnaire when we get him of our post were in France, the town was completely destroyed initiated, won't he?" during a forest fire. Our Legion post has had an important part in the rebuilding of the town as a model lumber metropolis. Convention Mother "Carl Anderson Post felt that with the march of progress, it was well to preserve the spirit and traditions of the old river- GENERAL PERSHING didn't attend the annual conven- men. On July 4, ig26, the post's first big logrolling tourna- tion of the Massachusetts Department at Westfield this ment was held, and 15.000 persons looked down from hillsides summer, but the many thousands of veterans of Camp Bartlett while famous contestants jousted on twirling logs in the center who showed up at Westfield to talk over old times had a pleas-' of the lake. That tournament lasted on the second day until ing surprise. They were greeted by Mother Hull, the old camp's after dark. It became highly spectacular when the lake was patron and benefactor for month after month during the war turned into a pool of light as dusk settled and headlights of thou- days of ten years ago. Mrs. Mabel W. Hull, a teacher and a sands of automobiles were turned toward the battlers on the logs. civic leader in Westfield, had come to know in warm friendship "In match competition, two persons compete on a white pine literally thousands of doughboys and fledgling officers. Her wartime log, the center of which is marked with a stripe of paint, indi- friends proposed the first day of the convention that she be offi- cating the boundary past which each contestant may not go. cially designated "convention mother." The proposal was adopted. The log is usually sixteen feet long. Diameter may vary "I think that action was the first ever taken by a Legion con- sixteen, seventeen or eighteen inches. The object of the match vention to establish the honorary office of convention mother," is to spill the opponent off the log and into the water by adept comments Walter K. Porzer of New York City, Past County footwork. The contestants tread the logs at a terrific pace. Commander of Essex County, New Jersey. "It really expressed Technique includes sudden stopping and other stunts in the the warmth of the feelings of Mrs. Hull's wartime boys. It is effort to throw the opponent off his balance. worth knowing also that since the war Mrs. Hull has been in "The first world's championship logrolling was held in Omaha

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in 1898 and was witnessed by 36,000 persons. In 1914, Bill qualities which make an active Legionnaire an unusually public- Delyea of Cloquet, then 22 years old, started on a career in spirited citizen. We brought into the conference a copy of which he defeated champion after champion. He left Cloquet The American Legion Monthly and explained how forward- in 1918, going to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, but we still regarded looking ideals developed in one community are made available him as a native son. Our post arranged the first tournament in for posts in communities everywhere. These three men called a 1926, matching Bill Delyea against the Indian champion, Joe meeting of forty manufacturers and business executives. As an Mad-way-osh. Delyea beat the Indian, but lost the title the outgrowth of that meeting a group of citizens offered to finance following day to Billy Gerard of Gladstone, Michigan. He took a banquet for all service men of Delaware County. his first fall after one hour and twenty minutes. "In the meantime, up-to-date mailing lists of all Our post awards each year a champion- service men were compiled. Letters were ship belt bearing the Legion emblem mailed to heads of all factories and business houses asking for lists of How in Muncie service men. Hunting and fishing licenses and other public records DELAWARE Post of Mun- were searched. Cards were cie, Indiana, had 250 made for all prospects and members in 1928, and some- were systematically routed. body figured that it ought to The drive started on Feb- get at least 300 before 1929 ruary 17th. The banquet ended. But on June 15th was set for the following Delaware Post had exactly Saturday night. Every pros- 1,025 members. Story in pect received an invitation that? Of course. Hal Mc- through the mail. The direct Naughton, First Vice Com- sales effort was backed by an mander, reports how it was extensive advertising campaign. done. Three full-page newspaper ad- "We started out to conduct vertisements were used. Bill membership campaign along conven- boards, window cards, auto stickers tional lines—two teams, the 'Reds' and and other media were utilized. New the 'Blues'," writes Mr. McNaughton. memberships, reinstatements and re- "That campaign lagged. We had only newals started rolling in. Eligibles in Fifteen thousand persons saw this world' 180 men signed up on February 15th. the police and fire departments were That date marked the reorganization champ ionship logrolling contest staged by enrolled 100 percent. Some factory of the drive along modern selling lines, Carl Anderson Post at Cloquet, Minnesota. heads arranged for deferred payments following suggestions of District Com- Bill Delyea, world champion, at right of dues. mander James Patched, of Union City. "The real climax of the drive came "One of our first steps was to call upon three key citizens at the banquet A thousand service men attended. A total of and sell them on the idea of desirability of increased member- 239 new members, many of whom had never been approached ship. We pointed out to them that the Legion fills a place in before, signed up that night. The total membership at the the community that no other organization could possibly fill, close of the intensive drive was 818, an increase of 638 in ten that it is the only organization through which service men gen- days. Membership kept right on growing and during the week erally can participate in civic activities. We pointed out the preceding June 15th a concerted clean-up brought it to 1,025.

The Auxiliary unit of Black Earth Post of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, assembles for one of its earliest meetings after receiving its charter. The unit' s members all belong to the tribe of Dakotans and dislike the name of Sioux, which was originally applied to the tribe by its enemies. Elaborate ceremonies accompanied the presentation of the unit s charter 30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly a KEEPING STEP

Four years ago Banning (California) Post gave its first auto race to raise money for its new clubhouse. Today its toivn of $,ooo -persons enjoys national fame as the home of the post's mot-or speedway upon which are held, each year, races which attract the most daring drivers of the country

Meanwhile all the other posts in the Eighth Indiana district Four years ago Banning Post conducted its first auto race. were matching our own efforts, with such good results that on As the Legionnaires look back to that race today, it was pretty July 20th the district had more than doubled its 1928 member- much of a joke. An old Franklin "Camel" won it and the time ship. The 1928 membership was 1,401, the quota assigned for wasn't worth remembering. But a crowd saw it and Banning 1929 was 1,620 and the number enrolled on July 20th was 3,059. Legionnaires discovered people liked to watch auto racing. The Can any other department show a better district gain?" dust of that race had scarcely settled before work of building As this is written, ten days before the national convention in Banning Post's speedway was under way. Legionnaires did all Louisville, figures at National Headquarters indicate that The the work. They produced a novel course, a dirt track of only American Legion will undoubtedly attain a 1929 membership a half mile but well banked at the turns and flanked by wide of more than 800,000, stretches of plowed the largest since 1920. ground upon its banked edges. Speed and Pro/its In four years Ban- ning Post has conducted UP UNTIL four years twenty-four races. Its ago the only claims big races each ye&r have to fame of Banning, been on Memorial Day, California, were the Fourth of July and La- purity of its water, the bor Day. The American town's altitude, and its Legion Speedway is a location in the San Gor- member of the Three- gonio Pass, between Mt. A, the national associa- San Gorgonio and Mt. tion of auto racing, and San Jacinto in Southern the races attract the California. Then, four country's most daring years ago, Banning Post drivers. of The American Le- "One of the most gion, with a new club- pleasing features to the house, found it was hav- post has been the few ing a hard time in its accidents," writes H. F. town of three thousand Hunt. Post Adjutant. persons to raise money "There have been the to pay for the building. usual number of spills That was the beginning and breakdowns but of an American Legion there has never been a activity which has serious injury to a driver. brought year-round fame And during the whole The winners The American Legion School Award by to Banning—an activity of offered four years there has Atlantic City Post, typical thousands which has made the of of other boys and girls who been but one serious in-

win the award each year in other communities . Incidentally 10,000 name of Banning sig- , jury to a spectator— nificant wherever racing Legion posts will help the schools observe American Education Week wheel flew off a racing drivers get together. this month. The observance begins on Armistice Day car and into the ring-

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side crowd, striking a child. The plowed ground at the edges five hundred members, and its Auxiliary unit has two hundred. of the banked turns has prevented many minor accidents from An interesting factor in our growth is the fact that this is a being serious ones. young man's town. Our city has been built up by men and "The post has long since paid off the indebtedness on its women having the true pioneer spirit, characterized by enter- clubhouse and it now finances many activities from its racing prise and aggressiveness." profits. The post's liberal policy on cash prizes is the thing that brings really notable drivers to the speedway. Drivers race for Anybody Beat This? cash prizes, guaranteed by the post, plus a bonus of fifty per- cent of the gate money over and above the total of the guar- CAPTAIN Thomas P. Walsh, Commander of Peninsula Post anteed prizes." of Williamsburg, Virginia, is nominated for championship honors in the offtcial-of-most-posts contests by J. A. Nicholas, Shining Crusader Jr., Service Officer of the Department of Virginia. Captain Walsh belongs to the Regular Army. After helping organize Rolla WHEN Jay Harold Quinn celebrated his fifteenth birthday (Missouri) Post he served as this post's Commander and Ad- in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, early this year, he was not jutant. Next he served as Commander of Oliver Davis Post of giving much thought to what the new year in his life would Corregidor, Philippine Islands, being at the same time Vice bring to him. He was just a big, healthy youngster, as sound Commander of the Department of the Philippines. Returning in mind and body as any youth could be after several boyhood to the United States, he was elected Commander of Eustis Post years in the idealistic of Fort Eustis, Vir- training of the Boy ginia. Later, moving Scouts. to Williamsburg. Vir- On May ioth he was ginia, he was elected just Jay Harold Quinn to his present Legion of the Lancaster Boy command. Scouts. On May nth he was more than that. Health on a Hill He was his city's offi- cial Boy Scout dele- THERE is a $100,- gate, selected to attend 000 farm in Kan- the international Boy sas where a big house Scout jamboree at on a hill looms like a Birkenhead, England. castle in the summer The whole city was sun, where breezes looking him over with sweep across a little new interest while the lake and green lawns members of Lancaster to wander into open Post of The American windows and through Legion were giving halls and bedrooms. him advice on what he This is Legionville, the should do on the pil- billet established un- These Legionnaires, judges superior courts in Seattle, Washington, grimage and what he four of der The American Le- right, Charles should see. Lancaster compose the initiation team of Rainier-Noble Post. Left to gion's national child Post, incidentally, is H. Paul, Charles P. Monarity, John A. Frater and Malcolm Douglas welfare plan. the sponsor of young This summer the Mr. Quinn's scout troop and it was putting up the money to halls of Legionville rang with happy laughter while twenty-two send Harold to Birkenhead. Kansas children, undernourished and underweight, were guests When the U. S. S. Minnesota sailed from New York in July, of the Kansas Department of The American Legion and the it carried Jay Harold Quinn and Boy Scouts from scores of State Tuberculosis Society of Kansas. other American towns and cities. From that day until all the "And here is the arithmetic of childhood health that we Boy Scouts came back from England, six weeks later, all Lan- learned when our guests departed," writes Ernest A. Ryan, caster followed young Mr. Quinn on his travels. It was with Adjutant of the Department of Kansas. "The twenty-two boys him in spirit when he presented to the mayor of Lancaster, and girls were with us five weeks. When they left they had England, a message of greeting from the mayor of Lancaster, gained more than a hundred pounds over their weight when they Pennsylvania. It took a fatherly interest when he chatted with came. Even more important than their gain in weight is the Ambassador Charles G. Dawes in London. It got a kick out of fact that each of them went back to his home as an apostle of his visit with the Prince of Wales. It was with him every day healthful living, anxious to give others the rules for health." during the many ceremonies which were held during the con- clave at Birkenhead. When Jay Harold Quinn returned to Lan- Paris Pilgrims caster in September his brother Boy Scouts had him tell over and over the full story of his pilgrimage. No shining knight IF THE American Legion goes back to France again in 1937, back from the Crusades ever had a better audience. it will take a sizable Zeppelin to carry the Colorado contin- the Colo- "By sending Jay Harold Quinn to the jamboree in EngJand, gent of pilgrims. To begin with, there will be 175 liked it so well we called to our town's attention the fine work of the scouts in radoans who made the pilgrimage in 1927 and society, which held a character building and did more than we could have hoped in that they have organized a permanent promoting interest in the organization," comments John W. Paris convention reunion this year and last. The Old Gang of Weaver, chairman of the post committee. the Second A. E. F.—the full title of the Colorado outfit—en- tertained many guests at its reunions in 1928 and 1929. thus potential pilgrims for Longvnew s Record enlarging the circle of 1937. This year's reunion was held in Estes Park, Colorado"s moun- LONGVIEW (Washington) Post backs its town as the fastest- tain playground known for its beautiful scenery. The menu for J growing community in the United States. the banquet was in French and there were many other remind- "Six years ago when our post was organized," reports Wins- ers of the days aboard ship, in Paris and on the European tours ton Updegraff, Post Historian, "Longview was little more than which were a part of the Second A. E. F.'s pilgrimage. A big a valley of farms on which was being laid the pattern for a city. moment of the banquet came when President Victor LeRoy Today our town has ten thousand persons. Our post, which had announced that the outfit's secretary, Norman P. Beckett of fifteen charter members in October, 1923, now has more than Lafayette, Colorado, was engaged to marry Miss Esther V. Hall 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly KEEPING S T E P of Washington, D. C, Past Commander of Jacob Jones Post, leading to the city's principal cemetery was paved at a cost of whom he had first met during the France convention pilgrim- $84,000. Main street was connected with Union Station by age two years ago. Miss Hall was present at the reunion. pavement. Memorial Park was enlarged and beautified and a golf course was added to it. These improvements had the effect of Imaginary Citizens bringing about many building operations by property owners."

SCATTERED through this country are some hundreds of men Last Man who believe themselves to be citizens of the United States although actually they owe allegiance to the King of England. THE death of Owen Thomas Edgar at the age of q8 had un- "They are Americans who enlisted in the Canadian army be- usual interest for Legionnaires of the District of Columbia. fore April o, 1017, and re-entered the United States after the For Mr. Edgar was the last surviving veteran of the War with war without going through any repatriation procedure," writes Mexico and his career after that war was not measured by the Gerald E. Cronin, former Commander usual periods of rise, decline and old of the Canadian Department of The age that govern the lives of most vet- American Legion. "In my work with erans who attain many years. the United States Immigration Serv- Mr. Edgar enlisted in the Navy as ice I have observed a number of cases a seaman in 1846 and served three in which these men who had failed to years. After his discharge he became have their American citizenship rights a printer in Philadelphia. In 1861 he restored got into difficulty while re- entered the Government Bureau of turning to this country from visits in Engraving and Printing at Washing- Canada. It is advisable that every ton. He served twenty-five years. He man who lost his American citizenship then became associated with the Co- by swearing allegiance to a foreign lumbia National Bank, which he served power at the time he enlisted for war for thirty-one years, retiring on pen- service apply to the branch of the sion at the age of 88. federal courts which handles naturali- zation matters. Citizenship may be The Roll Call restored by observance of a few for- malities. A great many Legion posts MAJOR General Charles D. have made arrangements to assist serv- Rhodes, author of "The Story ice men to become citizens.'' of the Armistice," was an early mem- ber of the District of Columbia De- Helping the Home Town partment of The American Legion.

. . . Orland Kay Armstrong is a mem- PUBLIC improvements are depend- ber of Goad-Ballinger Post of Spring-

ent upon public sentiment. When field, Missouri. . . . William T. Scan- Allen Hearin Post of Pine Bluff. Ar- Ion belongs to Marines Post of Chicago. kansas, found that street paving wasn't . . . Ared White is a pioneer Legion- being done in its town to keep pace naire and was a leader in the Paris Cau- with the town's growth and general Mary Blossom Burns unveiling a cus. . . . Marquis James belongs to S. needs, the post conducted a series of tablet erected by North Western Post Rankin Drew Post of New York City. campaigns which transformed the . . . Alexander Gardiner is a mem- in the C. & N. W . Railway station town's appearance in a few years. ber of Rau-Locke Post of Hartford, in Chicago, honoring the 108 ivorkers "Here is the list of the projects Connecticut. . . . Clara Ingram Jud- the road who died in the war. which were carried out as the direct of son is a member of the Auxiliary unit result of our efforts," reports William Fred W. Sargent, president of the to Evanston (Illinois) Post. L. Fuston, Post Historian. "The street railway, accepting the post's gift Right Guide

Distant mountains provide a background for this tourist camp maintained by Monrovia (California) Post on the busy highway between San Bernardino and Pasadena. The post's guests include Legionnaires from all parts of the country

NOVEMBER. 1929 39 7 As We Never Were (By Herbert (B. JYCauer

k E WAS six foot plating the new barracks in which the two and had new Army is housed. The dough- hair on his up- boys of today sleep between white Iri per lip—a real sheets, with pillows and pillow-cases, moustache. He was address- and have real metal beds with mos- ing one of the mules of Com- quito bars over them. If the infantry- pany H of the Sixteenth In- has dirt behind its ears today it is its fantry. His language was own fault, for each company bar- like a breath of fresh air in racks has its quota of shower and a back area—it stirred old tub baths with hot water always on memories of half forgotten tap. times and things. And eats! Shades of the sainted With the proper humility goldfish—here is a sample menu for of a Reserve officer doing a one day! Breakfast: Bacon and two weeks' tour of duty I eggs, flapjacks, fruit, coffee and waited until his oration had biscuits. Dinner: Asparagus soup, come to an end and the mule lamb chops, Julienne potatoes, cauli- had resumed his customary flower, celery, pie, coffee. Supper: poise of nonchalant cussed- Meat pie, vegetables, rolls, dessert, ness. It had been a good coffee. address—one of the best bits In every barracks there is a com- of mule language I had ever pany recreation room. In each rec- heard. Obviously the effort reation room there is a pool table, a of a veteran. Hence I asked: radio, a library, a card table, and "What outfit were you some companies have acquired elec- with overseas?" tric pianos through the company The mule-skinner straight- fund. ened up, his curry-comb In only one particular does the poised. new Army suffer by comparison with "Overseas, sir?" he re- the Army we knew, and that is in the peated. "Why I was only matter of pay. Where the bucks of ten years old in 1917, sir." 1917, 1918 and 1919 drew down For an instant I knew ex- thirty dollars a month, the privates actly how Rip Van Winkle of today get only twenty-one dollars. felt at the end of his long Pay, in fact, has been cut all along the nap. It came over me with line. Officers are living or trying to something of a shock that live on prewar pay—a somewhat 191 7 was actually twelve hopeless task. years distant from 1929. In As far as training goes there those twelve years this kid have been vast changes. In the had grown up, filled out his World War gas and airplanes were chest and raised a mous- in their experimental stage. In the tache. Twelve years! Why, new Army one hears of little else. still seems so close that Coast Artillery officer, return- The neiu army uniform: 191 7 A Today's enlisted man at times I almost feel I ing from a gas school conducted by Roll collar, belt, slacks has a dress outfit as well might reach forth a hand the Chemical Warfare Service, sat —and comfort for de luxe occasions and touch it — Liberty with us in our quarters and dis- Loan drives, training played his right arm. camps, preparedness parades, pretty girls and all! "You see this scar?" he asked, pointing to an ugly mark about Twelve years since 191 7! And on each and every day of my an inch long and half an inch wide. "Well, they tried to find out two weeks' tour with the Sixteenth Infantry this fact was whether we were particularly susceptible to gas or not and asked drummed into my head again and again by changes in personnel, volunteers to make the test. All of us volunteered. They put a training, equipment and modes of life calculated to render any drop of mustard gas diluted to one one-hundredth of its strength veteran half speechless. on each of our arms. That was a month ago. Every arm was Parenthetically, there were precious few veterans left in this blistered and some of the wounds haven't healed yet." outfit of the famous old First Division. There was only one in my He paused for a moment. own company—there were possibly fifty to a hundred in the en- "Think of that, will you? If an injury of that sort can be tire regiment. Of these only a small percentage had served with caused by a one one-hundreth solution, what would be the effect the Sixteenth during the war. The same thing holds true for the of full-strength mustard?" entire Army. The percentage of enlisted veterans is very small. His voice became solemn. Most of the old timers have gone into civilian life or have been "Until one sees this gas stuff in action one cannot realize what made warrant or staff non-commissioned officers. a 'next war' will be like. It will be hell on earth and over it, with While the percentage of veteran officers is much greater owing gas and airplanes playing the part of major weapons and with to the number of emergency officers who accepted commissions whole populations engaged in a battle to the death." after the war, here, too, new blood and younger men are having The doughboy, however, may still find some protective cover- their day. ing under which he can advance with little danger from over- And fewer than a third of the officers of the entire Regular es- head gas, but until such a covering has been found the entire tablishment are West Pointers nowadays. training of the combat arms of the Army includes knowledge Hut the amazing thing is the change in the life of the Army of those Twin Terrors—Gas and Air. itself. Every dream that a muddy doughboy ever dreamed in Consequently each infantry unit is being trained in the newer some shell-hole has been realized. To those of us who recall 191 methods of war. In the World War there were three machine- and 1918 there is something pleasurably absorbing in contem- gun battalions to a division. There are {Continued on page 68)

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Ten Minutes Late —Mystery of the "Old Lady" Solved— Swashing the Line in 1919 — Gobs Got Kaiser s Goat— Whose Airplane Trophy? — Outfit Notices

""^LEVEN years after the historic eleventh hour of the "The story I heard was that on December 24. 1800. the Paris J^j eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, we show on Herald published the Old Philadelphia Lady's letter for the first / this page a snapshot taken ten minutes past that time. They got so many amusing nibbles that they continued eleventh hour in a small village in France. The villagers publishing it —at least through 1919. And they were still biting. of Courtenay, France, gathered at the railroad station, are just "How about the Philadelphia Lawyer?" learning of the Armistice but after four years of war even that stupendous news apparently failed to arouse them to the frantic HTO WHICH L. M. Guenther of Maquoketa, Iowa, adds: enthusiasm with which it was greeted throughout the world. "I spent almost two years in France with the 13th Engineers

Probably it was hard for them to believe. (the outfit, by the way, that really won the war) and 1. too, Since Joe Faulkner of Riggs Hamilton Post, Russellville, Ar- read the Old Lady's question daily and never ceased to wonder kansas, is the man who took the picture, he should tell about it at it. A few years ago I read somewhere an explanation for its "The snapshot print that I continued publication and al- am enclosing was made on the though it seems to me a rather nth of November, iqi8. and unsatisfactory and pointless an-

unquestionably quite a few A. swer, I'll pass it along. E. F. veterans will remember "I have forgotten where I

the scene. saw the article or who wrote it "The 143d Aero Squadron, of but it was by someone who was which I was a member, was en intimately acquainted with route from St. Maxient, France, James Gordon Bennett or an to a point presumably in the old employee on one of his pa- general vicinity of Metz. We pers. It was to the effect that the

1 ad stopped for a few hours the Old Lady's question so amused previous afternoon at Poitiers Mr. Bennett that he got a con- where the newspapers had an siderable kick in seeing the re- extra out. Newsboys were cry- quest reprinted day after day at ing that the Kaiser had abdi- the top of his editorial columns. cated and that the war would "It may have been in Alex- soon be ended. ander Woollcott's story' ot the "We traveled all night and Stars and Stripes that ran some- the n'ext morning at 11:10 time ago in the Saturday Eve- o'clock, as the station clock ning Post that I saw the expla- shows in the picture, our train nation but I am not sure. In any of 40 and 8 boxcars arrived event, I pass along the informa-

at Courtenay. A crowd of vil- tion just as I gathered it and it lagers — old men, women in may or may not be correct." black, some youngsters and a few poilus were gathered on the WHILE Greene's and Guen- platform. News had just reached ther's contribution con- the town that the Armistice had tains the gist of the matter been signed and the town mayor Ernest McCullough, 13th Post. was in the street beyond the sta- Brooklyn, New York, who adds tion reading the official report. that he was "sometime Lieu- "Naturally we were feeling tenant Colonel, Chemical War- pretty good. As I remember it, fare Service, A. E. F.." gives us our train was being handled by more details: a crew of American soldiers and "James Gordon Bennett, for- those boys in the cab used up mer owner of the former New a lot of steam on their whistle. York Herald, was opposed to At 11:10 a. m. by the station clock on November 11, "No doubt ex-members of the English-speaking people 1918, the old folk, the youngsters and a jew poilus in other outfits aboard our train holding to old units of weights Courtenay, France, received ivord of the Armistice. Joe will recall the incident." and measures and was especial- Faulkner of Russellville, Arkansas, took this scene when ly opposed to the ridiculous "E* INALLY we find room in the i4id Aero Squadron was headed toward the front Fahrenheit thermometer, based our official bulletin board to upon a misconception and broadcast replies received to Legionnaire C. A. Bauer's inquiry adopted before the present scientific era. in the July Monthly regarding the mysterious "From Centigrade "The Celsius thermometer as modified by the French and to Fahrenheit" item signed by the 'Old Philadelphia Lady," renamed Centigrade, is used all over the world by scientific men. a daily feature in the Paris edition of the New York Herald. "In 1899 there appeared in the Paris edition of the New York This item, although dated Paris, December 24, 1899, was still Herald the now famous letter from the 'Old Philadelphia Lady.' prominent during the war period and so became known to thou- It appeared at intervals and oftentimes ran for several consecu- sands of A. E. F.-ers. tive days. After Benrett died, the Herald joined with the Tri- Paul S. Greene of Fred Hilburn Post, Douglas, Arizona, rushed bune in New York and publication of the letter from the in the following: (probably mythical) 'Old Philadelphia Lady' ceased. "Which cheek did you have your tongue in when you resur- "The inquiry caused great interest and was looked for each rected the Old Philadelphia Lady gag? But at that it's one of year by American and British visitors. When its publication the best gags I ever heard of, so I'll bite, too. ceased it was felt that a French landmark had disappeared

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"Undoubtedly it did some good in causing numbers of read- Laing, who served with the 17th Field Artillery of the Second ers to look closely into the question of units of measure, weight Di vision, supplied the snapshot of the football game, repro-

and capacity and realize that the United States is very far be- duced on this page, and tells us this about it hind other countries in this respect. It might not be so bad if "The enclosed picture was taken during the football game the English-speaking countries had a unified system but in many between the elevens representing the Second Division and the outflung territories of the British Empire, units in common use 32d at Hettesdorf, Germany, sometime in February, 1919. The at home have been superseded by local units. In England they Second won the game with a score of 19-0. cling to many units that we Americans have practically discarded. "There were some real stars on our division's team: Harry "But scientists, even in the English-speaking countries, use Legore, former Yale and Ail-American halfback; Goettge, who the Centigrade thermometer which starts at zero as the freezing later became famous as a star of the Quantico Marines eleven, point and is 100 degrees at the boiling point of fresh water. The and Moore, former Princeton quarterback, who suffered a Centigrade thermometer is not a part of the metric system as broken leg during this particular game. many suppose but is an independent thing. Some day, when "The soldiers who packed the sidelines, jammed the porch America comes of age, we will get into step with the world and of the nearby building and even swung to positions in trees, adopt the metric system together with the Centigrade ther- will attest as to the crowd that witnessed the game. mometer. "Incidentally, maybe some buddy can give me a lift. A picture "You may depend upon this explanation being correct for it of the 17th Field Artillery Regiment was taken upon the drill was given to me on June 14, 1017, in Paris by a member of the grounds of Fortress Ehrenbreitstein, opposite Coblenz, and I'd staff of that journal. The newspapers in Europe give tempera- like to have a copy of it. As I recall it, the photographer rep- tures in the Centigrade resented some concern in scale and visitors natur- Boston or thereabouts." ally like to write to friends at home about MENTION of the the weather. To turn Second Division's these figures into Fahr- football victory, in La- enheit figures was always ing's letter, caused the a chore and that is why Company Clerk to do a Mr. Bennett kept the little research work letter running for years. through a file of the "I was told that near- overseas Stars and ly every time it appeared Stripes and he dug out hundreds of English and a few facts that prob- Americans would write ably A. E. F. and pres- to the office of the pa- sent-day football fans per giving the rules of might enjoy. change. When they read Prior to the Second- the date, 1809, and did Thirty-second Division not see their answers in game, the Fourth Divi- the paper, they caught sion had knocked off the onto the trick. Mr. Ben- Fourth Corps team to nett got quite a kick out the tune of 3-0. This of it, as did his staff." was the first of the se- ries of elimination games LEGIONNAIRE Her- to determine the team J bert Campbell of Lacking a stadium, 0. D.-clad spectators packed the side lines, a which would represent Athens, Pennsylvania, the Third Army (Army nearby house and even trees to watch the Second Division team defeat came through with an of Occupation) in the the $id Division eleven at Hettesdorf Germany, kj-o. Jack Laing, entirely different story. , A. E. F. championship a Second Division rooter, sent the snap McCullough apparently games scheduled to be got his facts firsthand played in March, 1919. from a member of the Herald's staff, but since Campbell states In turn, the 89th Division eleven took a 30-0 game from the that his version was published at one time, he should be heard: Third Army Corps, the Fourth Division team then killed the "Quite likely someone has recalled the rather romantic ex- Second Division's hopes, 10-7, and finally the 89th Division planation of the 'Old Philadelphia Lady' item in the Paris Herald. emerged victorious over the Fourth, blanking the latter, 14-0,

In case they have not, I will repeat the tale as I remember it. and winning the right to play in the finals. "Years ago— 1890, according to the date of the query— Seven teams, representing G. H. Q., the three Armies and young man in Philadelphia suffered a great disappointment. His three sections of the S. 0. S.,then fought it out in games played courtship of the lady of his choice was brought to a rude end- at Colombes Stadium, Paris, at Bar-sur-Aube and at the Velo- ing by a disapproving mama. As a revenge the young man ar- drome, Pare des Princes, near Paris. The 89th eliminated St. ranged to have this query run in the columns of this paper for- Nazaire and the Intermediate Section, S. 0. S., Tours, in the ever and a day, or perhaps it was for duration only. upper bracket, while the 36th Division showed its heels to the "Anyway, it was supposed to remind the Old Lady of some LeMans Forwarding Camp team and that representing the

. disagreeable experience as long as she lived. We are left in the Seventh Division, in the lower. dark as to why this particular query was used. Practically any The final game, played at the Velodrome on March 29, 1919, bright schoolboy could have answered it." resulted in a 14-6 victory for the 89th over the 36th. thus win- You can take your choice of the explanations offered. We ning for that division and for the men in Germany the A. E. F. make just one suggestion: Unless this young man had some championship. There were university and college stars galore great influence with the owner or staff of the Herald, would on most of the teams, but in that final game, honors went to this publication have aided and abetted him in his plan of one "Potsy" Clark, ex-University of Illinois flash, who made both revenge for a blasted romance? touchdowns and kicked both goals for the 89th. "Potsy," by the way, is now football coach at Butler University in the Legion's T^OOTBALL holds the limelight right now in the sports world headquarters city, Indianapolis. *- and so we're going back ten years and more with Jack Laing Reverting to Laing's picture and story of the Second-Thirty- of the Sports Department of the Buffalo (New York) Courier second Division game, there's a point of fact that needs the Express and review a little of that game as played in the A. E. F. attention of the I-was-there guys: Laing reports this game was Through with bucking the Hindenburg Line, some thousands of played in Hettesdorf, Germany; the Stars and Stripes corre- former soldiers were engaged during the winter of 1918-19 in spondent says it was in Neuwied. Just where was the battle- bucking the line of opposing teams. ground? Or is Hettesdorf. probably, a suburb of Neuwied? 42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly .

-*( TH E K and J\COW )*-

The above picture was given to Fred Postel, now of San Francisco, while be was with the ifith Aero Squadron in Foul, France, in October, kji8. The plane pictured ivas forced down by the American aviator posing with his trophy, in the 7 spring of 1918 at Tout. Who was this flier and what were the circumstances .

The Army of OccupatiorTs football activities seem to be un- W. R. Lerch of Norwalk, Ohio, ex-apprentice seaman, ex-ensign, duly stressed in the foregoing account, but we're ready to report etc., U. S. N. R. F., has to offer in support of his claim: some of the battles in other sectors if someone will tell us about "Sometime ago in Then and Now I noticed comrade H. B. them. Hubbard's report of one of the Navy's goats. I am afraid he has started something again. In digging through some old relics FALLEN enemy and Allied planes were not unusual sights in I came across a picture of another Navy goat that was known the A. E. F., but we are permitted through the co-operation by the crew of the U. S. S. Iowa as 'Compte,' named in honor of Legionnaire Fred Postel of Post No. 1, San Francisco, Cali- of the Chief Master-at-Arms on the Iowa. fornia, to show on this page a German plane together with "Compte in its—don't remember if it was a billy or a nanny the American aviator who brought it down. Postel's story follows: —younger days was one of the Kaiser's own and sailed the high "Enclosed with this letter is a photograph from my collection seas with the Most High's commerce raiders. The ship on which which is a little different from the general run of interesting Compte sailed was interned at Philadelphia and early in 1017 pictures which have been was taken over by our shown in Then and Now. own gobs. This fact "While with the 109th prompts me to start an- Infantry, 28th Division, other 'first' contest. I was wounded on Sep- "I therefore hereby tember 6, 1918, sent to file claim that to the best a base hospital in Paris of my knowledge and be- and eventually evacuated lief, this goat Compte to a casual camp at was the first German Toul. In that town I goat captured by the was placed on detached American forces during service with the 135th the war and I will state Aero Squadron. There I further that this being met a French soldier of true the logical conclu- the Air Service who gave sion is that the Navy me the picture and told was the first branch of me it was taken in Toul Uncle Sam's armed in the spring of 1918. forces to 'get the Kaiser's "Two German planes goat.' were forced down at Toul "Now I have lost The Kaiser's goat that the Navy got. on on the same day by the Found an interned track of Compte. I am German ship, it became mascot the S. aviator who appears in of U. S. Iowa. So, at least, wondering if Compte the picture. I feel sure explains ex-gob W. R. Lerch of Norivalk, Ohio. Wilson and was repatriated after the that some officers or me- Atkinson of the Iowa are shown with the goat Armistice was signed or chanics of the aviation if it became a natural- station at Toul at that tim,. will remember when they see the pic- ized American goat. The picture I am enclosing shows Compte ture and identify the American flier and tell more of this incident." with Red Wilson from Duluth and Benny Atkinson of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Some of the fellows who composed GETTING the Kaiser's goat" was a phrase much used during the old Dorothea Naval Militia from Cleveland or some of the the period of the late unpleasantness, but there is at least N. N. V. fellows from Duluth, Grand Rapids or Buffalo should one outfit that can lay claim to performing this deed literally. know what became of Compte. Fortunately I left the Iowa The goat in question is pictured on this page and here is what rather early in the game, being transferred to other ships

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TH E K and J^OW )!*~ "We used to take pictures and then sell them to the other be dispelled when we broadcast a report we have regarding the fellows and as I was also a Runner's mate for a while we had a "0 Kay Follies" produced by the gobs of the U. S. S. Oklahoma. little dark-room fixed up in one of the compartments below the circle deck. I might also confess that for a while I was one of HpHE Back Number Exchange which was instituted through the Chief Master-at-Arms's aides. You realize that a Navy these columns several years ago in an effort to assist Legion 'jimmy-legs' is the equivalent of an M. P. in the Army, so don't posts in completing their official files of The American Legion paint the picture too black." Weekly and The American Legion Monthly is still in existence but has not been very active during the vacation months. Except SOLDIER—and sailor—shows. We still have quite a collec- for Legionnaires who rather belatedly responded to requests for tion of stories regarding these thespian efforts of the A. E. back numbers, no effort has been made recently to round up F. to broadcast when the opportunity offers. Those we have re- early issues of the magazine. ported ranged all the way from small unit minstrels—some of Now that the summer period is over, this subject is again the costumes of which were in part purloined—to real "produc- brought to the fore. The Company Clerk has about three dozen tions." posts on his exchange list. Some of these posts require only one Considering the outfits which had to swipe costume trim- or two issues to complete their files—others require many. mings, it was quite a shock to read in a mimeographed program Through the co-operation of Then and Nowers we have com- sent to us by Legionnaire E. J. DeLong of Willard, Ohio, ex- pleted the files of some dozen or more posts. member of the noth Engineers, "Ladies Gowns and Slave Cos- During the semi-annual housecleaning, some of the very early tumes created and designed by Madame Paul Gourney, famous numbers of the Weekly may have been found in attics or base- Parisienne Modiste," and "All millinery worn by our cast of ments. When we say "very early" we mean all numbers of American (Buck) Beauties personally designed by Mile. Blanche Volume I (1019) and all numbers for the first half of Volume Rabier, who previous to assuming stenographic duties with the II (1920). Our reserve stock of subsequent issues is fairly Q. M. C. Camp at St. Sulpice, was a noted modiste of Paris." complete. The show, of which DeLong was the official electrician, was a Before throwing these old copies away or selling them for three-act musical comedy which, oddly enough, bore the title old paper, consider the posts that may require just those num- "Now and Then" and was presented by the St. Sulpice Play- bers for their files. Send them to the Company Clerk and when ers. Written and produced by Lieutenant Jamie Kelly and J. he distributes them, he will credit the Then and Nowers who Arthur Ball, it was directed by Lieutenant Charles A. Smith. co-operated. Some mighty fine comradeships have been estab- Six of the song hits, including "Beaucoup Mademoiselles," lished throughout the country as a result of our exchanges. So "America Is Good Enough for Me" and "Detail Soldier Man," let's get busy again and help Post Historians and Post Adju- were written and composed by Lieutenant Kelly. tants complete their files. DeLong tells us that the show had its premier in the open-air Remember that we want copies of Volume I and of the first theater at Camp St. Sulpice on May 4, 1010, and then played half of Volume II. in Bordeaux, the Liberty Theater at Camp Genicart, Biarritz, St. Nazaire, Savenay and Le Mans. The cast represented a num- FOOT soldiers in the World War—and that classification in- ber of outfits and DeLong says he signed up at the last minute cluded many artillerymen as well as those of the infantry as electrician. always envied the lucky stiffs who did their tours of France in DeLong would like to get comments regarding the show from automobiles. A job as a staff chauffeur was thought the last those who saw it and would also enjoy hearing from other sur- word in pleasant and safe wartime occupation. Occasionally, vivors of the troupe. however, these motorists also met with disaster, as the picture The idea that ships' crews lacked theatrical ability will soon on page 79 proves. First Vice Com- (Continued on page 78)

Not all meetings with American M. P.'s in Paris in 1919 ended in a visit to the well-known Hotel St. Anne, but from available reports, peaceable sessions like the one pictured were the exception rather than the rule. George F. Paul of Chicago, suggests that these two A. E. F. tourists must have had proper credentials when they ap- proached this minion of the American military law. Who are these men!

11 The AMERICAN LEGION" Monthly 182-PAGE booklet, which the New York De- microphone and direct telephone lines from the baseball field to SJ partment of The American Legion has made avail- the hospital. The phone lines are hooked up to an amplifier in able for the guidance of its posts and individual the radio room. A headphone in each room is connected with -JL. Legionnaires contains the full text of all laws the central receiving set. The post pays an announcer. adopted by the New York legislature for the benefit of service men of the World War and other wars. The booklet, published THE National Rehabilitation Committee reports that on June this summer, was scarcely off the press when it was followed by 30, 1929, 2,319 women who served in the World War were a supplement of thirty-four pages containing amendments and receiving compensation from the Veterans Bureau for disabili- new laws enacted by the 1929 legislature. ties related to their war service. Total monthly payments to The main book and its supplement afford striking evidence of them averaged $124,229. Two hundred of those receiving com- the number and complexities of state laws affecting World War pensation were patients in Bureau hospitals at the end of June. veterans. It reveals that in almost every field of major interest Nearly 40.000 women served as members of the military and to service men, the New York legislature passed laws early after naval forces during the World War, this number not including the war and that many of these laws have been repealed or the many thousands who served with welfare organizations. amended in later years, in which the original legislation has also been reinforced by new statutes. APPROXIMATELY 50,000 war veterans of Indiana, most of The need for these books is proved overwhelmingly by an '-them service men of the World War, have obtained in 1020 inspection of the New York volumes, and it is probable that free permits to hunt and fish in any of the counties of the State. The American Legion in other States will be inspired to follow The Indiana Department of The American Legion believes that New York's example, either by appropriating Legion funds for Indiana is the only State which accords the privilege of free the codification of all state legislation affecting service men or hunting and fishing licenses to World War veterans, although by inducing legislatures to have such publications produced at it has record of other States which give the free privileges to state expense. Civil War veterans. An Indiana veteran may obtain the free The New York books were prepared by Legionnaire John T. permit by presenting his service discharge papers to the clerk of Fitzpatrick, law librarian of the New York State Library at any county or at the office of the Department of Conservation Albany. in the State House at Indianapolis. ''Requests for information of state legislation affecting serv- ice men were being constantly received by Legion and state THE National Rehabilitation Committee is keeping up efforts agencies," Mr. Fitzpatrick relates. "We found that the great to induce the Veterans Bureau to provide radium treatments majority of inquiries related to laws that had long since been for all hospitalized service men suffering from cancer and other repealed. We also found that many Legion officials were using growths in which this treatment offers the best hope for re- obsolete legal forms, blanks that had been drawn up for Civil covery. At only one Bureau hospital, the Edward Hines. Jr., War laws. Hospital in Chicago, is radium now available, and the greater "The New York Department's executive committee last year portion of the radium there was provided by the Illinois De- made the appropriation for the printing of the laws in which partment of The American Legion. Despite the fact that the service men are especially interested. The expense of printing Legion has been advocating radium clinics throughout the coun- the work was considerable and is being met by a charge to try, fifty other Bureau hospitals are without a particle of radium. Legion posts of $1 for the mam book. To others the charge is Under present procedure, the Bureau is able to enter into $1.50. The charge for the supplement is twenty-five cents. The contracts with private agencies for the treatment of veterans sale of the books is being handled by the Adjutant of the New suffering from malignant growths which are considered of serv- York Department of The American Legion, 302 Hall of Rec- ice connection, but a large number of patients whose disabilities ords, New York City." are not service connected cannot be aided in this way.

TUBERCULOSIS was the cause of disability compensation EFFORTS to draw the National Rehabilitation Committee payments to 61,006 World War service men and women on into controversies involving the selection of locations for the disability rolls of the Veterans Bureau at the end of June. new Veterans Bureau hospitals have caused Watson B. Miller, Of these 41,000 were receiving payments of $50 a month under chairman, to define the committee's policy. Mr. Miller stated it the provision of law applying to veterans in whom the disease has always been the committee's policy to exert all possible has been arrested. effort to obtain from Congress appropriations for new hospital construction for certain States or areas where the need has been AT A time not far distant hospitals of the Veterans Bureau demonstrated, but the committee will not interest itself in the L in which more than 25,000 World War veterans are actual selection of a hospital site unless a specific instruction to patients will be equipped with "sound picture" machines, the do so has been given by a national convention of the Legion. talkies, if plans being urged by the Legion's National Rehabili- tation Committee are carried out. The committee has found "DRIOR to the adoption of a new rating schedule by the Vet- out that there are no great obstacles to the plan and experi- crans Bureau several years ago, many thousands of claims mental installations are looked for very soon. for disability compensation were disallowed on the ground that Motion pictures and radio are the two principal amusements the disability was of a degree less than 10 percent, the rating of hospital patients. Incidentally, taking no account of the claimant's C. W. Francey Post at the Oteen SEE your Post Service Officer for detailed information on pre-war occupation. A review of any of the subjects relating to rights or benefits covered (North Carolina) hospital of the all these disallowed claims has been in this department. If he cannot answer your question, Veterans Bureau has made it pos- your Department Service Officer can. Write to your De- under way for two years and com- partment Service sible for everybody at the hospital Officer or to the Regional Office of the pensation awards have resulted on Veterans Bureau in your State on matters connected with to get baseball scores quickly when uncomplicated claims or routine activities. If unable many of them, because of more to obtain sernice locally or in your State, address games are not being broadcast by com- liberal rulings possible under munications to National Rehabilitation Committee, The made stations. The post uses a borrowed American Legion, 710 Bond Building, Washington, D. C. the present rating schedule.

NOVEMBER, 1920 45 Burstsj5£„D lids'

Honor Among— A Complex Pun For Alma Mater A ruckus had developed between rival First Psychiatrist: "That fellow has The young man caller thought ex- sewer construction bosses, and harsh been an inmate of our asylum for a long ceeding well of himself, but he was words were flying. time, hasn't he?" getting to be a bit of a pest. "That there ladder belongs to our Second Same Thing: "Yes, he's one of "I'm a Harvard man," he bragged. gang, I tell you!" the first boss bellowed. our oldest inhabitants." "And what did you ever do for your "The eternal hades it does!" the sec- school?" asked the bored girl. ond yelled—or words to that effect. "One "W-w-well," he hesitated, "once I of my men stole that ladder from the Defense beat the Yale Lock Company out of a telephone company with his own hands!" "Why, William Oswald Holmes!" bill." cried an angry mother. "Look at your sticky fingers! Where have you been?" — — No Fair The kid who was plainly cut out to Skkk Clack Brrmpwf ! It was an idle hour in the circus side- be a lawyer hesitated just the fraction It was payday in the home of the train show tent, and the of a minute, then his answer came pat. caller, and the customary weekly wrangle freaks were indulg- "I was just trying to help you, had developed. ing in conversation. mother," he replied. "I was looking for "It's been ages since you got a raise," "I caught a fish that pair of scissors you lost. It wasn't his wife complained. "Why in the world this long yester- in the jam, mother." don't you get a better job?" day," announced "It's your own fault," the train an- the Living Skeleton. nouncer snapped back. "You won't let "That's nothing," On Your Toes! me go to Hollywood and try out for the countered the Wild "Say," said the prospect, who was talking pictures." Man from Borneo, "I caught one this being given a demonstration in a used long." car, "what makes it jerk so when you "Listen, boys," began the India Rub- first put it in gear?" Maintaining His Rep ." ber Man, "I caught one . . "Ah." the suave salesman explained, The house of the late O'Halloran was "Hey!" interrupted the L. S. and the "that proves it to be a real car—it's in deep mourning, O'H. having passed to W. M. f. B. in unison, "You keep out of anxious to start." his just deserts, whatever they might this!" be. "Well," said the caller, attempting to Perfect Alibi console the widow, "you know that your And That Was That One of the distinguished members of man lived to a good old age, anyway." that?" re- "I demand to know why I am under the visiting firemen's delegation was "Sure, now, and did he arrest!" stormed the victim as he was highly wroth when he looked at his torted the bereaved one with a touch of as I. ushered before the desk sergeant. watch to discover it was already eleven asperity. "Ye never knew him did "Sure," he was informed by the im- o'clock and that his train for his home He was an ould divil up to th' very perturbable and agreeable bluecoat in town had long since departed. He last." the chair. "You're under arrest because strode to the telephone and called the the officer here pinched you." hotel desk. "Why didn't you call me at seven- In the Air thirty this morning?" he demanded. The last performance of the day was The Yes Man "Because," returned the affable clerk, in progress in the "Will you be my wife?" he asked. "you didn't go to bed till eight." vaudeville theatre Magnifi- "Yes," she replied, "but you'll have and the to ask my dad." cent Marcaronis, Old Reliability "But I'm afraid to ask him," the poor jugglers and human " sap objected, "he might say 'no.' "Is your husband the sort you can de- tumblers, were "Oh, don't worry about that," she re- pend upon?" chatting together their breaths. turned confidently. "He'll say 'yes,' all "He certainly is," answered Mrs. under right." Scraggs. "When he says he's going to "I've lost my "What makes you so sure?" he wanted stay out all night he stays." wife," announced the Magnificent Mar- to know, for though courageous, he was caroni mournfully. no daredevil. "Maybe," suggested his friend, the "Because he's a movie director's as- No Rest Magnificent Marcaroni, "she just hasn't come down yet." sistant." The scene is heaven and an ex-sailor from the United States Navy has The Experts just passed the Guilty, Your Honor A loud, strident voice was bellowing Pearly Gates, prov- The young husband had sneaked in bad, bad words through the newspaper ing that anything noiselessly some time during the wee office. can be done if a hours and believed he had slipped into "What's the investment editor so mad man sets his mind bed undetected, but an unpleasant air of about?" somebody asked. to it. constraint hung over the breakfast table. The man who ran the information col- "Here's your At last the wife broke the silence. umn didn't know, but a reporter en- golden harp," said St. Peter, handing it "You didn't get home till three o'clock lightened him. over. this morning," she accused. "He can't get back the two dollars he "Yeah," grumbled the former gob. "H-how do you know?" he stammered. lent the health editor to pay a doctor "One more darned thing to keep pol- "Because when I came in your hat with." he explained. ished!" was still warm."

46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly You hold my life in your hands

Says SERGT. FRANK HART "I've felt that nay toward my ELGIN many a time," declares this crack railroad man, eminent member of the American Legion, wearer of the Distinguished Service Cross.

When he's all dressed up on his way to a Legion dinner, for example, this famous Legionnaire wears his EI i.in

LEG10NNAIHE . . . tin- peace-time strap watch with war-time strength. §2o

In France he fought so bravely that he won his peacetime honors on the rails. came back home with the Distinguished It happens so often that coincidence hides

Service Cross and the Victory Medal with its head . . . this fact that ELGIN is always

three bars gleaming upon his tunic. And the chosen watch of men who must have any man who has crouched at the parapet the right time all the time. Claims may of a trench like a sprinter ready for the come and claims may go but ELGIN ticks

gun, his eyes fixed on his watch, waiting on forever, guarding the minutes of men

for the barrage to lift, and the "over the who face exacting service with their eyes

' top minute to arrive . . . any such man on the face of a watch.

knows the part that time played in war- You may never stand tense in a trench time.

waiting for "zero hour" . . . never wheel

Now an ELGIN still times his exciting a thundering locomotive on a record run And when Hart is in the cab this

hours. For he's a star locomotive engineer, . . . but every minute of every day your ELGIN serves him . . . the B. W. Ray- mond model. 21 jewels. 8 adjust- a No. 1 man, on the Santa Fe . . . Took character and punctuality are on trial. And ments. Winding indicator. A sturdy, a train from Chicago to Fort Madison, ignorance of time is no excuse, a faulty true Elgin... the chronometer of

. all train alibi in the Iowa . . and beat passenger watch no courts of business Engine No. 3108, Hart's "ship of

records! . . . And again an ELGIN . . . not when ELGIN watches are procur- the rails." Price $70

ticked the triumphant minutes as he able at all reliable jewelry counters. e ELGIN, 1929. ELGIN WATCHES ARE AMERICAN MADE.

NOVEMBER, 19^9 47 )

Millie and Several Others

( Continued from page 4

and Deaf at St. Augustine. In addition which was placed on the statute books. numbers of dependent children were It provides for a crippled children's found, and their cases given proper at- commission of five members, to be ap- tention locally. pointed by the Governor. This commis- As the survey progressed three crip- sion is to designate the hospitals that pled children's clinics were established, are to be used as orthopedic centers; at Lakeland, Orlando and West Palm employ orthopedic surgeons to care for Beach, in which 119 children were the children in the designated hospitals; examined. Arrangements were made for pay a reasonable per capita per day cost 59 of them to be treated in hospitals, to such hospitals; provide for designa- a number of them in the St. Petersburg tion of the juvenile courts or county hospital. Those for which hospitaliza- judges as official agencies to determine tion was not necessary were advised as who are indigent crippled children and to what treatment to secure. to have power to commit such children With the data and facts all ready, the to proper institutions; and hire clerical Florida Department Legislation Com- services and pay traveling expenses of mittee, of which Emmett Safay of Jack- members to and from meetings or on sonville is chairman, drafted the bill business for crippled children.

Cheap, effective The Story of the Armistice health insurance (Continued from page 11)

Belgian women. Should he break the perhaps than veracity, they told how for your child locks and solve the mystery? I author- Berlin photographers took pictures of ized the procedure, while certain of the the Kaiser, posing in shirt-sleeves with staff stood on the alert in case of foul shovel in hand, and reproduced the cuts During childhood and youth, the teeth are play. To our surprise and not complete in Berlin newspapers labeled "The Kaiser especially susceptible to the organisms that disappointment, the mysterious room in the Trenches." cause decay. Neglect during this period re- was found to be an improvised wine-cel- My fellow commissioners on the sults in imperfect teeth, in malformation of lar well stocked with German vintages Armistice Commission were distinguished the jaw, and often leads to general impair- which our predecessors had not had time officers and agreeable gentlemen who had ment of the health. to remove. Certainly we could guess done big things during the war. The no good reason, assume no eleemosy- chairman was General of Division Pierre You cannot begin too early to teach your sentiment of A. Nudant, in addition was Chief of children the simple, fundamental principles nary welcoming American who French Mission. was Marshal of mouth hygiene. Merely making them guests, which would account for the the He generous gift of liquid refreshments Foch's personal representative and offi- brush the teeth is not enough. The tooth- brush cannot reach where decay most often to late enemies. Should these pages cial spokesman. He had a fine war rec- of reminiscence, however, ever reach ord and conducted our conferences with starts—in the tiny pits and crevices of the distinguished Mission with abil- teeth and along The Danger Line, where the eye of the present and the German marked highly ity, protection of the inter- teeth meet gums. Food particles collect here, respected President of the Ger- dignity, and British ferment and form acids which attack the man Republic, he can be assured of the ests of the Allied cause. The teeth. You must choose a dentifrice which thanks and heartfelt appreciation of a government was worthily represented by Haking, combats these acids. group of thirsty American officers. Lieutenant-General Sir Richard An interesting addition to these four K. C. B., K. C. M. G., who had com- Squibb's Dental Cream is particularly handsome villas, previously noted as manded a corps with distinction. He was effective. It contains over Milk of 50% having been occupied by the Kaiser, the a man of force and initiative, but withal Magnesia the safest, most effective antacid — Crown Prince, von Hindenburg, and von diplomatic and harmonious, with a keen for oral use. When you brush your teeth Ludendorff, was that under each had sense of the equities due a beaten foe. with Squibb's, minute particles of Milk of been constructed a bomb-proof shelter He was an accomplished linguist. Assist- Magnesia fill all the remote places about the or abri. Far below ground, each room ing him in the repatriation of British teeth and counteract acids. was about fifteen feet square (that of prisoners of war was Major General Sir Brushing the teeth with Squibb's Dental the Kaiser twenty feet) and was made John Adye. The Belgians had, as Chief Cream is cheap, effective health insurance. safe with reinforced concrete, and com- of Mission, Lieutenant-General Hector Its regular use beginning with childhood, fortable with easy-chairs, a center-table, Delobbe, an officer of high attainments together with periodic visits to the dentist, electric reading lamp, telephone, fan, who had been Chief of Staff of the Bel- will assure your child of teeth that should and rugs. The abri beneath the Kaiser's gian Army. The Italians were repre- last for life. villa was somewhat more pretentious, sented by Colonel Scimeca, who had and in addition connected with the been a member of the Supreme War Squibb's Dental Cream is exceptionally was outside gardens well-built tunnel. Council. pure and pleasant. Children like its flavor, and by a Belgian caretakers, The German government had desig- even if swallowed it cannot harm them, for bursting with gossip nated Major General H. K. A. von Win- Squibb's contains no astringents or harsh of their recent royal visitors, loved to terfeld, assisted by some sixty selected abrasives. You'll like it too. 40c a tube in all relate that on radio warning of a British air raid occupants villas specialists, to represent the Empire's drug stores. E. R. Squibb £2? Sons. Manu- the of the four many important interests before the facturing Chemists to the Medical Profession were wont to repair to their underground mili- Since sanctuaries, there to enjoy a book and Commission. He had been German 1858. © i 929 by E. R. Squibb 6? Sons cigar until danger was over. The Bel- tary attache at Paris just prior to the gians added, with some show of glee, war, and was said to be distasteful to that the Kaiser took his daily exercise the French, who alleged that he had SQUIBB'S with pick and shovel, digging a trench used his social advantages as attache to near the mouth of his tunnel to the out- secure military secrets which Germany Dental Cream of-doors, and. with more malevolence soon utilized against France. This, by 48 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly .

the way, was merely what every military attache in Europe was supposedly doing prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Von Winterfeld, who was one of the original signers of the Armistice agreement in the forest of Compiegne, spoke French fluently and understood English. The American Mission liked him personally and believed he represented Germany's interests with courage and ability, put- ting his country's claims in the best pos- sible light during the many heated de- bates which marked the sessions of the Commission. These sessions were held daily during the morning hours in the great salle a manger of the Hotel Britannique, be- ginning at ten o'clock to the minute. Afternoons were devoted to busy com- mittee conferences, in which the policies and instructions of the morning sessions were interpreted and executed. The personnel of the German Mission, a large body of advisers, occupied the entire upper floors of the spacious hotel, and were permitted to proceed to and from Berlin at will on both official and private business. Each day, within fifteen minutes of the hour of assembly, the Allied Mis- sions were wont to- meet in the hotel lobby. At five minutes of the hour the German Mission, headed by the tall and soldierly von Winterfeld, attired in full- dress uniform with decorations, would descend the broad staircase with solemn THE WARWICK $9.00 tread and pass into the assembly hall. It partook of the nature of a ceremony. Passing the Allied Missions, the long column of Germans bowed courteously but formally to right and left, and en- In the rain . . tering the hall, stood stiffly at their ap- pointed places, according to rank, on g the farther side of the long table, as if on dress-parade, von Winterfeld in the Your practiced eye will recognize here a definite center. All remained at attention, eyes to the front. Then followed similar but less formal entrance into the hall by the Allied Missions, the French leading. type of shoe. A style we are accustomed to think General Nudant faced von Winterfeld. and was flanked by Haking, Delobbe. and myself, with nearly half a hundred staff of as English. A rugged-grain leather we know as officers. Every official, interpreter, clerk, and orderly being in his appointed place, after a long moment of intense and Scotch. In these shoes you will find a deep, easy painful silence all present bowed stiffly and ceremoniously from the hips in the general direction of their late enemies, fit . . soles of substance for cross-country com- sat down as if an important but dis- agreeable duty was safely over, and be- gan the transaction of business with neatness if not witii despatch. fort . . well-bred trimness for days in town. Wear To Americans the sessions seemed al- most unbearably slow, partly because of the old-world formalities and partly be- them. Watch how they respond to polishing. cause all statements made in one lan- guage must needs be immediately trans- lated into two others. French, English Good looks that are inherent. Quality in the grain. and German were, of course, the lan- guages used. Expert interpreters fol- lowed each written or spoken word with care, and any departure from literal translation received instant objection and frequently caustic comment. German Mission, headed by the WALK* The OVER alert von Winterfeld, was in general inclined toward aggressive objection to many of the severe terms of the Armis- GEO. E. KEITH COMPANY, CAMPEIIO. BROCKTON, MASS. tice, and en- ( Continued on page 50)

NOVEMBER, 1929 40 The £tory of the ^Armistice Championship ( Continued jrom page 4q)

deavored by argument, protest, delay, turning over to the Armistice Commis- Performance With and even bluster to secure concessions sion, in good condition, one-half within and compromises favorable to the Em- ten days and the remainder within pire. This was, of course, what the twenty days, of Champion sent it is Mission to do; German was 5,000 guns (2,500 heavy, 2,500 field) an old game among European diplo- 30,000 machine guns Spark Plugs mats. From the German viewpoint, 3,000 minenwerfer the Armistice agreement was a humili- 2,000 airp'anes ating and intolerable thing, almost if not 5,000 locomotives entirely impossible of accomplishment. 150,000 railroad cars 5,000 motor-trucks From the Allied standpoint the conven- tion was quite practicable, and more- What this vast turnover of war ma- over, if not accomplished by the Central terial meant to Germany, and what a Powers within a specified time, was to stupendous task confronted the Comis- be followed by the imposition of terms sion to effect the turnover within twenty of even greater severity. days, can be appreciated by anyone to The business performed by the Com- some slight extent at least. It was an mission during the first month of its unhappy humiliation for the proud Ger- existence was necessarily urgent. Aside man Army to accept cheerfully or even from the immediate desirability of repa- conscientiously, and in many special in- triating Allied prisoners of war as quick- stances there was considerable attempt ly as possible, the urgency of quick ac- at evasion. Germany was naturally re- tion had special application to the luctant to part with her best war ma- requirement of the convention that Ger- terial, and certain provisions of the con- many turn over to the Allies en bon vention were carried out with poor etat such an enormous quantity of grace. specified war supplies as would render The locomotives and railroad cars it impossible for the German govern- were to be turned over in good working ment to change its mind about the Armis- order, with all spare parts and fittings, tice of November nth and begin war and all personnel pertaining to the Al- TT is a noteworthy fact that the all over again. sace-Lorraine railroads were to remain great majority of champion- The Armistice agreement had been on duty until duly relieved by Allied ship racing events are won by negotiated and signed at five o'clock on employes. Stores of coal and material the morning of November nth by Mar- for railroad upkeep were also to be kept engines equipped with Champion shal Foch and Admiral Wemyss for the in place and not tampered with. Few Spark Plugs. Despite the most Allies, and by Erzberger, von Obern- of these provisions were lived up to to extreme conditions, the spark dorff, von Winterfeld, von Griinnel and the letter. German railroad personnel, von Salow for the Central Powers. The anxious to return home, virtually aban- plugs in racing engines must func- agreement provided for a cessation of doned the railroads, locomotives, cars, tion faultlessly.

"large tactical groups," she was offering us guns on more or less permanent em- placements from the fortresses of Ant- werp and Metz. Foch had undoubtedly inserted these requirements in the con- vention to prevent further mobile opera- tions by Germany's armies—the German forts we were not concerned about. As to the item of two thousand air- planes, the Germans insisted that it was well-nigh impossible to effect delivery of the planes as quickly as ordered because few were immediately within reach. To correct this the Commission retorted: "Well and good. But for every airplane undelivered by December 13th you will turn over twenty serviceable horses." When they were confronted with this ultimatum, jeopardizing Germany's agri- cultural recovery, six hundred airplanes were speedily discovered and delivered to the Commission on time. That part of the Armistice agreement which provided for German evacuation of territory on the left bank of the Rhine was executed with tardiness. German gen- erals offered many excuses. It was claimed with some truth that while a German withdrawal had long been planned from occupied territory in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, no such prepa- rations had been. made that applied to Its beauty— its color— its scintil- Alsace-Lorraine, and that maps and bases of supplies were lacking. The Ger- lating fire and VALUE, all mean man staff stated that they possessed but so much to you and to HER. one map for five tactical divisions, which Here's Weiler unbelievable. a crea- consider its purchase seemed The Commission tion of rare beauty and THEN carefully . . . You will find, finally decided to ignore further childish charm in 18K Solid White Gold. The full as thousands of others in all parts excuses, and insisted on prompt compli- cut, blue-white dia- of the world have experienced,

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NOVEMBER, 1919 The <£tory of the ^Armistice ( Continued from page 51) r book of November 23, 1918, states: "Lieu- Armistice agreement our country had but wBIGGER tenant Stephens of my staff, en route from 248 officers and 3,302 soldiers in German Chaumont to Spa, was arrested by the Ger- hands. One officer and twenty enlisted PAY mans and held for two hours. Stephens re- men died in captivity. All reports reach- ports his captors in complete ignorance of ing me indicated that our soldiers re- the rigorous terms of the Armistice and the ceived comparatively good treatment in fact that the Allies are to occupy bridge- German prison camps. Perhaps this was heads on the Rhine. They told Stephens partly a matter of reciprocity, for in that after retiring beyond the Rhine our own prison camps German prisoners Germany would make a stand and secure certainly fared very well. In the spring better terms, that soon America would of 1910, when in command of the Bor- have two wars on her hands, one with deaux Base, I had occasion to inspect a Japan as an ally of Germany." All this camp of some four thousand German was probably the irresponsible small- prisoners of war. To uncover possible talk of German soldiers, but taken in its ill-treatment, individuals and groups Amazing growth 4 entirety from many sources over a wide were taken aside, keeping staff and area, it had its significance, and was prison officials in the background, and Radio is making' strengthened in part by the morale and encouraged through their own interpre- appearance of the German troops, to ters to tell of any abuse or grievance. hundreds of 3fi§g? which I shall refer later on in this nar- It is believed that over one hundred and rative. fifty Germans were thus interviewed at On my own motion, the Armistice random, with not a single complaint Commission decided that the German offered. All spoke of the fairness with every year material of war be divided one-tenth to which they were treated. Certainly, Belgium, two-tenths to the United States, among our sins of commission and omis- Get one of the many fine $450aMonth jobs that are opening every three-tenths to Great Britain and four- sion, mistreatment of prisoners of war "I work in what I year broadcasting sta- among tenths to France. By this allotment, can never be laid at our national believe to be the tions, Radio factories, job- door. largest and best bers, dealers, on board ship our country secured as a substantial re- Our policy tended toward magnanimity, equipped Radio which gives world-wide travel shop in the South- with good salary and ex- minder of the Great War 730 field guns, and doubtless affected German treatment west and also op- penses paid, commercial land heavy guns, 633 trench mortars, 10,- of American prisoners in Germany. erate KGFI. I am stations, and other branches 534 averaging about of Radio. Why stick to a no- 350 machine guns, and 340 airplanes. The afternoons of our conferences at $450 a month." future job when good Radio Next in importance, perhaps, to the Spa were taken up with important Frank M. Jones, Jobs pay $50 to $200 a week. com- 922 Guadalupe St. prompt turnover of Germany's war-mak- mittee meetings committees on mate- San Angelo, Tex. Many make $5 to — $25 a week extra ing equipment was the repatriation to rial of war, transportation, prisoners of almost at once the home countries of the Allied prison- war, requisitions, upkeep of troops in The day you start I'll show ers of war, without reciprocity, as the occupied territory, and restitutions. you how to do ten Radio jobs Armistice agreement stipulated. The These committees, composed of desig- most common in every neigh- borhood so you can begin Germans, be it said, were most anxious nated officers from each of the Allied making extra money. G. W. to rid themselves countries meeting officer $400aMonth Page, 1807 21st Ave., S., of these prisoners, be- with an from "I made good Nashville. Tenn., made $935 cause of food shortage and the difficulty the German Mission, worked diligently money before, but in spare time while taking I am making more his course. of maintaining prison-guards in this pe- on ways and means of carrying out the I have made now. riod of disorganization, so that, mandates of the Commission the more than $400 I will train you at army with each month. Your home in spare time even before our Commission began to least possible delay. Bothersome collat- course brought Hold your job. Give me function, German authorities had re- eral issues were continually thrusting this." part of your spare time. I've Dahlstead, J. G. trained hundreds of fellows leased thousands of Allied prisoners, themselves in, merely because the Armis- 1484 So. 15th St., at home to make good money City. resulting in much confusion and inevita- tice Commission was only a quasi-diplo- Salt Lake in Radio. High school or college education not neces- ble hardship. For most of these prison- matic body, bridging over the hiatus sary. Many didn't even finish the grades. ers were so happy over their release and between cessation of hostilities and the 64 page book of so anxious to get home that they started formal organization of the Peace Com- information FREE walking back without food or necessary mission. These questions concerned the "Rich Rewards in Radio" winter clothing. When these lamentable despatch of food supplies into Germany points out where the good in the general interest jobs are, what they pay, how conditions became known to the Com- of humanity, and to get one. A copy of my mission informal release of prisoners the facilitating of the activities of the money-back agreement comes with it. Lifetime Employ- was quickly stopped, and the German American Red Cross in Russian prison- ment Service to graduates government, by arrangement, gathered camps, the alleged harsh treatment of You get practical and other features also ex- Radio experience plained. Get a copy. Mail together thousands of wandering Allied Germans in Alsace-Lorraine by French learning, the coupon. Do it NOW. while prisoners, gave them food and shelter, soldiers or civilians, and the complaints You can build 100 j. £. SMITH, Pres. circuits with Six National Radio Institute and held them for formal repatriation. of French as well as Belgians that indus- Big Outfits of Ra- dio parts given Uept. SY6 And finally, through a special committee trial and agricultural implements had without extra cost. Washington, D. C. in Berlin headed by our General Harries been carried off wholesale by the retiring perfect co-ordination was effected, and German armies. Article VI of the Armis- CLIP AND EE inform most of our American prisoners were out tice agreement provided fully for resti- ED of Germany the end of December. tution of what was necessary for the MAIL FOR rixEjt MAT I O N by The Allied prisoners west of the Rhine rehabilitation of the Allied countries, J. E. Smith, Pres., came out through the Allied armies; and stolen property was relentlessly National Radio Institute those in central or northern Germany hunted down in German territory and Dept. 9Y6 were repatriated by sea through Copen- most of it returned to the owners. But Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Smith: Without hagen, Rotterdam, Flushing, and Ant- our Commission found this a difficult obligating me. send your 64- page book "Rich Rewards in werp; prisoners in southern Germany task. Radio." came out by rail through Switzerland. As already stated, the sessions of the German prisoners of war were not re- Armistice Commission were held in the Name , patriated until after the signing of the impressive Hotel Britannique. One cor- Address.. Peace Treaty at the end of June, 1919. ner room on the second floor was pointed City State. At the time of the signing of the out as the historic place where the

.S3 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Kaiser had signed his abdication, but we never had time to verify it. Daily con- ferences with the Germans were often- The One Great War Novel that Has times dramatic in the extreme—at least they seemed so to dispassionate Ameri- Swept Over the Whole World! cans. Many tense moments occurred. On one side of the long council-board Over a million and a were to be seen the animated faces of half copies now sold the effervescent French and Belgians, countries! optimistic and buoyant over the success- in twenty ful termination of the long war, their racial vivacity more or less tempered by the unexpressive, stolid countenances of the British, with the Americans a happy ALL QUIET ON I medium, perhaps. The winning of the war had meant far more to our long- suffering Allies than to us. On the opposite side of the confer- THE WESTERN ence table, and in marked contrast, were the drawn, anxious, set. almost pain- fully contracted faces of the German representatives—the massive, leonine, FRONT finely-shaped head of von Winterfeld dominating the others, the muscles of his By ERICH MARIA REMARQUE neck taut and strained, his responsibility for the Fatherland's welfare resting heavily on his broad shoulders. At his C( This great book, by a German infantryman, gives side usually sat Herr Haniel von Haim- an unforgettable picture of the World War—its trag- hausen, former counselor of the German Embassy at Washington in the days of edy, its humor, its good fellowship. von Bernstorff, and their heads were fre- General James A. Drain, former National Com- quently together as they whispered their of American Legion, says : "The genius little secrets. On the right and left were mander The selected officers of the German Great of the German soldier author brings the essence of the General Staff—able, clever fellows who war closer to the mind and soul than anything else in took their profession very seriously. A literature, sculpture or painting." few of the younger ones had the officious, R. H. L. in The Chicago Tribune says: "We arrogant stare of the traditional German couldn't put it down, it's the realest, most terrifying, military caste; Germany may have been most gripping novel of the war we've ever read." beaten, but the Fatherland was going down with flying colors. At times, sit- Frank Ernest Hill in The New York Herald- ting quietly and unobtrusively on the Tribune says: "Obviously founded on indelible fact, fringe of German officials, we noted the and might be an authentic autobiographical account." presence of German civilians in the Clinton Simpson in The New York Sun says: rough dress of mechanics, farmers, arti- "Far and away the most vivid record we have had of sans, and the like. We learned that they the actual fighting in the trenches." were representatives of socialist organi- zations, who were there as observers C[ You cannot afford to miss the one book that for with the acquiescence of the German government. They informed members of the first time reveals real war to the civilian. Read my 'staff that they recognized the compe- of the life in the German trenches, behind the guns, tency and appropriateness of the Ger- in the hospitals, at home on leave. The book leaves man military hierarchy winding up the war, but that they were there to see no one unmoved. that it was done properly. The plain people of the new Republic of Germany Ask any bookseller for the most popular novel of wanted no monkey business. the War and he will sell you "All Quiet on the As evidencing the inevitable conflict Western Front" for $2.50 of wills from day to day as well as the clashing of interests in the transition Boston LITTLE, CO. Publishers from war to peace, my diary contains BROWN & the following extracts: November 20-21: The French are con- struing the clauses of the convention very " strictly, suspicious of the Germans at every ,or " Unc,e Sam tarn, while the latter are accused of inter- Travel Ex-Service Men Get jecting many questions into the proceedings Preference to gain time—questions not of a strictly military character, and more suitable for a Railway Postal Clerks Mail Carriers

peace conference. . . . Postoffice Clerks Prohibition Agents Today {November 21), the Germans made Customs Inspectors a strong appeal for easier terms, more time to evacuate, more food for Germany, no $141 to $275 MONTH harassing by French troops. After our con- Mail Coupon Before You Lose It ference von Winterfeld personally appealed to General Haking and myself, but was re- STEADY WORK — NO LAYOFFS — PAID / " FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Dept. C185 conditions ' Rochester, N. Y. minded by Haking of similar VACATION**I "Una . 32-page book. 1 Slrs Rush tQ me wi thout charge—copy of imposed by the Germans on France in 1870. / "How to Get U. S. Government Jobs," with list <>r how to in Honorablec / Positions obtainable, and full particulars telling Von Winterfeld finally left Haking de- Your Discharge5 Entitles • Ex-Service Men. _ get them. Tell me all about preference to spair and anger. You to Special Preference » » Name November 22: (Continued on page 54) Common Education Sufficient / Address NOVEMBER, 1929 53 — !

LEATHER PUTTEES For Protection, Comfort The £tory of the ^Armistice and Smart Appearance ( Continued from page 53)

The Boches are still squirming and protest- tains a letter from a Dutch correspondent ing about the French pushing them too here concerning the meetings of our Com- hard, about food conditions in Germany, mission which alleges among other things their inability to turn over railway material that certain junior officers of the Allied which they claim they haven't got, the im- missions amuse themselves by drawing possibility of transferring artillery material caricatures of von Winterfeld; grotesque when the inhabitants of evacuated territory sketches, the correspondent alleges, are left are hostile, and, finally, their utter inability on the council table after conferences, for to retain German personnel with the sur- the humiliation as well as edification of the rendered railroads, telephones, telegraph, etc. Germans November 24: Nothing new except that December 20: Today witnessed a heated the Germans made an amusing defense colloquy between General Nudant and Gen- FOR the man who camps or does cross- against the protest of the Belgians—the eral von Winterfeld, starting over a tele- country motoring—for drivers of cabs, Germans claiming that the cattle being gram from Marshal Foch characterizing the busses or trucks—for the delivery man driven into Germany by the retiring army German treatment of Allied prisoners of whose appearance must typify snappy serv- were cattle brought from Germany; that war as barbarous. General von Winterfeld the alleged stolen furniture furniture ice—leather puttees are indispensable. In ad- was retorted that Allied prisoners were accorded made by the Boches or brought from Alle- far better treatment than had been the case dition to their smart appearance, they are magne to make the poor German soldiers' with German detachments left in- Allied comfortable and safe no hooks or — barracks more habitable; and they dis- territory. laces nothing to — catch or snag dained to explain the presence in their re- on or off in a jiffy. tiring columns of hundreds of Belgian car- When I had reached Spa on Novem- ber 17th units of WILLIAMS leather puttees riages, carts, and draft animals. many the German November : hear remarkable stories Army were passing through the town, are carefully made by ex- 25 We of the spread of socialism in Germany ; that and the troops gave every evidence of perts to insure perfect fit a uniform rate of pay of twenty marks is to being fine organizations, the men well and absolute comfort. Made of the finest solid be paid to all Germans here, from General set-up, clothed, leathers in and disciplined. They all styles and prices. Most good von Winterfeld down to the soldier-jani- impressed as dealers carry WILLIAMS puttees, me having plenty of light tor ; that uniforms are to be exchanged for left. WILLIAMS Sam Browne belts, and civilian clothing; that the German govern- The unmilitary reprehensible garrison belts. ment is just drifting, a ship without a rud- most and thing in evidence at this time was that der ; that the well-disciplined troops passing Ask for WILLIAMS puttees at your through Spa have no idea of the rigorous each German organization was taking sporting goods store, shoe store, or armistice terms, or that Germany has been away hundreds of Belgian horses, many the nearest army goods store. signally defeated. What the German Army of them hitched to Belgian carriages will do when it returns home and learns the The Williams Manufacturing Company and carts, loaded down with petty loot, truth is problematical. Portsmouth, Ohio the reins in the hands of German officers November 26: We had two important or soldiers. The effect on Belgian on- communications today from the Germans. lookers may be imagined, helpless as WITT Major von Pabst and a naval officer report HAMS they were to remedy matters except very bad conditions in Germany. All offi- LEATHER _ PRODUCTS cers were requested to discard their uni- through the roundabout good offices of forms and wear civilian clothing. Also, one our Commission. This looting was ulti- flat rate of pay for all, generals to privates. mately stopped, but not before much The entire administration of affairs, civil as damage had been done. As for the well as military, is under socialists, many CO., French and Belgians, good sports that I CROWN UNIFORM of them former buck privates in the Ger- they were, they shrugged their tired 323 Fourth Ave. New York, N. Y. man Army. The German officers on our shoulders and once more tried to find Armistice Commission are swallowing their solace in the threadbare philosophy of UNIFORMS pride in order to try and save Germany and their homes. Von Pabst predicts that much "c'est la guerre." For Your Legion Post bloodshed will follow the return of troops, The march homeward of these Ger- most of whom do not yet know the true man troops was most orderly and well- and Prices on Catalogue, Swatches, state of affairs that their leaders have lost Request — conducted. Indeed, it reminded one of the war, that Germany is to be heavily a triumphal procession to the Father- taxed, and that socialism is dominant. land. Excellent military bands played November 27: This afternoon crowds of patriotic music, and the troops sang in citizens went to the stores of Belgians who unison as only German soldiers can. had fraternized with the Boches, made Motor-trucks, wagons, and even draft- them remove their Allied flags from their windows, and in many cases painted a black animals were decked with flags and cross or a black hand on the front of the greens. Everything betokened that these PARADE BUGLE shop. I hear also that at Liege or Guise, splendid front-line regiments of high Thw new lona-modol Bugle, especially designed for Legion and Fraternal musical units. Long, rakish lines — stirring, or at both places, people took women who morale had no intimation as yet of the full tlumpet tone. had been the paramours of German officers, merciless of the agree- Remarkably easy to blow. 2S in. long, huilt in terms Armistice off hair, stripped them, O with slide to F; chords with Military Band. cut their and cast ment, or of the social disorganization them into the streets. Single Bugle, Prepaid which had come to Germany. If they December 8: At Julich and at Aix the Quantity prices on request $8 had, they certainly put up a wonderful Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, 3rd Cav Belgian Army officials are said to have front. Belgian inhabitants of Spa told airy. Fort Myer, Va., using a Weymann posted a proclamation—a reproduction of a Parade Bugle at Tomb of Unknc vnSoldier, Arlington. German proclamation to the Belgians in us, however, that the German second- We organize nd e

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colors, and the townspeople in their de- light had constructed several arcs de triomphe. In the Place Royale hundreds of little Belgian girls, dressed in the national colors and carrying tiny Allied flags, had been assembled, and as the first units of the fine-looking British cavalry appeared the little maids waved their flags and sang patriotic songs, while the happy Belgians cheered the long- looked-for troops to the echo. All national anthems were played by the local band except our own "Star Spangled Banner," and the town burgomaster finally came to me with tears in his honest eyes and confessed that his band had no music for our national air. As a compensation, however, the choir of voices shouted "Vive l'Amerique!" and when I left the reviewing stand to return to my quarters the dense crowds took What do we up the cry and cheered our country with the same enthusiasm. In fact, during my entire stay in Belgium the people KNOW about wore one continuous smile at sight of Uncle Sam's uniform. It was not alone our participation in the war which, it was then frankly acknowledged, had this HUMAN BODY turned the scales on the side of victory, but our material aid through the Ameri- well informed people, today, Compctent and suc- MOST cessful chiropractors can Red Cross had made every Belgian have more real knowledge of the display this emblem si unifying member- peasant regard an American soldier as a human body than had the scientist ship in The Ameri- personal friend. of SO years ago. can Society of Chi- And so the work of the Armistice ropractors. We all know, for instance, that Nature Commission went on during those first designed our bodies to live condi- lions have obtained from Chiropractic stirring days, working toward a perma- under simply nent peace in Europe, the intricate de- tions as we find them. In a world filled because chiropractors understand tails of which were soon to be taken with possibilities of a hundred diseases the effects of nerve obstruction and how up by the Peace Commission. Certain we can continue to enjoy excellent health to remove this basic or incipient phase of bitterness and acrimony were insepara- until our bodily resistance becomes low- lowered resistance and illness in the body. ble from the conferences and contro- ered. Then, and not until then, do- we those charged with writ- WHO REALLY HEALS? versies between fall sick. ing finis to a great and terrible war. But Chiropractic methods are very simple, and looking back at this time on what has WHEN ILLNESS BEGINS very effective, for the reason that they

taken place in disquieted Europe since This is one very important thing we have find and remove this interfering condi- 1018 dissensions, bickerings, jealousies, — learned in recent years that the real be- tion. Neither medicine nor Chiropractic in which America's motives, sincerity, ginning of sickness and disease lies tuithin can heal even a cut finger. Nature alone and basic altruism have been misunder- the body. heals. But Chiropractic finds and frees stood and even falsified—an American the obstructed nerve, reopens Nature's general can better understand how We are also learning not to blame inno- freedom necessary was the relentless and implac- cent muscles and tissues for our troubles. normal channels, and gives her able execution of the Armistice. Our Healthy organs don't grow sick by them- to make her marvelous repairs. country will ever join enthusiastically in selves; they are entirely dependent on the BOOK FREE! perpetual singing hosannas to an era of higher authority of the brain and nerves, A 32-page booklet, "Health Through Chiro- peace, but any sincere student of world through which all cur bodily activities practic," explains some of the most interesting history cannot fail to see that for many are controlled and ordered. of modern discoveries pertaining fo your body. and bullies years we shall have outlaws Tabulated results of Chiropractic in over These facts being true and accepted, it is in the family of nations, as in our every- 93.000 cases of specific illness arc listed. For day life as individuals. Certainly the easv to understand the benefit which mil- free copy send coupon. happenings of the last ten years prove the survival of the instincts which pro- Educational Department, The American Society duced the World War. op Chiropractors, 390 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. into inti- Unless one has been brought Kindly mail me, without any cost or obligation, your booklet, 'Health mate, daily contact with the tremen- Through Chiropractic," with statistics of results. dously complex problems of the Old World—problems handed down through the ages and impregnated with racial suspicions, rivalries, hatreds, and jeal- ousies—it is difficult for average Ameri- WANT a JOB Soft, Easy Fitting cans, altruistic, beneficent, and public- Vou get handsome appear- J WITH A ance with ease that^ spirited in their splendid isolation and makes your feet re- adequately joice in this remark- smug prosperity, clearly and FUTURE able shoe. Genuine black relationship to kid. sturdily built for hardest knocks. to visualize our new scientific Arch Support ends ailments. world affairs. have studiously avoid- ? aches. foot weariness. relieves We heel seat prevents wrinkled ed foreign entanglements, but from the ^Little lining. Featuresot BE. A RAILWAY TRAFFIC INSPECTOR*. Wmore shoes twice the signing of the Armistice—nay, from our This permanent, fascinating profession offers men 19-55 unlimited mforsizes price. Sizes 5 to IS. ch;inces for advancement. Travel, or remain near borne. Pleasant m I3,iu,is Ask your dealer. outdoor hours. entrance into the World War—our inter- work with r«-Kular Trained men needed. We'll train Inc. you in i fewwpckft' spare-tim>- hump instruction ami upon completi'm. M. T. SHAW, with a position t<> , Coldwater, Mich. responsibilities as well as perils put you in touch paying f 135. per month plus 1 national expenses, or refund your tuition. Earn up to $'^50. ptr month with experience. Your future can be made a certainty. Learn about it have increased a hundredfold. now. Write for free booklet. Shoe Dealers Standard Business Training Inst., Div. 24, Buffalo, N. Y. write at once!

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there is an extra large household. Blue fair," he repeated, "and so that no one and white gingham curtains at the win- does a lick more than he should." dows, blue and tan in the linoleum rug, "Do you change jobs around?" I This Button on Every Coat blue and white shelves and containers in asked. Guarantees the New the immaculate pantries make it as "Change around?" he questioned in pretty and as modern as any up-to-the- surprise. minute housewife could wish. I had ex- "Yes, from time to time, so that no pected it to look shipshape and tidy but one goes stale at a task," I explained. "I DrybaK mean, does the man who washes dishes I wasn't prepared to find it so artistic as ALL WCC1 well. The men have obviously taken a this week make beds the next?" WATER PC€Or pride and interest in beautifying their Mr. Love grinned. Hunting Slit surroundings and in making them home- "I'd like to, that's the right idea. But like. the men get well too soon to fit to any such regular plan. fifteen Most talked of outfit Upstairs there are two large rooms We may have DRYBAK ever created. and one small one, all with plenty of men here this week and fifteen next, but Garments arc made windows and cross ventilation. The large it won"t be the same fifteen. That from 30 oz. all wool. changes the jobs around for me aplenty." Woven in fast colors rooms have four single beds each and — red and black. there is space for more in a pinch. At Indeed, that factor of change is a Styled to give the side of each bed is a table and on the reason why managing the camp is not every hunting the simple affair it might first appear to need. Made up floor a rug. I thought the arrangement in breeches for clothing was ingenious. Directly be. The steady turnover of patients with horse hide over each bed at a convenient height are brings a new problem each week and a patches, stag new plan of work must be developed to shirt, coat and nailed two narrow boards each some cap. The only three feet long, one board set about six fit each new situation. guaranteed wa- inches above the other. On the lower The cook is the only patient who ter-repellent board for draws pay. In general the cooking has woolen line. are hooks clothing and from the upper hangs a curtain made from a been done by one of the patients, that BLCCD fI30€f gay early American print. Thus each detail being assigned to the man most CAME POCKET patient's clothes are well curtained, nearly well and best suited to the work. neatly hung and handy for use, and the As it is responsible and important, he is Coat is full lined in back. Has outside cape in front, adjustable sleeves and four buttoned patch pockets. Slicker whole adds a pleasant bit of color to the paid wages. A month ago H. L. Mc- lined blood proof pocket across back with side entrances. room. Elroy came to the camp to get his Sleeves are pendulum style. Ask for DRYBAK. woolen strength back after a siege with bron- apparel and get the utmost in hunting comfort, warmth, After admiring the excellent household wear and convenience. No. CC10 Coat $13.10. arrangements, I inquired of Superin- chitis. He did the cooking so well that instead of letting last THE DRYBAK CORP., fKI Worth M., l\ew York City tendent Love how the place is managed. him go week, when Gfn'TLEMen: Send me special catalog containing infor- This job of superintendent, by the way, he was well, the superintendent engaged mation about woolen apparel. AL3 is one of the several important factors him to stay for the summer, when the

... Name , , ,, in the success of the camp. At first the camp will be crowded and the work too heavy for a convalescent. Address „ Forty and Eight planned to employ one of the nearly recovered patients, think- On our rounds we reached the cellar, ing that in this way they could secure a which we found in fine condition, thanks personal interest and understanding even to the complete overhauling of the though there might be frequent changes. house. It contains a five hundred gallon Make Art water heater, supplies of staples of But as time has gone by, it has become (Novelties at increasingly apparent that a sick or standard brands and the canned fruit. partly sick man should not be given so Don't think from all this talk about JorProjit and Pleasure much responsibility. It proved unfair to housekeeping that the camp is merely a the man and to the other patients. So building. There is a real farm and it is recently Sidney F. Love was engaged for being put to use. Besides the garden in Kht inj hill- eltiesareintremt the job. He is a young man, too young the meadow near the road there is a Youcanquicklyl candlesticks, toys, g to have served in the World War. But side vineyard that was almost in ruins. cards, furniture, etc. Outfit Given he later served in the Navy, where an New trellises are now built for the two Noexperienceneceasar) Join Fireside Industrie! accident disabled him for further service. hundred and fifty old vines, the vines a national organization you everythng abou teaches His health is excellent, he enjoys the are neatly trimmed, and it is hoped that this pleasant wt-l I -paid ,hom< rk. Send 2. work at camp, is intelligent and capable by another year the camp will be enjoy- and ambitious to make his job one hun- ing its own grapes. dred percent efficient. By the way, this meadow land and "We assign details for household hillside has a bit of romance connected chores," he explained in answer to my with it. While digging in the garden one last summer, Mr. Russell uneartl.ed wPHOTO question, "and I aim to divide the work day thought was an In- so that it is out of the way early and is an object which he not too hard for any one person. Clean- dian battleax. ENLARGED "I'm going to clean that up and give Size 16x20 inches ing downstairs, bedmaking, cleaning up- Same price for full it to Mr. Sprague as a souvenir of length or bust form, stairs, care of the bathroom and show- '!•. landscapes, proudly as he pet animals, etc., or ers, porches and lawn and cellar make up camp." he announced enlargements of any morn- part of group pic- one class of work and kitchen police the brushed off the soil. By the next ture. Safe return of your own original photo guaranteed. other. K. P. includes helping the cook ing he was so pleased with his trophy SEND NO MONEY to Just mail photo or snapshot (an; at mealtime, preparing vegetables, set- that he took it to the Field Museum

rereive your beautiful I it was. Experts there ~ so find out just what " ting table, washing dishes and enlargement s ize the the anteed fadeless. told that it was the finest example D8c plua postage on. When the inside work is done there him with order and w is the gardening and poultry work, they had seen of an Indian pestle—a Special Free Offer that its enlargement we will send Frrh though we usually have volunteers for tool for grinding corn—and a hand-tinted miniature repro- duction of photo sent. Take ad- that detail, as the men like to get out. presence in the ground indicated that vantage now of this amazing offer—send your photo today, an Indian village must have been on UNITED PORTRAIT COMPANY But we divide everything up so that it's 1652 Ogdon Avt. Dept. P-338 Chicago, III. 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly that site. Mr. Russell gave the pestle to Sprague as he sent P LAY Mr. had planned and

with it a note telling the story, and Mr. Sprague gave it to the museum, where it B I LLIARD S now is on view. The beautiful old orchard of apples and pears has been cleared of brush and the trees sprayed and trimmed and the masses of pink and white bloom the day of my visit promised a big crop. All this heavy work of plowing and such is done by a farmer who lives near the Forty and Eight chalet, so that the patients have only the lighter work, which af- fords occupation and exercise. Between the orchard and the flower garden back of the house h the poultry yard. Mr. Russell originally planned to have a few chickens to provide rural atmosphere and fresh eggs. But he found that the men liked working with poultry and that the conditions at camp seemed ideal for chicken raising, so this year, with less gardening, there will be more poultry. Already there are about a hun- dred fine white Leghorns, mostly hens selected for their fine records as layers, and three hundred little chicks, tiny, yellow and Easterish looking in a new A Family Affair AT LAST— up-to-date brooder. A new eighty-foot a popularly priced home table line— hen-house would soon be finished and THE game of billiards is not governed by BRUNSWICK JUNIOR PLAYMATES the camp launched in the poultry busi- age, but enjoyed by all the family—young $7.50 and up— ness. As the size of the camp increases and old—acommon ground to fuse.blendand at leading stores everywhere. more eggs and chickens will be needed, strengthen the ties of beautiful relationship. Mail the coupon below for the "Home Mag- and the surplus will be sold to help de- And billiards is inexpensive. It can be net", a booklet ofcomplete information, sizes, fray expenses. played in the club-like atmosphere of the prices and illustrations of Brunswick Tables. As we wandered back to the house modern billiard room, recreation center, or from our tour of inspection, Mr. Roth at home. Each model, irrespective of price, The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.

talked of the future of the camp and of is staunchly made, accurately angled, and General Offices: 623-633 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111 completely equipped with balls, cues, etc. how the Forty and Eight plan to en- In Canada : Toronto.

large it. — — ~Send the coupon today~ — — — — —— — — — "We now can take care of twenty-five THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CO., Dept. 192, 623 So. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. comfortably but need room for I we Gentlemen: Without obligating me, please send yout "Home Magnet", a booklet giving more. Our building program this sum- desctiptions, sizes, prices, and your easy-payment plan on Brunswick Home Billiard Tables. mer will provide for fifty and in another Name Address

year we'll double that. Then we can City State * care for several hundred men during a year. You see, we plan to grow slowly, make our mistakes and get our experi- ence in a small way and then as we 1 grow, grow right." save Already there is one additional cot- /^ tage, called Cermak Cottage in honor of New FREE book quotes Reduced Anton Cermak, and soon two more, one Factory Prices. Lower ^ terms—year projected Slifer of the to pay. Choice by Hiram Post of 6 colors in new Porcelain All Standard Makes Enamel Ranges. Legion and the other by the 149th Field New Cir- Portables) culating Heaters— $34.75 up. (Abo Netc 200 styles and 'sizes. Toot choice of the World's bi Artillery mothers, will be begun on the typewriters- Underwood -Reming- Cash or easy terms. 24- - hour shipments. ton, Royal full size, late model, hill house. 30-day completely rebuilt and rehnfshed brand to the southwest of the There Free Trial. 360-day test. Satisfaction new. Prices below half. Sold on Easy Terms. will also be a storeroom, a better guaranteed. new 29 years in business. CITkin felaft IfAMlTVI Just send your name 7Sn.CHiii customers. Write 9EiPI MM n\9 RlUnCi I • an d address and we today for book. road in from the highway and many FREE will mail yon our complete Free Catalog prepaid, fully describing Kalamazoo Stove Co* and showing actual photographs of each beautiful machine in full other improvements finished this sum- detail of our direct-to-you small payment plan. 2066 Rochester Ave. colors. Tells eyery Amaz- Kalamazoo, Mich. Write now for tremendous saving. No obligation whatever. mer. In the meantime, as warm weather ing values— Act quick. (Free Office Supplies with each Typewriter). $0775 brings more patients, tents will take sO f Up International Typewriter Exchange 231 W. Monroe St. Dept. 1110 Chicago. Illinois care of the overflow till the cottages are ready. All this takes money. But the inter- I BROS. & CO. fetS'S ested Forty and Eight have discovered the old truth that where there is a real DIAMONDS WATCHES need money can be found—provided or CREDIT capable and industrious people go CASH a-hunting for it. The success of the Send for FREE Catalog! Tribune's boxing tournament last year Write for Christmas Catalog showingquality gifts was so great that this year it was re- at reasonable prices. 2000 illustrations and de- peated thousand scriptions of Diamond Rings in Platinum and Solid and the twenty-five- Gold, Dinner Rings, Pins, Brooches, All Standard dollars net proceeds were turned over, Makes of Pocket Watches, Pearls, Dresser Sets, No. 924 Woman's Elgin Silverware. Clocks, Kodaks, Leather Goods. No. 927-Elgin "Legionnaire" — $1.90 entire, to the camp trustee. With this bracelet watch, $29.50; $2.95 for Men, $19; $1.90 down; CREDIT TERMS: Pay balance down; $2.95 a month one -tenth down; a month amount of cash in hand, many an or- weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly at your conven- ience. All goods delivered on first payment. ganization would have pitched into an S aC 3 n U , d t r < Fiery Blue White Diamonds; F-36,108 N. State III. o uT 5rI2 Dept. Street, Chicago. gnV ! co o dl Ien. (o% \ orgy of building ( Continued on page 58) Solid 1 8-K White Gold Rings examination on request.

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THE most amazing gun ever inven tedfor target shooting and small game. 'Place to Stay ^ick The New ( Continued from page 57) and spending. But these camp sponsors These men, and many others of the CROSMAN SILENT are conservative. The very fact that they Forty and Eight, give active co-opera- .22 REPEATER have money makes them exceedingly tion in the work at the camp. Saturday careful in their spending. afternoons and Sundays there are al- It uses no powder —yet it has deadly ac- While the relatively modest unit for ways some of them to be seen out there, curacy and tremendous power. The high- est powered pneumatic ride in the world the first seventy-five to a hundred pa- working at various tasks or providing — and the only high-powered repeating tients is being finished, they are perfect- good times for the patients. Picnics at pneumatic rifle in the world! It has all the ing advantages of lirst class .22 powder rifles their own organization by electing the chalet are a popular diversion, and without any of their disagreeable points. five trustees of whom three are to be there are parties and entertainments Exclusive Crosman features are: 1. Noise- less. 2. No cleaning. 3. Low cost Mr. Russell, Mr. Roth, and Mr. which by their gay fun help complete ammunition. 4. Amazing accuracy. 5. Ad- Sprague, and are planning a permanent the cure of the sick and discouraged. justable power. 6. No bullet splatter. endowment. I say "permanent" endow- Altogether the camp is a jolly place, For Christmas ment—it is anticipated that the need and everyone seems to have a fine spirit. This beautifully finished, perfectly balanced for the camp for veterans of the World I wish you might have stood as I did. Repeater, with 20-shot magazine, check- War will increase markedly for some on the crest of the hill, and seen in your ered walnut stock and forearm, and globe or open sight optional, makes a wonder- years and then gradually diminish until mind's eye the camp as it took shape ful Christmas gift for any member of the family or friend. Crosman rifles are some fifty years hence the camp will while Mr. Roth detailed the plans. I and are built to gire life-time service, have served its usefulness for this wish you could have smelled the air, guaranteed for one year against defect in workmanship and mateiials. group. The endowment is to be so ar- fresh and sweet from orchard and ranged that at the end of the fifty-year meadow, and enjoyed the sunshine. But Send for FREE Book period the project can be merged into I wish most of all that you could have Every man who feels the shooting should thrill of it is will and talked with the privileged 1 men have a copy of our inter- some work which hoped meet met eatingly written and illus- trated 16-patre book en- the needs of that time. to be there, getting well. titled* 'Target andGnrne Shooting." It is FREE The project is fortunate in having It takes one sort of courage to stand to Legionnaires and members of their fam- back of it men with as united loyalties up under fire; it takes another, quite as ilies. Obtain one from your dealer or write us today. and as varied abilities as have the three real, to keep your courage year after trustees. Mr. Russell, last year's Chef year when you haven't the health that Crosman Arms Co. de Gare, is Irish, with the wit and im- was your heritage. But finding friends 457 St. Paul Street agination Irish leaders possess; he is an who care and a place to live in the open Rochester, N. Y. ex-newspaper man and knows how to has given these men a new lease on life CROStWAN RIFLES approach and interest people. Charles and a new inspiration. Roth, the present Chef de Gare. is This is pioneer work the Forty and SILENT .22 Dutch, indefatigable, thorough in detail. Eight are doing in Illinois. There is no I "POWEB WITHOUT POWDEB" A. A. Sprague, former chairman of the precedent to tell them what will work National Rehabilitation Committee of and what won't. But they need not The American Legion, is a business man worry about that—and they don't. They JRIMETTE Hair Cutter and a civic worker of national reputa- have something better than precedent Cut oTrimYour Own Hair J°r tion. Behind these three leaders are high ideals, common sense and the back- cutu nen Colonel Robert McCormick (the ing of their organization. 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We opened up with a heavy rifle and "Swing your platoon across the open automatic fire and the Germans an- space. The first platoon" (which was Just send us your name swered us back with machine guns and on our left) "is to push through the and address and we will mail rifles. We were too close together for woods and head the Germans off on that free and postpaid on r new Saxophone Book. Itexplains and illustrates all Saxo- either of our artilleries to butt in. side." phones—gives firstlesson chart—shows how exclusive Buescher improvements make it Weed was next to me oft the right "And we have to go across that open easier for you to play a with his chauchat. A chauchat has a place!" I was mad. "That looks like

tendency to hop. It's a Frog invention plain murder to me . . . Damn funny -Snap-On and it takes all your time to hold it to me they don't lay down a barrage Pads ISXISAXOPHONE down. in there first—it's full of machine -Automatic Inonehouryoucan play the scale Octave Keys in few can play popu- ." a . — weeks you I touched Weed on the shoulder to guns . -Perfect Scale lar music — many join bands or Accuracy orchestras in 90 days. No other point out to him a spot that looked like The runner didn't say anything and wind instrument is so easy to learn -Simplified and none more beautiful. a machine gun. This took Weed's atten- neither did the lieutenant. Fingerinp Easy to Play—Easy to Pay tion from his chauchat for a moment I went on cursing but I knew there The Saxophone harmonizes beau- and it gave a hop which threw the muz- wasn't anything else for us to do but tifully with piano—is great for solos, duets, quartettes and sextettes. It zle up, causing it to shoot into the tree carry out the order. In order to avoid is ideal for home entertainment, out of the the fire from Weed's chauchat I crawled lodge, church or school playing. tops across the way. And Hundreds make big money playing tn tree dropped a German! away in back of him. DBnceOrchestrasandonKadioPrograms. n!rourownhome Lieutenant Marco was lying on my The brambles and underbrush were 6 Day s' FreeTriarI will prove to you how easily you can learn to play a Buescher left popping away with a rifle when up so thick all along the edge of the woods Saxophone. Small down payment and a little came the company runner, Shorty Parker, that I had to crawl quite a way before each month lets you play while you pav. Write for the Free Buescher Saxophone Book today. with an order from Captain McDevitt I could get out in the open far enough BUESCHER BAND INSTRUMENT CO. 2912 Buescher Block (544) Elkhart, Ind. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly for the other fellows to see me. The men were still firing in back of me. When I figured I was out far enough I held up my hand as a signal to cease firing. Then I rose to my feet and beckoned them to come on, and I started forward on a dead run. Looking back over my shoulder I saw a whole gang of our men burst out of the woods after me. We tore madly across the open space without stopping once. I figured that as long as it had to be done that was the best way to do it. Our attack was so sudden and so wild that it must have thrown the Germans into a panic. They had been firing steadily before we started, but the mo- ment we broke out into the open they began to beat it for all they were worth. They didn't all get away. Some were hidden down behind a low embankment. As I jumped over the bank, two young Germans — and they were youngl — raised their heads. If ever there was fear of God or devil on anybody's face, REVEALING MOMENTS come — even in the life of anunder- it was on those two boys' faces. They that got on their knees with their arms suit. But they never ruffle the man who has discovered neat stretched to the sky. They could not combination of style and comfort so common to all Coopers cry out. Their fingers took on a most Garments. . . . To seven extra ways of tailoring easiness into peculiar trembling motion while the rest exclusive of the hand seemed rigid. Then their union suits, Coopers adds certain clicks of style—

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confused than ever. I had to get this thing their posts in the face of their own bar- straightened out somehow before I could rage, which was to shell the woods. This sleep. I went back to Frenchy's hole. sacrifice was to be made in order that In your "Say, Frenchy, were you out along the balance of a German brigade con- that patch of woods this morning just sisting of several thousand men could spare after we left those deep dugouts?" make good their escape from the western "Yes." section of Mont Blanc which they now timet "Then you were with us when we occupied. ." swung across that open space . . This information was brought to our "Open space? We didn't go across the lines by two Germans who gave them- Swift as lightning, Ve-Po-Ad, my amazing new rest pocket ddlng machine, solves all Untiring ." problems. AND YOIK open space . . selves up early in the morning. They MONEY PROBLEMS, TOO ! Men all over the country are making UK; MONEY selling this little wizard on fig- "Didn't go across the open space? . . . were a part of the detail that was to be ures for only $2.95. Ve-Po-Ad duplicates work of $300 adding machines. Adds, subtracts, multiplies any numbers Where the hell did we go then?" sacrificed. with absolute accuracy. Million dollar capacity, yet weighs "We followed the first platoon off to Promptly at six fifteen our artillery only 4 ounces and is only 5 inches long and 3Vi inches wide. Made of metal— lasts a lifetime fully guaranteed. ." — the left through the woods . . opened up with one big bang. Before EXCEPTIONAL PROFITS FOR YOU "And you say we didn't run across this time there had not been a shell fall- At $2.95. Ve-Po-Ad sells like magicl Your profit over that open space?" ing on either side. 100 per cent on every sale. $65 a week Is easy just showing It in your spare time. Less than 10 "We couldn't because as we started The woods were less than two hun- sales a day pays full-time workers over $100 a week. No experience for the left a big bunch of guys from dred feet ahead. We sat in our trench necessary. Harry Fuller, new man, made $26 first day. Shapiro, Cali- another outfit came tearing across the on the side nearest our own artillery to fornia, made $4 75 In one week. ." space like mad . . protect ourselves against our own shells FREE Sample Machine "Oh ... All right, Frenchy." that were falling short. Live-wire agents who write NOW The thing began to dawn on me . . . At six twenty-nine we were out of the will get FREE VE-PO-AD offer and MONEY-MAKING PLAN. Do you I went back to my hole and thought it trench and at six thirty we were racing want to make $1,000 clear profit in the next fawmonths? Then write to me today— NOW all out . . . toward the woods. The barrage stopped —and let me Bhow you how by return mail. A post card will do. But write at once- I had been lying between Marco and as suddenly as it had begun. The dead C. M. CLEARY Weed, I remembered, when the runner silence that followed seemed unearthly. 303 W. Monroe St. Dept. 738, Chicago, 111. came up with the order to advance and We entered the woods on a run and I had shot off my mouth. (Maybe that penetrated them to a depth of about ten was one reason why Marco thought I feet. Then we stopped—and almost

had beat it some place.) . . . Then I staggered back out again! had crept out, back of Weed (who was There, lined up in the woods as close the last man on the right) to avoid his to the edge as they could get and still TJUT your post in limelight chauchat and the brush ... I went out be concealed, was the whole German at conventions and celebra- tions. Boost year 'round at- in the open . . . My platoon was all on brigade, officers and all, standing in close tendance. Get new members my left . . . But I did not move left order formation like soldiers on parade. with thrilling martial music. Organize a drum corps with ... all this time I had been moving to They surrendered to us in a body. aid of valuable new Leedy my right . . . How then did I get in So startling was the effect on us that booklet "The Roll-Off"—42 front . . . pages of information answers of the platoon? we simply stood and looked with our all organization and equipment I had stood up when I got well out in mouths open. Had we been met with a problems. Shows all drum major sig- nals. of interesting photos Scores the open and faced south . . . There hail of machine-gun bullets we would and much historical data. Sent FREE to Legion was a woods in back of me and I had have stumbled on in some way, but to members. No obli- beckoned toward it for the see line of Germans dressed in gation. Write for men to come a their your copy note. out and a bunch of fellows did come best soldier suits, wearing caps and Leedy Mfg. Co., out and we tore across the open space cleaned shoes, was too much. 1033 East Palmer Street from north to south . . . The men came The second wave now came crashing Indianapolis, Ind.

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I he wrong outfit across that open space. their way. We passed down along the long line of Germans. They watched WhyPay Ml Prices XXXV us going by, dirty and crummy looking as we were, with a look on their faces as AT SIX o'clock the next morning I much as to say, "All right, clean up the DIAMONDS L saw the company runner, Shorty mess we made. We're going on a vaca- 10 large loan firms combined (world's Parker, stop at Lieutenant Marco's hole. tion." oldest, largest association of Its kind

—rated over $1 ,000,000.00) , loans money Runners always meant movements of Somebody in back of me said, "It on diamonds. A few such loans not repaid. Diamonds originally sold by some sort so I went over to find out looks as though the war was over now outstanding jewelers. Of course we all right." can loan but a fraction of real values. what was on for the day. You get the advantage in Unpaid Loans The dope was that our artillery would And I said, "Yes—for them it is." at cash prices you can try to match at full 60% more. See this 82 hundredths lay down a box barrage in the woods We pushed on through the woods, ct. Diamond, a sparkling solitaire at $88. very liberal privilege. — Examination which were directly in front of us. The passing great piles of lumber, barb wire, ree — No obligation to buy. Large barrage would begin at six fifteen and tools, narrow-gauge railroad tracks, am- Diamonds for to munition, big guns, lots of smaller Among thousands end at six thirty. We were be moving some Small Ones of loans monthly, forward at six thirty and enter the guns and dugouts of all descriptions. are many pledges of fine largo diamonds; these when unpaid, tie up considerable money. Even at our startHngly low prices woods at six thirty-two. There would Reaching the western boundary of 60% of the market, we accept "trade-Ins" because smaller priced diamonds find a ready market. be no rolling barrage following the regu- Mont Blanc we swung to the north. Not Detailed List Free-NOW! lar barrage. another German was found. Not a shot ry dis rately described. Radically lc stuff gave had been fired. Quality, anv size. Kuarant.-.d amount . The confidential that Shorty Written v. .11 like Insurance Policy loan Buaranteei. Get full details of offers. You don't risk a penny. 11/4 century old l.ousetreferenccs Hank me was that a strong force of picked And the fellows had all found their of Psh., Union Truat Co., 3rd Nat'l. Bank). Lists limited-Send now. German machine gunners had been con- voices. It was the first time we had Unpaid Loans-Low as $60 per Carat centrated at various places in the woods talked out loud since just before leav- with positive orders to hold their posi- ing Suippes. Address ... tions at all costs. They were to stick to We finally took up positions along a For Free List clip this now, 611 in and mail to Jos. DeRoy & Sons, Opp.p.o., 87S6 DeRoy Bids;.. Pittsburgh, Pa

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narrow-gauge railroad running near the ing up to see how far we had advanced. northern summit of Mont Blanc. Here I was curious to know how far the we fried bacon and boiled coffee. It was French were behind us on the left so I the first cooked food we had had in four moseyed over and asked them: days. "Combien kilometres franqais soldats After the food came the sight-seeing in the rear?" pointing to the rear. One of them answered "Twenty kilo- parties. We were like a bunch of kids sort smiled. turned loose in an old attic full of junk. meters" and of for that dis- The Germans had built squatty houses Our left flank was open among the trees with wooden sidewalks tance! between them. We ransacked these everything nice houses and rooted in piles of rubbish Then when seemed beginning that had been thrown out in back of and peaceful and we were to make ourselves believe that maybe the them. We found piles of books and papers. war really was over, the damn German n JACKETh artillery had to open up. One type of book seemed very popu- KNOW millionaires who can afford to It seemed most ungrateful on their lar as we found a lot of them. They I pay twenty-five or forty-five dollars for part. Here we had just let a couple of were paper-covered booklets about eight a leather jacket, but prefer my Buck Skein of their in by six inches with pictures of Indians, thousand men march away at $5.50 — Because, although Buck Skein log cabins and early American settlers their best clothes and they were now costs less, it gives a lot more in warmth, on the covers. The Indians were shown probably away back some place eating wear and good looks. trading with whites, offering furs in ex- the food we should have had. And then For instance. If you wash a leather jacket change for beads. The booklets may another bunch has to turn around and it gets stiff, whereas a Buck Skein can and should be washed in soap and water to have been simply story books but some try to blow us up. We couldn't help but retain its soft, velvety texture. Tell your of the fellows that could read German feel that our good nature had been im- wife that if a Buck Skein fades or shrinks, posed upon. It made us mad. said that they were a form of propa- my Gold Bond Certificate guarantees to "All right, men stand by to move ganda showing the crude, uncivilized — give you ." conditions that existed in America. out . . YOUR MONEY BACK The fellows were loading up on every And it wasn't long before we were will find Buck Skein warmer because ducking across the road that runs be- You form of junk they could find—tin its double fabric heft is so tightly woven tween Suippes and St. Etienne-a-Arnes. whistles, old bayonets, helmets, papers, that the cold is locked out. It wears like After pipes, playing cards. passing down a steep slope we saddle-leather. Made with springy knitted positions in I asked some of them what they were took up a ravine through belt of 1007c pure worsted wool; two button adjustable cuffs; two big over-&ize pockets; windproof going to do with the junk. which a railroad ran. and rainproof; buckskin tan color. They said, to take We were now out in the open country. "Going them The Buck Skein shirt ($3.50) is a great combination home." It seemed like a new world. The land with the Buck Skein Jacket: It's a regulation shirt with behind us from Suippes to Mont Blanc two large flap pockets, collar attached, coat style, buck- ekin tan color. was one stretch of shell holes, broken XXXVI If your dealer hasn't a genuine Buck Skein left, mail barb wire, trenches, dugouts and dead coupon below, enclose money, and I'll eend you your Buck Skein prepaid. LIEUTENANT MARCO and I were men. Even the air was rotten. But out J sitting in a concrete pit that had in this open country everything was been used as a foundation for some big fresh and the sun was shining. gun when I noticed a detail of men mov- We advanced from our ravine posi- ing through our lines. Their clothes tion up a slope leading to the north. were too clean to belong to our outfit so About a hundred feet out the Germans I climbed out of the pit and headed spotted us and opened up with a ter- them off. rific machine-gun and artillery fire. It I said, "What outfit are you fellows just swept the hill. I was about twenty- with?" five feet in front of the platoon as I The sergeant in charge said, "We're a wanted to reach the top of the hill be- salvage detail going forward to salvage fore they did but the fire was so hot ." that the battlefield up ahead . . we just flopped and stayed down for "This is the front line right here. a while. There hasn't been any battle fought up I happened to lift my head and look ahead of us." toward the left. A shell landed about "Then where is all that German sal- fifty feet away. It made a direct hit on vage stock that we heard about?" a man. I couldn't draw my eyes away. "That's in back of you—mostly down I could pick out plainly the separate in the deep dugouts." parts in the air—the legs, the arms, the The salvage detail turned around and body. They seemed to go up in perfect

went back. There was no use salvaging order. . . . a field before the battle was fought. Again I felt the sick, sinking feeling I The place all around in through here had had in the field before Bouresches. had been used for four years as a Ger- The situation now was practically the man brigade headquarters and supply same—an open field with machine-gun dump. Down in the deep dugouts were bullets pecking up the ground and shells regular storerooms containing supplies crashing all around and that body sail- of all kinds — small-arm ammunition, ing in the air. machine-guns, rifles, revolvers and parts, I was through. Down went my head BUCK SKEIN JOE — box after box of grenades, medical sup- into the dirt. Lustberg. Nast & Co., Inc., Makers I Dept.Lll, 331 Broadway. New York City plies and clothing. A small railroad ran After some minutes my mind cleared See that r get (Check Here) through one system of electric-lighted a little and I was able to take in the A Buck Skein Shirt at $3.50 dugouts. An elevator was used to carry situation around me. Over on right my A Buck Skein Jacket at S5.S0 the cars to and from the surface. We about a hundred feet was a woods that Combination of Shirt and Jacket $9.00 Q had placed guards around these dugouts began a short way down on the slope Neck Band Size to keep souvenir hunters out. we were on and extended over the top Here's my check or money order D Early in the afternoon two French of- of the hill. Name. ficers came riding up on horses. They I crawled toward it on my belly and had maps in their hands and were check- motioned for the ( Continued on page 64) Address (City) (State)

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men back of me to move in that direction "Oh, yes, there was. A piece came also. A tree is a great comfort even if it's a flying through the air and struck my small one. We reached the woods and hand, didn't it, Alf?"—turning to his worked our way to the top of the hill. There brother. Of course, Alf said yes. I felt was a short valley in front of us and a that he had cut himself but I told him

wooded hill on the other side of it in to go back if he wanted to. He the which were concealed the German ma- Then his brother said, "Can I bring Kept Job chine guns. him back?" He Liked We opened fire with our rifles and "Certainly not. There is no reason chauchats. It's a great relief sometimes for anybody going back with him." —and increased his salary 73% just to be able to fire your rifle. After a Cronier said, "But we promised our W. A. Day, of Woonsocket, R. I., wanted more bit the machine-gun fire slackened down mother that we would both stay together money. But he liked his job— didn't want to change — made up his mind to get more money right where and I saw the balance of the company during the war. Won't it be all right if he was. He enrolled for LaSalle home-study train- crawling over the top of the hill and my brother goes back with me and after ing in Higher Accountancy— followed it with Modern Business Correspondence— is now pursuing LaSalle gradually working their way down into my hand is dressed we can both come training in Business Management. 'In actual results the valley toward the wooded hill. We back?" I have received a salary-increase of exactly 73.3 per cent since_ the date of my first enrollment," writes entered the same woods and closed over "Nothing doing! Let your brother Mr. Day. "but I consider this equal to 100 per cent to the left to connect up with the com- bandage up your hand right here and in the average case, for 1 have earned this increase without changing my position." pany. We found only two dismantled both of you stay." ' How much is it worth to you to win substantial advance- They left and went back toward their ment— within a comparatively few months7The way is clearly machine guns and one dead German. All outlined in a fascinating book, "Ten Years* Promotion in rest it. hole. Later in the morning I checked One." The coupon will bring it to you FREE, together with the had beat a 64-page book describing the unusual opportunities in the now pushed to the end of these over the platoon to see how many men business field which most appeals to you. For the sake of a We brighter future, clip and mail the coupon NOW. woods but met with no further inter- were left. Both the sergeant and his Yourself Thru LaSalle'.— ^— ^— — —Find ference. It was getting dark and orders brother were missing. I guess they kept LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY all right. The World's Largest Business Training Institution were passed to dig in. their promise to their mother Dept. 11361 -R Chicago Lieutenant Marco and I dug in to- Gentlemen: Send without obligation to me infor- XXXVIII mation regarding course indicated below: gether. The hole we dug was short and Business Management Commercial Law we had to keep our legs bent up or else Modern Salesmanship Modern Business Corre- SEVEN o'clock that morning we Higher Accountancy spondence stick them out over the end of the hole. AT L Traffic Management Expert Bookkeeping Shells were bursting around. I kept my started forward. Before us lay a Railway Station Oc. P. A. Coaching Management legs out and so did Marco. hilly country broken up with small Business English Law: Degree of LL. B. „„ Each time a shell would explode Marco patches of woods. Back of us was an Modern Foremanship QCommercial Spanish Personnel Management Effective Speaking would say, "How far away did that hit?" outfit with one pounders and Stokes industrial Management DStenotypy— Stenography I say, hundred or three mortars. They were to furnish the bar- Banking and Finance DTelegraphy would "Two Credit and Collection Correspondence hundred feet." rage for us. The regular artillery had This happened several times and I not yet swung into line. I did not mind Name had just got through saying "three hun- the one pounders so much but I did not Present Position dred feet" when a big piece of shrapnel like the idea of advancing under the Stokes mortars. They were a mean Address went schllll over our hole, landing with a plunk about a foot away. weapon and made lots of noise but it Marco pulled in his legs quick and always seemed to me that they were said real mad, "Hell, you don't know a fired by-guess-and-by-God. damn thing about them!" The fourth platoon was on the ex- treme right, and due to the land forma- XXXVII tion and clumps of trees we kept a very Quids, lasting re- l Nose Adjuster (JSU ""^^S^fi irregular line. One minute the line would shapes flesh and car- V'T^jQfejK? suits. Doctors praise tilane — safely. V^^SST/ it. 6X.000 users, same night Sergeant Cronier, jam up on the right and that would push Money-back fiuur- THAT painlessly, while Jf\ ml us away over. there would you sleep. onfee. Write today. the one I had that little run-in with Then be a Anita Institute, M -48, Anita Bldg ., Newark, N.J. back in the trench, came over to my big interval on the left and we would hole and asked me if he could bring his have to close over with a rush. brother, who was a corporal in our com- I didn't notice the German fire so pany, back to the rear some place as he much this morning but that was because ToAny Suit! was sick. of the trouble we were having trying to 1 Double the life of your keep a line. You can't be worrying about coat and vest with correi I told him nothing doing, that neither matched pants.100,000 patterns. he nor his brother could be relieved. We two things at once. Besides I could see Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no "readyrnades." Our match sent FREE for your were short of men and another attack those Stokes mortar bombs or whatever O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece of cloth or vost today. was to be made in the morning. Marco they are called hitting out in front of SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY 115 So. Dearborn Street, Dept. 261 Chicago was there with me but said nothing. us and I kept wondering where the next Early the next morning Sergeant Cro- one was going to hit. nier came slowly toward my hole. I was After advancing about two kilometers alone. His brother, the corporal, was we got to a good-sized woods. There was holding him and helping him along. As nothing for us on the right flank to do they came closer Cronier held out his but enter it. The balance of the com- hand saying, pany on the left was still advancing in "Look, I sure got a mean one." open country and naturally one can I said, "What is it?" advance much more quickly in the open He said, "See where that piece of than through woods. This kept us hop- shrapnel hit me on the back of the ping around in the woods in order to The same accurate hand?" keep up, especially when we came to equipment as used in COMPLETE $89 all right. spots covered with heavy underbrush. I Commercial w o o d- I in udea planer. There was a small red cut working shops every- EASY saw, lathe, electric TERMS I said, "When did that happen?" was the last man on the right of our where. Write today motor, hul and I kept hollering, "Keep in for complete infor- sanding ami srind- $9 down He said, "Just a few minutes ago." platoon

mation. inc attachments. $9 a mo. . "But there hasn't been any shells contact with the outfit on the left . . J.D.WALLACE & CO. i^^'iE busting around here this morning." Guide left." 11 W.42ndSt., New York 268 Market St., San Francisco 64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ! ! !

I did not want to wander off from the machine gun was playing in my direction company again as we had done the other so I couldn't sit up and fix it. I crawled day. It seemed to me our platoon was closer to the wire and then pulled up always on some flank. On advances of my leg and unwrapped the rest of the this kind we never knew where we were legging and let it go. It was all caked going—at least I never did, and if 1 up with yellow mud anyway. asked a lieutenant he never knew either. I crept on through the wire and then It was simply a case of going on and on I saw some fellows from the company until you came in contact with the Ger- who had been in the second wave. They mans, which we always did. were partly lost and were hitting it over Finally we came to a barb-wire en- toward the left. I tried to question them tanglement among the trees. It stretched but they were beyond words. Feet were out to the left and to the right. We did in full possession. The only thing I could not have anything to cut the wire with get out of them was, "We're in our own so it was a case of picking your way barrage!" through. I got through all right and so So I beat it over to the left myself did three or four other fellows. until I came to the edge of the woods. All of a sudden shells started dropping The woods came to a sort of a point and around us. We knew in a second that at this point there was an old-time Ger- they were from our own artillery. They man machine-gun emplacement. It was were coming in thick. It was plain that built in a rather peculiar manner. First we had advanced too far. Nothing ever there was a good-sized hole and in its confused us more than to find our own southwest corner there was an entrance shells hopping in on us. to a fairly deep dugout. A short narrow There was a mad rush to get back trench not over four feet long led from through the barb wire. I tripped and the first hole to a much shallower second fell before reaching the wire. The fall hole. probably saved my life, because just as There were quite a number of fellows I hit the ground I heard a stream of in the first hole and none in the second machine-gun bullets pass over me and hole, so I jumped down into this second go plunk in the mud a few feet away. hole. Soon an officer came in and then Amazing Invention I lay there bewildered for a few min- more men, so after a while we had quite utes. Then I looked around. I was alone. a houseful. Revolutionizes Several of our shells fell close and the Shells were falling around and we knew mud they threw up fell on me. I started they were coming from our own bat- Shaving to get up. Crack—crack the machine- teries. They dropped so fast around us gun bullets went right over me, and they that it seemed as if they were shot from shaves from THINK of it ! 365 keen, cool a year were from a machine gun close at hand. a machine gun. The bunch in the hole the same blade. That's what KRISS KROSS is doing for American shavers everywhere The ground along the side of the wire were hugging the southern bank—that This amazing invention marks such a radical entanglement where I was had been was the side nearest our batteries. Who- advance in shaving comfort and economy that it deserves to be called much more than a stropper. cleared away of trees and bushes leav- ever was doing the firing had this par- Rather it is a blade rcjuvenalui: Makes hundreds ing an open space about twenty feet ticular hole spotted and he was not spar- of keen, quick shaves blossom where only one grew before. wide. machine-gunner this ing his The had space with ammunition. KRISS KROSS strops your blade (any make) under observation and I was in his direct The officer in the hole said to the run- on the diagonal just like a master barber. Pres- sure decreases automatically. Nickel jig flies up line of fire. As long as I lay flat he ner he had with him, who was also a to notify you when your blade is ready, with the could not hit me. In fact he didn't shoot bugler, "Have you that Very pistol?" keenest cutting edge that steel can take! at me. Perhaps he thought I was dead. The runner pulled the pistol out and New-Type Razor Blade FREE! At that, I was more dead than alive. I offered it to the officer but the officer sweated blood if anybody ever did. This said, "No, you keep it and fire up a shell To introduce KRISS KROSS stropper. we are including this month free samples of a revolution entirely situation for I to tell to lengthen their range." was an new me. them in razor blade construction. Made to fit your pres- felt that it was a time that called for The runner asked, "What color?" ent razor. Guaranteed to last longer and shave bet- real prayer if any time ever did. I tried The officer said, "I don't . . . know ter than any other. Expect

. . sensation to pull myself up on my knees, but white, I think . shoot a white one." a new shaving MAKES —KRISS KROSS blades crack—crack, and down I went. I tried The runner looked in his pack. "I've are made of a unique to pray to myself but it seemed that I only got a red one and a green. The red steel, made a new and better way. was busting inside and that I must give is for a heavy barrage and the green one Make big muney as a KRISS KROSS repre- vent to my feelings in a loud voice. I for gas." sentative. J. C. Kel- Get Details logg made $200 In 7 was desperate. I must pray out loud. "Shoot the green. They'll know some- days. H. King earned Send for details on these 5 tiii in une day. Snare- So I started: "0 God—" voice, to thing is wrong and perhaps they'll send My surprizing inventions and time workers, office and factory men make $3- be in keeping with my feelings, should somebody out to investigate . . . It's free razor blade offer. $10 extra a day just They're much more re- have thundered forth these words, but that god damn one-pounder outfit. They showing a KRISS markable than I can tell to friends. ." KROSS instead the weakest little sound came never did know anything . . you here. Clip the coupon Cheek bottom of cou- now. No obligation. Mail pon and mail at once from me. I grew hot. I think I blushed. The runner shot up the green light and it today ! I know I was embarrassed. I stole a in a few minutes the shelling ceased. look around at the German lines to see A short time afterward a fellow ap- if anybody had heard me. They could peared at the top of the hole. The offi- J^KKISS KROSS have shot at me and I could have stood cer spoke up: "What the hell are you KRISS KROSS CORP. it, but if they had laughed I believe I fellows trying to do back there, blow us Largest Manufacturer of Mechanical Strcppert in the World would have torn after them. up?" Dept. S-414, 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. After my fit of stage fright I felt a The new fellow said, "We didn't know Kriss (Cross whole lot better. AD the tenseness was you were in this hole . . . According to Corporation, Dept. S-414, 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis.Mo. gone and I was myself again. the dope we got, the line should be one Send me details of Kriss Kross Stropper. Also The wire was about ten feet away. I hundred yards back. Do you know where send free sample of your new-type razor blade Razor. (Fill in your the present line is?" for made a spring and a run but tripped and He must have been make of razor.) fell flat. I couldn't figure out why I the observer for the one-pounder outfit. Name should fall that way but on looking The officer, his runner and the new down at my right foot I found that man left. I did not know any of them. Address

one of my wrap leggings had become un- A little later when things were settled City State plan, full wrapped and was dragging behind. The down all the fel- ( Continued on page 66) ( ) Check here for agents' money-making time or spare hours.

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Adding Machines and MORE ati lows Only a Fraction of Their Cost in the hole except one pulled out for some of them knew anything or not I The; lowest priced prac some other place. I guess they did not like don't know, but we gave them credit tical portable adding the looks of the hole. It was too shallow. for knowing more than we did about the machine the world Besides somebody must have got hit in war. We knew that we didn't know any- it recently as there were a number of big thing about it. Besides they were handy : spots of blood at the bottom. to have around. In case anything went There was a legging lying over in a wrong we had somebody to hang the corner and I remembered that I was blame onto and somebody to curse out. short a legging so I put it on. It was a Adds, shaped legging which led me to think it XXXIX Subtracts, belonged to an officer. He must have Multiplies, been wounded as the legging had blood TT WAS getting late and I knew it was in Fractions? on it. -- necessary to find out what troops Feet or Inches I was still short a platoon so I were on our right and left, and FiguresUpto started so as soon as $99,999,99% scouting around to see if I could find the Germans let up their shelling I took any of the men. In the deep hole next two fellows and Adda quick as a flash to we skirted along the subtracts just as fast! me I found five men belonging to my woods to the left which extended down New principle permits remarkable speed and platoon. Farther over on the right I lo- toward the road running between Suippes ease of action. Not a toy BIG F»HO»=lTS —but a practical machine Off cated four more and in a hole a short and St. Etienne-a-Arnes. I found parts backed by two year EVERY SALE written guarantee! way to the left there were six more. That of our company dug in along the woods Measures only Hi* long. ADDOMETER Is osed and was all I could find. —just enough to say we had a line. On Slips easily into coat endorsed by largest corpo- pocket. Fits right over rations in country. Your About fifty feet back of me I dis- the right of the hole I was in we could figures being computed. territory is jammed with Keeps place. Prevents live prospects. Business covered the hole where Captain McDev- not locate any troops, so we established eyestrain. Speeds op men, storekeepers, con- work. Worth five times its tractors—buy on sight! ilt, Lieutenant Marco and another lieu- a lookout to protect this flank. astonishing low price. Write for quick, money- Write for Free literature makingplan. No experience tenant were hanging out, so things did Early the next morning a runner from giving complete Informa- needed. Write today. not look so bad after all. I did not ask our company came up with request tion. No obligations. a ADDOMETER COMPANY. 303 W. Monroe St. them if there was anything they wanted for a report on how of (Division of Reliable Typewriter Corp.) many our men Dept. 2S Chicago, Illinois done for fear they might think of some- were holding the line. I took a couple of thing. fellows and we went along the woods WfWMJfO EIGHT As soon as I knew where most of the and made a check-up. I counted seventy- platoon was I went back to my hole, eight men. This included the men that \SnCHS ANYWHERE, broke out the short shovel and started were in holes around my hole. I also I GRIP-LITE haa magnetized base. Sticks tight ( I to any metallic surface. Ideal Auto "Trouble to trim up my new home. The fellow discovered that Lieutenant Pelton of I Light." Leaves both hands free! Attached in that had been in the hole had left before the second platoon was in the S seconds by clips. No batteries to wear out deep |jGWesj»owerful shielded light. Protected^ I got back so I was now the sole owner. dugout right next to me. I turned my bulb. Also serves as emer- hole had report to . gency t The been dug by Germans over him and he sent it back AGENTS \light, tail- MAKE and naturally they were interested in to the company. light, $50 to $ tOO WEEKLY Sella at sigbt. | Every autoiat. protecting themselves from fire that came Our company headquarters, I learned, :e man, repair man a pron- 1 light. I pect. Sells at only $3.00. from the south. The southern bank of and the galley with Vogel were now W. Miller; "Suld 6 in 1 honrl"

[ C. H. Streator: "Selling 90 a seek easy!" Manycleaningup. the hole was well built up with the mud back in the neighborhood of Mont Blanc. that had been removed from the hole; So was Third Battalion Headquarters. Agents price of $2.00 C. O. D. 10 Day trial. Also details of the northern bank was bare. I cleaned The Germans shelled our positions all ey- making plan. State te and year of car. Satiafac- the hole out thoroughly and scooped out day long and we stuck close to our hole. » guaranteed or money back MAGNO CO.. 6 Beacon St. Dept. 1811 Boston, Mass. a good-sized hole under the northern Coming on toward dusk I saw a chow bank. All of my mud was thrown up on detail of four men come struggling up the bank nearest Germany. the hill with two containers of chow. PANTS MATCHED! Along in the afternoon the Germans One of the meanest jobs I know of is Throw Aivay Why That Coat and Vest? started to shell us and they laid carrying chow. The containers are heavy Save $25 or morel Let us match your coat them and vest with new trousers and save the down thick and fast. They knew the and awkward to carry. The handles are price of a new suit. Each pair tailored to your measure. (Average price, $8.50.) exact range of these holes and were plac- mean and cut your hands. Besides that Over 100,000 patterns. Mail sample of suit, or your vest, which will be re- ing their hits mighty close, as they fig- it is always customary to curse out the »rs turned together with FREE Sample for detail is :et»t your approval. ured we were in them. chow —either the food no good MATCH PANTS COMPANY I heard a shell hit fairly close in back or there is not enough of it. We would Dept. 86 2 0 W.Jackson Blvd., Chicago of me and looking over the side of my call them all kinds of dog-robbers, ac- hole I saw men lifting Captain McDev- cuse them of eating the food on the way, $125 per Week itt out of his hole. He had been hit or of selling part of it to some other but I couldn't see where. It must have outfit. in YOUR OWN Business! been around the head or shoulders be- This chow detail had traveled over Many men are earning $125 to $200 per week cause he could stand when supported, two miles to reach us across a very with the II I! Rug-Washer. C. B. Taylor, Phil- adelphia, writes: "I alone have often earned $75 with the help of Lieutenant Marco, who rough country that was under continu- in a day with myll-B Kng-Washer." C. J. White, Louisville, says: "$100 worth of business in was on his right, and the other lieuten- ous shellfire. When they put the con- days — never a complaint." C. H. Williams. Joliet, writes: "Gave up railroad job to buy ant was on his left. I noticed the cap- tainers down above my hole they were ll-B Cleaner. $.'!!I0 worth of work last month and business increasing." Frank Diedricb. tain's left arm was over the lieutenant's all in. writes: "I started business with one shoulder. They walked slowly down the I was the only sergeant around so it H-B Kug-Washer. Today I own large Milwaukee store with 4 machines.'" hill to the rear. fell to me to make distribution of the Thousands earning quick, easyprofits. Electricity does, I hollered at Marco. He turned around chow. It did not take long for the the work. Finishes rugs like new on customer's floor. and said that he was going back with bunch to gang around with open mess Write for booklet. the captain and that I was in charge. kits and cups. I appointed Frenchy and EASY TERMS I watched the three of them disappear Breen to dish out the chow, and it was Ine\pensive equipment. No shop necessary. Hundreds from sight and a feeling of loneliness real good stuff—bread, red beans and of customers in your vicinity and nearhy towns — resi- dences, hotels, offices, schools, clubs, theaters. Backed came over me. I never bothered much coffee. Vogel always gave us the best by $33,000,000 company. Used by U. S. Government. were the line. FRFF* Rnnk Send today (no obligation) for booklet illus- with officers either at the front or be- he had when we on * »»-«-» mmwm* tratinjr rujr washer ami U'llinir br>w you canearn lame profits at prires below other methods; how you can build a hind the lines but I always liked to As soon as the fellows around the hole permanent year around buMinens: and how you ran pay on easy terms. Eujoy a larger income. Mail a postcard or letter today —NOW. know that they were around. Whether were fed I looked around for a detail to H-B Co., W 6158 H. B. BSdg., Racine, Wis.

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carry the food over to the rest of the you got a couple of stripes on your arm company that was dug in along the woods you think you are somebody," or "If ." on the left. Frenchy and Breen agreed you didn't have those stripes . . to go but I needed one more. There Anyway, on this night Gunnery Ser- 12 was a fellow sitting to one side eating geant Bannerson had the appearance and MONTHS so I went over to him and said, "You go behavior of a very sick kitten with a -for TO PAY with these other two fellows when you bum paw. A few nights on the battlefield 1 GUARANTEED get through eating and help distribute and the hardness was all gone. I did QUALITY Direct Diamond Imiiortntio not let on I recognized him and later on v chow." jssCji^A volume sales enable us to He did not let on he heard me so I he limped back to the rear. I got Weed '&4yV? free Trial No CO l>. to oa\ h^Bf^^^&wOsSl on arrival. After (nil examina- I got leg called aside and said, "Here is some He said, "Yes, but a bum me ^'l^SWSi V»?$r "»» ami free trial, pay balance ' '! imI "' ' monthly pavllMiil- ligament and I can't walk very well." stuff that Vogel sent up to you. He said £jffiffij 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL I get a look at him. how to distribute it." bent over to good you would know \ Satisfaction Guaranteed. II* not the slipped a full cut of "..ml It was Gunnery Sergeant Bannerson, He then me $42*•* 50\ *£^X«'™l*t!S™ end'™ DR10- \ dep. .sit will I... ,,.fun,k.d. Wnll.n man who should really have been in Horse Shoe chewing tobacco, four pack- Gorgcollslace desiglil Guarantee baml with Durcluw. hand-pierced IM'-SIrN^ All Dealings Strictly Confidential platoon. This the first of Strike cigarettes and six charge of my was ages Lucky Solid White Gold ff' 1 time I had seen him since we left Suip- packages of Bull Durham. We were all TO u"rr«~; fik ~*..o^FREE ADULTS blue-whitedia- tobacco of every description and j* *. !/ pes. out of monds ami - Bannerson was supposed to be one this was a life saver. 1 Tench bin sa pphires of those real hard-boiled Marine ser- The chow this night was the first real s:i.40 a mo. geants right from Haiti. Back at Suip- hot food we had had since we left the pes he had been put in charge of the neighborhood of Suippes six days ago. platoon. He would get the fellows out Twice that night I led patrols of five in the field and pull the old boot-camp men out on our right flank to a distance drill sergeant's special of making the of four or five hundred yards. The sec- men stand on one leg and stick the other ond time out we were moving along the in front. would strut of a with a wide open space one out Then he edge woods DR12- down in front of them yelling, "Hold it on our left. Suddenly one of the men Dazzling cluste _ J atest st perfectly matched Gen- that way until I tell you to put it down said, "I saw somebody moving out in Istlc effect 18J uine blue - white dia- White Gold lad monds; L8K Solid White . . . . . place." . Straighten it up more! Worse that open with new "step Gold rinu. Looks like solitaire. mo than a bunch of old men! ... I don't We stopped. There were a number of lierv genuine bl STf.O S3.96 see how in hell they let a bunch of dark forms lying out there. We had cripples like you in the Marine Corps!" crossed this space the day before. He raised particular hell all the time. I said, "We had better go and look. The only way I got out of drilling under It might be a wounded man." him was by posing around as an em- It was a clear night and we could see officer. Captain quite a distance. had just got out bryo McElroy told me We DR?5 at Suippes that I had a commission com- of the shadows of the trees when a man $5750 ing but until it came I would have to rose about a hundred feet ahead of us Xewest But- 1SK Solid White Gold and started running terilv design, go along with the platoon in the regular toward the opposite of I8K Solid rini;, large Genuine blue- manner. That meant drill. But when woods on the north. White Gold en- ring white diamond gagement select Bannerson started to pull the boot-camp I shouted "Halt!" set with spark- in center; 2 genuine blue- smaller. dia- ling, genuine white diamond. stuff I was through. I stretched out He continued to run. I pulled out my blue-white dia- monds and 2 mond. S4.0S a sapphires on what McElroy told me and made believe automatic. The men raised their rifles to mo. shies. S4.71 :i month. that my commission was there and that their shoulders. I was simply waiting for the tailor in I said, "Wait—but you all keep him ." Paris to finish my uniform. covered . . Again I shouted "Halt!" fired Most of the oldtime sergeants were and $2450 his scared of officers. They had all been fed over head. He kept on going. DR9-The "Princess Pa. on that "please, Mr. Captain," and "will For the third time I shouted "Halt!" 14K Solid W hite Gold hand engraved case, guaranteed Lieutenant Stiff permit a sergeant to and when he didn't stop I gave the com- l.a-jewel movement. Engraved genuine "Wrlstncrat" flexible talk to him?" stuff, but when it came to mand "Fire!" bracelet to match. S1.96 a pfonttj. the new non-coms, both corporals and The men fired and the fleeing man A Beautiful Gift Box sergeants — how the oldtimers would dropped. We crossed the field to where with every order isk Solid White ride us! he was lying. Gold "Bridal blos- wedding ring; killed som" So by posing around like an officer I We had an American soldier. 5 genuine blue- whitediamonds. got by without having to drill under Ban- One of the fellows said, worried, nerson. "What the hell shall do we now?" ;L,<: John White from Mexico, Missouri, I said, "Nothing ... He should have ." one of the original 97th Company's halted . . bunch, called me down one day. He said, I stooped down to examine the man. DR31 Nationally "You look like a pouter pigeon going I noticed a shining object in his right s now 11 guaranteed Elgin or Waltham movement around like that with your chest stuck hand. It was a watch. I felt the pockets Warranted 14K White or Green Gold of his blouse. I could feel another filled 25-year case. Latest style llexi- out." watch, ble mesh wrist bund to match. S2.21 a mo jt"^ also bunch of , I said, "If sticking chest will a paper. Reaching in, I , out my ^f £ > keep me from sticking out my foot, I'm drew some of it out and saw that it was «o"i»rJ \ going to keep the chest out." French money. White was a private and I suppose if Then I said to the men, "Come on, I'll ." $3750 I had really been an officer he wouldn't show you something . . DR8- tell I led the have hesitated one minute to me way back to the place where Diamond wrist watch 14K Solid White Gold diamonds. 8 emeralds or what I looked like. were both raised, we first saw this man get up. There were engraved case; 2 genuine We sapphires. Guaranteed la-Jewel movement I'ierced militarily speaking, on Parris Island, and a number of our dead lying there. They flexible bracelet with sapphires or emeralds to match. S3 04 a month. to him I would always be just a guy were on their backs, their blouses were Established 1S95 from the company. Try to be military opened and the pockets of their breeches with him or any of the fellows I was were turned inside out. ROYAL watch °c o. raised with and it was, "Just because (To be continued) ' ADDRESSIDEPT. 14 y. 170 BROADWAY, NY> }

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buck private, with the latter greatly pre- numerical majority of the 435 members dominating: of Congress. He expects to see the Lamar Jeffers, Alabama Senate follow at no remote date. Lister Hill, Alabama The present dominant group of non- Lewis W. Douglas, Arizona service men the country over will have Philip D. Swing, California passed long before the new generation Lloyd Thurston, Iowa reaches the zenith of its influence. It *Ed. H. Campbell, Iowa must be remembered that the average Clifford R. Hope, Kansas *W. P. Lambertson, Kansas American soldier in the World War was Elva R. Kendall, Kentucky about 22 years old. Many soldiers were A. Piatt Andrew, Massachusetts as young as fifteen, and lads of seven- Wm. P. Connery, Jr., Massachusetts teen and eighteen served by the thou- William K. Kaynor, Massachusetts sands. Richard B. Wigglesworth, Massachu- As to when the World War will pro- setts vide the United States with the first of BRONZE TMETS John W. McCormack, Massachusetts a succession of Presidents—the not dis- Honorrolls«markers Roy 0. Woodruff, Michigan tant future will answer that query. Take tvblees^ Bird J. Vincent, Michigan Building Arches the case of Private James Buchanan Clarence J. McCleod, Michigan memorial flagpdlesetg who served in the war of 1812. It was Melvin J. Maas, Minnesota WrifeforfreeBrochure - Victor Christgau, Minnesota not until forty-four years afterwards John E. Rankin, Mississippi that he was elected President, although Memorial Department Jacob L. Millican, Missouri two of his generals got to the White UJERpUHCrrY ORNAMENIALfe9N(p Dewey Short, Missouri Z637-27'»AYE.50 MIKKEAPOUJ MIRK House much earlier. General Andrew Robert G. Simmons, Nebraska Jackson was elected to the Executive Samuel S. Arentz, Nevada Mansion in 1828. General William H. Harold G. Hoffman, New Jersey Harrison followed in the election of Andrew L. Somers, New York Clarence E. Hancock, New York 1840—and when President Harrison died Cash inlfbiir Francis D. Culkln, New York very shortly thereafter, he was succeed- Wm. F. Brunner, New York ed by a man who had recruited a com- Hamilton Fish, Jr., New York pany of volunteers for the war of 181 2, Pocket (mMjfiai) Robert L. Bacon, New York John Tyler. Fiorello H. La Guardia, New York Another war gave two more generals SELL LONGWEAR Mayhew Walnwright, New York TROUSERS and BREECHES J. the right of way over Private Buchanan. To John C. Speaks, Ohio Mechanics, Clerks. Chauffeurs. Truckmen. Sports- While Zachary Taylor had served as a men, and others. Every man buys these wonderful Roy G. Fitzgerald, Ohio major in the war of 181 2 and as briga- I.ik' r isf rrmmrtiuns. 2 1 hour ,ie iv.tv Kuaninteed W.- mmnl., William E. Hess, Ohio Writa T°DAY f°r FR dier general in the Indian Wars it was Dept' AT ^ i'S al' Grant E. Mouser, Jr., Ohio LONGWEAR TROUSERS as a major general, a grade he attained BROOME ST. Chester C. Bolton, Ohio 489 NEW YORK. N. V. Wilbur Cartwright, Oklahoma in the Mexican War, that he set up his WANT a new Jed Johnson, Oklahoma P. C. in the national capital. When he business profes- Franklin F. Korell, Oregon died in office he was followed by Vice- sion of your own, Benjamin M. Golder, Pennsylvania with all the trade President Fillmore and Fillmore by Laurence H. Watres, Pennsylvania DOYOU you can attend Brigadier General Franklin Pierce, who to? Then be- George A. Welsh, Pennsylvania come a foot correctionist, and in a few weeks was elected. W'hen General Pierce ended J. Russell Leech, Pennsylvania earn big income in service fees—not medical his term, Private Buchanan stepped in. nor chiropody—easy terms for home training, J. Mitchell Chase, Pennsylvania no further capital The Civil War produced not one, but needed, no goods to buy, no J. Howard Swick, Pennsylvania agency. Address William R. 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the__ Write i days. They glared at visitors from the plaza. In front of them around the \ rill tell you i tn w ,i w v I got deaf a h<> posts to their villages. Indian squaws plaza ran a stone coping. In the night I hear. Addre Medicated Ear Drum GEO.P.WAY.ArtificialEarDrumCo.dnc.) held in contempt the effeminate paleface General Tinio and five or six hundred 115 Hoffman Bids,. Detroit. Mich. squaws. An order from Washington, and Filipinos, well armed, jumped the town. army husband and wife "changed sta- They got commanding positions in the tions", which might mean a ride of hun- buildings. They thought they had Park- MADDEN DELUXE Double Action dreds of miles. Parker mentions how er's two score pocketed. SAFETY RAZOR children — were put in panniers papoose But "Charge em!" Parker took the Including Stropper and 12 Blades fashion on pack horses for such jour- offensive, plainsman's tactics. Indian with Five Year Guarantee Standard Price your dealer or neys. World War veterans who com- tactics, as he divided his men into groups. $3.00 at MADDEN SAFETY RAZOR CORP'N. plained of the slow postal service to And every one of these Texans was a 26 Cortlandt St. New York, N.Y. France will be interested to know that sharpshooter. in 1S81 Parker had 31 letters in one One lot secured a plunging fi-e from baUh from his wife, and 42 in one batch the tower of the cathedral. Others crept in 1900 when he was chasing Aguinaldo forward under cover of the coping to in the Philippines. storm the Filipino sniping nests. Two hundred cartridge shells in a heap told ) Railway Mail Clerk ( ) Meat Inspector ( P. O. Parker's last Indian fighting was in where one Texan had found a vantage j ) Clerk ( ) Special Agent |( ) Post-office Laborer (investigator) the chase of Geronimo, the wily Apache, point for nailing every head that ap- ) File Clerk ( ) Steno-Typist Matron in 1885, through the canyons, over the peared. ( i Immigrant Insp. General Clerk I ) City Mail Carrier i mountains and across They drove out of town any Filipinos Chauffeur-Carrier i ) Border Patrol . Skilled Laborer Typist the sands in Arizona they did not capture. The merit of the ) Watchman Seamstressi The Last ) Postmaster Steno-Secretary and then over the success was in the odds, and also in j Bad Indian the ) RFDr Carrier Auditor Instruction Burt St. Ma. Mexican border. In price so unflinchingly paid in dead and , 110, Lllil, at qualifying for positio his wake Geronimo wounded before we finished the job. I left murdered prospectors and settlers, never knew a ( Continued on page 74

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35 Days tight in which cool individual headwork keep Indians in order but to put the "I reduced from 48 inches to 38 and steady nerve were better displayed. fear of God in out- inches in 35 days," says R. E. Any soldier of old or new Army could laws and desperadoes Johnson, of Akron, O., "just by A jter Horse be proud to rest his fame on Vigan. rp, . who battened on wearing a Director Belt. Stom- 1 nieves _ ach now firm, doesn't sag and I both settlers and In feel fine." Parker was on the Mexican border with dians. Once after the The Director Belt gets at Pershing, in 1916, commanding a cavalry riding 250 miles in five days he came cause of fat and quickly re moves it by its gentle, kneading, brigade. He commanded and trained the in with the thieves as his prisoners and massaging action on the abdo- men, which causes the fat to be 3 2d Division before the horses they had taken. "Things have dissolved and absorbed. Thou- went overseas e changed since those days," says Parker. - H sands have proved it and doctors In Later ^ recommend it as the natural way was training the 85th "Then our bad men 'went West'. Now to reduce. Stop drugs, exercises Davs and dieting. Try this easy way. ^ when retiring age they recruit our robbers and holdup men." Sent on Trial came. His was the heartbreak Let us prove our claims. of some of the older men To those who served under him there We'll send a Director for trial. who on account of age were not sent to was never such a soldier as Colonel If you don't get results you owe nothing. You don't risk a penny. France—when he was still so young in Ranald Mackenzie, who commanded the "Write for trial offer, doctors' en- dorsements and letters from spirit and mind. But the rule against Fourth. In after atsers. Mail the coupon NOW! LANDON & WARNER age held. And he received the Distin- The Man years P ark e r and 332 S. La Salle St., Chicago, III. guished Service Medal; and will always T., w j other Mackenzie 1 hey Loved . , ,• . [~~Landon & Warner, Dept.B-33,332 S. LaSalle, Chicago"! be Jim Parker, a very distinctive person- trained lieutenants, obligation on my part : cost or ! Gentlemen Without ality. He says what he thinks; for Jim now themselves com- offer. I please send me details of your trial Parker was never one to mumble his manders, would think in a crisis: "What Name- words. would Mackenzie do in my place?" and again, after action, "Mackenzie told me Address.. But back to the frontier days when to do it!" Thus precept and example young lieutenants helped not only to make tradition. Be A Detective Make Secret Investigations Earn Big Money. Work home or travel Fascinating work. Experience unnecessary "Bah'angiga DETECTIVE Particulars Write FREE, ( Continued from page 21) GEO. L. WAGNER, 2190 Broadway, N.Y. general rejoicing, but little reading could before going to China. The sergeant be done. It was almost time for taps recognized the ritual in the church as a and the little garrison was out of candles part of the natives' spiritual preparation AGENTS MS anyhow. Long before midnight the com- for an earthquake, and attached no im- by wearing men's fine Felt Hats and showing them mand was asleep, save for rive sentries portance to the reported departure of to friends. Smartest styles. Latest shades. $2 to $5 patrolling their posts with rifles at an the women. Sentries continued to walk saving on every hat. Samples FREE. Write! easy right shoulder. their posts and call the hours: "Three Taylor Hat Mfrs., Desk Cincinnati, & Cap S-425, 0. The moon rose, illuminating the bare o'clock, and all-l-l's well!" Old soldiers plaza and glinting on the restless surface had a sonorous way of singing it out. of the bay. The main body of the com- All was well indeed, thought the wily pany was quartered in the tribunal, on Abayan. now mingling with groups about the east side of the plaza, with two the church, now gliding unseen into the FREE squads under Sergeants Betron and bordering jungle. The coffin, so rever- Markley in nipa huts about fifty yards ently carried into the chapel, was filled distant from the tribunal and from each with razor-edged bolo knives. The other. Near the main barracks the mourners were picked bolomen from the eighty prisoners were confined in two forces of Vicente Lucban. Likewise were RADIO tents. On the west side of the plaza was the eighty "tax dodgers" in the Sibley the church, adjoined by a convent build- tents by the main barracks. This made CATAIOG ing in which slept the three officers and a combined force of about three hun- the reliefs of the guard off duty. Back dred. Four hundred more "regulars" of the church tumbled the swift and from Lucban's army crept during the for latest Write deep Balangiga River. The bay was on night to the very edge of the jungle sur- catalog- just off the south. To the east and west the rounding the town. Additionally there the p r o s s—148- matted jungle sloped toward the sum- were the men of the village, all trained page book offering mits of mountains buried in mist. in the use of the vicious native knife. was outnumbered twelve to hundreds of radio During the night the sentries noted C Company several things at variance with the rou- one and suspected nothing. > ar g a ins — New tine of life in Balangiga. Toward eve- There was slight need for reveille. The Huniless Screen Grid, A. all- C, ning a funeral procession, with a coffin men were up at the break of day de- electric and battery operated sets borne on the shoulders of six strong men, vouring their mail. Every bunk was —beautiful consoles, accessories, had filed into the church. All night strewn with letters. Musician of the parts and kits—all at wholesale there were comings and goings about the Guard George E. Meyer had received prices. house of worship which gave forth the thirty parcels, including photographs of sounds of chants and songs. his parents in Minneapolis. At six o'clock Complete sets $1595 Private Gamlin told the sergeant of he put them down to sound mess call. as low as - - the guard that he thought the women Cook Walls had the grub ready. The Chicago Salvage Stock Store and children were leaving town. C Com- line formed at his kitchen in the rear of stranger to the islands, the main barracks. The men who lived 509 So. State St. Dept. 122 Chicago pany was no having served in the Lj^cn campaign in the barracks carried their mess-kits

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to the long table shaded by a fly tent policeman's size. But Burke, who rolled BEFOREYouBuyJEWEiRy! nearby. The squads of Sergeant Betron on the floor with the big chief of police, and Sergeant Markley seated themselves was a giant. They crashed against a cot, on the ground in the shade of their nipa and clutching instinctively, Burke felt huts. Sergeant of the Guard Scharer. his fingers close about a familiar object. Corporal of the Guard Hickman, Pri- He could hardly believe his eyes when vate Bertholf and Francisco, the native he saw in his hand a pistol that belonged servant of Captain Connell, started to to the lone hospital corps man with the consume their meal in the convent build- company. With this instrument of Provi- ing. The officers were in their rooms on dence Burke finished the chief and shot the, second floor of the convent. Meyer's assailant just in time to save The only members of the scattered the boy's life. Little Meyer picked up garrison under arms were the sentries, his own revolver and helped the corporal now reduced to three. Only to meals to clear the hut of bolo wielders. were the men permitted to go without The last man in the mess line was loaded rifles. If ten men went bathing Sergeant Markley, who had acted as in the surf, five stood on the beach as a barrack guard at his hut while the others guard. As the soldiers ate the volunteer went to the kitchen. He was holding out workers from Balangiga began to appear his plate when he heard the church bells on the plaza — rather punctually, it and the battle yell. Bolting across a seemed to Sergeant Betron as he passed corner of the plaza toward his shack, them on his way to the mess line. The he felled a native policeman with a eighty prisoners lounged about their smash in the face with his tin cup and tents within a few yards of the piles of made for the scene of the fight that was working bolos. picks and shovels. raging about the ladder of the hut. One Sergeant Betron was about the first boloman was on the high porch cleaving man to finish his breakfast. Leaving his at the soldiers below. With a running 2 IB MAIDENLANE.NEWYORK comrades in the shade of the hut he leap Markley landed beside him, took started to recross the plaza to the main a cut from the knife on his left hand, barracks. A moment later the native while a blow from his right fist sent chief of police, with three or four of his boloman and bolo spinning from the AGENTS i2 AN HOUR If you want a chance to make men, strolled past the shack. He spoke porch. Dashing inside the sergeant saw $2 an hour—in spare or full time to Corporal Burke and the others who four Filipinos hacking at Private Vo- just send me your name. I need men and women at once in every lo- his cot were still eating and moved on a few bayda, surprised while seated on cality to act as my Confidential Rep- No yards to where Private Gamlin was on rolling his after-breakfast cigarette. resentatives. Easy, pleasant work. experience or capital needed. I furnish post. Markley 's bunk was the nearest to the everything and show you how. The chief let Gamlin pass him, and door. Grasping his rifle, which was $45 First 2 Days then flinging himself upon the sentry's loaded both in the chamber and in the Dueat cleared $45 the first 2 days. Mrs. back, wrenched loose his rifle. Immedi- magazine, the sergeant shot one native Kelley. $2G.23 in one day. Van Allen, $125 in one week. Earnings start at once. Don't ately the bells of the church tower began and the others dived through a window, miss this chance. Territories going fast. Write today. Mills, Pres., 6764 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio to ring furiously and the terrible native colliding with Private Swanson, who had Albert battle yell broke from every quarter. chosen that means of entry. The police chief was a man of enor- Saving the five rounds in his magazine mous build. He threw Gamlin to the for a greater emergency, Markley threw Oen/thinq ground and rushed him with the bayo- a cartridge into the chamber of his rifle net. The agile American dodged, how- and, killing another attacker on the out- ?r Parties Entertainments I ever, and regaining his feet, eluded the side, covered the entry of Private Swan- including JH^^w chief's immediate followers and started son. Leaving Swanson to protect the Decorations- Paper Novelties Noisemakers - Confetti etc. at a run toward the main barracks for rear, Sergeant Markley returned to the k another gun. front door where Corporal Irish, gashed GEUMAN BROS. Minneapolis.Minn. In an instant Corporal Burke took in and bleeding, was on the ground defend- the extent of the attack. Bolomen were ing the ladder against two men armed streaming from the church. Others with great clubs and one armed with a swarmed upon the empty barracks, bolo. Markley shot the boloman and the where most of the rifles and ammunition others ran. Irish was dragged up the were. Others swung their great knives steps and a third rifle went into action right and left among the men at the in the shack. mess table. Believing thefhselves to be the only "Get your rifles, boys!" yelled Burke, members of the company alive, the Ex-Service Men the six-foot bam- maintained a continuous fire, using and bounded toward three Get Preference boo ladder that led to the floor of the one rifle until it became too hot and elevated hut. He was met by a band of then picking up another. In this way to bolomen led by the police chief. Luck- they cleared the region of their nipa $1260 ily, the chief, in his excitement, forgot fortress. Presently the unmistakable $3400 Year to turn the cut-off and could not fire the pinggg! pinggg! of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle. Burke. Musician Meyer, Driscoll from Corporal Burke's hut led to the Become Railway and Armini managed to mount the lad- discovery that some of the Americans der, with the natives after them. A were holding out there. The pistol firing Postal Clerks slash of a bolo disembovvled Armini. The had not been audible above the din. Steady Work / " • i / Franklin Institute top of Driscoll's head was cut off. Mu- Markley decided to reinforce Burke. n "aid / Dept. C192 Rochester N.Y sician for his pistol, but There he found Sergeant Betron and charge, 32 Meyer reached Vacations / Rush to me free of ( ) A full descrlp- a native policeman's club three or four others who escaped / page book with 1 blow from a had position checked below : Comrnon ' i ion .if the Government his at the education ' (2) A list of U. S. numbed his arm. He threw up other the slaughter mess tent and whom in- sufficient .lobs obtainable; (C) Send full arm in time to parry a bolo thrust. Burke had provided with rifles saved by formation describing preference to ex- Malt service men. in the head and then in his courage from the enemy. the C U Wounded next As to $2700, .y°- - Postal Clerk (S1900 , o°d C? — «>Hw.» the side, the bugler grappled with his senior non-commissioned officer, Betron SURE / .... PMI.IHM Clerk

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Hearing a shout in the neighborhood of own breakfast when he heard the church the convent Betron thought it might be bells and the native yell. His first an officer, and started thither with his thought was of an earthquake or a tidal little command, divided into two parties, wave. Then he saw the prisoners seize one led by himself and one by Sergeant the working bolos and rush the mess Markley. tent, falling upon the men at table and A fire from a skirmish line at the edge striking them down as they attempted of the woods raked the Americans and to flee, using their mess-kits as shields Betron was wounded in the leg. The against the heavy knives. Mumby then voice proved to be that of Corporal thought of his rifle on the second floor Hickman, who reported all officers dead. of the barracks. Major Griswold, the medical officer, and He dashed for the barracks, which Lieutenant Bumpus had been cut down also was alive with natives. Private in their quarters. Warned by his loyal Booth ran just ahead of him. At the —also an at- tractive array servant, Captain Connell had put up a top of the stairs Booth reeled back dead of beautiful fierce fight with his fists. Beating off a from a bolo blow. Mumby dodged and consoles — acces- sories, parts, kits. ring of savages he had leaped from a closed with a native who had seized a Moat complete second story window, landing at the feet rifle from the rack. As they struggled "<'//«/f ^ catalog in radio of two bolomen who finished him. for possession of the gun re- 196 pages of un- Mumby usual price values. Hickman also jumped from the sec- ceived a blow from behind which Write for it today! ond story. He saw Private Bertholf knocked him down the stairs. He landed m on his working frantically at his rifle, which hands and knees and two natives ALLIED* RADIO had jammed. Hickman was a rangy made a grab for him, but Mumby threw CCRPORATI O N Tennessee mountaineer who had been them off and darting into the kitchen recommended for the Congressional seized a butcher knife and knife. f 7M W ST^ Dej>t^ll, CHICACOj a bread Medal of Honor in China. He seized Three natives were on him. Slashing 10,000 Women "Cushionslhe the piece, and while Bertholf and Fran- the foremost with the butcher knife, Jedlihea cisco, the servant, stood off the bolomen Mumby vaulted the counter where a NeaT You Want with shovels, repaired the rifle and few moments before he had been serv- This Invention opened fire. He piled the dead in front ing breakfast, the infuriated Filipinos of him and the attackers withdrew to in pursuit. provide themselves with firearms at the First Sergeant Randies, an old Indian main barracks. fighter skilled in the use of the saber, Hickman told Betron that the river was defending himself with a Japanese MAKE $90 A WEEK EASY behind him was full of natives. There sword cane which he always carried. Something new, just out, a whirlwind seller— must have been a hundred of them in Mumby took his place beside Randies the amazing Kristee Comfort Foot-Mat. Great- est aid to housewives of the age. Rests the feet, takes boats, closing that avenue of retreat. and the two backed off, fighting, until strains and aches away when washing, Ironing, doing dishes, cooking, etc. Made of durable, soft, velvety pure Several fights were going on with sol- they reached a field oven where water to sponge rubber. Women everywhere welcome with open diers who had been driven into the wash the breakfast gear was heating. arma and buy on sight! Simply show it and take orders. CDCC OUTFIT Everything needed to start right out ri» tK WUiril making money, given Free. No experi- water. The Americans on shore opened They withstood their assailants until ence needed. We show yon bow- Send for Catalog of this and 47 other Quality Rubber ProUoetB. Direct from Akron, the fire and the natives began to scatter, up- one climbed the oven and buried an ax Rubber City. Write uui.-k fur FREE Outfit and all particulars. KRISTEE MANUFACTURING CO., 171 Bar St., Akron, Ohio setting some of their boats. One fellow, in the skull of the first sergeant. HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS Cbeap swimming especially well, made a fine This left two bolomen facing Mumby. Fur Finders, Money Makers target. After missing one shot Private He sank his butcher knife to the hilt in Considine had raised his rifle to fire the chest of one and could not draw it Dog Feed. Remedies. Collars. other with Hunting, Fishing, Camping again when the swimmer shouted, "Don't out. He struck the the Equipment. shoot, boys, I'm one of you!" It was bread knife, but the thin blade buckled. Private the sole survivor of the The blow threw the native off balance, AGENTS WA.\'TF.D~ Claas, water fights. however, and Mumby made his escape CATALOG The beach was defended by a skir- and joined Corporal Burke. KASKASKIA, Ml 21, Hcrrick, III. mish line of bolomen lying behind a Sergeant John D. Closson, a power- 1 TheMusicalSensation ripple of sand. Sergeant Markley de- ful man, was one of a half dozen who Hf III ployed with two men and opened a had glanced up in time to escape from 1 111 ACCORDEON flanking fire driving the skirmishers into the mess tent before the charging bolo- the beach cleared and men had reached it. He gained the back 'Mi lip{PlayedbyMusic Rolls the woods. With several barotas in their hands, for the stairway of the barracks at the same Without any knowledge of Music or Notes, you play in a few minutes, as perfect as an Artist, latest hits, songs and dances. first time a chance of life, though a slim time as the natives and surged upstairs Every instrument guaranteed. Circular No. J and roll list mailed tree. TREASURE SALES CO. chance, was opened to the Americans by with them. They made no attempt to 1600 BOSTON ROAD NEW YORK the hazard of a retreat in boats to Basey. bolo the sergeant but went straight for Good Old Fashioned Yet Betron and Markley had no the rifles. Closson got a gun first, how- thought of abandoning their comrades ever, but was downed by a crowd of Eyesight who might survive the bloody work at natives who tore the weapon from his The NATURAL EYESIGHT SYSTEM the main barracks. Sparing only one hands. Saves sight, rebuilds eyes and makes victory man. Private Mumby, to guard the boats, Regaining his feet Closson began to over glasses possible. use Now in in 30 the two sergeants, with eight men, ad- swing his fists. He received four bolo countries. vanced upon the plaza, firing. There they wounds- and one from a stilleto, which Always Sold on 30 Days' Approval met Sergeant Closson and a scattered severed a nerve, depriving him of con- The NATURAL EYE NOR- force of eight or nine wounded men, all trol of the left side of his face. But MALIZE!) i> the revolutionary invention which makes it easy that remained of fifty from the battle the sergeant snatched a rifle from a to use the Natural Eyesight that had raged about the mess tents and native and sprang through a window. System in y r home. the barracks. Landing on the ground twenty feet No Drugs or Medicines of Any Kind Private Mumby, who at the beginning below he was rushed by two bolomen. Scud for FULL and FHKK information telling how of the action was on detail as kitchen Closson struck one of them with the thousand* have solved Iheir eye problems at home. police, had just reached to dish up his rifle, breaking the stock at the smallest NATURAL EYESIGHT INSTITUTE, Inc. Dspl. 1 I 9 F Los Angeles, Calif. 76 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly )

part. The firing mechanism was unim- mand of the united force, guessed this Own Your Own paired, however, and he shot number and prepared to take to the boats. He Bi^flonci-MahmSf two. Noticing that the magazine was ordered a reconnaissance for wounded. Business loaded the sergeant turned the cut-off A few were found and carried to the A NEW BUSINESS IN YOUR TOWN and reloaded the chamber from his belt. beach. A little water and hardtack was A delightful, dignified and fascinating business. Make and sell Cnspettes. Delicious confection. Young This shot disposed of the next native stowed in the boats, and the company and old like them. Come again and again for more. Easy material plentiful and to make. I supply everything. Raw who approached. Then a crowd charged records secured. Bolts were drawn from cheap. Profits big. No town too small. Start now. Closson and he turned loose the five the rifles the survivors could not take QUICK SUCCESS POSSIBLE tZt™mf£l: at parks, carnivals, fairs, etc.; open shots in the magazine. with them, the pieces being thrown in crowded streets; surging throngs a little retail store; or, begin at home; wholesale to stores, grocers, games, picnics, waysido stands. Fighting wafs in progress all about the the river and the bolts put in the boats bakers, druggists, parks, baseball PROFITS barracks. Here a man defended himself to be disposed of at sea. These prepa- EXCEPTIONAL ( ay^ ge) ^onllVe^Vy California man. New Jersey $4,000 profits in less than 2 months. with a shovel, there an American wielded rations stirred the natives to greater Revel of Michigan wrote: "Made $25 on my first da/'. A. Leib of Montreal wrote; "My sales averaged $400 per week". a bolo. Cook Walls in a bloody apron activity. The firing increased and the WE START YOU IN BUSINESS ^£33 his wail of war conches presaged an attack. took stand at the foot of the flag- and raw material. Little capital starts you. No experience needed. staff beside a pile of stones which he At 7:40 o'clock Sergeant Betron stood WRITE FOR "BOOK OF FACTS" hurled with superb effect. Considine on the beach looking at his watch, wait- fought with a baseball bat. Sergeant ing for Sergeant Markley, who had Betron maintained a deadline about his taken a party to try to burn the town. person with a carpenter's adze. The rest were in the boats, five in num- Drenched with blood, Closson made ber. The damp wood failed to ignite, his way to the main entrance of the and after Private Wingo and Musician barracks. There Considine with his ball Meyer had lowered the flag from its tall bat and De Graffenreid and Manire staff on the plaza, the men returned to AVERAGING with spades were trying to break down the beach. Markley tossed the colors to 00 the door which the natives held from Betron. »000. pulled said within. Closson fired twice through the "I Old Glory down," PROFIT FOR 3 door and the four soldiers forced it and young Wingo. SUMMER MONTHS fought their way upstairs to the squad- "Good boy!" replied Betron, and Report July 24 1929 rooms. Closson passed a rifle to Manire. rapidly assigned the Markley party to EAKINS CO., E R NABOR 1143 High St., Springfield, Ohio MASSACHUSETTS He got another for himself and gave boats. Mail at ones, your Book of Facts Considine the one with a broken stock. The seaworthiness of a native barota. A native swept Considine off his feet, or out-rigged dug-out canoe, depends and raised a bolo to end him. "I'm greatly upon the skill with which it is gone!" cried the man who was down. handled. Fortunately the bay was calm. "No, you're not!" yelled De Graffenreid, Sergeant Betron's party numbered Represent the Carlton line as he picked up a gun from the floor and thirty-four men, thirty of whom were CENTS without waiting to raise it to his shoulder wounded. Several were helpless. ^Americas best Vayiny Proposition/ dispatched the adversary of Considine. By airline along shore the distance ~~ SAMPLES FREE Three or four more men struggled to Basey is about six miles, but the I^SELL FROM A upstairs and the melee increased in vio- journey by water, necessitating the MILLION DOLLAR STOCK^ lence. rounding of a jutting headland, makes Shirt*. Neckwear and Underwear. •' "For God's sake get him!" it four or five times that far. The men No Substitutions. 4 Hour Shipping Service. Highest Commissions. The cry came from Private Buhrer, were not two hundred yards from shore Bonuses. Profit Sharing. native throat. when the perilous nature of their under- Biggest Company. who clutched one by the Mail Coupon. But another savage was stabbing Buhrer taking was brought home to them. Na- CARLTON MILLS '^'jj tives with a bayonet and a third swung his rushed upon the beach and began 114 FIFTH AVE.

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NOVEMBER, 1929 77 Deformities of the Back ^alangiga Thousands of Remarkable Cases ( Continued from page 77) An old lady, 72 years of so slow that Sergeant Markley with one No survivor has age, who suffered for many been able to give much years and was absolutely man took the smallest and swiftest of of an account of how he passed that helpless, found relief. A the remaining three boats and pushed night. man who was helpless, un- able to rise from his chair, ahead in search of succor. At 3:30 o'clock in the morning a was riding horseback and This so sentry playing tennis within a burdened the two barotas left paced the old Moro sea-wall at year. A little child, para- behind that it was necessary to cast Basey. The tide was out. The sentry lyzed, was playing about overboard the halted. the house after wearing a Philo Burt Appliance bodies of the dead, a three weeks. We have successfully treated over thousand rounds of ammunition and What was that croaking noise that fifty-seven thousand cases in the past 25 years. several rifles. The wind increased and sounded remotely like a human voice? 30 DAYS' TRIAL FREE white-capped seas broke over the boats The tropical night is full of eerie We will prove its value in your own case. There continuously. All were in agony from noises. is no reason why you should not accept our offer. The photographs show how light, cool, their salt-drenched wounds and from "Help, for Christ's sake! For Christ's elastic and easily adjusted thirst. The necessity sake help!" the Philo Burt Appliance for bailing left is —how different from the little time to man the paddles. Still believing that his ears deceived old torturous plaster, lea- In this situation a fleet him, the ther or steel jackets. of native sentry uncovered his dark lan- Every sufferer with a canoes appeared in their rear, filled tern and looked upon the water. weakened or deformed spine with warriors owes it to himself to brandishing bolos and A few rods away on a shoal were two investigate thoroughly. spears. Sergeant Betron ordered the boats, filled with half-naked and appar- Price within reach of all. paddlers to rest their arms. When the ently unconscious men. Send For Our Free Book Describe your case; it will enemy was within easy rifle range he They were Betron and his twenty-two aid us in giving definite in- gave the word to fire. One volley threw survivors, of whom three were dying. formation at once. the attackers into confusion. They Four of the number, all who could stand, PHILO BURT MFG. CO. dropped two miles astern and eventually had hold of the prow of one of the 92-11 Odd Fellows Temple disappeared. boats and were dragging it around in a JAMESTOWN, N. Y. By evening the case of the men in circle, while one chanted with a tongue the boats was desperate. Several were so swollen from thirst that he could not Agents $8 a Day unconscious, others out of their heads close his mouth: from pain and thirst. The last drop of "Help, for Christ's sake. For Christ's Made By Many of Our Sales Agents water had been rationed out and drunk. sake help!" Introduce the most wonderful new line guaran- teed hosiery you ever saw. 126 styles and colors of Only five remained who were capable of men's, women's and children's finest pure thread Japanese silk, all fancy combinations of paddling or using a rifle. Sergeant Be- There were five other survivors, in- Bilk and lisle, novelty and sport, full fashioned, chiffon, etc. Muet tron attempted a landing for water, but cluding the Filipino, Francisco. Bertholf satisfy or new bose free. SILK HOSE GIVEN was driven off by bolomen who followed and four companions who had drifted Our plan gives you line Silk hose the boats on shore. ashore with their swamped boat were for your own use. Write today for sales plan. We deliver or you de- liver --- suit yourself. No experi- Just as the sun began to sink beneath attacked by natives and two of their ence necessary. Spare time satis- factory. Credit griven. Extra the horizon a steam launch was sighted. number killed. Bertholf, Marak and bonus. Mills of Minn, writes. "I made $120 in one week." Mn. Betron displayed his flag, fired a volley, Francisco gathered a few cocoanuts, Gibb of l'a. writes "I sold $100 the first day." 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Write quick for Free associations. Here it is: Armistice Day, Nov. 11. For information re- Demonstrator and territory Offer. Send NOW. garding place of meeting address S. B. Eckert, ''Adjutants of all American Legion Home Filter Co., 311 Central Ave., Bay City, Mich. 1608 Walnut St., Philadelphia. posts: Will you: please check over the U. S. Gen. Hosp. 31—All patients, enlisted membership roster of your post to see men, officers, and nurses interested in reunion in BE AN OIL EXPERT July. 1930, at Carlisle, Pa., address Mrs. Emma NEEDED if any former 328th Field Artillery men Voigtsberger, U. S. Vets. Hosp., Perry Point. PTtrained MEN refiners, sales- s\, are members and, if so, send their names Md.. or Miss Magdalena Shumpp, 35 S. Bed- ^Geologists, drillers, easy, ford st., Carlisle, Pa. men are at a premium ! New, addresses to and me?" Base Hosp. 66—Plans for second annua! practical way to learn at home- reunion being made. Former members and pa- From reports we have received re- spare time ! tients who are interested in reunion and pro- Booklet! garding notices in this column, we learn Write today! FREE posed association, address W. D. Frost, 2955 .Petroleum Engineering University Decatur ave., New York City. that these notices are of mutual benefit Dept. in, Fort Wayne, Ind. Base Hosp. 116— Eleventh annual reunion at to the veteran societies and to the Le- Hotel McAlpin, New York City, Nov. 9. Ad- gion. So, Post Adjutants, we ask your dress Dr. Torr W. Harmer, 416 Marlborough st., Boston, Mass. co-operation in connection with the fol- 104th Field Hosp., 26th Div.—To complete lowing announcements, and subsequent roster, former members are requested to send 0C names and addresses to John W. Dunlap, 63 1700°°J3000 announcements which will appear in Then Pennacook st., Manchester, N. H. and Now: Co. L, 132d Inf., 33d Div.—All former mem- w A YEAR. v bers are requested to send names and addresses Seventh Div.—Annual reunion in Wash- ^ JFox- Lee Reuter, 4005 North ave., Chicago, FE.^ to W. LI ington. D. C about the middle of November. 111. Reunion in November. For detailed information address: Maj. J. T. Hq. Co., 329th Inf., 83d Div.—Former mem- Harris. Q. M. C, Washington, D. C. ; Capt. A. bers interested in proposed reunion, address Freeman. 1808 Chestnut st.. Philadelphia ; Col. E. A. Papworth. 18 Union st., Oberlin, Ohio. Mclntee, Recruiting Station. Newark, N. J., or U. S. Government Jobs Bttv. B, 112th Heavy F. A. Annual re- A. L. Millmore, Board of Education, 31 Green — union in the Artillery Armory, Camden, N. J., s*: Newark. P°Stal Nov. 13. Address Sgt. M. L. Atkinson, secy.. 27th Div.—"New York's Own" National ' ^RANkIiVinVtITUTE Artillery Armory, 9th and Wright ave., Cam- cterZr^lerKS. Rochester, N. V. Guard Division will hold a convention in Lon- / Dept. C 181, den. Mail Carriers. I don, England, in May, 1930, followed by a Sirs . Rush to me without Batteries E and F, 113th F. A. Joint re- tour of Belgian and French battlefields. For — Postoffice I union at Lenoir, N. C., in 1930. For particu- charge, (1) 32 page book particulars address C. Pemberton Lenart, secy.- tj lars address Maj. L. B. Crayton, 1st Natl. Clerks. / g Govern treas., 100 State St., Albany, N. Y. with ]igt of Bank bldg., Charlotte, N. C, or Sgt. J. C. Census .1 32d Div.— Former members are invited to }nen^ j0bs obtainable and Powell, secy., 2030 st., Charlotte. attend dedication of Haan Memorial Bay Clerks. General p full information regarding in Arlington Cemetery, near Washington. D. Btty\ E, 122o F. A.—Reunion and Armistice celebration Nov. 16 in Armory ballroom, Chi- U> Ex-Service C. Nov. 7th. Divisional reunion in Milwaukee, Fx-Service » preference Wise, Sept., 1930. Address Byron Beveridge, cago. Address Capt. R. L. Kapsa, 234 E. Chi- gmen, (2) Tell me how to get cago ave., Chicago. Mr* secy., c /o Wisconsin National Guard Review, men uet one these obai Co. B. 104th Engrs.' Assoc. — Eleventh an- of j State Capitol, Madison. Wise. Preference, 78th Div.—Former members are requested to nual reunion and banquet. Hotel Walt Whit- i file names and permanent addresses, stating unit man. Camden, N. J., Nov. 9. Address Clifford Shemeley, Iail in which they served, with Lieut. John Ken- J. 926 Spruce st., Camden. I Name Coupon^ I nedy, secy., 78th Div. Assoc., 208 W. 19th St., New York City. The Company Clerk today

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NOVEMBER. 1929 79 — MESSAGE CENTER

READERS of the first instalment of 1895. During the Spanish-American Edmund H. Levy, Senior Patrol In- William T. Scanlon's "God Have War he served as captain in the First spector, United States Immigration Ser-

Mercy on Us" will recall that in one of Illinois Cavalry, of which organization vice, Brownsville, Texas, and George J. the moments of ease following the Belleau he subsequently became colonel. In the Dinius of Navy Post of Los Angeles, Wood action, when Scanlon's outfit was World War he was colonel commanding California. Mr. Levy writes: "I began resting in a barn, the survivors of the the 1 2 2d Field Artillery, and later was to read Gibbon in New Orleans. I left melee "had a handshaking party" and promoted brigadier general. In 1921 he New Orleans about five years ago, and it the platoon wits had a chance to strut was appointed major general command- was not until a couple of months ago that their stuff. "The Whikstone Herald will ing the 33d Division. I discovered that Henry Skelton, Past hear about this, hey, Carney?" some- Commander of the local Legion post, had body asks. And the reply comes, from a set. So I reviewed the two volumes I Carney or another: "I'll tell the world it IT WILL be disturbing news to many had already read and then completed will!" hundred thousand readers of The the whole." American Legion Monthly to know that the Society of Legionnaires Who Have ANOTHER Gibbonette is included AND it has. Whether it did at the Read Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the among the new members. She is time this department has no means Roman Empire" Entire is about to shut Miss Helen M. De Vol of Thane, Alaska. of knowing short of taking a trip to up shop. The threat made in the April She did her reading in the winter of 1924- Whitestone, New York, and looking Message Center is going to be fulfilled. 25 while teaching in the Indian school through the Herald's 1918 rile. But the When the last report was issued, in the at Pipestone, Minnesota. Miss De Vol editor of the Herald has kindly sent us a June issue, there were eighty-eight names is a member of Jack Henry Post of the copy of the issue for August 2d of this on the society's roster—the Message Legion of Anchorage, Alaska. Other new year with a front-page story the head of Center said eighty-seven at the time, but members are Frank W. Rust of Summer- which demands to know: "Was Chet a subsequent audit boosted the figure land, California, a member of Post at Clancy 'Carney' in $12,500 War Tale?" by one. In the interval twelve new 49 Santa Barbara; Harry E. Insley of Vic- After quoting the passage in "God Have members have been enrolled, raising tory Post of Los Angeles and a Past Mercy on Us" in which the Herald is the total to exactly one hundred, the Department Vice-Commander; Dr. Ed- mentioned, the Herald's story continues: figure at which, it was stated in April, gar Austin of Plant City, Florida, and "Locally, the members of Edward McKee the society would give three rousing Francis W. Marshall of Woodland Post Post are wondering who William T. cheers for itself and then disband. of Chicago. Scanlon is and just why he selected The society, it will be recalled by first- Whitestone's long established home weekly class recallers, was organized in March, 'local color' in his gripping Legionnaire Gene Tunney, as a bit of the 1927, when AS A valedictory testimonial to the tale of the war as it actually is. There then unretired heavyweight champion of great work which the Message Cen- conjectures as to who 'Carney' the world, made the statement that he are many ter has been doing in promoting the of that group may have been. The most had "struggled through Gibbon." This Gibbon movement it is pleasant to re- is Center such a logical guess is that 'Carney' Chester seemed to the Message produce the following appreciative trib- of that an appeal was issued Clancy of Whitestone, a member the notable feat ute by Alexander Woollcott of Savenay Battalion, Sixth United States the names of other Legionnaires who First for Post of New York City in his depart- results only Marines, and in action at Belleau Woods had done likewise. With ment, "Shouts and Murmurs," in The the devoted followers near Montreuil-aux-Lions—the village too well known to New Yprker: "A campaign has been spoken of in the story. Clancy, who is a of this page. waged by The American Legion Monthly half-brother of Senator Alfred Ken- J. in a puzzling effort to persuade the vet- brother of Clancy, nedy and John W. erans to read Gibbon's 'The History of Master of Whitestone Lodge of Masons, of the dozen newcomers E. G. ONE — the Decline and Fall of the Roman is reported to be in Texas." Yes, of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, now Hoyt Empire.' It began with a hearty and is Clancy. Post sets Mr. Editor, Carney Historian of Ledden-Young — signed endorsement of the presumably record for members of the society and a gratified opus by that muscular book- all began to read perhaps for time. He worm, Mr. Tunney, and after two years Major General Charles Dudley Gibbon on February 23d of this year and BOTH of unremitting propaganda, the enroll- Rhodes and Major General Milton finished on 8th two months and May — ment of ex-warriors who either had al- Foreman are in their middle sixties, fifteen days. Mr. Hoyt does not state J. ready read it or have since read it has but their combined military service ex- whether he was refueled by hand or risen to ninety. It has been an uphill ceeds in length of time the age of either whether he slept only two nights out of fight, made all the more difficult by the of them. General Rhodes was of the members have graduated three. Two new indignant and sometimes profane letters from the United States Military Academy each read Gibbon twice—C. C. Bassett from Legionnaires long since wearied of in 1889, and is a veteran of the Sioux of Goodland, Indiana, and Berns-Bur- the topic. The feeling will run high at Indian campaign of i8qo-qi, the Spanish- gess Post, and Joseph F. Bonner of Oak- the next convention, if the secret ever American War, the China Relief Ex- land Post and an employee of Edward gets loose among the delegates that the pedition, the Philippine Insurrection Hines, Hospital at Hines, Illinois. and Jr., editor of their Monthly, who has so ably the World In France he members have evidently War. com- Several new directed the campaign, has not himself manded the 157th Artillery Brigade in their reading as a result of the in- done gone so far as to read a single page of offensives, earlier members three major and just before spiration provided by Gibbon." the Armistice, as he narrates in this issue, at any rate they have done their reading he assumed command of the 42d (Rain- since the society was organized. They bow) Division. Milton J. Foreman en- are H. E. Holmes of Chariton, Iowa; listed in the Illinois National Guard in Wiley O. Bolton of Lyons, Kansas; 7k 80 The AMERICAN LEGION Monihlt — ; CASH IN NOW WITH THESE/ 2 BRAND NfW MONEYMAKERS

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