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Vol. 2, No. 31 AUGUST 27, 1920 10c. A COPY I I i REQUIEM

The American Expeditionary Force will pass into history on August 31 when the only remaining unit of the army that fought in France, A. E. F. headquarters in Washington, will cease to exist.

It sprang from town and crossroads when the call to battle came And grinned and slung its pack upon its back;

' It wrote red Chateau Thierry and the Argonne into fame i And swaggered, roaring, down adventure's track. It took a blasting, killing job and damned it and -went through, It faced six hells as part of every day; In lousy barns and trenches just before the whistle blew It sang of homes three thousand miles away. I

It knew the sleepless box car nights, the sweat) the drawn fatigue,

» It lined itself with willie and hard bread; Its hobnailed columns pounded France for league on rain-swept league, Its nearest dream of heaven was a bed. i Its days are done and ended now, its Taps are sounding clear, One last long note—"Farewell"—and it is gone. It lives in distant memory but that memory is dear, The soul of it alone still carries on.

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[Jlllllllllllllllllllllllillilllll OWNED EXCLUSIVELY BY THE AMERICAN LEGION llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Desdemona's Reign of Terror

A Texas Legion Post Steps in When Respect for Law and Decency Becomes a Mockery in a Little Oil-boom Town

The main street of Desdemona, Texas, By David Frisbie where the Legion met the forces ot lawlessness and won first the little town of Desde- AT mona, Texas, was hardly making rolling ivories spell more jfre seven. than a stop for wayfarers on And in other houses were the red- the road, a slumberous, dusty commun- lipped women. The word was passed ity wherein a perpetual peace reigned out through the oil lands of the South- as it drowsed in the Southwestern sun- west that the lid was off in Desdemona. shine. And then came OIL—OIL spelt It was not long before this sinister in capital letters, and Desdemona took element, with its inexhaustible supply on life and grew and flourished and of money from its gambling houses, the pumping towers rose by scores and had entrenched itself firmly in the poli- its flat acres became the source of tics of the town and was running Des- potential millions that lured the hosts demona blatantly and shamelessly on of high-booted, brawny adventurers a twenty-four-hour-a-day "wide open" who ever have heard the call to con- basis. quest in far-off places. They came, these treasure-hunters, 'THEN the ring ran up against The in a flood that increased day by day American Legion. Individually until sleepy little Desdemona had blos- for a long time members of Peavy- somed out into a town of twenty thou- Price Post had been quietly combatting sand with banks, hotels and restau- the spread of vice in Desdemona, but rants lining its one main street. They no official action had yet been taken came to prospect and to pioneer but, when the ring decided it would crush as is inevitably the case, there followed this organization of veterans who stood after them a horde of shifty-eyed gen- for ideals that were not compatible try and red-lipped women who did not with gambling houses and others of still

\ come to prospect or to pioneer but to more unsavory repute. The veterans prey, at which business they were themselves had sedulously avoided vio- adeptness itself. Top row, left to right, B. F. Bates, past lence, and they intended to continue Houses sprang up in riotous pro- post commander; Horace Soule, post avoiding it. fusion where the shifty-eyed gentry commander; Z. Rochelle, post adju- The ring began with attempts to took on all those who desired to try tant; bottom, Dick Kent, LeRoy Kemp, overawe the Legionnaires by shoving their skill at drawing to a flush or members executive committee guns under their noses and telling them

AUGUST 27, 1920 PAGE 3 what they were going to do to them Armed members of the vice ring were volvers ready for instant action, the if they didn't cease their activities parading through the streets in confi- lawless officers of Desdemona were against the reign of vice. Horace dent bravado. They ruled the situa- swaggering in defiance. Soule, a prominent member of the Post tion, they thought. and its present commander, was the But they changed their minds when HTEN o'clock drew near. It was now first upon whom gun play was tried Peavy-Price Post held a meeting that some hours after the time limit out. The town constable, one of the afternoon in a deadly calm. The con- had expired and the crowd was mutter- henchmen of the gambling ring, held stable speedily sent a written apology ing. Here and there in the throng were him up early one morning with a re- professing that he would do anything scattered eighteen Legionnaires sworn volver and challenged him to a duel. the Legion desired and the Legion in as deputies by Captain Aldridge to The postmaster, H. E. Williams, also promptly gave him, the justice of the keep the peace and prevent a riot if a Legionnaire, was the next to look into peace, and the deputy sheriff, twenty- possible. The matter was now in the the business end of a six-shooter and four hours in which to leave town. hands of the Legion and the Legion be told to mind his business. The plan They returned a contemptuous re- was going to see it through. It was of campaign of the ring make or break for broadening, the man- Desdemona, and there ager of the local tele- was no one on the graph company and wind-whipped, dark- several other citizens ened street that night who stood for law and who did not realize that order were threatened the fate of the town in their turn. Unarmed hung in the balance. Legionnaires got to ex- A few minutes be- pect being held up on fore ten o'clock Le Roy the way home and hav- Kemp, of Peavy-Price ing hardware flourished Post, a small man, in front of them with stepped unarmed from oaths and threats. the crowd and faced The effect of the the truculent officers as attempts to cow the they came from the Legion was nil. A doorway of a drug- big Legion dinner was store. planned forthwith and "Surrender," he said. was advertised by pic- The officers hesi- tures, including one of tated. A dozen revol- the then Post Com- vers leaped from a mander B. F. Bates, a dozen hips and all the man of fifty-two who bravado went out of had served in the ranks them. They began to with the engineers at explain haltingly that Camp Cody. Hardly they intended to resign had Bates left his of- anyway and asked for fice, the headquarters the protection of an of- of the Legion, in the ficer. The Legion dep- window of which hung uties stripped them of his picture than the their guns and knives town constable tore it and marched them to down and hurled it into the office of the justice the street with a boast- of the peace, where one ing speech to the crowd. and all wrote out their Within two minutes resignations. after Bates's return the Yet it was not all picture was back in the over. Into the office, window with a few just as they were sign- lines written on it to ing, plunged a wild- show just who had com- eyed woman brandish- mitted the insult. ing a revolver, the sister-in-law of the THE latest stroke, town constable, want- aimed at the Le- ' LET ME SMELL YOUR BREATH, BOYS" ing to know who were gion Post as a whole, the men who had dared aroused in the mem- to make the arrests. bers a wrath that would not down, fusal, still sure of their ability to She was disarmed at once and the and when Bates and Perry E. Taylor, flaunt law and order at will. And offenders with their belongings packed another Legionnaire, were held up Desdemona seethed. From the oil fields into an automobile were escorted to the by the constable, this time aided by a and from the camps in the vicinity men outskirts of the town and told to get deputy sheriff and the justice of the were pouring in by the hundreds, by out and never come back. And they peace, and searched for arms, the situ- automobile, by truck, on horses and got out. ation became critical. Yet a calm san- afoot, all anxious to be in at the finish With the main props of the gambling ity ran beneath the indignation of the when the ultimatum should expire and ring disposed of the Legion deputies ex-service men and it was decided to let the showdown should come between the lost no time in sweeping down upon the law handle the offenders. A request Legion and lawlessness. Oil field men the haunts where vice flourished. for aid to Legion State Headquarters who had personal grudges against the House after house was visited that which was forwarded to the Adjutant officers came, men who were friends of night and every undesh-able of both General of Texas, brought Captain the veterans came, men who had no sexes was given until noon of the fol- Aldridge of the Texas Rangers from other motive than curiosity came. By lowing day to leave town. The next Austin. nightfall of the next day the main morning the roads from Desdemona The captain found Desdemona in a street of Desdemona was a milling were dotted with automobiles bearing tumult. The wife and sister-in-law of mass of humanity, weaving up and the exodus of the sporting fraternity the boastful constable had just raided down and waiting in tense expectancy to newer and greener pastures. Des- Bates's office and torn down the picture for the hour of the big break. demona was through with them. for the second time and again it had The night was tempestuous and a In a recent election, law and order been instantly replaced. Then the sand storm, coming up, sent a flying won a decisive triumph in the selection constable himself and his Amazonian spray of gravel and debris rattling on of a new justice of the peace and town allies had returned and the constable the roofs of the houses and falling on constable. The old days of a "wide had held the men in the office back the crowd that packed the half-mile open" Desdemona have gone, forever, with his gun while the woman had street for its entire length. Down the the men of the Legion say, and they once more ripped away the poster. middle of the street, with their re- ought to know. They did the trick.

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Backing Away From Nature

The Efficiency Camper Saves His Trump Card and Proves He Isn't So Unresourceful As the Amateur Suspected

By Tyler H. Bliss Illustrations by WALLGREN

said firmly to my friend NO,"Dinwiddie, will not go camping with you over the week-end. "I know all about these camping trips," I told Dinwiddie. "You go off in the woods and the mosquitoes com- mit bayonet practice all over you, long- Those are my traps," explained Dinwiddie point, short-point, jab; and you ruin your teeth on the sardine cans because somebody always forgets to bring the of your head with his finger-tips and off the stabb'd bow and looking as opener, and when you get back the then tells you that your bump of bad happy as a district attorney with a new only difference between you and the luck is well developed and that you are clew to a society murder. people who give the insane asylum as going to draw a pat full before morn- "Tell me the worst," I groaned. the return-in-five days address is that ing, but to watch out for a dark man "Has the National Guard been called they at least think they're happy. with a sandy mustache who will hold out to quell a millworkers' strike, or is "Nope,* I said to Dinwiddie. "Noth- fours. Polly Pinktites, the beautiful ingenue ing happening. Go and suffer if you It seemed, when he got to massaging of the Bowery Belles, going on her want to, but as far as I am concerned my Old Baldy, that my bump of re- annual honeymoon—Cincinnati papers the early Christian martyrs can have sistance resembled a bird's-eye view please copy?" a monopoly on this self-sacrifice stuff. from above of low-water in the Grand "Those are my traps," explained Din- I stay in town." Canon, and that I might as well give widdie, as proud and independent as "Not with me you won't suffer," said in right away and save myself the Adam before the landlord of the Eden Dinwiddie. "I camp scientifically. trouble of winding up like Jess Willard. Apartments served the first eviction When you go camping with me there s So since then I have been avoiding dis- notice. are no hardships. Efficiency." putes, even surrendering my pet theory "Traps?" I said. "You must be plan- Of course I knew that. Dinwiddie that there are movie actors who are not ning to go camping in the Zoo. But is the sort that has a Way of Doing worth five times as much a week as the you'll get pinched if you try it because Things. The capitals are Cousin President of the United States is a they paid a lot— of money for some of Alma's. She always speaks in capitals year. those animals except when in an italic mood. Cousin So after debating the matter pro and "Traps in this case," said Dinwiddie Alma has always had a high opinion of con, the pros swept the country and we loftily, "applies to belongings. Camp Dinwiddie since Cousin Eben—he was decided to meet the next day and take appurtenances as it were. I told you the relative whom Cousin Alma is now the 6.42 up-State,. Only Dinwiddie can we were going about this thing effi- the widow of, which is the way we make the words "the 6.42 up-State" ciently. Nothing overlooked when I r keep track of some of the ex-officio sound as impressive as Amundsen an- run anything.' members of our family—died, and Din- nouncing a dash to the Pole. Several "Except the can opener," I said. widdie was on hand to give a touch of people who were nearby pricked up "By gosh!" said Dinwiddie blankly. business efficiency to the funeral. their ears at a Great Scott angle when I knew it. Nobody ever has yet or On that occasion Dinwiddie dis- he rolled the syllables from under his ever will remember to take a can opener tinguished himself by sending out cards tongue, and nudged each other as much on a camping trip. of admission to the last rites and then as to say: "Can such things be? Can standing at the door and refusing en- these two foolhardy young adventurers JUST then, only thirteen minutes late, trance to any who couldn't produce actually be going to take the 6.42 up- ** the 6.42 up-State came chuffing them, acting on the principle that since State?" along, to the undisguised amazement of Cousin Eben was about to join the se- "Leave everything to me," said Din- the station master, who was used to the lect few in the more popular but less widdie. I agreed, with just a faint disreputable hours it kept, and we piled commonly patronized of the two Here- sinking of the heart at the thought of aboard. I use the word "piled" ad- afters, it was only fitting that he what sort of language Cousin Eben visedly. After we had gotten ourselves should have an exclusive send-off. It must have dictated to the ouija-phone cosily tucked in among our baggage turned out that he had ejected both the on that occasion when everything had nothing was observable about our per- minister and the undertaker because been left to Dinwiddie. sonal selves except our asininity. We they hadn't received cards, but still, as were no more visible to fhe naked eye he pointed out, that was only an un- T WAS down at the station next morn- than Bergdoll. fortunate oversight and ought not to be ing in time for the 6.42 up-State Pretty soon the Dinwiddian voice held against him. Yes, Dinwiddie cer- the words by this time exercising the emerged from behind a wagon-train tainly has a Way of Doing Things. same fatal fascination for me that a load of junk—I mean traps. Well, in the present little argument snake charmer uses—but I gasped when "You haven't asked where we're go- with Dinwiddie I knew I had as swell I saw the platform. Those parts of it ing," it remarked. a chance to win out as a colored Repub- that weren't littered up with suit cases "I know where you're going," I said. lican in Georgia. Once at a country and boxes were littered up with boxes "And I'm not going to pray for you fair I patronized the booth of one of and suit cases. Dinwiddie was in the either. It's a good thing we've had a those lads who goes over the relief map middle of it; laying a course two points hot summer. It'll be good practice for

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you. If human dumbbells could be So Dinwiddie topped it off with a searched the ground for cracker crumbs materialized," I said, "you'd be a gym- pergola and a pagoda and a whatnot, and eaten a bunch of mica by mistake, nasium. Compared to your lofty in- and got a couple of sticks and started "we'll pitch the tent." telligence the bottom of a Texas oil holding a fencing match with himself. "I'm in favor of that," I said. well looks like the top of the Eiffel "Arms, forward hoist, backward "Where'll we pitch it to?" tqwer. From now on," I said, "the shove, forward hoist, backward shove," He gave me a look that was hard American eagle can claim full disability I said. "Now, by the numbers—one, enough to satisfy the hottest Personal pay. The cuckoo is the national bird." two, one, two. The next exercise will Liberty League member, so I let him Just then a trunk fell down on me be a finger stretching exercise. What have his way and we got the tent out. and by the time the pulmotor had the devil are you trying to do anyhow?" The man who constructed that tent earned its keep Dinwiddie and I were "You ignorant bum," said Dinwiddie was the same one who invented French increasing the population of some up- politely, "didn't you ever hear of how briquets. State metropolis about fifty percent, the Indians used to make a fire? They Apparently the designer had started and giving the natives something to got a couple of sticks and rubbed them out with the idea of making a mackin- talk about next time the census man together and—plowie!" tosh for a fat lady, switched to an awn- should come around. "Yes, and the cannibals used to get ing for over a department store show "This is our destination," said Din- a couple of missionaries and knock their window and wound up with a contract widdie. heads together and—blooey!" I said. for a one-piece big top from Barnum "Then it's because the road is all out "But I never did care for fricasseed and Bailey. of rails," I said. "If this town goes for Baptists and since when did Chief Harding in November it'll mean that Standing Bull ever marry into your TT rained that night, of course. You the Cox man is sick in bed." family?" can always break up any drouth "Gotta match?" asked Dinwiddie. that ever existed by sleeping under a VOU could tell, though, thai? it was So we lit the fire in a Christian way tent. * supposed to be a regular stop be- and things were more satisfactory. So of course when I got up—I'm not cause the engineer went away from "How far we are from the problems a good enough liar to say "woke up" there in such a hurry. Talk about your of the world," said Dinwiddie. "How in the morning, the old Ringling home- primitive wilderness! If Rob Crusoe petty and trivial are these little worries stead was sticking to me like the mus- had hailed from there, when he hit his and troubles with which the dweller of tard plasters they used to use in the desert isle • he'd have written to the the town perplexes himself." Rutherford B. Hayes administration. editor complaining about the traffic. "I got a problem to present," I said. "What's for breakfast?" asked Din- "We go five miles up that road and "When do we eat? Did you happen to widdie, coming out of his coma and then strike off through the woods," said think to bring food or do we sit around canvas simultaneously. Dinwiddie. waiting for the Simple Life Delicates- "We have some nice mica left over "I'm going to mail that 'we' joke to sen Company to open up?" from our Thanksgiving Day supper last Frank Tinney," I said. "We go, just night," I said. like the colonel used to say, 'We'll go on "V\7'ELL, we skirmished around and "A hot beefsteak, with French f rieds, a twenty-mile hike to-morrow.' How ^ unearthed a lot of eatables. In buttered toast and coffee wouldn't be so many railroad ties do you suppose there this matter, I'll admit, Dinwiddie had worse," remarked Dinwiddie dreamily. are between here and home? Let's done himself as handsome as Francis I reached for the camp hatchet. count and see." X. Bushwah. But almost everything "If the guy that killed the Czar of Even Dinwiddie looked stumped. was wearing tin corsets. I've had ex- Russia had half the excuse I have I "Well, anyway, let's get this stuff perience trying to open canned goods hope they never find him," I said. out of the way," he said. "We'll cart without the utensils that common sense "No, but honest," said Dinwiddie,— it a hur ired yards or so up the line and Ogden Armour invented for the "what would you give for a nice beef and cann there." purpose, so I just chortled while he "A million dollars," I interrupted "Heredity counts," I said. "There knocked a can of deviled ham for a easily, testing the hatchet blade. must have "been intelligence back in the row of goals with a tent peg and then "I don't want to buy Babe Ruth," Dinwiddie family somewhere, despite consigned it to the gentleman whose said Dinwiddie. "Could you let me appearances." snapshot appears on the label. have a twenty till Saturday?" We hiked far enough getting that So we supped daintily on a bottle of "Could you let me have a steak till load of stuff that hundred yards to have not-so-very-near beer and a box of ten minutes past now?" I asked. carried the Kaiser to Duluth. Finally, Utellem Biscuits. "Follow me," said Dinwiddie. though, we got settled. The forest "Now," said Dinwiddie, after we had Thirty minutes later we emerged into primeval looked as snappy a little like the hold of burg as you'll find a n ocean-going this side of Paris freighter. and gave an order "Now we'll to the waitress at build a fire and the Commercial cook something," House that made said Dinwiddie, her ask if the rest exhibiting Sign of the troupe was of Brains No. 2. expected in on the I was all for 8.11. burning up a trap "Tell me," I or two, but Din- asked Dinwiddie, widdie wouldr 't after I'd finished hear of it. So I playing "Dixie" got a load of on a repeating sticks and he be- platter with a net gan some sort of capacity of one a complicated ar- and one-half tons, chitectural thing, "did you know laying them this place w a p cross-ways and here all along?" catty-corners. Ef- "Efficiency first, ficiency stuff. last and all the "If you intend time," said Din- this as a perma- widdie. "That's nent war memo- me. You never rial we ought to bet your roll on have picked a the deal without more central knowing you've site," I said. "If got a chance to it's a bonfire why improve on the don't you light draw, do you, you the darn thing?" Dinwiddie got a couple of sticks and started holding a fencing match with himself big lump?"

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A Task for American Energy Public Enlightenment Paves the Way to Victory Over "the Great Killing Disease"

By C. M. Sheridan

I was a boy in a little WHEN The red light is fading from not be permitted to endanger the life country town, some enterpris- and happiness of others. And that can ing Spanish gentlemen con- America's back streets be prevented with entire justice. By trived the destruction of the battleship but there is still an occa- far the great majority of these women Maine—and, as Mrs. Murphy would are exploited by third parties. say, "the fight was on." sional glimmer to prove that Let me sketch, briefly, the four great Troops were rushed to southern a great menace to the pub- phases of work comprising the "Ameri- camps, and before long it was a toss- can Plan." up which subject caused the most pub- lic health is not yet wholly Law enforcement will aim at the lic concern—Spain, of the red and yel- removed. In this article Mr. repression of commercialized vice, at low flag, or a much deadlier enemy at the enactment and enforcement of new home, a fever that flaunted the yellow Sheridan shows what prog- legislation wherever needed, at the ad- flag. ress has been made in ministration of health regulations re- Of our local militia, Company E, one garding the conduct and treatment of man was wounded in battle, but one- combatting venereal dis- Infected persons and the protection of third of the company fell before the ease and describes the task the non-infected. onslaught of the yellow fever plague. Medical measures will re- confronting encourage Tampa was the camp, and I fancy there the national search into newer and still better are many to-day who hold the name agencies who are leading methods of treatment, and lead per- synonymous with the yellow death. haps to the discovery of better reme- the fight I mention this now because two against them dial and curative agents. A highly im- rather notable victories grew out of portant task is to put the quack out of the unpleasantness of 1898. The first business. The "medical museum" and victory was obvious and rapid. The known as the "American Plan" for the wax horrors have no place in second came slowly but no less cer- combating venereal diseases—organ- America's clean-up program. tainly—the almost total wiping out of ized to win. I know a place down in one of the yellow fever. It had to be done. The Many other agencies" are closely af- southern coal States where people were lone heroism of Walter Reed and his filiated with the governmental authori- paying fifty dollars a treatment for tragic sacrifice in the interest of sci- ties. The Red Cross, the American arsphenamine ("606"). The United ence and humanity, the indomitable Social Hygiene Association, State hy- States Public Health Service and the purpose of the late General William C. giene societies and local boards of State health officials interested the coal Gorgas and a score of others, have health are lending wonderful reinforce- operators in the matter, and a clinic practically freed the world from a once ment. But before a final victory is was financed. To-day they are giving terrifying plague. And it may truth- gained three things must be done. The the best modern treatment for fifty fully be said that it was an American public must be educated to a clear un- cents. job from start to finish. derstanding of the infections; it must Education is a big order. Every man All this is by way of showing that learn to know the insidious and far- and woman in the country is expected che impossible can be accomplished reaching nature of their attack ; it must to learn the facts about the venereal and that it has once more been at- grasp the absolute necessity of modern diseases—how they are acquired; why tempted in the field of public health scientific treatment in their cure. Sec- they are so dangerous even to genera- work. ond, adequate treatment facilities must tions unborn; why early diagnosis and This time the job is bigger and be provided and put within the reach treatment is essential to complete cure harder. The handicaps are named Ig- of every infected person. Last, and —these and many other facts must be norance, False Modesty, Prudishness here is the vital point of the whole the common knowledge of the public. and Nasty Niceness—a fine quartette! program, prevention must be played to Further, parents are expected to learn The diseases to be conquered are called the limit. how to instruct their -growing children the venereal diseases, and the rank and It will not, cannot, be done in a "day. so that they may avoid the dangers file will tell you that it can't be done. Far more dangerous than a disease awaiting the uninformed. The ma- But they are forgetting that the Fed- carrying mosquito, the prostitute is chinery for educating the public con- eral Government and every State board nevertheless human, is entitled to life, sists of motion pictures, magazine and of health is organized under a plan, liberty and happiness—but she must newspaper publicity, out-of-door poster

AUGUST 27, 1920 PAGE 7 publicity, talks, lectures, literature. empire of Great Britain lost during the modern physician. They can be That sounds rather effective—and it is. any one year of the war will be claimed, cured and they can be prevented, but Thousands of people are asking for by the venereal diseases. The annual we have always been too blind, too information. One agency, in four death rate per 100,000 of population is nice, too delicate, to come out with cold months, has received requests from about 1389. Of this number death cer- hard facts. We as a nation have pre- more than ten thousand parents for tificates would probably not show more ferred the attitude of the three oriental educational help in training their boys than nine due to venereal diseases, yet monkeys who see not, hear not and and girls. it is conservatively estimated that more speak not. Most people do not see just why than two deaths in every thirteen are Many people are strong for the at- recreation is featured as one of the due to syphilis. There seems to be a tempt that is being made, but doubt the four great divisions of the American joker in the pack somewhere, but when chances for success. During the war, Plan. For too many years we have we learn that all cases of locomotor however, more than two hundred "red overlooked a wonderful bet in public ataxia are of syphilitic origin, when we light" districts were effectually closed. health by disregarding the play needs learn that one hundred percent, of And, what is more to the point, they of the public. When municipalities general paralysis of the insane is due are still closed. awake fully to the situation the public to the same cause, we begin to see that Of the old picturesque districts few will present a much healthier, happier Sir William Osier was not far wrong remain. The Barbary Coast of San front than ever before. in calling syphilis "the great killing Francisco is but an innocuous ghost of disease." Certain percentages of its former self. But New Orleans pRIEFLY, that is. the story of the deaths from organic heart diseases, holds on in spite of the fact that each -° American Plan. To point out just apoplexy and brain softening are due year the city contributes approxi- how it is operating in every State would in part to the same cause. mately $20,000 for the care of per- take too long. But the plan is logical, The diseases present no mystery to sons made insane ^y syphilis. sane and absolutely work- That is only one item of able. There is an oppor- many, but it is illuminat- tunity, created by the in- ing. In New York State, tensive work done during the cities of Troy, Albany the war, to make rapid and and Hudson have not yet remarkable gains during followed the lead set by the next ten years. But hundreds of others. Penn- the public must understand sylvania, Maryland, West and fit into each of the four Virginia, Georgia, Tennes- big avenues of attack. see, Wyoming and Nevada And in this need we are still show a few red lights. pai'ticularly fortunate, for But these remaining dis- there are among us several tricts cannot long endure. million war veterans who The public is slowly but know. Nearly every man surely opening its eyes. in the Army and Navy got [Nearly two hundred a rudimentary education of Posts of The American Le- great value to himself and gion, representing twenty- to the nation. seven States, have endorsed In the United States in the program outlined in this year of peace, 1920, We as a nation have preferred the attitude of the three Mr. Sheridan's article.— moie lives than the whole oriental monkeys who see not, hear not and speak not Editor's Note.]

Aint Peace Funny? By Steuart M. Emery 1 1SAW Bill today- pETEY, the franc terror of the Vosges, had the next stool Old Bill, the sloppiest soldier in the outfit, to me Who never had a blouse that fitted him from the day At the lunch counter yesterday He held up his right hand And a bowl of milk and crackers. To the day he got his discharge "Look who's here!" cried he, and banged me on the shoulder. And who always wore his cap hung on his left ear "Making money, are you?" While one puttee trailed along the ground after him. "In great gobs," said I. "And you?" His clothes never were clean even after he'd gone twice "By the barrel," said he, and threw out his thirty-one inch through the delouser. chest. I'd never seen Bill in civilian clothes before. "Can I interest you in a big proposition?" He had on a gray flannel suit that fitted him like a glove We paid our checks side by side as we went out. And cost $190. Petey's was for fifteen cents. And his shoes had fancy scrollwork all over them "So long, old timer," said I. "Leave a little money in the And cost $28. world for the rest of us." And he had on a panama hat with a beautiful band "Say," said he in a confidential voice, "can you lend a man And he carried a cane in one hand and a pair of kid gloves a dollar till Saturday?" in the other. "Bill," said I. "How the hell do you get that way?" 'THE top kick was the worst enemy I ever had. A He married me to a dishrag early in my army career T HADN'T seen the C. O. since last winter, And wouldn't let me divorce it. Then I ran into him one day on Main street. I hated the big roughneck and his fool whistle He was rushing off to sell a man something important in And his hoarse voice and the way he had of ordering us corner lots bucks around. But he stopped to speak to me. The top kick came in to the manager Friday hunting a job, "Hello, it's you!" said he with a grin. So I hung around with a lot of papers in my hands to see "How do you like being out of the Army?" him get his. "Fine, sir," said I, and snapped to attention. "Can you give me references?" said the boss. kYou know some things get to be a habit after two years.) The top kick sort of hem'd and haw'd. The C. O. looked at me with that hard eye of his. Then I stepped up to put in the finishing wallop. "I used to tell you often enough you'd never make a soldier," "Sure," said I, "ask me. He's a he-man with hair on him. said he. "You'd have to sit up nights thinking up things he can't do." "Now it begins to look as though you'd never make a "You're hired," said the boss. civilian, So the top and I went outside and fought the battle of You poor nut." St. Mihiel all over again.

PAGE 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Baseball and Sportsmanship

The Fans Are More Responsible Than the Players for the Ethical of the National Game Shortcomings ,

By W. 0. McGeehan

EVERY now and then some advo- Who ever heard a second visited the offices of the White Sox cate of another sport casts an after the game and declared that Jack- armful of aspersions at the baseman say, "I didn't son had not caught the ball and that sportsmanship of professional baseball touch him—he's safe?" Or Babe Ruth was entitled to a two base —and some of the aspersions hit in hit. Chicago is one of the two places tender places. a runner admit, "I missed where this might happen. The other place is New York. The primary design of baseball is to the bag—I'm out a mile?" win, to reach the objective—according It sinfply isn't done. Are to the tactics and customs of the game, TT is the rule of the game to take every A if possible—but to reach it. Even in we, either spectators or advantage, fair and foul. Take a college baseball games the rival col- recent game at the Polo Grounds be- sports as legians forget the show of courtesy players, as good tween the Cleveland team and the which they would keep up in any other we like to think we are? Yankees. The Yankees were leading sport and try to rattle the opposing when it started to shower. Now the pitcher, to get his nanny in any way rainy day rule is that five innings will possible. two colleges at the time when one of constitute a full game, and that in case A losing footbalr* team may be slob- the players was to kick a goal that of a continued shower the umpire will bered over by its rooters, but no fan would decide the game. The opposing wait half an hour and then call the has any use at all for a losing base- college would not be guilty of such a game if in his judgment the weather ball team. When the New York Giants mucker's trick as trying to shake the is too inclement to continue. are out in front the Polo Grounds are nerve of the goal, kicker by yelling and The Yankees, with their lead, tried crowded. When the Giants are making creating a disturbance. But with the to hurry the game, while the Cleveland desperate efforts to yank themselves same two colleges in a baseball game men tried to delay it long enough to out of the cellar the crowds dwindle, and one of the pitchers starting to catch the downpour before the five inn- and you will hear them mutter, "What weaken the supporters of the opposing ings could be completed. The shoelaces do you mean, Giants." college would be yelling derisively like of the Cleveland men became untied. It is a merciless game. The base- the fans at a professional baseball They changed pitchers. They started ball fan is utterly without pity. Have game. It seems to be accepted that the arguments. They used every trick to ycu ever seen a nervous recruit getting finer little customs of sportsmanship do hold up the game, meanwhile watching his first trial before a big league gath- not go in a baseball game. the gathering clouds. They even let ering. Let him boot a few through his A case to the point has just come up one man steal home in their effort to sheer nervous anxiety to make good and in Chicago as Babe Ruth and the keep the Yankees at bat and prolong they will boo him off the field and Yankees passed through. A record the inning. It became a burlesque game break his spirit unless he is made of breaking crowd turned out, and some of and the crowd protested, though at the fairly stern stuff. You have heard the them were permitted to sit in the out- same time the spectators realized that raucous shout of "Take him out!" when field, which necessitated ground rules. it was all in the national pastime. the pitcher starts to go bad. It is the It was agreed that a hit into that The trading of baseball players is old Roman arena mob, only it speaks crowd was to count as a two-bagger. quite as full of tricks as the equally with more vehemence. The game does Along came Babe Ruth and hit a unethical game of horse trading. Many not develop the fine sportsmanship that high one to left field. Joe Jackson a shrewd manager has traded a veteran other games instill because the sense of rushed back and the crowd gave way. with the Charley Horse for a couple absolute fair play is not in the fan. He dived into the mob and was lost to of young and promising players. The In New York the visiting team may view. He came back without the ball. ways of the baseball scouts in buying get some credit for good plays, but else- Umpire Connolly, under the impression or selling "ivory" are full of guile. where along the circuits of both big that he caught the ball and held it It is a game of mutual mistrust. The leagues, no. The stands are packed momentarily, declared that Ruth was player distrusts the umpire and the with fans who want to see the home out and there was a debate. From the umpire distrusts the player. Neither team win and they do not care how it press stand nobody could see whether has any regard for the truth or veracity wins. It wouldvbe almost as gratifying the ball was caught or not. of the other on the playing field. Out- other to have the visiting nine break all of Now here is the main point. It never side each might admit that the its legs and lose as it would be to have occurred to Umpire Connolly to ask might be human. the home team win by superior base- Jackson whether or not he caught the You can hold that the game is ball. ball. He would not take the player's ethically lopsided, and perhaps it is. it is frankly word for it, nor would the player be But you have to admit that T^HE fan at a basebal) game is a nut expected to tell the truth if he had not so. That is something. There is no sportsmanship. * to begin with. He does not watch caught it. In any other game the ques- hypocritical pretense of the game with a fine judicial calm but tion might have been settled in this The fans and the players admit that in a sort of frenzy. He would not cheat obvious way, but not in the national they want the breaks and will take at cards, but he would chuckle with glee sport. them if they can get them. When the if he thought that the umpire was giv- But in this instance the aftermath baseball spirit changes it will mean ing his team the better of the close demonstrated that Chicago baseball that the American has become one ones. fans are unusually sportsmanlike. hundred percent, ethically pure—and I have seen a football game between Five or six members of that crowd that time is some years away. o AUGUST 27, 1920 page citizen of any country taking up his residence aud earn- ing his livelihood in another. EDITORIAL It is true that in America immigration has developed ourselves thc For (!od and Country, ire associate together for following into a problem while in most other countries it has purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America: to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one remained only a condition—a fact instead of a question cent. Americanism ; to preserve thc memories and incidents hundred per are the world's greatest melting-pot, of our association in thc Great War; to inculcate a sense of individual mark. We yes, obligation to the. community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy but we are not its only melting-pot. The single Brazil- of both the classes and thc masses; to make right thc master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; lo safeguard and transmit to ian state of Sao Paulo numbers among its three million posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy ; to consecrate inhabitants million first or second Italians. and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— a generation Preamble to the Constitution of the American Leprion. Not only do many Europeans who land on our shores pass on into Canada, but thousands of American citi- zens cross the northern border for better for worse, impelled more by the wheat fields of Manitoba than by A Falling Market the cafes of Quebec. France is a melting-pot on her own EVERY modern war has been followed by an account with as many ingredients as we can claim, anil era of high prices which has been superseded England occasionally wins from us such a notable sub- eventually by normal prices and values. Economists ject as the late Henry James. And for States with such and financiers of to-day are chary in predicting when the mobile, fluctuating populations as the Balkans, the present cost of living will decrease, but none has yet melting-pot comparison is scarcely strong enough. recorded a prediction that it will not drop sometime. bese t by high prices After the Civil War the persons Radicalism in Architecture probably thought the period of their duration as inter- minable as the present period looks to some of us now. SEVERAL thousand years ago the Greeks adopted But the man who remembers what happened in America certain laws of beauty and proportion in building in the seventies recalls that flour at twelve dollars a their temples. In its fundamentals their system has barrel was followed by eggs at ten cents a dozen. survived through the centuries, in competition with Those who worry about prices now may take solace such later upstart architectural orders as the Gothic architects in the fact that precedent is with them—that high and the Renaissance. Modern for the most prices have always followed wars and that they have part are loyal to the old orders of the Greeks. always dropped. But the man who remembers what But a system of architecture, like a system of gov- happened in the seventies drops a fly in the ointment ernment, is constantly on the defensive. The bright by recalling that eggs at ten cents a dozen didn't mean young men of each new generation are likely to strike much because dimes were so scarce. out boldly in the search for something new and better The point is that, in these days, the man who saves An American architect, for instance, has just defied a dollar isn't merely saving one dollar but two or three. precedent by designing a new State capitol for Nebraska and making its dominant feature a 400-foot tower, crowned by a glittering dome, which will be visible for Measuring the Public Brow fifty miles across the Hat country. It is truly a radical REVIVALS of Charlie Chaplin in "Carmen" are tower on a radical building. It will be a veritable still more potent ' box-office attractions than Declaration of Independence in steel and stone. "Village Life in Korea" and "How Manila Rope Is But in architecture, as in politics, conservatism does Made." The gloom spreader notes the line-up in not brook lightly any challenges. Will the designer of front of the ticket booth when the great five-reel feature the Nebraska statehouse be able to establish himself as "Sex" is scheduled and despairs of the education of the the George Washington of a new order of prairie archi- masses. "Hamlet," he will tell you, can never hope tecture? Or will his beautiful, but radical, building be to make the screen unless it is camouflaged as "In- condemned as architecturally Bolshevik and mark him fidelity" and Ophelia wears tights. for obloquy as a Trotsky of the fine arts? Yet there are hopeful signs. An editorial digest like "Topics of the Day," now familiar all the way Suppositions from the Broadway palaces to the smallest village theatre, not only' does not drive the "masses" out of the SUPPOSE we were all suddenly informed mat the house but interests them so strongly that in two years Presidential Election this year would be held it has developed from a hopeful experiment into a September i. Suppose we all voted September 1. and definite success. then, after the ballots had been cast but before they Giving the public what it wants is not quite identical had been counted, were told that it was all a mistake - with letting the public take what it can get. Has the that the election would be held in November after all. newspaper editor who devotes two columns a day to a the campaign mean while resuming its tranquil course. divorce story on the. theory that "they like this sort Suppose that, after the November balloting, the re- of thing" ever tried filling those two columns with sults of the September and November elections were something else? both made public. What differences would they show? When does the voter make up his mind how he is Humanity on ihc Move going to vote?

American is prone to regard immigration as a Tilt; The Price of Progress purely local institution. According to the per- sonal, highly individualized dictionary which each Of AIR mail service between New York, Cleveland us carries in his head—and which does not always agree and Chicago is reported to be operating at with Webster --we incline to define the word immigrant capacity, and probably nobody will have a thing to as "a foreigner who comes to the United States." We say against it until some worthy husbandman of North- forget that in its broadest sense it means anybody ern Indiana is socked in the neck with a ten-pound mail- going anywhere— that in its limited sense it means a order catalogue.

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Blame the Mailman From morn till noon, from noon till starry eve, he spread Bolshevik The confirmed humorist had been horror through Willowhurst, driving the police railroaded to the psychopathic ward by like sheep through shambles, and work- some of his victims who demanded that ing up a splendid climax at the Coun- if possible they cure him, and if not try Club, where a goodly that they bury him, but on Christmas company of major profiteers wool, high they repented and clubbed together for —wheat, finance and the like were teeing off a gift. Then, a few days later, they — at 5.13. received this letter from the merry called lunatic: Whereupon he it a day, sur- rendered sweetly to a quaking constable "My dear friends: I am forwarding and went lamb-like to the bastille. to you a box I received a short time ago. things'll Obviously, from the label in the upper "Guess be a little cheaper around here," murmured Blivens, and left hand corner it is intended for you, slept like child till but came to me by mistake." a the turnkey They iooked at the label and realized brought in the morning paper. Modest was, Blivens with horror that their friend was in- as he was mildly curious to see the press his curable. It read: "Assorted Nuts." how measured re- volt. The headlines would have to be One Better pretty high. The South Side Political, Social and They were—two lines—black and Athletic Club had split into two fac- shrieking. tions regarding its choice for its next "Gravediggers Strike," ran one line. president and the meeting hall was The other: "Coffin Trust Doubles jammed when election night came Prices." to round. As the chairman started "You say that I dance like an Must Be Awful call the gathering to order, the door- angel, Mj.ss Tango, but an angel keeper stopped a member who was en- can't dance." An Australian dignitary was being the weight of tering, perspiring under "I kno2v it." entertained by New York society. For a canvas sack slung over his shoulder. what seemed to be endless nights he "Cassidy," he demanded, "what have was dragged through the intricacies of missile unerringly and knocked the ice- ye there." the pigeon walk, the fox trot, the camel man into an iceless eternity. "Bricks," replied Cassidy with some limp and the rest. At last came his Laundry, to», ha

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nonicnon. And hero is the notice, as it was translated into Annyese by the dutiful corporal, and posted on the bulletin board "On Tuesday there will be an 'eclipse of the sun, by order of Captain Boofus. All men will assemble in rear of bar- racks immediately after retreat where the captain will personally inspect and conduct the eclipse. In case of rain the eclipse will be held in the mess hall."

Changing Times Sunday School Teacher: "Willie, what does the story of Jonah and the whale prove?" Willie: "Proves ya could get away with a durn sight bigger fish story in them days than ya kin now."

The Higher Motive "Well, Count de Bustc is going to get married at last. He's deeply in— "Love? Ah, how wonderful." "Nope. Debt."

Dodge This Brand "Doctor, my husband is an inveter- ^y^^yfe^-*/ ate smoker. Do you suppose he could smoke himself to death?" "Why, what's happened to you? Aren't you the immaculate man in "He could, madame, if you gave him the collar ad?" rope enough." "Yes, but I lost my collar button."

THE VOICE of the LEGION

A Veteran's Sentiments The American Legion Weekly Pro-Insignia disclaims responsibility for facts To the Editor: I should deem it a stated or opinions expressed in this To the Editor: On page fourteen of favor if you would publish the follow- department, which is open to all your issue of July 30th you print a let- ing: readers for the discussion of sub- ter from some anonymous person who "Brothers of yesterday, you who lie jects of general interest. The only signs himself "Comrade" about "Par- sewn in your blankets in the little shal- restriction imposed is that, because ades and Insignia." It is a sample low graves over there, we send you of space demands, no letter may of the sloppy, muddy, half-baked sort of greeting. exceed two hundred jvords. thinking which is doing the Legion "You have solved the Great Problem more harm than all other things put and we pray that you are truly at rest. together. Also, it is an instance of a You are indeed fortunate not to have When I first heard of Lieutenant silly, sickly, ingrowing, sham "democ- Furlong's bravery, I tried flatter lived to see how little your efforts to to racy," which is as unpleasant as it is free the world of jealousy and power myself that I had helped a little to unnatural. seeking have failed. Had you lived you make him equal to that test of courage. He wants every former officer to would have seen the ideals for which Mr. Furlong entered the Michigan remove his insignia of rank. Does Agricultural you fought and died swept aside in a College with the Fresh- he realize what he is saying? If our rush for political power and material man Class in 1914. I was a senior in friend (I suspect he's a doctor) takes the gain. Better to be forgotten a thou- Forestry Course. off his oak leaves and nothing more, sand times than to be exploited by those We had a very efficient cadet corps what does he look like? An officer, of who can never understand what you of twelve . companies of infantry, and course, and he has accomplished noth- I in suffered. Better to be where you are was command of Company G, com- ing except to make people ask him ques- posed entirely than to be the subject of political quib- of Freshmen. Mr. Fur- tions. If he takes off his collar in- long soon bling as to whether you should be cared was made a corporal in the signia, his hat cord (or the badge on for or not. But in the minds of your company. The year's work was ter- his cap and the piping on his overseas minated with field brothers, who also served, there is no a military day of cgp), the brown braid on the sleeves forgetfulness of the horrors of war or competitive drills, exhibitions and a of his blouse, and his leather leggins review. the sacrifice you made. Company G managed to run (all these things show he was an off of the prizes, "Brothers of yesterday, we send you with most and it was officer) what will he look like? A greeting." one of the proudest days of my life. prisoner—or a tramp—a disgrace to a T. A. N. Gething I tried to express my appreciation to good army. the boys for their splendid entrance Greensboro, N. C. F. D. PlLKHAM into the spirit of our effoi'ts and they Boston, Mass. made tears come to my eyes when a Furlong's First C. O. committee, of which Mr. Furlong was particularly a member, later presented me with a To the Editor: I was So This Is California gratified on turning the cover of the set of gold studs inscribed with our issue of July 30th to meet the smile Company's monogram. To the Editor: In your issue of July of Harold Furlong, heroic officer of the Mr. Furlong was only one 'of that 30th, one Harry B. Clark, M. D., of 353d Infantry. I was in the service little cadet company who acquitted him- St. Cloud, Minn., jumps into print with over fifteen months, but was denied the self nobly in defense of our country, a jolt at California. He claims the opportunity of action overseas, and and I am sure a poor captain left on coldest and the hottest weather for his while I chafed under the routine of this side of the Atlantic may be par- State, and we gladly let it go at that. training camps I managed to gleam a doned for being proud of them. H"e says, however, that no one can met! - little satisfaction out of the deeds of George K. Fisher tion anything under the sun without former buddies. Rockford, III. reminding some Californian about the

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climate of California. For the benefit of Dr. Clark, who, I suppose, is swelter- ing in the heat at this time, I rise to remark that those who have ever had a taste of California weather, either winter or summer, do not need to be reminded. They never forget the Gar- den Spot and Playground of the World. With coal at $50 a ton in St. Cloud and bathing suits at $1.50 in Los Angeles, I place my order for a bath- ing suit, which may be worn all the year 'round. You can take your dip in the Pacific every day. I am sorry, Doctor, that you do not know what you are missing, but you have been told often enough. I was the same way once, but I came out in 1884 to see for myself, and although I have been back two or three times, about a week was all I wanted and each time I fought my way to the ticket office and played my money straight across the board for California. If you ever jar yourself loose from the snow and ice long enough to come out to the coast, look me up and I will show you a real country. PEACE C. E. (Casey) Brain I stopped a lot o' shrapnel out in France Los Angeles, Cal. How long I'll wear a crutch the doc can't tell; But when the fish are biting and there's sun That Artificial Lawn It makes you feel you're not so S. O. L. To the Editor: In one of your re- cent numbers you had a letter from a a cabinet worker, and have been work- until the uniform seemed incomplete Vallejo, Cal., man who wanted to make al- without it. sure nobody would forget that there ing at this trade since my return, though I am on feet eight hours a If it is such a terrible affront for an is no rain in his State from April to my day. I going to have to give up ex-officer to show what he was, then he October. Well, well! So that is the am trade, however, I find I cannot should throw his leather puttees, reason that the poor woman in Los my as away it his garrison Angeles, or some other town out there, stand much longer. cap, the cord from his There are lots of hard feelings service hat and the braid on his sleeves. had to build that artificial lawn I've toward the Government and there are In fact it would be safer for him to been reading about, the lawn made out times I do not like the things get hold of an O. D. issue uniform, to of cement or paper mache and painted when way are going at Washington, but I try to take the place of the serge he once had to look like grass. We couldn't under- make the best of it and think of what to buy. stand why anybody should want to take little I gave in comparison to the many On such a basis the corporal who such drastic steps to get back to nature, thousands who made the supreme sac- served overseas should strip off his until we found out about that no-rain rifice. Let us keep patient and work chevrons, his overseas stripes, his over- skeleton in California's closet. hard and those who are not getting seas cap, else he would be showing un- Now that we do know, how we can their just dues now soon will. holy pride and holding himself above sympathize with that poor woman, Paul R. Parrish the private from his home town who pining away for a sight of real grass. Capital Post, only got as far as Hoboken. I'll bet she sometimes gets out of sight Topeha, Kans. Leon G. Smith of the other Californians who would Montevideo, Minn. call her a heretic and wishes real hard and long that it would sprinkle. I He Defends Decorations Labor and Capital understand, though, that it isn't exactly To the Editor: In answer to the let- true that it never rains there. They ter of the "comrade" from Boston, To the Editor: Taking note of a let- tell me that anything less than a deluge criticising former officers for wearing ter in the July 30th issue, under head- is technically known as fog, and that their insignia of rank and Sam Browne ing "The Legion and Labor," I wish to there are city ordinances prohibiting belts in the Memorial Day parade, I express my approval of the stand the people from carrying umbrellas, lest should like to ask: Why Not? Legion has taken on the subject, by not in some tourist might get a wrong impres- I, like he, was an officer. I am proud having the Legion mixed up any way sion and carry back east a slanderous of my overseas stripes; of my division with capital and labor. Let us keep story about being rained on in the insignia; of my cap, which denotes the Legion free from all outside in- terests, and let us put forth all our golden poppy State. I wouldn't trade overseas service ; of my major's leaves five minutes of an Ohio dogday for yea, even of the maligned S. B. belt, efforts to the betterment of our organi- three months in that State. which I had to wear for twelve months zation. G. H. Tewson I might add, I am a strong upholder Toledo, O. of the unions, being a union man for several years. Wooden Leg, Iron Will WHO WILL CHALLENGE W. B. Keeper HIM? Harry A. White Post, To the Editor: I should like to an- Delta, Colo. swer the question raised McEl- by Ben To the Editor: I want to claim the fresh of Georgetown, O. I lost my left belt for being the most- traveled leg in the World War, but able to German Schools am enlisted man during the war. I use an artificial one made from a tree joined up sixteen days after war To the Editor: Some time ago an that God caused to grow for our use. was declared and was shipped from ex-soldier asked through the "Voice of I was unfortunate to lose my left leg Frisco to the Philippines. That the Legion" if it were true that the half way between the knee and hip, •was a jaunt of twenty-five months. German language is spoken in the but very fortunate to in come back I got back last Christmas. I trav- pulpits of German churches in the otherwise good health and with will eled over 20,000 miles in the Army. United States. Not only churches, but power not to give up. I suppose I'll have some of the boys schools also, are conducted in German In one way I am more fortunate than of the A. E. F. tell me they walked in this part of the country. Mr. McElfresh in the loss of a leg in- that far on French roads. Mary E. Wilcox stead of an arm. But does the loss of B. T. Y. Lena C. Peterson his arm keep him from doing the work Vermillion, S. D. Formerly A. N. C. he performed prior to the war? I am Broken Bow, Neb. PAGE 14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY THE O&S N POST

which is prepared to redistribute this is your post doing to make news to millions of readers through the WHATthe Legion's plan for nation- Weekly, to other Legion publications wide ceremonious presentation and the press of the country, the Legion of Victory Medals on Armistice Day a can build up a publicity corps without success? Has it obtained its supply of equal. application forms from the nearest re- folk When one reflects on the interesting cruiting station or Army post? Has it possibilities and importance of the post advertised that fact in the local news- NacWaJ correspondent's work about the last papers? Does every ex-service man thing that would occur to Adjutant him would and woman in your community know be that some posts would neglect this the service your post is prepared to ac- . important duty. And yet Marquis cord them in obtaining their Victory James, who is director of the News Medals? Have they read in the local Service, reports a slender response to papers about the plans you are making his widespread call for news. He be- for the formal presentation of these not printing as much Legion news as lieves a lot of good news is going dead in decorations on November 11? it would like to print ; in fact your own the Legion simply because it isn't The co-operative arrangement the Weekly, so the editor keeps telling me, being (reported to sources from which it Legion has made with the War De- finds it increasingly difficult to get the can be brought before the editors of partment for the distribution of Vic- week-to-week news of the Legion. the country. tory Medals offers the Legion a great To correct this difficulty the News Let's show him it isn't so. In with opportunity. It can and should make Service was established. A letter was that item. In the O. P. they've even the presentation ceremonies on Armis- sent to every post commander explain- inducted me into service as a scribe. tice Day the greatest nation-wide cele- ing fully the object of the service and And the water's fine! bration since, two years ago on that urging the appointment of a post cor- County and post officials are asked date, the country rejoiced at the vic- respondent. Complete instructions for to give a second thought to the matter torious end of the war. Whether the this correspondent were enclosed. His of placing Legion directories in rail- Legion will do this is entirely up to mission is first, to get his local post road stations, hotel lobbies, etc. These should contain a roster of posts, names, the local posts. Each post is supreme before the public of the home town by addresses and 'phone numbers of com- in its field. It can make its local cele- getting news of its activities in the manders and adjutants, dates and places bration just as brilliant as it will. home papers; and, second, to project of meeting and a general invitation to visiting buddies to drop in and be at Reports so far are encouraging. In his local post in the national spotlight home. New York, for example, the first thing by sending items of news and pictures Commander Hayes did when he heard to the main office of the News Service TT is important that delegates to the of the Legion arrangement was to send at 627 West Forty-third street, New National Convention should go to out a "story" to every newspaper in the York City. The News Service, by di- Cleveland thoroughly informed as to State. This was followed by bulletins rect distribution to its own newspaper the sentiment of the Legionnaires they to every post telling post commanders lists and by working agreements it has will represent on all questions about what to do and how to do it. The re- made with existing news and picture- which there is apt to be a difference of sult was that there was such a demand purveying agencies, has the me9hs at opinion. One means of realizing this for medals through Legion channels hand for getting Legion news to a ma- aim involves holding discussions at post that Mr. Hayes ordered 50,000 applica- jority of the newspapers in the United meetings on such problems as adjusted tion forms. States. compensation and military policy. Fol- The Army Recruiting Service is co- With a force of 9,500 post reporters lowing these debates, after sentiment operating loyally. In the latest number in the field, scattered throughout the lias become sufficiently crystallized, a of its official publication, Recruiting world, each covering the activities of \ ote might be taken and recorded. The News, I note the following suggestion his own unit, and forwarding interest- delegate or alternate could then go to to recruiting officers: ing pictures and news material to the the convention with an accurate knowl- "It wOuld be greatly appreciated by headquarters of the News Service edge of his colleagues' views. the Legion if recruiting officers will in- form all medal applicants of the Legion plan and that they also may turn their medals in to any Legion Post and thus share in the presentation ceremonies which will be held simultaneously in CARRYING ON every community in the United States What is your Post doing? Tell it here in news and gossip. Address on November 11th. The Legion is very contributions to Post News Editor, The American Legion Weekly. anxious that all Gold Star mothers re- ceive their medals on Armistice Day, N editorial in a Philadelphia news- formally commended in a resolution and it is suggested that recruiting paper pointing out that the sup- passed by Harold D. Speakman Post, of Officers take up this matter with local A position that the recent "crime Narberth, Pa. The editorial declared I.cjrion Post Commanders at once." wave" in that city is due to "young men that the amateur bandits were the Let's put the medal stunt over in who learned rough and wicked ways in young men who stayed at home and i pgular Legion style—and tell the world the army" is wholly baseless, has been made big money, alid now insist on about it! making it by illegal ways.

The way requests are coming in from THE GOBS' MEDALS A donation of $50 to the < amp fund of department officials for copies of the THE AMERIC-AN LEGIOjN the local Boy Scouts has been made by resolutions adopted at other department WEEKLY has received In- the Leonard Hoskins Tost of (vist lias conventions just goes to show how the many various departments are looking to each quiries from ex-navy and marine Vegas, N. M. The sum will be lisfed at other for suggestions. So it's up to members asking whether the the scouts' mountain camp "Kl R"

AUGUST 27. 1920 PAGE 15 ILLINOIS BOOSTS LEGION ATHLETICS T EGION athletics in the Middle West have been boomed by the Depart- ment of Illinois, which recently held a Statewide water meet on the course of the Chicago Yacht Club. Ten gold watches, each with the Legion emblem embedded in the back, six silver cups and many gold, silver and bronze medals bearing the emblem and the inscription "American Legion of II- linois," were awarded to the winners. Thousands of spectators attended the Trophies awarded to winners in Illinois Department's biQ water meet meet. The Legion in Illinois now is spon- soring a boxing bill to be presented at for Bryn is also the home of first to be organized in Mawr the Department the next session of the State Legisla- John Winthrop Post. In one week's of California. Members in numer- met ture. This action follows the sending time the residents raised $150,000 and ous places early in the evening to play of a questionnaire to the seven hun- purchased a big estate with a large host at parties, dances and dinners be- dred posts, all of which favor legalized house, which will be used for Legion fore going on to theater for a special a boxing. The support of such women's headquarters and for civic, social and midnight performance. The manage- organizations as the Phillip Sheridan community purposes. ment of the theater donated the house Post, Enlisted Nurses; the Illinois Fed- free and the entertainers, many of The remains of Sergeant Charles R. eration of Women's Clubs and the Il- tbem prominent stage folk, volunteered Wright, one of the men after whom linois Women's Athletic Club has been their services. San Francisco Post has Wright-Irion Post, of Scottsbluff, Ark., gained for the Legion measure. buried in a paid-up membership of 6,500. was named, were the local Three members of the Hyde Park cemetery upon arrival from France, A rooming and eating house for Post, Dayton R. E. Bown, J. C. Grubb with military services conducted Legionnaires will be operated by the by and Joseph C. Railey won places on the the Legion Post. Phillips-Edwards Post of Pinedale, Illinois State Rifle Team. The forma- Wyo., whiqh hopes to induce ex-service The prize for the service man with tion of rifle teams in all posts is being men to settle in the vicinity. "Being the greatest number of wounds at the encouraged and golf and tennis tourna- American Legion picnic of six the last stronghold of the West, the the Posts 1 ments are now in progress throughout finest fishing ano hunting are to be of Berrien County, Mich., was awarded Illinois. A big track meet also is ar- \ found here," writes B. H. Moffett of to Perley Porter, of Berrien Springs. ranged for this autumn. val- He was wounded in twenty-seven dif- the Post, "which, together with the ferent places. Mrs. James Archer, of uable land being thrown open to set- A NOTHER international cup comes Derby, captured the award for the tlement, has already drawn men from to America as the result of a visit mother with the most sons in service. as far east as New Jersey." made to a Canadian veterans' reunion She had five. A big regimental reunion, with a by a delegation from the Charles A. steamboat outing to Roton Point, Conn., In order to raise funds for a per- Learned Post of Detroit, Mich. The was put across by the 308th Infantry manent home for the 4,000 men who Legionnaires picked up a tug-of-war Post of New York city, and made worked on board the Leviathan in the team at the Essex County Veterans' rather a busy day out of what would war the Leviathan Naval Post held a Association celebration and pulled the otherwise have been a quiet Sunday. garden party in the City College silver Officers' Challenge Cup away Stadium, New York City. Secretary Every member of the Boy Scouts from the Walkerville, Ont. athletes in swears Peoria Post. Daniels, Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan, in Peoria by two straight tugs. As soon as it is Governor Edward I. Edwards, of New Recently the members of the Legion engraved the cup will adorn Learned entire to the Scouts and Jersey; Irvin S. Cobb and Samuel devoted an day Post's clubrooms. Blythe are members of the endowment built a hut for them. A field day that includes a parade, fund committee. two band concerts, two baseball games, Sick and disabled service men have the usual athletic events and a dance been the guests of the Providence, R. I., is to be staged on Labor Day by the Post on its country estate at Quonset Roy-Bent Post, of Wilton, N. H. One Point, on Narragansett Bay. This show a month is on the entertainment estate, comprising twenty-two acres, schedule of the Post for this winter in with a large and well-furnished club- addition to a grand ball for the night house, was a gift to the Post from of November 11. And all this by a Arthur Henius of Providence in mem- Post of sixty-three out of a possible ory of his son Cyril who died in the sixty-eight service men in a town of service. Governor R. Livingston Beeck- 1,200. of Island arranged for suf- man Rhode Lawrence J. Flaherty Post of East ficient tentage to care for all Legion- Boston, Mass. is planning a field day naires desirous of spending their vaca- and athletic carnival to be held at Wood tion at the club. The Post held its first Island Park on Labor Day. The Post annual outing on the property recently has a paid-up membership of nine and celebrated the event with a real, hundred and has its own clubhouse. old-fashioned Rhode Island clambake. Horse races, bucking bronchos and steers, airplane flights and a baseball A TOUCH of the old O. D. days will I want to do first of all game made memorable the Wild West be imparted to the Cleveland con- "IffHAT is to stand out there on the field day of the James C. Gabe Post vention by the members of the Paul F. platform with an American of Richardton, N. D. The event was Bartelle Post of Toledo, O. They're flag in my hand and lead in three rous- attended by thousands. going to send a fancy drill team to give ing cheers for The American Legion More than $1,000 was netted by a an exhibition of "squads east." and then three cheers more," said field day put on by the Phillips—Elliot They're not so quiet in Quakertown, Nina Morgana, prima donna of the —Hodges Post of Saginaw, Mich. The Pa. Four performances of their min- Chicago and Metropolitan Opera affair was held to raise funds with strel show to packed houses, several Companies, who appeared in the which to entertain the Legionnaires of block parties and dances and the local Tacoma Stadium and sang to an the States when they,meet at Saginaw baseball team represent some of Wal- audience of h0,000 under the aus- in the September convention. An en- lace Willard Keller Post's activities. pices of Edward B. Rhodes Post dorsement from the Chamber of Com- San Francisco staged a big celebra- of Tacoma, Wash. The celebra- merce and a congratulatory proclama- tion to mark the anniversary of the tion at which Miss Morgana ap- tion by the mayor of the town contrib- founding of San Francisco Post, the peared netted the Post $5,000. uted to make the field day a success.

PAGE 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY The Legion's Commencement

The National Convention at Cleveland Will Open the New Epoch to Succeed the Training School Days of Paris, St Louis and Minneapolis

September 27th there will be ON rekindled in Cleveland, Ohio, the fire of that American spirit which flamed brightest on the battle- fields of France in the autumn of 1918. The second annual convention of The American Legion will open in Cleveland on the anniversary of the second day of the battle of the Meuse-Argonne. And, just as the million men who fought on the same day two years ago came from almost every town and city between the Atlantic and the Pacific, the hosts who meet in Cleveland will be repre- sentative of every part of every State and all the countries of the world where American veterans of the World War are living. There will not be a million of them in Cleveland, but there will be more than 50,000—perhaps as many as 75,000 —and the convention probably will be the greatest peacetime mobilization of American manhood that the country has ever witnessed. Cleveland will stage the convention on a truly vast scale, and yet it is not going to sacrifice hospitality in magni- tude. The whole-hearted personal re- lationships will not be submerged in any cantonment-like speeding-up sys- tem, but from the time a visitor steps from the train and is met with a hand- shake from a member of the Reception Committee, while a Boy Scout steps forward to take his grip and escort him in an automobile to his hotel or stopping place, until he boards the train again, he will know that the city is glad to entertain him. Through the entire three days of the This corner— of the Public Square is to Cleveland what the Place de I'Opera is to convention a well-organized committee Paris the center of everything. Here a visitor might meet everybody attend- on information will be giving every pos- ing the National Convention if he waited long enough. Euclid Avenue, down sible service to the delegates and their which 50,000 Legionnaires are to parade, is shown in the right background friends. Other committees will handle questions of hotels, housing, registra- tion, a directory will be compiled, so talion of forty tanks and will have tion, transportation, women's affairs that any man may learn which of his many bands in line. Getting 50,000 and the many other problems which are friends are attending and where they men into line will be a job for the a part of every convention. are staying. For instance, if an Ala- best genius that the A. E. F. produced, bama veteran of the Rainbow Division and the problem of the march from 'T'HE sessions of the convention will wants to know if Bill Smith, formerly East 105th street down Euclid Avenue * be held in Keith's Hippodrome, one of the 165th of New York, is in town, to the Public Square may be understood of the largest theaters in the United he can find out in a minute. from the fact that if only 25,000 men States. The headquarters of the na- In addition to the central informa- were in column of fours, the line would tional officers will be at the Hollenden, tion office, there will be information be five miles long. The parade will be a hotel less than two blocks from the booths in all the hotels. All informa- reviewed by celebrities. Hippodrome. Most of the 3,000 dele- tion booths will have special telephones. The entire city will be decorated dur- gates will be quartered in other hotels Badges will be provided all visitors, and ing the convention. In the downtown within a few blocks of the Auditorium. the badge will be really artistic. It district thousands of flags will be Finding hotel accommodations for is so made that the metal part may be strung between the trolley poles, and from 25,000 to 50,000 men would, of detached and used as a watch fob. One between the lamp posts will be hung course, be an impossible task for any part of the badge will represent Cleve- rows of vari-colored pennants. The American city, so the Cleveland hosts land, and the metal part proper will shield of The American Legion will be of the convention have arranged a bil- follow the map outline of Ohio, upon the central feature of these decora- leting system that has enlisted the co- which will be superimposed the emblem tibns. The American Legion Club- operation of the whole city. Hotels will of The American Legion. house, in the heart of downtown Cleve- be filled to capacity, but it is expected land, will be decorated appropriately. that a large percentage of the mem- A MONSTER parade will be the Arches are planned for the principal bers of the delegations will be enter- big single demonstration of the street intersections. tained in private homes which have Legion's strength. Visitors are re- The entertainment features for the been registered for guests. This sys- quested to take their uniforms, but it convention will include moonlight rides tem will enable visitors to obtain ac- is made clear that uniforms will not on Lake Erie, one day excursions to commodations without unreasonable ex- be a requirement for entering the Canada, prize fights, outdoor movies, pense, and the Cleveland committee parade. Wearing of th uniform will dances in various parts of the city and will even see that a man unexpectedly be optional, because everybody will special programs at amusement parks. short of funds will be taken care of. march, but everybody is urgently asked Something of interest to the dele- In connection with the central regis- to take his old service togs. gates, only for the reason that it has tration of all visitors to the conven- The parade will be headed by a bat- already been taken care of, is the ques-

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tion of finances. It costs a consider- together with others from Paris, able sum to stage a convention of this Hawaii, the Philippines and other magnitude, but Cleveland is paying for FOR AMERICA'S HEROES Legion outposts. it and it won't cost the Legion a cent. The assembling of the largest Many notable persons have been in- Not only have Cleveland's heart and number of America's superlatively vited to attend. Marshal Foch was ex- its homes been opened, but its purse brave fighting men ever brought pected until the developments in Poland as well. together at one time and place is made it certain that he will remain in Special editions of The Legionnaire, to be a feature of the National Con- Europe. Admiral Beatty of England the organ of the Cuyahoga County vention of The American Legion at has also been invited. Invitations have Council, will be issued to all visitors. Cleveland on September 27. Ar- been sent to the heads of the veterans' These will be printed in colors and will rangements are being made to societies in all Allied countries. be worthy of both the city and the or- entertain all of the fifty-four men The convention will mark a new ganization. Maps of the city, with in- of the A. E. F. who won the Con- epoch for the Legion. The preliminary formation about the convention events, gressional Medal of Honor and caucuses at Paris and St. Louis and will also be distributed. lived to return to the United States. the first convention at Minneapolis There will be many reunions of regi- These men are to be honored drew up a Constitution and set in mo- mental and unit societies. guests at the Convention. tion the processes of getting members. Railroads throughout the United In the last year, however, The Ameri- States are making a special fare re- can Legion has grown until its member- duction on tickets to and from Cleve- ship is now more than a million and land during the convention. The round- P. G.'s for the sacred box car while a half. The work done heretofore be- trip rate is one-third more than one- there. The "hommes" have their own longed to the "training camp" period. way fare, the reduction being obtain- distinctive chapeau and bronze medals, At Cleveland opinions will be ex- able on the return ticket on presenta- and they will probably put on a brave changed, ideas discussed, reports con- tion of an "identification certificate" promenade. sidered and policies and plans adopted which will be given when the ticket to which will regulate the Legion's new Cleveland is purchased. This conces- "TJELEGATES from many cities are period of active service. Officers will sion is making reunions financially pos- planning to spend their vacations be elected for the new year and amend- sible for many societies. at the convention. The Charles A. ments to the Constitution considered. The question of the adoption of a Learned Post of Detroit, for instance, Representation at the convention will national ritual will come up, and the will travel on a chartered steamer and be by departments. Each department Pennsylvania Department will suggest members will live aboard the boat while is entitled to five delegates and one ad- that its initiation degree of "Le Societe attending the convention. It is ex- ditional delegate for each thousand des Hommes UO et Cheveaux 8" be pected this Post will send 1,000 men. paid-up members. The voting strength adopted by the whole Legion. Each Duluth, Minn., will also send a dele- of each department will be equivalent Pennsylvania Post is now organizing gation of sixty men. Two towns in to the number of delegates to which it its own "voiture" in this degree and Connecticut will take their own bands is entitled. Each department will be 1,000 "hommes" will go to Cleveland with their delegations. From far away entitled to seat the same number of and will probably conscript many Alaska hotel reservations have come, alternates as it has delegates.

"It Is Only Justice" One of the Legion's Most Decorated Heroes, Now a Financier, Gives His Views on Adjusted Compensation

HANFORD MacNIDER, of Mason if it is one of extra taxation. No one has the City, Iowa, in civilian life is right to say that these men should not have the president of an investment what they want, to begin with, and certainly no one has the right to take the stand that banking company that has a capital of they should not be at least partially compen- one million dollars. He is commander sated for the months or years they put in the of Clausen Worden Post of Mason City, service. Iowa, and vice-commander of the De "I know the arguments that are propounded partment of Iowa. Hanford MacNider, against adjusted compensation—of the danger as a soldier overseas with the Second of our promulgating another gigantic pension Division, took part in the Chateau drain upon the country; of selling our patriot- ism; of the uselessness of giving these men Thierry, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Blanc this money only to have them squander it; Mont and Meuse-Argonne offensives; and all the rest. I could not help but be grimly won nine separate citations for valor, amused to read the pitiful appeal of our Presi- including decorations from three coun- dent Emeritus, to look back at our forefathers tries, and rose from a second lieutenant and to follow their noble principles—not mine, to a lieutenant colonel of infantry. for mine came over in the steerage not so long There are, therefore, few men more ago, but his, and I presume, most of New England's. His own little college taught me qualified to talk about compensation fo that these Revolutionary gentlemen, and brave soldiers experience with from personal and good they were, don't misunderstand me, all its angles than Hanford MacNider. not only demanded a bonus but demanded it Hanford MacNider thinks that the before, they would enlist and a very alarming Legion's four-fold optional compensa- percentage deserted to re-enlist and catch this tion measure should receive the sup- gratuity all over again. On top of that they port—not just the passive support pulled down about an Ohio county as a reward afterwards, which our fourfold com- but the active support of financiers makes — pensation scheme look exceedingly mild and the country. has writ- throughout He Hanford MacNider, much-decorated insignificant in comparison. ten to one financier the head of a big — veteran, who advocates the Legion's "But here is the point—no man who did not in his let- Eastern banking house—and soldier compensation measure see these lads of ours in the line, and if 1 am ter he tells in plain words why he is not mistaken, we ended up with nearly two convinced the veterans should receive million of them there or perhaps patroling the some compensation for the service they same for, he says, "it is only justice." North Sea or doing convoy duty in one of those rendered to America at the expense of Here is his letter: bouncing iron boxes, has any conception of to pull lot of stuff on what wonderful stuff your America is. their bodies and their personal ambi- "I don't want a sob you nor do 1 want to accuse you ol tack of "Perhaps the most vivid instance that typi- tions and business futures. His income appreciation ol what these lads did and what fies it all to me, was the night march before the will be hit if soldier compensation they went through for those Rood people who jump off on July 18, 1918, southwest of means added taxation, MacNider real- now holler the loudest, and who—even as you Soissons, an operation now credited I think, izes, but he wants it to come just the and I are best qualified to stand the burden with turning the tide. We had some three

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hundred odd replacements (five weeks old in uniform) join us that night— Lord knows how they found us—and they were slapped under the end of the column. All night they plunged along the side of those roads which were jammed with artillery and transport moving up for the surprise attack—it was rainy of course, and packs were soaked and heavier than lead—falling into shell holes, tearing themselves on the barb wire, floundering along single file, but every one of them hanging on like grim death to the man in front of him, every man knowing down in his heart that it was the top in the dark of the morning with the chances not over fifty-fifty that he would ever see the sun shine again or his home or the trees or the flowers—but hanging on for fear he would get lost and would not be able to do his little part. Why ? Because they were Americans. "What has all this got to do with the bonus? Just this, that these bucks, these plain enlisted men—and let me add right here that it was the fine, high and wonderful spirit of the buck private which won this war for America, not G. H. Q., nor the General Staff, nor the officers of the line, though they all did their part these bucks, the lads you pass now every day NOT allow the high on the streets, your neighbor's boy, the lad who works for you, have everything coming DOpraise given Silvertown from their country and they at least should have an even cliance with the birds who think they cheered them off and won the war here at home. Cords to make you "Damn it, if it wasn't simple justice, they expensive.They are should have it anyway, but it is only justice. must be Those who don't need it need not take it. Let long cheapest them give it to those who do or to their Legion best in the run— Post for relief work. There is no way to pick out just which ones should have it. The only in the end. way to reach the deserving is to give it to all. "A lad from my old outfit wandered in here the other day, looking rather the worse for wear, but cheerful enough at that. He wanted for r\ I thought the prospects the Goodrich to know what government loan were. He had a chance to buy a cow, and he wanted it. This is his story: "On the day war was declared he was work- ing as a farm hand just outside of town. He oilvertown had saved up a couple of hundred dollars, had for the the prospects of renting a farm coming lAmericas First Cord Tim- year and intended to be married. But his

country had declared war and the next day fOUNOED 18?) he enlisted in the infantry, unable to see any other course clear. He had a furlough a month or so afterwards and he married the girl he was going to leave behind. This kid went through the whole show, over the top a dozen times and with all the hell bursting around him for months, that these good Americans here at home when the news rolled back from the western front, might stick out their chests and say, 'Thank God we're Americans!' Out of his $30 a month this lad sent all he had after his insurance was paid, back to his wife, and, true enough, the government doubled it, but she couldn't make the grade on that alone. Uri Goodrich Jfdfutftnerte 7Sat6?'f!&ertoum Cords &oooMika FabritTtnS, 00fto3fl£tf "He got back in August last year, too late to f * take a farm, with his uniform still on and the $60 which proud America so generously gave him. He has had a hard time making a go of it because the profession of farmhand does not pay heavily and no one wants a farmhand with a family. Through the kindness of a former employer, he has forty acres to make his living on this year, but as you know, the produce of the farm does not come in until fall. He PANTS, wanted to borrow enough money to get this Made to Order cow, and see if he couldn't at least pay up Expert something on the grocery and other bills which Classy had been accumulating against him while he was eking out his living on the soil. m Auto and Tractor Mechanic Worsted last analysis, the question is this, Men, save $8.86 "In the Earn $100 to $400 a Month or don't JJ and get these classy" Do you owe these men anything o> Young man, are you genuine worsted pantsN you? If you feel that you do, the heads of M mechanically inclined? made to order exactly the Legion, their accredited representatives, M Come to the Sweeney to your measurement, fit" School. Learn to ba guaranteed. Regular $7.50 should not only your good will but your have M en expert. I teach value. Greatest pants offer made to k i stylish ('/ active support, and those of us whose income fiS with tools cot bocks. introduce our clothes. Only 1 Do the work yourself, $8.66 now. Money back if not satis- is going to be dug into hardest, should be the V ta that's the secret of the fied. Hurry while special price lasts. happiest to have it so and you know it" SWEENEY SYSTEM No Money Now KEJS&KK,. B ' insure perfect fit. Post card brings it. You f The decorations that MacNider B| of practical training: by which 5,000 also get world's greatest STYLE BOOK and) soldiers were trained for U. S. Gov* particulars about bis offer to agents. wears are the Distinguished Service B| eminent and over 20,000 expert MAKE $2500 YEAR Get mechanics. Learn in a few weeks; no previons A Cross with an o.ak leaf cluster for ad- experience necessary. Take orders for us and clean up $2500 to at $3000 a year. Also set your own clc'hea free. ditional recognition of bravery; the 2 COCp Write today for illustrated free catalog Let us prove it. Ask us to tell you about tbis. Get in on it right away—quick. Croix de Guerre with five citations, inCt showing hundreds of pictures men working in new Million Dollar Trade School. riJCP Greatest Stylo Book you have r Htb overseen. Shows wonderful line the Croce Al Merito Di Guerra of Italy of 162 actual woolen eamples. Stunning fashion and of a Chevalier of the plates irr color. AND—stunning pictures. Movie the ribbon LEARN A TRADE people—most prominent stare. In all sorts of served the teasing poses. Rich! You must see 'em to be- Legion of Honor. He with lieve it. And It's all Fro©. Send postcard NOW. Ninth Infantry and spent eight months RELIABLE TAILORING CO. in the Army of Occupation after the SCHOOL OF AUTO •TRACTOR-AVIATION , 401 S. Peoria St., Chicago 93 SWEPJEVBLDa, KANSAS CITY, no. Armistice.

AUGUST 27, 1920 PAGE 19 FRANCE'S TRIBUTE TO WILBUR WRIGHT

thousands of American soldiers THEwho passed through Le Mans during the war and decided vaguely that some day they would go back to the Place St. Jacobins to look again upon the Gothic walls of the Le Mans cathedral will find, if they do return, that the Place St. Jacobins

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PHILADELPHIA'S BIG LEGION FIELD DAY POSTS in Philadelphia are arrang- but they are not bearing the entire ing a notable American Legion burden, nor taking the whole honor. Field Day to be held on Franklin Mayor J. Hampton Moore is chairman

Send for FREE Catalog No. 103N . Field, University of Pennsylvania, on of the civilian committee which, with showing the largest assort- IS qE&T\ September 18. representatives of the Legion, will ment of the most exquisite Jewelry, will the returning Olympic heroes and tjoS*""!) The games be much more than meet Genuine Diamonds, standard a local affair. Many of the contests escort them from New York to Phila- Watches. makes of Silverware and will be open to Legionnaires from all delphia. French Ivory Toiletware. Every- parts of the United States, and there Valuable cups and sets of gold, silver thing at rock bottom prices- ten months to pay on will be special events for registered and bronze medals are being pledged by anything. Address athletes of the A. A. U. who are not prominent citizens and leading firms to Dept. 103N. members of the Legion. American par- be awarded as prizes. The carnival was Capital $1,000,000 ticipants in the Olympic Games at organized by the County Committee, of "Th» Houtm ol Quality" Antwerp also will attend and perform. which George Wentworth Carr is chair- 1650-1660 Broadway LH7 ClirCCT I athletic carnrval . W. aWttl, InC. New York City The benefits of the man. George G. Stranahan, formerly CeDrrlKbted 1920 by L. W. Sweet, Inc. will go to the Posts of Philadelphia, of the air service and one of the pioneer

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WorkShoes Send No And Dress Shoes at $4.89 A Blow at Profiteering &0 AQ for a pair •PatatOof.48 real honest built work Sounds im- possible but it is trueandthe best part of it is that you do George Wentworth Carr, chairman of not have to send any money.to the Philadelphia County Committee, o v e it. which sponsored the meet Thou- sands have runner, promised to act as an agent at been

Antwerp for the Legion in signing up . sat- • the American winners for the Field Day. ? /< isfied SEARCHING FOR A The stadium of Franklin Field seats The'dress shoe we are offering at $4.89, just think of it, $4.89 for a dress approximately 20,000 persons. The shoe. This in it- TOWN self is the greatest bargain first event, a sixteen-mile marathon, of the season, but in ad- is a big job if it is not listed in the will be started from Villa Nova Col- dition with every pair of dress shoes sold we will United States Postal Guide. Also, lege, or some equally distant point, in sell a pair of these work searching for a man in a city is a time to allow the runners to finish at shoes for $2.48. A price big job for the post office depart- Franklin Field just after the audience that sounds like thedays before the war. Imagine ment if the street address is not has gathered. for a total expenditure given. Events on the Field Day program of $737 actua' to less than the Names of the new subscribers open to all Legionnaires in the country of the dress shoes the AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY are the 100-yard dash, 600-yard run, you will ha are frequently received with faulty one-mile run and one-mile inter-city two pairs shoes. addresses. Hence the circulation relay, each man to run a quarter mile. department cannot deliver the Local events open to all Legionnaires magazine promptly. of Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey Officers of Legion Posts should and Delaware are the Post medley re- see that complete and correct ad- lay race, Post one-mile relay race, 100- dresses are given when names of yard dash, 75-yard dash for women, new subscribers are forwarded to tug of war, undress and dress again Send No Money, Just Send YourOrder the AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY. uniform race, bayonet race, bugle com- and pa; your postman $7.37 and postage when the ad- package arrives. You take no risk as the shoes will Subscribers who change their petition and squad wall-scaling contest. be sent to you under our iron clad guarantee of money dresses should notify this maga- back including postage if you are not fully satisSed. The following are handicap events zine direct, allowing the circulation Sell open to all registered A. A. U. athletes We Positively Cannot Either Pair of Shoes Separately department from two to three 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard When ordering be sure to mention the size required weeks to put the change into effect. run, 880-yard run, high jump, broad oo each pair of shoes. jump, pole vault, shot put and invita- WOLPER'S, Chicago tion one-mile run. Dept. 143 1201-1209 West Van Buren St. Entry fees are fifty cents for each man for each A. A. U. event; twenty- LEARN PIANO! five cents for each man for each other FIELD ARTILLERYMEN Free Book event; $1 for each relay race. Entries This Interesting you know that there is a Field Artillery Reserve shows how you can become a skilled DO membership in which is open to all will close on September 8th. Entry plsyer of piano or organ at quarter us- Association, ual cost. It shows how one lesson with F. A. officers who served in the Great War, whether or blanks may be had from Edward Koell- an expert is worth a dozen other les- not they are now in the Reserve ? Keep up your inter- Qoinn's famous Written sons. Dr. in Field Artillery matters by joining this Associa- Methodfncludesallof the manyimport- est sted, Chairman of Athletic Committee, are three dollars, one dollar of which ant modern improverr its in teaching music. Brings right to your tion. Annual dues Philadelphia County Committee, Ameri- home the great advantage eervatory study. For the beginners pays for a year's subscription to The Probable Error. or experienced playe Endorsed by great Artists. Success for Send for a sample copy of this magazine to the can Legion, 1011 Chestnut street, Phila- graduates everywhere. Scientific yet easy to understand. Fully illus- trated. All music free. Diploma granted. Write today for free book. FIELD ARTILLERY RESERVE ASSOCIATION delphia, Pa. QUINN CONSERVATORY, Studio Z8, 598 Columbia Road, Boston 25 Mass. 2 West 45th Street. New York, N. Y.

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Make a Note of This THE ORPHAN-ROLL JUMPS TO EIGHTEEN Gertrude Craig, Sangamon Post, Spring- of garters E. We'll bet a chapeau she will! And When in need field, 111 2 Englewood Post wants a picture of its J., Post 1 dealer for the Englewood, N. ask your Harry E. Kern Post, Toledo, 1 orphan as does Harry E. Kern Post of Hyde Park Post, Chicago, 111 1 Toledo, O., another live unit that re- Previously adopted 13 members the days of O. D. and the Boston Total 18 funny scrawls the French kids used to get off to their American pals. The THEY'RE coming in, men, they're orphan fund now stands at §1,350. Garter coming in. Five more Lttlo Want to get in on the big campaign French kids adopted this week, to father the lonely kids of our one- of course Most men do as a matter making it the best week yet. Or, as we time ally? Here's how to do it: the two words go so well together. really ought to say—they're coming in, Posts of the Legion, or individual George Frost Co. men and women, they're coming in. members or friends may adopt a French MAKERS Because this time the star adopter is war orphan for at least one year, BOSTON a former naval reserve nurse, Gertrude contributing seventy-five dollars for E. Craig, of Sangamon Post, Spring- field, 111., who has taken two! If one nurse can adopt tivo orphans how many orphans can 9,500 Legion Posts adopt? We're not strong on mathematics, never could even count the beans in our mess kit right, but the answer does sound like food and shelter and clothes and an education for pretty near all the orphans of France. If Work and Comfort Shoe That's just it, that if. If we take 'em and are we going to? did once, Here's a good, durable work We shoe. No, Buddy! Not when our average income was thirty- an army hiker *A 35 but a better shoe r*' three princely iron men a month and with hiker's comfort now as civilians we spend about that and better wearing qualities. We're giving much on a pair of shoes—at least some you these shoes at the of us do. all it costs to provide for extraordinary low price. And Elsewhere they would one of our former petits camarades for cost you $6.00 to S7.00. Our system of national a year is $75. Split that sum up among selling makes this Jrreat saving possible. Sales the members of your post and see how ' ""».. -J much a head that means? We thought so. Not such a lot apiece. So, when you hold your next post meeting, why not put up the "If one nurse can adopt ." two orphans . . question and see Joseph Lechalupc, eight years old, IF what happens. Maybe next week we'll formerly adopted by Lieut. E. W. OILY - - have to change the question to "If one Van C. Lucas, Jr., A. E. F. s ." post can adopt three orphans . . AH genuine chrome But that's up to you. the first year's support. The mascot uppers ; Boles of h-avy oak -tanned leather. "I prefer that a boy and girl, not assigned will be either orphans or H -els of solid leather. Chuck the children of full of comfort— in all sizes — under six years of age, be assigned to permanently disabled yo j won't need woolen socks either. T»n only, , t

American Dances I was in training at side of my pack; he hung from a string WHENAmerican Lake, Washington, when in billets, and there were times FOR PIANO in July, 1917, a daily swim when he was nailed to the foot of my (5th grade) was necessary. The weather was fine double-deck bunk, when we were in COMPOSED BY and the swim was always a pleasure. barrack. EASTWOOD LANE One day, when coming out of the He was buffeted and abused by every lake, I bumped into a little white flan- buck that passed, but his kicks and 1. The Crap-Shooters (A Negro Dance) nel dog floating in the water. It was cuffs and comfortings were all in the 2. Around the Hall (A Dance Hall Ditly) a baby's toy and had tried a swim of nature of fellowship, for he repre- 3. A Gringo Tango its own. I took it to camp and tied it sented all that the squad meant to each 4. North of Boston {A Barn Dance) to our tent flap. A few days after I other—good fellows, willing to lend 5. Powwow {An Indian Reminiscence) went swimming with a wrist-watch on, their last clacker, standing every hard- and after that it never ticked again. ship, every loss and all good fortune. COMPLETE $1.25 One of the boys of the squad buckled it All have scattered, but he remains In this suite Mr. Lane has not written music around Whitey's neck as a collar. Dur- with me, the symbol of two of the hard- for dancing. The pieces have been inspired by the dances and the rhythms arc suggestive of them. ing our stay at this camp he was est and best years of my life. He is adopted as squad mascot, and served not valuable; he doesn't cost a cent for J. FISCHER BRO., New York & as an ornament by day and a sign by upkeep; he is dirty, inarticulate, Fourth Avenue at Astor Place night. We could identify our tent by ragged ; the excelsior is coming through his presence, especially when running in places; the watch is muddied and the guard lines after taps. rusted, and is rather a grotesque orna- WANTED One day we packed up and hurried ment for a creature so much traveled FOR CASH to France, arriving there in August and solemn, but I would not lose that '17. Whitey served as squad mascot old watch or that ragged watchdog for Your Old Serge or Whipcord Army Uniform during all our stay, although the squad any amount. He represents only the Must be in fair condition. Overseas serge preferred. changed its personnel several times. intangible things of friendship and Write for particulars before shipping C. O. D. Sometimes he sweltered in a barrack memory. And he will stay with me, P. O. Box 603, Little Rock, Arkansas bag; he traveled strapped to the out- the High Mascot of my house. Cotton yarns bought, sold and exported

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