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STCRMTROOPER : C^e WAR ad SEEN a GERMAN SOLDIER Copyright 1938, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. What Hospital Life Taught
Alb e rt Curtis
CRATTAN CONDON
SIX years many things can hap- INpen, especially within the walls of a veterans' hospital. To a variety of experiences, in my own case, I re- sponded in a perhaps not unusual man- ner. But now, once again back in civilian life, I realize how harmful it was for me to indulge in certain moods. For example, in being afraid, in expressing resentment, suspicion, anger and even non-cooper- ation with the hospital staff and with my fellow-patients. Hospital life can be compared to out- side life in this respect, that there are in both so many things to be grateful for, and especially so many good turns to do, that it is actually a waste of time and positively injurious for one to harp on un- pleasant things, and turn them over irra- tionally in mind, as I occasionally did. I remember, for example, the time I was very much wrought up over a trivial matter. It was a bright moonlight night, I confess (with and the moon seemed all the more bril- blushes) that I liant after the night-nurse had made her sassed her back bed-check, and lights on the ward were turned off. I decided therefore to lower the Venetian blinds, and without think- ing of my neighbor, I lowered them. But borly and friendly, not put into practice ing whether I pulled through or not. Now perhaps just because I wanted them the ideal of consideration for others. I felt that I ought to sit up a little and re- down, this patient suddenly decided he While in this confessional mood, I want gain my strength. That, by the way, is a wanted them up, and as soon as I was in to tell another one on myself, and remark common expression used by hospital pa- bed, he raised them, but with such a vio- that I am glad that as long as it did hap- tients, and unduly magnified by them, lent jerk that the whole contraption fell pen, it took place in the early part of my for after recovery it is quite easy to slap-bang to the floor. For hours I could hospital days. At that time I was foolish regain one's strength, as was pointed out not sleep (for I had also been foolish enough to believe that certain nurses had to me later. But at that time I boldly got enough to indulge in a little display of it in for me. It began by my not obeying out of bed when the nurse's back was temper), and now I realize that other pa- rules. In that hospital, all the cases in my turned, and seated myself bulkily in my tients in the ward must also have been category of non-ambulant patients had chair. disturbed. If only I had been tactful, and to remain in bed twenty-four hours a day. I certainly felt guilty, of course, know- asked my neighbor's permission to lower By the time I write of, however, I was ing that I was deliberately breaking the the blinds, all would, perhaps, have been feeling decidedly better than on the day rules, but nevertheless I began writing hunky-dory. But at that time I had not I was carried into the Veterans Hospital letters. When the nurse turned about and learned the great lesson of being neigh- on a stretcher, half-delirious, and not car- saw me in a chair, {Continued on page 42)
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Past National Com- CONTENTS 892. It won the Frank N. Belgrano, WHEN SONS OF THE LEGION Cover mander R. Quinn, Trophy for the most John By Edwin Earle Jr., outstanding President of the 1938 Ameri- WHAT HOSPITAL LIFE TAUGHT service to the program of the Boy can Legion Convention Corporation ME 1 Scouts of America. Its San Gabriel of Los Angeles, extends the right By Albert Curtis Post Drum and Bugle Corps (and Illustration by Graltan Condon hand of fellowship (and what a hand San Gabriel is in Los Angeles STORMTROOPER 5 it is!) to his buddies next September, By W. W. Ross County) won the Russell G. Crevis- he will have at his elbow, as co- Illustrations by J. W. Schlaikjer ton Trophy in the drum-corps com- greeters, representatives of one. hun- A WAY OUT 8 petition. Hollywood Post took the By James Truslow Adams dred and seventy Posts. That is more John R. McQuigg Trophy by winning Illustration by Edward A . Wilson Posts than any other county in these LET'S GO, LEGION! 10 the Fidac Post Rifle Team Match. United States can boast. By Frank L. Pinola (P. S. Hollywood is also in Los An- 12 FOUR WITNESSES geles County.) In addition to this, By Timothy Fuller F course, the catch in that is Los Angeles Police Post (those boys Illustration by Forrest C. Crooks o that Los Angeles County is COWS, CHICKENS AND AMERI- whose motorcycle gyrations amazed enormous as everybody knows. It CANISM 14 and delighted the millions who By Thomas Malone comes as something of a surprise, J. looked on at New York), shooting TWENTY YEARS AGO 16 therefore, to learn that nine other as The American Legion A BIRTHDAY CALL TO SERVICE 18 entry at in California it in counties exceed By Daniel J. Doherty, National Com- Camp Perry, Ohio, last year, took area. They certainly go in for things mander down some gold medals—the first ABOUT A HOLE-IN-ONE in a big way out there. HOW time the Legion ever figured among CONTEST? 20 By Winsor Josselyn winning pistol teams. All of which ANYWAY, Legion, Los Angeles Illustration by William Heaslip seems to indicate that out-of-State /a. County will be yours next Sep- THE LIFE AND DEATH OF visitors will find in California a CHARLES G. CLEMENT 22 tember, specifically from the 19th to Legion that is resourceful, competent, By Samuel Taylor Moore inclusive little the 2 2d, both dates —a Illustration bv Ravmond Sislev alert, continually up and doing, re- more than inclusive, because you can INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS 24 spected the length and breadth of the come early and stay late. And if you By Frank A. Mathews, Jr. State. Funny, but Department Ad- Cartoons by George Shanks come, say, from Calais, Maine, you jutant Jim Fisk has been telling us EDITORIAL: safety first 27 aren't going to limit the Los Angeles CLEAR EYE AND STEADY HAND 28 just that for quite a few years. show to a four-day affair. By Boyd B. Stutler HELD BY THE ENEMY 32 THERE'S a report that the tall corn By John J. Noll CALIFORNIA got all set at the THE UBIQUITOUS DEMON- which Iowa will tote in the Los New York National Convention STRATOR 36 Angeles parade September 20th may by carrying off more awards than any By Wallgren be grown in California. Department 38 other Department. It won the Frank- BURSTS AND DUDS Adjutant R. Laird of Iowa has in- Conducted bv Dan Sowers J. having the stituted Cali- lin D'Olier Trophy for FRONT AND CENTER 40 pourparlers with the highest percentage of eligible ex-serv- fornia Legion with this end in view, ice men. It won the Frederick W. and the outcome will be awaited with Galbraith Trophy for having in the IMPORTANT breathless interest. Laird figures the Fifth Avenue parade more mile-mem- transportation bill will be lighter and A form for your convenience if you wish bers, Legion and Auxiliary, than any the stalks greener if the plan goes to have the magazine sent to another ad- (it will have a other Department dress will be found on page 49. In noti- through. And now the California hard time repeating on that one). If fying the Indianapolis address be sure to Legionnaire suggests an effort be you're interested in figures, Cali- include the old address as well as the new made to supply the Kansas delegation and don't forget the number of your Post fornia's member-mileage was 2,818,- with native sunflowers. and name of Department.
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PART I
A VETERAN of the Imperial Ger- /\ man Army, a former private / % and officer of Sturmtruppen, I am today an American. From 1Q14 to 1918, I served in major battles and raids on fronts from the Masurian Lakes to the Alps, from the Belgian lowlands to the Carpathian Mountains. My record shows four wounds and six decorations. I fought against the French, British, Russians, Rumanians, Italians, and once against you whom I have been proud to call my fel- low-countrymen since that day ten years ago when the United States granted me, a former enemy, citizenship. Perhaps you whose uniform was olive drab would be interested in the story of one who wore field gray and manned the opposite trenches. So I have been as- sured by American veterans, friends with whom I've "fought the war over." If that is true, here is my story. My surname is German, not Scotch as it may appear, and my family's roots are deep in the soil of the Vaterland. In 1914 I was 18 years old, a student of philoso- phy and economics at a great German university. How fast I dropped those favorite subjects of mine when war was declared! Who cares about philosophy and economics when there's a war on?
With many of my comrades I hastened to volunteer. Remember how it was with you three years later? That burning im- patience to get to the front and see some action before the scrap died on you? It was the end of September before they let us out of training camp and sent
MARCH, 1938 5 us, one thousand replacements, into the to be made by the Senegalese. We'd ness of No Man's Land, we met them, line near Soissons. Delighted that the heard about the Senegalese—huge French line against line. Spurts of flame from war had kept till we arrived, we crouched Colonial Negroes clad in blue and red, their rifles showed their towering ranks, in the thirty-inch trenches of those days monstrous and menacing, like demons gave a flash of clenched, bared teeth in and valiantly volunteered for patrol straight out of the Arabian Nights. They black, almost invisible faces. But they fired every night. We were sore when they were out there in the darkness looming only a few shots before they closed with us. picked patrols by lot only. It took several over us. In no calm frame of mind we I had known the clash of steel before. bombardments by the French artillery stood to without even the barbed wire For my student corps at the university to dampen our ardor. Never through all of later days to protect us. I had fought three duels with the razor- the war could I lose the feeling of helpless Then our company commander, an edged schlager, eyes guarded by goggles, consternation under shellfire—a dread old-timer, gave a strange order. Unload. throat bandaged to protect the jugular
that may vanish in actual combat but Remove rifle bolts. In close combat, he vein, and came out unscarred. But now clutches you when all you can do is duck said, you are as likely to shoot each other it was life or death in this bayonet combat and take it. as the enemy. Fix bayonets. Vorwarts! in the darkness—haphazard jab and in- One dark night most of our patrols in Our line moved forward out of the trench stinctive parry—blade piercing or rifle No Man's Land never returned, but a knowing that our captain meant that we butt crashing in. To my five foot, seven few men escaped from the sharp, sudden must and could prove ourselves able to inch height, the Senegalese were giants clashes meant to blot them all out and got meet the big black men with the bayonet. thrusting down at me. Yet many of us back to warn us of a surprise attack about And thus, midway in the pitch dark- in the German ranks were trained ath-
6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine letes, young and strong. Shoulder to ing that tough night, war lost its glamor just half an hour each non-com would shoulder, we held them for a while, giving for us young recruits. rout out his squad, put them through way stubbornly at last before their Two weeks later I led a patrol which vigorous exercises for ten minutes and superior power. overwhelmed a French one, bringing then let them sink back into the snow to For four hours that hand-to-hand fight back the survivors as prisoners. That sleep again. So it went all night, every in the dark raged on. I could not see. I won me an assignment to officers' train- night. Except for such measures, none could only feel my comrades to right and ing camp. In seven weeks I had my lieu- would have been alive in the morning. left and know we must hold our line or tenant's commission—in Russia as a Winter, ancient ally of the Muscovite! be stabbed in the back. Over and over, Zugfiihrer, platoon commander. Gloves, always wet, sometimes taking a the same motions. Bayonet driven home It was open warfare, war of movement toll of all ten fingers. Sodden, frozen boots into a dim shape in front—wrenched in the Masurian Lakes sector in 19 15. In and rotted socks pulled from numbed
feet with the toes . . . But enough of that. My outfit was assigned to army corps reserve and moved often from point to point, as the German forces advanced toward the occu- pation of Warsaw and Riga. Through deep, clinging mud that sucked off boots, we struggled forward, lucky to make three miles a day. For weeks at a time we were without artillery and rolling kitchens. At long intervals our mail reached us, and great occasions those were. In one batch, I got a bag of accumulated letters, ten pounds of chocolate, and 6,000 cigarettes. We pushed on against the heavy Rus- sian odds. When the ground dried out somewhat, we consoli- dated our position. How long and thin we had to stretch our lines! My bat-
Hand-to-hand, in the dark, for four hours that fight went on. We knew we must hold the line or be stabbed in the back
talion of 800 men held three miles of trenches. And we knew a major Russian coun- ter-attack was coming. Behind a one-yard depth of wire in still shallow trenches we faced the Rus- sian entrenchments 800 yards away. The deadly fire of Siberian sharpshooters picked off five of my tall, right-of-the-line squad, big grenadiers who, weary of stooping behind the low parapets, straightened up for an instant. Then in that early May of loose, foot against falling body—then dugouts with stoves we might have kept 1015 the Russians launched their great dropping to the ground yourself, breath- warm, but now we were fully exposed to attack to honor the birthday of the czar. less, exhausted. Struggling up as soon as the terrible cold of twenty and thirty Through the night blazed the houses of a you had your breath—closing ranks— degrees below zero. During six weeks, my town of 20,000 inhabitants (ninety per- shoulder to shoulder again, groping with company lost from twelve to fifteen men cent Jewish) behind our lines, fired by bayonets through the blackness to con- a week, killed or maimed by freezing. Russian shells. Three hours of futile tact with the enemy. Thus we counter- Often without shelter, we had to let our artillery preparation preceded the attack. attacked and won back our trench. Dur- men sleep in the deep snowdrifts. After I heard the shells (Continued on page 46)
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AS INDIVIDUALS we aU of us have that of broad construction. The first cans, of all economic grades. We want to /\ to face the problems of our per- leads to the old doctrine of States' maintain our standard of living, which is / % sonal lives and think out the rights and the limitation of Federal the highest enjoyed by any nation in the
answers, but such problems and power; the second to the consolidation of world, and we also want to raise it higher thinking are of two kinds on different power in Washington. The first was the and extend it wider. We want to remedy planes. Most of the time we go along theory of Jefferson and his Democratic many of the defects and wrongs which with the more or less routine questions Party; the second that of Hamilton and have grown up in both our economic and posed by our jobs, our homes, our social the Federalists. However, the whole ol political systems. Most of us further want relations, and so on. These are often per- our political history shows that one party to retain those personal liberties and that plexing enough but now and then, in some and another has adopted one view or chance to rise and be our best selves which crisis perhaps, we face problems of a dif- another as circumstances seemed to re- has been the dream always of the Ameri- ferent order and have to probe to the very quire from time to time, and today the can and of the tens of millions from other roots of life. We have to ask ourselves, Democratic Party has extended the Ham- lands who have come here to become what sort of man am I really ; what is the iltonian view to a degree that well might Americans because of that dream and use of life; what is truly worth while; am have made Hamilton gasp. Although from hope. They came here to escape from the I sacrificing the genuine values of life time to time it has been made to seem so, trammels of all sorts which impeded them for things that are not worth it? it is really not a party question but lies in the Old World and we not only do not What is true of the individual is also much deeper. want to see such barriers arise here but true of nations. There are periods in which we want to destroy such as have arisen. they can go on considering ordinary legis- AGAIN, our Government consists of lation, ordinary reforms, and other ques- Li- three departments, and of a balance WE WANT a better distribution of tions on which people may differ, without between them. Nevertheless, this balance income and the total social prod- great consequences. There are other peri- has constantly shifted, especially as be- uct while at the same time keeping open ods in which they are called upon to tween the Legislative and Executive the door of opportunity for the individual. think about the very nature of govern- branches. In i836-'37 Jackson as Presi- We want to operate controls over the ment itself and what kind of government dent seemed to be getting control over great business enterprises, and we want and life the nation really wants. One such Congress. Fifty years later Wilson wrote to stop the wild waste of the nation's period was that leading up to the Revolu- that the danger was that Congress would resources which has characterized our past tion. Another was that leading to the leave no power to the President. Another history. We want additional services Civil War, and in my opinion we are in fifty years and the complaint is that Con- from government which our grandfathers another such period now. gress has become a rubber stamp. These would not have dreamed of. We also re- This is to be welcomed and not a mat- shifts have occurred regardless of party. alize that because much of our business ter to be alarmed about. It is good for In fact a rapid shift may occur with the has become nation-wide, and properly so, both individuals and nations to have to same party in office. Lincoln was the most new problems of control have been think things through from the very bot- powerful President up to his day. Under opened for the national Government. tom, now and then, and consider funda- his successor, Johnson, a Republican like National brands of food and other com- mentals. Not for two generations have Lincoln, the power of the Executive fell modities; a telephone call from New York
Americans been doing so much thinking to the lowest ebb in our history, and Con- to San Francisco ; an air flight from coast about the constitution and meaning of gress even tried to impeach him. Many to coast; a thousand other things which America as contrasted with the passing other examples could be given to show might be mentioned bring to us a realiza- political issues of the day. These pro- the same point that the deeper problems tion that this is one country even if there founder questions should not be ap- of government not only should not be, are forty-eight States. We agree that the proached in a partisan spirit and in fact but as a matter of fact have not been, national Government has to do, and in they always have a way of cutting across continuously party ones. We can there- the future will have to do, many things mere party lines when the people seri- fore approach what we have to say with- that used to fall within the province of ously consider them. It is the easier to do out thinking in party terms at all. the separate States. this because parties themselves shift and The problem which I think is most But much of the above calls for tre- alter. Let us give two examples of con- deeply disturbing thoughtful and experi- mendous centralization of power, and stitutional interpretation and change to enced Americans today of all parties is what worries us is that as we look about show how non-partisan such problems that of the future of our form of govern- the world today we find that everywhere really are. ment and of our fundamental personal such centralization has tended to create For one, there have always been two liberties. There are many things on which dictatorships and totalitarian states of contrasted ways of looking at the Con- most of us can agree. We all want one sort or another in which personal stitution, that of strict construction and America to be a better land for all Ameri- liberties and much else that has formed
The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine part of our American Dream have been "The more I study our Con- we ask ourselves where we are headed, lost to the people. We know that at pres- stitution, the more admiration what can be done, what kind of govern- ent there is looming a life and death I have for the men who drew it ment we want and how it should function, struggle between such states and the up, and the more I marvel that with a seriousness which is wholly new to democratic countries, between dictator- such a group could be found in our generation. ship and democracy. We see what in- a new country. The men who There is, I think, a general impression creasing, and then complete, centraliza- framed the Constitution could that there is no other choice than increas- tion has wrought elsewhere. We see that not possibly foresee the future, ing centralization of all controls from for the most the remaining democracies but they knew human nature Washington or a return to the "horse and are small countries such as Switzerland and they knew the art of buggy days." Few of us want to go back and the Scandinavian nations, together government" to those and in any case we cannot. There with the British Empire, in which alone is no way of getting back to the time be- decentralization has been at work, and fore the horseless carriage, the telephone our own America in which the tendency Nevertheless we do not want in the and all the rest any more than there is is toward vast centralization. And yet we process to reorganize ourselves as free any chance of our getting back to child- do somehow want to reorganize much in American citizens, accustomed to the hood. We have got to go on or bust. On our national life and make it better. American tradition, out of existence. So the other hand, a (Continued on page 37)
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American Legion's bills pro- The time is propitious for enactment of crack-brained idea. It is a fitting com- THEviding for wartime Universal this legislation, so necessary if we are to panion to the plan put forward some years Service, to take the profit out of avoid the tragic mistakes of the war we ago by Oswald Garrison Villard that we any wars in which the United knew at first hand, which ironically his- cut our Army and Navy to the bone as States may become embroiled, are now torians are coming to designate the First an "example" to other nations—an "ex- before the Senate and House of Repre- World War, the implication being that it ample" that would reduce us to the status sentatives at Washington for considera- was only number one of a series. Number of poor China.
tion. Number one in our legislative pro- Two, if and when it comes, may very well The seventeen-year background of our gram, by mandate of the New York wipe western civilization off the slate, bills to make universal service an actual
National Convention and affirmative for Europe and Asia are already aflame fact is known to every person who is the seconding action of the National Execu- with armed conflict in ever widening cir- least bit acquainted with American Le- tive Committee at Indianapolis in No- cles, and in the environs of the embattled gion history, and may be reviewed in vember, this legislation, which the Legion hosts morally bankrupt nations debate less than two hundred words. But first has consistently advocated over a period among themselves whether now or later let me say that the Legion does not re- of seventeen years, should pass both they will launch an attack on a neighbor- gard its bills as perfect in their present Houses of Congress within the next few ing country. form, that it welcomes amendments
months. It will pass if every Legionnaire In these circumstances, made more which will put teeth into the measure and Auxiliare does his and her duty. tense for us by the conditions surrounding where its bite may turn out to be less By all means let your Congressman the bombing and sinking of our gunboat decisive than is desirable. We do not and both Senators from your State know Panay by the Japanese in Chinese waters, claim, for instance, that our bills will kill that you want this legislation passed. it is important that we keep in mind profiteering. We know they will scotch
, ' Tell them you want to see the Sheppard- Theodore Roosevelt 's admonition 'Speak it, and we also know that no other mea- Hill Bill (formally Senate No. 25 and softly, but carry a big stick." sure planned ahead of an actual war House No. 6704) enacted into law at this emergency can begin to do as good a job session. THE "big stick" is first of all an ade- as our bills will do if they are enacted It is imperative that you lay down a quate scheme of national defense, into law. For seventeen years we have heavy barrage of communications to the which we have on paper in both military been getting ready for action. Let's go! Senators and Congressmen. This will and naval establishments and will have serve a dual purpose—it will not only let in actuality very shortly. To back up HERE is all you need to recall about your spokesmen in Congress know how these essential defensive forces we need the history of this Universal Service
you feel about these bills, but it will also the Legion-sponsored Universal Service legislation give those among them who are already act, which will serve notice on predatory In 192 1 the Legion at its Kansas City for the proposition a basis on which to nations that we intend to protect our National Convention determined that reply to the hundreds of communications shores and our legitimate interests in the experience of the nation in the World which I know they will receive from the every part of the globe. War made it necessary that in peacetime, pacifists. Recently a secretary expressed In early January the House of Repre- legislation should be framed which would regret over the fact that the Congressman sentatives killed the Ludlow Amend- make it impossible for anyone to make for whom he works had voted in favor of ment, pet measure of the group who large profits out of a war emergency. A the Ludlow Amendment which would would strip this country of its means for bill to take the profits out of war was have stripped Congress of the right to effective action in dealing with a war drafted and for several years that bill declare war. "But how could he have done emergency. Under that fantastic plan was presented at each session of Congress. otherwise?" the secretary asked. "He Congress would have lost the right to In 1Q28 the San Antonio National Con- received i8q letters from his constituents declare war, for its power would have vention decided to back legislation pro- in favor of the resolution and but one been made subject to a referendum by viding for creation of a commission to against it." the nation's voters. Mind you, no other study the entire subject of war profits If we don't do any better than that we nation under the sun which has the right and make definite legislative recommen- don't deserve to win. to run its own affairs has adopted this dations to Congress. Out of this grew the
10 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES PHELPS CUSHING The dome of the National Capitol seen through the pillars of the new Supreme Court building
Snell Resolution, passed by Congress on March 7, 1932, and he transmitted if war is declared. The President would in 1930. Four Senators, four Congress- them to Congress at once. The Legion be empowered to freeze prices upon Con- men and six members of President bills in House and Senate are the fruit gress's declaration of war, draft members Hoover's Cabinet made up this Commis- of those findings. of the unorganized militia between the sion, under the chairmanship of Secre- What does the Legion seek in its Uni- ages of twenty-one and thirty-one, pre- tary of War Hurley, a Legionnaire. After versal Service legislation? It seeks to cisely as was done during the World War, exhaustive hearings the Commission make certain that the United States will license industrial concerns so that they reported its findings to President Hoover be actually a nation in arms when and might provide (Continued on page 52)
MARCH, 1938 II SHORT SHORT STORY
Timothy Fuller
DRAKE had died in the police ambulance three hours ago with a bullet in his left lung and another in his abdomen. In the presence of an officer, the police surgeon, and two attendants he had said, "Jerry Davis; yeah, Jerry Davis, I think." So it looked simple and they sent out a call for Jerry Davis, gambler, for the murder of Charlie Drake, also gam- bler. With four witnesses who had heard the dying man name the murderer, it looked like a good case. But there had been that "I think" which the witnesses would remember. An hour later, by process of elimina- tion, they located Davis in an uptown apartment. With him were three men and a woman and they all had the same story. Davis had been with them, playing poker, all evening. The men were all gamblers and the woman was evidently Davis's girl. For two hours Lieutenant Corrigan of the Homicide Squad checked their story for holes, without success.
Davis hadn't left the game since it began at eight o'clock and there were four wit- nesses ready to swear to it. "Listen, mugs," said Corrigan, leaning forward in his chair, "I think we'll go to the station now. We can talk better there." FORREST C . CROOKS "Charged with what?" asked the girl. "You got nothing on Jerry or any of us." "Shut up," said Davis. "If Corrigan said Davis with a hard smile, supremely bed but he felt he should cover all angles wants to be a sap, let him." confident. before letting them go. Their story was Corrigan sat back in his chair and "Listen, policeman," said the girl, too good. In a murder investigation looked at them through half-closed eyes. standing up, "are you going to keep us stories shouldn't be that perfect. It was true he had nothing on them ex- here all night? Jerry doesn't owe anyone "I think I'll talk to the lady alone," he cept Drake's final statement which in- any money." said. "You boys go sit in the other room. cluded that "I think." The perfunctory "Drake said he killed him," said Corri- Look after them, Joe." search of Davis and the apartment had gan slowly. The officer named Joe started to herd disclosed no gun. Five chairs around the She gave a short laugh. "You'll have a the gamblers into the next room. table, five piles of chips, two packs of tough time getting him on a witness "Try any rough stuff, Corrigan," cards. It looked like a poker game. stand." said Davis, "and I'll tear you apart." "How much dough did you owe "I won't need to, lady, I got witnesses." "You done enough- already tonight, Drake?" asked Corrigan. "So has Jerry, and they're alive." pal," answered Corrigan. "Two bits even, Corrigan, for a cigar," Corrigan sighed. He wanted to go to The men went out.
12 The AMERICAN LEGION Magaziw "How long've you been hanging around blankly at the cards held open in his Davis, sister?" hands. A tough dame, all right, and "Three years," she answered, running plenty smart. her fingers through her hair. "Careful of those cards," she said. She was nervous, but she was also "They're marked. We cheat each other." tough and probably smart. Corrigan He knew she was kidding but he con- picked up a pack of cards. tinued to look at the cards. Then he "Jerry teach you a lot about these?" closed the pack with a snap and looked at the five chairs and the five piles of chips. "Who was winning tonight?" he asked casually. She smiled. "We were about even. Maybe you'd like to get in a game some- time." "Maybe," he said absently. "You're sure no one went out at all during the game?" "We told you that." He looked at her closely. "Not even for a pack of cigarettes or something while they were dummy?" "No, no one left at all," she replied. Then she sucked in her breath. "How long've they been having a dummy in a poker game?" he asked quickly, leaning forward. She looked away. "They don't have no dummy in a poker game, do they, sister?" "I don't know what you mean," she said softly, not looking at him. "No, you don't know what I mean.
I'll tell you, sister. They don't have no dummy in poker, but how about bridge, lady? They have a dummy in bridge, don't they? How many people in a bridge game?" She was really frightened now. "What are you trying to prove?" she asked, but her voice wasn't steady. He leaned further forward, talking hard and fast. "Just that there's four people in a bridge game, sister. Four, not five. Get it? And you was playing bridge here tonight, not poker." He grabbed her arm and forced her to look at him. "Now's your chance to be smart, sister. You're licked now, lady. I got the goods, see? Play ball with me and you won't be answering an accessory charge. You're too young to go to jail, sister,
it takes a lot outa you. How about it?" "I don't know what you mean." "Just tell me I'm right, lady, that's all. "Enough," she said shortly. "What is You don't have to say nothing. I got it this, the true confession hour?" all worked out. You was sitting here "Do you know the term you can get playing bridge, the four of you, while for accessory? Or perjury?" Jerry was out. When he come in you fix "I'm terrified, officer." up the table so it looks like a poker game, "How long have you known Drake?" get it? But you forget about this pack of "A couple of years. He was just a cards. You played the last hand of bridge
lousy crook." with it, see? All the suits are together, "Yeah," said Corrigan, "and you're the way the tricks was laid down. Four Little Red Ridinghood." hearts, then four spades. You forgot to He toyed with the pack, spreading shuffle. I got the goods on you, sister.
it open, and then shut. He was getting How about it, do you go to jail for ten nowhere with this dame. He might as years, or do you talk?" wel' go home and wait for something to She looked at him a moment, not able He kept spreading the break. to speak. pack and closing it, "All those guys have it in for Drake?" "A jail ain't much fun, sister. How idly. This dame was "Yeah," she nodded. "We were just about it, am I right?" tough. He was get- cutting cards to see who'd bump him." She nodded her head slowly. "Yeah, ting nowhere with her Corrigan sighed again and stared that was it. Yea?h."
MARCH, 1938 13 Thomas J. Malone
Youthful 4-H clubmen with examples of their prowess
AMERICANS are all farmers at /\ heart. Most adults, if not living / % on farms now, were born on farms or are only one or two generations removed from the country. City men know farm life. Few of them but as boys had some experience with farm- ing, whether as sons of working farmers or as visitors to grandpa's during the sum- mer vacation. They hunted for eggs under the gran- on and then directing attention, exult- ma's strawberry shortcake, buried in such ary, behind the barn, around the hay- antly, to the "mustache" arching their cream as no city table knows, with sec- stack, in the mangers and feed-boxes. grimy mouths. They taught the calf to onds and thirds for a good boy who has They chewed wheat grains into a gum drink, or tried to, and learned about never forgot to bring in the chips nor de- unknown to all-city boys. They ran to stupidity in shooing the little turkeys to ceived her at bedtime by merely shuffling meet the horses coming in with clanking shelter from an impending storm. his bare feet in the dewy pigweed glow- harness from the field at the close of day, When your city executive today seems ing near the flags at the back door in lieu and begged to be lifted to the sway back to lose the thread at a conference and his of washing them with soap in the pail at of old Charley, who was as solidly safe eyes assume that far-away unseeing look, the pump. as the Empire State Building and nearly he has gone back to his boyhood and is Who on earth knows more about farm- as broad, from which eminence, proud as thinking of grandma's cookies and dough- ing than a city banker? What does a city —as a little boy on horseback—they nuts and apple pie down on the farm. man do first, after having amassed a sur- cried for notice to less favored folk in When the industrial magnate attends, as plus of pelf, but buy a place in the coun- yard or porch or kitchen. Most likely the pallbearer, the obsequies of a friend and try and stock it with pure-bred Guern- kitchen. They stood by in the pasture lot rival, the tear that comes to his eye at seys, Percherons or Poland-Chinas? when the evening milking was going on, the minister's mention of heaven may So when The American Legion en- rubbing one bare, mosquito-bitten leg have been induced, not by reflection as to courages an activity for the betterment against the other, holding a cup to be the destination of the departed, but by a of farm practices and of home life on the dipped into the fresh milk with the froth picture popping up in his mind of grand- farm, its interest springs from both voca-
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tion and antecedents. For many years enrolls ten to twenty, "conducts a sub- day" meeting, a county fair, a state fair, the Legion, as part of its national Ameri- stantial piece of work, designed to show or even a regional or national show or canism program, has given support to the some better practice on the farm or in the exposition. work of boys' and girls' clubs— the Four- home or community; keeps a record of You may wonder what a twelve- or H Clubs known everywhere in America results; explains the work to others; thirteen-year-old boy can get out of such in agriculture and home economics. The makes a final report on the work." The an activity. Besides the actual produc- support is extended, for the most part, piece of work chosen is a "project," as tion, which may yield a profit in money, by individual Posts. Less often county raising a poultry flock, fattening a calf, he grows in resourcefulness, determina- groups or a Department are promoters. growing a field of potatoes, keeping a tion and other qualities of character. The
Before going into specific work is educational; its greater instances of Legion support, values may lie in its by-prod- a word on the 4-H club set-up ucts. and program may be in order. A thirteen-year-older was Pledged to development of raising a pig as his 4-H club "head, heart, hands and project. He had bought the health," the 4-H clubs are young pig with money lent him part of the extension service by the town banker on his own carried on co-operatively by promise to repay when he sold the United States Depart- it. One night the animal broke ment of Agriculture, the state out of its pen, got into the al- agricultural colleges and local falfa and made a pig of itself. agencies. The clubs enrolled It died soon after from trouble nearly 1 , 1 50,000 boys and girls of the inwards. in the latest twelve-month The next morning, before period for which totals are opening time, the boy appeared available. They throve in all at the bank. He sat on the steps the States, Alaska, Hawaii and waited. When the banker and Puerto Rico. A majority showed up, the boy told him of the club members were what had happened. The boy's twelve to fifteen years old. voice trembled. He looked Most of them had been en- crushed, woebegone. rolled for two or more yeais. some for six home garden. The county extension agent "Don't worry about it," the banker or more. More than seven million rural supervises the work. The club member said. "You've had hard luck, and I'll just boys and girls in the United States have "demonstrates" before fellow members, cancel— ." "That isn't what I came to done club work in the last twenty-five and sometimes larger groups, how he see you about," the boy broke in. "I want years. proceeded. He exhibits the result of his you to lend me some more money to buy A member of a 4-H club, which usually work at a local or county "achievement another pig." (Continued on page 59)
Dairy judging ring at the Litchfield County (Connecticut) 4-H Club Exhibit held at the home of Lamson-O'Donnell Post of The American Legion in West Goshen. This Post last year won the Department trophy for the best example of Legion co-operation in 4-H work in the State
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re-education of war disabled. Von Steuben, killing three men Leo Shott Harvie, boat- and wounding seven. swain's mate 1st cl., killed in Pershing inspects 4 2d Divi- DURING the winter of IQ17-18 seaplane accident off French sion troops in Baccarat sector. an embattled world marked time. coast, becomes first casualty Rumania signs preliminary Russia's collapse freed vast masses of Naval Aviation Service. peace treaty with Austria- of German troops for service elsewhere— Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, Hungary. and elsewhere meant the Western Front. captured by Germans. The Allied forces, including the handful of Troops of 26th Division re- G A mericans already in France and the Divi- pel hostile trench raid along French Government com- waited with sions in training at home, Chemin des Dames, capturing plains to American G. H. Q. foreboding for the "spring offensive." When four prisoners. that despite request of De- and where would it fall? Secretary of Labor Wilson cember 20th that 6,000 loco- It fell on March 21st, in northern France. announces orders to immigra- motive and car repairmen be On that day the war woke up, and it stayed tion officials in Pacific North- sent to France by March 1st, awake, fully awake, until the following west to round up alien none have arrived; that de- November nth. I. W. W.'s for deportation. spite promise that 300 loco- A month-by-month calendar of America's motives would reach France share in it, therefore, can well begin with by November 1st, followed by March of iq 18. During the months to come Peace of Brest-Litovsk be- 150 a month thereafter, only The American Legion Magazine will pre- tween Central Powers and 160 in all have arrived; that sent a running day-to-day chronicle of Bolsheviks signed, removing of 3500 cars pledged for March these desperate days, prepared by members Russia from the war. 1st delivery, only 145 have of its staff. This calendar can hardly be Pershing and Clemenceau been received. all inclusive, or even partly inclusive; it can visit First Division sector, President Wilson author- simply attempt to re-create the feel and where French Premier con- izes four new decorations: color of the time. gratulates Americans on re- Distinguished Service Cross, everywhere are Newspaper editors pulse of German raid of March Distinguished Service Medal, invited to make use of any of the ma- 1st. Pershing later declares, as war service chevrons, wound terial in this calendar, and in all future a result of this inspection tour, chevrons. calendars in the series, without the that he considers Division necessity of further permission, pro- "ready to take offensive at vided credit is given The American Legion Magazine for the reprinting. In any time." Peace treaty between Ger- many instances they will wish to sup- Rouen established as com- many and Finland signed. plement this general chronicle of ponent of Base Section Four Eleven killed, 46 injured as events with local citations that will re- (Le Havre). German aviators bomb Lon- call how the war touched their own War Risk Insurance offices don. communities. move from Paris to Tours. General Pershing inspects 26th Division positions along MARCH 1 Chemin des Dames. U. S. S. Cyclops, with 57 U. S. automobile production Heavy German raid against 18th In- passengers, 20 officers, and to be reduced thirty percent as fantry, First Division, in sector north- crew of 213, leaves Barbadoes war measure, according to west of Toul, accompanied by flame- after putting in for bunker announcement. throwers, is repulsed. American losses 20 coal, and passes beyond the Postal authorities concede killed, 12 prisoners; German 17 killed, ken of living men—no slight- they were too late to bar from four prisoners. est indication of her fate has mails March issue of Metro- War is costing United States billion yet been found. politan Magazine because of dollars a month, Treasury Department U. S. S. Leviathan (ex-Vater- article Is America Honest? by reveals. land) sails from New York on William Hard. National Socialist Party rally in New second voyage as transport, York declares for Wilson and war. bound for Liverpool, with Recruits from Camps Custer, Grant, 8,000 troops aboard. This is There will be no more press Lewis, Pike and Travis begin to arrive her last trip to Liverpool, all lists of American casualties, at Camp Greene, North Carolina, to subsequent trips being to Committee on Public Infor- bring Fourth Division up to war strength. Brest. By the time of the mation announces, since War Armistice the Leviathan will Department refuses to identify
have carried 1 50,000 troops to units or give home addresses. Federal Board the A. E. F. Observers report signs of for Vocational President Wilson appoints coming German offensive Education sub- Bernard M. Baruch Chairman against Americans in sector mits two reports to of the War Industries Board. north of Toul. Congress looking British in Palestine advance toward the reha- three miles astride Jerusalem bilitation and the Shell explodes aboard U.S.S. road.
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Three city lots in Waco, Crowder announces that next United States Texas, owned by former Ger- draft will be 800,000 men. submarines will get man Chancellor Bethmann- double numbers, it 13 Hollweg, are sequestered. is announced, in- Former President stead of names; 9 Theodore Roosevelt receives word that first to be renamed First American Field Army his son Archie has been is the Schley, which planned, Washington an- wounded and decorated with becomes AA-i, a nounces, with Major General the Croix de Guerre. destroyer taking Bell, Wood or Liggett likely Senate Military Affairs Com- the name Schley. Admiral Von Tirpitz to command it. mittee asks War Department again predicts that U-boats will bring Federal Grand Jury at Chi- to allow Major General Leon- German victory. cago indicts former Congress- ard Wood to appear before it German prisoners taken by British man Victor Berger of Wiscon- on his return from his inspec- near Ypres complain of having been sin, Socialist, on conspiracy tion tour in France. underfed. charge. German troops enter Seventeen steel ships com- Odessa. 17 pleted in February, 23 more The A. E. F.'s "Service of Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, will be ready by end of March, the Rear" becomes "Services healthiest in country, with Camp Han- the U. S. Shipping Board an- of Supply." cock, Georgia, second, Surgeon Gen- nounces. Second Division, less artil- eral's Office discloses. lery, moves into area of French Germans occupy Nikolayev as Russian 10 Fourth Army, near Somme- fleet at Odessa escapes to Sebastopol. Secretary of War Newton dieue. Secretary Baker's party reaches Chau- D. Baker arrives in France as Republican leaders in Con- mont following tour of S. O. S. War Department announces gress start drive for enactment United States announces intention to that American troops are of woman suffrage amend- seize 68 Dutch ships lying in American fighting in four sectors of ment to the Constitution. ports as result of Netherlands govern- Western Front. ment's refusal to guarantee that vessels 14 Washington political experts will not carry munitions. see nation becoming dry with- Third Division begins move- in next twelve months. ment overseas. 18 On Broadway: Chu Chin Dynamite sufficient to blow Aircraft board announces plans to Chow, The Garden of Allah, up Hog Island shipyards take up charges of profiteering by manu- Maytime, Al Jolson in Sinbad found concealed there, Senate facturers. the. Sailor, Nazimova in The Commerce Committee is told. Four alleged German spies, two men Wild Duck, Lionel Barrymore President Wilson asksyouths and two women, seized in New York in The Copperhead—and form- over sixteen to join United by Secret Service. er Ambassador Gerard's My States Boys' Working Re- Allied Supreme War Council, condemn- Four Years in Germany on the serve for farm work. ing "political crimes" against Russia and screen. Rumania, announces determination to 15 fight on "in order to finish once and for 11 A. E. F. casualties to date all with this policy of plunder." Corporal Thomas Hitch- are announced as: Killed in Bid and •asked prices on American cock, Jr., of Lafayette Esca- action or died of wounds, 162; munitions stocks: American Brass, 229- drille reported captured by wounded or missing, 1560. 234; Atlas Powder, 168-170; Colt's Arms, Germans, Wallace Winter of Russian Soviet Congress 65-68; DuPont, 259-260; Scovill, 450- same outfit killed in combat. ratifies Brest-Litovsk treaty 480; Winchester, 700-850. Sixty German bombers raid with Germany. 19 Paris, killing 100. Daylight saving is voted by President Wilson pledges House of Representatives. Shell falls within fifty feet of Secretary aid to Russian Soviet Con- Two new ships will be Baker's motor-car as he visits front-line gress to keep her an inde- launched daily in May, Ship- trenches. pendent nation. ping Board announces. Unnamed "American observers" New York Giants leave for quoted in dispatch to New York Times 16 spring training in Texas. express conviction that plan for German French declare they are spring offensive on 12 ready for any German offen- Paris or the Chan- Secretary Baker confers with sive, with defenses twenty nel ports has been Poincare, Clemenceau, Joffre; miles deep. abandoned. pledges "all our resources" to Japan seeks cooperation Frenchdrivefive- winning the war. with Allies and China in attack eighths of mile into British air fleet attacks on Siberia, "as an ally loyal to German positions Coblenz. Russia, wishing to save the near Reims. (Con- Provost Marshal General country." tinued on page 44)
MARCH, 1938 17 : ! A Birthday Call ^Service Daniel J. Doherty
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American Legion will cele- made our slogan, "We served then and It is the tireless sponsor of social better- THEbrate its nineteenth birthday lived. We live now and serve!" ment! anniversary on March 15th. Nearly two decades of time have shown The American Legion in truth has be- It's a long cry back to that day how well we built. The American Legion come so blended with the American scene, nineteen years ago when we shed our has stood the test. Today The American that it may well be said that in a large wartime khaki or blue, and took a vow Legion has a glorious record of unselfish part its own history has become the his- to translate our battlefield associations service unparalleled by any other organi- tory of our country for this era. into continued peacetime service to God zation. But, inspiring as the record of The and Country. As we clasped our hands in Its victories of peace are no less re- American Legion is, the future holds still consecrating the future to the memory of nowned than those of war! greater promise. our departed comrades, in our hearts was It is hailed as the rallying center for As The American Legion stands today engraved the pledge true Americanism on the threshold of its twentieth year, its "Our unreturning Dead! Green be It is a pillar of strength against all de- greatest days are ahead! shall structive forces! The star of its destiny has yet to reach your memory ! We shall see that you not have died in vain!" It is a bulwark of protection for all its zenith! It was upon this big and sacred obliga- American heritages! Why am I so confident of that? tion to bring to attainment the ideals for It is a victorious champion of the dis- The formative period of organization which they fought and died, that we built abled and their dependents! has now been passed. Each year has The American Legion. It is an obligation It is the vigilant sentinel of national brought a greater measure of experience. shared alike by all of us who left our safety! The constructiveness of our efforts has homes twenty years ago to the beat of It is the benefactor of needy children! been enriched by such experience. No drums. We of The American Legion It is the teacher of youth! selfish motive impels our service. Success
The National Commander greets two little patients at The American Legion Hospital for Crippled Children at St. Petersburg, Florida
18 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Broadus Y. Palmer, a patient at the United States Veterans Facility at Bay Pines, Florida, a sufferer from arthritis of the spine, chats with the National Commander and National Executive Committeeman Joe S. Clark of achievement has furnished renewed mankind. That knowledge impels us who never belonged before flocked to the zeal to carry on. We have a profound individually, and through our organiza- Legion standards. appreciation of the great responsibilities tion, to uphold our Constitutional Govern- It might be well to remind World War yet to be shouldered. We are confident ment as the only security for life, liberty veterans that membership in The Ameri- of our ability to face and solve the prob- and prosperity. can Legion is a privilege that is not avail- lems that are to confront us. The associ- Thus as we grow richer in life's appre- able to other men. ation the years have brought cemented ciation, we grow prouder and prouder The eligibility rolls closed forever on our comradeship and welded us into a of our American Legion membership. November 11, 1918! great and unified force. We take more serious interest in the Le- The American Legion therefore is today The people remember us as the mere gion's program. We seek more zealously the most exclusive organization in the boys who marched off to war. Few of to impart our enthusiasm to others country. No child can be born into it. them realize that in the two years we eligible to worship with us in our temple No proclamation of president, edict of spent in the service of our country, many of service. king or dictator, can command admission. of us enduring hardships and dangers That accounts for the record advance No university or institute of learning can impossible to understand by those who membership landslide with which The issue a diploma authorizing its holder have not experienced them, we aged American Legion greeted the calendar to entrance. No Act of Congress secures many, many years, and almost overnight year of 1938. All January membership recognition. stepped from glowing youth to mature records in the entire history of The The wealthiest man cannot purchase manhood. In the twenty years that have American Legion have been broken this the position. Its doors open only to those passed since the end of the war, most of year. That accounts for the unprece- holding a bit of parchment, torn and be- us have raised families and assumed the dented peak of 11,393 Posts acting as grimed as it may be, certifying to an hon- responsibilities of business. We are what spark plugs of civic consciousness the na- orable discharge from active duty in the might be termed in the prime of life tion over. Army, Navy, Marine Corps or Coast today. That accounts for the tremendous suc- Guard of the United States during the To most of us in The American Legion, cesses of our legislative, child welfare, World War, or to those citizens of this the prime of life does in truth bring the rehabilitation, Junior Baseball, Boys' country who served honorably on active beginning of a fuller life. We see more State, Sons of The American Legion, duty in the armed forces of our Allies clearly our responsibilities as good citi- highway safety, and other worthwhile during the World War. zens. We recognize more and more the programs. The American Legion has no perman- worth of our organization as an almost The great measure of unselfish service ent roll. Membership must be renewed perfect vehicle for carrying out our which The American Legion has been each year. The fact that nearly a million highest patriotic impulses and concepts rendering year after year has rooted our men renew their enrollment, year after of civic duty. organization in public favor today as year, demonstrates that they find in The We realize more forcibly than ever be- never before. Following our mammoth American Legion the vehicle for service fore that our forefathers created, and we New York City convention last Septem- to God and Country which their good preserved, through mutual dangers and ber, there spread an electric wave of citizenship dictates. labors, a form of government in America popular interest in The American Legion Every veteran who is eligible for mem-
that is the home of freedom, the vantage that placed such a premium on Legion bership in The American Legion should ground for humanity and the hope of all membership that thousands of veterans be proud to answer the call.
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Legion Post was in session. OURSaid the Commander: "And now I'd like to hear some new ideas for the good-will program. We've planted trees along the streets, 0^ we've chopped firewood for the Commu- WlNSOR nity Center, we've put in a public pistol prizes in all? The first year we broke the range. Has anybody any new ideas on ice by telling merchants, service clubs how we can better this community with- JOSSELYN and sports-minded people that we wanted out too much expense to this Post?" a big number of small prizes, and it There was silence. The Commander, a worked so well that we've stuck to that patient worker whose cap jingled with a fresh cigar, nipping off the end, lighting ever since. Number and variety of prizes, hard-earned medals, expected at least the the cigar and looking at the new member not just a few costly things. usual wisecrack about a hundred-thou- through the smoke. This was hardly the Donors of prizes will repeat nearly a sand-dollar swimming pool, but instead behavior of a hawk about to strike. hundred percent year after year. They he got silence. Post members lit new ciga- Said the Commander, "Comrade, we get their names in the news stories before, rettes; Post members put matches to are all ears." during and after the engagement. They gurgling pipes. The new man looked around. "Com- spread around the news of the contest, Then up spoke a voice. It was the man rades, it's too long a story to tell from the and they come out and shoot. who had just transferred in from an up- floor. Suppose some of us get together You see, each contestant shoots five state Post—a quiet chap who once upon after the meeting and I'll spill the whole balls. The balls are in baskets at the tee, a time had trudged with the infantry. of it." and the shooters can pick out their five. "Comrade Commander," he said, And so we got together in our snug Or they can shoot five of their own under saluting, "can our good-will program take clubroom after the meeting, the Com- promise that they get them back. Yes, the form of entertainment?" mander, scenting a green good-will pas- and they can borrow clubs at the tee, The medals on the Commander's cap ture, leading the way. The new man be- right or left-handed, men's or women's, glinted in the light. He said, "Comrade,— gan. boys' or girls', or use their own pet clubs. if you have a play in mind, I'm afraid During the past four years (said he) we We give service and plenty of it. The con- The new man hastened on. "But, Com- have put on this event during a holiday test is one of those give and not gimme mander, this isn't a play, at least not a week-end when the weather gave promise events. stage play. I mean an annual golf con- of being good. Our community isn't big, To get back to the prizes, you can im- test—a hole-in-one golf contest." so except for one or two major projects, agine what I mean by variety. There will Another moment of silence, broken by besides our usual Post activities, we have be a cartoon of cigarettes, a small electric a Post member who exclaimed, "Say, I to stick to good-will events that give the clock, a sweater, a sack of sugar, a string had fun at one of those things once up in most for the money and manpower. It's of milk tickets, a pack of playing cards, the city. Me and a lot of other people." no use working a few stalwart buddies a box of three golf balls, a merchandise The Commander, relieved that the new to death. In this contest we team up order and so on. The capital prize can be man had not suggested that the Post with the local golf course and local news- a useful thing like a smoker's set or a build a Grade AAA municipal airport, paper, and you should see how both of cocktail shaker, and don't forget that the glanced at the Post's finance officer, a these outfits pull in harness with us. Yes, top winners like their names engraved money-hawk if there ever was one, and and you should see how the public goes on their trophies to tell of their prowess. then said to the new member, "How for the contest. Notice that I say contest The prizes should be on display well much does this event cost to put on?" and not tournament, because you could in advance of the contest. If you team up "Well, in the Post I just came from, hardly call the whacking of five balls at with a golf course, have the prizes on which is about the size of this Post, it one cup a tournament. show in the clubhouse. If not, show them cost us twenty-five dollars a year. During As to the way the twenty-five dollars in some downtown window with the the three-day week-end of the contest we is spent, seven dollars and a half goes for prize donors' names alongside each item. were hosts to as many as five hundred the capital prize which is given by the The cards can be used year after year, so players, which put the cost to us at about Legion, seven and a half goes to the cad- have them well made. But here's one five cents a person." dies who retrieve the balls, and ten goes point: Don't indicate what divisions of Again the Commander eyed the finance for newspaper advertising. play the prizes are for, whether for men, officer. That money-hawk was taking out Did I tell you that we have up to forty women, boys or girls. You may have to
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make some last-minute shifts in classifica- join the contest after their own rounds and explain the contest to them. Tell tion due to the way the entry list shapes were finished. them you'll be calling on them pretty
up. A specified daily prize, however, is not Or if a golf course isn't handy you can soon, and impress on them the idea that a bad idea. Service and fraternal clubs find a spot that has a little elbow room you want inexpensive prizes. In the news- and other groups should be urged to hike and make your own site. A patch of grass paper urge people to the ante by putting up individual prizes fifty or seventy-five feet square, or a spot volunteer prizes, because for their best shooting members. This of ground that isn't so hard that the balls you'll be surprised how boosts the prize total. will bounce into the next county, or so some generous people are The way people regardless of soft that the balls will die instantly, will (Continued on page 34) age will stand and look at be all right. The shooting tee is just a these prizes shows you transverse white line out there a decent that Santa Claus can approach-shot away, say ninety to a come at any time hundred and thirty yards. Naturally, the of the year space between the green and the tee As and be wel- should be fairly level and free from serious to the come, traps for shots down the alley. This con-
divisions test is for fun, not for blood. of players, Then go to the sports editor of your four main newspaper. Explain everything to him.
groups are about Ask him if he will run entry blanks for a all that you can han- week or ten days prior to the contest. dle, with a fifth of pro- As soon as the first stories break fessional players if the re- in the paper—and this should be gion is super-golf-conscious. a month before the event—go One year we tried such subdivi- to the merchants and club sions as left-handers, fat men, Boy groups that you know best Scouts, men wearing glasses and so on. It was a headache. Simply divide the men and boys, women and girls at the age of eighteen and save your worries for something else. Pick your playing site. If a golf course
is handy, go to the professional in charge. He'll know more about such contests than you will, and he'll know that his course will get a lot of favorable publicity. My other Post used to hook up with the city municipal course where the pro would give us the final green and make a tee a hundred and thirty yards up the fairway. For regular players he would make a temporary green still farther up the fairway, and although the regular players had to use this shortened final hole for their rounds over the week-end, they seldom complained. Indeed, they were among the first to hustle up and
MARCH, 1938 21 S^Life^/Death
By Samuel Taylor Moore
Raymond Sisley
THIS final instalment of the story of Charles G. Clement concludes a World War incident which the editors believe con- tains more than the mere flavor of Edward Everett Hale's immortal "The Man With- out a Country." The first instalment, pub- lished last month, traced the background which shaped Clement's character and fol- lowed his career through school, training camp, then overseas, to the front line, and out into No Man's Land, where Clement, leading a patrol, gave such perilous evi- dence of not being master of himself through a casual couple of drinks that the sergeants in the patrol had to take affairs into their hands and conduct him back to his own lines.
THEN occurred a coincidence which made formal knowledge of his cot, arms hanging limp at his sides. Captain Clement's mistake un- Attempting to put on the captain's
avoidable. Another patrol had gas mask, he found it impossible to do so. been out that same night from Company He then smelled the odor of whiskey, saw E of the 328th Infantry commanded by an open bottle, found that the captain's Lieutenant C. G. Huguley, a former class- canteen also reeked of whiskey. mate of Clement at Mercer, a man who Never in his long acquaintance with had been promoted from second to first Captain Clement had he ever known him lieutenant upon the recommendation of to take a drink, Lieutenant Huguley Captain Clement, and who as a company states. Yet obviously the man was drunk, officer had filled the role of best friend helplessly so. It was a difficult decision and severest critic of the company com- that faced Huguley. On the one hand was mander. a long and for the most part friendly ac- Reporting back from his patrol, Lieu- quaintance. The penalty for such mis- tenant Huguley noticed that the door to conduct he believed might be death. On Captain Clement's quarters adjoining the other hand, innocent men had been the orderly room was closed. To his query exposed to the greatest danger because as to the whereabouts of the captain, the of the captain's actions. The thing might clerk on duty was evasive. occur again, however fortunate the out- At that moment German shells began come in the present instance. Huguley arriving. Sentries sounded the gas sirens. deemed it his duty to report the captain's Because regulations required a stand-to The first grave of Private Charles condition at once. Later, he states, when the gas alarm sounded so that no G. Clement, in Chatel-Chehery, Captain Clement assured him he had men might be affected while asleep, marked by a cross whereon the done exactly right. Huguley entered the captain's room. men of his unit wrote his old Major G. Edward Buxton, battalion He found Clement was lying helpless on grade of captain commander, was at first incredulous when
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court passed sentence falls not far short of greatness. Facing his judges with military erectness, he said: "Sirs, I am guilty. If the verdict of the court be the death penalty, I have noth- ing to say. If it be, howevei, dismissal from the service, I have. "In No Man's Land I disgraced my- self, my uniform and my country. In No Man's Land I would like to have the opportunity to redeem myself, at least partially. Take my commission away from me, but allow me to go back to my at own company as a private, to serve 1 I K shoulder to shoulder with the men I have officered, and to be used in the most dangerous missions. And when the war is over I am willing to serve any term in the penitentiary that this court may deem necessary. "Sirs, I am not a drinking man. I graduated from college when I was "Don't try to get in nineteen years of age. For nineteen and a here, lieutenant. Two men have been half years I never touched liquor, and for the last six years on very rare occasions killed already" only. On that fateful night I decided to take a drink from a bottle of Scotch given me by two British captains. I had brought f Lieutenant Huguley made his report. prejudicial opinion against the man to be it with me three or four weeks be ore Major Buxton also had never known the tried. from the Abbeville sector. As the room commanding officer of E Company to His first interest, Colonel Conrad says, was dark I did not pour the drink out but drink. He dispatched Captain Howell was in making a court record which drank from the bottle. About ten minutes Foreman, another company commander would receive prompt action at G. H. Q. later I decided to take some more as I was in the battalion, to investigate. Captain So impressed was he by the appearance leaving. I felt sure that I was absolutely Foreman soon returned to confirm the of the small officer and the testimony of safe. I took more than I had intended to. facts. Immediately Captain Clement was the character witnesses who appeared in It is an old story. I should have known relieved of command and placed under behalf of the defendant, as well as by the better than to have touched it and I arrest. Formal charges were at once pre- plea of Captain Clement, that following have no sympathy for myself. pared, resulting in an order for a general the findings of the court (guilty, with dis- "Sirs, for almost twenty-six years I courtmartial. missal from the service and five years' have lived without blot of stain upon my Colonel Bryan Conrad, now retired, imprisonment at hard labor), Colonel character or record. When the first call and the president of the military court Conrad himself drafted a recommenda- came for officer candidates I offered which tried Captain Clement, recalls that tion for clemency which was signed unani- my services. At that time, April 20, he had heard details of the case before it mously by the members of the court. 1917, there was no luie of financial re- reached his court, that he had formed a The plea of Captain Clement before the ward or fear of {Continued on page 48)
MARCH, 1938 23 NSTALLATION
Obi Frank A. Math ews, Jr. ex- p e c t (The scene is the Post Home of Blank them to Post of The American Legion during a do it and meeting. The Commander raps with his that's why the gavel. The members show varying degrees of Legion don't get no interest in the proceedings.) place. We just don't have no—no—well, no COMMANDER: If there is no dignity, that's it. Mr. Com further business to come before mander, I move we install some this meeting we are ready to pro- dignity in instilling the new Post ceed with the installation of the officers. newly elected officers of the Post, except Comrade Jones: Sennamotion. that— Commander (with a very proud and Comrade Smith: Mr. Commander, satisfied smile): For once, Smith, you and I've been a member of this Post ever since I agree. .You're always kicking about has - it begun, and I seen a lot of officers good, something, but this time I beat you to it. d i g bad and otherwise go through this here I've not only already thought of what nity and instillation business and I don't think we you're talking about but I've done some- can do ever done the thing right. The old com- thing about it. Plenty. If my administra- things right. mander just says, "Bill, you're Com- tion accomplished nothing else, I made (A pplause.) mander now. Here's the hammer. If you up my mind that at least my successor At least two months can keep these bozoes under control and and his staff should be launched upon ago I told our own officers get some work outta 'em you'll be doin' a their administration with proper cere- who were to participate in lot more'n I ever could." Then everybody mony and deserved dignity and that there this ceremony that I would claps and laughs and that's all there is to should be a program tonight appropriate positively insist that they memorize it. That ain't no way to run a Post. I for such an occasion. With this in view and know their respective parts of the think it's about time we done the thing I made arrangements to have as our guest ritual. right, like it says in this here Manual for to install our new officers a man we'll (Loud applause and whistling. The Ceremonies which the National puts out. all be glad to see and hear because we all Junior Vice Commander licks his dry lips I found a copy of it on the Adjutant's respect and admire him—and that's none in an obviously nervous manner. The Fi- desk when I was lookin' for somethin' other than the Department Commander nance Officer starts suddenly and mutters else. himself. like a man who has suddenly remembered
( The Adjutant looks up with a frown.) (Loud and long applause.) something he wishes he had either remem- Once in a while one of them big brass Not only that, but I also invited the bered sooner or kept on forgetting. The Ad- hats has a good idea which he maybe got Mayor to attend the meeting and address jutant keeps his head low oxer the minutes by forgettin' he was a national figger and us, and I am very glad to tell you he has he is writing. The telephone bell in the ante- attendin' a meetin' of his Post which he accepted. room starts ringing. The Sergeant-at-
ought to do a lot frequenter when he (Loud applause.) Arms goes to answer it.) would get some more good ideas maybe. As you all know the Mayor is probably So you see, Smith, and all you other
The trouble with this Post is, a lot of guys the best public speaker in the city, so members, that for once there will be dig- don't take nothin' serious which makes it that there is a real treat in store for us. nity to an installation of officers in this so outsiders don't take the Legion serious, And I want the Department Commander Post. which we don't ourselves so how can we and the Mayor both to see that this Post A Member: Oh, yeah?
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Commander: (japping sharply): Now, Smith: What do we do now—play just for a few moments until games? George Shanks Sergeant-at-Arms {from ante-room, Jones: Sennamotion. yelling): Hey, Commander, you're wanted Senior Vice Commander: Keep your on the 'phone! shirts on. Since there is no regular busi- damned funny because he accepted a Commander: The Senior Vice Com- ness before us, suppose we discuss this long while ago and I checked up yesterday mander will please take the Chair. show we're going to give. and everything was all right. (Exit Commander into ante-room.) (A general discussion starts which con- Comrade Dickson: "Prior" engage- tinues until the Commander returns from ment does not necessarily mean "pre- the ante-room.) vious" engagement. It just means that it Commander (resuming the chair): takes priority over this one. Fellow members, I am very sorry to tell Smith: These here politicians are all you that that was the Mayor's secretary like that. They'll promise you anything who just 'phoned and said the Mayor an' then tell you anything to get out of would not be able to be with us tonight on the promise. The only time a veteran account of a prior engagement. That's comes prior is just prior to election when they want his vote and his help.. We oughtta do somethin' about this. We al- ways take this stuff lyin' down. That's the trouble with all veterans' organiza- tions; they don't stick up for their rights and that's why they don't get nowhere.
The new officers step forward, not quite in order, to be sworn in
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I move we write a letter to this Mayor will ask the Ser- an' geant-at-Arms to and burn him up . . . show vary- Jones: Sennamotion! Sennamotion! escort both our ing degrees of Commander: Just a minute now, distinguished interest in the Smith. Hold everything. The Mayor is guests to the ros- proceedings sending a representative who's on his way trum. down here now. Maybe the Mayor has Sergeant-at- another appointment which is important. Arms {bellowing Anyhow, he hasn't let us down altogether. into the ante- Smith: Well, I'm a son-of-a-so-and-so room): O.K. now! if I can see why it's the veterans what {Two men, one always get kicked around, and I think it's in Legion uni- our own fault, and so far as I'm con- form, step out and cerned their arms are Sergeant-at-Arms {shouting from the seized by the two ante-room, where he has remained): Hey, huge hands of the Commander, somebody wants you out un-anemic Ser- here a minute. geant-at-Arms Commander {uncertainly): Excuse me and they are forced just a minute. rapidly up the {Re-exit Commander into ante-room. aisle to the Com- Hum of general conversation among the mander, which members until he returns.) process is dis- Commander (returning, resuming the guised under the Chair and rapping for order): Men, title of "escort- I'm sorry about this, but Department ing.") (77 is one of the windows being raised by Vice Commander Hyatt has just arrived Commander {after greeting and seating the Sergeant-at-Arms.) with a message from the Department the guests): Now, my comrades {to Ser- Comrade Buzby {To Sergeant-at-Arms): Commander that his wife was suddenly geant-at-Arms) Jim, it's pretty warm in You ought to put some oil on that window. taken ill today and he is unable to be with here. You better open a couple of windows. Sergeant-at-Arms: Who the hell do us. But he has sent Vice Commander Sergeant-at-Arms: O.K. you think you're talking to—the janitor? H y a t t in his Commander: Now, my comrades, I Listen, buddy, nobody's paying me to place. take great pleasure in presenting to you Buzby: Now, don't fly off the handle {Several groans, Comrade Hyatt, one of the Vice Com- just because somebody u oneortwo Hell's" manders of this Department. Commander {rapping): Gentlemen! and a few "That's {Light applause.) You're interrupting the Department too bad's.") Department Vice Commander Vice Commander. Commander Hyatt: Mr. Commahndah, distinguished Voice from the rear: So beastly {rather lifelessly): guest and membahs of the Blank Post of sorry, y'know. The Mayor's rep- The American Lcejun: I am indeed highly Department Vice Commander Hy- resentative has honawed in being requested to install the att {just a bit testily): As I was saying I also arrived, so I newly-elected officers of your great Post. well, let it go. We will proceed with the As I was on my way down heah this installation. The Sergeant-at-Ahms will evening, I was reminded of that sales- bring befaw me the newly elected officehs man who of this Post. SQUEE-EE-EEEE-EEEEEK! {Pause. Nothing happens. Members look around. The Sergeant-at-Arms is struggling with another window which Who do you think you're talk- successfidly resists even his Samsonian in' to, the janitor! Listen, efforts to budge it.) buddy, nobody's paying me to Department Vice Commander Hy- open them windows" att {heavy on the authority): I say, the Sahgeant-at-Ahms will bring befaw me the newly elected officehs of this Post. Sergeant-at-Arms {still struggling des- perately with the window and getting red in the face): This window—all right. O.K. The hell with the damned thing. Newly elected officers—fall in! {They do so, but not in proper order. The Sergeant-at-Arms straightens them out only after some argument. It seems that the question of priority has again arisen.) ' Sergeant-at-Arms: Officers, forward WRAH! {Solemnly the officers step forward.) There they go! Voices They're takin' my boy! of i Fine lookin' body o' men! Members: Lookit the ears on 'em! One, two, three Commander: Quiet! {Continued on page 56)
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SAFETY FIRST
BEYOND both the oceans that are the 15,000 men and five hundred officers for the silver keys to America's security guns Regular Army it had in mind an expansion in boom, bombs rain down, and men, aviation that had already been authorized. In women and children die. Merely a its specifications for the National Guard, the couple of wars that are not wars—the very lat- Reserve Corps, and the Citizens' Military est thing in international relations. But these Training Camps it envisaged that enlistment up-to-the-minute undeclared wars seem strangely of a whole people which is the surest preventive like the old-fashioned sort. If there is any dis- of the dominance of a professional military ma- tinction, it is in favor of the more ancient chine. And in urging "a Navy second to none" method. The new variety is duller, dirtier, it was concerned solely with the preservation of deadlier. Whatever element of romance sur- a nation second to none. vived from the World War (and that was pre- Behind and above these considerations lay cious little) has now vanished completely. The the ideal of universal service—of a war, if war 1938 model of fighting consists simply in mov- comes, wherein the republic shall devote its ing a machine-shop out into the countryside and energies to the single objective of victory and smashing the nearest town to bits. peace, with the profit motive left out. In all this spectacle of waste and woe there Here was a program to which America was is only one clear gleam of benefit to that rest glad to subscribe. of the world which is still nominally at peace. That is the picture of what lies ahead if the another page of this issue appears a present madness spreads further. No nation ONbrief day-to-day summary of one month whose house is in any approximation to order, of the war that made possible The American no statesmen who could appear before a sanity Legion. Read the outline story of those thirty- commission and emerge with colors Hying, will one days of March, 1918 and be proud and wittingly commit a people to a course that ashamed—proud that where Americans were might lead them headlong into the flame. involved with the enemy, they quitted them- Then how keep out? The answer is simple: selves like men; ashamed that with the nation By being ready to get in. In a community that is eleven months in the war its effort was only being terrorized by a mad dog, the householder then beginning to be felt—one of the strongest with a loaded shotgun enjoys fullest security. arguments that can be advanced in favor of the He may not have to use it—the animal may Legion's Universal Service Act now before dash its own brains out in its frantic and in- Congress. Out of that war the bright after- sensate lunges. But if he does have to use it it math of a world saved for democracy did not is ready to hand. materialize. Greed and the thirst for power Preparedness is no longer an academic issue. were the heritage of the war, but out of it also It has emerged from the debating-club into the came the priceless lesson of preparedness and full light of practicality. It is as close to our the conviction on the part of the nation that the homes and hearts and lives as is our daily sub- sacrifices of future wars must be more evenly sistence. It is as immediately pressing a con- distributed over the nation. tingency as a plugged-up sink. So it was not all in vain. In addition to the Swashbuckling is in ill-repute. Saber-rattling gains enumerated above, one glorious and all is out of fashion. In these tense days the militar- important truth was proved beyond the perad- ist is as silent as the pacifist. As a matter of venture of a doubt. The men of the democracies fact, each survived in the past by taking in the are better fighters than the men of the autocra- other's washing. But today national defense is cies. So let us not be misled, or too gravely the whole nation's laundry bill. alarmed, at the antics of the military autocrats Unquestionably The American Legion at its who seem to be having things their own way New York National Convention last September right now. They are having their own way for voiced the sentiments of the entire country when several reasons, but among those reasons is not it urged a course of strict neutrality and a sound the fact that the democracies are afraid of and adequate system of national defense. The them. If, which God forbid, the two principles Legion, as befits its technical acquaintance with of government must face again the final test of the problem, went into details, making specific the battlefield, the democracies will carry the recommendations based on the findings of its day. The explanation is simple. They will have own experts. Thus in urging an increase of more to fight for.
MARCH, 1938 27 First National Champions in the Sons of The American Legion ACCURACY in marksmanship and local competitive meets, but the national rifle matches were these sharp- L\ ability to handle a rifle under shoots lagged. It was not difficult to de- shooting youngsters of La / \ any and all circumstances is an termine why. The marksmanship con- Crosse (Wisconsin) Squadron, American tradition. It is a tra- tests were held at National Conventions who won their title in 1936. dition that had its beginning as early as —a time more conducive to shooting the In 1937 the National Cham- 1607, when a few English settlers, after a bull than shooting the bull's-eye—and it pionship was won by the boys storm-tossed passage, found a pleasant was not until the meets were separated of John C. Greenway Squadron, haven at Jamestown, on the coast of from the annual national gatherings that of Phoenix, Arizona Virginia. Doughty old Captain John the program took its place in the very Smith got in some good licks as the first front ranks of Legion interest.
American exponent of the rifle, albeit the reliance of the pioneers of the Alleghenies When Frank J. Schneller retired as Di- one he carried was heavy enough to tax and westward as a meat gun and means rector of the National Marksmanship the strength of the stoutest man. of defense. But that is all beside the point. Committee last November, after a full Then, thirteen years later, the good Rifle experts will probably tell you, and ten years in that job, he had the satisfac- ship Mayflower spilled out her cargo of prove their contention, that there is just tion of looking back over a well-devel- Puritans on Plymouth Rock, in Massa- as much difference between the rifle used oped and highly organized program. chusetts, and Miles Standish—more a by sportsmen and marksmen of today and Participating in that program were some gunner than a lover—established the the old mountain cap and ball rifle as the of the best marksmen in America, as wit- rifle tradition on that stern and rock- wide difference between that gun and ness the two first class trophies carried bound coast. the old Brown Bess that Captain John away from the National Rifle Matches at Westward, as in successive waves, the Smith toted around. Camp Perry, Ohio, last fall by the Legion course of empire took its way from the With this tradition as a background shooters— the Soldier of the Marathon shore lines of New England and Virginia, and with its members fresh from the rifle Trophy and the Rumbold Trophy. The across the plains and the Rockies to the ranges and from certain other situations latter was wrested from the Fifth Marines golden strand of the Pacific, the rifle led where accuracy with a rifle meant much and for the first time since put in competi- the way. The tradition of sharpshooting more than winning a silver cup, it was tion in iqio was won by a civilian team. grew and expanded with each wave and only natural that a with each improved type of gun. The marksmanship program flint-lock gave way to the percussion cap would be set up as one type, and the old cap and ball to the of the first all-member breech-loaders. But there are, even yet, competitions of the then men who will contend that for accuracy young American Legion. and precision no store-bought gun has The marksmen were in- equaled the fine old mountain rifle that terested and shot on for a couple of generations was the main their home ranges and in
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at San Antonio. /W qet- -Hm6 - AlO But few teams were reFi-esktv\ertfrs will be Served until tUe entered in the tweeVmq is Over" — So, i^ou miqM" as. matches and the ' ^vjuell Sfa^ Se+!l program generally had not been a satisfactory one. Then Frank Schneller, who had just been appointed a member of the Trophies and Awards Commit- tee, fresh from the """"" wide open spaces of Wisconsin, sug- gested that the matches be transferred to the National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The last National Conven- tion shoot was held at Louisville in 1929 when but three teams were entered Ohio, Wisconsin and Kentucky. Then Director Schneller was authorized to take his teams to Camp Perry. The importance of the marksmanship program dates from that decision. The Legion's first participation in the national matches at Camp Perry was in 1930, with teams from twenty-one De- partments entered. Director Schneller Trophies won by the says he got a great kick when he assem- Gold and Blue Legion bled the 250 Legionnaires, the first time teams at the National the organization had ever been repre- rifle matches at Camp sented by a respectable number at a Perry, in Ohio, 1937. national match, and directed the fire for Top, Soldier of the Mara- the Foreman Trophy. The Legion had thon Trophy, highest of arrived as a factor in national marksman- awards to civilian teams, ship. The program expanded. Demands and, bottom, the Rum- were heard for small bore and pistol com- bold Trophy, held last petitions. The old-timers who knew the year by the 5th Marines feel of a Springfield, Enfield or what-have- you were a bit chary. Small bore guns did sound a bit sissy to some of them. To These trophies will be displayed at those who did not have access to long
National Headquarters until they ranges it seemed quite the thing and, be- are taken away by a team that can sides, afforded a program for the young- hit more bull's-eyes than the one sters who wanted to shoot. Past National the Legion sends to Camp Perry. Commander Paul V. McNutt offered a The marksmanship program has trophy and in 1931, after a preliminary in gradually developed from zero 1930 when ten teams were entered, with an increasing interest each twenty Departments held preliminary year, notwithstanding the fact that matches and competed for the trophy. Legion shooters are growing older This competition has been continued with and no young men can get into the increasing interest. teams. The Director has worked The McQuigg Trophy was presented by closely in co-operation with the the Department of Ohio in 1934 for the National Rifle Association and with fifty-meter matches. In 1937 the rifle team the War Department's National sent into competition by the Department Board for the Promotion of Rifle of Indiana won the Foreman Trophy over Practice, in the organization and twenty-one sharpshooting competitors; conduct of the Legion rifle clubs, the The story of the development of the Akron (Ohio) Post won the McNutt junior rifle clubs and in the newer Sons of marksmanship program is an interesting Trophy against nineteen competitors, the Legion rifle clubs. All but three De- one. In 1921 the Department of Illinois and Hollywood (California) Post won for partments in the continental United gave the General Milton Foreman Rifle its Department the McQuigg Trophy States are actively participating in the Trophy, which was competed for at the against sixteen other teams. marksmanship program. Colorado alone, National Convention at New Orleans in Under the direction of Director Schnel- the home Department of James W. 1922 by a few visiting Legionnaires. In ler, the annual FIDAC small-bore rifle Woolrey, National Marksmanship Direc- 1923 at San Francisco, California had tournament was inaugurated in 1930 and tor, has twenty Posts shooting, with the only Department team in action since that year the American Legion approximately 250 men entered; Cook against teams from the Navy and teams have shot in competition with County, Illinois, has ten active Legion Marines; thus the senior Legion rifle teams representing the British Legion and rifle clubs, Los Angeles has an active list, trophy carries California as first winner. veterans organizations of Canada, Bel- including two national winners in 1037. Minnesota won in 1924 and 1925; Wis- gium, Poland, Czechoslovakia,Yugoslavia The list could be carried on indefinitely. consin in 1926 at Philadelphia and in 1928 and Portugal. The American Legion team
MARCH, 1938 29 won consistently from the ized a number of junior clubs. not less than one hundred teams will inception of the matches 'ye This activity has grown in- toe the mark for the 1938 competitions. until last year, when it was creasingly important, and A new incentive to organize junior nosed out by the team rep- each year more and more rifle clubs and Sons of the Legion clubs resenting the British Legion teams enter the matches. The was given when it was announced that a by a score of 1,969 to 1,935 first series of shoots was held grant of Federal aid had been extended out of a possible 2,000. The in 1030 with seven teams to a total of 200 old and 200 new junior Legion team, by repeating entered, when the juniors rifle clubs on the same conditions as that its winning record year sponsored by Mahoning Post, extended to rifle clubs operating under the after year, won permanent Youngstown, Ohio, took first National Rifle Association. For nearly possession of the trophy honors—it became a habit ten years the Legion's National Director given by Past National with them; that team has of Marksmanship has been recommending Commander McQuigg. A taken down first place eight and insisting upon the assistance of the new trophy was offered this year, given successive years, winning in 1937 against Government in maintaining junior clubs by General Roman Gorecki, President of fifty-seven teams, retaining possession of by furnishing 22-calibre arms and ammu- FIDAC. the A. A. Mitten Trophy. The juniors of nition. While the National Board for the The crowning event of the compe- Kamehameha Post, Honolulu, titions in 1937 was the performance of the Hawaii, gave them a close run, Legion's teams in the National Rifle when the two teams entered by Matches at Camp Perry, when the Gold that Post were but one and five and Blue teams shot for new high honors points, respectively, behind the against the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Youngstown champions. The National Guard, Coast Guard and junior girl team sponsored by civilian teams. The Blue team shot a Montreal (Canada) Post finished score of 2,684 which, in any previous the national match just a few year, would have placed them in Class A. points behind the winner. The Gold team, composed of Ripley, The Sons of the Legion annual Ohio; Wojahn, Wisconsin; Pickard, Ore- match is a new activity. A trophy gon; Nordbus and Johnson, Illinois; offered by Past Department Sluder, Wyoming; Gudgel and Wilkerson, Commander Milton Reckord, of Colorado; Austin, Montana, and Raven, Maryland, has been placed in Texas, then took their place on the line and knocked the old bull's-eye for a score At right, husband and of 2,717, winning the coveted Soldier of wife who command Trophy top prize offered the Marathon — Legion Posts at the same by the War Department to civilian teams. time: Mr. and Mrs. J. The Soldier of the Marathon is the Fred Trainor, of Brain- in United oldest team trophy the States, tree, Massachusetts. Be- and has been competed for annually since low, Dr. Carl S. Frischkorn 1875 when it was presented to the Na- and Mrs. Mary W. Emer- tional Rifle Association by the Governor son, brother and sister, of New York. Since 1902 the trophy has who command Posts at been in the custody of the War Depart- Norfolk, Virginia ment. It is a reproduction of an early Greek statue of Pheidippides, Promotion of Rifle Practice felt favorably who ran from Marathon to Athens inclined, existing War Department regu- to carry the news of the victory of lations did not permit extension of this aid Miltiades over the invading Per- other than to adult rifle clubs. Late in sians on the Plains of Attica. The November, 1937, the National Board ap- figure was cast in France about proved the plan of aiding juniors and with 1834, set on a base which now, the signature of Assistant Secretary of after more than sixty years in War Louis A. Johnson, Past National competition, is well covered with Commander, the regulation became effec- silver plates and the names of tive. winners. A miniature in bronze Distribution of arms and ammunition will remain in the Legion's per- under this grant will not be indiscrimi- manent collection. nate, but will be under the direction of The Blue Team, composed of the National Rifle Association. In order Randle and Leflar, Texas; Perry to obtain its benefits, all sponsored rifle and Bucknell, Washington; clubs and Sons of the Legion clubs must Holmes, Indiana, and Heines, obtain a junior charter from the National California, nosed out for first Rifle Association, and conform to the honors, came back with a bang regulations and requirements of that and by running up a score of 568 organization. out of 600 possible carried away the Rumbold Trophy. This tro- Commanders All phy, given by Adjutant General Frank M. Rumbold, of Missouri, ALL-LEGION families, father, mother, in 1909, is an unusual one. It is a sons and daughters, are rather massive punchbowl, made from silver competition; won in 1936 by the young- numerous—that is, families all of whose dollars, eighteen inches in diameter and sters from La Crosse, Wisconsin, and in members belong to the parent organiza- weighing 299 ounces. 1937 by John C. Greenway Squadron, Sons tion and its affiliates—but it is something Early in the game the Legion rifle clubs of the Legion of Phoenix, Arizona, against new when the Step-Keeper gets a report sought to interest youngsters and organ- twenty-four teams. It is indicated that that a husband and wife, both Legion-
30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Workshop of Milford (Connecticut) Post where hundreds of toys are reconditioned each year for distribution to under-privileged children during the Christmas season naires and living together under ary of each year when the Police- the same roof, are Commanders men's Ball is held. The detail re- of Posts of The American Legion quires the services of twenty- at the same time. Such a report eight Legionnaires who go on reached the Step-Keeper's desk, duty while the members of the and has been verified by J. Fred regular police force take the Trainor, Commander of Brain- evening and night off for their tree (Massachusetts) Post, with annual social event. first endorsement by Mrs. Fedora Trainor, Commander of Bessie P. House-Raising at Edwards Post of Boston. Somerfon Commander and Commander Trainor, to give each one the title IME was, many years ago, of present office, are both four- TJ. when\ Andy Dougherty—then star Legionnaires, and have one Colonel Andrew Dougherty, U. S. son, who is a member of the Brain- A.—was Department Commander tree Squadron, Sons of The of Arizona. Duty took him else- American Legion. where, to Fort Benjamin Harri- Another unusual combination son, Indianapolis; Fort Francis in members of one family com- E. Warren, Cheyenne, and other manding Posts at the same time army posts. Now, retired, he is is a brother and sister at Norfolk, living at Ranchito Carramba, Virginia. In that city of the Old Yuma, Arizona, and is Legion- Dominion Mrs. Mary W. Emer- naire Andy Dougherty, District son is serving her third term as Commander. Commander of Woman's Post, District Commander Dougherty while her brother, Dr. Carl S. writes that his district is going Frischkorn, is Commander of places and that, before the first of Norfolk (Virginia) Post. January, he could report that every Post had more than the Reconditioning Toys average membership for the last four years. As proof he sent a CONTINU- The members of Somerton picture of the members of the ING a program be- (Arizona) Post teamed together Somerton Post working on their new home. gunin 1028, Milford (Con- to build a comfortable club The Post wanted a home of its own; not a necticut) Post recondi- house. District Commander big club house, but a comfortable place tioned more than one Andy Dougherty, in blanket to hold meetings. The home was built in thousand toys in its spe- coat, inspecting the construction record time, size twenty-two by twenty- cially equipped work- two feet, and is completely paid for. shop and made the distri- bution at Christmas to looked upon by many of the children as Legion Aids Hospital the children in needy workmen for Santa Claus. families and to institu- Another activity which has been car- A DISTINGUISHED piece of public tions in its town and sur- ried on by this Post for fifteen years with- service was that accomplished by rounding area. The mem- out a break is that of taking over the Herman Baker Post, of Ogden, Utah, in bers of Milford Post are policing of the town on that day in Janu- initiating the [Continued on page 62)
MARCH, iq 3 8 31 Enemy
It was an en- CHOW.grossing subject for soldiers during the war — and besides Mit der Bltte um Ubergabe an: soldiers we mean also gobs AMERIKANISCHES ROTES KHEUZ and leathernecks. Good old slum and corned willie and dehydrated potatoes and vegetables, and when the ZENTRALKOMITEE rice ran low, some spaghetti FUR AMERIKANISCHE KRIEGSGEFANGENE BERN cooked with it to get enough
to fill the outfit, and when there was no sugar, nice LIEBESGABEN FUR KRIEGSGEFANGENE black sorghum poured over the mess. Not counting the bread that bore somewhat more than a little green mould. Them was the days! And how we used to howl about the poor grub our Uncle Sam fed us—forgetting about the putrid food that Produits originates des Etals-Unis, importes directament par la Croix* some of us voyagers refused Rouge Americaine pour expedition aux prisonniers de guerre americains. DEUTSCHLAND on foreign transports taking us over, and the starvation
A welcome sight to American -[kxf AO would have provided a banquet for those prisoners of war on packages of our comrades who had been unlucky St Wilson H. Da Boll, R. J. Keenan, Cap- When Dan Gallagher theater huts at Bordeaux, France, and shows the men admiring one of the army discharges they were expecting to receive when they got back home. "The majority of our show troupe were from the South and West and represented almost every branch of the service. I have not heard from any of them with the exception of one and you will be sur- prised, as will other former members of the troupe, when I mention his name. I received a letter from him a short time ago. I had heard him on the radio many times, but when I saw his picture in a radio magazine I wrote to him. He is none other than Jimmy Jordan of Peoria, Illinois—better known now as 'Fibber McGee' on the radio. He had been making pictures lately in Hollywood with his wife, Molly. More power to them! "Left to right in the picture you will find Jordan, alias Fibber McGee, your correspondent, Dan Gallagher, Alexander Roberts of Atlanta, Georgia, and Tom Minnick of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Our troupe numbered forty men, in- cluding a ten-piece orchestra. As the director of this soldier show, I always figured that Jim Jordan, an all around entertainer, would make his mark in the show business because he had what it takes. His brother, Byron Jordan, a piano player and a good one, too, was also a From an A.E.F. show to radio fame. Jim Jordan (left), tenor of member of our troupe. Wonder what has the Salvage Quartette, is now Fibber McGee of the networks. The become of him? Major Tierney, a other men are Dan Gallagher, Alexander Roberts, and Tom Minnick medical officer who was in charge of the MARCH, 1938 33 the looks of my uniform it is easy to see who did the work! "Hospital corpsmen un- loading coal? Well the ex- planation for that is that the only other sailors in our regi- ment were yeomen and who- ever heard of a yeoman shoveling anything? "We attended school for six hours a day, five days a week, for six months and then our outfit was scattered to the fleets, hospitals, recruiting sta- tions and some even went with the Marines to the front lines —changing their sailor togs for leatherneck uniforms. I could play a little baseball and was held at the Station, being sent to the rookie camp where Believe it or not, hospital corpsmen at Great Lakes Naval Training Station performed on the coal pile in 1918 show troupe, was a hot shot, a real come- "Out of two million soldiers, I was one dian and a good singer. He used to alter- of only three ukulele players registered at nate with 'Fibber McGee' Jordan in the the entertainment center at Tours, quartette as first tenor. France. They certainly have multiplied "Among others of our troupe were: In since!" the orchestra, Marberger of Anaheim, California; King of Belvadere, New WE DON'T know very much about Jersey; Frizz, Tipton, Indiana; Bausch the wartime Navy, except for and McCormick, both of Philadelphia; what fellow Legionnaires have told us in Johnson of Lionel, Michigan, and Con- these columns, but in our estimation the nely of Savannah, Georgia. Our string gobs in the accompanying picture are band included Keston of Buffalo, New wearing rather snappy dungarees or York, Hunter of Clyde, Kansas, and my- fatigue uniforms or whatever such out- self. Walter Tillinghast of Toledo, Ohio, fits are called in that branch of service. and I used to do a comedy skit in the garb Even the contributor of this snapshot of nurses and we two crashed many picture feels that way about it, as you'll parties 'for officers only,' as entertainers find from the yarn that accompanied the The long-and-short of the were always welcome. I know that Jimmy picture. We introduce ex-gob George Carr Army. The half-pint is Leon W. (Fibber) Jordan will be glad to hear from of Sonyea, New York, known as "Pep" Fisher, bandsman of the 23d any of the gang as I am the only one who to his former shipmates in the hospital Infantry. Who is the towering has written to him during the past twelve corps at Great Lakes Naval Training embryo drum major? years or more. Station—and let him proceed: "I had an unusual experience last sum- "They don't look it but the bunch of mer while entertaining in a night club in men in the enclosed snapshot were hos- I helped the medics give the new-comers Philadelphia with the same ukulele I used pital men at Great Lakes Station, Sixth the works. After transfer to the main in our A. E. F. show. Through the master Regiment. The picture was taken during camp, I played baseball under Dr. of ceremonies I re- the spring of 191 8. Gordon with 'Shorty' Long, 'Dip' Mc- ceived a request from Culhane, in the front Donald, Joe Corcoran, Vosper, Freeman a guest to play the row center, always had and a few more I've forgotten. 'Barcarolle' from the a clean uniform on for "Hope this picture and story stirs up a 'Tales of Hoffman.' the simple reason that little activity in the ranks of the former The guest proved to he never did anything hospital corpsmen of Great Lakes Naval be a former Austrian to get it dirty. Can't Training Station. Perhaps we could get soldier who had been recall the names of the together for a reunion at some future in a prison camp in other men, but they Legion National Convention." the A. E. F. near represented all sec- Bourges, where we tions of the country. REMEMBER the picture of the long- had given our show The fellow on the ex- - and-short of the Navy that appeared and where I had treme right was the in these columns in the December issue? played the same long story teller of the It showed two C. P. O.'s—C. A. Ralston, number. He recog- outfit, and could he five-foot-nothing, of Lima, Ohio, and his nized some of my trick playing on the tell them! He had a brother who was pal, Charles A. Butler, six-foot-six, whom uke—the chimes, music box, railroad never in any picture where work was con- he hadn't seen since Great Lakes Naval train, harp, etc., and then when he saw cerned—a good detail dodger. Believe Training Station days. Well, we found me do a military dance, executing the these brothers were from out West and Butler for Ralston. The big boy is living manual of arms with the uke as a gun, he their name was something like Boswell. in San Francisco. remembered me, and sent the message. I am the guy with the shovel in my right Not to be outdone by the Navy, the We had a long chat about war days later. hand and the hat over the left eye. From Army, through Legionnaire Lee Kerr of 34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ^ 35 Charleston, West Virginia, has come across with a similar misfit pair. Regard- ing this picture on the opposite page, Comrade Kerr has this to say: "The enclosed snapshot of an Army long-and-short pair was taken by me in Niederwerth, Germany, in February or March of iqiq. The little fellow is Leon W. Fisher of Syracuse, New York, who served in the regimental band of the 23d Infantry. "I'm sorry that I cannot recall the name of the tall soldier, but I recall we were trying to make a drum major out of him. He was a member of our regiment and I'm sure some other veterans of the outfit will remember him. Maybe he'll report himself to the Company Clerk." FLASH! The mystery of the "whoosit" picture of an outdoor kitchen detail that was reproduced in the January issue WOULDN'T >OU KNOW WELL, DON,EVEN THE BEST PIPE IS NO BETTER IT? GREEN'S TOBACCO THAN THE TOBACCO THAT'S IN IT VOL) KNOW been solved. You'll v has remember this SHOP IS HAVING A l VE SUGGESTED BEFORE THAT SALE THEIR FIN- TRY PRINCE „-J~ ' department suggested that while we ON >OU ALBERT |VE EST PIPES WHILE I AM could depend upon Then and Nowers to AWAY. offer help, we would be confused by the variety of identifications offered. We knew what tricks memory plays on a fellow after a lapse of almost twenty years. Anyhow, up to the time of this report, Comrade Iwema of Chicago, who found the print overseas and sent it in so the outfit might be identified and the picture THERES NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT. HERE,") JUDGE/ THIS \S WHAT I CALL REAL PIPE returned to one of that gang, a nd the Com- ——— PLEASURE. PRINCE ALBERT IS EVERYTHING FILL UP yOUR PIPE ( pany Clerk received more than eighty- YOU'VE SA>P AND MORE/ I'LL PILL UP AGAIN IF YOU DON'T MIND five letters! Most of these men expressed surprise and pleasure at seeing pictures of wartime comrades, or, as stated in many letters, their own picture in the Legion Magazine, and definitely assured us their identification of the picture was correct, but only two of them were in agreement. These two, however, confirmed each other's identification and to clinch their reports, each of these men sent an exact Iht. 1938. R. J. Reynolds Tc copy of the postcard picture to us. So FOR here's the answer—and there's no ques- tion about its correctness: The men in the kitchen detail picture were members of Company D, 107th "N""»JoiN THE Engineers, 3 2d Division; the picture was TOBACC05 AT ALL PRICES, taken just outside of the town of Ober- bieber, Germany, in the Occupied Area, PiPE-Joy on January 8, iqiq. First a letter came from A. W. Smith, club! Service Officer of Howard-Campbell Post in Chetek, Wisconsin, reporting that George C. Cook of his Post not only identified the group and named seven of the nine men, but also had a duplicate of the picture. George C. Cook is the man TO WIN NEW FRIENDS-MONEY-BACK OFFER! squatting, second to the right. Among Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don't others Cook identified was A. L. Bennett, find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever smoked, standing, second to right. return the pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco in it to Two days later, we received a letter us at any time within a month from this date, and we will which, strangely from A. L. Bennett refund full purchase price, plus postage. (Signed) R. J. enough, was also transmitted through Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. Service Officer George E. Sullivan of his CUARANTEEO MILDER, TASTIER FOR " MAKIN'S" SMOKES TOO Post—Peter Umathum Post of Wood- stock, Illinois. Bennett confirmed the report that the men were of Company D, 107th Engineers, that he was the man THE NATIONAL with the pipe, standing second to right, JOY SMOKE and that George (Continued on page 62) IS hinge Albert MARCH, ig 3 8 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine THE UBIQUITOUS DEMONSTRATOR Couldn't Take It It Finally Got So the Colonel By Wallgren — 37 *A Way Out (Continued from page 9) vast number of good, thinking, forward- looking and social-minded Americans Life BeginsAt40 dread what may happen if the whole of the U. S. A. is run from Bureaus in Wash- ington or Baltimore or other nearby points into which they are now spilling Every Day ARTHUR MURRAY over because the capital is not big enough to house them. Americans have always Sees People Over 40 Just liked to run their own affairs. We do not like to be bossed or even coddled too START to Enjoy Themselves much. Are the above two alternatives, then, really the only ones ahead of us, the one impossible, the other full of risks? I "Before That Age Life Is Often do not think they are. All Duty"—says the World's has In the last decade our Constitution Greatest Dance Instructor come in for a lot of criticism, some intel- MR. MURRAY with Over-40 Partner ligent and much anything but so. The NEARLY 75,000 MEN AND WOMEN The 40-Year-Olders Can and Do Make more I study it, however, and it is one of have received dancing instruction in Up for the Things They Missed the most fascinating things in the world to Arthur Murray's New York studio "Learning the latest steps makes you study, the more admiration I have for the and the majority are over 40. This is young," Mr. Murray says, "and every men who drew it up, and the more I mar- also the age most seen at the forty day I see it open up new social lives for vel that such a group could be found in a mastered the branch schools over the country. my pupils. Anyone who has new country with a total population only Rhumba, the new steps in the Tango and of a little more than that of the city of Many these people never danced the Fox Trot is not likely to be found in Chicago alone today. From less than before. Others danced very little after dressing gown and slippers every evening." 4,000,000 we have grown to 130,000,000, the 20's and 30's absorbed them into Of course, the ability to enjoy life after with infinite change in social and indus- the bringing up of a family— and this 40 as well as make a good living deoends health. trial environment, and yet the Constitu- is usually a full-time job. upon your keeping your tion has served to protect us and to hold us together. The men who framed it YOU CAN BE LIKE THESE PEOPLE PAST 40 — ALERT AND BUSY could not possibly foresee the future but they knew human nature, the art of Dear Life Begins: Caring for a I read about Fleischmann's Yea: the history of the past, government, and home, husband and children—-at- as a health food and began eatir which last was strewn with the wrecks of tending to club work, charitable and it because I felt I needed a toni tyrannies and dictatorships. Because they social duties— I have quite a heavy Since I have been eating Fleiscl program. mann's Yeast regularly, my skin ia feared concentration of all power in a Last June I without blemishes, my eyes ai central government they provided for a I feel happ Takes felt very tired brighter and generally federal union of sovereign States which and worn out. and at peace with the world. Pleasure in should retain some of the powers of My skin wasn't I can now take care of my famil Musical New clear. All my and my other interests, too. And I government in their own hands. They Interest duties and in- have recently started a new mus might preserve hoped that this balance terests seemed cal interest in my already bus us from the fate which had overtaken too much for me. life. BEATRICE WINKLER Mrs. Beatrice Winkler other nations. — Health good now As I have said above, most of us agree of that in many respects the powers the Dear Life Begins: I am in real for the better. Keeping on with it, Federal Government will have to con- estate and insurance—handling all I found I had no more stomach the office myself. disorders tinue to grow for certain purposes, but the business for or indigestion and I For several years my health had seemed to have a new supply of precisely because that fact is admitted been poor. Indigestion and stomach energy and pep. I feel grand", and it seems to me essential that the powers of disorders forced me to neglect my my confidence the States should also grow, and so help work—and my income, of course, and ambition decreased. along with Getting to maintain a just balance. We are con- good Then a doctor I consulted ad- health have car- Better Results stantly told that there is no alternative vised Fleischmann's Yeast. He ried me to better in Business national legislation and control between said it would stimulate my diges- results in my Now or the chaos of legislation and control tion to normal condition. business than few weeks after I started eat- I've for by forty-eight different States, and this A had A. C. Anderson, 4 ing the yeast I noticed a change several years. —A. C. ANDERSON — Feels Grand has been so evident in many cases in the past that the statement appears plausi- Physical Weakness Begin with ble and is easily accepted. But there is May Slower Digestion another alternative which seems to me a After 40, the gastric juices in the stom- sential to physical fitness. These are possible way out. ach are likely to flow less freely and called the Nerve Vitamin, the Cold- That is to make use of cooperation be- to be wanting in full digestive power. Resistance Vitamin, the Bone Vita- can be tween the States. Provided results Fleischmann's Yeast has the abil- min and the Vitality Vitamin. attained, the nearer government can be ity to increase and strengthen the gas- Eat Fleischmann's Yeast 3 times a day kept to the people, the more they can tric flow. The stimulating effect of —plain or in a little water. You'll soon learn to like the fresh, malty yeast flavor. consider and determine local problems fresh yeast is due to its millions of Eat one cake }•£ hour before each meal, democratic the tiny, live yeast plants. for themselves, the more to produce a full flow of the gastric juices method is and the less likelihood of our Fleischmann's Yeast also brings when they are needed to digest the food being governed from above. Also the more you an additional tonic action by you take. Make this small effort for re- supplying 4 vitamins — each one es- stored energy! t intelligent the (Continued on page 39) gffiI?d 6rSi„con>or.ted MARCH, 1938 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine " BurstsjslDud? SHERWOOD MAN- IEGIONNAIRE Margaret H. Ochs, of COMRADE Charles GIPANE, of New j South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, tells of E. Messner of Orleans, describes the being on duty at the hospital of a large Grand Rapids, Michi- cross examination of a industrial plant when an employe of for- gan, tells about a coun- character witness. eign birth came in and asked for a bottle try magistrate who was "Do you mean to im- of "apple lotion." She could not make called upon to perform ply the defendant is a head or tail of his wants until he brought his first marriage cere- thief?" the lawyer asked. her an empty bottle with a label bearing mony. After he had exhausted the short "Nossuh, I don't say he's a thief. But the direction, "Apply locally." service given in his book of legal forms, I do say dis: iffen I was a chicken an' I the young couple continued to stand be- saw him hangin' around, I'd suttinly fore him. The justice felt that probably roost pow'ful high." COMRADE Vaughan Cleaves, of Bar he should attempt to round the ceremony Harbor, Maine, tells about a Legion- off with something of a religious turn, naire on the 1937 pilgrimage to France whereupon he said: "There, there, it's all T70R collectors of slips in the press, who, upon reading the comprehensive over. Go and sin no more." JL C. A. Shephard, of Carmel Post, Del claim on a restaurant window, "Ici on Monte, California, quotes a startling bit parle toutes les langues," said to the waiter: of information which recently appeared in "You must have a whole battalion of A YOUNG man home from college for a San Francisco paper: interpreters here." the holidays told his father that cur- "In Siberia she met and married the "Not one," was the reply. rent events had made a dandy new college American Army of Occupation, to whom "Well, who speaks all the languages?" yell for his school. she bore two children." "The customers, monsieur." "What is it?" asked the father. "We give the names of three Japanese battleships, a sis-boom-bah, and then BOARD a train a man had been MAN, iffen I had name two Chinese generals." ONwatching a woman who was trying a millyun dol- to get a fretful baby to sleep. The infant lahs I'd jus' crawl under persisted in squirming about and crying. de shade an' sleep de IITTLE Osborne had just returned Finally the man went over to the woman rest o' my life," said j from a meeting of the Sons of the and said: one colored workman Legion, and was all excited over having "Madam, you will please pardon the to another. heard his name called as a committee suggestion, but I believe that what the "Yes, an' if a bull-frog had hisself appointee. baby wants is board instead of lodging." some wings he'd fly." "What is a committee?" he asked his "Um-m, I dunno 'bout dat. Maybe he father. wouldn't," said the first. "He done got "A committee, son, is a body that keeps THE bald banker in a small town was fo' laigs an' he won't walk." minutes and wastes hours." in the habit of wearing his hat during business hours, for in summer the flies used his pate for a parade ground and in COMRADE Bill Means, of Brookville, TWO friends met for the first time in winter the cold air was uncomfortable Pennsylvania, writes that a lady several years. "Well, old man," one as it swept the polished surface. Each came into his store and purchased a cap said, "I hear you finally got married. week an Italian workman would come for her son with the understanding that Congratulations, for I also hear you have to the bank to get his pay-check if the size was not right she could ex- an excellent and a most accomplished cashed. change it. The next day a small boy wife." "Why don't you open an account with entered the store with the cap and a note "Yes, indeed," was the reply. "My us?" the banker asked one day. which read: wife is accomplished. She is perfectly at The Italian looked at the banker's hat, "Please the cap I bought for Harold home in literature, at home in art, at and then whispered confidentially: was too small. Will you please give him home in music, at home in science, in "Me afraid, Mistah Boss, you alia time one the right size as he has his head with short—at home everywhere, except— looka like you gonna maybe take da him." "Except what?" trip somewhere." "Except at home." THE visitor from the north had come COMRADE Harry to Miami for his annual winterfishing, COLONEL Randall Hall, of Washing- and went to the place where he always Becker, of Miami, ton, D. C, tells of a lady rented boats. Inquiring of an attendant Florida, passes along who was visiting a train- the whereabouts of his guide, he asked: one about a man who ing camp back in 1917. "Where's Fletcher McPheeters?" had been knocked over She saw a recruit going "Why, ain't you heard? He's been dead by an automobile. He around the parade six months," replied the attendant. was helped to his feet by ground with a sharp-pointed stick spear- "Too bad," said the visitor. "He was a policeman. ing cigarette butts and paper. Stopping the funniest drunk I ever saw and the "Did you get the number of the car?" him, she asked: biggest liar I ever heard." asked the officer. "Doesn't that sort of work fatigue you When the visitor had gone, the attend- "No," replied the man. a great deal?" ant turned to a companion and said: "Could you swear to the driver?" "Oh, no," replied the soldier. "I was "Now ain't that just like some people? The injured man spit out a few teeth born to it. My father used to harpoon Never say anything nice about a guy and said: "I did, but I don't think he whales." until he's dead." heard me." 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine *A Way Out (Continued from page 37) work is likely to be and the less costly, partly because of the absence of log- rolling. •..wish I had Let us say that three States bordering on the same sheet of water want some project undertaken in connection with it. two mouths for If they combine to carry it on, their citi- zens know or can know all about it, but the citizens of three other States on an- smoldn Velvet other sheet of water perhaps a thousand miles away know nothing about it, except IH smoke apipe that if the Federal Government spends the money for the first three, the Con- and a cigarette both gressmen from the other three will want as much money for some project whether needed or not. Moreover, instead of merely turning to Uncle Sam it is a lesson in self-government, in democracy, for the citizens of the States to get together. Fortunately it is also an entirely Con- stitutional method, for Article One of the Constitution permits Congress to allow several States to combine for a joint pur- pose, as it has done many times, as we shall soon note. Those who think that it is an impossible method because States will not combine and therefore the Federal Government must step in are probably unaware of the extent to which the method has been increasingly used in very recent years. Without discussing such more or less regional organizations as the Council for New England we may turn to what is becoming practically a nation-wide new organ of government, the Council of State Governments, and then note a few ex- amples of combined actions by States which have achieved by the local demo- cratic method much of what many think can be done only from Washington. Let us state emphatically at the beginning that this movement is not opposed to the Federal Government but on the contrary works with it and receives valuable aid from it. The Council of State Governments may now be considered to be an integral and valuable part of the general govern- mental machinery of the nation. It has no individual members, each member being a State, and well over thirty States have now united in declaring that the Council is "a joint governmental agency." At the last annual meeting in Washington forty- five States sent delegates. The object of the Council is to solve problems which no one State can solve alone, and it has at work four national Commissions, those on Crime, Taxation, Social Security, and on Council Development, as well as two regional Commissions, one for the Dela- ware River Basin and the other for the Ohio Basin. Without going further into the details of the organization and move- ment which may, for the reasons sug- gested above, prove the "way out" for combining the achievement of a better America with- (Continued on page 41) MARCH, 1938 When Purcha:.sing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — — — ___ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ feONT^ Center Jobs for Veterans companies were under fire at Belleville, such ideas propagate to the extent that and two days later the entire regiment seems likely, what will be the ultimate To the Editor: As one of the major activi- was at the front, where they operated result! ties of The American Legion is a pledge without relief until the Armistice. The God grant that to place unemployed veterans in private we may not again be members of the Fifty-third are entitled to called upon to suffer the pain and hard- industry in 1938 I am offering an idea wear five medals and the fourragere, not ships of another World War, but if we are which may assist in this program. I indivi- to avoid it, it will believe an appropriate slogan placed on counting the Legion Medal. Some not be through adver- duals were decorated, but as the outfit tising our desire (fear?), but being so many pages of each issue of the Magazine by was split up and scattered with so many prepared for war that the nations of the would bring the idea home to employers. others, few were wounded. world will hesitate to commit overt acts It would seem possible that many na- equal this record? against us that would embroil with tional advertisers using the Legion Maga- Can Mr. Coleman them B. Sprowls, Claysville, Pa. us, and in the event that we do go to war, zine might incorporate this slogan in the George Jr., it should with will space purchased. be the and ability to Price" secure victory. E. S. Haile, Havana, Suggested slogans are: "There's A But Not "At Any — — Cuba. Veteran Who Can Fill The —Job" "Use To the Editor: As one who has seen and A Veteran For That Job" "Veterans participated in the horrors of war in its to Finland! Over 40 Are Qualified Workers"—"Em- most gruesome and repellent phases, such On ploy a Vet, They're Good Men Yet"—"A sentiments as "Keep us out of war" and To the Editor: Speaking of national Le- Vet's A Good Bet For That Job"— "We must avoid war," per se, when ex- gion conventions and special trips, I have "Don't Forget, Hire a Vet"—"Employ- pressed between ourselves, are true and as a suggestion. ers Need Legionnaires In Their Organi- they should be, and represent 100 per- I am not familiar with all the part Fin- zation, Hire Them"—"Your Post Em- cent the honest opinion of the men who land took in the World War. Sufficient to ployment Officer Knows A Vet Who served in the front line fighting of the say they were one of the Allies. Can Fill That Job."—E. C. Claflin, World War; particularly those who so Trade among the Allies was unharmed Veterans' Placement Representative, Du- served voluntarily and through patriotic by the war. Money was loaned and bor- Page County Office, Illinois State Employ- motives, for most certainly they do not rowed. This little country called Finland ment Service, Wheaton, III. wish to repeat such experiences or to have no doubt borrowed heavily in proportion their children do so, if it can be honor- to its size, wealth, etc. They entered the Helping One Another ably avoided. When such sentiments are combine in good faith and withdrew at To the Editor: Maurice F. Hepner, Mil- expressed by men we knew in war days the end of the war in the same spirit. waukee, Wis. certainly struck a responding to be slackers and conscientious objectors, They are fulfilling their agreement re- note. I too am a little older (fifty) than forced in by the draft, and by those of the garding war debts. the average Legionnaire and have the present generation who in a national Now, in recognition of this fact, why only store in town owned by an ex-service emergency would belong to one of those couldn't we do something for them and man, and I think I could count on the fin- classes, such expressions usually ter- incidentally for ourselves. I mean pay gers of one hand, the buddies that have minate with "at any cost, or by any them a visit by holding one of our Na- opened their pocketbooks in my store. means" or at least with some such equiva- tional Conventions in Helsingfors, Fin- They seem to prefer to go down the street lent phrase. land, and encouraging hundreds of thou- and spend their money with the man A time was in our history when we sands of our people to visit them.—C. A. whose store was painted yellow during the Americans had pride in our country, Witherspoon, Hickory, N . C. war. when such mottoes as "Millions for de- Do the Legionnaires help each other? fense, but not one cent for tribute" and Speaking of Medals NO. Yet, if the Governor makes an ap- "Don't tread on me" were popular among To the Editor: I read an article in the Le- pointment and does not give the ex-ser- our people. Now it appears that all we gion Magazine of the December issue vice man preference, a howl goes up that want is "peace at any price," regardless about badges on display at National can be heard around the world. But do of the price. Headquarters. I also have a wonderful they help each other; again I say, NO. If our nationals or flag are insulted collection, not of badges but of medals Prairie Stater. or outraged, all that is necessary seems to that I have collected in the last twenty be diplomatic explanations and apologies, years. They date from Washington before A Pioneer Speaks Up paving the way for more "incidents," Boston, 1776, until the present time. To the Editor: Being a former member of apologies and explanations, ad infinitum. They represent 26 different countries. the 53d Pioneer Infantry, A.E.F., I wish News despatches tell us of a monster peti- Our first series were gold and not to be to take exception to the letter titled "My tion being circulated by one of our war worn. They were issued from 1776 to Bit for Baker" by Tom L. Coleman, veteran associations demanding that we 1864, given to our higher officers. The Wichita Falls, Texas, appearing in the "be kept out of war at any price." Some dies of the first seven as I have it were January issue of your good magazine. active members were so disgusted with cut in France, as we had no engravers Mr. Coleman forgot to add that the men the sentiment that they resigned from in this country who could do this work attached to the 1 1 ith Engineers had been this patriotic (?) organization. Should at that time. The first medal that we had in France nine days, when they landed that was intended to be worn was the at Frouard, and, also that the 53d Pio- Because of space demands, letters quoted Congressional Medal of Honor in 1864. neers probably saw more service for the in this department {responsibility for state- It was the only medal that we had for 40 time that they were in France than any ments in which is vested in the writers and years. In 1898 the Dewey Medal was other outfit. not in this magazine) are subject to authorized, then the Philippine Medal abridgement. Names, addresses and post I quote from the official copy of our and so on down the line until the present. affiliation must be given, though the editors record (condensed) issued to each mem- We now have about forty between the will withhold publication of these if the ber of the Fifty-third: Arrived in France and Navy George E. Hedges, circumstances warrant. Army August 18, 1 918. Nine days later, six Long Beach, Calif. 40 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ! Way Out {Continued from page jp) out complete centralization, we may note some of the things which States in combi- nation have already succeeded in doing. Take the problem of crime, which a few years ago had seemed almost insolu- ble owing to state lines and conflicting laws and jurisdictions. In two exceedingly interesting articles, Judge Hartshorne in The American Legion Magazine has al- ready told in detail what has been done in this regard, so we need mention it only briefly. The Commission on Crime, mentioned above, drafted four bills to be accepted by the Legislatures of all the States if possible, largely wiping out state lines in the matter of crime and doing away with the previous anarchic condi- tions which had provided about forty- eight separate state loopholes for the es- cape of criminals. As is well known, The American Legion did fine service in getting these bills passed by many States, and the work will continue. At present, however, twenty-two States have agreed that the police force of any one can pur- sue a felon into the bounds of any of the others, and that witnesses can be com- pelled to go from any one to another to • Spick-and-span every minute is the first testify; sixteen have agreed to supervise big MUST at Annapolis — and that doesn't parole probation those on or who come mean maybe! Midshipmen have to be from the others; and eighteen have pro- well-groomed — get clean, close, long- vided for the extradition of criminals and lasting shaves in double-quick time. even of the non-resident "brains" of a Half-mown whiskers are out! Only gang. This has all been accomplished perfect shaves pass inspections. That's within two years, a result that owing to why 7 out of 10 men at the (J. S. Naval use Gillette Blades the jealousy of the States and of their Academy in their Gillette Razors every morning. police departments would have seemed impossible a few years ago. There is no reason why the movement so well begun should not soon extend REMEMBER IT'S YOUR FACE to all 48 States, and so make the state Your face is always police departments practically a nation- • on parade —wher- ever you go, night or day! Don't make it a wide cooperative organization. This proving ground for shaving experiments. does not mean that the Federal service, Demand Gillette Blades and get the which has been excellent, should not sup- world's best shaves for less than a cent a day! plement this new cooperative state sys- tem, and the two work together, as they are in fact doing. It does show, however, that if the democratic method of state cooperation is a little slower in getting • Some misfits are funny—butamisfitrazor started than the organizing of a Federal blade isn't! Avoid faulty shaves—theylook bureau it is not only feasible but that it is bad, feel worse! Gillette Blades fit Gillette also not so very slow. Razors perfectly — shave closely, cleanly! The cooperation of New York and New Jersey through the Port of New Try Gillette's GILLETTE METHOD: OTHER METHOD: The amazing new handle the Gillette removes ragged stubble left York Authority to problem Brushless Shaving of the harbor of New York which is Cream, made with whiskers cleanly, by another method peanut oil. It giving you a shave will look common to both has worked well for some full-grown softens tough wiry that really lasts! in a few short hours years, and better I think than if the af- whiskers, speeds fairs of each in this regard had been shaving, soothes and tones the handled from Washington. skin. You'll like Another example is the cooperation it! Big tube, 2$i. of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware for the control of the Dela- ware River Basin with regard to pol- lution, control of its waters, highways, parks, fish and other matters. (jrillcttC Again, the depletion of the marine and PRECISION-MADE MORE SHAVJNO COMFORT FOR YOUR MONEY FOR EACH OTHER Great Lakes {Continued on page 42) MARCH, 1938 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine *A Way Out (Continued from page 41) fisheries has resulted in the coopera- ment is also represented on the Commis- self-government on the part of the people tion thus far (through the Commis- sion. Here is a vast undertaking, originat- that such a way can be tried and is ma- sion of Interstate Cooperation of the ing not from Washington but among the king such rapid headway. This plan is no Council of State Governments) of Dela- States themselves, and again we may say theory in the mind of some reformer. It ware, Connecticut, Massachusetts,Rhode that such an agreement and project would is actually working, and should be much Island, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. have seemed impossible a few years more widely known and supported. It has Other States will follow, and the cooper- ago; yet this has all been done by the no party bias or affiliation. It is not the ation of the appropriate Federal agencies democratic method in less than one year. idea of any particular political group. In is provided for. the Council and on the Commissions thus One of the most interesting under- WE THUS find a new and extreme- far set up, all parties are represented. It takings of this sort followed on the 1937 ly important idea at work among is the voice of the whole American people flood in the Ohio Valley. An interstate the people, providing through the Council speaking. It is a joint effort of men of all agency has been set up to "control, regu- of State Governments and its various shades of political opinion who are not late, and conserve" the resources of this Commissions a possible, and I think the thinking in terms of politics at all but great area, and to prevent a repetition of only practical, "way out"from a complete only in terms of getting things done in the floods. The project is a great one, and centralization of powers in Washington the American way, that is the democratic nine States have joined in it—Illinois, with the dangers involved. Federal powers way. There is no question of opposition Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, in many respects will have to increase along to the Federal Government. On the con- Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and some lines in future, as I have pointed trary there is the closest and very helpful West Virginia. Known as "Incohio" for out, but here is a make-weight in the cooperation with it. It is only a way of short, as the Delaware Basin Commission traditional balance of powers between letting the people do for themselves what is called "Incodel," this is not a blue print local and central government. It speaks they can do as an offset to the increasing but a going concern. Each State has three well for both the Constitution and the duties and centralization of Washington. representatives, and the Federal Govern- political sagacity and desire for retaining In it lies a great hope for the future. What Jfospital J^jfe Taught zMe (Continued from page 1) she used her forefinger very persuasively rested, calm, and to enjoy the friendships pense that when I finally did leave, I felt and pointedly, and ordered me back to which came my way. I also learned an- partly the thrill of a new adventure, but bed. A little too abruptly, I thought. I other great lesson: Obedience to rules. In also felt that I was distinctly being resented it. I confess (with blushes) that that was safety and protection, both in- cheated out of something that belonged I sassed her back. It seems stupid to me side hospital and outside. to me. So I really was a gold-brick, after now, of course, but I was in dead earnest But even so, despite the care I exer- all! The title is not at all flattering. But then. Funny, isn't it, how many moun- cised, towards the end of my hospital it was only outside living that cured me tains out of mole-hills a dumb cluck like life I became hospital-minded. This con- of that. I may as well confess that at the me could have made? dition sometimes happens in the case of time of my leaving, I felt that continuous Well, I got back into bed, but certainly patients who remain in hospitals continu- outside living would be injurious to me. I didn't like it. One thing led to another. ously for long periods of time, and fre- Well, it wasn't. On the contrary, it has I even wrote letters of complaint to the quently they are honestly unaware of it, proved very beneficial to me, just as the chief nurse. When the doctor made his but attribute to caution their fears of doctors predicted, and certainly I owe rounds (of course he knew of my stupi- leaving the hospital. I, for one, was cer- them a vote of thanks for their good- dity, but said nothing), I looked sheep- tainly afraid of leaving the hospital, even ness in "breaking the gruesome news" to ishly at him, but when the nurse came after the doctors had assured me that I me when they did. Since leaving the hos- along, I put on my best you-can't-beat- could make the grade on the outside. pital, I might add, I have never looked at me attitude. This condition, by the way, also has a thermometer, never felt my pulse, and Thank goodness, it didn't last long. another name. Gold-brick. have never had the occasion to see a doc- One day I woke up. I saw that I was hurt- At that time I had graduated into the tor. ing myself, and acting childishly. Just as class of ambulant patient. I walked to the Now I want to tell one on my fellow- one good turn deserves another, I mess-hall for my meals, went to the Oc- patients, and if there is a moral in it, realized, so one bad turn just as surely cupational Therapy shops for my daily draw it for yourself. One day a big, brings on another, and I was really being work (which is expertly arranged on dif- gawky, country boy came in as a patient. a dumbbell, and making it difficult for ferent lines for all the patients), enjoyed He was an incipient case, and looked ex- those who really wished to help me. evenings at Recreation Hall or the traordinarily well. I remember how we Then I changed. It may sound revolu- movies, and attended American Legion all laughed when he perfectly seriously tionary to some, but I actually wrote let- meetings held in Recreation Hall audi- told us that he had fallen away to 176 ters of apology to all the nurses about torium. In passing, I want to say a word pounds! But he was a green country lad, whom I complained. I wanted to cooper- on behalf of Louis Halphen Post, at the and a little terrified with what his home- ate, I wrote with my apology, and so I Veterans Hospital at Legion, Texas. folks called not tuberculosis, but "gal- did, and I want to say that I never felt Continuing these personal confessions, loping consumption." He had never been better in my life. It was a good thing to I must admit I took things very seriously, in a hospital before, and knew nothing admit I was wrong, I found out, and try and with measured slowness, and even of the prescribed treatment of bed-rest, a new line. Hospital life after that wasn't though I had taken several furloughs to nor anything of "the bugs," as the hospi- half-bad, as long as I had to remain there. the nearby town, I was still fearful of tal patients refer to t.b. cases among And I found out that while chasing the permanently leaving the hospital. I re- themselves. Now the patients decided cure it was entirely possible to feel good, member now with a laugh at my own ex- to rib the newcomer. It happened that on The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine this patient's very first night at the hospi- tal, in the very next room (it was a private room, walled off from the general ward) a patient died. The newcomer knew nothing about it, for he had slept soundly through the night, and had heard nothing. Early in the morning he got up and be- gan walking about the ward, when one HENNESSY of the boys wisecracked to him: "Better get in bed, bigboy, or the same thing'll COGNAC BRANDY happen to you as to that fellow next door." "What happened to the fellow next door?" innocently chirped the green country lad. "Oh, nothing at all, nothing at all," came the merciless answer. "He only kicked the bucket last night—croaked." The effect was disastrous. The country boy took to his bed, and it was several weeks before he dared lift his head from his pillow. Here's another one of the other fellow, while I'm talking hospital shop. We had on our own ward a young man who always had a complaint for the doctor when he made the rounds. This appeared to the doctor as absolute nonsense, for examina- tions revealed nothing unusual, and the patient's pulse and temp had been nor- mal for a long time. The doctor was con- vinced that there was something fishy about it, and he was right. The complaint had now resolved itself to "splitting head- aches." Finally the doctor conceived a brilliant plan. He came to the patient one day, and in a confidential and serious mood told him that he had discovered the exact pill. It would do wonders for him, without fail. Two every night, before re- tiring. The patient religiously complied, and sure enough, it wasn't long before the headaches disappeared. The prettily- colored pink pills had done the trick and the patient appeared pleased at the result, and all would have been hunky-dory, had not the doctor gone on a vacation trip, and the new doctor, evidently know- BRANDY COCKTAIL ing the nature of the pills, cut them out. The patient immediately went into his 1 jigger of Three-Star Hennessy old routine, and reclaimed his splitting 2 dashes of Curasao of Stir strain into cocktail headaches. Getting no satisfaction out and glass. J^J 34 PROOF the doctor, he decided to take it out on the night nurse, and when she made the rounds that night, he bawled her out for The Brandy Cocktail has been popular for generations, here what he said was neglect of duty in and abroad. On both sides of the Atlantic, it has been recog- not noting the magic prescription for the new doctor. She took all she could, and nized that enjoyment of this delightful cocktail at its best calls then, forgetting herself for the moment, she cried out: "Why, you poor sap, the for the use of Three-Star Hennessy. For the quality, bouquet doctor's been feeding you sugar-pills all along. There's nothing the matter with and "clean" taste that make Hennessy the preferred after- your head and never has been." True dinner liqueur make it the logical choice for any brandy drink. enough, the headaches then entirely dis- appeared, but the boys on the ward were a long time in razzing the sugar-pill- Insist on HENNESSY in a taker and his manufactured headaches. Brandy Sour • Brandy-and-soda • Brandy Fiip • Brandy Fizz • Mint Julep • In looking back, I understand more Side Car • Stinger Cocktail • Old-Fashioned 'Alexander Cocktail • Pousse Cafe appreciatively than ever the good work of The American Legion Auxiliary hospi- S Distilled and bottled at Cognac, France. JA . HENNESSY & C° Established 1765 tal workers. They made regular visits to the men on our ward. To those who re- 1794* SOLE U. S. AGENTS: Schieffelin & C6., NEW YORK CITY • IMPORTERS SINCE main indoors (Continued on page 44) MARCH, 193S When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 44 What flbspital J^ife Taught zMe {Continued from page 43) for long periods of time, and who the full value of the Recreation Service call this lack of confidence or use the ini- have no home - folks to visit them, and especially the expert and excellent tials C.I. P. (constitutional inadequate such visits are important. It can get aid rendered by the occupational therapy personality, I believe they mean). But mighty lonesome in a Veterans Hospital, workers, for the latter not only helped whatever it is, it is something to be over- just like in any hospital, when a fellow is the ambulant type of patient who could come, and it is here that O.T. plays its a thousand miles away from home. These go to the O.T. workshop, but also went to full share in coming to the patient's aid. good ladies of the Auxiliary sometimes the non-ambulant patients who could be In my case, this form of hospital-minded- brought home-made candies for us, or benefited by a judicious amount of occu- ness required some time to overcome. light fluffy chocolate-icinged cakes. Some- pational work, and incidentally, be finan- Finally, in looking back and reviewing times the ladies went shopping for the cially remunerated for their work. It is the six years I spent in a Veterans Hospi- patients, helped them with letter writing, interesting to learn that all the American tal, I can honestly say that I was well- and brought extra gifts from the ladies Legion poppies sold each year by the treated. I had all the advantages any- of outlying Auxiliary Units—such things various American Legion Auxiliary groups one could ask f 01 . For a long time I had a as cigarettes, stationery, stamps, post- are made by disabled patients in Veter- private room, meals in bed, and the lux- cards, or special favors for the holiday ans Hospitals. In addition to the poppies, ury of bed-baths. A wheel-chair carted periods, especially at Christmas, when a wide variety of articles are made, and my ever-increasing bulk (from 130 I each and every patient wss remembered some are really remarkable examples. Pur- went to 185), to and from the bathrooms with a substantial gift. And how good chase of these means pocket money for pa- and to the X-ray room. Courteous li- that was for Christmas day—a day that tients who otherwise almost never would brarians brought books, magazines and seems overlong in a Veterans Hospital, have that highly desirable commodity. newspapers to my bed, and the mailman far from one's own kin. despite the extra also gave me personal service. Doctors helpings of turkey and cranberry sauce, TO THOSE who do not understand its made the rounds every day. Nurses, and the brightly decorated napkins and utility, the work of occupational thera- maids and orderlies were ever on hand to flowers on one's tray. py in Veterans Hospitals may be mini- look out for my slightest need—X-rays On many" occasions throughout the mized, and considered an added extrava- were made by the dozen, and physical year, the Auxiliary workers brought gance, yet the reverse is true. For patients examinations were frequent. Every facil- flowers for the patients, very often from who remain in bed for two or three years, ity of a huge organization was offered on their own gardens. Now it may sound recovery to full-time normal activities is what might be called a silver platter. It kind of sissy for men to enjoy flowers, but not achieved at a single jump. It is here was, I now realize, a hospital sort of Life to a hospital patient they are expressive that the O.T. department fills a need very of Riley, and I am glad now that I came of the kindliness of spirit of outsiders, and usefully, and helps free the patient from to realize this early, and to express my bring added moments of joy and con- the accumulated fears piled up from a gratitude for it while I was still a patient. tentment. protracted hospital life. This made hospital living easier for me, Now I can also more fully appreciate Some doctors at these institutions and for the staff too, I hope. Twenty ITears ^Ago {Continued from page 77) Explosion of depth-charge on U. S. S. tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels or Crosses announced. Recipients are 2d Manley as result of collision with British Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roose- Lieutenant J. N. Greene, 6th Artillery, vessel kills 33 American sailors, injures 32. velt will go to France. and Sergeants William M. Norton and Aero Club of America asks for im- Dutch shipping in American and Patrick Walsh of Company I, Eighteenth mediate three - billion - dollar appropri- British ports seized, making 500,000 more Infantry, all First Division, for gallantry ation for aircraft. tons available to United States. in action during German raid of March Third Liberty Loan drive will begin 21 1st. April 6th, Treasury announces, with Pope's Easter message to America Government facing pressing necessity German armies open long-predicted makes plea for lasting peace. of providing four to five billion dollars attack on Western Front, the main blow Post Office Department announces it before June 30th, end of fiscal year. being directed along a front of fifty miles will seek women mail-carriers on rural President Wilson signs daylight saving against salient south of Cambrai. British routes for which men are no longer avail- bill. troops bear the brunt of the thrust. able. Mob in Yakima, Washington, tars and "Victory must not fail us," Kaiser de- 23 feathers I. W. W. leader and drives him clares. out of town. Senate fixes price of wheat at $2.50 a Germans, pressing advantage on West- 20 bushel for 191 8 crop. ern Front, drive forward four miles, take 22 25,000 prisoners. Correspondents report U-boat toll in 191 7 was six million Kaiser in personal command; one can- tons, Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the German attack continues between non to every twelve yards of front. Haig's Admiralty, tells British Parliament. Arras and La Fere, with capture of 16,000 forces give way south and west of St. United States Ambassador David R. prisoners and 200 guns. Kaiser, Hinden- Quentin. Francis announces he will stay in Moscow burg and Ludendorff watch progress of First "Big Bertha" opens fire on Paris until forced to leave. offensive from point close to rapidly- from distance of 75 miles. Secretary Baker reviews First Division advancing front. Heavy artillery duels in American Second Arm}' Corps organ- troops at Treveray. Washington an- French Flanders and in Belgium. ized in British First Army area. nounces that on his return either Secre- Award of first Distinguished Service Food Administrator Herbert Hoover The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine cuts American wheat ration in half to piece out supply until new crop is har- vested. 24 German drive continues; Peronne falls. Battle raging at fiercest in vicinity of St. Quentin, with advance checked slightly on northern part of front. Paris stock exchange announces inten- tion to conduct trade in cellar of Bourse when air-raid alarms are given. THE "MORRISEY" ON HER LATEST TRIP TO THE ARCTIC World's scientists comment on "Big Bertha," say shell must attain height of 35 miles to carry 75. American firms in Germany placed under "compulsory trusteeships." 25 Bapaume falls to Germans. Haigadmits retirement and heavy loss of material. Germans claim British have been forced back between Peronne and Bapaume to positions which they held before Somme Offensive of 19 16. Major General Leonard Wood tells Senate Military Affairs Committee that America should have two million men in France by 1910. New Browning machine-gun, tested at Camp Dix, New Jersey, "works per- 1?08 %/IRTlETT fectly." Third Liberty Loan will be for three FAMOUS ADVENTURER AND EXPLORER billion dollars with interest at four and a quarter percent, Treasury announces. sa<,s.. "OME mm/ WANT OAf MYGOAfS 26 ... THAK THEREMWGTO/VNAME" Germans drive ahead in southern por- tion of front, take Roye, menace Albert. Haig re-forms lines and holds north of the Somme. Elements of Sixth and Eleventh "Whether it's polar bear in the Engineers (Railway), A. E. F., have been fighting "shoulder to shoulder" with Arctic or geese in Newfoundland I British. Allied military leaders meet at ...I've found Remington guns and Doullens to map unified effort. ammunition are right/" cartridges. Captain Bartlett says, "What- Only 37 airplanes of the 12,000 prom- ever I'm after, I want ammunition with ised by Aircraft Production Board for YEARS Captain Bob Bartlett has FOR power to spare — and I get it with following July will be ready on that the arms chest of the stocked Remington." date, according to announcement. "Morrisey" with Remington guns and See the Remington line of guns at Contract for anti-aircraft gun-emplace- ammunition. your dealer's. And remember: if it's ments to be constructed in five New York His favorite gun for the seal, walrus, Remington, it's right! Remington Arms parks and cemeteries is signed by War narwhal, bear and musk-ox he brings Department. Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. back for museum groups is a Remington 27 M/30 in .30-'06 caliber. For ducks and Member of the American Wildlife Institute "For a more abundant game supply" geese Captain Bartlett uses a M/ 3 1 pump British regain some ground along the gun. For small game he's enthusiastic Somme, Germans advance slightly ct about Remington's man-sized .22 rifles other points. Offensive has cost Germany and powerful Kleanbore* Hi-Speed* .22 Remington. 300,000 men, London declares. Heavy German attacks force French back east Don't forget — National Hardware Week, May 9—14 of Montdidier. fiOPlt Steel ship Westgrove completed in Pacific Coast yard in sixty-one days, a record. Information is Committee on Public The "Targetmaster . . . M 41A . . . accused in Senate Military Affairs Com- .22 bolt action, single shot mittee hearing of having stated that war aircraft had been sent overseas by the hundred, while in reality only one air- plane had been shipped. The "Sportmaster"*. . . M, 341A . . 28 .22 bolt action repeater BOTH RIFLES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE WITH PEEP SIGHTS British repulse persistent attacks at • TRADE MARK REG. U. S PAT. OFF. Arras, French (Continued on page 46) MARCH, 1938 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 40 Twenty Tears *Ago (Continued from page 45) retake ground on German flanks. South "All that we have is yours; use them as Nikolai Lenin, Russian Bolshevik of the Somme British retain positions you will." premier, reported ill. following slight retirement of previous The Stars and Stripes, official A. E. F. More than 1,600,000 men now in night. French advance along ten-kilo- newspaper, launches war-orphan cam- United States Army, 100,000 of them meter front between Lassigny and Noyon. paign originated by Private H. W. Ross named Smith, 1500 named William Allied observers believe hostile offen- whereby any unit or individual in service Smith, War Department announces. French waif for sive in Italy is preparing, following re- may "adopt" a one year There are 262 John J. O'Briens, of whom ceipt of news that forty Austrian divisions for 500 francs. Eventually 2,000,000 50 have wives named Mary. have been transferred to that front. francs are contributed for the "adoption" Strikes in American industry banned British rout Turks northwest of Hit in of 3,444 war-bereft children. for the duration of the war under agree- Mesopotamia. Board of medical examinersat Washing- ments announced by Secretary of Labor. Former President Roosevelt, charging ton finds Major General Leonard Wood Secretary Baker leaves France for Italy. American effort is being "mismanaged," fit for overseas duty. Renting, Requisitions and Claims calls for army of five million men and Canadian militia quells anti-conscrip- Service established in A. E. F. preparation for three more years of war. tion riots in Quebec. Food prices in United States 21 per- Food Administrator Herbert Hoover 31 cent higher than year ago, Bureau of declares a meatless day each week for the Total American troop arrivals in Labor Statistics announces. next thirty-day period. France during month, 84,889; troops re- 29 30 turned, 488; total in A. E. F., 375,852. British offer Brigadier General Charles Germans slowing up south of Somme, Germans take six villages (one named G. Dawes, Chief Purchasing Agent, with British holding line west of Hamel- Cantigny) from French between the A. E. F., 500,000 camp units, as troops Marcelcave-Demuin. British report small Somme and the Avre in region of Mont- for whom they were intended "will not gains north of Somme. German thrusts didier. On 60-kilometer front from be available." toward Arras and Vimy Ridge halted. Moreuil to beyond Lassigny furious Ger- Germans begin to consolidate posi- Major General Ferdinand Foch is man assaults against French positions tions along Western Front. Spring offen- named generalissimo of the Allied forces. are stopped everywhere. Desperate thrust sive, opening along fifty-mile front, General Pershing gives message to him: for Arras repulsed by British. extends to 125 miles before end of month. £tormtrooper (Continued from page 7) whizz over my head to raise waterspouts From that day I knew what a mighty That dawn there was a firing squad for in a pond to the rear. At dawn the first weapon is the machine gun. Out front four. wave of Russian troops came over the the knots of dark green melted away. But though the shells missed again, top. Hold fire until signal by Very light, The Russians lost all leadership as they cholera, typhus, and dysentery were was our order. Wave after wave rolled came closer. Some reached our wire and thinning our ranks. Each German soldier on across the open terrain. Their front died there, others surrendered. Some re- was inoculated—eleven shots in the rank was 400 yards away when our signal treating were shot down from their own arm in all. Nor was that enough. German flashed in the air. trenches. That I saw with my own eyes thoroughness is rightly proverbial. We A sheet of smoke and flame spread through field glasses and it was confirmed staged a clean-up in every town in the along our thin lines. Rattle of rifles, tattoo by prisoners. sector. Filthy, mired streets were given of machine guns. Down we mowed the So ended the attack designed to glad- paving which has lasted, so I am told, van but they came on—wave after wave den the birthday of the Czar. Instead he to this day. Manure heaps disposed of. —fourteen of them—a breaking surf of had the shattering news of the ghastly A drastic scrub bath prescribed for every dark green uniforms dotted with white, spectacle which I witnessed on patrol in inhabitant. Husky troops of the Kaiser bearded faces swallowed in each succeed- No Man's Land that night—thousands polished up the men and the feminine ing crest. of Russians dead and wounded. ablutions were supervised by sanitary The rat-tat-tat of the stuttering machine In the next sector in which I served, we details that threatened to take over the guns rose to a crescendo. The Russians, began to suffer heavy losses from the job if the women didn't scrub vigorously so many of them inexperienced and ill- fire of the Russian artillery, suddenly enough. Sometimes some good comes out trained, began to falter. They lost their and uncannily accurate. Changes of posi- of a war. deployment, bunched up. But on their tion failed to save us. After a few days I was wounded in the shin by a shell masses came. Would our ammunition the sergeant in charge of my rations de- fragment in June. After hospitalization, hold out? Would our machine guns jam? tail reported a glimmer of light in a farm- I rejoined my regiment in the Loos-Hul- Down our line was passed an order. house back of our fines. I passed on the luch-Lens sector of the Western Front to Machine guns fire only at the enemy information, was told the house was sup- meet the British drive of September, clustered together. Riflemen take the posed to be deserted and was ordered to 19 1 5, to break our front. Now we were single men. investigate. With a detail of six men, I in truth Sturmtruppen, a Class A shock At one of my heavy machine guns, the surrounued the dark house that night. division. Having won my captaincy, I was No. 2 man slumped down, badly We caught three men and a woman in the in command of a company of 200 men, wounded. I jumped to take his place. As attic. In a chest were papers showing with six light machine guns. It was then an officer, I should not have done that every German change of position and in I took to wearing a monocle, when about should have replaced him with another the cellar was a concealed telephone con- to go over the top for raid or attack. An gunner—but I was young and excited. necting with the Russian batteries. affectation? Not at all. It was partly be- The AMERICAN LEGION Maea-.int — 47 cause I am near-sighted but more because when I screwed that glass into one eye I had to keep my face rigid to hold it there. Come what might, my men saw only a fixed, calm, nonchalant expression, as good as a mask. I tell you, there was need of some such device when the British guns opened up on us with seventy-two hours of unbroken drumfire and every nerve in the body leaped and cringed and twitched. Somehow we stood it. Now our trenches were deep, and sunken 30 or 40 feet in the chalk were the dugouts which were our salvation. There we took cover, all except the lookout postsj relieved every half hour—if still alive. Our losses were chiefly from dugout cave-ins and suffoca- tion. But when the drumfire ceased and the attack was launched, out came our machine guns. My company of 200 was reduced to two non-coms and fifteen men. In twenty- four hours we were up to strength again with replacements. We were forced back, and the British cavalry rode up for the break-through. It was a near thing for us. If General French had sent up the re- serves asked for, we would have been lost. But it was our supports that stopped the British attack on the second day. They gathered themselves for a third onslaught. We were reeling with ex- haustion and sunk in a state of mental apathy. I learned then that human nature can suffer only to a certain degree. Even the desire to live was little more than a reflex. We lived only for the next meal, the next shot of schnapps, the next smoke. Nothing else mattered. SHE SAYS We advanced to meet that third at- tack under artillery fire across open coun- try. My replaced company lost forty per- cent. Never before or since have I seen The alert, courteous voice of the telephone operator is such heaps of slain. We stopped the at- known to all who use the telephone. tack, counter-attacked and again were reduced to a few. More reserves. A second To the little old lady in the shawl, the man in the big house counter-attack took us back close to our on the hill, or a tiny tot of six, the words are the same, original line. One of my men, frightfully "Number, please" and "Thank you." wounded, begged me to shoot him. I The Bell System appreciates your patronage and tries to could not bring myself to do it, but I let him snatch the revolver out of my holster. deserve it. In everything that concerns telephone service, we When that battle was over, I, then twenty hope you can say: "They're nice people to dd business with." years old, was the only unwounded officer among the survivors of my battalion. Messines Ridge next and trenches BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM flooded by the opened Belgian dikes. The rain, fog, cold, and mud of a North Sea winter—and huge rats. From forty to sixty pails of water were bailed out of my dugout twice a day. Pneumonia took toll. On an average the British lines were from BE PARTICULAR fifty to as low as five yards away. The air was full of hand grenades until the men about your DRUG STORE on both sides agreed to take turns throw- 9350 Drug Stores in the UnKed States will take a personal interest in ing them and limit it to certain minutes you because these 9350 Drug Stores are owned by fellow-Legionnaires. each hour. Always on the alert for raids, Get acquainted with the Legionnaire druggist in your community and enjoy always wet. Even a tour of duty in the the direct benefits of his friendly interest in you and your family. second line was no rest; troops in the second line had to repair the first, pushing There is one near you. through water-filled communication REMEMBER trenches laden with sheets of corrugated every 6th Drug Store in the United States is owned by a Legionnaire. iron. I lost several men by drowning. The British on (Continued on page 48) MARCH, it);? When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 48 £tormtrooper {Continued jrow. page 47) lower ground were worse off than we Over in Newkirk behind the British lines just received from his mother. How could and we drained our trenches into theirs. church bells began to ring. From a bel- I go on seeing the destruction of all I had it sides in In spite of all, troops on both fry Commines to our rear sweet tones been taught and learned—I, a civilized set up trading centers, British rubber tolled an answer. In that church a chap- human being—I, once a student of phil- boots being swapped for German lain of ours had lately proclaimed Gott osophy! What utter futility! My eyes schnapps and so on. Officers winked at it mit uns. I suppose the British in Newkirk were dragged toward my pistol beside till strict orders were issued. Anyway the had been told the same thing. Suddenly me. problem ceased to exist for me when a my first and only collapse of morale dur- Well, I managed to stick it out. For bursting shell in a British barrage lodged ing the war struck me. several weeks I was miserable; then I fifteen shell splinters in my posterior. I got thinking of a young English offi- mustered the courage to carry on. Hospital and back into the line opposite cer, a fine-looking chap. Pistols in hand, Let me tell in another instalment of the British again. On a foggy Sunday we'd faced each other in that last attack. my campaigns in the Carpathians and morning after the repulse of an attack, His life or mine. We fired. He got me the Alps and of my first encounter in I was sitting outside my dugout picking through one hand. My aim was better. France with the Americans. cooties out of my shirt and burning them. In his papers I'd found a letter he had (To be continued) The J^Jfe and T)eath of Qharles Q. Qlement (Continued from page 23) conscription. I am not asking for mercy. hardly known, and with no other penalty worried. I feel that I have really only All that I ask of this court, sirs, is that I to suffer. become fit to serve my country, even in be given either the full limit or else be Captain Clement had been invited to the humble capacity of a private. It is permitted to remain in the service for the share the quarters of Captain A. D. just as honorable to die for one's country duration of the war, as a private, with the Tomasello, commanding the regimental a private as it is to die an officer—more opportunity of redeeming myself in the headquarters company, from the time of honorable, in truth, for the hardships are eyes of my own company, my own people his arrest. From the date of the wire con- greater and death more obscure. In and my country—that my name may not firming his dismissal from the service looking back over events, if it was God's be written forever in the annals of the (and ten days elapsed before Clement will, as I now believe it was, that I should United States as an officer that proved could be enlisted through the customary go through a refining process in this untrue to himself, untrue to his country, army red tape) the former school teacher particular form, I'm sincerely glad it i.nd untrue to his God." would not eat at the same table with his happened. Despite the trying position I That part of the plea which most im- friend. From the moment he enlisted, his have been in I have found more real con- pressed Colonel Conrad was Captain address to Captain Tomasello and all tentment than during the past seven Clement's request to enlist in his own other officers whom he had known was in years. The officers and men have been company. "That was high moral cour- the impersonal third-person speech pre- unusually considerate. I am just be- age," declares the Colonel. "Had he scribed for, but not always employed by, ginning to realize what comradeship and asked to enlist in a regiment where his enlisted men of the World War Army. democracy mean. I don't believe they story was not known, had there been the Nor could Captain Tomasello, or any have lost confidence in me in the least. slightest intimation that the request to others, cause him to depart from that So I deserve no credit for deciding to enlist was merely to avoid imprisonment, form of speech, or stand in any position enlist in my own organization instead of had he advanced extenuation for his but rigid attention when he addressed going back to the States or slinking away drinking, I doubt that I would have re- them. On occasion, alone, with Clement, and enlisting in an organization where quested clemency. I know I would not. Tomasello would attempt to break down I'm unknown." In the light of his fine fulfillment of his this self-imposed barrier. "Private Clem- It was impracticable to enlist the desire to redeem himself, it is my con- ent is sorry, sir, but he is addressing an former captain in his old company. But sidered opinion that the State of Georgia officer," the former captain would state. he remained with the regiment, being en- should erect a monument to the memory There is an impressive entry in the listed in the Headquarters Company, of Captain Charles G. Clement." diary left by Clement, dated August 18th: where he was originally assigned to the The trial was concluded on July 15th, "My one great passion now is to serve observers' group of the intelligence exactly two weeks after Clement's mis- my country, God being willing. Sunday section. conduct. On August 13th the sentence of one year ago—I was at home, a newly By the time of his enlistment the the court was passed upon by the G. H. Q. commissioned captain. Last night I division had occupied the Marbache reviewing authority. A wire to the Com- dreamed I had my commission taken sector, the nearest front to Metz. With manding General of the Eighty-second away from me. Upon awaking the first other observers Private Clement occupied Division stated: "Sentence dismissal case impression was that it was not true, like quarters near the regimental observation Capt. Charles G. Clement confirmed. He other unpleasant dreams. But then I post, the group in the meantime living ceases to be an officer August 14, 1918. knew it was grim reality. How does it feel nearby and messing separately. "Am Permit him to enlist if he so desires, to be a captain and then suddenly de- with a fine bunch of fellows," he notes in otherwise send him to Blois, France, for capitated? Well, it is an awful thing to be his diary for August 26th. "Their ingenu- return to the United States." dismissed from the service, especially ity in keeping house is remarkable." Point is made that the reviewing now, but thank God I was given the Charles G. Clement as a private had at authority had remitted the sentence of opportunity of enlisting. During these last come to appreciate and understand five years' imprisonment. Had Charles G. weeks of waiting a still small voice has human beings. But until his death he was Clement so desired he was then free to seemed to say to me 'Don't worry, it will to suffer embarrassment by reason of return to the United States, his disgrace all come out right in the end.' I haven't soldiers who knew his story and admired The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — 49 his moral courage in electing his own regiment in which to redeem himself. They would still call him "Captain." When he protested, most of them changed the prefix to "Mister Clement." It was the universal desire to pay him honor, sympathy, respect. Up to the time of his death it happened frequently that as Private Clement entered a barracks or front-line shelter, non-commissioned officers would shout "Attention!" and the men without question, and probably with more alac- rity than had he been a real officer, would adopt that position. Such compli- ments appeared to annoy sincerely the man they sought to honor. There can be no question that the honest desiie of Charles G. Clement was to be no more than a good private. Until September ioth Private Clement had no opportunity to distinguish him- self. On that night he received orders to HiE end of the trail to an ordinary shoe take a patrol of three men to reconnoiter is only midway to a Florsheim ... for Florsheim the enemy front lines before Norroy, the strongest point of the Germans facing the shoes are made to give "the extra wear of a sec- division sector. The mission of the patrol ond pair" ... to step-up shoe mileage and step- was to find out whether the enemy was down footwear expense. Style illustrated above, withdrawing and by all means to avoid 50 combat. The party left the American The Rambler, S-735; a famous Florsheim lines at 4:15 in the afternoon and was 9 French toe in black calf; also in brown, S-736. gone for fourteen hours, except for one man sent back with a message at 1 1 p. M. In that period Clement secured exact information of the dispositions of the enemy, outwitting a strong enemy patrol Vie FLORSHEIM Shoe which sought to entrap the party, and which opened fire from only forty yards away as the Americans crawled through the last wires before the enemy first lines. While parachute flares hung overhead 3 SEED NOVELTIES FREE for TESTING IN FAMILY ONLY ... 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For days the imprint of the release was imbedded in j YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? his hand. Is the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was The Eighty-second Division, astride mailed correct for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail the Moselle River, holding the extreme THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. Until further notice, mailing address for American Legion Magazine is right of the American Front for the St. my The NEW ADDRESS Mihiel attack, was under orders not to Name (PLEASE PRINT) advance on September 12th. On the 13th Address the observation post of the 328th In- fantry was heavily shelled by the enemy. City .State. Clement sat calmly in the post through- Post No.. Dept.. old address the half intensive bombardment. out hour's Address — On September 13th, the regiment took City State. part in the (Continued on page 50) MARCH, 1938 When Purc hasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 50 The J^ife and Death of Qharles Q. Qlement (Continued from page 4q) capture of Norroy and the high ridge Fourth Army to struggle forward, the the key to the situation, insofar as the beyond. Curiously watching his com- Argonne itself was a long and broad tiny railroad was the enemy's chief source rades storm down the long slope into salient in the American lines. of supply of material for the Argonne. No Man's Land, Clement asked for If American troops could cut through That was the objective assigned to the and received permission to accompany that salient at its top it would not only second battalion of the 328th. But to the third battalion. Approaching f.he relieve the Lost Battalion— it promised gain it, the troops, starting from freshly village of Vandieres, he picked up fifteen the capture of untold men and material, captured Hill 223, must assault three stragglers, and organizing them as a exactly as the First American Army had deadly ridges standing almost as three platoon, led the advance of the party up drawn the strings of the sack at the base sides of a square. Approach to all three of the road towards Hill 227, encountering of the St. Mihiel salient. those ridges, covered with heavy under- an enemy machine gun. This he captuied But the problem was different in the brush concealing massed machine guns, and turning it about, set it up to protect Argonne, first on account of the dis- tree-tops spiinkled with camouflaged the right flank of the American assault, heartening terrain, second by reason of sharp-shooter outposts, was only to be which was badly exposed. He held the the higher calibre of German troops en- made across an open area roughly a position until relieved. trenched in the forest fastness. It is told kilometer square. With massed fire that when the project had been discussed sweeping that area from three sides the IN THE few succeeding days the Divi- at Corps Headquarters, and, because of operation appeared formidable. sion remained in that sector, consoli- the difficulties, was about to be aban- Shortly before the second battalion was dating its new advanced position, there doned as impracticable if not impossible, due to jump off for that apparently hope- was no further opportunity for Private Brigadier-General Lindsey had spoken, less assault, the staff decided to call it Clement to perform outstanding services. "I have a brigade that can do it." off. A new battle order was prepared, His routine duties he discharged with Whatever the tactical preliminaries, changing the operation from the attack his customary quiet efficiency. the task was assigned to the Eighty- to the west to an assault on Cornay Ridge For those two valuable services to the second Division, with promise of some to the north. There fate took a hand. The regiment executed on the 10th and 15th help from the Twenty-eighth Division. runner entrusted with the new order was he was promoted to private first class. The Twenty-eighth, however, had been killed before he reached the regimental Captain Tomasello recalls that he per- fighting forward for ten days. Fierce P. C. sonally wished to promote Clement to be enemy counter-attacks on the American a sergeant. The colonel commanding be- Division to its right had succeeded to a IN THE preliminaries to the assault to lieved it better to advance Clement more point where the entire American left had the west, Clement was constantly slowly, grade by grade, although it was been endangered. The troops of the carrying messages between battalion and the sincere desire of every officer and man weary, battle-torn Twenty-eighth had regimental headquarters. "It was not his in the Division to see Clement restored to been forced to fight on three sides. eagerness alone, but his intelligence, his former rank of captain. Such was the situation when the enabling him always to find his man, Following the success of the Division at Eighty-second Division marched for- which prompted me to use him whenever St. Mihiel it was transferred to the ward to perform its grave and bloody he was available, on important missions," Argonne as a reserve Division for that task on October 6th. There was confusion states Colonel Richard Wetherill, then operation, which began on September in that forced march, mostly by night. commanding the 328th Infantry. 26th. Not until October 6th was it There was terrible slaughter on the roads. Without the slightest artillery prepara- ordered into action. The difficult task But by morning of the 7th the Division tion or support, minus one company assigned to it requires some detailed was ready to strike, across the River which did not arrive in time for the jump- explanation, for the accomplishment is Aire, a knife thrust at the top of the off, losing the platoon of another company proud American history. Argonne salient. The 328th Infantry was whose leader took a false compass read- In general the advance between the first in line. Its primary objective was ing and attacked to the north, the second eastern edge of the Argonne Forest and Hill 223 lying almost due west of Chatel- battalion under Captain James N. Till- the Meuse had gone well. With the ad- Chehery. man stoimed across the open area under vantage of surprise, mostly green Ameri- deadly fire, and with fierce slaughter can Divisions had taken by storm by SENT forward to scout the enemy attending, until they gained footholds at September 30th the first enemy strong positions for that initial attack, Pri- the bottom of the ridges to the west and battalion P. C. to line, including the dominating height of vate First Class Charles G. Clement , in the south. Advancing his Montfaucon, except for the Argonne words of his regimental citation, "on this underbrush at the eastern end of the Forest, where the 77th Division had dangerous mission, gained very valuable southern ridge, where he was engaged in encountered unconquerable resistance in information as to the front lines of the checking the cost of that first gain, that tangle of steep hills and fortified enemy." It was on that information that Captain Tillman today recalls he saw underbrush. plans were based for the successful but Clement, once his fellow captain, stand- A fresh major American offensive bloody assault of the First Battalion of ing at attention by his side. "Sir," launched on October 1st had made little the 328th Infantry, resulting in the cap- Clement said, saluting, "Private Clement progress against the first-class reinforce- ture of that stoutly defended strong of Headquarters Company reports for ments remaining to the enemy, which point on October 7 th. That operation and scout duty with the front line unit." had been rushed into carefully prepared the further penetration of the Argonne The original battle plans had provided positions to check further penetration. due west by the second battalion of the for units of the Twenty-eighth Division Now in the murderous fastness of the 328th on October 8th accomplished the to attack the east face of the Argonne Argonne, cut off from support by massed first objective of the divisional operation, simultaneously and in conjunction with machine guns and artillery, was the the relief of the Lost Battalion. the 328th Infantry. Whether the Twenty- famous Lost Battalion. Thanks to the But the enemy still held most of the eighth was too shattered by battle to fine work of the Second Division in Argonne, well into the American lines. A attempt the assault, or whether the capturing Blanc Mont on the western narrow gauge railroad only some two changed order which failed to reach the side of the Argonne, enabling the French kilometers inside the German lines was 328th Infantry had been received by the The AMERICAN LEGION Magaiiiu 5i responsible officer of the Twenty-eighth of 130 more, together with twenty-four Division, is not known. Whatever the machine guns. That famous operation qause, a gap of a kilometer separated freed the southern ridge of the enemy. a Proved the second battalion of the 328th, sub- Another forty-four members of this Here's jected to fire on three sides, from contact enemy battalion surrendered to Captain with the Twenty-eighth Division unit. E. C. B. Danforth of Company G a short Short-Cut But that was not known when Private time later. Clement set out at Captain Tillman's With the south ridge cleared, the Bigger Pay order to try to establish contact with the second battalion then penetrated to the to Twenty-eighth to the south and west. railroad, the life line of enemy supply in Shortly thereafter a platoon of Co. G the Argonne. The operation was a glori- How Orville Tamer MS under command of Sergeant Early, with ous feat of arms, deserving of a story in ^ Increased His Salary 131% ™ Corporal York a member, was sent out in itself, but this is the story of Charles G. by Enrolling with LaSalle the same direction. The platoon had been Clement. one of two in support of Co. G's assault- New tactical problems confronted Cap- WISH to tell you how the ^kf I LaSalle Higher Accountancy ing platoons. tain Tillman during the absence of Pri- Training has aided me. At the ^WmS^^ An hour later Private Clement re- vate Clement on his mission, and upon time of my enrollment, I was do- engineering firm. ported to Captain Tillman that he could his return he was ordered to report the ing stenographic work for an Like many others, I felt my position was in- battalion find no trace of the Twenty-eighth Divi- front-line position of the to secure, and my fears were quickly realized. sion, the just regimental headquarters. salute that enemy was over the With a "While I was out of a job, I continued my hill from the battalion P.C. about three and "Very well, sir" Clement departed. Training with you. And soon I was fortunate to obtain position the planning depart- hundred yards away, that in penetrating The order for the attack to the north a in ment of the Textile Machine Works. This posi- the enemy position he had killed an against Cornay Ridge, delayed by the tion carried 100% increase in salary over my enemy sniper with his pistol. He had death of a runner the previous night, now former position. taken from the dead enemy bullets the stood confirmed. The first battalion of "After filling this position for five months, I was transferred to an affiliated company. My noses of which had plainly been sawed the 328th was given this task. new position consisted of accounting and in- off with a hack-saw. A short time before Because of information that the enemy vestment work, which the LaSalle Higher Ac- one of the American wounded had been had withdrawn from Cornay Ridge, the countancy Course enabled me to fill. Seven months later, I was given a 10% increase in shot with a dum-dum bullet. This would assaulting companies advanced in squad salary—then another increase of 5%. At the have been reason enough to have executed columns. As they started up the slopes, present time my salary is 131% above that the enemy in any event, but Clement's they marched into an enemy ambush. which I received when I enrolled with LaSalle and I am expecting another substantial in- disturbed the incident. the night the cleared mind was by He Through supposedly crease within the next few months." was sincerely troubled by the thought he ridge had been again occupied by the So writes Orville D. Tarner of Pennsylvania, might have taken the man prisoner, and enemy, filtrating into commanding posi- and his experience points a thought for you. he spoke of it several times the next day. tions. • • • The dead German had been an outpost One of the assaulting companies on Are you denying yourself a better job with for the machine-gun battalion holding that fateful morning of October 9th was bigger pay? Are you seeing men no smarter the southern ridge, which was captured Company A, commanded by Lieutenant than you go up the ladder of success while you stand still? Then will you do one simple thing under the leadership of Corporal Alvin Hugh Cochran. Lieutenant Cochran, to- — to learn how you can train yourself at home for C. York after Sergeant Early had been day a successful doctor in Atlanta, recalls a responsible position, with an income larger badly wounded. Gaining a position be- that he was in a state of mental and than you are now making? hind the enemy machine guns, York and physical exhaustion when he received LaSalle Training has been the means by which thousands of men and women have got- his companions killed at least twenty orders to advance. He states frankly that ten out of the rut of poor-paying jobs and into of the enemy and forced the surrender having been en- (Continued on page 52) well-paying positions. 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Ii more interested in one of the fields indicated below, check and mail now. ^^^fj J Business Management Expert Bookkeeping Modern Salesmanship pC. P. A. Coaching Law— Degree of LL. B. Business English Commercial Law P Stenotypy Traffic Management p Industrial Management Name Present Position Address MARCH, 1938 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — 52 > The J^fe and 'Death of (Element {Continued from page ji) gaged in the operation against Hill 223 to helmet bob up for an initial survey of the the west and in other military activities situation. Automatically the other two elsewhere, his mind was geographically occupants of the hole also poked up their confused. In that circumstance Clement heads. Two shots rang out. Each claimed had been assigned to him as a guide, to a victim. Enemy sharpshooters had been point the company objective. Clement observing the hole and its occupants. marched by Cochran's side as the remains The shot which killed Clement was of the company in squad columns ap- squarely in the forehead. REIHEmEER THIS proached the ridge. They had got through The survivor called out to Lieutenant shattered enemy barbed-wire entangle- Cochran, "Don't try to get in here. Two ments at the base of the ridge and were men have been killed already." well on their way towards the crest when "Then you slide out and come back SEAL a shower of grenades of the familiar po- down the hill with me," the officer replied. tato-masher type rained down from Cornay Ridge was not taken until an in- uiheh vou uinnT above. The unit quickly withdrew to tensive barrage had flattened all resist- a small clump of trees suffering light ance on its crest. casualties. So died Charles G. Clement in action, GOOD Then, knowing the Germans had re- exercising initiative, determination, cour- occupied the ridge, Clement aided Lieu- age to the last. tenant Cochran in observing the situation. On his grave in the little churchyard From their position they could see the at Chatel-Chehery the men who buried enemy on the ridge, and they also saw a him marked on the • rough improvised big shell-hole on a forward slope of the cross his former rank of Captain. Today ridge where it bulged like a giant's nose. he sleeps in Romagne. His mothei jour- Clement expressed the belief that they neyed to his new resting place in 1930 on could gain the shelter of the shell-hole the pilgrimage for Gold Star Mothers ar- and from its protection get in effective ranged by the War Department. On a It's easy, nowadays, to know good markmanship against the Germans who tiny photograph of long lines of white doughnuts. The Seal of Tested Quality could be seen further along the ridge. marble crosses in the American Military tells the story. For the minute you see Together the two cautiously worked Cemetery there she has noted the exact the Seal you know delicious doughnuts their way forward and up the slope of the one which marks the resting place of her are ahead. protruding nose, apparently without gallant son. It is one of her treasured All over the country bakers who pledge being observed. Clement, in the lead, was possessions. themselves to quality ingredients in the the first to gain the protection of the hole A bill is now pending in Congress post- making of their doughnuts, display the as Lieutenant Cochran continued to work humously to restore the rank of captain Seal reproduced above. It's on their his way upward under cover. to Charles G. Clement. It was his ex- doughnut cartons, trays and bags. It's A surprise greeted Clement. Two other pressed hope that his name "not be writ- in bakery windows . . . on grocery shelter ten forever in the annals of the United counters. Doughnuts, sold at food Americans were already taking stores and restaurants, bear its likeness. there. To what outfit they belonged States as an officer that proved untrue to Look for the Seal whenever— wherever Cochran does not know. himself, untrue to his country, and untrue —you buy doughnuts. Insist on it if Before Lieutenant Cochran could make to his God." you'd eat doughnuts at their best. a dash for the shell-hole he saw Clement's The End Look for announcements of Tested Quality Doughnuts in your local stores and newspapers J^et's Qo, J^egion! {Continued from page 11) maximum service to the nation, proclaim chief executive now has under the Federal priority of products in industry, and es- Constitution for the successful prosecu- tablish agencies for the carrying out of tion of a war. these provisions. The ninth and final This Senate Bill in its nine sections section of the Senate bill, which in essen- contains 771 words. The only other bill tials is the same as the House measure, before Congress purporting to accomplish is the most important of all. It provides the ends which this bill aims at is the "That upon the declaration of war, and bill sponsored by Senator Gerald P. Nye during the period of such emergency, of North Dakota. His bill, to which I there shall be imposed a tax of 95 per shall refer presently, contains something centum of all income above the previous more than 15,000 words and is a tax- three-year average, with proper adjust- exacting proposal of such drastic, far- ments for capital expenditures for war reaching consequences that to get it purposes by existing or new industries." through a Senate committee and on to The bill does not, as some pacifists the floor of that body for a vote would maliciously charge, create a censorship take many months, with an acrimonious of the press; it does not conscript labor floor battle. I have read the Nye Bill as a for purely laboring purposes, and it does matter of duty, but I don't recommend not place in the hands of the President in its perusual to anyone as either entertain- time of war any more power than the ing or profitable. The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ng Products Please Mention The American Llc.ion Magazine General Hugh Johnson is probably profiteering, and the following colloquy better acquainted with the military- ensued: economic requirements of this country in General Johnson: "As I understand both peace and war than any living man. your bill, it practically reduces profits to He had a large part in carrying out the about xYi percent on industrial opera- provisions of the military draft in the tions and incomes to about $8700 as a years 1917-18 and later assisted Bernard maximum income." M. Baruch in the activities of the War Senator Nye: "That is right." MORE? Industries Board, which placed the indus- General Johnson: "I think that tries of this nation on a producing basis, would shatter the system we are working / TRY THE ONLY late (but fortunately, and with a bow to under now. Maybe it ought to be I REAL TEST OF A our wartime allies, not too late) in the changed, but I do not think it ought to war. And of course as head of the be changed on the outbreak of war." I WHISKEY National Recovery Administration in the In other words, as I read it, the first administration of Franklin D. general, and we believe the vast majority Roosevelt, General Johnson became fa- of his countrymen will agree with him, miliar with the problems of peacetime does not believe that under cover of a industry. His experience in these various war emergency a totalitarian state con- fields makes him uniquely competent to sistent with those operating in Moscow, express a judgment on the Legion's efforts Berlin and Rome should be foisted on this to end profiteering in war. Testifying on country. Within the provisions of the February 16, 1037, before the Senate Constitution of the United States it is Committee on Military Affairs, which for the citizenry to determine what type was and is concerned with the Legion of government they shall have. At the Bill, S.25, he said: present time they are overwhelmingly for "As I read this bill, it proposes to take the historic representative democracy out any profits due to war. As I read they have known since 1787. If they want Senator Nye's bill, it practically abolishes to move along the line of either fascism the profit system in war, or abolishes the or communism it is their right to do so. profit system. I fear that because I think However, all the evidence we have been that it upsets so many normal relation- able to gather indicates that the people ships that it might very seriously destroy of the United States would say to com- the economic effectiveness of the nation munism and fascism, the twin menaces to in war. democracy, "A plague on both your "I think in a general way it [the Legion houses." bill] does what I think should be done if The Legion bill does not profess to be there is to be any bill at all, and that is to the last word on the subject of taking the lay down certain general principles and profit out of war. It is merely a start. But create certain broad authority, leaving it is an effective start, and not having the most of the detail to the formulation of status of an amendment to the Consti- regulations, and that is the kind of bill I tution of the United States it would not think should be written rather than an take Congress meeting in wartime any attempt in advance of the circumstance time at all to strengthen specific portions of any particular war to go into great of the law as the need arose. Pass that STRAIGHT RYE and detail as to how you are going to face the legislation, with or without amendments, STRAIGHT emergency when it arises." and you serve notice on industry that BOURBON WHISKIES. big profits out of our wartime necessity 90 PROOF SENATOR Nye, questioning General are a thing of the past, that a united na- Johnson, sought to persuade him that tion will gird itself upon the declaration . . . 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COOK and HEAT for LESS Amazing1 oil burner {Continued from page 21) burns cheap oil a new AGENTS way, without pre-gen- Salesmen erating or clogging: up; quick intense ho.-tt :it TURN OF VALVE. BIG MONEY hurt if they're not given a chance to offer ing from bamboo fishpoles around the e it cuts fuel SENT TRIAL pays for itself ON . quickly by what it paves r risk. Offer of something. green, and from beyond comes the voice " Writ< FREE SAMPLE quick, be first to learn how to end drudgery, In your publicity stress the fact that of a loudspeaker announcing a name. The dirt and ashes of coal and wood, and make biff money, spare or full time—mail 1c postcard today. UNITED FACTORIES. C-101 Factory Building. Kansas City, Mo. everything is free and that everybody is pennants give a carnival air to the green, invited to take part. Invite people to and the loudspeaker is operated by the FULL YEAR GUARANTEE come and watch if they don't want to contest director at the tee as he sends off MAKES EASY SALES!! play. As people begin to sign entry another player. Here's the green itself, Cash Commissions Daily: Cash fSHIRTS Bonuses Regularly. Biggest and blanks, which can be left with the news- ringed by spectators (many of whom will finest line. Dress Shirts, Sport for paper or at the golf clubhouse or with stay as if paid by the hour) sitting | BIG Shirts Ties, Hose, Underwear, all on guaranteed for customers' satisfac- some good-natured downtown Legion- benches and chairs placed well back Ik PAY tion. We Pay Postage. Complete Sales Outfit FREE. Write TODAY. naire, take the prominent names and play so as to give wild shooters plenty of room, Dept. AL-3, ROSECLIFF-QUAKER, 1239 B'way, N. Y. them up. Play up the prize donors, too. although nearly all the balls will come Run the rules of the contest, which I'll bouncing in and be harmless if they roll tell you about later on, a day or so over the green. Out there is the tee. You INVENTORS before the contest, and have copies see, it doesn't need a whole golf course, Time counts in applying for patents. Don't risk delay in patenting your invention. Send sketch or of the rules pasted to cardboard for as I said, although the facilities of the model for instructions or write for new 48-Page FREE booklet, "Patent Guide for the Inventor." use by the officials during the event. clubhouse for human needs and for dis- No charge for preliminary information. Prompt, careful, efficient service. Take a photograph of the assembled tributing the prizes will be appreciated. CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN and BERMAN, HYMAN prizes run it in the paper. Let's take a close look at the green it- Registered Patent Attorneys, 2479 Adams Build- and ing. Washington, D. C. To go back to the entry blank for a self. See those three chalked circles, one moment, it is mostly for publicity, as the inside another, around the cup? These great majority of players will either tele- give the players a target, with the cup as phone in their entries for the day, the a bullseye. Don't worry about too many Better Built— Lower Prices part of the day or for the hour they want shooters getting a hole in one. I've seen Canoes, Rowboats, Outboard Mo(«>r Pouts, Olympic. Snipe, to play, or will sign up at the tee just thousands of shots made and yet not one Comet and Sou < lull Sail Boats CATALOG FREE before playing. hole in one in actual contest, the nearest Save Money— Prompt Shipment—Two Factories. On the entry blank there is a space for ball being three and seven-eighths inches THOMPSON BROS. BOAT MFG. CO. «0 specifying the of 216 Ann St. / WrUeto \ llo ElmSt. what time the entrant wants away from rim the cup. But some PESHTIGO, WIS. {cither rloce) CORTLAND. N. Y. to play. It is a toss-up whether folks will hole-in-one shows have actually pro- come when they say they will or not. duced aces. The innermost circle, twelve Still, it makes them feel that they have feet in diameter, is the birdie circle. The something to say in the matter and also next, twenty-four feet in diameter, is the will give the contest officials a rough idea par circle. The outermost, forty-eight of when to expect the heaviest traffic. It feet in diameter, is the dub circle. These is a good idea to urge that the service and markings also help the measuring official MINT FLAVORED—CONTAINS CAFFEINE Single Dose Bottles on Sale at other clubs come and shoot in groups. to get a quick figure on his distances. BARS. CAFES, STORES. FOUNTAINS, ETC. Usually half to three-quarters of an hour The cup itself is a standard cup, but will care for group players. the pin in it, carrying the flag, is a steel STAR" StWes] And stress the idea of everybody hav- rod a quarter inch in diameter. The pin ing a swell chance at sinking a ball remains in the cup at all times, as with its Madc-to-Ordcr Suits whether the would-be sinker is so raw at small diameter it isn't in the way of bang- Show friend derl othes -Styled for tr big golf that instruction must be given in up shots. New Fashions, Fa plates. Budd holding a club, or if the. player be a holder Out there beside the tee the contest Free as bonus. Our clothes guaranteed to fit and satisfy. Big oulfit 100 lame samples Free. Write todav. of six state golf titles. director is sitting at a table—a tee table, JIM FOSTER, Inc., Dept. B-3 2253 So. Spaulding Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Experience shows that by far the big- if you go in for such things. Taking our- gest number of players will be men; next selves out there, with a wary eye for wild will be the boys, then the women and shots, we find that the top of the table has it sheets of white Sell Nationally Advertised Goods finally the girls. It is advisable to limit thumbtacked to heavy make $50 last week? Does DID YOU and girls to playing the first day and cardboard. These sheets are ruled for en- your job offer you real future? If not. boys why not place line 200 nationally table is advertised products with stores. Sold up until noon of the second day. This try of names and scores. On the new way. Bigger profits for merchants. Big earnings for you every week. gives the adults a chance to play with the the loudspeaker microphone, although a Start without investment. Get FREE Book giving FACTS! brisk. megaphone will do, as the announcing WORLD'S PRODUCTS COMPANY least delay when the playing gets Dept. 3813 Spencer, Indiana Signs to this effect at the tee will help in system is mainly for the kick that it handling the younger hopefuls. gives the spectators. YOU CAN MAKE BIG MONEY One other item should go into the ad- A contestant steps up to the director. UNIFORMS! —HOOVER vance publicity, and that's the fact that The contestant who has signed up for a Big earnings for ambitious i uruwdi'd field with famous if weather prevents concluding the con- certain time and is on time gets prefer- oover line of smart, exclusive Uniforms for restau- ,nts, fountains, hotels, taverns, stores, offices, etc. others who have just casually Not house-to-house. No experience—no money need- test, play will be resumed on the next ence over d to get into this new, big-income business. Mail postcard now for beautiful new Uniform Style available week-end. The local weather walked up to play. Let us say that Jack presentation, actual samples and money-mak- ing equipment—sent FREE. bureau or the city clerk's office can give Smith is up. He gives his name to the di- LinAl/rD 251 West 19th Street nUU V tit Dept. BH-4 New York a pretty definite idea of when to expect rector, who writes it under the heading average good weather. Don't have your Men and points to the clubs to choose Learn Profitable Profession show too early in the year, as a cold wind from and indicates the baskets of balls. in QO days at Home can greatly cut down attendance. Smith picks out a club, chooses five balls of Men and Women in the fascinating pro- fession of Swedish Massage run as high as $40 to So far so good. Now let's suppose that and goes out along the white tee line. $70 per week but many prefer to open their own of- fices. Large incomes from Doctors, hospitals, sani- "Mr. Smith tariums and private patients come to those who the contest is under way and that we go Says the loudspeaker: Jack qualify through our training. Reducing 'one offers rich rewards for specialists. out to the playing site and see what we is on the tee!" Write for Anatomy Charts, sample les- booklet—They 're FREE. son sheets and see. It will take Smith about three minutes .. Swedish Massage I 9 THE College of 1601 Warren Blvd., Dept. 375, Chicago approach, here are pennants fly- from the time he signs up till he has hit rceu or lo ,\atxoual toi.etie of Mataage'j As we The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — • !- his last ball and the measurement is over, the few which can be retold over the mi- so you can figure how many players can crophone : be accommodated during a day. "He wants to know if the cup is big When the last ball of the five is hit— enough to hold all five of his shots!" and you can tell with your eyes shut if "This man did so well that he wants to any of the shots are good—the attention sign up for next year right now!" shifts to the head measurer at the green. The newspaper can carry daily lists Only the nearest baU is measured. The of players, although it's asking a lot of nearer the ball is to the cup, the more any busy sports editor to run a mass of SAVE carefully it is measured. If a ball is twenty- figures, too. Use, perhaps, the figures of a two feet from the cup, for example, it dozen well-known shooters, of course would be a waste of time to measure it along with the day's leaders. Naturally down to quarter inches. You'll find that if anybody gets a hole in one, that's news almost all of the prize-winning shots are of the first order. The names will pull in a inside that innermost circle. lot more players, because when Mike sees 16-TUBE The measuring official gets his distance, that Ike has taken a club in hand, Mike TOUCH picks up his megaphone and calls the dis- hustles right out there next day to show BUTTON tance to the director. The director notes Ike up. it down opposite Smith's name, and if the During the final day the head men of GLORIOUS ball is inside the magic circle he puts a the contest should get together and care- MEW TONE blue-pencil ring around the figure. This fully divide the prizes into the four helps in picking out the day's winner and groups listed. The biggest number of in making the final listings. Meanwhile prizes will be for the men, owing to the picks balls the playing. in MIDWEST the caddie up the on number of them Thought green. choosing the women's prizes will pay div- When club groups play, it's a good idends. Boys and girls are easy to please. trick to let their head man take the mi- The prizes should be arranged behind crophone and put on a show with his some sort of a counter for quick distribu- players. Ordinarily the loudspeaker an- tion, always with the donor's name nouncements must be kept pretty formal attached. that showoff tendency the an- the climax of the contest. 3$ uOUCHA BUTTON so any by Now to CtMoluteltf nouncer will not curdle the sweetness of Who has the honor of shooting the last COMPLETE \...Z/P...AND the good-will event. Let the humor come several rounds? Why, the contest officials, STATION FLASHES IN from the players' actions. of course. Here the "super amateurs" YOUR ust imagine a radio so big, so beautiful, j studying every puff of powerful, luxurious . . . in a Beginners and dubs may bounce a ball who have been J so so J beautiful richly finished walnut console 1 up to within whispering distance of the wind, every tuft of grass, every quirk of . . . selling at such an amazingly low [ price ! This lb-tube J cup, beating out experts. There is no law the green during three days will show factory-to-you COMPLETE world-wide Midwest [ against topping a ball and sending it people how it should be done. None will gives you many features, like Dial-A- Matic Tuning, yet it costs no more jumping like a rabbit toward its hole. feel worse pangs if they don't get at least J than an ordinary 6 or 8-tube set. 1 Sound players may put all five balls one decent shot in five. You can almost TERMS AS LOW AS 50 GENTS A WEEK Famous Midwest Factory-To-You plan enables yot of cry, like a slave out within easy putting distance the cup hear them "Work to buy at wholesaler's price. ..to save up to! but not in the cup. A dub who stands all here and now just look at that!" And if 50% ... to enjoy 30 days' FREE homef trial.. .to pay as little as 50 cents a week. wrong, who waggles the club in a way they do get some swell shots right close Send for FREE 1938 Catalogl to give the tee official the jitters, and who up, the looks on their faces will be worth MIDWEST RADIO CORPORATION! Dept. NN-74 Cincinnati. Ohlof goes through a convulsion in swinging remembering. PASTE COUPON ON ltPOSTCMRP—OK WRIT£ TODAY: may shoot the four worst shots in that Suppose one of the officials gets the MIDWEST RADIO CORPORATION Njm* part of the State—shots that land almost only hole in one of the whole contest? D.)i. . tMnalLO Send me your new out of the State—and yet contrive to put Well, he will get the loudest cheer of all, nple i of Addrett.. your liber*! 30 - his fifth shot within inches of the bulls- because only luck could bring sueh a Frbe trial of LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Daniel J. Doherty, George A. Campbell Post, Woburn, Massachusetts. James Truslow Adams, first Historian of Bridgehampton (New York) Post. Frank L. Pinola, West Pittston (Pennsylvania) Post. Thomas J. Malone, Theodor Petersen Post. Minneapolis. Minnesota. Winsor Josselyn, Monterey Peninsula (California) Post. Samuel Taylor Moore, Aviators' Post, New York City. Frank A. Mathews, Jr., Frederick M. Rodgers Post, Palmyra, New Jersey. U. S. GOVERNMENT JOBS J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. to start William Heaslip, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. $1260 $2100 Year to Raymond Sisley, Pacific Post, West Los Angeles, California. Ex-Service Men / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE get preference / Dept. niso George Shanks, Reville Post, Brooklyn, New York. 9660 Veterans ' Rochester, N. Y. appointed last year Rush FREE list of U. S. Govern reported. o* nient biff pay dependable JOBS. Many 1938 3. 3 2 -page hook describing salaries, Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- appointments *^ hours, work. Tell me all about pref- expected. © erence to Ex-Service men and how to naires, are not listed. Get ready © qualify for one of these jobs. fW&SSS, / Hame sufft: / Address MARCH. 1938 When PirnqHASiNG. Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — — Jfow zjfbout a jTole-in-One (contest? « NOW THEY'RE (Continued from page 55) Mwwami crowded. The contest being officially shape, here's the complete list necessary: 'a declared closed, the entry sheets are 1 —Playing will start at 9 a.m. and con- brought in for final tabulation. Officials tinue until the judges declare the day Put plates and bridges in 2 water with a little Stera- make a quick check—yes, and double closed. —No practice shots will be al- Kleen. Leave while dress- check, for even bankers have been lowed on the contest site during the con- ing, or overnight. Rinse. That's all. Stera-Kleen known to make mistakes in their personal test days. 3—Classification of entries is the original powder— devel- bank books—and the leaders in each divi- will be made by the tournament manager oped by a dentist just to clean rutl false teeth without brushing. sion are numbered in order of their near- at the time of teeing-off. No changes or Cleans crevices brushing doesn't reach. Safe, thorough. ness to the cup, or, in case of tie, the first additions may be made later. 4—Only Daily use removes stains, shooter is given priority. five balls will be shot player. tartar, film and tarnish. Made by any one by the makers of Staze. Ap- All right, let's go! 5—All balls crossing the white line at the proved by Good Housekeeping. Get Stera-Kleen from your The champion's name is called and he tee will be counted as shots. 6—Measure- druggist today. Money back steps to receive prize ments will if not delighted. Don't risk or she up the grand be made from the nearest ruining your dentures by from the Legion Commander. The other point of the cup to the nearest point of accepting substitutes. The Phillips & Benjamin top shooters in each class likewise receive the ball. 7 — Nearest ball will be meas- Waterbury, »*"™3 Co., 8 Connecticut. their trophies. Then the others in each ured after all balls are shot. —No ball 1 Good Housekeeping class are given awards. Naturally the that has come to rest on the green can be ladies prefer to get their prizes and be off improved in its position, q—Any ball home to show them, and the boys and intentionally interfered with, in the St?ra-Ktai\ girls won't mind waiting a moment while judgment of the officials, will be de- CLEANS FALSE TEETH WITHOUT BRUSHING the adults get out of the way. clared dead at that point. 10—In case of 1 If possible, get pictures of the four top tie, the first player is the winner. 1 —No winners with the donors of prizes present- entrant can win more than one prize, STANDARD GARDEN TRACTORS ing them. This is swell for a newspaper unless he or she is shooting with a club PlOW Powerful Gas Tractors for Small Farms, Seed ^ Gardeners, Florists. Nurseries, that has its own engraving plant and can group that has put up a separate prize. Fruit Growers, Poultrymen. Cultivates run the shots next day. 12—Decisions of the contest officials will MowHay\ 1 & 2 Cylinders and Lawns^f High Wheels. Rubber or In conclusion, don't forget that thank- be final. 13—Officials reserve the right to Steel Tires. Walk or Ride. Do Belt Work—Free Catalog you letters to the donors of prizes—and I deny playing permission at their discre- STANDARD ENGINE CO. mean freshly typewritten letters—will tion. 14—Should the weather conditions Minneapolis, Minn. Philadelphia, Pa. New York, N. Y. 3220 Como Ave. 2630 Market St. 230 Cedar St. please the people who carried the load. halt the contest, the playing will be 5 So will letters to the golf-course profes- continued on the next week-end. 1 —The sional, or the owner of the land you used, pin will not be removed from the cup AGENTS »$I4 a DAY and also to the brave comrades who faced during any of the shooting. Everybody needs food. My plan gives yoa opportunity the golf-ball barrage. Come early and stay late! for amazing profits at once. Make op to $14. 00 in a day. I'll give you a New Ford Tudor Sedan as a The rules of the contest? I've told you The Legion invites you to fame and bonus in addition to your cash earnings. No ex- perience required. 250 Famous Products some of them, but to leave things ship- fortune! — all fast sellers. I send every thing. Yoa don't risk a penny. Write quick for Free Facts. ALBERT MILLS • 4969 Monmouth Ave.. Cincinnati, O. Installation of Officers The American Lecion National Headquarters (Continued from page 26) Indianapolis, Indiana CLANG! RATTLE, RATTLE! ! Sergeant-at-Arms (now somewhat em- Financial Statement (The foot of the Commander-Elect has barrassed) : I present to you—I present to December 31, 1937 unfortunately struck a humble but use- you—hmmm—to you—er ful brass, loose-topped arrangement on the (Grabs in his pocket for the copy of the Assets floor. There are several snickers. The Manual of Ceremonies with which, with is red, but he great foresight and commendable prepared- Cash on hand and on deposit $ 689,351.04 Commander-Elect's face Notes and accounts receivable 51,092.42 proceeds, holding his head higher in the air ness, he has armed himself in case of just Inventories 125,901 58 Invested funds 1,558,926.19 as if to cool it off more quickly.) such emergency. Reads:) Permanent Investments: present the Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 197,105.32 Sergeant-at-Arms: Officers, column I to you newly elected Office Building, Washington, D. C, less right—no, this way, this way—over here! officers of this Post whose elegi— elege depreciation 126,764.29 Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment, less (They are finally in front of the Depart- e/egibility records for membership in The depreciation 32,557.75 checked Deferred Charges 20,840.80 ment Vice Commander.) Right face! American Legion have been duly (Some face right, away from the Depart- and auth—authen—authenticketed. $2,802,539.39 ment Vice Commander; some face left, (Department Vice Commander HYA TT, toward him; some stand still in helpless after a glance loaded with the annoyance of Liabilities, Deferred Revenue and Net Worth uncertainty .) superiority at the Sergeant-at-Arms, then Current Liabilities S 90,250.26 Comrade Hemingway (in a hoarse elegantly recites the Installing Officer's Funds Restricted as to use 24,930.10 whisper to Sergeant-at-Arms): face, part the program and administers the Deferred Revenue 597,311.69 Left of Contingent Liability. 3,676.72 you sea-legged sailor! pledge. Whereupon the various retiring Permanent Trust: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust 197,105.32 Sergeant-at-Arms: Excuse me. I officers charge their incoming officers in meant left face. order.) $ 913,274.09 Net Worth: (Officers finally straighten out somehow, (The Acting First Vice Commander— Restricted Capital $1,561,378.38 Unrestricted Capital 327,886.92 1,889,265.30 but, because they are so close together, only the retiring First Vice Commander having stepping each other's been elected —and the Chaplain *2,S02,5!9.39 after on feet and Commander bumping elbows, with several "Excuse do reasonably well. The Second, or Junior Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant trie's.") Vice Commander stumbles and hesitates in The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Whin Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — — —I — — ——I 57 sentative, quickly rising and rapping): Just a moment, Jenkins. I'll have to rule you out of order because there are other things on our pro- gram. You can bring the matter up some other time. Jenkins: But—ah Mr. Commander— really think New Commander (firmly) : You're out of order. (Rap.) Smith: Now, look here, Bill—I mean, Mr. Com- mander, that ain't no way to start out, right off the bat gettin' tough with us comrades. After all it's us birds what "You can come in now, sir—they're pays the dues, which you through laying the linoleum." don't never want to for- get. That's the trouble \ a noble but sad attempt to remember the with this Post—every time we elect some rust and sediment have insufficiently memorized lines. The Adju- guy Commander it goes right to his head All winter long, accumulated in your radiator. Fine scale is tant, having long ago determined to disobey and he starts thinkin' he's Hitler or choking the cooling system of your car. orders and take no chances, stubbornly, somebody, an' Clean it out! It's easy and inexpensive. Do reads his rapidly and without expression Hemingway: Mr. Commander, I ob- it yourself in a few minutes. Use Sani-Flush. part from the Manual. The Finance ject to those remarks and I think he ought There is nothing in Sani-Flush that can Officer has forgotten about the whole busi- to be ruled out of order. (To Smith:) The injure your motor or radiator-fittings. It is ness and borrows the Adjutant's Manual for new Commander don't need to be told a scientific powder that removes damaging dirt from the cooling system. Just pour 10c the purpose. In taking it from the latter he how to run the Post. Remember you worth in the radiator. (25c for the largest unfortunately loses the place and has con- weren't elected Commander. trucks and tractors.) Follow directions on siderable difficulty in finding it again. Smith: It's a damned good thing for the can. Run the engine. Drain. Flush. Re- Finally, somehow, it is finished.) you I wasn't. If I was Commander, boy, fill with clean water. Your motor will run fuel. don't take chances Department Vice Commander would I pin your ears back. cool. You save You on costly repairs. You'll find Sani-Flush in Hyatt: My comrades, I present to you Hemingway: Oh yeah? Well, you'll — most bathrooms for cleaning toilets. Sold by the officers of your choice. I congratulate never be Commander. Whaddaya think grocery, drug, hardware, and five-and-ten- you on the selections you have made. of that? cent stores. 25c and 10c sizes. The Hygienic : laugh. Jones {to SMITH) That's a Smith: Izzatso? Who the hell says I Products Company, Canton, Ohio. Smith (to JONES): Ain't it? He never New Commander (rapping loudly): even seen the so-and-so's before tonight. Cut it out! Department Vice Commander (There is an uncomfortable silence. Sani-Flush Hyatt: Now that you have chosen them Smith and Hemingway sit down glaring at KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN to guide the destinies of this Post it is each other. The Department Vice Com- your duty to aid them in every way. mander looks down his nose and scowls in Help them keep The American Lce]\in a great disapprobation, but the Mayor's of free men, faithful to free awganization representative seems to be right at home and Saye Your Feet relief pain- its principles and ideals. is enjoying it.) Thousands get from ^ful feet and walk freely with (The New Commander, having now New Commander: I am going to re- HEEFNER "| received the gavel, gives one rap and the S u PP0R turn the gavel to our retiring Commander Write seat themselves.) members and ask him to preside for the rest of the l for 'FOOT Comrade Jenkins: Mr. Commander, evening, as he has gone to so much trouble FACTS something the Department Vice Com- to arrange this program. Tells how to aid nature in strengthening weak feet. It's FREE mander just said—ah, speaking of—er, Retiring Commander: Thank you, HEEFNER ARCH SUPPORT CO. 93 Lewis Bid;., Salem, Virginia talking about—ah—free men—ah Bill. Now, fellow-members, we are fortu- Voice From the Rear: Let's talk nate to have with us this evening a very about free beer. distinguished guest who brings us a (Laughter, Commander raps.) message as the personal representative Jenkins: This is—I mean it—ah— of the Mayor of this city. I am quite sure am referring to something really serious, our guest, having had a broad experience Mr. Commander. There is a matter—ah in public affairs, will understand that —something I have been thinking—con- while we do have our little personal sidering for some—for quite a while—ah differences sometimes, we are united in —a great deal frequently—lately—ah our service to the community, State and very much—er—which concerns itself nation. Indeed, if any proof of that were ah—has to do with—ah—political con- required we need only point to the Page after ditions in this ah—city—which this splendid record of achievement of this "Ozark Ripley Tells About Fishing." — — page of thrills covering all types of angling Also written by Ozark Ripley , master t isherman. Post ought to Post right in this town. We are very outboard motors and valuable information on JOHNSON with us tonight, I take boats. Write for your copy. Free! New Commander (giving a startled, proud to have and Waukegan, III. MOTORS, 1 1 I Pershing Road, apprehensive glance at the Mayor's repre- great pleasure (Continued on page 58) MARCH, 1938 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine . — 58 GIRLS AND BOYS I SEND NO MONEY! Installation of Officers (Continued from page 57) SEND in presenting to you the Honorable says when I claimed ex—the Draft GIVEN NO MONEY! Horatio Wart, Superintendent of the Board claimed I was exempt because GIRLS' AND BOYS* Send Name and Address I MICKEY MOUSE WRIST WATCH! Department of Sewage and Garbage Dis- was a city officer which was needed at with Chrome Finish Case and metal bracelet as shown. Or Kip Cash Commission —YOURS for Simply Giving: Away posal of our city. Mr. Wart. home because somebody might stole the FREE Big Colored Pictures with our Well Known WHITE CLOVERINE SALVE used for burns, chaps, sores, etc., {Applause, as THE HONORABLE city while you was away. easily sold to friends at 25c a box (with picture FREE) and remitting per catalog. SPECI A L— Choice of 40 gifts for returning only HORATIO WART looks rapidly around Voice From Rear (again very low): rat. Write today for SaWn. INC. Dept. 100-K TYRONE, PA. for a parking space for a used quid of Maybe they did, anyhow. tobacco.) The Honorable Horatio Wart: Beg MEN WANTED The Honorable Horatio Wart pardon? storing the in the In Every Locality (giving it tip and quid Commander (aroused): We must have To take orders for dependable Awnings for side of his mouth where it insists on blocking order while Mr. Wart is speaking. stores and homes No investment required. FREE sample book; full instructions; and proper articulation) : Feller-citizens of this The Honorable Horatio Wart: I'll underselling price advantages. Profitable business, yours for the asking. Write here great city o' ourn: It cer'nly is a be done in a minute, boys. I know yer DUBAN Shade Corp. great pleasure to be here t 'night. The got somethin' t'eat—I can smell it Honeoye Falls, N. Y. Mayor was cer'nly sorry he couldn't git cookin'—and yer want to git at it. Don't here hisself , but he cer'nly is a busy man, blame yer at all. Sorry I can't stay and THOUSANDS INSURED as you would know if you had t'keep all help yer eat it. Well, anyhow, I'm always the boys lined up like—I mean if you had kiddin' Mom an' I tell her it's her fault FOR $1.00 A MONTH t'do all the things what a Mayor of a city I didn't go t'war because she was afraid like this has t'do, bein' Mayor of a city to let me on account of what she was t> One-Half Regular Rate First 5 Years Policy Mailed for FREE Inspection like this, and I mean it's a big job bein' scared them French madam-so-selles A new low-cost Special 20-payment Lite Insurance Policy Mayor of a city like this. The Mayor has would a-done t'me. Ha, ha! Well, any- is offered without Doctor's examinat ion, if you are in good health and under age of 55; liberal cash and loan got t'sit on a lot of wards—I mean how, I always been a great patriot and I values! Double Indemnity! SEND NO MONEY! No agent will call! Just write American Life and Acc. Ins. Co., 227 boards—bein' Mayor like he is, which know just how Ethan Allen felt when he American Life B!dg.. St. Louis, Mo., sending your full name, date of birth, race, height, weight, duties of occupa- you folks elected him which you didn't says, "Boys, I'm sorry I only got one life tion, name and relationship of your beneficiary, and condi- tion of your health. Your policy will be mailed at once. make no mistake because he cer'nly is a to give t'my country." I often says to Save by mail—Write NOW. grand guy. We cer'nly got a great city an' Mom, "That's me all over. I wisht I was a great Mayor an' a great—we got a a cat and had nine lives to give t' me t CATCH MORE FISH great—take my own department, f'r country," and she says she wisht I had Sendfor FREEBAITBOOK instance. Stas—stit—stistis—riggers show ten so's I could spend one of 'em lookin' This practical handbook, for fishermen, that this here city has got more garbage after the family. Yes, sir. Many's the is a fascinating, reliable guide to better fishing! It tells how and why Creek Chub True-to-Nature Lures and Flies and sewerage 'n any city of its size in the time I wisht I was right there wit yer Catch More and Bigtrer Fish! Beautifully illustrated! Sent FREE upon request! United States. An' 'at's somepin' we can t'carry that there Old Glory (pointing to CREEK CHUB BAIT COMPANY 453 Randolph St. Garrett, Ind. cer'nly be proud of. But it cer'nly keeps the Post flag) over the top o' them me busy, an' I often says to Mom, I says, trenches with one hand and stick a bay- "Mom, I cer'nly wisht the people o' this nut right in the Kaiser wit the other. I here town would buy less food, or eat never did like that dutch so-and-so ^Itching more of it after they buy it, or digest anyhow. more of it after they eat it, or somethin'." (Laughter.) TORTURE This Quick Way But, anyhow, we're cer'nly doin' a swell But I don't begrudge you boys none of For quick relief from the itching of eczema, blotches, pimples, athlete's foot, scales, rashes and other ex- job for you taxpayers an' I wisht you the glory to which yer are cer'nly entitled ternally caused skin eruptions, use cooling, antisep- see cer'nly o' yer. Mayor's tic, liquid D.D.D. PRESCRIPTION. Original formula boys would come down and how we to. I'm proud The Soothes of Doctor Dennis. Greaseless and stainless. take care of yer garbage and all. The cer'nly proud o' yer. The whole town's the irritation and quickly stops the most intense itch- ing. A 35c trial bottle, at drug stores, proves it—or whole thing would make yer open yer cer'nly proud o' yer. I'm cer'nly glad t' be your money back. Ask for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION eyes an' here t'night. An' me and the Mayor is Rear {very low) : And always glad to do any thing we can fer ™KuineJ UNIOR GUITAR Voice From the hold your nose. yer. If there's anything yer want, let us Get at. — s*^. ^sm£On youf bandso-ne instru- ment. NOW. Here's The Honorable Horatio Wart: know. Sorry I can't be wit yer longer, but How. Just send yonr and address ( SEND NO MONEY) meetin'. But don't let no- WE TRUST YOU with 80 packs What say? I got another Garden Seeds to sell nt 10c a packe When sold send S3. 00 collected at Commander (rapping sharply): Quiet! body tell yer yer ain't got a wonderful WE WILL SEND this mahogany fin ish eaitar and Five Minute Instruct! sorry for the interruption, Mr. Wart. and a great Department of Sewers Hook absolutely FREE. Write for si I'm Mayor NOW. A post card will do. Add LANCASTER COUNTY SEED COMPANY1 The Honorable Horatio Wart: 'At's and Garbage. I cer'nly hope yer'll inwite Station 167, Paradise, Pennsylvani all right, Commander. Boys'll be boys. me agin an' the Mayor'll cer'nly be sorry Well, as I says, we cer'nly got a great he missed bein' here. I cer'nly wish yer pocketADDING MACHINE city and we cer'nly got a lot to be proud the best o' luck. Goo'-night. IDEAL FOR Does work of more—c C<-u... of. An' the city is proud of you bir—you (Desultory applause as the Honorable ide of steell . Simple 5 yeai rnrr TDIAI I Notatoy. Guaranteed fer what yer done in nineteen seven- Horatio Wart shakes hands with the Com- FREE TRIAL! SEND NO VONEYIOrderfr, men jast id — not i stores, this glorious o' Vice Commander.) id address. On teen when country ourn mander and Department postman $2.50 delivery, pay t ^5r Tot.il cost (plus postage). If not satis- _ was in a sitchation which nobody cer'nly Commander (absently): Mr. Wart, we fled after 10 DAYS' Trial you get your money back. Write for Agents Thousands of Satisfied Users. t'git in again unless address. Propositiou. Calculator Machine Co., Mfrs., don't want we have cer'nly appreciate your P.O. Box 1118, Dept. 503, Chicago. III. another war which nobody cer'nly don't Buzby (to Hemingway) : Jingo! He's got want unless we git in a sitchation like him doing it. WE we was in then. And I don't personally (Exit the Honorable Horatio Wart, ToAnySuitT think we shouldn't. But I often says to reaching into his hip pocket for something Double the life of your Mom—she'll tell ye herself—I says the for which to trade in his used quid.) coat and vest with correctly matched pants. 100,000 pat1 greatest regret o' my life is I couldn't Commander (in a dead voice) : And now, Every pair hand tailored to your measure. Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before a-been wit you fellers over there in I am sure you have been waiting anx- pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece) of cloth or vest today. France. I cer'nly wanted t'go. But they iously for a message from the Depart- SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY 209 S. State St. Dept. 624 Chicago wouldn't take me 'cause the Draft Board ment Vice Commander. I take pleasure in The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — — — 59 presenting Department Vice Commander but theh should be a different attitude on Hyatt who has come all the way down the paht of the membahs during the here to install our new officers. ceremony. And just one other thing. I (Applause. Department Vice Com- would also suggest that you arrange for a mander Hyatt talks on the subject "What program a little more suited to the mm Every Legion Member Should Know" occasion. Of cawse you understand I am most of which the members already know not cawsting reflections on any officials and most of the rest of which isn't worth of your city, but next yeah be a little knowing.) careful in selecting your speakeh. Get one Department Vice Commander who is that is, who knows who can — — (AND REMOVABLE BRIDGES) Hyatt: Now, in conclusion, Mr. Com- well, you know what I mean. All this can mander, and before I stop talking I'm easily be done. I am not criticizing you, CLEANED • PURIFIED going to say something. Mr. Retiring Commahndah (gorgeously LIKE NEW WITH (From the rear comes something that smiling at him), but am simply suggesting sounds suspiciously like "Is it possible?") that your new Commandah should just I don't want you to take this as un- make a little effort and give a little pouDem kindly criticism, but rawther as being thought to this ahead of time and not just NO BRUSHING! helpful and constructive. I hope you'll let things take care of themselves. What No more dentures that are understand it in the spirit in which it is I mean is you should conduct the whole stained, old looking and unsani- meant. I feel sure you will. From my thing with a little more—well, with a tary. No more scrubbing and observations tonight I think—I mean I little more dignity, if you'll pawdon my scouring that wears and scratches would suggest that next year when you saying so. Thank you. yet never completely cleans. Simply put your install your Post officehs you—well, how (Applause.) denture in water — add a little Polident — and shall I say it? I mean take a little more Smith: I agree with the Department actually watch deposits, tarnish and stains disap- care and really prepare yourselves. Learn Vice Commander. I still think we ought pear! No acid or danger. Just rinse and use. the pahts in your Manual of Ceremonies to git some dignity in these here instilla- —I see you have several copies. I don't tions. PREVENTS "DENTURE BREATH" mean all of you, of course. Some did very (A sound resembling a stifled sob comes Most people who wear dentures suffer from a well. But learn the pahts. This is an im- from the vicinity of the now Completely special kind of bad breath called "denture breath." ceremony. I really don't Retired Commander.) pawtant And— It comes from film that holds germs and decay want you to think I'm just finding fault The End bacteria which brushing seldom removes. But Polident does remove it and definitely prevents "denture breath." Your whole mouth will feel better and cleaner and gums will look (yows, (thickens and Americanism more natural. Recommended by thousands of dentists only 30c a can at any (Continued from page 15) — drugstore. WERNET DENTAL MFG. CO. Each club member carries at least one clubs, farm organizations, parent-teacher 882 Third Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. project; many carry two or more at the associations, women's clubs, chambers of same time. Of more than seventy-five dis- commerce, business firms and corpora- tinct projects engaged in by nearly 70,- tions (as railroads and flour mills), 000 clubs in the year latest reported, the luncheon clubs, civic bodies, fair associa- project first in number of enrollees was tions, livestock societies, cooperatives, clothing. The next nine, in descending Boy Scouts, churches. As with the Irish- order, were food selection, food preserva- man's fight, anybody may get in. tion, home gardens, home health and Legion support may be once-a-year Have You Some Spare Room sanitation, poultry, home furnishings, recognition, as in awarding a plaque or a a basement or garage where you can do light work? We ran otter you a profitable proposition, casting 5 & 10c swine, beautification of home grounds, cup to the most outstanding 4-H club ; n Novelties, ashtrays, toy autos, etc. as manufacturer for firm of many years standing. No experience necessary corn. a county, or prizes, cash or medal or rib- as we furnish full instructions with moulds. If in- terested in devoting spare or full time to profitable There were girls in boys' clubs and boys bon, for the best individual work by club work write AT ONCE stating age and space available as we are now closing arrangements for 1938 supply in girls' clubs, and clubs in which boys members, or in giving an annual dinner of our goods. METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO., Dept. 9. and girls were evenly divided. More girls or picnic for club members. It may con- 1696 Boston Road New York, N. Y. than boys were enrolled, roughly ten sist of lending the use of the Post's hall or girls to seven boys. Most of the members building for the club's business meetings lived on farms, but many rural clubs had and social gatherings. It may lie in con- members from neighboring urban com- ducting county, district or 4-H fairs and Be a munities. Also there were clubs wholly offering premiums for 4-H club exhibits. urban, carrying such projects as home Support may take the form of recipro- TIUJleM gardens, clothing, canning and home cal or self-perpetuating awards, year Man furnishings. For every four farm homes after year, as in Connecticut. It may be No Time Like having club members theie was one given for one year only, long enough to get Now to Get in.. non-farm home with one or more mem- the program started, as that to a 4-H pig Make up to $75 a week It's no trick to make up bers. The clubs are independent of the club in Taylor County, Kentucky, or it to $12 a day when you u je yourcar as a Mc Ness public schools and their work is done out may be continuous over a term of years, "Store on Wheels." Farmers are buying everything they IseYour of school hours, but schools everywhere as to the notable calf-feeding project in can from McNess men. Attractive business-getting prizes, also money- CAR cooperate. Johnson County, Missouri. saving deals to customers make selling McNess daily necessities a snap. This | to Raise Just about every kind of private In Connecticut, the Legion has gone business is depression-proof. Your organization and agency cooperates with in for 4-H club support from the Depart- We Supply Capital— Start Now! There's no better work anywhere the 4-H club work, from a town commer- ment down. The Department has a 4-H pays well, permanent, need no ex- PAY perience to start and we supply cap- ' cial club, say, in Maine, to the Buddhist club committee. Warren E. Brockett, ital to help you get started quick. You start making money first day. Write at once for McNess Dealer church at Kapaia, Kauai, Hawaii. It ap- county club agent in New Haven County, Book— tells all—no obligation. (92-B) THE McNESS CO., 604 Adams St., Freeport, III. peals to merchants' groups, bankers' has been chairman (Continued on page 60) MARCH, 1038 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine / — 6o fit* r;llM Gows, (thickens and Americanism {Continued from page 59) so Mi of this committee for the last three years. Today he is a local leader of a 4-H club, While many individual Posts have 4-H passing on to younger boys the benefit club committees and encourage various of his own experience in such work." projects in their areas, the Department Local club leaders are volunteers, rand new Evinrude . . . men amazingly light, handy and itself sponsors nine yearly awards of and women or older boys and girls powerful. Literally packed who with big-value features in- poultry flocks and pure-bred dairy heifers. like to work with young people and know cluding famed Hooded Power — Evinrude Co- The flocks are: Two of Rhode Island the subject. Many of them have attended 1 Underwater Pi ot — Reds, each of twenty-five pullets and two agricultural colleges; many have them- Silencing. Starts in- Stonily I — spins into cockerels; two of Barred Rocks, one of selves been members of 4-H clubs. There action with a flick of the starting cord. Runs fifty baby chicks and the other of twenty- are about 100,000 of them in the national hours on single three a five pullets and two cockerels; and one of set-up, important driving-rods in the 1 fi 1 —and costs less than 3^ an hour to oper- White Leghorns, twenty-five pullets and machinery. ate. Send for catalog! two cockerels. In the Nutmeg State, not only The ELTO PAL only $37.50 Each winner of a poultry award, who American Legion but the Forty and Eight Elto PAL ( built by Evinrude) weighs only 14 pounds, and has shown his mettle by raising a superior and the Auxiliary support 4-H club work. drives boats at twice the speed of oars. Elto ACE, poultry flock as his 4-H club project, Auxiliary Units sponsor girls' clubs in [7.50 — the husky Handi- win, only #67.50. Each a agrees to turn over to the Legion from home-making projects, furnish club t and -out value in its class! his pen the next year twenty-five pullets leaders, provide meeting places and send FREE CATALOGS! Writo for 1938 Eviorade and Elto cata- and two cockerels to serve as the Depart- club delegates to the short course at the logs. Boat Directory and Boat- and-Motor Selector. All free. ment award that year. The winner of a State College. The Department trophy, Addreaa EVINRUDE MOTORS Milwaukee. 5406 N. 27th St., dairy-heifer award—four breeds are rep- awarded yearly for the best example of PRICES F. O. B . FACTORY resented: Holstein, Ayrshire, Jersey and Legion promotion and support of the 4- EVINRUDE OUTBOARD MOTORS Guernsey—presents to the Legion the H club program, went last year to Lam- first heifer calf born of his prize animal. son-O'Donnell Post of West Goshen. With the exception of the first pen of Because poultry clubs get much atten- poultry, none of the awards has cost the tion from the Legion in Connecticut, Sweet Toned Department anything. All the others, Legion men there are definitely poultry- VIOLIN poultry and heifers, were gifts to it in the conscious. They debate the merits of the Handsome finish, highly polished. Set of strings and first instance. different breeds, score the hen's points eluded. SEND NO MONEY. Jnst nd address. WE TRUST YOU with Though the matter of the reciprocal wattles to keel to fluff—spot its ailments SO packs of Garden Seeds to sell at 10c a packet. When sold send $3.00 collected and we will send Violin Outfit and Instruction Book. Learn to plav in 6 award may not have turned any winner's from roup to bumblefoot, and can handle minutes. No more money to pay .. . EXTRA-SIO in BIG PRIZES. Yon Write for needs today. Post t'ard will do. may win. A it heavily upon him. LANCASTER COUNTY SEED CO., Station 330, PARADISE, PA. hair gray, does weigh either side of the argument as to priority There is the case of Richard Hale of Che- of hen or egg. shire. Let Comrade Brockett tell about it: Offhand one might not see a connection "When Richard, seventeen, got home between feeding calves and promoting Free for Asthma one dark August night after a visit to a Americanism, but Charles E. Matthews If you suffer with attacks of Asthma so neighbor's, he went to his chicken coop to Post of Warrensburg, Johnson County, terrible you choke and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is impossible because of the lock up. The last thing he did every night Missouri, can make it clear. Let Fred W. struggle to breathe, if you feel the disease is slowly wearing your life away, don't fail was to look at those chickens, for hadn't Chambers of Kansas City, Commander of to send at once the Frontier to Asthma Co. he two hundred beautiful Rhode Island the Missouri Department of the Legion, for a free trial of a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether you have Reds there? And weren't they his? who belongs to Matthews Post, speak for any faith in any remedy under the Sun, send for this free trial. If you have suf- "He had raised them from pedigreed it: fered for a lifetime and tried everything stock awarded him the year before by "Seven or eight years ago, about fifteen you could learn of without relief; even if you are utterly discouraged, do not aban- The American Legion. They were about members of our Post went to a bank and don hope but send today for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Address ready to lay. In a week he would turn borrowed $r,2oo to $1,500 with which wc Frontier Asthma Co. 121-C Frontier Bids. back to the Legion twenty-five of those bought, at the stockyards, a number of T 4«2 Aiagara St. Buffalo, \ . V. treasured birds to be awarded to some good grade feeder calves. With the co- other 4-H club boy or girl who had shown operation of the county agricultural agent MINSTRELS initiative and ability and who needed we allotted the calves to selected farm Unique tirstparts for complete show, with special songs and choruses. better stock. boys and girls who undertook, as their Black-face plays. Jokes, Gags, Post- er*. Make-up Goods, Wigs, Bones. "As he opened the coop door to make 4-H club project, to care for and feed the Tambourines. Lively, up-to-the- minute plays for dramatic sure that everything was all right, he had animals on their farms for the better part V^i^\ clubs and lodges. Denison * plays produced every a feeling that everything was all wrong. of a year. We paid for insurance on the 'here, 60 years of hits. Free Catalog He missed the customary sleepy noises calves. The county agent supervised the T. S. DENISON S CO. 203 N. Wabash, Oept. 89. Chicago of a contented coop that are a musical project. In the fall the youngsters mar- symphony to a poultry lover. The coop keted their animals and paid us in full r thief » ?i 7V"Tiniii rrr r^a was empty. The meanest in the for what we had put into the enterprise. world had stolen nearly the whole flock! "We have kept up this support year "Richard said later that his first after year, have had as high as fifty-six SALARY -Service Men Get preference thought was, 'How can I pay back those calves out in a single year. All club mem- TO START l ) Railway Mail Clerk ( ) POSTMASTER ( ) P. O. Labor. ) ( Kiev. Conductor American Legion birds?' He needn't have bers have completed their projects. The F. $ 90 to ( ) R. D. Carrier ( ) Auditor Special < ) Agent ( ) Stenographer worried. Four-H club boys on scattered Post has never lost a cent. Along with the * 175 ( ) Statistical Clerk ( ) U.S. Border Patrol ( ) City Mail Carrier Opr. MONTHLY ( ) Telephone farms here and there around the State calf activity, the Post developed an an- ( ) P. O. Clerk ( ) Watchman ( ) Stock Clerk ) Inspector ( Meat heard the bad news. One by one, they nual horse-and-calf show, an all-county ( ) Special Investigator ( ) Secret Service Opr. ( ) Typist ) Kile Clerk ( pledged well-bred Reds from their own affair, at which the boys and girls exhibit INSTRUCTION SERVICE Dept. 110, St. Louis, Mo. until full Send me FREE purtioilurfl "How lo Qualify for small flocks they made up the their calves. We put up premiums for the ,T Government FoBitionu" marked "X - Salariee locations, opportunities, etc. ALL SENT FREE. twenty-five. This left Richard with a few best fitted calves. Out of concessions at Name start with all over again. this is Addreaa birds to make a 'Fall Festival,' which free to all, the The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 6i Post has made a profit of about $4,000, so No approach can be made to a listing we haven't had to borrow lately for the of all Legion support that has been given calf enterprise. Members of the Post to 4-H club activities the country over. make two or three visits to the farms each But here are some citations. In some year to encourage the club boys and girls. cases the support was extended in only FREE Usually the county agent or an assistant one year, in others it has continued goes with us." through a term of years. As a result of this interest, most mem- In Illinois, the Legion Post at Green- BOOK bers of Matthews Post are calf-conscious. ville, Bond County, invited county 4-H They know the fine points of the calf's clubs to take part in the Armistice Day about funeral costs anatomy—point to poll, dewlap, brisket parade and to enter floats for which the and escutcheon, with nonchalant accu- Post offered prizes. Legion members and and practices racy. club members in Jersey County (Jersey- When Matthews Post began this 4-H ville) planted four hundred trees at the Too many people face the arranging of a club support it had forty-two members. State Fair grounds. funeral with no idea of what to do. We have published as a Now the membership is more than two Both calf and pig club projects were "What To Do" guide to follow in time of need. hundred. supported by the Legion in Kentucky, a Already more than 700,000 families have received this infor- But why is this regarded as American- calf-feeding project, for instance, in Jes- asked for and mation It answers authoritatively all the samine County (Nicholsville) and a pig- ism work? In such a 4-H club activity questions you are likely to ask at time of boys and girls learn good farm practices feeding project in Taylor County (Camp- bereavement—how to choose a funeral director . . . what a funeral costs and by actual doing and come to see the op- bellsville) . why . . . what sort of casket is best, and portunity in farming and to appreciate In Michigan, Manistique Post spon- so forth. You should have a copy of this book- farm life. They learn to cooperate with sored the Schoolcraft County fair, at let to place with your other important one another and to take part in com- which 4-H club livestock was exhibited. papers. Doctors, lawyers, clergymen say munity interests. In Nevada County, Arkansas, the Legion "It is the best book ever published on this subject." Send for one or more cop- also sponsored When a boy assumes responsibility for the County Fair, at which ies today. No obligation. the care and feeding of a calf he has en- the clubs exhibited, and gave a cash tered upon a practical course in character prize for the most outstanding club in the National Casket Co.. Dept. D-l building. What is best about it, he county. In Washington County, Colo- 60 Massachusetts Ave.. Boston, Mass. Please send me. without obligation, . . . doesn't realize that he has. To him he is rado, the Legion took over the county free copies of "What To Do" In a plain just going to fatten a calf and maybe sell 4-H club fair and conducted it. envelope. I want to be prepared. it at a profit later. But he has tied himself Improvement in potato stock in a wide to that calf. For six or nine months his area resulted from Legion support of 4-H waking hours, and often his sleeping potato clubs in St. Louis County, Minne- hours, are concerned with that calf. sota. The Legion provided money to buy City- It has to be fed regularly. The boy must high-grade seed potatoes for distribution keep a record of the amount of feed from among the clubs. Each club member re- *j^-j^c **-.*^t; *>^«*t>* ^ ^t? ^t; day to day, set down the cost. He must turned to the Legion a bushel of his crop study the printed instructions sent him for seed allotments the next year. Various by the county agent or the club leader. Legion groups have promoted conserva- If the calf isn't doing so well, he worries tion projects in Minnesota, including pro- and must find out why and better the tection of birds and other wild life. CATALOG-FREE conditions. If calf gets sick, sits El Reno Post, at El Reno, the who Oklahoma, Nearly 200 Styles and Sizes of Furnaces at up with it at night and ministers to it? gives leadership prizes to outstanding Heaters, Ranges, FACTORY PRICES. Easy If outside attractions would lure him captains in 4-H clubs in Canadian County Terms—aslittle as 12c a day. Write today for this FREE from home of an evening, who is to look and is host to them at an annual dinner. CATALOG. New styles, new features, new colors. after that calf unless he can persuade In South Carolina, Legion Posts in York 30 days free trial —24-hour shipments. The Kalamazoo someone else in the family to do it? County have promoted dairy-calf clubs Stove& Furnace Company, 2066 Rochester Avenue, The calf's caretaker learns to stick and held joint meetings with club Over 1,200,000 Kalamazoo, Michigan, faithfully to a job once undertaken, to see members. Satisfied Users Years in Business AKalaraazoQ it through, to be a finisher as well as a Not only do the boys and girls benefit 38 Write for FREE Catalog jjgss^ Direct toYou" starter. He grows in reliability, punctu- from club work. Many a 4-H boy has ality, ability to deny himself; in self made a better farmer out of his dad. mastery. He likes his calf and makes a Many a 4-H girl has helped her mother pet of it, thereby learning kindness to to become a better canner, room fur- HELP animals. As one of a club of fifteen or nisher, home planner. Surveys in nearly maybe fifty or more members, each with a a dozen States have indicated that at OF calf, he wants to make his animal the least two out of every five farms on which 15 MILES best in the lot and so develops the com- club work is done adopt some of the petitive spirit. As his club is competing things demonstrated into the regular KIDNEY TUBES for county distinction with other clubs practices of the farm. To Flush out Acids and Other having different projects, he has a duty "Buddy, with your graying hair and Poisonous Waste kidneys contain 15 Miles of tiny to his club fellows to do his best for the your developing front," it was a Legion- Doctors say your tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and group, not to throw it down. That means naire 4-H club enthusiast speaking—"do keep you healthy. Most people pass about 3 pints a 3 pounds of waste. to cooperate with others in a day or about common you want to keep young? Then get the Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and purpose. He owes fair play to that calf, habit of mixing with young people, burning shows there may be something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. to himself, to his fellow clubbers, to his sharing their interests, giving them praise An excess of acids or poisons in your blood, when due to functional kidney disorders, may be the be- club leader, to the county agent, to all and encouragement, and material support ginning of nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg energy, getting nights, the neighbors who are interested in him, when it is wise and you can give it. Even pains, loss of pep and up swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and so that the whole round of his 4-H club a little recognition from an adult goes dizziness. . Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, work is a training in sportsmanship in a long way with boys and girls. Help used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They living. them grow. And what a lot of fun you'll give happy relief and will help the 15 Miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. That's Americanism, isn't it? have in doing it!" Get Doan's Pills. MARCH, 1938 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 62 LUCCO SPRAYING Qlear Eye and ^teady ZHand IN»Y SURFACES {Continued from page ji) IN6S movement and in promoting the enact- hospitalization of veterans of the World ment of legislation to provide for the War so afflicted. establishment of a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis, silicosis and Legion Starts Lenoir Band similar ailments. Authorization has been made, the State of Utah has appropriated DYSART-KENDALL Post at Lenoir, $100,000, supplemented by a PWA grant, North Carolina, started something and work on the institution will go for- in March, 1924, when they gave the in- ward without delay. It will be located at struments and equipment of their Post This new marhine and pror-ess fuses a waterproofed Ogden and will be operated as a State band to the Lenoir High School for the plastic mixture on any masonry. It beautifies and weatherprnofs both old or new buildings, walls, etc., institution. Herman Baker Post has been formation of a school band. That act had at low cost. It fills all cracks and can be applied in any thick .moss desired and in 30 colors and shades. awarded a citation by National Head- its reverberation on November 2d, last, Fully proven by over twelve years actual use under all conditions and every climate. quarters for its efforts in securing the when Lenoir dedicated a new School LARGE WAITING MARKET Owners everywhere want to enhance present values establishment of the hospital. Band Building, said to be one of the and make their buildings more attractive and livable. The better builders are striving for greater permanence, For some years caring for persons finest in America, to house a musical or- beautv and salability in their new construction. With COLORCRETE Stucco Spraying, you can supply this afflicted with tuberculosis and silicosis in ganization that is claimed to make more waiting market and can otter permanent colorful sur- facing at amazingly low cost. Many Utah has been something of a problem, public appearances and take part in more 4c operators report costs of 2c to since that State was one of three which interstate events per sq. ft. and sell at from 4% to State and than does the 7c. Some have paid for their equip- had no provision for hospitalizing tuber- himself. ment from first couple of jobs. Governor Machine capacity up to 1000 sq. ft. cular patients. members of Herman Pride of is per hour. The Lenoir, that high school Send for Free Book. Proven busi- Baker Post felt that the situation should band. C. Harper, who has directed ness opportunityforyou.lt tells the James story. Write today. It may whole be met and, early in the spring of it from its organization, writes that Dy- mean business independence for you. 1936, started a movement for the establish- sart-Kendall Post not only gave the first COLORCRETE INDUSTRIES, Inc. first 350 Ottawa Ave. Holland, Mich. ment of an institution to be maintained instruments, but loaned the teacher. by the State. A meeting was called to be held at The Chateau, the Post's club The War Is Over WAKE UP YOUR home, to which leaders of civic, fraternal, labor and other organizations were in- FOUR years ago James T. Bergen Post, - vited, and it was at this meeting that the Amsterdam, New York, held its first LIVER BILE Utah Tuberculosis Sanitorium Associa- good will party, when the Veterans of the Without Calomel— And You'll Jump Out tion was organized. A vigorous campaign World War who had served in the Ger- of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go of education was launched and, before man army and were then residing in its The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid the 1937 session of the Utah Legislature community, were invited to attend. bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in convened, the establishment of the sana- There were fourteen who responded, all the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get torium had received the endorsement of now American citizens. They found the constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. 139 separate groups. fellowship so pleasant that they have re- mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. A In taking the lead in the movement turned to each succeeding annual event. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and Herman Baker Post made it clear to the Commander Arch D. Henderson writes make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's people of Utah that their interest in the that the fourth annual good will party Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. matter was altruistic and humanitarian; was held during the Christmas season, Stubbornly refuse anything else. ©isae. c.p. inc. that while Utah did not have facilities with more than two hundred present. for caring for its citizens suffering from Legionnaire Thomas P. Werner is credited OTHER MEN tuberculosis, the Government of the by Bergen Post with having started the have read and PATENTS United States, through the Veterans Ad- series of affairs and has since served as prolited by our free books, "Patent Pro- HAVE YOU AN IDEA ? ministration, had made provision for the chairman. Boyd S. Stutler tection" and 'Selling an Invention." Fully explain many interesting points to inventors and illustrate im- portant mechanical principles. With books we also send free "Evidence of Invention" form. Prompt service, reasonable fees, deferred payments. Write immediately to: Victor J. Evans & Co., Registered Patent At- torneys, 26-C, Victor Building, Washington, D. C. ShTeld by the Enemy Included FREE {Continued from page 35) C. Cook was also a member of the group. failed to give a left-to-right identification. Any question? For further proof of the date the picture Now for the benefit of our four score was taken, Bennett has this to say: and more correspondents who came to "The picture was taken in Oberbieber, our aid in this search and most of whom Germany, about fifteen kilometers the Curved shockproof identified individuals in the group by other side of Coblenz, January 8, 1919, rolled gold-plate watch with the color and charm of natural solid name, here is the line-up as well as Com- because on January 9th, the following yellow gold. ACCURACY guaranteed by MILLION Bennett could recall day (so it reads in my diary), I was to be DOLLAR FACTORY. Looks like $35. YOU will rades Cook and like this Gladiator ring and its double head set names: Standing, from left to right: Leon courtmartialed for insubordination. But in lifetime sterl ing 925/1000 pure—decorated in gold. Why pay $20?—it is Mronk; name forgotten; A. L. Bennett I guess I proved that all gut-robbers were yours for only $6.10. and watch is included FREE! and Arthur Kermensky (or Kaminski); not liars, as I received a couple of medals, NO CHARGE FOR CREDIT! kneeling or squatting, left to right: Name such as they were—one from the officers No red tape. We'll ship at once. Make 2 monthly forgotten; Walter Gross (or Drost)— and one from the men—for giving our top $3 payments and the watch is yours! Simply with cleaver in hand; Lee Harris; George kick, Abbie, a sock in the puss, at the enclose 10c for packing, etc. Shipment immediately C. Cook and George Sweatland. One of same spot the picture was taken. Any- return mail. —by the two men listed as "name forgotten" how, Abbie and I stood side by side eat- GOLD STANDARD WATCH CO., Dept. C-823. Newton, Mass. is Frank Borchardt—but A. L. Bennett ing our last meal in France before sailing The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 63 BOY I'M PAYING FOR LAST NIGHTS PARTY. MY STOMACH IS SO ACID. HOW CAN YOU FEEL SO GOOD? BECAUSE I WAS SMART AND TOOK TUMS. CHEW A COUPLE AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR ACID INDIGESTION. AMAZING, FAST WAY TO RELIEVE ACID INDIGESTION YES — TUMS, a remarkable discovery brings amazing quick relief from indiges- tion, heartburn, sour stomach, gas, and con- stant burning caused by excess acid. For TUMS work on the true basic principle. Act unbeliev- A class in vocational training in Ward 202, Base Hos- ably fast to neutralize excess acid conditions. Acid pains are relieved almost at once. TUMS pital 57, Paris, in 1919. Champ Crossno, sitting in the contain no laxatives; no harmful drugs. Guar- center, would like to hear from his fellow patients anteed to contain no soda. Over V/^ billion TUMS already used —proving their amazing benefit. Try TUMS today. Only 10c for 12 TUMS at all druggists. Most economical relief. Chew like for home in May. We shook hands, for all A. E. F. soldiers, but not so candy mints. Get a handy 10c roll today, or the agreed the incident did us both some pleasant when it involved being in a three roll economy package with metal con- good and parted friends." hospital. The woman shown was a vo- tainer for only 25c. For the record, let us state that the cational teacher who taught us how to HANDY pnC^S* \-VVV>- S^-'Ui' TO following branches of service were rep- make bead necklaces and weave small CARRY, resented in the letters received: Infantry, rugs. I was being qualified for employ- field artillery, coast artillery, mobile ment as a 'blind' person, although that hospital, pioneer infantry, engineers, wasn't the exact extent of my disability supply company QMC, telegraph bat- at the time. talion, corps artillery park, ammunition "I enlisted for service when I was only train, sanitary train, ambulance com- three months past 16 years of age, at pany, machine-gun battalion, anti-air- Little Rock, Arkansas, in September SEEDS craft machine-gun battalion, field signal 1917, took the oath at Jefferson Barracks, Reliable and Full of Life battalion, aero squadron, motor truck Missouri, and transferred to Camp Green, SPECIAL OFFER Made to Build New Business company, marines, engineer train, motor South Carolina, where I was assigned to PRIZE COLLECTION: Radish repair 17 varieties, worth 15c; Lettuce, supply train and mobile ordnance Company K, 38th Infantry. We sailed for kinds, worth 15c; Tomatoes, 11 the finest, worth 20c; Turnip, shop. the A. E. F. on March 28, 1018, and I saw 8 7 splendid, worth 10c; Onion, ' varieties, worth 15c; 10 Spring worth one of service in France, best Flowering Bulbs, We thank every the Then and Belgium and Germany 25c; 65 varieties in all, worth $1.00. Gang who responded and are sorry until September 22, 1019. GUARANTEED TO PLEASE. WRITE TODAY Now Send 10c to partly cover postage and packing and receive that so many of them were tricked by "Sometime during 1018 I do not re- this valuable collection of Seeds & Bulbs postpaid, together — with our big 180 page instructive, illustrated Seed, Plant & Nursery Catalog; tells all about Condon's"FullOf rnrr their memories. call the date—I regained consciousness in Life" Seeds, Plants, etc. This BigBook will be mailed rlfEh a French hospital at Orleans, having been CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN, Box 24 .Rockford.HL GREAT strides in the development sent back with an infected eye and throat, FREE of occupational therapy and vo- and a case of acute bronchitis. Later I was cational training have been made since transferred to Base No. 57 in Paris and CATALOG the World War, because of the adoption received treatments for these several ail- Just Off the Press of these forms of treatment for thousands ments—and as I recall a Doctor Shea was Fully illustrated of physically disabled and mentally dis- one of the medical officers treated who showing special foot- turbed veterans. That such treatments me. Strangely enough, the War Depart- wear and clothing for fisherman and. early in the days following the were used ment has no record, of any eye, ear, nose camper, also special fishing tackle. end of the war is evidenced by the picture or throat treatments given me while I was we show of a group of American soldier in service. I hope that some of the other L. L. Bean, Inc. patients in Base Hospital No. 57, Paris, patients in the picture or the vocational 150 Main Street Freeport Maine France, during April, 1010. teacher will see it and write to me. The print was sent to us by Champ W. "I was Commander of Carnie Welch Is Your Rupture Crossno, who served Carnie Welch Post Post during 1936 and 1937 and I believe of Salisaw, Oklahoma, as Commander for I might hold the record of having been two successive terms, and while he doesn't the youngest Post Commander in the HERE? claim that he was the youngest boy to Legion during those years." Why continue to suffer with Stop your worries and enlist for service in the war, he thinks ruoture? fears. Send for the facts about possibly he may have the distinction of TWENTY years ago war casualty my perfected invention — the Brooks Appliance for reducible having been the youngest Legion Post lists in the newspapers first began to rupture — with the automatic AIR-CUSHION support that Commander. But we'll let him do the have a particular meaning to Americans; ' gives Nature a chance to close the talking: the War Department was beginning to opening. Thousands bought by doctors for themselves and patients. "The enclosed picture, taken on April send out the necessarily brief telegrams Sent on Trial—Made-to-measure, Individual fitting for iqio, shows a group of patients, in advising relatives of the death in action man, woman or child. Low-priced, sanitary, durable. No 3, obnoxious springs or hard pads; no metal girdle to rust. Safe Nature get results. Not sold through which I am the man sitting in the center, of their soldiers. And now after those and comfortable. Helps stores—beware of imitations. Write today for full information in Ward 202 of Base Hospital No. 57 twenty years, some parents and sisters sent free in plain sealed envelope. which was located in Paris— that mecca and brothers (Continued on page 64) BROOKS APPLIANCE CO.S^ri MARCH, 1938 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 64 THE ZHeld by the Enemy American Legion Magazine {Continued from page 6j) INDEX of care of Coll. of Int. Revenue, and even children of soldier dead are still 939 "S. Broadway, Los Angeles. ADVERTISERS hoping to get some firsthand information Base Hosp. No. 117—Proposed reunion officers, nurses and enlisted men. Mrs. Emma J. Pearce their about war dead from comrades of Preston, 424 W. Elm St., Compton, Calif. those men who failed to come home. Evac. Hosp. No. 14—Annual reunion during Albert Mills 56 natl. conv. Anniversary dinner was held in New For instance, here is a letter from York City in Feb. J. Charles Meloy, pres., New American Distilling Company 53 Milford, Conn., or Ernest O. Bianco, secy.-treas., Legionnaire Arthur Lutz of American Life & Accident Insurance Co. 58 Milwaukee, Elmsford, N. Y. Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets.— American Telephone Telegraph Co... 47 Wisconsin, in which he makes a particular & Annual reunion. Richard D. Bowman, personnel appeal to veterans of Headquarters Com- offer., 44 Boone st., Glenolden, Pa. Bean, L. L 63 Naval Air Sta., Arcachon, France—Reunion. pany, 54th Infantry, 6th Division: Bromo-Mint Company 54 E. J. Oerter, 2516 W. 73d St., Los Angeles. Brooks Appliance Company 63 "As a member of The American Legion, U. S. S. Illinois World War Vets. Assoc.— Proposed reunion. John F. Handford, 31 E. Tulpe- I writing in behalf hocken St., Philadelphia, Pa. Calculator Machine am of my aunt whose Company 58 Vets. A. E. F. Siberia— National reunion, Holly- Carter Medicine Company 62 son, Fred Wiening, died in France. wood Knickerbocker Hotel, Hollywood, Calif., College of Swedish Massage 54 "Some years ago a certain veteran was Mon., Sept. 19, during Legion natl. conv. Claude P. Deal, chmn., 920 Chester Williams bldg., Los Colorcrete Industries 62 in Milwaukee and tried to find Fred Angeles. Condon Bros., Seedsmen 63 Inf. C. O. T. S. Camp Gordon, Ga., 1918, and 2d Wiening's mother in order to deliver a Creek Chub Bait Company 58 and 3d O. T. S., Fort Oglethorpe.—Proposed re- message supposed to have been sent by union. Haskell C. Billings, 1616 Berkeley Way, D.D.D. Corporation Berkeley, Calif. 58 her late son. The Wiening family he Denison, T. S. & Company 60 succeeded in locating did not have an Doan's Pills 61 Notices of reunions and activities at Doughnut Corporation of America.... 52 immediate relative by the name of Fred other times and places follow: Duban Shade Corporation 58 and it was not until after the veteran 2d Div. Assoc.—20th anniversary convention and left that their Evans, Victor J. & Co 62 they remembered distant reunion, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, 111., July 14-16. Geo. V. Gordon, chmn., 5814 Winthrop av., Chicago. Evinrude Outboard Motors 60 relative, Fred Wiening. Then, however, Soc. of 3d Div.—Annual national reunion, 14-16. Write Chas. P. Florsheim Shoe it was too late. Atlantic City, N. .1., July Company 49 McCarthy, secy., Box 137, Camden, N. J., for copy Foster, Jim, Inc 54 "If an appeal could be published in the The Watch on the Rhine. Soc. of 5th Div. National reunion, Lancaster, Franklin Institute 55 Legion Magazine to former comrades of — Pa., Sept. 3-5. Roy D. Peters, 441 E. Orange St., Frontier Asthma Company 60 Fred Wiening to write to his mother, it Lancaster. 32d Div. Vets. Assoc. Reunion, Grand Rapids, Gillette — Safety Razor Company 41 certainly would please her." Mich., dates to be announced. Byron Beveridge, Gold Standard Watch secy., 1148 Florence ct., Madison, Wise. Company 62 We hope that veterans of the Sight- 37th Div. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion, Zanesville, Heefner Arch Support Company 57 Seeing Sixth and particularly of Head- Ohio, Sept. 3-5. Write to Jas. A. Sterner, asst. secy., 1101 Wyandotte bldg., Columbus, Ohio, for free Hoover Mfg. & Sales Company 54 quarters Company, 54th Infantry, with copy of News. (42d) Div. Vets. Natl. reunion, St. which Fred Wiening was serving at the Rainbow — Instruction Service 60 Paul, Minn., July 12-14. Write Sharon C. Cover, time of his death, will see this request natl. secy., 4645 Nottingham rd., Detroit, Mich., Johnson Motors 57 for free copy Ruinbow Reveille and respond to it. Letters addressed to Iowa Chap., Rainbow Div. Vets. (168th Inf.)— Annual reunion, Des Moines, Iowa, Mar. 4-5. Kalamazoo Stove The Company Clerk, will be forwarded Company 61 Homer W.Gardner, chmn., 318 Fifth av., Des Moines. promptly to our late comrade's mother, War Soc. of 89th Div.—Reorganization and Lancaster County Seed Company .. .58, 60 proposed reunion in early fall. Chas. S. Stevenson, Mrs. Fred Wiening. LaSalle Extension University 51 secy., 2505 Grand, Kansas City, Mo. No dues. 60th Inf. Reunion, Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 3-5. Lewis-Howe Company Turns — 63 Roy D. Peters, 441 E. Orange st., Lancaster. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company that almost a score of veterans' Co. M, 128th Inf.—Proposed reunion. May NOW 28-30 (Memorial Day week-end.) Floyd J. Mabie, Chesterfields Cover II organizations have announced their eecy.-treas., 1414 Racine St., Janesville, Wise. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company 146th Inf. Reunion, Wooster, Ohio, in spring. intention of holding reunions in conjunc- — Velvet 39 Harry W. Evans, secy., 363 Beverly rd., Wooster. tion with the Legion National Conven- 76th F. A. Assoc.—Annual reunion with 3d Div., J., 14-16. Wm. A. Shomaker, McNess Company 59 Atlantic City, N. July tion in Los Angeles, California, Septem- secy., 3811 25th pl„ N. E., Washington, D. C. Media Research Bureau 3 64th C. A. C, Btries D & E—Annual reunion, ber 19th to 22d, these reunions will be Metal Cast Products Company 59 Dayton, Ohio, in June, dates to be announced. Watson, 605 Ogden av„ Toledo, Ohio. Midwest Radio Corporation 55 grouped at the beginning of this Outfit T. E. 3d H. M. O. R. S. —For information regarding Mills Seed Grower, F. B 49 Notices column. Details of the following 1938 reunion in Detroit, write to John M. Lux, Mich. national convention meetings may be 4475 French rd., Detroit, National Casket Company 61 Vets, of 13th Engrs. (Ry.)—Reunion, Hotel obtained from the Legionnaires listed: Roosevelt, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 17-19. J. A. Elliott, 721 E. 21st st., Little Rock, Ark. O'Brien, C. A. & Hyman Berman 54 Hot Springs, 5th Army Corps Hq. and Troops—Reunion and Vets. 31st Ry. Engrs.—Reunion, July 2-4. F. E. Love, secy.-treas., 104J-S permanent organization of officers and men. Wm. Ark., Polident First St., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 59 A. Barr, 1608 N. Genesee St., Los Angeles, Calif. and 59 R. T. C.)—Pro- 4th Div. Assoc. National reunion. Lewie W. 61st Ry. Engrs. (57, 58 — Milwaukee, Wise., dates to be Remington Arms Company Smith, gen. chmn., 4517 Marmion Way, Los Angeles. posed reunion, 45 announced. Edw. M. Soboda, 1617 W. Hopkins St., Soc. of 5th Div.—West Coast reunion of Red R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company wjiukcG Diamond vets. Earl Sheeley, secy., 723 No. Avenue 'Mil George Washington Reunion, New York Camels Cover IV 51, Los Angeles. U. S. S. — City, Apr. 11. M. G. Rosenwald, 3111 Heath av., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco 6th Div. Assoc.—National reunion and dinner Company York City. under auspices Sector 1. R. E. Moran, secy., 506 New Prince Albert 35 Roanoke (Mine-layer) Proposed organi- N. Spaulding av., Los Angeles. U. S. S. — zation reunion. Wm. P. Nudo, 144 Orchard st., Rosecliff-Quaker 54 92d and 93d Div., 16th Prov. Trng. Regt. (Ft. and Frankfort, N. Y. Des Moines)—Proposed reunion of all officers. U. S. S. Vermont—Proposed reunion. Andrew M. Sani-Flush 57 Dennis McG. Matthews, 5118 Latham St., Los Angeles. Sasko, 214 Third St., Donora, Pa. Schenley Products Company U. S. S. Von Steuben Proposed organization. Hawaiian Div. —Reunion of all Hawaiian vets — 2797 Constitution rd., Old Quaker 4 and probable pilgrimage to Hawaii. G. F. Sanders, Ernest A. Normandin, Schieffelin Wheeling, Mo. Camden, N. J. & Company Midwest reunion, La Salle 20th Engrs. (Forestry)—Proposed reunion and Marines—Annual Hennessy 4. W. Bloom, 43 permanent organization. W. Hotel, Chicago, III., June Frank Jack Coskey, 5370 Chicago. Seagram Distillers Corporation. .Cover III Adams, Los Angeles. condr., Marine Post, 932 W. Huron St., E. F. Siberia— 1st annual banquet and re- Standard 66th Engrs. (Ry.), later Cos. 72 to 77, 20th A. Brands Fleischmann's Yeast.. 37 City, in March. Sgt. Herbert E. Grand Div., T. C.—Proposed reunion. Clyde V. union, New York Standard Engine Company Smith, Publicity Bureau, U. S. Army, Governors 56 Grant, ex-lst sgt. Co. D, 2228 22d St., Santa Stera-Kleen 56 Monica, Calif. Island, N. Y. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets.— 11th Cav. M. G. Troop and Troops A, B, C Natl. Assoc. Superior Match Pants Company 58 reunion, Omaha, Nebr., June 26-29, and D—Reunion. W. C. Weinberger, P. O., Colton, 1st regional Festival. Nelson, secy.. Calif. during Ak-Sar-Ben Ted Thompson Brothers Boat Mfg. Company 54 1st F. A., Btry. A Proposed reunion and per- 1912 S. 36th St., Omaha. — Roosevelt Hotel, manent organization. Maj. John O. Hoskins, Natl. 112th Field Hosp.—Reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa„ Mar. 5. Frank C. Miller, 1328 Gulf United Factories 54 Guard Armory, Stockton, Calif., or Harry B. Price, bldg., Pittsburgh. 831 Crossway rd , Burlingame, Calif. 116th San. Trn., Wilson Chemical Company 58 Hq. Co., 41st Div. —Reunion John J. Noll Harley E. Shoaff, 206 S. Walnut St., New Castle, Pa. Clerk World's Products Company 54 305th Sup. Co., Q. M. C. —Reunion. L. Schank, The Company When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine THE CUNEO PRESS. INC.. U. S.A. From July 1935 to December 1937 in the 14 States thai 1 Publish Records* RE PEOPLE than all other blended wmskies in their Price Class Combined Based on all available official figures from July, 1955, to December, 1937, issued by the Liquor Control Boards of 14 states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Idaho, Utah, Maine, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, -Virginia, Montana, West Virginia, Washington, Wyoming. It includes the sales of all blended whiskies in the price class of Seagram's Crowns — ranging at present from 90< to SI. 50 per pint. Pvototi BLENDED WHISKIES THINK Hi Sciyoeayt'amJ and6e Sure/ BECAUSE THEY'RE MASTER BLENDED Seagram's 5 Crown Blended Whiskey. The straight whiskies in this product are 5 years or more old, 25% straight whiskey, 75% neutral spirits distilled from American grains. Seagram's 7 Crown Blended Whiskey. The straight whiskies in this product are 5 years or more old, 37V2% straight whiskies, 62Vi% neutral spirits distilled from American grains. Copr. 1938, Seagram-Distillers Corp., N.Y. Are Camels Really different from A QUESTION OF INTEREST other Cigarettes?' TO EVERY SMOKER ...When H. W. DALY, 34, rayon salesman, says: "Yes, Camels are really dif- ferent," millions of other smokers back him up. And that explains why Camels are preferred by the largest, as well as the most enthusiastic, body of smokers ever known. A KISS FROM MARITA (Mrs. A FRIEND DROPS IN to see Bill's model racing sloop. Daly passes the Daly) and Bill is off to his Camels and answers a question about smoking: "That all-cigarettes-are-alike job in the city. The Dalys agree about Camels. Mrs. Daly talk doesn't square with my experience. Steady smoking is the test that smoked them first, soon no- shows Camels in a class by themselves. They don't make my nerves 'edgy.'" ticed a difference. "Now we find that Camels agree better with both of us," she says. PEOPLE DO APPRECIATE THE COSTLIER TOBACCOS IN CAMELS THEY ARE THE LARGEST-SELLING CIGARETTE IN AMERICA MARITA'S PLANNING a ON WEEK-ENDS, Bill's a grand feed. "We enjoy en- candid camera fan. On tertaining," she says. "I like week days he "pounds A matchless blend of finer, plenty of Camels at the the streets." "When my table. Camels cheer up di- energy begins to fail," mm MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS gestion. They even says, "I a quick cheered he get l^^&rf/SfrW~ —Turkish and Domestic up Bill's disposition." 'lift* with Camel." a L . *&jt%f*3Tj C Copyright. 1938, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. G. // ONE SMOKER TELLS ANOTHER.. • Camels agree with me