The American Legion Magazine [Volume 26, No. 3 (March 1939)]

MARCH 1930 Legion A HAPPY COMBINATION OF THE WORLD'S BEST TOBACCOS

Battle- Line By M.M.Capps Bossy THEY 'rudged along. The men of away that they had left their noonday said that a cow could not make long the 113th Held Artillery had just food on the stoves as it was being pre- marches, that she would never be able

been through their "first baptism pared by the cooks. A huge cabbage to keep up with the regiment, that if she of fire" at St. Mihiel. They were patch nearby provided vegetables, and did she certainly would be worthless as under orders to go to the Argonne Forest meat was also to be found. It was not a provider of milk. They argued that "with the least practical delay." The many minutes before these youngsters the Army was not called upon to provide march was long. The roads were muddy had the pots boiling in true Southern cow rations and for these reasons they and as usual it was raining along the style and most of them that day enjoyed urged that quicker benefits in the way Western Front. a real Carolina meal. Meantime, other of butchering be derived from the cow. The outfit, largely made up of North foragers had captured a wild hog on the Their suggestions brought loud protests Carolinians, was in none too good humor hills overlooking Thiaucourt and these from the d etail. The protests were despite the success at St. Mihiel. They mountain lads made quick work in con- upheld by Major Bulwinkle and the were dog-tired and hungry, many of them verting this animal into barbecue. Battalion Adjutant, Captain Robert were ill. They had seen one of their It remained, however, for two replace- Beaman, now an investment broker of crack batteries suffer heavy casualties, ment youths from eastern Tennessee to Norfolk. and one of their most popular officers. make the prize capture. They succeeded The cow remained with them. She en- Lieutenant Douglas, of New Jersey, in rounding up a milch cow which had couraged the troops. Oftentimes during killed by direct German fire. The march, provided cream for the coffee of the the long marches a word along the line except for a rather small part of the way, German officers at that point. The cow that the cow was going strong brought was of necessity made at night. Smoking was fat. She had been well cared for. It cheers from the tired group of fighters. was prohibited and this added nothing to was obvious to those who knew their Extraordinary efforts had brought forth the "enthusiasm" of the men. cows that she would be a splendid addi- cow food from a French farm. 'She ate hay But most of the boys remembered with tion to any farm, home or pasture. But along with the horses. She was provided longing one good feast they had enjoyed what was to be done with her on the with a gas mask. She kept up her quota since going on the lines. After the closing Western Front? The problem was placed of milk. She produced about two gallons of the St. Mihiel salient they had made before the Battalion Commander, Major a day during that long march from St. their headquarters for the greater part of Bulwinkle. He agreed that the cow should Mihiel to the Argonne and during those a day in the barracks used by the German be "attached" to battalion headquarters long days the regiment was battling at headquarters for more than two years. detail. She was. Skeptics frowned. They Avocourt, Montfaucon and on the way On arriving at these barracks they found to Sedan. She made it possible for the that so swiftly had the German troops, men of "her" detail to have fresh milk who were able to escape, made their get- George S h an ks daily with their (Continued on page 40)

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(ffforQodandcountry ,u>e associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: C/o uphold and dejend the Constitution'' Jofthe'ZlnitedStates oflTlmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent CThnericanism topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreat'~War; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obligation to the community, state andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood will on earth ; to safguardand transmit to posterity the principles cfjusticefreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion. v n~he Jim eric an

March, 1939 Vol. 26, No. 3 LEGIONMAGAZINE

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AST October when this magazine CONTENTS the Legionnaire interest just about I blithely announced a $1,500 COVER DESIGN covers the whole range of human en- prize contest for short stories By W. Lester Stevens, A. N. A. deavor. There are stories of personal or articles written by Legionnaires it BATTLE-LINE BOSSY 1 experience—war experiences predomi- Ey M. M. Capps was little prepared for the deluge. In nating—vivid, dramatic, intensely hu- Illustration by George Shanks fact the writing strength of the Legion man; short stories, and articles on DEMOCRACY AND SPORT 5 was greatly underestimated. Now By Gene Tunney hundreds of subjects; poems, and we're flooded, engulfed, encompassed Cartoon by John Cassel on down the literary scale to cooking about and almost sunk. We have piles MY GRAVY TRAIN 6 recipes, or up the scale, as you please, of manuscripts on chairs and tables, By Cornelius H. Reece since a competent wordsmith tells us: Illustrations by Frank Street the office corners are filled, and there We may live without friends, we may live FISTS OVER FINLAND 8 is yet a big reserve in packing cases without books, By Irving Wallace But civilized man cannot live without and cartons to draw on. The contest LAUNCHING THE LEGION 10 cooks. officially closed on January 16th; the By Eric Fisher Wood Now, just another word about the editorial staff—who are the judges Drawing by Herbert Morton Stoops contest. The rules plainly say that it are just getting a good start on first A BIG STICK FOR UNCLE 14 will be impossible for the staff to reading and making the first tenta- By Frederick Palmer Decoration enter into correspondence regarding tive selections. by William Heaslip O' 16 manuscripts. Don't please, don't More than five thousand Legion- LAND PLENTY — By Jay N. Darling ask us to plow through six or seven naires responded to the invitation to Cartoons by the author thousand manuscripts, filed in order submit manuscripts in the contest THEN CAME SUMMERALL 18 of receipt in cartons and packing cases, some sent in more than one, in fact By Fletcher Pratt to find one entry. It just can't be one Legionnaire writer sent six. So NO TRUCK DRIVERS 20 done. the number of scripts to read and con- By Fairfax Downey sider—and each one will have careful Illustration by J. W. Schlaikjer TT IGHLIGHT of the month of REFERENDUM FOLLLES 22 reading and consideration—far out- LI. March is the twentieth birthday By John Thomas Taylor runs the number of individuals com- Legion, (see Cartoon by William MacLean of The American peting. It is hoped that the names of "Launching the Legion," by Eric ARCHIE GROWS UP 24 least the can the winners—at tops— By Robert Ginsburgh Fisher Wood, in this number) , when be announced in the next number of EDITORIAL: finish the job 27 on the night of the 15th, Posts every- the magazine, but that is not a definite BULL'S-EYE GOLD 28 where are asked to honor the old- promise. At any rate, we can and will By Winsor Josselyn timers with special events such as promise definitely to make a complete HISTORY AS IT IS WRIT 30 "founders' night," or "charter mem- report at the earliest date possible. By Boyd B. Stutler ber night." The climax of the Legion's BEHIND THE FRONT 34 birthday program will be a coast-to- By Wai.lgren coast broadcast, an hour in length, WHERE did they all come from? BURSTS AND DUDS 35 That's easily answered. The Conducted by Dan Sowers packed with entertainment and mu- manuscripts came from all over Amer- HALL, LITTLE CORPORAL! 36 sical thrills and a special message ica, and some from Legionnaires tem- By John J. Noll by National Commander Stephen F. porarily residing in foreign countries. FRONT AND CENTER 64 Chadwick, which is expected to But don't ask us to tell you what these eclipse all previous programs. The Legionnaires wrote about—that can- program will start at 11:15 p. m., not be done within the limits of the IMPORTANT Eastern Standard Time, originating in reading space of this magazine. Up the studios of WJZ, New York, and A form for your convenience if you wish until now, after reading and judging will be carried over the blue network to have the magazine sent to another ad- hour after hour, it would seem that dress will be found on page 49. of the National Broadcasting Co.

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The LEGION Magazine - AMERICAN IF A CANDLE HAD THREE ENDS..

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If a candle had three ends they'd burn them all. Then, there's the fellow who never lights his candle at all. He's bluffed by his fears of tomorrow.

The destiny of our America depends upon those who can

see today's needs clearly . . . who can await tomorrow with confidence. Such was the spirit of our gallant forefathers. Had they burned the candle at both ends, or, had they failed to

burn it at all . . . they would have accomplished nothing. In- stead, they left us a priceless heritage ... a land and opportunities that other nations envy.

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i The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jn. 1 Democracy WSport Gene TUNNEY

Cartoon by John Cassel

most precious thing in the THElife of an American today is his right to live his life freely, to speak his mind, to decide for or against a given thing, and to stand by that decision. That is democracy at its fullest and best, and to live under any other conditions would be intolerable to us. That doesn't mean that we've got to start a crusade to make over the totalitarian countries that hate democracy. On the contrary, it is one of the fundamentals of democracy that the people of every country have the right to determine the form of government under which they wish to live. So long as other nations don't try to interfere with our affairs the system of government under which they carry on is a matter of indifference to us. However, when their citizens use our precious rights of free speech, free assembly and free press to hit us blows below the belt, right in our own ring, we must not hesitate to deliver a knockout. The communists in our midst sneer at the capitalist system and see in it nothing but oppression of the weak by the strong. But twenty years of communism in the Soviet republics have shown nothing but the most heartless oppression of the weak (who are by far the majority of the population) by a tightly- knit minority who use the well-fed and well-clothed army to keep the rest of the population in hand. Nobody knows exactly how many members there are in the communist party in Russia, but there certainly are not more than three million

in a total population of some one hundr< 1 and eighty million. Similarly, with perhaps different percentages, in the fascist countries. Neither would dare have a free and open election by the entire body of adults, for the people would send them the capitalist system. I don't say we have production, which would mean from the packing. always lived under capitalism, because early iSoo's. The United States has The American people have lived for a generally speaking economists date the never felt that industrial and social years under great many a democratic beginning of capitalism from the intro- conditions at a given moment in its form of government functioning within duction of steam power to industrial history should be {Continued on page 53) MARCH, 1959 My Gravy Train

CCRNELI US H. REECE

FRANK /STREET

former soldiers of the beer, in a captured dugout, WHENAmerican Expeditionary was hailed with more delight Forces engage in the pas- than the capture of a Ger- time of fighting the war man brigade headquarters. over again, the question often comes up No, the favorite jobs of the as to who it was had the best, softest and war were not to be found at cushiest job. the front. Some might say that Field Paris. Further, if there ever was anything

Now everyone knows who were the Clerks, Dollar-a-Year Workers, or Y. M. desired at General Headquarters, it was outstanding heroes of the war. But about C. A. Secretaries had the edge and occu- immediately brought right around and the only pleasure in being a hero comes pied the best seats on the gravy wagon. placed on the front porch. This applied to after the action is all over. Then the one All these answers are wrong. I am, everything from medals to mademoiselles who has carved out a place for himself herewith, settling the argument for all or easy chairs. in history can, for a few moments, listen time. I have known intimately, slept with My father was not a Congressman and to the plaudits of his fellow citizens. and bought beer for the man who had I had never even heard of General However, after he has ridden up the main the prize soft place of the war. He even Pershing before the war started, so I can- stem and had the key to his home city knew it at the time and knows it now. not be accused of deliberately laying a presented to him, he once more becomes His name is signed as the author of this pipeline for the position. It was just one an ordinary mortal and washes the family article. Further, when I say that the pos- of those things that happen. I was at the dishes on the maid's night out. sessor of that job was a Marine, I can time one of those who could fall down a Possibly later the neighbors will in- lean pleasurably back and listen to the dark hole and come up with a diamond quire about the feats of valor which gnashing of teeth by the Army men. necklace in each hand. caused various governments to hang en- And just what was this greatest of all Many stories have been written about ameled hardware on his manly chest. goldbrick jobs? the ghastly realism of the war's horrors. If so, his wife kicks him under the bridge Why, Assistant Provost Marshal at Anyone who has had the price of a movie table, smiles sweetly and says, "Oh, General Headquarters, and I'll cast back has had a fairly good idea as to what that Henry does not want to talk about that a matter of twenty-odd years and prove part was all about. I wish, however, to again. Do you sweetheart?" Whereat it. As a further explanation to civilians, show a bit of the silver lining and explain Hank meekly replies, "No, dear," and I'll add that Assistant Provost Marshal just why it was that Mademoiselle from waits until he and the husband from next simply meant head of the military po- Armcntiercs was the most popular war door can retire to the kitchen. There he lice. song. will expand a bit over a highball and re- It might be brought up at this point Earl)' in September, 1017, the 7th Ma- late how he captured Hill 404 single that this same position was a much better chine Gun Company, with which I was handed. one in Paris, but this was not true, for then serving as a lieutenant, was detached

But it was no fun to be at the front, several reasons. For one thing I was the from the 5th Regiment of Marines, then sleeping in the mud and reading your shirt only Provost Marshal at General Head- training in France, and ordered to for cooties. Also the discovery of a keg oi quarters, and there were a great many in General Headquarters. Upon arriving we

6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Those two sergeants could pick

'em. They tried to hold out on the paper work and kept the higher minds I cannot, however, give the Marines me, but I was no dummy from concentrating on the problem of entire credit for taking this situation in thinking up new and more dangerous hand. Into Headquarters there poured a places for the fighting men to attack. So steadily increasing number of men and discovered that we had three duties to without doubt, the safest place during officers, the latter ranking mainly from perform. the war was right at General Head- majors up. In almost no time, colonels The first was to be General Pershing's quarters. and generals were as common on the guard. To this end we posted sentries at Chaumont, when we arrived, was just streets of Chaumont as were lieutenants his chateau. Whenever visiting firemen, a small, sleepy French town with the in training camps. in the guise of Allied generals or states- usual whiskered mayor and smiling, ex- For some months after our arrival, men of importance, came to visit and pectant shopkeepers. These last were al- another lieutenant from our company prevent the general from getting in a full ready beginning to regard the war as a acted as Provost Marshal. This officer day's work, we would line up and present financial blessing, with so many million- had lived his civilian life in a small town, arms. We also had a guard stationed at aires in khaki. entirely composed of right-thinking peo- the Headquarters proper. Here the sen- ple. Consequently, he believed that when tries were supposed to keep out all spies AT THIS time there were perhaps a it became dark, everyone should retire to and salute the passing officers. The fact x\_ battalion of men and officers at bed and go to sleep. Following out this was that all any spy had to do to get into G. H. Q., although when we left during home grown idea, he promptly closed up Headquarters was simply to dress prop- the latter part of the war the American the cafes at an early hour. This act erly—and breeze right in. This possibly troops numbered many thousands. caused no little distress among the free accounts for the fact that no spies were The village belles were nearly all wear- thinking and drinking element, which was ever caught by us. Our third duty was to ing wooden shoes and had no stockings, far in the majority and some of high rank. act as Military Police. a condition that soon righted itself. Our A change was in order and the Marshal's As a side issue, we were supposed to first engagement, the battle of wine, baton was handed to me. I promptly assist in the anti-aircraft defense with our women and song, was won by the women moved out of camp and into a billet in machine guns. This last proved to be a with no evidence of a struggle. A few- the center of town, thoughtfully choosing useless function, for it was never con- months after our arrival, the last of the the residence of a leading cafe owner, sidered good form by the opposing wooden shoes were being split up for whose cellar and daughters were second armies to bomb each other's headquar- kindling and silk stockings had become to none in the village. ters. Bombing would have messed up as common as red wine. My power as {Continued on page 46)

MARCH, IQ59 7 Fists

I RVI NG Wallace

IS pleasing to note that Finland IThas finally decided upon July 20th of 1940 as the opening of the Olympic Games. Now, at last, we are certain of the exact date when the fist-swinging, nose-thumbing, word-bait- ing and general mayhem will begin. The Olympics, revived by the late French sportsman, Baron Pierre de Cou- bertin, as a means of promoting good will among nations, have served only as an appetizer to international shin-kicking and mud-slinging. From the first of modern Olympics, staged in Athens during 1896, when the events were mysteriously scheduled according to the Greek calendar, thereby confusing the American squad of ten into arriving on the day of the finals— to the last Olympics staged in Berlin during 1936, when six of America's track and field victories were accomplished by

Johnny Hayes, United States,

walking away after winning be, if history is actually to repeat itself. the Marathon at London in One of the first of the big fusses was 1908. Dorando, Italian, was in created during the Paris games in 1900, the lead and after collapsing when Teato, of France, and three fellow was carried across the finish patriots, licked the United States and line by spectators. At left, Jim Greek entries in the Marathon through Thorpe, the greatest ever, who the convenient means of bumming a was forced to give back his ride on a horse carriage, grandly riding Olympic trophies twenty-four of the miles, piling out near the Stadium and finishing on foot, the victors. The stink that followed didn't Negroes, drawing bitter pro- originate from the Parisian sewers. tests from Germany— there Flipping the pages of the record book has yet to be a peaceful inter- further, one comes across this rather national competition. prosaic entry: Each and every Olympic has been a Olympic 400 Meters hotbed of intrigue and a battlefield for 1908 W. Halswelle —G. B. (Walkover) 50 s. hate and tempers. And the coming one, while being sponsored by dove-like Fin- The rollicking happenings behind this land, should present a perfect preview of prosaic line caused a riot at London's the love-thy-neighbor spirit now prevail- 1908 games. Besides King Edward VII, ing between France and Germany, Eng- and sundry monocle-waving blue bloods, land and Italy, the United States and there was one of Britain's greatest Japan. crowds out to witness the finals of the Yes, sir, there will undoubtedly be hell 400-meter race. popping in Helsingfors. Or there should In the crucial contest, there were three

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Finland Americans—John Taylor, W. C. Robbins This did it. The English spectators, announced that since there had been no and T. C. Carpenter. There was one cockneys and lords alike, dropped their tape, well, there could really be no race. Britisher—Lieutenant Wyndham Hals- monocles, teacups and manners, and But lo, no sooner the announcement, welle, of His Majesty's Guards. The rushed out on the track. A hundred patri- when Lieutenant Halswelle came jogging spectators, still rankling from the sur- otic hands grabbed the joker, lifted him into the stretch. Without further ado, render of Cornwallis, were screeching and deposited him the spectators stretched the for Lieutenant Halswelle to run the somewhere on the tape across the finish, and the damned Yankees into the cinders. infield. The two re- gallant lieutenant obligingly

The four men crouched on their marks. maining Americans broke it. The referee promptly They were set, coiled springs. And then, took one look at announced him the winner! the pow of the starting gun! A speedy their manhandled Coach Mike Murphy of the whirl of racing thinclads, arm to arm, leg comrade, decided American squad, already to leg, straining over the first hundred they didn't want to stricken with high blood pres- meters. Then, suddenly, something hap- cash in on their life sure, violently charged at the pened among the Americans. It faintly insurance — and referee, threatening to knock resembled the old Notre Dame shift. raced like mad for his block off unless he awarded And as the four dash stars emerged the finish. They the race to the Americans from a fog, bewildered Lieutenant Hals- would have broken because of crowd interference. welle was found to be in a bad way. The the tape, won the The official compromised. Notre Dame shift had done him no good. race, but there was ''We'll run the bloomin' race In front of him galloped American Rob- no tape to break, it over again tomorrow," he bins, beside him puffed American Taylor, had been confiscated announced. behind him panted American Carpenter. by the English. "Like hell we will!" barked The lieutenant was trapped in a pocket, While half of Lon- Murphy. "My men were and his chancesofescapingunscathed were don chased the two leading when the mob at- equal to those of an Alcatraz Island lifer. Yanks toward the tacked them. They crossed the Everything would have come off well Channel, the referee finish line first. We win today, for the Stars and Stripes except that one or we don't show up tomor- of the American runners, on the outside, row!" Finland's great suffered a sense of humor. He decided, And on the morrow-, when Nurmi, on behalf of international good will, to branded the 400-meters was called, further handicap the Englishman by a professional only one gent appeared on cussing and blowing in his right ear, and and banned from the cinderpath. He was the elbowing him. the 1932 games dignified Lieutenant Hals- kwi welle. At the cough of the gun he raced down the track by his lonesome to capture the 1908 championship in that event in 50 seconds flat, while three Americans heckled him from the grand- stand, and Coach Murphy wired Congress to send the Marines. This same Olympic saw another hys- teric incident, and that in the final event, the Marathon. The favorite was a wispy Italian named Dorando; the dark horse was copper-colored Tom Longboat, the phlegmatic Indian from Canada. The United States was represented by a New York City clothing store clerk, Johnny Hayes. The Marathon began amid a confusion of Czechs, Swedes, French and assorted varieties—Dorando at the head of the varied-colored pack. Two hours and fifty minutes later, an eternityof torture to the runners, the leader came trudging into the Stadium. It was the slender Italian. The English went wild for their favorite. "Dorando!" they roared. "Dorando!" He smiled weakly, and pushed forward a few yards. He had only to circle the Ray Barbuti, anchor man, winning the 1600-meter relay for stadium track to complete the race. But America in 1928. In the 400-meter run his diving finish to he halted, swayed; his eyes were glassy. win was something brand new He stumbled (Continued on page 44)

MARCH, I95Q

— Launching ^Legion A TWENTY-YEAR FLASHBACK TO THE PARIS CAUCUS

A FTER the Armistice, all over the visitor there. The two renewed the dis- I % A. E. F., casual groups of cussion previously held in Paris. / % soldiers began spontaneously to This particular period, early in iqiq, discuss the desirability of form- was a time of discouragement and un- ing a veterans' organization of the World Eric Fisher happiness in the A. E. F. —as all our War. The same was true in the fore- comrades who served in Europe will well castles of our Navy. Wood remember. The war was over; but we Among others, four civilian officers were still bogged down in a foreign land, old friends from before the war reunited thousands of sea miles from home. In by chance in Paris late in January, ioiq military parlance, our morale was poor. place chosen by th particular soldiers argued the matter together. This situation was well known to most concerned. Even communication, It turned out, in the accidental course General Pershing. He and his staff at between individuals in different units, of subsequent meets, that this particular G. Ff. Q. were groping for means to better was extremely slow and uncertain. The meeting was actually the genesis of The the situation. Roosevelt and White, at same basic difficulties applied equally to American Legion. G. H. Q., were asked for their opinions. persons serving in the Navy. The four officers in question were That was the opening of the door of Therefore, when in January, our four Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, opportunity. They suggested the con- soldiers in Paris separated to return to Jr., Lieutenant Colonel George A. White, vening, at some centrally-located point, their respective and widely-separated Lieutenant Colonel William J. Donovan, of a "Morale Conference" of civilian units, they were pessimistic as to im- and Major Eric Fisher Wood. All of them soldiers. This suggestion was taken under mediate prospects. had been line soldiers. Each of them had advisement—Roosevelt and White being led battalions or regiments into action. directed to compile and submit a list of In the aggregate, the four of them wore suitable individuals. A tentative sug- Eric Fisher Wood was one of the seven wound chevrons. Roosevelt and gestion, on their part, that enlisted men founders of The American Legion, White were to become vitally important be included was disapproved. serving as Secretary of the "Tem- personalities in the development of the White caused telegraphic orders to be porary Committee of Twenty" Legion. issued for Donovan and Wood to come to which initiated the organization, These four, like so many of their com- Chaumont. Donovan, then with the and as Temporary Chairman, and rades, perfectly agreed that in France and Army of Occupation in Germany, did not Secretary, of the Paris Caucus. at this period a representative and all- He receive his orders in time to comply; but Secretary to the "Committee inclusive veterans' organization ought in was Wood arrived next morning to join to Call the St. some way to be initiated. But at this first Louis Caucus," Roosevelt and White. The three of them served as Secretary to that meeting the fundamental difficulties body together compiled a list of officers, partly it seemed insurmountable. when convened, and was Na- from their own wide acquaintanceship in tional No all-inclusive organization could Secretary of The American the A. E. F., and partly from the Person- fairly be started except by assembling Legion from June, 1919, through nel Records in White's office. the representative delegations in a conven- Minneapolis National Conven- The persons on this list were selected tion. It tion or caucus at a predetermined time was at this convention with two considerations in mind— the in title and a centrally-located place. Even the that the National Adjutant first official, the second ulterior. The Call for such a meeting could not was given to the office properly which he official motive was to c btain a group with be written and issued except by some had so capably filled. Colonel qualifications to make it competent, at reasonably representative group, meeting Wood is a member of Bedford meetings convened by military order, to together in consultation. (Pennsylvania) Post fulfill the "Morale Conference" mission But the units of the A. E. F. were prospectively assigned to it by G. Ff. Q. isolated from each other not only by The ulterior motive was to secure a com- being scattered from the Rhine to the But shortly afterwards, there occurred mittee whose diversified representative- Mediterranean, but also by the particular an incident —or accident—by means of ness would qualify it, at unofficial meet- barriers of military Regulations which which Roosevelt and White were able to ings during off-duty hours, to initiate a discouraged traveling and visiting be- open the door of opportunity. veterans' organization for all parts and tween units. During the winter White had been units of the A. E. F. Leaves of absence were not a means of transferred from the command of a regi- The list, as originally compiled, con- congregating together. For such leaves ment, to become Chief Personnel Officer tained thirty names. It included ten were few and far between; and, when at G. H. Q. in Chaumont. And early in company officers. The name of Lieu- granted, were seldom at a time or to a February Roosevelt happened to be a tenant Colonel Bennett C. Clark was

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the two meetings. Ten of them actually did succeed in attending both of the gatherings. They organized an office in Paris as a clearing house for the promotion of the A. E. F. Caucus. Their detailed plans are best outlined in the "Call for the Paris Caucus," (see page 56), composed by Wood, edited by Clark, mimeographed and mailed with the help of their associates in the 88th Division staff under the supervision of Warrant Officer Edward L. Bladel, and which is the first public document in the Legion's history. However, one vitally important event was accomplished subsequent to Febru- ary 17th, and before the actual issuance of the Call. There was no likelihood that delegates to the Caucus would be able to obtain leaves of absence for the desired dates or that they would be permitted to go to Paris. In other words the same barrier faced the prospective delegates that had originally seemed to debar the convening of a smaller, representative committee. Roosevelt and White overcame this apparently hopeless obstacle in a series of interviews at G. H. Q. Ultimately they succeeded in winning the sympathetic Major, later Lieutenant Colonel, Eric Fisher Wood, Divisional Intelli- cooperation of General Van Horn Moseley gence Officer, 88th Division, flanked by Captains John Pirie and G. N. and General Dennis Nolan, respectively Officers 3 respec- Nelson, Intelligence of the 349th and 52d Infantry, G4 and G2 of G. H. Q., both of whom had tively, against the background of a village near St. Mihiel attended the Morale Conference. The ultimate result was the issuance of the following historic telegraphic order: incorporated at Wood's suggestion ; there- Day, iqio. The meetings at Paris and by, as it later turned out, first introducing St. Louis were to be called "caucuses" to Chaumont into the picture another vitally important distinguish them from the ultimate To C. G. 1st (2d, 3d) Army. personality in the formation of the "convention" of November, 1010. M495. Notify your division and other Legion. Wood and Clark had both been They constituted themselves a com- commanders that requests of officers for leave to visit Paris to attend committee in the infantry, had each been transferred mittee —the "Temporary Committee of meeting called by Major Wood for March to the General Staff, and were then serv- 20"—to call the Paris Caucus, and to 15th should be granted. ing respectively as G2 and Gi of the 88th initiate the St. Louis Caucus. As officers (signed) *Davis Division. They were buddies. of this committee they chose Roosevelt The list, when submitted, was ap- as Chairman and Wood as Secretary (and Enlisted men were not mentioned in proved except that it was reduced to ex-officio Vice-Chairman) — this order. In fact, all early attempts to twenty officers, all of whom were of field They agreed that each one of them, include them were fraught with difficul- grade but one (Captain Ogden Mills, who upon returning to his station, was to ties. Nevertheless a great many eventu- later became Secretary of the Treasury.) spread propaganda in his vicinity calcu- ally attended. Some traveled as nominal Special orders were issued by G. H. Q. lated to recruit delegates to the A. E. F. "orderlies" to officers—in one case a directing these twenty officers to meet at Caucus. senior non-com of the old Regular Army the Army Y. M. C. A. in Paris on the They decided that Roosevelt, as their as the pretended orderly of a shavetail. morning of February 15th for conferences leading spirit, had best return to the On the morning of March 15th about with senior generals from G. H. Q. United States within two weeks to 1000 "delegates" arrived in Paris from all The "Morale Conference" met in initiate timely arrangements for the St. over the A. E. F. The first order of official sessions through February 15th, Louis Caucus. Roosevelt could count on business was registration—and that vali- 16th and 17th at stated hours during returning at his own choice because he — dation of travel orders which was a daytime. had been badly wounded in the late sum- the military necessity. Meanwhile, in their off-duty hours in mer, marked S. C. D. (Surgeon's Certi- Validation was completed about 1:30 the late afternoons and evenings, the ficate, Disabled), and slated for im- p. M. —and about 600 of the delegates twenty officers reassembled informally mediate return to the States. He had "haven't been seen since." The latter evi- choosing the nearby Inter-Allied Officers' avoided compliance, had continued until dently considered that there were better Club as their meeting place. the Armistice to command an infantry things to do in Paris than attend a there devised The American regiment of the First Division and had They — Caucus. The extent of the "casualties" became its founders. from the Surgeon-General's point of view Legion and may be gauged by examining the accom- a basic plan: business being in France at all. They there developed To no panying photograph, taken shortly after effectuate two large meetings, one in They also decided that the other nine- the first session convened at 2:55 p. M. Paris in March for the A. E. F., and one teen should each and every one try to in the Cirque de Paris—which was "gold-brick" immediately in St. Louis in May for the home forces his way home capable of seating 1000 or 1200. the Paris in order as an intermediate step towards one after Caucus— to at- The actual work of the sessions was great national convention to meet some- tempt also to be present at St. Louis, and 'Brigadier General Robert C. Davis, Adjutant Gen- where in the United States on Armistice there help harmonize the proceedings of eral of the A. E. F. _ The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine I 2 carried on by about 400 "delegates." The projected for next November, which quent meeting, Clark suggested that Navy was represented by several gobs, on being a duly elected assembly, will alone Lieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Miller leave in Paris, who were hauled off the be competent to decide matters of act as Vice-Chairman; and there being no sidewalks by sergeants-at-arms and im- policy * * * * opposition, Miller became Vice-Chairman pressed into the Caucus. "In conclusion it might be well to add and presided during several absences by Roosevelt, in accordance with the plans that it very early occurred to the Tem- Clark from the platform. made in February, had succeeded in re- porary Committee that a single Caucus The meetings continued during three turning to the United States. Wood, as held in France would not be sufficient to days, March 15th, 16th, and 17th. the only remaining officer of the Com- solve the problem, because many troops The name "American Legion" was mittee of 20, acted as temporary chair- have already returned to America and adopted. man to call the meeting to order. many other troops were denied the privi- The following purposes were approved. He read a ''key-note speech," which he lege of coming to France to fight the That "We, the members of the Military had drafted and submitted to the edi- Germans. It, therefore, has already taken and Naval Services of the United States torial comments of White and Clark, the liberty of initiating steps to call a of America in the Great War desiring to excerpts from which are as follows: similar caucus a month or two hence in perpetuate the principles of Justice,

"We [the Committee] discussed . . . America; to be attended by officers and Freedom and Democracy for which we the various steps which would be inci- men representative of the troops now in have fought; to inculcate the duty and * dental to the formation of an Association the States * * * obligation of the citizen to the State; to of Veterans. We noted that several pre- "So let us go to work. Let us try to take preserve the history and incidents of cur vious attempts had failed, either because steps towards cementing the ties of participation in the war; and to cement the initiators had some personal am- comradeship we have formed in the the ties of comradeship formed in the bition in view, or because they were service, and towards preserving the service, do propose to found and establish insufficiently representative of all classes principles of Freedom and Democracy an Association for the furtherance of the and units of the Army. Several attempts which we have defended. The first order foregoing purposes. Those eligible to failed because the initial membership was of business appears to be the selection of membership shall be: All officers and en-

History in the making: The personnel in the Military and Naval limited to one unit, or to one section of Paris Caucus that organized listed Services ... at any time during the period the country, or to one transversal stratum The American Legion, in the April 6th, until November of E. F. ; as for instance, one move- from 1017, the A. Cirque de Paris, March 15, ment for an organization to be composed nth, 1918, both inclusive; excepting 1919. The sessions continued * * * * however, persons leaving the service solely of officers through March 17th "It is distinctly the opinion of the without an honorable discharge or

Temporary Committee that neither it nor persons who having been called into the this Caucus would be competent to de- a chairman—and in this connection I service refused, failed, or attempted to I candi- the full performance of such ser- cide any definite . . . policies for the com- beg leave to state that am not a evade plete and final government of the organi- date for that position." vice. The society shall consist of a zation. The Temporary Committee feel The Caucus then organized, with Clark national organization with subsidiary branches: One for each State, Territory, that all such matters . . . should be de- as Chairman, Wood as Secretary, and ferred for decision by the Convention Blade! as Assistant Secretary. At a subse- the District of {Continued on page 56)

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A Big Stick

a wait-for-me call to you on the long dis- tance and then dashing by plane to reach By Frederick you. You would not be met at the door of the White House by an usher but by to the press of invitations, make it clear the President himself as he let a Cabinet that, friendly as was your nature, you meeting wait. could not attend twenty banquets and The head of every big nation from receptions and talk over the radio five London to Moscow, and then on to times on the same day. Tokyo, would be ready to hang both a But what a laugh would greet—more breast plate and a stomacher of jeweled of a laugh than the ground hog fans get decorations on you and let you name your from the professors of meteorology own sum on a check on the national anyone who set himself up for such an treasury—for the monopoly of your inside infallible prophet. In a week his record dope. of miscasts would bust him as a seer. weather man forecasts the Great corporations would seek to hire What we do know is that we shall THEweather for a day or two, and is you at an enormous salary, with the have more big winds and floods, more not always right. whole floor of a skyscraper for your hot discussions in Congress over what Suppose you had the power luxurious suite of offices. Multi-million- bills to pass, more national and inter- to foretell the weather for a year, and aire speculators would back you for national crises, as we always have had, you could pencil the exact date on the exclusive tips which would lead to fabu- and we shall have to take the ups and calendar when the next hurricane or lous killings on the various stock ex- downs of business and unemployment as flood would hit the United States, and changes. they come. where. There would be plush cushions—gold- Suppose you could foretell for a year braided if you preferred—on the chairs ALL these are wrapped up in the causes what bills Congress would pass, what of your free box at all major league ball of war. And there is every sign that national and international crises we games in return for previous information we shall have more wars. One is proceed- should have to face, whether business as to the pennant winner, or whether Bill ing at this writing in Spain and another would boom or slump, whether there Lee would be as good this year as last, in China just as a reminder that the would be fewer jobs with less pay or if Hubbell's arm would be right again, precedent still holds. more jobs with better pay, peace over the if Bob Feller would get over his wildness, We like to listen to prophets if they world or what new wars would break out if Connie Mack would pick up a are entertaining, but our faith in them and where, and whether they would lead couple of wonder pitchers off the sand goes out the window when they call the to another world war. lots who would hoist his Athletics out of turn wrong. Anyone with a hunch can

Then you need not worry about your the ruck and into a world's champion- play it, but we are disinclined to string personal future. You could pay cash for ship —as Connie has done on a couple of along with him, especially after failure of the finest set of furs in any store window occasions. And you could buy in the his judgment has cost him his shirt. and they would not be good enough for tickets which were sure to win the Irish 1 take it for granted that the Olympic your wife, and you could splurge on Sweepstakes and the Grand National. champion knows more about skating everything. Then while your bank account than I do and that a professional baseball You would be the most sought-after mounted, your private secretaries would manager who has sized up all the teams man in the world. The national chairmen shepherd the besieging crowds of news- can pick the winner better than anyone of the political parties would be rushing paper and camera men, and, in answer who sees an occasional game and supple-

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Uncle WILLIAM HEASLIP Aside from whether he has a business Palmer of his own, a job, or is looking for a job,

he is an expert in war and in peace, just ments his knowledge with a look into a as the weather man is in the weather, the crystal ball. house builder in house building, the

W hat a joke a house would be if built steamshovel man in excavation or the by men with no training or experience in judge in law or the doctor in medicine. house building, in place of men who had In the Legion we have a great body of both training and experience as carpen- such experts. ters, masons, plumbers and plasterers! I recall General Pershing saying to me What a joke of an automobile these after he had reviewed a Legion parade experts would build if they took the which kindled great memories for him: place of men used to building cars! And "They know war. They're for prepared- the novices could not escape the record ness. They know how to keep the peace." ness for the coming year than most of the parodies they had produced. No one has ever spoken more telling Legionnaires realize. Uncle Sam has at We take or do not take an umbrella words for peace than he did in that one last caught up with the Legion and its with us when we leave home in the instance, with his authority and prestige advocacy of the first Theodore Roose- morning, after reading the weather as the spearhead of our victory in velt's proposal to "speak softly, but carry report, because the weather man is a France. a big stick." trained expert with a lot of experience of There is his record for two years in Look back to how national convention the weather. He is not always right, but France as the expert commander who after national convention of The Ameri- he is oftener right than grandfather's knew his job and unflinchingly did it. can Legion has stood consistently for squint to the nor'-nor'-east or his feel of There is The American Legion's record preparedness when we knew what we the "rheumatiz" that was coming on in for twenty years. That is its test again-t were talking about. Consider all the argu- his bones. that of the soothsayers, the ground hog ments against our policy by those who By the same token, who is the expert fans, the dreamers and the crystal ball had found a new recipe to end war for- in war? Is it the man who has never made gazers. ever—all the pseudo idealists who did not any salute except the wave of a hand in a know what they were talking about. good morning greeting, and knows war NEVER has the Legion's policy been One of their favorite ways of dismissing only bv what he has read and heard about so well vindicated, never have we our pleas was that having been in a war it? had so mighty and unanswerable reasons we wanted the country to get into Hardly. The expert is the war veteran! for being proud as a great company of another. We would promote the war busi- It was in his country's uniform that the experts as in this year 1939 when dark ness just as inevitably as soap makers Legionnaire saluted the flag and his clouds overshadow the world with the would promote the soap business. Men country. He has known the steel harness threat that any day they may discharge who had not been in the war thought of military discipline, kept his oath to their lightnings. that the very fact that we had formed go where he was sent in any detail a It is time we called out the Legion an association in memory of our service long as his country needed him by land bands to celebrate a justified "I told you meant that we were glorifying war—and or sea, offered his life in war's risk and so" triumph in celebration of the honor to glorify war was to bring on another hardship. He knows war by hard trainin;, due us as prophets in our own country. war. and is steeped in it by experience on the We have had a larger part in our present Men who had had no experience of drill ground, on the march and in battle. preparedness and the increased prepared- war preached to (Continued on page 42)

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hausted, and that are now dependent wholly on public funds for their support. Not only has the soil in many areas been abused until it can no longer provide a livelihood for men, with their wives and children, but the waters of our coasts and of inland waters, that for generations have been among the best and cheapest sources of foods nature has given us, are no longer yielding wealth and employment. Precisely how many people are now directly or indirectly, wholly or in part, dependent on public aid in this country might be difficult to ascertain. The total is appalling, not only from the viewpoint of economics, but in terms of damage to fundamental human values. Yet had we been content, during the past two generations, to harvest the annual surplus of forest, water and land; to live on dividends instead of destroying our capital reserves, millions would now be largely independent of business and industrial ups and downs. Those who berate industry for its failure to employ all the idle labor over- look completely the fact that our once free lands took care of our surplus of hungry inhabitants. Industry has not

changed so much. It is our "Lost Hori- zon" of natural resources—land, water and timber—which has thrown a social problem in f o cur hps and our whole

Going the Indian One Better By Jay N. Darling

A world darkened by war clouds, tion of the world, which had for centuries INtorn by prejudice and shaken by been almost at a standstill, doubled fear, we of the United States have under the impetus of invention and in- been inclined to regard ourselves as dustrial development. The inroads upon set apart, beset by none of the tragic sustaining resources were terrific. The last problems confronting other nations. frontiers vanished in the United States in Hut the moment we contemplate these the twentieth century. By 1060 the up- problems and their origin, we discover ward curve of population in this country Jay N. (Ding) Darling, car- that we are not immune. We learn that will cross the downward curve of tillable toonist extraordinary and con- internal disorder and the threat of war soil until we have just three acres of servationist militant. The follow close upon the exhaustion of nat- productive earth per capita, and that is drawings on these pages are ural resources. In the countries from the barren minimum for anything resem- Ding at his glorious best which are coming invading armies and bling our present standard of living. threats of further aggression, the pressure In 1900 we had 25 acres per capita; political structure into chaos and mysti- of pi ipulation upon the facilities for living in 1030, 15.5 acres, and there are whole fied our so-called social philosophers who grows more critical month by month. communities that have retreate.d from apparently never heard of the word In the nineteenth century the popula- the land because the soil has become ex- "Conservation."

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine O' Plenty

When any portion of any nation's and in Chicago conferences were recently catch of Great Lakes fish, in many population goes continuously hungry held to consider the crisis affecting com- areas, consists of immature fish, too there comes social unrest and political mercial fisheries of the eastern United small for human consumption, which are upheaval. Our natural resources have al- States. Sponsored by the Council of frozen and shipped to fur ranches. ways been our "life insurance policy," State Governments, the New York Salmon from the Connecticut River but we've come to the vanishing point of conference was attended by representa- once brought a revenue of over one mil- our great endowment of forests, fish, tives of fourteen States on the Atlantic lion dollars a year, but now that river is game, water, and soil. The pressure of our seaboard. In Chicago were gathered hardly more than a commercial sewer. political and social problems no longer officials from the eight States bordering In fact, there used to be a valuable run has a safety valve of virgin lands to the Great Lakes and from the Dominion of salmon in all the rivers of the Atlantic absorb the expanding population. We of Canada. The State Department of our Coast north of the Connecticut. There have been here only three hundred years Government and the United States are none now. and have used up our frontiers. Our Bureau of Fisheries were represented. The The Pacific salmon (the one you usually social upheavals will grow worse as the record of destruction read into the pro- get out of a can on Thursday nights) margin of natural resources decreases. ceedings of those conferences is well has disappeared from all the rivers south

It is strange that our political philoso- exemplified in the story of the herring of of the Columbia River, and it is only a phers cannot see the troubled pathway Lake Erie. In 1018 the total catch was question of time when it will be gone of civilization so clearly blazed in history 35,000,000 pounds. Precisely ten years from that region. More thousands of and note the deserts that mark the places later it was 600,000. The whitefish and families losing their livelihood! where man has lived the longest. trout are so nearly extinct that they are It is not a case of "wake up and live,"

Eighty-five percent of our original far down on the list of species in commer- but wake up or you won't live. And it timber resources are gone. In New York cial importance. In recent years the isn't as though the answers weren't at

hand. The vital question is, where is the staff of life coming from in sufficient abundance for our grandchildren and

great grandchildren if we continue to abuse the privilege of living on nature's dole? Only by comparing the remaining resources of this continent now with the stock of nature's goods found here 200 years ago can we realize the extent of our wasteful squandering. We, to whom the continent looks opulent today, should

have seen it even sixty years ago, when tremendous stretches of great forests

still stood uncut; when a tremendous acreage of unplowed land remained to be settled by those who were hungry and unemployed; when rivers and lakes yielded their annual harvest of food, employment, and income; when the marshes and prairies abounded in fur-bearing animals, wild duck, turkey, geese, deer, bison —all sustaining resources for hungry man. Grass lands stretched from the Mississippi west to the Rocky Moun- tains, and the neighboring waters of the sea were reservoirs of food in the form of fish, crabs, clams, oysters, and water- fowl. The grass lands are gone and in their places are dust bowls where man can no longer live. We import our furs, where once we supplied the world with mink, otter, beaver, and the seemingly endless supply of heavy leather from the buffalo and elk herds. As to tillable soils and forests, we have come to the end of the trail. There are no longer new lands to be settled. Man has taken over the last tillable acres of farm and grazing lands,

and there is no place to send our surplus population, except to the relief agencies. So much for the threat of continuing on our present wasteful course. How shall You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry we avoid a {Continued on page 57)

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A wild, wet night in July, Someone suggested a brilliant solution ON1918, the men of the First Di- why shouldn't young Summerall take one vision lay in fox-holes along an of the West Point appointments then uncertain front. They had at- going begging, get two, three or maybe tacked that morning, in company with four years of education at the Govern- the French Marocs and the Second Di- ment's expense and then switch to the vision, winning every objective; they church later? It was done. were to attack again on the morrow, and This was probably the first time in its as they tried to get some rest were roused history that the U. S. Military Academy by a voice booming at them from the had been treated as a pre-divinity school, dark. "Gentlemen," it said in accents of BY FLETCHER and judging by the success of the experi- unmistakable sincerity and religious ment, it will probably be the last. The faith, "with God's help we will take PRATT future general liked West Point; and Berzy-le-Sec— tomorrow! Gentlemen, with when he was graduated, he felt he owed God's help " and then, as the owner of Uncle Sam some service in return for his the voice unexpectedly landed on his ear the battery cook, loaded to the eyeballs, education, so instead of entering the in a shell-hole, "#?**$#?!!!%$##*$#?# to stagger over to the command group, church at the end of his course, he went !!!!!" in a blast that would have made a regard Summerall with owlish gravity, into the Fifth Artillery. Missouri mule-skinner's hair curl. and then, ejaculating, "My old captain The men in the fox-holes chuckled. from the Philippines!" collapse face HE WAS still with the famous Reilly's "The old man's in good form." There was down in the snow. Battery of that regiment when or- only one voice in the world that could You might expect an explosion; every- dered on active service for the first time, achieve such a combination of faith and body did. Instead Summerall picked up in the Philippine Insurrection. There fury; and they all knew it belonged to a the prostrate veteran, brushed him off a General Bullard, later to be his close general of Division, probably the only little and handed him over to a staff man friend and great booster, saw him for the divisional leader in the world who would with orders to put the cook in the guard- first time during a battle, "a fresh-faced go stumbling through the dark to en- house for three days and then make him little man, pacing up and down on the courage his troops in such a fashion headquarters chef. firing line while everyone else kept under Charles Pelot Summerall. That was how General Summerall got cover." The shots fired at the young All his life he has been combining the the cook who later became famous for the artilleryman missed him; and in Bul- sacred and profane the way he did that wonderful things he could do with an old lard's opinion, it was his willingness to night. As a boy he wanted to be a bishop, boot and a couple of carrots; and his be shot at that made the subsequent but turned out a bombardier; as a young treatment of the cook is one of the infantry charge a success. man he went to West Point in preparation reasons why a good way of getting your Young Summerall soon tried the same for a career in the church, and read head punched today is to suggest to a trick again under far more spectacular theology before becoming an army First Division man that Summerall was circumstances. His battery was one of officer; and today, a retired full general, less than the best officer in the world. the units sent from the Philippines to he combines the presidency of a military China for the Boxer Rebellion troubles. college with the utterly unrelated hobby "DUT it is also getting away from the It arrived just in time for the attack on of being an authority on church music. J—' main point, which is how Summerall the famous Forbidden City, before whose It takes such a combination to explain got that way. He started on the road to age-old walls and huge gates the advance some of the unpredictable and startling generalship in a peculiar fashion. Brought came to a halt. Against anything like incidents in a career that has left every- up in Florida during the Reconstruction reasonable numbers of occidentals the body wondering what to expect next. For period, he wished to enter the Episcopal Chinese stood no chance; but the num- instance, there was the incident down on church, and during his pre-college days bers were not even reasonably equal, the Toul sector, when as a brigadier of won himself a scholarship at Hobart about two or three hundred to one in artillery he was inspecting battery po- College, in Ceneva in western New York favor of the Boxers, who had well earned sitions on a winter night. State, which then rather specialized in their reputation for torturing prisoners "Any drinking in your command?" he preparing students for the divinity de- and committing other forms of frightful- asked a battery officer. gree. But the scholarship covered only ness. The attackers began to waver and

"Some drinking, sir, but no drunken- tuition bills, and during Reconstruction their guns to miss; but at this moment ness," was the reply and the words there was hardly enough money in the up jumps Captain Summerall, runs were hardly out before the door of the whole State of Florida to pay the living through the storm of bullets to the gate mess-shack popped open, and out came expenses of a young man in New York. of the Forbidden City, and on it chalks

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazitu a huge cross as an aiming point. His gunners set their sights on it and opened up; down went the gates, in went the storm- ing column, and the place was won. Summerall received the Certificate of Merit, then the only military award short of the Medal of Honor, but he was not prominently heard from again till after the World War had begun. In the interval he had been engaged in a series of routine service assignments, mainly with the artillery, had been reading theology for recreation and the lives of generals for professional improvement. By 1916 he was a junior colonel, in charge of the field artillery activities of the Militia Bureau, and in that capacity was named recorder of a board appointed to consider United States artillery organization in the light of what was going on across the pond.

HE WROTE the board's report. It was pretty complicated stuff, but when the big-wigs around Washington got the drift of it they began chewing nails, for this junior American colonel boldly said that all the generals in Europe were handling their artillery wrong. In essence he said that they were propor- tioning the guns in action to the number of men, trying to arrange that every man should have a shell-burst a few yards in front of him at any given moment during an attack. Summerall remarked that a shell-burst was precious little protection if the enemy happened to be shooting at you. He wanted cannon enough behind every attack to put out the enemy's guns— big guns and machine-guns alike. Therefore, in an attack the number of guns should be proportioned to what the enemy had on the front and how they had the place organized. Therefore each Division should have a certain small amount of artillery, but the Corps and Army commands should have a lot more, and should push it into position to support every attack. Therefore also, as long as the artillery remained stationary, as most of it had so far, all offensives would be nibbling offensives, costly in blood and ammunition; the guns must get themselves legs, wheels or stilts and wade right in with the advancing infantry.

HE report got itself adopted and J- Summerall's name was mud with a lot of people. For about a year he was so unpopular he would hardly speak to himself on the street, but toward the close of that year we were in the war and there was a place for every officer, popular or not. Summerall's place was the com mand of the artillery brigade of the newly-organized 42d or Rainbow Divi- sion of the National Guard. The traces of what his report did to some people's feelings can be seen in the fact that several officers junior to him received divisional commands. The history of what went on behind the scenes at (Continued on page 46) 10 — -STRUCK Drivers FAI RFAX DOWN EY

THERE never was, there just lively counter-battery, H.E. and gas. eyes rolled, showing a lot of the whites. couldn't be, a more magnificent Though we had escaped casualties so far, "Headquarters called me up early this artillery position than my battery we felt dragged out and weary when we morning," he mumbled. "Wanted to drew, first time into the line, in turned in after the third night of it, hop- know if we had any truck drivers in the March, 1918. The French had wrought it. ing nobody would start anything too battery." Given time and leisure —and both had bright and early next morning. So that was it. HQ might have shown been available in this long-quiet sector No luck. The field telephone by my some decent consideration for a battery east of Verdun—the frogs knew how to bunk jingled. The captain's voice or- that had been shooting barrages all make a ward comfortable and even de dered me to come over to his dugout and night, enough of it anyway to defer a luxe. figure the meteorological data. questionnaire on truck drivers. What Turf-covered, wooden-floored emplace- were they in the life of an outfit that was ments for our .75 's, complete with shell horse-drawn and proud of it? racks, blackboards for firing data, and "Truck drivers!" the captain' sneered. dugouts for gun squads. A battery com- A True "We have no truck drivers. I'm not a mander's dugout of two rooms; one his truck driver. You're not a truck driver, sleeping quarters, the other used for the Short Short either, are you?" officers' mess. A lieutenants' dugout; He laughed loudly, wildly. I laughed, bunks were bottomed with wire mesh, Story too, as one does at one's superior officer's and some craftsman had done some neat jokes. But my laugh was a bit hollow. wood carving on their sides. An ammuni- "No truck drivers!" he shouted. tion dugout, hewn deep in solid rock and "Right away, sir?" Not the right an- "What's more, if that double-dashed, topped by steel rails and corrugated iron, swer from a trusty lieutenant, but I was triple-tongued, illegitimate adjutant and a telephone-kitchen dugout. Not only so dead tired I thought a few air currents comes over here looking for any truck were the dugouts connected by phone; could wait. drivers, by God I'll shoot him!" there were heavy bell-pull wires which ran The phone erupted in my ear. "You're A hand, at once strong and delicate, from the barrage lookout's post. When he blank-dashed right, right away!" the hand of a pianist, darted down to sighted a rocket, he jerked all the wires. Not at all like the B.C., that. A fine the holster, always kept in his bunk at Down in every dugout a raucous cow- officer, a good man to serve under. He night—whipped out the army auto- bell jangled, and the troops sprang to had kept me as his executive, though I matic—held it at the ready. arms. didn't rank it. Now here he was cussing "What's more," said the captain All paths in that beautiful battery me up and down. Well, he had looked hoarsely, "if you don't get out of here, position, including those to the palatial white and strained lately. The respon- I'll shoot you, Fax!" latrines, were bordered with waist-high, sibility of commanding a battery of field First name and no particular hard wire and camouilaged overhead. There artillery is no light matter for any man, feelings, but sort of ominously purpose- was even, believe it or not, a trim little and the captain was conscientious and ful. The pistol hammer clicked, cocked. chapel in a tar-paper shack in the woods high strung; he took it hard. As for that "Captain," I urged, trying to keep my to the rear, and flower beds to supply bawling out, I had more or less asked voice steady, "you're tired. Go to sleep. decorations for the altar. for it. I'll take over the battery. Now put that True, electric lights and hot and cold Boots, tunic, and tin hat, I stumbled gun down and" running water had been neglected. sleepily over to the B.C.'s dugout and "No! By God, I mean it! Get out of Neither was there any bar, and passes to down the neat stairs. Sore at being here or I'll shoot you!" Paris didn't grow on the trees. Still you sworn at, I saluted, stiff and military- The blue-black steel barrel swung couldn't have everything. C'cst la guerre. like. "Sir, Lieuten- Yet that paragon of positions was the ant Downey re- setting for the grimmest minutes I passed ports as ordered." in the war, minutes for which our friends, The captain lay the enemy, were only indirectly responsi- in his bunk and ble, minutes which no Bochc hostilities muttered. His six- later ever matched for me. foot, two-inch For several nights those cowbells had frame twitched been jangling, as barrage rockets soared under I he blankets. into the sky. The infantry wanted service, Certainly he looked and the battery gave it promptly and ill. His face was efficiently, I trust, despite some fairly pallid, and his This is what he wrote

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine toward me. I looked into the round, dugout echoed a shout cf "No truck timer for a youngster whose nerves and black, wicked, unwinking little eye we drivers!" and a peal of maniacal laughter imagination have run away with him. call the muzzle under calmer circum- Then I was back in my own dugout, "Well now, lieutenant," proposed the stances. I suppose a bird facing the bale- buckling on my web belt, jerking back major, "s'pose you-all step down there ful gaze of a snake feels the way I did. the slide of my own automatic, loading and tell the captain to come on up heah. I don't know how long I stood there, it. If there was going to be some shoot- I want to see him." sort of frozen, staring into that eye, ing, I'd rather have it a duel than just "Major," I answered. "I've been down knowing there was death in it. act as a target. My brother and the there once. If I've got to go again, I'm At last I wrenched my eyes away from other lieutenant watched me sleepily. going with my gun out and I'm afraid it. They traveled past the finger crooked "Get up!" I told them tensely. "The there'll be trouble." around the trigger, up the arm to the captain's shellshocked. He pulled his "Well, now"—the major began. But a white mask which had been the face of a gun on me. He was going to shoot me." burst of that terrifying, high-pitched, friend but now was the face of a crazy They laughed merrily, then stopped crazy laughter interrupted him, followed man. Out of the comer of the mouth abruptly as they saw my face. Turning by mumbling, chuckling, and cussing.

"I don't know how long I stood there, sort of frozen"

came the order again : "Get out of here!" out, they mounted an apprehensive The major subsided. He called cut. For an instant I thought of going on guard over the B.C.'s dugout, listening to No answer from below, only the laughter. trying to argue him out of it. Then I that wild laughter. I got the Battalion We all stood rooted. There seemed to be wondered whether I'd salute. No, if I Commander on the phone, telling him no volunteers. brought my hand up, he might shoot. the story, asking him to come at once "Sir." The captain's striker stood at "Very good, sir," I said, faced about and bring the surgeon. Incredulous at my elbow, a little, sandy-haired Scotch- and started out. Slowly now, you, I first, the major finally said he'd come. man. "I'll go," he offered. "I'll take the ordered myself, scared stiff though you They arrived and joined the guard captain's breakfast down to him." are. Make a break for it, and you're mount outside the dugout. The major, And the lad did just that. If memory gone. Walk, not run, to the nearest exit. a big Southerner, a first-rate officer, reserves after these years, that soldier's It was only a few steps, but it was the garded me quizzically. name was Cochran. Anyone who, armed longest hike I ever took. Shivers chased "Well now, lieutenant, what's all only with a breakfast tray, faces an up and down a back that could feel seven this? What goes on heah?" armed crazy man, certainly should have .45 slugs plowing into it. I got up the I repeated my story earnestly. He a medal for gallantry. steps and out into the air. Down in the heard me, with the tolerance of an old- On edge, we (Continued on page 53)

MARCH. 1939 — Referendum Follies BILLS and resolutions introduced itself. While the elections of last Novem- during the opening days of the ber changed the House membership in 76th Congress were at flood stage many respects, many who signed the —Congress apparently believing petition and many others who opposed "there ought to be a law." Within the it are still serving. There are Congress- first ten days there were 3,000 thrown John Thomas men who make it a policy to sign pe- into the hopper to commence their titions to discharge a committee from journey through the legislative mill, some Taylor further consideration of a bill or resolu- to become laws, others to fall by the way- tion simply to allow it to come to a vote side. Prominent among these were Joint on the floor. Resolutions calling for an amendment to And still other members, during the the Federal Constitution which would THE AMERICAN LEGION 75th Congress, voted for the discharge require a national referendum before petition simply to please constituents

Congress could declare war, also appro- who thought it ought to come to a vote Again on February 5, 1937, Congress- priate legislation to take care of our man Ludlow presented his resolution some of these same members may quite national defense needs. Congress is losing and it was referred to the Committee on possibly have voted against the resolution little time in attacking the major prob- the Judiciary. When the committee failed itself when that stage was reached. Still lems. Funds to provide for relief needs to act, Congressman Ludlow began circu- others signed the petition and voted for up until July first next, received prefer- lating among the members of the House the discharge of the committee in the ential treatment, having passed the a petition to discharge the committee hope that this action would result in a House on January 13th. from consideration of the resolution. free and open discussion of this nation's That a determined effort was to be Such a petition to discharge must be foreign policy. made to attempt to drive through the signed by a majority of the members, or It was the thought of these particular that a discussion so-called Ludlow Amendment, providing 218. On December 14, 1937, Repre- members of the Ludlow for a national referendum before war sentative Ludlow obtained the 218th Amendment on the floor of the House and could be declared, early in this first signature on his petition which, accom- on the floor of the Senate would result in session of the present Congress, was panied by a resolution for the discharge some of this information being divulged. indicated by the massing of the forces of of the committee, was filed with the Clerk After the defeat of the motion to dis- the advocates. During the first few weeks of the House. This, of course, occurred charge the committee, proponents of the of its existence, Congress had before it during the special session of Congress and Ludlow Amendment announced they five such proposals, two in the Senate and under the rules of the House a motion to would commence a nation-wide campaign three in the House. discharge may not be made until the for its passage during the 76th Congress. For several years resolutions providing Monday falling two weeks or more after Apparently the start is being made with for a popular referendum on war have the necessary number of signatures has early introduction of these proposals. been appearing in the Senate and House been obtained. without receiving any particular atten- However, it was not until the third tion. On January 14, 1935, however, session of the 75th Congress that the Congressman Ludlow introduced House matter reached a vote. On January 10, "Be it 1 evolved by The Ameri- Joint Resolution 167 for an amendment 1938, Congressman Ludlow was recog- to the Constitution of the United States nized by the Speaker of the House to call can Legion in National Con- providing that, except in the case of up his resolution to discharge the Com- invasion, the authority of Congress to mittee on Judiciary and also the Com- vention assembled at Los declare war should not become effective mittee on Rules from consideration of the Angeles, California, that we until confirmed by a majority vote in a war referendum resolution. After a brief nation-wide referendum. debate, during which a letter from the oppose any change in the "Peace" organizations got behind this President and a telegram from Daniel J. present method as provided bill and began an active campaign for its Doherty, at the time National Com- support. It was referred to the House mander of The American Legion, were in the Constitution of Committee on the Judiciary and on read, the House defeated the motion to June 19, 1935, a sub-committee of that discharge by a vote of 209 to 188, with the United States relative committee held a hearing at which pro- thirty members not voting, four voting to the declaration of war" ponents of the resolution were heard. No "present" and sixteen paired. action was taken during the 74th Con- The success attained by Congressman gress and the resolution died. Most of the Ludlow in obtaining signatures to his attention of the "peace" societies during petition, also the 188 members of the that period was centered on the neu- House voting for the discharge of the The provisions of the Ludlow Amend- trality legislation and no concerted effort committee, are not correctly indicative ment have a popular appeal to the ordi-

was made by them in behalf of the of the votes that would have been ob- nary citizen. Without giving it thorough Ludlow Resolution in 1935 and 1936. tained on the merits of the resolution study he is apt to say, "Certainly. Why

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine not? Why shouldn't the ones who have to as that proposed would cripple any quence have such a provision frozen into fight vote on that question?" However, President in his conduct of our foreign its basic statutes? Or even a law repeal- some of the answers to this are found in relations; and it would encourage other able at will by the legislature? The excerpts from the President's letter sent nations to believe that they could violate answer, of course, is no. to the Speaker of the House on January American rights with impunity." The pacifists and the "fellow travelers" 6, 1938, when the Ludlow proposal was The American Legion, of course, has a of the Moscow-minded whom the Dies under consideration, such as "the pro- resolution in opposition to any such Committee's hearings smoked out would posed amendment would be impracticable amendment, chiefly because a declaration love to see us adopt such an amendment in its application and incompatible with of war cannot be decided by town meeting to the Constitution, because they believe our representative form of government," method in these days of undeclared wars that their boring-from-within tactics and that "our Government is conducted by and such a restricting amendment might the revulsion to bloodshed shared by the people through representatives of seriously endanger the welfare of the normal human beings in a democracy their own choosing," and further that United States. would throw a monkey wrench into our

"such an amendment to the Constitution Does any other nation of any conse- machinery if, {Continued on page 50)

MARCH. 1059 23 Arch i e Grows

war birds all laughed when THEArchie opened his mouth. He coughed and he wheezed and shuddered and sputtered. He / puffed smoke and he blew sand—also Robert 1M>: belched flame and spat fire, but the villainous aircraft politely ignored him. Archie was christened by a more dig- Ginsburgh nified name. The Germans gave him the terrible title of "das Flugschuetz" and when they turned loose four or six Archies bring down a number of German ships. lery, grenades and trench mortars—to they went so far as to call them the They even presented statistics showing account for every casualty among the "Flugzeugabwehrbatterie," but the Brit- that Archie's marksmanship was almost soldiers of the Central Powers. Skeptic ish Tommies, who were among the first twice as good as that of the highly touted doughboys mere'y scoffed at the coast to sense Archie's wrath, refused to be doughboy's or red-leg's. They submitted artillerymen's arguments and continued impressed. They watched him spray the arithmetical data that they brought down to laugh at Archie. skies with shrapnel and shell and ridi- an enemy plane for every 605 rounds of To the men in the air, however, Archie culed his ability to shoot. antiaircraft artillery ammunition ex- by 1918 had become a serious menace.

There is a story told of one bold young pended. In contrast, they proved that it His shots began to tell. Royal Flying Corps pilot, just back from took an average of 1,100 rounds of French marksmanship against the London's music halls, who sang as he Allied ammunition —small arms, artil- plane, woefully poor in 1914-15, had flew and fought. The bursts of fire from the German guns on the ground that broke around him, he artfully dodged and as each shot missed him, he loudly sang out, "Archibald, certainly not." That was the catch phrase of an English song hit of 1014. The boys on the ground caught the refrain and Archie became synonymous with German antiaircraft artillery. When the British tried to turn their guns on the German fliers, they fared no better. They aimed their pompoms and pulled their lanyards. They filled the air with flying projectiles. They were above the target, beyond the target and short of the target, to the right of it and to the left of it. They never seemed to hit it. Worse than that, their shells, which were supposed to burst on impact, touching nothing but ether along the trajec- tory, fell to the ground with a crash and exploded, and frequently in the trenches of their own Tommies. In disgust, they called their own antiaircraft artillery pieces, Archies. Archies they remained. When the American Expeditionary Force introduced its own antiaircraft guns, the reputation would not die. Archie became an ex- pressive addition to the doughboy's vocabulary. The cosmolined American coast artillerymen, who manned the A. E. F. antiaircraft artillery, did not take kindly to the sobriquet Archie and its contemp- tuous connotation. They had records to prove that when the American Archie fired, German planes took no chances and kept to a respectful height above the bursts. They offered examples of de- creased effectiveness of enemy planes in zones where Archie performed. They had If it flies within range of the antiaircraft guns substantial evidence that Archie did these billion candle power beams will spot it 24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine The 62d Coast Artillery lets greatly improved. In 1916, the French To hit his aerial target, he had to de- a machine-directed one go antiaircraft service had grounded 60 termine first how far away it was. He had during a simulated air raid airplanes; in 120; and in 200. the range. Then he had to figure 1917, 1918, on New York City to get In 1916, the French gunners expended out the plane's deviation to the right or 11,000 shots of various calibers of in- to the left and set his instruments accord- fantry and artillery weapons to bring Lieutenant Boyau, the champion ingly. In other words, he had to compute down a single plane. In 1918, it took but French "balloon buster," with a record the azimuth of his target. Then he had to 7,500. Limited to the performances of of 24 observation balloons and 12 air- calculate the height of the enemy plane Archie, the toll was one enemy plane per planes, disappeared in mid-air after he above his guns and make the necessary 3,200 rounds of antiaircraft artillery fire. became subjected to Archie's barrage. corrections. Finally, he had to set his The British showed even greater prog- Archie is not directly credited with vic- aim forward, well ahead of the plane, to ress. They had failed miserably in 1914 tory over the great Guynemer but the compensate for the time of flight of the

with a zero performance. In 191 5, they fact that the famous French ace disap- projectile until it would reach that point brought down 20; in 1916, 50; in 1917, 05 peared after taking off and rising to the in mid-air where he hoped target and and in 1918, 176. In 1917, they averaged clouds, points suspiciously toward an- shell would meet in explosion. In short, 8,000 rounds per German plane. In late other of Archie's successes. Major Man- Archie's fire had to be corrected for range, 1918, they were spending 1,500 for nock, Royal Flying Corps ace, with 73 azimuth, height and time of High I. every enemy ship brought down. victories to his credit, went down before To complicate matters, Archie never By the end of the World War, Italian a German Archie. could count upon any cooperation from antiaircraft artillery had brought down Another victim was Lieutenant Hamil- the enemy fliers. On the contrary, they 1 29 German and Austrian planes. ton Coolidge, young Harvard athlete, tried in every way to confuse him in his Our own antiaircraft service, consisting winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, calculations. They refused to stay put. of but two skeleton artillery battalions who, with eight quick victories to his By the time Archie had the range, the and two machine-gun battalions, in action credit, gave promise of developing into plane was a mile or two away. By the but four months, was credited officially an outstanding ace in the American time he determined the azimuth, tin- with bringing down 58 planes. Army Air Service, caught in a burst of flier had changed direction. By the time Archie from beyond the Rhine brought German antiaircraft fire. Allied Archies he established the height, the inconsider- down more planes by antiaircraft fire wrought similar havoc among German ate aviator had turned a few somersaults than all of the Allies put together. The fliers. and had dropped several hundred feet. devastating attack of the German anti- By the time he had set the fuse to take aircraft gunners accounted for a total WHEN the World War's post-mor- the time of flight into account, the target of 1.520 Allied planes. tems came up for study, military had undergone changes in three dimen- German Archies took their toll, not experts not only failed to find fault with sions and had thrown all of his calcula- only among novices in aviation but Archie's marksmanship but expressed tions out of line. among the most experienced fliers of the great surprise that he ever hit anything. Despite these apparent difficulties, Allied armies, though on direct hits he Archie had to fight in four dimensions Archie's hits had become too frequent to frequently left no trace of his destruction. but he had no Einstein in his gun crew. be ignored. By the time of the Armistice

MARCH, 1939 25 Antiaircraft director T-8, every warring nation not only had a affectionately termed "The the use of other instruments determines considerable antiaircraft service but was Brain," doing its stuff during the speed of the hostile aircraft. That making elaborate plans for its further maneuvers information also is transmitted to the expansions. brain. In the last twenty years, Archie has increased from 1,800 foot seconds to The "brain twisters," consisting of a made great strides. No longer is he on the 2,800, and as a result of this improve- crew of six, follow the target with two defensive before other military arms and ment, he has cut down the time of flight sights, one for direction and the other for services. He occupies a conspicuous posi- of the projectile and consequently added range, turn a dial to set the altitude as it tion in the defense of all frontiers of all to the accuracy of his fire. He can track comes from the height-finder and the nations. His reputation, enhanced in a target traveling at two hundred miles brain does the rest.

Spain, has been increased still further by an hour and hold it under constant ob- It furnishes automatically, by electrical his performances in target practice. servation. devices, the elevation for the gun to Though the plane still is more than an No longer is Archie regarded disdain- correspond to the range of the target, the equal match for him, he realizes that he fully. He has gained the confidence of the lateral setting to give proper direction to is adding to its difficulties. The plane may ground troops and the respect of the the aim, and the mark for setting the fly higher and higher in the hope of stay- flying man. The name Archie has become fuses on the projectiles so that they will ing out of his range but Archie relent- a term of genuine affection. explode at the proper moment. It solves lessly continues in his efforts to keep up. The transformation of Archie repre- instantaneously the data to the future He knows that the higher he compels sents a signal victory for the ordnance position of the target and automatically the pilot and his observer to go, the engineers of the United States Army and transmits the settings to the dials in the harder it becomes for the plane to pick especially for the late Major William P. guns. By keeping the three dials on the up targets, to shoot accurately and to Wilson, who is credited with providing guns matched with those on which infor- observe fire for artillery. Archie with a mechanical brain. It is an mation from the brain is received, the The American Archie of today, still instrument known as a director. gun crews can keep their eyes on the a three-inch antiaircraft gun, is a tre- When word reaches an American anti- target and be ready to shoot upon com- mendous improvement over the World aircraft battery that an enemy flight is mand. As the enemy planes maneuver War model. Its vertical range of about heading toward the lines, the observers about the skies, changing height, range or 5,500 feet in 1918 has been greatly in- near the guns turn their stereoscopic direction, the brain keeps on working and creased. In some of the recent maneuvers height-finder in the general direction of provides the men at the guns with up-to- its effect was noted on sleeve targets the expected target, pick it up in its the-second information. towed at the height of 12,000 and 13,000 course' and begin to track it. They set a Archie has been provided not only with feet. Instead of needing 605 rounds to few dials and in a few seconds the height brains but with eyes and ears. Sound bring down a plane, Archie, firing at the of the enemy plane is determined. By locators, with the appearance of gigantic rate of 25 rounds per gun per minute, wire, this data is transmitted to the phonograph horns, pick up the noise of can be counted on to score a hit for every director, or the mechanical brain. planes at distances up to seven miles. 24 rounds. His muzzle velocity has been In the meantime, another crew with Huge sixty-inch (Continued on page 44) 26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine * EDIT ©RIAL*

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weeks before the conclusion of the public or Rome, but paid more than a little attention to the SOMEhearings held by the Dies Committee of the House workings of some of our domestic organizations and of Representatives organized for the purpose of to some bureaus and departments of our own Govern- investigating un-American activities, National ment, particularly those having to do with immigration Commander Stephen F. Chadwick was invited to ap- and deportation of undesirable aliens. In this instance pear before the committee and give his testimony. In the accent was placed on the Department of Labor and his opening statement the National Commander of The the dealings of that department with alien agitators. American Legion said: The Harry Bridges case was discussed at length and "Your committee is, in the testimony being produced no justification was found for the coddling of the Aus- T before it, making disclosures which to most of our tralian alleged communist, stormy petrel in W est Coast citizenry appear startling, but to The American Legion labor relations, or for continued refusal to proceed to the things which the committee has thus far heard have hearing on the warrant to deport him. been known over a period of years. We, in our en- The Dies report, covering but a small part of a wide deavors to combat the 'isms' which beset the body pol- field, accomplished just the thing that National Com- itic, have not been able to secure the audience which the mander Chadwick hoped for in his opening statement seriousness of the situation warrants. It was for this to the committee— it brought pertinent facts before the reason that The American Legion requested and sup- wide audience of America itself; something that no ported the appointment of a Congressional commit- group or organization could do. tee, and as the committee delves into the facts upon These facts shocked many citizens out of their which its ultimate findings must be made, we of the attitude of apathy or indifference. The report brought Legion feel that no hurdle should be placed in its way, light to the eyes of many who were blinded by the self- for it is concerning itself with a diseased condition in willed belief that the so-called menace of alien agita- our internal affairs which, if suffered to go unchecked, tion was the vagary of a small group of over zealous may cause our national destruction from within just flag wavers and professional patriots. Many were as completely as external danger might do so from shocked by the newspaper reports to do a little inves- without." tigating and thinking for themselves. There are those, The Dies Committee completed its work, and a forty of course, who disagreed with the findings and opposed thousand word report, the result of its findings after further hearings. months of hard work and research, was submitted to the Congress on the opening day of the present ses- BUT, as distinguished from the findings of unofficial sion. Shocking and startling as were the disclosures groups, the report of the Dies Committee cannot be of the numbers, methods and distribution of the borers- laughed away. No amount of wise-cracking or criti- from-within, it was frankly admitted that the inquiry cism of the manner in which the investigation was con- had only scratched the surface; that the scope of the ducted will dispel or set aside the undisputed facts probe, necessarily limited by the time and the means presented; other facts or conclusions which are not so at its command, was not sufficient to bring the full much a matter of public knowledge must have credence truth to light. With the presentation of the report to the until they are controverted. House and the expenditure of the small appropriation of About three hundred and forty years ago John Lyly, $25,000 which had been set aside for its use, the work of who was probably concerned about some great public the committee as constituted by the last Congress came question of his day—he could not have foreseen the to an end. Chairman Dies, however, asked that the com- hearings of last summer and fall—wrote: "There can mittee be reconstituted and that an adequate appropria- be no great smoke arise but there must be some fire, tion be provided to extend the inquiry. This the House no great report without great suspicion," which in the of Representatives by overwhelming vote has done. course of years has been reduced to the terse Ameri- canism, "There is no smoke without fire." Here we CONTAINING as this report did a broad indictment have smoke, suspicion and a report —a report that, of communist infiltration and of nazi and fascist self-admittedly, only scratches the surface. penetration; of agitation of "isms" and ideologies di- There is more, then, to be revealed, under-surface rectly opposed to the democracy of America carried on facts to be dug up from the sub-soil and the grass unhampered and unimpeded, with the sympathetic sup- roots. The American Legion, with a knowledge gained port, if not under actual direction, of the representatives by years of struggling with the problem of subversive of foreign governments, the findings were so full and elements, wants the job completed. There is now a complete and so thoroughly documented as to convince popular demand by an aroused America for a complete even the doubting Thomases that the subversive move- airing of an unwholesome and unpleasant subject, free ment in America has passed the bogie man stage and from the implications of a partisan color or bias, and has grown into a menace. The Dies Committee did not we expect remedial legislation to follow which will confine its inquiries singly into the movement of those protect us as a free people from those who would aliens who take their directions from Moscow, Berlin destroy our liberty.

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By Winsok Jcsselyn NEWCOMERS to Legion Posts Back near one corner of the room, a or ducks or even pigs for prizes. It doesn't often have gold-bearing ideas, new man finally stood up and saluted and matter so much what you give; the main

particularly if they have trans- said, "Comrade Commander, the Post I thing is to find a suitable location and to ferred in from go-getter out- came from in the West has an annual appoint committees that will work. And fits elsewhere. Naturally they are a little turkey shoot in October that nets from here's another thing to be said for a reticent about popping off as to what four hundred to a thousand dollars a turkey shoot: It encourages outdoor successful crowds they've belonged to, year. Of course,— that may not be a whole shooting of all kinds of firearms, which is and so they may need a little prompting lot of money a mighty good Legion activity." before the pay-streaks in their experi- Broke in a voice, "Brother, it's a "Comrade," said the Commander, ences are revealed. Like this: fortune!" "you're just the man we want to talk to The Post Commander and his execu- The Commander rapped his gavel and after this meeting's over. I think you've tive committee came into the meeting craned his neck toward the new mem- got something there!" room that night with long faces. To old- ber's corner. "Did you say a turkey And so after the meeting closed, the timers in the Post, it was plain that the shoot?" Around the room other necks Commander rallied his right-hand men bugaboo of post finances was going to be craned to see the man who spoke about and sat down with the new member at a aired again—plenty. Thanksgiving birds in round hundreds of table in the Post's busy Dugout, and the Nor were they disappointed. All too dollars. new member began to talk. soon the meeting got going and the airing "Yes, Commander, I did," went on the The first thing that you've got to con- came like a storm. new man. "Of course, I don't mean that sider (said he) is your location. If you go "And so, Comrades," summarized the people actually shoot at the turkeys. in for this shoot on an ambitious scale BULLS-EY

Refreshment stands and other Commander, frowning down at the papers concessions bring in the gravy. you will need a lot of room. This meant on his desk, "now you know all of the Besides, everybody doesn't want several acres for car parking, concessions, figures. to watch the shooting and a two-hundred-and-forty-yard range "We've got to meet the payments on for the big rifles with a fairly steep hill for our building; we've got to carry on our a target backstop. There should also be youth work; we've got to keep up our They shoot at targets with big rifles and considerable open land on either side for community welfare—and all the rest of little rifles and shotguns and pistols, and the small-bore rifles, the shotguns and the items on our program. And you can if they make bull's-eyes they win a tur- the pistols. see what shape our finances are in to do key. We also have other contests— But, mind you, if you simply haven't this with. If anybody in this room has "Turkeys and ducks are good eating!" got the room you can leave out the big any suggestions for new ways to raise broke in a hefty comrade. rifle range and have only the small rifle, " money, let him speak up." —and we have a hamburger booth shotgun and pistol. In fact, I believe that "Or be responsible for the pieces," and a refreshment stand." you might compress this shoot so much interjected a comrade. The Commander squinted in concen- that you could hold it in a good, big base- "You may be right," said the Com- tration. "But, Comrade," he said at ment by cutting out the shotguns and mander, through a scattering of profane length, "suppose that turkeys are hard simply using the small-bore rifles and the comment about a post treasury that was to supply in this part of the country." pistols. You might add bows and arrows, seemingly forever porous. "Well, then, give chickens or rabbits to say nothing of toy pistols firing

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Firing line for high powered to them. In the center rifle match. At the left the of each silhouette is a banker's tent, scene of the pay-off seven-inch china plate

bull's-eye, set so that it can be quickly re- the observers by momentarily holding a while placed when hit. The white disc against the bull's-eye, targets are nailed to misses are signaled by a wave of a red Gold flag. uprights so that the rifle is eighty- vacuum-tipped arrows, and the darts bull's-eye plates are about five feet The small-bore range seven- that you throw. The time of the year can above the ground. five yards long and has a one and bull's-eye. found be any season that suits you best, just as Two of the targets are specials. One eighths inch black We all needed. the autumn suited us best. has a plain black, seven-inch bull's-eye for that one target was that we is one To get back to the ambitious shoot, shooters whose guns are sighted for black The charge on either rifle range three shots, and the shooters however, with lots of outdoors at your bull's-eyes. The other is a target with a dollar for guns and ammunition. disposal, it's a good idea to get a field plain black, five-inch bull's-eye that is a furnish their own divides into three classes. close to a highway so that the shoot can handicap for shooters who have got their Trapshooting of easily be found by your public and so three-bird limit on the regular targets. First: The shooters work in squads firing ten or twenty-five shells apiece that there's plenty of parking space for A dugout is installed at one side of the five, the high cars. The Sons of the Legion, by the way, row of targets for the observers, and the as agreed on beforehand, and turkey; the shells are fur- can be a great help in this car-parking best arrangement for communication is man wins a firing line and cost a dollar business, which of course is offered free to run a field telephone from the firing nished at the ten, or dollars to patrons. line to the dugout. Lacking a telephone, and fifteen cents for two who With good publicity and good weather communication can be done with flags or for twenty-five. Second: For those fun of it, you'll have customers by the hundreds. a megaphone. When each man on the simply want to shoot for the cost is Let's consider the physical set-up of firing line has fired his three shots, the with no turkey up for a prize, the cents for ten shots, or a dollar the targets, taking the big rifle range range is closed, a red flag is planted along- sixty-five half for twenty-five. Third: For first. This range, as I've said, is two side the dugout and the observers inspect and a shoot for the fun but who bring hundred and forty yards long, and it has the targets. If a plate is even nicked, it is those who shells, cost is thirty cents a line of ten targets of plyboard measur- a hit and is replaced. Holes in the black their own the cents for twenty- ing five feet square. Eight of the targets bull's-eyes are covered with bits of ad- for ten shots, or sixty have lifesize silhouettes of turkevs fixed hesive black paper. Hits are signaled by five. A trick shotgun range that appeals to some is one where eight shooters stand fifty yards away from a series of eight targets, the targets being cardboards six inches square which bear crossed black lines that are a quarter inch wide. Each person shoots one shell, and the shooter who gets one pellet nearest where the lines cross in the center of the target wins a turkey. The cost is fifty cents per shooter. Pistol shooting works well with novel ranges, too, such as "chance" targets at a range of about ten feet. The range and the "chance" will give novices and experts an equal opportunity. One form of such target is a board with sixteen playing cards attached with their What the shooting's all about. The hill in backs to the shooter. The cards used are back is an insurance policy for the Post the aces, kings, {Continued on page 55)

MARCH, 1939 20 —

H I STORY

For eight years past National Headquarters has encouraged the post history plan through the means of a national Post History Contest, con- A S THE Legion years lengthen out ducted by the National / % it is becoming more and more Historian. The historical / \ apparent that greater stress is section at Indianapolis being laid upon the compilation has been greatly enriched and preservation of accurate records of by the contributions re- effort and achievement. It is not to be sulting directly from the thought, and there is no implication here, competitions in past that this growing interest arises from the years. In the contest for fact that Legionnaires, now in robust, 1939, when the Legion blooming middle age, are verging upon enters its twentv-first

Fresno (California) Post has compiled a pictorial post history that is a thing of beauty and a joy forever—pictures tell the complete story

prize went to Edward J. Moran of Binghamton (New York) Post; second prize to Mrs. Fiesta B. Markham of Leyden-Chiles-Wickersham Post, Den- ver, Colorado, and third prize to Caroline A. Wilcox of Hanson Post, Amarillo, Texas. Honorable mention was awarded Mrs. Russell F. Whiting of Fairfield (Alabama) Post; Mrs. James Foy of Morgan McDermott Post, Tucson, Ari- zona; C. W. Ross of Ashing Post, Wells- burg, Iowa; A. T. Sawyer of Harold F. Hutchinson Post, Bar Mills, Maine, and the years of anecdotage; or that their year, National Historian Thomas M. O. Z. Ide of George Washington Post,

failing eyes are tired of trying to peer into Owen, Jr., hopes to have at least one Detroit, Michigan. the future, but, with mellowed memories, thousand entries, which would represent The method of keeping post records look back reminiscently over the years of less than one-tenth of the active Posts. and post histories does not follow a uni- youth and vigorous young manhood. Rules for the contest have been prepared Keeping the records and writing the by the National Historian and may be history has always been, and always will obtained from his office at National be, the work of a small, devoted group of Headquarters. All histories must be sub- members—every Post has at least one mitted on or before May 1st. who serve year in and year out as Post Each post history is judged on com- Adjutant or Post Historian, or, as fre- prehensiveness, arrangement, accuracy,

quently is the case, one man fills both readability, index and cover, but mere offices. This group—and it is not so small size or form has never been a considera- in the aggregate—deserves a big bunch of tion. Thus the historian of a small Post posies and three cheers; they are writing may in a few pages present a story which

the life story of the organization and it is meets all requirements as fully as in a on these records that the historian of the large book. The 1938 winners were well future must rely. distributed over the Legion area; first

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form pattern. There is no rule or regula- community service, the Le- Ali) -You've pufort If U£i mean and bugle corps; Armis- tion that requires a definite system, thus gion program within the +te neaja/ev- tice Day celebration the record has wide latitude for indi- Legion itself, and a brief funeral and burial serv- vidual expression. The Step-Keeper has record of the organization of ices; sponsoring the ex- selected two post history methods the Post. The community ercises at the nation's representative of two widely separated service section includes pic- Christmas tree in Gen areas, in fact just about as far apart as tures descriptive of the dis- eral Grant National two Posts can be and still remain within aster relief work during the Park, and various spec- the continental limits—Fresno, Cali- floods in California in the ial meetings held by the fornia, and New York City. winter of 1937-38; the Post's Post at its headquarters. "Taking a tip from the old Chinese Boy Scout troop; Junior "A regular post feat- proverb, 'one picture is better than ten Baseball program; Christ- ure that is worthy of thousand words,' Fresno (California) mas party for underprivi- special mention, and Post has prepared a complete photo- leged children, (more than which is a part of the graphic record of its activities from six thousand in attendance); history, is the recep- October, 1037, to July, 1038," writes county-wide marble tourna- tions held in the Post Legionnaire C. L. Clark. "The residt of ment; competitive drill night for the home for newly naturalized citizens. This this record is a book thirteen by seven- R. O. T. C. of the Fresno high schools; idea has been a part of the Americanism teen inches in size, bound in full blue presentation of American flags; naturali- program for several years. Two such re- morocco, lettered and stamped in gold. zation services at the post home; safety ceptions were held during the past year, The book contains one hundred and forty first campaign; President's birthday ball; when certificates of naturalization were pages on which are mounted three community chest campaign, and the ob- given to newly made citizens by the Clerk hundred photographs. The pages are light servance of patriotic and special days. of the Superior Court, following an blue in shade, the printing (not lettering) "Among the activities which were Americanism program which included an is in blue ink with the corner rules in gold. primarily the affairs of the Post, and address by a Judge of the Superior Court." "The photographic history is roughly which are covered fully in the pictorial Now we turn to the Atlantic seaboard divided into three major divisions record, were the maintenance of a drum for a glimpse at the combined Adjutant's minutes and post history kept by Adver- tising Men's Post in New York City.

This record is nothing more or less than a graphic story of each meeting, with lively action and portrait sketches supple- CAPT- BOB BARJLtTT- mented by a minimum of text, made up from week to week by the versatile Iron Man f&oM A Adjutant-Historian, Cecil C. Agate, who will be remembered by Blue Ridgers as the C. 0. of Company F, 305th Ammuni- ! WoootN Ship tion Train. At each meeting of Admen's Post the illustrated record, now extend- ing back two full years, is displayed on a large easel binder for the inspection of members and visitors, and is a never- failing source of interest and comment.

This Post, it so happens, is one of the luncheon-club Posts of the Legion, meeting at mid-day on Monday of each week at the Hotel Lexington in mid-town New York. Its membership is made up of business and professional men, with mere than a fair sprinkling of names that are nationally known both in and out of the Legion. And, with a keen-eyed program committee scanning the horizon, the Post gets its full quota of guest speakers drawn from the constant stream of distinguished public men, adventurers and celebrities which flows in and out of Man- hattan. The guest speaker is always the subject of a sketch and, whether fair or foul, the unwritten rules require that a photostat copy in full size be sent to him as an official record of his appearance before the Post. To be sure, Adjutant Agate's novel record of events is somewhat informa 1 and is not always as restrained as tht page shown in the accompanying illustra-

tion, which is offered as a guide to aspiring Adjutants. Captain Bob Bartlett, Legion- 21 NOV- 38 naire, too, whose polar expeditions and adventures in the Arctic regions fill many Advertising Men's Post, New York City, has developed an- pages, was the guest speaker. National other method of keeping a combined record and Post history, Commander Chadwick, who happened the brain child of Adjutant Cecil Agate to be in the city, was a surprise visitor.

MARCH, 1939 3 J The unique manner of disposing of the mortgage, the last installment having been paid some time before, originated with Commander Charles A. Rathke. Two hundred members and friends gathered at the The artist-recorder had to content him- post home for the self with a couple of portrait sketches and ceremony. Then omit the usual action shots and cartoons Miss Emily Brack- of fellow members. en, Treasurer of the Auxiliary Unit Fini la Mortgage and sister of the soldier in whose A MORTGAGE, like a skeleton in the memory the Post closet, is not the most pleasant was named, took thing to have in a family, or in a Legion her place at the Post. But, as things go in these troubled Commander's days, a mortgage is sometimes a necessary desk, before a small evil, and there is cause for rejoicing when box. Her hand the last payment is made and the passed over the "plaster" is removed from the old home- box, not touching stead. Then, what to do? it, and as if by Some Posts have used novel means to magic a tiny little celebrate their emancipation from the blue spark traveled burden of debt by holding public bon- between two pieces fires, burning to ashes the evidences of of copper wire and debt. Just a little more than a year ago on to the top of a Alonzo Cudworth Post, of Milwaukee, rod standing on the Kiffin Rockwell Post, Asheville, North Carolina, erected a fifty- five foot steel flag pole on the grounds of Asheville Senior High School as a part of its community service and Ameri- canism work

Vermont's New Hospital

CULMINATING a vigorous drive started more than four years ago by the Department of Vermont, The Ameri- can Legion, to obtain adequate general medical hospital facilities for its ailing war veterans," writes Miss Bertha Jack- son, "the new United States Veterans Hospital near White River Junction, Vermont, has opened its doors to receive patients residing in Vermont and New Hampshire. This newest Facility is the forty-third general medical hospital provided for the care of veterans under the supervision of the Veterans Adminis- Just a wave of the hand—poof, goes the mortgage in smoke tration. and fire. Not a demonstration by a modern magician, but the "Simple, but impressive, ceremonies way Robert W. Bracken Post, Bristol, Pennsylvania, cele- marked the formal dedication of the brated its emancipation from debt hospital, presided over by George B. Kolk, manager of the Facility, and attended by more than four thousand Wisconsin, celebrated such an event by desk. The paper representing the Post persons. Among the distinguished guests firing their fully paid mortgage from a indebtedness had been fastened to the were the Governors of Vermont and New cannon out over the water of Lake top of the rod, and as the little spark Hampshire, members of the Congres- Michigan, only to have their magnificent reached the top the paper burst into sional delegations from both States, and club home destroyed by fire a few months flame and blazed away until there was Department officers of the Legion and later. One of the latest of the mortgage nothing left but a charred mass. Miss Auxiliary of the Departments of Ver- burners is Ralph W. Brac!:en Post, of Bracken's magic wave of the hand set mont and New Hampshire. Bristol, Pennsylvania—the first to use an into motion an electric eye. Now the "Although originally designed for a one electric eye to destroy the evidence. "eyes" have it. hundred and ten bed capacity, contracts

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine were awarded for an additional seventy- time service in the same Post of the Legion. seven beds in another building before the first unit was completed. By mid-summer Christmas Cheer the total bed capacity will be one hundred and eighty-seven. The investment, in- CHRISTMAS, 1038, is just about two cluding nurses' home and attendants' months back, but reports of the quarters, will represent an outlay of Christmas activities of the several Posts approximately $750,000. The main build- keep coming to the desk of the Step- ing, three stories high, is in colonial Keeper. More than one hundred Posts design in red brick with granite trim. The have reported some special service, and service building, consisting of boiler nearly all have sent pictures of some house, garages and warehouse, is in the phase of their program. It is obviously im- rear of the main building. Regional Office possible, because of space limitation, to activities for Vermont are housed in the make use of all of this splendid material, Washington, sent out trucks loaded with east wing on the first floor of the main telling, as it does, of the unselfish service boxes of foodstuffs and toys for the chil- building. of thousands of Legionnaires. dren, according to Commander Ira G. "The hospital staff is made up of six Let's grab a handful at random from Holcomb. In all, three hundred and physicians, a dentist, thirteen nurses, the folder. First on top is the report of twenty-seven boxes were distributed by thirteen hospital attendants, an X-ray Spartanburg (South Carolina) Post made the Post, in cooperation with the Salva- technician, a laboratory technician, phar- by Robert Kelsey, Chairman of the tion Army, in Vancouver and in Clark macist and physio-therapy aide. In the Publicity Committee. The Post and County . . . Publician Guy Jackson dietetic department a dietitian, three Auxiliary held their fifth annual Christ- reports that Marne Post of New Martins- cooks and ten mess attendants are pro- mas service, with tree and presents for ville, West Virginia, sponsored a com- vided. For the maintenance of the build- children. Gave presents to two hundred munity Christmas tree, when more than ing and grounds, a utility officer and and thirty-two children and baskets of four hundred children were provided with

twenty-three mechanics, firemen, labor- food to ninety-two needy families, each Christmas cheer . . . Hurden-Looker Post ers, janitors and other workmen are basket estimated at a $4 food value . . . of Hillside, New Jersey, staged its usual included. In all, the total personnel of Adams (Massachusetts) Post gave its Christmas party for children, featuring the combined hospital and Regional annual Christmas party for about three Patrick Kelly, six feet, ten inches in

Office numbers one hun- hundred children . . . height and weighing four hundred and dred and twelve." Quinsigamond Post of twenty-seven pounds, in the role of Santa Vou make 'if- SDuwdi likfe Comfaid ." Worcester, Massachu- Claus. Presents and food baskets were Father and Sons Kawerads S J l's+ call 'em setts, raised a Christmas distributed. Vrs Ccmm fund of $600 at a bingo More than eleven hundred boys and DEPARTMENT Presi- feds!! and turkey party. That girls under ten years of age were remem- dent Eleanor A. meant shoes for school bered at the fourth annual Christmas

Wright, of the Auxiliary of children, baskets of food party put on by J. Willie Leigh Post of South Dakota, reports an for the needy, and bath Navasota, Texas. In addition four hun- unusual father and son robes, cigarettesand other dred needy families were provided for; combination in Greer Post comforts for disabled altogether 2,300 gift bags were made up of Wagner, South Dakota. comrades in hospitals . . . and distributed, paid for from funds raised

The active membership in- Arthur E. Shaw Post of by holding public entertainments . . . cludes Dr. P. R. Pinard, Franklin, New Hamp- Robert G. Kotouch Post of Greensburg, whose war-time service as shire, reports the tenth Pennsylvania, was awarded first prize for a captain in the Medical annual distribution of an Americanism Christmas display in Corps included more than Christmas baskets, its home city. The display was erected a year in France, and his enough to provide din- by Service Officer Maurice Scott . . . two sons, Noel Pinard, who put in his ners for one hundred and seventy-two From Kingsburg (California) Post is time at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and persons. In addition the Post gave cash reported the twelfth annual community Kenneth, who was sent to Camp Lewis, to eight persons and sent clothing and Christmas party, featuring a tree sixty- Washington. Widely separated in their toys to fifty children not provided for in four feet in height, decorated with four service during the war months, the father the basket distribution. hundred colored globes. and two sons are now enlisted in peace- Smith-Reynolds Post of Vancouver, Los Angeles (Continued on page j8)

The newest of Uncle Sam's general medical hospitals for the care and treatment of World War veterans, located near White River Junction, Vermont, built to serve patients residing in Vermont and New Hampshire

MARCH, 1939 3? BEHIND THE FRONT A Man Could Stand Only So Much By Wallgren

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CcndwcXed \>y Dan Svw^rs

COMRADE George B. Boyd, of "They made me ship's optician, lady." taken his soundings, all of which seemed Monticello, Minnesota, sends in "I didn't know there was such a rank mere duplications to him, the patient the one about a veteran who had in the United States Navy," she said. asked wearily: passed on, and was to be buried "What did you do?" "Why doesn't somebody write that with military honors. An old lady who "I scraped the eyes out of the po- down? Can't anybody take anybody's was not familiar with military funerals tatoes." word for anything in this place?" saw the procession passing and asked her son what was going on. LEGIONNAIRE C. E. Boyle, of Van- A CRITIC was asked his opinion of a "They are going to bury Captain j couver, Canada, sends in a yarn new novel. Jones," he said. about a rookie in the Q. M. C. who had "It's pretty heavy," he said. "It would "Well, what are those men carrying just been castigated for failing to describe be a good thing for a soldier to wear over rifles for?" the old lady asked. some listings in minute detail, when a his heart when going into battle." "They are going to do the shooting at soldier came in and complained that "Why?" the grave." there was a shoe string missing from a "Well, if a bullet struck that book it "My!" exclaimed the old lady. "Isn't pair of shoes which he had been issued. would never go past the first chapter." he dead yet?" SPORTS Editor Arden FROM Bob Drum, Past Skidmore, of the Mor- Commander of Omaha gantown (West V irginia) (Nebraska) Post, comes the Dominion-News, recalls the tale about a puzzled elec- story they tell about a base- trician. He called his assis- ball game between two teams tant and said: from rival mining towns. "Put your hand on one of The captain of one side was those wires." at bat. The pitcher let the The assistant complied. ball go, and it passed over "Feel anything?" asked the plate a perfect strike. the electrician. "One strike!" called the "No." umpire. "Good," said the elec- The batter turned and trician. "I wasn't sure which gave him what is known as a was which. Don't touch the dirty look. "Go easy with

! ' other or you '11 drop dead that strike stuff, ump," he growled. DR. Robert Davis, of Again the pitcher sent a Lexington, Indiana, ball that cut right through passes along the one about a the center of the plate. Sunday School teacher who "Two!" called the um- had a pupil whose ignorance pire. would have been amusing The batter wheeled had it not been appalling. around, lifted his bat in the One Sunday she asked the air, and poised it over the little fellow how many com- umpire's head, mandments there were. To "Just take out my tonsils, doctor. Dr. Crabtree "Two what?" he yelled. her surprise, the lad an- underbid you on the appendectomy" "Too high," said the swered, "Ten, ma'am." umpire. "And now, Al," she pleas- antly asked, "what would be the result "Give him another," ordered the ser- THERE was an eminent lawyer years if you should break one of them?" geant. ago who was fond of displaying his "Then," he exclaimed in triumph, "Which one; right or left?" legal learning, especially to the members "there'd be nine!" of his office staff. He was not too proud to ACCORDING to Joseph Neth, of give even the office boy the benefit of his ACCORDING to Bill Johnston, of l\. Astoria (New York) Post, a very wisdom and his experience. ii Washington, Pennsylvania, a lady much mussed-up individual was carrying Someone asked the boy: tourist for the first time was looking in on an automobile tire which had been "How much does the judge pay you?" an Indian village. blown to ribbons, to a shop over whose "Ten thousand dollars a year." "Those Indians certainly have a sav- door read the legend, "Our Tires Smile "What, ten thousand a year for an age, blood-curdling yell," she said. at Miles." The man entered and threw office boy?" "Quite so," replied the guide. "You see, the tire he had been carrying at the feet "Yes," said the boy. "Four dollars a ma'am, every one of 'em is a college of a clerk and exclaimed: week in cash and the rest in legal advice." graduate." "Here, Mister, this one just laughed out LOUD!" IT WAS in the lecture room of a well AND Adjutant Jack Hebson, of La known university, and the time was l\. Verne (California) Post, is telling IEGIONNAIRE Belle K. Barry, of 11:58 a. m. There was shuffling of feet, one about a sailor who was recounting j Los \ngeles, writes about a patient rattle of change, and audible signs of his experiences to a dear old lady. in a Veterans Hospital who was being impending departure. Wearily the pro- "And what rank did you hold?" she examined by a corps of medical men fessor said: "Just a moment, gentlemen. asked. After the fourth or fifth doctor had I have yet a few pearls to cast."

MARCH, 1939 35 — Hail, Little Corporal

A MERICAN soldiers, once the job / % of fighting was finished in / \ Europe, proved to be as ardent tourists as are American citizens in general—and many were the odd corners of the Old World that they visited. One touring expedition took ship to the native land of a great soldier who, although he received in the Military School in Paris his training to be an officer, rose to General and to Emperor of his country, still is most generally When a group of A. E. F. tourists visited the Island of Corsica in 1919, they were royally entertained in Bastia, its capital shown above. At left, part of the group with the railroad train on which they crossed the Island

from the Base went along. I was on duty at the time with Captain LeClerc in the Rents, Requisitions and Claims Service, and was detailed by my C. O., Major Montgomery, to go along as the captain's aide. "The destroyer landed our party at Ajaccio, where on August 15, 1769, just a referred to as the "Little Corporal." Now Gang. The pictures were taken century and a half That nickname was affectionately be- under the following circumstances: before, Napoleon stowed upon him by the soldiers of his "At Headquarters, Base Section No. was born. We ar- command, when with the rank of General 6, Marseille, France, after the Armistice, rived in the morn- he was commander-in-chief of the Army we had on duty as Liaison OffLer a Cap- ing, spent the day of Italy, conducting campaigns for the tain LeClerc, a great friend and admirer sightseeing and vis- French against Italy and the Austrians. of the American Army. He conceived ited the house in

His name? You all recognize him the idea that it would be a fine thing for the Place Litizia Napoleon Bonaparte, later to become the American soldiers to make a pilgrim- which was his Napoleon I, Emperor of France, and con- age to the birthplace of Napoleon in birthplace. I recall, queror of most of Europe. Corsica. Through his efforts, the French by the way, one The pictures you see came from Legion- Navy put the torpedo boat destroyer of the boys broke naire Herbert Beller of 643 Roscoe Street, Opiniatrc at his disposal to carry the a key from the Chicago, Illinois, with this account of the Americans from Toulon to the Island piano of Napol- touring party of which he was a member: of Corsica, and return, in April, 1019. eon's mother for "Upon going over my World War sou- "The majority of the Americans chosen a souvenir. Won-

venirs last Armistice Day, I came upon to go were from the University Detach- der if he still has the enclosed snapshots which I believe ment at Aix-la-Chapelle, near Marseille, it? might prove of interest to the Then and hut everyone who could obtain a leave "The following

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you'll find reproduced, came with this letter from Ex-Mess Sergeant Bernard Koebele of 16525 Lauder Avenue, De- troit, Michigan: "I just happened to be looking through your August issue and found to my great surprise a photograph of the C. A. C. gun at Fort Kamahameha, T. H., which was taken by my good friend and buddy, Sergeant Charles Shafer of Troop H, 4th Cavalry. "We have heard so many pros and cons about the German cruiser Geier, but has

it ever occurred to any of you that some 4th Cavalry men were also in on it? I served in Troop H, 4th Cavalry, from 1916 to 1920—at Schofield Barracks from A casualty of the A. E. F. expedition to Corsica. Lieutenant Carroll the time of my enlistment until October

succumbed to seasickness aboard the French destroyer Opiniatre 9, 1918, when we left on the transport Thomas for San Francisco, thence to morning, part of the group went by train voyage, being only a little more seasick across the mountainous country to than I was—but I got a picture of him. Bastia, the largest city and capital of the I should be glad to hear from any of the island, while the rest made the trip by soldiers who composed our tour group, automobile. Lieutenant Regan and I were particularly Bennett and Regan." appointed to go by train and contact the authorities at Bastia, and the train took YOU all will probably recall the all of nine and a half hours to make the friendly howl of protest that was ioo-mile trip, creeping up the mountains voiced in these columns in the issue of and coasting down the other side. August last about Comrade Rhinehart's "Our entire touring group was given a story in the January, 1938, number con- hearty welcome at Bastia and the next cerning the removal of the crews of the day an official reception and dinner dance German cruiser Gcier and two supply was tendered us. Meanwhile, the Opini- ships, when those ships were taken over atre cruised around the island, picked us by our Government at the time diplo- up the evening of the following day and matic relations were severed with Ger- Douglas, Arizona (during the flu epi- took us back to Nice. The weather was so many on February 4, 191 7. It all came demic), thence to Fort Sam Fordyce, bad that the ship's captain did not want from the fact that Rhinehart is an ex- Texas. to attempt a landing at Toulon with the Leatherneck and the Gang got the "So I think the old leather-pushers 150 extra men of our contingent aboard inference that only Marines were involved should get a little credit, too, even though so we returned from Nice to Marseille in that early action. Veterans of the the days of the troopers and the old- by train. coast artillery corps and infantry stepped fashioned horse cavalry are fast giving "Among the men of the party I recall forward to assert they, too, were in on way to the more modern gasoline cavalry. are Captain Simpson, the American the party. To those of us who were fortunate enough officer in command of the party, Captain A couple of months after that recital to have been in the service during the Smith of the Medical Corps, and Lieu- appeared, we received a letter indicating years of real trooping, those days bring tenants Bennett, Regan and Carroll, all that still another branch of service was many fond memories. of the Artillery. The latter, by the way, also on deck. The rifle-range group of "No doubt there still is, and always suffered from mal de mer on our return some of the men of that outfit, which will be, a certain amount of cavalry mounted on horses, but their purpose will be more for showmanship than for actual duty. I enlisted at Detroit on April 24, 1916, and did my rookie stuff at Colum- bus Barracks, Ohio. After arduous pre- liminary training in manual of arms, squads right, and several weeks of K. P., I was assigned to the Fourth Cavalry, then stationed on Oahu, Hawaiian Terri- tory. The trip across the country to San Francisco and then by transport to the Islands would make a story in itself. But eventually we sighted Diamond Head, disembarked, were herded into tiny railroad coaches immediately and were soon spinning out of Honolulu at a dizzy clip, through pineapple plantations and fields of sugar cane on our way to Castner Stop, Schofield Barracks, some thirty miles out of the city. "My particular assignment was Troop Leather-pushers on the rifle range at Schofield Barracks, H, then in charge of Captain John K. Hawaii, during the war period. These men were of Troop Herr, who, by the way, is now a Major H, 4th Cavalry. Do you know any of them? General and Chief of Cavalry at Wash-

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tached themselves to various American outfits as unofficial mascots. Now, through the cooperation of John M. Leonard, Recreational Officer of the Veterans Facility at Bay Pines, Florida, a Legionnaire of Turner Brandon Post in Clearwater, Florida, we see in the accompanying illustration, and learn about, a quintet of French kids who developed to a high degree the business sense which wasn't lacking much in practically all of the youngsters in that country of our former .Allies.

This is what Comrade Leonard reports about the five-man squad posed at Port Arms: "Enclosed is a picture snapped in St.

Adept at the American manual ington, D. C. Teddy White was Top of arms, the above quintet of Kicker and 'twas he who gave us our first French youngsters entertained lecture on how to get along in this man's our homegoing troops on the Army! docks at St. Nazaire in the "Many veterans no doubt have heard spring of 1919. At right, Louie, enough about K. for P. to do them the unofficial mascot of the Y. M. rest of their lives, but I wonder how many C. A. Leave Center at Mentone, know what a routine of S. P. is. There you France, not so good at saluting have a real 'police' job. It means, simply, chambermaid to the geldings. Rise a half- hour before First Call, get to the stables, the Reds against the Blues; the former feed some 75 or 100 horses, clean out the comprising the 9th Field Artillery and 2d bedding, wash the feed boxes, sweep the Infantry, and the latter our regiment and saddle-room floor, and manyother diversi- the 3 2d Infantry. fied duties that go with keeping a row of "When we left the Islands in Septem- stables, 100 by 50 feet in size, in apple ber, 1918, for an unknown destination, pie order—not to mention the caring for we had hopes of getting into the war, but the corral. I never did find out the reason we found we were headed for Texas. We for wearing those suits of white overalls ended up doing patrol duty along the Rio while on stable duty. Grande and about all there was to that "Rookie training in the 'Fawth Hawse' was to catch Mexican bootleggers and was ominous when compared to what we bring them to justice. I never saw any had already gone through. Upon issuance Mexicans brought in, but I sure did see a Nazaire shortly before my outfit em- of all equipment we wondered if we hadn't lot of the stock in trade come in under the barked on the S. S. Ryndam in May, 1919, made a mistake in choosing a career in the boys' belts. I reckon they caught the for home. I was then a member of the cavalry — rifle, pistol, bootlegger, took away his 2 2d Company, Transportation Corps sabre, gun boot, saddle, Mow'm I qon'a hootch, gave him a kick (Railway), having enlisted in the Engi- bridle, slicker and what ""TW34 Ca*Jr in the pants and sent him neers in 1917, served with several engi- See ufnx fbr- not. Anyhoo, came the back to his own side of neer outfits at Camp Belvoir and Camp dawn Dawn in the Para- the Rio. Not much ad- Humphreys, Virginia, sailedin — tt>ese dr-ifFs!! PubbiA Or\ June, 1918, dise of the Pacific (for ^er shoes venture, but we soldiered, with a casual replacement company, and some people), but for us, CV3U) too. then assigned to several Railway 'Get up and get going, re- "The enclosed picture Engineer outfits at Montoir, Souilly, cruit!' And those first trials shows some of my gang Paris and St. Nazaire. at horsemanship under on the Schofield Rifle "The snapshot was taken on the docks Sergeant Highfill, the Range. Would surely be in St. Nazaire. The camera was owned by toughest piece of human tickled pink if any of the one of the Red Cross girls and I bought meat I've everencountered. old leather-pushers, es- the film in Paris and had the negative de- "Even after war was de- pecially Orville Zenor, veloped there. These French youngsters clared, we were mostly do- Bugler Bowman, Ser- had seen troops from the day they were ing routine drills and cus- geant Shafer, Sergeant able to take notice. They had observed tomary guard duty. Most Austolief, Cook Cross, the manual of arms as perpetrated by of my time was spent in the Sergeant Huseby, 1st Ser- many good, bad and indifferent soldiers kitchen as mess sergeant, although I did geant White and Sergeant Martin, wrote and railway engineers, both. serve as guidon sergeant when we were to me. I recently had a letter from "Someone seeing them at their make- on parade. It was shortly after the General Herr, our former captain, and I believe drill had once thrown them a cruiser Geicr was taken over that we were know the boys will be interested in the couple of francs, and that began a profit- detailed to guard the drinking water captain's rise to his high post — he was able period for their families. They would supply at Haliewa since, we had heard, an 100 percent soldier and a swell fellow." time their drills when there appeared an enemy plan was under way to poison the opportunity to get a good collection and water. For several months each troop SOME years ago this department pub- the favorite spot was the one pictured, took its turn at this guard duty. Then, lished pictures and stories of a number where many of the home-going outfits too, we had periodical war maneuvers of the French and German bovs who at- boarded their transports.

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"The boys executed their drills in a very serious manner. They did not attempt to burlesque in any way but the corporal had been exposed to our lan- guage which, as you may remember, NEW YORK could not be classified as the purest of TRAFFIC English by a long shot. Therefore his commands were interspersed with many LIGHTS cuss words. "As many troops sailed from St. Nazaire, I believe that they will recall these kids and the francs they tossed to them. Let us hear from some of the veterans who remember this miniature drill squad."

AND now from the docks at St. » Nazaire, suppose we move down to the Leave Areas in the vicinity of Men- tone, patronized by thousands of A. E. F.- ers, where we find a lone French kid who, according to the letter that accompanied his picture, should be equally well known to veterans. Legionnaire Walter M. Wood of Portsmouth, Ohio, whose letterhead indicates that he is Secretary and Treasurer of Company D, 326th Machine Gun Battalion Association, is the man to thank for the picture and this account of i t "Former soldats who were on leave at Mentone, France, will no doubt recognize Louie, a French orphan who made his headquarters at the Y in Mentone, of whom I am enclosing a snapshot picture. "I often saw this boy in and around the Casino at Mentone which had been converted into a Y. M. C. A. recreation building. While I heard a story about him, I cannot recall the source. It appears that he had been dug out from under a house which the Germans had shelled somewhere up in the Advance Area. He seemed to be everybody's charge down in Mentone. "On the occasion of my taking his picture, I was over in Monte Carlo and found Louie over there A. W. 0. L. I got him to accompany me, intending to return him to Mentone. In passing along the street in Monaco we encountered a squad of the ornately uniformed and helmeted Monaco soldiery. Louie made a dive for an abri behind me, yelling rUBFOR rm-L-DUUILUFULL-BODIED 'Boche! Boche!' 'Willi? "It would be interesting indeed to learn what became of Louie. I am sorry I ^^^"NO-BITE" SMOKING do not have or recall any further details PA'S COOLNESS, about him." SMOOTHNESS AND PA. IS A Perhaps some of the other A. E. F. PUT NEW joy REAL 'MAKIN'S TOBACCO, TOO- vacationeers who visited Mentone may IN YOUR. PIPE -THAT GOOD, ROLLS RIGHT be able to add to this tale. RICH TASTE AND SMOKES EXTRA ADDS EVEN MUD WITH RIPE, TOBACCO-y TASTE IATELY we have shied away somewhat MORE.' J from those "first" and "youngest" and "last shot" controversies that seem YOU SAY THE WORD ON THIS FAIR-SQUARE GUARANTEE to be unsolvable, but here we stick out Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don't find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever our neck again, egged on by ex-gob smoked, return the pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco Walter W. Williams of 3503 Santiago in it to us at any time within a month from this date, and we will refund full purchase price, plus postage. (Signed) Street, Tampa, Florida, who now ad- R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. Copyright. 1939. R.J. Reynolds Tob. vances the question of "the youngest Co. American in France" during wartime. All right, Williams, state your case, and THE NATIONAL then we'll sit back and see what our rince Albert JOY SMOKE Legion audience {Continued on page 60)

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{Continued from page i) coffee—when they were able to have a cow? Would he reprove the regimental her regiment into Luxembourg, where she their coffee. commander, Albert Cox, who had silently was sold to a German for around S300. She brought smiles to the men, but she given his assent to our project? Profound This money provided the men of the did more. She brought what was then said relief was had when the outfit, its person- detail with ample funds for a huge and so far as known what is yet believed nel facing the sun again after nights of Christmas feast which was given at to have been the broadest smile from rain, passed along and saw a wide grin Colmar-Berg. There, overlooking the General Pershing of any incident during cover the face of the Commander of the beautiful castle and estate of the then the war. It was on her long march from American Armies as the cow strutted duchess and her sisters, the men enjoyed St. Mihiel. The word was flashed down along in charge of her proud captors. The their Christmas dinner of barbecued pig our line that the Commander-in-Chief of word came down from those near General and other food bought with funds de- the A. E. F. was a few miles ahead await- Pershing that his reaction was more than rived from the sale of a German cow ing our passing that he might give us a smile. It was a hearty laugh. taken in the regiment's first engagement, "the once over." Fears came to us all. And thus this German cow, having a cow to which they had now become Would General Pershing countenance an scaled its last barrier, soon after the "attached" but which was returning to artillery regiment "attaching" to itself Argonne and the Armistice, went with its fatherland.

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headquarters during the early months rage. It was a method that had been where you're damned if you do and in France is still pretty uncertain and used many times before in the war, and damned if you don't. What could he do? probably will not be fully known for usually with success. Under the normal He could remember a line from the many years. We only know that the 42d's set-up, British, French or German, the memoirs of General Skobeleff, hero of artillery was good (as the Germans later attacked infantry would yell for help to the Russian-Turkish war of 1877. "Troops testified); and that when General Bullard its own H. Q., infantry H. Q. would under fire from directly in front will not took over the First Division as it was refer the matter to artillery, artillery reply on an oblique." And this was the about to go into the lines in the Toul would get a couple of batteries on the fact he used. Instead of sending all the sector in December, he found the artillery job in time to inflict a few casualties regiments of the Division over the top of that unit under command of an officer on the raiding party while it was going together, Summerall had each regiment of great skill and reputation—but an home. This time it was different; the attack in succession and covered the ad- engineer, who did not understand artil- minute the German storm troops left their vance of each in turn with the entire lery and did not like it. Bullard asked trenches they were crowned by one of artillery fire of the Division, some firing General Pershing for a regular artillery- the most destructive small shoots of the straight ahead, the others from angles man, preferably Summerall or Lassiter. war. The raiding party never did get to out on the flanks. As Skobeleff had pre- They gave him Summerall. In the first the American lines, and before it could dicted the Germans replied only to the telephonic code made up for use on the return to the safety of its own had lost all fire from straight ahead. The shooting front the name assigned to the new com- its officers and over half its personnel. from the wings, carried on without inter- mander of the First Artillery Brigade In the vast tumult of the war an inci- ference from the enemy batteries, over- was "Sitting Bull," and it has stuck to dent like that bulked small, but it, and matched them; with God's help and him ever since. the fine work of SummeraH's guns during SummeraH's, the First took Berzy-le- In that quiet sector there was not much the Cantigny operation in the spring, Sec, they took Chaudun, they took Ger- chance for Summerall to try out his ideas caught the eye of the general staff. When man battery positions where every man in battle, but he did have a chance to Bullard was moved up to a corps com- was killed around the guns, they out- prove one of his pet theories—that artil- mand on July 17th, General Summerall marched the French on their left and the lery exists, not for itself, but solely to received the crack First Division as his Marocs on their right, they reached their help and support the infantry. When own command; and twenty-four hours second objectives before evening of the they moved into the trenches the first later, through a storm of tropical violence, first day. "That night," German Chan- thing he did was to discover that "the the Division went into the Soissons at- cellor von Hertling wrote, "even the most communications net was entirely inade- tack, the first large-scale offensive under optimistic among us understood that all quate." He cured the deficiency by hav- the Stars and Stripes. was lost." ing a new set of telephone wires installed From "Sitting Bull's" point of view the The attack still had an unsatisfactory for the guns, running from the forward arrangements for that attack were feature; it slowed after the first rush. infantry positions through a switchboard thoroughly unsatisfactory. He had the Summerall attributed this to the fact at artillery H. Q. direct to the batteries. normal artillery equipment for a World that the guns could not get forward A general order was sent down for the War Division, but this consisted of no rapidly enough to support the continued use of this set of wires; when requests for more than the regular divisional guns advance of his doughboys. When the artillery support came from the men in with a small reinforcement from corps, Division moved down for the St. Mihiel the trenches, they were to be passed and he did not think there were enough offensive, he eliminated this difficulty by direct to battery without reference to the to quiet the German machine-guns on his studying the sector maps for routes that artillery or divisional staff. front. There was no time for him to get would permit his cannon to move up On March 19th the Germans gave this more into position, and he was con- during the early stages of the operation. system a tryout by staging a full-dress vinced that to attack with what he had These routes were in German hands; raid, a whole battalion of storm-troops would cost many lives. It was one of but they were carefully indicated to his coming over behind a surprise box-bar- those cases so often met with in war artillerists and they were forbidden to

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 41 shell any points on them, so that no matter how much the ground was torn up within the enemy lines during the preparation fire, there would still be solid ground for the advance of the guns. The system worked; four hours after the jump-off the First Division's artillery was already well beyond the original point from which the infantry had moved, firing barrages for the second successful attack of the day. The general still believes the American Army could have gone right on into Metz; instead they went into the Meuse- Argonne. The part the First played there was to make that terrific attack on the Montrefagne and Fleville in the early days of October, a soldiers' battle, in which they met no less than five German Divisions in succession, two of them Divisions of Guards. As the First was marching back on the nth October, Charles P. Summerall, who had come to France a colonel, received word that he had been appointed to command a Corps in the second stage of the Meuse- Argonne drive. The first order he issued was one putting the First's artillery back What Is TELEVISION? in line to help support the 42d, by which it had just been relieved. another gadget another form of entertainment? His main problem was to plan a big JUST — attack for the first of November against No. It represents another step forward in man's the Kriemhilde Line, across the steep mastery of time and space. It will enable us, for the first ridge of Barricourt and down to the banks time, to see the horizon. And, in addition, it of the Meuse. If that succeeded the Ger- beyond mans were done, for their lateral railroads will create new jobs for today and tomorrow. would be gone, they could no longer sup- New products make new jobs. That's been the history ply the front north and west; and Sum- of radio, of the automobile, of electric refrigerators and merall understood pretty clearly that it had better succeed or he was done, for movie cameras and air conditioning. It's been the history General Pershing had given him four of of hundreds of other devices and services that have come five most experienced Divisions in the from the research laboratories of industry. That's why, the A. E. F., with one big new unit which had done well at St. Mihiel. But now at in the last 50 years, the number of factory jobs in this last, as a corps commander, he could country has doubled. And why, in addition, millions of of enough artillery. dispose other jobs have been created — selling, servicing, and He arranged for the Second and 89th obtaining materials for products. to carry the attack, with the First and raw the new 42d in close support, and the 3 2d in It often takes years of costly, painstaking research to corps reserve; but the artillery of all five develop a laboratory experiment into a useful product Divisions was pushed forward to support ready for the public to enjoy. This has been the case the attack of two. Far forward, farther forward than artillery had been in the with television. As long ago as 1930, Dr. E. F. W. war before, even the heavy guns. "When- Alexanderson and other General Electric engineers dem- ever we saw one of those damn 75's," onstrated television to a theatre audience in Schenectady, General McGlachlin says, the man who commanded the 155 heavies, "we de- N. Y. When, after years of labor, television is ready for cided we weren't far enough up and the public, it will bring to the people of America a new moved on." Never before had an attack product that will add to their comfort and enjoyment, been made with more than 125 guns to a Division; on this front there were 608 for raise their living standards, and create new employment two. To every German machine gun two for today and tomorrow. 75's or a 155 were assigned; to every research engineering the public ten to German battery a whole battery of G-E and have saved from one hundred dollars every dollar they have earned General Electric heavies; and all the American guns were for for

warned to keep silent till the attack began. One final bit of preparation. In the GENERAL Wk ELECTRIC earlier Meuse-Argonne attack the Ger- mans had hurt the advancing infantry NEW YORK — VISIT THE "HOUSE OF MAGIC" AT THE FAIRS — SAN FRANCISCO by pushing little knots of machine-gunners out through the curtain of preparation fire into the zone of the old no- man's land. This (Continued on page 42)

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time Summerall ordered his attack to be- best operation by any army during the Sedan, but everything was distinctly not gin with a retreat, every American pull- war," grew the famous "race for Sedan" all right. The rush for Sedan was made

ing back 200 yards from the frontline posi- and the controversy that followed it. by night, and in the dark, elements of the tions to give these German machine-gun- The Meuse River slanted across the V First crossed the front of the 42d, placing ners time to get set,afterwhichthebarrage Corps front from right to left. When under arrest a man in American uniform would begin—at the American front line. Summerall's right elements touched the and a funny hat who said he was General The war correspondents were called river, his left was crowded over still MacArthur, and who turned out to be into corps headquarters to be told about farther to the left. They were far ahead perfectly right. When the hills around the arrangements just before the advance of other American troops on that side, Sedan were reached there were the began. They listened with respect, but and of the French out beyond the French coming up on the other side with one veteran was struck by the fact that Americans; beyond the flank lay German fire in their eyes and the intention of certain usual arrangements were missing. elements whose strength and position bombarding the place whether there

"But how are you going to deal with neither Summerall nor his commanders were any Americans in it or not. Their the counter-attack?" he asked. could know. If they went straight ahead, national pride would not allow anyone Summerall looked at him. "Gentlemen, these Germans might take them in flank else to take the place.

there will be no counter-attack." and rear; but if they kept on slanting There was a magnificent controversy

As he finished the sentence the world leftward till they reached Sedan, they afterward, and it has been going on ever rocked with the shock of 608 guns. He would cut the communications of those since. It could not do any particular was right; there was no counter-attack; flanking Germans, who would have to harm to Summerall's professional repu- it did not have time to get organized. The surrender or get out of there quick. tation; everything he said had been

Second and 89th were into German bat- That was the technical justification for justified on the battlefield. But it tery positions and had captured three the wild march to Sedan made by Sum- formed a convenient peg on which a lot regiments entire on the first morning; and merall's men, in which his own First of people hung their personal dislike for on the second night of that whirlwind Division took the lead. A jawbone rumor, the energetic and somewhat arbitrary drive one German Division (the 15th very common among the newspaper men general. However, it is worth noting that Bavarian) came out of line with exactly then and later, says there was more than the men who know him best, the veterans 277 men left. technical justification—that someone at of the First Division, get up and roar G. H. Q. sent Summerall verbal assur- when his name is mentioned; and Father TT HAS been just SummeraH's luck that ances that if his troops got into Sedan Duffy, who began by calling him "that JL the best things he ever did got him into everything would be all right in spite of old prooshan, von Summerholtz," ended the most trouble. Out of that November the fact that he would be violating corps by describing him as one of the finest

1 st victory, so rapid and complete, de- and army boundaries. and most intelligent men he had ever scribed by one German officer as "the The First reached the outskirts of known.

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(Continued from page 15) us, who had had it on a dollar a day, seen so much of war that I am bound to peace. But tell this in the past to pacifists about the waste and cost of war in blood be a peaceable citizen and not want to of the capital P and they slipped away and treasure. They would discover to us start any shooting if I can help it. from the subject. that peace is better than war when no- Have you ever noticed that if a mem- In the past, as I took care to put it body has as good a reason as we to know ber of The American Legion ever gets the past in which they were up in cloud- that it is. off the reservation and breaks the law land or running circles at one side while We were told that to disarm was the the fact that he is a Legion man is always the Legion kept on the main road. sure way to keep the fellow who was noted? That is news of the man-bites- In recent months a strange thing has armed from taking a crack at you. dog kind. It seems to be taken for granted happened—but not so strange, since it So lower your mitts before the bully that Legionnaires are naturally peaceable has happened before. All the pacifist ele- and the two of you would soon be in fellows who stand for law and order; and ments have turned urgently, flamingly loving embrace. I agree you would be that, too, has been our unchanging na- militant. Some of them make me feel like in his embrace, all right, but he would tional policy against all racketeering and a capital P pacifist in comparison. have you by the throat in a hold-up as he crime. Suddenly they got scared. They saw picked your pocket for a war indemnity. We do not forget that force protects us as being under showers of bombs, There is no sillier illusion than that to us in our daily lives in time of peace. It invaded, conquered. They wanted heavy arm invites war. carries out all the judgments and orders armament and vast preparation for war

I live in a secluded place in the country. of our courts. wanted it immediately, just as we did in There have been a good many burgla- Suppose a city awakened tomorrow 1017. ri s in the region. I have a revolver. morning to find that there was no police They thought preparedness was some-

But I do not use the revolver to go out force, no National Guard, no Regulars. thing you could buy in a hurry. They in the road and threaten people. If a How long before there would be looting did not realize, for example, that it takes burglar comes I hope to get the drop on and murder? five years to build a battleship, and you him, and that will save further argument In such an emergency there would be must first have the yards in which to and trouble. The fact that it is known a call through Legion Post Commanders build; a year to build a bombing plane

I have a revolver and the reputation of to get the Legionnaires out on patrol and you must have factories in which to knowing how to shoot with it may lead with clubs if they had no arms. In the build it. the burglars to pass my house by. I have same way force protects the nation in Nor did they know that the Legion's

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine steadfast policy had had its small results through the years, and its big results in the last five years. The basis had been prepared in increase of our armed strength for a further adequate increase required now. In a talk with a recent convert to preparedness, who was actually preaching its necessity to this old hand, he eventually wandered around the lot until he was back as an incurable to his old fixed idea about the Legion. He said the Legion was naturally bound to encourage the martial spirit, war for war's sake, for the sake of the great adventure. But he was for preparedness to insure peace and security. You have to be patient with a case like his and "show" him. And there was the evidence to show him. National convention after national convention has backed any treaty, any sound effort by our country to promote

peace, backed it for a fair trial, in the

hope it might succeed—and backed friendship with all peoples in common human world interest. The while we would not lower our guard against possible enemy blows. Then, in the zeal of his new found light, the convert was off about Ameri- canism, the elimination of dangerous alien elements, native or foreign-born, which would overthrow our Government. He was against any race prejudice within our borders and for the preservation of religion in free worship and the brotherhood of a patriotism. "You must have been reading the Legion constitution," I told him. There again was the record. It is in action as well as words, through the twenty years for Americanism. We had the brotherhood drilled into, injected into us.

"Buddy" expressed it. Who of us in his early days in the service did not meet another man who did not seem to us "our kind" only to find him qualified in the test that made us all more of the same American kind? This lesson we learned we would pass on to our children. There was a time when our "God and Country" sounded a little top-lofty to some materialists. It has never sounded so real and true as today. We look back to our unpreparedness when we entered the war in 191 7, and not even one modern plane worth sending to France. Circumstances had kept our little Regular Army out of touch with civil life. There was chaos in Washington as man-power sought drillmasters and the armed services and industry sought team- play. Do not forget that to the end of war — the FLA VOR in France we were dependent upon sup- of pure maple plies of Allied planes, guns and machine sugar for extra good taste guns. Who wants ever to be dependent in that fashion again? How many lives Velvet packs easy in a pipe Rolls smooth in did we sacrifice because we were unready? a cigarette Today our planes are unsurpassed in Better tobacco quality. We have a larger, better equip- for both ped force of {Continued on page 44) Copyright 1939, LIGGETT & MvERS TOBACCO CO.

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Regulars and National Guard. Among our wives of men. It has held fast to the view war will come. But we would have the

100,000 reserve officers are experts in all that the universal draft, when you ask a nation ready for it next time; and if we kinds of -industry who will be immediately man to offer his life, is only fair, and that are ready we may be safe in our manifest called into service in case of war. the war profiteer should not flourish at strength without having a single war No bombing plane at present can go the expense of the man at the front. cripple or without having to fire a single more than 800 miles with a full bomb While the world armament race con- shot. load. How soon will one be able to go tinues all the gaps in our program by The truth is that a lot of people have three or four times as far? We must keep land and sea should be filled, our men just been catching up with the Legion,

watch. The plane wastage in war will be by land and sea should have all the up- and we are glad of it. Honor is due us in at least 25 percent a month. We need a to-date arms in detail from big guns to our own country as expert prophets who backlog of planes—have enough of the rifles which will make them as well have stood for sound preparedness, for machines of war to start with and be armed as any possible enemy. peace with honor and without truculence, assured of rapid production if war comes. We do not know where the next big Americanism, freedom of religious wor- But war cannot be won by machines flood or big wind will come in our country. ship, against racial animosities, crime and alone. They are won by men, who pay But we may be assured the Legion will racketeering and all subversive elements the cruel, unnecessary price if they are be there with the aid of its fellowship, in the continuance, as servants of peace, not well armed and trained. The Legion organization and heart. of the brotherhood we were proud to stands for men and the mothers and Nor do we know how or when the next show in the war.

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searchlights of 800,000,000 candlepower Archie's rise to favor has been accom- the coast artillery holds in protecting our are synchronized with the sound locators panied by becoming modesty. Just as in shores from the sea. Against another night. 7-18 is to give Archie eyes at When 10 1 his value was belittled, so there navy, our best defense an aggressive turned on, they throw their beams more is now a danger that his importance may fleet capable of going out on the high seas than twenty miles and illumine the skies be over-emphasized. Archie knows he is and destroying the enemy. Should our to a height of 20,000 feet. In less than no substitute for a fighting plane. He Navy fail, or should the enemy slip thirty seconds after the signal comes from realizes that the way to defeat an enemy through and try to seize our harbors or the sound locator to turn on the search- force in the air is to pit against him planes to destroy some of our military or com- lights, the gunners normally pick up the of equal or greater power and pilots and mercial facilities, the guns and the troops target and are ready to track its flight. gunners who know how to shoot and of the coast artillery are there to repel his Though Archie is the principal actor in maneuver. efforts. the antiaircraft defense, there are others He recognizes the fact, however, that Similarly, our best air defense is in an in the cast. There are .30 and .50 caliber once committed to war, the job of the Air Corps capable of taking an offensive machine guns to use against low-flying Air Corps is to seek out the enemy and in a band of Archies in support. With planes. There is the new little 37 auto- armada and to defeat it before it can do Archie available to repel those planes matic to cover the medium ranges. Last any damage to us, and that behind the that sneak through the Air Corps' cordon but not least, there is our own Air Corps, fliers he can play a very helpful and im- and to guard home installations and many of whose ships will have to work portant role. hangars against long-range bombers, together with Archie to keep away In the defense of America in the air, fighting planes can go out and do a better hostile planes. Archie occupies the same position that job in defeating the enemy.

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{Continued from page g) three yards and sank to the turf. British He was in great form. With graceful, finish! I'll protest to the Committee, to officials surrounded him. British specta- easy strides he circled the track, crossed the Press, to the King himself!" tors tried to cheer him into conscious- the finish —and sat down to rest. And he did, for four hours, accom- ness. Finally, the poor little fellow got to Coach Murphy and American team- panied by English hisses, until even his feet, plodded on twenty more yards mates gathered about Hayes, congratu- Italy conceded that Johnny Hayes was and fell to a knee. He was out, couldn't lating him on his great run and on his the real winner. Dorando achieved finish. But the British were for him. victory. They told him how Dorando martyrdom. An international incident So, with customary gallantry, a half had fouled out. was averted. dozen English officials lifted Dorando to Then came the megaphoned announce- Then there were the finals of the 100- his feet and carried him around the track ment: "Marathon winner, Dorando of meter dash in Stockholm during 1012. and across the line. Italy! Second, Hayes of United States!" Odds-on to win was the South African At that moment a new figure jogged For a second time Coach Murphy went comet, G. H. Patching, a very, very through the gate. On his dirty shirt was through near apolexy. He refused to allow nervous fellow. His chief rivals were sewed the shield that identified him as an Hayes to accept the second-place ribbon. strong and silent Ralph Craig, and Lip- American. This was the figure of curly- "You won on your own!" screamed the pincott, both of the United States. headed Johnny Hayes, of New York. coach. "Dorando was carried across the At the starting marks, all of the run-

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45 ners were jumpy, but none like Patching. Despite Mr. Roosevelt's border bless- because of professionalism. Finland grum- His body was electric and trembling. ings, Canada and the United States have bled through the Olympics and after, He ran on nervous energy. And Ralph never since been really the same, as good even though comparative times proved Craig was out to beat him. In those days nextdoor neighbors. that Mr. Nurmi would have been there was no penalty against false starts, The 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles got trounced in all three of his specialties, had and Craig had a carnival. Six times he off to a flying start when the International he been allowed to compete. Nurmi had broke before the gun, dragging poor pins Amateur Athletic Federation declared had his day—with record breaking per- and-needles Patching after him. The Finland's star, Paavo Nurmi, ineligible formances in both (Continued on page 46) final time, comrade Lippincott jumped the gun, pulling Patching over the entire century at top-speed. FEET the starting pockets, 4 Returning to 1 Jrom Patching was a physical wreck. His body was limp. It is said the South African flying ^blind* DEATH was so wrought up he was actually weeping. TROPIC DOWNPOUR BRINGS ADVENTURE TO Determined not to be hoodwinked an ROUTINE FLIGHT eighth time, Patching dug deep into the dirt holes, forcing himself to stay put— and so, when the gun finally started the dash, the others were twenty meters off before Patching even got going. Craig won with ease. Patching came in sixth Olen V. Andrew and last.

The South Africans never forgot it, and 1 had flown four over Lihue, for a while considered mailing time bombs friends to on the island of Ka- to the Amateur Athletic Union of the uai for a weekend United States, that haven of good sports- of camping on the manship. beach," writes Olen In that same year of 191 2 there was V. Andrew, P. O. Box 3295, Honolulu, another unpleasant incident when Jim T. H. Thorpe, who had made football history "We broke camp at while playing for the Carlisle Indians, three o'clock Monday was forced to give back to the King of morning, packed our dun- Sweden the cups which he had won in nage in the plane and pentathlon and decathlon, the all-round crawled in for the 100 mile competitions. Someone who had played hop back to Honolulu, all semi-professional baseball with Thorpe of it being over water. in North Carolina told a newspaperman There was no moon, but about it when the Indian's name was the night was clear when blazoned on the sports pages of the na- we started. Five minutes tion, and the fat was in the fire. The later . . 1500-meters race in the 191 2 games gave the English a chance to gloat, for while the Americans who had been conceded 0 we ran into a the three first places in that event were driving rainstorm. I watching each other closely, A. N. S. couldn't fly over it, I Jackson of Oxford University swept by didn't have proper in- them to victory, leaving Taber, Kiviat struments for flying consolation places. and Jones the through it, so the only In 1916, the Olympics were replaced thing to do was to get by the World War. No one seemed to down low and keep visual contact the difference. note the water. But it kept gettir The 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam rain fell harder and hai were surprisingly free from nose-tweak- couldn't see the water belov until the finals ing and bloodshed of the my big 'Eveready' five-cell 400-meters contest. It was chiefly a the fellow in the co-pilot's : battle Barbuti of the between Ray United to hold it out the window States and Ball of Canada. With the below . . crack of the pistol, Ball catapulted into "• the lead, Barbuti only a stride behind, O • • and there was the sea, only four feet below us! straining every tendon, but unable to Those long Pacific rollers were almost lapping at the pass the fleet Canadian. wheels! My heart skipped a beat to think how I had As the tape loomed, Barbuti, realizing brought five people within inches of their doom! Cer- he couldn't win on his feet, leaped off tainly it was the power of those 'Eveready' fresh DATED the ground, hurtled through space, batteries that saved us all, and that kept us safe above cracked the ribbon two inches ahead of the sea for the next half hour till the storm lifted. You Ball—and landed on his sideburns. can take it from me, I don't fly without 'em. Sure, Barbuti won, but the Canadians {Signed) put up a squawk heard around the world. They claimed the 400-meters was a foot FRESH BATTERIES LAST LONGER...^^*^ DATE-Lltf* race—and that if Mr. Barbuti wanted to finish contests in mid-air, he should NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY, INC., 30 East 42nd Street, New York, N.

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(Continued from page 45) the 1924 and 1928 Olympics when in Two years ago, the Olympics in Berlin Helen Stephens must be of male gender. his prime. were expected to be a display of brotherly There were many angry words, until The same California Olympics were love. Instead, Germany converted the the A. A. U. officials and the Polish offi- marred by a hullabaloo over the Jap- winter sport competition into a modified cials stripped comely Miss Stephens of anese swimmers, most of them fourteen- concentration camp. Then there were her bloomers, displayed her in the nude, year-old kids, who trimmed the United charges that Dutch swimmers were and showed that she was plenty woman. States in the 800 meters, and cracked offered bribes to throw a few events to And that was that. Poland was no more the prevailing record by 38 full seconds! the Germans—and Miss Helen Stephens, embarrassed than Miss Stephens. Their triumphs in all events were so America's rangy sprint ace, was accused So now you know why Baron de Cou- amazing, that Kusuo Kitamura, Shozo by Poland of being a man. bertin kept the Olympics four years Makino and Y. Miyasaki were accused It seemed that Poland was represented apart. Because it takes that long before of wearing mechanical contraptions to by the unbeaten and invincible Stella the participating nations will speak to give them more speed, or of being jacked- Walsh, whose best time in the Olympic one another again. But what the devil, up by some kind of unknown dope. flash had been ii.q. When Miss Stephens, if the Olympics promoted international Japan resented the implications, but of Missouri, went out and ran Miss friendship, there'd be no one to look at was distracted from retorting by activi- Walsh into the dirt, and broke her them. Who ever goes to a prize-fight just ties in China. record to smithereens. Poland decided to see the lads shake hands?

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(Continued from page 7) head of the military police was practi- not, of course, extend over the French proprietor, some few Frenchmen and cally unlimited. Also under my jurisdic- civilian population. However, I could at myself were quite alone. Turning to the tion fell control of all the pastimes and will place any section off limits for Ameri- proprietor I informed him that as a lesson pleasures not referred to in letters home cans. The mere threat to cut off the sup- in politeness no American money would or in the reports of the Y. M. C. A. There ply of American money had more effect be spent in his establishment for the next were, I know, Provosts in France who on a French citizen than an offer to burn ten days. During that time, I added, I attempted to regulate life for the soldiers down his house and run off with his wife. would think the matter over and con- according to the standards of Small Very shortly I had an opportunity to test sider whether or not to make the ban Falls, Nebraska. These constituted them- this out. permanent. selves as a combination Anti-Saloon Oneevening, feeling the need of a short, The next evening, as I strolled past the League and Blue Law Society. They even powerful one, I wandered into the Hotel deserted-looking hotel, the proprietor went to the extent of attempting to dic- de Sud. This contained the largest bar in dashed forth and seized me by the arm. tate just what kind of girls it was proper town and was the most popular meeting He smiled, bowed, and asked if I would to walk with on the village greens. But it place. not do him the extreme honor of granting seemed to me that the good old spirit Seating myself in a corner, I was much him an interview in his cafe. For a of tolerance would be the best to apply. I chagrined that the owner, who knew me moment I hesitated, but further induce- realized that if all the places of pleasure, very well, did not rush immediately over ment was offered in the shape of a family doubtful or otherwise, were closed with a and take my order. He finally wandered heirloom. A rare old bottle of 1875 bang, that sooner or later the volcano over my way, but stopped at the next brandy. This bottle, he declared, had would explode. After the resulting fire- table and chatted for a time with a been waiting patiently among the cob- works were over, there would probably civilian. The latter was drinking an webs of his cellar for just such a great be one less Marine on duty as chief of aperitif, which looked and probably occasion as now presented itself. police. tasted like mouth wash. Strange drinkers -Allowing myself to be led inside, I sat All the cafes were supposed to be those frogs. Finally catching the pro- in dignified silence waiting for him to closed at ten o'clock. However, I allowed prietor's eye, I wished him bon soir and make good his promise. This he did and to remain open after hours, two cafes for started to give him my order, when he presently I began to feel slightly less enlisted men and another for officers. very pointedly turned and walked away. insulted and invited him to join me. Naturally, there was also a quiet hide- Possibly he had just had a fight with When the contents of the bottle had out for myself. The advantage of this Madame his wife, or was merely feeling been reduced to a proper level, the pro- system is easily seen. Except in rare below par. That, however, was of no prietor made himself a speech. In it I was instances, any riot that started was al- interest to me. Much as I wanted to offered everything that the hotel offered, most sure to occur in one of these places. wrench off a table leg and go into action, including a partnership in the bar

Thus, the military police did not have I restrained myself, knowing that it receipts, if only I would allow those most to scout all over town hunting up places would not be seemly for an officer to give excellent of all soldiers, the Americans, where trouble might start. A situation the works to an inn-keeper. to return and adorn his bar. the reverse of this was created all over Arising from my table, I announced to Following his oratory I read the riot the United States during Prohibition. the assembled gentlemen in khaki that act, being assisted greatly by the bottled

Prior to Mr. Volstead's error, the police the Hotel de Sud had just that moment grape that we had been consuming. I knew where trouble might be expected. been declared out of bounds. I stated stated that in so far as he was con- But during Prohibition, even with the further that anyone who hesitated long cerned, there was to be no other law than Federal Government helping out, nobody enough to pay his check would shortly be myself. I refused the offer of a financial knew exactly where to look. on his way to the guard house. partnership, but suggested that when I The powers of a Provost Marshal did A few moments later, the astounded appeared in the future a container of the

Tin- AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 47 very choicest should be brought out been verified in some gay cafe far away. my inspection and approval at the local instantly. This small item could un- My procedure upon arriving in a drink emporium. Here we would sit and doubtedly be charged off to general over- strange town, was to immediately look argue over their relative charms, partak- head. I also hinted that it would be a up the local Assistant Provost Marshal. ing the while of sparkling inspirational good idea to bring up at the next meeting If he turned out to be a congenial soul I juices. Should we be unable to agree as to of the local cafe owners association the would invite him to come over to my which was the most attractive, we would subject of Provost Marshals and how they village, hinting strongly that from what move over to the next town carrying with should be treated. I had seen of his local talent it was not up us in my car an equal number of blondes The cognac now having gotten in its to standard. I would boast that my sector and brunettes. Here we would rout out full work, I became generous and said contained the fairest maidens and choic- another Provost and request him to pre- that I would again permit the American est wines in all of France. side as judge in a beauty contest, a duty soldiers to enter and help with the This statement would wound his pride. which was never refused. mortgage. Evidently the underground Rushing forth he would round up the A tour of inspection and research, such wires were put to work for my rise to most winsome of the village charmers for as this, would often (Continued on page 48) favor with the cafe proprietors was instantaneous. I never again had to give an order in a cafe in the city. A mere expression as to what kind of a thirst was on me and the inner man was immediately attended to. The cafe situation now being taken care of, I next turned my attention to the question of personal transportation. True, I had a motorcycle sidecar to move me around, but the Headquarters garage was overflowing with handsome touring cars and limousines. These were intended for the use of various generals and sometimes their aides. Late one afternoon, I passed out word to the military police that they were to pick up all chauffeurs. They were to do this if the drivers were doing anything that they should not or even for things that they should be attending to. When the net closed in, about half the drivers of the transport company were in the guard house. Calling upon the commander of this outfit, I told him that it pained me to find that his men were so far out of hand. I desired to discuss the matter with him in a friendly spirit, as I knew that he could not operate efficiently with half of his command in the jug. Perhaps, I suggested, he would rather discipline his outfit himself, instead of having a court martial attend to the matter. If so, I would be glad in the future to turn over to him any members of his command found playing hide and go seek with the articles of war in town. He looked at me with a speculative eye. "Is there," he inquired, "any favor that Seventy million times a day the public tests the I could perhaps grant in return?" I admitted that there was. "Riding on quality of Bell System service. The measure of this a motor cycle," I complained, "is tiring. I should like to know that I had a car and service is not only its promptness, reliability and low- driver at my disposal day or night whenever I felt a desire to visit the surround- cost. It is also it is ing countryside." the courtesy with which given. A few moments later I left. My name Our genuine desire is to make the Bell System a was added to the roster of those favored few having an open or closed automobile friendly and helpful institution . . . and to give you assigned to them, depending upon the state of the weather. the best, the most and the cheapest telephone service Thereafter, when I traveled about I toured in style. in the world. Writing my own passes I felt secure, knowing that my resourceful clerk, one Private Katz, would tell all those who BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM inquired for me that "the lieutenant just You are cordially invited to visit the Bell System stepped out." exhibit at the 7*{ew Yor\ World's Fair This last was very true and could have

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take a week or more and usually ended up stood all that very well. However, if a France. Whether or not this had any- by my taking a short detour in and out of report similar to the one made to him thing to do with the sudden flow of civil-

Paris. I would return to my own bailiwick, went back to Washington, D. C, there ians toChaumont I cannot tell. Perhaps it exhausted by my labors, but much en- would be many scalps hanging from the was merely that word had leaped from lightened as to why the German Army was trees bordering Pennsylvania Avenue. table to table in the Parisian cafes that striving so earnestly to capture France. The least important of these would be there existed wonderful financial oppor- Down by Chaumont's gas works was mine. He added, kindly enough, that he tunities for mademoiselles at American

a place known as the Maison Headquarters. Be that as it may, Publique. It was the abode and most of the arrivals at Chaumont gathering place of ladies of no vir- from Paris were girls.

tue, who let it be known publicly I had two sergeants on duty at and for pay. For American soldiers the railroad station. They were this was at the time as far out of connected with my office by private bounds as Berlin. wire. One of their unofficial orders One day, while resting in my was in regard to the daily Paris office after a hard night of non- express. military labor, I received a visit When it arrived they were sup- from the medical officer in charge posed to call up and render a report of the local base hospital. He stated as to the pulchritude of the incom- that the number of soldiers being ing cargo. Those fellows could pick placed off duty by reason of their 'em. I always suspected them of going places with people with whom holding out on me, for they were they ought not to be too friendly, old timers and very resourceful. was mounting rapidly. Something They had been in all corners of the had to be done about the matter. world with the Marines. They had I replied that the customary pro- matched wits with junior officers cedure was then for a sergeant from on the Shanghai Bund, while I was my office to tour the city in a small still playing with dolls in the ambulance in company with a nursery. French gendarme. They would pick But I was no dummy, at that. up and incarcerate in the French Occasionally I would threaten to civilian hospital various indicated transfer them back to camp. When persons. However, said I, if he I did, I was usually rewarded with thought that this was not keeping addresses and information which matters under proper control, we had theretofore been kept hidden had better try and work out some from the Master of Ceremonies. other solution. After some thought This system of liaison between we finally decided that I should the station and my office was a take more stringent measures, in great help. It gave my friends and the interest of all concerned, and myself an opportunity to pass most particularly myself. A few many a pleasant evening before weeks went by and the doctor re- higher rank enticed the fair visitors ported to me that the off duty list away from our sides. was decreasing. It might seem in this connection Daily Star hold-ups On my part I had observed that I'm from the —any that I am handing out the palm of my sergeant and the gendarme here lately?" victory in the battle of pleasure not spent most of their time sitting in to the then-younger generation,

the office and playing Franco-American did not give a particular damn if the war but to those who were of more advanced

pinochle. But a storm I had not observed was won by American troops in wheel years. was gathering on the horizon. chairs. But he did not propose to be Well, I am! One day I received a summons to ap- placed on the retired list because a bunch While the younger military element pear before the Post Commandant im- of reformers were interfering with the would be out roaming around in the early

mediately, if not sooner. When I arrived efforts of our soldiers to establish friendly morning hours,, our elders, having been he informed me that the Y. M. C. A. relations with the French populace. through the mill before, wasted no time had reported to him they had inside in- I returned to my office and ordered the in foolish gestures. They, knowing that formation that the General Staff was Maison Publique not only closed but the years left to them were not many, running a shady palace, with red lanterns posted a special guard there to prevent went straight to the back of the book and swinging gaily from the windows. What, any soldiers from entering. A few weeks pulled out the answers.

inquired the Post Commandant, did I later the medical officer reported that the The middle-aged boys were on the know about it? hospital rate was again higher. I replied loose, three thousand miles from home.

I explained hastily that the entire plant that my sergeant and the gendarme were This situation, they well knew, does not was owned by the French. Ours was not a also using up more government gasoline often arise in life. They took full ad- proprietory interest. The question in- than ever before and hung up the vantage of whatever opportunities came volved was not one of morals, but sort of receiver. around, which was often. This was the

;i War Risk Insurance to keep up the In the early summer of iqt8 the world's largest convention. If, when health rate. Germans began to shell Paris with their walking down the corridors, sounds of The Post Commandant, who was an long-range gun and about half of that merriment came from a room, they old army man, replied that he under- city's population left for other points in were in on the party. A famous general,

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40 well past the half-century mark, showed his excellent judgment and grasp of the situation in a statement made while THE GREATEST assisting a fair companion into a Paris taxi. FLORSHEIM VALUE "Go slowly, driver," said the general. "I'm in a great hurry." IN 47 YEARS! Just off the public square in Chau- mont was the municipal theater. This had been built about the time that Shakespeare was making his reputation in England. It had been remodeled but once since that time, when seats had been substituted for wooden benches. Here the French vaudeville circuit of 191 7-1 8 held forth, and I must admit that it did very well by itself. The acts, of necessity, were practically all feminine, as most of the French actors were at the front giving a benefit show for Germany. At one performance several American soldiers, carried away by enthusiasm and cognac, had climbed over the footlights and introduced themselves to a singing Fr OM the standpoints of and dancing act. After that I had a guard stationed back-stage. This post style and stamina, fit and finish, lasts, leathers was much sought after by the M. P.'s, and labor, the Florsheims of today are the I remember. One Monday there arrived an act greatest dollar values we have ever offered. billed as the twelve cherie sisters. With Style illustrated above, The Rambler, S-825. so many, the law of averages would seem to apply. I invited a lieutenant from the Intelligence Staff to accompany me, as he had previously been unjustly com- plaining about the lack of variety in town. We arrived when the show was rH£~7/ors/jei/e/m shoe about half over, and it was immediately evident that the law of averages was not e ^//e y/orsAe/'m SAoe Company Manufacturers • C/i/caqo only very good but excellent. / There was one damosel in particular who in our combined estimation could easily have made the front row of any Broadway show. The Intelligence De- partment immediately went to work on this prospect. Since he spoke excellent French and was also quite handsome, he SALE CATALOG-FREE soon made great headway. During the Nearly 200 Styles and Sizes of Ranges, Furnaces aO for this beauty Heaters. intermission he painted a Fishermen FACTORY PRICES. Easy word picture of the delights and pleasures Terms. Write today for FREE GET THIS THRILLING NEW CATALOG. New styles, new of Chaumont, with himself as a guide, features, new colors. SO days FREE trial — 24-hour ship- that was a masterpiece. He wound up by BOOK ON FISHING Tiggf ments. The Kalamazoo Store & Furnaco Company, asking her to wine and dine with him "Ozark Ripley Tells About Fishing." Page after 2066 Rochester Avenue page of thrills covering aff types of angling — Kalamazoo. Michigan after the show, an invitation that was written byOzark Ripley. master fisherman. Also Coat -wood Ranges. valuable information on outboard motors and Combination Gas, Coal. I accepted as soon as the girl had a chance boats. Write for yonr copy. Free I JOHNSON Wood Ranges. Gas) Stoves, Coal - Wood A Kalamazoo MOTORS. Ill Pershing Road, Waukegan, III. Heaters, Oil Heaters, to say "oui." Furnaces. Direct toYou" Shortly after the final curtain, the girls began to emerge from their dressing room, ready for the street. YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? With them came a young boy of about j is the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was fifteen. He turned out to be the beauty of mailed correct for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail the show, minus a wig and dresses. He THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. came right over and announced to the Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine is startled Intelligence Department that he NEW ADDRESS was ready to drink up all the champagne Namf that had been so kindly offered. The (PLEASE PRINT lieutenant uttered one squawk and dis- 1939 MEMBERSHIP CARD NO. appeared into the night. AnnnFss Never again was I able to entice him City Statf back to the theater. Whenever we met, thereafter, he would make disparaging Post No. T~)fpt OLD ADDRESS remarks as to the efficiency of Provost Marshals in general and about me in Addrfss particular as a provider of happy hunting ClTY_ .State. grounds. {Continued on page 50)

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Of course, once in a while I had to do Yes, indeed, the war was very, very knowledge of the war and our only some work. Occasionally it was necessary tough up until now. experiences so far had shown us that war to police up certain sections of the town. All good things, as is well known, can- was a pretty swell affair.

It must not be assumed that all soldiers not last forever. But if it had not been for Two nights later we were tramping were men of noble character who only a matter of Marine Corps' pride, and along a muddy road that gave olfactory thought of the higher things of life. Now Army mules, I would undoubtedly have evidence of its leading through a super- and then some ex-steel or former mine remained at General Headquarters until charged stockyard. The sky in front of us

workers woidd get charged up on the the Armistice. was lit up by an occasional flare. Sounds French equivalent of moonshine. Not The Marine Corps was very content as of a distant thunderstorm was borne being able to take on the Prussian Guard to have us where we were. It was good to our ears. at the moment, they would commence an advertising to say that General Pershing A gigantic freight train began rushing offensive operation against the nearest had chosen a company of Marines as his towards us through the air. It arrived group. This could include brothers in personal guard. As for General Head- and blew up. I found myself lying in a arms or any and all portions of the Allied quarters, they had grown used to having ditch alongside the road, snuggling armies. A riot call would be turned in. us around. As long as everything went frantically to a very dead horse.

Then it was that some of the sweetest smoothly they were willing to let things Here I remained, while the German battles ever fought without a barrage remain as they were. Now our company artillery continued to send over cast-iron were staged in cafes and back alleys in had always had a complete complement invitations to return home. My mind Chaumont. The Military Police usually of mules for the machine-gun carts. All traveled back to Chaumont. I thought of won, but not without suffering many that the company commander ever did the quiet, peaceful office I had left and casualties. On these occasions it was, of was to take them out for exercise and see of the case of beer which always reposed course, necessary to use strong-arm that they were well groomed. One day in beneath my desk. Life had been so easy methods to keep from having the city October, iqiS, the Post Commandant in then. I didn't even have to bother about razed, an event that had not happened looking around discovered these well- opening a bottle. One of my orderlies since about the 15th Century. kept mules. He had his adjutant tele- would do that. I swore to myself, pressing But except for these minor disturb- phone the Marine Company Commander, closer to the ex-horse, that if I ever got ances, life flowed onward for me in that ordering him to turn over the mules to out alive, I would again get myself a smooth and easy fashion accredited, the Remount Station. The Marine cap- soft berth if I had to brace the Secretary theretofore, only to a certain Mr. Riley. tain replied very haughtily that the mules of War himself for it. Efficiency running rampant at G. H. Q. in question were now Marine Corps Three months later we were on the had increased my staff by two secret mules and that the Army had absolutely Rhine. By using the little ingenuity that service men. no jurisdiction over the donks in question. had not been scared out of me, I became In civil life one had been a tire builder Thisconversationtookplaceaboutnoon. the manager of the Army swimming in Akron, Ohio. The other had run a That night a freight train pulled into team. Thus I spent most of the spring steam shovel in New York City. I never the station. When it departed the former and summer at the Inter-Allied Games in discovered that they could be at all Headquarters' guard were on board Paris. These I viewed, in the greater part, secret, but they could and did render headed for the front. I vv- as with them, from the vantage point of the lounge in excellent service as orderlies. In the even though I had been on detached Henry's Bar. morning when I showed up at the office service as Provost Marshal, for it was an Nobody knows who won the war. one of them would dash up the street to a unwritten law that you stick with your But I do know who enjoyed it. I claim cafe. Shortly he would appear with a free own outfit. that the prize place was mine. However, breakfast which I would eat in a leisurely Most of us were, at the moment, very as Bruce Bairnsfather once wrote, "If fashion at my desk. glad to go. As yet we had no actual you knows of a better 'ole, go to it."

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(Continued from page 23) for instance, war against the Soviet re- democracies should have been canvassed base in other democracies, such an publics seemed necessary to Americans. to see whether indeed the democracies amendment to the Constitution providing

The communists, whom we allow to would fight if Hitler marched into demo- for the entire United States going into a remain here to say and write what they cratic Czechoslovakia. town meeting vote on the question of war wish, believe that under the aegis of our But where would that have left the may be feasible. democratic institutions they are making British communists and pacifists? If they But why should we stick our necks out? progress in a campaign against any-war- voted to fight Hitler wouldn't they be Alexander Pope's famous lines come under-any-conditions. (Of course they recreant to their expressed beliefs? And to mind: would scream very loud for aggression if they voted to take it lying down before Be not the first by whom the new are against fascist-minded countries; that fascist aggression wouldn't they be be- tried, would be different.) traying Moscow? And suppose the vote Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. The pacifists and their allied pinks use turned out to be eighty percent for the Munich agreement as an argument resistance to Hitler and twenty percent Sound advice indeed concerning such for the adoption of the Ludlow Amend- for submission, what would that mean? a revolutionary proposal as that put ment. They say that it was wrong to have No, the proposed Ludlow amendment forward by Congressman Ludlow and the issue of peace or war for Britain and is a good thing to sink right here and now. supported by various groups, many of France left to Chamberlain and Oaladier, When by concerted action of the nations which abhor the form of government that the peoples of those two great such a scheme seems likely to get to first under which this nation has in the short

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to attempt to push it to passage during within the time and quantity desired, this session of Congress, despite the de- such as anti-aircraft artillery, semi-auto- mand of the majority of our people for matic rifles, anti-tank guns, tanks, light idequate preparedness. When the time and heavy artillery, ammunition, and Domes, every Legionnaire and every mem- gas masks; $32,000,000 for "educational ber of the Auxiliary must be prepared to orders;" and the balance to be used for enter the fight against the resolution. improving and strengthening the sea- HAVE Powerful forces are advocating its pas- coast defenses of Panama, Hawaii, and jm sage. The popular appeal of the proposal the continental United States, including is not only confusing and misleading but the construction of a highway outside MORE o/Wf dangerous to the very safety of our the limits of the Panama Canal Zone, nation. important to the defense of the zone.

Now is the time for every Legionnaire Once again the wisdom of the course to let his Congressman and Senators adopted by The American Legion, know that he is against any proposal to especially with regard to its national place in the Constitution a provision for defense program, is demonstrated. Since a referendum on war. World War days, our organization has insisted on adequate defense forces. For f/lff" several years, when pacifist societies were ANOTHER important matter before in the ascendancy, members of the . the 76th Congress in which the - BRACE UP WITH Legion were regarded as "jingoists" be- Legion has had a keen interest since cause of these demands, but events in World War days is the matter of an Europe and Asia, bickerings and quar- adequate national defense. On January rels among rulers, and the gloomy out- 12, 1939, President Roosevelt sent to the look for a peaceful future, all demon- Congress a special message calling for strate that Legionnaires' insistence on an expenditures of $525,000,000, these in adequate national defense was based addition to the regular annual budgetary on experience, reason, and good sense. estimates, so that we may be more prop- The Legislative program consists of erly prepared. The President reminded 197 resolutions calling for action by Congress. the Congress and the nation of our total Obviously, limits of space prohibit cover- lack of preparedness in the World War ing the program even in a small part. At when the United States "entering the the meeting of the National Executive war on April 6, 191 7, took no part what- Committee last November, the major soever in any major engagement until legislative program was designated as: the end of May, 1918." Of the total sum suggested, the President recommended (1) Protection for Widows and Orphans to be "actually spent from $210,000,000 of World War veterans. the Treasury before the end of the fiscal (2) National Defense. year ending June 30, 1940." (3) Universal Service. It was pointed out that a survey indi- (4) Veterans Preference and Veterans cated approximately $450,000,000 should Placement. Immigration, be allocated for new needs of the Army, (5) Naturalization and Deportation. $65,000,000 for new needs of the Navy, and $10,000,000 for training of civilian air When your waistline begins to bulge— sag- Every one of these items is important ging stomach muscles spoil pilots. Included in these amounts is a your appear- and each of them will face some opposi- ance — your back aches at the end of the day proposal that 300 millions be appropri- tion in Congress. To carry this major —that's "Mid-section Sag." But don't let it ated for the purchase of several types of legislative program, as well as important bother you—just brace up with The Bracer! airplanes for the Army, which should You'll look years younger, feel full of pep and items on the secondary program, includ- provide a minimum increase of raring to go! For this amazing new-type sup- 3,000 ing those pertaining to the disabled, porter belt is scientifically designed planes, but the message expressed the to give means an understanding interest and healthful, comfortable support. hope that orders placed on such a large wholehearted cooperation on the part A Bauer & Black product of the finest qual- scale would materially reduce the unit of everyone in the field. The fact must ity, The Bracer brings you 4 exclusive fea- cost and actually provide many more tures: No Rip-seems cannot pull not be forgotten that the legislative pro- out. No Roll planes. This nation eventually should -four removable ribs at top.NoBulge-knitted gram is not that of the national officers, of from two-way stretch"Lastex" have a flying armada of 8,500 planes for yarn. No Bother the National Legislative Committee or -exclusive fly-front for convenient all-day wear. both Army and Navy, an increase of of any of the other National Committees, So don't let "Mid-section Sag" slow you 4,300 planes over their present combined but that of every individual Legionnaire. down. Brace up with The Bracer! At depart- force. These, it is now believed, would be ment, drug It was adopted by delegates of your De- and men's apparel stores. a bare minimum necessary to protect the If your dealer cannot supply you with The Bracer, simply partment and Post at the Los Angeles fill out and American mainland, Alaska, Hawaii, mail this coupon with a check or money order. and earlier National Conventions. Price $2.00 (Canada 32.75).

Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone. Of the | > . BAUER & BLACK, Division recommended in the * * * of The Kendall Co., ! $65,000,000 message I Dept. A-75, 2500 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. I (In Canada, for the | Station K, Toronto.) Navy, $44,000,000 would go to [EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letter, sent I am enclosing check or money order for strengthening naval bases and $21,- to the | editor of a magazine of general circu- Please send me. | Bracers 000,000 would go to speed up fulfillment lation in tlte United States which had asked My waist measurement of the Navy's goal of 3,000 first-class its readers to support the Ludlow Amend- I Name

Address . fighting planes. ment to the Constitution is so clear in its City. Other recommendations asked approxi- exposition of the reaction of average My dealer's name and address is _ mately $150,000,000 for the Army, of Americans to (Continued on page 52)

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finance, this really insidious piece of legislation propaganda, or what? And but it is one-sided, and it is emotionally that it is used here, with the permission where? stirring. The more one-sided and emotionally 5 The Ludlow Peace of the writer, to supplement John Thomas — Amendment can not stirring the better. accomplish the purpose of peace be- Taylor's article.] Each of us is very well acquainted with cause the propositions upon which it is propaganda in some of its countless varia- A Letter to ax Editor based are false. tions. It jumps at our eyes from the printed Palisade, Colorado a—The proposition that there exists a page and hammers at our ears from loud wide-spread reliably well-informed Jan. 22, 1939 speakers. Speeches and advertising, both public Dear Sir: Please allow me to introduce mv- opinion concerning important verbal and graphic, are works of art in propa- details national is self as one of the very numerous subscribers of affairs a bit of ganda. We like it. Our politicians get our delightful fiction. It is a contradic- votes with to . It would be a propaganda; our merchants, and pleasure to add some impressive distinction; tion as well. The amendment un- others, get our dollars with propaganda; and mistakably assumes that but none is legitimately available. we do not interested parties can get us to fight wars intelligently My love of peace and opposition to war vote upon our repre- with propaganda. sentation in make my markings even less distinctive than Washington; and some- They did it in the World War. Right or they might be otherwise because almost times it seems that we don't; but, wrong, for better or for worse, we were of- everyone loves peace and opposes war as if that is true, then, clearly, we can fered a course of propaganda to the end that relied long as he isn't emotionally aroused to the not be upon to vote intelli- we should desire war. point where his brain cells join the ranks of gently on war. Propaganda, like other concoctions de- the unemployed. b—The proposition that wars are made vised for internal use, has no effect until in Washington against will This is a personal reply to the query in the of the swallowed. That art is easily mastered. It your magazine concerning the "Peace people is a myth. No doctor ever might be called second nature. One merely kept a more sensitive finger on the Amendment." You ask, "Are you for it? accepts propaganda mentally like he swal- pulse of a patient politi- Will you help get it adopted?" I'm sorry, but than our lows a pill physically, without question or my answer must be no, and no. cians keep on the pulse of public analysis. Back in about 1916 we swallowed sentiment I can't support the Ludlow Peace Amend- "at home." In the case war propaganda by the gallon. ment because to the best of my judgment: of the last war the Congressmen Then some genius added the slogan, from State did for 1 —It would be a threat to our representa- my not vote war "Make the world safe for democracy." Some- until the traffic lights tive government. "at home" body else threw in, "A war to end war." Pop- had flashed green. 2—It will shackle our Government by ty- eye's spinach has nothing on the resulting ing the hands of the President in his Strangely, the Ludlow Peace Amendment fire-water. About two gulps of that and we handling our foreign relations. entirely misses the bull's-eye on the target were ready to fight a world of hornets. Any- 3—It will give comfort, courage and a devoted to war. one daring to suggest publicly that possibly definite advantage to any outside power Basic causes of war go deep into the politi- we should stop and think things over was choosing to thumb its nose at us. cal, social and economic structures of a nation; immediately branded pro-German, and put

(In spite of Miss — — 's able at- and there, for most of us, they remain hidden himself in danger of tar and feathers from tempt at refutation those charges still until somebody digs them up for the histori- his dear emotionally drunk fellow citizens.

stand. There is no refutation.) cal enlightenment of our grandchildren. Propaganda may not cause wars; but it 4—The exception inserted since the 75th Our knowledge of scientific causes of war provides the vitamin that makes us want to Congress is indefinite and weak. "Ex- may be invisible even under a high-powered fight them. The people of any nation want cept in the event of attack, invasion, microscope; but we know about the mental peace until they are drunk on war propa- or military expedition from abroad elixir that makes us want to fight. It is called ganda. The Ludlow Peace Amendment against the United States or its terri- propaganda. would, I think, be of even less effect against torial possessions." It sounds impres- Propaganda, as everybody knows, is emo- the force of war propaganda among us than sive, but what does it mean? What kind tionally stirring information. The informa- a pink parasol against a plains blizzard. of attack or invasion? By way of trade, tion involved may be either true or false; I am too seriously concerned about preven-

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tion of national warfare to support a preven- a healthy respect for us in the eyes of tative program in which I can have no faith. friends and enemies. HEA,S' When I support any anti-war legislation it 2 —It offers some protection against a ft rt4f must check with everything I know about generally large average consumption war. I must be sure that it offers some effec- of war propaganda. tive protection. The only safeguard against the consump- The American Legion offers the best such tion of any kind of propaganda is mind over program within my knowledge. Their plan emotion; and the surest way to a man's mind does not tie, bind, or restrict our Govern- is through his pocketbook. Knowing that U ment. Neither does it insult the men we have war may mean painful personal loss instead ^ elected to its various offices, fnstead, it gives of any possible great personal gain must IN our Government unlimited power by con- spoil many an appetite for war propaganda. scription of every resource of the land, in- Under that stimulus enough citizens might cluding capital and labor, in case of war. think twice to eliminate the possibility of an I could support that program because: unnecessary national war. Sincerely yours, i —In a power-mad world it would instill Mrs. Carl H. Asmussen.

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{Continued from page 21) waited and listened. No shots. The mut- of that morning in the dugoutSo. on our CLEAN OUT ANTI-FREEZE tering was quieted. After a time, the paths in the service diverged and I WITH SANI-FLUSH captain emerged, dressed. He looked never saw him again. He stayed in the neither to the right nor the left and did Army after the war, I have heard. not speak. I'll never forget the look on Just before we parted, I asked the It's time to remove the anti-freeze from his dead-white face. The surgeon got him captain if he would write in my officer's your car! Also a whole winter's accumula- tion of rust, scale, sludge and sediment! back to a base hospital. record book. With a hand that held the They clog the delicate veins of the radia- Some weeks later, the captain re- pen far steadier than it had the pistol tor. The motor overheats. You waste joined the regiment at Belleau Wood, that day, he wrote and gravely handed power. You may find yourself with an declared fit for duty after a hospital back the book. This is what I read: expensive repair bill on your hands. session and convalescence at Nice. "Lt. Downey acted as executive, for Don't take a chance. Clean out anti- freeze with Sani-Flush for 10c (25c for the Though he and I both then served on six months, in the battery of which I largest trucks and tractors). Just pour it the regimental staff, I never felt quite had command. In that capacity he in. Run the engine, drain, flush and refill

. . . coolness in action." comfortable with him and we never spoke showed (directions on the can). Then your ra- diator is really clean. And your car runs cool. Do it yourself. Or, if you prefer, have Democracy and ^port your garage or service station do it for you. Insist on Sani-Flush. It cannot injure motor or fittings. You'll find Sani-Flush (Continued from page 5) in most bathrooms for cleaning toilets. Sold by grocery, drug, hardware, and five-and- life that for us, are not to frozen into a way of future we forced have peace- ten-cent stores. 25c and 10c sizes. The generations would have to accept. We time conscription in this country, and so Hygienic Products Company, Canton, O. have believed in progress, under the athletic contests have a more important elastic provisions of the United States place with us than they do with most Constitution, and we still believe in it. European nations. Whether it is a pick- Sam-Rush Within the framework of democracy up baseball game on the sandlots or a KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN under capitalism, we feel, lies the oppor- Yale Bowl or Rose Bowl football game tunity of the greatest good to the greatest that attracts upward of a hundred thou- number, which is the whole purpose of sand spectators and keeps the whole government. We have faith to believe nation agog over its radios there is in Have You Some Spare Room that the United States will in 1989 be a athletic contests, we believe, a sort of a basement or garage where you can do light work? We can offer you a profitable proposition, casting 5 & 10c better place in which to live than it is to- moral equivalent for war. That doesn't Novelties, ashtrays, toy autos. etc. as manufacturer for firm of many years standing. No experience necessary day, and that a century from now it will mean that we shouldn't pay a lot of at- as we furnish full instructions with moulds. If interested in devoting spare or full time to profitable be even better. Our records and history tention to national defense, but it does work write AT ONCE stating age and space available as we are now closing arrangements for 11)39 supply prove it. And while prophecy is danger- mean that with a comparatively small of our goods. METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO.. Dept. 9, ous, I think that in that far-off day standing army, with our National Guard 1696 Boston Road New York. N. Y. Americans will still believe in democracy and our Organized Reserves the defense —and just as passionately as we do today. needs of the nation are cared for, and we One of the most important factors in are spared the deadening effects of our democratic set-up, it seems to me, is peacetime conscription. We certainly WAKE UP YOUR our sports system. I believe, and have wouldn't want militarism in America, always believed, that the contact sports, and on the other hand our experience in such as boxing, football, baseball, hockey, 1917-18 showed only too clearly the LIVER BILE- lacrosse and basketball, impart discipline folly of William Jennings Bryan's belief Without Calomel — And You'll Jump Out to a boy, build courage in him, and teach that a million untrained men springing of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go him democracy through fair play. Luckily to arms over- (Continued on page 54) The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get system is poisoned and 15 th constipated. Your whole ON MARCH you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. the cause. Be sure to tune in on the Legion's twentieth anniversary broad- A mere bowel movement doesn't get at It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills freely and cast to be held the evening of March 15 th. Blue Network, National to get these two pounds of bile flowing make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet Broadcasting Company, at 11.15 P.M., Eastern Standard Time. amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. Stubbornly refuse anything else. ©1938. c.p. inc.

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night would answer our needs in any divert these to himself by any means; make me out, among other things, with emergency. hence, confiscation, persecution, deten- Colonel Lindbergh, a sympathizer of In sports a youngster learns the lesson tion camps and solitary confinement. naziism. of discipline, and learns it effectively. I W hile I am unable to speak for Col.

happen to know a little bit more about [Editor's NOTE-. Several weeks ago the Lindbergh, if being against communism boxing than about other sports. Take Daily Worker, communist organ in New in any form is sufficient reason for your the nationally known Golden Gloves York City, attacked Colonel Charles A. designation, then I will accept the tournaments. The boys go into those Lindbergh and Gene Titnney as "stalking indictment your publication makes and

boxing contests knowing that they have horses for reaction," specifically declaring consider the source of it. got to train faith- However, for fully, keep good your information I hours, lay off smok- might add that ing and drinking, PROGRAM of BOXING CARNIVAL there is only one avoid evil com- other system of Thursday, Nov. 28th, 1918. pany, and obey government that I BALLOON SHED. A. S. F>. C. No. 2. the rules while they hold equally abom- fit 8:00 IP. M. are in the ring. inable as commu-

Experience tells nism and that is them that anything naziism. Neither Musis by 'I wo I'.mtkL short of that in- has any place in Songs b; 1 llli Mal'ir

11 vites defeat. After Music Iji 1 h Mara America. Our form such a training Minstrel I 111. Marii of democratic con- period a youngster BOXING MATCHES stitutional gov- is bound to have ernment has given ,1 Irish F. It. Fabi {lit 125 II mastered the les- llli. an exceptionally son of self disci- good account of it- iid i: Jobi 150 pline, and can de- Co. I). 319tb Labor Buttali, self in the past one

cide for himself \\ , i-l,l 150 I hundred and fifty whether, for in- I16th Supplj Train Co. D, lllh Ma years, and appar-

iih - vs. F: Si II stance, he wants to Boui. 1 Rounds. Kid Ricard Harry Wcifthl 125 ently is good

Ith C&- M- M. I). r>. Mir. 1 nf. use liquor when he enough for the vast

' lnl Ml, Boul 1 Rounds. O'Hara vs. H. V W sly! \\ eighl 138 I becomes of age. It majority of Ameri- Co. Ii lllh. Marines lfilh Co, 'in M was doubtless this cans living here. vs. Oth Boul. 1 Bounds. Sgt. Thomas Unaltau Welsh VVeighl 125 II lesson of discipline, 186 Afro Sqdn. 825 Aero S<[du When the only which is a part of opportunity came BATTLE ROYAL to n finisb, 7 Colore 1 Contestants. all sporting effort, during my life time Till I'xxil 1 Bounds. Earsnian - vs. Wuerl Weighl 160 I that the Duke of to show ad- Ilth Marines 825 Squadn my Wellington had in herence to, and 8th Boul 5 Rounds. Bedoli - vs. Young Sull; \\ eh'hl I 10 I mind when he said 829 Squadron Hq. Del 31 En love of the princi- that the Battle of '.•Hi Bout, f, Rounds Kid Both vs. Kid Callend ples of, our form of Waterloo was won 12th Co. Lt Vt. M. lllli Marini democracy, I did -' on the playing field mil, Bou . 6 Rounds. Dzaraba vs. Wcighl 138 so at the risk of my KU) Squadron II Hi Marii' of Eton, meaning, own life. I enlisted of course, the play- FINAL BOUT as a private in the

llih Bou . .8 Rounds Tunmy - vs. Howard Mo TO \\ eielil 170 I ing fields of Eng- United States ii Co . 1 llli Marines C Co. 345th hll' land. Marine Corps and TOTAL 53 ROUNDS OF BOXING It is a truism went overseas for that competition in tEMEMBER:- There is a purse for every bunt Make il worth while IV r 1 to ligbl what I thought was i/;il von dave i l donated YOU! FRANC, do so ,>l oner. Your Oram Inn Common In :cepl il. athletics helps a defense of those ilion- lo lir rloscl Nov. 2otli, 1918 build character. It principles. You has always been people blab about of the my belief that true The carnival was held at Romorantin. The winner democracy but character rests on final bout became light heavyweight champion of the how many of your religion, which rec- A.E.F. and, in 1926, heavyweight champion of the world, heroes have ever ognizes the duty of retiring a year later after successfully defending his title risked their lives man to God and to for democracy? one's fellow man. It doesn't matter what that Tunncy had "taken to making anti- There were some four million Americans kind of religion a man espouses, so long labor speeches before tired coupon clip- who risked theirlives in ioi7andigi8 and as he sincerely believes in it and lives by pers." The vigorous dnswer to these charges though the enlistment requirements it. It is not just by chance that in the made by the retired haivywciglit champion were very democratic indeed some of totalitarian countries religion has been of the world is given below. Tunney's an- your heroes were conspicuously absent sadly hampered, if not suppressed, be- swer was ignored by the Daily Worker.] from the ranks. cause your dictator of today demands Furthermore, for your information, that his subjects render him not only the Editor of the Daily Worker the only speeches I ever made about things that belong to Caesar, but also 50 East 13 th Street labor were to improve the lot and working those that belong to God. The dictator New York, N. Y. conditions of the working man. If the is jealous of our God, he envies the tribute Dear Sir: time ever comes for me to show my inter- and respect we pay Him and would In a recent editorial in your paper you est for labor in a more practical sense, you

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will find I will not be numbered among death either ever getting control of this those who will do to labor what your Government, for 1 know first-hand about Learn this political godfathers of Soviet Russia their ideologies, classlessness and GOD- Profitable and their Nazi cousins have done to it. LESSNESS. In conclusion, let me say that I am as Sincerely yours, Profession opposed to naziism as I am to communism for this country and 1 will fight to the Gene Tunney in 90 days at Home

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Sent FREE upon request"! pitched with a table at its entrance and dates fixed through mutual agreement CREEK CHUB BAIT COMPANY 4S3 Randolph St. Garrett. Ind. have three money-handlers assigned to among the Posts. work each shift. One banker stands at the Weather is a hazard, I grant you. One table and makes change and issues shoot- Post that I know of takes out weather ing tickets; another works on the debit insurance to cover expenses, and if the and credit entries for each event on the weather turns sour the event is postponed grounds; and the third circulates around to the following week-end without loss to the grounds making change for the con- the Post. ABOUT cessions and collecting money also. People come and bring their families GIVEN SIZE OF DIME NOTHING TO BUYI GIRLS! LADIES! to the just on. Send Name and Ad- By appointing experts money- and wander around looking These dress. Charming Watch or Biff Cash Commission. Send No Money. Given for SIMPLY GIVING AWAY FREE Big Col- handling job, the problem is cared for are the people for whom the other games ored Pictures with our famous White Cloverine Salve used for burns, chaps, sores, etc., which you easily sell to friends quickly and accurately, the money is kept are offered, as many of them aren't at 25c a box (with picture FREE) and remitting as explained in catalog. SPECIAL: ( hoiceof 20 gifts for returningonly $3 concentrated, hard feelings that might shooters. And with crowds in attendance, collected. 44th yr. Send for Salve and pictures, postage paid. WILSON CHEM. CO., INC., Dept. 100-32, Tyrone, Pa. develop are prevented, and it allows the question of sanitary conveniences quick tabulations at the end of the day. must be considered, even though the All shooters buy their tickets at the architecture is quaintly rural. MINSTRELS first parts for tent, except perhaps the shot- all of this that with special songs and bankers' From you can see there ?s. Black-face plays, res. Gags, Posters, Make-up gun and pistol people who may get theirs is considerable work attached to a turkey ods. Wigs, Bones, Tambou- es. Lively, up-to-the minute of the shooting when the shoot or whatever want to call it plays for dramatic clubs at the scene — you and lodges. Denison plays produced crowds get heavy and load up the and you are right. Figure on three Sun- everywhere. 60 years of hits. bankers. By the way, other limitations on days for the whole thing, one Sunday to Free Catalog T. S. DENISON S CO. X ^ big-rifle are that their it the shooters guns construct, one to put on and the third 203 N. Wabash. Dept. 89, Chicago must not weigh over ten pounds, and to tear down and stack away the ma- they must shoot from a standing po- terials for the next year. Is Your Rupture sition. If they want to use tracer bullets, The shoot costs money to put on. Our that's all right, as a tracer isn't the most last shoot, which netted just over seven accurate bullet in the world. If their hundred dollars, grossed $1426 with an HERE? friends want to "spot" shots for them outlay of $724. Advertising for this shoot, Why continue to suffer with rupture? Stop your worries and with telescopes, that's allowed, too. including newspapers and window quar- fears. Send for the facts about my perfected truss invention Range data, by the way, is furnished ter-cards, was $72, and the general ex- the Brooks Appliance for re- ahead of time, although practice on the penses ran to $55, including "Gobbler ducible rupture— with the automatic AIR-CUSHION support actual ranges should not be allowed. Bill," the gate prize at which everybody that gives Nature a chance to I don't need to stress the fact that has a free chance in the drawing which close the opening. Thou- sands bought by doctors for themselves and patients. safety is vital on all ranges. Every Post climaxes the day. Sent Ofl Tr/a/—Made-to-measure, individual fitting: for has members who are familiar with range It takes money to make money, but man, woman or child. Low-priced, sanitary, durable. No obnoxious springs or hard pads; no metal girdle to rust. Safe work, and they should lay down hard and eight successful years in a row have given and comfortable. Helps Nature get results. Not sold through stores—beware of imitations. Write today for full information fast rules and stick to them. our Post a reason to be thankful at sent free in plain sealed envelope. Each firing line has at least two Thanksgiving time. BROOKS APPLIANCE

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They appreciated that one of the principal Caucus would be to study possibility of a Room D 17 the obstacles to the initiation of such a movement tentative constitution, to consider a name for the 4 Flace dc la Concorde was the difficulty of assembling at one time and organization, and to make arrangements whereby Paris in the same place a gathering of individuals which al! units and territories could duly elect represen- would be even approximately representative of tatives to a great Convention, being composed of February 25th, 1019. the whole Army. duly elected delegates from all States and all units, To: 3. Therefore it appeared to them that the fact would meet with full power and authority to 1. On February 15th the following Na- of their presence in Paris presented an unusual adopt, modify, or reject the tentative steps taken tional Guard 'and Reserve Officers, representa- opportunity to initiate the first steps of such a by the Caucus. tives 'of the S.O.S., of ten infantry divisions, and movement; an opportunity which was unlikely 4. In accordance with these ideas the National of several other organizations, were called to- to be repeated and which they ought not to let Guard and Reserve Officers mentioned in para- gether in Paris by order of (J. H. O. slip. Several meetings were held by them during graph 1, having constituted themselves a Tem- the recesses between their official conferences to porary Committee to act only until such time as Maj. Francis K. Appleton, Jr 2nd Army consider the situation. Mai. G. Edward Buxton 82nd Division the larger and more representative Caucus could be Lt. Col. Bennett C. Clark 88th Div. convened, elected Lt. Col. Roosevelt temporary Maj. Ralph D. Cole 37th Division Chairman, and Major Wood temporary Secretary. Lt. Col. 6. J. Davis G. H. O.. IS noteworthy that the call for the A sub-committee composed of Lt. Col. Clark, Maj. Frank D'Olier O.. M., S. O S. ZT Major Cole, and Major Wood was appointed to Lt. Col. W. J. Donovan Rainbow Div. Paris Caucus, the first official Goodrich G. H. receive from all of the members of the Temporary Maj. David M. Q. document, is, in its Legion entirety, Committee the individual officers of Maj. T. E. Gowenlock 1st Army Corps names of such the A. E. Col. Thorndike Howe A. P. O. Dept. barely known to Legion historians. The F. as are admittedly leaders of their units and as are likely to be available, in order that Lt. Col. John Price Jackson . Peace Commission document, which was sent out to nearly these might be urged to a compris- Maj. Delancey Kountze G. H. Q. attend Caucus two thousand and in ing three Lt. Col. R. W. I.lewellen 28rh Div. officers men mime- mid-dav meetings, to be held in Paris March 15th, 16th and Capt. Ogden Mills G-2, S. O. S. ographed form, was referred to in the 17th. It was Lt. Col. Benjamin Moore 82nd Division thought that this Caucus would be prop- Stars and Stripes of March 14, 1919, as erly representative if be Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr 1st Div. there should at least one Lt. Col. R. C. Stebbins 3rd A. O. "an invitation'" and two or three para- member for each five thousand officers and men. It will naturally Maj. R. C. Stewart 1st Div. be understood that in a Caucus graphs were quoted it. Lack from of which is Lt. Col. George A. White G. H. Q. called together in such an informal manner there will Maj. Eric Fisher Wood 88th Div. familiarity with the document itself inadvertently be omitted the names of many prominent officers whose assistance woidd The purpose of G. ri. Q. in calling together this probably accounts for its omission in the have proved invaluable, and who it is hoped will gathering of National Guard and Reserve Officers standard Legion histories. eventually become leaders in the organization. them confer with certain officers of was to have 5. You were suggested by the including the heads of the G-S, Regular Army, as being a proper representative Sections H. in regard to G-4 and G-2 of G. Q., of the as well as suggestions for the betterment of conditions and It was finally decided that although they were of the territory from which much of its personnel the development of contentment in the A. E. F. by no means either widely chosen enough or is drawn, and I have been officially instructed on 2. majority of the National Guard and sufficiently to warrant their actually The numerous behalf of the Temporary Committee to invite you thus happened to be to- launching an organization, they were nevertheless Reserve Officers who to avail yourself of a three day Class C leave to gether for an official purpose had long shared representative enough to make it proper for them Paris, as provided, for instance, in Par. 2, G.O. 14, with thousands of other soldiers of the American to act as a Temporary Committee for the gath- G. H. Q., c.s., in order to act as a delegate to the and desire that the officers and ering together from the whole Army ot a body ot forces the hope impending Caucus, the opening session of which men v/ho are about to return to civil life after several hundred National Guard and Reserve will take place at 11:45 a.m. March 15th, at the serving the present war, whether with the Officers who would be of a character to command in American Officers' Club, 4 Avenue Gabriel. units, in the S. O. S., or at home, the confidence and support of officers and men combat or Your acceptance, although an endorsement of might sooner or later be united into one perman- from all States and all units, and who would be the movement, will not be considered as a con- ent nation-wide organization, similar in general sufficiently representative to properly act as tract binding you to attend, for it is well under- character to the Grand Army of the Republic deputies from the A. E. F. to a Caucus for the stood that a military exigency may arise at the or the United Confederate Veterans and com- discussion and formulation of tentative arrange- last moment to prevent your actual presence. posed of all parties, all creeds, and all ranks who ments which might later result in creating a satis- wish to perpetuate the relationships formed while factory permanent organization. Eric Fisher Wood in the military service. It is assumed that among the duties of such a Secretary

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Columbia, and foreign possessions of the A resolution was unanimously passed ner of innuendoes and attacks, recruited ." representative United States . . "that the members of the Temporary many thousands of mem- An Executive Committee was selected, Committee be commended, and that the bers, and eventually secured the co-- composed of one officer and one enlisted thanks of this Caucus be extended to operation of a score of Divisional or rival man from each Division or similar unit, them for their excellent work in calling organizations which, previously or con- all of which Colonel Milton J. Foreman it together, and that all steps taken by currently, had been organized over the became Chairman, and White Yice- them prior to the convening of the Caucus A. E. F. White and Foreman and their Chairman and Secretary. This Executive be approved and endorsed." Committee defended and consolidated Committee was to continue to act in the Upon motion duly adopted 162 com- what had been started in France, leaving A. E. E. after the adjournment of the missioned-officer delegates voluntarily Roosevelt, Clark and Wood free to return Caucus. Its duties were "to represent the contributed twenty francs each (no en- to the United States, where they served units now in foreign service ... to confer listed men delegates were canvassed) to respectively as Chairman, Vice-Chairman with committees from a similar caucus in reimburse members of the Temporary and Secretary of the committee that the United States ... to make known the Committee of 20 for monies advanced by organized the St. Louis Caucus. Without existence and purpose of this organiza- them for the expenses of the Caucus. The their efforts the Legion could hardly have tion, to stimulate interest in it, and to actual expenses having been 2314 francs survived the early weeks of its infancy invite the support of all those entitled and 50 centimes, there was a balance of in the A. E. F. to membership." Q25 francs and 50 centimes—which was Foreman became another of the vitally

It was resolved that "the [first] turned over to the Executive Committee important key personalities in the forma- National Convention shall be held at for future use. tion of the Legion. ir A. M., November nth, iqiq, at such This A. E. F. Executive Committee, In this connection, and in conclusion, place as the Executive Committee of this under the leadership of Foreman and the author recognizes—on the basis of organization, acting with the Executive White, became a vitally important his observations from Paris to Minne- Committee ... in the United States, may agency. It propagated and promoted the apolis—that a number of service persons decide." infanl Legion, defended it from all man- contributed in an important way to the

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formation of the Legion. But he is of the While some sort of a national veterans' HOW CAN voo CAT SUCH RICH FOOD opinion that there were four key per- organization would probably have oc- ACIO INDIGESTION WOULD DRIVE ME CRAZY sonalities whose contributions were vitally curred without the work of these four , essential and could not have been dis- personalities, yet it might not have been HERE'S THE SECRET - JUST CHEW A pensed with without whose participa- the Legion; and it would not have come — FEW TV! MS FOR tion the Legion would not have occurred into being in such a fine way, nor so AMAZING RELIEF as and when it did. promptly. In this context it should not YES—TUMS bring amazing quick relief from Indi- gestion, heartburn, sour stomach, gas caused by ex- These four key personalities were be overlooked that the Legion in nine cess acid. For TUMS work on the true basic principle. Act unbelievably fast to neutralize excess acid con- Roosevelt, White, Clark and Foreman. months secured a prominence and a ditions. Acid pains are relieved almost at once. TUMS are guaranteed to contain no soda. Are not laxative. Two of these have been justly rewarded membership which the G. A. R. did not Contain no harmful drugs. Over 2 billion TUMS already used— proving their amazing benefit. Get with the title of "Past National Com- attain until twentv-five vears after the TUMS today. Only 10c for 12 TUMS at all druggists. mander." Civil War. You never know when or where ALWAYS CARRY J^gnd o' Plenty Jib (Continued from page if) 'ACID INDIGESTION' Turns are a live. When you need a laxative en calamity for the future of our continent? A number of text-book publishers have This all vegetable laxative brings such gentle, dependable relief for Productiveness of soil can be main- recently sought the aid of the National conditions due to constipation. tained by an intelligent plan of land use. Wildlife Federation in getting the mate- Most people do not realize that water rial necessary for the preparation of books STANDARD GARDEN TRACTORS should be as productive, acre for acre, as for our public schools setting forth the Plow Powerful Gas Tractors for Small Farms, Seed Gardeners, Florists. Nurseries, principles bed-rock of 1 land, and of all the gifts of nature we have conservation. Per- Cultivatelei FruitGrowers. Poultrymen. misused the waters most. Most of the haps conservation isn't the word we Mow Hay 1 & 2 Cylinders ami Lawns High Wheels. Rubber or food producing elements of our continent should use—we are talking about sustain- Steel Tires. Walk or Ride. Do Belt Work Free Catalog ' come under the head of renewable re- ing resources, the origin of our groceries, STANDARD ENGINE CO. sources. as well as of sport, and of a billion-dollar- Minneapolis, Minn. Philadelphia, Pa. New York, N. Y. 3220 Como Ave. 2630 Market St. 230 Cedar St, Our waters can still be restored, our a-year industry based on outdoor recrea- forests replanted, our wildlife replen- tion. ished, and our rivers and lakes be made To meet this encouraging demand for to furnish again their rich quota of life's material, the National Wildlife Federa- necessities. tion has set up a committee, headed by The processes for this restoration are Dr. Henry B. Ward, of the University of known. Demonstration projects have Illinois, one of the world's outstanding been successfully carried out, but on such zoologists and for many years executive WAKE UP! GET BUSY! STOP WORRIES! a small scale that they may be compared head of the American Association for DO LIKE HUNDREDS OF OTHERS ARE DOING with the test tube of the chemist in his the Advancement of Science. Serving with Men over 30 make your car produce some 'real earnings. Investigate the County Dealer \ laboratory. The application on a large Dr. Ward are Dr. Paul B. Sears, of Ober- plan and get started with nation-wide organ!- zatlon. Be like John Lehman, who says: "Thisi the of a wide lin College, a great botanist scale requires support pub- and author plan has provided me with a steady income for years." | of a of brilliant B Nationally advertised products. No lic understanding and a popular demand. number books on land- capital required for store, fixtures, or stock of j policies merchandise. Checks on Fridays for all profits The application of these would economics. C. J. Ballam, president of the due. Special plan for spare-time workers. Write details of experience and we will rush free constitute real conservation in this land Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, is the . inside facts on new plan. ^ FYR-FYTER CO., Office 9-39 Dayton, O. of ours. third member of the committee that has Iy A We are, then, confronted with our first been appointed. c0N most serious problem—that of education. The relationship between land-econc- c . n BEEFSTEAK TOMATO taught what conserva- mics, commercial fisheries, employment, King of the Market." Gig Money Maker, Our public must be rge Solid Fruit— Excellent Canner. To itroduco to you OurVijroroaa Northern Grown tion really means now and to the future national prosperity and hunting and fish- 'I'ure Bred Garden, Farm andFlower Seeds, Bulbs, House Plants, Fruitu and Nursery of our country. There are no textbooks ing may not be apparent at first glance, items, we will muil y..u Ui& So,-ds of Con- don's Giant Beefsteak Tomato and bi« 1939 teachers. In fact, there yet leadership in organizing for a our and there are no and Catalog. Most Complete IFREE feed and Nursery |{<»>k —600 pictures, many is at the present time no place in our united front on behalf of America':: Bargain Prices* Write today. public or private schools for such a sys- outdoor wealth has been taken very CONDON BROS. S EEOSMtN, Box 1 7, Rockford, ML tem of education. Worse and more of it, largely by sportsmen, as well as by or- our political officers of government, Re- ganizations of youth, women, farmers, publican or Democrat, elected by popu- and business men. lar vote, are no more aware of the needs Wildlife is an index to the inventory for conservation than is the general of the nation's outdoor wealth. Commer- public. cial fishing and sport fishing are concerned Because our governmental leaders are with the same species in many waters. unaware of conservation needs there is no Without forest cover, many forms of START support among our political leaders for game, big and little, cannot exist. Our adequate measures to accomplish the most important game birds thrive best to Year necessary ends. Conservation projects on cultivated lands. Wildlife, at the same $1260 $2100 are almost always defeated in legislative time, requires the cover that is destroyed Ex-Service / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE halls. by excessive clearing, drainage, and graz- Men Get / Dept. H180. Rochester, N. Y. All of our appropriations, generally ing. Preference / Sirs: Rush to me without speaking, go in the opposite direction; It is a recognized scientific fact that Get a 1939 / charge, (1) 32-page book with for new power dams to destroy more without the help of birds man would be Government ^ list of U. S. Government Big Pay Job. Jobs. (2) Tell me how to qualify for rivers, new reclamation projects to drain quickly vanquished in his ceaseless war- ^1 one of these jobs and about prefer- Mail o ence to Ex-Service men. more lakes and marshes, new roads to fare with insect pests. Agriculture suffers Coupon / today ' open up the last remaining wilderness when the forms of wildlife dependent on sure. / / Name to the tin-can tourist, forest fires, and the fence-row strips of brush, the little / to regrettable waste. patches of marsh (Continued on page 58) / Address

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and woodlands are carelessly wiped out. Projects, supported seventy-five per- to the area and to the number of licensed Of course, a great deal has been accent by federal tax funds and twenty-five hunters. complished in wildlife restoration by percent by the individual States, are All projects must be approved by the State conservation departments and by either approved or rapidly being shaped Bureau of Biological Survey, Depart- federal agencies. In respect to an intelli- up in thirty of the forty-three States that ment of Agriculture, and must have as gent approach to the problem, on a na- are eligible. It is expected that every their objectives not merely increasing the tion-wide scale, we are about where the State will shortly be lining up for Pitt- supply of game, but the development of good roads movement was in the early man-Robertson benefits. basic conditions productive of all valu- days of the automobile. There was a able forms of wildlife. growing demand for decent thoroughfares THOUSANDS of square miles of mar- The Biological Survey is assigning tech- but no organized plan of action. A federal ginal lands, unfit for agriculture, will nical experts to work with state conserva- fund was set up, available in the States be given over to the scientific restoration tion departments on the various projects, for highways that came up to sound en- of all forms of wildlife beneficial to man, and state colleges, the U. S. Forest Ser- gineering standards. The example af- from fur-bearers to insectivorous birds. vice, Soil Conservation Service, and or-

forded by the first federal-aid roads gave Under the act, only States in which all li- ganizations of farmers, sportsmen, and rise to the present system of modern cense money from sportsmen is devoted other conservationists will aid. highways. to conservation can qualify to receive the The Pittman-Robertson Act was the The Pittman-Robertson Act, enacted benefits available under the Pittman- first victory, in the field of national legis- through the efforts of the National Wild- Robertson Act. lation, for the solid front of organized life Federation, makes available for the The funds distributed from Washington conservation. Development of this front States funds from the excise tax on sport- will total between $3,000,000 and $4,000, into a permanent force offers us our ing arms and ammunition for use in wild- 000 annually, it is estimated, and will greatest hope for the future of America's life restoration. be apportioned to the States according outdoor heritage.

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County (California) Council of the Legion distribution of food, clothing, fuel and Collins Post, Hartford, Connecticut, "ve and Auxiliary continued their Christmas other necessities to the needy in that have had floods and other emergencies in basket program for the families of needy area. the Connecticut Valley, affecting our im- veterans, serving five hundred and mediate locality. Our disaster and seventy families with enough food staples For Greater Service emergency relief committee, we believe,

to last for several days . . . Babcock- has functioned as well as the average Champlin-Milks Post of Lit tie Valley, New "From time to time since the organiza- similar committee. Our experience, how- York, sponsored its tenth annual com- tion of this Post." writes Past Com- ever, has shown us that there was needed munity Christmas party, followed by a mander William Grimshaw of Robert E. improvement in the method of getting

Twenty Past Commanders of Cashmere (Washington) Post held a reunion with their Post, one from as far away as Ohio. Some of the Past Commanders met as strangers. Here is a hundred percent record that can be matched by few Posts

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men on the job in the shortest possible "Some of the Commanders of the time, and for having men whose ability earlier years and those of later years were BACKACHE, had been demonstrated by previous ex- not acquainted, so it was an occasion of perience to handle certain jobs. renewing old friendships and making LEG PAINS "Much care and thought has been new. It was such a joyous occasion that MAY given to the problem, and, after many they determined to hold a reunion each trial efforts we have worked out an year hereafter. One of the events of the BE DANGER SIGN emergency relief set-up which we believe day was the organization of a Cashmere Of Tired Kidneys — How To Get will stand up under any test in our own, Post 'Past Commanders Last Man Club,' Happy Relief or any other, community. One of the with no bars to membership to any mem- If backache and Iepr pains are makinpr you mis- erable, don't just complain and do nothing about main features of our plan is that we have ber, provided he has served Cashmere them. Nature may be warning you that your divided the City of Hartford into four Post as its Commander." kidneys need attention. The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking areas, in each of which two members of The Pasts in the picture, front row, excess acids and poisonous waste out of the blood. the Committee are charged with keeping left to right, are O. C. Snyder, Clyde Most people pass about 3 pints a day or about 3 pounds of waste. in touch with Post members and with all Casebeer, P. M. Baken, J. Leon LaYigne, If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't work well, poisonous waste matter stays of disaster Al Frank and Elmer Thulean. Back row, members the and emergency in the blood. These poisons may start nagging relief committee. The division of duties left to right, A. W. Reudi, Harry King, backaches, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness of the key men and working members has Milt Bourn, Charles Kuelbs, E. A. under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Don't wait. for Doan's Pills, been so worked out under our plan that, Barnes, Jack Vickery, R. Russell Reid, Ask your druggist used successfully by millions for over 40 years. after the call for emergency assistance Charles Jameson, Leon Babcock, L. J. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from has been issued, notification can be given Lemm, Harry Smith, Paul Kyner, Charles the blood. Get Doan's Pills. and all workers picked up by automobile Lincoln and Gerald Churchill. and delivered at the Post quarters within twenty minutes to a half hour." Legion Shorts

Wilmore-Richter Post of Arvada, Colo- • TIME COUNTS Reunion in Cashmere n applying for patents. Don't risk delay in protecting

yo ention. Send sketch or model for i instructions rado, has just moved into its new for FREE book, "Patent Guide for the Inven- tor," and "Record of Invention" form. No charge on TWENTY—count 'em—twenty Past home. The building, an old red brick how to proceed. Prompt, careful, efficient service. CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN AND HYMAN BERMAN Commanders of Cashmere (Washing- residence, was remodeled to fit the needs Registered Patent Attorneys 247-P Adams Building Washington, D. C. ton) Post all sitting in two rows. All living of the Post, with a large meeting hall, and active, but not all living in the baili- kitchen and cloak room on the first floor, wick of the Post. And thereby hangs a and with reading room, amusement room tale—making the picture of this group and offices on the second . . . Another new of Past Commanders more interesting. Legion home is that recently erected by Past Commander Leon E. Babcock, Perry (Iowa) Post at a cost of $14,000. who is also President of the group's Last Adjutant W. O. Binns tells us that in Man Club, writes: "For a year or more IQ35, when the building campaign was the Past Commanders of Cashmere Post< initiated, the Post had thirty-eight mem- had planned a reunion. Sunday, August bers and $600 cash; in 1938, when the

28th, saw the consummation of their program was completed, one hundred • Every fisherman want this book. Written by plans and their ardent hopes. It was a and sixty members were on the rolls. The Cal Johnson, noted angler. Te" ways, methods of night fishing for genuine pleasure to each one to find that new brick home, thirty-two by eighty bass, wall-eyes, other fish. How, when to east or troll after dark. all the others were present, for it is real- feet in size, fully meets the requirements Night fishing thrills. Shows Pow- erlite and other Delta electric lan- 1 ized that such an occasion is rare and of a live, forward-looking Post . . . Serv- terns. Write for this book, free! pow cannot be duplicated by of the ice Officer William of DELTA ELECTRIC CO. »3i= many H. Oder Walker- 750 W. 33rd St. Marion, Indiana 11,400 Posts. Many of these Command- Dyer Post, Pennsgrove, New Jersey, ers were young men in their twenties reports that the community ambulance when they were at the helm guiding the given by the Legion in 1932 averages destiny of Cashmere Post. Most of them three hundred calls a year, and has been ClantASTiR NOVELTY Grow thig New Aster-if's different. are now in their forties, averaging about driven 40,000 miles at a cost of $2,000 OurTrials produced Giant Blooms in several shades of Lavender with forty-three the petals, — youngest is thirty-eight . . . J. O. Le Blanc, Adjutant of Vermilion white stripes on edges of all on one plant. and the oldest forty-seven. Thirteen of Post, Abbeville, Louisiana, writes that SIOO. FOR BEST NAME We are sending out Test Pkts. to se* if the Past Commanders reside at Cash- the bridge across the Vermilion River at SS? it cornea true in all sections and offer > $100. for a NAME. Rules Printed on fkU. Test Pkt. (20aeeda) FREE if STAMP is sent mere, six in other parts of Washington, Abbeville has been dedicated to the for POSTAGE. 1939 Seed Book FREE. Seed Grower, Box 30S, ROSE HILL, N. Y. and one in Ohio, but nothing could deter soldier dead of the World War. |Cb. MILLS them from coming to the reunion. Boyd B. Stutler

Be a. LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE IJlcflm Man W. Lester Stevens, Edwin A. Peterson Post, Rockport, Mass. Georce Shanks. Reville Post, Brooklyn, New York. No Time Like Gene Tunney, Stamford (Connecticut) Post. Now to Get in.. Frank Street, Sergeant Clendenon Newell Post, Leonia, New Jersey. Make up to $75 a week Fisher It's no trick to make up Eric Wood, Bedford (Pennsylvania) Post. to $12 a day when you Herbert Morton Stoops, First Division Lieut. Jefferson Feigl Post, York City. useyourcarasaMc Ness — New "Store on Wheels." Frederick Palmer, City Club Post, New York City. Farmers are buying everything they IseYour can from McNess men. Attractive William Heaslip, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. business-getting prizes, also money- CAR Fairfax Downey, Second Division Post, New York City. saving deals to customers make selling McNess daily necessities a snap. This to Raise J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. business is depression-proof. John Thomas Taylor, George Washington Post, Washington, D. C. We Supply Capital— Start Now! Your Robert Ginsburch, Black Diamond Post, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. There's no better work anywhere pays well, permanent, need no ex- PAY Winsor Josselyn, Monterey Peninsula Post, California. perience to start and we supply capital help you get started quick. You start making Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- to money first day. Write at once for McNess Dealer naires, are not listed. Book— tells all —no obligation. (92-B) THE McNESS CO., 725 Adams St., Freeport, ML

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{Continued jrorn page jq) has to offer in response to your story and one of the holes that had been dug and fifty huskies to follow him—it was just the picture we display: covered with sheet iron for a gun crew. one officer to another, each doing his par- "During March, 1919, I went on a We talked with them for a while and ticular job. leave from the U. S. S. El Sol at Bor- learned they had received the bacon from "We followed him through the tangled deaux, France, and landed in Paris. the American Red Cross. maze of warehouses and docks, a broad While stopping at the Red Cross head- "The trip from Rheims back to Paris grin on the faces of the leading ranks quarters in the Tuileries Gardens, I took, and on to Bordeaux is a blank in my who could see the little figure leading on. the enclosed picture of three Red Cross memory. We sailed shortly afterward and He was never at a loss, no indecision, nurses and the little girl. I believe it was on this trip that the ship while my own bump of direction was in a "The picture was a time exposure made went to the aid of the U. S. S. Kentuckian daze. in the restaurant which was run by the which had lost her rudder. This incident We marched for half an hour when he Red Cross. Two of the nurses wrote their was mentioned some years ago in Then suddenly turned to the right and led us names and addresses, as follows, on my and Now by an officer while telling about to a dock where, in its berth, was tied one pass: Nelle Estill Pryor, care of The 'Little Charlie,' a boy mascot, being of the fast Channel boats. American Red Cross, 308 Augusta Street, brought back on the El Sol. I remember " 'Halt your company, captain,' and San Antonio, Texas, and Mrs. B. H. Charlie very well and I imagine our then, 'You may go aboard when ready, McKee, 49 West 7 2d Street, New York, former captain remembers him too, as he sir.' New York. gave Charlie his bed to sleep in and when "He stood aside, and as the last man of "I remember one of the nurses said the captain used it again he received a C Company crossed the gangplank, he that the little girl was the youngest very generous supply of cooties." turned to me and very gravely offered his American in France, and I am wondering hand: 'A pleasant crossing, sir, and the if the picture were published in the THE story of the probable youngest best of luck.' Legion Magazine whether anyone would American in France during the war, "And so C Company went to war with recall anything about her. I'll bet she is a naturally brings to mind a story of "The a smile, and the Littlest Scout went home pippin by now. Littlest Scout"—a true incident—which to his supper. He had done his deed for "My ship, the El Sol, hauled cargoes of was sent to us by Owen M. Mothershead the day, but I am very sure that it never grain, horses, mules, etc., to Bordeaux of Memorial Post, Indianapolis, Indiana, occurred to him that he had done any- and encountered but two submarines whose address is 211 East South Street in thing at all." during the entire time. One of them ran that Hoosier metropolis. Here it is: from us and we ran from the other—so "It had been a long day on the war- VETERANS of Company A, 23d there is not much to tell along those lines. time docks of Southampton, England, in Infantry, attention! Here is an op- On one of our trips, we were about two that September of 1918. After a stormy portunity, twenty years and more after days out of Bordeaux when the Armistice Atlantic crossing, a landing at Birken- the fighting ended, to help the sister of was signed and when we arrived they head, a rest camp at Wmnell Downs, the one of your buddies who failed to return were still celebrating. Some of the main 311th Ammunition Train, 86th Division, home with you. Medical officers, nurses streets were four to five inches deep with had entrained at Winchester in the early and enlisted men connected with Field confetti, so I could picture the wild time morning and after the short run down, Hospital No. 23 can also be of assistance. they had had. C Company was left on its own to await Please note this letter from Mrs. Marion "In March, 1919, the captain of our embarkation orders. Cochran, Bunker Hill Road, Auburn, ship told me I could get off for a '48' and The scene was absorbing but some- New Hampshire: go up to Paris, I began to figure time what depressing, as I learned it was to be "After reading a copy of the Legion tables so I could squeeze a '72' out of it an all-day wait for nightfall. Channel Magazine I thought I would write to see and left for Paris. There I met up with an crossing by day did not seem popular at if you could help me get some information officer, McGinty, of the El Sol and as I the moment. Overhead the skies were about my brother. All we know is that he could speak 'Bordeaux' French, he evi- sodden, the sea looked dark and angry, died June 13, 191 8, of wounds received in dently thought we could get along better while on an adjoining dock a British action. Would like to hear from some of together, so we went on up to Rheims hospital ship began to unload its cargo of his buddies who were with him and would with each other. We had not gone far maimed from the push on Cambrai. There also like a picture of him if any of the men before we realized they spoke something were so many of them, the unloading have any. else up there and neither of us could make seemed endless, the rain soaked down, "His name was John M. DeVeau, pri- anyone understand. and the morale of C Company slipped vate, Company A, 23d Infantry, 2d Di- "I took a great many pictures there lower and lower as we waited for night, vision. His body was brought back to this one being the wreck of an American bar the Channel crossing and the great country and now rests in the Catholic and another, the famous cathedral. We adventure. Cemetery in Stoneham, Massachusetts. left Rheims and hiked up to the hill "I saw him coming down the dock, a I trust you will help me find out if he died country where the Germans had had military figure in dress and carriage, and in a hospital and where." their batteries that shelled the town and apparently all of eight years old. He We enlisted the aid of Frederick visited a dugout that was supposed to quickly singled out my double bars, Israel, National Secretary of The Second have been the Crown Prince's head- snapped to attention, saluted and asked: Division Association, A. E. F., Washing- quarters while he was in that sector. It 'Captain Mothershead, 311th Ammuni- ton, D. C, and he was able to inform Mrs. was down in the ground about five or tion Train?' I admitted the identity and Cochran that Comrade DeVeau died in six ilights of stairs and had regular living his instructions were short and to the Field Hospital No. 23, a part of the 2d quarters. While hiking in the hills, there point: 'Form your company, sir, and Division, as a result of a severe gun shot came the familiar scent of frying bacon follow me.' I had received many orders wound in the right thigh. Based on the and it surely smelled good, after having from many sources, but it seemed never date of death, the wound must have been had cheese sandwiches for lunch. Track- one just like this. A smile started to the sustained in the Belleau Wood fighting. ing it down, we found an old French surface, but I cut it off. He saw nothing We know that former comrades of couple living in the side of a hill, using incongruous in ordering two hundred and DeVeau will cooperate.

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Earnings start Electric Building, Dayton, Ohio, and reached Toul the soldier passengers re- day with Complete Display Outfit and my proven money-making Plan. Ford Tudor Sedans erstwhile 1st Lieutenant, 353d Infantry, maining were plenty tired, cold, hungry given producers as bonus. Full particu- lars mailed free. Just send postcard. 89th Division, "reminds me of what and thirsty—mainly thirsty. Then some E.J. MILLS, 9307 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio might be termed an anti-climax to observant Yank spied a carload of cham- Christmas or a Christmas Aftermath. pagne on a siding and brought in a bottle. The American Lecion The recounting of this tale should awaken The news spread and more bottles came National Headquarters old memories for a large number of into the train and one thing brought on Indianapolis, Indiana of the of Occupation. another until the entire train was in one veterans Army Financial Statement "The Christmas festivities had hardly uproar of celebration which lasted from December 31, 1938 gathered real momentum that day in the then until the train arrived at ChatiUon, Rhineland until the order went down to and even continued on through the streets Assets each regiment of each Division in the of that formerly quiet village and did not Cash on hand and on deposit ? 786,999.51 Notes and accounts receivable 43,253.14 Army of Occupation to send its quota of die out until some hours later. Inventories 74,500.16 officers and men to a special school at "Of course this incident called for an Invested funds 1,748,801.04 Chatillon-sur-Seine, and to start at once. investigation by the Army school authori- Permanent investments: Dropping all celebrations, the groups ties and they discovered that half of the Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. 201,487.6? began to pack and make their way to the expected students hadn't even arrived on Office building, Washington, D. C, less depreciation 124,764.31 various railheads to board the 'Special.' the train. In fact, it was after New Year's Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less Soon the train was loaded with some Day before we all finally trickled in from depreciation 32,106. 38 fourteen hundred soldiers from all those Paris. The upshot of it was that blank Deferred charges 23,209.24 fighting Divisions, and all rarin' to go. courtmartial charges were made out in S3 ,03 5, 12 1.46 But of all the rotten trains you ever saw, large quantities. Night after night, groups that one was the worst, old, worn-out were ordered to report to the examining Liabilities, Deferred Revenue and equipment that Germany turned over to officer until the entire student body had Nel Worth our use. Windows broken, no heat, no filed through his office. You were asked Current liabilities $ 71,367.52 water, hardly room to sit, and slower one question : 'Did you arrive at Chatillon Funds restricted as to use 20.250.0C than molasses in January. It stopped on the Special or did you not?' If your Deferred revenue 641,860.82 Permanent trust: time after time on sidings to let fine, answer was 'Yes,' then you were charged Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. 201,487.6? modern trains filled with civilians and with disorderly conduct; if your answer Worth: soldiers of our Allies riding in comfort, was 'No,' then you were charged with Net Restricted capital SI, 720, 172. 70 go by—which of course only added to the absence without leave because it meant Unrestricted capital 379,982.74 2,100,155.44 smoldering flame of disgust and discon- that you must have been with the gang X3.035.121.46 tent of the Americans. that went to Paris. (Continued on page 62)

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INDEX of "These charges were still being investi- Denison, Texas, President; Frank H. gated after we returned to our outfits in Hardin, Savannah, Missouri, Treasurer, ADVERTISERS the Rhineland, but were finally dropped and I occupy the post of Secretary."

by making one part of the group chip in How about it, men? Is there any other for reimbursement of the champagne one Company that had more than three

American Life & Ace. Ins. Co 61 consumed, and the rest of us deduct four men who were awarded the highest honor days' for A. O. L. the theory that our Government can American Telephone & Telegraph Co.. . 47 pay W. — bestow upon Anheuser-Busch, Inc. being that no one could blame us very its fighters? Budweiser 3 much, considering the kind of train we had had. TWO colossal entertainments rolled Bauer & Black 51 "A poem commemorating the incident into one—that is, if your old wartime Bean. L. L 63 was written by one of the officers in- outfit holds a reunion in conjunction Brooks Appliance Company 55 volved, multigraphed by the hundreds at with a Legion National Convention. It is the time, bought by practically everyone not too early to announce your reunion

Calvert Distillers Corp. in the school, and the proceeds, as I during the National Convention in Old Drum Cover III recall, were turned over to a fund to help Chicago, September 25th to 28th, and to Carter Medicine Company 53 French orphans—probably that of The start making plans. Advise this depart- College of Swedish Massage 55 Stars and Stripes. ment if you propose a reunion and an- Condon Bros., Seedsmen 57 "If you think the curtain of censorship nouncement will be published in this Creek Chuh Bait Company 55 had better be drawn over this little phase column. of A. E. F. life, then so be it. However, I Former Tankers will be interested to D. D. D. Corporation 63 shall never forget that great 'Champagne learn that the World War Tank Corps Delta Electric Company 59 Special,' nor my holiday in Paris. It was Association, which was organized and worth the dinky four days' pay that I Denison, T. S. & Company 55 held a reunion during the Legion National Doan's Pills 59 lost, and then some!" Convention in Los Angeles last Septem- ber, is making an effort to organize local department applauds those com- Florsheim Shoe Company 49 THIS units, to be known as Battalions, through- rades who step forward with a boast- out the country. Franklin Institute 57 Veterans interested in ful claim about their old outfits. Why Fyr-Fyter Company 57 such local units and in the Association not? Almost every man's regiment or in general, which will hold a reunion in company or crew was the best in the Chicago during the Legion National General Electric Company 41 service, even though others may come Convention, are requested to write to Gillette Safety Razor Company 4 along with even better records. So we Claude J. Harris, Director, Organization place before you a challenge from Fred Committee, World War Tank Corps Johnson Motors 49 M. Wanger, Past Avocat Nationale of Association, 817^ West 43d Street, Los the Forty and Eight, who is an attorney Angeles, California. Kalamazoo Stove Company 49 in the American National Bank Building, Details of the following National Knox Company Cystex 63 St. Joseph, Missouri: Convention reunions may be obtained "I am writing you in the interest of the from the Legionnaires listed: LaSalle Extension University 61 Veterans of Company A, 356th Infantry, Amer. Lewis-Howe Company Tunis 57 R. R. Trans. Corps, A. E. F. —Reunion. 80th Division, who held their 20th annual Clvde D. Burton, conv. cbmn., S211 Ellis av., Chicago, 111. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. reunion in city on Armistice Day last. my Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets.— Chesterfield Cover II This Company, we believe, has an Three-day reunion, banquet and dance. Comdr. Velvet 43 Sidney R. Rothschild of Chicago Balloon Bed No. enviable record of service in the A. E. F. 5, gen. chmn., 10565 Hale av., Chicago, 111. G. H. Armies and Corps Staff and carries on the traditions of service to Q., Army and McNess Company 59 Personnel—Reunion luncheon and permanent the present day. At least seventy-five organization. Wm. A. Barr, 1400 N. Gardner St., Metal Cast Products Company 53 Los Angeles, Calif. percent of our members belong to The Natl. Assoc. 6th Drv. —Write for your Siqhlxeer Mills. E. J 61 American Legion. Magazine and information relative organization, and reunion in Chicago during Legion Natl. Conv., Mills, F. B., Seed Grower 59 "Here is our boast: Three men of our to Clarence A. Anderson, natl. secy.-treas., Box 23, Stockyards Sta., Denver, Colo. Congres- Company were awarded the 85th Div. Assoc.—Organized at Los Angeles Medicine 63 Nacor Company sional Medal of Honor for service above Natl. Convention. Proposed reunion during Natl. Conv. in Chicago. Send name and outfit to Frank L. National Carbon Co., Inc 45 and beyond the call of duty. They were Greenya, pres., 2812 W. Pierce St., Milwaukee, Wise. Marcellus H. Chiles (post- Captain 48th & K'Iih Inf., 20th Div. —Proposed reunion. O'Brien, C. A. & H. Berman 59 humously), Private David B. Barkley Harry McBride, 1229-26th St., Newport News, Va. Btry. C, 62d C. A. C. (Presidio>—Reunion.

(posthumously) , and Sergeant Harold I. Mannie Fisher, 1357 N. Western av., Chicago, 111. Btry. C, 67th C. A. C; 7th Co. (Ft. Winfielo R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Johnston. Scott): 44th & 45th Prov. Cos. (Presidio)— Camels Cover IV "Is not that a record for any one Reunion. For copy of Btry. C, 67th C. A. C, roster, Nolan, Bridle Path, Wor- Prince Albert 39 write to Gerald D. 372 Company in the A. E. F.? cester, Mass. Btries. & D, 4th & 5th Regts., F. A. R. D., trained at Funston, Kan- C "We Camp Camp Taylor— Proposed reunion and organiza- Sani-Flush 53 sas, went overseas in May, 191 8, saw tion. Frank O'Sullivan, Galena, Kans. Army Art. Park, 1st Army—Proposed reunion. Standard Engine Company 57 service in the St. Mihiel and Meuse- W. H. Kornbeck, 5529 Berenice av., Chicago, 111. of re- Superior Match Pants Company 63 Argonne Offensives and were a unit of World War Vets, C. A. C. —Natl. Conv. union. Men interested in organizing local Battalions, the Army of Occupation in Germany. write to Claude J. Harris, director of organization comm., 817)4 W. 43d st., Los Angeles, Calif. Bros. Boat Mfg. Co 61 Thompson We were discharged at Camp Funston on 23d Engks. Assoc.—Write H. H. Siddall, secy., 5440 Ridgewood Court, Chicago, 111., for advance Tune 11, 1919. Casualties: 21 men killed reunion news and copy of official publication. Ve-Po-Ad 63 and died of wounds; 57 wounded. Harold 35th Engrs.—Reunion of "We Built the Cars" veterans. Fred Krahenbuhl, 1310 Hanover St., [. Johnston, our living Medal of Honor Hamilton, Ohio. Vets. Assoc. (57-58-59 R. T. C>— Weezel Bait Company 63 man, attended our last reunion. Our 61st Engrs. 2d reunion, during Legion Natl. Conv. in Chicago, Wilson Chemical Company 55 officers for 1939 are: Carson Sebers, Send names and addresses to Edward M. Soboda,

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63 secy.-treas., W. st. 1617 Hopkins f Milwaukee, Wise. 36th Inf. Club—For roster, write to Harry 415th Sig. Corps Bn. Assoc.—Reunion Hq. at Berg, secy., 3139 15th av., S„ Minneapolis, Minn. Great Northern Hotel, Chicago. James J. Maher, 126th Inf.—Reunion, Jackson, Mich., Aug. 4-6. 3723 S. RoekweU St., Chicago, 111. Chas. Pains In Back, Alexander, Otsego Hotel, Jackson. 13th Co. & 10th Regt., U. S. M. C, Quantico— 135th Inf. Officers—Annual reunion, Minne- Nate Leibow, 8 N. Cass av., Westmont, 111. apolis, Minn., Mar. 25. Edson J. Andrews, 1118 W. 150th Aero Sqdrn. —Floyd YV. Freeman, 22 53d st., Minneapolis. Park av., Cranford, N. J. 314th Inf.—Annual reunion, Lancaster, Pa., Nervous, Rheumatic? 185th Aero Sijdrn. — Proposed reunion. Floyd Sept. 22-24. Chas. M. Stimpson, secy., 2239 Benson Perham, Lake Side, Mich. av., Brooklyn, N. Y. Wrong foods and drinks, worry, overwork and Sqdrn. 224th Aero —Reunion banquet, Sept. 314th Inf., Co. I —Annual reunion, American frequent colds often put a strain on the Kidneys 25, Chicago. W. V. Matthews, 2208 dimming St., Legion Hall, Catasauqua, Pa., Apr. 29. and functional kidney disorders may be the true cause of Excess Acidity. Getting Nights, Omaha, Nebr. 316th Inf. Assoc.—20th annual reunion, Phil- Up Burn- ing Passages, Leg Pains, Nervousness, Dizziness, 380th & 828th Aero Sqdrns. (Mt. Clemens & adelphia, Pa., Sept. 23. Report to Raymond A. Swollen Ankles, Rheumatic Pains, Puffy Eyelids, Selfridge Field)—Reunion. Jay N. Helm, 940 Cullen, secy., 1829 Cobbs Creek Parkway, Phila- and feeling old before your time. Help your kid- Hill st., Elgin, 111. delphia. neys purify your blood with Cystex. Usually the 322d Motorcycle, M. T. C. Proposed reunion. — M. G. Co. Vets. Assoc., 108th Inf.— 15th an- very first dose starts helping your kidneys clean Walter Moore, Decker st., Flint, Mich. M. 318 nual reunion, Buffalo, N. Y., Apr. 1. Jas. A. Ed- out excess acids and this may quickly make you Chemical Warfare Serv. Vets. Assoc.. (Edge- wards, 166 Cleveland av., Buffalo. feel like new. Under the money-back guarantee wood Arsenal, Lakehurst and elsewhere.)— 308th Inf., Co. K—Annual reunion dinner, 77th Cystex must satisfy completely or cost nothing. Iieunion. Report to Geo. W. Nichols, R. 3, Kings- Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th st., New York City, Get Cystex (Siss-texl today. It costs only 3c a on, N. Y. Apr. 22. Simon Reiss, 105 Bennett av., New York dose at druggists and the guarantee protects you. Q. M. C, C. & R. Branch, Camp Cody, N. M.— City. Proposed reunion and plans for permanent organi- 357th Inf., Co. M—Reunion, Medicine Park, zation. Henry A. Wahlborg, 106 W. Clay St., Mt. Okla., July 29-30. Martin G. Kizer, secy., Apache, Pleasant, Iowa. Okla. WE Evac. Hosp. No. 14—3d annual reunion, Chi- 133d M. G. Bn., 36th Div. —2d annual reunion, cago, J. Charles Meloy, pres., Rm. 3050, Grand Cen- Marshall, Tex., June 18. Send name, address and ToAnySuitT tral Terminal, New York City. company to Jesse J. Childers, 223 S. Covington st., Double the life of your Base Hcsp., Camp Grant—Reunion. Harold E. Hillsboro, Tex. coat and vest with correctly Giroux, 841 W. Barry av., Chicago, 111. Co. D, 105th M. G. Bn. —Reunion and per- matched pants. 100,000 patterns. Base Hosp., Camp Sevier—Convention reunion manent roster. Elmer Wenstrom, 298 Union av., Every pair hand tailored to your measure. Our match sent FREE for your 0. K. before of nurses, doctors and corpsmen, Chicago. -Mrs. Belleville, N. J. pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece Mary Callaway, corres. secy., 566 W. Third St., 51st Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —Annual reunion, of cloth or vest today. Dayton, Ohio. Flushing, N. Y., Sept. 10. Walter Morris, gen. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY Vets. A. E. F. Siberia—Annual convention, chmn., 139-09 34th Road, Flushing. 209 S. State St. Dept. 712 Chicago Great Northern Hotel, Chicago. Siberian vets 59th Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —1th reunion, Re- write to Reunion Hq., Room 1200, 155 N. Clark St., hoboth Beach, Del., in Aug. Definite date to be Chicago. announced later. Howard D. Jester, 1913 Wash- Naval Aviators —Proposed reunion of vets of ington st., Wilmington, Del. M. I. T. and Pensacola Trng. Sta. Lauren L. Shaw, 119th F. A. Vets. Assoc. —Annual reunion, 155 Glencoe av., Decatur, 111. Armory, Lansing, Mich., Sat. Apr. 8. C. M. Mari- U. S. S. Dixie and Newport Trng. Sta. —Re- etta, secy., 736 Durant st., Lansing. union. R. O. Levell, 163, Castle, Ind. ^Itching Box New 328th F. A. Vets. Assoc. A. E. F. 16th annual U. S. S. Mania—Reunion of crew. Wm. J. John- reunion, Grand Rapids, Mich., June 24-25. For //TO RTURE This Quick Way son, 9311 Cottage Grove av., Chicago, 111. details and for membership in association, write For quick relief from the itching of eczema, blotches, Vets, of Polish extraction, their families and to L. J. Lynch, adjt., 1747 Madison av., S. E., pimples, athlete's foot, scales, rashes and other ex- all Legionnaires are invited to open house in the Grand Rapids. ternally caused skin eruptions, use cooling, antisep- Memorial Home of Pulaski Post, The American 71st Regt., C. A. C. Annual reunion, Boston — tic, liquid D.D.D. PRESCRIPTION. Original formula Legion, during the Legion National Convention in Yacht Club, 5 Rowes Wharf, Boston, Mass., Apr. of Doctor Dennis. Greaseless and stainless. Soothes Chicago, Sept. 25-28. Address all communications 29. Theo. A. Cote, Hill adjt., 380 Tarkiln Road, the irritation and quickly stops the most intense itch- to Walter Zasadzki, adjt., 1558 N. Hoyne av., New Bedford, Mass. ing. A 35c trial bottle, at drug stores, proves it —or Chicago, 111. 50th Co., C. A. C, Ft. Lewitt, Me.—For mem- your money back. Ask for D.D.D. PRESCRIPTION. bership in organization and information about reunion, write to Secy. R. N. Stoffer, Chief of Police, Salem, Ohio. and activities at times EEUNIONS 338th Motor Transp. Repair Unit—For ros- New Adding Machine >• and places other than the Legion ter, send name and address to Mark H. Taylor, Rutherford, Tenn. Fits Vest Pocket! National Convention, follow: 2d Engrs. Assoc. A. E. F.—For roster, report Adds, subtracts, and multiplies, up to one billion yet it costs only $2.95. Weighs to R. O. Lundgren, secy., 549 W. Washington blvd., — only 4 ounces. Not a toy—guaranteed Chicago, 111. 2d Drv. Assoc., A. E. F.—21st annual reunion. workmanship. Perfectly accurate, very Hotel Wbitcomb, San Francisco, Calif.. July 20-22 Vets, of 13th Engrs. (Rv.)—Annual reunion, fast. Sells to business men, store 16-18. keepers, homes wherever figures are David McKell, conv. chmn., 65 Post St., San Minneapolis, Minn., June Jas. A. Elliott, — used. Grab this opportunity. Francisco. secy.-treas., 721 E. 21st St., Little Rock, Ark. Write at once for 15th Engrs. (Ry.)—20th annual reunion, Pitts- FREE a/*__._- 4th Drv. Assoc., Penna. Chapter—Annual re- Sample Offer and Monev /A°St9 burgh, Pa., Apr. 29. Send names and addresses to AGENTS union, Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, Pa., May 6. MakingPlan. 100% Profit! //On Bryon C. Roland Gelatt, secy., 4807 Chester av., Phil- Wade, 210 Realty bldg., Youngstown, Penn- VE-PO-AD, Dept. 165 adelphia. sylvania. 303 W. MONROE ST.. CHICAGO 15th first 5th (Red Diamond) Drv.—Write for copy of Engrs. Mothers and Wives—Meet Red Diamond and for Fifth Div. History to Wm. Tuesday of each month at Congress of Clubs, Pittsburgh, secy., Barton Bruce, pres., 48 Ayrault st., Providence, Pa. Mrs. Beulah E. McGraw, R. I. 1700 Benton av., E. Bellevue, Pa. 26th (YD) Div.—YDVA natl. conv., Hartford, Vets. 31st Ry. Engrs. A. E. F. — 11th annual Conn., June 22-25. Write Wallace H. Glading, reunion, Oakland, Calif., Aug. 18-20. F. E. Love, secy.-treas., 104 H 1st st., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. exec, secy., P. O. Box 1776, Hartford. ASTH 52d Engrs. R. T. C. 2d annual reunion, New MA Soc. of 28th Div.—All vets requested to send — names, addresses and units to Walter W. Haugh- Castle, Pa., July 30-31. J. A. Bell, 320 Meyer av., New Castle. erty, secy.-treas., 1444 S. Vodges St., Philadelphia, •waanmmat Pa., for roster. 15th Engrs., Co. D—Reunion, Oakmont, Pa., If you suffer from Asthma Paroxysms, from coughs, gasp- ing, wheezing—write quick for daring TRIAL 30th Div.—150-page divisional history may be Apr. 20. R. L. Knight, 224 N. Aiken av., Pittsburgh, FHKK Pa. OFFER of real relief. Inquiries from so-called "hope- obtained from E. A. Murphy, Old Hickory Publ. less" cases especially invited. Write NAC0R, 956-M State 306th F. S. Bn. For copy of Battalion Co., Lepanto, Ark. — History, Life Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. 34th (Sandstorm) Div.—Annual reunion, Web- wTite to Warren W. Irwin, editor, 243 Roosevelt ster City, Iowa, July 23. Lacey Darnell, gen. chmn., rd., Rochester, N. Y. Webster City. 374th Aero Sodrn. —Proposed organization and Rainbow (42d) Vets. —21st annual reunion, reunion. Jos. A. Brady, 577 N. 26th st., East St. Oklahoma City, Okla., July 13-15. Albert Hoyt, Louis, 111. FISHERMEN prefer this Serv., natl. secy., 3792 W. 152d St., Cleveland, Ohio. Air Essington, Pa. & Lake Charles, La. 20th annual reunion, Essington, Pa., 77th Div. Assoc. extends all courtesies and facili- during May. SA/r/ For definite date, write the ties of its Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th st., New York City, Samuel H. Paul, 540 E. Thousands know Gravers Lane, Hill, EEZEL Streamlined to veterans of all outfits who visit the New York Chestnut Phila., Pa. Feathered Minnow gets fish I Base Hosp. No. 2 —Reunion, and formation of World's Fair. Information about Fair, side trips, Many exciting colors. 3 Etretat Assoc., during May. For details, hotels, etc., will be available. Jos. E. Delaney, write sizes: Casting; Fly Rod; G. Ross, 137-73 exec, secy., 28 E. 39th st., New York City. Belknap St., Springfield Gardens, Muskie - Saltwater. At all 77th Div. Assoc.—Testimonial dinner and dance N. Y. dealers. Folder Free—write 146th Field CO., Dept. P. will be tendered to I. J. Fox, prominent veteran of Hosp., 112th San. Trn., 37th THE WEEZEL BAIT Drv. Annual Disney SI. Oakley, Cincinnati, 0. Division, at Hotel Astor, New York City, Sat., Mar. — reunion, Cleveland, Ohio, Sat., Apr. 15. For details, 25th. Reservations through Jos. Delaney, secy., write Dr. John E. Rauschkolb, 1705 bldg., 28 E. 39th St., New York City. Republic Cleveland. Med. Sup. Depot, Camp Lost Battalion, 77th Div.—The first reunions Dix—Proposed reunion, of survivors were held last year. A permanent asso- Delaware Water Gap, Pa., Aug. For details, write Clarence T. Shaw, Scranton ciation has been formed and all survivors of the Times News Dept., Scranton, Pa. "Pocket" are asked to report to Walter J. Baldwin, S. Canandaiaua secy., 185g Victor St., New York City, for informa- U. S. —Proposed reunion in June. r Free tion regarding future reunions. For details, WTite John Weller W ood, Manhasset, 78th Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual spring smoker L. I., N. Y. U. S. S. Emeline Reunion of vets of crew, and reunion, Capitol Hotel, 51st st. & 8th av., New — New York City, Sat., Catalog York City, Apr. 22. Write Richard T. Stanton, 1070 Mar. 25. H. W. Rose, 200 Madison Anderson av., New York City. av.. New York City. Ready March 8 80th Div. Vets. Assoc.—20th annual convention U. S. S. Sierra—Proposed reunion and organiza- iPuIly illustrated, tion. Ira Maier, 375 Riverside Drive, and reunion, VJniontown, Pa., Aug. 3-6. Dr. S. A. New York showing special foot- City. Baltz, chmn., Uniontown. Mark R. Byrne, secy wear and clothing for . Vets. A. F. Natl. Hq., 413 Plaza bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. E. Siberia —3d annual reunion. fisherman and camper, Eastern Dept., at Philadelphia, Soc. of 89th Div.—Vets in Chicago area invited Pa., in May. For also special fishing date and details, WTite Geo. Winkleman, to organize local chapter. Write to Rudolph Lurie. comdr., tackle. 1834 Dallas st., 5306 W. St., Philadelphia. 23d Cicero, 111. L. L. Bean, Inc. 92d Div. War Vets. Assoc.—Vets invited to John J. Noll Street join. Osie Kelley, pres., 720 E. 50th pi., Chicago, 19 Main The Company Clerk Freeport, Maine MARCH, 1039 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine . — — — — —

Workers Over 40 great majority in the U. S. Army during our forefathers to come to America from for To the Editor: Harking back to the June, the World War. As myself, before the France, or England, or Germany, or any States declared 1938 issue of the magazine, I was im- United war I wanted to other country. But there is a decider' pressed with the story, "Hats off to the join the U. S. Army but was rejected blame attached to them for living in 1 because I was a foreigner. After the country, doing its work and eating its Middle Lifer," by J. C. Hormel. United States declared war with Ger- bread, Mr. Hormel is to be congratulated for and refusing to cut the legal tie the real American spirit he displays on the many I was drafted into service, and I which binds them to the country of their was still foreigner. birth. all important question of the "Middle a neutral Well, I Charles H. Coleman, Andrew Lifers." The number of men he employs claimed exemption, being a foreigner. Dunn Post, Charleston, Illinois. over forty years of age and the wages But now the military authorities refused paid to them prove beyond any reason- to reason. I had to serve although I was a 50th, Not 59th able doubt the value of these men in foreigner. I served eighteen months in the To the Editor: In the November issue Mr. Hormel's industry. U. S. Army, fifteen months in France. I also became a naturalized American there was a story called "Homecoming," The writer is employed by the Sim- according to which the man who picked mons Company, Kenosha, Wisconsin, citizen. I think I am as patriotic and out the body of our Unknown Soldier was manufacturers of bedding equipment. In American as an enlisted man. No matter Sgt. Edward Younger, of Headquarters, looking around the factory many familiar how we got into service we are all ex- together 2d Battalion, 59th Infantry. (This was a faces are recognized as "Middle Lifers" service men and we should stick regiment of the 4th. Div.) In the U. S. who are seeking security in the continu- and belong to The American Legion or Army Recruiting News of November is ation of their labors with this Company. other ex-service organization. Harry an article called "Known But to God" by After reading the information listed S. Wiberg, Stockholm (Sweden) Post, The Herbert E. Smith, who states that the below, secured by our Works Manager, . 1 merican Legion. * * * man who did the picking was Sgt. Mr. E. W. Hanak, pertaining to the ages foreigner to Edward F. Younger, Headquarters, 2d and length of service of the employes, To the Editor: When a comes Battalion, 50th Infantry. As this event the satisfaction derived as to the Sim- the United States to make his home here took place late in 1921 and the 4th mons Company's attitude on the very we quite properly feel that he should Division started to leave the Rhine early important question "After Forty — assume the obligations of citizenship in story the country where he is living. We don't in July 1919, 1 am wondering which WHAT" is gratifying. like the idea of "hyphenated Americans." is correct. Ben Alexander, io2d Engi- Number Employed At the same time we are prepared to ex- neers Post, New York. At age sixty years or over 128 tend the hand of fellowship to any person [EDITOR'S NOTE.-—A typographical 55 to 60 years 151 error placed Sergeant Younger in the 50 to 55 years ... 239 of foreign birth who becomes our fellow 45 to 50 years 348 59th Infantry. It should have read 50th.] 40 to 45 years 325 citizen. We remember that our ancestors 35 to 40 years ... 277 (unless they were full-blooded Indians) 30 to 35 years 272 About Those Medals 25 to 30 years 295 were all immigrants. 20 to 25 years 154 Under 20 years 6 It's a poor rule that doesn't work both 'To the Editor: I heartily agree with Com- ways. For that reason I feel that those Total 2,195 rade DuBoise's article appearing in the former American soldiers who chose to Employed 40 years or over 19 December issue of the Legion Magazine.

30 to 40 years. . 107 remain in France, who married French 20 to 30 years 363 Why isn't the veteran with a service- in years 440 women, secured French jobs, and 15 to 20 connected total disability entitled to the 10 to 1 5 years 474 general placed themselves under the 5 to 10 years . . 543 Purple Heart? 4 to 5 years 74 authority and protection of the French 3 to 4 yea rs 50 I have reference to the veteran who Republic, have shown a very poor spirit 2 to 3 years 98 was not wounded in action. He might 1 to 2 years . . 27 by refusing to become French citizens. I Under one year. . . have been badly gassed, a mental case, see no virtue at all in their retaining their Total 2,195 poisoned, blind or seriously injured by American citizenship, as is so approvingly accident during his service. I believe in giving credit where credit mentioned in Mrs. Ragner's article in the Surely these men should not be dis- is due. The record which the Simmons January issue. criminated against. They are most cer- Company has exemplified is certainly There is no blame attaching to them tainly entitled to some sort of recognition. worthy of your consideration in your for remaining in France. That was their I am not disabled but I am familiar drive on the employment question. privilege, just as it was the privilege of with several service-connected total disa- I). A. Toner, Post 21, Kaioslia, Wisconsin. bility cases, and feel that some sort of recognition in the form of a medal for "No Bias in hie Legion" Because of space demands, letters quoted these unfortunates is little enough. in this department (responsibility for state- To the Editor: As a member of the Legion These men cannot and probably ments in which is vested in the writers and I like the would not make this request for them- in a foreign country magazine not in this magazine) are subject to abridge- very much and keep every number and ment. Names, addresses and post affiliation selves; it is up to their able bodied com- with- also read every word in it. I regret all must be given, though the editors will rades to do it for them. Can't you start hold publication these the circumstances discrimination against the drafted men. of if the ball rolling? Dan Lucas, Rose/and warrant. I am sure that the drafted men were a Post, Chicago, Illinois. 64 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

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