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THE NEW ARMY

A New Year's Greeting from

GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHALL, Chief of Staff Army

New Year will dawn not sonal responsibility. In the inculcation deep conviction of the obligations of THEonly on a New Army, but on of these qualities a higher, not a harsher, American citizenship. It cannot be em- the largest Army our country discipline is enforced. These new sol- phasized too often that in this great has ever assembled in a time of diers, many of them sons of yours, will, endeavor we are training, not mobilizing, peace. It is only in order to preserve that I think, be better soldiers than you an Army. peace that the country has called the were. Could you ask us to set a higher But in one respect—and it is the most New Army into being. We are not gaz- standard? important respect of all—the New ing covetously at any frontier. We have They will be better soldiers only be- Army will be the Army we have always all the lebesraum we want. cause they will be better trained. The known. It will be instilled with the old There is no mystery about our mili- present European war has proved the spirit—the spirit that carried our Army tary policy. Our purpose is one, and one value of intensive, thorough training from Lexington to the Meuse-Argonne, alone—to maintain this nation as the more than any war that has gone before. the spirit that has always animated stronghold of freedom and democracy We are taking that lesson to heart. American troops fighting, or ready to which it has been since its founding. tight, for all that they hold dear. The The New Army will train with cer- OUR new soldiers are moving in or- zeal with which we prosecute our pres- tain new weapons, be sheltered in large derly procession through the exam- ent intensive defense program will be part in new cantonments, study a new ining rooms of Army Medical Boards to the best assurance that the New Army I.D.R., hear new commands echo across reception centers, where their qualifica- will not have to fight. The surest road the parade ground. But all these novel- tions for special service are determined. to peace today, indeed the only road, is ties will not be as new as they seem in From there they proceed into the organ- for us to become so strong that no one the telling. The great difference—call it ized units with which they will be af- will dare attack us. a novelty if you choose, though it was filiated during their year of service. At That is why we are raising this New no novelty to the embattled colonial—is the end of that year they will return to Army. That is why today it represents that today there is more room for indi- their homes with a sound basic training, the embodiment of all our hopes and all vidual initiative, a deeper sense of per- and, perhaps more important, with a our prayers.

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In this issue THE Hall of Fame of it was a legal goal from the field University has admitted Stephen COVER DESIGN and the game went to Princeton, By |. VV. Schlaikjer Foster to its company of immortals. 3 to o. And here's a Ripley for you. "Whom We Delight to Honor," by THE NEW ARMY 1 On that same day the very same By General Georce C. Marshall Marquis James, in our January, thing came to pass in the Andover- "TO INCULCATE A SENSE OF IN- 1940, issue told the story of that Exeter game which Andover won, DIVIDUAL OBLIGATION ..." 5 Valhalla. At that time the Hall of By Erik M adisen 23 to 5. In that case the referee Fame contained the busts of 72 fa- Decoration by William Heaslip ruled it no goal. The name of the mous . The great song LTP AND AT EM 4 referee was A. M. Langford; he was writer who gave us "My Old Ken- By Henry W. Fleet a brother of the other referee. tucky Home" and "Old Folks at IF THE BOMBERS SHOULD COME 6 By Fairfax Downey Home," with many others, thus be- FOR an extra lift in spirits you comes the seventy-third. CARTLOAD OF PENNIES 8 should read The Easy Choir- de- By Newlin B. Wildes partment of Harper's Magazine for Illustrations by Frank Street December. Its conductor, the vali- the December issue WHILE WATCH THAT DRAGON 12 ant-for-truth Bernard DeVoto, pays containing John Tunis's By Irving Wallace tribute to our devotion to the type boners-in-sports article was still on Decoration by Harry Townsend of democracy which has flowered in the press the college football sea- TRY THIS ON YOUR PIANO 14 By Frank A. Mathews, these United States over the last son was turning up one of the Jr. Illustrations by George Shanks 164 years. "They believe," says Mr. greatest boners you ever heard of. WE'RE GETTING THOSE SHIPS if. DeVoto of Legionnaires, "that The referee's confusion was respon- By Don Wharton events have proved the truth of sible for Cornell's receiving an ...... 18 GET READY SET their beliefs. That human life is extra down in the final minute of By Frederick Palmer more harmonious here than else- its game with Dartmouth, with the A CHANCE TO GO STRAIGHT 20 where. That men are freer, more result that Cornell was able to score By Karl Detzer comfortable, more secure. That the a touchdown and point after touch- Cartoons by John Cassel United States has raised human down and beat Dartmouth, 7-3. BURSTS AND DUDS 25 dignity higher than any other na- Happy ending: The referee admit- EDITORIAL: a confession of faith 24 tion. That, as there has always been ted his mistake, Cornell and every- GIVE US THE 26 more hope here than elsewhere, so body else acquiesced, and for the By Grant Powers there has been more reason for record the game will be scored WORKING ON THE RAILROAD 28 By Boyd B. Stutler hope, and always will be." Dartmouth Cornell o. Twenty- 3, THERE! SICK CALL! nine years ago Dartmouth was not WHOA, 52 By John J. Noll quite so lucky. A Princeton player's A SKIING THEY WOULD GO 36 Important at tempt at a field goal bounded By Herbert Curtis A form for your convenience if you wish lo along die ground and over the e found on /»«<|e 35.

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." TO INCULCATE A SENSE OF INDIVIDUAL OBLIGATION . .

COMMUNITY ATE and. NATION

Principles Contained in the Preamble to the Constitu- tortured by the mem- physically, mentally and morally, tion of The American Legion MENories of ruthless destruc- and to make government an even tion came back to their greater servant of the people. communities from serv- Banded together in more than ice with the A. E. F. in the last left their natures speedily as they boarded 11,000 Posts in every hamlet, every World War. They had done their the transports for the homeland, blessed with city and every metropolis, they have

- ' duty as soldiers to crush those who "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. nobly carried out the injunction in subjugate the people to the state, As if to atone, these men banded together the Preamble to their Constitution, but in so doing they had found it in The American Legion, intent upon becom- "To inculcate a sense of individual necessary to take a part in reduc- ing builders, not destroyers, ready to build a obligation to the community, State ing picturesque European cities to happier America. They found they could bury and Nation.'' The Post, itself a com- shambles, in wrecking sublime insti- the memories of No Man's Land in con- position of a democracy that knows tutions of the old world, in the structive effort to improve their communities neither race, creed nor class, has process of robbing the people for- fused its glowing local accomplish- ever of some of the treasures of the ments into movements that have ages. Haunting them also was the ERIK MADISEN reached through the States to the conscience-pricking picture of the very portals of the seat of govern- refugee victims of the war, the wom- ment at Washington. en, the children, the aged, bereft of Picture today the great child wel- the last vestige of happiness, pos- fare movement instituted and main- sessions and comfort. tained by the Legion, backed by mil- It was all contrary to the Amer- lions of dollars in annual expendi- ican way of life, where the state is tures. Set off against the goose-step- subordinate, the people supreme. ping youngsters of Europe preparing The ingrained philosophy of these to destroy all else and themselves, men rebelled at the sins they helped vision of our American children en- to commit in the name of war, and joying playgrounds, parks, swim- it is little wonder that their jingoism ming pools, {Continued on page 58)

JANUARY, 1 94 3 armies is to get our troops away from the "barracks square," and out in the LEADING'S A GAME AND UNCLE field, day and night, rain or shine, and TROOP practise this game of leading troops in battle. Our new young officers must SAM'S ARMY KNOWS HOW TO PLAY IT think of themselves first as coaches and secondarily as captains or lieuten- WHETHER or not the Duke battle were a game and their small unit ants. I know too that if we make troop of Wellington actually a combat team, we will take a long step leading a game, being drafted into the made the remark, "The toward having, in the United States, the Army will be highly interesting, exciting Battle of Waterloo was finest trained army in the world. I know experience. There are World Series, Rose won on the cricket fields of Eton," I it, because for thirty-seven years I did Bowls and international cups, but there don't know; but I do know that if we just that with every outfit I commanded, is no incentive to excel like there is in can direct the thousands of our young from a platoon to a regiment, in the in- this game. The lives of the men under men, who in the coming months are go- fantry of the Regular Army. these young troop leaders will be in their ing to be the officers and non-commis- Americans like games and play them hands, once the battle is on. sioned officers of our new Army Divi- better than any other people in the The actual leaders of troops in the sions, to train their men as though the world. What we must do in our new modern battle are lieutenants and ser- geants. The role of the private soldier is to learn to march, to use his weapon expertly, to take care of himself in the field, and to obey. Officers above the grade of lieutenant direct by proper orders from their headquarters the movements of front line troops, re- serves and supplies. At Gettysburg, colonels and even brigadier generals were actually out in front leading their men. But there were no machine guns in that terrible battle. By HENRY W. FLEET 4 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Water's all important to dough- boys. Here 'tis. At right, skir- mishers taking cover. Below, the artillery goes over the river

Today an infantry company in at- tack may cover four or five hundred yards of front. No man should be closer In 1SS7 Lord Wolseley, commander- the officers above the grade of captain to another man than ten paces. It is in-chief of the British army, made a trip of the armies of Europe are, like our impossible for even a captain actually to around the world and inspected the 1S87 Regular Army, veterans of four lead his widely separated company. armies of all first class nations. On his years of war. Those who have joined I think anyone who has been in active return to England he wrote that he con- these armies in the post-war years have front-line service will agree with me sidered man for man the small United been trained by experts. But it is not that the battle is like outdoor competi- States Army unquestionably the best in correct to say that without battle ex- tive sports. the world. The Regular Army of those perience there cannot be expert troop It is highly technical, complicated and days was made up almost entirely of leading. Probably the finest example of thrillingly exciting. Millionaire sportsmen veterans of the Civil War. The year leading men expertly in this war was spend thousands of dollars, endure hard- 1887 was twenty-two years after Appo- shown by the white-clad ski soldiers of ships and risk disease for the thrill of mattox. This year of 1940 is twenty-two Finland. hunting big game. The rush of a Bengal years after the World War Armistice. The secret of their success came from tiger or the charge of an African lion Nothing can make troops expert in their highly developed skill in the use upon a sportsman armed with a forty- troop leading like war itself. Most of of compass and ( Continued on page 37) five caliber rifle, is less exciting, because it is less dangerous, than the crash of an approaching tank to a soldier hidden in the brush behind his anti-tank gun. The average healthy person enjoys a thrill, and regardless of what may be said of the horrors of war, the combat soldier will thrill to the excitement of battle. War is a ghastly tragedy for chil- dren, for loved ones left behind and for noncombatants whose homes are in the combat zone; it is a highly exciting game to the great majority of young men, no matter who or what they are, who find themselves in an army uniform. There are many reasons why com- pany officers of the veteran armies of Europe should be more expert in lead- ing their men than are our young Amer- icans.

JANUARY, 1941 s WHAT YOU'D NEED, WHAT YOU'D HAVE TO DO

moon is full tonight, dangerously bright. Almost A "decontamination squad" at work after THEcertainly the bombers will be over. the bombers pass. Below, girl worker smiles Through the shadowy streets of the blacked-out following rescue from collapsing building town strides a man, middle-aged but soldierly. Moon- light picks out the World War ribbon on his dark coat— and glints on the white letter painted on his steel helmet "W" for Air Warden. He halts at a brick house and knocks. The door opens and closes behind him, and a light-masking blanket, such as he remembers over dugout entrances twenty-five years ago, is swung aside. The family gathered in the parlor welcomes him. Just checking up, the warden tells them. His practiced eye —there are at least sixty hours of intensive training behind him—notes that everyone has his helmet and gas mask at hand, with a box respirator for the baby. From pockets for him to see are produced earplugs and pieces of wood or rub- ber. The children show him how during a raid they will grip those pieces between their teeth, thus keeping their mouths open to protect eardrums against concussion from a bomb's blast. The careful inspection continues. The attic, where incen- diary bombs may lodge, has been cleared of inflammable material. Near the filled fire buckets stands a hand-pump. Down in the stoutly shored-up cellar shelter is drinking water and food; also books and toys for children. It's best to keep minds occupied when cooped up, with tons of high explosive crashing outside. A cleated incline has converted the coal chute into an emergency exit. Where it opens in the yard,

masonry has been built around and over it to prevent its being blocked by falling debris. This family is safe from everything but a direct hit. Back in the parlor, the warden bends of the A.R.P. Because a thousand and to pat the dog. A muzzle is buckled to one details had been seen to, because its collar, ready to be put on in a raid, of long hours of training, because of when the terrified animal might bite. equipment at hand, millions of men, Everything is in readiness here. The women, and children, suddenly at the warden, approving, is turning to leave front, stood staunch under the terror when the sirens start to shriek their from the skies. warning. We Americans, reading the graphic "Down you go," he orders. "We'll newspaper accounts of the air raids and watch out for you. Cheerio." scanning photographs of crowded under- "We can take it," the family calls ground shelters, have been filled with after him. "Good luck." admiration for British courage. Perhaps The ominous drone of plane engines as we read, the hum of an airliner over- swells louder. Searchlights sweep the head and the coincidental wail of a fire sky. Anti-aircraft batteries flash and engine or ambulance siren in the street, thunder as they hurl their shrapnel up- brought the grim business across the ward to burst among the raiders. Out Atlantic home to us a little. When next in the roar of battle, familiar now as of we were down in the cellar stoking the old, the veteran hurries toward his post furnace or in a subway station, some deep subway station gives these Lon- at the Air Raid Precautions center. of us have reflected, "This would be a doners a chance to catch up on sleep "And so into the breach once more." tough place to spend the night. Not my idea of a bedroom." IT HAPPENED in England. Such Beyond that, air raids have remained scenes are as typical as they have as a remote possibility in the minds of been frequent. Back of them stands a many of us. So they must have seemed striking fact not yet widely known and to the British in 1935 when they, never- appreciated: the British began the or- theless, launched the A.R.P. ganization of the Air Raid Precautions Lately an increasing number of Amer- service back in 1935. History will write icans have been asking: Is this danger of the Battle of Britain, whatever its so remote from our coastal cities and outcome, that it was gallantly sustained island possessions? Without being alarm- because a nation, unready in other re- ist and calling it an. immediate peril, spects, was prepared in this vital one isn't it high time something were done by way of air raid precautions? Training and equipment is a tremendous job. The British had four years to organize their small, close-knit islands. How much time does the United States need, and what has been accomplished? FAIRFAX It is a source of pride to The Amer- ican Legion—as it well may be a sign- DOWNEY post pointing (Continued on page 55)

le light's right, and it's safe: Emer- A London hospital achieves An air raid warden escorts gency operation in an air raid shelter. a hundred percent blackout, a mother and her baby after Below, clean-up after the bombers pass as does every other building bomb demolishes their home "

"~TL "T*EVER mind," I said, "we'll eat somehow. Always Illustrator, FRANK STREET have." Al didn't say anything. He was stretched out on the bed reading some small town newspaper. body more important to me than Al McCoy. Get it?" He ^ His hair was glossy black against the dingy pillow started for the door. "I'll be back," he said. "I got a idea. and the lines around his chin and jaw were set tight the way From that paper." He went out. they always were. Al's expression seldom changed. He'd hit a I didn't like it. Maybe it's because I'm older—forty now, a guy with the same look as he'd buy a pack of cigarets. Except little more, to Al's just twenty-five—or maybe it's because his eyes. Blue. Sometimes they had a glint. When he was in- I remember things I got told once, long time ago. But that terested. They had that now, all at once. motto never had hit me. Some day it was going to bounce He got up, tall and rangy lean in tapered riding pants, a sateen back hard on Al. I was sure. He was just a kid, really, good shirt, a neckerchief caught through a ring at his throat. "How looking with that slash bang coming-through swing to him much money you got?" he said. and lots to learn that words from me could never teach him. "Three dollars and some change," I told him, "what— I picked up his paper. "Gimme it," Al said. He went over to the cardboard suitcase. Nothing in it I could see. Milk prices and the drought and There was the glint and rattle of ivory and the dice gleamed in the summer theater ads. That was the trouble. That was one his hand. reason we were broke here in a cheap hotel the Lord knew "Now— look here, Al," I began, "I don't like that stuff. Crooked where. The summer theater and the movies and the dance dice " Al rubbed them in his hands. He had that slit of grin. halls. No more time for country fairs and carnivals. They Wise. Hard. "Sure they're crooked," he said, "good and crooked. were going by. So were we, I guessed. Al McCoy and Lin Crooked and good. And how many times have they got us a Morrell—The Bar U Ranch—Wyoming. Cowboys. Sure, it stake when there wasn't any other way?" said so on our horse trailer. Roping, bucking, fancy riding. He had me there. "Just the same, Al," I kept on, "they're I had to laugh. Cowboys. With Al from and me going to —trip you, us. up sometime. And I don't like that kind of from a tote-water farm in upstate New York. Phonies. dough. I " Al grinned at me. Oh, we could ride. You can learn that in carnivals. That "Now don't —you be goin' soft again, Linny." he said. "You and a lot of other things. Near thirty years I'd had of it. And take my motto 'Get the dough'—and never mind so much how. all Al's life, I guess. I'd run away from home. Excitement, Because if you don't get it, somebody else will. And there's no- that's what I'd wanted. Well, I'd had that. Plenty of it. And

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some twenty^j^es out, with the nags comfy in their trailer and the moon wd Al syJftbea up the last bit of egg from his plate. "I been hearinJ|st)akit this Endurance Ride," he said. "Some of the can- nons pfaym/it last year." A cannon is a pickpocket. "Did all right, tO(V>ceems that a bunch of carrot feeders in a association with a bijfcvname get together to see what horse can go the dis-

tance aMMlose the least pounds and get the fewesl sores. 1 dunno why tnlydo, but they do and it ought to be a cinch." "Buf^l," I said—this was still screwy even with a meal in me—"they must get some good horses, and we— "We got two good horses." Al straightened on his stool. "They're young enough, and they got good feet and legs and they're plenty tough from knockin' 'round. Give 'em a few good feeds and we won't have no trouble gettin' 'em in shape. Be- sides," with a wise nod that he'd been thinking, "besides, from what I hear, they all miss one big bet. That's a hilly country and none of 'em get up there and spend enough time gettin' He was moving down the path, and it was up to me their horses used to the hills. That's where we'll catch 'em. to see that the kid got in. I called him plenty things With this stake we'll be there a month early and we'll be set. You'll see." He got up. "And then, with all that dough we can head south this winter. It'll be warm there." It had been cold now what good was it. Three bucks and a car that might rug*, the last two winters. Awful cold. and two horses and pretty soon Al would come in broke mjmf/j "O.K.," I said, paying off the lunch cart, "only." as we went trouble, likely. The high heeled boots hurt my feet. I fished out, "only lay off them dice." Al grinned that way. "There I had a spot some place—a home. I wished might even be some of that," he said, "just for gravy." He Somebody was shaking me. "Get up," Al said, He moved drove. I kept quiet. Somehow I didn't like this thing. around quick, the way he did when things were bpe ng. By nightfall next day we start coming into this Hewburne "What happened?" I fumbled for my boots, out his country. Nice, it was. Soft, green, foldy hills that tucked in hands. "Seventy bucks," he said. "They rolle| d. Come around the road, the shadows kind of blue in the distance. Red on, we're on our way." barns and white houses and collie dogs and guys walking with "Where to?" I gaped. Al picked uj paper. His face that funny upsy-downsy stoop-shouldered shuffle that farmers was a dark-set shadow in the glare. get, and the supper smoke straight up and lazy from the chim- "Endurance Ride," he read. "Septi Three days, neys. Must be good, I thought, living in one place. Fix the Fifty miles each day. First prize five s. second fence, paint the shed. Home. "Air's got a kick, hasn't it," I two-fifty, third—time and condition only to c/ Free sta- said, "better'n a drink." Al grunted. bling. Enter now." He put the paper down. " he said, A sign said Hewburne Township. "This is it," Al said. We "You're an endurance rider." I sat there on tms 'ed. drove down the main stem, street lights flickering, guys loafing "Now listen, Al," I said, "these pokes of along, sleeves rolled up. Gals. One-horse town and the horse in bucking horses. They're— the barn. "They're endurance horses," Al said, pacing fag Endurance Ride," Al said to a bunch on the you know."— "We're for the "But " I began again. Al swung 'rourtfl quftC^Listen, Linny," he said, "I got those diceJJfflK^bag and the boys here are apt to get talking after«LKW more beers and I NEWLIN B. WILDES don't want to be here. Understandr^I understood. We ate

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store steps. "Where do we stable?" They pointed out the barns, big and weatherbeaten, at the end of the street. An old guy with a limp came out. "Sure," he said, "bring 'em in. You're the first. Take your pick." There must have been seventy stalls, big boxes. "All free 'ceptin' feed. You got to pay for that till the week of the ride. I can get it for—"

"I'll get it myself," Al said, very short. He always figured someone was trying to take him. We slept in a little room at the end and it was cool and quiet and smelled of clover hay. Next day there were fifty kids around the trailer and I must have lied a hundred times about Wyoming. I al- ways hate to lie to kids. "I thought they was buckin' horses," one of 'em said, disappointed. "Naw," I said, "these are cow ponies. Cay- uses." They'd buck all right, with a cinch strap tight around 'em. Other times they'd sit in your lap. A good pair. Jake and Dough. Light buck- skins with a black stripe down their backs. I rode Jake. on a place. House on "We'll do just a couple of miles today," I said, "ease 'em one side of the road, in." Al nodded. When we got back he left me washing their barn on the other. On as cute a bit of horse backs with salt water, to toughen 'em, and went off. I took a Trim. Picked up. "Wa- as you ever want to see look in the bag. The dice were gone. Al never could leave well ter," I say. and we enough alone. swing into the barn- In the morning I said, "Well, what happened?'" and he yard and the ponies are soaking it up from the trough—and all grinned. "This and that," he said. "Come on, we'll eat down- at once there are two eyes watching me, and I swing around town." and there she is. We went into a stage-stop lunch. Then I got it. There was A kid. A girl. Ten. I would say. Just a little tab. Overalls a girl. Waitress. Small, pert, trim as a colt's trot. Black hair, and bare feet and that thin little reed of a neck they have, her straight, friendly eyes and an air about her that said she knew hair skun back tight in two perky braids and the size of her her way around but didn't like alleys. Al said, "Julie, this is eyes like doughnuts. Brown, too. Freckles on a stub of a nose Lin, my sidekick," and she said "Hello," nice and bright-fresh and a great deal of thought going on there very serious. and you had to like her. "Hello," I said. I like 'em. kids. They get me. And she said, "You from around here?" I said and the eyes had a twinkle. "Hello," not too shy, but busy looking. Until "Are you cow- "Yep," she said, "just a country girl." Then, with that twinkle boys?" she said, as if that couldn't be true, not even the wide a little deeper, "And you're from Wyoming, too, I suppose." I hats and boots and all. looked at her. She gave in and smiled. Al must have told her. "Yep," I said, "that's right," and she fed on that. Funny. He didn't usually give out like that. "O.K.," I said. "I've got a horse," she said finally.

"We're friends." "You haven't!" I said, great surprise. "What kind is he?" "You be nice to that kid," I said to Al when she was away. "He's a Morgan," she said, starting to move. "He's in there.

"She's different." Al kept on eating. On the way out he said, I'll get him," halfway to the stable. "See you tonight?" and she just gave him a look that wasn't "Come on," Al said, impatient. yes but wasn't any no, and we went back to work. And I kept "Wait a minute," I said. "She probably doesn't talk to any-

thinking, "Al'll be all right with her. Sure he will." Only . . . body much." There was a thud-thud-thud on planks and out Well, it was none of my business. she came, bareback—on as cute a bit of horse as you ever want to see. Dark chestnut, black mane, black tail, small, quick head AND then, some three days later, something happened that and just as round and pert and up and coming as could ever _/\_ sort of was my business. Like this. We are working the be. Like a lot of mount for such a kid, even if not too big. nags away back through the hills in country that you don't see a 'Bout fourteen hands and two, I'd say—no pony, a real horse. farm but every two miles, and there, in a little valley, we come "Well!" I said. Even Al was taking it in now. She swung

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She kept looking at me. into me, with those brown eyes. I got to stuttering and Al would snicker. Then she'd help me out. She knew more than I ever would. "You ought to win the Endurance Ride easy," she said. "Fifty miles a day isn't much for a cowboy's horse. I ride most fifty miles some days. Trigger can do it." He looked like he could. A good knit little monkey.

"You'd ought to go in it yourself," I said, kidding. She was serious. "I want to." she said, "but my father says no. He says there wouldn't be anybody to take care of me." She rode along quiet for a minute.

"How much is five hundred dollars?" she said. She near had me there, too. "It's a lot of money," I said. "How much?" she said. "How much in

pennies? Would it fill a cart?"

"It would fill a dozen carts," I told her. "Oh," she said, very quiet. "Who's on your farm?" I asked her, "you and your pa and your ma—any others?" "Just my father and me," she said. The horses walked along plop-plop-plop. "My mother went away. A long time ago. She didn't like farms. She said they were too quiet." "Oh." I said. What else. After a while she said, "It's a good farm. Only my father needs a lifting partner. I can't lift very good. I'm too small." "You'll grow," I said. The dust got in my eyes. We came to a four-corners. "You go down there." Angie said. "Thanks." I took off my hat. "We're much obliged. See you again some time."

Still she waited. Then, the words all

rushing and as if it was the most im- portant thing that ever could be and her heart would break, "Could I ride some more with (Continued on page 41) alongi-ide and our two bucks were interested, and just then somebody comes around the barn. "I couldn't take a chance like that, A big guy he was, slow and rocky-solid, with arms on him like Linny," she said. "I wouldn't dare" trees, and gray eyes, as he came close, that seemed to see and wait, and that you'd never want to monkey with. "How do," he said, leaving it up to us, and I said, "We just stopped to water. We're working out for the Endurance Ride.'' That seemed to place us better. "Oh, yeah," he said. "I read about that." Silence. "That's a nice little horse your kid's got there," I said, picking up my reins. "I seen a lot and none better." It touched him off. He opened a grin you could cook on and you could see he was proud of 'em as a hen of a chick. "Kind o' likely little horse," he managed, watching them. Al horned in: "Any way we can circle back from here?" he said, in a hurry to get on. The farmer started to tell him, but the kid broke in. "Let me show them," she said. "I know all the roads. I

could lead them." She wanted to so much it almost ran out of her eyes. The big guy hesitated. "Wal, I don't know— "Sure appreciate havin' her," I said, helping out, and he said, "You be back by milkin', now, Angie," and we went off. She rode beside me, Angie did. "I know about cowboys," she said. "I've got a book about them. They do good." "Some of 'em do," I said. "All of them," she said, very firm. "They catch rustlers and save people and are kind to animals. I know." She had me there. "What's it like on the prairies?" she wanted to know.

So I told her. I did pretty good. After faking all these years I'd ought to. But it didn't come so easy, somehow.

JANUARY, iq+i Stronger than anything else in Japan, even the Japan, for a Japan that might talk back, is the most colorful and mysterious figure in all the Far East. Emperor and the army, is 86-year-old Toyama's He looks like a sinister old spider, as he squats, swathed in Black Dragon Society. Hell-bent for a "New Order in Asia" to supplement the Axis plan Sikh police restoring order after students' patriotic for Europe, will the Rising Sun Empire let her demonstration in Shanghai, last summer Chinese adventure go and attack the British? Toy- ama's statement on this point and on the Philip- pines may help you make your own forecast

WHILE Europe burns with the flames of war, wor- ried Americans are now turning their eyes east- ward to the powder keg that bears the trademark of the Rising Sun. Most Americans know that Japan, without money and with- out food, exhausted from a profitless, endless tangle in China, will commit national hari-kari, if need be, to attain its long dreamed of goal—an Asia exclusively for Asiatics. Hut what most Americans don't know is the story behind the headlines out of Tokyo, the story of the man who may ignite the powder keg, who may convert Japan's New Order in the East into a new disorder. That man, who has worked seven decades for a dynamic

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A fist-shaking girl heads Chinese food riot- ers in Shanghai. Below, Jap Marines on guard in the Chapei District of Shanghai black, on his bearskin rug. He is 86 years old, a dreadful ancient so heartily feared by Japanese newspapers that for years the this - Toyama, with his Tolstoi-white beard, his Toyko Nichi-Nichi and the Asahi have timidly used asterisks soft, throaty chuckle, his prayer beads—and his in place of his name! band of fantastics and assassins—has returned. He has never held a political office or an official position in And now the shadow of the Black Dragon Japan. But he has made and unmade premiers and ministers. He lengthens over the Pacific. has dictated foreign policies. He has started wars. For three- Mitsuru Toyama has been called many quarters of a century he has bathed the Far East in terror and things by many people—ranging from the death. Tokyo {Continued on page 44) His name is Mitsuru Toyama—prophet of pan-Asian national- ism, founder and head of the powerful and secret Black Dragon Society and its millions of members. He is Gandhi, Hitler and the Grand Lama of "Lost Horizon" rolled into one. He is Capone and Disraeli and Florence Nightingale—a super-assassin who is today the figure behind the emperor-god and the voice behind the premier. In recent years Mitsuru Toyama's in- fluence was said to be on the wane. But today, with imperialism and international opportunism in the air, Toyama, preacher of peace, philosopher of force, is back.

Of course, his name is little known in Europe and almost entirely unknown in America. But because his aggressive ideas have at last been adopted by the new Konoye government, and because his Black Dragon society, most powerful of Japan's 200 secret organizations, has once again stirred into action, Toyama's name may soon be familiar around the globe. When I arrived in Tokyo early in Sep- tember the old man's name was every- where. Young students in their black uni-

forms and beardless soldiers in their ill- fitting khaki outfits whispered of him with reverence. Older army men, and statesmen, discussed him with patriotic fervor.

Thus, the real news from the Orient is

JANUARY, 194 13 — — — TRY THIS OH UOUi PIANO

SCENE: The new quarters of the Blank Post of The American Legion, to which it has just moved from a large, many-roomed u office building. TIME: Shortly before Christmas; Post Adjutant: (suddenly coming FRANK A. Hearing the end of a desultory meeting, to life) Oh, Mr. Commander. I almost with the members yawning, playing with forgot. I got a telephone call today from MATHEWS, JR. their watch chains and gazing at the the superintendent of the building we ceiling. moved out of asking when we were somethin' to move it, Mr. Commander. Post Commander: Is there anything going to take away our piano. It was I know / ain't gonna carry no pie-anna more for the good of the Legion? If the only thing left when we moved. eighteen blocks on my back like I done not. I— Commander: I suppose we'll have to with a pack in iqi8 when I was get it out of there Adjutant: I understand the cost of and over here. I will moving, is from seven dollars and a half entertain a motion to ten dollars. to have our piano Comrade Buzby: The damned thing moved from our old isn't worth seven and a half to us. quarters to these Smith: Then let's let it go. There new ones. ain't no use in Comrade Jones: Chorus of Members: That's right. Sennamotion. Let it go. Commander: All Comrade Hemingway: But, Mr. in favor say "Aye;" Commander, this Post just passed a contrary, "No." motion to have it moved. (.4 few feeble, Sennamotion we unpass it. disinterested Jones: Comrade Hemingway: That's no way "Ayes.") to do business. You have to have a Carried. I will ap- motion to reconsider made by some- point body who voted in favor of the original Comrade Smith: motion, then if that's passed you have Ain't it gonna cost to rescind the original motion and then you have to pass another one to aban- "I'm passin' the don the piano. After all, we can't just hat right now give away an asset of this Post, no mat- and startin' it ter if it is small, without a proper with five bucks" record of how it was done.

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. . . through the door and out into traffic, caring for noth- ing else than the necessity of killing that contract

tion we passed after unpassin' the mo- just at Christmas time! Oh. boy. And tion we passed before we what a heart-interest story! It's front- A Member: Hold everything! We got Smith: Fer cryin' out loud! What is page stuff, Mr. Commander. to do this thing right.

this here, anyway? Do we got to make ( The members are arrested; their (Everybody is now worked up. In a Congressional Record fer the Adjutant interest aroused.) some confusion the members finally to spend a couple of days of his valu- Smith: got somethin' there, You get everything cleared up. able time writin' up on seven dollars buddy. That's a great idea. It's about Commander: I'll (Contd. on page 46) and a half's worth of paper all for only time this here Post did some real worth not to spend seven dollars and a half while community work. Illustrator, of our comrades' money fer movin' a Hemingway: But. gentlemen, GEORGE SHANKS jingle-box what ain't worth seven and just passed a motion to abandon a half even when it's standin' still? It piano. don't make sense. That's the trouble Smith: So what? with this here Post, we Honest, Commander, A Member: I voted for the motion. this guy'll drive me Move to reconsider. nuts. Ain't we got a Jones: Sennamotion. right to change our {After dice formality, the motion minds, same as a wom-

to reconsider is passed, the original an buyin' a new hat, motion rescinded and a new motion or do we got to stay to abandon the piano to its fate here all night passin", passed.) repassin', rescindin', re- Commander: (as the members, get- considerin' and rever- ting ready to leave, button their vests batin' just to give some and look around for their hats and poor kid a pie-anna coats.) Well, that settles that matter. which we already has If there is no further business to come said we don't want any- before how? What the hell Post Publicity Officer: (explo- kind of piddlin', petti- sively and with the light of sudden in- foggin' spiration in his eyes.) Say, Mr. Com- Jones: Sennamotion mander! I got a great idea! Wouldn't we reconsider the mo- it be a wonderful piece of community service for the Post to give that piano to some child of a veteran who wants "I will not! We to take music lessons and can't afford won't do it! I'm a to buy a piano? Think of the publicity! nervous wreck!"

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FISHING boats off Tampa were a half. In contrast to the slow, old While European powers have been los- tossed about uncomfortably by freighters left over from the World War ing five or six million tons of ships to the the bow wave of the long, sleek building boom these 54 are all fast, effi- mine, torpedo and bomb, our merchant ship which tore past at a speed cient and quickly convertible into naval fleet has been gaining strength daily. Al- the fishermen noted as altogether incred- auxiliaries. Twenty-one more have been ready it is better than at any time since ible in a freighter. What was her hurry? launched, and 104 besides are in various the clipper era and more ships are still None, apparently, for half way to the stages of building. coming off the ways in a steady stream. horizon she stopped abruptly, shudder- They give us strength where we had The United States Maritime Commission ing with the vibration of her reve-sed en- weakness. The great Admiral Mahan de- building program calls for 50 ships a year gines. Then full speed astern. Nor was fined sea power as "naval vessels plus for 10 years—roughly 4.000,000 tons. that the end of her eccentric antics. bases plus merchant marine." Yet in The first contracts were let in 1938 and Rushing ahead once more, she swerved 191 7, three months after entering the now total 179 ships built or building sharply to starboard without the slight- war, we could assemble only seven troop 29 ahead of the 1938-39-40 quotas. The est reduction of speed. The cook, the and six cargo ships in condition for 1 o-year cost to the Government has been fishermen guessed, must be cursing as his transport service. This time we are put at $1,250,000,000. pots slid and spilled all over the galley. better off—thanks to a stitch-in-time Each ship built is designed for war- She swung on the other tack as wildly; merchant marine program launched in time conversion into a naval auxiliary she steamed in giddy circles. Then off 1938 and to men who farsightedly and already the Navy has taken 23 of she went, out of sight. pushed it far ahead of schedule. them—several before they ever made a She was the Sea Witch, namesake of a great clipper, fresh from the Tampa WE'RE GETON9

shipyards, going through the torture of her trials. She came back to port boast- ing proudly of i8>j knots top speed as compared with 12 knots for most Amer- ican freighters. She made this speed at an hourly fuel consumption of .42 pounds per shaft horsepower—which is some- thing like your car getting 30 miles to the gallon. Aboard, she has extra girders to support gun emplacements, gear for quick installation of paravanes to protect against mines, and many other national defense features. She cost $3,000,000. She is one of 54 new ships delivered to our merchant marine in the past year and

The Washington of the United States Lines, threatened some months ago with torpedoing by a U-boat. At left, laying the keel of the battleship Wash- ington at Philadelphia. She'll be in commission in 1941

voyage. Since April, 1939, we have launched roughly a Commission ship a week; in one fortnight this fall there were eight launchings. We needed them; among all the other American vessels in foreign trade there are only 46 ships under 20 years of age, only 24 of them under 10 years old.

This building program is based on the

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The American Merchant Marine in Expansion As a National Defense Measure

rise in construction costs, and a navy de- mand for every yard, they secured gen- paying the extra cost. Admiral Land tlemen's agreements with the shipyards pushed ahead anyway, laying down ships not to jump prices and then in 41 days 36-page Merchant. Marine Act of 1936, a on the Commission's own account. He had after Hitler marched, let 67 contracts. document which boils down to this: no buyers in sight but the Act said build This program, particularly this speed- Frank, above-board subsidies (instead of ships and build ships he did. He didn't up, has rejuvenated a merchant marine the old subterfuge of mail contracts at know who would operate them but he dying of old age. It has prevented the extravagant rates) for building and oper- knew the Navy would need them. As it collapse of American shipbuilding. It has ating merchant ships in peacetime so as turns out, every ship the Navy hasn't created five new shipyards—at Tampa to aid the Navy in wartime. In short, requisitioned is sailing the seas—either and Beaumont {Continued on page 52) Congress puts up the money, the Mari- purchased or chartered by a private con- time Commission uses it to pay the dif- cern. Some 1 5 operators are running ships ference between American costs and for- under agreement with eign costs, both in building and oper- the Commission. ating, and the Navy has the privilege of Again, in the sum- cost buying the ships when needed. The mer of 1939, before of including the features the Navy de- war came, Land called mands, and the cost of building with to his desk Command- American labor, together add perhaps er Howard Vickery 50 percent to the cost of a ship—though then his executive offi- this varies so widely with the type of cer, today a commis- ship that the generalization means little. sioner. Together they

planned what is now THE building speedup is largely cred- regarded as a master ited to Admiral Emory S. Land, who stroke — speeding up succeeded Joseph P. Kennedy as chair- contracts. They or- man early in 1938. Admiral Land has kept dered in 1939 what his mind centered on ships rather than al- was not due to be or-

lowing it to be confused by trade eco- dered until late 1940. nomics. He's more interested in winning Seeing war ahead, a wars than saving dollars. A naval con- struction expert, formerly head of all Launching of the navy yards, he knew the Navy's strength Donald McKay, one in combat vessels was offset by weakness of our speediest in auxiliaries—ammunition ships, subma- ships. At top, the rine and plane tenders, transports, cargo America, the great- ships, hospital ships, and so on. Back in est vessel ever 1938 when shipping lines were hesitant built in this coun- about building even with the Commission try

JANUARY, 194 They parade today as they did twenty-two years ago, these Legionnaires, and if the need for it arises they'll again give a good account of themselves as men-at-arms

OUR EXPANDING DEFENSE SCHEME

iS OUR INSURANCE overwhelming German drive began Paris would have been saved. The Ger- through Belgium, Holland and Luxem- mans would never have crossed the AGAINST ATTACK bourg it was the mood on the Allied side Marne. which surprised me. It was a kind of But once was enough—this time we wait-and-sit-and-take-it mood. That is did not have an army in France—and I THE vast preparations that are why I thought so often of General John hope American soldiers will never have being made to prepare the United Pershing. to fight overseas again. No one can be IN J. States for that grim anything-can- Fie was not given to making a defensive more opposed to sending an American happen, where do the million and army. He was out to make a striking army to Europe than yours truly, though more Legionnaires fit, aside from those army, which would hit the enemy and if we do, the only way is to fall in with of us who are in the Reserve and who will keep on hitting him until he yielded. We your country's decision and fight again be back in uniform if things really get know what tough schooling it was, and to win. "My country, right or wrong," tough ? that it was the schooling the soldiers of but let's keep it so right in peace and so "Where do I fit?" each of these men a democracy must endure if they want strong that it will be right —right in our tested in the fire of an earlier day of de- to win a war. own sound interest— if we do go to war. cision wants to know. "Uncle Sam can I often thought, over there this time, In those days before the Germans' use me somewhere." what would have been the result if lightning stroke, which released an aval- For answer we have the lessons thai Pershing had had such an army in the anche of military power, I noted how this present war is teaching. As a Legion- fatal crisis of Allied fortunes in May, much easier the French army took its naire I was soaked in them for home ap- j 040, as he had in France in the summer routine than in the World War days. I plication. For the sake of them I hope of 1918 with the host of reinforcements recall a young French officer saying in some youngsters will read this article. coming from our home training camps. reference to what he had heard about Anyhow, they are lessons we can pass on Or, put it that he had been the Allied the A.E.F.: "Your Pershing was an iron to the youngsters. Generalissimo, as he would have been if master in his discipline. He worked your In the long wait of inaction before the the war we were in had lasted into 1919. soldiers mercilessly hard."

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"Americans are just naturally hard still able to tire out young men while he workers," I replied, "when they have worked sixteen hours a day, gave Britain jobs—though there are some exceptions heart to fight on in the midst of the deep- I have known who qualify for the 'hand- est gloom she had known since Napoleon out' brigade on the basis that the world had his own way in Europe and looked owes them a living. General Pershing FREDERICK across the English Channel to the con- made them work, too. Americans are quest of the island kingdom. individualists, but when discipline was in PALMER W hat a difference in youth's glance to- the game to win a war we showed we ward the World War ribbon on a soldier's could take it." engineering and soldiering from 'way back. breast after the German army's crushing That young officer had the usual slant "The staffs, in their plans," he said, drives had swept across northern France, of young officers about veterans of the "are sure they will avoid all the mistakes forced the Belgian army to surrender, cut last war. A World War ribbon on the made in the World War. They'll repeat the .Allied armies in two, and driven the breast was not so much a distinction none that Joffre or Petain made for the British back on Dunkirk. British." for the wearer as a sign that he was a French or Haig made for the I've seen nothing like it except the relic of a past age who had not the speed When the land war began in earnest it change in the French attitude toward the that the staffs to keep step with modern war if he could was soon found had made A.E.F. after Chateau-Thierry. Up to adapt himself to it. This was a little puz- most of the mistakes of generalship made that time they had wondered when we zling since soldiers now ride in trucks, in the World War and a lot of new ones were going to begin fighting in earnest. where mostly they used to march. which, taken together, amounted to Suddenly they saw us as heroic saviors as I had a good chatty "then and now" one of the most colossal blunders in we were started on that ceaseless hundred hour with a Scotch engineer officer. In military history—as bad as that of sawing and fifty days' hammering which ended the World War he had worked his way off the tree side of the limb you sit on. on Armistice Day. up to be a major. Lean and vigorous, he To whom did the Allies, between the There in the savage business of grim, was not yet forty-six. But in this war he jaws of defeat, turn in desperate hope of stubborn resistance in covering the re- was a lieutenant under a young major yet saving them from the complete dis- treat on Dunkirk the World War ribbon, who had not been washed behind the aster which threatened? To some young worn by veteran reservists, was a rallying ears with any shell blast yet while this generals? No. To Petain and to Weygand, point of color when men, stumbling with war was still being called 'phony and who had won victories in that antedated fatigue, the last ration eaten, counted microphony. World War. But too late. A miracle was their remaining rounds of ammunition. Experience had made him really the prayed for, and it could not be wrought. Youth then paid its tribute to the game- boss of the job his battalion had been Too late when the advice of these elders ness, endurance and cool veteran shrewd- working on all winter in strengthening who had proved their wisdom had not ness of those "fighting old devils." the British defense line. The wheel- been taken before the war began. And I liked this little incident as the horses he depended upon were some And to whom did Britain turn when at survivors of the land hell, cadaverous, World War veterans who knew both last it was concluded it was time for dazed, got on board some kind of a ship Chamberlain to go? To some promising, safe through the [Continued on page 54) brilliant young statesman who had not been tested in war's fiery crucible? No. To Winston Churchill, almost twenty French soldiers in action early last years older than the average Legionnaire, spring. When the blitzkrieg got a soldier in his youth, who knew war be- into high the young soldiers leaned fore he set his jaw to tasks in the World heavily on their comrades with War. That veteran, doughty war horse, World War experience

JANUARY, 194 TO FOR THE LAD "IN TROUBLE" HERE'S A PLAN THAT GIVES HIM

about the situation. They have YOUNG John Smith is in seri- ous trouble. He lives in a legal blamed homes, schools, church,

no-man's-land. He is 18, under radio, newspapers and the

the civil law is a minor, inca- movies. Armed with incom- pable of making his own decisions. He plete statistics, high moral in- may not sign a simple contract, manage dignation, pet aversions and his own inheritance, or even vote for many a wild-eyed theory, they town dog-catcher, because the civil law have dabbled in a variety of experiments. They tested says he does not know enough. It wisely I have protects him from his own folly. more severe punishment and have tested coddling. But this same 1 8-year-old John Smith In some in the eyes of the criminal law is a man juvenile prisons they have built grown. He must have enough percep- ugly bread -and -water punish- tion, ability and judgment to live by ment cells, in others elegant adult standards, must find his own way swimming pools. They have in- through the perplexities of the criminal voked politics, prayer, prohibi- code, must face adult criminal courts tion and probation. when he transgresses. But the crime statistics in Thirteen percent of all Americans young John's age-group either live in John's precarious age-group, stay the same or rise a little between the years of 16 and 21. In after each such well-meant this dangerous period of adolescence, effort. of bodily chemical change and emo- It remained, perhaps naturally, for tional instability, John and his 'teen- a body of lawyers to suggest a new ap- age fellows face graver hazards than proach to this national problem. Now, at any other period of their lives. New- after three years of intensive study, ly freed from the restraints of school, they have evolved a model law to pre- they feel a sudden sag in family ties sent for adoption to the 48 States. as well. Economic necessity begins to The American Law Institute, parent shake their roots out of the home. They of the reform, is composed of 750 taste the desperation of unemployment, eminent representatives of bench, bar the occasional brief security of a job. and school. Founded by Elihu Root, They long for adventure, they discover its purpose is to make the law simpler, love, they rub elbows with a world too clearer, more workable, "better to adapt preoccupied to give them tlie attention it to social needs, secure better admini- they crave. stration of justice." Its Youth-Crime Committee, setting out to discover what As a result, young John's 13 percent of our population gets into more trouble ails John Smith and his mates, has than any other age-group. It is re- been headed by William Draper Lewis, school of the sponsible for 27 percent of America's dean emeritus of the law University of . Associated robberies and thefts, 39 percent of all experts burglaries, 50 percent of all stolen auto- with him have been such as mobiles. In metropolitan areas the fig- Supreme Court Judge Joseph N. Ulman ure is even higher. A recent four-year of , John Barker Waite of survey in New York State shows that the University of . Dr. Sheldon Penologist Austin this same 13 percent was responsible Glueck of Harvard, for 36 percent of rape convictions, 42 H. MacCormick of New York, and percent of robberies. In Chicago, Bos- others. ton and , the proportion is These committeemen began their task as high. Moralists, teachers, preachers and policemen for years have viewed-with- alarm, talked loud and written long

St- Cartoons by JOHN CASSEL eam. DETZER 20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine by agreeing that the law has a two-fold Youngsters of the 16-21 duty: first and more important, to pro- age group need the help tect society from erring John Smith; of all of us in making second, to reform him if possible. So their adjustments before they drafted a law designed to lift him out of his legal no-man's-land, they examined hundreds of thousands Committee put their fingers on that of his fellows, and then, perhaps to sentence and shouted: "Here's the first their own surprise, blamed none of the big mistake in present methods!" agencies usually condemned for his de- They knew that the judge was an linquency. The press had accused the ordinary man like themselves. They movies, the pulpit the schools, educa- knew that he possessed no God-given tors the home. But the Youth-Crime power to determine, after ten minutes, Committee turned the spotlight of its or even after a couple of hours, just investigation upon itself and its own how long a term would rehabilitate

house. Outworn legal methods, it de- John; whether or not he could be re- cided, are chiefly responsible for young habilitated at all; whether, having once John Smith's trouble. slipped, he would ever again be a men- Out of the mass of John Smiths they ace to society; whether after two years,

evolved a composite picture of the typi- or fourteen, or forty, it would be safe cal first offender. He's just John's to release him. age ... 18 ... a couple of years out These were hard-headed lawyers. But of school. He has a part-time job, big- lefore they went any farther they time ideas. On the night he stole his tossed overboard a popular misconcep- first automobile, (actually the most com- tion, namely, that the first duty of the mon first offense) he had a partner, a court is to punish wrongdoers. They

fellow he met in his neighborhood. agreed that the Mosaic law is archaic This partner, slightly older than and uncivilized, that the eye-for-an-eye John, was a graduate of a reform theory does not solve social problems, school. neither protects society nor helps regen- This fact did not surprise the law- erate the young offender. Mere severity yers. It simply proved what they al- of punishment, they realized, serves no ready believed, that the reform school good purpose other than to let off emo- in its present status does not reform; tional steam. that instead, by segregating youthful On the other hand, they were unim- wrongdoers, it usually acts as a clearing pressed by the cry of the sob-sisters, house for crime. So what should the pleading for "another chance" for the

law do first? Reform the reform school? "poor-boy." They knew that it had no What these lawyers did first was to more scientific basis than the other ex- follow the typical John to trial. He has treme. The statistics proved that entire- stolen a car; he is not a hardened crimi- ly too many "poor-boys" released on nal, but because he is over 16, he must slipshod probation merely went on to face an adult criminal court. bigger and better crimes. True, if he lived in Chicago, he would There was no doubt in the commit- have the benefit of a special boys' tee's mind that young John must be court, created by the city to locked up if he actually were guilty and handle his case. In Brooklyn or ikely to repeat his lawlessness. This Boston, or one or two other cities, much the law definitely owed to society. a court above the average would "The trouble," the lawyers said, "lies hear his case. But in most places in the sentence of two to four-

he would simply line up with cal- teen years. Isn't it asking too loused adults, go through the mill much of even the best judge in beside them and as one of them. the world to take so much re- Perhaps a kindly but over- sponsibility on one pair of shoul-

worked juvenile officer is able to ders, after the very brief time he search out a few extenuating has to study a case? There are facts for John's wretched too many factors involved for conduct. But the day John's one mere man to be an expert in

hearing is called, a busy all of them. Why not limit the judge with an overloaded judge's power to judicial mat- docket must dispose of ten ters, make someone else respon- other criminal cases. All he sible for those aspects of each can hope to do is glance at case which require long, hard the juvenile officer's report, study and special training in hear John's plea of guilty, fields other than the law?"

perhaps give John a kindly So l he Institute Com- word of fatherly advice, and mittee evolved its model sentence him to re- statute: Give the 16-21 form school for a age-group in the larger term of from two to cities a special court, in fourteen years. smaller places a special The lawyers, edu- procedure. Let the trial cators and penolo- judge retain his princi- gists on the Institute pal function. He will

JANUARY, 1941 conduct the hearing. He will make sure Nor would the board be swayed by to keep him under lock and key. If it that both the defendant and the State sentimentality. It would have at its decided that he must be locked up, its receive justice and consideration. He disposal all the implements and inven- members still would continue the study still will determine what evidence may tions of science to test the emotions, of his case, week by week and month and may not be introduced. When all the moral stability, the truthfulness of by month, until they were convinced the testimony has been presented, he, young John. It would have a detailed that there had been a real reformation. either alone or with a jury's aid, will report on his past and his recent sur- Only then would they release him. determine the guilt or innocence of the roundings, and a scientific diagnosis of If their tests indicated that John was accused. His will be the Herculean task his hope for the future, based neither "just naturally bad," that there was of arriving at the truth, enough, cer- on tough police skepticism, nor on the no hope, that no amount of corrective tainly, to expect of one mortal. lush optimism of the professional apolo- effort would reform him, and if his But there his judicial power will end. gist for "poor-boys." prison record {Continued on page 60)

The court will free the innocent and With this data before it, the board confine the guilty, thereby protecting would decide whether it was safe to the the guiltless individual from unjust public to turn John loose, or whether The Law Institute would punishment, and at the same time pro- not coddle youthful of- tecting society from the criminal. But fenders, but would seek to he will sentence young John Smith to prevent their being made neither ten days nor ten years. into hardened criminals

If the finding is guilty, John simply will go to the lock-up. There he and the history of his wrongdoing will be studied at once, not months or years later, when he has completed any arbi- trary minimum sentence and applies for parole. The Youth-Crime Commit- tee suggested that this study should be made by a state board of experts, ap- pointed probably by the Governor, on recommendation of recognized learned societies or associations. On this board

should be a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a penologist, a physician, a sociologist. Trained assistants would study all cases thoroughly, taking as much time as necessary, and would bring in their recommendations. The board, being non-elective, would have to face no political pressure, which even the most fearless judges must fight constantly.

22 AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 1 "

"Not at all, madam," replied the driver of the truck with a gallant ges- ture. "I was to blame myself." "But I insist the fault was mine. I was on your side of the street." "That may be true," he said, "but my dear madam, I am responsible for the collision. I saw you coming blocks away and had ample opportunity to start down a side street."

HAT is 'college bred'?" w "A four-year loaf made with father's dough."

'Has junior been fooling with the chicken again?" JONES was sitting with his wife be- hind a palm on a hotel veranda late one night when a young man and a girl DAD criticized the sermon. Mother combed the wool; had it spun into came and sat down on a bench near said the organist was off key. To cloth; made into suits; took 'em to them. The young man began to tell the sister's nice ear the choir singing was Boston and lost $21 on the deal. I didn't girl how pretty and lovable he thought sour. But their faces were really red sleep a wink!" she was Hidden behind the palm, Mrs. when little Bill remarked: "I think it Jones whispered to her husband: was a darn good show for a nickel." A DOCTOR answered his telephone. "Oh, John, he's going to propose. "Hello, Doc," said a voice at the Whistle to warn him.'' of the wire. "That advice "What for?" said VISITOR (at asylum): "Do you other end Jones. "Nobody have to keep the women inmates you gave me just don't work. You told whistled to warn me."' separated from the men?" me to drink hot water thirty minutes before breakfast. I have only been APOLITICAL orator had been talk- drinking it fifteen minutes and I'm so ing for an hour. He was saying: full I can't drink another drop." "I want Land Reform, House—Re- form, Education Reform ! I want THE new reporter had "Chloroform," said a bored voice. been sent to interview a famous pugilist. About an hour later he staggered into the editor's office. "Well," barked the edi- tor, "did you get any- thing?" "Did I!" said the re- porter, pointing to two black eyes. "I got these." "We can't print those," bellowed the chief. "What did he say to you?" "You can't print that either."

UNCLE: "Why, Willie, I'm glad to see you. "Maybe he's going to bunt" Have a soda. Waiter! Two laT-ge sodas, please." Willie: "I'll have the Attendant: "Sure. The people here same." ain't as crazy as you think." PROFESSOR: "What is GINSBERG had been complaining your idea of civiliza- of insomnia. "Even counting sheep tion?" is no good," he sighed to his partner in Student: "It's a good the clothing business. idea. Somebody ought to "It's only good if you count up to start it." 10,000," said his partner. "Try that tonight." But the next morning Gins- 'M so sorry," said the berg was still complaining. "I didn't I hatless woman mixed sleep a wink," he said. "I counted the up in an accident. "It was "Wake up, Jake, and change your pajamas! whole 10,000 sheep, I sheared 'em; all my fault." I don't like the look of things!"

JANUARY, 194 2-3 America has done more than its share in the last several generations to make this better world to live in! /# CoWFESSiOJV

EDITORIAL

The average Legionnaire speaks: With contempt I reject the too-oft-quoted

BELIEVE in the United States of Amer- statement that many of those who came here

I ica, in its destiny as the champion of from across the seas made the journey simply

democracy in the Western Hemisphere, because they believed that the streets were and as an example to the world of the fact lined with gold, and that after a few years that that democracy is a design for living of more-pay-for-less-work they might return superior to any other known to man. I as an to the land of their fathers to end their days.

American represent more than three hundred If there were such, they had need of not more years of sacrifice on the part of men and than a few months under the Stars and Stripes women of every type of racial origin and to convince them that this was the land for every nationality under the sun. which tired, frustrated mankind had been

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine of its barbarous autocracy, under which the OFfkiTH W governed become the pawns of their govern- ors, "with no rights and only the privileges of

a slave. Let us say with the utmost calmness yearning through countless generations: A that we shall never accept such a yoke, that land tremendous in its potentialities for the it were better a thousand times our land be- good life, a land great in heart and spirit, came a trackless desert and all of us be wiped translating into accomplishment the high from the face of the earth than accept such hopes of men of good will in all ages. a fate. What we Americans have come to know as We are preparing for a possible day of the democratic process has been in the making decision. We are of good cheer, knowing that over all those three hundred years. The Vir- in material resources we can overmatch any ginia Cavaliers battling against royal preroga- possible combination of adversaries, and con- tive which found its full flowering in that royal fident that free men equipped with the proper governor named Berkeley who hated free weapons and defending the things which in- schools and the printing press; the Puritans of spire their highest devotion will always win Plymouth turning early from the communism the day against a tyrant's troops. We don't which they at first espoused ; the Carolinians at expect to fight, and the chances of our having Mecklenburg aflame for independence before to do so will steadily diminish in the days the United Colonies declared the necessity of ahead of us if we will but quit ourselves like that step; Washington at Valley Forge; the men. fearless band that died at the Alamo; those Thus we shall bring hope to millions sitting who made the supreme sacrifice at St. Mihiel in the darkness imposed by the most wantonly and in the Argonne— in peace and in war destructive power this planet has ever known. these Americans by their resolute action made Its victims, in both the conquering and the it possible for us to enjoy those priceless rights conquered nations, are waiting for our light to be free to speak, write and worship as we to come to them. By resolute, forthright ac- please, to be accountable only to God and tion we give them new hope as we renew a those whom we the people choose to sit in the right spirit in those who, yet unconquered, seats of the mighty, with powers freely be- see us as the last hope of civilization. stowed by us for the better government of the whole body of citizens. Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; These are dread days. A power sits astride Threaten the threat'ner and outface the a major portion of the world which is deter- brow mined to snufif out democracy wherever Of bragging horror: so shall inferior found, and substitute for it an authority which eyes, derives not from a free and enlightened citi- That borrow their behaviors from the zenry, but which has been assumed by a small, great, self-perpetuating group dedicated to a nar- Grow great by your example and put on row nationalistic racism that provokes hatred The dauntless spirit of resolution.* and strife.

* Shakespeare's King John, Act V, Scene 1, lines 48-S3 We are preparing against the day when that power may challenge us to meet it in the breach or surrender our way of life in favor ^

JANUARY, 1941 25 drops Lou Ambers in the second round of the bout that brought him the crown night in the old Pioneer GRANT ONESporting Club in New York, two heavyweights were push- POWERS As this is written, a real lightweight ing each other about the ring holds the title. His name is Lew Jenkins. in locked embrace. The sweating, strug- punch to boot. We can take the welters He weighed in at 132 pounds, one pound gling referee was doing his best to break and the middleweights as side dishes, but less than the old lightweight limit of 133 them, when from the over-hanging gal- the 135-pounders have been the life at ringside. He is a skinny chap put of lery an indignant, leather-lunged fan blood of from away back yonder. . He became champ when he tech- bellowed: "Shoot that pair nically knocked out Lou

. . . and give us the light- Ambers. weights." The gallant little It won't be long before Italian-American from the heavyweight class will Herkimer. New York, again be at a standstill with was saved from perhaps Joe Louis heading the pack serious injury by the ref- and no contenders in sight eree in the third round

. . . just as it was after before 14,000 people in Gene Tunney polished off , Tom Heeney, the New last May. We mention Zealander, and hung up his all the facts, for boxing gloves for good. Boxing is fans will turn out to see again facing a sweet slump. good lightweights. Jen- Some experts like to say, kins carried dynamite in "As the heavyweights go, either hand. Ambers had so goes boxing." Pro- moters and died-in-the- wool boxing fans know Cream of the light- different. What the boxing weight crop of all game needs is the light- time: weights, the boys who give (left) with rugged you action with a healthy

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine been a seasoned cam- hard it was for certain battlers to shave paigner—the fans admired off a few pounds, would demanci a few his courage and skill. He'd thousand as a forfeit and often collected won and lost and had re- if the scales showed an ounce or two over. won the title mainly When Joe Gans was required to make through his perseverance 133 pounds ringside for Battling Nelson and heart, overcoming at Goldfield, Nevada, for Tex Rickard's such obstacles as severe first big promotion, Nelson's manager illness, a broken jaw and pulled a new one. The morning of the the many political ob- fight he demanded Gans weigh in with stacles that can so easily his fighting trunks and shoes. He thought derail a fighter headed for of requiring the gloves, too, but skipped a championship. Real box- that. He threatened to take Nelson out ing fans weigh those items. of Goldfield unless Gans agreed. Gans They know that light- steamed off two and a half pounds be- weights will give them fore weighing-in time. Gans won on a plenty of punching. Your heavyweight championship , the Fargo Express, battles attract people who one of th? great lightweights. At regard a face-scrambling left, , champion affair as merely a spectacle, just to say McAuliffe, Joe Gans, Battling Nelson, for a few months in 192 5 "I was there" or are taken by friends and Kid Lavigne ... all who have healthy pocketbooks. champions. A year ago tall, raw-boned Jenkins It was the coming of the over-size was poverty-stricken when he hit Broad- boys, who didn't want to move into the way. He had begun boxing while serving class, that caused the up- with the Eighth Cavalry in Texas. After ping of the weight to 135 pounds—reg- he obtained his discharge he and his istered at 2 o'clock the afternoon of a wife bought an ancient jaloppy and fight. This permits a fighter to pick up toured the Southwest, halting whenever from one to five pounds before the open- the hard-hitting Lew could pick chow ing gong. One of the pet beefs of the money in the small fight clubs. When fans and the sports writers was the way he stopped Ambers it was his eighth they used to manipulate the weights to straight . He had yet to box suit the convenience of certain boxers. ten rounds with an opponent, let alone Freddie Welsh and were fifteen, the championship distance. among the first over-sizes. Benny Leon- Jenkins brought new life to the light- ard, one of the greatest boxers this coun- weight division, which at one time was try ever produced, was another. the most lucrative in boxing. Making Making the weight is not only part of the weight was and still is the toughest the science of the manly art, but much part of being a lightweight. The old of its color. The matter of a pound or limit of 133 pounds suited some of the two in a big battle used to command greatest fighters that ever lived: Jack columns. Rival managers, knowing how foul, but the reducing and the great strain of the bitterly contested forty-two Ad Wolgast, at right, subjects the great Battling Nelson rounds reduced his vitality so much that he developed tuberculosis. to terrific punishment just before the referee stopped the fight in the 40th round and awarded him the crown Ambers said after he was defeated by Jenkins that making the weight weak-

ened him. Well, if it was so he wasn't the first lightweight to be belted out because of the strain of making the weight. The same thing happened to , who had been loafing in the hundred forties and had almost to remove a leg to make the weight for , who laid him out before the judges could adjust their spectacles. All fighters look larger than they really are in the elevated rings of today. The strong lights and colored trunks seem to add poundage even to the fly- weights. Usually the lightweight class is crowded with contenders, but as Johnny Attell, the smart matchmaker of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club says, "A class is as good as its leader. When Leonard was sitting on the lightweight throne, the country was full of chal- lengers. They had something to shoot at. A match with Benny in New York, Chicago, Michigan City or Philadelphia meant a good purse." Unlike the (Continued on page jp)

JANUARY. .941 -7 — WORKING OIM THE

RAILROAD folks herd together; hence there are literally dozens of Legion Posts whose

membership is made up of officers and employes of the major and mi- nor railroad companies. Pennsylvania, for in- stance, has three Penn- sylvania Railroad Posts, two of them—both bear- ing the name of the rail- road system—are located in the city of Philadel-

phia, and one is located

in Pittsburgh. It is a situation that causes De- partment Adjutant Eddie Linsky to insist that The new home of Big Four Railway Post at Indianapolis, Indiana, these Posts be referred was once the traveling office of the railway officials to by number and not by name alone. Baltimore and Post of Baltimore has long been one of the leaders in minals and in the larger centers where the Old Line State, and other groups shops and offices are located there are are banded together, representing nearly always plenty of members with fixed every railroad system from the Atlantic place of residence and employment to to the Pacific. It must not be under- fill the Post hall on meeting nights. stood, however, that all railroad Posts Speaking of meeting nights brings the bear the name of the companies from thought that if a Post continues active whose employes the membership is and makes a place for itself in com- drawn ; there is Chicago's Cornelius Yan- munity affairs it must have a fixed place derbilt Post made up of New York Cen- to call its home. Out in Indianapolis, in tral employes, and many others that the good old Hoosier State, Big Four could be named. Railway Post has solved that problem Legionnaire railroaders are not. as a by converting a bit of rolling stock rule, merely card carriers. The railroad once the palatial traveling office of Big Posts are active in all aspects of the Four Railway officials—into a neat, com- Legion's national program as well as in fortable and, one could say, commodious carrying on local programs of com- home, with plenty of room to care for munity service and practical welfare the official and social meetings of its work. The nature of their employment, one hundred and twenty members. Mem- particularly those who ride the rails in bership in this Post is restricted to em- one capacity or another, would seem to ployes of the road whose name it bears. preclude regular attendance at Post Comrade P. M. Pursian, Chairman meetings, but most of the railmen con- of the Post's Executive Board, writes tinue actively in Legion harness. At ter- that the car was donated to the Post by

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Milwaukee Road Post, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, introduced a replica consin, as an exact replica of the crack of the streamlined Hiawatha at the Boston National meet train, from plans drawn by its members, who are all employes of the Chicago,

F. E. Williamson, President of the New the R. T. 0. at each place of loading, York Central lines, and placed on lots with a fine disregard for the statement which had been previously purchased. of capacity plainly painted on the sides No !! tmjusY Painted blue with gold trimming—the with an obvious view to economy in the New Years Legion's colors—the new car-home pre- number of cars used, packed eighty men resolutions, W\oke up a sents a pleasing external appearance. and forty horses into each car. Stranger, The interior was remodeled to conform that's why the Forty and Eight—they to the needs of the new tenants; a re- just cut the normal lading by taking a ception room which was formerly the "y" from the eighty. No, no, and nay, observation platform, a lengthy hall for nay; us'ns of the Forty and Eight (the meetings and entertainment, and a fully Step Keeper rates; Kanawha Voiture equipped kitchen make up the division No. 1087; 1941 card 10,184) will hold into rooms. All city utility conveniences on to the palace cars we knew when have been installed. Members of the fighting the battles for democracy on Post feel at home in a distinctly rail- the fields of France, however antiquated road atmosphere when they go to their they may look. club for work or play. All this leads up to that streamlined No, Clementine, the Forty and Eight locomotive and coach—a replica of the has not gone streamlined. The organiza- Milwaukee Railroad's crack Hiawatha tion keeps itself stripped for action as train—which added color and interest to a high-powered Legion auxiliary and to the boxcar demonstration at the Boston do the work it sets for itself each year, National Convention. The latest thing but there is no present intention of toss- in streamlined railroad equipment, the ing the time-honored old French boxcars replica attracted a lot of attention and, into the discard. Times have changed in the nature of things, gave rise to the and even the French boxcars of today suspicion that the Forty and Eight had (or just before the debacle which en- sorta gone Hollywood. Truth is, the Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Rail- gulfed the France we knew) are not the replica of the Hiawatha is a Legion road. Come next September 15th when same as they were some twenty-odd locomotive and coach, built for Mil- the conventionnaires gather in the hospi- years ago. Be that as it may, the old waukee Road Post of Milwaukee, Wis- table city on the shores of Lake Michi- war-time boxcar is insepa- rably associated with the Forty and Eight; it is a part of the Legion itself and of the personal experi- ence of some hundreds of thousands of its members. What AEFer does not re- call every time he sees one of these contraptions rolling down the street—not with any nostalgic longing to re- capture the physical experi- ence—the days and nights spent in discomfort while traveling over the French countryside in such a piece of rolling stock? And it also comes to his memory that

Chicago's North West- ern Post is service- minded; it gave two iron lungs for the use of all who live along the road's 10,000 miles of right of way

JANUARY, 194.1 it dedicated two iron lungs to the serv- ice of the employes of the Chicago and North Western Railway. Further than that, the appliances were placed in the custody of the railroad official for the use of any person in need of such treat- ment at any place along the ten thousand

miles of the road's right of way. That is a broad service and one that is far reaching; the two iron lungs will, no doubt, be instrumental in saving many lives in sections not now provided with such equipment. The presentation was made at a cere- mony held at the C. & N. W. Station in Chicago, and at the same time a demon- stration was given, with a son and daughter of Legionnaire Barkolar acting as volunteer patients. The High Command

THURSDAY evening, October 17, was a big evening in the life of the Harold LaMarche family, of North Attleboro, . On that eve-

gan for the 23d National Convention, The tender is built of steel, welded, in- they will have opportunity to see this sulated and lined with plywood, and is model streamliner do its stuff on the roomy enough to accommodate four streets of its home city. sleeping car mattresses. A passenger car "The replica of the Hiawatha was built type buffer between the locomotive and in the Milwaukee Railroad shops by reg- the tender keeps both units in position ular craftsmen." writes Comrade Earl and eliminates any unnecessary pressure L. Solverson, Chairman of the Post's on either unit."

Replica Committee. "It is forty-four Streamlined rolling stock in the last feet, three inches long; five feet, two big parade may or may not indicate a inches wide; seven feet, three inches trend, but if any Post is interested in high, and is mounted on a new one and the modus operandi of creating today's a half ton Dodge chassis which has a train today, Legionnaire Earl L. Solver- seven-foot splice added to the center. son, who can be reached at 207 East The first four front wheels are connected Deer Place, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will with the steering wheel, which makes it be glad to tell how the job is done. easy to operate; the driving wheels and A practical type of humanitarian serv- motion work are of wood and are low- ice was that accomplished by North ered when required for parade purposes. Western Post of Chicago, Illinois, when

The "piano girls" of John H. Holliday, Jr., Post, Indianapolis, Indiana—left to right, Lillian Perry, 1935; Eunice Brown, 1936; Mary Williams, 1937; Marilyn Castle, 1938, and, in front, Joan Carey, 1939 ning North Attleboro Post, The Ameri- can Legion, its Auxiliary Unit and Sons of the Legion Squadron met at the Legion hall. When the LaMarche family arrived each member was accorded spe- cial honor—Harold LaMarche, Sr., was installed as Commander of North Attle- boro Post; Mrs. Lillian LaMarche, his wife, was installed as President of the Auxiliary Unit, and Harold LaMarche,

Jr., their son, was installed as Captain of the North Attleboro Squadron, Sons of the Legion. The unusual ceremony was witnessed by groups of Legionnaires and Auxiliares from several neighboring Posts and Units. The high command of the North Attleboro Legion forces, it would seem,

is for this year lodged in the LaMarche family; a conference can be called to be held each morning at the breakfast table without loss of time from business, household duties or school.

.30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine case, Jack Cejnar, still a member of

Holliday Post and still Assistant Na-

tional Publicity Officer, writes: "It is a true story of what happened in our Post. Out of that old busted piano has de- veloped a brand new kind of community service. Since 1935, when all this hap- pened, our Post has given Christmas

pianos each year and our membership is heart and soul in the activity. Others have joined us, notably the Jordan Con- servatory of Music. We furnish the in- strument; the Conservatory helps us to

find a talented girl who needs it, and also throws in a free scholarship in piano instruction. Furthermore, some of the teachers at the Conservatory have be- come so sold on the project that they give the selected girl free voice lessons. All of our 'piano girls' have made good and each year they come to our Post to give a concert." Now, Posts that are looking for some- thing to do can profit by the blunder- ously experimental practice of the high- powered executives of Holliday Post six years ago and "Try This on Their That Piano Story one a personal acquaintance and friend- Piano." ship with Legionnaires in every Depart- "V TEARLY every story that appears in ment and outlying Post. These three are Vets Registered -L\| this indispensable family magazine Who among the central figures in the story. has a story behind it. For this once the a careful survey of the field Don Wiles was Post Adjutant. FROM Step Keeper will let the regular readers it would seem that the Step Keeper's While it may not be entirely in accord of the department in on the story behind estimate of a dozen World War veterans with the rule of ethics in such matters, the story Frank Mathews tells in this who registered for the selective service we'll complete the cast by disclosing the number, "Try This on Your Piano," be- draft on October 16th was a liberal one name of the President of Holliday Post's ginning on page 14. If you have not read —the actual figure, if ever compiled, Auxiliary who was overwhelmed with what Frank has to say, turn to it at will probably fall a bit short. Of those calls before she knew what it was all once—then you'll appreciate this brief who registered, so far as the returns about—it was Mrs. Edith Whipple. sketch of a beautiful blunder that reveal up to the first of December, the When queried about the facts in the developed a real community service youngest is Carl M. Palmer, now resid- program. ing at Silverton, Cincinnati, Ohio, where Now Frank Mathews is a competent he is district manager for the Chevrolet Miss Lois Sharp registered Frank wordsmith who can tell a story, and tell Motor Company. Registrant Palmer was R. Sauliere for the draft at Miami, it well, but in this case it was not neces- born April enlisted in Company Florida; the registrant had 19 5, 1905; sary for him to heavily tax his fertile D, 126th Infantry, Michigan National months' overseas service in 1917 on {Continued on inventive genius. He took raw facts as and 1918. Below, Carl M. Palmer, Guard, page $8) the story was told to him and, with of Cincinnati, 1917 and 1940, but little dressing, drew the humor of a youngest of the old soldiers who somewhat serious situation to top the registered and served it up in fictional form. With- out this word of explanation, his story would pass as pure fiction with all except those who know the real low-down and who passed through those days that tried the souls of a few Indianapolis Legionnaires and an innocently involved Auxiliary Unit. The Post around which the story re- solves is John H. Holliday, Jr., Post of Indianapolis, Indiana. It is in no sense a National Headquarters Post but it so happened that in the year of the great piano episode Oak Marquette, Director of the Emblem Division at National Headquarters, was Commander; Glenn Crawford, Comptroller at National Headquarters, was Finance Officer, and the Publicity Officer whose twelve-cylin- dered brain ground out ideas, ideas and ideas was Jack Cejnar, Assistant Na- tional Publicity Officer—three tall cedars of Lebanon in the national Legion forest whose long service has given to each

JANUARY, 194! 31 —

THERE!

STRANGE, isn't it, how every so often a guy comes a cropper with the simplest kind of a problem. Even pleading the fact that this department had been strictly a foot- soldier during our earlier World War and had been fortunate enough to dodge

any hospital visits in the A. E. F., it shouldn't have muffed this one. It came about this way: A couple of time-worn snapshot prints showing a group of long, low frame buildings were^submitted for Then and Now consideration with a brief note in which the contributor identified himself as "Ex-Top Sergt., Vet. Hospt. #9 & #11, A. E. F." We knew there had been base hospitals and field and evacuation hospitals in our Army's A. E. F. set-up, but didn't recall any that had been designated as a "Veterans" hospital which on the face of it wouldn't have made sense anyway, as we weren't vet- erans then, but active soldiers. So we wrote for more information—asking about the patients who had been for more about his particular service: The saddle horse of Top Kick hospitalized, and so on. When we "The article, 'War Horses Is Right,' Thomas H. Chinn, Veterinary opened the reply and a couple of pic- in the magazine for last February, is Hospital #9, posed with Tom tures of horses fell out, it dawned on us what caused me to dig up the pictures Morris. At lower left, a group of that that "Vet. Hospt." had meant a I sent to you—because I served in the buildings of the veterinary hos- Veterinary Hospital, where our equine Veterinary Corps during the war. They pital at Gievres, France comrades who had also served were were snapped in Gievres, France, and given the care they had so well earned. show Veterinary Hospital #11. The ex-Top Kick who sent the pic- "There were ten wards in which the tures shown on this page, Thomas H. sick and wounded horses and mules Vjou aiftV So tart- You doti Chinn of 25 Plymouth Street, Methuen, were treated for their ailments—several er O. \oo\

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine A THEN tM-CWV Ua. . /.I ^gE_ ^LANTIC^ONCELY.

Plt*£>*: Anything you want lK> GLml' but "Give until it Hurts. with skin diseases and had to be put through a delouser. An outfit of mule- » SomcwneVe on th> Atlantic, September, 19l8. skinners there, most of them from wes- tern States, certainly knew their stuff. KAISER S ''GOAT DISAPPEARS One man in my outfit was Jack Ray. SOLDIERS AND NURSES GET IT, SHOUT1NQ* * a champion rope thrower. He was so ^ good that he was given leave to exhibit his skill in the various camps in France. "There was also a race track in Gievres and men stationed there or who passed through may remember the races that were run, in which I rode. I am en- closing a picture of my saddle horse which is being held by Tom Morris of Texas. This should bring back memories A TOWNE TOPICS _ of their old Top Kick to those readers who served with me. I'd like to hear from them. \ .X^jfnT alway'Jjleek "Major John A. Summerville was

ryT7-b«|«s s;rjp : Commander of the Veterinary Corps and swell ht o«V*r cortffort* what a fellow he was. In fact, — all of our officers were fine guys." liftjptful trip

Iffiii ifi*s. Memory are AS WE suggested not so long ago in thi^ship! C.H.T lx. these columns in connection with the story about Ohio Raitibow Reveille, TOWNE AMD GOWN " Americans insist upon keeping up with

it a young poet named Towne current news under any and all circum- njfcfUKite when Jk at tie AijiJtican c-onttu stances and so there sprung up during if TViio fras wreathed with the bays )te<) "OlK(.u Ki in overseas the war home camps and rallying cry. In order toire many outfit papers, and even ships of tensi< >n t hr< iu«hout fii'rm;inLtii**wT the fleet and transports managed to announced that one of his^ftn/ would to the fro produce publications. We show the first fro e gown tinjf expedition. A jfenei^ page of one such deep-sea publication beinsj held t«> determine wTiich of the *Snperciliarv slanp tor skirt. D-C, which bears the autographs of a number of distinguished American journalists and a government official. It came to us from Mrs. Edna Bishop Myers, member of Jane Delano Post of the This one of the numerous various exits during the Legion, whose home is at 2624 South shipboard publications of nights of our trip. Austin Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. wartime bears autographs "Arriving in Liver- Legionnaire Myers, who served with of distinguished men. How pool, we entrained for Base Hospitals No. 45 and No. 87A many do you know? Southampton, from in the A. E. F., told us this in her let- which port we sailed in ter of transmittal: two groups for Le Havre "The enclosed wartime publication vacation, interrupted only for in hospital ships. The one may be of interest to others besides boat drill and a session—'con- night we spent in Paris those of us who made the trip to the fession,' the menfolks called it we were entertained by A. E. F. on the transport Adriatic, a —with our chief nurse every some of the governmen- former White Star Liner, which sailed morning. We were addressed tal authorities and then, on August 23, 1918, from Hoboken, by several of the notable pas- still in high spirits, we . Its conception was due sengers whose signatures ap- started for Toul. We probably to the presence of so many pear on the Atlantic Oncely. didn't laugh so much newspaper men on board. You will I remember thinking Edward after our first sight of find the signatures of Mark Sullivan, Bok seemed so gentle and demolished villages and Edward W. Bok, and others of note. W. Perkins Bull looked much a few tralnloads of Dimly, in the center, is that of John like his name. wounded. W. Davis, Ambassador to Great "The ship must have lacked "Our doctors and Britain, and later candidate for Presi- a full crew or something, as I corpsmen were already dent. remember the Y. M. C. A. and in Toul, the hospital "After an exhausting time in New Red Cross men. together with being in French military York, our thirteen days' voyage on other male civilians aboard, barracks as was custom- the Atlantic proved to be a pleasant helped stand guard at the ary then. Our group

JANUARY, 1941 33 were the first Ameri- were determined that Satan should get can nurses in Toul no innings with idleness and so filled and the local people our every minute. made much of us. At "In the mornings we drilled and then once, thirty of us stood in a huge rectangle to sing for were detached to two what seemed hours. After lunch we smaller hospitals stood in line to be fifed for everything which would care for from shoes to hats. Not only our dress the gassed patients navy-blue uniforms, with changes of while Base 45 took white and blue shirts, must be fitted, care of the wounded. but also that grotesque gray bedside We got there just in nursing outfit that stamped us as the time for the St. Mi- world's worst -dressed women! At night hiel Offensive. Our we had classes in French. The only real fifteen went to the highlight of those weeks was an im- 'Gas Evacuation,' pressive blessing of our banners at afterwards No. 87A. Trinity Church which, as I recall, is on "There, with three lower Broadway at the head of Wall doctors and about Street." thirty corpsmen re- cruited from the lines NOW that the holiday season is —willing workers with no medical train- Thanksgiving? Christmas? with us, there will be many ing—we ran a hospital of about six New Year's Day?— 1918? memories of special Thanksgiving or hundred beds. We evacuated the entire 1919? What celebration by Christmas or New Year's parties that hospital each night, except for those what outfit is pictured were held by the old outfits back in the who could not live to reach a Base, above? The only clew is that service days. The picture, above, of and filled up again with the freshly- it probably was held in Italy a dinner party of officers and men un- gassed cases—out of the trenches at first, later from field hospitals as the 5 line moved up. After the Armistice they im Salufmq -H^e ev\<\ of -Hie sent us enough doctors, nurses and Waif- Which ev\ds all corpsmen to become a base hospital. vmy\s^{oi* all -Krv\e !!! "We could still hear the front at the time of the Armistice and as Toul was a highly-fortified town, German planes came over every nice bright night. Be- ing young and very busy we never thought much about being afraid and although shrapnel from anti-aircraft guns fell in our courtyard, we were never bombed. '--me Salut/M^ "And a word about our hectic time , Vemoh c*= -the. in New York before going overseas. After four months in a camp in Ala- ^ va/asted

units for home service, we were sent to mistakably shows such an occasion—but Grouped about a British Handley- New York for five weeks for mobiliza- what we'd like to know is what outfit it Page, men of the 13 5th Aero tion. There, with several other units, we is and when and where the party took Squadron gazed upward at an learned we had indeed enlisted in the place. unusual sight above their field 'standing' Army of the U. S. A. They The photograph, about five by seven at Toul, France, in 1918 inches in size, came to us with this let- ter from Legionnaire Charles C. Curtis. Colonel, Commanding Officer of the 213th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Pennsylvania National Guard, of Allen- town Pennsylvania: "The enclosed photograph was the property of Dr. Albright of this city.

The family says that it was given to the doctor by a patient, directly after the World War. "Dr. Albright was not in the service, having been an elderly man at the time of the war. The U. S. Ambulance Corps

trained in Allentown and there is a pos- sibility that the group shown in the pho- tograph was part of that branch. "Many of those boys served in Italy and this picture may have been taken in that country and later given to Dr. Al-

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine U. S. Naval officers and men, three gyrenes, and their dog mascot proudly pose on the deck of the captured Austrian battleship Zrinyi in the Adriatic Sea in 1918 bright, because as a prominent local group of sun-gazers under the wings of der what became of this kid who was citizen he entertained many of the what during the time of our war was then only about eighteen years old. boys who trained at our Allentown considered a huge airplane came to us "Some of the boys in the group may

Fair Grounds." with this report from Legionnaire Wil- be able to tell us more about it. I can

That Italy suggestion bears weight, be- liam J. O'Connell of Derby, Connecti- still name a few of the comrades in cause the photographer's name and ad- cut : the picture after these twenty-odd dress as they appear on the photograph "Some months ago I found in Then years. On the extreme right is Sergeant are: A. Rizzo, Padova, Castelfranco. and Now the name of an old comrade Brooks. How about some of the other Unfortunately, the insignia on the col- of my outfit, the 135th Aero Squadron, fellows of the 135th identifying them- lar of the lieutenant on the right and and so was able to re-establish contact selves. Incidentally, that Handley-Page on the chevron of the sergeant major after the many years that have passed was some plane for twenty years ago! (we assume he is) on the left, cannot since the war. He was Fred Postel of How about it?" quite be determined San Francisco. even from the original "That caused me to look through my DURING the past year or so, place print. Who can help war files and I am enclosing a picture names in Europe that are only us solve this problem? of a bunch of our men grouped around too familiar to veterans who served a Handley-Page, an English bomber overseas have been showing up daily WATCHING ob- that had been chased onto our field at in our newspapers. At this writing, a servers bale out Toul, France, by a German plane short- good deal of (Continued on page 60) of balloons that had ly before the Armistice. been set on fire by "You will observe that enemy aircraft grew to most of the fellows are be quite a common ex- looking up toward the perience up around the sky. They were watch- front lines—but now ing a German who was we learn of an incident coming down to earth in similar and yet quite a parachute—this being excitingly distinctive. the first and only time If more of the gang we ever saw anyone bale would wake up and do out of an airplane with a little digging into a 'chute. The French their war archives, battery behind us and we're convinced they to our right had shot the could produce plenty plane down from about of additional interesting 10.000 feet. The Ger- unofficial snapshots that man kid landed safely we could share with all and was captured, but John Paul Good of Lincoln, Nebraska, son of of the readers of Then his pilot who had given a U. S. Navy ensign, had the distinction of be- and Now. him the chance to jump, ing born in Naval Base Hospital No. 5 at Brest, The picture of the was killed. I often won- France, in 1918

JANUARY, i94i 35 \ THEY WOULD GO

The Army has been using skis since 1867, but this year complete ski battalions are planned for at least three of the Divisions in training, and in addition specially selected individuals will be organized into groups for advanced training in the technique and battle tactics of fast ski patrols. Herewith is offered something about the skiing experiences of a cavalry troop in the Army in Wyoming some fifty years ago. Illustrator WILL CRAVEN

NIECE is keen on skiing. and three men to each, connected with MYShe is also loud in her the fort by telephone. The deep snow praise of the way in which confined the horses to stables and corral. the heroic Finns humiliat- Temperature dropped to around forty ed the big Russian Army a year or below, and (Continued on page 52) so ago. She appeared skeptical when I stated that fifty years ago the United States Army had a military unit, all on skis, and working every day that snow was available. During 1 890-1 893, Troop I of the HERBERT CURTIS Sixth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Yel- lowstone. Wyoming, was on duty patroling the 5.000 square miles em- bracing the Yellowstone National Park. Its duties were protection of wild game, preserving order, discouraging poachers, fighting fires and shoveling snow. It will be appreciated that this organization numbering around seventy-six men was quite busy. During the "open"' season from June to September the men oper- ated as cavalry— it was a gray-horse troop. The rest of the year was the "closed" season, and all patroling was done on skis. Sub-stations were located in the Park, occupied by an N. C. 0.

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{Continued from page 5) map. "Orientation" as a sport has been If we in our new American armies, ally south on a front of three hundred popular in the Scandinavian countries can develop thousands of expert infantry yards. First and second platoons, with for a number of years. Competitors were platoon leaders and their assistants, we light machine-gun squads attached, will furnished with sectional maps carefully need have no fears that our private sol- be the assault wave, first platoon on the marked with four or five different points, diers will not carry out their role better right. The third platoon, in support, will together with a finishing point. At each than any other soldiers in the entire follow assault wave, by bounds, at about point players would register, before pro- world. five hundred yards along the center of ceeding to the next one. The ground was They must only follow their leader, the company sector of advance. Com- unfamiliar and obstacles such as rivers, know how to use their weapon and do pany headquarters will be with the third lakes, ravines, thick forests and bogs what they're told. Nor need we question platoon. The regiment on the right has might be encountered. The sport thor- the fact that orders issued by our higher orders to keep contact with Schmidt's oughly tested the resourcefulness and echelons of command will be as cor- regiment. The company mission is to strength of competitors. Competitions rect or as sound as those of any army seize and hold part of a ridge two miles were held at all hours, day or night, rain in the world. The American Army has to the front. Direction of attack, mag- or shine. an elaborate, highly efficient school sys- netic 1S9 degrees. Schmidt returns to Using their "orientation" technique, tem from the War College down to his platoon, assembles his men and issues troops struck at the enemy's weakest schools for bakers and cooks. Orders his platoon order. point, faded away and struck again. are the same whether issued in the class- At 5:55 a.m. he sends out six scouts. Troop leading cannot be learned in the room for a theoretical map problem, or Moving forward in pairs, about seventy- classroom or by "barrack square" drill. in a shell-torn dugout in actual combat. five yards apart, they will cover the It must be practised on the kind of ter- It is in carrying out orders, in the mud, platoon sector of advance. Schmidt will rain, and under conditions which, as rain, thick brush and pitch dark, that follow the center twosome at a distance nearly as practicable, are likely to be our Army is far behind the trained, con- depending on visibility. Behind Schmidt, encountered in actual battle. scripted veterans of Europe. but keeping in sight, comes the platoon

How do infantry front line troops What is the technique used by under Sergeant Weber, in single file attack in the modern battle? Assume Schmidt in leading his front-line assault with about ten paces between men. The Lieutenant Hans Schmidt, 1st Prussian platoon? center scouts keep their direction by Guard infantry regiment, will lead his The attack is ordered for 6:00 a.m. signals from Schmidt. Other scouts guide platoon in an attack. Schmidt has three The line of departure runs through center. twelve-man rifle squads, each com- brush, woods and open fields. It is a line Now it is 6:45 a.m. There has been manded by a sergeant. He has a light on Schmidt's map in the hands of Ser- some enemy artillery fire, and overhead machine-gun squad of three guns and geant Heinz, his second in command. fire from German guns, but the platoon, eight men also under a sergeant. In his Heinz has not only the platoon map, taking advantage of cover, has advanced platoon headquarters there are two ser- but the compass set on the magnetic steadily without losses. geants, assistants, and a runner. azimuth 189 degrees. He is the naviga- An enemy machine gun, some six hun- While it is true that light, medium tor of the platoon. He will keep track dred yards in front of the center scouts, and heavy tanks, dive bombers, infantry of his strides for distance, use his com- opens fire. Schmidt sees through t he- motors, heavy and light > artillery, and pass for direction and check from the brush both scouts drop to the ground perhaps parachute troops, dropped to map the natural features of the ground. and return the enemy fire. Crouching, disrupt hostile communications, all are It's his primary job. The cardinal sin of he moves cautiously forward. going to help the advance of Schmidt's a troop leader is to be lost. Then, followed by his headquarters, platoon, it is also true that none of these At 5:30 a.m. the captain of Schmidt's he crawls on hands and knees and lies auxiliary arms can actually seize and company assembles his three platoon down beside his scouts. The enemy fire hold ground. The fate of the battle rests, commanders and issues orally the com- slackens. A scout points to a bush in the as it always has, on the thousands of pany order for attack. Schmidt takes corner of an orchard. With his glasses Schmidts and their front-line platoons. notes. The company will attack gener- Schmidt picks up a wisp of smoke over

the bush. No other sign of the enemy is visible. Schmidt tells his runner to crawl back, meet the platoon and tell Sergeant Weber to hold the men under cover until further orders. Open, rolling coun- try separates the brush from the or- chard. No cover seems to be available for an advance. Schmidt studies his map.

About a hundred yards on his right it shows a ravine running southeast and entering the orchard about three hun- dred yards to the right of the machine gun nest. A break in the fruit trees in- dicates the point where the ravine enters the orchard. Lieutenant Schmidt rolls

over to where Sergeant Heinz is lying. The map is on the ground between them. He points out to his second in command the location of the hostile machine gun {Continued on page 38) {Continued from page 57) nest, where the platoon has halted, and Now, to go back to the well known work. Finally they come to scrimmage. on the map the ravine invisible from remark of the Duke of Wellington; con- On enlistment the soldier is hardened where they are lying. sider the action of Schmidt's platoon by physical exercises. Then he is taught Schmidt has made his decision. He with the game of football as we play it his individual duties, primarily to march, will lead the second and third squads up in the United States. The platoon has to shoot, to obey and take care of his the ravine, and rush the hostile machine made an end run. There has been the health in the field. Troop leaders pro- guns from the cover of the orchard. Ser- same element of surprise, of timing, of gress to the schoolroom, which corre- geant Heinz will deploy the first squad concerted action. The backfield is repre- sponds to the blackboard and signal and the light machine gun squad on the sented by Lieut. Schmidt and the second practice. line of scouts and open slow fire. and third rifle squads; the line by the Practising the battle on the ground, or

Schmidt estimates it will take him ten first rifle, and light machine gun squads. maneuvers, is scrimmage. A coach, who minutes to get back to the platoon, issue In battle to penetrate an enemy line may see a potential Ail-American half- his order and reach the ravine. From the is a proper maneuver when defen- back sprain his ankle on a quiet week- point where the ravine leaves the brush sive troops have been spread out over day afternoon, likes scrimmage about as it is six hundred yards to the orchard. more ground than they can hold effec- much as a committee of Congress, which He can lead his two squads at the rate tively. Penetration is bucking the line. must recommend funds to move troops of one hundred yards in two minutes. On defense the outpost line breaks up from New York to Georgia, likes maneu- Twelve plus ten is twenty-two minutes. an attack, as the line of scrimmage is vers. But coaches have scrimmage fre- He synchronizes his watch with Sergeant supposed to do. The main line of re- quently, because they know they have Heinz's. It is 7:38 a.m. Heinz with his sistance stops the attack as the second- to have it to get real team play. first rifle squad and light machine gun ary defense does in football. There is Our First Division was moved from squad will open slow fire until 8 a.m. always a back held out of play for an Germany to Camp Meade. , in From S until 8:03 they will put down emergency. So troops hold out a reserve 191 9. From there it was broken up and maximum fire of every weapon on the to meet an envelopment or to counter sent to army posts all the way from hostile machine guns. At 8:03 Sergeant attack. Blitzkrieg may be an envelop- Vermont to North Carolina. For sixteen Heinz will order the charge straight ment or a penetration. Infantry is moved years units didn't see each other, until toward the enemy guns. At the instant by trucks at about thirty miles an hour, the division was assembled for the the fire stops and the charge begins, which is more than ten times as fast as maneuvers of our First Army at Pine Schmidt and his men should be on them they can march, but they fight on foot. Camp, New York, in 1935. Ours is an from the flank with rifle and bayonet. So in training for football, the first expensive military establishment. Unlike If things go as planned there will work of the coach is to harden his other great nations we do not in normal be a melee for perhaps a minute. Then players by physical exercises. Next they peace time require our young men to all will be over and Schmidt must at are taught their individual duties. They serve in the Army. Whether the policy once send out the squad least disor- progress to the blackboard and signal is wise or not, it is certainly expensive ganized to cover the reorganization of practice for concerted action, or team and may never be changed. Ihe platoon. And so the advance continues. There will come during the attack a time when the platoon is pinned to the ground by hostile fire and Schmidt must send back for infantry or artillery fire to clear the way for his further advance. Platoons are trained to go as far as practicable with their own weapons before calling for assistance. There is no "normal attack" in our training regulations. Cover is the essential element. In every attack there must be intelligent use of cover, there must be timing and there must be con- trolled fire. Had Schmidt's platoon been armed with the new American Army Garand ritle, each soldier could fire eight care- fully aimed shots per minute. Each sol- dier would be carrying one hundred and sixty rounds—twenty minutes of maxi- mum fire. Twenty minutes of fire to last till dark and the arrival of the company ammunition truck. Schmidt's platoon may have been part of a mechanized division, but the tech- nique of the attack itself is the same. Infantry detrucks before the battle. Nothing in the training of our new armies is quite as important as to teach our company officers and non-commis- sioned officers to be expert troop leaders. "Who thought up this idea of takin' turns?"

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Now our First Division in those post- Battle navigation means keeping the and learning to fight with the bayonet.

war years was trained, but it was trained proper direction by compass, and dis- The Army knows a lot more than it did as a football team would be if the back- tance by strides Like the sailor or air in 191 7 and '18. field practised in Vermont, the line in pilot, the doughboy must know how to It knows what troops do in an attack New York and the ends in North Caro- navigate on the darkest night. At every today. It knows you cannot teach troops lina. moment of the battle he must know ex- to attack successfully by requiring A modern Division with its three in- actly where he is on the map. Knowing leaders to learn the Field Service Regu- fantry and two artillery regiments, its this, he need only apply the rules he has lations, any more than you can train a engineers, signal troops, tanks and learned in the map-problem room. football team by teaching them the offi-

thirty-mile-long truck train, is a com- There are many alibis for our inexpert cial rule book.

plicated machine. There is no way for it troop leading in 191 8. One alibi is the It knows that on the shoulders of to work smoothly as a combat team, fact that French and British officers sent infantry front line lieutenants and ser- unless it has practice as a Division. The to the United States to aid us in training geants, more than on the shoulders of secret of expert troop leading may be could see nothing but trench warfare. anyone else, rests the fate of the battle, summed up in the words timing, control We wasted golden hours throwing gren- perhaps of the nation itself. of fire and above all, navigation. ades, digging elaborate trench systems There are no alibis now.

gave punching Packey McFarland a bout. He lost the title on a foul to Willie GIVE US THE Ritchie in a ring. As a hitter, Ritchie wasn't to be compared with his predecessors. As a boxer he was out- (Continued from page 27) at Lavigne, winning the decision after classed and beaten by Freddie Welsh, heavyweights, it just wasn't the cham- twenty tough rounds. He then took a in a twenty-round decision fight in Lon- pionship matches that made the light- couple of trips to Europe and was after- don, England. Ritchie claimed he had weights the great favorites of the box- wards matched with Joe Gans. During been "jobbed." Welsh, though born in ing public of this country. Small clubs their first fight they bumped heads, Joe Wales, was then an American citizen, so all over the land had their contenders. received a great gash over one of his the title still remained here. He held the alone had five clubs eyes, and the blood streamed down his crown for three years, when he lost on that packed them in any time the neigh- face. Gans was forced to quit and Erne a technical knockout in nine rounds to borhood boys climbed through the ropes received the decision. Erne then met Benny Leonard. That was in 191 7. Before Benny Leonard lifted the Terry McGovern. He floored McGovern Welsh afterward ran a training camp for

crown from Freddy Welsh in 191 7, eight for the count of nine in the first round, fighters in New Jersey until he died a hard-hitting boxers held the title. Jack but was flattened in the third. He had few years ago, broke. McAuliffe succeeded Arthur Chambers, trained on wine. Luckily for him the The rise of Benny Leonard really be- but we won't bore you with his record title wasn't at stake in that fight. gan in 19 1 6, when he received the ref-

. . . that was back in 1879. McAuliffe Again he met Gans in Canada, but eree's decision over Joe Mandot and a ruled the class for nine years and re- getting himself in shape was a tough popular decision over Welsh in ten tired undefeated. He was known for his task and he was knocked out after one rounds. Just before Welsh fought skill and endurance. He fought one 64- minute and 40 seconds of fighting, los- Leonard in 191 7 he won from Charlie rounder with a broken arm, and two ing the crown. White in twenty rounds at Colorado bouts with skintight gloves. Gans was of course considered one of Springs. Welsh, a clever boxer but a McAuliffe was followed by Kid La- the greatest colored fighters of all time. light hitter, reaped a harvest from the vigne, who claimed the title and knocked The "Old Master" was a natural boxer. no-decision game in New York. When he

Dick Burge, the English champ, sprawl- He fought hundreds of fights, whipped met Leonard it could only be a "pop- ing in 17 rounds. Lavigne's toughest scores of the best lightweights of his ular verdict'' performance under the fight was with Everhardt. who broke day, held the title for several years and then current Frawley Law, but Benny Lavigne's nose, closed both of his eyes in his final days when practically dying hit Welsh so hard that he stopped him and had him bleeding from his mouth of tuberculosis fought his hardest that in nine rounds and took the crown. and right ear, before the Kid stopped he might leave some money for his Leonard was then deluged with chal- him in the 23d round. After the fight family. lengers. He gave , cham- Sam Fitzpatrick stood with Lavigne at Joe Gans' love for boxing started one pion of the , the first the club's bar and fed his fighter cham- night when he paid thirty cents to see chance and after giving the Clevelander pagne with a tablespoon—the champion Bob Fitzsimmons give an exhibition. He a boxing lesson, knocked him out in the couldn't see! was fascinated by Ruby Bob's uncanny third round. Then he defeated Jack Kid Lavigne liked the bright lights and skill, followed the show from place to Britton in ten and met twenty-eight didn't keep in shape. Frank Erne then place and from a gallery seat watched other customers. As you can see. his came along, deserting the featherweights, Fitz for a week. Then his money gave first year as champ was a fairly busy after he had whipped George Dixon for out and he went back to the fish market. one. that title. Erne floored Lavigne. but was He took terrific beatings from Nelson From 191 7 until 1924, Leonard, a ill advised by Kid McCoy, who was in in 1908, losing twice to the Battling product of New York's East Side, ruled his corner. So the fight went to a twenty- Dane. supreme over the lightweights and even round draw. Lavigne retaining the title. Nelson lost the title when Ad Wolgast made a few of the welters wish they In those days the referee would not give put him away in the fortieth round of a hadn't crossed gloves with him. In that a challenger the title unless he showed no-limit bout. Nelson, who had the time he met with only a couple of op- an overwhelming bulge over the champ, tenacity of a bulldog, was all but ponents that really gave him a scare. so Lavigne held on to his bonnet. slaughtered. When the end came he was Ritchie Mitchell and Lefty Lew Tendler Then Erne stopped Dal Hawkins in half blind and so weak that he could were the toughest. Benny was the first seven heats, after he himself had been not raise his hands. lightweight champ since Jack McAuliffe on the floor five times. He whipped Wolgast in defending his title knocked to retire unbeaten. No champion ever Elbows McFadden, than whom there out such tough babies as Mesmic, Burns, left a better record. He fought over 200 was no tougher. Erne got another chance Owen Moran and Joe Rivers, but never {Continued on page 40)

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weights, as had a couple of other light- weight champions. The fight was over GIVE US THE before many had a chance to see what Singer had. The ex-bootblack from Brooklyn tagged the cocky Singer as {Continued from page jq) Garden for that season: Kansas and he backed into the ropes to ward off an battles, knocked out 70 opponents, and Tendler, $51,000; Jackson and Dundee, attack. was knocked out but twice in that span, $41,000; Dundee and Tendler, $44,000; Tony gave many a challenger a those two setbacks taking place in the Dundee and Benjamin, $43,000; White chance at the crown. He fought Jack first two years of his career. Like so and Jackson, $38,000; Tendler and Kid Berg twice in '31, defeating him many fighters, Leonard let his great ring; Friedman, $36,000. The old Garden was over 15 rounds and knocking him cold earnings slip through his idle fingers and a packed edifice on every Friday eve- in the second meeting in three heats. tried a comeback in 1931. He met nine- ning. Each lightweight had his following, Kid Chocolate, the colored Cuban won- teen opponents in about a year and a and the fighters showed their apprecia- der, also tried his best for 15 rounds, but half, and then thought he was chipper tion by putting up some of the greatest had to bow to the tough Italian boy. enough to tackle the hard hitting Jimmy affairs ever staged. A good showing Billy Petrolle, the old Fargo Express, McLarnin. He still had his earthquake meant a return bout and the boys failed in a 15-round attempt and in '33 punch, but was stopped in the seventh punched for keeps. Tony again gave Chocolate his second round. He nearly knocked the West When Leonard fought the tough, chance and stopped him in two rounds. Coast Irishman's head off in the first aggressive Rocky Kansas they drew In 1933 Canzoneri lost the crown to stanza with one of his famous straight $115,000, which was only $2,000 less rights, but game Jimmy went on to win than the Harry Greb-Tommy Gibbons the tough fight. It was youth, speed and gate which topped all the cards in the heart against science, age and a crushing Garden that year. Even the Bobby Bar- wallop. Young legs won that one. ret-Lew Tendler match in Philadelphia Leonard's close call with Ritchie drew $46,500, the Quaker City also be- Mitchell took place in the old Madison ing fond of the lightweights. Square Garden in 1921. Leonard had In 1925 an elimination tournament put Mitchell down three times in the was held to choose a head-man for the first round for the count of nine. Rising lightweights: after much nose bashing in a weakened condition. Ritchie shot little Jimmy Goodrich was acclaimed out a right and caught Benny flush on champ. That same year, after fourteen the chin and floored him. years of campaigning. Rocky Kansas de- Leonard got up. used all the science feated Goodrich and wore the crown he for which he was noted, and weathered had so many times tried to wrest from the round. In the sixth round of that Leonard. Kansas was built like granite, memorable fight he put Mitchell down punches just seemed to bounce off of twice for the count of nine and when his squat frame, and he made trouble he arose after the second descent, the for the best. He whipped Ritchie referee stopped the fight to save Mitchell, , Charlie White, Mitchell from further punishment. Willie Jackson and Luis Vincentini, the His two battles with Lew Tendler, the Chilean, who had once knocked out

Philadelphia southpaw were the greatest Rocky in 1 1 rounds. Like Leonard, he of Leonard's whole career, outside of his was kayoed but twice in his long career. "Census Bureau? This is Oscar first fight with Ever Hammer in 1916, Benny was one of the miscreants. Rocky Scruggs add two boys and a when Leonard took lumps in Kansas had broken his arm on Benny's head in — girl!" City for nine rounds and stopped the an early round and just had to give up. fiery Swede in the twelfth with a shot as one wing was not enough with which under the heart. to fend off the clever Leonard. in Chicago in 10 rounds. When Tendler and Leonard first met Kansas dropped the title to Sammy In 1934 Ross renounced the title to at Jersey City, Benny was lucky to win Mandell in 1926 over the ten-round move up into the welterweight class be- from the hard hitting ex-paper boy from route in Chicago, Mandell's home cause of the lack of business and also Philadelphia. In the eighth round he hit grounds. Handsome Sammy ruled for because making the 135-pound limit was Leonard with lefts to the body that had four years, most of his fights being over becoming a major problem for him. Lou the champ in acute distress. Benny had weight affairs and not for the title. Then, Ambers then claimed the title and had to do some fancy bluffing and really as the boys say, he offered it to the to settle affairs with Canzoneri. Tony talked Tendler out of a victory. For one highest bidder, who was Al Singer and beat his old sparring partner for the year Leonard studied the style of port- his combine from New York. Mandell title. Seventeen thousand fans paid siders and when he met Tendler the had a hard task to make the weight and $49,915 to see Tony give his former second time he was the master for the was nothing but a pale shell when he pupil a boxing lesson and become the full fifteen rounds. In the 13th he faced the chunky East Side boy. Singer first boxer ever to regain the lightweight floored Tendler, who was a very tired opened the fray with a left hook that title. challenger when the final bell rang. For put Sammy in a fog, and knocked him In 1936 Canzoneri defeated Al Roth their first fight at Jersey City they drew colder than a frozen mackerel in one and then things slowed up in the class. 60.000 people and a gate of $367,862. minute and 46 seconds of the first round. Challengers became scarce, but Lou Am- At their second meeting it was 58,000 Thirty-five thousand persons paid bers kept himself busy around the coun- people and a gate of $452,648, at the $160,000 to see the title transplanted try and wanted and demanded a chance —gates that look good from Rockford, Illinois, to Broadway. again. The boxing fathers of New York even when compared with those top Singer did not rule for long. That very State, who do some very strange things flight heavyweights have attracted. year he was knocked silly in one minute at times, decreed that another elimina- To give some idea how the light- and six seconds by in tion tournament should be held, the weights drew in 1922 following are some Madison Square Garden. Tony had winner to meet Canzoneri. of the healthy gates at Madison Square moved up from champ of the feather- The National Boxing Association

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thought Wesley Ramey, a nice lad from on to win the welterweight skimmer as fight nights. In the rusty brown coli- Everett, Michigan, deserved a title fight well. Ambers then gave Henry a good seum, crowned by the tower in which with Tony and to make things more en- going-over and won back the crown and Stanford White was shot by Harry Thaw tangled the New York nabobs then was sitting rather pretty until he was and atop which stood golden Diana, a ordered Tony to meet Ambers on a hit by the ex-cavalryman Jenkins. Arm- red plush curtain shut off the arena from pleasant August evening. Canzoneri strong is a remarkable fighting machine, the lobby. Behind that curtain for thou- begged off and the bout was postponed perhaps one of the best that ever pulled sands lay almost incredible excitement. until September. They finally met and on a glove. His great attacking power Today in the hundreds of boxing Ambers at last won the title. has worn down many an opponent, but clubs, ball parks and outdoor arenas Then along came Henry Armstrong, his face has suffered considerably, for huddled men lean forward in their seats, a colored boy from St. Louis who in his he offers almost no defense. In his sec- their eyes fixed on the ring to watch drifting had found out that he could ond fight with Ambers the flailing Lou men swing, duck and counter punch.

fight, out on the California coast. Henry opened up a lot of old scars and a face- Boxing should never die, for it is a

was then almost starving, but after much lifting surgeon had quite a task patching man's sport, but right now it could re- campaigning wound up the king of the up the gallant colored boy. echo the cry of the indignant chap in featherweights. He tackled Ambers and There was always tremendous excite- the old Pioneer club: "Give us the won the lightweight title and then went ment in old Madison Square Garden on lightweights . . . that's all boxing needs."

"Now look here, Al," I began, "don't—" He stood up. "We got a chance to win five hundred bucks in a week," he said. "To do it we got to eat—and eat good." He went out. I couldn't stop him. He was grown. He'd have to learn. I won-

(Continued from page n) clear to let the kid go in the ride with dered if he ever would. you? Couldn't I? I know —all the roads me. I'd watch her close. Right awful He wasn't back by ten next morning, and I could help and—and " I looked close." He puffed his pipe. It wasn't no by eleven, and I was working on the at the kid. Back country, not much fun. new thought to him, I could see that. ponies when at last he did come in. I "Sure you can. Angie," I said. "How "I know you would," he said, "but caught his face. I'd seen Al mad before, about tomorrow?'' The sun of that smile she's too small." but not like this. His face was red and came up and glowed on freckles that "No," she ain't," I said. "She's tough tight, his jaws caught up, his eyes just danced on dusty tan. as tape. Besides, it's mostly walk and little slits. He put a package on the sill "Really? Tomorrow?" trot and if she tires there's cars follow- and went to work. I didn't speak to him "Sure," I said, "where'll we meet ing, and houses nearby, and anyhow, I'll till noon, then, "Goin' to eat?" I said. you?" take care of her, Joe. I promise you." He looked at me and laughed—hard. "At the church down there," she And for a long time he just sat there. "Sure," he said. He took down the pointed. "Ten o'clock?" "She'd like it, Joe," I eased in very package. "Eat this," he said. "It'll be all

"Ten o'clock it is, pardner," I told soft, and after a while he got up. "I we get." There was bread and canned her, and the little chestnut looped off reckon you'd take care of her," he said. meat in it. We sat down under a tree. down the road, tail high. "She don't get much fun. She could stay "Well," I said, "what happened? Spill "What's the idea?" Al said, glowering. at her aunt's, there to Hewburne," and it." "I don't—" that was it. He just chewed hard, in gulps, for a "Shut up." I said watching the kid, a Angie. when we told her? Just one minute. Then he turned. "Look," he said. speck now. Al shut up. great gasp, "Oh can I! Really!" The "Don't ever be a sap. I been a sap." I She rode with us 'most every one of world all rolled-up and handed to her. I waited. "I won two hundred bucks last the days that followed. Long rides, too, fumbled at the girths, saddling up. night," he said, "from a bunch of coun- but they didn't seem to tire her. She was "Come on," Al said, "what's into you?" try clucks down at the garage. This wire all through, and the little horse But he wasn't bad about it. A little morning I—I told that—I told Julie. I shucks, you couldn't even warm him un- grumbling, "She'll slow you—down—her thought she was smart, wise." der the saddle pad. And it came so's we horse'll lag—she'll get tired " but not "And," I said easy, "she made you dropped in right often at her place, The too set against it, somehow, and I said, give it back." He turned on me quick. Maples, staying to eat sometimes while "No, she won't, Al. You'll see." I might "She didn't make me give it back," he the ponies lazed. I got along good with be wrong, but this was mine, the most bit. "Nobody makes me do anything. Joe Tremaine, her father. Maybe that important thing I'd ever had, it seemed But, well, she said there was people here had a thing to do with what happened. almost, and Al wasn't stopping me. would like to know about those kind of "You ain't real cowboys, are you?" he He was busy, anyhow, these nights, out dice. I should have seen better. They

said when she was out of the room, and with Julie, and it seemed to make him stick together, these hill billies. Said she I said, "No, but don't tell her, will you?" quieter. No- softer. Nothing got behind knew these kids—knew their families He nodded. He understood. You don't those eyes of his; they had that stare they needed the dough—all that hash." break what you haven't got much of. that said, "Al for Al, and you watch you I got up. "This ain't bad bread and

"I wish," said Angie one evening, with and I'll watch both of us," but he was meat, Al," I said. "We'll get along." the big show getting close, "that I could pleasanter, some, to have around. And He gave a nod, hard, wise and set.

go in the Endurance Ride with Lin. then it came up three days from the ride. "You bet we'll get along," he said, "and And," adding quick, "and Al. Could I?" "We got two dollars," he said. "That there'll be no more of this foolishness Her father lit his pipe. "No. Angie," ain't enough." either—no more of these dumb country

he said, very quiet. She didn't tease. But "Sure it is, Al," I said. "We can get girls. We got some dough to win and I sat back there in the shadows and a by if—" there'll be no kids ridin' with us either. idea come to me. One, I guess, that had "No, we can't," he said, "but don't Get it?" been on the way for days. After a while worry. I just thought I'd tell you. So's I looked at him. "Angie's going to ride I caught Joe's eye. We went out. you'd know." He went over to the suit- along with us, Al," I said. "That won't "Look, Joe," I said, "I ain't buttin' in, case and there was the click of ivory -as hurt anything." but, well, if you was to see your way the dice flashed in his hand. (Continued on page 42)

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Then on, walk a while, trot a spell, maybe a step or two of canter, and there we were at last, in for the first day, seven hours and eight minutes, perfect time, and Angie bouncing around to rub the Trigger down with hay. She wasn't tired, just a shade (Continued from page 41) right, and maybe I was. I didn't know. around the eyes, but I got her home He might have hit me, he was that Angie came in that afternoon, late. and this time those round eyes were mad. "Not a chance," he said. Angie and Trigger. And the crowd around closed before they hit the pillow.

"She's going to ride along with me," I the barns, the grooms, the riders and the We weren't in bad, to tell the truth. said. For a minute I didn't know. Then rest, just took her in and made her Our horses hadn't lost much weight he gave one nod. queen. She sat there one wide beam, with they didn't pick up on water, and there "O.K.," he said. "One horse is yours. a tooth gone on one side and the same wasn't a scratch or puff on either of So's this." He gave me sixty cents. overalls, washed faded clean, and the 'em. Not bad, I thought. Beyond that I "We're through." He went on into the two tight little braids straight out like wasn't thinking, not on that first day. barn. tails. One hand she kept in mine, the Two more to come. And I just stayed there thinking. I other in Joe's, and when he saw how But that next morning there were only wasn't mad. I could get along alone all they were treating her he eased up a lot. forty horses out, the rest disqualified or right. Somehow. But there was some- "Guess it'll be all right," he said lame or the riders not serious enough thing in behind the way Al acted, some- finally. "You take care of her now, Lin. to take another beating. "Sure you want thing more. Maybe I'd find out. She's in your hands. I don't know many to go again?" I said to Angie, there in others I'd leave her with." and we went the cool morning, and she said "Of T T WAS the day before the ride that I up to her Aunt Clarice's house on the course!" disgusted, and that day was JL saw Julie. Everything was a rush, outskirts, and Joe went home to milk tougher. with horses coming in to the big barn, thirty cows by hand. The Trigger didn't dance so much more than sixty of 'em now. and I was "You go to bed right off now. Angie," that day. He settled down to work and walking out through the village as she I said after a meal that didn't do me any so did Jake, my buck, and at lunch came along the path. She saw me and harm, but she wouldn't let me leave till there were only twenty-nine and Al was her face went a little set, half turning she was kicking her toes under the one of those. He didn't look at us away, but I said, "Hello, Julie," making blankets. "Good night, Linny." she said. at all. it special friendly, stopping before her. "Tomorrow's the day, isn't it?" and to- "What's the matter with him?" Angie "I'm sorry, Julie," I said, "about what morrow was the day. said, puzzled. "He hasn't said 'hello' to here the happened other night," and she The start was set for six. By five- me, not once." And I said, "Oh, this is said, all right. It "Oh, that's wasn't your thirty all the weighing-in was done, important to him, Angie. He—he's kind fault," and I suppose it could have ended horses with and without riders to check of worried," but the furrow stayed there. But there was some look in her for weight loss. One hundred and sixty there in her brow. eye that made me say, "Come on over pounds, dead weight or live, was the here a minute, Julie. I want to talk to minimum for each horse to carry, and "T OOK," I said, watching her, "don't you." We sat down on a bench. that meant sixty pounds or more of lead -I—' you think you've had enough, "Al's not a bad guy, Julie," I said. in little bags on Trigger's saddle. "He'll Angie? You could ride back in a car," "It's just, well, that he's had to bang never notice it." I said, and Angie's eyes and she went tense and tight all over. around on his own ever since he was a were out on stems, and they called us. "No!" she said, putting everything into kid, and, well, it's made him sort of hard, "The trail is plainly marked with ar- that whisper, and I let it go, then. I I guess, looking after himself. It's just on wasn't sure. She didn't act done in, but —" rows," they said. "Fifty miles, ending top. Underneath he back here. Do it in no less than seven could I tell? Maybe I'd bit off more "No," she said, and she was just a kid hours, no more than seven-and-a-half. than I'd thought. Maybe—and then the herself, really, with a pinched face and Stay on your horse except for fifteen fifteen minutes were up, and we were her eyes hurt. "I thought it was just minutes at lunch. No liniments, no medi- up again, too, and down the road. something that he put on, too. But even cines. Clean off with plain cold water. Flod, plod, plod, it gets into your when back, after returned he came— he'd No one allowed in the barns after feed- brain, and you're trying to save your the money, he ing till four next morning. You've read horse, and your back is full of jars and "So he did come back," I said, very the details," and the first group was off your legs hang heavy and your horse's soft. That told me a lot. down the road. head is down and ten more miles, and "Yes," she said, "he came back. But there's the big Inn barn. just to argue with me that I'd have to AXGIE and I were towards the end. She did her work around her horse, I get smart about those things. That you . We didn't see Al; he was up ahead couldn't keep her from that, but there had to take it where you could get it." somewhere. Clear and with enough chill, wasn't any talk, any bubble, and back

She stopped there, and she wasn't look- the air was, and it was fun, just fun with at her Aunt Clarice's, tucked into bed, ing at me. She wasn't looking at any- the kid there beside me. I forgot any she just lay there. Then I told her. thing I could see—just out across the worries. This was my time. What might "Look, Angie," I said, from the mat- little park like there was images there. happen later, let it. And so over those tress edge, "why don't you stay right We'd talked a lot of plans," she said, hills, down into the valleys, with the dirt here tomorrow, and I'll go out and see very slow, "but, but I couldn't take a soft underfoot and the Trigger dancing if I can bring in the bacon? All right?" chance like that, Linny. I wouldn't along, shaking his head. And she just opened her eyes and said dare." "He feels fine, Linny," Angie said, what she'd been thinking all that day, And that was that and I couldn't think and even Jake, my horse, was perky I guess, what I'd been thinking too, of a thing to say, only, "I'm sorry, with him. Past the judges now and doggone it. Julie," and after a while she got up. "I then, watching us from some byway, "But Linny, I might win the prize. hope you have good luck tomorrow, taking notes, with a smile and a wave All those pennies. Cartloads of pennies, Lin," she said, and she went away and always for the kid, and then a stop for Linny, to take home," and what could left me sitting there on the bench in lunch. "You aren't tired?" I said, and I say? that little park. And maybe she was she just laughed at me. Because she might. That pony Trigger

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4.1 was in shape and going tine. I'd looked the horses over. Mine was good, and * Miliums ®i? Mantra * three or four others, but she was in it. And so was Al. The three of us against IVorfd's Largest 7e/escope each other, really. I couldn't somehow MOUNT PALOMAR, CALIFORNIA tell her no.

"You wait till morning, Angie," I said. "Wait and see then." Maybe she wouldn't wake up. ''You let her sleep, if she will," I said to her aunt, and went on back to the barns and listened to the gossip. That can tell you quite a bit. And I hadn't been far wrong. Others had seen. Some kids are natural with horses and some horses are natural to the hill country. And they fitted that picture, those two. I couldn't sleep. What ought I to do?

The morning answered it. She was there. Heck, I don't know. Sixty people had started this grind, most of them grownups. And now there were sixteen and she was one of them, those eyes a little bigger, her face drawn a shade, but "Good morning, Trigger," and a hand over his legs, for puffs, like an old timer, and her saddle blanket folded careful and smooth. What could I do? "But I feel fine, Lin, I do," and we were out and now she rated even more. Because I had had wind puffs on my horse's leg, and others had the same, and there were a few bad backs. I caught them, and there was Al. Al had one spot, a saddle gall up by the pommel side, not much, and there was a pad part over it, but I could see. It would mark him down, because those .^JSae'.-sW* „ ._. .. AT THE CONTROL- BOARD — TUBE ASTRONOMER GUIDES things all counted on the score, but it WHERE NERVE-CENTER OF THE TELESCOPE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE would be close. It would be awful close. Then we were off. IN RECENT LABORATORY It got hot. You'll get a day like that, BOWL" TESTS, when the September sun comes back, "SMOKING once in a while, to kid you, and by ten PRINCE ALBERT BURNED the heat was burning, shimmering, and the dust came up heavy, stifling, and I watched Angie close. DEGREES The horses were strung out that day, no one in sight behind us or before, COOLER and then we went into a narrow path 86 that ran for miles by deserted farms, THAN THE AVERAGE OF rocky, overgrown, and I was ahead to watch the trail. She wasn't talking any, THE 30 OTHER OF THE Angie wasn't, and every once in a while LARGEST-SELLING BRANDS I'd turn 'round for a look at her and sometimes she'd manage a smile and BUCKET LIFT TO BOTTOM OF GREAT TUBS TESTED- COOLEST OFALL! sometimes it just couldn't break. YOU BET, And I thought, you shouldn't have IT DOBSNT TAKE A TELESCOPE TO SEE JUDGE! AND'HOWI done this, you shouldn't, and then, away i® HOW MUCH EASIER, EASy AND FAST PIPEFULS back where the fields were barren gray PRINCE ALBERT P.A . ROLLS UP, TOO, OF FRAGRANT and the cows rose wheeling lazily, I PACKS AND DRAWS INTO NEATER, TOBACCO IN somehow, all at once, missed the plip -AND GIVE ME ROUNDER EVERY HANDY POCKET TIN OF plop of the Trigger's feet, and, pulling THAT NO-SITE 'MAKIN'S' PRINCE up, saw. PROCESS FOR REAL, SMOKES! I MILDNESS! ALBERT He was standing there, that pony, and she was sliding off, just slowly, and her face was very white in the bright sun. I'll remember that look always, the if freckles standing out so brown, and the dull, glazy look to her eyes. "Angie!" I TfaNCE THE NATIONAL said, and I was off and beside her and JOY SMOKE she was limp in my arms. {Continued on ALBERT page 44)

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"All right." I said, stiff, standing back. He hesitated. Then, "Give her this," he said, handing me a paper. "Hey, wait," I said. It was a check. Five hundred dollars. Made out to Al. Endorsed by him on back, "Pay to Angie Tremaine," and underneath "Cart- {Continued from page 43) his motto, "All for Al." This was his loads of Pennies," in Al's scrawly hand. I couldn't think. No cars could follow chance to win. I got her back, and then I caught the car as it half stalled on us in here, no riders were in sight, and I went to see Joe. the hill. It never would do good on there she was. I almost prayed, right He wasn't mad at me, Joe wasn't, hills, that car. "What's the idea, Al?" then, up to the sun. And then, around and we stood there side by side, watch- I said. I wanted to make him say some the bend, a horse came on. It was Al. ing that smile that barely broke around things. He stopped beside me, not dismounting. her lips. "I'm sorry, Linny," she said, "What do you mean," he said, very

"She's fainted," I said, and there was "there won't be any pennies now. no gruff. "The kid would have won it. She a queer look, indecision, misery almost, loads of pennies," and then, "now don't was out in front. She can use it. Be- on his face. He moved one leg to get you go away, either of you, while I sides," and there was a sheepish grin down. Then he put it back. sleep some more." And we didn't go on his face, a funny sheepish grin I'd

"Give her this," he said, handing me away. Not till her fingers went loose on never seen before, "besides, cowboys a water bottle, and I got some into her ours, and her breath was steady and do good." The kid had said that, on mouth. "Pour it on her face, and back strong. Then we went out. that first day. He'd remembered. of her neck," he said, and, slowly, her "Forget it," Joe said. "I was dumb. But I didn't answer it. He wouldn't eyes opened, fluttery, and all the weights It's all right now, anyway," and, late in have wanted me to. "What are you of the world eased up a little on my the evening, we took her home. going to do now, Al?" I said finally. shoulders. "I've got to get along," I said finally. "Who, me?" he said, too careless. "I "Here, help me get her on my horse," Just where I wasn't sure, but getting dunno. I'll find something." He swung I said, but he just sat there watching on. And, sitting back there, Joe Tre- down towards the big barn as we came her. "Come on," I said, and then he maine said slowly, "Why?" Just that, into Hevvburne. There were lights bright shook his head. but something in his voice. And I said, in a lunchroom down the street. "No," he said, "she'll be all right. I've "Well, I can't stay here forever— "Hey, let me out," I said, "I'll see seen 'em that way before. I'm going on." "Why not?" he said, puff -puffing on you later." He let me out. I couldn't believe him. "You're not his pipe. "I could use a partner. Perma- And I was right, too. The last I saw leaving us in here," I said, and he nent. We could make this place hum, of her she couldn't walk quite fast nodded. "You can get her in," he said, the two of us. And, "with a smile there enough down towards Al's car. She had "you don't need me. I wouldn't do no in his eyes," and the kid 'ud like it." to skip most every step. A swell kid, good," and he was moving down the I looked at him. "A liftin' partner, Julie. Swell. I went and sat in the little path. eh," I said, and he grinned, nodding. A park. I wasn't worrying about Al. He'd I called him plenty things, but he just car came up outside. It was Al. found something. He'd get along. They went along through the hill folds. Al and "How's the kid?" he said. would. I felt good.

{Continued jrom page 13) journalist who labeled him the only truly Homeric figure in the modern world to the American lecturer who called him Japan's patriotic super-gangster. His nucleus for his terror society. Incidental- spot. There was no evidence against Toy- career, true enough, has been too fantas- ly, today 60,000 men in Japan, most of ama. But, as an aftermath, when Toyama tic for even Sunday supplement fiction. them in high positions, owe personal went to visit the Minister. Okuma He was born the year Commodore gratitude to Toyama. frowned and inquired bitterly: Perry opened Japan to the world. He was At the turn of the century, the first "Have you come to bring back my educated in his home town of Fukuoka man to feel the lash of the Dragon was leg?" by Miss Ran Takaba, an amazon who Foreign Minister Shigenobu Okuma. who "Now. sir," replied Toyama, "any high wore men's clothes, two medieval swords, had founded Waseda University, forced official should be gratified to donate a and struck anyone who addressed her as a German constitution on the people and mere leg for the emperor and the em- a woman. He became a student of Con- was the nation's greatest statesman. pire!" fucius and an admirer of Napoleon. At Earlier, Okuma had borrowed money With a mixture of similar terror and an early age he was apprenticed to a from England to build Japan's initial audacity, Toyama and the Black Dragon merchant to sell "geta" or wooden clogs, railroad. Toyama branded him a traitor. were responsible for plunging Japan into but was fired when, out of pity for the Minister Okuma offered Toyama a bribe the successful war against Russia. In poor, he virtually gave the shoes away of a quarter of a million yen (almost July of 1903 the Czar's agents were at five sen (about two and a half cents) $500,000 ) to leave Japan forever, to marching into Korea, and Imperial Rus- a pair. which Toyama replied, "I'll take the sia was fortifying that part of Manchuria In 1894, the outside world first heard money—but not the boat!" that is now Harbin. Prince Hirobumi Ito, of the Black Dragon, and of Toyama. In Finally, Okuma secretly negotiated adviser to the Emperor, favored appease- that year, Toyama demanded of his gov- with foreign governments, giving them ment and a deal with Russia. Members ernment that it stop handing out con- the right to appoint jurists to Japanese of the Black Dragon were in favor of cessions to foreign countries, stop having courts. The London Times carried the killing Prince Ito. But Toyama favored an international inferiority complex, and story. Toyama's operatives cabled the more subtle methods. Accompanied by more concretely, fight China for Korea full acount to him. Immediately, Toyama four of his husky followers, he visited before Russia did. Japan won a quick sent a Black Dragon disciple to dispose Prince Ito one afternoon. The following and easy victory that time. of Okuma. A bomb was thrown at morning Ito came out in favor of the In the years before, Toyama had sup- Okuma's carriage, ripping off one of his war. ported and taught poor students and legs. He barely escaped bleeding to death. On another occasion, Toyama went to patriots, who eventually became the The assassin committed hari-kari on the call on Prince Matsukata, who, like the

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45 present Premier Konoye, came from one I had heard many fascinating and called Miyanoshita—and there, in a gray of the five families of the empire. Serv- weird things about the old pirate— that wooden summer villa, with yellow matted ants informed the old man that the once, when a dog bit him, he spoke to it floors and bare rooms, I saw Mitsuru prince could see no one, as he was setting gently and bought it sweets; that an- Toyama. I took off my shoes, bowed, and off on a journey. "Servants," instructed other time, competing in endurance with sat Budda-like on a white pillow beside Toyama, "go back and ask your master a Zen priest, he sat five days and five him. He stared at me unsmiling, blue if he feels sure he will ever reach his eyes grotesque through thick, black- destination.*' The journey was promptly rimmed glasses. A woman disciple served postponed. Toyama was received. saki, tea and watermelon. Thus, always employing the same There was a temporary difficulty. My tactics, Toyama and the Black Dragon interpeter, a young curio shop clerk, have kept pace with a growing Japan, became paralyzed in the great man's from the days of the Samurai to these presence. The interpeter perspired. His modern days of streamlined and mech- upper lip trembled. His throat cords con- anized force. Today, as in the past, the stricted. Black Dragon possesses millions of mem- Finally, the interview began. Toyama bers sworn to die for—as Toyama told spoke slowly, huskily, punctuating his me—"the emperor, the nation and na- sentences with a feline purr. He spoke tionalism." of Japan and the United States, slapping

At present the Black Dragon is com- his left hand (which was minus a middle posed, as John Gunther put it. of "hooli- finger) on the tea table. Obviously, he gans, army officers, chauvinistic politi- spoke also for the Imperial Palace. cians, avowed terrorists, quite respectable "Japan and the United States." he ." cabinet ministers, and secret agents . . "Mrs. Hamlin, can Junior come began, "must remain at peace to better The Black Dragon, and its five affiliated out and play?" survive. That is true of the nations in organizations, exists and works on funds Europe, too, which must give up im- grafted from army and navy budgets, on perialism and land-grabbing and decide funds blackmailed from rich business nights without sleeping, eating, moving to live in harmony. The main issue is men, and on funds donated by fascist- or speaking; that he never heated his this: the United States must busy itself minded millionaires. house in winter nor locked its doors at with its Monroe Doctrine, patrol its However, as to the aims of the Black night; that he often took robes from his Americas, keep peace and happiness Dragon today only one man holds the body and gave them to the poor to pawn among its own peoples. The United answer. Toyama. And so I attempted a that he never killed mosquitoes or other States must stay out of the Far East. futile thing. To see him. And I accom- insects. The United States must decide to leave plished an unprecedented thing. I saw I traveled three hours out of Tokyo, the Orient exclusively for Orientals. If him. into the hills near Fuji, to a village (Continued on page 46)

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(Continued from page 45) Japan and China would eventually unite on—men like ex-Premier Koki Hirota. the United States can do that, can let us against the United States, Great Britain Our ideal is still the same: to obey the fulfill our divine mission without unfair and Russia. Emperor; to work for the Emperor; to interference, she will find us her best Incidentally, on the subject of Great establish the nation's policy, and to free neighbor!" Britain, Toyama did not mince words. the Orient. Of course, I am no longer According to Toyama, Japan's divine "It is true that Japan and England active in the Kokuryukai's work." mission embraces a larger slice of China, used to be good friends. Yes. But Eng- Later, after the interview, I asked an countless strategic islands in the Pacific land has begun to practise, more than educated Japanese about Toyama's re- and a freeing of all the Far East from ever before, injustice. I know the stand- mark that he was no longer active in the foreign colonies, possessions, invest- ards of morality the English people claim Black Dragon. He laughed heartily. ments. for themselves—and the morality they "The old fox! Not active! That's good! practise in India, in China and in all Why he's more active than the Premier HE DID not think the conflict with Asia. This contradiction is hypocritical himself!"' China would last much longer. and contemptible. And from the way "Japan and China are fundamentally things appear to me, Japan and England VD so, with Toyama and his millions friends, and will soon be friends again. can no longer be friends!" A. of followers back in circulation—the Anyone here will tell you that we are He mentioned Germany, which, even greatest and most violent pressure group only trying to free the Orient from de- before the German-Italian-Japanese pact, in the world—it is obvious that Japan, basing influences—only trying to make had a representative in Tokyo working despite internal economic handicaps, is the entire yellow race united, peaceful, with the Japanese government to intro- marching swiftly on its divine way. And cheerful and healthy." duce Nazi-styled thought-control. all those in its path must bow aside. For, Oddly, he spoke of Japan's great "We shall remain friends with Ger- to Mitsuru Toyama, to his superior and enemy, Chiang Kai-shek, as a brother. many if Adolf Hitler is not concerned friend. Emperor Hirohito, to his disciple,

Chiang, I learned, had once studied at with the Far East. I feel Hitler's great- Premier Konoye, the future is quite clear. Japan's Imperial War College, had later ness will depend, not upon his military England must get out of the Far East, studied under Toyama and been be- victories, but on the justice he permits out of Shanghai. Hongkong, Singapore. friended by him. In fact, the two had to prevail after he is victorious. At The United States must get out, and for- been so close that observers say Chiang present, he must use his head. He is get about its islands—even the Philip- deliberately avoided giving aid to Man- now at his highest position, from where pines—which Toyama has said "must be churia and did not assist the heroic Chi- it is easiest to become dizzy and liberated from their oppressors!" nese Nineteenth Route Army in Shanghai tumble." Most fearful was Mitsuru Toyama's because of his personal friendship for parting shot as I got up to go. He flung Toyama. TOYAMA was in the middle of his it at my back. "At present," said Toyama. "Chiang watermelon when I asked him. can- "The world must remember that Japan Kai-shek is on the wrong road because didly, about his Black Dragon society. need no longer be afraid of bigger or he has been misled by the communists He swallowed his slice of melon with a richer countries. Japan is strong! Japan !" from Russia. But I have not lost faith in throaty gulp, and glanced at me curious- is prepared my pupil, and I know one day soon he ly- And incidentally, if others in Japan do will realize that our battle is not against "Yes, the Kokuryukai, the blood- not possess the same bravado and are not each other, but rather, together, against brotherhood, still exists. It is more sufficiently convinced—Toyama can sup- outside forces." powerful than ever before. I was its ply the convincer—with the Black The implication being, apparently, that pioneer. Today, my pupils are carrying Dragon!

A Member: That's it. Let the Aux- TRY THIS oh yout PIANO iliary select the kid to get the piano. They know more about it than we fel- lows do. (Continued from page 15) musical talent and—you see. if it is to Commander: If there is no objection, appoint a committee to see that the be of real service—I personally don't we will leave the selection of the re- piano is moved from our old quarters. know anything about music, Mr. Com- cipient of the piano up to our Auxiliary If there is no further business to come mander, and I don't believe—this isn't Unit. before this intended as any reflection upon—ah Publicity Officer: And I'll see that Comrade Jenkins: Ah—Mr. Com- the members of this Post, but so far that gets in the papers, too. mander, I —that is, I mean this is really as I know—what I mean to say is—ah Commander: I will entertain a mo- a fine thing we're doing— I don't want when it comes to a question of musical tion to adjourn. anybody to think matters (The dii i ling adjourns. But the A Member: Nobody will; don't Smith: Comrade, what you're gittin' members have now lost their leth- worry. at in plain language is that there ain't argy and remain to discuss this new Commander: Order! no Paderooskies in this here bunch of and fascinating proposition ; all ex- Jenkins: I mean—cr—the members antiquated dough-boys an' gobs—ain't cept the Publicity Officer, who, should not get the impression I am that it? —which I think you have got eyes aflame, dashes for the offices the against it, because I'm not—but—er somethin', if it is. of the local newspapers to see er night editors.) as I see it — I mean it seems to me—ah Jenkins: Yes, that's about— —if we are going to give this piano to you've grasped my general idea. I—ah we ought to—er—that is, we should —that is TIME: The following day. select some child of a veteran who— Comrade Buzby: What do we have The Publicity Officer has done mean he or she ought to have some an Auxiliary for, anyhow? his stuff. The story is front page in

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the day's newspapers. And it con- tains a statement that all applica- tions for the piano slioitld be sent to the President of the Auxiliary Unit.)

TIME: One o'clock the next morn- ing. PIPE (TELEPHONE CONVERSATION.) PRIVATE KELLY'S WAS SMELLY Auxiliary President: Is that you. — but he's out of the dog house 12011/ Mr. Commander? Commander: Yeh. Aw-ww-aw! Ex- cuse me; your call got me out of bed. Aux. Pres.: Well, I haven't been able to go to bed. I've had 'phone calls and telegrams all evening about some piano

the Legion is giving away, or something,

and I don't know anything about it, and I'm just about crazy. The papers said they were to send their applications to vie, and I don't know anything about

it. I never saw such a thing in my life.

If it keeps up I don't know what I'm going to do. Really I "THE OLD WALRUS sure told me Commander: Just a minute, Madame "NO B LAN KETY-B LANK rookie off!" gloomed Kelly. "Wonder what President. whosmokessuchblankety-blankety- blank tobacco can ever marry my dollar-a-pound mixture Ac smokes? {He explains what has taken place.) daughter! Phew! Get out and stay Fat chance I could afford such like Aux. Pres.: Well, of all things! That pay / get around here." out, before I lose my temper!" on the slim is a fine way to do, if you ask me. You haven't even taken it up with our Unit to find out whether we would do it or could do it; you didn't even let me know what was going on. Honestly, of all the— Commander: Now, please, Madame President, this is a great idea, don't you see? It's a wonderful opportunity for the Unit to

Aux. Pres.: Well, if it's such a great idea and wonderful opportunity for the

Unit, why did you keep it a secret? Commander: It isn't a secret. The papers "LOVE HIM, DO YOU?" growled KELLY GOT DECORATED for fra- Aux. Pres.: I should say it isn't a fire! You can, too! the Colonel. "Tell him the Army's grance under secret to anyone but us. The papers in your pipe and — favorite pipe tobacco is Sir Walter You puff Sir Walter it. agrees it's the brand of are full of everybody knows about Raleigh. Men ought to be ordered to every nose full ounces, it. Millions of people are calling me up smoke this mild blend of hurleys!" grand aroma! Two 15f5. about it—and / haven't even heard of it. Commander: I'm very sorry, Madame Cellophane tape President. I suppose we should have let around lid seals you know, but flavor in, brings Aux. Pres.: Should have let me you tobacco 100% know? Well, since my name is being factory- fresh bandied about in the newspapers like Commander: Now, please; everything is going to be all right. I have to go to St. Louis on business later this morning and I'll be gone a few days, but the Vice Commander will be in touch with you and he'll

Aux. Pres.: Well, all I can say is, I'm going to try to get some rest. Good- night.

SCENE: Home of the Auxiliary President. TIME: Later the same day. {The telephone has rung contin- ually. It is flow late afternoon, and since noon the ringing has been 7Ww.~ UNCLE WALTER'S DOG HOUSE with persistent futility, because the EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT * NBC * PRIZES FOR YOUR "DOG HOUSE" EXPERIENCE {Continued on page 48)

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morrow night to receive the committee's TRY THIS ch y*ut PIANO report. SCENE: Post rooms. TIME: Eight o'clock the next eve- {Continued from page 47) to git another second-hand pie-anna. ning. President has fled from her home Come across, you so-and-so's. OCCASION: Adjourned emergency in despair. Returning at dinner (Residt: $25.00) meeting of the Post Executive Com- time, she finds her mail box jammed Commander: Thanks, boys. Immedi- mittee. wit// letters, telegrams stuffed under ate action is necessary. I will appoint Commander: I am ready to receive the door and the telephone still a committee to procure another second- the report of the committee to purchase ringing. In desperation she instructs hand piano. The trouble is I don't know a piano.

the Unit Secretary to call an emer- just who ought to be on that Committee. ( Telephone r'mgs. Adjutant an- gency meeting of the Auxiliary / don't know anything about pianos, swers it.) Unit, and then goes to bed with a and I don't know that any of you birds Adjutant: It's for you, Commander. nervous headache and a renewed know anything about them, either. Commander: (on telephone) Oh, yes, determination that she did not raise Smith: It's a headache, Commander, Madame President.*** What?*** Yes, her boy to be a Son of The Amer- that's true, we did appoint a committee ican Legion.) to get another piano. The committee's here —and about— to make its report*** TELEGRAM Well ***But ***Yes, but—***I real- COMMANDER, BLANK POST, ize that you have many members of the AMERICAN LEGION Auxiliary who know much more about —*** c/o SWANKY HOTEL, SAINT music and pianos than we do, but LOUIS, MO. Yes***Yes***Well, we didn't —***I CRISIS IN PIANO SITUATION realize—***I realize—***Yes, I prob- STOP COMMITTEE APPOINTED ably should have consulted you and TO GET PIANO FROM OLD QUAR- gotten some of your members who know TERS REPORTS PIANO DISAP- something about it to help select the PEARED STOP SUGGEST YOU piano, but—***Yes, yes, you're quite INVESTIGATE SECOND HAND right, only—***No, the committee PIANO MARKET IN SAINT LOUIS doesn't know much about pianos, but STOP OR SOMETHING STOP they're all good business men and I'm START BACK HERE QUICK STOP sure whatever they've done is the cor- AND DON'T STOP STOP rect thing. ***I'm really sorry; it was ADJUTANT my mistake, but everything's going to and since this here Publicity Officer be all right. ***Yes, I'll try to cooperate better from now on.***Yes.***All right. SCENE: Post rooms. which is so smart started it, let it be ***Sure, sure.***O.K.***Good-bye. TIME: The next night. his headache. Publicity Officer: ( Wiping the perspiration from his OCCASION: Emergency meeting of But I don't know forehead and turning on the group.) the Post Executive Committee called any more about pianos than the Com- Commander: Don't say it, don't say by the Commander, who has taken the mander does. Smith: it! next train back after receiving the You knowed how to get a (There is silence for a while.) Adjutant's telegram. whale of a lot of newspaper publicity about one, all right. All right, let's have the report. Commander: {to Finance Officer) Americanism Officer: Commander: This is really an Amer- Well, I was How much money have we in the icanism project. sort of Chairman of the Committee, I treasury? Americanism Officer: (nervously guess, being appointed first, but we all Finance Officer: (without inordi- anticipating) But but I wouldn't know went down to the Central Music Co., nate pride) Sixty-six cents. — a Stiinway from a Stradivarius. Nobody Inc., which is the best place we could Commander: {running his nervous told me being an expert on musical find out about buying pianos from, and fingers through his already rumpled instruments was a necessary qualifica- I think we did a swell job, if I do say hair) The President of the Auxiliary it myself. there tion of an Americanism officer, and it We gave the guy a Unit says she has now received three doesn't say so in our Constitution, great story on what a big thing we were hundred applications for the piano, not either. doing for the community and we finally counting telephone calls. Commander: And I think the Ad- sold him the idea—we really talked Publicity Officer: (beatning) I told jutant ought to be a member of that him into letting us have a piano on you it would go big! committee. time payments, twenty-five dollars Smith: Big? Too big. Now we ain't Adjutant: Look here, Commander, down. got no pie-anna. I got enough dirty work to do. It isn't Commander: (with apprehension) Commander: We're committed to fair. I don't know anything about pianos. And how much up? action to give away a piano we don't — I had one once that my aunt gave me, Americanism Officer: Why, the to- have. Gentlemen (desperately banging but I got a good trade-in on it for a tal—we don't have to pay it except his upon the table), we've got to fist radio. in—the full price is a hundred dollars, produce or this Post is sunk! Commander: (desperately). I can't but— Smith: Well, I didn't think of much help it. Something's got to be done. I Commander this here thing when the Publicity Offi- appoint as a committee to get another Finance Officer \ (together) A hun- cer brought it up, but dred dollars! second-hand piano the Americanism Smith J Commander: Never mind that now. officer, the Adjutant and the Publicity Americanism Officer: Sure. We We're /'// it. Officer. signed a contract Smith: Well, we ain't gonna let you Here are the twenty-five bucks; and Commander: Holy mackerel! Signed down, Commander. I'm passin' the hat we'll adjourn this Executive Com- a contract? For a hundred dollars? right now and startin' it with five bucks mittee meeting until eight o'clock to- Where are we going to get any hundred

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49 dollars? We had to take up a camp- together again fer tonight? I thought dollars for hauling the piano and five town to get the twenty-five! this thing was all set. I promised the for tuning it, or a total of fifteen dollars.

Smith : The next time we pick out missus and the kids I'd take 'em to Smith: Well, I'll be a son-of-a-gun! officers for this here Post the movies. I love this here American ( Turning to Publicity Officer) What Commander: (rising to the occasion) Legion but, after all, I got to do some- kind of a racket is this gettin' to be, I appoint this entire Executive Com- thing else once in a while or anyhow? I was leery about the whole mittee a committee of the whole to Adjutant: Yeh. I had a couple of thing from the beginning. go down right now and talk ourselves things I wanted to do myself. Finance Officer: I don't believe in out of what these three planned- Finance Officer: I should have lynching, but I don't like publicity pro- economy birds have talked us into. stayed at the office and worked tonight. moters, either. It's a question as to {Grabs his hat and coat.) Come on. Americanism Officer: I got to get Adjutant: There is such a thing as you babies! All of you. Maybe we away quick. I'm due at a big party I justifiable homicide. ought to get the Auxiliary appointed a don't want to miss. Smith: (to Publicity Officer) Lis- receiver and guardian for us. Commander: Gentlemen. I have bad ten, buddy, come clean. Are you really (The Executive Committee piles news. We're in the hole some more—ten (Continued on page 50) through the door and out into traffic, caring for nothing than the necessity of killing that contract.)

SCENE: Main store of the Central Music Co., Inc. TIME: Twenty minutes later. After much pleading, begging and cajoling the contract for $100 is canceled and a new deal entered into to purchase a piano, less aris- tocratic but more in keeping with the financial condition of the Post, for the total sum of #25. Every- body is now happy again.

SCENE: Commander's business office. TIME: The next morning. (Telephone conversation)

Voice: This here's trie Monarch Mov- ing. We got a pie-anna from the Central

Music, Ink. Where do yez want it to go?

Commander: Take it to the Post rooms of the Blank Post of The Amer- ican Legion. Know where they are? Voice: Yep. My brother's a member.

Say, the charges for the haulin' is ten bucks. Who pays? Commander: Why—why, you can er—make out the bill to the Post and leave it at the Post rooms. Voice: O.K. So long. (Commander leans back in Ids chair, a little stunned. The tele- phone rings again.)

Voice: This is the Central Music Company, please. There is a charge of five dollars for tuning the second-hand piano purchased by the Blank Post. Shall we send the bill to you?

Commander: No, no, No! Send it to the Post. Good-bye. (Commander wipes his brow, sits dazedly for a while, then goes to the window and looks out blankly, try- ing to think. Returns to telephone, calls tip the Adjutant and tells "Best Wishes for Your Happiness" him to get hold of every member of the Executive Committee for another emergency meeting that from your friends and neighbors in the night at eight o'clock.)

SCENE: Post rooms. telephone company. May the friendly TIME: Eight o'clock that night. OCCASION: Another emergency spirit the holidays carry through meeting of the Post Executive Com- of mittee.

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(TELEPHONE CONVERSATION.) TRY THIS oh y#wt PIANO Voice: Say, you're the Secretary or whatever it is of this American Legion Post?

Adjutant: Yes, sir. {Continued from page 4Q) But they're sore. They'll only give us Voice: Well, I'm the superintendent workin' fer the government secret so's five dollars. of the building where you used to have to git money in circulation to help the Finance Officer: That's a disap- your rooms. depression? pointment, but it's something. I'll figure Adjutant: Yes. Publicity Officer: Now, listen, you up the pro rata shares we'll get back Voice: Remember me calling you a fellow. Honest, this is a big thing we're out of this. Smith, you have— week or so ago about getting that piano doing, and I didn't think these little Commander: You needn't bother. you left? odds and ends Finance Officer: Huh? Adjutant: Sure. We sent a com- Finance Officer: Odds and ends! Commander: It didn't occur to any mittee down to get it and it was gone. Twenty-five dollars—ten dollars—five Voice: Gone, my eye. It's still right dollars. Maybe they're odds and ends where you left it. to a big publicity shot like you. but Adjutant: (jumping from his chair) they're forty good hard smackers to a What! little finance officer like me. Voice: I saw some fellows I thought Smith: If I ever git sucked into one belonged to your Post around here one of these here heart-renderin', humani- day but they didn't say anything to me tarian, brother-helpin' publicity stunts and I didn't know what they wanted. again, so help me Hannah, I'll They just seemed to be looking around. Americanism Officer: I never Adjutant: They were. For the piano. thought much of the music business, Voice: Do they think the thing has anyhow. wings? They were on the eleventh floor Smith: It's sissy. and your rooms were on the tenth.

Finance Officer: There's a lot of Adjutant: Well, I'll be money lost in it. Voice: What I want to know is when

{Silence for a while.) you're going to get it out of here. I got Smith: (finally) Oh, hell. Let's git those offices rented for next week and down to brass tacks. Here's another if you don't come and get the piano "Will you quit pestering me—I'll buck. charge let you know when you're old I'll move it to the basement and Here's going. f one. enough to vote!" you moving and storage. Now, get Chorus: I'll give three. Good-bye. [Two's the best I can do. Adjutant: (weakly as he hangs up Etc. of us that we have to have a bench to receiver) Now what? (Grabbing the {Result: $15.00) go with that piano. telephone again, he calls the Com- Publicity Officer: (suddenly) Say, {Silence.) mander.) I've got an idea Commander: The bench will cost ex- Adjutant: Jump. boys, jump! actly five dollars. SCENE: Post rooms. Americanism Officer: Watch out, {More silence.) TIME: The next evening. he's loose again Adjutant: {with assumed cheerful- OCCASION: Another emergency Finance Officer: Hold on to your ness) Well, anyhow, we don't have to meeting of the Post Executive Com- pocketbooks. chip in any more. mittee. The Adjutant tells his story. Smith: Mr. Publicity Officer, you Americanism Officer: Listen to Smith: Well, ain't this somethin'. can take your idea and Pollyanna! Here we been holdin' emergency meet- Publicity Officer: No, no. The Commander: {hesitatingly) I have ings and coughin' up forty dollars piece-

Auxiliary is yelping about us not letting one other bit of bad news. meal to get rid of a pie-anna what ain't them in on this thing. Well, we'll let Finance Officer: {wincing) How worth the price of movin' and we wind them in—to contribute. much is it this time? up with two pie-annas on our hands. Finance Officer: Well, now that's Commander: This isn't a question of And all because this here wild-eyed a real bright idea. And from a publicity money. The Auxiliary selected a winner Publicity Officer of ourn— Mr. Com- officer, too. but fortunately the President called me mander, I'm all for the veteran an' I

Commander: It is all right. I'll get before they announced it, and I found never beat up one yet except fer good in touch with the Unit President right out that the winner they picked was an' sufficient cause, but right now (glar- away. Maybe we can get our money not the child of a veteran. ing at the Publicity Officer) right back. Gentlemen, I'm sorry, but we'll Smith: Say, what was we doin' this now I— have to meet here again three nights fer? I ain't contributin' my— Adjutant: Wait a minute! Maybe from tonight. Commander: They blamed it on us he's a poor N.P. case. Smith: What? Two nights we don't for not giving them the details, and Commander: Quiet, quiet! Let him have to come here? Commander, vou're maybe they're right. Well, anyhow, they have his say. so good to us. don't know what to do now. Publicity Officer: Mr. Commander, Americanism Officer: Well, Mr. they've all got the wrong slant on this SCENE: Post rooms. Commander, that's up to the Auxiliary. thing. This is another great opportunity. TIME: Three nights later. Our work's done. And am / glad. (Adjutant holds Smith /';/ his OCCASION: Adjourned emergency (Chorus of aniens.) chair. meeting of the Post Executive Com- Commander: All right, gentlemen, Publicity Officer: Now we can mittee. the matter is finally concluded and this give away two pianos and get that much

Commander: I want to report that meeting stands adjourned. more publicity. I put the proposition up to the Unit Finance Officer: Boy, is this Post President. She called an emergency SCENE: Adjutant's home. overstocked with pianos and publicity. meeting of her executive committee. TIME: The next night. Adjutant: The trouble with pub-

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5i licity people is that to them two white reached and the Commander has elephants are twice as good as one. made a report of some kind on the Commander: Well, since we have piano situation. Everybody is now the thing, we might as well follow the enthusiastically happy. The pub- Publicity Officer's suggestion and give licity has grown and grown, espe- away two pianos. cially with two pianos in the field. Smith: O.K., Commander. I'll give The Post is receiving commenda- away the Post charter if you say so. tion from all quarters. {Motion to give away two pianos Commander: And I have another unanimously but unenthusiastically most pleasing matter to report. One of passed.) our most prominent piano teachers was Finance Officer: Say, I just thought so impressed with what we are doing of something. We'll have to have that she called me up and has offered a free one hauled and tuned, too. Fifteen more scholarship for a year to each of the berries, boys. winners of our pianos. There's some real (Slowly heads are turned and sav- cooperation. age eyes fixed upon the Publicity (Loud applause.) Officer. Nervously he sidles to- A Member: Who are the winners? ward the door.) Commander: They haven't yet been

Publicity Officer: I—I think I bet- selected. The Auxiliary won't do it. ter go get the publicity on this new We'll have to find some method our- angle started right away. selves. There is one interesting thing I (Led by Smith there is c rush forgot to tell you. We have applications toward the Publicity Officer, but from a pair of twins. he has a head start and makes the A Member: And we have twin pianos. street door before they reach him.) Move we give 'em to the twins. Smith: Mr. Commander, I'm passin' Jones: Sennamotion. the hat once more. But this is positively (The motion is carried.) the last time. If there is any more ex- A Member: This is really a great 37,012 Pipe Smokers pense to this here pie-anna business I'm thing. I move we give away a piano resignin' from this Post, see? I don't every Christmas to a deserving under- are stilt missing! know nothin' about music, but the kind privileged child. which would be most pleasin' to my Another Member: Second the mo- Among hard-to-please pipe ears right now would be a regimental tion. smokers a high percentage natur- band playin' the funeral march for one Jones: (to the last member) Say, ally enthuse about BOND STREET. certain Publicity Officer of this here who do you think you are? Applying this percentage we know Post. now (The motion is carried.) (Result: that about 37,012 pipe-smoking $15.00) Smith: I think the members of this readers of this for here post have got a right to be proud magazine— whom

(TELEPHONE CONVERSATION.) of this job, when you think what it BONDSTREET is a "natural'-still Commander: Madam President, we means to these poor kids what got musi- have this grand discovery to make. found the old piano and the Executive cal talent and nothin' to pound it out So come out of hiding — and try Committee decided to give that away, on. I helped start this here project in too. So will you please have your Unit the Post and worked hard fer it because BOND STREET! pick out a second winner? I seen what a big thing it was. We It contains a rare aromatic Aux. Pres.: (heatedly) I will not! should be proud of our Commander tobacco never before used in a pop- We won't do it ! The way the Post has and of our Executive Committee, even this thing ular price mixture. Rich-tasting, handled —why, I've never had although I am one of which. And—oh, such an experience in my life. Hundreds yes, the Publicity Officer done a bite-free—leaves no tobacco odor in hundreds letters and of and telegrams pretty fair job, too. the room—even the ladies approve. and telephone calls. I haven't been able Commander: I should say he did. to do my house work, I've missed three Have you something to say? Try it today! Only bridge parties and two meetings of the Publicity Officer: Mr. Commander, Women's Club. I'm a nervous wreck. I got another great idea. I simply won't go through it again— Smith: Uh-uh. simply won't. You've messed the thing Finance Officer: Look out! He's off all up, you haven't consulted us at all again and all you want the Auxiliary to do Adjutant: Take it easy now—take is help you out all the time, Why, we've it easy. been so consumed with this piano busi- Publicity Officer: And that is that ness of yours we haven't even had time every year at Christmas season this Post to decide whom we're going to support have a public concert at which each of for our own Department President next our winners of pianos will have a chance year, or anything. It's perfectly ridicu- to play. lous. You can just pick your own (Cheers and applause, as the mem- winners. bers of the Executive Committee Commander: O.K., O.K. I'm sorry. relax in relief from awful appre- Well, we'll try to worry along somehow. hension.) (And so the Post is known in the STREET SCENE: Post rooms. city as the Piano Post and the TIME: The next regular meeting of Commander as the Piano Com- PIPE TOBACCO the Post. mander.) Unfinished Business has been The End. A PRODUCT OF PHILIP MORRIS

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52 * 0 justed their skis. It was fully half an hour before the hunter ventured into THEY WOULD GO the open of a small meadow, where a darkened blur indicated a fallen buffalo. He proceeded carefully to the kill, then started the process of skinning. It was (Continued from page j6) South of the Park, under the shadow "Red'' Van Dyke, all right. Silently the the snow was six feet deep on the level. of the Tetons was a settlement named patrol whisked downhill, slick skis rac- The troop was a veritable Foreign Jackson's Hole. It was then a sort of ing over the firm snow. As the patrol Legion. British and Canadians, some of refuge for law violators—cattle thieves, braked around him in a swirl of snow, them from the "Mounties," Teuton and poachers, and so on—remember Tracy Red had no chance at all. The sergeant Slav, a leavening modicum of native the outlaw of the early 1900's. North had his pistol digging into his ribs—he Americans—but the great majority of was the small mining town of Cook was caught red-handed. For four days Scandinavian birth or ancestry. The roll City. On the west were a few Mormon and nights the party traveled with their call was teeming with Andersens, Lar- settlements. All these places contained prisoner. Scooping holes in the snow for sens, Olsons and Johnsons. To these last folks who lightly considered the gov- shelter, melting it for water for coffee, skis were as familiar as whiskers to a ernment regulations against poaching. frying fat bacon in mess kit, and goug- goat. The captain was a tall, red-beard- A buffalo robe brought $200, a head ing at the hard tack. All had their faces ed Viking, New Jersey Swedish, a West $150. Elk teeth were in great demand. blackened to prevent snow blindness. Pointer who was also designated by the There was a character named "Red" Red got three years in jail at Laramie. Department of the Interior as Super- Van Dyke, who used to write postcards During the entire winter, allotted intendent of the Fark. Not only did to him, in red ink, daring him or his patrols set forth daily from each sub- every soldier ski—they made 'em. The "blue-bellied sojers" ever to capture post, with trips from the fort occa- post carpenter fashioned the wood, the him. We operated from Jackson's Hole. sionally to relieve details, to carry troop saddler shaped raw-hide for foot So Sergeant Olson with Privates Larsen mail, and often to bring back the sick pieces, the men waxed and steamed the and Swanson issued from their snug log and injured. All this duty on skis product to their own satisfaction. Uni- substation, made camp on the side of a parties of three dragging a small sled. form was supplemented with Dutch hill south of Yellowstone Lake, and The captain took much pride in his socks, Buffalo coats, fur caps and watched and waited. The sergeant troop, exerted himself to procure re- gauntlets. The average day's run on scanned the country with his binoculars placements from , favoring, skis was around twenty miles, depend- closely. A morning came when a shot of course, the Andersons, Larsens and ing on the feel of the snow, the ter- rang out, then others. The patrol, hid- Olsons. Oh, yes. the Army knew about rain and frequent blizzards. den behind a clump of dwarf pine, ad- skiing in those days too.

(Continued from page iy) on the Gulf, at Los Angeles, San Fran- WE'RE GETTING cisco and Tacoma on the West Coast— and from Bath, Maine, around to Seattle it caused old yards to reopen, still others to enlarge. Today there are some 70.000 workers in our private shipyards against 39,000 when Admiral Land went into ac- tion. Of the 200 warships recently or- dered for our two-ocean Navy, 169 are ship thousands of extra miles. Morro Castle and Mohawk disasters to be built in private yards—some of The Sea Arrow, launched at San Fran- cost scores of lives and some $22,500,000 them yards which were created, ex- cisco last fall, was the first large seagoing worth of shipping. The Senate ordered panded or kept alive by the Commis- freighter to come out of a West Coast an investigation. Headed by George G. sion building. yard in 16 years. The Gulf shipyards are Sharp, the great naval architect, techni- Our seagoing merchant fleet is today now more extensively developed than cal experts started fires day after day roughly a million tons smaller than in even during the World War speedup. The aboard the old Nantasket, a freighter 1937, but it is a faster, younger, more new ships are the last word in design. In- anchored in the James River. They built useful fleet. The shrinkage in gross tons valuable competition between Diesels staterooms on her and systematically set represents sales of old ships, many of and steam propulsion has been spurred. them afire. Everything was real, down to which had been laid up, to Britain and Welding has been carried much further sheets and blankets on the bed and to nations generally carrying goods to than in other countries, which might be clothes in suitcases and trunks. Some Britain. More than a million and a half decisive if the time should come when fires were started with cigarets. All were tons of merchant shipping are now as in the past war we had to build a allowed to reach their peak before being under construction in our yards. With- "bridge of ships"—for welders can be put out—then observers would rush in out this program we should now be des- trained more quickly than ship riveters. to note the condition of every square perately attempting to expand shipyards Also, the Commission has accomplished foot of the interior. The progress of the to take care of our own naval and wonders in standardizing ship design. flames was carefully clocked. Observers, merchant needs. Instead, that expan- "All we have to do is order out a carbon their heads in wet towels, lay on decks sion is an accomplished fact. We copy of our contract form—and in a close to the fire to sniff for fumes. may even be able to undertake to turn week's time another ship will start to Hundreds of wall panels and floor ma- out 120 cargo ships for the British. grow on the ways," say the Commission- terials were tested, and even the screws Our shipbuilding facilities are not only ers. holding asbestos compositions to the increased but also dispersed along our Incidentally, these ships are the safest walls. As a result of knowledge thus three coasts. This enables them to ex- merchant ships in the world. The Com- gained, the new ships are safe from fires pand further without the labor shortages mission has compelled builders to come even if personnel or mechanical devices that otherwise would be insurmountable; up to standards formulated after exhaus- fail. Each cabin is a self-contained unit; also, in war it provides extra repair facili- tive studies and tests. In something like everything in it can burn to cinders with- ties which might save moving a damaged two years, eight ship fires—including the out the fire spreading. Holds of cargo

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ships are safeguarded by ingenious fire- from the maritime program. The first was to navy levels. For example, the Texas detecting devices and automatic extin- tankers to keep fighting ships from being Company has laid down six with high guishing equipment. No foreign vessels tied to oil tanks on land. Wanting tankers speed without asking the Maritime Com- have such good fire-proofing. No other with enough speed to keep up with the mission for a dime. One of these, the ships have developed so far the principle fleet, the Navy did not have the funds. Ohio, recently covered the 1882-mile of compartmenting hulls to make them The oil companies had funds but did Texas-Jersey run in 4^ days, averaging harder to sink. All this is important to not need the extra speed— 12 knots was more than 17 knots. passengers—or troops—and to cargoes as enough for them. The Maritime Commis- All ships built or subsidized by the well. sion made a deal whereby Standard Oil Commission are designed with navy The Commission is providing our mer- ordered 12 high-speed tankers with the needs in mind. Speed comes first. The chant marine with trained men. In 1938 it commission paying the cost of the extra Navy doesn't want the battle fleet to began training officers, cadets, seamen and speed—half to three-quarters of a million have to slow down so the train can keep green apprentices in a far-flung system dollars per tanker. When these tankers up. The first cargo vessel launched under including training stations, training ships were delivered they made 18. sometimes the program was the Donald McKay— and training courses on commercial ves- 19, knots loaded— the fastest, biggest incidentally, the first dry cargo vessel, as sels. Already 5000 men, including some tankers ever built. By the time they were distinct from tankers and combination officers at sea for 15 years and at least coming into operation the Navy had cargo and passenger ships, built in the one seaman in his seventies, have been funds; all it had to do was write checks United States in 18 years. She immedi- schooled in precision rather than rule-of- for the tankers whereas without the pro- ately made a record run from New York thumb seamanship. Crews for both naval gram the Navy would now be trying to to Buenos Aires. Another cargo ship, the and anti-aircraft guns have been trained build in overcrowded shipyards. The Challenge, left New York on the India

so as to lighten the load war would place Navy has actually requisitioned all 1 run about a month after a freighter built on navy personnel. Last summer an tankers, which have a combined cargo at Hog Island during the World War. F.B.I, investigation revealed that a high capacity of 1,740,000 barrels of oil After calling on precisely the same ports, percentage of radio operators on our mer- enough for our 12 battleships, six air- and picking up 1000 tons more cargo, the chant ships were communists—or some- craft carriers, 18 heavy cruisers all to Challenge came back into New York thing. The Navy woke up and immedi- cruise on for some 25.000 miles. harbor within 15 minutes of the Hog ately the Maritime Commission began Eleven more tankers are being built Islander. And the Challenge had used less training picked men for these key jobs; with extra speed financed by the Com- oil! by March 250 full-fledged operators will mission. But that is not all. Oil com- In addition to saving wages, food bills be graduated—men free of questionable panies found that on some runs the extra and so on, extra speed prevents bad allegiances. speed spelled economy and several have weather at sea from upsetting shipping Seamen trained in signalling at the now raised their tanker speeds almost up {Continued on page 54) Commission's Hoffman Island station have already proved their worth. Before France fell, an American merchantman ROTARY SLICER met a French destroyer which wigwagged 1 I Slices potatoes a signal to heave to. That was what the Floffman Island quartermaster said the MECHANICAL Amazing Success Possibilities - PEELER signal meant but the mate didn't agree. Peels potatoes fast, quick, witl The destroyer then ran up a four-flag in POTATO CHIPS minimum waste hoist spelling STOP which also meant VITREOUS ENAMEL VAT nothing to the mate. While he was fum- As easy to clean There are real profits in potato chips. Extraordinary profits in as a china dish. bling with his code-book and ignoring the Preserves Frying chips you make with mv comolete outfit. It peels, slices, fries Oil —restricts ran- the chips, then degreases them. Result a mouth watering pre- cidity. Helps chips quartermaster's plea to stop, a shell from — potato chip that wholesalers, groceries, restaurants, tav- retain natural mium flavor. the destroyer came whistling across his erns, etc., grab for and you make a handsome profit. No previous experience necessary. Complete, simple, authoritative, GREASE EXTRAf bow. instructions, trade marked bags, advertising material, window TOR. Whirls awaj excess grease fron Another merchantman carrying avia- displays. Very small investment necessary. hot chips so thej stay fresh longer look "greaseless" tion gas to the British navy was coming GET POTATO CHIP PROFIT FACTS FREE into Freetown, British West Africa. From

Lett me send you facts and figures on the potato chip business. It will open your eyes to the profits and the market a British navy lookout tower sema- a of really. fine chips. Everything is sent tu you absolutely free. If you are tired of the old grind, if you want to makeke some real money, rush me your name. Get "Potato Chip Profit Facts" at once for the asking. phore was started but the merchantman's LONG EAKINS COMPANY, 343-S High St., Springfield, Ohio captain and first mate ignored it. The seaman at the wheel—he had been trained at Hoffman Island—said "He's sending that to us, sir." He took the YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? signal. It read: "You are in the middle Is the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was mailed* correct for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail of mine field. Stop engines. Do not THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. anchor, you may hit mine. Keep your Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine is rudder amidships. Will send guide." new address The Navy early in this war found American merchantmen were missing Name (PLEASE PRINT) navy signals and asked the Commission to give special courses to junior officers. Street Address Including cadets. 200 have enrolled and City .State_ already some 400 have certificates. It was Cadet William F. O'Reilly who last 1940 membership card number. June 11 manned the blinkers when the 1941 membership card number. Washington was stopped before dawn by Post No .Dept.. a German submarine. "American ship OLD ADDRESS

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Gauss magnetic mine developed by the WE'RE GETTIiXIG Germans. This mine was an unknown when the ships were designed but it turned out that the antidote is to neu- tralize the magnetic pull of the ship that otherwise would explode the mine. Ships to be "de-Gaussed" are wired so that their generators can charge the great bull while the ship navigates mined (Continued from page 53) Other defense features are built into waters. This requires tremendous elec- timetables. Good designing prevents the these ships. As on naval vessels, gen- trical generating capacity — precisely speed from requiring too much extra oil. erators, pumps and so on are all in what these ships have. Several Commission ships have set duplicate. Fire-proofing, fire-detecting, Speed in converting to naval auxil- world's records for economy of opera- compartmentation and communication iaries means much. For instance, the de- tion. Efficiency such as that of the Chal- systems are all carried further than Gaussing of the Shooting Star, requisi-

lenge—now taken over by the Navy commercially necessary. Walk around the tioned by the Navy, is taking only a means savings to operators of about decks of the America, largest passenger week whereas with old ships needing

$35,000 a year, which over the 20-year liner ever built in an American yard, and extra generating capacity it would take economic life of a ship amounts to one- here and there you'll find gear ready for two to three months. The America's para- third of its construction costs. The the addition of paravanes for mine cut- vane equipment means that paravanes American Export Line reveals that in ting. She can be converted into a troop- can be installed in a week rather than 45 comparison with its old ships its Com- ship in half the time other liners might days. Less than a month was required mission-financed freighters carry 2000 take. The cargo ships have extra large to convert the tanker Esso Richmond— tons more cargo at 70 percent higher hatches, and booms which can lift 30 a week would have been enough had the speed at a cost of only 10 percent more, tons—important for handling artillery, guns been on hand instead of on order. oil. Formerly freighters calling at Boston tanks and other military equipment, par- The Shooting Star is being turned into an took 24 hours for the run up from New ticularly if they had to be landed at un- ammunition ship in 61 days—in contrast York; now they can leave New York at developed ports. Some of the ships have to eight months required to convert the 3 o'clock in the afternoon and be loading extra refrigerated space so they can carry old President Grant. Out of better ships, at Boston at 8 o'clock the next morning food when they operate as troop trans- speedier conversions, we are getting a —in effect a day saved. The Exporter ports. All cargo-handling gear is elec- better merchant marine—which means covered the 144 miles from the Virginia trically operated with the result that the getting more sea power and in the crisis Capes to Baltimore at an average speed Commission ships possess an unplanned may mean getting there first with the of 19.99 knots. defense feature—defense against the most men.

(Continued from page 10) gamut of fire on the sea and ashore in an English port. As he climbed up on the GET READY . . . SET . . pier a fellow with the World War ribbon, capless, blouse torn, bandaged arm, eyes physical strain in commuting back and Navy experts are following, without pay- sunk in mud-splashed face, clothes still forth from home or camp to their posts ing the price we paid in 1017 and 1918. soggy from the salt water he had strug- were still kept at the antiaircraft guns Our war service and our service since the gled through up to his neck—well, he said and balloons until Winston Churchill took war entitles us to a bow on that. I hope "Come on, we'll show 'em we're soldiers a hand. If veterans had been in their no Legionnaire has forgotten what we yet"—and he marched them in columns places the younger men could have been have already done for preparedness. of fours along the quay to the train. fighting in France. It has been my proud delight to en- Now let's look back before the disaster Then, when Britain faced invasion, and lighten some of those who were ignorant in France and Flanders. Before the war she called for volunteers for home defense on the subject. From the first we have began the British were already rimming against parachutists behind the army called for preparedness. Now we have a London and other cities and munition lines and tanks that might get through reward for our campaign in selective plants with antiaircraft guns and balloon the army lines, the veterans had their draft service as the only fair way and lim- barrages. Both were manned by young chance. Trained soldier sense and experi- itations on war profiteering. men. ence gave them the lead in organization. Long before people were stirred by the It was all right to send only young men Veterans older than forty-seven could put Fifth-Column danger, the Legion under to the trenches and to bear sixty pounds an armor piercing bullet into a tank or pacifist pinpricking and knifing—that on the march and endure sleeping on wet wing a parachutist with a rifle shot. For "terrible, bloodthirsty Legion"—kept ground night after night in open battle. they knew how to shoot. They had seen right on with its peace war on subversive But veterans were irritated that young too much war to get buck fever at the alien activities, and its Americanization men alone were fit to man stationary an- sight of an enemy. program. Throughout the country Legion tiaircraft guns or to raise and lower Posts are quietly, skilfully, effectively co- moored sausage balloons. SO WE have these lessons to guide us. operating with the Federal Bureau of "1 was in the artillery in the World This much we can learn from the latest Investigation. We are the Sixth Column War," one veteran said. "I've looked foreign experience. And we know how throttling at birth prospective Fifth these antiaircraft guns over. There are General Pershing applied all the lessons Columns. some new wrinkles, but nothing we old he learned from the British and French in What further can the Legion do? I saw hands at the guns cannot learn. But we their two years of war and Americanized actual evidence in being at the Eastern were told our hearing might not be good them for our use. In just about the same army maneuvers around Ogdensburg this enough to use the sound detectors. Hear- way Admiral William S. Sims, who had recent August. The Legion organized the ing? Go to the other end of the room and our naval command abroad, applied local residents in an "alert" system for whisper, and see if I don't hear you. Eye- the naval lessons, and thus beat the spotting enemy planes in prompt com- sight was another excuse. Try that out C-boat. munication to headquarters. and see if mine isn't all right." That is the example in making ready Much was learned in a tryout of a most But the young men who were under no on our big program which our Army and vital factor in home defense and main

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 1 . line defense, too. Identifying an enemy are in a war. Youth will not have to go SPARE TIME TRAINING plane, not mistaking it for one of our own, through the rushed, intensive training of takes an eye familiar with both types if our camps in iqi7-'i8. There can be that helps you war comes. thoroughness without such driving haste And the sooner an enemy plane is to get over there in time to save the Allied sighted the sooner the fighters will be up cause. It is America we have to save in SPEED UP in pursuit and the antiaircraft guns begin the present world crisis. firing. Youth, as it is put in the harness of PROSPERITY I First we must get the two-ocean Navy discipline, will have its "grouches." Be- Do you want to speed up prosperity insure your and the making of enough planes and yond anything we may do as an organi- — early and large participation in the new jobs, pro- arms under way and the draft law in op- zation is the individual counsel and fel- motions and salary increases—get fullest benelits from business pick-up? You can do it. For months, eration. Then the chosen youth under it lowship out of experience and "savvy." individual competition will be tremendous. Em- ployers against new problems, lighting for on the way to camp with the National And that goes, too, for the women of the —up sur- vival and profits—will be able to pick and choose. Guardsmen. At last, in fulfilling the pol- Auxiliary who know soldiers and best Naturally they will prefer trained men —men who have special ability to offer. If you wish this advan- icy the Legion has championed, we are to understand welfare work in real comrade- tage, simply check the field of business in which you are interested. We will send full information about make an army ready for war before we ship. the opportunities in that field, tell how our complete success-building program helps you plan your future, trains you in your spare time, and works with you all through your career. Send the coupon NOW. LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY A Correspondence Institution Dept. 1361-R Chicago Please tell me—without cost or obligation—about your plan to help me insure and speed up my pros- perity, in the business field I have checked. Business Management OModern Business Higher Accountancy Correspondence Traffic Management Expert Bookkeeping

Law : Degree of LL.B. Modern Salesmanship Commercial Law Business English IndustrialManagement Effective Speaking (Continued from page 7) a nation-wide network organized along Modern Foremanship qc. P. A. Coaching toward further action—that an early similar lines would be. step in air raid preparedness, in respect Urged by the swift march of events Name to all-important civilian cooperation, abroad, Americans have recently in- Address came to hinge on Legion Posts. This creased the tempo of preparations against successful demonstration of the proverb, air raids. Last fall Army Air Corps Town State. "Forewarned is forearmed," took place officers flew over to observe the British in North Carolina in October, 1938. defenses. They were followed by a dele- Brigadier General William Bryden, gation of New York City firemen sent commanding Fort Bragg. North Caro- to study the fighting of wartime fires START BUSINESS lina, required a civilian warning net as in London. The Kansas City Art Insti- A an essential feature of Anti-Aircraft-Air tute has begun instruction in the camou- AT HOME., ukb Corps exercises scheduled for that flage of factories and flying fields against JOHN LBHMAN-WIO SAYS N This popular Fyr-Fyter has month. He needed an agency able to air attack. Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, " provided me with a |ST_rSTEADY INCOME during the past Eigh t Years reach every corner of the State. First New York, is teaching bomb shelter We need more men like John Lehman. Are you he planned to call upon Reserve Officers, building in its architecture course. looking fur a ste.aily ami permanent connection with a com- then upon town officials, but large areas the activities of the American nationally known Among pany which will offer yon an opportunity for inde- of North Carolina lacked either or both. Services is the dis- Women's Yoluntary pendence? No capital re- "The one organization," wrote Robert tribution of a film showing the war quired for stoic, stock or xtures. We deliver, collect Ginsburgh in an article in this magazine, work of the 650,000 English women who and mail profit checks each Friday and help you with I»i- "that seemed to meet his requirements have been mobilized, many of them ect Mail Advertising. Write to- day about your past experience of devotion to national defense, decen- serving in A.R.P. units. A tentative and we will mail you a money mak- flg plan which has brought success tralized administration, and state-wide plan for civilian defense in the event hundreds of others. Address Fyr-Fyter Factory. Dept. 9-61, Dayton, Ohio coverage was The American Legion." of air attack has been developed in the Posts all over the State responded War Department to operate through enthusiastically. Two thousand patriotic States and municipalities. men, women, and children, mostly Le- But it is obvious that the War and gionnaires and their families, volun- Navy Departments, bending all their Flush Kidneys of teered to serve as a warning network energies to the stupendous task of re- eight hours a day without pay. Three armament and training, can spare little Acid and Poisons hundred and seven observation stations, time for the organization and education 240 of them entirely civilian, were es- defense; that they cannot go of civilian Gain In Health And Stop tablished, given books of plane silhou- beyond preliminary planning. While it Getting Up Nights ettes to identify raiders and instructed is fully realized that modern warfare is kidneys are continually over-bur- how to report by telephone or radio. waged equally against soldiers and civil- When dened they often become weak—the blad- When the "enemy" air fleet flew into ians and that the military would be der Is irritated—often passage is scanty and smarts and burns—sleep is restless the State at 4 a.m. one day, the first hamstrung if national morale were shat- and nightly visits to the bathroom are frequent. warning was phoned into headquarters tered by air raids, the necessary defense A safe, harmless and inexpensive way at 4.05. Continued reports, prompt and measures must be left—and can be left to relieve this trouble and help restore more healthy action to kidneys and blad- accurate, enabled the Army to trace the as they have been in Britain—to volun- der is to set from any druggist a 35 cent flight of the "invaders" and determine teer civilian organizations. box of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Cap- sules and take as directed. their speed and probable destination. Ideally suited for that purpose are Don't be an EASY MARK and accept a substi- The highly efficient functioning on that two national organizations: The Amer- tute^—Get Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules—the original—and genuine. Look for the Gold Medal occasion of the first essential in air raid ican Legion and the American Red on the box—35 cents. defense—warning of the approach of Cross. Remember—other symptoms of kidney and bladder trouble may be backache, puffy eyes, hostile planes—indicates how valuable (Continued on page 36) nervousness and leg cramps.

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Shelters from bombs and their blast, from machine gun bullets and anti-air- craft shell fragments, are of course of first importance. While the British have not yet found an entirely adequate an- swer to that problem, they have made progress from the trench-in-the-garden days and the haphazard use of subway stations. The big community refuges are {Continued from page 55) night or day, to know where cover ex- supplemented by thousands of home- Time and again these two have isted and so on. The veteran's wartime made home shelters. As never before, worked together in fighting disasters. In ability to move surely in pitch-black an Englishman's home is his castle.

the Middle West tornado of 1927. the darkness when it was death to show a Often some of the windows will be Florida hurricane, the Mississippi floods, light was revived. And training extend- bricked or boarded up and barricaded and on many other occasions, the dis- ing down through the units emphasized with full bookcases (the heavier and aster relief men of the Red Cross and that ability to command which enables duller the books the better; interesting the local chapters have combined with a rear-rank private to step out and take books are kept out for use as distrac- local Posts of the Legion to meet des- over when his leader is a casualty. On tions during a raid.) Also, windows are perate situations. Experience in combat- the efficiency of the wardens depends shuttered when possible and covered ting the ravages of storms, floods and the morale of a raided town or city. inside with a wire mesh to stop flying explosions would be most useful in cop- People who see the right thing being glass.

ing with the similar devastation of a done in the right place do not give way If the shelter is in the cellar or a

large-scale air raid. to panic. dugout in the yard, it is provided these Most Legionnaires are beyond draft It's considerable of a detail, an air winter days with a stove, cots and age but anxious to do their bit again wardenship. But who will deny that blankets, candles, a radio, games, a in some way in the emergency confront- chemical toilet; in fact, the shelter ing their country. In an air raid defense equipment is figured right down to Rubbed of GAedr&s. service, as in the Home Guard, an op- safety pins for bandages in the first aid portunity exists. The Legion offers a kit. Nor do they fail to take the atmos-

great reservoir of disciplined, still vigor- \v\ phere in the shelter into account. Avoid vwv^ Sector !! ous manpower. Its Posts are strategi- extra exertion, runs the warning, and

cally located throughout the United don't use up the oxygen in the air. States. Its membership of 1,075,000 is In a good home shelter, you're rea- augmented by the Legion Auxiliary and sonably safe, the British say. "Houses," the Sons of the Legion, equally anxious they state reassuringly, "do not collapse to play a patriotic part—to acknowledge unless a bomb falls on them or very that "individual obligation to the com- close to them, and the chances of your munity, State, and Nation" which the house being the unlucky one are very Preamble to the Legion's Constitution small." The manuals usually include this enjoins. hardly disinterested urging to home If we're taking it on, it's time we owner to display hospitality: "During were up and at it. The British had four a bombing, invite in the passersby. You years. Ours is a vaster and more com- may be a passerby in the next raid." plicated task. The threat of fires set by bombs has Those key men, the air wardens, some forced the introduction into many a of whose duties were sketched in the British home of fire-prevention methods anecdote beginning this article, must and fire-fighting equipment that might meet stiff requirements. The British well always have been present there. blueprint for them calls for "persons of Since incendiary bombs are designed to courage and personality, with a sound penetrate roofs, attics have seen a knowledge of the locality, to advise and there are many Legionnaires who have house-cleaning of anything that might help their neighbors, and generally to what it takes? catch fire, from packets of letters to serve as a link between the public and Then there's evacuation—the business old clothes. A large bomber can carry the authorities." They should, it is of removing children, the aged and in- a thousand 2^4-pound incendiary bombs; specified, be men or women, generally firm from threatened or ruined areas. if only fifteen percent of them hit build- over 30, of good character, level-headed There the Legion could count on its ings in a thickly built-up section, sev- and free from obvious physical or tem- experience in floods and storms. For air enty-five fires could be started. To peramental disabilities. They must live warning service, there is the precedent reinforce the regular firemen, who usu- near their posts, and there must be one of the Legion's fine record in the North ally have their hands full, A.R.P. units to a block, with assistants if in con- Carolina plane-spotting maneuvers. The are trained as volunteer firemen—an old gested areas. They may not be in actual "alerting" of a town calls for good judg- but disused tradition in the United military service or in the Reserve, or ment. Unnecessary loss of sleep must States, by the w: ay. members of the police or fire depart- be avoided. If possible the warning must These volunteers have learned and ments, who have plenty of work of their state whether the attack is with high have taught many other civilians such own in air raids. explosive or gas. Know your war gases, handy skills as the following: How to General orders for a British air war- advise the British, who furnish a com- drop from a second story window with- den are much like ours for interior plete and informative table for the out injury; how, if your clothing is on guard duty. In giving wardens their identification of all types. A gas attack fire, you must clap your hands over intensive training, the British lightened would call on nurses, orderlies, and other your mouth, lie down and roll; how to it up a bit at times with the ingenious women and men workers for the haz- drag an unconscious person out of a scheme of organizing treasure hunts ardous removal of gas-contaminated burning, smoke-filled room —you lay him whose clues required the wardens to clothing from victims and its launder- on his back, tie his hands together, loop find their way around their sections by ing. They've been drilled in that, too. them over your head as ycu straddle

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57 him on all fo jrs and crawl out dragging The forehanded do's and don't's the him. British have set down in the A.R.P. Be a Constant training in extinguishing in- manuals range from the care of animals cendiary bombs is conducted. Waste to "Don't phone your friends after a nk'flm Man paper, formerly used to simulate a raid to see how they are. The lines will blazing bomb, now is needed for the be clogged with emergency calls." No Time Like manufacture of war material, so old The former is a big assignment in Now to Get In Write for Details straw, shavings, and sawmill chips are itself. Sandbag your stables, the British It's no trick to make 1 used. advise. If you're driving through the good money when you use your car as a McNess*'Store ; For Americans a widespread knowl- street when the bombers come over, on Wheels." Farmers buy everything I they can from McNcss Men because | IseYour edge of fire prevention and fire-fighting tie up your horse; a runaway would McNess Products are tops in quality, represent extra values. Attractive busi- CAR would be highly useful, air attack or make the confusion worse. If you have ness-getting prizes and premiums; also I money-saving deals to customers make f to Raise air attack. The same applies to first pet birds, make their cages gas-proof selling McNess daily necessities a snap. no Your We Supply Capital— Start Now! I aid. The Red Cross trains thousands in they are especially susceptible to gas. There's no better work anywhere. Pays I well, permanent, need no experience to PAY it every year. Of that handy skill Le- It's hard counsel, but if you live in a start, and we supply capital to help you gionnaires possess either a smattering much-bombed area, either evacuate your get started quick. You begin making money first day. Write at once for McNess Dealer Book. It's FREE. or a good deal of first-hand experience. pets or destroy them. Air wardens must Tells all — no obligation. ".. (107) THE McNESS CO., 928 Adams St., Free port, III. It goes without saying that the ability register all animals in their territory, to give first aid has had to become and all animals must wear identity discs second nature for embattled British in case they are lost in a blackout INVENTORS civilians. Men. women and children have the "dog tags" of World War days are Take first protect your Invention familiarized themselves with artificial back again and this time they are ac- step to —without obligation. Get free "Record of Invention" form and 18 page book. respiration, to stop hemorrhages, tually just that. The British have first how "Patent Guide for the Inventor. " Time how to use an umbrella for a leg splint. aid posts and mobile units for animals. counts! YVi ilf today. CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN Plans are available for the conversion Such are some of the many skilled Registered Patent Attorney 1A45 Adams Building, Washington, O. C. of Turkish baths and dance halls into duties performed', often at the risk or first aid posts. Nowadays when a build- cost of lives, by the great organization

ing is to be erected in the British Isles, for civil defense, built by the British- be it even a golf locker house, it is de- principally upon unpaid voluntary ser- If r Ruptured signed whenever possible for adaptation vice. .-. :c. into a hospital or first aid station. "In this war," declared John Ander- Care of the homeless after a destruc- son head of Britain's Ministry for tive air raid is being increasingly well Home Security, "every man and woman Try This Out organized in Britain. Here, are a few is in the front lines. A soldier at the Modern Protection Provides Great blackout front who neglects the proper items: There are of course protection Comfort and Holding Security regulations to enforce and maybe that of his trench does more than endanger — Without Tortuous Truss Wearing wouldn't be a job in New York City or his own life; he weakens a portion of An "eye-opening" revelation in sensible and Chicago, for instance! Volunteers are his country's defenses and betrays the comfortable reducible rupture protection may be yours for the asking, without cost or obligation. available to aid the field crews of public trust which has been placed in him. Simply send name and address to William S. Rice, utilities. When people are trapped in a You, too, will have betrayed your trust Inc., Dept. 9-P, Adams, N. Y., and full details of the new and different Rice Method will be sent bomb-smashed home shelter, air wardens if you neglect to take the steps which you Free. Without hard flesh-gouging pads or tormenting pressure, here's a Support that has must be able to shut off the gas, elec- it is your responsibility to take for the brought joy and comfort to thousands—by releas- tricity, and water without delay. Then protection of yourself and your family. ing them from Trusses with springs and straps that bind and cut. Designed to securely hold a is there's the vast quantity of equipment "This the contribution to the win- rupture up and in where it belongs and yet give of comfort. helmets, gas masks, fire extinguishers, ning of final victory which you person- freedom body and genuine For full information—write today ! and so on—to be planned for and sup- ally can make and which no one else plied. You may have saved your tin can make for you. I am confident you JUNIOR GUITAR hat as a souvenir, soldier, but the one will make it." Get tw9 —^« s*^ ^^^0/7 yout ment NOW. Here's ' the Tommy of 191 8 saved didn't go How gallantly the British have made How. Just eend yournarri'_ and address (SEND NO MONEY). 'round the family. it, history testifies. WE TRUST YOU with 28 packa Garden Seeds to sell at 10c a packet. When sold s«-nd $->.M0 collected and WE WILL SEND this mahogany fin- ish guitar (ind Kive Minut.- Instruction Book absolutely FREE. Write for seeds NOW. A post card will do. Address I LANCASTER COUNTY SEED COMPA... Two battery commanders of the 76th Field Artillery, Third Station |67. Paradise, Pennsylvania Division, found themselves on adjacent cots in the hospital at Nantes, France, in July, 1918. Before they recovered from the WORK FOR THE German hardware they had stopped on the Marne they got to know each other well. They had another reunion last October. Legionnaire Joseph Walker presented his congratulations to Legionnaire Milo J. Warner, newly-elected National Commander. He also presented an idea. It appealed so strongly to his old comrade-in-arms that a full report on it was asked. Legionnaire Walker, D.S.C., doubled up on his law practice GOVERNMENT to do considerable investigation, travel, and paperwork in line of $1260 to $2100 Year duty. The resultant report on the organization of an Air Raid TO START Precautions service in the United States and the important part it Ex-Service Men get preference FRANKLIN INSTITUTE might play in The American Legion's general defense plans was Dept. MI80 Rochester, N. Y. submitted to the National You are Commander and through him to the exempt from Rush FREE list of IT. S. Govern- Americanism age limits. ment big pay dependable JOBS. Commission, which was authorized by the National 32-page book describing salaries, hours, work. Tell me all about Executive Committee to include this set-up in its disaster-relief Prepare now for o 1941 Examinations ° preference to Ex-Service men and how to qualify for one of these jobs. program. / Mail Coupon / Name Today- SURE I Address

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(Continued from page j) fights with all its vigor the motorized brings superficiality and the threat of skating rinks, organized sandlot baseball, destruction of life and limb on the na- moral decline, organized movements have athletic tournaments. public libraries, rec- tion's streets and highways. It is the been fostered to avoid disintegration of reational buildings, summer camps, boys' Legion that helps to nip crime, the de- our system of democracy. Where the clubs, Boy and Girl Scout troops, bands stroyer, at its inception by combating Legion has not itself initiated such move- and orchestras, prankless Hallowe'en juvenile delinquency, and by promoting ments, it has been a staunch friend and nights, egg-rollings at Easter, picnics and laws and enforcement methods that stop helper in every welfare, character and holiday celebrations, the heart throb of the gangsters from swarming over our health-building effort. It has stood un- a drab Christmas turned to the joy of States. The Legion's stone wall of oppo- compromisingly for good government, gifts, clothing and luscious edibles, and sition greets those who would destroy our starting at the fountain-head of the bal- you have a partial record of The Amer- natural resources. The insidious enemy, lot. Legion campaigns have effectively ican Legion's direct efforts for better- disease, finds no quarter with the Legion; stemmed the shocking indifference to the ment spread before you. witness the hospitals its Posts have privilege of voting. Education has been

In furtherance of their readiness to built, the ambulances and first-aid facili- defended at every turn, and be it said serve in peace as in war, the Legion- ties it has provided, the iron lungs and to the glory of individual Posts, they naires have become the militant enemies resuscitators it has bought, the health kept many a schoolhouse door open when of destruction. When disaster hits, as it clinics it has conducted, the free milk it economic poverty would have closed has done so frequently and devastatingly has given the undernourished, and the them. Likewise the Legion has tackled

in various parts of the country, it is the medical care it has demanded so its own many other national problems, notably Legion that slips back instantly into members may continue to be breadwin- unemployment, with good results. rigid discipline and invades the shambled ners. On and on could go the list of glow- region with all the heroism of the sol- The Legion's entire program in com- ing achievements that bespeak commu- dier, to save lives and property, to pro- munity effort is built upon a nobler char- nity leadership. If it is a matter of atone- vide food and shelter, to hold the line acter of our citizenry, by precept, exam- ment, the soldier of 191 7 and 191 8 has until organized relief forces can reach the ple and accomplishments. In this push- been washed clean of the scourge of war. scene and take over. It is the Legion that button, mechanized age where leisure Build we must! Destroy, we shall not!

(Continued from page 31) August 31, 191 7, and served for a time WORKING OIM THE at Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas. Sol- dier Palmer was doing well and the go- ing was good until his sister, who visited him at the Waco camp, unwittingly re- vealed to the captain that Carl would soon celebrate his thirteenth birthday. Result: Prompt discharge and a trip

back to his Michigan home. He tried 1 8th Engineers, he returned to America of Cleveland, Ohio, who as an Irish lad later to enlist in the Navy, and was to take up the normal life of an Ameri- of fourteen, enlisted in the Irish Royal

given a six-weeks' training course at can boy. Finishing high school, he Fusileers in 191 8, served overseas and Great Lakes Naval Station, but was too worked his way through Stanford Uni- was wounded in battle. He came to the young to be enlisted. Then he tried to versity, then entered Harvard Law United States in 1923, became a citizen get overseas to enlist in the French School, but after a year switched to in 192S, and a registrant for the draft army, but was again blocked by lack of newspaper work and, after nine years in 1940 when but two months short of proper age. He had size and weight on the Boston Herald-Traveler changed his thirty-sixth birthday. one hundred and sixty pounds of it to the Miami Daily News, Miami, Flor- In the December issue we told you but lacked years. Now, he has years and ida, in the fall of 1939, which paper he about Adrum E. Oppenheimer, of Ports- Uncle Sam is calling again. Long a resi- still serves as a reporter. mouth, Ohio, ex-Gyrene Legionnaire dent of Detroit, his Legion membership Sauliere, as an honorably discharged who was a 1940 draft registrant.

is lodged in Red Arrow Post in that city. soldier, became a member of San Jose Another youthful member of the flock, (California) Post in late 1919 and, with Fargo Had a Parade and one who actually had service in the the exception of one year when in Stan- DESPITE the severe snowstorm that A. E. F., is an old acquaintance of the ford University he transferred his mem- swept the northwest on Armistice readers of Keeping Step—Frank R. bership to Fremont Park, Palo Alto, has Day, Legionnaires staged the annual Sauliere (see The American Legion held his membership there through all Armistice parade at Fargo, North Da- Monthly, September, 1930, page 29), the years. San Jose is home town to kota, thus keeping the parade record T late of Headquarters Company, 18th him, though circumstances have placed intact. W hen it was seen that the storm U. S. Engineers (Railway), now of him elsewhere. would prevent the planned parade Dave Miami, Florida. Sauliere was bom of The Boston Record reports that Grant Brann, Commander of Grafton Post, French parents at San Jose, California, Maclnnes of Revere, Massachusetts, collected seven Legionnaires and started on January 24, 1905, and was seven born December 29, 1904, served overseas the march, bearing the National. Legion months and nine days past his twelfth in the Marine Corps and was wounded in and Red Cross flags. As the wind-swept birthday when he enlisted at Bordeaux, service. No complete report of his serv- procession moved down the slippery,

France, on September 3, 191 7. His pres- ice has been received, and the same is snow covered pavement on the parade ence in France is accounted for by the true of George Spack of Lansford, Penn- route six other Legionnaires joined them. fact that he accompanied his father, sylvania, who, according to press reports, Fargo had its parade, with few marchers who had returned to his homeland to registered for the draft at the age of and none to cheer from the sidelines. take his place in the French army. thirty-five. Another World War veteran, The 1940 parade reminded the Fargo After nearly two years in the A. E. F. now an American citizen, who registered Forum of the "one man" parade staged as the buck private interpreter of the for the 1940 draft is Richard E. Burney by W. P. Christensen, then Commander

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New! Sells Like Wild Amazing 3-in-l household inven- .. on— Brush. Broom. Mop all in one. Makes housework play. Incredibly light-easy to handle—CLEANS NEW WAY1 Sweeps carpets, rugs without g dust: Brushes upholstered furniture. 'thout scratching. En- The show must go on! Despite a raging blizzard Legion- WANTED EVERYWHERE. Hustlers cleaning up! naires of Fargo, North Dakota, staged the annual Ar- CAMDI K ACCrp Samples sent on trial to all who write SHinrLL Ur rtn Bt once A penn , pos tal will do. No mistice Day parade—few in number but strong in spirit obligation. Get details. Be first—tend in your name TODAYI THE KRISTEE PRODUCTS CO., 349 BAH ST.. AKRON. OHIO of Brann Post, when he was faced by a Going to Town Getting Up Nights similar situation in 1933. Commander Christensen was determined that the NOW here is a Post that is really go- parade should go on and he floundered ing to town, although its member- Makes Many Feel Old through snow nearly four feet deep on ship does not rank among the highest," writes Comrade C. W. Parks of North the same route the 1940 marchers fol- Before Their Time lowed. Apparently his only "spectator" Side Post, Spokane, Washington. "In the five years of our work we have not only Do you feel older than you are or suffer from was a barber who came out of a Broad- Getting Up Nights. Backache, Nervousness, Leg way shop and wanted to know: gone over our quota on time but have had Pains, Dizziness. Swollen Ankles. Rheumatic Pains. Burning, scanty or frequent passages? If "Is there going to be a parade?" it raised on us each year. We purchased so. remember that your Kidneys are vital to your health and that these symptoms may be due to Christensen marched on, face set to an old church and remodeled it. Now we non-organic and non-systemic Kidney and have a real home of our own free of debt. Bladder troubles—in such cases CYSTEX (a the front, but shouted back: "This is it. physician's prescription! usually gives prompt Don't disturb me!" Besides keeping all committees busy, our and joyous relief by helping the Kidneys flush out poisonous excess acids and wastes. You have Fargo Legionnaires have a clear Armis- Commanders have' seen to it that some everything to gain and nothing to lose in trying Cystex. An iron-clad guarantee wrapped around tice Day parade record and the spirit new community service is completed each each package assures a refund of your money on year. One project called for leveling off return of empty package unless "fully satisfied. shown will certainly maintain it. Don't take chances on any Kidney medicine that one half of a square block for a play is not guarameea.guaranteed. Don't delay. Get Cystex (Siss-tex) from your *S/. Louis Softball ground, a job that required the labor of druggist today. Only 35c. The guarantee protects eight men for four days, working from Cystex you. Secretary-Treas- %J Helps Flush Kidneys J. MUELLER, nine to twelve hours each day. Our Post urer of the St. Louis () W. has taken sponsorship of a Cub Pack of Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Softball League, announces that St. Louis the Boy Scouts for its new activity this Fire Department Post, under the leader- year." Rheumatic Pain Quickly If you suffer from rheumatic or neuritis pain try ship of Comrades Tom Donovan and , this simple inexpensive home recipe. Get a pack- Garry Byrne put on a "garrison finish" age of Ru-Ex Compound, a two week's supply, to capture the city championship, wrest- The Blue Helmets mix it with a quart of water, add the juice of 4 lemons. Often within 48 hours —sometimes over- ing the title from the several times win- forty-piece all-colored Drum night—splendid results are obtained. If the pains ning Navy Post. THE do not quickly leave you, return the empty package and Bugle Corps from Baltimore and Ru-Ex will cost you nothing to try. It is sold gave Boston one of its thrills at the Na- under an absolute money-back guarantee. Ru-Ex Confession Faith Compound is for sale by druggists everywhere. of tional Convention, and it got plenty of last the Americanization newspaper space," writes a Boston cor- STOVES ALONG July wr. Tr~""^^BH fx. Committee of Advertising Men's respondent. And that corps, gentle reader, Post, of Chicago, drafted a clear and con- was the well known Blue Helmet outfit cise confession of faith which they called composed of members of Federal Post of a "Statement of Principles." Published in the Maryland metropolis, just one of the es 36 Ranges- - n , CoaJ wr The Adposter, the statement became the nearly five hundred musical outfits that property of the Legion of Illinois and so kept Boston entertained during the whole

well was it received that it was read into five days of the Convention. The Blue the report of the Department American- Helmets serenaded Mayor Tobin at City ism Committee at the Danville Conven- Hall, led by Edward V. Clark, Com- oatb *° Jl °to]£v 18 tion. Not in the exact language, but in mander, and William M. Brady, Jr., achieve- KALAMAZOO STOVE & principle and in spirit Adpost's statement Drum Major, then, as a major FURNACE CO., Mfrs. was written into the national American- ment, broadcast a drum and bugle pro- 2066 Rochester Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich. ism program at the Boston Convention gram from the Parker House. m in September. Boyd B. Stutler

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(Continued from page gyrenes—not to overlook the police ASTH MA 35) the major activity centers around the dog mascot—came with this yarn: "wnstmue/fBii Adriatic and Ionian Seas because of "The picture I am sending you from coughs, gasp- If ynu suffer from Asthma, Paroxysms, the ing, wheezing—write quick for daring FREE TRIAL the attempted invasion of Greece by shows American crew aboard the OFFER of amazing relief. Inquiries from so-called "hope- ex-Austrian battleship less" cases especially invited. Write the Italians. Except for the ex-gobs Zrinyi which NACOR. 956-M, State Life Building, Indianapolis, Ind. who served in those waters, perhaps was lying in a small bay around from Corfu and Spalato may not have a Spalato, Dalmatia, shortly after the The American Legion reminiscent ring—but those places were ship was taken over by our Navy in National Headquarters known to men who served with our 1918. Indianapolis, Indiana Adriatic Fleet. "There were six officers, eleven The Island of Corfu was the site chief petty officers, twenty-four sail- Financial Statement of U. S. Naval Base No. 25, from ors, three marines, and one real Ger- October 31, 1940 which operated chasers that effectively man police dog aboard the ship. I threw a barrage across the Adriatic cannot remember the names of any of

.-insets from Brindisi on the Italian coast to the men except the lone marine second Albania. And it was at' Spalato that from the left of the group. We used Cash on Hand and on deposit $ 508,237.74 to call him 'Tex' as hailed . American crews took over the Aus- he from Notes and accounts receivable. . 1+6.222.32 95,966.49 Inventories trian battleships, K. U. K. Radetzky Texas and I'm pretty sure his name Invested funds . 2,235,025.17 Permanent investments: and K. U. K. Zrinyi. The "K. U. K," was Patton. He was later promoted to

Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. . 206,819.54 Office building, Washington, D. C, less incidentally, is an abbreviation of the a sergeancy. I am the marine wear- 121,097.64 depreciation German phrase meaning "Imperial and ing the white duty belt, next to him. Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation 35,897.79 Royal." Over my shoulder can be seen dimly the Deferred charges 35,779.49 We're glad, therefore, that we held sister ship of the Zrinyi, the Radet- 385,046.18 $3, for a year and can show on page 35 a zky. picture that was sent to us by Richie "We three marines were aboard the Sierer, ship to guard a sailor who was await- Liabilities. Deferred Revenue Past Vice Commander of Far Rockaway (New York) Post of the ing questioning in connection with mul Net W orth Legion, who lives at 1708 New Haven trouble some of the crew had had Avenue in that seaside city. Even with nearby civilians. Current liabilities $ 108,580.45 suppose officers Funds restricted as to use 38,084.87 though Richie was a leatherneck and "I some of the in Deferred revenue 354,263.33 not a gob, besides teaching classes he the group are now well up in the ranks. Permanent trust:

Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. . 206,819.54 is coach of the swimming team of Far I would like to hear from anyone who Net Worth: in still Restricted capital 552,164.46.3.96 Rockaway High School, a team which was this picture and as I have Unrestricted capital 512,834.03 2,677,297.99 has hung up all sorts of records, in- the negative, I will gladly send him 83,385,046.18 cluding wins over the Yale freshmen a print of it. I would also like to and the West Point plebcs. The picture know what became of that dog mas- Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant of a bunch of gobs, with a sprinkling of cot. Did one of the crew bring him

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home to the States? Perhaps some day called my attention to John J. Noll's we may be able to enjoy a get- department in the February issue of KIDNEYS together." The American Legion Magazine. "I am accepting Mr. Noll's invita- MUST REMOVE WONDER if you recall in these tion to 'let him hear more of the baby columns in the February, 1940, reported to have been born in the EXCESS ACIDS issue, an item, introduced with the Naval Hospital in Brest, France,' by Help 15 Miles of Kidney Tubes phrase, "Babies, Just Babies!" which adding the following to his Odyssey: Flush Out Poisonous Waste If you have an excess of acids in your blood, your was based on a letter that came from "At the time in question I was an 15 miles of kidney tubes may be over-worked. These tiny Legionnaire W. C. McCullough of American Consul and was assigned to filters and tubes are working day and night to help Nature rid your system of excess acids and poisonous Isleta, Ohio, from which we republish Brest, France. arriving there in waste. When disorder of kidney function permits poison- the following extract: "As a hospital January, 1918, accompanied by my ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- corpsman at U. S. Naval Base Hospi- wife. Through the unusual and greatly ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness tal No. 5, located at Brest. I remem- appreciated courtesies of Admiral under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting burning some- ber a child being born to American Henry B. Wilson, the Commander of and times shows there is something wrong with your parents in the hospital during 1918. the United States Naval Forces in kidneys or bladder. Kidneys may need help the same as bowels, so ask . . . The father was either an Army France, with headquarters at Brest, your druggist for Doan's Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and Or Marine officer." my wife was extended the privilege will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poison- Even at the time, we felt we were of being hospitalized in Naval Hos- ous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.

Stretching a point by using the plural pital No. 5, for the delivery of her of baby—but time has proved that first baby. The naval doctors, nurses —WANTED—MEN— re- attendants not first- our statement was correct. In our and only did a to cast 5 and 10c Novelties, Toy Autos, Ash- port then, we traced the investigation rate professional job. but they gave trays, etc. Can be done in any spare room, basement or garage and no experience neces- we had made with the aid of Legion- my wife and myself such courtesies sary. A rare opportunity for 1941, to devote spare or full time to profitable work. Write naires Walter Gorsline of Montello, and consideration incidental to her Dept. a. Wisconsin, Joseph Hines of Latrobe, hospitalization that we both carry last- METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO. Pennsylvania, and through the Office ing memories of their kindness. You 1696 Boston Road New York City of Naval Records and Library in may well believe that the United Washington, D. C. There developed States Navy has a personal meaning some confusion as to whether the to us, and it has our affections beyond UTPT father of this child was an officer in the usual patriotic admiration. 25* Packets the military service or, as a letter that "The baby born in Naval Base Regular 750 Value eventually came from the naval office Hospital No. 5 was a healthy girl This remarkable offer is in Washington suggested, the then and was named Elizabeth Jarrett made to prove the superior quality of our Pure Bred Seed. American Consul in Brest. The Bureau Forbus. That navy baby is now Mrs. One 25c packet each of

! ROSE: Fiery rose, topaz throat. of Medicine and Surgery, while ad- Edward B. Ashforth. who resides in CELESTIAL ROSE: Beautiful rich, satiny rose. HOLLYWOOD STAR: Deep rose, amber throat. mitting that the Consul's wife had Astoria, Long Island, New York, and 5-pointed bloom. Send 10c for this great 75c value, and Condon's 1941 Seed and Nursery Catalog been a patient in the Naval Hospital, has a fine baby girl of her own. or postal for Catalog alone. p^££ stated that the records did not indi- "It may be of further interest to RocMord, Illinois- cate that a child had been born to state that this same baby returned to her. the United States with her mother for Could Henry VIII Have Had Well, the story in Then and Now a visit during the war and made the brought results. Not long after the return trip on the famous old Levia- Stomach Ulcer Pains? February issue was distributed, we got than and on that trip Josephus History tells how Henry VIII would gorge him- a letter from none other than Sample Daniels, wartime Secretary of the self with food and suffer afterward. Don't ignore B. Forbus of Durham, North Carolina, Navy, was also aboard. Truly, then, your sufferings. Try a 25c box of Udga for relief of ulcerand stomach pains, indigestion, gas pains, who certainly was in a position to give she is a United States Navy baby!" heartburn, burning sensation, bloat and other the following firsthand information: conditions caused by excess acid. Udga Tablets must help you or your money will be promptly friend, Crutch- "My good Mr. J. C. BEFORE the receipt of Mr. For- refunded. At drug stores everywhere. field, who served as electrician, sec- bus's letter, however, fellow ond class, on the U. S. S. Bath and Legionnaires had come to our aid. COLOR CHART OF S. S. Frederick the World Mrs. G. Ethel Russell Ulary of North U. during MEDAL RIBBONS is East, War and now a member of Dur- Maryland, reported that she had Showing the principal medal ribbons of t he world and 5U page illustrated book showing ham (North Carolina) Post, has {Continued on page 62) all medals and articles of insignia of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. Send 10c in coin or stamps to cover postage. ceorce w. STUDLEY 597 Lake Ave. Rochester, N. Y. LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. General George C. Marshall, Lafayette Post, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Erik Madisen, Oney Johnston Post, Appleton. Wisconsin. Free for Asthma William Heaslip, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. Henry W. Fleet, East Side Post, New York City. During Winter Fairfax Downey, Second Division Post, New York City. If you suffer with those terrible attacks of Asthma Frank Street, Sergeant Clendenon Newell Post, Leonia, New Jersey. when it is cold and damp ; if raw, Wintry winds Harry Townsend, Frank C. Godfrey Post, Norwalk, . make you choke as if each gasp for breath was the very last; if restful sleep is impossible Frank A. Mathews, Jr., Frederick M. Rodgers Post, Palmyra, New Jersey. because of the struggle to breathe; if you feel the disease is George Shanks, Reville Post, Brooklyn, New York. slowly wearing your life away, don't fail to send at Frederick Palmer. City Club Post, New York City. once to the Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial of Karl Detzer. Leelanue County Post, Leland, Michigan. a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether you have any faith in any remedy under Herbert Curtis, Bellingham (Washington! Post. the Sun, send foi this free trial. If you have suffered Grant Powers, Thomas Roberts Reath Marine Post, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. for a lifetime and tried everything you could learn of without relief; even if you are utterly discouraged, Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- do not abandon hope but send today for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Address naires, are not listed. Frontier Asthma Co. 53-H, Frontier Bids:. 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York

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INDEX of {Continued from page 6i) 1 91 8 there was bom to Mrs. Forbus, ADVERTISERS been a nurse in Naval Base Hospital wife of the American Consul, a baby No. 5 and added: "I don't remember girl. ... I recall that another baby about a baby being born in the hos- was born to a French girl who had pital but I do recall there was some married an American naval officer, but American Telephone & Tele- secrecy about a woman patient being I cannot find anyone to confirm this 49 graph Co in a naval hospital." She advised us thought." that in her hospital Miss Alice M. We then proceeded to search for Co. Block Drug Garrett of Media, Pennsylvania, had Mr. Good. The Adjutant General's Gold Medal Oil Capsules 55 been chief nurse. Miss Fay Fulton, Office, War Department, in Washing- Brooks Co 63 of Philadelphia, anesthetist, and Miss ton, had no record of a John Paul Brown & Williamson Tohaeco Alice Hurst, also of Philadelphia, in Good. The Bureau of Navigation, charge of the operating room. Navy Department, however, told us Corp. We wrote to these three fellow vet- that former Ensign Paul F. Good,

Raleigh Tohaeco. . 47 Sir Walter erans and in response, Miss Hurst, on USNR, resided in Lincoln, Nebraska, the letterhead of the School of Nurs- and he proved to be our man—a mem- Calvert Distillers Corp. ing, Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia, ber of the law firm of Good & Simons.

Old Drum Whiskey 45 reported that she had no information, So it was a former gob. Ensign Good, Carter Medicine Co 63 "having been absent from the hospital who made this interesting report to Comfit Co 60 and assigned to other duties at the us time of this event." Miss Garrett "Your information is correct. While Condon Bros., Seedsmen 61 wrote to say, "I read the item, I was an ensign on the staff of Ad- Cystex 59 'Babies, Just Babies,' in the February miral Sims in London, I was married issue with interest for I knew a baby to Dorothy Collins at Clyst St. George D. D. D. Corp 60 was born in our hospital in Brest— near Exeter, Devonshire, England, on Denison, T. S. Co 63 & most unusual occurrence in a Naval September 1, 1917, and we lived in Doan's Pills 61 Base. I remember the incident was London for a little over a month. I mentioned at our last reunion in De- was then transferred to Brest, serving Franklin Institute 57 cember. ... I am hoping Miss Ful- in our Naval Headquarters there un- Frontier Asthma Co 61 ton, Miss Hurst or Guy Quick, secre- til after the Armistice. Since the regu- Fyr-Fyter Co 55 tary of our Naval Base Hospital No. lations did not forbid the wife of an 5 Association, can furnish details." American officer to accompany him to Kalamazoo Stove & Furnace Co.. 59 Then a letter from Miss Fulton, other points in Europe, if she were also from the Methodist Hospital in already over there, my wife went with Kristee Products Co 59, 63 Philadelphia, from which we extract me to Brest. letter "Our son, Lancaster County Seed Co 57 the following: "Your was hand- John Paul Good, was ed to Guy Quick, secretary of Base born on August 191S, at Naval LaSalle Extension University... 55 3, No. 5 reunions. . . . Regretfully I have Base Hospital No. 5 in Brest. Dr. Liggett & Myers Tohaeco Co. only a few facts for you. Talley officiated and Miss Erma Hol- Chesterfields Cover IV "I can give definite information that loway, one of the regular staff nurses, Long-Eakins Co 53 Mrs. Sample Forbus was delivered of took care of my wife. It was, of a baby girl, July 21, 1918, in our course, a very fine thing that the Navy McNess Company 57 hospital. She was an American Con- did for us in taking care of Mrs. Metal Cast Products Co 61 sul's wife. ... Mr. W. C. McCul- Good and the baby. Admiral Wilson, lough of Isleta, Ohio, is quite right then in charge of Naval Headquarters, Morris, Philip & Co., Ltd. in his report of the Army officer's insisted that we arrange it that way. Street Tohaeco 51 Bond wife who was delivered of a baby Because of the great amount of noise

boy, August 3, 19 1 8, also in Naval the baby made, it was natural that \acnr Medicine Co o<) Base No. 5. I do know a little some- the navy personnel of the hospital thing about the Army officer. His dubbed him 'the boatswain!' O'Brien, C. A 57 name was John Paul Good. He had "We returned to the States soon County of Orange Chamber been a student at Oxford, England, after the Armistice and reached Lin-

Commerce 59 when war broke out, and joined the coln on Christmas Day, 191 8, and our English army. He married an English home has been here ever since. John R. J. Reynolds Tohaeco Co. girl. When America entered the war, now has three younger brothers. After Camels Cover II he was placed with American Forces, finishing the Lincoln grade schools and Prince Albert 43 came to Brest and was allowed to high school, John attended Amherst bring his wife with him. Mr. Good College in Massachusetts, from which Rice, Win. S., Inc 57 was a lawyer from Lincoln, Nebraska. he graduated this past June 16th. We Ru-Ex Co 59 . . . I was with Navy Base No. 5 at are proud of the fact that he gradu- Brest, and am a charter member of ated at the head of his class, summa Studley, George W 61 Helen Fairchild Nurses Post, Phila- cum laude, and was awarded a fellow- Pants Superior Match Co 60 delphia." ship under which he is studying law We were getting places—and then at the University of Chicago Law Udga, Inc 61 came confirmation from Secretary School this fall. United Factories, Inc 63 Guy C. Quick of Drexel Hill, Penn- "I was extremely interested to

part, he said, is learn that in U. S. Playing Card Co.. . .Cover III sylvania. In "It my you were communication recollection that there were two babies with Mr. Forbus. We had completely Zanol 60 born in our hospital. ... In July of lost touch with both Mr. and Mrs.

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S. Transport Orizaba—Proposed reunion. Forbus since we left Brest. Naturally U. Write to Groesbeck Walsh, M.D., Employes Hos- Mrs. Good and Mrs. Forbus were pital, Fairfield, Ala. WAKE Leon- UP YOUR U. S. S. Zeelandia—Reunion of crew. very friendly in view of the fact that ard W. Wittman, 1908 E. Main, Rochester. N. Y. Mrs. Forbus's child was born about - ANNOUNCEMENTS of reunions and LIVER BILE ten days before John was born. As A. activities at times and places other Without you request. I am sending a recent Calomel—And You'll Jump Out than the Legion National Convention, of photograph of our Navy-born son. Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go follow The liver should pour 2 pints of bile juice have been a member of Lincoln into "I your bowels every day. If this bile is not flowing Soc OF 3d Div.—22d annual reunion. Willard freely, your food may not digest. It may just de- Post of the Legion ever since its or- Hotel, D. July 10-12. Wm. A. Washington, C, cay in the bowels. Then gas bloats up your stom- Shomaker, secy., 3811 25th PI., N.E., Washing- ganization."' ach. You get constipated. You feel sour, on the Rhine, sunk and ton, D. C. For copy of The Watch the world looks punk. are happy to show what John write Harry Cedar, 4320 Old Dominion Dr., We It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Arlington, Va. Pills to get these 2 pints of bile flowing freely to Paul Good looks like now—his photo- 32d Div. Vet. Assoc. Annual convention-re- — make you feel "up and up." Get a package today. union, Jackson, Mich., Aug. 30-31. Chas. Alex- graph appears on page 35. Sorry, Take as directed. Amazing in making bile flow free- ander, conv. chmn., 108 N. Forbes St., Jackson. ly. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills. and though, our efforts to obtain a pic- Rainbow Div. Vets.—23d annual natl. re- lOtf 25

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