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May, 1929 IfaERICAN EGION Contents Cover Design: the first wave by Harvey Dunn Souvenirs de Guerre by Morris H. Brisks San Juan by Charles Johnson Post 7 Illustrations by the Author I he Roaring Forties by Captain George Fried IO The Million Dollar Baby by Lnarles V. Slattery 12 Illustration by Raymond Sisley Trees of the A. E. F. by Chet Shafer 14 Bad Men by William D. Fossett 16 Illustration by Jerome G. Rozen

Nature's Own Side Show 1

The Broken 3-. Part Three by Karl W. Detzer 20 Illustrations by V. E. Pyles Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel ^4 This Way Up by John Dwight Sullivan 26 False Alarm by Wallgren 28 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 29 Keeping Step by Right Guide 30 Bells of Memory by Carter Johnson 37 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 38 Golden Footlights by Kirke Mechem 39 Yes, There Is Rest by Joseph A. Burns 42 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 43 The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG

Maine: The 23d State, admitted to the Union March sq. mile. Rank among States (1920 U. S. Census), 35th in 15, 1820. The English made the first permanent set- population, 38th in area, 31st in density. Capita":, Au- tlement in 1622 at Monhegan and Saco under a grant to gusta (1920 U. S. Census), 14,114. Three largest cities Gorges and Mason. A previous attempt of the (1928 U. S. est.), Portland, 78,600; Lewiston, 36,- French to settle at the mouth of the Kennebec 600; Bangor, 25,978. Estimated wealth (1923 River in 1607 had failed. In 1639 Gorges ob- U. S. Census), $2,006,531,000. Principal sources of tained a royal charter covering the southern part wealth (1923 U. S. Census), paper and wood- of the colony. In 1664 the Duke of York, re- pulp, $100,811,935; cotton goods, $46,702,017; ceived a grant for the territory north of the boots and shoes, $38,832,522; all farm products Kennebec. Many settlers came from Massachu- (1920 U. S. Census) were valued at $100,152,324, setts, to which commonwealth the colonists potatoes totaling $52,339,000 and the remainder looked for its government after 1652. In 1678 in hay, live stock and dairy products. Maine Massachusetts bought the title of the Gorges had 33,032 men and women in service during the grant, and until 1820 Maine was considered a World War. State motto, adopted January r, district of the parent colony and State. Popula- 1820, "Dirigo"—"I direct." Origin of nam.: tion, 1790, 96,54°; 1928 (U. S. est.), 795,000. From Maine, the province in France south o<: Percentage of urban population (communities of 2,500 and Normandy, to honor its owner, Queen Henrietta, wife of over), 1900, 33.5; 1910, 35.3; 1920, 39. Area, 33,040 sq. Charles I of England, who granted the colony its charter. miles. Density of population (1920 U. S. Census), 25.7 per Nickname: Pine Tree State.

Robert F. Smith, General Manager John T. Winterich, Editor Philip Von Blon, Managing Editor

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THE FLORSHEIM SHOE COMPANY • Manufacturers , CHICAGO MAY, 1929 3 OUVENIRS de GUERRE /NSECT pests have graph letters, signed books, not finished with the portraits, broadsides, books A. E. F. There re- By Morris H.Briggs and pamphlets by and about mains a persistent the notable personages of bug which has attacked the the Civil War, such as Lin- survivors of every known coln, Grant, Lee, Jackson, war. Already it has stung Jefferson Davis, Sherman, its hundreds and by 1939, ac- Welles and Seward. For cording to past experience, decades after the Civil War thousands will be hopelessly te Six autograph letters of Lincoln infected with the collecting Cent S could be picked up for five or virus. Like a colleague un- 9 ten dollars that would bring ,ARY 13. T0!__ favorably known in France, as many thousands today. the collecting bug cannot be Guard Duty, Adopting a similar policy .. n Hints on seen with the eye, but he gets rwn - I 0nve at the present time is plain under the skin just the same. common sense. There is a Once a sufferer is bitten, momentary lull in Woodrow there is little hope for a per- Wilson interest. This may manent cure. However, the continue for a decade or so course of the disease can be but eventually his autograph directed. If done intelli- letters and other Wilsoniana gently collecting will prove will have a great and con- profitable and worthwhile; tinually appreciating value. otherwise a mass of worthless GENERAL HARBQRD AM go homf dnf No man in history ever occu- junk will be accumulated. pied a more commanding Collectors of Civil War mate- position than Woodrow Wil- rial have left direction mark- son from 1917 to 1919. As ers, some of them detour signs, was the case with Lincoln, he that it is well to heed. will come into his day of Almost immediately after glory, and collectors who the 1861-1865 struggle, large have hitched their wagon to 13 th ENGINEERS, (RYi U. S. AMEXFORCE IN FRANCE libraries and many veter- his star will profit accord-

of both blue gray, 1, Washer ingly. principle ans, and Vol. 1 No tO. NOVEMBER 13, 1918 [ PRICE The same started in to pick up just holds true for Pershing, about everything related to Foch, Clemenceau, Haig, the four-year fracas. These Lloyd George, Hindenburg, veterans were justifiably The the Kaiser and Ludendorff. interested in their exploits Jayhawkerinfrance Material on the rela- and experiences and remain tions of Pershing with the so today, as may be readily British and French high 35th Division Reaches discovered through con- commands is an enthrall- 137ifl Rflninifint Tn versing with them. There ing subject for collection. was such a mass of this ma- Of great fascination is the terial, so much of it dry and strange character of Lu- statistical, so much of it dendorff, a military genius unreliable or prejudiced, whose mind came to high- that in 1929 it is almost im- est power in directing the possible to give away much most titanic struggles of of it, let alone trying to sell Che St recorded warfare and, it. Others, like Andrew lacking that stimulus, has FRANCE. FSlDAT, Boyd, John E. Burton and failed notably in meeting Major William H.Lambert, after-war conditions. But decided that it was worth while to pick and choose. As a result in 1918 it was only through the grace of God and a handful of they built up collections that brought when dispersed at auction Aussies that he did not become a greater than Napoleon. Collect- perhaps ten times or more their original cost. ors can make no mistake in following the men who from 1914 to this Heed lesson, World War collectors! Don't try to secure 1 918 shook the world. everything about the good old days of 1917-1918. Let the libra- In collecting it is the dramatic, the unusual which has interest ries do this. A good many of them are making a fine job of it. and value. Such qualities are found in the books, pamphlets, In 1958 this material will prove of inestimable value to the student magazines and newspapers published by the A. E. F. during writing a thesis on the number of cans of goldfish served at Brest 1917-1919 in England, France, Germany and elsewhere. Never from April, 191 7, to September, 1919, or on the inferiority complex before in American history had an expeditionary force made a of second lieutenants. When your library is dispersed this com- long enough sojourn abroad to produce such a wealth of mate- mon run of World War material will not buy much airplane gas rial. It is already exceedingly scarce. Aside from The Stars and for your heirs. Stripes, the classic example, there are a great many weekly and Just what did Boyd, Burton, Lambert and other discriminat- monthly publications of divisions, regiments, battalions and other ing Civil War collectors choose that made their collections valu- units of the A. E. F. which even today are being urgently sought able? First of all they followed the men who might be termed, in after. Try to pick up a complete set of Pershing's general orders current Chicago slang, "the Big Shots." Thev went after auto- published in France, a file of the American {Continued on page 48)

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Captain Rafferty of Private Post' s company— y 5HEN we stepped into F of the yist New York. This and the other A pause. ' ! ' I* ' >/ the narrow path that drawings accompanying Mr. Post's article ivere Forward—march §/ u/ led off from the main Another pause, i made during the course of the Cuban campaign road back to Siboney "Halt, lie down!" J f and are here reproduced for the first time we knew we had walked into a battle. Occasionally an officer ploughing Bits of leaves and occasionally a through the mess demanding heatedly: twig were fluttering to the ground on either side and the seething "Where the hell's my company!" hiss-and-whine of bullets came in stormy blasts. Back on the "Company F forward!" main road by El Pozo we had filled its crooked direction as we "Where's M!" marched in column of fours. But as we turned into this trail at "Gangway—gangway—here comes the orderly!" the left we had to close in to column of twos and later to column Gangway! The orderly never got through. Men were jammed of files, so narrow did it become. On each side the Cuban jungle there so thick that no orderly could get through. The tall figure rose like a wall, a wall of matted green, vine, tree and creeper, of Regimental Adjutant Abeel came ploughing down a little way mixed with a kind of pineapple cactus, and all tangled in a wild against the current and was joined by the equally tall figure of growth that was as easy to penetrate as a pile of fish-nets. Here Battalion Adjutant Fisher. They conferred over something and there a branching tree would screen the hot blue overhead, standing up. A Regular Army band crowded along—that meant but in the main this trail was only a narrow alley through a another regiment in the trail. It was the band of the Sixteenth verdure-infested jungle. Infantry. They were carrying their instruments, but their And the orders to the regiment had been—where General business in battle was to look after wounded. Opposite me a Kent gave them as the head of our regiment reached him just as bandsman tossed his horn into the brush and picked up a rifle the balloon discovered this jungle trail that was a short cut to the that had been dropped by some casualty. An officer saw him: Spanish position on San Juan Hill—to go through this trail until "Pick up that horn, you! And close up!" "our right (military term for the head of the column) reached The man pretended net to hear. His side partner—who 1 the San Juan River and then deploy! ' Deploy—for the non- already had a cartridge belt foraged from another casualty and military reader—means to open out, to extend front from column who still carried his horn—spoke: and we were to deploy through this impassable fish-net jungle. "Cheese it, Jerry—bring the horn—he seen you. We'll git It could not be done. It was not done and, as one result, that guns—there'll be a-plenty. We'll gittem." narrow trail became filled as with a mob as three regiments were "Pick up that horn, damn you!" again roared the officer's poured into it. voice. The man picked it up and plunged on to catch up with his The head of our regiment rested on the banks of the San Juan bunkie. River all right enough, but other regiments, as they reached "Hell!" he said, angrily, "think I'm goin' to lug a dam' horn General Kent, were poured into that trail until it became almost into this dam' fight! I'm goin' into it a-shootin'!" a solid mass of sweating, panting, grimy and slow-moving men in Ten days later I saw the bandsmen bring up those horns after which mass there was no more formation than there is in the they had been sent back for them. I doubt if there was a single main aisle of a big department store the night before Christmas. bandsman who had not. chucked his instrument into the jungle "Halt, lie down!" brush of that trail. They passed us as we lay camped on Misery And we jammed ourselves into the fish-net jungle for a few Hill supporting Capron's battery. Such horns! There was not inches and some other company from some other regiment would one that did not carry a bullet hole—some a half dozen. heave abreast and then itself stagnate in the jam. From the rear there came bellowing of officers: "Halt, lie down!" "Get forrad there—why the hell don't you get ahead?" MAY, 1929 7 " —

A shell burst somewhere overhead. The little trickle of twigs the handful of men—less than eighty—who had been squeezed and broken leaves continued—but it was amazing how few out of all regiments at the head of this trail like paint from a men stumbled and dropped. Just here and there—not often. tube; and Lieutenant Ord was killed just as the hill was taken But then one could not see very far, and sometimes there and as he jumped across the narrow Spanish trench. would be a scream—a man's scream. And these were the days What a trail that was! Moment by moment it became more of the hard-bitten Injun fighters, fresh and tough from the jammed. A Negro regiment, the Tenth Cavalry, piled in. "Halt, frontier posts of the West. lie down!"—and we lay side by side. "Get up, forward, march!" "1 fait, he down!" and a couple of black troopers lay still. Shot, like enough, I "Forward, march!" thought—and I went prickly with the thought of the sudden "Close up—come on!" death so close. More bellowing officers, sometimes from in front, sometimes Not so the black first sergeant. That lynx-eyed black man in the rear. The trail was widening from the sheer pressure of the every inch a soldier and a first sergeant—had his eye on every crowded men within it—at one time three regiments were man of the troop as they rose. "C'mon there, you boys—git up!" scrambling abreast of each other with a few steps, then a halt, he called. There was no move on the part of the two silent then a few steps more, and "Halt, he down!" figures near me. "Hey, c'mon, git up thar, you two boys—quit Up the line there came orders—officers yelling for silence. yo' foolin'!" He poked a carbine at the nearest and touched him "Orders for the head of the column—shut up, you men!" in the ribs—not brutally, just a sort of friendly poke. But the shells bursting high overhead and the seething little And the nearest black dead man came to life. whine of bullets didn't shut up. We were too hot—too scared to "Ah's got an' awful stummick trouble, boss—hones' t' Gawd, talk much. The noise was mostly the officers yelling at their boss—I've done giv' out!" He turned his face pleadingly toward men, at the men of other regiments, at their sergeants, and ?bove the first sergeant and gave a groan. The other dead man groaned. all the "Close up—damn you, men, close up!" And then the "Me too, boss—Ah cain't go no furder." non-coms doing their yelling, too. But we shut up and in the The first sergeant gave another poke with his carbine butt. silence—except for the seething and the fluttering leaves and "C'mon there, Jack, an' you too, Bill—stick by th' boys—you twigs—there came the order passed from company to company ain't goin' back on them thissaway!" The two prone figures bawled by word of mouth. groaned. — "General Kent's compliments to Colonel Downs and requests "Ah jus' cain't—ma stummick, boss—Ah jus' that he advance as far as possible!" Well, the first sergeant just naturally burst. Smaller than Some of the regiment was still out in the main road. General either, he just simply went up in the air and when he lit he had Kent did not know that the head had already reached the San two black troopers by the scruff of the necks. He fairly lifted Juan River and could them on their feet, he jammed their carbines into their hands, he go no further under his whirled them around like limp dish rags and with a heavy army orders and could not boot implanted two rapid-fire kicks that stiffened them like a deploy. galvanic shock and, as they drooped again, he kicked them twice They passed that more, driving them ahead of him down the struggling, clawing order up by word of column toward the front. His language? Well—it wasn't very mouth. It was the only bad, just a mild sample of ordinary army cussin'. But his chief

way an order could get through in that jam, and back came the reply again bawled down the line: "Colonel Downs reports that he has advanced as far as possible." That was the last order given or taken in that battle. Colonel Downs could not deploy in that jungle as ordered. He was an in- dependent commander in battle action and dependent upon his own initiative. But he did not seem to realize it. General Kent Sketched by Private Post on San Juan Hill, near had given an impossible order and it was a captain's action, at the blockhouse, 1898 most, from that moment. In fact, a Lieutenant Ord, our bri- July 2, gade quartermaster it was, who actually captured San Juan with

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refrain as long as I could hear him ment in that trail? He told me—he told was: a number of us as we used to gather, after "You ain' a-goin' back on th' dark, on the trenches that faced Santiago, boys now that we're here, no suh and talk. Talk about anything—for back you blank blank blank blanks I of us and all along the lines was disease, you'm a-goin' t' stick, you bet y'are scanty food, rain, and all day long the —you'm goin' t' stay by th' boys burial squads blowing Taps over men that brought you here, Ah'm bettin' 17 healthy men two weeks before—and who that, blank blank you!" never were touched by a bullet.) And as far as I could see him c "Where the hell is K?" "M Company which was not far he would alter- forward Company, close up!" It — : —M nate a kick with a slap on — was Captain Goldsborough, boyish, pink- the back and an occasional faced and with a little prod with his carbine. moustache scarcely as big Do you know what we as Captain Rafferty's, out felt, we who saw this little in the trail waving his incident? It put courage sword above his head. into us. We laughed at Rafferty was my captain the sergeant—or rather —big, blond, English- with him. Somewhere a born, thoroughly Ameri- voice called: "That's right, canized, who had been give it to 'em, Sambo!" through one Afridi cam- And the black first ser- paign in upper India and geant, without turning his another campaign in the head from his job, called Soudan—a splendid offi- back—and without raising cer and, if one may use a his voice in anger hackneyed phrase, idol- "You mind your own dam' business—I'm a-tendin' to this!" ized by his company. After that right they would follow But what a relief—two men scareder than we were! him blindfold — the best handler of men I have ever "Forward, march!" known. Again a few steps, and then a pause. "Halt, lie down." But already Rafferty was nowhere in sight. Already I was And again we nuzzled gratefully into the grassy dirt and shuffling along in a strange group. In fact, as a small man, I was watched the ants and jungle bugs staggering around with their away down in the rear in the last squad and only occasionally little loads in their nippers. had I seen him far ahead in the Hot? There was not a breath of air, and if there had been packed jungle trail as his voice came the high jungle walls would have shut it off from us. It was hot. floating down the line: "Forward, And all the time seeing nothing except the jam of our own men, F, close up, close up, boys!" And halting, crouching, shouting at their companies, mixing in with then the "Halt, lie down!" as we -^S^Y our company, our men getting mixed up with other commands, jammed again into the packed mass and men and officers and corporals steadily yelling to their com- ahead. mands to keep together. "Forward, F Company!" "Keep to- My file leader was there with me, gether, F—close up, dammit, close up!" It was a Regular Army Harry Carpenter, the only familiar captain of an F Company who was shouting at his command: face in sight—he died later of fever "F Company—forward—F Company, close up—keep together and neglect, like so many did who —F Company, forward!" escaped that day in the trail. Ahead And it was Captain Rafferty of F Company who, halted in our of him were strange faces; men not own regimental column and pocketed like the rest of us, pre- of my company—and they wore tended to misunderstand. He decided, in that confusion and Regular Army uniforms, khaki and as his defense if challenged for his action, to pretend that that was blue shirts. Our shirts were dark orders for his F Company. He jumped to his feet: blue too, but we were distinctive in "F Company—forward!" still having the light blue trousers So we went on into the jam of another regiment. And Cap- and short cuff leggins of the Civil tain Goldsborough, of our M Company, who was right behind, War. On my right was a black followed on. trooper—a half a dozen mixed in (How do I know what Captain with us—here and there a Seventy- Rafferty thought and how he hap- first man—there a Negro—here a pened to break loose from the regi- tough old Injun fighter that might have stepped out of any of Reming- ton's pictures—but my regiment was gone—in fact my company was gone. Just Harry Carpenter and I and in the midst of a crowded jungle alley of total strangers, but all jostling slowly to the front. Officers 1* were mixed in at intervals—but *f* there wasn't an officer that was with his own company at that time—at least their language bore proof of it, H for profanely they would bawl at each other for their company or At ease before the their regiment. What a mess! fight. There was But, mind you, every manjack in neither room nor that outfit sweating and shuffling slowly forward hard on the heels of the man time to read the and jamming ahead. There was no going back. Even the wounded news from home on stayed where they were hit. the crowded path It doesn't read much like the nice polished accounts of a through the Cuban battle. San Juan Hill was a private's battle and the biggest jungle on the way officer that had a hand in it was that Lieutenant Ord who led to San Juan a handful of men that had been squeezed, as I said, like paint out of a tube at the forward end of this trail, and captured San Juan and was promptly killed (Continued on page 52)

MAY, IQ20 9 The ROARING /HAVE been at For a ship may make a sea too many hundred or two hundred years not to have crossings without a single a deep respect mishap and then suddenly for the ocean. A broken face a desperate crisis. rudder chain, a mistake FORTIES Technically the steamship in dead reckoning in a inspection service assumes fog, an iceberg farther the responsibility for the south than usual—and By Captain George Fried ship itself. The ship's even the largest modern own officers and engi- liner may be imperiled. neers, however, are in Such emergencies may put seafaring men of today to just as the final analysis the ones who should know most about her. gruelling tests of stamina, skill and courage as were faced by And when it comes to judging of the competency of the crew and their predecessors of the clipper-ship era. Serious emergencies maintaining it, the responsibility is entirely theirs. happen far less frequently than formerly, of course, but this It is not necessary that every member of the crew should be factor increases rather than lessens the difficulties of being pre- of the stuff of which shock battalions are made. But in time of pared for them when they do occur. stress some posts are of strategic importance. There may be A man may go to sea all his life in modern ships without en- a time when everything will depend on the men who fill these countering any serious dangers. On the other hand, no one ever posts. In the two rescues in which ships under my command goes to sea for any considerable period without learning something have taken part the members of the crews of the boats which by first-hand experience of the danger that always threatens. actually effected the rescues figured most dramatically and most The sea is a living force. Steel ships can master it only so long heroically. Their efforts, however, had to be supplemented by as engines, rudders and propellers are properly working, hulls those of the crew who remained aboard. seaworthy, and the ships properly navigated. In the case of the Antinoe rescue the Roosevelt stood by for Before any ship which I command puts to sea I must know four days before Chief Officer Miller and his crew finally suc- that she is seaworthy. And then there must be a reserve of sea- ceeded in reaching her in a small boat. Much maneuvering in worthiness in the ship, and of stamina and ability in the crew. heavy seas was necessary. Some of the time the Roosevelt had a

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roll of thirty-five degrees. A false move and the Roosevelt herself as well. But to the sailor it also represents an expected phase of might have foundered. It is conceivable that this might have working conditions. Furthermore if he is planning to battle with happened if the engine room had responded to the bridge with it in a boat no bigger than a cockleshell it is a challenge. Experi- too many or too few revolutions. Actually, the engine room re- ence supplies him the ability to size up his working conditions. sponded in every case with the exact number of revolutions called It may take courage to tackle the job, and before he is through for. Hardly any of us had any sleep for nights. Men who go it may take character to finish it. without sleep are prone to make mistakes. Fortunately, the men There is a striking similarity, and also an interesting contrast, in in the pivotal positions had the stamina to meet an emergency the conditions that surrounded the rescues of the crews of the such as this. So did the men on the America when the Florida Antinoe and of the Florida. Both were in the roaring forties. crew was rescued. The Antinoe was approximately in mid-ocean, the Florida seven Probably I have been lucky in getting this kind of men. I do hundred miles off the Virginia Capes. Both rescues were made not know of any hard and fast rule to judge of such stamina. during the latter part of January. Flurries of snow mixed with But a man who is capable and quick to respond, it has been my rain and hail were characteristic of the weather conditions in experience, is the type who will keep his head best in a tight both instances. And the rescues in both instances were finally place. And, provided he has the right stuff in him, youth is no accomplished after darkness had set in, by the aid of search- handicap. With few exceptions the boat crews of the Roosevelt lights. and the America were under thirty years of age. Officers Miller But from the standpoint of danger to the boat crews conditions and Manning are both this side of thirty-five. were reversed. When the Roosevelt first sighted the Antinoe The men who man the oars in a life-boat should be well set-up, early Sunday morning, January 24, 1926, the weather was so of course. But excess weight is no advantage. The average heavy that the launching of a boat was not even contemplated. weight of these two crews was around one hundred and seventy And for the next four days there was little abatement, until pounds, and furthermore there was no excess cargo, for this rep- Wednesday evening at 7:20, when the first life-boat to reach the resented mostly muscle and bone. In the America boat crew Antinoe was launched. And although even then the sea was there were a junior engineer, a sail-maker, a master-at-arms, a pretty rough it was less rough by the time the boat had returned; quartermaster and two a. b. seamen. Store Keeper Salvatore and still less rough when a second boat was sent a little later for

Bracco, although he demonstrated his ability as an oarsman, was the remainder of the crew. For only half of the Antinoe''s crew taken along chiefly in the capacity of interpreter in case no one of twenty-five were taken in the first boat to reach her. aboard the Florida could speak English fluently. And as it In the case of the Florida, however, while the weather was turned out this was the case. The officers who had charge of the heavy at the time the rescue boat was launched it became Roosevelt's and the America's boats were in each case somewhat steadily heavier during the two and a quarter hours it was gone, under average weight. But their jobs did not call for brawn. Man- until, had another fifteen minutes elapsed, it is inconceivable ning tips the beams at one hundred and thirty-five. Chief Officer that the crew would have ever got back at all. Miller of the Roosevelt would weigh in at about the same It is hard to say which crew went through the greater figure. Both measured up to their responsibilities. ordeal. In the Antinoe rescue most of it came As near as it can be expressed in a single before the actual rescue; in the case of the word, character is the most essential Florida the supreme test was in getting asset to a man in any kind of a pinch, back to the America over a quarter whether it consists of putting his of a mile of storm-tossed water, last ounce of strength into becoming more menacing by pulling at an oar, or directing minutes. the efforts, or taking the In the Antinoe rescue, to responsibility for the lives begin with, there was the of others. I know of no tragedy that took the quick way of judging lives of the two mem- character. But with bers of the original acquaintance or ob- boat crew. For al- servation over a though, as has been period of time it al- said, when the res- ways somehow cue was effected manages to reveal the weather had itself. For the po- begun to abate, sitions on a ship an attempt was that are pivotal in made to launch a an emergency I boat on Monday prefer to have men afternoon. Just that directly or in- as it was launched directly, through a veritable moun- someone I have tain of water tilted confidence in, I it up almost per- know. That is why pendicularly, throw- <*? it was more than a *T ing every man of its coincidence that the gfegjt-. crew into the sea. Six ' ' members of the picked ; * " " of them succeeded in boat crews on the Roose- ^|pr getting hold of the life veil and the America were lines that were thrown to all men who had shipped with >^ them from the ship. Wort- me before, some of them for man, master-at-arms, and Heit- several years. man, boatswain's mate, were lost. Once I have sized up a man's Volunteers to take their places character, and if I know also that he is were not lacking when the time came a competent seaman, I can tell just about two days later to make a second effort, as well how he will stand up in a crisis at though even then the sea was so rough sea as what strain can be put on a two and The last moments of the Antinoe. that it was not practicable to retrieve a half inch line. "When the Roosevelt rescued her crew either the first or the second boat sent

It is an impressive sight when a whole I had not slept for four days . Yet even out on their return. One of the original gale whips the ocean into tremendous under such circumstances I was notable picked crew, Sam Fisher, a. b., who had waves, as I have seen it do more than once with previous cruises, to sleep on the night of the rescue" shipped me on many in that most thickly strewn graveyard of after being spilled out in the attempt that ships' bones, the roaring forties, so-called because of the pro- ended in tragedy on Monday was hauled aboard by one leg. I tracted spells of heavy weather that are characteristic of this learned later that his leg was so badly wrenched that he could main ship lane between America and Europe. To a landsman it hardly walk. Yet he managed to conceal his injury sufficiently so is an awe-inspiring sight. It is so in a sense to a seasoned sailor he was included in the crew that made the rescue. (Cont. on page 48)

MAY, 1929 1 By CHARLES V.S LATTERY

Illustration by Raymond Sisley

^W^vEERING through the under- V# M J brush that sheltered his pla- m toon on that chill fall afternoon, -JL Lieutenant Jim Burley could see the enemy trenches clearly; rather, he could see the line of brush a hundred yards away that marked them. Behind the woods rose the round, towering green bulk of Mont Sec as it seemed to glare down upon the muddy, debris-strewn streets of Rambucourt, as though there was anything to be seen between those broken walls. Lieutenant Jim's eyes kept to his watch. The minute hand crept to thirty minutes after fifteen o'clock. Lieutenant Jim rose cautiously and signaled with his arm. All along the fringe of that patch of black-and-gray and green bois—part of the Foret de la Reine, it was—men stirred and became erect. Murmurs came to Lieutenant Jim and then a rustle of movement as his upraised right arm swept out in a nailing gesture before him, stopping chest high as it pointed dramatically to the still woods opposite. There was the thud of many feet, smothered a little in the weedy field, as the line of olive-drab moved out across the open stretch, in combat groups: grenadiers, Chauchat teams and riflemen. They made swift progress. The lines they were attacking

"Our barrage woke him \ remained silent. being able to do anythi Twenty-five yards away from the silent objective, the men halted a moment while the grenadiers knelt and flung tiny ob- stayed there until ive came over. He jects overhand into the brush ahead. Explosions threw up clouds says the schnapps wasn't so good— of smoke, and leaves and branches spattered. they don't put the same stuff in it ' Then Lieutenant Jim's line rose again and ran headlong at the like they did before the war trees swaying in the acrid fumes. Right at the edge of the woods now, the foremost of the men leaped into spaces between two zig-zagging lines of chalk-marks—lime spread upon the ground when your grenades have got to begin falling in his trench. outlining a system of trenches. Wearily, the men prodded bayo- "Now, we'll try it again. Hop off at four o'clock sharp, and nets into the unresisting ground. let's get a little pep on the left flank, Lieutenant. According to A whistle blew. Lieutenant Jim looked back to where an our aerial photographs and intelligence, the German P. C. seems orderly was running toward him. to be in that diagonal communication trench, and you'll have "Rest!" shouted the lieutenant. to get some elements over there before those officers get a chance The platoon stopped bayoneting the turf and sprawled about to get out and away. the edge of the woods, pillowing heads on inverted helmets. "Division expects this to be a perfect performance. It isn't merely "Colonel wants to see you, sir," said the orderly. that it's our first raid since taking over the sector, but because Lieutenant Jim nodded. He could see the colonel walking up we're one of the first outfits in the line as a division and the Frogs and down back in the woods from which his platoon had just are watching to see if we sawy enough to manage our own war. charged. There was a little table there, and a map spread out "We're sparing nothing, understand? You Johnnies will get over it. more artillery preparation for this raid than some French divisions "Sit down, Lieutenant," said the colonel. A large group of have had in a whole attack. But it's got to be perfect. We've officers, commanding the six hundred selected men now at rest in got to bring back a trenchful of prisoners. Now let's try it the woods, appeared from splotches of undergrowth down the again." line, among them Lieutenant Jim's company commander, and Lieutenant Jim got up from his squatted position in the semi- hastened toward the table. circle and walked back to where his platoon was resting on the "Gentlemen," said the colonel, "that's a little better. But edge of the woods. it's not perfect. Lieutenant Burley, your platoon was a little Fifteen minutes later his tired men were plunging across the slow at the start. open space again, leaping in between the white chalk-lines and "When the barrage lifts ahead of you, your men have got to rounding up whole companies of mythical prisoners. get within grenade range almost immediately. In other words, The party was called off for the day. Lieutenant Jim plodded as soon as the enemy realizes the barrage has lifted from his wire, at the head of his platoon, back to the dugouts in the rear of he'll come popping out to man his machine guns. That's exactly Rambucourt. Artillery dugouts, they had been. Lieutenant

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Nowhere was there a sound, save when the wind jangled barbed wire. Then nervous men leaped to the fire-step and Very pistols sent little parachuted lights to float over No Man's Land and chisel out its drab and muddy face in sharp relief. Back along the communication trench, Lieutenant Jim could see nothing. He sensed movement, however, and knew that far back in the solid patch of blackness four companies of the machine-gun battalion and two line machine-gun companies were moving in to set up their guns for the indirect preparatory fire. "Something about this raid's phoney," offered Lieutenant Jim as Fishwick joined him in a traverse that separated the fire bays of their respective platoons. "It don't feel right. "Too much preparation, says I. It makes me think of the long bomb those Frogs ran out to a listening post ahead of our section of trench. Never see it? Well, there's a shallow trench runs out to the listening post and it's been there, along with the rest of these holes, for three years. "The Frogs ran out a long length of three-inch pipe, right along the side of the trench bottom, all the way out. It's filled with chedite and detonating caps, and a wire leads back into our trench. "The Frogs figured out that some time when Jerry came over to get himself some souvenir Frogs, the listening post would re- tire and then everybody 'd keep quiet until the trench he'd left got full of Germans. "They thought those Jerries were sure to take advantage of a nice trench running into No Man's Land, especially if the going got heavy. "When the trench got full, the Frogs figured on pulling the wire and moving those Jerries all over Mont Sec with that chedite. It's the biggest bomb I ever saw. "We get full instructions about this pipe when we take over the trench; in fact, too full, as it makes the boys leery to go up into the listening post at all. "The colonel, specially, thinks it's a noble idea. 'There it is, all ready,' he says, 'and don't cost us a cent.' "Anyway, that night last week when Jerry come jumping over here on his raid, and when it sounds as if the whole Prussian Jim and his platoon had been there for a week, rehearsing, as he Guard is playing a tune on our wire like it was a xylophone, some- said, like a troupe of chorus girls. body hollers that the trench finally is full of Germans. "All this skull-work for a measly little raid," complained the "So I give the order to break out that sewer-full of powder lieutenant. "I'll bet the Dutchmen didn't rehearse the Battle in honor of our guests. First one pulls and then another. Four of the Marne." or five gets on that wire and pulled it right out of the pipe. "No," said Lieutenant Fishwick, who shared his dugout, and "No, nothing went off. We beat off the raid, eventually, but who was splashing around it now in rubber boots, helping two it wasn't the fault of that pipe full of explosive. It's still there. orderlies bail it out, "but maybe a little rehearsin' wouldn't of "You see, that chedite in the pipe just naturally got disgusted hurt 'em. As I recall it the battle was a flop." waiting three years for a chance to blow up. Got overtrained and went stale. Too much preparation and not enough action, /^UTWARDLY, it was a calm night. Lieutenant Jim and his same as this act we're doing. And I'd bet a messkit full of cognac platoon moved about restlessly in the old trenches in front those Jerries never went near that trench, anyway." of Xivray. The earth had a clammy feeling and the sky seemed Off to the right and then off to the left the whine of shells was a cold mantle in which stars were like little flakes of flashing snow. heard occasionally; flares went up at {Continued on page 61)

MAY, 1929 13 —

Trees of By Chet

A rude tuayside cross in the Bois-le-Pretre was a battle center for four years, remaining upright until the fall of 19 18. Now, encased firmly in concrete, it stands as a perpetual memorial to the thousands who fell nearby

From dead Argonne trunks like the two shown beloiv thrifty peasants have picked hundreds of pounds of machine-gun bullets to sell as souvenirs

~T~ y P ON Le Chene Tondu, that m J wooded promontory of the Ar- / gonne plateau which sheers off Through the dense foliage of the Bois de V_x to the valley of the Aire River Retz the Second Division double-timed to and was such a vexing barrier to the bear its share the attack on Soissons progress of the 28th Division in the fall of tide of 1018, there is a German cemetery. It that turned the of battle is just back from the road that traverses the forest diagonally from Binarville to Near Le Chene Tondu, puttering along and Apremont— and it surrounds Le Chene making repairs on the weather-beaten markers Tondu "The Twisted Oak"—the age- that are rotting away at the earth line, Lucien old tree from which the promontory took Chaibonnier works every day. He is a French- its name. man, employed as the guardian and keeper of The Second German Landwehr plotted the cemetery. In the dilapidated chapel sur- this cemetery after the German lines had mounted by a sagging cross where the Ger- been stabilized far beyond the region of mans used tc hold their funeral services he La Harazee at the height of their ad- stores his tools. vance in the fall of 1014. The Landwehr Not long ago Lucien leaned on his shovel was composed of old men, many of whom and regarded the giant oak. had sons in the service, and all of whom "Mort pour la patrie," he said, with a were artisans. They worked at their gravity of expression that left no doubt as to peace-time pursuits, and as the months his sincerity. went by and some of them died from He then explained. natural causes, many unique wooden "Le Chene Tondu was the mightiest tree of markers were fashioned for the graves in the Argonne Forest from days so far back that the cemetery. The Germans respected none now living can remember. It towered their dead and buried them well. up above the other trees even before La Vierg- The markers still stand. So does Le ette—the Little Virgin—was placed at the Chene Tondu—"The Twisted Oak." crossroads by the villagers of Apremont, and But Le Chene Tondu is dead. Covered that was nearly a century ago. Then the Ger- with climbing ivy, though bearing not a mans marched through the forest and built single mark of the fierce shell-fire from their cemetery around it. Now it is dead. Un- American artillery batteries that blasted touched by shell or bullet, it died of sadness the region, its barkless limbs show clear of a broken heart. It died for its country—it against the sky through the foliage of is mort pour la patrie." the other trees around it. There are the trees of the Bois de Retz.

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From this concealed bower in a tall tree in the Forest of Villers- Cotterets General Mangin ivatched the attack on Soissons in July, 19 18

A memorial to the Lost Battalion (below). Note the two -porcelain insulators installed in 19 18 by soldiers of the

Signal Corps . The fire of friends and enemies completely stripped the trunk of its branches

until far into the afternoon that the Germans comprehended their danger fully and the late Captain von Richtho- Le Cbene Tondu—"The Twisted Oak"— fen, with his whirring circus, cleared the stands over the ivooden markers where the air of Allied fliers and took part in the German Landwehr buried their dead. Le defense. Cbene Tondu itself is now dead Fortunately, it rained on the night of July 17th. A heavy thunder shower, The Bois de Retz is an expansive forest rare to the region, provided an over- little more than an hour's ride from Paris. cast sky—a cloak of inestimable value. The French were holding the line there fol- But the trees of the Bois de Retz, arch- lowing the failure of the great German "Peace ing their heavy-leafed branches over the Offensive" in the summer of 1918 which went roads and paths, really made possible astray at Chateau-Thierry and at the Jaul- that tremendous concentration of troops gonne Bend of the Marne near Mezy and and material. It was this natural screen Dormans. Came Foch's counter-offensive that kept all signs of an attack from the the jump-off set for 4:35 o'clock on the mor- Germans. Without so much as a single ning of July 1 8th. intimation, they were utterly unable to Screened by the dense foliage of the forest, organize their defense until late in the the First and Second American Divisions and day and by that time the advance had the Moroccans assembled for the drive. assumed such proportions over a five- Throughout the night of July 17th sixty- mile front that it went on to a complete seven thousand men, five thousand animals success. Every tribute goes to the men and three thousand vehicles pressed forward. and beasts who fought for that victory So great was the confusion that the Second through Tigny and Taux and Berzy-le- Division lost its way and the reputation of Sec and Missy-aux-Bois. But why not that great fighting unit was saved only at the just a simple word of credit to the trees last moment when elements of the Ninth and of the Forest of Retz? Twenty-third Infantry and the Fifth Marines Many years ago, in the heart of the double-timed through the blackness to go over Bois-le-Pretre "The Woods of the Priest" just as the barrage cut the night. near Pont-a-Mousson, devout peasants Through the wheat the surge of guns and sawed a heavy limb from each of two men went forward. The attack was a com- trees near a crossing of two woodland plete surprise. By noon of the first day roads and fashioned a crude cross, La the Allies had advanced across the plateau Croix des Carmes, which they set up as half the distance to Soissons. It was not a shrine but a few {Continued on page 50)

MAY, 1929 15 believe it was the Daltons. The Dalton and Bill Doolin gangs were operating over east, holding up the Santa Fe about once a week, but they had never touched the Rock Island and I did not think they would touch it. I knew all of the Dalton boys, and at this time one of their brothers-in-law was living in a house William D. Fossett of mine. I took Joe's little gun and said I would go out and see who they were and what was going on. The noise was all coming from the Illustration hy west or right side of the train. I went out on the platform of the smoker where the porter had gone and started to look out when Jerome G. I saw a man spring up on the ground right under the steps and Rozen start to run toward the engine. I thought he was a passenger from one of the rear cars who had lost his head, or I could have /N THE spring of 1895 when I was special agent for the killed him easily. Rock Island railroad in Oklahoma Territory, the townsite The train had stopped where a road, or trail as it was then, war between Enid and Xorth Enid was going good. The crowed the track. A fire was burning beside the track, which I Rock Island, being heavily interested in the Xorth Enid later learned was a signal to Bob Hughes and Jim Borland, the townsite, refused to stop its trains at Enid, where the Federal outlaws who had boarded the tender unseen at Pond Creek, and Government had laid out a town when the Cherokee Strip was climbed over and covered the engineer and fireman and forced opened to settlement in 1893. The result was a regular armed them to bring the train to a stop where the rest of the gang was conflict between the frontier towns of Enid and North Enid, waiting. There were not many fences in that country in those with the Rock Island supporting the latter. The Enid people days but there was a fence along this road, a barbed-wire fence, sawed down a railroad bridge, a company of soldiers from Fort and it came pretty close to the track. This man I saw running Reno rode in and took charge, and things were lively. This re- got tangled up in this fence, but he finally climbed over it and quired my presence at North Enid a good deal of the time. joined the rest of the outlaws, who were yelling and swearing like One afternoon Lew Humphreys from my home at Kingfisher outlaws generally did, and shooting through the top of the ex- was visiting me. I suggested that we get on the northbound press car, trying to get the express messenger and the guard to train and ride up to Caldwell, just across the Kansas line, have open it. They had the engine crew and the porter with them, a good meal at the Harvey House and catch the evening train so the people in the express car were afraid to shoot through the back to North Enid. There was no place in the Strip where door for fear of killing some of their own men. you could get as good a meal as they put up at the Harvey House, I knew by the voices of the outlaws that none of the Daltons so Lew was glad to go. were with them, which, to tell the truth, made me feel a little On our way back after supper, the train made its customary better, as I would have hated to think that any of the Dalton stop at Pond Creek, about twenty-five miles over the Oklahoma boys would have caused me any trouble, as long as we had known line. Like North Enid, Pond Creek was a railroad town that each other. did not enjoy the Government's favor. The Government town The express messenger would not open up and the outlaws laid was Round Pond, three miles south. The railroad would not a stick of dynamite on the door-sill and ran back a little piece. stop its trains there, which the citizens naturally resented. The There was a pretty strong explosion, which wrecked the door, but same hard feelings existed between Round Pond and Pond Creek did not open it, and buckled the steel plate on the sill so that it and the Rock Island as between the two Enids and the railroad, could not be opened. But the express messenger said if the boys twenty-five miles farther down the track. would come around to the other side of the train he would open Leaving Pond Creek at nine o'clock or thereabouts we picked up - ^ , • up speed and whistled through Round Pond without a stop. I had no confidence in Joe Reed's little gun and went back into Mr. Humphreys and I were sitting in the smoking car talking the train to get a better one. Entering the coach back of the with Joe Reed, the conductor, w-ho had turned over a seat facing smoker, the first man who caught my eye was a fellow seated us, when the brakes were abruptly applied and the train began about a third of the way back from the front door. He was a tall, to chug along to a pretty sudden stop. But before it stopped the slim fellow, pretty well dressed, and wearing a broad Western brakes were released and it started up slowly and ran for a few hat. He did not seem greatly disturbed by what was going on, yards and then stopped altogether and we heard two or three although by this time the passengers as a whole were pretty shots fired outside. thoroughly excited. "What in Sam Hill is the matter?" exclaimed Reed, jumping up. "Have you got a gun on you?" I asked this man. "It looks to me like a holdup," I said. "Have you got a gun He seemed surprised. "No, what makes vou think I'd have a on you, Joe?" I had no gun. The conductor handed me a little thing that There was something about the way he said it that I didn't looked like a toy pistol. like. "You look to me like a man who'd have a gun," I replied. The colored porter ran out on the front platform of the smoker, He insisted, however, that he had no gun. which adjoined the express car. There were some shouts, another "You just sit where you are. then," I said. "And don't move." shot or two and the porter did not return. Just then the train guard burst into the car. He had come There was a good deal of commotion and someone shouted through the end door of the express car and through the smoker. that the Dalton gang had waylaid the train. I told Joe I didn't He had a shotgun with him and he fell flat on the floor and started

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Bert Casey was ordinarily no mans fool, but this time he did a foolish thing. He reached for his gun—and that is a bad thing for any man to do when he is covered

McClellan is now dead but Prince Gentry resides at Enid.) Mr. McClellan had some boys with him and I entrusted the horses to them. My man of the gun incident got back in the car. The train to crawl under a seat, crying, ''They are going to kill me!" backed to Pond Creek, where we unloaded the corpse and I got I took his shotgun and went out on the platform and standing out and put up for the night. on the steps on the east side looked to see what was going on. The coroner's inquest was held the next day, and who should Two of the robbers were handing their companions up into the turn up as a voluntary witness but this passenger. The dead express door. Shooting was going on all the time, and by the man was identified as Bob Hughes, a member of a family that dim light from the train windows I located a man standing up in produced several outlaws down in the Chickasaw Indian country. the bar pit, which is where they scrape out along the side of a I had known him slightly. He was a friend of Belle Starr, and track to make a fill, shooting back through the upper part of the used to hang out at the Starr ranch in the Cherokee Country, train to intimidate the passengers. As my eyes became accus- over west of Fort Smith. Belle Starr was a quarter-blood Chero- tomed to the darkness I could see him plainer, and in a minute kee and the only real woman desperado I have ever known, al- he keeled over, pistol in hand. Someone had brought him down though I have known several who nowadays bear that reputation, by a shot from the train. including Calamity Jane Canary. Belle Starr was a superior When this happened the men began to jump from the car and woman in more ways than one. She had good looks and there the whole outfit started to run east along the road to where was a trace of refinement in her manners that was a novelty their horses were tied to the fence. They shot back as they among her associates, men and women, although I never heard ran and mounted their horses and rode away. I noticed that that she had many women associates. two horses were left, which would indicate that more than this The passenger gave his name as Hill and launched into his one robber must have been put out of the fight. testimony as though he were running the inquest. Finally I I went and untied the two horses and led them back to the stopped him. train, but there was no evidence that we had got more than one "Those aren't the facts," I said. "What I gave are the facts of the robbers. He was dead. They were loading the corpse in in this case." the express car when I heard a voice at my elbow. The man said he had forgotten, and changed his story without "I'll take those horses back to town for you." an argument. I looked and saw the man I'd asked for a gun. I was interested in this Hill. After the inquest I went up to "I told you to stay in that car," I said. "I have someone to him. take the horses to town." "I'd like to make you a proposition," I said. "There will be Just then I recognized Joe McClellan, a partner of Prince a big reward out in this case, and I'd like to have you help me Gentry in the lumber and banking business at Round Pond. run these fellows down." (Round Pond is now known as Pond Creek, and the old railroad He said that was agreeable to him. stop at Pond Creek, three miles north, has been abandoned. Mr. Going over the scene of the attempted (Continued on page 64)

MAY, 1929 17 They call her the Old Maid in the Eyes and nose and mouth and The Wayward Boy stands out rock wonderland of Chiricahua everything—Satan himself quite plainly at dusk National Monument—and her bonnet is always on

Looks as if she might be just off the Ark—a hen out of Father Noah' s original flock

LEGIONNAIRE with a camera wandered into a canyon sixty miles from Douglas, Arizona, six years ago and found himself in a menagerie of gigantic and grotesque stones, a side show that had been built up by Nature through a million years. In this marvelous photographic hunting ground, Legionnaire R. H. Caughlin shot picture after picture of birds and animals of weathered rock. A few days later, Mr. Caughlin showed his photographs at a meeting of Fred Hilburn Post of The Ameri- can Legion in Douglas, and the post voted immediately to make a picnic pilgrimage to the wonderland. That picnic in Bonita Canyon marked the beginning of a movement to preserve the canyon's beauties for all the people of the United States for all time, a movement which ended successfully several years later when, at the request of Fred Hilburn Post, President Coolidge issued an executive order establishing the Nature s sculptors worked a million canyon area as the Chiricahua National Monument. years to make this rocky totem pole Today thousands of tourists and residents of Arizona go to see the wonders

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Perhaps Nature used this as her Firm as the Rock of Gibraltar Looks as if Nature's sculptors working she the not quite! quit too soon on this model when made first duck, or maybe it ivas a decoy for the cave man of ten thousand years ago

A slope that looks like the pillared rums of some ancient temple. The pinnacles are hundreds of feet high

which were first interpreted by Legionnaire Caughlin's camera. They see among the towering rocks, carved by the rai is and winds of a million years, a zoological garden of stone which is like nothing else in the world. An immense ape crouches above the canyon, resembling nothing so much as a gargoyle of a medieval cathe- dral. And, as if to carry this comparison, the canyon walls thereabouts loom like the fluted tubes of a pipe organ. In other rocks may be seen the carved likenesses of a score of animals. There are other marvels, too—balanced rocks, totem poles, natural bridges, a Buddhist temple. There Nature has done her very best jesting. Legionnaire Carl Trischka of L. A. Engle, Jr., Post at Bisbee, Arizona, a geolo- gist of note, explains that a million years or so ago a monster earthquake cracked the then existing land surface and permitted molten rock to pour forth over an area forty to fifty miles square. There were other earthquakes and other lava hammer ready any angry Titan flows. Thedifferent layersof lava cooled and hardened at variable rates, being com- A for posed of minerals of different degrees of hardness. Then Nature's sculptors ivho wants to smash up the adjoining rain, wind, frost and heat—began the work of carving the stone beasts and birds. hits of Nature's statuary

MAY, 1929 19 — THE BROKEN

list always as "evidence." They were few enough. So far they gave no suggestion of Chapters I— VI in Brief the pattern they must weave. Gli /^"'URDER of Sergeant Pete St. Denis had gone away, Rude said, with one J\/g Bright's train companion, hundred thousand francs in his pocket and a J /If a British courier carrying man with eyes that did not match. Inspector ^ 1/ V** important papers, steps in Gibon had found the room this man occupied to complicate the case of a missing French and on the fireplace there Bright discovered the horse trader that Bright as a member of the mark resembling a broken three, which afterward American D. C. I. is investigating. The ser- was to appear hideously again, chalked on the geant, returning to the Bordeaux-Paris train dead Bathhurst's shoe. at a small town after sending a telegram, is The rest was conjecture. Only three other just in time to fire a shot at a stocky fellow concrete objects were definitely collected, the leaving their compartment, and recovers the discharged pistol shell, the envelope from the courier's dispatch case the skulker drops. He rain gutter, and now a U. S. collar ornament discovers on the sole of the murdered courier these and a bloody shirt sleeve which might be a mysterious chalked symbol resembling a of importance and might not. Little enough, un- figure three with its top bar broken, a symbol Illustrations less someone was willing to talk. he had encountered a few hours before in a Rude protested when Bright accused him Bordeaux house formerly occupied by an bluntly of opening the safe. American who had been intimate with the ly VE.Pyles "But why should I?" he demanded. "Sou- horse-trader. Ordered by his superiors to de- venirs? Souvenirs?" he repeated the word con- liver the dispatch case to a British expert to temptuously, and twice jerked his empty sleeve, the peace conference, Bright reaches Circe to find the expert "You . . you Americans who pick souvenirs off dead France gone on a fishing trip. He goes to Domfront, and deciding to . . . you . ."he stammered for an epithet. spend the night at the home of the horse trader, leaves the case "Easv! Bright warned. in the safe. When an intruder clad in what seems to be an "What would / wish of your bag of souvenirs?" American army uniform is found near the house the sergeant "Who else knows the combination?" Bright retorted. "You, tries to catch hold of him. The man escapes, and a moment later Jules?" Bright finds the safe door open and the dispatch case gone. Chevonnet, now doubly armed with the poker in his right hand, the hammer in his left, shook his head decisively. VII "I have nothing to do with such things, m'sieur. No, I am merely the caretaker. I know nothing of the office, except to go O THE inquisitive mind of Sergeant Pete Bright, the there when I am requested." ." St. Denis-Bathhurst case offered a perplexing problem. "Perhaps the man you attacked . . Rude ventured. He was accustomed to watching men and women with Josephine turned irritably. She had brought warm water from certain abstract, official the kettle on the hearth, herself washed the sergeant's interest, to observing their habits, forehead, and plastered a wad of white cloth over the their follies, the good and bad of cut. Her face now was flushed. their characters, and having ob- "You are ridiculous, Marcel!" she cried. "How served, to piece together the result of J could an outsider get into the house, open the safe his inquiry in some workable pat- door and escape and the sergeant not see him? Tell tern. To attain this pattern he If at once what you have done with the package!" dared not permit fancy, sentiment, The secretary lifted his single hand in a gesture or conjecture to play any part. that was half angry, but his tone and his face were Crime, and his chosen profession of supplicating. "Like a kitchen clock," Bright remembered; searching out the criminal, were so honest looking that he fooled even old Gibon. "You hard-shelled propositions. accuse, too?" the man was begging of Josephine. There was something cold, stub- Bright interrupted. "Listen—it's me that's accusing." born, unarguable in the facts of this "But m'sieur!" case, just as there was in every mur- "Sit down in that chair," Bright directed. "You can go," ." der, every burglary, every forgery, he told Chevonnet, "and you, miss . . every major crime and petty mis- "But m'sieur!" demeanor he was called of- "Don't m'sieur me. Sit down and think, and remember ficially to help investigate. I got a nervous disposition, too." Bathhurst was dead. No He left Rude protesting. Going to the front door, he room for argument there. St. shook its latch once, and satisfied that the door was locked, Denis had disappeared. No was turning back when he noticed the small polished board amount of conjecture would with brass hooks in it at the right of the entry, a board such change that either. And as one finds in so many well-regulated French establish- now the courier's case was ments. A half dozeu keys, most of them large, and all gone, out of a safe to which polished brightly, hung to the hooks. He paused, and after Marcel Rude knew the com- a moment's thought, took down the largest, a key that bination. measured a stiff nine inches over all, and weighed it Bright made a on his palm. Returning to Rude, he asked: "What's this mental list of the for?" facts of the affair, "The cellars," the Frenchman answered eagerly. He was of those tangible glad to turn the conversation. "The wine cellars, out in the results of his own garden." investigation "Good strong cellar?" which outsiders "It is of stone. A battery of artillery could not break it ." sometimes call open. If your souvenirs had been locked in it . . ''clues," but "You would have found 'em." which the police "I protest, m'sieur!"

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Bright' s ama%ed eyes picked out, scrawled on the worn leather, the symbol

he had half expected, a coarse, broken _j

Bright laughed. He spoke in English. "Protest? There's safe; Rude, who alone had seen the stranger go off to the moun- times when a protest isn't worth a reclaimed condiment can, tains with St. Denis, Rude who reported a prowler in the garden,

Frenchie, and this is one of the times." Rude who had found the bloody shirt sleeve . . . Rude had The clock interrupted, striking three. Its metallic voice rang opened that safe and taken the courier's dispatch case. Why, like a warning through the uneasy quiet of the house. No sound Bright did not attempt to guess. But no one else had the oppor- had come from the upper floor since Josephine returned to her tunity. Besides, there was that thing which Corporal Duclose, aunt, yet Bright knew no one slept. Rude coughed. Chevonnet and Bathhurst, too, called intuition. He wished violently for imitated hoarsely somewhere at the rear. Then silence came Duclose at the minute. He even could stand his talk of art. again, the extraordinary, uncomfortable silence that set Bright's "Sit where you're at, Rude," he bade; then in a louder voice: nerves on edge. He looked at Rude. An expression of obstinacy "Chevonnet!" had settled across the secretary's dull face. His cheeks, that The caretaker felt his way forward grumbling. His displeasure, usually were pale, had turned a deep red. it developed, was directed at Rude. "Not so nervous now," Bright muttered. He moved the lamp "No need to stand guard any longer out there," Bright said. so that its light shone on the Frenchman's features. If one per- "Whoever was here won't come back tonight. It's this man we're ." mitted conjecture, circumstantial evidence, if you will, only one watching now. Sit here, Jules. If Rude tries to walk out . . thing seemed certain in this business. Rude had opened the "Non, non!" Rude assured him.

MAY, 1929 21 "He will sit where he is," Chevonnet affirmed. For three minutes, with the aid of the flashlight, Bright searched the office, opened drawers experimentally, poked behind furniture, all the time observing the disconsolate Rude from the corner of his eye. He passed into the parlor at length, shut the door quietly behind him, and stood a moment in the dark, listening. Josephine and her aunt might not be asleep, but at least they were in their rooms. He had the lower floor to himself. The dispatch case no doubt had been carried through this door into the parlor. It had not gone out of the office window, of that he was certain. Even in the confusion of his skirmish with the man among the rose bushes and the latter's escape, no one could have passed the bag through the window without drawing his attention. If the packet had been removed from the building (he doubted that it had) there remained as exits the main front door and the kitchen entry. In a house of this kind, no matter how bare, there were hiding places aplenty. Rude had not had time to mount to the upper floor before he appeared in the garden . . . that was out of the question. If the secretary were guilty, the case was not upstairs unless he had a confederate in the household. That, too, Bright doubted. He appraised the parlor carefully, with professional dexterity moved each piece of stiff furniture, finally examined the small, ornate fireplace. A second time he went over the fireplace. He knew, and respected, the

French police maxim . . . cherchez la cheminee. But neither the clean-swept grate nor the loose brick at the rear offered information as to the matter in hand. The throat was narrow, and Bright smudged his fingers on a layer of soot as he felt along it. He passed into the long center hallway and lighted the stump of the candle. He made sure, first, that the chain bolt of the wide front door was in place. The furniture here was even more scanty than in the parlor, and as empty of information. He was starting toward the dining room when he saw a fragment of paper on the floor near the stair. He picked it up by a corner. It was a thin, tobacco colored scrap, roughly triangular in shape, with a trace of oiling. It had been torn, he guessed, from the corner of a large sheet, and measured not more than three inches by two. The upper side was blank. He turned it over thoughtfully.

There were a few broad, positive, black lines across it, as He examined at close range the torn, cheaply if they had been drawn with a brush and Indian ink, two crossing, a third at an angle, and below them a figure . . . he spread the beam of his flashlamp on it . . . below them was When he had finished he returned to the office. Rude sat a broken figure 3. where he had left him. Chevonnet stood in a corner, giving the Bright stared at the torn paper for thirty seconds, neglecting secretary a long, thin, expressive back. ." to breathe, amazement jolting his heart. He held it out at arm's "M'sieur . . Rude ventured. length finally, as if it might be infected. Perspiration running "Where's my case?" into his left eye caused him to shake his head; it and Rude's The other shrugged. "I do not know." Again Bright saw sharp, spasmodic cough brought him back to reality. obstinacy. "That damn Blackbird!" he muttered. He had almost per- "We'll take a walk," the sergeant decided. "Promenade, suaded himself that the St. Denis case and the murder of Bath- compree? Moi et vous.' hurst were unrelated. That hope collapsed now. A broken 3 He lifted the little Frenchman out of his chair.

. . . there was something grim, something relentless about its "Stand by the door, Chevonnet," Bright bade. 'Rude and reappearance, something unreal, as if a madman were playing I are going out." a reckless and devastating game. He detected Josephine watching from an upper window as he The clock struck four. Its precise, even-humored voice floated led Rude toward the wine cellar. But he did not return to the more smugly this time through the empty rooms, with an assur- houce. At ten minutes past five he was rapping noisily on the ance that was out of place. Bright drew the St. Denis envelope heavy door of the gendarmerie. Brigadier Bonnet responded in from his pocket and inserted the scrap of paper into it. Evi- breeches and night cap, carrying a lamp in his right hand. dence was accumulating. But so far there were no two pieces "You!" he exclaimed. "At this hour?" of it that could be made to fit together. He had yet to discover He listened intently while the American told his story. Bright the pattern. This scrap he had just stowed away in his pocket omitted only two details . . . that concerning the American might be a part of a map. Such was his first guess. The bag officer's collar ornament and his discovery of the fragment of held maps. But it had been locked. paper. When he had finished Bonnet rubbed his chin thought- He went more willingly at his inspection of the remaining fully with his thumb and asked: "You suspect M'sieur Rude? rooms of the lower floor. The small apartment in front of the What was in this bag of leather?" dining room was comfortably furnished, with a bookcase half "Maps," Bright replied shortly; "not mine. As to Rude, he's full of volumes (most of them in paper covers). The dispatch cooling, if you understand what that means. I've got him in the case stood behind none of them. The dining room also was bar- wine cellar." ren of evidence. Bright paused a moment on the hearth, con- He held up the key; the brigadier frowned at it confusedly, templating the fireplace. The logs still glowed in their deep then he exclaimed: "You have imprisoned him? Oh, m'sieur! bed of ashes; this chimney at least was too hot to conceal the You hold no perquisition, you filed no proces verbal! Besides, packet. For five minutes he poked about the kitchen, stirred he is honest, m'sieur!" the flour in its bin and rattled pans against the wall; then in- Bright laughed. "Honest? He may have been once. I need vestigated the conservatory with its rows of potted plants and that case, Brigadier. Need it the minute Sir Harry Whitfield ." its warm, damp breathlessness. gets back. . .

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly made shirt on the wall. It matched the blood-stained sleeve which now was bulging in his pocket

"But the Britisher already is returned!" Bonnet shouted. outlined the high empty bulk of the main portion of Rennels's "Last night as I stood in the place I see the car of M'sieur the billet. The Americans used only the two wings, Bright had been Commandant Rennels pass in the direction of American head- told, that on his left for officers' quarters, and the right wing as a quarters." barracks for the enlisted personnel. Lights burned in the con- "Last night? Not last night?" Bright sat down, frowning, verted coachhouse that served as office headquarters, and outside on the edge of the brigadier's desk. He had not expected to re- the door a group of messengers with motorcycles waited im- ceive this information. He remembered Colonel Saunders's final patiently in soggy, fog-soaked raincoats. Bright entered. The order: "Get a receipt." The case was gone . . . that was bad office was busy with travel orders and troop lists in triplicate. enough. But he had meant to recover it before Whitfield re- Two regimental personnel officers were asking questions in- turned. "You're sure it was the major's car?" he demanded. sistently which for the most part no one was answering. A

"Positive. With three men in it. But this Rude . . . you middle-aged captain with spectacles stood under the light in the have not the right ..." center, smoking a pipe and reading gravely from the Manual of Bright brought down his fist on the desk. A horn of blotting Courts Martial. Typewriters tapped intermittently. The air sand spilled; he brushed it to the floor. "You'll see whether I was heavy with tobacco, wet cloth, leather. have the right! We'll talk about that some other nice day!" The sergeant major, still nursing his cold, sat groggily at his "I shall go advise Mademoiselle Josephine at once," the desk, checking company rosters against a heap of service records. brigadier retorted, and buckled his belt. "You?" he grunted nasally as he recognized Bright. And It was half after six and mess call had sounded from the then "Where's the damn ink eradicator, Pat?" American billets when Bright left the restaurant at the corner of "I got to see Whitfield," Bright said. the public square and climbed into his car in front of the gen- The sergeant major sneezed. "He'll be up after a while." darmerie. He drove slowly, even reluctantly, toward staff head- "Now," Bright said. "This minute." quarters, striving to piece together the story he must tell Sir "Now?" the sergeant major laughed. "He ain't had his morn- Harry Whitfield. The best he could do would be to promise the ing tea. You can't see him." dispatch case before evening. Whitfield naturally would be "Can't? That's how much a paper soldier knows about war. angry. He would accuse the D. C. I. of carelessness. He would Where's he sleep?" report Bright to headquarters. "And a damn good right he has, Five minutes later, after heated words, the sergeant major too," Bright concluded. said "It's your look-out!" and an orderly led Bright along the He passed a column of singing soldiers moving down the road gravel walk beside the left wing of the house. The main door toward the tramway station on the outskirts of the town; for a to the building was locked, the sergeant learned, its French moment envied their home-going jocularity. If there were no owners having turned over to the Americans only the two jutting more shipping tie-ups they would be cheering in the black iron additions and the outbuildings. The orderly explained that the sheds of Hoboken in two more weeks. He halted the car before great hall was stacked with worn-out furniture. He pointed as the Circe district headquarters. they passed to the open shutters on the first floor which had been Day was breaking in the east, a pale, chilly, gray morning that invisible from the gate. Here slept Major {Continued on page 71)

MAY, 1929 23 ; -EDITORIAL-

("Tor(godandcountry , we associate ourselves iogetherjor thefollowing purposes: C7o uphold and defend the Constitution, ofthe UnitedStates of^lmerica; to maintain law and order; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredpercent Cftmericanisrn to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the C}reat'~War; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obligation to the com-

munity, state andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make riyht the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood will on earth ;to safguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjustice.jreedom and democracy ; to conse~ crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual hdpfilness.— Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion.

(Children s Day

N JOINING with the rest of the United children together will justify themselves. Statistics States in the observance of May ist show that children deprived of guidance of father as Child Health Day, The American and mother contribute an appalling percentage of those Legion will acquaint the citizens of the adolescent and grown-up offenders against our laws towns and cities served by ten thou- who aresegregated in reform schoolsand penitentiaries. sand American Legion posts with the The American Legion knows that it is safeguarding things the Legion has done and is the future of the orphaned and needy children of trying to do for American children. service men when it procures the enactment of those The American Legion, by joining with other agen- statutes which protect all children. Simultaneously cies and organizations interested in child welfare in with the effort to obtain the enactment of the needed the observance of Child Health Day, will make clear laws in all States,- the National Child Welfare Com- to the people of the United States that it is not en- mittee is guiding nation-wide study and discussion gaged in a narrow, close-centered program for a com- within the ranks of the Legion, so that in each State paratively few children. It will prove that its efforts a larger and larger group of Legionnaires and Auxil- for child welfare not only benefit the fatherless and iares is being given an understanding of the most motherless children of men who fought in the World urgent child welfare problems and is being inspired War, but also assure to childhood generally the full to carry through the efforts necessary to solve those possession of its heritage in the richest nation in the problems. Five important regional Legion child world. welfare conferences are being held this year, one in Outside The American Legion it may not be gen- each of the five areas into which the forty-eight erally known that the Legion's child welfare program States have been divided. One area is composed of helps all children in all communities. It is not gen- States in New England. Another consists of Eastern erally known, perhaps, that when the Legislatures States. A third is composed of States in the South. of forty-four States assembled early this year they The fourth is made up of States mostly in the Middle were waited upon by American Legion spokesmen West, while the fifth holds States in the Southwest who asked them to revise old laws and enact new and the far West. ones, so that in each of those forty-four States there At these conferences, the National Director of should be a group of laws assuring to orphaned and Child Welfare and the national committee's field needy children and to boys and girls generally the workers meet with the men and women of the depart- full rights which society ought to accord them. ments who are doing the day-after-day child welfare Sherman Child, chairman of the Legion's National work in local communities. There is thus presented Child Welfare Committee, a lawyer and a state Sen- to each State the complete fund of the Legion's ator in Minnesota, several years ago prepared a knowledge on child welfare; and at the same time program of model legislation; and this program, with the national program is benefited by acquiring the such modifications as different needs in different valuable experience each State is able to contribute. States suggest, has been the basis for the requests By its activities for all children, The American which Legion spokesmen in the various States have Legion renders rich repayment to the American peo- been presenting to their Legislatures. ple who helped the Legion complete its $5,000,000 The American Legion's child welfare legislative Endowment Fund for the disabled and for the or- program has as its main objective conservation of phaned and needy children of veterans. At the same the home. A mother's allowance law, therefore, is time it gives to the American people an inspiring regarded as the keystone of the program—a law accounting of the direct results which are being which will keep mothers and children together when- accomplished with that part of the yearly income ever possible. The death of the family breadwinner from that fund which is devoted to child welfare. too often leads to the swift tragedy of home disrup- Figures for last year showed that there was rendered tion, as an overburdened mother, seeking to win by to dependent children in all States care and financial unaccustomed labor a livelihood for herself and her assistance to the extent of $83,271.21. Of this sum, children, finds herself unequal to her task. Nor is $50,754.71 from the Endowment Fund was expended death the only factor in disrupting homes. When for direct aid to children—$39,711.73 for emergency disease strikes down a father's hand, too often a aid and $20,042.98 for the maintenance of children mother and her children face the same tragedy that in Legion billets. In the total sum spent are included death sometimes brings. The State by wise statutes $16,766.50 contributed by the Forty and Eight, can extend support to stricken families; and the $6,000 contributed by The American Legion Aux- small expenditures needed to keep mothers and iliary and $750 given by the Eight and Forty.

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THE BIG PARADE

On February ist the National Child Welfare Com- proud of the progress it has made in its own program mittee was giving financial assistance outside billets but it will realize that May ist finds it still in its to two hundred and thirty-six children of ninety- child welfare training-camp days. All through the three families, and was maintaining sixteen children country, companies and regiments of the pioneer in two billets. Financial help was being given to Legion workers in this program thus far are conscious one hundred and sixty-six children who were with of the harder battles that must still be fought. For their mothers in their own homes. Help was being those battles, the men and women who have been given eleven children in foster boarding homes and giving their own time and energy to the Legion's thirty-one children in homes of relatives. This child welfare campaign must have the active support national emergency assistance was being rendered of all posts and all Legionnaires. They must have while the national committee was making arrange- help also from public-minded citizens outside The ments, with local Legion agencies, for the future American Legion if the objectives are to be won.

welfare of those being aided. In all, since the national Fortunately, the Legion on May 1, 1929, finds its committee began its work, it has given help to 3,831 allies rallying in every town and city. Congress has children of 1,641 families. Of these, 1,043 required designated the day as Child Health Day and Presi- no financial aid from national funds because adequate dent Hoover has issued a proclamation inviting its local assistance was being given. Obviously, local observance. The Legion is privileged to do its share treatment of cases is nearly always advisable. on that day to insure the future of the 43,000,000 With the whole country thinking of child welfare boys and girls of the United States who are under on May ist, The American Legion may be rightfully the age of eighteen.

MAY, 1929 -'5 THIS WAY UP By John Dwicjht Sullivan

cynics of youngsters brought rHEtold us that down from Vermont, we couldn't and doubtless there put the were other similar show across, that parties who left no there was no place record of their visit large enough in New Pilots from all over York City to do justice to an the United States dropped in aviation show, that the in- to say hello and wish us luck, dustry would not be interested and representatives of more —that anyway people were than one hundred eastern not air-minded enough to pay cities attended an airports to see what progress aviation conference presided over by was making. It was that last Colonel H. H. Blee of the thing that made us determined United States Department to go ahead with our plans. of Commerce. There was One of the major objectives of nothing local or provincial The American Legion, we re- about the show, it will be membered, was to encourage seen. and help develop aviation, Aviators Post has a mem- and if the buck was up to any- bership of nearly three hun- body it was certainly up to dred. Though its headquar- Aviators Post, the only unit ters are in New York City a in the Legion made up solely large percentage of the mem- of pilots and observers. And bers don't get to post meet- so far as space was concerned ings regularly, as they are we were pretty sure that three scattered about the country floors of the Grand Central pretty well, coming in all Falace, where most of New from thirty-seven States. York's commercial exhibitions • Only qualified pilots and ob- are staged, would give us the t servers are eligible. Among opportunity of proving to peo- those who belong are Lieu-

ple that aviation has passed out tenant Lester J. Maitland, of the fledgeling stage. pilot of the Army ship which Well, the show's history flew to Hawaii in 1927, now. When it closed after an Colonel Harold E. Hartney, eight-day run at the Grand commander of the First Central Palace more than one Pursuit Group, A.E.F., and hundred and eighty thousand C. S. (Casey) Jones, cele- people had paid to see the brated commercial pilot. two million dollars' worth of For the technical details planes and accessories we got of leasing space for exhibits together, actual sales on the at the show we turned to two floor of the show totaled one Legionnaires who are in that million, seven hundred thou- business, Loyd L. Anderson sand dollars, and we were well and G. A. Parsons. They in the clear financially. Planes Fifteen hundred schoolboys entered a competition in model air- plotted out the space on the had been sold to people in plane construction in connection with the aviation show put three floors of Grand Central Maine and Tennessee and on by Aviators Post of Neiv York City. Here are a few of Palace and set to work sell- many points in between. And ing it. When the show the iv inners of the seven hundred prizes that were aivarded Grand Central Palace is going started forty-one types of to be the scene of the second annual aviation show of Aviators planes were on exhibit, and there were one hundred and twenty Post in February, 1930. With this difference: There will be four booths of accessories and historical exhibits. In the meantime floors instead of three, and indications right now are that the committees of the post were holding meetings to co-ordinate the four floors will not be large enough to take care of the exhibits. activities of a non-commercial nature that were to accompany We were blazing practically a new trail. There had been no the commercial exhibits that had to be secured if the show was to

aviation show in the greater city since 192 1, and the modest amount to anything. We secured the help and assistance of the affair held at that time in an armory had attracted little attention. Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce; the Post The competition for attention in New York City is, as everybody Office Department; the Air Corps, United States Army; the knows, tremendous. We set out to capture the attention of the Bureau of Aeronautics, United States Navy; the American Mu- entire metropolitan area. We aimed to interest residents of the seum of Natural History in New York and the Board of Educa- city as well as visitors, and very particularly we wanted to attract tion of the City of New York. The Post Office Department in- to our show the schoolboys and schoolgirls. stalled a post office and canceled all letters sent from the show Before the show opened we had inquiries from every State in with a special cachet, and four radio stations supplemented this the Union, and since it closed the telegrams and letters that have desirable publicity with broadcasts of the addresses made at the come in to us prove that of the one hundred and eighty thousand various meetings. who paid to get into the show a goodly number came from a dis- It was a great show for the youngsters, and the Board of Edu- tance. The boys and girls who were to be seen about every ex- cation, which cooperated with us fully, was responsible for their hibit on every day of the show were of course largely recruited taking an active part in it. Boys of today are vitally interested in from New York and its suburbs, but we know of one large group airplanes just as their fathers were in the automobile during its

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Major Carl Spatz,, commander of the record-breaking Army endurance plane Question Mark, with two of his creiu

examines a model of the plane that teas placed on exhibition . Left to right, Elinor Smith and Lady Heath, noted fliers, Lieutenant Quesada, Captain Eaker and Major Spatz, and Commander John Dwight Sullivan of Aviators Post early days. It was only necessary to tell them that Aviators Post breaking trip from Los Angeles. An hour after he stepped from would award prizes to those building the best model planes—they his plane it was on its way to our show, where it was exhibited hopped to it. Fifteen hundred models were entered by pupils in without sprucing up and drew crowds every day. Major Carl the elementary and junior high schools of the city. A series of Spatz and his crew of the Question Mark, the Army airplane elimination contests in the five boroughs brought the competition that holds the world's record for time aloft, came to see the ex- down to the finals, which were held during the show. Altogether hibits, and other leaders in the world of aeronautics whom we seven hundred prizes were furnished for the boys, and so the four entertained included Eddie Rickenbacker, Reed Landis and hundred and fifty finalists who assembled in the 71st Regiment Clarence Chamberlin, who need no identification tickets to their Armory (there wasn't room for the contest in the Grand Central fellow Legionnaires, and Lady Heath, Amelia Earhart and Elinor Palace) all got prizes. It was no sham battle, either, as may be Smith, flyers of note. Former National Commander Spafford, realized from the fact that one of the "rubber motor" planes Will Rogers and William Gibbs McAdoo helped put the show on stayed in the air one hundred and ninety seconds and one of the the front page of the newspapers. The Legion and the cause of gliders traveled one hundred and eighty-three feet. And their aviation have no stauncher friend than Will Rogers. interest didn't stop there. Many a family party had as its guide So impressed were city officials of New York with the educa- about the show a son or daughter who explained to father and tional value of the show that they allowed it to keep open on mother what it was all about. And the way in which they scaled Sunday, a privilege accorded no other commercial exhibition in their toy planes about the floors was a caution. You won't have the city's history. We deeply appreciated this honor, and I am to worry about the youth of certain that thousands of America being air-minded. people were given an oppor- Boys and girls of today tunity through this circum- know of the progress of the stance of getting a favor- United States in aviation, able slant on aviation and principally because the air of seeing what has been ac- mail and the trans-ocean complished in that field. flights have dramatized that Our decision to go ahead progress effectively. They with the 1930 show is know of the rigid schedules rather conclusive evidence maintained in the air mail of our faith that a well- service, and the increasing thought-out exhibition deal- number of long flights gives ing with aviation can be them a foretaste of what counted on to draw people. the future has in store. Our But let me sound here a air show, through the wide friendly note of warning to diversification of its ex- other posts of the Legion hibits, gave those young- that may contemplate put- sters a foundation on which ting on such a show: Be they can build up a useful certain the technical de- knowledge of aviation which tails are in the hands of cannot but help them and men experienced in that the country. sort of thing, and that The day before the show your members are ready to opened Captain Frank pitch in and work as the assisted in Hawks landed on Long Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly Atlantic, they've never worked be- Island to end his record- awarding of prizes to the youthful contestants fore.

MAY, 1929 27 FALSE ALARM

"A Good Soldier is Always Prepared" By Wallgren

Hard-tvorking colonel: "Got everything ship-shape Voices from outside: "Halt! Who' s there?" "Gen- for tomorrow, Lieutenant? We may get a visit from the eral Pershing!" big chief." The two inside: "GENERAL PERSHING.'?" Lieutenant: "Yes, sir."

Voice outside: ' from "Advance, General Pershing, to Voice from outside: ' Very well, General. Slip us the be recognized!" password now." Colonel: "Great grief! Can you imagine—? Quick, Colonel (groaning): "Ye guards ! What a sap of a Lieutenant, my blouse and belt!" sentry ! He' 11 have my buzzards for this!"

Colonel: "Where s General Pershing? Where did he Surprised Privates: "Oh, he ain't here, sir! We lo? Which ivay, quick!" was just practising!"

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly i A PERSONAL VIEW I

Memorial Day! We salute, we bow our heads, we place May the farmer get a square deal in the special session of flowers, in the season of flowers, upon the graves of those who Congress. He has had a long fight for his cause; and he has may have been called suddenly in the kept fighting, which is the only way to The Long, midst of battle to the long sleep, or after Give Him a win a cause; and may President Hoover Long Sleep gruelling pain from wounds, or perhaps Square Deal Put ms name to a bill that "settles" this not until their old age. They may look and the tariff too. But this will not end down on us in our tribute; and, if they do not, we are honor- issues for him. New ones will arise. Making issues is mak-

ing ourselves in giving it. For they were ready, all of them, ing progress, keeping a nation on its toes. to give, in the words of immortal Lincoln, "the last full measure of devotion."

How we hated it when we didn't have it, but how good to have it when we did need it! An adaptation of the aforesaid What tales if all the dead we would honor on Memorial and same old gas mask will prevent a Day could speak! Men who were at Bunker Hill and at Same Old repetition of the ghastly horror of the Valley Forge in the Revolution; who fell Gas Mask crew of a submarine being slowly suffo- Just defending frontier settlements, who cated in a death trap. They will have Suppose were with Jackson at New Orleans and only to put on the new breathing mask with its store of Perry on Lake Erie; who were in the oxygen and rise to the surface. mighty battles by land and sea in the Civil War; who fell going up San Juan Hill, in the fighting before Peking and in the Philippines; and who did not come back when they A brief mention in the newspapers that Admiral William went over the top in France! V. Pratt succeeds Admiral Henry A. Wiley in command of the United States fleet. But what a King of transfer of power! The responsibility My point in the argument is won in a canter, thanks to the The Fleet f°r two billion dollars' worth of property generous response of letters in answer to my inquiry. Women with its immense personnel and of keep- do read the Legion Monthly; the Aux- ing the complex organization from battleships to aircraft

Women Do iliary likes it. Many wives read it more and submarines always ready for action! Read It than their husbands. Neighbors who are non-Legionnaires borrow it, which shows that it is an all round magazine. Only one exception Along the highways pass the millions of a famous make of to unanimity so far in the replies. She finds it dull, and automobile which bear this man's name. He spent all he honestly says so. had, all he could borrow, over the child Success, But of his brain thirty years ago. Men who No Money bought a few hundred shares of stock in Everybody knows better than to step on the third rail the enterprise he gave up have seen these days. But how many parents will obey the notice by their value multiply into a fortune; but the inventor, him- the city Health Department in the New self, died in poverty. Make It York subways? "Diphtheria is a deadly Universal and dangerous disease of childhood. Children from nine months to five years Facts and ideas which illumine issues and promote discus- should be vaccinated." Those having no family doctor have sion are the object of this Personal View. Two years ago only to apply to one of the forty-eight Baby Health Stations. when I said that the application of the The same provision should be universal, country as well as More Facts, Volstead Act was a live issue I was city. Wets and Drys bombarded by both Wets and Drys. Confirmation that it was one and remains so comes from the new President. He transfers Pro- The abuse grows. Bootlegging profits are not limited to hibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department liquor. Aliens, without any examination, are slipping over of Justice. He appoints a commission of eminent men to on the Detroit ferry and elsewhere consider the whole problem of law enforcement and the By the across the Canadian border, and across breakdown of our judicial system which has become so acute. Backdoor the Mexican border, and from Cuba to When I read his appeal to people to support the Prohibition Florida. Prices run from fifty to five law by not drinking I thought of two men I met recently on a hundred dollars a head. The Chinese pays most; he works western train. They fell to talking on the inevitable subject. out cost of admission for a boss in the backroom of a cellar Both were employers of labor, both enthusiastic for Prohibi- laundry. tion because it kept employes sober, (Continued on page 56)

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/TT y ^HILE the 300,000 women of The American Legion 250 disabled men who worked on poppies at the Speedway hos- f ft /Auxiliary and the women of other organizations pital—the man who was facing a serious operation with the §/ ^/ who are assisting them are selling poppies on the chances against him, who worked late at night before going to J y Saturday before Memorial Day, they will be in- the operating table, so that whether he lived or died the money spired by two visions. They will see the blood-red poppy of from the poppies might go to his wife. wartime, growing among the rows of white crosses and dotting Your poppy may have been shaped by the nervous and rheu- the battlefields—the symbol of sacrifice. And they will see also matic fingers of a gray-haired veteran in the workshop of the the millions of crimson poppies of the peacetime of today, tak- Kansas Department of the Auxiliary. He was really too old for ing form slowly under the fingers of disabled men on hospital war service but he served anyway and he is paying for it now. beds or in the workshops of The American Legion Auxiliary His disabilities prevent him from holding a steady job and the symbol of hope. frequently the money he earns making poppies is the only sup- Fine it is to think that each poppy sold brings back memories port for his wife and six children. of the crimson flowers of the graves and the battlefields. But If your poppy is especially well made it may have come from finer the knowledge that every poppy offered for sale already the hands of the half-paralyzed veteran in the National Soldiers' has brought hope and confidence to a disabled service man Home at Togus, Maine, who said: "I'm going to make these somewhere and that it will bring new hope and support to other good even if I make only fifty a day. I made forty-five this disabled service men in the year to come. morning, and my left hand is paralyzed. As they pin the tiny paper flowers on HH See, I can move the fingers only a little." lapels, the poppy sellers will think of Your poppy may be one of the many groceries for struggling families and made by the fellow patients of a bed- shoes for little children—groceries and ridden man in an Oklahoma hospital. shoes which poppy dimes and quarters They made them for him so that his will help buy. Every penny made from aged parents would get the money. the s?le of the poppies by the Legion and the Auxiliary will go for direct re- Civilian Clothes lief, to disabled service men and their families, and not a cent of the money WHEN Vincent B. Costello Post of taken in will be spent for administration Washington, D. C, held an initia- expenses or salaries. Most of the money tion recently, Post Commander L. E. obtained will be spent in the communi- Atkins was reminded of a story which ties in which it is raised. had drifted across the Atlantic from the clubhouses of the British Legion. Poppy Makers A bumptious retired colonel was in- specting the parade of a British Legion POPPIES sold by the Legion and the post on last Armistice Day. Going along Auxiliary are being made this year in the line of service men standing at at- more than a score of Veterans Bureau tention, he spied a man, obviously an hospitals and in Auxiliary poppy work- old timer, who was wearing the Victoria shops in many cities near hospitals and Cross. convalescent centers. In the work of "Where did you get that, my man?" making poppies, disabled men receiving he asked. little or no government compensation "In South Africa, sir," was the reply. colonel, "and what are given preference. A penny is paid Admiral Reginald Nicholson (left) "Ah!" said the for each poppy and the average worker was your rank?" and bis brother, General W. J. Nich- is able to make three hundred poppies a "General, sir," smartly replied the olson (right), jointly initiated into day. Three dollars may not seem much, Legionnaire. Costello Post of Washington, D. C. but to a man who has been flat on his Farther down the line the colonel Center, Post Commander L. E. Atkins back for months, three one-dollar bills, rtopped in front of a man wearing a actually earned, may seem a little fortune. double row of medals, many of which he Perhaps your poppy was made by the man in the Speedway did not recognize. Not to be caught again, he whispered: hospital at Chicago who has been confined to his bed five years "Do you mind telling me, my man, what rank you held in with the lower part of his body in a rack. This year he is able the service?" to move his hands enough to fashion the little red flowers. "Admiral, sir," replied the veteran. Useful work and earning money mean everything to him. Or Post Commander Atkins was reminded of this story because perhaps your poppy was one of those made by another of the his post was initiating two brothers who have had long and 30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly m

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distinguished service in Uncle Sam's forces—one, General W. J. Between conventions, Happy—his name, incidentally, is Frank Nicholson, U. S. A., Retired, a commander of the 70th Division G. Wintz—is the most prominent citizen of the oil town of El during the World War, the other, Admiral Reginald Nicholson, Segundo, California, and he is a Past Commander of El Segundo U. S. N., Retired. Post. He isn't a native son, however, because he was born in De Soto, Missouri. During the war he tried to learn flying at Indiana s Admiral Kelly Field. He is the only known member of the aviation service who didn't get an offer to become a film "ace" after the THE generals would heavily outnumber the admirals if war—the reason, he confesses, is that he was only a "spade" someone called the roll of all Legion posts, but he'd be sur- at Kelly Field. prised to learn just how many old seadogs are sitting in at post Decorating Happy Wintz is a sport in California. Most of meetings. At LaPorte, Indiana, for example. Hamon Gray Post the medals he wears on his coat-front and sleeves and vest is proud of a naval veteran who went through three wars, served were conferred on him ceremoniously by Legion posts, including notably for forty-six years and came out of retirement in 1917 the one, which he got at a Legion rodeo, labeled "Champion to serve conspicuously for two more years during the World Bull Thrower." War. He is ReaB Admiral R. R. Ingersoll, Commander of the During the San Francisco national convention there was a post for 1926 and 1927 and now its Honorary Commander. fiery debate on some question. Hot and perspiring delegates Admiral Ingersoll celebrated his eighty- were jumping up all over the auditorium first birthday at LaPorte on December and clamoring for a chance to speak, 4, 1928. while National Commander Alvin Ows- Graduating from the Naval Academy ley was pounding the table with his gavel. in 1868, Admiral Ingersoll served at sea A police whistle cut through the dense in all parts of the world on some of the air and Commander Owsley turned his Navy's historical ships, among them the eyes toward the balcony. "I recognize Constitution (Old Ironsides) and the the gentleman from California," he said. Kearsarge. His last sea service was as Happy Wintz stood up and calmly an- chief of staff of the Atlantic Fleet under nounced that the El Segundo baseball Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, and he team would play a game with a team from was chief of staff of the battle fleet the Pacific Fleet—everybody invited. under Admiral Evans when the fleet At Omaha, President Coolidge was made its historic voyage around Cape just beginning his address to The Ameri- Horn to the Pacific Coast of California. can Legion convention when Happy During the World War, Admiral Inger- Wintz popped through a door into the soll was president of the Special Board press box in the orchestra pit, stood up on Naval Ordnance of the Navy De- and shouted: "As for you, Cal, we're partment. for you." Several thousand Legionnaires saw and heard Calvin Coolidge laugh. Off Stage When Snows Were Deep AS certainly as the robins arrive in spring, Happy Wintz will hop into IT WAS a hard winter in New York Louisville, Kentucky, on or about Sep- State for the Mongolian ring neck slowly tember 30, 1929, and when it sees him pheasants which have been mul- Louisville tiplying since the State placed the birds will know that the Legion's A Legion celebrity incognito. This eleventh national begun. in the woods and fields of many counties convention has everyday citizen, glimpsed in bis own distributing In his funny hat, a flat derby of the and adopted the policy of dooryard, happens to be the clown ex- Chester B. Arthur period, in his yard- additional birds each year. While snows traordinary of every Legion national wide, violently-checkered trousers, with were deep over all of Erie and Niagara convention — Happy Wintz himself his forty-nine medals, his cane and his Counties, those who knew the habits of that all might starve. megaphone, Happy Wintz is a clown the birds feared above and beyond competition. And whether he is on a table- "The Tonawandas Post of Tonawanda and North Tonawanda top in the lobby of the biggest hotel, perched on the railing of saved hundreds of pheasants from dying," reports Legionnaire the orchestra pit in the convention auditorium or striding along Kennard T. Jensen. "Two squads of Legionnaires from our sacks of bread a flag-decorated street, he is master of ceremonies always, tire- post obtained eight sacks of grain and three less in repartee, unfailingly funny in every wise crack. Clowns through the Izaak Walton League and covered a territory of sometimes get tiresome, but Happy Wintz never bored anybody. seventy miles, placing the food at feeding stations in the two 3i MAY, 1929 ! KEEPING STEP

counties. The strange thing about all this is that not a member a population of 43,000, and in a campaign to raise $35,000 for of our feeding parties has ever hunted pheasants. the monument citizens contributed more than $40,000. "Our game laws prohibit killing of pheasants except on the The committee in charge of the monument project was headed last two Thursdays of October and the first two Saturdays of by James H. Walsh, Jr., Past Commander of Fitchburg Post, a November. On these days only male birds may be taken, and cousin of David I. Walsh, United States Senator from Massa- no person may take more than three of these in the four days. chusetts. Fitchburg Post had an important part in the public A fine of $65 is imposed for each male bird taken above the discussions which resulted in the decision to construct a monu- limit and a fine of $125 is specified for taking hen pheasants." ment rather than a memorial of another type. The post also was instrumental in having the city's oldest square and park, in Dance Favor which the memorial stands, renamed Memorial Common. "The figure which Mr. Adams created for the Fitchburg THE luckiest boy in Illinois—also the proudest—is Lester memorial is one of the most notable works of sculpture inspired Henning. seventeen years old, of Deerfield. Before the by the World War," comments Laurence E. Andrews. "It is night of the Aviation Ball given by Trowel Post of The Ameri- the figure of a woman symbolizing 'Memory.' It is of heroic can Legion in Chicago, size, in bronze, and rests Lester was content to tinker upon a granite shaft." with ramshackle Ford cars, the popular transportation Travel and Sport medium of Deerfield high school boys. On the night THE porgie doesn't swim of the ball Lester found in the creeks of Iowa himself owner of a crimson and Indiana; and what Ohio and canary Eaglerock air- or Illinois Legionnaire ever plane, with a Hispano- caught a croaker, a spot, a Suiza engine, guaranteed to grunt or a flounder, not to go 125 miles an hour and mention a ling or a weak- rise 18,000 feet. fish ? Never heard of them Young Mr. Henning held Well, any west-of-the- a single ticket to the post's Alleghenies Legionnaire who ball. There were 30,000 wants to learn the differ- othertickets. When"Chief," ence between a ling and a Not far from Plymouth Rock is this summer camp and bathing educated dog of the movies, croaker, a grunt and a porgie, beach Plymouth (Massachusetts') Post which the post turns pulled a ticket stub out of of report some Saturday after- over the toivn f a barrel, it happened to be to boys of its for one month each summer. The noon at the clubhouse o the stub corresponding to barrack-like building has cots for thirty-six. Ply?nouth Voi- Frankford Post in Phila- the ticket held by Lester. ture of the Forty and Eight built the screened porch. The delphia. Frankford Post The ball was held in the post and voiture hold clambakes and picnics often has its own fishing club, Grand Ballroom of Hotel which doesn't do its fishing Sherman in Chicago. in the post clubhouse but goes places. Last summer, Wild-wood Slum reports Legionnaire John Pfuelb, fishing club presi- UNCLE SAM hasn't yet dent, the club went on eight started serving filet fishing trips, three of them mignon or .hicken a la king ocean trips off Cape May, every day to his peacetime New Jersey. Eighteen Le- doughboys, but several gionnaires went on the trips, years ago he did increase and Mr. Pfuelb reports that the ration allowance, per- "the average catch per mitting peacetime mess ser- comrade" was fourteen geants to serve a lot better HHK fish. Legionnaire Bert Col- chow than we got in 1018. lier won a bamboo fishing It is recorded that recruit- **• rod as a prize for catching ing took i big jump as soon the biggest fish. Mr. Pfuelb as the word got around that goldfish and beans and other time- himself came through with a doggy salt water reel as second honored vittles of wartime were almost fini. prize for catching the next biggest fish, after seeing the biggest Newton County Post of Newton, Mississippi, used some of one of all get away. Uncle Sam's own bait in increasing its membership 400 percent last year, according to Post Commander Gabe J. Simmons. Farewell "We gave a series of Brunswick stew parties," writes Mr. Simmons. "The parties are held in the woods where firewood WHEN there is a fire in Rochester, New York, today driv- and spring water may be had. The stew is cooked in two big ers edge their automobiles toward the curbs and drive iron kettles, each kettle holding enough stew for 100 men. Into slowly while the motor fire engines and trucks thunder by with the stew we put potatoes, tomatoes, green corn, celery, chickens, howling sirens. It is a big moment for every Rochester boy in squirrels, game birds and any other wild game which happens knickerbockers who happens to be close enough to see and hear. to be obtainable. We cook the mixture five hours. Each party There was a day when the spectacle of the fire department lasts well into the night and for light we have big bonfires." going by was different—when three white horses galloped with every engine, clangor of iron hoofs mingling with clanging of Bronze and Granite gongs, blue-coated driver fighting for his perch against swaying and bounding, sparks and smoke belching from smokestack. WHEN Herbert W. Adams, noted American sculptor, was Gone forever in Rochester now, that day. commissioned to design a World War memorial for Fitch- A few of the city's old fire horses, honorably retired, last of burg, Massachusetts, he was inspired by the fact that Fitchburg honored hosts, still wander in Rochester city pastures and is his native city and the additional fact that the work he was dream of old glories. They too will soon be gone. But Rochester about to execute would represent a tribute to Fitchburg's service will not forget its old fire horses. Where ail may see, on the men rendered by almost every person in the city. Fitchburg has front of the annex to Rochester's city hall, is a bronze tablet 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — KEEPING STEP honoring their memory. It was erected by The American Le- of the Pennsylvania Department of The American Legion. gion of Monroe County. Raised on the surface of the bronze, Convalescent service men, men who have won partial victory three fire horses stand out at full gallop, their engine behind in their fight against tuberculosis, will live in the cabins. While them. And below, this inscription: seeking health in outdoor life they will work as forest rangers. "Our fire horses. Glorious in beauty and service. Faithful The plan for the erection of the cabins was conceived by Dr. friends, we cannot call them Henry Pleasants, Jr., of West dumb. They spoke in deeds fgmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmm^ Chester, chairman of the in every hour of danger. Per- Pennsylvania Department's petual remembrance en- medical aid committee. The shrines their loyalty and American Legion Citizens courage." Committee, consisting of When the tablet was dedi- sixty Legionnaires, State offi- cated by The American Le- cials and other public-spirited gion of Monroe County, the citizens, has been working to pensioned old fire horses were make the plan effective. Ro- brought in from their pastures main C. Hassrick, a former and hitched to the engines chairman of the Philadelphia and trucks of the old days County Committee of the for a last parade. Legion, is chairman of the committee. Success of the All American plan was assured when Charles E. Dorworth, secretary of the NEW YORK CITY is, of State Department of Forest course, the most cos- and Waters, Dr. Joseph Illick, mopolitan city in the world, state forester, and Dr. Theo- and East Side Post is sure it dore F. Appel, secretary of is the most cosmopolitan Legion post not the Department of Health, became enthusi- only in New York City but in the whole astic supporters of the Legion's plan to save country. When Post Commander Abraham men and trees. Schwartz looks over the post's membership roll—there are one thousand names on it Gift Horses he can check Legionnaires who through birth or descent represent thirty-one separate na- WHEN Lawrence W. Foster Post of tionalities. Two Chinese Legionnaires at- Foxboro, Massachusetts, opened its tend meetings of the post regularly and there new bungalow clubhouse, each piece of brand is scarcely a country in Europe which hasn't new furniture in the building bore a little contributed a group to the post's roll call. tag containing the name of the citizen of the Groups don't stand out in the post's affairs, town who had purchased it. The post's however. The multiple identities have all Auxiliary unit provided all the furniture for been merged in the single classification the kitchen. All American. "We adopted the plan of tagging the fur- Five hundred members attended the posfs niture to avoid getting as gifts a lot of mis- annual dinner and dance recently, and five fit and cast-off chairs and tables and other hundred is a crowd even in New York City. pieces," naively reports Post Historian Ralph The post's clubrooms are among the busiest R. Smith. "The furniture was given gladly When the Pennsylvania de- in the Legion, post officers working late every by citizens who remembered that the post night on rehabilitation problems, orphans' partment dedicated its first asked for no contributions to its building relief, community welfare and other activi- cabin for disabled service men fund, earning all the money it needed. Each ties of the outfit's big summer the post gives and varied membership. weekly band concerts, presenting the best bands Men and Trees of our section of the State, many of them the TWO hundred Legion- bands of other Legion naires journeyed to posts. These concerts a newly-built cabin in have provided steady the Pocono Mountains revenue and won for the of Pennsylvania recent- post the high regard of ly and with ceremonies the town." dedicated that cabin to an experiment which En Visite! promises health to two thousand Pennsylvania A MILLION or more service men fighting a Frenchmen won the daily battle against tu- Croix de Guerre between berculosis. That experi- 1014 and 1018, and to- ment promises also to day thousands of them help Pennsylvania save belong to a veterans' so- the million acres of ciety which is named forest land which the the Association Amicale State has set aside in de Croix de Guerre. It reservations. is a French counterpart The cabin dedicated of The American Le- was the first of many to gion, a society in which be erected in State for- Last year s poppy sellers of Palm Beach {Florida} Post's Auxiliary former generals, admir- ests under the auspices unit, a typical detachment of the Auxiliary' s one-day-a-year army als, poilus and marins

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The delegation of the French Associa- National Commander Paul V. Mc- tion Amicale des Croix de Guerre Nutt greets Comte de Pusy Dumor- with their Legionnaire hosts in front tier de La Fayette, direct descendant of The American Legion' s National of Marquis de La Fayette, one of the Headquarters building in Indian- many notable visitors ivho made a apolis in mid-March tour of American cities

mingle at meetings and banquets without tion in Indianapolis was an inspection of thought of the old distinctions of rank. the $12,000,000 War Memorial Plaza on Like The American Legion, the Croix which are located the Legion's National des Guerre society has guarded jealous- Headquarters building and the monu- ly its political independence—it has had mental tower that is one of the coun- nothing to do with the many battles for try's most impressive memorials. political power which have been waged At Lafayette. Indiana, the delegation in France since the Armistice. And in honored the memory of the Marquis de other ways, the Croix de Guerre society La Fayette. Their visit was observed as is much the same as The American Le- a holiday by the whole city, and a series gion—its members scattered through of ceremonies was held in flag-decorated France are everyday citizens in thought and viewpoint, busy streets and parks. At Culver, Indiana, the visitors were week- mostly with making a living, saving money, rearing families and end guests of L. R. Gignilliat, superintendent of Culver Military keeping alive comradeship and the memories of the old days. Academy and Past Commander of the Department of Indiana. There is a vast interest—and curiosity—in France these days Throughout their tour, the comrades of the French society concerning the United States. Two million American soldiers made visits to stores and factories, studying American business left their impress upon the thought of every French community methods. Each one sought information which he could apply during the war. The pilgrimage of American veterans to Paris to his own business or professional problems in France. and the battlefields' and cemeteries in 1027 made a powerful Among the notable visitors were Admiral Guepratte. who was impression upon the imagination of all Frenchmen. It was only commander of the French fleet in the Dardanelles during the natural, therefore, that the Association Amicale des Croix de World War; General Maurice Adrien Boulet-Desbarreau, for- Guerre should conceive the idea of an American tour, in which merly a commanding general of the French Foreign Legion, who a group of its members should have an opportunity to study during the war was attached to the 33d Division of the A. E. F., the United States and Americans at close range. and Comte de Pusy Dumortier de La Fayette, direct descendant Early in March forty-one members of the Association—three of Marquis de La Fayette. of them women—stepped ashore in New York City from the Comte de La Fayette served on the French staff during the S. S. George Washington. They had come from all sections of war. He owns two ancestral castles on the Marne. one. the France, each of them had been selected for the trip by his own Chateau de Chavagnac, the home of his noted ancestor. Both district of the society, and each was paying his own expenses. castles were occupied by the Germans during the invasion. The They included men of many occupations and business interests. count is a leading figure in French industry and agriculture. An admiral and a general were among them and the others represented almost every rank of wartime. The women had Teaching Safety been wartime nurses—decorated for bravery. Many of them were notable, with names that resound in French history, but WHAT can ten thousand posts of The American Legion do the delegation included also men who had to do some close in 1020 to reduce the yearly toll of dead and injured in figuring of personal budgets to make the tour. highway accidents? They can do a lot. each in its own com- The American Legion welcomed the visitors on shipboard munity, according to the plans for post safety campaigns which and was host to them in a half-dozen cities during their two- Dan Sowers, director of the National Americanism Commission, weeks' tour, which included New York City, Indianapolis, Phila- has made available to posts everywhere. delphia and Washington. National Commander Paul V. McNutt Last year 27.000 persons were killed on the streets and high- greeted them at National Headquarters in Indianapolis and was ways of the United States, Mr. Sowers reported, submitting a host at a formal banquet attended by Legionnaires, public list of methods by which Legionnaires can cut down the number officials and representatives of French societies and other or- of accidents in which boys and girls are killed or injured. Mr. ganizations. Among the events arranged for the French delega- Sowers urges each post to appoint a post safety committee to

34 The AMERICAN" LEGION Monthly KEEPING STEP conduct a community safety campaign. He advocates erection pictures he solicits. The Step Keeper can only emphasize that of caution signs along highways, the distribution of safety lit- ways and means of effecting the exchange of pictures are left to erature, the giving of safety talks in schools, the organization individual members, to be arranged presumably by correspond- of junior traffic corps to help children in crossing streets going ence before pictures are sent. Most members indicate they are to and returning from school, the holding of safety poster willing to send to other members a list of the best pictures they contests and surveys for the elimination of traffic hazards. have to offer. The Step Keeper will enroll in the Second A. E. F. No post need wonder Photo Exchange Club what it is going to do anyone who will send a this summer to help its two-cent stamp, which community. The prob- will be used in mailing lem will be solved if it him the list of all others will get from Mr. Sow- who are willing to ex- ers his bulletin headed change pictures. "Suggestions for Safety- Legionnaire Harry R. First Program." He may Schilling, Rural Route be addressed at National B, Lafayette, Indiana, is Headquarters of The hoping that among the American Legion, Indi- members of the new club anapolis, Indiana. is the man who took a photograph which he ob- Picture Trading tained by mistake from a London photo devel- THE Second A. E. F. oping company during Photo Exchange the pilgrimage to France. Club keeps right on Mr. Schilling will gladly growing. Membership send to its real owner took a jump when Le- the negative of the pic- gionnaire S. R. Gerard ture shown on this page. of Reading (Massachu- setts) Post, writing to Brothers the Step Keeper to ap- Who took this picture during the pilgrimage of the Second A. E. F. plaud the idea em- takes a man with a and ivhere ivas it taken? Legionnaire Harry R. Schilling got it by IT bodied in the club, sub- hair-trigger memory mistake in London and ivants to return the negative to its owner mitted the names of six to be Commander of other prospective mem- John Wyszomirski Post bers, all living in States other than his own. Mr. Gerard ex- of Amsterdam, New York. When Post Commander James H. plained that he had started a Second A. E. F photo exchange Harrison wants to appoint a committee he can't rattle off a all his own before he learned of the Keeping Step group and he string of last names and let it go at that. Usually he has to give wished to effect an amalgamation of the two outfits. first names as well as last names. For among the 14Q members Mr. Gerard proposed that the club broadcast the name of of the post are twelve sets of brothers. There are three Bogdans. anyone who enrolls but fails to send photographs in return for Stephen, John and Michael; and three Celmers, John, Frank

Leon Martin Post of Barnesville, Georgia, made this swimming pool the central feature of a fifty-acre playground it established. The post and its Auxiliary unit bought 60 percent of the stock of the playground corporation and sold the remainder to citizens. The photograph was made on dedication day

MAY, 1929 35 : KEEPING STEP and Leo. There are two pairs of Miller Brothers. Otto and George but I do remember that the sub-committee was somewhat exer- and Stephen and Sam. Other pairs are Radford, Quackenbush, cised because it was felt that this phrase should have been Litwa, Mushaw, Bush, Stanley, Pohlman and Lewandowski. inserted immediately prior to the last phrase of the Preamble. "Wonder if any other post has a bigger and more varied The sub-committee even went so far as to endeavor to have the collection of brothers," speculates Commander Harrison. mimeographed copy changed to conform to their ideas of the place of this phrase in the Preamble before the Preamble should The Legion's Keystone be adopted by the caucus, but was unsuccessful. This phrase may some day be transferred to its intended and rightful position. "One thing ON MAY 8, iciiq—ten years ago—the St. Louis Caucus of more. It will be observed in the facsimile that The American Legion opened, and while the Paris Caucus the word 'regain' has been stricken out and the word 'maintain' written it. on March 7, 1919, had selected a name for the new organiza- over When the first word was written, I had in mind tion and measurably shaped its future, it was at St. Louis that that during our absence we had lost one of the very important the Legion's Constitution was adopted, setting forth for all 'principles of freedom' by the adoption of the Eighteenth time its purposes and ideals. Amendment, but on second As this year's tenth anniversary r - - thought I felt that my idiosyn- of the St. Louis Caucus ap- cracy might be misunderstood. proached, a lawyer in Wilming- Hence the change." ton, Delaware, one of the Le- gion's godfatheis, recalled the cir- Hawaii Wins cumstances under which the Pre- amble to the Legion's Constitu- NEWTON D. BAKER, former tion was composed. He is George Secretary of War, brought N. Davis who served with Ham- good luck to the Department of ilton Fish. Jr., of New York and Hawaii when he acted as grand John C. Greenwav of Arizona as marshal of the parade which a sub-committee of the Commit- marked the opening of the depart- tee on Constitution and By-Laws ment's membership campaign in

- in drawing up the Preamble. Mr. Honolulu in February . The Ha- Davis supplies these reminiscences waiian Legionnaires had bestowed "The sub-committee met after upon Mr. Baker the wreath of dinner on the opening day of the flowers which is the symbol of Ha- In a^A. caucus and spent the evening in -f****, 'Th^ue^ waiian hospitality, and Mr. Baker an informal discussion of what had made an address in which he the Preamble should contain, wished his Legion hosts all sorts without making any attempt at of luck in their efforts to lead the phraseology. About twelve o'clock whole American Legion in mem- the sub-committee agreed to bership. separate and go to their respec- Mr. Baker's good wishes were tive rooms where each one would cJ^^caA-^^. iy-Vjfc. Q^Jjlaa tfUxSijL,^ realized when National Headquar- attempt to put into writing the ters counted up returns in the substance of the evening's dis- Henry D. Lindsley membership cussion, and meet the next morn- trophy contest and found that ing to formulate a final draft of ML Hawaii had won the silver cup the Preamble. I retired to my which is presented annually to the room and went into solitary ac- department which obtains the tion. From then until half past highest percentage of membership two in the morning I struggled over its preceding year's member- with the King's English, and at ship by March 1st. the end of that time, after hav- The Department of Hawaii, ing made at least a dozen drafts, which ended 1928 with 1,117 This is a facsimile of the original draft of the Pre- evolved the draft which I still re- members, had 1,605 members on amble to the Legion s Constitution. It teas written tain in its original form. In the March 1st, a percentage increase during the St. Louis Caucus, May ig by George facsimile reproduction the writing 8, 19, of 143.69. The District of Co- is quite legible. N. Davis of Delaware, and was altered and am- lumbia Department won second "The committee met the next plified before adoption place in the trophy contest, with morning. The other two members a percentage of 121.86. The had not been able to satisfy themselves with the results of their Wyoming Department was third, with 87.58 percent; Virginia own efforts of the night before and did not submit a draft. I fourth, with 86.52 percent; Indiana fifth, with 81.05 percent; showed them the draft I had prepared and the committee agreed and Mississippi sixth, with 78.42 percent. that a preamble could be built around it. Schofield Barracks Post had a big part in the Department of "At this morning meeting there was submitted to the com- Hawaii's victory. On the final day of the Lindsley Trophy mittee a draft of a preamble by the Washington, D. C, dele- competition, this post enrolled in a single afternoon 195 service gation, headed by E. Lester Jones. This draft contained two men who had never belonged to the Legion in other years, phrases, the substance of which were incorporated in the original raising its total strength to more than 400. The post later pre- draft. These phrases were: (1) to inculcate a sense of indi- sented to Major General Edwin B. Winans, commanding gen- vidual obligation to the community, state and nation,' and (2) eral of the Hawaiian division, two medals which will be awarded 'to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, to the regiment and individual making the best records in box- freedom and democracy.' I distinctly recall that the words 'an ing, baseball, basketball, football and track events. In July the one hundred percent' were added to the phrase lz foster and post will present American Legion School Award medals to the perpetuate Americanism.' Some changes were made in the honor students at Leilehua High School. original draft. The beginning and the end were altered and the During the department membership campaign, Department draft of the Preamble as it is today with the omission of one Commander Irvin Spalding, Department Adjutant P. J. Cas- phrase, was submitted to the Committee on Constitution and sidy and other officials made airplane tours which took them to By-Laws. This committee added one phrase. It was 'to pre- Legion posts on all of the islands. They used a giant Army serve the memories and incidents of our association in the Fokker plane, a sister craft of the plane in which Lieutenants great war.' I do not know who was responsible for this phrase, Maitland and Hegenberger made their ( Continued 011 page 67) 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly BELLS ^/MEMORY

TALLt a l l Bu CarterJohnson still echoing over the city /^/ building ^/ of Rochester, he said: f~~M which "Today we dedicate looks as ^ 1111111111— ' _ this carillon to the Ameri- if it had been lifted from can soldier, in grateful the newest section of the memory of heroic actions skyscraper wonderland in on land and sea to which the middle of New York America owes her liberty, City stands today in peace and prosperity. Let Rochester, Minnesota, a the music of these bells symbol of the achieve- ever remind us of our ments of two men for brave defenders. We now humanity. In the Min- give the carillon into the nesota community this hands of The American building rises story upon Legion and other patriot- story until its trim square- ic bodies who have main- ness gives way to a tower tained in the past and that is embellished with will maintain in the future columns and arches and the ideals of those noble surmounted by a pyramid. men and women who The building is the new founded the United States home of the world-famed of America." Mayo Clinic. It sym- Dr. Charles H. Mayo bolizes what Dr. William also spoke. He recited

J. Mayo and Dr. Charles the words that were buried H. Mayo have accom- in the cornerstone of the plished in Rochester since building, dedicating the they took up the work structure to "the relief of begun by their father suffering," and he too sixty-five years ago. The paid a tribute to the tower that gives a sur American soldier on land passing architectural dis- and sea to whom the tinction to the building is carillon shall be a memo- a bell tower in which rial. twenty-three bells of dif- There was more than ferent tones ring melodi- usual significance in this ously, responding to the ceremony, for both Dr.

hand that operates an William J. Mayo and Dr. electric keyboard. The Charles H. Mayo had bells compose a carillon as served in the World War beautiful and as distinc- as the chief surgical con- tive as any in the United sultants of the American States. Created and at- Army's medical depart- tuned in foundries at ment and had therefore Croydon, England, thcv acquired an understand- are proof that the art of ing of the services and tuning bells which was per- sacrifices of which they fected in Flemish foundries were speaking. And both

something more Dr. William J. than three hun- Mayo and Dr.

dred years ago Charles H . has been reborn. Mayo are con- The world tinuing in peace- unites in homage time the service to Dr. William A carillon dedicated to the Ameri- they began in the J. Mayo and Dr. can soldier chimes hours from the' World War. Charles H. the tower of the new home of the Both are charter Mayo, but when world-famed Mayo Clinic in Koch- members of Wil- these two men, liam T. McCoy ester, Minnesota . The Mayo honored by many Post of The brothers, Charles H. (Jeff) a>id nations for their American Le- William (right), are charter contributions to J. gion of Roches- members William T. McCoy modern surgery, of ter. envisioned the Post of The American Legion in the Stafford King, magnificent community they have made famous Commander of building which the Minnesota has now taken form they determined to render a tribute of Department of The American Legion, delivered an address, in their own to the composite individual who had made possible which he paid tribute to the self-sacrificing genius of the their country's preservation and progress. On the day the new donors: Mayo Clinic building was dedicated, in the presence of the "We of The American Legion are especially pleased and proud people of Rochester and guests from all parts of the world, in the that this great memorial comes to the men of Minnesota and the presence of members of The American Legion from many towns United States as the gift of two of the greatest soldiers that this of has in in war. They are and cities of Minnesota, Dr. William J. Mayo made a speech of generation men produced— peace and presentation. While the music of the many-toned bells was charter members of William T. McCoy {Continued on page 6j)

MAY, 1929 37 Bursts as&D lids

Cat to Cat Precaution Fountain of Youth "We ought to judge people solely by The deal had been completed, but just "Felix kept himself young by running their mental endowments," declared to satisfy his curiosity the airplane around with the gay younger set." Miss Highbrow. salesman permitted himself a question. "How old was he when he died?" "That would be so nice," agreed her "If you're going to fly alone I don't "Thirty." friend. Miss Lowbrow. "Then you could see why you'll need two parachutes," he ride on half fare." said. " Why won't I?" testily demanded the Sheer Foolishness opinionated purchaser. "What if one It was three o'clock in the morning, Side Door Pullman parachute should fail to open?" and the husband fondly fancied he had The big railroad terminal was crowded taken all precautions for silence when shabby in- when a he entered the house and tiptoed up the j^t dividual approached Where It Goes stairs, but they were not enough for the a wicket and peered "You've been looking a bit shoddy of vigilant wife who was waiting in the inquiringly at the late, old man. Haven't you spent any bedroom. on young woman money for new clothes lately?" "Now, why on earth are you coming duty behind it. "Yes—damn her!" home at this unholy hour of the night?" "Excuse me, she demanded. miss," he apolo- "It is rather silly, isn't it?" he agreed gized, "but do you Black Magic wearily. represent the Travelers' Aid Society?" The vaudeville prestidigitator's stuff "Yes." she replied. was going over big, and he had com- "Den where's de freight yards, please?" pletely mystified his audience. Patients With Money "Now, sir." he inquired of his latest "So your son's a doctor now?" victim, "would it surprise you if the Bad "Yes, he's a specialist." Man half-dollar you gave me and which you "What does he specialize in?" "Big boy. does yo' think yo's hahd?" saw vanish in thin air turned up in the "Oh, everything—everything." "Hahd? Man. Ah's so hahd Ah don' rear part of the theater? You, boy," he dare put mah hands in mah pockets fo' went on, pointing at random at some fear Ah '11 git 'rested fo' carryin' con- boys in the back seat, "stand up and The Test cealed weapons." tell me what you find in your left coat pocket." All evening long the usually timid For a minute there was an awkward youth had been im- Just in Case silence. Then the youth arose. portuning the college belle for a kiss Two motorists had recently arrived in "Sorry, dad. there's only forty cents and she the next world and had gone to the com- left." he apologized. "You said I could was becoming annoyed. missary to draw their outfits. The harps keep a dime out of it, so I spent it." were gold and shiny and everything "I've told you no at least a dozen seemed up to the standard of quality to times," she snapped be expected in such a place, but one of Boy of Yision at him. "Just why the newcomers noticed a look of anx- The office was seeking the man. do you keep insisting on it?" iety on his friend's face. "Phone the nineteenth hole," sug- "W'well, you s-see," stammered the "What's the matter, old man?" he gested the office boy. bashful one, "the fellows were saying asked. "Don't your wings fit you?" Sure enough, there he was. the other day that anybody who could "They're all right," returned the kiss you could kiss anyone, and I'm worried one. "but I'd feel more com- awfully sweet on that Bliffkins girl." fortable if I had a spare." We Aim to Please It was the noon hour in a business office, and the only Full Report Soul of Propriety occupants were a "Is he a nice boy?" "Who were those two fellows you pretty girl clerk "I should say! We drove seventy- brought in. Sergeant?" asked the police and a customer four miles before I decided to walk official. who was waiting back." "A coupla peace officers. Loot, dis- for the return of turbin' each other." the boss. He was a nosey individual, Most Elusive this customer, and The celebrated humorist writhed in Utilitar!an had asked the girl all the intimate agony. Before him lay a manuscript, Two visitors to a public park had questions he could think of—who was and as his eyes studied it they nar- spent a perfect day littering the grounds her favorite boy friend, how much she rowed from the anguish of the mighty with newspapers, scraps of food and made a week, if she didn't think it was brain behind it —the brain that had im- other odds and ends, but still something a shame the way grafting was going on pelled his hand to write the lines. seemed to be lacking. Suddenly one was in the city government, and why she "Tracy, dear," his wife implored struck by an inspiration. wore a pink hat with a blue dress. sympathetically, "tell me. tell me. what

"I don't see any 'Keep off the Grass' Finally he inquired idly: is the matter?" signs, do you?" he asked. "And what time do you go to "Ah, God!" breathed the funnv man, "Sure." the other answered. "There's lunch'-'" "I'm afraid this joke is too subtle." one over there.'' "Oh, any time is all right," she re- "But why do you think that?" "That's fine—let's go over. They plied brightly. "Whenever it's con- "W-well, I can't even see any point " make swell back rests venient for you." to it myself."

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

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£"^CENE: Back stage Kirke Mechem "We've got 'em!" exclaims Bu the director. "She's going \ in the leading theatre, 1 Wichita, Kansas. over!" Then he frowns. v_-^ Time: Any year since 19 19 "But we didn't rehearse a laugh in that hour is 8:15 p.m. second place and so of course those poor to right into it. Can you Characters : Members of The American rookies had talk Legion, disguised as actors, director, beat that?" property men, stage hands, business The above sketch, with annual varia- managers, etc. tions, has been enacted nine times by The actors are covered with grease members of Thomas Hopkins Post of paint and nervousness; the director is Wichita, Kansas. In these nine years the distinguishable from them only by the post players have given thirty-one per- absence of the grease paint. There is a formances and have appeared before an restless pacing up and down on the part estimated total audience of twenty-five of the Drews and Barrymores; their lips thousand. move in frenzied silence, their eyes are While at times the business managers fixed glassily on empty space. The have had more cause than the actors to Legionnaire Belasco surveys the terrain tremble with stage fright as they peered for the «th time; he moves a chair an through the curtain peephole at a slim eighth of an inch, looks at his watch, kicks third-night crowd, the post records show the bottom of a section of wall an inch to that none of its productions has failed to the rear, listens to the overture being net a profit. According to the books the played out in front by the Legion total net revenue from theatricals has orchestra and tries to determine how been $13,611.64. Rodeos, carnivals and nearly it is finished, glances at his manu- other money-making projects have caused plenty of figuring in script to make sure it is in order, looks at A winning nine from a performance put the adjutants to do red ink, but so far experience proves that his watch. There is a sudden breath- on by the Legion in Bronxville, NeivYork. taking silence. The musical barrage has in Wichita "the play's the thing" that can page: Wichita is the At top of far from the ended. There is a rush to the parapets in always be counted upon to keep only community in the country ivhich looks the wings. The director signals for lights, finance officer on speaking terms with the to the Legion for high-grade entertain- then the curtain. It is zero hour. bank.

ment . These ten young ladies took part in a plays, re- As the curtain rises there is a hush all The value to the post of its along the front. Then voices are heard show staged byCelina {Ohio) Legionnaires vues and minstrel shows, however, cannot cents. from the combat troops of the first wave be estimated merely in dollars and interested out under the spotlights in No Man's Land. There is a ripple of Those who were not in the service are not so much are laughter from the enemy. A burst of machine-gun dialogue is in what Legionnaires experienced in war as in what they provides followed by a roar of laughter beginning in the opposing first lines trying to do now. For that reason the fact that a play and rolling through the communicating trenches in the rear. The one of the few opportunities for a post to come in direct contact natural director looks up from his manuscript with a grin. The second with the public and in a medium uniquely adapted to a page wave at his elbow grins back. presentation by ex-service men themselves (Continued on 58)

MAY, 1929 39

What a cigarette meant there The actors play their part—

and history moves thrillingly across the silver screen. But on the movie lot, how tense the days of strain! And how gratefully welcomed those hard-won moments that

mean rest, relaxation . . . and a cigarette

What a cigarette means here They play theirpart, too— these buyers of Chesterfield tobacco. Thousands of pounds auctioned each day; distinct types of leaf—twenty grades of "bright" tobacco alone; important distinctions of cur- ing; differences in texture, color, size, in the natural sugar which means natural sweetness —and Chesterfield quality to be maintained. Our buyers do their part. In New York or Manila, Paris or Alaska, our billions of Ches- terfields taste the same. The same wholesome fragrance, the same natural mildness, the same satisfying "body," because our buyers know exactly what they want—and whatever it may cost, they get it!

Typical scene in tobacco auction ware- house, where the farmer's work ends and the manufacturer's begins.

. andyet THEY SATISFY —

YES, there is REST /^T^VERHAPS you have ans' Mountain Camp of the V* #^given little thought Department of New York M or attention to the Bu Joseph A.Burns served as a tuberculosis sani- advice of many phy- tarium for three and one-half sicians that everyone should years, caring primarily for have at least one thorough physical ex- veterans who had developed pulmonary amination each year. If you were one of and respiratory disabilities after their dis- the thoughtful and took the time to go charge from service. More than three hun- through with it maybe you would get the dred men were admitted for treatment be- same statement from the doctor as have tween 1922 and the fall of 1925. Many of many. The doctor might tell you: "Noth- these former patients are now restored to ing serious. No organic disease, but you health. Opening at a period in the history are rundown, out of tone, fatigued. You of veteran rehabilitation when beds in are in need of rest, and I would prescribe government and other institutions were at three to four weeks' recuperation, prefer- a premium and when many disabled veter- ably in the mountains. Some quiet place, ans could not procure admission to Veter- away from the hustle and bustle, where ans Bureau Hospitals because of inability you can relax, with medical attention near to trace their disabilities to war service, the at hand for any emergency." Legion camp offered refuge to many who Now if you were this patient and had would have found proper treatment or an honorable discharge from the armed hospital care impossible to obtain. forces of the United States during the The long-fought efforts of the Legion to World War you would be in luck, for The procure legislation liberalizing the hos- American Legion of the Department of pitalization of tuberculous veterans having New York operates one of the finest con- met with success in 1925, the task under- valescent camps in the East. The only taken by the camp in the emergency was requirement for admission is an honor- properly shifted to the more substantial able discharge, although because of lim- shoulders of Uncle Sam, and the Veterans' ited funds, preference is given to Legion- Mountain Camp in the spring of 1926 re- naires, veterans residing in the State of verted to its original purpose—it became New York and veterans of other States in a real convalescent home. the order named. The early struggle of the camp to give to Situated on Tupper Lake in the Adiron- all who applied needed treatment threw a dack Mountains this convalescent camp heavy strain upon its financial resources. has the advantages of altitude and invig- The policy of the camp has always been to orating climate and is ideally suited for give its patients the very best care and its purpose. The peace and quiet of the treatment. To do this required the finest great forest surrounding the camp are equipment, good quarters, excellent med- alone conducive to rest and relaxation. ical and nursing care, the most nourishing Yet there are sufficient opportunities for food. The camp had many friends who Lovely land-and-ivaterscapes are a recreation to permit activities of body and contributed generously, but income did not specialty at the New York Legion's mind and thus prevent dullness and mo- keep pace with expenditures and with the notony. Veterans' Mountain Camp in the change of program in the spring of 1926 Established in iQ2i as a sanitarium for heart of the Adirondacks. Above, came the establishment of a new policy honorably discharged veterans, the Veter- the Auxiliary Convalescent Quarters that the camp must (Continued on page 58)

42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly N AND Re-echo of the First Shot — Gresham, Enright and Hay — Broadcasting an Idea — Brothers in Service and Servitude-—A Nurse Joins the Gang — Buddies in Distress

r~ w READING in your columns," writes Joseph H. Sander of many donations, consisting of small change, eatables, old clothes ^Semper Fidelis Post in Buffalo, New York, "the many or what have you, which he gathered in without rhyme or reason. contributions regarding the various incidents that go to "Private Philip £ % J. Sterner of Company C, 103d Engineers, m war more interesting, I am prompted to desiring a ^^^ make a good laugh at the old fellow's expense, tied a dollar submit a matter for the criticism of our readers bill to a piece of string, covered the string with sand and stood and also to gain further enlightenment on a subject which has in his tent ready to yank the string when the reverend reached been lying dormant these many years. If true, it may bring out for the supposed donation. The reverend spied the bill, preached some very interesting discussion. much louder, gesticulated wildly, then suddenly planted one of "The subject of who fired the first shot of the U. S. forces his big feet on the dollar. Private Sterner has not yet lived in the World War is, to all appearances, a dead and buried issue. down the boomerang joke. But the old skeleton is due to be rattled. And how! The gobs "To save the Company Clerk unnecessary correspondence re- do like to hear bones rattle and this garding the identity of the two sol- should be music to the seafaring man. diers in the picture who are absorb- "Back in the spring of 1918 I ing the sermon, they are former was transferred to the U. S. S. Privates Frank Youngfleisch and Mongolia (transport de luxe) and Bertram Dunlap of Company C, while a member of the ship's com- 103d Engineers. pany, I obtained from the canteen "Can any of the Then and Now aboard a large highly colored litho- Gang tell us if the self-appointed graph of the Mongolia, carrying the chaplain of our regiment is still liv- following inscription in bold letters: ing and if so, where he is now?" 'American Steamship Mongolia We know it is sort of a hard whose gun fired the first shot for proposition to tell a joke on oneself the United States on April 19, 191 7, —so we wonder if you agree with and sank a German submarine.' us that Comrade Sterner himself "Now the Mongolia at that time may have sent the picture and writ- was a merchant vessel manned by a ten the letter. Or it may have been civilian crew, but carried an armed Legionnaire Raymond Sterner of guard of U. S. sailors who acted as Schuvlkill Haven. gun-crews for protection against submarines. I am of the opinion DURING the turmoil and up- that an engagement with a subma- heaval of a drive there was little rine actually took place, but whether chance for wounded men to learn the or not the sub was sunk, I cannot identity of or to thank their bene- say, and it is of little consequence factors, so there is many an unsung now. If, however, they fired on an and undecorated hero among the vet- enemy vessel, then that in my opin- erans of the A. E. F. Now. some of ion constitutes, if not the first, at these men who survived the war and least one of the opening shots of the their wounds are interested in learn- World War for the United States. ing just who the men were who ren- "If any ex-members of the armed dered them first-aid in time of need. guard of the Mongolia who served For instance, this letter fr >m R. C. aboard at that time read the Merriman of Wellsbridge. New York, Monthly, it would be interesting in- formerly of Company A. 3Sth In- deed to hear their stories." fantry, Third Division: The unofficial, self-appointed chaplain of the "On October 9, 101S. our regi- ANONYMOUS letters are, as a 10 )d Engineers preaches his gospel from a ment, the 38th Infantry, was oppo- -**-rule, and rightly should be, ig- Corned Beef Hash pulpit in Camp Hancock, site Romagne in the Meuse-Argonne nored. But the fighting, when I wounded by Company Clerk Augusta, Georgia. The time, 1918. The con- was received one signed merely "Robert shrapnel. It was late in the after- tributor, unknown E. Baker Post, A. L., Schuylkill noon and we had advanced far be- Haven, Pennsylvania," which had an enclosure that he couldn't yond our lianks. Two comrades carried me into a deep shell ignore—it was too good. We show it to you on this page. hole but were obliged to leave me there as orders had been Furthermore, we feel that the anonymity of the writer isn't given to fall back to connect with the rest of the line. entirely effective. Suppose you read his letter and then make "It was not until toward night of the nth, two days later, your decision: that our men again advanced, and somehow became scattered "Herewith a photograph of a character well known to those and lost after dark. These men came straggling back calling members of the 103d Engineers, 28th Division, who trained in loudly for their companies, and by hailing some men nearby I Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia. was able to get help. "This old darkey preached a mean sermon, consisting of just "After two or three had attempted to carry me, two big two sentences repeated many times—namely, 'Abe Lincum done buddies, who by their manner I should say were Westerners, gone to heaben.' and 'God Dress de captain of dis yere flock.' stayed by me until they could find a stretcher. "As the picture shows, he was blessed with an unusually "I would certainly like to hear from those two fellows who large mouth, it having the capacity of one large banana or its stood by, with the risk of being captured and through the heavy equivalent in size in one gulp. This capacity was tested often shelling, and helped me back to our lines. I think they were by the boys when he opened his mouth to expound his gospel. from F Company of the 38th." "When he finished one of his sermons, he was the recipient of Then, in a letter from C. A. Renbarger of Goshen (Indiana)

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Honored by French and American officers and troops, the bodies of the first Americans to be killed in action during the

World War were interred in Bathelemont, France, on November 4, 1917. Corporal Gresham, Privates Enright and Hay, Company F, 16th Infantry, First Division, lost their lives in an enemy raid. We are indebted to Legionnaire W Howden of Oakland, California, for the photograph

Post, we get a glimpse of the other side of the picture—the strong raiding party which took with it a sergeant and ten benefactor in this instance making the inquiry: privates as prisoners and left the first three Americans killed in

"Back in the summer of 1018 when the battle of Limoges was action : Gresham, Enright and Hay of Company F, 16th Infantry. at its height, many of us iodine-swab warriors of Base Hospital lined for blood November No. 13 were up tests so as to be ready to take ON 4, 191 7, Howden's letter states, the bodies of care of gunshot cases where transfusions were imperative. these three soldiers were buried in the war-wrecked town "One day, about in mid-October. I was called to the operating of Bathelemont, just in back of the lines. General Bordeaux, ward and in a few minutes was watching my red corpuscles the French commander of the sector, said in his address: being transferred into the body of a badly shot-up little Italian- "The death of this humble corporal and these privates ap- American doughboy from Buffalo, New York. His right arm peals to us with unwonted grandeur. We will, therefore, ask was badly mangled and he had lost so much blood that a trans- that the mortal remains of these young men be left to us for- fusion was his only chance. ever. . . . The passerby will stop and uncover his head. The trav-

"He recovered nicely and every time he met me would want elers of France, of the Allied countries, of America . . . will go to set 'em up at the nearest cafe to show his gratitude. He was out of their way to come here to bring to these graves the tribute ." finally evacuated and headed back of their respect and gratitude . . toward Hoboken and his home. Although an impressive monu- "Full details of this occurrence ment, erected by the inhabitants were contained in my 600-page of the non-invaded sections of diary which was stolen, together Lorraine, still stands in Bathele- with my overcoat and overseas mont, the bodies of these three cap, from the Khaki and Blue heroes have since been returned Club in Chicago on the day we to their homes for final interment. were 'welcomed' back. While these men were the first "I certainly would like to hear Americans killed in action in from this doughboy who has been France, the first American troops totin' my blood around all these killed by the enemy after our years, and as for the diary . . . well, country entered the war were I'll never quite recover from the Lieutenant William T. Fitzsimons blow of losing that priceless old and Privates icl Leslie A. Woods, book." Rudolph Rubino and Oscar C. Tugo, all of U. S. Base Hospital WATSON HOVVDEN, former No. 5. Their deaths occurred at

member of the Second Field 10:55 P- m - on September 4, 1917, Signal Battalion, First Division, when German planes bombed a Brit- and now of Oakland, California, ish hospital near Dannes-Camiers, Ex-gob Paul Hasse, South Bend, Indiana, told us. in submitting the picture J. France, where they were on duty. second from left, ivants to find his fellow-tourists. at the top of this page, that it Picture, snapped in German gun shows the interment of the bodies July 9, 19 19, JgX-GOB A. N. Cochran of outside of the first three American sol- position Chateau-Thierry , will be sent to Madison, Nebraska, ex-opera- diers killed in action during the these people if they report to the Company Clerk tor in the U. S. Naval Communi- war: Corporal James B. Gresham cation Service, told us in the of Evansville, Indiana, and Privates Thomas F. Enright of Pitts- January Monthly that he and his brother, J. V. Cochran, since burgh, Pennsylvania, and Merle D. Hay of Glidden, Iowa. From deceased, enlisted in Omaha in November, 191 7, and during Legionnaire Howden's letter, the following account is given: their entire enlistment were never separated. He wondered if The First Division sent its first units into the quiet Luneville any other brothers had been as fortunate. sector on October 21, IQ17, to receive instructions in trench His question has been answered. P. S. Barnes of West warfare from the 18th French Division which held the sector. Haven, Connecticut, who some of the pioneer active members

During the night of November 2, 191 7, the enemy sent over a of the Then and Now Gang may remember helped to identify

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the men in one of the pictures of American prisoners which The picture Barnes enclosed is shown on this page. Barnes appeared in this department away back in July, 1927, is the tells us that at the time of his capture he was only seventeen man who made the response and the tale he tells goes Cochran's years old. Any more brothers-in-service ready to report? one better. Oldtimers will remember that the men who appeared in the TJERE'S an idea!" offers Ellwood J. Hoffman of Hollywood, picture of prisoners on the march were members of the 26th * California. And notwithstanding the beaucoup stories and Division, particularly of Companies C and D of the io2d In- pictures being received from active members of the Then and fantry, who were taken in an enemy raid on Seicheprey in the Now Gang, we always welcome ideas. early morning of April 20. 191S. We'll let Barnes continue: "Why not,'' suggests Hoffman, "put out a nation-wide call "Many of the fellows in our outfit, the i02d, had known each for the names of the photographers who made pictures of the other for years as each large town and city in Connecticut had various companies, regiments and other units, in an endeavor its own company in the old Guard regiments. I mention this to build up a library of the actual personnel of the whole because most of the boys returned to their home towns after darned bunch of back-in-the-days-of-'i8 guys. the war and are in touch with each other. To cite my own case, "Here's a starter—Holliday Brothers, Newport News. Vir- fifteen members of my old outfit are fellow members of Hugh- ginia. My outfit. Headquarters Company, 312th Field Artillery, son Post of the Legion here in my 70th Division, is covered by pic- home town and many others be- ture No. 13858, and I know that long to the post in the adjoining firm 'took' lots of other units. city of New Haven, so we have This must be true also of many frequent reunions. other receiving camps, to and "My brother. E. J. Barnes, was from France. corporal and I was a. gunner in "Incidentally, I left Philadel- the automatic rifle squad of Com- phia, where I was First Vice Com- pany C of the io2d Infantry and mander of Lafayette Post, almost not alone entered service together, two years ago and am now a but were captured together at member of Hollywood Post, fa- Seicheprey. April 20. 1918, and mous 'first' in many Legion ac- Stayed together in German prison tivities—and found my old C. 0., camps until after the x\rmistice. William H. Campbell, whom I'd "After our capture, we were left in St. Nazaire, already a escorted over No Man's Land, member. joined from time to time by other "I busted into print in the old groups captured earlier in the Weekly some years ago when you morning, and started on our way, called for impressions of the first afoot, to Thiaucourt. Late in the Armistice Day, so this may be afternoon we entrained for Con- the second notch on my pen.'' flans, where after a few weeks of frequent reviews by every Ger- man second looey that felt in the fits right in with the numerous mood and weeks of bartering our requests we have had on hand very shirts, fountain pens, razors from feliows who want to get and every article of value for a copies of their outfit photographs loaf of bread, we were moved to taken either before leaving for the prison camp outside the city overseas or after the return, or of Darmstadt, Germany. while in training camp here, and even some few taken on the other rf^\UR original 185," Barnes con- side. The only drawback to Hoff- tinues his report, "rapidly man's plan is that some of those dwindled to 35 men in Darm- firms of photographers may have stadt, the others being transferred gone out of business during the to coal mines, factories, farms past ten or eleven years, and oth- and to the principal American ers may no longer have the plates camp in Rastatt. Although cap- available. Speaking of brothers in service, ive introduce, from tured April 20th. up to July we Regardless of the drawback, left to right, E. and P. S. Barnes West Haven, were so miserable in health and J. of here's a chance to help out bud- appearance that we were denied Connecticut, corporal and private id, respectively, of dies. Shoot in the information on most of the privileges of the camp Company D, mid Infantry. Taken prisoners at the outfit pictures in your pos- that the French prisoners enjoyed. Seicheprey, they spent eight months in German prison session to the Company Clerk. "In July we received our first camps. Can any brothers duplicate this record? At the same time, read carefully rations from the Red Cross in the briefed requests we list for Berne, Switzerland, and from that time on our captivity was official and unofficial pictures which members of the Gang want. not so unbearable. When our American uniforms finally arrived The following are only a few of the requests on file: in October, we were allowed the freedom of the camp and could 13TH Regiment. U. S. Marines. Paid for but not delivered, visit the French side which boasted a library, motion picture is the report of Clarence O. Ericson of Laurel, Nebraska, re- theater, barber shop, photo gallery and so forth. You see the garding a photograph of Company I of this regiment, taken French had been there for two or three years and had set up near the Salvafion Army Hut at Camp Pontanezen, Brest, housekeeping. The picture of my brother and myself, which is France, in July, iqiq. enclosed, was taken by a French photographer in the camp. Ninth Field Signal Battalion. Photo taken during the "My brother was in charge of the 35 American prisoners and winter of 1917 at Camp Samuel F. B. Morse, Leon Springs, responsible for their appearance on the parade ground each Texas, is wanted by M. P. Morken of Oakland. California. morning where we reported for work at the adjoining aviation U. S. S. Davis. Photographs of crew of this destroyer taken training ground. He later was in charge of the American sup- after arrival in Queenstown Harbor, Ireland. May 4. 1917, plies in camp and remained there until January, 1919, to turn presumably by staff photographers of British Admiralty. Ex- them over to the U. S. Army."' Chief Petty Officer Frank C. Nagler. Roxbury, Massachusetts, Barnes and his brother attended the Legion convention in Paris desires copies. [London (England) Post, please note ] and among French friends met M. Emile ("Charlie") Gautier, 311TH Supply Company. At Camp Joseph E. Johnston, popular interpreter in the Darmstadt prison camp. He resides at Jacksonville. Florida, a group picture was taken and Willis H. 15, Rue Cave, Paris, and wants to hear from American friends. Doerscher of Chicago, Illinois, is asking for a copy.

MAY, i 9 ; 9 45 < TH E K and MiOW J>- 5 2D Infantry. Regimental photograph taken at Camp Pon- and what have you? We ferried about 150 to 200 at a time to tanezen, Brest, France, early in June, 1918, is wanted by Guy the Von Steuben and made several trips. Not a scratch was M. Hopping of Aurora, Indiana. sustained by anyone that we heard of, although from the speed Company H, 53D Infantry. T. S. Roebuck of Woodruff, some of those birds came down the lines I'm sure there were South Carolina, seeks copy of picture taken at Camp Wads- plenty of blistered palms." worth, South Carolina. First Division. Here's a hard one: Paul C. Gelpeke of AFTER all the passengers were transferred, the fire in the Brooklyn, New York, reports that on Mother's Day, May, 101S, hold was pretty well under control," Dobson's yarn con- the house in Mesnil-St. Firmin in which he and six other men tinues, "but the Henderson was a badly crippled ship, as the of Headquarters Company, Fifth Field Artillery, were billeted picture I snapped from the Paul Jones shows. We escorted her was completely demolished by a shell which struck the roof. back to Philadelphia, that most excellent city (for gobs), ar- Although all the men were in or in front of the riving about five o'clock the afternoon of July 5th. I house, none received a scratch. A French never learned the cause of the fire, but the major took a picture of the men 1 rumor which followed naturally was that ruins and promised to send Gelpek a time fuse had been set in some print. [Paris (France)- Post, please packing cases in the hold before give this case special attention.] the Henderson left port. The foregoing are only a few "I have often wondered what of the requests on file and outfit of Marines was aboard some of the men have been and I would surely like to get waiting a heck of a long time. in touch with the lieutenant So, Gang, let's surprise these whom I 'rescued.' He was fellows by giving them word standing down on our open of the pictures. Maybe you deck—it was raining and can advise who took them, rather cold—looking as if his maybe you have a duplicate last friend had deserted him. I copy, or maybe you'll be willing went down and invited him to to lend your copy so a reproduc- the radio shack, furnished him tion can be made. More request with a sandwich and a hot 'coffee will appear later in Then and Now. royal' for which he expressed his Send reports to the Company Clerk. thanks in a convincing manner. He in- And thanks for the idea, Hoffman. Here's sisted on giving me something by which hoping we'll get swamped with responses! to remember the occasion and I accepted At the same time, Gang, how about A rescue at sea — wartime style. Fire a handsome shaving kit which I still use those 1919 and 1920 Weeklies we need on the transport Henderson, -pictured and treasure very highly. I would like to to help posts complete their official files? above, required transfer of 1^00 pas- know if he survived the war and where he sengers to the Von Steuben. H. E. is today. STAUNCH support of the fine part Dobson on the destroyer Paul Jones "Incidentally — speaking of 'gobs' — I he played by the Navy during the World took the picture asked another ex-Navy man whether War is voiced in a letter from Legionnaire thought sailors should be called 'gobs.' " H. E. Dobson of Greensboro, North Carolina, with which he 'Why not?' he responded. 'They are gobs, ain't they?' forwarded the picture of the disabled transport Henderson, From available reports, the Company Clerk notes the destroyer shown on this page. Our already good opinion of the Navy in- Mayrant assisted in the transfer of the 800 marines and 750 creased when we read Dobson's story of a rescue at sea in Navy passengers from the Henderson to the Von Steuben, which which his ship, the destroyer Paul Jones, took a prominent part. last transport, packed to the gun'ales, continued to France. The We want to let you in on the story: Henderson, accompanied also by the Mayrant, was dry-docked "Our ship, the Paul Jones, left Philadelphia the night of July in the Philadelphia Navy Yards, speedily repaired and con- I. iqiS, and next morning picked up a convoy of 15 troopships, tinued transporting troops. Her fire was the only serious one four or five other destroyers and the cruiser Frederick, flag- on any American transport during the war. ship of the convoy. About noon the second day out we noted That the Henderson's disability was of short duration is smoke coming from the starboard ports forward on the trans- proved by the fact that she carried a total of 25,892 troops port Henderson. The smoke increased in volume until about to and from France. On August 14, 1918, eastbound she is five p. m. when we credited with having received a signal from rammed an enemy the Frederick which submarine. meant 'stand by to help ship in distress.' NOW let's see- "We promptly went there are Nurses, alongside and prepared Yeomanettes, Mari- to take off the troops nettes and, may we and transfer them to say, Signal Corps-ettes the Von Steuben which who are members of had shut off her engines the Legion and who and was wallowing in we hope read Then heavy seas several hun- and Now. Just why dred yards away. As these Legionnairesses we came alongside, the should be so shy about seas were so rough contributing to this that our mast smashed department is beyond against the towering us. Ex-Yeomanette sides of the Henderson Sally R. Wolf did join and our radio aerial the Gang some months and yardarms were ago, and last August completely wrecked. we told of the Yeo- "Lines were lowered manette's Doll Show from the transport's Tea for two (dozen) in the Y. M. C. A. canteen at Harbin, Manchuria. at Goat Island, Cali- deck and down slid William H. Landry of Minneapolis tells us they are men of Company B, fornia, during the war marines, gobs, nurses }ist Infantry, A. E. F. in Siberia, with some Russian friends —but the latter doesn't 46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

-*! TH E K and j\OW )l> count as a gob made the contribution. And we must credit in dining-rooms until they gave out. then halls until they were several nurses for responding to requests for information re- tilled, then kitchens up to capacity. Then came the carriage garding comrades killed in action. house and after that the stalls in the stables. We were a little amazed at the idea of eating in the latter places, but we found THE first real contributor among the ex-nurses, however, makes them decorated with green branches from the woods and found her bow—Legionnaire Winifred S. Nichols of Jane Delano flowers on the little table, with a bench on either side, in each Post, Washington, D. C. who tacks an "R. N." after her name. stall. Regular forerunners of the popular breakfast nook. We are indebted to Miss Nichols for the fine Memorial Day "Our little mess officer looked as if the weight of the world picture which you see on this page, and for the following rested on his shoulders, and no wonder. I don't know where interesting account of some of her experiences: and how he got enough food for all. We always lined up ahead "To me," Miss Nichols writes, "the transfer from private duty of time, just to be sure of that meal and annoyed the mess nursing, where you spend the whole day waiting on and pamper- officer to the extent that he said we acted like a lot of cattle. ing one patient, to such wholesale nursing as we did during the Probably that comparison was due to our contact with stables, war was most unusual. It was a splendid experience. stalls, and so forth. "It was wonderful to see how the soldiers stood all those "We were in Vannes about three weeks and cleaned up all dreadful wounds and discomforts. The sight of them made me the lobster in sight. And how those French could cook it!" gasp, but they would say, 'Don't worry, sister, it's only a scratch.' "When I was at the Army hospital center at Bazoilles-sur- NUMBERED among several contributions from ex-gobs in Meuse, a short distance southwest of Neufchateau, the first the August Monthly was a letter from Finance Officer patients in Ward 12 were infantrymen of the 89th Division who James W. Moma of Elton Lancaster Post of Mason, Illinois. had been gassed early in August, 101S, during the relief of the Moma mentioned the fact that his post was named for a gob 82d Division in a sector of the St. Mihiel front north of Toul. who lost his life in service and wondered how many former "There were two boys whose sight had been affected badly. sailors had been similarly honored. Legionnaire Merwin S. Mase One of them, I think, was named Domm. The other, a slight of Yonkers, New York, made this interesting response: young-looking boy was Jimmie—I can't recall his last name. "Referring to Moma's letter in the August issue, possibly Jimmie's birthday and mine were the same day, August 25th, other members of my post may have already written you stat- and one of the cooks in the officers' mess baked him a cake. The ing that our post is named in honor of two brothers by the cake arrived just in time for me to give it to him as he was being name of Cook. One of the boys served in the Army and lost carried to the train, as all of these patients were removed on his life in Flanders; the other served in the Navy and was that day to a Base Hospital farther south. among those who were lost in the mysterious disappearance of "I would love to hear from those boys and to know how the U. S. S. Cyclops. they are getting along." "As a member of Cook Post. I have always wondered just what the records of the Navy Department disclose with refer- THE picture I am enclosing," continues Miss Nichols, "was ence to the disappearance of the Cyclops. Possibly some of the taken at Vannes, near Brest, on Memorial Day, ioio. We readers could enlighten us on this point." meaning eleven hundred nurses—were living in an interesting In "A History of the Transport Service." by Vice Admiral old French Artillery barracks, awaiting ships for home. We ate Albert Gleaves, U. S. N., who was (Continued on page 6g)

Memorial Day services in Vannes, France, igig, brought out this corn-pact circle of eleven hundred nurses, with Washington, D. supplied the a scattering of officers and enlisted men. Ex-nurse Winifred S. Nichols of C, picture and reported that the huge barracks shown housed the nurses ivho were awaiting return to the States

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Souvenirs de Querre

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students' magazine issued at Poitiers, If you kept an honest diary during the Plane News, The Indian, Watch on the war, don't be ashamed of it—preserve Rhine, The 51st Pioneers—and yet the it, for it is likely to be literature. writer knows of many of these having Just what did a plodding guard on been thrown away comparatively recent- the Illinois football team think of the ly. Of the multitude of text books, di- meteoric career of Red Grange? Per- visional orders and histories, books of haps he had a slight feeling of envy or cartoons, etc., published in France and a trifling inferiority complex. So to the Germany, only a few have survived. infantryman hugged close to Mother Hang onto them! They have value now Earth came similar emotions when he and will appreciate as the years go by. viewed the aviators waging aerial bat- When the Argonauts of 1849 left their tles, the like of which had never before Eastern homes and crossed the plains to been seen. But the novel and dramatic California, some kept daily journals of features of aviation in the war will in- their experiences. Many of these jour- sure continuing interest and the collec- nals were reprinted in 1851 and later, tion of material dealing with every as- either in newspapers or in pamphlet pect of the war in the air. To a lesser form. Such records packed with the extent the same will be true of the truth of contemporary observation are tanks, gas, grenades, mortars and other today among the rarest and most sought novel features of the late war. after items of Americana. Dozens are so Time will discover additional collect- scarce that they are worth hundreds ing trends in regard to the World War. and even thousands of dollars for a But it is a certainty that material of single copy. In time original doughboy the classes mentioned has a present diaries will occupy a similar position and value and the certainty of future appre- the hue and cry for them will be raised ciation. It is worth preserving from the by collectors and historians. Such rec- mere dollars and cents viewpoint and ords have a ring of truth that cannot be because it has genuine and abiding his- .F you want to give your favorite copied or faked. Sergeant Bill Smith's toric value and interest. After you have story of his mopping-up party in the felt the first sharp sting of the collecting pipes a fair trial, start all at tkem Bellicourt tunnel on September 29, 1918, bug, leave the rubbish to the junkman. scratch with Sir Walter Raleigh's written that night in a dugout on the Limit yourself to digging up and pre- Hindenburg Line, has a punch and ver- serving World War material of lasting favorite smoking mixture. It's acity that he could not equal in 1938 value, something that will be a source of with the aid of all the writers' corre- satisfaction both to yourself and to fol- milder than most, it's rich and mel- spondence courses in the United States. lowing generations. low, and its fragrance is kept fresh

by the heavy gold foil that lines the

tin. Let Sir Walter show you how The Roaring forties good your pipe can be. (Continued from page 11) LIMITED OFFER When the America's lifeboat set out breath for "Rolling Down to Rio." It (foe the United States only ) on its hazardous mission to the Florida was just one of those grim tussles that, If your favorite tobacconist does not carry Walter Tretten, quartermaster, thirty- even with radio and ships of steel, sail- Sir Walter Raleigb, send us bis name and five years old and somewhat more of a ors in the roaring forties, and elsewhere, address. In return for tbis courtesy, we'll seasoned tar than the others, chanted the too, will always occasionally have to be deligbted to send you witbout cbarge popular sailorman's ditty, "Rolling Down make. a full-size tin of tbis milder pipe mixture. to Rio." The idea wasn't that they were As I have said, it is my opinion that going on a lark, of course. The mount- in a tight place character is a man's Dept. 202, Brown and Williamson ing waves and the flurries of snow that best asset. And as far as one word can Tobacco Corporation had been thickening for the last hour or express it I think it was character that Louisville, Kentucky t more left little danger of that impres- got the America's crew back to their sion being produced, anyway. His pur- ship. Every man had to put his share pose was merely to help his comrades of pull into his strokes, and do it skill- keep in stroke in their rowing. fully. Good rowing requires a certain The spirit of this rollicking chant was amount of skill under any conditions. not inappropriate, though. Good men But in a rough sea where giant combers often face danger with a smile. When seemingly as big as mountains descend the men reached the Florida and had got on a boat from varying angles, veering SirWvlter it its tossing it their a line to her and hauled the last one of from course, on her men aboard, some member of the backs, engulfing it in abysmal hollows, America's boat crew pretended disap- rolling it on its beams, every man at the RALEIGH pointment because the rescued Italians oars must to some extent be his own had brought none of their wine with coxswain. If he is the sort of sailor them. who is a little clumsy sometimes in cast- Who discovered how good a pipe can he On the way back, with such members ing a line and not too fussy in keeping of the Italian crew as could helping at his dungarees washed out, he is more than likely It's milder the oars, and the rest lying in the bot- to be the sort who relaxes tom as human ballast, there was no at just the wrong second under condi- breath for jokes. There was not even tions such as this boat's crew of the

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America had to contend with. If any of them had been men of this sort, a little sloppy sometimes, the boat would prob- walk* over ably have been swamped. The passengers who lined the rails oblivious to the driving flurries of snow and hail were so impressed by the fight made by the crew of the America's boat shoes that they stood almost in silence, though now and again one more volatile than his fellows would make some sort of a demonstration. If ever men deserved such a tribute these men did. Character was probably mostly responsible for the achievement, but there was probably something else, too. Men who follow the sea seem in a sense to get to be a part of it. They learn to accept its moods. It is a force that seems to be alive. And yet in another sense it is absolutely impersonal. It does no good to fret or fly into a blind rage with the sea. It is the finest kind of fighting that the sea calls forth. If a football team could be nerved with such a spirit as was displayed by the boat crews of the America and of the Roose- velt, too, it would be unbeatable. As I watched the boat crew of the America from the bridge it didn't seem as though they could possibly make it. But this thought was at the time quite impersonal. And this was also the frame of mind of the men in the boat. The mountainous waves they were battling were their working conditions. Cargo nets, monkey ladders, and our two in- valuable home-made breeches buoys had been let down in readiness to hoist them aboard should they reach us. Beyond that there was nothing I could do. Yet from habit I studied the possibilities of their making it, and, at the time, with a certain detachment. This was also the attitude of Chief Officer Manning, even though his own life as well as those of others was at stake. He told me this afterward. But I should have known it in any case. It was the frame of mind of Chief Officer Miller of the Roosevelt. In whatever im as the turf, sleek as good mood it presents itself the sea is a sea- T faring man's job. If he could not con- centrate on it from that standpoint he horseflesh, the "Belmont" is the kind of would be no real sailor.

It isn't until the strain is over that one realizes, in facing dangers at sea. or shoe that makes its trim way unerringly assuming responsibility in time of danger, what the strain has been. In the rescue of the Florida's crew as soon as to the paddock hefore the start of the the last man was hoisted aboard I felt very tired, and as soon as I could I went to bed. But the strain of excite- race. Many a wise step will he taken in ment affects different individuals differently and affects the same individuals these shoes during the coming racing sea- differently at different times. Manning, who was so spent after his ordeal in the boat that he had to be hoisted on board son. The "Belmont" may be had either in in one of our home-made breeches buoys, once they were back and the main crisis past, was unable to sleep for Thousands icatched the speeding black-and-white or tan-and-white, $8.50. several nights afterwards. When the two-year-olds as they came thun- Roosevelt rescued the Antinoe's crew I stretch. And had not slept for four days. Yet even dering down the home Geo. E. Keith Company, under such circumstances I was not able among the spectators, thousands to sleep on the night of the rescue. felt like two-year-olds because they But in neither case did the men in the wore Walk-Over Shoes. Campello, Brockton, Mass. boat crews have any difficulty sleeping. They could (Continued on page 50)

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find an outlet for their keyed-up emo- forties. It was no fault of Wortman tions through their muscles. They were and Heitman that they were swept so tired when they finally crawled or away. It was no fault of the gallant were hoisted over the ship's side that young captain of the Florida, Giuseppe most of them went straight to their Favaloro, that he lost his ship. In the bunks, and in half an hour were dead right that he and his crew made to re- to the world. pair it after the rudder chain had bro- The personal, yet impersonal, sense of ken for the second time his finger was peril that is aroused by the ocean when broken, one of his crew received a bro- it is on a man-hunt finds a deep re- ken leg, and four or five of them had sponse, however, even in landsmen. It ribs broken. is seldom that a ship as large as the Had they not had the right sort of Roosevelt is ever tossed or rolled to stuff in them—men as weakened as they such a degree as was inevitable when were, some badly crippled, even aided MOTHERS! she stood by the Antinoe, day after day, by the line which was made fast from on one occasion cutting a complete circle the Florida's side to the bow of the THEY TRUST YOU about her in an effort to put a line America's lifeboat some fifty feet dis- across her bows that had been attached tant—they could never have pulled to a lifeboat which had been set adrift. themselves along through the water for Yet there was very little seasickness this distance. Or they would not have among the passengers. They were so had the fortitude to await their turns to keyed up that they were immune. go, one by one, down this one-way street And think of the ordeal to which the to safety, which actually might have sea nerved Nunzio di Gangi, radio op- been closed at any moment. erator of the Florida. For three days And I shall always remember the spirit and two nights he sat at his instruments of Captain Tose of the Antinoe, who receiving and replying to every message when he was brought aboard the Roose- directed to him from the America. All velt was so weak that he could not walk, he had to sustain himself with during but nevertheless insisted that before be-

Noisy! Turbulent! Robust! . . . Happy that period was a little fruit. He was ing taken to the sick bay he should be in the inexhaustible energy of brimming one of those who lost consciousness as carried to the bridge so that he could health ! . . . What a joy to you and — soon as he was snaked into the Amer- personally express his gratitude to me as what a responsibility. ica's boat, and he was a very non- captain of the ship which had effected For it is you they look to for pro- plussed radio operator indeed when he the rescue. tection they come to at little —you every awoke some two hours later between When ships go down with men like ache and pain— they believe when you warm woolen blankets in the America's these on them, much as I respect the you give them advice. sick bay. The sea and something more boon of steel, the radio and the radio They trust you when you tell them kept Di Gangi going. He supplied the compass, my respect for Old Ocean they must brush their teeth . . . they something more. nevertheless very decidedly remains, obey . . . they form the habit. But is But even the best of men can lose in especially in navigating the roaring that enough? . » « Often it is not. And a tussle with Old Ocean in the roaring forties. they suffer from tooth decay and gum

irritations . . • because mere brushing cannot destroy the acids at The Dan- ger Line. Squibb's Dental Cream is particularly Trees of the E. effective in protecting children. It con- J<] tains more than 50% of Squibb's Milk ( Continued from page 15) of Magnesia. Every time Squibb's Den- tal Cream is used it neutralizes the acids feet distant from the cross-road trees. turn successful. For almost three years which cause decay. Down from Metz through Alsace and possession of the shrine vacillated from Medical authorities agree that proper Lorraine the German armies of 1914 one side to the other. It was captured oral hygiene practiced early greatly les- came in triumph. Through Pont-a-Mous- and recaptured no less than forty times. sens the chances of children catching the son and onward, with only temporary Throughout all this sanguinary fighting usual childhood diseases. Squibb's is safe setbacks here and there as the French it stood, charmed and unharmed, while —free from grit and astringents. It cannot harm tender mouths. 40c a large tube. were able to offer some slight resistance. the twenty thousand soldiers who now E. R. Squibb & Sons, New York. Chem- Not until the Bois-le-Pretre was reached sleep in the cemetery on the slope of ists to the Medical Profession since 1858. did the repulse come. There—near the the hill of Montauville fought with their village of Montauville—the French comrades to take or retake it. Not until heard Joffre's order to stand at all costs 1018, during the St. Mihiel drive, when Listen in every Friday evening from 7:15 to 7:30 Eastern Standard Time over Sta- and there the Germans were stopped. Brigadier General U. G. McAlexander tions WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR, The French entrenched. So did the Ger- with the 359th and 360th Infantry of KWK, WREN, WTMJ, KOA, KSTP, WLW for the along line the the 90th Division assaulted and cap- Priceless Ingredient Message by eminent mans. At some points the authorities on the preservation of health. trenches were so close that the com- tured the Bois-le-Pretre, was the Croix Broadcasting facilities provided by E. It. batants were able to talk to one another. des Carmes hit by a shell. Squibb & Sons. © l'J29 by E. K. Siiui'bb & Sons And in the middle ground stood the It was struck at the base and it fell Croix des Carmes. between the bullet-riddled stumps of the For some reason—and doubtless there trunks of the two trees from which it SQUIBB'S is none living today who might explain had been made. There it was found after —this rude wayside cross became the the war was finished. Today, supported DENTAL CREAM object of all attacks. The Germans, by the upstretched arms of two stone bent on capturing it, did so. The French, poilus, it is encased in concrete and Priceless Ingredient The of Every Prod- determined to regain it, were in their backed up by the stone column of a uct is the Honor and Integrity of Its Maker

The AMERICAN LEGION M ont hIy memorial—a memorial erected on the spot where the cross once stood to the heroes who died in the long and hectic Is struggle for its possession. 75 cents Ghastly-white against the rich green of the trees of the new Argonne stand the gaunt, shattered branches of the Argonne Forest that was. Many were your golf-ball limit? killed by shell-fire and concussion. But most of them died because they were literally filled with machine-gun bullets. Always in a direct line of fire from the beginning to the end of the war, they were the resting-places of millions of the copper missiles that today are im- bedded from the bark, to the pith. Junk-dealers are now busily engaged cleaning up the Argonne—reaping for- tunes from the elephant iron, barbed wire and metal used by the Germans during the four years that they built with a strong but erroneous view to permanent possession. Contracts let by the then you should out French government provide that every find bit of salvage must go to the contractors. Partly to insure protection for these about the Dunlop Maxpar clients and partly for the protection of the lives of peasants who might chop into an unexploded shell with disastrous the reason why all golfers do not results, a law has been passed prohibit- PROBABLY ing everyone from touching the dead play the Imported Black Dunlop is that some trees. In spite of this law, drawn by the lure prefer to pay less than $1. of easy money, the peasants do touch the trees—not for the purpose of collecting firewood, but to acquire the im- If you pay 75c for a ball, you will play the Dunlop bedded machine-gun bullets which can be bootlegged at fancy prices. Recently, Maxpar ... if you know about it. from two trees of the old forest standing a few kilometers from the village of The only way to know is to try one. You will find Vienne-le-Chateau, a Russian workman, using only his fingers and the big blade it really drives farther . . . putts truer . . . keeps of a jack-knife, picked from the rotting trunks a full sack of the twisted, scarred cleaner . . . stands more punishment than any other missiles. The sack, with its contents, when placed on the scales weighed slight- 75c ball. It is a Dunlop through and through. ly more than fifty pounds. All the bullets came from a space of the trunks of those two trees only as high as the Rus- Until you shoot several rounds with a Maxpar, sian could reach and as deep as his knife blade would penetrate. you will never know how much golf- ball you can And every dead tree in the Argonne Forest that stood in the zone of fire is get for 75 c. just like that. The village of Villers-Cotterets, on the Paris-Soissons railroad, drowses peace- fully in the sun of a summer's day. At MAXPAR the station M. Jacques Grollet has a taxicab—a taxicab that he drove for made by Gallieni, the military governor of Paris, when reinforcements were taken to the DUNLOP Marne in 1914 to stop the Germans. One may rent that taxicab for one franc and seventy-five centimes the kilometer and Monsieur Grollet will recommend, as the principal object of interest in the vicinity, the observation post of the late General Mangin in the Forest of Retz. It was General Mangin (since dead) who directed the drive ordered by Mar- shal Foch of the First and Second American Divisions and the Moroccans and French on Soissons in July, 1018. He chose to witness the progress of that decisive battle and issued his orders from a sheltered lookout built of wood high up among the branches of a tall beech tree. The tree stood on the highest eminence (Continued on page 52)

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of the forest, just at the dip from the wooded ridges of the Argonne, standing crest, and from that point it was easily on the bank of the Ruisseau des Biev- possible to see the villages of Lechelle, res et de Charlevaux, where that tiny Chazelle, Chaudon and Cravancon and stream rushes through the ruins of the almost as far as Poisy. Every move- Moulin de Charlevaux, is a tall pine. ment of the advancing troops was under Like the Twisted Oak it was never the Mangin's eyes; every movement of the object of a direct hit, though all of its Germans to defend themselves against numerous branches, jutting out in con- the attack was visible to him. And centric circles, were stripped off by the under his tactical supervision the Allies missiles of war, leaving the jagged stubs won and forced the Germans out of to intimate its one-time grace and Soissons. beauty. It sticks up fully seventy-five Corinthian Column in the Pa/act at Versatllts General Mangin's "tower," as M. feet toward the blue of the sky of an Grollet calls it, may still be seen. But August day, its dead but solid trunk un- THEY SAY IT IS it is fast falling into decay. For ten full harmed and still supporting two white years it has been totally neglected. The porcelain insulators driven in by mem- roof, the supporting struts and the base bers of the U. S. Signal Corps to further "TOO GOOD" platform remain. But most of the steps a telephone communication system. of the stair-like ladders have been beyond this have been told by those who Perhaps a hundred yards WE broken out. And the lattice that held tree, hedged in on all four sides by think in terms of average mer- chandise, that we make the Clark Grave the leafy camouflage and rendered the German machine gunners, the famous Vault too good! position invisible to German airmen is Lost Battalion under Colonel Whittlesey

But as our vaults must provide protection almost gone. made its stand. On the afternoon of for the precious remains of loved ones In that tower in the high beech tree October 3, igi8, the First Battalion of we never have permitted, and never will General Mangin directed the attack that the 308th Infantry of the 77th Division permit any compromise in the quality forever wrested the offensive from the and elements of the 306th and 307th and workmanship. Germans—the surprise attack of the Machine-Gun Battalions pierced the The Clark Vault is sealed by an immu- Allies that was the first of a series of enemy's defenses. In the darkness of table law of Nature and does not depend victories that decided the outcome of that night the Germans infiltrated the on man-made locks. The material is metal, the war. The dilapidated remnants of position and cut off the venturesome because it is not porous. Special quality that observatory justly as famous an Americans. For five days, until October sheets of Armco Ingot Iron or Keystone — observatory as the histories of wars can 7th at nine o'clock, they held out, refus- Copper Steel give added rust-resistance. produce—still exists. Anyone who goes ing to surrender though reduced to a And our workmanship always insures to Villers-Cotterets may learn of it from remnant. Then detachments of the 77th the fullest utility of these fine metals. M. Grollet. He recommends it as an ob- found a vulnerable spot in the Bois de Seams are doubly-welded, oxy-acetylene ject of interest because it piles up francs Naza and a rescue of the survivors was on the outside, electric on the inside, so on his taximeter. it that the metal flows into one solid piece. Otherwise would be effected. A test under 5000 pounds of water proves forgotten. The car in which the Armis- That tall pine on the banks of the the perfection of the welds. tice was signed has been carefully, al- Ruisseau des Bievres et de Charlevaux most religiously, preserved. But the which gurgles turbulently through the And then on the finer vaults a plating of pure cadmium assures a still greater tower where Mangin laid the founda- ruins of the Charlevaux Mill a few miles measure of rust-resistance. tions for the Armistice will soon be lost, from Binarville pierces the heavens to- by decay, to a world that cannot admire day. And it is the only monument that The Clark Grave Vault has never failed during a quarter of a century. Leading because it does not know. may be found in the valley to the hero- funeral directors recommend it. A 50- In a deep ravine between massive ism of the members of the Lost Battalion. year guaranty with every one.

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Less than Clark complete protection ( Continued from page g is no protect ton at all! THE CLARK GRAVE VAULT CO. just as he reached the crest of the hill. and came along with that old call of the Columbus, Ohio Why we were not cleaned out by the Civil War: "Close up, you men, close

Wattrn Offict and Wartkouii, Kansas City, Mo. Spanish fire is still in the nature of a up; close up, dammit!" miracle in my mind. It was so heavy And, in the wickedness of that old that it seemed that if one stretched out snobbishness of some of the war cor- one's hand the fingers promptly would respondents, there was started the tale be chewed off by the gusts of bullets. that the regiments in the trail had

Instinctively one tried to shrink to- shrunk from fire ! They should have been gether and to crouch even while making in that trail — then they would have a show of standing upright. And yet not known. so many men seemed to fall; only now Harry Carpenter and I plugged along and then. Still when the Spaniards once in that jam. Somehow we seemed to registered a fair hit with one of their be in some part of a company of Regu- shells far back in the trail sixteen men lars. And then, suddenly it seemed, we went with it. That was in the third bat- swung slightly to the left—the stream talion of the Seventy-first and with of men apparently was dividing into two another regiment alongside of it just en- paths. We clung to our files, blindly, tering the trail. As the shell burst in the and then, all at once the jam of men GRAVE VAULT faces of the columns just swinging into was gone, we were in part of a group of the trail they gave back—an instant men straggling in column, without offi- This trade-mark is on every geQuinc Clark Grave then closed like veteran troops cers, without formation and without Vault. It is a means of identifying the vault instantly. and up Unless you sec this mark, the vault is not a Clark. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —)

command. It was a sort of pocket in Wouldn't you It the jungle; what had apparently been a pay to path to the left was nothing but a cul de sac in the tangled green. Here were a few wounded who had crawled into the prevent $200 shade, here and there a dead man. with Mistakes? knots of rather bewildered soldiers like soldier ourselves wondering what a . Then send for this FREE book should do in a battle in which there was no officer in sight, and no enemy, and only the streaking little bullets. A voice this FREE book, "How called: LET "Hey, there, you fellas—hey, Post, hey, J To Judge a Used Car," Carpenter—where's the captain—where's be your insurance against a the company?" And from the ground there loomed mistake that may cost you the face of Quartermaster Sergeant Dave Werdenschlag. Three of our company hundreds of dollars! were there with him. And they, like Two cents brings you trade ourselves, had been switched off and lost from their company in the jam back in information compiled from the trail. And then there came into this pocket, as a single, definite company the years of used car buying unit, Goldsborough at the with Captain experience ofmany acknowl- head. Company M, the company that was directly behind ours. Never did edged experts. It brings you any body of men look more grateful in our eyes. We fairly trotted over and re- 32 interesting pages of text, ported ourselves. every paragraph of which "Get in there on the left of my company," ordered Goldsborough. "Make holds some valuable hint on your own count, Sergeant, and follow the used formation." car buying. There are Dave saluted and we formed our- pictures illustrating just selves into an extra squad. Several other Pledge to the Public men hopped out from the bushes—Reg- on Used Car Sales what to look for in the used ulars—and joined on. A couple of offi- car you want. cers were with Goldsborough by this Every used car is conspicuously marked time—but they were without commands 1 with its lowest price in plain figures, How can you tell the model and swearing. and that price, just as the price of our "By God. I'd like to know where my ofa used car? What do speed- new cars, is rigidly maintained. command is!" one said. All Studebaker automobiles which are ometers show? What do code "Get some of these men together." sold as CERTIFIED CARS have been said another. "Captain," he turned coolly properly reconditioned, and carry a prices mean? How would you to your men Goldsborough, "you've got 30-day guarantee for replacement of set a fair price on —take 'em up front—this is a hell of a defective parts and free service on ad- a used car mess!" He sounded like a major. justments. offered by a friend? How do Front! Yes, in front, through the Every purchaser of a used car may tangle fish-net jungle could hear of we drive it for five days, and then, if not you avoid "orphans"? Why the steady crackle of the Spanish fire satisfied for any reason, turn it back like a Fourth of July celebration some- and apply the money paid as a credit does the Studebaker Pledge where down the village street, with a on the purchase of any other car in give you five days' driving scattering of heavier banging that was Stock — new or used. (It is assumed that the car has not been damaged in from our own men beyond the ford trial? It takes only a 2c stamp the meantime.) but we could see nothing—just the little to bring you the right answers flutter of torn leaves and cut twigs that Siudjb.ltr Coi ) !9'9Tht followed the seething whine of bullets. —mail the coupon now! Another officer joined Goldsborough. A third started to rout the men out from the bushes and to gather them into some 130,000 people have saved money rough line-up. Skulkers there were, by mailing this coupon! make no doubt about that, and here and

there where there had been legs left out " 1 in the now only shoes, and open you saw THE STUDEBAKER CORPORATION OF AMERICA then these too dragged out of sight as j Dept. 115, South Bend, Indiana the owner burrowed deeper in. But they | were few—two, three, maybe a half Please send me my copy of your valuable dozen. Men began pushing up into the free booklet, "How to Judge a Used Car." line that was being formed, one, a Name.. couple, a half dozen, and a couple more officers swarmed up and down this little Street- pocket. I saw one man cringe as an offi- City .State.. cer jumped for him to drag him to his feet. "Don't. Captain!" he yelled as the officer grabbed him by the collar. Don't, for God's sake—" The captain's grasp pulled his shirt half off his body and there, underneath, was his undershirt bloody as red ( Continued on page STUDEBAKER 54 Builder of Champions

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Week • • • flannel and slowly caking to a black. at the ford of the San Juan that they Instantly the captain changed: knew we must take. For a hundred "Sorry—here, a couple you men!" yards this side of the ford men were May 5th And they laid him farther back in the laid out dead, dying and gasping on grass and jungle with a stray blanket either side of the trail. Here one had roll to lie against. crawled into the thick undergrowth until to 11th Down the line rose Goldsborough's only his legs showed, making an occa- voice, as boyish and shrill as when we sional twitch or jerk or moving in slow first drilled under him back in Camp convulsion. An officer—a mere boy who Black. could not have been much more than " Tenshun! By the right flank just out of West Point—lay flat on his

march!" We were heading back . . . into back with his blouse ripped open and that jammed trail. two, maybe three, bloody little holes in Chug! A curious, sudden sound—and his undershirt from which the blood no then the long, vicious seething whine of longer flowed; already the ants were a bullet—but close. It was close all crawling over his waxen face and the right. For the man beside me, Jimmy flies buzzing at his glazed eyes. Murphy of M, grunted and sank down. An officer crowded by me, excited. He The chug had been the bullet striking stared scornfully at the enlisted men him in the almost solid bone of the knee pushing by. joint, and Murphy was out of it from "Why the hell don't someone put a then on. We hauled him to one side. blanket over that man!" he fairly "Sure I'm hit—I'm hit!" he kept re- screamed. "By God, can't you see he's Save the Price peating. an officer! Dammit, cover him up, some- "Does it hurt?" I asked as Harry one—he's an officer!" New Spark Plugs Carpenter and I dragged him aside. Then he subsided a little. of "Yeh. It hurts," he said simply. "It "That's no way to let an officer lie hurts. I'm hit—yeh, I'm hit." dead." His voice was high in anger; and ONCE again Champion re- A voice rose beside us. "What the on up the trail he went mumbling to the minds you that to enjoy per- hell you doing with that man! Get column: "He's an officer—by God, he the — ought to be covered—no way to let an fect engine performance during "He's hit. Captain," I said. Any offi- officer lie!" the nexttwelvemonthsyoushould cer is a captain—for diplomacy's sake Officers! Let 'em lie. Plenty of dead complete new set of spark install a at any rate. now. And worse, the dying. Some take plugs now. "Get the hell in line!" he yelled, it quiet; and some don't. And blood? "drop that man!" that, too. I slipped and looked You should renew even Champion Plenty of Murphy grunted—or groaned. "Go down where my feet were treading. Spark Plugs which give much on, fellas." Mud! But it had been a dry day—not service for a much longer better Probably our blue pants—the mark a drop of rain; all the morning down period than any other spark plug. of the volunteer—saved us from that that old crooked country road from line-up—at any rate we took it on the our last night's camp where we had If you have used your spark plugs run for the few steps needed to get back drawn three days' rations, all night long than 10,000 miles, a new set more into Goldsborough's company. But with there had been dust. It was mud all of the new improved Champions the remark of a kindlier note of a real right. I had forgotten the wounded and will restore new car power and captain who had noted the incident fol- the dying that had been crowded off the speed and save their cost many lowing us. "Boys, don't stop and bother trail, or dragged off to get out of the times over in less gas and oil used. about the wounded—somebody '11 take way of the others, and lined it on either care of them," he said as we passed. side. Blood spattered the jungle bushes Moreover, the far-reaching im- Good advice, too. Where would a fight- knee high — sometimes higher. Little provements, the time-tested and ing unit get if it kept stopping to drag clotted rivulets had dried up as they fed exclusive superiorities of the new its own wounded aside? the larger pools; and the tramp of the improved Champions are so great And then, once more, we swung back shuffling men that followed had made a as to warrant immediate equip- into the crowded trail. I remember slippery, pitiful mud. Not all, of course, ment with them—no matter what Harry's remark as we thankfully joined but just patches of mud; though once spark plugs you may now be Goldsborough: "Doggone it, Post, we've we tramped through at least twenty feet got to careful and ourselves re- of mud. using. be keep ported to someone in this fight or the Somewhere here was my colonel, Col- Make Champion National Change Lord alone knows how we'll be able to onel Wallace A. Downs, a brave man Week your yearly reminder to in- prove we've been in it afterward." for I saw him as we passed on the few Scared as we were, there was no remaining yards to the ford. There he stall a complete new set of Cham- thought of joining the skulkers. The was, standing up—and not behind a tree pions. It is a proved method of bullets were thicker — and well they and he waved to Goldsborough even maintaining maximum engine — might be, for the Spaniards now could as he had waved to Captain Rafferty but Any one efficiency and economy. actually see the dark blue shirts of a moment or so before. He was resting of more than 100,000 dealers will our men who, disorganized, had been with his right on the San Juan River, as be glad to serve you. squeezed out across the trail, on across he had been ordered; he had advanced the waist-deep ford in the San Juan as far as possible, also as he had been River, and had opened fire of their own ordered. But he had not deployed, as from the shelter of a little terrace just ordered, because nothing could deploy in CHAMPION beyond the ford. The casualties had that network of matted jungle on either SPARK PLUGS been, as I said, light before. Here they side. So he had done nothing. had been heavy, for the Spanish troops He had not taken the San Juan Hill TOLEDO, OHIO WINDSOR, ONTARIO had kept their heaviest fire for this spot that lay but six hundred yards before

54 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly him! The tragedy of it! First in the ford of the San "There trail, first at the Juan are River with the blockhouse on San Juan Hill six hundred yards away and in plain view, and, when he could not deploy, he times when I don't dare to cough did not go ahead with over one thousand good troops at his back! Men were squeezing past, fording the river, men of mixed commands and . . . so I smoke Old Golds" without officers, opening fire by themselves at the blockhouse on the hill and '"Besides losing heavily. The only officer who had the fact that a cough, when tlic gone across the ford during the earlier camera is clicking, would spoil the scene stage—perhaps ten minutes before, not and cause expensive re-takes ; besides the over fifteen—was Lieutenant Ord. Men fact that it just isn't done on a movie set, were falling fast around him—the Span- there are times when coughing would just iards had this ford covered with marked about mean 'curtain' for me. ranges—in fact, of all our twelve-hun- "So I smoke old dred-odd losses at San Juan Hill most of golds because they don't them were here and in only about an bring on that throat tickle and irritation hour. It was impossible to go back in that causes coughing. Smooth and easy, that crowded track—you couldnt get OLD COLDS are, on my throat. So I smoke back! Ord had grasped the facts. O. Gs. myself, and recommend them to "Come on, men!" he shouted. "You- everyone who works with me." can't get back—come on! Come on!" And he jumped ahead on the run for SIGNED) the hill. They followed him—not eighty /f^y^U men. And they took the hill. Colonel Downs was there, at this time—even before it—with his regiment of more than a thousand men. And waited for more orders with San Juan there in sight! And there he had stood, and waited, with a regiment steady and scared—too scared to go back, and steady enough to go forward if they had been led. Men had been dropping all around him—this ford was the most dangerous spot in the whole fight at San Juan, not for a few moments merely but for the whole period. Bloody Ford it was named that night by the men who talked, as men will, of the fight of the day, and who know of what they talk. And that name has stuck even to this day. a Out from that trampled trail with its Why not bloody mud the jungle opened out a bit cough in a carload? —or had been trodden down—and the vision ahead cleared a trifle among the old GOLDS are blended from heart-leaf trees the bank this side of along on the CHARLIE CHAPLIN obacco.the finestNature grows. Selected San Juan River. For the first time we World's greatest comedian and for silkiness and ripeness from the heart could catch a glimpse, through the tat- premiei artist of the screen, in ofthe tobacco plant. Mellowed extra long tered and trampled jungle, of the block- an uproarious scene from "The in a temperature of mid-July sunshine house on San Juan Hill—a glint of red Circus." United Artists Produc- tion. to insure honey-like smoothness. from its tiled roof, brilliant in the noon- that day tropic sun, and just the upper edge of its dull walls as they rose above the light crest of the hill itself and silhouetted eat a chocolate, an Old Gold, and enjoy both!

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I got them—now you go on in an' from what might otherwise be a curable git yours!" These were the lighter wound. wounded—through the arm, or shoulder, The body of a Negro trooper slumped mostly, and carrying one arm with the across a log on the far bank, one hand other. They crawled under the nearest waving idly in the current and the head bush and we found them there, some- under water, drowning apparently. It times days after, and dead. From the gave me the only feeling of horror that farther bank of the river there came I felt—and the picture remains to this shots, a slowly scattering fire—but firing day. To be shot—yes—that was in the Why it is so easy by our men. That was our front line picture; but to be shot, and drowned, then—here was the battle—this was too, drowned while wounded! to learn to type on where the fighting and our killing actu- But here across the ford was action ally began. the battle action that had brought us But for myself, well, I felt all the here. A broad meadow of waist high CORONA fears that a lifetime can produce, crouch- grass opened off from beyond a little ing, ducking, hugging myself tight to my terrace just over this San Juan ford. little boy has loved Corona ever since OUR own backbone to get the greatest slim- Beyond there rose the stiff slopes of San he was big enough to notice the letters." ness and fairly trying to go sideways Juan Hill itself, and on its crest there "I learned to use Corona when I was sixty- between these streaks of seething death. flamed the brilliant red-tiled roof of the eight. It is much easier than writing by hand." Down the bloody bank we slipped and block-house with its shabby stained Scores of letters like the above have come to waded, waist deep, through its sluggish walls and reenforced face. us. They show how easy it is to use Corona. If current. On the near bank a log sloped Even as we emerged from the ford, children young to hold a pencil can too use down and disappeared into the water dripping, there came a cry that ran up Corona, anybody can. If old people whose hand- and over it sprawled the body of a sol- and down the bank. "Cease firing writing has grown shaky can use Corona, any- dier; half in, half caught in the cease firing it's the body can. out, but — our men!" From crooked branches, was the limp body of hill at one side of the blockhouse an In the very beginning, Corona was designed another. Little sharp bullet splashes American battle flag was being waved with the idea that it would be used by people who had no typewriter experience. spurted constantly up from the narrow in slow arcs—a signal! There were river—it was no more than a creek, any- shouts from the hill that floated down That was twenty years ago. Corona is still way for yards up and down its surface. to us a cheer, the history books will built with the beginner in mind. All the needs — — of the amateur typist have been studied by Under foot was sand and mud, slippery, call it—but it was just a plain yell, a Corona engineers. Every yearwe have improved and my one thought was that I would not thin, shrill, quavering yell from the Corona — made it more convenient. get there to sink into that current and, handful of men who had taken it. In making Corona easy for beginners to weighted down by my cartridge belt and San Juan Hill was ours—if we could operate, we accomplished another result —an un- with my two socks filled with extra am- keep it. foreseen result. The very features which enable munition slung around my neck, drown (To be concluded) beginners to write more easily, enable accomplished typists to greatly increase their speed.

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operate in the future strictly within its onstrated by the gradual Increase in the income. Following this policy the camp number of applicants each year. In 1926 has for the past three years opened its fifty-one men were admitted and in 1927 doors on June ist and continued active ninety-two and in 1928 one hundred and operation as a convalescent camp for as thirty-four were given care and treat- long a period of time as the income ment. It is possible, at present, because would permit. With the exception of of limited income, for the camp to oper- the year 1928, the camp has operated ate only four to five months each year, actively five months in each year. The from June to November. This, unfor- exceptional demand during 1928 for the tunately, deprives many who need the use of beds at the convalescent area care the camp can give of an opportu- taxed available funds to the utmost and nity to use its facilities. An effort is now the camp was obliged to curtail its sea- being made to have every member of son by two weeks, closing October 15th. the Legion and its Auxiliary in the De- It might be supposed by some that partment of New York subscribe five the camp is merely a duplication of dollars to the funds of the camp, pay- Veterans Bureau hospitalization. It is able in annual installments of one dollar not. The work of the camp supplements each. Some three thousand dollars have the efforts of the Bureau in some types been raised in this manner during the of cases admitted, but in the majority past year, but much more is needed. of cases it is offering the ounce of pre- Eighty percent of these contributions vention rather than the pound of cure. go to the camp endowment fund and But as a matter of routine at the camp, twenty percent to the general operation if examination and observation upon ad- fund. An endowment fund of $600,000 You Breathe mission show a patient with a diagnosis is needed to operate the camp. The of acute pulmonary tuberculosis, or an present fund is only half of that amount. advanced N. P. condition, the camp The camp also operates a delightful management immediately requests the recreational area available to Legion- Bureau to admit the veteran to a gov- naires and members of their families for 950 vacation purposes. ernment hospital. The users of this The majority of men admitted to the part of the camp, being in good health times an hour Veterans' Mountain Camp are Legion- and in the earning class, pay their way. naires who have no organic disease, but The camp has several cottages and build- ' * but your body who come from their homes, or from ings where these vacationists are housed. smothers during the most hospitals, private and government, fol- This area of the camp is about one mile important hours of the day lowing acute attacks of bronchitis, pneu- from the convalescent area. The two Reliance designers and tremendous volume monia, pleurisy, stomach disorders, in- are operated separately and are distinct have made possible amazing improvements fluenza and the many other debilitating in every respect. The recreational area in Big Yank Work Shirts. sicknesses peculiar to man. It is the offers all the facilities of a vacation in No more excess body moisture. No more purpose of the camp to rebuild lost tis- the Adirondack Mountains. It has a discomfort. of tired" No more that "dead sue, revitalize and rehabilitate the body lake shore frontage of about two miles. feeling coming on just when you work the with rest, nourishing food, fresh air, sun- Its altitude is 1,250 feet above sea level. hardest. shine and recreation. To this end a It offers boating, bathing and good fish- The New Big Yank Flyer comes with pat- ing. vacationists is ented ventilators. Cool air circulates under physician and nurse are part of the Income from used your armpits, back and chest. It keeps you camp personnel during the active period to help defray the operating cost of the fit for the day's work. of operation, and their task is to send convalescent area. So in addition to New durability features. New assortment the patient home in better health and spending a vacation the Legionnaire who of patterns from which to choose. Yet all of prepared to tackle his or her daily tasks. comes to the camp, while paying his the old features, matchless the world over, That there is an urgent need for a way, helps his less fortunate comrade to are retained. convalescent home for veterans is dem- get back to good health. For example: Big Yank oversizing has set the standard for the work shirt industry; thread-riveted at all strain points; indestructible matched buttons. Satisfaction guaranteed. More dealers display and recommend Big Yank Qolden footlights Work Shirts than any other. Write us if you cannot get Big Yank Flyer (Continued from page 39) Work Shirts — 3 for $3.00.

( Ask for Big Yank Athletic Underwear ) of action which will help "preserve the The success Thomas Hopkins Post memories and incidents of our associa- has had with its theatrical entertain- tion in the war" is of greater importance ments is due largely to the fact that its than any monetary return. Moreover, if early productions were rather the result BIGYANK the play necessitates a large cast and is of a desire for self-expression than of a FLYER of the right type, the post in satisfying need for money. While its first show, the public's natural curiosity about the staged in the spring of 1920, was a min- WORK SHIRT war will arouse more genuine enthusi- strel, the features that were most at- asm among its members than it can in tractive to the public were the army $1000 Reward any other activity. For after all, it was songs sung by the chorus and the army will he paid to anyone furnishing proof mutual service first flavor of the jokes. production that the BIG YANK Work Shirt or any war that attracted This of the other advertised Reliance products the membership and there is nothing like was so popular that it had to be repeated are being made anywhere except in the Reliance sunlit factories, under the most a play for bringing the sentiment born in Wichita and was later taken to the sanitary conditions, by trained women op- eratives. of that common experience to life again. neighboring town of Eldorado, under RELIANCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY If it can be turned to profit, so much the auspices of the Eldorado post. 212 WEST MONROE STREET the better. The second entertainment was a min- CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

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strel show, given on the nights of No- vember 8th, oth and ioth, the same A Credit to the Post! year. A professional director was brought down from Chicago for the last two Your Junior Leaguers will go far when weeks of rehearsal and the whole pro- they've got the winning equipment. duction was planned on a more elaborate scale. The war theme was made more Regulation Uniforms and Equipment prominent by the addition of a barracks- room sketch. for Legion Junior Baseball Teams The post's third vehicle was "Snap Into It," a combination of three con- D&M Equipment makes the Gloves and Mitts used by nected army scenes and a minstrel. It boys look and play like 368 Big Leaguers in 1928, was the most pretentious and expensive champions. See the nearest D5?M Golf Balls and Clubs, production the organization has ever at- D&M dealer for official uni' Swimming Suits, Tennis tempted, and the least profitable. A forms made to your order; Balls and Rackets and other Chicago director was imported for four also the famous Lucky Dog Athletic Goods. weeks at a cost of $100 a week and expenses, a musical director was employed Send for new DfrM free Golf Book for the chorus, and in the neighborhood "IS HOLES IX PJW" of $2 ooo was spent for stage scenery and effects. The army sketches included a humorous scene at the pier of em- barkation with a ship deck in the back- ground, day and night scenes on board ship wherein some humorous dialogue IDCKV DOG and a number of songs were offered, and ATHILT1C GOODS humorous in barracks another sketch a THE DRAPE R-MAYNARD CO.,PEYMOUTH ,N.H. room back of the lines in France. The NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO SUTTON QUEBEC minstrel following included a well-drilled , chorus of over a hundred voices. While "Snap Into It" remains the most popular entertainment featuring a minstrel Automatic with incidental music that the post has WiSffiS Make ^15 a day / Washes, Cleans* Dries and did a gross business of ever staged Polishes in One oney Belling new automotive ce. No competition. Wonde close to $5,000, the great expense and a Quick Operation llingarpeal. Cars that tip o\ __ Amazing new invention. mally catch fire. SAFE -TEE somewhat inefficient management cut the Circuit Breaker cuts off motor CARRIES OWN WATER automatically at d^ngerou net profit to a few hundred dollars. SUPPLY I Eliminates all anjrlc preventing fire ami dead - drudgery and splashing! 5 timea ly monoxide fumes. Er as fast as old methods. Patented by automobile and ins The following year a revue, called men. Send $3.00 for features: No pail. No brush. No >Iete selling; outfit or v "The Follies of 1922," was presented. A sponge. No chamois. Can be used with or free literature a or without a pole. $90-$150 weekly agent's liberal propon number of vaudeville sketches preceded easy for agents. Sells on sight. Sen- tion. SAFE-TEE sational demonstration ! Every housewife, the regulation minstrel. A ballet of danc- autoist, etore-owner a prospect. Write for our Circuit Breaker Free Sample Offer ing girls from a local dancing academy, . SSBHETWflSe W. E.KAUTENBERG CO. FREE PORT, ILL NATIONAL INDUSTRIES, Dept. 305, 67 E. Lake St., Chicago an airplane number, and a group of Le- gionnaires in grass skirts, made up as South Sea sirens, were among the features. The hit of the performance oc- FOOT PAINS' curred when one of the aviators acci- dentally fell out of his airplane and did an unrehearsed nose dive to the stage. CONE in 10 minutes The outside expense was limited to a musical director for the chorus, and a OR COSTS YOU NOTHING good profit was realized for the post. Burning, aching, tired feeling in the feet and legs The fourth annual production marked —cramps in toes, foot calluses, pains in toes, in- ankle, calf or the post's first attempt to capitalize the step, bailor heel—dull ache in the — pains from back of toes, spread- popularity of previous army sketches by knee shooting ing of the feet, or that broken-down feeling— putting them definitely into the form of all can now be quickly ended. a play. A two-act play of army life in says 94 of all foot pains result Trouble starts France, in which all the characters ap- SCIENCE % from displaced bones pressing against in weakened peared in uniform with the exception of sensitive nerves and blood vessels. Weakened muscles. Tiny muscles permit these bone displacements. bones of forward a French man and woman, opened the arch are displaced. Now a way is discovered to hold the bones Pain follows. show and ran for fifty minutes. This in position and strengthen the muscles. band play was called "As You Were!" and the Pains stop in 10 minutes when these aulas A super-elastic ing bands, Jung Arch Braces, are worn. assistsand strength- combined production was advertised Stand, walk, or dance for hours you ens weakened muscles, re- — places bones. Pain stops just don't get tired. Just slips on under that name. A minstrel, under the instantly. results are almost immediate. One direction of a local musician, made up of the secrets is in the tension and the balance of the program. This show stretch. It is highly elastic, amaz- If they can't supply you, use ingly light and thin, was one of the best money-makers the yet strong coupon below and pay postman. and durable. Worn with any Write for free booklet. post has had, due partly to the fact that kind of footwear. Nothing stiff to further weaken it was taken to Eldorado for a two- muscles and ^1 Money back if it fails ., cause discomfort. 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MAY, tgit, 59 THE RIGHT TOOL SAVES TIME The FASTEST Qolden footlights Weeder Made (Continued jrom page 5q) Just a slight push and this scuffle hoe cuts off the big affairs weeds, tips out the little of the lieutenant hero, a German While good publicity is necessary at ones and leaves a fine spy, a friendly German music teacher, all times it is not so essential, however, mulch on the soil to pre- his American girl pupil, who was also as the organization of a ticket-selling vent evaporation. the heroine, and various doughboy sav- campaign of personal solicitation. As a Blade and shank forged from iors of the heroine and hero. The min- rule, the advance ticket sale is more one solid piece of steel, with strel influence was evident in the several than ninety percent of the paid attend- 5 foot selected ash handle. musical interpolations and in the Armis- ance at any amateur theatrical perform- The brand True Temper is tice finale. While the play had little ance. Advance tickets, exchangeable for burned in the handle to mark each hoe as the best foundation in war as it was fought, it reserved seat tickets when the box ofhce tool of its kind that can ran three nights and netted a good sale begins, should be ready at least a be made. profit. It was the first entertainment month before the show opens. Different THE AMERICAN written and staged wholly by post talent colors may distinguish the various price FORK & HOE CO. without outside assistance. ranges, and the tickets should be num- 1904 Keith Bldg., In "Who Won the War?" the 1925 bered serially for purpose of record. The Cleveland, Ohio. production, the post for the first time best method of distribution is to sell the essayed a realistic portrayal of actual advance tickets outright in blocks of Makers Farm and of combat conditions. Based primarily $20, $10 or to Legion members, thus Garden Tools for $5 over 100 years. upon the conflict between two sergeants, necessitating resale if they are to get one a Regular and the other out of the their money back. The alternative is to National Guard, the cast included col- put as many as possible into the hands lege and old-army privates, an American of members of the Legion and Auxiliary nurse, a French mademoiselle, a tender- on a returnable basis. If a sufficient foot second lieutenant, M. P's, "wash- number have been placed, a continuous outs," a Negro who was the victim of a follow-up will insure a successful seat mock trial for stealing a gas mask from sale. a mule, and a number of other A. E. F. The sale of advertising space in the types. It was in three acts, the first and show program can be made a profitable third taking place in a company office by-product. In small communities spe- near the lines and the second laid in a cial Legion show editions of the news- captured German dugout during the paper can sometimes be arranged. Local Argonne advance. This play demon- conditions must determine the advisa- strated the advantages of having a large bility of these projects. Professional ad- cast without outstanding star parts and vertising salesmen should be avoided in the ability of Legion actors to put across most cases as they often make more more serious scenes without loss of ef- trouble than they are worth. If your dealer has not yet stocked the Scuf- fectiveness. No play ever staged by the The director is as necessary to the fle Hoe, Cat. No. A2, send us his name anil $1.20 and we will supply you direct, post- post has aroused quite so much favor- success of the show as the business paid. able comment. manager, and no one without some ex- GARDEN SCUFFLE HOE No war play was available the fol- perience should attempt the job. As lowing year, so the Legion experimented stage manager he should confer with the in its eighth theatrical effort with a four- business management about all produc- act mystery play called "Smith," pre- tion expense. It is a mistake to make I PER sented in the spring of 1927. While the scenery and stage effects too elabo- EM "Smith" with a good reception the rate. adequate sets are ERUE met One or two fact that it had a small cast and had usually sufficient. A play, especially if nothing to do with the war considerably the men appear in uniforms, can be A. E. F. Veterans Good Will Tour lessened its chances for popular appeal. staged with less expense than a minstrel To Paris, Trier, Coblenz, Etc., The post's 1928 production was "So or other form of entertainment that re- Steamship Leviathan sailing July 27 Dis Am Paris," a combined minstrel- quires special costumes and stage settings. under personal direction of Lt. Carl H. Hackert (Stationed at Coblenz and Trier in 191SJ revue. The minstrel and revue numbers Proper casting is essential to the re- For booklet and all details apply to STENECK TRAVEL BUREAUS were woven about the experiences of two alistic acting of a play. An actor not 95 River St., Hoboken, N. J. Negro Legionnaires who had been elect- suited to his part never seems natural or 1253 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City ed delegates to the Paris Convention. at home on the stage. If the men are in If this account of Thomas Hopkins uniform and well cast, their familiarity Post's theatrical experiences gives the with army phraseology, in combination impression of a continuous run of suc- with an interesting plot, will enable them cesses, it is misleading. The record is to appear more convincing in a play as full of mistakes as the combat tactics than they can in any other type of stage your post in limelight PUT of your favorite general. is always at conventions and celebra- brigadier A performance. Amateurishness tions. Boost year 'round at- few of the essentials have been learned, more apparent in a minstrel, revue or tendance. Get new members however, and some of the following sug- vaudeville sketch than in a play. This with thrilling martial music. Organize a drum corps with gestions may be of help to other posts. is because the actors are attempting arti- aid of valuable new Leedy The financial success of any de- ficial characterizations wherein they must booklet "The Roll-Off"—42 show pages of information answers pends upon the selection of a capable depend upon their own personalities all organization and equipment problems. Shows all drum major sig- business manager, who should have no without any assistance from a story that Scores of interesting photos nals. connection with the production end. His of itself is interesting to the audience. and much historical d:ita. Sent FREE to Legion first appointment should be that of a There are as many methods of direct- members. No obligation. Write for live publicity man, one who can write ing a show as there are directors. It may copy now. your snappy copy and who has an entree to be stated, however, that no director can Leedy Mfg. Co., all the newspapers. Window cards, ap- secure a good performance with fewer 1033 Easl Palmer Slreel, Indianapolis, Ind pearances before civic clubs and other than twenty rehearsals. The inflection organizations, and publicity stunts are a of every sentence and the details of SendforTree'Booklet part of the duties of the publicity man. every bit of stage business should be

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carefully rehearsed. And it must always Legion that it deserves. In the decade be remembered that the first considera- since the war the decline of the road Choke-Proof tion in the theatre is to make every show and the domination of the motion- Because the speech clearly and distinctly heard. The picture industry have created a demand Collar problems involving the technique of act- for "the legitimate" that posts every- of this Shirt is ing and stage management cannot be where can profitably satisfy. This is as Shrink-Proof! gone into here. While usually easy of true in towns of one thousand popula- solution they must be left to the skill tion as it is in the cities. The possibili- and experience of the director. ties of the theater as an influence in The presentation of good theatrical keeping alive the spirit of the service entertainment to the public offers an are unlimited, and there is a satisfaction opportunity for self-expression, financial that comes from a workmanlike produc- profit and favorable publicity that has tion well received by the public that will not received the consideration from the extend to every member of the post.

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intervals. In front of Lieutenant Jim's din that only such minor sounds as were platoon and the other platoons making close at hand were audible at all. up the raiding party there was only As suddenly as it began, the hissing silence. flow of shells that poured as one Lieutenant Jim kept glancing at his great flashing cataract over the German watch, until, in that seemingly inter- trenches stopped. Back of those lines minable wait, the fateful seconds were the fire continued unabated, establishing ticking off to him as though being struck a wall of whistling steel between the

from an abbey chimes. At 4 : 20 precisely raiders and German reserves. the sky to the rear flashed fire that ran Those in the trench, Jim thought, in a rugged line all along the front, and would be trapped. He and his men hur- the ground quivered with explosions. ried their pace. In a moment they were Here's something new. Lustray! A Tons of metal screamed overhead and picking their way through great holes fine broadcloth shirt with a collar shells burst along the German line of blown in the German wire. Even in the that won't shrink no matter how trenches. Back of them, straddling com- half-light of dawning they saw the ter- many times it's washed! No need munication trenches and bursting in rible devastation of the hour's barrage to he choked by a shrinking collar. their narrow channels, another math- fire. No need to give your shirts away because shrinking col- ematically-drawn line of shells was fall- Trenches were bashed in for yards. lars have made them unwearable! ing—completing the box. Great and small cavities yawned where And the shrink-proof collar isn't "Now try and get out," muttered Lieu- 75's, with their pound and a half of the only reason why you should tenant Jim, half to the opposing lines, TNT each, and 155's with their fourteen wear Lustray shirts. No sir, not if half to Fishwick. "That's a formal no- and one-half pounds of explosive to the you like to be smartly dressed. tice, Jerry, that we're coming a-calling package, had rained for an hour. For Lustray Broadcloth Shirts are and for you to stay at home nice and Following his instructions, Lieutenant beautifully soft and lustrous and polite till we get there." Jim made for the point of trench where silky. They not only look good and feel good . . . The deafening fire continued for fifty- the suspected large dugout had been but they are good. They're cut full for com- five minutes of its scheduled hour, by marked on the maps. A half dozen men fort, made well for wear and styled which time the were with men were standing stiffly him when he got there. right for smartness. in the fire bays. Combat groups were There was not a shot, not a stir of ac- getting ready to go over. Men with V. tivity from the trenches. DON'T SEND A CENT We want you to get acquainted with B. rifle grenades, automatic riflemen "Fast work," thought Lieutenant Jim. this and master shirt. We'll send you a Lustray (either white just plain doughboys with pockets full "They're not out of their holes yet. It or fancy pattern ) . . . don't send us a red cent I Just sign and mail the coupon below of 0. F. looks to like to grenades—which bark loudly me they needed a little re- us. In a few days one of Uncle Sam's postmen but don't bite much unless they hit a hearsing." will deliver it to your door. You pay him 81.95, the cost of the shirt. man on the chin—were waiting for the He paused on the parapet as the men Wear the Lustray Shirt. Have it washed. If it word all along the zig-zagging line of about him jumped down onto the duck- doesn't give the service we claim for it, send it back to us and we'll refund your yawning trench. board. Nothing was to be seen either money without a whimper! Is that fair enough? If it is, There was just the slightest promise way, up or down. There was not a Teu- MAIL THE COUPON TODAY 1 of dawn in the sky when Lieutenant ton soul above ground. Jim blew his whistle and clambered up Lieutenant Jim shouted loudly, blus- over the parapet. He led the way teringly, into the mouth of the dugout. through a lane in the barbed wire and Men were shouting into other dugouts L*USTRiqY turned to see his men reform properly all along the crooked line. There were BROADCLOTH as they came through the breach. Ahead no answers. Lieutenant Jim jerked the two hundred yards the shells still were cap from a Frog O. F. grenade and SHIRTS bursting in the enemy lines. Lieutenant smacked the plunger sharply against his Cu f, tear or chew Jim thought he seen steel helmet. second later the citron never had such in- A off coupon,fill it tensive artillery preparation for a raid. grenade was bouncing down the dugout in and mail To the right and left as far as he stairs and in five it filled the place with LUSTBERG, NAST & CO., Inc. Dept. L-5 could see, which was only a few yards, a roar and a tremble. 331 Broadway, New York City men were appearing suddenly out of the "Holler uncle!" Jim shouted into the Send me as marked below ground and moving forward like strange, smoke. Collar size (Collar Attached) While Lustray Shirts awkward shadows. Back of him, as he Still, nothing came out but fumes. ( How many?) Fancy Pattern Lustrays moved on as rapidly as possible in the Lieutenant Jim turned about disgusted- (How manv?) _ at S1.95 each. mud and ooze, he heard the slopping, ly. Apparently he and his men had the I understand that these will be sent to me C. O. D. stumbling men. trench all to themselves. Parcel Post. NAME On they went, quietly it seemed, for Then he saw a commotion at the next the shells v/ere making such tremendous traverse and (Continued on page 62) ADDRESS^ City and State J MAY, 1929 61 )

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your arrived there to find a very small, very "Well, our order was maximum fire," frightened Jerry stretched on the duck- it said. "That would be, say, twenty hair board, hands above his head, although shots a minute, perhaps a little less, up he lay at full length. to hundred shots or so, and then a A doughboy prodded the German to five-minute rest, so's the piece and the This simple "1 - * 2 3 his feet, where he stood uncertainly, oil don't run a temperature on us; then Method'* for men removes dandruff, saves hands in the air, trying to smile. As Lieu- hundred more, same rate. That would the hair and keeps it tenant Jim surveyed his prize, men came figure six hundred possible shots per well-groomed. from the communication trench. They hour per piece. had searched it as far back as the second "Twenty-four pieces to the regiment. line. There was no enemy to be found. Two regiments. They probably got rid I Shampoo the hair at suitable intervals with * Herpicide Tar Soap, Smilingly, the lieutenant turned to the of about 28,800 shells." colonel y Rub Newbro's Herpicide ( the original scalp prisoner. The reached for a piece of germicide) daily the scalp. into "Kiss me, Gus; you're a life-saver," paper. ~1 As a final dressing apply Netvbro's Herf)i-Lay he said, while the P. G. looked at "Ordnance says 75-millimeter shells to keep hair in place and give it lustre. him Bv following the "1-2-3 Method" every man and uncomprehendingly. cost Uncle Sam eleven bucks apiece," he woman can have healthy, well-groomed hair. While Burley was wondering about said. "That'd be, let's see . . . ummmm Sold at drug counters. Applied by barbers. the missing German Army, a sharp . . . well, $316,800. How about the Send 1 5c to Dept. D for "1-2-3 trial treatment". warning whistle sent everybody ducking heavies?" instinctively, and a shell burst just back "The 155-millimeter howitzers prob- of the trench. Then others came in ably fired about three rounds a minute, great flocks, and cracked all about. average," said the liaison officer. "They "What the hell do you know about could do more, but probably not average that?'' said Lieutenant Jim. "The Jerries much more for an hour. It isn't fixed are shelling their own trenches, and we ammunition." Detroit. Mich. The HERPICIDE CO. just got here." The colonel continued ruminating. So he blew his whistle and waved to- Lieutenant Jim feared to interrupt. Home-Study ward the American lines. He followed "That's more expensive," went on the the figures climbing out. The small Jerry Old Man. "Shells for 155's cost thirty Business Training went before him. Shells pounded down dollars each, according to our last ordnance figures. That would be three Your opportunity will never be bigger than your fiercely in No Man's Land and the raid- preparation. Prepare now and reap the rewards of ers crept back to their own trenches rounds a minute from twenty-four early success. Free 64-Page Books Tell Write How. pieces one hour would a total of NOW for book you want, or mail coupon with your from shell-hole to shell-hole. — make name, present position and address in margin today. They were retiring all along the line. 4,320 shells, eh? And at thirty dollars a Higher Accountancy Business Correspondence When Lieutenant Jim and his prisoner shell that would be . . . ummm . . . Modern Salesmanship Credit and Collection Traffic Management Correspondence and his platoon had slipped back into the $129,600." Modern Foremanship Railway Station friendly trench, The Old Man swiftly added the fig- Management Personnel Management they found a relief bat- Law: Degree of LL.B. Expert Bookkeeping talion in possession. ures. Commercial Law C. P. A. Coaching "Well, I'll be damned," he said. "This Industrial Management Business English The raiders' work was over, and so Banking and Finance Commercial Spanish they continued back through the com- pint-sized war we put on tonight costs Telegraphy Effective Speaking us for shells alone. That's a Business Management QStenotypy—Stenography munication trench, the little Jerry ahead $446,400 lot of Liberty Bonds." LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 5361 - R, Chicago of them. Lieutenant Jim hoped the other pla- "Then there'd be six machine-gun ." toons had had better luck. One Jerry to companies firing indirect and . . a platoon wasn't a hell of a lot to write Lieutenant Jim pushed the flap aside. JoAny Suit! "Come in, come in," said the Old your to Chaumont about, or to G-i either. J. ) Double the life of "! / coat and vest with perfectly A half hour later, as the tired men Man, dropping his pencil. His face matched pants.100,000 patterns. lighted when Lieutenant Jim pushed the Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no trudged through Rambucourt and kept match sent FREE for your "readymades." Our on, turning south to the old artillery small Jerry prisoner ahead of him. O. K. before pants are made. Kit guaranteed. Send piece of cloth or vest today. dugouts, Lieutenant dropped out "Talk English?" asked the colonel. ©•27 SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY Jim lis So. Dearborn Street, Dept. 144 Chicago with his Jerry. He bent his footsteps to- Lieutenant Jim said: "No, sir." ward the regimental P. C. in a battered The colonel beckoned the intelligence old stone building. Men standing among officer. There followed a palaver be- the motorcycles gazed at the captive tween the officer and the prisoner, in curiously. German. The captive looked rueful as "Take him right in. Lieutenant," said he told his story. The colonel waited the adjutant, indicating a room in the impatiently. Finally, the intelligence of- rear in the door of which a shelter-half ficer turned. flapped. "The colonel is waiting with "He says," said the officer, "that he the interpreters and intelligence officer." is mighty glad to be captured, because Lieutenant Jim stopped just outside he was AWOL and probably would have the flap, halted by voices from within, been strafed if we hadn't got him. He and hesitant to intrude. One he recog- don't seem to know much about his nized as the Old Man's. The other was company's movements—says he doesn't Strike - Getting Level -Wind Casting Reel plainly that of a subordinate of one kind know where his company is." get to the r gfit fish — the big fish magnates. YOU game ." . . began the colonel, Put your proposition to them right. That's why your or another, as Lieutenant Jim could tell "What the straight -shooting Meisselbach BullVEye Level-Wind Reel from the tone and the recurring sirs. wrinkling his brow. "What's he mean, No. 100 is so "lucky." Smashing strikes that fairly dynamite '11 S. 0. L. if he's you. Battles royal! Due to the right casting. "Most people got no idea what it costs AWOL? That baby be he was Genuine Meisselbach superiority of design, materials and to run a war," he heard the Old Man trying to kid me. How come workmanship — famous nearly forty years. Accurately bal- saying. "How many shells, now you ar- captured if he was absent without anced, smooth running, guaranteed for durability. Choice of black, brown, red or green Permo end plates. Price only $5.00. tillery, do you think you fired in this leave?" Sold by best dealers.or write us. "Bite Book"and folder FREE. preparation?" "Two nights ago, he says, he sneaked The A. F. Meisselbach Division Lieutenant Jim heard the voice of the out of the line to a little town about of The Qeneral Industries Co. artillery liaison officer. ten kilometers back," said the intelli- 2931 Taylor Street Elyria, Ohio 62 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ,

gence officer, "and he drank a lot of pending raid, sir. They all withdrew. schnapps. Says he had gennch of the Must have gone early in the night. Not

trenches, anyway, but thought he'd bet- a soul anywhere along the line. Just that \ Send for your copy of New Baseball Book ter get back or he might get shot for one. At some points our men penetrated Newpictures, up-to- desertion. to a third line and found it entirely date statistics, bat- ting pointers by ex- "He said he came back last night, untenanted." perts,— thirty - two newsy and interest- crawled over the top of the ground, not There was an awkward silence. The ing pages. Every to offizierer in his colonel's year we compile this wanting meet any mouth was open but his valuable book for communication trench, and that when he shocked brain could not supply words to baseball lovers. No charge — send for got to where he left his company it was fill it. The major evidently thought, Jim copy today. gone. The trenches were empty. noticed, that the less he said the better "He claims he was so tired from it would sound, and the other officers crawling and hiding that he flopped could think of nothing pleasant to offer. down and went to sleep on the duck- Lieutenant Jim spoke up. board, hoping maybe his company would "What shall I do with the prisoner, come back. Our barrage woke him up, sir?" Jimmy Hendricks, and, not being able to do anything else, Then the colonel found his voice. son of Jack Hen- dricks, sterling he stayed there until we came over. He "What shall you do with him? My leader of the Cin- says the schnapps wasn't so good—they God! What shall you do with him!!" cinnati Reds. don't put the same stuff in it like they His face was red now and he was did before the war; he says he don't feel banging on the table before him. so good—leastwise, not like fighting "Treasure him! Save him carefully! any." Don't knock a single corner off him! "To hell with his schnapps, and him, Have him stuffed! He's priceless, man! too," snapped the colonel. "Where's his Priceless! Why, he's the highest-priced BOYS! meet company? Wasn't it there?" baby in Europe! My God! What shall He broke off sharply. you do with him !!..." JOIMY HENDRICKS "Never mind; keep that guy here for A paper fluttered to the floor. Those awhile until we find out about this. Bring who looked down saw scrawled upon it Jimmy— who wouldn't swap his uniform in some more prisoners." the colonel's figures: $446,400. for a King's regalia — is bat-boy and mas- cot of the Cincinnati Reds. Jimmy knows The flap swung open. Lieutenant Jim Lieutenant Jim was pushing the little all the famous players who visit at the saw his battalion commander and his Jerry sidewise toward the door. The Cincinnati field. His job is to take care captain and several other captains Dutchman was looking at the colonel as of his team's bats, and to keep a complete row of crowded together there. The major spoke 'A tie never had seen anything as funny them in front of the home players' bench. There up, haltingly. for a show where he couldn't understand are many different models in the row of bats, for ball players are particular about shape, and weight; "If the colonel please, sir," he said, the words. The colonel, breathless, still but practically all the bats, Jimmy will tell you, are

"there is, that is, I mean, there isn't . . . red, caught his grinning look. of one make — Louisville Slugger. Same way on visiting teams — Louisville Slugger is the choice of that's all the prisoners we got!" "Don't laugh at me, you . . . you . . . ." nearly every player. Leading dealers everywhere sell Even Lieutenant Jim was surprised at you . . these bats. The oval trademark and player's fac- that. The colonel gaped. He faltered for breath, and for a simile autograph identify the genuine. H1LLERICH "Hell's bells," he snorted, jumping up. word, shook his fist at the startled pris- & BRADSBY CO., Incorporated, Manufafturers 438 Finzer Street, Louisville, Kentucky. "I thought there was no infantry re- oner and then sagged with a tired sigh sistance?" into his chair. One finger motioned "No, sir; no resistance," said the ma- tremblingly at the frightened Jerry. lie $ In ". jor smoothly, "and no Germans. They . . you . . . you . . . you million must have gotten some wind of the im- dollar son-of-a-Fritz!" he said. Mats

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Post of The American Legion. In all largest of the twenty-three bells intoned the history of the nation we have found sixty-five times, ringing out the years men who were willing to leave their vo- that have elapsed since 1863 when the cations and go forth under the flag that father of Dr. William Mayo and Dr. J. "Keystone State" you and I might live and be happy. And Charles H. Mayo came to Rochester. always these men have fought and served The drum corps of William T. McCoy PARADE BUGLE and died; and hand in hand with them Post played during the ceremonies. A The new long-model Bugle, especially designed for Legion and Fraternal have been men who have fought and squad of Legion trumpeters opened the musical units. Long, rakish lines—stirring, full trumpet tone. Remarkably easy sacrificed and died in the interests of ceremonies by sounding a fanfare from blow. 28 inches long, built in G with Band. medicine and surgery. Here we stand a stone balcony above the speakers' plat- chords with Military Staff Sergeant in the presence of a memorial made pos- form, reminding the audience of cru- Frank Wltchey, 3rd Cavalry.Fort sible by two men greater than the rank saders trumpeting a call to arms from Myer, Va., us* that all of medicine and surgery have the ramparts of a medieval castle. irg a Weymann Parade Bugle at produced. These men are believers in All who heard the music of the bells Tomb of Un- known Soldier, the combat against disease and fighters were impressed by the probability that Arlington. for the alleviation of pain." the carillon, representing a musical art Single Bugle, Prepaid - - JtO More than ten thousand persons were that is comparatively new to the United Quantity prices on request *r complete bands, or- present at States, will widely in Ameri- We organize and equip the dedication ceremony, held be accepted chestras or string bands for Fraternal, School last autumn. Veterans of the Civil War can communities as an appropriate war and Civic Organizations. Sole distributors for Keystone State Band instruments. Distribu- and the Spanish-American War shared memorial. Some were reminded that in tors for Ludwie Drums and Buescher True- Tone Band Instruments and Saxophones. places on the speakers' platform and in Belgium and Holland almost every town {SPECIAL OUTFIT Y the its singing tower, of them crowd with the Legionnaires of Min- has many Complete musical equip-

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hold-up I found a seamless two-bushel the fellows who killed me until he got grain sack—they do not make them any them. more—that the robbers evidently intend- There was something to think about ed to carry the loot away in. It had in what my son said. I had seen too been patched with two kinds of goods many young fellows hit the outlaw trail some pants goods, and some pinkish cot- not to know that. And I did not think ton goods. Examining the two horses I any too much of the fellow I had en- found that their hind shoes had been gaged to go with me. In those days it drawn recently. They appeared to be was a slim line that separated some law driving rather than riding horses, which officers from those who operated on the BOTHER or worry for the NO the robbers no doubt had stolen. There wrong side of the law. One year they purchaser of a Bossert House were trailers on their shoes. A horse were deputy sheriffs or deputy marshals . . . select the house and let Bossert do cannot travel under saddle well with and the next year the sheriffs and mar- the rest. Quality, experience and con- that kind of a shoe and they are also shals were after them. It was all from venience to the purchaser are the an- more easily trailed. being exposed to the rough life of a new swers to the Bossert House popularity. Leaving a friend to keep a watch over country. I thought it over and for my Save time, work, worry and money Hill and to follow him if he left town, I son's sake, more than anything else, I made a trip to to see turned the other off, and told . . . see Bossert for everything from Topeka Mr. M. A. man Lew Lowe, the general rail- I take along. lucky luxurious homes to garages or sum- solicitor of the would him It may be road, and returned to to find I did, I later this mer bungalows. Pond Creek that for learned that Hill still there, staying at Billy Malleley's man I had picked up was a tougher Ready Cut Houses Without that ranch house, which we all used as a character than I had supposed him to Ready Cut Look hotel. But someone had brought Hill a be, and my suppositions were none too horse and the day after my return he good. Write/or our booklet made an excuse to me and mounted his We approached the ravine where the horse and rode south. I followed him, dugout was without any trouble, tied our BOSSERT keeping three-quarters of a mile or more horses in a clump of brush and crawled back, just so as to catch sight of him up to the back end of the dugout. There now and then on a far rise of the prairie. was a little window just above the sur- HOMES rode south to within three miles of the ground. began shooting He face of We North Enid and then turned west toward through it with Winchesters and two LOUIS BOSSERT & SONS, Inc. a part of the country which had a pretty women and two or three young men ran 1375 Grand Street Brooklyn N. Y. bad name. But he did not go far. After out and went into the brush. We did traveling about three miles I saw him not bother them further, but posting my ride into a big ravine and approach a son as a guard outside I entered the J^egionnaires dugout that was set in the west side of it. dugout with my dark lantern in one / I rode back to Pond Creek and tried hand and a gun in the other. to get hold of Bedford Woods, a plain There was no one inside, and one of Sociability Songs clothes man in Wichita, who had been the first things I found, hanging by a will help you put new "Pep" in my deputy when I was city marshal of nail on the wall was a little boy's pants, your Meetings. Caldwell in the early days. Failing to with two pieces cut out of it, one of SOCIABILITY SONGS, just off the press, contains over 220 Com- get Woods I boarded a southbound train them from the waist lining. The goods munity songs. 74 of which are for North Enid to find someone else. was the same as the sack had been Stunt and Pep songs, besides the National, Folk, Sacred My wife, who had been visiting in Cald- patched with. I also found two pairs of Songs, and Negro Spirituals. well, was on the train en route to our horseshoes and making a good search I Printed in large clear type, and handsomely bound. home in Kingfisher. Inasmuch as I had found a letter in a man's coat. The Prices per —20c copy, postpaid ; been warned that I would get killed if I letter had been written only a few days $13.00 per hundred, not postpaid. Send for examination copy. tried to raid the dugout, and as Mr. before from Pawnee, Oklahoma. It said, THE RODE H E AVER CO. Lowe of the railroad had advised against in effect: 218L Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. jf it, I thought I had better tell Mrs. Fos- "We will meet in El Reno on Saturday sett of my plans. I did so, and left the and sell the horses and mules and fix to CTfID That Growing train at North Enid. There I picked up rob the train at Marlowe on the fifteenth dlllr WAISTLINE NOW! a sort of half-outlaw whose name slips when they take the government money my mind. He agreed to go with me and through to Fort Sill." I had got my guns and ammunition and As the envelope was missing I could was looking around for a dark lantern not learn to whom the letter was ad- when my son, Lew, dropped off of a dressed, but it was signed by Felix freight train from Kingfisher. Young, who was an outlaw I had heard Lew was fifteen years old. He was a of, but had never seen. boy who did not have a great deal to say. I took the shoes to Pond Creek and He hung around with me for a few hours, they fitted the two horses there, nail until I got my lantern. I told Lew to hole for nail hole. I took the pants to make himself at home about the hotel Topeka and they matched the patches as I was going out into the country and in the sack. Early Saturday morning I probably would not be back until late picked up Bedford Woods at Wichita that night. and took him down the line with me "I heard about it," Lew said. "I'm toward El Reno. At North Enid Bill going with you." Tilghman, Chris Madsen, Hec Thomas 2 Weeks' Trial Offer — FREE Circular CONVINCE yourself! Wear the LITTLE CORPORAL I told him he was not going. and three or four other Deputy United "ELASTEX" Belt. Watch it reduce your waistline. En- "You'll take some stranger out with States Marshals got on the train. They joy its comfort. Notice how much better it makes you look and feel. No lacers, buckles, or straps to annoy you. you," Lew said, "and you'll get killed." told me they had found out who had Write for information on our new Lew said if that happened it would make held up the train at Round Pond. It Women: "ELSEE" Reducer. The Little Corporal Co., Dept. V-5, an outlaw out of him as he would follow was the Daltons. They had a woman 1215 W. Van Buren St. Chit-ago, III. 64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly with them, a woman who was an asso- my assistants, and I had more or less for a ciate of outlaws, who had told tncm all cngii.eered his election as sheriff of

about it. I told them that if they would Caddo County, wanting to get the office delightfully get off with me at El Reno I would show in good hands. them that they were being misled. When this country was opened Dr. different vacation Woods and I reached El Reno and Beanblossom and his boy started from went up to the office of the Rock Island Oklahoma City for the new town of attorney there. While we three were Lawton. They were robbed on the way Glacier talking I happened to look out of the by the Casey gang and the Beanblossom window and see my old friend Hill go boy was killed. Bert Casey and his part- WATERTON past on foot. He was followed by other ner Simms were slippery characters LAKES men who were leading a string of horses from the Chickasaw Indian country. After the RAINIER and mules. Woods and I grabbed up Beanblossom murder Jim our hats and ran down stairs. We pulled Thompson and the sheriffs of the sur- out our guns and grabbed the two mem- rounding counties held a meeting and Mt. BAKER bers of the gang who were nearest. They decided to put a spotter on Casey's trail, made no special trouble and we got them Casey not being personally known to NATIONAL PARKS around the corner to the little El Reno any of these officers. This Casey was a Tickets via Great Northern enable jail and came back. Turning into Bick- young fellow about twenty or twenty- you to visit these four wonder- lord Street I almost ran into Nate Sil- one, but he had killed several men. He lands of glaciers and wild flowers was the killer type, like Billy the Kid, vey, whom I had seen with Hill a few on one low round trip summer moments before. Nate Silvey was a bad but unlike the Kid, he shot from ambush fare. Write for illustrated books. looker and he had a bad reputation. He without giving his victims a chance. I A. DICKINSON, Pass. Traffic Mgr. always rather liked the Kid, with J. was red-headed, freckle-faced, broad- whom Room 756, Great Northern Railway shouldered and six feet five inches tall. I never had any dealings as a peace St. Paul. Minn. I shoved a gun against him and told officer, but for several years I carried a iune ifL, him to put up his hands. did so fancy gold mounted Winchester of his He on the Great without the least protest. Woods took that was given me by one of his friends. Northern "Em his gun and marched him away toward The spotter the sheriffs picked was a pire Builders' every Mod jail. brother-in-law of Jim Hughes, an old 10:30 P. M. Meantime out of the corner outlaw gang leader and a relative of Bob EasternTime, of my over Coast- eye I had caught sight of Hill again. Hughes, who was killed in the attempted to-Coastnet- workofN.B.C He was running for his horse which was train robbery at Round Pond. Before I tied to a hitch rail about a hundred had heard of the action of the sheriffs I yards away. He took a shot or two at followed a similar course, picking two BE A RAILWAYTR AFFIC INSPECTOR me as he ran. I fired and killed Hill's young fellows I had in the Federal jail horse just as he was mounting, and Hill at Guthrie on minor charges, named Ed Here's a position — and a career — for ambitious men Many positions are^ppen in this uncrowded profession, ifou start at r turned west down a side street, Lockett and Fred Hudson. a definite saioi-y, and advance rapidly to $17. >, $11U0, $260 past per month plus expenses. Travel or remain near home. We'll train you with three months' spare time home instruction, Kerfoot Hotel with me after him. We Lockett, Hudson and the Hughes's and upon completion, assist you to a s;i'aried position, or refund were shooting. brother-in-law, your tuition. Could anything be fairer? both Finally Hill fell, whose name I forget, Send today for free booklet joined For ten years we have placed our wounded. When he got up I was almost Casey at about the same time graduates in Bjlaried positions. Itailways look to us for men. Our on him. and a little later Casey joined Jim booklet shows how we can make your futuro a certainty. Send "Throw up your hands!" I hollered. Hughes. This made a pretty strong com- for it today. Standard Business Training Institute He raised his hands, still holding onto bination. The Hughes brother-in-law Oiv. 24 Buffalo. Now York his gun. somehow got the rectitude of his inten- p "Throw that gun away!" I yelled. tions suspected by the outlaws and one EARN UPT0*250month$ALARY He tossed it toward me. night they took him down by the bank My friend Hill turned out to be Felix of a creek and hung him. My man Fred 3 WE START YOU IN BUSINESS Eakins Co., 543 St., Springfield, Young. He was wounded in the ankle. Hudson held the horses. High 0. Mai! at once your free catalog about They took him and Nate Silvey and the This came near discouraging Ed Lock- how to make big profits in the Crispette others to Pond Creek for trial, but they ett, but Hudson was game and continued business with little capital. were never tried. The railroad war be- to play my hand. I had in jail several tween Pond Creek and Round Pond was of the Casey gang who were to be taken ^ Address. reaching an acute stage and one day the to Lawton for trial for the Beanblossom $1000 a Month Profits Possible Round Pond people overturned a quar- murder. I told Hudson to put the idea ter of a mile of track. There was a good in Casey's head to make a raid on the PANTS MATCHED! deal of shooting and excitement and in courthouse at Lawton to rescue these WHY THROW AWAY THAT COAT AND VEST? the midst of it the Pond Creek jail was men. That was the way I intended to Save $25 or more! Let us match your cn;it and vest with new trousers and save the broken into and the train robbers got kill or capture Casey. Hudson did this price of a new suit. Kach pair tailored to jour measure. Over 100, 000 patterns. Just out. Young was killed afterwards in and Casey thought the suggestion had mail sample of the suit, or your vest, Wyoming and Silvey went to the peni- merit. which will he returned together with Originators FREE Sample for your approval. No tentiary in Missouri for stealing horses. "But if we do that," Casey said, "we and lamest obligations. Ma?chers WATCH PANTS COMPANY Jim Borland was not captured. He will have to get out of the country and Dept. 60, 20 W.Jackson Blvd., Chicago went back to his home in the Indian there must be some money to travel on." Territory and led a quieter life, and in It was decided to rob the bank at Cleo iqoi when the Kiowa and Commanche Springs to get the money, and prepara- Ifs Easy country was opened Jim Thompson, the tions were made for Casey and Simms YOU PLAY sheriff of the new county of Caddo, came and my men Hudson and Lockett to rob tunes the first day with an to me and said he had selected the man the bank. The four camped under a big edsy-playing he wanted for undersheriff and asked tree on the prairie outside the town. Conn instru- me ment and the fascinating in- to have a talk with him. The man was Casey and Simms rode into town, got i new * Btruction methods. No Jim Borland. I recognized him and told shaved and looked the place over. They long drudging over scales. Conn gives you the exclusive Thompson I'd recognized him, but as he came back and told Hudson and Lockett features found in no others. Choice of famous artists. had led a straight life for seven years to ride in and look it over. When Hud- FREE TRIAL, Easy Pay- ments. liter- and was a good nervy I thought he son and Lockett returned Casey said Write now for man ature; mention instrument. would make a useful undersheriff. He that the robbery would take place the C. G. CONN, Ltd., 503 Conn Bldg. Elkhart, Ind. was appointed. At this time I was Chief next morning at nine o'clock. Deputy United States Marshal of Okla- It was a habit of outlaws, as well as homa. Jim Thompson Lad been one of a good many ( Continued on page 67)

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other people, to examine their guns the advised Lockett and Hudson to get out A 10 BILL first thing of a morning to "warm of the country. Hudson went back to — will protect you for a whole year against them up," they used to say. That night his home in Arkansas, and was behaving Hudson called Lockett out and told himself when Jim Borland got out a him: warrant for murder against him and SICKNESS "We can't afford to go into this hold- went to Arkansas and brought him back AND up, as someone is going to get killed. So for trial at Anadarko. Although Borland in the morning when we are warming up had assured Sheriff Thompson that he ACCIDENTS our guns you sit down in front of Simms bore me no ill-will as a result of my NO MEDICAL EXAMINATION and I'll sit down in front of Casey. You part in the I Round Pond holdup, am Anyone 16 to 70 Years Accepted keep your eye on me and when I nod satisfied that it was on my account that No Dues or Assessments I'm going to make Casey throw up his he was persecuting this Hudson boy, so hands or I'm going to kill him and I I attended his trial and he was acquitted. PRINCIPAL want you to take care of Simms." The verdict of the jury made Jim '10,000 SUM next morning the four got The men Borland hopping mad. I was prepared 910,000 for loss off hands, feet or eyesight their breakfast together over a fire and for that, but thought it would blow over. $25 weekly benefit for stated accidents or sickness sat down to eat it and discuss the pro- Jim had been a good officer, and I DOCTORS' BILLS, hospital benefit and other jected bank robbery. My boys ate fast wanted to see him succeed, but I could attractive features to help you in time of need, all as shown in policy and then sat down as Hudson had not let him take his old grudge against

planned and got out their guns and be- me out on young Hudson. When they ^ jrl to have your salary stopped Cats yOU ailOra and pay costly medical bills, gan to twirl them around and limber up. let Hudson loose I told him to get back perhaps lose your job, because of lobar pneumonia, appen- dicitis operation or many of the other sicknesses that are Casey and his partner were sitting with to Arkansas as quick as he could or prevalent at this time of the year? Besides, an accident their their may disable you and etop your salary. Avoid that risk! Mail guns in holsters when Hud- there would be more trouble and he said coupon today for free descriptive literature. son looked at Lockett and nodded. he would. v "Put up your hands, Bert," said Fred But before he had time to get out of ["commonwealth casualty co, (phiL

I 196EMarket St., Newark, New Jersey Hudson. Lawton Jim Borland met him on the Bert Casey ordinarily no man's street and began to was abuse him and say I Name fool, but this time he did a foolish thing. that he was going to hold him as a wit- - j Address He reached for his gun—and that is a ness against Jim Hughes, who mean- City and State bad thing for any man to do when he is time had been captured. One word led J covered, I don't care how quick on the to another and a crowd gathered. No AGENTS WANTED for Local Territory draw he is. Hudson fired and Casey one seems to have noticed who drew Sold on Easy Terms rolled over, but he had his gun in his first, if there was any perceptible differ- hand. Lockett, who was the weak sister ence in time between draws. At any WomACE electric WQomoat&Q of the combination, had lost his nerve rate the two fired simultaneously and Complete Outfit Including Planer, Saw, Lathe, and after shooting fell. Borland killed instantly. Casey, Hudson had was Hud- Electric Motor and Many Use fill Attachments to turn and shoot Simms. He did so, son was pretty far gone when they got Sanding, Buffing, Grinding, killing him. Then there was a third shot. to him. Lathe Attarb It came from Casey's gun. It went wild "What did I do to Jim?" he asked. and when Hudson got to Casey he was "You killed him," someone said dead. Both Hudson and Lockett swore "Well," said Hudson, "I just wanted to me that a contraction of Casey's to outlive that son of a gun." finger fired that shot after he was dead. Fred Hudson had about ten minutes Fast — Accurate — Complete This rid Oklahoma of two bad men, in which to enjoy the satisfactions of Price complete, 989.00. Easy Terms. but as there would be hard feelings I this triumph. Write for complete information.

J. D.Wallace & Co., 2844 Adams St., Chicago 11 W.42ndSt., NewYork 268MarketSt.,SanFrancisco Keeping Step Book ( Continued from page 36 LAW Write today for FREE 64-page book, "THE LAW-TRAINED MAN", which atrnwA how to learn law in spare time through the Blackstone home-study course prepared by 80 prominent legal historic San Francisco-to-Hawaii flight. the biggest Army post in Hawaii who authorities, including law school deans, lawyers, and U. S. bu- {>reme Court justices. Combination text and case method of Fox-Cornet Post, named after two were not citizens of the United States. natruction used. All material necessary furnished with the course, including elaborate 25-volume law library, which is de- army fliers lost their lives Practically all these took first steps livered immediately upon enrollment. Many successful attorneys who in an men among our graduates. LL.B. degree conferred. Moderate Money-Back Agreement. Hawaiian flight in helped win the for naturalization following the meeting, tuition, low monthly terms. 1922, Write for free book today TOAINtDj Lindsley Trophy it to Mr. Spalding, and the Ha- when took as mem- according BLACKSTONE INSTITUTE, E£3g»^£Z bers a large number of World War vet- waiian Department will continue a cam- erans serving at the Naval Air Station. paign among the island's population to Previously the post had been composed induce non-citizens eligible for citizen- entirely of men of Luke Field, the ship to enroll formally under the Ameri- Army's flying field. The Navy and Army can flag. fields are on an island in Pearl Harbor. "Here in Hawaii we have a number of Booklet of Advice on ClarT' good residents of Oriental birth who net and Saxophone Playing, not become citi- Selmer and Crossroads of the Pacific under our laws can by Alexandre zens," writes Mr. Spalding. "On the Andy Sannella, world-known TpHE Hawaiian Islands have become a other hand, we have a large number of authorities. More authentic information than in ten private laboratory of Americanism, accord- residents, born in foreign lands, who lessons. Mention instrument ing to Irwin Spalding, Commander of have been here for years without be- in which you are interested. the Department of Hawaii, who reports coming citizens of the United States. that a citizenship rally given under Our Americanism Committee believes in auspices of Schofield Barracks Post was facing the issue squarely. We believe Elkhart, Tnd. attended by 159 American soldiers of every eligible ( Continued on page 68) 56 Selmer Bids?., In Canada: 516 Yonge St., Toronto

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* alien should declare his intention to be- Capitol grounds for their practice field, tff?L Car come a citizen or return at the proper and later new costumes were ordered A V A Beautiful time to his own country." from a Boston concern supplying genu- * New Home ine Scotch clothing. The new costumes Aii Interesting Sacred Lilies included real Glengarry caps, spats with Business points up the back and sporrans made ^/"HEN Uncle Sam recently lifted of heavy horsehair. Each member, in- * * restrictions against the importa- cidentally, bought his own sporran, pay- tion of the bulbs of the Chinese sacred ing $11 for it. Sixty-five yards of Mc- THERE any red- BERT FUNK IS lily, Kau-Tom Post of Honolulu, Hawaii, Queen tartan plaid were made into kilts OF ILLINOIS blooded man who made for its post treasury. The of true Scotch pattern by a local tailor." doesn't want to be his $700 $100 aWeek importation of the bulbs for- own boss—keep all of had been A little over a year bidden five years and the post brought ago he married and his own profits? Town Count took his bride to a BUT, lack of business to Honolulu the very first shipment when f beautiful new home experience, lack of the ban was lifted. It sold a single bulb I "'HE Step Keeper had to save enough he had built for her capital or some other of the rare King Narcissus for $100. The space to get in another good story out of his Watkins obstacle has always profits. He is "well post's Auxiliary unit assisted in handling which Legionnaire Dewell had been stood in the way. With fixed for life" and the bulbs, which require most exacting keeping, the story of the census which says: "I'd rather this mighty Company care. Kau-Tom Post, the only American Pierre Post took in its town. He writes: distribute Watkins there is nothing to Products than eat." hold you back. You Legion post composed exclusively of "A post committee divided the town don't need capital or service men of Chinese birth or descent, into districts and assigned two men to experience. You simply supply such daily helped the Department of Hawaii win each block. Cards were printed with all necessities as food products, soaps, cleans- the Lindsley Trophy by getting fourteen the usual questions, and the zero hour ers, toilet articles and home remedies, etc. new members, giving it a total member- for enumerating the population was well to long -established customers who wel- ship of 81. advertised. During the late afternoon come you. Orders are big, quick and easy. Find out how you can become as well fixed as Bert of the last Friday in December the Le- Funk, with all the good thing-s of life and big money Kilts gionnaire census takers worked their right from the start. Do as Bert Funk did. and Drums districts and in practically every case a Ifyou want to make big money in this busi- on the Keep- full complete set of cards was ness like Bert Funk — write today! T> IGHT top of the Step and er's Monday morning mail is this turned in to the chairman at p. m. J. R. 9 THE WATKINS CO. letter from Legionnaire Paul S. Dewell The committee tabulated the cards as C.S.Dept.44 • • WINONA, MINN. of Pierre (South Dakota) Post: fast as possible, sorted them and totaled "Referring to San Antonio and the them, so that the next morning we were record of our own Scotch Kilties, I may able to give to the waiting world about SAVC MONEY PAY ONLY if \9S be prejudiced, but when a post as small as complete and correct a census as we for this T*W W as ours spends $2,500 on a drum corps, have ever had. r-lf^' DUR A BUT and another $3,000 to send them to a "Everybody helped. Most everyone national convention, and they go down made it a point to stay at home so no- there and are the only drum corps that body would be missed. Where people gets headlines (see San Antonio papers), were away, neighbors had the necessary Mafleof durable weatherproof Khaki Tent Fabric : com- and, incidentally, sixth place in the com- facts to give our census takers. plete with awnine, screened window and door, sod cloth, metal frame, stakes, jointed poles and carrying bag. petition, why, oh why, Mr. Company "Now the post has appropriated enough 7x7 ft. only $13.95. delivered. Same tent 0 U\0 \.i ft and other models at lowest prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Clerk, Mr. N. C. 0. or Mr. Top Kick, money to have all names printed in a SEND NO MONEY—Just name and address. Pay doesn't that make better reading than small pocket directory, in which we hope only price of Tent on delivery. We prepay Express. WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG the half column or so about some post to include the census names of the peo- Factory Prices Money. save you in N' Yawk that finds that it doesn't ple of our sister city, Ft. Pierre, on the cost a lot to organize a drum corps?" opposite shore of the Missouri River, All right, here is more about the with the help of Ft. Pierre Post." Scotch Kilties, in the words of another spokesman for Pierre Post: The Roll Call GRAVE MARKERS "For two years rhythmic drumming f° and the squealing of bagpipes had echoed SEA captains and aviators are citizens World War Veterans. G. A. R.. Veteran over the little valley city of Pierre every of the world at large but they must 1861-1865, S. W. V.. V. F. W.. S. of U. V. evening. of in- have ports, so two of the Legion- —Bronze Tablets, Memorial Wreaths, and Tuesday And two years home Flags. Send for our 24-page catalogue. cessant 'squads right' and 'squads left' naire contributors to this issue, Captain THE TRENTON EMBLEM COMPANY was finally repaid when the drum corps George Fried and John Dwight Sulli- 130 Hamilton Ave. Trenton, N. J. of twenty-six Legionnaires of Pierre Post van, belong to American Legion posts in won the first prize of $750 at the de- New York City. Captain Fried, a na- partment convention at Aberdeen on tional hero, is a member of United States July 13, 1928. Lines Post. Mr. Sullivan is Commander C,et a Real Joh "Costuming the Legion Scotchmen of Aviators Post. A third New Yorker was a difficult problem when the corps who contributes to this issue doesn't was organized, and the Legion cinderel- happen! to be a sea captain or an aviator, las first blossomed forth in white spats, but he is pretty widely known on his checkered golf hose, overseas caps and own account. He is Joseph A. Burns, home-made kilts and shawls of an almost for three years Assistant Adjutant of Department and now su- year ami know that your job is safe? authentic Scotch plaid. In their first the New York You can do it! I'll show you how to get set appearances, they afforded more amuse- perintendent of the department's Vet- for life with Uncle Sam—the biggest, fairest, squarest employer in the world. You can plan your life, save money, ment than pleasure, with their lilting erans' Mountain Camp. get a raise every year until you reach the maximum salary, get promotions to better jobs, have two weeks' vacation every pleats and bony knees. Kirke Mechem, who writes of the year with full pay, sick leave, pension, eight- hour day ami everything you've dreamed about. No worry, no petty bosses. "But success came even in the first shows presented by Thomas Hopkins Post Write for my big illustrated hook about all Service Civil year. Carl of Wichita, Kansas, is the post's im- Departments of Uncle Sam. Don't wait. Ex-Service men Bet Governor Gunderson asked preference. I'm making a special offer now on my coaching for these three jobs. Juat say "Send me your Book, Free." Address ARTHUR R. them to use the back lawn of the State presario. He wrote and directed PATTERSON, Civil Service Expert, PATTERSON SCHOOL. 635 Wisner Bldg., Rochester, N. Y, 68 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly !

MITCHELL KIDDIE SLIDES of the post's plays and bossed all of the The Jayhawkerinfranee, which Mr. for many happy hours others. He was editor of the Kansas Mechem is now trying to revive. Legionnaire from 192 1 until last October Chet Shafer, who is a member of when he resigned to launch a unique Louis K. Hice Post of Three Rivers, new publication, Current Magazine Con- Michigan, renewed his acquaintance with tents. During the World War Mr. the trees of the A. E. F. when he re- Mechem served with the 35th Division, visited France as an advance guard of in the 137th Infantry, and after the the Second A. E. F. two years ago. Armistice got out the regimental paper, Right Guide

Then and ^A(ow Mitchell Kiddie Slide No, 298 is a (Continued from page 47) favorite. It is light in weight and can be used indoors or outdoors. Will Commander of convoy operations in the He recognizes the man on the left as last many years. Money back guar- Atlantic, 1017-1019, the Company Clerk Frank Strickland of Brooklyn, New antee. Price $13.50 at Milwaukee. found the following data: York, and the two on the right as Carl Shipping weight, 40 pounds. H. Reister of New Albany, Indiana, and MITCHELL MFG. CO. * I *HE 19,000-ton naval collier Cyclops George Worthingham of Minneapolis, 1500 Forest Home Ave. Milwaukee, Wis. disappeared at sea mysteriously, hav- Minnesota. Please send more i—iShip Slide. Check

I —I ing been last heard from on the 4th day Sauer says if he isn't right, he wants information inclosed for $13.50 of March, iqiS. She was a large and most to know who the men are. So do we Print Name valuable vessel carrying a crew of 293 and so does the Pictorial Service of the Street No. officers and men. Quite some time after- U. S. Signal Corps. So come across. ward a bottle floated ashore at Balti- The response to the requests for in- City & State more containing a note signed by 'John formation regarding men killed in ac- Rammond' of Chicago which said: 'Our tion, also in the March issue, was far ship, the Cyclops, has been captured by better. Information of value was re- an enemy "Sound Off!" submarine.' ceived in seven of the fifteen cases listed "There was, however, no man of the —a good average. But we know we can by Edward Arrhur Dolph crew by the name of Rammond and the improve on that, too, and call your atten- Navy Department attached no truth to tion again to the list on pages 77 and 78. this note found in such an unlikely lo- Because of their interest and prompt Complete words, music and history cality. responses to these important requests, of 300 Army songs of the Revolu' "Enemy submarines had been fre- we are glad to place the following men tion, Mexican, Civil, Indian, Spanish quently reported operating in the West on our Honor Roll: Legionnaires Ro- and World Wars. The only collec- Indies waters, and one theory advanced bert F. Stevens, Brooklyn, New York; tion of its kind. Over 600 pages. Pro- was that during the Cyclops' last stay Morris, Dayton, Ohio; J. W. Jr., C. fusely illustrated. $7-50. Send check in port before March 4 th some German Deane Haughtelin, Yuma, Arizona; A. or money order to agent delivered to her forged orders C. Hopkins, Portland, Oregon; Clar- which may have led to her capture and ence E. Robinson, Canisteo, New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation destruction. The ship carried a valuable and Clarence A. Jones, Clairton, Penn- 57th St. at 8th Ave., New York, N. Y. cargo of manganese. All theories of the sylvania. destruction of this vessel were carefully traced by the Navy Department, but no WHILE we are unable to conduct a UNIFORMS evidence has come to life to indicate her general missing persons column, we WHITE FOR fate and the ship has joined the ranks stand ready to assist in locating men CATALOG No. 50. of the mystery ships of the sea." whose statements are required in sup- ALUMINUM HELMETS Qoo Can anyone add any more recent in- port of disability claims. Queries and POLISHED or ANY COLOR $f> J— formation to the foregoing? responses should be directed to the Le- gion's GEORGE EWJS&Ca National Rehabilitation Commit- 132 N. FIFTH ST.- A.LDEPT- PHILADELPHIA. CPRING fever? March was rather tee, 710 Bond Building, Washington, ^ early for the arrival of that annual D. C. The committee wants information disease but it is the only thing we can in the following cases: Prohibition Agents think of to blame for the failure of the BellIZERO, Giuseppe. Also known as John and Investigators Gang to come across with information Labela. Served first enlistment as Bellizero. YEAFu pvt., 27th Co.. 152d D. B.—enlistment in 1920 $2300 to $3400 requested in the March issue. We refer as Labela, pvt.. Service Btty., 15th F. A. MEN 23 to 57 to the identification of the three sol- Brennan. Daniel H., ex-cpl.. M. G. Co.. 39th Interesting work. 'Pull' unnecessary. Common education Inf., Fourth Div. Comrades with him when he sufficient. Ex-Service men get preference. diers in the Signal Corps official picture. Write immediately for 32 page book of Government Jobs, with de- was injured in Grammercy on the Vesle River, scription of experience needed, and particulars on how to get ao After the bang-up job accomplished in late July or early Aug., 1918. particularly appointment. FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Dept. R334. Rochester, N. Y. connection with the Signal Corps photo- Sgt. William Shea. BROKISH, John J„ ex-cpl.. Btty. E, 331st graph in December Then and Now, we F. A. Comrades recalling his accident when thought this second picture would be policing barracks prior to leaving Camp Hunt for Camp De Souge. latter part of Nov., 1918. duck-soup, especially for former mem- Shoulder injured in fall. Lieutenant and two bers of the Sixth Field Artillery, First enlisted men who rode with him on ration car to De Souge may recall accident. Division. Just two letters came—one Cross, Brady Mack, ex-pvt.. Co. D. 147th PAN-AMERICAN from A. L. McFarland of Salt Creek, Inf. Money due him from Veterans Bureau. You can learn to play a Saxophone, De Blasiis, Antonio, ex-pvt.. Seventh Co., Trumpet, Clarinet, Trombone—any Wyoming, who assures us that Sig- "the 154th D. B. Was barber in Philadelphia prior PAN-AMERICAN instrument nal Corps records are all wet"—refer- to service. Dependent mother in Italy endeav- quickly ! A few short weeks of de- oring to locate him. lightful practice and you'll play ring of course to the outfit given—but Flagg, Gerald M., ex-cpl. , Co. K, 103d Inf. TRY ONE FREE fails to back up his statement with any Former officers and men in outfit who remem- PAN-AMERICANS are the only ber identification of the men or of the out- his being gassed and having influenza in moderately priced, factory guaran- France, for which he was hospitalized. teed, band instruments in the world. fit with which he thinks they served. Kahn, Julius, ex-sgt., Q. M. C. Address at Write for beautifully illustrated cata- Harry K. Sauer of James H. Teel time of enlistment. R. F. £)., Box 54, Bulverde logue, choose the instrument you (now Wetmore), Texas. want, and try it FREE. A PAN- Post of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is of the Knuth, Frank H., deceased. Money being AMERICAN is easy to play. opinion that these men were with Com- held by Veterans Bureau for two surviving PAN-AMERICAN BAND children who are being sought. Last informa- CO. pany C, Battalion, INSTRUMENT & CASE 33 2d Tank Corps. tion was that widow. (Continued on page 70) 512 Pan-American Bldg. Elkhart, Indiana

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Roxie Knuth. died subsequent to veteran's death and children in custody of grandparents in Oklahoma. McCulloch, Charles John, ex-seaman. U. S. N. R. F. Certain benefits awaiting this man or estate from Government. Meredith, Gus Marvin. Missing since Dec. 12, 1918. Parents endeavoring to collect gov-

ernment insurance. Description : medium light hair, brown eyes, fair complexion, 5 ft. 6 in. in height, weight 140 lbs., age about 33. Shaw, Lafayette, ex-pvt„ Co. F. 303d Ammun. Trn. Comrades who remember his service disabilities. Smith, Ed„ ex-pvt„ Btty. D, 146th F. A. Last address, Walla Walla. Wash. Webb, Edw. R. At Raritan Arsenal Motor Tr. School, Sept. to Dec, 1918. Medical officers who treated him and Sgt. William E. HOUGH after ammunition truck accident in Sept.. 1918. Wheeler, George S.. ex-cpl., 710th Motor Transp. Corps. Last address, care of American Red Cross, Mitan bldg., Sacramento. Calif. Williams, Bill. Formerly of Co. A, 349th Labor Bn. Address at time of enlistment, Natalbany, La. Wood, Earl Sylvester. Information wanted from a Captain Smith, medical officer, who examined him at Camp Travis, Texas, about Nov. 1. 1918. Woods. Edwin L., ex-pvt.. Med. Corps. Last heard of when discharged from U. S. Veterans Hospital, Chillicothe, Ohio. Oct. 16. 1926. ABULL in the monthly report in Then and Now in the March issue will probably cause the Company Clerk to wait an indeterminate period for his sergeant's stripes—even though he found the bull himself. In telling of the special arrangements and entertainment plans being made by the Legion's Na- tional Convention Corporation of Louis- ville for outfits which will hold their reunions during the national convention, September 30th, October 1st, 2d and 3d, the statement was made: "You will probably recall that in the December Monthly was published the announcement of the 21st Engineers, Light Rail- way, First Army, A. E. F., that its 1929 reunion would be held in Louisville. Kentucky, in conjunction with the na- J^est we tional convention of the Legion." Well, that original announcement appeared in the January issue instead and we want to apologize to those former 21st Engineers who were inconvenienced forget; by this misstatement. At any rate, that reunion is definitely scheduled, and Wil- Convention liam J. Horrigan, chairman, Each year during tlie week preceding Atemorial Day the Legion sponsors Reunion Committee, Heyburn Building, and the Auxiliary conducts a national poppy sale to provide funds for Louisville, Kentucky, is lined up to furnish some mighty interesting dope to veterans' welfare work. This is truly honoring the dead through service outfits which may contemplate similar their the disabled. is only one official to comrades— There Legion and meetings in his city this fall. Auxiliary poppy. It is made entirely hy disabled men and hears the Word has just been received that the 38th (Cyclone) Division Association approved label of both organizations. Insist on these Official tr oppies and voted to hold its reunion in Louisville your efforts will do double duty in behalf of the disabled. If your during the big show and former mem- requested to report to F. Department Headquarters is unable to supply you, order direct. bers are J. Heim, 6310 Wentworth Avenue, Engle- wood Station, Chicago, Illinois, for re- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS ports of the proposed program. THE AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Further announcements of interest to veterans follow: Specialpoppy campaign "helps" supplied at cost. Write for details] Second Div. Assoc. —Annual reunion will be held in Boston. Mass.. May 31-June 1. For particulars address Capt. C. O. Mattfeldt, secy- Army War College. Washington, D. C. Third Div.—The Society of the Third (Regu- its tenth annual reunion i Flatide rs Field\s the Poppies Blow lar) Division will hold §1 and convention in Philadelphia, Pa„ July 11-14. For further information write to Charles J. McCarthy, Jr., chairman convention bureau. P. O. Box 1621, Philadelphia. B etween he Cro sses Row on Row" 42d Div.— Eleventh annual reunion Balti- more, Md.. July 13-15. Francis E. Shea, editor.

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The Rainboiv Reveille, 512 E. 23d st., Balti- quested to write to J. F. Bolger, 1551 E. 65th more, wants Rainbow Chapters to send news pi., Chicago. 111. items for the publication. Base Hosp. No. 11 —Located at Nantes, 353d (All Kansas) Inf. —Annual reunion France, during war. Society now known as of regimental society at Wichita, Kansas, Sept. Veterans of Grand Blottereau would like to 1-3. Gen. Reeves will attend. Address H. hear from former patients and members. Ad- C. on "Nationally Popular Paulson, secy.. Memorial bids., Topeka. Kans. dress Paul C. Dunn, editor, Eleven News, 2130 Co. C, 9th Inf.—Former members who will Morse ave., Chicago, III. 2i-JEWEL-Thin Model attend Second Div. reunion in Boston, Mass., Base Hosp. No. 19—Nurses reunion at May 31-June 1, address W. E. Gould, 7 Cro- Nurses Clubhouse, 37 S. Goodman st.. Roches- wed st., Worcester, Mass. ter, N. Y., June 29. Address Miss Bailey, 37 Btty. E, 15th F. A., Second Div.—Copies S. Goodman St., Rochester. Watch of the log of 1st Sfft. Tony Cone (still on the Amb. Co. No. 23. Second Div.—Former The Insured job), covering Btty. E's adventures in France members who will attend Second Div. reunion The only high-grade watch and Germany, will be sent to all former mem- in Boston, Mass., May 31-June 1. address E. J. sold direct fromfactory! bers who send names and addresses to Major Mills, 121 Locust st., Holyoke, Mass. Imagine being able to pur- Raymond E. Lee, General Staff, War Dept., 200th and 201st Aero Sqdrns., A. E. F. chase these magnificent thin Washington, D. C. Beaumont Overseas Club, Inc. (name derived model watches at lowest ItifJ factory prices on easy pay~lijw 108th F. A., 28th Div.—Former members Barracks, Tours), is interested from Beaumont of your income, °rA>Y/ interested in proposed reunion write to Major nientB out in locating all former members. The "lost" for cash! Letussend you onetj;Cj Edward Hubbs, 2110 N. Broad St., Phila- men are requested to report to W. N. Edwards, of these marvelous watchesH^ delphia, Pa. 12 West Euclid st., Valley Stream, Long Is- —you are under noobligationPjC agree it is 328th F. A. Vets. Assoc.—Sixth annual land, N. Y. to keep it. You'll reunion at Port Huron. Mich., June 16-18. the world's greatest watch Reconstruction Aides—National reunion at Write for free 6-color Former report value. members to Adjt. L. J. Lynch, Chicago, 111., June 14-15. Legion men are re- boob and learn the true f actsl 209 Elm St.. S. W., Grand Rapids, Mich., or quested to advise Aides they know to write to Lee Oscar Davis, 1130 Ward St., Port Huron. Mrs. Winifred K. Pinto, 822 La Porte ave.. Btty. A, 12th F. A., Second Div.—Members Valparaiso, Ind. interested in Second Div. reunion. Boston, Marine Corps League—All former and FREE Mass., May 31-June address 1, L. F. Dutton, present members of the Marine Corps are eli- 6-CoIor Book care of Boot and Shoe Recorder, 80 Federal Its gible for membership in this organization. once we will st.. Boston. Mass. If you write at purpose is to foster Marine ideals. Inform-- send beautiful etyle book, 44th Art., C. A. C.—To compile roster and tion regarding membership or organization cf ehowinglowest factorypricea organize veterans society, former members are detachments may be obtained from W. Kail on these lifetime insured requested Thousands save to report to J. A. Donnelly, 611 E. Lations. membership organizer, 142 Green St., watches. money this way. Writetodayt Willow st., Wheaton. 111. Worcester, Mass. Co. B, 103d Encrs.—History, "Soldiers of Richmond (Va.) Light Infantry Butes WRITE! the Castle," containing roster, photographs and Bn.— 140th anniversary of this organization, Luxurious strap and bracelet maps, now available. Address Butler, J. D. in continuous existence since 1789, will be cele- watches at remarkably low 1317 Spruce st., Philadelphia, Pa. I Write for free style brated in the Blues Armory, Richmond, Va., prices 301st Field Signal Bn. book TODAY —Reunion at Elks May 10-12. Designated as follows in recent Hotel, Boston, Mass.. May 18. Address David wars: Co. A. 46th Va., C. S. A., 1861-1865; H. Gorman. 1044 Sea st., Quincy, Mass. STUDEBAKER WATCH COMPANY Cos. H and M, Fourth Va. Inf., Spanish War; Directed by the Studehaker Family—known for M. T. Companies -Quarters a century 0} fair dealino C, 356, 357, 409 and 410.— First Sqdrn., Va. Cav., Mexican Border serv- Three of Reunion at Newport News, Va., May 25, under Trn.. 2flth Div., Dept.G-4 South Bend, Sndiana ice; Horse Bn., 104th Aram. Addresn: Windsor, Qnt. auspicrs Braxton-Perkins Post of Legion. Canadian , Ad- A. E. F. All former members are requested to dress Adjt. C. R. Sayre, 2815 Washington ave„ names and addresses to Sheppard Crump, Newport News. send Invitation Committee, Blues Armory, Richmond. 809th Pioneer Inf.—Former members interested in proposed veterans society, are re- The Company Clerk

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( ) Railway Mail Clerk M ( ) P. O. Clerk E ( ) Post-office Laborer ) File Clerk The ^Broken ( 3 N ) Matron ) General Clerk I Chauffeur-Carrier ( Continued from page ! 23) W ) Skilled Laborer ) Watchman ) Postmaster Rennels his ) and adjutant. Second Lieu- grinning. "You can disturb him if you 1 ( RFD Carrier tenant Matthew Grice. Here, too, lived want to. I ain't askin' to get bawled out Instruction Bureau, 110, St. Louis, Mo. E Send me particulars aboat qualifying for pu for a few days the British guest. Other in an English accent." N ' Y " salaries, locate officers of the permanent detail had bil- The sergeant knocked, at first gently, lets in town. They suffered enough of then heavily with his knuckles. The headquarters in twelve hours a day, the orderly had slipped back to the kitchen orderly said; were glad to sleep over where the cook was arguing good-na- wine shops and pork butchers, safe from turedly, refusing food. Bright took from IPay$]$aDay

emergency night duties. his pocket the heavy brass key to the 'Vcw proposition offers steady employment and chance to pocket $18 cash every day. No experi- Bright started to flight St. cellar, vigor- turn up a of Denis wine and rapped ence needed. Simply demonstrate and take orders brick steps where an arched doorway ously. for new Comer Raincoats in your locality. You risk nothing. Keep present job and try in spare time. gave into the house. There was no response. Bright waited. Smith, spare time worker, made $14 in 2 hours. No investment. Sample outfit free. Write today. "Not that way," the orderly said. "We He had had time enough, since the pre- COMER MFG. CO., Dept. F-4S3, Dayton, Ohio go through the kitchen. That's the offi- vious Sunday afternoon, to form an ade- cers' door. 'Golden Gate' it's called. It's quate mental picture of Sir Harry Whit- BE AN OIL EXPERT locked." field. He visioned a hard man, one of TRAINED MEN NEEDED!^! Bright followed his guide into a room those inflexible pioneers of iron muscle W Geologists, Drillers, Refiners, at the rear which he guessed at one and iron will. brave, Bathhurst time He was (Chemists and Still Men) Oil had been a servants' dining hall. It was had said, intelligent, with a nose for oil, Salesmen, earn from 2 to 10 used now as a kitchen, and a fat, pleas- and Bathhurst had suggested ruthless- times more than in other fields. Write today! FREE Booklet! ant, yellow-haired man was sitting sleep- ness. He was at home in Tibet or Petroleum Engineering University ily beside the sand box that held a Mexico ... or anywhere there was oil Dept. 145, Fort Wayne, Ind. Pershing stove, waiting for water to ... he was rich, and liked to be inter- boil. A flight of shallow steps led up to viewed. Bright knocked again. another apartment, where, between a He heard a quick sound of a curtain pair of windows that looked out on the being drawn open in the room. Then the flayfianoEi garden, Bright saw a small table set for small latch clicked and a man stood three. Beyond this, a darker corridor blinking out sleepily. He wore a blue -IN 9© DAYS! gave to the right upon three other rooms, dressing gown with a pink sash and he Play anything-jazz to classical! Even if » M/v yon Know nothing about piano mueic- the open fc, ' 11 n;lve S' our tim-.Ts J.mcmg over the windows of which the orderly was fat. Not short and fat . . . rather ^'r/, I keyboard with confidence in 90 days. IB ) ) / \ '* y had pointed out from the -j Z.A/'\y/ If ynu can hum orwhistle atuneyou can garden. Be- a big man with large bones and a mas- ^ ^ V play it! My students an- broadcasting— making money. MAKE ME" ^ROVEPROVE Iflfl tween the first and second doors the sive body overlaid with layer upon layer Without puzzling notes! W ithout practicing tedious scales! I've corridor jutted in an ell that ended in of good living. In spite of the dim light found the way to brin? out your musical instinct. New and original the arched outside doorway that in corridor, Bright his face clear- system does away with veara of the the saw work. YOU WANT THE PROOF! orderly had called the "Golden Gate." ly enough to guess his age; he must have I'll send it. Write me now. D. M. SUTTLE, Director A stairway led upward at the farther been at least sixty-two or three. Older ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF MUSIC IB0IByron.Pept.235. Chicago. III. end. At the third door his guide halted. than the sergeant had expected, with no "He's in there," he informed Bright, suggestion of (Continued on page 72) SendNOWWROOFJ

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ruthlessness, and fat. Bright was in- Bathhurst had meant by ruthlessness. clined to like him. "Does this man, you call him half- "I'm a policeman," he said. "I need breed, does he have the maps?" to talk, to you." "I can't answer that, sir. Don't know "Open up" and skip "A policeman?" Whitfield repeated who has your damned maps. All I cheerfully. He did not seem surprised. know is, I had the bag, and now it's along the waterways "I've some news," Bright answered, gone." "news about a package of maps." "You're truthful, at least." Whitfield

frothy wake I There's Wings of spray and a "Maps?" showed concern but no animosity. "Tell a real thrill in this Old Town sea model. Properly designed to keep her nose level when you "open "From Spain." the rest of your story," he commanded. up" the outboard motor. You'll be proud of her The door opened wider. in," listened carefully, looking mean- clean aristocracy of line and graceful design—and "Come He she'll churn blue water into white at an astonish- the Britisher invited. His voice was while at the patch above Bright's eye. ing clip. liquid. There was a gurgle not unlike a When the sergeant mentioned the name Like all Old Town models, this craft is sturdily built, tough and durable, and remarkably easy to chuckle in his throat. "You are Ameri- St. Denis for the third time, he shook handle. There are Old Town boats and canoes for can?" his head. "I do not know him." every use. Some priced as low as 567. From dealer or factory. "Secret police. There's been trouble, "You're sure?" Bright was conscious Write today for free catalog. It shows and prices sir." of disappointment. many light, water-tight models. Paddling, sailing Whitfield chuckled. "Trouble," re- "Positive." and square-stern canoes, extra-safe Sponson mod- he els, dinghies and sturdy family boats. Also speedy ." peated. "That's no news. Why, I can't "Well. . . Bright hesitated. He had craft for outboard motors—racing step planes and keep away from trouble. All life, that Sir Whitfield knew the hydroplanes. Old Town Canoe Co., 965 Main my hoped Harry Street, Old Town, Maine. just one thing following another. But horse trader. It would help straighten " in this map business, they gave me a out matters. But he felt the Englishman Old Town Boats courier they said was discreet." was stating the truth, at least regarding "He's dead," Bright announced blunt- St. Denis. He was uncertain how much ly. He waited, expecting the Britisher he himself should tell. Should he men- to exclaim at least. But not a gesture of tion the chalk mark on Bathhurst's shoe 2 Dressy—Easy surprise escaped him. Only his breath- He decided not. At least not in this ing quickened and he seemed to con- initial interview. He would make surer A stylish shoe, easy on tender- sider with undue interest the buttons on of Whitfield first . . . but as to the scrap est feet. Genuine black kid, dressy, built for hardest service. Scientific Arch Sup- Bright 's blouse. He cleared his throat of paper with the same inscription on it, port eases aches, tiredness, relieves foot troubles. at length and shook his head. if it came from the edge of a map, it Combination last. Snug ankle fit. Features of ,. & shoes selling at twice the "Sit down," he directed calmly, "I'll belonged to Whitfield. He was still de- price. Sizes 5 to 12, $5. A pour a drink." He returned with glasses bating when the Englishman asked ab- little more for sizes 13- 14-15. Ask your dealer. and a bottle. Bright glanced at it, and ruptly: "Would you recognize the mur- M.T. SHAW, Inc. seeing three gold stars, nodded his ac- derer's picture?" Dept. 1 5 Cotdwater, Mich. ceptance. Sir Harry poured generously, "Sure of it." Bright spoke more loud- with steady fingers. His voice was low. ly than he needed. But the other seemed "Dead, you say?" not to have heard. He asked the ques- "Murdered." tion again immediately, and receiving "Have another. By whom? When?" the same answer, walked thoughtfully ANEW CAR""™ "On a train the other night." to the window and looked out into the GET the BEAUTY and LUSTRE of a "Who did it?" garden. Again Bright had an im- ff foggy NEW PAINT JOB at a small fraction of FREE the cost. Doit Yourself with NUKAR. NOT a Wax, |J j SAMPLE "I didn't get the party's name. No, pression of great size. The man not only Paint or Polish. Tins New Chemical Discovery in-

at Bright, and then inquiringly at Whit- kitchen. It's what the French call an field. Behind the major another officer American lock. We had it put on. The had hurried into the room, a blonde, ex- old one wasn't much good.'' The ad- tremely youthful second lieutenant. jutant still spoke eagerly; it was ap- Bright catalogued him without difficulty. parent that he intended to atone for the He was a nice, ambitious boy from Third manners of the major. Rennels had Training Camp. He noticed a lump on grown impatient again. He poured a the officer's forehead. short drink from the bottle and set the "This is a policeman," Whitfield ex- glass down empty. Grice continued: Send SI. 00 with order and plained, motioning to Bright. "Will you "We use the side door between this room little about yourself; (A) How lonjrat please tell him last and the major's. Major Rennels and I Catalog what happened night? present address, (B> Aire, ((,') Married or Single. You, Grice. Your head was clear." have the only keys to it. It's always FREE To Adults (D) Name of employer. "Just a minute," Major Rennels in- locked at night. Still was last night IE) Position. (F) How long at that work. All terrupted. He turned aggressively on when this business was over." information held strictly ' confidential. We make the D. C. I. operator. "Who sent you?" "Anything missing?" Bright wanted no direct inquiries of anyone— not even from your he demanded. "Who told you to come to know. employer. into my quarters? I don't need any help "Nothing." IO Days' Free Trial Satisfaction Guaranteed police. It like from You fellows attend to your "No liquor? don't sound much Watch comes to you postageX $1 $2.37 own business, and you'd make better an American then. One of our boys paid —no C. O. D. to pay\ ft on arrival. You take no risk* soldiers. By whose authority are you would hardly have gone away without —satisfaction guaranteed or' money back. his ." prying into officers' affairs?" souvenir. Maybe . . he turned to Established 189S "Orders from G. H. sir," Bright Whitfield, "maybe it's the same party, Q., DftVA I DIAMOND £- answered. "That's at Chaumont," he sir," he began. IVUIAJL WATCH CO. added innocently. "There's a feller up The Britisher exclaimed "No!" sharp- ADDRESS DEPT. 14-S. 170 BROADWAY. N.Y. there who's kind of fussy about the ly, as if Bright had said too much. His crime wave, takes a personal interest in fat face became hard, and he shook his it. Named Pershing." head. "No," he repeated, and the word "I'll Gallon Rennels smiled slightly, a stiff, con- was a warning, have to talk to Paris Filters a trolled, Regular Army smile. first, have to telegraph. There are com- "Well," he admitted somewhat more plications, Sergeant, and I'm not free to Ewtg4Mimks affably, "there's no harm in telling what discuss them. Come back this evening. LowPriced-Guaranteed happened though I can't see why it And I'd be obliged for my case of maps." Amazing new invention would interest either General Pershing "Yes, sir," Bright agreed. "I'd be patented Home Filter for fruit juices and or you. This is Lieutenant Grice, my obliged for a receipt for it, too." beverages. Noth- ing likeit. Removes all sediment, adjutant. He was awakened last night He saluted, and conscious that all pulp, fibres. Filters a gallon by a man prowling in the kitchen, one three men were glad for his departure, every 4 minutes. Perfect re- Isuffs guaranteed. No moving parts. Simple. Practical. priced. of the enlisted personnel, looking for opened the nearest door. The sergeant I Low Lasts a lifetime. Thousands already In use. something to eat. We keep special food major was standing outside in the corri- FREE HOME TRIAL—Agents Wanted on hand, you understand, brands of dor, with an official Signal Corps tele- Try free at our risk and return if not satis- cheese ." his and things. . . graph envelope in hand. fied. Send name and address TODAY for full par- Bright regarded the bottle on the "For you," he said, and sneezed. "It ticularsof thisliberal offer. ActNOW. AGENTS WANTED. HOME FILTER CO., 305 CENTRAL AVE., BAYC1TY, MICH. table and returned to Rennels's face. come a bit ago." "How do you know it was enlisted Bright tore it open. It was signed by personnel, sir?" Corporal Duclose, and dated in Paris. Pep Up Your Post with a Lieutenant Grice spoke eagerly. "Who "Have information St. Denis," it in- else would it be? It didn't amount to formed him. "Remain till I arrive. Dis- DRUM CORPS It's easy to organize a snappy anything, Sergeant, nothing to call the cover circumstances peculiar." Drum Corps that will make your post a police about. I just heard a noise in the "And if he ain't the smart Dutch- factor at Conventions, bring in new members and keep up the kitchen . . . oh, it must have been one man," Bright growled. "Discover cir- enthusiasm of old "buddies." o'clock . . . and went to investigate. We cumstances peculiar! If there's been How to Organize a always keep a light burning but it was anything but circumstances peculiar Drum Corps—Sent Free out. I scuffled with this fellow in the since I first heard tell of this horse Write for our 48-page book dark. He got away and I went over to trader I never want to see Hoboken LUDWIG & LUDWIG, the dispensary. I suppose that's where again." Dept. 7-5 Lincoln Street, Chicago, IZi. you got your report?" He drove slowly to the Place de la "I told him," Sir Harry Whitfield Republique, hesitated in front of the who derive stateo. bluntly. He looked reassuringly gene armerie, then changing his mind largest profits know and heed at Bright. "He came to ask me about crossed the square and registered at the INVENTORS certain simple some other business and it just occurred shabby Hotel de Paris. He needed sleep, but vital facta before applying for Patents. Our

Patent-Sense gives these facts ; sent free. to me that I might and time to sort out the ideas and ques- book be involved with the Write. man in the kitchen last night." tions that were racing through his head. Lacey & Lacey, 643 F St., Wash., D. C. "I see," Rennels said, in a voice that He felt the bandage above his eye. The Estab. 1869 proved he did not. cut hurt, now that he came to think of Numerous Legionnaire References "Well, old enlisted personnel isn't sup- it. After a cup of cafe au lait. which he posed to have much manners," Bright drank, standing, in the kitchen, he remarked, "and he does have a heavy climbed two flights of stairs and went to thirst. How'd he get in? Door open?" bed. The landlord promised to call him ronts He addressed the adjutant. at noon. He dozed off. thinking of Major f Latest style genuine \Jltn wnill/f Grice nodded. "It had been locked, Rennels's face. An unpleasant face with selected leather ,gold WJIU ffl/U/U trimm nss w l however, the cook says. He left it teeth too large. Perhaps Rennels knew ! * - dow card case, £ be without locked." He was a decent, friendly sort, more than he was admitting. sonic emblem stamp for only Bright decided, decent and holding down "I'm running with a smart crowd," he ed in heavy gold Sent $i to help cover cost, just a for mean job. Rennels would be a hard told himself sleepily, "cripples and bad to i\et our catalogue tn the hands of C. 0. It meant unpleasantness always, dispositions and weak heads." The idea Masons. The case \s a dandy. Your name or orher stamping that combination of strong drink and pleased him and he counted them over. 35c a line extra. Pin a dollar to strong this. Money back if notentirely 4 discipline. Bathhurst with a twisted neck. Old satisfied. Larger and better casesfrom$i, up to $5. Ma.sonic "Who had the key?" Grandpaw the gendarme in his second Books, Monitors.Jcwclry and LodgcSuppIicsiorove^ovrs. "The cook. There are only two keys. childhood. That damned aunt with her REDDING MASONIC l^ml The other was hanging on a nail in the tin ears and ( Continued on page 74 200 Fifth Ave. Dept. L.C., New York

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her nice, pleasant ways. Chevonnet blind as a bat. The Blackbird shot in the arm, his pal with one gray eye and the other brown, Whitfield too fat, Rennels too

mean, Grice. . . . Grice was a good fel- p low but even he had a bump on his head.

The sergeant major had a cold. Rude . . . thought of Rude stirred Bright into wakefulness. The one-armed secretary whose face resembled a kitchen clock was still reclining in his employer's wine cellar, if this were a good key in Bright's pocket. So far in this case he had felt a single minute of satisfaction. That was when he locked up Rude. J "They're a healthy lot, all right," he muttered aloud. And today Duclose would arrive with his circumstances peculiar and his talk of Dutch art. He was thinking of Josephine, wondering how much more she knew than she had told, as he dropped off to sleep. When he awakened the landlord was knocking timorously. "My heart is desolate, m'sieur, but I have permitted you too long to sleep.

It is late . . . several hours ... I regret, m'sieur, it is three o'clock. I went fishing and forgot the time. If m'sieur will ." forgive . . Bright looked at his wrist watch and from it to the landlord's face. Georges Peton, owner of the Hotel de Paris, was a small, blonde, mild man with large ears. His only extravagance, Bright guessed, lay in the matter of apologies. "If m'sieur will forgive," he recom- menced. "Fishing parties is one of the things that raised hell with this war," Bright growled. "Well, get your desolated neart out of here so I can put on my pants." The landlord departed hastily. Bright walked to the window while he was dressing, attracted by an intermittent pounding somewhere below. The sun was shining, a thin warmth suggestive of early spring hung on the air. Bright's room looked out across the garden at the back of the hotel, covered now with straw that steamed in the sunshine. At the rear a stone parapet gave upon a small walled stream—a branch, no doubt, of the swift Varenne that flowed past the town. The innkeeper's wife, whom he had seen in the kitchen that morning, Z) knelt on the parapet, a wicker hamper of clothes beside her. She was wielding a flat wooden paddle on a piece of cloth held just under the surface of the stream. "Laundry," Bright commented. "Do- ing the family wash in running ice water." He was rolling his puttees, left foot on the window sill, when he halted, staring out. Behind the woman, who still beat vigorously, a dozen garments P were spread to dry on the stone wall that separated the hotel garden from its neighbor on the right. First a black smock, then a pair of dark blue sateen trousers patched with gray. Then a shirt. Not a remarkable shirt, except that

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ." the left sleeve was gone. Torn off at the his clothes. . . His comment was elbow. Bright hurriedly finished wind- quickly interrupted. Get Into This ing his puts. "Go!" Peton screamed. In the garden he approached the "You mean go find out." Business woman casually. "I mean nothing!" "Good morning, madame," and when "I'll send the brigadier," Bright an- withoutInvestment

she responded: "Could you wash some swered. I want an ambitious energetic clothes for me?" man in every city and county, VIII to join me in this business. I'll She shook her head. "Too busy," she / furnish everything that's needed to do business. I'LL PAY replied, and began once more to pound. wife, who was enjoying rDr^ BONNET'S {J&A LIBERALLY. I have _ YOU Bright examined at close range the the late winter afternoon in the many men with me now on this basis. R. A. Greenfield writes : "I made $204 in 8 davs." torn garment on the wall. It was a front window of the gendarmerie, re- F. A. Sees writes: "I have built a $15,000 a year business." L. D. Payne of Iowa was cheaply made shirt, of extra large size, ported, with considerable curiosity, that paid $4500 for his first 200 days. Demon- with three white and two black buttons the brigadier still tarried at the home of strating and selling Fyr-Fyter fire extinguishers is fascinating, pleasant and profit- down its front. The pattern, faded from St. Denis. Bright hurried, driving up the able. You should earn many washings, was of small pink flow- hill. The sun lay low on the western ers with green leaves. It matched the horizon and the suggestion of spring ?50 to^lOOaweek Stores, Garases, Hotels, Fac- showed even in the fields. As he entered Any man ran sell to blood-stained sleeve in his pocket. tories, Schools, Homes. Farms and Auto Owners, want fire "Where 'd this come from?" he asked. the gate he saw Josephine, the deaf because they really need and extinguishers. Approved by Underwriters. They are light in weight. "I used to have such a shirt. Always aunt, Chevonnet, Brigadier Bonnet and Thousands of prospects. Nationally advertised. I give free training. I deliver and collect. No ex- wanted another like it." He lifted the a half dozen neighbors in wooden shoes perience required. standing about the low, Many single orders run into several hundred dollars. edge and peered at the neck. There was sod-covered We have thousands of satisfied users. Over 260,000 have been sold to the U. S. Government. nothing on the band to identify it. building between the stables and the Your connection with Fyr- "It belongs to my husband," the house. Bright, approaching, took the key Fyter assures you of steady earnings. You can enjoy woman answered shortly. from his pocket. Perhaps the secretary Act Now the pleasures of life, a car, money. Every red-blooded man would be willing to talk ser- nice home, "Your husband?" now. The wants to he his own boss. With this mighty com- "Voila." She pointed to the kitchen. geant noticed that only Josephine, of all pany there is nothing to hold you back. Write me and I'll send complete particulars by return mail. Peton, the innkeeper, stood in the door- the group, appeared at ease; and she, Free of Cost. First applications get preference. RAY C. HAHN, General Sales Manager, way. In his hand he held a milk pitcher for some reason, seemed to enjoy the FYR-FYTER COMPANY, "iSSjaT*- from which he had just filled a saucer situation. for the cat. "/ didn't send for you," she was tell- "Him?" ing the brigadier. She caught sight of "But yes." She began to pound vio- Bright. "M'sieur Rude wishes to be re- Something lently. Bright, leased," she said, still speaking in feeling her displeasure, 3 SALES IN EVERY HOME approached her husband. French. "He is swearing vengeance." "Good day for washing," Bright re- "You want me to turn him loose?" Make*90aWeek J ust out—latest thingin home is to marked. "It nothing me. Perhaps he re- furnishings —handsome, eolorfuL "Fair." pents and will explain now." Rubber Art Rugs. All the rage! BIBBER, Made in bluen, taupe (trays, ma- roons, with borders of contrasting- "Your wife works hard." "I have not repented!" Rude shouted ART colors. Very attractive. One out- wears three ordinary rugs. Never "Sometimes, m'sieur." from within the cellar. "I have nothing fcUGS looks shabby. Lies flat, will not curl OD. Clings to floor—never slips. Soft "I had a shirt like that once." to explain!" CoIorH and easy on the feet. No laundering necessary-simply wipe off. Ideal for "Like that?" The landlord was Bright turned the key. The secretary Serviceable,.,,,hallways, between rooms. Icitrhen, Practical |b=th itrcncowoys etc. Women startled. "Like what?" squinted his eyes against the failing light V Id about them. Low priced. Sell fit Every homo needs at least Economical \ mrce. Simply show one and take "The torn one. The pink flowered as he emerged. He had unbuttoned his orders. Pocket big profits. No ex- M d one." collar at the neck, and its ends poked ^™r„ t» FREE OUTFIT how. Send f,,r Catalog of this and "Oh? Oui, that was a pretty shirt." out under his chin, revealing a large 47 other Quality Rubber Products. Direct from Robber Citv. Free Outfit to hustlers. the Adam's apple. started to to Write quick for oil particulars. SEND NOW. He changed subject. "You rested He speak KRISTEE MFG. CO., 16o Bar St.. AKRON. OHIO. well, m'sieur?" Bright, then, thinking better, addressed "Good enough. Want to sell that himself to the gendarme. SACO WINSI^f shirt?" "I have been misjudged," he cried. Write for Samples "Sell it? The torn shirt? Oh, m'sieur! "I have suffered at the hands of this ." What would you do with such a slirt?" American nuisance. . . SACO BRAND "Wear it," Bright answered. He re- Bright seized the collar of the other's Uniforms and Equipment garded the man skeptically. "It's too coat. Rude coughed and Bright re- big for you." leased him. "Where's my dispatch S. ABRAHAMS & CO. "Old," the inkeeper admitted. Then, case?" he demanded. Juniper and Vine Sts., Phila- , Pa-

stiffly: "It is not f ->r sale. We sell only "M'sieur!" ." lodging, m'sieur; this is a hotel. . . "Where is it?" "Looks to me like a pawn shop. You "M'sieur! You accuse a man as inno- never wore that shirt. I know the man cent as an unborn child." it belongs to." Bright led him into the house and ." "No, no, m'sieur! My wife . . through to the office where he placed Peton stammered and wiped sweat from him in a chair and himself stood in his face. "My wife buys the shirt for front. The safe door was closed. an Easter gift. She is the good judge of "Why did you take it and what did ." U. S. Government Jobs cloth . . you do with it?" Bright demanded. Bright exclaimed indignantly. "I have taken nothing," Rude insisted. Railway Postal ' "Where'd * ... / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE you find it?" He turned appealingly to Brigadier Clerks. / Dept. R191, Rochester, N. V.

." ' "I tell you, m'sieur. . . Bonnet. The latter was eyeing the safe. . . ., _ . Sirs: Rush to me without Mail Carriers. I "You'd better, and right quick." "Open it," the gendarme bade Rude. chargGj (1) 32 page book Postoffice The man dropped the milk pitcher. Bright, standing watchfully at the i with list of U. S. Govern- merit Jobs obtainable and His mildness fled as it broke on the right side, observed the man's long, Clerks. £ Ofull information regarding stone step, and he advanced, infuriated, trembling fingers while he spun the bolts. Ex-Service preference to Ex-Service upon Bright. "Get away!" he screamed. He coughed nervously just as Bonnet £ Men Get Omen, (2) Tell me how to get "I need not patronage. It is pulled at the door. It creaked, opening. your my one of these 1, Preference. I J" • shirt! Pay your bill and depart! What Inside, in plain view, lay Courier Bath- I matter to you whose shirt?" hurst's dispatch case. f Mail ' Xnnie . "I know whose it is," Bright retorted. Rude dragged it out by its long strap. Coupon "Where's he now? If your wife washes "Voila!" he (Continued on page 76) today sure. Address.

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shouted. "Look, scoundrel! See? Voila!" it. It is proof, mon brigadier, that Bright examined it confusedly. There Americans are involved." was the stain, there the bullet hole. But Bright reached for the ornament. the brass padlock was gone, ripped from Putting it in his pocket, he turned irri- the staple by force. The straps were tably on Rude. "I don't give a damn if unbuckled and a fresh black streak, it was Corporal Pershing and the whole curved in an arc, disfigured the leather Y. M. C. A. in column of squads, I'm near the lock. It brushed off on his through." His voice weakened on the fingers like charcoal. He lifted the flap last word. He observed Josephine look- gingerly. The bag was stuffed with ing at him reproachfully. papers. From the top protruded a thin "We regret that you must leave," she oiled map with one corner torn off. Evi- said, "I had relied upon you to assist. dently whoever had opened the bag had I am much disturbed, m'sieur. My

closed it hurriedly. Bright rebuckled the father . . . after all. he is still missing. BRONZE TABLETS three straps and laid it on the table. Will you return here for dinner?" honorrplls'markers Even without closer inspection he knew Before Bright could speak, Rude ex- Building tablets-Arches that the fragment of paper in his pocket claimed "No!" sharply, with even more memorial flagpoles'etg fitted this sheet. He swung on Rude. agitation than usual. He reached out as "What did you take out of it?" if to pluck Josephine by the sleeve, then Writeforfreebrochure- "M'sieur!" Bonnet interjected. "How refrained. "I shall complain to the Memorial Department could he? It is not there when you notary about this!" he cried. "I pro- Tjj e Flour.Qty Ornam enimJron(9 thrust this gentleman into the cellar, and test! I have been injured! I demand 2637-27 raAYE 50 HDINIAPOUS MINN you alone have the cellar key. He is redress from the army of Americans! I rescued, and the bag is in the safe! I am locked in a cellar all day, I, a son of swear it was there all the time. You France, I who am innocent!" did not see it." "Will you be quiet?" Bright demand- Bright spoke shortly. "I am not blind, ed. He tried to look indifferently at Get Groceries and I examined that safe before I left Josephine. Devil if she wasn't the hand- this morning. It was empty. But I'm somest girl in Normandy. And asking atWholesale asking no questions. I've had all the him to dinner. It was a moment for horse-trader ways I can stand for a quick thinking. -andMake while. I'll give this thing to its owner "Thanks," he decided, "I'd better not and go back to Paris. I know better come back. Might run into more trou- J^g^ how to handle regular Apaches." ble that's none of my affair." ." Josephine appeared in the doorway. "But I thought . . she spoke quiet- Groceries at roek-bottoin. wholesale She stared at the case. ly. "There are several informations prices and a chance to pocket $ 1 0 to S 1 5 in a day! That's my offer to you "Where was it?" she demanded. "That which I could present." now. No capital or experience needed. is it? Where discovered it? Covertly Bright fingered the U. S. mi Big profits, full time or spare time. have you Wk^L* Ford Tudor Sedan — FREE Marcel has confessed?" collar ornament in his hand. "Ameri- IjSftS&y SEND NO MONEY—just your name. I'll "It was in the safe." cans involved," he reminded himself, wraM5EB£, give you full part leu Nii i and tell you how ^BSrW t0 Set a new Ford Tudor Sedan free of cost "Where he left it," Rude put in. "damn it all!" — as an extra bonus. Write today SURE. ?" "But it couldn't be. . . . least girl Albert Mills, Pres., 1298 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati, 0. Who. "At one information," the Bright lifted the bag that she might insisted. see. "I'll be back to hear it," Bright con- "I'm not troubling my mind about sented. "Maybe I can explain some ^telclear Profit that, mademoiselle. I don't care who things myself. There's a Dutchman com- had it. it ing give lift. ery day you work. Make $-5,000 to But you see has been opened. up tonight that may us a S 10.000 a year in the Floor Surfacing Buslnp.-i with American "Universal" method. Work The padlock is gone. It is not my prop- He's got some circumstances peculiar to for yourself. Experience, special training, ." large Investment unnecessary. Electric erty. No . . he checked her exclama- talk about, and he's a great hand for machine doing work of six men assures BIG PROFITS In new. unerowded fleld. Every tion. "You forget that I am a police- art." floor—old or new— Is your prospect. Work easy to get. Profit possibilities unlimit- man. It was mine to guard, merely. I He left her smiling and drove back to ed. Guarantee and 5-day trial offer protect you. Write today for com- don't know if anything's been taken out, Circe. As he sped into the public square plete details. AMERICAN FLOOR SURF. or not. I'll deliver it now to its owner. and came abreast of the Hotel de Paris MACH. CO. If there's anything been taken out I'll he put on his brakes unhandily. "Hell's 527 S. St. ClairSt. Toledo, O. be back here." He regarded Rude keen- bells!" he exclaimed. In the row over ly. "If there's nothing missing, I'm Marcel Rude and the discovery of the through. I've nothing more to do with opened case, he had neglected to tell this business. I'm through," he repeated. Bonnet about Peton the innkeeper's "Through. Fini!" shirt. Too late now ... it was impor- BUNIONS events per- tant, perhaps very important in finding Bonnet, who had found Now Dissolved! plexing, walked to the window. He the murderer of Bathhurst. But he had picked an object off the table as he this courier case again in his hands and passed, and putting on his glasses, he he'd best get a receipt for it at once. stood a moment examining it, with his The early winter dusk was falling back to the room. rapidly as he turned into the winding "I find this," he said, "on that table. street that led to American headquar- What is it?" He held the U. S. officer's ters. He parked his car a few feet be- collar ornament in his fingers. Bright yond the gate, and holding the unlocked Pain stops almost Instantly! exclaimed under his breath. He had for- dispatch case inconspicuously under his THEN PERMANENT RELIEF. Test FREE Amazing Fairyfoot gradually gotten to pick it up last night. Rude arm, walked up the gravel path. Lights dissolves painful, ugly bunions. Quickly enables you to wear smaller shoes. No messy salves. No cumbersome spoke defiantly from his safe position shone brightly in all three of the first- appliances. marvelous discovery This entirely different! floor in the residential quar- Used successfully on 500,000 feet. Write today for trial at the door. windows treatment absolutely free! (Nothing to pay. no CO D.) Bright had started toward the FAIRYFOOT PRODUCTS CO. "The man outside the window dropped ters. 1223 S. Wabash Ave. Dept. 50O Chicago, Illinois 76 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly office when sounds from one room caused him to turn and walk rapidly toward JDiamonds the house door. FBO%°/theMarke1 He was thirty paces from the middle Free Bulletin liete diamonds as low as $60 window when a figure crossed the glass per carat, also Gems of Finest Quality at per carat chartrea bat proportionately in sharp silhouette. arm lifted, , higher One Low Bargain Prices. This 1 less 3/16 carat fcorrectly cut diamond a snappy blazing: Bolitaire pushed open the casement and tossed a 'at $88. This 75 year oldest largest Diamond Banking firm in all the world lends money on cigarette into the garden. Bright recog- " lonaands of unpaidloana; and other NO BATTERS £S _any from bif? cash deals direct with Rennels. European Diamond Cuttora. Must Bell NOW. nized Major He stood a mo- JUST PULL Why Pay Full Prices ment with his left hand on the sash, his for a Sure light 1-3/16 Costs Nothing to See square, bold face cast into patches of Any Diamond sent for absolutely free examina- Carat tion at our risk. No obligation. No cost to yon. light and deep shadow. He was speaking Correctly Latest Listings — Unpaid Loans. Sent Free. Describes Diamond Bargains (n Detail, gives rapidly; Bright saw the flash of his large Col cash loan values guaranteed. Explains unlimited exchange privilege. Write today for your copy Of Diamond Bargain List. Postal card will do. teeth as they snapped together. He shook Jos. Oe Roy & Sons. 8780 De Roy Bldg. Only t>yi>o*xu fost office Pittsburgh, Pa. his right fist once, at whom Bright Make could not see. Whoever it was stood 0-2PROFIT 1000 Laughs $1.00 beyond the lamp and out of sight of the 72 garden. A DAY on only MAGIC Bright walked more cautiously. 12 easy sales to DEALERS! "I'll take the trouble to teach you Men, here is a brand new money maker PACKAGE •hat is taking the country by storm, lhe new sensational Pull-a-lite is just what ASSURES SUCCESS then," the officer was saying. His voice every motorist needs. Lights instantly bya OF YOUR PARTY single pull with one band while driving. was colored with anger. He still held Works wi hout clumsy wires or batteries. Includes 10 Different Fun-Producers Attached in a second to dashboard without the window open an inch, fumbling be- tools. The new patented suction grip holds EVERY ONE A SURE LAUGH GETTER Jike iron toany surface. Ca.i be removed in hind him for the rusty latch. "You're a jiffy and carried in pocket. Also useful in homes and offices. Pull-a- SENT POSTPAID ON RECEIPT OF 11.00 lite is made of Bakchte in beautiful assorted colors and mottled designs, fluid — the most You'll meddling!" all richly Duco finished. Burns ordinary pocket lighter SPRINGFIELD MAGIC CO. through! do no more practical lighter ever invented. Retails for only $1.50, the lowest price of any automobile lighter now on the market. all. shut, the BOX 1072-A SPRINGFIELD. MASS. That was The casement Our Five Tested Selling Plans Start You Making Big Money At Once. Rennels strode out Our Dealer Plan will show you how to start a business of your own and • i latch and '1 r i squeaked, n 'I - t .m V.ul hi- si t-' n 1 . n make ST'J.ni) a . in your community. Sell fool. fool. You are injured, ness A Dutch Year 'round money maker. $90 to from big, leather-bound case Hook-Fast Belts per week easy for agents. Sells showing actual samples of Sergeant?" $125 on first call. Makes excellent demon- —- Made to Inch'. attractive buckles. YOUR for "A clout on the head. What you do- stration. Easy to carry. Write ! Unusual vidual Measure OWN BELT FREE territory and unusual money-making selling plans and equipment With Personal ing here?" plans. Just out. No competition. help you succeed. WRITE Initial Buckle GIVEN: TO-DAY SURE. Address to have conversation with FREE DEMONSTRATOR "I came Get in on ground floor. Write for free offer today. You risk nothing. NATIONAL CRAFTS COMPANY, you. There is ( Continued on page 78) ^ _ sample 41 John Street Dept. E-IO New York City ELECTRO UTILITIES, 29 No. Morgan St., Dept. 115. Chicago 77 MAY, 1929 Ibdayfe Creates Manu £ac*tiii«m< The Broken 3 ( Continued from page 77)

an unpleasant sergeant major beyond in no answer. He repeated the name and the staff headquarters who stated you added: "I say, sir, I have your bag!" would return shortly. Just now while The empty room maintained its si- waiting I admired the architecture of lence. Only the oblong outline of the this house. You have observed it? The window shone a lighter gray against the main portion is superb, Sergeant. The opaque shadows of floors and walls. The wings are not so good. But the main cautious Duclose pushed his flashlamp ." building. . . ahead as he followed the sergeant "If he ain't at it again," Bright snort- through the door. Its light made a round ed. "As a cop, Duclose, you make a yellow splash on the braided carpet. swell professor. One minute it's art and Broken glass glittered in it, and the air Do you want to secure the manufacturing the next it's superb houses. I've a beau- held a heavy odor of kerosene. franchise in your locality fnr a new ami better building material! A trade-marked product coup precious package here to deliver to Bright said: "Hold on . . . the lamp's that meets every building requirement for a Britisher inside." upset." permanence, and lowest cost. A busi- beauty, ." ness which includes all the advantages of a "So? I, too, have brought certain . . The spot of light advanced. A cognac chain store system hut one in which you re- tain all the profits yourself. Send for the "Circumstances peculiar? They'll help bottle, its seal unbroken, thrust its neck T EXCRETE hook, it explains the whole plan. matters. We ought to corner the market." from under the table. Beside it stood a Write Your Own Pay Check He stopped precipitately, halting Du- large portmanteau such as the traveling In a husiness under control beyond the reach of competition. Make a douhle close by a sleeve. Major Rennels had Britisher often affects. Its contents, for profit —one in manufacturing and one in selling —your husiness protected by emerged from the "Golden Gate" to which the most part plain white shirts, had exclusive franchise in your town. only he Grice carried keys. The been dragged out unceremoniously and Send for this book. It shows how men and of vision with moderate capital may lock caught with a dull sound, and he left in a heap on the floor. now enter this husiness with every as- surance of success and future growth. hurried off across the garden toward the "What the devil!" Bright exclaimed. Write today! office building, neglecting to keep to the He crossed to the huge oaken chest. CONCRETE EQUIPMENT CO. 350 Ottawa Ave., Holland, Mich. gravel path. There was noticeable haste Here, too, were evidences of search. The in his movements; neither Bright nor top drawer, empty, stood on its end on Qilahe Steady Money Duclose spoke until he had disappeared. the floor; the other two, in disarray, "Trouble weighs heavily on that poor were pulled part way out. A knit woolen SEITROSEUI FFSHIRB officer's mind." Duclose affirmed. "He cravat hung limply over the edge of one. is occupied." "A search has been conducted here," Roseclijf — a real house — gives: Your 1. One year guarantee "Poor?" Bright growled. "Wait till Duclose decided, "a search in great speed 2* No substitutes—we ship exact you know him." He led the way slowly or excitement." I 3* Silk embroidered initials Free *!•• Big commissions in advance to the kitchen. The pair delayed a Bright turned from the window where 5. A shirt for every size and tasle I I Shirts —8 More Money-Making Fea- minute outside of the open door. In the he was examining the catch. tures establish our Leadership. FREE center of the room, which was lighted "Trouble," he muttered. "Hey . . . % Sell Best! The by a single hanging oil lamp, they saw something's happened in here." Write for your outfit NOW!

the cook bending over the stove, and "Yes . . . this is the apartment where feeOutfit Rosecfliff Shirt Corp. Dept.LS, 1237 Broadway, N. Y. behind it. eating a broad sandwich, the gentleman you seek was said to be which he held in both hands, stood Ad- writing letters?" WANT a new business profes- jutant Grice. He nodded seriously as For a moment Bright held a match sion of your own, the two detectives came in, and con- above his head, peering around. with all the trade DO YOU you can attend tinued to chew. His face was flushed. "It is," he admitted. to? Then be- "I want to see Whitfield," Bright said. "He is departed." come a foot correctiontst, and in a few weeks his through kitchen. earn big income in service fees—not medical The cook, glancing up from "Not the Cook and nor chiropody—easy terms for home training;, skillet, motioned toward the stair. Grice adjutant both said he was up here. Ren- no further capital needed, no goods to buy, no likewise nels a gency. Address swallowed twice, then pointed locked the Golden Gate." Stephenson Laboratory, 9 Back Bay, Boston, Mass. toward the door of the little dining room. "Then perhaps he took exit by the "Up there," he said shortly, "writing main door, the one in the chief portion letters in his room." of the house. I observed it when first I "I've got to see him." arrived. It is a florid Gothic, however "You know the way." not indelicate." Duclose, as usual, must stretch his Bright growled. Duclose went on: "It short legs as he followed Bright across occurs to me that it was open then." Learn in few months to make plates, crowns, bridges, the dining room and into the corridor The sergeant swung about. etc.. for dentists. No books. Day or night schools in door's ! Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia. toward the three bedrooms. The ser- "Open? That not open Hasn't WRITE FOR FREE BOOK into been. . . . the Americans don't use McCarrie School of Mechanical Dentistry geant noticed that the door the first We 1338 5. Michigan Avenue Dept 262 Chicago, til. room was open full width when they that main part." passed. A lamp, in which the wick was "But the door is open now," Duclose turned too high, burned on a small table persisted, "I stepped within, I, myself. N6E INVENTION! by a bed. The next room, in which Come." He led the sergeant back along Major Rennels had been talking a few the corridor. "There lies the passage to minutes before, was dark. At the third the main portion under the stair, is it *£fK door, which was Whitfield's, the ser- not? Let us see. Yes, this door stands geant hesitated. The latch had not open, too." * Sell only device caught, and the door hung about an inch He skirted the steep flight of steps in the world that prevents kinking, snarling and tangling of telephone and electric iron cords. and a half ajar. Duclose, who had begun Bright had noticed that morning, and = Housewives and business men buy 1 to SO. NEW KIND OF CORD SET FREE again to discuss the architecture of the squeezed his fat body through a narrow Every Neverknot Salesman is giv- house, stepped on the sergeant's heels. door that led under it. The beam of his 2n a complete Neverknot Switch Plug Cord Set FREE. This new. Bright knocked once, and receiving no flashlight played left and right. ' * kind of ironing, cord automati- callF coils itself out of the way and reply, doubled his rapping. "This is peculiar," he pronounced. "I I I a new kind of switch plug prevents 'ecorrhinn and eaves electric bills. After a third attempt he opened the refer to the bolt. I would say this door This set is a "(told mine" for bous.'-to-hniise workers. It's dif- little farther. dark. has been forced." ferent and it'* yours free if you work for oa. door a The room was Don't delay? Send now for free offer. NEVERKNOT CO. "Sir Harry?" he called. There was Bright stared at the barrel bolt. Du- Dept. 5-0, 4S03 Ravenswood, Chicago

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LITTLE time before his twenty- ploring the interior of A South America. born 1870. He is the sixth reigning king first birthday George Fried enlisted When the movie industry was a lusty in- since Christian VII." in the United States Army. There was a fant he was in California helping it along. little trouble in Cuba. Two years later he signed up with the United States Navy THIS issue of the Monthly will reach and stayed with it until the end of the EVERY old timer in Oklahoma and on its audience a few days before the World War. The sea is his trade, but let the southern Kansas border knows close of the $25,000 prize war-novel con- it not be forgotten that the Army had first William D. Fossett, who for the first time test sponsored by The American Legion claim upon him. In September of iqiq he has consented to relate some of his experi- Monthly and Houghton Mifflin Company. was retired at his own request after reach- ences as a peace officer in the rough days Full details of the contest have appeared ing the rank of lieutenant, and he is now a of the Southwest. His consent was gained in the advertising pages of several issues lieutenant commander in the Naval Fleet by members of Keith Lowery Post of The of the magazine since the contest was Reserve. For a time during the war he American Legion at Kingfisher, Okla- originally announced last April. It is was navigation officer of the transport homa, Mr. Fossett's home. Bill Fossett, impossible to say how soon after the close America, which ship, the largest afloat at as they call him down there, went to of the contest the judges will be able to the time of its launching, had to undergo Oklahoma in 1873, a roving cowboy. It choose the prize-winning manuscript only the substitution of a c for a k when was an Indian country then. Later he that detail is more in the hands of the it yielded its German ownership and be- was city marshal of Caldwell, Kansas, competitors than of the judges. If the came one of the most important elements when that was one of the worst killing judges do their share as speedily as there in our transport fleet. As skipper of the stations on the border. He was the first is every right to hope they will, the win- President Roosevelt Captain Fried's name incumbent of the office not to die with his ning story will make its bow in the rang round the world in January, 1926, boots on. Mr. Fossett lives today on Monthly in one of the summer numbers. with his brilliant rescue of the crew of the Wildwood Farm, within time blocks of Announcement of the result will be re- Antinoe. The owners of the vessel un- the Kingfisher post office. The house ceived with interest all over the world, doubtedly meant it to be pronounced sets in a grove of elm and chinaberry trees for there is hardly a corner of the two An-^';z-oo-ey, but the crew, whose right to on a knoll in a bend of Kingfisher Creek. hemispheres that does not shelter at call it what they wanted to there is none The trees cut off the town and everything least one intending contestant. to dispute, always referred to it as the else. Saving "the noise of an occasional J«-tin-oh. The matter isn't particularly car drumming past on the concrete state important, for the Antinoe, however she road two hundred yards away, the en- MORRIS H. BRIGGS is a Chicago may have been pronounced, is now at the vironment is almost as primitive as it was rare bookseller and an ex-shave- bottom of the sea somewhere in the roar- in Indian times—which is what makes it tail. . . . Chet Shafer was a private in ing forties. home to Bill Fossett. Mr. Fossett home- the A.E.F. and has since risen to be Grand steaded this claim in 1889, when the first Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe-

slice of Oklahoma was opened to settle- Organ Pumpers. . . . Charles V. Slat tery NOT often does it fall to a master mar- ment by the whites. But in 1876 he likewise soldiered in France. . . . John iner's lot to participate in such a camped within one hundred and fifty feet Dwight Sullivan aviated in 1918 and, thrilling and courageous enterprise as the of his present residence, guarding the though now a lawyer, still takes a lively rescue of a distressed ship's crew, but it dead body of a comrade he was carrying interest in the development of flying. . . . has fallen to Captain Fried's lot twice. from the Comanche Indian country, Kirke Mechem's days of putting on shows In January of this year he stood by and near the Texas line, to Kansas for burial. date back at least as far as St. Nazaire, directed the salvation of the crew of the An Indian powwow was going on across which became one of the great theatrical Florida under almost similar circum- the creek one hundred yards away and centers of the A.E.F. stances—similar with a difference, as he Mr. Fossett has been heard to say that makes plain in his article in this issue. that was the longest night of his life— number will feature an arti- Like many good sailors, Captain Fried life in which there have been other long THE June was inland born. He is a native of nights the Kingfisher boys may prevail cle by Meredith Nicholson, "Pros- Worcester, Massachusetts, wherein the upon him to tell about at another time. perity and Laughter," Mr. Post will con- largest body of water is Lake Quinsiga- clude his graphic first-hand account of mond, seven miles long, and no place to "a private's battle" that won [and held stand up in a canoe. A few miles away, at TROUBLE to show goods or to San Juan in '98, Leland Stowe will pre- NO of fine Webster, is a smaller lake called Chagoga- correct mistakes. The following sent an absorbing account the de- gogmunchogagogchabunagungamaug. letter comes from Aage Holm-Hansen of tective work performed by the Graves (We are spelling this from memory and Chicago, a member of North Shore Post Registration Service in locating and iden- Karl Det- hope it is right.) of the Legion: "In his article about Com- tifying A.E.F. dead, and W. rade Billy Arnold in the February month- zer's hero will meet up with the man with the different colored eyes. And there ly, 'He Took Jazz to Europe', John R. — will be a fine dog story "Bill" CHARLES JOHNSON POST is an- Tunis states that 'the tall, distinguished —by of the surviv- other ninety-eighter, serving in Cuba looking gentleman in evening clothes is R. J. Kirk. Bill is not one the as a private in Company F of the 71st Christian VII, King of Denmark.' I refuse ing mascots of war days of which is compiling a census, New York and later being promoted first to believe in ghosts, and I am quite certain Company Clerk he's lieutenant. The sketches which accom- that Billy Arnold did not live over a hun- though he may have been. Anyway, pany his first-hand account of the fight dred years ago, nor did The American a good scrapper. at San Juan were made on the spot. He Legion exist at that time. Christian VII, is a native of New York City but has been King of Denmark and Norway, died about everywhere else. A few years after March 13, 1808, fifty-nine years old. The the Spanish-American War he was ex- present King of Denmark is Christian X, 7Xc ^jj^c. So The AMERICAN LEGION" Monthly cAndNow A MACHINE To Make Shaving 50^ Easier and 100% Cheaper/

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