JULY 10 1925 AmericanJk CJflQ > J-^EGIONv^ — ALL AMERICAN The NEW HISTORY OF THE 82nd Division Now Available

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doesn't seem possible that a How they accomplished this ITDivision—to be .exact, the seeming miracle forms the basis 82nd Division, A. E. F.— on which the NEW history of could contain men of each of the the 82nd Division is written. As myriad nationalities that are in such, for the memories that it in- spires for the pride in accom- the United States of America — plishment that will make it dear contain them tranquilly hap- — to every "All American" this pily into battle shoulder to —go history should find a place in What General shoulder—Greek to Turk—Ger- your home. Read what General Pershing Said: man to French—Serb to Aus- John J. Pershing thought of the "Your Division is trian—and cover itself with un- 82nd—and get YOUR copy to- to be congratulated on its record in dying glory. day! France. The officers and men oj your Division may proudly carry home with them the DESCRIPTION CONTENTS gratitude of the Allies and the pride of their fellows throughout our IHIS Official History of the 82nd Camp Gordon to France. forces." Ex tract T;Division has been written by The Somme and Lagny Sectors. from page 289. the Divisional and Commanding Marbache Sector and St. Mihiel Offen- Officers. sive. Brought up to date, including Divi- Early Days of Meuse-Argonne Offen- sional Orders, maps, citations, statis- sive. tics and a wealth of supplementary Preparing for the Attack. features, well illustrated, containing 164th Infantry Brigade Jumps Off. revised list of decorations, etc., and Cornay and Champrocher Ridge. substantially good looking, it is priced 163rd Infantry Brigade Enters Fight. at "All $3.00. Every American" Astride the Aire River. should take advantage of this op- The Sommerance-St. Juvin Road. portunity to ob- 1 The Marcq Bridgehead. ™ ™ ™ ™ T tain from the Le- gion Book Service Clinging to the Sommerance Ridge. Tear This Coupon Out Row! the history of his Into the Kriemhilde-Stellung. Division. Be f o r e The Taking of St. Juvin. The Legion Book Service of The American Legion Weekly you forget—U s e The St. Georges Road and Hill 182.

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numero de I' American Legion Weekly est notre an- The A. E. F. had a strong appetite for poetry, as the pop- Cenuel "France Number". La plupart de nos lecteurs ont ularity of "The Army's Poets" column in the old "Stars

ete dans ce beau pays ( beau, c'est a dire, quand le soleil and Stripes" testified. Some of this appetite has carried brillat, if ever) et ceux parmi nos membres qui n' y ont over into civil life, if^he many letters which the Weekly has jamais ete etaient en train pour y partir quand la guerre received since the publication of Steuart M. Emery's lines, mondiale blew up with a bang. Notre numero du dix Juillet "Flashes", in the June 12th issue may be accepted as testi- contient des reminiscences humoureuses par M. Steuart M. mony to a general condition. We are glad to select from Emery, anciennement soldat these letters one striking de deuxi^me classe (this endorsement. It is from is no knock at Mr. Emery). Fred L. Seaberg, News Edi- II y a aussi une autre arti- FRANCE NUMBER tor of Radio Digest of Chi- cle dans le series "On the cago, who writes: "I haven't Trail of the A. E. F." par the slightest conception of M. Joseph Mills Hanson, who Steuart M. Emery is auparavant capitaine, Sec- Table of Contents but he sure can write verse. tion Historique, G. Q. G. It's very seldom that a poem Americain, qui habite a. can hold me beyond the present Dakota du Sud. On Cover Design by A. S. Van Eerde first few lines, but since the trouvera aussi une discus- time I read Kipling, as a sion interessante ecrite par Those Crazy Frogs . . .By Steuart M. Emery 4 kid, I don't know when la femme d' un veteran Illustrated by Douglas Grant anything has fascinated me americain qui est reste en as has Emery's 'Flashes' in France depuis la guerre. My A. E. F. Husband your June 12th issue. The After all, there's no lan- By a French War Bride 6 odd part is that I've never guage like English. been either to war or in The Trail of the A. E. F. France. I was too young VI. Toul and the Road to Metz at the time. But that poem Twelve weeks from next By Joseph Mills Hanson 7 expresses an elusiveness that 8 Monday the Seventh I've seldom, if ever, seen National Convention of The The Folks Inside U. S. V. B. equaled. Perhaps my own 8 experiences in tramping American Legion will open- File C-1,170,467 By Ray Lea 9 in Omaha. Another great around the country as a 9 Legion year is drawing to Editorial 10 newspaper reporter gave it a little more understanding. I a close. Incidentally, this France ; has been the longest official I don't know. But who- "Devotion to Mutual Helpfulness" 6 year in the Legion's history. ever Emery is, tell him I've With the Sixth National A Community Obligation First framed that little snatch be- Convention at St. Paul held, cause it's perfect. I pre- Salesman to the Seven Seas as it was, in September, the sume all makers of verse present fiscal year, once the for a Port of Call...... By Ben Adams 11 strive more or less for im- dates of the Omaha conven- pressionism. Emery hit it The Prodigal's Return By Wallgren 12 tion ( October 5th to 9th in- squarely. If he never writes clusive) had been fixed, be- A Personal Page By Frederick Palmer 13 anything else, that poem came almost a thirteen- should stand. Far be it month affair. The Omaha Outfit Reunions 17 from one in my business to 8 convention, therefore, will gush over poetry, but if be an unusually important "Boyish" By Charles Somerville 18 anyone has a slap on the coming for milestone in Legion history. Taps 21 back a good That's only one reason for piece of work, Emery has. going to Omaha. Others Bursts and Duds 22 Tell him to write more are the hospitality the Le- of it." gionnaire will find there and the ample accommo- dations for the host of visitors and delegates who are cer- Mr. Van Eerde, who drew this week's cover design, tells tain to make the trip. us it is based on a scene in Quimper, Brittany. * * * Quimper is about fifty kilometers down the coast from Brest. While we never got to see it, we imagine it is a much MR. Hanson is the author of the lines about Seicheprey better town than Brest. For one thing, it has no Camp which he quotes in his article on "Toul and the Road Pontanezen. We never got to Metz, either, and are therefore to Metz" in this issue. We see no reason why the Weekly gratified to learn from Mr. Hanson that we didn't miss much. has to be modest just because Mr. Hanson is, especially since From Quimper to Brest, by the way, represents almost the Mr. Hanson gives full credit to L. W. Suckert for the quota- greatest west-to-east extent of France. The towns are about tion from Mr. Suckert's verses which Mr. Hanson embodies five hundred miles apart—almost as far as from Forth Worth in his article. to El Paso.

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"Coo-coo," observed Marcelle happily among the ruins Those Crazy Frogs By STEUART M. EMERY

1AM probably a lucky mortal. At Illustrated by also was a charming and a childlike least my associates in the office nature and four years of la guerre had where I have spent some of the Douglas Grant not depressed his spirits to any great best years of my bright life in- extent. For Sharlee was of the French form me that I am. I do not draw- Medical Corps—a Frog pill roller, if down the largest salary in the place a whale of a ship out there. I wish to you insist—and the beautiful irrespon- by a number of dollars, nor do I stand Pete I was on her." sibility of the pill roller is known to the highest in the boss's esteem. But "So do I," is my invariable answer. all armies. my desk is the one that is nearest to "That memorandum reads all right to During an entire month Sharlee and the window. me." four of his compatriots were billeted That's not much, you say? Allow "We'll let it go then," agrees the in a barn with our squad somewhere in me to proceed with the information young man. "Do you suppose that the green-clothed ranges of the Vosges. that our office windows look out upon boat's headed for France?" He introduced himself to us on the one of the busiest waterfronts in "I hope not," say I. "Because if it is very first evening in his characteristic America. Through my particular pane I'm getting homesick for the old vin manner. It was long past midnight of glass whenever I will I can glance blink and the crazy Frogs." And then and the troops in the barn were out and see majestic liners taking the and there the probabilities are that no mingling their snores with the slum- tides for far-off lands. And that is a more work is done around my desk for berous noises of the cows and the stirring sight. It is so stirring that the next quarter of an hour. We are ducks. And then there came the sound there are days when it seems every one both of us for the time being back in of feet scuffling helplessly about at the on the premises under thirty-five the land where an enthusiastic nation foot of the ladder leading to the hay- simply has to come over and exchange took two million strange adventurous mow and a plaintive voice arose. a few words on business with me. Most warriors to its bosom and let them play "Sharlee zig-zag," it announced. of the young men, in fact about all of with its cognac and its children. Yes, "Sharlee beaucoup zig-zag ce soir." them, it might be said here, knew what they're a great race, the French. Wherein Sharlee was correct. My it was to carry eighty pounds on the Of all the Gallic soldiery whom I buddy Slim with a few choice words back for the duration of the emer- encountered in sunshine and in mud it made a light and we looked down upon gency, or what a holystone and a deck is of Sharlee that I prefer to think. a merry, dumpling figure which sat were for. Sharlee was an extraordinary young upon the barn floor by the ladder and "This memorandum isn't quite man. His face was pink and round, seemed content. Finding that the an- clear," remarks my typical visitor, put- his eyes were of an innocent blue, his nouncement that Sharlee was not only ting it in front of me and promptly moustaches would have delighted the beaucoup but tres zig-zag brought no looking out the window. "Say, that's heart of a Napoleonic dragoon. His help from Lafayette's debtors, Sharlee JULY 10, 1925 PAGE 5 burst spiritedly into "La Marseillaise," ber, was no help at all. He was a tre- I had pictured, of course, from the which brought immediate results. mendous Frenchman, a huge and veri- pages of La Vie Parisienne and such Maurice, his gigantic poilu camarade, table Porthos, and as soon as he came French novels as had come my way, promptly pried himself out of the hay strolling into a cafe it became impos- languid creatures who smoked ciga- and, descending, tossed Sharlee over sible to get the mademoiselle in wait- rettes with airy distinction and rolled his shoulder and went forth into the ing to pay any attention to our orders. large eyes. Our platoon sergeant and outer night. We heard the creak of "Ah!" she would exclaim. "Mais il myself whooped with joy when we a pump handle and the shrieks of est magnifique!" And off she would found ourselves invited to pass a quiet Sharlee, who apparently was being trot to see what the brave gendarme Sunday as the guests of two tres jolies thoroughly drowned. At the end of the wanted for his. Francaises in a neighboring town, soon racket Maurice re-appeared with Shar- As for Edouard, his running mate, after our appearance in our first train- lee still on his shoulder, madly flinging that gallant Gaul longed perpetually ing area. his arms and legs about, and mounted for slumber. He was short and he was "We'll sit around on sofa cushions the ladder to the loft, where he pitched puffy and whenever he received the and let them pass us smokes and old his burden into the hay. news that the division was about to vintages," said the sarge. "I've always "Mechant," he observed. "Dorme move he burst forth into the most heard these French girls are full of done." melancholy lamentations. He also little attentions." Truly, Sharlee was an enlivening knew his privileges. They hauled us "Right you are," I responded joy- presence about a barn. It was for some out once at the break of dawn and or- fully. "It'll be a relief to pass a day time his passion to learn English and, dered us to hike to another village pleasantly in an armchair after two until one eventful morning, we who twenty kilometers distant, as was al- weeks of hitting roads with hobnails." lived with him did know that certain ways the way if troops were nicely The mademoiselles met us at the unscrupulous members of our outfit settled. station, bright-eyed and graceful, and were taking advantage of his cherubic "The first five miles are the hardest, the four of us were friends at once. innocence. On that morning, I recall, Edouard," we informed him cheerily "Let us have a petite promenade our somewhat youthful captain came as we lined up under full pack in the before luncheon," suggested the blonde striding in to view the soldierly wares billet courtyard. "Lift the old feet, kid, one, who was very chic indeed. We which we had laid out for inspection. and fall in as file-closer." started out full of eager conversation Sharlee, who apparently never had any Edouard wiped the remains of the and enthusiasm for the sights which duties whatsoever, was dancing blithe- first cafe au lait of the day from his were being pointed out to us on either ly about as hand. The mademoiselles usual, but at were gay and full of the sight of the verve of France—it was American of- sometime before it be- ficer- he came gan to dawn on us that stiffly to at- we were climbing hills tention i n and making a good the w e 1 1- eight kilometers an hour known flour- on the level with not ten ishing Frog minutes fallout for a salute. rest. The last two kilo- "Goo' mor- Slim's first apple meters on the way back neen," he re- went by him at to the house, if I am not m a r k e d eighty miles an hour very much mistaken, I brightly to did with both e'yes the captain. closed, murmuring "You blinkety-blank-blink "One - two - three-four." you blasted blank-blank." La Vie Parisienne had We never were able to persuade never prepared us for Sharlee that he had not wished anything like this. M. le Capitaine a pleasant morning Madame la Mere, to with the hope that he had slept whom we were intro- well the previous night. He was duced immediately on a rash soul—within an hour after arrival at the house, our squad had been put on a week's welcomed the American K.P. on the unfounded charge of soldiers with open arms. instilling the wrong kind of Eng- France was starv- AfiMiV ^ ^ lish into an ally Sharlee bounced jng, we understood, and a green apple off the head of Slim therefore there were and burst into uproarious mirth. only hors d'eeuvres, Slim, who had pitched semi-pro soup, two meat courses, baseball before the war, laughed salad, dessert and coffee loudly also and went out into the for the mid-day meal. orchard and filled his tin hat with nice stubby moustache and looked with pain At its conclusion the sarge and I stum- round missiles while Sharlee from upon our martial files. He hadn't bled into the living room and fell upon down the road jeered at him. even bothered to put on his blouse thus a sofa, breathing heavily. I doubt if our He howled with frantic alarm when early in the morning. conversation was particularly lucid for Slim's first apple went by him at eighty "Moi?" he demanded. "Je ne marche the next hour and a half. miles an hour and took to his heels. It pas. Je vais retourner a mon lit." When we began to show signs of life was the fourth apple, as I recall, that I think he probably did go back to again the little brunette was Jancing registered, and late that afternoon bed. At all events just as our weary about the room. Sharlee re-appeared, crouching be- column was pounding its way into the "Ah," she cried, "but you have not hind the cover of a G. I. can he had new village assigned to us a French seen the view from the chateau on the appropriated somewhere. From then motor truck came trundling past and other side of the town. And there is on he referred to Slim respectfully as upon its front seat sat Edouard. He the old Roman fort—deux, trois petits Monsieur Soixante-Quinze. alighted in front of the best-looking kilometres only to be walked. Vrai- There rises also to this day the rec- house in the village and went in and ment, e'est magnifique! Let us prome- ollection of the two sturdy represen- announced to the owner that he was nade again until le souper." tatives of law and order with whom I billeted there. Yes, Edouard knew how We remembered then, the sarge and made acquaintance—Pierre et Edou- to take care of himself—I rather I, that every American soldier was ard, the gendarmes attached to the imagine that today he is a chief of supposed to be an unofficial ambassa- division for some obscure purpose. police somewhere sitting sleepily in the dor of his country in France. Sadly They themselves with many a shrug sun. we removed ourselves from the sofa and elaborate gesture proclaimed it to I do not wish to pry into anyone's cushions and stood upright in our hob- be that of liaison, but I have always past but I think that I can safely as- nails, once more at the command of our had the impression that it was for sert that my first experience with the hostesses. That evening, I recall, we food and cigarettes. Pierre, I remem- mademoiselles of France was unique. (Continued on page 19) PAftE 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

This is Jacqueline, who will grow up speaking both French and Eng- lish. Her mother is a French girl who mar- ried an American sol- dier who stayed over when it was over over there

the American Aid So- love and respect, which six years after WHENciety of Paris publishes its the Armistice function successfully and annual report and enumerates normally. They have surmounted the the broken Franco-American My differences of language, race and relig- romances it has been unable to patch ion, and many of them are hallowed by up, I get fighting mad, because these the romantic atmosphere of A. E. F. statistics present a biased, inaccurate days—my own, for example. From the picture, chiefly because of what they standpoint of the news-writer or novel- omit. j^L» El» F\ ist, these successful marriages are When the "Advice to the Love-Lorn" prosaic and bourgeois; Jacqueline's first experts from America rush hastily to tooth isn't worth a headline, but to me Europe, spending less than two weeks it was one of the greatest events in in France, and then return to write world history; Jacqueline's daily bath, learned screeds on why A. E. F. mar- Husband her afternoon promenade, the arrival of riages have failed, blaming it all on the gifts from America or from the Gers French war brides, words are inade- village where my parents reside; the quate to express my indignation at the monthly problem of making income shallow, superficial and distorted views By A FRENCH equal out-go; little informal dinners —half-facts and half-truths—thus put and teas for Franco-American friends; into circulation. Nor do I absolve the WAR BRIDE an evening now and then at the the- press of my own country; in this re- atre; the constant and difficult struggle spect it is no better and no different, of putting something aside for a rainy except that in a French newspaper it is French or American press. It is only day—no newspaperman would consider the A. E. F. veteran who plays the role the failures that reach page one. this a good story; he puts a higher of villain when a Franco-American Far from blaming the editor, I really news value on infidelity—but to me it's marriage goes to smash. suspect that his readers are responsible the most thrilling drama that ever was Doubtless the reason for this is the for this condition of affairs. What vir- written. And there are hundreds of fact that, in all countries, vice has a tue needs is a press agent who will such Franco-American dramas in greater news value than virtue. Wheth- present her case, so that she can get France today, since the homes, the er it's New York or Pa-ris, divorce fair treatment in the court of public foyers, founded by John W. Doughboy news often hits the front page, always opinion. And in this article I intend and his French wife are scattered from getting striking headlines, while mar- to serve as press agent for the A. E. F. Marseilles to Brest, from Biarritz to riages are hidden away inside. As your marriages that succeeded. Boulogne. Irish-American humorist Mr. Dooley If we are to believe the French or the As already suggested, Jacqueline has put it, "Doin' good's no news." Or, American press, a great majority of Junior, smiling into my eyes as she to quote Carlyle, "A happy nation has Franco-American romances suffered gives me her good-night kiss, is all the no history," which my husband para- shipwreck on the rocks of fraud and proof I need to convince me that my phrases into Americanese, "Happy incompatibility, due to differences of Franco-American marriage is a suc- marriages capture no headlines until language and race. This idea is er- cess. Nor is my case unique. There twenty-five or fifty years after." Cer- roneous. I cannot speak for America, are hundreds of other Jacquelines in tainly those Franco-American mar- but in France, I know personally, there France whose cheery laughter, chubby riages born of the war that succeeded are hundreds and hundreds of Franco- legs and mischievous capers make life {capture no headlines in either the American unions, based on reciprocal (Continued on page 20) JULY 10, 1925 PAGE 7

On the Trail tr of the A. E. F.

VI. Toul and the Road to Metz

By JOSEPH MILLS HANSON

1918, when one headed out of Neufchateau toward "the INSalient," he had the choice of two roads for reaching Toul, which was ordinarily the last stop before proceeding north- wai-d, either in the days when certain justly celebrated lines of barbed wire and trenches in the vincinity of Limey, Flirey, Seicheprey, Xivray, etc., etc., presented insurmountable obsta- cles to further journeying in the direction of Metz, or later on, after the First American Army had rendered "the Salient" safe for democracy and shoved the obstacles back to the neighbor- hood of Vandieres and Rembercourt and Haumont. One of these was the road leading northeast across the hills by way of Colombey-les-Belles, where the immense landing fields and the wide spreading hangars and construction and re- pair shops of the Advance Section Air Service assembly and re- pair depot seemed to cover all the country near the village. The other road led down the valley of the Meuse through Dom- remy and Vaucouleurs and then cut abruptly eastward through the Bois de Domgermain to Blenod and north into Toul. Though the road through Colombey-les-Belles was the one I knew the best in war days, when I approached Toul again now it was by the road from Vaucouleurs, since that was the town I had reached in coming over the highland between the Meuse and the Ornain from Gondrecourt. Although it seems strangely Samuel W. K. Allen, caretaker of the American deserted today, with the army traffic of the near-front quite Military Cemetery at Thiaucourt, and Mrs. Al- vanished, it is still the pleasant road of old through the woods len, photographed by Mr. Hanson as they stood and then for several kilometers between widespread fields before at the freshly decorated grave of Second Lieuten- one sees, far ahead, the city with its two stately churches domi- ant James Ernest Bowyer of the 135th Aero nating the lower roofs. Dazzling white thundercaps were cut- Squadron. Mrs. Allen is a native of France ting the blue of the sky above the massive, forested hills which, beyond the city, wall the sharp bend of the Moselle, as I ap- proached by the road twisting about the angles the of old ram- Seicheprey seven years after. This little village parts and, striking the Avenue Victor Hugo which leads out to enjoyed the unenviable distinction of being vir- the Gare, entered the town by the Porte de France. tually the front line in its sector for four years. The avenue, lined on one side by rather pretentious residences The photograph shows the new church, under and apartment houses, looked distinctly more cheerful and less construction, and the new communal buildings 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY apprehensive of air raids than it had lay along the front between Pont-a- in virtual possession of the city, and the last time I saw it. But there Mousson and St. Mihiel. the fine old churches, St. Gengoult's was no comparison as to circulation, Considering how close Toul lay to and St. Etienne's, still cast long shad- for in the old days this was the street the southern face of the St. Mihiel ows across the streets and rooff below through which came and went most of Salient during nearly four years of their soaring towers. One cannot look the traffic for both the road to Boucq war—for the German trenches were upon either one of these beautiful and Cornieville and the Foret de la not twelve miles away—the marks of buildings, parts of both of which date Reine, and for the main highway of bombing and shell fire are not very from the thirteenth century, with their army transportation which led, paral- conspicuous today in the ancient for- rich stained glass, the splendid height of their interior vaulting, the quaint tombstones in the floors whose inscrip- tions have been half obliterated by the tread of the feet of countless genera- tions, and the mag- nificently carved cloisters which ad- join each of them, without a feeling of thankfulness that by a narrow margin they escaped the complete or partial destruction which overtook the medie- val churches of Rheims and Verdun and Soissons and scores of other cities and towns which happened to be a few kilometers near- er to the front lines. If any Americans are now living in Toul I failed to find them in the course Dead Man's Curve, Beaumont, and the stretch of exposed road along which army chauffeurs of a stay which was used to make a run for it. How the old building at the left survived is a miracle, for it necessarily far too was under direct German observation all through the war. It still wears the scars of battle short to be satisfac-

leled by standard- gauge and light- gauge railways, westward to Foug and Void and Com- mercy. But after crossing the well- shaded boulevard just inside the Porte de France, there was more life when one came to the in- tersection of the Rue Thiers and the Rue Gambetta, with the handsome Curel Fountain towering up in the middle of the street, while the wide entrance of the Hotel and Cafe de la Comedie, next door to the Munici- pal Theatre, looked most inviting for a square meal after a long day on the road. Although the Comedie is not the Menil-la-Tour and the road to the front which once echoed with the thunder of passing trucks. largest, it is prob- It requires no M. P. traffic cops now ably still the best of the hotels of Toul, and its sizable cafe with dining room tress town which was already a place tory, but I encountered a number of in rear, both finished in dark woods of importance when the Romans ruled people who talked with interest and but, by way of compensation, brightly Gaul and which had undergone many a even enthusiasm of the throngs of lighted, doubtless became very famil- siege and battle in the long centuries Americans who used to be there. One iar to great numbers of Americans before the World War. The half- of these was a short, stout little gen- when they were out of the line for a dozen large casernes which line the in- tleman whom I encountered quite by brief respite during the long months terior of the ramparts are all intact accident in the Place du Foy, in front when separate American divisions or but apparently occupied by far fewer of the monumental sixteenth-century the First or Second American Army troops than when the Americans were (Continued on page lb) JULY 10, 192S PAGE 9 The Folks Inside U. S.V B. File

By RAY LEA C-1,170,467

would you do if you were ommended that he apply for hospitali- Mrs. Peter D. O'Neill of Chicago WHAT and her two children, whose father's a mother with two small chil- zation by the Veterans Bureau. dren to support, your husband So, approximately three years after suicide the Illinois Legion finally- a suicide from mental de- lie was discharged from the Army, proved to be "service connected" rangement which had possessed him Peter D. O'Neill's name went on a since the war, and your claim for com- folder in the Bureau files. His appli- pensation not allowed because it was cation was approved; as C-1,170,467 hence is "not service connected"; the ruled as "not service connected"? he came to the Bureau and was Legion workers claimed that suicide of That is the desperate situation Mrs. given a rating of ten percent disability a patient who is in a government hos- Peter D. O'Neill of Chicago found her- dated back fifteen months, which gave pital for service-connected mental trou- self in not so many months ago. As a him $150 to turn over to his wife, and ble is service-connected death, both be- mother, she knew the' need to care for a rating of temporary total disability, cause the man would not have com- her little ones; yet she could not earn compensated at $100 a month. And mitted suicide if he had not been de- a living without turning over the chil- he went into the United States Naval ranged as a result of his service, and dren to some agency which could not Hospital at Great Lakes to be treated also because if he had been guarded do so good a job as could she of bring- for psycho-neurosis hysteria. well he could not have committed sui- ing up the youngsters. It was ten days later, on August 21, cide. Eventually the Legion's view- But a Legionnaire heard of the case. 1922, that Patient O'Neill eluded the point prevailed, through presentation He sent word to Roy G. Swindell, Illi- guard around the hospital and jumped of evidence dug up by Legionnaires. nois Legion State Service Officer, who off the Naval Station pier. The Gov- So Peter D. O'Neill's family is still wrote Mrs. O'Neill asking her to come ernment turned down his widow's taken care of—not richly, to be sure, in. If O'Neill's death could be proved claim. She had a real struggle. She but enough so that Mrs. O'Neill can to have a service connection, Mrs. was in desperate straits for money hold the family together and piece out O'Neill and her children were entitled when Swindell's letter reached her. with her owp earnings. She received to benefits under existing legislation. Then began a battle which started about $250 in back compensation when Peter O'Neill had been a hard-work- in Chicago and ended only in the Cen- the claim was finally allowed. And ing, thrifty, cheerful employe of the tral Appeals Board of the Bureau in since then she has been getting $46 a Chicago Elevated before the war. Washington. It was sixteen months month. When he came back the company gave after her husband's death before Mrs. There are thousands of similar cases him his old job. On paydays his money O'Neill got word from Service Officer that the Legion's Rehabilitation Service went for supplying the family's needs. Swindell that her claim had been ap- is taking care of every year. It is to But he couldn't hold down a job proved. carry on work of this sort that the Le- well any more. He was sent to the The battle had been fought on these gion is asking contributions from the company's doctors a good many times grounds: The Bureau claimed that people of America for The American for examinations—and finally they rec- suicide is not a death due to service, Legion Endowment Fund. : — —

PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY EDITORIAL TpOR God and country, we associate ourselves together for the Let an English poet with a broad Latin background following purposes : To uphold and defend the Constitution A? Dante Gabriel Rossetti—close this comment with a sonnet, of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to "The Staircase of Notre Dame, Paris," written before the foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism ; to pre- serve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great ordeals of the War of 1870 and the World War had come War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the commu- to prove his words truer than he could have imagined them nity, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes when he wrote: and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to pos- As one who, groping in a narrow stair, the principles justice, and democracy ; to conse- terity of freedom Hath a strong sound of bells upon his ears, crate and sanctify our comradeship by our deration to mutual Which, being at a distance off, appears helpfulness.—Preamble to Constitution of The American Legion. Quite close to him because of the pent air, France So with this France. She stumbles file and square, Darkling, and without space for breath : each one can think of any number of pleasant things to say Who hears the thunder says, "It shall anon ONE Be in among her ranks to scatter her." about France by way of showing that the Legion does This may be ; and it may be that the storm not forget that next Tuesday is the Fourteenth of July, Is spent in rain upon the unscathed seas, which France observes as do the Fourth. But the best we Or wasteth other countries ere it die proof of the Legion's interest and regard can be found in Till she—having climbed always through the swarm the answers to these questions: Of darkness and of hurtling sound—from these Of the two million Americans who found their way to Shall step forth on the light in a still sky. France in 1917 and 1918, how many would like to go back on a visit? "Devotion to Mutual Helpfulness" Of the two million Americans who were ready to go to member of Hugh A. Carlisle Post of The American France when the Armistice cancelled their reservations, Every Legion of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is on a commit- how many would like to go now? tee. It wasn't done to make the boys feel good. It was The American soldier and the American sailor did not done because the committee in question has a job big go to France in 1917 and 1918 to pay a party call. It was enough to make it essential for every member to serve. It strictly a business trip. The business to be done was so is the post sick committee. pressing that little time was left for social engagements. Some eight hundred World War veterans are taking And, the business once done, most of the A. E. F. was glad the cure for tuberculosis in Albuquerque and its vicinity. to be off for home. France doubtless was equally happy to Carlisle Post's sick committee goes to see them. see the A. E. F. go. The average householder is glad to Carlisle Post wants to make its service more effective. see the firemen take their departure after they have put So it asks the Weekly to announce that any post in the out a fire in his house. A good part of France's house was world which has a member in Albuquerque and wants Car- burned during the war, and when the A. E. F. left the lisle Post to give him special attention should communicate furniture was still piled on the lawn. with Adjutant C. P. Jones. Any little matter of claims to The task of replacing the singed shingles by new ones be straightened out? Pass it on to Carlisle Post. and of restoring the overstuffed divan to its proper loca- If the Weekly had a couple of million dollars to put into tion indoors goes by the name of reconstruction. It is a a prize contest it would hand over the whole wad for a bet- man-size job a nation-size job. France has done it be- — ter definition than this of Legion service. fore. Caesar first made invasions of France popular, as every first-year high-school student ought to know. It is Obligation First somewhat of an indictment of civilization that Caesar, A Community operating nearly two thousand years ago, was the most IT was the Apostle Paul's boast that he was "a citizen of constructive invader that France ever had to put up with, no mean city". There was more community spirit in the and that the hostile forces of 1914-1918 were the most de- world in Paul's day than there was a thousand years later, structive. But France, confronted by the most stupendous just as there is more of it now than there was in Paul's task of reconstruction in her own history or any other na- time. Community spirit follows civilization—or perhaps tion's, has gone about the job in the proper spirit. She is civilization follows community spirit. taking it all as part of the day's work. Politicians talk, All of which is solely to serve as preface to the state- rant, bluster—though French politicians have no monopoly ment that The American Legion Endowment Fund is be- of these commodities—while in the valleys of the Somme fore all else a community obligation. The assignment of and the Aisne and the Meuse the French peasant sets his state quotas is largely a matter of geographical conven- house in order and digs the nose of his plow into soil that ience. The success of the nation-wide campaign will be still shelters the deadly menace of the unexploded shell. measured by its success in twenty thousand communities. Mankind judges the mass by the individual. The A. E. The American Legion Endowment Fund begins at home. F. veteran whose tragic moment overseas came when a Parisian waiter gave him in change seven useless Napoleon Whoever called it a permanent wave must have been a III francs will judge the whole French nation by that poor judge of time. waiter. The Americans who marched toward Chateau- A A A Thierry against a steady current of refugees with their few little possessions in carts and wheelbarrows sees in Fifty million golf balls were used in 1924, according to the memory of that procession the cruel spectacle of the recently announced statistics. Yes, and most of them, ac- innocent in pain, and sees beyond them a whole people in cording to a duffer, were used just once. arms against the red and devastating scourge of invasion. A A The stoic's courage in the face of desperate adversity, A baby's bottle two thousand years old has been exca- determination to expel the invader from her soil whatever vated in Tunis. It was lying just as the father had left it the cost, ready acceptance of every hardship, and with it after it had dropped through the slats of the crib. all the ability to smile, to make the stranger welcome, to A A A bestow on him such good cheer as the exigencies of war • » left to bestow—that is the France the A. E. F. remembers. Proof that the he-man type is disappearing rapidly is And the A. E. F. remembers it not from reading about it found in the safety razor, according to a New York pro- in a book, not from a one-week motor tour, but in its own fessor. Heretofore the general belief had been that he individual recollections of the individual Frenchmen and was disappearing much faster under the old-fashioned Frenchwomen whom it saw and knew. scraper. JULY 10, 1925 PAGE 11 Salesman to the Seven Seas for a Port of Call

carried on the records as Henry F. Church, twice carried on carried as dead. He served for eight TWICEdead, Henry F. Church, who army rolls as dead, couldn't go back days, but he couldn't stand the strain, served as a Regimental Signal to his pre-war job of magazine illus- and was sent to the base hospital at Officer in France, is today help- trator after being discharged from the Allery. The next eight months he ing the Port of Charleston, South hospital. After taking a course at spent in various hospitals in France Carolina, get its share of world trade. Georgetown University he became and the United States. Again he was Less than twelve hours after war Assistant Commissioner of Port De- carried as dead on the regimental rec- was declared by the United States Mr. velopment for the city of Charleston, ords. Church left Pittsburgh for Washington South Carolina In the summer of 1919 Mr. Church to enter the service. Just a few days was discharged from the Walter Reed before, he had left Walter Reed Hos- Hospital. Before joining the Army for pital at Washington, where he had By BEN ADAMS service on the Mexican border he had spent several months recovering from worked for ten years as a magazine il- an injury received while doing service lustrator and had more than a thou- along the Mexican border. sand published drawings to his credit. Arriving in Washington, he set In the late summer of 1918 the But after being discharged from the about entering the service. Having run Twenty-ninth Division, of which the hospital, he found the work too hard. the gamut from buck private to ser- 113th was a unit, was sent to the He had married in the meantime. geant first class, enlisted life in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace not far Being forced to give up art for some- Army held no special appeal for Mr. from the Gap of Belfort through which thing not so confining he turned to for- Church, who says: "I wanted a com- the Germans marched in 1870 when Al- eign trade. Equipped with no foreign mission, and as the taste of the alkali sace was lost to France. language other than A. E. F. French was yet in my mouth I wanted that It was at five o'clock on the morning and a smattering of Mexican patois, commission wet, so I decided to go of September 1st while repairing a he applied at Georgetown University chasing submarines." broken overhead wire connecting three School of Foreign Service with the He enlisted in the Navy, April 17, isolated platoons that Lieutenant Veterans Bureau paying the bill. 1917. Three months later, as a yeo- Church was badly gassed. He, in com- In the summer of 1923 the port of man, third class, he was tracing draw- pany with his sergeant, was working Charleston, in search of an authority ings in the Bureau of Yards and Docks without a mask in an effort to expedite on port development to take charge of at Washington. It was about this time repairs. its foreign trade program, called Dr. that Congress passed a bill making it Mr. Church was evacuated to a field R. S. MacElwee, former director of the possible for any man serving in either gas hospital where rest and quiet was United States Bureau of Foreign and the Army or Navy to re-enlist in the the order of the prescription, but these Domestic Commerce at Washington. opposite branch provided previous serv- ingredients were missing. The French When Dr. MacElwee was appointed ice had been had therein. Mr. Church moved up heavy artillery and fired over Commissioner of Port Development for was quick to take advantage of this the hospital, drawing in return an en- the city of Charleston he took up the and on July 15, 1917, was discharged emy bombardment. search for a suitable man for his as- to join the Army. Relieved by a French division, the sistant. Mr. Church was selected from "At eight o'clock that night I was Twenty-ninth started on its long march a list of more than 400 possible can- again a buck private," says Mr. to join the offensive launched on the didates. For the past eighteen months Church. "It was June, 1918, before I 26th between the Meuse River and the he has traveled extensively in direct got overseas and I was then a second Argonne Forest. Church, equipped solicitation of freight, the attracting of lieutenant, assigned to the 113th In- with a hospital release, caught up with new industries, and the establishment fantry as regimpn ta] signal officer." his outfit and found that he had been of new steamship lines. )

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A dispatch from the Philippines in the New York Eve- one where he gets off and what is wrong with everything. ning Post says that Miguel Cornejo of the Philippine Thus, for generations, he has had his own way spattering House of Representatives led a gang ink from his editorial sanctum. Enough which beat up with brass knuckles Although, in his youth, he punctured many shams with holder of This Martin Hunt, an ex-soldier -and edifying candor, it is clear that his gruel is disagreeing of the Congressional Medal of Honor, with him in his old age. As his habit grows upon him ho who keeps a little store at Pasay, in the outskirts of Ma- becomes more and more crabbed. 'Every allowance for nila. senile dementia does not permit me to pass by, with a "A policeman witnessed the beating and arrested Hunt, tolerant smile at the source, his jibes at ex-service men who bailed himself out and filed a complaint," reads the and making sport of them for posing as heroes. He is very account of the affair cabled to an American newspaper. weary of heroes— all heroes except Ed. "Cornejo resisted arrest and the police were afraid to use Recently I noted his comment on an article in which Sir force." Philip Gibbs referred to the fact that "the men who We are in the Philippines to give justice to resident fought" seldom speak of their experiences. Commenting Americans as well as to natives. When we cannot, we had on this, Ed says in Ed's Monthly: better get out of the Philippines and take the resident "Since the war it has not been possible to pick up a Americans with us. piece of print without some reference to the war, usually Only by learning through us what real justice is can written by 'a man who fought'. the natives ever learn how to rule themselves. This no "In every community 'the men who fought' are running more implies babying native political leaders than that for office, or clamoring for a bonus, and speaking of their Americans shall be overbearing and privileged above the experiences; always extravagantly and beautifully. law as belonging to a superior race. "The world is completely worn out with the talk of the young men who 'crowded the recruiting offices to enlist'!" The Atlanta Constitution runs a half column under the Was Ed grieving in '17 because the recruiting offices heading of "Shafts of Georgia Sunshine." It consists of were not empty and because men did not turn Bolshevist quotations from local State papers re- and refuse to answer the call of the draft? Does he want Boosting fleeting cheery labor and action the men who were in uniform to go about with drooping Sunshine though the weather is hot and the boll heads, saving "Forgive me! I hope to live down my shame- weevil is still weeviling—a turn-up- ful error"? the-corners-of-your-mouth column. "Dalton is growing so It is not the ex-soldiers who are boasting, "See what I fast," says the Dalton Herald, "that the speeders can't did for my country!", each in his own monthly, but it is keep up with it." Says the Albany Herald: "Roasting the men who were not in the war. The soldiers do not ear and watermelon time is near down here in God's coun- have to shout. In view of their deeds as Americans they try and the season has been rarely more auspicious." need not possess an Ed Howe facility of language. But Georgia is without a doubt a peach of an up and doing Ed does not think well of Americans, anyway. He says State. that they are forever conducting investigations about one thing or another "to bring out the meanness of one an- Some of the worst examples of spoiled children are in other." their second childhood. There is Ed Howe, of Ed Howe's If Ed had been young enough to be in the war only, as Monthly, Howeville, Howe State, he says, in one of his flings, "to spend most of his time at Shame on You, Howe Nation, as I am sure that he the piano or in bed," or if he had had a son with a good Ed Howe! would like to be rated at the post record in the war, possibly his own Ed Howe's Monthly office. might be full of ringing phrases about the lack of public

- When Ed was young his parents must have found out appreciation of the services of our soldiers and sailors early that he was very smart, as the parents of spoiled who were too modest to speak for themselves. children always find. If they had not found it out Ed My own recommendation to Ed, in all sweetness and would have found it out for himself. Probably he found charity, is to look up the symptoms of senile dementia in it out before his parents did. the medical books and to keep a bottle of paregoric beside The average youngster is usually cured of his superior his inkpot ready for any sudden seizure. smartness when he is weaned into earning his own way in the cruel world. But Ed has never had to take this medi- The Commander of Stephen N. Gladwin Post of Fort cine. He has been having his own way and getting Peirce, Florida, writes that my paragraph congratulating smarter and smarter all his life. His chosen part has the post on its efforts put a great deal been to enlighten the ignorance of his State of Kansas, I Like more pep into its campaign for clean- which remains still appalling to him, as a proof of his This in g up the city. He leaves it to the failure, though he has been so long telling his fellow citizens outside the Legion to say citizens what he calls "the truth"—Ed Howe's own brand whether the job was well done or not, and he adds that of truth. the city is one hundred percent Legion today. "We have In his own Ed Howe's Monthly—named after himself, stopped fighting the battles of Toul and Paris over in the and he writes it all —Ed knows that every line is a jewel Legion rooms," he concludes, "and have dedicated our- of wisdom. He says whatever occurs to him; the brasher selves to community service. Hardly a meeting passes it is the more likely it is to be read; and people continue that we have not some official or representative citizen to spoil this veteran child by reading him. He tells every- present." Ed Howe's Monthly please copy. 3:!

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On the Trail of the A. E. F. (Continued from page 8) gateway which gives entrance to the stretching clear down the valley of the protected by their sheet steel doors and very up-to-date municipal gas works. Moselle until they merged with the furnished within with plank seats along There was really no connection, other clusters of great forts girdling the the walls. It had been a part of one than association of ideas, between the metropolis of Lorraine. of the rear defense systems covering place where I met him and his own I wanted, just once, to go north from Toul and probably it never saw action, communicative disposition, but the ask- Toul by that road on which, for nearly yet such fragments are becoming con- ing of a single question opened up a four years, first the French and then stantly of increasing interest today, as flood of information about Toul, ancient the Americans had stopped, at the the vast labyrinths of trenches and and modern; industrial, commercial, furthest, at Bemecourt and then, for battery positions which constituted the historical and artistic, which was final- two months longer, at either Thiau- fortified zone of the Western Front are ly explained by the discovery that he court or Jaulny; I wanted to go through more completely obliterated in the re- was the curator of the local museum. those places and on across the lines demption of the land for agriculture. • Under his eager and expert guidance which it had seemed no power in the A few kilometers more ahead there I saw not only the collections of paint- world could penetrate and then to drive came into view a village, lowly in ap- ings, statuary right ahead along pearance yet not without charm as it and historical the road down lay drowsing behind the trees border- relics immediate- the deep-cut val- ing the road. At the entrance to the ly under his ley of the Moselle village a sign beside the road brought charge at the into Metz, once me to a halt with a catch in mv breath Musee, but also the mighty "Menil - la - Tour." Menil - la - Tour several curious stronghold as in- 'Nough said. It was the village of the ancient quarters accessible as the muddy street where, in the pitchy dark- of the old for- moon. Compared ness of night, the trucks used to clat- tress city as well with the gratifi- ter through and whence you could see, as the churches, cation of that de- against the black sky to northward, the Hotel de Ville sire the attrac- the flares and the flash of the guns lilc and, behind the tions of Nancy summer sheet lightning playing along latter, the pretty were insignifi- the length of the Salient; perhaps one public garden cant. of the places that L. W. Suckert had wherein the chief So the follow- in mind when he wrote, in the old ornament is the ing morning "Stars and Stripes":

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- 1 1 mm\**r pre-war statue of J>.... found me chug- There's a rumble an' n jumble an' a Re- ging out under "France bumpin' an' a thud signed," looking the frowning As I wakens from my restless sleep here pathetically arches of the in my bed o' mud. toward the "lost Porte de Metz, 'N' I pull my blankets tighter underneath provinces" — to- «^~— and the railroad .fill, f iiinirtTf my shelter fly, day no longer lost embankment into An' I listen to the thunder o' the trucks of and the road which, — Alsace a-rollin' by. Lorraine. But the last time I naturally, so far had traveled it, Beneath the grass along the road- as the sojourn of *^y>W'iw>ii1rin Mi was crowded with side lie rusty bits of old light railway the Americans in American Army tracks and over the tiny brook that Toul was con- trucks and autos meanders through the foot of the vil- :erned, he sought and motorcycles lage—it is called the Terrouin River rather than gave Monument in Flirey erected by the and dotted with on the maps—a culvert of rotting information. French in honor of the capture by dusty doughboys squared timbers still carries across the Accompanied by American troops of the St. Mihiel coming apparent- water a spar that wanders away the same genial Salient. On the side are the names ly from every- northward behind the village church. guide, that after- of the soldier citizens of Flirey who where and going But though such things are evidences died during the war noon I made a to that same des- of times of more, feverish activity, hurried trip over tination. P r o b- Menil-la-Tour looks happier today in the splendid upland road through the ably no one who ever saw it in those its slothful tranquility than it did Forest of Haye to Nancy, twenty-three days has forgotten the narrow, echo- when the powers of the world were kilometers distant, and had a glimpse ing passageway through the Porte, the grappling for dominion a few miles of the crowded and busy city which, massive walls flanking it and the grass- away. in the beauty of its parks and public grown slopes and angles of the out- Up a hill, down into a creek valley buildings, especially around the Place works just beyond, through which the and up another hill and one finds him- Stanislas, more nearly resembles Paris road curves and swings away north- self at the fork of the cut-off which, than perhaps any other city of north- ward toward the old southern front of avoiding the exposed approach to ern France. But, firmly resisting the the St. Mihiel Salient, Bernecourt, winds down through little metropolitan attractions of Nancy, I I had gone but two or three miles valleys by Ansauville and Hamonville returned that same evening to the when suddenly there appeared at the and Mandres-aux-Quatres-Tours and much less brilliant precincts of Toul, side of the road something which warily creeps up from the south upon the reason being that I wished to make seemed to reverse the march of time, the famous "Dead Man's Curve" at an early start next morning on a little flinging it back in an instant to 1918. Beaumont. I wanted to take the cut- trip the desire for which had existed Off to the right, through the deep grass off because that was the familiar way, in the back of my head ever since the dotted with wild flowers, stretched a but the road appeared to be in very bad war. log trench faced with a massive con- repair, so I kept on to Bernecourt and That desire will perhaps be under- crete parapet and surrounded by a thence approached Beaumont from the stood by those of the A. E. F. who deep belt of rusty barbed wire. I got east along the hill slopes. eVer experienced the sensation of look- out and walked the length of it along Anyone can see, even at a distance, ing northward toward Metz across the the light railway track which formerly that Beaumont has been through the flat country of the Woevre when the had carried the ammunition and other war. Every house standing, except ground just ahead was matted with supplies behind the gun emplacements, one, seems to be brand-new, because the wire and seamed by the zigzags of the So deserted and undisturbed it was old ones were all demolished by the German trenches while Montsec that, although it lay close beside a shell fire that steadily pounded the frowned menacingly off to the left, or main highway, it seemed as if no one road junction and everything near it by those, even, who ever stared specu- had set foot in it since the Armistice, on the naked ridge during four long latively at one of the big staff maps Yet every part was perfect, the con- years. The one exception is the long on which, in bewildering mazes, were crete unbroken, the bombproof chain- stone building directly opposite the ""' -, traced line after line of those trenches, bers between the emplacements still curve where T " 'cks and autos used JULY 10, 1925 to make a run for it, between shells. This ruin, for some reason, has not yet been torn down, though its roof and sides are riddled with shell holes and its windows and doorways empty and staring, but probably any returning doughboy would be rather glad to see it because it furnishes at least one vivid and authentic War Exhibit A in the midst of restoration. Standing in the road beside it and looking north- ward down the long folds of the hills that extend away for miles into the Woevre plain, one wonders how it was possible that this isolated building failed of being flattened out entirely from across a country lying so nakedly open to fire all the way from the Ger- man artillery positions. It is a run of but a few hundred yards from Dead Man's Curve along the main Pont-a-Mousson highway and then sharply to the left into a side road before one finds himself at the brow of a little ridge and looking down a long, gentle slope into Seicheprey. Often in the last autumn of the war, after the Salient had been wiped out by the American Army, I had looked from that ridge upon the scene of deso- lation beyond, with the tumbled ruins cf Seicheprey directly in front, the stumps of the Bois de Jury, where the Yankee Division fought a part of its first heavy battle in April, 1918, off to the right and, far away on the left, the threatening eminence of Montsec, whence the German observers had been able to scrutinize for miles to the south and east every square yard of the French and American trenches and rear areas. From the middle of Sep- tember, 1918, onward, it was all rear area for the Americans, but the old ruins and earthworks remained as the armies' had left them on that thrilling morning of September 12th when

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erection of a new village mairie, gen- along its course, the road was still long darmerie and bureau des postes and a to Metz. So, driving on through the new parish church to take the place of Bois de Mort Mare to Essey and tak- Florida's the pitiful old wreck in whose little ing the road by Pannes and Beney graveyard the tombs were gutted by rather than the one by Bouillonville, liveReasons shells and the monuments toppled over better known as Souptown, I was soon or and chipped with bullets. approaching Thiaucourt along the base But gruesome reminders of the war of the ridge west of it and looking with still exist all over the old battlefronts. instinctive apprehension at the low 8/»andSafety In the street of Seicheprey a workman, ground on the right, into which the sizing me up as an ex-American soldier shells used to plump so regularly from five reasons for the 8% rate THE disguised in civvies, came and talked to the German guns beyond Rembercourt. Florida pays on first mortgage me. He told me that a day or two be- In its deep cut between the hills, security are directly and clearly stated fore a friend of his, a farmer, had dis- Thiaucourt is just about as dingy as of Florida in a Trust Company pam- covered in a spot between Seicheprey of yore, though relieved of most of its phlet. We want to send this free to and Flirey the skeletons of five or six war-time wreckage. Knowing what lay those who desire to investigate be- American soldiers. He did not know on the hilltop just beyond I felt no de- fore they invest. Write for it today. whether the people at the American sire to linger in the town, but kept on cemetery at Thiaucourt had been in- up the long slope and in a moment saw, Invest in Florida at 8% tell $100, $500 and $1,000 Bonds formed and suggested that I them rising above the ridge line at the left, Partial Payments Arranged if I was going there. On arrival at the a flagstaff with the Stars and Stripes cemetery I did tell them, but the find floating at its peak, and in a moment Write to, had already been reported and prepara- more I turned in at the gate of the Trust Company of Florida tions were under way for bringing the Thiaucourt American Military Ceme- Paid-in Capital and Surplus *5oo.ooo remains to the cemetery for proper tery. burial. For a few moments I could discover MIAMI FLORIDA A short run between the smooth, no one around excepting a workman moist pastures of old No Man's Land mowing the lawn far out among the to St. Baussant, on the far side of the white crosses of the cemetery. Close I want to know Florida's five reasons for 8 % and safety. ridge where once ran the German steel to the new stone buildings, not quite Na me and concrete front-line trenches which completed, which flank the gate—one were taken in the first jump of the for the reception of visitors and the Street Rainbow Division on the morning of other for the home of the caretaker City- Sfafe nt September 12th, showed this village, a derrick house and a huge pile of blue like Seicheprey, restored to life, though clay attested to the laborious efforts some of the German concrete shelters, necessary to sink a well deep enough inherited by the Americans and used below the lofty hilltop to strike water for ammunition storage, still stand be- for use in the cemetery. Presently be- side the road at its exit from the village hind the new house and the derrick I toward Essey. Returning to Seicheprey, found a little temporary frame dwell- one can cut down through a corner of ing in which were still living Samuel to the road of the Million dol 1 a r the Bois de Jury back main W. K. Allen, the caretaker cem- tailoring house and thence northeast to Flirey. Pas- etery, and his wife and baby. They Special made-to-meas- sing beneath the end of the towering gave me a cordial welcome, and to- Thiaucourt- ure all wool suits retail $25. embankment by which the gether we walked through the cemetery Big profits. 6 day delivery. Satis- Toul railway line formerly entered and to the brow of the hill beyond the faction guaranteed. Experience un- upon the bridge, still unrestored, which flagstaff, whence can be seen the whole necessary. Exclusive territory to crossed the valley at this point, one exterior of the St. Mihiel Salient as capable salesmen. Outfits free. finds himself immediately in the new far west as the uprolling ridge of the Write at once. village of Flirey. Heights of the Meuse. HOMELAND TAILORING CO. The town, looking fresh and neat At this spot, Mr. Allen said, General 71 to 79 W. Lafayette Are., Dept. N, Baltimore, Md. with all its new houses and shops and Pershing had stood for nearly two a new church approaching completion, hours during a recent visit to the cem- has been entirely rebuilt on the slope etery with the American Battle Monu- between the old railway and the cross- ments Commission, of which he is the Parcel Post $1.50 Extra roads, while west of the latter lie the chairman, while he described to his Like cut —new-- in sizes from 32 waist to 40 ruins of the old village just as the war companions the strategy and tactics of waist. light weight wool for summer Strong left St. Mihiel operation, pointing out wear. Made for the home guards. them on the day when the 89th the Colt Revolver. 45 Cal 811.50 Division jumped off here for its north- as he talked the actual localities in- Krag Carbines 15.110 the. Springfield 45 Shot Ouns 4.50 ward sweep. Scattered among the volved, which lay dotted over coun- Krag Rifles. 12.50 weeds are the abandoned frame and try spread below him as upon a map. Krag Sporting Ritles 14.00 Springfield 45 Carbines 3.50 tar-paper shacks of a little later date, Of the six permanent American mili- W. STOf and on a slight hill crest south of the tary cemeteries in France, Thiaucourt 1627-E North 10th St., road the shattered walls of the ancient and Suresnes occupy the most com- church brood above the scene of van- manding sites, and though the view ished life. Right beside the highway from Suresnes is, of course, incompar- in the center of the new town is the able because it compasses the magnifi- dignified monument erected by the cent panorama of the city of Paris and French in commemoration of the vic- many of its environs, the one from torious attack of the First American Thiaucourt embraces probably an even Army on the southern face of the St. greater sweep of territory. Mihiel Salient, its chief feature is a In talking with my kind hosts, the great bronze tablet on which are sculp- Aliens, with whom I had the pleasure tured in high relief two American of lunching next day when I returned soldiers rushing forward in the assault, to Thiaucourt on my way to Verdun but the close comradeship of French in order to place some flowers, pur- and Americans in the struggle is like- chased in Metz, on the grave of a wise emphasized by the scroll on one friend from home who was killed in the side of the monument bearing the Mihiel drive, I at first supposed Keep your copies of the Weekly in a neat St. binder. When you are old and gray, you chiseled names of the men of the com- Mrs. Allen to be an American because will have a priceless souvenir. mune of Flirey who died for their of the facility with which she used our The binders will conveniently hold the copies of the year. country. language. My surprise may be imag- "The AMERICAN LEGION Weekly" is It was hard to get away from Flirey, ined when I learned that she is no*- embossed in gold on the cover. for the people there seemed more anx- only a native Frenchwoman but that Full Book Cloth postpaid (red) $1.25 ious even than the average to welcome she has never yet even been in America, THE JiMERlCMN LEGIOM WEEKLY eagerly to the Indianapolis, Indiana and talk with a returned American. though looking forward But considering all there was to see time when she will see it, and that she :

JULY 10, 1925 PAGg ;? has acquired her command of English reached the suburbs of Metz it could almost entirely hy conversation with never have completely occupied the her husband, being ambitious to use his city, not on account of the resistance native tongue at least as well as he of the enemy but because of the utter uses hers. impossibility of ever finding its way Undoubtedly the first five or six kilo- through all the streets. But at length I stumbled upon the courtyard of the meters of the road by which I left Hotel de Metz and thankfully brought Thiaucourt, running down the valley of the journey to an end for the night. the Rupt de Mad to its junction with Recalling with what eagerness Amer- the Moselle and thence following the ican soldiers after the Armistice longed latter to Metz, was far less familiar to to penetrate this mysterious city of me than it was to tens of thousands of Metz, and the expedients which were men of the Second Division, who cap- attempted, and sometimes successfully tured it as far as Rembercourt, and of executed by a few, to satisfy that am- the 78th, the 89th and the 37th Divi- bition, despite the strict measures sions, which later successively occupied adopted by both American and French the front lines whose communications authorities for keeping all unauthor- led back by this road through Thiau- ized persons out of the place, it was court to the rear areas. It is a lovely, with considerable curiosity that I sal- sylvan road winding down the narrow lied forth next morning to give the valley of the little stream, walled in by metropolis of Lorraine the once wooded heights that sometimes attain over, so far as that could be accomplished almost the majesty of mountains, and in a couple of hours. Perhaps in this in spite of the waves of conflict which short space of time I did not find the often have rolled past them, not alone right places; perhaps there were too in the World War but in many a pre- ertswhile vious struggle between France and her many German shops, and shop people, disguised under a thin enemies from across the Rhine, the se- veneer of French cluded villages beyond Rembercourt, new names and modes of doing business, such as Waville, Onville-sur-Mad, Van- or perhaps I was merely in a hypercritical mood, but delainville and Arnaville, tucked away someway I was not captivated with in corners of the- hills, seem drowsing Metz. The Cathedral of St. in the somnolence- of unbroken centuries Etienne, to be sure, is of peace. magnificent; the central railway station, of heavy Teutonic Just after turning -the corner of the architecture, sufficiently impressive road into the valley of the Moselle at the Porte des Allemands^ at the east- Throughout the whole Arnaville one crosses the line which ern outlet of the city toward Saar- world, is was for forty-seven years, from 1871 Champion out- brucken, a splendid example of medie- to 1918, the boundary between France selling because it is the val fortification, and the monuments, and German Lorraine. Though there better spark plug. parks, bridges and public buildings and is nothing in the landscape now to in- many of the private business structures dicate- that the line of demarcation Champion is better be- quite in keeping with a city of the size was ever anything more significant cause of its unbreakable and importance of this one. Yet, taken than it is today as the boundary be- double- ribbed silliman- altogether, though tween two French departments, purely the townspeople after the Armistice pulled down the ite core, with semi-petti- for the satisfaction of realizing it a statue of Emperor William I of Ger- coat tip; its special elec- little more vividly I slowed down on many and of Prince Frederic Charles trodes; and its two-piece, crossing it and took a good look around. I of Prussia, of which the first But one could not build up much of a has since gas-tight construction. been replaced by a monument thrill with the blue Moselle, dimpling to the French poilu, is denominated Get dependable Champions in beneath the long shadows of late after- who "liberateur," while the second has been your engine now. Then main- noon, rolling placidly down between its succeeded by a statue of Lafayette, tainbetterengineperformance wooded banks on the one hand and, on and economy of operation by Metz does not - yet seem to be quite the other, the chickens and geese strut- putting in a new set of French again after its Cham- ting about the dooryards of the tiny forty-seven years of pions at least once a year. farm cottages. Moreover, Metz and intensive Germanization. In view of the fact that I was not making CfuzmpionX, the stand- I dinner were still some distance ahead, ard spark plug for Ford a tour of Europe but simply a trip in so I "stepped on her" and hurried on Cars and Trucks and France, after the aforementioned Fordson Tractors, costs down the road which the men of Bul- cou- ple of hours I felt quite I but 60 cents. Blue Boxfor ready to start lard's Second American Army would all other cars, 75 cents. back up the valley have taken at the point of the bayonet of the Moselle Know the genuine by toward Verdun and the heart the double-ribbed core. if the Armistice had not halted what of the France I knew, which, the German Army could not stop. with all her Champion Spark faults, God bless Paralleling the railroad between her, is, at any rate, Plug Company one hundred percent Gallic and al- Pont-a-Mousson and Metz, which car- — Toledo, Ohio ways Sunny France, excepting ries a decidedly greater number of when Windsor, Ont. it rains. London Paris trains now than it did from 1914 to i 1918, one soon comes to Corny where, if he wishes, he can cross the Moselle OUTFIT on a massive bridge and proceed the REUNIONS CHAMPION Dependable for Evet& Engine rest of the way to Metz along the eastern bank. This was the procedure Announcements for this department must be I chose, but on reaching the outer received three weeks in advance of the events with which they are concerned. streets of the city I almost wished that I had stayed on the other road, for it 112th M. G. Bn. (29th Div.)—Annual reunion could not have proved any more con- at Frederick, Md.. July 25-26. Address D. John Markey, Frederick. Md. fusing than the one I had taken. Dark- Co. C, 4th, Indiana Inf.—Annual reunion at ness had fallen, the haphazard streets Huntington, Ind.. Aug. 2. Address C. F. Brown, were more or less crowded and none 934 Second St., Huntington. Northern Illinois Legion Annual reunion too well lighted and I went round and — at Sterling-, Aug. 6. Address B. F. Kreider, round, occasionally happening on some American Legion Post, Sterling. landmark which I had passed fifteen 36th AND 90th Divs.—Reunion of these Divi- sions during Convention minutes before and which, on the sec- of Texas Department of the Legion, at Fort Worth. 2-4. ond third Sept. Ad- or encounter, began to wear dress Chester Hollis, 501 Burk Burnett Bldg.. the aspect of an old friend, until the Fort Woith. 5th conviction became firmly fixed that Div.—Reunion at LaSalle Hotel, Chicago. Ill , Sept. 5-7. Address Frank F. Barth, 2542 even if the American Army had East 76th St., Chicago. ——

PAGE 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY "BOYISH" By CHARLES SOMERVILLE

A S a member of the Brotherhood themselves girls no longer (and get JjL of the Perplexed, which must by) into seeking to disguise their sex Plan your pleas- be fully 10,000,000 strong in with everything but whiskers. "^America alone, I am willing It is the novelists who did it—the ure with the eager—to contribute my quarter or romance gushers of the period who dime toward a fund for the purpose of started this curious androgynic fad weather. Owna engaging the smartest mental experts which persists without abatement or in the world whose business it will be signs of waning. I can make my own to find out for us what the heck has affidavit that of about five hundred Tycos got into the women and girls of 1925. novels and two thousand short stories And, also, please, gentlemen, how long- read in the last ten years, about five is it going to last? hundred of the novels and two thou- Stormoguide To the ladies, God bless 'em and all sand of the short stories have con- Ity<,ur Dealer cannot supply Ym .writ* that, to be sure. Only day by day it is tained heroines who possessed "slim, jay/or Instrument Companies getting harder and harder to recognize boyish figures". "Lithe" and "lissom" ROCHESTER N.Y. them for what they are. Under the too they were, but that was never CtntJUn Plmt.TycczBMg Toronto whip of a cock-eyed Fashion of the enough. They were not of the choicest, Times the precious things are doing best quality heroines unless they were their utmost; to look like their broth- "boyishly" lithe and lissom. 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It And as for their crowning glory, sold more than 500,000 copies in Amer- Make Money which used to be more precious in its ica alone. length and wealth to them than so In this all that the author left the many strands of virgin gold, first they heroine of her sex until the Sheik Wearing This bobbed it off and next, under the urge came along was her name, Diana. The of a style and fashion which dubs Na- reader was quickly informed that "she FREE CAP ture a gross error, they—well, a man's was sure meant for a boy and changed Just Wear This Beautiful Hand- "next" in a barber .shop, betimes, at the last moment. She looks like a Tailored FREE Cap and Make in Big Money In Your Spare Time! means next Christmas because the girls boy petticoats, a damned pretty boy 71 want to give yon a FREE Cap. I know yonr are rushing the chairs of the tonsorial —and a damned haughty one". She . friends will be delighted with Its class, stylo parlors in twittering shrill- talked with "boyish directness". 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By Winfield Scott Hall, M. D. , Ph. D. belts and his knickers, his broad-toed very charming boy." SEX FACTS MADE PLAIN brogans or his sneaks. And just to show you the complete What every young man and A mighty queer state of affairs in prevalence of the making of Clara into Every young woman should know What every y. ,m husband and the realm, your majesty! But no help Claude, Hortense into Hector, in the Xlisi.oo Every young wife should know for it that I can see—girls will be boys, story writing of the clay, I picked up a POSTPAID What every parent should know bound volume of most popular fic- Mailed in of course, as long as Fashion herds the Table contents <£• commendations on reuueat plain wrapper them to it. Just the same it is a tion magazine I could find. In the first AMERICAN PUB CO., 789 Winston Bldg., Philadelphia darned mean and uncomfortable feel- four numbers beginning January, 1924, ing for a fellow when he takes his seat I found: on the sofa in the parlor of an evening "He had almost forgotten she was so in the present social season not to be little, boyish and slim"—thus Ben quite certain whether he is calling on Ames Williams.

Gladys of his heart's desire or Waldo, . .And "she came out in incredibly her younger brother. quick time clad in the regimentals of Make $100.00 a week and up, selling Not waiting for the report which the motor camper—cotton khaki trou- our fine made-to-measure, all-wool delvers sers buttoned slightly below the knee, suits, direct to wearer. Biggest values— the mental sharps, the deep positively sell on sight. Biggest commis- into the whatnots of the human mind, brown stockings and Oxfords and a sions paid in advance. We attend rede- may make, I think I've got an eye my- brown woolen shirt." -So Anne Cam- livery and collections. 6x9 swatch sam- ples—over 100 Btyle3 all one price—furnished self on the cause of all this topsytur- eron. FREE. Part or full time men write at once. vydom in modern Fashion which has While Alice Duer Miller in "Price- W.Z. Gibson, Inc.,! 61 W.Hairison St., Dept. c-ws.Chicaso driven the girls and those who can call less Pearls" has a heroine who "turns — |

19 JULY 10, 1925 -- PAGE handsprings on the beach and goes Black will be the shadows of con- shouting about the tennis courts in a fusion crossing the silver of the moon ^Protect your gums and loud Western voice". In this same of romance! save your teeth "deep voice" she comes into association Yon and I picking up a book and as governess with a representative of reading that the hero "entered the the still younger generation who tosses room with a certain touch of feminine her head "like a boy". This girl's grace in the motion of his well-turned name is Antonia, and when her mother calves." as a ship says to the girl of the "deep voice", Or recording that our hero, "Lester JUST needs the clos- speaking of Antonia: "You will be free La Rose, looked up at the stern lady est attention to take her to the beach where she likes police officer with a girlish flutter of under the water' to get a swim and meet her little his long-lash ad eyes." line, so do the teeth friends", her brother cuts in with the Or: "Pbsod for an instant on the under the gum-line. remark, "Fight a round or two with summit of tha cvag, his taut figure sug- If the gurrs shrink her little enemies". Antonia's mother gesting fair, fcr.iiniae lines in its deli- from the tooirvbase, curves, Wildfiower leaped says in remonstrance, "She only fought cate Hubert serious dangers result. once this summer." into the sea and, uttering a little cry The teeth are weak' And in a tale called "Daniel and the of abandon, swam off with the swift, cned. They are loos^ ened . They are exposed hero says of his beloved half voluptuous undulations of a Lioness" the FOR to tooth-base decay. The to his mother: "You don't want this siren." gums themselves tender up. They form sacs girl to get fat, do you? Being a slat Pretty soon your barber would begin which become the door- is half her charm." to tell you that he had just put in a I THE GUMS waysof organic disease So what's the use, I suppose, of ask- fine line of false side curls to match for the whole system. They disfigure the to all the au- any shade in whiskers. ing a girl be herself when mouih in proportion as thors of nut sundae fiction are telling But you and I, you bet, know that they recede. I BRUSH YOUR TEETH her that if she would be alluring she Dame Fashion ever has been, is and al- Forhan's prevents this I 1 gum-decay called Pyor- must look and act like Tom Sawyer! ways will be the high goddess of the WITH IT I rhea, which attacks I only hope this same brand of au- ladies again God bless 'em. So I — l four out of five peo thors will let us men alone. A trickle have no funny notion that this murmur pie over forty, FORMULA 0? | of cold perspiration wabbles down my of protest from a confused male will do p Use Forhan's every back at the consideration of the possi- any good toward turning them back H tooth-brubh timeio pre- 1' serve gum health and bility of these same fancy fictionists to the styles when you knew a woman wholesomeness. I tooih putting the reverse on us as they have instantly for what she was when you ij Tender gum spots arc HFW YORK CITY corrected. The gum* on the girls. saw one. jy -r tissues are hardened SPECIALIST IN and vigored to support

I sound, unloosened DISEASES OF THE MffUTH 1 teeth.

Those Crazy Frogs Forhan's is used as a Ij prepared raft THt dentifrice, though no (Continued from page dentifrice possesses its 5) PRESCRIPTION OF THE jjj pec u liar gum ' tissue went fast asleep in the middle of sup- spection one day a handful of Amer- action. DENTAL PROFESSION per, our last strength gone and our ican postal money orders. I If gum shrinkage has aching feet clamoring for the relief "The soldiers who were here last already set in, start using Forhan's and that was nowhere in sight. A petite month they have no other money so I consult a dentist im- promenade by moonlight had been sug- give them the francs for these," she mediately for special treatment. gested as the next event on the pro- said. "Now what is it that I do with 35c and 60c gram. them?" We counted them up—Madame :] In I tubes at all drug- "Young man," said the sarge to me Julie had passed out about eight hun- gists in the United | as we fell on our bunks that night, dred francs without even bothering to FOR ; States. safe at home in the old billet, "we've inquire where she could redeem the done fifteen miles today if we've done blue paper that had come from Kansas THE FORHAN CO. a rod. We've also eaten enough food to City and Nashville and Dubuque. New York "We'll keep an average American family for have one of the motorcycle GUMS Forhan's, Ltd, four days. I'm beginning to under- men cash them for you at the division Montreal stand how a squad of Frenchmen can postoffice," we told her. "He'll bring stand off a German division for a week the money home tonight." and sing 'La Marseillaise' while they're "C'est bien," chirped Madame Julie, doing it. It's endurance." shoving the entire mass of orders at But I've never had anything except us, and bobbed off for more muscat. the warmest regard for those two For her the matter was settled. The mademoiselles. One of them, I heard soldats Americains were attending to on PERSONAL STATIONERY

. _ than the price of later, married an American lieutenant it. She was turning eight hundred ORDINARY PRINTING. Andatafraction if the cost--and in half the time—of die-cut and is now living somewhere in the francs worth of paper over to us and Kravin*r. A remarkable new method that ia fining the unqualified approval of socially Middle West. I am willing to stake a she had never seen any of us before prominent men and women everywhere. Gives your stationery Individuality -- Distinction and Prestige. Only number of hard-earned dollars that that morning. Strathmnre and Atm rirnn Wrtting fuptr companies furnish paper for BLUE QUILL Boxes. This is a guarantee of that is one family where they don't go It was, however, as every onetime excellence of quality and trood taste. SOCIAL SIZE '6X7! STYLE A, 100 Binfirle sheets and envelopes riding D. tourist * automobile on •Sundays. They 0. knows, the children of witrj name and address and 10<) plain Bheete or, STYLE B, 100 double sheets and envelopes with your name walk. Madame la Mere was quite will- France who regarded the Yank in- and address on Acceptance Bond Paper *2 ing that her daughter should marry vaders with the greatest confidence. MONARCH SIZE 7 1-4X10 1-2 STYLE C, too sheets and t <+ envelopes with name and address on Bay Path Bond #3 the grand Americain, it appears, and There is today in France slowly but Your letter if written on BLUE QUILL Personal Stationery will be socially correct and will create a favorable impression did not at all cherish the fear ex- surely growing up a generation which at its journey s end. pressed to me by one old lady in whose will never believe the old tradition that SaHsfaetioM fftutfwttted or tnoney rt, i'uv*teti S.C.HOUSTON CO., 1 18 HIGH ST., BOSTON, MASS. cottage the squad had found a billet. America is a land of red Indians and "The marriages—helas ! —they are motion picture cowboys. Rather they the end of France," she lamented one will believe that the Americans are a evening over the stove where she was race who live on toothpaste and tell BRINGS YOU GENUINE doing pommes de terres frits for us. amazing fairy tales and sing loud UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER "So many of the Francaises marry you songs while they help around the POHW|

Americans that in twenty years house. _ 'lO DAYS FREE TRIAL. Try it. test it yourself . then decide. \ pouf!—their children will overrun Marcelle, I am sure, will be one of EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS. So small yoo wilit notice them. France and it will be France no longer. these. She was a healthy four-year- S YEAR GUARANTEE with every Shipman- Ward factory rebuilt Under- It will be l'Amerique." old and, until the soldiers came to bil- wood, a late model, perfect machine evidently, old let in that will give you years of service. She was not, quite an her house, had spent most of her FREE BOOK OF FACTS. Write to- day, inside story about typewriter lady of the trustful sort such as cer- days pulling the cat's tail under the business, typewriter rebuilding, how we do i t.our wonderful offer. Act tain good madames of whom the stove. But with the advent of tin now. SHIPMAN WARD MFG. CO. still lingers. There was hats and packs turned memory she her talents B-25 1 Shipm.n Bide. for instance, Montres. and Raven.wood Av.9. Madame Julie of the cafe, to hide-and-seek. The height of her CHICAGO. ILL. who naively brought out for our in- ambition for an entire winter, I re- —

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member, was to crawl under the bed in Since those wandering and rather our billet and squeak "Coo-coo, coo- adventuresome days a number of things cco!" until pulled out by one leg, have been remarked about the French, Declaration of whereupon she would smile divinely both in the public prints and in the Independence and bolt back under again. halls of international statesmanship, We of the squad were fond of Mar- but I can't say that I have paid a great A facsimile copy of the Declara- celle, very fond, but patience has its deal of attention to the vivid chatter tion of Independence has been is. sued by the John Hancock Mutual limits. It reached the uttermost the that has been flying around over all Life Insurance Company. evening when she rolled into the cen- our heads. It is sufficient -for me to This reproduction is a composite ter of the blanket just as the dominoes remember, when the young men saun- reduced facsimile, one-quarter size, taken from a facsimile reproduc- were galloping their best and turned ter over to my desk next to the win- tion of the original Declaration of a perfect natural into a snake-eye of dow, that Sharlee of the moustaches Independence made by W. I. Stone vilest in 1823, under the direction of John the description. was a joy forever; that Edouard, the Quincy Adams, then Secretary of "Coo-coo," observed Marcelle hap- gendarme, on more than one occasion State. The original engrossed Dec- pily among the ruins. insisted that the cafe keep open an laration is in the custody of the Li- brarian of Congress at Washington. The corporal picked her up, wrig- extra quarter of an hour so that his The John Hancock Company will gling, and administered a stern lecture. camarade Americain could finish his send this copy of the Declaration Marcelle, who knew even less French biere; that Julie's list free for framing. Madame of than he did, merely gurgled and tried Yanks who could have credit until the to swallow one of the dice. So ever next pay day was as long as the West- thereafter when the ivories were ern Front; and that Marcelle was a I rattling Marcelle was gently but firm- good kid. ly tied to the corner post of the bed by If statesmen and diplomats really Over Sixty Years in Business a wrap leggin and given a condiment want to make complaints about the Now Insuring Nearly Two Billion can to play with. When the last day French I'll give them something worth I Dollars on 3,500,000 Lives came and we marched away Marcelle while to complain about. They ought i was sitting on a wall at the edge of the to take up the system in the public village waving the rag doll the ser- bath-houses over there and make" them geant had made for her and calling issue a piece of soap that is larger SAMSHEN-Yom "Coo-coo" to the troops. I know that than a half-dollar. I know I thought NEW HaveWishedforThis she, for one, enjoyed Americans. my first one was a hat check. BIG MONEY (6kA ThousandJunes No wonder 99 men out oflOOsay we have the greatest proposition ever. My A. E. F. Husband 2r Our startling new selling plan is a Vknockout"—it's different. (Continued from page 6) Our 3 high-class specialties sell to every single man over 18 years of while gladsome to the parnasse; age whether he is digging ditches or run- worth and what they generally drink is ning banks. They are new. Guaranteed. American father, whether he be an ex- nothing but French wine. Then there Greatest Offer Our men often make $5.00 profit in a single hour. Many make $50 in a day. private or an ex-colonel parental fe- are the pathological cases; the ex-sol- Ever Made to — Over 50 per cent profit on every sale licities recognize no rank. I know one diers who were "temperamentally dis- Salesmen! besides we deliver and collect. Sales re- $368.50ej[trabon peat automatically. No experience. Get Jacqueline whose father was orderly abled"; they were not literally shell- us pai'iK.D. Ralph f ull details of our amazing Bales plan and last month. $50 to ourfriend-making products FREE. Earn to General Pershing, and the comman- shocked, but the return, to civil life has $5C0 month epare big money. Write today! of the A. E. F. served as put their or f ull time easy der-in-chief mental mechanism slightly RHODES MANUFACTURING CO.. Inc. Write for details. in absentia, for this child. I out of 7207 Pendleton & Cozens, St.Louis.Mo. godfather, gear; the war, the imiform, the know another whose dad was judge ad- dangers of the battlefield brought a vocate of the Eightieth Division. I certain ineffable glory to their lives, Battle Maps! know a third whose father, a captain which is now lacking, and many of in the A. E. F., is a millionaire in civil them are disconsolate because the war life, while a fourth says papa to a is over. Some of them would hail the former buck private whose only wealth outbi'eak of hostilities with glee. So is his physical, mental and moral they return to France, hoping to re- strength. cover the superb thrill, the glorious I know a Methodist preacher who elan of A. E. F. days, which, alas! abandoned a wealthy church in the Ok- they seldom find. But .these cases are lahoma conference who is now a clerk exceptional; in most instances there's in an American bank in Paris, all for a Frenchwoman behind the scenes, pull- the love of his French wife. I know a ing the strings, when you discover an newspaperman whose Paris salary is ex-soldier in France. exactly one-fourth of what it was in French statistics show that more Chicago. What caused him to exchange than fifty thousand Americans are positions? A little French girl by the permanent residents of France. I ven- name of Jeanne. I know an American ture the guess that at least twenty Nine, kilometers in tiro days. This teas the lawyer who abandoned a lucrative percent of them are A. E. F. veterans advance made by the soth Division after the practice in Virginia in order to wed the married to Frenchwomen. In Paris jum]>-ofJ in the Meuse-Argonne operations be- of his choice. alone it is estimated that there are ginning September 26th. Here are seen the Frenchwoman commanding general of the division, Maj. Gen. In truth, ninety per cent of the A. five thousand Franco-American cou- Adelbert Cronkhite. and Col. William H. WaU E. F. soldiers who married French- ples. They are of all classes—day la- dron. They are examining a Chief of Staff. women and remained in France did so borers and attorneys, machinists and map of the sector on their front. Our armies were at all times supplied with an abundance of at a considerable financial sacrifice. bank clerks, carpenters and doctors, excellent maps. Many a Frenchman, I confess," would masons and newspapermen. When Battle maps of the Meuse-Argonne not have done it; and to me these sac- Paris Post of The American Legion to Offensive (Meziera-Verdun-Metz-Longwy) rifices furnish irrefutable proof that distributed bonus applications A. E. these Franco-American menages are F. veterans, requests were received and St.. Mihiel Offensive are now available. from no less than 800 French cities, A bare spot on your Post Headquarters successful. "Where a man's treasure also." towns hamlets. I wall simply cries aloud to be decorated is, there will his heart be In and can understand —-asserts an American abandons with one of these maps or both of them. these cases, the treasure my why Main is wife, and not a Street for Montmartre or Montpar- Your "den" becomes a vale of reminiscence husband— a French nasse, F. soldier set- when your friends see these maps. Get certain monthly salary. but when an A. E. them TODAY! When you discover an American sol- tles down in a diminutive village of the dier permanently in France, in most Aisne, Cote d'Or or the Gironde, ten Meuse-Argonne 50 cents instances you can apply the French kilometers from a railroad, where the St. Mihiel 50 cents rule "Cherchez la femme." You can only amusement is a motion picture almost be sure there's a woman in the show once a week, there can be only Make remittances payable to case. There are exceptions, of course, one explanation—a French wife. THE LEGION BOOK SERVICE such as the moody, eccentric, would-be Doubtless the American husband of The American Legion Weekly poets and pseudo-artists who come to often thinks longingly of his old home Indianapolis, Indiana Paris to drink in inspiration at Mont- town across the ocean; frequently he ; — 1

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must recall his dollar salary and the God hath put asunder, let no man join comforts—yes, luxuries— it afforded together"—a law that man disobeys at sometimes certain French customs may his peril, as many A. E. F. veterans grate on his nerves (and certain realize today. God has certainly put French customs, I avow, are stupid), asunder ignorance from culture, reli- yet he remains in France. I was born gious zeal from arid unfaith, Christian in a French village; I know how mo- ethics from lack of morals, and still notonous, how prosaic, how lacking in certain Franco-American couples at- charm French village life may some- tempted to join them together. The times become; consequently, when I disappointment, disillusionment and di- encounter such instances, I feel like vorce which resulted were inevitable. quoting Scripture: "Greater love hath Further, in the marriages that suc- no man than this." ceeded there was no cheating. When And, please, don't get the impression the A. E. F. lieutenant misrepresented that life for the A. E. F. veteran who his social position and financial stand- resides in Paris is one constant round ing, the anger of his French wife on of pleasure. My husband has been to discovering the truth is both under- 8MlSlline makes Montmartre once in three years, and I standable and pardonable. If it was $E was along; we acted as guides for the French girl who was guilty of mis- shoes that have been "in three American maiden ladies who representation, all our sympathies wanted to see the fake wickedness that rightfully go to the American husband. the service look new again Paris fabricates especially for Amer- Such unions went to smash because they were based on falsehood. icans. Once in a while we enjoy an He wore 'em a while during the But such unions are the exception. hour in a sidewalk cafe, sipping a cafe Big Scrimmage and there's still a lot Of that I am persuaded, although I creme or something stronger. But the of wear left —skined up, they can have no official statistics to prove it. chief ingredients of my husband's life step into any man's office and be a are work, meals, sleep, and playing Still, I have traveled extensively credit. with Jacqueline. I do not deny that through France; so has my husband; "2-in-l" nourishes shoe leather, life in Paris is agreeable, but the baker, and the data thus collected, reinforced just as food nourishes the body*. And the butcher and the groceryman must by letters and the observation of what a bright, crisp, clean shine! be paid regularly, just as in Ada, Ohio, friends, convinces me that there are or McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Since perhaps ten thousand Franco-Amer- Send re- ican menages in France that 10c for the only way to acquire money honestly today de- markable booklet, in Paris is to work for it, daily toil serve the adjective successful. This is "Footprints of His- tory" — occupies so much time that the ordinary a by-product of the World War of also advises hovJ to care for shoes. A. E. F. veteran has little leisure for which neither France nor America Paris pleasures. nor Dan Cupid—need be ashamed. Write today. As a Frenchwoman, I despise war as F. F. DALLEY CO. When my friends ask me what are Incprporated a stupid, brutal, horrible thing. Has the ingredients for a successful Franco- 270 Military Read American like I not my own country been invaded four marriage mine, reply, Buffalo. N. Y. "The same as for any other marriage. times during the past century? Does not Nationality has nothing to do with it." France always bear the brunt of There must be mutual love and re- the invasion? Is not France generally spect; there must be absolute honesty the battleground for other nations? between husband and wife; there must And still, out of the World War there be a certain similarity in taste and in- came some good. Out of the misery, clinations; both man and wife must be bloodshed and anguish of the last holo- approximately on the same intellectual caust, a number of Frenchwomen, and moral level. limited it is true, were able to snatch some little portion happiness and. In my case the language difficulty of for themselves. I was one of these fortu- Write quick for new proposition. We did not exist, since I know English and offer $8.00 a day and a new Dodge tour- nate women, and in my case this feli- my husband knows French. As to re- ing car, for demonstrating and taking city consists of marital happiness, orders for Comer All ligion, it is my observation that there my -Weather Top- my Jacqueline, and—my A. E. F. hus- coats and Raincoats. Spare time. No are as many religions as there are in- experience * band. required. Sample outfit dividuals. My husband was labeled a free. Write now. Methodist; I was tagged a Catholic, but Comer Mfg. Co., Dept. F-474, Dayton, O. when we compared views we discovered that we agreed on essentials, that we TA P S both subordinated creed to service, that we both considered true religion to con- The deaths of Legion members are chronicled sist of Micah's verse, "to do justice, in this department. In order tha* it may be Want to love mercy, and to walk humbly be- complete, post commanders are asked to desig- fore thy God." As for Jacqueline, lit- nate an official or member to notify the Weekly of all deaths. Please give name, age, military tle does it matter to us what theolog- record. You" ical tag she bears, if she be a genuine Christian in her daily life. M. Antjouli, George Dilboy Post, Neiv York On morals and ethics we discovered City. D. June 10. Served with Co. L, 350th —Uncle Sam Inf., 88th Div. that our ideals were identical—honesty, John A. Bennett, Frazer-Barnitz Post, Phil- truthfulness, squareness, fairplay. In- adelphia, Pa. D. at State Sanatorium, South Mountain. Pa., 29. Served deed, I think my husband was so hon- May with 333d Fire and Guard Co.. Camp Mills. N. Y. est that he became dishonest; he de- N. C. Blicaard, Omaha (Neb.) Post. D. June liberately depreciated himself, his edu- 1, aged 34. Served wtih Co. A, 23d M. G. Bn. cation, and his earning capacities. (He A. H. Boykin, Sumter (S. C.) Post. D. Jan. 3. Served in Army. insists that I was guilty of the same Elbert O. Day, Henry H. Houston 2d Post, Be Railway Mail Clerks fault—or virtue.) He was constantly Gcrynantown, Pa. D. June 13, aged 39. 1st Lt. saying, "Remember, I have no aristo- M. C, attached to Base Hosp. 151. Crell C. Hiatt, Valley Post, Glasgoiv. Mont. to Year cratic blood in rny veins; my father is $1900 $2700 Drowned May 30, aged 36. Served in A. E. F. Every Ex-Service Should Mail a workingman, and my grandfather Kidwei.l R. MacKnight, Railroad Post, St. Man Paul, Coupon Immediately was a Swedish peasant." I responded Minn. D. June 12. Served with Co. E, y Franklin Institute, 33d Engineers. Steady Work No Layoff* * in similar vein. This self-abasement, , Dept. F 189 Hugh McBride, Hazlcton (Pa.) Post. D. Feb. Paid Vacations Rochester, N. Y. however, its advantages; it has 5, acred 43. had Served in Co. I, 18th Inf. Com in Education V Sirs : Send me. without George McCoy, Auburn (Neb.) suffi charge. (1) Sample Railway Ma 1 spared us many disappointments; there Post. D. May 1 _ 14. Server! .V^ Clerk Examination questions an I with 2d Training Bn., S. C, Camp Ex-Service Men has been no rude awakening to ugly, r O free sample coaching; (2i Liet Meade, Md. of many Government facts. j obs obtainable; U) unexpected, unsuspected Joseph E. McKernan, preference, X Tell I Lee Post, Sanford, N. me how oan get a position: I 41 Send If certain Franco-American mar- C. D. May 19, aged 37. Served with Utilities s information regarding preference to ex-servico Det. x men. riages failed, it was because one great Charles H. Powell, Greenville (III.) Post. Name , law of was violated: "What D. May 12, aged 62. Major, M. R. C. Nature Address . . : ; ; ;

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In Detail residence had been carried away, "you Nice Nellie found your totally demolished." house Our Nellie, the dear little creature, A colored laborer, doing a hauling job, "Yes," answered the latter, "an', do you Was loudly extolled by her teature, was informed that he could not get his know, I feelin' all had a sort of along that Because a toothache money until he had submitted an itemized we should of stayed home." statement. After much meditation, he Had kept her awache Through the evolved the following bill lengthy discourse of the Paradise in Brief "3 comes and 3 goes at 4 bits a went preature. —L. M. L. [Ad in the Pocutello (Idaho) Tribune] Well, WANTED—To board three girls in re- Have It Your Own Way What! Going So Soon? liable home with plenty of milk and no [Ad in New Orleans Times-Picayune] other children. [Dispatch to Park City (Md.) Daily News] DAINTY GIRDLES—To have one of these thrown ENID, Okla.—Damages estimated at lovingly about one's shoulders Truly Rural on a moonlight night is pure, $200,000 were caused by fire which swept .sheer ro- mance! glory the business district of Cherokee in Al- The guest from the city was enjoying The of color, the beautiful picturesqueness of falfa County early today. Seven business his first meal on the farm. the garment make them houses were destroyed. "What delicious beans !" he commented. the Bride's very own $59.75 Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have made many "But I suppose they meant many hot hours friends here who will regret to see them in the fields." Identified "You bet they did," said his host. leave. "We Bowser: "Isn't that a strange woman?" have to raise a good heap of truck to make Pryor : "Yes, but how did you know C. 0. D. enough to buy many cans of them beans." my wife?" "Hear yo' been to de jailhouse," re- marked the friend of the colored defend- How Else? ant. "What yo' charged wif?" [From Gentralia (111.) Evening Sentinel] "Ah dunno what am de exac' residue," replied the offender against law and order, Born to Mr. and Mrs. M. R. McLaugh- lin, 721 S. Poplar street, a pound "but so fur, Ah done paid mah lawyer ten 6Vj baby on April dollahs." boy 7th, naked Kenneth Dale. Limerix Death, Where Is Thy Sting? A gay young chap, just from Paris, [From the Boston Globe] Bought bootleg and went on a spris. Mrs. A D died yesterday. When he came to himself Whist and general dancing followed. He was laid on the shelf, For he couldn't walk, listen or sis. Full Revenge —C. A. L. "But," objected the reluctant prospect, There was a young fellow named Sutton, "I hate to listen to radio programs." Who thought up a new collar button. !" "Ah, there you have them was the But still they'd roll under retort of the persuasive salesman. "Then The bureau, by thunder, buy a set and tune out." And so his big scheme got him nutt'n. —J. P. R. This Speedy Age There was a maid in Haverstraw, [From the Hazlcton (Pa.) Plain Speaker] Who was both slow and cold—no thaw The airplanes which were to report the lint came a shiek race by radio were not prepared for the Who stayed a week, quick start, and did not get aloft until And now she breaks the speeding law. nearly half an hour after the race began. — T. J. M. Mayor Hackett of Albany, the "official A teasing young fellow was Leicester; starter," arrived twenty minutes after the His friends he delighted to peicester departure. Then into his life Mother's voice from the next room: Came an Amazon wife "You're up early this morning, Not Expected Jun- Now he's not so much of a jeicester. ior. Do you want breakfast now?" —/. G. Gene : "I love you." Phoebe : "I'm sorry, but I can't re- But Father? ciprocate." How's

Gene : "Oh, that's all right. No nice Cooling a Bit [Bloomfeld (N. J.) Independent Press] girl does." [From the Ruthven (Iowa) Free Press] Mr. Bernard Fay of 32 James Street gave birth to a son in St. Mary's Hos- Although practically unacquainted here, Meteorological pital, Orange, Saturday. Mother and Note her personality presents a most pleasant child are doing well. [From the Oxford (Miss.) Eagle] atmosphere and we feel that Mrs. Tishen- The wind and the sun are having a de- banner will count her friends as her ac- Creature Comforts bate the past few days, as to which one quaintances in a short time. is the stronger, and I think the wind has [Ad in the Atlanta Georgian] won the victory, as it has been blowing He Was NEW house, 5 rooms, good street, fine pretty hard. "You looked foolish the night you pro- for cow and chickens, not crowded ; convs. posed to me," reminisced Mrs. Spatt. except gas. . Repartee "I could never deceive you, could I, "Seems to me," said the little grape- darling?" her husband agreed. Aw, So's Your Old Man fruit, "you're too full of juice." [From Astoria (Ore.) Evening Budget] Retorted the big grapefruit : "I don't A Slap at Annabelle want any back talk from a young squirt Mr. Hampton expects to move to As- Y.) like you." [From the De Ruyter (N. Gleaner] toria right after July 1 with his wife and The Work Together Club met with Mrs. your old daughter. Take Them Right Along With You Ida Sanford at Manlius Wednesday of last week. The June meeting will be hell This Jazz Age in Kansas [Ad in Pittsburgh Press] with Mrs. Annabelle Benedict on June [Pottawatomi Mission dispatch to the 10th. The Rosenbnum Co. requires the service Holton (Kans.) Recorder] of several hundred thoroughly experienced Unimpressed ready-to-wear saleswomen. No news items have gone in from here "I'm selling a volume called 'The for two weeks for the reason that nothing A Tough Break Power of Politeness,' " announced the has happened, not even accidents nor the book agent. unexpected, so far as we know. People It was after the tornado. "I beg your pardon." replied the busi- already know about the weather changes "So when _ you came back from your ness man, as he kicked him downstairs, and that so-and-so ate Sunday dinner with visit." said a reporter to a man whose "but I've already read it." so-and-so. Ihe AMERICAN LEGION Trim Service PRESENTS

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EW hair for you treatment lias not done all I claimed for foods- no rubbing. And here's the won- in 30 days it. Without any excuses or alibis on my derful tiling about this system. It is sim- N o r absolutely part —without asking you a single ques- ple.- You can use it at home—in any no cost! There's my tion — I'll see that the thirty-day trial home that lias electricity—easily—without offer to you right in won't cost you a cent! the slightest discomfort. black and whiti —with- I have found during many years' re- out a single string at- search and from experience gained in Free Booklet Tells All tached to it. It makes no difference what treating thousands of cases of baldness at There's no room here to tell you all the present condition of your hair is the Merke Institute. Fifth Avenue. N. Y.. about your hair—and about the amazing whether it's half gone or all gone. I don't that in most cases of loss of hair the roots contract I offer you. But I will be glad care what or how many preparations are not dead—but merely dormant. to tell you all if you are interested. It's you've tried without re- Tt is useless and a waste free—absolutely without any obligations. sults—my scientific treat- HERE'S PROOF! of time and money to try Just mail the coupon and I will send you ment must grow new hair "The condition of my hair and get down to these un- in a plain envelope, without cost, a won- very bad. After six for you in thirty days or was dernourished roots with derfully interesting booklet that describes weeks' treatment with the I stand the cost. Thermocap my head was cov- tonics, massages, crude oil, in detail the system that is proving a boon ered with short hair and it etc., etc.. for measures Now I do not say that was no longer dull and life- such to thousands in this and other countries. the treatment all cases of baldness are less. I kept up only treat the surface of Mail this coupon and the booklet will and in return I have as good curable. There are some a head of hair as anyone the skin. reach you by return mail. could wish." Clarence Terpen- in But scientific system that nothing the world 158 Soutli Cedar Street, my ino, INSTITUTES, Inc., can help. Yet thousands Galesburg, III. involves the application of ALLIED MERKE Cap for 30 days "I used the Dept. 227, 512 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C. of people have already when to my great surprise I entirely new principles in coat of hair tested and proved my re- could see a new stimulating hair growth. coming and now my hair is markable treatment. In very near as good as it was It penetrates below the Allied Merke Institutes, Inc., started to come when it first surface of the scalp. It Dept. 237, 512 Fifth Ave., New York City. hundreds of seemingly out." J. C. Regan, 176 West obligations hopeless cases it has Strri't, Engleavood, N. J. stimulates the dormant Please send me—without cost or "Your Thermocap has done — in a plain envelope, a copy of your book, roots. It wakens them. worked wonders. Natu- a wonderful thing in bringing "The New Way to Grow Hair," describing the back my hair where all other rally I posi- The tiny capillaries begin Merke System. am downright things had failed. The top of tive that it can do the my head is now entirely cov- to pump nature's own ered with hair after using the Name same in your case. But if Thermocap for about two nourishment into them. hair seems a thirty-day trial proves months and new Hair begins to grow again. to be coming in all the time." Address I'm wrong—write me at Harry A. Brown, 21 Hamp- It takes on body and col- ton I'lace, Utica, N. Y. once, tell me that my or. No artificial hair Pity State