The American Legion Monthly [Volume 17, No. 6 (December 1934)]

N Ri c •w- 77ie JJmerican CODE Legio MONT L Y DECEMBER 1934 • Irving Bacheller • Hugh Wiley - John R.Tunis • Col.Theodore Roosevelt . STERLING (Sol. SILVER BUCKLE (Styled) American Legion ring or belt buckle is AL-15 — 10-K solid yellow gold ring with hand-carved eagles, and with solid gold midget emblem. One of the most popular uTtA the ideal Legionnaire Christmas gift. De- Legion rings $12.50 cidedly appropriate, either would most adequately AL-65—Sterling (solid) silver ring, with 10-K solid gold midget emblem. Plain Gypsy type mounting. A most unusual ring express your Christmas sentiments and provide at only $3.00 an almost everlasting source of pleasure to the wearer. Beautifully executed by master craftsmen, Q BELTS AND BUCKLES each one of these special offerings is truly an DIRIGOLD BUCKLE AND BELT SET—Here is an outstand- outstanding value. ing value. The buckle is made of Dirigold, a new metal which closely resembles gold. The American Legion emblem is beautifully reproduced in colors. The set consists of the Q RINGS buckle complete with one initial, and emblem, together with genuine cowhide belt (black or tan), packed in an attractive AL-2— 10-K solid rose gold ring, with solid gold midget em- gift container. Price, complete, only £j .00 blem, mounted on black onyx stone. Massive and distinctive, only $16.50 STERLING (solid) SILVER BUCKLE No. 4—This unusual buckle is furnished complete with three cut-out initials and a AL-4—Sterling (solid) silver ring, with 10-K solid gold midget gold-plated regulation size Legion emblem, beautifully enam- emblem, and eagle shanks. Beautiful, yet inexpensive $5.25 eled in colors. In ordering, be sure to carefully print or type AL-5—Sterling (solid) silver ring, with 10-K solid gold emblem the initials, and if a belt is ordered, give size and color. Buckle mounted on black onyx stone. Massive and decidedly out of only, complete with emblem and three cut-out initials $2.50 the ordinary „ $7.50 Genuine cowhide belt, additional -[ MAIL NOW ] STANDARD RING GAUGE Emblem Division, National Headquarters, American Legion 777 North Meridian, Indianapolis, Indiana. Here is my remittance for $ Please rush the following: RING SIZES Ring Style Size Dirigold belt set, initial belt size color Sterling silver buckle, initials belt size color Cut a slip of paper or string that will fit snugly around the second joint of the finger on which the ring is to be worn. This must be Name ._ done carefully and accurately to insure a proper St. Lay the paper or string with one end exactly on line "A," and the other end Street will indicate the correct ring size. Rings also furnished in half- etc. City .State sizes, i.e.. 7y2 , 10'/2 , DECEMBER, 1934 (fforQod and country , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes:Qo upholdanddefend the Constitution^ Jofthe UnitedStates of&lrnerica; to maintain law and order; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredperc^tAmericanism /' topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreatTWar; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obligation to the com* munity,state andnation; to comhat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses-, to make right the master ofmight; topromoted 1 peace andgood willon earth ;to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles qfjustice,Jreedom and democracy ; to conse- * crate aridsanctify our comradeship hy our devotion to mutual help/ulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion; December, 1934 Legionw- t7h e American MONTH L Y Published Monthly by The Legion Publishing Corporation, 45 s West 22nd Street, Chicago, Illinois BDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES EXECUTIVE OFFICES WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICB 521 Fifth Avenue, New York Indianapolis , Indiana 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago Editorial and Advertising Correspondence Should be Addressed to the New York Offices, All Other Mail to Indianapolis 0>over Design: On Guard at Valley Forge by Howard McCormack To Hide and to Hold by Thomas J. Malone 3 Decoration by William Heaslip The Turning Tide by Irving Bacheller 5 Illustrations by Will Graven The Command Is Still Forward 6 Home Groan by Hugh Wiley 8 Illustrations by Wallace Morgan 100,000 Miles Without a Bicycle by Boyd B. Stutler 12 While the World Listens by John R. Tunis 14 They Called Me Dad by James H. Gray 16 Illustration by Frank Street Out of the Desert—an Empire by Alexander Gardiner 18 Not by Bread Alone by Col. Theodore Roosevelt 23 — Illustration by Herbert Morton Stoops Five Firsts There Weren't Any More by John J. Daly 24 Twelve Rules for Tire Health by K. D. Smith 26 Pockets by Wallgren 28 Bursts and Duds Conducted by Dan Sowers 29 Advance Men for Santa Claus by Philip Von Blon 3° Souvenirs Again by John J. Noll 34 The Voice of the Legion 37 Education of War Orphans Compiled by Major General P. C. Harris 38 / -SHE American Legion pearing on this issue by ~J Monthly has been re- sending ten cents in stamps ceiving many requests for or coin to the Cover Print reproductions of its cover Department, The American paintings in a form suitable Legion Monthly, Indianapo- for framing. Arrangements lis, Indiana. The print is in have been made to supply full color and of the same them. You may obtain a re- size as the cover design, but production of the cover ap- is without lettering. The American Legion Monthly is the official publication of The American Legion, and is George L. Berry, Pressmen's Home, Term.; Vilas H. Whaley, Racine, Wis.; James G. Harbordj owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1934 by The Legion Publishing Cor- New York City; A. Stanley Llewellyn, Camden, S. C; Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Frank poration. Entered as second class matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Postoffice at Chicago, 111., under L. Pinola, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. General Manager, James F. Barton; Business Manager, Richard E, the Act of March 3, 1879. President, Edward A. Hayes, Indianapolis, Ind.; Vice-President, Brann; Eastern Advertising Manager, Douglas P. Maxwell; Western Advertising Manage*, John D. Ewing, Shreveport, La.; Secretary, Frank E. Samuel, Indianapolis, Ind.; Treasurer, Frank H. Tyson; Editor, John T. Winterich; Managing Editor, Philip Von Blon; Art Editor, Bowman Elder, Indianapolis, Ind. Board of Directors: John D. Ewing, Shreveport, La.; Philip William MacLean; Associate Editors, Alexander Gardiner and John J. Noll. Acceptance for L. Sullivan, Chicago, 111.; William H. Doyle, Maiden, Mass.; Henry L. Stevens, Jr., Warsaw, mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, author- N. C.; Louis Johnson, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Jean R. Kinder, Lincoln, Neb.; Harry C. Jackson, ized January 5, 1925. Price, single copy 25 Cents, yearly subscription in the United States New Britain, Conn.; Phil Conley, Charleston, W. Va.; Edward A. Hayes, Indianapolis, Ind and possessions of the United States $1.50, in Canada $2, in other countries $2.50. T n reporting change of address (to Indianapolis office) be sure to include the old address as well as the new 2 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly To Hide an To Hold Thomas ^.OVlalone illustration by'M^illiamy^easlip of man's chief concerns, from earliest times, has ONEbeen where to put his belongings for safekeeping and for getting at. Beginning with simple natural recepta- cles, the range of his depositories has extended from the closed hand, the hollow tree and the secret cave to iron- banded chest, portable steel safe, stone-enclosed treasure room and modern safety-deposit vault of steel and reinforced concrete. Did not the old-time sailorman park his quid in his ear? It is notable that in the Federal bank "holiday" of March, 1933, one activity only of banks and trust companies, except for mere change-making services, was continued as usual without restriction throughout, that of safety deposit. Customers had access to their rented safe-deposit boxes or their stored bulk valuables, whatever else was closed down. Hoarders of money, who received blame for having contributed to the very conditions that had led to the holiday, were able to put more money in their boxes or to take money out despite the general shortage of currency. Persons with interest coupons falling due, insurance policies to cash in, notes to collect or renew, wills to revise, simply went and got the papers. Culmination of a period that had seen men having less and less of valuables to be stored, the holiday stressed the peculiar nature and convenience of a safe-deposit box. I mean to go into these considerations presently, but first something on the evolution of the safe box seems in order. The modern safety-deposit vault, in which the safe-deposit box is contained, is the latest word in the long series of successive advances in means of guarding man's possessions against the menaces of fire, theft, storm, riot, flood and his own carelessness. It connotes not only the crude depositories of prehistoric folk but the (Continued on page 44) DECEMBER, 1934 lURNING 1IDE £3y j7ri?iny (3ac/iel/er AFAMOUS Novelist and Commentator Takes Us Back Over Traveled Roads to a Simpler, Unspoiled America, and Sees in the Signs of the Times a Return to the Stand- ards That Made America Great Q)ecoratiori btf Itfill Graven 'E HAVE been Kreugered and Caponed and Dillingered, racketeered and kidnapped W until we don't know where we are at or just how we got there. We are like an Arctic explorer seeing things that no living man has seen before, and we have to find our way out. Many of our cities have been mayored and aldermanded and magistrated into bankruptcy. Life seems to have turned into something like the old game of grab.

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