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Cover Design: the spirit of 19 17 by Howard Chandler Christy The Message Center by The Editor A Month That Made History Decorative border by William Heaslip A Pass to Paris by William Slavens McNutt Illustrations by Kenneth Camp

Why We Went to War bv Newton D. Baker With portrait by Frank Moore Studio The War Path by Henry W. Daly 16 Illustration by Remington Schuyler

How We Revisited France by J. J. Jusserand 21 Eggs by Drew Hill 22 Illustrations by Wallace Morgan Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 26

Extracts from President Wilson's address to Congress, April 2, 191 7, calling for a declaration of war against the Imperial German Government Ten Years Ago 28 They Also Serve: part three by Peter B. Kyne 30 Illustrations by C. LeRoy Baldridge Next Stop— Paris by Lt. Cmdr. Noel Davis, U. S. N. 34 With portrait by Campbell Studio In O. Henry's Home Town by A. B. Bernd 36 Remember the Firsts of 1917? by Wallgren 38 Bursts and Duds with cartoon by Don Herold 39 Why They Want to Go to France by Frederick C. Painton 40 With prize -winning essays by Robert McKinnis, Faustus P. Hardesty and Harry C. Westover A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 43 A Teacher Who Is Still Learning by Clara Ingram Judson 44 Keeping Step by Right Guide 46 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 49 On To Paris 50

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WHEN Chauncey M. Depew's "Pres- THOSE who enjoyed reading "The artist; the country penetrated was so idents and Others" appeared in the Powder - Stained 70's" by Major tremendously difficult that no photo- January number, the Message Center re- Henry W. Daly in the October, 1926, graphic apparatus could have been taken marked: "Mr. Depew is the only Ameri- issue of the Monthly will welcome "The —no photographer would ever have can we can think of who has enjoyed the War Path" in this issue, another colorful dreamed of trying. For likenesses, cos- honor of having a statue of himself un- and accurate picture of the days when tumes and background, the artist had to veiled during his lifetime. (Are we the West was the West and Indians were fall back upon such photographs as were wrong? If not, tell others; if yes, tell Indians, including as it does a vivid ac- available. Chief among the actual pictures us.)" The alibi has proved highly use- count of the Custer massacre. Letters to which he referred in making up his group ful. Seven correspondents informed us discussing Major Daly's first article con- was one of the C. S. Fly (not Sly) photo- of four similar instances, as recorded in tinue to come in. The most recent is one graphs alluded to. This particular copy last month's Message Center, and here inspired bv a communication from Colo- of the photograph, together with a num- are six more letters, with mention of four nel Charles D. Roberts, General Staff, ber of other photographs, was owned by new candidates, making, with Senator U. S. A., a member of Plattsburg (New my father, Lieutenant C. B. Gatewood, Depew, nine Americans who have en- York) Post, which was quoted in the Feb- Sixth Cavalry, and was loaned to Mr. joyed the distinction of having statues of ruary Message Center. A likeness of Hayes by him for the use of the artist. themselves unveiled during their life- Colonel Roberts, some forty-one years That the bronze bas relief on the Crook times. Are there any other names? younger than he is today, appeared in monument reminds one strongly of the the photograph of the conference be- photograph of the conference in March, tween Major General George Crook and 1886, is entirely due to its liberal use as FOUR of last month's correspondents Geronimo which accompanied "The Pow- a source of by the artist. He called our attention to the statue of der-Stained 70's." This photograph, Colo- produced an artist's conception of what John F. Stevens erected at Marias Pass, nel Roberts explained, was taken by "an the group would have looked like had all Montana (not Washington, as we er- enterprising photographer named Sly, the principal characters in the campaign roneously stated), to signalize Mr. from Tombstone, Arizona," and "forms of 1883 been assembled. To a certain Stevens's discovery of a route for the the basis for a large bronze bas relief on extent, such a grouping is fictitious, but Great Northern Railway which resulted the monument over General Crook's the characters shown and the main event in a saving of two hundred miles and a grave in Arlington National Cemetery. commemorated are decidedly not ficti- reduced grade. Donald F. Stevens, In this bronze, however, historical ac- tious. The memorial is a joint one to General Superintendent, Northwest Dis- curacy has been sacrificed by changing General Crook and his right-hand men trict, and Ohio Railroad, sends the faces on some of the figures so as to during several years of strenuous and ef- a photograph of the statue with John F. make some persons who were not fective campaigning against the Apaches, Stevens beside it —John F. Stevens is his there." and everyone w ho is shown in that me- father—which is reproduced in the Keep- morial has all the right in the world to ing Step department this month. his place." MAJOR C. B. GATEWOOD, U. S. A., Retired, of San Diego (California) REV. R. A. WILDRICK, Chaplain of Post takes issue with Colonel Roberts in NEWTON D. BAKER was Secretary relief. Raymond Pellington Post of Pater- the matter of the Crook bas He of War from 1916 to 1921 . . . J. j. son, New Jersey, and Louis Feinberg of writes: "It should be understood that Jusserand (full name Jean Adrien An- Heiser Post of Brooklyn, New York, General Crook's conferences with the toine Jules Jusserand) was French am- temporarily resident at United States renegade Chiricahua Apache chiefs dur- bassador to the United States for almost

Veterans Hospital No. 98 at Castle Point, ing the last of March, 1886 (during one a quarter of a century . . . William New York, inform us that in Paterson of which the picture in question was Slavens McNutt is a well-known writer of there is a statue erected to former Mayor taken), do not include the most important short stories. During the war he was a Nathan Barnert in honor of his numerous services which General Crook rendered correspondent in France and inhaled a

benefactions to the city, including a hos- against the Apaches. Prior to that date whiff of enemy gas . . . Drew Hill pital. Thomas H. Latta of Merion he already had a long and successful served in the 27th Division ... An (Pennsylvania) Post tells us that a statue record of achievement in Arizona. His interesting account of the career of of Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, a former prov- greatest single feat was his penetration Lieutenant Commander Noel Davis wil> ost of the University of Pennsylvania of the Apache country of the Sierra Madre be found in the Keeping Step depart- with a military ex- and a distinguished chemist, has been Mountains of Mexico ment . . . A. B. Bernd is a Georgian. erected on the campus of the university. pedition in 1883, a thing never before ac- He wrote "When in Rome, Take In the Dr. P. J. Meehan of Lowell, Massachu- complished in three hundred years of Fair" which appeared in the November, and whites. Apaches . . setts, writes: "In the city of Lowell, in warfare between 1926, issue . Frederick C. Painton O'Connell Parkway, facing the main en- Not only did this expedition result in the is director of The American Legion then hostile and ren- trance of the city hall, you will find a surrender of all the News Service . . . Clara Ingram Jud- statue of William Cardinal O'Connell of egade Apaches, but it shook their con- son, nationally known authority on home the archdiocese of . This statue fidence in the impregnability of their economics and child training, is a fre- was erected by the citizens of his native mountain strongholds and was the great- quent contributor to The American Le- city in honor of her illustrious son." Dr. est single factor in their final subjugation. gion Monthly. Ray G. Hulburt, for the American Osteo- Upon General Crook's death, in 1890, a pathic Association, writes from Chicago friend and admirer, Webb Hayes of St. that a bronze statue of Dr. Andrew Tay- Louis, commissioned an artist to design lor Still, founder of osteopathy, was un- a fitting memorial, having reference par- veiled in Dr. Still's presence in 1917 in his ticularly to this remarkable expedition. home town of Kirksville, Missouri. There were no photographs to assist the Monthly 4 The AMERICAN LEGION What's the Reason for the overwhelming popularity of the new ADLER COLLEGIAN TWO-PANTS SUITS?

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© D. A vPRIL, A MONTH THAT MADE HISTORY The Story ofApril, 1917

1 Department of Justice cgents announce arrests 16th: Sir John Jellicoe, British Admiralty head, alarmed ^4-. in that foiled a German plot to in- at German submarine activity, urges America to send to volve the United States with Mexico by starting war zone any kind of ships she can spare, even tug boats. a war with Salvador and Costa Rica on one side and Nica- Federal shipping board, organized as $50,000,000 corpora- ragua on the other. tion with General George W. Goethals as general manager, 2d: President Wilson appears before a joint session of announces plan to build at once one thousand ships of from Congress and asks for an immediate declaration of war three thousand to five thousand tons. against the Imperial German Government because of the 17th: Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, reports that unrestricted submarine campaign. Army enlistments are averaging 1,434 a day, and Navy 3d: State Department report shows that German sub- Department reports Navy enrolling one thousand a day, marines have sunk, since 1014, 686 neutral vessels, includ- with 71,696 men in service of 87,500 authorized. bill. ing 19 American. German Army on Western front ends its iSth : Senate, 84 to o, passes $7,000,000,000 war loan voluntary retreat to the Hindenburg Line. 19th: War Department takes over German steamship 4th: The Senate, 82 to 6, after a thirteen-hour debate line's piers at Hoboken, New Jersey, as a government passes the joint war resolution at n :n p.m. declaring that shipping base. a state of war exists between the United States and the 20th: The Stars and Stripes flies over Houses of Parlia- Imperial German Government. ment at London for the first time in history and over Eiffel 5th: Council of National Defense, authorized under the Tower and Hotel de Ville at Paris when England and Army Appropriations Act of August 29, 1916, "for the co- France formally celebrate our entry into the war. ordination of industries and resources for the national se- 21st: British High Commission headed by Arthur J. curity and welfare," composed of the Secretaries of War, Balfour, Foreign Minister, en route to Washington, greeted the Navy, the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce and by official American reception committee at Vanceboro, Labor, begins to function under war conditions. Maine.

6th : ending The House, by a vote of 373 to 50, after a seventeen- 22d : German submarines sank forty ships in week hour debate passes the joint war resolution at 3:12 a.m. this day. President Wilson signs it at 1:13 p.m. and also issues a 23d:' Diplomatic relations between United States and proclamation that a state of war exists between the United Turkey broken, but no state of war follows. Applicants for States and the Imperial German Government. ofticers* training camps swamp recruiting offices in many 7th: Cuba declares war on Germany. cities for camps that are to open May 8th. 8th: Austro-Hungarian ambassador asks for his pass- 24th: French High Commission, headed by Ren6 Vivi- ports as his government breaks diplomatic relations with ani, Minister of Justice, and Marshal Joffre, arrives on

United States, war declaration coming December 7, 1917. French warships at Hampton Roads. oth: United States seizes fourteen interned Austrian 25th: William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, ships. Council of National Defense creates General Mu- makes the first war loan, handing a $200,000,000 check to nitions Board, compo.-ed of fifteen Army and Navy officers Lord Cunliffe, governor of the Bank of England. and five civilians. 26th: New York bakers announce twenty- five percent

1 oth: Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, asks the price increase effective April 30th. newspapers not to print any news concerning the arrival or 27th: Marshal Joffre lectures before the War College at departure of any ship. Washington on modern warfare. House, 170 to 106, re- nth: Herbert C. Hoover becomes Food Administrator. jects former President Roosevelt's plan to raise a volun- 1 2th: United States Navy agrees to patrol coastal waters teer division for immediate service in France. of the western hemisphere, releasing French and English 28th: House passes bill empowering the President to warships for war zone duty. raise the Regular Army to 287,000 men and the National 13th: Germans who had second citizenship papers be- Guard to 025,000, and' to draft 500.000 men by universal fore the war declaration are entitled to take final oath of obligatory service, naming June 5th as registration day. American citizenship, rules United States Circuit Court of The House fixes the ages at from 21 to 40, the Senate at Appeals at New York. from 21 to 27, but later in conference the age limits are 14th: House of Representatives, 3S9 to o, authorizes fixed at from 21 to 31. Secretary McAdoo christens $7,000,000,000 loan to finance the war, including issuance authorized bond issue "Liberty Loan." of $2,000,000,000 in treasury certificates to be met by war 29th: Marshal Joffre in a speech at Mt. Vernon says taxes and of $5,000,000,000 in "Old Glory Bonds," of which that America should not only send money and food to the $3,000,000,000 will be lent to Allied nations. George Creel Allies but should dispatch 'fighting troops to France at named chairman of Committee on Public Information. once, even if only a unit at a time. 15th: President in new proclamation urges all Americans 30th: Six base hospital units ordered into service, pre- to support the war. sumablv destined for "Somewhere in France." 1917 APRIL 1917

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>EB HAW- LEY and Boze Grout stood on the corner watching the pa- rade pass. It was the year of our excitement, 191 7. Flags were flying. Bands were playing. Four-minute speakers were telling the world that they would go over person- ally and slit the Kaiser's throat with their own pen knives only for the A month later the M. P.'s got

' unfortunate Bo^e Grout. "I've had mine , fact that they he said. 'Try an take it away all had flat feet and were from me, you guys" needed at home. Prize- foreigners nobody ever heard of before in a lot o' fighters were places nobody's ever been to are all fightin' for a wreaking their lot o' countries nobody wants to live in if they fury on red- win 'em. The thing looks like a lot o' gooseflesh hot rivets in to me, I'm here to say." mushroom Web grinned contentedly. "We got nothin' to scream about," shipyards. Ex- he reminded Boze. "Wages is better'n they ever been yet." pert accoun- "I ain't screamin'," Boze declared. "I'm just wonderin' out tants were loud, that's all. What do you suppose all them guys got in their driving trucks. heads, tryin' to beat this army game? What do they go into it Truck drivers were being taught to count so they could keep for? If they live they don't get enough to live on an' if they die books for the Q. M. C. All cowboys were drilling in infantry they're dead. What's the big idea?" outfits and every professional pedestrian in the country had "Maybe they think they're goin' to be heroes," Web suggested. joined the cavalry and was out for to see the world from the "Heroes!" Boze exclaimed scornfully. "What a line graft that hurricane deck of a war horse. The war was on and every man hero thing is for a young guy tryin' to get along in the world! I was in his place. That is to say all square pegs were in round know about them heroes. They bury 'em young an' forget 'em holes and all round pegs were in square holes and all was efficiency. fast an' then put up statues of 'em for the birds to sit around on. The corner that Web Hawley and Boze Grout stood on was lo- Say, you never seen a statue of one o' them heroes any place with cated in the town of Dahlia, Oregon. The town was filled with a grin on his face, did you?" excitement. Web and Boze were filled with beer. They were Web considered. "No," he admitted. "Don't know 's I ever just down from a long job in the woods and they had money in did." their pockets and civilian clothes on their backs. That was only "That ain't no accident," Boze assured him. "There's a reason. the half of it. They were loggers, and loggers were needed at What have they got to grin about?" home. The airplanes had to have spruce, didn't they? Well, Spud Lenihan came around the corner. Spud had worked with then! Don't be silly. Web and Boze in the woods. He was in khaki, brand new khaki Web Hawley was long and lank. Boze Grout was short and that hung on him like an elephant's hide. wide. Also thick. He was thicker than Web from the neck down. "Well, would you look at what went an' jumped off the dock!" He was known, however, to have a longer head than Web. The Boze greeted him. tape measure wouldn't agree to this, but it was true. " 'Lo, boys," said Spud, grinning. "What do you think o' me?" A column of infantry passed. Boze Grout shook his head and "You'll never know," Boze said sadly. "The fix you're in you sighed sympathetically. got trouble enough without findin' out what I think of you." "Thirty dollars a month," he murmured. "Thirty a month to "You think I'm a sucker, don't you?" Spud asked. join a travellin' jail with no roof to it! Thirty a month to go play "You guessed part of it," Boze admitted. tag with a lot 0' loose bullets an' cannon balls just 'cause a lot o' Spud laughed. "You ain't ever been to Paris, have you?" he

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inquired, a grin settling rather slowly over his bronzed face. fist, "the way these Germans been doin', d'yuh know that!" "Paris!" said Boze. "It gets my goat," Web exclaimed. "Paris?" said Web. "They started it, didn't they?" Boze said truculently. "You heard me," said Spud. "You've read about Paris, ain't "Sure they started it," Web agreed. "The dirty bums." you?" "Well, then!" Boze exclaimed. "We're Americans, ain't we?" "I seen some pictures that come from there once," Boze re- "I'll say we are," said Web. plied. "A fellow I knew had 'em." "We don't take any back talk from anybody, do we? Huh?" "You ain't goin' to Paris!" Web scoffed. "We do not!" "Ain't I?" said Spud aggravatingly. "Wait till I get back." "They're callin' for men, ain't they?" "The war ain't in Paris," Boze insisted. "Don't you think I "You bet your life they are." read?" "We're men, ain't we?" "I know it ain't in Paris," Spud agreed. "It's right close "I'll tell the cockeyed world." though, ain't it?" Boze banged the bar once more. "What's the good o' bein' close if you ain't close enough?" "Let's act like men then," he suggested vehemently. "Let's go." Boze argued. "There's guys down here in jail close to bein' "I'm game," said Web. outside. Nothin' but a half inch of iron bars between them an' They linked arms and started. the sidewalk, but you don't see 'em walkin' up and down on it, On their way to the recruiting station they passed a group of do you?" young fellows in civilian clothes. "Ever hear of leave in the Army?" Spud asked. "Look at them lousy slackers," Boze said bitterly. "Are they "Leavin' the Army!" Boze exclaimed. "Don't be dumb, Spud. goin' towards the recruitin' station? They are not." They shoot you for that when there's a war." "I'll say they ain't!" said Web. "White-livered pups!" "No, no," Spud said impatiently. "Like a vacation. After At the recruiting station Web Hawley had a thought. you've been in the Army for awhile an' behave yourself they give "Should we ought to ask 'em if we get a pass or no after we you a pass an' you can go wherever you want till your time's up." been in the Army awhile?" he asked. "Oh," said Boze. "A pass, huh?" "Um!" said Boze. "That ain't a bad idea." "Sure," said Spud. "When I get over to France I'll be there They asked a sergeant. for awhile right close to Paris where the war is. Then after I've "Sure!" said the sergeant. "Certainly. Any old time. Just been there maybe a month or maybe less why I'll get a pass, see? ask for 'em. That's all you got to do. Just ask." A pass to Paris." Web and Boze looked at each other. Boze drew a long breath. "A pass to Paris!" Boze repeated with a hint of envy in his His manner was that of a man standing on a springboard just voice. prior to diving into uncomfortably cold water. "You heard me," said Spud. "I'm dumb, am I? Listen, how "Well," he said stoutly. "Let's go." much do you know about Paris?" They went. "I've heard about it," Boze said cautiously. "Me too," Web chimed in. "I've heard about it." "I had an uncle run off to sea an' he went to Paris," Spud went APASS to Paris! The hope of that stimulated and sustained on. "He used to sit an' tell me about it by the hour. When I long Web Hawley and broad Boze Grout throughout the get back I'll tell you all the details. You stick here in Oregon and dull, disillusioning grind of the training camp. It was their pet watch the sun come up an' go down. Me, I'm goin' to see Paris." topic of conversation while they were jolted across the continent He strutted jauntily away. Boze and Web glowered after him. in a crawling troop train with a mad passion for long siestas on "Let's get us a drink," Boze suggested gloomily. sidings in desolate spots. They treasured the thought of it in They went to a place, breasted a bar and rested their elbows their hearts between spells of seasickness on a rough trip from thereon. Hoboken to Brest. They even managed to kid themselves into "He'll never get to Paris," Boze scoffed. thinking their dream might come true for a little while after "Sure not," said Web. "What a chance!" they landed in France. And that last was a record of hope They sipped their beer in thoughtful silence for a long time. retained. "His uncle was kiddin' him," Boze said. At length, however—and the length was not so long at that "Sure," said Web. "Just stringin' him along." the bitter facts about life in the A. E. F. refused to be ignored, More beer. More silence. More thought. Still more beer. even by Web Hawley and Boze Grout. They were forced to the "You can't tell, though," Boze admitted. realization that there just wasn't going to be no pass to "I've heard a lot o' talk about Paris." Paris no time nohow. Their dream was shattered. Their "So've I," Web said, nodding. "Lots of hope was blighted. Their faith was wrecked. They were it." stung. So far as they were concerned the war was a bust. "Let's have another," said Boze. Nothing short of a miracle could make it anything else. They did. They were desperate. Web Hawley was so desperate "I wonder how the grub is in the Army?" that his brain functioned in a crisis. If you knew Web Boze said thoughtfully. Hawley you would realize the extent of desperation there- "I hear both ways," Web answered. by indicated. "Some say one thing an' some another." It was deep dusk. Web was meandering mournfully "I wonder how the hours are?" along the cobbled street of the little village in which his "They might not outfit was billeted. Marie was a village be so bad." girl. The flesh of some thirty-eight glut- Boze squinted at tonous years lay ample over her ox-like his reflection in the frame. Her hair was scant and stringy, back bar mirror. her skin was muddy, her eyes were dull and "I see in the paper her teeth, which were of the variety known the other day as buck, mutely bespoke her as one of the where it says that four out of five who get it before forty. She the Americans '11 was no bargain, but she talked a little Eng- never get into any lish. She wanted to marry Web and go "You got lots of ttme," o' the real fightin'," to America with him. Web, for his part, Bo%e assured bun. "I'm he said. "It says endured her for the privilege of having sober. I'll see you get it'll be over before some one other than the men in his own the train" they get started at outfit to talk with. it." As they walked in the near dark a man "I seen that," Web replied, putting away another drink. passed them walking rapidly. It could be seen that he was a "That looks sensible to me," Boze went on. "This Kaiser French soldier. A bit of light from a wine-shop window fell on ain't dumb. He'll most likely call the thing off when he sees the his face. Americans are comin' in." "Oho!" said Marie. "Monsieur Dornet. He is retorn back "Sure he will," said Web. "He knows when he's licked." from ze front." They had another drink. "Dornet!" said Web sharply. "Listen—he ain't the husband "It's a shame," Boze said forcefully, banging the bar with his to that—that Dornet woman down at the end of the street, is he? The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly " 1

"What's this, ivhat's this!" the major yelped. "What do you mean by coming in here like— " "Cheese it!" Web panted. "He's coming"

The good-lookin' one that lives near the hotel de ville?" "Cheese it!" Web panted. "He's coming!" "But yes," said Marie. "He is zee one." "Coming? Coming?" the major repeated. It was then that Web's brain functioned. He went away from "Her old man," Web gasped. "He's back from the front. Marie without apology or farewell, running rapidly and obliquely Listen." across the street. Arrived on the opposite side, he stretched him- The sound of rapid footsteps was audible. self for speed, rapidly leaving behind the also hurrying Dornet, "That's him," said Web. "Cheese!" who had come back from the front. "Good Lord!" said the major, paling. "Good Lord!" Arrived at the end of the village street he rushed up the steps Web pointed to an open window in the rear of the room. of a house and burst in without knocking. A comely woman and "Lam!" he commanded. "Beat it!" a corpulent man sat together on a lounge. The woman was The major lammed. His foot caught in a vine and he fell on dressed in a dress and the man was dressed in the uniform of an his face in the garden. Not knowing of this mishap and hearing American major. The woman was Madame Dornet, the most the steps of the returning back-from-the-front Dornet almost at attractive of her sex in the village. The man was Major Blagdon. the door, Web lammed too, feet first and without restraint. He He jumped to his feet, crimson and sputtering, as Web Hawley landed hard on the major's back. The officer's breath went from stumbled in. him with a whoosh like that of air bursting from a badly punc- "What's this? What's this?" he yelped. "What do you mean tured tire, and he went limp, momentarily unconscious. by coming in here like— In the room immediately above and behind him Web heard the

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'Thirty dollars a month" murmured Web. Thirty

sounds of an enthusiastic greeting between the returned back- "Urn!" said the major, fidgeting. "Well, well. Most unfor- from-the-front French soldier and his loving wife. It occurred to tunate. Damn it! What did you come rushing in there and him that if he could hear those sounds so plainly from where he scare me for? There wasn't any real reason for me to—ah lay, those in the room in turn could hear any made by him—or leave so suddenly. I should have stayed and met the man the major. damn it!" Web was sure that the major would not be noisy if he was him- "He's there," Web reminded him. "You could go back an' self. But he was not himself. He was out cold. Knocked for a meet him if you want." row of little paper wastebaskets, and the sounds he might make "Um!" said the major. "Not a bit of harm in my being there. when he began to come to life Just visiting. There on business, as a matter of fact. Some of Cautiously Web got to his feet, inserted a thumb between the the men have been stealing her hens. Dropped in to see her about back of the major's ample neck and the collar of his tunic, gripped it. Damn it!" hard and carefully but firmly, and dragged him away from there, "Yes, sir," said Web. face down and head first. He had negotiated close to two hun- "Um," said the major. "What are you giggling about?" dred yards when the major squirmed and wheezed and mumbled, "Not giggling, sir," Web protested. "Got something in my giving thus unmistakable indications of returning consciousness. throat." "What's this?" he muttered thickly. "What's this?" "Um," said the major. "Hell! I should have— stayed and met "Shut up," said Web. the man. Can't tell, though. These French The major struggled and got to his feet. He broke off and stood silent for a little. "What's this?" he repeated. "What's this?" "How—how are you getting along?" he asked at last, awk- "I just been helpin' you to get away from the house there so's wardly. the lady's old man wouldn't find you," Web explained. "Rotten," said Web. "Good Lord!" said the major, full consciousness returning sud- "Um," said the major. " What—er—ah—what's the trouble?" denly. "I thought he shot me." "I can't get a pass to Paris," Web explained. "Guess maybe he would of if I hadn't seen him on the street "A pass to Paris!" and darn near run myself loose from my feet to get to you in time "Yes, sir," Web said gloomily. "You see my sister lives there to tip you off," Web reminded him. an' she's liable to die any minute an' here I am in France doin' "Ah, yes," said the major uncomfortably. "Yes, yes. Ah my part an' I can't even get away for a couple o' days to go up urn—but, good Lord! I thought he did shoot me. I felt some- an' see her." thing hit me." "Your sister lives in Paris?" "You must o' fell an' hit your head I guess when you went "Yes, sir," Web lied tearfully. "She married a Frog. My through the window," Web said diplomatically. "You was lyin' only sister. Before the war come on. Her old man was killed there stone cold when I climbed out." in the Army an' she's up there all alone with her three kids an'

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she's got consumption an' liable to die any minute. You couldn't could they? Prob'ly if I was gone a couple o' weeks they'd for- do anything to help me get a pass to Paris so's I could see her, get all about askin' me by the time I got back." could you?" "Um," said the major. "Er—yes. In the morning, Hawley. "Um," said the major. "I'm afraid not." Damn it. In the morning." "What are you afraid of?" Web asked. "What's that?" said the major. "What's that? What did you say?" THE next afternoon Boze Grout found Web packing a musette "You said you was afraid not," Web explained. "I was just the while he whistled a merry tune. askin' what you was afraid of?" "Shut up," said Boze, heaving a shoe at him. "What you got "Um," said the major. "It's just possible I'll be able to ar- to whistle about?" range it." "Plenty," said Web. "Yes, sir," said Web, brightening. "Yeh?" Boze jeered. "I s'pose you got a pass to Paris, huh?" "Um," said the major. "That's all." "That's it," said Web. Web turned away. The major stopped him. "What?" "About this business tonight," he said. "Damned unfortu- "A pass to Paris." nate. Silly mistake. Might be misunderstood. Don't say any- Boze stared. "You kiddin' me?" thing about it to—er—-the men or—er—anybody, eh?" Web passed over the precious slip of paper. "Yes, sir," said Web. "When do you think you could get it for "Cast your eagle eye over that, wise guy," he invited him. me, sir?" "You think I'm kind o' dumb, don't you? You think you're "Get what?" pretty smooth, huh? Well whenever you get yourself one o' "The pass to Paris, sir?" them things come an' call on me, kid, an' I'll think about lettin' "Can't promise, damn it!" the major said testily. "Can't you join my class." promise." "Well, barefoot shivering Siwash!" Boze exclaimed solemnly, "Yes, sir," said Web. "You an' me both." inspecting the pass. "How'd you get it?" "What's that?" said the major. "What's that?" "It's a gift," Web said loftily. "You got to be born with it. I'd "Could you get it tomorrow, do you think?" Web persisted. tell you how to do it if I could, but it's no use. You simply ain't "Um," said the major. "Your sister's very sick, you say? got the knack." Sad case. Damn sad. Too bad. Unusual circumstance. Per- Grout's eyes narrowed menacingly for a moment. Then his haps—er—in the morning, Hawley. In the morning." face cleared and he smiled. "Yes, sir," said Hawley. "If I got it in the morning an' got "I give it to you, old timer," he said heartily. "You're there. right away then if anybody heard anything tonight or seen any- I didn't think you had it in you." thing they couldn't come around botherin' me askin' about it, "I don't go 'round crackin' smart all (Continued on page 85)

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k N APRIL 6, io Upon the outbreak of the Congress, by joint war in Europe, public opin- resolution, de- ion in America was pro- clared that a state J_ J f T X JL A X~ foundly shocked, but there of war existed between the was nowhere any feeling United States and the Im- that we were or could be perial German Government, made a party to the con- and authorized the Presi- C flict. The President not dent to use the armed forces 'Newton D.

trously in i cj 1 4 is not surprising. War moved and we were neutral to a degree that probably upon Europe from mysterious sources, caused never has before happened under similar cir- by exactly what nobody seemed to know, and for cumstances. objects which no nation felt it possible to state. Among our own citizens were great bodies of Since the Armistice every European country has been men and women, wholly loyal to the United States as busy trying to vindicate its own freedom from the guilt of the land of their adoption, but with sentimental ties to this having either desired or caused the war. It is not strange that or that European nation as their homeland. But even these people who saw the smiling face of peace so swiftly covered with citizens argued their views with reserve and without passion and the hideous mask of war in August, 1014, should fear that the they, in common with the rest of us, were caught up by the same obscure and resistless causes might again, at any time, President's vision of the chance which might come for the United render futile the bravest efforts of any people to live in peace. States, as common friend, to do the world a master service and The case with the American soldier, however, is different, and bring about a speedy restoration of peace on just and enduring when I receive letters, as I occasionally do, from veterans of the terms. The fretting interruptions to our world trade we passed American Army, asking me why we went to war, and whether we along to the State Department, confident that in the day of were not after all victimized by some sort of propaganda, I feel reckoning proper account would be taken of losses unintention- driven to restate, as simply as I can, what seemed very clear to ally imposed upon us. Violations of the laws of humanity, which me in 1917. had been long recognized as applying to civilized warfare, served As to the cause of the W orld War I shall not try to forecast only to illustrate to us the desperate and relentless character of the verdict of history. Scholars and partisans are busy develop- the conflict. Throughout the whole country our first thought ing fresh data, or rearranging their prejudices, upon the vast was to strengthen the Red Cross and any other agencies which we complex of economic and racial antagonisms before which di- could offer, consistently with our neutral character, to relieve plomacy failed and armies marched in 10 14. We have not yet suffering on both sides. come to one mind as to whether fear or ambition drove Alexander From the very beginning, both our Government and our people the Great to world conquest, and it is safe to predict that long were aware of breaches of our hospitality and offenses against our after secret archives have ceased to reveal unsuspected plots and neutrality by secret service agents and propaganda activities counterplots, diplomatic intrigues and military conversions, there which are sufficiently recalled for the present purpose by the will still be war among the scholars. Some will accent one event names Karl Buenz, Boy-Ed, von Papen, von Igel and the dis- and some another. Pan-Germanism, pan-Slavism, the raw ma- patches carried by Archibald in which Dr. Dumba, the Austrian terial resources of the outlands, and a lot of other things and com- ambassador, outlined to his government plans for an extensive binations of things, will bear their part of the distributed re- disorganization of American industry by strikes and other ac- sponsibility for having opened the door and let out the Four tivities secretly carried on through the German military attache. Horsemen for their mad ride. From time to time there developed evidence that the Hohenzol- In a great Memorial Day address in 1884 Mr. Justice Holmes lern policy was deliberately one of world conquest in which said: America's case was simply deferred until after the anticipated "To the individual inquirer who asks why Memorial Day occupation of Paris and London. Before we went into the war is still kept up we might answer, it celebrates and solemnly it was in fact shown by the intercepted Zimmermann dispatches to re-affirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and Germany's representative in Mexico that the German plan had faith. It embodies in the most impressive form our belief been so far matured that it looked to bringing about a military that to act with enthusiasm and faith is the condition of combination between Mexico and Japan which would attack the acting greatly. To fight out a war you must believe some- United States, with German support, and dismember our country thing and want something with all your might." by annexing Texas, Arizona and New Mexico to Mexico. That we had enthusiasm and faith in 1917 and 1918 is a part This is cited not as an active cause of any grievance long en- of the fibre of every man's memory who lived through those days. tertained by us, but as explaining a gradual growth in the United That we feel incapable now of what we then did is not unnatural. States of a feeling of anxiety and distrust which can not be said to

Nations, like men, are humbled when, in their average moods, have been ill founded in the light of events which showed the they remember heights upon which they have been privileged to Imperial German Government, while still on terms of friendship stand in a rare moment of complete selfless devotion, but it would with us, planning to use the distractions of unhappy Mexico and be pathetic that anyone, especially a veteran, should doubt the the griefs of our misunderstanding with Japan to involve us in a soundness of that enthusiasm and the validity of the faith upon war for the preservation of our own country. Throughout this which it rested. whole period, however, American opinion remained singularly- What are the facts? calm, and we debated with even breath these grievances and our # i 4 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly irritation at the unprecedented extension in the rigor of the Allied blockade. The submarine controversy, however, from the beginning threatened to involve us. Every other menace involved our property, this in- volved the life of our people. In 1Q14 it had long been the accepted law of nations that an enemy merchant ship might be seized and sent into port, subject to condemna- tion in the courts of the belligerent country, when carrying contraband or violating a block- ade, but it was equally accepted that no such merchant ship even when carrying contraband could be destroyed until its noncombatant crew and passengers had been put ashore in safety. Early in 1015 the German authorities proclaimed the submarine a new agency to which no laws of war previously recognized could be applied and undertook to establish a war zone about the British Isles within which its submarines would sink without warning and without affording a chance of escape to crew or passengers of enemy ships of commerce. A part of the order undertook to warn neutrals against travelling on enemy ships. Our State

Department at once warned Germany that if American ships or American lives were lost in the execution of this new order, it would en- danger the amicable relations between that country and the United States. Early in March, 1915, the William P. Frye, a vessel sailing from Seattle with a cargo of grain, was sunk in the South Atlantic by a German raider. On the 28th of March the Falaba, a British passenger ship, was sunk in St. George's Channel and an American return- ing from quite neutral business on the Gold Coast of Africa lost his life. On the first day of May, an American ship, the Gulflight, was torpedoed off the Scilly Islands. Fortunately the ship did not sink, but the attack upon it made a case which required our Government to back up its note and hold Germany to the accountability which it exacted. While the diplomatic correspondence with regard to these matters was in course, the

Lusitania was torpedoed on May 7, 1015, and among the 1198 men, women and children who went down with her, 124 were citizens of the United States. Again the State Department asserted the rights of Americans. The Lusi- tania, of course, was a British ship, but the Gitlflight was an American ship living an American flag, deliberately attacked in broad daylight on a cloudless day. The protests of the State Department were earnest and im- perative. The replies of the German govern- ment were evasive and unsatisfactory. On the 19th of August, the British ship Arabic, bound for New York, was torpedoed without warning and two Americans lost their lives. On November 7th the Italian liner Ancona was sunk off the coast of Africa and nine Americans lost their lives. On March 24. 1916, the Sussex, unarmed, carrying no troops but carrying passengers among whom many were Americans, was torpedoed in the English Channel. This brought matters to a head and the American Secretary of State notified the "Those who gave their lives may have had but an inexplicit con- German if it government that did not abandon sciousness of the thing at stake. Yet in the last analysis, those its present method of submarine warfare who died in France died for the same cause as those who fell at against passenger and freight carrying vessels, Brandy wine. Spiritually it was the guns of Bunker Hill and York- the United States would be obliged to suspend town that ansivered and overcame the torpedo of the submarine" diplomatic relations. In response to this, the German government notified us that its naval forces had received definite orders thereafter to recognize the ships were not attacked. Our people remembered their grievance general principles of visit and search and destruction of merchant and their dead, but they remained neutral. vessels recognized by international law. "Such vessels both On the 31st of January, 191 7, the German ambassador notified within and without the so-called war zone shall not be sunk with- our government that, beginning the next day, a new war zone out warning and without saving human life unless these vessels would be established around the British Isles, along the coast of attempt to escape or offer resistance." From the date of this France and all those ports of the Mediterranean that led to promise, May 4, 1916, to the 31st day of January, 1917, American the ports of France and Italy and that {Continued on page 62)

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illustration, Bozeman trail, or Montana road, as we called with the liberal element. btf TJHEit mostly, branched off from the Overland at Fort Kansas had a dry law, Casper in Wyoming Territory. The Overland was the but it made little differ- Forty-niner route to California. The Montana road ence in the life of the frontier towns until Carrie began calling at- veered north to the new gold country. tention to it with a hatchet. She must have broken thousands In the spring of 1876 it was merely a string of wagon tracks of dollars worth of bar mirrors and glassware. Tom introduced across the grass—not so wide or so much-used as the Overland, Mrs. Daly and myself to her at Camp Carlin in 1889. I noticed which was three times the width of Fifth Avenue, New York, or that she did not attempt to carry on her reformation that close Market Street, San Francisco, and muddy in wet weather and to home, for Tom had a jug of whiskey handy and said he was dusty in dry. The Montana road was pleasanter travelling, never without it in his house. Smoking also was one of Mrs. but more lonesome. But on the trip I speak of we had plenty of Nation's aversions, but you would have to get up early in the company. morning to see Tom without his pipe, big as a Ben Davis apple. There were twelve hundred of us—the biggest collection of Still, brother and sister were very fond of each other. white men ever in that country in one party, I guess, since Our expedition was under General George Crook, one of the Brigham Young took his Mormons out to Utah in the Forties. greatest Indian fighters the Army ever had. We were one of The cavalry led the column—ten troops of the Third and five of three expeditions in the field, comprising the grand offensive of the Second. After that came three companies of the Ninth 1876 to exterminate the bands of Crazy Horse, the Sioux, and of Infantry and two of the Fourth Infantry. Bringing up the rear Dull Knife, the Northern Cheyenne, chieftains. The other con- were the wagon trains—four of them, consisting of twenty-five tingents were led by General Gibbon and Lieutenant-Colonel six-mule teams each. One of these was driven by the famous George A. Custer. plainswoman the West knew as Calamity Jane. Custer and Crook were about as different as two men could be So we made quite a procession. I was with the pack trains. and still be members of the same profession. I shall never forget There were nine of these, and our mules moved in single file the first time I saw General Custer, as they still called him, from alongside the column of troops, about fifty yards off the trail. the rank he had held during the Civil War, in which he had We were always on the lee side, so the troops didn't get our dust, served with great distinction. It was during a cattle drive but we got theirs. from Texas to Kansas City, before the advent of the Texas The chief packer was Tom Moore and his assistant was Dave Pacific railroad, in 1868. He wore a bleached buckskin suit Mears. Both were old-time frontiersmen. They had gone to of fancy cut, and lavishly ornamented with fringes. His yel- California in 1849, making the voyage around the Horn. Tom low hair hung in long ringlets over his shoulders, and was came from Kansas, where in later years his sister, Mrs. Carrie crowned by a broad white hat. His hands were encased in gaunt- Nation, made prohibition conspicuous, if not particularly popular lets and his feet in boots as soft as a lady's dancing slippers,

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and as spotless. He carried himself with the air of a lion. band, and brought In a populous place General Crook would have worn the up by them. He regulation uniform, but it probably would have needed pressing. spoke Sioux as wel A battered slouch hat would have been carelessly thrust on his as, or better than, head and his boots would have been dusty. In the field, except he did English. that everyone knew him, General Crook might have been taken tiste Pourier, for a Montana miner. The only part of the uniform he wore was or Big Batt, as we an old overcoat. Except in wet weather he wore moccasins, and called him, to dis- his light, bushy beard would be gathered in a series of braids. He tinguish him from Little Batt, who was named Baptiste Gamier, was a silent man, but good-natured and philosophically humorous. was a French-Canadian and an old-time trapper for the Hudson's I have seen him walk up to a cook fire where the troops were get- Bay Company. ting their coffee, take his turn for a cup, and then walk away and These two went ahead to look for Indians, friend or foe, and sit down on the ground and blow it off and drink it without the command followed on. At Clear Creek, a branch of the saying a word. Powder, in northern Wyoming, we met a party of sixty-five The forces of Crook, Gibbon and Custer were to converge upon miners, en route from the Black Hills in South Dakota to the Big the hostiles from different directions. General Terry had come Horn Range in Wyoming. They had seen no hostiles, but were West to supervise the three forces and direct the campaign. glad enough to join us. We continued westward to the Tongue Sheridan was in Chicago awaiting the outcome. River, and turned north down that water-course. The march Our command halted at old Fort Reno at the three forks of was uneventful except for a slight attack in which we had two the Powder River in Wyoming. There we expected to be rein- men wounded. But we were apprehensive of more serious trouble, forced by Crow and Shoshone scouts, who were hostile to the and anxious for word from the scouts. Sioux and Cheyenne. But our Indian allies were not on hand and The scouts returned on June 14th with parties of Crow and General Crook sent his chief of scouts, Frank Gruard, with Shoshone. They brought information concerning Gibbon, Custer Baptiste Pourier on ahead to see if they could find out what had and the enemy. The Sioux, they said, were encamped in force become of them. along the Rosebud River. Frank Gruard was one of the strangest characters I knew in We made a base camp and the next morning set out with four the West. He was a Sandwich Islander, or a Hawaiian as they days' rations and plenty of ammunition to force the fighting. call them now. As a child he had been captured by Crazy Horse's The night of the 16th we reached the Rosebud and slept on our

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A . Custer, who at the time of his death was still uni- versally called by his Civil War title of general. ' 'His yellow hair hung in long ringlets over his shoulders. His feet were encased in boots as soft as a lady's dancing slippers, and as spotless." At right, Chief Gall, said to be the Sioux who killed Custer. Of the bodies of the Americans slain in the battle all were scalped and mutilated ex- cept Custer s—an "Indian s tribute to a brave man"

arms. On the morning of the 17th, with the which tinkled like those of an old-fashioned friendly Crows and Shoshones, we began a sleigh. Before them they held shields of rapid but alert descent along the east bank of hide, gaily ornamented with colored the Rosebud. It was hard going. The Rosebud quills and feathers. On their glistening backs is as crooked as a corkscrew, and the country is were strapped bows and arrows in quivers. very rough. Now we would be hugging the Their lances, carried aloft, sported eagle bluffs through the narrow, winding valley, un- feathers. Rifles were held in front across able to see fifty feet ahead; now passing through their elkhorn saddles. an open glade, which, though difficult underfoot, On our right swept the cavalry under presented fewer perils of surprise. Colonel Royall, and beyond them some Sho- Shortly before noon our scouts reported the shones under Chief Luishaw were posted on valley a few miles ahead alive with Sioux and the sides of the bluff that dominated the ap- Cheyenne who were coming our way on our side proach of the hostiles from downstream. of the river. Just below this point the Rosebud General Crook stood under a scrub pine enters a canyon. If we could drive the hostiles tree on the river bank waiting for the in there there would be a chance of exterminat- action to begin. ing them. But if they should prove the superior Up the valley came the Sioux and the tacticians and drive us into the canyon their Northern Cheyenne—a solid phalanx chances of doing the exterminating would be from stream's edge to bluffs. There were equally good. They outnumbered us three or no handsomer Indians and no better four to one, but Crook matched his wits against riders. The chiefs rode in front. From those of Crazy Horse and got us ready for the forehead to the waist-line each war- battle. rior was painted with stripes of black and The battlefield was about one hundred and red. Their gorgeous headdresses fanned fifty yards wide and was bounded on one side by the breeze like the tails of a boy's kite. the river and on the other side by a line of They chanted a war song in unison and in bluffs that defined the valley. Crook arranged perfect time. his forces in two columns. On the river side he They attacked with great fury and with placed the friendly Indians in advance, mounted the precision of trained cavalry. The Sioux on their ponies, and supported by two companies under Crazy Horse struck to the right front of infantry and two troops of cavalry, dis- of the ledge from which I was firing over the mounted. The second column, which paralleled heads of our forces. The Cheyennes under the bluffs, consisted of cavalry on their horses. Dull Knife struck our left column, which In approximately the center of the field, was on the river side. At first they shouted midway between the bluffs on the right and the to our Indian allies, "You go home! We stream on the left, was an upthrust ledge of rock, want to kill only white men!" But the that would accommodate about eighty men and Shoshones and Crows were loyal, and they, give them room to fight. There Crook posted with the supporting troops, were hotly en- the sixty-five Black Hills miners and about gaged. Meantime the Sioux on the right fifteen packers, of whom I was one. This ledge attempted to dash between our cavalry and was thirty-five feet high in places. It afforded the bluffs and gain our rear. a perfect view of the battlefield and of the The shock of the first onrush sent both of battle. our columns back. The ledge from which I have seen few more exhilarating sights in my the miners and we packers were fighting was time than the picture that point pre- hostiles charged it. We vantage Crazy Horse, the greatest strate- surrounded. The sented. It was just noon and the sun was fired point-blank, but on they came. Several gist among the Western Indians, out. On our left streamed our painted Crow reached the top of the ledge and one of who was responsible for Custer s and Shoshone allies, naked except for breech- them came at me with a tomahawk. A scar defeat. He, Dull Knife and Gall, clout and moccasins, singing the war song of the over my right eye, which is still visible, en- ' Absarokas and gesticulating. Their ponies were though 'devoid of popular reputa- ables me to recall the incident the more dis- spirited ones, with plaited manes and tails tions, were the equal of any combat tinctly. adorned with eagle feathers, and small bells leaders, white or red, of the period" The attack was progressing satisfactorily

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Sitting Bull was the best- known Indian of his genera- tion, and is still popularly but erroneously regarded as the chief cause of Custer's defeat. Actually "he was a coward at heart, ivhich was a rare thing among Indians of that day." At right, Curly, Crow scout, sole survivor of the massacre

by a technicality , since he left the scene before the fight- ing really began

for Crazy Horse. His Sioux were working around the right flank into our lines. To recover these bodies was too dangerous. to our rear. Their object was to drive us forward into the canyon The first three weeks in camp were uneventful, and are re- ahead, which would have been our death trap. But Crook, who membered principally for our rich living for campaigners. The did not underestimate Crazy Horse as a tactician, had antici- streams were filled with fish, the hills plentiful with buffalo, deer, pated this maneuver and had held five troops of cavalry and two elk and mountain sheep. We had two good meals every day. companies of infantry in reserve. At the right moment these In this connection I was once asked concerning an incident on charged the Sioux, who, caught between two fires that were the march, whether it had happened before or after our noon punishing in their intensity, were driven back in some disorder. meal. In those days there was no noon meal on the march and This retreat exposed the flank of the Cheyennes, who also fell back. seldom one in camp in the field. We ate morning and night. But Crazy Horse was not beaten. He endeavored to trans- Even this was a strain on the cooks, whose equipment was form his enforced retreat into a strategic one as scanty as possible. We had to travel light designed to coax us on and box our pursuing when fighting Indians, but we could never troops in the canyon. General Crook travel as lightly as they did. Indians saw the danger of this, and the fu- could march and fight for days with- tility of pursuit in any event. He out eating or apparently sleeping sent his aide, Captain Bourke, We cooked only once a day with Trumpeter Snow for- in the evening. When supper ward to sound recall. While , was out of the way break-

Snow rode along the line _ fast was prepared and of fire he was severely kept over until morning. wounded and Bourke If a man wanted any- saved himfrom capture. thing between break- That ended the fast and supper he fight. It had lasted had to save it out an hour. It was a for himself. Troopers draw, neither side often did this, but being in a humor to with the pack train continue the engage- it was considered ment or to remain too much bother. on the field. Crazy We were seldom Horse crossed the hungry, though. Rosebud and re- Eating three times treated over the ridge a day is simply a separating that habit.

•• '« stream from the • The tranquillity of Little Big Horn River, our life was interrupted fifteen miles away. In one day when one of this valley he encamped our reconnaissance par- to nurse his wounded and ties was attacked by a replenish his ammunition. large band of Sioux, which We retired to our base camp lost its leader, White Ante- for the same purposes, and to lope, at the first exchange of learn of the movements of the co shots and pursued our men to operating forces under command of the verge of the encampment to General Gibbon and Colonel Custer. avenge his death. Three days after We had lost ten killed and that, on the tenth of Scouts _ twenty- July, six wounded. The losses of the In- Louis Richaud and Ben Arnold rode dians were not ascertained, as ac- into camp with dispatches which The grave Captain M. W. Koogh on the Little cording to custom, they carried their of threw the camp into the wildest com- —the preserves casualties from the field, with the Big Horn battlefield marker his motion I have ever witnessed among exception of eleven dead who had Civil War title of colonel. Thirty-eight men of United States soldiers. fallen during their farthest advance I, Seventh Cavalry, lie in the same spot Eight days {Continued on page 52)

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come under enemy rule or had been pounded for years by enemy guns in the Or-a nee hope of reaching the heart on August 3, 1914. On that of France, and by ours to day, as is well known, make the place untenable Baron Von Schoen, Ger- for the invaders. Victory man Ambassador at Paris, By J.J.Jusserand had come, and it seemed at went to the Ministere des first as if, in those ill- Affaires Etrangeres, bring- starred regions, the power ing the declaration of war of his government, which government to rejoice had been blunted. An eye-witness writes: justified this deed of awe, that was to cost the lives of millions of "In the case of former wars, man had suffered less, nature men in their prime, by various misdeeds of ours, the worst of them had not altered her appearance. The storm once passed, work being our having bombarded Nuremberg from the air. None of had begun again in the usual surroundings with unabated ardor. those accusations could stand the slightest examination ; but their What sight, on the contrary, did we have in the month of Novem- authors did not care; they were in a hurry and did not mean to ber, 1918! It was not in the joyous bustle of a morning of triumph, lose a minute about such details. Their undoubted victory would not in the clear sounds of the chimes in the steeples, not in the be the best answer to hagglers about details. But it was not a roar of the guns casting to the winds their joyous volleys, that our victory; so they busied themselves, years after the event, and have compatriots who had remained in the invaded territory knew the ever since, to find other motives and show that, in reality, the unforgettable minute of the Armistice and of victory. Long invaded nations were the aggressors. These reasonings, for which since removed by the enemy, the bells had ceased to sing their they have been craving support in every land, would have been song. The battle finished, the guns became silent. And it was the more telling if they had used them on the day of the event, but silence suddenly reigning over their fields and cities that taught they did not, and the one who delivered what they thought to our brethren, delivered at last, that the atrocious tragedy had be the death-warrant of France as a great nation honestly wrote come to an end. And silence, in truth, better fitted their senti- in his memoirs: "That my name be tied to a grave mistake, ments and their situation than joyful outbursts. In the villages, which took the appearance of a lie, is the most painful memory of everywhere sunken roofs, fallen walls, ruins covering the ground. my career." Life seemed to have abandoned those accursed regions; none of So, on that day, being on our way back to America, intending the thousand sounds familiar to the countryside broke the uni- first to go to Boulogne, then changing our mind and going to versal heavy silence; the barking of the dog, the clear note of the Havre, we crossed a number of villages, and the intervening cock, the lowing of the oxen, were not to be heard, nor the pealing woods, fields and meadows. It was a beautiful summer's day; of the bells, nor the regular ticking of the village clock timing the earth and sky were all smiles; we traveled across slightly communal life . . . stables were empty. Nothing was left; nothing undulating ground, with wheatfields, orchards and pastures, but men and the soil. But then it was that a miracle began." (1) herds of cows, white, smooth-kept roads, tree-lined rivulets, quiet Nothing short of one would have availed, as is well known to peasants' homes, flower-trimmed, where the ancestors had lived you, American friends, who took part in the fray, powerfully and the children's children would live in their turn; here and there helped to bring it to the conclusion demanded by justice, who saw a manor-house wreathed in foliage; all was peace and content- the state of the country and are about to visit it again. ment. One seemed to breathe, with the air, , prosperity, A few figures may serve to make matters clear; they are not dry human brotherhood. numbers; the pulse of a nation beats back of them. A sign however of impending events was noticeable: lines of In the ten devastated departments, the most fertile and richest farm horses, commandeered by the military, led along the road of France, with the most prosperous agriculture and industry, by their owners, sad to part with "the gray mare," the family's the largest families, and paying one-fifth of the total French friend. For the tocsin had been rung, and the town crier had taxation, there were, in 19 13, 1,190,000 houses and buildings of informed the inhabitants that the dreaded day had come; the all sorts; the number of those left undamaged by the struggle hope of a perpetual peace, to which much had been sacrificed for was 296,274, old churches and historic monuments having suffered years, had vanished, and the fate of France was at stake. more than all; a city like Rheims, having about 115,000 inhabi- On one of the occasions when signs had appeared before of such tants, was left with a dozen houses untouched; the whole region a possibility, I had asked our military authorities what would had counted 892,000 oxen and cows, and had after the war but happen, being given the ever-growing impression that peace was 58,000; the proportion was about the same for other farm ani- to be perpetual and war a monstrous barbarity of the past. They mals. The famous Forest of Arden, sung by Petrarch, and in the had answered: "When it becomes patent that it is a national duty breezy solitudes of which Shakespeare lays the scene of "As to fight, everybody will answer the call; there may be some You Like It," covers 140,000 hectares (2); 130,000 of them were trouble in certain industrial centers, but it won't be of long dura- ravaged; mines had been flooded, plants razed to the ground and tion." There was not even that. all their movable machinery transported to the enemy's country; half the population, scattered to the four corners of France, had FOUR years and a half later we were back in France; all was disappeared. new to us, unexpected sights succeeded each other. The first The chief loss for France, however, not merely from the senti- was new indeed to every beholder—the triumphal entry into Paris, mental, but also from the economic point of view, was the loss in to the population's wild acclaim, of a President of the United man power; about 1 ,500,000 men in the prime of life dead; perma- States, the only one ever to visit France. Another was for us those nently disabled who have to be pensioned, 1,150,000 (3); deficit horizon blue poilus, of whom the world had heard so much and during the war in the normal number of births, 1,500,000. No whom we had never seen. They were there, on foot or on horse- other nation suffered such losses in proportion to her population; back, lining the Place de la Concorde, many wearing faded uni- nor, withal, any material loss at all comparable to ours. "France," forms that had obviously seen duty. If that cloth had covered said Representative Wainwright, in a recent speech before faint hearts, the death-warrant of August 3d would have been Congress, "was crucified as no nation has ever been crucified in indeed a death-warrant. It was difficult for unaccustomed eyes war." to look at them and remain quite dry. Another moving sight was "You came to heal the wounds of the war," I said once to the incredible number of women wearing black. Then, when President Wilson. "Go, and see the wounds." His heart sank at traveling became possible again, the appearance of that richest the thought. We went, and indeed our hearts sank too, so much part of France, the north-east, long occupied by the enemy, and worse than any description was the actual sight of such misery; the chief battle-field in the World War. city after city would look like a Pompeii—with life extinct, no The history of the world, and that especially of our Eastern one stirring; at Craonne, we knew only by the map that we had provinces, has a long tale to tell of ruthless destruction; but none reached there; at the big industrial city of Lens, which had been that could match the fate of the ten departments which had either pounded to bits by German, English and {Continued on page 56)

APRIL, 1927 EGGS By Drew Hill

THE floor of a barn that belonged to a g m certain Madame Baujon of Le Manoir, m France, and which they shared with V_>^ Madame Baujon's four cows, some twenty members of Company F, Naught-Fifth U. S. Infantry, lounged or dozed. It was the middle of a June day in 1918, and outside a hot sun poured down on the Brittany countryside. The men had just come in from noon mess, and someone had remarked that he'd heard the company Sf clerk say there'd be no drill on account of the heat, when a sergeant appeared in the doorway and snapped: "You men have half an hour to get ready for a brigade inspection. Full packs, tin helmets, and gas masks. Signs of life now!" He turned to go, paused, and called back: "Anvbodv here seen The Busted Sofa?" A man near the door answered: "Yeh, I seen him right before mess, over at that there Cafe dee lar somethin'." "What doing?" demanded the sergeant. "Eatin'." "Eating, eh? The lopsided little runt ought to be starved. Well, you trot over and get him, Norcross. The captain wants him." Private Norcross slammed his mess-kit together, dropped it Busted Sofa had just scraped clean. "Say, what you been eatin'?" on the straw by his pack, and slouched out the doorway, mum- The last forkful of food disappeared into Bostle's mouth, and bling: "Ain't that the Army, though? They take a week thinkin' was immediately followed by a piece of bread with which he'd up ninety things for yer to do—and then give yer a minute to made a clean sweep of his plate. do 'em in." "Me?" he mumbled from stuffed jaws. "Ezsh." Crossing Madame Baujon's barnyard, he turned up Le Ma- "What?" noir's one main street of whitewashed, thatched houses, and in a The Busted Sofa's eyes dilated in his effort to gulp down that few moments reached the Cafe de la Joyeux. He walked in. which was obviously preventing proper enunciation. At a table in a corner of the cafe sat the young man being "Eggs," he finally repeated more clearly. sought by Norcross. His full Christian name as it appeared on Norcross grunted and turned around. his enlistment papers was Orville David Bostle, but to F Com- "My Gawd, you must lay 'em," he said, ambling out the cafe pany he was known as The Busted Sofa. Because, as Henderson, door. "You been eatin' nothin' else since we hit France." the top sergeant, said—and Henderson first gave him this nom Private Bostle gazed after him a moment. Then sighing con- de guerre—Bostle looked like one. Undoubtedly he did. tentedly, he called the aged proprietor, paid his bill, and walked That impression had first been gained one day in camp when out. the Naught-Fifth's colonel, during an inspection, had asked He took the opposite direction from the way Norcross had Private Bostle if he'd stuffed rocks under his coat and blown air gone, making feeble efforts to straighten the lumpiness of his into his breeches. No inspecting officer ever failed to stare at coat and the angles of his overseas cap as he hurried along. He Bostle in angry amazement. But it wasn't entirely Orville had a pretty good idea as to why Captain Fletcher wanted to see Bostle's fault. It was partly due to the way he was made. He was him, and he knew exactly where the captain was billeted. This about five feet three with short, bowed legs to which was attached wasn't the first time that Private Bostle had been summoned a torso that belonged to a seven-footer. He had the shoulders before F Company's commander. of a gorilla, the neck of a swan, and the arms of a kangaroo. No Men were scurrying in and out of barns and yards carrying half- supply sergeant ever found, or attempted to find, a uniform that made packs and various pieces of equipment, while others were would fit him. squatted on the ground busily cleaning their rifles. It was the Private Norcross now regarded F Company's disproportionate usual rush before an inspection. Private Bostle, however, paid member and said: very little attention to all this preparation as he passed on up the "Say, Busted, the skipper wants to see yer." village street. He was wondering what the captain would say A forkful of food paused at the tip of Bostle's long, pointed this time. nose and he turned a pair of closely-set gray eyes upon the other. Finally he turned into a path that led to a two-story brick "Me?" he asked. "What for?" house beside the front door of which a sign read "F Company "Now ask me somethin'," retorted Norcross. "Howinell do I Headquarters." He entered and paused before the open door know? But believe me, with that an' a inspection they're pullin' of a room on the right. A tall, red-moustached officer was bend- off, you better light outa yer private dinin'-room tooty sweet." ing over a table checking some papers. He stepped forward and eyed with interest the plate The Bostle saluted him and announced: "Private Bostle, sir."

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Captain Fletcher glanced up, returned the salute, and sur- captain snatched up a steel helmet and strode past Bostle to the veyed the unmilitary figure before him. hall. He pointed to a room in back. "Now you vamoose into "Yes," he slowly remarked, "no mistaking that fact, Bostle. the company clerk's room and don't poke your nose outside until There's only one of you in the regiment." He pulled out a I tell you to." and sat down. "We're having an inspection this afternoon, but "Yes, sir," acquiesced Private Bostle, and added hesitantly: you're not going to be in it." "Ain't somethin' you want me to do in there, is there, Captain?" "Yes, sir," said Private Bostle, looking blank. "Hell, no!" roared the officer, turning to go. "Crawl under the "Yes, sir, is right," went on the captain bluntly. "I'm damned typewriter and die—if you can!" tired of having the company's reputation marred before general Orville Bostle saluted, turned around, and walked slowly into officers by your ungodly appearance. This will probably be our the small back room. He sat down on the edge of a box and last inspection before we start for the front lines, but if the stared vacantly at the floor. From the distance he could hear brigadier ever sees you, he'll order F Company back to Brest to the faint hum of voices, the occasional click of a rifle bolt, and the do stevedore work." The captain pushed the batch of papers shuffle of many hob-nailed shoes on the roadway as F Company aside and folded his arms on the table. "Despite six months in fell in. Then a bugle blew Assembly—a moment's silence—then camp and a month over here, you still look like the rawest rookie the brisk reports of the corporals to the top sergeant. Silence in the whole damned army. There's no use putting you on K. P. again. any more, because you look worse than ever when you finish. But out of that stillness, Private Bostle imagined he could Besides, the cooks threaten to resign if you come near the kitchen hear Captain Fletcher saying to the company: "Bostle's a dis- again." grace to the outfit. He's not good enough a soldier to be here." Captain Fletcher blew a heavy sigh through his lips, and And the thought weighed heavily on Orville Bostle's conscience paused a moment. as he sat there alone in the company clerk's room. For the first Then: "You're a disgrace to the outfit, Bostle. If you weren't time the seriousness of his ignominy began to press itself upon so confoundedly healthy, and one of the best shots in the battal- him. All the unpleasant duties that had been meted out to him ion, I'd have you dropped down a well somewhere. But since I in punishment during the past seven months—all the pot-scrub- can't get rid of you, I at least intend to keep you out of sight of bing, ditch digging, and a thousand other noisome details that inspecting officers. Hereafter, at any and all inspections, you're had been his lot—all these things seemed as nothing compared to temporarily appointed mess sergeant, company clerk, or any having the captain say: "Bostle, you're a disgrace to the outfit." other confounded thing that will possibly excuse your appearance After awhile, Orville Bostle pulled a knife from his pocket, in ranks. Is that clear?" opened it, and began to scrape those yellow spots off his coat. "Yes, sir," answered The Busted Sofa meekly. And as he scraped and rubbed, one thought gradually consoled There was the sound of a bugle blowing down the street. his injured feelings: That some day, some way, he'd make Captain Captain Fletcher rose and picked up his pistol-belt. As he buckled Fletcher proud to have him in the company. it on, his glance suddenly rested on Bostle's shapeless coat. "Yes, siree," Private Bostle muttered aloud, as he attacked the "What's that on the front of your tunic?" he snapped. last spot, "I'll have the skipper sayin' to me, 'Bostle, you're a " Bostle's thin neck bent automatically, and his eyes perceived good guy—you're a darned good guy, that's what!' several dried yellow spots scattered down the front of his uni- form. THREE days later the Naught-Fifth regiment entrained for an "Them?" he replied, pointing to the spots.— "Why, I guess that unknown destination. For two days and a night the long there's egg, Captain. I was just eatin' train of freight cars traveled in a northeasterly direction, while "Egg, eh? Well, if you haven't cleaned them off by the time the men on board speculated as to where they were going. All they I return, I'll make you roll a couple from here to Hades." The knew was that they were at last headed for the front and action

APRIL, 1927 23 The rest they left to Division Headquarters to worry about. And when, about an hour later, the moneyed members of F And at Division H. Q. it was known that they were on their way Company followed in Private Bostle's footsteps they were met to Flanders to become a part of a British Army Corps in that practically everywhere with the same response: area. "Mais non, messieurs! J'ai vendu tous mes ceufs a un petit On the morning of the third day the regiment detrained, and soldat." after a fifteen-kilometre hike, finally reached billets in two ad- "Says she's sold 'em all to a little guy," a lanky corporal kept joining towns, both of which bore marked evidence of enemy translating at each place. destruction. Following two days there, the Naught-Fifth started It didn't take F Company long to figure out who that "little on a ten-day hike to the forward battle area, and it was during guy" was. this hike that Private Orville Bostle achieved a new name and a "By cripes! it's The Busted Sofa!" burst out Private Norcross, new fame. after the total collection of some twenty men amounted to four The farther they went along, the more war-ravaged the towns eggs and a pound of potatoes. became where the men were billeted each night. Consequently, "The dirty little bum!" exclaimed someone. "Let's go after fewer French citizens lived in them, and such luxuries as fruit, him." milk, eggs, and vegetables, which the Americans had been ac- This suggestion was immediately adopted, and the disgruntled customed to buying in the past, became more and more scarce. men started off in search of Private Bostle. They soon found Now Orville Bostle was one of those rare individuals who, him—perched on the rafters above a hay-loft which was the only though blessed with little of this world's goods in civilian life, available space left in his platoon's billet when he returned. A magically bloomed as a wizard of finance in the Army. He al- candle rested on a steel helmet beside him, and he was reading a ways had plenty of money. Most of it he earned by gambling week-old letter from a girl in Hoboken—when the crowd pushed wisely and well; and he spent it in the same manner. in. When F Company arrived at its designated billets in a town "Hey, Busted, where do you get off hoggin' all the eggs in this each evening, and while most of the men were throwing off their joint?" packs and seeking choice spots to rest on, Private Bostle's one "Yeh, what's the big idea?" aim and purpose was to get to the business center of the town, "You got a helluva nerve, I'll say!" and get there first. He invariably did. With only a sidelong These and other personal epithets were hurled up at Private glance at his billet, and without stopping to remove his pack, he Bostle, who remained cool and silent until the storm below him was off for the nearest or- only shop. There he purchased such quieted somewhat. Then he calmly remarked: viands as most pleased his fancy, had them prepared and cooked "Well, it's a free country, ain't it?" As he spoke he lifted under his personal supervision, and generally eaten before other the helmet beside him in order to apply the candle's flame to a members of the company came to do the same. cigarette in his mouth. And the raising of that helmet revealed "Hey, Busted, whata they got?" someone would come in where a neat pile of eggs nestling in a hollow of the straw underneath. he was eating and ask, confident of what the answer would be. "Will yuh look at them eggs!" shouted Norcross, and with "Well," The Busted Sofa would reply, several others, made a rush for the ladder leading up seeming always to remember only one to Bostle's lone bunk. But he halted them with one thing he'd consumed, "they got eggs." firmly -stated declaration: "How much?" they would always in- "The first guy that steps on that ladder gets an quire, certain that they would learn the egg in the eye!" And to further indicate his command least they could get the barnyard prod- of the situation, Private Bostle added: "Fact is, I uct for. And the answer usually was: gotta mind to drop the lot of 'em on you birds—be- "A franc each here." cause I had mine, see? So whata I care for eggs now?" For no matter how wide a There was a momentary lull among the baffled choice of food he had, the raiders whose several eyes gazed Alpha and Omega of every up at the egg-pile hungrily. meal that Bostle bought Finally one of them asked: and ate was eggs. He "All right, whata ye hangin' could and did eat a dozen on to 'em for, then?" at one sitting. Whatever "Yeh — how about comin' followed entered his stom- across, Busted?" ach as a sort of demi-tasse. With an easy smile, Private It was at the end of the Bostle settled back on his bunk fifth day's hike that F and picked up the Hoboken girl's Company had its first ex- letter again. perience with a more seri- "Well, if any of you guys want ously impoverished com- to talk business"—he suggested munity — and Bostle's pointedly. commercial acumen. As During another moment's usual, Private Bostle had silence, the onlookers exchanged rushed ahead to the village significant glances. Then, re- center to buy food, only to luctantly: find the few shops "All right, how much, Busted?" locked and shut tered. "Three francs, each," came the He learned that some clear answer from above. Boche planes had "What!"—in an angry chorus. bombed the village a "Put up or shut up," Private few nights before, Bostle calmly asserted, exhaling and all the trades- a cloud of smoke. "All the same people had departed. to me." Bostle, undaunted, Further argument and angry proceeded to make denunciation of Bostle availed the rounds of adja- them nothing. He had the eggs and the cent farmhouses. AH advantage. They had neither—and wanted that the peasants the eggs. And in the end each man "put had to sell him were up" according to his needs. Considering a few eggs and po- that the French franc was then worth tatoes. But he seven cents, Private Bostle's profits on bought them. And the transaction amounted to quite an in- as soon as he had all teresting figure. the eggs he needed From that time on, and until the regi- for his own use, he ment got back to better-provisioned lo- kept right on buying Three booted figures scrambled over the calities again, Orville David Bostle pretty more. edge of the shell-hole and dropped on him well controlled F Company's egg market.

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"Will you look at than eggs! " shouted Norcross

A number of men swore they'd beat The Busted Sofa at his own "Yeh?" was the usual American reply. "Well, whata we care, game. But at the end of a hot day's trudge, very few of them Buddy? We're kinda tough, too." They wanted to get into it were able or willing to compete with Bostle's tireless, ceaseless —wanted to see for themselves. search for eggs. His keen appetite for this edible rose far above And during the week they remained there, tuning up for their any physical weariness he felt—and also proved greater than the first trip "in," the one man in F Company who wasn't especially early-morning threats of his customers. Twenty kilometres or excited about this forthcoming event was Private Orville Bostle. so with full packs left them primarily interested in the restful Not that he feared going into battle—no. As a matter of fact he solace of their billets. Besides, as one man somewhat grudgingly didn't think much about it. His mind was struggling with a far admitted: more serious problem. And that was eggs—or rather the lack of "Aw, Busted will get most of 'em anyway. So what's the use them. Every spare hour of his time he had spent combing the of breakin' yer neck over a lotta hen-fruit?" surrounding countryside for eggs—or even one egg if he could And when the long hike ended, and F Company pitched shelter have found it. But there were none; simply because the usual tents near the shell-ruined city of Voorde, on the Belgian border, producers of eggs were totally wanting in that desolated area. Private Bostle's nom de guerre had been changed to The Busted Neither hens nor the owners of hens could he find. Egg. He accepted it as he had the other—without comment. Private Bostle still had that problem to deal with, the after- It wasn't necessary to inform the men that they were within a noon the regiment started up to the lines for its baptism of fire. few miles of the front lines. The constant roar of nearby British batteries, and the shattering frequency with which enemy shells TWELVE days went by, during which time the different battal- dropped into deserted Voorde, told them all they needed to know. ions of the regiment alternated tours of duty in the front, As to what lay ahead of them, veteran British Tommies supplied support, and reserve line systems. They had taken over a more specific details. thousand-yard front in part of the Ypres Salient which, among "It's a bit of a nawsty show, you fellows," the Tommies would comfortably-housed staff officers back at Division H. Q., was say. spoken of as "quiet." But any number of (Continued on page 64

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(JforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes:Oo uphold and defend the Constitution «_/ofthe 'UnitedStates of%merica; to maintain law and order; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredpercent Cftmericanism topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreatlMzr; to inculcate a sense ofindividual ohliqation to the Com- munity,state and'nation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood willon earth ; to safequardand transmit to posterity ihe principles ofjusticefreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctifj our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion.

The Spirit of 1917

From President Wilson's Address to Congress, April 2, 1917, Calling for a Declaration of War Against the Imperial German Government

WITH a profound sense of the solemn and tion, can be worked out and kept from the light only even tragical character of the step I am within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully taking and of the grave responsibilities guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. which it involves, but in unhesitating They are happily impossible where public opinion obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I commands and insists upon full information concern-

advise that the Congress declare the recent course of ing all the nation's affairs . . . the Imperial German Government to be in fact We are now about to accept gauge of battle with nothing less than war against the Government and this natural foe to liberty, and shall, if necessary, people of the United States; that it formally accept spend the whole force of the nation to check and the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad, upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to now that we see the facts with no veil of false pre- put the country in a more thorough state of defense tense about them, to fight thus for the ultimate peace but also to exert all its power and employ ah its re- of the world and for the liberation of its peoples sources to bring the government of the German Em- the German people included— for the rights of

pire to terms and end the war . . . nations great and small and the privilege of men Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where everywhere to choose their way of life and of the peace of the world is involved and the freedom obedience. of its peoples, and the menace to that peace and free- The world must be made safe for democracy. Its dom lies in the existence of autocratic governments peace must be planted upon the trusted foundations backed by organized force, which is controlled wholly of political liberty. by their will, not by the will of their people. We We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances. conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for We are at the beginning of an age in which it will ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices be insisted that the same standards of conduct and we shall freely make. We are but one of the cham- of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed pions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied among nations and their governments that are ob- when those rights have been made as secure as the served among the individual citizens of civilized faith and the freedom of the nation can make them. states. Just because we fight without rancor and without We have no quarrel with the German people. We selfish objects, seeking nothing for ourselves but have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy what we shall wish to share with all free peoples, we and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations as their government acted in entering this war. It was belligerents without passion and ourselves observe not with their previous knowledge or approval. with proud punctilio the principles of right and of

It was a war determined upon as wars used to be fair play we profess to be fighting for . . . determined upon in the old, unhappy days when We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and German people, and shall desire nothing so much as wars were provoked and waged in the interest of the early re-establishment of intimate relations of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who mutual advantage between us—however hard it may were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns be for them, for the time being, to believe that this and tools. is spoken from our hearts. Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor We have borne with their present government states with spies nor set the course of intrigue to through all these bitter months because of that bring about some critical posture of affairs which will friendship—exercising a patience and forbearance give them an opportunity to strike and make con- which would otherwise have been impossible. We quest. Such designs can be successfully worked only shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove under cover and where no one has the right to ask that friendship in our daily attitude and actions to- questions. ward the millions of men and women of German Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggres- birth and native sympathy who live amongst us and sion, carried, it may be, from generation to genera- share our life, and we shall be proud to prove it

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly LEST WE FORGET toward all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civiliza- to the Government in the hour of test. They are, tion itself seeming to be in the balance. But the most of them, as true and loyal Americans as if they right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight had never known any other fealty or allegiance. They for the things which we have always carried nearest will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and re- our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those straining the few who may be of a different mind and who submit to authority to have a voice in their own purpose. governments, for the rights and liberties of small If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a with a firm hand of stern repression; but if it lifts its concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety head at all, it will lift it only here and there and to all nations and make the world itself at last free. without countenance except from a lawless and malig- To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our nant few. fortunes, everything that we are and everything that It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen we have, with the pride of those who know that the of the Congress, which I have performed in thus ad- day has come when America is privileged to spend dressing you. There are, it may be, many months her blood and her might for the principles that gave of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful her birth and happiness and the peace which she has thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into treasured. God helping her, she can do no other. It was on the evening of April 2, 1917, that President Wilson read his war message to the House and Senate in

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joint session . ' The day has come," he said, "when America is priv- ileged to spend her blood and, her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other. The message is repro- duced in part on the editorial pages of this

Secretary of War Baker {above), blindfolded, draws the first number in "the greatest lottery in history" —the selective service draft. The number was 2f8. The date ivas July 20th. A month before that General Pershing had arrived in Paris—on June 13th—and the picture at the left shows him as he looked in the cradle days of the A. E. F. Beside him stands Marshal Joffre

They're in the Army now! This particular group of straufooters did its early squads-righting at Camp Sherman, but the scene might have been duplicated anyivhere in the country. It was on September }th that the first five percent called under the draft began to be mobil- ized, the bulk of new soldiers fol- lowing them to the camps on Sep- tember 19th and October }d

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A scene that was dupli- cated in front of every

newspaper office in the land on July zoth— draft registrants watch- ing the posting of num- bers following the draw- in Washington. This picture was taken

in front of the office of the Springfield (Massa- chusetts') Republican Below, a member of the 26th Division in prac- tise maneuvers with his buddies at Neufchateau, France, ivinter of 19 17- 1918. The first units of the YD reached France on September 20th

Not a training-camp trench, but the real thing—men of the First Division in the line in the Luneville sector in the fall of 19 17. The First reached "a French port" (St. Nazaire) on June 25th, just twelve days after General Pershing and his party landed in France. It was on October 27th that its artillery sent the first shell ivinging toward the German lines

The covered wagons of 1917 rolling up the snony kilometres in the great winter march of the 42d (Rainbow) Division. These Yanks had the consolation of knowing that while it might be a rough winter in France, it teas a darned sight rougher in the United States. The first units of the Rainboiv to land in France arrived on October 18th THEY fty Weter

Chapters I—VIII in Brief 'HE United States has just entered the World War, in the narrative of the personal experiences of The Pro- 7fessor, a horse now attached to a California ranch follow- ing service that included a touch of gas at Cantigny and nineteen wounds received on other occasions. In detailing the story of his experiences to Charles O'Malley, an Irish hunter, and a little Welsh pony named Taffy, his companions on the ranch, which is owned by the former commander of the — th Field Artillery, The Professor tells of how he and his master, Ern Givens, entered the service together at Camp Doniphan as the result of the horse's being admired by Second Lieutenant Samuel Burwell, while en route to the Oklahoma camp. The Professor had recently won for Givens the roping contest at the last Pendleton round-up before the war. An army nurse named Marv Vardon who is travelling to the Base Hospital at Fort Sill, near Doniphan, offers to lend Lieutenant Burwell money to buy The Professor, and al- though the deal fails to go through she and the lieutenant have estab- lished friendly relations. At Doniphan The Pro- fessor comes under the care of the veteran Stable Sergeant Rogan, and meets with Tip, a little pack mule who proudly displays nine battle scars, me- mentoes of service in < the Philip- pines and in other majority of men have a disposition to rejoice at the campaigns. other fellow's misfortune and seldom take the trouble Ern Giv- to understand it. It was the consensus of opinion that ens, now a Ern had spoken out of his turn, that he should have privateand known better. Ern was a grave and somewhat silent unfamiliar man until he knew you well; consequently some of the with mili- men considered him stuck-up and declared that sixty tary usage, is disrespectful to the camp commander when that days in the mill would constitute a wholesome lesson to him. One officer unjustly gives him a dressing-down, and is ordered under man—a know-it-all of thirty days' service—gave it as his opinion arrest. that Ern would probably be blooeyed to an infantry casualty re- Chapter IX placement draft immediately. "You talk too much and too loose, son," Stable Sergeant Rogan THERE was considerable excitement in the battery when the informed this wind-bag (his name was Pert Havers). "When you news of Ern Givens's trouble got bruited about. The men on have learned enough to keep the nose of ye clane, 'twill be in stable fatigue talked of nothing else. Ern hadn't been long ordher for ye to make military prophecies. Just for that there's enough in the battery to get acquainted so he didn't even have a two more horses for ye to groom." buddy to mourn his passing, and I was horrified to discover that A silence promptly descended upon the stable police. But many of the men rather enjoyed his predicament. In the some- Pert Havers's prophecy caused me a vast deal of uneasiness, what simple and secluded world in which I had been raised men nevertheless, and as Tip was the only old soldier on the picket always felt sorry when a good man got into trouble, but I was to line and the only one I could confide in, I told him in detail the learn in the wider arena to which I had now been called that the story of Ern's adventure with the commanding general, and

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wrong. Then the summary court officer will ask Ern if the Articles of War have ever been read to him, and Ern will answer truthfully and state that they have not, whereupon Cap- tain Carey will be called in to make Ern out a liar. But Carey will not lie, even to save his own skin, and I'm almost certain Ern has never had the Articles of War read to him, because only this morning I heard Burwell tell your master to report to the first sergeant's tent after recall from drill today to have the Articles read to him. In civil life ignorance of the law excuses nobody, but in the Army it's a mighty good excuse for conduct prejudicial to good order and '"tary discipline, which is the charge that covers impudence, back talk and open and silent insubordination. Ern will end up by having the laugh on the commanding general, but believe you* me, Prof, it will be his first and last laugh. Let him try any more funny business after the Articles of War have been read to him and the commanding general will make Ern a special order of business. Yes, sir, the old wolf certainly will make hell look like a summer holiday to that gay young buckaroo." "Tip," I declared, "you're certainly a great comfort to me. I had begun to think the Army a terrible place." "Hell's bells, no," Tip replied. "Of course a soldier has no rights to speak of; about all he has are a few privileges, and they can be taken away from him, but by and large a fellow can go through enlistment after enlistment and be happy as a dicky bird, provided he's respectful and self-respecting and obeys a few sim- ple rules cheerfully. He'll always get a square deal if he deserves it, and even when he doesn't he'll get more genuine support in the Army than out of it. Army life! Boy, it's the life of Reilly." After retreat that evening Lieutenant Burwell came down to the picket line to see how I was making it. He'd stopped in at the kitchen and grafted half a dozen carrots off the mess sergeant, and the first one he gave me I took neatly by the end, tossed my head and flipped it over the picket line to Tip. My new master tried to recover it for me, but wise old Tip put his left front foot "Now then, Windy," over it and refused to be budged, and while Sam was trying to said the sergeant as shoulder him off it the wily old wretch nipped another carrot out Rogan counted Pert of Sam's blouse pocket. He gulped it down quickly and pinched another, but this time he got caught at it. Havers out, "who's a "Well, Tip, you are an old soldier," Sam Burwell declared ad- tyrannical, contempt- miringly. "O. K., you fox! We'll split them fifty-fifty," and ible squirtl" he fed me the other three. Tip eyed me sideways to see if I had taken umbrage at his rascality, but I nickered softly and told him it was all right, in view of the fact that he and I were buddies. begged him for heaven's sake to give me some encouragement. "Well," Tip declared, "it's comforting to find a newcomer Really, I thought Tip would die laughing. He threw back his showing so much respect for age and long service. I must say head and brayed like a fool, but it was no laughing matter to me, it hasn't taken you long to realize that rank has its privileges. and as Tip's hilarity appeared unwarranted I was instantly ir- The first time Rogan gives me an apple I'll divvy with you." ritated. I pinned back my ears and Tip, observing this scowl, True to Tip's prediction, Ern reported for duty the following promptly piped down to a chuckle. afternoon. It seems it's against Regulations to keep a man in the "By the corn of Missouri," he declared, "it's lucky I wasn't in guard-house more than forty-eight hours without preferring draft when you told me that one. I'd have busted a hamestrap charges against him, and the commanding general didn't waste trying to pull and hold in my laughter at the same time. I'd five minutes before ordering our colonel to prefer charges against have been willing to live on musty hay for a week just for the Ern. From the gossip on the picket line I learned that the orders delight of seeing the Old Man's face when Ern Givens sounded were in to our regimental office that same day and after luncheon off. But don't worry, Professor. When Ern goes up before the Ern was tried. Sure enough, Sam Burwell appeared for him and summary court officer Sammy Bur well will be on hand to defend claimed and proved Ern had never had the Articles of War read him. Sam's the battery morale officer and always defends the to him. However, the summary court officer didn't figure on men at a court-martial, unless the victim happens to be a bad one getting into a jam with the commanding general, so he sentenced or a man Sam has preferred charges against himself, in which Ern to three months in the divisional stockade and forfeiture of cases Sam becomes the prosecuting attorney! He'll have Ern two-thirds of three months' pay. Then he wrote a letter to the returned to duty in forty-eight hours, so buck up, old kid, and commanding officer informing him what he had done, and that don't look so mournful." satisfied the commanding officer, who dismissed Ern from his "Are you certain, Tip?" I pleaded. mind then and there. Unfortunately he didn't figure on our "I am, Professor." colonel. It seems the colonel has to review the findings of all "How will Burwell do it?" summary courts, so he reviewed the findings in Ern's case, de- "I don't know, but I have half a notion he'll tell Ern Givens clared the sentence excessive, reduced it to an official reprimand to inform the summary court officer he didn't know he was doing and returned Ern to duty. I heard Ern tell Rogan, however,

APRIL, 1927 31 that the reprimand the Old Man administered was a perfectly counted Pert out, "who's a tyrannical, contemptible squirt?" manufactured article. "I never before realized," said Ern, "just "I am," said Pert Havers. how a calf feels after he's been roped, thrown, dragged to the fire, Dink shook his head like a little bantam rooster and rolled ear-marked, dehorned, branded and inoculated. I certainly don't away on his short legs to the medical detachment office to make crave to meet that colonel again." repairs. "Well, he'll remember ye and call ye by name every time he "Thus endeth the first lesson," said Tip comically. "Whenever meets ye hereafter," Rogan advised. "Don't be down in the they ask old Dink for it he obliges them. I saw signs of this Pert mouth, lad. The Ould Man's bark is worse nor his bite, although Havers developing into the battery bully, and I guess Dink did, whin he do bite 'tis blood he's afther." too. He knew he'd have to put Pert in his place sooner or later. "He read the Articles of War to me himself, Sergeant." Well, that sight will sustain me while Bags and I drag the Old "He would. 'Twas part of his plan to impress upon ye the Man down to Fort Sill in the station wagon. I wouldn't be sur- horrible pit from which he was kind enough to rescue ye. Do you, prised if I come back with a mouthful of news." like the good man, be grateful to him. He's no trimmer, but the Shortly after Tip and Bags were harnessed and driven away, summary court officer is and I'll bet ye two to one that what the Sam Burwell came along and Rogan told him about the fight. Ould Man said to you was a holy benediction compared wit' what "There are various ways of maintaining discipline and inculcat- he said to his summary court officer. Ohone! If it hadn't been ing respect," Sam declared, "and in certain cases I daresay the for this blasted big war comin' up I'd be a civilian now, wit' a Top's recipe is the only one that will work. I fear the captain little farm o' land an' me chickens an' pigs and vegetables about will not like it, however. He believes a gentleman should never me. 'Tis a terrible life we lead, so it is." fight a mucker." Tip flashed me a wink. "Rogan's been talking about that little "Dink's no gentleman," Rogan declared. "He's a top ser- farm and the chickens and pigs and vegetables for twenty years geant." to my certain knowledge," he whispered. "That man in civil "Well, he ranks Havers and the captain will think he was un- life. He'd perish of loneliness. All I hope is that I'm not present dignified. He's liable to bust Dink for that." the day Rogan is retired. He'll weep." "Thrue for ye, sir," Rogan observed with the license of an old soldier and former bunkie. "He's been schamin' to get rid of Chapter X Dink for a month, so he can tack the diamond on one of his young college gintlemin—bad cess to him! Well, let him! Whin he THE following day was Saturday and all training activities busts Dink he'll bust his right arrm, an' divil a wurrd o' lie in ceased at twelve o'clock, not to be resumed until Monday that, sir. Will the lootinant be afther takin' a young leddy for morning. The soldiers scattered into adjacent towns, with the a ride this afthernoon?" exception of those on guard and on K. P. and stable police. They looked at each other and Sam Burwell smiled. "You're About two o'clock the top sergeant and half a dozen men came out of place in stables, Rogan," he declared. "You should be in down to the stables. Intelligence. The young lady will ride The Professor. Now, "Hurrah!" brayed Tip. "There's going to be a fight." what have you got for me?" Under instructions from the Top, Rogan had a couple of Dear old Rogan! He always had something good tucked stable police open up two bales of straw and spread it on the away for his favorites. He went away down to the end of the ground. Then two buckets of water and two harness sponges picket line now and returned leading a bay gelding with more were brought and placed on the opposite side of this straw- than a dash of hot blood in him. "This is Dandy, sir," he said. covered area. "He was a misundhershtood horse in E Battery. They thought "You'll be the referee, Rogan," the- Top announced. "Cor- he was dangerous, so they did, so I traded them a bag o' bones I poral Downey, you will be the time keeper and rap on Rogan's had here that the divil himself couldn't put an ounce of flesh on. anvil with a hammer when time is called." (The forge and anvil I had his confidence for two weeks before I put that new man, where the animals were shod was close by.) "One of you lads give Givens, on him. He gave Givens a ride, to be sure, but the lad me a hand with these gloves. Two others help Havers." shtuck, and afther Dandy had dramatized himself Givens talked "By the corn of Missouri," Tip murmured, "this is going to be to him. He's been wurrkin' on Dandy ever since and ye have me a rich dish. That windy Pert Havers has said something personal worrd for it Dandy is safe for the young leddy to ride now." to the Top—probably a deadly insult—so the Top's waiving his "He's a grand horse," said Sam Burwell. "Rogan, you're the rank to give Pert Havers the satisfaction Pert craves. Pert's shadow of a rock in a weary land. Saddle him and I'll give him bigger than a skinned horse and Dink's so short he'll have to a tryout." leap off the ground to punch Pert's nose. But watch him do it." So Burwell mounted Dandy, who behaved like a gentleman. I watched with a great deal of interest. The fight went six Then Rogan put the English saddle on me and Dandy and Bur- three-minute rounds, and Rogan saw to it that the battle was well and I went over to the hospital at Fort Sill where Miss Mary conducted with equal fairness to both men. They fought on the Vardon was waiting for us. She had a riding habit on and looked layer of straw, owing to the sweet enough to kiss. So I ground being too hard to risk kissed her. "You darling!" she having a man, knocked out, said, and mounted me, but not strike his head against it. until I had surprised her by Havers gave the Top an awful getting down on my knees to thrashing, but he just couldn't make it easy for her to put her upset him and he couldn't little foot in the stirrup. make Dink quit. When "If I were a battery com- the fourth round closed mander and that horse was a Dink's face looked like a recruit I'd make him a corpo- ripe tomato, but Pert ral," Burwell declared. Havers was very tired. Well, we went out into the In the fifth Dink con- country and found a nice dirt tinued to carry the fight road lined with trees. Dandy was a very to Pert, and just as reserved horse, but he entered into the Corporal Downey rapped spirit of the game when Miss Vardon and the anvil Dink leaped and Burwell decided on a half-mile dash. I got both hands home on had to stretch myself to beat him, but was Pert's chin. Pert went careful not to beat him too far, for I have down, but the gong saved discovered that some horses, like some men, him and he was dragged cannot lose gracefully. to his corner. When he My master was calling the girl Miss came up for the sixth he Vardon when they started out and she was was helpless, so Dink calling him Mr. Burwell. I didn't pay chopped him to pieces much attention to their chatter, however, and finally knocked him until I heard him call her Mary. She out, cold. How badly I wanted to talk to Ern. called him Sam presently and the next "Now then, Windy," But all I could do was stand there, thing I knew they were riding boot to boot said Dink, as Rogan my head down a little and Dandy nickered that he thought they

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "Don t propound dumbbell questions," she retorted to Lieutenant Burwell. "Ob, well," be answered, "I wanted to be certain I wasn't making any mistake"

were holding hands. This Burwell was a fast worker! could wish. And of course, after that look I was sunk without "There's something doing here, Dandy," I remarked. a trace." "You know it, kid," said Dandy. "Hey! He's leaning out of "I am still willing to take a chance on you, Sam." the saddle." "Please God you'll not regret it when you do. Will you marry "He won't have to lean out so far he'll fall, Dandy. She's lean- me, Mary?" ing too." "Must I tell you in words of one syllable? Of course I will, Then we heard a little smack and my master said, "Mary, but not until the war is over. We each have our work to do I love you." until we can surrender our tasks to somebody else. You're just "Am I the first girl you ever loved, Sam, dear?" says Mary. a war-time soldier, aren't you, Sam?" "No, you're not," he replied. "I wouldn't fool you, Mary. "No, I belong to the honorable profession of arms, Mary. I've been in love a number of times—or thought I was—but this However, I'll probably be a permanent captain when the war is is the first time it's ever given my heart such a sudden, crazy over—perhaps I'll even get to be a major. We'll have light, heat twist." and quarters and at the worst two hundred dollars a month to "Well, I like competition," Mary assured him. "And I like start with." the truth. Sam, you're a darling and I've loved you since that "Why do you feel it necessary to give me warning, Sam?" day at the railroad station in northern California, when you met Mary asked very softly. The Professor and Private Givens." "Because I want you to know that as an army officer's wife "And you bowled me over that day by offering to cash my you will have to learn to count the pennies. Unless a man has check. I had to take a good look at you then, Mary, because independent means married life in the junior grades is one long dead game sports among your sex aren't as plentiful as we men grind of sacrifice and thrift. Even in (Continued on page 75 ) APRIL, 1927 33 Next Stopm By NoelDavis Lt.Cmdr. U.S.N.R.

/AM going to Paris this year, too. I plan to start not far from New York City, and anywhere from thirty to forty-five hours later I confidently expect to be seated at a table outside the Cafe de la Paix taking a re- fresher after a record-breaking journey. For when I shall have flown from the metropolis of America to that of continental Europe I will hold the world's airplane record for distance covered in a non-stop flight. The present record, an over- land flight of 3270 miles, is held by two French pilots. The course of my route extends 3600 I

The airplane in which I am to achieve this was originally named Pegasus after the winged steed of Grecian mythology, but I have rechristened it The American Legion as a symbol of its ail- American qualities—for it is an American plane, equipped with American motors, designed by American engineers, built by American workers, and to be flown by American pilots. Who my relief pilot will be (my plans call for but one other member in my crew) I cannot say at the time this is written, but this much I can assure my fellow Legionnaires: He will be an American and a Legion naire. Whether or not you have already read in the daily newspapers of my intended flight I think you may be interested in knowing something of the details—for it is such a thoroughly planned expedition that I am con- fident of success. While, as this is written, several other aspirants have announced their intention of being first to fly from New York to Paris—another American, two French- men, and two Germans—I regard my Legion benediction as an augury of good luck. / will win. History proves that aviation achievements move in cycles. After many years of futile endeavor two aerial expeditions last year reached the North Pole within a few days of each other. It was a matter of patriotic pride that the American flag led the way and that an American prominently participated in the second flight. In the race for the distinction of being first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean three daring crews accomplished their objectives from May 27th to July 6th in the year iqiq. And it is a happy circumstance that each expedition gained a distinctive honor by its heroic efforts. Following the brave but disastrous attempt of Harry G. Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Grieve of the The New York to Paris air line Commander Davis will British Navy to fly from Canada to England in a single-motored Legion.' ' It will be noticed that a good proportion of the Sopwith biplane on May 18th of that year, the American Navy larger proportion of the journey will be over plane NC-4, commanded by Lieutenant Commander A. C. Read, flew from Rockaway, New York, to Plymouth, England, stopping at Newfoundland, Horta and Ponta del Gada in the Azores, and battled against the conspiracy of the elements before their flight Lisbon between May 8th and 27th. The elapsed time for that ended in a crash on an Irish peat bog. Almost at the start they notable flight was fiftv-four hours. Again the American flag was were deprived of the small propeller which drove their radio first. generator, barring all attempts to communicate with vessels en But for human courage the flight of the late Captain John route. For the full stretch of their night flying a heavy fog veiled Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown of the British Air the heavens so that they could not take observations to de- Force from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifton, Ireland, must termine their bearings. For four hours the plane and its pilots be given high place. On June 14th they took off on their were encased in ice as they fought their way through a sleet trip to Europe. For fifteen hours and fifty-seven minutes they storm. Lacking adequate instruments, they could not fly their

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journey, though three weeks behind the American plane, was the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. On July 6th the British rigid airship R-34 reached America after flying 108 hours, twelve minutes from East Fortune in the tight little isle to Roosevelt Field at Westbury, Long Island, a distance of 3130 nautical miles. The crew of thirty commanded by Captain G. H. Scott earned the honor of being the first lighter-than-air group to make a non-stop flight from England to America. Since that year there have been but two occasions of successful flights across the North Atlantic. Two of the Army Air Corps Around-the-World planes negotiated the journey via Iceland and Greenland in the fall of 1924, a route fraught with peril be- cause of its icy character and desolation. The only other non-stop flight was that of the German Zeppelin ZR-3, now rechristened the United States Navy airship Los Angeles, which flew from Friedrichshafen near the Swiss border to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Over the South At- lantic Portuguese and Spanish flyers have com-

»„ peted for records, the most recent hero being Captain Ramon Franco of Spain's air force. i All flights below the equator have been made in relays. The only non-stop flight over the Atlantic ever made in a heavier-than-air ma- chine remains as it stood in 1919 when the late Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown flew from Newfoundland (Continued on page 73)

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follow on his flight in the airplane "The American journey will be over land. It will also be noticed that a water. At right, Legionnaire Noel Davis craft on a horizontal plane. Blinded by the elements they fought on, flying sideways and even upside down before they reached their goal. Their plane was a Vickers-Vimy bomber equipped with dual Rolls-Royce engines of four hundred horse-power each and though their maximum flying speed was one hundred miles an hour, favorable winds carried them to their goal, 1936 miles distant, at an average speed of 117 miles an hour. Lieutenant Brown, the navigator, was an American by birth. This brave aerial

APRIL, 1927 35 /" w ~^LAT feet won't keep the boys of Guilford County, "You know, formerly we Bi/A.B AV North Carolina, out of the next war, if there's going didn't have a decent place to M to be a next war. stage football games in Greens- ^/ The Memorial Stadium, half a mile from the heart of boro. After the stadium opened Greensboro, suggested, urged, planned and dedicated by Henry —well toward the end of the 1926 season at that—there were K. Burtner Post of The American Legion, has an entranceway two corking games here. And we've got some great ones sched- wide enough for a column of squads to pass through, an eight-acre uled for next fall." field where Guilford County boys can chase pigskin and horsehide One should never look a gift stadium in the motive. Yet the in season, a quarter-mile cinder track that sheds water as thor- fact remains that, whereas the memorial arena at Greensboro is oughly as the Champagne fields held it, a dozen rolled tennis an enticement to the physical development of everyone under the courts that might lure age of twenty-one, it also gives the older stay-at- a Lenglen. If, when homes a chance to see excellent football matches and as any boy of without risking flat tires on the way to Chapel Hill northwestern North g or Durham, Raleigh or Winston-Salem. Carolina successfully For five years the idea of commemorating Guil- withstands the temp- ford Countians who gave their lives in the war, not tation of these out- ">y a marble shaft, but with a monument of use to door advantages and the youth of the State, flickered futilely through the spitefully insists on ids of Greensboro Legionnaires. Time and again growing up with fiat groups were called together to discuss plans feet and an arched of campaign. Then someone would remember back—well, Burtner the imminent campaign of the Community Post argues, he just Chest, or a drive for the Near East Relief, or a naturally isn't the sort request for funds for some college or service of youngster organization which seemed far more necessary that should be than an outdoor recreation center. So from allowed to fight year to year the project was postponed, and our battles any- the newspapers began to jeer at the inaction way. of the boys who once saw action. P r i m a r i 1 y This was more than a self-respecting Legion with the inten- post could stand. When the North Carolina tion of provid- Legislature met in early 1925, a bill was passed ing athletic fa- authorizing the city of Greensboro to take cilities for the over property later to be acquired and to young, this maintain it perpetually as the "Greensboro project was un- World War Memorial." The measure pro- dertaken by vided for a stadium commission—the mayor Tarheel Legion- ex-officio as chairman, and five other mem- naires. So, at bers. These six should select an advisor and least, will they a treasurer. tell you. But For a few months the holding commission one doubtless had nothing to hold. Then, to signalize Armi- will be par- stice Day of 1925, a campaign for contribu- doned for cer- tions was staged throughout the county. Adjutant John H. Davis of Henry K. Burtner Post of the tain dark sus- In prelude an extensive publicity program Legion, who still wears the chevrons of a Regular Army picions of adult was arranged. Allen Adams, retiring Post sergeant, reminds some Tarheel Legionnaires of the proper purposes that Commander, headed a speakers' bureau which method stacking Mr. Davis, who is displaying his are aroused of rifles. brought the need for the stadium before every when a member expert touch about the barrels, is explaining matters to four civic club and other organization within, as of the post men- past commanders of Burtner Post: Allen Preyer, Leonard the General Orders have it, sight or hearing. tions casually: White, McDaniel Lewis and Allen Adams Civil and Spanish War veterans lined up

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Bernd enthusiastically with the Legion- naires for this undertaking. Newspapers devoted columns to news matter and editorial encouragement. Page advertisements were underwritten by interested merchants. Circulars were distributed about the city, one of them even quoting a passage which only an inspired press- agent could have found in the Bible: "That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Then ye shall answer them . . . And these stones shall be for a Memorial unto the Children of Israel forever." (It was the local press-agent who started "Memorial" with a capital letter.) The drive for funds, following hot on the trail of this advance publicity, was not solely a Legion undertaking. Greensboro as a whole and the surrounding territory claimed share in the work. In addition to civic club members, the schools, colleges, city and county offices and factories released numbers of their men to help. At the head of the group was J. D. Wilkins, a business man above Legion age but a thorough sympathizer with the organiza- tion's aims. His chief lieutenant was Allen Preyer, Commander of Burtner Post. The central steering committee consisted of three mayors—E. B. Jeffress of Greensboro; Claude Kiser, who had preceded Mr. Jeffress in office, and Alfred M. Scales, chief official of Hamilton Lakes, a neighboring town. Under these men were mobilized about three hundred citizens. On November 9, 1925, the Big Push began. Beneath the poised The impressive memorial stadium at Greensboro, pencils of Greensboro folk thrust cards be- were salmon-colored North Carolina, as it looked on the day of its dedi- ginning with those fateful words so well known throughout the cation, November 11, 1926. In oval, the dignified United States, "In consideration of the gifts of others, I hereby entrance to the stadium, designed to harmonize the ." promise to pay . . memorial character of the enterprise and its service The drive had commenced with an 8.30 breakfast of all workers, to the living. The entrance is by a tablet in a downtown restaurant. When, at the get-together supper that flanked night, the day's tally was wearily reported, Greensboro was as- containing the names of the eighty Guilford County sured of $66,000 worth of stadium. The set goal was $roo,ooo. men, white and black, who gave their lives to their The evening of November 10th saw the total at almost $99,000. country in the World War The goal had not decreased. On Armistice Day Burtner Post had additional cause for celebration, for Guilford Countians had signed their names to more than $103,000 worth of pledges. ground suitable for the erection of the structure. The thing was This represented contributions from 13,370 persons—the Cen- as good as a reality. sus Bureau estimate of Greensboro's population in 1925 was Leonard White, an architect of note in the city and then Vice- 47,132. Of the contributors, more than nine.thousand were school Commander of the Post, presented the commission with plans for children who, through their teachers, gave $1,200 worth of nickels the building. R. B. Cridland, landscape architect of Philadelphia, and dimes toward the great work which their big brothers were was called into consultation for laying out the grounds. Bids were fostering. asked. And Greensboro came to a sad awakening. The prosperity of Greensboro is due primarily to textile manu- A stadium to seat 8,500 (the desired size) would cost at least facture, and the chief mills of the city are owned by members of $150,000—almost half again as much as had been raised. Here the Cone family. Two representatives of this family had served Mayor Jeffress and the city council proved their mettle. Only a in the War. In recognition of the Legion's work, the Cone inter- short time before, the city had disposed of a piece of property to ests donated to the stadium commission a fourteen-acre tract of good advantage, and the profits might {Continued on page 93)

APRIL, 1927 37 REMEMBER THE FIRSTS OF 1917? A Historical Throwback By Wallgren

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That's Different Be Logical To the Bitter End "You are beautiful, you have stage The penny-a-word contributor was Sandy and Moe were in a party that presence and dramatic talent. Why interviewing the editor. dined sumptuously at a high-priced res- don't you go on the stage?" "Do you wish actual experiences?" he taurant. The other members formed a "My dear, when I was a little girl I asked. conspiracy and departed hastily before promised my mother I would never be- "No, no!" cried the great man of "I the check was presented. Hour after come an actress." Spill the Works" in horror. "Put enough hour the two survivors retained their "Well, why don't you go into the fiction in them to make them sound real." seats, each striving desperately to appear movies then?" unconcerned to the other. Finally, Moe excused himself to telephone his Emergency French wife. In and Out Two American boys, wandering through "Darling," he said. "I may not be Europe, put up for a few days with an A visitor to a city in Scotland was sur- home tonight; I'm in a deadlock!" old woman in a tiny French village. One prised to find the streets deserted and of their few discoveries concerning the inquired as to the reason. French language was that when they "Tag day," was the reply. The Love That Lies wanted milk they must ask for "du lait." Two weeks later the visitor returned Seven-year-old Donald had been kept One day they were greatly concerned and this time the streets were jammed after school for whispering. "Who were to find that their hostess's cow had solidly with people. you talking to, son?" his father asked broken loose and was foraging in the "The tag day was a failure," it was ex- that evening at dinner. garden. One lad immediately broke for plained, ' so today they're conducting a "Helen," replied the boy bashfully. the kitchen, shouting: house-to-house canvass." "Why, that's your little sweetheart, "Oh, madame, madame! Du lait isn't it?" promenade!" "She was, but no more for me, Dad. Lethal Stuff I see you're right when you say that a Inclusive "I hear Jimmy de Kid's dead," re- woman is always at the bottom of all the "So you have been in Death Valley? I marked Egbert the Yegg. "How'd hap- troubles of us men." understand that's the hottest place this pen?" side of hell," said the tourist to the pros- "Aw," replied Theodore the Thug pector. mournfully, "he got careless when he was Deadly Offense "You're plumb mistaken, stranger," robbin' a bootlegger's house an' took a "Evidently," said a literal-minded returned the desert rat. "It's the hottest drink of liquor." Spiritualist sadly, "my friend Jones place the other side of hell." didn't like the doctor I got for him in his last illness." Back in B. C. Fair to Middlin' "What makes you think so?" asked up, man," said the doctor another. "Brace my Cornshock: "The farmin' business has of olden times. "I don't want to alarm "He hasn't spoken a word to me since sure hit a slump." you unduly, but I regret to tell you that he died." Oatfodder: "Oh. I dunno. The oil an' you have only about one hundred years gas turnover ain't so good, but I'm more to live." expectin' to put out a big hot dog crop, "Good Heavens, doc!" exclaimed Me- It's the Upkeep an' I'm usin' tractors now instead of thuselah aghast. "Is my condition that horses to pull cars outa mudholes." Ah heah yo' wife done presented yo" serious?" wid twins, boy!" ejaculated Mr. Johnson on meeting a friend on the The Parting street. "Is dat right?" They had had a violent quarrel "Hmpf! What a fool question!" and she was giving him back his snorted Mr. Black gloomily. "Co'se presents. 'tain't right!"

"And here," she concluded fi- nally, "is seventy cents—for that box of candy you brought the first Perpetual Immobility time you were here." It was after two in the morning and the girl had yawned several times. It was also the first time Asking a Lot he had called. "Make that ham and eggs pork "May I come to see you again?" chops," snapped a restaurant pa- he asked tenderly. tron. "I don't think that will be pos- "The chef's too busy to do any sible," she replied. tricks just now," retorted the fresh "Why not?" he queried in sud- waitress. den alarm. "I don't think you are going to give yourself the chance," she Knowledge Is Power told him, stifling another yawn. The new boy was ready to begin work for Schultz, the butcher. Pa Knows "You know what bologna looks like?" asked the merchant. "Pop, what's congenial employ- "Sure," returned the lad. "It's ment?" hot dog with a superiority com- "Anything that pays a bigger plex." It Never Fail. salary, my son."

APRIL, 1927 39 WHY TH EY FIRST PRIZE ANT to go back to the land oj romance once more IW—to march down the sweltering roads again with the memory of a carefree gang of doughboys tramp- to Qo to ing along to the songs "Hinky Dinky, Parley Voo," Want of "Good by, Broadway, Hello France," and dear old "Madelon." I want to be part of that dust-covered column once more; to live again the things that made it hell, yet made us love it too—lines of sweat streaking down dusty faces and necks, dangling hands swelling up to FRAN CE numbness as pack straps tighten across the shoulders, noisy mess wagons with clanking pans rolling along By in the rear, a passing outfit of Frogs trudging out of the lines for a rest, ambulances jammed with muddy,— C. bloody, grinning Yanks going back to Blighty and. Frederick Painton the distant boom of big guns banging away over the hills in front of us. Fd like to crawl back into a certain cramped and J songs did they sing and what tales did they S~Y JHAT water-soaked dugout up near Toul, and watch it rain, I tell, those doughboys of Agamemnon who came A / rain, rain. I want to lie once more in a wheat mf back home after camping ten years before the walls field below the old chateau in Conde-en-Brie, and ' of Troy ; what memories did the veterans of Caesar's watch for Jerry heads popping up and down in the armies, back from Rome's frontier wars, transform into youth- trenches across the Marne. I want to live again the stirring stories as they grew garrulous by their firesides; what night of July 14th, when they poured up through that have all old soldiers in every period of the world's history told field to wipe us out, and to see if the same little trench and sung and dreamed about as they licked their wounds in is still there where wefound Ed and Charleyfour days chimney corners and grew old gracefully, comforted and later, leaning over their rifles on top of the parapet cheered by the glamor and memories of righting days? just as the Jerries had knocked them off. What do the veterans of the A. E. F. think about today as I want to live all the nights again; to see the bursting their minds turn back to the France of ten years ago? Are their shrapnel and to hear it whistling for its victims; to thoughts bitter or happy? Do they remember mud, slum, hear thefrantic cries of "gas" repeating down the line; salutes, death in his multifold guises, the days that seemed as to lie listening to the dismal moan of G. I. cans going years when machine-gun bullets and high-explosive shells let no over to wake up the boysfrom Berlin. I want to crouch living hope he would be alive when tomorrow's sun arose? man there in my dugout listening and wondering. Listening Or do they remember the glorious catchwords of statesmen, to the dull heavy boom of far-away cannon rumbling the beating drums, the flying flags, the supreme inspiration of through the night. Listening to the drip, drip, drip sacrificial despair or triumphal determination? of the everlasting rain out in the darkness. I want to Can the man who went through the horrors of the World lie there wondering—always wondering—what it's all find in his anything of glory, War memory romance, poesy or about. or has he become irremediably cynical, soured for life by I want to see French hills, French fields, French slaughter and made sceptical of any good by the observation of sky, French people once again. I want to see the kids promises broken and the profits of those who skulked and built —to know that they've learned to smile since the war. for peace upon dead men's bones? I want to go back to France once more—not to seek Well, The American Legion has had a good chance to find new joys or thrills, but to revive the dreams of old that out the answers to all these questions. It has are fading with the years. called upon all men of America's former fighting forces in the World War to come forward and tell what is in their minds. It has held up before their minds the On these two pages and the one picture of the country in which winning essays in The American America's greatest sacrifices of test. First prize, $350, was won by the World War were made. It Pennsylvania and second has asked what the men of the {left), prize, armies of 1917 and 19 18 can Saranac Lake, find in retrospection to make them wish to journey across a lifetime in one year or two at the battle- the Atlantic in September front ever hope to find anything else in this year to the soil of Ameri- life to quicken his pulse, to stir a single can sacrifice of ten years ago. emotion, it was asked. Physical survivors The World War soldier and of the war would all be emotionally dead, sailor have come forward to it was contended. They would be merely the answer the Legion's questions by shells of men—shells from which the spirit submitting essays in the contest had been driven in hours of suffering, hours conducted by the France Conven- under shellfire. tion Committee of The American After reading what the World War veterans Legion. They wrote essays, interesting who entered the contest have written, the judges in essays, on the subject "Why I Want to Go to The American Legion's France Convention Essay France in 1927 with The American Legion." Contest know that the American World War veteran The former soldiers and sailors who took part in the today is not bankrupt emotionally, but, on the contrary, is contest only prove anew that time erases the horrors and bitter- as spiritually aflame as he was during the fighting days of ten ness of fighting days and tinges with glamor the recollections that years ago. Incidentally, the judges of the contest were not shal- it preserves. During the war it was predicted that the men who low sentimentalists themselves, but Americans tempered by the were risking their lives at the battlefront in the soul-shattering widest possible range of experiences in estimating and under- ordeal of modern warfare could never smile again. It was said standing the thoughts and actions of their fellow Americans. that war at last had passed the point of human endurance—that One judge was Frederick Palmer. As everybody knows, Mr. even if a man escaped alive he would be so shaken in body and Palmer is the dean of American war correspondents. He has demoralized in soul that he would not be able to return to his been an eye witness at the battlefront in every war in the world everyday life with other men. How could a youth who had lived since the Greco-Turkish war of a generation ago. Another judge

40 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly when the United States entered the war; he spent many months with the noth Infantry of the 28th Division, in the battle sectors of the A. E. F., and after many vicissitudes succeeded SECOND PRIZE in making a good place for himself in everyday civilian life after ROMANCE and sentiment are the strongest rea- the war. His father, who saw service in the Philippines, was sons why I want to go back to France in 1927 killed at the age of twenty-three in a railroad accident. P. - with The American Legion. Faustus Hardesty, of Saranac Lake, New York, wrote the essay which won the second prize. The ending of the World I want again to look over Flanders Fields, not at the War marked the beginning of a new war for Mr. Hardesty. He shell holes saw in but at the barbed wire and I 1918, was stricken with tuberculosis soon after he was discharged from poppies, made by song and poetry, the hop famous the Army and he has spent more than six years in his battle the peasants at work, and go over the places fields, against his affliction. He served with Company D, 303d Engi- where nine years ago there was only sorrow. Then all neers, during the war. His outfit landed in France in May of 1918. I saw Flanders was the mud and rain, the trenches of Everyone who reads Mr. Hardesty 's essay will hope that he will ruins war. What greater happiness than to and of find himself able to make the trip to Paris with the rest of the findjoy and contentment again where sadness had been Legion next September. so long! for A California service man wrote the third prize essay. He is Then I want to find that hole my buddy and I dug in Harry C. Westover of Santa Ana, and he is an attorney. He the Argonne that late October night in '/

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made by fire-crackers on the Fourth of July ought to have been under the strain of athletics. I did not have quite enough credits along with us to hear a real celebration of Independence Day. for a degree when I came out with the class of 1924, so I have The strange part was that the Jerries did more to make the been attending the University's night school, and my A. B. degree affair a success than the French did. In fact, I never saw anybody will come along this year." get so enthusiastic over somebody else's holiday. Incidentally, McKinnis was president of the senior class in his "It ended for my buddy and me when the Jerries cornered us in university, an honor which his fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, a little shell-hole along toward morning and did what they could probably duly recognized with pride. But college honors didn't to help our folks back home collect the insurance money. My mean much to a sceptical world. buddy's was an explosive bullet through one lung and a couple of "When I got out of college I tried writing short stories," ribs; mine was a scalp wound serious enough to knock me cold McKinnis continues. "Some of the best editors in the country for a while but slight enough not helped discourage me, so I to scar the ivory much. tried reporting for one of the "The Germans took us back Pittsburgh newspapers. The into Germany to prove they were city editor eventually gave really winning the war. Five me a dandy recommendation months later, on December 6, THIRD PRIZE and a polite notice to find 1018, the Allied Red Cross came work elsewhere. ." into our prison camp, loaded us WHY I want to go to France . . Even after "My next job was as a into a train and took us back to all these years there is still that thought of an clerk, waiting on persons France by way of Switzerland. anticipated desire and a blasted hope. For I who wanted gas or electric "After spending a month in lights turned on or off in belong to that vast body of men who, though they were Vichy, bathing each morning in their houses. I worked for in the Army, never got to reach the other side. Vichy water which cost the folks the company which sup- We marched many a weary mile to the tune of "A back home sixty cents a bottle to plies gas, light and street- Long, Long Trail," but the trail us never led to drink, I was discharged from hos- for car service to Pittsburgh. pital and sent back to my outfit, the sea and France. We stuck our sharp bayonets After a year of close-up con- which was in northern France. into many a sand filled Hun; we advanced, we at- tact with the public I was In May, 19 19, we sailed for tacked, we stormed the heights of many a trench in No transferred to the advertis- home." Mans Land—in the good old U. S. A. My hand has ing department. Lately I Mr. McKinnis's adventures felt the caress of a Browning in action; I have held the have been doing some special perhaps were not typical of those writing for the railway and gun on many a target, dreaming and planning of the of the thousands of boys of high I hope that some day the days to come in France, but real battles are not made school age who served with the best editors will see some- of dreams—and we fit the whole war through on this A. E. F. Not every nineteen- thing in my short stories." side the pond. year old American soldier got the of McKinnis is a pioneer added kick of being wounded and And then . . . Legionnaire. He helped or- taken prisoner. But, like the ganize Anderson-Adkins Post The guns went dead and the war ivas won fourteen-year-old drummer boys in his native city of New And the last mad drive was through, of the Civil War, the striplings Brighton, Pennsylvania, and And there we lay with the big job done who scarcely knew how to use the served as its Vice-Com- And a home to go back to. safety razors which Uncle Sam mander. Mud-grimed, wire-torn, from our battered hats handed them found in war ex- Mr. McKinnis probably To our sodden, frayed puttees, periences by reason of their age expects to revisit the spot And our fists still clenched our empty gats bigger thrills than ever came to along the Marne where his And our thoughts across the seas. their buddies who were well inside French comrades celebrated the voting age before they put on that memorable Fourteenth The war was won . . . The last fight had been the uniform. And, coming back of July. If things break fought . . . Dirty and worn from battles (?) . . . to everyday life, these boys, most right for Faustus P. Har- Our fists still clenching the empty gats we had never of them, and McKinnis among desty, winner of the second got to use in France . . . We were ready to turn them, seriously tried to learn in prize in the essay contest, he schools what they had missed be- our faces home once more, with our thoughts across wants to see in September cause of the war. Here is what the seas. the old haunts of the 303d McKinnis tells of his own return And now there comes the second invasion of the Engineers, back of Vimy and to civilian clothes: American Army. Even though we were not privileged Arras, where Tommies made "I worked in the steel mills to go gun in hand, it may be that the good Lord up adjoining outfits. Har- during the summer after in looking down from his throne on high dest}' is a member of Jackson my discharge," he re- A. Matthews Post of Saranac will take pity on some of us poor devils lates. "In the fall Lake, New York. who were left behind before, and see I returned to my "We served with the Tom- to it that we can be a part the turkey — went of mies on the British Front invasion back to high of 1927. till August, 1918," Hardesty school. I was recalls. "Then we went by graduated the box-car route to the St. in 1920. Later Mihiel sector. After the St. the Federal Mihiel drive we took over Board for Vo- the lines near Thiaucourt

1 Harry C. Westover of Santa c a t i o n a 1 from the Second Division. Training Ana, California, won the Then we went into the helped me to third prize of $j 0 Argonne, relieving the enrol at the Seventy-Seventh Division at University of Grand-Pre. Pittsburgh. "Immediately after the Armistice I developed conjunctivitis, "I didn't have probably from gas, and had to spend two months in a hospital. any money, but I Later I put in an application to attend a French university and managed to get by in was lucky enough to be assigned to the University of Marseilles. my four years at school. At Marseilles I spent four of the happiest months of my life. I worked at such jobs as trucker "I had been home only a few months when I had to give up for the American Express Company boiler maker's helper in a work and go to Saranac Lake, where I entered a government Pennsylvania Railroad roundhouse, gasoline station attendant hospital. I have been here ever since. One of my greatest wishes and hotel clerk. is to be able to go back to France with the Legion this year." "In high school I had won letters in football and track before Harry C. Westover is representative of thousands of men who the war, but after the war I found my lungs would not stand up never got into the first A. E. F. but (Continued on page 95 42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly i A PERSONAL VIEW }

Only One Subject this month. We look back. For a German blood or not, could be for the Kaiser or any other nation never to look back is to put out the light of memory ruler of his ideas and ambitions. We had cut out bowing and what its sons did for it, and to be to his kind when we broke with King George III and Do You in the dark as to how to carry on the became a nation. It was as a nation, and that kind of Remember? spirit 01 their doing. We look back nation, that we looked on at the orgy in Europe. ten years to April, '17, when the big call came; when men broke home habits and fell in step in the war machine; when each was doing what he was Naturally, an American born in Germany felt nearer told to do with all his might to make greater the nation's Germans who were killed than to Englishmen, Frenchmen might. or Italians who were killed. We had We Had All all the races who were engaged in mu-

the Races tua ' slaughter in Europe living peace- We Call The Roll. There are those who do not re- fully together in our land. Working spond? Among them are the ones who fell in battle. Our together, instead of fighting one another, they had made first thought is of them. The light of America strong. We hoped that Europe would finish its Always the their memory shines very far ahead. own job of putting the Kaiser in his place. Anyway, we First It w iU De shining after the lights of Thought could not have any "Big Injun" of his kind off the Euro- the rest of us are out. Of the living pean reservation threatening us and world freedom; for our first thought is of the disabled and the sick. For ten this would make it our war as surely as King George's years they have been paying the price; they go on paying. ways sent us to war against him. This is the kind of They are now bearing all the burden which we shared people we are, and we shall make a great mistake if we with them in war time. become any other kind of people, no matter what the future holds for us.

Most of Us Who were not disabled and have not lost our health feel as young as ever. We are back in home habits, doing our day's work and pay- The Germans Were making a mighty fight even if the No Fooling ing our grocery bills. However, we Kaiser and his sons were taking no risk themselves as the Germans fought for them. Russia the Calendar would know that we could not fool Then It quitting. to the calendar if we tried to do twenty Was was If the Kaiser were miles in war packs, or put in four or five days with winter Our War be stopped it was up to us to stop mud as our beds in France not uncertain but that the him. We could see by the map that next minute one might be sent to the long sleep still he was winning, The Allies were crying: "Save us. You deeper under the soil of France. Youth was wanted; are our hope." Moreover, the Kaiser might not go on youth came. It was youth's toil and triumph. Not to violating the sanctity of our flag on the seas and sending ships if have been in uniform is the saddest memory of all for our to the bottom. As he was acting as he were those who look back to "when they were young". In at war with us, it was about time for us to act in the fact, they do not like to look back. They want to forget same way. For this reason we had made war with Eng- there was a War. They missed something big and vital land in 1812. that they can no more recover than the veteran the leg he lost overseas. We Wanted No territory in Europe, no indemnities. The proposition was perfectly straight and clear. We were

Until April, '17, when it had been going on for more out to lick the Kaiser and what he than two years and a half, many people did not think it Just This stood for, in keeping with our tradi- was our war. We had nothing to do Much Our War tions. We were not out to pay off a When It Was with starting it. Germany wanted racial or national grudge against any Not Our War something that the Allies wanted to group of fellow human beings. Being a war for world keep for themselves. We had many freedom it became an American war. Anybody in Amer- citizens of German origin in America. We knew as their ica who was not for us was against us. There must be no neighbors that they were good citizens. They were not German-Americans or any other kind of hyphenates. the sort who cut off babies' hands or committed the other There must be only Americans, which also made it an horrors of Allied propaganda. But to Americans the American war. The part of being an American, be you Kaiser was not "the great and good man" of German home or foreign born, was in stepping forward to do your propaganda. We could not see why any man, whether of part. Otherwise, you denied (Continued on page 83) APRIL, 1927 43 . — — A TEACHER ivho is still LEARNING

"/^T^VLEASE buy a forty years ago lived in ^* A_^poppy! Won't By Clara Ingram Judson Minneapolis, Minnesota, J you please buy and was paymaster for a poppy?" the Minneapolis and St. The words have a familiar sound. You heard them la^t Louis Railroad. He was fond of good books and did much to Memorial Day, and this coming May you will again hear them as guide his daughter's reading and to shape her cultural develop- the trays of bright poppies are depleted and the coins of passers- ment. Her mother was Emma Schofield Wright, a woman of by fill the coffers of American Legion Auxiliary units unusual attainments who distinguished herself both as a mu- The little red poppy that is gaily or reverently, as the case may sician and as an artist. Before her marriage she was a concert be, transferred from tray to coat lapel stands for man}' things singer, but when marriage and babies made that profession im- for the war that was fought to end war; for the boys who did not practicable, she took up painting and was the first ceramic artist come back; for those who did return but who are still in hospitals, to use conventional designs. We all recall the gorgeous roses, unable to work because the war incapacitated them; for the ideals lilies and pansies on the plates and cups our mothers used to prize we saw so clearly then, though dimly, perhaps, now—the little and contrast those with the beautiful conventional designs that red poppy calls to mind all that. But to the members of The began to be seen on the china which came into use some twenty American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary it means and thirty years ago. Of course some one person had to have the even more. It has become a reminder to all who know the story original idea; some one person had to make the experiments that that the vision of one woman, plus her tireless labor to make seemed "queer" and which now seem so simple and lovely—that her dream come true, has made person was Mrs: Macauley's the poppy the means of bringing mother. Mrs. Wright worked in economic freedom and joy to a studio at the back of her own hundreds of service men and home so that she might supervise their families. in person the affairs of her fam- Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley, ily; she taught art classes and National President of The Amer- she painted diligently. No ican Legion Auxiliary, had the doubt the example of her understanding to know that mother's tireless energy and the money given, however appreci- striving for beauty with which the ated or however needed, can little girl Adalin was surrounded never bring quite the full mea- had much to do with making sure of happiness that money her the cultured, capable woman earned carries with it. Through she now is. her program the commercial When Mrs. Macauley was a poppy is now practically elimi- schoolgirl her family moved to nated from Memorial Day use Chicago, and there the major and in its stead Legion posts and part of her education was ob- Auxiliary units use the poppy tained. The Wright family num- made by ex-service men and their bered four children at that time, families in hospitals or in homes, and the youngsters spent their and the wages for the making summers on a farm in southern are paid to these deserving peo- Illinois watched over by Mr. ple. Now that it is done, it Wright's devoted sister, Mary. seems so obvious and so simpb. A glance at "Aunt Mary" now Of course the poppies that are plainly tells what she must have sold to raise a fund for disabled meant to those city children as veterans should be made by the she fed them and loved them veterans themselves; of course during the happy days on the men would rather have wages farm. She loved all four than gifts—wouldn't you? And you'd know that—but for Ada- yet when Mrs. Macauley initi- lin there seems to have been a ated the program it seemed peculiar affection. Her eyes neither obvious nor simple, and sparkle as she looks at the beau- a great deal of idealism and a tiful woman that little girl has vast amount of plain back-bone grown to be and she says, with was needed to start the plan an affectionate little gesture, going. What manner of woman "She went to my heart the first is this who has both vision and time I ever saw her—and she's energy and who now holds the stayed right there ever since!" highest honor and carries the After a time the Wright fam- heaviest responsibilities in the ily moved to Pueblo, Colorado, power of The American Legion but Adalin came back to Rock- Auxiliary to bestow? ford College, Rockford, Illinois, Mrs. Macauley is a product for her advanced education, of the Middle West—a logical graduating there from the secre- They've been predicting for the last jouryears in Wis- place for the producing of just tarial course in the first class to consin that Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley would the sort of qualities she possesses receive degrees in that branch of some day lead The American Legion Auxiliary and do in such full measure. Her study. She took a position as father, Henry Talcott Wright, the job as neatly as the one she did in iqz$ when she was secretary at Ferry Hall, Lake a graduate of Beloit College, was president oj the Wisconsin Department. A background Forest, Illinois, but she was not a business man and at the time oj notable service in and out oj the Auxiliary gives allowed to stay there long as she of his daughter's birth some solid basis jor the fulfilment oj their prediction was called to join the faculty of 44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The new President of the Auxil- iary showing disabled erans how to make the

which she sent out by .... to be sold for their benefit, when she was the Auxiliary' s National Poppy Chairman. Beloiv: Back home again for a visit with her husband, Judge J. IV. Macauley of Menomonie, Wisconsin, and their son, Robert Henry

Rockford College. A position as secretary to Dr. L. D. Harvey, one of the greatest educators of his day and president of Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wisconsin, enticed her away from Rock- ford, and she went to Menomonie in 1010 and found there both congenial work and personal happiness.

Her marriage to Judge J. W. Macauley in 1012 is a very happy one and she settled down to devote herself to her husband and her little son Robert, now a bright boy of thirteen. Then came the war. Judge Macauley, who had served as a lieutenant in the Spanish- American war, went to France as a captain of infantry. While in France he was transferred to the Adjutant General's department Those were anxious days for Mrs. Macauley as for others and while there received his commission as major. He served in whose dear ones were overseas. The threat of the I. W. W. also this department eighteen months. gave concern to those battling on the home front. During his absence, Mrs. Macauley went to Pueblo, Colorado, The war over, the little family was reunited in the home on where she became head of the commercial department of the Wilson Avenue, one of the best streets in Menomonie, and Mrs. Pueblo High School and also secretary in the office of the general Macauley accepted the position of secretary and registrar of manager of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Those were Stout Institute, a post which brought her in touch with educa- busy, anxious days. She had the care of her little son (he was a tional interests and methods all over the country. This inter- partial invalid then, though you would never guess it to see his esting work she gave up in 1023 when she became President of vigorous health now), she had her jobs—no trifling matters, such the Wisconsin Department of The American Legion Auxiliary. important posts—and she had her war work which filled every Out of this varied background of home and public interests available moment. The habit of industry, so necessary in the has come the Mrs. Macauley of today— tall, slender, graceful, National President of The American Legion Auxiliary, was very much alive to opportunities for service, feeling keenly re- certainly fostered then. sponsibilities she has accepted but not {Continued on page 89)

APRIL, 1927 45 KEEPING STEP

Alliance of ^-"y^vERHAPS you have seen it, the huge col- this enterprise the National Poster Art V* majored, poster which hundreds of Legion New York City. It has been able to do this through m posts have displayed on poster panels in the efforts of Legionnaire and Voyageur Burton JL their communities to remind service men Harrington, who is Editor of The Poster, the pub- Advertising Association of who are not Legionnaires that the Legion needs lication of the Outdoor Harrington is serving as chairman of them and wants them. In big letters it broadcasts America. Mr. the appeal: "If you served in the World War, you belong in Voiture 220's committee in charge of the competition. The American Legion." The sentiment is emphasized by the The members of the jury of award are: General John J. heroic and helmeted figure of a doughboy, boldly emblazoned Pershing, Honorary National Commander of The American against the poster's background of a flaming sunrise. A beau- Legion; Howard P. Savage, National Commander; Hanford tiful poster it is, and it has done its share for more than a MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War and Past National year to help The American Legion in the membership gains it Commander; Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell, Alon is making in every State. Bement, Jon O. Brubaker, eminent artists; Lorado Taft, noted But the poster of the upstanding doughboy is ready for re- sculptor; Mrs. Adalin W. Macauley, National President of tirement. To take its place a new poster must be found. A the American Legion Auxiliary; Admiral William A. Moffett, single voiture of La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux has United States Navy; Charles A. Mills, Chef de Chemin de subscribed to the idea that it can render no greater service to Fer of the Forty and Eight; Kerwin H. Fulton, President of the Legion at this time than to present to it the best poster the General Outdoor Advertising Company, and William Mac- an American artist can conceive and place on paper or canvas. Lean, Art Editor of The American Legion Monthly. That voiture is Voiture 220 of Chicago, Illinois. This voi- Under present plans, the jury of award will view all the ture of the Forty and Eight, composed of representative Le- posters submitted in the competition at the Art Center in New gionnaires of all Chicago posts, is already carrying out its York City in September, just before thousands of Legionnaires plans to obtain the new Legion poster. It has announced to sail for France to attend the national convention in Paris. all the artists in the United States that it will pay fifteen In announcing its plans for the competition, Voiture 220 hundred dollars in prizes for the three best posters submitted asked artists to visualize the work which has been done by the in a competition, which began on March 1st and will end on Legion, in community service, in helping disabled service men August 25th. The first prize will be one thousand dollars; and their families, and in all that has made the Legion a na- the second three hundred dollars and the third two hundred tional force for good. dollars. "The poster which will most completely and fully express To obtain the participation of the country's leading artists the ideals and purposes of the Legion," the announcement and to insure that the competition will be conducted under rec- stated, "must and will live for years and will carry the mes- ognized art standards, Voiture 220 has made its full partner in sage of the Legion to millions of people." KEEPING STEP

The competition is open to all artists, and de- Summit, Montana, to commemorate Mr. Stevens' signs may be rendered in any medium suitable for discovery in the 8o's of Marias Pass, through which reproduction in lithography. Designs must be adapt- the Great Northern Railroad shortened its path to able for use as a twenty-four sheet poster. A bro- the Pacific two hundred miles. chure describing the competition may be obtained Donald F. Stevens, of Cleveland, Ohio, a son of from Voiture 220, La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 the man who was honored, sends a photograph which Chevaux, Room 308, 160 North La Salle Street, Chicago, was made when the statue was dedicated. He comments: Illinois, or the National Poster Art Alliance, 65 East 56th "My father is standing at the extreme left of the photograph Street, New York City. looking toward the statue. Directly next to him is Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Railroad, the man who was responsible for the erection of the statue. Directly below Mr. WHEN Myer Agen of Paris (France) Post read the article Stevens is his son, my youngest brother, Eugene, and further called "How Old Will You Be At Fifty," by Dr. Stanley on, the young man in the uniform, who undraped the statue, is M. Rinehart, published in a recent issue of the Monthly, he my son who is Mr. Stevens' grandson, as is also the young man was reminded of the sitting next to him. fact that he has been The second man trying to induce from my boy in uni- Paris Post to pro- form is Caesare, the vide medical exam- New York sculptor, i n a t i 0 n s for its who did the work, members. and directly back of "About one year him is Pierce Butler, ago I suggested this United States Su- idea to a physician preme Court Justice, who is a member of who spoke." the post," writes Mr. Although John F. Agen. "I proposed Stevens was sixty- that a nominal fee four years old when be charged men able the United States to pay and that men entered the World unable to pay be War, he became given examinations head of the Ameri- free. I figured that can Railway Mission Americans living in to Russia. Later he France might very served as president easily undergo the of the inter-allied examinations at the board which operat- American hospital in ed the Siberian rail- Paris. I suggested ways. Meanwhile, also that eventually his son, John F. the system might be Stevens, Jr., was extended to include fighting with the others in the fam- A. E. F. in France. ilies of Legionnaires. Legionnaire John F. inci- "Now, what I Stevens, Jr., should like to know dentally, may be still is this: Has any fighting, since he is in Shanghai, China. post in the United One of the few statues erected to living men, this bronze figure at Summit, States worked out a Montana, was dedicated two years ago in honor of John F. Stevens, in rec- system for providing ognition of his discovery of the Marias Pass, the gap in the Rockies which Memorial its members with saved the Great Northern Railroad two hundred miles. Mr. Stevens' sou, ^yiTH Day only two medical examina- Legionnaire John F. Stevens, Jr., is now in Shanghai, China tions. We had the months ahead, posts exams in the Army; everywhere might why wouldn't they help now? A man individually won't bother consider doing what Park Post of Livingston, Montana, is of to have himself examined, ordinarily. He would be more apt doing. Impressed by the fact that numbers of graves umarked, to do it if everybody else were being examined also." service men in cemeteries in its locality were Is there any spokesman for a Legion post who can answer the post appointed a committee to make a survey of Mr. Agen's inquiry? Right Guide will pass on the facts to all soldiers' graves in all cemeteries and procure government Cemetery the rest of the Legion if somebody sends them in. markers for the graves which were unmarked. charts were consulted and announcements of the post's purpose were published in newspapers. Eventually a list of all the was completed. VVfHEN it was innocently hinted in the Message Center for service men of all wars buried in Park County » January that Chauncey Depew was possibly the only Among the graves located was that of a veteran of the War of many American to whom a statue had been erected during life, many of 181 2, one of Montana's first settlers. Graves of relatives Legionnaires were reminded that a statue had been erected soldiers of the Indian wars were listed. Assistance applications for only two years ago to honor the memory of a living man who of the dead has been sought in preparing the Quartermaster had performed conspicuous service to the United States during headstones to be forwarded to the Office of Department the World War. This man was John F. Stevens, one of the General, Washington, D. C. Although the War greatest American engineers, and the statue was erected at is not able to make deliveries of headstones promptly

APRIL, 1927 47 K E EPING STEP because of a shortage hundred dollars a in appropriation, the month, permitting all post hopes to have interest charges to be every grave marked paid promptly and the by the end of 1927. debt to be reduced Park County Post, greatly each year. following the example of posts in many other cities, is establishing IF you ever had the a service men's plot idea that turkeys in a new cemetery were targets at a tur- which has been pur- key shoot, learn the chased by the city of truth from Dudley Livingston. The plot Loomis Post of Mos- will be used for burial cow, Idaho, which not of veterans of any war. long ago distributed The post will erect a more than a hundred memorial in the plot. turkeys and geese to Many Livingston Le- the citizens of its com- gionnaires are also munity who were not members of the United near-sighted or trig- Spanish-War Veterans, ger-shy. and General H. C. "Regulation targets Kessler Camp of this at regulation distances organization is helping are used," reports in the cemetery pro- Ernest W. Ellis, of gram and in the plac- Moscow, Commander ing of grave markers. of the Department of Idaho. "Those shooting may use WALLY'S favorite pistols, 22 cali- cartoon model m bre rifles or the the A. E. F., George bigger game W. B. Britt, bulletins rifles. From from Boston that his The only thing Moscow, Idaho, and Moscow, Rus- eight to ten men, outfit, Crosscup-Pish- sia, have in common is snow. Coffee, instead of on Post, celebrated the Idaho vodka, was served at Dudley Loomis Post's real ending of the annual turkey shoot. Above, Department Com- World War a few mander Ernest W. Ellis after a miss. Below, weeks ago by attend- somebody who didn't miss ing a luncheon aboard the liner Thuringia of the Hamburg-American Line at the invitation of Legionnaire at fifty cents

Daniel J. Harkins, New England manager of the line. Post apiece, fire on a Commander Travers D. Carman presided at the luncheon and single target. guests outside the Legion included state and city officials and This year three the German consul in Boston. The most dramatic moment of hundred c i t i- the luncheon was an opening ceremony in honor of the war dead zens took part of both republics. Post Commander Travers, opening this in the shoot. ceremony, said: "It is our custom at post luncheons to darken Our field icitch- the room and to sound taps in memory of our comrades who en served hot have gone, observing then a moment of silence. Today we dogs and coffee. will respect the memory of brave men. including in our tribute The post made the dead of our sister republic." The ship's orchestra played a profit of al- an accompaniment for the ceremony. most one hun- "The tribute was most impressive and had a visible effect d r e d dollars, upon the Germans, most of whom had been engaged in the this after pay- w^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmm war," comments Mr. Britt. ing for adver- tising, ammuni- tion, supplies and one old cow. We have been holding turkey ALTHOUGH Paul R. Martin Post has only thirty members shoots yearly ever since the Armistice was signed." L and its town of Hershey, Nebraska, has only six hundred people, the post isn't wasting any time at meetings cussing out the landlord and speculating whether he might be persuaded to WITH the assistance of Legionnaires of every State, the reduce the rent. For Paul R. Martin Post is now its own land- Legion's National Child Welfare Committee is endeav- lord, and since it moved into its $7,000 clubhouse recently it oring to obtain this year the enactment of uniform state legis- has been wondering how it existed so long before getting the lation for the assistance of parentless or needy children. Work idea which has given it a home and financial independence. of surveying present legislation in all States and determining

The post didn't strike oil or fall heir to its money; it simply what additional legislation is needed in each State to bring its took advantage of sound principles of everyday finance, supple- laws for children into line with the Legion's program is being mented by the fact that it had a good reputation in its town. directed by State Senator Sherman W. Child, of Minnesota, When the post decided to build a clubhouse it offered to ex- Vice-Chairman of the National Child Welfare Committee. change its certificates of indebtedness, bearing seven percent The Legion recommends that each State have legislation interest, to citizens who wished to help in the enterprise. Many covering four main points. The first is an adequate law cover- citizens gave outright contributions and also purchased cer- ing desertion of family or non-support of family. The second tificates. Post dances have produced an average profit of two is a widowed mother's allowance ( Continued on page 70) The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly :

Mystery of Alex, A. E. F. Pitcher, Unsolved An Old-Timer Comes Through With Earlier War Memories — Facts Regarding Honor Roll Men Wanted — Outfit Announcements

/ J HEN the call ''Play Ball" resounds throughout his remark when the lieutenant handed him his discharge, 'So m /* / the land this month, there will be at least one long, boys, will see you in Chicago.' As the game Willard tells 1/ m/ Legionnaire whose thoughts will again revert back about wasn't played until May 17th, he can be assured that a the real J r to an epic game which his outfit won from team Grover Cleveland Alexander did not pitch it, but if of professionals in the A. E. F. by a shut-out. In the January he had, my guess would be that Willard's home-run would issue, 0. H. Willard of Holloway, Ohio, told of this game which have failed to develop. My recollection is that Alex was a was played at Camp Genicart, just outside of Bordeaux, sergeant of artillery." France, on May 17, 1919, between men of Headquarters Com- Now with the annual epidemic of baseball fever about to pany, 21st Division, 35th Engineers, and a team of reported sweep the land, probably more of the baseball fans, particu- professional ball-players, all members of the A. E. F. Willard larly those who were with the 35th Engineers at the time the stated that the opposing pitcher bore the name Alexander and game was played in 191 9, will be in a mood to give more dope he was wondering if this pitcher from whom he drew a home- about the game which Willard helped to win with his home- run could have been run. Incidentally, we Alexander the Great, would like to learn the hero of the 1926 something about Alex World Series. He want- the Great's service from ed also to learn the some of his former name and position of comrades. each player on these two teams. AMEPICAN BPIDGCHCAD BOUNDARY Only one fan has re- REMEMBER t h e POW! f ORWODf N sponded thus far and roND THrt story "Johnny, My t PPOPfP AUTHORITY he blows up Willard's Old Friend John" in the thought that he might January issue in which have hit Alex the Great Peter B. Kyne told of for a home-run. Le- his youthful experiences gionnaire George C. as a soldier in the old Welch of Denton, Fourteenth United Texas, is the man who States Infantry during following tells the y jjr N the Philippine cam- story mm paign: That tale of "Last night I was service life in the early looking through m y days of this century January number of The caused another old- American Legion timer to reminisce a bit Monthly and read 0. and we're going to let H. Willard's letter about you read his letter to

the ball game at Geni- t h e Company Clerk, cart on May 17, 1919. According to the notions of most doughboys, the site of the above even though he did ask I am unable to give the signboard was only a way-stop to the ultimate goal of our Army in us to withhold his name. personnel of the teams 1918: Berlin. This picture was taken in the American area around Another twenty years but I think I can put Coblenz, Germany, by Corporal L. C. Howard, formerly of Company and we'll probably be him straight as to Grov- E, 16th Infantry, and sent to us by E. M. Hancock, same outfit, now in the position of this Legionnaire of er Cleveland Alexander. of Miami Beach, Florida Massa- "I was a member of chusetts, relating our Headquarters Detach- long-ago experiences to ment, 41st Division, at St. Aignan. We had orders to send the younger generation. Here we are: "I certainly enjoyed six hundred men to Le Havre for return to the States on the Johnny, My Old Friend John' by Peter B. Kyne in the January French Line ship Rochambeau, scheduled to sail from Havre number very much. I joined the Fourteenth Infantry in 1901 on March 29. 1919. I transferred to St. Aignan Casual Com- after being discharged out of the 35th Infantry, United States pany No. 2942, which was a part of this shipment, and we left Volunteers, and we had many fine soldiers in it. I can almost Noyers, France, on March 26, 1919. arriving in Havre on the picture John, as there were many of that type in the old days. 28th. On arrival, we found the ship in dry dock for repairs I am still in the service and about due for retirement. That and were held for a week. We went to a small camp near the story brought many of the old memories of '99 back to me. business district of the city and on the following day I met particularly the part about the 'jawbone' we used to get. Some Grover Cleveland Alexander, Sam Dreben of El Paso, Texas, of the fellows signed the Filipinos' credit books as 'Willie Get it' and a Second Lieutenant who, I understood, was an outfielder and I am sorry to say that in many cases the gugu never did. for the Milwaukee American Association team. Dreben, you "I suppose many of your readers remember the old San will remember, was the man who made such a reputation for Miguel saloon on the Escolta where many old friends from dif- himself with the 36th Division. I am not sure that Alexander ferent regiments used to meet when they came in to Manila came from Noyers with us, but I think he did. I didn't meet from the lines for a few days' pass. I would like to know if him. however, until we were in camp at Havre. there are many former members of old Company G. 35th In- "We finally sailed about April 5th and docked at Dier 157. fantry. United States Volunteers, still in the land of the living. New York City, on . 1019. where Grover Cleveland A page or two devoted to pictures of the old Army in the Alexander, the pitcher, was discharged instanter. He was an Islands and elsewhere I think would be interesting, especially ex-soldier before he got off the pier. I was standing within to the old-timers in the Legion." thirty feet of him when it happened and remember very vividly The Company Clerk hopes that (Continued on page 88)

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so long ago a weekly magazine with a large can Legion at the Philadelphia national convention, will review I circuirculation gave The American Legion a lot of the parade. So will General Gouraud, military commander of free advertising by expressing its scepticism of Paris, a picturesque war-time commander. General John J. c/Y the lofty purposes of the Legion's pilgrim- Pershing, commander-in-chief of the A. E. F. and Honorary 3 age to France. It was quite all right to National Commander of the Legion, will review the parade proclaim that the boys were yearning to see the old battlefields with those who shared with him the trying hours of the war's again and walk through the A. E. F. cemeteries, but most decisive days. people suspected that all that the boys really yearned for were In all the world there could be no greater setting than the good wine and mademoiselles—so the magazine said editorially. Avenue des Champs Elysees, the Arch of Triumph and the In time the same magazine published many letters from Le- Place de la Concorde, and nowhere else in the world could such gionnaires denying all that had been insinuated. A large per- a vast and colorful crowd be assembled as that which will fill centage of the Legionnaires mentioned that they were going to the sidewalks of Paris. The city that held the eyes of the take their wives with them to Paris for the conven- world during the World War will reclaim its glory. tion in September, refuting the notion that the Paris convention would be like a butter and egg men's jamboree. NOT many of the men of the first A. E. F. spent The best answer, however, to all the intimations much time in Great Britain on their way to of the weekly magazine's editorial has been given by France, but the British Legion is hoping that most of thousands of Legionnaires who submitted essays in those who go to France with the Second A. E. F. will the contest whose subject was, "Why I stop off in England on the way home. Want to Go to France in 1927 with The Commander H. H. Brownlee of London American Legion." The three main prize- Post of The American Legion came to winning essays are published elsewhere in the United States in January bearing a this issue of the Monthly. Anyone read- cordial invitation from the British Legion ing these, cynical though he may be. must and a specially-organized "Come to Brit- thrill a bit at the real spirit of the Second ain" society addressed to the Legion- A. E. F. which they reveal. naires and their relatives who will go to Montmartre, of course! The theatres France in September. Official entertain- of Paris, certainly! The boulevards ments will be arranged for the visitors to who goes to Paris without seeing their London, special moderate hotel rates will joyous life? Yes, and the acknowledged be assured and other means will be found beauty and charm of the women of Paris to demonstrate hospitality, Mr. Brownlee —the Second A. E. F. will not overlook said. that. But the essays prove that above In addition to formal entertainments, and beyond all the mere pleasures of the British Legionnaires are arranging for in- journey to Paris are considerations of formal visits by American Legionnaires higher duty, honor to those who are to typical English communities outside buried in the vast American cemeteries, London. Lieutenant Colonel George R. the reconsecration of our battlegrounds. Crosfield, Chairman of the Foreign Rela- tions Committee of the British Legion and former President of FIDAC, empha- THE six-hour parade at the 1926 na- sized this point in a letter brought to the tional convention held at Philadel- United States by Mr. Brownlee. phia in October was a revelation to "I always think that the greatest value tens of thousands of Americans who to be got out of the interchange of visits had never seen a parade at a national is from the opportunities afforded in convention of the Legion. The parade making new friendships," Colonel Cros- to be held at Paris on September 19, field said. "You hear a speech, but un- 1927, the opening day of the conven- less particularly wonderful the effect soon tion in France, will be truly a great vanishes; you attend a banquet and have event in world history, an event which pleasant conversations with your right will be described by noted correspond- and left neighbors who, in all probability, ents whose stories will appear on every you may never see again; but a day spent newspaper front page in America on together in the country or an evening by September 20th. A regiment of mo- the quiet fireside gives every prospect of tion picture camera men will record making contacts which will be of perma- the historic march and the films should nent and lasting value. There must be be appearing on the screens of thou- many Legionnaires who desire to come to sands of American motion picture this country and to revive past memories. theaters about the time the Second It is here that the British Legion can be A. E. F. is returning to its native of real service. Our branches, like your shore. posts, are scattered throughout the Brit- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme "England wants you too," was the ish Isles, and, given sufficient notice, the commander of the Allied armies dur- word Commander H. H. Brownlee, members of these branches will rejoice ing the World War, made Honorary of London Post, and his son and at an opportunity of greeting those whom National Commander of The Ameri- daughter brought to the United States they look upon ( Continued on page gj~)

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after our fight with him on the Rosebud He made a series of imprints on the Crazy Horse had fallen on Custer and ground along the right bank of the destroyed his command. We only stream. At each imprint he would say knew there had been a great disaster. "Sioux, Sioux," or ''Cheyenne, Chey- No details. Groups of men rushed enne," bringing his right hand from the about to learn the particulars. How crown of his head to his left shoulder many killed? How many had escaped? and again in a curving manner in front of How had it happened? A party gal- his body. This indicated that the loped off to find General Crook, who lodges of the squaws and children were was on reconnaissance. No sooner had placed along the edge of the stream. they gone when a party of prowling He then took a handful of ashes Sioux set fire to the grass about the from the fire and distributed it along camp. the ravines that ran from the bluff tops General Crook came in that night, to the stream, saying, "Sioux, Sioux" and on the following day three enlisted and "Cheyenne, Cheyenne." This men of the Seventh Infantry arrived meant that the Sioux and Cheyenne with more dispatches confirming the warriors were concealed in the ravines. news of the previous day. Two days Then back of the line of bluffs he after that, on placed twelve July 13th, four twigs, and said Crow scouts "Soga," at the came in with the same time plac- same story, but ing the first two in detail. These fingers of his Crows had either right hand astride witnessed the the four fingers fight from places of his left. The o f concealment Shoshones stand- o n overlooking ing by grunted bluffs or had their understand- talked to others ing. This panto- who had. At any mime meant that rate they had the Custer, with whole story as twelve troops of With a ©lade completely and soldiers, mount- exactly as it has ever been put together ed, was approaching the line of the of (LOCSKPiPhe after fifty years of investigation. More- bluffs behind which the Sioux and slew the Greatest over they put in some details which I Cheyenne warriors were ambushed. have never seen in print. I wrote their Then our narrator indicated the bluff story down as they related it. of all Demons-* line, and shading his eyes," as if from It was in the evening of the day of the glare of the sun, looked from right the Crows' arrival. We had finished to left, saying "Tash-unco-nitco," supper and with some others I walked which in Sioux means Crazy Horse. over to the fire of the to camp Crows Thus we learned that from the top of find out what I Burgess Battery Company could about what had the bluffs the Sioux chieftain was ob- happened to Custer. Baptiste Pourier General Sales Office: Chicago serving the approach of Custer and his was along. The Crows were sitting in Canadian Factories and Offices'. twelve troops of cavalry. a circle about the fire discussing the Niagara Falls and Winnipeg Again saying "Tash-unco-nitco," he fight with some of their tribesmen and picked up a pinch of ashes from each with the Shoshones who were standing ravine and put them in one pile in the about. Big Batt addressed them in center of the series of ravines. He their language and asked them to tell drew lines from each ravine to this us what had taken place. spot. This meant that Crazy Horse One of the Crows squatted down and had called his sub-chiefs to a council of smoothed off a space on the ground battle. about a yard square. Across the center Next he placed the back of his right of this he drew a crooked line, and said hand against his mouth, and touching something to Big Batt, who explained the thumb and second finger opened and that the line represented the stream of the Little Big Horn. closed the hand in a series of jerks. This was the sign for a talk. Then he Then the map-maker drew another retraced the lines running from the line to the right of the stream and council spot to each of the draws. This roughly parallel with it, and held a stick conveyed that Crazy Horse had com- in a horizontal position about three feet his plan battle to his from the ground. This meant that the municated of take new line represented the bluffs which lieutenants and sent them back to followed the stream. charge of the warriors hidden in the BURGESS Then he drew a series of lines from different ravines. the bluffs toward the stream. These Then our narrator indicated the te- FLASHLIGHTS & were little ravines which ran from the pees along the bank of the stream, and crest of the heights toward the river. drew a series of lines from them in the The battlefield topography was com- direction of the flow of the river. This BATTERIES plete. Our informant peoples the scene. meant that ( Continued on page 54)

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the women and children had been our relator uttered a piercing "Aye- moved to places of safety. hee-yah!" That was the Sioux war cry.

Crazy Horse's dispositions for battle I have heard an Indian yell it so it were now complete. Our historian now could be heard for three miles. Grasp- transferred his attention to Custer. ing a small handful of ashes from a Directing attention to the twelve ravine directly in the path of Custer's twigs representing the troops of Custer's approach, the narrator scattered them Seventh Cavalry, he placed his thumbs rapidly in front of the troops, making a to his ears, and moved the ringers back trail downstream. The troops followed and forth, making the expressive and the trail of ashes. easily interpreted sign of a mule's ears This was the trick that sealed the fate in action. Then he drew a circle and of Custer. Crazy Horse had ordered placed a twig beside it. From this we about fifty braves to ride up from one knew that Custer had left his pack of the ravines, fire a volley and flee pell mules behind, with a troop of cavalry mell down the valley. As he had antici- to guard them. pated, the troopers dashed after them The twigs representing the other —and to their destruction. eleven troops were then advanced to When the troops were well into the the crest of the bluff. valley, with the Then three twigs stream on one side were taken up and and the bluffs on the is your opportunity to find out Here transferred across the other, our narrator how much talent you have. This stream and marched picked up the ashes simple, scientific test shows your nat- down a piece and from each ravine ural sense of design, proportion, color, perspective, etc. It may show you the halted. Three other and shouting "Sioux,

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by the strategic retreat by which Crazy stream. He was pursued for a distance, Horse, after his first assault had failed, and believing capture inevitable delib- You can attempted to lure us into a trap as he erately shot himself after the hostiles buy all had lured the impetuous Custer. had abandoned the chase. materi- Having finished with Custer we per- He also told me a few things about suaded the narrator to tell us what had Sitting Bull which do not agree with home di- als for a complete happened to the forces of Reno and most recorded history. Sitting Bull rect from the manufacturer Benteen that Custer had sent across the was not a warrior, as many suppose, but and save four profits, on the river. Reno, we were informed, had a medicine man, or priest, of Chief millwork, hardware and labor. lumber, been engaged by a greatly superior num- Gall's band. It was the duty of medi- ber of hostiles, but after hard fighting cine men to accompany their warriors and heavy losses had managed to retreat into battle and invoke the aid of the back across the river. Benteen encount- Great Spirit to bring victory. At Little ered no Indians and eventually returned Big Horn Gall assigned Sitting Bull to across the river, uniting with Reno. the Cheyennes, whom he thought to be The question is still an open one in need of spiritual assistance. But on whether Reno should have gone to seeing the size of Custer's command Custer's rescue after Reno knew Custer Sitting Bull took his family across the to be engaged and probably in need of stream, and was well on his way to support. Some army men say one thing safer places when he saw that the whites and some another. Reno was tried for were getting the worst of it. Then he cowardice and neglect of duty, but ac- turned around and joined the Cheyennes quitted. Nevertheless, my personal in the mad rush to be in at the death. feeling is that he should have made the The Cheyennes hooted him for his Living room, din- ing room, two bed- attempt. It was a slim chance and pos- cowardice, and when the fight was over rooms, Kitchen. sibly a forlorn hope, but such things Gall tongue-lashed Sitting Bull and Three other plans, with and without are a part of the profession of arms. slapped his face and kicked his back- bath. Aladdin Custer would have done as much had sides. certified lumber throughout. the situations been reversed. I believe this story implicitly, al- The following winter I was with the though I know it may come as a shock escort that was marching two or three to many believers of the numerous leg- hundred Cheyenne and Arapahoe pris- ends that surround Sitting Bull. Per- AIADD1N iOO oners of war from Camp Robinson to haps no Indian of his generation is bet- Living room, old Fort Casper on the North Platte. ter known. In the popular mind he is dining room, In the band were several Cheyennes given credit for the defeat of Custer. kitchen, three bedrooms.bath, who had participated in the defeat of He was quite a character, certainly, but clothes closets. Custer. There was also an Arapahoe I think that he was a coward at heart, Three other p,ans All mat- whom I knew. His name was Friday. which was a rare thing among Indians mu m - —^BB...l enals readi-cut. He had been educated in St. Louis and of that day and time. On the other spoke English like a college student. hand one scarcely ever hears of Crazy He had had the story of the Little Big Horse. He has, I mean, left no im- Horn from the Cheyennes and he re- pression on the popular mind. Yet FM0X4WE layed it to me as we marched along. Crazy Horse was the greatest strate- You will be sure to rind in the This story contains amplifications of the gist among the Western Indians, and the home, Aladdin catalog Crow's version, some of which I have Dull Knife, and Gall, who are likewise garage or summer cottage that you will like. Many never seen in print. devoid of popular reputations, were the styles are illustrated in He said Chief Gall, of the Teton equal of any combat leaders, white or color. Send for it today. Sioux, was the warrior that killed Custer red, of that period a statement which The Aladdin System prepares all the lum- — ready to be nailed in place. and that one enlisted man on a white is not intended to depreciate the ability Cost of lumber is reduced 18 per cent, cost of horse nearly escaped alive. This troop- or valor of our army leaders in the labor is reduced 30 per cent. Our blue prints managed to ride through least. But other writers, and very just- and instructions make it easy for anyone er somehow familiar with tools to erect an Aladdin. We the encircling attackers and dash up ly, have given them their due. guarantee safe arrival of complete materials and PAY THE FREIGHT to destination. Trice includes all lumber cut to fit; highest riaiic interior woodwork", si-lint.', flooring, win, lows. doors, class, jiaitit. hardware, nails, lath. roofing, with n 'triplet,' instruct ions an

56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Fleury, Tahure. Mesnil-les-Hurlus, be- ing among the most familiar in war days. On a plateau back of Fort de Vaux, at a place where no ruins, no heap of stones, no skeleton even of a dead tree, could be seen, General Valentin, in com- mand then at Verdun and who was guiding us, said: "At the place where you stand, you are in the midst of the village of Fleury."' My wife answered: "This is indeed sacred ground." The general replied, "Madame, I shall show you truly sacred ground." And leading the way, in the midst of shell-holes often overlapping each other and filled with greenish water, he pointed out the barrel of a gun emerging about a foot from the ground; at some distance, another, then another; we were at the spot, now so famous, called the Trench of the Bay- onets. The general told us its story. A monument due to American kind-heart- edness has since been raised over the For that clean-cut spot. It was not however when we saw it without some memorial. A wooden cross, on a wooden pedestal, had been raised by the soldiers of the same regi- ment, 137th Infantry; they had painted look of success on it the words: "On les aura" (we shall get them) below, at later had ; a date, been added the words: "On les a eus" try this invigorating massage after shaving (we got them). Several of the places we visited, some of them unknown to the many before SUCCESSFUL men look the part. and clinging soap particles that be- the war, and now famous all over the in the world, were the scenes of the greatest They are clean shaven, clean cut, come imbedded skin. Water, exploits of the American armies; we and well groomed. They have lotions, soaps— all reach the surface passed Bois Belleau, the de where that glowing look of health and only. They do not remove imbed- American Marines added new glory to vitality. ded dirt and secretions. Pompeian the record they had built for themselves "from the Halls of Montezuma to the Massage Cream does. shores of Tripoli," Chateau-Thierry, the A muddy, half clean, blackhead- Use this pleasant, gentle cream Argonne, Thiaucourt with its American dotted skin can never be a partner cemetery, Flirey where Marshal Foch after shaving. See how your skin of the successful man. Yet you can dedicated a monument commemorating takes on the glow of life and the great American offensive of Septem- have the clean look of success. It action. See how imbedded dirt, ber, 1018, St. Mihiel at last liberated takes no extra time. It can be ac- after years of servitude. strange even blackheads, rolls out under The quired easily and pleasantly in ancestral home of General de Maud'huy, the mild but efficient urge your own home. of entirely gutted inside, was there still this quickly applied massage. You standing with its medieval stone gar- goyles. The general was then in com- After you shave, use Pompeian will like its restful, zestful "feel."

mand at Metz where he had been born. Massage Cream. You usually use Above all, you will like it for the He told us that, one day in 1804, as he something after shaving — hot towel, feeling it gives you that — gosh! was looking at one of those round col- by lotion or cream to remove the dirt you really are clean. umns on which the theatre bills are — posted in Paris, it occurred to him that it was a shame for one born in Metz

to take any such amusement, and he Make this convincing hand is dirt that you could not re- vowed to himself that he would never test free! Wash your hands move by washing. You can thoroughly. RubalittlePom- make this simple but con- visit a theatre until he could enter that peian Massage Cream into vincing test today. Get a jar your hand until of Pompeian Massage Cream at Metz, French again, with his bugles the back of the cream first disappears, in any drug store for sixty sounding. He kept his word twenty- then comes out again. Notice cents. If you prefer to make — the cream goes in pink the test before you buy, mere- five years; and shortly before our visit this and comes nut black ! The black ly mail the coupon below. he had entered the Metz theatre pre- ceded by twenty bugles sounding. All the audience had risen in great emotion wondering what was happening. Noth- Pom p e i an ing but the fulfillment of a vow. "And MASSAGE now," said the general, laughing, "I CREAM have this recompense that I can go to Increases Your Face Value the play any night—anything they give is new to me." FREE •• TO MEN ONLY The problem of calling life back to Pompeian Company, Dept. 41. the The death-haunted solitudes of the rav- Cleveland, Ohio. Please send me free, aged regions, of having the hearth fires the sample tube of Pompeian Massage Cream, with enough cream to make the lit again, the mills plough work, the hand test, and to give me several furrow the (Continued on page 58) massages.

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soil freed from shells, barbed wire work for. But I am among the lucky and trenches, was indeed a hard one. ones; when joining my regiment I And it could not be postponed, for buried in this cellar the most valuable it would have been monstrous to al- thing I owned, and the Germans did not low homeless people to continue home- find it." less, their children to die of fevers, "And what was that?" rickets and especially tuberculosis, "My tools; I found them intact, and whose ravages have been terrible. It had here they are." to be grasped at once in spite of the cost Of more use, to be sure, than any increased by the rarity of material and gold pieces he might have concealed. of labor. We had hoped that some help He was there alone; life was still too would be forthcoming; the eighth of hard for him to bring back his wife, and President Wilson's Fourteen Points, ac- their son had been killed in the war. Amazing New cording to which invaded portions of After the first moments of horror, French territory should be restored, had people began to return more and more, made us expect it, but none came: Ger- ardent in the work of rebuilding their Way to Shave many, to whom we had remitted the homes and re-forming their cities. There enormous cost of the war (although she was some merit in them, for they knew Astonishes Experts had made us pay they were return- that of 1870), ing to a life of HI i of it! 365 keen, cool shaves a year from the blade! No more bother about retneinberinis to was to compensate misery, with lack ones. No more ••taking" with dull ones! Slick, shaves forever— that's KKISS-KROSS! devastations, but of shelter, of food, This amazing blade venator ami r~f r. [.per prolong the lit. ol nnv make razor r. m.i ri.r nionrrn arm e showed no disposi- of every kind of

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I - . ..n.-. Instantly adju-t.d.le. A . . lately uriniue let her finances go lucky as to have ami different. MYSTERY to ruin rather than windows, but oiled .1 ( il Km. ale fta-, in* .a,.- .lav ' K , ll.a'v' RA ZOR .<- a ; day- I'-'t en M.aie-tmie worker- make pay any part of paper. In a thor- .tt.-.fl'J ,-xtia an evening I iet details oflimited. GIVEN ' her debt to us; no 1 "'' Rhodes? rres™"t 0 u g h y wrecked iloht' one seconded our place of this sort, R E.S MFG^CO. Dept. D-411, 1418 Pen H9P- remonstrances t o Rouvre, which we ^RHODES MFG. CO.. Dept. D-411 her; rather the re- visited in April, I 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. verse hasbeen true. the twenty- | With. nit ..Ui^atiun plt-n^ f'-nd ,K-tai|y ..f 1010, Kf'J'SS Str-.[.[ ..-r and mystery razor you are giving away t I month. Left alone, we grappled with the prob- five returned inhabitants (out of a lem, and now, after seven years, we may total of 550) ate salt meat, and say with some pardonable pride that we they had to walk nine miles twice

City have solved it, our finances being, how- a week to get it. Even in the midst of ever, nearly wrecked in the process. The the scene of desolation offered by Lens, first help consisted in the temper of the we had noticed some families who had population. They had gone through returned, one of them with their dog, an terrible agony, many of their dearest old dog of pre-war days, a friend ob- ones had been killed, their houses had viously not to be parted with; to have been leveled to the ground, but their brought it back showed that those peo- souls were unbent. I received one day ple too had faith. I received, the year in Washington the visit of General after, a letter from one of our com- Sharp, Ouartermaster General of the panions in that same visit; he wrote: American Army; he told me that, while "Do you remember the mound we inspecting the devastated regions, he climbed at Lens, the core of which was had passed a place so destroyed that, the steeple of a church? The returned at first, no sign of life struck his eyes; inhabitants have now put there an in- he discovered, however, after a while, a scription in immense letters, to be seen solitary inhabitant who, with poles and from a distance: 'Lens renaitra' (Lens A recipe for sheer canvas, was erecting a sort of building; shall be born again), and the work is in- a hole in the canvas was meant for a deed progressing apace; you would not contentment door, and another for a window; over know the place." Men of rank and One "Old Town Canoe." One shining the door that man of faith had written: wealth did not lag behind; we saw at inland lake. One well-seasoned partner. "Restaurant Aux Coeurs Joyeux" (mer- Tiloloy old Count d'Hinnisdal, over Two bags of duffle. ry hearts). "If, in such surroundings, eighty, the owner of one of the grandest Stow the duffle amidships as your partner confi- chateaux in France (now thoroughly takes his place in the bow. Now ease the at such an hour, such is their "Old Town" onto the lake and hop aboard. dence in the future, don't worry," the wrecked), living with his two daughters Stroke the water gently with your paddle general said. "The country will rise in a wooden shed of three rooms, just deep easy strokes. Soon, perhaps, you'll again." Another trait of the same sort to show that one could do without a find yourself whistling softly to the rhythm of your swing. had struck me at the time of a visit we stone or brick house, the only sort to "Old Town Canoes" glide forward at the had paid, with Secretary Lansing, Col- which the men of the region are accus- slightest dip of the blade. Strong and onel House and other companions, to tomed. sturdy too. Priced $58 up. From dealer Arras, a city beautiful in former days, Private initiative did what it could, or factory. chiefly, of course, French Free illustrated catalog shows sailing then a mass of hideous ruins. Passing coming from canoes, square stern canoes for outboard a wrecked house, I had noticed the people and associations and unravaged motors, dinghies, etc. Write today. Old glimmer of a coal fire in a cellar, and French cities, but much also from for- Town Canoe Co., 764 Main Street, Old coming near, had seen plumber at eign friends, especially American and Town, Maine. a work. "It is not work that is lacking," British; the rebuilding of a whole vil- Old Town Canoes he grimly said, "but rather people to lage, Vitrimont, was due to a single The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly American lady, Mrs. Crocker of Califor- nia; Miss Belle Skinner proved the good fairy of Hattonchatel; the American Fund for Devastated France of Miss Mrs. Dyke did won- Anne Morgan and Your Dentist Knows ders; so did Mrs. Whitney Warren, the Carnegie Foundation and many others. He can name those few men and The people of Fresnoy-en-Goelle owe women who will probably enjoy for their bed sheets to Miss Margaret Wil- many years to come the priceless son; water was provided by the Daugh- benefits of health and freedom from ters of the American Revolution for Tiloloy; by the National Geographic the worries that come when health Society for Cantigny; thousands of our is gone. They see their dentist twice

orphans were helped by the same D. A. a year . . , R. and by the American godfathers and godmothers, themselves, sometimes, in modest circumstances. But the immense burden had, as was natural, to be shouldered by the French nation who had laid down for herself the principle inscribed in the law of , ioio, that there should be no difference between French people and that, whether or not they belonged to the ravaged regions, they should bear an equal part of the common load. In spite of difficulties of all sorts, economic and financial, the lack of labor and means of communication, the trouble given by the unavoidable carpet-bagger, the work was pushed on with ceaseless energy; loans after loans were issued, nearly all internal ones, until nothing more could be expected from that Pyorrhea still source, which happened after sixty-five claims 4 out of 5 billion francs had been spent for recon- struction (4).' At that moment, which Pyorrhea is on a rampage. Although its warning signs arc is the present one, about four-fifths of plain and science has provided protection against this com- the work is done, and many of our vis- mon enemy, it reaps a heavy harvest. itors of the Legion this year will scarce- Its victims are 4 persons out of 5 after forty (thousands ly recognize the desolate places where younger). they fought, shoulder to shoulder, with Pyorrhea poison creeps through the system spreading their French comrades and pushed back havoc, and leaving in its wake a trail of trouble, often lead- the enemy in 191 8. ing to neuritis, rheumatism, stomach disorders and anemia. Roads, canals, railroads, bridges are These Uneven Odds Can Be Bettered now in working condition; nearly all the schools have been re-opened; two-thirds To wait too long is folly. Take precautionary measures be- of the damaged houses and buildings fore your gums begin to bleed and before health slips from have been reconstructed; farm land is you. Go to your dentist at least twice a year for a thorough almost all again under cultivation; nine- examination of teeth and gums. Start using Forhan's for tenths of the industrial plants are now the Gums.

in working order; 107 million cubic This scientific dentifrice, the formula of R. J. Forhan, meters of water had to be pumped out D. D. S., prevents Pyorrhea or checks it and forestalls trench of the mines, ninety-four million have mouth and gingivitis. It makes gums firm and healthy. It been. Even the so-called "red zone," keeps teeth lustrous white and protects them against acids long considered hopeless, access to which cause decay. which was barred because it was too Children like the taste of Forhan's. Start them using it dangerous owing to unexploded shells, now and they will thank you in their later years. has been reduced more than one-half. Insurance Sightseers consider sometimes that Health the new buildings are too handsome This scientific dentifrice contains Forhan's Pyorrhea Liquid, and too expensive. It may be pointed used by dentists everywhere. And the few cents more that out, for one thing, that it was impos- it costs you is the small premium you pay for insurance sible to give back old. time-worn houses against dread Pyorrhea. At druggists, 35c and 60c. to their owners, who, by the way, would have liked nothing better than to re- Formula of K. J. D. S. cover the very walls with the very crev- Forhan Company, New York ices and quaint discomforts of the an- cient family home; also that some im- provement was not an unfair compen- Forfaits for the gums sation to people left for years without THAN A TOOTH PASTE IT CHECKS PYORRHEA any house at all. Several of the better MORE buildings are, moreover, gifts. As I was wondering at the importance and beauty of the new city hall at La Bas- Thousands are keeping their breath sweet and see, where I had gone for the dedication fresh this new way. We promise that you'll You can be never go back to ordinary mouthwashes that only of the monument to Robert Bacon, I conceal unpleasant breath with embarrassing this inquired as to the why and the where- sure of odors of their own after you have used this fore of it. "A ( Continued on page 60) new Forhan's Antiseptic Refreshant. Tryit.

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gift from the British," was the answer. cent; the United States, one hundred One of the most interesting experi- forty per cent (6), in spite of which we ments tried (but not with the funds continue to be taxed now and then provided for the ravaged regions) was with being militarists. We call nobody the building of garden-cities for work- names and would enjoy reciprocity. men with modern improvements as to Those who thus denounce us should re- hygiene and cleanliness, gardens at- member that we are not divided from tached to each house for flowers and any possible enemy by an arm of the Hundreds of vegetables, public baths and laundries, sea, or, for the matter of that, by three special facilities for the inmates to be- thousand miles of salt water, but by a Successful Men come the owners of their houses. Each pencil mark on the map, and we have place has its church, its schools, its field neighbors who chose, the other day, to Started by for sports, its public meeting hall. Be- make public their dispositions by in- tween thirty and forty such cities have scribing, on a monument erected at Reading This been erected, the Northern Railroad Berlin to their dead, the words: "In-

Company (Compagnie du Nord ) taking victis victi victuri" (to those who were FREE Booklet the lead and supplying the best ex- not vanquished, the vanquished who amples the at Terg- shall be victorious). One ; one "T^HE Man Who Bossed Johnson" is nier, where the immense may wonder whether the A one of the greatest business stories repair shops of the com- stone is the place where ever told. It contains a message that pany had been totally the inscription is graven will help you make your success greater. destroyed, is a model. deepest. The workmen have be- We have ceaselessly IT deals in an understandable way come interested in the increased taxation, and with fundamental principles, and experiment they do to such a degree that ; practical personal train- leads up to a their own policing, they there is danger we may will teach you to apply your ing that keep their houses and have passed the limit energies in the right direction and to streets clean; mortality pointed out to his own make the proper use of your talents. is lower there than any- compatriots by Secre- JUST tell us on a post card or letter where else in France, tary Mellon, where where to send your copy and infor- and natality higher. taxation defeats itself, mation regarding the Sheldon training. Reparations had noth- productive power is incurred. No obligation will be ing to do with the Terg- cramped, and revenue,

nier city; it was an al- instead of growing, di- together new undertak- minishes. In spite of ing; the company loaned which we are frequently the initial capital at a branded and rebranded nominal interest; its chief gain consists as tax-dodgers, misers, etc. As to the SHELDON SCHOOL in the contentment and good will of its truth of that, let an American authority Established in 1901 workmen. speak. In his recent book, not an en- 920 No. American Bldg., Chicago With her hard-working and frugal dis- thusiastic one about us, far from it, Mr. positions, France might have borne the H. G. Moulton, of the American Insti- terrible load of the war expenses. The tute of Economics, writes: "There is no MASTERLITE lighter addition of those for reconstruction up- truth whatever in the prevalent assump- NNER FOR AGENTS set her whole financial fabric. At the tion abroad that the French people do No wind can blow it out WHAT MAKES IT LIGHT? present time, more than half of the not and will not pay taxes. The facts revenue of the State goes to pay the in- completely contradict this contention, terest on the public debt, which is a dis- which has been repeated so often that turbing proportion, and the total for- it has come to be almost universally be- tune of France, which normally should lieved." And the author, writing be- have gone on increasing, as it did in fore the present supertaxation (7), goes various other countries, has diminished on to show that the French who, in SEND NO MONEY one-fifth in comparison with what it 1914, were the most highly taxed peo- Genuine Full Cut Diamonds was in 1913 (5). ple of all, paid in 1924, "in taxes fully The effort to recuperate is, however, twenty per cent of their income." The Terms—6 Months to Pay. No. 6132-So I d Gold Men's Initial or Em- a credit to the nation. The deficit was British paid eighteen and five-tenths per blem Ring. 2 Genuine forty-two billion francs in 1919 (ex- cent; the Americans, even including in penses, fifty-four; receipts, twelve). the calculation, national, state and mu- ~^each. 5> 14-Kt. W It went on dwindling year by year, un- nicipal taxation, eleven and five-tenths Top. F.mb til it is now nil. per cent. Recent additional levies in Lodge) or (Old Engli: The number of our functionaries has France will of course still increase these been reduced between the years 1922 differences. The load is the heavier for and 1025 by 75,315; more reductions us, because, according again to Mr. are coming. Moulton, "the national income in the Only two of the greater Allied nations United States is about $605 per capita, 0.6132 in Great Britain per capita, and in This ^3* Reg. Trade Mark have since the war diminished their ex- $305 guarantees you genuine <" penses for national defense, the chief France only about $195 per capita"(8). one being France, who reduced hers Add to this, that we had been told Eastern Star, Rebei twenty-three per cent in comparison that the moment an agreement for the with 1913, and Italy, 10.6 per cent. funding of the debt had been signed, England has on the contrary increased the franc would rise; instead of that it hers thirty-two per cent; India, ninety- followed a course more precipitous than •il-Order H. per the Black Onyx with I nine per cent; Japan, eighty-nine ever before, putting in jeopardy Dept. A.L 'or at Full Cut Diamond. 501 Washington St White Gold. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly )

ratification of the agreement itself; for

it is one thing to buy, for repayment, millions of dollars at twenty or twenty- five francs each, which was the rate at the time of the signature, or to buy them at thirty-five or forty or more, as the dollar has been fitfully after that. The fate of the settlement is (as I write) apparently in doubt in the American Senate, as being too generous Indianapolis. India for the French. In France also some doubt presently exists for reasons not exactly similar. One has just been men- tioned; another is that, though we were the most ravaged nation of all, with heaviest burden to bear, we are not granted as favorable a treatment as several others. Much has been made of the limited reductions granted us, but

they are reductions on interests calcu- At Its recent meeting, our Comml considered lated on a large number of years. matter of designating Borne reputable bank When our "Official Depository" in Franoe. The all is done, we shall have paid, even type for our flnanolal interests abroad but

with those diminished interests and ow- Institution of unquestionable standing and \ find moat satisfactory facilities for attend ing to them, twice the amount of what cial needs of our travelers, in the way of we borrowed. We are in the meantime .etc The Committee learned with much pleas cooperation you have already given to our m. exacting from the Germans no interest pointed out that your Institution occupies In the very heart of Paris, fully equipped at all in spite of our having to pay six to serve the Legionnaires in many useful wa; to nine per cent on what we ourselves borrowed for reconstruction. Some there be also who wonder whether, in the determining of the principal of the debt, some account could not have been taken of the taxa- tion levied in America on the war sup- plies bought in the States with that American money loaned to us, not to be sure, for our own enjoyment, but as the law said, "for the purpose of more effectually providing for the national security and defense, and the prosecu- tion of the war" (9). The taxes were levied on the seller but indirectly paid to the American Treasury by the pur- chaser who, to that extent, will have, it is argued, to pay twice. Your bank at the Even if the Germans happened to cease to pay, we should have to con- tinue, with moreover scarcely any pros- Paris Convention pect of recovering anything from those nations, more embarrassed than our- selves, to whom during the war we The choice of The Equitable as the official de- loaned in the common interest about in France was based largely the same amount that we borrowed pository of the Legion from the United States: this merely to on its facilities for serving you who will attend the explain a state of mind anxieties and convention. and doubts which may have been mis- understood. The Equitable is one of the largest banks in Paris. The background of French faith in It is located in the heart of the city. And in America, of love and gratitude for the departments, it main- part taken by her in the great struggle addition to the usual banking at the worst moment, remains unim- tains a highly efficient Travel Service Bureau. paired. Equitable is your bank. Use it. On the surface, however, some change The has occurred. From the unratified tri- partite treaty (the initiative for which had not been French) to the differential treatment in the matter of the debts, t»? Equitable disappointments have succeeded each other. One of the greatest American trust company periodicals gave some time ago a sheet OF NEW YORK of French cartoons about America, and another of American cartoons 37 WALL STREET about France. Both were the exact re- LONDON • PARIS • MEXICO CITY verse of what I long and have ever stood for. If neither was justifiable, Total resources more than $475,000,000 this I might venture to say, namely that there was more excuse perhaps for the French ones. ( Continued on page 62 E. T. C. of K. Y.,IQ27

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On the visible surface of those friend- see it; they had shelled it by the map. ly relations of ours, which should be One of the Americans said: "I am a such as no other two nations ever knew, Catholic priest; others among us are for that friendship began at the birth Catholics, Protestants, Jews. We beg of the younger of them, the shell-holes that the door be opened, so that we of irritating speeches or articles have may sing a hymn of thanksgiving for of late multiplied. They should be the victory." It is only natural, said filled and leveled smooth for cultivation, the general. The door was opened; as were those in the ravaged regions. they knelt before the altar in the midst The coming of The American Legion of the debris fallen from the roof; they next year, of those brave men who sang their hymn, and after that sang knew, who saw, who did, will have an also the Marseillaise and the Star immense effect for good. Their mere Spangled Banner. presence will be a reminder of the great Remembering that, if the nave had Guaranteed! days of peril and victory, a victory been shattered, the two front towers which would have been impossible if had escaped with only scratches, and either party Against anydefect inmaterial orwork- had been parsimonious in that the sixteen bells must still be there, its effort. arms manship— that's the way we back up Big Open await our broth- the general ordered that they be rung, ers Yank— theworld's greatest valueinwork from over the sea. and so for the first time since they had shirts. Practically impossible to rip. That same General Valentin, whom sounded the tocsin for mobilization, Thread-riveted at every point of strain. we met at Verdun, told us that, on the they pealed forth their chimes for Oversize for comfort and wear! Triple nth of November, 1918, the day of victory. stitched! Big armholes—wide sleeves — the Armistice, he found several hundred Then, in the presence of a French hand-size pockets. Wearers say Big Yank American soldiers, ambulance men, battalion and an American one at at- outwears two ordinary shirts. Big Yank, members of the Y. M. C. A. assembled tention, the twin flags of France and of Jr., just like it, only in boys' sizes. before the door of the cathedral, the America were raised aloft on the twin roof Get Big Yank today! Millions will wear and interior of which had been towers, an emblem of the similitude in wrecked by the enemy. disposition no other! If your dealer hasn't it, send The aims of the two nations, a similitude only $2.00 for two shirts to of the hills is such that thev could not that should be perpetual. RELIANCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY (1) Lucien Hubert, La d'un (5) C. Colson, Cours d'Ecovomie Politique, 212 WEST MONROE STREET Departenient devaste, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS pp. 5, 197. Supplement au T. III. p. 487. 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The loans totalled in losses and eighteen for state ones, capital, a little less than three billion When you spend fishing- forming a total of about one hundred dollars, our purchases reached 34,196.- time cranking a reel you billions. 247.000. re missing most of the easureof this great sport. Jut when you can play your atch on your finger tip,— nsing every jump— every rt — then you're really With a Martin Automatic Reel Why We Went to War he slack line is cared for automatically — you fish like a ( Continued from page real sportsman. Leading anglers 15/ everywhere prefer the Martin and it costs so little— $4.50 to any ship, enemy or neutral, within this as her new weapon, there could be no $10.00. Ask your dealer or write zone, without regard to life or property, right in her to impose her will upon us for free catalogue. MARTIN AUTOMATIC would be sunk. 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Standard Drug & Sales Co., Dept., 38, Philadelphia, Pa 62 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly thought, enough to impose her will upon the United States. Diplomatic relations were at once between the two countries, the i t broken Re m n g o n President addressing the Congress on February 3d to inform that body of the situation and at the same time to pro- fess himself unable to believe that the German Government intended to carry out so ruthless a decree. Other sink- ings occurred, other American lives were lost. The Congress debated the question of arming American ships, but in the midst of all this Dr. Zimmer- man's cable to the German minister in Mexico was intercepted and published. Among other things it said, "On the first of February we intend to begin unre- stricted submarine warfare. In spite of this it is our intention to endeavor to keep neutral with the United States of America. If this attempt is not suc- cessful, we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico. That we shall make war together and together make peace. We shall give general financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory of New Mexico, Texas and Arizona." On the 18th of March, three Ameri- can steamers were torpedoed and :unk and fifteen lives were lost. The Presi- dent summoned Congress to meet in an extra session on the second day of April and in a message of calm dignity he gave up, under the coercion of Ger- man aggression, the hope of America in the role of peacemaker and asked Con- gress to accept the war which Germany had forced upon us. These facts had and could have but PORTABLE is your pal. It is always ready one meaning. America was offered but to help — at any hour under any conditions. Faithful, reliable, willing, one alternative. We could permit our- — selves to be blockaded by a threat and it responds to every need — helps you at every turn. Whenever there's terrorized into a surrender of our na- personal writing to do, call on the Remington Portable. tional rights or we could defend them. There was no propaganda about this. Smallest and lightest portable with standard keyboard (weight only Nobody debated whether the French and the British needed our help or ought 8H pounds, net, and the carrying case is but 4 inches high). Incom- to have it. Not a moment's considera- parable for strength and durability. The recognized leader — in sales tion was given to the rescuing of any- body's else cause. The situation, and popularity — a Remington through and through. though tragic, had at least the merit of Send for our booklet "For You— For Everybody," to Dept. 70. simplicity. A nation with which we were at peace had blockaded our ports Remington Portable can be purchased on terms as low as $5 monthly. and ordered us, at the peril of the lives of our people, to give up a right so ele- mental and so unquestioned that, with REMINGTON TYPEWRITER COMPANY it surrendered, nothing in principle re- Branches and Dealers Everywhere mained to save us from vassalage to a 374 Broadway, New York foreign power. In these great matters, the implica- tions are more important than the facts. All that America means to us and has meant since 1776 was at stake in this Typ ewriters denial of our rights, and it was for this reason that the country, responded with enthusiasm to the call of Congress and the President. Machine for These principles were the articles of every purpose the great faith which sustained us. Those who sacrificed their time, strength and substance, perhaps, did not argue it all out. Those who gave their lives may Remington-made Para- have had but an inexplicit consciousness gon Ribbons & Red Seal of the thing at stake. Yet in the last Carbon Papers alivays analysis, (Continued on page 64) make good impressions. MMPORTABLE TABULATING ACCOUNTING TYPEWRITERS TYPEWRITERS MACHINE5

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( Continued jrom page k 0 Doughboy 63) those who died in France died for great sacrifice sometimes mature may AUTHENTIC ACCURATE the same great cause as those who lead us to questions, in these unripe 00 Per fell at Brandywine. Spiritually it was days, whether after all we did accom- the guns of Bunker Hill and Yorktown plish what we set out to do. Only time that answered and overcame the torpedo can answer that question fully, but we of the submarine. deserved to succeed. And to this extent Our enthusiasm was not only great, we have succeeded. The institutions but pure. The catch-words and slogans which our fathers left us are still in our which were on our lips told of a great hands and we are without a guardian desire to make America "the servant in and without a master. And there are the house" to the peoples of the world. no wedges of gold to be found under the The slowness with which the fruits of floors of our tent.

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men who'd been occupying this sector "Report to Captain Fletcher at once," would have been willing to argue that Henderson ordered him. point with the entire Division staff. Orville Bostle's heart sank an inch. It hadn't taken the Germans long to "Me, Sergeant?" he inquired anxious- discover that fresh American troops had ly. "What for?" relieved the British, and they proceeded "Probably to join the Navy," snapped Write today! to "get the wind up" of the newcomers. the Top. "Now beat it in there pronto." AMERICAN DOUGHBOY STUDIOS Bombing parties and night raids the With a frowning expression, Bostle enemy particularly delighted in. Above pushed his way through the dugout's all, they wanted prisoners, being anxious blanketed entrance and descended sev- to learn as much as possible about eral rough steps to a dimly-lighted room these new troops from across the At- below. lantic. Around a small table, Captain Fletch- F Company was finishing up its third er and two other officers sat studying a and last tour of duty in trench map. The cap- the front line system. tain looked up as Bostle nOSE flWUSTER f*jf* Up to this time Private entered. is SAFE, painless, comfortable. 1^ |l£ Speedy, permanent results guar- / / Bostle had done little if "Bostle," he said, "you it. No anteed. Doctors praise |> helping went with that British harm you. Small cost. anything toward r \a M.d.i metal to % R, G Btfan-wiM blind Won .923 Write for FREE BOOKLET F Company make the N. C. 0. to that ANITA CO., Dept. D-48. ANITA Bldg- NEWARK. N. J. world safe for democra- trench across the road, cy. And the reason for didn't you?" this was a very definite "Yes, sir." lowering of his morale. "You saw the two Agents wanted to distrib- ute RAY-O-LITE Cigai A condition which had sniping posts there?" Guaranteed for Lighters. developed as a result of continued the captain. life. Sell in all kinds of trades for gifts, advertis- a gnawing hunger in his "Yes, sir, I was in ing premiums, etc. Send stomach that had not 'em," replied Bostle re- 50 cents for sample ant- lievedly, expecting only details. One dozen iri been appeased for three attractive display cartons. $3.00. weeks—a hunger for to be questioned for in- RAPID MFG. CO., W-799, Broadway, Ne eggs. The strain had formation and allowed tell on him. to depart. Instead nr^tf Jfow You Can Own- m begun to and was seriously undermining his bel- "Well, I want you and Private Ken- i * .«*.! ligerent spirit when, quite by acci- nedy to occupy those posts and see what mm dent, he fell upon a means of securing you can do to pick off the crew of a Market what he wanted. German machine-gun over there that's 60: Prices While on a ration detail the night be- been raising cain with our first platoon fore, he had run into a cousin of his in for two days. They're too far away to the regimental transport. This cousin get with grenades, and they ruined one went after them. » A™,:sa had. for a certain price, agreed to get a raiding party that i\v .., . i mMr It \IMCA1 I V i.i I'KH'I s, lor FINEST QUALITY DIAMoM'S supply of eggs for Orville, who had ar- There's no one holding that blind trench; Oilers backed liy thoroiiKlily responsible guarantees. Examination Free. Send back on another ration de- you'll have the place to yourselves." now. use blank below. ranged to go "You you mean now, Captain?" Why Pay Full Prices? tail tonight to receive them. — World's oldest, largest diamond bank- Private Bostle had Private Bostle faltered, his heart de- r So all afternoon. ing institution of 7, > years, t .it. .1 over .ilci.i.iiiii) INI .... 1 1 (111, must sell tl.e I >I AM' excellent spirits, visioning scending to his shoes. .. in very >A i Mi -M V , , | ...AM- I ' I'.UT N.lT been REI'AIIl Diamonds, too, from BIG CASH All three officers glared at him. < ' i.ts El 'If >YY \N IM M S Send N W . I the feast in store for him, and making descrlp- limited , Free- all detail.).- Exact secret preparations for enjoying it to "When the devil did you think I Examlne Diamonds free, at our risk. meant," barked Captain Fletcher, "after Low as $60 ; Offers Now Ready. the utmost. Unpaid Loans—! - Free List, Use Blank Below. Then, shortly after dark, something the war's over?" gulped and hesitated. Then: Name happened. The ration detail was form- Bostle just ing outside of the Company headquar- "Well, you see, Captain, I was an', you Address. ters dugout, when Top Sergeant Hen- goin' off with the ration party— derson suddenly appeared and sought see, a cousin o'—mine was goin' to meet out Private Bostle. me with some

Monthly 64 The AMERICAN LEGION "Bostle," the captain's voice cut in like a knife, "if you're not out of here DoYou Know the Wonders in ten seconds and on your way to those posts with Kennedy, your cousin will be minus a cousin. And stay there till - ' of INTERNAL Bathing? daybreak. Sad of face, Private Bostle turned and stumbled up the steps with leaden MEDICAL SCIENCE has accumulated poisons beyond feet. Only one thing remained to buoy learned a great truth from remain untouched. up his flagging hopes, and that was to Mother Nature. have someone on the detail get those An eminent New York special- eggs for him. But even that possibility Water, purified by a marvelous ist, tortured by intestinal poi- glimmering as soon as he was sent cleansing tonic, will put a razor- sons, created a unique and in- emerged from the dugout. The ration edge on health a sparkle in genious device as detail was gone. — known the

With it went every last ounce of Or- the eye— elasticity into the step J. B.L.Cascade. It administers ville Bostle's esprit de corps. Mutter- — firm, rosy cheeks on a drawn, lukewarm water, mixed with ing bitterly under his breath, he started sallow face —when other meas- an energizing tonic, under off along the duck-boarded trench in search of Kennedy. In five minutes he ures, diet, etc., fail. gentle but effective pressure. found him, repeated the captain's in- The water enters the whole two men This is now convincingly prov- structions, and together the lower intestinal tract and made their somewhat dangerous journey en. More than a million lively, flushes it clean. is to the blind trench, some forty yards buoyant, cheerful men and There no the other side of the road. pain, women, once listless and sick no discomfort. This road began back at regimental and half sick, testified to it. headquarters, ran past F Company's sec- Immediate Benefits tor, and straight on through the Ger- We want you to know all about man lines. And it had the unusual ad- it —without cost or obligation. The effect of this J.B.L. Cas- vantage of being spared the fate of cade Internal Bath are truly most roads in the forward battle area. Where Does Disease Start? magical. Your system, freed of That is, it remained practically un- touched by shellfire on both the Ger- The great Professor Foges, of these insidious toxic poisons, man and Allied sides. The reason be- rebounds to the call of youth. per cent of all ing that the road was so obviously use- , says 95 Your tired nerves relax. You able that it never was used—and con- diseases originates in the in- it sleep like a child. eat with sequently never had anything on to testinal tract. We should elim- You shell. And though various trench sys- inate digestive waste every relish and joy. In truth, In- tems crossed this road in several places, 9 ternal Bathing with the J. B. L. in no place was it actually cut through. to 12 hours. Few do. And the Cascade makes a new person The task ahead of Bostle and Ken- result is that this waste breeds healthy one. The nedy wasn't exactly a amazing numbers of germs and of you. sniping posts to which they were going Yet you only have to take this mar- were isolated, and located about thirty poisons. Some of it even hard- velous bath about once a week. Just yards in front of the unoccupied blind ens and incrusts itself on the in- before retiring. The tonic, mean- trench. In the event of a surprise at- testinal walls —never passing! tack the only course open to them was while, rejuvenates and strengthens to make a run for it and take their But worse stili, these poisons the flabby intestinal muscles—makes chances. and germs seep into the system. them do their normal work. The two men matched to see which into the blood Health and fitness mean too much one would occupy the more distant post. They penetrate to you to overlook this glorious way Bostle lost. vessels in the intestinal walls to continuous vitality. Know the ''Well, I ain't surprised none," he and sweep on through the whole story of BATH- grumbled, picking up his rifle. "I gotta INTERNAL blood stream. for streak o' bad luck tonight that'll stretch ING. Read what it has done others. Send for the FREE Booklet, from here to Berlin." Those headaches you get, bili- "You tell 'em, Busted," remarked "Why We Should Bathe Internally." ousness, anemia, dizziness, Kennedy, as he climbed up over the Use the convenient coupon below or trench parapet. hardening arteries, rheuma- address the Tyrrell Hygienic Insti- As soon as he'd disappeared. Bostle tism, most organic disturb- tute, Dept. 331, 152 West 65th walked on down to the far end of the ances and diseases ... all start Street, New York City. For Health trench, slung his rifle over his back, and —act now. wormed his way forward to his own in the germ factory of the post. large intestine. The "post" was little more than a TYRRELL'S HYGIENIC INSTITUTE shell-hole with a sniping hole built into How Water Aids Health 152 West 65th Street, Dept. 331 the front portion of the earth-pile sur- New York, N. Y. rounding it. That his work was cut out 7 W ater is Nature's greatest for him was evidenced by the discovery Send me, without cost or obligation, cleanser. Nothing equals it. your illustrated booklet, "Why We that instead of one. there were two ma- Should Bathe Internally." chine-guns opposite Bostle's post. Their For years science has had only flashes stabbed the darkness about the old fashioned enema to aid ninety yards in front of him. it. But the enema is woefully Name . It can hardly be said, however, that I

large intestine I Private Bostle's heart was in his work. deficient. The Street The indifferent manner in which he ad- is shaped like an inverted | justed his rifle sight, and the careless horseshoe. The enema cleanses I position (Continued on page 66) only to the first bend. The

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he assumed as he commenced a slow, apparently neckless figure. This stretch week irregular firing, indicated the bit- of trench seemed like any other trench Since then I've been earn- ter thoughts still coursing through his and yet ing over S100 every week — selling the Stay-Prest Trou- mind; and the hungry, unsatisfied feel- "Hey!" demanded Private Bostle ser Presser"— says S. L. Pat- in the pit his stomach. Iowa. Jack Ames ing of somewhat thickly, and halted. "Say made £24.00 in four hours. "Go on an' fire, you damn Square- what's the big idea, you?" Randle sold twenty-five the first day. Mary Roberts heads," he growled now and then. "See An answer came to Private Bostle cleared J10.00 in one eve- if I care." from an unexpected quarter—the rear make big For Orville Bostle thought only of —in the form of a staggering blow to WonderfulNert eggs. A whole regiment of eggs seemed the small of his back, accompanied by INVENTION to float between his eyes and the flashes the gruff command: "Vorwaerts, of the two German guns ninety yards Schweinhundl" StafPrest off: platoon after platoon of spotless Its effect upon Orville Bostle was Trouser Presser boiled eggs ready to be opened and immediate. It started him forward Keeps pants always pressed. eaten; squads of crisp, browned ome- again—promptly, and snapped his scat- Puts in knife edge crease, lettes; fried eggs tered wits together. gave one hasty removes baggy knees and layer upon layer of He ln •° ' smooths out entire surface. with snow-white edges and lusciously glance over his shoulder at a square- Package £asy so use — a ke» only a golden centers. Private Bostle helmeted individual behind, ex- ids. No steam or heat. Saves nap of cloth. Length- could and ens life of trousers. Durably made of hardwood— lasts yearB. hear them claimed: Finished in black leatherette. All metal parts heavily sizzling i nickeled. Looks rich. Fits any size trousers. Folds to 15 n "Heinies, inch package to fit small handbag. Over 250.000 in use. round black by cripes! Profits inAdvance pans, could Now what Your profits in advance. Simply write orders. We ship and smell their .... hell!" collect. Stay-Prest sells quickly—average sale made in 8 t e pting Hitherto minutes. 40°* P r ofi'- Newest tiling out. Big repeater. m ToManorWoman aroma, could vague inci- FREE"" almost taste dents con- Special offer enables you to obtain Selling Outfit absolutely in fact. nected with free—everything you need to take orders. We guarantee them you will make sales. Write for plan and exclusive territory. . . And then h i s capture The GetgeyJung Co.D-74. G. & J. Bldg. Cincinnati. Ohio —^ ')" l ) " nil -'-:' ?tr ''' J t- I,"n.inn, (Int.irlo. Cannda the white quickly clar- '.i ii glare of a ified them- Very light selves in

' SOPPORTUNITIES JN sputtering B 0 s 1 1 e s overhead, or mind, and alesmanship the plops of h e groaned Become a Salesman bullets spit- i n w a rdly. Every phase of business revolve ting up earth They'd around selling. The trained sales in front of nailed him, man is in demand— he can fix his own hours, choose his own field, him would suddenly jar him out of his by Judas! He was a prisoner and that's control his own pay. His income reverie . . . Those doggone Jerries were all there was to it. depends only upon his results there is no limit to what he can getting a line on him! The German ahead of him now turned earn. We train you to sell sue- ^T^^B^i^T about the time he into what Bostle saw was a ceeBfully thru the LaSalleprob- r |C P P Just was becoming sharply lemmethodundersupervisionof interested in his task, his rifle jammed. communication trench. Certain parts expert salesmen. Train in your spare time. Low cost: as easy terms. 64-page booklet. "The Modern Salesman, Aided probably by some loose dirt a of the trench-bottom rose abruptly Ambassador of Progress," free. Send for it today. cartridge had wedged in the clip- they walked along, and Bostle, glanc- LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 436 t-S Chicago chamber. Further cursing1 his ill-luck, ing around, presently noticed that it ran Private Bostle lay flat on his stomach parallel to a road about thirty yards to

and tried every means he knew off to the right. From its direction as com- extricate that cartridge. But it pared to a high hill some distance 'ANTWORKhoSe? wouldn't come out. Perspiration ahead—the location of which every poured down his face as he struggled American in that sector knew-—Bostle $60 a weel< retnurhintt or women. No .selling or with it. For awhile he was conscious concluded that it must be the same teach you. guarant of the occasional crack of Kennedy's road that ran back between F and G rifle on the right, and the gutteral barks Companies. And the realization gave STUDIOS, Dept. I. 3900 Sheridin Rd.. ChiMM »RTCR*.T of the two German guns. Then he be- him a queer sinking sensation that ma- came so engrossed in his efforts that he terially added to his feeling of help- forgot everything about him—failed to lessness. notice two things particularly: That For another quarter of an hour the A. Lifetime Business one of the German guns grew silent, party trudged along, wending their way for sincere workers and that Kennedy's firing had abruptly in and out of other trenches, and fi- ceased. nally coming out to level ground and Five minutes later, some inner sense the same road again. To one side was THERE'S a big profit for you in every sale made from our exten- warned Bostle to look up—just an in- a low ridge and round this the Ameri- sive line of high-quality, low-priced stant before three booted figures scram- can was led, and then halted. Wearing Apparel for all the Fam- (thirty ily. The U. S. F. & G. Co. bled over the edge of the shell-hole and A headquarters of some kind was million dollar bonding corporation) dropped on him. One of them caught built into the ridge. Two sentries stood Bond given to every buyer, guaran- teeing Satisfaction or Money Back. Bostle a glancing blow on the head with before the narrow entrance, and in front easy pleased customers Sales are ; a pistol butt. For the next fifteen min- of them several men were sorting petrol build a lifetime, substantial income for you. Write and ask how you utes or so he had only a faint recollec- tins and partly-filled burlap bags. A can obtain a position on our sales tion of half crawling, of being half- ration party. One of Bostle's escorts dragged over interminable space. left him and disappeared inside the THE HOWARD MILLER COMPANY Then his brain cleared a little and headquarters entrance. Dept. "L" Baltimore, Maryland he found himself stumbling along a "Figurin' to pump me, eh?" Private dark trench following a short, stocky, Bostle addressed the other German be-

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side him. "Well., go on an' pump. I'll tell you bums where to get off." The guard merely grunted at him. Bostle shoved his hands into his pockets W.L.DOUGLAS and ambled off a few steps. Some $5 to $8 Shoes for Men British shells were dropping a couple of hundred yards across the road, and he listened to their heavy cr-r-umps with a certain amount of satisfaction. Then he glanced up suddenly to see a wagon appear around the opposite end of the ridge. Not a wagon exactly, but one of those light, two-wheeled, canvas-covered charettes used by the wealthier French peasants. It came di- rectly towards Bostle and drew up right in front of him. A German officer, wearing a red cross brassard, got down from the seat and approached the head- quarters entrance. The driver followed him. A huge, high-legged mule was hitched to the charette, and Private AMERICA'S BEST K,NOWN SHOES L. Douglas stores cities dealers Bostle's eyes roved over the animal's W. in principal and shoe every- ulcere are now showing new Douglas styles flanks with friendly recognition. If that wasn't an American mule "Yer poor old Missouri hellion," he began sympathetically, "so they nailed

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What Made His Hair Grow? (Continued jrom page 67) Read His Letter for the Answer I am, a dugout or somethin'!" he charette's wheel, and one arm hooked growled at his unwelcome companion. under the basket's handle as he grabbed "Two years ago the driver's only in- the reins. I was bald all over But squirming The mule shot forward as the top of my head. creased, and suddenly Bostle felt some- though propelled by the burst of one of "I felt ashamed thing dig into his side. moved his those 0.2 shells still for people to see my He crashing around head. 1 tried differ- hand down to push it away—and his the ridge—straight for the road. ent preparations, but they did no fingers felt the butt of a pistol strapped Private Bostle had no whip, but he good. I remained to the German's belt. had a voice; and it rose above even bald, until I used Kotalko. Perhaps it was the cold, firm touch the deafening roar of the strafe, be- "New hair came of that Luger butt—or that big Mis- ginning rather mildly with: almost immediat- souri mule and charette waiting out "Now you damn, flea-bitten, ely and kept on pop- growing. In a Bhort there—or the straight ribbon of road eyed cuss of a mule you travel!"—and time I had a splen- not fifty feet away or even the basket continuing from there on with a flow of ^^^^^^fc^ did head of hair. — |HBk which has been per- of eggs resting against the charette's shrill unprintable curses that must have JHHHB feet ever since - and no return of dashboard—that first suggested the des- been as music to that mule's flattened 1— ' alH the baldness. perate thought to Orville Bostle. It ears. For travel she did—her long legs Mr. H. A. Wild. He This verified statement ia by may have been the combination of all pounding the broken surface of the is but one of the big legion of users of Kotalko who voluntarily attest it has stopped falling hair, elimin- of them. At any rate, Private Bostle road, the charette careening behind her hair growth. ated dandruff or aided new, luxuriant suddenly made up like a rowboat in an KOTALKO is Bold by busy druggists everywhere. his mind to escape. open sea, and Or- FREE Trial Box It was a long chance, ville Bostle hanging but either that, he To prove the efficacy of Kotalko, for men's, over the dashboard, women's and children's hair, the producers are decided, or starving the egg basket Proof Boxes. Use coupon or write, to giving to death in a Ger- swinging from one KOTAL CO., D-177, Station L, New York man prison camp. arm, and the reins Please send me FREE Proof Box of KOTALKO And he preferred to stretched taut in his Name take the long chance. hands. Address Keeping his hand On they went, beside the pistol, down that stretch of Bostle moved his road leading through body forward a lit- the Boche lines— 'When The Blue Birds tle and peered out that also led to the brim Sing Their Prayer' under the of American lines half his helmet. The in- a mile away; past FREE For postal raid I'll 2 copies. One fur yourself; one tensity of the strafe groups of Germans, Fit EE for re-mailing to a friend. Tube ami label furnished. Send ine a miarter for YOl'K copy alter had lessened some- some of whom you see them, or mail 'em back. Xo obligation. A male quartet arrangement with each song. Send what, but they were shouted and gesticu- YOUR postal NOW. still dropping regu- lated wildly, others Tom Lynn Studios, Box 767, Syracuse, N. Y. larly and unhealth- who simply gaped in A Song of a Soldier, Not Forgotten ily close. The mule mute astonishment, The hest song halted shire "Tl,e End of A Perfect Day" had begun to buck a and a few who little, and Bostle sprang out to the wondered vaguely why the German still road making futile attempts to stop hung on to the halter rope. The char- them. But nothing could stop that 10 Inches Off ette was half-faced toward the road in flying mule. And no one fired at the direction of the front lines; the them, believing that the charette was driver's seat not five yards from where naturally, though unfortunately, being Waistline In Bostle lay. driven by a brother Boche. Private "Boy!" he mused. "If I'd get holda Bostle had wisely stilled his tongue. 35 Days that old mule, he'd go—he'd go like Nor was verbal encouragement to his " hell fer home!" steed any longer necessary—that mule "I reduced from 48 inches to 38< inches in 35 days," says R. E. A minute or two passed while Orville was on her way and nothing short of a Johnson, of Akron, O., "just by Bostle further weighed the possibilities shell would stop her. wearing Director a Belt. Stom- of his plan. His heart pounded; sweat When they passed the German sup- ach now firm, doesn't sag and I feel fine." oozed from every pore in his body; his port lines, the going became so rough The Director Belt gets at the legs felt weak and useless. But his fin- that Bostle closed his eyes, clutched the cause of fat and quickly re- gers still grasped the German's pistol- egg basket near him, and waited for moves it by us cent U-, kneading, massaging anion on the abdo- butt, and his mind the one idea—escape. what he believed would be an inevitable men, which causes the fat to be dissolved and absorbed. Thou- He kept his gaze riveted on the egg- spill any instant. But somehow the sands have proved it and doctors recommend it as the naturalway basket .... that was his goal—from charette righted itself each time, and to reduce. Stop drugs, exercises and dieting. Try this easy way. where he lay to the egg-basket . . . . the mule's speed seemed to increase Sent on Trial make it in five jumps .... and that with every yard she covered toward the mule rarin' to go. . . . American lines. Let us prove our claims. We'll send a Director for trial. Then Bostle leaped, whipping out the Bostle opened his eyes again, and If you don't get results you owe still nothing. You don't risk a. pennv. German's pistol as his body scrambled stared wildly around. They were

Write fur t rial oiler, dnrt ors' en- forward. The Boche in the hole a on the road, but for several minutes he do rsem en t s and letters from made users. .Mad the coupon NOW ! LANDON & WARNER half-movement towards him, shouting. could discern nothing but a weird blank- ^3^S^La Salle St., Chicago, III. Bostle swung around and shot point- ness on either side of him, broken oc-

Landon & Warner, Dept. K-4. 332 S. La Sal le, Chicago blank at him. The German crumpled casionally by machine-gun flashes. Gentlemen: Without cost or obligation ou my part back, his hand loosing its grip of the Then the air about him was suddenly please send me details of your trial offer. halter rope. alive with the whine of bullets, and the At the same instant Private Bostle's zi-i-ps of others biting into the char- J short bowed legs clambered over the ette's woodwork. Dropping the reins, The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly " —

Bostle flung himself flat on the floor. He heard shouts, bellowing American shouts, intermixed with the rat-a-tats of Lewis guns. And those familiar sounds gave strength to his own voice, as he cried out hoarsely: "Yer damn nuts—cut out firm'! I'm Bostle—hear?—Bostle of F Company! !" Lay off, dammit— Then he felt the hot sting of some- thing through his shoulder, and another sear the side of his head. The mule's speed slackened, the charette lurched, and things went temporarily black be- fore his eyes. But the blackness lasted only a mo- ment or two, and the next thing Orville Bostle saw was several round-helmeted figures hanging to the mule's head and leading her behind the rise of a sunken road that Bostle vaguely remembered as marking the extremity of F Com- pany's line of trench. Three or four others crowded forward to where Bostle lay beside the basket of eggs. The leader was Henderson, an automatic The Radiophone's Meaning in his hand. "Say, who in"—he began, paused, and peered closer at the face near the An Advertisement of Then: damned if it egg basket. "I'm the American Telephone and Telegraph Company isn't The Busted Sofa! How—what's the matter—hit?" "Me?" replied Private Bostle a little weakly. "Well, I kinda feel like I was, Sergeant— An adventure in com- strated that the Ameri- The others joined Henderson and be- munication was made can Telephone and Tele- gan hurling questions at Bostle as they last January when trans- graph Company, with helped him off the charette which had atlantic radio telephone ser- the co-operation of the British halted. A dozen men now surrounded it and its recent driver, and someone vice was established between Post Office, was able to give suddenly called: New York and London. There excellent transmission ofspeech "Say—he's got a wounded Heinie of- had been previous tests and under ordinary atmospheric ficer in back here!" just as Captain — demonstrations. Nevertheless, conditions. Fletcher's tall figure pushed through the group. He stopped as he saw two the fact that at certain hours In accord with announce- of the men dragging a bandaged, groan- daily this service was made ments made at that time, ing German from the rear of the char- available to anyone in these there will be a continued effort ette. Captain Fletcher gazed at the cities from his own telephone, Boche a moment, and then announced to improve the service, extend interest in amazed tones: created such public it to greater areas and insure "Officer is right! It's nothing less that for several days the de- a greater degree of privacy. than a colonel." He swung around mands for overseas connec- "Here—clear this cart out of here, men It is true that static will at tions exceeded the capacity —quick now!" Then Henderson ap- times cause breaks in the ether proached captain and spoke hur- of the service. the circuit, but a long step for- riedly to him. It was then demonstrated ward has been towards "You mean Bostle, Sergeant?" the made captain exclaimed in surprise, and that there was a real use for international telephone com- turned to where the Top's finger pointed telephone communication be- munication and more intimate out Private Bostle standing between two tween the world's two greatest relationshipbetween theUnited men. "Well, by the gods! I'll take my cities. It was further demon- States and Great* Britain. hat off to you, Bostle!" And Orville Bostle heard him heard him and grinned. Then someone pulled at his arm. "Say, Busted, what are yer hangin' on to that basket for?" Be a Railway Rwtal Cleric "I—I got eggs in it—leggo of it I tell yer!" Get $1900 to $2700 a Year "Eggs!" laughed another man. \ "Great day! What are you doin', Work Long Vacations J

.' sellin' 'em," ! for small pay ? Uncle Samham offers you a fine poposition as a ^ Railway Postal Clerk. Travel on fast trains sorting mail. Travel expenses "Well," came the answer in a still paid. $1900 a year TO START. $100 RAISE EVERY YEAR until you Arthur R. Patterson, weaker voice, "if any o' you guys reach TOP PAY. Write for FREE Information About These Fine Jobs ^ Civil Service Eiotrt quail f y t'T a position as Hail way l'"Ptal Clerk or inCaatoma. Internal School. Oept 634 L Arthur K i 'att.rsoti help y«u ^ Patterson want to buy 'em—they'll cost yer one an.i HruneloB. 1, Postmaster. Post tlthce Rural Iletrame.i 1 'part mental. Immigration, Wisner Buildinn Rochesler N. T. ndsW in «*4 S£™*j ! T Sir: £Sd mS ".'wyoof buck an egg, see? These here—are im- A ^ Zr'r ZnMi^"no^l'a! VuJlatwZZZSaig?™ * «^"t oi/Vrtd'a tiSulfi -J^Jmi'm)t"Xrf! Hail' coupon now. L * catalog descril.i ne Itaihvny Mail Clerk ported eggs get me?—imported from ARTHUR R. PATTERSON. CIVIL SERVICE EXPERT «» and other Civil Service positions. — Wisner Bldg. *" ." ! School, Dept. 634, , —Germany. . . .Slate.

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law designed to enable a mother to keep write as his first contribution to the mm her home intact after the death of the magazine. Looking over his outfit's breadwinner. Although forty-one States ,' 1,250 members he decided that nobody I VI A!\ LAKHS N MO have laws providing mothers' pensions had a better claim to distinction than

W HO Of; 1 ; or allowances, many existing laws are Clarence S. Kittinger. And here's why: LIVES !N H M A\ ' x ' defective. The third recommendation " 1 'Kit' served in • the M. T. C. during 1 ) L r L N ^ T H i calls for the appointment of an unpaid 0 F T H E \ 7 the war, was discharged at Camp Dodge :n-memo!o Or-THOS: county child welfare board of three or and came home just in time to be elect- more members to advise with public of- «"" ed Adjutant of Lincoln Post," writes t WE-THFi ficials administering ' children's cases. Mr. Becker. "That was in the early MEASCRL 01 ifI r>T>n\ The final recommendation is for a state summer of 1919. He has been re-elect- children's bureau, headed by a director ed Post Adjutant every year since 1910 who shall appoint and advise county —this is his ninth year in office. Is welfare boards and supervise the gen- that a record? If you think it is, what BRONZE TABLETS eral administration of laws affecting de- do you think of this for a real record: honorrolls-markers pendent, neglected and defective chil- "Kittinger has attended every post Building tablets-Akches dren. meeting in the last eight years. We MEMORIAL FLAGPDLESETO meet twice a month and Kittinger has rolled up a grand total of one hundred Write freebrochure- for AS a runner-up for this month's trav- and ninety-two meetings. We presented Memorial Department - el-talk, Forrest-Stone Post of him with an adjutant's gold badge with TheFl<^Gty Oruam enimJron(o Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, sings the eight gold bars when he rounded out his t 2637-27 »AYE 30. MfflRWOUS MINN marvels of a spring which makes Pow- eighth year of service." der River's legendary wonders seem as Mr. Becker also reminds us, natur- prosaic as an ordinary real estate allot- ally, that his post is proud of another ment advertisement. "The largest member, John E. Curtis, National Vice- spring in the world is what we have." Commander this year. LearnHow toBO heralds this Arkansas post. "It has a steady flow of six hundred thousand gallons a minute. Translate that into ANEW contender in the lucky posts terms of vin blanc or cognac, if you self -confidence aod Quick; contest is Rumley-Thompson Post thinking— mvaluaEl will, and tell how big an Army it could stint; book of Damascus, Virginia. D. H. Heck, Awe i>f Kovinii ration every minute. It has a tempera- Post Adjutant, sends in a photograph JIMMY DeFOREST BOXING COURSE ture of fifty-eight degrees the year 347 Madison Ave.. Box 1316. New Yorl of a beautiful valley, with a little stream 'round. It covers eighteen acres to a winding through the foreground and a depth of twenty-five five hun- from to range of mountains framing the horizon, DEAFNESS IS MISERY dred feet and gives off a sizable river, the Blue Ridge Mountains, if we know Millions people know that, but Multitudes of of Spring River, noted for its dams and persons with defective hearing and Head Noises our geography. enjoying conversation, to Theatre and its bass and trout fishing." are again go "The photograph shows the island— Invisible Antj* flJJTs ¥\ Church because they use Leonard ^^jsfll septic Ear Drums, which are Tiny Megaphones large strip of land between two branches gin the Ear entirely out of sight. No wires.no of a river—which has just been present- scries, no head piece. They are Unseen Comforts Theodore Korony Post, one inexpensive. Write for booklet and sworn MEET ed to our post by S. L. Mock of Da- of inventor who was himself deaf. of the newest posts of the Legion, ement the mascus," explains Mr. Heck. "We have A. O.LEONARD, Inc., Suite 321, 70 5tb Ave, New York a post which is located in the fastest- commenced to develop this tract as a growing community in the United States. park. It will contain a swimming pool, Not only does Theodore Korony Post's community building. Boy Scout build- community grow faster than other com- ing, war memorial, children's playground munities; it repeats its miracle of and a tourist camp." growth each year. The post is located at Edgewater Camp, Bronx, New York City, which has a winter population of as the final date onhipi two hundred, but grows to twenty thou- WITH July 2, 1927, reinstatement or conversion of Oays Mr. Callagnan sand in the short period of a few weeks for early each summer. The members of government insurance, posts and in- the new post constitute the volunteer dividual Legionnaires are once more busy reminding uninsured men to pro- 15.000 i fire department and volunteer life sav-

: climb on high. tect their rights before it is too late Inder miss since I put it on. Enclosed f ing service of the huge summer bunga- LUMAN CALLAGHAN, Wellsville. New York. low colony. Twenty-eight Legionnaires to do so. Service men generally appre- Mr. Callahan's letter is typical of hundreds received ciate advantages of the new five-year rrom Ford owners all over the world. The Ford is a signed the charter roll of the new post, different car when it's equipped with a HY-PoWEIt which was formed through efforts of term Government insurance policy, ac- TIMER. It develops 25% more power, climbs hills on of Inch that it never could climb on high before, uses less W. Irving Kidd. of Dan Tallon Post, cording to Legionnaire G. Lundgren, gas. starts quickly and surely on the coldest day. The the San Fernando, California, who reports Sliding .Shoe principle, used by electric railroads, is the post composed of employes of the reason for Hy-Power Timer's superiority over all other New York City postoffice. that since July 2, 1026, he has helped types. The new worth of in- Hy-Power Timer outlasts 4 roller type timers. It post hopes to have many hundreds of veterans take up $150,000 gives 20,000 to 10.000 miles of uninterrupted service surance in the new form of policy. Mr. a sure, hot fat spark every 90 degr members, recruited from the summer residents, before the year ends. Lundgren has been an insurance sales- man for private companies for more than ten years, but since 1010, he says, CLERK of the municipal court in he has in each year helped service men Lincoln, Nebraska, is Clarence C. reinstate or convert government policies Becker. When Lincoln Post appointed for more than $1,500,000. HY-POWER MFG. COMPANY him to act as liaison man for the Keep- "I talk government insurance to Mt. Vernon, New York, Dept. 10 ing Step department of the Monthly, every veteran with whom I come in AND DEALERS r«! Mr. Becker wondered what he ought to contact," Mr. Lundgren says. "My AGENTSM. Power MONEY MAKING Proposition.

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JOHN J. McGRAW experience with private companies en- wizard of baseball ables me to speak with added author- "Next to baseball, billiards ity on the real advantages Uncle Sam's is myfavorite form of rec- reation. It is the one com- insurance offers veterans." petitive sport, too, that rec- Incidentally, many veterans who ognize', no barriers ofage. have already taken out all the insur- ance Uncle Sam will give them and have become convinced through a study of government insurance of the wisdom of maintaining as much in- You Won t surance as they can afford to pay for Photo by Underwood & Underwood are buying additional policies from pri- Grow Old -if ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE vate companies. As evidence of this, You Play celebrated author here is an item from The John Han- student I'd often play bil- cock Signature, publication of the John 9/ozv Noted Authors, Sportsmen. Hards for lunch and forego food. My im fig due Athletes-leaders in every calling Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Com- largely to this diet, for I have " pany, of Boston, Massachusetts: have discovered amazing benefits never ceased to enjoy billiards. in the one idealform recreation "Every once in a while we receive a of for all ages — ^Billiards call on the telephone, or a letter or a Photo by International K, message to the effect that someone has taken insurance with the Hancock John surest method of perpetuating in THE because of the advertising The youth is PLAY. But choose your sport American Legion Monthly. We are or recreation wisely. Select one you can

always glad to hear of this and to learn play now . . . and twenty years from now. that this advertising is being noticed Billiards has no age limit, and is one of in more ways than one." the most fascinating sports in the world. Besides, it is good non-strenuous exercise.

And this wonderful game isn't expensive. four years Leo Collins repre- fable shot. the Junior Grand FOR J. Whether you play at your club or in the sented the Department of Pennsyl- club^like surroundings of the modern portable or convertible into a handsome vania in the national councils of The billiard establishment, the cost is slight. dining or living room table. What a won- American Legion as National Executive Home Billiard Tables derful source of pleasure and recreation in Committeeman, and in 1924 was Com- your home! Mail the coupon today for mander of his Department. Known as For as Little as $78 complete descriptions, prices, etc. one of the outstanding leaders of the Initial Deposit Only $15.75 National Executive Committee, Mr. The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Let us tell you more about these beautiful Collins attended the meeting of the Dept. H-436, 62 3 S. Wabash Ave.,Chicago,IIl. tables. There's one to fit any home or in- committee held in Indianapolis last Jan- Gentlemen: Please send me complete infor- come — and they come either stationary, uary and, as usual, spoke frequently in mation about your Home Billiard Tables. debate and engaged in the parliamentary Name repartee which adds a touch of humor Address to business sessions. Early in Febru- City State... ary, his fellow members of the National EXERCISE Executive Committee were shocked by FOR ENJOYABLE news that Mr. Collins had died in a THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER COMPANY hospital in Pittsburgh, his home, after Established 1 845 Branches in All Principal Cities of United States and Canada an illness of a single day. Death was caused by spinal meningitis. One of the final efforts of Mr. Collins' KeepMusterole life was characteristic of his whole Le- Auto Owners gion career. At the National Executive Committee meeting and later he had on theBatR-roomshelf spoken vigorously of the need of a vast WANTED/ Years ago the old-fashioned hospital in Pennsylvania to care for the mustard increasing number of service men af- plaster was the favor- To Introduce ite remedy for flicted with mental and nervous diseases. rheumatism, & Use HYDRO lumbago, colds on the Mr. Collins organized the first Legion chest Insured TIRES post in Pennsylvania. Wilson and sore throat. Woodrow Hydro Agents make money selling Post of Pittsburgh. He was a graduate It did the work, but was sticky and t he only Tires in the WoHd Insured messy and for One Year against all road of Cornell University and the Univer- burned and blistered. hazards regardless of mileage. Musterole has taken the place of the HYDRO TIRES sell fast because sity of Pittsburgh and played on the they have in mustard plaster. nocompetition price: football teams of both schools. He Rub on this soothing ointment at the served as captain of the 371st Infantry Insure. i Prot. rtwm first cough or sniffle, at rheumatism's nee Policy with every tire* in the A. E. F. and took part in battles first warning tingle. at Verdun, in Champagne and in the Made from pure oil of mustard, with Vosges. the blister and sting taken out, Mus- HYDRO terole penetrates the skin and goes to

the seat of trouble. Tin Moil Beautiful 7irt m Amtrtco' To Mothers: ade by the only tire factory irt NOEL DAVIS, lieutenant-command- Musterole is also made in milder form for babies and small chil- k'h authoi izril Sali

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When he graduated in 1914 he was the second ranking member of his class and commander of the cadet regiment. During the war he served as aide to Admiral Joseph Strauss, in charge of laying down the North Sea mine barrage, and after the Armistice he supervised the sweeping of the mines from the sea. He was a sea-go- ing aide and seldom had time for the social responsibilities of his post. For his work during the war he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with a citation which even his most intimate friends never have had an opportunity to read. This is not his maiden bow as an author, as an article from his pen on the mine barrage in the North Sea ap- peared in the National Geographic Mag- azine for February, 1920. He has writ- ten several Navy textbooks on mine- laying and sweeping, and aviation. NewYork to Paris He did not take up flying until 1920 but he graduated at the head of his class at the Pensacola aviation training In the TLane station. In 1922 reorganization of the Navy on a peace basis deprived him of his emergency commission and his rank American Legion reverted to lieutenant. Shortly there- after he resigned his regular commis- sion and entered Harvard Law School LEUTENANT Commander Noel Davis. opportunity of individually participating in United States Navy, a member of the venture, The American Legion to specialize in aeronautic law. After a . The American Legion, will attempt Monthly has arranged for Commander year as a civilian 1 the trans-Atlantic flight from New Davis to carry with him on the "Ameri- he went back to ac- York to Paris early this summer—prob- can Legion" a limited number of decora- tive duty as a reserve lieutenant-com- ably in June— in an airplane which has tive postcards similar to the one repro- mander in the First district, been built entirely in the United States. duced above. The cards are attractively Naval He has named his plane. "American Le- printed in four colors and will be consecu- meanwhile continuing his studies. He sion." by especial authority of the National tively numbered in the order purchased. served as aviation aide to Admiral Louis Executive Committee of The American Le- Each card will sell for $2.00. The Month- gion. Commander Davis will compete for ly will assume the responsibility of placing DeStigeur and also commanded the the $25,000 Raymond offered on the plane, just before it takes off, all naval aviation reserve station at Squan- for the first non-stop flight between the of the cards sold to its readers. The post- two cities— New York and Paris. While cards will be mailed in Paris upon the ar- tum, Massachusetts, and the naval avia- the United States Army and are rival of the plane. Each card will be prop- Navy en- tion ground school at the Massachusetts couraging the endeavor, the construction erly addressed to the person whom the pur- of the plane has been financed largely chaser may direct. The funds from the Institute of Technology. During his ad- with private sale of the cards will be presented as a gift funds provided by Americans ministration at Squantum he trained inspired by a patriotic interest in the de- from Legionnaires to Commander Davis to velopment of aviation. reimburse him for expenditures personally fifty new flyers and "refreshed" hun- preparing for this great ven- The National Executive Committee in assumed in dreds of former navy flyers without a conferring upon Commander Davis the ture which, if completed, will be one of right to name his plane after The Ameri- America's greatest contributions to the single mishap of any kind. advancement of aviation. can Legion, knew that his flight, if suc- In 1924 he paused in his many duties cessful, would mark a new and sublime Remember there is absolutely no obliga- achievement in aviation, and that in no tion on the part of anyone to participate. long enough to travel back to Pensa- who will finer way could the Legion proclaim its But. surely, there are thousands cola, where he married Miss Mary Eliza- interest in aeronautics. The committee appreciate such an opportunity. Each undoubtedly felt, too, that it should rec- card will be a memento of this great his- beth Merritt whom he met first while ognize the bravery IT !— THE of an American about torical event. DO NOW MAIL learning to fly. They now have a one- to engage in one of the greatest adven- COUPON PROPERLY FILLED IN TO tures in history. THE AMERICAN LEGION MONTHLY year-old son, Noel Davis, Jr. In June, So that each Legionnaire may have an WITH YOUR REMITTANCE FOR $2.00. 1925, he was graduated from Harvard with the degree of L. L. B. and shortly Make All Remittances Payable to The American Legion Monthly thereafter was ordered to Washington, where he was placed in charge of the =————— COUPON —===== — Bureau of Aeronautics Naval Aviation The American Legion Monthly, Reserve, a post he still fills. During his Indianapolis, Indiana. administration he has doubled the num- I am enclosing $2.00 for PARIS my NON-STOP FLIGHT NEW YORK TO ber of active reserve pilots, and has se- postcard. Commander Davis is to carry it on the plane "American Legion" to Paris, France, and mail it. cured the approval of the Navy General Board to a five-year development pro- Purchaser gram for the air reserve. Other Legionnaire contributors to Address this issue of the Monthly include Please have postcard addressed to: Peter B. Kyne, who has been intro- duced before as' the first Historian of the Department of California; A. B. Name Bernd, of Macon (Georgia) Post; Mrs. Clara Ingram Judson. of the Auxiliary Street Unit to Evanston (Illinois) Post, and Frederick C. Painton, of S. Rankin City or Town State Post, City. More than one card may be purchased by remitting the required amount and Drew New York submitting names of persons to whom cards should be addressed. Right Guide.

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^SQext (§top *-* "Pan's New PHONIC ( Continued from page 35) to Ireland, a distance of 1936 miles. The time available for completing Reproducer New York to Paris is nearly twice that my preparations was short—I couldn't distance. possibly build a new plane for the flight, makes an up-to-the-minute I should like to be able to write truth- so had to choose from what existed Phonograph out of your old one fully that to fly from New York to and there weren't many planes which Paris had been a childhood ambition. It could fly the necessary distance. About would sound very romantic, but it that time I learned that the multi-mo- wouldn't be so. From the day I grad- tored plane which Captain G. H. Wil- uated from the Naval Academy at An- kins had taken to Alaska to fly over the napolis in 1914 until 1920 I had given North Pole could be purchased. The aviation only passing thought and I had Wilkins expedition was financed by the never been off the ground in any sort Detroit Aviation Society, and there I of aerial vehicle in my then twenty- hastened, as the lustre had been taken eight years. During the war I had been from its project by reason of the earlier a mine-laying and mine-sweeping web- success of the Byrd and Amundsen foot in the North Sea and the idea of flights. My offer was accepted and I sprouting wings had never occurred. paid $25,000 for the plane complete, an- Along in 1920 I grew weary of writ- ticipating that it would be shipped to ing text books in Washington and de- me at once. For reasons which have cided to give aviation a whirl as a pos- no place in this story my hopes were sible source of thrills. Less than a blasted. (Yes, I got the money back.) year later I was a full-fledged aviator The plane is still at Fairbanks, Alaska. with four hundred hours in the air to When the situation was finally forced my credit. The story of the five-year upon me there had been so much delay interval between my graduation as a that I became resigned to the success of pilot and the time I found myself in the Fonck flight and gave it my best charge of aviation reserve activities in wishes. the Navy Department would doubtless When that effort ended in catastrophe prove a bore, so I shall pass on to the I doubt whether anyone who had fol- 10 events that prompted my determination lowed it was more sincerely grieved to fly from New York to Paris with no than myself at its tragic termination. Days' Trial local stops en route. But what is done is done. Because fail- A year ago I read in the newspapers ure had ended the first attempt was no Now at last you can say goodbye to the squeaky, nasal, rasping, metallic tone of your phonograph. that Captain Rene Fonck of the French reason to give the task up as hopeless. Now you can have the beautiful, natural, full- Air Service would fly a plane from New In late October I started organizing for rounded tone of the expensive new machines York to Paris under the auspices of the a flight in the current year. which are startling the world. The New makes your old phonograph Argonauts, Incorporated, an organiza- My abortive endeavor of 1926 had PHONIC reproducer like an entirely new one. tion with headquarters in New York been personally disastrous financially Tones never before heard are clearly distin- City. The account stated that the plane after I repaid my loans. Finance was guished when the New PHONIC reproducer is for the flight was being built by Count first to solved. It was the problem be used. Test it. Hear the difference yourself. Igor Sikorsky, formerly of the Russian not until early in February that the Listen to the deep low notes and the delicate Air Service, and that American motors New York-Paris Non-stop Flight Cor- high notes, the voice, the violin and the piano. Note the absence of "tinny" music. You will would not be used in the plane. poration underwritten, was completely be amazed. Now I am among the first Americans for the cost of the expedition will be Without Distortion who appreciate the great war record of close to $100,000. I am not at liberty Volume The PHONIC reproducer is ideal for the French ace. Only the late Baron to mention the names of my backers but New dancing or for home entertainments. Its volume Richthofen of the German Air Force all are American citizens of character is almost double that of the ordinary reproducer. surpassed his record of victories in and prominence. Yet there is no distortion of sound. The new the very aerial combat. Also, I am a great ad- Last year, the Keystone Aircraft Cor- principle enables you to use even loudest tone needles without the ear-splitting mirer of Count Sikorsky as an airplane poration at Bristol, Pennsylvania, had effects of old reproducers. designer and engineer, and he is, to all developed and perfected a light Ameri- Days' Trial—Send No Money intents, an American citizen. But I can bombing biplane known as the 10 cannot realize how wonderful the New subconsciously resented the fact that Pegasus. The Army Air Corps had con- You PHONIC is until you hear it. That is why we other than an pilot American had been ducted extensive tests with single motor want to send it to you on 10 days' trial. Send selected as the pilot for this flight, and and later with dual motors, all of which no money now—just the coupon. Pay the post- plus a few pennies postage that the plane was to be equipped with had proved eminently successful. I con- man only $3.85 when the New PHONIC arrives. Then if you foreign engines. Just like the rest of sulted with the designers of the plane are not delighted, send it back within 10 days you, I like to see America win the yacht and much to my gratification learned and your money will be refunded. If sold in would be at least $7.50. Our races, and the Olympics and similar in- that it could be equally well equipped stores the price price only $3.85 Over 350,000 people have dealt ternational contests and I wanted to see with three motors an imperative need — with us by mail. You take no risk. Mail coupon this longest of all flights won by Amer- in my plans. now for 10 days' trial. BE SURE TO STATE ica, too. So I decided to do something With engineering data, pencil and pa- THE NAME OF PHONOGRAPH YOU OWN. about it. After an unsatisfactory inter- per, the superiority of the American MUSIC LOVERS, Inc.. Dept. 354 view with the Argonauts I announced plane over the one I intended using a NATIONAL 327 West 36th Street, New York my intention of competing in the event, year ago was evident. My total lift in Please send me a New PHONIC reproducer for and in April I posted the $250 entry fee. my new plane should be 17,000 pounds I will pay the postman with the National Aeronautic Associa- against 14,000 in the older plane. My (give name of Phonograph) $3.85 plus few cents! tion, trial. I will return your the American representative body cruising radius should be 4,600 miles postage. If I am not satisfied after you guarantee to relund of the Federation Aeronautique Inter- against four thousand miles. My maxi- reproducer within 10 days and my money. (Outside V. S. Si.10, cash with order.) nationale, and started out to finance my mum flying time should be fifty-two proposed flight. By May I had raised hours against fifty hours. My speed Name sufficient money for my purpose and be- should be 103 miles at full load and Address gan to look about for a plane, expect- seventy miles at light load for an aver- ing to hop off as soon as possible. age speed ( Continued on page 74) City State...

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Second A.E.F. ( Continued from page 73) Will you be one of the thousands of eighty-eight miles per hour, against land, over Nova Scotia and Newfound- who are going to live the old a full-load speed of ninety-five miles land, and then out over the North At- times over again—but under far and a light load speed of sixty-five lantic to return to land over the south- happier circumstances? Are you miles for an average speed of eighty ern tip of Ireland, thence over the Irish going to be one of those having a miles per hour. Sea to Wales, across the English Chan- dandy time visiting the old places Whether this data will be supported nel to where the Seine empties and then after the big Paris Convention ? by actual tests remains to be seen, but along the Seine to Paris. Of the three Join the Second A. E. F.— go I believe I have been conservative in thousand six hundred miles to be cov- with the buddies. Take a lei- my estimates. The three motors will ered the first thousand and the last six surely tour around France, Bel- be Wright Whirlwinds of the type, hundred will be flown mostly over land, J-5 j gium, England, Germany, with an advance over the motors used by But two thousand miles are over the Dean & Dawson's—official agents. Lieutenant Commander Byrd in his open ocean. We will have a light radio

j One week in London (from Paris) flight to the pole. During the past year sending and receiving set of one thou- for $65. Other tours up to this type of engine in commercial avia- sand-mile radius and plan to maintain $485 for 40 days. Call or tion has flown the equivalent of twenty- communication with vessels in the ship- write for booklet "Post six times around ping lanes of the ' Convention -Tours. t h e world with Atlantic several only three engine miles to our south. failures reported. We do not want, The standard gas nor will we re- Ltd. DEAN & DAWSON, tanks on the plane quest any special 500 Fifth Avenue, New York hold but three vessels to be sta- hundred and fifty tioned for our pos- gallons of gasoline, sible assistance on and this arrange- the long water ment must be hop. WhyPayMore^ changed to accom- We will fly in modate one thou- what navigators Buy direct from factorj sand five hundred call a great circle, This finely made Umbrella gallons of fuel and which is a method Tent has every qualityand eight hundred designed to take practical feature of the pounds of oil. advantage of t h e highestpriced tents. Win- I in the dow. Screen and storm doors. have been as- curvature Sewed in floor. Very strong sured that these earth's surface to waterproofed fabric. Awning radical alterations shorten our route guysand poles. Packs to small bun- will completed to the minimum. dle. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. be by May or June at Study of the Allstyles andsizes of Ten ts and camp equipment at proportionately low prices the latest so that weather charts WRITE the actual per- over the North FOR MURRAY & COMPANY CATALOG 924 W. Huron St., Chicago formance of the Atlantic over a ifacturing Tents 1871 Since plane under full long period of load conditions years proves that LEARN to be a WATCHMAKER may be thoroughly we should enjoy tested before I favorable winds at take off for Paris. almost any time in Conditions for June or July. I the prize of $25,000 offered by Ray- can promise definitely that I will have mond Orteig for the first non-stop started on my flight before July 31st flight from New York to Paris pro- and quite possibly much sooner—par- vide that the start and landing must ticularly if I hear that any of my pros- PATENTS Kifi be made within fifty miles of the pective competitors are dangerously & CO. respective cities. I will therefore take near ready to take off. MUNN off from Mitchell Field, Long Island, Equipment in addition to clothing will Associated for Si years with the Scientific America! and land either at Le Bourget or Villa be reduced to a minimum. We will pro- 1577 Scientific American Building 24 West 40th Street, New York City Coublay outside Paris. Before taking vide ourselves with the most modern 568 Scientific American Bldg., Washington, D. C. off, the fuel tanks must be sealed, as instruments, and it is a mark of aero- 1355 Tower Building, Chicago, III. 692 Hobart Building, San Francisco, Cal. also must the barograph, an instrument nautic progress in eight years that we Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles. Cal. 575 which traces a graph of the flight at its may avoid such mishaps as were en- various altitudes hour by hour. The countered by Alcock and Brown in PIN A DOLLAR BILL TO THIS seals must be intact upon our arrival. looping and flying upside down by mere- For the first ten or eleven hours of ly watching our instruments. At the our flight we will require the use of all risk of sounding immodest I will state the three engines to remain in the air. that I have perfected an aerial sextant Should one of the motors fail, however, that may be used with equal facility we are prepared to dump a sufficient night or day, so long as an astral body quantity of fuel to permit us to carry may be observed through the fog, to on with two motors. Once we are off determine our position accurately. In we do not intend to stop this side of one thousand five hundred hours of fly- Paris. For the last twelve hours of our ing I have purposely ignored landmarks journey so much fuel will have been as guides to develop my confidence in We carry EVERYTHING MASONIC consumed that we can fly easily on a navigation by instrument. Our plane Send for free catalogue No. 2t) of Books, Monitors, Jewelerv; No. 30 of Lodge Supplies. single motor. will float for days should it by the re- We Hare Been in Business 67 Tears! Our projected route will carry us over mote^ chance be forced down on the REDDING & COMPANY Boston, on up the coast of New Eng- The main fuel tank alone is 200 Fifth Ave. or 9 West 23d St., New York

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sufficiently buoyant to hold up plane and be mailed back to addresses from Paris. motors and the smaller tanks will add Alcock and Brown carried a few such to its floatability. Our radio set is also cards on their momentous flight and adaptable to use from the surface of collectors today place an almost unbe- the ocean. lievable value on them. Roald Amund- In addition to such food as we will son and Lincoln Ellsworth carried a consume in the maximum time required quantity of postcards on their unsuc- for our journey we will carry emergency cessful flight towards the pole by plane rations for two weeks. A unique cup in 1925. Such cards are also valued which I have already tested will provide highly by their possessors. an emergency supply of drinking water. Because I feel a moral obligation to By breathing into this cup the moisture repay the backers of my flight and liq- in one's breath is transformed into uidate my corporation in full I shall water. It is not too difficult to con- charge a nominal sum for carrying such dense sufficient water in this manner to cards for, as I have stated, the prize sustain life and I have found it quite for the successful completion of the air palatable. The only other emergency voyage will only compensate one-fourth articles in the plane will be two rubber of the expense. boats which, deflated, can be carried in I will see you, brother Legionnaires, a brief case, and inflated, by means of in Paris. If I get there first and am a small pump, are each capable of car- obliged to come home before the con- rying four hundred pounds. vention I will return to be with you I have allowed myself but one hun- when you march under the Arc de Tri- dred pounds of unnecessary weight. omphe. I may even wait for you all to That is represented by a number of post- join me. At any rate I will see you Bring Back a cards I intend to carry on my flight to there—and maybe fly over our parade. Movie from Paris!

Every Legion Post should have its own They ^Also ^erve amateur cameraman at the Paris con- vention. The big parades — the flash ( Continued from page jj) of flags— theold battlefields— Chateau Thierry— the Argonne— Belleau Woods the senior grades we have no money to prise Mary with on their wedding day. — can be made to live forever in per- throw at the birds." We didn't get back to camp until just manent, brilliant movies. "Well, I have, Sam. I can throw a before retreat. Sam and Mary had The DeVry is amazingly easy to thousand dollars a month at the birds found a grassy bank under a tree along- operate. Just point the camera, press button, and the movies take them- if I feel like it. I learned nursing just side the road, and dismounted to sit the selves. The DeVry uses standard because I think all women should know there and make plans. There was a theatre size film and is guaranteed to how to do something constructive in fine patch of green grass there and sud- take movies as perfect as those taken case they should be thrown on their denly Mary said: "It's a long time by professional cameras! own resources, but I can dwell in idle- since The Professor has had an oppor- With the DeVry camera and the ness if I wish to." tunity to do any grazing. He must be DeVry Standard Film Projector, not "People will say I married you for weary of dry feed," and thereupon she only your own movies but all the films

of the world are available to you . Films your money," Sam Burwell protested. slipped my bridle off and turned me furnished for Post use by Legion head- Mary laughed. I liked to hear her loose. So Sam decided to take a chance quarters are standard size as are also laugh. She had a contralto voice and turned loose, too. on Dandy and him the free films provided by the U. S. her little throaty chuckle was very pleas- We had a gorgeous picnic. One misses Government and the Y. M. C. A. ant music, indeed. "Are you going to succulent feed in his diet. Think what an attraction a DeVry jilt me just because people will say To my very great surprise I was led, outfit would be for your Post. And too, how quickly this outfit that, Sam?" upon my return, into the box stall here- think, could be made to pay for itself. "Let's ride into that little grove of tofore occupied by Captain Carey's The DeVry Standard-Automatic willows," he suggested. "I can't very horse, Boodler, and Boodler was on the Movie Camerais not expensive. It sells well answer that question out here on picket line. for $150.00 and on easy terms. Write the road." "Rank has its privileges," Tip called for our newFREE booklet,"Just Why So we trotted over to the grove and to me from his place far down toward the DeVry Takes Better Movies." Sam dismounted and put his arms the end of the stable. "Hallelujah! around Mary and drew her head down Praise the Lord, as the chaplain says. on his shoulder and told her to cease 'He hath taken down the mighty from propounding dumbbell questions to him. their seat and hath exhalted them of "Will you put your thousand a month low degree.' MOVIE CAMERA. into the pot with my two hundred and "What do you mean, Tip?" I asked. split the swag fifty-fifty, Mary?" he "I told you I'd have an earful of asked her. news when I got back," he answered. "Don't propound dumbbell ques- "Sam Burwell's been made a first lieu- tions," she retorted. "Why do you tenant and Carey's been relieved of ask?" command of the company and blooeyed "Oh, well, I wanted to be quite cer- to Finance in the Quartermaster's De- tain I wouldn't be making any mistake partment. The Old Man remembered when the preacher mutters over us," he Carey used to be a banker. Sam Bur- laughed, and I knew what he was laugh- well is now tl e senior battery officer. ing at. I remembered that Tip had told He was commissioned a second lieuten- COUPON me Sam's father owned a huge cattle ant months before the firsts got theirs, THE DEVRY CORPORATION ranch and was very rich and would so now he commands the battery. So. 1111 Center Street, Dept.4-FF,Chicago, Illinois Please send me your new free book, "Just Why the gladly have given Sam fifty thousand naturally, you outrank Boodler. He DeVry Takes Better Movies." dollars when he won his commission if goes out and you come in. I congratu- Sam had been weak enough to take it. late you, buddy. You're the Top Horse I realized that Sam was going to keep of this outfit." Address- _ sur- I was (Continued on his own prosperous state a secret to page 76) City State

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( Continued from page FEVER too surprised to say a word, and hear him, to button up his lower lip, be Is a Warning Signal while I was thinking how nice every- a sport and play the game ; that the war A rise in body tempera- ture is nature's notification thing was turning out for Sam Burwell was young yet, with opportunities for that there is something and me, Tip sounded off with some wrong. You should be pre. promotion practically unlimited—for this more news. pared to detect warn- "Captain Carey busted the efficient. "And you're not efficient," ing by keeping The Top to private last night and he added. "Not that I blame you for lycos put in a Johnny-come-lately. This that, because nobody has insisted on it. FEVER morning the old man met Dink without From today on, however, I'll insist on Thermometer his chevrons and his face all upside in the house, and using it it, and don't you forget it, Mr. Galwey." frequently. down. Trust our colonel to mark the conditions Some men are born to command, Serious may sparrow's fall. 'How come, sergeant?' discovered in good then be some achieve it and some have it thrust time to call the doctor, and he says to Dink. unnecessary worry may be upon them. But when you meet one of " 'Begging the colonel's pardon, I'm a avoided when Tycos tells the breed that's been born to command you the temperature is cor- private, sir,' says Dink. 'A big windbag rect. you're never in doubt about him. The Ti/cos Fever Thermometers re the in my battery called me a tyrannical, same reliable thermometers that have executive officer said he was sorry he'd been used confidently by physicians, contemptible little squirt and said if it exposed his sense of disappointment and nurses and hospitals for years. They wasn't for my size and my chevrons he'd are guaranteed against everything would play the game hereafter. "I except breakage. Get one from your take me apart to see what made my druggist today. know you will," said Sam. "Take a wheels go round. So I took him apart Taylor Instrument Companies leaf out of my book and when you see instead—not such an easy job, either Rochester, N. 1„ U.S. a. one of your inferiors getting slack or Canadian Plant. TycoB Building and because I lowered my first ser- inefficient crack him hard at once. The rturin* lhstributore in geant's dignity to engage in a brawl with to it a private I'm on K. P. today.' chances are you'll not have do again." Then he laughed and hit the " 'Dog-gone it,' says the Old Man, executive a friendly little slap on the T must see to it that my adjutant con- shoulder, which made the latter grin a sults me once in a while before signing sheepishly. "There, old my name to regimental orders demot- little mm," A Lifetime Watch ! said Sam, "your lower lip is all but- ing non-commissioned officers.' Then Sent for he laughed and walked away, but the toned up now. Get back on the job." executive gave Sam the Big Fig- first place Bags and I had to haul him The Four. I mean he saluted him. "The was up to division headquarters. He ure is to move out, sir." went in to see the commanding general battery ready if a good husky intelli- and when he came out he was smiling Now, you get gent recruit you can make a pretty fair 'STUDEBAKERT like a fox eating guts. The rest is his- infantryman out of him in three months 9he Insured Watchi tory. Sam Burwell took over the bat- Only of intensive training that is, if you $1.00 down I Balance in easy monthly tery at retreat, busted the new top and — payments. So good we insure it for your don't waste too much time on military I lifetime. 21 Ruby and Sapphire Jewels. 8 put the diamond back on little Dink, adjustments including heat, cold, iso- etiquette, perfect drill and sanitation Marni{lr«nt chronism and 6 positions. Amazingly who hasn't even lost a day's pay W^Trk.]. accurate. Sold direct from factory at and confine yourself to the basic essen- lowest prices. You save at least 30%. busted and made again the same day. FREE! Over 100.000 sold. Investigate! tials. But it takes longer to turn out By the corn of Missouri, this battery's fime° "far* e Wrltefor FREE CATALOG a redleg, as they used to call the artil- going to be an outfit from now on. 1 lerymen in the days when the Army chain FREE, est A^t Beauty^ase8*^B&8tdeslR* sir^yei- in e— low gold, green gold and white gold effects, What news have you picked up your La.llea- stripe ter Men's Btrap watches and Dm I let wore the blues and the red down watcbea also. Special sale now oo. Write/ travels?" the trousers leg was worn by officers STUDEBAKEK WATCH CO., Dept K-718 Sooth Beod.Iodiio. I told Tip about the battery com- WATCHES » DIAMONDS • JEWELRY and non-coms. Captain Carey hadn't Canadian Addreaa— Windtor. Ontario mander's engagement to the trained had time to learn his job and he had nurse at the Fort Sill hospital and men- — had command thrust upon him. On the tioned, incidentally, that she suited me, other hand Sam Burwell had had two since, even in the excitement of becom- years at West Point, two years as an READ IT AND- ing engaged to Sam Burwell, she had enlisted man and about six months as remembered to turn me loose to graze. an officer in a battery, so he knew his Tip smacked his old lips. "Holy lLAUGH! business fairly well. At any rate he I J Moses," he declared, "how I wish some- ft A humorous tale of the A. had learned that details make the per- 7\ E. F. You'll laugh body would turn me loose in about six fect whole and command came to him \A characters — You'll laugh inches of alfalfa or blue grass. Half- •J* at theamusingsituations— as readily as one slips on an old boot. m You'll laugh from start to grown corn would be better. It's been finish And you'll read it Now, before a battery is ready to y — years since I've had my nose in a tuft \ over, timeand again. Adan- march, each gun and caisson corporal is - .—— dy little story in a handy of real greenery." pocket size. Board covers supposed to assure himself that his sec- and a tune that matches the rollicking humor. detail and when Chapter XI tion is ready to the last The PIANO MOVERS it is he so reports to his section chief, By William Hazlett Upson TIP'S news was accurate. The next who is a sergeant. The section chief is harnessed and supposed to be sure the corporals are THE UNIVERSAL Plil ss. St. Charles, Illinois morning when we hitched to the guns and caissons, Sam right before he reports to the top ser- Burwell was wearing a silver bar and geant. Meanwhile the top has been giving all the orders. We had three prowling around the outfit, making sure report first lieutenants now and one second, the section chiefs are going to hence, when the LAW Book and the other two firsts were unhappy something that is so; commanders . the platoon . to think that Sam had jumped them. top reports to MAN," which shows how to lea earn more money. Qualify for a hitrh salaried executive position The executive officer was particularly and they in turn report to the execu- «r prepare to enter the practice of law. Study at borne through the Elarkstone Course prepared by £0 prominent legal author inclined tive officer who reports to the battery tie* including CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. depressed and very sulky and 5 graduates practicing I . LL.B. degree to what Tip called "silent insubordina- commander that the battery is ready > volume law library furnished I tion." So Sam called him over and told to move out the battery commander is him, in a low voice so nobody else could pretty well assured that it is. E Non- Resident Law School

76 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Well, this morning, Sam Burwell caissons were adjudged poorest in flesh. A»*''~**t if wasn't sure. In fact, he knew there No. 3 gun and No. 3 caisson wheelers were a lot of things wrong with the bat- appeared to be in as good condition as tery, so he dismounted and inspected it the swing teams and the leaders. and wrote in a little book everything he "Can anybody tell me why the wheel- found wrong. Then he sent each cor- ers should be in poorer flesh than the poral to make an inspection to see if other teams?" the battery commander he could discover what was wrong, and demanded. when the corporals were finished he Nobody seemed to be able to tell sent the chiefs of section to check on him, so he turned to the section chief the corporals; next he sent the top to on No. 3 section, in which section, by check the chiefs of section, the platoon the way, everything had checked up commanders to check the top and the rather well. "You tell them, Sergeant." executive officer to check the platoon "I'm a corporal, sir. I'm only acting commanders. Then he inspected the section chief. My section chief is on outfit again, checked off what had been sick report, sir. Been in hospital a corrected and called attention, not only month, sir. However, I reckon my to the corrections, but to the items they wheelers are in good flesh because I hadn't corrected. keep hammering at the swing and lead There were collars that didn't fit, drivers to keep their teams in draft and ends of straps not tucked into the keep- not let the wheelers do all the work. ers, straps twisted, snaps about-faced, Hard work will pull a horse down in bridles too loose or too tight, saddle flesh." Eyes blankets not folded properly, saddles "How long have you been in the serv- too high on the withers or too low, ice, corporal?" cinched too loosely or too tight, brakes "Three months, sir." not set, shields not locked, trail spikes "What were you in civil life?" ¥ Influence not properly clamped, men not shaved "A farmer, sir." ...that command attention... eyes that dominate or otherwise untidy, one loose shoe on "I knew it. You understand horses must be a caisson wheeler, and draft. You've the situation... MUST BE SEEN...

free and . . . must radiate personality one shoe missing on been accustomed to unfettered a gun leader, men hard work and tak- as the sun radiates light.

not standing to ing care of your To influence m< you must give t hem horse, or, if stand- farm equipment so obstructed view of yourself. Just as you look ing, without their you're not afraid to out through your eyes to see me, just so must

hands on the reins. work hard for your I look in through your eyes to see you. This latter is im- country and care for Who are you? Whatever it is that peers from portant to prevent your country's behind the curtain of consciousness* through runaways, because equipment as if it your eyes to influence people... that thing is You. if there's anything were your own. worse than a run- — You've never been Don't pocket your personality by masking your eyes. Never!!! away battery of ^ used to watching field artillery it's a the and clock zMake Your Eyes Mean More! runaway train. you've always been Capitalize your natural eyes. Project your per- A saddle too loosely cinched galls a too busy to sit down and think what a sonality powerfully and pleasantly into the con- horse's withers; if too tightly cinched it fine, noble young fellow you are, how sciousness of the person you wish to persuade. scalds his belly and distresses him so he smart you are, how well educated you Let those Twin Servants of your Soul do it. cannot do his job. A horse with a loose are, what a fine family you are descend- Learn the new scientific secret of conserving natural eyesight shoe or minus a shoe is a led horse be- ed from and why you should be com- ...how to regain and maintain the persuasive power of the fore the day's march is ended, a horse manding this battery instead of being a natural eye undimmed by time. with an ill-fitting zinc collar is a horse section chief—if you only had your "Natural Eyesight," a new book, tells in word and piclure on sick report for a month with a fistula rights. What's your name?" of this New Knowledge of the Eye that marks the dawn

of the New Age of Vision. It is FREE. The coupon, be- on his shoulder, a bridle too loose may "Corporal Ed Parks, sir." "You'll be Sergeant Ed Parks at Re- low, is for your convenience in sending for it. drop off, a bridle too tight will chafe a and drive him crazy, sad- treat. See the supply sergeant and get horse's mouth Send for your FREE will your chevrons and have them sewed on dle blankets not properly folded copy of "Natural Eye- carriages today, so when you're made tonight be productive of a sore back, sight" today. It may you'll be wearing the insignia of your without the brakes set may run up on answer your question, rank. start See that you continue to earn the wheelers, frighten them and a What Shall I Do for them. You'll have competition. Get runaway. There's a reason for doing slack and I'll bust you as quick as I've everything right, and Sam Burwell ex- made you. Battery, 'tenshim! Drivers plained it to the battery. and cannoneers! Prepare to mount! "The trouble with this outfit," he Mount I Gather your teams, you driv- added, "is that the corporals really ers, and take up the slack on your tugs. make the inspection—or rather, half- Get your teams into the collars, so you'll make it—and all the higher-ups take not start with a jerk and pull a horse's their word for it. I'll not bust the cor- shoulder out of whack. Right sec- porals because they're the only non- by coms who have done anything construc- tion-n-n-s! Column right! Ho-0-0-0-0!" understand, O'Malley, that tive, but I am going to bust some ser- You must geants for neglect and inefficiency and there are two commands—the prepara- Natural Eyesight Institute, Inc. am desolated because I have no power tory command and the command of ex- 1417 Pershing Square Bldg., things the platoon command- ecution. In the infantry the command to do to Los Angeles, California ers. Now then, you platoon command- of execution is "March!" but in the Please send me your free book "Natural Eyesight." ers and section chiefs, what teams on mounted service its a sort of howl, long each gun and caisson are in the poorest drawn, like a sad dog baying at the SVcmt flesh?" moon. The men understand "March!" The wheelers on three guns and three readily (Continued on page 78) City—

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enough, but the horses cannot. It day the battery commander sent the takes time for six horses and a gun battery in with the executive officer carriage to get moving, and when the while he rode in with the Old Man. outfit moves to that howl it's like mov- "Well, son," said the Old Man, "how ing to music. The horses understand it do you like them?" better. Besides, you've got to shout "I love them," said Sam Burwell. long and loud to get your command "Why shouldn't I, sir? They're mine, Be An Electrical Expert over above the rattle and bang of an aren't they? But they need a firm artillery outfit moving. There's the devil, regret to Come to Chicago— the electrical Center of the hand. Slack as the I world. Come to Coyne— learn electricity in 12 weeks. rumble of the carriages, the rattle of say, from the executive officer down. Thousands of dollars worth of electrical apparatus. Complete trainnm «.n evrvtluntr from door bolls to equipment, the jingle of trace toggles The executive's bad, but he can be power plants. I.'adin and auto course included without extra chance. Fi t yourself to earn $'M to a month. and neck-yokes, the creak of harness made good—and I'll make him. A bit Get started now—our emplovmont department will assist you to earn while you learn and to a big pay and the clop-clop of about three hun- spoiled before he got started, that's all. dred and fifty hooves hitting the grit. Just needs unspoiling, so I started work- WRITE FOR FREE BOOK f&&S&&%!,ftZ£* Believe, me, O'Malley, that's music, too. ing on him this morning. Faraday, my H. C. LEWIS. Pres. Founded 1899 second, will never be worth the powder COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL I don't think I have ever enjoyed to blow him to hell. He'll never make 1300-10 W. Harrison St., Dept. 4; 01. Chicago. III. anything quite so much as field artillery a redleg, but he does speak excellent H.C. LEWIS, Pre drill with the four gun sections. Sam Coyne Electric School, Pept. 47-04 French, so if the colonel can see his left 1300-10 W. Harrison St o. III. Burwell would ride me out on the nd your speei: way clear to have that boy blooeyed flank, about midway between the col- abroad as an interpreter and give me a umn, with the guidon bearer riding at shavetail with less social standing and

.4'/'7r.'ss . our left and a little in the rear. A a head not quite so egg-shaped, I'll be guidon, O'Malley, is a little scarlet silk obliged." flag, on a six-foot staff, and on the flag "I'll see what pull I have at head- is emblazoned in gold the crossed can- quarters," the Old Man promised. "I'm nons with the battery number above damned if I'll have any social or po- and the regimental number below. litical favorites in my regiment. They'll Sometimes in single column, we'd be hit the ball or they'll hit the trail for then in column of sections, with each civil life. How are your non-coms?" caisson (they carry ammunition in the "Usual brand of college non-com. caissons) paralleled with the gun car- Life's just a lovely thing to them. riage and its limber, then we'd execute They've absorbed the notion that on right or left into line, with the they're superior cannon fodder, all are guidon bearer galloping across the front ambitious for commissions, all are of the battery according to whether the too proud to be good honest privates, all guide was right or left. Then we'd are slack, all are content just to get by, countermarch and do action left, or all are critical of their superiors. What right or front or rear, when the guns I want are the lads who went hunting and caissons would be dropped and the for a job the day after they graduated teams, with the limbers, would trot from high-school—the laddybucks who ahead, turn, come back and stand in the were too poor or too wise or too ambi- rear of the piece until it was time to tious to waste the four loveliest years of NEW AMAZING INVENTION limber again and move to a new posi- their lives absorbing culture in college. One device makes window tion. Of course I have a few fine college men,

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get medical aid for Carey. When the he wanted Rogan's opinion of his action. commanding general asked Givens what "An' ye did well, sir. Givens is a Under the Desk the devil he meant by running a govern- level-headed, sinsible lad, free from she- ment horse to death Givens told him nanigans, wit' a sinse av humor, no of a Busy the animal belonged to him and he'd proud flesh and a knowledge of men. run him to death if he felt like it. I He do have dignity and the gift av let Givens down easy for his impudence keepin' his mouth closed until he have Y^\JExecutive because nobody but an unthinking ass something worth while to say." would have punished him after the en- "He opened it pretty wide to the di- terprise and initiative he displayed in vision commander." saving Carey's life, but I forgot to lec- "Thrue for the lootinent, he did—to ture him on the sinfulness of telling lies say something wort' while! An' that's to his division commander." why I'm afther remarkin' that there's "He told no lie, sir. This horse is blood on the moon. The division com- his property." mandher come prowling down to me "Privates cannot maintain a private stable late this afternoon, all be him- mount at government expense, Burwell. self. Up an' down the picket line he You know that." roved, wit' me followin' at the heels of ' An officer can—and Private Givens him, awaitin' his pleasure an' wond- has given me his horse—for the duration herin' what the divil he was up to. 'Ser- of the war." geant,' says he finally, 'I'll have a look "Hum-m-!" says the Old Man. at that dappled mahogany horse wit' "Hum-m-m! I suppose you'll make the silver p'ints. A Private Givens was him a corporal for that." ridin' him a while back an' whin I of a college man sir. the be "No, I'm going to make him a questioned him about animal you find Osteo- sergeant—for initiative and decision give me some opprobrious lip, so he did. path-iks because — they manifested in saving Ye may have heard of combine "dress-up" style Captain Carey's life, the incident, Rogan.' with "rocking chair" com- and for extraordinary " T did not, sir,' fort. Osteo-path-iks fit the first day and every day gallantry in telling the says I, for I'd begun thereafter—hold their shape div i s i o n commander to have a cowld sus- where to head in. picion of what the special features built riglv Osteo-path-iks. Most st\les?6 Meanwhile, the cSl- ould vagabone was up onel, the commanding to. general. Private Giv- " 'Don't lie to me, ens and I are the only Rogan,' says he. 'I've "Walk persons in the United known ye since ye were for Heal'k in Osteo-path-iks" States Army who know a lead driver on Cap- the ownership of this ton's battery at San- Allen. Speigel horse." tiago, an' if there's a Shoe Mfg. Co. "There's luck in odd numbers," the bit of army scandal or gossip between 154 Grand Ave., Belgium, . . Wis. Old Man mumbled, and rode away. His this an' Washington, D. C. you'll know remark sounded mysterious. it first. Show me that horse.' " 'Oh,' says I. 'Ye mean Lootinent Chapter XII Burwell's horse, I'm thinkin'. Wit' ®§to©°pfiti!h4]k- pleasure, sir. If the gineral'll shtep this ALL GOOD LEATHER I IMAGINE the outfit must have I way,' an' I led him into The Professor's struck the thought a wind-storm had box shtall. battery street that night at Retreat, be- " 'Lead him out till I have a good cause it was full of chevrons. My dear look at him. Rogan,' says he, an' I led Don't Let Any- fell like leaves in an au- O'Malley, they The Professor out. 'Glory be to Gawd,' tumn gale. says the ould fox. an' wint over The Body BullyYou Burwell, as was After Retreat Sam Professor an inch at a time. 'Glory be his habit, strolled down to the stables to to Gawd!' says he he'd finished. whin Scientific Tricks slip Learn give the animals the once over and 'Is this Lootinent Burwell a millionaire think, to me an apple, but in reality. I that he can afford a charger like that of Physical Mastery have a visit with Stable Sergeant Rogan fella?' of a semi-official in- under the guise " 'He do have barrels of it, sor." spection. says I. "Sir," Rogan announced, "there's " 'These rich civilian officers'll be the Capt. Wallander's Course the moon." blood on ruin o' the Army, Rogan,' says he. an' All Complete in "There is, Rogan. I busted the new wint his way, an' bad cess to his PHYSICAL TRAINING MANUAL top sergeant tonight and put Dink shadow." Munro back where he belongs. Then I "What do you suppose he had in his blew the authority out of four more mind. Rogan?" nice young duty sergeants and warned "Divil a hair I know, but 'twas some- half a dozen corporals. I also took a thing unpleasant. He'll be for buyin' cleaver to the mess sergeant and I'll The Professor off the lootinent, figurin' Easy to Learn ^. put the supply sergeant over the road that if he offers a fine price the lootin- r %Kn *™X" ™X* ~Z«nV«M? as soon as I can select his successor." ent'll not have the guts to refuse to sell ALL YOURS "in'wORLD's'mOST AMAZING COURSE

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and my heart thrilled to see the for Ern Givens and drew back his fist. new sergeant's chevrons on his arm. Really I thought he was going to punch He saluted the battery commander. Ern. "An' what did you say to that "Sir," he says, "I'm grateful for the indecent proposal?" he roared. "An- chevrons, but the battery commander swer me that, you son of a thousand has made a mistake. I know nothing of tumble-weeds, an' if ye don't give me Typical of the many grateful soldiering, sir. These chevrons belong the right answer I'll break ye in two letters from war on a more experienced man." halves, so I will!" veterans is the "The man's been born insubordinate," "There'll be no rough-house, Rogan," following from says our Sam to Rogan. "Sergeant Ern told him quietly. "I'm of equal an army aviator, Givens, I admit you know nothing of rank with you and I've picked better now living in Chicago— soldiering, but, thank God, you have men than you apart to see what made "While Hying over the enemy lines, I was common sense and the native ability to them act funny. I told the command- shot down and fell in a wood. It was sotwrnj, make good. You know as much as the ing general that I preferred to sell my / was lost for two days, and caught a terrible cold. Finally I came upon a shell-riddled cabin next sergeant, so wear your chevrons horse to my battery commander." where an old, old woman fed me and told me with dignity and in the fullness of time "If you were a young leddy I'd kiss how to escape. When I left she gave me a box of Luden s. I firmly believe thai they kept off I'll teach you your trade, or as much ye for that!" Rogan cried happily. pneumonia during the ten days that it took I look so me to get back to our lines." as know of it myself. Don't "That inded it, of course." worried, man." "It did not. The commanding gen- The exclusive menthol blend in Luden's "I've been up to see the division com- eral said: 'Givens, I'll be frank. I Cough Drops gives quick relief from mander, sir. It seems he went hunting I told him I'd split coughs, colds, hoarseness and irritation don't like you.' of nose, throat and chest. for me in the divisional stockade this fifty-fifty with him on that and he afternoon thinking I was a general pris- Silence! You're insolent and in- MENTHOL yelled Ludens COUGH DROPS oner there, and when they couldn't find subordinate! I thought I'd had your 5/ me on the stockade rolls he sent a mo- clock fixed once for insolence and in- torcycle orderly over here for me. The subordination, but it appears that top ordered me to report to the com- through some collusion at your regi- manding general at once, so I rode back mental headquarters you have escaped AGENTS-NEW AUTO in the bathtub with the orderly." me. But you'll not escape me again. "What did I tell the lootinent?" said Now, then, answer me this. Are you DEVICE Rogan. "There's blood on the moon." reasonably fond of this battery com- f&\ this "He asked you if you owned mander of yours?' XJJPREVEHJSACaDEm horse, didn't he?" said Burwell. "I told him I was, that the lieutenant "Yes, sir." treated man- y Sensational money-maker. Rhanney sold 108 was a gentleman and me in few days, now orders 1.000 a month. Magic "I hope you lied like a soger," said fashion. 'Hum-m-m!' he grunted. 'The new glare shield banishes fear of night driving. hell the Dims blinding headlights. Same natural prin- Rogan. Army's been going to ever since ciples as shading eyes from sun—yet full vision. "I'm not a good hand at lying, Ser- President pulled that line about making Fits any car. Handsome ornament. Owner can geant Rogan. I told him the horse had the world safe for democracy. That install. Nothing to get out of order. Amazing low price, yet highest commissions. Startling been mine the day I first made his ac- damned slogan is ruining our discipline. demonstration. Sells quickly. Big demand proved quaintance, but that I had since given It's getting so now that an enlisted man by over 100. 000 sales. Exclusive rights closing- fast. Learn unusual automatic profit plan. him to my battery commander." thinks he's as good as an officer, and Write quickly. "God help us," wailed Rogan, and that's why you're impudent and without LEE-SEE COMPANY, Est. 1903., Dept. 234, Kewannee. Wis. hid his face in his hands. "He's spilled proper respect for your superiors. How- the beans." ever, enough of that. Do you like the "I know I have, Rogan. but I didn't field artillery?' know it until the commanding general "I told him I did and that I had vol- informed me it was against army regula- unteered so I could select my own MADE$2LOO IN tions for a commissioned officer to ac- branch of the service. FIVE HOURS" cept a present from an enlisted man, in " 'Fond of your battery—loyal to Writes Peter Werner, III. Sell Madison " Better- Made" consequence of which the gift was null it?' he asked me next. for Large Manufacturer Shirts void and that I'd have to take the "I told him I was and when he asked direct to wearer. No capital or and experience needed. Spare or horse back and get him off the reserva- me why, I told him that it was because full time. Cash bonuses. tion, otherwise he'd have Lieutenant I thought it the best battery in the regi- WRITE FOR FREE SAMPLES Burwell court-martialed. That scared ment with the best top sergeant and MADISON SHIRT MILLS, 564 me and I asked him if there wasn't some the best battery commander. So then way the thing could be squared, because he said: 'Would you like to leave it M pit Secured. Trademarks and If TO the gift had been made in all innocence. say for a baking company, or the sani- r A I N I S Copyrights registered. 1 f 1 So he said he had no desire to embar- tary corps, which buries the dead, or 1 11 ^M Attorney at Law for the corps or the remount Registered Patent Attorney rass my battery commander but added medical r- r OTT^rr-xic L. L. MhVtlNb, Late of the 115th U.S. lofty. that he didn't see how he could avoid service? I believe you'd be a good man LEGIONNAIRE OF MARYLAND embarrassing me. because I would prob- for the remount service. The only ably be unable to find a place to park trouble about that, however, is that you my horse on such short notice. So I probably wouldn't get overseas.' " flared up and told him I'd never yet 'Hell, no!' I told him. seen the photograph of the man that " 'No vulgarity,' he commanded. prices could embarrass me and that I could 'Well, if you want to sell that horse of |g general cur sell my horse if I wanted to. 'Well, yours to your commanding then,' he said, 'suppose vou sell him to and remember, I'll give you two thou- me. I'll give you two thousand dollars sand dollars for him—I think I have for him, my man. I want him for my pull enough to see that you remain with " 2 and it's yours daughter. She can win in any horse- your battery.'

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eral. I wouldn't even repeat it in the "I want you, Sergeant Givens," Sam presence of an innocent little pony like Burwell pleaded. "I need you worse Taffy. than I need The Professor. Nobody ("Don't spare me," Taffy retorted. can buck the old army game when its "I'm little but I'm tough." O'Malley dealt from the bottom of the deck, Ser- winked at me and I went on with my geant, so don't try. Charge him twenty- story.) five hundred dollars for The Professor. "The old man's a bit dirty, isn't he?" The commanding general has a rich wife said Sam Burwell. "Well, if he wants and he'll pay it. He's horse crazy. to put the screws on you, Sergeant Come, Sergeant, don't leave the old out- Givens, nobody but God Almighty or fit. We appreciate you here. I need the Secretary of War can stop him. men like you, I tell you. We like you." What answer did you give to his pro- But Ern Givens only held out his posal?" hand with the bill of sale clutched be- "I just stood to attention and stared tween thumb and forefinger. "Please at him and called him what he is—with give me a dollar, sir," he gasped. "Don't IMf©HMI»3HimiB my eyes." make it hard. I'll do anything for my avic," crawl the "Not a peep out of you, battery commander except in . crooned Rogan. dirt for him. By God, I'm a man and "Nary peep." I've never done that yet. It breaks my "And did he get the message?" heart to leave, but—I'm going. The "He did. He turned as red as a box dollar, sir, please." car and his gaze So Sam Burwell took flinched. Then he said out a dollar bill and Send For This 'Well, what branch of handed it to Ern. Then the service, other than Ern took my head in Booklet the field artillery, his arms and rubbed would you prefer, his cheek against my You cannot afford to be without Givens?' muzzle, so Stable Ser- it, if you are going to attend the " 'The sanitary corps, geant Rogan and the Convention of the Legion at Paris. sir,' I replied. battery commander " 'That's not so pleas- walked away and left There will be Pre-Convention ant, Givens,' he warned us alone together. Oh, trips also and a Post-Convention how badly I wanted to me. Pilgrimage for . those desiring to " chance, 'I'll take a talk to Ern; to beg visit those shrines so dear to the sir,' said I. I've al- him to .sell me to the Catholic world. ways been lucky and in my capacity division commander ^and the first time I might some day have the old animal mounted me would be his as grave-digger— FRANCO-BELGIQUE TOURS CO. the pleasure of burying a general of- last day on earth—but horses can't talk (An A merican Organization) ficer.' to men, even though they can under- 1446 Broadway New York " 'Meaning me, I suppose,' he says. stand their language, so all I could do * Approved Legion Tours " sir,' I shot back 'I've had my lesson, was stand there, with my head down a Officially Approved by Ft Conv Co mi: at him. 'Never again will I get per- little, while those beloved fingers roved sonal with a division commander.' over my head, scratching me between . Franco-Belgique Tours Co., 1446 Broadway, New York, N. Y. " dig- I 'Your talents would be wasted the ears and up under the jawbones. . . Gentlemen: Please send me, without obli- I ging graves, Givens. Evidently you're And after a while Ern kissed me on the gation,

battery . a horseman, so go back to your nose and went out of the box stall. . . I Booklet of Post-Convention Tours and Folder of Pre-Convention Trips. and think it over. If you decide to sell, I heard the door slam. I've heard I Folder of Post-Convention Pilgrimage. name your price—within reason, of other things slam since—notably a 205- I Name _ course—and report to me with the centimeter shell that dropped in on our horse at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. picket line one night and spattered me I Address At ten-one it will be too late and you'll with the blood and fragments of eight be transferred to the Remount Service. comrades—but shells only slam in a fel- " Dismissed !' low's ears, while that box stall door Sam Burwell leaned his head up slammed in my heart. against my neck and quivered with O'Mallev, I couldn't believe Ern was rage. gone. I felt certain the commanding

"There are not many men like that general was bluffing and that Ern had Dept.M-36 108 N. State Street Chicago, III. in the Army—thank God," said Rogan, called his bluff. So I waited hopefully DIAMONDS—CasSt or Credit from Europe, brilliant blue white Dia- can't be free of until after mess call next morning, New importations "but even the Army ,Ai|,/ mondsuf selected quality—all amaz- he'd look in on me. But he 'ng bargains. Specially priced for a and a skunk that man was from thinking - skunks, abort time only. SEND FOR CATALOG the cradle up." didn't come. Drill call went at seven- Terms — Pay 10 per cent down-we de- "I won't be driven!" Ern Givens thirty, but he wasn't with his section cried passionately. "It's the Remount when we pulled out of park. Recall Service for me. Lieutenant Burwell, from morning drill went at eleven four- sir, here's a bill of sale for my horse. thirty, but—he didn't come. At Give me a dollar, sir. I'd give him to thirty recall from afternoon drill sound- the lieutenant if it wasn't for the god- ed. He didn't come. At six o'clock damned Regulations, but a dollar will the massed bugles blew Retreat and make the transfer legal." the regimental band played the Ern's voice had been growing huskier National Anthem while The Flag came and huskier. I looked around at him fluttering down. I knew he'd be through now and saw that his mouth was twitch- for the day them. But still he didn't ing and eyes closed, but not tight come. The sweet, merry, rippling notes and enough to keep back the tears of rage of Tattoo went at nine o'clock and sorrow. "And when the war is cheered me, but—he didn't come. The over," he gritted to Rogan, "there'll be Call to Quarters went at nine-thirty and a new face whining around the devil I gave up hope; when the bugles sang ( Continued on page if that general and I survive." Taps, which 83)

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(Continued from page 81) Summer in Germany is the soldier's good-night, and I saw Those bugles! The first call always the light switched off in Rogan's har- came from division headquarters, then ness room, I whinnied for my mas- the buglers of the guard in each unit

ter. Yes, I whinnied long and loud, took it up in succession and it ran as a fretful, frightened horse will, and around the huge oval camp. Half way I tried to kick the back out of the round I could scarcely hear the calls, barn, so I could escape and find Era. then they came closer and closer again "What the hell's the row about?" Old until presently our own bugler of the Tip brayed from the end of the barn. guard stepped out in front of the mill "You big rookie, don't you know Taps and said good night to the —th. has went? Pipe down!" Good night! It was good night to "They've sent Em Givens to Re- them, but to me that bugle sang "Good- mount, Tip!" I screamed. b-y-e-e-e-e-e, good-by-e-e-e-. good-bye, "Tell me about it in the morning. Ern! Good-bye, Ern, Good-bye, Era! off Prof. No use screaming your head Play the game! Play-the-game ! Buck- I'm sorry." in this man's Army. a-roo!" "Summer in Qermany is the perfection Tip was always philosophic! (To be continued) of the beautiful "-eTHark

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pieces ... A pleasure land of health . . . Celebrated spas ... A treasureland of art. ( Continued from page 43) literature and music — in bold contrast to Cosmopolitan gaiety and modern life of your birthright or struck your host in had for leading. We trained hard and great cities like Berlin. Dresden, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne. the face in return for making you at fast against time. The more reverses ^do help you enioy a visit to piclur- home in America. the Allies suffered before we were ready esque Qermany, lie u>i!l gladly fur- the bigger the job for us, the more wc nish, gratis, illustrated booklets and information on interest points, have to in dead and disabled would pay transportation, fares, spas, hotels.etc. When You Are In a war there is just and treasure, the longer we would have one thing to think about and that is to fight. The Allies might be beaten be- how to win the war and not to let ac- fore we could rescue them. Hurry! tion lag behind the Hurry! Snap into it! Training for Then We thought. Overlook war in a hurry, making rifles to arm ing this simple rule men, while they are training, and build- Had to Fight has lost many wars ing ships to carry them, is a most un- ARCHITSCTlrpE and the freedom of comfortable way to prepare for war as many peoples. If we neglected it we we can all testify. Railroads were of softer stuff than our fathers German and we deserved to lose. How win the Vj INFORMATION OFFICE 630 Fifth Avenue, New York War? It was surprising to some people According to German ideas it took who were eloquent speechmakers that two years to make a soldier when you — USE THIS COUPON }— { "j had to win this war as others had everything ready and a big corps we had Please send me Illustrated Travel won. had not changed in of trained officers j| been Custom Brochures on Beautiful Germany. il this respect and never will change. To { ° r ^traction Fooling the Name . win somebody must run the risk of be- Ihev saw our task j| Expertsr ^ ing killed; we had to fight. The youth the harder _ as be Address . SI of the land, as soldiers and seamen, had cause we had so to do the fighting. The seamen had to many races in America. Our Allies make sure that the soldiers had trans- had the same feeling which worried port and were not killed on the way to them while it cheered the Germans the battlefield. If we had been pre- who thought we would not arrive in pared and trained for war such might time. We would fool them. We were have been our strength that we could out to show that we could make a great have held up our hands like a world army and a great body of seamen out traffic cop and said: ""Stop! America of the "raw" in less than two years. says stop!" This requires a sturdy "raw" and also the high intelligence of democracy ap- plied in unity and submitting to ruth- America Is a Great country for train- less war discipline. ing. How we train our athletes! We listen for the latest news from the training camp be- And It Did Not take two years. There f re n champio"- were a lot of us to come once we began We Had to ? ship test.f y Onlyn , with arriving. The seamen had kept the way LearnT Howtj t Jning doJ the clear for our pas- ball player bat .300 yooaowMjTl And So CLIP THIS NOW! or a swimmer swim the Channel. We we had two million- S] ; on this Under- I We Did It ; • Totally rebuilt; new type: new platen: new finish; and a fivc-vear auarantee. terms ever-$3 and It's had not been trained how to fight. Be- in France, with the I £Wat youre. | y,? ' Bt M a > 3nd <"^p, t°»at?'?? FREE BOOK! I. J"! i i ^ f fore we began fighting we had to learn prospect of more >le plan. To Brut fifty \ J n touch typewriting. Mail how. We had to train officers to lead millions of the same kind to come, the 2iAA Shlpman Ltldg., CuiCAGU. without always knowing before they Kaiser had enough of us. just eighteen were tried out what natural ability they months (Continued on page 84) —

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home; that the next door neighbor had brought youth into the war machine; been getting ten dollars a day making the second call brings veterans into the munitions while they were on service Legion, in order that peace shall make pay. When they broke ranks for the the most of victory. last time and, out of touch, they faced civil life they did not get the start of the price of a good suit of clothes or the In War Time, General in his car pass- pay of a day laborer for a month. That ing the private on fatigue duty, shovel was unjust. The injustice had to be in hand; in peace time, perhaps, ex- righted. private in his car The Legion Passin S the retired general on foot ! It Carries On The War's Inheritance as we look was the character fin back ten years is not the war glory of of the men, and the Imposing old. It is to keep on with the war women behind them, North, South, Edifices in East and in his welding peace; West, each part, which orArtistic to r e v e n t any carried through the War. How and h* Hence the p thrQw back tQ radal where was that character formed? In ^liP Dwellings Legion or sec ti ona i animo- the home and through the example and sities; to make leading of others near him in daily life; autumn brown birch trim peace patriotism as vigilant and earnest in the influences and surroundings of is equally adaptable. Its mellow warmth as war patriotism; to recognize as man his community. of coloring, beautifully figured grain to man a man's quality; to get out of And the tenth year after the war the and practically "mar-proof" hardness our individual ruts at times and march Legion program is community better- make it the trimwood super-excellent. again in step. Now, as in the war, we ment. The community reflects the peo- must have organization that makes ple in it, and the people reflect the com- unity of effort instead of scattering ef- munity. As it is you are; and as you

fort through every man being a law are it is. You make it and through unto himself. The men and women making it, it makes you. The beauty, who were trained in war time in the the good, the usefulness, the enjoyment meaning of the lesson are the ones to of life are inseparably mixed with the carry it on. The veteran's organization surroundings which you form and dress is the Legion, and its creed and policy not only for yourself but as the greatest are formed on the lesson. The first call influence on youth.

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the time, but I ain't as dumb as some drink when he tossed it off. The liquid think," Web explained condescendingly, dynamite went down and exploded and taking the pass back and stowing it Web Hawley passed peacefully out of carefully in the breast pocket of his the picture. Need it be added that tunic. "Got any message you'd like me when the train for Paris pulled out Grand staircase in to to foyer of the beautiful take the mademoiselles up in Boze Grout was aboard with a per- Uptown^heatre, Chicago. Veneer paneling Paris?" fectly good two-week pass tucked in his and all woodwork is autumn fcroum birch. "Rub it in," said Boze without ran- tunic? Consider the addition made. As good woodwork always commands a premium, cor. "I'd do the same if I was in your He arrived at Paris in the middle of Wisconsin or Michigan birch used for interior place. Just to show you I the night and walked a trim, doors, floors and veneer paneling likewise adds to the worth of your property. The beauty got no hard feelin's I'll blow block from the station aim- of birch furniture is matched by its durability. you to a bottle o' cham- lessly. Then a soldier called pagne before you start. to him from an alleyway. GET BEAUTIFUL BROCHURE-FREE It contains many valuable suggestions on interior There ain't no train for "Lookin' for a good time, finishing and furnishing. Write for your copy. over three hours yet." buddy? Listen. Come here. THE BIRCH MANUFACTURERS softened under this six weeks. Web I been here for 238 F. R. A. Building Oshkosh, Wisconsin warmth of generosity. I know this town like a "You ain't a bad guy," squirrel knows nuts. I'm he admitted. "I wish you broke, see? But if you got 'BeautifulBirch for was goin' with me." any francs I can steer you Two hours later Web, so the pair of us can have Beautiful Jfoodwork seated at a table in a wine more fun on less dough shop, shut one eye and than it'd cost you to go out strove desperately to focus alone an' get gypped with- the other on his wristwatch. out ever havin' a real time. ''Gotta wash time." he Are you with me?" mumbled. "Do'wann mish fer "Show me." said Boze. Parish." A month later the Paris M. P.'s got (ovxrosinoNS $35 TO $75 WEEKLY "You got lots 0' time," Boze assured Boze Grout. He submitted without a Railway Mail Clerk ( ) Meat Inspector him. "I'm sober. I'll see you get the struggle. P O. Clerk ( ) Special Agent ) For.-st Ranger (investigator) File Stenographer-Typist train. Here—have another drink." "I've had mine," he said contentedly ) Clerk ) Matron ) Immigrant Inspector as he with an' ) Web was staring at the ceiling, grin- went them. "Try take ) General Clerk ) City Mail Carrier ) Chautk-ur-CarritT it an' ning widely in anticipation of the de- away from me, you guys. Try ) Skilled Laborer Watrhman ( ) Seamstress lights ahead. He did not. therefore, see do it." ) ) Postmaster ( ) Steno-Secretary Boze pour a glass half full with cham- He spent the rest of the war working ) RFD Carrier ( ) Auditor Mr. Ozment, Dept. 110 St. Louis, Mo. in battalion. pagne and then fill it to the brim with cheerfully a labor He Send me particulars about positions marked "X" cognac. His palate was too thoroughly grinned much and grouched not at all. —salaries, locations, opportunities, etc. oiled to notice anything wrong with the He was ( Continued on page 86 NAME

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often heard to remark that it wasn't a such horrors he can't bear to talk Hair bad war at all, not as wars went. Not about 'em." AMAZING NEW half bad. "I don't know what to say," Web ELECTRICAL repeated. DISCOVERY There were tongue clicks of sympathy A noted surgeon has discovered an amazing way to grow ABOUT Web Hawley. He woke from throughout the crowd. The general hair, called Dermo-Ray. In .ill days no more dandruff. - his souse the following morn- opinion agreed with that of Mrs. Dusen- Scalp tissues arr gi \vn n<-u lilt- I hen within a few weeks, luxuriant new hair! The startling discovery of the almost ing and was never known to smile bury. None did Web the honor to be- magic effect of Infra- Red Kays on the hair growing tissues was made l>v a leading surgeon Two \ ear- ago he was him- thereafter throughout the war. He went lieve that he was simply stating a fact. self bald. Today his hair is full and thick. SURGEON'S DISCOVERY in search of Major Blagdon determined "Tell 'em about Paris!" a voice from FAMOUS to get stolen Hereis his own personal, home treatment, called Dermo- a duplicate of the pass, the edge of the crowd called. Ray. At last a homr method endorsed hv sen-nee. Guar- and learned that the major had been looked. saw the grinning anteed to bring you these same results in 30 days Web He or you pay nothing. You can use Dermo-Rav in anv transferred suddenly to another outfit. face of Boze Grout. He was no longer home wit heh . tricity. The warm . soot hi n« Infra- Red Ravs the scalp while you rest — a few minutes each day When he discovered this he went forth in doubt what to say. Strong rough

. all the ( unl. immediately and licked the everlasting men listened enviously to the descrip- daylights out of the champion heavy- tive adjectives that exploded from his ific discovery, opininns of ant hori t irs, ineontrovert- vidence. and details of special trial offer sent free, weight of the company. The next day lips. Weak women blushed and cov-

i mail the coupon below. To end your scalp and hair their left. ll.l. s. ; he battalion ered ears of : once. Print your name and address plainly took on the tough guy and —a few them — and mail the coupon NOW ! mopped up F o r the FREE TRIAL OFFER a village — space of The Larson Institute K Michigan Lake St., 26, Chicago, 111. > Ave. at Dept. street with f\ . half a min- ; J\J , ~ Send me at once, without obligation full particulars — in h i s carcass | , ute Web plain envelope ..I s ,.,ur .ill-du\ foe 1 rial ol DKKiH i- K AY y and counte- H a w 1 e ' s Name | nance. When \ impromptu t h e outfit * address o f went into welcome to action no Boze Grout COMPLEXION BEAUTY man of them continued. V» 'depends on thorough but gentles all was so Then he skin cleansing. The safe soap to use is rarin' to go jumped over as the erst- t h e railing while meek and lit run- and good ning in the Resinol natured Web aisle. Your Outfit's Photograph Hawley. He When he was sup- got to where In '17, '18 or '19 your organization was pho- tographed. It's the only photograph of the posed to be Boze Grout they were then. It can "bunch" as you and All never be taken again. Get a copy now. while fighting Germans, but he wasn't. had been Boze was elsewhere, a rapidly you can, for your children and their children's Germans typified Boze Grout, who moving figure on the way to the fair- children. If your outfit was photographed we can supply it. Give full name of organization, had stolen his pass to Paris, and grounds gate. Web kept after him. The camp and date. Price $3.00. all the fighting he did was done two raced out of the grounds, across J. COLE & CO., Asbury Park, N. in anger against that same Boze. the road and into the timber on the op- When the Armistice came he was posite side. HELP WANTED the most decorated man in the regi- "Poor fellow!" said Mrs. Dusenbury. We require an ambitions pereon to do special advertising ment. A press service war correspond- "Shell shock. It takes them that way." work right in your own locality. Pay is exceptionally large. Work is pleasant and dignified. No previous experience ent heard of him and did a piece about For a quarter of a mile into the necessary. You simply carry out our instructions. Your full time brings you a handsome income — spare time pays him that reached the Dahlia Daily woods the two one-time buddies raced. you well. If you are making less than $150 a month write; at once for full particulars. Costs you nothing to investigate. News. It ran front page under a ban- Then Boze tripped and Web caught I will give you all the facts so you can decide for yourself. ner head, and with the appearance of him. ALBERT MILLS, Gen. Manager Employment Dept. 7266 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio. the issue on the street Web Hawley be- "Steal my pass!" he panted as he sat came, there and then, the hero of his astraddle the winded Boze and ham- own home town. mered him. "Steal my pass to Paris, Declaration of When he got home they threw a cele- will you! I'll teach you!" bration for him. At least it was said When the lesson was ended Boze Independence to be for him. The mayor got up and arose and cleansed his face with his A facsimile copy of the Declara- told what he had done to win the war. coat sleeve. tion of Independence has been is- A couple of preachers claimed they had "All right!" he growled. "If that's sued by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. helped one way and another. A local the way you feel about it—goodbye!" composite This reproduction is a fuss-foot with a shoe-brush mustache He started away from there. Web reduced facsimile, one-quarter size, taken from a facsimile reproduc- and a fierce eye who had been head of called him back. tion of the original Declaration of the home guaras explained that but for "Listen," he said. "Did you—did you Independence made by W. I. Stone in 1823, under the direction of John him and his activities in Dahlia Persh- get to Paris?" Quincy Adams, then Secretary of ing would have had to swim the Chan- "Aw, you go to hell," said Boze. State. The original engrossed Dec- laration is in the custody of the Li- nel to escape Von Hindenburg. Finally "No—wait a minute," Web begged. brarian of Congress at Washington. they got around to Web Hawley, who "Wouldn't you o' been sore if you'd o' The John Hancock Company will send this copy of the Declaration had sat on the grandstand throughout had a pass an' I'd stole it?" free for framing. the bragfest, his chest decorated with "You needn't 0' pounded my face Postage S cents Address Inquiry Bureau medals and his face adorned with a off," Boze growled. scowl. "Aw, I didn't mark you up much," He got up and glowered at the throng. Web protested. "Listen—did you get "I don't know what to say," he there?" M PAN r — mumbled. Boze nodded an affirmative. An eager "Poor fellow!" Mrs. Dusenbury in light came into Web's eyes. the front row exclaimed. "He's seen "How was ( Continued on page 88)

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Here's the official route of the Second A. E. F. to Paris! This chart indicates the line, the official steamer on which your State delegation will sail, the port and the date of sailing. Go over it carefully. Write your France Convention Officer today for full details of the trip. This information is free. But act quickly, as the number who can go is limited.

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Ala. S. C. Crockett, P.O. Box 433, Montgomery. H.A. Ryndam C. N.H. Frank N. Sawyer, State House, Concord Cun. Scythia B. Ark. E. H. Vonderau, 623 Pecan St., Helena HjV. Ryndam C. N.J. Geo. F. Fleming, State House, Trenton Frs. Savoie N.Y. Otb Ariz. Robert II. Diekson, B.i\ 422, Jerome Frs. Chicago G. N.M. Herman G. Baca, Santa Fe Frs. Chicago G. 1st

Cal. Al Chase, 41715 Montgomery St., Oakland 1 N.Y. Robert C. Lee, 5 Broadway, New Y'ork City Cun. Caledonia N.Y. 8th Frs. DeGrasse N.Y. M. A. Bessolo, Jr., 347 Pac. Elec. Bldg., Los Angeles / N.C James Leonard, Lexington I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th /Arabic N.Y. Conn. J. Frederick Collins, c/o Allen Bros., Greenwich. I.M.M. N.D. Jack Williams, Fargo CP. Montnairn Que. 9th (Celtic N.Y. /Arabic N.Y. 2d Colo. E. C. Calhoun, Rm. 14 Capitol Bldg., Denver. . U.S. Republic N.Y. Ohio J. J. Saslavsky, 335 S. High St., Columbus I.M.M. (Celtic N.Y. 8th D.C. Joseph J. Idler, 2135 4th St., N. E., Washington I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Okla. Fred W. Hunter,418 State Capitol, Oklahoma City Cun. Antonia N.Y. 8th Del. Lester P. Hudson, 2618 VanBuren St., Wilmington Frs. Savoie N.Y. 9th Ore. CarlR.Moser,207ChamberofCommerce,Portland CP. Montnairn Que. 9th I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Pa. James J. Deighan, 903 City Centre Bldg., Phila. Cun. Tuscania N.Y. 8th Fla. Rice King, 516 Graham Bldg., Jacksonville.... I H.A. I; \ udalll C Frs. LaSalle N.O. /Arabic N.Y. 2d R.I. Joseph Crump, 7 Weybosset St., Providence I.M.M. Ga. Joe M. Carr, Rome H.A. Ryndam c. (Celtic Idaho Lester F. Albert, 316 Capitol Bldg., Boise CP. Melita M. S.C Sam L. Latimer, Jr., 1224 Green Street H.A. Ryndam Pierre U.S. Harding N.Y. El Floyd J. Heckel, Bloomington Cun. Caronia N.Y. S.D. Walter S. Travis, 452 Broadway, 9th /Arabic N.Y'. Term. Guy H. May, Memorial Bldg., Nashville I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Ind. Kleber Hadley, 777 N. Meridian St., Ind'pTs. .. I.M.M. ICeltio N.Y. Texas Allen C. Ater, 1 1 1 6 Commerce Street, Dallas . . . Frs. Chicago G. 1st /Arabic N.Y. Iowa R.J. Laird, 1003 Reg. and Trib. Bldg., Des Moines I.M.M. Spencer Eccles, Logan U.S. Republic N.Y. 7th (Celtic N.Y. Utah /Arabic N.Y. Va. J. A. Nicholas, Jr., 20 1 State Office Bldg., Richmond I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Kan. Ernest A. Ryan, Memorial Bldg., Topeka I.M.M. (Celtic N.Y. Vt. Robert McCuen, Federal Bldg., Burlington. . . Cun. Scythia B. 8th Ky. PaulJagielky.Crutcher&StarksBldg., Louisville I.M.M. Pennland H.R. Wash. Jesse W. Drain, 509 Third Avenue, Seattle CP. Montroyal Que. 9th La. R. L. Mouton, Royal and Conti Sts., Orleans Frs. LaSalle N.O. New W.Va. Jackson Arnold, Weston I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Me. James J. Boyle, 108 Main St., Waterville Cun. Scythia B. Wis. Howard Dessert, Mosinee CP. Melita M. 9th Md. Kenneth A. McRae, Riverdale Frs. Savoie N.Y. /Arabic N.Y. 2d Wyo. E. A. Froyd, Midwest I.M.M. Mass. Henry Nicolls, 158 State House, Boston Cun. Scythia B. (Celtic N.Y. 8th All Mich. Robert J. Byers, 2!4 Lincoln Bldg., Detroit CP. Montroyal Que. States U.S. Leviathan NY'. 10th Mont. 0. C. Lamport, Helena CP. Montroyal Que. lines: Minn. Edwin L. Lindell, Old Capitol Bldg., St. Paul. . CP. Montnairn Que. Key to the points of embarkation and official steamship Miss. John Anderson, c/o I.C.R.R. Sta., Jackson H.A. Ryndam C. Ports—M., Montreal; Que., Quebec; B., Boston; N.Y'., New York; H.R., Hampton /Arabic N.Y. Roads; C, Charleston; N.O., New Orleans; G., Galveston. Mo. Jerry F. Duggan, 3709 Broadway, Kansas City . I.M.M. ICeltio N.Y. Lines—CP., Canadian Pacific; Cun., Cunard and Anchor; Frs., French; I.M.M., Neb. Nels E. Johnson, Valley U.S. Republic N.Y. /Arabic N.Y. International Mercantile Marine (including Royal Mail, White Star and Red Star); H.A., Nev. F. W. Egelston, Reno I.M.M. (Celtic N.Y. Holland America; U.S., United States. ACT TODAY—WRITE YOUR FRANCE CONVENTION OFFICER NOW!

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Where to go after the *A ^Pass to Taris big Convention ( Continued from page 86) See Britain — the birthplace of the American nation—visit it?" he asked. "Tell me, was it like Hawley, the man of many medals, list- wondrous York, Edinburgh, you expected?" ened round-eyed and eager to the lies, Boze remained sullenly silent. Web half lies, facts and fancies of the man and the many other historic continued to plead. who had used a pass to Paris and paid places located on the track "Well, I'll tell you," Boze agreed at for it with a stretch in a labor bat- of the "Flying Scotsman" last, partially mollified. "You know talion. shortest and swiftest route what we thought Paris was like?" "How was it when you got into bat- from London to Scotland. "Yeh," said Web eagerly. tle?" Boze asked at last. "I didn't get Youcanhavearoundofpleas- "Well, it was like that only a hun- to see any fightin'." ure in England and Scotland dred times better." "Aw, to hell with that!" Web ex- and you will be understood, "Honest?" said Web. claimed impatiently. "Tell me some sat together on a log and for the language is yours. They Web

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H. J. KETCHAM, General Agent LONDON & Then and U^(ow NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY (Continued from page 49) some of the old-timers will do a front member the accident to John O. Bowman. It 309 Fifth Avenue, New York is stated that there was engine trouble on and center as a result of this request May 18, 1918, which caused the ship to lurch, and he's willing to take a shot at some resulting in Mr. Bowman's injury. U. S. Submarine Chaser No. 27 —Command- of the old-time pictures for use in Then ing Officer John Whalen, or any shipmates re- and Now if some unusual and interest- membering Walter John Bates, M. M. 2, USNRF, who died on U. S. S. Solace, Hos- ADDING MACHINE ing samples are submitted. pital Ship, Oct. 11, 1918, of pneumonia, and who knew him to have carried any Govern- Fits Vest Pocket ment Life Insurance at time of death. This information is necessary in order that mother and sister may establish claim for insurance. is directed to the fol- , ATTENTION Hesby, Herbert, believed to have been in -lowing cases in which we have had Laundry Unit or a Salvage Company at Brest, requests from relatives for first-hand in- France, called from duty in July, 1919, to re- turn to U. S. A. Any information he can formation regarding the death and bur- give relative to the injury of Hans M. Jen- ial of comrades who died in service: sen, which injury he is said to have wit- nessed, will aid in the settling of Jensen's claim. 2ND Division: Roy J. Schaefer, pri- Newton, Walter J., serial 1,187,121, pvt.,

enlisted Ft. Thomas. Ky., : vate, g6th Company, Sixth Marines, at Dee. 12. 1917 discharged June 15. 1919. Location of this Reliable AddingMachine Corp., Dept. 734 wounded in action October 3, 1018, man necessary in order that father may se- 184 W. Washington St., Chicago, III. cure settlement of claim for adjusted compen- ere'a a dandy chance to make money, near Somme Py. Last heard of, he verybody wants one. Fine profit. Wnt« lor sation. was reported walking back to a dressing Wallace, John H„ enlisted July 7. 1917, Pittsburgh. Pa. discharged station. Later reported dead. ; Feb. 15, 1919. Match Your Coat and Vest Pvt., Co. L, 110th Inf.. 28th Div. ; last assigned

4TH Division : John Paton Osborne, to 14th Co., Fourth Bn., 153 D. B., Third With New Trousers. Free Sample Corps ; fair. feet, private first class. Company B, nth Army complexion 5 5 inches DON'T DtSCARO TOUR OLD SUIT. Wear the coat tall, weight 130 pounds. Last mail received and vest another year by getting new trousers Machine Gun Battalion, reported killed from Cleveland, Ohio, dated November 30, to match. Tailored to your measure. With St. 1925. Location necessary in order to resume (XII) patterns to select from we can match in action August 10, 1918, near Thi- 90, payment of Government compensation. almost any pattern. Send vest or sample of bault. at same time Sergeants Claude cloth today, and u. will rnumit FREE best match E. Cherry, Earl Lafferty and Pat R. Williams were killed. His mother de- ANNOUNCEMENTS of reunions of sires facts concerning his death and -wartime outfits and other similar also wants to recover a pocket Bible activities of interest to veterans will be and some photographs which he carried. published in this column provided in- 14TH Division: John Henry Pen- formation is furnished to the Company ning, private, Company F, 214th Engi- Clerk at least six weeks prior to the neers, died of pneumonia October 15, first of the month in which the an- Hospital Fort 1918, at General No. 14, nouncement should appear. Oglethorpe, Georgia. Base Hospital No. 114—Former members interested in a proposed reunion dinner during the week of the American Medical Association Convention in Washington, D. C. May 16-20, the Company Clerk is un- are requested to write to Dr. J. A. Talbot, WHILE 1621 Connecticut ave., Washington. D. C. able to conduct a general missing 306th Field Signal Battalion, 81st persons column, he stands ready to as- (Wildcat) Division — Second annual reunion at Rochester. N. Y.. May 21-22. Address Frank sist in locating service whose state- TRAVELING FOR "UNCLE SAM" men Spencer. 720 Linden St.. Rochester. ments are necessary in support of claims U. S. S. Nona—Former members of the "Yes, fellows — I now work for *UncleSam.' Here is my ap- crew interested in proposed reunion are re- for compensation, hospitalization, in- "Tomorrow. I go out on mv first Railway Mail run t<> Wnshini' quested to address Carl Nabel. 50 Beach st.. ton, D C. J will travel on pass and see my country. While away surance, etc. Queries and responses in Stapleton, Staten Island. N. Y., or John H. from home I get hotel expenses. Cobden, 22 E. 38th st.. New York City. "I comment at. $1«»00 a year and expert. I" raise to ?27nO w.lh these cases should be directed to the possibly later advancement to positions paying $4000 or $.jni«> 307th Infantry, 77th Division —To give National Rehabilitation Committee of greater significance to the regiment's Memorial "I have a summer vacation with full pay and very pleasant Grove of Oak Trees in Central Park, New work. Franklin Institute did it for me. Because of being an Ex- The American Legion, 417 Bond Build- York City, a memorial boulder with inscription service man 1 got preference." ing, Washington, D. C, and not to this will be placed in the grove. Former members Many U. S. Government Jobs are obtainable by Ex-Service men. department. The committee wants to are requested to contribute to the fund for this Mail the rmii.Mn Tul».\V ST'KF Vmi may then find yourself purpose. Address DeLancey K. Jay. chairman, in a well-paid U. S GOVERNMENT JOB. hear from the following: 307th Infantry Memorial Fund Committee. . CUT HERE - — Room 1018. 19 West 44th st.. New York City. 15th F. A.. Battery B—Members of this FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Base Hospital No. 83—Any former mem- Rochester, outfit who remember the accident to John Dept. H 187, N. Y. bers of this outfit intend going to France Patrick Rooney in August, 1018. particularly who Rush to me at once, free of charge, :*'2-page book %vith. (1) List of with the Second A. E. F. are requested to U S. Government Jobs obtainable Full information regard- the stable sergeant whose name is believed to write to Charles McCarthy. 518 Hawley ave., ing salaries, hours, duties, etc. (3) Send free sample coaching. be Fetner. Syracuse, N. Y. The Company Clerk.

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in the least swamped by them, working their own homes; teachers and women with the gracious dignity that becomes with wide social interests—we have a the national leader of so important an piace for each one. Perhaps it should organization. A single glance at her be called a real democracy, but as a Breathe vivid face shows that she is alert in matter of fact we don't think of it that mind, but if you want to get a real formally. We all belong; there's a job colds away sparkle in her eye, start her talking on for each one, and together we do our Auxiliary work. work." One day last winter I went to Me- It appears easy, but anyone who has with vapors nomonie for that very purpose. I had done organization work, whether for been a bit uncertain as to the hour of men or for women, knows perfectly well —Quicker than dosing arrival so had wired her not to meet that it is not always as simple as that treating colds no form me. I stepped off the train, just as the sentence sounds. XN sun came over the rim of the world "Of course you are going well now," of medication can reach making a sparkle in the clear, eighteen- I remarked, doubting-Thomas fashion, the affected parts as quickly as below-zero air—and there was Mrs. "but you weren't all members, nor did Macauley, immaculate, smiling and cor- you have a going organization at the vapors which are inhaled. dial. Later I was remarking on her start." That is why Vicks VapoRub relieves kindness, but a friend dismissed it cas- "No, we didn't," agreed Mrs. Macau- so quickly— there's no dosing— no ually by saying, "Don't you be both- ley, understandingly. "But we had delay. You simply rub Vicks on ered by a little thing such as that ! Why, something quite as good—a fine Presi- throat and chest and medicated va- nothing's ever too much bother for dent, Mrs. A. J. Josephson. She got us Adalin!" so interested and so wound up working pors are released by the heat of the As we warmed our toes in Mrs. Ma- that, really, I guess we never could run body and inhaled direct to the inflamed cauley's cosy home we talked about her down ! air passages, loosening the phlegm work, and I asked her how she hap- "What do you do that is so inter- and easing the difficult breathing. pened to become interested in Auxiliary esting?" the time Vicks stimulates the work. "Well, of course we do our hospital At same like poultice, "By joining and working," she re- and welfare work first. " said Mrs. Ma- skin a mild "drawing plied, smilingly. "That's the best way cauley, thoughtfully. "That's the main out" the soreness and tightness and I know to get interested in any good business of any unit. Then we follow thus helping the vapors inhaled to thing." the national program—any other unit break up the congestion. "According to that theory, every could do that." Then she went on to This two-fold action usually checks woman ought to go and do likewise," I explain what all good Legion and Aux- replied. iliary members know, that the national the worst cold by morning. Equally "The only reason why all eligible organizations make out a plan of work good for children and adults. women are not members," she answered, which then is called a "program." quickly, "is that they are uninformed Copies of this national "program" with ways as to the Auxiliary's value to the com- detailed suggestions for work in the in- " once munity and to the nation. The one big dividual units are sent to each post and aim I have in this year's national work unit. is to put on a program of education "You see," she continued, "it's all so that will spread everywhere a knowledge well worked out that no organization of the splendid opportunity Auxiliary VICKS has to be original and think up things VARORUB work offers the woman who wishes to to do—we might have been all at sea Over 21MillionJars Used Yearly serve her community and her country. at the start, for we were full of ambi- There should be a much larger member- tion and pep but sadly lacking in ex- one of the oldest ship in the Auxiliary than in the Legion, perience. Instead of trying to initiate As patent firms in Amer- for each Legion member makes eligible work, we followed the program in every PATENTS ica we give inventors a mother, consistent wife, sister and daughter. detail insofar as it was applicable to at lowest charge, a service noted for results, evidenced by The Auxiliary should be two or three to our community. That meant work, but many well known Patents of extraordinary value. one instead of the other way about, as we enjoyed the doing of it, and every Book, Patent-Sense, free. it now so nearly is. But some day we one lent a helping hand." Lacey & Lacey, 643 F St.,Wash., D. C. shall have our lists full—as we should." A few hours later I had the privilege Estab. 1869 Mrs. Macauley was one of the sev- of lunching with a few of the members Numerous Legionnaire References enty charter members of the Menom- of the Menomonie Unit, and the cordial onie Unit, which is the Auxiliary of friendliness, enthusiasm and harmony of Hosford Chase Post of The American that little group made it a very happy Legion—a unit that in its six brief occasion. They fell to talking of past years of life has grown to a present work. membership of two hundred and twen- "This is the 'rummage sale lady'," ty-four. said one, introducing her neighbor. "She "Two hundred and twenty-four!'' I can make more hospital money out of exclaimed. "Isn't that a pretty big cast-off nothings than any woman you membership for a woman's organization ever heard of!" in a city of five thousand? Who be- "How you talk!" said the "rummage longs?" sale lady," laughingly modest. "Show "Everybody!" she replied, with an in- me another woman who can make $143 Strap Watch with radium hands and numerals will clusive gesture. "There isn't any one from one case of lemons as you did at ^ome for a 15 dav trial. It sati>ncd. pav S2.50 class or particular type of woman the last fair." monthly until $25 is paid. Otherwise, return and vour money. will be refunded. Prompt de- that's just the point, we all belong. "It's all in the squeezing," was the livery—no red tape—everything confidential. There are business women and women laughing retort. CPCC Golden Jubilee Booklet showing r » t- t- 3000 other bnrE ains. Send for it. of wealth; professional women and little "Don't say 'fair' before me," ex- L. Inc. mothers who hardly ever get outside claimed a (Continued 011 page qi) W. SWEET. L>cpt.UI£20a 1660 Broadway, New York

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beautifully gowned woman, smiling, reports and plan new work and do busi- "the very word makes me see piles of ness. And we make our business snappy dishes." by doing it in a business-like way—Mrs. "I should think it would," said the Macauley started us doing that. Then "rummage sale lady," positively. "I afterwards we have an hour for a gay don't believe you did a thing those five time, music or something social. Of days but wash dishes." course sales and such are extra." "I'm not clever, like they are," whis- One little story that somehow slipped pered the dishwashing lady, in a modest out tells more than almost anything aside, "but someone has to wash dishes else the fine spirit of neighborliness and and I do know how to do that." harmony—it's the story of the card "Do you all have your specialties?" I party in North Menomonie. This little asked, much intrigued. community is some two or three miles "You might call it that." said the away from Menomonie—not far in President. "Anyway, we each have our these days of prosperity and plenty of job. Mrs. Macauley is our poppy lady cars, that is, not far unless the ther- —that's for the whole country, though, mometer is twenty below and the roads Ele ctrification and the rest of us are just for here. impassable with snow, as so often hap- When we want a show put pens in northern Wisconsin. aids the smooth restful flight on. our clever business "We were always urging of the women do it. When we the North Menomonie need a beautiful home, a women to come to the wealthy member offers it; meetings," said the one NEW ORIENTAL when we need posters, our who told the story, "but of artists draw them ; when we course we always had the LIMITED helpers, our meetings need social here in Menomo- The mightiest motor- generator electric locomo- home women take—the re- nie where it is easy for us tives in the world haul the New Oriental Lim- sponsibility; when to come and not always so ited through the snow-capped Cascades. This, "You make me think of convenient for them. So we the finest train to the Pacific Northwest, fol- lows the scenic, low-altitude courses the candy sale," someone thought, 'let's have one of of ten great rivers; skirts Glacier National Park for interrupted from across the the parties over there, so sixty miles . . Low round trip fares in effect what a they can have the fun of table. "Remember May 15. Write today for information. time we had about that? going easily, too.' Well, We had one member, a we had a card party in one GREAT NORTHERN charming woman, we are all so fond of their prettiest homes and it was a a dependable railway of her, but we just couldn't get her to tine success." A. J. Dickinson. Passenger Traffic Managei do anything. No matter what we sug- "Did some of you go?" I asked. Great Northern Railway, St Paul, Minn. gested well, that didn't happen to be "Did some of u«?" she exclaimed. — Please send me free book the thing she felt she could do. "Not one of us stayed home if she could Scenic Northwest." I a in trip to "Finally someone of us had the brains possibly manage to get there." Pacific Northwest

Giaou r m:, 1 to notice that she could beat us all mak- "What do you think is the best single Natl. I'.uk ing candy, so we planned a candy sale. piece of work your unit has turned You should have seen the candy that out?" I asked, and almost before the Mail the woman sent in! Um-m! Nobody diet- sentence was finished they replied, i Coupon Addres ed that day! You never tasted any- "Mrs. Macauley!" thing so good—and pretty, too. She "She's our best contribution to the had a beautiful time seeing the Auxil- Auxiliary, and we're proud of her," iary make money from her skill. Since added the unit President. GET ON,, then we have had a candy sale each That seems to be the spirit of the year with this 'candy lady' in charge, whole community about this certain Wne&-&a/nv4 and let me tell you—those sales are suc- National President of theirs. From her cessful because she knows how to run husband, whose pride is so tenderly PAYROLL them and loves doing it." shown in the way he gives her up dur- A neat bit of psychology is there, ing so much of this busy year, organiz- Ex-Service Men fitting the woman to the job and then ing their home so that she can travel Get expecting, and getting, results! and give her thought to the job she is Special Preference "All that's your special work," I re- doing so well; her thirteen-year-old son marked while the reminiscing was still (who, when the telegram came telling M140 to in full tilt. "How about your of her election last fall, shouted, "Gee! ^Mlf^ meetings?" Wait till I tell the fellows!"). Aunt $3300 Year "Oh. you should come to one," was Mary Wright, who saw so little of her Railway the quick response from a half dozen beloved niece on this last holiday visit Become cordial members. "We have such good because Auxiliary work must be done Mail Clerks times!" even at Christmas time; the man at the Steady Work "But don't you have reports and bank who explains in a whisper as Mrs. /'^u^ZZ' Paid / Dept. H192 business and all that?" I asked. Macauley passes, "That's Mrs. Ma- vacations/ "Yes." the lady on my right agreed, cauley, the National President of the Rush j^iT^ZZ^n Common ^ ' J pa^-r. i„, 0k with (1) A full descriptk "but the committees do such interest- American Legion Auxiliary. I tell you, education A of tin- position clicked below: (2) ing work all the time that the reports Menomonie is proud of her—and they are the livest part of the meeting—we ought to be. she's a worker," to the Railway Mail Clork__ JS1900 10 S2700I wouldn't miss them for anything. We Auxiliary members themselves, who Poslollice Clerk. 'S1700 lo S2300I City MailCarrier. in ISI700 to SZlOOl meet the Legion rooms once a month claim her as their best work. It tells a Jural Mail Camtr (SJI00 to S3300i (and we wouldn't mind if they were story, this home-town pride does. tS>3?0 lo S?O40l oftener, they're so pleasant). We have But it's a ( Continued on page Q2)

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SIMPLICATOR far cry from a member in even a But with the goal of at least some eco- The Desk Duplicator splendid unit like Menomonie's to nomic independence for these men al- the National Presidency of the Aux- ways in her mind, Mrs. Macauley stuck iliary, and one does not take such a step at the job. The men learned. The pro- at one leap. From unit member, Mrs. ject had the active support of the Macauley became unit President and therapeutic specialists who saw renewed from that she went to the state Presi- life coming to their patients as a new dency in 1923. Under her, the Depart- earth—one with a job—grew before ment of Wisconsin made unique prog- them, who saw listless men transformed ress in its business organization—with by poppy making into happy workers, Mrs. Macauley's large experience one even though still bedridden. Each man would naturally expect fine things from was paid a penny each for the poppies, her in the way of business organization, paid as wages fairly earned, not as a and she certainly delivered. Also in the gift—and oh, the difference! important matter of membership the From a small beginning three sea- Department of Wisconsin under her sons ago the work has already grown so leadership went from forty-seventh that in 1926 over $51,000 was paid to THOUSANDS SOLD—COMPLETE SATISFACTION place to first place in point of member- disabled men or their families (for ship progress. A record which will be sometimes the families of uncompen- Post Card Outfit Note Size Outfit hard to beat and which won for Mrs. sated men are allowed to work too) for Letter Size Outfit Macauley the unsought honor of unani- wages as poppy makers. This is all out- y Order, or by Parcel Post. C. O. D. Satislaction guar- mous endorsement of her candidacy for side the profits from the sale of the National President. poppies to the public, every penny of SIMPLICATOR CORPORATION At the close of her state office, Mrs. which is turned into help for -disabled 136-D Liberty Street New City York Macauley did a most unusual thing men and their families. she stepped down from the highest state But the poppy makers are not the office to that of chairman of the tenth only ones to be taught. Legion posts AbB Battery Wisconsin district, or District Executive and Auxiliary units must be told the jQ the title properly story of the learn Committeewoman, as poppy making; must Charger OHirCt reads. This district, while it is only one that it is better to buy soldier-made SATISFACTION GUARANTEED of the eleven in Wisconsin, has now be- poppies even at a higher cost than the Charges any type of come so large that one-sixth of the Wis- commercial flower. 6toraee A or B battery, using a few cents worth consin membership is listed on its ros- In the effort to reduce cost. Auxiliary of ordinary house current, ter, either alternating or di- and so important in point of ac- workers volunteered to attend to the rect. Cannot Injure bat- complishment that the whole State looks packing and distributing of the poppies, tery. Complete directions enclosed. Anyone can op- to it for inspirational leadership. This All of this Mrs. Macauley directed from e r a t e. No expensive "extras" to buv. Why district office Mrs. Macauley had to her own home in Menomonie absolutely pay $10.00 to $15.00 for give up she became National a charger when you can when without compensation. get this splendidUI'AR- President. Just what a task this must have been ANTEED R. B. Charg- er by mailing us two dol- During three of the six busy years I realized by a trifling incident. Com- lars (bills, money order, check or stamps) plus ten cents in stamps or while she was serving her town, district ing into her home in the wintry twi- Charger will bo coin to pay mailing costs. State, Mrs. Macauley held the of- light the of visit were three sent postpaid. If you are not satisfied, return and on day my within five days and wo will refund your fice of National Poppy Chairman. This of us, a long-time friend of hers, Mrs. money. Order at once—TODAY. R. B. SPECIALTY CO. grew to be a tremendous job, but she Macauley and myself. Mrs. Macauley 308 East Third St.. Cincinnati, 0. accomplished it all in her home without opened the door and reached for the pay or any more credit than usually electric light switch. The long-time WE MATCH PANTS! falls to the lot of the person who does friend put out her hand to hold me

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92 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly grow less, though 26,000 of them are much from small community associa- still in hospitals now. The need in their tion. She knows and loves her neigh- Pockets families will gradually diminish, but bors and they love her. She has that long before that day comes, some fifty poise which comes from living among Plenty of them, the or more years hence, we will be hard at people "who know all about you and bigger the better, work on community and patriotic enter- love you anyway," as some one has ex- that's what out- prises. Already we have our legislative pressed it. and then going out from that of-doors men want action committees; we watch legislative background to the work-a-day world —that's what you on national defense and kindred sub- where one earns a living by skill of get when you buy jects. And a definite part of our pro- brain. But none of this would occur to gram for this year includes the doing an onlooker at first glance, for Mrs. of some community project by each Macauley. with her gracious bearing, 'Pakbak post and unit. her well-selected clothes and her good the new DUXBAK "The American Legion Auxiliary is looks, appears to be a woman of a leis- Outing Coat such a new organization that perhaps urely world—until she turns to look or few people realize just what an impor- speak. Then the onlooker suddenly The big bellows tant part it can play in national life," realizes that here is an earnest, fiery pocket in the back she continued, thoughtfully. "It is the spirit of one destined to accomplish is big enough to pack your load or largest dues-paying woman's patriotic great things, and one is glad that so hold many a brace what great organization in the country, and, an organization as the American of game. Many is even more important, it is a true Legion Auxiliary chose so wisely in other pockets, too. cross-section of our people." electing its President for this particular and described Macauley has gained year. jstrated Spiritually, Mrs. in our catalogue "SER- VICEABLE CLOTHES", Send the coupon today for our copy.

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as their kith and kin. May I therefore the Red Cross, Salvation Army and invite Legionnaires who intend visiting other welfare societies which will render us to let the British Legion headquar- service to the Second A. E. F. as to the Please send my copy of "Serviceable Clothes' ters know as soon as possible the town, first. The ruling that both 1026 and Name village or hamlet that they intend visit- 1927 membership in the Legion or Aux- Street ing and the approximate date?" iliary .shall be a requirement for eligi- City and State bility is being enforced, although the committee has ruled that 1026 member- _ Big Redactions and Very ^ THE France Convention Committee ship may be paid this year in order to -Special Easy Terms On Used -^ has decided that husbands of Le- qualify. gionnaires or Auxiliares may make the VACUUM official pilgrimage to France when ac- companied by member wife. It also has A SPECIAL reduction of ten dollars CLEANERS ruled that grandfathers of Legionnaires will be granted by steamship lines or of deceased World War service men to members of bands making the con- may take part in the pilgrimage. Sons vention trip to Paris, and other induce- whose fathers are buried in France may ments will be offered to attract as many make the pilgrimage even if they are bands as possible. Members of each over the age of twenty-one, but other band will be quartered in a single hotel "lineal descendants" must be under the if they wish. Valuable prizes will be of- age of twenty-one. Provisions have fered to bands and. in general, bands been made for participation of limited will be given even more prominence than numbers of former A. E. F. members of at the preceding national conventions. On any ot the above very popular used Electric Vacuum Clean- ers* tor a Limited Time Only the PRICE IS /;/ 0. ZHenry s ^Hbme Tozvn REDUCED (Continued from page 37) below the former easy payment price, including a BRAND NEW set of attachments. Express legitimately be advanced for such a rec- On Bastile Day of 1026. the first con- paid anywhere. reational program as the stadium prom- crete was poured into the forms which SPECIAL TERMS $3 A MONTH Mail buyers pay not one cent ised. The city of Greensboro added the had been erected. Previous to this, order until they have tried a cleaner in their lacking funds, and did more. It agreed months had been consumed in leveling own home for a to finance the entire undertaking with- off the grounds, filling in declivities, 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL out interest charges and to accept re- and even changing the course of Tar You will really enjoy dealing with us, it is so easy to buy on easy payments. payment as the pledges were redeemed, Creek, a rebellious stream which mean- No references are required and nobody during the two-year period that they dered across the spots where later goal- knows your business, because you send your payments bv mail. covered. At the same time, the Morris posts stood. In September the concrete OUR REFERENCES Plan Bank of Greensboro, an organiza- had settled and cypress seats were be- We refer you to any manufacturer, dealer or agent in Vacuum Cleaners in tion peculiarly adapted to the collection installed. following month work ing The the U. S. A., also to pleased customers of small installment payments, offered was so far advanced that the Greens- in every town in the country. its services free for getting in the money. boro Daily News was able to publish in- . - .Send Below Coupon Today Consequently the Legion post was re- telligible photographs of the site and -o.pt. necessity of de- dedication date. lieved not only of the give out definitely the Send complete price list, also informa- laying construction until all payments So, on Armistice Day of 1026, just a tion about your special term*. but also of the difficult after the salmon-colored cards had had been made, year Name . and irksome job of collecting pledges as received their baptism of ink, bands Address they became due. played and ( Continued on page Q4)

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00 CLEARED IN ONE DAY So writes W. H. Adams of Ohio. Letter from In 0. ^Henry's ZHbme Town V. A. Marini of California reports $11275 sales in three months. Jacob Gordon of New Jersey $4000 profits in two months." Alexander of Penn- (Continued, jrom page 93) sylvania "$3000 profits in four months." Ira Shook S36S sales in one day. Bram bought one outfit April 5 and 7 mora by August 28. Iwata, bought one outfit and 10 more within flags flaunted, and all of Guilford Coun- gressman A. L. Bulwinkle of Gastonia. a year. Mrs. Lane of Pittsburg says "sold 8000 packages in one day. J. R. Bert says "only thing I ever bought that- ty marched to the World War Memorial who had served as major during the equaled advertisement." John Culp says: "Everything going Stadium. war, made the principal address. Crispette wrappers sc They found there a beautiful concrete There were gold-star mothers in the Uft'erall." Kellog? S700 structure, lying low along the land, as it audience, too—mothers who had come should to blend properly with its far- to read those tablets which gave small away background of Carolina pines. A recompense for the sacrifice that had triple-arched entranceway in monolithic been made. When the exercises were stucco was flanked by names of eighty over, they were not in the crowd which Guilford County boys, white and black, surged about the bronzes; they stayed who had given their lives to their coun- on the outskirts. But as the groups dis- try. "They served," said the inscription persed, these women crept forward, beneath, "that liberty shall not perish gazed at the words written down for from the earth."' posterity, held out a timid finger and Atop the pylons flew the flags of lovingly touched the names that meant WE START YOU IN BUSINESS North Carolina and of the United States. more than an empty memorial. This Furnish secret formulas, raw material, and equipment. Little In the spaces, beneath the seats, on each was a day that would not be forgotten. capital required; no experience needed. side of the entrance, were fireproof Fully to utilize the new stadium, the Build a Business of Your Own Nolimit to thesale of Crupcttcs. Everybody likes them. It's rooms. One of these Greensboro Cham- a delicious food confection. Write f„r facts about a business that will make you independent. Start now, in your own town. rooms had been set ber of Commerce Profits $1000 a Month Easily Possible aside as a Memorial has issued a folder Send postal for illustrated book of facts. It contains enthusi- astic letters Hall; in it will be a to all surrounding from others—shows their places of business, tells start and ' ' ' a " n ormati °n needed. Free. Write*now7 '° book containing the colleges and ath- LONG-EAKINS COMPANY names of all who letic organizations 443 High Street Springfield, Ohio contributed toward inviting them to the erection of the stage contests with- I WANT £00 MEN and WOMEN stadium. Other in its broad eight ;AGEN7Saf$M5ADAY/ rooms were given acres. In addition >t furnish iiith fn travfT in/ over as armories for to the holding com- the two batteries of mission set up by the Coast Artillery the Legislature Corps which form and which now has Guilford's contribu- three Legionnaires tion to the National and the President of Guard. On the sta- the Auxiliary unit dium field they among its eight would drill. On the members—there has field, too, would that day be held a been organized a Stadium Games Com- football game between Guilford and mittee which will act in conjunction High Point Colleges; certain rooms be- with the various colleges and schools in neath the seats had been fitted out with making arrangements preliminary to showers and lockers for the players. matches scheduled for the enclosure. Before the game could commence, ex- This committee interests itself in all ercises were held at the gateway to the business details from the beginning of structure. negotiations until tickets are counted

"To many of the thousands braving and checked; it consequently aids the the chilly but delightful weather pro- amateur authorities materially in those vided on the eighth anniversary of the matters with which they have had little Armistice." said the News next morning, experience. BROWN'S TROCHES "it was the first time they had ever Five percent of all gate receipts go to FOR COUGHS AN D THROAT TROUBLES viewed the memorial Guilford County the holding commission for maintenance has reared to its brave sons. Inside, and upkeep. The school children of BROWN'S Camphorated everything, to all appearances, was com- Guilford County may have free use of Saponaceous DENTIFRICE A SUPERIOR TOOTH POWDER plete, the great athletic field showing the grounds whenever they wish. with its coat of green, and the track, At the time this article was written, JOHN I. BROWN & SON, Boston, Mass. tennis courts, armories and other de- the World War Memorial Stadium rep- STUDY AT HOME partments being ready. Only the ap- resented the latest unit in a program of Become a lawver Lepallv tiain.-d public building which had been under litioriB and big proaches and the parking space adjacent

and public I iff. independent, (ir.-at.-r <.i>p..ri concrete plant that is destined to way in Greensboro for eight years. Dur- Bip corpo- to the headed bj' men with legal make Greensboro the athletic center of ing that period several big office build- &S.OOO to SIO.000 Annually the State in addition to giving its sons ings, a new court house, a new city hall, and daughters every facility for improv- and many additions to Greensboro Col- ing their bodies by athletic diversion, lege (female, Methodist) and the North were lacking, and Mayor Jeffries, in his Carolina College for Women, had been recital of the history of the stadium erected. It all began, toward the close of the last decade, with the opening of ~ 1927 Chic Book CD F F movement, made a promise that they : in the city. - By Prot.T. E. * IXJ-jJ-l spring." the O. Henry Hotel I , °P Qulsenberry would be ready for use by next Chicsecretsnndhisnewwayrevea ,; f It is not odd that Greensboro should 5£fe I »i.tmfi.l.« from well-known expe There were several speeches, a mili- 1. V^a-' put them into cash at once. Lest have a hotel named for the most popu- More Chics eua tary review, and the heads of Burtner rHook. Just send name, at lar of short-story writers. It 113 Post and its Auxiliary unit drew the America's % poultry yon like. EXTRA- strings loosing the banners which cov- is not odd that all the neighbors grew ered the bronze memorial tablets. Con- hot under the collar when, through a

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printer's error, the first stationery issued owned by his uncle—and always send by that hotel spelt the name "O'Henry" 'em away laughing. instead of "0. Henry." Greensboroites "No, we didn't know he could write. are meticulous in the matter of the au- Good boy, he was, and a fine pharma- thor's name, for just about half of cist, and, man, he could play the fiddle." Greensboro grew up with man. Young Porter, together with other Uncle Joe Cannon was born in Guil- boys of the town, organized an orchestra ford County but he turned Republican, which would perform about the streets, so they haven't put up a stone to dis- in the parlors of friends, beneath the tinguish the spot. 0. Henry remained sedate windows of the young ladies in a sterling Democrat to his death; and Greensboro College. a tablet now stands on Market Street "He was a to-himself sort of person," to show inquiring tourists the place friends say now, "but he always had a where he first saw the light of day. sly humor about him. He didn't use The original house has been pulled tobacco in any form, or drink, so far as down. It was a frame affair, its outer I know; yet I reckon he wasn't any boards covering rough logs that had better than the rest of us. once beeii part of the Guilford County In the Greensboro Free Library is courthouse. It is a sardonic thought much original Porter manuscript, chiefly that 0. Henry, who was later to know early work done for the amusement of bitterness in a Texas courtroom, thus the moment. There one may find some issued his baby squeals between walls of the drawings he made of his friends where Law had sat in majesty. such, for instance, as the eminent Dr. Library card catalogues throughout Beall (still living), whose prescriptions

the nation usually print : "O. Henry the boy was often called upon to fill. (pen name), see Porter, Sydney." Of the young man's ability as a car- But in Greensboro, where many of toonist, Alphonso Smith gives evidence rest his boyhood companions still open their in his biography of the writer. Many a night's has

- offices at eight every morning, "Sydney' "It was a common occurrence," says been saved by a few of Kemp's Balsam. Porter is almost unknown. Dr. Smith, "when Clark Porter (the drops It stops tickling and dry- "Oh, Bill Porter, you mean?" they proprietor) returned to the store from ness in the throat and will say. "Yes. sir. he did have a mid- lunch, for a conversation like this to relieves a cough. dle name, Sydney, but we never knew take place: O. Henry would say: Sold by druggists everywhere. it in those days. He was Bill Porter "Uncle Clark, a man called to see you a L. 4-27 to us, or maybe Will. Never Sydney." little while ago to pay a bill.' It should KEMP & LANE, Inc., Le Roy, N. Y. A. I enclose 4 cents in stamps to pay cost of is the be premised that it not form There a drugstore named for was good mailing trial packages of Kemp's Balsam writer, for in it he mixed sodas and in those days to ask a man to stand and and Lane's Cold Tablets. 14c. worth FREE for cost of mailing. filled until, of deliver either his name or the amount prescriptions at the age Name twenty, he left the city to seek what due. 'Who was it?' his uncle would ask. the Southwest might offer. The drug- T never saw him before, but he looks Street store bears a tablet testifying to the like this.' and the pencil would zigzag City State esteem in which the youthful clerk was up and down a piece of wrapping paper. held by "rich and poor, young and old. 'Oh, that's Bill Jenkins out here at " white and black." Further testimony Reedy Fork. He owes me $7.25.' PAPER BUSINESS is offered by those who knew him: It is said about Greensboro that a "Well, I can't say that we ever ex- harness maker of the day had his shop NEEDS MEN pected him to be a writer. Cartoonist, completely papered with pencil sketches maybe. He used to draw pictures of done by young Porter. Save for one everybody that came into the drugstore drawing, all trace of them has long ago —it was Porter's Drug Store, then, vanished.

Why We Want to Qo to J^rance

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intend to go with the second A. E. F. Luther. Oklahoma, a member of Okla- Westover was born in Kentucky and homa City Post. Branch Spalding of attended *the University of Arizona, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and of where he had preliminary military train- Hugh A. Carlyle Post, won fifth place,

ing for four years. When the United and sixth place was awarded to J. W. States entered the World War Westover Sutphen, of Los Angeles, California, was assigned to the Officers' Training who belongs to Los Angeles Post. Camp at Palo Alto. California. He was The contest was held under the aus- transferred to Camp Hancock. Georgia, pices of The American Legion News for Browning machine-gun work and at Service. A large percentage of the es- the time the war ended he was expecting says were submitted by disabled men, a U. S. Government Jobs to sail for France with a machine-gun fact that adds interest to the winning Ex-Service Man Gat Preference outfit. by disabled men of two of the three STEADY WORK Westover helped organize H. H. principal prizes. Steamship companies PAID VACATIONS^/ Donkersley Post of the Legion at Yuma, co-operating with the Legion on the

Arizona, in 1919, before going to Santa France convention essay contest were: Oantlemen: Rush to me, Ana, California, to practice law. United States Lines. Canadian Pacific FREE of charge list of U. S. mail coupon iovrrnment big pav positions now In addition Line. linable. Send me FREE 32-pa?e to the three principal Lines, Holland-America Cunard SURE

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