The American Legion Monthly [Volume 11, No. 3 (September 1931)]

Legionw- HJie ^American MONTH L Y SEPTEMBER 1931 25 CENTS

More Than A Million Circulation I've hit the trail to the Silent North

Measured haste of smoothly swinging paddles. Any minute the

storm may break. But even here Chesterfield stands by . . . Ripe

mild tobaccos and pure cigarette paper. Every Chesterfield is well-

filled. Every Chesterfield burns evenly. Made to smoke milder. And

Far down the empty street . . . lined by thousands . . . there sounds a bugle

call . . . and then they come! » » Men of the Legion. » » Fighters of

yesteryear. » » Fathers and grandfathers of today. » » Stepping out strongly

in the rhythm of true comradeship. » » Cadillac joins the city of Detroit

in welcoming the Legionnaires. » » What they did in the past is not

forgotten . . . and their presence here means much to the nation today.

• — CADI L L A C

SEPTEMBER. i 93 i (god country C lor and , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: Oo uphold and defend the Constitution, ofthe UnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent !7lmerica.nism r ; topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the £/reat War; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the community, slate andnation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood willon earth ;to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjustice.Jreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctyff our comradeship by our devotion to mutual hdpfilness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofTrie American Legion.

SEPTEMBER, I 93 I Vol. 11, No. LegionY The Jlmemcan 3 MONTH L Y

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Sugar by Karl W. Detzer 9 WILLIAM HEASLIP has Illustrations by V. E. Pyles emblazoned in this month's cover painting a reality The Legion Has Kept Its Pledge by Ralph T. O'Neil 14 more glamorous than the dreams Builders of a Better America 16 of the Arabian Nights. The air Decorations by William Heaslip mail transport, swift galleon of modern skies, welcomed by power- Welcome to Our City by Henry T. Ewald 20 ful beacons, sails into harbor with blazing lights: a modern magic Lost The War We by Pacifism by Rupert Hughes 22 carpet of commerce, as wonderful Cartoons by John Cassel as anything a genii ever wrought for Bagdad. When Mr. Baker Made War by Frederick Palmer 24 The rapid growth of the air A Man in a Million by Philip Von Blon 30 mail service exemplifies as noth- Cartoons by Wallgren ing else the progress made in aviation. Today 500 planes are One Hundred Thousand Strong by John J. Noll 34 carrying Uncle Sam's mail on 40 lines which criss-cross the country The End of the Story 46 from coast to coast and border to border. In the current year these planes will carry 360,000,000 letters or nine million pounds of Among Next Month's Features mail of all sorts. A New York air mail letter arrives in San Francisco in 22 hours. The Gov- church bells of Boston were ringing joyously. General THE ernment does not own the air mail Gage, commander of the English Army, turned from his maps planes but lets contracts to private corporations for the opera- angrily, but General Howe reassured him: "Don't let them worry tion of the lines. The growing General, are arrival you, my dear they only celebrating the of that utility of aviation is indicated by man Washington at the rebel camp this morning. They expect him the fact that losses of air mail were only one one-hundredth of to accomplish miracles." It is the opening scene of Irving Bach- one percent of the mail carried. eller's serial, "The Master of Chaos," which will begin in the Air mail planes have helped October issue ... A serial ends also. The final instalment of convince the public of the safety Frederick Palmer's "When Mr. Baker Made War," presents an of aviation, and the public now is fully convinced. Proof of this is will intimate picture of Baker the man. The complete history ap- seen in the fact that a single line pear as a book October 1 5th . . . Major Idus R. McLendon, who operating passenger planes hourly commanded the battery which made the A. E. F.'s artillery bow, between Washington and New York carries as many as 5,000 tells the story of "The First Shot," and Herbert M. Stoops, a passengers in a single month. subsequent commander of the battery, has pictorialized the event in his cover painting . . . Rupert Hughes concludes his article on pacifism begun in this issue.

The American Lecion Monthly is the official publication of The American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1931, by The Legion Publishing Corporation. Published monthly at 4^ West aid Street, Chicago, Illinois. Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of Gardiner and March 3, 1870. General Manager, Robert F. Smith; Editor, John T. Wintench; Managing Editor, Philip Von Blon; Art Editor, William MacLean; Associate Editors. Alexander for in Section noj. Act of October John J. Noll; Advertising Manager, B. L. Dombrowski; Business Manager, Richard E. Brann. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided 3, in countries $1.50. 1917, authorized January 5, 1915. Price, single copy 15 cents, yearly subscription in the United States and possessions of the United States $i.?o, in Canada $2, other In reporting change of address be sure to include the old address as well as the new.

2 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly TheyTold Him SalesmenWere'Boni ButNowHe Makes $10,000 aYear

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Not only will they help you get the job, but Thr Highest PM to read a little book he had brought to work with him. they agree under an iron-clad, money-back penalty hvkssim, that you must be satisfied with the training received m /it hor/,/ "It's a book called 'The Key to Master Salesman- —or they refund your tuition. ship,' Bill." he told me. "It's the most amazing thing I ever read. I never dreamed there was so much in "Bill, training is the only thing you need to make salesmanship. You ought to send for a copy yourself. you a wonderful salesman. That stuff that Luke Jones Why don't you? It's free." talks about, that salesmen are born, is the biggest bunk I ever heard. They made a salesman out of me; "Huh!" said Luke Jones. "Does that book tell you they can make a salesman —and a good one—out of how to lean, to be a salesman? A fellow has to be nearly anyone who will study. Every human being is On 'born' that way to be a good salesman." born a salesman. Thousands of the greatest possible kind of salesmen live and die without knowing their Ed just smiled at that, but he said nothing. We own powers. The difference that makes the so- kidded him about it, but he wouldn't tell us any more; called born salesman successful is the fact that he has just smiled. About four months later he left us. The learned, through experience or through training, the foreman grinned when be heard about it. "I'll see fundamental selling secrets that always work. It's you in a week or so, I guess, Ed. You can have your training in those secrets, which I got from the job back when you want it," he promised and Ed N. S. T. A., that made a $10,000-a- year success out NOW SENT thanked him. But after he left Ed never came back of me. You can master them as well as I did. Send and we wondered what luck he was having. for that little book tonight, and when you've got your training, come and see me." FREE After that, I forgot him until last night. I was going home, when a snappy sedan drove up to the curb next to me. "Hi. Bill, going home?" said the NATIONAL SALESMEN'S TRAINING man in the car. I looked up, and there was Ed dressed like a million dollars, leaning over the wheel. FREE—To Every Man ASSOCIATION "For Pete's sake!" I said. "What are foil doing Dept. M-24 N. S. T. A. Bldg. Chicago, III. nowadays, Ed?" He smiled. "City sales manager for A book—but what a book! Just seven ounces the Steel Castings Company," he told me. "What of paper and printers' ink —but it reveals facts Training Association. are you doing?" anil secrets that have led hundreds of men to suc- National Salesmen's Chicago, 111. ress beyond their fondest expectations! See for Dept. M-24, N. S. T. A. Bldg., "Still at the shop," I replied. 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SEPTEMBER, 193 i Dead orAlive ?

Decoration by James E.Jlllen

What Became Of The Author Of This Diary Found In A Wood East Of Thiaucourt Twelve Years After St. Mihiel?

N OCTOBER 28, 1930, Ray "H AY L. WHITNEY of beaten garment that proved to be a L. Whitney of Reno, Nevada, pair of o.d. trousers, where it appar- an ex-Marine who had re- Reno, Nevada, was visit- ently had lain for some twelve years. o turned to France with his sis- The log had helped to keep the rain ing familiar territory St. ter, Mrs. George Milburn of Los Angeles, on the off and the leaves of the little black California, to visit old haunts and to Mihiel front when he came book were well preserved. All of the make a tour of the St. Mihiel front writing therein was in ink, except the where he had seen action, picked up in upon a small black notebook last three lines, which had been writ- a little wood east of Thiaucourt a small ten in pencil. The woods in which the black notebook containing sixteen which contained several pages diary was found are about three kilo- pages of legible handwriting. The meters distant from where the author of what was obviously a war events set forth by the book's original of the diary made his last notations. owner indicated that he had been in diary. Recently he showed his The woods themselves were nr doubt the battle which wiped out the St. occupied on more than one occasion by Mihiel salient. The first notation was find to his fellow-townsman troops, but whether or not the author

dated September 6, 1918, and the last of the diary lost the book there himself Seth T. Bailey, who sent it to at 10 p.m. on September 11, 1918. or was killed or wounded and the book There was nothing to indicate the the Monthly with explanatory was carried there by someone else is of name of the author, except that he was course something to be determined. a member of D Company and that his notes and historical data. The diary ends abruptly. organization hopped off on the morn- From the battle map prepared by Who wrote the diary? ing of September 12th, shortly after 5 G.H.Q., the Fifth Division is credited o'clock, from some point not far from with having captured the towns men- Regnieville and that he took part in the capture of Vieville, which tioned in the diary. At one point the author recounts the capture occurred that same day. of Bois Gerard and further records events that happened north of There is a discrepancy in dates. In two places in the diary those woods. It is at this point the diary ends. History of the he records events under the date of September 11. Whether or St. Mihiel action sets forth that the Germans launched a counter not one of those dates should have been September 10 and the attack, and that they advanced to the edge of the woods before other September n, or September n and September 12 is diffi- they eventually were driven back by the Yank division. Was the cult to determine. The action set forth in the diary under the author of the diary killed in that counter attack? Or did he sur- date of September 11, in two instances, indicates, however, that vive? It would be interesting to identify him, if still alive, and

the diary at this point undertook to describe the events of two see what he himself has to say about it. It would be interesting, separate days of action. The offensive began on the 12th. too, to learn from some of his buddies, in the event he was killed Whitney found the diary in a thickly wooded ravine. It was in action, what circumstances entered into his death. Read the lying under a log near the remnants of a mouldy and weather- diary yourself, and if you happen to have (Continued on page 44)

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SEPTEMBER. 193 i 5 Irving Bacheller ^ ^ Friend —? — My w Yours c A Tribute byHamlin Garland

editors of The American Trving Bacheller reads of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, and THELegion Monthly have asked me other of my literary gods who were (as I Hamlin Garland a pas- to write an introduction to afterwards learned) his gods also. At Irving Bacheller's serial story, sage from one of the many the end of his years of exploration, he probably because of the long friendship found himself a reporter and later an notebooks which he filled we have enjoyed. editor in New York City whilst I settled Irving Bacheller and I have traveled with historical data de- in Boston as a teacher, an act of audacious along somewhat similar paths toward a folly which exceeded any of his. signed to guide him in somewhat similar goal. In 1870 he was All this time he knew nothing of me a farmer's son in the north woods of writing his novel of the and I knew nothing of him, but as I be- St. Lawrence County, New York, during came a story writer it was inevitable days of Washington, "The almost the precise years when I was that I should at last seek him out as a herding cattle or plowing and seeding on Master of Chaos", which purchaser of my wares. This was in the the western prairies. His temper was early nineties when he was the owner and will begin in the October tried by the stony acres of a hillside field editor of "the Bacheller Syndicate." not far from the town of Canton, whilst issue of The American I vividly recall my first interview with I was gaining discipline and developing him. It was in a bare, unlovely office Legion Monthly. muscle five miles from Osage, Iowa, which somewhere on a cross street in middle was the social, commercial and literary Manhattan. As I entered, he was sitting capital toward which I aspired. Irving went to "deestrict school" with his feet on a chair gazing through a window which gave on in winter time, keeping up in summer his apprenticeship to the a blank wall, dreaming of something a long way from his desk. hayfork and hoe, as I did, and when he arrived at years of This I sensed as he slowly collected his long legs and rose to meet audacity, at sixteen or such a matter, he entered the college in me. His eyes were still focused on far skies, however, and it Canton, as I sought the halls of the Cedar Valley Seminary in required a considerable interval before he was entirely aware of Osage. We played the same games, studied the same books and me and my purpose. spouted the same orations and poems. I liked him at once. He was big and blonde and handsome, After graduation he engaged in newspaper work, whilst I made almost as handsome as Edward MacDowell. His voice was hay and did carpentering in the prairie west in order to pay my gentle and his utterance slow. "He is a dreamer, a country born way through New England, a literary pilgrimage to the homes poet," I thought. "He does not belong {Continued on page j6)

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The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 1 SUGAR

trations by V. E. Pyles d.c. r. Story by KARL W. DETZER

YOU ask any Frenchman IFwhat was the most precious substance under heaven in the spring of ioio, he will strike his forehead with his knuckles, lightly, as the French do when pondering, and answer: Sugar. The reply is always the same. For four years the French had drunk only sour wine, had patriotically stirred small white pellets of saccharine into chicory coffee. But in iqiq the victory had been won. And the stomach, unlike the heart, requires more

than glory to sustain it. Sugar was priceless. Its worth could no more be measured in the shabby currency of the hour than could valor or greed or homesick- ness. Sugar softened the hardest hearts. It overrode the law, "It's your lookout trampled prejudice, encouraged now, Lieutenant," friendship and purchased virtue. he said with relief. And quite naturally it stimu- "The shipment's off lated crime. my hands" Lieutenant Joe Malone, Di- vision of Criminal Investigation, the detective bureau of the American forces in France, preferred sour wines, took his coffee straight, and abhorred candy. So he was mildly annoyed that raw March morning when his commanding officer, Captain Redmond, called him into the operations room of the Le Mans office, in the Embarkation area, shut the door mysteriously, and said: "Sugar again!" For three months reports of sugar thefts from railroad trains had been accumulating on Captain Redmond's desk. But, he wanted to know, what was he to do about it? No one could prove that the stuff was being stolen in his area. Where should he start?

What if a few hungry Frenchmen did tap a freight car now and Malone blinked. He agreed. It was enough sugar to buy the then? Bank of France. "But what." he asked in his turn, as Captain His attitude was changed now. Redmond had earlier, "are we going to do about it?" "G. H. Q. called me last night," he explained to Malone. "You're going to stop it!" Redmond answered shortly. "It's "They're jumping through paper hoops. Say it's up to us to stop orders. The stuff's landing from the States at Montoir, where it's the sugar leak. As near as anyone can figure we've lost something transferred to French freight cars and hauled wherever it's over two hundred tons. That's a hell of a lot of sugar!" needed, most of it to the Rhine and advance sector. Somewhere

SEPTEMBER, 193 9 on the way the cars are broken and the sugar's gone." He glanced at the calendar pad on his desk. "G. H. Q. gives us a week. I don't give a damn where you start or where you finish. Just stop it." At nine o'clock the following

morning ... it was the seventh

day of March . . . Malone arrived by car inconspicuously in St. Nazaire. He was a short, stout officer, with a bland face and wide eyes that were as blue as Biscay Bay and as empty as a vacant house. His voice was as disarming as his eyes, so guileless that a stranger rarely listened closely to what he said, so unim-

portant it seemed. His partner was Sergeant Ru- dolph, whose father was a traffic sergeant and his mother a police matron. He'd served three hitches in the Tenth Infantry, a process that had not softened him. He was a big man, who ran to shoulders, jaw and ears. No one ever would have mistaken him for a Y. M. C. A. secretary, an error which embarrassed Malone occasionally. The very fact that they were opposite types caused Captain Redmond to pair them together.

It is an old police method. The clumsy and the sure, the dreamer and the driver, the violent and the submissive . . . these make the best teams. What one operator overlooks, the other sees, when one plunges too boldly the other sits back and observes thoughtfully. From Captain Herman Day- ton, who commanded D. C. I. operations in the St. Nazaire base, which area included the new American up-river port of Montoir, the two operators learned that most American sugar was unloaded from th? ships at Warehouse M in Mon- toir, that the diminutive French freight cars were filled right there on the warehouse floor, and that French crews hauled this precious cargo over the main line of the French railroad along the north bank of the Loire, through Nantes and Angers to Tours, where the trains were routed to their destinations. "But most of the breaks are made this side of Tours," Cap- tain Dayton concluded. "Car checkers in Tours report the seals gone when they get there. Remember, we want results." The camp of Montoir was one of those bewildering accomplish- The officer in command of Warehouse M, Captain Dayton ex- ments of American arms that the French could appreciate but plained further, was a damn' fine fellow named Orcott. He was never understand. A mushroom industry, a gigantic affair of a Regular Army man, a major, working his head off now to unload iron and steel and concrete, it had leaped unannounced out of vessels in jig time and get the cars out on the main tracks. His the marshes of the Loire, had spread like fire in a stubblefield office naturally would be the beginning of the trail; at least it was till it swept the great, rounded, north bend of the river, over- as good a place as any to start. whelming quicksands, swamps, cliffs, forests and farms. In six

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The giant captain stood by, a lantern in his hand. When he discovered who it was, he drew back

to be a sprawling black iron affair, set in the middle of a great concrete pier, built southward into the Loire river. Between this pier and its neighboring wharf and warehouse on the west spread a broad, rectangular basin of considerable size, known to Americans as the Sugar Slip. It was bare of hull today. To the east of the sugar warehouse another arm of the river formed a shallower pool, less deeply indented into the land than the Sugar Slip and ending a hundred yards away in a huddle of little docks for fishing boats and small cargo vessels. American jurisdiction ended in this water. "Stay within reach, Rudolph," Lieutenant Ma- lone directed as he climbed out of their car and but- toned his raincoat. "See what you can pick up." The warehouse was incredibly large. Many a French village worthy of a dot on the map could have been fitted snugly into it. A tall barbed wire stockade enclosed it as far as the edges of the water. In this stockade four high, broad wooden gates gave upon the front of the yard, with four sets of railroad tracks crawling under them. Fach wooden gate, Malone observed with those eyes that seemed in- capable of observation, was closed and made fast by a padlock as large as a man's hand. Within the yard the railroad tracks pierced the north end or front of the warehouse itself through four great oblong openings. Folding steel gates protected these openings from any prowlers who might get into the yard by way of the river, where, naturally, there could be no stockade on the wharves, since the ships must have space to unload. At the

moment, it being the middle of the working day with a sentry in sight, none of these folding gates was closed. Seeking admission through the stockade, Malone discovered a narrow slot in the west end of the wire,

with a sentry standing guard beside it. He presented his identification. The soldier, after examin-

ing it closely, following the lines of type with a wet

forefinger, passed it back and looked curiously at him.

"Office is over there, sir," he said, motioning. "Door near the corner." Malone crossed the muddy flat, his boot heels bor- ing deep into the soggy earth. The office he entered was a small, square box, cut off from the warehouse by sheet iron partitions that had been covered as

effectively as if by wall paper with innumerable files of general and special orders, requisitions, tally sheets and bills of lading. The American major behind the desk was a middle-sized man, his hair brushed up precisely across the bald spot atop his lean head. His lips were thin, as were his cheeks, and he balanced a pair of rimless glasses dexterously as a juggler on a long, straight nose. From the knowledge Malone already had of him he could identify him as Major Orcott without an introduction. The second person in the room, not an American, was harder to classify. He was a giant in civilian clothes, if one could so months it was completed, and these strange Americans, who had designate the dirty blue and white striped sweater, the coarse come so many kilometers to save France, went to work in it at breeches tucked carelessly into high leather boots, and the once, unloading ships, without so much as taking a week off to greenish derby hat, several sizes too small, that perched ri- celebrate with an appropriate fete. diculously atop his immense head. He turned and stared at the To reach Warehouse M, Malone and Rudolph must traverse door when Malone came in, enabling the lieutenant to see his face. the entire length of the immense camp to its east end. Rain His cheeks were puffed out, as if he were blowing up a football, scrubbed the new concrete roadway. They found Warehouse M and he wore a pair of sweeping yellow mustaches.

SEPTEMBER, 1931 "What can I do for you?" the officer at the desk asked, with just a trace of irritation in his tone.

Malone saluted belatedly, and offered his identification card, still damp from the sentry's fingers. Major Orcott examined it carefully. Then he laid it down and smiled, his thin lips pulling apart slowly as if they were stretched on pieces of elastic. "I thought somebody would come," he said, "It's time. Won- dered why the police hadn't taken an interest in sugar before. This is Captain Haak, Lieutenant." He nodded toward the giant. "Lieu- ." tenant . . he peered at the identification card. "Malone," the operator prompted, and Haak offered him a hand as big and hard as a maid. "Lieutenant Malone's a policeman," Major Orcott explained, handing back the card. "Captain Haak is a Hollander. Holland Dutch. He's got a ship over there at that wharf." "A schooner," Haak corrected him. "No ship, just a little schooner. You are a policeman?" He spoke slowly, with a round, deep precision, searching for the English words. "The captain's got a small cargo of sugar on his hands and thought

1 might like to buy it. Can you imagine me buying sugar? For the Army? Imagine me buying anything for that matter!" He smiled intimately at Malone, suggesting a humor in the situation that any

American would see, even if the Dutch captain could not. "Cap- tain Haak can't understand that a major in the service of supply is just a glorified shipping clerk."

"Oh?" The Hollander turned his head slowly, as if he feared he would jar off his hat. He stared, evidently puzzled, at Orcott, then at Malone. "Oh?" "I've explained that I can't buy anything. Such things have to be taken up with the R. R. & C. . . . Requisitions department, Captain Haak. But you'd have small chance even there. Our sugar's so cheap, compared with market prices, that a cargo from the East Indies can't sell in competition. So I guess the deal's off, Captain. You might come back this afternoon, though. Maybe I can think of something to help you by that time." Haak removed his hat carefully with both hands and bowed. Without further words, but with an unfriendly stare for both Americans, he departed by the outer door. Major Orcott shrugged. "You meet a lot of funny ones," he said. "And now," he sighed, "about these sugar thefts." He confessed that he had done all he could. "And gotten nowhere," he admitted. "They tell me, the big boys up at Tours and Chaumont, to get the ships unloaded as soon as they tie up. I empty 'em . . . one, two, three . . . like that." He forgot to balance his glasses for a moment and they hopped to Malone stared, the blotter on his desk. "I've a then rushed for- gang waiting for each ship before ward. The man it drops its lines over." was sprawled "Your own men?" Malone on his back. He asked. wore an Ameri- "I don't have any men of my can uniform, own," the major explained. "No and an officer's stevedores. Just the checkers and garrison cap lay guard." He picked up the glasses nearby and tapped the blotter with them nervously. "I have to send over to the labor battalions for men. Oh, I get them. All I want. There's a stevedore regiment, colored, and it's good. If they're too busy they give me a batch of crippled Frenchmen, and they're not so good. But we get the ship unloaded, and the cars tilled, and we get them under way. Sealed. Every car out is sealed. I do that myself so there's no chance of a mistake." He put his glasses back on his nose and looked at his wrist watch. "We'll have to talk this over at lunch," he invited. "I eat late. There's a decent little

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hotel right across the road. You'll be better with some food in morrow they would again be quiet wayside inns, and these wild your stomach." days of prosperity and broken glass would be only a memory. Malone followed unwillingly. He had not meant to spend so As they crossed the clean, rainwashed concrete Malone saw much time on Major Orcott as a lunch would entail. But he was Sergeant Rudolph standing at the edge of the eastern basin, so accustomed to being greeted doubtfully by officers and lazily watching the fleet of dirty little cargo boats at the French men that he appreciated even a welcome, let alone hospitality. wharf. Malone knew what the sergeant was doing. He was not The rain had fallen off, but a raucous wind romped up the wasting his time; he was merely getting acquainted with the Loire from the Atlantic as they stepped into the yard. It was neighborhood. Geography, Rudolph always insisted, was more less than a hundred important than psychology in the detection of crime. paces to the unprom- Major Orcott led the way to a table. ising Hotel du Chapeau "You, Georges!" he called. "Let's have another napkin and Rouge. Malone, squint- fork." ing at the gray face of Two places already were set, though no other guests were in the building with its sight. While Orcott hung up his cap and raincoat, Malone con- signboard kicking in sidered the possibilities. It would inconvenience him mightily to the wind, recognized it have a third person present at this discussion. They sat down. as one of those quiet "You seal the cars yourself, Major? With your own hand?" wayside inns that were he asked. He would learn what he could before the third person reaping a brief harvest came.

3 now from the Ameri- "With this." The major brought a small iron implement, not can Army. Today they unlike a street car conductor's punch, from his breeches pocket.

were bustling, full of "It's got my number on it. Nine forty-nine. After the door's shut

noise, strange songs in you take the wire this way ... we use wire seals . . . and you a strange tongue. To- pull it through the latch and through the eye in the side of the ." car . . . so . . he demonstrated with thumbs and forefingers. "You slip the wire through, catch the two ends together in the piece of lead and squeeze. Hard. There ... It makes a perfect loop. The car can't be opened without breaking the wire. And my number is pressed on the lead seal that clamps to the two wire

ends. If it is broken, it can't be resealed without this press. And I keep the press in my pocket." Malone listened vacantly, his lips apart, jaw hanging slightly. It was not his first experience with car seals, yet for the moment he decided to give that impression. He asked: "When's the next sugar train out?" "Some time this evening. Between seven and eight. Can't say just the exact minute. There'll be three cars, hooked on the regular beef train from St. Nazaire. They send a switch engine into the warehouse after it when thev come through here." "Who do?" "The railroad. French yardmaster. Soon

as he takes it out he's responsible."

"No chance for him to make away with it

after it leaves you?" Orcott laughed again, thinly. "None in the world. Besides, he's all right. I've checked on him. Checked on every Frenchman and every American that has a look at the train." "I'd like to see the cars," Malone decided, "before they go out." Major Orcott agreed. "Certainly. As soon as we're through lunch." "I've a lot to do, sir." The other shrugged, "We all have, Lieu- tenant. It's one trouble with the war. I'm just waiting a minute for a friend. Fellow I play checkers with usually after lunch. French- man named Pelier." Malone ordered butter. This was time lost,

but there was nothing to do about it. He listened mildly while the major explained: "He's a wine dealer; suppose we'd call him a broker in America. Has warehouses up the river half a mile. Just where that old siding runs down to the gravel pit. You must have

passed it coming in." "I did," Malone said. His mind, reaching back, began to reveal its skill. "It was raining, didn't look close, of course. Only noticed the horses. Big white ones hitched tandem they were, pulling carts." (Continued on page 48)

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In 1919 The American Legion Declared That Its First Responsibility Would Be Care of the Disabled Service Man and His Dependents and The Legion /kf Kept its Pledge ByRalph T. O'Neil, National Commander ofTheAmerican Legion

1919, when The American Legion was one of some twenty- merly existing in the gigantic Veterans Bureau and has been good INodd fledgeling societies of American World War veterans, enough to say that he believes he could not have done so without its first responsibility and objective—relief for the wounded, the co-operation of The American Legion. Mr. Coolidge, who the disabled and their dependents—immediately won the gave much personal attention to Veterans Bureau affairs, has confidence and loyalty of the newly discharged soldier, sailor and said the same. marine. They joined with the group which brought the Legion The Legion has been frequently impatient at the slow pace of into being in declaring that it could succeed in no direction if it improvement but has always tried to understand the complexities failed its less fortunate comrades. of the problem from within and without the Bureau. It has never Adhering to this principle, the new organization at once in- tried to pull down the structure bodily, because at least something stituted a searching investigation of conditions affecting the dis- was being done for some needy veteran every day. The Legion, abled and their dependents. Their care was then in charge of however, feels that sufficient expedition does not now exist in three independent government agencies, the Bureau of War Risk effecting major betterments of service and thinks that its re- Insurance, the United States Public Health Service and the habilitation groups have to strive much too hard and argue much Federal Board for Vocational Training. The Legion discovered too frequently for rights of veterans which appear clear to the and disclosed a complete lack of co-operation among these agencies Legion. The Legion appreciates that in border-line cases there and the absence of competent understanding of many phases of may be some right on both sides and in its zeal for the disabled the problems with which they had to deal. tries not to forget the rights of the tax-paying public. The situation was appalling. The Legion found veterans suffer- Just now the press reflects an organized movement to over- ing from wounds and ill with infirmities contracted in service who emphasize what has been awarded disabled veterans and to had taken refuge in almshouses and in jails, weary of being underemphasize their needs. Perhaps this has affected some of the buffeted about by first one responsibility-dodging government recent decisions of the Bureau. It is difficult to serve an Adminis- agency and then another. There was no program for the future. tration which has faced a considerable deficit in its budget and to Not one government-owned hospital bed had been provided aside satisfy veterans' demands and requirements at the same time. from those in the war hospitals of temporary construction, which On the whole the ratings of the Bureau have been liberal in spirit, were being dismantled. though difficulty has been experienced lately in making this The Legion has been charged with assuming the role of dic- liberality effective in practice. tator in that situation. Let that phrase stand. The Legion did But that is where the Legion has always come into the situation. bring about by the most direct means certain emergency measures of temporary relief while it was assembling a corps of notable experts whose knowl- HpHE war over? Ten years ago 2.6,879 American and experience touched of edge every phase the veterans were under hospital care. Today there subject of the physical and social rehabilitation of disabled men. It laid before the Government a pro- is a total of 34,693. And tomorrow gram which in 1021, at the personal insistence of the President, resulted in the creation of the United States Veterans Bureau, consolidating under one head the Its job is to see that intended benefits become available to the in- functions hitherto scattered among the three independent and tended beneficiaries—veterans, their dependents, widows and jealous government organizations. Mr. Harding urged Frederic orphans—approaching the Veterans Bureau in the role of pe- W. Galbraith, Jr., then National Commander of the Legion, and titioners who must prove their claims. Such proof involves com- more than any other single person responsible for the creation of plicated questions of law, of medicine and of fact. The Legion has the Veterans Bureau, to accept its directorship. He declined on established itself as the advocate of such petitioners. It represents the ground that to resign the Legion's leadership would be an their causes before the various officials and boards of the Veterans avoidance of a greater responsibility. Before his term of office Bureau. The procedure is comparable to that of a court. Without expired National Commander Galbraith was killed in an auto- such representation the average veteran or his dependents would mobile accident. be in a hopeless situation. To employ the legal and medical talent The first director of the Veterans Bureau proved to be an unnecessary would in the average case cost more than the claimant fortunate choice. The Legion was instrumental in bringing about could afford to pay. The Legion, of course, renders this service his removal. He was succeeded by General Frank T. Hines, now without cost. Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, who for eight years has held All of this has been a gradual development in the course of one of the most responsible and burdensome posts in the Govern- which the Legion has created a comprehensive national organi- ment. General Hines has bettered many of the conditions for- zation, reaching from every countryside in America directly to the

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Photograph by L. This disabled World War service man and 636 other veterans who fought in the Army and Navy are patients in Brooklyn Naval Hospital now, thirteen years after the war

office of General Hines in Washington. This is the National Re- cludes the services of eminent surgical, medical, and legal habilitation Committee, with its co-operating units sustained by specialists whom the Legion's prestige is able to enlist in behalf of state Departments and local posts. The expenditures of the some unfortunate who hasn't a dollar in his pocket. National Rehabilitation Committee represent the largest item, The point by which contact is most often made with the appli- by far, in the budget of the national organization of the Legion. cant is the post service officer. Of the 10,000-odd posts of the Last year it exceeded $200,000, and this year's expenditure will be Legion, about 7,000 maintain active service officers, some of greater. No definite figures are available on rehabilitation by the them on pay. They are supplied with a very inclusive manual, state Departments and posts, but they greatly exceed those of the a new edition of which will presently be distributed, with direc- national organization. I would not attempt to calculate the value tions for handling the commonest forms of applications for in- of gratuitous services rendered every day in the year, which information or relief. Most of these (Continued on page 63)

SEPTEMBER, 193 15 Builders Results ofTheAmerican Legion Monthly

FIRST PRIZE, $500 MEMORIES of great American deeds become im- Alfred L. Adams, 7655 Bosworth Ave., Chicago, Illinois mortalized as national traditions, and America is more than mindful of her national heroes. She honors A SUBLIME ACHIEVEMENT of our na- not only those whose names resound in our history but tion is our northern boundary, thirty-five also the hosts of the unsung heroes of science and commerce, hundred miles long, unfortified, yet unviolated education and exploration, and other fields of human achieve- for over a century. ment. The American Legion Monthly's Achievement Contest, The wars of the Revolution and 181 2 left a offering prizes totaling $2,000 to the thirty-six readers who would tradition of national hatred better founded write the best one-hundred-word summaries on the subject "A than any in Europe and we have had excellent Great American Achievement, and Why I Think It is Great" opportunities for wars with Britain ever since. proved that, great and humble alike, our national heroes live on However, by common sense, solving difficulties and on, the recollections of their deeds of yesterday inspiring the rather than "embracing dangers," we have maintained peace doers of today and those who will be the doers of tomorrow. The until it has become a habit, easy to follow, hard to break. contest proved, furthermore, that America has lively recollec- Today our northern boundary shines before the world, a tions of those national accomplishments which are too great and unique demonstration of "peace on earth, good will toward men." too far-reaching to be associated only with the name of an individual. SECOND PRIZE, $250 The announcement of the contest appeared in the issue for Rev. Jo/in D. Brush, First niversalist Church, U Norwood, Mass. July, which reached readers on June 25th. It was announced that the contest would end on July 10th. There were, therefore, WHEN, in all history, has any people only fifteen days for submitting entries. It was long enough. pushed a frontier two thousand miles long, Exactly manuscripts were sent in. Of these, 626 were back over three thousand miles of wilderness 2,198 written by women and 1,572 by men. They came from every and left behind it the wealthiest, most unified, most closely knit civilization on the globe? At the close of the Revolution, the United States consisted of three million souls squeezed into the crevices of a ragged Atlantic sea-line. FIFTH PRIZE, $100 Today, three million square miles of savagery Lloyd Wilcox, 2125 Peasley St., Columbus, Ohio transformed into three million square miles of civilization in but DR. JESSE W. LAZEAR, American Army little over a century. It had never been done before! It can never surgeon, was sent to Cuba in 1900 on a com- be done again! And it is your United States. mission to discover the cause and the carrier of yellow fever. He offered himself as the first THIRD PRIZE, $200 volunteer to be bitten by the Stegomyia James E. Spitznas, Frostburg, Maryland Fasciata mosquito. He contracted yellow THE SECRETARY OF WAR and the fever in virulent form and died. By sacrificing Army officers were amazed. Selecting indis- his life, Dr. Lazear made possible the eradica- criminately from ten piles of parts, Eli Whit- tion of a disease that had scourged and ter- ney put together ten muskets. Thus the in- rorized America for centuries. This in turn made possible the ventor of the cotton gin gave to America the building of the Panama Canal. idea of the standardization of parts, the Dr. Lazear offered and gave his life that millions of Americans

principle which is at the bottom of all large might live and prosper. scale production. The cotton gin foresaw the rise and fall of a kingdom, but the idea of SIXTH PRIZE, $50 standardization foreshadowed richer living for the masses. Dudley Smith, 2211 Central Grove Ave., Toledo, Ohio

UNCLE SAM a "Dollar Grabber"? Noth- FOURTH PRIZE, $150 ing more false. After the Boxer Rebellion we R. K. Fessenden, 7101 Colonial Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y. were awarded twenty-four million dollars in- IN 1930 the nation achieved greatness demnity from China. Congress reduced it to through adversity. Plunged in one year from thirteen million, and then told China she might riches to privation—facing smokeless factories, use this sum to educate young men and women unsold crops and breadlines—in a world reeling in America. from famine and revolution, Americans tight- Four hundred students come each year to ened their belts, helped each other and carried study. Individually, they return to China on. We kept intact our greatest asset: the with grateful hearts. The great Chinese nation will never forget American Spirit. The force which drove the our friendly act. ragged Continentals to victory and animated It makes us prouder of the Stars and Stripes, for we stood alone the frontiersmen held their children steadfast. Going forward among the powers in this unselfish concession. A great American through the barrage of depression—that's achievement! achievement in international good will. 16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

Better AM ERI CA $2,000 Achievement Contest

State, from the Canal Zone, Porto Rico. France and Alaska. $25 PRIZE California sent 167, pressing closely New York, with 171. Penn- L. O. Caldwell, De Smet, South Dakota Texas sent one more sylvania sent 140, Massachusetts 109. 06, EVERY American knows about Lexington than either Ohio or Indiana. Other States were represented and Concord, but very few are aware of a much roughly according to population and Legion strength. more important event which occurred in Lex- Alfred L. Adams, who won the main prize of $500, lives in ington in 1839. For in 1839, Horace Mann Chicago, but he is a member of Sanford Brown, Jr., Post of established the first Normal School for train- Kansas City. Missouri. The winner of the second prize of $250, ing teachers in America. D. Brush, is a minister, pastor of the First Universalist John Previous to this time, teachers were un- Church of Norwood, Massachusetts. Ohio is the only State to trained as a general rule, and the common fifth of the sixth of $50 gain two of the major prizes—the $100, schools wereyery poor and inadequate. Indeed, with six of the thirty-six awards. and leads all other States they were very poor, judging by present standards. California is second with three awards. Eight States have two But with this meager and unheralded beginning, the training winners each Illinois, Montana, Jersey, Kansas, Indiana, — New of our teachers, and general efficiency of textbooks and schools be- Massachusetts, York and Georgia. There are thirty prizes New gan to improve, and the general estimate of teaching was raised in each. of $25 the mind of the public. chose as subjects the A. E. F. and The A surprising number $25 PRIZE American Legion. Other most popular subjects included the Ray Carroll, Box 637, Roundup, Montana Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the careers of in lands Washington and Lincoln, Edison and the electric light, Charles THE ANCIENTS many knew petroleum. Internal combustion motors A. Lindbergh's epic flight, McCormick's invention of the reaper, awaited some suitable explosive. America Horace Mann's public school efforts, and Benjamin Franklin's created the Petroleum Industry. experiments with electricity and his career as a statesman. Colonel Edwin Drake found production at 69 feet. Seventy-two years later our drills are below 10,000. Rockefellers, Coal Oil Johnnies, Leideckers, Forgies, financed, squandered, $25 PRIZE figured out the tools. The dry holes of the C. B. Alltnan, Glen Easton, West Virginia forlorn legion of wildcatters, with their "crooked oil stock," wrote geology. Aviation, the world awheel, highways, tractors, IN 1790 when Samuel Slater built the first King Coal driven from the stokehold, all are substance of the cotton mill at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, little physical marvel of all time, American in origin, the Petroleum did he think that he was starting something Industry. that was changing the entire United States PRIZE from hand to factory labor. $25 Denis F. Cashman, 402 Edgewood Ave., Dayton, Ohio A change in the ways men do their work is called industrial revolution. The industrial THE DREAMS of humanity from the revolution was far more outreaching than mythological fable of Icarus to the twentieth

either the American or French Revolution. It century was to fly. The realization of this so increased the quantities of goods that could be produced dream is the achievement of W ilbur and Or- that millions were able to live where only thousands could live ville Wright. By patient, tireless labor they before. laid the foundation for all the remarkable achievements of the modern airplane. The airplane removed the obstacles of rivers, $25 PRIZE mountains and deserts, it conquered the Polar Oscar C. Anderson, Grass Range, Montana wastes and tropical jungles, it has helped outlaw war by bringing TO THE COMMON MAN and woman who humanity closer together. have done their duty day by day as it has come $25 PRIZE to them, through the hard years following the Willis Aleph Chrisman, 100 Stiles St., Elizabeth, New Jersey great war the nation owes a debt of gratitude. THE SOUND CHARAC TER, adverse cir- This man and woman have no special ad- cumstances and splendid achievement of dress and no particular calling or profession; Matthew Fontaine Maury endear him to us

but they are found in every nook and corner as fulfilling the American ideal. I laving learned of our land. that navigating data were nonexistent, he There will be no monuments erected in memory of their utilized his position as developer of the Naval deeds. In many cases their struggles will show no greater Observatory to prepare, with the cooperation results than that of keeping the family together or the little of mariners everywhere, the first sea charts. home intact. At a world conference for the standardization Yet these are the people the nation has always depended upon of nautical and meteorological data in 1853, this scientist of whenever a crisis came. worthy manners and morals inspired unparalleled accomplish-

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mcnt and good will. Aerial no less than marine navigation re- $25 PRIZE flects his efforts. Donald Francis, 10 Murray St., East Hartford, Connecticut , Tomorrow, when nations must seek, new aerial commerce, no I'M a laundry driver—have a boss who man can justly appraise Maury's pioneering work in the field of treats his employes like his own family—was aeronautics. a platoon leader, he says. Average dollar an hour, get vacation with $25 PRIZE W pay, paid when sick. Had a rupture—wife had John Dodge Clark, 22 Berkeley Rd., Mapleivnod, New Jersey m baby same time—boss visited us in hospital

jag !§s§ sh eased our mental and financial worries. ON APRIL 30, 1803, Napoleon declared, "I His method: "You're going great, George have given England a rival," and Robert Snap into it, Leon—Fine work, Harvey Livingston stated, "Today the United States Cockeyed again, Dick, skids for yours." His "human relations" take their place among the powers of the first ideas are now copied throughout city and State. rank." The occasion was the purchase of Louisiana $25 PRIZE Territory from France. James R. Frazer, 225 Sixth Ave., La Grange, Illinois Despite the indifference and opposition of his own country—which was interested only ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1780, Major John in securing New Orleans to insure free commerce through the Andre was captured by John Paulding, Joseph Mississippi—Livingston, our ambassador in France, had stressed Williams and Isaac Van Wart when returning the impossibility of France defending Louisiana against England from a conference with Benedict Arnold to and influenced Napoleon to abandon his plans for a colonial em- perfect the treasonable plan to surrender West pire in America by ceding Louisiana to the United States. Point. The papers were on his person. If these patriots had yielded to the temptation of offered bribes, Arnold would have undone $25 PRIZE everything gained when Burgoyne surrendered Charles E. Forbes, Thomas, Oklahoma at Saratoga; New England would have been separated from the other colonies and IT is hard to realize that all patients had to England would have defeated them in detail. suffer the pain of knife or saw until 1846, when an American surgeon in an American hospital $25 PRIZE Mrs. J. J. Harris, Ave., Youngstown, Ohio demonstrated to the world that it is possible 824 Cameron to produce anaesthesia from pain. To Dr. THE DEVELOPMENT of the Automobile Crawford W. Long who used ether in 1842 but Industry—particularly of the moderate-priced did not it the demonstrate to world, to Dr. fft 4£*f famil) car, is one of the greatest American Horace Wells, a Connecticut dentist who pro- achievements. It has given us thousands of duced anaesthesia with nitrous oxide gas in miles of improved roads, and has brought about 1844, and to Dr. C. T. Jackson who demonstrated in a surgical development of centralized rural schools. It operation in 1846 that complete anaesthesia was possible we owe has given rural people access to distant markets an everlasting debt of gratitude. and trading centers, and to cultural advantages and pleasures of nearby cities. It has given $25 PRIZE city people a chance to spend happy hours in the open air of the time labor for millions, has Kenney L. Ford, iji6 Leavenworth St., Manhattan, Kansas countryside. It has saved and and brought pleasure that cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. CONGRESS PASSED and Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act on July 2, 1862. This $25 PRIZE act provided for the allotment of public land Joseph L. Hartman, §38 Brighton Ave. Toledo, Ohio to each State for the establishment of a dis- WILLARD GIBBS. Yale physicist, born tinctly new American type college. The Land Feb. 11, 1839, in New Haven, Connecticut, Grant state colleges offer to every citizen a hid his light of achievement under the basket liberal and practical education, including mili- of modesty and gave to the world his Phase tary science and tactics. Graduates of these Rule which provided the foundation upon colleges have aided in the development and which iron and steel industries stand today. defense of our nation. The provision for the training of boys and Application of his rule led to the discovery girls who come from the farm, town, and city homes for the that by addition of minute quantities of carbon leadership and service to our country is a great American achievement. to iron, steel could be manufactured with scientific exactness. Steel, used to span space and speed world advancement, was tendered to humanity through the geniusof Gibbs. $25 PRIZE James A. Fort, Americus, Georgia $25 PRIZE Paul B. Ingersoll, 509 Jones St., Eveleth, Minnesota WOODROW WILSON'S efforts to reform our banking system materialized when he THREE TIMES he prevented a division signed the Federal Reserve Act. That act of the nation. Though Henry Clay is numbered changed an era. After Andrew Jackson but among the "also-rans," none has influenced smashed the Bank of the United States, con- more greatly the course of American na- trol of the flow of money finally passed to Wall tionality.

Street. Now the Federal Reserve is dominant. The three great compromises between North The United States is the financial center of the and South all bear the mark of Clay. That world. Business needs determine the flow of secession more devastating than that of i860 money. Wall Street cannot cause a panic. The price is regulated; did not occur ten years earlier must be espe- cheap money to encourage business, dear money to curb specu- cially credited to the efforts of the Great Compromiser. No maker lation. of peace ever plotted more skillfully, pleaded more persuasively, In these troubled times the Federal Reserve System is a nor succeeded more gloriously. Let us cease to prate that "se- great constructive force. cession was inevitable." Clay held it back for forty years.

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly $25 PRIZE $25 PRIZE Leo Krawetz, 16 West Delaware Ave. Toledo, Ohio Stuart McKissick, Box 76, Vista, California

IN THE WORLD W AR America placed in NOTHING has developed America's pre- battle-line in Europe two million men, 3,500 eminence like transportation. Excepting miles from home supply base. Across the At- steam, transportation has received no impetus lantic, whose sea-lanes were patroled by comparable to the Erie Canal. enemy submarines. A statesman whose forbears were soldiers,' Hannibal's expedition into Italy, Xerxes' patriots, dreamed expansion. He saw vast attack on Greece, Genghis Khan's invasion of inland traffic flowing cheaply eastward. As Europe, all previous movements of great canal commissioner Congress denied him aid. armies, small in comparison. July, 1918, Paris From 1810 to 1824 he fought prejudice, ani- in danger. Then the Americans. November, the war over. mosity. Van Buren and Tammany ousted him as commissioner. Greatest American achievement, for with this powerful land But New York State, loving De Witt Clinton, overwhelmingly advocating justice between nations, no other country is likely re-elected him Governor. In October, 1825, he presided trium- again to violate that principle. International disputes should phantly at the canal's opening. be settled without war. Universal peace must come. Railroads pushing up river, and westerly from New England, met the canal at Albany. American transportation had been born. $25 PRIZE Mrs. Joe D. McClellan, 231 East Abriendo, Pueblo, Colorado $25 PRIZE 191 1, Cora Martin Stewart, Cowan IN Edwin C. McRcynolds, Box 74, Cojfcyville, Kansas County, Kentucky, opened the world's first school for adult illiterates. Our nation had AMONG the great American achievements five million illiterates then. The first night, there is one which is likely to be overlooked twelve hundred adults were taught by volun- because it is so enormous, and because its teer teachers. This crusade swept adjacent fulfillment has extended through the entire counties, then States, gathering strength until period of our national history. This great

it became a nation-wide campaign with accomplishment is simply the physical occu- offices in Washington, and Mrs. Stewart pation of the most desirable portion of the national director. National organizations advanced the cause. North American continent. The nearest In one year four States alone taught 240,070 illiterates. approach to this expansion in the history of Mrs. Stewart made the greatest contribution to advance- the world was the growth of the Roman state. Had Rome ment of human welfare by American woman. Great achieve- made her great development in one century, instead of six, ments besides health, wealth and happiness are expected from and had she added northern Europe to her territories, the these minds freed from ignorance. parallel would be complete.

$25 PRIZE $25 PRIZE George R.McCormack, 318 North Fourth St., Vincennes, Indiana M. E. Mushlitz, 125 South McMillan Ave., Ventura, California

THE MARCH of George Rogers Clark and THE MONROE DOCTRINE is the Magna his little band of intrepid frontiersmen across Charta of the Americas. It freed the Western the flooded plain of Indiana and Illinois Hemisphere from political interference from to capture, in face of almost insuperable the rest of the world. Beginning as a warning obstacles, Old Vincennes from the Brit- of "hands off" in 1823, it raised the United ish, February, 1779, marks one of the States to a policeman of the high seas under outstanding achievements in American Roosevelt, and protected our weaker sister history. nations to the south. Viewed from the purely military standpoint Yet the author and power in formulating Clark's accomplishment is relatively insignificant. Why then this great American policy remains unsung. John Quincy was it an outstanding achievement in American history? Be- Adams, then Secretary of State, conceived and through his cause it made possible American expansion westward; and be- diplomacy formulated this great masterpiece which was named cause it marked the inspiration of the characteristic American after Mr. Monroe, who was then President. spirit— the spirit to carry on in face of difficulties and overcome all obstacles. $25 PRIZE Miss Marian Scanlan, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin $25 PRIZE ACTING with limited authority, under George 11. McKee, 278 Twelfth St., N. E., Atlanta, Georgia conflicting instructions from the disunited JEFFERSON, although President of the States they represented, fifty-five American I'nited States, preferred other services en- leaders struggled behind closed doors through graved on his monument. Among these: four months of sweltering Philadelphia sum- Author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious mer—debating, compromising, defeating re- Freedom. peated motions for adjournment, building

This famous bill, which guarantees the free- thought by thought and word by word an un- dom of conscience and relief of the people from paralleled document. supporting by taxation an established church, The patience of Washington who presided, the keen intellect was considered by Jefferson as a great achieve- of Madison, the facile pen of Gouverncur Morris, the vibrant ment. In 1786, when it was passed, no sovereign state in Christen- eloquence of the young Hamilton, the sobering wisdom of the old dom had formally committed itself to guaranteeing religious Franklin— these were dramatic elements which brought about freedom to its citizens. the completion of the Constitution of the United States and

Received with the greatest applause, it was translated and furnished us our organic law. circulated widely. Introduced in our Constitution through the It brought solidarity out of chaos and gave the new nation a First Amendment it has been adopted practically everywhere. strong foundation on which to grow. (Continued on page 46)

SEPTEMBER, 193 1 19 Welcom e w Our City BtfHenrtf T. Ewald

Detroit is mentioned one The commercial and archi- on the alert for the unconventional, the WHENthinks of automobiles, of the tectural twin of down- unusual, in entertainment. They are as apt most meteoric growth in the town Manhattan looms at throwing bigger and better conventions as annals of American cities, of a above the shoreline of the at building bigger and better automobiles. virile, young man's town. Yet Detroit has a Detroit River where Cadil- They know how to be a good host, how to do further distinction which she treasures be- lac built his stockade as the things on the grand scale. yond many of those commonly attributed to key to a new empire 230 To understand the temper of Detroiters, her and perhaps more extensively publicized. years ago and the welcome they will extend to Legion- As early as two decades ago, with her naires, it is only necessary to look back to population only one-fourth that of today, Detroit won justly the city's record in the World War. During every Liberty Loan deserved recognition as a convention city. This reputation grew drive Detroit was the first major city in the country to obtain its as fast as the city itself, for her experience as a host and her quota. Its people went after that quota with the same aggressive facilities for handling conventions expanded with every widening tactics they use to introduce a new automobile. Intensive cam- of her boundaries. Today, Detroit ranks with the great cities of paigns backed by extensive advertising aroused a patriotic spirit the world as a mecca for those seeking the best in hospitality and which not only put the loan drives across, but helped sell the diversion. country on the war. This spirit was reflected in the high per- Two things contribute to Detroit's unique position as a favored centage of enlistments from Detroit and Michigan. city for conventions—her physical attributes and the character of A strong feeling of nationalism and patriotism is a heritage of her people. While centuries old, Detroit is essentially a new town, the town. More than two centuries ago Detroit was the outpost of a vital, energetic place, her pulse keyed to the throb of an in- a widening American frontier, a small cluster of huts on the De- dustry which put America on wheels and startled the world by troit River bank. Frequent skirmishes between the French and its growth. Her people are young, vigorous, attracted to the town the British for control kept the settlers in a constant state of for the most part within recent years. They know the art of turmoil, and periodic Indian depredations added to the general ready fellowship; they know how to make the stranger feel at excitement. home, for they themselves were strangers too recently to forget. The thrill of that excitement lingers in the air even today, There is an easy camaraderie about these people which every though it is excitement inspired by warlike competition in a Legionnaire will like. They are too new to the town to be steeped keenly competitive industry rather than by Chief Pontiac's war in hide-bound tradition. The brass hat and stuffed shirt went out whoops. Today, skyscrapers rise from ground where Indian with the horse and buggy when the automobile came in. De- legends grew. Today in many parts of the downtown district troiters are cosmopolitan rather than local. Just as their in- feeble buildings marked by historical tablets rub flanks with dustries thrive on new developments, so are Detroiters constant'y modern structures of steel and concrete.

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Detroit Is Essentially a New Town, a Vital, Energetic Place, Her Pulse Keyed to the Throb of an Industry Which Put America on Wheels and Startled the World by Its Growth. Her People Know the Art of Ready Fellowship; They Know How to Make the Stranger Feel at Home, for They Themselves Were Strangers Too Recently to Forget

This quaint blending of the old and new lends a charm to the be provided during every minute of every Legionnaire's stay here. town which visitors find enchanting. It has heen a factor in at- Detroit was, I believe, the first major city to attempt open-air tracting hundreds of previous conventions which earned Detroit dancing. I also believe it was the first to attempt to give every the right to the title "The Convention City." convention visitor a ride in a motor vehicle as soon as he arrives. A more important factor, however, has been the attitude of There will be thousands of private cars carrying windshield Detroit toward conventions. The city learned years ago that con- stickers inviting members of the Legion and their guests for tours ventions bring business. By that I do not mean the temporary around the city and on the superhighways just outside the town, spurt in trade experienced by shopkeepers and hotelmen. I mean where five lanes of traffic move in either direction, unhampered the permanent benefits resulting from new plants and new in- by speed limits. dustries established in the city by men who visited it for the first Our Woman's Auxiliary of the Red Cross, which I believe was time during a convention, and were so favorably impressed that the most efficient in the country, will be organized to see that they made permanent investments here. Such results have every possible comfort and convenience, and the best of enter- taught the city the value of being a considerate and genial host. tainment, are afforded the wives or sweethearts of those attending.

While Detroit has entertained many conventions before, and From the standpoint of physical equipment, the city is ad- has staged many patriotic demonstrations, she has never ex- mirably prepared to make every Legionnaire's stay pleasant and perienced anything on the elaborate scale of the big parade of memorable. Hotels and housing facilities are adequate, and Legionnaires. It will be virtually America on parade. The cot- adequately planned for in advance. The streets, widened for ton-grower from the South, the Kansas farmer, the Montana motor traffic, are ideal for the big parade. The combined seating sheep-herder, the orange grower from California, the millhand capacity of assembly halls in the town is greater than in any other from New England, the Wall Street broker and the Mid-Eastern city in the country. Transportation facilities range from air to miner all will respond to the magnetic pull of the convention and water. its side lines. By way of entertainment beyond that planned for by the Detroit senses keenly her responsibility for showing the best committees, Detroit offers everything but mountain climbing. possible time to every Legionnaire who attends. The city is For those who like water and water sports, there is the Detroit

proud of the role of host. By drawing on her wide experience River, linking two of the Great Lakes. Craft available on it range with previous conventions, and planning everything on a grander from rowboats to steamers the size of ocean-going liners. In the scale than ever before, she will be ready to meet and greet the middle of the river, almost opposite downtown Detroit, is Belle great army of Legionnaires in September. Isle, largest island playground in the world. Being a new city, Detroit is anything but From Detroit to the British Above and beneath the river, placing down- conservative. It delights in doing the un- Empire in three minutes. town Detroit within a few minutes of Windsor usual and unexpected. Many members of the The Ambassador Bridge is and Canada, are the newly completed tunnel, committees of business men who planned and so high that tomorrow's the Ambassador Bridge arching high enough handled the receptions to returning soldiers ocean liners may follow the above the water to allow ocean liners to pass and the Red Arrow Division are now work- Detroit River to Lake Hu- beneath, and ferries which provide the world's ing with the committees of the Legion con- ron without so much as only boat trip abroad for a nickel. vention. Entertainment of an original type will scraping a mast top Giant automobile (Continued on page 48)

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i-^v The War We LostBi/ Pacifism Btf RupertHughes

HAVE been led to believe— by people who have signed; we gained a few brilliant naval victories at the start, WEbeen led to believe—that pacifism and disarma- though even these were won when our few big ships met inferior ment have never been tried, but would work enemy forces; our privateers played havoc with British com-

wonders for peace if only we could be brought to merce. Otherwise, the story was altogether humiliating. give them a chance. We did try them—we tried them for years. Nobody would accuse Theodore Roosevelt of lacking patriot- And the result was eventually a war which we ought to have ism, yet his history of "The Naval 2" fought long before or not at all; which, when we finally fought it, War of 181 is one of the most sick- Cartoons hi/ we fought on false grounds at the worst of all possible times; and ening confessions of defeat ever which at last we lost, incurring appalling disgrace, and coming written, and it is documented beyond John Cassel within an inch of utter ruination, secession, permanent disaster dispute. Henry Adams was the great and dissolution of the Union. grandson of President John Adams, and the grandson of Presi- Owing to our curious methods of teaching history to our dent John Quincy Adams. His "History of the United States children and the habit most of us have of never reading any During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison" covers this history after we drop the childish textbooks, our people are al- neglected period with grueling frankness and should be read by most universally convinced of the fact that we never lost a war. every sincere American. It has recently been reprinted in four As a young man I gloried in the pride of belonging to a nation that handy volumes. always won. I still glory in the lucky accident of being a citizen of When I say that we practiced disarmament I should admit that the United States, but I do not glory in my country's shames, not we had a few great ships left over from an earlier period, but I the least of which is the vast amount of lying fable with which we don't know what I should admit about the gunboats that were have poisoned our young and distorted the reason of our elders. built during the period of brotherly love and forbearance. Only recently Gunboats were did I come to real- built, and this ize that we actu- looks warlike, but ally did try dis- they were so built armament for that on the appear- many years, and ance of the enemy in the beautiful they could be name of peace drawn up in the groveled before shallow rivers foreign countries where hostile ships till we could en- could not reach dure no more and them ! I don't know declared a war that any word comic half the country enough for such a opposed as a crime policy. And the and tried to thwart. farce is very, very We were horribly close to tears of defeated, humili- shame. ated and confused, Incidentally, our and at the end were capital city was glad to accept a within such easy treaty in which the reach of the Brit- causes that drove ish blockader that us to war were not the Departments even mentioned. were packed up for We were glad instant flight, and "The American ship Warship was not ready for battle. Chicken enough to accept when the British coops were piled on the guns. So it was riddled and wrecked, any terms lest ut- finally landed they the flag was hauled down, and the British carried off four sailors" ter destruction be- captured Washing- fall us. ton with disgusting Though many passionate zealots will doubtless denounce these ease, while President Madison fled, carrying off a portrait of statements as offensive to true patriotism, it seems to me to be George Washington, and leaving the British to burn and pillage false patriotism, and indeed nothing short of treason, to teach as they pleased. Americans that we won the War of 1812. I cannot understand I revere, with many qualifications, the memory of Thomas the sort of blustering jingo-mania that must bolster itself on Jefferson, to whom the world owes so much of its best principles falsehood and suppression of fact. In the War of 181 2 we won a an official of the Irish Free State recently credited him with the few land battles, including one great victory after the treaty was final freedom of Ireland. But he committed many sins against

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly common sense, and saw his policies before the malice of events collapse "One good, ardent pacifist after he had gained and held power can start more trouble and long enough to give a complete scatter more vitriol than demonstration that his principle of hundred old soldiers" defenselessness was impracticable and disastrous. George Washington was as strongly opposed to mixing in European entanglements as Jefferson ever was, but Washington believed that the way to keep free of entanglements is to be equipped for throwing them off or cutting a way out. He believed in keeping peace by being ready for war. In other words, like practically all of us who are sland- ered as militarists and fire eaters and lovers of gore, he loved Peace so well that he wanted to be strong enough to protect her when she was threatened. The pacifists can never be made to understand the honest innocence and peacefulness of the believers in preparedness; our arguments only drive them to such violence that even if there were never any other causes for war, we preparationists would have to rally in self-defense to keep the bloodthirsty pacifists from annihilating us. For you must have noticed that one good, ardent pacifist can start more trouble and scatter more vitriol than a hundi" old soldiers. If our schoolchildren were taught a little more truth about our past, we could face our present and our future a little more sanely. As it is now, if you want to be denounced as an enemy of your country, try to pull down a little of the falsework about our history and ask attention to what really happened, who our heroes really were, and what they actually did. I myself, though pro- claiming that George Washington was the greatest man that ever lived and the purest and most useful patriot in history, have been de- for my native land is to do my best to learn and utter only the nounced as a debunker and a slanderer because I have tried to honest truth concerning its history. tear away the pompous lies that have been built up to conceal the It is of the most vital importance that a country's mistakes real man and his times, and have tried to show in his own words should be recorded, studied and published so that their repetition what he really was and did. may be avoided. It is of the most vital bearing on the question of So when I say that in the War of 1812 we were licked to hell- disarmament and unpreparedness that we should study the re- and-gone, and that our flag was dragged as deep in the dirt as sults of such policies in the past. ever a flag was dragged, First of all, we must not allow the pacifists to get away either and that only by shame- with murder or with innocence. When they say that they are ful surrenders in the trying to save human lives, we have a right to call to mind the nick of time were we myriads of American lives that have been sacrificed by pacifism

saved from devasta- and unpreparedness. I do not speak of the fact that if we had tion and disintegration been ready to enter the World War when we declared our in-

I expect to be greeted tention to enter it. we could have saved actually millions of with the frenzied slan- European soldiers from death and trillions of property. What are ders of those who will European lives and money to us?

do almost anything ex- But is it impertinent to point to the thousands of American cept learn the truth and lives that would have been saved, the tens of thousands of wounds

speak it. that would have been escaped, had we been ready for war? Many loud-voiced During the World War, according to the statistics of the people all too plainly believe that United States War Department as revised June 30, 1928, Russia the way to prove their patriotism lost 1,700,000 lives, had 4,950,000 wounded and lost 2,500,000 is to shout down facts and make prisoners; the British lost 908.371 lives, had 2,090,212 wounded knowledge odious, but I believe and lost 191,652 prisoners; France lost 1,357,000 lives, 4,266,000 that a truer way to prove my love wounded and 537,000 prisoners; Italy, {Continued on page j8) SEPTEMBER, tow 23 When M R. BAKER MADE WAR

RETURNING now to the period of Pershing's gloomy leaving them no alternative but retreat. By June 22d Venice cable of June ioth, when the people were leaving Paris was as safe as Paris. An army in success does not think in terms and preparations were being made for its official evacu- of dropping out of the war. Italy might begin to dream of her ation, the threat that formed the shadow of this even- goal of Trieste again. tuality was in the coming fourth German offensive. Foch held his divisions in reserve as he waited for the blow. It came promptly JUST a few days more than a year after the first American and its purpose was to unlock the second door to Paris, which had contingent had landed at St. Nazaire, Baker was guilty of been opened by the third offensive, by a drive along the line from infringing military secrecy without receiving a protest from Noyon to Montdidier. This time Ludendorff did not catch Foch Pershing, who had earnestly desired that we should not reveal napping. The French master of tactics displayed all his cunning the number of our troops in France. On July 6th he was writing against the German master. His French veterans rose to the to Pershing: occasion with all the spirit they had, when young to the war, in "On the first of July I wrote the President that i,oiq,ooo men answer to Joffre's call in the first Marne. German gains for had embarked from the United States for France. There had

Ludendorff 's purpose were negligible. Paris was safe. Parisians been so much speculation about numbers that it seemed necessary who had been in flight might return; and the danger which had to be frank and tell the facts. The American people are accus- prompted the orders in preparation for evacuation now appeared tomed to demanding the facts and there was some impatience as a nightmare long past in the swift drama of war. manifested with the Department for its continued policy of

Apprehension, which had so Secretary Baker, General Gorgas and other of- silence on this subject. I realized long kept casting Allied thought ficers and civilians take part in an abandon ship when I made the statement that to another quarter, was dismissed drill on the Secretary's second trip to France, in all likelihood I should have to by a companion success, when which came to a close as American soldiers were discontinue further reference to the Central Empires had planned helping to produce the knockout in the Meuse- numbers, at least further specific companion disasters for the Al- Argonne offensive references. The Germans, lies. On June 15th the Austrians French, and British of course had begun a great offensive make no such announcements, against the Italians. One wing of it broke down; the other put and our Allies will not like to have us adopting a different course. which we have maintained for one hundred thousand men across the Piave. Providence was on . . . Still, if the rate of shipment the side of the Italians in unprecedentedly heavy rains, which made the last two or three months can be kept up for another six the shallow river a torrent. This bore down from the hills lum- months, I am not very sure that exact news carried to Germany bermen's log rafts, severing many of the Austrians' bridges and of the arrival of Americans in France might not be helpful to us.

rather than harmful. The Ger- In the home camps where more than two million salient, with its flanks inviting man government cannot fail to men were in training for the job of a twice-as- attack, which had been made in be impressed by this steady large A. E. F. of 1919 the Commission on Train- the Allied lines by the third Ger- stream of fresh soldiers to the ing Camp Activities provided all sorts of recrea- man offensive. In that lull Western Front." tion for hours after drill. This recreation hut Harbord's brigade of the Second But Colonel Harvey was not scene is at Camp Grant, Illinois had had the stage not only at satisfied. He was writing in his home but place in the British and Harvey's Weekly, "Transpose the French press and in talk along the letters in BAKER and you have BRAKE—and that is what our line. Then on July 1st the other brigade of the Second, on the pacifist Secretary of War has been from the beginning of the right of the Paris road, had its turn in a technically brilliant and great conflict, both before and after we engaged perfect operation which took in it, and what he is today. We can not bear the village of Vaux. in mind a single contribution made by him to After the convincing proof winning the war. . . . Anything, anything for of the fighting spirit and an excuse for doing nothing." quality of our divisions that For July 4th our people had the formal an- had been already engaged, nouncement of the one million men in France, Foch was bringing recent ar- in place of fireworks which were a waste of rivals among our divisions to manufacturing power when every available the Marne salient, instead of resource must be employed for munitions and ^ sending them to the Ameri- supplies. It was not Colonel Harvey but the can sector to relieve French Deutsche Tageszeitung which wrote, after the divisions on a quiet front. So disappointment of the failure of the fourth Ger- we were away from the ter- man offensive and of the Austrian offensive: minus of our own line of "Today, on the anniversary of the American communications which we day of Independence the Entente will fill the had been building up to world with resounding phrases of their [Ameri- care for our Army in the can] help. America herself will produce a expectation that it would world of bluff in the form of phrases, threats operate in Lorraine. Given and assertions—all bluff, pure bluff celebrated the emergency, the way in Paris by reviews." Ludendorff knew that was found to switch our sup- time was now against him. and any disparage- ply system out of the regular ment of our effort might aid morale for his channels and keep our men fifth, which was to be his final offensive, while rationed. They were not other German papers were boasting of sub- having candy or apple pie, marine successes and saying that the Americans but they were not going could not swim or fly and therefore our mob of hungry. conscripts herded on transports would never Jumped from thecompara- reach France. 'He may turn his back on Amer- tive comforts of the canton- ica," was the wording under this ments across three thousand THERE was a lull, another ominous lull, in London Bystander cartoon of the miles of sea in transports that the general action after the failure of the Kaiser, "but the force is there just were crammed beyond all fourth German offensive, as the Allies glowered the same." It was, but not in air- precedent, our Americans at the military insult of the provocative Marne planes such as these were seeing France as the

SEPTEMBER, 193 25 pawns of Foch's disposition of his rapidly growing During the summer Foch swiftly pressed the advantage with the 26th army. Every week brought him two more of the and fall of 1918 a Division advancing from Belleau Wood, while big American divisions, whose soldiers saw nothing nation-wide epidemic the Third crossed the Marne and stormed the of those American railroad cars which were on our of Spanish influenza heights on the other side. lines of communications. They traveled in the threatened to disrupt So Chateau-Thierry was to be associated with little French railroad cars which were for forty both civilian and American arms in more than the stone-walling on men or eight horses; and "home" was where they military efforts to get the Paris road. Fresh divisions succeeded the were billeted. The adventure was on in earnest munitions and men exhausted divisions when there seemed no choice for what was so generally a war of movement for to France. A hospital between them. When the Third, the 26th and our army in France. In the Stars and Stripes, scene during the 28th were worn down, the 42d and the Fourth, the army newspaper, they read the news from height of the epidemic which had been with the British and two months home and local items about their American showing how each in France, and the 3 2d which had been five world in France. bed was isolated from months in France but less than two in a quiet On July 15th came the fifth German offensive all others sector, were conquering German machine-gun striking along a line from the base of the Marne nests in the test of open battle, storming the salient to east of Rheims. Three American divi- heights of the Ourcq and working their way up the sions had the opportunity of facing it at crucial points. The 4 2d valley of the Vesle. Yet another division, this time a National on its way to the salient, after a restless month in further training Army division, the 77th, which had been with the British and which had not staled it, was in against the full impact of the blow four months in France, was to know front line service in the Allied east of Rheims as a part of Gouraud's army which shattered counter offensive that had closed the salient and taken Fismes German hopes in that direction, and just east of Chateau-Thierry by August 5th. the Third had won its sobriquet "the Rock of the Marne" as it That most rigorous battle schooling, the facing of the real drove the Germans, who had made a lodgment on the south bank, instead of the imaginary enemy, had been the better because it back across the river; and on the right of the Third parts of the was so swift in pressing every advantage and overcoming resist- 28th which had been only two months in France were in close ance with repeated attacks. There were incidents of heroic per- quarters action, sharing the honor of the enemy's repulse. sistence worthy of our best traditions. So the fifth German offensive as well as the fourth had failed. Three days after the Marne salient was closed it was the turn This was reassuring to the War Department, which was calling of the British, on Monday, August 8th, for an immensely success- four hundred thousand more men in the draft in July to fill the ful attack which further confirmed Baker's premonition of the places of the departing divisions; but braver news which fulfilled effect of "a great offensive blow which drives them back and costs Baker's wish that "these fresh, high-spirited men will be used at them losses both in men and material on a large scale." Luden- the earliest possible moment for offensive operations on a large dorff called August 8th "The Black Day" in his memoirs, for he scale" was to come on the heels of the collapse of the fifth German knew that the morale of his army was breaking and the end offensive. Again Foch had not been caught napping; and before could not be far off. the fifth German offensive struck in the hope of widening the salient, his plan to thrust at the neck of the salient in closing it was FOR the first time in four years the offensive was with the Allies. on the way to execution. It was the turn of the tide, although we Thenceforth Germans must do the guessing and conform to the did not quite recognize the fact at that time, when, as a part of Allied initiative with defensive tactics. On August 8th a bat- Mangin's army, the First Division, under Major General Charles talion of our 33d Division, which had been six weeks in France, P Summerall, and the Second under Harbord, who had been happened to be in line for trench training with the Australians. promoted to its command, behind the rolling barrage of their They advanced in company with their veteran instructors in the guns, which broke upon the enemy in surprise, made a race in same convincing manner as all our troops in active battle. The superb rivalry, mindless of casualties. They sent columns of emergency, which constituted an exception in the President's prisoners to the rear in that swift and ferocious business of the orders to Pershing to keep his army together, was over. Now drive that was close to Soissons before sheer exhaustion called a that the enemy was yielding, Foch would recover the element halt for the survivors, as Ludendorff, in his alarm, rushed rein- of surprise by swift alternating blows along the front; and forcements to check the sudden reversal in the German situation. our divisions for their part were on their way to strike an

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all-American blow as the American Army in its own sector I am not going to Mr. Baker on his tours of the at St. Mihiel in the early days of September. be able to dis- A. E. F. took every opportunity to charge the boy question soldiers. Here he is talk- TO TAKE the places of the men we were sending to France a from the military ing to a Texas Negro at an En- million men were called out from the draft lists in May, June service, even gineers camp in Bordeaux and July. though he does suc- Every man summoned was an able-bodied worker removed ceed in getting from the ranks of production to the ranks of consumption and, cleared of the indictment which the Department of Justice has once he was in France, a drain of supplies across the ocean. against him. I am saying all this because I think the best possible The larger the Army became, the heavier the burden of the advice any friend could give the father is to let the boy stay in war industries and the carriers, which increased in ratio to the the military service, which would automatically result in a dis- Army's size, the more vital to them became the retention of their continuance of the indictment proceeding, and allay all the local skilled employes and the stronger the appeals for class exemptions. feeling which appears to have been aroused about the case, and Each case should be settled on its merits by the boards. And set the whole family straight." sometimes the conscientious study of individual cases of exemp- But the draft regulations included a special provision to meet tion here took more of Baker's time than decisions in important the demands of Hurley of the Shipping Board for skilled labor for matters of policy. Here is ship building. As Baker one that may have more wrote to the President: direct human appeal than "In view of the urgency classifications of skilled la- of the shipbuilding program, bor. On June 22, 1918, I think it ought to be re- Baker was writing to Post- garded as in a class by itself, master General Burleson: and men ought to be fur- "I spent the night last loughed to the Emergency night going over the full Fleet Corporation almost record in the case. This without delay so that every morning I directed that man who can be used effec- young be detached tively in shipbuilding will be from his organization and so employed. But if gen- retained in this country eral class exemptions were until his case can be finally entered into it would amount disposed of. I also had a to distributing the exemp- conference with Gregory tion power practically away about the case and went over from the District Boards and the records which his office into the hands of represen- had on the subject, with the tatives of the great indus- result that I am afraid I tries scattered all over the agree with Gregory, both on country and, therefore, not Surgeon General Merritte W. Ireland, U. S. A., shak- the law and facts. So far under the actual supervision ing hands with a member of a record-breaking as the boy is concerned, it and centralized control of recruiting detail. The health of the Army in its seems to me to be a plain those who here in Washing- far-flung bases from the Philippines to France was case of a rather complicated, ton are responsible for their in General Ireland's hands persistent and nearly suc- actions." cessful plan to evade the Shipping to get supplies to draft. The boy really has not a leg to stand on, and with every France must be the one exception. Extend the exceptions to the prejudice in favor of the father, I think I would have decided Fuel, Food, and Railway Administrations, as some Cabinet offi- the case on both grounds as the local boards did, and I am afraid cers wished, and it would finally include clerks whom women

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might replace. On August 28th, when we were at the "work or "In both cases a corporal inspecting along a front line trench fight" stage, Baker was writing one of his longest letters to the found these young men standing in the proper military position, President calling for no further extension of draft exemptions, leaning against the trench, with their rifles lying on the parapet which the President accepted. of the trench within easy reach of their hands. Each man had his head resting on his arm, and his arm resting on the parapet. The IT WAS not enough that we put every soldier we could crowd offenses were committed, in the A— case on the night of Novem- on transports to France. We were even asked to send troops ber third and fourth, and in the B— case on or about the fifth of to Salonika. This we refused to do. Italy's appeal was finally November. In both cases the testimony was exceedingly brief, granted by sending a regiment. And Russia? The Bolshevists and showed that the night was dark and cold, that the soldiers were now in patchy control of that vast land. Against them were had their ponchos and other equipment on, and in one case it the Czechs and other prisoners from the old provinces of the was a fair inference that the poncho was drawn over the ears and

Austrian Empire who had formed a fragmentary army. Germany trench helmet in such a way as to make it difficult for the soldier was filling her breadbasket from the Ukraine in Southern Russia. to hear the approaching steps of the corporal. In each case the The fear was that she might become mistress of Russia. At corporal had laid his own rifle upon the parapet, and took that Foch's request we sent small forces to Murmansk and Archangel of the soldier, carrying it away with him, and instructed the other in Northern Russia to save vast amounts of Allied war supplies sentinel, the men being posted in this outpost duty in twos, to and to co-operate with the Czechs against the Bolsheviks. Baker shake the soldier and tell him to report to the corporal for his was opposed to scattering our forces, especially opposed to the gun. In each case the corporal shamed the soldier for his neglect Siberian venture. But political considerations and the Allies' of duty, and pointed out to him the fact that not only his own desire ruled in the President's mind. The British and Japanese life but those of others were at stake, and that he should be more were going into Siberia. So we sent ten thousand men under zealous and alert. In neither case does either the corporal or Major General W. S. Graves in that farflung adventure to rescue the fellow-sentinel swear positively that the accused was asleep. the Czechs. And the Bolshevists prevailed in Russia. I confess that on all reasonable grounds, taking the circumstances into consideration, it seems to me entirely likely that both men HERE again is another abrupt change of subject which has to were asleep; but it is important to note that in neither case had do with that of the most deep-seated of the feelings of man the accused stepped away from his proper military post to sit or woman with reference to his superiors, of the citizen to his down or lie down; both being found standing at their post of government, of the private soldier to his officers. The call for duty in what is admitted to have been a correct military position, justice is as old as humanity. Baker said in a memorandum to and if they were asleep their heads literally nodded over on to General Crowder, December 28, 1Q17, "The administration of their arms without any intentional relaxation of attention to justice is a compromise between speed and certainty." In the war their duty so far as can be gathered from any of the surrounding more than three million youths with no previous military training circumstances as furnished us. or experience of military laws were put "These soldiers are both young. A under West Point discipline; the officers enlisted into the Regular Army by vol- over them were generally as new to it as unteering on the 18th of April, 1017, themselves. Some officers were bound having had no previous military experi- to be weak, some too severe, some with- ence, his age at that time being nine- out a sense of steady equity in com- teen years and six months. He was, mand, and all capable of errors owing therefore, slightly more than twenty at to temperament and circumstances. the time of the alleged offense. B— en- But orders must be obeyed from cor- listed on the nth of May, 1917, without poral to general or there was debate in- previous military experience, his age at stead of unity of action. When soldier that time being eighteen years and or officer broke regulations it was a eleven months. He was, therefore, at military court that tried him under the time of the alleged offense, slightly martial law, and the methods of military under twenty years of age. courts had ever been subject to much "From the testimony it appears that criticism by civil lawyers. both of these young men had been This brings us to the famous cases posted as sentinels doing what is called of four soldiers sentenced to die. No double sentry duty, going on duty at good purpose can be served by giving four p.m., and remaining on duty until their names. The sentences were con- six a.m., with relief at intervals by curred in by the division commander, other sentinels during the night, but the Commander-in-Chief in France, the with no opportunity to sleep during the Judge Advocate General and the Chief night because of there being no place of Staff in Washington. In transmit- where they could secure sleep. It ting the cases Baker wrote to the Presi- further appeared that neither of them dent on May 18, 1018: "As I find had slept during the day before, after myself reaching an entirely different A wartime photograph of Walter having spent the previous night on gas conclusion, and disagreeing with the sentinel duty, although both had tried S. GifFord, who served on the entire and authoritative military opin- Council of National Defense and to sleep during the day preceding the ion in I beg leave of the alleged offenses but found the cases, to set out at as secretary to the American sec- night reasons it impossible because of the noise. In some length the which move me tion of the Inter-Allied Munitions in the matter. Council. Seven years after the each case the commanding officer of " The cases must be divided into two Armistice he became president of the soldiers who forwarded the charges classes, and I will first deal the recommended trials by general with the American Telephone & Tele- and two young men convicted of sleeping graph Company courts martial added to his endorsement while on duty." These two cases, he as extenuating circumstances the youth found, were "substantially identical in and failure of the soldiers to take the their facts. The accusations were laid under the 86th Article necessary rest when off duty on the first occupation of trenches. seen it the of War, which reads: 'Any sentinel who is found . . . sleeping upon "It is difficult to picture to the eye which has not his post . . . shall, if the offense be committed in time of war, situation in which these young soldiers were placed. In the suffer death or such other punishment as a court martial may month of November the section of France in which these soldiers direct.' were stationed was cold, wet and uncomfortable in the extreme.

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Looking from Hattonchatel over the area cap- No sort of shelter of any comfortable kind could be provided tured by American troops advancing from the near the trenches, because it attracts enemy observation and south face of the St. Mihiel salient. In the middle fire. Throughout one long night they performed duty as gas distance is Mont Sec which dominated the plains sentinels. from within the former lines of the enemy "During the next day, when they perhaps ought to have sought more rest than they did seek, they found it difficult to secure any sleep because of the noise and discomfort of their surroundings. would be a challenge to the performance of duty, quite as stimu- As a consequence on the night of the alleged offenses they had lating as any disciplinary terror proceeding from the execution of reached the place at which exhausted nature apparently refused these sentences." The President concurred in Baker's recom- to go further, and without any intentional relaxation of vigilance mendation. Of the first two young men one was killed in action on their parts they dozed in standing positions at their posts. and the other was twice wounded and honorably discharged "I am quite aware of the grav- after the Armistice. Two other ity of this offense, and of the fact young men given the death sen- that the safety of others, perhaps ~*" "~ T tence for refusing to obey an the safety of an army and of a order given in the theatre of war, cause, may depend upon such at a place back of the actual line, disciplinary enforcement of this had their sentences commuted regulation as will prevent soldiers to three years' confinement. September 24. 1917. J from sleeping on sentinel duty; Soon after the President's de- and yet I cannot believe that cision in these cases Pershing youths of so little military experi- asked that his power to enforce ence, placed for the first time "» ** the death penalty be enlarged. under circumstances so exhaust- r of September 22nd The uoe of thi To do this it would have been r i" Uibi tit our soldisrs must t regarded hp a. ing, can be held to deserve the parlaon with a i;rea many things nhl necessary to have Congress amend death penalty, nor can I believe the Articles of War. Baker wrote It seems inor la that any great mount of vrlne drinki that discipline of the death sen- should grow up sao ur Ban, but of course co sort of police the President he was against regulations which i ould enforce In France outside of the tence ought to be imposed in cases a, could reach the question. Pershing's proposal, but said he which do not involve a bad heart, It seems to m" tba only answer you oao poo ibly would lay the proposal before the ths kind of letters to which you refer is that ' or so flagrant a disregard of the ooostruetlws steps of .fighting the greater evil appropriate committees of Con- will be limited as far as our military power cm welfare of others. . . . gress if the President desired. meantime, I haye van -rod to hold Out th« hope to "I venture, therefore, to be- correspondents on the lubject that, before very lontS, Again Mr. Wilson agreed with of your men would 30 ta Frenee and try to study the lieve that the President can with n the ground, I do n t think thifl ought to be until Baker. amps here are Bottled town in goori sorting order. perfect safety to military discipline pardon these two young HE DOES get things done," men; and I have prepared and as Baker said of the Chief Secretary of flax,, attached hereto an order which, of Staff when getting things done if it meets with your approval, was the supreme need of the osdlsk, will accomplish that purpose, and on Training Camp Acti Title Allied cause. There was the Washington, D.C. at the same time, I believe, upon March look and the March grin. its publication further stimulate After the look's probing rapier the already fine spirit of our army thrust of the man before him in France. Such an order as I came the quick decision. Buts, have here drawn would be read The Secretary refuses to consider the use of ifs and ands were not in March's by every soldier in France and in French light wines by the A. E. F. any more vocabulary; and the amenities the United States, and coming than a minor evil compared with other which ease friction among men from the Commander-in-Chief problems of the back areas but take {Continued on page 53)

SEPTEMBER, 193 1 29 A Man In A MILLION

school geographies tried to implant lastingly in our Cisco's Commissioner of Public Works until Department Ad- OURminds the fact that California has one thousand miles jutant Fisk signed him up as a member of California Post No. 234 of coastline and the easier-to-remember fact that in and gave him Membership Card No. 1,000,000. area she is the second largest State. We learned that Colonel Stanton served with General Pershing in the Philip- the big trees in the Sequoia National Forest have been growing pines. During the World War he was Chief Paymaster of the since the time of Christ. We learned, too, all sorts of other A. E. F., a post in which he kept down the total cost of the war curious things about her—a State so varied that snow storms and by getting hard-boiled when travel claims on a per mile basis sun strokes may be incidents of the same day's news, a State rich made it seem that the A. E. F. had more than its quota of Get- with flower gardens and orange orchards and also the home of Rich-Quick Wallingfords.

Death Valley which is the country's most prominent geographical While membership card No. 1,000,000 is Colonel Stanton's, a bad example. So it goes—the President of the United States Pittsburgh Legionnaire is actually the one millionth member by comes from California, and Will Rogers sends us daily commu- National Headquarters' way of figuring. The millionth card niques from Hollywood. was received at National Headquarters in Indianapolis on July It just had to happen, when The American Legion after eleven 3d, and in the regular count was card No. 684,709, bearing the years of striving reached a million members, that California name of Tell W. Nicolet, a new member of East Liberty Post would be tied up with that fact in some way. This was the way: of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Nicolet is a landscape archi- California received in the ordinary distribution of 1931 member- tect and town planner, a member of the American Society of ship cards the card which bore the number 1,000,000. Frank E. Landscape Architects and the Pittsburgh Rotary Club. For Samuel, Assistant National Adjutant in charge of membership, several years he has specialized in designing and constructing discovering where Card No. 1,000,000 had gone, asked James K. cemeteries and memorial parks. Two of his recent works are the Allegheny Memorial Park at Pittsburgh and the notable Washington Memorial

The man who said "La- fayette, we are here," becomes Legionnaire No. 1,000,000. Colonel Charles E. Stanton, San Francisco Commissioner of Public Works, is presented with Membership Card No. 1,000,000 by Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., National Executive Committeeman, in the presence of district and post leaders

Park at Washington, D. C. Mr. Nicolet's card was one of 3,820 membership cards received at National Head-

Fisk, California's Department Adjutant, to see that it was be- quarters from the Department of Pennsylvania on July 3d. It stowed upon somebody as a signal honor. was this consignment, bringing Pennsylvania's total enrolment The man chosen for the honor was a World War veteran whose up to 70,600, which put the Legion's national membership over fame was only exceeded by his modesty. He was Charles E. the one million mark one day in advance of July 4th. By July Stanton. He was the same Colonel Stanton, longtime friend of 24th enrolment had risen to 1,019,172.

General John J. Pershing, who said, "Lafayette, we are here," simply and unmindful of the potential echo in his words, as he Like Finding It stood beside General Pershing in Picpus Cemetery in Paris on estate bargains the transaction July 4, 1917. Those words were attributed to General Pershing ADD to the list of historic real and echoed around the world for many years before their true . by which Alfred E. Babcock Post of Albany, Oregon, found author became known generally. It was apparently the self- itself in a $32,000 home, free of debt, after spending only its effacement which kept him so long unrevealed as the Paris pocket money. Fourth of July orator which also kept him hidden as San Fran- "When the Oregon Electric Railroad abandoned one of its

co The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly No, this is not a fantasy of what we are heading for in this dizzy age. There is no trick about it! When Murray Hill Post of The American Legion in New York City hired a traveling carnival to put on a benefit bazar, the only vacant lot it could find happened to be on Sec- ond Avenue near For- tieth Street. So here the time-honored Ferris Wheel revolved against a modernist background of the world's dizziest skyscrapers

two sets of tracks in Albany, a fine-appearing, brick-and-tile de- pot was left without a job," relates Legionnaire Wallace C. Eakin. "Babcock Post didn't have $32,000 in its treasury and the money wasn't in sight, but the post felt Napoleonic when the railroad offered to sell the building for $7,500, particularly so when the post of Spanish War veterans agreed to go into partnership with the Legion and the Civil War veterans gave their blessing to the project. But even $7,500 is a lot of money. Somebody remembered, however, that Oregon has a law authorizing county courts to appropriate $5,000 for a veterans' memorial building. When members of the Legion and the Falls is back in makeshift quarters. County Commander S. R. Spanish War outfit chipped in the remaining sum of $2,500, the Morse explains why. rainbow had come to stay. "The Chamber of Commerce and town council had long been "Today, therefore, Albany has its new Veterans Memorial trying to get a sizable industry for the town," relates Mr. Morse. Building, shining bright in a setting of flowers and shrubbery "Finally an overall factory agreed to come to River Falls. But provided by the Albany Garden Club." a suitable factory building couldn't be found. Then the post stepped in and voted to turn over its clubhouse for the factory For the Town at a very low rental. Today more than one hundred residents are working regularly in the overall factory. The city tendered ALBERT Harvey Fletcher of River Falls, Wisconsin, was a banquet to the post and held a parade to express ap- Post . xA_ proud of the clubhouse which its members had erected with preciation." their own hands in 1026. It was a long, one-story, fireproof building with a full basement, substantially built—just right for post Down along the Levee meetings, dances and entertainments. Today the post in River CITIZENS of Memphis, Tennessee, rubbed their eyes. Had there been a railroad wreck? Or had the game of strip poker taken hold in Memphis, with everybody losing? The streets near Ellis Auditorium were full of queerly-garbed men and women—some chic in barrels, others wearing B. V. D.'s or pajamas of the Andrew Jackson era, still others adorned by overalls camouflaged by gay patches. It was only the night of Memphis Post's Poor Man's Ball, the one time of the year when the post appealed to citizens for money to carry on its many community activities. Six thousand tickets had been sold and post accountants, as the crowds gathered, were figuring net profit at more than $4,000.

SEPTEMBER, 1931 31 law the policies will be converted automatically to permanent policies calling for much higher premium rates. Most of the men holding the Five Year Level-Premium policies got them in 1927, when the insurance law abolished the low-rate term insurance, in force since the war. Holders of the term policies number one-sixth of the total of all holders of Government policies. The term policies have an average face value of $6,800. Holders in July, 1932, will have an average age of forty-one years. The monthly premium on the five-year term policy at that age is eighty-seven cents a thousand, or $71 a year on the average policy of $6,800. An Ordi- nary Life policy of the same amount would require payment of an annual premium of $171. Inside the auditorium hard times were forgotten in good times. "The sudden increase of $100 a year in the cost of life insurance The dancers in barrels and B. V. D.'s eddied by a genuine old would be a major calamity in many households," National Com- steamboat bar where lemonade and carbonated drinks were being mander O'Neil stated. "Thousands of veterans would be forced handed out instead of the conventional three fingers of bourbon to drop their insurance entirely or reduce materially the amount of the day when the bar's glory was real. A Chic Sale six- of insurance carried. It is true that under Section 310 of the seater was also a part of the scenery. insurance law a veteran if in good health may apply for and ob- John Ross was in charge of the ball but everybody did a hot tain any form of policy issued by the Government, but the issu- job of working up interest in it and selling tickets. Legionnaire ance of such a policy depends upon the veteran's ability to pass an Ben James climbed a flagpole on top of the Claridge Hotel and exacting medical examination. A veteran might allow his five- stayed there three days until all tickets had been sold. A Legion- year term policy to lapse and apply for a new five-year term naire German band played on streets steadily for three days and policy, only to learn that he had been rejected." nights. Dr. Selmar Burchart brought out his six-horse stage- coach to haul guests to the ball. Golf for Everybody Last winter Memphis Post operated a wood yard which gave work to more than 200 men daily. The wood which the workers "HPHOSE who believe in golf for everybody, at a price within cut was given free to needy families or sold at $6 a cord to pro- J- the reach of everybody, can take a leaf from the experience vide funds for paying workers. At the same time the post was book of The American Legion Golf Club of Manhattan, Kansas, providing free meals for 2,273 families in their homes once each which started its second season with a membership fee of $10 per week and was distributing free clothing. The post also gave away family by increasing the course from nine to eighteen holes.

' , ' an average of five carloads of coal each day, one-half ton to a "Last year, ' continues R.I. Thackrey ' the post built a nine-hole family. Merchants donated sixty-five trucks for delivery of coal. golf course on the edge of the municipal airport, setting the membership fee at $10 a family. The Manhattan Country Club had Missionaries of Work operated an 18-hole course for several years with a substantial membership, but the Legion course quickly proved there was a "T^RIENDS and neighbors" is a good phrase, but too often bigger demand for golf than even its most optimistic friends had -T neighbors aren't friends, especially when one raises fancy believed. A total of 337 family memberships were sold the first vegetables and the other chickens. There are chronically plenty season, with forty additional cards going to students at Kansas of reasons why Texas border towns and Mexican border towns find State College who joined only for a semester. This was in a city it hard to be consistently friends as well as neighbors, but in San

Benito, Texas, it won't be so hard now, since Sam Jackson Post started to work for mutual international friendliness. The big feature of the post's effort was sending sixty boys of its town on a motor tour that covered 1,150 miles through Mexico. The boys had adventures aplenty and were treated royally by high officials of the Mexican Government and by Mexican citizens. Sam A. Robertson, an engineer, member of Sam Jackson Post's school committee, says the boys were selected for the tour by a contest designed to impress upon pupils the dignity of labor, to encourage children of Indian-Spanish descent to learn to speak English and children of Anglo-Saxon parentage to learn to speak Spanish, and to equip San Benito boys to help in the fight to capture the five billion dollars' worth of Latin-American trade now going to other countries. Boys were offered special prizes for assiduously performing hard, disagreeable manual labor. Gold medal winners acted as water boys for dredging gangs and labor- of 10,000, with an old, established course serving many golfers. ers in repairing farm machinery. They picked cotton and plowed "The post paid the rent on both the golf course and airport, for long hours. They did the hardest chores on dairy farms. The bought mowing machines, hired two full-time attendants and

hardest workers also excelled in scholarship, it turned out. finished the season with $700 in the treasury. Greens fees were fifty cents on week days and seventy-five cents on Sundays. To Save Insurance Cost of putting in the first nine holes was $1,000 and the cost of adding nine additional holes was $1,200." NATIONAL Commander Ralph T. O'Neil has issued a statement urging that Congress extend the time on the Super-Service present Five Year Level- Premium term insurance policies so that most of the 97,425 World War veterans now holding ACTRESS Russell Post of Memphis, Tennessee, which had these policies will not have an intolerable financial burden im- x\- 1,020 members in June, is upholding in peacetime the con- posed on them in July, 1932, the month in which under existing ceptions of American citizenship which were demonstrated notably 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly on the battlefields of France by the Q2d and 93d Divisions and earth by righting men from Mars, but they are both lictioneers. by regiments of Negro engineers and other workers in the sea- The everyday scientific marvels of aviation and radio have made ports of France and the A. E. F.'s big workshops. Legionnaire has-beens out of Monsieur Verne and Mr. Wells. Frinstance: George W. Lee, recalling the battle victories and sacrifices of Here's Commander B. W. G^rhart of the California Department the Negro divisions and the Negro soldiers' service in unloading who sends along matter-of-fact word that he began his adminis- ships and assembling locomotives and freight cars, sends word tration by making a flight 10,000 feet above San Francisco's that Autress Russell Post is doing work of comparable valor and Golden Gate in a 36-passenger Fokker plane loaded with Legion importance today in the everyday life of its community. naires, the idea being to show that this is a speedy old world.

The atmosphere of Detroit's founding days will be recalled by the costumes of the convention "Here, through the co-operation of the Postal Telegraph hostesses, who represent the French towns the Company, the Mackay Radio, Commercial Cables and the Trans- A. E. F. knew. Here they are shown with continental-Western Air Co., I transmitted greetings to the Com- Legionnaire Wilber M. Brucker, Governor of manders of The American Legion at London, Paris, Rome, Michigan, at the home of Legionnaire Frederick Shanghai, Manila, Honolulu, Guam, Buenos Aires and New York M. Alger, President of the Detroit national City," writes Mr. Gearhart. "While we were still in the air and convention corporation within two hours of the time we left the ground, replies were received from the cities mentioned and from many ships far at sea. Post Commander Joseph A. Faas of Vimy Ridge Post bossed the show." '"This post has acted as the service station for Negroes of many States." writes Mr. Lee. "When the law increasing the loan value Truth versus Fiction of adjusted compensation certificates was passed, this post assisted approximately 5,000 men to file their applications, em- SHERLOCK HOLMES and Doctor Watson couldn't be called ploying the services of three stenographers and a corps of loyal down from London to solve the possible murder mystery in Legionnaires. It procured loans totalling $328,000. In addition, it Traverse City, Michigan, but Sheriff Walter Steimel of Leelanau assisted 114 men to file claims for disability compensation during County and Prosecutor the first three months of this year. During the past three years Fitzpatrick did put in a it obtained hospitalization for 500 men and filed 10,000 claims for call for Karl W. Detzer insurance and adjusted compensation certificates. The post after 19-year-old Adam supplied $250 to pay train fares for disabled men. Bellinger had been "The post sponsors an athletic club and its basketball team {Continued on page 66) holds first place among the many teams of the community. The outfit established a bureau for the examination of delinquent children of the juvenile court and offers free medical and dental aid to these under-privileged and under-developed children. "The post will go to Detroit as the largest post of its kind in the United States. Under the leadership of Dr. R. Q. Venson and Edward Sadler, the outfit is raising a fund of $4,000 for its drum and bugle corps. "The kindly attitude of Memphis Post, which was the world's largest Legion post several years ago and is each year a con- tender for that honor, has meant much for the growth and development of Autress Russell Post."

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SEPTEMBER, 1951 33 - : One Hundred Thousand Strong And DetroitWill Re-Echo with Who-Won-the-War Tales of Land and Sea

more than a million veterans now in the ranks they do not conflict with the general entertainment always pro-

WITHthe Legion, it is estimated conservatively that vided the host eity. of by ten percent of them—a hundred thousand former Last calls for the Detroit reunions are listed toward the end nurses, soldiers, sailors, marines and yeomanettes of this department, but there is still time for other organizations —will converge on Detroit during the week of September 21st to broadcast contemplated reunions if they will write to Ray- for the Thirteenth National Convention. Whether they arrive mond J. Kelly, chairman, Reunions Committee, 11,200 Shoe- by ones, twos, autoloads, trainloads or boatloads, and whether maker Street, Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Kelly and his committee they are delegates, with the serious busi- ^— will assist outfits with their plans for ness of the meeting before them, or mem- ^-^^^^WoTulj^^^.. whatever kind of entertainment they may her-, of tin' vast army of guests, each will ^Wi£gj£gEJr~ decide upon have tine thought uppermost in mind: "''"Jft'cW^ How many of the old gang will be on hand TT 7"HILE pedestrians apparently pre- to relive service days—ashore or afloat? VV dominated in rural France, some few To insure just such happy get-togethers instead of leaving of the peasants and small town inhabitants boasted of somewhat them to chance, more than fifty wartime outfits have made better means of locomotion than a pair of feet. Frank M. Heath definite plans for reunions—which may take the form of lunch- of Cissel Saxon Post of Silver Spring, Maryland, submits ex- eons, dinners, stags, boat trips or whatnot, with usually a more hibit A on this page of one such means of transportation. In- or less formal meeting thrown in for the good of the order. These cidentally, Ex-Sergeant Heath gained considerable fame several special meetings occupy usually only a small part of one day so years ago by completing a roundtrip of the United States, totaling 11,356 miles, on his horse, Gypsy Queen. We bulletin the Sergeant's report "In May, 1918, 1 finally succeeded in getting Uncle Sam to waive his objections to my advanced age and enlist me for special service as a 'Mule Sergeant' at Camp Hum- phreys, Virginia, with Company A, Second Engineers. Arriving overseas too late for service at the front, I was transferred shortly after the Armistice to the 135th Engineers at Bassens, near Bordeaux. "Early in the spring of 1919, our skeleton outfit was attached to the 130th Engineers near La Rochelle. We had no animals. I could hear constantly the song of the desert canaries belonging to the 508th Engineers not far distant. I felt they needed me and the 508th wanted me for they owned no knowledge of mules. I was transferred as 'mule

Mule Sergeant Frank M. Heath of the 508th Engi- neers commandeered this coach-and-one while on leave in La Rochelle, France, during the spring of 1919. Apparently the pint-size burro in France served the same purpose as the dogs of Flanders

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ON DETROIT Present day motorists who Headquarters First Army, A. E. F. complain of involved and ORDERS FOR: confusing traffic regulations might profit by read- ALL MILITARY POLICE AND TRAFFIC POLICE ing the above rules which 1. The Commander in Chief directs that all motors be governed A. E. F. drivers topped w henever traffic is halted except momentarily. 2. Report name of organization and number of any sergeant' and served in that role. truck moving to the front without a proper load. "Meanwhile I had made quite a 3. bright. will collection of typical photographs, No headlight be allowed at any time on mostly rural. Either the French are any 'car or truck, but tail 'lights may be carried at all t>raes. mistaken about the typical French 4. Staff cars and ambulances may carry side lights or donkey or I am. They seemed to be dimmed headlights at all times. ashamed to sell his photograph, in his really characteristic job of 5. On cleat nights a lantern or dim light ma; be car- drawing a little two-wheeled huck- ried by every tenth truck in a convoy. ster cart or the like. I seem to see 6. On misty or stormy nights trucks may carry any in him and his humble master or lights except bright headlights. mistress a considerable factor in the French economic system. I com- By Command of General Pershing: mandeered a good French photog- September 30, 1918. H. A. Drum, Chief of Staff rapher, discovered this woman with her donkey cart and the enclosed Each military police and traffic police will be furnished a copy of this card picture resulted. I believe she must and will carry it with him at all tines. printed by g-2-c, first army have been a second-hand dealer as she was hauling a baby carriage and an old chair or two plus other junk." men. Police Departments and traffic commissions generally. TIMID motorists who shrink at a motor cop's bellowed "This card was handed to me by a Military Policeman as I "Where d'ya think ya goin'?" (with probable profane em- was aboard a truck loaded with ammunition headed for the front bellishments) would never have qualified as drivers in the A.E.F. lines. The truck I was on carried a side light and it was not the The present staggered light stop-and-go system, the left turns 'tenth truck in the convoy.' on green lights or no left turns on green lights, the varied and "The 314th Ammunition Train, attached to the 89th Division, unrelated traffic regulations in various centers throughout the constituted the background for this little episode. Needless to land are bad enough—but consider the added burdens placed on say the traffic rules were enforced to the letter with very little chauffeurs overseas. remonstrance on the part of drivers." The last word in traffic rules was none other than the Com- mander-in-Chief himself—General Pershing — whose name VISITORS to the Legion national convention in Boston last appears on the traffic card which we are able to show through October and particularly that group of men and women of the co-operation of John R. Clarke, Legionnaire of Oklahoma many States which had the pleasure of sailing down the bay to City, Oklahoma. Clarke offered this suggestion when he sub- Gloucester with Past National Commander Bodenhamer's mitted the card: party on the last evening of the convention, will welcome the "As a member of the Gang I am sending in another little accompanying picture of the good ship U.—S. S. Oglala. Those proposition that might be of interest in your columns. This is a who visited the rehabilitated Constitution "Old Ironsides"—at the Boston Navy Yard will recall this comparatively big hulk lying at the next pier. Legionnaire Robert S. Kelley, still in service on the U. S. S. Melville, lent us the picture and supplied this interesting account of the ship: "Out in the land of Ho la ho la is stationed the U. S. S. Shawmut, laying mines off the coast of Maui as she did in the good old days back in 191 7 in the North Sea. The fuses are bending their backs and pushing one over the side every five seconds. Many members of the Legion may recall those good old days in Inverness and Inver- gordon, and especially those Scottish maidens with their light blue eyes. "The U. S. S. Shawmut has changed her name and today is known as the How many veteran gobs, soldiers and marines U. S. S. Oglala. The Shaw- or — non-veteran civilians—will recognize the mut was formerly the above ship under her several names: S. S. Massachusetts, built by Massachusetts, U. S. S. Shawmut or U. S. S. William Cramp & Sons, Oglala. Now bearing the latter name, she is Philadelphia, in 1907 for still doing duty as a mine layer the coastwise trade of the New England Steamship day of traffic rules, both good and bad, due to the great number Company. She was pur- of automobiles. Possibly the traffic rules in France just before chased from that company the Armistice might be of assistance to some of our City Council- in {Continued on page 62)

SEPTEMBER, 1931 35 " '

Irving ^Bacheller, zMy J^riend and Tours

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in this town. He is ill-fitted to battle with The American Legion Monthly a story in village merchants, all without training. the sharpers who infest these streets with which Washington appears. As in "A Many were without uniforms and some of gold bricks wrapped in bandannas. He Man for the Ages" he studied the early them had no weapons. They fought with- should be teaching poetry to the boys and days of Lincoln, so in writing this, his out pay, without proper food, and so when girls of St. Lawrence College." I didn't latest story, he deals with Washington as a the crops needed attention they went know him as well then as I do now. If I home." had I would have warned the city against His method is to spend several months him. in reading all of the most valuable ma- TJAMLIN GARLAND is In proof that he was gullible I may add terial concerning his subject, ruminating

that he allowed me to sell him some of my one of the best known upon it as he goes along, then when the gold bricks, that is to say, a group of time comes to write he goes each morning novelists in the United States stories. In spite of this we met occasion- to his study and writes in a book held on ally. In the course of four or five and an essayist and drama- his knee, from nine till one. His writing is years I published several moderately suc- like copper plate. How he succeeds in cessful books and considered myself a real tist of a high order. His getting so much done while putting his

' I received a ' author. One day from him - concept into such beautiful form, I have ' Main Traveled Roads, tiny volume and after reading it, I was never been able to understand. His minded to write him a friendly letter say- stories written between 1890 handwriting is finer than that of Eugene ing, "Stick to the editing of your syndicate Field or Whitcomb Riley, and the bound and 1898, has become an and leave the writing of novels to me," but volumes of his completed manuscripts have I didn't. I politely acknowledged the book American classic and his the neatness and grace which the medieval and put it on my shelves and continued to copyists gave to their handiwork. His think of him as an editor till in 1900 he "Middle Border" stories are letters are so exquisite that no one can find a full sized book called "Eben the heart brought out an authentic revelation of to throw them away. Holden" which, after winning universal He is a golf enthusiast and almost every praise, suddenly began to sell in tens of the final phase of the pio- afternoon he makes one round. He plays thousands. I read this story with delight, well. When visiting him in Winter Park neer era in America. He has marveling that anything so good and so I often joined him on the course, not to American could please so many people. It been a member of the Ameri- play but to walk with him. He can drive was a beautiful book. Mr. Howells said: his own car and does it very well, con-

"It is as pure as water and as good as can Academy of Arts and sidering the deep musing into which he is bread," and Stedman sang its praise. liable at any moment to fall. He was Letters since 1918. Thisyear Right here all parallelism between his useful as an example— "If that absent- way and mine ends. His pathway mounts he has been awarded the minded poet can drive a car, I can," I said steadily whilst mine wavers up and down, after a trip with him. Roosevelt Medal, is keeping mainly to the low levels. All his which He is averse to whist for the reason that books of "The North Country" sold largely given annually "for dis- it interrupts conversation. He is hospi- and royalties rolled in upon him in a golden table and makes a delightful host. He flood. He built a beautiful house on the tinguished service as a social loves good talk and he tells a story with Connecticut shore and kept gardeners and precision. Although he uses the ver- historian, a depicter and horses and carriages. In this mansion was nacular in many of his stories, his own a noble fireplace and in its glow he and I recorder of a vanished phase speech is singularly correct and graceful. used to sit and sing, reviving old-time His humor has an individual whimsicality life. songs in competition for the applause of of American which I greatly enjoy. In fact I take his distinguished guests. pleasure in his company because he is of We had many mutual friends, William my kind and yet oddly different. Dean Howells, John Burroughs, Edward commander in Massachusetts and New After his beautiful house on Riverside MacDowell and scores of others, authors, Jersey. He has dug deep into the personal Drive, New York, burned, he decided to artists and actors, but he became known records of the time in order that the actual sell the land and make his home in Winter to Wall Street. He came to know Barton condition of the Continental soldier can be Park, Florida. He lives at a hotel while Hepburn, Owen D. Young and other realized. I think that there are more than in the North, which is only for four or five financial leaders. He called upon them in 60,000 words in his notebooks on the months. His Southern home is a beau- their offices with a quiet air of comradeship. Revolutionary time. tifil bungalow of Japanese type standing I saw him in these relationships for he As in almost every other of his novels in the midst of an orchard of orange, sometimes took me with him, leading these based on American history, I have watched lemon and grapefruit trees. bankers and brokers to believe that I was this story grow. While at work on this It has been my intention thus far to also a man with large book royalties to tale he brought to me his roles and talked present to you an informal portrait of invest. with me about them. I have read pas- the friendly man of letters whose serial In all that he wrote he remained the sages from the notebooks, wherein he had begins in the Monthly in October, and to patriot and the gentleman. Whatever the set down, in exquisite script, the lines of give some notion of the care with which short-comings of his books, they are especial value which his reading has dis- he works on such historical romances. He without a taint of the pagan animalism covered. When he is at work on a story of tells a story but he bases it on wide reading

which runs through almost all the fiction this sort he enjoys talking of it. He shares and long years of observation of many of the last fifteen years. His stories can be with his intimate friends the curious facts, phases of life. He is a friendly writer and read aloud. His satire is never bitter. the homely revealing letters and speeches that is the impression I shall leave with His best known novels are based on which aided him. "After all," he said one you. He is a large personality, kindly, historic characters. Benjamin Franklin day, "we must remember that Washington smiling but taking a very serious view of and Abraham Lincoln are built into several had no professional soldiers. They were life and citizenship. As an author he is of his novels and now he has written for all volunteers, farmers, mechanics, and typically American.

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650,000 lives, 947,000 wounded, 600,000 This would seem almost unbelievable if could not use the hand grenades they car- prisoners; Germany, 1,773,700 lives, 4,216,- it were related of an army from Hayti or ried because they had not been taught how. 058 wounded, 1,152,800 prisoners; Austria, China, but it is the plain truth concerning In the New York Times alongside Persh- 1,200,000 lives, 3,620,000 wounded, and our great and glorious nation. William ing's memoirs a communication of Mc- 2,200,000 prisoners. Jennings Bryan declared that preparedness Keogh's was published indicating these The total casualties of all countries in- was unnecessary since at the first sign of facts, and adding that many of our sol- volved were several millions greater than danger to the country "a million men diers still carried into actual battle the am- the entire population of the United States would leap to arms over night." munition issued to them in America, and at the time of our Civil by then utterly spoiled War. In all, there were by salt moisture on the more than thirty-four voyage over! million casualties, of Major Barlow tells me which the allotment of of how he was appealed the United States was to by numbers of soldiers 50,475 who died in action who actually did not or of wounds received in know how to fire their action, 182,622 wounded, rifles. I could quote no 4,500 prisoners. With the end of similar testimony. deaths from disease we I still feel tears in my are not concerned here. eyes when I read of our Compared with France Revolutionary soldiers at we had half as many men Valley Forge leaving on in arms, though a far the snow the bloody foot- smaller portion engaged. 7f prints of their bare feet. We had less than one- Officers of my own old tenth as many wounded, regiment, the 69th New and less than one-hun- York, told me how their dredth as many prisoners. men went barefoot and Our total casualties were also left bloody foot- a little over one-twen- prints in the snows of the tieth—350,300 against 6,- Vosges mountains in 160,800. 1918. They had no ex- Small as our compar- tra shoes and when they ative losses were they were finally reshod it was were far, far too great. with such ill-fitting for- An officer who was there eign shoes as could be on the ground, Major picked up abroad. Reginald Barlow, tells me The fact that in the what many others would World War this vast confirm, that 25 percent country used almost no of our men would have munitions of its own is been saved from death or one of the ironies of his- wounds if they had been tory. Among its most properly trained in the odious tragedies is the rudiments of war. The fact that it shipped over- fault cannot be laid at the door of the Wil- Well, we got four million to arms—not seas myriads of men who might almost as son Administration; it was the ancient the next morning but the next year, and well have gone into the German barbed national tradition. But it means that a with so little evidence of leaping that con- wire with their bare hands for weapons. legitimate preparation would have saved scription had to be resorted to. Yet the Yet there is a gigantic movement on foot more than 1 2,000 men from death and over arms were not yet there after nearly two in this country to prevent any training or 45,000 from wounds. In other words, years, and an almost ruinous amount of any accumulation of equipment whatso- nearly 60,000 casualties would have been time was wasted re-training men in France ever for any future war. With increasing avoided by proper training. who had been already trained in America success the efforts to train schoolboys in Let the pacifists put this in their pipes of and shipped overseas in a state of such un- the rudiments of drill are being prevented. peace and smoke it, and let them sing a readiness that Pershing had to choose be- The Citizens Military Training Camps are little smaller about the bloodthirsty mo- tween throwing thousands of unprepared opposed and largely frustrated. The Army, tives of the preparationists. men upon the German machine guns with the Navy and aviation are treated as our Our men fought with foreign equipment much waste of life, and prolonging the war most dangerous enemies. The clergy are almost altogether and that slowed them over another season with greater waste. not only uniting in great numbers to op- up and bewildered them greatly. Further- It makes one's blood run cold to learn pose preparation and training but taking more, though we took a critically long time how utterly ill-prepared hordes of these solemn pledges never to approve of any getting men enough overseas to make a martyrs were. Lieutenant (now Major) war under any circumstances. In the May decorated for issue of World Tomorrow showing, selecting them from a grand Arthur McKeogh. who was Them 10,427 total of over four millions in camp, it must his courage in carrying back news of the clergymen are quoted as absolutely reject- be admitted with shame that great num- plight of the Lost Battalion of which he ing war and refusing to take part in any bers of American boys were actually sent was adjutant, has told me how, when his future war. The fanatic determination to into the first line trenches without ever soldiers were surrounded by Germans, they rob military and naval glory of respecta- having learned how to fire a ritle or throw a came to him pleading to be told how to bility is carried to the extent of denounc- hand grenade! work the bolts of their rifles! They simply ing uniforms, toy {Continued on page 46) 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 1

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SEPTEMBER, 193 39 DO YOU SMOKE The War We J^ost by "Pacifism FROM (Continucd from page 38) soldiers and parades, and opposing even The last days of Washington's life were the celebration of war-heroism as a blood- embittered by the reactions against his HABIT thirsty allurement to carnage. principles and the collapse of his party, the These are hard times and it is all too Federals. Thomas Jefferson gradually beat OR DO YOU easy to find excuses for cutting down the down the most violent opposition, espe- Army, the Navy, the air service, the Re- cially that of the clergy, who so hated his SMOKE serves, the National Guard, the training religious views that they paid no respect to camps. To the normal American disgust for his ardor for peace at any price. war-preparation during times of peace is That is another reason for distrusting being added a ruthless eagerness to sacri- pacifism. Even when two nations have fice what experts believe to be the ir- learned to love each other well enough to reducible minimum of safety. serve as allies in a war, they are pretty But wars start in hard times. Wars sure to hate each other's guts and take select the wrong- opposite sides est of wrong times in the next war. to break out. What is the least It is funny how unpopular nation differently the pac- in the world to- ifist mind and day? Germany many times a day do you HOW the preparationist undoubtedly. reach for a smoke without think- mind deal with The French war the same admitted of 1798 was brief. ing? That kind of smoking is just a fact. The one Washington died, habit, not a pleasure. thing they agree Adams offended Learn to smoke in the way that on is their point nearly everybody of departure for and Jefferson be- will give you the greatest pleasure. A the opposite poles. came President. pipe smoker smokes for the genuine The pacifists At last he could say wars are cruel, put his theories enjoyment that his pipe gives him. wasteful, foolish, into practice. If you do not smoke a pipe, today unjust to the in- In his inaugural nocent; therefore celebrated the is not a bit too soon to start. Get he we must never peaceful disposi- yourself a good pipe and fill it with make ready for tion of the United Edgeworth, then settle down to smoke them, we must States. We have reason sweetly always prated of for pleasure. with one another, our love for peace Edgeworth's blend of fine old bur- we must gather and our lack of round a table and land-hunger and leys and its distinctive eleventh proc- Legionnaire and Editor Charles compromise and have at the same of Fremont, ess give it a flavor that the man who H. Ryckman Nebras- part friends. time had more ka, center, is congratulated by learns to The prepara- wars than almost smokes for pleasure quickly Post Commander Lane and Post tionists say, anybody else and relish. Adjutant Perkins upon receiving "Wars are every- grabbed more ter- the Pulitzer Prize for the best You can buy Edgeworth wherever thing you can say ritory. When newspaper editorial of the year Jef- against them, good tobacco is sold. Or clip the coupon ferson became therefore we must president we were below for special sample packet, free. be prepared against them." a strip along the Atlantic and had a popula- The very insanity of wars is what tion of a little over five millions, including EDGEWORTH makes them dangerous and unpredict- a million slaves. The population of our SMOKING TOBACCO able. What is more insane than a prairie empire now is over one hundred and thirty fire, a tornado, a mad dog, a maniac, a millions. The center of our population was, Edgeworth is a blend of of disease, startled rattlesnake, east of Baltimore. center of our fine old burleys, with its plague a then The natural savor insured by a Napoleonic ambition, a greed for land, area is now out in the Pacific Ocean. Our Edgeworth's distinctive eleventh process. Buy a Jack the Ripper? total area in 1790 was 892,135 square miles, Edgeworth anywhere in two forms — "Ready Rub- Where nations will agree to cut down hardly more than our possessions now, bed" and "Plug Slice." the ghastly burden of rivalry in prepara- which total 716,088 square miles. Our en- All sizes. 151! pocket pack- age to pound humidor tin. tion, it is good business to join them, pro- tire area in 1920 was 3,738,371 square Lotus & Bro. Co., Rich- mond, Va. vided they do not trust each other too im- miles. In other words, we have added •CLIP COUPON- plicitly, for a patriot always justifies his 2,846,258 square miles to our original area. deception of the foreigner and yet is al- Which is doing fairly well for such a sweet- LARUS & BRO. CO., 100 S. 22d St. ways indignant at the foreigner's decep- spoken people. Richmond, Va. tion of him. Jefferson, who didn't want conquest, Send me the Edgeworth sample. Nobody could have loved peace or hated took Louisiana by one of the most com- I'll try it in a good pipe. war more than George Washington. Yet, plicatedly crooked pieces of juggling in all Name during his two administrations and the human history. The facts are really worth following one of Adams, life was made reading. If it had not been for the black Address- miserable for all believers in even elemen- Napoleon, Toussaint l'Ouverture, the white City and State- tary preparedness by Jefferson and his in- Napoleon would probably have taken creasingly ardent and powerful disciples. away from us the (Continued on page 42)

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SEPTEMBER, 193 41 CAMIONS The War We Qst by "Pacifism (Continued- from page De Luxe! 46) Louisiana he sold us when it did not belong make similar seizures and American com- to him. merce had no apparent rights anywhere. Jefferson said in his opening speech that The British interfered even in the matter we had "a conscientious desire to direct the of duties collected from American vessels energies of our nation to the multiplication in home ports and refused to accept of the human race, and not to its destruc- American affidavits. Unfortunately, they tion." This multiplication idea was true of had all too many reasons to realize that slaves, but did not apply to Indians. perjury was not unknown in America. He denounced "taxing the industry of For defense in case of a war of self de- our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure fense, Jefferson believed in the militia, even for wars to happen we know not when." in a naval militia. He did not believe in This language sounds like today. powerful warships but trusted to little But the true reason for Jefferson's ability gunboats to lurk in bays and inlets along to keep out of war was that Napoleon was the coast. These were to be manned by keeping Europe so desperately busy fight- neighboring farmers! I am not quoting ing for its life. Even at that, we swallowed from "Alice in Wonderland" but from the most nauseating humiliations. Jef- solemn history. ferson believed that we could whip any The farmers were not, however, so un- nation by simply threatening to join any suited as one might think to serve these other nation, or by starving it out by re- gunboats, because the boats were not sup- fusing our produce or closing our markets. posed to go to sea. The gunboats could not to Detroit— We built up a large sea-commerce, stand rough water! though our ships were manned to an But Jefferson's chief substitute for the for the astounding extent by British deserters. mailed fist was the closed door. With Convention One does not often hear of the induce- genuine self sacrificing pacifism he adopted ments and protection we offered on our the policy of the Japanese, according to ALLEZ-OOP! I n you go. Park your side to British desertion. For instance, at which if you wish to avenge yourself on l\. bag and your tin hat in the bag- Norfolk once, the whole crew of a British your enemy you cut your own abdomen gage racks. Press the button that slants merchantman deserted to an American open on his doorstep. rebuke your deep-cushioned chair back to just To England the right angle —and you're off. war vessel and the commander refused to for trying to ruin American commerce, give them up. The law of Virginia actually Jefferson decided to ruin it first himself. Off to the Detroit Convention in the most comfortable "Camion" ever built imposed death on any judge who sur- In 1806, Congress passed a non-im- ... a Greyhound Bus. You'll have a rendered any deserter! portation act forbidding entry to British better time and save plenty of dollars, On the other hand, the poor British goods until our rights were respected and whether you take a regular through sailors had most of them been kidnaped our ships no longer halted. The British schedule, or charter a special coach just for your own jolly gang. anyway, and they had a right to desert. laughed at this and went right on with their England of course would not recognize piracy. See your Post Commander for com- such a right and she refused for many years It is hard for Americans of today to plete map of bus lines. Then ask the local Greyhound agent about special to grant the right of a British citizen to believe that for a whole generation Amer- excursion fares to the Convention. naturalize himself as a citizen of another ican-born sailors were taken off American- country. "Once a Briton, always a Briton," built ships by British captains and forced Or write direct to —American Legion Committee, Greyhound Lines, E.llth was the motto. into slavery without one warlike act on our and Walnut, Cleveland, Ohio In a grim determination to keep her part. Secretary of State Madison reported sailors, England's warships stopped ships that within three years no less than two of all nations and took off any of the crew thousand and three hundred of such im- GREY/HOUND that the commander assumed to be, or to pressments took place.

have been, British. It made no difference if The climax came in 1807 when an Amer- the sailors showed American citizenship ican warship, the Chesapeake, on her way That Story You papers. Unfortunately the British officers to Tripoli, was stopped by the British war- knew all too well that these papers could ship Leopard outside Chesapeake Bay. be bought for almost nothing, hence proved The Leopard signaled the Chesapeake to Can t Forget nothing. halt and sent an officer over to demand an But the practice worked outrageous inspection of the crew for deserters. Cap- YOU can read it again and again if you save your back issues of The American hardship on the true-born American sailor, tain Barron refused to submit to this deg- Legion Monthly. Besides, back issues grow for he was likely as not to be dragged off radation, whereupon the Leopard opened more valuable with the years. Many com- the ship he had signed on and forced to fire and kept it up for fifteen minutes while mand premiums now. fight and toil for England. This was un- Captain Barron tried to get ready to make So bind every copy as you get it in this beautifully embossed, blue and gold, artificial bearable and it makes the American of at least a show of resistance. But his ship leather binder. Each volume holds six copies. today blench to read what our country en- was not ready for battle. Chicken coops Available for volumes I to XI. Price, #1.00 dured for years and years with nothing were piled on the guns. The Chesapeake per volume. Use the coupon. more than pompous diplomatic protests. was riddled and wrecked, three men killed The American Legion Monthly, P. O. Box 1357, Seizing American citizens was not all. and eighteen men wounded before an Indianapolis, Indiana In the course of her wars with France, officer took a live coal from the cook's

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born men who had been previously impressed by the British and escaped. The ship limped back, to port and the country shrieked for revenge. President Jefferson furiously ordered all British ships to get out of American waters at once. He demanded an apology, reparation and a sho€S for men promise not to do it again. The British offered to apologize but refused to give up the right of impressment. The country was so deeply stirred that it New Styles — New Prices — New Values was only five years later when it declared war. But eight years later we were so whipped that we promised not to insist on the cessation of impressment. Napoleon naturally despised such cra- vens as we were and began to rival the British in contempt for our ships and brutality to our sailors. We were far less free than before the Revolution, for England now gave orders to our ships that she would never have given to us when we were colonies. And we either obeyed them or broke them sneakingly and were well spanked when caught. The strangest thing about this whole period is that, while Jefferson was a pacifist toward England and France, he was a militarist in his dealings with the Tripoli pirates and with poor old Spain. He fought and whipped the Barbary pirates, to whom Washington and Adams paid tribute and with whom we left captured sailors un- redeemed from the most cruel slavery. Jefferson threatened war with Spain and calmly robbed her of West Florida and the vast realm of Louisiana. The result was that we had no war with Spain, and after a brief clash with Tripoli peace thereafter. John Randolph called Jefferson's non- importation policy "a dose of chicken broth." He could not even force that dose down the American or the British throats. The next extreme was to commit commercial hara-kiri. An embargo was put on our own ships, forbidding them to leave port at all. Many stole away, but the harbors were filled with masts like "huge forests of dry trees." We tried to starve ourselves to death to conquer the pity of the enemy. If that isn't pacifism, what is? We did find our warships useful briefly, but we used them for — what do you suppose? — to chase THE AVENUE BOSTONIAN SELECTED STYLE FOR FALL and capture our own ships when they tried to put to sea ! The result was bootleg commerce done on the sly, while we spent our Good news for millions of well-dressed men. Style Selected money punishing our own citizens. Bostonians only to sincere The Embargo Acts resembled the Pro- now $6.50 $9.00. The same New hibition Amendment amazingly. They England workmanship in every stitch. Choice leathers. Famous- punished only the meek, while the dis- fitting Bostonian lasts. Smarter-than-ever styles. Lowest price in obedient flourished exceedingly. When even this almost incredible play years. See these new Bostonians today! Feel their free-walking for failed, mercy we tried the bribe of fit. Enjoy their good looks. Profit by their present low prices. partiality. We permitted our ships to trade with any nation except England and France. $ 50 $ 00 This, of course, only gave to England and Now 6 to 9 France a better excuse for harrying our ships, and our flag was simply an invitation BOSTONIAN AGENCIES IN EVERY CITY AND TOWN to capture, confiscate and burn our vessels. (To be concluded) COMMONWEALTH SHOE & LEATHER COMPANY, WHITMAN, MASS.

SEPTEMBER, 193 43 'Dead or zAlive? PINCHED {Continued from page 4) served with the Fifth Division, perhaps you the barbed wire. Hooray for the tanks! can throw some light upon it. That barbed wire doesn't look any too in- or reckless^piping! It seems hardly possible that everyone viting to me. Company D's job is to open who would have some knowledge of what up the Regnieville-Thiaucourt highway

is set forth in the following account in so through No Man's Land. We are about to starkly realistic a manner should have been move into position now. It looks like some killed. The errors which are only too evi- real action ahead. My French Chauchat dent in the calm of thirteen years' passage (automatic gun) is all oiled and we've got of time may be set down to the excitement plenty of pans all loaded. A sergeant and of the soldier in the most thrilling moments three men have just arrived with a Stokes

of his life. "Now for a night's sleep," the mortar outfit. They say they are going account ends. The sleep of death? up with us. Good for them. We'll need Ray L. Whitney, P. 0. Box 582, Reno, 'em. There are five machine guns with us. Nevada, who found the diary, would like to We'll need them, too. We've got to move know, and The American Legion Monthly now.

will be glad to receive word from the Sept. 11 (3 A.M.) —Hardly light enough diary's author, in the event he is still alive. to write yet, but I can scribble. We are waiting. The bombardment began at 1 The Diary a.m. The vets in the outfit say it is the most terrific artillery fire they have ever Sept. 6, iqi8—This is my first glimpse of heard. The ground actually trembles under the war-torn land of France. Drilling, us. How any human being can live drilling for months to get ready for this. where those shells are going no one can Came up yesterday as a replacement. I fathom. We have to shout in one an- TRAFFIC perils add : The man TO hope I'll prove as good a man as the one other's ears to be heard. It is like the roar whose too powerful pipe leaves a whose place I take. We are in the Moselle of doom. The sky is all aflame for miles, trail of suffocation and wrath behind area south of Nancy. Not so much sign trembling, dancing on the horizon. Were him. It isn't the pipe's fault, either. of war here, except the holes left by the air it not for the belching guns I could not raiders. We leave tonight. My first write this under my helmet to keep the Take that same gurgly old briar, march under actual war conditions. Not water off. At first the Huns came back clean it carefully according to the in- much difference from the training area. with everything they had. But that is structions in Sir Walter Raleigh's Only men are more silent. Talk less. over now. The German guns are silent. Sept. 10 Here we are at Martincourt. Our own fire drowned them, I guess. The booklet, fill it with Sir Walter — What a hell of a march that was! Four last shell from the German side came over Raleigh's milder pipe mixture and — nights of trudging through the blackness. about 2 a.m. Nothing since. The boys are there'll be one less traffic nuisance on The rain seems perpetual. Everyone ex- waiting in the trenches, impatient to be alike off. The barbed wire in front the highways. You 11 find this alto- hausted. Officers and men are foot- of us has sore and weary from exposure to the raw been cut. The rain is soaking us to the gether exceptional blend of choice, weather and loss of sleep. Tonight we re- skin. It is a cold rain. Some of the men well-aged Burleys not merely a lot lieve the 90th Division. Military Police have changed their socks and underwear. milder, but remarkably flavorful and everywhere. They are acting as guides. M ine are dry yet, thank God! It is now First time I ever saw one doing anything 4:30 and the machine guns have just full-bodied. We know you'll enjoy it. worth while. No women up here to palaver opened up—our guns, laying down a heavy Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation with. No drunks to round up. But they barrage. No one has told us when we are to know their business. Mail waiting to hop off, but pretty soon, I imagine. It Louisville, Kentucky, Dept. 176 seem for us when we reached here. Nothing for is now 5 a.m. and a thousand 75's have me, though. Didn't expect anything as a just opened up back of us. Didn't know Send for this matter of fact. they were there. What a straffing! They FREE Sept. 11 — At last I'm a combatant. are firing point blank directly over our Snatch a few minutes to jot down my im- heads. I imagine if I reached up high BOOKLET pressions. Something may be doing any enough I could lose an arm without much minute. What a difference from the train- trouble. How those enemy front lines are ing area! Nothing formal here. We took being churned with that point blank fire. over the sector last night. The qoth Divi- We can see the shells bursting, pieces of sion boys glad to be relieved. Suppose wood and dirt flying. The tanks that were we'll be glad, too. But this is just the be- with us tonight have not got here yet. mm ginning and I want to see more. The Ger- Mired down, someone said. The rain did man positions seem excellently situated for that. We are off. More later—I hope. defense. Heights with well organized sys- 6:40 A.M.—We are halted a little while tems of trenches. Doesn't look too invit- on the heights above Regnieville. What a ing. Their positions command the valleys spurt that was. We are waiting for the Smoking Tobacco about. Their outpost trenches are guarded tanks. Some tough going ahead, they say. !>lf>E«o CIGARETTES by wide stretches of barbed wire. We are Got my first prisoner half an hour ago. at Regnieville. The German lines are Found him hiding in a dugout. Poor devil about four hundred meters above us. half scared I was going to shoot him. Pillboxes and concrete strongholds dom- Gave him a couple of cigarettes. I guess inate every point of vantage. French he's safely with the bunch of prisoners It's — AND IT S MILDER P tanks are moving up behind us. They are we now see entering Regnieville. Maybe to move off ahead of the infantry to break fifty of them gathered up by our outfit.

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The tanks have just now come into Regnie- ville. Thought they were with us last night, but guess not. Mud held them up. The artillery is trying to move up—the 7S's. But the horses flounder and get caught in the wire. We can see everything below us, just like a moving picture. Wish we could see ahead as well. We passed the German front lines at about 5:45. There were some machine guns but we silenced them. Our machine gunners did effective work, but they had difficulty keeping up with us. Twice we ran into our own barrage. Our own fault. Moved ahead too fast. We'll know better next time. More effort down there to get the 75's through the mud. Almost hear the teamsters cursing. It's hell. Signal men now coming up with phones, stringing

wire. Some litters going . back with wounded. Got eight or nine men of our outfit with machine gun bullets. Air- planes (our own) overhead now. 6 P.M.—We've stopped. The objective has been taken, but we will go on again. One of the boys of my squad (five of us still going strong) is cooking a rabbit he shot. Smells good. Passed a town called Vieville. We took the town while our guns More Hits were still shelling it. Nice bag of Huns. I've lost track of my prisoners. We got a German lieutenant colonel and he was Fewer Cripples madder than hell because we told him he would have to walk back with the privates. Shetls Threw away my Chauchat and grabbed a with Super-X Long Range Springfield. Better to crawl through the brush with. Some of the boys have dis- Before Super'X was developed the For discriminating sportsmen who carded their packs, but I kept mine. May shot pellets of ordinary shells strung want the very finest duc/f, goose and

need it. Everywhere along the line it's out along their line of flight from 15 tur\ey load to be had Super'X is also been "Kamerad! Kamerad!" Didn't to 40 feet. Much of the load was loaded with golden Lubaloy (copper' know I had so many friends in the world. wasted because many of the pellets ized) shot, giving even shorter shot lagged behind, too late to reach the Sure got Heinie on the run. Passed Bois strings and longer effective range. swiftly Gerard about 9:30 this morning. There moving bird. Super'X Lubaloy loads should not be was a German hospital there, but the The famous Western Super'X shell used for ordinary shortsange shooting. wounded had all been taken away. Sur- is the leading long-range load of the gical supplies left. Also saw some fine For quail, rabbits and all-'round world largely because in Super-X the beer gardens. But no beer! Places all shooting, use the popular-priced, shot string is cut nearly in half.* At lighted with electricity. Maybe we'll be hard-hitting Western Xpert shells 60 yards approximately 80% of the able to find some general's quarters where or Western Field shells. All West' effective pellets are bunched within we can sleep tonight. Looked at one place ern shells now have Non-Corrosive a space of only 8 feet. The killing and found a dead German officer in it. Hit primers. They keep your shotgun density of the load is practically by a shell. It was too messed up to use as a doubled. That's why Western clean without cleaning .'Sold by dealers boudoir. Needs mopping out first. for Super'X shells give you clean kills at everywhere. Write us interest' 10 P.M.—Well, this is sweet. Horris the longer ranges with a minimum of ing, free, descriptive literature. and I have a bedroom all to ourselves. crippled birds that escape your bag WESTERN CARTRIDGE COMPANY Had some pretzels and cheese. Have a only to die later or to fall easy prey 968 Hunter Avenue, East Alton, 111. fire going and can write by the light from to natural enemies. Branch Offices: Jersey City, N. J.; San Francisco, Cal. the hearth. Not bad. Mopping up all •Western is able to control shot stringing through the invention and afternoon and evening and everybody dog exclusive use of a special scientific instrument, the FLIGHTOMETER. This instrument, the only one of its kind in the world, has been in use tired. Think I'll turn in for some sleep. in the Western laboratory for more than nine years. It accurately Horris is snoozing now. The cannons have records the exact position of the shot pellets as they fly through the air at any distance from the gun. died down now. They are too far behind to catch up. No tanks yet. Guess they got sunk. Heard somebody going by and just looked out. A whole column of prisoners is going back. Now for a night's sleep.

Editor's Note— The rest of the diary contains only blank pages. Was the author of the foregoing killed in the counter attack? Is he still alive? Who was he? Where is he now? Who was Horris, his bunkie? THE LOAD WITH THE SHORT SHOT STRING

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STRANDED The end of The story

THE July issue of the Monthly Alex- One of these got home to England and without a cent INander Woollcott, describing his adven- was published. There was a great clamor tures before the microphone, told about for more. Some member of the House of in a strange city how last Armistice Day he broadcast the Commons grew quite apoplectic about the story of the fraternization between English rude sketches. He rose to inquire why and German soldiers the first Christmas His Majesty's government tolerated such of the war which was brought to a brutally grotesque caricatures of the nation's abrupt close when a regiment of High- heroes. The answer was a roar of laughter landers opened fire on the Germans who from the nation's heroes themselves. So were returning the day after Christmas the apoplectic member was sat upon by for another try at mutual hospitality. Mr. Winston Churchill, and the lieutenant Woollcott had got the straight of it from was made a captain and ordered to draw an ex-subaltern of a regiment of War- his fool head off. You may have seen wickshire Fusiliers who took part in the some of his work. His name is Bruce fraternization. The subaltern had been Bairnsfather. introduced to this fantastic proceeding "I see him occasionally, mooning along but this FREE when one of his sergeants early Christmas in Fifth Avenue traffic. Behind him, a Day awakened him and told of swapping spectral orderly seems in attendance, a cigarettes with a German he had met in fabulous old soldier with walrus mustaches, CREDIT COIN No Man's Land a few minutes before. the ghost of Old Bill. The Monthly account ended with the "Well, I told the story over the radio secured money Highlanders' fire ending the soldiers' on the eve of the Armistice anniversary. dream of the end of the war. But there The broadcast ended with taps and I went was more to the story. By an inadvertence home to dinner. Next day, and in the at once for which the Monthly and not Mr. Wooll- days that followed, there was an avalanche cott was responsible, it did not get in. of mail. The first letter to arrive bore a

Here is the rest of it, in his words: special delivery stamp, and came from Showing his United Credit Coin "Thereafter, all the witnesses of that East Orange, in New Jersey. It was from to the cashier of the local United day's work knew only the bloodiest fighting. a man named Arthur Harrison, a friendly, There cannot be many of them alive. excited, and inquiring letter that told Hotel . . . the stranded stranger be- me "You can imagine for yourselves the lan- how he had chanced to tune in the night came a friend immediately . This guage of the wounded Tommy when en- before, just as some bozo—myself as it coin established the traveler's gaged in picturing the kind of bright turned out to be—was talking. He was identity, and enabled him to cash booted, red cheeked colonel who must puttering about his sitting room, when he his checks. No one who travels have given the fatal order to shoot. And stopped dead in his tracks. For out of the should be without this extra con- then there were those who said the whole air was coming a description of his own trap, the Christmas morning in venience and protection. thing was a German and that back 1914. He had Highlanders had fired in the belief that not known that anyone else was alive who Experienced travelers say this free the trap was about to be sprung. knew the story. You see, on December Credit Coin saves from 5 to 20 "My friend, the lieutenant, was wounded 25, 1014, he had been a private in the minutes, every time they visit one and shifted about. He sought surcease Seventeenth Warwickshire Fusiliers, and of the 25 important United Hotel in making charcoal drawings on the re- as sentry on duty in the hours before mains of whitewashed walls in ruined stand-to, it was he who had wakened Lieu- cities. No one else can use your French villages—jocular drawings of the tenant Bairnsfather and summoned him coin. Both its and your number men about him. He did some on paper. to a sight he will not forget while he lives."

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"Pelier's," the major affirmed. "He has confided in me his unhappy failures." A RAILWAY five teams. Lord knows how he kept them "I'm here to stop it," Malone an- TRAFFIC INSPECTOR from the government this last year. But nounced. Ra.lw nd Bus. Earn up lo $250 Per Month he did. He's dirty rich. Couldn't get in the "I wish you luck, m'sieur, but I have Active men- 19 t- 65— needed at once in Rail- way and Bus Pi tsenger Traffic Inspection, war himself on account of a game leg. little hope." Steady, profitabl work pays up to $250 per miint li plus expen: •s, Interest! n^outdnor win k Horse rolled on him when he was a kid Major Orcott turned the subject quickly. Travel or remain i ;ar home. We'll train you and oncompletion of e ew weeks 'home instruction, immediately plan irou in a position paying from . . . Here he is now." His manner indicated that Malone's voice $120 to (160 per m nth up plus expenses to start or refund tuition Free Booklet tells what trafticinspectionc ndo for you. Write STANDARD Malone, glancing up, wondered first if had been a little too stubborn and he did BUSINESS TRAINING INST., Div. 2409, Buflalo. N. Y. all men grew to be giants here in Montoir. not wish his genial French friend to take The one entering was almost as tall as the offense. Hollander he had just seen in Major They finished with apples and cheese. Orcott's office. "No checkers today," the major said. "Meet another American," the major "If you'll excuse me," he apologized to said. "Lieutenant Malone, M'sieu Pelier." Pelier. The Frenchman stood up. "I too He added: "The lieutenant's a detective." have tasks. But you must call on me "Detective?" the Frenchman repeated. later, my Lieutenant, if you remain in ThisRemingtonSheathKnife "Then I am intruding?" Montoir." is just what you need for hunting, fishing or camping trips. "Not at all!" Major Orcott pushed a "If I have lime," Malone promised. But It has a 4 '4 -inch forged hlade with strong, durable, keen- cutting edge. Bono Stag handle and leather sheath. We will chair toward him. "Nothing private in he would have no time. send you this knife what we're talking about. He's investigat- Pelier put on his hat, one of those FREE ing the sugar thefts." turned-down cloth affairs peculiar to the "Ah!" Pelier settled in his chair. He lower river, shapeless as an old sack. But of charge on receipt of only $1 for a two-year subscription to was cheerful, almost expansive. Malone, he had thrust a gull feather into it, and it Hunt ing & Fishing, a 52 -page rnonl hly magazine crammed full blinking at him out of his vacant eyes, set off the drab cloth, giving his whole of hunting, fishing, camping and trapping stories and pictures, could see how this man might be dirty rich. aspect a touch of gaiety. He laughed when valuable Information about guns, revolvers, fishing tackle, game law The Frenchman was shaking his head. "I he saw Malone glance at the feather. changes, best places to get fish and game, etc. fear you are what we call against the wall, "It is my what you call trademark. I Clip this adv. and mail today trtth $1.00 bill to my stranger. The major has attempted wear one always for the good luck." HUNTING & FISHING 111 Transit Bldg., Boston, Mass. every way to halt the outrages. He has He had difficulty descending the step to

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the street. As the two Americans crossed back toward the roadway. Under the cir- the road, Malone glanced back. Pelier was cumstances he did not wish to meet the hobbling eastward at a rapid pace, his Frenchman. Rudolph, apparently tiring whole body swinging in a determined of the company of the fisher girls, had re- effort to cover the ground quickly in spite treated toward the car. He walked past of his handicap. Major Orcott led the it, glanced once sharply at Malone. The way back past the sentry at the gate. The lieutenant opened the car door and rain, which halted abruptly at noon, al- entered. Rudolph quickened his step. It ready had recommenced in a fine drizzle. took a moment to swing the machine "We'll go right out to the floor," the around, and by the time it was pointed major suggested. back to St. Nazaire, Rudolph was a hun- The four railroad tracks that entered dred yards ahead. Malone drove slowly. the building at the north traversed its en- Beyond the first bend he waited. Rudolph tire length. Three of them stopped at the slipped in beside him. "That big fellow south wall; the fourth pair of rails, those with the trick hat that came out of the From Order Clerk nearest the east side, dodged through a office just after you went in — he was wide door out to the quai. On this set, madder 'n a lieutenant colonel in a dirty to General Manager within the building, three small French barracks," he offered. "So I soft soled freight cars stood with their rolling doors him." in five years! wide open and the sugar sacks in plain view. "And he went ?" Back in 1920, V. G. Powell of New York, The lieutenant motioned inquiringly "To the boat next to where these dames was a young order clerk just out of the army toward a second string of cars on the was. So I had a little parley-voo with —in 1924 he was directing sales and adver- tracks at the west side of the warehouse. them. Just to get a earful. The big guy's tising—a year later he was general manager. In between were five years of capable, loyal "Sugar in them, too?" name is Haak." service and two completed LaSalle training "Empties," Major Orcott explained, "And he's got a cargo of sugar for sale." courses—Modern Business Correspondence as he carefully sealed the cars. "We Rudolph denied it. and Business Management. keep a string always ready on the floor "No sugar 'round where I could see." Six months after starting his first course, he asked to handle correspondence and got or in the yards. Like to have them on "It'll be one of your jobs to see it." the job and a raise; a few months later he hand whenever they run a cargo in on us." Malone smoked three cigarettes while suggested a new sales promotion department They walked to the front together. "Just Rudolph ate supper in the Y. M. C. A. hut. and was given the responsibility of organizing and directing it; soon after he recommended whistle if I can do anything else for you." The March dusk had fallen rapidly. Rain the beginning of advertising and was given "Need to think things over," Malone had blown away, but the sky still hung that task. said. He accompanied the warehouse com- overcast. Again in the car, Malone No wonder he moved up fast. Any em- mander as far as the office, and after dropped the sergeant a quarter mile from ployer would welcome and reward initiative promising to see him later, stepped out into Warehouse M, gave him his final instruc- and ability like that. Today he is the editor of his industry's magazine and an outstand- the yard and turned back along the tions and drove on casually toward Major ing figure in that great field. wharf. Orcott's office. Note his own comment, "My two training Major Orcott's guards were strung along The major was standing by the big courses gave me more than I could have the stockade at the north of the enclosure. track gates at the front of the stockade, gained through ten years of experience." There was no sign of sentries on the three awaiting the arrival of the beef train. He Send for the Salary-Increasing long unloading platforms. Malone, ob- had on his raincoat and apparently was Plan That Poivell Followed serving this, remembered what the major through in his office for the night. He What's to prevent your equalling Powell's had said at noon about empty docks re- asked records—setting new records of your own? quiring fewer guards. He walked around "Come back to ride the cars?" You have the same twenty-four hours in the to the south end. The Loire flowed "Guess not. Cold evening," Malone day—the same ambition to get ahead. Turn into with the LaSalle salary-in- placidly here. replied. "Just see them safely on the way, time cash creasing plan. The coupon just below this The one track from within the building, then telephone Tours to be on thelookout." text will bring you full particulars—without across which Major Orcott had just thrown The headlight of the approaching train the slightest obligation. Whether you adopt and locked the gate, joined a siding here pushed slowly down the main track. A the plan or not, the basic information it will place in your hands, without cost, is of very on the quai. The rails of the siding were bowlegged little man walked ahead of it real and definite value. rusty. Following the old track as far as with a lantern. Major Orcott backed If a successful career is worth a 2c stamp the stockade, Malone came upon another cautiously from the rails and halted op- and two minutes of your time, check the gate. This was built solidly, of stout high posite the sugar cars. It was the work of field of advancement that appeals to you, fill in your name and address, and place the planks just like those in front, and like but a few minutes to uncouple the engine. coupon in the mail TODAY. them padlocked. It jerked ahead and backed precipitately H M Find Yourself Through LaSalle 4 4 He passed through and coming out in into the siding, all its loose joints clatter- LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY front, paused near the sentry at the gate. ing. Two yardmen shouted and waved The World's Largest Business Training Institution Dept. 9361-R Chicago There he caught sight of Rudolph. The their lanterns in eccentric loops. The . I should beglad tolearn about your JlH^^feEET---^ sergeant had found a pair of bedraggled couplings crashed. The pins were set. salary-increasing pla n ;ipplir) ) fishing girls on the French wharf, and was Again the lanterns waved. Tin whistles field checked below. j^'aTy 7 < Business Management ^ < -'fro/> talking to them. squealed. / Higher Accountancy If) Qru , / Traffic " The lieutenant heard their shouts of de- And three sugar cars, properly sealed, Management r Modern Salesmanship / light. Rudolph. Could get train. ft°W / A good man, pulled out to join the beef Law: Degree of LL.B. £jE along anywhere. Malone returned to the Orcott took off his glasses and snapped Q Commercial Law Industrial Management hotel across the and walking back their case. "It's your lookout ^^^^*^^^B^F road them into fj Modern Foremanshlp

r Personnel Management Oc. P. A. Coaching to the bar ordered a drink. In the kitchen, now . Lieutenant," he said with relief. "That Q Railway Accounting D Business English just off the dining room, he heard angry shipment's off my hands." Railway Station Mgm't Commercial Spanish Banking and Finance Effective Speaking voices. One of them was Pelier's! Malone agreed with a nod. He had just l~l Modern Business Corre- O Telegraphy spondence He was arguing in French so quick that seen the dark figure that swung out from Credit and Collection O Expert Bookkeeping Correspondence Malone could not understand. Only he behind a stack of commissary cases and up heard one word repeated over and over. to the beams between the first and second Name Age sugar. one could mistake those Sugar. cars of No Present Position The lieutenant downed his insipid broad, square shoulders. Rudolph was Address drink in three distasteful gulps and turned riding the train. {Continued on page 50)

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No prowler would take a pound of its cargo "You!" the engineer shouted. "Go while he guarded it. away! Quickly! Depart!" "If I can do anything for you just call "You may go ahead now yourself," me," Orcott said once more. "I'd like to Malone bade. He tossed a packet of get this cleared up as much as you do." cigarettes in their direction. "Come, He shook hands, and Malone blinked at Rudolph. No use riding farther." He him almost stupidly as he said good night. ran back toward the automobile. "We're He saw the lanterns at the rear of the train only four or five kilos on the main road disappear in the mist. Moving slowly, from Montoir. I took a roundabout way. though it took self control to keep from Told the major I was going to St. Na- running, he returned to his automobile and zaire." started west. For some time he bumped In less than five minutes they made out along on poor roads, and then he was going the glow of the American camp. They up and down short, steep grades. Then walked the last half mile. Malone had his car again found the St. Nazaire-Angers little to say and Rudolph knew better than highway, and lights of a little village to ask questions. The lieutenant finally blinked ahead. He drove into it without inquired: slowing his pace until he reached the rail- "Did you make a hit with those fishing road tracks at the edge of the Loire. girls?" The gates were locked, so he climbed Rudolph, turning in surprise, saw him over them, and found the chef de gare in his grin. It was the first time he had seen office, asleep beside a cold stove. Malone Malone permit himself a grin since he Old Cape Henry Light, built in 1791, on the Virginia his briefly. beef started case, Coast—prized relic of early Virginia history. explained errand No, the on the and that meant he was train had not yet arrived. Yes, it would nearing the end of it. Malone never saw pass without halting. the humor of a crime before A white flash in a black sky signals through he saw the "Not tonight it won't," Malone con- solution of it. steady character the coastal the of tradicted. He showed his identification "Sure I made a hit," Rudolph answered. sentry. Puffs of cool, sweet smoke card, printed in French upon the right fold, "They'd fall for anything that stepped off in English on the left. "That train stops on its left foot." bespeak the mild and friendly tonight and no argument." "We can use them now," Malone ex- character of The chef de gare did argue. Malone plained. "I noticed today that there's a presented his card again. The man, a skiff tied alongside their boat." small, round, plain old fellow with whisk- "At the stern," Rudolph said. ers, studied its signatures. "Go aboard. Make a lot of racket with "It is most unusual," he consented at the girls and I'll be getting away in the length. "It is unheard of. But I have my skiff. I want to get into Warehouse M instructions, they are plain on that card." from the water without passing the guard TO BaIcO He took up his smoky lantern, his at the gate. You can give the girls a good tightly furled red flag and a semaphore time." OLD BRIAR continually gains new key, then with dignity set his dirty uni- "A guy has to do a lot for his country." form cap on his head. As they returned They turned down the French wharf. friends because its distinctive charac- to the platform they could hear the train Against the sky, which hung gray with the ter inspires thoughtful preference rather whistling. reflections of the camp's electric lights, than thoughtless habit. It has the body "Don't let it get by," Malone ordered. they made out the blunt spars of vessels that the veteran smoker demands. It has The beef train swung around the bend, moored in the slimy water. the mildness that is found only in the finest hooted angrily at the waving lantern and They let themselves down silently to the deck. the sergeant ripe tobacco. It has an appetizing flavor grumbled to an outraged halt. Leaving While walked boldly the chef de gare to soothe the engine crew, toward the lighted door of the deckhouse with a sparkle that distinguishes it from the Malone ran down the tracks beside the on the port side, Malone slipped to the flatness of ordinary blends. Every pipeful cars. He saw a figure lumbering toward starboard. Rudolph was greeting the wins a deeper, truer liking. him through the dark. girls noisily, with a good imitation of that "Halt!" it was Rudolph. thing which the French called Yank "Malone, Sergeant!" the lieutenant savagery. shouted. "I want to look inside these The skiff swung at its painter. Malone cars." took one oar from under the thwart. It "Inside? Inside, you say? No one been was a short paddle, not three minutes, to " near us, sir, this is the first stop the outer end of the American concrete "Break that seal," Malone ordered. pier. Here an iron ladder, fixed into the "Give me a lift on this door. That's it cement, gave him foothold. He made the ." . . . now your flashlight. . . boat fast to the ladder, and climbing "Good Lord!" the sergeant exclaimed. slowly, peered over the parapet. He "Guessed right," Malone grunted. crawled over the edge of it and lay flat on The beam of the flashlight swept up the cold concrete. He must out-maneuver and down the walls. The first of Major the guard and those others who were in on Orcott's sugar cars was empty. Malone the sugar theft game. UNITED examined the second and the third. None The three cars of sugar had not left the held sugar. warehouse on the beef special. Therefore TOBACCO The chef de gare and the engine crew they were still inside on the floor, to be dis- RICHMOND, VA stumbled toward them. posed of tonight, or their robbery might 50 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly already be accomplished and the floor be "How long's he been dead?" Malone bare. In either case the removal of the asked. sugar from the warehouse could be made "Not an hour." The doctor got up from by water, which would be difficult to ac- his knees and rubbed his hands together. complish with so many little boats nearby, "Can't give you any closer guess." or by that sealed gate to his right under Malone looked at his watch. It was which ran the old switch track. twelve minutes past nine. Malone sat up slowly on the floor of the "I talked to him myself not much more pier. He waited for a challenge. When than an hour ago," he said. none came, he walked briskly to the track- The sergeant of the guard volunteered: gate in the rear wall of the warehouse. It "We was hunting him pretty soon after still was locked? All right. He would ex- them three sugar cars went out, sir. He amine the seal on the wooden gate in the come in the gate while I was making my wire stockade. He still had a dozen paces first inspection and went right through to $1260 tO $3400 to go when he halted abruptly. his office. But 'long come a civilian At first he thought the shapeless black askin' for him a little while after that, and A YEAR form on the concrete in front of him was a nobody could find him." sentry, crouched waiting there. A dozen Malone and Rudolph spoke at once. suppositions raced through his mind. It "What civilian?" PICK YOUR JOB was a man. That unexplained sense which "Why, a big guy. I've see him 'round. is part of the human understanding told Friend of the major's. Limps." him so much. He stared, poised on the "What did he do?" Ex-Service Men Get balls of his feet. "Went to the office." The dark spot remained inert, a black "Alone?" Preference splash against the gray pavement. Malone "Why, no, sir. The sentry . . . it's lunged forward and dropped to his knees. No. 3 at that post ... he wouldn't let These are steady positions. Strikes, poor business conditions. or politics will not affect them. Government em- The man was sprawled on his back. He him in. Nobody's allowed in alone after ployees get their pay for twelve full months every year. wore an American uniform, and an officer's sundown. He said he had to see the major $1,900 TO $2,700 A YEAR Railway Postal Clerks get $1,900 the first year, being garrison cap lay an arm's length from his particular, so No. 3 hollered and I come paid on the first and fifteenth of each month. $711.17 each pay day. Their pay is quickly increased, the head. He did not stir. Malone shook double-timing from the guardhouse and maximum being $2,700 a year. $112.50 each pay day. him, spoke hoarsely to him, shook him went in with him. But we couldn't find again. Then he knew that this man was him, inside or outside. The big guy was Travel On dead. His body still was warm. Bending all upset, stamping 'round on his wooden closer, the operator saw indistinctly that leg. We come back to the road and this "Uncle Sam's" there was a wound of some kind on his big guygoeshoppin'acrossthestreet tothat Pay Roll forehead. He turned on his flashlight. wineshop. That's the last I see of him." Thus Malone discovered the man he had "While you were out there, while you come to capture. Major Orcott had been were searching one platform and this murdered. He lay alone on the cold floor lame civilian the other, did you hear any- of his wharf, inside the thick gate, while thing? Commotion? Outcry?" Railway Postal Clerks, like all Government employees, have a yearly vacation of 15 working days (about IS his guards marched properly up and down, The sergeant pondered. days). On runs, they usually work 3 days and have 3 days off duty or in the same proportion. During this five hundred feet away, in front of the en- "Can't say 's I did," he admitted. off duty and vacation their pay continues just as though they were working. They travel on a pass when on busi- closure. Blood streaked the left side of his The doctor resumed his examination of ness and see the country. When they grow old, they are retired with a pension. face and his trim uniform was muddy. But the body. CITY MAIL CARRIERS. POST OFFICE CLERKS still his thin hair was combed properly "It wasn't robbery," he told them. Clerks and Carriers now commence at $1,700 a year and automatically increase $100 a year to $2,100 and his at it." held across the bald spot atop head. As "He's got money. Look He up $2,300. They also have 15 days' paid vacation. City residence is unnecessary. Malone stepped backward, involuntarily, a roll of bills. "Must be thousands of IMMIGRANT INSPECTOR—CUSTOMS INSPECTOR something shattered under his heel. It francs here." Salary $2,100 to commence. Work connected with incoming pas- was the major's eyeglasses. "Take care of it, please, sir?" Malone Immigration and Customs examination of sengers from foreign countries. at his whistle blew three officer of the day. it He yanked and asked the "Count IS YOUR JOB STEADY? short, low notes. He waved the flashlight and then seal it up." Compare these conditions with your present or your prospective condition, perhaps changing positions fre- once in a circle, keeping his body between The doctor shifted the position of quently, no chance in sight for PERMANENT employment: frequently out of a position and the it and the sight of any guard in front. Orcott's body. As he did so Malone vear's average salary very low. DO YOU GET $1.1100 EVERY YEAR? HAVE YOU ANY From the deck of the fishing boat, he heard asked sharply: "What's that? There ASSURANCE THAT A FEW YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL GET $2,100 to $2,700 Rudolph's voice in reply. under him? Move him over a bit, please." A YEAR? GET PREFERENCE "Hi! Coming, sir!" "Just a gull feather," the doctor said. Every ex-service man is entitled to special Malone looked once more at the body, Malone picked it up. It was such a preference in Government Examinations. Are you taking advantage of your opportunity? then he started running, too, toward the feather as the major's friend Pelier wore in GET FREE LIST OF POSITIONS sentry in the road. He heard Sergeant his hat. This discovery caused the lieu- Fill out the following coupon. Tear it off and mail it today—now. at once. Rudolph arguing with him. tenant to pause for a minute. Then he This investment of two cents for a postage, stamp may result in your getting a Govern- "Get the officer of the day," Malone turned his flashlamp on the gate. Its ment Job. commanded, coming up to them. "Double padlock still hung in place and the car seal FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. time." was unbroken. Rudolph spoke in his ear. Dept. GI84. Rochester. N. Y. The officer of the day was a pale young "Where?" Malone asked. Rush to me entirely free of charge (1) a full description of the position checked below; (2) Free Copy of 32- Government Job"; second lieutenant named Trimble. He "Right here, sir, right here by the page book, "How to Get a U. S. (3) A list of the U. S. Government Jobs now obtainable: brought with him a camp medical officer gate." (4) Tell me all about preference given to ex-service men. Railway Postal Clerk ($l.900-$2.700) and the frightened sergeant of the guard. Malone, instinctively cataloguing facts, Post Office Clerk ($l.700-$2.300) City Mail Carrier ($1,700. $2. 100) They stared down incredulously at the estimated the distance from the body to Rural Mail Carrier ($2, 100-$3.400) Government Clerk— File Clerk ($1,260 $2,500) body. Rudolph had been leaning over it. the high gate to be ten yards. There, just Immigrant Inspector ($2,l00-$3.000) Inspector of Customs ($2,l00-$3.300) "No bullet wound, sir," he reported to inside the fence, the thin, slippery coat of Malone. slime, product of army dust and harbor Name The doctor, after a minute, agreed. "A fogs, had been scraped and kicked and heavy blow," he added, "on the left side rubbed away. Here was explanation of the Address of the head." mud on Orcott's (Continued on page 52) Use This Coupon Before You Mislay it. 5' SEPTEMBER, 193 i A Playing Sugar DRUM CORPS 6 {Continued from page 57) Weeks from Now blouse. In the midst of it, under the bulls- riding. The empties were sealed, too, be- eye of the Hash, Malone saw a dark stain fore they left. Somewhere up the line upon the concrete. It was about the size somebody besides us, some cheap ac- In jus! five simple steps — and within 6 weeks from of his palm. complice, was supposed to break the seals now—your Post car. have a playing drum corps ready The doctor, who had followed, bent put on by the major." for appearance! public down and touched it. "But who gets the sugar?" Ludwig has worked out the plan—based on long "Blood," he agreed. "This is where it Malone made an expressive gesture. years of successful experi- happened, ence — and will help you then. He could easily have run "I've heard two civilians talk sugar put it in effect. Details free; that far, even farther, before he fell." today." send coupon now for new illustrated book, "Here Malone still held the gull feather in his "It's the lame fellow," Rudolph charged. They Come," giving all thrust it the facts. hand. He into his pocket now "Why, he was even wearing a feather! Prize winning corps use and looked up shrewdly at the tall gate. And he had plenty of chance tonight. He Ludwig drums — brilliant, snappy tone, easy playing. Rudolph, observing him, turned his flash- was out there on the dock alone while that Instruction manual with lamp, every outfit. too, upon the upper white painted sergeant was hunting the other side. You boards. can hang him, sir!" "Somebody went over," the sergeant "Mebbe," Malone said. He lighted a decided. "See? Paint's all scratched. cigarette and puffed it a moment, think- LUDWIG & LUDWIG Somebody shinned right up. It would take ing. "Guess you'd better go get Pelier," 923-C Ludwig Bldg., 1611-27 N. Lincoln St., Chicago a damn good man to do it. And that's he decided. "Might look in the wine shop I Gentlemen: Send me your free book, "Here They Come" and tell me how we can have a drum corps in 5 steps. | blood there, sir. Yes, sir, sure as hell is. for him. But first this. You'll find some

Name „ J The board splintered, regular saw tooth warehouses up the river a half mile. Just • City - edge . . . punctured his hand." where that old siding runs down to the Street I "Perhaps," Malone agreed. He tried to gravel pit. We passed them coming in." • State County reach the top of the fence. He was too Rudolph admitted: "Didn't notice, short. "Boost me up?" he asked Rudolph. sir." GET THIS BIG PAYING/*) The sergeant lifted him. Malone swung "Search them now." from the spikes in the top, then jumped. "For Pelier?" Turn Spare Hours into Money The ground was muddy outside of the "Or sugar." Add up to $50.00 weekly to your regular income. Be our representative in vour locality stockade. He examined it with his light. "What if they're locked?" for a big men's wear business. Take orders at cut rate prices for shirta. underwear, ties There, tramping about the unballasted "You wouldn't let a little lock stop and hosiery. Guaranteed quality . Newest styles. Old reliable firm. We supply everything needed absolutely FREE. Write track, were the fresh marks of men's shoes you?" CARTER WELCH. Mgr. and of horses' hooves. Horses, too, had Malone watched while Rudolph de- 227 W. Van Buren Street Dept. 8 1 1 Chicago, III. knicked and scarred the wooden ties. parted heavily, then he set off himself for He walked some distance down the the French wharf, and boarded Captain SQKC WRITERS siding, then returned to the group. Haak's schooner. The giant captain was song reouiremektsi Don't Fail To Read "I'd like to use the major's keys," he giving orders in a deep undertone. He TALKING PICTURES "Song Requirement! oi Talking Pictures, told the doctor. "You will find them in carried a lantern in his left hand and its radio and Mcoaosj Radio and Records", an explanatory in- I saw light sprayed on his big bare feet. structive book, SENT FREE on request. his right-hand pocket. Thanks. Malone Writers may submit song-poems {or free him put 'em there," he explained. "I'd explained to him that he was wanted to examination and advice. Past experience unnecessary. We revise, compose and ar- like to know if you find what weapon give evidence against Pelier for theft of music and secure Copyrights. Onr range sugar, and after demurring for a minute modern method guarantees approval. killed him." Write Today* A. L. Newcomer Associates. The doctor shook his head. "That's a the Hollander went with him. They had 1674 Broadway, New Yorlt, N. Y. hard job," he confessed, leaning down hardly reached the major's office when agam. "He wasn't very husky," he com- Rudolph appeared with Pelier. The mented. "If I were to guess, just guess, Frenchman was handcuffed, but at Ma- understand, I'd say that it could have lone's insistence the irons were removed.

been a fist. An immense fist." "What do you desire of me?" the "My guess, too," Malone said. Frenchman demanded hoarsely glaring at Followed by Rudolph and the white- Haak who was seated nervously watching faced sergeant of the guard, he made his Malone. "Why am I here? I know way to the south track-gate into the ware- nothing, except grief! The American was Good and house. There on the quai, before entering, my friend!" he pointed his flashlamp at the ties be- Malone raised his eyebrows inquiringly Good for You, tween the tracks. "I noticed this today," at Rudolph. "You told him the major is he said. "See how they're chewed up? dead?" DIRECTTOYOU fiftST Just like the floors in the eight-horse Pull- The sergeant protested. "I did not!" A Genuine 3 mans. Horses were used here. It's the "I guess you knew it without being told, same way all along the siding." Pelier," Malone remarked. BROWNING Guns AUTOMATIC In the glare from lights in the roof, The Frenchman gasped. His face was the favorite with sports- In One Malone and Rudolph saw the three sealed white. There was sweat on the forehead. nllover the world— men „y tgdayfor 3 or 5-8hot capacity- .g^S-d cars standing on the east track, as if still He wiped away the sweat. Then: "Mon no equal in qual- ^ZgT Catalog No. 1022-K awaiting the beef special. But the string Dieu, to be sure I knew it! Why conceal ity, appear- ^^r^r which tells you why the Browning_"16" Automatic ence, smooth Ji!^&as of empties was gone. Malone used his it? I saw him lying out there! I came to action. ." knife on the nearest car seal, then pressed discover why he is late. . . his shoulder against the door. It moved "Late for dinner?" Malone asked Ask lot Catalog No. 1022 BROWNING ARMS CO. eighteen inches. Rudolph, peering in, gently, then continued. "We've got this Hrad

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It isn't the first train that has been sealed there, waiting to let Pelier's teams in. up without a sack of sugar in it. The You struck him, for some reason." major's been sending out empty cars reg- "Why not him?" The Hollander pointed ularly and selling you the full ones. We at Pelier, who cried out a denial. saw the marks of your horses' hooves to- "For one very good reason," Malone night. You've been driving up that old said slowly. "Pelier has a wooden leg. If siding with your nice big white horses and I couldn't climb such a gate, he couldn't. pulling the full cars out the back way. That let him out of murder from the You've got warehouses down that track a start." little way ..." he glanced inquiringly Rudolph exclaimed. He'd omitted that at Rudolph. The sergeant nodded. in his calculations. "They're full of .American sugar." "Your major cheated me," Haak said Pelier stared. He did not deny it. stubbornly. "He take my money for three "But something went wrong tonight," carload of sugar. Six day ago I pay it. Malone resumed. "Orcott wasn't on hand I am to take cargo aboard tonight but at the back gate to let you through when when I go today to tell him how, you, a you got there with your team. So you policeman, arrive. So he say later he came around front to hunt him." He must let Pelier have this sugar. I go to turned swiftly on Captain Haak, lifting Pelier and he say I must wait for next his voice. load. We have argument in his wineshop "Why'd you kill the major, Captain but I do not get sugar. So tonight I Haak? Why'd you try to put the blame climb the gate. I see the American there on Pelier? Turn those lights this way, in the dark. He tell me to go away, Rudolph." He bent down and looked I am prowler, if I do not go he will closely at the seaman's big bare toes. shoot. I will not permit him shoot. I "Lift your foot, Haak, the left one. Lift hit. Once ... so. He starts to run. it." The Hollander stood solidly upon He falls. I shake. No good. He will not both legs. "We're going to look at that get up. I think of this Pelier. He has my PUTS OUT FIRES foot if we've got to knock you down," sugar, he shall have my blame too. I find Malone warned. this feather. I put it under him." and BROADCASTS "Oh?" Haak lifted his foot. Malone Suddenly, without warning, he rose seized the big ankle. massively and started for the open door. "Look here, by the outside of this toe? But the sergeant of the guard, posted THE ALARM See that cut? The sliver still is in it." He there, was too quick. He tripped him as NOTHING is more dreaded than a fire at pinched with thumb and forefinger. "This he stalked forward, before the lifted fist night. Then, when families are asleep sliver came out of the rear stockade gate, could strike. or stores, warehouses and factories deserted, the tiniest blaze soon becomes a raging inferno. men." He held it to the light. "Exhibit "Time for handcuffs now," Malone told In a twinkling, valuable property is destroyed A. Now let's see your hands, Haak." Rudolph. He turned on Pelier. — life savings vanish—lives are endangered or The Hollander clasped his great fists "Your scheme was good," he admitted. sacrificed! But any fire is a dreadful menace behind him. "Only Orcott sold the sugar twice. First no matter when it starts. Imagine 10,220 fire in one year while "Stick 'em up quick!" Rudolph com- to Haak, then to you. He took Haak's lives snuffed out by $499,739,130.00 worth of property is reduced manded. The captain obeyed. money, then decided maybe it wasn't to smoke and ashes! That's the cost of having "Here's the deadly weapon," Malone altogether healthy to have that Dutch fires! said smoothly. "Bare knuckles. See the boat alongside his warehouse with the No wonder, then a tremendous furore has been skin cracked?" D.C.I, in the offing. So he just kept the aroused by an amazing new device called Pelier looked. But no one answered. money." FIREX. This startling invention actually makes fires put themselves out and broadcasts The room was very still. Pelier sighed piously. a crashing call for help. The fire's own heat "You came over that high gate, Haak," "That is the trouble with dishonest sets a simple mechanism into operation, sounds Malone accused quietly. "The major was people," he muttered. the alarm and releases a liquid gas that is harmless to humans but death to fires. Attacks the fire before it reaches seriously destructive stage. Flames usually out even before help summoned by alarm arrives on When *Mr. "Baker ?Made War REPRESENTATIVES scene. WANTED EVERYWHERE Remember, fully auto- {Continued from page 2g) matic— no operator Make Up To $50 and $75 needed. The most sen- On A Single Sate sational invention of The tremendous nationwide time had no place in March's scheme of made it clear that the only business of the past 25 years! need for FIREX creates such Vitally needed in every a sales opportunity as has war administration. America was to meet the A. E. F.'s calls. probably never before been home and in over 225 known in direct selling. stores, "March 'em!" said March when he was The March grin, in the various interpre- industrial plants, Homes use from 1 to 20 public buildings, etc. FIREX at a time and sales of asked how the masses of troops we were tations of it, might be taken as apprecia- Every business man, 25, 50 and 75 at a time are every head of a family commonplace for industrial loading on transports in the summer and tion of a joke; or an intimation that he saw talla tions. With up to whether renter or home ins 32.00 profit on each one fall of iqi8 were to reach the front from the through a suggestion and it did not wash; owner—every salesman look what a GOLD MINE! in America should know Send coupon today for full de- French ports. Hadn't they legs? Foch, or the prospect pleased him and so, go- about this amazing details of this amazing opportu- Pershing, Lloyd George and Clemenceau ahead; or he was giving a dose of medicine vice. Send coupon to- nity. day sure for full details. were demanding more and more men and or taking one himself. FIREX CORP. March was sending them more and more. THE Dept.M-130, Railway Exchange Bldg.,St. Louis.Mo. "Nine times out of ten" March's de- I UNDERSTAND you are teaching the I cisions were right. This is a high percent- men in the camps to sing," said March 1 I The FIREX Corp.. Dept. M-130, Railway Exchange Buildino, Si. Louis, Mo. 1 age. Great executives five of Chief of Staff to I regard out soon after he became astounding oppor- I Please tell me hII about FIREX and the J it provides for $40 to $75 profit in a day. 1 six or three out of four as a high average; Raymond Fosdick, chairman of the Com- | tunity

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"He never let up on us!" said Hurley of the are," said Fosdick. "Stop it!" said March. ' Address I State Shipping Board. Other industrial leaders The business of a soldier was to fight and I City perm, nal use only. I • ( )Cheek here if Interested for with whom I talked agreed that March not to sing. (Continued on page 54) L-_-- J

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Fosdick smiled pleasantly, not at all ing of supplies. With reference to cleaning abashed by March's four stars, yet most up the cribs near the cantonments, and considerate of them. regular houses of prostitution, which did When Fosdick told Baker that March not reach those whom Dr. Abraham Flex- How to be had ordered the cessation of singing in- ner referred to as "complacent sweet- structions in the camps Baker chuckled. hearts," here is a letter of Baker's to Ray- POPULAR This was something to tell Mrs. Baker, who mond Fosdick in answer to an anonymous sang now and then at the cantonments. letter which Fosdick had received: "I'll to the general T\M USIC OPENS the portals of speak about that," "As this letter is anonymous I cannot tell Ivm popularity. Learn to play a said Saxophone, Cornet, Trombone or Baker. you the name of the man who has dis- any band instrument. New instruc- singing instruction tion methods enable you to play So the was to go on. covered that segregated districts are 'God- tunes quickly, be ready for band or Perhaps it aided in singular heartiness orchestra in 4 to 6 weeks. the provided means' for the prevention of the For quick advancement and reassurance of All greater musical success, start on and "The Gang's Here," violation of innocent girls by men who are an easy playing Conn. Choice of I Sousa and the world's greatest which heard from our men on the way to exercising their 'God-given passions;' but artists. Many exclusive improve- the front in is ments at no added cost. France. the letter rather an interesting specimen FREE Trial, Easy Payments When Fosdick went into the Chief of of muddle-headedness unless, as seems pos- on any Conn. Write today for full details and interesting free book Staff's office after he had taken up the sub- sible, it was written by somebody who on the instrument of your choice. Mention instrument. ject with Baker, March grinned, as he gave would like to have a commercial interest in C. G. CONN, Ltd. 903 Conn Bldg., Elkhart, Indiana Fosdick the rapier look and asked: a tenderloin enterprise." "Who areyou? Crown Prince, viceregent, On the subject of light wines Fosdick had or what?" written to Baker as early as September 22, Fosdick disclaimed any pretensions be- 1017: CONNWorld's Largest "Man u/aclurers of yond his part in training camp activities. "We are beginning to get letters of pro- BAND INSTRUMENTS "Why don't you take rank?" March test from around 'the country in regard to asked. the use of wine by American troops in fJWE Fosdick thought he could do his work France. These letters assert that the same better without it. protection supplied by the enforcement of ToAny Suit!

t Double the life of your "How about making you a colonel?" section 12 (which forbade the soldiers to coat and vest with correctly matched pants.100,000 patterns. "No." drink any alcoholic liquors) of the army Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no "readymadea." Our match sent FREE for youv "A brigadier-general?" law should be afforded our men abroad. O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. is Send) piece off cloth or vest today. As either general or colonel, Fosdick "This a question which in my mind is SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY 115 So. Dearborn Street, Dept. 714, Chicago would have reported direct to March and, going to take sheer statesmanship amount- according to strict army etiquette, would ing to genius to handle. I am myself pretty have gone through the door on the right well acquainted with France, and as a instead of the door at the left to the Sec- practical measure I do not see how we can retary's office. very well forbid the use of wine. It is NEW "No. In my work I frequently have to served and as we serve water in every FREE book talk to the privates, if I am to understand restaurant and cafe. Dr. Martin of the quotes Lowest Prices* ^ in Years for Kalamazoo their feelings and needs, and they will be Council of National Defense says that such quality. Only $5 Down on any " stove, range or furnace. 200 styles more approachable if I am not an officer." use is outrageous, and is constantly on and sizes. Coal and Wood * Ranges, Gas and Combina- March grinned. He had Fosdick placed; my coat-tails to get the War Department tion Ranges, Heaters and Furnaces. 24-hr. shipments. and Fosdick soon had March placed in to do something about it. I am confident 30-day FREE Trial. Satis- faction or money back. 31 years admiration for his outspokenness and his that measures can be taken to protect the n business. 800,000 customers. Write today for FREE book. driving, power in forwarding supplies for troops abroad from venereal disease, al- Kalamazoo Stove Co., Mfrs. 2066 Rochester Ave. Kalamazoo Michigan the welfare work in France, when the though I confess I am not quite clear in my AKalamazoQ growth of our army in France was out of mind as to just what measures should be Direct toYou" proportion to huts, canteens, and other taken. But this question of wine is a dif- facilities. The welfare plan, which, it ferent matter. will be remembered, was one of the two "I write you at this time because of the things for which the Secretary of War of presence on my desk of a large number of ^weYourWaistline the unobtrusive personality thought some letters which I don't know how to answer." credit was due to himself, was now defi- To this Baker answered on the 24th, set- nite in its part of the whole which was ting Fosdick's doubts at rest with the clearly developed on the negative. sanely realistic letter which is reproduced Every hour not occupied by drill in the on page twenty-nine. camps had opportunities for relaxation and The "off limits" rule and our policing of

entertainment. Fosdick 's oversight was all towns where we had many soldiers, espe- the range of the welfare activities from the cially ports, was bound to lead to friction cantonments on the Pacific coast to the with the French. In some cases the mayors "Y" huts and Salvation Army lassies with reported the complaints of their constitu- hot doughnuts for the men coming out of ents about loss of trade. At the outset of the trenches. The fight against the ancient Fosdick's report, which he considered scourge of armies which was begun on the might be of "historical value in the fu- Mexican border and then introduced in our ture," is printed Clemenceau's letter which officially through the French WRITE TODAY FOR SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER training camps was continued abroad where expressed THE LITTLE CORPORAL "BLAIRTEX" Belt reduces it became a problem of Allied relations premier the views of the French govern- waistlines quickly and comfortably. Improves appearance. Relieves tired aching backs. Increases energy. Lessens more delicate than the preservation of the ment on the subject: fatigue. No lacers, straps or buckles. GUARANTEED ONE YEAR. Satisfaction or your money back. integrity of our Army, the Eastern Expedi- "The presence on French territory, »» '»"» Sl THE LITTLE CORPORAL CO., Dept.r V9, * tion the allocation of shipping, or the pool- specially in certain important centers, of ' ' Chicago, III.

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American troop agglomerations brings up and his leadership in the fine spirit of fel- questions of social hygiene which it is of lowship among all his regular subordinates great importance to solve to the best in- and all the reserve medical officers. Theirs terest of the health of the Allied troops and was truly a corps d'elite. of the civilian population. "Regarding more specially the propaga- IT WAS at one of the intimate gatherings tion of venereal diseases, the methods fol- in the Secretary's office, in relaxation that lowed so far by the American commandant after the long day's work was over, take do not seem to have given good results. In those present that evening decided to Baker 'Learn Electricity fact, total prohibition of all regulated pros- the intelligence test for the soldiers. Shops titution in the vicinity of American troops and March were not displeased to find that By Actual Work in Great Coyne they passed nearly one hundred percent; Dissatisfied with your job? Not making enough money? has had for result, in spite of the measures Then let me show you how to prepare for a real job at sure real pay— in ELECTRICITY, the money-making field! of prophylaxis and discipline taken by the but others who did not do so well were TWELVE WEEKS OF SHOP TRAINING they had intellectual capabilities that American authorities, the increase of propa- that Come to Coyne in Chicago and learn Electricity the quick such a limited and and practical way — By actual work on actual equip- gation of venereal diseases among the could not be sounded by ment and machinery. No useless theory! The average academic analysis. time to complete the course is only 12 weeks. No pre- civilian population of the neighborhood." unimaginative vious experience necessary. A long memorandum by Medical In- Baker's routine continued the same that Free Employment Service We employ three men on a full time basis whose sole job into the war, be- spector Simonin, Assistant Director of the it had been since our entry is to help secure positions forourstudents. Also some of our students pay a large part of their living expenses Social Hygiene program of the French tween the little house in Georgetown and through part-time work we get them. Get the facts! JUST MAIL COUPON BELOW FOR A FREE COPY Surgeon General's office, supported Clem- his office. The whispering gallery still OF MY BIG ELECTRICAL BOOK. enceau's view. M. Simonin quoted the centered its fire on him for our conduct of COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL Chicago, III. abroad, which SOO S. Paulina St., Dept. 61-04, secret note of January 15, 1916, French the war both at home and was valuable protection for all the other Coyne Electrical School. H. C. Lewis, Pres. Headquarters: 500 S. Paulina St.. Dept. 61-04. Chicago, in of the piease send me your Free Illustrated Book on Electricity and "The multiplication of public houses war-chiefs from interference. One Coyne Tbis dues not obligate me. should be discreetly favored and their in- favorite hints of the whispering gallery, Name mates examined at least every two days by this being too impolitic for publication, the military physician." was that Baker was a Jew who had de- The French hygienist did not go un- serted the faith of his ancestors to become City State answered. Our expert on the subject was an Episcopalian. It happened that he was Colonel Hugh H. Young, the eminent born an Episcopalian, of English, Scotch, urologist of Johns Hopkins, who had gone Irish, and German stock, long resident in to France with Pershing's pioneer staff. America. Where the story started is as "The question of morals must not be immaterial as the origin of the one, when allowed to enter the discussion. ... It all the races were claiming Theodore

is our belief that our efforts are bearing Roosevelt as their own, that he had Jewish

fruit and that if the French government blood. Kant-Skim Door will region or throughout a terri- The word was even passed among in any Check ts an amazing either co- those whom it pleased that Roosevelt's new invention that closes tory occupied by the A. E. F. all doors silently and automatically. Closing speed operate heartily with us or, better still, original name was Rosenfeldt. Possibly easily adjusted by turning screw at top of check. Holds certain region en- the legend was based on Roosevelt's having doors open when wanted place the policing of a open. Operates on new oil principle. Low priced. Ever- tirely under the control of the American a Jew as a member of his Cabinet and his lasting. Easily installed in 10 minutes. Never needs attention. authorities, we will be glad to abide by the preachment of the "square deal" and his A REAL DEMONSTRATOR Furnished Every Agent You get orders quickly demonstrating actual sample on easy to carry ." concern with a man as to what kind of man miniature door. Every office, factory, store, institution and public results obtained. . . building needs a Kant-Slam for every door. Rush name and address f jr details of amazing money making opportunity. he was, regardless of his origin, which was FREE Demonstrator to Workers KANT-SLAM DOOR CHECK CO. Dept. P-42 Btoomfield. Ind AS THE number of our troops in France a doctrine that Baker had inevitably ap- x\_increased and we had control of more plied in the melting pot of Cleveland and towns through the sheer fact of our num- became the gospel of the draft. If Baker bers, the accumulating records left no was not a Jew then certainly Mrs. Baker doubt that prophylaxis regulations, when was. As she has fair hair and blue eyes, supported by instruction and the threat this was stretching the whispering gal- of courtmartials, were highly successful. lery's license farther than in the case of her In vain did the local authorities of Brest dark-haired husband. protest that our soldiers in the huge local Colonel Harvey in Harvey's Weekly was embarkation camps should not be pre- saying on August 18th, ten days after cluded from enjoying the company and Ludendorff's "Black Day," "It is impos- favors of all the old constituents and the sible that this pacifist has any realization Hotels Start You With new ones who had flocked from Paris. Not of the responsibility ... of guaranteeing Salaries up to *2.500 a Year a single American soldier was allowed to our soldiers every safeguard." It was in living expenses often included leave France or to leave the Army when it this issue that the colonel, himself wading HOTEL, club, restaurant, and Institutional field calling upon Lewts National Employment Bureau for trained reached America until still another in- in blood in the trenches, published a men. Lewis trained men start at salaries up to $2,500 a year, with living often included. Positions open as Manager, spection had declared him to be free of the double page cartoon in which Baker was Assistant Manager, Chief Clerk, Auditor, Steward, Sports Director, etc.. and many others paying S2.000 to S7.50O. ancient scourge of armies and fit to return shown on one page sitting in his chair, Almost $1,000,000,000 worth of new hotels, restaurants, apartment hotels, clubs, schools, colleges and institutions to civil life. oblivious of the soldiers who were pictured to be built this year will mean even greater opportunities for trained men. That part of the great plan which had its in battle on the other page. Previous Experience Proved Unnecessary Qualify for a well-paid position. Fascinating work, quick beginning in Fosdick's inspection of the On September 14th, after our victory at advancement! Lewis Personal Coaching Plan adapts the in time. We put conditions the the Allied general training to your needs, at home spare on Mexican border was not St. Mihiel, just as our graduates |ln touch with big opportunities. National Employment Service free of extra charge. Free Book. the smallest item of the American offensive in earnest, Colonel achieve- was to begin "YOUR BIG OPPORTUNITY," gives full details and explains our Money Back Agreement. Send for It NOW! ment of 1917-1918. Our army may have Harvey wrote: "Plans of the War Depart- , —FREE BOOK COUPON -j sworn as hard as any of our armies of the ment are breaking down. . . . lack of a I Lewis Hotel Training Schools, Washington, D. C. | Room DP-3322, past but it was the cleanest army in our head capable of making a broad survey of Boole, • | Send me without obligation the Free "Your Big Oppor- Coaching Plan. history. The name of Major-General the Nation's needs. ... At every turn I iunity" and details of your Personal Merritte W. Ireland, Chief Surgeon of the the men who are preparing to win the war Name. A. E. F., should be written in letters of find complacency substituted for Drescience gold for his character, his executive ability, and preparedness." {Continual on page 57) City.

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"On each Wednesday morning at 10 ciently enlightening so that no more were o'clock," Baker wrote to the President, undertaken. The actual deliveries of con-

"there is a conference in the War De- tract and requisitioned ships had been partment attended by Mr. Schwab, Mr. 870,000 tons by July 1, 1918. Hurley, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Baruch, Mr. All but five percent of cargo for our Franklin, General March and one or two troops in France was carried in American others for about one-half hour. The pro- bottoms. Every man we sent to France gress of the war is exhibited and explained was not only one man to supply for a day in statistical form by a series of charts. A or a week but for as long as he remained general round-table conference is held, there. We had shipped nearly three hun- covering the whole range of supplies, dred thousand more men in May than transportation, ships, etc." April, but had sent less army cargo than Baker told the President how welcome in April, and three hundred thousand in he would be if he were disposed to drop in June with only one hundred thousand think that more tons of army cargo. The turn around START AT ONCE on one of these conferences. "I NO INVESTMENT you would get a better idea of the way we of troop ships had decreased in ratio until Made of heavy together obtain a common it was one-half that of cargo. The Levia- Here's the seller try to keep and aluminum. Pat- most "natural" birds-eye view of the whole situation that than was averaging far less than twenty- ented heating el- in the entire field. Let us prove ement. 8-ft. rub- you could not see in any other way." seven days and other liners, the Great ber cord. it. Write at once. day or two In place of all the committees that la- Northern and Northern Pacific, a FOOLPROOF GUARANTEED bored through the heat of the previous less, while cargo ships were taking an Washington summer, here was the supreme average of seventy days. It was much LUX VISEL COMPANY committee meeting for only half an hour. simpler for a soldier to walk on and off a 98 Jackson St. Elkhart, Ind. At these meetings Baruch spoke for the ship than to load and unload his supplies. War Industries Board. Slow evacuation at French ports was dis- it I have read no more interesting minutes tressing the War Department ; and was EARN MORE PAY in all my research than the minutes of the owing largely to want of inland transport p£jgp[ War Industries Board in the height of our in France. QUAKER FREE OUTFIT war effort, when the machine was running Through June, July and August the fact at full speed. Baruch presided over the of the slowness of evacuation in France and Start earning right away. Quaker will help you with a marvelous free sample meetings not as a dictator—and all the the evident failure of all plans to co-ordi- outfit that gets orders everywhere. successful dictators were of that type — nate the supply service at home with that Men's Fine Shirts, Ties, Underwear, Hosiery,Workshirts, Sweaters, Lumber- but as the chairman and adjuster of dif- abroad was causing alarm in the War De- fackets. Sheep-lined clothing for men and boys. Amazingly low prices. the giants and experts in partment, which, in face of the crisis of the ferences, when Write NOW. every industry', in all the products from German offensives, continued to crowd QUAKER SHIRT CORP. 1107 Broadway, N. Y. under the earth and all the things that every available transport with troops. Dept. S-9 grow thereon, and of forge and loom, re- Pershing, whose divisions were scattered ported their difficulties. along the whole French line, was now con- And the king product was steel. There centrating a number of them in the battle GERMS ARE ALWAYS FOUND must be steel for guns, for railroad cars area and had to give his attention to active WITH DANDRUFF and rails, for all sorts of rifles, tanks and command in battle. He could not as helmets and motor trucks, and to fill the traveling commander of the traveling army, GLOVER'S orders of the Allies, while Farrell, Grace, in addition to his Allied negotiations, make Imperial d faih-less. I'ay postman 98c plus postage or send $1.00 yards and the British. Our first contract will necessarily take more and more of with order and we pay postage. ship had been built in less than six months. your time, and both the President and I Special Free Offers enlargernentwe will Bend Frei id-th id r a tore repn The fabricated ships were all right, the want to feel that the planning and execut- ducttnn of photo sent. Take vantage now of this amazing; wooden ships not so useful; and the ex- ing of military undertakings has your per- offer. -send your photo today. _ UNITED PORTRAIT COMPANY periment with the concrete ships suffi- sonal consideration {Continued on page §8) 900 W. Lake St., Dept. L-331, Chicago, III.

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and that your mind is free for that as far tain general control through the General

as possible. Staff. . . . General Kernan [who was "The American people think of you as then in command of the Service of Supply] their 'fighting general/ and I want them to has worked very hard but has not all the ATONCE! have that idea more and more brought qualifications necessary for success." home to them. For these reasons, it seems Kernan, the commander of the S. S. 500 More City and Rural O. Dealers to me that if some plan could be devised by who had been Pershing's original choice which you would be free from any neces- for the place, was being sent to Berne in Start your own business with our capital. It pays better than most occupations. sity of giving attention to services of charge of the mission to look after the in- Buy everything at wholesale—sell at retail. supply it would help, and one plan in that terests of American prisoners in Be your own boss. Make all the profits on Germany. everything you sell. We supply everything direction which suggested itself was to Fully aroused now to the problem of the —Products, Auto-Bodies, Sample Cases, Advertising Matter, Sales and Service send General Goethals over to take charge A. E. F., to which, in his other preoccu- Methods, etc. 15 Factories and Service of the Set vices of Supply, establishing a pations, he had been unable to give per- Branches. Prompt shipments. Lowest freight and express rates. Superior Raw- direct relationship between him and Wash- sonal attention, Pershing in turn was seek- leigh Quality, old established demand, low- ington, to rely ing driver est prices, guarantee of satisfaction or no and allowing you upon him a for the machine which Kernan sale, makes easy sales. 200 necessities for just as you would rely upon the supply had formed and he had not, as a military home and farm, all guaranteed the best values. Rawleigh's Superior Sales and departments of the War Department if commander, to wait on the passage of the Service Methods secure most business ev- your military operations were being con- Overman Act, as in the case of our drivers erywhere. Over 42 million Products sold last year. If you are willing to work steady ducted in America, instead of in France. at home. every day for good pay, write for complete information how to start your own busi- "Such a plan would place General The man was there as he was there as ness with our capital. Goethals rather in a co-ordinate than a pioneer Chief of Staff, and in Belleau Wood. W. T. RAWLEIGH CO. subordinate relationship to you, but of After his division had been in the offensive DEPT. l-36-AIMT. FREEPORT, ILL. course it would transfer all of the supply that turned the tide against the Germans

responsibilities from you to him and you on July 1 8th, Harbord was now sum- who derive could then forget about docks, railroads, moned to G. H. Q. and Pershing put the largest profits storage houses, and all the other vast in- seal on his cable of objection to the INVENTORS know ami heed certain simple dustrial undertakings to which up to now Goethals plan by saying that "Harbord but vital facts before applying for Patents. Our book Patent-Sense gives the3e facts; sent free. you have given a good deal of your time has already been selected for this duty Write. and, as you know, we all think with superb ... is young, active, an able executive. 635 St., Dept. 8 Lacey & Lacey, F N. W., success. I would be grateful if you would With him in command of the Service of Wash., D. C. Estab. 1869 think the problem over and tell quite Supply I shall be able to devote myself to Numerous Legionnaire References me frankly just what you think on the subject. military operations." Harbord if not < founding Free OffersAssure 1our$ucce$$ The President and I will consider your Goethals; that was reassuring to the Sec- One garment free with three. New mer- reply together, and you may rely upon our retary of War who, the main purpose ac- chandise plan n a rrpi ny the country. Big Cash Fay starts at once. Complete sam- being guided only by confidence in your complished, kept to his policy in meeting ple line given free. Write today. The plan's a proven money maker. judgment and the deep desire to aid you." the wishes of the Commander-in-Chief. And RLTON MILLS, Dept. Stettinius had been suggested for the still we continued pouring men into France ilth Ave., N.Y.C. 308 P post which was to have been given to out of proportion to our cargo capacity to

Goethals, but Baker had concluded that supply them, even if Harbord did ac- as he was a banker without military rank, complish wonders in more rapid evacu- mm he would better represent us on the inter- ation of the ports. allied munitions councD, which was more For Bigger Pay! in line with the war work he had been THE outside and the inside view! doing. Under "A Grave Situation," Harvey sell Baker's letter started Pershing to writ- was writing in Harvey's Weekly on Sep- Learn to ing very vigorously on the pad on which tember 14th: "Meanwhile Mr. Baker de- automobiles he blocked out important papers in pencil. serts his post" and also, "From where are This cable in answer was marked "RUSH the ships to come?" On Baker's previous Bigger pay, more pleasant work and an as- RUSH RUSH RUSH" across the top: trip abroad Harvey had welcomed his de- sured future await you if you prepare now ". . . . brake off the for successful automobile selling. By a I very much appreciate your parture as taking the War few weeks of home study in your spare desire to relieve me of every burden that Department. Baker had gone to get the quickly and easily master time, you can might interfere with the direction of mili- ships when Harvey was calling for five the methods that have been proved cor- tary period However, there million in France to prevent the loss rect by successful automobile executives, operations men dealers and salesmen. Methods that have appears to be an exaggerated view con- of the war. Evidently Harvey was think- literally brought fortunes to hundreds of cerning the personal attention required in ing of the War Department's failure to men with ability no greater than yours. handling the details of administration of the 100-division program. But by Chrysler Motors — realizing the wide- meet

spread need for trained automobile sales- this command. . . . The whole must re- this time the Allies knew that they were men — now makes available to you the main absolutely under one head period winning the war; the truth of Ludendorff's training course which even veteran auto- division of responsibility or co-ordi- premonition on the "Black Day" had come mobile salesmen have acclaimed. The Any in price is low—the benefits unlimited. nate control in any sense would be fatal through the German lines. It was read period The man who fights the armies the faces of the German prisoners taken by Sales Educational Dept. CHRYSLER CORPORATION must control their supply through sub- the French and British as the Germans Detroit, Michigan D-2 ordinates responsible to him alone period prepared to shorten their line by with- I am Interested in your sales training course. Send further information. The responsibility is then fixed and the drawal from Eastern France and Belgium. possibility of conflicting authority avoided There was no longer a crisis to maintain Name period This military principle is vital and British interest in supplying ships to feed Street Address cannot be violated without inviting fail- our troops who were pouring into France. City _State_ ure. . . . When it becomes necessary for Every month tens of thousands of Amer- UMIMAMMIIilMMi mi me to be constantly at the front I shall re- ican troops were set down at French ports 58 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 1 — —

by transports. This despite a nation-wide "COMPANY FRONT" Spanish influenza epidemic during the tfmaitwnun! Just off the press! This new up-to-the- minute booklet tells you how your corps summer and fall of 1918 which for a time can be Playing MARVELOUS bade fair to cripple plans for home train- —*s1 a n d Marching within TWO ing of troops, and actually held up the NEW SHAVING I' i WEEKS. Scores ' of interesting sending of new draft increments to camps. photos— illustra- The Secretary of War had become an INVENTION tions of Slinger- land's latest Offi- ambassador. He was sending a cablegram cial Drum Corps Sent on 30 to the President from abroad on September i Equipment—New H?fjf(T" F V Accessories <£> Days' Trial Ideas — Tips. 23d saying: "The British have definitely Valuable to new allotted us 200,000 of deadweight tons and TVTOW get the Sweetest, Keenest, Happiest Shaves of your life IN ONE these ships will be immediately diverted to without a pull, scratch or burn Smooth as a feather! 66 DAY -i, ii t -M low for your Free U us." And with the President's approval he Jesse Davis made r Copy obliga- Just what you have wanted for y —No years! ... a device that takes all $66 in one day. tion. was arranging that the British would con- the agony, grief and grouch out of Agents making big- SLINGERLAND DRUM CORPS DIVISION shaving. Makes any blade so keen money everywhere. tinue to allocate the additional to Chicago I32S Belden Ave. Illinois tonnage you scarcely feel it. Shaves are Just place device on velvety smooth. Toughest whiskers FreeTriaL Sells it- Please send me, FREE, your "Company Front." our "necessary for constant main- own seem to just melt away— all your self. Check square at Name shaving troubles C.OXE FOREVER ! bottom of coupon tenance for such American forces as are You'll get the thrill of your life- for money-making Street you'll wonder how such magic results plan. City State already in Europe from time to time." are possible. And no more blades The British had the shipping to spare now to buy! Mail coupon below for 30-day trial —no obligation that the submarine menace was in hand. RHODES, IPYROlL'IIEi 1418 Pendleton Ave., Dept. M-416 St. Louis. Mo. In his issue of October 12 th Harvey was \(Dunr Car/ saying about Baker: "He went up to see A few ounces of PYROIL LIQUEFIED I. L. Rhodes, GRAPHITE the new lubricating sensation-added to your gas and oil, the big show soon as he arrived, but prob- 1418 Pendleton Ave., Dept. M-416 stops wear, ends carbon and over- St. Louis, Mo. heating. Reduces noise, increases ably did not stay very long for fear of get- power and mileage, increases lite of Rush full details without obligations. oil. 100 GUARANTEED. Write ting lost or inadvertently step- lor "THE STORY OF PYROIL." somebody Name . W. V. Kidder. Pres. THE PYROIL COMPANY ping on him. The last we heard he was in- Address 23 LaFollette Av. La Crosse.Wis specting hospitals, huts, etc., somewhere in City State

( ) Place X In square for money-making plan. Europe, and talking so softly and happily toiMjerHoorCdvierings in his sleep, for publication, that maybe in KP" Beauti/ul CColors / the President will either let or make him Follow This Man Secret Service Operator No. 38 is on The Newest Thing*! stay." While Baker made the pleasant the job! Banning down Counterfeit Gang. Tell-tale finger prints in mur- Just out—latest thing in home furnishings— hand- H speeches of a visiting Allied statesman, he dered sirl's room. Thrills. Myelerr. some, colorful Rubber Art Rugs, Comfort Foot P The Confidential Reports of Operator No. made Mats, Art Bath Mats— a full range of beautiful, negotiating for the ships in- frCe S8 was when, te hie chief. Write for it. colorful. Rubber floor covering-s for all rooms. S3.O0O a Year and Up Artistic, practical. Outwear ordinary rags. stead of the 800,000 men that had been TOD can become a Firmer Print El- Never look shabby. Ueflat. will not curl. pert at home, in spare time. Write Cling to flnor--never alip. Soft and easy on Pershing's ambition September for details if 17 or over. feet. Easily cleaned—simply wipe off. Ides" by 1918, Institute ol Applied Science for hallways, between rooms, kitchen 1920 Sunnyslde Ave. bathroom, entranceway etc. 3, we had more than twice that number in Dept. 40-S6 Chicago. III. AGENTS! cleanup France. Women wild about them. Low priced. Sell fast. At least three sales In every borne. The "big show" that Baker saw was the Simply show and take orders. Pocket big profits. No experience needed. Wesho you how. Send for Catalog of this and battle of St. Mihiel. Pershing's dream of 47ot her Quality Rubber Products. Direct from Rubber City. Free his American Army had come true; the Outflttubustlers. WriteQuick. KRISTEE MFG. CO. slow, sure, determined plougher had the 339 BAR ST. AKRON* OHIO reward of his patience. The man in the USEFUL and HANDY derby hat now saw the object of the great plan of the early spring of 191 7 achieved as A BINDER suitable for preserving your copies of STUDY AT HOME The American Legion Monthly. the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, 26th, guide all text THIS binder is strong, artistic in design, beauti- We you step by step—furnish 42d, 82d, 89th and 90th divisions caught fully embossed in gold, and made of blue artificial material, including fourteen-volume Law Li- leather. Binders can be purchased for volumes I, II, the Germans unready before they began brary .Training prepared by leading law profes- III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI. The current sors bar. Degree volume is No. XI. their evacuation, and swept forward to and given by members of the THE price of this binder is $1.00 each, postpaid, in of LL.B. conferred. Low cost, easy terms. Get take 16,000 prisoners and 443 guns, in the UniteH States. In foreign countries, add to our valuable 64-page "Law Guide" and "Evi- remittance estimated postage. addition to a great accumulation of materi- The American Legion Monthly dence" books free. Send for them NOW. al. American army miles P. O. Box 1357, Indianapolis, Indiana He saw an 3,000 LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 936 1 -L, Chicago from home and 700 miles from a French port, with the organization for battle com- IE ED NEW TIRES? plete. American gunners; American staffs Replace with our New/ directing the troop movements; the long GOODYEAR -GOODRICH lines of motor trucks with the military FIRESTONE and OTHER TIRES „ at „ police directing the traffic; the big Ameri- Chicken Feed Prices I can ambulances bearing the wounded back to the American hospital trains which

ran to the hospitals we had built, where Why Worry about Tire Trouble Expense ? nurses were on duty. The ana American Sensational new treatment gives these reconditioned readability. Why buy world in France was functioning tires new resiliency — amazing American ordinary reconstructed tires when you can get these from ports where stevedores from the famous ti res at such rock bottom prices! BALLOON TIRES 32x6.00-20" . .S3. 20 . .$1.40 33x6.00-21" . . 3.20 . 1.45 Size Rim Tires Tubes liners were handling cargo and the giant 32x0.211-20" . . 3.6S . 1.75 29x4.40.21" $2.30 $1.10 e 82x6.75-20" . . 3.95 An amazing invention- aix-i.5o.ae" 2.40 . 1.15 American cranes were installed on Ameri- Reg. CORD Tires banishes grief of washing, fil- 30x4.50-21" 2. 45 . 1.20 Tires Tubes bottleB 28x4.76-19" 2.45 . 1.20 Size ling, capping — more • • ir. . $1.00 • I ' . 30x3 . convenient, easier, far quicker, can built docks, on through the base and 2.90 1.35 $2.20 29x5.00-19" 2.95 . 1.35 BOxSM 2.25 . cheaper. Servesroot beer, cider, 31x4 . 2.95 intermediate zones and to the rolling kitch- 30x5.00-20" 2.95 . 1.35 fruit juices, etc., on tap. Inside 2Hx5.i3S.IK" 2.95 . 1.35 82x4 . 2.95 . 2.95 . coated with Food Lacquer to 29x5.25-19" 2.95 . 1.35 83x4 . . 32x4 li 3.20 . dispelcorrosion, metallictaste. ens and the new won front. 30x5.25-20" 2.95 1.35 31x6.26-21" 3.10 . 1.35 33*4'. 3.20 . 5 gal. capacity. Nothing like it. 3.45 . Mont Sec, which had grimly looked 29x6.50-19" 3.20 . 1.35 S4x4« Thousands already in uee and 30x6.77-20" 3.20 . 1.40 30x5 . 3.60.

3.60 . si ving perfect satisfaction. 30x6 00-18" 3.20 . 1.40 83x5 soldiers their . All Other Sizes Low-priced. Guaranteed. down on so many of our in 31x6.00-19" . 3.20 1.40 Send $1.00 deposit with each tire ordered. WRITE FOR SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER early trench experiences, was now behind Balance C.O.D. If you send cash in full deduct cent. You are guaranteed a year sserviceor Send quick for all details, including special low-price 5 per our lines. The Secretary of War was walk- replacement at half price. Order Today--Save Money. introductory offer and FREE trial opportunity. Agents Wanted. Make to $120 weekly. Write TODAY! up ing through the shell-torn town of St. MIDLAND TIRE 4 RUBBER COMPANY PEERLESS STAMPING COMPANY W. Sixty-Third Sfreet Chicago Dept. 209 3540 Mitchell Avenue Detroit, Michigan Mihiel, which had (Continued an page 60) Dept.mil IOOO-'0

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'We Kill {Continued page from 59) or Get Killed" been in German possession for four years. when Pershing was driving his divisions "Lafayette, we are here!" President forward in the second stage of the Meuse- Poincare's home was no longer in posses- Argonne battle, Rear Admiral B. Wil- <$> <$> H. sion of the enemy; and the ancestral home son, in command of our naval forces in of Lafayette, whose descendant, Colonel France, sent him a note saying that the AT CANTIGNY and St. Mihiel, on de Chambrun, was with Baker, was also local paper had just received a dispatch the Aisne and the Meuse, Ger- in Allied hands. As they came to the that "Germany, Austria, and Turkey pro- many discovered the reckless driving Lafayette home, Baker paused outside, pose an armistice and declare themselves thinking that, on an occasion so touch- ready to negotiate for peace based on the energy, the invincible quality of Amer- ingly personal and intimate, de Chambrun fourteen points of President Wilson." ican manhood. It was after Chateau- would prefer to be alone, as he noted what The news rapidly spread. There was Thierry that a German Intelligence damage the Germans had done. When he victory in the air. The Allies were rapidly came out he brought to Baker a steel en- advancing; the pegs now moving the right Officer in his confidential report graving of the Marquis de Lafayette in way from day to day on the map, al- quoted an American as saying. "We memory of the significance of the occasion. though a month was to pass before the

kill or get killed." The man in the derby hat while avoid- Armistice was signed. As Baker went up ing being "inadvertently stepped upon" the gangway of his ship, hundreds of was seeing not only the front, not only American soldiers were looking down on That was all. The cryptic words, "We negotiating for ships from the British; he him. But he did not raise his head. Ray- kill or get killed." was seeing the whole plant of the A. E. F. mond Fosdick, who was with him for the again, all that Harbord and his workers return trip, rounded on him after they had accomplished in their part in the vic- were on board: And it is just such verbatim reports tory and in preparation for the coming "There's no doing anything with you,"

as these . . . stories of eye witnesses and battle of the Meuse-Argonne, which was said Fosdick. "Why didn't you raise your begun before he left France. But there is hand to them? They were spoiling for a officials, of combatants and non-com- an incident worth mentioning. When it chance to cheer somebody." batants that make the Source Records was proposed to him on this trip, a month "I was afraid they would cheer me," of the Great War the most monumental before the war was over, that the Ameri- Baker replied.

history of that titanic struggle. can Army change its uniform, he replied: What was a Secretary of War for? Not "Not unless you can convince me it will to receive the hurrahs when our soldiers help us to win the war." were fighting in the Meuse-Argonne. That this unique history, an impar- At Brest, before he embarked, and (To be concluded) tial narrative record of every impor-

tant event of the war period, is owned and published by The Amer- zyf zMan In iA ^Million ican Legion is eminently fitting and {Continued from page 33) proper. Its stories grip the imagina-

tion, reawaken old memories, recap- found dead in Bellinger's farmhouse home director of the Legion Publishing Corpo- ture the tense drama of those never- with a bullet hole in his head. Five persons ration, the body through which the million told of hearing the shot which killed Bell- stockholder-members of The American to-be-forgotten days. inger. A revolver containing one empty Legion conduct the publication of The cartridge was found outside a window. American Legion Monthly. General Har- These seven magnificent volumes, Bellinger's forehead bore a wound other bord is the latest of fourteen members of than that made by the bullet. the corporation's board of directors, the beautifully bound in genuine Spanish Came Mr. Detzer from his home at Le- others including well-known leaders of the leather, belong in your library, in the land, Michigan, where he has written re- Legion and men prominent as American library of every Legionnaire ... a peated tales of murder in the A. E. F. Said business executives.

link with the past ... a living record Mr. Detzer, it was suicide. The tangled General Harbord was Chief of Staff of the web of apparent murder had spun from a A. E. F. until May 5, 191 7. He com- that will multiply in value with the parent's effort to protect the name of the manded the Marine Brigade near Chateau- passage of the years ... a rich heri- dead youth; the boy's father admitted Thierry in June and July of 1018 and the

tage to be handed down to your chil- having tossed the revolver from the window Second Division in the Soissons Offensive after discovering the body, in the hope in July. He was Commanding General of dren and grandchildren. that the manner of death might remain a the S. O. S. from July 29, 1918, until May mystery. 26, 1919, when he was reappointed Chief of Detzer motored back to his lake- Staff of the A. E. F. For further particulars Mr. address front cottage and his typewriter. Inter- As chairman of the board of Radio Cor- National Headquarters ruptions are not infrequent. A few sum- poration of America, General Harbord is a figure of American industry. Indianapolis, Indiana mers ago, Mr. Detzer left his fireside and commanding for a few hours save victims or typewriter to The Source Records Division of a shipwreck. Golf and Bowling of The American Legion 350 Fifth Avenue, New York City Added to Strength HOW many golf players and how many # -<%> bowlers among 100,000 average Ameri- Legion representatives GENERAL JAMES G. HARBORD in cans? The Detroit convention committee Wanted in Every Covnty July accepted from National Com- thinks every other Legionnaire bowls or mander Ralph T. O'Neil appointment as a swings a golf club, and it is being sur-

60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly prised by the number of entries being received for the bowling and golf tourna- ments which will be played during the convention, September 21st to 24th.

Frank G. Mitzel, committee secretary , sends word there is still time for entries. In- formation on either tournament may be had from The American Legion Convention Corporation, 2515 Barium Tower, Detroit. Drum Corps, York Post No. 127, York, Pa. 1930 Learn RADIO! Pennsylvania State Champions, Completely equipped by WEYMANN Georgia Hero Television ^Talking Pictures We organize and equip complete Scores hands, orchestras or string bands of joba are open—with Manufacturers, Dealern, SPECIAL Broadcasting Stations, for Legion. School and Civic Or- B. DUNLAP, of Gainesville, Movie Studios and Talking Pic- EDGAR ture Theatres, OUTFIT ganizations. Sole distributors Steamship and Airplane Lines, Television National Laboratories, etc. Interesting, fascinating jobs, offering Complete musics] for Keystone State Band Instru- Executive Committeeman Big ments. Ludwig Drums, Pay to the Trained Radio man! equipment for unit King Band Instruments and Saxophones. for the Georgia Department, has received of 15 men TEN WEEKS OF ACTUAL KEYSTONE STATE most of the honors his department could *116 00 PARADE BUGLE SHOP TRAINING bestow upon him. But his biggest Come to Coyne in Chicago and prepare for these jobs Write for details and New, long, rakish model, the quick and practical way—by actual shop work on Special Bugle and stirring trumpet tone. moment, departmentally speaking, came actual radio equipment. No useless theory. Some stu- Drum Corps equip- dents finish the entire Single Bugle, prepaid - $Q course in 8 weeks. The average ment catalog. time is only 10 weeks. Noprevious experience necessary. Quantity prices on request when the annual convention, at La Grange, in adopted by rising vote a resolu- CET MY FREE RADIO AND H. A. WEYMANN & SON, Inc. July, TELEVISION ROOK Dept. LM-9, 10th and Filbert Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. tion praising his -year-old son, n James But get all the facts! How some students earn while Musical Instrument Mfrs. Since 1864 learning, how we help our graduates in securing posi- fl ^ Anderson Dunlap, for saving from drown- tions, etc. It costs nothing to investigate! Just mail the coupon for a FREE COPY OF MY BIG RADIO, ing q-year-old June Smith, daughter of TELEVISION AND TALKING PICTURE BOOK. orld Famous Legionnaire Sidney O. Smith. "We note IH. C. LEWIS. President I with satisfaction that he is a chip off the Radio Division, COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL SHIRT I 500 S. Paulina St., Dept. 61-1A. Chicago. III. M old block," the resolution recited, writes ! Send me your Big Free Radio, Television and Talking Pic- J I ture Book. This does not obligate me in any way. C. R. Hammond, Commander of Paul E. I Name 1 Bolding Post of Gainesville. Will Establish You | Address | City State. In BIG PAYING BUSINESS?" Postscripts Forget depression and wage cuts. Double your earnings in your spare hours or pocket big steady pay in full time. Sell world famous Public Service SHIRTS, walkers from far and near, pros, TIES, HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, etc. Yoa make big FAST UNIFORMS cash commissions in advance. Also cash bonus and your semi-pros and amateurs, will take part WRITE FOR own apparel FREE. No experience necessary. We sup- CATALOG No. JO. ply sure-fire sales plans to assure immediate profit. in the Atlantic City 50,000-meter walk on Complete scientificselling outfit FREE if you write now. September 5 th under the auspices of Mays ALUMINUM HELMETS PUBLIC SERVICE MILLS, Inc. POLISHED or ANY COLOR Dept. 48, West New York, N. J. Landing (New Jersey) Post, which ex- Canadian Agents write: 110 Dundaa St.. London. Ontario pects 500,000 persons to witness the GEORGE EVANS&Co- 132 N. FIFTH ST.- AX.DEPT.- PHILADELPHIA. finish . . . Three girls and two boys who wrote prize essays in New Kensington PATENTS (Pennsylvania) Post's school competition FREE FALL Time counts In applying for patents. Don't risk delay In protecting your ideas. Send sketch or model for were the post's guests for five days in instructions or write for FREE book, ' "How to CATALOG Obtain a Patent," and "Record of Invention" Washington, D. C. . . . Dr. D. W. Scott, Just off the press form. No charge for information on how to pro- ceed. Communications strictly confidential. Prompt, prominent citizen of Cambridge, Ohio, Showing Hunting careful, efficient service. Clarence A. O'Brien, Regis- Hunting tered Patent Attorney, 2 4 7 -M Security Savings i presented to Cambridge Post his large Shoes, Duck and Commercial Bank Building, (directly across | Boots, Innersoles, street from Patent Office) Washington. D. home and an adjoining building and re- C. Sleeping Bags, Can- modeled both structures for use as the vas Luggage Bags, etc.

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LOO/T/TIRES One Zhfundred Thousand ^trong NEW LOW PRICES Why PayMorel {Continued jrom page 35) GOODRICH- GOOD'YEAR- U.S. 31st Engrs. 1017 by the Government for $1,350,000, —F. E. Love, secy., 113 First av., W., Firestone r«4 OTHER TIRES Cedar Rapids, Iowa. taken over by the U. S. Navy, converted 39th Ry. Engrs., A. E. F.—Chas. M. Karl, Prices pres., 11640 Princeton av., Chicago, IU. Lowest on Earth into a mine layer, rechristened the Shaw- ThoUBanda of Mtirted tire u;*erH all over Tank Corps—Reunion of all former Tank Corps- Our the U.S.A. 16 years of business epeaks men. Victor T. Porter, 2006 Industrial for itself. This bigr responsible company will mut and assigned to Mine Squadron No. Bank, Wash- supply yoa with reconstructed standard ington at Grand River, Detroit. make tires at lowest prices in hiBtory— 1, U. S. Atlantic Fleet. 304th and 824th Bns., Tank Corps Guaranteed to give 12 months* service —T. R. Lovett 910 Donovan bldg., 2457 Woodward "Commander Watt T. Cluverius av., Detroit. Don't Delay—OrderToday M. T. C.— Reunion of all former Motor Truck CORD Tires BALLOON Tires Corps members. Hilmer assumed command of the vessel when it Gellein, Recorder's Court, Size Tires Tubes ize Tires Tubes Detroit. $2.20 i I .00 *x<1.40$2.30$l.ia 2.25 2.40 1.1F, was placed in commission at Boston, M. T. C. 420, M. S. T. 411—Adolph Illikman, 2.70 80x4.60 2.45 1.20 2.9S 28x4.76 2.45 1.20 Saginaw, Mich. 2 95 29x4.76 2.45 1.20 Massachusetts, on December 7, 191 7. M. T. C. Repair Shops, Units 301-302-303—In- 2.95 30x4.96 2.90 1.36 cluding attached units serving at Nevers 3.50 29x6.00 2.95 1.36 "Statistics: Officers, 20; men, 346; mine and Verneuil, 3.20 80x6.00 2.95 1.36 France. Hilmer Gellein, Recorder's Court, Detroit. 3.20 28x5.25 2.95 1.36 3.45 80x5.25 2.95 1.35 capacity, 352; battery, one 5-inch 51- Domgehmain Ord. Det.—Fabian F. Levy, 213 3.60 31x6.26 3.10 1.85 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 3.60 30x6.77 3.20 1.40 calibre and two 3-inch anti-aircraft rifles; 4.4S Hum;. 00 3.20 1.40 National Yeomen F—Mrs. John Ballenger, 8825 All Other Sizes 81x6.00 3.20 1.40 Burnett, Detroit, and Mrs. Donna G. Akin, 4560 32x^.00 1.40 length, 387 feet; beam, feet; draft, 17 3.20 53 Millersville rd., DEALERS 33x6.00 3.20 1.45 Indianapolis, Ind. Annual meeting WANTED 3.50 1.66 feet; displacement, 3800 tons; speed, 20 and luncheon, Women's City Club, Detroit, Sept. d only SI .00 depc itb each tire 21st, 1:30 p. m. I. We C.O.D. Deduct 6 knots; fuel, oil; engines, reciprocating twin TJ. S. Naval t if . fall accompanies order, Base No. 6— Frank Rose. 36 E. 'ires fail ing to give be replaced at half price. screws. Linden st., Alexandria, Va. YORK TIRE & RUBBER CO., Dept. 1048 Naval Base No. 27, Plymouth, Eng.—Phil C. 385S-S9 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago, III "The U. S. S. Shawmut left for European Pack, Ann Arbor, Mich. U. S. Naval Btry.—D. C. Home, 19947 Greeley, waters June 16, 1018, and from that time Detroit. until the signing of the Armistice assisted U. S. S. Annapolis—R. C. St. Clair, 8540 Bennett NEW WAY^ av., Chicago, 111. in the laying of the North Sea mine bar- U. S. S. Arethusa—Marshall V. Galloway, 78 West Morton st., rage, basing on Inverness and Invergordon, St. Paul, Minn., or Amos B. Carpenter, WASH ii CARS! 18 ^ imkIIbw st., Springfield, Mass. SAVES Scotland. The ship returned to home U. S. S. Rhode Island—Summer W. Leighton, 1118 S. Elmwood av., TIME- LABOR-MONEY Oak Park, 111, waters December 27, 1918." U. S. S. South Dakota—Philip Gy-ro washes cars in less than half the T. Wallace, 14 Edwin st., Brookline, usual time. No soap or chamois needed, We wonder how many of the ex-crew Mass. mply attach to ordinary garden hose. U. S. S. Wilhelmina Dr. Water pressure does the wrk. Inex- — M. M. Sorenson, 3025 pensive. Saves its cost many times visited the ship during the convention and Washington av., Racine, Wise. ' er.Activeatientsmakejroodmon- U. S. S. Wyoming—John F. Caulley, Box 131, Oak ey. Write now for FREE OFFER. recognized her even with her new name? GY RO BRUSH COMPANY Hill, Ohio. Flying Goat Sqdrn., U. S. N. Air Dept. J-32. Bloomfield. N. J. And how many, had they known the ship Station, Porto Corsini, Italy—E. Mason Gates, Northwood Cen- would be in the Navy yards, would have ter, N. H. 29th and 400th Aero Sqdrns.—Edgar C. Kelley, liked to stage a reunion of the old crew on 1st It., 306 South Hickory st., Scottsdale, Pa. the old familiar decks? 49th Aero Sqdrn., Kelly Field, Tex.—Wm. T. Welsh, 12619 Mark Twain av., Detroit. sc 180th aero Sqdrn. (or Sqdrn. E), Kelly Field, Tex.— Lisle O. Wagner, 7 Upper Croton av., Ossining, DETROIT has an added attraction, be- N. Y. 338th Aero Sqdrn. and Prov. M. P. Co., Char- grips screws witho sides the huge one of the Legion na- magnetism. Makes screw driving in bard lotte, N. C.—Homer R. Ostrander, 91 N. Brook St., places a real cinch. Ntvr—different— use/till Every tional convention, for the veterans of three- Geneva, N. Y. 7ian wants one. Auto owners, carpenters, me- hanics, radio and garage men, etc., gladly buy. 380th and 828th Aero Sqdrns. and Sqdrn. B. actories, service stations, etc. ,buy large quantities. score outfits which will hold outfit reunions Selfridge Field, Mich.—Jay N. Helm, 940 Hill st.. w e u s during the week of the convention—Sep- Elgin, 111. to'J* y , AGENTS! 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th Regts. Air Serv. Mch.— n't great seller! per cent profit for you miss th)8 100 tember 21st to 24th. This issue of the Sixth reunion orginally scheduled to be held t to show it in your h.cality (..-, started without «!«•- in De- Write at unce for full details of FREE TRIAL troit during August has been postponed until period and sensational new demonstration plan. Monthly carries the final announcements OFFER of Legion national convention, Sept. 21-24. M1LLEN MFG. CO. J IB Wmlhrop Btdq., BOSTON. MfcSS. Capt. of reunions which have been reported to Chas. W. Babcock, 115 McKinley, Grosse Pointe, Mich. the Company Clerk. Details of reunion 2d Balloon Co. A. E. F. Vets. Assn.—Craig S. plans may be obtained from the persons Herbert, 3333 N. 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Fourth Observation Balloon Co.—Harold G. OUNTANCY Bull, 226 Washington Terrace, Audubon, N. J. whose names and addresses are given. Northern Bombing Group, Field E— Reunion Taught By New Third Div.—W. M. Peebles, 708 Fox Theater scheduled during convention is postponed until bldg., Detroit. next year. Send names and addresses to Jean L. Van ^m . ^_ A group of lead- rmm W\ £\ Fourth Div.—General reunion of IVY men. Doro- Dyke, Buffalo, Wyo. I'lvlIlUil and accounting thy Egan, 720 N. Michigan av., Chicago, 111. Nurses—Mrs. Samuel E. Bracegirdle, 5005 Spokane teachers have perfected a new teaching 32d Div. John H. Freeman, 429 Brainard st., av., Detroit. Educators and accounting — method. au- Detroit. Replacement Unit No. 4—Miss Elizabeth C. thorities call it "clearest and most thor- gh." Includes professional coaching for 37th Div.—Al Browning, 9487 Barham av., De- Schau, Box C, Traverse City, Mich. P. A. degree without extra charge. troit. Base Hosp. No. 114, Beau Desert Hosp. Center, New hook "The Modern Way to 42d Div.—E. D. Hennessey, chmn., 15432 Mar- France—Geo. R. Barr, 610 W. Congress St., Detroit. Learn counting" describes this lowe, Detroit. Amer. Red Cross Hospitals No. 3 and No. 112, new kind of training and 78th Div. Edw. Lear, Jr., 1574 Fullerton rd., Paris F. J. Maynard, 501 S. Warren St., Trenton, service thoroughly. Find — — Detroit. N. J. jout from it the opportunities and positions 81st Div.— Sgt. George Dry, R. O. T. C., Cass S. O. L., (Masonic) Degree— Reunion dinner of vhich can be yours in Technical School, or Harold Heigho, 278 Forrest av., veterans of A. E. F. who received this degree during the Accountancy field, Detroit. war. Organization will be re-established. D. E. and the new Guided Experi- ence method to qualify you H Company Club (126th Inf., 31st Mich. Inf. and Benjamin, 4116 W. Monroe St., Chicago, 111. 1st Mich. Inf.)—Gordon L. White, secy., 0409 Corps Vets. Assoc. of vete- AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ol 8th Army —Reunion COMMERCE, Dept. M-70, Theodore av., Detroit. rans of Philippine Campaign and China Relief Ex- 17 W. Elm St., Chicago, III. Co. A, 347th Inf.—A. J. Gaiser, 270 Keystone St., pedition. State reunions will also be held at Legion Buffalo, N. Y. department conventions. Geo. S. Geis, P. O. Box 162, Co. D, 320th M. G. Bn.—Walter W. Wood, Drawer Ft. Wayne, Ind. STEP IN TO QUICK CASH 1001, Portsmouth, O. University of Poitiers, France—Alan B. r 1056 Michigan Theater 328th F. A.—E. W. Barry, Leonard, 601 Cadillac Sq. bldg., Detroit, bldg., Detroit. University of Grenoble, France—Ed. P. Buck- 330th F. A.—Carl Mounteer, 2224 First Natl. enmyer, 1002 Nicholas bldg., Toledo, Ohio. Bank bldg., Detroit. First Separate Brig., C. A. C, Assoc.—William G. Kuenzel, chmn., 25 Gillman st., Holvoke, Mass. Given for Personal Use notices of additional reunions if 47th Art., C. A. C—Frank E. Hamilton, 18 Vil- TIMELY Yes! Here's yoar chance tomake bijj organizations, with the ^ money quick, introducing my gor- lage St., Marblehead, Mass. of veterans geous and outstanding line of Guaranteed 313th F. S. Bn. Daniel M. Lynch, Hammond — the arranging Hosiery for men, women and children. More than bldg., Detroit. names and addresses of men 100 styles and colors. Six montlm wear (runran- anteed--or new hose Free. Amazingly low prices. Co. C, 10th F. S. Bn., 7th Div.—Hobart H. Also super-quality them, follow: -wrar-retlsting Lingerie. Noex- Young, 39 Rangley rd.. West Newton, Mass. p.-nence nee. led Sinij .In, ensy pl.m Fannie I 'ope, Ga. reporta |40.2G profit in 2 hours. Weasburff earned 311th Sup. Train—Don R. McCoy, Co. D, 432 E. Fourth Div., N. Y. Chapter—Annual dinner and Mitchell St., Petoskey, Mich. $19400 (N ONE WEEK reunion, Hotel Brevoort, New York City, Nov. 7. Selling 12th Engrs. (L. R.) John J. Barada, secy., 514 equipment furnished. New Ford — St., York City. pffored to travel Carlton E. Dunn, 57 E. Ninth New In and extra bonus . Everyone: Holly Hills av., St. Louis, Mo. has to have hosiery. Take orders and call on entab- reunion, Pittsburg, 21st Engrs., L. Soc. Frederick G. Webster, 35th Div. Assoc.—Annual Imhed and new customers. We deliver or you de- R., — Hutchin- liver suit yourself. Don't miss this Kans., Sept. 25-27. Fred Henney, pres., care t secy.-treas., 6819-a Prairie av., Chicago, 111. Fr\arC~> Kreat opportunity. Hargrove sold son News and Herald, Hutchinson, Kans. UKU C~ 197.76 in 2 hours. Steady Income. 23d Engrs.—F. R. Erilsizer, comdr., 5353 Allen-

I Tulsa, GIVEN TO \ Semi no money. Write quick. dale, Detroit. 90th Drv. Assoc.—Annual convention, I- £• Wilkin, Gen. Manager PRODUCERS Okla., Sept. 5-6. Giles A. Kelley, Capitol bldg., > Wilknit Hosiery Company 26th Engrs.—Ray Bielman, 8100 Gratiot av., or 199 Midway, Greenfield, O. W. VV. White, 15217 Forrerav., Detroit. Oklahoma City, Okla.

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101st Inf., 2Uth Div. —Convention and reunion, and shell-shocked and contracting bronchitis and Clinton, Mass., Sept. 12. Write to S. cy. of Reunion asthma, in Meuse-Argonne, Sept., 1918. Was treated Comm., 92 High st., Clinton. in Field Hosp., and also in Base Hosp. in Bordeaux than Coal 107th Inf., (former 7th N. Y. N. G.) — Annual between Sept., 1918, and Feb., 1919 —also received Hotter reunion and dinner, 107th Inf. Post, The American hospital treatment in Camp Dix, N. J., Pittsburgh Legion, Hotel Astor, New York City, Sept. 29. Walter and Philadelphia. andno dirt V. Flynn, 043 Park av.. New York City. 151st Inf., Sup. Co., 38th Div., Camp Shel y, 310th Inf.—Twelfth annual reunion, Elks Club, Miss.—Affidavits from former officers, non-commis- Do away forever with the drud- gery of Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 2G. Raymond Cullen, secy., sioned officers and men, including Capt. John S. wood or coal. The most simple and economical Invention 6562 Windsor av., Philadelphia. Sargent and Lts. Morris, Fisher and Wilbur, to on the market Is now giving 114th M. G. Bn.— Reunion dinner, Chamber of support compensation claim of Arnold Huyer. perfect satisfaction to enthusiastic uacia Commerce, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 7, during Legion 16th Inf., Co. D, 1st Div.— Martin J. Gniew re- everywhere. department convention. Oscar L. Karris, 201 Cham- quires statements from former officers and men, par- Burns ber of Commerce, Nashville. ticularly 1st Bn. medical officer and 1st Sgt. Rouan, 96% Air—4% Cheap Oil The International Oil Burner fits 322d F. A. Annual reunion, Toledo, Ohio, Sept. who remember double hernia operation he had after in the — fire box of any range, stove or furnace 19. John Schimmel, secy., 616 Church St., Toledo. being sent to hospital Sept. 26, 1918, from Souilly, Installed in a few minutes. No noisy motor 308th Motor Sup. Trn. Vets. Assoc. —Sixth France. or complicated parts. annual reunion. Warren, Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Carl L. Callahan, Edward J. —Pvt., C. A. C., from July, Feederle, 1353 Mahoning av., N. W., Warren. 1918, to Dec, 1918; 44 years old, blue eyes, gray hair, Costs Only a Few Dollars Heats Just as well as a 135th Obs. Sqdrn., A. E. F. — Reunion during very bald, all upper teeth extracted, ruddy complex- S400 or $500 oil burner without electricity or gas. .Simply Legion department convention, Long Beach, Calif., ion, 5 ft. in. Missing three years. 6J^ turn one valve and you have all the heat 31-Sept. 2. Col. E. of Italy Cav., Aug. Otto Sandman, Bank 5th Troop D—Charles F. Williams who you want, ( leaner arid heller for healing bldg., Stockton, Calif. served at Ft. Grant and Ft. Hoachwen, Arizona, from and cooking. Approved by National Base Hosp. 113— Reunion during Legion depart- 1904 to 1907, requires affidavits from former comrades Underwriters' Laboratories and engineers everywhere. ment convention, Enid, Okla., Sept. 6-8. J. H. Sim- to establish pension claim. Over 150,000 In use. mering, Hunter, Okla. Motor Transport Co. 460—Men who recall spine Evac. Hosp. 13—Annual reunion, Toledo, O., Sept. injury suffered by Norman Smith at Brest, France. 30 Days FREE Trial Offer 5-7. Leo J. Bellg, secy., 808 Ash st., Toledo, O. 106th F. A., Btry. C—Former officers and men who Try this wonderful burner rlgh 1 1 n your own Evac. Hosp. No. 22—Third reunion, Hollenden recall injury to knee suffered by Alexander Kines. home at our risk. Act quickly and get our special low Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 12-13. Paul E. Des Machine Shop Truck Unit 405 Former non- Introductory price. Sold under — absolute money-back guarantee. Write commissioned officers recall dis- at Jardins, secy., Lapeer, Mich. and privates who once for free booklet on home heating and ability suffered by Ray Nunley, sgt. icl. free burner offer. Base we are unable to conduct a Hosps. Nos. 116 and 42, Bazoilles, France WHILE Former doctors and nurses who recall Roy Gish, a Agents-Dealers-Distributors general missing persons column, we patient between June 18 and Aug. 17, 1918, suffering Our FREE burneroffcrstarts you in business. Big money from acromegaly. His hospital records have been to be made. The demand is enormous. We also want r stand ready to assist in locating men lost. spare or full time workers Immediately. If $. ,00 a month and more Interests you, write wire for protected 20th Inf., Co. I Former members, particularly or us our whose statements are required in support — territory offer. "Shorty" Reardon, who recall seeing John F. Bauer Clip This Coupon — of various claims. Queries and responses fall off street car in Salt Lake City near the fort INTERNATIONAL OIL HEATING CO. Ramsey, Cecil R., serial 1109088, pvt.. icl., Med. 3800-10 Park Ave., St. Louis. Mo.. Dept. 412-S should be directed to the Legion's Na- Corps. Disappeared from base hosp., Brownsville, Send your free booklet and free details on home beating for stove lurnace Also Iree burner offer. tional Rehabilitation Committee, 600 Tex., Sept. 2, 1918. Anyone who can furnish informa- . tion can assist his mother with claim for insurance Name and adjusted compensation. Address Bond Building, Washington, D. C. The , 114th M. G. Bn., Co. C, 30th Div.—Ex-Color Check If Interested In making money as an Inter- committee wants information in the Sgt. John B. Owen desires to hear from Bert K. national representative with protected territory. following cases: Henson and Thomas J. O'Dell, color guards, who were with his outfit upon arrival in Liverpool, Eng. 1st M. G. Bn., Co. B, 1st Div. —-Former members 317th Aero Sqdrn., A. E. F.—Former 1st Lt. who served with Wagoner Edward R. Campbell, de- Morgan (Ray T.) can assist H. S. Parrish. ceased, can assist his widow in establishing govern- 328th Inf., Co. D, 82d Div.—Affidavits required tfRAISRAISE CHINCHILLA ment claim. by Odom C. Forrester from former officers and WP^i^,— AND NEW ZEALAND WHITE "i6th Spruce Sqdrn., Camp 4 C (Washington medical officers, including Maj. Jackson H. Barnett, State) —Former members, including C. C. Newman, Capts. Duncan M. Draughn and Harold H. Freund, W FUR RABBITS B. B. Clower, M. Shparago, Roy Fielding, J. and 1st Lts. Leon L. Folsom, John J. Bendick, S^^^K* Make B 'S Money — We Supply Slock Dubin, M. McCanahan and Lt. Jones; and M. Frank I. Buckner, Edw. B. Jones and Leo E. •w AMD CONTRACT FOR ALL YOU RAISE McNelly of 451st Aero Constr. Sqdrn., stationed Reismann. Paying up to $6.60 each. Large illustrated on the North Nemah, who recall injury to R. S. 52d C. A. C, Btry. I —Statements from men who book, catalog* and contract, also copy of served with J. Gilbert, particularly at Ft. Berrum. Eugene Fur Farming Magazine, all for 10 cents. STAHL'S Barrancas, Pensacola, Fla. 319th F. A., Btry. B, 82d Div.—Statements from OUTDOOR ENTERPRISE CO.. b.. 10211, Holmes Park. Mo. former officers and men, including Capt. James J. The Company Clerk Gilchrist, Med. Corps, and 1st Lt. Oma E. Hern- JOHN . NOLL don, who recall Ignac Nawrocki heing badly gassed J WANTED: SERVICE MEN Large manulaccurer has a number of positions open in various parts of the country for middle-aged men who are capable and willing to call on Factories, The J^egion 3Tas Kept Its "Pledge Stores, Garages, Warehouses, Schools, Hotels, etc., and inspect and service their Fire Extinguishers. Op- portunity to sell new equipment while doing this service work. service [Continued from page 15) Earnings on inspection and up to $40 to $50 1 week with added earnings from sale of new equipment. Address: concern the Veterans Bureau, decentral- building in the capital. In Washington the FYR-FYTER CO., 9-45 Fyr-Fyter Bldg., Daylon, Ohio ized with regional offices in fifty-four cities. issue is settled one way or another. A Frequently the post service officer deals di- decision may be a matter of days or a mat- rectly with the regional office in his locality ter of years. If the case seems deserving the New Invention and the case is satisfactorily settled there. Legion will keep it alive. It will spend a Keeps Soft Collars But usually there is a collaboration of thousand dollars to win a claim of a thou- Neat q«<* Trim effort between the post service officer and sand dollars if it is just, anddias done so. BARSTAYSUv^ the department service officer of the Legion. But ordinarily the cost of effort is not dis- Agents are ordering up to 1000 at a time Of the forty-nine Legion Departments in proportionate to the awards. The face — making SSOto $100 a week. Every man buys. No competition. Makes soft collars lie the continental United States, thirty-eight value of awards for eleven months of the smooth and flat. 200 to 600% profit selling direct to users and dealers. Send 25c for have Legion service offices with salaried present fiscal year in which the Legion 1 sample Barstay. Credit given on firstorder. Send at once for sample and proposition staffs. If the state officer fails to obtain represented the claimant was $5,683,434. CREST SPECIALTY CO. 209 Crest Building results from the Regional Office and the Awards of record last year were $5,013,761 227 West Van Buren Street. Chicago. Illin-is W case seems worthy, an appeal is taken to and in no year since 1923 have they fallen one of the four appellate boards of the lower than $1,679,000. Bureau, located in New York, Chicago, I shall summarize the record of an in- New Kind Of New Orleans and San Francisco. On such dividual case in which the Legion's efforts appeals the National Rehabilitation Com- were recently crowned with some success. can mittee of the Legion comes into the pic- It is in no respect an unusual or compli- Opener ture if it has not done so before. cated case. For obvious reasons a fictitious

In each of these cities and also in Den- name is used. Works Like Magic! ver and in Boston the Committee main- At the close of the St. Mihiel drive in At last! An automatic, simple little tains field secretaries whose principal duty September, 1918, a certain infantry com- AGENTS can opening niarhine for the home. Men and Women This revolutionary invention in only banished old is to represent the veteran in such appeals. pany was badly shot up during a raid on have made up to a few short months has 100.000 kitch- $H and $8 in an ran openers from over rest- Imagine an When the appeal finally reaches Wash- the enemy's line. The survivors were hour, full or spare ens. Anil no wonder! worth- amazing, lifetime device that holds time. Big. leavinic can rim ington, the claimant is represented by ing under a tree behind our lines when a the t an ami cuts out the top while commissions slick smooth and clean. Just turn a crank, Ex- Hon .ekeepmtc Private Smith on every sale. that "a all. Approved by Good the staff experts or consultants of the shell burst in front of them. elusive Terri- Inst Modern Priscillm, etc. Write today quirk for special introductory advertising olfer. National Rehabilitation Committee, whose was peppered with shrapnel. Discharged tories. Send for FREE TEST CENTRAL STATES MFG. CO. offer. quarters occupy an entire floor of an office with a useless {Continued on page 64) Dept. L-1005, 4500 Mary Ave. St. Louis, Mo. 63 SEPTEMBER, 193 — -

THOUSANDS The Region &fas Kept Its Pledge Reduce (Continued from page 63) WAISTLINES left arm, a crippled hip and various scars, ex-soldier if it had not been for the Legion's 'Accept Trial Offer he tried to support himself and his quiet work is a contingency upon which I mother as an insurance salesman. For do not care to speculate. The same may be ten years he shifted from job to job. said for tens of thousands of others. During The only time he made an adequate living the month of May—the last month for was when he was kept on a payroll through which statistics are available—the National "I have worn Director Belt. Re- personal friendship. In 1929 his sole in- Committee acted in 1,052 cases pending duced my waistline from 42 to come was $38 a month, which he had before the Washington offices of the Vete- 33 inches," says R. A. Lowell drawn from discharge as compensation for rans Bureau. of Des Moines, la. "Am recom- mending Director to my friends." a 38 percent disability, as it was rated by I do not wish to stress unduly the re- Every timeyou walk, run, stand, the Government. He and his mother were coveries in money for veterans and their sit, bend, twist or lean over. Di- in want when the service officer of a Legion families. Money is important, but it is not rector applies a gentle, chang- / ing pressure upon the fat at post represented to the regional office of the main thing. The main thing is re- the waistline and causes it to become scattered and ab- •» the Veterans Bureau that this man's dis- habilitation, which means getting a man sorbed. The instant you put ability was more than percent and that in shape and keeping him in shape to make it on, it gives the appearance 1 38 of reduced girth and within a his compensation should be increased. The his own way. few weeks or months.it accom- plishes a reduction in a natural way. regional office denied the increase, inas- For this phase of rehabilitation the SENT ON TRIAL Sft'iim much as some of the wounds from which Government, at the emphatic request of We'll send a Director for trial. I f you don't suffering were not of record. the Legion, in 1 get results the trial costs you nothing. Smith was began 192 a program of You don't lose for trial offer, a penny. Write doctors' en- service officer asked the National hospital construction. There are at pres- dorsements and letters from users. Mail the coupon NOW! The LANOON & WARNER, 360 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago Committee in Washington to get certified ent 34,693 veterans in hospitals, which is 1 '

Landon & Warner, 360 N. Michigan, Chicago. Dept. F-ll ; of I copies of the records the French base 7,814 more than were there ten years ago. Gentlemen: Without cost or obligation on my part! * please m ud me details o! your trial ofler. hospital at which the man was treated. Ten years ago 9,231 patients were suffer- I These were obtained and showed the ad- ing from mental diseases. Today 16,665 Name thus afflicted in J ditional wounds, and Smith's compensa- are hospitals and mor2 ^Address tion was raised to $56 a month, retroactive would be there if adequate facilities for this for a few months. This, however, did not type of case were available. At its last satisfy the service officer. Working with session Congress authorized construction the National Committee's field secretary, of 5,677 additional hospital beds requested a series of appearances were made before by the Legion. Within the past ten months ONE PLUG different agencies of the Bureau with the 759 men have been placed in government result that Smith's disability rating was hospitals through the intercession of the Agents & Distributors Making Big Money increased somewhat. A plea that he be National Rehabilitation Committee, which necessity everywhere. A "turn given an additional $25, allowed by law for figure takes no account of probably a the right brings back the light." Safe, economical,dependable.6-in-l the loss of use of a leg or an arm, was denied, greater number cared for by post and State Fuse Plug. Most useful invention in years. Many of our distributors in however, because a member of the exam- service officers. xclusive territory making $SOO to $1000 a month. Easy to demonstrate. ining board before whom Smith appeared By its works this national committee has Easy to Sell. Profits begin right away. Write at once for proposition. Send 25c for sample and working instructions. saw him button his coat with the fingers of become widely known, though not to the 6-in-l Fuse Co., 801 W. Madison St., Dept. 61, Chicago his disabled arm. public. I have just received figures that are The final appeal was then taken to typical for any month. They are for May, Washington, involving a question of law when 9,379 letters were written from the * VETERANS concerning retroactive awards, several Washington office in answer to inquiries questions of medicine and a question of and dealing with cases current in the files. get preference for common sense concerning a definition of a Fourteen hundred and thirty-six personal "useless" arm. Members of the National interviews were held in connection with Civil Service jobs! Committee's permanent legal and medical such cases. Two hundred and sixty-five staffs made presentation of the case as it appearances by members of the com- There is security and opportunity in government positions. And honorably dis- pertained to their fields. Chairman Wat- mittee's staffs were made before the ap- charged soldiers, sailors and marines are son B. Miller of the Committee summed up pellate boards of the Veterans Bureau. their examina- given a bonus of 5 points in the whole. The supreme court of the The achievements and organization of tions — disabled veterans, 10 points! Vet- Veterans Bureau allowed ordinary com- the National Rehabilitation Committee erans need earn a rating of only 65%, disabled veterans 60% to have their names pensation at the rate of $64 a month, re- have been studied by foreign governments placed on the eligible register. Disabled vet- troactive to the amount of $2,706, plus and by the League of Nations. Its chair- placed at the head of the erans are then $25 a month for the useless arm. This man man is quoted as an impartial authority on register. The Civil Service Commission is and his mother are in better circumstances the subject of veteran rehabilitation. authorized to hold special quarterly examinations for veterans entitled to disability now. The American Legion twelve years ago preference. Smith's case has not gone to the "closed" declared that its first consideration would Schools to- International Correspondence file, however. The Legion holds that within be the welfare of afflicted comrades, their day are helping veterans all over the country the intent of the law Smith has been totally widows and orphans. It thus proclaimed qualify for government jobs. I. C. S. Civil Service Courses are designed to cover exam- disabled since his discharge and therefore is the best cause for existence a society of ination requirements and are complete in eligible to the benefits of the War Risk former soldiers and sailors can espouse, ex- every detail. Mark and mail the coupon! Insurance for which he paid during this cepting only service for country. Twelve service. This would amount to $57.50 a years ago no one could foresee where that INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS — Dept. 7578-C, Scranton, Pa. month, retroactive to date of discharge declaration would lead the Legion. The I am a veteran disabled veteran, age ( ) a tidy sum. The committee is collecting road has been longer and steeper than any- and inv present occupation Is anticipated. is Please send me, without obligation, complete Infonna- medical and vocational evidence by which one The American Legion tlon on how l can get a permanent position in gov- it hopes to establish its contention before entitled to a feeling of pride for what it has eminent service. g accomplished. is still Name £ the proper board of the Veterans Bureau. There much to be 4ddrc89 Just what would have happsned to this done. 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As soon as the sun other fellow's light, yet ab- goes down at night, the solutely cannot glare in his highways of America eyes. Makes night driving at break forth into a con- 40 to 50 miles an hour safe Absolutely no glare to oncoming cars. Unique "infused" light beam cuts through stant rushing stream of and easy. Makes ruts, ani- double-reflected, ever; light on the road. Even lights distant ob- mals, children, signs, "dimming and damning." detour jects with daylight clearness. Speed is cut down one- etc., visible at least three third to one-half. Every times as far. Actually lights PROFITS OFFERED Monday morning finds the the road so far ahead that you AMAZING highways littered with could do 80 miles an hour and Shoots through fog, mist, rain, and snow like magic TO AGENTS broken glass, wrecks, cars still Makes it safe to drive even on foggy, misty nights. see your way! in t he ditch, overturned, The secret of the amazing This unquestionably opens up one of the money-making oppor- shattered against telephone things this new light does is in most amazing tunities ever presented in America's rich- posts. Every man who ever groped dizzily down the kind of "beam" or "ray" that it throws. Instead est industry. Here actually IS that traffic the highway in at night knows the horrible of ordinary light, this new invention pours a solid chance for $8 to S14 your FIRST hour. sensation of being half-blinded by cars on his beam of double-reflected or "infused" light down the $6,000 to 810.000 THIS year, with no left, unable to see the ditch on his right, his own entire roadway. Shows up ditches at the side, as well limit WHATEVER for Distributor* light seeming dim and shadowy and practically as distant objects, absolutely clear, without the usual Fleet owners buy quantities. A real self- advertiser; each car equipped is seen by worthless. Now, in a twinkling, this curse of flickering "shadows." Space here limits further dis- thousands. Start full-time or spare time. $1,400 IN ONE night driving is lifted completely and inex- discovery. 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