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John J. Wicker, Jr., National Traveler Director for the sent a check for the sum to the fund treasurer. It did this by France Convention Committee, is as enthusiastic as Old borrowing the money at a bank on a note indorsed by Faithful, the world's champion geyser, when he is talking on Legionnaires. Later the post obtained the amount of its his favorite subject. Mr. Wicker's article, "Have You Got contribution by giving entertainments and by getting sub- the Money?", in this issue, concerns only one important fac- scriptions from practically every Legionnaire and citizen in tor in the plans of everybody intending to make the 1927 the town. Inasmuch as Tuxedo has a population of little pilgrimage to Paris. If space had permitted, Mr. Wicker more than 2,000 the record is a particularly good one. would have spoken at equal length upon time saving, a factor as important as LEGIONNAIRE HoWELL money saving. j Bowers believes his out- Table of Contents fit, Talbot Post of Easton. Maryland, means as much to Wicker passes him as anything in this life. Mr.along the news that With no family obligations the France Convention Com- Cover Design by Emmett Watson to consider, he has named mittee is doing what it can the post as beneficiary' of to induce employers to make Escape: Sixth in a Series of Adventures of his Adjusted Compensation vacation concessions to Dean of the D. C. I.. . .By Karl W. Detzer 4 Certificate having a face Legionnaire employes to per- Illustrated by V. E. Pyles value of SI 190. largely as mit them to make the trip an expression of apprecia- to Paris next year. Every Have You Got the Money? tion for help given him by counting on going man By John J. Wicker, Jr. 6 the post during a severe ill- should arrange in advance ness. Talbot Post has made to be gone for four to six A Lighthouse of the World 7 him a life member, assum- weeks, the latter period be- ing payment of all future Barclay ing about right for men liv- Willie Goes on the Air dues. ing in the far west and By Stanley Schnetzler 8 the former for men close to Illustrated by Emmett Watson Atlantic ports. The na- Honorary membership tional committee has already An Ambassador of Good Will Fulfills His in the Legion is not obtained promises of co- Mission By Frederick C. Painton 10 authorized, but William E. operation from twenty-four Gilmore, executive commit- concerns of national impor- Its State Points with Pride to This Post teeman for the Nineteenth tance, including such com- By J. M. Bemis 11 District of Illinois, reports panies as the Pennsylvania that his post is proud of the Railroad Company and the Editorial 12 "Friend of the Legion Club" Commonwealth Edison Com- Out Memorials Also it has organized in Cham- pany. Contact has also been paign. Illinois. "A letter One the Family established with thousands of announcing the proposed of employers in all sections A Question club was sent to all mem- of the country to obtain the bers of the Chamber of adoption of plans whereby A Personal Page By Frederick Palmer 13 Commerce in Champaign employes may arrange for and the Association of Com- Tale of Citizens Wallgren 14 extended vacations in 1927 A Two By merce in L rbana," writes at the time of Legion's the Outfit Reunions 21 Mr. Gilmore. "We empha- pilgrimage abroad. sized that we wanted moral Bursts and Duds 22 support more than financial assistance. Sixty applica- ut national efforts to get tions for membership were B vacation concessions will received as the result of be effective only if Legion posts tie up to it efforts of mailing of the letters. We had announced there would be no their own," broadcasts Mr. Wicker. "Every post should personal solicitation for members. The idea was given to canvass its members on vacation plans for 1927. Each post us by several citizens who were not eligible to membership should appoint a committee to confer with employers to but wanted to help us in our work." make things easier for Legionnaires who want to get ex- tended vacations in '27. In most cases employers are more than willing to help. Satisfactory adjustments can usually Reynolds-Martin Post of La Plata. Missouri, isn't wish- be arranged." ing its town any bad luck, but if a fire has to come, the post is more than willing to put it out. "We held a meeting Add the name of Tuxedo (New York) Post to the honor with the City Council the other night and now our post is /I roll of The American Legion Endowment Fund. The the town's fire department," reports Post Adjutant O. L. same day the post learned the quota assigned it, $3,500, it Robuck.

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In his hand he carried a small, SIXTH IN A SERIES folding easel .... The artistic dis- guise is a simple one in Finistere OF ADVENTURES OF

By Dean of the D. C. I. KARL W. DETZER

passersby. It was the end of the sec- everyday drama, guessed that it would Illustrated by V. E. Pyles ond week of January, 1921. be entered in the small records of the The girl started in his direction at police, felt sorry for the girl, and that last. She came near enough for him was all there was to it. A case of was small, blonde, alert, pret- to see her features plainly, and to note, pocket picking, no doubt. She had ap- SHEty after a fashion, and looked with considerable discernment, that the pealed to the policeman on the corner matter-of-factly out of a pair of part of her face which kept her from and he had referred her to the bureau. large, gray blue eyes. Her cos- being entirely pretty, was her mouth. Dean bought a buttonhole bouquet as tume was proper but not modish. She It was too big; much too big for a he crossed Place Madeleine, and ar- had the appearance of the daughter of woman. This he decided while she took rived unhurriedly at his office. a successful merchant or professional a half dozen steps toward him. She Quieter days had fallen upon the man in one of the larger provincial turned away hurriedly, as if influenced post of American operator of the bu- cities. by a sudden embarrassment. The po- reau. For nine months he had played She stood at one o'clock in the after- liceman on the corner saluted sharply at a gigantic game of cat and mouse noon on the sidewalk in the Place de when she approached. In reply to the with Dan Lark of Boston. Stakes had FOpera, where Paris sets its snare of question he gave directions, with he- been high. Millions of francs. Men gaiety for overseas folk. She was look- roic gestures and a grand manner, for had been pawns and pawns had died ing distractedly left and right at the the space of several minutes. The girl . . . murder committed more than once. men and women who passed. On her seemed relieved as she thanked him. A few of Lark's camp followers had arm she carried a small, beaded hand When she had gone, Dean arose leisure- squirmed in the hands of the law. But bag, of the kind made by the mutilated ly and strolled across the terrace. His Lark himself, crafty ex-major of Amer- of the war. She opened the bag twice lunch hour was over. He must be back ican marines, still strutted free. while Christopher Dean was watching, at his desk in the Palais de Justice, At their last meeting, which had to examined carefully its contents, where he acted as American operator do with counterfeiting and an un- snapped shut its metal jaws, and Dean for the Paris Bureau de Police. planned killing, Lark had left a note would have sworn, had anyone argued He thought of the girl again, going for Dean, an impudent note, suggest- the matter, that there were tears in back the three-quarters of a mile to ing that he make his will. Dean's face her gray blue eyes. his office. She had interested him still got hot whenever he thought of it. In overcoat and muffler he sat with mildly. Persons in trouble always in- What a heartless swindler Dan Lark a few hardy souls, none of whom he terest a detective. But this time, curi- was! Sharp as sleet. Ruthless. Hated ever had seen before, at a sidewalk ta- ously, his interest had not been suffi- the law and all its menservants, loved ble in front of a famous cafe, drinking ciently deep to cause him to bolt into lawlessness for its own black sake. a hot grog and examining with an ap- the picture with an unsolicited offer of Dean admired him sometimes, in spite pearance of thoughtful curiosity, all help. He merely had seen a bit of of himself, admired the skill with which JUNE 11, 1926 PAGE 5

he planned a crime, the daring with You have not followed the market? ders. His hair bristled and he jerked which he executed it. Yet all the same, Ah, new presses are very expensive. his moustache excitedly. he would arrest him one of these days. My father told me I might not find "Voila!" he cried. This police business was all right; good them cheap enough in Brest, I might Dean shook his head. He hoped La- adventure; exciting; necessary. But have to come on to Paris. I looked at carte would not mention Dan Lark's the real reason now that he, Christo- them in all the factories in Brest. Then name to the girl. She might talk in- ." pher Benjamin Dean, was staying on this American gentleman . . discreetly when she left the police, in- in Paris after every other top sergeant "His name?" asked Dean. discreetly through ignorance. in the army had settled down at home, "I cannot remember his name, mon- "A man named Jenkins," he lied. was to nab Dan Lark. And once he sieur. It is sad, but I cannot. But he "Right, an American." had him, he'd find out why any man gave me an address in Paris where I He looked at the girl gravely. From on earth so hated the law. There was might find presses at half the regular the little town of Quimper, eh? A one reason he wanted to take Dan price. Half, monsieur. I cashed checks fishing village and summer i-esort. Lark. And he'd stay in France till he at the bank of Brest, took ten thousand Probably she never had seen Paris got rr'm. francs, and came here on the night ex- lights before. "Monsieur Lacarte's Dean examined quickly the minor re- press. This morning I find that my sister will attend you till you leave," ports that had been stacked on his money, which I carried in this bag, is he advised her. "You can telegraph desk during the noon hour. Petty re- gone. And there is no wine press busi- your father to send money to get you ports of petty knaveries they were for ness at the address. I had no break- home. I take the evening train for the most part. Not a crime worthy of fast," she hesitated. "I asked a po- Brest. This man is at the Conti- the ink to write it down. Dean lighted liceman on the street what to do." nental?" a cigarette. He dozed after he had "He sent you here," Dean supple- "I do not know, monsieur. He smoked it. He still was asleep when mented, pitying her. "This American stayed there several days. That is all Inspector Lacarte, chief I know. But I believe he comes into of the Paris . . . what does he look like?" secret police, rapped noisily upon his "Ah, gentil!" The girl made a sweep- town every few days." She paused door. ing gesture. She had removed her gray embarrassedly, twitching her large "I am bringing Mademoiselle Nogent gloves, and her hands, Dean noticed, mouth. "Here is a place where you to you, Monsieur Dean." Lacarte were red from hard work. "A large might find out about him." She drew spoke rapidly, puffing with excitement. man, heavier than you, and older, with a small, clean card from her handbag. "He dropped this "It will prove to be your case or I burn very sharp eyes and reddish hair. He yesterday afternoon my commission!" has peculiar speech, blunt sometimes, quite by accident. I did not notice it (Continued Dean frowned and cleared his throat. and sometimes very pleasant." on page 15) He hoped old Lacarte had not seen him "Look here, would you recognize him sleeping. He rose with as much dignity from a picture?" Dean turned to a as he could summon under the circum- filing cabinet. "Is he on this board?" stances and prepared to welcome Mademoiselle Nogent acted puzzled Mademoiselle Nogent. He considered and a little of her conviction disap- the name quickly. Nogent? No one peared. Her gray blue eyes, that now he knew ... or was it? showed unmistakable signs of weeping, Certainly it was. It was the girl he examined carefully the rows of strange had watched on the Place de POpera. faces, some of them ugly, some indif- "Sit down, please," he said in ferent, a few handsome; all stiffly French, which was beginning to lose posed, all numbered on the coat lapels. the broad slur that had attached to it "Ah, that is the gentleman!" in the A. E. F. days. "What can I She pointed positively to the second do?" picture in the third row. The girl flushed. She made no sign Lacarte shrugged his heavy shoul- she ever had seen him before. She accepted the chair and sat down awk- wardly. He gave directions, with "Oh, monsieur, it is difficult to ex- heroic gestures, and a plain," she said. Again she grand manner, for the flushed. "Because I needed space of several minutes advice I came here, and I can- not understand why the gentle- men are excited. This is the ." whole affair . . "Your name?" Dean intei*- rupted. "Julie Nogent." "Occupation?" he asked. He prepared to make out a proces verbal card. "My occupation?" There was doubt in her voice. "None at all, monsieur. I think you would say none at all. My father owns a wine business." "Where?" Dean asked. "At Quimper, monsieur. He is ill, very, very ill. I have been going to Brest to do his banking and other work for him. There, yesterday, at the Hotel Continental, I met a gentleman who was interested in the wine business." "An American gentleman!" Lacarte broke in. "An American," the girl agreed. Her mouth twitched, and Dean remarked again that it was cut too large. "He told me he was a friend of my father. I had gone to Brest to buy new presses, monsieur. PAGE 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Have You Got the Money P P P

ORE than one hun- will be enabled to borrow it dred Legionnaire? By JOHN WICKER, J. Jr. when the time comes. But it were assembled at is safe National Travel Director, France to say that at least luncheon in a south- half of those who are defi- Convention Committee ern city. They were men who nitely planning for Paris in represented a diversity of 1927 have not the vaguest vocations but they were of idea of how they are going to one accord in their loyalty to obtain the necessary money. Legion. The American They Possibly a few of these will believed in the Legion, they receive legacies from rich worked for the Legion and uncles, but the bulk of them they were enthusiastic in will either have to save the their support every Le- of money or stay at home. gion enterprise in their com- It is more than a year be- m u n i t . The discussion y fore you will need to consider veered to the France conven- which of the two family suit- tion in 1927. the Legion's cases you want to take to great pilgrimage back to the Paris with you. Many things ]and of its birth. Enthusi- can happen in a year, but it asm was high, interest was is only in fiction that the di- keen. lemma of the hero is solved of you." asked "How many in the last minute by an un- the chairman, actually "are expected windfall. Legion- planning to to France go naires who go to Paris next with the Legion next year?" year will be those who forty of the number Almost planned, definitely and spe- present held their hands. up cifically, to obtain the money Indications that the were that will pay the expenses of community would muster sev- the trip. Four or five hun- eral squads in the big parade dred dollars isn't a great deal down the Champs Elysees. of money, but it means ten "How many of you." con- dollars a week for a year to tinued the chairman, "now save that much out of the have the money salted down weekly pay envelope. and laid away?" The forest The same survey which of dwindled to five. hands showed that only a small "How many of you are sav- fraction of Legionnaires are ing through an American Le- saving through American Le- gion Savings Club?" asked gion Savings Clubs showed the chairman. Not more also that where these clubs than four hands were raised. are active, where a large "Well, how are the rest of number of Legionnaires are you going to get the money?" members and where deposits There was a prolonged and are piling up rapidly, local the price of wool and lamb chops stays right significant silence. Finally, /F posts of the Legion are keen- one, a lawyer, announced this year and next, Charles 0. Huffman of ly interested in promoting that he was setting aside a Howard B. Smith Post in Newcastle, Indiana, is the France Convention. For special fee from a case about certainly going to make that trip to Paris with example, a certain eastern to be closed for his Paris trip. city showed an American Le- the Legion in 1927, and Mrs. Huffman is going Another lawyer indicated gion Savings club with al- that he would follow a simi- with him. Mr. Huffman is a contractor, but he most 200 members and more lar procedure. One man, a has become a shepherd on the side to make sure than $20,000 on deposit. On farmer, declared that he ex- he'll have the money for Paris. His flock num- the other hand, one entire profit land State in which a of pected the from a bers eighty now. number deal he had in prospect would savings clubs have been or- more than pay for the Legion ganized could boast of only a i)ilgrimage. A number of small number in any of the others reported that they intended to of the great and colorful experiences of clubs There are here and there float loans at their banks, or borrow their lives, next only to that greatest throughout the country conspicuous ex- the money from their brothers-in-law. of all adventures during the days of amples of men who are making de- More than half of those who a few '17 and '18. Yet, wanting to go, they liberate sacrifices in order that they minutes before had so enthusiastically are not making definite provision to may have sufficient money in 1927 to announced their determination to join obtain the money that will be necessary join the Legion trip. There is the the great migration back to the land of to finance the trip. A national survey case of the village spendthrift in a Parley-Voo, admitted that they did not recently completed shows that only New England town who caught the vi- have the money, were not saving, and about five per cent of the 30,000 who sion of the Paris trip, and who has had no idea of how they were going to may make the trip to France are ac- now become a man of substance with get the money. tually saving through American Legion money in the bank, money that when The incident related above actually Savings Clubs. the time comes will go toward insuring will happened. It is significant because it There are many others of course who a place among the veterans who 1927. is typical of the entire country. Tens need not save, who now have sufficient make the conquest of Paris in Savings »f thousands of Legionnaires expect to funds for the trip, and there are still Over 500 American Legion go to France next year with the Legion, others who either have some definite Clubs have been established throughout They look forward to the trip as one plan for obtaining the money or who 'Continued on vae 20) 11, 1926 JUNE PAGE T A Lighthouse for the World rllE Notional Executive Committee of The Ameri- iliary be informed that voluntary contributions for can Legion in May adopted a resolution endorsing these memorials will be received by National /fruit- projects for the erection of international war memori- quarters. On this page is shown the architect's con- als at Verdun and Liege and directing that all posts ception of the Verdun memorial. The memorial to be of the Legion and units of The American Legion Aux- erected at Liege will be a vast hall. — —

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"And Willie -Willie's the last on the pro- gram. That's sort of an honor, isn't it, uncle?"

AL LICELIC TOMPKINS' "Is that—Willie?" he fingers trembled asked in strained voice. as she took the "Yes, and you needn't "newspaper from Willie Barclay laugh. He's — he can the postman's hand. She play the banjo—well recognized the handwrit- he sure can play the ing on the wrapper; banjo." knew the package came Goes on the Air "Looks as though the from Willie—Willie Bar- Lord should've blessed clay, who had gone to him with something." Chicago to become a Alice snatched the pa- great musician—on the By STANLEY SCHNETZLER per from her mother's banjo. hand, folded it in a tight "Ma, thei-e's mail for strip, stalked from Illustrated by Emmett Watson and us!" the room. Uncle, seeing This announcement, in her on the verge of tears, itself, was enough to grew suddenly penitent, cause stir in the placid household. "He just wrote up in the corner 'This "Alice, didn't mean anything. "It's from Willie!" is me,' and drew an arrow in red ink Honest." There followed a veritable sensation to his picture." "But you're always—you're always —two sensations, in fact. "Wasn't taking chances, was he?" making fun of all the things we love "The zither-player?" inquired Uncle mused Uncle Rudolph. "Didn't want best. Just because you live in the Rudolph from behind the Sporting you to think that it was Barnum and city." Section. Bailey's bearded lady or the sword "There, there! It's just my clumsy Seeing the buckle on his belt bob- swallower, eh?" way of joking. I didn't want to hurt bing rhythmically, she scorned reply- Alice had joined her mother in the you. And, as for my coming from the ing. She knew he was chuckling over kitchen. In the front room she city, that doesn't make such a differ- her anticipated "rise." glimpsed a pink bulge, bounded below ence. I started life here, just the way "From Willie?" Mrs. Tompkins by sandy eyebrows, above by a hairless Willie did." rasped. A catch in her voice betrayed expanse, vibrating over the top of his Alice turned quizzical eyes. His her constant fears—that Willie v/ould newspaper. With a shrug, she edged round face actually seemed to sag. He cease caring for Alice; and that Alice about so her back was more obviously looked too much like a mortified cow. might fall in love with Willie. Willie's toward her tormentor. One couldn't She relented. ceasing to care for Alice would be in help losing patience with Uncle Ru- "And just to prove it, Alice, I'm go- the nature of a slur on Alice's power dolph. He made such silly remarks. ing to drive in to town and get that to charm. But Alice's falling in love Anyone knew Willie had no beard; twelve-dollar radio set we saw at the with Willie was not to be thought of. hadn't even used a razor—yet. hardware store. We can rig it up this Not Willie, impractical Willie! Not "W-K-Z", mother was reading afternoon in time to hear Willie play." while there was Emil Kohl and his for- through gold-rimmed spectacles. "Don't Alice's arms went about his neck. ty acres seem to make sense. What's that "Oh, you don't mean it. That'd be too " "O-o-o ! Ma!" spell?" wonderful for words. Hear Willie Mrs. Tompkins added another half- "W-K-Z", echoed from the front play! Why, it'd be almost as good as cupful of vinegar to a sanguine pot of room, accompanied by the quick de- having him right here with us." beets before inquiring, "What'd he scent of the Sporting Section. "Radio, "Better!" Uncle Rudolph declared, say?" thus accepting Alice's "O-o-o! by jingo." setting his hat jauntily. Ma!" as assurance that the mail came Uncle Rudolph puffed to his feet Had Alice timed him, she would have from Willie. and joined them. discovered that he made the trip to U, 1926 JUNE PAGE 9

town and back at record speed. How- Alice did not reply. She was not after she had considered a moment, ever, fussing around getting in moth- thinking of the Lumpkin baby. She "You ain't afraid Willie'll break down, er's way in the kitchen, gazing adoring- was marveling that there were other are you?" craftily. ly at the dollar-size halftone in the photographs than Willie's on the radio Alice's lips tightened. "Well, who radio section, mentally counting seconds page. Till that moment, she hadn't do you want?" and minutes, she grew certain that realized it. "Call the Beechers, and while you're something had happened to delay the "Now you take Hook A and attach it gettin' them, I'll tell you some others." journey—a detour; a flat tire; possibly to Wire B," he read from the instruc- Receiver to ear, she was placing her even Uncle Rudolph's untimely death. tion book. "Then you lead Wire B to third call when a shrill confusion in- She shuddered. What a ghastly idea! a lead pipe that runs into the ground. terrupted the conversation. She A death in the family. With a funeral Got any lead pipes that run into the dropped the instrument as if struck by in the house, they could have no ground?" lightning. Startled, she stared at the A funeral in the house! Mrs. Tompkins's reluctant offer of box on the wall, where a bell tinkled in "Andy gave me a special price on the drain from the sink was refused. helpless amazement, as if it too had this," he beamed as he bustled in. Someone surely would stumble over the been stricken. In an instant, her wits "Eleven ninety-eight instead of twelve wire and wreck the works. returning, she rushed to the front win- dollars. Made the reduction because "Alice!" dow where stood a white-faced radio this is the first set in Ackerman's town- Instantly Alice knew what her moth- fan staring at the eaves. ship. Threw in a book of instructions er wanted and delayed the answer she On high, two copper telephone wires free. Said we could hook it up easy in knew she'd have to make. But still she spluttered and flared where a radio less than three hours. By the way, didn't speak. wire lay across them. what time does the concert start?" "Alice, you better call up the Beech- "Mistook a thing-ma-bob for a doo- "Eight o'clock," Alice announced, ers and the other folks and invite 'em hickey," uncle explained sheepishly. spreading the already worn paper on over to hear Willie play." "Lucky Andy gave me insulated radio the center table. "And Willie—Willie's Alice shuddered. That chattery, kid- wire for indoors." the last on the program. That's sort of ding crowd, when she wanted to be "Lucky the set wasn't attached, or an honor, isn't it, uncle?" alone with her dreams and Willie's mu- you'd have burned it out." "Yes, sort of," he conceded gallantly, sic; when she begrudged even her fam- She caught his crestfallen look a~ staring over her shoulder. "Lucky he ily's right to be there. she ignored his possible electrocution. drew that red arrow or it'd have been "You don't answer, Alice!" The "What's the matter with the phone?" hard to find him in all this picture gal- tone was seasoned with vinegar. Mrs. Tompkins shrilled from the lery. Postmen's band—Agatha Treat, "Ma, can't we—do we have to have kitchen. the Stockyard Jenny Lind—Tommy them here? Wouldn't it be nicer just "Nothing, Ma. Just a busy wire," Lumpkin, the motion picture baby. to be by ourselves?" Alice declared, fearing mother might Never heard of him, did you?" "Now, don't be silly, Allie." Then, (Continued on page 18)

With a sob Alice rushed from the room, brushed past the waiting Emil and stumbled into the unfriendly moonlight PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

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President Coolidge with Lieutenant Colonel George R. Crosfield of Great Britain, presi- dent of the FIDAC, and Mrs. Crosfield at the White House. The President assured Colonel Crosfield of his entire sympathy with the peace aims of the Interallied Veterans

An Ambassador of Good Will Fulfills His Mission

By FREDERICK C. PAINTON

BEHIND him hung Reni Mel's fa- tween France and her allies—then you this task of keeping the peace in mous painting of the American will see. Europe. doughboy supporting a reeling "It is FIDAC'S job to prevent that "Give me some message to take back French poilu. Beside him sat wedge. It is FIDAC'S job to support the which will tell the veterans of England, national officers of the Legion, their in- peace forces in Germany—or wherever Belgium, France, Italy, Roumania, Po- terest intent. In front of him were else they may be found—and to prevent land, Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia more that two-score leaders of The the German war party from utilizing that the powerful American Legion is American Legion, drawn from every the tremendous military machine that with us in our big fight." State in the Union. is slowly being built. The one-legged hero of St. Eloi sat The ruddy-faced man speaking, the "We veterans who fought together down while the Legionnaires applauded man who weaved slightly to keep his should stand together. Now as never vigorously. Shortly thereafter on mo- balance on a cork left leg which re- before must we show that the battle- tion of John J. Wicker, Jr., of Rich- placed the good one he lost in Flanders field ties cannot be broken; now as mond, Virginia, a resolution was drawn in 1916, was Lieutenant Colonel George never before must we show that FIDAC declaring that "the Legionnaires of R. Crosfield, president of the Interallied and its member organizations are out America cherish the spirit of under- Veterans Association, or Federation for peace—not peace at any price; not standing and friendship which arose Interallied des Anciens Combattants, as war at any price—but justice at any while we were brothers in arms and it is called in French. A Briton, and price. that we hope this comradeship will the first president of FIDAC officially "We must show the red-flagged com- grow ever stronger for the mainte- to visit the United States in discharge munists that our countries are no nance and preservation of world peace." of his duties. places for them-—that FIDAC will op- The program in Indianapolis was one The men before him were the mem- pose them at every turn. We must de- of the features of a tour made by Col- bers of the National Executive Commit- velop understanding between our mu- onel and Mrs Crosfield through the east- tee. The words he spoke were a mes- tual countries, for in understanding lies ern part of the country under Legion sage from the veterans in the eight tolerance and peace. auspices. They visited New York, Pat- other allied countries in FIDAC. "By our might in standing shoulder erson, West Point, Philadelphia, Wil- "Gentlemen, I have come 5,000 miles to shoulder in peace-time as we did in mington, Washington, Mt. Vernon, to bring you a message from your com- war-time, we can convince the world Pittsburgh, Toledo, Chicago, and Culver rades in Europe. They have only one that while we live there can be no more Military Academy. Everywhere the request. That is for America to stand war, nor can there be another holocaust FIDAC leader was received with en- with the Allies in 1927 as she did in 1917. during the lifetime of our children. thusiasm. At Washington President The crying need in Europe now is for That is our guarantee. The FIDAC in- Coolidge assured him of his entire sym- the Allies to stand shoulder to shoulder sures against war with one hundred pathy with the peace program of in unbreakable alignment. per cent results at small premium. FIDAC. Colonel Crosfield laid a wreath "War parties have raised their "To make that possible we of Eu- on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at heads; there is once more talk of Der rope need the mighty American Legion. Arlington and performed a like service Mt. Tag. Once let the war party of Ger- We are old and tired—you are young, at the tomb of Washington in many succeed in driving a wedge be- strong and enthusiastic. Aid us now in Vernon. JUNE 11. 1926 PAGE H

Its State Points with Pride to This Post

By J. M. BEMIS

any map of the United post went ahead with its plans for the TAKEStates, turn to the State of Wis- 1925 state convention and boosted th« consin, poke your pencil through membership to 424 in preparation for the paper at the center of the that event. State, and you have located the city of That was a very high mark, and the Stevens Point, known for fishing tackle, prophets told the Stevens Point boys rabbit hounds and live Legionnaires. they would never regain that strength "Population 11,370," the census re- after the big time was over. Not only port for 1920 states. Among that num- that, they would lose thousands of dol- ber were a handful of Legionnaires, the lars on the affair. But the Pointers re- nucleus of what is now said to be the fused to be frightened. They went largest post in the United States for ahead with their convention, made towns of anywhere near its population. some money, and then went out for Today the population reads about a 1926 membership. thousand more, but the membership A dozen prizes, including a gold rolls of Romulus Carl Berens Post now watch, two suits of clothes, a pen and list 554 names, all paid up and hust- pencil set, etc., were offered to the men ling for the Legion. bringing in the most members. Thr* Membership, however, is nothing to banquet which celebrated the passing Members of the state champion Stev- brag about these days, with every post of the 500 mark paid for itself at the ens Point, Wisconsin, high school in the country campaigning for new door. basketball team (above) holding silver names; but membership attained under First prize in the drive was won by cups which Romulus Carl Berens Post of that town presented them. the conditions which have obtained in the adjutant, Gilbert J. "General" In the last row, left to right, three Stevens Point, r.nd membership which Diaz. He landed eighty-one members post officers who themselves signed accomplishes the things that have been all by himself. Diaz is employed as a up 170 new members of the post this done by this Wisconsin post, is dice of trouble shooter by the telephone com- year: Leo Larson, finance officer; another kind of spots. pany. Every time he entered a home Ferdinand A. Hirzy, post command- In the first place, the growth in three to tinker with the telephone, he looked er; Gilbert J. Diaz, adjutant. Below, years from 164 members to 554 was for pictures of soldiers. When he Commander Hirzy in his uniform of made in three "off" years. Stevens spotted asked questions. Most one he captain in the Wisconsin National Point prosperity depends directly obtained in that upon of his "leads" were Guard. He came to this country the prosperity boys, of the farmers of Port- way. There's a tip for grocer from Austria in 1914, enlisted in age County. Potatoes are the big crop, ice men, meter readers, electricians. 1917, and in 1925, at the age of 25 and three successive years of over-pro- Second prize went to the commander, began serving as commander of his duction and low prices had blanketed Ferdinand A. Hirzy. Hirzy is a jewel- post, one of the youngest post com- the county with mortgages. In the face er and makes his store a headquarters manders in the Legion of these discouraging conditions, the (Continued on page 21) PAGE 12 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY EDITORIAL 77*07? God and country, we associate ourselves together for the both memorials would be incomplete without representation J7 following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution by the United States. of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism ; to pre- The record of The American Legion in meeting its direct serve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great obligations is well known. The appeal on behalf of these War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the commu- two European memorials involves a moral obligation as nity, state and nation ; to combat the autocracy of both the classes well as American honor. and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote ficaee and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to pos- terity the principles of justice, freedom and democreicy ; to conse- One of the Family crate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.—Preamble to Constitution of The American Legion. AMERICAN Legionnaires may pardonably take a bit more

. pride than even the average American feels over the Our Memorials Also achievement of Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd in flying to the North Pole, for Commander Byrd is a Legion- Liege and Verdun! Magic names for us—names that will naire and he wore the Legion button historic J hold imperishable the memories of two of the World at the moment when his own specially designed sextant showed that his War's most crucial battles. But we shall pass on. Even plane was over its goal. memories, though they may not die with us, will grow dim. Lieutenant Commander Byrd is a member of Belvidere So to hold forever to the sight of men visible reminders of Brooks Post of New York City, a post composed of air serv- all that Liege and Verdun mean to men now living, two ice veterans of the World War. imposing war memorials are now being erected in Belgium and France. Every day brings its new evidence that the men who wore the United States uniform in the World are be- One memorial is the Ossuary of Verdun. It will be an War coming this country's outstanding leaders. Not only in the awe-inspiriing structure, a long cloister in which the bones developing science of aviation, but also in statesmanship, in of thousands of unidentified French dead will rest in fifty- medicine, in art, in literature, the were young and two tombs, the cloister surmounted by a tower. The shrine men who comparatively unknown in the period now are in will be on the highest point of the old battlefields about war ascendancy. Verdun. The tower will dominate a vast section of country- Two questions come naturally to mind whenever an side. Atop the tower will burn a perpetual light. American today through an outstanding achievement be- We may think of that tower and its beacon as a light- comes the center of public interest. Is he a veteran of the house of the world. It marks the site where heroism and World War? Is he of American Legion? liberty triumphed over despotism and slavery. The torch a member The If he is within certain limits, is almost sure to be a will blaze as a symbol of a world saved, just as the torch age he World War veteran. If he is a veteran of the World War, on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor symbolizes a world enlightened. he is almost certain to be a Legionnaire, because the sort of man who does big things is the sort of man who finds the The beacon light will cast its beams toward the battle- Legion especially appealing to him. field of the Meuse-Argonne, immortalized by the blood of thousands of Americans. At Liege, where the first great shock of the World War A Question was borne, another memorial is being erected, one that will The Citizens Military Training Camps will soon be open have a world significance comparable to that of the Ossuary again. This summer more than thirty-five thousand at Verdun. A great hall will rise in Liege to keep vivid young men will have a chance to spend a few active weeks forever the sublime valor of a Belgium that bore the in- in the open air. The skinny ones will put on weight and vaders' wounds rather than surrender with dishonor. Ameri- the fat ones will work it off, and nervous ones will learn can soldiers, fighting on Belgian soil, helped drive that in- to sleep like logs. Thirty-five thousand is not a large num- vader from Belgium in the final battles of the World War. ber in a nation as large as ours, but it L all the Army can It is fittyig that the United States, through The American afford to take on. Legion, should help rear the memorial at Liege. In rather a peculiar way these camps disclose a state of The National Executive Committee of The American Le- affairs in the American nation. A large group of pacifists gion, meeting at Indianapolis on May fifteenth, expressed are flailing the air denouncing the camps and a winter the that hope the posts of The American Legion, the units activity which is allied with them—the military training of The American Legion Auxiliary, and individuals of both the Army provides, upon request, in some one hundred and organizations would contribute to the funds being raised for sixty high schools and colleges. They call these institutions the completion of the memorials at Verdun and Liege. The spawning beds of militarism, and even harsher names than committee authorized the National Commander to issue an that. appeal to all posts and units for voluntary subscriptions. Now, with no desire whatsoever to offend, doesn't that National Commander John R. McQuigg announces that represent the great cause of peace in a pretty dim light? Verdun and Liege Memorial Fund contributions will be re- Thirty-five thousand young men camping under canvas in ceived by the National Treasurer of The American Legion. the summer. About that many school boys drilling a few An honor roll of the posts contributing will be compiled and hours a week in the winter. The former voluntary with every effort will be made to insure a creditable participation each individual. The latter voluntary with the individual, by the Legion in the two undertakings. All contributions or, in a few instances, required by his local school board, may be sent to Robert H. Tyndall, National Treasurer of just like algebra. The American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana. No charge of militarism can be sustained against this The memorial at Verdun is already arising on its foun- nation simply because it believes in fitting its young men to dations. The immense tomb, with its central tower, will defend it, as they would most certainly be called upon to cost approximately eigbt million francs, or much less than do if it were imperiled by war. The principle that every a half million dollars at present exchange rates. Most of man as a citizen owes military service to his country when this sum has already been raised by the French people, and it is menaced by aggression is, despite all the philosophy the sum expected to be contributed by the United States is of those who blindly urge youth to refuse to fight under comparatively small. Belgium has already contributed more any circumstances, still this country's main reliance in a than $20,000. Canada has contributed $8,000, and promises world which has not yet given any evidence that war is a total of $15,000. In authorizing Legion participation in impossible. this project and the one for the memorial at Liege, the Na- The training camps this summer will prove that the tional Executive Committee was influenced by the belief that heart of America is sound. JUNE 11, 1926 PAGE 13 A PERSONAL PAGE by Frederick Palmer

Thomas A. Edison, chipper al seventy-nine, was asked stations and sidings for trains and docks for steamers. what the world would be like a hundred years hence. He Otherwise traffic passes you by. was not the man to answer the question. If no air field then signs to guide the planes. On the Edison Did It belonged in the realm of fiction writ- roof of some prominent building paint in letters twelve Not Know ers. He is an inventor, and the inventor feet long by one foot broad—visible from a height of six does not guess. The future to him is thousand feet —the name of the town and also A. L. if you with the inventions that come. have room for only the initials. This is publicity of per- So Edison just said that he did not know; but he was manent value in national association under high auspices. sure that there would be great progress; and now he And if Congress passes the bill providing for 2,200 new must hurry home so that he could be at work in his labora- army planes in the next five years we shall feel still belter tory before daylight. about America in the air.

Not this year, not next year— it is something to look Although pioneering new lands is nearly over there is forward to. Less than a hundred years ago Jules Verne another kind of pioneering which is in full tide. It will made an imaginary hero go around the always last as long as men want real

It May Yet world in eighty days. Today it may be They, Too, homes instead of rented caves in town. Come True done in fact in half of eighty days. Are Pioneers Its results you see in the new communi- Man has just flown over the North Pole. ties rising on the outskirts of cities. As The trip was not bolder than those of the first explorers sons of the East went West in the days of the buffalo sons of our wilderness. Not yet, but one day mail may go in of the city go to fresh air by trolley and automobile. three or four days by the short air route over the North New houses rise fronting on new streets; there must be Pole between England and Japan. water supply, pavements and sewers. There must be schools, at the very start, which will have the latest in This is the season when Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts, lighting and ventilation and big playgrounds. There must too, take to the open. Thev are planning their summer be churches. Cities often have enough church-going facil- camps. There are more and more ities, but new suburbs lack them and often lack the funds The Best of camps every year taking youth to exer- for them when homes are bought on the instalment plan. Canips cise and regular habits in the fresh air, Legion camps, school camps, camps of It is from the post and department Legion papers which all kinds of groups. They stand for the fellowship of come to my table that I get the news from the front in the group and clan loyalty. Every boys' camp should lead membership drive. From the trim little to the Citizens' Training Camps which stand for the fel- News From Star Shell of Pittsfield, Mass. comes lowship of the whole and the national clan. the Front the telling note: '"No red blooded man would sell the right to retain his dis- The Spanish like it; they may have it; but bullfighting charge. Why, then, should not the veteran, having paid has no place under our flag. It is not a sport, according such a high price for the privilege, come into the family?" to our ideas, for the bull has no chance. The Empire State Legionnaire is writ large, ample and Not Under The arena in which to kill bulls is the compelling, in form with the biggest State. The Crescc, Our Flag slaughter house. So Acting Governor Iowa, Gas Mask comes out in color for a membership num- Butte refused permission for a bull fight ber. "I used up twenty-six gallons of gas and two tires in Porto Rico. Let the Porto Ricans continue American- running around," writes "Alex" in the Weston, W. Va., ization by baseball. They may yet have a man in a major Legionnaire, but he got six new members. The Bulletin league. No distinction in birthplaces; an open game. If of Tyrone, Pa., is strong for harmony, "subordinating he can bat more home runs than Babe Ruth he will get some of our personal ideas and wishes for the general more cheers. good" which means an invitation from a happy family. I like the way that the Oakland, Cal., Bulletin burst The agitation is having effect. America is learning that forth in indignation at the suggestion that the Legion was the way to fly is to fly. The beginning is good; now to becoming a partisan in a local political campaign. Plans, keep on with the increase. New air orders, addresses from the top, but it is at the front lhat This Is mail routes, thousands of miles more; the issue is decided. More Like It ten new privately owned air lines; some of these carrying mail by contract, In six years we have paid off four and one-fourth bil- which means government support of civil aviation! lions of our National debt and our State and Municipal For the first time the majority of the contests at the debts have increased by six and three- annual national air races, to be held this year at the Ses- Heaping Up fourths billions. The national debt is be- quicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, are open to the Burden ing lowered by three-fourths of a billion civilian instead of exclusively army and navy fliers. a vear and state and municipal debts in- Kansas City's pioneering airport has done yeoman serv- creased bv one and one-fourth billions. A dollar lo pay ice. That of New Orleans is by this time ready. Every state and local taxes is just as hard earned as a dollar to city and town should get in line with a flving field. It pay national taxes. We are loading future generations means being up-to-date, municipal prestige. Air ports are with more debt on top of the war dtbt. Are we taking care becoming as much a part of municipal appointments as to get our money's worth for them? /

PAGE 14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

A Tale of Two Citizens By Wallgren

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until he had gone. I put it in my front bar. Lamps burned sulkily, sus- la Marine. And the worst of it was pocket to give it to him if I should pended from the ceiling, in spite of its that the man so occupied was the mus- ever see him again." being mid-day. cular individual who had left the bar ]>ean took the card interestedly. The bar was cluttered and in need so precipitously when Dean entered said On it was written, in a hand that he of cleaning. The bar maid, slatternly, and who the maid was his room- knew well enough was that of his fel- with the look of ill feeding, banged her mate. At twenty-one minutes of three low countryman Daniel Lark, "Restau- sabots upon a tile floor as Dean en- he had sat down boldly on a fish bar- rant du Sentir la Marine," and in a tered, and waited his order sullenly. rel. There he still sat, twiddling his lower corner, "After 12 midnight." He looked at her sharply. For a mo- thumbs. He thought the fog hid him, ment he believed he had seen her be- did he? fore. Something about her stirred his A secret policeman? Dean scowled. The gray, mysterious city of Brest memory. Her eyes? Her skin? He He had known police officers of many directly. village city hid its rugged face under the ancient, dismissed the idea She was nations, gendarmes, detec- eternal fogs of Finistere. In the vile, a typical bar maid, that was all. tives, keen eyed investigators of the black, old town below the suspension surety, deputy sheriffs, but never had bridge, on the windy balconies of the A table to the rear three men sat one of them shown so poor a face as President Wil- AT them the big, dark man of the bar. No . . . great Chateau, in Place . at a game of dominoes. Two of son with its memories of blood and wore sea jackets and boots, their caps not a policeman . . . but why in the persecution and victory and glory, on the backs of their heads, and car- name of all the drunken sailors in along the whole clattering length of ried a distinct atmosphere of salt on Brest was he watching the door? Rue de Siam, on the wet quais of the their wind-beaten faces. The third, So much had he seen. Port du Commerce where the lobster who was darker than the others and What he heard was another matter. fishers mingle with bearded sons of the both taller and heavier, bore sharply The girl from below stairs, the one who reminded vaguely of former four deep sea winds, the fog muffled the stamp of the city. He it was who him a meeting, thick as a velvet drapery. stared hard at Dean, drank his bock had flapped her wooden soles along the corridor at two o'clock. She "Dirty town!" Dean told himself as hurriedly, and with scant excuse left passed he stepped out of the Hotel Conti- the game. Dean looked after him as was talking as she Dean's room a gruff ejaculations punctu- nental. "I never did like this place! he disappeared into the fog of the Rue and man's ated her whiny voice. Enough, Dean Something fishy about it, not square de 1'Ocean. and aboveboard. A hangman's para- "A room?" he asked the bar maid. had heard two words. dise with these damnable fogs!" She shrugged. "Another American!" she had said. It proved Mademoiselle He had found no trace of ex-Major "Not a whole room. You may share Another? right in sending police Daniel Lark in the Hotel Continental. one with a gentleman. His partner is Nogent was He stuffed a square of cardboard into leaving on a voyage." here, and just as smart as she was right. Dean felt positively that he was his left pocket and a pistol into his Dean hesitated. He was too fastidi- on the right track. Americans were right. The clothes were not the ones ous needlessly to share a room with not so plentiful around Brest as they he usually wore in Paris. The over- some fishy unknown who no doubt was had been two years before. If two of coat did not fit so well as his own. The dirty, unless it were wholly necessary. them had put up within a few days at shoes, one of which had a patch on its But get Dan Lark he must. this out of the way hole, he was one uppers, needed polish. The elbows of "How much?" he wanted to know. and Lark was the other. If Dan Lark his black jacket shone. In his hand "Two francs a day, meals out." did roost here, and Christopher Dean he carried a small, folding easel, a "Show me the room," said Dean. took him, he would have a girl to canvas, and a tin box containing paints. It was a small apartment under the thank ! And a girl from the provinces And the card in his pocket was that of slant of the steep roof, with a pair of at that! an American artist named Wright. patched windows staring out blindly The artistic disguise is a simple one in upon the foggy street. Two beds, both picked up his cap and sauntered Finistere; there are more painters narrow and warped, two stout chairs, HEdown to the bar. The place was than villages and Dean looked his part. their front legs chewed by generations empty of customers. In the kitchen at Observers would have called him a of sea boot heels, a tip hand basin, a the rear he heard the voices of women, searcher after beauty in a welter of frayed rug on the floor, a sea chest in speaking swiftly, slurring their tongues wind and mist. one corner, and on the walls a crucifix, over bad French, but with a quiet sug- a colored print of a poorly drawn Joan gestive of secrecy. The kitchen door Under the great rock walls of the of Arc, and the portraits of three in- inch. Dean stepped city, huddled together and fronting La Vie stood open an cautious ladies torn from _ toward it, laid his hand on the latch, the quais across a narrow street, a sub- Parisienne ... it was not an inspiring started to clear his throat, and urb known as Port du Commei-ce faces chamber. stopped with a quiver running up and the shipping world. Squat stone build- "I'll take it," Dean said. down his spine. ings, for the most part inexpensive cafes "That's your bed, there by the win- "He is a fool!" the bar maid had just and hotels for sailing men, back cau- dow. Two francs, please, in advance." said. tiously against the tall stone butte, Dean paid the money. He flung his a gentleman when I saw atop which the Chateau sits in ever- painting materials upon the bed. "He was him in Paris!" flared up the second lasting .dignity. Here, in this disrepu- "My roommate," he asked, "who is table row, Dean knew that he would he?" speaker. Dean felt sweat on his forehead. He find the Restaurant du Sentir la Ma- "The big dark man downstairs, play- recognized that second voice. He rine . . . the place which sailors had ing dominoes when you came in. He pulled the door toward him and looked named after "the taste of the sea." is a secret policeman." Sitting in the kitchen, her Long, dilapidated rows of restau- "Oh!" said Dean. quickly. timidity gone, and a thick, rants, hotels, cafes and pensions looked hat off, * * * * steaming glass of grog just raised to down upon him from the left. Their large mouth, was Mademoiselle signboards, creaking in a wind that By three o'clock the fog in the street her played up the bay, were fashioned in had lifted enough to make two-wheeled Nogent. slid toward the front door. the shapes of fish and lobsters and carts distinguishable across the way, Dean out if he could. A trap! anchors, of ships and rudders and gilded and to puncture the skyline above the Best to get like a dumb rabbit had pilot wheels. Here, at the hour of noon, waterfront with the gray points of And he damn very nicely into it! In Dean made out the signboard of the fishing boat masts. But it seemed to put his head quick steps he took toward restaurant of the taste of the sea. thicken on the brain of Christopher the fifteen remembered all the dap- It was a mean, ill-visaged building, Dean, alone in his untidy room. the street he the remorseless- with low eaves and steep roof ridges He looked at his watch. For exactly per, genial cunning, contempt for another hidden in the upper fog. A worn brass forty-one minutes a man had sat in ness, the cold Lark had always thumb latch loosed the door, and gray the fog across the street and eyed the man's life that Dan note that the mists followed the American into the front door of the Restaurant du Sentir shown, remembered the ! "

PAGE 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY rascal had left in Nantes, threatening wet always from the tears of the weep- what lay ahead. He had nerved him- him, suggesting he make his will. ing sea, crouches in dismal isolation on self against what he had small doubt What a fool he had been! He could the heap of rocks known as "Fisher- was the end. But the actual sight of have gone straight to the chief of the men's Sorrow." It is a scant ten kilo- Lark, confident and serene, insolent as Brest police when first he came to meters from Brest. A dozen houses, ever, triumphant in a quiet way, un- town, and got protection. Instead he inhabited by ne'er-do-wells of the fish- nerved him, broke down the steel he had tried bullheadedly to do the whole ing fleet, a twisted pier, nets upon had worked into his spine. job alone! Well, he would get to the squealing reels, winds, fogs, and un- "Have a chair," Lark bade. "That's waters, it is a melancholy ham- all, police now, if he could . . . yes, and happy men. Come back tomorrow morn- take at least one scamp with him! let, detached from the outside world. ing." There was that dark individual still Here, in the evening, Christopher The others retired reluctantly. sitting in the fog across the way. . . . Dean was landed. The January air When they had gone, and wind Dean advanced noisily over the had become blasty and cold by eight slammed the door behind them, shut- rough cobblestones. He saw the fel- o'clock. Dean, his hands tied with ting out both fog and the January air, low start at the unexpected manner of ropes so tight that they burned his Lai-k walked across deliberately from his approach and stand up quickly. skin, was hustled unceremoniously the fireplace and tipped the lamp shade Dean hurried. The man ran toward through a deserted street to a house so that the light shone sharply upon the wharves, leading by ten paces. at the end of town. Light shone Dean's white face. He chuckled audi- "Halt!" Dean cried. bly and backed away. Dean The other showed a clean bristled. pair of heels. He dodged, "Cut that damned stuff quite sure of his way, among out!" he snapped. "Turn bales, nets and barrels up your light the other way!" the wharf, while loungers The Back to France "Ah!" Lark's chuckle and sailors paused to stare swelled to a laugh. "Turn through the fog. They had Essay Contest about, you know, fair play. run a hundred yards out the I've heard that's how you do jetty. Here the mist hung in the Paris bureau. Friends Subject: "If hy I want to go to France in thicker and the man seemed have told me." to have got away completely. 1927 with The American Legion." He drew two cigars from Then he showed up, close ' his pocket. at hand in the fog. Dean First Prize: $350 "Smoke?" sprang at his neck. At the Second Prize: $150 Dean's angry refusal same instant there was a seemed to amuse him a little. shuffle of other feet and a Third Prize: $100 He put one back, lighted the hoarse voice uttered a com- other and sat down comfort- mand in French. New shad- The contest is now open and will close on ably in his chair. ows blurred into sight and September 15th. Manuscripts postmarked "You're in a nasty temper," three men whose fists were he commented. after September 15th will not be accepted. like chunks of hard wood fell Dean felt a tightening in upon Dean, whacked his head No essav shall exceed four hundred words. his throat. He had never against the stone floor of the Essays shall be written on one side of the suspected he could hate any bloody jetty, bundled him, paper only. All essays shall bear the name man as he hated Dan Lark. and frightened, into a small And the reason he hated him of the writer, his Legion post name and gasoline boat made fast con- now was because he had so veniently alongside the pier. number and his home address. No essays humiliated him. Lark had The third pair of jaws in will be returned except at express request taken him prisoner. Twice Lark's well-baited trap in Dan of the writer and if sufficient postage is in- a year he had spoiled snapped shut on the Ameri- Lark's game. Twice both he cluded. can detective. First the girl and Lark had escaped, one The judges are Richard Henry Little, con- in Paris . . . damn her! Then from the other. the dirty hotel in Brest. Now ductor of the column. "A Line o' Type or For some time neither a trick that the veriest re- Two," in the Chicago Tribune; William spoke, but then Lark, after cruit should have guessed, twitting Dean on his failure Allen White. Editor of The Emporia (Kan- that led him headfirst to a to capture him, put up to the black, dirty little cabin boat sas) Gazette, and Frederick Palmer. detective a proposition that at the end of a lonely pier. Mail all essays to the Contest Editor, they combine their forces. He swore feebly. The en- Imeriean Legion News Service. Indianap- "No gun play. No widows' gine sputtered. mites, no one to get hurt. olis. Indiana. "Hold him so . . . get his There are two or three busi-

gun there . . .," a man com- ness opportunities." manded, in the patois of the Dean, gasping at the dar- watersides o f Finistere. ing of the fellow, asked, "Le- "Good. What uselessly big gitimate?" pistols the American fool always guardedly in two lower windows. The Lark shrugged. carry!" stone wall was broken by a gate into "Sure, legitimate. Unless you go dig- "We'll get an easy thousand francs a patchy garden. The door opened. ging into a lot of stale laws.— Millions apiece!" a second ejaculated. "Too "Get in and be quick!" commanded in it. Half for you, half for easy!" the stout fellow whom the bar maid "You dirty dog!" Fog bells tapped their unmelodious had called a policeman. Lark laughed good humoredly. Dean, messages from jetty ends; winking Behind Dean the door closed. looking beyond him, saw on the wall a buoys pricked the thick, 'gray obscurity Firelight and an oil burning lamp photograph. Of Lark himself! The with points of light; incoming steam- with a green shade of American type conceited devil ers hallooed sonorously from their illuminated the apartment. "Maybe," the scoundrel admitted, pal- steamy throats, crawled with indecisive With his back to the hearth, a figure ing. "But I can beat the law any time caution in the wake of fussy pilot of content and repose, stood Dan Lark, I want to." His face hardened. "The boats; and a small, hooded craft, its smiling. law beat me once, long before the i- e- cramped cabin packed with four men, "Welcome!" he said, and did not cent German racket. But it's not going - one of whom was a prisoner, turned its i aise his voice. to touch me again. Now, you can come nose outward to the hundred scraggly Dean dropped his gaze to his own in on this deal or— You understand?" islands that spot the south shore of the shoes. Humiliation flooded him. He "Or get killed. Yes, I get it." anchorage known as Brest Roads. understood instantly what Lark was "Well, you've got only a few hours to thinking. He was a rotten poor de- decide." tective. A schoolboy. No more wit Dean slumped down into his chair,

1 The bleak fishing village of Lan- than a village constable. On the jour- his head spinning . Soon he dozed off. denac, whose soggy thatch roofs are ney across the water he had visualized Twice he awakened weakly from a ! . " "

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sodden sleep to see Lark poking at the Christopher Dean faltered. Dan fire. Both times Lark asked him if he Lark was backing toward the mantel Science proves the wanted to talk terms. Dean did not as a second passed, his hand reaching danger answer. out for his gun. But Julie's sister was of bleeding gums * * * * too fast. With a lunging, catlike leap The air in the Lark apartment had she was at the American's throat, a become chilly when Dean straightened knife in her hand, her lips open, and up at last. Lark, still wide awake, her lean face as cool as if she were though the fire had gone out, sat read- asking the time of day. ">OAST defense ing a book. Dean, moving his arms, "I have nervous fingers," she cried. I. protect s the I i fe of found that the ropes had been removed "Say your prayers if I prick you." She a nation, gum defense the life while he slept. Lark grinned, as if jerked her head toward Dean. "Go, of a tooth. On the surmising what was in the other's mind. stupid American pig! And good rid- gum line danger "Wouldn't try it. Hand to hand, I dance!" lies. If it shrinks would kill Better talk over the Dean leaned weakly on the table. He you. through Pyorrhea other out." wanted to squeeze Lark's throat be- way decay strikes into fore he left that room, once and for all The wind had dropped, and with it the heart of the rid Prance and America of him. But the noises that had rattled all night tooth. he had no weapon, no strength. He about the house. Afar off, Dean heard Beware of gum ten- the thump of breakers upon a shore; could only talk. For five short, stifling derness that warns of Pyorrhea. Four out still farther away, the moan of a minutes he cudgeled Lark with words of /ii r e people over tide. while two women from a Brest bar steamer, nosing up the bay on the forty have Pyorrhea— Then, distinctly, the throb of a motor room stood guard, one with a knife, the many under forty also. boat engine. It stopped near at hand. other, the whiter faced of the two, with Loosening teeth indi- cate Pyorrhea. Bleed- Lark put aside his book. a United States army pistol. Lark sent BRUSH YOURTEHU ing gums . too. Re- "Want to talk business?" he asked. it all back to him with stinging words. member — these in- flamed, bleedinggums "Go to the devil!" Dean answered. "You fool!" Julie Nogent cried at WITH \r act as so many door- Lark rose from his chair wrathfully. last to Dean. "Get out!" ways for disease "You needn't be so upstage. Better "Fool!" echoed her sister, and swore. germs to enter the system—infecting the minutes!" Julie FOBMULA'OP men than you have been hanged. I may "Hold Lark two No- joints or tonsils — or be myself some day. You've got an- gent directed. "Come!" she begged. causing other ail- ments. other hour to go. I leave at eight." Out in the wet, gray morning he 0** Forhan's positively His voice had lost its good nature. heard her voice rattling sharply. NEW YORK CfTV prevents Pyorrhea , if It was cold as ice, the voice of the old "Didn't know, monsieur, he planned used in time and

used consistently . As Dan Lark, heartless, conscious of to kill you. I thought he was just go- SPECIALIST it hardens the gums power. Dean, hearing it, winced. ing to turn your pockets. You were the teeth become DISEASES OF THE M&UTH "Will you come in as partners?" good to me, monsieur! I'm a decent firmer. Brush your teeth Lark asked. woman, I swear it! A bit of plain PREPARED TOR THE with Forhan's. It "Never," Dean answered. stealing, sometimes, but no murder! A PRESCRIPTION OPTUS cleans the teeth His host swore and kicked up the good Christian I am. So I got Marie, scientifically— keeps them white and fire his shoe. DENTAL PROFESSES with the toe of my sister. I told her we must save you, clean. more," he said, and "Five minutes I promised her poison if she didn't!" If gum shrinkage shrugged his big shoulders. "You're a low little rotter," Dean has already set in, Christopher Dean's face went white. start using Forhan's said, "but I thank you." and consult a den- Unless God intervened, Dan Lark The girl looked at him humbly. tist immediately for would kill him in five minutes. He "There's a row boat," she said, "get special treatment. combine. wet his might pretend to He into it and out to the fog. Row toward 35c and 60c tubes tongue to speak, rubbed it dryly in his the bells. You will reach Brest some- All Druggists mouth while the thought of the part- time today." nership sickened him. "Four minutes more," said Lark, and laid his revolver on the mantel beside At eleven o'clock that morning Dean him. pulled wearily ashore at the end of a Someone knocked just after he jetty below the walls of Brest. He spoke. The bolt on the outside of the made fast his boat, examined the street door scraped back. Both men turned. sign at the corner carefully, and started IMe*25°J Neither spoke. Then the door opened on a run toward the nearest police sta- and into the room stepped Mademoiselle tion. It was one o'clock when, with perdaywritesRCBecHfiam Nogent. Behind her the bar maid from half a dozen gendarmes, he landed FREE SAMPLES the Restaurant du Sentir la Marine. again in the village of Landenac, and Sell Madison "Better-Made" Shirt? for "What's this?" Lark asked. hurried up a path, to an empty house Larqre Manufacturer Direct to wearer. No capital or experience needed. Many earn $100.00 Dean stared. He was overcome by a where hot coals still glowed on the weekly and bonus. Write fur Free Samples. wild and ferocious desire to punish the hearth. MADISON SHIRT MILLS, 564 Broadway, New York girl . . . she, with her innocent eyes, Dan Lark had made one more es- who had lured him here. He under- cape. And Christopher Dean, less than stood now. The wench from' the bar five minutes from death, had been TnlO twyAnv JUHSiiif Double the life of yonr was her sister. That was why she yanked back to safety by an "honest coatandvest,ritfeBwrof looked so damned familiar! The same Christian lady," who admitted thievery perfectly matched pants. Thousands of pat- terns. Every pants hand tailored to your meas- big mouth, same air, not quite so and kidnapping among her accomplish- ure; no ' ready mades. ffctitillc ments, but objected to unembellished SEND SAMPLE or VEST. Our match sent for your O. K. before "Well?" Lark asked. "Well, Julie?" murder as a bit beyond the pale. pants are made. Fit euaran- teed. Send piece of cloth or vest today He moved toward her, away from But Christopher Dean had discovered SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS CO. his weapon, hands outstretched. one thing. 115 So. Dearborn St., Dept. 17, Chicago "Put 'em up!" said Julie Nogent He had learned from the man's own harshly. lips why he hated the law. The pic- For one confused second, Dean ture that looked like Lark was gone gaped. The girl had pulled a gun from from the mantel when Dean returned. her pocket. She was pointing it at He had expected it to be missing. For iAIL CLERKS Lark. Lark, in the desperate FRANKLilS! INSTITUTE anger of an- WANT THIS JOB? Dept. T IBS, Rochester, N. Y. "Get away! Vite!" she bade Chris- other defeat, had revealed why he was * Sirs: Rush to me, without * charge (1 1 eperimen Railway $158 to $225 . topher Dean. a lawbreaker. * Mail Clerk Examination ques- A MONTH *' tions and free coaching lessons; Ex-Major Lark lost his peace of "My twin brother!" he had cried, (2)> list of Government jobs now Travel—See Your ^5* obtainable: 'St full information re- A eardins Preference to Ex-Service mind. pointing to the picture. "Whom the Country w Men. "You damned meddler!" he screamed. law hanged for something he didn't do! Ex -Service Men Gel Preference. He advanced short steps. /* Name. four The law!" He spit up the word. "The Mail coupe n * # "Quick!" the girl ordered Dean. law! I am sworn to defy it!" immedtateJi Address. . V " " — " "

THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Willie Barclay Goes on the Air (Continued from page 9)

it ". hamper the installation by declaring that he had applied. They liked him, . . and the Chinese government extra-hazardous. but didn't know how he'd do in public, replied, that, so far as Chinese exclu- ." After putting on a pair of rubber since he'd had no experience. sion was concerned . . boots, and jabbing about with a fish- "So, I'm going to have my big Claude Beecher, local undertaker, be- pole threaded through the garden hose, chance," he had written. "I'm to play ing uninterested, passed on the head- the amateur lineman finally unhooked some evening over the radio. And if set: his spluttering trouble-maker and led I make good—and with the publicity ". . . and a troop of Boy Scouts yes- it to safer anchorage. that'll give me—they say they'll take terday visited the grave of the His pink face was beaded. "Andy me on." late ..." said he fixed his easy in three hours. No, she couldn't tell them that. Catching a hint of this dispatch, All I've got to say is, Andy's a better They'd smirk and spoil all her pleasure Claude's professional interest was electrician than he is Episcopalian. in Willie's success that evening—that promptly whetted. He insisted on Now that the fool thing's all fixed— up, very evening. He would succeed. She joining Pete Clark, garage man, and we'll probably hit so much static knew he would. He couldn't fail, with his pretty, new wife, who giggled. They ," her loving so. And then, after "Or Willie— Mrs. Tompkins sug- him made a distressingly clubby trio. gested with a cackle. he'd really done the thing they all Alice, watching disinterestedly, "Yes, or Willie'll get his dates mixed doubted he would do, she could tell Emil sensed the quick look of anguish which and show up tomorrow evening; or for- and his forty acres to go hang. She crossed thin-lipped Mrs. Beecher's face, get to bring his banjo, or something." could marry Willie and they'd live at saw her turn with a determined gesture the Blackstone—or near there. Near and start a tense conversation with enough so Willie wouldn't have far to Alice longed to defend her sweet- Emil on her left. go in snowy weather. . heart, yet knew that anything she might say regarding hi? dependability The discussion of Willie came to an Suddenly there flashed through Alice's must sound hollow and insincere. Wil- abrupt end. mind a devastating picture. In lie was not efficient. He never would In rotation, during the remainder of imagination, Emil became Claude be. That was, perversely, probably one the afternoon, the trio in the little cot- Beecher, towering, coarse-handed, cru- of the reasons she loved him. It was tage held the receivers to their ears. elly thoughtless. She had grown to be most certainly one of Mrs. Tompkins's At seven ten, guests began arriving Mrs. Beecher. Her lips too had drawn chief reasons for urging Emil Kohl for the eight o'clock party. Immedi- themselves into that sharp, pale line and his forty acres. ately, social difficulties presented them- of repression. Her spirit too fluttered "The city might have—Willie might selves. There being but one set of desperately toward someone, someone have changed now that he's lived in ear-pieces, at most only two people who might understand, someone to the city a while," she suggested. could listen in at one time. This might talk to. "The city can do a lot for a fellow, necessitate embarrassing proximity of From eight to nine forty-five, there but it can't put something where noth- cheeks. Uncle Rudolph suddenly re- was the usual composite of "entertain- ing ever was." alizing this, ranged the Tompkins's full ment." Danny Deever was hanged "And still, Willie never—," and she quota of chairs in a circle about the again, to musical accompaniment. Pale looked significantly toward copper wires center table. Writing the name of each hands .again waved farewell beside the leading to the eaves. guest on a separate slip of paper and Shalimar, in tremolo soprano. The "No, you bet your life Willie never labeling each chair, he succeeded in customary indignities were performed tried stringing up one of those fool guaranteeing each wife's getting her on Beethoven's Sonata, with an ac- radio sets," he countered, conveniently lawful husband as companion listener. cordion. misunderstanding. "Best he can do is However, if one guest failed to appear, The party in the cottage grew tense sit in an easy chair and tinkle, 'Yes, the entire arrangement would be giggling fitfully over prearranged wit- We Have No— thrown into indiscreet disorder. ticisms by the announcer. "Alice, did you invite Emil to come Finally, "To close the program, we over?" with a menace, from the Rudolph paired himself with Mrs. have with us— kitchen. Rudolph . Tompkins. Noting that Alice was Mrs. Tompkins and Uncle "No—I thought —I was afraid engrossed in "breaking the ice," he gaily had just received the ear-pieces. Un- No, I haven't asked him—yet." paired her with Emil. This, he knew, cle Rudolph's hand clutched. He "Then go ahead and do it." In a would delight Mrs. Tompkins; further, paused when he noted that the Beech- lower tone, as if to herself, "He's a it might lead to striking results—when ers were to be the next recipients. fine dependable fellow. Everyone Willie started playing. With city-bred tact, he suggested, speaks so well of him." Fortunately for Rudolph's plan, Emil "Let's make it dealer's choice— "Including himself," flared Alice. was among the first to arrive, thus pre- Amy gasped, quickly conscious the "Perhaps e%'eryone does speak well of venting Alice's changing the place cards. phrase had to do with gambling. The htm, but I've noticed no one's gone so Andy, the hardware man, having other guests grinned in anticipation. far as to marry him." radio-trained ears and a resonant voice, "In other words, whoever has the "Now, Alice," her mother wheedled. was to listen first, during the reading 'ears' can pass them anywhere he "You know he's just dead stuck on you. of the news notes. He was to relay wants—," and without pausing for ap- There's a dozen girls'd be tickled to the information orally. Paired with proval, he handed them across the cir- death if he even looked at 'em. But him was Amy Dinsdorf, grade school cle to Alice and Emil. he's too all wrapped up in someone history teacher, who was to help with In Chicago, the announcer clattered

else." pronunciation of Czecho-Slovakia and on, ". . . and we're sure this is a fitting She paused that her auditors might other foreign parts. close for the evening's entertain- ." appreciate the delicacy of her phras- At its inception, the scheme was a ment . . ing. "You ought to be only too glad failure. Amy insisted that Andy's Alice's cheeks flushed crimson. he pays any attention to you at all. resonant voice vibrated the diaphragms "If the young man's efforts are suc- Him, with his fine Chevrolet and his so that she could hear only Andy's cessful, he is to be considered for the forty acres. You, mooning around for voice, several words out of time with position of banjoist with the Black- that foolish, puttering banjo-player." the news notes. Lucy Timms, who stone orchestra!" Mrs. Tompkins finally paused to lived down the road a piece and had Alice's "Oh-h!" and Emil's mumbled catch breath. Alice seized the oppor- buried two husbands, remarked later "Blackstone orchestra!" sounded si- tunity. that she was sure the whole trouble multaneously. "Just wait till he's famous. Wait was Amy's being so nervous sitting From the watchers in the parlor, till he gets a job in the Blackstone or- close to an eligible bachelor that she "What's the matter? What's happen- chestra. He said— couldn't pronounce straight. ing? Let us in on the secret," filled in Then she knew she could never tell Hence, the ear-pieces were passed an ether-lull. them what Willie had written; that the around during the news notes, the re- The voice of the announcer resumed, Blackstone needed a good banjoist; sult being: punctuated by Beecher's insistent, "Tell " — " — !

JUNE 11, 1926 — PAGE 19 us what they're saying, Emil. You're Moonlit thoughts filled her mind. keeping the ears overtime, as it is." Spring evenings, fragrant, blissful, ro- To quiet him, Emil repeated, "A ban- mance-laden. Soft fields of grain; the Makes a Man Wish jo solo— old rail-fence, grey in the golden light; He stopped abruptly, tore the re- the road lying silver-white over the He Had Two Chins ceiver from his ear, and stalked across hill; and Willie playing: the circle. "Don't you remember Sweet Alice, Barbasol produces "Be back in a minute," he growled Ben Bolt—" at the door. "Sweet Alice, that's you," he had such a silky shave. told her. "That's why I play that piece. "Gimme your place?" Beecher de- And easy well! No manded. That'll always be your song." — "No," came the uncordial reply from "Our song," she had whispered. brush. No rub-in. the hallway's shadows. Her dream was interrupted by Just the blade and "I'll save it for him," Alice an- further trepidant chords. Then Wil- nounced quickly. She was still breath- lie's "all right" to the announcer. Barbasol. You try it less, still fearful lest Willie fail. Rather quavering—probably because of Uncle Rudolph slipped to her side. the weakness of the Tompkins's receiv- — three times — ac- Gratefully, she handed him Emil's re- ing set. cording to directions. ceiver. Scarcely breathing, she waited. Now Suddenly there came clear, resolute was his big moment. He'd think of her. 35c and 65c tubes. notes as Willie swept the strings. "To He'd play their piece, send his greet- Wonderful for get in the spirit of the thing," he had ing to her in the way only she could Sitnbitrn so often explained to her. understand. — . Her tense hands relaxed. Fears "Don't you remember quieted, her breathing became normal. No! Not "Ben Bolt" but "Turkey Willie would win. Nothing could stop In The Straw"! Harsh, cheap, unro- him. mantic. She even permitted herself the tini- As she turned to tear the receiver est snatch of a dream. A June eve- from her ear, her glance wavered to •• The ning; mother dozing on the back the shadowy hallway. Dimly discerni- Barbasol Co. porch: the old swing under the apple ble to her over-sensitive eyes was Emil /"Indianapolis tree; Willie. "What'll I play?" "Oh, lounging against the banister. Through Ind. you know. Our piece." Jingle of the hall's darkness she saw him, knew I enclose 10c. strings as Willie got in the spirit he was sneering and waiting for her. Please send trial Her dream ended abruptly. Some- Somehow she summoned a smile. tube. thing had happened. Somewhere in Managed even to whisper to Uncle Ru- „•* Name that vast hall of destiny in Chicago, dolph, "Beautiful, isn't it?" as she catastrophe had beset a forlorn, friend- Address waited for the piece to end. • Finally, less Willie who needed her. She had with a brave flourish, Willie brought sensed a strange ending to that first the number to a close. Half-hearted A. L. W. 6-11-26 courageous sweep of the strings. A applause spattered from the broadcast- tinkly overtone had been audible. Then ing auditorium. For Modern Shaving had followed a pause, growing longer The announcer's voice sounded above and more ominous. the perfunctory clatter. She glanced quickly at Uncle Ru- "I am sure you will be surprised and dolph, then to the radio instrument on pleased to know that Mr. Barclay, loy- the center table. With nervous fingers, ally determined to do his part in the she shifted the adjusting levers, in- evening's entertainment, played his en- stantly returning them to their original tire number without the use of a positions. Finally in desperation, she pick—" rattled her ear-piece. Deafening applause from the audi- "What's going on, Mr. Tompkins?" torium. Beecher inquired respectfully. ". . . he played the entire piece with "Nothing. They're waiting. Always —a hairpin, borrowed from—the young do that before a big number. Makes lady who came with him this evening." it more impressive." The young lady who came with him "Yep. I've noticed that," Beecher this evening! . . . With a sob, Alice agreed. rushed from the room, brushed past It Certainly Is Tiresome Silence. the waiting Emil, and stumbled into In a After you have done your very best moment, from Mrs. Tompkins, the unfriendly moonlight. Emil fol- "Haven't they started yet?" lowed her. to have a larger attendance at your - "The man's—the man's telling a As the door slammed, she heard Un- Post Meeting, Dance, Fair, Parade or story —about two Irishmen." cle Rudolph explaining, "Awful sad "Must any other Post Activity it certainly is be the one I heard yesterday," story that fellow told. All a about tiresome to find that attendance is low. Beecher volunteered to fill in the lull. ." poor lonely turkey . . After an eternity came an announce- In the swing, Emil found her, moist It makes your spirits lower! ment, "There will be a slight delay, as, of cheek but hastily dry of eye. unfortunately, Mr. Barclay—has lost "What's matter?" If you'll send today for a FREE his pick!" "It it was too warm in there," she catalog of A smothered — gasp from Alice. Un- answered briefly. der cover of her flounce, Uncle Rudolph "Nice out here, ain't it?" POST PEP POSTALS searched out her icy hand. Oblivious She failed to control the tremor his to her agony, the guests waited eagerly. remark inspired. you'll find out how Post Adjutants all Over the air came scrunch of chairs. "Chilly?" the country over have been helped in Mumbled conversation between musi- "Yes." cian and making increases in attendance from announcer. Eventually, hesi- "I'll get you a wrap." 50% to 100%. tant, uncertain strumming of banjo He rose reluctantly, gazed hungrily strings. at her, then strode awkwardly toward That's worth a two cent stamp, isn't it ? Alice resumed her breathing, though the house. a sob lurked near her heart. From the old, beloved swing, trem- Write Today! A Postcard will do! Willie had found his pick. Now bling arms pleaded toward a silver road everything would be all right. Willie over the hill. A voice, scarcely audi- Post Printing Service would make good—marvelously. He ble. "Our swing; our night; but would triumph take ." The American Legion Weekly — his first step . up but, oh ! not our . Fame's ladder playing—her piece, their Thump of the front door. Emil re- Indianapolis, Indiana piece. turning! Emil! No, never Emil! " —

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Never—no one! Willie had failed her! go much on these music-players. Night held no balm, no comfort. "Best I could find in the dark," he They're a bad lot. Can't depend on Dawn met staring eyes as it crept explained, handing her a grey rough- 'em. Give me— through vine-grown lattices. necked sweater. Loyalty rallied her. She'd go in and Buzz of a doorbell shredded the Her fingers stroked thread-marks face them. She'd tell them silence. where a high-school football emblem Uncle Rudolph's jovial voice was shot Wrapped in her corduroy bath-robe, had once graced it. with the menace of keen steel. she faced an officious messenger boy at "Thank you." "Barclay's a comer. Don't forget the door. Snatching an envelope from "You're—you're sort of strange to- that. At least he had spunk enough to his hand, she tore it open, breathlessly. night. Ain't feelin' well?" get out and try to make something of "Gotta sign here," he insisted. "No, Emil, I'm—I'm really sick." himself. Believe me, any town can af- Protesting that a scrawled "A. T." She rose to go, swayed, sensed Emil's ford to be proud of lads like that." could not serve as her signature, he acquisitive arm about her. Sudden Her tense body relaxed. Willie be- faced the Tompkins's closed door. strength filled her. set with scoffers was a martyr. Willie "We won," the message ran. "Had "No, Emil. Nol^tonight." ably championed was—just Willie. She hard luck losing pick but played Tur- She rushed from him. loved him—yet why had he failed her? key In Straw with Aunt Susie's hair- "Not—never," mingled with the Forlornly she turned her face toward pin. Spoiled her looks but got me sound of the front door's closing. endless stairs which led to her room. Blackstone job. When will you marry ." In the hall she paused. Her feet She had no friends. No one cared for me . .

faltered. She cowered in the lonely her, except— . No, not even he. He'd Dizzily she sank in a heap on the dark. From another world came voices, played "Turkey In The Straw." floor. Vision distorted by tears, she the yellow glow of Jight, the gurgle of Her room stared at her disparaging- read the remainder of the message: lemonade, crunch of cookies. ly. Any girl that'd have a music-player "Guess you know I didn't try to play Harshly she heard, "After all, I don't go back on her! Ben Bolt with a hairpin. Willie."

Have You Got the Money? (Continued from page 6)

the country through the co-operation of catches at the imagination, which stirs Orleans; Maine, James J. Boyle, 108 banks with the France Convention vivid, poignant memoi'ies. Once that Main St., Waterville; Maryland, Ken- Travel Committee of the Legion. These picture is fully possessed, its stimulus neth A. McRae, College Park; Massa- clubs were planned and organized to alone should be sufficient to move the chusetts, Henry Nichols, Federal serve the veterans who want to go to thousands now inactive to some sort of Bldg., Boston; Mexico, R. H. Hudgens, France with the Legion. They offer response, and that response should be apai-tado 331, Tampico; Michigan, the Legionnaire specific advantages that in the form of dollars in the bank Robert J. Byers, 214 Lincoln Bldg., De- he can obtain through no other saving every week. troit. medium. They provide first of all a con- Dreams and memories and ambitions Minnesota, Edwin L. Lindell, Old venient method of making small regular are well enough, but they do not buy Capitol Bldg., Saint Paul; Missis- deposits definitely calculated to accrue steamship passage, nor do they provide sippi, John Anderson, c/o Illinois Cen- to a certain sum at the end of a specific a room in Paris. Only one thing can tral R. R. Station, Jackson; Missouri, period. In other words, they offer se- do that, and that is money. Money, Jerry F. Duggan, 3709 Broadway, Kan- curity and certainty. But they offer with four weeks' vacation in 1927, will sas City; Montana, W. L. Jones, Hel- more than this. mean that 30,000 veterans will partici- ena; Nebraska, Nels E. Johnson, Val- Through an arrangement made with pate next year in the greatest commem- ley; Nevada, Bryan Laveaga, Fallon; the France Convention Travel Commit- orative movement the world has known. New Hampshire, Frank N. Sawyer, tee these clubs are enabled to retain at In each Department of the Legion State House, Concord; New Jersey, interest all the money deposited by Le- details with regard to the participation George F. Fleming, State House, Tren- gionnaires until shortly before the of that Department in the France Con- ton; New Mexico, Herman G. Baca, movement. This means that next winter vention will be under the. direct super- Santa Fe; New York, Robert C. Lee, when it is necessary to make a deposit vision of a France Convention Travel c/o Moore & McCormick Co., 5 Broad- of $50 to cover the cost of a reservation, Officer, appointed by the Executive way; North Carolina, James Leonard, the reservation can be accomplished Committee of the Department. France Lexington; Ohio, J. J. Saslavsky, 335 through a book transfer within the Convention Travel Officers now ap- S. High St., Columbus; Oklahoma, Al bank, the local bank actually retaining pointed are: Horton, 418 Capitol Bldg., Oklahoma the money and the Legionnaire receiv- Alabama, S. C. Crockett, P. O. Box City; Oregon, Carl R. Moser, 207 ing the full interest. No other possible 433, Montgomery; Arizona, Robert H. Chamber of Commerce, Portland. savings plan provides this advantage. Dickson, P. O. Box 442, Jerome; Ar- Pennsylvania, James J. Deighan,

Further than this there is the ad- kansas, E. H. Vonderau, Helena ; Cali- 903 City Center Bldg., Philadelphia; vantage of collective effort, the func- fornia (South), M. Angelo Bessolo, Rhode Island, Joseph Crump, 7 tioning of the members of a local post Jr., 5163 Ellenwood Drive, Eagle Rock; Weybosset St., Providence; South or local Legion group through a central California (North), Al Chase, 418 Carolina, Sam L. Latimer, Jr., Colum- agency, the stimulation to be derived Twelfth St., Oakland; Canal Zone, bia; South Dakota, Walter S. Travis, from the fact that your friends and as- E. J. Daly, Box 324, Cristobal; Colo- 452 Broadway, Pierre; Tennessee, Guy sociates and former comrades are work- rado,- E. C. Calhoun, 1749 California H. May, Memorial Bldg., Nashville; ing toward a certain and much-to-be- St., Denver; Connecticut, J. Frederick Texas, Allen C. Ater, Santa Fe Bldg., desired end. Collective effort won the Collins, Greenwich; Delaware, Lester Dallas; Utah, Spencer Eccles, Logan; war. Collective effort, operating through P. Hudson, 100 W. 10th St., Wilming- Vermont, Robert McCuen, 34 S. Wil- local Legion posts and through depart- ton; District of Columbia, Joseph J. lard St., Burlington; Virginia, J. A. mental Legion organizations, will in- Idler, 409 Investment Bldg., Washing- Nicholas, Jr., 201 State Office Bldg., sure the participation of thousands of ton; Florida, A. Rice King, Graham Richmond; Washington, Jesse W. veterans in the Paris trip who indi- Bldg., c/o N. C. St. L. R. R., Jackson- Drain, 509 Third Ave., Seattle; West vidually might never get there. ville; Georgia, Edgar Dunlap, Gaines- Virginia, Dr. James A. Duff, Martins-

. Upon every post official there is the ville. burg; Wisconsin, Howard Dessert, definite obligation to see that each mem- Idaho, Lester F. Albert, 316 Capitol Mosinee; Wyoming, E. A. Froyd, Mid- ber of the post is fully aware of his Bldg., Boise; Illinois, F. J. Heckel, west. opportunities and is fully informed as Bloomington; Indiana, Kleber Hadley, Department Adjutants are serving to the consequences of his failure to War Memorial Bldg., Indianapolis; as travel officers in the District of Co- take advantage of these opportunities. Iowa, R. J. Laird, 1003 Register & Trib- lumbia and the following States: Ala- Not since the organization of the Legion une Bldg., Des Moines; Kansas, Ernest bama, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, has any national program held out so A. Ryan, Memorial Bldg., Topeka; Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, much to the veterans of the World War Kentucky, Paul Jakilky, c/o First Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Ore- as does the great pilgrimage to France. National Bank, Louisville; Louisiana, gon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wash- There is that about the trip which T. Semmes Walmsley, City Hall, New ington. )

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Its State Points to This Post (Continued from page 11 for Legion activities. Through his office he handled more than 250 service cases last year, and in spite of all his duties as post commander, captain in the National Guard, radio artist, and so forth, he bagged fifty-seven members. Third place went to the finance offi- cer, Leo Larsen, a banker. Leo stood at the little window and snared them as they went past, thirty-two all told. FLAG OUTFIT FREE Nine other members were runners-up with from six to fifteen members each. For Only One (Non-Member) The Forty and Eight turned in fifty Subscrip- members. Scarcely a man in the post tion For The American Legion Weekly who did not at least bring in one mem- ber besides his own renewal. The post has always taken an in- The American Legion Weekly should be read by every man terest in the work of the schools. For and woman in your community — by people who are not in Education Week last fall it ran an The American Legion as well as those who are — for it Americanization essay contest, award- con- tains articles and editorials vital ing six medals. It has furnished en- to the need of the country. tertainment, speakers and teachers for In order to add these non-members to the vast roll of citizenship classes. And when the readers of The American Legion Weekly—in order to make Stevens Point High School won the more friends for The American Legion — we are prepared to AVisconsin basketball championship the give you free of any charge, the Flag Outfit shown post gave members of the team small, above— for engraved cups. ONE NON-MEMBER SUBSCRIPTION to The American Among other things the post has Legion Weekly. done for its community may be listed a year-round service to an orphanage Follow These Easy Instructions near Stevens Point, a Christmas Tree festival for three thousand children, Call on a friend. Sell him (or subscription for the magazine work for a better observance of Fourth if you can afford it and prefer and incidental handling and of July, and a well-thought-out plan to do so, give him) a year 's sub- mailing charges, including post- for helping in the observance of Na- scription for The tional Boys Week. The membership of American Le- age of Flag Outfit. Address and the post is given every opportunity to gion Weekly. The price to a mail to The American Legion help out on the various projects non-member, with this offer, is Weekly, Indianapolis, Ind. If throughout the year, and the work has $1.50 for one year. Fill out you want one of these beautiful proved a member-getting and member- the coupon correctly. ^Enclose holding stimulus. American Flag Outfits as a free The Wisconsin department is proud in an envelope with check, gift, get a subscription now and of the work of the Stevens Point Le- postal or express money order send for your Flag Outfit at gionnaires and is working overtime to for $1.75, in payment of a year's ONCE. get aboard the bandwagon of quota- obtained departments. The last week in May the department had pushed its total membership over the twenty-two DESCRIPTION thousand mark, which represents more Each outfit comprises a 3x5 foot flag, brass screw jointed hardwood pole, with rope and than eighty-five percent of the quota ball, also holder. This Flag is made of the best quality, set by National Commander McQuigg. soft cotton bunting—colors fast to sun and rain, double stitched throughout. Double hem, well made, canvas heading and strong grommets. 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All in the Name of Sport The movie actress had been playing cards and losing heavily. Bursts and Duds "Broke!" she exclaimed in disgust. !" Payment is made for material for this department. Unavailable manuscript returned only "Nothing left but my husband when accompanied by stamped envelope. Address American Legion Weekly, Indianapolis, Ind. "Isn't that too bad, dear?" answered her sympathetic friend. "If you only had two of them, now, I might play you my them big governors The Necessity bing elbows with guys— Airedale against the pair." and senators and like that." "Mother," said Cleopatra "this life "Don't say that, Mike," expostulated the doesn't appeal to me I want to be a second bootlegger nervously. "It sounds Sympathy stenographer."' too much like Leavenworth or Atlanta." "My ole man's a poet now," observed "Don't be silly, child,*' retorted Mrs. Mrs. Raggs proudly. '"Chewing gum hasn't been in- Ptolemy. The Boys of '17 "Well, mine won't do a lick o' work vented yet." neither," replied Mrs. Taggs. Epitaph The judge inquired : "You had a draft something stronger'n beer?" Of Methodical I paused beside a newT -mado grave "Nay. judge," the prisoner weakly laughed, And rn the stone I chanced to see: "I was a volunteer." "Does your husband write to his folks "You mortals who are doomed to die, —G. L. A. regular?" Gird up your loins and follow me." Terrible! "Yes, every year—except last year he And just beneath this legend ran : — couldn't find a stamp." "To follow you I'm not content Inez: "Have you heard about Grace? She was burned almost beyond recogni- Some wag had wisely scratched it there tion." How's Sweet Alice, Ben? "Until I know which way you went." Ina : "Good heavens ! How did that [From Platteville (Wis.) News] —Edgar Daniel Kramer. ?" happen Ben Boldt of the Chicago Post Office Inez : "She walked down to the beach was home for a few days. Getting Desperate without her parasol." "There's a story going the rounds," be- Opening the Pot gan a raconteur "My husband bought a table and six "I know there is." interupted a strug- chairs at auction gling and ambitious author. "It's mine, today," asserted Mrs. Botts proudly. and I'm going to burn the thing if some "I suppose he already has the chips," editor doesn't take it pretty soon !" suggested her neighbor.

Standard Time? Ho-ht [Heading in Owatonna (Minn.) People's "How long a stretch did Bill in- Press] get?" quired a bandit. Mardi Gras Night Is Postponed to This _"Th' judge give him thirty days," re- Morning. plied his friend and accomplice.

Unnecessary "Thirty days ! That ain't a stretch that's just a yawn." "Are those children all yours?" asked the census taker. Heap Big Paleface "Certainly," replied the father of ten angrily. "You didn't think I'd borrow [From Otis (Kan.) Reporter] them from the neighbors, did you?" Lester Schroeder, the white-faced cattle man west of Albert, recently lost three They're Dangerous head of cattle supposedly from blackleg.

"We're going to have a famous agnostic at dinner tonight." Wish

"Goodness ! I know a girl who drank "I do wish my husband would give up two of those things, and she was absolute- smoking," said Mrs. Buts peevishly. ly intoxicated." "Does it annoy you?" asked Mrs. Rutz. "No—but I like his cigarette holder." Without Artificial Aid Three Courses in Greek "Is it true you came home intoxicated and struck your wife?" asked the judge. ENJOYED Bulla zupp. "No, Your Honor," replied the prisoner. Rust biff. Sloan (diffidently): "Last week, old "I'm just naturally brave." Pitch puy. man, I lent you twenty-five dollars for a day." Profit and Loss Occasions Byrne: "You did, old man, and be- On Former "The drill sergeant is going to give us lieve me it was some day, too!" "I'm wondering what I can buy a movie a little extra time," announced one dough- star for a wedding present." boy who had been permanently assigned to "Oh, there are all sorts of possible the awkward squad. Destroying the Evidence gifts." "Believe me, we've got double time com- "I know but I've already given her "Now what did little George Washing- — ing to us," replied the rookie, who had re- those." ton do after he had chopped down the cently left the ranks of civilian bricklayers. cherry tree?" asked the uplift worker. In Defense dollars a month ain't even enough "Thirty "Buried the hatchet." replied the gang- to buy cigarettes." "Rufus," said the judge, "you're charged ster's young hopeful promptly. with stealing a chicken. What have you to say?" Couple of Irishmen A The Cynical Copy Reader "Jes' this, Yo' Honah," explained Rufua. Pat: "I hear yer wife is sick, Mike." "Dat hen had been in mah gyarden fo' [Heading in Franklin (Ind.) Star] Mike: "She is that." five days, so Ah jes nacherly takes her fo' Pat: "Is it dangerous she is?" College Romance Is Ended by Engage- rent." Mike: "Divvle a bit. She's too weak ment. Making Up to be dangerous anny more." Both Fooled "How dare you kiss me without ask- "John." accused the stern wife, "you've ing? I'll never forgive you!" Foresight been drinking whisky again !" "Oh—come on ! I'll let you slap me "If you're not very careful you're going "No, Marsha," he denied somewhat without dodging." to have trouble with a brunette," warned thickly,— "you've made the shame mishtake the fortune teller. I did 'twasn't whisky." The Disadvantages of Eden "Hm," mused the patron. "That's my wife. What makes you think I'll have Unnatural History "Darn!" cried Adam. "I just ran a trouble with her?" race with a razorback and that angel cop "And why do you call me a zebra?" that "There's a blonde hair on your coat." gave me a ticket for speeding. Now I animal demanded of Adam. gotta go down to court and— "Because," explained the First Man, "Why didn't you give some other man's the Mighty Gather Where "when the alphabet is invented there will name?" asked Eve helpfully. have to be something for the letter "If we put this deal over. Joe," re- Z to "What's the use—confound it ! There marked the first bootlegger, "we'll be rub- stand for." isn't any other man." ! ! : -

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