The American Legion Weekly [Volume 8, No. 24 (June 11, 1926)]

American ! ! Official History of the 82nd Division REVISED EDITION ASSUMING that you were a member of this typical Ameri- /-\ can Division the mere purchase of this History would * mean nothing more than an exchange of money for a mass of printed material. It means more—a lot more It means the preservation in memory of the days when "Comradeship" meant that the man lying beside you in a shell hole had been born in Prague, Czecho Slovakia while you Mail Coupon had been born in Prague, Nebraska. That's something to think about and to be proud of as is for the record of your Division. This or Other Containing a mass of supplementary features apart from Histories Divisional Orders, citations, maps, illustrations and statistics this substantially good-looking volume can be obtained from The Legion Book Service for the sum of $3.00. Immediately on receipt of this amount together with your name and address the History will go forward to you DI- RECT from the publishers. Every "All American" should take advantage of this op- portunity to acquire at first hand the interesting History of his own Division. Act todav Tear This Coupon Out J^oiv ! 1 Other Divisional Histories The Legion Book Service of The American Legion Weekly Official History of 33rd Division $5.00 Indianapolis, Indiana I am enclosing $3.00. Please send me the History of the Official History of 29th Division. Illustrated 5.00 82nd Division as advertised. ''From Vauquois to Exermont" History of 35th Division. 2.00 Enclosea find ($ ). Send me, postpaid, History of Official History of 78th Division. Illustrated 3.50 Division as advertised. Name | Address | Mail this coupon now! City and State b-U-26 j 3QC t ift=s=inr=5 1BE C3E aai la JV. 8, No. 24 y^MERICAN rtgtOllr, 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 being 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 extended 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. Week1 is official ^ the publication of Tho American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary and Is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright. 1926. by The Publishing Legion Corporation. Published weekly at 2457 E. Washington St.. Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second class nutter January 5. 1925. at the Post Office al Indianapolis. Ind., under the Act of March 3. 1S79. Price $1 50 the year. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act of October i. 1)17. authorized January 5, 1925. In reporting change of address, be sure to include the old address as well as the Publication Office, Indianapolis, Indiana; Advertising Office. 331 Madison Avenue. New York City; Western Advertising Office, 410 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago F AGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY ESCAPE 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.

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