n ( Legionw- Th e Jj777 erica MONTH L Y OCTOBER 1931 25 CENTS JS/lore hands arepumping Ethyl Gasoline than any other motorJuel EVERY fifth hand you see pumping gasoline is at an Ethyl pump. On the market only eight years, Ethyl Gasoline is now the biggest selling motor fuel in the country. For instance: On Route 42 between Cincinnati and Cleveland a recent survey C u s , (AT showed 589 Ethyl pumps, more than one- fifth of the total 2359. The next largest selling gasoline on this road had 2 1 1 pumps. Nothing could have brought this about in so short a time except the simple fact that Ethyl is more than gasoline. It is good gasoline plus Ethyl fluid, the ingredient that co)itrols combustion. Instead of exploding in sharp, irregular bursts (that cause power-waste, harmful "knock" and over- heating) Ethyl Gasoline delivers power to the pistons with smoothly increasing pressure. Millions of car owners, driving cars of every size, age and make, have found from experience that con- The Ethyl emblem on any pump stands for tested gaso- trolled combustion makes their cars run better. line of Ethyl quality. Constant Try Ethyl in your car and see the improvement it inspection of gasoline from makes. Corporation, York City. Ethyl pumps throughout the Ethyl Gasoline New country guards this standard. Ethyl Gasoline is always colored red. ©e. c.c. 1931 ETHYL GASOLINE + 5 The active ingredient used in Ethyl fluid it lead. 1 — : Frederick H. Ecker, President, Metro- politan Life Insurance Company. WARNING to men Hubert T. Parson, President, F. W. ggf*A Woolworth Company. David Sarnoff, President, Radio Corpo- independent ration of America. ivho would like to be Colby M. Chester, Jr., President, Gen- eral Foods Corporation. in the next five years Men who are satisfied with depart- mental jobs and small earnings will not be interested in this type of guide. He has no time to figure out training. It is offered to the kind of YOU CAN tell a $30 a week man how to make $40 a week. all the possibilities and pitfalls. men who want to become officers of business You can tell a $50 a week man He lacks contact with the big, their companies or go into how to make $75 a week. constructive minds of business. for themselves. opportunity Representing ex- But you can't tell a $5,000 man How can he seize the the condensed how to make $10,000. He's got to and escape the dangers? perience of the best business brains know. FOR two years the Alexander in the country, it offers real help to executives in meeting the difficult Between $5,000 and $10,000 a year Hamilton Institute has been lay- business conditions of today. is where most men of talent stop. ing the foundation of a new Course Health, youth, good appearance, and Service for the leaders of to- ABOOKLET has been prepared which brains will carry a man far in business. morrow. - tells about this new Course and But you cannot draw forever on The ablest business minds—the men Service. Its title is "What an Execu- that bank account unless tive Should Know." It you put something else in. should be read by every Somewhere between $5,000 man who faces the respon- and $10,000 a year you will Men who are sibility of shaping his own stop dead. future. It is free. Those who go on add satisfied with We will send you this something to their equip- booklet if you will simply ment at the same time they §5,000 give us your name and are drawing on it. address on the coupon Profound changes are a year below. But we do not urge taking place in business you to send for it. If you this year, this month, note. will not be interested are the type of man for The man who sees in these whom the new Course and changes his opportunity for in this Announcement Service has been construct- independence and power ed, if you are determined is the man who will make to take advantage of the his fortune in the next five years. who have had most to do in shaping rich opportunities of the next five present-day tendencies—have con- years, you will send for it without BUT this opportunity, like all great opportunities, is fraught tributed greatly. Read the names of urging. just a few of with danger. Business today is new them Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President, To the Alexander Hamilton Institute, 530 and complex. The old rules will no General Motors Corporation. Astor Place, New York City. (In Canada, longer work. Thomas J. Watson, President, International address Alexander Hamilton Institute, Ltd., Business Machines Corporation. A whole new set of problems is c. P. R. Building, Toronto.) Hon. Will H. Hays, President, Motion Send me "What an Executive Should production. presented by Picture Producers and Distributors of Know," which I may keep without charge. Foreign markets have become a America, Inc.; formerly U. S. Postmaster General. vital issue. An entirely new con- Name Brute Barton, Chairman of the Board, Batten, Barton, Durstine Osborn, Inc., ception of selling is replacing the old & Advertising Agents. hit-or-miss way. Business Frederick W. Pickard, Vice-President, Address The man who would take advan- E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc. tage of opportunity today dare not Dr. Julius Klein, The Assistant Secre- Business grope. His experience is a dangerous tary, U. S. Department of Commerce. Position OCTOBER, 193 —2 CforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (Jo uphold and defend the Constitution to maintain law and order; foster perpetuate one ^fofthe UnitedStates ofAmerica; to and a hundredpercent £%mericanism ; to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theffreatfWar; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obligation to the com- munity, slate andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood will on earth ,to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjusticejreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate and'sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofTKe American Legion. October, Vol. 11, No. 1931 LegionY The JJmerican 4 MONTH L Y Published Monthly The Legion Publishing Corporation, 4$$ West zzd Street, Chicago, Illinois EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES EXECUTIVE OFFICES WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE 521 Fifth Avenue, New York Indianapolis, Indiana 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago Cover Design: The First Shot by Herbert M. Stoops A Soldier When Mr. and Mrs. Go Shopping by I. A. Hirschmann 4 Illustration by Harry Townsend Looks at Ships Wing Sense by Bernt Balchen 6 FREDERICK PALMER resumes next month the role of observer The Master of Chaos by Irving Bacheller 9 and commentator after twelve issues Illustrations by Harold Von Schmidt on special duty as the author of Decorations by Herb Roth "When Mr. Baker Made War." The First Shot by Idus R. McLendon 16 Reviving his department, "A Per- Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops sonal View," he finds a most im- portant contemporary text in the Where There's Smoke— by Dana Pierce 20 present condition of the United Decorations by Lowell L. Balcom States Navy. What he has written I've Been to America by J. B. Priestley 11 on this subject will have special in- terest in view of the observance of The War We Lost by Pacifism: Part Two by Rupert Hughes 24 October 27th as Navy Day. Cartoons by John Cassel Mr. Palmer, dean of American The Number Ten Hat by James E. Darst 28 war correspondents, militarily speak- ing has been everywhere Illustrations by A. B. Butler, Jr. and seen everything in the last thirty-five Here Comes the Band by Major W. J. O'Callaghan 31 years. He covered his first war, the Greco-Turkish ruckus, in 1S97 at the When Mr. Baker Made W7 ar: Conclusion by Frederick Palmer 32 age of twenty-four years. He was in The Eagle or the Woofus Bird by Roy Dickinson 38 the front line of the Klondike gold rush as a newspaperman and his next How It Feels to Win a $500 Prize by Philip Von Blon 40 big assignment was a tropical one Cartoons by Wallgren Dewey's victory at Manila Bay. Returning with Dewey "around the When the Yanks Invaded Canada by John Noll J. 44 world" in 1900, he started, in the following year, another round-the- world excursion which took him back to the Philippines and into China in Among Next Month's Features time to be present at the relief of Peking. In 1903 he covered a Cen- tral American revolution, closely ZDRAVO!" What is it? It's what a polite Slav says when you sneeze, followed by an insurrection in Macedonia. During the Russo- just as a polite German says "Gesundheit !" or a polite French- Japanese War he was with the first man "Bon sante!" It's also the title of a new story by R. G. Kirk Japanese Army in the field. In 1907 about the men who go down under the surface of West Virginia to bring he went around the globe with the American battleship fleet. The year . fall up coal. And, for further lively fiction, Part Two of Irving after that he was in Central America, Bacheller's story of the days of Washington, "The Master of Chaos," and in 1909 he was in a ringside seat for the Turkish Revolution. Then wherein swords flash in the firelight and people get cut. xArthur followed the Balkan Wars in 191 Van Vlissingen, Jr., proves again the adage that it's the little things and the World War in 10 14.